Cities grow based on trade routes, natural resources, areas of strategic importance, defensible land, population growth and so on. While there might be the odd city arbitrarily placed for an administrative or religious purpose, most aren't.
There are obvious analogues between what the book says and every kind of job. Even in an IT admin environment there is plenty of potential for causing damage by basically reversing your work practices.
Writing scripts that are not easy to maintain with hardcoded assumptions in a monolithic format, compile binaries that don't correspond exactly to the sources, write code that leaks memory or scales badly, write documentation that is ambiguous, contradictory or potentially dangerous, bend cables or pins in connectors, tangle up ethernet cables and use a confusing colour / labelling / layout, schedule backups and jobs at the peak periods of the day, put a scratch across the server restore disc, set the backup system to miss files, write down passwords incorrectly (e.g. o, O, 0), routing traffic through incredibly onerous filters, violate licence agreements or lose registration keys, ignore or delay hotline requests, loosely seating drives and daughter boards so a knock could crash the computer etc.
All things that look like incompetence rather than malice even if they end up costing a business days to fix them.
I don't recall flamethrower heavies from my WWI history books. I wonder if this game intends to be authentic to the period or if it'll just spin off into some exaggerated steampunk BS.
All vehicles in Europe receive an NCAP rating as part of their certification. This rating is based on the safety features and survivability for adult and child occupants as well as pedestrians from collisions. The Tesla has a very respectable score as can be seen here. It's certainly a very safe car but it is not outstanding compared to petrol vehicles. E.g. most of the 2014 best in class petrol vehicles had similar or better scores.
So saying it is "inherently safe" or that a petrol vehicle would fare worse is pretty absurd. Inherently safe cars don't plant themselves 25m into fields in the first place regardless of their form of propulsion. And that's without even knowing what caused the accident in the first place.
That depends on how you commit sabotage. I refer you to this WW2 OSS manual on Simple Sabotage that showed inventive ways of screwing up productivity without putting saboteurs at undue risk. Many of the techniques would be quite applicable to anyone today who held a grudge against their employer.
Those "random ppl" have to undergo police background checks. e.g. in the UK, a taxi driver would have to present themselves at a police station and the chief would have to sign a form to say they were of good character. In addition they would be required to display their taxi details. And if you desperately wanted tracking then you could hail a cab using an app and you would get it.
Perhaps you enjoy the added excitement of not knowing if your driver is a convicted rapist. Most people would prefer that such a person should be not permitted to operate a vehicle for transporting members of the public.
Yes it's an outrage. It's the lack of even the most rudimentary background checks which makes riding with Uber such a thrill.
When I step into a stranger's car I enjoy the mounting terror of wondering if the driver intends to pull into a sideroad, choke me to death and rape my corpse. Like he's been and convicted of before. Of course, that assuming the worst. I'd still enjoy the mild excitement of not knowing if the driver had previous for run over some kid while blackout drunk, or perhaps he stabbed a stranger to steal his iPhone.
How dare the state intervene and ruin the surprise. Such an act definitely deserves comparison to the stasi.
There are ways to capture solar heat and use it to power steam turbines at night. On a larger scale, it's always day time somewhere in the world so conceivably a series of interconnectors could be used to move power across timezones.
"New iPhones that will incentivize you and other people that have iPhones today to upgrade to new iPhones. We are going to give you things you can't live without that you just don't know you need today. That has always been the objective of Apple is to do things that really enrich people's lives. That you look back on and you wonder, how did I live without this."
Or more accurately, they'll continue to build phones with built-in obsolescence, and increase the amount of Apple lock-in to ensure you can't leave their ecosystem without losing all your content.
USB-C headphones will cost 2-3x the equivalent analogue headphones. On top of that we'll see devices use the recently agreed certification features of USB-C to reject, degrade or otherwise gimp headsets and other peripherals that the manufacturer has reason not like.
Recent developments with USB-C are so retrograde that I wouldn't be surprised if they were done with the express intention of persuading Apple to use the format.
It's a hairdryer. It costs 4x as much as other hairdryers. It dries hair. If Dyson has revolutionized anything it is in the line of bullshit they spin to sell their products.
The "problem" is it is obviously a stupid idea. Flying drones indoors and letting them carry drinks is an invitation for them to unexpectedly fail and land on people, or drop full glasses, or hit beams, or get entangled in decorations, cables, loose balloons etc., or get tipped or knocked over by people on purpose or accidentally walking into them. Then there are mundane matters like having 2 or 3 of them on the go (are they meant to be autonomous or controlled?) and having to charge / switch dozens of batteries / blades. And of course they're no use for collecting empty glasses, wiping tables etc.
And ultimately they're not doing a damned thing that can't be accomplished by simpler means. A bar might use them as a gimmick but they are not practical in any sense.
Referencing a more convenient, less expensive, well established, proven technology instead of a gimmick isn't being a Luddite, it's being pragmatic.
Just because something is new tech and geeky doesn't mean it is better than the existing solution. Only last week some group was announcing the "worlds first drone cafe" where you order drinks and they arrived by drone. It doesn't take much to see what a fucking stupid idea that is and the same is the case with a VR conference room.
Waze is absolutely commercial in nature. Users might get to use it for free but they are giving up valuable information in return - where they drive, where they live, where they work, what hours of the day they drive, what hotels, stores and supermarkets they visit or pass by, where they fill up, traffic conditions and more besides. Waze could even make strong inferences about a person's lifestyle, job and character by how they drive, places they've visit and their susceptibility to change routes if the app tells them to.
These are all things the service can and do monetize.
I'm also sure that's just one avenue of monetization. Local government would probably pay money for that data in some processed form to work out where people speed the most, or where delays occur at times of the day and so on. And it probably feeds into Google's self-driving vehicle projects and other mapping related functionality. And simply by people using Waze they're denying the information to a competitors and thus increasing its value.
So yes it's commercial in nature. Waze users get a free satnav app but its one that monitors and monetizes them.
Then why not Unicode representations for different types of snow, sexual positions, fast food menu items, famous buildings, unfamous buildings, every species of bat, all the people who've ever lived and every word in every dictionary? They all deserve their place in Unicode for the same dubious reasons as emojis.
Netflix, Hulu, Spotify et al are not their own platforms entirely. They exist on apps on Android, iOS, Windows, browsers, consoles, embedded into TVs, DVD players and so on. If I have a PS4 I can watch movies from Playstation's services but I'm not restricted to Playstation's services. And that's what Steam is competing against.
If they wanted to move where the market was headed, they'd implement a programmable interface to their platform so Netflix, Hulu, Spotify, Youtube et al could have presence on the Steam platform. Since Steam already embeds webkit this should be eminently achievable - an HTML based app platform and some streaming / decryption services.
Then and only then they could think about their own programming or rental service. But offering a seriously shitty selection of movies for streaming isn't going to convince anybody to use the platform for that purpose.
If you're still running Python 2 code, you should into the mirror see where the problem lies. Python 3 is working just fine these days.
The problem was Python 2 was never end of lifed so nobody felt any urgency in moving. Even worse, major features were backported and kludge libraries like Six appeared to paper over the cracks. The python community managed to split itself in half and confuse the hell out of everyone who ever tried to run a.py script and discovered they had the wrong Python runtime.
The correct option would have been to give a definite end of life Python 2.x, e.g. 5 years of maintenance and bug fixes before it gets shoved in the attic. Make it clear that 2.x is toast and people would have been sufficiently motivated to move to 3.x.
Except of course Rust *is* being used in the industry. A case in point is Dropbox which is moving from Python to Rust on its servers and migrating from Amazon cloud services while its at it. Presumably they got fed up with Python's performance, wanted something faster yet still safe and decided that Rust was a good fit.
Rust certainly isn't a defacto choice when thinking of how to implement a solution at this time, but it has some characteristics that do make it a very attractive consideration. I think it would be a good fit for embedded solutions, IoT, drones, rocketry, industrial control systems and basically anything else that needs to be extremely reliable and performant. On the flip side Rust exacts an upfront development penalty in blood for this reliability because any violations of its strict lifecycle / ownership rules will generate compile errors.
He's 68 years old. Not even the average life expectancy. Let's see what he looks 10 years from now popping his quack pills and professing long life assuming he lives that long.
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Cities grow based on trade routes, natural resources, areas of strategic importance, defensible land, population growth and so on. While there might be the odd city arbitrarily placed for an administrative or religious purpose, most aren't.
Re-read what I wrote idiot.
Writing scripts that are not easy to maintain with hardcoded assumptions in a monolithic format, compile binaries that don't correspond exactly to the sources, write code that leaks memory or scales badly, write documentation that is ambiguous, contradictory or potentially dangerous, bend cables or pins in connectors, tangle up ethernet cables and use a confusing colour / labelling / layout, schedule backups and jobs at the peak periods of the day, put a scratch across the server restore disc, set the backup system to miss files, write down passwords incorrectly (e.g. o, O, 0), routing traffic through incredibly onerous filters, violate licence agreements or lose registration keys, ignore or delay hotline requests, loosely seating drives and daughter boards so a knock could crash the computer etc.
All things that look like incompetence rather than malice even if they end up costing a business days to fix them.
I don't recall flamethrower heavies from my WWI history books. I wonder if this game intends to be authentic to the period or if it'll just spin off into some exaggerated steampunk BS.
So saying it is "inherently safe" or that a petrol vehicle would fare worse is pretty absurd. Inherently safe cars don't plant themselves 25m into fields in the first place regardless of their form of propulsion. And that's without even knowing what caused the accident in the first place.
That depends on how you commit sabotage. I refer you to this WW2 OSS manual on Simple Sabotage that showed inventive ways of screwing up productivity without putting saboteurs at undue risk. Many of the techniques would be quite applicable to anyone today who held a grudge against their employer.
What the fuck are you blithering about?
Perhaps you enjoy the added excitement of not knowing if your driver is a convicted rapist. Most people would prefer that such a person should be not permitted to operate a vehicle for transporting members of the public.
When I step into a stranger's car I enjoy the mounting terror of wondering if the driver intends to pull into a sideroad, choke me to death and rape my corpse. Like he's been and convicted of before. Of course, that assuming the worst. I'd still enjoy the mild excitement of not knowing if the driver had previous for run over some kid while blackout drunk, or perhaps he stabbed a stranger to steal his iPhone.
How dare the state intervene and ruin the surprise. Such an act definitely deserves comparison to the stasi.
There are ways to capture solar heat and use it to power steam turbines at night. On a larger scale, it's always day time somewhere in the world so conceivably a series of interconnectors could be used to move power across timezones.
"New iPhones that will incentivize you and other people that have iPhones today to upgrade to new iPhones. We are going to give you things you can't live without that you just don't know you need today. That has always been the objective of Apple is to do things that really enrich people's lives. That you look back on and you wonder, how did I live without this."
Or more accurately, they'll continue to build phones with built-in obsolescence, and increase the amount of Apple lock-in to ensure you can't leave their ecosystem without losing all your content.
So basically he bypassed some security and fired up an x86 emulator.
Recent developments with USB-C are so retrograde that I wouldn't be surprised if they were done with the express intention of persuading Apple to use the format.
It's a hairdryer. It costs 4x as much as other hairdryers. It dries hair. If Dyson has revolutionized anything it is in the line of bullshit they spin to sell their products.
And ultimately they're not doing a damned thing that can't be accomplished by simpler means. A bar might use them as a gimmick but they are not practical in any sense.
Are we privy to a great becoming?
Just because something is new tech and geeky doesn't mean it is better than the existing solution. Only last week some group was announcing the "worlds first drone cafe" where you order drinks and they arrived by drone. It doesn't take much to see what a fucking stupid idea that is and the same is the case with a VR conference room.
The answer to that is no. Unless you count enormous complexity and expense as a contributing something.
These are all things the service can and do monetize.
I'm also sure that's just one avenue of monetization. Local government would probably pay money for that data in some processed form to work out where people speed the most, or where delays occur at times of the day and so on. And it probably feeds into Google's self-driving vehicle projects and other mapping related functionality. And simply by people using Waze they're denying the information to a competitors and thus increasing its value.
So yes it's commercial in nature. Waze users get a free satnav app but its one that monitors and monetizes them.
Then why not Unicode representations for different types of snow, sexual positions, fast food menu items, famous buildings, unfamous buildings, every species of bat, all the people who've ever lived and every word in every dictionary? They all deserve their place in Unicode for the same dubious reasons as emojis.
Netflix, Hulu, Spotify et al are not their own platforms entirely. They exist on apps on Android, iOS, Windows, browsers, consoles, embedded into TVs, DVD players and so on. If I have a PS4 I can watch movies from Playstation's services but I'm not restricted to Playstation's services. And that's what Steam is competing against.
Then and only then they could think about their own programming or rental service. But offering a seriously shitty selection of movies for streaming isn't going to convince anybody to use the platform for that purpose.
If you're still running Python 2 code, you should into the mirror see where the problem lies. Python 3 is working just fine these days.
The problem was Python 2 was never end of lifed so nobody felt any urgency in moving. Even worse, major features were backported and kludge libraries like Six appeared to paper over the cracks. The python community managed to split itself in half and confuse the hell out of everyone who ever tried to run a .py script and discovered they had the wrong Python runtime.
The correct option would have been to give a definite end of life Python 2.x, e.g. 5 years of maintenance and bug fixes before it gets shoved in the attic. Make it clear that 2.x is toast and people would have been sufficiently motivated to move to 3.x.
Rust certainly isn't a defacto choice when thinking of how to implement a solution at this time, but it has some characteristics that do make it a very attractive consideration. I think it would be a good fit for embedded solutions, IoT, drones, rocketry, industrial control systems and basically anything else that needs to be extremely reliable and performant. On the flip side Rust exacts an upfront development penalty in blood for this reliability because any violations of its strict lifecycle / ownership rules will generate compile errors.
He's 68 years old. Not even the average life expectancy. Let's see what he looks 10 years from now popping his quack pills and professing long life assuming he lives that long.