Now that you have seen some people in city council do the correct thing, we need to do our part and support them for it, as well as let them know why we are supporting them.
This may easily be used as political fodder against them in the future, and it is our job to ensure that does not happen.
They went overwhelmingly for Schumer, Clinton, and Spitzer in the last statewide races. Most Upstate Congressional Districts are held by Democrats. It's definitely false to claim that upstate is "Red as a damn stop sign". Upstate is blue.
Of course, perhaps some people thing that it is natural that my voting district should look something like that. Because a voting district should snake it's way over 100 miles long and nabbing key cities.
They say they're getting up to 1kW per shock off a six-shock truck. That truck has an alternator that probably puts out 55A peak at 12V, most likely only 30A for long periods. That's only 660 watts! You can't even USE this much electricity without a hybrid vehicle. So this is only going to be useful for very heavy electric or hybrid vehicles. Who's going to make use of this again?
Design a system to regulate the power from those shocks. If it is deliverying 1kW/shock that's great. Once you get the vehicle rolling you can reduce the load from the alternator.
You could also drive the Air Conditioner from that amount of power.
Does anyone know what these particular satellites were each being tasked to do? (prior to one of them becoming a single-use kinetic energy space-based weapon system projectile)
Now, I do wear my tin-foil hat a lot, so I'll try to answer your question.
What are the chances that a satellite was launched in 1993 so that it would collide with a satellite launched in 1997, in 2009? As an attempt by Putin to test Obama?
I don't know the exact numbers, but I'd suggest that it might be more profitable to put your entire savings into Powerball tickets.
Citation necessary. Copies necessary for use of a digital medium are given an explicit exemption from copyright protection. And there is a requirement that the copy be stored for longer than the period necessary to view it. Which means that you're definitely off the hook for RAM or even HDD buffers necessary for streamed video.
Term limits would also get rid of the honest, competent politicians who serve their constituents with integrity. If we ever get anyone like that, it will be a shame to lose them because of term limits.
Several things:
1. Term limits also limit the damage that non-honest, incompetent politicians can do. 2. Notice you said 'if we ever get anyone like that'. It seems like you are holding out for a savior. In politics, they don't exist. 3. The mythical honest, competent politician would have to be respected enough by his constituents to be reelected. If such a person existed, then they could campaign for someone who also shared those ideals. If they were honest, and competent, then their word would carry a lot of weight.
I'd rather err on what I know, that politicians are inherently corrupt, than err on what I know is rare, that you might find one that you want to elect again.
I've read this complaint a lot, but I don't really understand it. Yes it would be fantastic if this device could do *everything*, just as it would be kick ass if an Eee PC could run Crysis at 40 fps. But that's not what this is designed to do.
This is simply a pleasure device. It can't replace your laptop for all of it's connectivity and display abilities for technical papers.
Of course you wouldn't expect an Eee PC to run Crysis. I don't expect my truck to be able to do a 10s 1/4 mile either. However, there is a difference between asking something impossible (40fps crysis) and asking for a feature that might have been overlooked, or omitted (potentially as a future feature) Whenever a device comes out, there are plenty of things that we would like that are not technically feasible. Yet there are some things that could have been implemented for very little cost. There are also some things that shouldn't have been implemented (DRM) and could have saved a lot of cost.
There is a lot that the Kindle should be capable of doing for its price. I'm not saying that pulling in all journal citations should be listed as one of them, but I just didn't feel that your comparison to crysis on an Eee PC was fair.
I don't think that WoW grew a userbase that wasn't already there. While it is true that a large number of players came to a genre that they wouldn't have 2 years before, I think that WoW caught a lucky break in a number of factors, the first that comes to mind is this:
Network/computing potential. Prior to WoW, broadband wasn't as widely available, and it is now doing nothing but expanding. Computers also struggled to play games unless they were specifically built for such a purpose. As WoW arrived, it was designed, and took advantage of the introduction of newer, cheaper game-capable machines. It no longer took $1500+ to build a machine that could play WoW.
In short, they capitalized on a market that existed but just didn't have anyone trying to sell to it.
But it's voluntary. Why not just avoid going there or never voicing a want to your ISP?
It ISN'T voluntary. ESPN is negotiating with your ISP to add $0.50 (or some other value) to the bill of every subscriber. That's what they mean by ESPN360 affiliated. If you can view the site then you are paying for it.
It is as voluntary as you calling your cable company and telling them that you don't want the Discovery Channel and that they should charge you less. See if you can get away with that.
If you, an employee of company X agree to the EULA, and start sharing the P2P, there's nothing to preclude me, a network administrator of company X from monitoring the traffic. Once I've identified what the offending traffic is, I could block it, ignore it, or report it in any way that I see fit.
Well, that would be a damned murky legal problem if you did that and Media company Y decided that Company X is violating the terms that the first employee agreed to.
It certainly wouldn't turn out well for employee Y, but it would be a nasty legal mess for Company X.
Just to put that into perspective, the man credited with drafting that phrase also owned slaves, and many of the signers of the document quoted also owned slaves, and/or supported child labor, indentured servitude and a whole host of other non-liberty things. Please get some perspective.
There are lawmakers today that violate the same laws that they worked to have enacted. That doesn't mean that the law is wrong, but that the lawmaker is hypocritical. For example, if I say killing is wrong, and then go murder someone, that doesn't invalidate my original statement.
That Jefferson owned slaves doesn't make what he said wrong, it means that he couldn't live up to his own ideals.
Wouldn't such a black hole accelerate towards the center of Earth, passing through most of the matter w/o interacting, but perhaps doubling or tripling its mass, until it reached the core.
At which point IndustrialComplex will have pressed his browser's 'back' button, since he wasn't planning on posting that half formed comment. Imagine his surprise at seeing that the comment was submitted. Black hole radiation I tell you, messin' with my keyboard.
Actually, a black hole at mars orbit wouldn't do any damage (to us) because if it swallowed up Mars, it would have the same mass as mars, thus leaving everything else untouched. A black hole on earth would well, not be enjoyable for us.
Wouldn't such a black hole accelerate towards the center of Earth, passing through most of the matter w/o interacting, but perhaps doubling or tripling its mass, until it reached the core.
Why do you feel that way? The nerds that have stuck around tend to have very valid opinions, Evidence for that claim?
even if I don't always agree with them. We have been on the net longer than most, You registered on a specific website earlier than some. What does being on the net even matter when discussing such issues? It is also no indication of anything other than the first time you registered with Slashdot.
and have a better perspective on this issues that keep popping up. Again, it identifies nothing but the order in which you registered on Slashdot. It conveys no special insight.
Granted, some of the arguments get really circular, but there is wisdom in the old-timers
There is also Alzheimers in old-timers, which might actually help explain the circular arguments;)
Unlockables ruined the game for so many, including myself. They have no place in a game like this.
Could you expand on that? How did it 'ruin' the game? They tend to be slight gameplay changers, and really aren't necessary to enjoy playing as a vanilla character. Why would they 'have no place' in a game like this?
Either it's televised on the television, or streamed on the internet. Just saying.
Well if you go to the roots of the word television and televised, if the goal is to allow you to view it from a distance, televised seems more appropriate than streamed (which could refer to audio, water, video, tickertape)
You want to make a difference? Employ more people like I met in local game store about 6 months ago, when I went to buy a second hand copy of Quake IV. "You know this game is rated 18. Do you have any proof of age, driving license or name and address on a utility bill?". Very well done son. However I am 38 years old and due to fun career in IT support, I look about 5 years older than that!
Do you think they should do the same for printed books?
remembering back to Driver's Ed (1979) I think it was said that the human body metabolizes about 1 drink per hour. So if it takes an hour to get a blood sample, a suspect could fail a breath test but pass a blood test just by metabolism. Would a court factor in the time between inital arrest and blood sample collection?
Yes, alcohol is metabolized at a fairly regular rate. Since the time you were pulled over is known, and the time the test was administered is known, when you combine that with the relatively high accuracy/precision of the blood test you can determine what the BAC was at the time the person was driving.
In the end, you don't need a breathalyzer result to obtain a DUI conviction. Many cop cars are equipped with cameras now, and a simple 30 second clip of a car weaving across lanes along with the Officer's testimony will convict the truly impaired.
The breathalyzer was just the 'slam dunk' of most prosecutions. 0.81 BAC according to the breathalyzer and w/o a slick attorney you were going to be convicted. Is it too much to ask that we don't rely on metrics for all of our laws? It is nice to know that if you are within 5% of parameter Y, you aren't breaking the law, but there are a lot of laws based on metrics, combined with mandatory sentences that result in some rather absurd cases.
If someone is drunk enough to be pulled over, then there would still be plenty of evidence that can be captured with a simple camera to capture the dangerous driver.
I feel the same about speed limits (as many who have driven on I-95 also feel). I'd rather see the guy doing 55 and weaving all over the place pulled over than the guy who is doing 75MPH, has both hands on the wheel, mirrors adjusted, and passing appropriately with the pace of traffic. However in the world of parameter based policing, the safer (faster) driver will be the one who ends up being punished.
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Now that you have seen some people in city council do the correct thing, we need to do our part and support them for it, as well as let them know why we are supporting them.
This may easily be used as political fodder against them in the future, and it is our job to ensure that does not happen.
They went overwhelmingly for Schumer, Clinton, and Spitzer in the last statewide races. Most Upstate Congressional Districts are held by Democrats. It's definitely false to claim that upstate is "Red as a damn stop sign". Upstate is blue.
Yeah I wonder how that happened.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6e/New_York_District_22_109th_US_Congress.png
Of course, perhaps some people thing that it is natural that my voting district should look something like that. Because a voting district should snake it's way over 100 miles long and nabbing key cities.
They say they're getting up to 1kW per shock off a six-shock truck. That truck has an alternator that probably puts out 55A peak at 12V, most likely only 30A for long periods. That's only 660 watts! You can't even USE this much electricity without a hybrid vehicle. So this is only going to be useful for very heavy electric or hybrid vehicles. Who's going to make use of this again?
Design a system to regulate the power from those shocks. If it is deliverying 1kW/shock that's great. Once you get the vehicle rolling you can reduce the load from the alternator.
You could also drive the Air Conditioner from that amount of power.
Does anyone know what these particular satellites were each being tasked to do? (prior to one of them becoming a single-use kinetic energy space-based weapon system projectile)
Now, I do wear my tin-foil hat a lot, so I'll try to answer your question.
What are the chances that a satellite was launched in 1993 so that it would collide with a satellite launched in 1997, in 2009? As an attempt by Putin to test Obama?
I don't know the exact numbers, but I'd suggest that it might be more profitable to put your entire savings into Powerball tickets.
Citation necessary. Copies necessary for use of a digital medium are given an explicit exemption from copyright protection. And there is a requirement that the copy be stored for longer than the period necessary to view it. Which means that you're definitely off the hook for RAM or even HDD buffers necessary for streamed video.
Citation provided:
http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2009/02/more-bad-law-wow-glider-case
Unfortunately, we often confuse what is technically correct, with what is legally correct.
Term limits would also get rid of the honest, competent politicians who serve their constituents with integrity. If we ever get anyone like that, it will be a shame to lose them because of term limits.
Several things:
1. Term limits also limit the damage that non-honest, incompetent politicians can do.
2. Notice you said 'if we ever get anyone like that'. It seems like you are holding out for a savior. In politics, they don't exist.
3. The mythical honest, competent politician would have to be respected enough by his constituents to be reelected. If such a person existed, then they could campaign for someone who also shared those ideals. If they were honest, and competent, then their word would carry a lot of weight.
I'd rather err on what I know, that politicians are inherently corrupt, than err on what I know is rare, that you might find one that you want to elect again.
I've read this complaint a lot, but I don't really understand it. Yes it would be fantastic if this device could do *everything*, just as it would be kick ass if an Eee PC could run Crysis at 40 fps. But that's not what this is designed to do.
This is simply a pleasure device. It can't replace your laptop for all of it's connectivity and display abilities for technical papers.
Of course you wouldn't expect an Eee PC to run Crysis. I don't expect my truck to be able to do a 10s 1/4 mile either. However, there is a difference between asking something impossible (40fps crysis) and asking for a feature that might have been overlooked, or omitted (potentially as a future feature) Whenever a device comes out, there are plenty of things that we would like that are not technically feasible. Yet there are some things that could have been implemented for very little cost. There are also some things that shouldn't have been implemented (DRM) and could have saved a lot of cost.
There is a lot that the Kindle should be capable of doing for its price. I'm not saying that pulling in all journal citations should be listed as one of them, but I just didn't feel that your comparison to crysis on an Eee PC was fair.
Bruce Wayne would use a MAC and a Blackberry. Batman would be some *nix variant.
I don't think that WoW grew a userbase that wasn't already there. While it is true that a large number of players came to a genre that they wouldn't have 2 years before, I think that WoW caught a lucky break in a number of factors, the first that comes to mind is this:
Network/computing potential. Prior to WoW, broadband wasn't as widely available, and it is now doing nothing but expanding. Computers also struggled to play games unless they were specifically built for such a purpose. As WoW arrived, it was designed, and took advantage of the introduction of newer, cheaper game-capable machines. It no longer took $1500+ to build a machine that could play WoW.
In short, they capitalized on a market that existed but just didn't have anyone trying to sell to it.
But it's voluntary. Why not just avoid going there or never voicing a want to your ISP?
It ISN'T voluntary. ESPN is negotiating with your ISP to add $0.50 (or some other value) to the bill of every subscriber. That's what they mean by ESPN360 affiliated. If you can view the site then you are paying for it.
It is as voluntary as you calling your cable company and telling them that you don't want the Discovery Channel and that they should charge you less. See if you can get away with that.
So while I don't like the "big brother" mentality, the moral code does have concrete benefits.
Living in a sparsely populated large western state tends to have that effect as well. No need to be a Mormon or view alcohol as 'sinful'.
If you, an employee of company X agree to the EULA, and start sharing the P2P, there's nothing to preclude me, a network administrator of company X from monitoring the traffic. Once I've identified what the offending traffic is, I could block it, ignore it, or report it in any way that I see fit.
Well, that would be a damned murky legal problem if you did that and Media company Y decided that Company X is violating the terms that the first employee agreed to.
It certainly wouldn't turn out well for employee Y, but it would be a nasty legal mess for Company X.
Just to put that into perspective, the man credited with drafting that phrase also owned slaves, and many of the signers of the document quoted also owned slaves, and/or supported child labor, indentured servitude and a whole host of other non-liberty things. Please get some perspective.
There are lawmakers today that violate the same laws that they worked to have enacted. That doesn't mean that the law is wrong, but that the lawmaker is hypocritical. For example, if I say killing is wrong, and then go murder someone, that doesn't invalidate my original statement.
That Jefferson owned slaves doesn't make what he said wrong, it means that he couldn't live up to his own ideals.
Jesus Christ! I've heard just as many complaints saying that coffee is served far too cold, now, and the it's best consumed piping hot.
Unless you actually are Jesus Christ, consuming coffee of that temperature would have landed you in the emergency room at best.
And I'm Spartacus.
Wouldn't such a black hole accelerate towards the center of Earth, passing through most of the matter w/o interacting, but perhaps doubling or tripling its mass, until it reached the core.
At which point IndustrialComplex will have pressed his browser's 'back' button, since he wasn't planning on posting that half formed comment. Imagine his surprise at seeing that the comment was submitted. Black hole radiation I tell you, messin' with my keyboard.
Actually, a black hole at mars orbit wouldn't do any damage (to us) because if it swallowed up Mars, it would have the same mass as mars, thus leaving everything else untouched. A black hole on earth would well, not be enjoyable for us.
Wouldn't such a black hole accelerate towards the center of Earth, passing through most of the matter w/o interacting, but perhaps doubling or tripling its mass, until it reached the core.
I never thought Russia to be that big into licensing and copyrights.
Why do you feel that way? The nerds that have stuck around tend to have very valid opinions,
Evidence for that claim?
even if I don't always agree with them. We have been on the net longer than most,
You registered on a specific website earlier than some. What does being on the net even matter when discussing such issues? It is also no indication of anything other than the first time you registered with Slashdot.
and have a better perspective on this issues that keep popping up.
Again, it identifies nothing but the order in which you registered on Slashdot. It conveys no special insight.
Granted, some of the arguments get really circular, but there is wisdom in the old-timers
There is also Alzheimers in old-timers, which might actually help explain the circular arguments ;)
In other news all Philadelphia residents have been put on the Sex Offender list.
In other news, Philadelphians began referring to themselves as, Spartacus.
Unlockables ruined the game for so many, including myself. They have no place in a game like this.
Could you expand on that? How did it 'ruin' the game? They tend to be slight gameplay changers, and really aren't necessary to enjoy playing as a vanilla character. Why would they 'have no place' in a game like this?
televised over the internet??
Either it's televised on the television, or streamed on the internet. Just saying.
Well if you go to the roots of the word television and televised, if the goal is to allow you to view it from a distance, televised seems more appropriate than streamed (which could refer to audio, water, video, tickertape)
You want to make a difference? Employ more people like I met in local game store about 6 months ago, when I went to buy a second hand copy of Quake IV. "You know this game is rated 18. Do you have any proof of age, driving license or name and address on a utility bill?". Very well done son. However I am 38 years old and due to fun career in IT support, I look about 5 years older than that!
Do you think they should do the same for printed books?
I hope you have ID for 'Catcher in the Rye'.
remembering back to Driver's Ed (1979) I think it was said that the human body metabolizes about 1 drink per hour. So if it takes an hour to get a blood sample, a suspect could fail a breath test but pass a blood test just by metabolism. Would a court factor in the time between inital arrest and blood sample collection?
Yes, alcohol is metabolized at a fairly regular rate. Since the time you were pulled over is known, and the time the test was administered is known, when you combine that with the relatively high accuracy/precision of the blood test you can determine what the BAC was at the time the person was driving.
In the end, you don't need a breathalyzer result to obtain a DUI conviction. Many cop cars are equipped with cameras now, and a simple 30 second clip of a car weaving across lanes along with the Officer's testimony will convict the truly impaired.
The breathalyzer was just the 'slam dunk' of most prosecutions. 0.81 BAC according to the breathalyzer and w/o a slick attorney you were going to be convicted. Is it too much to ask that we don't rely on metrics for all of our laws? It is nice to know that if you are within 5% of parameter Y, you aren't breaking the law, but there are a lot of laws based on metrics, combined with mandatory sentences that result in some rather absurd cases.
If someone is drunk enough to be pulled over, then there would still be plenty of evidence that can be captured with a simple camera to capture the dangerous driver.
I feel the same about speed limits (as many who have driven on I-95 also feel). I'd rather see the guy doing 55 and weaving all over the place pulled over than the guy who is doing 75MPH, has both hands on the wheel, mirrors adjusted, and passing appropriately with the pace of traffic. However in the world of parameter based policing, the safer (faster) driver will be the one who ends up being punished.