That is a MASSIVE cost in time the single truly finite thing in our lives. We need a faster transportation system trains are much safer but unused as it takes longer than driving.
That argument is made a lot, but since the majority of travel (around 80%) is spent commuting, what would the extra time before and after work be used for? For most people in the US, the speed differential will amount to less than 15 minutes each way, so yes, you would have an extra 30 minutes of "free" time, but not in any real usable blocks. As a matter of fact, if usable time were the main desire, then the train, which allows one to do other things while travelling should be preferable.
The reality is that in most major cities, during rush hour, the highway system doesn't move at the posted speed limit anyway, so that the time lost from a lower speed limit doesn't really manifest itself. The other 20% of the time, where most high speed accidents occur, would reduce accident rates. Again, if your goal is more "free" time and you drive on the highways, even if you are not in the accident, each one slows you down.
Studies show that lower speed limits (when they are enforced) reduce accidents, let alone the severity of the accidents. As such, even though the speed limit is reduced, so is your travel time.
I have no idea why people keep that stuff. This is like the old geezers who keep the ancient engines, skinny tires and crap suspension in otherwise cool cars. Restomod is the way to go folks.
I think that the classic car auction prices would show that the full restro bring higher prices than a restomod, which would mean that if you want to take a car with modern handling, horsepower, features, then buy a modern car. If you want a classic car, then buy that.
We don't need brains in the car, just a simple display system.
Maybe not, but brains in driver would be a good start. I'm not sure turning a car into a giant iPod is a step in the right direction, but it is a great way to further monetize your services.
Even 10 years ago, it wasn't common for parents to drive their kids to school. Now, seemingly everyone does. Thirty years ago, there weren't too many single parent households, and today it's over 50% - which means everyone has to go to daycare in the morning, too.
You mean 30 years ago, right? 10 years ago would be 2003. My youngest was born in 1984 and started school in 1989, and we and pretty much all of his classmates drove him to school (and daycare before that). How did we do it without all of today's electronics? Simple, we actually talked to each other back then.
try driving for more than 30 minutes with two smallish kids in the car
And how did your parents deal with it? If you need an infotainment center to deal with the kids for a 30 minute trip in the car, there is a bigger problem not being mentioned here.
How about lowering speed limits (and enforcing them) so drivers have time to react to unexpected events? Other than the cost of printing new signs, the costs would be minimal, safety improved, and dependency on oil reduced.
If a pregnant woman doesn't get sufficient iodine the baby's development is impaired and never recovers, thus impairing IQ potential. There are effects that can occur in children and adults as well.
That's my point. The iodine is not increasing IQ, it is preventing the decline that occurs from the lack of having the iodine in the first place. Similar to how Vitamin C doesn't increase muscle strength, but it prevents the muscle weakness caused by scurvy.
Technically lack of iodine cause mental retardation, or a lowering of IQ, so using iodized salt in a population wouldn't actually increase IQ the IQ of the population, it would simply protect against the degredation caused by iodine insufficiency.
6 blockbusters came out in 6 weeks and nobody can figure out why not any single one of the 6 made a lot of money? Go back over the history of summer blockbusters - start at Jaws or whenever - and you know what you'll find,1, maybe 2 blockbuster movies PER YEAR. Not 1 every week. Add up the total box office of every summer and I bet the TOTAL for this summer is comparable to the TOTAL of every other summer since Jaws. Hollywood wants a successful blockbuster, then make ONE, not 6.
Correction, 6 expensive movies to produce came out in 6 weeks. It's not up to Hollywood as to what makes a blockbuster, it is up to the viewers. But you do have a point, consumers only have so much disposable income. It seems the problem is that Hollywood has too much available cash so they turn out more product than the public can consume.
Here's a thought, produce fewer films which saves money and lower ticket prices, which encourages more viewers. Should be a win/win. It's basic economics, supply and demand. Lower the price, you increase demand. Raise the price, particularly when there is competition for disposable income and you lower demand.
$50 for you and your son, damn, I'm glad I don't live where you do. We just went to the movies this weekend for $50 including drinks and popcorn, but that was a family of 4. Then again, we live in flyover country.
Actually, the Lone Ranger might not have been a block buster hit, but it was pretty darn enjoyable. Could used a little editing to cut the length, but over all, a fun experience. Sometimes I don't understand what the reviewers are looking for in a movie. Maybe Disney just didn't pay the right people enough for the right reviews.
I would want one of those (I own the surface pro). Frequently I want flexibility. I need the tablet to be able to act as a mediocre laptop sometimes. Tablets are just too computer dependent too much of the time. The Helix is more than a mediocre laptop but it is $2k.
Well, you could get an Asus Transformer, although it doesn't run Windows 8. Then again, it is $1,500 cheaper than the Helix.
"The finding shakes up our ideas about how sex chromosomes influence gender and also suggests that at least some parts of the X chromosome are playing an unexpectedly dynamic role in evolution."
Huh? What? Shakes up WHOSE ideas? Certainly not mine.
YY babies don't tend to go very far (not XYY, just YY).
Seriously... I don't see how this perfectly obvious stuff "shakes up" much of anything.
Well, if they just reported the findings without adding hyperbole, nobody would read their article. For example take these two hypothetical titles: "Research sheds new light into inter-relationship between X and Y chromosomes." and "X Chromosome findings change how we will forever view gender." Which one do you thing will garner more page hits and readers?
Let's start over and redesign humans from the ground up.
Humans designed by committee might have cupholders for ears and camel humps, but even a committee wouldn't do anything as asinine as running a sewer line out through the middle of male&female sex bits.
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Actually, only males have the sewer line run out through their actual sex bits. With females, the uterus and fallopian tubes are totally separate from the ureter. For the male, it makes a lot of sense actually. Why build two hoses when you can have one with a valve to select what comes out of it. Kind of like the hose on the gas pump at the filing station. One hose supplying different fluids as the situation warrants.
As any engineering student will tell you, the purpose of engineering isn't to build the strongest structure or the biggest structure. It is just the opposite, it is to build the most minimalist structure that will get the job done.
why should i pay $$$ to read about stuff that happened a day or two ago? seriously, one time i saw one of the NYC tabloids have a sunday baseball game on the cover of their TUESDAY paper
News is supposed to be about new stuff happening NOW
Why have a sports section at all? Why not just print the box scores and be done with it? Some people really do appreciate in depth reviews and analysis even if they already know what happened.
Meanwhile, local print news outlets have been bought by major news companies and turned into watered down versions of their parent company's product, with a few local fluff pieces.
That probably has more to do with the decline in newspapers and news magazines than the internet.
If the reason that you don't have enough pilots is that there are "better paying jobs in the commercial sector with more stability", then start paying the pilots more! Isn't that how capitalism works? You can't expect intelligent people to take an inferior job simply out of patriotism.
Instead they'll probably waste millions of dollars on advertising campaigns, sigh.
Or it could be all of those new planes the pentagon said they didn't need but congress made them purchase anyway. Maybe congress's intention to appease the defense contractors is the cause of the shortage.
VLC plays encrypted DVDs without me having to install any other software.
What platform? On Windows, that is true, but if your Windows pc has a dvd player, it already comes with the software to decrypt DVDs. On linux, at least the distributions I have been working with, I've had to manually install and enable the decryption to be able to play DVDs. However, some distributions ship it pre-enabled.
What's the issue. VLC does not decrypt DVDs and plays a myriad of formats, all legally. If one takes the step to install libdvdcss, which does decrypt the DVD that is the individual doing that, not VLC. Saying that VLC is responsible for it is like saying Ford is responsible for people speeding.
Where's the news? As soon as some politicians notice that some "illegal" tool, device, substance or whatever is useful to them, suddenly it's no longer illegal.
Technically, VLC isn't illegal. It can play all sorts of formats and by default it cannot play encrypted DVDs. Now, if you install libdvdcss, well, VLC is just reading the decrypted stream that libdvdcss provided, but that is through your actions, not VLCs or its developers.
Yes. My car isn't going on a plane. That's why I'm not worried about some winimum wage, no security check baggage handler depositing something in my car that he wants to go across a border.
Just because you don't care about an invasion of privacy doesn't mean others don't. What if instead of some minimum wage security check baggage handler taking something valuable from your vehicle or glove box or trunk instead of depositing something? What about them not taking something, but getting enough info from papers in your glove box or elsewhere to steal your identity (have your insurance card, title, or any receipts in there)? Most importantly, it's your car, your property, the government, according to the constitution, cannot search it without cause and just because you used valet parking instead of parking the car yourself hardly seems cause.
From the article, MIT wants to protect the identity of the people involved and to make sure their network security is protected. They want to be able make redactions above and beyond what the government would normally redact in such a release of information under the Freedom of Information Act.
I'm pretty sure that everybody would like that opportunity when information is released, but why should MIT get preferential treatment? There are established laws and procedures on what should and should not be redacted. After all, these are the government's papers related to the government's investigation. They are not MIT's papers.
There are consequences to our actions and if MIT is embarrassed by what the government investigation showed or its employees said, well, that is a natural consequence of the actions they took. That is not to say they were or were not justified in those actions, just that all actions have consequences.
He assumed that, given the fact that you were taking part in the debate, knew something about software developer. He didn't know that you were a nurse who's only interaction with a computer was through an iPad received your previous birthday.
Oooh, sticks and stones.... For the record, I am the hiring manager of a large privately held software engineering firm. But thank you for playing.
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That is a MASSIVE cost in time the single truly finite thing in our lives. We need a faster transportation system trains are much safer but unused as it takes longer than driving.
That argument is made a lot, but since the majority of travel (around 80%) is spent commuting, what would the extra time before and after work be used for? For most people in the US, the speed differential will amount to less than 15 minutes each way, so yes, you would have an extra 30 minutes of "free" time, but not in any real usable blocks. As a matter of fact, if usable time were the main desire, then the train, which allows one to do other things while travelling should be preferable.
The reality is that in most major cities, during rush hour, the highway system doesn't move at the posted speed limit anyway, so that the time lost from a lower speed limit doesn't really manifest itself. The other 20% of the time, where most high speed accidents occur, would reduce accident rates. Again, if your goal is more "free" time and you drive on the highways, even if you are not in the accident, each one slows you down.
Studies show that lower speed limits (when they are enforced) reduce accidents, let alone the severity of the accidents. As such, even though the speed limit is reduced, so is your travel time.
Rip that crap out.
I have no idea why people keep that stuff. This is like the old geezers who keep the ancient engines, skinny tires and crap suspension in otherwise cool cars. Restomod is the way to go folks.
I think that the classic car auction prices would show that the full restro bring higher prices than a restomod, which would mean that if you want to take a car with modern handling, horsepower, features, then buy a modern car. If you want a classic car, then buy that.
We don't need brains in the car, just a simple display system.
Maybe not, but brains in driver would be a good start. I'm not sure turning a car into a giant iPod is a step in the right direction, but it is a great way to further monetize your services.
Even 10 years ago, it wasn't common for parents to drive their kids to school. Now, seemingly everyone does. Thirty years ago, there weren't too many single parent households, and today it's over 50% - which means everyone has to go to daycare in the morning, too.
You mean 30 years ago, right? 10 years ago would be 2003. My youngest was born in 1984 and started school in 1989, and we and pretty much all of his classmates drove him to school (and daycare before that). How did we do it without all of today's electronics? Simple, we actually talked to each other back then.
try driving for more than 30 minutes with two smallish kids in the car
And how did your parents deal with it? If you need an infotainment center to deal with the kids for a 30 minute trip in the car, there is a bigger problem not being mentioned here.
How about lowering speed limits (and enforcing them) so drivers have time to react to unexpected events? Other than the cost of printing new signs, the costs would be minimal, safety improved, and dependency on oil reduced.
If a pregnant woman doesn't get sufficient iodine the baby's development is impaired and never recovers, thus impairing IQ potential. There are effects that can occur in children and adults as well.
That's my point. The iodine is not increasing IQ, it is preventing the decline that occurs from the lack of having the iodine in the first place. Similar to how Vitamin C doesn't increase muscle strength, but it prevents the muscle weakness caused by scurvy.
Technically lack of iodine cause mental retardation, or a lowering of IQ, so using iodized salt in a population wouldn't actually increase IQ the IQ of the population, it would simply protect against the degredation caused by iodine insufficiency.
6 blockbusters came out in 6 weeks and nobody can figure out why not any single one of the 6 made a lot of money? Go back over the history of summer blockbusters - start at Jaws or whenever - and you know what you'll find,1, maybe 2 blockbuster movies PER YEAR. Not 1 every week. Add up the total box office of every summer and I bet the TOTAL for this summer is comparable to the TOTAL of every other summer since Jaws. Hollywood wants a successful blockbuster, then make ONE, not 6.
Correction, 6 expensive movies to produce came out in 6 weeks. It's not up to Hollywood as to what makes a blockbuster, it is up to the viewers. But you do have a point, consumers only have so much disposable income. It seems the problem is that Hollywood has too much available cash so they turn out more product than the public can consume.
Here's a thought, produce fewer films which saves money and lower ticket prices, which encourages more viewers. Should be a win/win. It's basic economics, supply and demand. Lower the price, you increase demand. Raise the price, particularly when there is competition for disposable income and you lower demand.
$50 for you and your son, damn, I'm glad I don't live where you do. We just went to the movies this weekend for $50 including drinks and popcorn, but that was a family of 4. Then again, we live in flyover country.
Actually, the Lone Ranger might not have been a block buster hit, but it was pretty darn enjoyable. Could used a little editing to cut the length, but over all, a fun experience. Sometimes I don't understand what the reviewers are looking for in a movie. Maybe Disney just didn't pay the right people enough for the right reviews.
I would want one of those (I own the surface pro). Frequently I want flexibility. I need the tablet to be able to act as a mediocre laptop sometimes. Tablets are just too computer dependent too much of the time. The Helix is more than a mediocre laptop but it is $2k.
Well, you could get an Asus Transformer, although it doesn't run Windows 8. Then again, it is $1,500 cheaper than the Helix.
"The finding shakes up our ideas about how sex chromosomes influence gender and also suggests that at least some parts of the X chromosome are playing an unexpectedly dynamic role in evolution."
Huh? What? Shakes up WHOSE ideas? Certainly not mine.
YY babies don't tend to go very far (not XYY, just YY).
Seriously... I don't see how this perfectly obvious stuff "shakes up" much of anything.
Well, if they just reported the findings without adding hyperbole, nobody would read their article. For example take these two hypothetical titles: "Research sheds new light into inter-relationship between X and Y chromosomes." and "X Chromosome findings change how we will forever view gender." Which one do you thing will garner more page hits and readers?
Let's start over and redesign humans from the ground up.
Humans designed by committee might have cupholders for ears and camel humps, but even a committee wouldn't do anything as asinine as running a sewer line out through the middle of male&female sex bits.
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Actually, only males have the sewer line run out through their actual sex bits. With females, the uterus and fallopian tubes are totally separate from the ureter. For the male, it makes a lot of sense actually. Why build two hoses when you can have one with a valve to select what comes out of it. Kind of like the hose on the gas pump at the filing station. One hose supplying different fluids as the situation warrants.
As any engineering student will tell you, the purpose of engineering isn't to build the strongest structure or the biggest structure. It is just the opposite, it is to build the most minimalist structure that will get the job done.
why should i pay $$$ to read about stuff that happened a day or two ago? seriously, one time i saw one of the NYC tabloids have a sunday baseball game on the cover of their TUESDAY paper
News is supposed to be about new stuff happening NOW
Why have a sports section at all? Why not just print the box scores and be done with it? Some people really do appreciate in depth reviews and analysis even if they already know what happened.
Meanwhile, local print news outlets have been bought by major news companies and turned into watered down versions of their parent company's product, with a few local fluff pieces.
That probably has more to do with the decline in newspapers and news magazines than the internet.
If the reason that you don't have enough pilots is that there are "better paying jobs in the commercial sector with more stability", then start paying the pilots more! Isn't that how capitalism works? You can't expect intelligent people to take an inferior job simply out of patriotism.
Instead they'll probably waste millions of dollars on advertising campaigns, sigh.
Or it could be all of those new planes the pentagon said they didn't need but congress made them purchase anyway. Maybe congress's intention to appease the defense contractors is the cause of the shortage.
Great, now the military is going to want to increase H1B Visas for their shortage, too.
VLC plays encrypted DVDs without me having to install any other software.
What platform? On Windows, that is true, but if your Windows pc has a dvd player, it already comes with the software to decrypt DVDs. On linux, at least the distributions I have been working with, I've had to manually install and enable the decryption to be able to play DVDs. However, some distributions ship it pre-enabled.
What's the issue. VLC does not decrypt DVDs and plays a myriad of formats, all legally. If one takes the step to install libdvdcss, which does decrypt the DVD that is the individual doing that, not VLC. Saying that VLC is responsible for it is like saying Ford is responsible for people speeding.
Where's the news? As soon as some politicians notice that some "illegal" tool, device, substance or whatever is useful to them, suddenly it's no longer illegal.
Technically, VLC isn't illegal. It can play all sorts of formats and by default it cannot play encrypted DVDs. Now, if you install libdvdcss, well, VLC is just reading the decrypted stream that libdvdcss provided, but that is through your actions, not VLCs or its developers.
Yes. My car isn't going on a plane. That's why I'm not worried about some winimum wage, no security check baggage handler depositing something in my car that he wants to go across a border.
Just because you don't care about an invasion of privacy doesn't mean others don't. What if instead of some minimum wage security check baggage handler taking something valuable from your vehicle or glove box or trunk instead of depositing something? What about them not taking something, but getting enough info from papers in your glove box or elsewhere to steal your identity (have your insurance card, title, or any receipts in there)? Most importantly, it's your car, your property, the government, according to the constitution, cannot search it without cause and just because you used valet parking instead of parking the car yourself hardly seems cause.
From the article, MIT wants to protect the identity of the people involved and to make sure their network security is protected. They want to be able make redactions above and beyond what the government would normally redact in such a release of information under the Freedom of Information Act.
I'm pretty sure that everybody would like that opportunity when information is released, but why should MIT get preferential treatment? There are established laws and procedures on what should and should not be redacted. After all, these are the government's papers related to the government's investigation. They are not MIT's papers.
There are consequences to our actions and if MIT is embarrassed by what the government investigation showed or its employees said, well, that is a natural consequence of the actions they took. That is not to say they were or were not justified in those actions, just that all actions have consequences.
And that's different from what happens to you luggage in WHAT way ??
May I remind you that you are not allowed to use locks that are not easy to open (read. useless) on your suitcase?
Your car isn't going on the plane, so it can't be used to bring down an aircraft.
He assumed that, given the fact that you were taking part in the debate, knew something about software developer. He didn't know that you were a nurse who's only interaction with a computer was through an iPad received your previous birthday.
Oooh, sticks and stones.... For the record, I am the hiring manager of a large privately held software engineering firm. But thank you for playing.