As someone who still enjoys working on cars, even modern ones, I say yes. I've got a very nice OBD-II tool but I have to pay an extra $400 to be able to read a small portion of BMW codes, another $400 for Mercedes, $400 for Subaru, $400 for Honda, etc etc etc. And that doesn't even cover all of the latest and greatest codes, either. What is the point of having an ODB-II standard if every manufacturer can chose to encrypt their manufacturer specific codes? Of course, I also wonder why we have a ClearQAM standard when cable companies can still force you to use a cable card / cable box to watch TV, so what do I know?
Anyone who has been to London knows that those boxes, as well as the red phone booths, are perfect for putting up ads with half naked women (escorts perhaps?). What better reason to keep them around?
First of all, I said glance, not scan. There is a huge difference. When you scan something, you look at it thoroughly. Secondly if I am talking then yes I will say "One second" but I am not going to interrupt someone in the middle of a sentence to glance at my phone. I consider it to be far more rude to interrupt someone in the middle of speaking. I can apologize to them after they are done talking. Finally, I can glance at my phone without even taking it all the way out of my pocket. I'd be willing to bet you glance away the person you are talking to all the time, is that any more rude?
seems to be generational but my younger friends (20's) are always checking their phones, even while I'm talking to them at dinner or a social event!
what the hell. since when was that good manners?
since never. but few seem to care.
additionally, look at the younger crowd as they walk on the public streets. if there isn't a pair of white wires coming out of their ears and their stand perma-pointed downward, then they are the odd one out.
this is directly related to attention span and constantly 'needing' to be connected.
time will tell, but I don't think this is a foward step.
If I get a text message while talking to you, I'll pull out my phone and check it. Same way that I would check my phone for a call if one came in while we were takling. Is it rude? I don't think so. Will I respond to the message, or even do more than glance at it? Not likely. Would it be good manners for me to be upset if you checked your phone during a social event? What if your wife was calling and it was an emergency? Who the hell am I to judge you? Now if you spent the entire conversation texting and browsing the web, then I would consider that rude.
Well the F-35 was jointly developed with the UK and other nations. We will definitely be sharing it with those, and other nations that are considered trusted. We sell Apaches to Egypt, Kuwait, Qatar, Isreal, and a lot of other countries. Do we sell them a B2 bomber? Nope. Is it possible that we'll sell an F-35 to someone, who will then resell it to another nation? Perhaps, but they would be cut off from future parts and aircraft if they are caught doing so without permission.
Dude. You used to work with the militarydoing "Information Services" and you've never heard of ITAR? Why don't you work for the military anymore, are you at Ft Leavenworth or what? They don't just let anyone buy that stuff, and there are serious consequences for breaking the rules. Selling a "Training Aid" to Indonesia that violates ITARS is a big no-no. I know someone who is a corporate lawyer for Northrup Grumman whose sole job is to find employees authorizing such sales and helping the federal government prosecute them. It carries a very stiff penalty.
I have read the book, actually. In its entirety. I don't like Russian authors. Crime and Punishment and Anna Karenina were not in my tastes either. I would rather read Dickens, Hugo or Dumas any day of the week. Maybe I just don't get the Russian mentality, and you do. However, it was definitely very dry and boring to me.
Actually I got an email from BestBuy begging me to come wait in line at the local stores, too. I personally hate best buy, but there really is no where else to go around here (so I am a reward zone member). When I saw the email I thought "This must be for something next week..." not even realizing that its November already.
I think we can all agree that War and Peace was a very long and dry book. The fact that there is no UN resolution stating the same is due to the fact that Russia and the former USSR have veto power in the UN.
Probably so its not a hassle to friends and family, if they change numbers. Not to mention if you find a new friend, or go to a new doctor's office. I know my doctor calls from a completely separate number than the one that you call when you need an appointment.
Gyroscopes are very very important to the maintenance and operation of all aircraft, as well as inertial navigation systems. For instance, gyroscopes help you to determine where you are when your GPS has failed, or if GPS does not exist. I'm not sure how useful that would be with space, I'm no physicist. But they also use gyroscopes to make sure mechanical parts are still operating within specification. This allows them to use the part until it falls out of spec, instead of replacing a part every 500 flight hours because they know the part will last at least that long. It saves the government a ton of money, and they're trying to roll them out wherever possible. The gyros are also helpful when an in-flight failure occurs, often helping the computer diagnose the exact problem. This allows the pilot to more accurately determine whether he needs to make an emergency landing, or RTB. The big push for this all happened after Blackhawk Down, and the pilots who crashed because they did not realize their tail rotor was about to fail. That is the exact sort of failure a gyroscope could have warned them about.
I can't believe you just said that. XCode is THE worse IDE I have ever had the pleasure of using. I mean the code formatting and all of that is great, but the debugger is still a steaming pile of shiz. I have to restart XCode 3+ times a day because it hangs starting the debugger and then the only choice I have is to force quit. Sometimes it leaves zombie GDB processes that I have to look for on the command-line just so that I can get rid of the "Can't start your app because the debugger is already running" BS that happens to me all the time. And don't get me started on the random FCs. But it is pretty looking, I'll give you that.
Then the debugger is also a great tool (even though I think you should first think, then code, then think again and only as a last resort start the debugger).
That is where our philosophies differ. As soon as I feel like I understand what the code is supposed to do, I go straight to the debugger. If the code isn't doing things as I understand it, then the easiest way to see where it veers off course is the debugger. Once I confirm that my understanding of the code is correct, or incorrect, then I sit back and think about why the code is doing the wrong thing, and what the correct way to fix it is. Why should I just think I know what the issue is, when I can see it with my own eyes and verify it? Of course, some issues are not reproducible, or even occasionally happen in system libraries that you cannot debug. So the debugger is not the end all, be all of development tools, but it is very useful.
You don't use an umbrella in a hurricane. The wind will turn the damn thing inside out. Besides, umbrellas are relatively pointless anyway. I don't mind getting a little wet.
a Floridian was killed by Tropical Storm Faye after he was impaled on a pole when his Sailboard was picked up and thrown onto land by the wind. I think he went flying over 50 linear feet before he fell.
Well I won't claim to be an expert on IQ tests, but I am pretty sure I took the entire test they planned. And it was a long time ago, I don't remember it very well anymore. I just remember solving puzzles. There were also some verbal questions, probably. I don't remember that part very well at all. The person definitely asked me a lot of questions, I just don't know whether it was part of the test. Some of the questions involved asking why I took a particular approach to a problem, if I recall correctly.
That's what I figure, but you never know. If they started blasting everyone with machine gun fire I suppose the defense could argue that they did that to incapacitate the hijackers and prevent even more killing? Still it seems like a very aggressive approach to a problem that may have better solutions.
No I don't. In fact a few years ago I had a head injury and am definitely not as smart as I used to be. Besides, you never know, I could have grown up in some redneck school where anything higher than 100 was considered abnormal. Or what if they thought they saw me looking at other peoples tests? There could be a million reasons why they thought I cheated, and I never specified which. I don't even know what the results of said test were, because my parents would not tell me.
Most IQ tests are in written form, so they can only be administered to children and adults old enough to read. So, only people who've been exposed to at least kindergarten plus (for a lot of people) preschool.
I am not a teacher, but I would venture to say that a whole buckload of evidence-based developmental psychology has gone into improving the educational system since 1912. Plus, things like school enrollment have gone way up. In 1912 a lot of rural kids -- and most people lived in the country -- went to one-room schoolhouses.
So I would think that IQ scores should go up in the competency areas schools have been trying to cultivate. And I would say, thinking about how different the education system probably is today, I'd be more surprised if nothing had changed.
They do have non-written IQ tests that they give in certain circumstances. My school had me take an IQ test in 4th grade. They thought I cheated on it and made me take it again. The second time I was being monitored by someone from the school district. The second test they gave me was not written at all. They gave me physical puzzles and had me solve different challenges and measured the time it took me to solve each puzzle. I don't know how accurate the written test is compared to the physical test, but I am sure it is much more expensive to administer the second test over the first.
And I thought I woke up on the wrong side of the bed this morning. I was half serious buddy. Everyone looks at those things and thinks they look silly. No one thinks "That person should be tossed into jail for that!" Just because something looks silly doesn't mean its not useful or practical.
Certainly if the cabin were depressurized at altitude, the bad guys would need to get an air mask on pronto or pass out. But a lot of innocent people could be killed. I'm not sure how the legal system would react.
Certainly, I will agree that the way the mortgages was sold was immoral and risky. I also agree that the loans were given to unqualified borrowers due to a loosening of federal regulations. Part of the reason that the investment bankers were going buck wild, though, is due to the fact that banks could all of the sudden start investing some of their holdings. They were also able to merge with investment houses. So then you ended up with banks like Goldman Sachs betting against their own customer's investments. Its asinine. Like I said in my other comment, I believe that everyone has unique talents, but morality is not common. So feel free to be pessimistic about the integrity of humans.
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The codes are encrypted. Your device cannot even read the codes w/o an encryption key.
As someone who still enjoys working on cars, even modern ones, I say yes. I've got a very nice OBD-II tool but I have to pay an extra $400 to be able to read a small portion of BMW codes, another $400 for Mercedes, $400 for Subaru, $400 for Honda, etc etc etc. And that doesn't even cover all of the latest and greatest codes, either. What is the point of having an ODB-II standard if every manufacturer can chose to encrypt their manufacturer specific codes? Of course, I also wonder why we have a ClearQAM standard when cable companies can still force you to use a cable card / cable box to watch TV, so what do I know?
Anyone who has been to London knows that those boxes, as well as the red phone booths, are perfect for putting up ads with half naked women (escorts perhaps?). What better reason to keep them around?
First of all, I said glance, not scan. There is a huge difference. When you scan something, you look at it thoroughly. Secondly if I am talking then yes I will say "One second" but I am not going to interrupt someone in the middle of a sentence to glance at my phone. I consider it to be far more rude to interrupt someone in the middle of speaking. I can apologize to them after they are done talking. Finally, I can glance at my phone without even taking it all the way out of my pocket. I'd be willing to bet you glance away the person you are talking to all the time, is that any more rude?
while out?
seems to be generational but my younger friends (20's) are always checking their phones, even while I'm talking to them at dinner or a social event!
what the hell. since when was that good manners?
since never. but few seem to care.
additionally, look at the younger crowd as they walk on the public streets. if there isn't a pair of white wires coming out of their ears and their stand perma-pointed downward, then they are the odd one out.
this is directly related to attention span and constantly 'needing' to be connected.
time will tell, but I don't think this is a foward step.
If I get a text message while talking to you, I'll pull out my phone and check it. Same way that I would check my phone for a call if one came in while we were takling. Is it rude? I don't think so. Will I respond to the message, or even do more than glance at it? Not likely. Would it be good manners for me to be upset if you checked your phone during a social event? What if your wife was calling and it was an emergency? Who the hell am I to judge you? Now if you spent the entire conversation texting and browsing the web, then I would consider that rude.
Well the F-35 was jointly developed with the UK and other nations. We will definitely be sharing it with those, and other nations that are considered trusted. We sell Apaches to Egypt, Kuwait, Qatar, Isreal, and a lot of other countries. Do we sell them a B2 bomber? Nope. Is it possible that we'll sell an F-35 to someone, who will then resell it to another nation? Perhaps, but they would be cut off from future parts and aircraft if they are caught doing so without permission.
Dude. You used to work with the militarydoing "Information Services" and you've never heard of ITAR? Why don't you work for the military anymore, are you at Ft Leavenworth or what? They don't just let anyone buy that stuff, and there are serious consequences for breaking the rules. Selling a "Training Aid" to Indonesia that violates ITARS is a big no-no. I know someone who is a corporate lawyer for Northrup Grumman whose sole job is to find employees authorizing such sales and helping the federal government prosecute them. It carries a very stiff penalty.
I have read the book, actually. In its entirety. I don't like Russian authors. Crime and Punishment and Anna Karenina were not in my tastes either. I would rather read Dickens, Hugo or Dumas any day of the week. Maybe I just don't get the Russian mentality, and you do. However, it was definitely very dry and boring to me.
Actually I got an email from BestBuy begging me to come wait in line at the local stores, too. I personally hate best buy, but there really is no where else to go around here (so I am a reward zone member). When I saw the email I thought "This must be for something next week..." not even realizing that its November already.
I think we can all agree that War and Peace was a very long and dry book. The fact that there is no UN resolution stating the same is due to the fact that Russia and the former USSR have veto power in the UN.
Probably so its not a hassle to friends and family, if they change numbers. Not to mention if you find a new friend, or go to a new doctor's office. I know my doctor calls from a completely separate number than the one that you call when you need an appointment.
Gyroscopes are very very important to the maintenance and operation of all aircraft, as well as inertial navigation systems. For instance, gyroscopes help you to determine where you are when your GPS has failed, or if GPS does not exist. I'm not sure how useful that would be with space, I'm no physicist. But they also use gyroscopes to make sure mechanical parts are still operating within specification. This allows them to use the part until it falls out of spec, instead of replacing a part every 500 flight hours because they know the part will last at least that long. It saves the government a ton of money, and they're trying to roll them out wherever possible. The gyros are also helpful when an in-flight failure occurs, often helping the computer diagnose the exact problem. This allows the pilot to more accurately determine whether he needs to make an emergency landing, or RTB. The big push for this all happened after Blackhawk Down, and the pilots who crashed because they did not realize their tail rotor was about to fail. That is the exact sort of failure a gyroscope could have warned them about.
No I have the exact same issues on a MBP and a Mac Mini. Coworkers report the same issues w/ xcode. Its been an issue since at least 4.3
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* Error highlighting (XCode FTW)
I can't believe you just said that. XCode is THE worse IDE I have ever had the pleasure of using. I mean the code formatting and all of that is great, but the debugger is still a steaming pile of shiz. I have to restart XCode 3+ times a day because it hangs starting the debugger and then the only choice I have is to force quit. Sometimes it leaves zombie GDB processes that I have to look for on the command-line just so that I can get rid of the "Can't start your app because the debugger is already running" BS that happens to me all the time. And don't get me started on the random FCs. But it is pretty looking, I'll give you that.
Then the debugger is also a great tool (even though I think you should first think, then code, then think again and only as a last resort start the debugger).
That is where our philosophies differ. As soon as I feel like I understand what the code is supposed to do, I go straight to the debugger. If the code isn't doing things as I understand it, then the easiest way to see where it veers off course is the debugger. Once I confirm that my understanding of the code is correct, or incorrect, then I sit back and think about why the code is doing the wrong thing, and what the correct way to fix it is. Why should I just think I know what the issue is, when I can see it with my own eyes and verify it? Of course, some issues are not reproducible, or even occasionally happen in system libraries that you cannot debug. So the debugger is not the end all, be all of development tools, but it is very useful.
You don't use an umbrella in a hurricane. The wind will turn the damn thing inside out. Besides, umbrellas are relatively pointless anyway. I don't mind getting a little wet.
a Floridian was killed by Tropical Storm Faye after he was impaled on a pole when his Sailboard was picked up and thrown onto land by the wind. I think he went flying over 50 linear feet before he fell.
Sandy is blowing outside right now. It is no big deal down here, but you never know what will happen when it heads north.
Well I won't claim to be an expert on IQ tests, but I am pretty sure I took the entire test they planned. And it was a long time ago, I don't remember it very well anymore. I just remember solving puzzles. There were also some verbal questions, probably. I don't remember that part very well at all. The person definitely asked me a lot of questions, I just don't know whether it was part of the test. Some of the questions involved asking why I took a particular approach to a problem, if I recall correctly.
That's what I figure, but you never know. If they started blasting everyone with machine gun fire I suppose the defense could argue that they did that to incapacitate the hijackers and prevent even more killing? Still it seems like a very aggressive approach to a problem that may have better solutions.
No I don't. In fact a few years ago I had a head injury and am definitely not as smart as I used to be. Besides, you never know, I could have grown up in some redneck school where anything higher than 100 was considered abnormal. Or what if they thought they saw me looking at other peoples tests? There could be a million reasons why they thought I cheated, and I never specified which. I don't even know what the results of said test were, because my parents would not tell me.
Most IQ tests are in written form, so they can only be administered to children and adults old enough to read. So, only people who've been exposed to at least kindergarten plus (for a lot of people) preschool.
I am not a teacher, but I would venture to say that a whole buckload of evidence-based developmental psychology has gone into improving the educational system since 1912. Plus, things like school enrollment have gone way up. In 1912 a lot of rural kids -- and most people lived in the country -- went to one-room schoolhouses.
So I would think that IQ scores should go up in the competency areas schools have been trying to cultivate. And I would say, thinking about how different the education system probably is today, I'd be more surprised if nothing had changed.
They do have non-written IQ tests that they give in certain circumstances. My school had me take an IQ test in 4th grade. They thought I cheated on it and made me take it again. The second time I was being monitored by someone from the school district. The second test they gave me was not written at all. They gave me physical puzzles and had me solve different challenges and measured the time it took me to solve each puzzle. I don't know how accurate the written test is compared to the physical test, but I am sure it is much more expensive to administer the second test over the first.
And I thought I woke up on the wrong side of the bed this morning. I was half serious buddy. Everyone looks at those things and thinks they look silly. No one thinks "That person should be tossed into jail for that!" Just because something looks silly doesn't mean its not useful or practical.
Certainly if the cabin were depressurized at altitude, the bad guys would need to get an air mask on pronto or pass out. But a lot of innocent people could be killed. I'm not sure how the legal system would react.
Certainly, I will agree that the way the mortgages was sold was immoral and risky. I also agree that the loans were given to unqualified borrowers due to a loosening of federal regulations. Part of the reason that the investment bankers were going buck wild, though, is due to the fact that banks could all of the sudden start investing some of their holdings. They were also able to merge with investment houses. So then you ended up with banks like Goldman Sachs betting against their own customer's investments. Its asinine. Like I said in my other comment, I believe that everyone has unique talents, but morality is not common. So feel free to be pessimistic about the integrity of humans.