Linux does not run most games, like, say, Fallout 4. Until this situation improves, if it ever does, we still need to have a Windows boot option.
Define We. You have the decision to make. You want to play your games badly enough and own one computer? Then you are Microsoft's bitch, and don't complain you made the decision to accept whatever they feel like dionog to you. Otherwise, put together a games only system for Windows 10, and some other system for anything you want any control over.
Your chances of ever recovering full cognitive function after cardiac arrest are less than 2% with current techniques and procedures.
Yup, that's the question the instructors hate. I asked it during my defib class, and you could see the instructor grimace, then a split second of "should I lie?", then the truth. Dfib works better than straight new version CPR only, but only a little.
You are an "idiot" (to use your words) if you choose a painful, lingering death in a hospital with cognitive impairment over a quick and mostly painless death from cardiac arrest, and that isn't even taking into account the massive financial burden you impose on your family
Having seen just that with my mother, who died instantly, versus the other parents who lingered way too long, I gotta say she won the death lottery. Healthy, then boom - outa here.
And note that once your brain has been damaged from cardiac arrest, you will probably not be able to make any medical decisions for yourself anymore ever.
The way to deal with cardiac arrest is to avoid it in the first place, through a healthy lifestyle and (if necessary) various implantable devices. It's that kind of preventive care that poor populations don't receive and that we need to improve.
Then again, most of longevity is based upon genetics. Most of the men in my family, without accidents, tend to live to around 85. With maintenance drugs and preventative medical care and a healthy lifestyle, they've extended that to around 85.
No one gets out of here alive. If a person wants to adopt the starving rat life extension protocol, and they are happy doing it, then great. But even then, any extension is on the old end of the scale. screw that, if I'm going to live to 125, I want most of those years to be 30, not living in a nursing home.
Live well, love well, eat well and laugh - it's the ultimate revenge. I'm in it for quality, not quantity.
It's one of my favorite and most useful apps. But just recently it has asked for access to my microphone to update. There is no conceivable reason it should need that, so I have blocked said update and will continue to do so. If it stops working eventually, then so be it. You have to draw the line somewhere.
Hell - flashlight apps need total access to everything today.
Not sure about hard statistics, but I'd say it's a safe bet most new developers these days need to be shown how to get going. Beyond that, they'll naturally self-teach and bootstrap themselves, or fail out early.
There is something to that. To use a non-coding example, I've been a Photoshop user from early days. So every time they would bring out a new version, it was no problem at all to hit the ground running with it.
For people who were just introduced to a later version? Yikes! My years long immersion was gradual and taught me the ground concepts. The noob was thrown in at the deep end.
"Coding" with mathematica is using someone else's program to solve a particular problem you have, not creating something for other users to use and interact with.
Do you have to write your own compiler to satisfy your requirements to be real coding?
Gee do Word and Excel Macros count? How about doing Maya animation?
Coding usually refers to programming a computer, not just using an app to get a computer to do stuff but writing the app.
So amusing that someone compares using Maya as an afterthought to a word or excel macro.
Having come up through what I suspect is a very common route, that is getting a early pc. and having a lot of 3-d experience, I'm interested in the experiences of people who find that as easy as writing an excel macro.
I started learning coding the way I suspect a lot of people did back in the day. I had an electronics background, got involved with working on 70's computers, went to making wirelists and punchcards, shortly after that came the first PC's I cut my teeth on a C64 as far as really taking off on coding.
Then in the days of the Amiga 500, which I got for video titling, I found out about 3D design rendering and animation. I started out using Imagine, and picked it up to the level that I demoed it to my employer, and suddenly I was a 3d animator.
Those were some heady days, with their own joys and trials. Frame buffers, VTR controllers, the joy of getting the objects tweaked just right, the heartbreak of seeing your awesome animation turned to mush when the final product was a VHS tape.
Then working in that mode, graduating from Imagine to Lightwave, then abandoning the frame buffers and tape.
Now its Maya, with Lightwave as secondary but still used.
But to your equivalence post, one of the most amusing aspects of working with 3-D was that I got a fair number of requests to "teach me", or "teach someone", and while I'm pretty good at explaining rather complex operations, it was something to see the enthusiasm go away when they sat down with me and actually saw what went into the effort. Usually took about 15 minutes to decide that for as cool as the results might be, the process behind it was not what they wanted to do.
Having both experience with coding, and 3d work, both self taught, neither is for everyone. Anyhow, if you have any Maya demos, I'd love to see them.
We see from this story that the political support in Norway is so much that they are REQUIRING electric cars. Not encouraging them, but requiring them. Certainly that's a HUGE political advantage, right?
Too bad I didn't mention the US in my post, eh? Oh. Wait.
I was talking about the USA, where there are political forces in play that have actually banned Tesla dealerships.
Are you implying that electric cars don't do well in the cold? Because if you are, you're misinformed. Li Ion based batteries do poorly in heat, but the cold doesn't bother them anywhere near as much as the heat does.
A lot of people get the idea that cold weather kills batteris because that's when they seem to fail. Heat has been killing the thing for a long time before the actual failure point.
It is one Great system. And I'll make it even greater. We have got plans for an even greater system. You'll be able to park your car on the bus... yes the bus... using the mobility impaired-space. It will be a great, great system. I guarantee it.
But is it so great that you'll get tired of it being so great?
The world made the mistake of trusting you guys once. You'll notice how excited the industry was to adapt Windows Phone 25 years later. Expect the same general level of enthusiasm for Microsoft Car.
Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.
Imagine going into a dealership to get your Microsoft controlled car fixed. The mechanic will berate you for not running the car in a VM, not going into the services panel and changing some arcane setting, and how it's your fault you didn't go into the registry to make changes there. Then he'll call you a stupid asshole and not fix the problem anyhow, or introduce two new ones.
Looking forward to the Microsoft cars for Dummies books.
None of that matters. The maker of the item, or the seller of it is 100% responsible. Their internal bickering (and yes, bickering with an external supplier is an internal bicker, in matters of law) won't change that.
It's a simple and quite settled point of law.
While you are right, the court system, at least here in the US is often used by people in the wrong to weasel out of responsibility. And when they do lose, you'll get your 1 dollar award from the class action lawsuit.
It's a good point, but in practice, just about pointless.
This even pops up in he pc space in the case of buggy hardware divers and some poor sap is stuck with a broken computer and all those involved are blaming someone else.
Mod this AC up. One of the things I learned early on when designing and building systems is when at all possible, use one manufacturer for as much as possible. That way they can't play the "It must be the other guy's equipment that is the problem." game.
Really? How do they connect the intake manifold to the natural gas source? What's the mileage like? What do they have to eat?
You drive up to the pump, and attach the dispenser to the car. Then when the tank is full, you drive away. You live someplace where there are no CNG vehicles? In my little city, our entire public transit system runs on CNG .
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Linux does not run most games, like, say, Fallout 4. Until this situation improves, if it ever does, we still need to have a Windows boot option.
Define We. You have the decision to make. You want to play your games badly enough and own one computer? Then you are Microsoft's bitch, and don't complain you made the decision to accept whatever they feel like dionog to you. Otherwise, put together a games only system for Windows 10, and some other system for anything you want any control over.
It's that simple.
I was resuscitated and a defibrillator applied before the ambulance arrived (which happened quickly anyhow).
If this actually happend to you AC, you apparently do not know just how lucky you were, Your outcome is very rare. Congrats, indeed.
Your chances of ever recovering full cognitive function after cardiac arrest are less than 2% with current techniques and procedures. Yup, that's the question the instructors hate. I asked it during my defib class, and you could see the instructor grimace, then a split second of "should I lie?", then the truth. Dfib works better than straight new version CPR only, but only a little.
You are an "idiot" (to use your words) if you choose a painful, lingering death in a hospital with cognitive impairment over a quick and mostly painless death from cardiac arrest, and that isn't even taking into account the massive financial burden you impose on your family
Having seen just that with my mother, who died instantly, versus the other parents who lingered way too long, I gotta say she won the death lottery. Healthy, then boom - outa here.
And note that once your brain has been damaged from cardiac arrest, you will probably not be able to make any medical decisions for yourself anymore ever.
The way to deal with cardiac arrest is to avoid it in the first place, through a healthy lifestyle and (if necessary) various implantable devices. It's that kind of preventive care that poor populations don't receive and that we need to improve.
Then again, most of longevity is based upon genetics. Most of the men in my family, without accidents, tend to live to around 85. With maintenance drugs and preventative medical care and a healthy lifestyle, they've extended that to around 85.
No one gets out of here alive. If a person wants to adopt the starving rat life extension protocol, and they are happy doing it, then great. But even then, any extension is on the old end of the scale. screw that, if I'm going to live to 125, I want most of those years to be 30, not living in a nursing home.
Live well, love well, eat well and laugh - it's the ultimate revenge. I'm in it for quality, not quantity.
It's one of my favorite and most useful apps. But just recently it has asked for access to my microphone to update. There is no conceivable reason it should need that, so I have blocked said update and will continue to do so. If it stops working eventually, then so be it. You have to draw the line somewhere.
Hell - flashlight apps need total access to everything today.
Just pedal down the road for a few hours, and I promise you'll get it.
I know the purpose, it just seems like maybe since the contact points are on the seat, maybe they might be a fine place to put the padding.
Not sure about hard statistics, but I'd say it's a safe bet most new developers these days need to be shown how to get going. Beyond that, they'll naturally self-teach and bootstrap themselves, or fail out early.
There is something to that. To use a non-coding example, I've been a Photoshop user from early days. So every time they would bring out a new version, it was no problem at all to hit the ground running with it.
For people who were just introduced to a later version? Yikes! My years long immersion was gradual and taught me the ground concepts. The noob was thrown in at the deep end.
Same goes for programming.
"Coding" with mathematica is using someone else's program to solve a particular problem you have, not creating something for other users to use and interact with.
Do you have to write your own compiler to satisfy your requirements to be real coding?
Gee do Word and Excel Macros count? How about doing Maya animation?
Coding usually refers to programming a computer, not just using an app to get a computer to do stuff but writing the app.
So amusing that someone compares using Maya as an afterthought to a word or excel macro.
Having come up through what I suspect is a very common route, that is getting a early pc. and having a lot of 3-d experience, I'm interested in the experiences of people who find that as easy as writing an excel macro.
I started learning coding the way I suspect a lot of people did back in the day. I had an electronics background, got involved with working on 70's computers, went to making wirelists and punchcards, shortly after that came the first PC's I cut my teeth on a C64 as far as really taking off on coding.
Then in the days of the Amiga 500, which I got for video titling, I found out about 3D design rendering and animation. I started out using Imagine, and picked it up to the level that I demoed it to my employer, and suddenly I was a 3d animator.
Those were some heady days, with their own joys and trials. Frame buffers, VTR controllers, the joy of getting the objects tweaked just right, the heartbreak of seeing your awesome animation turned to mush when the final product was a VHS tape.
Then working in that mode, graduating from Imagine to Lightwave, then abandoning the frame buffers and tape.
Now its Maya, with Lightwave as secondary but still used.
But to your equivalence post, one of the most amusing aspects of working with 3-D was that I got a fair number of requests to "teach me", or "teach someone", and while I'm pretty good at explaining rather complex operations, it was something to see the enthusiasm go away when they sat down with me and actually saw what went into the effort. Usually took about 15 minutes to decide that for as cool as the results might be, the process behind it was not what they wanted to do.
Having both experience with coding, and 3d work, both self taught, neither is for everyone. Anyhow, if you have any Maya demos, I'd love to see them.
We see from this story that the political support in Norway is so much that they are REQUIRING electric cars. Not encouraging them, but requiring them. Certainly that's a HUGE political advantage, right?
Too bad I didn't mention the US in my post, eh? Oh. Wait.
I was talking about the USA, where there are political forces in play that have actually banned Tesla dealerships.
How that economic recovery working out for ya now?
Sounds more like cutting deadwood.
Can just a few of us agree now that however this turns out in Norway, it'll be a pretty good indication of how well it might work elsewhere?
The major disadvantages of electric cars at this point are political - at least in the US.
Did you read the article?
What fun is that? It interferes with the bubble's structure.
Norway is not socialist, far from it. Norway arguably is a more market economy than even the United States. https://fee.org/articles/the-m...
That's an interesting article. Sounds like a system that would actually work.
The same way they always have?
Are you implying that electric cars don't do well in the cold? Because if you are, you're misinformed. Li Ion based batteries do poorly in heat, but the cold doesn't bother them anywhere near as much as the heat does.
A lot of people get the idea that cold weather kills batteris because that's when they seem to fail. Heat has been killing the thing for a long time before the actual failure point.
It is one Great system. And I'll make it even greater. We have got plans for an even greater system. You'll be able to park your car on the bus... yes the bus... using the mobility impaired-space. It will be a great, great system. I guarantee it.
But is it so great that you'll get tired of it being so great?
That's not the intake (or even inlet) manifold.
Yeah, but do you think he wanted a description of that part? It's remarkably similar to a petrofueld engine.
They make retrofit systems: http://www.popularmechanics.co...
Then after you do that, you drive up to the CNG pump....
The worst ones are the rich weekend warrior types with their $1000+ bicycles and their fancy wannabe racing gear clothing.
On that note, I've always wondered why those pants have the padding in the pants. Makes them look like they shart themselves.
The idea of getting work done in your car on the way to work is ridiculous, bordering on scary...
I do it all the time. I take the bus directly to work. Internet through my iPhone, and it's emails-away!
BONUS: Arrive at work not stressed from fighting traffic.
How do you get your car on the bus?
The world made the mistake of trusting you guys once. You'll notice how excited the industry was to adapt Windows Phone 25 years later. Expect the same general level of enthusiasm for Microsoft Car.
Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.
Imagine going into a dealership to get your Microsoft controlled car fixed. The mechanic will berate you for not running the car in a VM, not going into the services panel and changing some arcane setting, and how it's your fault you didn't go into the registry to make changes there. Then he'll call you a stupid asshole and not fix the problem anyhow, or introduce two new ones.
Looking forward to the Microsoft cars for Dummies books.
None of that matters. The maker of the item, or the seller of it is 100% responsible. Their internal bickering (and yes, bickering with an external supplier is an internal bicker, in matters of law) won't change that.
It's a simple and quite settled point of law.
While you are right, the court system, at least here in the US is often used by people in the wrong to weasel out of responsibility. And when they do lose, you'll get your 1 dollar award from the class action lawsuit.
It's a good point, but in practice, just about pointless.
Welcome to the real world.
This even pops up in he pc space in the case of buggy hardware divers and some poor sap is stuck with a broken computer and all those involved are blaming someone else.
Mod this AC up. One of the things I learned early on when designing and building systems is when at all possible, use one manufacturer for as much as possible. That way they can't play the "It must be the other guy's equipment that is the problem." game.
Why is this asked every time? If it's a defect, it's the fault of the manufacturer. If it's user error, it's fault of the user/owner. It's not hard.
Microsoft never fails - only we can fail Microsoft.
The manufacturers originally wanted to use Linux but were unable to overcome the issue of bad drivers.
Well played sir - well played indeed!
Cars are powered by... even natural gas
Really? How do they connect the intake manifold to the natural gas source? What's the mileage like? What do they have to eat?
You drive up to the pump, and attach the dispenser to the car. Then when the tank is full, you drive away. You live someplace where there are no CNG vehicles? In my little city, our entire public transit system runs on CNG .
I'd at least suggest that they take all of the athletes to some islan to quarantine them for a few months after it is over.
There are only a few athletes. There will be 500,000 tourists. We might need to just leave them there, and quarantine Brazil.
You're right - I forgot about the tourists. Garr, I don't think this is going to end well.