Some people apply their rear pressure differently based on if their rear load is full, empty or something in between. Not only does your overall weight change, but also the formation of rear pressing against the seat will be different, especially depending on your nutrition and different days. Is it going to be able to detect such load changes without many problems? Obviously there needs to be some kind of threshold, but if your rear pressure varies a lot the device could even lock you out from using your car.
There is a traditional keypad override for instances in which your rear is not recognized: keys in pocket, wallet, new jeans, need to shit, etc.
Well, you can't just go to an airline to apply as a pilot and then go "I want to fly this airplane but not that one".
Of course I don't expect it to be that simple, but lodging a concern and expressing doubt as to the craft's safety mechanisms might a) prompt a fix if enough pilots do it, and b) cover your butt in the event of an incident.
That said, in my previous post I forgot to express my gratitude to you for the service that you do and the risks that you take, as well as your insight to share the details with us.
And airbuses have some strong points as well, automation has prevented its fair share of human error accidents from happening so on the whole it's probably safer than the previous generation of aircraft.
This seems relevant to the Google auto-driving car thread as well. Even as a programmer who doesn't trust the machine, I still trust the under-trained humans driving even less. I do understand that pilots are not typically under-trained as automobile drivers are, though. By the way, I do have two pilots in the family.
It's just that the problems that do happen are of the "duh! what idiot designed that?" variety rather than the "something exploded" or "pilot flew into mountain" kind. That's what makes it annoying: somebody behind a desk actually designed them to be this way. They thought about it, really hard, taking a lot of time and lots of meetings, and then they came up with... that.
And that is exactly why they need real pilots to voice their concerns. There may have been not enough pilots and too many engineers on the design committee. Note that I am a software engineer by trade and -almost- a mechanical engineer by university, so I'm not knocking the engineers.
The 4-digit PIN normally only applies to buttons that you push with your finger, where brute-force attacks are not really an option. If your bank has ATMs that permit 10,000 attempts before they swallow the card, or uses a 4-digit PIN as a password for their online services, I suggest you take your money elsewhere.
Right, but when my building put a new PIN-type buzzer on the entrance door, I managed to open it on the second try: 2580. In practice there are not 10000 combinations possible for an ATM pin, but rather a dozen or so easy-to-type PINs that one has a decent chance of guessing.
Even on the road today this is an issue. Doesn't matter how good of a driver you are. If one other idiot on the road is driving crazy, you could get killed no matter how you drive. Weakest link and all that...
Everyone who drives faster than me is a maniac. Everyone who drives slower is an idiot.
That's insane, and it's only one of many reasons why I can't wait to get off the Airbus fleet onto a more sensibly designed plane. (I'm currently an A320 pilot).
If that is how you feel, then imagine how I feel as a passenger on such an aircraft or as a father who sends his family out. Do I have to start checking the idiosyncrasies of every plane out there to determine on what I will let my family fly? I have to become an expert in a field which does not earn my bread?
If you identify this sort of problem, then please REFUSE TO FLY THAT PLANE. That will get the message across.
Firefox - Too little, too late? Too little: Doesn't sound like it, given the writeup of this release. Too late: An install of pretty much any software is one click away. No software is too late - a later version can fix the problems of earlier versions. Most users don't have any problems with memory usage, don't care about how the footprint compares with this or that version of chrome etc.
But it breaks Firefox's major original selling point: extensions. After Firefox 5 the extensions were supposed to be auto-updating in theory.
In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there is.
And it'll be a cold day in hell before I trust anything more important to my fetish porn collection to a WD drive...
Why is that? Of all the drive problems I've ever had, from failures to DOAs to Linux incompatibility issues, the one manufacturer that has stood out as being the most reliable is in fact Western Digital. Why do you distrust WD?
Taking a brutal dictator seriously is exactly the wrong approach. I'd rather remember him as a supporting character in a lowbrow puppet comedy.
No, now with Iraq out of the Axis Of Evil (TM), this is just a clever plot by the remaining Axis Of Evil (TM) members to draw attention away from the atrocities in Syria!
Because the library author already took care of that detail. Put the cursor on diamorphine and press F3 (Eclipse): const Narcotic diamorphine = C21H23NO5;
Exactly! You already replaced your car's stock water pump with some aftermarket thing, now that's not working out so well for you. So do the right thing and replace that aftermarket water pump with an OEM part like the car came with.
That OEM water pump wouldn't pump the water that I need, that is why I installed the aftermarket pump which happens to support _all_ water. Now, so long as I only use some water that was tested with the OEM pump I'm fine, but if I need water that was only tested on the aftermarket pump (which most water is, because the aftermarket pump works on all cars, not just geeky cars) then now I'm screwed.
The first is an assignment, the second is a statement (which evaluates to TRUE). Therefore, if he wishes to state that diamorphine is heroin, rather than assign heroin to diamorphine, he needs the == operator.
On Linux, most java developers consider that OpenJDK is the default implementation and that Sun JDK is more or less discontinued.
And yet, a customer that I used to support has an app that will not run on OpenJDK, only on Sun Java. I do not know if it is sniffing the JVM or if it makes use of an undocumented feature AKA bug but it won't even load with OpenJDK. No, I don't have the source.
Or maybe... the name "photoshop" has become so ubiquitous that it has come to be synonymous with "computer aided photo manipulation". It is not uncommon for brand names to infiltrate culture so successfully that the trademarked brand name ceases to be relevant.
I suggest that you take a sharpie and a post-it note and write yourself a reminder to google this phenomenon. If that sounds like too much of a headache, take an aspirin and maybe tivo a documentary on it.
I once heard a woman say that she was googling in her refrigerator for ketchup. I wanted to ask her if she photoshops her face before she goes out.
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Resistance is V/I.
we have car navigation systems that use Beidou for some time now (maybe less than a year).
Who is "we"? Are you Chinese?
If the protection can be over-ridden, then what is its point? Why not /just/ use the keypad?
Convenience for the user, so that he does not have to key in a passcode every time he starts the vehicle.
Some people apply their rear pressure differently based on if their rear load is full, empty or something in between. Not only does your overall weight change, but also the formation of rear pressing against the seat will be different, especially depending on your nutrition and different days. Is it going to be able to detect such load changes without many problems? Obviously there needs to be some kind of threshold, but if your rear pressure varies a lot the device could even lock you out from using your car.
There is a traditional keypad override for instances in which your rear is not recognized: keys in pocket, wallet, new jeans, need to shit, etc.
I hope they keep all of these planes grounded now until the issue is resolved.
From where would you like them to get the data to find the problem without actually flying the plane?
You make a convincing argument for the value of scrutiny, but where is the actual law? Values mean nothing anymore.
3. Private citizens are supposed to monitor civil servants even when there is no reasonable suspicion or probable cause.
Where did you get this from?
Well, you can't just go to an airline to apply as a pilot and then go "I want to fly this airplane but not that one".
Of course I don't expect it to be that simple, but lodging a concern and expressing doubt as to the craft's safety mechanisms might a) prompt a fix if enough pilots do it, and b) cover your butt in the event of an incident.
That said, in my previous post I forgot to express my gratitude to you for the service that you do and the risks that you take, as well as your insight to share the details with us.
And airbuses have some strong points as well, automation has prevented its fair share of human error accidents from happening so on the whole it's probably safer than the previous generation of aircraft.
This seems relevant to the Google auto-driving car thread as well. Even as a programmer who doesn't trust the machine, I still trust the under-trained humans driving even less. I do understand that pilots are not typically under-trained as automobile drivers are, though. By the way, I do have two pilots in the family.
It's just that the problems that do happen are of the "duh! what idiot designed that?" variety rather than the "something exploded" or "pilot flew into mountain" kind. That's what makes it annoying: somebody behind a desk actually designed them to be this way. They thought about it, really hard, taking a lot of time and lots of meetings, and then they came up with... that.
And that is exactly why they need real pilots to voice their concerns. There may have been not enough pilots and too many engineers on the design committee. Note that I am a software engineer by trade and -almost- a mechanical engineer by university, so I'm not knocking the engineers.
The 4-digit PIN normally only applies to buttons that you push with your finger, where brute-force attacks are not really an option. If your bank has ATMs that permit 10,000 attempts before they swallow the card, or uses a 4-digit PIN as a password for their online services, I suggest you take your money elsewhere.
Right, but when my building put a new PIN-type buzzer on the entrance door, I managed to open it on the second try: 2580. In practice there are not 10000 combinations possible for an ATM pin, but rather a dozen or so easy-to-type PINs that one has a decent chance of guessing.
Right, because bug fixes never introduce bugs. Code just keeps getting better and better and better.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TeX
It has been a few years since the last bugfix, at version 3.1415926
Even on the road today this is an issue. Doesn't matter how good of a driver you are. If one other idiot on the road is driving crazy, you could get killed no matter how you drive. Weakest link and all that...
Everyone who drives faster than me is a maniac. Everyone who drives slower is an idiot.
That's insane, and it's only one of many reasons why I can't wait to get off the Airbus fleet onto a more sensibly designed plane. (I'm currently an A320 pilot).
If that is how you feel, then imagine how I feel as a passenger on such an aircraft or as a father who sends his family out. Do I have to start checking the idiosyncrasies of every plane out there to determine on what I will let my family fly? I have to become an expert in a field which does not earn my bread?
If you identify this sort of problem, then please REFUSE TO FLY THAT PLANE. That will get the message across.
Firefox - Too little, too late?
Too little: Doesn't sound like it, given the writeup of this release.
Too late: An install of pretty much any software is one click away. No software is too late - a later version can fix the problems of earlier versions. Most users don't have any problems with memory usage, don't care about how the footprint compares with this or that version of chrome etc.
But it breaks Firefox's major original selling point: extensions. After Firefox 5 the extensions were supposed to be auto-updating in theory.
In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there is.
It was a joke. North Korea and Syria are connected only by their common ties to Iran.
Interesting. I will also attest to having had disproportionately high failures with Maxtor drives.
And it'll be a cold day in hell before I trust anything more important to my fetish porn collection to a WD drive...
Why is that? Of all the drive problems I've ever had, from failures to DOAs to Linux incompatibility issues, the one manufacturer that has stood out as being the most reliable is in fact Western Digital. Why do you distrust WD?
Taking a brutal dictator seriously is exactly the wrong approach. I'd rather remember him as a supporting character in a lowbrow puppet comedy.
No, now with Iraq out of the Axis Of Evil (TM), this is just a clever plot by the remaining Axis Of Evil (TM) members to draw attention away from the atrocities in Syria!
Clever, clever little evildoers...
That is interesting, though it makes sense. Thanks! I'm all out of wit to translate that into C++ though with objects it should be straightforward.
Because the library author already took care of that detail. Put the cursor on diamorphine and press F3 (Eclipse):
const Narcotic diamorphine = C21H23NO5;
Sorry, you are correct.
Exactly! You already replaced your car's stock water pump with some aftermarket thing, now that's not working out so well for you. So do the right thing and replace that aftermarket water pump with an OEM part like the car came with.
That OEM water pump wouldn't pump the water that I need, that is why I installed the aftermarket pump which happens to support _all_ water. Now, so long as I only use some water that was tested with the OEM pump I'm fine, but if I need water that was only tested on the aftermarket pump (which most water is, because the aftermarket pump works on all cars, not just geeky cars) then now I'm screwed.
The first is an assignment, the second is a statement (which evaluates to TRUE). Therefore, if he wishes to state that diamorphine is heroin, rather than assign heroin to diamorphine, he needs the == operator.
Yes, it is a subtle difference.
(For those who are less pharmaceutically inclined, diamorphine = heroin.)
(For those who are more C++98 inclined, diamorphine == heroin.)
On Linux, most java developers consider that OpenJDK is the default implementation and that Sun JDK is more or less discontinued.
And yet, a customer that I used to support has an app that will not run on OpenJDK, only on Sun Java. I do not know if it is sniffing the JVM or if it makes use of an undocumented feature AKA bug but it won't even load with OpenJDK. No, I don't have the source.
Or maybe... the name "photoshop" has become so ubiquitous that it has come to be synonymous with "computer aided photo manipulation". It is not uncommon for brand names to infiltrate culture so successfully that the trademarked brand name ceases to be relevant.
I suggest that you take a sharpie and a post-it note and write yourself a reminder to google this phenomenon. If that sounds like too much of a headache, take an aspirin and maybe tivo a documentary on it.
I once heard a woman say that she was googling in her refrigerator for ketchup. I wanted to ask her if she photoshops her face before she goes out.