The difference being... the can use force to do whatever they want. If they do so without a warrant, then they have broken the law. If they have a warrant, they are operating within the law, and you cannot seek any sort of legal remedy.
I have to totally agree with you, the value of a lecture from a talented and knowledgeable lecturer is immense. I think it's necessary to point to learning theory, though. Some people learn better from reading; others hearing.
I tend to be of the exact opposite opinion of the GP, though: if a teacher can't teach you what you need to know without forcing to "learn it on your own" out of a book, he's no teacher at all, he's a classroom monitor. If I wanted to learn out of a book, I'd pay $40 at Barnes and Noble, not $300 a credit hour at a university.
There is a definite advantage to having an electric drivetrain with an add-on generator that can run off fuel. This is probably where cars will go. For one, the electric drivetrains are, in theory, easier to produce. Secondly, you could run it off batteries if you wanted to.
Whatever your fuel is doesn't really matter. With an electric drivetrain, you can use any kind of fuel. If we move to hydrogen, put in a hydrogen fuel cell. If it's batteries, use chargeable batteries. If find a novel way to produce man-made hydrocarbons or biofuels, then use that in a generator that can burn them. I'm looking forward to a "hydrogen battery", where a closed system can both generate (from electricity) and consume hydrogen as fuel. The "tank" could be swapped out at a station designed for such a task if you were taking long trips. Best of both worlds, plus really high energy density.
I would guess that the weight of the craft isn't evenly balanced, because of the asymmetrical nature of some of the electrical equipment or some such. Thus, it needs differently shaped wings to compensate, as mechanical or more traditional propulsion mechanisms aren't viable given its limited energy availability.
If I could prescribe my own medicines, treatments, or surgeries -- and have insurance pick up the tab -- then I'd wholly agree with you. But the doctor is often the gateway (or sometimes barrier) to a treatment. I'm the same way with the help desk. If I am calling, it's to tell them what I need done to fix my problem, because it's something I can't do myself. For example, send me a replacement part, or perhaps alter a configuration setting that I don't have access to. Occasionally, it's something along the lines of a piece of information they might have access to in a service manual or some such that it's public, but that's very rare. On the occasions where you need "expertise", it's usually well into the second or third tier of support. (Like a specialist or surgeon with an emphasis in certain things, who will usually listen to you and do more investigation, because you've already been through the general practitioner, and perhaps even a specialist.)
The bottom line is, in some form or fashion, I'm paying for it, and I'm paying a great deal. Like any expensive service, you ought to get what you ask for, however you want it, within reason. I don't understand why health and education work as a business when it comes to money, but on the service side, you get treated as if you're being done a favor; not as if you are purchasing a service.
Totally agree! I think pixel pitch ought to be a function of DDC (or it's modern equivalent), and when you set a DPI, you're actually dealing with DPI.
So a 3" x 2" dialog box on my screen is the exact same size as one on your screen.
THEN, and ONLY THEN do we apply a second "scaling factor" which can resize the entirety of the visual interface, or maybe even apply it to individual elements.
Given LCD's are the norm now, and they have a native resolution, this kind of technology would only make sense. Even for games: you render the frames at whatever resolution you can handle, then have the video card do a computationally cheap scale up (or, gasp, down!) to fit the resolution of the screen.
I really hate when people in my old office would change their LCD to a non-native resolution and have it look all, ahm, "janky", just so they everything was big enough for them to read. I would try the ole' DPI setting, but it really just did more harm than good. Some video cards had a workaround that sent the signal to the monitor at native resolution, and scaled the image, but for the most part, we had to rely on the monitor's scaler, which usually totally sucked.
Though in fairness, don't you think they'd have left some kind of probe or satellite; or that they're still watching us from afar? I mean, if they are smart enough to zoom around the universe, they ought to be smart enough to figure out we'd eventually evolve into something significant.
It's a scary door to open, though. Because as easily as the Nazca Lines and a lot of our other mythology could be attributed to aliens, our own existence could as well. Maybe we stepped ahead of the other species on this planet because we had a little help. Who really knows? It's just all really wild speculation. Interesting speculation, though.
The breaking reaction time was 20% lower, but they gave themselves 30% more following distance. Is that overall a net gain in safety? Someone should work out the math on that...
I think the legal procedure to accomplish what you're talking about would be for a higher court to set a precedent on the existing reckless driving law. Determining if something is "reckless driving" or not is, after all, up to the courts. Of course, using categorical logic, we can figure on not needing a new law specifically for text-driving UNLESS there are cases in which texting while driving doesn't constitute recklessness.
Maybe he can put my friend's annoying cat in a box that's rigged up to release a hammer that will shattering a vial of acid if a radioactive isotope decays. Though in practice, nothing will change. It seems like it simultaneously may or may not claw me at any given point. I can't see how it simultaneously being dead or alive will be any more or less predictable than its own capricious nature, with respect to being clawed.
More than likely, very few printers being used to print emails in serious office environments are color printers. Black and white laster printers don't do the dots. I would supposed this could be useful for the offices that have a personal inkjet printer; most of those are color, and do the dots.
This is true, but you can also purchase "full spectrum" CFLs, though they're usually more expensive. I have bought lots of different kinds, and the quality of the light varies quite a bit between them.
I personally don't like the light given off by an incandescent bulb. It seems "dirty" to me. The neodymium bulbs gave off much better light. My favorite was a 5000K CFL I got at a local light bulb store. I only paid a slight premium for it over what you'd buy elsewhere.
I think a lot of the problems comes from the fact that sending a current through tungsten in a glass bulb full of argon gas is very simple, and produces nearly identical results every time. The technology of fluorescent lighting is a lot more complicated by comparison, and there are a lot more variables that can alter the results in subtle ways.
A lot of consumer products are like that, and your choices are limited. You try different brands until you find what you like. You see what your friends and family use, you check consumer reports, you check online (forums are great for this), or most likely, you are influenced by price and the packaging, or brand recognition.
There are two factors causing a lot of the poor reception of CFLs, I think. First, with incandescent bulbs, any brand performed the same and you could buy solely on price. Second, the major names (I am looking at you GE and Sylvania) have products that are mediocre at best, and their labeling is not very helpful.
Oh yeah, let's "just move". That's a great solution.
I'd love better public transit; I'm not a big fan of driving -- particularly the expenses associated with it. But in a lot of places, it's necessary. Relocation is a much bigger expense and hassle, though. Being away from loved ones not withstanding.
"Movement" is relative. So if this hypothetical universe only consisted of the one molecule, it actually couldn't move, because it has nothing to move in relation to. If it exists in a universe with other matter, the other matter could move in relation to this molecule, causing a timeline of events.
You also have to ponder upon the atomic and subatomic particles; if they are moving, then the molecule could be stationary, but you could still measure a change in a timeline.
Ah, more ammo for my argument that GPA means absolutely nothing beyond being diligent in completing assignments -- definitely not correlated with intelligence. In my experience the smartest kids are usually so bored with their studies they don't have the resolve to really apply themselves to completing them.
Well... it IS easier to buy a video card that says DX10, and know that a game that says DX10 is going to run on it. Trying to keep up with all the extensions your card is going to support or not when you're at the store looking at games on a shelf would be a nightmare.
Actually, if you rely on your laptop manufacturer to provide you updated drivers, they DO suck. The decision to over the drivers from their website for mobile cards is an amazing decision they should've made years ago.
Maybe I'm confused, but aren't the real-world benefits of exercise and fitness way better than any a game could offer? I mean, if you can't entice someone with feeling great, longer life, and getting laid a lot, do you really think you can entice them with pixels on a screen? Really? I mean, I love me some video games, but... really?
I think there is an aversion of activity that exceeds the rewards of it. Adding more rewards isn't really going to help, because the current rewards are, well, just amazing. I mean, it doesn't get much better than being hot, being healthier, and long life.
A lot of things are human life. That doesn't make them a person. Tumors are human life. My arm is human life. Both are removed sometimes.
I would consider the conservative position more, were it at least consistent.
What about capital punishment?
What about drafts and warmongering policies?
What about torture?
What about medical insurance for all?
What about foreign aid, sanctions, and diplomacy to help nations who are victim to poverty, and easily preventable starvation and disease claims the lives of many?
If you kept a consistent opinion on the sanctity of life, then I might take you seriously.
That's great, but do you know how much more the bill is going to be for an ambulance? Most people would rather drive and try to avoid even more cost they can't afford. (The ER is already absurdly priced.)
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The difference being... the can use force to do whatever they want. If they do so without a warrant, then they have broken the law. If they have a warrant, they are operating within the law, and you cannot seek any sort of legal remedy.
I have to totally agree with you, the value of a lecture from a talented and knowledgeable lecturer is immense. I think it's necessary to point to learning theory, though. Some people learn better from reading; others hearing.
I tend to be of the exact opposite opinion of the GP, though: if a teacher can't teach you what you need to know without forcing to "learn it on your own" out of a book, he's no teacher at all, he's a classroom monitor. If I wanted to learn out of a book, I'd pay $40 at Barnes and Noble, not $300 a credit hour at a university.
There is a definite advantage to having an electric drivetrain with an add-on generator that can run off fuel. This is probably where cars will go. For one, the electric drivetrains are, in theory, easier to produce. Secondly, you could run it off batteries if you wanted to.
Whatever your fuel is doesn't really matter. With an electric drivetrain, you can use any kind of fuel. If we move to hydrogen, put in a hydrogen fuel cell. If it's batteries, use chargeable batteries. If find a novel way to produce man-made hydrocarbons or biofuels, then use that in a generator that can burn them. I'm looking forward to a "hydrogen battery", where a closed system can both generate (from electricity) and consume hydrogen as fuel. The "tank" could be swapped out at a station designed for such a task if you were taking long trips. Best of both worlds, plus really high energy density.
I would guess that the weight of the craft isn't evenly balanced, because of the asymmetrical nature of some of the electrical equipment or some such. Thus, it needs differently shaped wings to compensate, as mechanical or more traditional propulsion mechanisms aren't viable given its limited energy availability.
If I could prescribe my own medicines, treatments, or surgeries -- and have insurance pick up the tab -- then I'd wholly agree with you. But the doctor is often the gateway (or sometimes barrier) to a treatment. I'm the same way with the help desk. If I am calling, it's to tell them what I need done to fix my problem, because it's something I can't do myself. For example, send me a replacement part, or perhaps alter a configuration setting that I don't have access to. Occasionally, it's something along the lines of a piece of information they might have access to in a service manual or some such that it's public, but that's very rare. On the occasions where you need "expertise", it's usually well into the second or third tier of support. (Like a specialist or surgeon with an emphasis in certain things, who will usually listen to you and do more investigation, because you've already been through the general practitioner, and perhaps even a specialist.)
The bottom line is, in some form or fashion, I'm paying for it, and I'm paying a great deal. Like any expensive service, you ought to get what you ask for, however you want it, within reason. I don't understand why health and education work as a business when it comes to money, but on the service side, you get treated as if you're being done a favor; not as if you are purchasing a service.
Totally agree! I think pixel pitch ought to be a function of DDC (or it's modern equivalent), and when you set a DPI, you're actually dealing with DPI.
So a 3" x 2" dialog box on my screen is the exact same size as one on your screen.
THEN, and ONLY THEN do we apply a second "scaling factor" which can resize the entirety of the visual interface, or maybe even apply it to individual elements.
Given LCD's are the norm now, and they have a native resolution, this kind of technology would only make sense. Even for games: you render the frames at whatever resolution you can handle, then have the video card do a computationally cheap scale up (or, gasp, down!) to fit the resolution of the screen.
I really hate when people in my old office would change their LCD to a non-native resolution and have it look all, ahm, "janky", just so they everything was big enough for them to read. I would try the ole' DPI setting, but it really just did more harm than good. Some video cards had a workaround that sent the signal to the monitor at native resolution, and scaled the image, but for the most part, we had to rely on the monitor's scaler, which usually totally sucked.
Though in fairness, don't you think they'd have left some kind of probe or satellite; or that they're still watching us from afar? I mean, if they are smart enough to zoom around the universe, they ought to be smart enough to figure out we'd eventually evolve into something significant.
It's a scary door to open, though. Because as easily as the Nazca Lines and a lot of our other mythology could be attributed to aliens, our own existence could as well. Maybe we stepped ahead of the other species on this planet because we had a little help. Who really knows? It's just all really wild speculation. Interesting speculation, though.
The breaking reaction time was 20% lower, but they gave themselves 30% more following distance. Is that overall a net gain in safety? Someone should work out the math on that...
I think the legal procedure to accomplish what you're talking about would be for a higher court to set a precedent on the existing reckless driving law. Determining if something is "reckless driving" or not is, after all, up to the courts. Of course, using categorical logic, we can figure on not needing a new law specifically for text-driving UNLESS there are cases in which texting while driving doesn't constitute recklessness.
Maybe he can put my friend's annoying cat in a box that's rigged up to release a hammer that will shattering a vial of acid if a radioactive isotope decays. Though in practice, nothing will change. It seems like it simultaneously may or may not claw me at any given point. I can't see how it simultaneously being dead or alive will be any more or less predictable than its own capricious nature, with respect to being clawed.
More than likely, very few printers being used to print emails in serious office environments are color printers. Black and white laster printers don't do the dots. I would supposed this could be useful for the offices that have a personal inkjet printer; most of those are color, and do the dots.
This is true, but you can also purchase "full spectrum" CFLs, though they're usually more expensive. I have bought lots of different kinds, and the quality of the light varies quite a bit between them.
I personally don't like the light given off by an incandescent bulb. It seems "dirty" to me. The neodymium bulbs gave off much better light. My favorite was a 5000K CFL I got at a local light bulb store. I only paid a slight premium for it over what you'd buy elsewhere.
I think a lot of the problems comes from the fact that sending a current through tungsten in a glass bulb full of argon gas is very simple, and produces nearly identical results every time. The technology of fluorescent lighting is a lot more complicated by comparison, and there are a lot more variables that can alter the results in subtle ways.
A lot of consumer products are like that, and your choices are limited. You try different brands until you find what you like. You see what your friends and family use, you check consumer reports, you check online (forums are great for this), or most likely, you are influenced by price and the packaging, or brand recognition.
There are two factors causing a lot of the poor reception of CFLs, I think. First, with incandescent bulbs, any brand performed the same and you could buy solely on price. Second, the major names (I am looking at you GE and Sylvania) have products that are mediocre at best, and their labeling is not very helpful.
Oh yeah, let's "just move". That's a great solution.
I'd love better public transit; I'm not a big fan of driving -- particularly the expenses associated with it. But in a lot of places, it's necessary. Relocation is a much bigger expense and hassle, though. Being away from loved ones not withstanding.
"Movement" is relative. So if this hypothetical universe only consisted of the one molecule, it actually couldn't move, because it has nothing to move in relation to. If it exists in a universe with other matter, the other matter could move in relation to this molecule, causing a timeline of events.
You also have to ponder upon the atomic and subatomic particles; if they are moving, then the molecule could be stationary, but you could still measure a change in a timeline.
Ah, more ammo for my argument that GPA means absolutely nothing beyond being diligent in completing assignments -- definitely not correlated with intelligence. In my experience the smartest kids are usually so bored with their studies they don't have the resolve to really apply themselves to completing them.
I'd be shocked if Apple didn't have a CDMA and Worldwide GSM variant of their phone in the lab.
Why can't it be more like Sovereign Glue meets Universal Solvent?
Well... it IS easier to buy a video card that says DX10, and know that a game that says DX10 is going to run on it. Trying to keep up with all the extensions your card is going to support or not when you're at the store looking at games on a shelf would be a nightmare.
Actually, if you rely on your laptop manufacturer to provide you updated drivers, they DO suck. The decision to over the drivers from their website for mobile cards is an amazing decision they should've made years ago.
He's trying to say he's frugal, not logically consistent! Get with it, man!
Maybe I'm confused, but aren't the real-world benefits of exercise and fitness way better than any a game could offer? I mean, if you can't entice someone with feeling great, longer life, and getting laid a lot, do you really think you can entice them with pixels on a screen? Really? I mean, I love me some video games, but... really?
I think there is an aversion of activity that exceeds the rewards of it. Adding more rewards isn't really going to help, because the current rewards are, well, just amazing. I mean, it doesn't get much better than being hot, being healthier, and long life.
Kindof. It may just mean that the flash plugin for IE is less battery intensive than the flash plugin for FF.
We'd have to no-flash, flash-only, and a mix to figure it out. The tests here didn't.
This can't turn into a comparison of Microsoft vs Mozilla... it's probably more like a comparison of Adobe programmers on different teams.
A lot of things are human life. That doesn't make them a person. Tumors are human life. My arm is human life. Both are removed sometimes.
I would consider the conservative position more, were it at least consistent.
What about capital punishment?
What about drafts and warmongering policies?
What about torture?
What about medical insurance for all?
What about foreign aid, sanctions, and diplomacy to help nations who are victim to poverty, and easily preventable starvation and disease claims the lives of many?
If you kept a consistent opinion on the sanctity of life, then I might take you seriously.
That's great, but do you know how much more the bill is going to be for an ambulance? Most people would rather drive and try to avoid even more cost they can't afford. (The ER is already absurdly priced.)
Absolutely beautiful!
Some people spew a lot of vitriol at AC's in general, and then one posts a beautiful gem like this.
Likely just because they don't want to harm their karma with the way Funny mods work. +5 Funny and +2 Overrated-MS-Fanboi is a bing on your karma.