Really, having the sensor right behind the stop point seems like a bad design. This means that the drivers will pretty much have to stop their cars. If the sensor was instead 100 feet back or so, there would be time to switch the light before the driver came to a stop.
In the engineering world, it is perfectly legitimate for conceptual designs to incorporate immature technology. Probabilistic design techniques can be used to estimate technology maturation and where they will fit into the design cycle, as well as the likelihood of their actually reaching the predicted targets. The MIT designs are conceptual designs. That doesn't mean they can be built tomorrow. It means they're concepts, that require further exploration and fleshing out.
We really need a new term for all these "we have a pretty picture and some untested numbers we came up with" articles. Vaporware doesn't really cut it anymore.
Something like renderware, or CGIware, or imagineware...
The term you're looking for is "conceptual design."
I cant quote a source, but I remember an article some years ago which claimed that with all the advances in design computers, the only a 4% improvement over Concorde was possible.
4% in what? Speed? Weight? Noise? Emissions? Fuel consumption? Cost?
I'm sure a new design today could offer more than 4% improvement in most of these categories.
Yes, as long as Apple continues to make the iMac and MacBook and doesn't try to pitch the iPad as a replacement for them. The problem is that while most PC makers have a small (10"), medium (13"), and desktop replacement (15-17") laptop, Apple makes iPad instead of a MacBook mini. Imagine what would happen if Apple discontinued the MacBook (not Pro) in favor of the iPad XL.
The MacBook is Apple's best-selling computer ever... they would have to be stupid to discontinue it in favor of an iPad. They didn't get where they are today by being stupid. Consequently, I think it's safe to assume a MacBook will continue to be available for the indefinite future.
If you mean the original version from the 70s: Remember that that thing was a book for people who found nothing strange in wiring your TV to “the wire that came out of the wall” with your bare hands. (Live wire, mind you.) I know because back then, my father owned it, and he DID wire a TV like that.
I don't understand why you would wire your TV into the wall... Didn't they come with power cords?
Why the hell would you *ever* want to be able to modify information like that? Why should a mechanic ever be able to adjust the mileage on the car? It's stupid, not-thought-through and terrible design. Next up is being able to open the doors of any car that has Bluetooth OBD, or changing the VIN numbers or whatever. It's just ridiculous. Even if the car is computer controlled, there are some places where access control of sorts should prevent certain actions.
It's not just used for evil hacking, but also for good hacking. I had my car reprogrammed through the OBD-II port, to give me about 50% more torque. So it's certainly well known that certain cars can have their ECUs reprogrammed through the OBD-II port.
That's what I love about Apple fanboys. When Apple ultimately removes some feature or functionality, the fanboys simply convince themselves they never needed it to begin with. When applications for doing a specific are removed from the App store, fanboys will happily use only Apple's authorized specific task app. When websites fail to work for containing Flash, fanboys will happily flock to Apple-friendly websites and pretend that the content on the other websites weren't worth viewing anyways. And when a mac eventually de-evolves into a webcam with a wi-fi connection, fanboys will loyally claim that this and only this was what they were looking for in a computer.
This is what I love about anti-Apple fanboys... they have no idea what they're talking about. If you actually knew of what you spoke, you would know that, like all other computers, Macs get more features and capabilities with every system upgrade.
Buy an apple product? well, might as well put your head in a plaster garbage bag and die, they own everything that touches the screen of that device, hell, likely they even own the device, just 'licence' it out to you in some peculiar way.
This is for their ipod type of devices only... they have no access to my MacBook that I don't explicitly allow.
In general, no, you can't agree to a contract that says you will agree in the future to anything that one side proposes. A binding contract (which a EULA may or may not even be in the first place) certainly can't say you agree to anything the writer might propose in the future.
For starters, it violates the principle of Meeting of the Minds - you can't have agreed to a principle in a contract that you haven't seen yet simply by having generally agreed to a term saying you will agree to whatever they say in the future.
Indeed. Credit cards frequently like to update the terms of their contracts, but whenever they do you have the option of accepting the new terms, or continuing with the existing terms until your card expires, at which time they will close your account.
I'm not a lawyer, but I don't know what kind of idiot lawyer would tell somebody to put stuff like this in a contract when he knows it's unenforceable. The problem is that even though it's entirely unenforceable, it's not actually illegal to sneak anything you want into a contract. It would be nice if there were some sort of penalties to discourage this kind of thing. Unfortunately, bad PR doesn't work because nobody outside of Slashdot geeks and IP lawyers cares about this sort of thing, so stories about EULA hijinks go nowhere in the mainstream press.
Unfortunately, the name of the game is to write the most overreaching terms possible, even knowing they wouldn't be legally enforceable.
You might be surprised. I see (and not too infrequently) people peeling of hundreds at the grocery store. And these aren't people that look super rich, either. Maybe they just don't trust banks and credit cards.
But, if you don't send/receive 100% of the content to/from that single peer, it would be hard to claim copyright infringement, as you couldn't prove a full copy had been shared by that IP address.
Wait, so you think it's not copyright infringement if you only download 99.9999% of a movie?
Though not exactly on topic, I feel like I should post this like I always do...
"24K gold-plated connectors help protect the cable's optical lens to ensure consistent signal transfer"
To be fair, they don't actually say that being 24K gold-plated actually helps anything; if read carefully, it actually just says that the connectors that protect the lens (said lens being required for signal transfer) are 24K gold-plated.
This will sound funny, but you might want to go check with the amateur rocket guys to see what they're using. RockSIM is the gold standard for 6DOF simulations for rockets traveling up to the edge of space, if you're on a budget, but it's not open source. There is an OSS project very similar to RockSIM - I think it's called RASaero.
Check out POST II, NASA's Program to Optimize Simulated Trajectories. It's in pretty wide use, and should be free from NASA for US persons.
It doesn't matter where you got your education, or what it says on your diploma, if you have these test scores.
What about the parents that don't follow curriculums (like the ones in TFA )their kids don't get diplomas or test scores. Maybe you should RTFA before you comment like an idiot.
I guess I shouldn't be too hard on you, since you weren't smart enough to get into college...
First of all, I was replying directly to your comment, not the article. Secondly, I didn't take any of these tests at home. They are generally available tests, that you take at a registered testing site; generally a public or private school. I didn't have any particular curriculum, just regular classes in all the subjects. Then I registered for and took the standardized tests, which were documented proof of my education on which the colleges could base their admission decisions.
Obviously, if you don't meet the admission requirements of a college, you won't be admitted. But you don't have to follow a particular curriculum.
As someone who was home-schooled all the way until college, I was socially adjusted just fine. I was on the swim team at the local park, took classes at a local university my last two years in high school, did just fine in college, and still have friends now.
I was home-schooled, and got my BS at the University of Michigan. Both of my sisters were home-schooled, and got their BSs at Caltech. Any college that's worth attending will require you to take things like the ACT or SAT, SAT-II subject tests, AP tests, etc. It doesn't matter where you got your education, or what it says on your diploma, if you have these test scores.
So if only rich Republicans drive foreign cars, and they would all drive something more expensive than a Jetta, who drives all the Hondas, Toyotas, Kias, and VWs?
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Don't say he didn't warn you:
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Really, having the sensor right behind the stop point seems like a bad design. This means that the drivers will pretty much have to stop their cars. If the sensor was instead 100 feet back or so, there would be time to switch the light before the driver came to a stop.
In the engineering world, it is perfectly legitimate for conceptual designs to incorporate immature technology. Probabilistic design techniques can be used to estimate technology maturation and where they will fit into the design cycle, as well as the likelihood of their actually reaching the predicted targets. The MIT designs are conceptual designs. That doesn't mean they can be built tomorrow. It means they're concepts, that require further exploration and fleshing out.
We really need a new term for all these "we have a pretty picture and some untested numbers we came up with" articles. Vaporware doesn't really cut it anymore. Something like renderware, or CGIware, or imagineware...
The term you're looking for is "conceptual design."
I cant quote a source, but I remember an article some years ago which claimed that with all the advances in design computers, the only a 4% improvement over Concorde was possible.
4% in what? Speed? Weight? Noise? Emissions? Fuel consumption? Cost?
I'm sure a new design today could offer more than 4% improvement in most of these categories.
Yes, as long as Apple continues to make the iMac and MacBook and doesn't try to pitch the iPad as a replacement for them. The problem is that while most PC makers have a small (10"), medium (13"), and desktop replacement (15-17") laptop, Apple makes iPad instead of a MacBook mini. Imagine what would happen if Apple discontinued the MacBook (not Pro) in favor of the iPad XL.
The MacBook is Apple's best-selling computer ever... they would have to be stupid to discontinue it in favor of an iPad. They didn't get where they are today by being stupid. Consequently, I think it's safe to assume a MacBook will continue to be available for the indefinite future.
If you mean the original version from the 70s: Remember that that thing was a book for people who found nothing strange in wiring your TV to “the wire that came out of the wall” with your bare hands. (Live wire, mind you.) I know because back then, my father owned it, and he DID wire a TV like that.
I don't understand why you would wire your TV into the wall... Didn't they come with power cords?
Why the hell would you *ever* want to be able to modify information like that? Why should a mechanic ever be able to adjust the mileage on the car? It's stupid, not-thought-through and terrible design. Next up is being able to open the doors of any car that has Bluetooth OBD, or changing the VIN numbers or whatever. It's just ridiculous. Even if the car is computer controlled, there are some places where access control of sorts should prevent certain actions.
It's not just used for evil hacking, but also for good hacking. I had my car reprogrammed through the OBD-II port, to give me about 50% more torque. So it's certainly well known that certain cars can have their ECUs reprogrammed through the OBD-II port.
But America isn't a country, so Americans means people living in America, which can be Canada, Mexico, USA, Brazil, etc.
When you say European you're talking about a continent. When you say Asians you're talking about continents and parts of continents.
You guys choose to make your country name an acronym, so get used to the terms USAsians or United States of Americans.
Can we still call Mexicans Mexican, or do they have to be EUMians/Estados Unidos Mexicanosians?
What about the Spanish? Do we have to call them REians/Reino de Espanans?
And I suppose we should call Germans Bundesrepublik Deutschlandians?
Do you begin to see how silly this is? America is part of the name of our country, so we call ourselves Americans.
That's what I love about Apple fanboys. When Apple ultimately removes some feature or functionality, the fanboys simply convince themselves they never needed it to begin with. When applications for doing a specific are removed from the App store, fanboys will happily use only Apple's authorized specific task app. When websites fail to work for containing Flash, fanboys will happily flock to Apple-friendly websites and pretend that the content on the other websites weren't worth viewing anyways. And when a mac eventually de-evolves into a webcam with a wi-fi connection, fanboys will loyally claim that this and only this was what they were looking for in a computer .
This is what I love about anti-Apple fanboys... they have no idea what they're talking about. If you actually knew of what you spoke, you would know that, like all other computers, Macs get more features and capabilities with every system upgrade.
Buy an apple product? well, might as well put your head in a plaster garbage bag and die, they own everything that touches the screen of that device, hell, likely they even own the device, just 'licence' it out to you in some peculiar way.
This is for their ipod type of devices only... they have no access to my MacBook that I don't explicitly allow.
Hell at a boardgame party Saturday night (I am that lame) we even whipped 'em all out to compare.
TMI, dude... TMI... ;)
Something tells me that, had I only $2,000 left in my bank account, I'd use it for food before using it to buy a computer.
Please leave Slashdot, now... you do not belong on this website.
In general, no, you can't agree to a contract that says you will agree in the future to anything that one side proposes. A binding contract (which a EULA may or may not even be in the first place) certainly can't say you agree to anything the writer might propose in the future.
For starters, it violates the principle of Meeting of the Minds - you can't have agreed to a principle in a contract that you haven't seen yet simply by having generally agreed to a term saying you will agree to whatever they say in the future.
Indeed. Credit cards frequently like to update the terms of their contracts, but whenever they do you have the option of accepting the new terms, or continuing with the existing terms until your card expires, at which time they will close your account.
I'm not a lawyer, but I don't know what kind of idiot lawyer would tell somebody to put stuff like this in a contract when he knows it's unenforceable. The problem is that even though it's entirely unenforceable, it's not actually illegal to sneak anything you want into a contract. It would be nice if there were some sort of penalties to discourage this kind of thing. Unfortunately, bad PR doesn't work because nobody outside of Slashdot geeks and IP lawyers cares about this sort of thing, so stories about EULA hijinks go nowhere in the mainstream press.
Unfortunately, the name of the game is to write the most overreaching terms possible, even knowing they wouldn't be legally enforceable.
You might be surprised. I see (and not too infrequently) people peeling of hundreds at the grocery store. And these aren't people that look super rich, either. Maybe they just don't trust banks and credit cards.
Some people obviously place more value on principles...
I'm currently developing a Qt application in Windows, with the intent to have it be source-compatible with a Linux version.
Last time I used a Qt application on OS X it looked like crap, but on Windows and Linux it looks fine.
But, if you don't send/receive 100% of the content to/from that single peer, it would be hard to claim copyright infringement, as you couldn't prove a full copy had been shared by that IP address.
Wait, so you think it's not copyright infringement if you only download 99.9999% of a movie?
Though not exactly on topic, I feel like I should post this like I always do... "24K gold-plated connectors help protect the cable's optical lens to ensure consistent signal transfer"
To be fair, they don't actually say that being 24K gold-plated actually helps anything; if read carefully, it actually just says that the connectors that protect the lens (said lens being required for signal transfer) are 24K gold-plated.
This will sound funny, but you might want to go check with the amateur rocket guys to see what they're using. RockSIM is the gold standard for 6DOF simulations for rockets traveling up to the edge of space, if you're on a budget, but it's not open source. There is an OSS project very similar to RockSIM - I think it's called RASaero.
Check out POST II, NASA's Program to Optimize Simulated Trajectories. It's in pretty wide use, and should be free from NASA for US persons.
It doesn't matter where you got your education, or what it says on your diploma, if you have these test scores. What about the parents that don't follow curriculums (like the ones in TFA )their kids don't get diplomas or test scores. Maybe you should RTFA before you comment like an idiot.
I guess I shouldn't be too hard on you, since you weren't smart enough to get into college...
First of all, I was replying directly to your comment, not the article. Secondly, I didn't take any of these tests at home. They are generally available tests, that you take at a registered testing site; generally a public or private school. I didn't have any particular curriculum, just regular classes in all the subjects. Then I registered for and took the standardized tests, which were documented proof of my education on which the colleges could base their admission decisions.
Obviously, if you don't meet the admission requirements of a college, you won't be admitted. But you don't have to follow a particular curriculum.
As someone who was home-schooled all the way until college, I was socially adjusted just fine. I was on the swim team at the local park, took classes at a local university my last two years in high school, did just fine in college, and still have friends now.
I was home-schooled, and got my BS at the University of Michigan. Both of my sisters were home-schooled, and got their BSs at Caltech. Any college that's worth attending will require you to take things like the ACT or SAT, SAT-II subject tests, AP tests, etc. It doesn't matter where you got your education, or what it says on your diploma, if you have these test scores.
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So if only rich Republicans drive foreign cars, and they would all drive something more expensive than a Jetta, who drives all the Hondas, Toyotas, Kias, and VWs?