Oh, I think they do that in elementary school all over the U.S. too, reminds me of my mom once when I was 14 sort of bragging to her friends about "oh yes, I told him all about sex and stuff when he was 5 years old, he's always known." Great job, mom! I don't remember that conversation now, and being 14 (and raised by you), I'm too embarrassed to ask.
We've got those cameras here, I haven't noticed an improvement in driving.
The only thing that has reduced red light runners here outside my office window is that traffic backs up more regularly since the decrease from 4 lanes to 2, when it's clear, people still run the light.
On average, you drive longer distances in cars then on a bike, so the stats may be true and yet you don't hear about that many deaths while cycling. Especially if less people use a bike than a car.
The "cycling lifestyle" covers less distance than petrol powered people do, and is that a bad thing?
Statistically, space shuttle astronauts safer than automobile drivers - per km traveled, and pedestrians are the least safe of all.
Motorcars: 1.5 deaths per 100 million miles traveled
Space shuttles miles traveled: Atlantis 126m safe Columbia 125m crash Challenger 26m crash Discovery 148m safe Endeavour 123m safe
Dunno, in college I rode one of the early mountain bikes (granted, with center-rib tires that had relatively low rolling resistance), but I loved it - rode all over the county. Friend of mine with a road bike asked where I went, I told him, he rode the same "bike path" on his road bike the next week and ended up walking 5 miles to a friend's house because he blew out a tire on one of the thousands of rocks on the path.
In a velodrome, road bikes are the thing. In any urban/sub-urban cycling situation I have ridden (including cross-country in Germany, Denmark, Netherlands and Belgium), there's at least one situation per day (and sometimes hundreds) where I'm glad I have those fat tires.
So, I cruise upright at ~12mi(~20km) per hour instead of ~18(30) in an aerodynamic hunch-over, does that really matter? Same exercise for less distance covered, less repetition going around the same loop more times, or simply safer routes because I'm not looking for 50% more distance to cover. And, back to OP topic, in 10,000+ miles ridden, no head injuries - maybe a dozen "serious" crashes of one kind or another, but at 12mph it's much easier to land on your feet.
Even though we have much fewer cyclists in the US, it is the same with their disrespect for traffic laws.
When getting your driving license, they make it abundantly clear that all the same laws that apply to motor vehicles apply equally to bicycles. But, there is no license process for bicyclists, and the first thing they learn here is that they should squish over to the right hand side of a lane to let cars pass freely... nothing to do with legal, it's just how the motor drivers behave that creates this situation. After that, they assume they are free to ride on sidewalks, run red lights and stop signs, etc. etc. mostly because there is zero enforcement of these laws, too.
I make it an option for my customers because my product is "philosophically aligned" with bitcoin to an extent.
The hobby reference is that, yes, my customers may pay me in bitcoin - yes, it may work efficiently for me as a merchant and them as bitcoin users. However, the efficiency breaks down at that point, the computational infrastructure of bitcoin is absolutely massive (compared to, say, a credit card transaction) and little $5 and smaller transactions are expensive for the system to support.
If I get my $5 and my customer paid approximately $5 to obtain their bitcoin, fine, but how many kwh were burned (and how much computer and network resource were consumed) supporting this little exchange?
I'm one of those merchants, I'll take your bitcoins - no problem.
Doesn't change the fact that it's a hobby - like building ships in bottles or building your own airplane - sure, people can, and do, do that - it's just not terribly efficient, effective, or safe compared to the more common alternatives.
Short answer: it won't work because it is not backed or protected by a sovereign nation, adequately described or protected by law, and the whole "crunching numbers with massive parallel processors" thing is a huge waste of energy.
And didn't people make the same arguments about television? And then, later, about videogames?
And the same arguments are true, to some extent, about television and videogames.
If you don't know of any WoW addict/victims/sad loser in life stories, you don't have any place passing judgement on whether or not videogames can be harmful.
I'm not saying to abolish any of it, but the potential for addiction and serious destruction of what we used to call a productive life is there. It's the same basic reasoning that's behind marijuana controls.
At least with mobile phones the addict is, well, mobile, but if they are constantly tuned in to the phone at the expense of "normal" social interaction, we're going to grow yet another breed of socially inept to go along with sports-TV addicts, soap opera addicts, and video game addicts.
Actually, it's not an if, it's already happening, but the question I have is whether or not society is going to tolerate these people who walk around so tuned into their mobile device that they are even less socially available than your average rude big city dweller who is "too busy" to even acknowledge the presence of other people as they pass.
Who, exactly, has done a better job of creating low-cost computers for education, then?
If your answer is Asus, Acer, Dell, HP, or Apple, I'm not impressed. Even with a case, power supply, keyboard and mouse doubling the cost, the Pi is still less than 1/3 the cost of the nearest competitor.
Also, there is a question of just what kind of education you are attempting to support - Pi envisions a return to hacker culture, it may be missing the mark somewhat since the hackers they revere were spending hundreds to low thousands of dollars on their homebrew kit and a sub $100 investment in some ways implies a reduced commitment, but if you "just want to try something" and need a computer to do it, they've made a very capable little chunk for an amazingly low price.
If you go to a temp agency these days, you'll discover how many people are poorly trained in: expressing coherent thought in writing, basic arithmetic, and professional interpersonal interaction. Partly, that's why they're at a temp agency, partly, it's the old George Carlin line:
Think about somebody you know who has an IQ of 100. Now, realize that 50% of the world is dumber than this person.
Germany is full of highly reactive Green sentiment, they'll do just about anything "Green" without regard for the actual consequences. High school yearbook? make it from recycled paper that disintegrates in less than 5 years. Nuclear power? abolish and replace with coal. Stuck waiting for train crossing for more than 5 seconds? Shut down idling engines (debatable, but when first instituted stop/restart cycles ultimately causing more pollution than the idle due to increased maintenance / decreased engine life, especially on the oh so popular Golf diesels.) Solar panels on roofs - because you can tell they're "Green", regardless of the energy expended in making them and their load leveling batteries, inverters, etc.
True they don't change so quickly. The problem for RIM is that they ARE changing right now, and that change is against Blackberry. They won't be so quick to change back even if RIM does get their act together.
Note, you HAD a Blackberry ONCE.
And, I moved from a big company to a small one that does not provide company leashes.
The big company still gives out crackberries, on a hierarchical graded scheme with the more expensive ones going to the higher ups - they get off on that kind of stuff and will continue to keep their vassals in structured and graded RIM land until such time as Apple comes out with 6 levels of iPhone, each subtly but visibly just a little bit better than the other one.
I had a blackberry once, my company gave it to me. As long as that is still happening, they have a market - IT departments don't change their buying habits as quickly as Starbucks patrons do.
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Oh, I think they do that in elementary school all over the U.S. too, reminds me of my mom once when I was 14 sort of bragging to her friends about "oh yes, I told him all about sex and stuff when he was 5 years old, he's always known." Great job, mom! I don't remember that conversation now, and being 14 (and raised by you), I'm too embarrassed to ask.
Just bought a laptop/desktop replacement on a $750 budget - ended up with a 17" i5 Ivy Bridge with all the goodies. Hard to justify spending more.
I would call it a nicely sized smartphone.
We've got those cameras here, I haven't noticed an improvement in driving.
The only thing that has reduced red light runners here outside my office window is that traffic backs up more regularly since the decrease from 4 lanes to 2, when it's clear, people still run the light.
On average, you drive longer distances in cars then on a bike, so the stats may be true and yet you don't hear about that many deaths while cycling. Especially if less people use a bike than a car.
The "cycling lifestyle" covers less distance than petrol powered people do, and is that a bad thing?
Statistically, space shuttle astronauts safer than automobile drivers - per km traveled, and pedestrians are the least safe of all.
Motorcars:
1.5 deaths per 100 million miles traveled
Space shuttles miles traveled:
Atlantis 126m safe
Columbia 125m crash
Challenger 26m crash
Discovery 148m safe
Endeavour 123m safe
Lots of tall rocks in NZ.
Dunno, in college I rode one of the early mountain bikes (granted, with center-rib tires that had relatively low rolling resistance), but I loved it - rode all over the county. Friend of mine with a road bike asked where I went, I told him, he rode the same "bike path" on his road bike the next week and ended up walking 5 miles to a friend's house because he blew out a tire on one of the thousands of rocks on the path.
In a velodrome, road bikes are the thing. In any urban/sub-urban cycling situation I have ridden (including cross-country in Germany, Denmark, Netherlands and Belgium), there's at least one situation per day (and sometimes hundreds) where I'm glad I have those fat tires.
So, I cruise upright at ~12mi(~20km) per hour instead of ~18(30) in an aerodynamic hunch-over, does that really matter? Same exercise for less distance covered, less repetition going around the same loop more times, or simply safer routes because I'm not looking for 50% more distance to cover. And, back to OP topic, in 10,000+ miles ridden, no head injuries - maybe a dozen "serious" crashes of one kind or another, but at 12mph it's much easier to land on your feet.
Even though we have much fewer cyclists in the US, it is the same with their disrespect for traffic laws.
When getting your driving license, they make it abundantly clear that all the same laws that apply to motor vehicles apply equally to bicycles. But, there is no license process for bicyclists, and the first thing they learn here is that they should squish over to the right hand side of a lane to let cars pass freely... nothing to do with legal, it's just how the motor drivers behave that creates this situation. After that, they assume they are free to ride on sidewalks, run red lights and stop signs, etc. etc. mostly because there is zero enforcement of these laws, too.
I make it an option for my customers because my product is "philosophically aligned" with bitcoin to an extent.
The hobby reference is that, yes, my customers may pay me in bitcoin - yes, it may work efficiently for me as a merchant and them as bitcoin users. However, the efficiency breaks down at that point, the computational infrastructure of bitcoin is absolutely massive (compared to, say, a credit card transaction) and little $5 and smaller transactions are expensive for the system to support.
If I get my $5 and my customer paid approximately $5 to obtain their bitcoin, fine, but how many kwh were burned (and how much computer and network resource were consumed) supporting this little exchange?
Because they got an agent into the hacker's den and looked over his shoulder as he was working?
Maybe the same sources that assured our leadership that there were WMD in Iraq are still knocking around the intel branch?
I'm one of those merchants, I'll take your bitcoins - no problem.
Doesn't change the fact that it's a hobby - like building ships in bottles or building your own airplane - sure, people can, and do, do that - it's just not terribly efficient, effective, or safe compared to the more common alternatives.
No, this puts an end to invisible falling... no air in space, the satellites still can't hear it.
Short answer: it won't work because it is not backed or protected by a sovereign nation, adequately described or protected by law, and the whole "crunching numbers with massive parallel processors" thing is a huge waste of energy.
And didn't people make the same arguments about television? And then, later, about videogames?
And the same arguments are true, to some extent, about television and videogames.
If you don't know of any WoW addict/victims/sad loser in life stories, you don't have any place passing judgement on whether or not videogames can be harmful.
I'm not saying to abolish any of it, but the potential for addiction and serious destruction of what we used to call a productive life is there. It's the same basic reasoning that's behind marijuana controls.
At least with mobile phones the addict is, well, mobile, but if they are constantly tuned in to the phone at the expense of "normal" social interaction, we're going to grow yet another breed of socially inept to go along with sports-TV addicts, soap opera addicts, and video game addicts.
Actually, it's not an if, it's already happening, but the question I have is whether or not society is going to tolerate these people who walk around so tuned into their mobile device that they are even less socially available than your average rude big city dweller who is "too busy" to even acknowledge the presence of other people as they pass.
If you've got a window made of glass, I can enter your home in 5 seconds flat.
Or, the shorter meta critic version:
Who, exactly, has done a better job of creating low-cost computers for education, then?
If your answer is Asus, Acer, Dell, HP, or Apple, I'm not impressed. Even with a case, power supply, keyboard and mouse doubling the cost, the Pi is still less than 1/3 the cost of the nearest competitor.
Also, there is a question of just what kind of education you are attempting to support - Pi envisions a return to hacker culture, it may be missing the mark somewhat since the hackers they revere were spending hundreds to low thousands of dollars on their homebrew kit and a sub $100 investment in some ways implies a reduced commitment, but if you "just want to try something" and need a computer to do it, they've made a very capable little chunk for an amazingly low price.
...Steve's inclinations with regard to recreational substances
From photos of Steve, I would guess pizza is his recreational substance of choice.
Secondary effect.
Seems to me like Woz is making a very public political statement - and it seems to be generating discussion and thought.
I imagine he's getting just what he wants out of this move.
If you go to a temp agency these days, you'll discover how many people are poorly trained in: expressing coherent thought in writing, basic arithmetic, and professional interpersonal interaction. Partly, that's why they're at a temp agency, partly, it's the old George Carlin line:
Think about somebody you know who has an IQ of 100. Now, realize that 50% of the world is dumber than this person.
If there’s any industry willing to quash innovation and progress to save its stodgy existence, it’s book publishing. Sales reps have become incredibly adept at the care and feeding of the university faculty that they depend upon to adopt their books. even private industrial leaders and economic pragmatists like Alan Greenspan have begun to criticize the decline of traditional liberal arts education and the rise of the corporate university as economically and socially disastrous.
Good luck on your quest.
I think it's ironic that the US medical industry is such accelerator experts, but the power industry lags.
Maybe we need mandatory power insurance?
Germany is full of highly reactive Green sentiment, they'll do just about anything "Green" without regard for the actual consequences. High school yearbook? make it from recycled paper that disintegrates in less than 5 years. Nuclear power? abolish and replace with coal. Stuck waiting for train crossing for more than 5 seconds? Shut down idling engines (debatable, but when first instituted stop/restart cycles ultimately causing more pollution than the idle due to increased maintenance / decreased engine life, especially on the oh so popular Golf diesels.) Solar panels on roofs - because you can tell they're "Green", regardless of the energy expended in making them and their load leveling batteries, inverters, etc.
Dunno, those guys in IT that were so hung up on the feature tables seemed like a floppy extension would be far better than their natural equipment.
True they don't change so quickly. The problem for RIM is that they ARE changing right now, and that change is against Blackberry. They won't be so quick to change back even if RIM does get their act together.
Note, you HAD a Blackberry ONCE.
And, I moved from a big company to a small one that does not provide company leashes.
The big company still gives out crackberries, on a hierarchical graded scheme with the more expensive ones going to the higher ups - they get off on that kind of stuff and will continue to keep their vassals in structured and graded RIM land until such time as Apple comes out with 6 levels of iPhone, each subtly but visibly just a little bit better than the other one.
I had a blackberry once, my company gave it to me. As long as that is still happening, they have a market - IT departments don't change their buying habits as quickly as Starbucks patrons do.