The beloved map will become one more revenue-generator for airlines
Are they kidding? Who is going to pay money to see a plane icon on a map? I occasionally will see where we are at via the maps, but only because it doesn't cost anything. I wouldn't pay ten cents to look at that.
Why are so many people still using this old-school service in the age of streaming?
Probably because the selection of actual good movies on Netflix is almost non-existent? There are times browsing through Netflix to find a movie to watch that I wish I still had their DVD service, which (back when I used it) had a great movie selection.
but when you add external pressures it certainly uncovers behavior that might not normally surface without that motivating force.
That's certainly true, but... a video game? If that is enough to trigger his inner Thor and start smashing stuff with a hammer (in place of, "Mommy, can you unlock the car so that I can get my stuff?"), I'm not sure if he'll do well with the external pressures of life in general.
"We have one kid who destroyed the family car because he thought his parents had locked his device inside," Rich said. "He took a hammer to the windshield."
This kid was going to develop serious problems even if he never touched a video game in his life.
The lawsuit also complains that Charter helps its subscribers pirate music by selling packages with higher Internet speeds.
And highways help move illegal goods around at a fast rate, and allow criminals to move quickly from one state to another to avoid local law enforcement. Can we sue governments for putting up these roads that facilitate crime?
its effort to turn emails from static documents into dynamic, web page-like experiences.
Webpages, especially 'dynamic' webpages, are crap these days. Stuff constantly loading, moving, jumping around, not working correctly, etc. Please leave email alone...
all via the internet at a 4K resolution. One major problem with Stadia, which Google didn't mention in its presentation, is that it will require a ton of bandwidth, testing the limits of data caps that most U.S. internet service providers have.
Well, it's 4k resolution over the internet. Of course it's going to use a ton of bandwidth. Do they need to point that out for stupid people?
...and a bank employee said they couldn't automatically connect photographs with check numbers, but offered to hand write the check numbers on the photos...
Uh, if they couldn't automatically connect photographs with check numbers... what the hell were they writing on the photos? Where did those numbers come from?
I'm not really sure what you think that would accomplish. The original machine is still going to have the first tally. And the 2nd machine (reader) will have IT'S tally as well. Guess what happens when #1 and #2 say candidate Smith won and #3 says candidate Hacker won? You'll know something is up. And there is still a ballot printout of each vote that you could run through the scanner again if you like.
Nope again. I had this idea a while back. And mine is actually better because their idea wastes the tallying of the first machine.
I actually went back and read the article to see what else they had for their idea. I'm kind of surprised at this statement:
Kiniry said they’re aiming to design their system without barcodes.
Well, I hope so. Why would you use barcodes in this day and age? Any descent text reading program, especially on a ballot that is going to be consistently printed by you in whatever text/size you want, could handle this easily.
1. First machine is a touch screen. Voters make selections on screen.
2. Once done a paper ballot with their selections is spit out, and they can visually check the ballot
3. Second machine is a optical reader from a different vendor, and must use a different OS from the 1st machine. Paper ballot is inserted and read.
4. Results from both machines are fed to a computer to be compared. If they match, vote goes through. If they do not match, vote is scrubbed and voter asked to try again.
You have verification from two independent systems AND a paper ballot at the end.
Sarcasm. SF already has had rent control in place for decades, and hasn't done a lick of good control rent prices. Other cities in California are (oddly) looking to this as some type of solution for the statewide rental price problem... despite the fact that it is all NIMBY, land use over-regulation, turning a blind eye to illegal immigration and lawsuits that have led us to the housing shortage.
The problem with getting more cities involved? More sets of different rules and regulations. Now instead of trying to code for one municipality's weird laws, you have to code for ten different (and possibly conflicting) requirements.
"the entire bay area is infested with libertarians"
Yeah, that's why the Bay Area votes like 65% Democrat, because of all the Libertarians around here...
It took her office almost four years to secure $36 million for updated assessors' hardware and software that can, among other things, give priority to cases in which delays may prove costly. The design requirements are due to be finalized this summer."
$36mil? For some software and computer hardware that records simple information in a database? No wonder it took four years to get that funding. I'd have given them about a tenth of that, tell them to go hire 2-3 programmers, get some servers and PCs from Dell and stop bugging me for ridiculous amounts of money...
They are supposed to. Otherwise it's a great way to blow up a plane without being on it.
They are? So if someone doesn't show up they have to start pulling out bags until they find all of the bags that belong to that passenger? That seems... unlikely.
"Flying half-empty is not efficiency, quite the contrary. You're wasting more fuel per passenger because of the fixed costs, such as the weight of the plane itself."
We aren't talking about flights half full because only half the tickets are sold. We are talking about flights FULLY paid for, but the passenger isn't there. It's no different than if a passenger doesn't show up for some reason. The airline still gets their money. And they may have a chance to sell that same seat again.
It's seems you are playing devil's advocate here, but a lot of your reasons don't fly (ha!)
..they are needing to drive traffic to that destination for some reason.
Their problem, not mine.
Skipping out halfway through a connection can also cause increased costs for the airline having to track/reroute bags, etc.
If someone is planning to NOT take the last leg of a trip, I seriously doubt they are going to check baggage that they know will wind up at a different destination. Therefor, no bags to track/reroute.
And then of course in today's climate there's the security/safety angle as well.
How does a passenger NOT being on a plane make that plane less safe? Answer: It doesn't.
Say you bail on the last leg and the plane goes down. The airline still thinks you are on board (especially if it was a through flight with no equipment change).
An airline will know if you were or weren't on a plane. Between ticketing and security cameras, they aren't going to accidentally think you are on a plane when you are not.
If the government finds out you left the flight and there's an accident, you immediately become a target of suspicion.
That's so remote a possibility, I doubt anybody is going to worry about it.
The next thing we want to add is if a car detects something wrong — like a flat tire or a drive unit failure — that before the car has even come to a halt, there’s a tow truck and service loaner on the way.
Why not just WAIT till it comes to a halt, and then have a prompt come up, "Would you like to summon a tow truck? Y/N"
I can't fathom why he would waste any time on such a dumb feature... and then make the feature prone to calling a tow truck at the wrong time to save 20 seconds.
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The beloved map will become one more revenue-generator for airlines
Are they kidding? Who is going to pay money to see a plane icon on a map? I occasionally will see where we are at via the maps, but only because it doesn't cost anything. I wouldn't pay ten cents to look at that.
Why are so many people still using this old-school service in the age of streaming?
Probably because the selection of actual good movies on Netflix is almost non-existent? There are times browsing through Netflix to find a movie to watch that I wish I still had their DVD service, which (back when I used it) had a great movie selection.
but when you add external pressures it certainly uncovers behavior that might not normally surface without that motivating force.
That's certainly true, but... a video game? If that is enough to trigger his inner Thor and start smashing stuff with a hammer (in place of, "Mommy, can you unlock the car so that I can get my stuff?"), I'm not sure if he'll do well with the external pressures of life in general.
"We have one kid who destroyed the family car because he thought his parents had locked his device inside," Rich said. "He took a hammer to the windshield."
This kid was going to develop serious problems even if he never touched a video game in his life.
The lawsuit also complains that Charter helps its subscribers pirate music by selling packages with higher Internet speeds.
And highways help move illegal goods around at a fast rate, and allow criminals to move quickly from one state to another to avoid local law enforcement. Can we sue governments for putting up these roads that facilitate crime?
its effort to turn emails from static documents into dynamic, web page-like experiences.
Webpages, especially 'dynamic' webpages, are crap these days. Stuff constantly loading, moving, jumping around, not working correctly, etc. Please leave email alone...
...by offering a healthier approach to spending.
I feel just a little stupider after reading that statement...
all via the internet at a 4K resolution. One major problem with Stadia, which Google didn't mention in its presentation, is that it will require a ton of bandwidth, testing the limits of data caps that most U.S. internet service providers have.
Well, it's 4k resolution over the internet. Of course it's going to use a ton of bandwidth. Do they need to point that out for stupid people?
I don't understand this comment from the bank:
...and a bank employee said they couldn't automatically connect photographs with check numbers, but offered to hand write the check numbers on the photos...
Uh, if they couldn't automatically connect photographs with check numbers... what the hell were they writing on the photos? Where did those numbers come from?
so we compromise #4
I'm not really sure what you think that would accomplish. The original machine is still going to have the first tally. And the 2nd machine (reader) will have IT'S tally as well. Guess what happens when #1 and #2 say candidate Smith won and #3 says candidate Hacker won? You'll know something is up. And there is still a ballot printout of each vote that you could run through the scanner again if you like.
thanks for playing
So, you read the article...
Uh, nope. You must be new to /.
..and quoted it here
Nope again. I had this idea a while back. And mine is actually better because their idea wastes the tallying of the first machine.
I actually went back and read the article to see what else they had for their idea. I'm kind of surprised at this statement:
Kiniry said they’re aiming to design their system without barcodes.
Well, I hope so. Why would you use barcodes in this day and age? Any descent text reading program, especially on a ballot that is going to be consistently printed by you in whatever text/size you want, could handle this easily.
1. First machine is a touch screen. Voters make selections on screen.
2. Once done a paper ballot with their selections is spit out, and they can visually check the ballot
3. Second machine is a optical reader from a different vendor, and must use a different OS from the 1st machine. Paper ballot is inserted and read.
4. Results from both machines are fed to a computer to be compared. If they match, vote goes through. If they do not match, vote is scrubbed and voter asked to try again.
You have verification from two independent systems AND a paper ballot at the end.
You are welcome.
Sarcasm. SF already has had rent control in place for decades, and hasn't done a lick of good control rent prices. Other cities in California are (oddly) looking to this as some type of solution for the statewide rental price problem... despite the fact that it is all NIMBY, land use over-regulation, turning a blind eye to illegal immigration and lawsuits that have led us to the housing shortage.
$35k still says 2-4 weeks, so technically still not available :-)
The median rent for a one bedroom apartment in San Francisco has reached a new peak of $3,690
San Francisco needs to immediately implement a rent control ordinance to stop the rent prices from shooting up so much.
The problem with getting more cities involved? More sets of different rules and regulations. Now instead of trying to code for one municipality's weird laws, you have to code for ten different (and possibly conflicting) requirements.
"the entire bay area is infested with libertarians" Yeah, that's why the Bay Area votes like 65% Democrat, because of all the Libertarians around here...
It took her office almost four years to secure $36 million for updated assessors' hardware and software that can, among other things, give priority to cases in which delays may prove costly. The design requirements are due to be finalized this summer." $36mil? For some software and computer hardware that records simple information in a database? No wonder it took four years to get that funding. I'd have given them about a tenth of that, tell them to go hire 2-3 programmers, get some servers and PCs from Dell and stop bugging me for ridiculous amounts of money...
...or did I miss something special about this?
Well, I think the remaining passengers on the plane appreciate the plane actually going to their destination, but I could be wrong.
someone flying from New York to San Francisco could book a cheaper trip from New York to Lake Tahoe
This is a weird example, seeing as how Lake Tahoe's airport has no commercial flights.
They are supposed to. Otherwise it's a great way to blow up a plane without being on it.
They are? So if someone doesn't show up they have to start pulling out bags until they find all of the bags that belong to that passenger? That seems... unlikely.
"Flying half-empty is not efficiency, quite the contrary. You're wasting more fuel per passenger because of the fixed costs, such as the weight of the plane itself."
We aren't talking about flights half full because only half the tickets are sold. We are talking about flights FULLY paid for, but the passenger isn't there. It's no different than if a passenger doesn't show up for some reason. The airline still gets their money. And they may have a chance to sell that same seat again.
..they are needing to drive traffic to that destination for some reason.
Their problem, not mine.
Skipping out halfway through a connection can also cause increased costs for the airline having to track/reroute bags, etc.
If someone is planning to NOT take the last leg of a trip, I seriously doubt they are going to check baggage that they know will wind up at a different destination. Therefor, no bags to track/reroute.
And then of course in today's climate there's the security/safety angle as well.
How does a passenger NOT being on a plane make that plane less safe? Answer: It doesn't.
Say you bail on the last leg and the plane goes down. The airline still thinks you are on board (especially if it was a through flight with no equipment change).
An airline will know if you were or weren't on a plane. Between ticketing and security cameras, they aren't going to accidentally think you are on a plane when you are not.
If the government finds out you left the flight and there's an accident, you immediately become a target of suspicion.
That's so remote a possibility, I doubt anybody is going to worry about it.
The next thing we want to add is if a car detects something wrong — like a flat tire or a drive unit failure — that before the car has even come to a halt, there’s a tow truck and service loaner on the way.
Why not just WAIT till it comes to a halt, and then have a prompt come up, "Would you like to summon a tow truck? Y/N" I can't fathom why he would waste any time on such a dumb feature... and then make the feature prone to calling a tow truck at the wrong time to save 20 seconds.