will last more than 72 hours because a truck will come and refuel them. This is not the day the earth stood still. We will be able to keep hospitals open even if we have to get the diesel out of the storage tanks with buckets.
And if my customers get upset they will bark at me. None of them has so far put a horse's head in my bed or drugged me and flown me to Cali for a pep-talk though.
I'm not sure I want to be on the Cosa-Nostra Care Center staff, even if only 0.1% of their customers are criminal
The commercial solutions collapse under their own weight (cost and effort in co-ordinating teams and writing proper specifications).
With OSS you can usually have a prototype working before the commercial team have had their second coffee break. What's more, the prototype is a far easier environment in which to explore what you want than a paper specification.
The shame of it is that the prototype then gets pushed into production rather than properly developed and "finished". At tleast the guys with a paper spec have an end point defined (always the wrong and un-intended endpoint, but an endpoint none the less)
Has the same issue with rolling out updates and even though Google is (I suppose 10^100) times larger than any other company it does not mean that the same principles can't be applied. I don't see why Google should have any more problem than any other large company especially as they clearly have lots of resources and expertise to bring to bear.
If you have such a low opinion of the school staff that you believe your five year old will make a better decision than the school staff on when she should walk off the school grounds and call you then you should probably not send her to that school.
On the subject of yellow lines in the middle of the road. I frequently have to cross them to get past parked delivery trucks as I drive around town. I've never seen signs to warn the trucks not to constrict the road. It seems that some rules are supposed to be broken. Maybe one day I'll simply stop in the road and refuse to cross the yellow line, see how long it is before I'm arrested for not crossing it. I think it's also illegal to flip a U turn in the middle of a city block etc. so there seems to be no way to mitigate the problem.
I think the point of the notice about "not responsible for objects coming from road" is to warn you that even if the chunk of rock that hit you came from the truck's cargo, they will claim that it came from the road. Hence try to bully you out of complaining in the first place.
Signs on the back of the dump trucks also warn you to stay back 100 feet, no doubt they feel you owe them that portion of the road and they should not be responsible for anyone encroaching on their highway.
I think all motorists should have a "do not approach within 100 feet" sign on their car, see how that helps congestion.
In Britain there are two kinds of intersection. "Normal intersections" which you can enter as long as you have a reasonable expectation of being able to leave before the light turns. For example, you are following moving traffic.
Then there are "Yellow Box" intersections, where you must actually have a clear exit before you can enter
Anyhow, if you need to turn across a lane of traffic (ie. Turn left in the USA, Right in the UK) then you would normally enter the junction and wait for oncoming traffic to clear. The oncoming traffic frequently does not allow you to cross until after the lights have changed to red to stop them. That should not make you a criminal, even in a yellow box junction.
Anyhow. The problem to my mind is not the camera, it is what is being photographed and the twisting of the rules to garner revenue. If the cameras simply to a photo a second or so after the light turned red and caught someone crossing the line into the intersection then it would have done its job and we would all be safer for it. The technology surely exists to do that.
If the court were doing its job it would be going after the administrations and companies that have "gamed the system" by rigging the timing of the lights or taking photos of anything other than running a red light in the commonly accepted meaning of the words.
I think we would have been better served if the courts or the state/fed authorities had stipulated clearly what light timing should be and what running a red light means and exactly what kinds of photos may be taken.
I don't want people running red lights, or stop signs etc. I say put the cameras up - but legislate to control them properly you lazy politicians/judges.
I've been in a car in india (a chauffered "Ambassador" from the hotel fleet) and the sight of entire families balanced on a scooter is terrifying.
So what's going to happen during the transition phase, when "scooter family" has not yet got their new Tata and there are millions of new cars on the road. It's one thing when two scooter families collide, quite another when it is scooter vs Nano
It seems to me that in the short term at least, "scooter family" is going to be far less safe. I wonder what safety features were put in for people outside the car (like soft fenders)
of including the actual license text in every code snippet. There has to be a better way. Like an XML DOCTYPE that implies the licensing terms or something.
It just seems like a lot of extra crap to download and hardly machine readable.
That there were no such things as sub-atomic particles until we started looking for them, and that each particle came into existence only because some scientist went looking for it specifically.
I rarely shower, wear worn-out filthy clothes, neglect anti-perspirant and have defecated on countless lobby plants as a career building move.
Now my co-workers consider me a genius because they have been conditioned by people like Josh to presume that only a genius could get away with these things.
The fact that I can't code worth a crap does not enter into the equation. Perception is reality.
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that the same person Colbert would vote for if he himself were not running.
will last more than 72 hours because a truck will come and refuel them. This is not the day the earth stood still. We will be able to keep hospitals open even if we have to get the diesel out of the storage tanks with buckets.
I'm buying my dog a .38 for self defense
I'm not sure I want to be on the Cosa-Nostra Care Center staff, even if only 0.1% of their customers are criminal
My advice would be to piss away your thirties and consider the degree when you're 45.
I've seen it work too...
The commercial solutions collapse under their own weight (cost and effort in co-ordinating teams and writing proper specifications).
With OSS you can usually have a prototype working before the commercial team have had their second coffee break. What's more, the prototype is a far easier environment in which to explore what you want than a paper specification.
The shame of it is that the prototype then gets pushed into production rather than properly developed and "finished". At tleast the guys with a paper spec have an end point defined (always the wrong and un-intended endpoint, but an endpoint none the less)
When I've seen them doing explosives related things in the past they have often had experts on hand from the FBI etc.
Has the same issue with rolling out updates and even though Google is (I suppose 10^100) times larger than any other company it does not mean that the same principles can't be applied. I don't see why Google should have any more problem than any other large company especially as they clearly have lots of resources and expertise to bring to bear.
Where are the parents of other children at this school on this one ?
a mass protest should surely have these clowns removed from their jobs.
If you have such a low opinion of the school staff that you believe your five year old will make a better decision than the school staff on when she should walk off the school grounds and call you then you should probably not send her to that school.
On the subject of yellow lines in the middle of the road. I frequently have to cross them to get past parked delivery trucks as I drive around town. I've never seen signs to warn the trucks not to constrict the road. It seems that some rules are supposed to be broken. Maybe one day I'll simply stop in the road and refuse to cross the yellow line, see how long it is before I'm arrested for not crossing it. I think it's also illegal to flip a U turn in the middle of a city block etc. so there seems to be no way to mitigate the problem.
I think the point of the notice about "not responsible for objects coming from road" is to warn you that even if the chunk of rock that hit you came from the truck's cargo, they will claim that it came from the road. Hence try to bully you out of complaining in the first place.
Signs on the back of the dump trucks also warn you to stay back 100 feet, no doubt they feel you owe them that portion of the road and they should not be responsible for anyone encroaching on their highway.
I think all motorists should have a "do not approach within 100 feet" sign on their car, see how that helps congestion.
Exactly - It's a job creation scheme. A sort of southern stimulus plan.
In Britain there are two kinds of intersection. "Normal intersections" which you can enter as long as you have a reasonable expectation of being able to leave before the light turns. For example, you are following moving traffic.
Then there are "Yellow Box" intersections, where you must actually have a clear exit before you can enter
Anyhow, if you need to turn across a lane of traffic (ie. Turn left in the USA, Right in the UK) then you would normally enter the junction and wait for oncoming traffic to clear. The oncoming traffic frequently does not allow you to cross until after the lights have changed to red to stop them. That should not make you a criminal, even in a yellow box junction.
Anyhow. The problem to my mind is not the camera, it is what is being photographed and the twisting of the rules to garner revenue. If the cameras simply to a photo a second or so after the light turned red and caught someone crossing the line into the intersection then it would have done its job and we would all be safer for it. The technology surely exists to do that.
If the court were doing its job it would be going after the administrations and companies that have "gamed the system" by rigging the timing of the lights or taking photos of anything other than running a red light in the commonly accepted meaning of the words.
I think we would have been better served if the courts or the state/fed authorities had stipulated clearly what light timing should be and what running a red light means and exactly what kinds of photos may be taken.
I don't want people running red lights, or stop signs etc. I say put the cameras up - but legislate to control them properly you lazy politicians/judges.
How is it any different from the tale of the jet and the bottle rocket ?
Looks like it might "power roll" rather than power slide.
So what's going to happen during the transition phase, when "scooter family" has not yet got their new Tata and there are millions of new cars on the road. It's one thing when two scooter families collide, quite another when it is scooter vs Nano
It seems to me that in the short term at least, "scooter family" is going to be far less safe. I wonder what safety features were put in for people outside the car (like soft fenders)
It just seems like a lot of extra crap to download and hardly machine readable.
That there were no such things as sub-atomic particles until we started looking for them, and that each particle came into existence only because some scientist went looking for it specifically.
Then I might be tempted by the canyon approach.
You can take drugs in either case, and it would take quite a while for the canyon to fill up
I wonder if my health plan covers the "wheelchair-evel-kneveil" option.
The node however, will still only have a T1 uplink to the internet
It's the end of the x86 dominance. People will just look harder to find alternatives.
is invent a violent video game for mosquitoes, then they'll wipe themselves out in knife fights.
Is that you, Pleakly ?
I rarely shower, wear worn-out filthy clothes, neglect anti-perspirant and have defecated on countless lobby plants as a career building move.
Now my co-workers consider me a genius because they have been conditioned by people like Josh to presume that only a genius could get away with these things.
The fact that I can't code worth a crap does not enter into the equation. Perception is reality.