France just introduced a secular charter for schools, a rough English translation of which is here. Amongst other good things, it states quite plainly that there is no religious opt-out for religious belief and no exclusions from the teaching of knowledge and science. Simply put, kids get taught good science and if it offends their parent's religious sensibilities (or the teacher's) then TOUGH.
I didn't say it fixed all woes. I said GTA games play much better with a mouse and keyboard because they do. It's vastly simpler to aim and shoot using a mouse - just point and shoot. Driving and running isn't much harder either with a keyboard than it is with a stick either and the ease with which you can rapidly pan the camera around or turn your character more than compensates for that.
I can think of games which play terribly with a mouse and keyboard - the Lego game series for example. Play Lego Lord of the Rings on a keyboard and you will be tearing your hair out. But then again if you come across a game like that on a PC, you still have the option of plugging in an XBox 360 controller and playing it that way.
The problem with the god of gaps is that as knowledge advances, so the number of gaps increase.
Some creationist nitwit will demand to see the transitional form, e.g. for whales moving from land to water. In time such a transitional form will be discovered and now the creationist nitwit has two gaps one either side to demand intermediates for and they'll shift the goalposts. And that's even assuming they concede the transitional form or comprehend what it even means.
So basically yes it is the god of gaps but even with increase knowledge the number of gaps increases and even if they are only hairline cracks it's still enough excuse for creationists to deny all evidence to the contrary. Aside from that good old fashioned ignorance comes into play. It's not hard to find people asking why if humans evolved from monkeys there are still monkeys. Or why there is no transitional form between cats and chickens. Basically people who don't even understand how dumb their question is and therefore stand no chance of understanding the answer.
GTA plays far better on a PC with a mouse and keyboard than with a controller and I'm quite certain that lots of PC owners would appreciate the mindless entertainment of playing it. It's not like the PC is lacking its share of first person shooters, sandbox games etc. demonstrating there is a market. Saints Row 4 just came out on the PC for example.
A more likely reason is that PC games typically retail for less, suffer higher rates of piracy and must cope with a wider variety of hardware which must all be developed and tested for with higher resolutions and assets to boot. I assume that all these reasons play their part in consoles taking over from PCs in the last few years. Perhaps with digital download services like Steam and wannabes taking off that the PC market is more attractive than it was a few years back.
Every single day I see scenarios which would be intractible for self driving cars. e.g. cars double parks, road works, blind corners, pot holes etc.
I think if self driving does arrive it would have to be enabled only on certain stretches of roads where conditions are relatively constant and predictable, and the rest of the time it would have to revert to a driver's assist mode. Driver assist would be things like maintaining safe distance from the car in front, braking assist, collision avoidance, skid control, parallel park etc. Still useful stuff but still requiring a human to drive.
I really don't see 100% self drive capability being at all viable in any foreseeable time frame.
I program safety systems at the moment. Not that it's in the slightest bit relevant. Besides, even if my job were demeaning that would emphasize the point I was making, namely it is the job not the manner in which timekeeping is managed which makes it so.
I'm contractually obliged to work a certain number of hours a week and the timekeeping system is there to ensure that. Whoopee do. I'm still highly paid and professional.
I'm a highly paid professional. I use a fingerprint reader to clock in every day. I don't really give a damn. It's not demeaning.
As for "gross security issues", there aren't any. I'm sure a security researcher could produce a gummy finger or something to defeat the system. Your average worker engaging in some casual timesheet abuse certainly isn't go to the bother and even if they did the barrier of success is considerably higher than just taking their co-worker's swipe or clocking card and punching it. And that's the point.
There is nothing "hateful", it's a statement of fact that these are revolting jobs and it's laughable to hear them complain about a clocking system as demeaning in that context. It doesn't mean I "hate" them or even that I'm mocking their profession and nothing I said typo or not would lead to that conclusion.
As for the database being compromised, the answer is its unlikely it would be. Perhaps you think there are master hackers breaking into offices hacking timekeeping systems. In the highly unusually event that it was they would reset the system and carry on. Whoodee do. It's a stupid scenario.
Colour e-ink looks terrible - like a badly tinted black and white photo printed on recycled cardboard. It might be better than pure grey but neither is it much use for anything. Comics and other colour media wouldn't benefit much from it, not least because the refresh speed is abysmal.
Mirasol would produce a better picture for similar battery life however it's a question of whether Qualcomm are pursuing that market any more.
They are not being "abused". A timekeeping system that cannot easily be cheated is a fair and accurate way of recording how long someone has worked in order to properly recompense them. Which is of course why the unions concoct this fucking ludicrous stories that it is "demeaning".
Or, we as society could stop demeaning people for doing good work and making the world a better place.
Nobody is demeaning them except themselves. They're complaining of being demeaed. These people up mop up shit, blood, piss and puke.
If the card is exactly the same, then why go through the expense of the fancy new equipment?
Because it is harder to cheat is why. And I see now reason it should be more expensive. Less probably, since people don't need swipe cards, or stamped cards, or any physical token that they can lose and need replacing. And that's putting aside the hours saved from people attempting to defraud the company.
And no it's not demeaning. That is a pathetic excuse from workers and a union who know full well that it's a system that accurately records how long people have worked and makes it far harder to cheat than a clock card or some other timekeeping measure.
I have to say, so what? As long as the work gets done and it doesn't cost anyone anything extra, who cares?
Because people turning up late or leaving early and getting a buddy to clock them in / out do cost the employer extra. They are defrauding their employer and adding a cost to doing business which the employer should have every right to discourage.
That may be (or not) but the fact is that by the time this granny was using her pilot system in the UK, minitel was being handed like candy to pretty much any phone subscriber in France.
Not worthless, since it's unlikely any vaccine will be 100% effective even assuming all at-risk people were to receive it.
Besides any vaccination campaign would take some years to ramp up and anti-retrovirals become less effective and ultimately go out of patent over time any way. So it's not like their business is going to go bust over night or wouldn't have drawn to a natural end anyway.
Why would it have delayed the Vita by 3 months? The PS4 controllers would be rolling off assembly lines in the far East regardless of where the PS4 is launched. Providing they had sufficient supply then the same controller could be used in one system.
I think the touch pad could be used as a substitute for the touchscreen in almost all cases. The Vita TV could just draw a dot or something where somebody was touching and they'd get used to it. The backpad isn't used as much so it's loss wouldn't be so felt and could probably be mapped in many instances (e.g. to the lower shoulder buttons, or to a player holding a lower shoulder button and touching the pad at same time).
Camera is understandable, but there are things that could have been done which weren't.
Then you plug your tablet into the stand / dock / port replicator / hub or whatever and use it as a desktop. There is massive potential for a device that can be used like a tablet but is still a full blown desktop when you need it. An Asus Transformer style device would be far more useful running Windows than it is running Android. And I say that as somebody who owns one.
It might be bad but if that's the software your org uses for its timesheet, then it's a fat lot of good to buy in a bunch of tablets that won't support it. And if not VB6 then any other piece of software written in-house or purchased that the org has accumulated and expects people to be able to use to do their work.
That really doesn't make much sense. The Vita has a touch screen. The PS4's controller with its touch pad could act as a substitute. Without it the system from the UI through to the compatible games it can play are seriously gimped. Besides, the Vita TV releases on November 14 - exactly one day before the Playstation 4 does, albeit in Japan while the PS4 launches first in the US. They could have shared the same controller.
I hope that if this thing launches in other territories it ships with the proper controller.
My understanding is the network transport is still under discussion. But Wayland could send bitmaps of each windows surface and you will have a thin client of some sort on the remote end that renders these surfaces on your screen, lets you move them around etc.. Your client will send things like mouse and keyboard events in the other direction, receive new bitmap fragments, resize events etc.
Of course since Wayland is running over OpenGL ES 2.0, it's possible to imagine more exotic scenarios where shaders, vbos, textures etc actually live client side and the server side OpenGL ES impl treats the client like a remote GPU. Or maybe some hybrid where client / server balance the load in some way doing some stuff on the server and some on the client. Could be gnarly but there is potential to offload at least some processing out onto a client assuming its capable of it.
I expect in the first instance that it would just be sending server side rendered surfaces since this is obviously far easier to implement.
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They're evolving to use mobility scooters.
France just introduced a secular charter for schools, a rough English translation of which is here. Amongst other good things, it states quite plainly that there is no religious opt-out for religious belief and no exclusions from the teaching of knowledge and science. Simply put, kids get taught good science and if it offends their parent's religious sensibilities (or the teacher's) then TOUGH.
I can think of games which play terribly with a mouse and keyboard - the Lego game series for example. Play Lego Lord of the Rings on a keyboard and you will be tearing your hair out. But then again if you come across a game like that on a PC, you still have the option of plugging in an XBox 360 controller and playing it that way.
Some creationist nitwit will demand to see the transitional form, e.g. for whales moving from land to water. In time such a transitional form will be discovered and now the creationist nitwit has two gaps one either side to demand intermediates for and they'll shift the goalposts. And that's even assuming they concede the transitional form or comprehend what it even means.
So basically yes it is the god of gaps but even with increase knowledge the number of gaps increases and even if they are only hairline cracks it's still enough excuse for creationists to deny all evidence to the contrary. Aside from that good old fashioned ignorance comes into play. It's not hard to find people asking why if humans evolved from monkeys there are still monkeys. Or why there is no transitional form between cats and chickens. Basically people who don't even understand how dumb their question is and therefore stand no chance of understanding the answer.
A more likely reason is that PC games typically retail for less, suffer higher rates of piracy and must cope with a wider variety of hardware which must all be developed and tested for with higher resolutions and assets to boot. I assume that all these reasons play their part in consoles taking over from PCs in the last few years. Perhaps with digital download services like Steam and wannabes taking off that the PC market is more attractive than it was a few years back.
I think if self driving does arrive it would have to be enabled only on certain stretches of roads where conditions are relatively constant and predictable, and the rest of the time it would have to revert to a driver's assist mode. Driver assist would be things like maintaining safe distance from the car in front, braking assist, collision avoidance, skid control, parallel park etc. Still useful stuff but still requiring a human to drive.
I really don't see 100% self drive capability being at all viable in any foreseeable time frame.
I program safety systems at the moment. Not that it's in the slightest bit relevant. Besides, even if my job were demeaning that would emphasize the point I was making, namely it is the job not the manner in which timekeeping is managed which makes it so.
I'm contractually obliged to work a certain number of hours a week and the timekeeping system is there to ensure that. Whoopee do. I'm still highly paid and professional.
As for "gross security issues", there aren't any. I'm sure a security researcher could produce a gummy finger or something to defeat the system. Your average worker engaging in some casual timesheet abuse certainly isn't go to the bother and even if they did the barrier of success is considerably higher than just taking their co-worker's swipe or clocking card and punching it. And that's the point.
As for the database being compromised, the answer is its unlikely it would be. Perhaps you think there are master hackers breaking into offices hacking timekeeping systems. In the highly unusually event that it was they would reset the system and carry on. Whoodee do. It's a stupid scenario.
Gah, filled with typos.
Mirasol would produce a better picture for similar battery life however it's a question of whether Qualcomm are pursuing that market any more.
They are not being "abused". A timekeeping system that cannot easily be cheated is a fair and accurate way of recording how long someone has worked in order to properly recompense them. Which is of course why the unions concoct this fucking ludicrous stories that it is "demeaning".
Or, we as society could stop demeaning people for doing good work and making the world a better place.
Nobody is demeaning them except themselves. They're complaining of being demeaed. These people up mop up shit, blood, piss and puke.
If the card is exactly the same, then why go through the expense of the fancy new equipment?
Because it is harder to cheat is why. And I see now reason it should be more expensive. Less probably, since people don't need swipe cards, or stamped cards, or any physical token that they can lose and need replacing. And that's putting aside the hours saved from people attempting to defraud the company.
And no it's not demeaning. That is a pathetic excuse from workers and a union who know full well that it's a system that accurately records how long people have worked and makes it far harder to cheat than a clock card or some other timekeeping measure.
I have to say, so what? As long as the work gets done and it doesn't cost anyone anything extra, who cares?
Because people turning up late or leaving early and getting a buddy to clock them in / out do cost the employer extra. They are defrauding their employer and adding a cost to doing business which the employer should have every right to discourage.
Possibly, but another very good reason they don't want scanners is that it's demeaning and insulting.
If you don't want to be demeaned, don't work in a job where your role includes cleaning up human excrement and vomit from trains.
Besides, the demeaning argument could be applied to any kind of time keeping system. So you use your finger to clock on instead of a card. So what?
No but at least it records when they are present and when they are not with less possibility for cheating.
That may be (or not) but the fact is that by the time this granny was using her pilot system in the UK, minitel was being handed like candy to pretty much any phone subscriber in France.
Besides any vaccination campaign would take some years to ramp up and anti-retrovirals become less effective and ultimately go out of patent over time any way. So it's not like their business is going to go bust over night or wouldn't have drawn to a natural end anyway.
I think the touch pad could be used as a substitute for the touchscreen in almost all cases. The Vita TV could just draw a dot or something where somebody was touching and they'd get used to it. The backpad isn't used as much so it's loss wouldn't be so felt and could probably be mapped in many instances (e.g. to the lower shoulder buttons, or to a player holding a lower shoulder button and touching the pad at same time).
Camera is understandable, but there are things that could have been done which weren't.
To give everyone a laugh at libertarian nerds who thought it was a great idea to invest in it.
Then you plug your tablet into the stand / dock / port replicator / hub or whatever and use it as a desktop. There is massive potential for a device that can be used like a tablet but is still a full blown desktop when you need it. An Asus Transformer style device would be far more useful running Windows than it is running Android. And I say that as somebody who owns one.
It might be bad but if that's the software your org uses for its timesheet, then it's a fat lot of good to buy in a bunch of tablets that won't support it. And if not VB6 then any other piece of software written in-house or purchased that the org has accumulated and expects people to be able to use to do their work.
I hope that if this thing launches in other territories it ships with the proper controller.
How is this going to work on Wayland?
My understanding is the network transport is still under discussion. But Wayland could send bitmaps of each windows surface and you will have a thin client of some sort on the remote end that renders these surfaces on your screen, lets you move them around etc.. Your client will send things like mouse and keyboard events in the other direction, receive new bitmap fragments, resize events etc.
Of course since Wayland is running over OpenGL ES 2.0, it's possible to imagine more exotic scenarios where shaders, vbos, textures etc actually live client side and the server side OpenGL ES impl treats the client like a remote GPU. Or maybe some hybrid where client / server balance the load in some way doing some stuff on the server and some on the client. Could be gnarly but there is potential to offload at least some processing out onto a client assuming its capable of it.
I expect in the first instance that it would just be sending server side rendered surfaces since this is obviously far easier to implement.