clamp it to 15% max or you lose non-profit status.
Have you seen the beautiful all-glass corp-esque headquarters of the The Salvation Army in London? It has a beautiful Thames riverside location, right on the path to the Millenium Bridge and faces the Tate Modern Museum.
I can't believe that would ever be supported by a 15% cap. That operating cost could be better spent so I like the idea of a cap (though I would add a sliding scale and caveats).
Passengers with kids could pre-board or post-board. If 10% have kids, you would still get 90% of the speedup by column loading.
Even if you do that....*sigh*
SAS, British Airways and Singapore Airlines were the last 3 airlines I flew with. All 3 announced that passengers with children could board first along with the "Silver" or "Gold" passengers.
You know what?
At least half the family groups that qualified (toddlers, 5 year olds) in all three waiting lounges did not take advantage of this. They lined up in the normal queue and basically slowed everyone down while they handheld little William down the aisle then got the baby bag sorted and dealt with the arguments over the window seat. Seriously wtf is wrong with people?
Singapore Airlines were very proactive though. They had the ground staff actually walk up to eligible family groups and tell them they could board. I guess people just assume they don't qualify?
The scene makes me want to inflict pain of cute fluffy creatures. You can tell Hugh has never been a techy person ever. He probably never even knew what a computer looked like until he showed up on set. Then he rented Hackers, watched it, and acted and interpretation of it (badly).
Dude, seriously, you're overusing that term for a cheap shot. Please stop.
The New trilogy (Eps 1 -3) no matter how much we despise them, was amazing to anyone who happened to be between 6 and 9 years old when they saw Phantom Menace. The Disney Trilogy is aimed at the same age group ("moichondizing, moichondizing!" - The Great Yogurt).
Those 6-9 year olds are going to get their own generational label.
I really really hope to see this become an affordable tool for game developer studios. You would be able to have the scriptwriting depth and flexibility of say the old Fallout, Planescape or Baldurs Gate games and not have to worry about getting VAs for every damn random NPC in the game or having to re-record lines.
It doesn't necessaily mean the end of traditional voice-acting, star power and emotional reach would still be a draw for key roles, but you could finally get away from every damn Nord in Skyrim having the same voice.
And if it becomes available to the game modder community, I can't even imagine what crazy fan-fiction they could come up with now that they can have something to voice-act it for them.
And I fully expect some of it to be levels of cringe so horrific, even Cthulhu would shudder and turn away to cosnider another dimension to eat...
The solution is probably already being developed in a defense lab somewhere.
Instead of wasting a US$3.4 million missile, you deploy a force of 10 hunter-killer drones worth maybe US$100,000 each to patrol a given area.
Much like a Roomba, they know when to come back to recharge or switch battery packs. They never get tired or bored and don't complain about the MREs and missing the kids at home.
They have sensor suites for detecting other drones and can be notified by ground forces of sightings.
Not quite sure what kind of package they could be fitted with to take down another drone but I'm sure there are plenty of cheap off-the-shelf options.
I remember the next big thing was "the grid". Then it was "the cloud".
But isn't the idea of distributed computing power kind of false hope anyway? Because that's just the distributed version of parallel computing and humans are - so far - really bad at taking a serial problem and splitting it into a parallel problem. So most of that potential is not usable anyway. I think I got that right.
Even so, I have discovered lots of new music through Spotify with their recommendations. And that is something Spotify could improve- they need to allow users to directly rate songs (like Pandora does) so it can learn what we like and offer more recommendations. And the other is a better "radio station" type mode, like Pandora has.
Disclaimer: I'm not a Spotify developer, this is just from reading around forums, pissed off at some features not working on Spotify as expected. Here is what I've learnt and it may be inaccurate. Take with salt:
Spotify sort of do the rating mechanic when you click the thumbs up/thumbs down on a song as it is playing (at least on my Android app). "Thumbs up" will add it to a Liked playlist connected to your account.
Now this Liked playlist influences your Discover Weekly playlist. But here is where Spotify becomes retarded. Discover Weekly is not only influenced by your Liked playlist. It's influenced by every song you add to any personal playlist you create but no weight is given to what you actually play(!?). I know right?
My Discover Weekly experience was OK at first, but now it is filled with crap simply because I happen to have a set of "Decades" playlists (the 80s, the 90s, the 00s) just to capture the handful of songs from those eras I liked. So random Top 40 stuff I would never listen to gets shoved down my throat. What really surprises me is that I have playlists dedicated to Dub and Roots Reggae, a well pruned collection of Grunge, Ambient music and Deep House. But none of those ever seem to influence my Discover Weekly experience. Which leads me to believe the so-called "algorithm" for Discover Weekly is there to sell the Top 40 music and doesn't give a toss about your obscure tastes.
What's particularly frustrating is you as the user have no control over this "algorithm" and can't force it to "reset". I ignore it now.
That said, a couple of months ago a new feature was forced upon us (in the UK at least) called Your Daily Mix.
These are supposedly doing the same thing as Discover Weekly but split into 4-6 "genres" and mixing music from your playlists in those genres with new discoveries. Here's to hoping it works as desired.
To take a proactive role in Panspermia. I think our terrestrial bacteria, water bears and extremophiles should be seeded on as many suitable planets as possible. We're not going to be around forever so we should definitely get as much potential for new sapient life to evolve somewhere else. Or at least an eon or two of life on some previously uninteresting backwater planet that had no previous chance of having life evolve the "hard way" on it.
Not disagreeing with your point. It's more about why isn't this declared up front? If you need to keep the mic on so you always have a buffer for the last 10, 20 30 seconds of audio, then just say so. I imagine the same users you've categorised would still not give a shit.
For me though it would be an instant uninstall. As for Google listening to me all the time....not much I can do about that, I have chosen that os ecosystem.
The Trade Federation struck me more as camp over-the-top Han Dynasty China parody complete with funny hats and an implied affection for "red tape warfare" and wealth.
A parody of Imperial Japan, I feel, would have been more...bushido warrior or something.
All that said, when I lived in Seattle there was something that was actually done right by the main fast food franchises there (not sure if it's the same across all of the US) that is not offered anywhere in Europe. You actually provided an unsweetened alternative that had a flavour: Unsweetened Ice Tea.
That was awesome!
You know what they offer in the UK? Normal coke, diet coke, over-priced "mineral" water and the happy meal 150ml milk. Oh and coffee or calorie-rich milkshake if you paid extra. What a farce.
All the advice here is wonderful and I'm sure you've got lots to think about. Some of the "only the core values!" advice is great but don't follow to closely.
Don't forget to share who you are as a father, a friend and another flawed, imperfect wonderful human being.
Talk about the first time you saw your wife. How you figured out she was the one. Talk about the most embarassing thing you ever did or experienced. The best thing. Even the times you were a pretty shitty human being. Why you loved your hobbies. How being a teenager sucks goat nuts for everyone at some point. How finding really good friends gets you through not just the teen years but your whole life. Your favourite travels or even wistful thoughts about places you've never and can't now.
Your daughter will use all these stories to help build her own model of the world around her and her own model for living. Some of the best things she might do just from the examples above are to have a better idea of what love might feel like and to travel to that mountain or ocean that you always wanted to visit and she'll take you there in her heart.
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I checked the website but can't find any information that I can call an ordinary land-line telephone with it. Can it?
Because if it can't, then it is not a replacement.
clamp it to 15% max or you lose non-profit status.
Have you seen the beautiful all-glass corp-esque headquarters of the The Salvation Army in London? It has a beautiful Thames riverside location, right on the path to the Millenium Bridge and faces the Tate Modern Museum.
I can't believe that would ever be supported by a 15% cap. That operating cost could be better spent so I like the idea of a cap (though I would add a sliding scale and caveats).
Passengers with kids could pre-board or post-board. If 10% have kids, you would still get 90% of the speedup by column loading.
Even if you do that....*sigh*
SAS, British Airways and Singapore Airlines were the last 3 airlines I flew with. All 3 announced that passengers with children could board first along with the "Silver" or "Gold" passengers.
You know what?
At least half the family groups that qualified (toddlers, 5 year olds) in all three waiting lounges did not take advantage of this. They lined up in the normal queue and basically slowed everyone down while they handheld little William down the aisle then got the baby bag sorted and dealt with the arguments over the window seat. Seriously wtf is wrong with people?
Singapore Airlines were very proactive though. They had the ground staff actually walk up to eligible family groups and tell them they could board. I guess people just assume they don't qualify?
Oh god, I apologize for crappy typos.
They probably watched Hugh Jackman "hacking" in Swordfish.
The scene makes me want to inflict pain of cute fluffy creatures. You can tell Hugh has never been a techy person ever. He probably never even knew what a computer looked like until he showed up on set. Then he rented Hackers, watched it, and acted and interpretation of it (badly).
What came out was Star Wars for millennials.
Dude, seriously, you're overusing that term for a cheap shot. Please stop.
The New trilogy (Eps 1 -3) no matter how much we despise them, was amazing to anyone who happened to be between 6 and 9 years old when they saw Phantom Menace. The Disney Trilogy is aimed at the same age group ("moichondizing, moichondizing!" - The Great Yogurt).
Those 6-9 year olds are going to get their own generational label.
I really really hope to see this become an affordable tool for game developer studios. You would be able to have the scriptwriting depth and flexibility of say the old Fallout, Planescape or Baldurs Gate games and not have to worry about getting VAs for every damn random NPC in the game or having to re-record lines.
It doesn't necessaily mean the end of traditional voice-acting, star power and emotional reach would still be a draw for key roles, but you could finally get away from every damn Nord in Skyrim having the same voice.
And if it becomes available to the game modder community, I can't even imagine what crazy fan-fiction they could come up with now that they can have something to voice-act it for them.
And I fully expect some of it to be levels of cringe so horrific, even Cthulhu would shudder and turn away to cosnider another dimension to eat...
The solution is probably already being developed in a defense lab somewhere.
Instead of wasting a US$3.4 million missile, you deploy a force of 10 hunter-killer drones worth maybe US$100,000 each to patrol a given area.
Much like a Roomba, they know when to come back to recharge or switch battery packs. They never get tired or bored and don't complain about the MREs and missing the kids at home.
They have sensor suites for detecting other drones and can be notified by ground forces of sightings.
Not quite sure what kind of package they could be fitted with to take down another drone but I'm sure there are plenty of cheap off-the-shelf options.
Fake piercings? You mean, one buckyball on either side of the tongue and they pinch the tongue between them?
Hmmm, that's actually kinda clever. Except for the accidental swallowing bit.
I remember the next big thing was "the grid". Then it was "the cloud".
But isn't the idea of distributed computing power kind of false hope anyway? Because that's just the distributed version of parallel computing and humans are - so far - really bad at taking a serial problem and splitting it into a parallel problem. So most of that potential is not usable anyway. I think I got that right.
Once in a while, give it organic oil instead of synthetic oil as a treat. Tachikoma's love treats.
Even so, I have discovered lots of new music through Spotify with their recommendations. And that is something Spotify could improve- they need to allow users to directly rate songs (like Pandora does) so it can learn what we like and offer more recommendations. And the other is a better "radio station" type mode, like Pandora has.
Disclaimer: I'm not a Spotify developer, this is just from reading around forums, pissed off at some features not working on Spotify as expected. Here is what I've learnt and it may be inaccurate. Take with salt:
Spotify sort of do the rating mechanic when you click the thumbs up/thumbs down on a song as it is playing (at least on my Android app). "Thumbs up" will add it to a Liked playlist connected to your account.
Now this Liked playlist influences your Discover Weekly playlist. But here is where Spotify becomes retarded. Discover Weekly is not only influenced by your Liked playlist. It's influenced by every song you add to any personal playlist you create but no weight is given to what you actually play(!?). I know right?
My Discover Weekly experience was OK at first, but now it is filled with crap simply because I happen to have a set of "Decades" playlists (the 80s, the 90s, the 00s) just to capture the handful of songs from those eras I liked. So random Top 40 stuff I would never listen to gets shoved down my throat. What really surprises me is that I have playlists dedicated to Dub and Roots Reggae, a well pruned collection of Grunge, Ambient music and Deep House. But none of those ever seem to influence my Discover Weekly experience. Which leads me to believe the so-called "algorithm" for Discover Weekly is there to sell the Top 40 music and doesn't give a toss about your obscure tastes.
What's particularly frustrating is you as the user have no control over this "algorithm" and can't force it to "reset". I ignore it now.
That said, a couple of months ago a new feature was forced upon us (in the UK at least) called Your Daily Mix.
These are supposedly doing the same thing as Discover Weekly but split into 4-6 "genres" and mixing music from your playlists in those genres with new discoveries. Here's to hoping it works as desired.
To take a proactive role in Panspermia. I think our terrestrial bacteria, water bears and extremophiles should be seeded on as many suitable planets as possible. We're not going to be around forever so we should definitely get as much potential for new sapient life to evolve somewhere else. Or at least an eon or two of life on some previously uninteresting backwater planet that had no previous chance of having life evolve the "hard way" on it.
Not disagreeing with your point. It's more about why isn't this declared up front? If you need to keep the mic on so you always have a buffer for the last 10, 20 30 seconds of audio, then just say so. I imagine the same users you've categorised would still not give a shit.
For me though it would be an instant uninstall. As for Google listening to me all the time....not much I can do about that, I have chosen that os ecosystem.
"A platform free of land-based law"?
"A true no-man's land"?
A flag and anthem?
Have I just seen the premise for Bioshock 4?
I wanted to give you an 'Insightful' mod point for making a pertinent comment about modern mobile phone contracts.
But you posted as AC and that would be about as much use as lipstick on a pig.
I'm interested in what your recipe is. Is it available on diy.soylent.com?
Do you even fat boy's brekkie? Even once?
English food tastes of delicious slightly-burnt bacon fat and lard-infused pastry topped off with mildly acidic tea and skimmed milk
Thanks for the reply with links. I skimmed most of it, but it was fascinating what i picked out.
Really? I thought you just pissed out excess Iodine like you do Vitamin C unless you had a pre-existing thyroid condition?
What about all that Iodine-enriched table salt?
The Trade Federation struck me more as camp over-the-top Han Dynasty China parody complete with funny hats and an implied affection for "red tape warfare" and wealth.
A parody of Imperial Japan, I feel, would have been more...bushido warrior or something.
The female equivalent term is cuckquean.
Surprisingly not a recent term invented by internet porn, it comes from 15th century Middle English.
Funnily enough there was an r/ELI5 question (Explain Like I'm 5) about the downfall of Digg literally just over 24 hours ago. I don't think Reddit is anything like Digg when it changed. Not yet anyway.
All that said, when I lived in Seattle there was something that was actually done right by the main fast food franchises there (not sure if it's the same across all of the US) that is not offered anywhere in Europe. You actually provided an unsweetened alternative that had a flavour: Unsweetened Ice Tea.
That was awesome!
You know what they offer in the UK? Normal coke, diet coke, over-priced "mineral" water and the happy meal 150ml milk. Oh and coffee or calorie-rich milkshake if you paid extra. What a farce.
All the advice here is wonderful and I'm sure you've got lots to think about. Some of the "only the core values!" advice is great but don't follow to closely.
Don't forget to share who you are as a father, a friend and another flawed, imperfect wonderful human being.
Talk about the first time you saw your wife. How you figured out she was the one. Talk about the most embarassing thing you ever did or experienced. The best thing. Even the times you were a pretty shitty human being. Why you loved your hobbies. How being a teenager sucks goat nuts for everyone at some point. How finding really good friends gets you through not just the teen years but your whole life. Your favourite travels or even wistful thoughts about places you've never and can't now.
Your daughter will use all these stories to help build her own model of the world around her and her own model for living. Some of the best things she might do just from the examples above are to have a better idea of what love might feel like and to travel to that mountain or ocean that you always wanted to visit and she'll take you there in her heart.