and personally I'd ease up and shove one of these little annoyances out of my way.
I was taking you seriously on your other comment, but now I'm wondering if you are just an Internet Tough Guy(TM)
The speed limits in and around atlanta are a "suggestion", usually 10 mph under the real speed in practice, assuming no gridlock. (Because the city doesn't use a planned pattern, there are always clear streets for the knowledgeable).
As such, there are small, suspicious marks along the highway. Scientists from GA tech are doing research on it, and preliminary findings indicate these marks are the only evidence left of the existence of law abiding drivers crushed by speeders. (Speeders don't do it intentionally, they simply move too fast to notice them)
Apparently you've never enjoyed realistic street travel in a crowded major city such as midtown New York or central London, where 28 mph would be pretty optimistic and, on some streets, illegal.
nope, just rushour in downtown and midtown atlanta, where the public transit is a joke, assuring even more congestion. There are still plenty of places you can exceed 35, and personally I'd ease up and shove one of these little annoyances out of my way.
28 MPH is not fast enough for realistic street travel.
The concept is not entirely worthless though. If you apply the power train to a bicycle frame you have a very powerful upgrade to a standard bicycle, and with the even higher power to weight ratio you have a considerable speed upgrade as well.
I predict this will flop pretty badly because of this speed limitation, and if it starts to take off people will have them banned as "moving road blocks".
I, for one, would not tolerate an urban landscape clogged by a bunch of people who can't go faster than my grandmother. I hope they also come standard with the requisite continuously running directional indicator for those speeds.
Actually for AI it's the exact opposite. Puzzle games are extremely easy for a computer due to the speed at which it can calculate all possible outcomes. Trying to convince people to put together a raid in an MMO requires a minimal amount of social skills. If all you're doing is grinding then you haven't really played much.
I am not referring to the normal "puzzle" games, i'm talking about open ended adventure style puzzle games, where the rules and points of interaction are not even known.
The "CTO" should be a committee chairman, and congress really needs to charter a federal technology commission, with Ph.D level certifications a requirement to sit on the board.
I was listening to NPR a few nights ago regarding this subject, and the consensus among various experts was pretty clear.
Without ex-lobbyists in his cabinet, Obama will have severe trouble moving his objectives through congress.
There is most definitely a conflict of interest, but everyone agreed there were no feasible alternatives, unless of course Obama has a dossier of skeletons in every congressional closet so horrible they'd pass anything he demanded.
... until Blizzard cans their account for using a bot.
Actually, I think they only ban it if it actually plays the game.
On my server there's an AI operating in general: ironforge.
It was there months ago, and when I logged on it was still there.
Some schmo is obviously doing some academic research on online populations, or flame wars. The thing just talks to nobody in normal chat, spewing flamebait like "democrats suck" or "I don't kill babies, thank you very much".
I pointed it out to a bunch of people once, and they reported it.. it's still there.
It manages to bait people into the endless hole that is politics on the internet at least once every evening I happen to be on.
with all due respect, a contact on the end of a finger is pretty precise.
You wouldn't be waving your hands constantly unless you game, in which case you'd probably be using some VR input method, and of course nothing is preventing you from using legacy input.
The first thing I thought of when it said "Minority Report like control" was the complete loss of privacy and totalitarian fascist monitoring of citizens with the added benefit of never being able to escape advertisements ever again.
Part of me thinks I might actually need to visit an eastern European ex-con with a nasty ass nurse just to get some of my own privacy back in the future.
If we are going to really concentrate on obtaining any technology from that movie it should be that virtual room with all the stripper girls grinding on that dude.
Indeed, every time I look at this article I get an involuntary but momentary chill of primal terror.
Given the recent news from france and australia, it evokes all the negative aspects of the movie, rather than the cool futuristic hardware.
When I looked at this headline, I began to think this guy found a way to remotely embed firmware into computers to determine whether someone will file-share in the future, and call the FBI to arrest the owner.
Every time I read it, it evokes that same dystopian image.
It'd be hilarious to me if this reaction was not primal and automatic. Given this, it's quite disturbing.
Parent was modded funny, but that site actually allows you to share your ideas with the President-Elect. Maybe if enough of us send him that article, he'll read it.
Do you do your research at an academic institution? Alternatively, Does your company maintain close ties with one or more academic institutions?
You can leverage this to the advantage of both you and their CS students. There are undergrad practicum courses, students hungry for internships, etc. etc.
It probably won't be as fast as a "rent-a-coder", but it's a great way to get things done "on the cheap", and a lot more people than just the open source community will be helped in the process.
There's a free market? When last I checked the market was walled off by anti-competitive special interest legislation, and by de-regulation allowing them to erect even MORE walls to keep out competition.
It means that it is easy to switch vendors
Uhuh, i'll find that other cable provider besides comcast.
If you try to switch medical insurance providers with any pre-existing condition you'll wait a year before you actually receive service, of course that also happens to be the point at which they jack up the rates.
Where is that alternative network provider for the iphone again?
patents pretty much sew up most of the other points of entry into "the free market".
which keeps the vendors working hard to pass or repeal legislation so they can safely ignore you and your grievances..
Those have nothing to do with compelling loans to bad credit risks, what they DO require is that banks evaluate people based on their credit rating rather than their neighborhood.
As a single, young person, I'd be really REALLY pissed if clinton didn't pass that law, because I want to actively seek out "sketchy" areas in order to avoid paying unnecessarily high rent for things I don't need.. like school districts.
o long as it isn't "Joe the Plumber" where Obama would simply want to squash your dreams and redistribute your wealth once you have worked hard enough to make it
because you'll really notice an extra 2000 in taxes when you're making 250,000 plus. (as if half the jobs that earn that or more aren't nepotistic sinecures)
Then, to top it off because you questioned him, investigate you to no end and try to ruin your life...
He wasn't licensed to practice the trade he professed, and its plainly obvious he's a deluded right-wing wing-nut.
This is not the fault of investigators, this is his fault.
When did we become so cynical that we believed nothing would change?
When the DMCA passed.
the "tick" of cynicism buried itself deeper and deeper as:
The DMCA was exported with ausfta and cafta.
The EUCD was passed
The swedish passed the DMCA in spite of massive public demonstrations
ACTA continues to go on in secret despite the obvious economic and civil harm the DMCA has perpetrated on every nation which has it enacted.
The french and british are threatening to cut off a required utility of everyday life on the mere accusation of performing an activity as every-day as a trip to the bar for a beer.
"for the people" my ass. democracy has failed, can we go back to monarchies again?
Actually Clinton WAS horrible for this country. Clinton specifically made it so that Fannie and Freddie had to legally lend to people who were not qualified or face fines. He also sold off much of the military's assets during his years. That's how he balanced the budget. Then Democrat's came whining about how Bush didn't send enough troops to Iraq and we all wonder why. Well I don't wonder. I know it was Clinton's fault.
Keep on spewing this obvious propaganda, even though it's been debunked over and over and over and over again.
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and personally I'd ease up and shove one of these little annoyances out of my way.
I was taking you seriously on your other comment, but now I'm wondering if you are just an Internet Tough Guy(TM)
The speed limits in and around atlanta are a "suggestion", usually 10 mph under the real speed in practice, assuming no gridlock. (Because the city doesn't use a planned pattern, there are always clear streets for the knowledgeable).
As such, there are small, suspicious marks along the highway. Scientists from GA tech are doing research on it, and preliminary findings indicate these marks are the only evidence left of the existence of law abiding drivers crushed by speeders. (Speeders don't do it intentionally, they simply move too fast to notice them)
Apparently you've never enjoyed realistic street travel in a crowded major city such as midtown New York or central London, where 28 mph would be pretty optimistic and, on some streets, illegal.
nope, just rushour in downtown and midtown atlanta, where the public transit is a joke, assuring even more congestion. There are still plenty of places you can exceed 35, and personally I'd ease up and shove one of these little annoyances out of my way.
you've never been behind someone going 15 miles under with the blinker on?
where do you live, rural north dakota?
Sounds like it should be an Apple brand.
How much energy is required to run the compressor to fill the high pressure air cylinders?
if it follows standard principles of mechanical engineering, far more than is redeemed through running the engine.
28 MPH is not fast enough for realistic street travel.
The concept is not entirely worthless though. If you apply the power train to a bicycle frame you have a very powerful upgrade to a standard bicycle, and with the even higher power to weight ratio you have a considerable speed upgrade as well.
I predict this will flop pretty badly because of this speed limitation, and if it starts to take off people will have them banned as "moving road blocks".
I, for one, would not tolerate an urban landscape clogged by a bunch of people who can't go faster than my grandmother. I hope they also come standard with the requisite continuously running directional indicator for those speeds.
Actually for AI it's the exact opposite. Puzzle games are extremely easy for a computer due to the speed at which it can calculate all possible outcomes. Trying to convince people to put together a raid in an MMO requires a minimal amount of social skills. If all you're doing is grinding then you haven't really played much.
I am not referring to the normal "puzzle" games, i'm talking about open ended adventure style puzzle games, where the rules and points of interaction are not even known.
The "CTO" should be a committee chairman, and congress really needs to charter a federal technology commission, with Ph.D level certifications a requirement to sit on the board.
The job will start off solely focused on the big picture, but after about six months...
Setting: CxO's office - White House basement level
Biden (in doorway): Knock, knock! Hey Steve-o! You in the middle of anything?
CxO (not looking up from PC): Uh, yeah.
Biden: Yeahh.. we're going to be moving your office again..
Setting: CxO's office - Rose Garden Shed
*Biden is just leaving*
CxO: "sir.. i believe.. you have my stapler"
Fixed that for you.
What if we made Lessig the CTO? or Doctorow?
I was listening to NPR a few nights ago regarding this subject, and the consensus among various experts was pretty clear.
Without ex-lobbyists in his cabinet, Obama will have severe trouble moving his objectives through congress.
There is most definitely a conflict of interest, but everyone agreed there were no feasible alternatives, unless of course Obama has a dossier of skeletons in every congressional closet so horrible they'd pass anything he demanded.
I remember there being a story about a site simply loading up wikipedia within its own little border.
Cue offshore domains which do exactly this in 3..2..1.
... until Blizzard cans their account for using a bot.
Actually, I think they only ban it if it actually plays the game.
On my server there's an AI operating in general: ironforge.
It was there months ago, and when I logged on it was still there.
Some schmo is obviously doing some academic research on online populations, or flame wars. The thing just talks to nobody in normal chat, spewing flamebait like "democrats suck" or "I don't kill babies, thank you very much".
I pointed it out to a bunch of people once, and they reported it.. it's still there.
It manages to bait people into the endless hole that is politics on the internet at least once every evening I happen to be on.
if you want to test AI's I suggest you use adventure and puzzle games (for mature audiences, not for youth).
MMO's are the most automated of games. They don't involve thought, they involve grinding, grinding, and more grinding.
If they're going to use this as a metric for AI's, I think they should just buy up glider and connect its attacks to real weapons.
with all due respect, a contact on the end of a finger is pretty precise.
You wouldn't be waving your hands constantly unless you game, in which case you'd probably be using some VR input method, and of course nothing is preventing you from using legacy input.
The first thing I thought of when it said "Minority Report like control" was the complete loss of privacy and totalitarian fascist monitoring of citizens with the added benefit of never being able to escape advertisements ever again.
Part of me thinks I might actually need to visit an eastern European ex-con with a nasty ass nurse just to get some of my own privacy back in the future.
If we are going to really concentrate on obtaining any technology from that movie it should be that virtual room with all the stripper girls grinding on that dude.
Indeed, every time I look at this article I get an involuntary but momentary chill of primal terror.
Given the recent news from france and australia, it evokes all the negative aspects of the movie, rather than the cool futuristic hardware.
When I looked at this headline, I began to think this guy found a way to remotely embed firmware into computers to determine whether someone will file-share in the future, and call the FBI to arrest the owner.
Every time I read it, it evokes that same dystopian image.
It'd be hilarious to me if this reaction was not primal and automatic. Given this, it's quite disturbing.
Parent was modded funny, but that site actually allows you to share your ideas with the President-Elect. Maybe if enough of us send him that article, he'll read it.
http://change.gov/page/s/yourvision
Indeed. If the /. community were to upload a PDF of this story to his website en masse, it would get some attention.
Do you do your research at an academic institution?
Alternatively, Does your company maintain close ties with one or more academic institutions?
You can leverage this to the advantage of both you and their CS students.
There are undergrad practicum courses, students hungry for internships, etc. etc.
It probably won't be as fast as a "rent-a-coder", but it's a great way to get things done "on the cheap", and a lot more people than just the open source community will be helped in the process.
Correlation DOES mean there is a link
Not necessarily true.
Correlation merely means correlation.
Unless of course pirates absorb greenhouse gases
It's just like the free market.
There's a free market? When last I checked the market was walled off by anti-competitive special interest legislation, and by de-regulation allowing them to erect even MORE walls to keep out competition.
It means that it is easy to switch vendors
Uhuh, i'll find that other cable provider besides comcast.
If you try to switch medical insurance providers with any pre-existing condition you'll wait a year before you actually receive service, of course that also happens to be the point at which they jack up the rates.
Where is that alternative network provider for the iphone again?
patents pretty much sew up most of the other points of entry into "the free market".
which keeps the vendors working hard to pass or repeal legislation so they can safely ignore you and your grievances..
.. fixed
You mean the rules against "red-lining"?
Those have nothing to do with compelling loans to bad credit risks, what they DO require is that banks evaluate people based on their credit rating rather than their neighborhood.
As a single, young person, I'd be really REALLY pissed if clinton didn't pass that law, because I want to actively seek out "sketchy" areas in order to avoid paying unnecessarily high rent for things I don't need.. like school districts.
o long as it isn't "Joe the Plumber" where Obama would simply want to squash your dreams and redistribute your wealth once you have worked hard enough to make it
because you'll really notice an extra 2000 in taxes when you're making 250,000 plus. (as if half the jobs that earn that or more aren't nepotistic sinecures)
Then, to top it off because you questioned him, investigate you to no end and try to ruin your life...
He wasn't licensed to practice the trade he professed, and its plainly obvious he's a deluded right-wing wing-nut.
This is not the fault of investigators, this is his fault.
When did we become so cynical that we believed nothing would change?
When the DMCA passed.
the "tick" of cynicism buried itself deeper and deeper as:
The DMCA was exported with ausfta and cafta.
The EUCD was passed
The swedish passed the DMCA in spite of massive public demonstrations
ACTA continues to go on in secret despite the obvious economic and civil harm the DMCA has perpetrated on every nation which has it enacted.
The french and british are threatening to cut off a required utility of everyday life on the mere accusation of performing an activity as every-day as a trip to the bar for a beer.
"for the people" my ass. democracy has failed, can we go back to monarchies again?
Actually Clinton WAS horrible for this country. Clinton specifically made it so that Fannie and Freddie had to legally lend to people who were not qualified or face fines. He also sold off much of the military's assets during his years. That's how he balanced the budget. Then Democrat's came whining about how Bush didn't send enough troops to Iraq and we all wonder why. Well I don't wonder. I know it was Clinton's fault.
Keep on spewing this obvious propaganda, even though it's been debunked over and over and over and over again.
This guy beat me to it.
I'm getting so sick and tired of people getting +5 just because they have a link in their post.
News Flash: the presence of a web page doesn't make it accurate.