I remember hearing a looooong time ago that this feature,
no manufacturer is allowed to put repair restrictions on a device it offers a warranty on
has been interpreted by the courts to mean that when a manufacturer offers either repair or replacement under warranty, they can't then state "at our option" because it limits the consumer's choices (even though many manufacturers do just that). And thus, that a consumer can, with sufficient motivation and resources, force a manufacturer to exercise the option the consumer wants rather than what the manufacturer selects.
Can anyone verify that my recollection is accurate?
Better quality control when either (a) you employ the people doing the manufacturing and can say, "make it better or I'll find someone else who can to take your job," or (b) you use a domestic service that you can stomp over to and say, "make it better or we go to your competitor."
In my laboratory, we do light manufacturing. We bring in supplies that are either domestically or foreign (read: Chinese) and do the work in house. It isn't cheaper in dollars spent, but it is cheaper in time because I don't have to re-order things that get messed up because someone in China didn't understand "blue" does not mean "purple" or something like that. So, higher costs, but also higher productivity.
Of course, we're only one tiny, obscure corner of the manufacturing world, but I think the principle remains true: if you have direct control over manufacturing, the product is higher quality as a result.
Clinical trials only work because some people are sacrificed to save more people in the long run.
Indeed. I have a friend who recently passed away from a terminal disease. She would have (and did try) nearly anything to get into a trial that might have helped her live a few more months. When your time is short, as her oncologist put it, the survival instinct is strong. If you know you are going to die for sure in a matter of weeks, your tolerance of risk increases substantially and you will most definitely try things that might only maybe have a chance of helping.
I've been to Shanghai recently. They have bicycle sharing on a scale that is vast. They are incredibly popular, to the point that there are large heaps of bikes --- heaps, not neat rows --- at the front gates of factories where workers have left them as they report in the mornings to their job. The bikes are everywhere. Two years ago, when I visited the same location, this was not the case.
In my home town in the US, we have bike sharing as well. Nice neat rows of locking stands that are prissy in comparison. The stand across from our apartment seems to have a service truck pull up to it each week, so they appear to need frequent maintenance, too. With the Chinese version of the system, you scan a QR code on each bike and off you go. The bikes in China are basic, utilitarian kinds. Sure, you could steal one, disable the locking mechanism (a simple angle grinder would suffice) and try to keep it as personal property, but then you'd have to go to significant measures to prevent someone else from taking yours as a rental. The place is saturated with them, at least in the part of Shanghai where I was.
Did they invent bike sharing? No, clearly not. But they figured out how to do it on such an immense scale that it has changed society there.
This is exactly why you have TWO cards. One that you use only occasionally that is traceable and used only for emergencies, and one that you use mostly, which you top up with loads of cash (and cash only), and keep frelling topped up. If you're really paranoid, you cycle the cash-only one every month or two for a new one, and don't frelling worry about the last dollar-and-a-half when you ditch it.
Having actually BEEN to China, I have to concur. In the US, you can use nearly any search engine, nearly any email provider, and you have access to essentially the entire public-facing internet. In China, not so much.
It's just a fact that the previous setup was located across the country from us
Allow me to pile on here: I've been part of the dev team for a site that was, at the time, substantially larger than Slashdot in terms of global traffic (we peaked at Alexa global 103, if memory serves). We couldn't have given one hoot where the servers were located because we never, ever had to physically go to the machines. We had paid lackeys at each of the colo sites to do that. Need to reboot a server? Shoot an email or make a call to on-site support. Need to reconfigure a load balancer? Then ssh is your friend. Blaming your problems on the locations of the servers really doesn't hold water.
Inside a city, where the bulk of the US population lives, 3 miles is a vast distance. If you have to go 3 miles to get to a store, that store is doomed, as its competitors will have five or ten in the same distance.
I did the same thing, although with not quite as much determination, watching it only three or four times. My reaction: THAT? THAT is what you're going to complain about in terms of CGI? One small fleeting half-second of one person being shot so fast and so visibly small that you can't properly tell if it is or isn't CGI?
There are so many other far more massive issues, and such a tiny one is a problem to the OP?
For context, that's "twice as much mercury as the rest of all soils, the atmosphere, and ocean combined," they wrote.
This assertion does not pass the sniff test without a proposed mechanism to drive mercury concentration so unilaterally to one part of the globe, and away from the vastly larger (in both area and volume) remainder. It might be true (maybe... ), but it does have the ring of fear mongering.
This, below, is the utter antithesis to Feynman's observations, and each time I watch the video, I am given serious pause as to how to raise my children:
Just because these technologies and actions might not work well enough does not mean they will not help, and that they should not be pursued, unless there are viable options into which we should put our available resources.
Reforestation / afforestation is the best option, from what I understand. That and cutting down trees at a furious rate so we can bury them in abandoned mines and plant more.
United (I fly a lot with them) does not share their forecasting with the customer. I can't count how many times I've been on a flight that had slowly creeping delays that, given experience, had an obvious conclusion. We have simply scads of data of airline arrival / departure times, combined with day-of-week, local and regional weather, etc., and it is unimaginable that United's central planning isn't already doing a lot of work with that data. Same goes for the other major players. If they aren't, then shame on them. Their employees that I've managed to become friendly with can recognize when delays will creep and can estimate with their gut a final amount, so if humans can do it with limited data, I'm sure machines can do better with complete data.
My understanding, however, is that the delays are often released to the public in incremental fashion JUST IN CASE the delay ends up being shorter than an initial prediction. An over-predicted delay means more people missing their flight because they've wandered off to eat, shop, etc., thinking they had additional time.
That said, competition in this field -- being able to accurately predict delays -- will definitely benefit the consumer.
From the really quite naive perspective, we should be cutting down all the trees.
No, no, wait, bear with me for a minute.
Oil, whence the anthropogenic increase in atmospheric CO2, is primarily long-ago dead plants. Coal, too. We've done the equivalent of exhuming these ancient growths and re-converting the long chain hydrocarbons of their decay into gaseous form.
What is the reverse of this process? Trees. Trees convert atmospheric CO2 into wood that can be cut down and buried. And grown again sequestering more CO2. And buried again. Ad infinitum. It's vastly more efficient than any of the other sequestration mechanisms anyone has proposed. Grow trees, bury them, grow more... keep going until we're back to where we started.
The closest a private citizen can get to doing that is wasting paper. Lots and lots of paper. Do not save trees. Convince companies to grow more of them!
[snark] Did you look at the Pipistrel Alpha Electro specs? Yeah, I definitely want to have hundreds of pounds of lithium-polymer batteries in my small, two-seater aircraft. [/snark]
Interestingly, Greece, being near the border between "chai" and "te" regions from the eastern and western influxes uses an amalgamation of the two words that sounds close to "tsai".
He called Hillary Clinton a traitor. Treason is punishable by death.
He also famously stated, "If she gets to pick her judges: Nothing you can do, folks. Although the Second Amendment people, maybe there is. I don’t know. But I tell you what, that will be a horrible day.”
He has called for the death penalty to be used on specific people (NYC truck terrorist) and on general classes of people (those who kill policemen).
Looking at the photo, it sure looks like an oversight on snow and ice given the apparent certainty of sheets of it falling off at some point. Other posters have remarked that for Chicago, cordoning off sections of the sidewalk around certain buildings is no unusual for winter. It's apparently standard practice there to deal with snow and ice.
But what about rain? There are apparently no gutters or diversions for rain, either. We don't get to see the main entrance to understand if the architects had made allowances to walk in and out of the building safely with regard to falling snow or ice, but what about rain? Does the entire roof drain off the edges to form standing sheets of cascading water during even light rainfall? It would be an embarrassing design defect if your customers were nearly guaranteed to be pelted with precipitation during inclement weather both on entry and exit of the structure.
But for those of us not in Chicago, all we have to go on is one photo, and a blog entry. Perhaps someone who is actually there could help clarify the situation.
Language is the same as culture. Or, perhaps better put, language is inextricably mixed with culture.
Yes, it is possible to experience a culture without speaking the language, but that experience is muted and without depth. Language and culture grow into and out of each other. One might argue nuances, such as various dialects of American English supporting the variety of cultures in the different corners of the US, but without a unifying language across a population, a deep, resilient culture does not develop.
My favorite example of this is the deaf versus blind populations. Blind people do not have a unifying culture that is starkly separate from the normal embedding culture, but deaf people do. Why? Because blind people communicate in their normal, native language whereas deaf people have a distinct language (i.e., sign language) that, with regional variations, defines subcultures that are separate and apart from the mainstream.
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I remember hearing a looooong time ago that this feature,
no manufacturer is allowed to put repair restrictions on a device it offers a warranty on
has been interpreted by the courts to mean that when a manufacturer offers either repair or replacement under warranty, they can't then state "at our option" because it limits the consumer's choices (even though many manufacturers do just that). And thus, that a consumer can, with sufficient motivation and resources, force a manufacturer to exercise the option the consumer wants rather than what the manufacturer selects.
Can anyone verify that my recollection is accurate?
Better quality control when either (a) you employ the people doing the manufacturing and can say, "make it better or I'll find someone else who can to take your job," or (b) you use a domestic service that you can stomp over to and say, "make it better or we go to your competitor."
In my laboratory, we do light manufacturing. We bring in supplies that are either domestically or foreign (read: Chinese) and do the work in house. It isn't cheaper in dollars spent, but it is cheaper in time because I don't have to re-order things that get messed up because someone in China didn't understand "blue" does not mean "purple" or something like that. So, higher costs, but also higher productivity.
Of course, we're only one tiny, obscure corner of the manufacturing world, but I think the principle remains true: if you have direct control over manufacturing, the product is higher quality as a result.
Clinical trials only work because some people are sacrificed to save more people in the long run.
Indeed. I have a friend who recently passed away from a terminal disease. She would have (and did try) nearly anything to get into a trial that might have helped her live a few more months. When your time is short, as her oncologist put it, the survival instinct is strong. If you know you are going to die for sure in a matter of weeks, your tolerance of risk increases substantially and you will most definitely try things that might only maybe have a chance of helping.
I've been to Shanghai recently. They have bicycle sharing on a scale that is vast. They are incredibly popular, to the point that there are large heaps of bikes --- heaps, not neat rows --- at the front gates of factories where workers have left them as they report in the mornings to their job. The bikes are everywhere. Two years ago, when I visited the same location, this was not the case.
In my home town in the US, we have bike sharing as well. Nice neat rows of locking stands that are prissy in comparison. The stand across from our apartment seems to have a service truck pull up to it each week, so they appear to need frequent maintenance, too. With the Chinese version of the system, you scan a QR code on each bike and off you go. The bikes in China are basic, utilitarian kinds. Sure, you could steal one, disable the locking mechanism (a simple angle grinder would suffice) and try to keep it as personal property, but then you'd have to go to significant measures to prevent someone else from taking yours as a rental. The place is saturated with them, at least in the part of Shanghai where I was.
Did they invent bike sharing? No, clearly not. But they figured out how to do it on such an immense scale that it has changed society there.
This is exactly why you have TWO cards. One that you use only occasionally that is traceable and used only for emergencies, and one that you use mostly, which you top up with loads of cash (and cash only), and keep frelling topped up. If you're really paranoid, you cycle the cash-only one every month or two for a new one, and don't frelling worry about the last dollar-and-a-half when you ditch it.
Basic engineering: make allowances for cockups.
Having actually BEEN to China, I have to concur. In the US, you can use nearly any search engine, nearly any email provider, and you have access to essentially the entire public-facing internet. In China, not so much.
It's just a fact that the previous setup was located across the country from us
Allow me to pile on here: I've been part of the dev team for a site that was, at the time, substantially larger than Slashdot in terms of global traffic (we peaked at Alexa global 103, if memory serves). We couldn't have given one hoot where the servers were located because we never, ever had to physically go to the machines. We had paid lackeys at each of the colo sites to do that. Need to reboot a server? Shoot an email or make a call to on-site support. Need to reconfigure a load balancer? Then ssh is your friend. Blaming your problems on the locations of the servers really doesn't hold water.
Inside a city, where the bulk of the US population lives, 3 miles is a vast distance. If you have to go 3 miles to get to a store, that store is doomed, as its competitors will have five or ten in the same distance.
I did the same thing, although with not quite as much determination, watching it only three or four times. My reaction: THAT? THAT is what you're going to complain about in terms of CGI? One small fleeting half-second of one person being shot so fast and so visibly small that you can't properly tell if it is or isn't CGI?
There are so many other far more massive issues, and such a tiny one is a problem to the OP?
For context, that's "twice as much mercury as the rest of all soils, the atmosphere, and ocean combined," they wrote.
This assertion does not pass the sniff test without a proposed mechanism to drive mercury concentration so unilaterally to one part of the globe, and away from the vastly larger (in both area and volume) remainder. It might be true (maybe ... ), but it does have the ring of fear mongering.
This, below, is the utter antithesis to Feynman's observations, and each time I watch the video, I am given serious pause as to how to raise my children:
https://www.npr.org/templates/...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
"In an irritated voice they said, 'you've given us a machine that works only in English, so we had to each ourselves English in order to use it.'"
"Well apart from the fact that improper replication of the DNA molecule causes disease, we haven't understood anything else."
G'AWWWWN!
Just because these technologies and actions might not work well enough does not mean they will not help, and that they should not be pursued, unless there are viable options into which we should put our available resources.
Reforestation / afforestation is the best option, from what I understand. That and cutting down trees at a furious rate so we can bury them in abandoned mines and plant more.
United (I fly a lot with them) does not share their forecasting with the customer. I can't count how many times I've been on a flight that had slowly creeping delays that, given experience, had an obvious conclusion. We have simply scads of data of airline arrival / departure times, combined with day-of-week, local and regional weather, etc., and it is unimaginable that United's central planning isn't already doing a lot of work with that data. Same goes for the other major players. If they aren't, then shame on them. Their employees that I've managed to become friendly with can recognize when delays will creep and can estimate with their gut a final amount, so if humans can do it with limited data, I'm sure machines can do better with complete data.
My understanding, however, is that the delays are often released to the public in incremental fashion JUST IN CASE the delay ends up being shorter than an initial prediction. An over-predicted delay means more people missing their flight because they've wandered off to eat, shop, etc., thinking they had additional time.
That said, competition in this field -- being able to accurately predict delays -- will definitely benefit the consumer.
... that's about all you need to say.
From the really quite naive perspective, we should be cutting down all the trees.
No, no, wait, bear with me for a minute.
Oil, whence the anthropogenic increase in atmospheric CO2, is primarily long-ago dead plants. Coal, too. We've done the equivalent of exhuming these ancient growths and re-converting the long chain hydrocarbons of their decay into gaseous form.
What is the reverse of this process? Trees. Trees convert atmospheric CO2 into wood that can be cut down and buried. And grown again sequestering more CO2. And buried again. Ad infinitum. It's vastly more efficient than any of the other sequestration mechanisms anyone has proposed. Grow trees, bury them, grow more ... keep going until we're back to where we started.
The closest a private citizen can get to doing that is wasting paper. Lots and lots of paper. Do not save trees. Convince companies to grow more of them!
[snark] Did you look at the Pipistrel Alpha Electro specs? Yeah, I definitely want to have hundreds of pounds of lithium-polymer batteries in my small, two-seater aircraft. [/snark]
Are something (fingerprint).
Have something (RFID badge).
Know something (unique-to-user pass phrase).
You would think that all three would be required to send out an emergency alert message.
Interestingly, Greece, being near the border between "chai" and "te" regions from the eastern and western influxes uses an amalgamation of the two words that sounds close to "tsai".
... do not carry phone when performing criminal acts.
Maybe it would be better for everybody if you would just abstain from committing murder?
Oh, right. That's probably a better idea.
... do not carry phone when performing criminal acts.
Vivo is using a Synaptics optical sensor called Clear ID that works by peering through the gaps between the pixels in an OLED display
1984. Exactly.
He called Hillary Clinton a traitor. Treason is punishable by death.
He also famously stated, "If she gets to pick her judges: Nothing you can do, folks. Although the Second Amendment people, maybe there is. I don’t know. But I tell you what, that will be a horrible day.”
He has called for the death penalty to be used on specific people (NYC truck terrorist) and on general classes of people (those who kill policemen).
Do we need to go on?
No. Frelling. Way.
That can't possibly be true. Biased suggestions? An attempt to sell stuff from a company that, well, sells stuff? No! I am verily astonished!
Looking at the photo, it sure looks like an oversight on snow and ice given the apparent certainty of sheets of it falling off at some point. Other posters have remarked that for Chicago, cordoning off sections of the sidewalk around certain buildings is no unusual for winter. It's apparently standard practice there to deal with snow and ice.
But what about rain? There are apparently no gutters or diversions for rain, either. We don't get to see the main entrance to understand if the architects had made allowances to walk in and out of the building safely with regard to falling snow or ice, but what about rain? Does the entire roof drain off the edges to form standing sheets of cascading water during even light rainfall? It would be an embarrassing design defect if your customers were nearly guaranteed to be pelted with precipitation during inclement weather both on entry and exit of the structure.
But for those of us not in Chicago, all we have to go on is one photo, and a blog entry. Perhaps someone who is actually there could help clarify the situation.
Language is the same as culture. Or, perhaps better put, language is inextricably mixed with culture.
Yes, it is possible to experience a culture without speaking the language, but that experience is muted and without depth. Language and culture grow into and out of each other. One might argue nuances, such as various dialects of American English supporting the variety of cultures in the different corners of the US, but without a unifying language across a population, a deep, resilient culture does not develop.
My favorite example of this is the deaf versus blind populations. Blind people do not have a unifying culture that is starkly separate from the normal embedding culture, but deaf people do. Why? Because blind people communicate in their normal, native language whereas deaf people have a distinct language (i.e., sign language) that, with regional variations, defines subcultures that are separate and apart from the mainstream.