OK -- I know very little about cars and engines. Software's more my area. But if you had a law like this on the books requiring cars to use a standardized interface, couldn't you just create emulators for whatever parts, or even use new parts for some? If there's a standard interface for a particular sensor, then you could use any modern sensor with the same hardware interface. Or create adapters if it's not standard but at least open. I get that some things -- like the ECU -- need to be specific to the car/engine, but if the communication is standardized why couldn't someone make a "classic car ECU emulator" that you program for the specific characteristics you want? Sure, it wouldn't be an exact match, but it would work, wouldn't it?
Trains are among the most energy efficient mass transit vehicles. Followed by cars/buses, and then airlines.
Trying to build a solar powered airline right now would be like trying to build a 3GHz quad core laptop in 1970. Start with a solar train or bus. Train would probably be best, since it's my understanding that even many 'diesel' trains are really electric -- they just used the diesel to run a generator.
Good luck getting them to print it...about two years ago I was trying to have shirts printed for a university club and I couldn't find a printer that would let us include the name of the university due to copyright fears. If they can find your image on Google, they're not gonna print it.
Either you are buying astoundingly poor routers or something else is changing. This isn't something that just happens -- especially after only two years! My parents still use a nearly 10 year old belkin router that still covers the entire house and yard. The router in my old apartment was four years old and never had an issue. My current router is about two years old and still blankets the entire apartment building.
I've never in my life heard of a router breaking or degrading from normal use. Maybe you get one with defects here and there, as with anything, but they're not that complex. There's absolutely no reason a router shouldn't work just as well in a decade as the day it was purchased.
At $150,000? No way. My salary is $60,000, and I pay a bit under $20,000 per year in taxes. Federal income tax is 25%; then add state and other taxes on top of that. At $150,000 you'll get taxed at an even higher rate. If your signing bonus is half your salary, it will cover taxes for...maybe 20 months?
They couldn't let us just roam free during assemblies -- how would they have snuck in the dogs to sniff our lockers for drugs? Not that they ever found any, but they kept trying at least once a year...
Although a man did get killed right outside our highschool while I was a student. He kept trying to enter the building, and the woman at the office thought he seemed suspicious so they called the police, who decided it was a good reason to bring out all their new "anti-terrorism" toys. They determined he appeared to be armed and opened fire, in front of the school and in sight of some students. Turned out he wasn't armed at all -- he was just a somewhat unstable but harmless homeless man (one of two or three in town) who had come to ask for a job...
God no. Once you're inside the building you can't get outside without first speaking to the attendance officer, being signed out, then taking that to the office. They lock the doors during the day and the only way out is literally through the main office.
Not that it matters -- you get 20 minutes for lunch. If you had a car you'd *maybe* have time for the mcdonalds drive through if you ate on the drive back. And you have four minutes between classes. And no such thing as free periods -- even if it's the first or last class of the day, if you have nothing scheduled they assign you to a room where you sit in complete silence for 40 minutes.
Seriously, I used pre-iPod MP3 players, I used pre-iPhone smart phones and i used pre-iOS tablets.
They REALLY sucked. The OSes were difficult to use, the interfaces were unfriendly and for the price you paid, it was a goddamned joke.
Can't say a think about the phones and tablets, as I never used them...but cleary you never used the RCA Lyra hard drive players. Pretty sure those were from around 2000, and I would STILL prefer an old one of those to an iPod Classic. Excellent devices. Had a very similar interface to the iPod (sort by album, artist, etc) except they had a better screen, they had a custom equilizer (I STILL don't think iPods have that, do they?), they had FM radio, you could record audio, and you didn't have to use any proprietary software to transfer music. You COULD, but you could also drop songs on it as a mass storage device and then create the actual music database from the device itself!
Also, the even older Kodak MC3 was pretty nice. Used Compact Flash cards, which wouldn't beat a hard drive but I'm pretty sure that was before _any_ hard drive players. Had a pretty solid MP3 player, a decent digital camera for the time, could shoot video too...how long was it until Apple added a camera to their players?
Oh, and you can't forget the CD MP3 players. Those were great. Back before anyone was using hard drives, when a large and expensive compact flash card was 64MB...you could toss 700MB of MP3s on your $0.10 CD and swap those out as needed. And yes, the cheap $30 ones had terrible interfaces, but some of the higher end RCA ones were absolutely brilliant. And they could create a database of your MP3s on the fly and sort by album/artist/genre or whatever.
Actually, I used to ride the train quite often (Amtrak) and usually there was no security of any kind. Half the time nobody even checked my ticket. Train pulls up to the platform and you get on. That's it.
I do. I'm 22, and I've been smoking since I was around 16. Of course, at my worst I was up to about three cigarettes a day, and that lasted less than a year; right now I'm at around four per week. Generally smoke half or a whole cigarette every day before work and that's it. Or maybe skip it in the morning and have it later at night. It's great if I need a boost late at night (caffeine effects be pretty heavily; a cup of green tea at noon and I'll have trouble sleeping; but I have have a smoke an hour before bed and be fine)...but mostly I just enjoy the feeling and taste of it.
Of course, sometimes it's also a nostalgia thing, and I think that's a big part of it. My dad smoked when I was younger, his parents smoked....brings me back to sitting on my grandpa's deck with them before the football game when I was little. But shit, that's half the reason why anyone does anything, right?
Would probably cost more in money and energy to build, launch, and operate a vehicle to find, collect, and recycle all this debris than it would be worth. I believe we're talking about stuff the size of nuts and bolts moving at kilometers per _second_ in a sparse cloud surrounding the planet.
Similar to what I do, although really what I do is just not buy anything that doesn't match. Easy enough.all my shirts are black white grey or light blue. All my pants are khaki or black. Generally I only wear the black pants with a white shirt but really I could pick ant shirt with any pants and be alright. Why do people find this so taxing?
If it's a purchase where I'm bothering to read the reviews, I'm definitely going to be comparing prices. And if I'm already going to all those sites to check prices why wouldn't i check the reviews on each too? And while doing that i expect and even rely on those reviews being from different people, because the sites have different markets. If i see a few reviews on amazon claiming two products are incompatible, then see some on newegg indicating they aren't, I'm a lot more likely to ignore the reviews claiming incompatibility than if it's the other way around. I always assume amazon reviews say more about casual use while newegg reviews will give better technical information. Not that I'll ignore a clearly technical review on amazon or vice versa, but I certainly expect a different class of reviews from different sites.
Point being, I see preventing reviews from being posted to multiple sites as another benefit, not a flaw.
Because that isn't even remotely secure. Google 'sslstrip' -- it's not just theoretically possible to defeat such a system, it's been done and is actually quite trivial
Klout does quite a bit of spamming on their own...
I was getting constant requests to add their Facebook app before I finally banned it...which is annoying, but not necessarily their doing I know. But the thing is, _even when you clicked no_, it still redirected you to their website! Only app I've ever seen do that. That alone was enough to convince me that the company is full of jerks and I want nothing to do with it. Of course, the whole concept didn't help them there....everything I've seen about the project (which is far more than I'd like to know...) leads me to believe it's created and run by a bunch of self-centered egotistical assholes.
I'm the exact opposite. I'm FAR more likely to walk away from an argument IRL than I would online. But of course for different reasons.
In real life, I occasionally get into arguments (with friends of course; I try to avoid these kinds of topics otherwise) where the other person will say something that I perceive as SO absurd and so infuriating that I'm completely unable to come up with a response. The kind of thing that really deserves several books to explain to this person how horrible their concept really is. But IRL -- I get angry, I can't think clearly, I have no references (and I'm not the kind of person who can casually throw out facts I'm uncertain of)...so I usually end up just walking away for a bit (generally these discussions are never 1-on-1 so somebody else picks it up.)
Online? I can take my time. I can gather my thoughts, look up the facts I'm uncertain about, run some calculations and gather some links backing up my argument. Which I almost always do.
Yet another study point out what we all already know. Christ, hasn't this effect been demonstrated enough? These researchers really need to stop wasting everybody's fucking time and focus on more important and less redundant research! Idiots...
This is great for the college student that has $1.50 for his budget and all their editing time on a macbook is free. They are trading the proper gear for extensive free labor.
Exactly; that, or any organization that has such free labor. I can't tell you how many times I've gone to conferences where they attempted to record sessions by having two or three people run around and set up a fixed camera/microphone in each of 6-10 sessions during the break between. Hell I've been one of the guys doing it a couple times. In such a situation, getting a couple people to volunteer a few hours over the next several months (usually it takes a couple months to get the videos up anyway...) to get quality audio off of devices like these wouldn't be much of a problem; getting a few hundred bucks to buy a few of these devices to use each year would be feasible; buying a dozen boom mics and hiring a dozen audio techs for a few days each year wouldn't be.
So yea, as I said, it's certainly not going to replace professional equipment for professional production, but that doesn't seem to be the point. And it's incredibly interesting given how difficult such a thing would have been, say, ten years ago.
and isolating people at a dinner party is not hard, 11 people? 11 wireless microphones into a field mixer and then into the camera. OR do it old Skool. Camera guy + audio guy with a boom and a shotgun microphone on it, Two would be better (two audio guys on mic booms) A pair of ME55's in a dead cat are magical.
...I think you just proved the utility in this. First, a hundreds or even thousands of dollars of professional equipment and techs vs. a couple $25 devices. Not to mention needing to clear a couple feet around the table for the people carrying your boom mics plus all the wires to your equipment and all of that set up somewhere...
Sure, in most cases your professionals are still going to be using their professional quality equipment, because the techs and equipment are already paid for and probably cheaper than the editors anyway, and the space constraints aren't there in a studio. But there are CERTAINLY plenty of situations where repurposing a handfull of cheap MP3 players will come out ahead.
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On the other hand...why are we focusing on characteristics that are really secondary to the problem we are trying to solve?
There are really two parts to this kind of issue. There's the cultural problems, and there's the monetary problems.
The monetary problems are where you need affirmative action type programs. Breaking the cycle of poverty. If your parents can't get a good job, you'll grow up in a bad neighborhood, go to a bad school, be less likely to be able to attend college, so then YOU'LL end up with a bad job, and your kids will grow up in a bad neighborhood....etc. But that's not a skin color or gender problem, that's a poverty problem. So while 'give them some money' seems like it may be the best solution ('money' in the forms of scholarships and such; running down the street handing out hundred dollar bills is unlikely to be as effective...) it should be based on income, not skin color or gender.
The other side is the cultural problem. Women getting paid less; people of color being less likely to be hired; etc. But throwing money at the people who are at a disadvantage won't necessarily help here. If you increase the number of women with physics degrees...those women are still getting paid less when they enter the workforce. To solve this you need stricter enforcement of anti-discrimination laws coupled with a better primary/secondary school experience and reduced social stigma against entering these careers. Which, yes, can sometimes be helped by scholarships and awards and such, but the way those help with this issue is probably more through the _advertisement_ of the awards than the money.
Of course, as an upper middle class straight white male, I may not be the best person to make this analysis...
Think about how excited all the hipsters will be when they discover the new Maps application has either never heard of, or cannot find, their favorite stores/bars/locations!
"I'm heading out to this new oxygen bar. You've probably never heard of it. Even my iPhone hasn't."
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"The duty of a true patriot is to protect his country from its government." ...which is exactly what is being done.
- Thomas Paine
OK -- I know very little about cars and engines. Software's more my area. But if you had a law like this on the books requiring cars to use a standardized interface, couldn't you just create emulators for whatever parts, or even use new parts for some? If there's a standard interface for a particular sensor, then you could use any modern sensor with the same hardware interface. Or create adapters if it's not standard but at least open. I get that some things -- like the ECU -- need to be specific to the car/engine, but if the communication is standardized why couldn't someone make a "classic car ECU emulator" that you program for the specific characteristics you want? Sure, it wouldn't be an exact match, but it would work, wouldn't it?
Trains are among the most energy efficient mass transit vehicles. Followed by cars/buses, and then airlines.
Trying to build a solar powered airline right now would be like trying to build a 3GHz quad core laptop in 1970. Start with a solar train or bus. Train would probably be best, since it's my understanding that even many 'diesel' trains are really electric -- they just used the diesel to run a generator.
Good luck getting them to print it...about two years ago I was trying to have shirts printed for a university club and I couldn't find a printer that would let us include the name of the university due to copyright fears. If they can find your image on Google, they're not gonna print it.
Either you are buying astoundingly poor routers or something else is changing. This isn't something that just happens -- especially after only two years! My parents still use a nearly 10 year old belkin router that still covers the entire house and yard. The router in my old apartment was four years old and never had an issue. My current router is about two years old and still blankets the entire apartment building.
I've never in my life heard of a router breaking or degrading from normal use. Maybe you get one with defects here and there, as with anything, but they're not that complex. There's absolutely no reason a router shouldn't work just as well in a decade as the day it was purchased.
At $150,000? No way. My salary is $60,000, and I pay a bit under $20,000 per year in taxes. Federal income tax is 25%; then add state and other taxes on top of that. At $150,000 you'll get taxed at an even higher rate. If your signing bonus is half your salary, it will cover taxes for...maybe 20 months?
They couldn't let us just roam free during assemblies -- how would they have snuck in the dogs to sniff our lockers for drugs? Not that they ever found any, but they kept trying at least once a year...
Although a man did get killed right outside our highschool while I was a student. He kept trying to enter the building, and the woman at the office thought he seemed suspicious so they called the police, who decided it was a good reason to bring out all their new "anti-terrorism" toys. They determined he appeared to be armed and opened fire, in front of the school and in sight of some students. Turned out he wasn't armed at all -- he was just a somewhat unstable but harmless homeless man (one of two or three in town) who had come to ask for a job...
This was in Pennsylvania by the way -- I hear things may be a bit different on the west coast
God no. Once you're inside the building you can't get outside without first speaking to the attendance officer, being signed out, then taking that to the office. They lock the doors during the day and the only way out is literally through the main office.
Not that it matters -- you get 20 minutes for lunch. If you had a car you'd *maybe* have time for the mcdonalds drive through if you ate on the drive back. And you have four minutes between classes. And no such thing as free periods -- even if it's the first or last class of the day, if you have nothing scheduled they assign you to a room where you sit in complete silence for 40 minutes.
In my fairly rural highschool nearly a decade ago they even had (hidden!) cameras in the bathrooms...
Sounds like Scott Adams' (guy who does Dilbert) book, God's Debris...
http://www.andrewsmcmeel.com/godsdebris/
Seriously, I used pre-iPod MP3 players, I used pre-iPhone smart phones and i used pre-iOS tablets.
They REALLY sucked. The OSes were difficult to use, the interfaces were unfriendly and for the price you paid, it was a goddamned joke.
Can't say a think about the phones and tablets, as I never used them...but cleary you never used the RCA Lyra hard drive players. Pretty sure those were from around 2000, and I would STILL prefer an old one of those to an iPod Classic. Excellent devices. Had a very similar interface to the iPod (sort by album, artist, etc) except they had a better screen, they had a custom equilizer (I STILL don't think iPods have that, do they?), they had FM radio, you could record audio, and you didn't have to use any proprietary software to transfer music. You COULD, but you could also drop songs on it as a mass storage device and then create the actual music database from the device itself!
Also, the even older Kodak MC3 was pretty nice. Used Compact Flash cards, which wouldn't beat a hard drive but I'm pretty sure that was before _any_ hard drive players. Had a pretty solid MP3 player, a decent digital camera for the time, could shoot video too...how long was it until Apple added a camera to their players?
Oh, and you can't forget the CD MP3 players. Those were great. Back before anyone was using hard drives, when a large and expensive compact flash card was 64MB...you could toss 700MB of MP3s on your $0.10 CD and swap those out as needed. And yes, the cheap $30 ones had terrible interfaces, but some of the higher end RCA ones were absolutely brilliant. And they could create a database of your MP3s on the fly and sort by album/artist/genre or whatever.
Actually, I used to ride the train quite often (Amtrak) and usually there was no security of any kind. Half the time nobody even checked my ticket. Train pulls up to the platform and you get on. That's it.
I don't know if anybody "enjoys" smoking.
I do. I'm 22, and I've been smoking since I was around 16. Of course, at my worst I was up to about three cigarettes a day, and that lasted less than a year; right now I'm at around four per week. Generally smoke half or a whole cigarette every day before work and that's it. Or maybe skip it in the morning and have it later at night. It's great if I need a boost late at night (caffeine effects be pretty heavily; a cup of green tea at noon and I'll have trouble sleeping; but I have have a smoke an hour before bed and be fine)...but mostly I just enjoy the feeling and taste of it.
Of course, sometimes it's also a nostalgia thing, and I think that's a big part of it. My dad smoked when I was younger, his parents smoked....brings me back to sitting on my grandpa's deck with them before the football game when I was little. But shit, that's half the reason why anyone does anything, right?
Would probably cost more in money and energy to build, launch, and operate a vehicle to find, collect, and recycle all this debris than it would be worth. I believe we're talking about stuff the size of nuts and bolts moving at kilometers per _second_ in a sparse cloud surrounding the planet.
Similar to what I do, although really what I do is just not buy anything that doesn't match. Easy enough.all my shirts are black white grey or light blue. All my pants are khaki or black. Generally I only wear the black pants with a white shirt but really I could pick ant shirt with any pants and be alright. Why do people find this so taxing?
If it's a purchase where I'm bothering to read the reviews, I'm definitely going to be comparing prices. And if I'm already going to all those sites to check prices why wouldn't i check the reviews on each too? And while doing that i expect and even rely on those reviews being from different people, because the sites have different markets. If i see a few reviews on amazon claiming two products are incompatible, then see some on newegg indicating they aren't, I'm a lot more likely to ignore the reviews claiming incompatibility than if it's the other way around. I always assume amazon reviews say more about casual use while newegg reviews will give better technical information. Not that I'll ignore a clearly technical review on amazon or vice versa, but I certainly expect a different class of reviews from different sites.
Point being, I see preventing reviews from being posted to multiple sites as another benefit, not a flaw.
Because that isn't even remotely secure. Google 'sslstrip' -- it's not just theoretically possible to defeat such a system, it's been done and is actually quite trivial
Klout does quite a bit of spamming on their own...
I was getting constant requests to add their Facebook app before I finally banned it...which is annoying, but not necessarily their doing I know. But the thing is, _even when you clicked no_, it still redirected you to their website! Only app I've ever seen do that. That alone was enough to convince me that the company is full of jerks and I want nothing to do with it. Of course, the whole concept didn't help them there....everything I've seen about the project (which is far more than I'd like to know...) leads me to believe it's created and run by a bunch of self-centered egotistical assholes.
I'm the exact opposite. I'm FAR more likely to walk away from an argument IRL than I would online. But of course for different reasons.
In real life, I occasionally get into arguments (with friends of course; I try to avoid these kinds of topics otherwise) where the other person will say something that I perceive as SO absurd and so infuriating that I'm completely unable to come up with a response. The kind of thing that really deserves several books to explain to this person how horrible their concept really is. But IRL -- I get angry, I can't think clearly, I have no references (and I'm not the kind of person who can casually throw out facts I'm uncertain of)...so I usually end up just walking away for a bit (generally these discussions are never 1-on-1 so somebody else picks it up.)
Online? I can take my time. I can gather my thoughts, look up the facts I'm uncertain about, run some calculations and gather some links backing up my argument. Which I almost always do.
Yet another study point out what we all already know. Christ, hasn't this effect been demonstrated enough? These researchers really need to stop wasting everybody's fucking time and focus on more important and less redundant research! Idiots...
This is great for the college student that has $1.50 for his budget and all their editing time on a macbook is free. They are trading the proper gear for extensive free labor.
Exactly; that, or any organization that has such free labor. I can't tell you how many times I've gone to conferences where they attempted to record sessions by having two or three people run around and set up a fixed camera/microphone in each of 6-10 sessions during the break between. Hell I've been one of the guys doing it a couple times. In such a situation, getting a couple people to volunteer a few hours over the next several months (usually it takes a couple months to get the videos up anyway...) to get quality audio off of devices like these wouldn't be much of a problem; getting a few hundred bucks to buy a few of these devices to use each year would be feasible; buying a dozen boom mics and hiring a dozen audio techs for a few days each year wouldn't be.
So yea, as I said, it's certainly not going to replace professional equipment for professional production, but that doesn't seem to be the point. And it's incredibly interesting given how difficult such a thing would have been, say, ten years ago.
and isolating people at a dinner party is not hard, 11 people? 11 wireless microphones into a field mixer and then into the camera. OR do it old Skool. Camera guy + audio guy with a boom and a shotgun microphone on it, Two would be better (two audio guys on mic booms) A pair of ME55's in a dead cat are magical.
...I think you just proved the utility in this. First, a hundreds or even thousands of dollars of professional equipment and techs vs. a couple $25 devices. Not to mention needing to clear a couple feet around the table for the people carrying your boom mics plus all the wires to your equipment and all of that set up somewhere...
Sure, in most cases your professionals are still going to be using their professional quality equipment, because the techs and equipment are already paid for and probably cheaper than the editors anyway, and the space constraints aren't there in a studio. But there are CERTAINLY plenty of situations where repurposing a handfull of cheap MP3 players will come out ahead.
On the other hand...why are we focusing on characteristics that are really secondary to the problem we are trying to solve?
There are really two parts to this kind of issue. There's the cultural problems, and there's the monetary problems.
The monetary problems are where you need affirmative action type programs. Breaking the cycle of poverty. If your parents can't get a good job, you'll grow up in a bad neighborhood, go to a bad school, be less likely to be able to attend college, so then YOU'LL end up with a bad job, and your kids will grow up in a bad neighborhood....etc. But that's not a skin color or gender problem, that's a poverty problem. So while 'give them some money' seems like it may be the best solution ('money' in the forms of scholarships and such; running down the street handing out hundred dollar bills is unlikely to be as effective...) it should be based on income, not skin color or gender.
The other side is the cultural problem. Women getting paid less; people of color being less likely to be hired; etc. But throwing money at the people who are at a disadvantage won't necessarily help here. If you increase the number of women with physics degrees...those women are still getting paid less when they enter the workforce. To solve this you need stricter enforcement of anti-discrimination laws coupled with a better primary/secondary school experience and reduced social stigma against entering these careers. Which, yes, can sometimes be helped by scholarships and awards and such, but the way those help with this issue is probably more through the _advertisement_ of the awards than the money.
Of course, as an upper middle class straight white male, I may not be the best person to make this analysis...
You may actually be on to something.
Think about how excited all the hipsters will be when they discover the new Maps application has either never heard of, or cannot find, their favorite stores/bars/locations!
"I'm heading out to this new oxygen bar. You've probably never heard of it. Even my iPhone hasn't."