This week I had to create an account on an US government website to process some forms. I was surprised to see that as a part of the password recommendations they said that you could use emojis. This was the first time that I have encountered such a clause and it was doubly surprising that it was on a US government website.
I stuck to a regular plain old string of random characters and digits, but I could see how people who think in emoji could prefer an emoji password.
Pratchett wrote comedic fantasy, not economic research. He made things up, including Sam Vimes, the relative costs of boots, and especially their durability.
So Captain Pedantic, never in your life have you experienced cheaply made goods not lasting as long as more expensive goods?
And yes Sam Vines is a work of fiction, but it is a work of fiction used to illustrate a genuine point - That having money increases your options for saving money. For example at some point up the socio-economic tree it becomes financially viable for a person to establish a presence in a tax haven in order to reduce/eliminate a tax burden. (Double Irish with a Dutch sandwich anyone?) Such options are out of the reach of people with lesser means.
The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money. Take boots, for example. He earned thirty-eight dollars a month plus allowances. A really good pair of leather boots cost fifty dollars. But an affordable pair of boots, which were sort of OK for a season or two and then leaked like hell when the cardboard gave out, cost about ten dollars. Those were the kind of boots Vimes always bought, and wore until the soles were so thin that he could tell where he was in Ankh-Morpork on a foggy night by the feel of the cobbles.
But the thing was that good boots lasted for years and years. A man who could afford fifty dollars had a pair of boots that'd still be keeping his feet dry in ten years' time, while the poor man who could only afford cheap boots would have spent a hundred dollars on boots in the same time and would still have wet feet.
This was the Captain Samuel Vimes 'Boots' theory of socioeconomic unfairness.
Personally I think the AC was/is (dare I say it?) butt-hurt about something to do with gays and was merely trolling (and has no idea of the real world or even cares about it). Normally I wouldn't reply to such a comment but today was his/her lucky day.
Iâ(TM)m straight and in a monogamous relationship. I still get tested once per year.
It sounds like you have trust issues:D
About 30 (sheesh that long!) years ago when I was dating I had an HIV test just as part of normal dating life - not that I was doing anything weird or risky, just being precautions and paranoid. When work wanted to get me a health insurance for some extended overseas trips one of the questions was have you ever had an HIV test. After that word came down to me via HR that the insurance company wanted an explanation as to why I had had an HIV test. I had to explain to them that this was basically the new norm in dating life. I was open and honest about it all, but boy was it embarrassing to deal with.
It's well known that gays will lie about their HIV status.
As such, all who are HIV-positive should be on a list which can be accessed by anyone.
OK.. I'll run with this. Are we listing people with infectious disease that can kill? or just infectious diseases? or are we just listing STDs that can kill? Or just STDs that can't be cured? Or even just STDs? Would you want any of all of those conditions listed for you own health status to be publicly available? For instance, if you have ever had a cold sore, you technically are at risk for passing it as an STD as HSV-1 will happily live in the genital region and cause all sorts of fun and games.
And how are you going to securely tie a person you want to jump into bed with, with a collection of records in a DB somewhere? Oh, you looked up Fred A. Nurk, and you say he's HIV positive? Well I'm Fred B. Nurk.. totally safe.. now lets get at it!
It seems like your solution is going to involve back tattoos and listing out human readable codes that indicate current health status. And we all know how it worked out the last time that people were tattooed for identification.
And BTW how do you even deal with people who have no idea they are HIV positive and have never been tested?
And why are you singling out gays? HIV is not a "gay" disease.
Buy MP3s (or rip CDs) of just the music you like, store it locally on your PC and Mobile device, and only listen to those tracks.
Which I do, but a bunch of tracks are suffering from bit rot, so I need to re-rip them. But I have something like 100+GB of rips (of CDs that I physically own) so capacity is still an issue on portable devices.
Another down side to this is that because I am in a music bubble of my own making and have probably been missing a bunch of new music that I would actually like.
I'm no expert by in an ordinary car doing safe speeds on an unpaved gravel road I'd think half that, maybe 50 kph, is more reasonable.
You could easily do 100k on a road like that. Although once when I got to about 140k on a dirt road the car slowly started fish-tailing. I backed off to 100k and it was all good.
Could be that road conditions do not let you travel at 100KM on average. So most likely they think it was a road where 100KM was not possible. Here a 450KM trip that would take 12.5 hours. 70KM more added 8 hours travel time.
That actually could be the what is going on. The locals are taking route 14 in 4 hours, but the tourists are being directed along route 12 and 83 for what ever reason and take 12 hours. And I compared apples to oranges.
One possible reason is that the locals are geared up for long distance driving with long range fuel tanks, but rental cars don't have them, so the locals can safely do a straight shot along a route with limited fuel stops and the tourists are being directed to the route that has more fuel stops that suit their shorter range tanks.
In one case, the journey time from Birdsville, on the Queensland border, up to the Western Star Hotel in Windorah, in the centre of the state, was estimated to be close to 11 hours by Google Maps. After claims the time was inaccurate, Google changed the estimated time to about 7 hours and 45 minutes. But locals say the drive is closer to four hours with no stops.
I just plotted out the same route in google maps and it told me 4 hours and 22 minutes. So either the story is wrong or google has been fixing things.
But it makes me wonder* about people estimating times. Its a 380km journey and at 100km/hr that puts it at the 4 hour mark. I can't explain where 7 or 11 hours comes from,
*Cue Stairways to Heaven
To be fair to Google, with locals experienced in navigating and driving in the Outback it might be 4 hours. To a tourist in a rental car who has never been to the area before, may not be accustomed to road conditions (while I am sure there are some paved roads in the Outback I would assume there are also quite a few unpaved roads as well), and may take several stops out of an abundance of caution it might be a 6-7 hour drive. Personally I've heard enough stories that breaking down/running out of gas would be a concern to me in that area, especially if it is sparsely traveled.
I can see tourists stopping along the way and being cautious of road conditions and taking longer than google estimates but it's googles estimates that are varying, not the reported times by tourists (which I can't see how google can know).
The logical conclusion is that there's some criteria about the average speed you can legally/safely travel on these routes, and that data is inaccurate. Combined with inaccurate details about fuel stops, it could be incompetence, it could be malicious.
I assume that google estimates time by the posted speed limit. Leaving driving conditions aside I can't see how the went form 11 to 4 hours. The posted limits would not have changed that much in such a short time.
In one case, the journey time from Birdsville, on the Queensland border, up to the Western Star Hotel in Windorah, in the centre of the state, was estimated to be close to 11 hours by Google Maps. After claims the time was inaccurate, Google changed the estimated time to about 7 hours and 45 minutes. But locals say the drive is closer to four hours with no stops.
I just plotted out the same route in google maps and it told me 4 hours and 22 minutes. So either the story is wrong or google has been fixing things.
But it makes me wonder* about people estimating times. Its a 380km journey and at 100km/hr that puts it at the 4 hour mark. I can't explain where 7 or 11 hours comes from,
Panel doubling as a speaker surface? Very "creative". Problem is, a vibrating panel will look unclear. Small details smeared out by vibration.
Oh shit.. the LG engineers designed and built an 88 inch TV that doubles as the speaker surface without considering that a vibrating screen might look fuzzy.
Now that you have pointed out the obvious, I'm sure there will be much gnashing of teeth and wailing coming from Seoul as they realize how stupid their engineers are. After all.. who could have predicted such a thing?/s
A "semi autonomous" large ore train had to be deliberately derailed in November, because it was actually less destructive than letting it continue driving and come close to the "real" rail network or civilisation. More info at https://www.abc.net.au/news/20...
So it's probably too early to claim success for autonomous trains, even though, as stated by earlier posters above, an autonomous train in the outback is a much easier challenge than one in the city. Far fewer level crossings, obstacles or pedestrians.
Where in that article does it even mention semi-autonomous? The article talks bout a driver getting out of the cab and the train taking off. Nothing to do with the Rio Tinto trains.
What's wrong with being a tourist? Is it some kind of crime? Why do New Yorkers take so much pleasure in looking down on people who have come to see their city? You'd think it would be a great compliment.
The OP wasn't saying that being a tourist is bad, but that the Times Square ball drop is an event where tourists think the'll have a great time when in general it is a bad experience.
Not having been there I have no experience, but then again I don't fancy enjoying new years eve with 1 million of my new closest friends.
That link reads like a cheerleading page for Paint.net and makes some strange points in its effort to present an obviously biased perspective. Statements such as it's not worth it to install plugins in Gimp are opinions not facts. It reads like a Chinese translated version of English... no thanks.
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This week I had to create an account on an US government website to process some forms. I was surprised to see that as a part of the password recommendations they said that you could use emojis. This was the first time that I have encountered such a clause and it was doubly surprising that it was on a US government website.
I stuck to a regular plain old string of random characters and digits, but I could see how people who think in emoji could prefer an emoji password.
Pratchett wrote comedic fantasy, not economic research. He made things up, including Sam Vimes, the relative costs of boots, and especially their durability.
So Captain Pedantic, never in your life have you experienced cheaply made goods not lasting as long as more expensive goods?
And yes Sam Vines is a work of fiction, but it is a work of fiction used to illustrate a genuine point - That having money increases your options for saving money. For example at some point up the socio-economic tree it becomes financially viable for a person to establish a presence in a tax haven in order to reduce/eliminate a tax burden. (Double Irish with a Dutch sandwich anyone?) Such options are out of the reach of people with lesser means.
There are no barriers to better budgeting.
You need to read Boots theory of socio-economic unfairness to understand why I think you are mistaken in your point of view.
The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money.
Take boots, for example. He earned thirty-eight dollars a month plus allowances. A really good pair of leather boots cost fifty dollars. But an affordable pair of boots, which were sort of OK for a season or two and then leaked like hell when the cardboard gave out, cost about ten dollars. Those were the kind of boots Vimes always bought, and wore until the soles were so thin that he could tell where he was in Ankh-Morpork on a foggy night by the feel of the cobbles.
But the thing was that good boots lasted for years and years. A man who could afford fifty dollars had a pair of boots that'd still be keeping his feet dry in ten years' time, while the poor man who could only afford cheap boots would have spent a hundred dollars on boots in the same time and would still have wet feet.
This was the Captain Samuel Vimes 'Boots' theory of socioeconomic unfairness.
That is the winning move of not to play!
How much money did it move from the orbit of investors to the orbit of the recipients?
Sheesh .. I thought everyone knew that you shouldn't anthropomorphize machines .. they don't like it when you do.
Personally I think the AC was/is (dare I say it?) butt-hurt about something to do with gays and was merely trolling (and has no idea of the real world or even cares about it). Normally I wouldn't reply to such a comment but today was his/her lucky day.
AND in the usa risk them getting black listed form any health care.
Healthcare? We have Healthcare in the US?
I thought we just had Walletcare*
*As in how can I drain your wallet today?
They should have done that in the 1980s. HIV would be dead now. but only if they forced a tattoo as well.
Please tell me about your magical technology that could diagnose HIV in a timely manner. I'm sure the medical industry has totally been ignoring you.
Iâ(TM)m straight and in a monogamous relationship. I still get tested once per year.
It sounds like you have trust issues :D
About 30 (sheesh that long!) years ago when I was dating I had an HIV test just as part of normal dating life - not that I was doing anything weird or risky, just being precautions and paranoid. When work wanted to get me a health insurance for some extended overseas trips one of the questions was have you ever had an HIV test. After that word came down to me via HR that the insurance company wanted an explanation as to why I had had an HIV test. I had to explain to them that this was basically the new norm in dating life. I was open and honest about it all, but boy was it embarrassing to deal with.
It's well known that gays will lie about their HIV status.
As such, all who are HIV-positive should be on a list which can be accessed by anyone.
OK .. I'll run with this. Are we listing people with infectious disease that can kill? or just infectious diseases? or are we just listing STDs that can kill? Or just STDs that can't be cured? Or even just STDs? Would you want any of all of those conditions listed for you own health status to be publicly available? For instance, if you have ever had a cold sore, you technically are at risk for passing it as an STD as HSV-1 will happily live in the genital region and cause all sorts of fun and games.
And how are you going to securely tie a person you want to jump into bed with, with a collection of records in a DB somewhere? Oh, you looked up Fred A. Nurk, and you say he's HIV positive? Well I'm Fred B. Nurk .. totally safe .. now lets get at it!
It seems like your solution is going to involve back tattoos and listing out human readable codes that indicate current health status. And we all know how it worked out the last time that people were tattooed for identification.
And BTW how do you even deal with people who have no idea they are HIV positive and have never been tested?
And why are you singling out gays? HIV is not a "gay" disease.
Buy MP3s (or rip CDs) of just the music you like, store it locally on your PC and Mobile device, and only listen to those tracks.
Which I do, but a bunch of tracks are suffering from bit rot, so I need to re-rip them. But I have something like 100+GB of rips (of CDs that I physically own) so capacity is still an issue on portable devices.
Another down side to this is that because I am in a music bubble of my own making and have probably been missing a bunch of new music that I would actually like.
100km/h seems optimistic for this road: https://goo.gl/maps/5u32Vbybed...
I'm no expert by in an ordinary car doing safe speeds on an unpaved gravel road I'd think half that, maybe 50 kph, is more reasonable.
You could easily do 100k on a road like that. Although once when I got to about 140k on a dirt road the car slowly started fish-tailing. I backed off to 100k and it was all good.
Could be that road conditions do not let you travel at 100KM on average.
So most likely they think it was a road where 100KM was not possible. Here a 450KM trip that would take 12.5 hours. 70KM more added 8 hours travel time.
That actually could be the what is going on. The locals are taking route 14 in 4 hours, but the tourists are being directed along route 12 and 83 for what ever reason and take 12 hours. And I compared apples to oranges.
One possible reason is that the locals are geared up for long distance driving with long range fuel tanks, but rental cars don't have them, so the locals can safely do a straight shot along a route with limited fuel stops and the tourists are being directed to the route that has more fuel stops that suit their shorter range tanks.
In TFA it states
In one case, the journey time from Birdsville, on the Queensland border, up to the Western Star Hotel in Windorah, in the centre of the state, was estimated to be close to 11 hours by Google Maps.
After claims the time was inaccurate, Google changed the estimated time to about 7 hours and 45 minutes. But locals say the drive is closer to four hours with no stops.
I just plotted out the same route in google maps and it told me 4 hours and 22 minutes. So either the story is wrong or google has been fixing things.
But it makes me wonder* about people estimating times. Its a 380km journey and at 100km/hr that puts it at the 4 hour mark. I can't explain where 7 or 11 hours comes from,
*Cue Stairways to Heaven
To be fair to Google, with locals experienced in navigating and driving in the Outback it might be 4 hours. To a tourist in a rental car who has never been to the area before, may not be accustomed to road conditions (while I am sure there are some paved roads in the Outback I would assume there are also quite a few unpaved roads as well), and may take several stops out of an abundance of caution it might be a 6-7 hour drive. Personally I've heard enough stories that breaking down/running out of gas would be a concern to me in that area, especially if it is sparsely traveled.
I can see tourists stopping along the way and being cautious of road conditions and taking longer than google estimates but it's googles estimates that are varying, not the reported times by tourists (which I can't see how google can know).
The logical conclusion is that there's some criteria about the average speed you can legally/safely travel on these routes, and that data is inaccurate. Combined with inaccurate details about fuel stops, it could be incompetence, it could be malicious.
I assume that google estimates time by the posted speed limit. Leaving driving conditions aside I can't see how the went form 11 to 4 hours. The posted limits would not have changed that much in such a short time.
In TFA it states
In one case, the journey time from Birdsville, on the Queensland border, up to the Western Star Hotel in Windorah, in the centre of the state, was estimated to be close to 11 hours by Google Maps.
After claims the time was inaccurate, Google changed the estimated time to about 7 hours and 45 minutes. But locals say the drive is closer to four hours with no stops.
I just plotted out the same route in google maps and it told me 4 hours and 22 minutes. So either the story is wrong or google has been fixing things.
But it makes me wonder* about people estimating times. Its a 380km journey and at 100km/hr that puts it at the 4 hour mark. I can't explain where 7 or 11 hours comes from,
*Cue Stairways to Heaven
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Slip on a shirt,
Slop on the 50+ sunscreen,
Slap on a hat,
Seek shade or shelter,
Slide on some glasses used to block out sun
And come back Norm .. we miss you!
Given that FB has been accused of making shadow profiles of people not on FB, does deleting the App from a phone really achieve anything?
No .. I am not saying the outrage is not justified, just that is misdirected.
http://theconversation.com/sha...
Panel doubling as a speaker surface? Very "creative". Problem is, a vibrating panel will look unclear. Small details smeared out by vibration.
Oh shit .. the LG engineers designed and built an 88 inch TV that doubles as the speaker surface without considering that a vibrating screen might look fuzzy.
Now that you have pointed out the obvious, I'm sure there will be much gnashing of teeth and wailing coming from Seoul as they realize how stupid their engineers are. After all .. who could have predicted such a thing? /s
A "semi autonomous" large ore train had to be deliberately derailed in November, because it was actually less destructive than letting it continue driving and come close to the "real" rail network or civilisation.
More info at https://www.abc.net.au/news/20...
So it's probably too early to claim success for autonomous trains, even though, as stated by earlier posters above, an autonomous train in the outback is a much easier challenge than one in the city. Far fewer level crossings, obstacles or pedestrians.
Where in that article does it even mention semi-autonomous? The article talks bout a driver getting out of the cab and the train taking off. Nothing to do with the Rio Tinto trains.
What's wrong with being a tourist? Is it some kind of crime? Why do New Yorkers take so much pleasure in looking down on people who have come to see their city? You'd think it would be a great compliment.
The OP wasn't saying that being a tourist is bad, but that the Times Square ball drop is an event where tourists think the'll have a great time when in general it is a bad experience.
Not having been there I have no experience, but then again I don't fancy enjoying new years eve with 1 million of my new closest friends.
That link reads like a cheerleading page for Paint.net and makes some strange points in its effort to present an obviously biased perspective. Statements such as it's not worth it to install plugins in Gimp are opinions not facts. It reads like a Chinese translated version of English... no thanks.
I never said it was a good comparison site.
Bring back WordPerfect for that sweet keyboard action.
It never went away.
THE single worst program I think, no, definitely know, I have ever used.
Oh come on now, have you ever used Blender? That UI would give the GIMP a run for its money.