I so wanted Sailfish OS to work and ran it on a Nexus 5 for about six months before I threw in the towel. The problem is that sometimes I really NEED my phone to work and, in a couple of cases, the Nexus 5 adaptation of Sailfish OS let me down.
Also, even though I got my money back, I don't trust Jolla after the Tablet crowdfunding disaster.
An air-to-air heat pump basically becomes an electric heater (the air is heated in the air handler using resistive elements) when the temps drop below 35-40 deg F.
If you try and build a reproduction of Robby the Robot that is seen publicly, expect a cease & desist letter from Fred Barton Productions, which has an exclusive license from Time-Warner. This is an occasional topic of discussion on the RPF (Replica Props Forum).
Here is an excerpt from guidance providing supplied by Time-Warner with regards to making your own Robby:
1. The manufacture, or transfer of: unauthorized reproductions of “ROBBY®”, or derivative works pertaining to “ROBBY®” is EXPRESSLY PROHIBITED
2. The manufacture, or transfer of: unauthorized component parts of “ROBBY®”, or derivative works pertaining to component parts of “ROBBY®” is EXPRESSLY PROHIBITED.
3. The exhibition of: unauthorized reproductions of “ROBBY®”, derivative works pertaining to “ROBBY®”, the component parts of “ROBBY®”, or derivative works pertaining to the component parts of “ROBBY®” is EXPRESSLY PROHIBITED.
4. The creation, or transfer in any form of any materials depicting: “ROBBY®”, derivative works pertaining to “ROBBY®”, the component parts of “ROBBY®”, or derivative works pertaining to the component parts of “ROBBY®”; for the purpose of promoting the production of unauthorized replicas of “ROBBY®” or the component parts of “ROBBY®” is EXPRESSLY PROHIBITED.
The NY Times seems oddly obsessed with Seattle. I did a search on the NYT web site to see if I am imagining things, but there were a lot of stories there on events and trends in Seattle that I would think only matter to people who live in Seattle.
My state has been keeping distracted driving stats since before smartphones were commonly available.
And then there is the standard correlation does not mean causation.
I guess techie readers of slashdot are just as willing to fall into confirmation bias as the general public. The analysis in TFA is poor. But it supports what a lot of people here want to believe, so who cares?
I don't use a Mac because I am part of the Sheeple or bought into Apple's marketing. I use a Mac because I am (despite strong efforts from Apple to make it otherwise) more productive using it compared to the alternatives. I have a very nice employer-provided Windows laptop that I have to use as well and it reminds me daily how much easier it is to do my job on a Mac.
I need to upgrade my Late 2011 MacBook Pro. I can still do what I need to do on it, but technology has marched on and the faster processors, additional memory capacity and an SSD would be nice.
I have no need for the TouchBar, priced out the non-TouchBar i7, 16G, 1TB SSD 13-inch MacBook Pro model and was ready to bite the bullet. It did bothered me that, even with i7, the fastest processor was not available on the non-TouchBar version (and the clock rate wasn't even as has as the 2011 MBP it would be replacing), but clock rate isn't everything and it would still be better than what it was replacing.
Then I discovered that the non-TouchBar MBPs only have two USB-C connectors and one is used to power the laptop. To get four USB-C connectors, I would have to get the TouchBar model and that pissed me off. That was the straw that broke the camel's back and I am now probably going to replace my 2011 MBP with a Early 2015 (Broadwell) instead of a new MBP.
I frequently travel in areas of the PNW where mobile network connectivity is poor to non-existant. A number of common apps are frustratingly dependent on being connected to the network. Also, a lot of people who spend most of their time in places with good connectivity will fail to realize that apps that they depend on do not work without that connectivity.
Well, it's a lot different from listening to the radio, since music typically is just a background activity, and even if you are listening to news / talk, you don't have to respond. It's really a question of how much concentration is required to talk vs. send a text, and whether that concentration distracts you from your primary responsibility, which is to drive the car safely.
Uh, music is more than just a background activity to a lot of drivers. And a lot of people yell back at talk radio. Of course, you are too attentive to the road to notice what other drivers are doing, right?
Got a new car with a touch screen factory radio. It takes more attention to select music or a podcast through it than to do the same from my phone, but the radio is safer to use because, well, just because, right?
How about some numbers? In 2015, distracted driving was a factor in 10% of accidents and cell phone use was a factor in 14% of that 10%. But you wouldn't guess that based on most commenters here.
Obama had both houses of congress with a supermajority in the senate. So no, he lied.
Obama had a supermajority for a month or so around July-August, 2009 (when Al Franken finally got confirmed to his seat) from Sep 2009 (when Ted Kennedy's replacement was sworn in) until Feb 2010 (when Scott Brown was sworn in to replace Kennedy's replacement).
Carl Sagan was not happy with the science in "Silent Running". From "Broca's Brain":
After weeks of painstaking study and agonizing searches through botany texts, the solution is found: plants, it turns out, need sunlight. Trumbull's characters are able to build interplanetary cities but have forgotten the inverse square law. I was willing to overlook the portrayal of the rings of Saturn as pastel-colored gases, but not this.
I like "Silent Running". I figured that Freeman Lowell was a little off his rocker and not thinking straight, which limited his ability to think through the problem of the plants dying, so can overlook him forgetting about the inverse square law.
When I interviewed at Google, the office was filled with groups of people talking amongst themselves. The combined conversations and the design of the space resulted in a cacophony. Plus, the space was relatively tight, so through traffic was passing by not far behind people seated at their desks. I recall thinking that there was no way that I could focus, even semi-isolated with headphones, in that environment and was thinking that maybe I should have ended the interview then.
I have worked in a few open office environments. I vastly prefer closed (1 or 2 person) offices. But I have been working remotely at home for the last decade, so any work that I have to do in the office (2-4 times/year) is something different and I don't care whether it it is open or closed.
The word is derived from the Slavic language root meaning "work" or "worker", and strongly suggests that a robot is to some extent intechangeable with human workers.
Did you not see "The World's End"? A running joke in the movie is that antagonists are not robots as robot means slave ("... and believe me, they are not slaves").
The word is derived from the Slavic word "robota", which could mean "forced worker" (peasants "obligated to compulsory service" under feudalism, see Robot Patent) or slave.
bridges that need to be widened to handle additional traffic are not "structurally deficient"
Well, yes and no.
If traffic patterns result in a bridge continually carrying more load (of slowly moving and stopped cars) than it was designed for, then it is "structurally deficient". Widening it to handle additional traffic could remedy the issue.
The report distinguishes between "structurally deficient" and "functionally obsolete", which refers to bridges that simply don't meet current standards, like lane width.
The Central Valley is not southern California. Southern California is an arid climate. Population growth was limited by the available water until the aqueducts and reservoirs were built. With the recent rain, southern California is not in a drought, but it is overpopulated for the available water resources.
And it wasn't a problem when it was a handful of little old ladies doing this. But it can be a big problem (described multiple times in comments above) at the scale that AirBnB facilitates.
Also, do you really not think that municipalities haven't had officials out looking for little old ladies renting their grown-up kids rooms to strangers and collecting a cut of the action for hundreds of years? In medieval times, folks renting accommodations were subject to high taxes and do you think poor widows caught a break from their lords (who, even if benevolent, needed to pay the guy above him)?
The thing that I find most amusing about AirBnB, Uber and the rest is the "sharing economy" euphemism. When I share the things that I have, it is at no cost to the person that I am sharing with (except for costs directly related to its use, like fuel, or there is loss or damage during its use). Charging for its use isn't sharing; it is short term rental and a business and should be subject to the same regulations as other businesses.
But Twitter? Snapchat? I have a very hard time anyone is using those for anything useful.
Several companies that I do business with do customer support through Twitter Direct Messages. For some of them, it is the fastest way to get the situation handled.
You seem to be trolling here. There hasn't been many hard science fiction films featuring any national space agency this century and very few in the last six years. Besides, a) it makes sense that Hollywood movies featuring American characters would have those characters get into space with NASA, and b) Chinese facilities (a rocket and a space station/return capsule) save the day in two of the biggest recent space films (The Martian and Gravity).
As to Facebook's "rules", look at e.g. LinkedIn. I'm quite certain that headhunters take people's LinkedIn profile into consideration and use it to co-determine whether to contact someone and who to recommend them to at what salary level. So why not Facebook? One might say it's because Facebook is not explicitly aimed at job-marketing yourself, but that's but an extra service (agreement) away.
Not a valid comparison. One of the main reasons that people get onto LinkedIn is to look for work. I wish that headhunters would take more time reading my LinkedIn profile so they would stop asking me about positions that have a keyword match in my experience but are clearly not what I do.
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I so wanted Sailfish OS to work and ran it on a Nexus 5 for about six months before I threw in the towel. The problem is that sometimes I really NEED my phone to work and, in a couple of cases, the Nexus 5 adaptation of Sailfish OS let me down.
Also, even though I got my money back, I don't trust Jolla after the Tablet crowdfunding disaster.
An air-to-air heat pump basically becomes an electric heater (the air is heated in the air handler using resistive elements) when the temps drop below 35-40 deg F.
The *right way* is to get regulation through congress.
That is not how it works. Congress passes laws and federal agencies, like the FCC, create regulations to implement those laws.
If you try and build a reproduction of Robby the Robot that is seen publicly, expect a cease & desist letter from Fred Barton Productions, which has an exclusive license from Time-Warner. This is an occasional topic of discussion on the RPF (Replica Props Forum).
Here is an excerpt from guidance providing supplied by Time-Warner with regards to making your own Robby:
1. The manufacture, or transfer of: unauthorized reproductions of “ROBBY®”, or derivative works pertaining to “ROBBY®” is EXPRESSLY PROHIBITED
2. The manufacture, or transfer of: unauthorized component parts of “ROBBY®”, or derivative works pertaining to component parts of “ROBBY®” is EXPRESSLY PROHIBITED.
3. The exhibition of: unauthorized reproductions of “ROBBY®”, derivative works pertaining to “ROBBY®”, the component parts of “ROBBY®”, or derivative works pertaining to the component parts of “ROBBY®” is EXPRESSLY PROHIBITED.
4. The creation, or transfer in any form of any materials depicting: “ROBBY®”, derivative works pertaining to “ROBBY®”, the component parts of “ROBBY®”, or derivative works pertaining to the component parts of “ROBBY®”; for the purpose of promoting the production of unauthorized replicas of “ROBBY®” or the component parts of “ROBBY®” is EXPRESSLY PROHIBITED.
Though called "Robot" on the show, the Lost In Space robot was a B-9-M-3, usually shortened to B9.
The NY Times seems oddly obsessed with Seattle. I did a search on the NYT web site to see if I am imagining things, but there were a lot of stories there on events and trends in Seattle that I would think only matter to people who live in Seattle.
NHTSA is counting
My state has been keeping distracted driving stats since before smartphones were commonly available.
And then there is the standard correlation does not mean causation.
I guess techie readers of slashdot are just as willing to fall into confirmation bias as the general public. The analysis in TFA is poor. But it supports what a lot of people here want to believe, so who cares?
I don't use a Mac because I am part of the Sheeple or bought into Apple's marketing. I use a Mac because I am (despite strong efforts from Apple to make it otherwise) more productive using it compared to the alternatives. I have a very nice employer-provided Windows laptop that I have to use as well and it reminds me daily how much easier it is to do my job on a Mac.
I need to upgrade my Late 2011 MacBook Pro. I can still do what I need to do on it, but technology has marched on and the faster processors, additional memory capacity and an SSD would be nice.
I have no need for the TouchBar, priced out the non-TouchBar i7, 16G, 1TB SSD 13-inch MacBook Pro model and was ready to bite the bullet. It did bothered me that, even with i7, the fastest processor was not available on the non-TouchBar version (and the clock rate wasn't even as has as the 2011 MBP it would be replacing), but clock rate isn't everything and it would still be better than what it was replacing.
Then I discovered that the non-TouchBar MBPs only have two USB-C connectors and one is used to power the laptop. To get four USB-C connectors, I would have to get the TouchBar model and that pissed me off. That was the straw that broke the camel's back and I am now probably going to replace my 2011 MBP with a Early 2015 (Broadwell) instead of a new MBP.
Mod up
You should probably get news from a wider variety of sources because the ban sure as hell was controversial at the time.
Funny or insightful is exactly right.
I frequently travel in areas of the PNW where mobile network connectivity is poor to non-existant. A number of common apps are frustratingly dependent on being connected to the network. Also, a lot of people who spend most of their time in places with good connectivity will fail to realize that apps that they depend on do not work without that connectivity.
Well, it's a lot different from listening to the radio, since music typically is just a background activity, and even if you are listening to news / talk, you don't have to respond. It's really a question of how much concentration is required to talk vs. send a text, and whether that concentration distracts you from your primary responsibility, which is to drive the car safely.
Uh, music is more than just a background activity to a lot of drivers. And a lot of people yell back at talk radio. Of course, you are too attentive to the road to notice what other drivers are doing, right?
Got a new car with a touch screen factory radio. It takes more attention to select music or a podcast through it than to do the same from my phone, but the radio is safer to use because, well, just because, right?
How about some numbers? In 2015, distracted driving was a factor in 10% of accidents and cell phone use was a factor in 14% of that 10%. But you wouldn't guess that based on most commenters here.
Obama had both houses of congress with a supermajority in the senate. So no, he lied.
Obama had a supermajority for a month or so around July-August, 2009 (when Al Franken finally got confirmed to his seat) from Sep 2009 (when Ted Kennedy's replacement was sworn in) until Feb 2010 (when Scott Brown was sworn in to replace Kennedy's replacement).
Carl Sagan was not happy with the science in "Silent Running". From "Broca's Brain":
After weeks of painstaking study and agonizing searches through botany texts, the solution is found: plants, it turns out, need sunlight. Trumbull's characters are able to build interplanetary cities but have forgotten the inverse square law. I was willing to overlook the portrayal of the rings of Saturn as pastel-colored gases, but not this.
I like "Silent Running". I figured that Freeman Lowell was a little off his rocker and not thinking straight, which limited his ability to think through the problem of the plants dying, so can overlook him forgetting about the inverse square law.
When I interviewed at Google, the office was filled with groups of people talking amongst themselves. The combined conversations and the design of the space resulted in a cacophony. Plus, the space was relatively tight, so through traffic was passing by not far behind people seated at their desks. I recall thinking that there was no way that I could focus, even semi-isolated with headphones, in that environment and was thinking that maybe I should have ended the interview then.
I have worked in a few open office environments. I vastly prefer closed (1 or 2 person) offices. But I have been working remotely at home for the last decade, so any work that I have to do in the office (2-4 times/year) is something different and I don't care whether it it is open or closed.
The word is derived from the Slavic language root meaning "work" or "worker", and strongly suggests that a robot is to some extent intechangeable with human workers.
Did you not see "The World's End"? A running joke in the movie is that antagonists are not robots as robot means slave ("... and believe me, they are not slaves").
The word is derived from the Slavic word "robota", which could mean "forced worker" (peasants "obligated to compulsory service" under feudalism, see Robot Patent) or slave.
The list of 'structurally deficient' bridges includes the WA Hwy 520 bridge over Lake Washington, completed in 2016. It is not structurally deficient.
bridges that need to be widened to handle additional traffic are not "structurally deficient"
Well, yes and no.
If traffic patterns result in a bridge continually carrying more load (of slowly moving and stopped cars) than it was designed for, then it is "structurally deficient". Widening it to handle additional traffic could remedy the issue.
The report distinguishes between "structurally deficient" and "functionally obsolete", which refers to bridges that simply don't meet current standards, like lane width.
The Central Valley is not southern California. Southern California is an arid climate. Population growth was limited by the available water until the aqueducts and reservoirs were built. With the recent rain, southern California is not in a drought, but it is overpopulated for the available water resources.
As my late father liked to say, the Golden Gate bridge could never be built today.
And yet, the replacement eastern span of the Bay Bridge was built. And the second Tacoma Narrows Bridge was built. And ...
And it wasn't a problem when it was a handful of little old ladies doing this. But it can be a big problem (described multiple times in comments above) at the scale that AirBnB facilitates.
Also, do you really not think that municipalities haven't had officials out looking for little old ladies renting their grown-up kids rooms to strangers and collecting a cut of the action for hundreds of years? In medieval times, folks renting accommodations were subject to high taxes and do you think poor widows caught a break from their lords (who, even if benevolent, needed to pay the guy above him)?
The thing that I find most amusing about AirBnB, Uber and the rest is the "sharing economy" euphemism. When I share the things that I have, it is at no cost to the person that I am sharing with (except for costs directly related to its use, like fuel, or there is loss or damage during its use). Charging for its use isn't sharing; it is short term rental and a business and should be subject to the same regulations as other businesses.
Here is one - Service Employee International Union.
But Twitter? Snapchat? I have a very hard time anyone is using those for anything useful.
Several companies that I do business with do customer support through Twitter Direct Messages. For some of them, it is the fastest way to get the situation handled.
You seem to be trolling here. There hasn't been many hard science fiction films featuring any national space agency this century and very few in the last six years. Besides, a) it makes sense that Hollywood movies featuring American characters would have those characters get into space with NASA, and b) Chinese facilities (a rocket and a space station/return capsule) save the day in two of the biggest recent space films (The Martian and Gravity).
As to Facebook's "rules", look at e.g. LinkedIn. I'm quite certain that headhunters take people's LinkedIn profile into consideration and use it to co-determine whether to contact someone and who to recommend them to at what salary level. So why not Facebook? One might say it's because Facebook is not explicitly aimed at job-marketing yourself, but that's but an extra service (agreement) away.
Not a valid comparison. One of the main reasons that people get onto LinkedIn is to look for work. I wish that headhunters would take more time reading my LinkedIn profile so they would stop asking me about positions that have a keyword match in my experience but are clearly not what I do.