It's also easily resolved by having a design that assumes the user might accidentally attempt to insert the pen the wrong way. If you're not assuming that your users are going to do something dumb like that, you should recheck your assumptions, because in a mass-market product I can virtually guarantee that someone is going to at some point. That's why you design the pen such that the back end is shaped slightly differently than the front end, and with just a little extra plastic back there, it becomes impossible to insert it end first.
It makes it so much easier for customers to blow through their monthly cap, and rack up massive overage charges. A perfect situation... at least from Comcast's perspective. After all, one of their execs even admitted that the caps have nothing to do with network management, and are just about money.
Citation: http://arstechnica.com/busines...
General "Buck" Turgidson: "Mr. President, I'm not saying we wouldn't get our hair mussed. But I do say no more than ten to twenty million killed, tops. Uh, depending on the breaks."
Considering how well the traditional/standard mold politicians endorsed by the party elites have done for us in the past few decades, it should come as no surprise that not being one is currently seen as a positive thing.
All of the stuff written from the COINTELPRO/pre-Church committee era should be exhibit #1 for the case of why the national security apparatus needs to be strictly controlled, and heavily limited in its ability to spy on American citizens. We don't even have to go back far to see the rampant abuses, paranoid delusions, and intrusive actions taken with the intent of ruining the lives of those deemed to be political enemies, subversives, or anything else.
This sort of shit is un-american, undemocratic, and the sort of thing that should have no place in a free society.
I'm not talking about being trained in how to use the gun, how to aim accurately, etc. I'm talking about how to think, act, move in a crisis, when seconds count, and not panic. This is not the kind of thing that civilians are normally trained to do, unless they are in certain fields (EMS, LEOs). It's something that the military tries to train you for, and combat operations throw you right in the thick of.
To put another way, even with training, a lot of soldiers tend to freeze the first time they found themselves in combat, because that's the natural human reaction. This is why they're trained to act, but also to follow orders, so the more experienced NCO can get them moving, firing back, until they overcome the initial reflex response.
It's certainly not true of everyone, but I certainly wouldn't want to rely on Joe Smith who's taken a few gun safety classes and goes to the range every other week to react in the same way that a military combat veteran would/could.
Considering the deleterious impact that acts of terrorism have had on civil liberties, and how that bleeds over into the tech/internet/etc space, I'd say that it's certainly within the realm of news of interest to nerds when something takes place - especially when it's not any official TSA nude body cavity search type stuff, or NSA type vacuuming up of all data and metadata, that prevents a bunch of deaths, just a couple of well-trained people in the right place at the right time.
These guys weren't armed with anything more than good training, and the mental preparedness to take action in a crisis, nevermind the guts to do so at considerable personal risk.
The average person will most likely freeze in a crisis, just out of sheer human nature. It takes a lot of training to overcome that, and to build up the instinct to act (nevermind in a beneficial manner), which in a combat situation is often the difference between life and death.
Biden vs Trump would be hilarious, if only for the quotes and misquotes. No matter what you think of them or their politics, they're definitely some of the quickest on the verbal trigger in or around the current presidential race.
This is the problem in the MMO genre. WoW was so successful that -everyone- tried to copy it, or at best make iterative improvements. Publishers didn't want an MMO that did well, they wanted "the next WoW" or a "WoW killer." I've been looking for a new MMO to play for a long, long time, but have yet to see anything of interest that makes it worth my time. Every time I get my hopes up for a game, they get completely dashed.
I think part of that is because everyone got so beholden to WoW's game conventions, and also because players got so used to the increasing amounts of hand-holding that came with them. Even vanilla WoW was far more 'player-friendly' than Everquest, and you can't even begin to compare the essentially on-rails nature of modern WoW to that. It's also not helped by the fact that devs increasingly seem intent on making the Skinner box nakedly obvious. I don't want an rails-easy game, but I also don't want one that demands I play like I'm an unemployed college student just to take part, either... and that's part if it, because at the start of WoW, I never really felt like I had to be max level to just participate and have fun. Today, though, that seems like all every MMO is - a painful grind to get to play the "real" game. Maybe it's just me though.
I didn't read through to the study, just the op-ed piece posted in HuffPo using cherry-picked statistics to argue a rather slanted case.
It's a good point though that even when you dig further, the underlying details still don't support what the op-ed author was trying to prove (at least with respect to H-1B abuse).
Yes - the focus of the article isn't defending H-1B abuse specifically, it's on attacking Trump more broadly. The H-1B statistics are just one of several arguments.
And while I don't agree with Trump on some of the other stuff, his comments about H-1B abuse were spot on, and the op-ed piece was just BS.
Also, wasn't HuffPo still refusing to cover Trump's campaign as political news, and insisting on filing it under entertainment? I guess consistency from them would be too much to ask for.
This is BS. The author of TFA is using the third type of lie, statistics, to suggest that H-1Bs aren't having a negative affect, by setting up a strawman argument. Sure, H-1Bs may not increase unemployment, IN AGGREGATE. But that's as easy as saying, "Well, Initech replaced 50 American coders with H-1Bs, but there's a new McDonalds open down the road that hired 60 people at minimum wage, so unemployment is down!"
There was no mention of salaries, benefits, much less anything specific to particular fields, not even "IT." At most he made an argument that "STEM grads are less likely to be unemployed" but that means nothing, because that can still be true even if they're not being given the opportunities they should.
It's long past time that we undid the ridiculous excesses of the "war on terror."
These programs are clearly not conducive to the long term maintenance of a free, open, and democratic society. Internal security programs like this are highly susceptible to abuse; but more importantly, look at how ineffective this and other abusive programs have proved in the past 14 years. All of the worst ones have not proved to have ANY significant impact on terrorist or other attacks.
Whether you plan to vote for him or not, it's definitely good to see this issue getting the front and center attention it needs, from major candidates on both sides of the aisle.
Ask any soldier on the ground which plane he wants providing close air support. A-10, or an AC-130, are going to be the choice over an F-35 any day of the week. I still remember the grin my Drill Sergeant (a Gulf War vet) had when we heard the National Guard A-10s doing gunnery practice off in the distance. He said the sound of that gun was the most beautiful thing in the world.
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Now, if they could make a phone with wheels that fits in my pocket and still covers my transportation needs, that might be another story entirely.
And not all adults are paying full attention to their devices - especially if they're having to deal with children at the same time.
It's also easily resolved by having a design that assumes the user might accidentally attempt to insert the pen the wrong way. If you're not assuming that your users are going to do something dumb like that, you should recheck your assumptions, because in a mass-market product I can virtually guarantee that someone is going to at some point. That's why you design the pen such that the back end is shaped slightly differently than the front end, and with just a little extra plastic back there, it becomes impossible to insert it end first.
It makes it so much easier for customers to blow through their monthly cap, and rack up massive overage charges. A perfect situation... at least from Comcast's perspective. After all, one of their execs even admitted that the caps have nothing to do with network management, and are just about money.
Citation: http://arstechnica.com/busines...
XBox Shut Off: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
General "Buck" Turgidson: "Mr. President, I'm not saying we wouldn't get our hair mussed. But I do say no more than ten to twenty million killed, tops. Uh, depending on the breaks."
Considering how well the traditional/standard mold politicians endorsed by the party elites have done for us in the past few decades, it should come as no surprise that not being one is currently seen as a positive thing.
All of the stuff written from the COINTELPRO/pre-Church committee era should be exhibit #1 for the case of why the national security apparatus needs to be strictly controlled, and heavily limited in its ability to spy on American citizens. We don't even have to go back far to see the rampant abuses, paranoid delusions, and intrusive actions taken with the intent of ruining the lives of those deemed to be political enemies, subversives, or anything else.
This sort of shit is un-american, undemocratic, and the sort of thing that should have no place in a free society.
I'm not talking about being trained in how to use the gun, how to aim accurately, etc. I'm talking about how to think, act, move in a crisis, when seconds count, and not panic. This is not the kind of thing that civilians are normally trained to do, unless they are in certain fields (EMS, LEOs). It's something that the military tries to train you for, and combat operations throw you right in the thick of.
To put another way, even with training, a lot of soldiers tend to freeze the first time they found themselves in combat, because that's the natural human reaction. This is why they're trained to act, but also to follow orders, so the more experienced NCO can get them moving, firing back, until they overcome the initial reflex response.
It's certainly not true of everyone, but I certainly wouldn't want to rely on Joe Smith who's taken a few gun safety classes and goes to the range every other week to react in the same way that a military combat veteran would/could.
Considering the deleterious impact that acts of terrorism have had on civil liberties, and how that bleeds over into the tech/internet/etc space, I'd say that it's certainly within the realm of news of interest to nerds when something takes place - especially when it's not any official TSA nude body cavity search type stuff, or NSA type vacuuming up of all data and metadata, that prevents a bunch of deaths, just a couple of well-trained people in the right place at the right time.
These guys weren't armed with anything more than good training, and the mental preparedness to take action in a crisis, nevermind the guts to do so at considerable personal risk.
The average person will most likely freeze in a crisis, just out of sheer human nature. It takes a lot of training to overcome that, and to build up the instinct to act (nevermind in a beneficial manner), which in a combat situation is often the difference between life and death.
According to the sources I read, they were (mis)identified as marines by French police in earlier news reports.
Biden vs Trump would be hilarious, if only for the quotes and misquotes. No matter what you think of them or their politics, they're definitely some of the quickest on the verbal trigger in or around the current presidential race.
This is the problem in the MMO genre. WoW was so successful that -everyone- tried to copy it, or at best make iterative improvements. Publishers didn't want an MMO that did well, they wanted "the next WoW" or a "WoW killer." I've been looking for a new MMO to play for a long, long time, but have yet to see anything of interest that makes it worth my time. Every time I get my hopes up for a game, they get completely dashed.
I think part of that is because everyone got so beholden to WoW's game conventions, and also because players got so used to the increasing amounts of hand-holding that came with them. Even vanilla WoW was far more 'player-friendly' than Everquest, and you can't even begin to compare the essentially on-rails nature of modern WoW to that. It's also not helped by the fact that devs increasingly seem intent on making the Skinner box nakedly obvious. I don't want an rails-easy game, but I also don't want one that demands I play like I'm an unemployed college student just to take part, either... and that's part if it, because at the start of WoW, I never really felt like I had to be max level to just participate and have fun. Today, though, that seems like all every MMO is - a painful grind to get to play the "real" game. Maybe it's just me though.
"Those are some very nice civil liberties you have there. It would be a shame if anything were to 'happen' to them."
I didn't read through to the study, just the op-ed piece posted in HuffPo using cherry-picked statistics to argue a rather slanted case.
It's a good point though that even when you dig further, the underlying details still don't support what the op-ed author was trying to prove (at least with respect to H-1B abuse).
If anything, the movie studios should owe money to the viewers for having had to watch that.
Yes - the focus of the article isn't defending H-1B abuse specifically, it's on attacking Trump more broadly. The H-1B statistics are just one of several arguments.
And while I don't agree with Trump on some of the other stuff, his comments about H-1B abuse were spot on, and the op-ed piece was just BS.
Also, wasn't HuffPo still refusing to cover Trump's campaign as political news, and insisting on filing it under entertainment? I guess consistency from them would be too much to ask for.
This is BS. The author of TFA is using the third type of lie, statistics, to suggest that H-1Bs aren't having a negative affect, by setting up a strawman argument. Sure, H-1Bs may not increase unemployment, IN AGGREGATE. But that's as easy as saying, "Well, Initech replaced 50 American coders with H-1Bs, but there's a new McDonalds open down the road that hired 60 people at minimum wage, so unemployment is down!"
There was no mention of salaries, benefits, much less anything specific to particular fields, not even "IT." At most he made an argument that "STEM grads are less likely to be unemployed" but that means nothing, because that can still be true even if they're not being given the opportunities they should.
Obligatory XKCD: https://xkcd.com/1321/
It's long past time that we undid the ridiculous excesses of the "war on terror."
These programs are clearly not conducive to the long term maintenance of a free, open, and democratic society. Internal security programs like this are highly susceptible to abuse; but more importantly, look at how ineffective this and other abusive programs have proved in the past 14 years. All of the worst ones have not proved to have ANY significant impact on terrorist or other attacks.
Whether you plan to vote for him or not, it's definitely good to see this issue getting the front and center attention it needs, from major candidates on both sides of the aisle.
They have a very basic plan, that goes something like this:
Step 1: Raise Lots of Money.
Step 2: ???????
Step 3: Profit!
And that's just it.
It might be fine if it was just one of many planes in the arsenal, but it's being sold as the One True Plane That Does Everything(tm).
Ask any soldier on the ground which plane he wants providing close air support. A-10, or an AC-130, are going to be the choice over an F-35 any day of the week. I still remember the grin my Drill Sergeant (a Gulf War vet) had when we heard the National Guard A-10s doing gunnery practice off in the distance. He said the sound of that gun was the most beautiful thing in the world.