The system does NOT prevent you from speeding, or limit your ability to accelerate. It merely gives you a force back on the gas pedal when you are speeding.
Nothing about this system limits or restricts the drivers ability to control the vehicle in any way.
By most accounts, the locals did a lot to make the stranded travelers feel welcome. But some of them were very remote, so a three-day wait to see a doctor isn't implausible, particularly with all aircraft grounded.
The same Canada that just voted their Congress out of office?
Congress was not voted out of office. The opposition got together and forced the government to resign (a vote of non-confidence). This is extremely democratic - moreso than in the US where you are essentially stuck with the guy for four years, unless you actually manage to impeach the guy for something criminal.
The same Canada that almost killed a friend of mine whose plane was grounded on 9/11, got a stomach flu and almost died in a Canadian hospital while he waited THREE DAYS for a doctor to see him?
If it was just a stomach flu why didn't he just go to a walk-in clinic? He would have been assessed (for free) and had a prescripion in under an hour. If it was more serious, he would have been referred to a hospital that would then have been notified that he would be arriving and be ready for him.
The same Canada where people are on waiting lists for years for a basic MRI that I can drive down the street here in the States and get in a mere hours?
Years? Give me a break. I do agree that the wait time is long, and a huge issue, but it is on the order of weeks not years. Also if it is high priority, then there is no wait time - the scan gets done immediately.
The Canadian health care system is a mess. I pray I am never doing business in Canada when I get ill.
Funny, most people I know pray they don't live in the US when they get ill, as a major illness effectively means bankruptcy.
When I tried RC3 and ran into the TIP problem I did a search for solutions. The only thing I found was an older extension (TCPTIP) that failed to install on RC3 because the version numbers were different, and a listing in bugzilla saying that TIP (still) didn't work.
The big feature that is missing for me is TabletPC support.
Firefox refuses to show the TIP which makes it completely useless for me. Totally unusable. It's also the only program that I've come across that seems to have this problem.
Wrong, wrong, WRONG. Read up about the beliefs of Muslim extremists and how many times we were attacked during Clintons 8 years while we WEREN'T trying to kill them.
Really. Do you not realize that the U.S. has been bombing Iraq fairly constantly since 1992? The only exception has been 1994 and 1995 when nothing was dropped, but a no-fly zone was imposed. In some years there were month long stretches of daily bombings, even through religious holy days such as Ramadan.
So except for the first two years of Clintons presidency, yes, the U.S. has been trying to kill them pretty much constantly.
Uh...we don't have bases on their soil either. We're only based on allied territory or in war zones.
With over 700 U.S. foreign military bases currently located in over 40 nations, I guess the U.S. has a lot of friends then, don't they. Or are fighting a lot of wars.
It doesn't really exist. The "robot repair" was conceived and proposed by politicians with little grounding in the current state of the technology. It's not at all feasible to get such a mission designed let alown flown before the gyros on Hubble fail.
Doesn't exist? Where did you get that idea?
It not only exists, but is already built. The plan was to modify the Canadian SPDM manipulator that has been waiting to fly up to the space station for several years now. The only parts that need to be built are the main grapple arm (based on the Canadarm2) and the launch vehicle itself . The hard part is already done.
Or how about the full size mockup of both Hubble and the repair manipulator sitting in the clean room at Goddard, upon which dozens of demonstrations have been performed, proving that EVERY expected required operation is possible robotically.
Check your facts before you start spewing nonsense.
Ok, so now that James Webb is delayed by two years (and I'd bet more before it launces) and the shuttle has been cut back so much that there are not enough flights left to finish the space station, shouldn't they restart the mission for robotic repair of the Hubble telescope so it stays functional until the replacement gets launched?
NASA is trying to save money, but they are ignoring all of the money that has been already spent on partially completed projects, both in hardware that will never launch and for breach of contract fees to subcontractors.
Wow - you should see a psychiatrist. Paranoid delusions with god complex. A sense of your own self imporatnce so large that the government has nothing else to do but watch your every move.
They're only trying to kill you because the US is trying to kill them.
As a US citizen how would you feel if China, Korea, Iran and a few other nations had military bases on US soil? Probably wouldn't put up with it would you? Be pretty pissed and want to fight back. Well then why does the US have military bases in foreign lands? And don't give me any of this world police crap. Iran doesn't want a US sense of morality pushed down their throats any more than US citizens would want an Iranian one pushed down theirs.
Ok, on that line of thought, since handguns are used inappropriately by people, beyond their intended use as protection only, then they should be banned too to prevent possible abuse.
The technology is not the problem, it is the application of it. In one scenario you assume no one is corrupt because they are not using the technology. In the other with the camera technology, you assume corruption.
The cop follows you in the car, and observes you. If you do nothing, the cop does not bother you. If you are being suspicious, the cop runs your plate.
I can equally imagine the opposite scenario where the camera images are recorded, and in a few months if no crime was reported, automatically and silently erased without anyone looking at the video. The cop however, seeing a black kid with a new car, automatically assumes he is guilty. The cop then tailgates the car until the kid, through nervousness, DOES break the law by running a stop.
We've all seen where cameras capture child abductors on film, and without the camera there would not be any evidence to convict the abductor.
I would prefer the technology to be present and used appropriately than not present and unable to be used at all.
And that's the problem. You don't see a difference between a cop casually checking one car's plates and an electronic system capable of tracking (potentially) every single car on the road, and keeping the data for, effectively, forever.
Not really no. Please explain.
How is someone knowing that I went to blockbuster at 10:45pm three years ago going to reduce my rights? And why would anyone care?
So you are saying YOU wart to be the police? I'm sure that will make everyone feel a lot better.
I don't see how adding cameras turn society into a police state. And you didn't answer my question about what the difference is between a cop checking your license plate off a camera vs. following you in a car.
Yes, I would rather live in a free society where there was a greater chance of my family being raped and murdered than a police state where they were completely safe. We'll defend ourselves and keep our rights, thank you very much. Some people talk about "saving lives" as if it were a worthy end goal. I'd rather half the people in my country die and the rest live as men than all of them live safely as sheep.
You then have a really screwed up value system. Did you read what you just wrote?
I see no difference between a cop behind a camera checking my license plate, and one driving up behind me and checking it.
Ah yes, my wife and child can get blown away by a legal semi-automatic, but Heaven forbid that someone take the criminals picture that may violate their rights. But at least the police's inability to know who did it means my family got to live free before their heads were blown off.
And for the people who are upset that someone would be constantly watching them, get a grip. You're just not that important.
I don't see how the example in the article shows any 'spooky interaction' whatsoever. There is no interaction, it's the uncertainty principle that is being circumvented by a clever experiment.
Here's my reasoning (not that anyone needs encouragement, but feel free to poke holes in this if you see something I'm missing):
The experiment is setup so that they are creating two different waves from a single one - taking a UV light wave and splitting it such that you get (for example) a red wave an a blue wave. Now it is a given that when two waves are created like this, the polarity is perfectly 90 degrees opposite, and the sum of the two distinct energies equal the energy of the original.
Now they send this through a filter. The website claims that if the filter is adjusted such that it blocks say the red wave, then the blue one goes through. Now they know the polarity of the blue wave. Then they say that obviously there must have been some kind of communication between the two for this to happen - Spooky!
What a croc. This is not spooky, the characteristics of the waves were set when they were created. Knowing one (and destroying it) means you automatically know the other because they were created simultaneously. The polarization is known and the energy is known, since the other particle is known - there is no communication going on!
Lets say we broke a pencil into two. Now we put the pieces into two bags without looking at them. It is imposssible to determine which bag has which piece or how big it is. However if we look into one bag, we now can infer everything that we want to about the second without looking specifically - there is no spooky coomunication going on between the two pencil pieces, we just knew the starting condition and what must happen when the pencil breaks.
In short, Einstein was right and nothing but a huge bottle of Tequila will convince me otherwise.
Millions of years from now they'll be researching Redneckus Fundamentalus Americanus. They'll discover that they died out because literally, they were born with shit for brains.
I thought you were going to say that they died out because Noah just couldn't fit several hundred pairs of 100 foot long dinosaurs on the ark.
Or maybe he discovered dinosaurs existed AFTER he built the boat, then said 'fukit I'm not starting over now - it's starting to rain! I don't think anyone will notice them missing anyway.'
Have you ever thought that if the government didn't spend so much money sending troops to other countries where they are not wanted, there would be plenty of money to spend on good research such as this ?
I didn't miss your point on the origins of Engineering. I agreed with it and had nothing to add.
Contempt for desktop applications? No, but maybe I am annoyed that practically every desktop application I use has bugs in it - some minor, some major. If people took a little more care in their programming then maybe software would work a little better.
CE people aren't used in critical systems because they know how to write code to talk to hardware, they are used because they use a structured engineering approach that inherently creates better code. I've met brilliant CS coders. I've also met idiots who think they're gods gift to software who immediately after sitting down declares that the previous developer didn't know what he was doing and the code has to be rewritten from scratch. People like that I immediately kick off my team. Similarly when I state that our software has to ship without any bugs, if I hear 'that's impossible' then that person is also off my team because they don't know what they are doing. I don't allow mistakes from my controls, mechanical or electrical team members, why should I allow mistakes from the software team ?
And I don't think that a flight avionics system counts as doing a few simple repetitive tasks. There's 40 million lines of code on the space station - think all of that is simple and repetitive? Or how about something more down to Earth: the Mercedes Benz S-class has 3 million lines of code and 40 distributed processors. I'm sure that is just a bunch of simple loops though that doesn't do anything complicated.
But even if I left the car door wide open, the keys in the ignition, and a big sign on the roof that says 'take me' I wouldn't be responsible for the criminals actions. Although the insurance company may not be entirely pleased.
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Are you people stupid? Can you not read?
The system does NOT prevent you from speeding, or limit your ability to accelerate. It merely gives you a force back on the gas pedal when you are speeding.
Nothing about this system limits or restricts the drivers ability to control the vehicle in any way.
For those who don't know the story, here is a link that you may find inspiring: http://www.truthorfiction.com/rumors/d/deltaflight 15.htm
Thanks! I'll try it out
When I tried RC3 and ran into the TIP problem I did a search for solutions. The only thing I found was an older extension (TCPTIP) that failed to install on RC3 because the version numbers were different, and a listing in bugzilla saying that TIP (still) didn't work.
The big feature that is missing for me is TabletPC support.
Firefox refuses to show the TIP which makes it completely useless for me. Totally unusable. It's also the only program that I've come across that seems to have this problem.
So except for the first two years of Clintons presidency, yes, the U.S. has been trying to kill them pretty much constantly.
With over 700 U.S. foreign military bases currently located in over 40 nations, I guess the U.S. has a lot of friends then, don't they. Or are fighting a lot of wars.
Doesn't exist? Where did you get that idea?
It not only exists, but is already built. The plan was to modify the Canadian SPDM manipulator that has been waiting to fly up to the space station for several years now. The only parts that need to be built are the main grapple arm (based on the Canadarm2) and the launch vehicle itself . The hard part is already done.
Or how about the full size mockup of both Hubble and the repair manipulator sitting in the clean room at Goddard, upon which dozens of demonstrations have been performed, proving that EVERY expected required operation is possible robotically.
Check your facts before you start spewing nonsense.
Ok, so now that James Webb is delayed by two years (and I'd bet more before it launces) and the shuttle has been cut back so much that there are not enough flights left to finish the space station, shouldn't they restart the mission for robotic repair of the Hubble telescope so it stays functional until the replacement gets launched?
NASA is trying to save money, but they are ignoring all of the money that has been already spent on partially completed projects, both in hardware that will never launch and for breach of contract fees to subcontractors.
Wow - you should see a psychiatrist. Paranoid delusions with god complex. A sense of your own self imporatnce so large that the government has nothing else to do but watch your every move.
Get a grip.
They're only trying to kill you because the US is trying to kill them.
As a US citizen how would you feel if China, Korea, Iran and a few other nations had military bases on US soil? Probably wouldn't put up with it would you? Be pretty pissed and want to fight back. Well then why does the US have military bases in foreign lands? And don't give me any of this world police crap. Iran doesn't want a US sense of morality pushed down their throats any more than US citizens would want an Iranian one pushed down theirs.
Ok, on that line of thought, since handguns are used inappropriately by people, beyond their intended use as protection only, then they should be banned too to prevent possible abuse.
The technology is not the problem, it is the application of it. In one scenario you assume no one is corrupt because they are not using the technology. In the other with the camera technology, you assume corruption.
I can equally imagine the opposite scenario where the camera images are recorded, and in a few months if no crime was reported, automatically and silently erased without anyone looking at the video. The cop however, seeing a black kid with a new car, automatically assumes he is guilty. The cop then tailgates the car until the kid, through nervousness, DOES break the law by running a stop.
We've all seen where cameras capture child abductors on film, and without the camera there would not be any evidence to convict the abductor.
I would prefer the technology to be present and used appropriately than not present and unable to be used at all.
Not really no. Please explain.
How is someone knowing that I went to blockbuster at 10:45pm three years ago going to reduce my rights? And why would anyone care?
So you are saying YOU wart to be the police? I'm sure that will make everyone feel a lot better.
I don't see how adding cameras turn society into a police state. And you didn't answer my question about what the difference is between a cop checking your license plate off a camera vs. following you in a car.
You then have a really screwed up value system. Did you read what you just wrote?
I see no difference between a cop behind a camera checking my license plate, and one driving up behind me and checking it.
Ah yes, my wife and child can get blown away by a legal semi-automatic, but Heaven forbid that someone take the criminals picture that may violate their rights. But at least the police's inability to know who did it means my family got to live free before their heads were blown off.
And for the people who are upset that someone would be constantly watching them, get a grip. You're just not that important.
How about XBox 4 Billion, which is the amount of money the Microsoft gaming division has lost so far on this thing.
I don't see how the example in the article shows any 'spooky interaction' whatsoever. There is no interaction, it's the uncertainty principle that is being circumvented by a clever experiment.
Here's my reasoning (not that anyone needs encouragement, but feel free to poke holes in this if you see something I'm missing):
The experiment is setup so that they are creating two different waves from a single one - taking a UV light wave and splitting it such that you get (for example) a red wave an a blue wave. Now it is a given that when two waves are created like this, the polarity is perfectly 90 degrees opposite, and the sum of the two distinct energies equal the energy of the original.
Now they send this through a filter. The website claims that if the filter is adjusted such that it blocks say the red wave, then the blue one goes through. Now they know the polarity of the blue wave. Then they say that obviously there must have been some kind of communication between the two for this to happen - Spooky!
What a croc. This is not spooky, the characteristics of the waves were set when they were created. Knowing one (and destroying it) means you automatically know the other because they were created simultaneously. The polarization is known and the energy is known, since the other particle is known - there is no communication going on!
Lets say we broke a pencil into two. Now we put the pieces into two bags without looking at them. It is imposssible to determine which bag has which piece or how big it is. However if we look into one bag, we now can infer everything that we want to about the second without looking specifically - there is no spooky coomunication going on between the two pencil pieces, we just knew the starting condition and what must happen when the pencil breaks.
In short, Einstein was right and nothing but a huge bottle of Tequila will convince me otherwise.
Millions of years from now they'll be researching Redneckus Fundamentalus Americanus. They'll discover that they died out because literally, they were born with shit for brains.
I thought you were going to say that they died out because Noah just couldn't fit several hundred pairs of 100 foot long dinosaurs on the ark.
Or maybe he discovered dinosaurs existed AFTER he built the boat, then said 'fukit I'm not starting over now - it's starting to rain! I don't think anyone will notice them missing anyway.'
Have you ever thought that if the government didn't spend so much money sending troops to other countries where they are not wanted, there would be plenty of money to spend on good research such as this ?
Except dark matter is a hypothesis, not a theory.
I didn't miss your point on the origins of Engineering. I agreed with it and had nothing to add.
Contempt for desktop applications? No, but maybe I am annoyed that practically every desktop application I use has bugs in it - some minor, some major. If people took a little more care in their programming then maybe software would work a little better.
CE people aren't used in critical systems because they know how to write code to talk to hardware, they are used because they use a structured engineering approach that inherently creates better code. I've met brilliant CS coders. I've also met idiots who think they're gods gift to software who immediately after sitting down declares that the previous developer didn't know what he was doing and the code has to be rewritten from scratch. People like that I immediately kick off my team. Similarly when I state that our software has to ship without any bugs, if I hear 'that's impossible' then that person is also off my team because they don't know what they are doing. I don't allow mistakes from my controls, mechanical or electrical team members, why should I allow mistakes from the software team ?
And I don't think that a flight avionics system counts as doing a few simple repetitive tasks. There's 40 million lines of code on the space station - think all of that is simple and repetitive? Or how about something more down to Earth: the Mercedes Benz S-class has 3 million lines of code and 40 distributed processors. I'm sure that is just a bunch of simple loops though that doesn't do anything complicated.
But even if I left the car door wide open, the keys in the ignition, and a big sign on the roof that says 'take me' I wouldn't be responsible for the criminals actions. Although the insurance company may not be entirely pleased.
So you've saying that if your car was stolen and used to commit a crime, then you should be liable for the criminals behavior?