It's like none of you have ever played Sim City and looked at the crime maps to see where you put your police stations.... Sheesh!!
I always had an alternate approach. I would lay out my police stations only when adding brand new "suburbs". if crime popped up in an unexpected area, I bulldozed the whole damn block and replaced it with large parks, marinas, and wildlife.
These folks had some serious knowledge. Management should have considered the consequences of sending these people out the door in search of employment... If the ex-employee goes to China, good luck with that non-compete agreement.
The people with "serious knowledge" at the CME probably have decent salaries, opportunity for an end-of-year bonus, and a paid non-compete agreement. The combination of a deferred bonus structure and a weekly paycheck for thumb twiddling should be a reasonable deterrent for most. Of course, nothing will stop someone who views the breach as a patriotic act for his or her home nation.
Topologically, they are just a one way street with T-junctions.
I remember taking some standardized assessment in high school that included a "paper folding test". It contained a series of origami-like drawings of paper with creases, and for each you had to identify which folded drawing matched the unfolded paper with crease marks. Show me someone who did poorly on that test and I'll show you someone who is afraid of roundabouts.
The traffic laws were designed to work without me needing to be able to look at you signalling to me from inside your car.
You have failed to account for human error. It's possible that at a busy four-way intersection, a driver has misidentified the correct ordering for right-of-way. Hand signaling and eye contact help all drivers to correct for the single error, rather than letting it snowball into a collision.
They're think they're being nice by letting folks in, stopping in the middle of traffic, not taking their proper turn at four way stops, and other such nonsense.
I think you're mixing up "cooperative driving" with "bad driving". Let's recap:
Good idea: let someone from a parking lot or side street into a congested lane when you're already stopped.
Bad idea: brake in the middle of an uncongested lane to allow someone to pull out from a parking lot or side street.
It could be true, yes. I recently got my license renewed and had to take the written exam. IIRC, I answered 2/25 questions incorrectly and passed. I had no opportunity to identify the correct answers to the questions I missed, so you could say I'm 96% fit to drive according to state in which I live. Not to mention that I feel that I should not have passed without covering any "continuing education" material, e.g. recent state laws, county/city laws, or obscure/unenforced rules of the road. The test was just so darned easy.
As far as cooperation among drivers go, Americans generally do it quite well.
Not so much in the large cities. Too many self-important drivers in a rush, or taxi cabs that are more or less expected to behave as selfishly as possible. I live near a 5-way stop with a relatively open center that almost always involves someone going out-of-turn. I suspect the leading cause is losing track of who has the right-of-way. Now that I think about it, it would be a prime candidate for a roundabout, since it would simply make the required cooperation easier.
Solution: wipe both. Then you will see how much she remembers.
Yeah, then push your kid down the stairs next time you see him walking around without a helmet on. And kick the dog to teach it not to run in front of you! Your friends and family will love you for imparting your wisdom on them as painfully as possible!
you deserved it, our only fault is not telling you earlier why.
Sounds like they're also saying this:
We actually can't tell you why you deserved it. We're still working on that tool.
Some of the metrics that are used for banning apps are private. It's shitty for them to trigger automated bans before automated warning is even possible.
I'd say that unrelated information is often useless.
I'd say that you're taking the wrong classes, or you're not using your imagination enough for applying the knowledge. I took some Greek/Roman history classes to satisfy some of my general education requirements. The etymology material from one class gets used on a daily basis for general reading comprehension and a wider vocabulary. The mythology material from the other class gets used for naming servers and daemons.
"I'm going to make a baseless claim, and I'm sure as hell not going to waste my time proving it!"
If Opera had 200 million users, it would have a higher market share number.
Since you're too lazy to Just Fucking Google It, take a look at Opera's financial reports (see p.3 of the 2011Q1 presentation). You can argue with them about their user count.
Do you really think in a state where brown skin is the majority that cops will waste their time bugging everyone who is brown skinned? We in AZ are aware there are a lot of legal Hispanics here, don't insult us with your assumptions.
No, we're afraid of the few asshole cops who will bug whoever they want who happens to be brown-skinned. A law that arguably opens up probable cause to search on the majority of the population is dangerous to civil liberties.
This is the problem with US politics, the two party shuffle. Too bad the sheeple will never figure out that they are being divided and conquered.
The two-party system is a symptom, not a cause. See this encyclopedia article on Duverger's Law for a better argument than I can provide. The presence of this symptom does not imply that people are sheeple, as it is something of a prisoner's dilemma.
it often happens in legal history that when an unpopular defendant (like a terrorist) is put on trial, some of their rights are 'bent' or 'violated', but that precedent is then used subsequently against ordinary people.
That's a very frustrating aspect of precedence in the courts. Unlike most artificial learning systems, legal precedence has the result of training the courts to use the oldest ideas rather than the newest. It also has the potential to cause mistakes to be remembered more than successes ("mistakes" meaning someone "pushing the boundaries" on civil rights).
Now tell me how many mommys and daddys actually know how to open the command line in windows?
The minority. I don't believe I ever claimed otherwise.
Just because it exists doesn't mean it necessarily gets used. I can't think of a single reason to ever open a command line interface for normal operation of a system.
I can think of reasons, but my definition of "normal operation of a system" probably differs from yours. Heck, my definition varies substantially between home and work. Sure, the command line may be a power-user-only component of any computer, but the fact remains that it exists—it did not vanish into the ether—which was the original point of my post.
Well just pick a browser that still has your precious separate bar.
I do. I will stay away from any browser that removes my URL bar. OTOH, I don't really have a problem with visual "de-cluttering" of the URL bar that Opera does, because it doesn't remove control. And yes, it's my precioussssss... Stupid fat Googleses want to take it from us, they do!
I was royally pissed when Comcast usurped my 404 errors and directed me to their favorite search engine instead. That should be illegal. As it is, I had to look up how to turn that very seriously UNWANTED feature "off".
Agreed. Mine keeps turning itself back on. I just type URLs very carefully now.
Thanks Grampa. I'll inform the Google Chrome team of your wacky 90's idea. Should go over big.
...whom you indirectly paraphrased...
It is a 90s idea. Just like the command prompt and a whole lot of other "damned good" interface ideas which many people are glad went away into the ether.
...while also insinuating that you don't believe command line interfaces exist anymore (unless "the ether" means/etc/ethers). What OS are you using that doesn't come with a command-line interface?
... does some nature conservatory body about the amazon river get dibs on.amazon if they front the cash or does the internet giant get it?
so how do we deal with this now?
We spend some quality time with the hosts file of our co-workers who don't lock their desktops, ensuring that amazon.com resolves to some nature conservatory body about the amazon river.
C++ is very sensitive to target architecture and compiler flags. That, and if they really did run everything on a Pentium 4, your tests will not reproduce theirs. Pentium 4 architecture was radically different from later Intel chips, AFAIK mostly due to a very deep pipeline.
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I always had an alternate approach. I would lay out my police stations only when adding brand new "suburbs". if crime popped up in an unexpected area, I bulldozed the whole damn block and replaced it with large parks, marinas, and wildlife.
Because A Real Man sticks his thumb into the USB port to copy source code.
The people with "serious knowledge" at the CME probably have decent salaries, opportunity for an end-of-year bonus, and a paid non-compete agreement. The combination of a deferred bonus structure and a weekly paycheck for thumb twiddling should be a reasonable deterrent for most. Of course, nothing will stop someone who views the breach as a patriotic act for his or her home nation.
Have fun.
The CME group is the exchange, not the "Wall Street gamblers" you are vilifying. Yes, they're both in the finance industry. No, they are not the same.
I remember taking some standardized assessment in high school that included a "paper folding test". It contained a series of origami-like drawings of paper with creases, and for each you had to identify which folded drawing matched the unfolded paper with crease marks. Show me someone who did poorly on that test and I'll show you someone who is afraid of roundabouts.
You have failed to account for human error. It's possible that at a busy four-way intersection, a driver has misidentified the correct ordering for right-of-way. Hand signaling and eye contact help all drivers to correct for the single error, rather than letting it snowball into a collision.
I think you're mixing up "cooperative driving" with "bad driving". Let's recap:
Bad idea: brake in the middle of an uncongested lane to allow someone to pull out from a parking lot or side street.
It could be true, yes. I recently got my license renewed and had to take the written exam. IIRC, I answered 2/25 questions incorrectly and passed. I had no opportunity to identify the correct answers to the questions I missed, so you could say I'm 96% fit to drive according to state in which I live. Not to mention that I feel that I should not have passed without covering any "continuing education" material, e.g. recent state laws, county/city laws, or obscure/unenforced rules of the road. The test was just so darned easy.
Not so much in the large cities. Too many self-important drivers in a rush, or taxi cabs that are more or less expected to behave as selfishly as possible. I live near a 5-way stop with a relatively open center that almost always involves someone going out-of-turn. I suspect the leading cause is losing track of who has the right-of-way. Now that I think about it, it would be a prime candidate for a roundabout, since it would simply make the required cooperation easier.
Yeah, then push your kid down the stairs next time you see him walking around without a helmet on. And kick the dog to teach it not to run in front of you! Your friends and family will love you for imparting your wisdom on them as painfully as possible!
Sounds like they're also saying this:
Some of the metrics that are used for banning apps are private. It's shitty for them to trigger automated bans before automated warning is even possible.
Yeah, but if you're dedicated you can get +1 every 4 levels.
I'd say that you're taking the wrong classes, or you're not using your imagination enough for applying the knowledge. I took some Greek/Roman history classes to satisfy some of my general education requirements. The etymology material from one class gets used on a daily basis for general reading comprehension and a wider vocabulary. The mythology material from the other class gets used for naming servers and daemons.
Opera's founder just resigned, citing that the board is too focused on short-term quarterly results.
Since you're too lazy to Just Fucking Google It, take a look at Opera's financial reports (see p.3 of the 2011Q1 presentation). You can argue with them about their user count.
No, we're afraid of the few asshole cops who will bug whoever they want who happens to be brown-skinned. A law that arguably opens up probable cause to search on the majority of the population is dangerous to civil liberties.
The two-party system is a symptom, not a cause. See this encyclopedia article on Duverger's Law for a better argument than I can provide. The presence of this symptom does not imply that people are sheeple, as it is something of a prisoner's dilemma.
That's a very frustrating aspect of precedence in the courts. Unlike most artificial learning systems, legal precedence has the result of training the courts to use the oldest ideas rather than the newest. It also has the potential to cause mistakes to be remembered more than successes ("mistakes" meaning someone "pushing the boundaries" on civil rights).
The GP must have been averaging across multiple species, and maybe also plants and rocks. Really, the only problem is the fox. Damn clever foxes.
The minority. I don't believe I ever claimed otherwise.
I can think of reasons, but my definition of "normal operation of a system" probably differs from yours. Heck, my definition varies substantially between home and work. Sure, the command line may be a power-user-only component of any computer, but the fact remains that it exists—it did not vanish into the ether—which was the original point of my post.
I do. I will stay away from any browser that removes my URL bar. OTOH, I don't really have a problem with visual "de-cluttering" of the URL bar that Opera does, because it doesn't remove control. And yes, it's my precioussssss... Stupid fat Googleses want to take it from us, they do!
And a Leatherman is a nice fucking multi-tool to have around. Mine has lasted for almost a decade now, and it gets weekly use.
Agreed. Mine keeps turning itself back on. I just type URLs very carefully now.
That would be this guy...
We spend some quality time with the hosts file of our co-workers who don't lock their desktops, ensuring that amazon.com resolves to some nature conservatory body about the amazon river.
C++ is very sensitive to target architecture and compiler flags. That, and if they really did run everything on a Pentium 4, your tests will not reproduce theirs. Pentium 4 architecture was radically different from later Intel chips, AFAIK mostly due to a very deep pipeline.