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Re: Watch 2017 Redbull Thre3style US Winner DJ Ease’s Routine

Chris Heath — Sat, 12 May 2018 08:59:45 -0000

loved this set, and totally agree with the judges forgiving the tiny mistakes in performance and rewarding the excellent DJing...

Re: Marco Tempest Wins Merlin

Chris Heath — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 12:34:18 -0000

typo

Re: Marco Tempest Wins Merlin

Chris Heath — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 12:33:10 -0000

yes well deserved recognition

Re: Is Ordering Drinks Without Ice Cheating? | The Atlantic Wire

Chris Heath — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 17:21:31 -0000

sure, but the chai should be chilled over ice at least - not served warm, no?

Re: When do you throw a CEO’s privacy under the bus?

Chris Heath — Sun, 23 May 2010 17:04:30 -0000

Depends on the state you're in -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telephone_recordin... -- not that many states (only 12) have two-party notification ... and the federal law is one-party notification ... personally I agree with the federal law and the other 38 states that i can record a call without telling the other person that i'm recording ... helped a friend of mine a few years ago with a divorce where his soon-to-be-ex-wife was lying so she could get the kids and collect child support/alimony and we had to prove it in court -- if we had to tell her we were recording the phone calls with her we wouldn't have been able to prove she was lying

Re: The most under-hyped, but most important, technology since seat belts

Chris Heath — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 12:34:54 -0000

Robert, have you tried out the Distronic system from Mercedes? I saw the Top Gear show do a test a year or two ago where the car sets a distance from the car ahead and just keeps that distance (higher distance for higher speeds). He got off the highway and ended up in a line at a stop sign at the top of the offramp and the car just comes to a stop perfectly.

Apparently you have to re-engage the system to start crawling again if you do come to a stop. There's lots of youtube videos of owners who love to show off this system.

Re: The most under-hyped, but most important, technology since seat belts

Chris Heath — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 10:05:35 -0000

Great points jmangan, just one flaw in your logic that i noticed in your last paragraph. You say that airline defect rate tolerance is in the 1-in-1,000,000,000 'hours of operation' then go on to say that with so many cars out there on the roads in relation to the number of planes that there would be more failures.

the 'hours of operation' is the key to this. how many hours of operation do you think that a normal car goes through ... it's in the tens of thousands by the time the car breaks down ... not even close to a million of hours of operation. With more cars on the road than planes in the skies that does up the

if the car companies can get autonomous cars with the defect tolerances that the airlines have i'll get in line

maybe my statistical analysis is a bit off since yes more cars on the road than planes in the sky means higher volume but the fault tolerances don't take volume into account (afaik)

Re: The most under-hyped, but most important, technology since seat belts

Chris Heath — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 12:41:18 -0000

Ford IS explaining it... you just said you didn't care to watch the video!

Re: The most under-hyped, but most important, technology since seat belts

Chris Heath — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 12:34:18 -0000

if you don't have the time to watch the video that explains all this i'm sorry, but i just don't have the time to explain it all to you.

Re: The most under-hyped, but most important, technology since seat belts

Chris Heath — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 11:46:14 -0000

Volvo is owned by Ford (they're trying to sell it though, apparently). In the video the guy talks a bit about how Volvo customers are more of a niche group looking for as much safety as possible so they can put more into the systems. But the Ford customers are a more diverse group and like Otto some do not want the vehicle to be taking any actions on their part.

Re: The most under-hyped, but most important, technology since seat belts

Chris Heath — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 11:42:08 -0000

Here's my understanding of the Ford system after watching the videos.

1) you can turn it off
2) it does not apply the brake (just makes sure that you get max stopping power if you do brake)
3) the reason they don't do the toyota 'partial braking' is to deter people like you from turning off the system

so ... watch the videos (again if you already did) and listen carefully

Re: The most under-hyped, but most important, technology since seat belts

Chris Heath — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 23:37:47 -0000

who else noticed the juxtaposition of the chevy ad before the interview with the ford guy? haha

Re: Videos > Highlights from Wildwood, N.J. - eGuiders. We Search. You Watch.

Chris Heath — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 21:12:06 -0000

Nice find...

Re: The chat room/forum problem (& an apology to @Technosailor)

Chris Heath — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 09:51:47 -0000

You're exactly right. Photo tagging should be opt-in not opt-out.

Re: The chat room/forum problem (& an apology to @Technosailor)

Chris Heath — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 02:50:10 -0000

Well, like victor was saying, he's on a private mailing list. They're probably not going to change, but could have a real-time private channel over on friendfeed. I do kind of get what you're saying about the WTF factor, but I would explain it as a backchannel for the backchannel.

Re: The chat room/forum problem (& an apology to @Technosailor)

Chris Heath — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 02:39:51 -0000

friendfeed has private rooms - i would bet that there's a lot of very interesting stuff going on in private on friendfeed

Re: The chat room/forum problem (& an apology to @Technosailor)

Chris Heath — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 02:37:36 -0000

you're referring to the "eternal september", right? http://en.wikipedia.org/wik...

Re: The chat room/forum problem (& an apology to @Technosailor)

Chris Heath — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 02:35:16 -0000

FriendFeed is still the best platform online for communication (IMHO). This problem you're just now re-discovering can be dealt with on friendfeed as you explain (but as one of the reasons you were blindsided: "For two, we had decentralized moderation (I can delete any comment underneath my items, and I can hide any items that come into my view)."

So the feature that can fix the problem kept you from seeing the problem? Isn't that the point of the feature? This problem isn't one that can be cured with a vaccine. And you're right that with sufficient control you can engineer it out of your site, but on a public forum you can't be friendfeed.

Sounds to me like you want a large private friendfeed room, but you can't get everyone over there so you're just giving up and going back to twitter where they are (mostly).

Re: Scoble, Stop Trolling FriendFeed

Chris Heath — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 02:03:52 -0000

Thanks for that Holden... just what i wanted to read after getting to the bottom of that post ... i had been putting it off since i knew what i would be in for

Re: Digital iPhone cheapskates

Chris Heath — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 04:13:27 -0000

I guess it's a good thing I never paid for Tweetie 1.0 then...

Re: I am uncomfortable when math has actual numbers in it

Chris Heath — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 20:22:35 -0000

Exactly.

A prime number conversation turned to code last night as my friend decided to post his prime check function in 8 lines of C (in 23 total lines). The computation is fairly easy to check if a number is prime (for a computer).

I am tempted to ask him to run 2^43112609-1 and 43112609 through his algorithm and time how long it takes to confirm the prime.

Re: I am uncomfortable when math has actual numbers in it

Chris Heath — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 12:54:26 -0000

http://www.wolframalpha.com...

Re: My web site is my space (Scripting News)

Chris Heath — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 13:45:22 -0000

They are (to an extent) on a level playing field. Disqus can create a toolbar/browserplugin that 'enhances' sites that don't have the Disqus plugin already.

It seems to me that you're objecting to something because Google is behind it and that means that it will have a greater chance of becoming mainstream. If SideWiki was a greasemonkey script you wouldn't have a problem with it because not a whole lot of people would be using it, right?

Re: My web site is my space (Scripting News)

Chris Heath — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 13:14:24 -0000

Google should allow for a meta tag so that you can opt-out of this 'service' -- but they probably won't.

Like a friend of mine says: "Google is the new Microsoft"

Re: The post iPhone world

Chris Heath — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 02:35:04 -0000

i don't like the idea of an IV machine being on twitter... just doesn't seem like the right way to do it