It was interesting to learn about the existence of Mirsaal and Balkan Sans, but I'd rather have read about them in an article titled "Two attempts by font designers to help bridge cultural division." However, in both cases, I think there's more that the article didn't mention. The article talks about the difficulty of typing in Arabic, but when I think about computers and representing Arabic, I think of the kind of automatic transliteration that, for example, the Katib text editor does. It says Mirsaal looks for the right balance between Western and Arabic conventions, but doesn't describe any typographic specifics of what is being balanced, so you can't tell what is the nature of the compromise that it asserts is being achieved. Also, when I think of using the same glyphs to represent equivalent letters in the Latin and Cyrillic alphabets, I notice that Noto Sans also does that, but no alternatives are mentioned by the article. The rest of the article also seemed to be at a "fluff" level of depth about subtopics that were less interesting.
It was smartphones that killed the sales. They connect people to free porn and display it so gorgeously, the wanking no longer lasts long enough to cause a cramp.
The government elected not to try Snowden in absentia, so he hasn't been convicted of anything. No conviction -> no pardon.
Also, if Obama said (and I'm not suggesting that he was inclined to do so) "we're not going to pursue charges against Snowden," someone else could still bring them later. The way out is for the government not to give a damn anymore, or for charges to at least be brought before a judge where they could be dismissed with prejudice - except, they wouldn't be, because, as the law is written now, there's a good case for them. I suppose, Congress could amend the law to include a Snowden exception, but I doubt that'll happen anytime soon.
Thanks for that recommendation. Do you know of an extension that puts the Panel (Sidebar) category Icons across the top of the panel rather than down the outboard side?
If I own a $100,000 hospital X-ray machine and I've been told my MS that it's venerable OS is vulnerable to malware and viruses from the internet, why don't I buy a $150 NUC with $60 worth of enhanced firewall to serve as this aging equipment's personal connection to the internet?
I strongly suspect that their main purpose is to justify their budget. To understand the plan behind their method of achieving that goal, you have to look at the prejudices of the provider of the budget.
Rather than ask your manager about your performance, ask your manager about his (or her) goals. Make sure you understand the scope of your role if achieving these goals is a combined effort. Then, try to make the goals happen. If it's possible, make it really easy for management to learn (perhaps without talking to you) the specifics about how you plan to spend your time in the future. That way, you can understand not being redirected as approval. The information about where your efforts are succeeding or falling short may be equally as available to you as to your manager, so unless you really have difficulty evaluating it, you many not need managerial input. In my experience, employers really like it if you're the person they don't have to think about.
they could start the project after that chunk of Larsen C ice shelf breaks off. Maybe they could hire the Russians (attempt) to tow it with their nuclear powered ice breaker.
So, in the USA, they could just sell their service to Comcast, who will bid very strongly for it, so they don't have competition messing with their pricing structure.
I don't know about them being the entire planet's ISP. I reckon China would shoot down any satellite providing uncensored internet access to Chinese citizens. Other governments might also object to a setup that gives the citizens in their cities more reason to object to the state owned telecommunications service providing similar service at greater expense to rural customers, arguing instead that rural customers should get SpaceX vouchers rather than communications infrastructure.
Computing devices are inherently capable of doing a wide variety of things for people, and many designers set them up with a design philosophy embodied by the sentence "You are probably different from me. What you want to do with this device will probably be different from what I want to do with it, so I'll try not to impose my view so much and make it capable of doing many different things." But, that means that you have to think about how you want the device to behave, and set that up. And then, there's an OS change and you have to think about these sorts of things again.
To me, Apple's design philosophy seems to be more along the lines of: "You are probably like me. What you're going to want to do with this device is the same sort of thing I want to do, and you'll want to do it in the manner that I find to be convenient and intuitive." Then, they put a lot of effort into refining their concept of this user everyone probably wants (or is at least willing) to be and refining their equipment so that it works perfectly for this user. This "design for one user" philosophy also allows them to derive synergetic benefit from vertical integration that is unavailable to manufacturers who are of the other design philosophy.
The artists will get their income from patronage agreements. Most of the funds paid through such agreements will come from the content distribution networks who provide entertainment to the 93% of the population who live on Federal Basic Income. However, a few will derive patronage from catering to the 7% of the population who are employed at greater than minimum wage.
Except, in Q2 2028, remaining tops of desks will be deprecated in favor of enhanced vision personal work environments. Employees will be provided a 73 cubic inch cubby in the wall of their cubicle for personal effects, so long as they have the courtesy to install an easily removable cubby liner before storing any objects.
What about hiring this person to build the attack into a router. The router routinely attacks devices on its local network, and doesn't let those devices susceptible to attack communicate with the rest of the internet. Non-technical people would get an off-the-shelf router that protects them from needing to research their (and their kids) IOT device purchases. The router vendor gets to advertise "locks out most possible IOT vulnerabilities on your network," and the susceptible devices are not part of some remotely controlled botnet.
will be a virus. It will be something that has the intent to acquire the resources available in its environment and propagate its own kind. People are already scared of them. Whether we care about whether it experiences intent the way we do won't matter. It'll be out there, acquiring resources and propagating its own kind.
I'd have a wrist eyeball behind the gun sight and an encapsulated magnetically operated trigger that makes a captured pistol hard for non-robots to fire. I suppose it'd be nice for the robot to be able to fire a weapon that it captured, but the pistol in the photo doesn't look like the preferred weapon of its enemy. A good demo of algorithmic superiority would be for the robot to pick up and fire a cheap old pistol, miss and put subsequent shots exactly on target by exactly compensating for the amount of the initial miss.
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It was interesting to learn about the existence of Mirsaal and Balkan Sans, but I'd rather have read about them in an article titled "Two attempts by font designers to help bridge cultural division." However, in both cases, I think there's more that the article didn't mention. The article talks about the difficulty of typing in Arabic, but when I think about computers and representing Arabic, I think of the kind of automatic transliteration that, for example, the Katib text editor does. It says Mirsaal looks for the right balance between Western and Arabic conventions, but doesn't describe any typographic specifics of what is being balanced, so you can't tell what is the nature of the compromise that it asserts is being achieved. Also, when I think of using the same glyphs to represent equivalent letters in the Latin and Cyrillic alphabets, I notice that Noto Sans also does that, but no alternatives are mentioned by the article. The rest of the article also seemed to be at a "fluff" level of depth about subtopics that were less interesting.
Maybe next they could work on standardized connection interfaces for power tool batteries.
It was smartphones that killed the sales. They connect people to free porn and display it so gorgeously, the wanking no longer lasts long enough to cause a cramp.
What hopes? Who was stupid enough to hope that Trump would be good for climate change?
How do you figure that? This is about restoring female reproductive equipment to its original spec, not modifying it for parthenogenesis.
The government elected not to try Snowden in absentia, so he hasn't been convicted of anything. No conviction -> no pardon.
Also, if Obama said (and I'm not suggesting that he was inclined to do so) "we're not going to pursue charges against Snowden," someone else could still bring them later. The way out is for the government not to give a damn anymore, or for charges to at least be brought before a judge where they could be dismissed with prejudice - except, they wouldn't be, because, as the law is written now, there's a good case for them. I suppose, Congress could amend the law to include a Snowden exception, but I doubt that'll happen anytime soon.
Thanks for that recommendation. Do you know of an extension that puts the Panel (Sidebar) category Icons across the top of the panel rather than down the outboard side?
If I own a $100,000 hospital X-ray machine and I've been told my MS that it's venerable OS is vulnerable to malware and viruses from the internet, why don't I buy a $150 NUC with $60 worth of enhanced firewall to serve as this aging equipment's personal connection to the internet?
And this expensive WinXP hardware has to connect directly to the internet without any exploit filtering going on in between?
I strongly suspect that their main purpose is to justify their budget. To understand the plan behind their method of achieving that goal, you have to look at the prejudices of the provider of the budget.
Rather than ask your manager about your performance, ask your manager about his (or her) goals. Make sure you understand the scope of your role if achieving these goals is a combined effort. Then, try to make the goals happen. If it's possible, make it really easy for management to learn (perhaps without talking to you) the specifics about how you plan to spend your time in the future. That way, you can understand not being redirected as approval. The information about where your efforts are succeeding or falling short may be equally as available to you as to your manager, so unless you really have difficulty evaluating it, you many not need managerial input. In my experience, employers really like it if you're the person they don't have to think about.
Isn't "drone" the word we use for "unmanned plane?" "Classified X-37B orbital drone" sounds to me like a better description for this machine.
they could start the project after that chunk of Larsen C ice shelf breaks off. Maybe they could hire the Russians (attempt) to tow it with their nuclear powered ice breaker.
So, in the USA, they could just sell their service to Comcast, who will bid very strongly for it, so they don't have competition messing with their pricing structure.
I don't know about them being the entire planet's ISP. I reckon China would shoot down any satellite providing uncensored internet access to Chinese citizens. Other governments might also object to a setup that gives the citizens in their cities more reason to object to the state owned telecommunications service providing similar service at greater expense to rural customers, arguing instead that rural customers should get SpaceX vouchers rather than communications infrastructure.
But, wait 'till you see the special new batteries he's going to sell. They save up internet for a rainy day.
I believe they're using the word "pizza box" to describe the size and shape of the antenna at the customer end.
Computing devices are inherently capable of doing a wide variety of things for people, and many designers set them up with a design philosophy embodied by the sentence "You are probably different from me. What you want to do with this device will probably be different from what I want to do with it, so I'll try not to impose my view so much and make it capable of doing many different things." But, that means that you have to think about how you want the device to behave, and set that up. And then, there's an OS change and you have to think about these sorts of things again.
To me, Apple's design philosophy seems to be more along the lines of: "You are probably like me. What you're going to want to do with this device is the same sort of thing I want to do, and you'll want to do it in the manner that I find to be convenient and intuitive." Then, they put a lot of effort into refining their concept of this user everyone probably wants (or is at least willing) to be and refining their equipment so that it works perfectly for this user. This "design for one user" philosophy also allows them to derive synergetic benefit from vertical integration that is unavailable to manufacturers who are of the other design philosophy.
It looks like a beautiful lawsuit to me. It should be much more entertaining than most of 'em.
It simplifies the downsizing a smidge while allowing the company to say they made a provision for their employees.
The artists will get their income from patronage agreements. Most of the funds paid through such agreements will come from the content distribution networks who provide entertainment to the 93% of the population who live on Federal Basic Income. However, a few will derive patronage from catering to the 7% of the population who are employed at greater than minimum wage.
Except, in Q2 2028, remaining tops of desks will be deprecated in favor of enhanced vision personal work environments. Employees will be provided a 73 cubic inch cubby in the wall of their cubicle for personal effects, so long as they have the courtesy to install an easily removable cubby liner before storing any objects.
What about hiring this person to build the attack into a router. The router routinely attacks devices on its local network, and doesn't let those devices susceptible to attack communicate with the rest of the internet. Non-technical people would get an off-the-shelf router that protects them from needing to research their (and their kids) IOT device purchases. The router vendor gets to advertise "locks out most possible IOT vulnerabilities on your network," and the susceptible devices are not part of some remotely controlled botnet.
will be a virus. It will be something that has the intent to acquire the resources available in its environment and propagate its own kind. People are already scared of them. Whether we care about whether it experiences intent the way we do won't matter. It'll be out there, acquiring resources and propagating its own kind.
I'd have a wrist eyeball behind the gun sight and an encapsulated magnetically operated trigger that makes a captured pistol hard for non-robots to fire. I suppose it'd be nice for the robot to be able to fire a weapon that it captured, but the pistol in the photo doesn't look like the preferred weapon of its enemy. A good demo of algorithmic superiority would be for the robot to pick up and fire a cheap old pistol, miss and put subsequent shots exactly on target by exactly compensating for the amount of the initial miss.