It's pretty funny how many uninformed people like to spout off on this site. I see several people telling me how my source is wrong. I thought that perhaps it is and did a quick Google check. According to Wikipedia, you get 1mg of absorbed nicotine from smoking a cigarette. Well, we aren't talking about smoking them, so you are wrong on that fact. This site talks about extracting the nicotine for use in e-cigarettes. Starting with 4g of tobacco they get 15ml of liquid at a concentration of 2.5mg/ml. That is 37.5mg of nicotine. This site has a couple of guys that used 40g of tobacco to roll 51 cigarettes. So that's 0.79g/cig. Ten cigarettes would be 7.9g of tobacco which would yield almost 75mg of nicotine. That is at the high end of the range for toxic levels of nicotine for mammals on the Wikipedia link above (30-60mg).
Thanks for getting me inspired to do a little research on these numbers, it was a good exercise. And all you dumb asses that think you know better -- Suck It!!!
I had thought of this idea as a way to ticket those assholes on the road that drive like maniacs when there are no cops around. If 50 (PRESET_LIMIT) people report a car changing lanes without a signal in one day (PRESET_TIME) then a fine could be sent. Speeding, cutting people off, running red lights, etc could be crowd sourced to achieve better driving from the public.
Of course I would not like the idea myself. It seems a little overboard or something. Plus, I'm sure the black-hat hackers would find ways to break it. Hell, even just a group of people who want to mess with someone would be able to trick the system. So it's not a real practical system. In fact, I'm not even sure why I am sharing it here?
I had thought of this idea as a way to ticket those assholes on the road that drive like maniacs when there are no cops around. If 50 (PRESET_LIMIT) people report a car changing lanes without a signal in one day (PRESET_TIME) then a fine could be sent. Speeding, cutting people off, running red lights, etc could be crowd sourced to achieve better driving from the public.
Of course I would not like the idea myself. It seems a little overboard or something. Plus, I'm sure the black-hat hackers would find ways to break it. Hell, even just a group of people who want to mess with someone would be able to trick the system. So it's not a real practical system. In fact, I'm not even sure why I am sharing it here?
It might not be the nicotine that kills you when smoking cigarettes, but nicotine is quite deadly. I was reading the terrorists handbook on poisons a while ago and they give instructions on extracting the nicotine from 10 cigarettes using isopropyl alcohol and then evaporating the alcohol so you are left with a nicotine paste. 10 cigarettes are enough to kill 3 people. And it works through the skin! They did a test on a shaved rabbit to verify the toxicity. It does take something like 12 hours though. So presumably the victim would seek medical help and may be saved. It is interesting to think that getting a little brown goo on your hand from a door knob could be enough to kill you.
Maybe it has something to do with the lack of access or familiarity to guns that has made these later generations feel the need to use them to destructive ends?!
As long as we cannot prevent criminals from having guns (most do, even in countries where gun possession is highly restricted),
Simply not true - gun ownership among criminals in the uk is pretty low.
Yet they have more violent crime per-capita than we do in the US.
That may or may not be true, but isn't directly related to my point really, is it?
Yes, it is directly related. A 90 year old grandmother can defend herself against a knife wielding rapist if she has a gun. Without it she is relegated to only being a victim. Unless she is some sort of Navy Seal that can fight the criminal on his own terms.
I love driving down a neighborhood and using my TV-B-Gone to turn off people's TV sets. It's really good at a bar during a big game. Once I even used it at a Vegas casino on the giant TV's for the betting on horse races and other sports. Good times!
My point was a sarcastic remark on how property for a corporation is treated much differently than people's property. That's all. I guess I should have added the sarcasm tag as it seems lost on some.
Ohhh, so that means the movies on bit-torrent are fine to download since they are not actual property and are just a bunch of electrons. I like where this is going!
Try looking at the image slide show on the very page linked in the summary. One of the craters on Mars has tectonic activity where one side of the fault has been uplifted while the other side went down. The fault goes right through the crater showing the activity happened after the impact created the crater.
Lidar might be expensive, but it gives you the shape and depth of the surrounding environment. Camera based imaging will have a harder time determining the distance to the objects in views. I would think the lidar would also have an advantage with fog or rain that might hinder a camera based system much more. In the end I think having multiple systems that corroborate their view of the world and cover for each other when one has difficulty getting a good sense of the environment is the best way to go. But if it used as a simple self-parking system or a souped up cruise control you might be able to get a camera based system to work well enough in most circumstances.
This is pretty simple really. The accuracy isn't important as every person on the road drives differently and of different roads. The important thing for a mileage rating is that they can be compared from car to car. As long as all the cars follow the same procedure in determining their rating, then you can compare between them. Changing the test will require all the cars to change at the same time. And if you did that you would no longer be able to compare current cars with past cars which some people might like to do when looking at improvement over the years. And even if you did that it would not be accurate anyway as the driving conditions for most people will not match the testing conditions.
It is definitely hard to imagine life that can survive the super extremes like molten lava or the star going super nova. I would also tend to agree that it takes a long time for life to evolve for the environment it exists in. But the time evolution takes could be the product of the stability of our planet and not dependant on it. Again we are using our one example to extrapolate to others which is about the worst case for any type of statistical estimation. What if there was a life form that swam in a soup of it's building blocks (food and energy etc.). And if this life form had huge growth rates and offspring amounts but with a much larger rate of mutation than we have here on earth. This could be due to higher levels of radiation or their equivalence of DNA is less accurate at reproduction than our DNA is. Even if 80% of the offspring failed to survive due to defects, if each creature made millions of offspring you would get much plenty of evolution for a changing environment. So things like the stability of our orbit or the moon holding the axis straight won't matter if the life there is evolving quickly enough to compensate for it. In fact even here on earth lots of our evolutionary change happens after a massive die off. Once the ecological niches are free, then new things evolve to fill them. When there is fierce competition, the currently existing forms hold on to the niche. Once they are free, then new things evolve and fill them in. If the dinosaurs hadn't been killed off the mammals would probably not become as successful as they are and we wouldn't even be here to question this. So perhaps less stability would drive quicker evolution and create more life forms quicker than we have here. It hasn't taken that many decades for Staphylococcus aureus to evolve resistance to our antibiotics or for weeds to start becoming resistant to Roundup. Without these pressures the bacteria and weeds didn't need to evolve these abilities. And this is still Earth based life. With alien life we have no idea how quickly change may take place. That is all fine and dandy until the planet is destroyed, which I would agree would be the end of the game for them. It makes for interesting thoughts, but until we find some other examples of life and can compare it is all just mental masturbation in a way.
Plus you have to stand on it all day. Won't your legs get tired. Those small, one-wheeled things with the little seat that folds up small enough to put into your backpack would be much more useful. Like this one, and I remember another one that might have folded up smaller and was lighter weight.
I don't like the Google tracking that will come with these at all. But the idea of a heads up display that would have head tracking with GPS and compass is awesome. I would love for some good augmented reality features to become useful. At the current time there are not that many uses, but using imagination I can see some in the future. Pop-up tags next to people you have met, but don't remember their names. Tours of the city with interesting facts and places of interest. Directions to nearby restaurants. This last can be done using current smart phone tech, but you end up looking down at the phone too much as many people here have mentioned about people using their phones. If you could actually watch out for car and pedestrian traffic while walking and looking at the scenery and have a guide line overlayed on the ground showing you the direction and distance to you destination it would be useful. Translations of a foreign language signs showing up on your HUD would be very useful also. When speaking to someone you could do the same for what they say, but you would still need to input your part of the conversation for translation so it would be less useful there, unless they also had the HUD augmented reality system with language translation. Then you would both be able to look at each other while having a conversation in two different languages. In 100 years I bet this tech will be very useful, right now it is less so. Eventually it will be built into your eyeball or projected straight into your brain.
And wearing glasses no matter how expensive they are is more uncomfortable than not wearing glasses.
That's just a little bit short sighted there. I find sunglasses much more comfortable than being blinded by the sun. Some people might find glasses more comfortable that contacts if they irritate their eyes.
You make a good point about how many conditions we find that the Earth has gotten that we "think" are needed for the life to have evolved here. I put think in quotes, because we don't actually know if they are all absolutely necessary. But even if they are all needed, it is only for the conditions of Earth life to exist. We may find other planets with a very different type of life form. And those planets probably have just as many amazingly improbable conditions and attributes that are completely needed for their life to have formed and be sustained. As we have only one planet that we know of with life on it, we don't yet know anything about the conditions needed for life to form or exist.
I'll just give one example as to my thinking. A long time ago on earth, the atmosphere was very different. It didn't have oxygen and was filled with poisonous gasses. At least these were poisonous to us and most of the life that currently exists. With your logic we would have to conclude that life did not form on earth until the atmosphere changed to support it. But I believe it is pretty well established that the life forms that existed back then thrived and eventually were the cause of the atmospheric changes that took place. Maybe our life could not survive very long without the moon we have, but another one might prefer it with no moon.
Too bad the lack of marketing, platform integration, exclusive content (as well as general multi-plat form general content) and perceived "high" price will most likely kill those devices. If they survive they end up being niches even smaller than other computer gaming peripherals like steering wheels or fighting/flying joysticks.
Now this is just silly! If you have not played a racing game with a force feedback steering wheel, then you don't know how much better they make the game. Little fucking joysticks that vibrate don't give you the control that turning a wheel does. When you drive you are constantly making fine tune adjustments to the wheel to keep the car on the exact track you want. And the force feedback for driving is more than just same stupid vibration. It gives you a feel for the traction your wheels have on the road, much like driving a real car. You can tell how far you can turn the wheel before you start to lose grip and go into a spin. Now I can't say how well the Xbox or PS work, or even a cheap PC wheel might work as I have a decent wheel. It's nothing super-duper, just Logitech. But it really helps the control and gives you a better feeling of immersion in driving.
So does the US military not count as an employer or something? Even in boot camp, the uniform and shoes were deducted from our first paychecks. I guess when you make the laws you don't have to follow them!?!
If when I'm an old man, I have to submit to a prostate check every time I get on a hoverbus because these youngsters were trained with zero tolerance not to question authority, I'm gonna be pissed.
On the bright side, free and frequent prostrate exams could save lives!:-P
The attitude of most teachers and administrators is that so what if an innocent kid gets caught up in the rules, rules are rules. It's just easier to follow the rules than it is to enforce the spirit of them. It's amazing that educators just aren't thinking.
It doesn't surprise me that the educators aren't thinking though. They were brought up in the same school system that tries to stifle any sort of individual thinking so they don't know how to do it. Our public schools have devolved into pushing for formula memorizing, rule following, non-thinking students. When they grow up learning that they need to only follow the rules, then when they are the ones in power they have that same attitude. My little sister was reprimanded when in elementary school for sharing part of her lunch with another kid. If that kid couldn't remember to bring lunch money, then they had to starve! It makes me think of the Pink Floyd movie with the teacher that is abusing the children while in turn being abused by his wife. I worry for the future of this country and I certainly don't want to expose my children to that kind of environment. It will be home-schooling or a good private school for my kids, thank you!
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It's pretty funny how many uninformed people like to spout off on this site. I see several people telling me how my source is wrong. I thought that perhaps it is and did a quick Google check. According to Wikipedia, you get 1mg of absorbed nicotine from smoking a cigarette. Well, we aren't talking about smoking them, so you are wrong on that fact. This site talks about extracting the nicotine for use in e-cigarettes. Starting with 4g of tobacco they get 15ml of liquid at a concentration of 2.5mg/ml. That is 37.5mg of nicotine. This site has a couple of guys that used 40g of tobacco to roll 51 cigarettes. So that's 0.79g/cig. Ten cigarettes would be 7.9g of tobacco which would yield almost 75mg of nicotine. That is at the high end of the range for toxic levels of nicotine for mammals on the Wikipedia link above (30-60mg).
Thanks for getting me inspired to do a little research on these numbers, it was a good exercise. And all you dumb asses that think you know better -- Suck It!!!
I had thought of this idea as a way to ticket those assholes on the road that drive like maniacs when there are no cops around. If 50 (PRESET_LIMIT) people report a car changing lanes without a signal in one day (PRESET_TIME) then a fine could be sent. Speeding, cutting people off, running red lights, etc could be crowd sourced to achieve better driving from the public. Of course I would not like the idea myself. It seems a little overboard or something. Plus, I'm sure the black-hat hackers would find ways to break it. Hell, even just a group of people who want to mess with someone would be able to trick the system. So it's not a real practical system. In fact, I'm not even sure why I am sharing it here?
Oops, wrong thread. Not sure what happened to the one on the cars.
I had thought of this idea as a way to ticket those assholes on the road that drive like maniacs when there are no cops around. If 50 (PRESET_LIMIT) people report a car changing lanes without a signal in one day (PRESET_TIME) then a fine could be sent. Speeding, cutting people off, running red lights, etc could be crowd sourced to achieve better driving from the public.
Of course I would not like the idea myself. It seems a little overboard or something. Plus, I'm sure the black-hat hackers would find ways to break it. Hell, even just a group of people who want to mess with someone would be able to trick the system. So it's not a real practical system. In fact, I'm not even sure why I am sharing it here?
When you actually look into this you will find that saturated fat is good for you. The vegetable oils and other substitutes are the real killers.
It might not be the nicotine that kills you when smoking cigarettes, but nicotine is quite deadly. I was reading the terrorists handbook on poisons a while ago and they give instructions on extracting the nicotine from 10 cigarettes using isopropyl alcohol and then evaporating the alcohol so you are left with a nicotine paste. 10 cigarettes are enough to kill 3 people. And it works through the skin! They did a test on a shaved rabbit to verify the toxicity. It does take something like 12 hours though. So presumably the victim would seek medical help and may be saved. It is interesting to think that getting a little brown goo on your hand from a door knob could be enough to kill you.
Maybe it has something to do with the lack of access or familiarity to guns that has made these later generations feel the need to use them to destructive ends?!
As long as we cannot prevent criminals from having guns (most do, even in countries where gun possession is highly restricted),
Simply not true - gun ownership among criminals in the uk is pretty low.
Yet they have more violent crime per-capita than we do in the US.
That may or may not be true, but isn't directly related to my point really, is it?
Yes, it is directly related. A 90 year old grandmother can defend herself against a knife wielding rapist if she has a gun. Without it she is relegated to only being a victim. Unless she is some sort of Navy Seal that can fight the criminal on his own terms.
I love driving down a neighborhood and using my TV-B-Gone to turn off people's TV sets. It's really good at a bar during a big game. Once I even used it at a Vegas casino on the giant TV's for the betting on horse races and other sports. Good times!
My point was a sarcastic remark on how property for a corporation is treated much differently than people's property. That's all. I guess I should have added the sarcasm tag as it seems lost on some.
Ohhh, so that means the movies on bit-torrent are fine to download since they are not actual property and are just a bunch of electrons. I like where this is going!
Try looking at the image slide show on the very page linked in the summary. One of the craters on Mars has tectonic activity where one side of the fault has been uplifted while the other side went down. The fault goes right through the crater showing the activity happened after the impact created the crater.
Lidar might be expensive, but it gives you the shape and depth of the surrounding environment. Camera based imaging will have a harder time determining the distance to the objects in views. I would think the lidar would also have an advantage with fog or rain that might hinder a camera based system much more. In the end I think having multiple systems that corroborate their view of the world and cover for each other when one has difficulty getting a good sense of the environment is the best way to go. But if it used as a simple self-parking system or a souped up cruise control you might be able to get a camera based system to work well enough in most circumstances.
This is pretty simple really. The accuracy isn't important as every person on the road drives differently and of different roads. The important thing for a mileage rating is that they can be compared from car to car. As long as all the cars follow the same procedure in determining their rating, then you can compare between them. Changing the test will require all the cars to change at the same time. And if you did that you would no longer be able to compare current cars with past cars which some people might like to do when looking at improvement over the years. And even if you did that it would not be accurate anyway as the driving conditions for most people will not match the testing conditions.
It is definitely hard to imagine life that can survive the super extremes like molten lava or the star going super nova. I would also tend to agree that it takes a long time for life to evolve for the environment it exists in. But the time evolution takes could be the product of the stability of our planet and not dependant on it. Again we are using our one example to extrapolate to others which is about the worst case for any type of statistical estimation. What if there was a life form that swam in a soup of it's building blocks (food and energy etc.). And if this life form had huge growth rates and offspring amounts but with a much larger rate of mutation than we have here on earth. This could be due to higher levels of radiation or their equivalence of DNA is less accurate at reproduction than our DNA is. Even if 80% of the offspring failed to survive due to defects, if each creature made millions of offspring you would get much plenty of evolution for a changing environment. So things like the stability of our orbit or the moon holding the axis straight won't matter if the life there is evolving quickly enough to compensate for it. In fact even here on earth lots of our evolutionary change happens after a massive die off. Once the ecological niches are free, then new things evolve to fill them. When there is fierce competition, the currently existing forms hold on to the niche. Once they are free, then new things evolve and fill them in. If the dinosaurs hadn't been killed off the mammals would probably not become as successful as they are and we wouldn't even be here to question this. So perhaps less stability would drive quicker evolution and create more life forms quicker than we have here. It hasn't taken that many decades for Staphylococcus aureus to evolve resistance to our antibiotics or for weeds to start becoming resistant to Roundup. Without these pressures the bacteria and weeds didn't need to evolve these abilities. And this is still Earth based life. With alien life we have no idea how quickly change may take place. That is all fine and dandy until the planet is destroyed, which I would agree would be the end of the game for them. It makes for interesting thoughts, but until we find some other examples of life and can compare it is all just mental masturbation in a way.
Plus you have to stand on it all day. Won't your legs get tired. Those small, one-wheeled things with the little seat that folds up small enough to put into your backpack would be much more useful. Like this one, and I remember another one that might have folded up smaller and was lighter weight.
I don't like the Google tracking that will come with these at all. But the idea of a heads up display that would have head tracking with GPS and compass is awesome. I would love for some good augmented reality features to become useful. At the current time there are not that many uses, but using imagination I can see some in the future. Pop-up tags next to people you have met, but don't remember their names. Tours of the city with interesting facts and places of interest. Directions to nearby restaurants. This last can be done using current smart phone tech, but you end up looking down at the phone too much as many people here have mentioned about people using their phones. If you could actually watch out for car and pedestrian traffic while walking and looking at the scenery and have a guide line overlayed on the ground showing you the direction and distance to you destination it would be useful. Translations of a foreign language signs showing up on your HUD would be very useful also. When speaking to someone you could do the same for what they say, but you would still need to input your part of the conversation for translation so it would be less useful there, unless they also had the HUD augmented reality system with language translation. Then you would both be able to look at each other while having a conversation in two different languages. In 100 years I bet this tech will be very useful, right now it is less so. Eventually it will be built into your eyeball or projected straight into your brain.
And wearing glasses no matter how expensive they are is more uncomfortable than not wearing glasses.
That's just a little bit short sighted there. I find sunglasses much more comfortable than being blinded by the sun. Some people might find glasses more comfortable that contacts if they irritate their eyes.
You make a good point about how many conditions we find that the Earth has gotten that we "think" are needed for the life to have evolved here. I put think in quotes, because we don't actually know if they are all absolutely necessary. But even if they are all needed, it is only for the conditions of Earth life to exist. We may find other planets with a very different type of life form. And those planets probably have just as many amazingly improbable conditions and attributes that are completely needed for their life to have formed and be sustained. As we have only one planet that we know of with life on it, we don't yet know anything about the conditions needed for life to form or exist.
I'll just give one example as to my thinking. A long time ago on earth, the atmosphere was very different. It didn't have oxygen and was filled with poisonous gasses. At least these were poisonous to us and most of the life that currently exists. With your logic we would have to conclude that life did not form on earth until the atmosphere changed to support it. But I believe it is pretty well established that the life forms that existed back then thrived and eventually were the cause of the atmospheric changes that took place. Maybe our life could not survive very long without the moon we have, but another one might prefer it with no moon.
Too bad the lack of marketing, platform integration, exclusive content (as well as general multi-plat form general content) and perceived "high" price will most likely kill those devices. If they survive they end up being niches even smaller than other computer gaming peripherals like steering wheels or fighting/flying joysticks.
Now this is just silly! If you have not played a racing game with a force feedback steering wheel, then you don't know how much better they make the game. Little fucking joysticks that vibrate don't give you the control that turning a wheel does. When you drive you are constantly making fine tune adjustments to the wheel to keep the car on the exact track you want. And the force feedback for driving is more than just same stupid vibration. It gives you a feel for the traction your wheels have on the road, much like driving a real car. You can tell how far you can turn the wheel before you start to lose grip and go into a spin. Now I can't say how well the Xbox or PS work, or even a cheap PC wheel might work as I have a decent wheel. It's nothing super-duper, just Logitech. But it really helps the control and gives you a better feeling of immersion in driving.
Yep, MessagEase is awesome. But when I found out that the Palm Graffitti is available an Android I switched to that.
So does the US military not count as an employer or something? Even in boot camp, the uniform and shoes were deducted from our first paychecks. I guess when you make the laws you don't have to follow them!?!
Perhaps we need a National Bomb Association (NBA) to protect our rights to bomb making. Oh wait. . .
If when I'm an old man, I have to submit to a prostate check every time I get on a hoverbus because these youngsters were trained with zero tolerance not to question authority, I'm gonna be pissed.
On the bright side, free and frequent prostrate exams could save lives! :-P
The attitude of most teachers and administrators is that so what if an innocent kid gets caught up in the rules, rules are rules. It's just easier to follow the rules than it is to enforce the spirit of them. It's amazing that educators just aren't thinking.
It doesn't surprise me that the educators aren't thinking though. They were brought up in the same school system that tries to stifle any sort of individual thinking so they don't know how to do it. Our public schools have devolved into pushing for formula memorizing, rule following, non-thinking students. When they grow up learning that they need to only follow the rules, then when they are the ones in power they have that same attitude. My little sister was reprimanded when in elementary school for sharing part of her lunch with another kid. If that kid couldn't remember to bring lunch money, then they had to starve! It makes me think of the Pink Floyd movie with the teacher that is abusing the children while in turn being abused by his wife. I worry for the future of this country and I certainly don't want to expose my children to that kind of environment. It will be home-schooling or a good private school for my kids, thank you!