Maybe they are living in 2007, where they are paying a $200,000 a year licensing fee to a patent troll who got a patent for "A business process which preserves digital motion pictures".
In all seriousness, the biggest obstacle to preserving a history of our culture is copyright. If the owner of the copyright doesn't care to preserve the piece of our history that they have their monopoly on, the information will simply deteriorate and there is nothing legally that can be done about it. We can only hope that the evil dirty thieving pirates save our history for future generations.
No kidding! That car isn't even close to being a KITT. Right off the bat, since it is a mustang, it is specifically designed to look like a 1960's car . Then, there doesn't seem to be a red light on the front. The red light on the front was how you knew that KITT was a sentient super car. And the Specs are just stupid. Instead of being a super car, it is now a magic car.
I'm pretty sure that hookers are illegal in Las Vegas. They are not illegal in Nevada, but my understanding was that the cities had laws against prostitution in the city itself.
And yes, slot machines are a tactile experience. Without the hand to pull, and the coins dropping out, I might as well sit at home pushing my spacebar.
Because it is not time efficient. It might be efficient for brake pad or gas conservation, but it is not going to get more people through a single point any faster. It will in fact slow down traffic. At least it slows down the traffic behind you, so you don't have to deal with it.
No, if everyone left more room in front of them, you would just move the traffic jam to the on ramp. The person that steps too hard on the brakes is just restoring the space that he would have had to to begin with if he had left the suggested buffer space. If a car takes on average 20 feet of space (car + buffer), and travels at 44 feet per second (30mph). You are going to get just over 2 cars through any single spot per second. If you increase the buffer space by an extra 20 feet to 40 feet of space per car, you are now getting only a fraction over 1 car per second through that same spot. The reason that people think that leaving more buffer space makes traffic go faster is because they only count 5 seconds they sit not moving. They don't count the extra 2 minutes it would have taken to get to that spot if they were leaving a buffer.
The reason that standing wave traffic jams happen is because there is not enough road for the number of cars driving on them. If you are on a three lane highway with only one other car on the road, and that other car steps too hard on the breaks, no standing wave is formed.
Now, automatic breaking systems CAN reduce traffic jams. The reason they can reduce traffic jams is because they would allow cars to travel closer together than what would be safe under human control. This means that the 20 feet in the above example might be able to be reduced to 15 feet. This would mean that you could get almost 3 cars through a point per second.
When you get the answers back, you should indicate which candidates ducked the question in an obvious way, so that they get the hint that ducking the question will be advertised.
I don't think it's the "The best guess I can make with the information I have is that the bright object in the sky is a fiery chariot" when there was very little information about the make up of the sun, that is the problem. It's the, "even though all evidence points to dinosaurs having existed on earth, I'm going to assume that it is a giant hoax, the likes of which has never before been seen on the planet earth", that makes someone sound crazy.
Isn't it illegal to knowingly call the cops with a false report? I realize that the specific IT person or security guard won't be in on the joke, but whoever sets up the "penetration test" knowingly is setting up an employee to call in a false report. This means the corporation as an entity is calling in a false report.
1) I am saying this on the basis of The Hobbit and the Lord Of The Rings.
2) As I said, I don't think he sucks at making up stories. I think he sucks at writing them down. The subject is not the problem. As you may notice, I made a point to say that I knew he invented the genre as we know it. Again. It is the actual writing that is stilted, poorly laid out, and loses it's way for pages at a time.
3) Crappy writer compared to everything else I have ever read. Is he the worst I have read? No, but he definitely tried to make up for poor quality by dumping on quantity. When discussing a persons ability to write, there is no need to limit it to the fantasy field.
I have always thought that Tolkien would have been way better as a screenwriter. I know it is heresy to say this, but Tolkien was a crappy writer. Very good at making up stories, yes, but what made it to paper is painful to read. Don't take this as a 'Tolkien Sucks' comment. I do recognize that he pretty much single handedly built the Fantasy genre as we know and love it. It's just that his writing is poor.
If Tolkien were alive today, I would wish for him to build the plot and details of his stories as screen plays, and leave the job of putting it all together to someone more skilled in that craft.
We are not even close to having wearable computers sewn into jackets or sweaters. There are HUGE advances that need to be made that have nothing to do with size or power consumption before sewn in computers are feasible. The first is security. I know I have lost a jacket or two by leaving it in a restaurant when I left. How about when you go to an event that has coat checks. Having your data available to anyone with access to the coat closet isn't going to cut it.
Then there is cost. Many people have two, and I have no style. My wife has over half a dozen. You would need these computers to be sewn into each and every jacket. Plus, people would need to know how to 'install' their jackets.
A far more logical wearable computer would be something like jewelry, or a PDA that is small enough to fit in a pocket without ruining the lines of your clothes. I could see having power cords sewn into clothes, so that you could snap the tiny wearable computer onto your clothes, but then that is basically jewelry. Besides clothes are just not that durable. The only clothes that last as long as a computer are generally the ones you rarely wear.
I certainly hope that elasticity of demand increases in the medium term, as I really don't want to wait for the long term. The oil burning engine was fine in it's day, but we should have transitioned away from it a long time ago.
I do think you are wrong about there being enough suppliers to make a global cartel impractical. The "gas shortages" of the 70's, as well as the "shortages" that have lead to record profits for oil companies more recently shows the oil companies are not working in a free market environment.
Price has no bearing on the gap between supply and demand when demand is largely inelastic, there is one or very few suppliers, and they understand that there is more money to be made by artificially limiting supply than there is through price wars. This is compounded when the supplier is giving the same message of shortages that their archenemies are giving.
When an "environmentalist" scream about oil shortages, the oil industry gets to raise prices, irrelevent how much oil is or is not in the ground.
(I put environmentalist in quotes because I have met very few.)
I don't know what they do now, but about 15 year ago I did development for a company call FSC. We wrote insurance rating software. You know those adds that advertise they compare rates between different companies? That's the kind of application we wrote. Amazingly enough, we actually guaranteed that our software would produce the correct data. If the real cost was different than what our software quoted (and the error was not due to bad data being input) FSC paid the difference. This did mean that we had a tech support team that spent the majority of their time reviewing the data that the users input, and doing calculations by hand to prove the accuracy of the software.
Of course, FSC was an anomaly. Since then, I have never seen a company stand behind their code.
I am not talking about people having sex with dogs. They usually get them confused with human children. These trends of referring to dog owners as 'parents' and buying a dog as 'adopting' are not euphemisms for most people that use the terms. They are just an expression of their insanity.
Clearly these fat women and short men are not as wonderful as you would think since the fat women won't have sex with a man just because he is short, and the short men won't have sex with women just because she is fat. Why should anyone accept either of these two groups when the fat women and short men you speak of won't accept flaws in others?
No need to wait. Millions of people are having sex with robots today. The problem with people seeing this is that they they forget that robot is not synonymous with android, and they miss the fact that it is women that are the primary customers in the robot sex industry.
A vibrator IS a robot. It may be a simple one, but a robot none the less. The trick will be to see if they can get men to buy into robot sex as much as women have already embraced it.
As for love... Given how many people cannot tell the difference between a human and a dog, I have no doubt that getting people confused between an even semi-realistic looking android and a human would be easy and common.
He could not really read at the time, But Ubuntu is so easy that he only needed to recognize "Next", "OK", "Cancel" and "Exit". It really is as much a testament to the simplicity of Linux as it is to his intellect. Although, he did start reading a couple of months before he turned three (Last March), and is just about ready for chapter books. Probably another 3 to 6 months and he will be there.
He is a bright one though. Last night he built his first circuit without help. It was only a battery, switch, and lightbulb, but if I may act like a 'dad' for a moment, I do think that is pretty cool!
Just after turning 1, I gave my son his first PC. I showed him how the mouse worked, and showed him how to load gCompris. Withing a couple of weeks, he was perfectly competent loading any application he wanted. Just after his 2nd birthday, I gave him an Ubuntu CD and formated his hard drive. He installed it with no problems.
I'm going to have to agree that being able to use a computer at 9 when you grew up on a 1st world country is not very impressive. It's not a bad thing. Just something that isn't newsworthy.
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Maybe they are living in 2007, where they are paying a $200,000 a year licensing fee to a patent troll who got a patent for "A business process which preserves digital motion pictures".
In all seriousness, the biggest obstacle to preserving a history of our culture is copyright. If the owner of the copyright doesn't care to preserve the piece of our history that they have their monopoly on, the information will simply deteriorate and there is nothing legally that can be done about it. We can only hope that the evil dirty thieving pirates save our history for future generations.
You voted third party I presume?
No kidding! That car isn't even close to being a KITT. Right off the bat, since it is a mustang, it is specifically designed to look like a 1960's car . Then, there doesn't seem to be a red light on the front. The red light on the front was how you knew that KITT was a sentient super car. And the Specs are just stupid. Instead of being a super car, it is now a magic car.
I'm pretty sure that hookers are illegal in Las Vegas. They are not illegal in Nevada, but my understanding was that the cities had laws against prostitution in the city itself.
And yes, slot machines are a tactile experience. Without the hand to pull, and the coins dropping out, I might as well sit at home pushing my spacebar.
Because it is not time efficient. It might be efficient for brake pad or gas conservation, but it is not going to get more people through a single point any faster. It will in fact slow down traffic. At least it slows down the traffic behind you, so you don't have to deal with it.
No, if everyone left more room in front of them, you would just move the traffic jam to the on ramp. The person that steps too hard on the brakes is just restoring the space that he would have had to to begin with if he had left the suggested buffer space. If a car takes on average 20 feet of space (car + buffer), and travels at 44 feet per second (30mph). You are going to get just over 2 cars through any single spot per second. If you increase the buffer space by an extra 20 feet to 40 feet of space per car, you are now getting only a fraction over 1 car per second through that same spot. The reason that people think that leaving more buffer space makes traffic go faster is because they only count 5 seconds they sit not moving. They don't count the extra 2 minutes it would have taken to get to that spot if they were leaving a buffer.
The reason that standing wave traffic jams happen is because there is not enough road for the number of cars driving on them. If you are on a three lane highway with only one other car on the road, and that other car steps too hard on the breaks, no standing wave is formed.
Now, automatic breaking systems CAN reduce traffic jams. The reason they can reduce traffic jams is because they would allow cars to travel closer together than what would be safe under human control. This means that the 20 feet in the above example might be able to be reduced to 15 feet. This would mean that you could get almost 3 cars through a point per second.
The "average population" cannot have an IQ of 180 by definition.
When you get the answers back, you should indicate which candidates ducked the question in an obvious way, so that they get the hint that ducking the question will be advertised.
I don't think it's the "The best guess I can make with the information I have is that the bright object in the sky is a fiery chariot" when there was very little information about the make up of the sun, that is the problem. It's the, "even though all evidence points to dinosaurs having existed on earth, I'm going to assume that it is a giant hoax, the likes of which has never before been seen on the planet earth", that makes someone sound crazy.
Isn't it illegal to knowingly call the cops with a false report? I realize that the specific IT person or security guard won't be in on the joke, but whoever sets up the "penetration test" knowingly is setting up an employee to call in a false report. This means the corporation as an entity is calling in a false report.
1) I am saying this on the basis of The Hobbit and the Lord Of The Rings.
2) As I said, I don't think he sucks at making up stories. I think he sucks at writing them down. The subject is not the problem. As you may notice, I made a point to say that I knew he invented the genre as we know it. Again. It is the actual writing that is stilted, poorly laid out, and loses it's way for pages at a time.
3) Crappy writer compared to everything else I have ever read. Is he the worst I have read? No, but he definitely tried to make up for poor quality by dumping on quantity. When discussing a persons ability to write, there is no need to limit it to the fantasy field.
I have always thought that Tolkien would have been way better as a screenwriter. I know it is heresy to say this, but Tolkien was a crappy writer. Very good at making up stories, yes, but what made it to paper is painful to read. Don't take this as a 'Tolkien Sucks' comment. I do recognize that he pretty much single handedly built the Fantasy genre as we know and love it. It's just that his writing is poor. If Tolkien were alive today, I would wish for him to build the plot and details of his stories as screen plays, and leave the job of putting it all together to someone more skilled in that craft.
We are not even close to having wearable computers sewn into jackets or sweaters. There are HUGE advances that need to be made that have nothing to do with size or power consumption before sewn in computers are feasible. The first is security. I know I have lost a jacket or two by leaving it in a restaurant when I left. How about when you go to an event that has coat checks. Having your data available to anyone with access to the coat closet isn't going to cut it.
Then there is cost. Many people have two, and I have no style. My wife has over half a dozen. You would need these computers to be sewn into each and every jacket. Plus, people would need to know how to 'install' their jackets.
A far more logical wearable computer would be something like jewelry, or a PDA that is small enough to fit in a pocket without ruining the lines of your clothes. I could see having power cords sewn into clothes, so that you could snap the tiny wearable computer onto your clothes, but then that is basically jewelry. Besides clothes are just not that durable. The only clothes that last as long as a computer are generally the ones you rarely wear.
I certainly hope that elasticity of demand increases in the medium term, as I really don't want to wait for the long term. The oil burning engine was fine in it's day, but we should have transitioned away from it a long time ago.
I do think you are wrong about there being enough suppliers to make a global cartel impractical. The "gas shortages" of the 70's, as well as the "shortages" that have lead to record profits for oil companies more recently shows the oil companies are not working in a free market environment.
Price has no bearing on the gap between supply and demand when demand is largely inelastic, there is one or very few suppliers, and they understand that there is more money to be made by artificially limiting supply than there is through price wars. This is compounded when the supplier is giving the same message of shortages that their archenemies are giving.
When an "environmentalist" scream about oil shortages, the oil industry gets to raise prices, irrelevent how much oil is or is not in the ground.
(I put environmentalist in quotes because I have met very few.)
Not to mention the hearing damage that was caused by this device.
I don't know what they do now, but about 15 year ago I did development for a company call FSC. We wrote insurance rating software. You know those adds that advertise they compare rates between different companies? That's the kind of application we wrote. Amazingly enough, we actually guaranteed that our software would produce the correct data. If the real cost was different than what our software quoted (and the error was not due to bad data being input) FSC paid the difference. This did mean that we had a tech support team that spent the majority of their time reviewing the data that the users input, and doing calculations by hand to prove the accuracy of the software.
Of course, FSC was an anomaly. Since then, I have never seen a company stand behind their code.
They don't need a robot to paw through your personal data. Your point still stands though on them pawing through your personal property though.
I am not talking about people having sex with dogs. They usually get them confused with human children. These trends of referring to dog owners as 'parents' and buying a dog as 'adopting' are not euphemisms for most people that use the terms. They are just an expression of their insanity.
Clearly these fat women and short men are not as wonderful as you would think since the fat women won't have sex with a man just because he is short, and the short men won't have sex with women just because she is fat. Why should anyone accept either of these two groups when the fat women and short men you speak of won't accept flaws in others?
No need to wait. Millions of people are having sex with robots today. The problem with people seeing this is that they they forget that robot is not synonymous with android, and they miss the fact that it is women that are the primary customers in the robot sex industry.
A vibrator IS a robot. It may be a simple one, but a robot none the less. The trick will be to see if they can get men to buy into robot sex as much as women have already embraced it.
As for love... Given how many people cannot tell the difference between a human and a dog, I have no doubt that getting people confused between an even semi-realistic looking android and a human would be easy and common.
He could not really read at the time, But Ubuntu is so easy that he only needed to recognize "Next", "OK", "Cancel" and "Exit". It really is as much a testament to the simplicity of Linux as it is to his intellect. Although, he did start reading a couple of months before he turned three (Last March), and is just about ready for chapter books. Probably another 3 to 6 months and he will be there.
He is a bright one though. Last night he built his first circuit without help. It was only a battery, switch, and lightbulb, but if I may act like a 'dad' for a moment, I do think that is pretty cool!
I happen to agree with you, but I suspect that Einstein is about as correct as Newton. Not exactly wrong, but missing a lot of data.
Just after turning 1, I gave my son his first PC. I showed him how the mouse worked, and showed him how to load gCompris. Withing a couple of weeks, he was perfectly competent loading any application he wanted. Just after his 2nd birthday, I gave him an Ubuntu CD and formated his hard drive. He installed it with no problems.
I'm going to have to agree that being able to use a computer at 9 when you grew up on a 1st world country is not very impressive. It's not a bad thing. Just something that isn't newsworthy.
Who said the poster was a woman? It's a new millennium. Don't judge! ;)