Dunno, but it seems that more automation leads to more problems.
Statistically, 2014 is the year with fewest plane crashes since the era of mass aviation began. Two of those were (Boeing, not Airbus) 777s loaded with passengers, which skewed the passenger death statistics to a level that has not been seen for 10 years or so, but as more automation comes into aviation, the trend is definitely leading to fewer problems, not more, more so if you account for the fact that the number of flights and passengers is continuing to grow, especially in areas like South East Asia.
If I have the time to spare I sometimes enjoy taking the train, fx from Amsterdam to Brussels.... But on time plane wins almost always.
Could you have picked a worse example? That train ride is less than the 2 hours that you are recommended to be at checkin before an international flight from a busy airport like Schiphol. Just getting from downtown Amsterdam to the airport has already lost you 30 minutes.
Ever considered the possibility of a software bug that strikes under certain input conditions at the very moment a plane crosses the equator? I know there was a similar issue caught early in the development of the F16 (under simulation), but is there a possibility of such a bug making it into production if the input conditions were rare enough?
I'm not sure which Singapore Airlines A380 you flew on, but the ones I've flown on have subjectively more legroom than any 747, 777 or A330 I've flown, mostly because the gap under the seats is slightly higher than older designs and free of added metal boxes for the retro-fitted entertainment systems, while keeping the same seat pitch.
Never rely on Wikipedia as a primary source. In Singapore and Malaysia, where English is widely spoken as a first or second language, and the latin alphabet official for government forms etc, it is common for Chinese to write their personal name separately (one word per Chinese character), after their surname, just as it is written in Chinese. If they are Christian, they will often have a Christian name in addition to their Chinese personal name, which they write before their surname. In most everyday cases they will use either their Christian name or their Chinese personal name, but when they have to write their full name for official documents, their surname ends up in the middle.
I wonder how viable it would be to just quietly escort flights in that region with stealth aircraft for a while to determine what's actually happening.
It doesn't take much wondering to figure out how viable that idea is.
In order to say CIA hacked Sony, you would have to invent all sorts of motives and cover-up to explain it. The simpler explanation is that N. Korea did it, because the circumstances and evidence so far all point to it.
You mean the motives and cover-up the media has so far invented all point to it. An even simpler explanation is that disgruntled hacker groups reused some attack code, perhaps from an attack on South Korean companies a few weeks back which maybe North Korea paid them to deploy. The narrative about The Interview being motivation for the attack didn't come out until long after the attacks, and was initially denied by the contacts the media had made, and only a few days later that statements from the supposed hackers started mentioning it. This was likely after disgruntled hackers realized that it made a better back story than the fact that they were just being assholes, and would likely deflect law enforcement attention away from them if it became widely believed
Did you count the jobs that only listed C# or VB.NET in the.NET category?
Last time I tried doing this I found that C# pulled in a lot of C jobs. And if you're going down that path to be fair to.NET, you'd better also be fair to Java by including jobs that only list J2EE or Android.
Since 2003, you no longer get beaten to death in a jail cell for failing to show one on demand, and obtaining one is easier and less expensive, but the temporary urban residence permit still exists. It seems I was wrong about them being tied to employment though.
In a labor camp, you can't say "I quit" and walk out.
If I understand the situation correctly, workers from other provinces require a permit to live in a different part of China. And that permit is most likely tied to their employment. So it isn't the same as you or I walking out on our employer - the choice is made a lot more difficult for them.
The wireless cards have ample protection against copying of the complete information to make clones. RFID Passports have sufficient protection against someone being able to get useful personal data without seeing the same info on the inside of the passport first. EMV cards however will cough up all the information from the front of the card unencrypted (or if not, encrypted using a fixed publically known key at least) to anyone within range.
Set a flat price for all users, residential, commercial, industrial. No reason that some users of water should get it more cheaply than others.
On the other hand, tiered pricing based on usage helps those who made the effort to reduce waste when you get to step 3 in your scheme. But of course, when you have tiered pricing, the biggest industrial users will all negotiate for a lower rate anyway. Probably most of them can use grey water anyway, since they're using the water for cooling, irrigation or other use which doesn't really require clean, treated, tap water.
That's probably because Christianity does not require believers to spread the faith
I don't know what bubble you're living in. I live in a Muslim majority country, and I still encounter Mormons and Jehovah's Witnesses on their mission to spread the faith. I've never encountered such zeal from the local Muslims (when I lived in the UK, there were evangelical Muslims with a table in the town square every weekend, so they do exist, but it seems to be more about recent converts taking an aspect of Christianity over into their new faith than anything fundamental to Islam itself).
This incident is classified as a terrorist act however even the top Muslim Cleric in Australia has condemned this
I'm not sure what the word however is doing in that sentence. Doesn't the top Muslim Cleric in Australia consistently condemn every terror attack performed in the false name of his religion, like top Muslim Clerics all around the world?
I would prefer to be taken hostage by someone who (is a hostage taker AND is a wack-job)
to someone who (is a hostage taker AND is a Muslim)
I'd rather be held hostage by a whack job with an obvious motivation than one with unknown motivation. At least with a Muslim whack-job, you know that sending in a Muslim cleric to talk him down has some chance of success.
It would be super deceptive in my opinion to get actors in roles, then have them "saying" all sorts of craziness
Craziness is one thing, if you've ever seen foreign films dubbed into English, you'd know it is standard. The issue in this case was a specific kind of craziness that could get her on some whack-job's hitlist. I'm not supporting the crazies that would want to kill her, and I would defend anyone who willing stood up and said those things, but I don't think the ideal of "Free Speech" should trump her personal right to not be associated with this particularly inflammatory way of making a point.
Actually the Loudness war is a reversion to how things were before CDs, when recording engineers were trying to squeeze more out of cheap thin vinyl on ever longer albums. With CDs, they suddenly had dynamic range to play with, but the novelty wore off when they realized that pop music was mostly listened to in noisy environments with cheap in-ear headphones.
Perhaps an increase the amount of bass or mid-range may get the effect you're looking for.
Definitely midrange. As the linked article states, vinyl is pretty awful when it comes to reproducing high end treble or low end bass. But I don't think an equalizer is going to give you the distortion, which is also part of the "quality" of the vinyl listening experience.
I use Shotwell, and it definitely has an option to write the metadata to files, so you can recover it later or from another program. The database is necessary for search - you don't want it to have to open each file one by one to find the image you are looking for.
Yes, saying that Sony might have the second amendment on their side is like claiming that vigilante groups in white hoods that go around shooting anyone with dark complexion because one guy who they think was probably black robbed a store in their neighborhood once, have the second amendment on their side. The second amendment is not about that at all. It is about the maintaining the ability of the people to form a militia to overthrow a tyrannical government if the need arises. The funny thing is, the constitution will have long since been thrown out the window when that scenario eventuates.
Wait, you're seriously complaining about the possible waste of undrunk biodegradable coffee, and suggesting expensive disposible plastic pods as the solution?
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Statistically, 2014 is the year with fewest plane crashes since the era of mass aviation began. Two of those were (Boeing, not Airbus) 777s loaded with passengers, which skewed the passenger death statistics to a level that has not been seen for 10 years or so, but as more automation comes into aviation, the trend is definitely leading to fewer problems, not more, more so if you account for the fact that the number of flights and passengers is continuing to grow, especially in areas like South East Asia.
Could you have picked a worse example? That train ride is less than the 2 hours that you are recommended to be at checkin before an international flight from a busy airport like Schiphol. Just getting from downtown Amsterdam to the airport has already lost you 30 minutes.
Ever considered the possibility of a software bug that strikes under certain input conditions at the very moment a plane crosses the equator? I know there was a similar issue caught early in the development of the F16 (under simulation), but is there a possibility of such a bug making it into production if the input conditions were rare enough?
I'm not sure which Singapore Airlines A380 you flew on, but the ones I've flown on have subjectively more legroom than any 747, 777 or A330 I've flown, mostly because the gap under the seats is slightly higher than older designs and free of added metal boxes for the retro-fitted entertainment systems, while keeping the same seat pitch.
Never rely on Wikipedia as a primary source. In Singapore and Malaysia, where English is widely spoken as a first or second language, and the latin alphabet official for government forms etc, it is common for Chinese to write their personal name separately (one word per Chinese character), after their surname, just as it is written in Chinese. If they are Christian, they will often have a Christian name in addition to their Chinese personal name, which they write before their surname. In most everyday cases they will use either their Christian name or their Chinese personal name, but when they have to write their full name for official documents, their surname ends up in the middle.
It doesn't take much wondering to figure out how viable that idea is.
Thanks for the explanation. The purpose of the aluminium body is now fully understood.
You mean the motives and cover-up the media has so far invented all point to it. An even simpler explanation is that disgruntled hacker groups reused some attack code, perhaps from an attack on South Korean companies a few weeks back which maybe North Korea paid them to deploy. The narrative about The Interview being motivation for the attack didn't come out until long after the attacks, and was initially denied by the contacts the media had made, and only a few days later that statements from the supposed hackers started mentioning it. This was likely after disgruntled hackers realized that it made a better back story than the fact that they were just being assholes, and would likely deflect law enforcement attention away from them if it became widely believed
Given what the D stands for, you are correct to change it to something else at random. N for Nazi seems a fitting alternative for the FPRK.
Last time I tried doing this I found that C# pulled in a lot of C jobs. And if you're going down that path to be fair to .NET, you'd better also be fair to Java by including jobs that only list J2EE or Android.
Since 2003, you no longer get beaten to death in a jail cell for failing to show one on demand, and obtaining one is easier and less expensive, but the temporary urban residence permit still exists. It seems I was wrong about them being tied to employment though.
If I understand the situation correctly, workers from other provinces require a permit to live in a different part of China. And that permit is most likely tied to their employment. So it isn't the same as you or I walking out on our employer - the choice is made a lot more difficult for them.
The wireless cards have ample protection against copying of the complete information to make clones. RFID Passports have sufficient protection against someone being able to get useful personal data without seeing the same info on the inside of the passport first. EMV cards however will cough up all the information from the front of the card unencrypted (or if not, encrypted using a fixed publically known key at least) to anyone within range.
On the other hand, tiered pricing based on usage helps those who made the effort to reduce waste when you get to step 3 in your scheme. But of course, when you have tiered pricing, the biggest industrial users will all negotiate for a lower rate anyway. Probably most of them can use grey water anyway, since they're using the water for cooling, irrigation or other use which doesn't really require clean, treated, tap water.
I don't know what bubble you're living in. I live in a Muslim majority country, and I still encounter Mormons and Jehovah's Witnesses on their mission to spread the faith. I've never encountered such zeal from the local Muslims (when I lived in the UK, there were evangelical Muslims with a table in the town square every weekend, so they do exist, but it seems to be more about recent converts taking an aspect of Christianity over into their new faith than anything fundamental to Islam itself).
I'm not sure what the word however is doing in that sentence. Doesn't the top Muslim Cleric in Australia consistently condemn every terror attack performed in the false name of his religion, like top Muslim Clerics all around the world?
I'd rather be held hostage by a whack job with an obvious motivation than one with unknown motivation. At least with a Muslim whack-job, you know that sending in a Muslim cleric to talk him down has some chance of success.
Craziness is one thing, if you've ever seen foreign films dubbed into English, you'd know it is standard. The issue in this case was a specific kind of craziness that could get her on some whack-job's hitlist. I'm not supporting the crazies that would want to kill her, and I would defend anyone who willing stood up and said those things, but I don't think the ideal of "Free Speech" should trump her personal right to not be associated with this particularly inflammatory way of making a point.
Actually the Loudness war is a reversion to how things were before CDs, when recording engineers were trying to squeeze more out of cheap thin vinyl on ever longer albums. With CDs, they suddenly had dynamic range to play with, but the novelty wore off when they realized that pop music was mostly listened to in noisy environments with cheap in-ear headphones.
Ahh, no. It would be like filming them at 22 frames per second.
Definitely midrange. As the linked article states, vinyl is pretty awful when it comes to reproducing high end treble or low end bass. But I don't think an equalizer is going to give you the distortion, which is also part of the "quality" of the vinyl listening experience.
I use Shotwell, and it definitely has an option to write the metadata to files, so you can recover it later or from another program. The database is necessary for search - you don't want it to have to open each file one by one to find the image you are looking for.
Yes, saying that Sony might have the second amendment on their side is like claiming that vigilante groups in white hoods that go around shooting anyone with dark complexion because one guy who they think was probably black robbed a store in their neighborhood once, have the second amendment on their side. The second amendment is not about that at all. It is about the maintaining the ability of the people to form a militia to overthrow a tyrannical government if the need arises. The funny thing is, the constitution will have long since been thrown out the window when that scenario eventuates.
Wait, you're seriously complaining about the possible waste of undrunk biodegradable coffee, and suggesting expensive disposible plastic pods as the solution?
Now that the ink DRM on their cartridges is cracked, will we see the emergence of third party continuous coffee delivery systems?