Work ethic is a moral value. A strong work ethic leads to strong class divide, with people judging each other as lazy or don't "deserve" their wealth because they didn't meet up to one's work ethic. This is a major reason leading to class warfare.
Hahaha! That's what the words "lazy" and "deserve" mean. You wanna? You better work bitch! Not a class divide thing at all - people from all classes can be found working hard (like it's a profession).
From the forums for this model, it did happen. It's not that surprising: if a chip burns out on a board, having it fail in such a way (short etc) it makes everything on the board stop working.
Fault isolation is difficult and expensive. Throwing everything together is cheap and easy. I suspect some systems like HVAC and traction control will eventually have some isolation required, but all the other stuff? I just expect the more features, the more problems. But the new-car-every-3-years crowd won't care.
Fiat currency has no value other than to 1) Pay your taxes, and 2) Conduct business with others who mutually agree that said currency has an effective value.
None of that is unique to fiat currency. Gold just isn't that useful. Currency backed by something useful is sufficiently rare that it's clearly not important.
Currency is a useful medium of exchange. Intrinsic value isn't important, only current value (thus the name). Bitcoin is still pretty iffy in its ability to buy anything anywhere, but that's the only hurdle it needs to jump. It prospered in a black market, sure, but as a "legit" currency it has yet to establish itself.
Again, you're only right in principle. In practice my last car would become undrivable if the radio malfunctioned badly, because the HVAC, radio, and voice recognition were all on the same board, and any of it blowing up took it all down. Driving without HVAC isn't practical in common weather in many places. That kind of mistake is normal in car engineering these days.
Yes, those 99% bad cops sure give the 1% good cops a bad name! A cop who knows his buddy is on the take, or otherwise breaking the rules but goes along with it is still a bad cop, because his freaking job is to enforce the rules.
Well, it is the future. Most people just aren't interested in having their entertainment in files they schlepp around from device to device. Having it all "in the cloud" so that it's available from the mobile-device-of-the-moment is what most people actually want.
Wanting to manage your own files is a weird, geeky thing. Always has been, really.
You say that like it's a bad thing. Why would policy informed by a strong moral compass, work ethic, and sense of responsibility be bad? I'm for anything that builds an expectation that adults are expected to be responsible, to plan for stuff that can go wrong and work to prepare for stuff going wrong, and to act as if our choices in life have real and profound consequences. Plus the religious tend to be more charitable, and I'd like to see charity come back into favor (at the expense of some other guy should be forced to give his money to the poor, which is not charitable at all).
I don't do my job "under the color of authority". If you have special legal privileges that the common man does not, additional oversight becomes appropriate, where it wouldn't be for the common man. Corruption matters more.
Land Rover has been an Indian car company for 6 years now. I can remember when they were British, but really all the interesting tech in Land Rover and Jaguar has come since Tata took them over, and started trying to make modern cars. It can be a hood if it wants to be.
You seem to be assuming that cars are well-engineered with fault isolation, such that one non-essential piece breaking won't have side effects that make the car undrivable. I'd like to live in the world where that was true - that would be a pleasant world.
My last car merged the radio/voice recognition/other fncy shit system with the HVAC in a single card. So if anything went horribly wrong with any of it, the car was effectively undrivable in bad weather, as you lost the ventilation.
So, yes, the radio going wrong would make the car undrivable, because of quite common design decisions (But hey, when I used the voice system, it would turn off the ventilation fans so it could hear me. Tricks like that that seem silly after a week do help sell cars, so I don't see that sort of BS going away).
Wouldn't your status information be in your monitoring system?
Some representation of it, sure. Chances are that's the only reason I'm connected to the server in the first place. But now I'm on some shitty RDP link where doing anything is awkward, and getting the truth at the server immediately is really nice. Monitoring is great at telling you that a problem exists, but less great about getting the details right.
I mean, rather than sucking cycles to show a tile on a desktop on my server,
It's really quite rare for a server to be anywhere near max CPU (and chances are you're running monitoring watchdogs anyhow, this is just a lightweight UI).
Of course, at real scale I'm working on getting humans entirely out of the repair/recovery loop, but you have to deploy and debug any such software, so you're back to connecting to servers to see what's really wrong.
Tried that, was simply easier to run an HDMI cable to a laptop. The Samsung remote is a pain (though I think they're on to something with their touchpad, I still found it awkward). The mouse just works.
Don't confuse the "modern right" with the "Baby Boomers on the right". The aging right is stuck with the values of their 20s. No surprise there. And the horrid GOP is drawn mostly from the oldest. But that's not the modern right. There's very little mention of invisible sky grandfathers in the under-50 crowd (the belief may still be there, but it's rarely presented as argument for policy).
And you joke about feudalism, but at it at least was a reciprocal arrangement with duties that went both ways.
Doesn't change the fact that Saturn was the "I don't believe in cars as a status symbol" car before, and Acura is the new brand that sends the same signal.
I'm not saying it's a deep insight into who you are, I'm saying it's the cultural signal you send. Just like if you wear a suit one day and a dyed Mohawk and facial piercings the next, people will treat you differently. Expect it. Send the signals you want to send.
I just find it funny that you ended up with cars that send accurate signals about yourself. (And, yes, odd though it is, Acura is the new Saturn, signals-wise).
You'll never get through. The modern left (I don't even use the term "liberal" any more, since liberty isn't in it) is immune to history or reasoning about the future. Immediate gratification and freedom from consequences of (left-compatible) actions is the core belief set here. Maximizing well being of generations yet to come? Not even.
No, companies often get sued constantly for crap like this, and often lose. Especially in California: there's a whole consulting industry there for small companies to help you ensure you're firing someone the safest way.
Hmm, I think a NeoNazi would be a perfect fit for a holocaust museum, myself. It's good to remind people than humanity hasn't "grown out of this", that we're perfectly capable of send a new class of people to the camps for a new set of incorrect beliefs.
It takes up too much damn space, and it pointlessly moved around shit that I knew. When you're a start up, sure, change things at random, you have vastly more potential users than users, go for it. But when you're the big player stop fucking with stuff that works. It's fine that it's not the shiny new style all the hipsters love: your existing user base vastly outnumbers your potential new user base. Keep your power users happy, at all costs!
There are two things I want to do in a hurry: pause, and change the volume. With my chosen player (MPC), pasue is click-anywhere, and volume is scroll-wheel-anywhere. Meanwhile, my cell phone is over in it's charger when I'm home.
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Work ethic is a moral value. A strong work ethic leads to strong class divide, with people judging each other as lazy or don't "deserve" their wealth because they didn't meet up to one's work ethic. This is a major reason leading to class warfare.
Hahaha! That's what the words "lazy" and "deserve" mean. You wanna? You better work bitch! Not a class divide thing at all - people from all classes can be found working hard (like it's a profession).
After all, isolationism worked so well in WWII ...
From the forums for this model, it did happen. It's not that surprising: if a chip burns out on a board, having it fail in such a way (short etc) it makes everything on the board stop working.
Fault isolation is difficult and expensive. Throwing everything together is cheap and easy. I suspect some systems like HVAC and traction control will eventually have some isolation required, but all the other stuff? I just expect the more features, the more problems. But the new-car-every-3-years crowd won't care.
Fiat currency has no value other than to 1) Pay your taxes, and 2) Conduct business with others who mutually agree that said currency has an effective value.
None of that is unique to fiat currency. Gold just isn't that useful. Currency backed by something useful is sufficiently rare that it's clearly not important.
Currency is a useful medium of exchange. Intrinsic value isn't important, only current value (thus the name). Bitcoin is still pretty iffy in its ability to buy anything anywhere, but that's the only hurdle it needs to jump. It prospered in a black market, sure, but as a "legit" currency it has yet to establish itself.
Again, you're only right in principle. In practice my last car would become undrivable if the radio malfunctioned badly, because the HVAC, radio, and voice recognition were all on the same board, and any of it blowing up took it all down. Driving without HVAC isn't practical in common weather in many places. That kind of mistake is normal in car engineering these days.
Yes, those 99% bad cops sure give the 1% good cops a bad name! A cop who knows his buddy is on the take, or otherwise breaking the rules but goes along with it is still a bad cop, because his freaking job is to enforce the rules.
Well, it is the future. Most people just aren't interested in having their entertainment in files they schlepp around from device to device. Having it all "in the cloud" so that it's available from the mobile-device-of-the-moment is what most people actually want.
Wanting to manage your own files is a weird, geeky thing. Always has been, really.
You say that like it's a bad thing. Why would policy informed by a strong moral compass, work ethic, and sense of responsibility be bad? I'm for anything that builds an expectation that adults are expected to be responsible, to plan for stuff that can go wrong and work to prepare for stuff going wrong, and to act as if our choices in life have real and profound consequences. Plus the religious tend to be more charitable, and I'd like to see charity come back into favor (at the expense of some other guy should be forced to give his money to the poor, which is not charitable at all).
I don't do my job "under the color of authority". If you have special legal privileges that the common man does not, additional oversight becomes appropriate, where it wouldn't be for the common man. Corruption matters more.
Land Rover has been an Indian car company for 6 years now. I can remember when they were British, but really all the interesting tech in Land Rover and Jaguar has come since Tata took them over, and started trying to make modern cars. It can be a hood if it wants to be.
You seem to be assuming that cars are well-engineered with fault isolation, such that one non-essential piece breaking won't have side effects that make the car undrivable. I'd like to live in the world where that was true - that would be a pleasant world.
Oh, sure, if the system is done right.
My last car merged the radio/voice recognition/other fncy shit system with the HVAC in a single card. So if anything went horribly wrong with any of it, the car was effectively undrivable in bad weather, as you lost the ventilation.
So, yes, the radio going wrong would make the car undrivable, because of quite common design decisions (But hey, when I used the voice system, it would turn off the ventilation fans so it could hear me. Tricks like that that seem silly after a week do help sell cars, so I don't see that sort of BS going away).
Wouldn't your status information be in your monitoring system?
Some representation of it, sure. Chances are that's the only reason I'm connected to the server in the first place. But now I'm on some shitty RDP link where doing anything is awkward, and getting the truth at the server immediately is really nice. Monitoring is great at telling you that a problem exists, but less great about getting the details right.
I mean, rather than sucking cycles to show a tile on a desktop on my server,
It's really quite rare for a server to be anywhere near max CPU (and chances are you're running monitoring watchdogs anyhow, this is just a lightweight UI).
Of course, at real scale I'm working on getting humans entirely out of the repair/recovery loop, but you have to deploy and debug any such software, so you're back to connecting to servers to see what's really wrong.
Tried that, was simply easier to run an HDMI cable to a laptop. The Samsung remote is a pain (though I think they're on to something with their touchpad, I still found it awkward). The mouse just works.
Don't confuse the "modern right" with the "Baby Boomers on the right". The aging right is stuck with the values of their 20s. No surprise there. And the horrid GOP is drawn mostly from the oldest. But that's not the modern right. There's very little mention of invisible sky grandfathers in the under-50 crowd (the belief may still be there, but it's rarely presented as argument for policy).
And you joke about feudalism, but at it at least was a reciprocal arrangement with duties that went both ways.
Love your sig, BTW. "it was the last, best hope for peace. It failed." seems quite fitting of the internet right now.
If I want to change and learn new habits, why would I keep using Microsoft products? See my point?
Doesn't change the fact that Saturn was the "I don't believe in cars as a status symbol" car before, and Acura is the new brand that sends the same signal.
I'm not saying it's a deep insight into who you are, I'm saying it's the cultural signal you send. Just like if you wear a suit one day and a dyed Mohawk and facial piercings the next, people will treat you differently. Expect it. Send the signals you want to send.
I just find it funny that you ended up with cars that send accurate signals about yourself. (And, yes, odd though it is, Acura is the new Saturn, signals-wise).
You'll never get through. The modern left (I don't even use the term "liberal" any more, since liberty isn't in it) is immune to history or reasoning about the future. Immediate gratification and freedom from consequences of (left-compatible) actions is the core belief set here. Maximizing well being of generations yet to come? Not even.
No, companies often get sued constantly for crap like this, and often lose. Especially in California: there's a whole consulting industry there for small companies to help you ensure you're firing someone the safest way.
Hmm, I think a NeoNazi would be a perfect fit for a holocaust museum, myself. It's good to remind people than humanity hasn't "grown out of this", that we're perfectly capable of send a new class of people to the camps for a new set of incorrect beliefs.
It takes up too much damn space, and it pointlessly moved around shit that I knew. When you're a start up, sure, change things at random, you have vastly more potential users than users, go for it. But when you're the big player stop fucking with stuff that works. It's fine that it's not the shiny new style all the hipsters love: your existing user base vastly outnumbers your potential new user base. Keep your power users happy, at all costs!
There are two things I want to do in a hurry: pause, and change the volume. With my chosen player (MPC), pasue is click-anywhere, and volume is scroll-wheel-anywhere. Meanwhile, my cell phone is over in it's charger when I'm home.