I used to work for a company that provided location calculation software to cell companies. Only some companies use GPS for GPS sometimes has a problem in buildings. Some use "Time Difference of Arrival" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multilateration which means that your location is calculated by the difference in time that your cell signal takes to hit different cell towers (4 are needed, depending on geometry). Hyperboloids are generated, and their intersection is your position.
When I worked in this field, it was (as far as I knew) only used to find your location when you called 911.
That's one thing that I've never understood. If there were human zombies, ghosts, vampires, wouldn't there also be non-human versions of such thing? I don't like the thought of countless cockroach ghosts all over the place though, but they logically follow from the existence of human ones. I assumed the same of zombies, but if they were caused by a strain that infected humans only.... well, maybe the virus could mutate.
Done that. I put a paperclip across the 2 prongs of a plug and stuck it in. The paperclip did not vaporize or melt. It flew off amidst some sparks. One of my stupid moments.
About a week ago, I attempted to order a barebones from the US and tried to use a credit card. Most places I called wouldn't accept a credit card. One shop required payments via paypal. But even paypal won't accept any payments from a canadian credit card by itself; you have to have a bank account registered with them. Apparently, the credit card companies will not verify residential addresses for the credit cards, so a business cannot find out if the shipping address is the same as the billing address. Most US companies are unwilling to ship something because they are used to being able to easily acquire a person's address and they use this to make sure it's not a stolen card. I did find a place to get my system from eventually, but it was a pain in the neck. On the other hand, we get very little snailmail spam compared to what I got in the US.
I'm thinking US companies may change their requirements for this personal data soon as with the canadian dollar reaching parity, more canadians are going to want to buy stuff from the US and with a larger demand from canada, business won't turn away an increasing customer source so much.
This shouldn't just prohibit compulsory rfid tagging, this should prohibit it outright. It's like anything else companies aren't allowed to ask you to do. Just because you don't have to do it doesn't mean anything. For example: the company can ask everyone to get tagged. Some do, some don't. The ones that don't don't get promoted or laid off. It's like it's illegal for company to ask employees to sleep with the boss. This state bill should just make implanted rfid's illegal to even ask an employee or allow it for a job.
What we get is people having to BUY their bottled water at inflated prices from the shops WITHIN the airport past security rather than bring their own. The last airport I flew from (Philadelphia), there wasn't even a single water fountain past security. It's the same reasoning as in the theatres, stadiums, etc. If it was truly about security, lobbying would have it changed already.
You mean like http://www.newharvest.org/ is growing actual meat in a machine because NASA would rather ship said machine than cows for the Mars mission? (I think the company was created by scientists who worked on this issue for NASA and then split to start the company after they found the solution.)
I read about this work a couple years ago. This isn't really about reaction time and won't be able to handle the twitch stuff. It's meant to handle situations in which you make a concious decision to do something rather than reacting to something. For example in an FPS game, if you see some guy jump in front of you and start shooting at it, this prediction method is useless for a reaction. But if you have been standing still for 15 seconds in front of a door and suddenly decide to move forward, that's when this thing can predict that your nervous system increased activity and might send someone charging through the door at you right before you move.
Companies don't offshore so much because of education or degree. They offshore because people in other countries are willing and able to work for a much lower salary. Their cost of living is less than a tenth where they live, and they can support their family on the equivalent of fifty cents an hour. Companies need a lot of incentive to hire someone at fifty times the salary when they don't have to. Even when people in another country make more relative to their own economy compared to the US, they won't ask for as much because their lifestyle in that other country costs less and they live better with cheaper currency. Not even regulations (such as on environment, safety, security) will be enough to overcome that. Something drastic will have to happen to overcome the difference in cost of living, like maybe a Global Minimum Wage, something which would be fought by global companies. Until then, companies will just go where the costs are lower for the same educational level person.
Then you will run into a problem where money made is the measurement by which we rate a good education. It doesn't reflect the scientists, professors, teachers, well connected dumb people, or those born to rich parents.
The same could have been said about slavery 150 years ago. "we been doing it for 100s of years, why stop now?" Just because you have done something naughty for a long time doesn't mean you should be able to keep doing it.
m'eh. Theoretically, if you ran the server on which the src is kept, you could keep it down most of the time or not fix your router issues. If both the src and the bin are kept on the same machine, then the inaccessability would affect both instead of only the src.
This is analagous to abusing a bug in the system for personal gain. The money gained illegally is just camoflaged by the fact that it is supposed to give money at random times. I'm with the prosecutors on this one. If people that know their are bugs (hypothetically) and abuse them to get money from a bank machine should be sent to jail, so should people who do this on gambling machines (instead of reporting the bug).
This theory really doesn't answer the question of 'where did it all begin'. All it has done (if it is true) is push the 'begin' back further into an earlier universe. Either there have been an infinite number of big bounces (meaning infinite time in the past) or a finite number. If a finite number then there had to be a first universe. The question still remains: how did this universe begin to start off the whole series. I find theory's scenario (if it is true) to be a setback for discovering what happened at the moment of creation (or even finding out if there was one or not) as a lot of the information would have been lost during the bounce.
"They already know they can't walk. That's why they discover they still can't walk.
They've been informed that this system will allow them to walk for a little while. They get a glimpse of movement and life and then it's taken away when the computer is turned off."
Yeah, when I take off my glasses at night and pick up a book to read. I'm stunned that the words are blurry. Then it occurs to me; oh yeah, I have to wear glasses.
Jokes aside, I don't think that's going to be much of a problem when they turn off the neural interface to sleep. Of course, sometimes I have problems looking for my glasses...
Texas's right to secede was stated in its agreement to join the US. This was NOT tested during the American Civil War. Texas got into trouble with the Union because it assisted the other Confederate states' attempts at secession rather than exiting solo.
I see a large difference between information that is inaccessable and information that is destroyed. In CA, information about previous states is destroyed so that it is not calculable which state existed before. Does the energy dissipation you mention actually destroy the information from the universe? If so, this seems to be a violation of entropy laws.
The courts didn't say that people can't request 'long haired freaks need not apply' as a roommate. The website would lose protections similar to a common carrier status (like your isp doesn't get into trouble if you look at illegal content) if it makes it easier to discriminate. So freeform text by the 'landlord' isn't illegal, but if the website forces people to answer 'long-haired', 'short-haired', or 'I'm Picard!' instead of letting the landlord handle it, it's no longer a common-carrier.
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They may survive the way, but not the subsequent winter. Roaches don't like the cold.
Your logic is flawed. A -> B does not imply he said B -> A. If all life can evolve, does not mean he said that that evolution only occurs in life.
When I worked in this field, it was (as far as I knew) only used to find your location when you called 911.
That's one thing that I've never understood. If there were human zombies, ghosts, vampires, wouldn't there also be non-human versions of such thing? I don't like the thought of countless cockroach ghosts all over the place though, but they logically follow from the existence of human ones. I assumed the same of zombies, but if they were caused by a strain that infected humans only.... well, maybe the virus could mutate.
Done that. I put a paperclip across the 2 prongs of a plug and stuck it in. The paperclip did not vaporize or melt. It flew off amidst some sparks. One of my stupid moments.
About a week ago, I attempted to order a barebones from the US and tried to use a credit card. Most places I called wouldn't accept a credit card. One shop required payments via paypal. But even paypal won't accept any payments from a canadian credit card by itself; you have to have a bank account registered with them. Apparently, the credit card companies will not verify residential addresses for the credit cards, so a business cannot find out if the shipping address is the same as the billing address. Most US companies are unwilling to ship something because they are used to being able to easily acquire a person's address and they use this to make sure it's not a stolen card. I did find a place to get my system from eventually, but it was a pain in the neck. On the other hand, we get very little snailmail spam compared to what I got in the US.
I'm thinking US companies may change their requirements for this personal data soon as with the canadian dollar reaching parity, more canadians are going to want to buy stuff from the US and with a larger demand from canada, business won't turn away an increasing customer source so much.
If you attempt to build life from scratch, you must first create the universe.
This shouldn't just prohibit compulsory rfid tagging, this should prohibit it outright. It's like anything else companies aren't allowed to ask you to do. Just because you don't have to do it doesn't mean anything. For example: the company can ask everyone to get tagged. Some do, some don't. The ones that don't don't get promoted or laid off. It's like it's illegal for company to ask employees to sleep with the boss. This state bill should just make implanted rfid's illegal to even ask an employee or allow it for a job.
What we get is people having to BUY their bottled water at inflated prices from the shops WITHIN the airport past security rather than bring their own. The last airport I flew from (Philadelphia), there wasn't even a single water fountain past security. It's the same reasoning as in the theatres, stadiums, etc. If it was truly about security, lobbying would have it changed already.
They do have their own hostile countries though; one of them has sent missiles overhead.
You mean like http://www.newharvest.org/ is growing actual meat in a machine because NASA would rather ship said machine than cows for the Mars mission? (I think the company was created by scientists who worked on this issue for NASA and then split to start the company after they found the solution.)
I read about this work a couple years ago. This isn't really about reaction time and won't be able to handle the twitch stuff. It's meant to handle situations in which you make a concious decision to do something rather than reacting to something. For example in an FPS game, if you see some guy jump in front of you and start shooting at it, this prediction method is useless for a reaction. But if you have been standing still for 15 seconds in front of a door and suddenly decide to move forward, that's when this thing can predict that your nervous system increased activity and might send someone charging through the door at you right before you move.
This might make a game more fun.
Companies don't offshore so much because of education or degree. They offshore because people in other countries are willing and able to work for a much lower salary. Their cost of living is less than a tenth where they live, and they can support their family on the equivalent of fifty cents an hour. Companies need a lot of incentive to hire someone at fifty times the salary when they don't have to. Even when people in another country make more relative to their own economy compared to the US, they won't ask for as much because their lifestyle in that other country costs less and they live better with cheaper currency. Not even regulations (such as on environment, safety, security) will be enough to overcome that. Something drastic will have to happen to overcome the difference in cost of living, like maybe a Global Minimum Wage, something which would be fought by global companies. Until then, companies will just go where the costs are lower for the same educational level person.
Then you will run into a problem where money made is the measurement by which we rate a good education. It doesn't reflect the scientists, professors, teachers, well connected dumb people, or those born to rich parents.
Those kinds of people often make me feel like rainman.
Those kinds of people make me feel like rainman sometimes.
The same could have been said about slavery 150 years ago. "we been doing it for 100s of years, why stop now?" Just because you have done something naughty for a long time doesn't mean you should be able to keep doing it.
m'eh. Theoretically, if you ran the server on which the src is kept, you could keep it down most of the time or not fix your router issues. If both the src and the bin are kept on the same machine, then the inaccessability would affect both instead of only the src.
This is analagous to abusing a bug in the system for personal gain. The money gained illegally is just camoflaged by the fact that it is supposed to give money at random times. I'm with the prosecutors on this one. If people that know their are bugs (hypothetically) and abuse them to get money from a bank machine should be sent to jail, so should people who do this on gambling machines (instead of reporting the bug).
This theory really doesn't answer the question of 'where did it all begin'. All it has done (if it is true) is push the 'begin' back further into an earlier universe. Either there have been an infinite number of big bounces (meaning infinite time in the past) or a finite number. If a finite number then there had to be a first universe. The question still remains: how did this universe begin to start off the whole series. I find theory's scenario (if it is true) to be a setback for discovering what happened at the moment of creation (or even finding out if there was one or not) as a lot of the information would have been lost during the bounce.
"They already know they can't walk. That's why they discover they still can't walk.
They've been informed that this system will allow them to walk for a little while. They get a glimpse of movement and life and then it's taken away when the computer is turned off."
Yeah, when I take off my glasses at night and pick up a book to read. I'm stunned that the words are blurry. Then it occurs to me; oh yeah, I have to wear glasses.
Jokes aside, I don't think that's going to be much of a problem when they turn off the neural interface to sleep. Of course, sometimes I have problems looking for my glasses...
Texas's right to secede was stated in its agreement to join the US. This was NOT tested during the American Civil War. Texas got into trouble with the Union because it assisted the other Confederate states' attempts at secession rather than exiting solo.
I see a large difference between information that is inaccessable and information that is destroyed. In CA, information about previous states is destroyed so that it is not calculable which state existed before. Does the energy dissipation you mention actually destroy the information from the universe? If so, this seems to be a violation of entropy laws.
So that's how it got on her dress...
The courts didn't say that people can't request 'long haired freaks need not apply' as a roommate. The website would lose protections similar to a common carrier status (like your isp doesn't get into trouble if you look at illegal content) if it makes it easier to discriminate. So freeform text by the 'landlord' isn't illegal, but if the website forces people to answer 'long-haired', 'short-haired', or 'I'm Picard!' instead of letting the landlord handle it, it's no longer a common-carrier.