There's plenty of breaks in hockey. Oh, a really good game can get long stretches of action. But if it's a boring game then it can be almost as bad as baseball. Well, not that bad. But you can get into periods where there seems to be a lot of offsides, icings, penalties, and the goalie stops the puck right from the face-off which breaks up the play. And each time there's a line change. If it's the NHL there's a few commercial breaks each period.
I haven't watched hockey in a while, though more for the inconsistency of the referees than the slowness of the game. I've seen a few games of the British ice hockey league and it was really good. Good end to end play. Not the elite players but they were playing because they loved to play and it showed. Kind of like why I prefer watching Canadian football.
Maybe you should watch something in which there's enough action so the commentators don't have to fill massive amounts of time without action with inane chatter.
American football is so slow. The 40 or 45 seconds to get a play started is too long (Canadian football is 20 seconds and makes for a faster game). The four downs encourages a running game because it's a safe play and you can normally get a couple of yards so it's a quick running play followed by a time out to reset the ball and then almost 40 seconds to start the next play. I've watched a few Super Bowls and it's terrible how long they take to play. Especially the last couple of minutes. The four downs allows teams to throw the ball away to stop the clock. It seems like the last two minutes of a game can take a half hour to play with the time outs and other ways to manipulate the clock. None of it is illegal but it makes for an extremely boring game.
And then there's baseball. Watching someone throw a ball every minute or so is a recipe for having the commentary being very little to do about the game. Not that cricket is a whole lot better but at least they change the bowler (pitcher) on a regular basis so it's not always the same person throwing for the team.
While you don't need to grow vegetables on the trip to or from Mars it would be good for morale to be able to get some fresh food during the trip. On the ISS they get the chance to have some when the resupply ships arrive.
It's also how much risk management and the politicians are willing to take. In the current environment (and for the past couple of decades) NASA has been very risk averse when it comes to human lives so I think that the US is quite far away from going to Mars. Not that they were ever willing to throw away lives but during the Cold War they were more open to taking risks to achieve goals.
The Russians seem to be more focused on the Moon for their manned program. I don't know about the Chinese program but while they are taking some great strides they are taking a slow approach. So it looks like it's going to be a while before anyone steps on the surface of Mars.
Not really, there are many people who don't care about this. I've got a friend who has a Blackberry and she's been sold on it's security. Even when I've told her that they aren't as secure as the latest Android and iOS devices (at least she doesn't look at me as if I'm wearing a tin foil hat) she replies doesn't care if the government can get her data because she has nothing to hide. The end to end encryption doesn't matter to her.
The thing the might convince her to change is the camera. The other day we were out and she asked me to take a picture of something because she was driving. She was really impressed by the pictures from my iPhone and lamented the poor cameras in the Blackberry.
Then just let the bugs sit since they aren't too major and say they won't get fixed until someone volunteers to fix them. There will still be a bit of effort required for testing and integration but it's open source. That means someone who really wants to fix the feature can come alone and fix it. Just announce that you aren't going to spend your efforts on it and that you need volunteers. Then if nobody steps up in a year or two think about removing it.
It's very easy to narrow down the list. You put people in the field but they don't like doing that anymore. First there's a fear of people getting killed. This is also apparent in the military which is why drones and airstrikes are mostly used nowadays. The second reason is a belief that the technology will save us all (by us, the good guys). It will find the bad guys if you just put in enough data and tweak the algorithm a bit more. You need agents out in the field because there are only some kinds of intelligence that you can get by being there. Become friendly with the locals and they will tell you things instead of sending drones overhead. Not every piece of data is captured in a phone conversation or email or text message.
Obviously I have since that's all I shoot. The JPG that they want right now if not sooner is hitting the web. It's going to be small and viewed on monitors, tablets, and mobile phones. It doesn't have to be perfect for that medium. It's more than good enough. Will a professional or really good photographer look at it and say what could be better about the shot? Absolutely, but that's not the purpose of the photograph. The image is to visually represent a item or action of interest. If you want to make it look better then it becomes art, not news.
I'm complaining about stupid things such as on the main screen when playing music there is a button for shuffling music but it doesn't tell you the status of the shuffle and when you press it it only turns shuffle on, never off. To turn shuffle off, or even see the status, you have to expand the mini player, use the shuffle button in there, and then swipe that down to return back to your music. That's just bad design. Sure it looks pretty but the usability sucks.
It's similar to the large iPhones. I don't want one. I have a 5S and that screen size works for me. I use it in a number of situations where I only have one hand available such as carrying groceries home or standing on the bus. Apple's solution for bringing the screen down to tap something near the top is useless, especially if you have a lot of taps near the top. And any of the rumours of a new 4" iPhone have it being a water-down 6 (kind of like a 5c but with a metal case). I don't want toy version of the phone. I want the same capabilities but with a smaller screen.
I used to really like Apple products because they were easy to use and usually just worked. But during the past few years Apple has turned into just the best of the bunch instead of me wanting to use them. That's a huge difference in how I see their products.
The inner circle of ISIS are religious zealots who believe that it's the end of days and they are bringing the forces of the world to fight in the Middle East. At least that's what they proclaim publicly. What's truly in their hearts I don't know. But not many explanations fit for taking credit for bombing the Russian airliner. Russia was mostly taking care of the rebel troops in Syria with some token bombing of ISIS so from a strategic standpoint they had everything to lose by making that claim. But if you are trying to drag in as many armies into the fight as possible then it makes sense.
With the way the copyright section is written copyright rulings in one jurisdiction will be applied in others. It doesn't apply in this case since it's blocking at the ISP. But having something called a copyright infringement in Australia lets a company go to a Canadian ISP and have content taken down even if it doesn't infringe on copyright in Canada.
In this case the Australian company should have just filed a complaint with ICAAN to get the domain moved to them as the Indian company was obviously trying to make the site look like the Australian company.
They want a JPG so that they can get it up on the website and social media sites as fast as possible. It pays for them to be the first to get a picture or story out. They don't want a photographer to spend the time converting the image on their computer.
But what is perfectly fine is to shoot in RAW + JPG and send in the JPG right away. Then after the event the photographer would take the best shot or two and do the minimal amount of adjustments allowed to make the image more appropriate for newspapers or magazines.
I worked on an application that ran on a terminal (well, emulated a vt220 when you used telnet over a VPN) and the server part interacted with the telephone switches directly. They phone company wanted to replace the UI with a web interface and all of the users were against it because it would slow them down a lot. There was plenty of information packed onto that screen with easy flow between the fields. Function keys toggled between pages of options. This was ten years ago so things were much more limited on what could be done with HTML. There would have been lots of page refreshes and it would have been terrible trying to get all of that information displayed nicely let alone being able to input data quickly. I left before it got anywhere past the concept stage so I don't know how it turned out.
But it's just to say that not all workflow "enhancements" are appreciated.
I was under the impression that the "when children present" meant that when one could reasonably expect a child to be in the area. So during the week in the day and during the school year for a school but not on weekends, nights, or summer vacation. For parks you would basically assume anything during the day. Just because you don't see a child doesn't mean that there isn't one there that can walk into your path.
The reason for lower speed limits near parks, schools, etc isn't to do with kinetic energy. It's so that drivers have more time to react to unexpected events such as a child running out onto the street.
And ISIL has killed more people in Syria and Iraq than the police in the US have. Or are you saying that only first world, western lives count?
ISIS is a bunch of fucking assholes who have taken a select number of passages out of a holy book and twisted them to fit their means. They rape, murder, steal, and a number of other horrible crimes. And they are creating greater racism around the world.
We won't beat them by giving up our freedoms. We aren't going to beat them by dropping bombs on them. It's going to take a long, hard battle on the ground. But what is really going to defeat them in the long run is people getting along. Having temples attacked, blaming all Muslims, or calling for the refugees not to be admitted is just feeding the anger that causes people who join ISIS. They already feel apart from society and when we do those things we drive them further away. We need to embrace everyone and create an inclusive society or there will be other groups after ISIS.
What good is checking the source code when the NSA is shown to be modifying the gear after it leaves Cisco? You're checking the code that ships from Cisco before the NSA gets it, not what you receive. And what if the NSA isn't touching something in the code but putting in a piece of their own hardware?
There were two errors. The first was not carrying a one which would have happened on paper or the iPad. The pushing the wrong button, or writing the wrong number, would not happen.
While I agree that the area impacted will be very small, the damage will be quite great because each of these vents has a unique ecosystem around it. While I think they are originally going to concentrate at vents that are no longer active and not supporting life it won't be long until they move onto active vents.
Of course they don't have those pesky environmental regulations to stick to. There's nobody down at the ocean floor to complain about them dredging up tons of sediment. Just like the damage from fishing trawlers. Out of sight out of mind. Not that I'm for this because each of these vents is a unique ecosystem that is almost unknown to us.
They've killed a lot more than 129 people (along with many other atrocities). There have been thousands dead already but I guess they don't count since they weren't in a first world country.
Not that the West really has the stomach to stop ISIS. All we want to do is send planes over there to drop bombs and let the smaller countries from the area do the fighting on the ground. Getting rid of them is going to take putting troops over there but the people here don't want to deal with the casualties that would come with that.
you always have both the pilot and co-pilot make the calculations to make sure that they both come up with the same number. That is if you can't have the plane download and measure the necessary inputs in order to calculate the values for you automatically.
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There's plenty of breaks in hockey. Oh, a really good game can get long stretches of action. But if it's a boring game then it can be almost as bad as baseball. Well, not that bad. But you can get into periods where there seems to be a lot of offsides, icings, penalties, and the goalie stops the puck right from the face-off which breaks up the play. And each time there's a line change. If it's the NHL there's a few commercial breaks each period.
I haven't watched hockey in a while, though more for the inconsistency of the referees than the slowness of the game. I've seen a few games of the British ice hockey league and it was really good. Good end to end play. Not the elite players but they were playing because they loved to play and it showed. Kind of like why I prefer watching Canadian football.
Do you not test drive the car before buying it?
Maybe you should watch something in which there's enough action so the commentators don't have to fill massive amounts of time without action with inane chatter.
American football is so slow. The 40 or 45 seconds to get a play started is too long (Canadian football is 20 seconds and makes for a faster game). The four downs encourages a running game because it's a safe play and you can normally get a couple of yards so it's a quick running play followed by a time out to reset the ball and then almost 40 seconds to start the next play. I've watched a few Super Bowls and it's terrible how long they take to play. Especially the last couple of minutes. The four downs allows teams to throw the ball away to stop the clock. It seems like the last two minutes of a game can take a half hour to play with the time outs and other ways to manipulate the clock. None of it is illegal but it makes for an extremely boring game.
And then there's baseball. Watching someone throw a ball every minute or so is a recipe for having the commentary being very little to do about the game. Not that cricket is a whole lot better but at least they change the bowler (pitcher) on a regular basis so it's not always the same person throwing for the team.
While you don't need to grow vegetables on the trip to or from Mars it would be good for morale to be able to get some fresh food during the trip. On the ISS they get the chance to have some when the resupply ships arrive.
It's also how much risk management and the politicians are willing to take. In the current environment (and for the past couple of decades) NASA has been very risk averse when it comes to human lives so I think that the US is quite far away from going to Mars. Not that they were ever willing to throw away lives but during the Cold War they were more open to taking risks to achieve goals.
The Russians seem to be more focused on the Moon for their manned program. I don't know about the Chinese program but while they are taking some great strides they are taking a slow approach. So it looks like it's going to be a while before anyone steps on the surface of Mars.
And they've always handed over all the data when the government threatened to stop their sales in the country.
India - http://articles.economictimes....
Saudi Arabia - http://www.reuters.com/article...
Not really, there are many people who don't care about this. I've got a friend who has a Blackberry and she's been sold on it's security. Even when I've told her that they aren't as secure as the latest Android and iOS devices (at least she doesn't look at me as if I'm wearing a tin foil hat) she replies doesn't care if the government can get her data because she has nothing to hide. The end to end encryption doesn't matter to her.
The thing the might convince her to change is the camera. The other day we were out and she asked me to take a picture of something because she was driving. She was really impressed by the pictures from my iPhone and lamented the poor cameras in the Blackberry.
Then just let the bugs sit since they aren't too major and say they won't get fixed until someone volunteers to fix them. There will still be a bit of effort required for testing and integration but it's open source. That means someone who really wants to fix the feature can come alone and fix it. Just announce that you aren't going to spend your efforts on it and that you need volunteers. Then if nobody steps up in a year or two think about removing it.
It's very easy to narrow down the list. You put people in the field but they don't like doing that anymore. First there's a fear of people getting killed. This is also apparent in the military which is why drones and airstrikes are mostly used nowadays. The second reason is a belief that the technology will save us all (by us, the good guys). It will find the bad guys if you just put in enough data and tweak the algorithm a bit more. You need agents out in the field because there are only some kinds of intelligence that you can get by being there. Become friendly with the locals and they will tell you things instead of sending drones overhead. Not every piece of data is captured in a phone conversation or email or text message.
Obviously I have since that's all I shoot. The JPG that they want right now if not sooner is hitting the web. It's going to be small and viewed on monitors, tablets, and mobile phones. It doesn't have to be perfect for that medium. It's more than good enough. Will a professional or really good photographer look at it and say what could be better about the shot? Absolutely, but that's not the purpose of the photograph. The image is to visually represent a item or action of interest. If you want to make it look better then it becomes art, not news.
I'm complaining about stupid things such as on the main screen when playing music there is a button for shuffling music but it doesn't tell you the status of the shuffle and when you press it it only turns shuffle on, never off. To turn shuffle off, or even see the status, you have to expand the mini player, use the shuffle button in there, and then swipe that down to return back to your music. That's just bad design. Sure it looks pretty but the usability sucks.
It's similar to the large iPhones. I don't want one. I have a 5S and that screen size works for me. I use it in a number of situations where I only have one hand available such as carrying groceries home or standing on the bus. Apple's solution for bringing the screen down to tap something near the top is useless, especially if you have a lot of taps near the top. And any of the rumours of a new 4" iPhone have it being a water-down 6 (kind of like a 5c but with a metal case). I don't want toy version of the phone. I want the same capabilities but with a smaller screen.
I used to really like Apple products because they were easy to use and usually just worked. But during the past few years Apple has turned into just the best of the bunch instead of me wanting to use them. That's a huge difference in how I see their products.
The inner circle of ISIS are religious zealots who believe that it's the end of days and they are bringing the forces of the world to fight in the Middle East. At least that's what they proclaim publicly. What's truly in their hearts I don't know. But not many explanations fit for taking credit for bombing the Russian airliner. Russia was mostly taking care of the rebel troops in Syria with some token bombing of ISIS so from a strategic standpoint they had everything to lose by making that claim. But if you are trying to drag in as many armies into the fight as possible then it makes sense.
With the way the copyright section is written copyright rulings in one jurisdiction will be applied in others. It doesn't apply in this case since it's blocking at the ISP. But having something called a copyright infringement in Australia lets a company go to a Canadian ISP and have content taken down even if it doesn't infringe on copyright in Canada.
In this case the Australian company should have just filed a complaint with ICAAN to get the domain moved to them as the Indian company was obviously trying to make the site look like the Australian company.
They want a JPG so that they can get it up on the website and social media sites as fast as possible. It pays for them to be the first to get a picture or story out. They don't want a photographer to spend the time converting the image on their computer.
But what is perfectly fine is to shoot in RAW + JPG and send in the JPG right away. Then after the event the photographer would take the best shot or two and do the minimal amount of adjustments allowed to make the image more appropriate for newspapers or magazines.
I worked on an application that ran on a terminal (well, emulated a vt220 when you used telnet over a VPN) and the server part interacted with the telephone switches directly. They phone company wanted to replace the UI with a web interface and all of the users were against it because it would slow them down a lot. There was plenty of information packed onto that screen with easy flow between the fields. Function keys toggled between pages of options. This was ten years ago so things were much more limited on what could be done with HTML. There would have been lots of page refreshes and it would have been terrible trying to get all of that information displayed nicely let alone being able to input data quickly. I left before it got anywhere past the concept stage so I don't know how it turned out.
But it's just to say that not all workflow "enhancements" are appreciated.
I was under the impression that the "when children present" meant that when one could reasonably expect a child to be in the area. So during the week in the day and during the school year for a school but not on weekends, nights, or summer vacation. For parks you would basically assume anything during the day. Just because you don't see a child doesn't mean that there isn't one there that can walk into your path.
The reason for lower speed limits near parks, schools, etc isn't to do with kinetic energy. It's so that drivers have more time to react to unexpected events such as a child running out onto the street.
And ISIL has killed more people in Syria and Iraq than the police in the US have. Or are you saying that only first world, western lives count?
ISIS is a bunch of fucking assholes who have taken a select number of passages out of a holy book and twisted them to fit their means. They rape, murder, steal, and a number of other horrible crimes. And they are creating greater racism around the world.
We won't beat them by giving up our freedoms. We aren't going to beat them by dropping bombs on them. It's going to take a long, hard battle on the ground. But what is really going to defeat them in the long run is people getting along. Having temples attacked, blaming all Muslims, or calling for the refugees not to be admitted is just feeding the anger that causes people who join ISIS. They already feel apart from society and when we do those things we drive them further away. We need to embrace everyone and create an inclusive society or there will be other groups after ISIS.
What good is checking the source code when the NSA is shown to be modifying the gear after it leaves Cisco? You're checking the code that ships from Cisco before the NSA gets it, not what you receive. And what if the NSA isn't touching something in the code but putting in a piece of their own hardware?
There were two errors. The first was not carrying a one which would have happened on paper or the iPad. The pushing the wrong button, or writing the wrong number, would not happen.
While I agree that the area impacted will be very small, the damage will be quite great because each of these vents has a unique ecosystem around it. While I think they are originally going to concentrate at vents that are no longer active and not supporting life it won't be long until they move onto active vents.
Of course they don't have those pesky environmental regulations to stick to. There's nobody down at the ocean floor to complain about them dredging up tons of sediment. Just like the damage from fishing trawlers. Out of sight out of mind. Not that I'm for this because each of these vents is a unique ecosystem that is almost unknown to us.
They've killed a lot more than 129 people (along with many other atrocities). There have been thousands dead already but I guess they don't count since they weren't in a first world country.
Not that the West really has the stomach to stop ISIS. All we want to do is send planes over there to drop bombs and let the smaller countries from the area do the fighting on the ground. Getting rid of them is going to take putting troops over there but the people here don't want to deal with the casualties that would come with that.
you always have both the pilot and co-pilot make the calculations to make sure that they both come up with the same number. That is if you can't have the plane download and measure the necessary inputs in order to calculate the values for you automatically.
As if the co-pilot couldn't have made the exact same mistake with a calculator or even paper.