You have a $400 electric bill? How do you do that?. Mine is between $50 and $70 for a 3000 sq/ft house in Montana. Gas heat, one electric water heater, one gas water heater.
E-cigarettes should be regulated, but I've read that the new regulations require that manufacturers go through a testing procedure that will cost over one million dollars. Right now, there's a lot of competition by smaller companies. This may force out all of the smaller players.
You've struck on a huge part of the problem. The system is good for spotting overall trends buy can be comically inaccurate when it comes to individuals. Like when you buy gifts for your friends that are pregnant, gay, or love shoes.
There are a good number of countries that wish the US ill will. Few of them have the means for direct military conflict and all are an ocean away. They have very few ways they can directly attack the US, short of a 911-style incident. We are also in economic competition with our "friends". Malicious hacking is one of the few available avenues, with a relatively low barrier to entry. It's also more difficult to prove who launched the attack or even to prove that it wasn't a "rouge individual" versus a government-sanctioned attack. Cyber attacks are not a question of "if", but a question of "when" and "how bad".
I'd guess that managers pressured engineers to lower emissions beyond what the basic design would tolerate. Managers say something like "Do what needs to be done" knowing that cheating is the only way it can be done but without explicitly telling engineers to cheat so they can maintain deniability. Or at least that' how the movie version would go.
I used to think that George Orwell's "memory hole" was just hyperbole. How could that ever be implemented in the real world. Well, here you have it. It doesn't have to be 100% to be effective, so long as most people can't easily find the information, it's effective gone.
I don't think the public has spoken. They're just not aware what's going on and the potential harm. Would people accept it if they had to click an "OK" button telling them they were being tracked each time a site tracked them? I don't think so. Sites added the tracking with very little public discussion or disclosure.
How are they going to tax out-of-state drivers that are just passing through? As it is, they collect gas tax. Maybe they could tax gas on cars with out-of-state plates but that would require changes at each station/pump to have a tax/no-tax switch.
Except that you're wrong. Amateur radio licenses are at an all-time high. The last two years saw an increase of 13% and 15%. That's huge growth. You're trying to compare amateur, experimental communications with a commercial offering. I specifically took up amateur radio because I think computers and cell phones have become a boring turn-key consumer experience, unless you're writing code.
I don't have a problem with properly implemented speeding cameras if the speed limits are reasonable, there are posted warnings and the enforcement level only catches the egregious violators, e.g., 20mph over the speed limit, not 5 over. It also needs to be safety-based not revenue-based and any net-profit should go to state coffers, not directly reward the local police departments. If it's really about safety and not revenue, they won't have a problem with this.
That's part of the problems with the current state of IP law. No one would accept this in the physical world, but with IP, no one's quite sure if what FTDI did was illegal or just a bad idea, versus popping up a warning box every time you try to use a fake chip.
I think that a pretty lose use of the of word "subsidy", but the idea is that the providers won't build the infrastructure at all without a carrot up front. The large ISP's believe that those low-density areas aren't sufficiently profitable. I live in Montana and rural areas are ofter served by small local ISP's. The big ISPs come into the smaller towns with wired access, prices and speed that the small guys have a hard time matching, pushing the smaller ISPs out to the less-profitable rural areas, often using wireless. What would help the small ISPs is high-speed fiber to small towns that they could access at a reduced price. Many small towns are supposed to get high-speed fiber for schools and libraries, but I don't believe that small ISP can access this.
> They just kept replacing it with defective cards. I've seen a few companies do this over the years. They just keep sending defective parts until you give up in frustration or they go out of business.
I have to disagree. I think tons of things are broken in Ubuntu. They usually get the GUI right, but the underlying system is a mess, especially if you want to configure things from the command line. hostname -f has been broken for years. I like sane limits in ulimit. I agree with you on the aliases to rm. Training wheels.
When someone asks me to connect to a Linux server, I think "Cool". When I find out it's Ubuntu I think they probably don't know much about Linux or they wouldn't be running Ubuntu as a server. My sampling is probably biased, but most of the Ubuntu user's I've met are beginning desktop users.
This isn't exactly the same, but it reminds me of the restaurant seating problem that happens when patrons, upon seeing that there's limited seating, have members of their party camp on a table before they've ordered. It exacerbated the problem. People who have just got their food can't find a seat because table-campers have what would be empty seats.
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You have a $400 electric bill? How do you do that?. Mine is between $50 and $70 for a 3000 sq/ft house in Montana. Gas heat, one electric water heater, one gas water heater.
E-cigarettes should be regulated, but I've read that the new regulations require that manufacturers go through a testing procedure that will cost over one million dollars. Right now, there's a lot of competition by smaller companies. This may force out all of the smaller players.
It should only be OK to brick the devices if they refund the purchase price. Otherwise, it's theft.
You've struck on a huge part of the problem. The system is good for spotting overall trends buy can be comically inaccurate when it comes to individuals. Like when you buy gifts for your friends that are pregnant, gay, or love shoes.
It wouldn't be too had to show the up and down votes, like Ars does.
There are a good number of countries that wish the US ill will. Few of them have the means for direct military conflict and all are an ocean away. They have very few ways they can directly attack the US, short of a 911-style incident. We are also in economic competition with our "friends". Malicious hacking is one of the few available avenues, with a relatively low barrier to entry. It's also more difficult to prove who launched the attack or even to prove that it wasn't a "rouge individual" versus a government-sanctioned attack. Cyber attacks are not a question of "if", but a question of "when" and "how bad".
They could save 20% of their bandwidth by having a way to disable the auto-play of the next episode.
It's funny that we give them the names "hard" and "soft" sciences when it's much harder to get repeatable results in soft sciences,
I'd guess that managers pressured engineers to lower emissions beyond what the basic design would tolerate. Managers say something like "Do what needs to be done" knowing that cheating is the only way it can be done but without explicitly telling engineers to cheat so they can maintain deniability. Or at least that' how the movie version would go.
I like to see Wikipedia say "No paid postings/sock puppets" in their TOS and a $10,000 per violation click-wrap agreement.
I used to think that George Orwell's "memory hole" was just hyperbole. How could that ever be implemented in the real world. Well, here you have it. It doesn't have to be 100% to be effective, so long as most people can't easily find the information, it's effective gone.
I don't think the public has spoken. They're just not aware what's going on and the potential harm. Would people accept it if they had to click an "OK" button telling them they were being tracked each time a site tracked them? I don't think so. Sites added the tracking with very little public discussion or disclosure.
How are they going to tax out-of-state drivers that are just passing through? As it is, they collect gas tax. Maybe they could tax gas on cars with out-of-state plates but that would require changes at each station/pump to have a tax/no-tax switch.
Do you ask a deer how to hunt deer? No, you ask a hunter.
Thank you so much for No-Code. If I ever meet you in person, I'll but you a beer (or your beverage of choice).
Except that you're wrong. Amateur radio licenses are at an all-time high. The last two years saw an increase of 13% and 15%. That's huge growth. You're trying to compare amateur, experimental communications with a commercial offering. I specifically took up amateur radio because I think computers and cell phones have become a boring turn-key consumer experience, unless you're writing code.
I don't have a problem with properly implemented speeding cameras if the speed limits are reasonable, there are posted warnings and the enforcement level only catches the egregious violators, e.g., 20mph over the speed limit, not 5 over. It also needs to be safety-based not revenue-based and any net-profit should go to state coffers, not directly reward the local police departments. If it's really about safety and not revenue, they won't have a problem with this.
That's part of the problems with the current state of IP law. No one would accept this in the physical world, but with IP, no one's quite sure if what FTDI did was illegal or just a bad idea, versus popping up a warning box every time you try to use a fake chip.
I think that a pretty lose use of the of word "subsidy", but the idea is that the providers won't build the infrastructure at all without a carrot up front. The large ISP's believe that those low-density areas aren't sufficiently profitable. I live in Montana and rural areas are ofter served by small local ISP's. The big ISPs come into the smaller towns with wired access, prices and speed that the small guys have a hard time matching, pushing the smaller ISPs out to the less-profitable rural areas, often using wireless. What would help the small ISPs is high-speed fiber to small towns that they could access at a reduced price. Many small towns are supposed to get high-speed fiber for schools and libraries, but I don't believe that small ISP can access this.
Let's add not being able to resize many error messages and dialog boxes so you can get a screen capture of the whole message.
> They just kept replacing it with defective cards.
I've seen a few companies do this over the years. They just keep sending defective parts until you give up in frustration or they go out of business.
I have to disagree. I think tons of things are broken in Ubuntu. They usually get the GUI right, but the underlying system is a mess, especially if you want to configure things from the command line. hostname -f has been broken for years. I like sane limits in ulimit. I agree with you on the aliases to rm. Training wheels.
When someone asks me to connect to a Linux server, I think "Cool". When I find out it's Ubuntu I think they probably don't know much about Linux or they wouldn't be running Ubuntu as a server. My sampling is probably biased, but most of the Ubuntu user's I've met are beginning desktop users.
Why don't they just put a link at the bottom of the documents:
Having problems accessing this document under Microsoft products? Download LibreOffice for free at: http:///.....
This isn't exactly the same, but it reminds me of the restaurant seating problem that happens when patrons, upon seeing that there's limited seating, have members of their party camp on a table before they've ordered. It exacerbated the problem. People who have just got their food can't find a seat because table-campers have what would be empty seats.