A medium sized company with just a few hundred computers can churn out a few hundred GB a day with normal traffic. Add a virus into the mix and those numbers soar exponentially (and would still have to be recorded). I don't think the telcos would be the ones doing the analyzing though. It looks like they would just hand over the raw data and let the police sort it out. If the police make the mistake of being too vague they could get some revenge by giving them terabytes of irrelevant logs to sort through. Maybe that would get the police to petition for more reasonable data captures (not likely though).
Why even mention a Maxim article? What do they know about science? I care about what space.com has to say. From TFA: "In 15 years we could have a dozen cables running full steam putting 50 tons in space every day for even less, including upper middle class individuals wanting a joyride into space.
I have to agree. I used to have comcast and it was horrible. Every time it rained more than a drizzle the calbe would go out. It took 3 phone calls to get a technician to come out and then the soonest they could arrange was 6 days away. Then when I moved they tried to charge me for the rented modem. It took 8 months before they admitted I had returned it when I cancled my service.
Now I'm not saying Adelphia is great either. When I bought my house the rep on the phone told me nobody had ever had service there before so they had to survey the site. Two weeks later they finally did the survey, but never told me about it. When I called them back they said it was impossible to provide me with service!! I drove out to the house, talked to the sellers and saw there line running into the house.
After calling Adelphia back I was told I was wrong, and to hold on hold while the woman put the phone down without putting me on hold and blasted "baby got back". Thinking it would cover her annoying voice she procedded to talk shit about me to one of her coworkers. She then got back on the line and told me she couldn't help me and I would have to go into the local office for assistance. When I asked her name and to speak to a manager she hung up on me.
I have to say that when I went into the local office they were very helpful (and she was cute, I don't know what the guy who called them senior citizens was smoking) and had someone out to me the day the movers showed up with my TV as I had requested. The two techs however were two dumb 18 year olds I could have run cable around with my eyes closed. When I refused to give a password to one of them and typed it in myself he responded with "I could find it out if I wanted to!" He took an hour to hook my modem up then left without hooking up all the TV's I had requested.
The only cable company I never had problems with was Knology. Great service and speed, one outage in a year. They were high a little high priced though.
Cite>I've known a few suicide girls. Dated a couple. Lived with another two. All of them were fugly to average. One was above average. None were as hot as the photos make them out to be. If they were so awful why did you date them? Oh they were the only ones who would date you since you live in your moms basement, I see. At least we know why your angry with them. None of them would touch you.
IIRC in your second example each of the 10 batteries would drain at an equal rate. I could be wrong on that. I'm sure someone could come up with a way to only use one battery at a time as well with near instintanious switching from one cell to the next even at highway speeds. The rapid automatic switching between each of the 10 cells would be very important. Even with widespread use though I would hate to pull into a service station in some hole in the water town to get my batteries changed.
I think the self monitoring batteries would have to be perfected and shown to be tamper proof before most would be comftorable. It does seem to be more effeciant than recharging. I still see it taking along time to become commonplace. How would you feel if you pulled into a gas station and they tried to pull your old gastank out of your car and put a full one in from who knows where? Thats how the early adopters of this would feel.
It sounds great, but who is really in charge of checking the batteries before they get recharged? The attendant could be some kid who I wouldn't trust to check my oil or pump my gas. Now you want me to trust him with my battery which could leak and damage my car? I would rather him pump the gas, worst he could do with that is spill some on the paint (I wouldn't let him ear the car if he had a lit cigarette so don't go there). With the managers I've seen at alot of stations the last few years I would rather trust the stoned kid to check it. It isn't a bad concept, but the human factor truely kills it, as it does most good ideas these days.
By the way where do you live that still has today's "full service attendant"? I haven't seen full service in years.
I can't belive no one has pointed this out yet. He uses this to ensure that the students are using the terminology from the class in reasonable sentence format. It allows them to write a draft, get an automatic scoring within minutes and then start the next draft. Without this a typical student has to wait for the next class to turn the paper in and another couple of days to get the reviewed paper back. This lets them do many revisions without the long waiting for the professor. He still reads the final version to see if it is an uter piece of crap or not. He is just cutting out the TA going through all the early drafts.
Actually according to their FAQ it is 4 years till they have a FAA certified model. That is a concern for those of us here in the USA. And the ones they build before that are listed as being marketing demonstrators, special sales, and military applications. Then don't forget price:In limited production (500 units per year) the M400 Skycar will sell for a price comparable to that of a four-passenger high performance helicopter or airplane, approximately $500,000. As the volume of production increases substantially, its price can approach that of a quality automobile ($60,000-$80,000).
That $60K-80K pricetag will still be 10+ years off. Again (at least in the USA) you still have to wonder how will the FAA regulate them? Currently: This means that, yes, you will require a "powered-lift normal" category pilot's license to operate a Skycar. Can I drive from home to work or do I have to go from airport to airport? The closest to my house and work are both about 15 miles. At its ground speed of 30-35 thats a bit of a drive. When will my job get with the 21st century and put in an aircar landing zone? What about insurance?
As so many others have pointed out you also have bad/drunk pilots and malfunctions to worry about. If I remember the PopSci article on this model it doesn't glide well at all so emergency landings are tricky. Lets check the FAQ again: the system can be maneuvered to a suitable site to deploy the parachutes. Parachutes?? I've always wanted to try parachuting, but skydiving was more what I had in mind thank you.
Don't get me wrong I appreciate what this company is doing for us and look forward to the day when I get out of the I95 jam on the way into DC. But if you think two years is even close to any reasonable market penetartion please pass whatever your smoking.
It's not a problem so much of showing them at the start (they have been doing that in the US for years too) of the show, its that they started doing it after the showtime. ie the showtime for your movie is 9PM and at 8:58 you can see the screen flicker as it changes from the low quality "theater" commercials to the high quality clips that appear to come with the movie and last until 9:10. If you show up on time you are forced to sit through 10 minutes of additional commercials when the movie should be on. And they change the length often enough that coming in 10 minutes after the showtime you risk missing the first 2 minutes of the movie. Add that to the already outrageous price and I rarely go to the theater anymore.
so it would be reasonable to guess it has the same performance as a toll road transponder. Those things can be read from the side of the road while you drive by at 70mph.
1. Yes it would be reasonable to say it that RFIDbasedtags have the same performance as RFID.
2. What does speed have to do with how close you have to be to read something? Yes it works at 70 the same as it would at 35. You still have to be on the side of the interstate being suspicious to be within the average range of 30 feet. For that matter why not go to a parked car? Because all you will get is the same info that you can eyeball from the side of the road. When they start adding your drivers license info to the tag then you have a need for the tin foil hat.
I just loved how after you found out the truth about your fuel you could keep on flying around using up as much as you wanted. No one ever said anything about it either. Not that there was much of a point to still flying around though.
A well orginized and controlled fleet of fighters can easily take out corvettes and frigates. In some of the resource tight levels this can be a godsend! But the salvage corvetts are my favorite. No resources to build a ship? Steal one! In some of the later missions I frequently played with 25%+ stolen ships.
My college used to insist on a soft copy of all essays. They claimed to have an automated software that searched the web for evidence plagarism. I never tested to see if they were full of shit though.
while the ozone layer is almost -all-destroyed, while our plants are dying and the sun is frying our bones to hell
If your so concerned about the environment I would think you would want to see these robots go to Mars. Then we can learn how the Martians fried their bones to hell and how not to do it to ours. Unless your really for killing the plants and are part of a conspiracy to destroy earth!
or that no alternative identifier would suffice to complete the transaction
Most companies will simply say that their computer systems are not designed to accept anything else, they will look into upgrading the system in the not so near future and their is nothing they can do about it for now. Short of a long exspensive lawsuit your only other alternative is to go with another company...that will also require your SSN.
Exactly! She told numerous people repeatedly that she would never want to live like that. Neither my wife or myself have living wills, but all of our family members know we wouldn't want to live like that. Let some politician try to tell me I can't fullfil her wishes! Her family and the politicians only care about what is best for themeselves.
It will be really cool if the bank provides Knoppix CDs for download from their web site.
Complete with full source code and build instructions.
This isn't aimed at people who understand source code. This is for people who can't even spell ISO. For this to work right everything has to be streamlined and dumbed down.
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A medium sized company with just a few hundred computers can churn out a few hundred GB a day with normal traffic. Add a virus into the mix and those numbers soar exponentially (and would still have to be recorded). I don't think the telcos would be the ones doing the analyzing though. It looks like they would just hand over the raw data and let the police sort it out. If the police make the mistake of being too vague they could get some revenge by giving them terabytes of irrelevant logs to sort through. Maybe that would get the police to petition for more reasonable data captures (not likely though).
Why even mention a Maxim article? What do they know about science? I care about what space.com has to say. From TFA: "In 15 years we could have a dozen cables running full steam putting 50 tons in space every day for even less, including upper middle class individuals wanting a joyride into space.
I have to agree. I used to have comcast and it was horrible. Every time it rained more than a drizzle the calbe would go out. It took 3 phone calls to get a technician to come out and then the soonest they could arrange was 6 days away. Then when I moved they tried to charge me for the rented modem. It took 8 months before they admitted I had returned it when I cancled my service.
Now I'm not saying Adelphia is great either. When I bought my house the rep on the phone told me nobody had ever had service there before so they had to survey the site. Two weeks later they finally did the survey, but never told me about it. When I called them back they said it was impossible to provide me with service!! I drove out to the house, talked to the sellers and saw there line running into the house.
After calling Adelphia back I was told I was wrong, and to hold on hold while the woman put the phone down without putting me on hold and blasted "baby got back". Thinking it would cover her annoying voice she procedded to talk shit about me to one of her coworkers. She then got back on the line and told me she couldn't help me and I would have to go into the local office for assistance. When I asked her name and to speak to a manager she hung up on me.
I have to say that when I went into the local office they were very helpful (and she was cute, I don't know what the guy who called them senior citizens was smoking) and had someone out to me the day the movers showed up with my TV as I had requested. The two techs however were two dumb 18 year olds I could have run cable around with my eyes closed. When I refused to give a password to one of them and typed it in myself he responded with "I could find it out if I wanted to!" He took an hour to hook my modem up then left without hooking up all the TV's I had requested.
The only cable company I never had problems with was Knology. Great service and speed, one outage in a year. They were high a little high priced though.
Cite>I've known a few suicide girls. Dated a couple. Lived with another two. All of them were fugly to average. One was above average. None were as hot as the photos make them out to be.
If they were so awful why did you date them? Oh they were the only ones who would date you since you live in your moms basement, I see. At least we know why your angry with them. None of them would touch you.
IIRC in your second example each of the 10 batteries would drain at an equal rate. I could be wrong on that. I'm sure someone could come up with a way to only use one battery at a time as well with near instintanious switching from one cell to the next even at highway speeds. The rapid automatic switching between each of the 10 cells would be very important. Even with widespread use though I would hate to pull into a service station in some hole in the water town to get my batteries changed.
I think the self monitoring batteries would have to be perfected and shown to be tamper proof before most would be comftorable. It does seem to be more effeciant than recharging. I still see it taking along time to become commonplace. How would you feel if you pulled into a gas station and they tried to pull your old gastank out of your car and put a full one in from who knows where? Thats how the early adopters of this would feel.
3. You don't used your 5 different electronic toys all the time
4. You don't keep your flashlight on all the time
You don't have small kids do you? If you did you wouldn't have made that comment. They are the masters of the run down cycle.
It sounds great, but who is really in charge of checking the batteries before they get recharged? The attendant could be some kid who I wouldn't trust to check my oil or pump my gas. Now you want me to trust him with my battery which could leak and damage my car? I would rather him pump the gas, worst he could do with that is spill some on the paint (I wouldn't let him ear the car if he had a lit cigarette so don't go there). With the managers I've seen at alot of stations the last few years I would rather trust the stoned kid to check it. It isn't a bad concept, but the human factor truely kills it, as it does most good ideas these days.
By the way where do you live that still has today's "full service attendant"? I haven't seen full service in years.
I can't belive no one has pointed this out yet. He uses this to ensure that the students are using the terminology from the class in reasonable sentence format. It allows them to write a draft, get an automatic scoring within minutes and then start the next draft. Without this a typical student has to wait for the next class to turn the paper in and another couple of days to get the reviewed paper back. This lets them do many revisions without the long waiting for the professor. He still reads the final version to see if it is an uter piece of crap or not. He is just cutting out the TA going through all the early drafts.
Actually according to their FAQ it is 4 years till they have a FAA certified model. That is a concern for those of us here in the USA. And the ones they build before that are listed as being marketing demonstrators, special sales, and military applications. Then don't forget price:In limited production (500 units per year) the M400 Skycar will sell for a price comparable to that of a four-passenger high performance helicopter or airplane, approximately $500,000. As the volume of production increases substantially, its price can approach that of a quality automobile ($60,000-$80,000).
That $60K-80K pricetag will still be 10+ years off. Again (at least in the USA) you still have to wonder how will the FAA regulate them? Currently: This means that, yes, you will require a "powered-lift normal" category pilot's license to operate a Skycar. Can I drive from home to work or do I have to go from airport to airport? The closest to my house and work are both about 15 miles. At its ground speed of 30-35 thats a bit of a drive. When will my job get with the 21st century and put in an aircar landing zone? What about insurance?
As so many others have pointed out you also have bad/drunk pilots and malfunctions to worry about. If I remember the PopSci article on this model it doesn't glide well at all so emergency landings are tricky. Lets check the FAQ again: the system can be maneuvered to a suitable site to deploy the parachutes. Parachutes?? I've always wanted to try parachuting, but skydiving was more what I had in mind thank you.
Don't get me wrong I appreciate what this company is doing for us and look forward to the day when I get out of the I95 jam on the way into DC. But if you think two years is even close to any reasonable market penetartion please pass whatever your smoking.
For protecting the lenses they could use tear-away windshield film.
It's not a problem so much of showing them at the start (they have been doing that in the US for years too) of the show, its that they started doing it after the showtime. ie the showtime for your movie is 9PM and at 8:58 you can see the screen flicker as it changes from the low quality "theater" commercials to the high quality clips that appear to come with the movie and last until 9:10. If you show up on time you are forced to sit through 10 minutes of additional commercials when the movie should be on. And they change the length often enough that coming in 10 minutes after the showtime you risk missing the first 2 minutes of the movie. Add that to the already outrageous price and I rarely go to the theater anymore.
so it would be reasonable to guess it has the same performance as a toll road transponder. Those things can be read from the side of the road while you drive by at 70mph.
1. Yes it would be reasonable to say it that RFID based tags have the same performance as RFID.
2. What does speed have to do with how close you have to be to read something? Yes it works at 70 the same as it would at 35. You still have to be on the side of the interstate being suspicious to be within the average range of 30 feet. For that matter why not go to a parked car? Because all you will get is the same info that you can eyeball from the side of the road. When they start adding your drivers license info to the tag then you have a need for the tin foil hat.
...we could get AC to post such quality in their comments...
Don't worry. Next year you will only have to put up with dupes of all of this years jokes.
The next Sims 2 expansion: Sims in space! Or what about SimStation?
I just loved how after you found out the truth about your fuel you could keep on flying around using up as much as you wanted. No one ever said anything about it either. Not that there was much of a point to still flying around though.
A well orginized and controlled fleet of fighters can easily take out corvettes and frigates. In some of the resource tight levels this can be a godsend! But the salvage corvetts are my favorite. No resources to build a ship? Steal one! In some of the later missions I frequently played with 25%+ stolen ships.
If you want a 1-4 player version try this Champions of Norrath: Realms of EverQuest. My sister swears by it, though I have only played the real version.
No no they are saying that anyone who knows what https is must be a geek. I personally am insulted as should all true geeks out there!
My college used to insist on a soft copy of all essays. They claimed to have an automated software that searched the web for evidence plagarism. I never tested to see if they were full of shit though.
Ebay:
Buy the famous "Dragon Sabre"! The sword so powerful people have actually killed in RL over it! Starting bid $1500.
while the ozone layer is almost -all-destroyed, while our plants are dying and the sun is frying our bones to hell
If your so concerned about the environment I would think you would want to see these robots go to Mars. Then we can learn how the Martians fried their bones to hell and how not to do it to ours. Unless your really for killing the plants and are part of a conspiracy to destroy earth!
or that no alternative identifier would suffice to complete the transaction
Most companies will simply say that their computer systems are not designed to accept anything else, they will look into upgrading the system in the not so near future and their is nothing they can do about it for now. Short of a long exspensive lawsuit your only other alternative is to go with another company...that will also require your SSN.
Exactly! She told numerous people repeatedly that she would never want to live like that. Neither my wife or myself have living wills, but all of our family members know we wouldn't want to live like that. Let some politician try to tell me I can't fullfil her wishes! Her family and the politicians only care about what is best for themeselves.
It will be really cool if the bank provides Knoppix CDs for download from their web site. Complete with full source code and build instructions.
This isn't aimed at people who understand source code. This is for people who can't even spell ISO. For this to work right everything has to be streamlined and dumbed down.