Those are the words of somebody who is feeling more than just a tad defensive, and trying to justify their own actions because of how they know it would look.
I'm not saying he was lying, but from where I sit, it sure looked like he was just trying to make excuses.
It just seems to scream points #7, #9, and #14 from this list, and raises some red flags, at least.
I've actually seen that sort of thing happen several times.
I remember seeing a game programming job ad in 2010 asking for 5 years of iPhone programming experience.
Before that. in 2005, there was an ad I saw asking for a senior Java programmer, with at least 15 years experience. Java was barely 10 years old at the time.
And in 2001, just before I graduated, I saw an ad for a sysadmin position, where they wanted somebody with 10 years of experience with Linux (while technically possible, it was still a bit unrealistic, IMO. I applied anyways, but didn't get the job).
Sometimes I think that they just don't have a clue what they are asking when they give experience qualifiers like that.
Some long term predictions have turned out to reveal almost a spooky level of prescience.
I seem to recall that almost ubiquitous cell phone usage was predicted over a hundred years ago (although not by that exact name... they talked about it in terms of radio).
That you minimize risk to yourself in the event of an accident?
Or that you minimize risk to others by having the most control over the car?
Hold your hands out in front of you... now relax them. Your palms are probably now facing slightly downward, and also slightly towards eachother. This muscularly neutral position can be sustained for prolonged periods without experiencing any RSI. When on a steering wheel, this relaxed positure corresponds, very closely, to the "ten and two" position that was taught 25 years ago or more. Because it is muscularly neutral, it enjoys the benefit of being the easiest to control - since one will not generally experience any strain in such positions, and there is no extra work involved in moving ones hands out of that position to respond to more immediate threats.
I can appreciate wanting to minimize danger to oneself while driving, but I would think that it might be more prudent, looking at the big picture, to have the most control over your car so that you yourself are driving as safely as possible, and do not get into an accident that could have been prevented by you in the first place if your reaction had been quicker.
Obviously, any app can be cracked manually, with enough time invested into it, but is there any mechanism that can be used to at least reliably defeat any automated tools that crack them?
I know that more effort should be spent on making a good app than on trying to prevent piracy, but if it's something relatively simple to code, and easy enough to obfuscate that automated tools wouldn't find and bypass it, that would probably be good enough, IMO.
Actually, I would think that highway driving is the safest type of driving to answer a phone in... one is going at a fairly constant velocity, with relatively predictable traffic patterns, and probably very nearly a straight line... Where I won't answer a phone while driving is while negotiating with unpredictable traffic, while I am making a turn, or doing anything that requires heightened particularly awareness to what sort of clearance I have to make some maneuver, such as a lane change in heavy traffic.
Of course, this is presuming that the car has built-in bluetooth that can pair with one's cell phone, and answering a phone while driving is as simple as pressing an easily reached button that is not really any harder to access than windshield wipers or turning signals. I honestly love that feature in our new car. My phone stays in my pocket, and the bluetooth simply pairs with it. I never have to touch the phone to utilize it while in my car.
Funny thing though... you can do all that, and still miss a turnoff, simply because of possible traffic distractions while driving, that can take your immediate attention away from following a route that you had looked up 20 minutes ago. In my experience, the most reliable mechanism is having a human navigator in the passenger seat that is competent at reading maps, and is paying just as much attention to the way you are going as you are.
I once saw a GPS that told the driver to "turn left now" while in the middle of an overpass, to get onto the road that overpass actually went over.
It took me a few minutes of searching for me to find, since I did not know the name for this plane (or even if it had one), but here are some folding directions for what I consider to be the best paper plane ever: http://www.ncgraphicarts.com/ryan/other/eagleins.gif. When I was a kid, I had employed this paper design in a classroom competition, while almost everybody else was making the standard dart, I used this glider design, and mine was one of the few that cleared the entire length of the gymnasium (and would have kept on going right onto the stage at the end of the gym if the curtain had not been shut). I'm afraid I don't know what the dimensions of my school gym were, but I imagine they were typical for an elementary school.
All of those things are concealable, because they can fit in your pocket. A cooling unit that can keep a superconductor below 110K is not going to be particularly tiny.
Please reread the first dozen words of my second paragraph.
It's really only a personal hunch, anyways... but it seems to me that there must be some cause for the discrepancy between male and female managers, because I can only think of one female supervisor I've ever had that wasn't a total bitch with those under her... and that was, as I mentioned above, one of the best bosses I ever had. So it's clearly not just because of gender alone. What else could it be?
Male bosses, in my own experience, are far more easy going than female ones, and I think that this is because even in this day and age, there are still far more men in higher paying positions than women. It's unfortunate that women often don't seem to to get the same degree of respect that men often do in some fields, and to that end, I think that women in management positions are often overcompensating for the discrimination they've often had to endure by not being treated equally..
Not that I am excusing a female boss from acting like a bitch with their employees (which again, in my own experience, tends to happen far more than male bosses acting like slave drivers), but I can, I think, at least understand where it is coming from.
To be fair, one of the best bosses I ever had at any job I ever had was a woman... but she was a co- founder of the company I worked for, so much of the ladder climbing that has to happen in bigger companies that have been around for a long time wasn't there.
Or people who don't actually understand that the term is relative to the normal temperature levels of superconductivity, and not relative to what a person without any knowledge of it would normally think when they hear the words "high temperature".
Because it's not "high temperature" in any sense that would be understood by the term.
It's called high temperature because it's significantly hotter than temperatures where superconductivity occurs in ordinary metals (around 30K). But even the highest temperature at which superconductivity has ever been observed is still freakin' cold... over a hundred degrees below 0
Until room temperature superconductivity is discovered (an enormous breakthrough in physics that would have countless applications), nothing's getting by airport security with this mechanism.
No question about the infringement on the issue of the pic on the pub's loyalty card, but there shouldn't be trademark infringement on the cocktails, because while the drinks may be named *AFTER* characters, they can't reasonably be mistaken for the characters themselves, and should no more trademark infringements in that respect than it is trademark infringemement for somebody to name their white cat Gandalf, and put a hit video (one that happens to start generating some revenue) of him up on Youtube.
That's still far too recent... there are many people alive today whose lives have been impacted by that incident,
In general, I would suggest that if you are going to try to teach alternative history, that you try to not attempt with anything more recent than about 500 years or so.
Unlikely that would work... even if forced upon them, many would sooner go to their graves than deny their conviction. All, in their opinion, you'd be doing is making martyrs out of them.
They are accessible to you. Since they are entirely internal anyways, that's enough.
t is easy to conceive of a sufficiently technologically advanced government / corporatocracy which would consider it to have the right to access this information in the interests of security / targeted advertising.
Whether somebody else can access them does not mean they are not yours... it only means that one does not have privacy.
Your desires, your dreams, your feelings, and all of your own thoughts are your own property. Although external and perhaps unusual forces may keep you from taking action with respect to any of them, they are nonetheless still yours.
Even if these things were only put into you by brainwashing, or by subliminal or even direct suggestion, they are still fully yours, and you are accountable to them, and take responsibility for them. The only way that you can fully lose this property is by dying.
My point being that they have a commodity I desire. The only thing stopping the network from utilizing an alternative to flash is the lack of one via html5, etc, that offers at least an equal measure of security when it comes to controlling what the viewer is permitted to see. Until this happens, you can call the companies that use those business models all the names you can imagine, but realistically this "stupid business practice" just is not going to go away.
3d printers have a precision tolerance of something on the order of about eighty to a hundred microns, or often worse... particularly for non-commercial home 3d-printers.
Lego is manufactured to a precision of less than 2 microns.
We're probably at LEAST another 5 to 10 years away from being able to use 3d printing technologies with tolerances in the 1-2 micron range, which is what would be required to adequately fit together with Lego.
For comparison, Megabloks is manufactured to a precision of approximately 10 microns.
Megabloks routinely slip, Lego does not. I shudder to imagine how poorly these 3d printed connectors are going to work.
We're not reliably connecting to Lego anytime soon. At least not with 3d printing.
Smartphones aren't exactly cheap... and should something happen to my iPhone, I can survive far longer without it than I could without a means to electronically pay for things. Again, it comes down to cost of replacement.
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Those are the words of somebody who is feeling more than just a tad defensive, and trying to justify their own actions because of how they know it would look.
I'm not saying he was lying, but from where I sit, it sure looked like he was just trying to make excuses.
It just seems to scream points #7, #9, and #14 from this list, and raises some red flags, at least.
I remember seeing a game programming job ad in 2010 asking for 5 years of iPhone programming experience.
Before that. in 2005, there was an ad I saw asking for a senior Java programmer, with at least 15 years experience. Java was barely 10 years old at the time.
And in 2001, just before I graduated, I saw an ad for a sysadmin position, where they wanted somebody with 10 years of experience with Linux (while technically possible, it was still a bit unrealistic, IMO. I applied anyways, but didn't get the job).
Sometimes I think that they just don't have a clue what they are asking when they give experience qualifiers like that.
Some long term predictions have turned out to reveal almost a spooky level of prescience.
I seem to recall that almost ubiquitous cell phone usage was predicted over a hundred years ago (although not by that exact name... they talked about it in terms of radio).
FTFY
That you minimize risk to yourself in the event of an accident?
Or that you minimize risk to others by having the most control over the car?
Hold your hands out in front of you... now relax them. Your palms are probably now facing slightly downward, and also slightly towards eachother. This muscularly neutral position can be sustained for prolonged periods without experiencing any RSI. When on a steering wheel, this relaxed positure corresponds, very closely, to the "ten and two" position that was taught 25 years ago or more. Because it is muscularly neutral, it enjoys the benefit of being the easiest to control - since one will not generally experience any strain in such positions, and there is no extra work involved in moving ones hands out of that position to respond to more immediate threats.
I can appreciate wanting to minimize danger to oneself while driving, but I would think that it might be more prudent, looking at the big picture, to have the most control over your car so that you yourself are driving as safely as possible, and do not get into an accident that could have been prevented by you in the first place if your reaction had been quicker.
Obviously, any app can be cracked manually, with enough time invested into it, but is there any mechanism that can be used to at least reliably defeat any automated tools that crack them?
I know that more effort should be spent on making a good app than on trying to prevent piracy, but if it's something relatively simple to code, and easy enough to obfuscate that automated tools wouldn't find and bypass it, that would probably be good enough, IMO.
Actually, I would think that highway driving is the safest type of driving to answer a phone in... one is going at a fairly constant velocity, with relatively predictable traffic patterns, and probably very nearly a straight line... Where I won't answer a phone while driving is while negotiating with unpredictable traffic, while I am making a turn, or doing anything that requires heightened particularly awareness to what sort of clearance I have to make some maneuver, such as a lane change in heavy traffic.
Of course, this is presuming that the car has built-in bluetooth that can pair with one's cell phone, and answering a phone while driving is as simple as pressing an easily reached button that is not really any harder to access than windshield wipers or turning signals. I honestly love that feature in our new car. My phone stays in my pocket, and the bluetooth simply pairs with it. I never have to touch the phone to utilize it while in my car.
Funny thing though... you can do all that, and still miss a turnoff, simply because of possible traffic distractions while driving, that can take your immediate attention away from following a route that you had looked up 20 minutes ago. In my experience, the most reliable mechanism is having a human navigator in the passenger seat that is competent at reading maps, and is paying just as much attention to the way you are going as you are.
I once saw a GPS that told the driver to "turn left now" while in the middle of an overpass, to get onto the road that overpass actually went over.
I imagine that under the proposed system, it would probably simply be illegal to use such things while driving.
It took me a few minutes of searching for me to find, since I did not know the name for this plane (or even if it had one), but here are some folding directions for what I consider to be the best paper plane ever: http://www.ncgraphicarts.com/ryan/other/eagleins.gif. When I was a kid, I had employed this paper design in a classroom competition, while almost everybody else was making the standard dart, I used this glider design, and mine was one of the few that cleared the entire length of the gymnasium (and would have kept on going right onto the stage at the end of the gym if the curtain had not been shut). I'm afraid I don't know what the dimensions of my school gym were, but I imagine they were typical for an elementary school.
All of those things are concealable, because they can fit in your pocket. A cooling unit that can keep a superconductor below 110K is not going to be particularly tiny.
Please reread the first dozen words of my second paragraph.
It's really only a personal hunch, anyways... but it seems to me that there must be some cause for the discrepancy between male and female managers, because I can only think of one female supervisor I've ever had that wasn't a total bitch with those under her... and that was, as I mentioned above, one of the best bosses I ever had. So it's clearly not just because of gender alone. What else could it be?
Male bosses, in my own experience, are far more easy going than female ones, and I think that this is because even in this day and age, there are still far more men in higher paying positions than women. It's unfortunate that women often don't seem to to get the same degree of respect that men often do in some fields, and to that end, I think that women in management positions are often overcompensating for the discrimination they've often had to endure by not being treated equally..
Not that I am excusing a female boss from acting like a bitch with their employees (which again, in my own experience, tends to happen far more than male bosses acting like slave drivers), but I can, I think, at least understand where it is coming from.
To be fair, one of the best bosses I ever had at any job I ever had was a woman... but she was a co- founder of the company I worked for, so much of the ladder climbing that has to happen in bigger companies that have been around for a long time wasn't there.
Or people who don't actually understand that the term is relative to the normal temperature levels of superconductivity, and not relative to what a person without any knowledge of it would normally think when they hear the words "high temperature".
Because it's not "high temperature" in any sense that would be understood by the term.
It's called high temperature because it's significantly hotter than temperatures where superconductivity occurs in ordinary metals (around 30K). But even the highest temperature at which superconductivity has ever been observed is still freakin' cold... over a hundred degrees below 0
Until room temperature superconductivity is discovered (an enormous breakthrough in physics that would have countless applications), nothing's getting by airport security with this mechanism.
No question about the infringement on the issue of the pic on the pub's loyalty card, but there shouldn't be trademark infringement on the cocktails, because while the drinks may be named *AFTER* characters, they can't reasonably be mistaken for the characters themselves, and should no more trademark infringements in that respect than it is trademark infringemement for somebody to name their white cat Gandalf, and put a hit video (one that happens to start generating some revenue) of him up on Youtube.
But imagery from the LotR movies does not predate Tolkien, and the pub has been gratuitously using that in recent years.
That's still far too recent... there are many people alive today whose lives have been impacted by that incident,
In general, I would suggest that if you are going to try to teach alternative history, that you try to not attempt with anything more recent than about 500 years or so.
Unlikely that would work... even if forced upon them, many would sooner go to their graves than deny their conviction. All, in their opinion, you'd be doing is making martyrs out of them.
They are accessible to you. Since they are entirely internal anyways, that's enough.
Whether somebody else can access them does not mean they are not yours... it only means that one does not have privacy.
I would disagree with that assertion.
Your desires, your dreams, your feelings, and all of your own thoughts are your own property. Although external and perhaps unusual forces may keep you from taking action with respect to any of them, they are nonetheless still yours.
Even if these things were only put into you by brainwashing, or by subliminal or even direct suggestion, they are still fully yours, and you are accountable to them, and take responsibility for them. The only way that you can fully lose this property is by dying.
microns and micrometers are the same.
My point being that they have a commodity I desire. The only thing stopping the network from utilizing an alternative to flash is the lack of one via html5, etc, that offers at least an equal measure of security when it comes to controlling what the viewer is permitted to see. Until this happens, you can call the companies that use those business models all the names you can imagine, but realistically this "stupid business practice" just is not going to go away.
3d printers have a precision tolerance of something on the order of about eighty to a hundred microns, or often worse... particularly for non-commercial home 3d-printers.
Lego is manufactured to a precision of less than 2 microns.
We're probably at LEAST another 5 to 10 years away from being able to use 3d printing technologies with tolerances in the 1-2 micron range, which is what would be required to adequately fit together with Lego.
For comparison, Megabloks is manufactured to a precision of approximately 10 microns.
Megabloks routinely slip, Lego does not. I shudder to imagine how poorly these 3d printed connectors are going to work.
We're not reliably connecting to Lego anytime soon. At least not with 3d printing.
Smartphones aren't exactly cheap... and should something happen to my iPhone, I can survive far longer without it than I could without a means to electronically pay for things. Again, it comes down to cost of replacement.