Much appreciate your input. I noticed the exact same thing, but it also happens when I put my keyboard in the lap. My theory is that it's due to the impact of my fingers on the keys that "tease" the flow to slow down.
I tried googling for this but got mixed results. Shouldn't the wrists be touching/resting on the desk (the piece of desk between the keyboard and me) or are they suppose to float?
They're supposed to float. It's much better ergonomically.
Look for images/videos of professional pianists -- ideal wrist ergonomics for typing are very similar to those for playing piano.
Specifically, your wrists should be loose and relaxed, so that your hands would hang down loosely if the fingers weren't resting on anything. My piano teacher used to spend a few minutes at the beginning of each lesson shaking my forearms until the wrists loosened enough!
This brings up another point in favor of "why not".
If existing players who are willing to buy new expansions whenever they are available migrate to vanilla servers, they might as well opt out of buying the expansions, since adding new content in the vanilla servers will make them non-vanilla.
As someone who did a pilot's license, real flying is pretty complicated at the moment by the time you've checked 20 things, radioed air traffic control etc. To get a movie flying car like experience I think you'd need self driving car type AI to deal with that stuff. Which could happen before long.
But here the problems are clearly in the laws. Don't complain to the engineers where the flying cars are, but complain to your representative for deregulation in the laws.
And then complain about evil government not doing enough about half-ton metal bricks falling out of the sky and killing people.
Humans are too dumb to be able to drive cars safely, as evidenced by over a million people dying in traffic accidents each year. That the air travel industry has so little accidents is a miracle, and in big part owed to all those pesky and annoying regulations that can coordinate thousands of people on the same task and make them do their jobs right.
Maybe among the people who think deep about those issues. You'd be surprised if you talked to the general population. It's "deregulate all the things!" but then they complain that the food they eat is crap and companies keep screwing them over.
Much of the stuff with flying is for safety rather than legal compliance. For example radioing air traffic control is to avoid crashing into other aircraft. It would be nice if there was some automated google maps like system to do that instead but I don't think it exists currently.
Flying cars are one of those things that make sense until you think about them carefully and with the benefit of hindsight. I wonder what our "flying car" is now in 2016.
Privacy? Democracy in USA? Democracy makes sense, until you notice that the sheer power provided by data and the speed it pivots gave citizen too little time to upgrade their democratic process. I'll even throw the hypothesis that the Snowden files would have happened, no matter how solid were the democratic traditions, culture, institutions.
What doesn't make sense? The Transition looks fairly OK, though it probably only suits flying to places that are small and don't have rental cars.
Flying car now is a better idea, if they're automated. More complicated flight systems are no problem for software. And safety will be far better than humans. Though if we get fully automated roads/cars, the speed improvement might not be so big. (Automated roads might be able to go at what, 200Kph? More on highways?)
Flying cars are a horrible idea. Flying requires a 20x higher energy output than driving. It's extremely weather sensitive. It requires space for landing, unless you go VLTO, then your energy usage skyrockets even more. There are huge privacy concerns, last mile and noise issues. Not to mention it would be a further move from mass transit to (much less efficient) private transportation.
I'm not sure that's always the case. Take a look at the PAL-V, which is in production right now (there was a short item on it on Dutch TV, they're currently looking for investors to boost international sales).
According to their specifications [1], it can do 6 km/l when flying, and 12 km/l on land. The specs they give aren't directly comparable sadly, so I had to do a short calculation to get the flying mileage (180 km/28 l), but it suggests that your 20x figure is one order of magnitude too high. The vehicle's range also suggests a 3x difference, not 20x.
I just see it as a personal plane that doesn't require a taxi or rental car. If they were more common, then the limited amount of space needed for a light-car runway would be easier to pop in. Also note that Jetsons, to use a fictional example, had no qualms about building up, in comparison to apparently everyone in the West.
That should finally be close? Just add drones and self driving cars together. Soon we will have drones to deliver larger stuff than a small package from Amazon, so all the basic parts will be there.
Take a drone which can carry two people's weight and put a transparent box with a door on it. Add small wheels and some minimal parking capacity. Add a parachute for emergencies. (Note that there won't be a long educations for pilots. You just choose an address in Google Maps. If the drone can land vertically you might have to select a flat area at the destination, but it should be negotiated (along with parking fee) before going there.)
Instead of flying cars I'd rather have the cheap launch capacity of the Shuttle, which must have set some record when it was ~ two orders of a magnitude more expensive per pound than promised. :-( With so low launch costs we would finally get real giant space telescopes and an industrial infrastructure outside the atmosphere.
That was my explicit point in the first two sentences. The parts are here. Add a transparent box to a soon existing drone, add self-driving and you have a flying car.
Military drones fly themselves already. There will be routing systems for drones when e.g. Amazon starts to deliver packets to the home. And so on.
(But not necessarily helicopter. Note the "If the drone can land vertically". You could do this with a drone air plane. If the transparent box (passenger compartment) is moved automatically to/from an automated taxi to a drone, you have a point-to-point taxi service anywhere.)
Edit: The next logical step is a trailer home with solar energy -- move it anywhere with a taxi large helicopter airlift. Drones deliver groceries, while you enjoy the view from your mountain top, far from any roads.
Money talks. Canonical attempted to make bank from their partnership with Amazon, yet people over the web went insane and fought tooth and nail to shift the weight to derivatives, like Xubuntu and Mint.
Naturally, this is one of their alternative methods.
>These findings strongly suggest that self-control and memory encoding share common brain structures and mechanisms, and compete with each other for them
So basically, the very moment you're trying to keep yourself from acting on an urge, you're using neurons that would otherwise be used to retrieve a memory? Or am I misunderstanding something?
