... if a requirement of a job is that you do things which are against your religion, then it stands to reason that your religion probably demands of you that you not take that job in the first place.
This isn't a matter of work discrimination against religion... it's religion discriminating against the job.
Separating "things like device power supply from device control" is as simple as making your own cables... or use some of the commercially available motor controllers. For example this motor controller (a simple i2c based DC motor controller, with lego RCX plugs in the PCB) requires an external 9v power supply
Cool, but an exposed pcb is not as convenient as something built to LEGO specs, both in terms of dimensions and connectivity.
I know I might just sound like I only want to bitch and complain about stuff, but that's not my point.... I'm sincerely disappointed that there aren't any official solutions like the above from LEGO themselves.
I wasn't blaming Canada or Australia for it.... I just find it amazingly ironic that both of these two countries considered the USA switching to metric as a major impetus behind their own decision to go that route, when if what the USA was going to end up doing (which was to basically completely ignore the metric system when dealing with the general public) had been known about at the time, it's not inconceivable that *NEITHER* country would have ended up converting to metric. I'm curious about how many other countries may have did something similar.
Oh, and fwiw, since some of your remarks seems to suggest that you believe otherwise, I'm not American. I'm Canadian... and I still very easily remember when when my country started the switch over to metric because the US was allegedly going to. And yeah... I still use the term "allegedly" because "officially" doesn't mean shit when the country isn't actually using the system as a matter of general practice.
By the time we found out that the USA was not going to initiate any major push to metricize its nation, we were already well under way along the nation-wide conversion to metric, and reverting just would have been more costly than completing the transition, but it's still probably something that very easily wouldn't have happened at all if the fact that the USA wasn't really going to make any effort to fully adopt the metric system for general use had been known about at the time.
Although that's a good thing for people who already have stuff, because it means its compatible with NXT sensors and motors, at the same time I'm a bit disappointed because the NXT only has 7 I/O ports, and to control more devices you need another NXT brick.
What would be nice is if you control more than just the 7 devices that you can plug into the brick without having to add another programmable brick to the system... say, by separating things like device power supply from device control, and using a separate battery box (or boxes) to supply power to as many devices as you want, and the cpu simply addresses them in a not entirely dissimilar way to how many USB devices are addressed on a single bus.
Of course, this brick has USB connectivity, so it may at least possible to add this sort of functionality to this device.
My point was, however, that the USA as a whole, does *not* use the metric system... Distances on signs are given in miles, temperature forecasts in Fahrenheit, and things like gasoline are still sold by the gallon. In the past 40 years, the USA has not made *any* real pogress to fully incorporating metric as other nations have. The irony is that at least two nations which do now use metric, Canada and Australia, both considered the notion that the USA was going to switch to metric as a major impetus behind their own decision in the 1960s to switch to metric. Both of those countries now use metric almost universally, while the USA still uses imperial. That the USA may have already allegedly "officially" become metric is irrelevant when the system isn't actually being used when communicating to the venereal public. After all, if it were being used so much, then what would be the point of this petition?
If you had read the a ove comments, you may have realized that the previous poster was suggesting that the USA had already converted to metric, which was the point at hand.
1. Not an issue if a company doesn't give out its wifi password to employees. Simply being in the same room with a malware infected device is only a security risk if the device is permitted to connect to yours in the first place.
2. You might not need a smartphone at work. But you might need it during your lunch break.... or possibly even on your way to or from work, so it's not viable to leave it at home. Oh, and if you don't happen to drive to work, you can't exactly even leave it in your car either (not to mention the fact that leaving valuables unattended in your car can be an extremely risky thing to do anyways, since regular insurance doesn't typically cover property theft from cars).
And a company has no right to tell an employee what they can do when they aren't on the clock. Since ordinarily, travel to and from work and lunch breaks are on the employee's own time, so there's no reason that an employer can demand an employee leave their cell phone at home.
What units are public speed limit signs given in? What units are publuc weather forecasts given in? What unit is gasoline sold by to the general public?
The assumption that you can't just leave your smartphone in your car is absurd.
No, it is not. For several reasons.
First of all, insurance companies explicitly tell customers *NOT* to leave any valuables in their automobile.
Secondly, auto-insurance does not cover any property stolen from an automobile anyways, and personal property insurance often doesn't generally cover things left in an automobile while you are at work anyways unless you are paying on a special (and much more expensive) plan that explicitly covers theft from your car.
Finally, not everybody drives to work in the first place.
This is work, not school. I can keep my cell phone turned off or even in my briefcase if my employer feels its necessary, but I can't think of any reason that I should not be allowed to bring it onto premises at all other than unhealthy paranoia.
Even better would be if programmers would actually test their own code before committing in the first place, and to keep their commits fine-grained so that it's easy to just revert only the necessary lines if/when bad code does make it into the vcs repository.
How many major nations around the world began the transition from Imperial to Metric only because it was once thought (in the 1960's, I think) that US was going to?
But as you, yourself, are pedantically pointing out, I was being a pedantic and insufferable nerd, and were I to have not responded as such, then I wouldn't be very pedantic in the first place.
In other words, you did nothing more than point out a tautology.
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This isn't a matter of work discrimination against religion... it's religion discriminating against the job.
And I somehow suspect there'd be absolutely nothing to stop them from terminating your service if you don't consent.
Cool, but an exposed pcb is not as convenient as something built to LEGO specs, both in terms of dimensions and connectivity.
I know I might just sound like I only want to bitch and complain about stuff, but that's not my point.... I'm sincerely disappointed that there aren't any official solutions like the above from LEGO themselves.
I wasn't blaming Canada or Australia for it.... I just find it amazingly ironic that both of these two countries considered the USA switching to metric as a major impetus behind their own decision to go that route, when if what the USA was going to end up doing (which was to basically completely ignore the metric system when dealing with the general public) had been known about at the time, it's not inconceivable that *NEITHER* country would have ended up converting to metric. I'm curious about how many other countries may have did something similar.
Oh, and fwiw, since some of your remarks seems to suggest that you believe otherwise, I'm not American. I'm Canadian... and I still very easily remember when when my country started the switch over to metric because the US was allegedly going to. And yeah... I still use the term "allegedly" because "officially" doesn't mean shit when the country isn't actually using the system as a matter of general practice. By the time we found out that the USA was not going to initiate any major push to metricize its nation, we were already well under way along the nation-wide conversion to metric, and reverting just would have been more costly than completing the transition, but it's still probably something that very easily wouldn't have happened at all if the fact that the USA wasn't really going to make any effort to fully adopt the metric system for general use had been known about at the time.
yup
It looks like it's still a NXT brick, so the same electronics can connect to it.
64MB RAM and 16MB storage ???
That can't be right...
Seriously... it makes no sense. When is storage capacity *smaller* than ram?
The article either has it backwards, or else they meant 16gb of storage.
Plastic may be inexpensive. LEGO isn't... for the amount of plastic that you actually get anyways, It's actually pretty pricey.
Of course, some would argue that it's worth it, because LEGO has considerably higher quality building bricks than any of its competitors.
Although that's a good thing for people who already have stuff, because it means its compatible with NXT sensors and motors, at the same time I'm a bit disappointed because the NXT only has 7 I/O ports, and to control more devices you need another NXT brick.
What would be nice is if you control more than just the 7 devices that you can plug into the brick without having to add another programmable brick to the system... say, by separating things like device power supply from device control, and using a separate battery box (or boxes) to supply power to as many devices as you want, and the cpu simply addresses them in a not entirely dissimilar way to how many USB devices are addressed on a single bus.
Of course, this brick has USB connectivity, so it may at least possible to add this sort of functionality to this device.
That $350 also includes a bunch of LEGO technic, which isn't exactly cheap.
D'oh!!! What a typo. That last line should read *GENERAL* public.
My point was, however, that the USA as a whole, does *not* use the metric system... Distances on signs are given in miles, temperature forecasts in Fahrenheit, and things like gasoline are still sold by the gallon. In the past 40 years, the USA has not made *any* real pogress to fully incorporating metric as other nations have. The irony is that at least two nations which do now use metric, Canada and Australia, both considered the notion that the USA was going to switch to metric as a major impetus behind their own decision in the 1960s to switch to metric. Both of those countries now use metric almost universally, while the USA still uses imperial. That the USA may have already allegedly "officially" become metric is irrelevant when the system isn't actually being used when communicating to the venereal public. After all, if it were being used so much, then what would be the point of this petition?
If you had read the a ove comments, you may have realized that the previous poster was suggesting that the USA had already converted to metric, which was the point at hand.
Guns are weapons. There is already some regulation on hidden weapons that is completely independent of the workplace.
There are no laws forbidding you from simply having a cell phone stored away where nobody can see it.
If there were, your analogy might make a lot more sense.
Not anywhere in the USA that I've ever seen.
1. Not an issue if a company doesn't give out its wifi password to employees. Simply being in the same room with a malware infected device is only a security risk if the device is permitted to connect to yours in the first place.
2. You might not need a smartphone at work. But you might need it during your lunch break.... or possibly even on your way to or from work, so it's not viable to leave it at home. Oh, and if you don't happen to drive to work, you can't exactly even leave it in your car either (not to mention the fact that leaving valuables unattended in your car can be an extremely risky thing to do anyways, since regular insurance doesn't typically cover property theft from cars).
And a company has no right to tell an employee what they can do when they aren't on the clock. Since ordinarily, travel to and from work and lunch breaks are on the employee's own time, so there's no reason that an employer can demand an employee leave their cell phone at home.
What if I brng it in but just leave it in my briefcase? Off, if necessary
What units are public speed limit signs given in? What units are publuc weather forecasts given in? What unit is gasoline sold by to the general public?
No, it is not. For several reasons.
First of all, insurance companies explicitly tell customers *NOT* to leave any valuables in their automobile.
Secondly, auto-insurance does not cover any property stolen from an automobile anyways, and personal property insurance often doesn't generally cover things left in an automobile while you are at work anyways unless you are paying on a special (and much more expensive) plan that explicitly covers theft from your car.
Finally, not everybody drives to work in the first place.
This is work, not school. I can keep my cell phone turned off or even in my briefcase if my employer feels its necessary, but I can't think of any reason that I should not be allowed to bring it onto premises at all other than unhealthy paranoia.
Incorrect.... I know of at least 2. Canada and Australia.
Even better would be if programmers would actually test their own code before committing in the first place, and to keep their commits fine-grained so that it's easy to just revert only the necessary lines if/when bad code does make it into the vcs repository.
How many major nations around the world began the transition from Imperial to Metric only because it was once thought (in the 1960's, I think) that US was going to?
Actually, the colloquial term is "klickage", not kilometerage.
But as you, yourself, are pedantically pointing out, I was being a pedantic and insufferable nerd, and were I to have not responded as such, then I wouldn't be very pedantic in the first place.
In other words, you did nothing more than point out a tautology.
Again... "all"? I smell a needless exaggeration.
Ever used QD, for example? Even once?
Okay... that might be a bit unfair... that language was used by fewer than 5 people, ever... and I personally know 2 of them.
What about less exclusive languages, like C@+?