The luxury SUV I bought last year did not come with locking wheel nuts to protect the supposedly expensive alloy wheels. Now Apple is giving iPhone owners this "feature" for free. What's wrong with this picture?
Hey, that's not so far fetched. Ewan McGregor is a pretty good singer, just watch Moulin Rouge. Of course, this being Slashdot, nobody here has seen Moulin Rouge due to it's lack of a lightsaber battle...
The DSRC system will be more like a peer-to-peer system in which either end of a link can initiate a transaction; traditional RFID systems operate in a master-slave arrangement. This peer-to-peer architecture will be necessary because many planned applications are vehicle-to-vehicle ones, not involving the roadside RFID readers at all.
Excellent. So I'll be able to send a message to the jerk behind me, telling him to "STOP FRICKEN TAILGAITING, YOU NIMROD!"
Personally, the largest single reason I bought fewer CDs last year than anytime in the last 16 years is there is simply few new recordings that I'm actually interested in. Sure, I'm now in my mid-thirties and my interest in new music has waned slightly, but it's the lack of quality product more than anything else that accounts for my decreased consumption.
Yes, I do use P2P software to download some music, but it's usually when I'm looking for a song I've heard on the radio or TV and I want to listen some more to determine if I want to lay out the cash to buy the CD.
So, to the recording industry I say, we've heard enough manufactured, cookie-cutter, schlock pop. Spend some of that A&R money and let the public hear some real artists performing real music.
Although this may seem like a silly, simple little thing, it highlights just how complex space travel is. Consider all the variables in this "smell testing" alone. "How long does a certain amount of substance X have to be exposed in a given volume of air at what temperature to accurately demonstrate how 'smelly' it would be on a spacecraft?" The mind boggles...
Mars may be on the horizon, but it's a long way off.
While I can't argue the fact that flawed software creates jobs in IT, I think it's short-sighted to consider this a "good thing". If your employer is spending x number of dollars to patch currently deployed software, that's x number of dollars not being spent on new development. Basically, it's a drain on the economy as a whole, and that can't be a "good thing".
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The luxury SUV I bought last year did not come with locking wheel nuts to protect the supposedly expensive alloy wheels. Now Apple is giving iPhone owners this "feature" for free. What's wrong with this picture?
Have you ever had the misfortune of working with APL?
Hey, that's not so far fetched. Ewan McGregor is a pretty good singer, just watch Moulin Rouge. Of course, this being Slashdot, nobody here has seen Moulin Rouge due to it's lack of a lightsaber battle...
The DSRC system will be more like a peer-to-peer system in which either end of a link can initiate a transaction; traditional RFID systems operate in a master-slave arrangement. This peer-to-peer architecture will be necessary because many planned applications are vehicle-to-vehicle ones, not involving the roadside RFID readers at all.
Excellent. So I'll be able to send a message to the jerk behind me, telling him to "STOP FRICKEN TAILGAITING, YOU NIMROD!"
Either that or share MP3's...
Personally, the largest single reason I bought fewer CDs last year than anytime in the last 16 years is there is simply few new recordings that I'm actually interested in. Sure, I'm now in my mid-thirties and my interest in new music has waned slightly, but it's the lack of quality product more than anything else that accounts for my decreased consumption.
Yes, I do use P2P software to download some music, but it's usually when I'm looking for a song I've heard on the radio or TV and I want to listen some more to determine if I want to lay out the cash to buy the CD.
So, to the recording industry I say, we've heard enough manufactured, cookie-cutter, schlock pop. Spend some of that A&R money and let the public hear some real artists performing real music.
Stan Wagon, a mathematician at Macalester College in St. Paul, Minn., has a bicycle with square wheels.
So it's a Wagon wheel?
Although this may seem like a silly, simple little thing, it highlights just how complex space travel is. Consider all the variables in this "smell testing" alone. "How long does a certain amount of substance X have to be exposed in a given volume of air at what temperature to accurately demonstrate how 'smelly' it would be on a spacecraft?" The mind boggles... Mars may be on the horizon, but it's a long way off.
If it ain't free; it ain't for me!
While I can't argue the fact that flawed software creates jobs in IT, I think it's short-sighted to consider this a "good thing". If your employer is spending x number of dollars to patch currently deployed software, that's x number of dollars not being spent on new development. Basically, it's a drain on the economy as a whole, and that can't be a "good thing".