It sounds like the organizers of the show gave away too much control to the sponsor's representative. It's a natural thing to want to not aggravate the sponsor, but there is a line where you give up way to much control and bad things happen. The point is that you need someone on the management team to step up in these situations to reign in any loose canons. It sounds like this group was missing this key ingredient and everything ended up going off the rails...
I could see this type of thing helping on blind corners with lights and in relatively light traffic. It would also help people who don't pay attention to the lights or where the lights are too high to see.
One issue that no one has brought up yet, though, is that people will rely on using the system to the point where they will go through new or existing traffic lights simply because they not in the system...
It sits on the "trailing edge" of its time zone. The clocks are out of kilter with the sun, by almost two hours during DST. Time zone borders should be moved to the white areas between the red and green of this graphic and then kill DST. Solar noon should never happen before the clock strikes 12.
Boston is on the leading edge of it's time zone. I always look forward to DST. If we didn't change the time the sun would come up at 4:30 am here and go down at 7:30 pm during the summer. I'm a night owl and the sun coming up that early would kill me plus it wouldn't leave much time for summer evening activities during week nights. Boston really should be on the Atlantic time zone, but that wouldn't go over well with business because of ties to the NY stock markets, etc.
Netflix is 100% satisfying. WTF back country bullshit throttled cable internet service are you using?
Netflix is utter crap if you want to watch new movies. It's the reason why I dumped Netflix a year ago. Amazon and Redbox both get new movies much faster and you can stream them. I'll grant you that Netflix does a good job at adding to their impressive old movie collection and they tend to add TV series fairly quickly. They may meet your needs, but there are many of us left wanting.
A combination of Redbox, Amazon Prime, Comcast, and NHL Game Center Live does it for me...
This is not a commentary on Microsoft so much as it is a commentary on Peter Molyneux's personality and work habits.
Some of us are self-starters and don't need constant crises or deadlines to get work accomplished or be creative. Others require that sense of the world will come to an end to be motivated. Hell for me would be to constantly be in crisis mode. Hell for him is to not be... To each their own...
You know that the whole Pimp-my-X meme has jumped the shark when NASA scientists think that they need Tron style space suits and that they actually think they look modern and cool...
While it's always entertaining to read the same tired MS bashing, I got my wife the Surface Pro 2 for her work, and she loves it. It's an amazing machine, well built, great display, and has a wacom digitizer for her to take notes with. For $1000? Name me another product as versatile and portable.
Galaxy Note 10.1/ Almost half the price too.
Um, he did say he got it for her for WORK... That means MS Office, email, etc. While I love my android tablet for personal stuff, its not capable of handling my work activities. Surface Pro 2 Supports Visio... For that alone I might pick one up....
Microsoft just promised that they would ship (eventually); the only date involved is the date they made the promise, not a dealine by which the new stuff would be shipping exclusive of the old stuff, and certainly not the unsold stuff already in the channel.
False. RTFA, which you clearly did not do.
Actually, the previous poster was right. Microsoft has never publicly announced that they were shipping the new processor. What happened is that the article writer called a customer rep who said that they would get the new processor. The customer reps may have been told that the new processor was coming and made assumptions. Its still on Microsoft as they obviously dropped the ball in clarifying the situation with the customer reps. But that doesn't make the previous poster wrong.
All of the articles I can find on the topic indicate the same thing. There was no official announcement by Microsoft. Someone leaked the information to the standard tech magazines and the rest has been speculation, rather than fact.
Because Metro sure knocked the socks off of everything...
It points to a new direction; you know one where UI designers cut the tops off their skulls, take an ice cream scooper and remove about two thirds of the brains, put the top of the skull back on.
Metro UI concepts are actually showing up in more and more places. The biggest problem with it was that Microsoft, in their wisdom, tried to force a touchscreen interface on desktop users. The interface itself isn't the problem, the lack of choice for the primary user was...
Still vastly better than what it was only a day ago, and there seems to be a lot more possible debris sightings in the search area which I take as a sign they might be in the right area and will hopefully pin it down some more. The race now is to find it before the black box transmitters go silent, a task for which the US is dispatching some specialist search gear apparently, because that's probably the only hope of giving the bereaved a chance at some closure left now.
They may be a lot closer to the area where the plane went down, but they are still far from finding it. After all, the debris, assuming it's from the plane, has likely drifted a long way from the original crash site. Even if they are able to track back the debris by modeling the ocean currents in the area and cross referencing that with the flight path, the remaining search area is still going to be huge. Unless the search teams pick up the blackbox signal before the battery runs out, we may never know what happened.
Yes, obviously. There are no rocks on greens, but there are likely no titanium heads, either. That's where you use the putter. Putters need to have some weight to them since you don't swing them very hard.
You might swing hard with a titanium head club on the tee or on the fairway, but you're unlikely to encounter rocks there, either. You're also unlikely to encounter dry grass.
The problem is when golfers hit into deep rough, which can be far off from the fairway that you're intended to play from. Rough can be largely unmaintained. There can be fallen trees, tall grass, and rocks. It isn't irrigated, so it's likely to be as dry as wild grass. And, no, you may not see sparks on a bright summer day. Daylight in an open field on a clear is quite glaring. Even if you did see the sparks, you may not see any flame. The fire could smolder for hours as a tiny ember before finally flaring to life. That's why you're always told to cover a fire pit with sand before you leave it to ensure it's extinguished, remember?
Up until now, the majority of clubs with titanium in them have been drivers and fairway clubs. Recently they have been putting titanium in irons, which are more likely to be used in the rough.
Maybe it's just a network cloud that you connect all of your other cloud services to... All I know is that when too many clouds get together, it's more likely to rain...
My thought is that once you get a face-to-face interview they have already selected you, and the other 5 to 10 candidates, based on their technical skills. The whole purpose of an in-person interview, then, is to determine how well you communicate, how friendly you are, and whether you have anything in common with the interviewers. While technical questions may be asked, it's more of how you answer that matters.
Do you ask follow-up questions? Do you ask the interviewer, if a peer, how they would handle the same problem? When speaking to the interviewer, do you try to find common ground? (i.e. golfing, movies, family, American Idol, latest sport trades, etc.) Do you show interest in the problem? or do you have a been-there-done-that attitude? Are you showing a willingness to learn? Despite the old saying, even an old dog can learn new tricks. Did you prepare? Did you find out as much about the company as possible (i.e. national vs international, HQ locations, latest products, etc.)?
Perhaps none of these are the problem. It could simply be that you are not up on popular culture. Nothing shows your age more and isolates you more from younger colleagues than not being current. Do you get asked modern cultural questions? Can you answer them?
- Windows you can backup / restore / reload - Andriod you can backup / restore / reload - UNIX you can backup / restore / reload - OSX you can backup / restore / reload - iOS you can.... ooops.....
It does like like there may be some rollback options for iOS users, though. See http://downgradeios7.com/.
Infrastructure design isn't the reason for most Americans using cars. It's the fact that most of our cities have very separate housing and business districts, and there's no practical way to transport everyone 30+ miles each way every day to work, especially when the residential areas are evenly distributed in a circle around the business districts.
American cities were designed specifically to require cars to do anything, with no small part owed to the automobile manufacturers themselves. It wasn't just happenstance that you need a car in most of the USA.
Older cities, such as NYC, Boston, etc. were designed for horse and carriage. It's why the older streets are so narrow with very little room for bike lanes.
Newer cities, such as Orlando, LA, etc. and suburbs around older cities were designed for cars.
Which is why in civilised countries we have unions and employment law.
I was a bit sad when I read that she had to request HR to be present at a meeting with the boss, you need a union on your side when you have those conversations.
I wonder how that conversation would have gone if she had brought a lawyer....
The West didn't intervene in the Prague Spring, and they won't likely directly intervene now. Ukraine isn't worth the pain of open warfare.
Beyond that, the US has been for weeks now trying to push for vast overarching sanctions. It's the EU that lacks the backbone. For full sanctions to really work, it has to be both the US and the EU.
Yes, but the US has been pushing for actions through the UN, in which Russia has a veto. Granted, everyone understood that any submitted UN resolution, because of this, would be more of a political statement rather than something that would be substantial. As a result, any sanctions would have to be agreed to outside of the UN.
The other problems of creating a grid sufficient to meet country wide needs are also underrated.
Indeed, these problems are virtually hand-waived away by most, with the blithe assertion that the sun is shining and the wind is blowing somewhere. These folks never look at maps, and fail to notice that the earth is 3/4 covered with oceans.
Hydro works because of storage. Coal works because of storage. Nuclear works because of storage. You can spool these up when needed, and throttle them back when not needed, storing the fuel for later.
Wind and solar have a big problem, not because of grid technology, but simply because of lack of storage.
Well, you could use wind and solar power to pump water from one spot to another further up the hill as energy storage and release it as hydro energy. Granted, this adds inefficiencies to the model, but it is one way to store energy. Until we figure this out, though, I am pro nuclear...
I bought a Syba 5.25-Inch Dual Bay Mobile Rack for both 2.5-Inch and 3.25-Inch SATA HDD Plus 2 USB 3.0 Ports SY-MRA55006 for my latest desktop build. You could then buy 7 or 8 3TB drives, back things up, then store them someplace. After the first full, you could take incremental backups for a while. You would have to refresh it every so often but my thought is that the backup should be good for at least a year. Just make sure that the drives aren't stored next to the microwave...
Of course, the enterprise solution would be to buy a SAN or NAS, fill it with storage, and use data duplication software.....
This is a complete mischaracterization of what's going on. It's not that they don't want to compete with Tesla, it's that they want a cut. Right now, it's illegal for automakers to own car dealerships in most states, because when cars were in early adoption the state government didn't want to allow a situation where a car manufacturer pulled out of a state completely because it was unprofitable, leaving the citizens of that state unable to buy cars easily. So dealerships are independent from the manufacturers. Tesla is bypassing this 100 year old, out of date system, because it no longer makes sense, but the dealers aren't afraid of electric cars, they just want to make Tesla "play by the rules" and let the dealers sell (or not) the Tesla cars, so that they an make a profit off them like they do every other car manufacturer.
If you follow the logic a bit further, what the dealers are truly afraid of is that if Tesla gets an exception, the other manufacturers will also want the same exception. Once Manufacturer's own showrooms and sell online they will be able to undercut dealerships, putting them out of business. Either they stand up for the current rules that created their business market or it dies.
Not only do you not have a computer overriding your throttle stomp, you avoid big brother with an old car.
While you may think that you would be invisible by owning an older car, I'm willing to bet that future gen self-driving vehicles will tattle on you. They will use various sensors to detect your old car on the road, identify it, and tell all of the other smart cars around you all about you. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if RFIDs aren't embedded in our license plates in the future. It would make it easier for cops to issue tickets (i.e. scan the license), could be used for tolls, etc.
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It sounds like the organizers of the show gave away too much control to the sponsor's representative. It's a natural thing to want to not aggravate the sponsor, but there is a line where you give up way to much control and bad things happen. The point is that you need someone on the management team to step up in these situations to reign in any loose canons. It sounds like this group was missing this key ingredient and everything ended up going off the rails...
I could see this type of thing helping on blind corners with lights and in relatively light traffic. It would also help people who don't pay attention to the lights or where the lights are too high to see.
One issue that no one has brought up yet, though, is that people will rely on using the system to the point where they will go through new or existing traffic lights simply because they not in the system...
It sits on the "trailing edge" of its time zone. The clocks are out of kilter with the sun, by almost two hours during DST. Time zone borders should be moved to the white areas between the red and green of this graphic and then kill DST. Solar noon should never happen before the clock strikes 12.
Boston is on the leading edge of it's time zone. I always look forward to DST. If we didn't change the time the sun would come up at 4:30 am here and go down at 7:30 pm during the summer. I'm a night owl and the sun coming up that early would kill me plus it wouldn't leave much time for summer evening activities during week nights. Boston really should be on the Atlantic time zone, but that wouldn't go over well with business because of ties to the NY stock markets, etc.
Netflix is 100% satisfying. WTF back country bullshit throttled cable internet service are you using?
Netflix is utter crap if you want to watch new movies. It's the reason why I dumped Netflix a year ago. Amazon and Redbox both get new movies much faster and you can stream them. I'll grant you that Netflix does a good job at adding to their impressive old movie collection and they tend to add TV series fairly quickly. They may meet your needs, but there are many of us left wanting.
A combination of Redbox, Amazon Prime, Comcast, and NHL Game Center Live does it for me...
This is not a commentary on Microsoft so much as it is a commentary on Peter Molyneux's personality and work habits.
Some of us are self-starters and don't need constant crises or deadlines to get work accomplished or be creative. Others require that sense of the world will come to an end to be motivated. Hell for me would be to constantly be in crisis mode. Hell for him is to not be... To each their own...
You know that the whole Pimp-my-X meme has jumped the shark when NASA scientists think that they need Tron style space suits and that they actually think they look modern and cool...
While it's always entertaining to read the same tired MS bashing, I got my wife the Surface Pro 2 for her work, and she loves it. It's an amazing machine, well built, great display, and has a wacom digitizer for her to take notes with. For $1000? Name me another product as versatile and portable.
Galaxy Note 10.1/ Almost half the price too.
Um, he did say he got it for her for WORK... That means MS Office, email, etc. While I love my android tablet for personal stuff, its not capable of handling my work activities. Surface Pro 2 Supports Visio... For that alone I might pick one up....
Microsoft just promised that they would ship (eventually); the only date involved is the date they made the promise, not a dealine by which the new stuff would be shipping exclusive of the old stuff, and certainly not the unsold stuff already in the channel.
False. RTFA, which you clearly did not do.
Actually, the previous poster was right. Microsoft has never publicly announced that they were shipping the new processor. What happened is that the article writer called a customer rep who said that they would get the new processor. The customer reps may have been told that the new processor was coming and made assumptions. Its still on Microsoft as they obviously dropped the ball in clarifying the situation with the customer reps. But that doesn't make the previous poster wrong.
All of the articles I can find on the topic indicate the same thing. There was no official announcement by Microsoft. Someone leaked the information to the standard tech magazines and the rest has been speculation, rather than fact.
Because Metro sure knocked the socks off of everything...
It points to a new direction; you know one where UI designers cut the tops off their skulls, take an ice cream scooper and remove about two thirds of the brains, put the top of the skull back on.
Metro UI concepts are actually showing up in more and more places. The biggest problem with it was that Microsoft, in their wisdom, tried to force a touchscreen interface on desktop users. The interface itself isn't the problem, the lack of choice for the primary user was...
Still vastly better than what it was only a day ago, and there seems to be a lot more possible debris sightings in the search area which I take as a sign they might be in the right area and will hopefully pin it down some more. The race now is to find it before the black box transmitters go silent, a task for which the US is dispatching some specialist search gear apparently, because that's probably the only hope of giving the bereaved a chance at some closure left now.
They may be a lot closer to the area where the plane went down, but they are still far from finding it. After all, the debris, assuming it's from the plane, has likely drifted a long way from the original crash site. Even if they are able to track back the debris by modeling the ocean currents in the area and cross referencing that with the flight path, the remaining search area is still going to be huge. Unless the search teams pick up the blackbox signal before the battery runs out, we may never know what happened.
Yes, obviously. There are no rocks on greens, but there are likely no titanium heads, either. That's where you use the putter. Putters need to have some weight to them since you don't swing them very hard.
You might swing hard with a titanium head club on the tee or on the fairway, but you're unlikely to encounter rocks there, either. You're also unlikely to encounter dry grass.
The problem is when golfers hit into deep rough, which can be far off from the fairway that you're intended to play from. Rough can be largely unmaintained. There can be fallen trees, tall grass, and rocks. It isn't irrigated, so it's likely to be as dry as wild grass. And, no, you may not see sparks on a bright summer day. Daylight in an open field on a clear is quite glaring. Even if you did see the sparks, you may not see any flame. The fire could smolder for hours as a tiny ember before finally flaring to life. That's why you're always told to cover a fire pit with sand before you leave it to ensure it's extinguished, remember?
Up until now, the majority of clubs with titanium in them have been drivers and fairway clubs. Recently they have been putting titanium in irons, which are more likely to be used in the rough.
Maybe it's just a network cloud that you connect all of your other cloud services to... All I know is that when too many clouds get together, it's more likely to rain...
My thought is that once you get a face-to-face interview they have already selected you, and the other 5 to 10 candidates, based on their technical skills. The whole purpose of an in-person interview, then, is to determine how well you communicate, how friendly you are, and whether you have anything in common with the interviewers. While technical questions may be asked, it's more of how you answer that matters.
Do you ask follow-up questions?
Do you ask the interviewer, if a peer, how they would handle the same problem?
When speaking to the interviewer, do you try to find common ground? (i.e. golfing, movies, family, American Idol, latest sport trades, etc.)
Do you show interest in the problem? or do you have a been-there-done-that attitude?
Are you showing a willingness to learn? Despite the old saying, even an old dog can learn new tricks.
Did you prepare? Did you find out as much about the company as possible (i.e. national vs international, HQ locations, latest products, etc.)?
Perhaps none of these are the problem. It could simply be that you are not up on popular culture. Nothing shows your age more and isolates you more from younger colleagues than not being current. Do you get asked modern cultural questions? Can you answer them?
don't try for H1B jobs where the person is for show and you have no hope of getting the job.
For those that don't know yet, H1B jobs are the job ads that largely appear in tech journals or on tech journal web sites.
- Windows you can backup / restore / reload .... ooops.....
- Andriod you can backup / restore / reload
- UNIX you can backup / restore / reload
- OSX you can backup / restore / reload
- iOS you can
It does like like there may be some rollback options for iOS users, though. See http://downgradeios7.com/.
Infrastructure design isn't the reason for most Americans using cars. It's the fact that most of our cities have very separate housing and business districts, and there's no practical way to transport everyone 30+ miles each way every day to work, especially when the residential areas are evenly distributed in a circle around the business districts.
American cities were designed specifically to require cars to do anything, with no small part owed to the automobile manufacturers themselves. It wasn't just happenstance that you need a car in most of the USA.
Older cities, such as NYC, Boston, etc. were designed for horse and carriage. It's why the older streets are so narrow with very little room for bike lanes.
Newer cities, such as Orlando, LA, etc. and suburbs around older cities were designed for cars.
Which is why in civilised countries we have unions and employment law.
I was a bit sad when I read that she had to request HR to be present at a meeting with the boss, you need a union on your side when you have those conversations.
I wonder how that conversation would have gone if she had brought a lawyer....
The West didn't intervene in the Prague Spring, and they won't likely directly intervene now. Ukraine isn't worth the pain of open warfare.
Beyond that, the US has been for weeks now trying to push for vast overarching sanctions. It's the EU that lacks the backbone. For full sanctions to really work, it has to be both the US and the EU.
Yes, but the US has been pushing for actions through the UN, in which Russia has a veto. Granted, everyone understood that any submitted UN resolution, because of this, would be more of a political statement rather than something that would be substantial. As a result, any sanctions would have to be agreed to outside of the UN.
I agree with you about Junos. It is a very good CLI. However, for GUI interfaces, not much can beat ScreenOS....
After all, when the big one hits there won't be much left...
Storage is actually under-rated.
The other problems of creating a grid sufficient to meet country wide needs are also underrated.
Indeed, these problems are virtually hand-waived away by most, with the blithe assertion that the sun is shining and the wind is blowing somewhere. These folks never look at maps, and fail to notice that the earth is 3/4 covered with oceans.
Hydro works because of storage. Coal works because of storage. Nuclear works because of storage. You can spool these up when needed, and throttle them back when not needed, storing the fuel for later.
Wind and solar have a big problem, not because of grid technology, but simply because of lack of storage.
Well, you could use wind and solar power to pump water from one spot to another further up the hill as energy storage and release it as hydro energy. Granted, this adds inefficiencies to the model, but it is one way to store energy. Until we figure this out, though, I am pro nuclear...
I bought a Syba 5.25-Inch Dual Bay Mobile Rack for both 2.5-Inch and 3.25-Inch SATA HDD Plus 2 USB 3.0 Ports SY-MRA55006 for my latest desktop build. You could then buy 7 or 8 3TB drives, back things up, then store them someplace. After the first full, you could take incremental backups for a while. You would have to refresh it every so often but my thought is that the backup should be good for at least a year. Just make sure that the drives aren't stored next to the microwave...
Of course, the enterprise solution would be to buy a SAN or NAS, fill it with storage, and use data duplication software.....
This is a complete mischaracterization of what's going on. It's not that they don't want to compete with Tesla, it's that they want a cut. Right now, it's illegal for automakers to own car dealerships in most states, because when cars were in early adoption the state government didn't want to allow a situation where a car manufacturer pulled out of a state completely because it was unprofitable, leaving the citizens of that state unable to buy cars easily. So dealerships are independent from the manufacturers. Tesla is bypassing this 100 year old, out of date system, because it no longer makes sense, but the dealers aren't afraid of electric cars, they just want to make Tesla "play by the rules" and let the dealers sell (or not) the Tesla cars, so that they an make a profit off them like they do every other car manufacturer.
If you follow the logic a bit further, what the dealers are truly afraid of is that if Tesla gets an exception, the other manufacturers will also want the same exception. Once Manufacturer's own showrooms and sell online they will be able to undercut dealerships, putting them out of business. Either they stand up for the current rules that created their business market or it dies.
....but it's the first to offer 4G LTE.
My 2014 Jeep has Uconnect Access which uses Sprint, I believe. It's also too expensive....
Not only do you not have a computer overriding your throttle stomp, you avoid big brother with an old car.
While you may think that you would be invisible by owning an older car, I'm willing to bet that future gen self-driving vehicles will tattle on you. They will use various sensors to detect your old car on the road, identify it, and tell all of the other smart cars around you all about you. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if RFIDs aren't embedded in our license plates in the future. It would make it easier for cops to issue tickets (i.e. scan the license), could be used for tolls, etc.