For someone who is regarded as a champion of minority and poor rights, this is a super crappy way to treat the people who most need tax help. Take this guy's name off all the public projects named after him!
About 5 years ago, Google Maps relied heavily on a huge group of local volunteer editors to maintain their map. Now they've all been banned from direct map edits and all that work has been moved to a tiny closed group that's likely thousands of miles from you and thus who could care less.
To my knowledge, Waze and Open Street Maps are the only maps still maintained by local volunteers. This is why Waze is so much more responsive to problems.
What better routing are you talking about? Many times I've seen Google Maps take months to add new roadways - even freeways - to the app. Waze almost always has them the day they open or a very shortly thereafter.
Google is maintained by disinterested people in another country. Waze is maintained by local editors who know what's going on in their town. Tell me which is better.
And FYI, Waze uses both Google as well as its own internal database for searches. I don't see how having less data makes Google Maps better.
The key to finding qualified people is asking simple questions about tasks developers do every day such as conditional statements, code check-in, and HTML/CSS. Who writes a sort every day? This has worked perfectly for me all but one time. Ironically, that person had a double Masters degree. They couldn't get the simplest tasks done.
But attitude is far more important than coding prowess. Flawed personalities kill teams.
I can't speak for Google Maps, but I can for Waze, another navigation app. I'd be surprised if Google Maps works differently.
1) Trip times are a combination of historical trip times and current traffic conditions. Was this purported 11 hour trip time during a time of bad traffic?
2) If there is no (cell) data reception, historical and current times don't get set. Default times for road segments are often extremely high.
3) There's an option to "avoid unpaved roads". Presumably in the Outback there are many unpaved roads and if that option is set the result would be a more circuitous route.
Navigation systems promote destination-oriented driving. That likely causes some roadside businesses to suffer. In the days of paper maps, drivers focused on glancing at the map and looking for the right street sign. Hence, they would more easily notice a business sign or otherwise cool-looking side stop. With navigation apps, significantly less attention needs to be made outside the vehicle - just turn when it says so.
Everyone should use Waze. In most countries, their maps are maintained by local volunteers. Thus, drivers are more likely to get accurate mapping from someone knowledgeable and who has pride in the area. Call it selfish if you wish because it helps them - but the side effect is other drivers have a better experience. I've reported problems with Google Maps years ago that have never been fixed. Waze volunteers typically have things fixed in a few days.
For our users we chose the Dell XPS 13 with i7 processor and SSD. Fantastic combination of processing power and portability. When they are in the office, they dock at a Plugable USB-C Triple Display docking station.
Dell has good support too. We had one go bad, but even with Dell's lowest-tier support we had it fixed and back to us in about a week.
For small companies like yours, Office 365 provides everything most employees need - even cloud-based phone if you add Skype for Business.
How are they subpar? Most use the exact same base service (AT&T, T-Mobile, Sprint) as the name brand. Sorry not sorry if no one has told you that your Lincoln is just a Ford with a different coat.
I do all scheduled maintenance on my cars. But within 4 years, I had $4,000+ in major unantipated repairs on my new Honda Accord. My new Dodge Charger is under $500 for the same time period. And it has heated and cooled cup holders.
Hey Council Member, why not propose a city budget with more police and other enforcement so businesses will feel more comfortable with the risk of cash? I'm pretty sure the NYC robbery, larceny, and embezzlement rate is not zero.
And let's not forget what a Tesla does when it can't find the stripes: it follows the vehicle in front of it. Lawyers can't wait 'til a drunk driver leads a train of Telsas off a cliff.
I'm just a decent below-tournament-level player and have been raged on countless times. I've even been banned from servers by admins who did no know how to play. Calling me a cheater is bad enough, but they often go on to threaten my life because they lost a lowly video game. After their rant, besides the obvious "get more practice", I offer them gaming advice like considering the purchase of surround sound headphones, not walking their character in the middle of the street, considering clearing the room with a flashbang/grenade before charging in, etc. My offer of help is always rewarded with more rage. Clearly they cannot identify themselves as the problem.
And so, if you want to know what caused this, there you go.
I used to work at a gaming company. For years before I arrived, they used Microsoft Access to pick locations to drop winning prize packages. This was for games like cereal boxes with a winning game piece glued inside. It was just basic VBA - seed random number generator with date/time, then pick a "random" row from a table of zip codes. Apparently it had held up to audit (full disclosure, this was circa 2000).
Once I was there, for a new game project, my proposal was to use a raffle drum (which we did actually possess), purchase true random number generation equipment, or disclose that computer selection would be "pseudo-random". I literally got screamed at by a vice president for that. They wanted a shortcut to glory: quick, cheap, fast, and easy. Thankfully I got backing from our tech-saavy CIO and my proposal went forward as-is.
Never got an apology from the VP, though. Less than two years later, they were out of business. The reason?
Most of their clients fired them after a massive scandal caused by taking shortcuts on security and procedural oversight.
Yet another example of a citzen getting shot at while obeying an officer's orders. He was told to put up his hands and got the blam, blam, blam for doing so.
I'm sure anyone with an IQ of at least 80 will realize when you ask someone for their license they're going to reach somewhere. So perhaps an IQ test for officers?
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For someone who is regarded as a champion of minority and poor rights, this is a super crappy way to treat the people who most need tax help. Take this guy's name off all the public projects named after him!
About 5 years ago, Google Maps relied heavily on a huge group of local volunteer editors to maintain their map. Now they've all been banned from direct map edits and all that work has been moved to a tiny closed group that's likely thousands of miles from you and thus who could care less.
To my knowledge, Waze and Open Street Maps are the only maps still maintained by local volunteers. This is why Waze is so much more responsive to problems.
What better routing are you talking about? Many times I've seen Google Maps take months to add new roadways - even freeways - to the app. Waze almost always has them the day they open or a very shortly thereafter.
Google is maintained by disinterested people in another country. Waze is maintained by local editors who know what's going on in their town. Tell me which is better.
And FYI, Waze uses both Google as well as its own internal database for searches. I don't see how having less data makes Google Maps better.
The key to finding qualified people is asking simple questions about tasks developers do every day such as conditional statements, code check-in, and HTML/CSS. Who writes a sort every day? This has worked perfectly for me all but one time. Ironically, that person had a double Masters degree. They couldn't get the simplest tasks done.
But attitude is far more important than coding prowess. Flawed personalities kill teams.
I can't speak for Google Maps, but I can for Waze, another navigation app. I'd be surprised if Google Maps works differently.
1) Trip times are a combination of historical trip times and current traffic conditions. Was this purported 11 hour trip time during a time of bad traffic?
2) If there is no (cell) data reception, historical and current times don't get set. Default times for road segments are often extremely high.
3) There's an option to "avoid unpaved roads". Presumably in the Outback there are many unpaved roads and if that option is set the result would be a more circuitous route.
Navigation systems promote destination-oriented driving. That likely causes some roadside businesses to suffer. In the days of paper maps, drivers focused on glancing at the map and looking for the right street sign. Hence, they would more easily notice a business sign or otherwise cool-looking side stop. With navigation apps, significantly less attention needs to be made outside the vehicle - just turn when it says so.
Everyone should use Waze. In most countries, their maps are maintained by local volunteers. Thus, drivers are more likely to get accurate mapping from someone knowledgeable and who has pride in the area. Call it selfish if you wish because it helps them - but the side effect is other drivers have a better experience. I've reported problems with Google Maps years ago that have never been fixed. Waze volunteers typically have things fixed in a few days.
For our users we chose the Dell XPS 13 with i7 processor and SSD. Fantastic combination of processing power and portability. When they are in the office, they dock at a Plugable USB-C Triple Display docking station.
Dell has good support too. We had one go bad, but even with Dell's lowest-tier support we had it fixed and back to us in about a week.
For small companies like yours, Office 365 provides everything most employees need - even cloud-based phone if you add Skype for Business.
...still waiting on microSD card slot...
Own your content and control how it is displayed. Is that too hard?
Teenager "invents" device to solve complex engineering problem. Project fails. Gee, didn't see that coming.
Chinese Wasted Trillions on Authoritarianism
...now let me be sure my Tor was working correctly throughout the posting of this comment...
How are they subpar? Most use the exact same base service (AT&T, T-Mobile, Sprint) as the name brand. Sorry not sorry if no one has told you that your Lincoln is just a Ford with a different coat.
A manager should talk to staff every day. It builds trust and a connection and they'll quickly learn who the untrustworthy ones are.
Perhaps with more experience and education you'll have better words than "retarded".
I do all scheduled maintenance on my cars. But within 4 years, I had $4,000+ in major unantipated repairs on my new Honda Accord. My new Dodge Charger is under $500 for the same time period. And it has heated and cooled cup holders.
Hey Council Member, why not propose a city budget with more police and other enforcement so businesses will feel more comfortable with the risk of cash? I'm pretty sure the NYC robbery, larceny, and embezzlement rate is not zero.
If you're a manager and need a fingerprint scanner to tell whether your employees are at work, please relinquish the title to someone more qualified.
Shaming is working great so far. We keep reminding fat people they are unattractive and lazy. See how the world is now skinny?
Stripes painted by Wile E. Coyote ...or the DOT
Tesla dutifuly follows stripes into wall
And let's not forget what a Tesla does when it can't find the stripes: it follows the vehicle in front of it. Lawyers can't wait 'til a drunk driver leads a train of Telsas off a cliff.
Game rage, pure and simple.
I'm just a decent below-tournament-level player and have been raged on countless times. I've even been banned from servers by admins who did no know how to play. Calling me a cheater is bad enough, but they often go on to threaten my life because they lost a lowly video game. After their rant, besides the obvious "get more practice", I offer them gaming advice like considering the purchase of surround sound headphones, not walking their character in the middle of the street, considering clearing the room with a flashbang/grenade before charging in, etc. My offer of help is always rewarded with more rage. Clearly they cannot identify themselves as the problem.
And so, if you want to know what caused this, there you go.
Let only one black person vote? It won't let ANY. It can't see black people.
...you posted in a public forum and didn't expect the public to discuss? n00b.
Managers don’t wish to collaborate because they don't work in an open environment.
Spending On Frivolous Things is the Number-One Way To Guess if You'll Stay Rich or Not, Research Finds
I used to work at a gaming company. For years before I arrived, they used Microsoft Access to pick locations to drop winning prize packages. This was for games like cereal boxes with a winning game piece glued inside. It was just basic VBA - seed random number generator with date/time, then pick a "random" row from a table of zip codes. Apparently it had held up to audit (full disclosure, this was circa 2000).
Once I was there, for a new game project, my proposal was to use a raffle drum (which we did actually possess), purchase true random number generation equipment, or disclose that computer selection would be "pseudo-random". I literally got screamed at by a vice president for that. They wanted a shortcut to glory: quick, cheap, fast, and easy. Thankfully I got backing from our tech-saavy CIO and my proposal went forward as-is.
Never got an apology from the VP, though. Less than two years later, they were out of business. The reason?
Most of their clients fired them after a massive scandal caused by taking shortcuts on security and procedural oversight.
Yes. By definition aren't subways ... subterranean?
Yet another example of a citzen getting shot at while obeying an officer's orders. He was told to put up his hands and got the blam, blam, blam for doing so.
I'm sure anyone with an IQ of at least 80 will realize when you ask someone for their license they're going to reach somewhere. So perhaps an IQ test for officers?
"Can you get out your license and insurance?" Blam blam blam
"Can I see your license please?" Blam blam blam