Yeah fuck statistics and the scientific method too. All I need is my truthyness to lead the way, if I know it in my gut to be true then who is stats to say otherwise.
The reason we sigh is because your point is fucking stupid. The IPCC has scientists involved that know statistics one would assume. This has been worked out. Unless you are saying the temperature magically changes over time which causes a variety of things to change, like the sun's brightness and seasons or even day/night as causes of the temperature.
This has been well known science for many decades. Since long before the media cared about it. So I doubt it is a media scare or Climate change trolls.
I don't think anyone is arguing we repeal the clean air act or anything like that. We all like breathing. Also it really wouldn't help. It'd be like if your house caught fire and to avoid death you go to another room. Sure it helps you ignore the problem a few minutes at best, but you aren't doing fuck all to put out the fire. (apologies for the shitty analogy, where is BadAnalogyGuy when you need him?)
To map and location find for GPS like devices without the cost of GPS.
The complaint is really this: I set up a broadcasting station that constantly sends out the name of my station. Google listened! Those fucking spying assholes. If you don't want people to know the name of your router, don't broadcast it?
Also, the quote is a complete misrepresentation of his words. Ignoring the context completely to push fears.
Exactly this. He was talking about government and police requesting information and saying that they may have to go along with the laws of the land. Nothing evil at all.
Article is trolling.
Also, they are scanning for wifi so that they can triangulate your position using just wifi. I assume that apple's iphone app works the same way as do any apps that determine your location without using GPS... Your router's name isn't exactly secret if you are broadcasting it. If you don't like it you can set your router to not broadcast it, simple.
Uhh... don't give everyone fucking rocket launchers?
Reality is fairly destructible. But if I am a cop I'm not likely to shoot a wall a few million times to 'surprise anyone'. Pretty sure they'd notice. Not to mention I doubt I'd have so much ammo. So design involving limited ammo, weapon selection, decent AI and a variety of destructability is important. Not every wall needs to fantastically explode like crates or barrels do in... every game.
Consoles get free auto-aim because the coders realized how shit the controls are. And yes, gamers of today are shittier than the ones before console shooters. Mostly nerds played CS source, UT tournament. Now you have a group that calls themselves 'hardcore gamers' they aren't the group of ten years ago that were almost all nerds that'd memorize the whole level including spawn timings and be able to shoot people fairly accurately based on sound alone. (I had a friend that had learned the whole AI for bots in UT and abused them as pawns in fights).
They are what I would call jocks. Sort of slovenly drunk college guys. Not incredibly smart and not very good at games. It is no longer uncool to play games (so long as it is sports or explosions) so they have the opportunity. And they like shooting/exploding things (same demographic that gets stuck in the army, which is why you hear people in the actual army going 'boom headshot'). Just jocks minus physical ability.
I don't care if you think this is a troll, search your feelings for you will know it to be true.
I never understood the "Chyeah 1080P brah" crowd. When HD was coming out I was thinking hmmmm... this 'P' measurement is stupid, why not give the resolution instead? But the answer was obvious. If TVs advertised their new super high res as 1920x1800 anyone with a computer would have thought... hmmm I've had 1280x1024 since 1991 on my computer. So in 18~19years they've been able to moderately increase the resolution... with significantly lower pixels/cm. WTF kind of improvement is that?
If I look at a computer monitor today I can get 2560x1600; 1920x1200 in a laptop. TVs just have some kind of automatic suckage. (Also, computer monitors are generally crisper since they have to deal with text)
There was also a holy book all about sex that a bishop got rid of, destroying every copy; The Gospel of Eve was destroyed in 3rd century ad by Epiphanius of Salamis for encouraging various sex acts.
Your city sucks. Hamilton is often labeled as the shittiest city in Ontario and it has no such problems. Toronto is the biggest city in Canada and has no such problems. No such problems in Tokyo (9million people).
No such problems on the fully automated driverless trains in Vancouver that moved 700,000ppl/day during the olympics where people from across the world were. Or the many other automated train systems. Or hell trains in general since there is no way the one driver can watch the whole giant ass train.
Really if people in your city suck that much it is fascinating that people aren't stealing sidewalks for the cement like in India.
I think cleaning out the bus each night (30minutes, $5) and fixing any repair costs($1/day?) will cost FAR less than having a person in the bus the whole time (20hrs, $300). It isn't like someone is going to notice there is no driver and be like 'sweet deal' and hurl a grenade into the bus.
I'm a pot dealer that just got stabbed by a client. It goes to court. The courts decide that the client owes me for the cost of stitches. So long as I swear under punishment of pergery that I have never used illegal drugs.
Clearly there are two fucked up issues here. How come he only has to pay me for stitches when the fucker just stabbed me? And secondly, what the fuck does it matter whether or not I've smoked drugs? The fucker stabbed me!
You don't get off because you committed a crime against a criminal.
As to arguements for opensourcing or not I believe they should be personally. I would use breathalizers as precedent. Here in Canada a lawyer/cs guy challenged a breathalizer fail charge (driving under the influence). And got access to the code which he proved to be fairly wildly faulty. Since these are of course closed units there would not be any real security risk in releasing the code (like there could be argued for voting systems). I see no reason to not release the code. Infact, GM/toyota et al working together on a bit of oss navigational tech would be brilliant.
Tons of countries do it fairly. Give every candidate the same amount. And give them the same air time. Many countries have state sanctioned televised debates where each party gets air time. As well many countries give air time for advertisements to each candidate. I think japan even has a poster limit. But generally speaking giving each party/group the same amount of money is fair. It also reduces overall election costs which is nice. Oh and you'd determine which groups get funding the same way you currently decide who gets to go on the ballot. Simple, cheap, fair.
"Asking for a system that can not only track, but identify correctly at speed from a moving platform everything that could cause it to alter it's maneuvering is a bit much. Particularly when you need to take into account variable levels of light, weather (rain / fog / mist)." A car has a better shot at having an accurate estimate when compared to a human.
I didn't say simply predefined. The cars could learn about pedestrian areas from other cars and themselves. Thus, they'd constantly be updated on various locations.
"Where are things in relation to me ?" and "How are they moving in relation to me ?" These questions are easy for a computer. What? is a much harder question. But we have great systems for identifying moving objects. And pretty damn good systems to identify people and animals. The how that might affect your ride is nigh impossible to answer so far. So it would just treat moving objects with some degree of caution. And it would give a lot of respect to humans or animals. We might not be able to easily guess dog vs cat but that isn't real important to a car anyways. Dog vs human we can do.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_driverless_trains But the main reason is legal risk. If someone fucks up in a train and kills everyone it was an unavoidable tragedy. If a computer fucks up then it wasn't a tragedy it was negligence. The person that fucked up isn't dead or even harmed so it is easier to hate on them. And they have deep wallets so they are easy to sue. And the press will say they cut corners or did it to save costs. So a company that choses driverless opens themselves up to horrific press, huge lawsuits if anything ever goes wrong. Why risk it to save a few grand? The fact that anyone is willing to put one in shows how ready they really are.
Most (88%) of Obama's campaign money came from individuals. Mostly in the form of small donations. So I'm not sure which corporate juggernaut you are speaking of.
Slashdot Mirror
Yeah fuck statistics and the scientific method too. All I need is my truthyness to lead the way, if I know it in my gut to be true then who is stats to say otherwise.
The reason we sigh is because your point is fucking stupid. The IPCC has scientists involved that know statistics one would assume. This has been worked out. Unless you are saying the temperature magically changes over time which causes a variety of things to change, like the sun's brightness and seasons or even day/night as causes of the temperature.
That would be exactly the scientists point.
This has been well known science for many decades. Since long before the media cared about it. So I doubt it is a media scare or Climate change trolls.
I don't think anyone is arguing we repeal the clean air act or anything like that. We all like breathing. Also it really wouldn't help. It'd be like if your house caught fire and to avoid death you go to another room. Sure it helps you ignore the problem a few minutes at best, but you aren't doing fuck all to put out the fire. (apologies for the shitty analogy, where is BadAnalogyGuy when you need him?)
Maybe... But firing an employee for showing Steve Wozniak a product seems a little less defensible.
$148,319,980 Turkish Lira. Yikes.
Don't post it to facebook/flicker? Seems simple enough.
BTW he was reffering to hiding from the government w/ the Patriot act not Google. Because Google has to follow American law.
To map and location find for GPS like devices without the cost of GPS.
The complaint is really this: I set up a broadcasting station that constantly sends out the name of my station. Google listened! Those fucking spying assholes. If you don't want people to know the name of your router, don't broadcast it?
Also, the quote is a complete misrepresentation of his words. Ignoring the context completely to push fears.
Exactly this. He was talking about government and police requesting information and saying that they may have to go along with the laws of the land. Nothing evil at all.
Article is trolling.
Also, they are scanning for wifi so that they can triangulate your position using just wifi. I assume that apple's iphone app works the same way as do any apps that determine your location without using GPS... Your router's name isn't exactly secret if you are broadcasting it. If you don't like it you can set your router to not broadcast it, simple.
http://tech.slashdot.org/story/10/04/17/134231/Comcast-Customers-Urged-To-Opt-Out-of-Settlement-- that was my question for this story. Comcast saying they can rip off people if they might fileshare.
He may have meant to line them up since there will be a lot of them...
Uhh... don't give everyone fucking rocket launchers?
Reality is fairly destructible. But if I am a cop I'm not likely to shoot a wall a few million times to 'surprise anyone'. Pretty sure they'd notice. Not to mention I doubt I'd have so much ammo. So design involving limited ammo, weapon selection, decent AI and a variety of destructability is important. Not every wall needs to fantastically explode like crates or barrels do in... every game.
Consoles get free auto-aim because the coders realized how shit the controls are. And yes, gamers of today are shittier than the ones before console shooters. Mostly nerds played CS source, UT tournament. Now you have a group that calls themselves 'hardcore gamers' they aren't the group of ten years ago that were almost all nerds that'd memorize the whole level including spawn timings and be able to shoot people fairly accurately based on sound alone. (I had a friend that had learned the whole AI for bots in UT and abused them as pawns in fights).
They are what I would call jocks. Sort of slovenly drunk college guys. Not incredibly smart and not very good at games. It is no longer uncool to play games (so long as it is sports or explosions) so they have the opportunity. And they like shooting/exploding things (same demographic that gets stuck in the army, which is why you hear people in the actual army going 'boom headshot'). Just jocks minus physical ability.
I don't care if you think this is a troll, search your feelings for you will know it to be true.
RPGs work well on consoles. It is just that the players of RPGs seem to have move more to computers.
I never understood the "Chyeah 1080P brah" crowd. When HD was coming out I was thinking hmmmm... this 'P' measurement is stupid, why not give the resolution instead? But the answer was obvious. If TVs advertised their new super high res as 1920x1800 anyone with a computer would have thought... hmmm I've had 1280x1024 since 1991 on my computer. So in 18~19years they've been able to moderately increase the resolution... with significantly lower pixels/cm. WTF kind of improvement is that?
If I look at a computer monitor today I can get 2560x1600; 1920x1200 in a laptop. TVs just have some kind of automatic suckage. (Also, computer monitors are generally crisper since they have to deal with text)
There was also a holy book all about sex that a bishop got rid of, destroying every copy; The Gospel of Eve was destroyed in 3rd century ad by Epiphanius of Salamis for encouraging various sex acts.
Focus on the present can we.
Your city sucks. Hamilton is often labeled as the shittiest city in Ontario and it has no such problems. Toronto is the biggest city in Canada and has no such problems. No such problems in Tokyo (9million people).
No such problems on the fully automated driverless trains in Vancouver that moved 700,000ppl/day during the olympics where people from across the world were. Or the many other automated train systems. Or hell trains in general since there is no way the one driver can watch the whole giant ass train.
Really if people in your city suck that much it is fascinating that people aren't stealing sidewalks for the cement like in India.
I think cleaning out the bus each night (30minutes, $5) and fixing any repair costs($1/day?) will cost FAR less than having a person in the bus the whole time (20hrs, $300). It isn't like someone is going to notice there is no driver and be like 'sweet deal' and hurl a grenade into the bus.
Humans have multi processes but we only have two cores. So it is done by rapidly switching between tasks to give the effect of simultaneous actions.
I'm a pot dealer that just got stabbed by a client. It goes to court. The courts decide that the client owes me for the cost of stitches. So long as I swear under punishment of pergery that I have never used illegal drugs.
Clearly there are two fucked up issues here. How come he only has to pay me for stitches when the fucker just stabbed me? And secondly, what the fuck does it matter whether or not I've smoked drugs? The fucker stabbed me!
You don't get off because you committed a crime against a criminal.
Read again. The metro was an example ... The list is: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_driverless_trains#Completely_driverless_systems_and_lines The completely driverless system in vancouver managed 622,000 people a day during the olympics without issue. THAT is volume and with many people unfamiliar with the system, most were unaware that it was driverless.
As to arguements for opensourcing or not I believe they should be personally. I would use breathalizers as precedent. Here in Canada a lawyer/cs guy challenged a breathalizer fail charge (driving under the influence). And got access to the code which he proved to be fairly wildly faulty. Since these are of course closed units there would not be any real security risk in releasing the code (like there could be argued for voting systems). I see no reason to not release the code. Infact, GM/toyota et al working together on a bit of oss navigational tech would be brilliant.
Tons of countries do it fairly. Give every candidate the same amount. And give them the same air time. Many countries have state sanctioned televised debates where each party gets air time. As well many countries give air time for advertisements to each candidate. I think japan even has a poster limit. But generally speaking giving each party/group the same amount of money is fair. It also reduces overall election costs which is nice. Oh and you'd determine which groups get funding the same way you currently decide who gets to go on the ballot. Simple, cheap, fair.
"Asking for a system that can not only track, but identify correctly at speed from a moving platform everything that could cause it to alter it's maneuvering is a bit much. Particularly when you need to take into account variable levels of light, weather (rain / fog / mist)."
A car has a better shot at having an accurate estimate when compared to a human.
I didn't say simply predefined. The cars could learn about pedestrian areas from other cars and themselves. Thus, they'd constantly be updated on various locations.
"Where are things in relation to me ?" and "How are they moving in relation to me ?"
These questions are easy for a computer. What? is a much harder question. But we have great systems for identifying moving objects. And pretty damn good systems to identify people and animals. The how that might affect your ride is nigh impossible to answer so far. So it would just treat moving objects with some degree of caution. And it would give a lot of respect to humans or animals. We might not be able to easily guess dog vs cat but that isn't real important to a car anyways. Dog vs human we can do.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_driverless_trains
But the main reason is legal risk. If someone fucks up in a train and kills everyone it was an unavoidable tragedy. If a computer fucks up then it wasn't a tragedy it was negligence. The person that fucked up isn't dead or even harmed so it is easier to hate on them. And they have deep wallets so they are easy to sue. And the press will say they cut corners or did it to save costs. So a company that choses driverless opens themselves up to horrific press, huge lawsuits if anything ever goes wrong. Why risk it to save a few grand? The fact that anyone is willing to put one in shows how ready they really are.
http://www.opensecrets.org/pres08/summary.php?id=n00009638
Most (88%) of Obama's campaign money came from individuals. Mostly in the form of small donations. So I'm not sure which corporate juggernaut you are speaking of.
GIMP's is nice, but I think that Photoshop's is still a bit nicer. Though thanks for mentioning it. I didn't know GIMP had a similar feature.
"what business there was went to European and Russian rockets that were cheaper"
They might need some business classes......