The problem is that the people with the power to make that happen are all short sighted fools...
who are mostly over 60 years of age and going to be long dead before it hits the fan. We need to get more power to the 20-30 somethings of the world, they actually have something to lose, even if they don't have the wisdom of age.
T-Bills are payable in dollars... the day that the U.S. government can't borrow in and pay off in dollars, we (most of the Western world) all need to seriously consider starting our own local subsistence farms.
i wonder if it's ok for your body to keep such transmitter so close to it 24/7..?
According to this there is no link between cell phones and cancer.
"researchers say more work is needed to be completely sure." - as they have been saying for the last 50 years (re: emi from powerlines, radio transmitters and other sources), anybody been studying cancer trends across the last 50 years? I don't think we're getting less cancers now than we did in 1960.
I'm pretty sure strapping either one of those two 'watches' to your wrist 24/7 will decrease the chance of getting laid.
I was married when I wore my Palm OS watch, it was mostly the children decreasing my chances of getting laid then.
My ideal traveling gadget set is a 10" razor thin tablet with ALL the smartphone capabilities, and a bluetooth earpiece. I hate those earpiece phones, but then I hate phones in general, so pulling the earpiece out of my pocket when I need to use it isn't so bad, and as long as the tablet is within 20' of me, I do have a fully functional phone with a screen I can read. Connect it to a bluetooth full-sized keyboard and mouse at the desk, and maybe put on a couple of HDMI ports capable of driving 30" monitors and we're all set.
A watch sized device is going the wrong direction from the current smartphone, at least for me.
I bought one of the PalmOS based watches about 8 or so years ago, I actually wore it for a week out of stubbornness, but the reason I don't wear a watch is because I don't like having _anything_ on my wrist, much less a big ugly chunk. If it had GPS and network connectivity, I still don't see the watch being more useful than a pocketable phone.
Anecdote, I sold a very pretty watch to a friend, he was wearing it, just for fun, I asked him what time it was, he reached into his pocket and pulled out his phone to read the time...
The quality of life in Japan, Europe, Australia, New Zealand, and many other places that don't use the U.S. dollar as their currency seems to be just fine to me... If the Arab states want to price oil in yuan, rubles, won, or pesos, it's a symbolic move at best - it would indicate a loss of respect, but I don't think the U.S. would suffer as a result, more likely the U.S. would already be suffering due to whatever caused the Arabs to select a new currency in the first place.
During the boom time for real-estate values in Florida, the local counties were awash in money... they had plenty of things to spend it on. There are no more county maintained unpaved roads in most central Florida counties now, lots of new administration buildings, and now that the tax money is on the decline, they're all crying about programs they are having to cut.
I thought the promise of Republican politics was smaller government and less taxes, but when they got handed the Presidency and later control of Congress with the debt on the run, I didn't notice any decline in taxes. I think the reduction of taxes is a good way to keep the debt at a "healthy" level, I'm just not sure who I can vote for who will actually deliver on the rhetoric.
If there is no US debt, implying no need for Treasury bonds, that means there's nothing for people to invest in?
Man, I've heard some absurd statements before, but this one takes the cake!
Nothing as "safe" as securities backed by the U.S. government. There may come a day when the U.S. government cannot pay its debts, but likely long before that day comes, the dollars they would be paid off in would be worthless too...
Personally, I have more faith in the U.S. government than, say, Apple, or WalMart.
There is a practical issue with photographing the front (hard to protect the camera) - most timing equipment is located 30' to the side of the finish line (you can get closer at the start.)
The national T&S system uses a wireless barcode reader operated by a worker in the starting queue to read stickers placed on competitors helmets to register cars in the T&S software.
At my local events, there are usually a few people sharing loaner helmets...
I also autocross, and I think a practical solution would be to add a network camera to each electric eye installation, connect them wired or wireless to a notebook, and simply snap photos as the beam is broken. Keep timestamp records for each beam break event, assume everything is running normally, but also do a fairly simple color check on the car to verify that the assumed finish time event matches the start event. Display a series of thumbnails on the screen for each automatically determined start/finish pair, and if the system ever messes up, all the operator has to do is slide the finish photos to match the start photos - and the times will be calculated automatically (iPad would make a nice interface for the system...)
If you want to be lazy enough for the system to i.d. the cars exactly for you (and tabulate all the times with minimal operator intervention), I'd go to issuing QR (2D bar) code panels and add that to the software - but it will still fault occasionally and need human attention, and the other thing to consider is if fiddling with the bar codes is really less work than just babysitting the timer and hand entering the car numbers as they start.
Autocross generally charges $20ish as an entry fee... the timer onboard vehicle would raise the barrier to entry higher than most clubs would want (due to cost / complexity for newcomers.)
they will have almost identical 3D structure (unlike the face), and you can expect some identifying marks on the front end that crosses the finish line. As long as you have some sort of identifying marks, you can use standard face/object recognition techniques to identify the vehicle.
The cars in autocross are as (and usually more) varied as what you see on the street. In a field of 100 competitors, you might expect to see 5 or 6 participants with a particular make/model, for the most popular (e.g. 6 Miatas, 5 Neons, 4 Corvettes, 4 Mustangs, and a hodge podge of all kinds of cars from the last 40 years.)
Numbers on the cars are more or less standard, but are usually a mixture of different types, including shoe polish on the windows - OCR would be... challenging.
Autocad 14, 2003, etc. had at least 3 ways to do most things, and many of them were subtly unique rather than exactly duplicative. When Autodesk designed Inventor (their "real" 3D package) they enforced a single way of doing things to try to make it easier to learn. They were very different programs for other reasons, but I picked up 3D design in Autocad 2003 in no-time flat, a couple of years later I tied into Inventor and it was about a month before I felt like I was any kind of productive with it. I haven't kept up with the drawing software lately, I wonder if Inventor has grown a few alternate methods yet.
Just enforce a formatter on commit. If the formatted code is any different from the original file, abort the commit.
I haven't met a formatter yet that understands all the possible "best ways" to format various blocks of code, and I never will, as soon as one is created that encompasses all known formats, a new problem will come along that does not conform to the existing rules.
Yes, _most_ code should follow consistent style, but there are some blocks of code that just shouldn't be put into a standard format (long lists of repetitive groups of two or three operations with a single variation per group come to mind at the moment, but there are others...)
Someone here stated (most reliable source ever, I'm sure) that there are about 1 million oil wells, total, and they average 2km deep. So, even if we wanted to pull this off, it would require the same level of effort that is the entire petroleum mining industry worldwide - and I'm not even sure it's a good idea, cooling the cap to a depth of 2 or 3 km still leaves it pretty thin, likely subject to large fissures and/or explosive relief events, and who's to say that the dome won't creep (or explode) out one of the sides and maybe double or triple in size if we cool the current cap? You would be creating a New York sized city of workers creating and maintaining the works, and they'd be directly in harm's way.
A supervolcano is no fun, neither is a Cat5 Hurricane, or a Magnitude 9 Earthquake, it's nice to think about what we might do to steer these events, but in reality, they are bigger than us, and the best we can do is hope to mitigate their damage, not lessen their fury.
...they look at you like you just proposed that they stick the cans up their arse....
I know the look well... my favorite schoolboard member quote "we will not spend a single dollar we are not required to by law." It drives the entire system, and some principals take it too enthusiastically and start breaking the law flagrantly in an effort to spend less dollars... and when you propose to them or their staff that they start following the law, you get that look.
Because handicapped people don't enjoy the water? and I assume you always watch those spots, 24/7.
For about a year in grad school, I'd be there two, sometimes three days a week, from 9am until late in the afternoon... and, no, there were no handicapped access points to the water, no wading beach at that time, just stairs out of the lake for waterskiiers to climb out on after they wipe out. Although I know paraplegics who waterski, I never saw one at this particular park where skiiers are snap started off the dock by a tow cable system.
they only care about going through the motions and looking concerned.
"Well, I just don't know what else we can do." - attributed to any number of elected officials, school principals, and other figures of supposed authority who are really just trying to climb the ladder and get to the next level while upsetting people with power over them as little as possible.
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The problem is that the people with the power to make that happen are all short sighted fools...
who are mostly over 60 years of age and going to be long dead before it hits the fan. We need to get more power to the 20-30 somethings of the world, they actually have something to lose, even if they don't have the wisdom of age.
I thought the promise of Republican politics was smaller government and less taxes
You need to learn to distinguish between politicians' advertisements and what they're actually selling.
I know the difference, and I don't vote based on what they promise, but there's rarely a "good" choice out there who has any chance of winning.
T-Bills are payable in dollars... the day that the U.S. government can't borrow in and pay off in dollars, we (most of the Western world) all need to seriously consider starting our own local subsistence farms.
i wonder if it's ok for your body to keep such transmitter so close to it 24/7..?
According to this there is no link between cell phones and cancer.
"researchers say more work is needed to be completely sure." - as they have been saying for the last 50 years (re: emi from powerlines, radio transmitters and other sources), anybody been studying cancer trends across the last 50 years? I don't think we're getting less cancers now than we did in 1960.
I'm pretty sure strapping either one of those two 'watches' to your wrist 24/7 will decrease the chance of getting laid.
I was married when I wore my Palm OS watch, it was mostly the children decreasing my chances of getting laid then.
My ideal traveling gadget set is a 10" razor thin tablet with ALL the smartphone capabilities, and a bluetooth earpiece. I hate those earpiece phones, but then I hate phones in general, so pulling the earpiece out of my pocket when I need to use it isn't so bad, and as long as the tablet is within 20' of me, I do have a fully functional phone with a screen I can read. Connect it to a bluetooth full-sized keyboard and mouse at the desk, and maybe put on a couple of HDMI ports capable of driving 30" monitors and we're all set.
A watch sized device is going the wrong direction from the current smartphone, at least for me.
I bought one of the PalmOS based watches about 8 or so years ago, I actually wore it for a week out of stubbornness, but the reason I don't wear a watch is because I don't like having _anything_ on my wrist, much less a big ugly chunk. If it had GPS and network connectivity, I still don't see the watch being more useful than a pocketable phone.
Anecdote, I sold a very pretty watch to a friend, he was wearing it, just for fun, I asked him what time it was, he reached into his pocket and pulled out his phone to read the time...
The quality of life in Japan, Europe, Australia, New Zealand, and many other places that don't use the U.S. dollar as their currency seems to be just fine to me... If the Arab states want to price oil in yuan, rubles, won, or pesos, it's a symbolic move at best - it would indicate a loss of respect, but I don't think the U.S. would suffer as a result, more likely the U.S. would already be suffering due to whatever caused the Arabs to select a new currency in the first place.
During the boom time for real-estate values in Florida, the local counties were awash in money... they had plenty of things to spend it on. There are no more county maintained unpaved roads in most central Florida counties now, lots of new administration buildings, and now that the tax money is on the decline, they're all crying about programs they are having to cut.
I thought the promise of Republican politics was smaller government and less taxes, but when they got handed the Presidency and later control of Congress with the debt on the run, I didn't notice any decline in taxes. I think the reduction of taxes is a good way to keep the debt at a "healthy" level, I'm just not sure who I can vote for who will actually deliver on the rhetoric.
If there is no US debt, implying no need for Treasury bonds, that means there's nothing for people to invest in?
Man, I've heard some absurd statements before, but this one takes the cake!
Nothing as "safe" as securities backed by the U.S. government. There may come a day when the U.S. government cannot pay its debts, but likely long before that day comes, the dollars they would be paid off in would be worthless too...
Personally, I have more faith in the U.S. government than, say, Apple, or WalMart.
There is a practical issue with photographing the front (hard to protect the camera) - most timing equipment is located 30' to the side of the finish line (you can get closer at the start.)
Don't know if Predator refers to the military UAV, but it got me thinking, float a camera on a balloon and video the whole track from above....
The national T&S system uses a wireless barcode reader operated by a worker in the starting queue to read stickers placed on competitors helmets to register cars in the T&S software.
At my local events, there are usually a few people sharing loaner helmets...
See traqmate.com
Bluetooth isn't the right tech, you're looking for RFID in this case.
Heard in the Paddock Why are you Spec Miata drivers so aggressive? "We are compensating for our ChickCars."
I also autocross, and I think a practical solution would be to add a network camera to each electric eye installation, connect them wired or wireless to a notebook, and simply snap photos as the beam is broken. Keep timestamp records for each beam break event, assume everything is running normally, but also do a fairly simple color check on the car to verify that the assumed finish time event matches the start event. Display a series of thumbnails on the screen for each automatically determined start/finish pair, and if the system ever messes up, all the operator has to do is slide the finish photos to match the start photos - and the times will be calculated automatically (iPad would make a nice interface for the system...)
If you want to be lazy enough for the system to i.d. the cars exactly for you (and tabulate all the times with minimal operator intervention), I'd go to issuing QR (2D bar) code panels and add that to the software - but it will still fault occasionally and need human attention, and the other thing to consider is if fiddling with the bar codes is really less work than just babysitting the timer and hand entering the car numbers as they start.
Autocross generally charges $20ish as an entry fee... the timer onboard vehicle would raise the barrier to entry higher than most clubs would want (due to cost / complexity for newcomers.)
they will have almost identical 3D structure (unlike the face), and you can expect some identifying marks on the front end that crosses the finish line. As long as you have some sort of identifying marks, you can use standard face/object recognition techniques to identify the vehicle.
The cars in autocross are as (and usually more) varied as what you see on the street. In a field of 100 competitors, you might expect to see 5 or 6 participants with a particular make/model, for the most popular (e.g. 6 Miatas, 5 Neons, 4 Corvettes, 4 Mustangs, and a hodge podge of all kinds of cars from the last 40 years.)
Numbers on the cars are more or less standard, but are usually a mixture of different types, including shoe polish on the windows - OCR would be... challenging.
and there are lots of ways to do most things.
Autocad 14, 2003, etc. had at least 3 ways to do most things, and many of them were subtly unique rather than exactly duplicative. When Autodesk designed Inventor (their "real" 3D package) they enforced a single way of doing things to try to make it easier to learn. They were very different programs for other reasons, but I picked up 3D design in Autocad 2003 in no-time flat, a couple of years later I tied into Inventor and it was about a month before I felt like I was any kind of productive with it. I haven't kept up with the drawing software lately, I wonder if Inventor has grown a few alternate methods yet.
Just enforce a formatter on commit. If the formatted code is any different from the original file, abort the commit.
I haven't met a formatter yet that understands all the possible "best ways" to format various blocks of code, and I never will, as soon as one is created that encompasses all known formats, a new problem will come along that does not conform to the existing rules.
Yes, _most_ code should follow consistent style, but there are some blocks of code that just shouldn't be put into a standard format (long lists of repetitive groups of two or three operations with a single variation per group come to mind at the moment, but there are others...)
Someone here stated (most reliable source ever, I'm sure) that there are about 1 million oil wells, total, and they average 2km deep. So, even if we wanted to pull this off, it would require the same level of effort that is the entire petroleum mining industry worldwide - and I'm not even sure it's a good idea, cooling the cap to a depth of 2 or 3 km still leaves it pretty thin, likely subject to large fissures and/or explosive relief events, and who's to say that the dome won't creep (or explode) out one of the sides and maybe double or triple in size if we cool the current cap? You would be creating a New York sized city of workers creating and maintaining the works, and they'd be directly in harm's way.
A supervolcano is no fun, neither is a Cat5 Hurricane, or a Magnitude 9 Earthquake, it's nice to think about what we might do to steer these events, but in reality, they are bigger than us, and the best we can do is hope to mitigate their damage, not lessen their fury.
I know the look well... my favorite schoolboard member quote "we will not spend a single dollar we are not required to by law." It drives the entire system, and some principals take it too enthusiastically and start breaking the law flagrantly in an effort to spend less dollars... and when you propose to them or their staff that they start following the law, you get that look.
Because handicapped people don't enjoy the water? and I assume you always watch those spots, 24/7.
For about a year in grad school, I'd be there two, sometimes three days a week, from 9am until late in the afternoon... and, no, there were no handicapped access points to the water, no wading beach at that time, just stairs out of the lake for waterskiiers to climb out on after they wipe out. Although I know paraplegics who waterski, I never saw one at this particular park where skiiers are snap started off the dock by a tow cable system.
they only care about going through the motions and looking concerned.
"Well, I just don't know what else we can do." - attributed to any number of elected officials, school principals, and other figures of supposed authority who are really just trying to climb the ladder and get to the next level while upsetting people with power over them as little as possible.