Well, you want the "flashlight" app to be pretty optimized, spending most of its time sleeping, I'd assume. Since you're draining the battery for light, you don't want to be wasting cycles draining the battery for useless heat, too.
It really depends on what features you're including in your renders, though.. I'm sure that the right combination of settings and geometry one could make a 10px x 10px image take days to render on a 64 unit i7 render farm....
There are many minor intersections where roundabouts are a waste of land. However, where there is a lot of traffic overpasses with ramps (such as the classic cloverleaf, although more efficient designs exist) are a more efficient use of the land. There's really no place where roundabouts ought to be indicated.
The principle safety "feature" of roundabouts is that no one really knows how to drive in them, so everyone slows down - They're a liberty vs. safety tradeoff, so of course you see more of them in Europe than in the Americas.
I don't think people pay much attention to their speed. They just drive what feels comfortable for the road conditions.
Unless their's a cop. Then they quickly glance at their speedometer and slam on the brakes, not necessarily in that order. Oftentimes, brakes flare and slowdowns occur around police when the traffic is already flowing 5mph below the speed limit.
And anyway, there are plenty of ways to enforce traffic laws with or without speed limits, while minimizing the visible police presence.
I don't know what the statistics will show, but if the statistics show that visible police make highways more dangerous, there are policy implication that will be ignored.
Insurance is a legitimate financial tool even if you're not getting subsidized by people who behave more responsibly than you. The only difference is that the closer they can get to the actual risk you have, the more individual the plan can be.
And also, by providing you with information about your own risk, even if only in the form of pricing feedback, you can use that information to develop better habits, or decide that maybe it's not such a great plan to build your house on a sand bar, next to an active volcano in a war zone.*
*grumble grumble, FEMA bailouts to freakin' rich people building on the coast, grumble grumble
I'd like to know if there's any correlation between accidents and "speed traps." There's a lot of braking and bunching up whenever there is a visible police presence, and I wonder if speeding itself is more dangerous than "avoiding a speeding ticket"....
If an insurance company says you are not covered...you are going to get a driving suspension (in my state) for failure to provide financial responsibility...
Check the rules again. In many (most? all?) states that require insurance, there is also an option to post a bond or demonstrate possession of certain kinds of assets in excess of a specific value.
That value is typically much lower than most insurance policies these days, though. In my state it's $10,000, a value that was probably chosen back when "walk it off" was considered good medical care....
Driving in a busy city with bad traffic all around can cause frequent sharp braking
And also results in more accidents requiring payout. The "bad driving choice" in this case is where you drive, rather than your actual skill as a driver.
The insurance companies aren't rewarding you for being better than me. They're rewarding you for being less costly too them.
He started a business, which has certainly created a lot of wealth that was not there before, and he is about to pay a boatload of money based on his business doing incredibly well; his company has even created successful jobs outside of his own, such as Zynga. Yet that's a bad thing?
In general, no, but the specific examples of Facebook and Zynga may not be the best choices....
Surely you've seen those 'real life' cop TV shows where they're detaining car thieves on the highway by taking out the car. The car is totaled every time. That's not protecting property.
Maybe not *your* property, but my car that hasn't been stolen is protected by this. If they can preserve your car and still catch the thieves, then great. If they cannot, then it's still better that they catch the thieves.
But now computer monitors and television screens are coming off the same production lines* and they all use the same connector - HDMI. In essence, every computer has a "TV output" now.
*it's actually kind of annoying that you can't get higher than a 1080x1920 60hz display unless you're willing to shell out significant extra cash these days. It's like the HD tv revolution caused computer monitor improvements to stagnate and regress.
$230 worth of fun, though? That's like 5 AAA game titles - potentially 200 hours of carefully designed content. That's a year and a half of $popular_mmorpg. five to ten weekends worth of paintball supplies.
It's a non-discounted skydiving intro jump. It's a 3-day ticket to disneyworld. It's nearly ten kayak rentals, or scuba gear rentals, or a scuba certification class. It's half of a round trip flight to Las Vegas.
It's enough to buy mitts for half of a casual baseball team, or one really nice mitt, with enough left over for a weighted practice bat.
It's a whole raft of of memory-building possibilities (including two seats on an actual raft through whitewater rapids in Maine...)
Is a shirt really worth that much? Even if it was once worn by someone moderately famous?
Ok, first of all.. the only sport where hundreds of thousands are in the stadium at once is auto racing. Someone can chime about whether or not they have that kind of security.
Secondly, "most of us" are quite willing to spend a few tens of millions of dollars of other people's money, to reduce an already low chance to of terrorist activity to an imperceptibly low chance. How magnanimous of us.
Frankly, I don't care how much is spent to make the event "safe" from terrorists, as long as that money comes exclusively from the pockets of the promoters and sponsors of the event. Indianapolis should not have to spend one cent of public money for a private, for-profit event that only a small fraction of its citizens can attend, or are even interested in attending.
I wish they would be MORE partisan. This whole "I'll scratch your back if you scratch mine" go-along-to-get-along McCain style politics is how we get ever-encroaching government intrusion everywhere except where it's needed...
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Well, you want the "flashlight" app to be pretty optimized, spending most of its time sleeping, I'd assume. Since you're draining the battery for light, you don't want to be wasting cycles draining the battery for useless heat, too.
It really depends on what features you're including in your renders, though.. I'm sure that the right combination of settings and geometry one could make a 10px x 10px image take days to render on a 64 unit i7 render farm....
Maine is a blue state..
There are many minor intersections where roundabouts are a waste of land. However, where there is a lot of traffic overpasses with ramps (such as the classic cloverleaf, although more efficient designs exist) are a more efficient use of the land. There's really no place where roundabouts ought to be indicated.
The principle safety "feature" of roundabouts is that no one really knows how to drive in them, so everyone slows down - They're a liberty vs. safety tradeoff, so of course you see more of them in Europe than in the Americas.
But you feel safe entering in your gmail password anyway?
I would be interested in heavy metal versions of Vivaldi, too. Links, please?
No Lions in Canada, you say? You sure about that?
I don't think people pay much attention to their speed. They just drive what feels comfortable for the road conditions.
Unless their's a cop. Then they quickly glance at their speedometer and slam on the brakes, not necessarily in that order. Oftentimes, brakes flare and slowdowns occur around police when the traffic is already flowing 5mph below the speed limit.
And anyway, there are plenty of ways to enforce traffic laws with or without speed limits, while minimizing the visible police presence.
I don't know what the statistics will show, but if the statistics show that visible police make highways more dangerous, there are policy implication that will be ignored.
Insurance is a legitimate financial tool even if you're not getting subsidized by people who behave more responsibly than you. The only difference is that the closer they can get to the actual risk you have, the more individual the plan can be.
And also, by providing you with information about your own risk, even if only in the form of pricing feedback, you can use that information to develop better habits, or decide that maybe it's not such a great plan to build your house on a sand bar, next to an active volcano in a war zone.*
*grumble grumble, FEMA bailouts to freakin' rich people building on the coast, grumble grumble
I'd like to know if there's any correlation between accidents and "speed traps." There's a lot of braking and bunching up whenever there is a visible police presence, and I wonder if speeding itself is more dangerous than "avoiding a speeding ticket"....
If an insurance company says you are not covered...you are going to get a driving suspension (in my state) for failure to provide financial responsibility...
Check the rules again. In many (most? all?) states that require insurance, there is also an option to post a bond or demonstrate possession of certain kinds of assets in excess of a specific value.
That value is typically much lower than most insurance policies these days, though. In my state it's $10,000, a value that was probably chosen back when "walk it off" was considered good medical care....
They could all be right. Those 10%ers could just be so bad that they're dragging the average way down.
I've known people who drive like that....
Driving in a busy city with bad traffic all around can cause frequent sharp braking
And also results in more accidents requiring payout. The "bad driving choice" in this case is where you drive, rather than your actual skill as a driver.
The insurance companies aren't rewarding you for being better than me. They're rewarding you for being less costly too them.
He started a business, which has certainly created a lot of wealth that was not there before, and he is about to pay a boatload of money based on his business doing incredibly well; his company has even created successful jobs outside of his own, such as Zynga. Yet that's a bad thing?
In general, no, but the specific examples of Facebook and Zynga may not be the best choices....
Surely you've seen those 'real life' cop TV shows where they're detaining car thieves on the highway by taking out the car. The car is totaled every time. That's not protecting property.
Maybe not *your* property, but my car that hasn't been stolen is protected by this. If they can preserve your car and still catch the thieves, then great. If they cannot, then it's still better that they catch the thieves.
Plus, who has 3.5" or 5.25" floppy drives these days...
But now computer monitors and television screens are coming off the same production lines* and they all use the same connector - HDMI. In essence, every computer has a "TV output" now.
*it's actually kind of annoying that you can't get higher than a 1080x1920 60hz display unless you're willing to shell out significant extra cash these days. It's like the HD tv revolution caused computer monitor improvements to stagnate and regress.
More to the point.. once they're upgradeable, what's the fundamental difference between PC's and Consoles?
I submit that the next gen consoles can't be more than trivially upgradable, because they wouldn't be consoles any more.
$230 worth of fun, though? That's like 5 AAA game titles - potentially 200 hours of carefully designed content. That's a year and a half of $popular_mmorpg. five to ten weekends worth of paintball supplies.
It's a non-discounted skydiving intro jump. It's a 3-day ticket to disneyworld. It's nearly ten kayak rentals, or scuba gear rentals, or a scuba certification class. It's half of a round trip flight to Las Vegas.
It's enough to buy mitts for half of a casual baseball team, or one really nice mitt, with enough left over for a weighted practice bat.
It's a whole raft of of memory-building possibilities (including two seats on an actual raft through whitewater rapids in Maine...)
Is a shirt really worth that much? Even if it was once worn by someone moderately famous?
What does "authentic" mean in this context? Was it worn by a player?
What good stuff is like an NFL game?
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The ending of the next NFL game:
At least one, but not more than two, teams are going to walk off the field disappointed...
</spoiler>
Isn't it sunny and warm in oz right now?
Eh.. what?
The next sunday is the 5th. The previous sunday was january 29th. In what world is it unacceptable to refer to the next sunday as "next sunday"
Ok, first of all.. the only sport where hundreds of thousands are in the stadium at once is auto racing. Someone can chime about whether or not they have that kind of security.
Secondly, "most of us" are quite willing to spend a few tens of millions of dollars of other people's money, to reduce an already low chance to of terrorist activity to an imperceptibly low chance. How magnanimous of us.
Frankly, I don't care how much is spent to make the event "safe" from terrorists, as long as that money comes exclusively from the pockets of the promoters and sponsors of the event. Indianapolis should not have to spend one cent of public money for a private, for-profit event that only a small fraction of its citizens can attend, or are even interested in attending.
I wish they would be MORE partisan. This whole "I'll scratch your back if you scratch mine" go-along-to-get-along McCain style politics is how we get ever-encroaching government intrusion everywhere except where it's needed...