Why would you have to leave your gun in the car when going into a bank? Does this regulation on a CCW permit really somehow protect banks from armed robberies carried out with stolen or unregistered firearms?
Besides the time to download (or stream) there is another concern: It seems every time ISPs bump up bandwidth speed, they introduce or lower bandwidth caps.
Gated cameras have been out for a while - initially they were classified as munitions (they still may be, I'm not sure). ExtremeCCTV (Now part of Bosch) had a full line of such cameras, and the huge advantage of this tech is it enabled surveillance through even dense fog and blizzard/whiteout conditions. I can't find the tech on Bosch's site now but I found these:
Oh, and the range of this tech is much greater than those pages indicate; in 2003 the units were good for 25km+ (that was the publicized spec), and the tech (both lasers and sensors) has improved since then.
The mod would have to be the direct cause of failure in order to void the warranty. They can't just void it as soon as they find out there are mods to the car, otherwise very warranty would be voided for using aftermarket filters, light bulbs, and so on. This act exists to protect the consumer against such nonsense.
If the platform can read OBD, CAN, and other automotive buses, it is possible to write the equivalent of a Tech-II app, design your own gauges, your own trip efficiency calculators (and "most efficient" driving route), and possibly even design your own tuning profile (timing, fuel curve, boost pressure, etc.) or install a tuning profile from your preferred tuner, as well as enable vehicle options (e.g., if you change your head unit, add a disc changer (does anyone still bother with those?), add fog lights, etc.) and program driver profiles. There is a lot this can do for you.
The down side is: if everything (HVAC/defroster, radio tuning presets and volume control, etc) is done through the touch screen, I could see an increase in avoidable collisions occurring. They should never replace physical controls but merely augment them.
Too bad it will likely never see production since SAAB is probably going to be dead next week. (one could argue SAAB is already dead and the mortician just hasn't declared time of death yet)
It was also placed on a poor timeslot - what was it, Friday nights, opposite an established science-fiction franchise (Stargate: SG-1) and Enterprise? It was set up for failure, in typical Fox fashion.
It wasn't that Serenity wasn't good. It is that it sucked. It left story arcs open (most notably Shepherd's back story: what is it? Why did he receive a VIP "get out of jail free" card at times, only to be killed off like a chump?) Why did River's character development have to be so damn rushed, and why did she "come out of it" so immediately?
It was rushed, and the story suffered for it. It was a movie that was made for the sake of making it, plain and simple. I hope that if Firefly is ever revisited, that it is done with the intent of Serentity's (the movie) existence being disregarded, as if it were never made. The plot should continue where the show left off, not where Serenity botched it all up.
Allow trusted evaluators to transfer a 'quantity of authority' to like-minded 'contributing authorities', who in turn designate and delegate authority to additional like-minded contributing authorities.
That is already done on slashdot, in automated fashion. By building positive karma through being moderated positive more than negative, the possibility of your becoming a moderator is created. By having your posts metamoderated confirming those moderations, your karma is either further boosted, thereby increasing your chances of becoming a moderator, or lowered, decreasing your chances of becoming a moderator. Once you get mod points for the first point, other factors play into it: your frequency of visits (theoretically improving your moderation competence), metamoderations on what you have moderated (thereby evaluating your work and confirming you are a good moderator, or flagging you as a bad one in the system), how often you post, and so on.
So, Slashdot's moderation system is therefore a superset of what Google has applied for, because it does all that Google specifies, through a combination of automated and manual manipulation of all of the criteria Google specified, and more. Slashcode (and Slashdot's build of it in particular) is definitely prior art which should invalidate all points of Google's application.
Coming next: RIM will file an identical application, except it will have ", on a wireless device" to show their "innovation."
You would be surprised at how many people think that. Hell, there are people who think you need to wait a few minutes after a microwave oven shuts off before opening it - not for fear of water splattering, but for fear of radiation poisoning. And yet, those same people don't think backscatter porn shoots at airports are a big deal.
I'm fine with the current design - I stuck with my iPhone 4 since the upgrade wasn't compelling (dual core, yeah it's a bit faster, but the big upgrade is an app they pulled from the app store and disabled, then bundled with the phone and called it a 4S? Please). I like the current design of the 4/4S better than the 3G/3GS but I want a larger screen. The way I see it, my iPhone 4 is just fine for now. I do wish it had 64GB of storage, but I'll continue to manage.
When Jet A1 fuel costs $5 per liter only the extremely wealthy can afford to travel by air.
Don't worry - with minor changes turbine engines can burn anything from kerosene (aka jet fuel) to diesel, from ethanol to gasoline, and pretty much any other combustible liquid. Jets will always be fairly economical when it comes to fuel/payload efficiency (oh, and don't forget most locomotives nowadays are hybrids, and there is no reason gas turbines (or "jet engine" for a an incorrect but familiar term) couldn't replace piston engines in trains since all the engine does is drive a generator. I've often thought that gas turbines would be the ideal fuel for hybrid cars because they are the ultimate flex fuel engine, and the short TBO for aircraft is based on peak operating temperature and based on very conservative (almost paranoid) time tables for safety reasons. They would be very low maintenance and long life on ground vehicles and given applicable fuel emissions can be very low without the nuisance of catalytic converters.
Not only that but there are rapid advancements being made on electric aircraft prototypes. It won't be too long before we start seeing hybrid aircraft - maybe not on the scale of the A380 or 747 any time soon, but they are coming in some form.
The mission is $2.5bil - and while a good chunk of that is R&D and implementation of the probe itself, the major chunk of it is delivery and also mission control. The cost of building redundance into the probe (and someone asked why not just add more different instruments? The added cost vs. weight for redundance to all instruments is negligible compared to the overall budget, etc. and it would suck if the optical camera dies but everything else lives - because the optical photos are what sell these missions to the taxpayers.
I do like the idea of building a second rover - the bulk of the cost isn't building the RC car. The bulk of the cost is comprised of delivery and personnel.
If I had say in the matter, I would include more redundance.
Instead of one of each type of camera on the mast, I would include redundant cameras on each mast. Instead of one mast, I would require two masts, with separate motors, computers, etc.
I would include both mechanical (or pneumatic if compressors that work in that environment can be made compactly enough) and electrostatic lens cleaning mechanisms.
I would include redundant "legs" and wheels, with the primary set being ejectable in the event of failure.
The cost would go up, but given that when you come down to it this amounts to a $2.5bil RC car, spending a few million more on extreme redundance to guarantee reliability (after it hopefully lands safely) is very cheap insurance - it's not like you can just send out a minimum-wage Geek Squad "technician" to (hopefully) repair it and upsell it on gold-plated HDMI cables and Norton AntiVirus.;) It'd suck if the one mast failed, or one "leg" failed without a backup unit or mechanism.
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Why would you have to leave your gun in the car when going into a bank? Does this regulation on a CCW permit really somehow protect banks from armed robberies carried out with stolen or unregistered firearms?
Besides the time to download (or stream) there is another concern: It seems every time ISPs bump up bandwidth speed, they introduce or lower bandwidth caps.
In some cases, comparing Firefox to a car could be apt
http://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/12/10/2312232/renault-opens-up-the-car-as-a-platform ;)
http://newsroom.saab.com/news/news/worldfirstfromsaabsaabiqonopeninnovationincarinfotainment.5.741c75ab12da7f448807ffe719.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8BOd9oX1p4s
Gated cameras have been out for a while - initially they were classified as munitions (they still may be, I'm not sure). ExtremeCCTV (Now part of Bosch) had a full line of such cameras, and the huge advantage of this tech is it enabled surveillance through even dense fog and blizzard/whiteout conditions. I can't find the tech on Bosch's site now but I found these:
http://www.usborderpatrol.com/Border_Patrol1604_8.htm (just an article about the practical application)
http://www.laseroptronix.se/gated/aqly.html
http://www.obzerv.com/night-vision-cameras/range-gating-technology/core-expertise/
Oh, and the range of this tech is much greater than those pages indicate; in 2003 the units were good for 25km+ (that was the publicized spec), and the tech (both lasers and sensors) has improved since then.
The mod would have to be the direct cause of failure in order to void the warranty. They can't just void it as soon as they find out there are mods to the car, otherwise very warranty would be voided for using aftermarket filters, light bulbs, and so on. This act exists to protect the consumer against such nonsense.
See: Moss Magnuson act
and.. . it WAS. . . Kirk!
FTFY - there isn't. . . a. . . pausebetween. . . every. . . single. . . word. . . andsometimes. . . any pause, IS. . . omitted.. . and. . somewords. . . ARE. . emphasized.
This isn't useless.
If the platform can read OBD, CAN, and other automotive buses, it is possible to write the equivalent of a Tech-II app, design your own gauges, your own trip efficiency calculators (and "most efficient" driving route), and possibly even design your own tuning profile (timing, fuel curve, boost pressure, etc.) or install a tuning profile from your preferred tuner, as well as enable vehicle options (e.g., if you change your head unit, add a disc changer (does anyone still bother with those?), add fog lights, etc.) and program driver profiles. There is a lot this can do for you.
The down side is: if everything (HVAC/defroster, radio tuning presets and volume control, etc) is done through the touch screen, I could see an increase in avoidable collisions occurring. They should never replace physical controls but merely augment them.
SAAB was first with this concept, in their IQON system:
http://media.saab.com/press-releases/2011-03-01/world-first-saab-saab-iqon-open-innovation-car-infotainment
Too bad it will likely never see production since SAAB is probably going to be dead next week. (one could argue SAAB is already dead and the mortician just hasn't declared time of death yet)
They would probably just replace the rocks with potatoes.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080684/trivia
No, it's a constitutional republic with some democratic elements
It was also placed on a poor timeslot - what was it, Friday nights, opposite an established science-fiction franchise (Stargate: SG-1) and Enterprise? It was set up for failure, in typical Fox fashion.
It wasn't that Serenity wasn't good. It is that it sucked. It left story arcs open (most notably Shepherd's back story: what is it? Why did he receive a VIP "get out of jail free" card at times, only to be killed off like a chump?) Why did River's character development have to be so damn rushed, and why did she "come out of it" so immediately?
It was rushed, and the story suffered for it. It was a movie that was made for the sake of making it, plain and simple. I hope that if Firefly is ever revisited, that it is done with the intent of Serentity's (the movie) existence being disregarded, as if it were never made. The plot should continue where the show left off, not where Serenity botched it all up.
No CGI, no Green Screen?
This ought to look at least as good as Space: 1999 ;)
I wonder if they will bring "ded kitty" back?
The first time Napster died:
http://news.dmusic.com/article/5385
There is a problem though:
That is already done on slashdot, in automated fashion. By building positive karma through being moderated positive more than negative, the possibility of your becoming a moderator is created. By having your posts metamoderated confirming those moderations, your karma is either further boosted, thereby increasing your chances of becoming a moderator, or lowered, decreasing your chances of becoming a moderator. Once you get mod points for the first point, other factors play into it: your frequency of visits (theoretically improving your moderation competence), metamoderations on what you have moderated (thereby evaluating your work and confirming you are a good moderator, or flagging you as a bad one in the system), how often you post, and so on.
So, Slashdot's moderation system is therefore a superset of what Google has applied for, because it does all that Google specifies, through a combination of automated and manual manipulation of all of the criteria Google specified, and more. Slashcode (and Slashdot's build of it in particular) is definitely prior art which should invalidate all points of Google's application.
Coming next: RIM will file an identical application, except it will have ", on a wireless device" to show their "innovation."
You would be surprised at how many people think that. Hell, there are people who think you need to wait a few minutes after a microwave oven shuts off before opening it - not for fear of water splattering, but for fear of radiation poisoning. And yet, those same people don't think backscatter porn shoots at airports are a big deal.
That video is photoshopped. You can tell by the pixels. ;)
I'm fine with the current design - I stuck with my iPhone 4 since the upgrade wasn't compelling (dual core, yeah it's a bit faster, but the big upgrade is an app they pulled from the app store and disabled, then bundled with the phone and called it a 4S? Please). I like the current design of the 4/4S better than the 3G/3GS but I want a larger screen. The way I see it, my iPhone 4 is just fine for now. I do wish it had 64GB of storage, but I'll continue to manage.
When Jet A1 fuel costs $5 per liter only the extremely wealthy can afford to travel by air.
Don't worry - with minor changes turbine engines can burn anything from kerosene (aka jet fuel) to diesel, from ethanol to gasoline, and pretty much any other combustible liquid. Jets will always be fairly economical when it comes to fuel/payload efficiency (oh, and don't forget most locomotives nowadays are hybrids, and there is no reason gas turbines (or "jet engine" for a an incorrect but familiar term) couldn't replace piston engines in trains since all the engine does is drive a generator. I've often thought that gas turbines would be the ideal fuel for hybrid cars because they are the ultimate flex fuel engine, and the short TBO for aircraft is based on peak operating temperature and based on very conservative (almost paranoid) time tables for safety reasons. They would be very low maintenance and long life on ground vehicles and given applicable fuel emissions can be very low without the nuisance of catalytic converters.
Not only that but there are rapid advancements being made on electric aircraft prototypes. It won't be too long before we start seeing hybrid aircraft - maybe not on the scale of the A380 or 747 any time soon, but they are coming in some form.
The mission is $2.5bil - and while a good chunk of that is R&D and implementation of the probe itself, the major chunk of it is delivery and also mission control. The cost of building redundance into the probe (and someone asked why not just add more different instruments? The added cost vs. weight for redundance to all instruments is negligible compared to the overall budget, etc. and it would suck if the optical camera dies but everything else lives - because the optical photos are what sell these missions to the taxpayers.
I do like the idea of building a second rover - the bulk of the cost isn't building the RC car. The bulk of the cost is comprised of delivery and personnel.
After viewing it, I have to agree; I really like that prototype - it is ingenious in its simplicity!
If I had say in the matter, I would include more redundance.
Instead of one of each type of camera on the mast, I would include redundant cameras on each mast.
Instead of one mast, I would require two masts, with separate motors, computers, etc.
I would include both mechanical (or pneumatic if compressors that work in that environment can be made compactly enough) and electrostatic lens cleaning mechanisms.
I would include redundant "legs" and wheels, with the primary set being ejectable in the event of failure.
The cost would go up, but given that when you come down to it this amounts to a $2.5bil RC car, spending a few million more on extreme redundance to guarantee reliability (after it hopefully lands safely) is very cheap insurance - it's not like you can just send out a minimum-wage Geek Squad "technician" to (hopefully) repair it and upsell it on gold-plated HDMI cables and Norton AntiVirus. ;) It'd suck if the one mast failed, or one "leg" failed without a backup unit or mechanism.
No, it's not that it is the goal of most Democrats; it will be the unintended consequence.
From Russian immigrants who actually lived through Soviet-style communism.