They had map integration a long time ago. I noticed several e-mails where there was a link on the right side that said "Map this address" or the like. I guess they took it out because it mismatched too often?
Condos for the win! I don't have to clean the pool, mow the yard, maintain the mower, paint the walls, rebuild the decks, or weed the flowers. Nor do I have to pay several separate bills, and I get to use as much water as I want!
Every time I hear my brother bitch about yardwork, I smile. My grass is always green and the lake is very pretty.
Yeah, my front door isn't neon, but people refer to my office as 'the computer shrine'. To each their own.:)
If it makes you feel any better, you successfully interpreted the intent of the project *despite* being fooled.
The repetition of phrases like "november in atlanta" made me believe they were canned responses, before I found the discovery channel video. There, the first giveaway was that the first person to talk was an animator, not an intelligent systems expert.
fossil fuel power plant: up to 40% [2] transmission loss: 7.2% [3] ideal loss in charging a capacitor is 0% [4] electric motor efficiency: 90% (commonly quoted, too lazy to find good reference right now) final total: (40*(1-.072)*(0.9) = 33.4%
How much fuel? A bit less. Also less weight to carry. Also power that comes from solar, wind, or nukes.
Between 36% and 40%*. Anyway, the discussion wasn't about pollution but the ammount of power being stored in this capacitor. Which happens to be around a third less than the ammount of power stored in the tank of fuel that would get you equivalent mileage.
So guns that everyone wants because they're good/cheap/whatever will end up more expensive. The game will balance itself so that all guns are equally used.
I once tried to cut a zip tie with a fairly heavy duty pair of scissors, where I couldn't slip the tie closer than about 2 inches to the hinge. Snapped one of the scissor's blades off. It was an old pair of scissors, but still, wtf? That must have been some shoddy steel.
So the other day I uploaded some pictures to a website. After uploading, I clicked on some button I was curious about labeled 'EXIF'. I had heard about EXIF tags, but wasn't familiar with what they contained. Low and behold, it had everything about the camera, the camera settings, and my personal info, including name. There's no way to even enter text on my camera. How did it get my name? It was even on pictures I had retrieved on someone else's laptop, so it's definitely my camera that has my name on it, somewhere.
Didn't take long to find an exif stripper program, but sheesh...
BTW, I think some EXIF or other tags contain a thumbnail that gets left by most image editing software. There was some website that cataloged images found on the web that reveal edited info.
You might have a point about the SIZE of the industry that fixes virus and spyware issues, but in general it's really not too hard to support an industry.
For example, there are industries supported by the pressure the Mormon church puts on young members to start a family and buy a house before they're financially stable.
However, I would like to point out that adding a third wheel would actually render the Segway unusable. The entire point is that you can't make a scooter that is short in the dimension of travel that has a high center of gravity without the technology that was developed for the segway. Every time you so much as tapped the gas or break, you'd flip over. Instead of having the user adjust their balance to match acceleration, the segway uses the center of balance to determine acceleration, negating the entire problem.
A small footprint like the segway has allows you to do things that are terribly inconvenient with something like a motorcycle or bike, like manuver in an elevator or around pedestrians. We've learned in 5 years that a lot of pedestrians hate them however, so the value of it remains to be seen.
Just for the record, the record for highest plane flight (108 km) is 0.25% of the length of the space elevator cable (40,000 km). Not much reason to stop at 99.9% complete (few planes go above 40 km). This also solves most of the terrorism aspect - as someone else said, if some nitwit flies a plane into it, you can always fix the last 0.1%.
Aww, come on, that engine sounded awesome. My brother drove a mercedes diesel station wagon for a long time. I still smile every time I hear one (usually from over half a mile away, heh).
Hah. For a moment I read that as "dead deceased animals" and was more worried about them feeding LIVE deceased animals to livestock. Mmm, zombie cow.:)
What you're arguing is that each unit makes slightly more money than materials, so you have to sell a lot to make up the cost of infrastucture. Duh, no shit, basic econ.
I don't know what KFG was talking about, but 'per unit loss' sounds like "Each unit sells for less than cost of materials". Which would mean you're losing money per unit ON TOP of infrastucture. What I'm guessing is going on here (assuming kfg's not talking out of his ass, and I'm not being dumb), is that they have, for example, some deal with companies like dell where they're being paid a lump sum for a contract to provide units at a certain cost, or some wierd such backroom nonsense that is certainly not basic econ 101.
It'd be nice if the original poster would clarify, but I think you're making too many assumptions.
Regardless, you probably can't buy single units because the manufactures make to order, rather than pay for warehousing costs for units waiting to sell.
Because you'll waste time trying to figure out what it means and how to deal with it. Instead, you could have spent more time training filters on data you KNOW is spam, or somesuch measurably productive activity.
If you have any references for the social aptitudes of homeschoolees, I'd like to read them. It's sadly contrary to the popular beliefs I've heard.
In my own experience, whether a person was homeschooled isn't a common question, and the over-confident, socially maladjusted people are the ones most likely to announce that they're obviously smart because they're homeschooled. It's hard to judge objectively and easy to jump to conclusions (something too many people are all to happy to do).
It'd be nice to read something on the matter with numbers.
I should ammend that... Must avoid the temptation to pretend to be an expert because I read a wikipedia article...
I'm unaware of any cases where attractive nuisance has been extended beyond the defintion given in the wikipedia article. They may in fact exist. The WP article is a pretty clear indication that the intent of Attractive Nuisance doctrine is incompatible with setting someone up to destroy their own property by committing an illegal action. If you know of other uses of it, please elaborate, because otherwise I think you're misusing the doctrine yourself.
Personally, I don't see much wrong with letting a criminal screw himself in ways other than bodily harm.
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They had map integration a long time ago. I noticed several e-mails where there was a link on the right side that said "Map this address" or the like. I guess they took it out because it mismatched too often?
Condos for the win! I don't have to clean the pool, mow the yard, maintain the mower, paint the walls, rebuild the decks, or weed the flowers. Nor do I have to pay several separate bills, and I get to use as much water as I want!
:)
Every time I hear my brother bitch about yardwork, I smile. My grass is always green and the lake is very pretty.
Yeah, my front door isn't neon, but people refer to my office as 'the computer shrine'. To each their own.
If it makes you feel any better, you successfully interpreted the intent of the project *despite* being fooled.
The repetition of phrases like "november in atlanta" made me believe they were canned responses, before I found the discovery channel video. There, the first giveaway was that the first person to talk was an animator, not an intelligent systems expert.
normal car: avg 22% [1]
t ation_statistics/2005/html/table_04_23.htmla ntm ission#Losses
new car: max 30% [1]
fossil fuel power plant: up to 40% [2]
transmission loss: 7.2% [3]
ideal loss in charging a capacitor is 0% [4]
electric motor efficiency: 90% (commonly quoted, too lazy to find good reference right now)
final total: (40*(1-.072)*(0.9) = 33.4%
How much fuel? A bit less. Also less weight to carry. Also power that comes from solar, wind, or nukes.
5 minutes of google searching: priceless
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1. http://www.bts.gov/publications/national_transpor
2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fossil_fuel_power_pl
3. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_power_trans
4. http://www.smpstech.com/charge.htm#SOLVABILITY
Between 36% and 40%*. Anyway, the discussion wasn't about pollution but the ammount of power being stored in this capacitor. Which happens to be around a third less than the ammount of power stored in the tank of fuel that would get you equivalent mileage.
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Try the decaf.
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fossil_fuel_power_pl
Ya know... most cars have rear seats...
So guns that everyone wants because they're good/cheap/whatever will end up more expensive. The game will balance itself so that all guns are equally used.
I think it sounds neat.
But then, I don't play CS.
That explains the production delays.
Yup, Canon A70. I had been using the Canon software in win2k, which I had forgotten about since I just use the generic XP transfer lately.
Thanks for the heads up on poor tag strippers.
I once tried to cut a zip tie with a fairly heavy duty pair of scissors, where I couldn't slip the tie closer than about 2 inches to the hinge. Snapped one of the scissor's blades off. It was an old pair of scissors, but still, wtf? That must have been some shoddy steel.
Zip ties are evil.
So the other day I uploaded some pictures to a website. After uploading, I clicked on some button I was curious about labeled 'EXIF'. I had heard about EXIF tags, but wasn't familiar with what they contained. Low and behold, it had everything about the camera, the camera settings, and my personal info, including name. There's no way to even enter text on my camera. How did it get my name? It was even on pictures I had retrieved on someone else's laptop, so it's definitely my camera that has my name on it, somewhere.
Didn't take long to find an exif stripper program, but sheesh...
BTW, I think some EXIF or other tags contain a thumbnail that gets left by most image editing software. There was some website that cataloged images found on the web that reveal edited info.
You might have a point about the SIZE of the industry that fixes virus and spyware issues, but in general it's really not too hard to support an industry.
For example, there are industries supported by the pressure the Mormon church puts on young members to start a family and buy a house before they're financially stable.
I laughed a lot the first time I saw that.
However, I would like to point out that adding a third wheel would actually render the Segway unusable. The entire point is that you can't make a scooter that is short in the dimension of travel that has a high center of gravity without the technology that was developed for the segway. Every time you so much as tapped the gas or break, you'd flip over. Instead of having the user adjust their balance to match acceleration, the segway uses the center of balance to determine acceleration, negating the entire problem.
A small footprint like the segway has allows you to do things that are terribly inconvenient with something like a motorcycle or bike, like manuver in an elevator or around pedestrians. We've learned in 5 years that a lot of pedestrians hate them however, so the value of it remains to be seen.
Just for the record, the record for highest plane flight (108 km) is 0.25% of the length of the space elevator cable (40,000 km). Not much reason to stop at 99.9% complete (few planes go above 40 km). This also solves most of the terrorism aspect - as someone else said, if some nitwit flies a plane into it, you can always fix the last 0.1%.
In days of old
When knights were bold
And toilets not invented
Men laid their load
Beside the road
And walked away contented
I think he was just looking for a place to brain dump. I certainly found it an interesting read.
He addressed the point about weaving. From what I've read their current answer is glue. The glue must also be developed.
I wonder how they'll interpret Duke Nukem shooting a purple alien in the chin. I'll probably just get ads for Duke Nukem Forever. Forever.
Good god, I just realized I've been using the same mouse pad for over 10 years now. And I don't think it's even been washed.
Sounds like a good list.
So what MMORPG would Total Annihilation be? I hated starcraft, but I still play TA pretty often.
Aww, come on, that engine sounded awesome. My brother drove a mercedes diesel station wagon for a long time. I still smile every time I hear one (usually from over half a mile away, heh).
Hah. For a moment I read that as "dead deceased animals" and was more worried about them feeding LIVE deceased animals to livestock. Mmm, zombie cow. :)
Cheers!
You missed the 'Post Anonymously' checkbox.
:)
Nice knowin' ya.
What you're arguing is that each unit makes slightly more money than materials, so you have to sell a lot to make up the cost of infrastucture. Duh, no shit, basic econ.
I don't know what KFG was talking about, but 'per unit loss' sounds like "Each unit sells for less than cost of materials". Which would mean you're losing money per unit ON TOP of infrastucture. What I'm guessing is going on here (assuming kfg's not talking out of his ass, and I'm not being dumb), is that they have, for example, some deal with companies like dell where they're being paid a lump sum for a contract to provide units at a certain cost, or some wierd such backroom nonsense that is certainly not basic econ 101.
It'd be nice if the original poster would clarify, but I think you're making too many assumptions.
Regardless, you probably can't buy single units because the manufactures make to order, rather than pay for warehousing costs for units waiting to sell.
Because you'll waste time trying to figure out what it means and how to deal with it. Instead, you could have spent more time training filters on data you KNOW is spam, or somesuch measurably productive activity.
My take, anyway.
If you have any references for the social aptitudes of homeschoolees, I'd like to read them. It's sadly contrary to the popular beliefs I've heard.
In my own experience, whether a person was homeschooled isn't a common question, and the over-confident, socially maladjusted people are the ones most likely to announce that they're obviously smart because they're homeschooled. It's hard to judge objectively and easy to jump to conclusions (something too many people are all to happy to do).
It'd be nice to read something on the matter with numbers.
I should ammend that... Must avoid the temptation to pretend to be an expert because I read a wikipedia article...
I'm unaware of any cases where attractive nuisance has been extended beyond the defintion given in the wikipedia article. They may in fact exist. The WP article is a pretty clear indication that the intent of Attractive Nuisance doctrine is incompatible with setting someone up to destroy their own property by committing an illegal action. If you know of other uses of it, please elaborate, because otherwise I think you're misusing the doctrine yourself.
Personally, I don't see much wrong with letting a criminal screw himself in ways other than bodily harm.
Cheers