It would mean that the West had fewer reasons to subsidize dictatorships or topple budding democracies in the Middle East or South America. Sounds like a win-win situation to me, except for the Saudi royal family of course.
Either way the core point of my post stands: web browser support prevented it from ever even being a serious contender for use.
Actually JPEG2000 failed because the patent trolls made the mistake of disclosing their patents BEFORE the format was in wide use. This is strangely not always a losing strategy (notice e.g. Microsoft with SDXC), but in the case of JPEG2000 it failed.
For these folks, catastrophic global warming should be seen as a godsend, and they should be voting for (what is considered) the head-in-the-sand policies of the GOP.
There isn't much point in exterminating humanity if the Earth ends up like Venus anyway. Achieving complete extinction of mankind by methods of natural disaster is likely to result in severely reduced biodiversity for quite a long time.
The network operator can easily disable all voice calls (or fax calls, or SMS's) for a given SIM. A SIM is a SIM is a SIM, but selling data-only plans is cheap and easy.
Why can't an intersection be aware enough to see you approach the empty intersection and smart enough to give you a green light before you arrive?
They don't do that already for you?
The only serious problem with this is that it doesn't work in rush hour, where it is much better to have a coordinated plan for all traffic lights than to have each light do its own thing.
At the time the movie was made, the giga prefix wasn't in popular use except in certain scientific fields, and scientists disagreed whether it should be pronounced with a hard g or a j-sound. Jiggawatt was a perfectly correct pronunciation which simply went out of fashion.
Strict copyright no longer applies when you have multiple contributors.
Yes it does. He can simply ignore the contributions of the others and sue about illegal distribution of his code. The others can respond by removing his code, but that only fixes the problem going forward and does not stop the people who distributed the code without a license from having to pay damages.
Running VLC on an iOS device would be like hacking VLC to run on a DVD Player, so you could burn nonstandard video onto DVD and play them in the DVD Player. Who needs that?
Basically every low-to-mid end DVD player will play several "nonstandard" formats. At least DivX.
In an electric car the motors will use in excess of 3kW at most times. Most people (admittedly not all) won't install a 3000W stereo system in their car.
The problem right now is heating; if you do a wasteful water-based systerm like most cars today you can easily use 2kW+ for heating. This isn't a problem when you get it for free, of course, but in an electric car you want stuff like heated seats/windows/steering wheel, an A/C which can heat too, and maybe some heat lights for real winter. As long as electric cars are just really cheap petrol cars with an engine swap, they won't work in winter and very few around here will buy them.
Right now almost all manufacturers are missing the real market: MPV's. A big heavy vehicle has no problem with hauling 500kg of batteries, and they already come with most of the stuff needed for a comfortable ride purely on electric heating. Soccer moms won't miss the engine noise and they probably have another vehicle for long trips.
Ice is not a loose surface, and ABS works brilliantly there. Including making maximum use of the occasional non-icy patch if there happens to be one under one of the wheels. You can't manually adjust braking power individually for each wheel.
You would not have stopped any earlier by forcing your wheels to not turn, you would have stopped later. Unless you had a lot of snow to push around.
From the description it sounds like you mean Denmark. Here you only go to jail if you refuse the non-military service that you can pick instead of military service. And you can pay taxes to support the Lutheran church, but you get asked whether you want to and you are free to say no and not pay.
Sure the government should not be helping the church collect money, but honestly it cannot really get me riled up. It certainly has advantages for keeping the church out of politics, even if it does get a bit of politics into church.
If it truly was a 2 party system then you would not be groped at airports by the government.
Of course it would. If one thing was completely clear after 2001, it was that if something similar EVER happened again and the politicians could have possibly done SOMETHING to stop it, the voters would vote against whoever is in power.
That is the kind of sentiment which politicians listen to. Not sporadic grumbles about being treated badly, but a massive front demanding action. Neither of the parties can ignore such a mandate.
They propose to only apply the limits to certain kinds of vehicles. This seems entirely sensible. For a particular class of vehicle, basing CO2 efficiency on CO2/km is completely right. You need different limits on different classes of vehicles of course.
The only difficulty is avoiding that people pick a different type of vehicle to get around the limitations -- e.g. drive in a lorry to avoid the car rules. If you use the same vehicle classes that you use for driving licenses, that problem is almost entirely gone.
I don't know about France, but in Denmark the media tax is supposedly because you are allowed to e.g. copy your CDs to your MP3 player. We should be grateful for such a privilege and appreciate that we only have to pay a little for it. Right.
Just to make it extra funny, you are apparently allowed to break DRM to copy the content you "own", but you are not allowed to help others copy the content they "own". So no showing them how the photocopier works or telling them about DeCSS.
Race car safety is dependent on the driver being strapped in; they have a safety cage for the driver and everything else can crumble to absorb energy. This relies on the driver not experiencing sudden accelerations inside the cage and not hitting the insides of the cage, and that in turn requires special seat belts and head protection. In Formula 1 the helmet is even strapped to the cage; I don't know if that has made it to lesser racing series yet.
When a car hits a wall at 100MPH+, it has a couple of meters to stop. At uniform acceleration, we are talking on the order of 50g, which is survivable as long as every body part is accelerated equally. However, the neck can't hold the unaccelerated head at 50g.
Ok I went to look for the crash you're talking about, and there is approximately zero footage of it. You would have thought that NASCAR would have enough cameras... Anyway, the head protection looks excellent but I doubt most people would accept having it in their cars.
Basing it on CO2/person/km doesn't work for lorries -- unless you count how many people the lorry COULD carry if you stacked them, and by that measure the SUV would likely win against most compact cars anyway.
Just impose a 55MPH speed limit on vehicles with a loaded weight above 2 metric tonnes. That will take away the appeal for those who don't actually need them and make the remaining ones safer. As a bonus, it will lower CO2 emissions for those vehicles too.
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It would mean that the West had fewer reasons to subsidize dictatorships or topple budding democracies in the Middle East or South America. Sounds like a win-win situation to me, except for the Saudi royal family of course.
Either way the core point of my post stands: web browser support prevented it from ever even being a serious contender for use.
Actually JPEG2000 failed because the patent trolls made the mistake of disclosing their patents BEFORE the format was in wide use. This is strangely not always a losing strategy (notice e.g. Microsoft with SDXC), but in the case of JPEG2000 it failed.
For these folks, catastrophic global warming should be seen as a godsend, and they should be voting for (what is considered) the head-in-the-sand policies of the GOP.
There isn't much point in exterminating humanity if the Earth ends up like Venus anyway. Achieving complete extinction of mankind by methods of natural disaster is likely to result in severely reduced biodiversity for quite a long time.
the eggs is a point of dispute: that's an aborted chicken
Only if the chicken is the result of virgin birth. Practically no hens are allowed access to roosters, even in organic farming.
The network operator can easily disable all voice calls (or fax calls, or SMS's) for a given SIM. A SIM is a SIM is a SIM, but selling data-only plans is cheap and easy.
It is certainly possible to make them trip for motorcycles, the ones around here trip for regular bicycles.
Why can't an intersection be aware enough to see you approach the empty intersection and smart enough to give you a green light before you arrive?
They don't do that already for you?
The only serious problem with this is that it doesn't work in rush hour, where it is much better to have a coordinated plan for all traffic lights than to have each light do its own thing.
At the time the movie was made, the giga prefix wasn't in popular use except in certain scientific fields, and scientists disagreed whether it should be pronounced with a hard g or a j-sound. Jiggawatt was a perfectly correct pronunciation which simply went out of fashion.
Strict copyright no longer applies when you have multiple contributors.
Yes it does. He can simply ignore the contributions of the others and sue about illegal distribution of his code. The others can respond by removing his code, but that only fixes the problem going forward and does not stop the people who distributed the code without a license from having to pay damages.
So you're saying that he shouldn't have picked the GPL as a license. The 80's called, they want their flame wars back.
You think the EU competition law prevents people from enforcing their copyrights? You are severely deluded.
Running VLC on an iOS device would be like hacking VLC to run on a DVD Player, so you could burn nonstandard video onto DVD and play them in the DVD Player. Who needs that?
Basically every low-to-mid end DVD player will play several "nonstandard" formats. At least DivX.
In an electric car the motors will use in excess of 3kW at most times. Most people (admittedly not all) won't install a 3000W stereo system in their car.
The problem right now is heating; if you do a wasteful water-based systerm like most cars today you can easily use 2kW+ for heating. This isn't a problem when you get it for free, of course, but in an electric car you want stuff like heated seats/windows/steering wheel, an A/C which can heat too, and maybe some heat lights for real winter. As long as electric cars are just really cheap petrol cars with an engine swap, they won't work in winter and very few around here will buy them.
Right now almost all manufacturers are missing the real market: MPV's. A big heavy vehicle has no problem with hauling 500kg of batteries, and they already come with most of the stuff needed for a comfortable ride purely on electric heating. Soccer moms won't miss the engine noise and they probably have another vehicle for long trips.
Basically you're complaining that when you turned the steering wheel, the car actually chose to turn too.
Ice is not a loose surface, and ABS works brilliantly there. Including making maximum use of the occasional non-icy patch if there happens to be one under one of the wheels. You can't manually adjust braking power individually for each wheel.
You would not have stopped any earlier by forcing your wheels to not turn, you would have stopped later. Unless you had a lot of snow to push around.
From the description it sounds like you mean Denmark. Here you only go to jail if you refuse the non-military service that you can pick instead of military service. And you can pay taxes to support the Lutheran church, but you get asked whether you want to and you are free to say no and not pay.
Sure the government should not be helping the church collect money, but honestly it cannot really get me riled up. It certainly has advantages for keeping the church out of politics, even if it does get a bit of politics into church.
If it truly was a 2 party system then you would not be groped at airports by the government.
Of course it would. If one thing was completely clear after 2001, it was that if something similar EVER happened again and the politicians could have possibly done SOMETHING to stop it, the voters would vote against whoever is in power.
That is the kind of sentiment which politicians listen to. Not sporadic grumbles about being treated badly, but a massive front demanding action. Neither of the parties can ignore such a mandate.
They propose to only apply the limits to certain kinds of vehicles. This seems entirely sensible. For a particular class of vehicle, basing CO2 efficiency on CO2/km is completely right. You need different limits on different classes of vehicles of course.
The only difficulty is avoiding that people pick a different type of vehicle to get around the limitations -- e.g. drive in a lorry to avoid the car rules. If you use the same vehicle classes that you use for driving licenses, that problem is almost entirely gone.
I don't know about France, but in Denmark the media tax is supposedly because you are allowed to e.g. copy your CDs to your MP3 player. We should be grateful for such a privilege and appreciate that we only have to pay a little for it. Right.
Just to make it extra funny, you are apparently allowed to break DRM to copy the content you "own", but you are not allowed to help others copy the content they "own". So no showing them how the photocopier works or telling them about DeCSS.
Yes, 2-stroke mopeds should be banned too.
Race car safety is dependent on the driver being strapped in; they have a safety cage for the driver and everything else can crumble to absorb energy. This relies on the driver not experiencing sudden accelerations inside the cage and not hitting the insides of the cage, and that in turn requires special seat belts and head protection. In Formula 1 the helmet is even strapped to the cage; I don't know if that has made it to lesser racing series yet.
When a car hits a wall at 100MPH+, it has a couple of meters to stop. At uniform acceleration, we are talking on the order of 50g, which is survivable as long as every body part is accelerated equally. However, the neck can't hold the unaccelerated head at 50g.
Ok I went to look for the crash you're talking about, and there is approximately zero footage of it. You would have thought that NASCAR would have enough cameras... Anyway, the head protection looks excellent but I doubt most people would accept having it in their cars.
No biodiesel for them, then.
Excellent. Biodiesel exhaust is even worse than regular exhaust, with extreme amounts of ultra-fine particles which aren't caught by particle filters.
Basing it on CO2/person/km doesn't work for lorries -- unless you count how many people the lorry COULD carry if you stacked them, and by that measure the SUV would likely win against most compact cars anyway.
It wouldn't be a problem to enter either garage, assuming the car is a petrol with a catalytic converter.
Just impose a 55MPH speed limit on vehicles with a loaded weight above 2 metric tonnes. That will take away the appeal for those who don't actually need them and make the remaining ones safer. As a bonus, it will lower CO2 emissions for those vehicles too.