It's already commercially available here in the Netherlands. Tomtom teamed up with vodaphone, which can locate their mobile phones location and speed (not necessarily GPS needed) . This is fed to tomtom, which displays it on your navigation system. More info here
The governments role is to provide the rules and boundaries in which society as a whole has to operate. almost by definition. And it is not principally wrong to have rules and regulations that are not just black and white (thou shall not steal/murder). Take smoking. As a government, statistically, you want people of smoking, because it saves a lot in healthcare, so why not tax it? So I agree it is not the government PRIMARY job to mold people's lives, but it should be possible to use this for specific goals, if you can 'sell' it to society as being important enough. and that is unfortunately politics and someone somewhere will not agree... almost by definition...
And next, suddenly a new website comes along and takes a lot of customers away from you, because you stopped looking at your own product to see if you could improve it. Once they are gone, they won't come back. example: hotmail/gmail Forcing this on people means that you made the decision that you don't want to maintain two versions of codebase/brand image/you name it. Once made, it's better to force it on them than to stop innovating.
- Accelerate to your target speed quickly. Spending time slowly accelerating up to it wastes fuel.
This is so you spend more time and more km's in a higher gear, which is much more efficient. One thing I miss here is to look forward and take your foot off the pedal as soon as you know you have to slow down. Does wonders for your milage.
ok, a curious mind wants to know. This time I pushed the 'Reply to this' button, but thus this mean that I will give up all of my rights if I click on the 'Parent' button??
From the article it's clear that they want to patent the idea. I don't understand that. What's the use of a patent if somebody infringing it is also in international waters and not bounded to patent law?
Some figures: 3 million miles, which is about 3 % of the average sun earth distance, resulting in about 7% increase in sun radiation. Because of the axial tilt, on the equator, the fluctuation is about 9%. Thus this so called elliptical orbit already cancels out the seasonal effects -on the equator-. A proper elliptical orbit would make that the main cause of seasons IMHO.
This was all unknown to me until about ten minutes ago, but I'm pleased to see the Pilbara region of Australia (my country) is one of the oldest places on Earth, stretching back 3.6 billion years (the other's in South Africa).
That's the reason why it is so flat, due to erosion of former mountains.
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If there were a Slashdot feature to transfer money out of your bank account...
It's called 'subscription'
The irony is that things only get moving when oil is involved.
Damn right it does. Up until the emergence of the hydrogen economy, that is.
Way to go guys - you and I just slashdotted top500.org :'(
Fixed that for you. ;-)
It's already commercially available here in the Netherlands. Tomtom teamed up with vodaphone, which can locate their mobile phones location and speed (not necessarily GPS needed) . This is fed to tomtom, which displays it on your navigation system. More info here
There is a certain amount of uncertainty regarding these numbers.
The governments role is to provide the rules and boundaries in which society as a whole has to operate. almost by definition.
And it is not principally wrong to have rules and regulations that are not just black and white (thou shall not steal/murder). Take smoking. As a government, statistically, you want people of smoking, because it saves a lot in healthcare, so why not tax it?
So I agree it is not the government PRIMARY job to mold people's lives, but it should be possible to use this for specific goals, if you can 'sell' it to society as being important enough. and that is unfortunately politics and someone somewhere will not agree... almost by definition...
sometimes gamers themselves create a slightly incorrect image of themselves like this warrior
And next, suddenly a new website comes along and takes a lot of customers away from you, because you stopped looking at your own product to see if you could improve it. Once they are gone, they won't come back.
example: hotmail/gmail
Forcing this on people means that you made the decision that you don't want to maintain two versions of codebase/brand image/you name it. Once made, it's better to force it on them than to stop innovating.
- Accelerate to your target speed quickly. Spending time slowly accelerating up to it wastes fuel.
This is so you spend more time and more km's in a higher gear, which is much more efficient.
One thing I miss here is to look forward and take your foot off the pedal as soon as you know you have to slow down. Does wonders for your milage.
sdh, atm, pdh or other transmission protocols. Or even the famous POTS protocol. See your local wiki for more ;-)
ok, a curious mind wants to know. This time I pushed the 'Reply to this' button, but thus this mean that I will give up all of my rights if I click on the 'Parent' button??
(and if so, who's my parent....) :-)
and, boy, are they friendly to women in Egypt...
and a whale that is in love with the data center, because it humms so nice... :-)
From the article it's clear that they want to patent the idea.
I don't understand that. What's the use of a patent if somebody infringing it is also in international waters and not bounded to patent law?
Millionairs can only become so by NOT spending at least a million in whatever currency.
Some figures: 3 million miles, which is about 3 % of the average sun earth distance, resulting in about 7% increase in sun radiation.
Because of the axial tilt, on the equator, the fluctuation is about 9%.
Thus this so called elliptical orbit already cancels out the seasonal effects -on the equator-.
A proper elliptical orbit would make that the main cause of seasons IMHO.
RFID is the way to go....
gosh, do I need to mod this as funny, insightful or just interesting...
As the saying goes:
Stick the TiO2 where the sun doesn't shine...
It's been going downhill since the start. :-)
This was all unknown to me until about ten minutes ago, but I'm pleased to see the Pilbara region of Australia (my country) is one of the oldest places on Earth, stretching back 3.6 billion years (the other's in South Africa).
That's the reason why it is so flat, due to erosion of former mountains.
besides, the fever is there to kill the virus, so just remove the heatsink to get the laptop over 40 degrees C. You might not even have to do that.
nope, we'll just switch to OLED and other organic semiconductors
It's a woman that tells you to 'get out of the basement and catch some sunlight' from the top of the stairs ;-)
Still you can donate to business in a useful way:
I find Kiva a good way of microcredit the poor.