I've been waiting for a smart watch with good battery life and just basic notification support. A little low power LCD would be handy, but this could potentially be a nice addition to a smart phone.
Okay, but how many people actually need this capability? Couldn't 90% of off-road vehicles be replaced with electric models and not be an issue for the owner?
Depends on the reason for them being paid different amounts. If it's age it could be problem. If it's just that one is less qualified then maybe not, legally speaking.
Not hiring women can be dangerous to your company's health.
If your company had very few female employees people are going to ask why, possibly in court. If you have an actual policy of not hiring women you are in real trouble.
No one should have to leave their job because their employer is institutionally biased against them. Especially when there is a good chance that they new employer will be the same, and it's hard to tell if they will be because everyone claims to meet their legal obligation to be fair.
"Just leave town" is not an answer, it's divisive and unfair.
Was design really that good under Jobs? The aesthetics were mostly just ripped off from Braun and Samsung, and there were as many gaffes as clever bits of design.
What Jobs was good at was building an aspirational brand.
There is a difference between resisting taxation because you don't like Obama and resisting the government trying to deport your family or take away the healthcare that is keeping you alive.
This kind of false equivalence argument is the new favourite of the far right. "Yes we are bad, but they are the same and you are a hypocrite for not acknowledging that".
I just can't understand how really basic stuff can be broken in Linux.
I posted about this before, but I installed half a dozen distros and the mouse wheel didn't work properly in any of them. It was insanely slow, scrolling one line at a time. Totally unusable for basic things like web browsing. If there even was a way to configure it, it didn't work.
Do the developers not use the mouse wheel themselves? Or is it really hard to fix so no one has? It might be the latter, there seem to be at least three competing systems.
Maybe existing Linux desktops need to site. Even X. Build something better, from the ground up.
Well, there are taxi companies with 200k miles on a Nissan Leaf, multiple hard rapid charges and a 100% overnight slow charge every day, and the battery is still >80%.
Some Tesla drivers have reported less than 10% loss at the 400k mile level.
I guess you have not checked my previous posts, but I am always one of the first to point out that freedom of speech does not require anyone to listen to you. I mostly do it when people are complaining about being banned from Twitter or that their favourite neo-Nazi site can't register a domain.
Freedom of speech, or more generally freedom of expression, is a fundamental human right in the EU. It get balanced against the rights and freedoms of other citizens, just like it does in the US.
In the United States speech that harms other people is sometimes illegal. Fraud, credible threats, harassment etc. It's the same in Europe, it's just that Germany and some other counties consider some speech to be harmful in a more general way, i.e. promoting Nazism might not hurt someone directly but when many people do it it is likely to result in harm.
The argument is not so much if there should be any limit on speech - there is in every developed nation - it's if speech promoting Nazism can be considered to be harmful. I used to think not, but these days I'm not so sure, although I wouldn't ban it.
By that logic free speech is unacceptable in the US as well, since sometimes speech can be a crime. Fraud, credible threats, harassment, leaking state secrets, causing injury or death through panic... There are all sorts of ways that speech in the US can get you into legal difficulties.
What is your average off-road speed? Let's be generous and say 20 MPH. Let's also be pessimistic and say you only get 200 miles off-road from your battery. You can only do 10 hours of hard off-road driving before needing to charge... Yeah, terrible, absolutely useless.
I don't know if faces are more unique than fingerprints or not, but the more important difference is how they are measured. Fingerprint scanners are quite mature now, where as face scanning with a camera in varying lighting conditions, angles and the like is still not even good enough to differentiate human children reliably.
Imagine if human parents couldn't tell their children's faces apart... Anyone with identical twins will attest to what chaos that can cause.
It will be interesting to see how EVs impact the used car market. They last much longer than ICE cars and require much less maintenance. An EV with 100k miles on it is not like an ICE with 100k miles, with the latter being in imminent need of expensive maintenance and with significantly reduced performance.
In particular vehicles designed for heavy offroad use
EVs are ideal for off-road use. Massive amounts of torque at low speeds, but no gearbox so driving them is easier. Few things to go wrong too, so more reliable. Current range would be around 250-300 miles per charge, way more than almost anyone will do off-road, and of course that will increase with time. Plus you can charge from solar/wind in remote areas, where as if you run out of fuel you are in trouble.
Additionally many commercial-service vehicles would make poor electrics if their daily range far exceeds what a charge can provide
Commercial long distance vehicles will soon be electric and driverless. It rarely matters if they need to stop and charge every few hours if there is no driver. For most freight an extra hour or two on the journey is meaningless. In fact I expect they will not even bother with the largest available batteries and instead opt for cheaper ones with more charging stops, because that is where the maximum cost/benefit ratio is.
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Could have sworn I fixed that (the mistake is in TFA), but at least we got a chuckle out of it.
I'm highly sceptical that they can generate enough energy from body heat.
I want fewer features and better battery life.
The other thing I really want from the watch is a proper heart rate monitor. The current ones are wildly inaccurate.
I've been waiting for a smart watch with good battery life and just basic notification support. A little low power LCD would be handy, but this could potentially be a nice addition to a smart phone.
Are you saying that gender discrimination is not bad, or that it doesn't happen?
I don't think anything ever improved by people saying "eh, that's just how it is, what can we do?"
Where is the original, unedited video? If they have nothing to hide then there is no problem posting it for us to examine.
Okay, but how many people actually need this capability? Couldn't 90% of off-road vehicles be replaced with electric models and not be an issue for the owner?
That video by the discredited "Veritas Project" has been debunked. It was misleadingly edited.
In any case, it's it reasonable to then go after everyone who read anything associated with this person?
Depends on the reason for them being paid different amounts. If it's age it could be problem. If it's just that one is less qualified then maybe not, legally speaking.
Not hiring women can be dangerous to your company's health.
If your company had very few female employees people are going to ask why, possibly in court. If you have an actual policy of not hiring women you are in real trouble.
No one should have to leave their job because their employer is institutionally biased against them. Especially when there is a good chance that they new employer will be the same, and it's hard to tell if they will be because everyone claims to meet their legal obligation to be fair.
"Just leave town" is not an answer, it's divisive and unfair.
Was design really that good under Jobs? The aesthetics were mostly just ripped off from Braun and Samsung, and there were as many gaffes as clever bits of design.
What Jobs was good at was building an aspirational brand.
There is a difference between resisting taxation because you don't like Obama and resisting the government trying to deport your family or take away the healthcare that is keeping you alive.
This kind of false equivalence argument is the new favourite of the far right. "Yes we are bad, but they are the same and you are a hypocrite for not acknowledging that".
I just can't understand how really basic stuff can be broken in Linux.
I posted about this before, but I installed half a dozen distros and the mouse wheel didn't work properly in any of them. It was insanely slow, scrolling one line at a time. Totally unusable for basic things like web browsing. If there even was a way to configure it, it didn't work.
Do the developers not use the mouse wheel themselves? Or is it really hard to fix so no one has? It might be the latter, there seem to be at least three competing systems.
Maybe existing Linux desktops need to site. Even X. Build something better, from the ground up.
Hunter's Law: When someone talks about Nazis, Trumpkins will assume they mean Trump.
Well, there are taxi companies with 200k miles on a Nissan Leaf, multiple hard rapid charges and a 100% overnight slow charge every day, and the battery is still >80%.
Some Tesla drivers have reported less than 10% loss at the 400k mile level.
I guess you have not checked my previous posts, but I am always one of the first to point out that freedom of speech does not require anyone to listen to you. I mostly do it when people are complaining about being banned from Twitter or that their favourite neo-Nazi site can't register a domain.
Freedom of speech, or more generally freedom of expression, is a fundamental human right in the EU. It get balanced against the rights and freedoms of other citizens, just like it does in the US.
In the United States speech that harms other people is sometimes illegal. Fraud, credible threats, harassment etc. It's the same in Europe, it's just that Germany and some other counties consider some speech to be harmful in a more general way, i.e. promoting Nazism might not hurt someone directly but when many people do it it is likely to result in harm.
The argument is not so much if there should be any limit on speech - there is in every developed nation - it's if speech promoting Nazism can be considered to be harmful. I used to think not, but these days I'm not so sure, although I wouldn't ban it.
By that logic free speech is unacceptable in the US as well, since sometimes speech can be a crime. Fraud, credible threats, harassment, leaking state secrets, causing injury or death through panic... There are all sorts of ways that speech in the US can get you into legal difficulties.
What is your average off-road speed? Let's be generous and say 20 MPH. Let's also be pessimistic and say you only get 200 miles off-road from your battery. You can only do 10 hours of hard off-road driving before needing to charge... Yeah, terrible, absolutely useless.
I don't know if faces are more unique than fingerprints or not, but the more important difference is how they are measured. Fingerprint scanners are quite mature now, where as face scanning with a camera in varying lighting conditions, angles and the like is still not even good enough to differentiate human children reliably.
Imagine if human parents couldn't tell their children's faces apart... Anyone with identical twins will attest to what chaos that can cause.
It will be interesting to see how EVs impact the used car market. They last much longer than ICE cars and require much less maintenance. An EV with 100k miles on it is not like an ICE with 100k miles, with the latter being in imminent need of expensive maintenance and with significantly reduced performance.
In particular vehicles designed for heavy offroad use
EVs are ideal for off-road use. Massive amounts of torque at low speeds, but no gearbox so driving them is easier. Few things to go wrong too, so more reliable. Current range would be around 250-300 miles per charge, way more than almost anyone will do off-road, and of course that will increase with time. Plus you can charge from solar/wind in remote areas, where as if you run out of fuel you are in trouble.
Additionally many commercial-service vehicles would make poor electrics if their daily range far exceeds what a charge can provide
Commercial long distance vehicles will soon be electric and driverless. It rarely matters if they need to stop and charge every few hours if there is no driver. For most freight an extra hour or two on the journey is meaningless. In fact I expect they will not even bother with the largest available batteries and instead opt for cheaper ones with more charging stops, because that is where the maximum cost/benefit ratio is.