If the displays require that level of training and expertise to run in a critical situation, then the root cause has nothing at all to do with the crew. That should be relegated to a side issue for continuous improvement.
I'd much rather have a programmer design the user interface than a UX designer.
Fuck NO!. I agree in the consumer field UX designers need their balls chopped off, but the only thing worse is to let programmers run amok. We had that for many years in industry and the resulting UI clusterfucks have lead to countless incidents. In the mean time critical industries and HMI interface specialists who support them have been doing many years of research and perfected models of operator interaction.
The UX designer: No need for visual indicators. Oh the steering control should look like the main wheel of a ship. It will be awesome! The programmer: Put every visual indicator on the same screen at the same time. Make most of the screen red because everything is important. Make sure all information is available all the time in every possible unit.
Both are just as bad as each other and open source provides a great many examples of just how little programmers know about UI.
To be fair the Netherlands have solved only one small part of the problem. We are very good with localised initiatives (getting cars out of the cities, polluting cars out of the population, running green trains, powering energy efficient homes), but we suck quite badly on the broader country policy. A policy that emphasises making it easy to get around by bicycle, but also does nothing to stop people driving literally halfway across the country for their daily commute to work with more cars per capita than much of the rest of Europe, highways in gridlock that are the stuff of legends. Or broader energy policy that allowed a brand new coal plant to open in Maasvlakte and then didn't punish the company when the proposed CCS project didn't get bolted on top of it.
We're one of the few countries in the EU where CO2 emissions were worse last year than the year before, and already one of the most polluting per capita (though I disregard that last statistic as a large portion of that comes from the industry that exists solely to support the rest of the EU).
Running trains on wind energy is something that can be considered both a no brainer and a good start, but hardly an answer.
about whom do they pay their electricity bill, nothing more.
That is all you need. When you preference giving company extra money over their competition because they are greener then the competition starts dying. You can see this too in the Netherlands who just opened a new coal plant last year. The company who did so immediately wrote down 2.9bn euro off their value and questioned the long term viability of what they just built as the cost of wholesale electricity plummets due to customers literally gifting the greener part of the industry in exchange for killing the dirty.
Directing your money in the appropriate direction is making your energy green. That's how market forces work.
2. Wind is a rather unreliable source of power
I see you've never been to the Netherlands.:-) The only thing more reliable than the wind is the fact that the sun won't shine again until April.
Gasoline and electricity are cheap in the USA because we're sitting on one of the largest pockets of natural gas in the world
Do you actually believe your own bullshit? For both oil and natural gas the USA barely scrapes in the top 10 in reserves, which is kind of why you're now trying to shatter the earth under your feet to look for more.
You're right. The environment doesn't care who you are or where you arbitrarily draw some boundary. So we're back to what is *your* emission, and guess what, it's a fuckload higher than those of your Chinese counterpart.
As a matter of interest what kind of dollar are you talking there? I dropped my cable package when they tried to charge me more than $40 AU dollars per month. The idea that someone even pays $40 greenbacks for cable astounds me, let alone $140.
The only? Google won't sell your data either. It's their most valuable asset. They've perfected the business model of selling access to you while keeping your data treasured to themselves.
As a matter of interest I do wonder what the East India Company did that was different from any government policy of the day. I mean I know about the general warfare and slavery but that was generally accepted at the time and not really attributable to differences in government vs mega corporations.
And yet, I recall the recent story about the engineer who lost his job and possibly his career because he breached written and well understood company policy
FTFY. If you think Apple is bad for *this* reason your priorities and understanding are seriously messed up.
You're describing an ideal filter. In practice PLLs are used to reduce an extreme amount of jitter (think highspeed transmission lines), but when the levels of jitter are small in the first place the VCOs end up being a cure worse than the disease. You achieve much better jitter performance for much lower cost using ASRC and a very good clock source.
The audio industry is good at weeding out things that don't make sense because some people are willing to spend literally anything to achieve the ideal, and pretty much no-one uses PLLs to eliminate jitter.
Of course for some reason they will spend money on any stupid idea and ignore what happens in the pro-audio side of the industry: Send the data via AES3 (almost S/PDIF) but clock the entire studio from an external wordclock.
I'm not assuming anything other than people who don't attempt to seek out a repair for a super expensive device from the manufacture are mad. That goes double for IT companies who likely have service contracts, vendors who most definitely will send it back in an attempt to recovery costs through refurbs, and triple for MS who is both vendor and manufacturer and has a high portion of direct sales for bulk purchases. And if you're talking to a spouse a teenager or a neighbour who doesn't recommend seeking out the vendor first even if it's under warranty then I will assume the mad people are going to other mad people for mad advice.
That is quite interesting. I get the kiss emoji quite often too in general conversation especially from people in France / Benelux, often in quick succession when wishing well or as an apology.
I expect a trademark lawsuit from Motorola on this one. The name is not so different than Razr and they could easily argue that a phone under the name "Razer" will create confusion about Motorola's involvement or lack thereof.
Actually the model is called just "Phone". Razer is the name of the company and has existing trademarks in consumer electronics. It would be hard to justify a company not allowing to use their own company name on a product just because a specific model of product from another company sounds the same.
Mostly because even the best widely supported audio codec for bluetooth sound bad?
To be fair this is changing. Bluetooth has support for transferring AAC audio directly without transcoding however headphone support is still limited. More on point though is that a large portion of headphones need to dedicate earcup space for batteries, wireless receivers and shitty little amplifiers which has an impact on the quality of the audio due to the speaker space design. Also it doesn't help that much of these are incredibly shit (even Bose can't produce a set of headphones that don't hiss when they are turned on, my phone doesn't...)
It may be possible to get high end with bluetooth eventually but currently decent bluetooth headphones which aren't seriously limited are rarer than rockinghorse poo.... I used to say hen's teeth, but in 2000 the movie Chicken Run came out, and all the hens had teeth.
I already foresee an accident involving this stuff that causes a huge release of methane.
Which naturally resolves itself in 12 years anyway. Speaking of this one-off accident, will it release more or less than 8 Gigatonne CO2 equivalent that we already produce every year?
Because man if that much methane was released in one go, I'm more concerned about another mushroom cloud being visible over Japan when someone lights up a cigarette.
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If the displays require that level of training and expertise to run in a critical situation, then the root cause has nothing at all to do with the crew. That should be relegated to a side issue for continuous improvement.
I'd much rather have a programmer design the user interface than a UX designer.
Fuck NO!. I agree in the consumer field UX designers need their balls chopped off, but the only thing worse is to let programmers run amok. We had that for many years in industry and the resulting UI clusterfucks have lead to countless incidents. In the mean time critical industries and HMI interface specialists who support them have been doing many years of research and perfected models of operator interaction.
The UX designer: No need for visual indicators. Oh the steering control should look like the main wheel of a ship. It will be awesome!
The programmer: Put every visual indicator on the same screen at the same time. Make most of the screen red because everything is important. Make sure all information is available all the time in every possible unit.
Both are just as bad as each other and open source provides a great many examples of just how little programmers know about UI.
and haven't gone back there since '72
sometimes progress just stalls
Repeating something that has already been done is hardly a sign of progress.
To be fair the Netherlands have solved only one small part of the problem. We are very good with localised initiatives (getting cars out of the cities, polluting cars out of the population, running green trains, powering energy efficient homes), but we suck quite badly on the broader country policy. A policy that emphasises making it easy to get around by bicycle, but also does nothing to stop people driving literally halfway across the country for their daily commute to work with more cars per capita than much of the rest of Europe, highways in gridlock that are the stuff of legends. Or broader energy policy that allowed a brand new coal plant to open in Maasvlakte and then didn't punish the company when the proposed CCS project didn't get bolted on top of it.
We're one of the few countries in the EU where CO2 emissions were worse last year than the year before, and already one of the most polluting per capita (though I disregard that last statistic as a large portion of that comes from the industry that exists solely to support the rest of the EU).
Running trains on wind energy is something that can be considered both a no brainer and a good start, but hardly an answer.
about whom do they pay their electricity bill, nothing more.
That is all you need. When you preference giving company extra money over their competition because they are greener then the competition starts dying. You can see this too in the Netherlands who just opened a new coal plant last year. The company who did so immediately wrote down 2.9bn euro off their value and questioned the long term viability of what they just built as the cost of wholesale electricity plummets due to customers literally gifting the greener part of the industry in exchange for killing the dirty.
Directing your money in the appropriate direction is making your energy green. That's how market forces work.
2. Wind is a rather unreliable source of power
I see you've never been to the Netherlands. :-) The only thing more reliable than the wind is the fact that the sun won't shine again until April.
Gasoline and electricity are cheap in the USA because we're sitting on one of the largest pockets of natural gas in the world
Do you actually believe your own bullshit? For both oil and natural gas the USA barely scrapes in the top 10 in reserves, which is kind of why you're now trying to shatter the earth under your feet to look for more.
You're right. The environment doesn't care who you are or where you arbitrarily draw some boundary. So we're back to what is *your* emission, and guess what, it's a fuckload higher than those of your Chinese counterpart.
$140/month
As a matter of interest what kind of dollar are you talking there? I dropped my cable package when they tried to charge me more than $40 AU dollars per month. The idea that someone even pays $40 greenbacks for cable astounds me, let alone $140.
The only? Google won't sell your data either. It's their most valuable asset. They've perfected the business model of selling access to you while keeping your data treasured to themselves.
As a matter of interest I do wonder what the East India Company did that was different from any government policy of the day. I mean I know about the general warfare and slavery but that was generally accepted at the time and not really attributable to differences in government vs mega corporations.
And yet, I recall the recent story about the engineer who lost his job and possibly his career because he breached written and well understood company policy
FTFY. If you think Apple is bad for *this* reason your priorities and understanding are seriously messed up.
www.audi.nl Go your hardest
It just sucks less.
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You're describing an ideal filter. In practice PLLs are used to reduce an extreme amount of jitter (think highspeed transmission lines), but when the levels of jitter are small in the first place the VCOs end up being a cure worse than the disease. You achieve much better jitter performance for much lower cost using ASRC and a very good clock source.
The audio industry is good at weeding out things that don't make sense because some people are willing to spend literally anything to achieve the ideal, and pretty much no-one uses PLLs to eliminate jitter.
Of course for some reason they will spend money on any stupid idea and ignore what happens in the pro-audio side of the industry: Send the data via AES3 (almost S/PDIF) but clock the entire studio from an external wordclock.
I'm not assuming anything other than people who don't attempt to seek out a repair for a super expensive device from the manufacture are mad. That goes double for IT companies who likely have service contracts, vendors who most definitely will send it back in an attempt to recovery costs through refurbs, and triple for MS who is both vendor and manufacturer and has a high portion of direct sales for bulk purchases. And if you're talking to a spouse a teenager or a neighbour who doesn't recommend seeking out the vendor first even if it's under warranty then I will assume the mad people are going to other mad people for mad advice.
Except that one was company name vs company name.
That is quite interesting. I get the kiss emoji quite often too in general conversation especially from people in France / Benelux, often in quick succession when wishing well or as an apology.
Weirds me out.
As soon as electrics are well accepted by the public and hit critical mass, the big automakers are going to destroy Tesla
Which was actually the original goal Musk had for Tesla.
For a given period's definition of "decimating".
Implying that BeauHD wasn't a bot from day one?
Didn't we only recently run an article on AI generated submissions?
I expect a trademark lawsuit from Motorola on this one. The name is not so different than Razr and they could easily argue that a phone under the name "Razer" will create confusion about Motorola's involvement or lack thereof.
Actually the model is called just "Phone". Razer is the name of the company and has existing trademarks in consumer electronics. It would be hard to justify a company not allowing to use their own company name on a product just because a specific model of product from another company sounds the same.
Mostly because even the best widely supported audio codec for bluetooth sound bad?
To be fair this is changing. Bluetooth has support for transferring AAC audio directly without transcoding however headphone support is still limited. More on point though is that a large portion of headphones need to dedicate earcup space for batteries, wireless receivers and shitty little amplifiers which has an impact on the quality of the audio due to the speaker space design. Also it doesn't help that much of these are incredibly shit (even Bose can't produce a set of headphones that don't hiss when they are turned on, my phone doesn't...)
It may be possible to get high end with bluetooth eventually but currently decent bluetooth headphones which aren't seriously limited are rarer than rockinghorse poo. ... I used to say hen's teeth, but in 2000 the movie Chicken Run came out, and all the hens had teeth.
I already foresee an accident involving this stuff that causes a huge release of methane.
Which naturally resolves itself in 12 years anyway. Speaking of this one-off accident, will it release more or less than 8 Gigatonne CO2 equivalent that we already produce every year?
Because man if that much methane was released in one go, I'm more concerned about another mushroom cloud being visible over Japan when someone lights up a cigarette.
It simply costs too much to build
If only there were 50 built reactors somewhere.
The likelihood that every other summer would break records is obviously very low.
That would be a logical conclusion if ever other summer recently hasn't done so or come close breaking those same records.