The trend for "organic" food goes along with the trend for "clean eating", and the subject of this story says that too.
"Organic" food consumers are not focused on environmental friendliness - typically the production methods allow use of old-fashioned pesticides like copper sulphate (which persists in soil and is toxic in large quantities) and over-fertilisation with manures that cause runoff into watersheds and it is often transported long distances. Those who eat "Organic" food that is not local are deluding themselves that they have a lower environmental impact on the world.
"Organic" food is about seeking purity, about hygiene in personal life, in feeling that the consumer of the "organic" food is preventing themselves from being contaminated by the world around them. It is elitist food for the isolationist, elitist richer consumer.
So this "clean meat" is just meat for the hygiene-obssessed elite.
The interior designer they poached from Volvo clearly hasn't had time to improve anything yet. Since he was only hired 6 months ago, this design pre-dates him, and you can tell. It's terrible.
All the display is to the side - so you have to look sidways and down to find out anything about the vehicle, even its speed. That means you are not looking at the road for longer.
The display is high gloss - so you have to look through reflections and highlights to read the screen, it is not shaded from outside light at all. That means you are not looking at the road for longer and get more eyestrain.
Trying to adjust any functions of the car without tactile feedback means you have to not only look to find what to press, but look to confirm the action happened correctly - so you spend longer looking at the controls and less at the road.
It looks like an ergonomic failure and an unpleasant car to drive which reduces safety by increasing driver distraction.
I don't even know if the seats are any good; the Model S seats certainly aren't.
Then there is "unlock via app". So, what happens if your phone and the car are not online to the Internet? The Model S app-unlock is via the Internet, not any short range connection like Bluetooth. Let alone if your phone gets r00ted and the app key is stolen. There's a backup physical key - but if I have to remember to carry the physical key all the time what is the point of app-unlock anyway? They might as well implement having a key you have to have near the car for more reliable unlocking and better security - like every other car manufacturer. This is just more Internet of Shit Things (that spy on you).
If the browser loads the complete user experience for every online service, there are no apps from the app store and there is no revenue from the app store.
Apple wants apps that install on the device, and has done so ever since they started the app store. They want the money from the app store and they want the control over what runs on the hardware they sell.
This isn't the first time that Mobile Safari has been seen to be deficient in capabilities compared to other mobile browsers, and it's because Apple doesn't want browsers, they want apps, via their app store, giving them control over the whole device user experience and revenue from the whole user experience.
I'm not quite sure where the "Adblue tank too small" can come in. My (German) car's Adblue tank holds enough for at least 11000 miles (18000km) of driving, which is the farthest I have driven it between services, where it is filled up. A work colleague's non-German car (with higher fuel consumption, it's an SUV) still runs about 10k miles between Adblue fill-ups. Meanwhile Adblue is very cheap if you go to a service station that caters for goods vehicles. Of course you can pay a huge premium for some dealer brand-name Adblue - that's like going to a name brand PC dealer and buying their manufacturer brand USB cable instead of some other one.
So, I'm not sure how much this holds water. Or adblue.
Tegel has security at the gate so you would have to go through security screening there. Schönefeld perhaps not (I don't go there much), and if you don't leave the secure zone of most airports in Europe you do not need to be re-screened if you transfer, exactly like in the USA.
Are you sure your ESTA was not checked electronically? Most airlines will integrate their departure control system with the CBP ESTA system so that passport details can be checked with the CBP to ensure there is a valid ESTA at time of check-in or boarding, and if this check is successful then you will notice nothing as you board the aircraft. Only if the check fails will your boarding be denied, as in the case in the story above.
Note that his ESTA was approved, then rescinded. Someone specifically went to withdraw his approval after it was issued. That is not lazy non approval, that is malicious retroactive denial.
Even if you are eligible for a visa waiver, you have to get an electronic authorisation to travel from the Electronic System for Travel Authorisation.
I.e. you have to pass a check to have your visa waived, before you can try to have your visa waived, and your approval can be withdrawn at any time. Neither ESTA nor even a visa is reliable, you are still at risk of being refused (and losing your money on hotels, flight tickets, your business, travel, or study opportunity, etc). The USA (and some other countries) cannot be trusted to be reliable in this, the USA in particular.
So, will Mozilla (and other multinational organisations) stop holding their all employee meetings in the USA and instead choose a place with a better admissions policy?
Come on, Americans: time to get on an international flight to meet up with the world, instead of us having to run the CBP gauntlet every time.
The form estimates it will take 60 minutes to fill in. Only a very parochial American, like Trump, could find out all their travel, passport, and social media details within 60 minutes.
Anyone who travels for work, or lives in a smaller country near other countries, or likes personal travel, will take 60 minutes to find their travel history for the past year, or less. It would take days of work to collect 15 years of details.
I estimate that most of my work colleagues would find it impossible to collect travel details for 15 years, or social media handles for 15 years. They might not even remember where they lived 15 years ago.
This is an impossible task to complete precisely for most people. It is also impossible for the US government to verify that the person has submitted all the information asked for. Therefore it is both unreasonable for the applicant and wasteful for the US government.
All of the US Constitution applies to citizens, resident non-citizens, and visiting non-resident non-citizens - except being able to vote or to become President. Those are the only parts of the Constitution (as amended) that limit to whom they apply based on citizenship. The rights, for example, of freedom from unreasonable search and seizure, of freedom from lengthy detention or cruel and unusual punishment, of trial by jury only after indictment, protecting free speech, strictly defining treason, and so on apply to foreign residents and visitors as to citizens.
The current US President (Trump) and his administration are wilfully ignoring this fact. The previous US President (Obama) and his administration followed the Constitution on this matter in nearly all (but not every) case.
Therefore this bill should apply to Americans also, and it might well be deemed unconstitutional not to extend to visitors a protection afforded to citzens in line with a Constitutional right.
There's no suggestion that the remote workers can't collaborate well or that IBM can't use the technology to do so. This move is stated to be based on an assertion by an upper manager that her people will work better in the same office, and that's an unsupported assertion. This stated reason may not even be the real reason (as noted in several comments here, this will cause people to leave the company, which may be convenient for her).
Back when Furbies were new, several colleagues and I put several of them in a quiet meeting room in a circle, and waited for them to quieten down. We then said something to one of them, and left them to it. This was around 1997.
The chance of a Furby replying to another Furby signal, sound, etc, is not quite 1.0 so the loop gain of the circle was less than 1, but it still took hours for them to finally stop burbling at each other. Being nerds, we were amused.
Getting talking automata to talk to each other is not new:)
Beijing itself is fairly clean for a developing economy capital. Most of the cars are pretty new, there are not too many two-stroke tuktuks or scooters, etc. There aren't that many factories within city limits, as most were all closed or moved for the 2008 Olympics. The pollution isn't generated in the city. That's why you see the dramatic video online of "smog sweeping in" - it arrives from elsewhere, you can see it at higher levels in the air already, it doesnt'tcome from the street level. It's actually uncanny being in Beijing when the smog is bad because you can't see any source, no "that truck is belching smoke" or "that chimney is putting out smoke". It arrives from out of sight.
The problem is the surrounding Hebei province which has many of the coal and iron ore mines of China, and much heavy industry and processing of the ores using coal. Beiing can't enforce pollution controls in Hebei and the industrialists in Hebei don't care at all while they make money. For a USA equivalent, imagine if if Connecticut, Long Island and New Jersey were covered in dirty industrial plant while New York City was trying to improve its air quality. They wouldn't succeed.
It's nice to see Beijing trying to clean up its air, but it won't improve anything until Hebei province has a similar enforcement and it is effective.
Bear in mind that a smaller outdoor structure will not be as secure as a larger dwelling (and property insurance may not cover anything valuable in it, you should check). You will also need to keep it heated in winter, if you are anywhere it gets cold, or the equipment will suffer (from condensation, if nothing else).
I would not recommend working next to a rack of gear, it's noisy. There's a reason we have machine rooms and offices and they're not the same space.
So, what I suggest doing is to install insulation, heating, cooling, network cable, power, etc, as you have described. Then install whatever seating, desking, etc, that you might like. Then install basic networking gear (that you aren't going to be too upset with losing in case of a burglary). Then install a suitable display screen (when a 27" 4K display costs ~$600, perhaps you could cope with losing one to a burglary - depends how well off or how well insured you are, and what your local crime rate is). Use a laptop to compute with and take it indoors when you're not using it. Leave the rack of compute gear inside too, in a room you are not in most of the time. Don't leave any data storage out there, put that in your house also.
Obscure the windows in this outhouse while you are not using it; blinds, curtains, or shutters (locked or interior, so the burglar can't just open them and take a peek). Do not be seen loading the outhouse up with gear either, or someone may make a mental note and come back later, when you are out.
So they can even predict the time to charge the battery to full, when that varies by how you use the laptop? Try flogging the CPU and graphics as hard as you can, and you'll see how much longer it takes to charge from empty to full!
Nothing to see here, users, move along, pay no attention to the man behind the curtain, listen only to the Great Wizard of Jobs.
My smaller ISP (Zen Internet, zen.co.uk) certainly provide good service.
When you can create a trouble ticket with your ISP advising them that they have a likely link problem causing packet loss and resulting traffic congestion in their peering with another ISP, including route traces from several directions, and they respond within 2 hours thanking you for the report and having fixed the problem - then you know they're the ones to be with.
They're also more than averagely resistant to media industry intimidation pass-through (they demand a court order, instead of just giving up info at a whim) and government surveillance (they don't sign up to "voluntary" Government initiatives for more inept censorship).
Most recent phones support GLONASS. Even an older device like the Nexus 5 does so. You can use an app like GPS Test (by Chartcross, for Android) to see them. They're the higher numbered satellite (60s, 70s). The support is built into the GPS integrated receiver, from Qualcomm and others.
"Before activating the features enabled by the new hardware, we will further calibrate the system using millions of miles of real-world driving to ensure significant improvements to safety and convenience. While this is occurring, Teslas with new hardware will temporarily lack certain features currently available on Teslas with first-generation Autopilot hardware, including some standard safety features such as automatic emergency braking, collision warning, lane holding and active cruise control. "
So if I buy a Tesla tomorrow, it will come with less features than another one bought last month when it arrives? In fact, it will come with less features than a well-specified competitor (BMW, Mercedes, etc) and no idea when it will catch up.
I don't want to go backwards. I want to go forwards. I want the features now and more, not less features now.
I want a car that does the same things as earlier cars and more. I don't want to be funding Tesla's product development and then beta test their code when it's rolled out.
SLACK owns this market right now... Looks like Facebook is getting too slow in it's old age.
Slack is very expensive for a larger company, especially with a lot of part-time users. The cost is acceptable if it is only your engineers using it all the time, but when you want to put all your other staff on it to read an occasional update or swap some tips, then the $$$$ mount up.
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The trend for "organic" food goes along with the trend for "clean eating", and the subject of this story says that too.
"Organic" food consumers are not focused on environmental friendliness - typically the production methods allow use of old-fashioned pesticides like copper sulphate (which persists in soil and is toxic in large quantities) and over-fertilisation with manures that cause runoff into watersheds and it is often transported long distances. Those who eat "Organic" food that is not local are deluding themselves that they have a lower environmental impact on the world.
"Organic" food is about seeking purity, about hygiene in personal life, in feeling that the consumer of the "organic" food is preventing themselves from being contaminated by the world around them. It is elitist food for the isolationist, elitist richer consumer.
So this "clean meat" is just meat for the hygiene-obssessed elite.
The interior designer they poached from Volvo clearly hasn't had time to improve anything yet. Since he was only hired 6 months ago, this design pre-dates him, and you can tell. It's terrible.
All the display is to the side - so you have to look sidways and down to find out anything about the vehicle, even its speed. That means you are not looking at the road for longer.
The display is high gloss - so you have to look through reflections and highlights to read the screen, it is not shaded from outside light at all. That means you are not looking at the road for longer and get more eyestrain.
Trying to adjust any functions of the car without tactile feedback means you have to not only look to find what to press, but look to confirm the action happened correctly - so you spend longer looking at the controls and less at the road.
It looks like an ergonomic failure and an unpleasant car to drive which reduces safety by increasing driver distraction.
I don't even know if the seats are any good; the Model S seats certainly aren't.
Then there is "unlock via app". So, what happens if your phone and the car are not online to the Internet? The Model S app-unlock is via the Internet, not any short range connection like Bluetooth. Let alone if your phone gets r00ted and the app key is stolen. There's a backup physical key - but if I have to remember to carry the physical key all the time what is the point of app-unlock anyway? They might as well implement having a key you have to have near the car for more reliable unlocking and better security - like every other car manufacturer. This is just more Internet of Shit Things (that spy on you).
If the browser loads the complete user experience for every online service, there are no apps from the app store and there is no revenue from the app store.
Apple wants apps that install on the device, and has done so ever since they started the app store. They want the money from the app store and they want the control over what runs on the hardware they sell.
This isn't the first time that Mobile Safari has been seen to be deficient in capabilities compared to other mobile browsers, and it's because Apple doesn't want browsers, they want apps, via their app store, giving them control over the whole device user experience and revenue from the whole user experience.
"sliding-glass doors on the soundproof offices"
No noisy open plan place where they expect me to concentrate on hacking code?
Sign me up!
I'm not quite sure where the "Adblue tank too small" can come in. My (German) car's Adblue tank holds enough for at least 11000 miles (18000km) of driving, which is the farthest I have driven it between services, where it is filled up. A work colleague's non-German car (with higher fuel consumption, it's an SUV) still runs about 10k miles between Adblue fill-ups. Meanwhile Adblue is very cheap if you go to a service station that caters for goods vehicles. Of course you can pay a huge premium for some dealer brand-name Adblue - that's like going to a name brand PC dealer and buying their manufacturer brand USB cable instead of some other one.
So, I'm not sure how much this holds water. Or adblue.
Berlin Tegel or Schönefeld?
Tegel has security at the gate so you would have to go through security screening there. Schönefeld perhaps not (I don't go there much), and if you don't leave the secure zone of most airports in Europe you do not need to be re-screened if you transfer, exactly like in the USA.
Are you sure your ESTA was not checked electronically? Most airlines will integrate their departure control system with the CBP ESTA system so that passport details can be checked with the CBP to ensure there is a valid ESTA at time of check-in or boarding, and if this check is successful then you will notice nothing as you board the aircraft. Only if the check fails will your boarding be denied, as in the case in the story above.
Note that his ESTA was approved, then rescinded. Someone specifically went to withdraw his approval after it was issued. That is not lazy non approval, that is malicious retroactive denial.
Even if you are eligible for a visa waiver, you have to get an electronic authorisation to travel from the Electronic System for Travel Authorisation.
I.e. you have to pass a check to have your visa waived, before you can try to have your visa waived, and your approval can be withdrawn at any time. Neither ESTA nor even a visa is reliable, you are still at risk of being refused (and losing your money on hotels, flight tickets, your business, travel, or study opportunity, etc). The USA (and some other countries) cannot be trusted to be reliable in this, the USA in particular.
So, will Mozilla (and other multinational organisations) stop holding their all employee meetings in the USA and instead choose a place with a better admissions policy?
Come on, Americans: time to get on an international flight to meet up with the world, instead of us having to run the CBP gauntlet every time.
The subjects are from a small range of people, and the statistical analysis is dubious.
Someone bent this data until it gave a result, perhaps even the result they wanted.
Don't trust this study.
She will need a Parliamentary majority for some of that.
It's a shame she doesn't have one of those any more.
The form estimates it will take 60 minutes to fill in. Only a very parochial American, like Trump, could find out all their travel, passport, and social media details within 60 minutes.
Anyone who travels for work, or lives in a smaller country near other countries, or likes personal travel, will take 60 minutes to find their travel history for the past year, or less. It would take days of work to collect 15 years of details.
I estimate that most of my work colleagues would find it impossible to collect travel details for 15 years, or social media handles for 15 years. They might not even remember where they lived 15 years ago.
This is an impossible task to complete precisely for most people. It is also impossible for the US government to verify that the person has submitted all the information asked for. Therefore it is both unreasonable for the applicant and wasteful for the US government.
All of the US Constitution applies to citizens, resident non-citizens, and visiting non-resident non-citizens - except being able to vote or to become President. Those are the only parts of the Constitution (as amended) that limit to whom they apply based on citizenship. The rights, for example, of freedom from unreasonable search and seizure, of freedom from lengthy detention or cruel and unusual punishment, of trial by jury only after indictment, protecting free speech, strictly defining treason, and so on apply to foreign residents and visitors as to citizens.
The current US President (Trump) and his administration are wilfully ignoring this fact. The previous US President (Obama) and his administration followed the Constitution on this matter in nearly all (but not every) case.
Therefore this bill should apply to Americans also, and it might well be deemed unconstitutional not to extend to visitors a protection afforded to citzens in line with a Constitutional right.
There's no suggestion that the remote workers can't collaborate well or that IBM can't use the technology to do so. This move is stated to be based on an assertion by an upper manager that her people will work better in the same office, and that's an unsupported assertion. This stated reason may not even be the real reason (as noted in several comments here, this will cause people to leave the company, which may be convenient for her).
" a message from the government that you "can't buy your way into America.""
You can buy your way into the USA just fine. It will cost you $500k, or $1M if you don't want to deal wth a poor rural area, and some paperwork setting up a company.
Back when Furbies were new, several colleagues and I put several of them in a quiet meeting room in a circle, and waited for them to quieten down. We then said something to one of them, and left them to it. This was around 1997.
The chance of a Furby replying to another Furby signal, sound, etc, is not quite 1.0 so the loop gain of the circle was less than 1, but it still took hours for them to finally stop burbling at each other. Being nerds, we were amused.
Getting talking automata to talk to each other is not new :)
Beijing itself is fairly clean for a developing economy capital. Most of the cars are pretty new, there are not too many two-stroke tuktuks or scooters, etc. There aren't that many factories within city limits, as most were all closed or moved for the 2008 Olympics. The pollution isn't generated in the city. That's why you see the dramatic video online of "smog sweeping in" - it arrives from elsewhere, you can see it at higher levels in the air already, it doesnt'tcome from the street level. It's actually uncanny being in Beijing when the smog is bad because you can't see any source, no "that truck is belching smoke" or "that chimney is putting out smoke". It arrives from out of sight.
The problem is the surrounding Hebei province which has many of the coal and iron ore mines of China, and much heavy industry and processing of the ores using coal. Beiing can't enforce pollution controls in Hebei and the industrialists in Hebei don't care at all while they make money. For a USA equivalent, imagine if if Connecticut, Long Island and New Jersey were covered in dirty industrial plant while New York City was trying to improve its air quality. They wouldn't succeed.
It's nice to see Beijing trying to clean up its air, but it won't improve anything until Hebei province has a similar enforcement and it is effective.
Bear in mind that a smaller outdoor structure will not be as secure as a larger dwelling (and property insurance may not cover anything valuable in it, you should check). You will also need to keep it heated in winter, if you are anywhere it gets cold, or the equipment will suffer (from condensation, if nothing else).
I would not recommend working next to a rack of gear, it's noisy. There's a reason we have machine rooms and offices and they're not the same space.
So, what I suggest doing is to install insulation, heating, cooling, network cable, power, etc, as you have described. Then install whatever seating, desking, etc, that you might like. Then install basic networking gear (that you aren't going to be too upset with losing in case of a burglary). Then install a suitable display screen (when a 27" 4K display costs ~$600, perhaps you could cope with losing one to a burglary - depends how well off or how well insured you are, and what your local crime rate is). Use a laptop to compute with and take it indoors when you're not using it. Leave the rack of compute gear inside too, in a room you are not in most of the time. Don't leave any data storage out there, put that in your house also.
Obscure the windows in this outhouse while you are not using it; blinds, curtains, or shutters (locked or interior, so the burglar can't just open them and take a peek). Do not be seen loading the outhouse up with gear either, or someone may make a mental note and come back later, when you are out.
It sounds cool, but bear security in mind.
So they can even predict the time to charge the battery to full, when that varies by how you use the laptop? Try flogging the CPU and graphics as hard as you can, and you'll see how much longer it takes to charge from empty to full!
Nothing to see here, users, move along, pay no attention to the man behind the curtain, listen only to the Great Wizard of Jobs.
My smaller ISP (Zen Internet, zen.co.uk) certainly provide good service.
When you can create a trouble ticket with your ISP advising them that they have a likely link problem causing packet loss and resulting traffic congestion in their peering with another ISP, including route traces from several directions, and they respond within 2 hours thanking you for the report and having fixed the problem - then you know they're the ones to be with.
They're also more than averagely resistant to media industry intimidation pass-through (they demand a court order, instead of just giving up info at a whim) and government surveillance (they don't sign up to "voluntary" Government initiatives for more inept censorship).
Laspass Premium supports Yubikey.
(I have no connection with lastpass other than being a customer)
Most recent phones support GLONASS. Even an older device like the Nexus 5 does so. You can use an app like GPS Test (by Chartcross, for Android) to see them. They're the higher numbered satellite (60s, 70s). The support is built into the GPS integrated receiver, from Qualcomm and others.
From https://www.tesla.com/en_GB/bl... :
"Before activating the features enabled by the new hardware, we will further calibrate the system using millions of miles of real-world driving to ensure significant improvements to safety and convenience. While this is occurring, Teslas with new hardware will temporarily lack certain features currently available on Teslas with first-generation Autopilot hardware, including some standard safety features such as automatic emergency braking, collision warning, lane holding and active cruise control. "
So if I buy a Tesla tomorrow, it will come with less features than another one bought last month when it arrives? In fact, it will come with less features than a well-specified competitor (BMW, Mercedes, etc) and no idea when it will catch up.
I don't want to go backwards. I want to go forwards. I want the features now and more, not less features now.
I want a car that does the same things as earlier cars and more. I don't want to be funding Tesla's product development and then beta test their code when it's rolled out.
Why do customers tolerate this from Tesla?
Yes.
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SLACK owns this market right now... Looks like Facebook is getting too slow in it's old age.
Slack is very expensive for a larger company, especially with a lot of part-time users. The cost is acceptable if it is only your engineers using it all the time, but when you want to put all your other staff on it to read an occasional update or swap some tips, then the $$$$ mount up.