So, you're proposing that we have firemen lighting fires to fight? In this case they're just talking about retrofitting these vehicles that travel all over the place with sensors, they're already having to do these routes whether or not they've got sensors.
The real questions are what sorts of sensors and how do we guard against potential privacy concerns for some types of sensors?
That was my thought, that sort of thinking led Cyrix and AMD to lose serious ground to Intel when they failed to recognize the implications of the FPU to gaming. They were already behind, but this was a pretty significant loss for them.
You're ignoring the fact that we already had OpenGL and that it had been in development and use for many, many years before MS decided to fragment the market. The real question is whether or not it's better than what was the status quo of OpenGL prior to all those stupid specialized APIs for the various graphics accelerators.
The main difference is that consoles top out at 720p, whereas a decent PC graphics card can handle 1080p without too much trouble, even my somewhat antiquated nVidia GeForce 9400GT from a few years back, which cost me less than a hundred dollars at the time, can handle 1080p without too much trouble if it does get a wee bit choppy at times.
When I play anything on the PS3 the aliasing is probably the most notable distraction in terms of graphics, and that only really goes away with high resolutions. Probably way over 1080p, but the more pixels you've got the closer the approximations are and the less anti-aliasing you have to do in order to get rid of the stair stepping. And it's more of a problem now than it used to be now that the hardware can handle things which approximate circles and spheres with significantly increased accuracy.
To be honest, the possible tsunami here isn't worth worrying about. Puget sound is largely isolated so unless the earthquake is somewhere in the Salish sea, it's not going to directly affect us. And if it is in that body of water, the amount of time it takes to react will be a lot more than we've got. Even if folks start runnning for high ground immediately.
Actually, we've been expecting a magnitude 8+ for the last 30 years, and probably more, I can recall the last 25 of those years. At this point it's likely approaching a 9. We've only had a magnitude 5.3 and a 6.8 in the last 15 years or so on top of the regular minor earthquakes. So, we are very much aware that we're due for one.
OTOH, our mayor McJackass seems more concerned with killing our tunnel than with replacing the viaduct that we've known will go down in an earthquake ever since the Loma Prieta quake did the same thing to 880.
By that logic, I guess we can tell the health inspectors to knock if off because all their predictions of food poisoning outbreaks are just a statistical probability.
Seriously, people like you that suggest that these predictions aren't useful because the time frame is so long are a part of the problem. Had the Japanese heeded the warnings about nuclear reactors of that variety in an area that's subject to earthquakes, they wouldn't have spent the last week or working to avoid a major catastrophe.
I'm sitting here in WA and we're still waiting for our mega quake, we know from the energy build up that it's going to be big, but we really don't know how big or when, but because of those predictions we've at least got our building code in order, so that hopefully we'll be in a much better position when the inevitable quake comes along.
Theoretically, that could happen, in practice it's unlikely. The reason why is that if they chose to go that route, they would almost certainly be deprived of the right to claim that they were an Android handset. The software license is hardly the only tool that Google has available to nudge handset manufacturers in the right direction, they could also do like they do now and restrict which phones are allowed to connect to their marketplace.
That's really not analogous. People attacked Apple over the death grip thing because they were claiming that it didn't exist and tried to pawn it off on other issues. On top of that they were outed over not properly testing the device in the first place. Testing a phone's reception while housed in a disguise is hardly what any reasonable person would consider real world testing.
Plus, wasn't RIM the maker with the largest user base during that period?
Ron Paul is a known nutjob and didn't have a snowball's chance in hell of getting elected. McCain could have won had he not made that disastrous choice to turn to the right after he got his party's nomination after the primary and had some plan about how to solve the economic downturn.
So, in other words you think we were wrong at Nuremberg when we prosecuted all those Nazis for following orders? You can't have it both ways, there were war crimes committed by American personnel and it went to the top, that's just with things we knew about previously, now we have a lot more evidence with which to open war crimes proceedings at the Hague for the other stuff that we didn't know about.
Higher healthcare premiums? I'm going to have to call bullshit on that. You act as though they weren't rising out of control prior to healthcare reform. Everybody with half or more of a brain knew that in the short term premiums were going to go up. It's inevitable when you're requiring insurance companies to stop with the pre-existing condtions and booting people for getting sick. And this is the first year that they're required by law to spend at least 80% on actual healthcare for covering individuals or small businesses and 85% for those issuing large polices.
That's the point. AT&T charges you by the amount of bandwidth you use, unless you're grandfathered in on unlimited, and feels the need to charge additionally for the ability to use that bandwidth to tether. It's basically just another scam like the one covering the outrageous cost of text messaging and not counting checking ones voicemail as in network calling, but failing to adequately explain that it's the case.
I know that on libertarian/. arguing for more regulation is bad, but come on, at some point it gets to the point of being a scam. And in this case I'd be perfectly fine with people losing their jobs if it means a more reasonable market place.
For the most part we don't. The CDMA carriers typically won't activate a phone that doesn't have their logo on it, and AT&T doesn't offer a discounted contract for those that don't use the subsidy. The other GSM carriers do, but I'm only positive about T-mobile, and to an extent they do things more like European carriers do, well compared to the other options.
In that case what you do is wait until you get a notification that they're changing the ToS for your plan, then contact customer service and tell them that you reject the changes. They're legally required to either let you out of the contract or remain under the terms of the previous one. I'm not aware of any company allowing customers to remain on the previous terms of the contract so you get out without having to pay the ETF.
Basically by changing the terms they need to have your consent, otherwise they are in breach of contract, and really even if they do let you out, they're likely still in breech of contract, but it's not worthwhile to pursue.
Precisely what crimes has Wikileaks committed? It's perfectly legal to publish materials that have been leaked, and nobody at Wikileaks actually investigates or leaks materials, making me wonder what a government shill like you is on about.
Trustworthy? You do realize that the lack of trust is largely a function of how much effort the various people being harmed by the leaks have put into it, right? I've heard an awful lot of big talk from people about how he's been using his organization to further a political agenda, but I don't see more than a coincidental correlation. It's far too likely that it's a combination of lack of resources and public interest that's been driving the choice of materials leaked.
I fail to see how choosing somebody else to head the organization isn't going to result in that individual being smeared in a similar fashion by folks like you that don't like what he's leaking.
You do realize that in a system like that, those who aren't rich won't have any say at all because what self respecting politician is going to roll over for a fiver, right?
He doesn't require your approval. I realize that it's hard to believe, but perhaps the fact that many tens of thousands are dead because of the Bush administrations decision to go to war, without cause, is of interest because hundreds of thousands died for no good reason and that the period after the invasion was arguable worse than most of Hussein's period in power.
But, no, this is clearly evidence of a vendetta by Assange against the US government rather than a combination of a lack of resources and a compelling international interest in the information.
Except that there are already products on the market that do just that. I've got one for my motorcycle helmet that will out last the helmet I've got it installed in.
Probably because this has already been invented. I've got a really nice permanent anti-fog lens for my motorcycle helmet, and it'll easily outlast the helmet itself, which is as permanent as I could use.
It's got nothing to do with the temperature, it's just that as the temp gets lower the carrying capacity of air gets lower and you get more condensation on the shield. I've personally seen my helmet fog up when the whether was well into the 80s. Which is why I promptly bought a permanent fog proof lens for my helmet.
Which is also why I'm a bit surprised that/. is this many years behind a permanent fog proof coating being developed. I got mine from Pinlock
I agree. Business cards are the same size so that they can fit in the same case with the other ones. My mother got a business card from our state representative and it was the standard size, but had braille on it as well as the normal writing.
I'm looking forward to cards having QR codes on them so that I can take my phone and just directly scan the information in and give them back the card. I'm sure folks are already doing it, but I'd like it to be common. Plus, if I want to just visit their site quickly I'm sure I could do that without much trouble.
Discovery does work both ways, but the problem is that those that have donated or otherwise given him money during that time period don't have the ability to fight this. We don't know exactly what they're up to, but I wouldn't put it past Sony to find a reason to drag them into it, with or without cause.
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So, you're proposing that we have firemen lighting fires to fight? In this case they're just talking about retrofitting these vehicles that travel all over the place with sensors, they're already having to do these routes whether or not they've got sensors.
The real questions are what sorts of sensors and how do we guard against potential privacy concerns for some types of sensors?
That was my thought, that sort of thinking led Cyrix and AMD to lose serious ground to Intel when they failed to recognize the implications of the FPU to gaming. They were already behind, but this was a pretty significant loss for them.
Plus, wasn't this one of the ideas behind RISC?
You're ignoring the fact that we already had OpenGL and that it had been in development and use for many, many years before MS decided to fragment the market. The real question is whether or not it's better than what was the status quo of OpenGL prior to all those stupid specialized APIs for the various graphics accelerators.
The main difference is that consoles top out at 720p, whereas a decent PC graphics card can handle 1080p without too much trouble, even my somewhat antiquated nVidia GeForce 9400GT from a few years back, which cost me less than a hundred dollars at the time, can handle 1080p without too much trouble if it does get a wee bit choppy at times.
When I play anything on the PS3 the aliasing is probably the most notable distraction in terms of graphics, and that only really goes away with high resolutions. Probably way over 1080p, but the more pixels you've got the closer the approximations are and the less anti-aliasing you have to do in order to get rid of the stair stepping. And it's more of a problem now than it used to be now that the hardware can handle things which approximate circles and spheres with significantly increased accuracy.
To be honest, the possible tsunami here isn't worth worrying about. Puget sound is largely isolated so unless the earthquake is somewhere in the Salish sea, it's not going to directly affect us. And if it is in that body of water, the amount of time it takes to react will be a lot more than we've got. Even if folks start runnning for high ground immediately.
Actually, we've been expecting a magnitude 8+ for the last 30 years, and probably more, I can recall the last 25 of those years. At this point it's likely approaching a 9. We've only had a magnitude 5.3 and a 6.8 in the last 15 years or so on top of the regular minor earthquakes. So, we are very much aware that we're due for one.
OTOH, our mayor McJackass seems more concerned with killing our tunnel than with replacing the viaduct that we've known will go down in an earthquake ever since the Loma Prieta quake did the same thing to 880.
By that logic, I guess we can tell the health inspectors to knock if off because all their predictions of food poisoning outbreaks are just a statistical probability.
Seriously, people like you that suggest that these predictions aren't useful because the time frame is so long are a part of the problem. Had the Japanese heeded the warnings about nuclear reactors of that variety in an area that's subject to earthquakes, they wouldn't have spent the last week or working to avoid a major catastrophe.
I'm sitting here in WA and we're still waiting for our mega quake, we know from the energy build up that it's going to be big, but we really don't know how big or when, but because of those predictions we've at least got our building code in order, so that hopefully we'll be in a much better position when the inevitable quake comes along.
Theoretically, that could happen, in practice it's unlikely. The reason why is that if they chose to go that route, they would almost certainly be deprived of the right to claim that they were an Android handset. The software license is hardly the only tool that Google has available to nudge handset manufacturers in the right direction, they could also do like they do now and restrict which phones are allowed to connect to their marketplace.
That's really not analogous. People attacked Apple over the death grip thing because they were claiming that it didn't exist and tried to pawn it off on other issues. On top of that they were outed over not properly testing the device in the first place. Testing a phone's reception while housed in a disguise is hardly what any reasonable person would consider real world testing.
Plus, wasn't RIM the maker with the largest user base during that period?
Ron Paul is a known nutjob and didn't have a snowball's chance in hell of getting elected. McCain could have won had he not made that disastrous choice to turn to the right after he got his party's nomination after the primary and had some plan about how to solve the economic downturn.
So, in other words you think we were wrong at Nuremberg when we prosecuted all those Nazis for following orders? You can't have it both ways, there were war crimes committed by American personnel and it went to the top, that's just with things we knew about previously, now we have a lot more evidence with which to open war crimes proceedings at the Hague for the other stuff that we didn't know about.
Higher healthcare premiums? I'm going to have to call bullshit on that. You act as though they weren't rising out of control prior to healthcare reform. Everybody with half or more of a brain knew that in the short term premiums were going to go up. It's inevitable when you're requiring insurance companies to stop with the pre-existing condtions and booting people for getting sick. And this is the first year that they're required by law to spend at least 80% on actual healthcare for covering individuals or small businesses and 85% for those issuing large polices.
That's the point. AT&T charges you by the amount of bandwidth you use, unless you're grandfathered in on unlimited, and feels the need to charge additionally for the ability to use that bandwidth to tether. It's basically just another scam like the one covering the outrageous cost of text messaging and not counting checking ones voicemail as in network calling, but failing to adequately explain that it's the case.
I know that on libertarian /. arguing for more regulation is bad, but come on, at some point it gets to the point of being a scam. And in this case I'd be perfectly fine with people losing their jobs if it means a more reasonable market place.
For the most part we don't. The CDMA carriers typically won't activate a phone that doesn't have their logo on it, and AT&T doesn't offer a discounted contract for those that don't use the subsidy. The other GSM carriers do, but I'm only positive about T-mobile, and to an extent they do things more like European carriers do, well compared to the other options.
In that case what you do is wait until you get a notification that they're changing the ToS for your plan, then contact customer service and tell them that you reject the changes. They're legally required to either let you out of the contract or remain under the terms of the previous one. I'm not aware of any company allowing customers to remain on the previous terms of the contract so you get out without having to pay the ETF.
Basically by changing the terms they need to have your consent, otherwise they are in breach of contract, and really even if they do let you out, they're likely still in breech of contract, but it's not worthwhile to pursue.
Precisely what crimes has Wikileaks committed? It's perfectly legal to publish materials that have been leaked, and nobody at Wikileaks actually investigates or leaks materials, making me wonder what a government shill like you is on about.
Trustworthy? You do realize that the lack of trust is largely a function of how much effort the various people being harmed by the leaks have put into it, right? I've heard an awful lot of big talk from people about how he's been using his organization to further a political agenda, but I don't see more than a coincidental correlation. It's far too likely that it's a combination of lack of resources and public interest that's been driving the choice of materials leaked.
I fail to see how choosing somebody else to head the organization isn't going to result in that individual being smeared in a similar fashion by folks like you that don't like what he's leaking.
You do realize that in a system like that, those who aren't rich won't have any say at all because what self respecting politician is going to roll over for a fiver, right?
He doesn't require your approval. I realize that it's hard to believe, but perhaps the fact that many tens of thousands are dead because of the Bush administrations decision to go to war, without cause, is of interest because hundreds of thousands died for no good reason and that the period after the invasion was arguable worse than most of Hussein's period in power.
But, no, this is clearly evidence of a vendetta by Assange against the US government rather than a combination of a lack of resources and a compelling international interest in the information.
Except that there are already products on the market that do just that. I've got one for my motorcycle helmet that will out last the helmet I've got it installed in.
Probably because this has already been invented. I've got a really nice permanent anti-fog lens for my motorcycle helmet, and it'll easily outlast the helmet itself, which is as permanent as I could use.
It's got nothing to do with the temperature, it's just that as the temp gets lower the carrying capacity of air gets lower and you get more condensation on the shield. I've personally seen my helmet fog up when the whether was well into the 80s. Which is why I promptly bought a permanent fog proof lens for my helmet.
Which is also why I'm a bit surprised that /. is this many years behind a permanent fog proof coating being developed. I got mine from Pinlock
Just wait for the next version when he figures out how to embed itching powder in it.
I agree. Business cards are the same size so that they can fit in the same case with the other ones. My mother got a business card from our state representative and it was the standard size, but had braille on it as well as the normal writing.
I'm looking forward to cards having QR codes on them so that I can take my phone and just directly scan the information in and give them back the card. I'm sure folks are already doing it, but I'd like it to be common. Plus, if I want to just visit their site quickly I'm sure I could do that without much trouble.
Discovery does work both ways, but the problem is that those that have donated or otherwise given him money during that time period don't have the ability to fight this. We don't know exactly what they're up to, but I wouldn't put it past Sony to find a reason to drag them into it, with or without cause.