What if you store everything on the net? Do the police know where the line stops, and only search the phone? Can they go on to rummage through your Facebook/LinkedIn/Exchange data?
This, of course, assumes you do everything online and you don't keep replicated synced copies on your phone.
I'm amazed at how many people are (t)rolling out the line "If everyone could pay on the spot then they'd only pay $75 when they needed it".
Don't you think the policy makers would involve some sort of penalty? It's not rocket science y'know. $75 per year, or $100,000 per callout. The insurance companies could even make a quick profit on it by reducing the payout if it was found that the owner didn't pay the $75pa cost. Doesn't your crazy medical care system work like this already anyway?
Don't you lot have _any_ form of social responsibility or compassion? You call yourselves developed?:-(
I would not be shocked or amazed in the slightest, no not even a bit, to learn that the people who can't be bothered to keep their own records are the same people who create most overdrafts. They clearly think managing their money is someone else's job. That might leave them open to problems that more responsible adults would have foreseen and been able to prevent or at least mitigate. To me that is simple cause-and-effect and nothing more.
I suspect there's another factor at play here. Yes, in this cotton wool society people are now expecting others to look after their own affairs, but there's also the class of people that really don't know how it works.
A colleague used to be a bank branch manager, and had to explain overdrafts to a customer. The customer_genuinely_ thought the bank gave him/her £100 every month, and went ballistic when the money was 'deducted' from their pay (the account was actually offset, as to be expected). He was one step away from getting penny coins out on the desk and saying 'I give you this 1p on the 28th of the month, and you give me this 1p back on the 1st of the next month'. I was flabbergasted to hear this, but to him it was just another day of explanations on how to manage your money.
This sort of attitude to banking appears to be far more widespread than we wish to believe, and makes me really wonder if we're bringing up a generation of people that have any clue whatsoever about how to lead a normal life.
20 years ago Circuit de La Sarthe put chicanes onto the Mulsanne Straight after a Peugeot hit 258mph with the Project 400 team. I see the NASCAR speed record is only 212.8mph too. In any case, the speeds were too high, and it wasn't about the racing any more.
Similarly, the NASCAR speed limits are to reduce costs and risks for teams during this economic weather, not for the enjoyment of spectators.
There is if course also the issue of Twitter and Facebook being long dead (hopefully) before the car reaches half it's expected lifetime.
A valid comment it may be, but with modern cars having an expected lifetime of about 5 years, I think the car may expire before the social sites!
Personally, I'll stick to my pre-1985 classics! Cheap, easy to fix, and mostly reliable. I've had one 29 year old Land Rover for the past 11 years. I know some people who are on their 6th car in those 29 years, after the other 5 expired. Dread to think of the waste they've created:-(
Presumably nationally, 3000 deaths per month on the road - compared against how many miles or hours spent on the road by the entire nation over a similar timeframe? Addictions such as cigarettes and alcohol have a higher death rate than vehicles. It's just that millions more people drive than are addicted to anything.
Wait... so, you installed Ubuntu for someone and left them to use it with no discussion. It would appear that you never let him see it boot before handing it over, and never discussed the differences. And, as you say, he refused to use it.
I assume this level of casual computer fixing is reserved for family members, yet you say he took you to court. If your family are taking you to court, I think you have other things to worry about than the computers. If he wasn't a family member, why the hell were you fixing it for free and/or not discussing/explaining the solution?
Human error? You missed the bit in TFA stating "The drivers can relax until they wish to leave the road train, at which point they signal their intention to the driver at the front." I would assume 'signal' != leaning on joystick by accident
Mechanical error? You missed the bit where you think a driver behind could avoid a wildly spinning car. An extreme mechanical failure is causing a rapid departure from a tight knit train is also unlikely to impact the car directly behind it anyway. More likely to leave car 3 wondering why there's suddenly a big gap in front of it, and a hole in the hedge.
I see all these people arguing about cyclists vs cars, obnoxious vs pleasant, etc and I really don't care. All I do care about though, is that cyclists should be forced to have insurance when they are given the privilege of using the Queen's Highway free of charge. (Yes folks, those lovely roads you cycle on are paid from the taxation of motorists)
Sure, smack my mirror on the way past down the queue of traffic, maybe scratch the side of my door with the pedal clips, and I just love it when a cyclist comes barrelling out a side street and into the side of my vehicle leaving a nice big dent in the door.
Yes, the cyclist may have a few scratches from his or her own carelessness, but it's _my_ insurance premiums that are going up due to someone elses carelessness. If cyclists want to be treated equally on these roads, then they can start being charged equally and held equally responsible for damage. For what it's worth, I am both a cyclist and a car driver, and yes... I do have insurance for my cycling stuff. Liability up to £3 million if memory serves.
You probably want to look into the No Hands project. It'll allow you to control your phone remotely over bluetooth from your PC. Aimed primarily at in-car situations, I guess it'll work just as well on the desktop.
It sounds like a great idea, and has been tried before. Unfortunately, it will fail in the few marginal cases where you really need it. In the long haul world, where craft are flying across deep oceans and far from land, the only real solution is rather poor HF radio, or satellite links. HF is unreliable, and satellite links can provide decent bandwidth.
However... when the aircraft attitude goes all wrong, it's practically impossible to keep the satellite link going. It'll work fine for normal flight, but when it's all going pear-shaped, the data is lost. It'll only happen in a very few cases, but those cases are exactly where you need the data that is stored in the CVR and FDR.
SunDS, FDS and Novell eDirectory are all based on Netscapes DS
Timeline issues notwithstanding, I think you're confusing Novell Directory Services and Netscape Directory Services. The former came before the latter, although they both have the same acronym.
When accounting for inflation, using this inflation calculator, $6.00 an hour in 1969 is just over $33 an hour in 2007 money. That works out to be $68k a year, based on the articles 2080 hours per year figure.
So yeah, not a huge amount of money, but still a decent wage imho
Okay, there are 1000 desktops at my company. How do you locate desktop X among those when all of them are off?
With your Network Management System. I freaked out a lone user last week by powering up the entire office with 2 clicks. If you don't have a NMS running your 1000+ machine network, then You're Doing It Wrong.
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"pop sensation Adele" -- who the fuck is 'Adele'?
What's next, people who whistle getting charged for public performances?
Yes - http://www.pirateparty.org.uk/blog/2009/oct/21/prs-threatens-shop-worker-singing/
Before commenting, try and understand the design and facts
http://bravenewclimate.com/2011/03/13/fukushima-simple-explanation/
A meltdown... into the bottom of the containment vessel.
Yes, it'll be a pain to tidy up, but it will be nothing like Three Mile Island.
Read http://bravenewclimate.com/2011/03/13/fukushima-simple-explanation/
What major technological gaffes have I seen?
I've seen a /. poster seemingly believe that ethernet is required to upload a virus. Does that count?
What if you store everything on the net? Do the police know where the line stops, and only search the phone? Can they go on to rummage through your Facebook/LinkedIn/Exchange data?
This, of course, assumes you do everything online and you don't keep replicated synced copies on your phone.
so, what will happen after these 8 builds? Any plans for spaceshipThree?
First hit on Google - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceShipThree
Unless the FD charges an exorbitant fee for unpaid callouts. Or insurance premiums are high for those that don't pay. Your 1st World system is BROKEN.
I'm amazed at how many people are (t)rolling out the line "If everyone could pay on the spot then they'd only pay $75 when they needed it".
Don't you think the policy makers would involve some sort of penalty? It's not rocket science y'know. $75 per year, or $100,000 per callout. The insurance companies could even make a quick profit on it by reducing the payout if it was found that the owner didn't pay the $75pa cost. Doesn't your crazy medical care system work like this already anyway?
Don't you lot have _any_ form of social responsibility or compassion? You call yourselves developed? :-(
I would not be shocked or amazed in the slightest, no not even a bit, to learn that the people who can't be bothered to keep their own records are the same people who create most overdrafts. They clearly think managing their money is someone else's job. That might leave them open to problems that more responsible adults would have foreseen and been able to prevent or at least mitigate. To me that is simple cause-and-effect and nothing more.
I suspect there's another factor at play here. Yes, in this cotton wool society people are now expecting others to look after their own affairs, but there's also the class of people that really don't know how it works.
A colleague used to be a bank branch manager, and had to explain overdrafts to a customer. The customer_genuinely_ thought the bank gave him/her £100 every month, and went ballistic when the money was 'deducted' from their pay (the account was actually offset, as to be expected). He was one step away from getting penny coins out on the desk and saying 'I give you this 1p on the 28th of the month, and you give me this 1p back on the 1st of the next month'. I was flabbergasted to hear this, but to him it was just another day of explanations on how to manage your money.
This sort of attitude to banking appears to be far more widespread than we wish to believe, and makes me really wonder if we're bringing up a generation of people that have any clue whatsoever about how to lead a normal life.
20 years ago Circuit de La Sarthe put chicanes onto the Mulsanne Straight after a Peugeot hit 258mph with the Project 400 team. I see the NASCAR speed record is only 212.8mph too. In any case, the speeds were too high, and it wasn't about the racing any more.
Similarly, the NASCAR speed limits are to reduce costs and risks for teams during this economic weather, not for the enjoyment of spectators.
"Coral IE Tab is not available for Linux."
Yes, handy that...
Put all client side caches and temp directories on a RAM disk. Save backup space and time, reduce your IOPS, and decrease client latency.
There is if course also the issue of Twitter and Facebook being long dead (hopefully) before the car reaches half it's expected lifetime.
A valid comment it may be, but with modern cars having an expected lifetime of about 5 years, I think the car may expire before the social sites!
Personally, I'll stick to my pre-1985 classics! Cheap, easy to fix, and mostly reliable. I've had one 29 year old Land Rover for the past 11 years. I know some people who are on their 6th car in those 29 years, after the other 5 expired. Dread to think of the waste they've created :-(
Presumably nationally, 3000 deaths per month on the road - compared against how many miles or hours spent on the road by the entire nation over a similar timeframe? Addictions such as cigarettes and alcohol have a higher death rate than vehicles. It's just that millions more people drive than are addicted to anything.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automobile#Safety would actually indicate that by all metrics, travelling by car is safer than travelling by foot!
Wait... so, you installed Ubuntu for someone and left them to use it with no discussion. It would appear that you never let him see it boot before handing it over, and never discussed the differences. And, as you say, he refused to use it.
I assume this level of casual computer fixing is reserved for family members, yet you say he took you to court. If your family are taking you to court, I think you have other things to worry about than the computers. If he wasn't a family member, why the hell were you fixing it for free and/or not discussing/explaining the solution?
Human error? You missed the bit in TFA stating "The drivers can relax until they wish to leave the road train, at which point they signal their intention to the driver at the front." I would assume 'signal' != leaning on joystick by accident
Mechanical error? You missed the bit where you think a driver behind could avoid a wildly spinning car. An extreme mechanical failure is causing a rapid departure from a tight knit train is also unlikely to impact the car directly behind it anyway. More likely to leave car 3 wondering why there's suddenly a big gap in front of it, and a hole in the hedge.
I see all these people arguing about cyclists vs cars, obnoxious vs pleasant, etc and I really don't care. All I do care about though, is that cyclists should be forced to have insurance when they are given the privilege of using the Queen's Highway free of charge. (Yes folks, those lovely roads you cycle on are paid from the taxation of motorists)
Sure, smack my mirror on the way past down the queue of traffic, maybe scratch the side of my door with the pedal clips, and I just love it when a cyclist comes barrelling out a side street and into the side of my vehicle leaving a nice big dent in the door.
Yes, the cyclist may have a few scratches from his or her own carelessness, but it's _my_ insurance premiums that are going up due to someone elses carelessness. If cyclists want to be treated equally on these roads, then they can start being charged equally and held equally responsible for damage. For what it's worth, I am both a cyclist and a car driver, and yes... I do have insurance for my cycling stuff. Liability up to £3 million if memory serves.
Now, gerroff my lawn!
You probably want to look into the No Hands project. It'll allow you to control your phone remotely over bluetooth from your PC. Aimed primarily at in-car situations, I guess it'll work just as well on the desktop.
It sounds like a great idea, and has been tried before. Unfortunately, it will fail in the few marginal cases where you really need it. In the long haul world, where craft are flying across deep oceans and far from land, the only real solution is rather poor HF radio, or satellite links. HF is unreliable, and satellite links can provide decent bandwidth.
However... when the aircraft attitude goes all wrong, it's practically impossible to keep the satellite link going. It'll work fine for normal flight, but when it's all going pear-shaped, the data is lost. It'll only happen in a very few cases, but those cases are exactly where you need the data that is stored in the CVR and FDR.
SunDS, FDS and Novell eDirectory are all based on Netscapes DS
Timeline issues notwithstanding, I think you're confusing Novell Directory Services and Netscape Directory Services. The former came before the latter, although they both have the same acronym.
When accounting for inflation, using this inflation calculator, $6.00 an hour in 1969 is just over $33 an hour in 2007 money. That works out to be $68k a year, based on the articles 2080 hours per year figure.
So yeah, not a huge amount of money, but still a decent wage imho
Your cheap GPS navigation system isn't life critical... contrary to popular belief.
Okay, there are 1000 desktops at my company. How do you locate desktop X among those when all of them are off?
With your Network Management System. I freaked out a lone user last week by powering up the entire office with 2 clicks. If you don't have a NMS running your 1000+ machine network, then You're Doing It Wrong.
Well, use a deadmans handle. Or in this case, Switch B underneath the wiimote. Failsafes are well tried and tested in industry.