You need to reconsider. My total car ownership cost, less fuel, is $900 per year per vehicle which guarantees all other transport expenses combine to a grand total of $0 USD.
Nothing else comes close. You don't need a new car. Leases are a way to maximize profits i.e. costs more. Even the concept of renting a car for more than $10 per day is absurd. Be a responsible adult that can take care of themselves.
It may be inexpensive to *keep* a car you already own, but I can't imagine that comprehensive insurance is less than $750 a year, and while things like batteries, brakes and tires do not have to be replaced *every* year, they do wear out and are expensive. If you've reduced the insurance on your primary driver to liability only, I feel sorry for the wake-up call you've got coming when something bad happens (like being hit by an uninsured motorist).
And it looks like about 0% of journalists can do basic math. You can't add those percentages. The 22% number (compilable code for one problem) clearly *already includes* the 14% (compilable code for both problems).
Except in scale, how does this differ from some average Joe Sixpack building a boat in his basement?
Well, what TFA doesn't mention is the free environmental benefit. NASA was planning to tear the hangar down, but discovered just how monumentally expensive it would have been to remove several decades worth of lead paint from the structural members. This plan is awesome in its win/win mentality. In putting the facility to real use, Brin first had to mitigate that environmental hazard. Bonus for us (US).
Anyone who downloaded the app, but failed to look for a Privacy Policy stating explicitly how the metadata would be treated has nobody but themselves to blame. I recently attended a professional conference where one of the sponsors offered an app that would automatically collect virtual business cards and brochures from the booths where you scanned a QR code. No Privacy Policy, so I deleted it immediately. I visited the sponsor with a "WTF?" and they acted like it was unreasonable for me to want to know what they planned to do with the list of vendors I visited.
Obama vacationed every other weekend at a resort that he himself owned? I guess I missed those headlines. You just don't get it, do you? Even if everything else was equal, and Obama had taken as many golf weekends as Trump is on course do do (and it's nowhere close), he would have been doing it at facilities where the taxpayer money spent would have gone back into the local economy. When Trump spends the weekend at his own resort, he's double-dipping on the costs. Not only is he getting paid for his time away from the office, but the bulk of the costs of feeding and housing him and his secret service detail are being paid to... Donald Trump. That's not just a conflict of interest. That's corrupt self-dealing on unimaginable scale. That chocolate cake he raved about while he couldn't remember who he bombed? We, the taxpayers didn't just buy it FOR him, we bought it FROM him, and then gave it back to him. And he rubbed our noses in it (more so his supporters who don't even realize that they're being conned).
Sorry, I wasn't claiming cheating on source code. I totally bought the complete transfer of his consciousness to the pocket universe. Especially because it then "helps" the others in the experimental program to survive (however deep the universes go. Turtles all the way down?)
I also agree on those other two (although Philip K. Dick should really have received some recognition for Eternal Sunshine and Truman Show. Total lifts of concepts from his 50's-60's stories and novels)
If you want to get upset, get upset about the cost of those golf weekends. We the taxpayers are paying seven figures for each of Trump's golf weekends. Guess where the money for the hotel rooms for His Orangeness and the Secret Service entourage are going. That's right, into Trump's pockets!
That wasn't the math I was doing. Cost of running open.org for four years = 5% of a single weekend of Darth Cheeto charging the US population for wasting time.
Avatar came out in 2009, 8 years ago. You could argue there are some derivative ideas in it (as you could argue for any other work of fiction these days), but it was not a remake, not a sequel/prequel, and not a spin-off.
Avatar is simply "Dances With Wolves" in space.
"Moon" was interesting, but nowhere near as mind-bending as people claim.
In the last decade' majors, there's "Source Code". "Edge of Tomorrow" had potential, if they only hadn't cheated to keep the main characters alive at the end.
Great Indie stuff, though. "Safety Not Guaranteed," "The One I Love," "Time Lapse."
Classics are stuff like "Blade Runner," "12 Monkeys," "2001."
I think #10, bragging rights, is the main reason people I know go to movies. They want to be the first to see it no matter what it costs or what efforts they have to endure.
Except The Verge has no concept of bragging rights...
Bragging rights. Tell me which one sounds better: “When I saw A New Hope at midnight at the drive-in” vs. “When I watched A New Hope on VHS in 1982.” There’s no question, okay? That was just a rhetorical exercise.
Good. Because anyone bragging about seeing something called "A New Hope" is three years late for any credibility.
In all likelyhood we will continue to use it beyond 2024, that's not a "hard" retirement date, it's a "let's look at the program and funding" date. Case in point: the B-52 is well past its original retirement date.
The biggest difference being that the B-52 is a fleet, not a single vehicle, and all of them are accessible for routine inspection, maintenance and upkeep. The ISS was designed to be as light as possible, while meeting all requirements for that design life, and it can't be checked or have major structural items swapped out on-orbit. So, there is a hard retirement date for ISS, based on structural fatigue. Every time a visiting vehicle docks or undocks, it takes a little bit of "life" from ISS.
If you saw the movie "The Martian," and didn't understand why his habitat suddenly exploded one day, this was explained clearly in the book; he used the door too many times! NASA makes its hardware "just strong enough" for its intended purpose, with appropriate margins of Safety.
The same OS that makes you go into settings to run programs not downloaded through its proprietary services?
Crap like MacOS is the reason why Linux is so popular among tech savvy people. We're tired of it.
You are misinformed. [Ctrl]-O or right clicking when you want to run an unsigned app is all that's needed. and for people who are non-techies, it's a good proteciton against potentially malicious software
I can't remember my god-damned four-digit ATM PIN unless I'm standing right in front of the fucking ATM. Nor can I remember my god-damned four-digit alarm code unless I'm standing in front of the fucking alarm panel.
Human memory is shit, and it is entirely plausible that this person forgot their password(s).
And, I would venture to guess, highly dependent on the individual. I can still recall my high school locker combination from 35 years ago, the Michigan Driver's license number I gave up when I moved to Texas 30 years ago, and the phone numbers of my childhood friends. I never understood the "counting sheep" approach to insomnia; if I'm having trouble getting to sleep, I go through my teachers (in order) in my head. I typically nod off somewhere in the college years.
I also have a history of dementia on my mother's side of the family. I'm hoping that regularly reviewing memories is some form of "exercise."
Seriously, did nobody see the implied sarcasm in the original answer? When Java was introduced, it was HEAVILY touted as a "write once, run everywhere" solution to all software problems. Seeing what it has actually become is the answer that shows how silly the question really is.
The alternative is to ban "cost plus" contracts. Screw up and overrun the costs specified in you bid? Tough cookies. Eat it on your P&L leader, and do a better job bidding next time.
Another, at least as good and maybe better, option is antitrust. Break up the globs back into Northrop, Hughes, General Dynamics, Lockheed, Marietta, Glenn Martin Co, Grumman, McDonnell Aircraft, Douglas Aircraft, Convair, North American, Republic, Boeing, Rockwell, and so on... so that there are a dozen manufacturers actually bidding competitively for contracts with incentives to keep costs under control, lest the contract goto a more reliable competitor.
After all, when there are only two choices, why *Should* Lockheed Martin (from their perspective) deliver a fully-functional air or space craft as promised, and on-time and on-budget. What's the government going to do after all, go to Northrop "2 billion dollar stealth bomber" Grumman?
You haven't thought out the consequences. If these are all bid a Firm Fixed Price (the alternative), every bidder is going to pad their costs to compensate for the possibility of things going wrong at some point during the development . Depending on the likelihood of that (cutting-edge technology, etc.) this will be anywhere from 15 to 30 percent of the original estimate. Would you rather pay 20% more overall, or take the chance of a 10% overrun?
A civil contract cannot ask you to do anything illegal and someone cannot ask you to break civil contract unless what you're doing is illegal. If the border agent had the legal power to ask and not following instructions would be deemed illegal, then Mr NASA is fine. If the border agent did not have the legal power, then Mr NASA could sue them for coercing him into breaking a civil contract, assuming he can show damages. The simplest way would be for NASA to show 'damages' and to sue for the full market value of whatever secret information was on the phone or to which the phone had access.
It's not a civil contract. NASA employees take the same Oath of Office as the President (changing only "to the office which I am appointed"). There are no conditions under which "not following instructions" in this case could be deemed illegal.
But what do they find to watch ?
I got bored with films etc two decades ago,because everything was a remake or a repeat.
Why do folk watch the same bad film time after time ?
If DHS hasn't already scanned social media for jihadi, socialist, or subversive secrets, and linked them to individuals who can be identified on arrival in the US, then they HAVE NOT BEEN DOING THEIR JOB. Not one more tax dollar for security theater.
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You need to reconsider. My total car ownership cost, less fuel, is $900 per year per vehicle which guarantees all other transport expenses combine to a grand total of $0 USD.
Nothing else comes close. You don't need a new car. Leases are a way to maximize profits i.e. costs more. Even the concept of renting a car for more than $10 per day is absurd. Be a responsible adult that can take care of themselves.
It may be inexpensive to *keep* a car you already own, but I can't imagine that comprehensive insurance is less than $750 a year, and while things like batteries, brakes and tires do not have to be replaced *every* year, they do wear out and are expensive. If you've reduced the insurance on your primary driver to liability only, I feel sorry for the wake-up call you've got coming when something bad happens (like being hit by an uninsured motorist).
And it looks like about 0% of journalists can do basic math. You can't add those percentages. The 22% number (compilable code for one problem) clearly *already includes* the 14% (compilable code for both problems).
Except in scale, how does this differ from some average Joe Sixpack building a boat in his basement?
Well, what TFA doesn't mention is the free environmental benefit. NASA was planning to tear the hangar down, but discovered just how monumentally expensive it would have been to remove several decades worth of lead paint from the structural members. This plan is awesome in its win/win mentality. In putting the facility to real use, Brin first had to mitigate that environmental hazard. Bonus for us (US).
Anyone who downloaded the app, but failed to look for a Privacy Policy stating explicitly how the metadata would be treated has nobody but themselves to blame. I recently attended a professional conference where one of the sponsors offered an app that would automatically collect virtual business cards and brochures from the booths where you scanned a QR code. No Privacy Policy, so I deleted it immediately. I visited the sponsor with a "WTF?" and they acted like it was unreasonable for me to want to know what they planned to do with the list of vendors I visited.
Now, this is a giant spider!
Obama vacationed every other weekend at a resort that he himself owned? I guess I missed those headlines. You just don't get it, do you? Even if everything else was equal, and Obama had taken as many golf weekends as Trump is on course do do (and it's nowhere close), he would have been doing it at facilities where the taxpayer money spent would have gone back into the local economy. When Trump spends the weekend at his own resort, he's double-dipping on the costs. Not only is he getting paid for his time away from the office, but the bulk of the costs of feeding and housing him and his secret service detail are being paid to... Donald Trump. That's not just a conflict of interest. That's corrupt self-dealing on unimaginable scale. That chocolate cake he raved about while he couldn't remember who he bombed? We, the taxpayers didn't just buy it FOR him, we bought it FROM him, and then gave it back to him. And he rubbed our noses in it (more so his supporters who don't even realize that they're being conned).
Sorry, I wasn't claiming cheating on source code. I totally bought the complete transfer of his consciousness to the pocket universe. Especially because it then "helps" the others in the experimental program to survive (however deep the universes go. Turtles all the way down?) I also agree on those other two (although Philip K. Dick should really have received some recognition for Eternal Sunshine and Truman Show. Total lifts of concepts from his 50's-60's stories and novels)
If you want to get upset, get upset about the cost of those golf weekends. We the taxpayers are paying seven figures for each of Trump's golf weekends. Guess where the money for the hotel rooms for His Orangeness and the Secret Service entourage are going. That's right, into Trump's pockets!
That wasn't the math I was doing. Cost of running open.org for four years = 5% of a single weekend of Darth Cheeto charging the US population for wasting time.
I laughed at it at the time (god, I loved Spy magazine), but Trump personally signed a check for 13 cents back in 1990.
$70,000 is one HOLE of golf at Mar-a-Lago on any given weekend (using the standard $3M/trip metric, and assuming he plays two rounds).
Avatar came out in 2009, 8 years ago. You could argue there are some derivative ideas in it (as you could argue for any other work of fiction these days), but it was not a remake, not a sequel/prequel, and not a spin-off.
Avatar is simply "Dances With Wolves" in space.
"Moon" was interesting, but nowhere near as mind-bending as people claim.
In the last decade' majors, there's "Source Code". "Edge of Tomorrow" had potential, if they only hadn't cheated to keep the main characters alive at the end.
Great Indie stuff, though. "Safety Not Guaranteed," "The One I Love," "Time Lapse."
Classics are stuff like "Blade Runner," "12 Monkeys," "2001."
So how exactly is this terrible? Sounds like the best I could hope for.
I think #10, bragging rights, is the main reason people I know go to movies. They want to be the first to see it no matter what it costs or what efforts they have to endure.
Except The Verge has no concept of bragging rights...
Bragging rights. Tell me which one sounds better: “When I saw A New Hope at midnight at the drive-in” vs. “When I watched A New Hope on VHS in 1982.” There’s no question, okay? That was just a rhetorical exercise.
Good. Because anyone bragging about seeing something called "A New Hope" is three years late for any credibility.
Always nice to see PKD here.
In all likelyhood we will continue to use it beyond 2024, that's not a "hard" retirement date, it's a "let's look at the program and funding" date. Case in point: the B-52 is well past its original retirement date.
The biggest difference being that the B-52 is a fleet, not a single vehicle, and all of them are accessible for routine inspection, maintenance and upkeep. The ISS was designed to be as light as possible, while meeting all requirements for that design life, and it can't be checked or have major structural items swapped out on-orbit. So, there is a hard retirement date for ISS, based on structural fatigue. Every time a visiting vehicle docks or undocks, it takes a little bit of "life" from ISS.
If you saw the movie "The Martian," and didn't understand why his habitat suddenly exploded one day, this was explained clearly in the book; he used the door too many times! NASA makes its hardware "just strong enough" for its intended purpose, with appropriate margins of Safety.
The same OS that makes you go into settings to run programs not downloaded through its proprietary services?
Crap like MacOS is the reason why Linux is so popular among tech savvy people. We're tired of it.
You are misinformed. [Ctrl]-O or right clicking when you want to run an unsigned app is all that's needed. and for people who are non-techies, it's a good proteciton against potentially malicious software
I can't remember my god-damned four-digit ATM PIN unless I'm standing right in front of the fucking ATM. Nor can I remember my god-damned four-digit alarm code unless I'm standing in front of the fucking alarm panel. Human memory is shit, and it is entirely plausible that this person forgot their password(s).
And, I would venture to guess, highly dependent on the individual. I can still recall my high school locker combination from 35 years ago, the Michigan Driver's license number I gave up when I moved to Texas 30 years ago, and the phone numbers of my childhood friends. I never understood the "counting sheep" approach to insomnia; if I'm having trouble getting to sleep, I go through my teachers (in order) in my head. I typically nod off somewhere in the college years.
I also have a history of dementia on my mother's side of the family. I'm hoping that regularly reviewing memories is some form of "exercise."
Seriously, did nobody see the implied sarcasm in the original answer? When Java was introduced, it was HEAVILY touted as a "write once, run everywhere" solution to all software problems. Seeing what it has actually become is the answer that shows how silly the question really is.
The alternative is to ban "cost plus" contracts. Screw up and overrun the costs specified in you bid? Tough cookies. Eat it on your P&L leader, and do a better job bidding next time.
Another, at least as good and maybe better, option is antitrust. Break up the globs back into Northrop, Hughes, General Dynamics, Lockheed, Marietta, Glenn Martin Co, Grumman, McDonnell Aircraft, Douglas Aircraft, Convair, North American, Republic, Boeing, Rockwell, and so on... so that there are a dozen manufacturers actually bidding competitively for contracts with incentives to keep costs under control, lest the contract goto a more reliable competitor.
After all, when there are only two choices, why *Should* Lockheed Martin (from their perspective) deliver a fully-functional air or space craft as promised, and on-time and on-budget. What's the government going to do after all, go to Northrop "2 billion dollar stealth bomber" Grumman?
You haven't thought out the consequences. If these are all bid a Firm Fixed Price (the alternative), every bidder is going to pad their costs to compensate for the possibility of things going wrong at some point during the development . Depending on the likelihood of that (cutting-edge technology, etc.) this will be anywhere from 15 to 30 percent of the original estimate. Would you rather pay 20% more overall, or take the chance of a 10% overrun?
A civil contract cannot ask you to do anything illegal and someone cannot ask you to break civil contract unless what you're doing is illegal. If the border agent had the legal power to ask and not following instructions would be deemed illegal, then Mr NASA is fine. If the border agent did not have the legal power, then Mr NASA could sue them for coercing him into breaking a civil contract, assuming he can show damages. The simplest way would be for NASA to show 'damages' and to sue for the full market value of whatever secret information was on the phone or to which the phone had access.
It's not a civil contract. NASA employees take the same Oath of Office as the President (changing only "to the office which I am appointed"). There are no conditions under which "not following instructions" in this case could be deemed illegal.
More Trump lies. It was last WEEK, not last year.
But what do they find to watch ? I got bored with films etc two decades ago,because everything was a remake or a repeat. Why do folk watch the same bad film time after time ?
In 2016, "Swiss Army Man" was extremely original.
If DHS hasn't already scanned social media for jihadi, socialist, or subversive secrets, and linked them to individuals who can be identified on arrival in the US, then they HAVE NOT BEEN DOING THEIR JOB. Not one more tax dollar for security theater.