I guess it is different in the USA, but under British Law pedestrians have the right to use most roads except motorways.
(But suing Goggle sounds more like she is just trolling.)
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You could say there are 2 types of people: those who enjoy the journey as an end in itself and those for whom the purpose of a journey is the destination. Most of the time I am in the former group, and I loved the ending to Lost, even though it does not answer all the questions, and even those that are answered I do not understand them all and even though some are unsatisfying. So after a suitable break I will go back to Series 1 Episode 1 and I will repeat the journey:-)
> I don't understand why there are no laptops with a small power supply and (barely..) no battery.
I wondered this too: and whenever I pack my eeePC I think about leaving the battery module at home, to save weight. But I always take it anyway, just in case.
I guess one answer is to pickup a cheap, 2nd hand laptop (cheap because the battery is dud). Ripout the power cells to save weight, although it will not make it smaller, just lighter. (Maybe a clever case-modder could turn the space into a pens and earbuds storage !)
> I think what killed news groups was the pirates.
I used to follow various cycling and some tech, related news groups, and what killed them was the rise in trolls/bigmouths. Slowly people migrated away to web-based forums, often where a moderator removed some of the worst offending users.
Is it just me, or is it a sad day when the American Heart Association has to admit defeat and admit that waving your arms around in front of a TV can be counted as progress in promoting health ?
"This is the time for truth, transparency and credibility. Secrecy and discretion are not values that are in fashion at the moment. We must be in a condition of having nothing to hide." i.e. the opposite of what some highly-modded commentators think was said !!
> Your point brings-up a good question though: how much of your brain can you replace before you're no-longer you?
Reminds me of the discussion we once had at school, many, many moons ago: if you transplant a head from one body to another is it a body transplant, or a head transplant ?
> I have a huge problem with the "already greedy airlines trying to get more money" little stab in the post.
What is staring to piss me off is the way the airlines are trying to manipulate public opinion to create an environment where they have a better chance of a government bail out.
(I guess also that the bailout of banks has increased the confidence of large companies that they are all "too big to fail".)
> Speed limits and speeding tickets are a huge scam. They are mostly in place to generate revenue, not improve safety.
To me the *motivations* of the installer are irrelevant, if the *effect* is improved safety.
> Speed limits should be abolished, and police officers merely told to pull over people who are driving recklessly. This would improve safety and eliminate some of the antagonism people have towards the police.
Up to a point I have some sympathy with the speed-does-not-kill-bad-driving-does, but it soon falls apart. For example kids should not run out into the road, but when then do there is a close correlation between speed of impact and injury/death. Or the effect of a tyre blow out would also correlate closely with speed. Ability to stop for red lights etc is also correlate closely with speed (it could be a long, straight, wide empty road you could go fast down it, but there is only a certain delay between your red light and cross traffic starting). Etc, etc
And, although I have no evidence, I suspect that some/most/all ? drivers would overestimate their abilities/would not care if the speed limits were removed.
> They should go after the kids who do 90MPH in a 40 residential neighborhood with straight pipes on their cars making noise at 3AM. But there's not enough money in that.
I agree the police should go after them, however your supporting argument fails: there is also only marginal safety benefit.
> Didn't they delay a shuttle launch to avoid a GPS clock rollover? The ground clock rollover to Day 1, yes. But GPS clock rollover is somewhere in 2137 ! (it is just seconds tick).
> So yeah, the code is right there, but it's useless to a large majority (probably near 99%) of users.
They may not directly take advantage of it: but they *benefit* from it. For example Xfree forked to X.org: most users probably did not know/care what "Xfree" was, but when a minority of users got tired of the Xfree problems they forked it, made a better product and now (AFAIK) most linux users are using the new X.org (still not knowing what it is). 99% of users did *not* look at the source, but they did benefit.
If Xfree had been proprietary we would be stuck with Xfree.
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Would any of these ESA programs provide the same data: Earth Explorers at a glance ?
I guess it is different in the USA, but under British Law pedestrians have the right to use most roads except motorways.
(But suing Goggle sounds more like she is just trolling.)
You could say there are 2 types of people: those who enjoy the journey as an end in itself and those for whom the purpose of a journey is the destination. :-)
Most of the time I am in the former group, and I loved the ending to Lost, even though it does not answer all the questions, and even those that are answered I do not understand them all and even though some are unsatisfying.
So after a suitable break I will go back to Series 1 Episode 1 and I will repeat the journey
> I don't understand why there are no laptops with a small power supply and (barely..) no battery.
I wondered this too: and whenever I pack my eeePC I think about leaving the battery module at home, to save weight. But I always take it anyway, just in case.
I guess one answer is to pickup a cheap, 2nd hand laptop (cheap because the battery is dud). Ripout the power cells to save weight, although it will not make it smaller, just lighter. (Maybe a clever case-modder could turn the space into a pens and earbuds storage !)
> I think what killed news groups was the pirates.
I used to follow various cycling and some tech, related news groups, and what killed them was the rise in trolls/bigmouths.
Slowly people migrated away to web-based forums, often where a moderator removed some of the worst offending users.
>> The cause of the error is yet to be understood
Just to clarify: this was the submitters comment: it does not appear in the source article.
> Unfortunately, The Pirate Parties (including the Swedish one) are now the party to go to for a lot of reasonable views on many issues.
Not always so: if there is one you should check out the policy of your local Green Party.
Is it just me, or is it a sad day when the American Heart Association has to admit defeat and admit that waving your arms around in front of a TV can be counted as progress in promoting health ?
> Since 2005, I've had a live webcam watching my grass grow...
Only on Slashdot is that something to be proud of ;-)
> How about GPS receiver + exact known location ?
But if you roll-your-own do not forget that GPS time does not have the leap seconds that UTC has !!
> Israel? I thought that was where the current Intel Architecture was designed?
Although my post did not mention it I was thinking of where it was *invented*. AFAIK the 8086 was created by Intel in the USA. But I could be wrong :-(
> ARM is David. x86 is Goliath.
ARM is British. x86 is from that-place-across-the-water-that-seems-to-be-doing-quite-well. :-)
Some people would say that First Person Shooters fit in *exactly* with the Scouts militaristic origins/undertones.
(If it was the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodcraft_Folk/ then it would be a different matter.)
"This is the time for truth, transparency and credibility. Secrecy and discretion are not values that are in fashion at the moment. We must be in a condition of having nothing to hide."
i.e. the opposite of what some highly-modded commentators think was said !!
> Your point brings-up a good question though: how much of your brain can you replace before you're no-longer you?
Reminds me of the discussion we once had at school, many, many moons ago: if you transplant a head from one body to another is it a body transplant, or a head transplant ?
> I have a huge problem with the "already greedy airlines trying to get more money" little stab in the post.
What is staring to piss me off is the way the airlines are trying to manipulate public opinion to create an environment where they have a better chance of a government bail out.
(I guess also that the bailout of banks has increased the confidence of large companies that they are all "too big to fail".)
> I was going to say, that's the best marketing the Android could have hoped for. "It does everything ours does *AND* can do porn."
Depends on the target market: for parents buying/OKing phones for their kids what Jobs says is just what they want to hear.
> Speed limits and speeding tickets are a huge scam. They are mostly in place to generate revenue, not improve safety.
To me the *motivations* of the installer are irrelevant, if the *effect* is improved safety.
> Speed limits should be abolished, and police officers merely told to pull over people who are driving recklessly. This would improve safety and eliminate some of the antagonism people have towards the police.
Up to a point I have some sympathy with the speed-does-not-kill-bad-driving-does, but it soon falls apart. For example kids should not run out into the road, but when then do there is a close correlation between speed of impact and injury/death. Or the effect of a tyre blow out would also correlate closely with speed. Ability to stop for red lights etc is also correlate closely with speed (it could be a long, straight, wide empty road you could go fast down it, but there is only a certain delay between your red light and cross traffic starting). Etc, etc
And, although I have no evidence, I suspect that some/most/all ? drivers would overestimate their abilities/would not care if the speed limits were removed.
> They should go after the kids who do 90MPH in a 40 residential neighborhood with straight pipes on their cars making noise at 3AM. But there's not enough money in that.
I agree the police should go after them, however your supporting argument fails: there is also only marginal safety benefit.
Thank The Flying Spaghetti Monster I do not live in the "Land of the Free" ;-)
> Have you considered voting Pirate?
Or Green ?
> Didn't they delay a shuttle launch to avoid a GPS clock rollover?
The ground clock rollover to Day 1, yes. But GPS clock rollover is somewhere in 2137 ! (it is just seconds tick).
I am not sure whether to laugh or cry when someone describes moving window buttons from one side to the other a "big change" !!
> So yeah, the code is right there, but it's useless to a large majority (probably near 99%) of users.
They may not directly take advantage of it: but they *benefit* from it. For example Xfree forked to X.org: most users probably did not know/care what "Xfree" was, but when a minority of users got tired of the Xfree problems they forked it, made a better product and now (AFAIK) most linux users are using the new X.org (still not knowing what it is). 99% of users did *not* look at the source, but they did benefit.
If Xfree had been proprietary we would be stuck with Xfree.
In other news: Swiss ISPs are gearing up for an increase in Bittorrent traffic.
> And TV watching does require less thinking.
Not always: my brain is on double overtime when I try to follow "Lost" :-)