FTA: "Two electric vehicles will perform a 13,000 km trip mainly powered by solar energy, with no driver; two backup vehicles will be part of the trip as well. As a support, 4 Overland trucks will follow the expedition to provide a mechanic shop, storage, and accommodation; "
So they're solar and then they have FOUR trucks following them for support. Fuel shouldn't be a problem.
Why don't we see more of these? I remember watching a show nearly 20 yrs ago about a self-driving car running on a 486 processor. They had video of it driving and everything, looked like it did very well. Now we have quad core processors for less than $200 and we still don't have self driving cars. What happened? I'd imagine as cpus and sensors got cheaper we'd see faster reaction speeds.
"You have proposal A, with a cost of X and an effectiveness of Y
You have proposal B, with a cost of 2X and an effectiveness of.7Y"
I threw away my mod points to reply to this, but I thought it was important.
One of the schools I went to as a child had a "Gold Card" program that was basically a incentive program to get good grades. Instead of handing out cash (which is the wrong approach, i'll explain in a bit) for good grades you would earn free items at local businesses. I remember a local video store allowed a few free video game rentals, a fast-food place gave free french fries and the local movie theater gave a free movie ticket. When you're a kid and can only think of video games, food and movies these were great incentives, and the businesses made up the money by getting free advertising and the parents usually ended up buying more than what was given away free i.e. I never went there and only ate fries.
The reason handing out $$$ for good grades isn't the answer is because it's not realistic. First, what happens to these kids when they go to college? The colleges aren't going to hand them hundreds of dollars to show up or get good grades. Second, what happens when they reach the real world? Sure, you're paid your salary to do C work, but if you're asked to do a bit better your boss doesn't give you an instant raise. If you're a cashier at Walmart and your boss asks you to clean up aisle 10 because a kid puked, you do it, but these kids are going to think they should get extra $$$ because the boss asked them to do a little extra.
I think the kids who have parents that paid them for good grades growing up did well later in life because the parents had the money to make sure they did well. They could afford the good colleges and the extra tutors or other resources, the computer to type papers on and access the internet or a car to get to the library in. I don't think paying low income children to do well in school is going to turn them into college graduates.
FTA: "I have gotten this same error, I believe the system may have done this to everyone who is currently playing that is using credit cards to pay... My fees were 13 charges of 6 month subscriptions, 77.94 X 13 = 1013.12 I didn't have this much money in my account, costing me any money that Icould possibly have to live off of..."
Wow... just wow. Having $1,000 suddenly deducted from your bank account would hurt almost any gamer
Warhammer Online requires a credit card on file: "This game requires a monthly fee to play. The first 30 days of this fee are included in the purchase price of this package. You must provide a valid credit card to register and play."
So all those smart people saying "use automatic bill pay" are wrong, you can't with Warhammer Online. This is so much fail on so many levels I don't know what to say.
"Court findings: For the plaintiffs, the sum of $1,000,000 to be split among the class and awarded in vouchers for three months of free play on Warhammer Online, plus lawyers' fees of $10,000,000 to be awarded in cash to the legal representation team."
No, these are real damages, the customers should be reimburse real dollars, not a few months of free play, especially the hundreds that will probably cancel their accounts over this.
I'm sure the customers would be fine with the lawyers getting 10 million, it would teach EA not to make massive mistakes like this.
"If it's a debit card with a Visa or Mastercard logo, the dispute rights are exactly the same as they would be with a credit card."
No. Still run through your bank, and you still have to beg your bank.
If I filed a dispute with my last credit union over a Visa transaction on my debit card they would terminate the card and make me wait 2 weeks for a new one to arrive. I closed my account with them.
"it's called small claims court, a perfect place for $770 in wrongful overdraft charges"
Yep. Pay ~$70 to file and a sheriff to deliver the summons and you're done. Just look up EA's corporate office and whoever the CEO is. Of course the sheriff probably won't see the CEO (even though he's suppose to) but he'll march up to the secretary and they'll sign for it and I'm sure the CEO will hear about it.
I'd go for whatever the limit is for your state's small claims, 3 grand or 5 grand. Judge might see that they did this to thousands and award punitive damages.
I was in a fender bender and their insurance company wanted to claim my car was worthless and offered to buy the car plus damages for 1/8th blue book. I got 3 estimates and filed a small claims lawsuit. 3 weeks later I walked into their office and they handed me a $3,000 check. I got the car fixed for $100.
"But space is often limited, because we don't want to cover the landscape in solar panels."
then form them in pyramids yourself, so now a panel is always facing the sun, but you're buying four panels instead of just one and a cheap light sensing (same sensor in dawn/dusk lights) tracking system
" I have 100/10 fiber to the house in rural Finland, and there are no caps. On bandwidth tests, I get the speed I'm paying for - all the time."
And you use it for what, exactly?
I've had my same 10/1 cable internet service for nearly ten years in the US. Two years ago I cancelled my regular TV cable service and went purely internet based media, streaming Hulu, torrents and iTunes to my TV. I don't even have an antenna for OTA programming. I haven't suffered, I still watch TV every night, and surf the net constantly without ever wishing for higher speeds.
If I had 100/10 fiber my activities wouldn't change. Even though I'm constantly downloading everything the internet has to offer I have never felt like I needed a faster speed. It'd be like having a car capable of 200mph when the speed limit's 65, sure it's fun to have but how often would I get to use all that power?
I think Ivan Seidenberg is absolutely right. All the tech news I've read, I don't see Japan and Europe coming out with anything amazing thanks to their faster internet services. Hulu is based in the US and only accessible to US citizens. PlayON, which I use to stream Hulu content to the TV, is based in the US. Sites I use daily, eBay, Slashdot, Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, Myspace and many others, all created in the US. The best phones of the past decade, Google Android/Nexus and iPhone, were both created in the US for the US network, not other countries that are suppose to have amazing wireless networks.
So tell me, all you other countries of the world with amazing fiber internet connections, what are you doing with your bandwidth? Are you using that 100mbps download often, or does it sit idly by at a few mbps 99% of the time?
"Why should the most innovative companies get swallowed by bigger fish? "
because we can only have so many "innovative" companies. A dozen facebooks wouldn't work, a dozen twitters won't work. No one wants to log into a dozen different twitter clones and update their status. You have big sharks, and you have the guppies nipping at their heels. The tiny bit of innovation that Foursquare adds could be added to Facebook tomorrow and Foursquare would vanish into oblivion.
."So it certainly wouldn't make economic sense for a warning system especially when far cheaper alternative exists (like sound horns)."
Not only that, but the areas where tsunami's usually hit are not wealthy areas and probably wouldn't want to be launching billion dollar satellites into space.
"I watched the video and didn't see any weapons. Certainly no RPG's, which have a fairly distinctive profile. It was more than the imaginings of a tired mind. No one in the van was armed or picking up weapons, yet that was how it was called in."
And this is based on your many years of active duty watching grainy b/w video taken by a helicopter 10,000 feet up?
Sorry but I don't think anyone here could 100% say they either saw or didn't see weapons. Only thing I find strange is a van with two kids in it arrived to pick-up Reuters employees. Did he have family in Baghdad, or are the people of Baghdad so friendly they'll visit war-zones and pick up the wounded?
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"The keyboard on the iphones suck."
"Suck" is relative: sucks compared to what? Compared to laptop keyboard? Sure. Compared to Windows Mobile 5/6 onscreen keyboard? Hell no. Sucks compared to any other cellphone touchscreen keyboard? No, it's probably the best onscreen keyboard yet.
I've typed/. posts several paragraphs long on my iphone. Only real problem is trying to do html formating, inserting something as simple as a linebreak requires navigating through multiple screens just to get to the >
For facebook posts and short emails the iphone's keyboard is perfect, and isn't that what it's designed for? Quick, on-the-go emails and posts? It's my fault for trying to do html formatting on a phone, not Apples.
"Problem is that suspending someones license doesn't really prevent them from driving if they're really intent on it."
Very true. I've driven for years on suspended licenses for unpaid speeding tickets, failure to appear (in court) and what not. Suspending a license is kinda a joke, the only thing that really happens is if you're pulled over on a suspended license you're really in trouble. Some states arrest you and impound the vehicle, others just impound the vehicle, some just impose a longer suspension and huge fines.
So really if your license is suspended you can still physically drive you just have to be very very careful because you're doing so illegally.
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"Who fuels the cars on the way?"
FTA:
"Two electric vehicles will perform a 13,000 km trip mainly powered by solar energy, with no driver; two backup vehicles will be part of the trip as well. As a support, 4 Overland trucks will follow the expedition to provide a mechanic shop, storage, and accommodation; "
So they're solar and then they have FOUR trucks following them for support. Fuel shouldn't be a problem.
Why don't we see more of these? I remember watching a show nearly 20 yrs ago about a self-driving car running on a 486 processor. They had video of it driving and everything, looked like it did very well. Now we have quad core processors for less than $200 and we still don't have self driving cars. What happened? I'd imagine as cpus and sensors got cheaper we'd see faster reaction speeds.
"I never let anyone deduct directly from my bank account.... a $1000 charge from EA's Warhammer would be annoying but not incur overdraft fees."
You're not a gamer, because it is required to deduct directly from your account for online gaming. None of this applies to you.
"You have proposal A, with a cost of X and an effectiveness of Y You have proposal B, with a cost of 2X and an effectiveness of .7Y"
I threw away my mod points to reply to this, but I thought it was important.
One of the schools I went to as a child had a "Gold Card" program that was basically a incentive program to get good grades. Instead of handing out cash (which is the wrong approach, i'll explain in a bit) for good grades you would earn free items at local businesses. I remember a local video store allowed a few free video game rentals, a fast-food place gave free french fries and the local movie theater gave a free movie ticket. When you're a kid and can only think of video games, food and movies these were great incentives, and the businesses made up the money by getting free advertising and the parents usually ended up buying more than what was given away free i.e. I never went there and only ate fries.
The reason handing out $$$ for good grades isn't the answer is because it's not realistic. First, what happens to these kids when they go to college? The colleges aren't going to hand them hundreds of dollars to show up or get good grades. Second, what happens when they reach the real world? Sure, you're paid your salary to do C work, but if you're asked to do a bit better your boss doesn't give you an instant raise. If you're a cashier at Walmart and your boss asks you to clean up aisle 10 because a kid puked, you do it, but these kids are going to think they should get extra $$$ because the boss asked them to do a little extra.
I think the kids who have parents that paid them for good grades growing up did well later in life because the parents had the money to make sure they did well. They could afford the good colleges and the extra tutors or other resources, the computer to type papers on and access the internet or a car to get to the library in. I don't think paying low income children to do well in school is going to turn them into college graduates.
FTA:
"I have gotten this same error, I believe the system may have done this to everyone who is currently playing that is using credit cards to pay... My fees were 13 charges of 6 month subscriptions, 77.94 X 13 = 1013.12 I didn't have this much money in my account, costing me any money that Icould possibly have to live off of..."
Wow... just wow. Having $1,000 suddenly deducted from your bank account would hurt almost any gamer
Warhammer Online requires a credit card on file:
"This game requires a monthly fee to play. The first 30 days of this fee are included in the purchase price of this package. You must provide a valid credit card to register and play."
So all those smart people saying "use automatic bill pay" are wrong, you can't with Warhammer Online. This is so much fail on so many levels I don't know what to say.
"Court findings: For the plaintiffs, the sum of $1,000,000 to be split among the class and awarded in vouchers for three months of free play on Warhammer Online, plus lawyers' fees of $10,000,000 to be awarded in cash to the legal representation team."
No, these are real damages, the customers should be reimburse real dollars, not a few months of free play, especially the hundreds that will probably cancel their accounts over this.
I'm sure the customers would be fine with the lawyers getting 10 million, it would teach EA not to make massive mistakes like this.
"If it's a debit card with a Visa or Mastercard logo, the dispute rights are exactly the same as they would be with a credit card."
No. Still run through your bank, and you still have to beg your bank.
If I filed a dispute with my last credit union over a Visa transaction on my debit card they would terminate the card and make me wait 2 weeks for a new one to arrive. I closed my account with them.
they have this.
it's called automatic bill pay.
"it's called small claims court, a perfect place for $770 in wrongful overdraft charges"
Yep. Pay ~$70 to file and a sheriff to deliver the summons and you're done. Just look up EA's corporate office and whoever the CEO is. Of course the sheriff probably won't see the CEO (even though he's suppose to) but he'll march up to the secretary and they'll sign for it and I'm sure the CEO will hear about it.
I'd go for whatever the limit is for your state's small claims, 3 grand or 5 grand. Judge might see that they did this to thousands and award punitive damages.
I was in a fender bender and their insurance company wanted to claim my car was worthless and offered to buy the car plus damages for 1/8th blue book. I got 3 estimates and filed a small claims lawsuit. 3 weeks later I walked into their office and they handed me a $3,000 check. I got the car fixed for $100.
You missed the effectively part! That's the most important part!
Next up: Man makes SUV effectively 1000 mpg by rolling downhill!
Omg a computer invented a pyramid?? This is super mega efficient, pyramids have never been done before
By your bad analogy we're also solar powered... Omg solar powered humans! (patent pending)
The motor and light sensor can be run off the panel, and they only move small increments about a dozen times a day
"But space is often limited, because we don't want to cover the landscape in solar panels."
then form them in pyramids yourself, so now a panel is always facing the sun, but you're buying four panels instead of just one and a cheap light sensing (same sensor in dawn/dusk lights) tracking system
" I have 100/10 fiber to the house in rural Finland, and there are no caps. On bandwidth tests, I get the speed I'm paying for - all the time."
And you use it for what, exactly?
I've had my same 10/1 cable internet service for nearly ten years in the US. Two years ago I cancelled my regular TV cable service and went purely internet based media, streaming Hulu, torrents and iTunes to my TV. I don't even have an antenna for OTA programming. I haven't suffered, I still watch TV every night, and surf the net constantly without ever wishing for higher speeds.
If I had 100/10 fiber my activities wouldn't change. Even though I'm constantly downloading everything the internet has to offer I have never felt like I needed a faster speed. It'd be like having a car capable of 200mph when the speed limit's 65, sure it's fun to have but how often would I get to use all that power?
I think Ivan Seidenberg is absolutely right. All the tech news I've read, I don't see Japan and Europe coming out with anything amazing thanks to their faster internet services. Hulu is based in the US and only accessible to US citizens. PlayON, which I use to stream Hulu content to the TV, is based in the US. Sites I use daily, eBay, Slashdot, Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, Myspace and many others, all created in the US. The best phones of the past decade, Google Android/Nexus and iPhone, were both created in the US for the US network, not other countries that are suppose to have amazing wireless networks.
So tell me, all you other countries of the world with amazing fiber internet connections, what are you doing with your bandwidth? Are you using that 100mbps download often, or does it sit idly by at a few mbps 99% of the time?
"Why should the most innovative companies get swallowed by bigger fish? "
because we can only have so many "innovative" companies. A dozen facebooks wouldn't work, a dozen twitters won't work. No one wants to log into a dozen different twitter clones and update their status. You have big sharks, and you have the guppies nipping at their heels. The tiny bit of innovation that Foursquare adds could be added to Facebook tomorrow and Foursquare would vanish into oblivion.
"Christ, I don't think I've ever even heard of these guys. They should have took the money & ran."
.....like, the game?"
.com burst.
I've heard of them, but very little. I asked some net savvy teens and early 20-somethings and they said "Foursquare?
I can only imagine the owners of Foursquare are too young or stupid to remember the late 90s
Maybe soviets have a different definition of "deep"? "ah, I cant touch it with my toes, it's down there DEEP!"
In soviet Russia, governent money drink on you!
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."So it certainly wouldn't make economic sense for a warning system especially when far cheaper alternative exists (like sound horns)."
Not only that, but the areas where tsunami's usually hit are not wealthy areas and probably wouldn't want to be launching billion dollar satellites into space.
Here in the US we have tornados and hurricanes and we can't even save ourselves. Our 50 year old technology tornado sirens are failing constantly so if one of the richest countries in the world can't warn it's own citizens what hope is there for Indonsia and Sri Lanka where the 2004 Tsunami that killed 200,000 people hit?
"I also don't see Itanium going anywhere any time soon. "
I should hope not considering a new Itanium processor was just released in February.
I'm a bit surprised to hear M$ dropping support for a 2 month old processor.
"I watched the video and didn't see any weapons. Certainly no RPG's, which have a fairly distinctive profile. It was more than the imaginings of a tired mind. No one in the van was armed or picking up weapons, yet that was how it was called in."
And this is based on your many years of active duty watching grainy b/w video taken by a helicopter 10,000 feet up?
Sorry but I don't think anyone here could 100% say they either saw or didn't see weapons. Only thing I find strange is a van with two kids in it arrived to pick-up Reuters employees. Did he have family in Baghdad, or are the people of Baghdad so friendly they'll visit war-zones and pick up the wounded?
"The keyboard on the iphones suck."
/. posts several paragraphs long on my iphone. Only real problem is trying to do html formating, inserting something as simple as a linebreak requires navigating through multiple screens just to get to the >
"Suck" is relative: sucks compared to what? Compared to laptop keyboard? Sure. Compared to Windows Mobile 5/6 onscreen keyboard? Hell no. Sucks compared to any other cellphone touchscreen keyboard? No, it's probably the best onscreen keyboard yet.
I've typed
For facebook posts and short emails the iphone's keyboard is perfect, and isn't that what it's designed for? Quick, on-the-go emails and posts? It's my fault for trying to do html formatting on a phone, not Apples.
"Why the fuck are we putting them back on the road?"
Because a lot of members of Congress are drunk drivers.
"Problem is that suspending someones license doesn't really prevent them from driving if they're really intent on it."
Very true. I've driven for years on suspended licenses for unpaid speeding tickets, failure to appear (in court) and what not. Suspending a license is kinda a joke, the only thing that really happens is if you're pulled over on a suspended license you're really in trouble. Some states arrest you and impound the vehicle, others just impound the vehicle, some just impose a longer suspension and huge fines.
So really if your license is suspended you can still physically drive you just have to be very very careful because you're doing so illegally.