There is money to be made both ways. If someone made an affordable indestructible, uber safe car, that had decent power and milage it would sell like crazy.
But it's so much cheaper profitable to make a car that looks like it's indestructible, uber safe with power and pretend high fuel efficiency instead. Why do you think SUVs got so popular?
And yes, the fuel efficiency tests can and have been gamed. How else would a V8 corvette get a 30 mpg rating and be on Top 10 fuel efficient cars lists (something I was shocked by a couple years back). They had designed something that prevented shifting from 1st to 2nd unless while accelerating aggressively. The fix was a $50 part at the dealership, but this meant that in EPA tests the car was shifted from 1st to 4th. There's also obscenely high gearing on some cars to have high hp and high mpg.
They need the government's blessing to make a profit so are all to willing to turn over your records upon request.
I think the "to make a profit" part might be a stretch. Maybe it's not always the case, but I seem to hear a lot about the high profit margins for cell phone companies and ISPs (which does exclude traditional phone and TV, so maybe they are having harder times). I think part of it is they want to be able to keep their fake competition and continue exploitation of the consumer, and playing nice with the FBI is one way to help that.
Historical correction: Newton lived and died a virgin. He was starring at apples not melons.
He was starring? In which movies?
BTW, living as a virgin is no contradiction to occasional stiffening. Being a virgin just means that the stiff thing never has entered a hole.
I doubt that we have a historical record about whether Newton ever experienced a stiffening...
Honestly, I doubt that any historical record would be complete enough to be able to label someone a virgin.
He may not have been a team player, but he was also centuries ahead of his time. If DARPA found someone centuries ahead of *our* time, they'd suck it up and bring the guy on.
I bet DARPA has several people who are ahead of their time (or at least highly innovative) but aren't team players. (just agreeing and adding to your comment)
I'd also make sure that EVERYONE over 18 had to write a check out to the IRS, for some amount, say $25 (or so) "person" tax. The reason for this is because people who don't pay ANY taxes (now about 50% of the population) don't care about how government spends other people's money.
Devil's advocate: what percentage of that 50% are dependents (children or elderly) or unemployed?
RIAA wins 54 MILLION DOLLARS in Illegal Music Download case!
It's not about the money per se, it's about media splash to hopefully deter others from doing the same. The IRS uses the same tactic - they just go after the big fish ( Like Martha Stewart) and theoretically, it will dissuade others from cheating on their taxes. Nobody there really believes that they can recover their "losses" by suing. Anyway the real losses, from a strict dollars and cents perspective, are not worth suing over, This is PR via the courts.
Small correction. Martha was busted for insider trading, not cheating on her taxes.
I wonder if these statistics come from the people placed by the career center. My experience is that only the top (or upper portion) of the class gets hired this way, and often by larger organizations that have money and resources to pay them.
Please people, play some sports outside with your children. They spend so much time at their computer and console games that they're getting too difficult for us old folks to beat.
And they're generally fairly annoying about it.
You're just trying to handicap them. You're supposed to practice after they go to bed so you're ready to unleash a 13 hit combo on them. Or headshot them. Whichever.
I'm not sure why this comment has only been scored only 1, it seems a good point to me. Is it incorrect or just obvious?
It depends on if the traffic shaping is based on game-specific characteristic (less likely) or if it's based on point of origin (more likely). So yes, it's another pain.
The current predominate "conservative" movement is more interested in big business doing whatever it wants, so Net Neutrality is a threat. AT&T will have to spend more on their ISP and mobile network. Little guys will be able to displace existing large businesses (or at least take a chunk of their pie). I'm not saying that the democrats have a strong interest in protecting consumers either, but it's very clear where the neocons sit.
(this is more about our "leaders" and their mouth pieces and not about normal people)
A robot needs to do more than sit and place and perform a task (even if it is engineered to do it well). Such a loose definition does to the term "robots" what has been done to "cloud (computing)" and "nano (machines / structures)" that everyone wants to slap or back-date on their project to make it sound important / relevant.
As I see it, part of the definition of a robot includes movement. As with the roomba, it has the ability to move around to perform it's task and not be restricted to performing it's task in a single place (which would be a useless vacuum cleaner). In factories, robotic arms may stay mounted in place, but the arms themselves move themselves or parts to assemble cars.
He's not going to jail. He isn't prevented from working. He is merely banned from a competition that holds (relatively) little consequence for showing he had absolutely no respect for the purpose and intent of it. Compare this to olympic bans and being stripped of medals. Some bans are only a few years, but if you go beyond just "screwing up" you can lose all the medals earned to date.
If you want to whine about over-punishment, look at the US criminal justice system where reform is no longer part of the system; it's all about punishment and determent even if it means ruining a teen's life for a victimless crime.
I will say anecdotally, I've heard Prius batteries lasting well past 100,000 miles (160,000). It's hear-say, but perhaps 100,000 was a guess because they just didn't know.
Tweeting about earthquakes is hardly new — at least in twitter years. People turned to twitter during an earthquake in Southern California in July, 2008, after they finding they were unable to make or receive any cell phone calls, they could still use twitter via SMS or another mobile twitter app.
I find this solution to be really silly. After the Northridge Earthquake in Southern California in 1994, no one in the area could even use the phones. There was too many people trying to make calls for anything to work. The earthquake they're referring to was tiny in comparison. People should be looking to a battery based radio or working with their neighbors to figure out what is going on.
Except.. they say that instead of phones we should use SMS because it's impact on the wireless network is far lighter (see every./ article about price gouging at 20 cents per 140 characters). That said, if you are on AT&T and wish to use twitter during an emergency good luck trying to get your slice of bandwidth.
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Or recursion.
There is money to be made both ways. If someone made an affordable indestructible, uber safe car, that had decent power and milage it would sell like crazy.
But it's so much cheaper profitable to make a car that looks like it's indestructible, uber safe with power and pretend high fuel efficiency instead. Why do you think SUVs got so popular?
And yes, the fuel efficiency tests can and have been gamed. How else would a V8 corvette get a 30 mpg rating and be on Top 10 fuel efficient cars lists (something I was shocked by a couple years back). They had designed something that prevented shifting from 1st to 2nd unless while accelerating aggressively. The fix was a $50 part at the dealership, but this meant that in EPA tests the car was shifted from 1st to 4th. There's also obscenely high gearing on some cars to have high hp and high mpg.
They need the government's blessing to make a profit so are all to willing to turn over your records upon request.
I think the "to make a profit" part might be a stretch. Maybe it's not always the case, but I seem to hear a lot about the high profit margins for cell phone companies and ISPs (which does exclude traditional phone and TV, so maybe they are having harder times). I think part of it is they want to be able to keep their fake competition and continue exploitation of the consumer, and playing nice with the FBI is one way to help that.
To put it another way, it's a hell of a lot more alleged then Glenn Beck's alleged rape and murder of a young girl in 1990.
(oblig)
What? And they let him loose on the streets!?
Historical correction: Newton lived and died a virgin. He was starring at apples not melons.
He was starring? In which movies?
BTW, living as a virgin is no contradiction to occasional stiffening. Being a virgin just means that the stiff thing never has entered a hole. I doubt that we have a historical record about whether Newton ever experienced a stiffening ...
Honestly, I doubt that any historical record would be complete enough to be able to label someone a virgin.
Best. Physics quote. Ever.
"He gives the example of a string of entangled ions oscillating back and forth in an electric field trap, a bit like Newton's balls."
Which we know from his laws, will continue to swing until they encounter another object or friction.
He may not have been a team player, but he was also centuries ahead of his time. If DARPA found someone centuries ahead of *our* time, they'd suck it up and bring the guy on.
I bet DARPA has several people who are ahead of their time (or at least highly innovative) but aren't team players. (just agreeing and adding to your comment)
I believe the movie you're looking for starred Harrison Ford and Rutger Hauer.
Just because it's been done before doesn't mean it can't be remade with more special effects, a higher budget and worse actors.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_at_a_Funeral_(2007_film)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_at_a_Funeral_(2010_film)
Wow.... just wow.
I'd also make sure that EVERYONE over 18 had to write a check out to the IRS, for some amount, say $25 (or so) "person" tax. The reason for this is because people who don't pay ANY taxes (now about 50% of the population) don't care about how government spends other people's money.
Devil's advocate: what percentage of that 50% are dependents (children or elderly) or unemployed?
The point is for there to be news items that say:
RIAA wins 54 MILLION DOLLARS in Illegal Music Download case!
It's not about the money per se, it's about media splash to hopefully deter others from doing the same. The IRS uses the same tactic - they just go after the big fish ( Like Martha Stewart) and theoretically, it will dissuade others from cheating on their taxes. Nobody there really believes that they can recover their "losses" by suing. Anyway the real losses, from a strict dollars and cents perspective, are not worth suing over, This is PR via the courts.
Small correction. Martha was busted for insider trading, not cheating on her taxes.
Hahah....
+1 Funny.
In California, one of the states studied, they have cops that exclusively pull people over for phone violations. And still no change.
I think that's because the penalty is what, a $50 ticket?
Have drunk-driver-like enforcement and penalties for driving on your cellphone (without hands-free) or texting and you'll see more of a change.
I guess someone thought it would be an effective way to prevent piracy
Prevent? If Ubisoft releases all games with stuff like this, I won't play a non-pirated Ubisoft game.
Pirated or not, they lost the sale because of their own stupidity.
I wonder if these statistics come from the people placed by the career center. My experience is that only the top (or upper portion) of the class gets hired this way, and often by larger organizations that have money and resources to pay them.
Please people, play some sports outside with your children. They spend so much time at their computer and console games that they're getting too difficult for us old folks to beat. And they're generally fairly annoying about it.
You're just trying to handicap them. You're supposed to practice after they go to bed so you're ready to unleash a 13 hit combo on them. Or headshot them. Whichever.
(before I get marked as evil, I mean IN GAMES)
I'm not sure why this comment has only been scored only 1, it seems a good point to me. Is it incorrect or just obvious?
It depends on if the traffic shaping is based on game-specific characteristic (less likely) or if it's based on point of origin (more likely). So yes, it's another pain.
... to conservatives?
The current predominate "conservative" movement is more interested in big business doing whatever it wants, so Net Neutrality is a threat. AT&T will have to spend more on their ISP and mobile network. Little guys will be able to displace existing large businesses (or at least take a chunk of their pie). I'm not saying that the democrats have a strong interest in protecting consumers either, but it's very clear where the neocons sit.
(this is more about our "leaders" and their mouth pieces and not about normal people)
Slashdot just needs a spell checker.
No... just Timmah!
A robot needs to do more than sit and place and perform a task (even if it is engineered to do it well). Such a loose definition does to the term "robots" what has been done to "cloud (computing)" and "nano (machines / structures)" that everyone wants to slap or back-date on their project to make it sound important / relevant.
As I see it, part of the definition of a robot includes movement. As with the roomba, it has the ability to move around to perform it's task and not be restricted to performing it's task in a single place (which would be a useless vacuum cleaner). In factories, robotic arms may stay mounted in place, but the arms themselves move themselves or parts to assemble cars.
He's not going to jail. He isn't prevented from working. He is merely banned from a competition that holds (relatively) little consequence for showing he had absolutely no respect for the purpose and intent of it. Compare this to olympic bans and being stripped of medals. Some bans are only a few years, but if you go beyond just "screwing up" you can lose all the medals earned to date.
If you want to whine about over-punishment, look at the US criminal justice system where reform is no longer part of the system; it's all about punishment and determent even if it means ruining a teen's life for a victimless crime.
welcome to Windows Mechanical, I see you have picked up a wrench, please wait while Microsoft Clippy WrenchBuddy .NET SP 6 is downloaded.
Not quite. They used the Android to power it, so it'd be closer to:
[Repair] [I'm Feeling Lucky]
I reject your reality and substitute my own.
I will say anecdotally, I've heard Prius batteries lasting well past 100,000 miles (160,000). It's hear-say, but perhaps 100,000 was a guess because they just didn't know.
Tweeting about earthquakes is hardly new — at least in twitter years. People turned to twitter during an earthquake in Southern California in July, 2008, after they finding they were unable to make or receive any cell phone calls, they could still use twitter via SMS or another mobile twitter app.
I find this solution to be really silly. After the Northridge Earthquake in Southern California in 1994, no one in the area could even use the phones. There was too many people trying to make calls for anything to work. The earthquake they're referring to was tiny in comparison. People should be looking to a battery based radio or working with their neighbors to figure out what is going on.
Except.. they say that instead of phones we should use SMS because it's impact on the wireless network is far lighter (see every ./ article about price gouging at 20 cents per 140 characters). That said, if you are on AT&T and wish to use twitter during an emergency good luck trying to get your slice of bandwidth.
"Help, my internet is down!"
Compare that to the money we spend in Iraq. I'll give you a hint: the word you need starts with a "T", not a"B" or "M".
Just better training would make a big difference. Our roads are very Darwinian.