So now that we got falling down covered, don't forget when granny or gramps soils their diaper. With this amazing technology you can receive a text message time for changies.
I'm sure there's some parallel regarding the Android vs Apple's logic in distributing apps.. but I'll likely be moderated a troll on/. for pointing them out..
I don't know about other countries, but here in Canada RADAR is only a tool to confirm an estimate.
Judge: And how did you determine Joe Smith was exceeding the speed limit.
Cop: I estimated the speed of the vehicle to be doing 70 in a 50 zone, and then confirmed my estimate with RADAR.
Judge: The defendant is hereby guilty as charged.
The only time I've seen tickets thrown out is if the tuning forks (used to verify the accuracy of the RADAR) were not certified within the last 365 days.
CRTC no longer represents the interests of the consumers
The CRTC has never represented the interests of the consumer that I recall. It's a protectionist body in bed with cable, television and satellite companies all under the guise of 'securing our heritage'
I'm not sure how it works in your city, however here in Edmonton, the system is decidedly simple.
There are two pressure pads embedded in the road before the stop line painted on the road. Your front and rear tires must pass over both pressure sensors AFTER the light has already changed to red in order to trigger a picture.
The only way you can trigger a ticket is if you passed the stopline AFTER the light was red.
Sounds pretty fair to me..
Many of the red light camera intersections also have a countdown timer on the "walk/do not cross" light giving you plenty of time to figure out when the light will change to yellow before you approach the intersection.
Go for it, but I won't have my naked image stored in a computer that politicians claim is hack proof and will get deleted right after.
After reading countless articles on these full-body scanners, most of the articles point out that the images are not saved and only displayed until the next person goes through.
Why is it the expectation that a game released on a console be perfect, yet a game released for a computer generally be released early and patched later.
Yes it's true that console games (of the past) made it impossible to 'patch' and had to be held to a higher standard, and I'm fine with that. But this attitude of computer game developers to release shoddy code and then release patch after patch down the road is poor development. And this seems to be the norm for anything on the computer, and people blindly accept substandard crap yet are intolerant of it on other pieces of technology.
If people started to hold software developers to a higher standard when it comes to computer software instead of bending over and taking it, perhaps we wouldn't have so much shoddy software in the first place.
RADAR measures the Doppler shift of the radio energy coming back at it. This energy is being reflected off many things.. any of them moving and signal is being sent back to the RADAR in the form of a Doppler shift. The RADAR then has to decide which one to display, so if you have a Semi and a Fiat side by side, regardless of if the Fiat is going faster, your going to get the speed of the Semi. You can be fairly certain your getting the right speed, but of what?
LIDAR is not a simple measurement of two distances to generate a simple distance over time calculation. Many pulsed samples are taken at a known rate. As samples come back, they can be statistically measured for erroneous samples.
If you send out 20 pulses within a split second, I can build a nice statistical tracking history from pulses that come back. If a large percentage of those pulses come back in a nice linear plot, I have no reason to believe they are wrong.. if 2-3 of those pulses are erradic (distances that are not in line with the tracking history of the entire sample), I can toss them out and still have a good tracking history.. if more then 5 or 6 fail, then I can simply disregard the entire sample.
introduces what's known as the "cosine error" which is actually in the speeder's favor since the LIDAR device will show the officer a slower speed
RADAR and LIDAR are both equally susceptible to cosine error. This is generally less of an issue for LIDAR because vehicles can be more accurately targetted much further down the road (less degrees offset from roadway).
In reality, the only downside to LIDAR is that it's near impossible with current technology to use it in a moving environment unlike RADAR.
What is the benefit of LIDAR? Is it more accurate, or just easier to 'aim'?
Both actually. RADAR emits a conical wave of energy that literally splatters multiple lanes. The return signal processor can get Doppler signal back from many vehicles, and reports the strongest signal (or fastest in models that support it). It is then up to the officer to visually determine which vehicle is speeding. It's not infallible, and subject to an officer's decision.
LIDAR on the other hand shoots out a very narrow pulsed beam that targets one specific vehicle at a time. Officer's are usually trained to target reflective parts of a vehicle (like headlights, taillights, license plates, etc.)
There is no trying to figure out which vehicle your measuring, you target, pull the trigger and bam, instant accurate speed.. usually within under 1 second so even though your detector has gone off, it's just telling you you're speed as been taken. Reaction time is NIL.
I dunno man, I'd rather buy a notebook from a company that knows how to make things rugged, verses a company that makes VCR's and questionable quality audio products.
What if MS decided that all windows programs needed to be signed and licensed and sold through an app store they controlled?
Then there would be a significantly less problems with spyware and viruses on the Windows platform. Malicious programs that were discovered could be pulled, and we'd have a way to track down those responsible for said programs.
I fail to see the downside here from a consumers point of view.
I'd be more interested in seeing a SUV like a Hummer verses a car like a Honda Fit. Andï people wonder why there isn't a higher adoption of green vehicles.
First off, I'm an Apple fanboi (as people like to call it). I own a several iPods, iPhone, a Mac Pro and a Macbook Pro.
Sony, MS and Nintendo have nothing to be worried about because they target completely different audiences. The people that are buying Apple's products are not buying them soley for the catalogs of games available.
Most Apple (computer) owners are painfully aware Apple's attitude toward games, and Apple has no interest in promoting their products as game platform (unlike Windows) unless it is the developers taking the initiative. We generally get 3rd rate games on OS X 2 years after the Windows release (when we get them period). Infact Blizzard is the only company I can think of off the top of my head that releases Mac versions of their games at the same times as the Windows counterparts.
The gaming status of Apple's non-iPods/iPhone products is abysmal at best, a reason I have a PS3 (and bootcamp).
The iPhone on the otherhand, if it wasn't for the developers making games for it, you sure as hell wouldn't be seeing the gaming popularity on that we do now. Apple is more of the mind, 'err, and it makes a great gaming platform' after looking at the store sales figures.
Apple is broadly targeting their core market, everyone.
Two reasons why we haven't upgraded to IE 7/8 at our offices.
a) Everyone has Firefox as their primary web browser and b) IE7 breaks Office 2000.
There's been no economical reason to upgrade past Office 2000 so far, and IE 7 causes our Access 2000 databases to no longer open. There are other other issues as well, but this one seems to be the greatest.
Why the hell an OS is built so unstable that upgrading a web browser can cause other applications to stop working is retarded.. especially when the OS and both apps are by the same vendor.
Anyone know how this is going to play out insofar as Bell ExpressVu receivers in Canada?
They (Bell) use the identical "Echostar" PVR boxes as our neighbours to the south. Sounds to me like Bell is going to have a huff of angry customers too here shortly.
How long do you need? IE7 was released in August 2005 so Web developers could start testing and fixing their apps well ahead of the October 2006 release.
I don't know, you'd have to ask Microsoft.. I've been running around the office uninstalling IE7 because it breaks ALL our MS Access 2000 databases (as in, they won't load when you click on the MDB files, they silently fail). Apparently it has to do with security settings and having to lower them because the extra crap rolled into IE7 doesn't allow our "unsigned" database applications to run unchallenged. So the choice is a) lower the security requirements in the Internet Settings control panel or b) ungrade to a newer version of MS Office.
The way I see it, it's a forced upgrade to generate more money and has nothing to do with IE6 or previous being this big security risk monster they are making it out to be.
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So now that we got falling down covered, don't forget when granny or gramps soils their diaper. With this amazing technology you can receive a text message time for changies.
Seriously.. overpriced cables, limited lengths, utter bullshit..
Probably why the likes of LG, Samsung and Sony are pushing for HDBaseT that uses good old CAT6 cable to deliver High Def signals instead.
Oh I can see it now, Monster Cable High Definition CAT6 cables, only $20/foot. pft..
http://www.hdbaset.org/
I'm sure there's some parallel regarding the Android vs Apple's logic in distributing apps.. but I'll likely be moderated a troll on /. for pointing them out..
It has little to do with geography.
Your right, but for the wrong reason. Ontario and Quebec consider themselves the center of the known universe.
The earthquake couldn't have happened to a nicer bunch of people.
I don't know about other countries, but here in Canada RADAR is only a tool to confirm an estimate.
Judge: And how did you determine Joe Smith was exceeding the speed limit.
Cop: I estimated the speed of the vehicle to be doing 70 in a 50 zone, and then confirmed my estimate with RADAR.
Judge: The defendant is hereby guilty as charged.
The only time I've seen tickets thrown out is if the tuning forks (used to verify the accuracy of the RADAR) were not certified within the last 365 days.
CRTC no longer represents the interests of the consumers
The CRTC has never represented the interests of the consumer that I recall. It's a protectionist body in bed with cable, television and satellite companies all under the guise of 'securing our heritage'
I'm not sure how it works in your city, however here in Edmonton, the system is decidedly simple.
There are two pressure pads embedded in the road before the stop line painted on the road. Your front and rear tires must pass over both pressure sensors AFTER the light has already changed to red in order to trigger a picture.
The only way you can trigger a ticket is if you passed the stopline AFTER the light was red.
Sounds pretty fair to me..
Many of the red light camera intersections also have a countdown timer on the "walk/do not cross" light giving you plenty of time to figure out when the light will change to yellow before you approach the intersection.
Go for it, but I won't have my naked image stored in a computer that politicians claim is hack proof and will get deleted right after.
After reading countless articles on these full-body scanners, most of the articles point out that the images are not saved and only displayed until the next person goes through.
Your not the only one..
http://a123.g.akamai.net/f/123/12465/1d/www.edmontonjournal.com/business/Malcolm+Mayes+Cartoon/1007472/2410729.bin?size=620x400
Guess what, Apple doesn't allow Canadians to purchase certain apps, movies and albums either.
It's called different laws for different markets.
This has always been a thorn in my side.
Why is it the expectation that a game released on a console be perfect, yet a game released for a computer generally be released early and patched later.
Yes it's true that console games (of the past) made it impossible to 'patch' and had to be held to a higher standard, and I'm fine with that. But this attitude of computer game developers to release shoddy code and then release patch after patch down the road is poor development. And this seems to be the norm for anything on the computer, and people blindly accept substandard crap yet are intolerant of it on other pieces of technology.
If people started to hold software developers to a higher standard when it comes to computer software instead of bending over and taking it, perhaps we wouldn't have so much shoddy software in the first place.
Just a thought!
If Atari had been able to legally keep out competitors, the best Atari 2600 games would never have seen the light of day.
Yet some of them shouldn't have.. like this quality title.
/etc/ So shut the fsck up -_-
If Windows used /etc/ I imagine it would look something like this..
sjkHFG12.cnf
2874asdf.dat
virsdefs.cfg
MYMLWARE.CNF
MSOFFI~1.cfg
MSOFFI~2.cfg
You know, full of highly detailed filenames with standardized extensions clearly indicating what programs they belong to.
Actually it is more reliable than RADAR.
RADAR measures the Doppler shift of the radio energy coming back at it. This energy is being reflected off many things.. any of them moving and signal is being sent back to the RADAR in the form of a Doppler shift. The RADAR then has to decide which one to display, so if you have a Semi and a Fiat side by side, regardless of if the Fiat is going faster, your going to get the speed of the Semi. You can be fairly certain your getting the right speed, but of what?
LIDAR is not a simple measurement of two distances to generate a simple distance over time calculation. Many pulsed samples are taken at a known rate. As samples come back, they can be statistically measured for erroneous samples.
If you send out 20 pulses within a split second, I can build a nice statistical tracking history from pulses that come back. If a large percentage of those pulses come back in a nice linear plot, I have no reason to believe they are wrong.. if 2-3 of those pulses are erradic (distances that are not in line with the tracking history of the entire sample), I can toss them out and still have a good tracking history.. if more then 5 or 6 fail, then I can simply disregard the entire sample.
introduces what's known as the "cosine error" which is actually in the speeder's favor since the LIDAR device will show the officer a slower speed
RADAR and LIDAR are both equally susceptible to cosine error. This is generally less of an issue for LIDAR because vehicles can be more accurately targetted much further down the road (less degrees offset from roadway).
In reality, the only downside to LIDAR is that it's near impossible with current technology to use it in a moving environment unlike RADAR.
What is the benefit of LIDAR? Is it more accurate, or just easier to 'aim'?
Both actually. RADAR emits a conical wave of energy that literally splatters multiple lanes. The return signal processor can get Doppler signal back from many vehicles, and reports the strongest signal (or fastest in models that support it). It is then up to the officer to visually determine which vehicle is speeding. It's not infallible, and subject to an officer's decision.
LIDAR on the other hand shoots out a very narrow pulsed beam that targets one specific vehicle at a time. Officer's are usually trained to target reflective parts of a vehicle (like headlights, taillights, license plates, etc.)
There is no trying to figure out which vehicle your measuring, you target, pull the trigger and bam, instant accurate speed.. usually within under 1 second so even though your detector has gone off, it's just telling you you're speed as been taken. Reaction time is NIL.
I dunno man, I'd rather buy a notebook from a company that knows how to make things rugged, verses a company that makes VCR's and questionable quality audio products.
They're already traffic shaping, this just gives them an official OK..
Business as usual folks, nothing to see here.
This article is worthless without pictu... er, nevermind. *shudder*
What if MS decided that all windows programs needed to be signed and licensed and sold through an app store they controlled?
Then there would be a significantly less problems with spyware and viruses on the Windows platform. Malicious programs that were discovered could be pulled, and we'd have a way to track down those responsible for said programs.
I fail to see the downside here from a consumers point of view.
I'd be more interested in seeing a SUV like a Hummer verses a car like a Honda Fit. Andï people wonder why there isn't a higher adoption of green vehicles.
First off, I'm an Apple fanboi (as people like to call it). I own a several iPods, iPhone, a Mac Pro and a Macbook Pro.
Sony, MS and Nintendo have nothing to be worried about because they target completely different audiences. The people that are buying Apple's products are not buying them soley for the catalogs of games available.
Most Apple (computer) owners are painfully aware Apple's attitude toward games, and Apple has no interest in promoting their products as game platform (unlike Windows) unless it is the developers taking the initiative. We generally get 3rd rate games on OS X 2 years after the Windows release (when we get them period). Infact Blizzard is the only company I can think of off the top of my head that releases Mac versions of their games at the same times as the Windows counterparts.
The gaming status of Apple's non-iPods/iPhone products is abysmal at best, a reason I have a PS3 (and bootcamp).
The iPhone on the otherhand, if it wasn't for the developers making games for it, you sure as hell wouldn't be seeing the gaming popularity on that we do now. Apple is more of the mind, 'err, and it makes a great gaming platform' after looking at the store sales figures.
Apple is broadly targeting their core market, everyone.
Two reasons why we haven't upgraded to IE 7/8 at our offices.
a) Everyone has Firefox as their primary web browser and
b) IE7 breaks Office 2000.
There's been no economical reason to upgrade past Office 2000 so far, and IE 7 causes our Access 2000 databases to no longer open. There are other other issues as well, but this one seems to be the greatest.
Why the hell an OS is built so unstable that upgrading a web browser can cause other applications to stop working is retarded.. especially when the OS and both apps are by the same vendor.
Anyone know how this is going to play out insofar as Bell ExpressVu receivers in Canada?
They (Bell) use the identical "Echostar" PVR boxes as our neighbours to the south. Sounds to me like Bell is going to have a huff of angry customers too here shortly.
I don't know, you'd have to ask Microsoft.. I've been running around the office uninstalling IE7 because it breaks ALL our MS Access 2000 databases (as in, they won't load when you click on the MDB files, they silently fail). Apparently it has to do with security settings and having to lower them because the extra crap rolled into IE7 doesn't allow our "unsigned" database applications to run unchallenged. So the choice is a) lower the security requirements in the Internet Settings control panel or b) ungrade to a newer version of MS Office.
The way I see it, it's a forced upgrade to generate more money and has nothing to do with IE6 or previous being this big security risk monster they are making it out to be.