First - the signs wouldn't have to be rebuilt. Only an rfid tag added to each sign. That would of course cost a lot but wouldn't require metalwork or painting.
Second - I agree, totally. I think a supplemental intelligent adaptive system could let the user know that they need to drive, park the car and go into manual. The system definitely would not work with non-compliant cars or signs around.
Third - meh war, who needs it? Lets work on peace... oh? DARPA you say? Hm... : )
I think what you say is true for single vehicles or small numbers of vehicles. The problem with a centralized server serving out information for one vehicle is scalability. Having a million cars connect to the servers to get the latest traffic data from their vicinity dynamically while they move around would be prohibitive for large scale deployment. A few military vehicles could run like this, but not everyone's car.
I had an idea about the navigation within cities when I was in high school. I figure that letting the stop signs themselves broadcast a signal with some basic information about themselves would allow computers within cars to navigate based on those signals. For example, speed limit signs could tell you the speed to go at, stop signs could tell you their lat/long coordinates and you could calculate how to stop. Other cars could also give you their positions and you could navigate around accidents and stalled cars that way. It would be more of a peer to peer type of thing than a central server type of thing. I never sat down to calculate the bandwidth required to get all that information and process it reliably but it would certainly be easier than controlling everything from a single server by feeding possibly innacurate information. This way, if a stop sign is replaced with a yield sign, the change is seamless to the driver.
I agree. Moreover, I love the bookmarks in firefox. Maybe MORK is bad and needs to be changed, whatever. The bookmarks are brilliant. If you bookmark your html bookmark file, you can use find as you type to find stuff within it. It's AWESOME. If they ever take that away, I'm not upgrading.
Good God! If Sun creates millions of copies of Steve Jobs all capable of reality distortion, perhaps they will finally convince people that a Java based GUI IS fast. AAAAAAA!!!
This question is the doorway to an interesting and long lasting paradigm debate. Quality or Quantity, which is better?
In Microsoft and Apple's example, Microsoft is doing better. So Quantity wins here. In GM and Toyota's example, obviously Toyota is doing better. So Quality wins.
In the case of cell phones, there isn't even a clear competitor that offers Quality over Quantity. Or is there? Look at Samsung phones. Their models just barely started getting bluetooth. And they are rudimentary, with a simple OS, and simple controls. They work very clearly and reliably. The service they use is another story. But their phones are great. After being disillusioned completely with Motorola and Nokia, I find that Samsung is often overlooked by people who complain about the same things you are complaining about.
1.) totally agree 2.) this is McAfee... why are people even bothering with them really? They fucked up an update and deleted data off of 20,000 computers just earlier this year. That to me is a fatal, no second chance type of mistake. This company needs to die quickly.
well, the draw for me is that it is free. The 10% difference is the difference between the _paid for only_ version of WinZip. The "ultra" compression of 7z is really great for source code files. Besides that, I like the ease of use from command line. I never figured out how to make batch jobs with winzip but 7z comes very naturally to me. It's not for everyone, but the fact that it is free instead of nagware is great. Try it if you're curious, I think it's better, you might too. What you are advocating is stagnation and never trying anything new.
that's really funny, like most of your comments. I don't know if you're serious, but if you are, try http://7-zip.org/ I only need winrar once in a blue moon, but winzip has not been on my mind since about a year ago when I installed 7z. The ultra mode rules for compressing lots of source code files.
eghads Brain... imagine a beowulf cluster of these things. You could use it to decode the very rf signal that powers them thus creating a sustainable way to spy on everyone and thus please both the liberals and the conservatives at the same time... and then TAKE OVER THE WORLD.
Why would anyone take McAfee seriously? They royally screwed up a recent update and deleted many important files. At least Open Source rootkits give people a chance to fight the problem.
That's a very interesting point you make, and I'd like to rant on a couple of tangents:
1.) Very interesting that you mention obesity. I just ran through my mind the ways that obesity influence our society's use of energy
- eat more food which creates demand for more water to feed crop and animals and gas for shipping that food and restaurants and stores that distribute it.
- weigh more which causes tons of problems (no pun intended) - cars use more power to transport obese people, elevators use more power to lift them, buses and subways, etc.
- create more waste like trash that needs to be disposed in plastic bags that use petroleum and by trucks that consume fuel, more human waste that needs to be handled by and water purifiers or just dumped into our ecosystem.
These may not seem like a lot, but in Michigan, the state I come from obesity is over 50% and all those little tiny differences added up mean a lot.
2.) What makes you think that it's unfair? I mean, we are using an immensely disproportionate amount of energy and it's all so that we can get wealthier and have more comforts. I'm not sure that human polution makes any difference in the world's climate. But if it does, Kyoto is certainly not unfair. It proportionately assigns blame. I think disproportionate fault warrants disproportionate blame, like the U.S. should be even MORE accountable. In the end though, countries around the world that are much worse off than us are thinking about how to help the environment. Whether or not it will help appease the gods of climate change, we should do whatever is in our power just because it's the right thing to do. Since we have disproportionate wealth and power, we should do more than the other countries, not less.
I've been doing web work for 6 years now. JSP, ASP.net, mostly SQLServer 2000, I can use MySQL. I run my entire network at home on Ubuntu (samba, ftp, nfs, apache servers and a pc to play media).
I subscribe to strict CSS style rules and I can easily use Flash, Photoshop. Basically I can make awesome sites. Problem is, I've always been working for square heads who can't design to save their lives and I've never had a chance to really make a whole site the way I want it. If you're interested in me, let me know.
Otherwise, check out justwebjobs.com or dice.com or even get an ASP.NET Web Commerce starter kit and do it yourself, it's actually pretty easy. I recomend Authorize.net if you have to deal with credit card authorizers
I disagree, sex can be pretty embarassing if you're not pro and have like uber micro. Like, the best game for this situation is definitely soul calibur, very intuitive to pick up and girls find it easy to play siegfried.
So I don't know anything, lets start with that. I'd like to know how people manage their postgresql installations. I mean, I use SQL Server 2000. When I want a table I go in, type in a few things, check some boxes, make some relationships, cascade if I want, rearrange the orders of columns (a nice feature if you work with RAILS) and then drag and drop that into my Visual Studio designer to get some typed datasets that automatically have indexes and constraints and can be used from code as if I was working against the database itself. What's there in the postgresql world that'll let me do that? I know with MySQL I can do most of that (except for rearrange the order of columns which I haven't figured out - not that I spent time trying to do it).
I agree, you're doing well with your english, but here's how I'd say it:
According to Swedish law, this is perfectly legal. A few years ago, someone was sued for posting links to mp3s on his web page. The Swedish court decided that it was nothing wrong with that. He didn't distribute the mp3s, he was only showing where they were. The Pirate Bay is doing the same thing now. I hope my English is better than the Swedish character in The Muppets.
you're saying that you had a hard time installing windows so you went with... gentoo? Buddy, I've installed gentoo, and I've installed windows. I think it'd be easier to install windows if you had to do it while balancing two buckets of water and walking up a hill kung-fu style. I LIKE gentto better, but to say it's easier to install...
fuck me, you're right. Well, back to the books, bunch of fucking liars we have for historians. Thanks dude, I find that less and less information has any validity.
Actually, you can read all you want. It's what you make of what you read that counts. From my limited understanding of it, Europe was overcrowded and the Popes needed a way out of this mess. They sent a huge number of people to battle to do the will of God and take back the holy land. There were armies of children sent into battle. This went on for a really long time and devastated the population of the European countries that were involved and at the same time devastated the flourishing Arabic civilization. Nobody "won" the crusades. The church will forever have that and other blood on their hands. The Europeans lost many men but then again that enabled them to make sense of their dark lives and eventually flourish themselves as a civilization - by picking up where the Greeks, Indians, and Arabs left off. The Arabs however seem to have been forever scarred. In case you haven't noticed, there are still problems in the Middle East, and they have to do with the "holy land". That shit was all started almost a thousand years ago by some really fucked up Popes. I hate the Middle East now, I hate what it's become, I hate the ruins of their beautiful culture, just like I hate the ruins of the Native American, African cultures. But those ruins are a mirror of Europe's greed, hatred, fear, and arrogance and to deny that is not very honest.
I'm sorry for my comments about Microsoft before, they were childish in this context. On the whole, they've done great things using means easily available to everyone else. Microsoft and Bill Gates are imperialists, but not the evil kind. The geniuses that didn't survive them are not fit to compete and those that did (Apple, Linux, Google) are the better for it unlike what I explained above.
heh, so hostile. Didn't mean that they kill people. That would be a silly thing to say. But they kill competition. THAT is the real point of imperialism. You don't compete fairly, you kill your competition. Just because going around sticking flags in countries in the name of your king and then killing all the inhabitants or subduing them by force is no longer acceptable doesn't mean imperialism has dissapeared from the motivations of men of great position. But I beat a dead horse, Microsoft has reformed, much like Rome didn't kill its conquered subjects. And much like Rome, they're on their way down.
That they finished inventing everything and were happy with what they had? I mean, did you see that list?
no, it's really what the other dude says - their civilisation was destroyed by the all-mighty sword and war machine. Europeans just go around assimilating and killing throughout history - Microsoft is the pinnacle of this.
see, I understand that argument but it's flawed because it assumes the only enjoyable thing about the game is acquiring gold. That's like racing games where the cars are locked until you race to get them. I hate that. I wouldn't pay someone to do it for me, but it'd be nice if they were there in the first place. It's the same with Warcraft, you may not want to spend the time to get to level 60, you may just want to run around all powerful.
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Revamping the software-development process creates a Catch 22 : being more careful can mean missing deadlines.
He keeps using that word. I do not think it means what he thinks it means.
Damn, I just get elated at the prospect of someone soliciting products & services to me non-stop
that's pretty messed up dude
To address your points.
First - the signs wouldn't have to be rebuilt. Only an rfid tag added to each sign. That would of course cost a lot but wouldn't require metalwork or painting.
Second - I agree, totally. I think a supplemental intelligent adaptive system could let the user know that they need to drive, park the car and go into manual. The system definitely would not work with non-compliant cars or signs around.
Third - meh war, who needs it? Lets work on peace... oh? DARPA you say? Hm... : )
I think what you say is true for single vehicles or small numbers of vehicles. The problem with a centralized server serving out information for one vehicle is scalability. Having a million cars connect to the servers to get the latest traffic data from their vicinity dynamically while they move around would be prohibitive for large scale deployment. A few military vehicles could run like this, but not everyone's car.
I had an idea about the navigation within cities when I was in high school. I figure that letting the stop signs themselves broadcast a signal with some basic information about themselves would allow computers within cars to navigate based on those signals. For example, speed limit signs could tell you the speed to go at, stop signs could tell you their lat/long coordinates and you could calculate how to stop. Other cars could also give you their positions and you could navigate around accidents and stalled cars that way. It would be more of a peer to peer type of thing than a central server type of thing. I never sat down to calculate the bandwidth required to get all that information and process it reliably but it would certainly be easier than controlling everything from a single server by feeding possibly innacurate information. This way, if a stop sign is replaced with a yield sign, the change is seamless to the driver.
I agree. Moreover, I love the bookmarks in firefox. Maybe MORK is bad and needs to be changed, whatever. The bookmarks are brilliant. If you bookmark your html bookmark file, you can use find as you type to find stuff within it. It's AWESOME. If they ever take that away, I'm not upgrading.
Good God! If Sun creates millions of copies of Steve Jobs all capable of reality distortion, perhaps they will finally convince people that a Java based GUI IS fast. AAAAAAA!!!
This question is the doorway to an interesting and long lasting paradigm debate. Quality or Quantity, which is better?
In Microsoft and Apple's example, Microsoft is doing better. So Quantity wins here.
In GM and Toyota's example, obviously Toyota is doing better. So Quality wins.
In the case of cell phones, there isn't even a clear competitor that offers Quality over Quantity. Or is there? Look at Samsung phones. Their models just barely started getting bluetooth. And they are rudimentary, with a simple OS, and simple controls. They work very clearly and reliably. The service they use is another story. But their phones are great. After being disillusioned completely with Motorola and Nokia, I find that Samsung is often overlooked by people who complain about the same things you are complaining about.
reason is because if they put another name on it they'd be infringing on copyright. The only way to copy something is to do it illegally I guess.
i don't get it. splain:
1.) totally agree
2.) this is McAfee... why are people even bothering with them really? They fucked up an update and deleted data off of 20,000 computers just earlier this year. That to me is a fatal, no second chance type of mistake. This company needs to die quickly.
well, the draw for me is that it is free. The 10% difference is the difference between the _paid for only_ version of WinZip. The "ultra" compression of 7z is really great for source code files. Besides that, I like the ease of use from command line. I never figured out how to make batch jobs with winzip but 7z comes very naturally to me. It's not for everyone, but the fact that it is free instead of nagware is great. Try it if you're curious, I think it's better, you might too. What you are advocating is stagnation and never trying anything new.
that's really funny, like most of your comments. I don't know if you're serious, but if you are, try http://7-zip.org/
I only need winrar once in a blue moon, but winzip has not been on my mind since about a year ago when I installed 7z. The ultra mode rules for compressing lots of source code files.
they said it was "almost as good as a AA battery"
eghads Brain... imagine a beowulf cluster of these things. You could use it to decode the very rf signal that powers them thus creating a sustainable way to spy on everyone and thus please both the liberals and the conservatives at the same time... and then TAKE OVER THE WORLD.
Why would anyone take McAfee seriously? They royally screwed up a recent update and deleted many important files. At least Open Source rootkits give people a chance to fight the problem.
Dan
That's a very interesting point you make, and I'd like to rant on a couple of tangents:
1.) Very interesting that you mention obesity. I just ran through my mind the ways that obesity influence our society's use of energy
- eat more food which creates demand for more water to feed crop and animals and gas for shipping that food and restaurants and stores that distribute it.
- weigh more which causes tons of problems (no pun intended) - cars use more power to transport obese people, elevators use more power to lift them, buses and subways, etc.
- create more waste like trash that needs to be disposed in plastic bags that use petroleum and by trucks that consume fuel, more human waste that needs to be handled by and water purifiers or just dumped into our ecosystem.
These may not seem like a lot, but in Michigan, the state I come from obesity is over 50% and all those little tiny differences added up mean a lot.
2.) What makes you think that it's unfair? I mean, we are using an immensely disproportionate amount of energy and it's all so that we can get wealthier and have more comforts. I'm not sure that human polution makes any difference in the world's climate. But if it does, Kyoto is certainly not unfair. It proportionately assigns blame. I think disproportionate fault warrants disproportionate blame, like the U.S. should be even MORE accountable. In the end though, countries around the world that are much worse off than us are thinking about how to help the environment. Whether or not it will help appease the gods of climate change, we should do whatever is in our power just because it's the right thing to do. Since we have disproportionate wealth and power, we should do more than the other countries, not less.
About your unrelated question: me!
I've been doing web work for 6 years now. JSP, ASP.net, mostly SQLServer 2000, I can use MySQL. I run my entire network at home on Ubuntu (samba, ftp, nfs, apache servers and a pc to play media).
I subscribe to strict CSS style rules and I can easily use Flash, Photoshop. Basically I can make awesome sites. Problem is, I've always been working for square heads who can't design to save their lives and I've never had a chance to really make a whole site the way I want it. If you're interested in me, let me know.
Otherwise, check out justwebjobs.com or dice.com or even get an ASP.NET Web Commerce starter kit and do it yourself, it's actually pretty easy. I recomend Authorize.net if you have to deal with credit card authorizers
Dan
I disagree, sex can be pretty embarassing if you're not pro and have like uber micro. Like, the best game for this situation is definitely soul calibur, very intuitive to pick up and girls find it easy to play siegfried.
So I don't know anything, lets start with that. I'd like to know how people manage their postgresql installations. I mean, I use SQL Server 2000. When I want a table I go in, type in a few things, check some boxes, make some relationships, cascade if I want, rearrange the orders of columns (a nice feature if you work with RAILS) and then drag and drop that into my Visual Studio designer to get some typed datasets that automatically have indexes and constraints and can be used from code as if I was working against the database itself. What's there in the postgresql world that'll let me do that? I know with MySQL I can do most of that (except for rearrange the order of columns which I haven't figured out - not that I spent time trying to do it).
Thanks for the help
I agree, you're doing well with your english, but here's how I'd say it:
According to Swedish law, this is perfectly legal. A few years ago, someone was sued for posting links to mp3s on his web page. The Swedish court decided that it was nothing wrong with that. He didn't distribute the mp3s, he was only showing where they were. The Pirate Bay is doing the same thing now. I hope my English is better than the Swedish character in The Muppets.
but really, great English.
you're saying that you had a hard time installing windows so you went with... gentoo? Buddy, I've installed gentoo, and I've installed windows. I think it'd be easier to install windows if you had to do it while balancing two buckets of water and walking up a hill kung-fu style. I LIKE gentto better, but to say it's easier to install...
fuck me, you're right. Well, back to the books, bunch of fucking liars we have for historians. Thanks dude, I find that less and less information has any validity.
Actually, you can read all you want. It's what you make of what you read that counts. From my limited understanding of it, Europe was overcrowded and the Popes needed a way out of this mess. They sent a huge number of people to battle to do the will of God and take back the holy land. There were armies of children sent into battle. This went on for a really long time and devastated the population of the European countries that were involved and at the same time devastated the flourishing Arabic civilization. Nobody "won" the crusades. The church will forever have that and other blood on their hands. The Europeans lost many men but then again that enabled them to make sense of their dark lives and eventually flourish themselves as a civilization - by picking up where the Greeks, Indians, and Arabs left off. The Arabs however seem to have been forever scarred. In case you haven't noticed, there are still problems in the Middle East, and they have to do with the "holy land". That shit was all started almost a thousand years ago by some really fucked up Popes. I hate the Middle East now, I hate what it's become, I hate the ruins of their beautiful culture, just like I hate the ruins of the Native American, African cultures. But those ruins are a mirror of Europe's greed, hatred, fear, and arrogance and to deny that is not very honest.
I'm sorry for my comments about Microsoft before, they were childish in this context. On the whole, they've done great things using means easily available to everyone else. Microsoft and Bill Gates are imperialists, but not the evil kind. The geniuses that didn't survive them are not fit to compete and those that did (Apple, Linux, Google) are the better for it unlike what I explained above.
heh, so hostile. Didn't mean that they kill people. That would be a silly thing to say. But they kill competition. THAT is the real point of imperialism. You don't compete fairly, you kill your competition. Just because going around sticking flags in countries in the name of your king and then killing all the inhabitants or subduing them by force is no longer acceptable doesn't mean imperialism has dissapeared from the motivations of men of great position. But I beat a dead horse, Microsoft has reformed, much like Rome didn't kill its conquered subjects. And much like Rome, they're on their way down.
That they finished inventing everything and were happy with what they had? I mean, did you see that list?
no, it's really what the other dude says - their civilisation was destroyed by the all-mighty sword and war machine. Europeans just go around assimilating and killing throughout history - Microsoft is the pinnacle of this.
see, I understand that argument but it's flawed because it assumes the only enjoyable thing about the game is acquiring gold. That's like racing games where the cars are locked until you race to get them. I hate that. I wouldn't pay someone to do it for me, but it'd be nice if they were there in the first place. It's the same with Warcraft, you may not want to spend the time to get to level 60, you may just want to run around all powerful.