I've heard that one of the most positive innovations for traffic lights is the inclusion of a "timer bar". A bar light along side the normal traffic signals indicates how long the single has until it changes. I've heard that the places it was tested vastly reduced the number of collisions and injuries. Is there any truth to that?
I've seen something similar (in Mexico) where the green light flashes for a short period of time before the amber light. The idea is essentially the same; give drivers extra time before they have to stop. These systems give drivers enough timing information to determine whether the best action is to slow down or not.
This pisses me off so much. Research studies have shown that increasing amber delays is one of the best ways to reduce both fatal and non-fatal collisions at intersections.
These municipalities think that more red light camera revenue = more money = great and glorious government. They forget two things:
- Fines, cost of repairs, and insurance premiums eat away at their citizens' bank accounts. Less money = less spending = less sales taxes, and a lot of angry, pissed off citizens.
- It's not a zero-sum game within the closed system of citizens and the government. The vendors get a lot of those fines.
So the net result is a slower economy, tax revenue is not nearly as high as expected, and vendors line their pockets.
(I recently worked for years in the highway safety sector, and one of my colleagues, a former cop, did a research paper on this subject. He started the research with a high opinion of red light cameras, but found that red light cameras had no significant effect on fatalities while significantly increasing non-fatal collisions.)
I wouldn't be shocked to hear cartels are also buying abroad, but why bother when you can get most of what you need immediately to the north?
Obama knows all about that. Funny that he doesn't want law-abiding citizens to buy or sell guns, but doesn't mind distributing guns to Mexican cartels.
A good system would, in my opinion, have two parts for each law: the specific and official word of law (such as "Thou shalt not drive an automobile greater than the posted speed limit"), and another that conveys the intention ("To reduce traffic fatalities and serious injuries"). The second portion is useful when ambiguities exist, and a judge or jury is called to interpret the law in an unforeseen situation.
This might help cases where, for instance, a driver is caught going over the posted speed limit, but the limit was established for the obvious purpose to catch speeders and not to enforce safety limits as specifies by highway engineers.
The problem is that if Bitcoin takes off, banks will still treat it like regular currency. Once you make a deposit, the bank will add it to a pool, and withdrawals will come from that pool. Your account holdings will still be a decimal formatted number in a database somewhere.
Banks and creditors need a new transaction system built on cryptography, single use keys, and enhanced by Internet connectivity, to protect their customers. And they needed it yesterday.
If you were only taxed when you spend money, the sales tax would be around 30%. If you were only taxed when you earn money, state income taxes would double.
Yes, but can it display a screen of dynamic data from a distributed data store to hundreds of users thousands of miles away, using fewer characters than this post?
This is a bit presumptive. Sometimes the deadline matters most to the client, and sometimes completeness/correctness matters most. When you perform an estimate (which should always be a range), and the client has specified a deadline (a specific date), ask them this question:
"When the deadline comes, would you rather the project be incomplete but ready for delivery, or would you rather push back delivery in favor of complete and correct software?"
Communication with the customer is essential, and continual communication is necessary. The customer will not be happy if the due date comes and suddenly finds out the software is not ready. They may have planned testing, rollout, server or client updates, and many other dependencies based on the agreed-upon deadline. And they may have legal ground to sue you for failure to disclose the status of the project on a regular basis.
1) The Saudi prince flight was about a deployment of a satellite, and the prince was a trained representative of the Arab Satellite Communications Organization. He gained that role politically, of course, but are you judging the Arab world in who they decide is or is not an astronaut? I would say it's just a different culture; the blame you place on the Reagan Administration is unfounded.
2) There's a difference between Arabs and Muslims. As I said, Saudi prince officially represented Arabs. He is also Muslim.
3) Nobody has said that we shouldn't help Muslims, or that we should exclude Muslims. What we are saying is that Obama specifically targeted Muslims; take that how you will.
Sadly there was no real alternative to electing Obama.
I'd like to see the Modern Whigs gain support, if for no other reason, because one of their goals is to reform the electoral process to reduce the ill effects of our plurality voting system.
I have a 16 GB Nexus 4. I rarely manage to push the RAM usage above 1 GB
There is no need to include "16 GB". Both devices have 2 GB of RAM. To someone who doesn't know this, the summary might imply that they have some awesome 16 GB RAM model.
I've wondered, if I were stuck on an island without the materials needed to build a radio, but access to an intercontinental submarine communications cable, what would it take to send a viable TCP/IP signal from scratch to request help?
Difficulty: Cutting the cable to force a repair mission doesn't count.
I don't see a problem with multiple virtual currencies. In fact, if virtual currencies ever come to dominate traditional currencies, I would not want a single virtual currency to exist.
Like anything that deals with economy, diversity brings strength. Relying completely on a currency that is a major exploit away from bringing down the global economy would be a disaster waiting to happen.
This isn't about denial. This isn't about climate scientists. This is about alarmists.
Don't forget that like most alarmists, many of these alarmists likely have corporate-backed agendas. They hate the corporate-backed agendas of the oil industry, but deny that there are companies promoting clean cars and clean energy that stand to make billions of dollars of extra profit if they succeed in convincing governments and citizens.
Not everyone needs to spend thousands of dollars extra on a Prius instead of an equivalent gasoline car. Many people would sorely miss that money, and Toyota's shareholders would be much richer. The world will not suddenly be in better shape because we all have Prii. There are many better, more cost-efficient and more practical ways to reduce pollution and emissions. But the GW lobby is backed by corporations who want nothing more than governments to place a tax on every citizen that goes straight to their bottom line.
Get back to me when it can be shown that my wallet is the only thing standing in the way of the end of the world.
it's 14:00 UTC here now and I just got to work, so is my west coast colleague awake yet?
Huh?
I still have to calculate in my head what time it is in another timezone. When it is 8:13 AM here, it is 6:13 AM on the west coast. It would be just as easy for me to think, "would I have been up a couple of hours ago" as it is to think, "the time difference is about 2 hours, therefore I must take 8:13 AM and subtract 2 hours to make it 6:13 AM, so would he be up at 6:13 AM?"
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If that happens they can just issue more citations and raise taxes.
So why wait? Set 5 MPH speed limits, catch anyone going 1 MPH over, and make sales taxes 100% or more.
If it's such a good idea when government is mismanaged, it must be at least as good an idea when government is acting responsibly.
I've heard that one of the most positive innovations for traffic lights is the inclusion of a "timer bar". A bar light along side the normal traffic signals indicates how long the single has until it changes. I've heard that the places it was tested vastly reduced the number of collisions and injuries. Is there any truth to that?
I've seen something similar (in Mexico) where the green light flashes for a short period of time before the amber light. The idea is essentially the same; give drivers extra time before they have to stop. These systems give drivers enough timing information to determine whether the best action is to slow down or not.
This pisses me off so much. Research studies have shown that increasing amber delays is one of the best ways to reduce both fatal and non-fatal collisions at intersections.
These municipalities think that more red light camera revenue = more money = great and glorious government. They forget two things:
- Fines, cost of repairs, and insurance premiums eat away at their citizens' bank accounts. Less money = less spending = less sales taxes, and a lot of angry, pissed off citizens.
- It's not a zero-sum game within the closed system of citizens and the government. The vendors get a lot of those fines.
So the net result is a slower economy, tax revenue is not nearly as high as expected, and vendors line their pockets.
(I recently worked for years in the highway safety sector, and one of my colleagues, a former cop, did a research paper on this subject. He started the research with a high opinion of red light cameras, but found that red light cameras had no significant effect on fatalities while significantly increasing non-fatal collisions.)
I wouldn't be shocked to hear cartels are also buying abroad, but why bother when you can get most of what you need immediately to the north?
Obama knows all about that. Funny that he doesn't want law-abiding citizens to buy or sell guns, but doesn't mind distributing guns to Mexican cartels.
And your counter-argument is... ?
A good system would, in my opinion, have two parts for each law: the specific and official word of law (such as "Thou shalt not drive an automobile greater than the posted speed limit"), and another that conveys the intention ("To reduce traffic fatalities and serious injuries"). The second portion is useful when ambiguities exist, and a judge or jury is called to interpret the law in an unforeseen situation.
This might help cases where, for instance, a driver is caught going over the posted speed limit, but the limit was established for the obvious purpose to catch speeders and not to enforce safety limits as specifies by highway engineers.
The problem is that if Bitcoin takes off, banks will still treat it like regular currency. Once you make a deposit, the bank will add it to a pool, and withdrawals will come from that pool. Your account holdings will still be a decimal formatted number in a database somewhere.
Banks and creditors need a new transaction system built on cryptography, single use keys, and enhanced by Internet connectivity, to protect their customers. And they needed it yesterday.
http://www.ubuntu.com/tablet
I love this concept. It's the first phone-to-tablet-to-PC concept I've seen that feels somewhat complete.
That's not good enough. The Start menu has to return
No, it doesn't. Microsoft doesn't have to do anything. Haven't you figured that out yet?
If you were only taxed when you spend money, the sales tax would be around 30%. If you were only taxed when you earn money, state income taxes would double.
The government will get its money.
Yes, but can it display a screen of dynamic data from a distributed data store to hundreds of users thousands of miles away, using fewer characters than this post?
Get off my Twitter feed, old timer.
This is a bit presumptive. Sometimes the deadline matters most to the client, and sometimes completeness/correctness matters most. When you perform an estimate (which should always be a range), and the client has specified a deadline (a specific date), ask them this question:
"When the deadline comes, would you rather the project be incomplete but ready for delivery, or would you rather push back delivery in favor of complete and correct software?"
Communication with the customer is essential, and continual communication is necessary. The customer will not be happy if the due date comes and suddenly finds out the software is not ready. They may have planned testing, rollout, server or client updates, and many other dependencies based on the agreed-upon deadline. And they may have legal ground to sue you for failure to disclose the status of the project on a regular basis.
I think the summary needs to clarify: this is Michigan representative Mike Rogers, not Alabama representative Mike Rogers.
nor do they even know that there is a prefix.
Now we do.
People, it's 2013. Learn to use the alpha channel.
Company makes billions of dollars; wants more. Competitors not happy.
Now on to how Justin Bieber's pet monkey was confiscated at an airport...
1) The Saudi prince flight was about a deployment of a satellite, and the prince was a trained representative of the Arab Satellite Communications Organization. He gained that role politically, of course, but are you judging the Arab world in who they decide is or is not an astronaut? I would say it's just a different culture; the blame you place on the Reagan Administration is unfounded.
2) There's a difference between Arabs and Muslims. As I said, Saudi prince officially represented Arabs. He is also Muslim.
3) Nobody has said that we shouldn't help Muslims, or that we should exclude Muslims. What we are saying is that Obama specifically targeted Muslims; take that how you will.
Sadly there was no real alternative to electing Obama.
I'd like to see the Modern Whigs gain support, if for no other reason, because one of their goals is to reform the electoral process to reduce the ill effects of our plurality voting system.
Just a note for future articles:
I have a 16 GB Nexus 4. I rarely manage to push the RAM usage above 1 GB
There is no need to include "16 GB". Both devices have 2 GB of RAM. To someone who doesn't know this, the summary might imply that they have some awesome 16 GB RAM model.
So what, I could care less.
I've wondered, if I were stuck on an island without the materials needed to build a radio, but access to an intercontinental submarine communications cable, what would it take to send a viable TCP/IP signal from scratch to request help?
Difficulty: Cutting the cable to force a repair mission doesn't count.
Welcome to the Internet.
I don't see a problem with multiple virtual currencies. In fact, if virtual currencies ever come to dominate traditional currencies, I would not want a single virtual currency to exist.
Like anything that deals with economy, diversity brings strength. Relying completely on a currency that is a major exploit away from bringing down the global economy would be a disaster waiting to happen.
This isn't about denial. This isn't about climate scientists. This is about alarmists.
Don't forget that like most alarmists, many of these alarmists likely have corporate-backed agendas. They hate the corporate-backed agendas of the oil industry, but deny that there are companies promoting clean cars and clean energy that stand to make billions of dollars of extra profit if they succeed in convincing governments and citizens.
Not everyone needs to spend thousands of dollars extra on a Prius instead of an equivalent gasoline car. Many people would sorely miss that money, and Toyota's shareholders would be much richer. The world will not suddenly be in better shape because we all have Prii. There are many better, more cost-efficient and more practical ways to reduce pollution and emissions. But the GW lobby is backed by corporations who want nothing more than governments to place a tax on every citizen that goes straight to their bottom line.
Get back to me when it can be shown that my wallet is the only thing standing in the way of the end of the world.
it's 14:00 UTC here now and I just got to work, so is my west coast colleague awake yet?
Huh?
I still have to calculate in my head what time it is in another timezone. When it is 8:13 AM here, it is 6:13 AM on the west coast. It would be just as easy for me to think, "would I have been up a couple of hours ago" as it is to think, "the time difference is about 2 hours, therefore I must take 8:13 AM and subtract 2 hours to make it 6:13 AM, so would he be up at 6:13 AM?"