Just because IBM made the same mistake decades ago why think that Microsoft wouldn't fall into the same trap? IBM's mainframe division was so afraid of the first IBM PC that they saw to it that IBM's second PC was the laughable toy, the PC Jr. That left the field open for Compaq to design and release the first 386 boxes and IBM lost control of the market.
Had IBM added PC local smarts to the 3750 line of remote terminals things might look very different today.
Were they French tweets - originating in France? If not, there's not much of a case. If they were it will be interesting to see whether local laws cover the customers.
Why do you think that the Republicans are so obsessed with regulating the sex and reproductive lives of the American people? It's because they are sexually repressed at home and out of control out of town. Personal freedom is one thing that they will never "deregulate".
Let's start by making it standard practice to check the phone record of any driver WHO IS ALONE IN HIS/HER CAR at the time of an accident that results in personal injury or damage above a specific threshold. If a driver is involved in an accident at 5:35PM and found to have been on the phone at 5:35PM and could not produce a hands-free device at the scene of the accident we have a winner. Likewise if the driver was found to be texting at the time of the accident lets see them defend themselves in court.
Granted, a texting driver or driver on the phone with a passenger is going to say that the passenger was using the phone, but in the case of a driver with no passengers we have to technology to place the blame appropriately.
My understanding is that it's much more expensive than the high-end FIOS. It would seem that Comcast doesn't want to sell it, just be able to say that they have the fastest connection speeds.
Apple's look and feel suits are the ultimate insult. First they sue Microsoft for copying the very same things that Apple had lifted from Xerox PARC. Now they've taken possession of the rectangle. Imagine the same thing happening in the automotive industry. Hyundai can't sell cars because Mercedes thinks that their grills look like theirs. Someone else can't sell their cars because their headlights look like another's. No one can sell anything because their "C" pillars look like BMW's.
Enough is enough.
What "known rules of the Doctor Who universe"? Practically every episode either conveniently forgets established events, or retcons them right out of existence. As long as they give us an alien with two hearts who travels through time in a blue box, they can't very well damage the shredded tatters of continuity.
I do agree that Hugh Laurie would be a great Doctor. I'd pay eight bucks to see that.
I'd pay $8. But then I'd be seeing it in a tiny theater months after release.
By the time it gets into the theaters expect to pay $20 a ticket. And of course it will be in 3D. And pseudo-IMAX.
Precisely why library software (generally) deletes closed transactions automatically. You may want to verify this with your local librarian (be prepared to follow up with the software vendor). Remember that libraries require a warrant. A request by a walk-in police officer (or husband or wife) is turned away. Libraries make every effort (short of keeping no records) to protect the privacy of patrons.
True, the automated tools can easily do as much harm as good but there are valid reasons to dive into the registry. Install half a dozen apps. Then uninstall them. The odds are that five have left something behind. In all likelihood a couple have left kernel drivers behind. This is the sort of thing that prevents in-place upgrades and forces clean installs. Uninstallers don't. Cleaning the registry can be the only solution.
One advantage of advanced age is that I remember when they used to do stuff like this. I remember disk drives the size of a dish washer that were 80MB (!) or 160 MB selectable by jumper. Imagine the hardware tech trying to talk his way out of that. I remember a line of minicomputers where lower end boxes were lower end because a no-op was inserted into the code in the firmware.
Sure you're pissed off because you're having your nose rubbed in their obviously high profit margins. But it's nothing new. Next time you look at any piece of electronics think about the the fact that it's probably being sold as any number of different priced models with some features turned on or off.
Intel just isn't playing the game of pretending to swap out a device when they're just switching a jumper.
Call me a dork but my phone is clipped to my belt. I'm approaching the age when I may need a digital hearing aid. My glasses aren't technically electronic but at the atomic level everything is and they adjust to ambient light. We won't get into pacemakers, insulin pumps... None of these items are exotic.
if the cops are using uncalibrated radar guns you can get three points.
if the DHS guys are using uncalibrated backscatter detectors you can get stage 4.
An efficient traffic light algorithm is based on both speed and volume. "Smart traffic light" systems do exist with realtime monitoring systems. Like all systems, however, tuning requires trade offs. The big problem occurs when smart systems intersect.
The system is also dynamic as opposed to static; speed changes are necessary to respond to traffic density, curves, hills, lane changers, etc. Don't expect road design to do your thinking for you. There is no one right answer when it comes to optimum speed.
I would say that a leading cause of traffic congestion is the changing distance between cars as conditions (cars entering, changing lanes, curves, hills...) change. As the distance between cars changes from two car lengths to four car lengths the effective traffic load per mile doubles. And this occurs without any addition cars entering the road.
This can be seen on almost any road during periods of moderate to heavy traffic as traffic "clumps up" and then opens.
I enjoy driving. I have a performance car with a stick shift. I'd gladly jump on an autonomous car "train" during commutes for a faster, safer trip. I'd also feel less concerned about drivers who text, gesture with both hands, eat or apply makeup as they "drive".
When it comes to trading our privacy for (the illusion of) security we're constantly told that if we have nothing to hide we shouldn't have a problem. Obviously the government(s) and corporations have lots to hide and have a big problem.
Why does the public have to stand naked in front of the TSA while those to whom we have delegated authority get to hide their actions?
The greatest danger posed by WikiLeaks is to raise the possibility that those who are responsible for our security have higher priorities.
When I was a kid we brought in milk money. And we got nutrition. Now it's payoff money and we avoid litigation. "Tommy, you forgot your music money? Go sit in the corner with the noise canceling headphones". "No, Mary. Being tone deaf doesn't mean you get a discount". ROTFLMFHO Next- a charge for singing hymns in church.
Corporations own the internet. At least they own the backbones, distribution networks and a lot of the content providers. And the default state of corporations is to manipulate the business environment to maximize return. If a corporation owned a bridge it would have to charge a toll to cross the bridge, If it didn't, its shareholders would sue and replace the board of directors.
The first amendment is a regulation. Traffic lights are regulation. I don't know of anyone who thinks that we're over-regulated and that the first amendment and traffic lights should go.
Unfortunately, corporate ownership means that some equal and opposite force, i.e. regulation is necessary. Of course regulatory power could guarantee net neutrality along with government censorship. Unfortunately, there is no umbrella organization large enough to codify a set of rules which would assure net neutrality without th need for government intervention.
No regulation? Well, look what happened when deregulation allowed commercial banks to become investment banks.
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Just because IBM made the same mistake decades ago why think that Microsoft wouldn't fall into the same trap? IBM's mainframe division was so afraid of the first IBM PC that they saw to it that IBM's second PC was the laughable toy, the PC Jr. That left the field open for Compaq to design and release the first 386 boxes and IBM lost control of the market. Had IBM added PC local smarts to the 3750 line of remote terminals things might look very different today.
Were they French tweets - originating in France? If not, there's not much of a case. If they were it will be interesting to see whether local laws cover the customers.
(DEC) VAX -> WNT (Windows NT). Dave Cutler was primary architect of both. BTW DEC was a multi-billion $ mini-computer co in the 70s and 80s.
Radio would have kept TV off the air. Movies would have kept TV off the air. No cable... Forget satellite. Toss that ebook reader.
I figure that Windows 6 was the original Longhorn that never shipped. That makes Windows 7 Windows 7.
Why do you think that the Republicans are so obsessed with regulating the sex and reproductive lives of the American people? It's because they are sexually repressed at home and out of control out of town. Personal freedom is one thing that they will never "deregulate".
Granted, a texting driver or driver on the phone with a passenger is going to say that the passenger was using the phone, but in the case of a driver with no passengers we have to technology to place the blame appropriately.
Why is it that most of the people that I encounter seem to have been shat from the Sphincter of Mediocrity?
Yeah. Why can't everyone be above average? /sarcasm
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My understanding is that it's much more expensive than the high-end FIOS. It would seem that Comcast doesn't want to sell it, just be able to say that they have the fastest connection speeds.
Apple's look and feel suits are the ultimate insult. First they sue Microsoft for copying the very same things that Apple had lifted from Xerox PARC. Now they've taken possession of the rectangle. Imagine the same thing happening in the automotive industry. Hyundai can't sell cars because Mercedes thinks that their grills look like theirs. Someone else can't sell their cars because their headlights look like another's. No one can sell anything because their "C" pillars look like BMW's. Enough is enough.
the presence of other oxidizing agents? the possibility of explosion due to above? There are lots of compressed gasses on a sub.
But then we wouldn't have an excuse to spend bazillions of dollars. There always has to be a bogyman.
What "known rules of the Doctor Who universe"? Practically every episode either conveniently forgets established events, or retcons them right out of existence. As long as they give us an alien with two hearts who travels through time in a blue box, they can't very well damage the shredded tatters of continuity.
I do agree that Hugh Laurie would be a great Doctor. I'd pay eight bucks to see that.
I'd pay $8. But then I'd be seeing it in a tiny theater months after release. By the time it gets into the theaters expect to pay $20 a ticket. And of course it will be in 3D. And pseudo-IMAX.
Precisely why library software (generally) deletes closed transactions automatically. You may want to verify this with your local librarian (be prepared to follow up with the software vendor). Remember that libraries require a warrant. A request by a walk-in police officer (or husband or wife) is turned away. Libraries make every effort (short of keeping no records) to protect the privacy of patrons.
Library software deletes the record of any material borrowed as soon as the material is returned. This is not the case with Amazon.
True, the automated tools can easily do as much harm as good but there are valid reasons to dive into the registry. Install half a dozen apps. Then uninstall them. The odds are that five have left something behind. In all likelihood a couple have left kernel drivers behind. This is the sort of thing that prevents in-place upgrades and forces clean installs. Uninstallers don't. Cleaning the registry can be the only solution.
One advantage of advanced age is that I remember when they used to do stuff like this. I remember disk drives the size of a dish washer that were 80MB (!) or 160 MB selectable by jumper. Imagine the hardware tech trying to talk his way out of that. I remember a line of minicomputers where lower end boxes were lower end because a no-op was inserted into the code in the firmware. Sure you're pissed off because you're having your nose rubbed in their obviously high profit margins. But it's nothing new. Next time you look at any piece of electronics think about the the fact that it's probably being sold as any number of different priced models with some features turned on or off. Intel just isn't playing the game of pretending to swap out a device when they're just switching a jumper.
Call me a dork but my phone is clipped to my belt. I'm approaching the age when I may need a digital hearing aid. My glasses aren't technically electronic but at the atomic level everything is and they adjust to ambient light. We won't get into pacemakers, insulin pumps... None of these items are exotic.
if the cops are using uncalibrated radar guns you can get three points. if the DHS guys are using uncalibrated backscatter detectors you can get stage 4.
An efficient traffic light algorithm is based on both speed and volume. "Smart traffic light" systems do exist with realtime monitoring systems. Like all systems, however, tuning requires trade offs. The big problem occurs when smart systems intersect.
The system is also dynamic as opposed to static; speed changes are necessary to respond to traffic density, curves, hills, lane changers, etc. Don't expect road design to do your thinking for you. There is no one right answer when it comes to optimum speed.
I would say that a leading cause of traffic congestion is the changing distance between cars as conditions (cars entering, changing lanes, curves, hills...) change. As the distance between cars changes from two car lengths to four car lengths the effective traffic load per mile doubles. And this occurs without any addition cars entering the road.
This can be seen on almost any road during periods of moderate to heavy traffic as traffic "clumps up" and then opens.
I enjoy driving. I have a performance car with a stick shift. I'd gladly jump on an autonomous car "train" during commutes for a faster, safer trip. I'd also feel less concerned about drivers who text, gesture with both hands, eat or apply makeup as they "drive".
Why does the public have to stand naked in front of the TSA while those to whom we have delegated authority get to hide their actions?
The greatest danger posed by WikiLeaks is to raise the possibility that those who are responsible for our security have higher priorities.
When I was a kid we brought in milk money. And we got nutrition. Now it's payoff money and we avoid litigation. "Tommy, you forgot your music money? Go sit in the corner with the noise canceling headphones". "No, Mary. Being tone deaf doesn't mean you get a discount". ROTFLMFHO Next- a charge for singing hymns in church.
Corporations own the internet. At least they own the backbones, distribution networks and a lot of the content providers. And the default state of corporations is to manipulate the business environment to maximize return. If a corporation owned a bridge it would have to charge a toll to cross the bridge, If it didn't, its shareholders would sue and replace the board of directors. The first amendment is a regulation. Traffic lights are regulation. I don't know of anyone who thinks that we're over-regulated and that the first amendment and traffic lights should go. Unfortunately, corporate ownership means that some equal and opposite force, i.e. regulation is necessary. Of course regulatory power could guarantee net neutrality along with government censorship. Unfortunately, there is no umbrella organization large enough to codify a set of rules which would assure net neutrality without th need for government intervention. No regulation? Well, look what happened when deregulation allowed commercial banks to become investment banks.