Classic examples of conflating correlation with causation with a dash or ignorance.
A) When you get sick, it opens other ways for you to get sicker. Like increased susceptibility to bacterial infection. You had a chest infect, the chance of you getting pneumonia became much higher.
B) You might want to get your nerves and heart tested, preferably a stress test. the numbness is not from antibiotics.
Most likely it's normal result form certain physical activity, but now that you are looking for hits to confirm your bias, you notice it more.
MOST people. in prison did nothing inhumane to get there. IN fact, less the 1% would even be worth talking abut to see if they were inhumane.and only 1% of those might be considered being inhumane.
Also, if you can turn on and off you humanity, then you don't really have any.
It cross indexed licenses plate information with white pages information. Both set were public information at the time.
It went on a laptop, and it worked great. we would drive around, randomly pick a license plate and get the person phone number and usually an address. I could have made a couple of million. But I decided the bad things would out weigh the good, so I shelved it. Sometime, when I am trying to figure out how I am going to pay for my kids college, I wish I had sold the product... but most of the time I'm glad I didn't
"nd you'd give them the finger." no every is is a rude SOB who only talks abut inane things.
" I'm not going to pull over on my way to a movie and instead go to a nightclub." so you are on the way to the cinema, and your car tells you your favorite band is playing a 1 night only gig 3 blocks away. Would you still go to the movie, or would you change plans?
You will be completely connected. You will get into your car, it will communicate with your smart devices, it will know your preferences, it will know your favorite band. As a bonus it will alert you if there is a traffic issue, and tell you if the show is sole out. OR even better, tell you your movie is about to be sold and allow you to buy tickets.
And you can do this all spur of the moment.
"when was the last time you walked into a cafe and were told that you'd need to wait more than six minutes?" At lunch, today wait: 40 minutes. Funny thing, if the person we were waiting for moved into the 21st century and got a damn cell phone, we could have called him and change plans. But mister 'What do people need a cell phone for' can't buy a clue.
""Wave your hand again, and you've made a restaurant reservation."" yeah that is stupid, You'll just say make a reservation. Wave your hand. sheesh. When you make the reservation, it will tell you the wait. IN case a cook didn't show up, or a movie let out at it's crowded.
You really had to stretch t make the 2.50 sound like a deal.
More likely to get sick, robbed, injured or delayed on a bus. So if you value your health, you would never ride a Bus, hell you are paying 2.50 to have people make you sick.
Funny, I drive 12 miles to work. If gas break 4.50, and bus fair doesn't go up, I would break even. Yes, that include maintenance. and the INCLUDE my work paying a percentage of the fair. I also have the perk of getting to work in 15 minute instead of 90 minutes.
"But your car also requires thousands of dollars a year of insurance, " what are you, a manic? insurance for 2 vehicles cast my just under 1000 dollars. and since I can't take the bus everywhere, I would STILL have to pay this.
"maintenance" How much do you thin it cost to maintain a vehicle? I spend 100 dollars on maintenance last year. This year I will hit 100K miles. So it will be and addition 450 dollars. Unless I do it myself.
". Probably maintenance will be minimal in the first year or so, but averaged over 8-10 years you'll be spending between $500 and $1000 a year to fix stuff," WTF? have you ever owned a car? I have two cars, both bought in 2001. I have had 1(one) expensive incident, and that was because the mechanic put the wrong fluid in the transmission. Maybe that's the benefit of buying American, reliability is outstanding.
" and plus all that collision insurance which is much higher at first, " no it isn't.
"When you spend $20 to replace your wipers, that's several bus rides right there. I replace my wipers about every 3 years. They cost 8 bucks.
" Whereas, as a bus passenger, you can read, surf over 3G, or sleep, " When I take the bus, it's packed full of people who can't afford a car, standing room only, and the jostling make it nearly impossible to read. And I would not sleep on a bus, even if I could. It doesn't mater, because the bus turns my 15 minute drive into a 90 minute ride. So I have and extra 2.5 hours to do stuff.
AS a side note, when gas was high, they raise the fair, but when the gas price lowered they didn't lower the fair. Then the next time gas spike to the same spot as the previous spike, they raised the fare, and blamed gas prices. Again they didn't lower it when gas price went down.
Since I have a car made the millenium, I get over 20 miles to the gallon.
Yes, the discussion should stop being about being tracked, it should be about your rights. People need to realize everything is going to be recorded one way or another. Fight to keep your 4th and 5th amendments rights regarding data. PLEASE.
Depend on the car. If you ahve a manual and drive a sedan, you either can't afford a manual, or you have choses a pathetic way to show you love to drive. \ I love to drive. Everything about it. When I am* traffic, it seldom bothers me unless I am late. I love going fast. I'm one of those freaks where a passenger can ask me what vehicles are around my car and I can answer them correctly without taking my eyes off the road.
I went to 2 driving schools, can do a 'bootlegger', take a curve, know when to brake, when to accelerate. Love. It.
I can not wait for cars that drive themselves. Traffic jam will be less frequent, they will be more reliable, and other people can text away and not be a danger to any one else. I expect there will be a time when someone talks about 'useless laws still on the books' and it will be drinking and driving.
Yes, Google is well know; which is why this company is stirring the pot to get headlines.
GKBO is not a Google operation. Google simply provides the network.
" huge push to win Kenyan businesses to their services," hmm, and a competitor accuses them of something and you take that at face value instead of looking up facts. The really shows your bias in this matter.
As a side, to dismiss the huge corruption is Keyna is foolish.
"That’s why we’re thrilled to announce today that Google, Safaricom, Equity Bank and KENIC have come together to create Getting Kenyan Businesses Online (GKBO)" KENIC runs the hosting busins and the operation, Google Kenya provide free access to tehir network and some services.
No he doesn't. In fact, he has no proof Google is doing this at all.
He has proof someone on Google Keyna's network is going this.
He keeps saying Google GKBO as if GKBO is someone part of Google, It is not. Google Kenya Provides the Network and some web building services for free. That's their involvement.
About the story: "I’d like you to meet Douglas. On this call (first 2 minutes) you can clearly hear Douglas identify himself as Google Kenya employee, s"
Yeah, no one lie about that to make them seem more legit.
"attempt to undermine our business, " Undermine it for what? There is nothing there to undermine for Google.
"It looks like Google has now outsourced the Getting Kenya Businesses Online operation to India!" no, it doesn't.
The person claims Google is doing it to sell a services, but as far as I can tell Googles service is free.
Why haven' they contacted Google? Why haven'tr they bothered to do cursory investigation into the company? Why do the limit there 'research' to just the network?
This smells like some stirring the pot to get into the news.
As a side note, information is online, anyone can get it.
Yes, it applies with good and bad stuff. Historically, it's highly unlikely this was policy procedure. More likely some Kenyan or Indian person was using there position to make money on the side.
sometime a group; in a large organization will do something wrong. sometime by accident, sometime on purpose. How the company overall handles it is the critical issues, as well as the behavior going forward.
If a function get so out of date that it original intent is no longer valid, you fail as a programmer.
"explain what a piece of non-trivial, non-intuitive piece of code does." so you know what every other programmer in the world find intuitive?
You also assume you did it correctly. Something everyone else will need top assume if they don't know the point of the function up front.
I have seen this all too often. Where the code looks like its doing everything write, but it turns out is doesn't and it takes hours toy figure that out because the dip shit didn't bother to tell anyone the point of the procedure.
When ever I find this, I ALWAYS tell managers that I would have been done quicker if the original programmer had been professional enough to leave a 30 second comment.
Yes, unit test are critical. They shorten QA*, and make it easier to find gross bugs.
But you can write code that passes a unit test but is still flawed.
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" we won't try no more."
really?
Classic examples of conflating correlation with causation with a dash or ignorance.
A) When you get sick, it opens other ways for you to get sicker. Like increased susceptibility to bacterial infection. You had a chest infect, the chance of you getting pneumonia became much higher.
B) You might want to get your nerves and heart tested, preferably a stress test. the numbness is not from antibiotics.
Most likely it's normal result form certain physical activity, but now that you are looking for hits to confirm your bias, you notice it more.
And no, you are NOT AN EXCEPTION TO SUCH A BIAS.
which means they stand a far better chance of building up resistance than to suffering any hardship.
that make NO SENSE. Stop talking about shit you know nothing about.
I would want it NO WHERE.
Prison isn't some isolated place. Prisoners associate with other prisoners and guards, who eventually go home.
You are clueless of the cost of end of life care.
MOST people. in prison did nothing inhumane to get there. IN fact, less the 1% would even be worth talking abut to see if they were inhumane.and only 1% of those might be considered being inhumane.
Also, if you can turn on and off you humanity, then you don't really have any.
No we don't.
That was a great car.
I wrote that app, in '97
It cross indexed licenses plate information with white pages information. Both set were public information at the time.
It went on a laptop, and it worked great. we would drive around, randomly pick a license plate and get the person phone number and usually an address.
I could have made a couple of million. But I decided the bad things would out weigh the good, so I shelved it. Sometime, when I am trying to figure out how I am going to pay for my kids college, I wish I had sold the product... but most of the time I'm glad I didn't
"nd you'd give them the finger."
no every is is a rude SOB who only talks abut inane things.
" I'm not going to pull over on my way to a movie and instead go to a nightclub."
so you are on the way to the cinema, and your car tells you your favorite band is playing a 1 night only gig 3 blocks away.
Would you still go to the movie, or would you change plans?
You will be completely connected. You will get into your car, it will communicate with your smart devices, it will know your preferences, it will know your favorite band. As a bonus it will alert you if there is a traffic issue, and tell you if the show is sole out. OR even better, tell you your movie is about to be sold and allow you to buy tickets.
And you can do this all spur of the moment.
"when was the last time you walked into a cafe and were told that you'd need to wait more than six minutes?"
At lunch, today wait: 40 minutes. Funny thing, if the person we were waiting for moved into the 21st century and got a damn cell phone, we could have called him and change plans. But mister 'What do people need a cell phone for' can't buy a clue.
""Wave your hand again, and you've made a restaurant reservation.""
yeah that is stupid, You'll just say make a reservation. Wave your hand. sheesh.
When you make the reservation, it will tell you the wait. IN case a cook didn't show up, or a movie let out at it's crowded.
You know who this would be greate for? cabbies.
You choose a mode of transportation knowing full well your risk is higher, and you are hard to see, so Boo fucking Hoo.
You really had to stretch t make the 2.50 sound like a deal.
More likely to get sick, robbed, injured or delayed on a bus. So if you value your health, you would never ride a Bus, hell you are paying 2.50 to have people make you sick.
Funny, I drive 12 miles to work. If gas break 4.50, and bus fair doesn't go up, I would break even. Yes, that include maintenance. and the INCLUDE my work paying a percentage of the fair.
I also have the perk of getting to work in 15 minute instead of 90 minutes.
"But your car also requires thousands of dollars a year of insurance, " what are you, a manic? insurance for 2 vehicles cast my just under 1000 dollars. and since I can't take the bus everywhere, I would STILL have to pay this.
"maintenance"
How much do you thin it cost to maintain a vehicle? I spend 100 dollars on maintenance last year. This year I will hit 100K miles. So it will be and addition 450 dollars. Unless I do it myself.
". Probably maintenance will be minimal in the first year or so, but averaged over 8-10 years you'll be spending between $500 and $1000 a year to fix stuff,"
WTF? have you ever owned a car? I have two cars, both bought in 2001. I have had 1(one) expensive incident, and that was because the mechanic put the wrong fluid in the transmission. Maybe that's the benefit of buying American, reliability is outstanding.
" and plus all that collision insurance which is much higher at first, "
no it isn't.
"When you spend $20 to replace your wipers, that's several bus rides right there.
I replace my wipers about every 3 years. They cost 8 bucks.
" Whereas, as a bus passenger, you can read, surf over 3G, or sleep, "
When I take the bus, it's packed full of people who can't afford a car, standing room only, and the jostling make it nearly impossible to read. And I would not sleep on a bus, even if I could.
It doesn't mater, because the bus turns my 15 minute drive into a 90 minute ride. So I have and extra 2.5 hours to do stuff.
AS a side note, when gas was high, they raise the fair, but when the gas price lowered they didn't lower the fair. Then the next time gas spike to the same spot as the previous spike, they raised the fare, and blamed gas prices. Again they didn't lower it when gas price went down.
Since I have a car made the millenium, I get over 20 miles to the gallon.
If by long time you mean 8-10 years, then you are correct.
Wouldn't it be better if you said 'Car. read me the manual to the vehicle' and it started doing so? That's the kind of stuff they are talking about.
As for ads you have to read? won't happen in any car that needs a driver, and you will be able to turn it off.
Bingo!
Yes, the discussion should stop being about being tracked, it should be about your rights. People need to realize everything is going to be recorded one way or another. Fight to keep your 4th and 5th amendments rights regarding data.
PLEASE.
Depend on the car. If you ahve a manual and drive a sedan, you either can't afford a manual, or you have choses a pathetic way to show you love to drive.
\
I love to drive. Everything about it. When I am* traffic, it seldom bothers me unless I am late. I love going fast. I'm one of those freaks where a passenger can ask me what vehicles are around my car and I can answer them correctly without taking my eyes off the road.
I went to 2 driving schools, can do a 'bootlegger', take a curve, know when to brake, when to accelerate. Love. It.
I can not wait for cars that drive themselves. Traffic jam will be less frequent, they will be more reliable, and other people can text away and not be a danger to any one else. I expect there will be a time when someone talks about 'useless laws still on the books' and it will be drinking and driving.
*You aren't 'in traffic' you 'ARE traffic'**
**Unless you are Dave Mason.
It's funny how pissed the Bus Driver gets when you take his seat.
I would be surprised. LEGO is very high quality, precise measurements, mass produced and hollow.
I don't think it will be cheap enough to make to warrant making your own bricks. You're own custom bricks then LEGO doesn't sell? sure.
Yes, Google is well know; which is why this company is stirring the pot to get headlines.
GKBO is not a Google operation. Google simply provides the network.
" huge push to win Kenyan businesses to their services,"
hmm, and a competitor accuses them of something and you take that at face value instead of looking up facts.
The really shows your bias in this matter.
As a side, to dismiss the huge corruption is Keyna is foolish.
Why are you idiots getting modded up?
"|does google have a hosting business ?
Yes, they do. Did you not read the article?"
No they do not. You need to look a little farther the then accuser to get facts.
http://google-africa.blogspot.com/2011/09/getting-kenyan-businesses-online.html
http://www.kbo.co.ke/faqs
"That’s why we’re thrilled to announce today that Google, Safaricom, Equity Bank and KENIC have come together to create Getting Kenyan Businesses Online (GKBO)"
KENIC runs the hosting busins and the operation, Google Kenya provide free access to tehir network and some services.
No he doesn't. In fact, he has no proof Google is doing this at all.
He has proof someone on Google Keyna's network is going this.
He keeps saying Google GKBO as if GKBO is someone part of Google, It is not.
Google Kenya Provides the Network and some web building services for free. That's their involvement.
http://www.kbo.co.ke/faqs
http://www.blackweb20.com/2011/09/12/google-getting-kenyan-businesses-online-with-gkbo/#.TxBmUKUS22U
"That’s why we’re thrilled to announce today that Google, Safaricom, Equity Bank and KENIC have come together to create Getting Kenyan Businesses Online (GKBO),"
http://google-africa.blogspot.com/2011/09/getting-kenyan-businesses-online.html
It's most likely KENIC people who are doing this.
Google just provide the network.
" The partnership with Safaricom, Equity Bank and Kenic called the Getting Kenyan Businesses Online (GKBO) program,"
http://www.blackweb20.com/2011/09/12/google-getting-kenyan-businesses-online-with-gkbo/#.TxBmUKUS22U
About the story:
"I’d like you to meet Douglas. On this call (first 2 minutes) you can clearly hear Douglas identify himself as Google Kenya employee, s"
Yeah, no one lie about that to make them seem more legit.
"attempt to undermine our business, "
Undermine it for what? There is nothing there to undermine for Google.
"It looks like Google has now outsourced the Getting Kenya Businesses Online operation to India!"
no, it doesn't.
The person claims Google is doing it to sell a services, but as far as I can tell Googles service is free.
http://www.kbo.co.ke/faqs
Why haven' they contacted Google?
Why haven'tr they bothered to do cursory investigation into the company?
Why do the limit there 'research' to just the network?
This smells like some stirring the pot to get into the news.
As a side note, information is online, anyone can get it.
Yes, it applies with good and bad stuff. Historically, it's highly unlikely this was policy procedure. More likely some Kenyan or Indian person was using there position to make money on the side.
Yes.
sometime a group; in a large organization will do something wrong. sometime by accident, sometime on purpose. How the company overall handles it is the critical issues, as well as the behavior going forward.
ti's not an excuse, its reasonable.
If a function get so out of date that it original intent is no longer valid, you fail as a programmer.
"explain what a piece of non-trivial, non-intuitive piece of code does."
so you know what every other programmer in the world find intuitive?
You also assume you did it correctly. Something everyone else will need top assume if they don't know the point of the function up front.
I have seen this all too often. Where the code looks like its doing everything write, but it turns out is doesn't and it takes hours toy figure that out because the dip shit didn't bother to tell anyone the point of the procedure.
When ever I find this, I ALWAYS tell managers that I would have been done quicker if the original programmer had been professional enough to leave a 30 second comment.
Yes, unit test are critical. They shorten QA*, and make it easier to find gross bugs.
But you can write code that passes a unit test but is still flawed.
*really part of QA