So far, the many elderly cousins I've 'downgraded' to Win10 have had a faultless experience (except for agonisingly-long 'updates'). The integrated nonsense does seem to 'look after' them. Nobody ever uses the neat Linux dual-boot that I always put there for disasters. Of course, it takes me 30 minutes each to get rid of telemetry (each update) and re-tweak their desktops to look just like the XP they know (thank you, Classic Shell). Only downside is, with 30 minutes devoted to each cousin each upgrade, wonderful TeamViewer now thinks I'm 'commercial'.
Wonderful, and needed. So as an oldie who html handcoded my co's original 'website' very many years ago, I want to try what's new. My personal website has lots of files and anchors, so looks good for conversion/insertion to a 'Pod'. What to do next? Follow the links and register with, er, real name, then get flipped to Github and have to... get registered again - in order to get what... a manual? Aw, come on. I may be misunderstanding this, but there has to be a better front end for those of us who aren't geeks
So, '3 minutes' to give people extra time? Is that 3 minutes slow for the traindrivers also to see, so that people have extra time to run for their train? (train leaves late), or 3 minutes fast so that people who think they have already missed it can still run along? (people hurry more than they need to). Should we read the text again?
We Brits chose the wrong target. The ECJ is mostly sensible (if you accept the EU Treaties, which I don't). But the ECHR is totally beyond logic, there is no (current) plan for the UK to withdraw from a (different, non-EU) Treaty, and it's a mystery why we still assign our quota of judges there.
If it helps people outside the so-called EU, the fake 'European Parliament' has absolutely no authenticity. Sensible people in the UK will have nothing to do with it after next year. The real bugbear is the so-called 'Council of Europe' , and their unwanted spawn the 'ECHR'. Will take a good bit longer to neutralise them. Watch this space.
In my country, most urban roads are total-3 cars wide, or 'almost' 4, with parking and random deliveries (legal or illegal) on both sides. To make any progress, you play 'chicken' with oncoming traffic of varying widths, in the middle, and hope for politeness with a cheery wave. Autonomous impossible! What really would reduce long-distance traffic would be an autonomous system for distributing freight, driverless for each container. Can I copyright my new words 'railroad' and 'railhead' and 'marshalling yard'? Seems to be an easier autonomous problem to solve first, and we've had a hundred years to try.
The original justification for homeopathy was at a time when many remedies were worse than the disease (arsenic, mercury, blodletting...), so nobility wisely preferred homeopaths. Similarly, if credulous parents want to 'do something' and give children a tincture, when nothing-at-all would do best. Infected product is something else.
Deep Sussex countryside. Copper pair across the fields on tarred poles untouched for 25+ years, then under the road for a mile to the nearest village cabinet (allegedly with fibre). BUT I get 40Mbps down, consistently. Do I need 'educating' (says Govt proposal) to pay for that infrastructure to be updated?
When I was young, the smartly-uniformed milkman delivered all sorts of things up and down the garden path, and while he was doing that the bored horse moved the milk-float (some yards behind it) to align with the next house that had regular orders. People forget what was possible in a less techno-mad world.
Suppose there is a much more advanced 'civilisation' that has become unitary, and that does communicate, and that the 'meat' on this planet is ill-equipped to understand (and our recent tecnology can't detect - it's not 'serial' in time or 'descriptive' in space). Suppose we apes were dimly aware of it, and some of our irrational behavious (dolmens, obsessions, religions...) were the only evidence of imperfect reception. No, I don't belive that at all, but if our Vicar invited this atheist to give a talk, I might not disappoint him.
In a high-stress office job, I relaxed every couple of hours by grabbing any important-looking file and walking briskly round the factory, looking meaningfully at 'work in progress'. Cleared my head, reminded me what we were all really doing, and also what real WORK looked like.
Undergraduates sometimes surprise you - some of the brightest may have no creative imagination, some of the dullest may have great entreprenurial instincts. An interview can sus that in minutes, but if it's not PC to 'select', then hey, up the intake and note the 'survival of the fittest' in the first year. Waste of time for those unsuited, who could have been told ab initio, were it not for PC
Just 'don't be silly'. We-all get back what we contribute to 'society', priced at what society needs. Get it wrong, and you'd better work harder, or at something more useful. If productive assets are confiscated, go get your pitchfork.
On first start of Win10 after 'upgrade', rename Windows.old to Windows.bak. Months later if you're happy (most of my cousins are, and they give me fewer problems once they're on properly-deloused Win10), delete that big folder to save space.
I'd take a strategic view, and stop trying to 'computerise' the historic systems we happen to have now. How to 'enable' populous opinion on defined issues, retaining balance and preventing manipulation? What 'political' structures needed to give effect to the results? And notice that 'pricing' assets is equivalent to a weighted vote, with the weights (theoretically, (Ha!), based on purchasers' prior contribution to society. So... that doesn't work properly either, what's better with the systems available tomorrow?
Still much-lamented in the UK - the 'Best Man' reads telegrams at the wedding - how? My parents got engaged by telegram. When you're 100, the Queen 'sends you a telegram' (now it's just a cheesy card). Sic transit gloria mundi.
My banknote is now made of plastic, but it still has printed on it "I promise to pay the bearer on demand the sum of...", signed on behalf of one of the oldest banks in the world. Sure, they depreciate it on purpose, but -
Did they also consider that wine was drunk mostly by mid to upper classes, who always had servants to attend at table? A small glass might then be filled ad-lib, whereas today you fill up once, or twice (or whenever you can reach the bottle). Compare 'Port', where there is still some ceremony and the glasses are much smaller.
DNA shows my ancestors came from Doggerland, for centuries now under the seas. So now we live up a hill (noted that many seaboard denizens haven't heard the news, from New Orleans to BanglaDesh). Up here, we'd be grateful for warmer weather. Make your own way, people. Darwin is watching.
Real PRC Chinese select tea and herbs in a glass jar at home, have it refilled all day with boiling water from kiosks at minimal cost. At high-end meetings, you get a mug with one teabag and it gets refilled from a kettle of boiling water as often as you empty it.
At least 10 years ago, journals were reporting that a microdose of peanut protein, increased each day (with careful monitoring) could desentise successfully after months. This study uses probiotics - interesting and wholly credible too, but where is the 'control' that probiotics specifically have contributed, and to what extent?
Interesting thoughts, usefully debatable, and maybe worth writing down IF it's incidental to your job - or discussing with your wife (if you dare). But otherwise a huge fail in engagement with today's Office Politics, anywhere. 'Internal Memo'? Just WHY?
The only T guy I knew (we didn't know, then - that was his affair, not ours) made a great M career, and then transitioned gracefully to F - changed his (her) job to manage something more socially-sensitive, and is probably in line for a national award for community service just now. Nobody would know, unless the scarf slipped to reveal the 'adam's apple', and surely no one need care. I can't see that progress happenning well in any military environment, in any country at all.
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So far, the many elderly cousins I've 'downgraded' to Win10 have had a faultless experience (except for agonisingly-long 'updates'). The integrated nonsense does seem to 'look after' them. Nobody ever uses the neat Linux dual-boot that I always put there for disasters. Of course, it takes me 30 minutes each to get rid of telemetry (each update) and re-tweak their desktops to look just like the XP they know (thank you, Classic Shell). Only downside is, with 30 minutes devoted to each cousin each upgrade, wonderful TeamViewer now thinks I'm 'commercial'.
Wonderful, and needed. So as an oldie who html handcoded my co's original 'website' very many years ago, I want to try what's new. My personal website has lots of files and anchors, so looks good for conversion/insertion to a 'Pod'. What to do next? Follow the links and register with, er, real name, then get flipped to Github and have to... get registered again - in order to get what... a manual? Aw, come on. I may be misunderstanding this, but there has to be a better front end for those of us who aren't geeks
So, '3 minutes' to give people extra time? Is that 3 minutes slow for the traindrivers also to see, so that people have extra time to run for their train? (train leaves late), or 3 minutes fast so that people who think they have already missed it can still run along? (people hurry more than they need to). Should we read the text again?
We Brits chose the wrong target. The ECJ is mostly sensible (if you accept the EU Treaties, which I don't). But the ECHR is totally beyond logic, there is no (current) plan for the UK to withdraw from a (different, non-EU) Treaty, and it's a mystery why we still assign our quota of judges there.
If it helps people outside the so-called EU, the fake 'European Parliament' has absolutely no authenticity. Sensible people in the UK will have nothing to do with it after next year. The real bugbear is the so-called 'Council of Europe' , and their unwanted spawn the 'ECHR'. Will take a good bit longer to neutralise them. Watch this space.
In my country, most urban roads are total-3 cars wide, or 'almost' 4, with parking and random deliveries (legal or illegal) on both sides. To make any progress, you play 'chicken' with oncoming traffic of varying widths, in the middle, and hope for politeness with a cheery wave. Autonomous impossible! What really would reduce long-distance traffic would be an autonomous system for distributing freight, driverless for each container. Can I copyright my new words 'railroad' and 'railhead' and 'marshalling yard'? Seems to be an easier autonomous problem to solve first, and we've had a hundred years to try.
The original justification for homeopathy was at a time when many remedies were worse than the disease (arsenic, mercury, blodletting...), so nobility wisely preferred homeopaths. Similarly, if credulous parents want to 'do something' and give children a tincture, when nothing-at-all would do best. Infected product is something else.
Deep Sussex countryside. Copper pair across the fields on tarred poles untouched for 25+ years, then under the road for a mile to the nearest village cabinet (allegedly with fibre). BUT I get 40Mbps down, consistently. Do I need 'educating' (says Govt proposal) to pay for that infrastructure to be updated?
When I was young, the smartly-uniformed milkman delivered all sorts of things up and down the garden path, and while he was doing that the bored horse moved the milk-float (some yards behind it) to align with the next house that had regular orders. People forget what was possible in a less techno-mad world.
Suppose there is a much more advanced 'civilisation' that has become unitary, and that does communicate, and that the 'meat' on this planet is ill-equipped to understand (and our recent tecnology can't detect - it's not 'serial' in time or 'descriptive' in space). Suppose we apes were dimly aware of it, and some of our irrational behavious (dolmens, obsessions, religions...) were the only evidence of imperfect reception. No, I don't belive that at all, but if our Vicar invited this atheist to give a talk, I might not disappoint him.
In a high-stress office job, I relaxed every couple of hours by grabbing any important-looking file and walking briskly round the factory, looking meaningfully at 'work in progress'. Cleared my head, reminded me what we were all really doing, and also what real WORK looked like.
Undergraduates sometimes surprise you - some of the brightest may have no creative imagination, some of the dullest may have great entreprenurial instincts. An interview can sus that in minutes, but if it's not PC to 'select', then hey, up the intake and note the 'survival of the fittest' in the first year. Waste of time for those unsuited, who could have been told ab initio, were it not for PC
Just 'don't be silly'. We-all get back what we contribute to 'society', priced at what society needs. Get it wrong, and you'd better work harder, or at something more useful. If productive assets are confiscated, go get your pitchfork.
Britain's 'Daily Mail' newspaper used 'x'. And nobody was really surprised how soon Armageddon seemed. Well, at least they reported it.
On first start of Win10 after 'upgrade', rename Windows.old to Windows.bak. Months later if you're happy (most of my cousins are, and they give me fewer problems once they're on properly-deloused Win10), delete that big folder to save space.
I'd take a strategic view, and stop trying to 'computerise' the historic systems we happen to have now. How to 'enable' populous opinion on defined issues, retaining balance and preventing manipulation? What 'political' structures needed to give effect to the results? And notice that 'pricing' assets is equivalent to a weighted vote, with the weights (theoretically, (Ha!), based on purchasers' prior contribution to society. So... that doesn't work properly either, what's better with the systems available tomorrow?
Still much-lamented in the UK - the 'Best Man' reads telegrams at the wedding - how? My parents got engaged by telegram. When you're 100, the Queen 'sends you a telegram' (now it's just a cheesy card). Sic transit gloria mundi.
My banknote is now made of plastic, but it still has printed on it "I promise to pay the bearer on demand the sum of...", signed on behalf of one of the oldest banks in the world. Sure, they depreciate it on purpose, but -
Did they also consider that wine was drunk mostly by mid to upper classes, who always had servants to attend at table? A small glass might then be filled ad-lib, whereas today you fill up once, or twice (or whenever you can reach the bottle). Compare 'Port', where there is still some ceremony and the glasses are much smaller.
(title) - we've been here before.
DNA shows my ancestors came from Doggerland, for centuries now under the seas. So now we live up a hill (noted that many seaboard denizens haven't heard the news, from New Orleans to BanglaDesh). Up here, we'd be grateful for warmer weather. Make your own way, people. Darwin is watching.
Real PRC Chinese select tea and herbs in a glass jar at home, have it refilled all day with boiling water from kiosks at minimal cost. At high-end meetings, you get a mug with one teabag and it gets refilled from a kettle of boiling water as often as you empty it.
At least 10 years ago, journals were reporting that a microdose of peanut protein, increased each day (with careful monitoring) could desentise successfully after months. This study uses probiotics - interesting and wholly credible too, but where is the 'control' that probiotics specifically have contributed, and to what extent?
Interesting thoughts, usefully debatable, and maybe worth writing down IF it's incidental to your job - or discussing with your wife (if you dare). But otherwise a huge fail in engagement with today's Office Politics, anywhere. 'Internal Memo'? Just WHY?
The only T guy I knew (we didn't know, then - that was his affair, not ours) made a great M career, and then transitioned gracefully to F - changed his (her) job to manage something more socially-sensitive, and is probably in line for a national award for community service just now. Nobody would know, unless the scarf slipped to reveal the 'adam's apple', and surely no one need care. I can't see that progress happenning well in any military environment, in any country at all.