That's a great point but it does seem like a company should have the right to enable GPS tracking for company assets. Perhaps a good compromise would be that you could indicate when you were off-work to avoid tracking, but if required the device could be signaled to turn back on tracking.
I personally would probably get one of those signal shielding bags and drop it in there when I wasn't to be on-call. Then you could carry it with you even. Then it also appears just as if it lost power for a while, so it would be hard to get in trouble over it...
She has an iPhone. The company can enable find my iPhone at any time if they need to figure out where it is. There is no reason that they need to log her location 24/7.
Depends. Is it wrapped with #if __i386__ || __x86_64__ and followed by a #else clause that contains code without the insane optimization? If so, it is elegant. If not, it is ugly.
I would say it would depend even more on whether or not the programmer profiled the code in question prior to making that optimization change. If there is no perceived or noticeable benefit to this optimization, then there is no reason to put something unreadable and platform specific into your code base. I know I worked on a project once where the dev manager wanted to rewrite an entire library in assembly because there was a perceived performance problem in the library. While some more senior devs started the work on that, I profiled the library and saw that it was just one function call that was accounting for most of the performance problems. I also realized that this function call was being made 1200 times per second when we really only needed to make this call once and then we could cache that result. There is no point in putting in any sort of clever hack or optimization until you've identified a need for it. Most modern C/C++ compilers are pretty good at optimizing your code for you.
And if he was to prescribe a standard antibiotic, you can buy them yourself at a pet supply.
The same antibiotics used for fish are the same that you are given. Exactly the same, just different labels and no prescription required.
My grocery store, Walmart, and many other places will fill those same standard antibiotics for free. What's the point of buying it at a pet supply store if you can get it for free, anyway?
Is it? How come I never see job ads for COBOL programmers? I know no one who uses it. I have often heard that it is used in "banks" or for "business" programming. But I know several people that work as programmers at banks, and none of them use COBOL or are aware of it being used at all. They are all Java shops. Same for programmers writing business logic. So I think that all these myths about demand for COBOL programmers is a load of hogwash.
Perhaps ADA would be another example?
Ada was oversold in the 1980s, and quickly developed a reputation for poor performance, and heavy resource requirements. Few systems were written in it, and even mission critical military systems (which Ada was designed for) could commonly get an exemption to use something more sensible.
In my current city there is a company that writes software for mortgage companies. Their back end systems were all written in COBOL. They pay a small fortune for experienced COBOL developers, but they are transitioning all of their code over to Java. I also worked on a project for the Department of Defense that was originally written in Fortan, then had new code added as ADA and my company at that time worked to convert all the ADA and Fortran to C. That was about 6 years ago, though.
Many of the concerns about the safety of fracking relate to the drill shaft and riser pipe that comes up from the pay dirt, through the groundwater supplies, to the surface. When the riser pipe is installed, a drill shaft is made and the pipe is inserted into it, there is a space between the pipe and the wall of the drill shaft that is supposed to be filled in with cement. If the cement flow is blocked for whatever reason, the annular space may not be filled in, you will end up with an open channel that could run for thousands of feet between the pay dirt and the groundwater supply. Since you cant really see if the cemented went okay, its many thousands of feet underground, its hard to tell if this is happening. When the high pressure drilling fluids are injected, they would easily flow right up that channel into the groundwater supply. They say in the propoganda that there is many thousands of feet of impermeable rock between the pay dirt layer and the groundwater, but this doesnt mean much as you just drilled a hole through it all.
They know the outer diameter of the hole they drilled, correct? They know the inner diameter of the pipe they are placing in the hole, correct? So they should know exactly how much cement is required to fill the hole, correct? Therefore, they should not need to be able to see into the hole at all. They just need to know whether or not the amount of cement poured matches their expectation +/- some margin of error.
Lost me here. Programming can definitely be a passion, and it can also be a talent. One might have a natural aptitude at programming. That doesn't mean one cannot learn the skill of programming, or that someone who finds it difficult in the beginning will not become an expert.
When non-technical people try to tell me that I must be a genius to be able to program, I always tell them that anyone can learn to write software. I do believe that certain mindsets are able to grasp the material and apply it better, but that does not prevent someone without that mindset from learning to program well. It's all just logic and some people grasp logic better than others.
"How does anyone know that the brakes need service"
Not a car guy, eh? Here's a hint: that terrible screeching sound you are hearing every time you hit the breaks means you need to get new pads, IF you haven't already destroyed the rotors.
Sounds like you are not the car guy. The screech you hear can be chatter from the brake pads, or from the wear indicator. It is NOT and indication that you need to replace the brakes, it is an indication that you need to inspect the brakes. Brand new brakes can cause a screeching sound if they do not have the proper shims installed, or an anti-screech compound put onto the back of the pads.
There is nothing to cause a screeching sound that would also destroy the rotors - neither brake chatter nor the wear indicator will cause damage to the rotor. If you hear a grinding noise, then the brake pad has been worn completely away (at least in one place, or on one side of the rotor). Of course someone can hear steel on steel grinding. You can feel it in the car when the brakes are applied.
As for rear drum breaks, they are only an assist. If they go out, it just makes the front breaks wear faster.
Anyone who understands physics understands that the rear brakes do not provide as much stopping power as the front, regardless of whether they are drum or disc. However, up to 40% of your stopping power can come from the rear brakes. If you're driving without rear brakes, you had better hope you never need to make a panic stop. In a brief Googling the best I could find for you is the Motorcycle Safety Foundation's Basic Handbook that indicates that the average motorcycle has 30% of its total available braking power in the rear wheel. It does not say that the rear wheels provide nothing but brake assist, that is just absurd. And I would prefer to NOT ride in the car of someone who only has 70% of their total stopping power available to them.
I support the rights of the people, including their right to free enterprise without interference from men with guns, whether they be banditos or g-men.
You're right, people deserve freedom. However, being a member of society requires that you follow certain norms. For simplicity's sake, why don't we call these norms regulations? These regulations forbid you from murdering me, for instance. The general purpose of these regulations are to prevent injury or harm to others. If you'd like to go back to the days without any sort of government regulations, why don't we just go ahead and let you, your partner, your parents, your children, nieces, nephews, grandchildren, or any progeny of your family work in a factory for 100+ hours a week?
Its a lot like all of her memory and record keeping problems from the "White water" era.
The same White Water era in which Hillary denied the police access to the office of her and president Clinton's chief legal counsel after he was apparently murdered or had committed suicide?
Thank you. Obviously this guy has some reason to ignore reality in order to support Uber. Especially that comment about riders knowing that the driver isn't maintaining their car properly. How does anyone know that the brakes need service if they don't stick their head in the wheel well and look? Perhaps if there were no brake pads left! But with drum brakes you wouldn't even hear a sound when the brakes stopped working. And there are plenty of new base model cars with rear drum brakes.
"please enlighten me how requiring to pass a test that you fit to transport others"
What is a person going to do as an Uber driver that would hurt others that he couldn't do just driving himself or his friends around? If there is a danger posed by an Uber driver, then the same danger is posed by regular drivers, and EVERYONE should be subjected to the same tests. Don't punish people for carrying out commerce. That is oppressive and hurts the people.
Someone who drives professionally spends a hell of a lot more time on the road than someone who spends 20 minutes driving to/from work each day. That means that they have a hell of a lot more of an opportunity to kill someone than the average commuter. Uber encourages these people to drive more.
"requiring more frequent car inspections (since the cars are also used much more intensely)"
The cars are also owned by the drivers, who will notice when something is wrong, and get it addressed quickly, since they have to pay for it and don't want damage to compound. If the car is unsafe, the passenger will notice, give a bad rating, and complain to Uber, who will quickly deactivate the driver contengent on getting his car fixed. This is called market regulation, and it is 1000x as effective as corrupt government regulation. All you have to do is find a corrupt inspector and slip him five extra bucks and your car will pass ANY inspection.
No. Most people I know will drive around with their check engine light on for months because they don't know how to actually see what the engine code means. They also fail to maintain the emission components of their vehicles, change their oil, and a host of other small things they should be doing. Hell just a month ago I replaced the brakes and rotors on a coworker's car because she didn't realize that grinding noise she was hearing when she hit the brakes was bad.
With the overhanging belly, he is easily 35-40% at least. While the majority of people today are fat (especially in the US), that is not healthy. If anything, until recently, 20-25% used to be average.
Above 25-30% is the fat territory, and that's when you start increasing your risk for heart attacks, diabetes, and strokes. Mr. Goldberg may have had a lot of things going for him, but he is most certainly more than a little overweight.
Assuming he's ~6 feet, I would argue that he is probably ~30-40+ lbs overweight. That is not at all healthy. I'm not arguing everyone should have abs, but there's a happy medium here. Mr. Goldberg is very clearly on the unfortunate side of the medium.
I'm 6'3. I can easily be 50 pounds overweight and not look like that guy. If he is that tall, he's got to be closer to 70-80 pounds overweight. Granted, if you look at BMI charts they think I should weigh about 20 pounds less than I do when I think I look fit and trim.
A story for those who don't understand orders of magnitude?
Seriously. I grew up in that area. One day I was standing on a stool that was unstable, it was missing a leg. A 4.0 earthquake hit about 10 miles away and I didn't even feel it on my precarious perch. I'm guessing whoever submitted this story is either not from California, or has never actually been in an earthquake before.
They place containers of corn in plain site of their blinds for weeks, then hide out on opening day of hunting season and take the deer by the dozens
Seems like they were baiting for 'terrorists' in a similar way
Yeah it's pretty pathetic. It's illegal to bait the deer during the season (in most states, I believe), so they get the deer used to a free lunch and take it away when the season starts. That way they aren't technically breaking the law, but they are poor sportsmen. If all they want is some deer meat, perhaps they should open a deer farm.
America has more than enough problems to solve at home - like when you're going to do SOMETHING about Puerto Rico - either give them statehood or given them back their independence but right now you're conquering overlords there - no better than Iran's government.
The people of Puerto Rico have been given the choice to choose independence or statehood MANY times. The people of Puerto Rico would prefer to stay the way they are, and I don't blame them. They may not have the same legal rights as a state, but they receive all the other advantages of being US Citizens without having to pay federal income tax, in most cases:
Though the Commonwealth government has its own tax laws, Puerto Ricans are also required to pay most U.S. federal taxes, with the major exception being that most residents do not have to pay the federal personal income tax. In 2009, Puerto Rico paid $3.742 billion into the US Treasury.
Why would anyone need to reverse engineer open source libraries from Android?
because they are also providing MSFT implementations of the Google APIs which of course are not open source. should be easy enough. e.g., provide a maps implementation that works exactly like Google maps.
They probably are pushing Bing maps on Windows phone and so they probably just use a wrapper library that translates Android and iOS calls to the appropriate Windows Phone equivalent. From what little I saw and heard of their presentation yesterday, it sounds like you have to compile your Android and iOS apps inside of Visual studio to run it on Windows Phone 10.
Interesting. Thanks. But the entire fleet was not down, only several dozen. The ipads "powered down unexpectedly", not the type of behavior you expect from changes to a document data change, but a very common problem when an app or OS has been updated or changed in some manner.
You're right, it was just dozens - I misremembered the article. But they all appeared to be at the same time. You can't do auto update on the OS itself, though an app update could happen automatically. But supposedly they could not get the iPads to work at all without reconnecting to the airport WiFi network. That doesn't make much sense for any kind of update.
Here is what the sitting Dem President has to say:
“I refuse to condemn your generation and future generations to a planet that’s beyond fixing.” - President Barack Obama, June 25, 2013"
https://www.whitehouse.gov/ene...
Here is what the Dem candidate for President in 2016 says:
"Clinton began her remarks at the National Clean Energy Summit by laying out the problems climate change is already causing today, including extreme weather and droughts. “[These are] the most consequential, urgent, sweeping collection of challenges we face,” she said. “No matter what deniers say.”"
http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/hil...
Here is what the last Rep President had to say:
" In 2001, President Bush decided to pull out of the negotiations for the Kyoto Protocol, a worldwide agreement to try to keep greenhouse gases down. Environmentalists were aghast. The president said he had his reasons. "That I felt the Kyoto Treaty was unrealistic. It was not based upon science. The stated that mandates in the Kyoto Treaty would affect our economy in a negative way.""
http://www.npr.org/templates/s...
And here is what a Rep candidate for 2016 has to say about it:
" Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, questions whether global warming is real, arguing that the "data are not supporting what the advocates are arguing." "The last 15 years, there has been no recorded warming. Contrary to all the theories that – that they are expounding, there should have been warming over the last 15 years. It hasn't happened," said Cruz."
http://politicalticker.blogs.c...
So, yeah there are real differences between US political parties, particularly on the subject of this article, Climate Change
I Think that just goes to show that they target different members of the population, not that they have real meaningfully different agendas. They almost always vote the same on things like domestic spying, invading foreign countries, etc. The only thing they really fight over is how to slice the pie.
The update was likely to some item of data the application uses, not the application itself.
I don't see how you have any information to support this assumption. I'd guess its more likely an IOS update and some resulting incompatibility. Updating the data itself is probably the least likely change to cause error. Also, that data probably doesn't change very often, so it would have been pretty obvious if that were a root cause.
The evidence to suggest that it was a data change and not an application update was that their entire fleet of 737's was down. There was no report of another airframe being affected. Also, the data does change on a regular basis. From the FAA:
if your chart is more than 8 weeks old it probably isn't current. Aeronautical information changes frequently; more frequently than every six months. That is why we publish the Aeronautical Chart Bulletin in the back of each Airport/Facility Directory (AFD) every 56 days and why it is important that you consult the Notices to Airmen (NOTAMs) prior to each flight.
These ipads were replacements for a big bag of relatively static documentation. For that purpose, you'd think that you would freeze the iOS version for long periods of time(and have IT test the hell out of any updates), and have a similarly static app that Nobody Touches without substantial approval, with only some PDF or HTML documents specific to the flight swapped out as needed.
The data is not static. And the fact that it happened only to the 737 aircraft in the fleet suggests that it had something to do with data that was specific to this aircraft and not the application or iPad OS itself.
Redundancy doesn't need to be hardcopies. Either bring backup I-pads, or better maybe a backup windows tab so you have both diversity and redundancy.
Also, since this happened to many at about the same time, I assume an update or change was to blame. Don't update these unless there is a reason. And test if you do update, or keep a non-updated backup on hand until the update is proven reliable.
The update was likely to some item of data the application uses, not the application itself. Otherwise it would have affected the entire AA fleet and not just 737's. This data is updated frequently and using old data could be dangerous to that flight and other planes in the air.
But there are millions of flights every years. So are you saying that they saved $1 per flight? Wouldn't it make sense to keep copies of the manual around at the airport so that they could use them if necessary? It wouldn't have any fuel costs to keep them on the ground.
Try each airline is saving millions of dollars of fuel, not the industry as a whole. And it's not just fuel, they have to worry about these things being out of date - version control is critical with this data. So they also spend money on having people verify that the pilots have the correct data that could be used for other purposes.
Were that the case then the woman would not have custody of the child.
Again it all comes down to the welfare of the child. If the child has never seen his father, then ripping the child out of the home of its mother would not be in the best interest of the child. You can look at a court case, or talk to a lawyer and you'll see that in this case the father would almost certainly be held liable for support, regardless of whether or not he was involved in the life of the child. And even if the father is involved, he would not likely be granted sole custody just because the mother lost her job, or was otherwise on state assistance. That would just be ridiculous in cases where the mother was, for instance, a stay at home mom prior to a divorce or separation.
So, the issue with those eggs set aside is child support. If she signs something to the effect that he's not on the hook for any of the child support... I'd see no reason for him to care one way or the other.
The support is to provide for the needs of the child, not the mother. The right of child support belongs with the child, and not the mother. The mother is the custodian of the support. The mother can claim that she will never request child support, but the state can garnish money from the father whether the mother likes it or not. If the mother ever goes on welfare, WIC, or the child on medicare, the state will seek repayment for its expenses from the father regardless of the mother's thoughts on the matter.
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That's a great point but it does seem like a company should have the right to enable GPS tracking for company assets. Perhaps a good compromise would be that you could indicate when you were off-work to avoid tracking, but if required the device could be signaled to turn back on tracking.
I personally would probably get one of those signal shielding bags and drop it in there when I wasn't to be on-call. Then you could carry it with you even. Then it also appears just as if it lost power for a while, so it would be hard to get in trouble over it...
She has an iPhone. The company can enable find my iPhone at any time if they need to figure out where it is. There is no reason that they need to log her location 24/7.
Depends. Is it wrapped with #if __i386__ || __x86_64__ and followed by a #else clause that contains code without the insane optimization? If so, it is elegant. If not, it is ugly.
I would say it would depend even more on whether or not the programmer profiled the code in question prior to making that optimization change. If there is no perceived or noticeable benefit to this optimization, then there is no reason to put something unreadable and platform specific into your code base. I know I worked on a project once where the dev manager wanted to rewrite an entire library in assembly because there was a perceived performance problem in the library. While some more senior devs started the work on that, I profiled the library and saw that it was just one function call that was accounting for most of the performance problems. I also realized that this function call was being made 1200 times per second when we really only needed to make this call once and then we could cache that result. There is no point in putting in any sort of clever hack or optimization until you've identified a need for it. Most modern C/C++ compilers are pretty good at optimizing your code for you.
And if he was to prescribe a standard antibiotic, you can buy them yourself at a pet supply. The same antibiotics used for fish are the same that you are given. Exactly the same, just different labels and no prescription required.
My grocery store, Walmart, and many other places will fill those same standard antibiotics for free. What's the point of buying it at a pet supply store if you can get it for free, anyway?
Hah. Have I worked with you before? Small world.
COBOL is an excellent example
Is it? How come I never see job ads for COBOL programmers? I know no one who uses it. I have often heard that it is used in "banks" or for "business" programming. But I know several people that work as programmers at banks, and none of them use COBOL or are aware of it being used at all. They are all Java shops. Same for programmers writing business logic. So I think that all these myths about demand for COBOL programmers is a load of hogwash.
Perhaps ADA would be another example?
Ada was oversold in the 1980s, and quickly developed a reputation for poor performance, and heavy resource requirements. Few systems were written in it, and even mission critical military systems (which Ada was designed for) could commonly get an exemption to use something more sensible.
In my current city there is a company that writes software for mortgage companies. Their back end systems were all written in COBOL. They pay a small fortune for experienced COBOL developers, but they are transitioning all of their code over to Java. I also worked on a project for the Department of Defense that was originally written in Fortan, then had new code added as ADA and my company at that time worked to convert all the ADA and Fortran to C. That was about 6 years ago, though.
Many of the concerns about the safety of fracking relate to the drill shaft and riser pipe that comes up from the pay dirt, through the groundwater supplies, to the surface. When the riser pipe is installed, a drill shaft is made and the pipe is inserted into it, there is a space between the pipe and the wall of the drill shaft that is supposed to be filled in with cement. If the cement flow is blocked for whatever reason, the annular space may not be filled in, you will end up with an open channel that could run for thousands of feet between the pay dirt and the groundwater supply. Since you cant really see if the cemented went okay, its many thousands of feet underground, its hard to tell if this is happening. When the high pressure drilling fluids are injected, they would easily flow right up that channel into the groundwater supply. They say in the propoganda that there is many thousands of feet of impermeable rock between the pay dirt layer and the groundwater, but this doesnt mean much as you just drilled a hole through it all.
They know the outer diameter of the hole they drilled, correct? They know the inner diameter of the pipe they are placing in the hole, correct? So they should know exactly how much cement is required to fill the hole, correct? Therefore, they should not need to be able to see into the hole at all. They just need to know whether or not the amount of cement poured matches their expectation +/- some margin of error.
Lost me here. Programming can definitely be a passion, and it can also be a talent. One might have a natural aptitude at programming. That doesn't mean one cannot learn the skill of programming, or that someone who finds it difficult in the beginning will not become an expert.
When non-technical people try to tell me that I must be a genius to be able to program, I always tell them that anyone can learn to write software. I do believe that certain mindsets are able to grasp the material and apply it better, but that does not prevent someone without that mindset from learning to program well. It's all just logic and some people grasp logic better than others.
"How does anyone know that the brakes need service" Not a car guy, eh? Here's a hint: that terrible screeching sound you are hearing every time you hit the breaks means you need to get new pads, IF you haven't already destroyed the rotors.
Sounds like you are not the car guy. The screech you hear can be chatter from the brake pads, or from the wear indicator. It is NOT and indication that you need to replace the brakes, it is an indication that you need to inspect the brakes. Brand new brakes can cause a screeching sound if they do not have the proper shims installed, or an anti-screech compound put onto the back of the pads.
There is nothing to cause a screeching sound that would also destroy the rotors - neither brake chatter nor the wear indicator will cause damage to the rotor. If you hear a grinding noise, then the brake pad has been worn completely away (at least in one place, or on one side of the rotor). Of course someone can hear steel on steel grinding. You can feel it in the car when the brakes are applied.
As for rear drum breaks, they are only an assist. If they go out, it just makes the front breaks wear faster.
Anyone who understands physics understands that the rear brakes do not provide as much stopping power as the front, regardless of whether they are drum or disc. However, up to 40% of your stopping power can come from the rear brakes. If you're driving without rear brakes, you had better hope you never need to make a panic stop. In a brief Googling the best I could find for you is the Motorcycle Safety Foundation's Basic Handbook that indicates that the average motorcycle has 30% of its total available braking power in the rear wheel. It does not say that the rear wheels provide nothing but brake assist, that is just absurd. And I would prefer to NOT ride in the car of someone who only has 70% of their total stopping power available to them.
I support the rights of the people, including their right to free enterprise without interference from men with guns, whether they be banditos or g-men.
You're right, people deserve freedom. However, being a member of society requires that you follow certain norms. For simplicity's sake, why don't we call these norms regulations? These regulations forbid you from murdering me, for instance. The general purpose of these regulations are to prevent injury or harm to others. If you'd like to go back to the days without any sort of government regulations, why don't we just go ahead and let you, your partner, your parents, your children, nieces, nephews, grandchildren, or any progeny of your family work in a factory for 100+ hours a week?
Its a lot like all of her memory and record keeping problems from the "White water" era.
The same White Water era in which Hillary denied the police access to the office of her and president Clinton's chief legal counsel after he was apparently murdered or had committed suicide?
Thank you. Obviously this guy has some reason to ignore reality in order to support Uber. Especially that comment about riders knowing that the driver isn't maintaining their car properly. How does anyone know that the brakes need service if they don't stick their head in the wheel well and look? Perhaps if there were no brake pads left! But with drum brakes you wouldn't even hear a sound when the brakes stopped working. And there are plenty of new base model cars with rear drum brakes.
"please enlighten me how requiring to pass a test that you fit to transport others" What is a person going to do as an Uber driver that would hurt others that he couldn't do just driving himself or his friends around? If there is a danger posed by an Uber driver, then the same danger is posed by regular drivers, and EVERYONE should be subjected to the same tests. Don't punish people for carrying out commerce. That is oppressive and hurts the people.
Someone who drives professionally spends a hell of a lot more time on the road than someone who spends 20 minutes driving to/from work each day. That means that they have a hell of a lot more of an opportunity to kill someone than the average commuter. Uber encourages these people to drive more.
"requiring more frequent car inspections (since the cars are also used much more intensely)" The cars are also owned by the drivers, who will notice when something is wrong, and get it addressed quickly, since they have to pay for it and don't want damage to compound. If the car is unsafe, the passenger will notice, give a bad rating, and complain to Uber, who will quickly deactivate the driver contengent on getting his car fixed. This is called market regulation, and it is 1000x as effective as corrupt government regulation. All you have to do is find a corrupt inspector and slip him five extra bucks and your car will pass ANY inspection.
No. Most people I know will drive around with their check engine light on for months because they don't know how to actually see what the engine code means. They also fail to maintain the emission components of their vehicles, change their oil, and a host of other small things they should be doing. Hell just a month ago I replaced the brakes and rotors on a coworker's car because she didn't realize that grinding noise she was hearing when she hit the brakes was bad.
While I feel for the family, to say that he is not overweight shows just how much society's perception of being overweight has changed.
Take a look at this picture, for instance.
And take a look at the body fat visual chart for comparison.
With the overhanging belly, he is easily 35-40% at least. While the majority of people today are fat (especially in the US), that is not healthy. If anything, until recently, 20-25% used to be average.
Above 25-30% is the fat territory, and that's when you start increasing your risk for heart attacks, diabetes, and strokes. Mr. Goldberg may have had a lot of things going for him, but he is most certainly more than a little overweight.
Assuming he's ~6 feet, I would argue that he is probably ~30-40+ lbs overweight. That is not at all healthy. I'm not arguing everyone should have abs, but there's a happy medium here. Mr. Goldberg is very clearly on the unfortunate side of the medium.
I'm 6'3. I can easily be 50 pounds overweight and not look like that guy. If he is that tall, he's got to be closer to 70-80 pounds overweight. Granted, if you look at BMI charts they think I should weigh about 20 pounds less than I do when I think I look fit and trim.
A story for those who don't understand orders of magnitude?
Seriously. I grew up in that area. One day I was standing on a stool that was unstable, it was missing a leg. A 4.0 earthquake hit about 10 miles away and I didn't even feel it on my precarious perch. I'm guessing whoever submitted this story is either not from California, or has never actually been in an earthquake before.
It is rather unlikely that any anonymous poster has a bunch of aircraft carriers handy to launch a new attack on Pearl Harbor.
Says YOU! Hasbro has been selling me aircraft carriers for dozens of years!! On the weekends I can go to a yard sale and pick up an entire armada.
They place containers of corn in plain site of their blinds for weeks, then hide out on opening day of hunting season and take the deer by the dozens
Seems like they were baiting for 'terrorists' in a similar way
Yeah it's pretty pathetic. It's illegal to bait the deer during the season (in most states, I believe), so they get the deer used to a free lunch and take it away when the season starts. That way they aren't technically breaking the law, but they are poor sportsmen. If all they want is some deer meat, perhaps they should open a deer farm.
America has more than enough problems to solve at home - like when you're going to do SOMETHING about Puerto Rico - either give them statehood or given them back their independence but right now you're conquering overlords there - no better than Iran's government.
The people of Puerto Rico have been given the choice to choose independence or statehood MANY times. The people of Puerto Rico would prefer to stay the way they are, and I don't blame them. They may not have the same legal rights as a state, but they receive all the other advantages of being US Citizens without having to pay federal income tax, in most cases:
Why would anyone need to reverse engineer open source libraries from Android?
because they are also providing MSFT implementations of the Google APIs which of course are not open source. should be easy enough. e.g., provide a maps implementation that works exactly like Google maps.
They probably are pushing Bing maps on Windows phone and so they probably just use a wrapper library that translates Android and iOS calls to the appropriate Windows Phone equivalent. From what little I saw and heard of their presentation yesterday, it sounds like you have to compile your Android and iOS apps inside of Visual studio to run it on Windows Phone 10.
Interesting. Thanks. But the entire fleet was not down, only several dozen. The ipads "powered down unexpectedly", not the type of behavior you expect from changes to a document data change, but a very common problem when an app or OS has been updated or changed in some manner.
You're right, it was just dozens - I misremembered the article. But they all appeared to be at the same time. You can't do auto update on the OS itself, though an app update could happen automatically. But supposedly they could not get the iPads to work at all without reconnecting to the airport WiFi network. That doesn't make much sense for any kind of update.
Um... Climate Change?
Here is what the sitting Dem President has to say: “I refuse to condemn your generation and future generations to a planet that’s beyond fixing.” - President Barack Obama, June 25, 2013" https://www.whitehouse.gov/ene...
Here is what the Dem candidate for President in 2016 says: "Clinton began her remarks at the National Clean Energy Summit by laying out the problems climate change is already causing today, including extreme weather and droughts. “[These are] the most consequential, urgent, sweeping collection of challenges we face,” she said. “No matter what deniers say.”" http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/hil...
Here is what the last Rep President had to say: " In 2001, President Bush decided to pull out of the negotiations for the Kyoto Protocol, a worldwide agreement to try to keep greenhouse gases down. Environmentalists were aghast. The president said he had his reasons. "That I felt the Kyoto Treaty was unrealistic. It was not based upon science. The stated that mandates in the Kyoto Treaty would affect our economy in a negative way."" http://www.npr.org/templates/s...
And here is what a Rep candidate for 2016 has to say about it: " Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, questions whether global warming is real, arguing that the "data are not supporting what the advocates are arguing." "The last 15 years, there has been no recorded warming. Contrary to all the theories that – that they are expounding, there should have been warming over the last 15 years. It hasn't happened," said Cruz." http://politicalticker.blogs.c...
So, yeah there are real differences between US political parties, particularly on the subject of this article, Climate Change
I Think that just goes to show that they target different members of the population, not that they have real meaningfully different agendas. They almost always vote the same on things like domestic spying, invading foreign countries, etc. The only thing they really fight over is how to slice the pie.
The update was likely to some item of data the application uses, not the application itself.
I don't see how you have any information to support this assumption. I'd guess its more likely an IOS update and some resulting incompatibility. Updating the data itself is probably the least likely change to cause error. Also, that data probably doesn't change very often, so it would have been pretty obvious if that were a root cause.
The evidence to suggest that it was a data change and not an application update was that their entire fleet of 737's was down. There was no report of another airframe being affected. Also, the data does change on a regular basis. From the FAA:
These ipads were replacements for a big bag of relatively static documentation. For that purpose, you'd think that you would freeze the iOS version for long periods of time(and have IT test the hell out of any updates), and have a similarly static app that Nobody Touches without substantial approval, with only some PDF or HTML documents specific to the flight swapped out as needed.
The data is not static. And the fact that it happened only to the 737 aircraft in the fleet suggests that it had something to do with data that was specific to this aircraft and not the application or iPad OS itself.
Redundancy doesn't need to be hardcopies. Either bring backup I-pads, or better maybe a backup windows tab so you have both diversity and redundancy. Also, since this happened to many at about the same time, I assume an update or change was to blame. Don't update these unless there is a reason. And test if you do update, or keep a non-updated backup on hand until the update is proven reliable.
The update was likely to some item of data the application uses, not the application itself. Otherwise it would have affected the entire AA fleet and not just 737's. This data is updated frequently and using old data could be dangerous to that flight and other planes in the air.
But there are millions of flights every years. So are you saying that they saved $1 per flight? Wouldn't it make sense to keep copies of the manual around at the airport so that they could use them if necessary? It wouldn't have any fuel costs to keep them on the ground.
Try each airline is saving millions of dollars of fuel, not the industry as a whole. And it's not just fuel, they have to worry about these things being out of date - version control is critical with this data. So they also spend money on having people verify that the pilots have the correct data that could be used for other purposes.
Were that the case then the woman would not have custody of the child.
Again it all comes down to the welfare of the child. If the child has never seen his father, then ripping the child out of the home of its mother would not be in the best interest of the child. You can look at a court case, or talk to a lawyer and you'll see that in this case the father would almost certainly be held liable for support, regardless of whether or not he was involved in the life of the child. And even if the father is involved, he would not likely be granted sole custody just because the mother lost her job, or was otherwise on state assistance. That would just be ridiculous in cases where the mother was, for instance, a stay at home mom prior to a divorce or separation.
So, the issue with those eggs set aside is child support. If she signs something to the effect that he's not on the hook for any of the child support... I'd see no reason for him to care one way or the other.
The support is to provide for the needs of the child, not the mother. The right of child support belongs with the child, and not the mother. The mother is the custodian of the support. The mother can claim that she will never request child support, but the state can garnish money from the father whether the mother likes it or not. If the mother ever goes on welfare, WIC, or the child on medicare, the state will seek repayment for its expenses from the father regardless of the mother's thoughts on the matter.