In the instant case, if the driver had been in a base Ford Escort or Chevy Cruz, they'd probably be alive today.
They'd have been alive long enough to eventually hit another car (head-on, wrong way down a one-way street) and kill innocent people. They did society a great favor by killing only themselves.
I was going to get all riled up about how a company could make false claims like this.
But then I remember that we are firmly entrenched in the "Post-truth" era. Pity that. I used to love it when facts and opinions and lies were three different things.
I think the Trump fans would resent the government for offering any sort of health care, firebomb the clinic for employing female or minority workers, then wait for Jesus to heal the ailment.
People tend to have a disconnected view of history. We think of things that happened before our lifetimes as ancient events performed in very different times by very different people, depicted in black and white images from our textbooks. Those crazy primates voted for Hitler. And they participated in the Salem witch trials. And they bought slaves. And they committed genocides.
But thankfully they're not the same people as us. We learned from their mistakes, right? We're enlightened. We have smartphones and shiny teeth and refined morals. We'd never do that kind of thing. Would we?
As a developer with >20 years of embedded experience, nothing makes me sadder than seeing desktop developers (like your.Net monkeys) programming in an embedded environment. They don't understand multi-threading. They don't understand being efficient with CPU cycles and with memory. They struggle if luxuriously rich API's and libraries are not available.
Whenever I see a kiosk or a bank ATM with a BSOD or windows error dialog on the screen, I know that the wrong kinds of developers worked on that project.
It's not a terrible idea. Golf is one of the only scenarios where it's somehow okay to hand somebody a set of keys and a bottle of beer at the same time. Self-driving cars could help clean up some sticky liability and risk issues with underage drivers, drunk drivers, bad drivers, etc.
Every time somebody diverts attention from the real issue to the partisan blame games, America loses. The fact that yours is one of the first top-rated posts shows how well-trained Americans have become to attacking one another instead of facing the real sources of their problems.
If greedy content providers had their way, then instead of having a single netflix or hulu or amazon account, we would also buy monthly subscriptions to Disney, WB, HBO, Universal, etc. Ain't gonna happen.
I worked in the vending industry for a very long time, and have worked with all sorts of bill and coin acceptors.
If the stakes are low (parking meters, etc), then a cheapass validator from some random Spanish company (like this one) is probably fine. If the stakes are high, get a Swiss-designed Sodeco BNA validator with impeccable security, reliability, and accuracy. Unfortunately, it'll cost a small fortune.
Submitter dismisses Tomi Ahonen as a 'commentator' (the quotes betray his disdain), but Tomi's an ex-Nokia guy with far more mobile experience and smarts than 99% of us. For what it's worth, Forbes recently picked him and his blog as a top influencer in the mobile industry.
Opinions are like assholes -- we all have one. But when your predictions are consistently correct for a very long time, this makes you one smart asshole -- and that's what Tomi is;).
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In the instant case, if the driver had been in a base Ford Escort or Chevy Cruz, they'd probably be alive today.
They'd have been alive long enough to eventually hit another car (head-on, wrong way down a one-way street) and kill innocent people. They did society a great favor by killing only themselves.
If they add thirty more seconds we'll start to hear a particular Iron Maiden song a lot more on the radio.
I was going to get all riled up about how a company could make false claims like this.
But then I remember that we are firmly entrenched in the "Post-truth" era. Pity that. I used to love it when facts and opinions and lies were three different things.
I think the Trump fans would resent the government for offering any sort of health care, firebomb the clinic for employing female or minority workers, then wait for Jesus to heal the ailment.
Chrome is powerful; Edge is powerless?
...and therefore just got added to the no-fly list ;)
People tend to have a disconnected view of history. We think of things that happened before our lifetimes as ancient events performed in very different times by very different people, depicted in black and white images from our textbooks. Those crazy primates voted for Hitler. And they participated in the Salem witch trials. And they bought slaves. And they committed genocides.
But thankfully they're not the same people as us. We learned from their mistakes, right? We're enlightened. We have smartphones and shiny teeth and refined morals. We'd never do that kind of thing. Would we?
I for one welcome kernel forks started by these social justice outcasts, and can't wait to install tumblrinix.
As a developer with >20 years of embedded experience, nothing makes me sadder than seeing desktop developers (like your .Net monkeys) programming in an embedded environment. They don't understand multi-threading. They don't understand being efficient with CPU cycles and with memory. They struggle if luxuriously rich API's and libraries are not available.
Whenever I see a kiosk or a bank ATM with a BSOD or windows error dialog on the screen, I know that the wrong kinds of developers worked on that project.
It's not a terrible idea. Golf is one of the only scenarios where it's somehow okay to hand somebody a set of keys and a bottle of beer at the same time. Self-driving cars could help clean up some sticky liability and risk issues with underage drivers, drunk drivers, bad drivers, etc.
Noob. Everybody knows that you need an odd number of ROT-13's to be truly secure.
Then you've missed at least six good episodes.
"Due to miscalibration of the 4th axis, your object was printed 255 years ago."
Every time somebody diverts attention from the real issue to the partisan blame games, America loses. The fact that yours is one of the first top-rated posts shows how well-trained Americans have become to attacking one another instead of facing the real sources of their problems.
If greedy content providers had their way, then instead of having a single netflix or hulu or amazon account, we would also buy monthly subscriptions to Disney, WB, HBO, Universal, etc. Ain't gonna happen.
Welcome to Mexico, where the highs and lows in life are disproportionately higher/lower than what first-world countries are used to.
You might be wrong about how bad Nokia was pre-Elop:
http://communities-dominate.blogs.com/brands/2013/10/pinpointing-the-elop-effect-3-pictures-from-nokia-financial-data-all-agree-it-was-february-2011.html
I worked in the vending industry for a very long time, and have worked with all sorts of bill and coin acceptors.
If the stakes are low (parking meters, etc), then a cheapass validator from some random Spanish company (like this one) is probably fine.
If the stakes are high, get a Swiss-designed Sodeco BNA validator with impeccable security, reliability, and accuracy. Unfortunately, it'll cost a small fortune.
Read a little Tomi: http://communities-dominate.blogs.com/
NOK was not even close to dead/dying when Elop was brought in. His 'burning platform' memo killed it.
When did they start using lube?
A vast majority of the WP users I know are connected to MSFT (employees, friends, family, fanboys) and couldn't/wouldn't consider alternatives.
you don't even need the word 'business' there
When you've got a "creative type" in charge of managing a project, you get "creative project management".
Where I work, if a 6-month project ended up taking 3 years, people would be fired. Or overthrown. Or lynched by a mob.
For $228K, I'd move to Atlanta tomorrow even if the job was licking zits.
Submitter dismisses Tomi Ahonen as a 'commentator' (the quotes betray his disdain), but Tomi's an ex-Nokia guy with far more mobile experience and smarts than 99% of us. For what it's worth, Forbes recently picked him and his blog as a top influencer in the mobile industry.
Opinions are like assholes -- we all have one. But when your predictions are consistently correct for a very long time, this makes you one smart asshole -- and that's what Tomi is ;).