It's an exaggeration perhaps, but not silly. First off, they don't describe the driving simulator used, but let's assume that it is like you say. A wheel, pedals, and display don't give the full set of sensory feedback that drivers rely on for split-second decision making. For me, that takes away a lot of what I would need to optimally negotiate a track like they describe... "required them to learn the nuances of a track programmed to have difficult curves and turns".
Absolutely. Driving simulators test real driving about as well as Call of Duty tests real marksmanship. It seem that a number of posters don't like your earlier comment about "bad" drivers often being better than "good" ones, but I think there's something to it. Many of the "good" drivers I know (my wife, for one), don't have the skills to react to dangerous situations, or the instincts to recover from a bad situation properly. Some of these only develop through practice, which is usually through "bad" driving.
Comparing costs in our economy to costs in another isn't necessarily apples to apples. You might be all for a temporary tax now, but be prepared to pay that tax forever. The government almost never gives back a source of revenue once it gets its grubby hands on it. Those few politicians brave enough to roll back taxes get stabbed in the back by their "peers" in government.
Maybe you can afford more taxes, but an additional tax might be enough to push many families over the edge right now. There are lots of families who have managed their finances well, worked hard, and are now in dire straits because of one or more job losses. No way should people like them have to bail out politicians who have overspent their state's piggy banks. I look at the mess my own state is in, and I see greedy politicians, fat jobs for connected insiders, pet projects, pork barrel boondoggles, and all around wasteful, easy spending. Oh, but you can't afford a teacher for my kids' schools? Imagine that.
I love the idea of promoting fuel efficiency and alternative transportation. A Prius doesn't fit everyone's transportation needs. I love the idea of more public transportation. Most of the US is too spread out to benefit from it.
Roads are used to provide goods and services that everyone uses (food, furniture, home heating oil, police, fire, ambulance, etc). My mother-in-law doesn't drive, but she still benefits from roads.
And that would leave us entering the next stage of space exploration dependent on the continued good will and relations between us and Russia, which is not something I would want to risk. Better that we keep ourselves at the front of spaceship design and fabrication, even at a cost premium, than risk being a generation or two behind and try to play catchup because (for whatever reason) we are no longer on good terms with the Russian bear.
That makes about as much sense as anything I could think of. I thought they might be going with Linux on the optical scanners might be a cost-saving measure, and I figured that since they mostly seem to be a Microsoft shop, they might have more C# experience in-house than say, Java.
Their use of embedded Linux makes me wonder if their earlier refusals to release their code was legal. Not their C# stuff, or their DB schema or sql code, but if they took off-the-shelf Linux and resold it, aren't they at least required to make that source available along with any changes, if any, they made?
I don't think they are releasing it as open source, or under any open license. Rather, they are planning to publish their proprietary code for all to see.
Spokeswoman Michelle Shafer [...] said the firmware on the company’s new Frontier optical-scan machines is written in C# programming language and runs on Linux. The election management software - which sits on a computer at the election office and is used to create ballots and tabulate votes - runs on Microsoft Windows XP and uses a Microsoft SQL database.
Looks like they use a combination of open and closed source for their OSes. I wonder why they went with C# on Linux?
What they did shows a basic lack of discipline and situational awareness which is completely incompatible with their job. Flying any aircraft is an unforgiving activity, and requires the ability to focus your attention on several boring tasks at once for hours on end. Laptops with scheduling software are not on that list.
I've made your kind of mistake before, and I sure wouldn't want to get fired for it either. However, you were paying attention, noticed that something was wrong and aborted the errant command. These guys weren't paying attention.
An F-16 's stall speed is around 180 knots, but depends on a number of other factors (air density, angle of attack, etc.). Fighter pilots use racetrack patterns to stay with slower planes like that one.
I dunno. It's about half a year away from being April 1st, so I'm not sure if it's a spoof. On the other hand, it's almost Halloween, so maybe this guy is just prepping his dork outfit.
I'd have laughed my ass of if his phone rang as he was demoing his awesome VR goggles.
Excellent bit of perspective. Nit: 56k modems were invented in 96, marketed in 97 or so. I still have one of the original external USR 56k's kicking around here somewhere.
No doubt they used dirty, energy-swilling computers (loaded with nasty heavy metals and non-biodegradable plastics) in authoring their book, rather than a more environmentally friendly writing method, like a pointy stick and a clay tablet. I wonder what the environmental footprint of their book is?
I prefer to minimize my dogs' environmental impact by feeding them a mixture of pure beef, and ground-up smartass University professors. The way I figure it, by eliminating the hot air and other noxious gasses produced by the professors, (not to mention freeing up resources they would have used, and using them for better purposes) I more than offset the harm done by the fact that my dogs exist.
Plus, an environmentally friendly, fair-trade, hand-woven, all-organic hemp-and-soy welcome mat doesn't deter burglars nearly as well as my Rottie and my German Shepherd.
Having a near-inexhaustable list of IPs for Ultrasurf would make tracking and filtering them all virtually impossible. That, combined with IPsec (required by IPv6) could either punch vast holes in the Great Firewall of China, or force them to step up their game considerably.
If it does prove to be a factor in fighting Chinese censorship, is interesting that the massive growth of the internet in Asia has been one of the driving factors behind the need for IPv6 migration.
You kids can say all you want about your fancy hard drives with their fast, non-sequential access, but believe me, you can have my 150MB QIC drive and the ISA SCSI card it's attached to when you can pry them from my cold, dead fingers.
Seriously, though, you bring up an interesting point. I think it works best the other way around, however. Tape still has a huge install base in enterprise computing, if not in home computing, and it's likely HDDs won't leave the datacenter in the foreseeable future either, no matter what SSDs do.
You found the holy grail of successful IT endeavors, (including educating end users) - executive buy-in and support. I know at least a dozen companies in which the executives pay lip service to lots of things, such as IT security, but don't actually actively support them. As a result, nothing really gets done in those areas.
Show me a company that hires good IT folks, makes them feel valued, and supports them, and you will find a company with a rock solid IT infrastructure.
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and buffer overflow attacks have been common ever since.
minor compared to visual
Visual elements dominate, but that does not mean that feel is inconsequential. Feel tells me how close my wheels are to skidding. Sight does not.
Heh heh. If that's what they used it for, maybe it wouldn't be so outrageous.
It's an exaggeration perhaps, but not silly. First off, they don't describe the driving simulator used, but let's assume that it is like you say. A wheel, pedals, and display don't give the full set of sensory feedback that drivers rely on for split-second decision making. For me, that takes away a lot of what I would need to optimally negotiate a track like they describe ... "required them to learn the nuances of a track programmed to have difficult curves and turns".
Absolutely. Driving simulators test real driving about as well as Call of Duty tests real marksmanship. It seem that a number of posters don't like your earlier comment about "bad" drivers often being better than "good" ones, but I think there's something to it. Many of the "good" drivers I know (my wife, for one), don't have the skills to react to dangerous situations, or the instincts to recover from a bad situation properly. Some of these only develop through practice, which is usually through "bad" driving.
Comparing costs in our economy to costs in another isn't necessarily apples to apples. You might be all for a temporary tax now, but be prepared to pay that tax forever. The government almost never gives back a source of revenue once it gets its grubby hands on it. Those few politicians brave enough to roll back taxes get stabbed in the back by their "peers" in government.
Maybe you can afford more taxes, but an additional tax might be enough to push many families over the edge right now. There are lots of families who have managed their finances well, worked hard, and are now in dire straits because of one or more job losses. No way should people like them have to bail out politicians who have overspent their state's piggy banks. I look at the mess my own state is in, and I see greedy politicians, fat jobs for connected insiders, pet projects, pork barrel boondoggles, and all around wasteful, easy spending. Oh, but you can't afford a teacher for my kids' schools? Imagine that.
I love the idea of promoting fuel efficiency and alternative transportation. A Prius doesn't fit everyone's transportation needs. I love the idea of more public transportation. Most of the US is too spread out to benefit from it.
Roads are used to provide goods and services that everyone uses (food, furniture, home heating oil, police, fire, ambulance, etc). My mother-in-law doesn't drive, but she still benefits from roads.
And that would leave us entering the next stage of space exploration dependent on the continued good will and relations between us and Russia, which is not something I would want to risk. Better that we keep ourselves at the front of spaceship design and fabrication, even at a cost premium, than risk being a generation or two behind and try to play catchup because (for whatever reason) we are no longer on good terms with the Russian bear.
That makes about as much sense as anything I could think of. I thought they might be going with Linux on the optical scanners might be a cost-saving measure, and I figured that since they mostly seem to be a Microsoft shop, they might have more C# experience in-house than say, Java.
Their use of embedded Linux makes me wonder if their earlier refusals to release their code was legal. Not their C# stuff, or their DB schema or sql code, but if they took off-the-shelf Linux and resold it, aren't they at least required to make that source available along with any changes, if any, they made?
IANAL or GPL expert, just kind of wondering.
I don't think they are releasing it as open source, or under any open license. Rather, they are planning to publish their proprietary code for all to see.
Spokeswoman Michelle Shafer [...] said the firmware on the company’s new Frontier optical-scan machines is written in C# programming language and runs on Linux. The election management software - which sits on a computer at the election office and is used to create ballots and tabulate votes - runs on Microsoft Windows XP and uses a Microsoft SQL database.
Looks like they use a combination of open and closed source for their OSes. I wonder why they went with C# on Linux?
I wish I had points for you. Well said.
What they did shows a basic lack of discipline and situational awareness which is completely incompatible with their job. Flying any aircraft is an unforgiving activity, and requires the ability to focus your attention on several boring tasks at once for hours on end. Laptops with scheduling software are not on that list.
I've made your kind of mistake before, and I sure wouldn't want to get fired for it either. However, you were paying attention, noticed that something was wrong and aborted the errant command. These guys weren't paying attention.
An F-16 's stall speed is around 180 knots, but depends on a number of other factors (air density, angle of attack, etc.). Fighter pilots use racetrack patterns to stay with slower planes like that one.
I dunno. It's about half a year away from being April 1st, so I'm not sure if it's a spoof. On the other hand, it's almost Halloween, so maybe this guy is just prepping his dork outfit.
I'd have laughed my ass of if his phone rang as he was demoing his awesome VR goggles.
Excellent bit of perspective. Nit: 56k modems were invented in 96, marketed in 97 or so. I still have one of the original external USR 56k's kicking around here somewhere.
Schroedinger wants a word with you.
Makes you wonder who sponsored the experiment, eh?
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No doubt they used dirty, energy-swilling computers (loaded with nasty heavy metals and non-biodegradable plastics) in authoring their book, rather than a more environmentally friendly writing method, like a pointy stick and a clay tablet. I wonder what the environmental footprint of their book is?
I prefer to minimize my dogs' environmental impact by feeding them a mixture of pure beef, and ground-up smartass University professors. The way I figure it, by eliminating the hot air and other noxious gasses produced by the professors, (not to mention freeing up resources they would have used, and using them for better purposes) I more than offset the harm done by the fact that my dogs exist.
Plus, an environmentally friendly, fair-trade, hand-woven, all-organic hemp-and-soy welcome mat doesn't deter burglars nearly as well as my Rottie and my German Shepherd.
You never finish getting all the little bits off the sole of your shoe, even if you use a little stick. Trust me.
Having a near-inexhaustable list of IPs for Ultrasurf would make tracking and filtering them all virtually impossible. That, combined with IPsec (required by IPv6) could either punch vast holes in the Great Firewall of China, or force them to step up their game considerably.
If it does prove to be a factor in fighting Chinese censorship, is interesting that the massive growth of the internet in Asia has been one of the driving factors behind the need for IPv6 migration.
You kids can say all you want about your fancy hard drives with their fast, non-sequential access, but believe me, you can have my 150MB QIC drive and the ISA SCSI card it's attached to when you can pry them from my cold, dead fingers.
Seriously, though, you bring up an interesting point. I think it works best the other way around, however. Tape still has a huge install base in enterprise computing, if not in home computing, and it's likely HDDs won't leave the datacenter in the foreseeable future either, no matter what SSDs do.
I'm sure that decade-long safety deposit box data sequestration is exactly what the average user is looking for.
a moon-caveman could do it?
The director stood up
You found the holy grail of successful IT endeavors, (including educating end users) - executive buy-in and support. I know at least a dozen companies in which the executives pay lip service to lots of things, such as IT security, but don't actually actively support them. As a result, nothing really gets done in those areas.
Show me a company that hires good IT folks, makes them feel valued, and supports them, and you will find a company with a rock solid IT infrastructure.
Which I suppose is why real libertarians are for limited government.