See, everything is divided up by Prefecture, City, Neighborhood, Block, Building (floor, office) and numbered in no particular standard order for streets that are certainly not even laid out in a grid pattern.
If I am remembering correctly, there is a standard order for numbering buildings on a block -- it's the order in which the buildings were built.
I would not choose to eat something disgusting unless I was starving.
It is for that reason that I keep a bag of chocolate-covered kale in a cabinet at work. It is a perfect choice for a last-ditch absolute emergency chocolate fix, because I know that no one in their right mind would raid the cabinet and eat it if there was any chocolate anywhere else in the facility. Or, likely, in the entire city.
Recently I saw a comment that described how in the present environment in the US, the only interactions a person has with the police are typically of a "negative" context. There are now fewer or no "positive" encounters with police anymore.
It goes along with the decline of neighborhoods. You used to live in an area where the people generally worked in the same industries and rode the same mass transit to get there and back, shopped in the same neighborhood stores, and had one or two police officers patrolling the neighborhood who'd been on that beat for years, and everyone knew each other. Now, when everyone gets in their cars and drives off in different directions to go to work, shop in supermarkets scattered all over, and the police officers drive by in cars, nobody interacts with each other on a regular basis, so there's no 'neighborhood' for the police to be part of even if they didn't just slip through without interacting with anyone. So that's what you get -- you don't interact with the police until something's gone wrong, and that colors everyone's perception of them on top of the current tendency of the police to trot out their military-surplus equipment even when it's not appropriate, because if they don't use it they'll be accused of wasting the money that was spent to buy it.
The WaPo article claims that negative reviews will be delayed for 48 hours in case of disputes, and that if you haven't registered for the site (and therefore can't contest negative reviews), the negative reviews don't get displayed. I'm not sure I can swallow a salt crystal big enough for this. And even if your negative reviews are hidden if you're not registered, there's no way you can complain unless you take it to them outside the app, because the moment you register for the site so that you can complain, all the negative reviews will no longer be hidden.
One of the comments to the WaPo article has what seems to me to be a trenchant view of the whole thing:
So, two mean girls who never grew up after high school have developed an app so more people can 1) continue being mean girls,2) subject people who have not agreed to participate in their idiotic website to the whim of others 3) generally act creepy, gross and invasive 4) make public identities for people who want to stay private & have control over who knows what about them - stalking victims, DV survivors, oh, yeah, and those of us who don't want to be part of their creepy mean girl universe.
The WaPo article claims that negative reviews will be delayed for 48 hours in case of disputes, and that if you haven't registered for the site (and therefore can't contest negative reviews), the negative reviews don't get displayed. I'm not sure I can swallow a salt crystal big enough for this.
One of the comments to the WaPo article has what seems to me to be a trenchant view of the whole thing:
So, two mean girls who never grew up after high school have developed an app so more people can 1) continue being mean girls,2) subject people who have not agreed to participate in their idiotic website to the whim of others 3) generally act creepy, gross and invasive 4) make public identities for people who want to stay private & have control over who knows what about them - stalking victims, DV survivors, oh, yeah, and those of us who don't want to be part of their creepy mean girl universe.
This leads to less of the tumbling effect upon entering a body which was exhibited by the round used in the M16 and M16A1.
Arrgh. All bullets tumble on impact, doing a 180 flip. This is why, barring fragmentation or expansion of the bullet or spalling fragments from striking a bone, a long, narrow bullet has a larger permanent wound cavity than a short, fat one. COL Martin Fackler's research at the Wound Ballistics Laboratory of the Letterman Army Institute of Research has demonstrated this clearly.
It would be fun to see Microsoft hauled up in court for keylogging computers at a hospital. I wonder how many HIPAA violations all the telemetry would accumulate in a single eight-hour workday on just one computer.
The only problem I've had with my Xoom is that the most recent version of the Kindle app on Google Play hangs on startup; I found a reference searching the Net that the Amazon appstore had the previous version of the app, and uninstalled the Google Play version to install the Amazon version, and everything came back; I just have to remember not to accidentally update it through Google Play.
If you uninstall them, and they reappear on your update list, you can hide the specific updates so that they stop appearing in the update list, and won't get installed unless you specifically go back, unhide them, and then run Windows Update again.
The accident reporting and roadside assistance features could be useful. As soon as these become readily available, though, one of the first things that a car thief would do is pull the dongle out of the OBD II port and throw it and the visor widget out the window, making it impossible to track the car. As a built in module, it works, because it's difficult for a thief to remove, but if it can be removed in 30 seconds without tools, it's worthless for tracking a stolen car.
I missed the section of the Constitution that mentions federal control of airspace, can you help me find it?
Since California's law addresses commercial drones, then the federal government has jurisdiction under the Interstate Commerce clause, using the same sort of argument that resulted in a farmer being successfully prosecuted for growing too much animal feed for his own use (by not buying feed, he was affecting interstate commerce). As long as the commercial drone activity can be, by whatever stretch of the imagination, linked to an interstate transaction, the federal government can 'justify' exercising authority.
From reading the Kickstarter page, the device itself is just a blank pressure-sensitive surface. The configuration software defines areas on that surface that produce specific responses when touched, in the same way that the HTML 'map' tag does for an image. The overlays just provide a visual and tactile feedback so that the user can readily see what the programmed response will be, rather than fumbling across a featureless surface trying to find the right spot (and, with the 'stock' templates, have a pattern of embedded magnets to allow the unit to configure itself automatically for the template).
American lost the Vietnam War because we weren't able to cope with a situation where there was so much guerrilla warfare taking place.
Add in the things that made prosecuting the war harder for the military, like LBJ's insistence on personally approving all targets for the bombing campaign to ensure that the selection of targets 'sent the right message' to the NVA government.
If/when there's a war between the US and someone who can actually harm them if they limit themselves to visual range, they will change the ROE. The same is true of any advanced nation.
Or they'll take up tactics like they used in Vietnam, where a flight would split up when they detected a target and send one section straight for the targets at full honk to blow past them at a high rate of speed, then disengage once they had a visual identification, while the other section hung back and launched when the first section gave them a positive ID.
...or get mugged by someone who thinks that's fun.
Which is my main objection to open-world PvP; there are always enough jerks whose sole measure of personal value and gaming skill seems to be how fast their level-capped combat monster can gank your single-digit-level newbie character, and who will melt into the shadows rather than face anything that even looks like it might be a fair fight, to make your experience an unending frustration cycle.
My Prius Plug-in was $27,000 BEFORE tax rebates. The Chevy Spark EV is $25,000.
My previous car, an Accord wagon, could fit 22 banker's boxes in the back with the rear seat down, and I used it for three moves, filling it repeatedly when moving the items that weren't big enough to require a truck rental. How many times more trips would I have had to make with a Prius or Spark to get the same volume of cargo carried?
I am reminded of a small bit in E.E. 'Doc' Smith's novel First Lensman, where Virgil Samms is visiting Rigel IV, and is being driven to a meeting with potential candidates for receiving a Lens. Samms is telepathically linked to the driver, and notices an object on the side of the road that, while perceived by the driver, produces no information about it, but which Samms' Lens decipers as "Eat Teegmee's Food!" -- and the driver comments, "Advertising. You do not notice yours, either?" The bit is foreshadowed by an earlier scene on Earth where Samms is driving his car and is chagrined at having had his attention grabbed by a particularly flamboyant advertisement for cough drops. The stories may seem hackneyed now, but 'Doc' Smith had a good eye for some of the finer aspects of human behavior.
This is why systems written in MUMPS have great transaction throughput and the UIs are usually responsive, but running reports is a nightmare.
It's not necessarily a nightmare; it depends on the flexibility of the reporting tool. I've pretty well given up on using the built-in reporting tool at work for the reports I'm asked to produce because the tool doesn't allow for making the sort of complex links between globals that the report needs (i.e., patients with a given diagnosis who are also on a given medication, and their most recent result from a specified lab test), while producing the data with a MUMPS routine is straightforward because of the internal arrangement of the data. So I would have to say that creating the reports requires a high level of expertise, while running them once they're created is easy.
And the OPM breach has shown us even more clearly the consequences of failing to use the strongest encryption, security tools, and IA policies available. Using encryption technology that's designed to be bypassed at need, with that 'need' determined by anyone other than the owner of the data, is the electronic equivalent of hiding a spare key under the welcome mat and believing that your home is still secure when it's locked up.
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"We had to destroy your freedom in order to save it."
They call their home planet "Earth".
It means "dirt" in their language.
"They're so primitive, they still call their planet 'Dirt'."
-- Nick Pollota, Illegal Aliens
See, everything is divided up by Prefecture, City, Neighborhood, Block, Building (floor, office) and numbered in no particular standard order for streets that are certainly not even laid out in a grid pattern.
If I am remembering correctly, there is a standard order for numbering buildings on a block -- it's the order in which the buildings were built.
You are all U+1F42E. U+1F42E say Mooo. Mooo! Mooo! Mooo U+1F42E s Mooo! Mooo say the U+1F42E. YOU ADDED U+1F42E !!!
Well, then, we obviously need to add U+DEADBEEF to Unicode, variously rendered as a diagram of the cuts of beef, or as a side of beef.
I would not choose to eat something disgusting unless I was starving.
It is for that reason that I keep a bag of chocolate-covered kale in a cabinet at work. It is a perfect choice for a last-ditch absolute emergency chocolate fix, because I know that no one in their right mind would raid the cabinet and eat it if there was any chocolate anywhere else in the facility. Or, likely, in the entire city.
Recently I saw a comment that described how in the present environment in the US, the only interactions a person has with the police are typically of a "negative" context. There are now fewer or no "positive" encounters with police anymore.
It goes along with the decline of neighborhoods. You used to live in an area where the people generally worked in the same industries and rode the same mass transit to get there and back, shopped in the same neighborhood stores, and had one or two police officers patrolling the neighborhood who'd been on that beat for years, and everyone knew each other. Now, when everyone gets in their cars and drives off in different directions to go to work, shop in supermarkets scattered all over, and the police officers drive by in cars, nobody interacts with each other on a regular basis, so there's no 'neighborhood' for the police to be part of even if they didn't just slip through without interacting with anyone. So that's what you get -- you don't interact with the police until something's gone wrong, and that colors everyone's perception of them on top of the current tendency of the police to trot out their military-surplus equipment even when it's not appropriate, because if they don't use it they'll be accused of wasting the money that was spent to buy it.
The WaPo article claims that negative reviews will be delayed for 48 hours in case of disputes, and that if you haven't registered for the site (and therefore can't contest negative reviews), the negative reviews don't get displayed. I'm not sure I can swallow a salt crystal big enough for this. And even if your negative reviews are hidden if you're not registered, there's no way you can complain unless you take it to them outside the app, because the moment you register for the site so that you can complain, all the negative reviews will no longer be hidden.
One of the comments to the WaPo article has what seems to me to be a trenchant view of the whole thing:
So, two mean girls who never grew up after high school have developed an app so more people can 1) continue being mean girls,2) subject people who have not agreed to participate in their idiotic website to the whim of others 3) generally act creepy, gross and invasive 4) make public identities for people who want to stay private & have control over who knows what about them - stalking victims, DV survivors, oh, yeah, and those of us who don't want to be part of their creepy mean girl universe.
The WaPo article claims that negative reviews will be delayed for 48 hours in case of disputes, and that if you haven't registered for the site (and therefore can't contest negative reviews), the negative reviews don't get displayed. I'm not sure I can swallow a salt crystal big enough for this.
One of the comments to the WaPo article has what seems to me to be a trenchant view of the whole thing:
So, two mean girls who never grew up after high school have developed an app so more people can 1) continue being mean girls,2) subject people who have not agreed to participate in their idiotic website to the whim of others 3) generally act creepy, gross and invasive 4) make public identities for people who want to stay private & have control over who knows what about them - stalking victims, DV survivors, oh, yeah, and those of us who don't want to be part of their creepy mean girl universe.
This leads to less of the tumbling effect upon entering a body which was exhibited by the round used in the M16 and M16A1.
Arrgh. All bullets tumble on impact, doing a 180 flip. This is why, barring fragmentation or expansion of the bullet or spalling fragments from striking a bone, a long, narrow bullet has a larger permanent wound cavity than a short, fat one. COL Martin Fackler's research at the Wound Ballistics Laboratory of the Letterman Army Institute of Research has demonstrated this clearly.
It would be fun to see Microsoft hauled up in court for keylogging computers at a hospital. I wonder how many HIPAA violations all the telemetry would accumulate in a single eight-hour workday on just one computer.
The only problem I've had with my Xoom is that the most recent version of the Kindle app on Google Play hangs on startup; I found a reference searching the Net that the Amazon appstore had the previous version of the app, and uninstalled the Google Play version to install the Amazon version, and everything came back; I just have to remember not to accidentally update it through Google Play.
"The more you tighten your grip, the more systems will slip through your fingers."
If you uninstall them, and they reappear on your update list, you can hide the specific updates so that they stop appearing in the update list, and won't get installed unless you specifically go back, unhide them, and then run Windows Update again.
What the hell is CEIP? Editors, define your acronyms the first time they're used, especially if they're not common.
Customer Experience Improvement Program.
The accident reporting and roadside assistance features could be useful. As soon as these become readily available, though, one of the first things that a car thief would do is pull the dongle out of the OBD II port and throw it and the visor widget out the window, making it impossible to track the car. As a built in module, it works, because it's difficult for a thief to remove, but if it can be removed in 30 seconds without tools, it's worthless for tracking a stolen car.
I missed the section of the Constitution that mentions federal control of airspace, can you help me find it?
Since California's law addresses commercial drones, then the federal government has jurisdiction under the Interstate Commerce clause, using the same sort of argument that resulted in a farmer being successfully prosecuted for growing too much animal feed for his own use (by not buying feed, he was affecting interstate commerce). As long as the commercial drone activity can be, by whatever stretch of the imagination, linked to an interstate transaction, the federal government can 'justify' exercising authority.
From reading the Kickstarter page, the device itself is just a blank pressure-sensitive surface. The configuration software defines areas on that surface that produce specific responses when touched, in the same way that the HTML 'map' tag does for an image. The overlays just provide a visual and tactile feedback so that the user can readily see what the programmed response will be, rather than fumbling across a featureless surface trying to find the right spot (and, with the 'stock' templates, have a pattern of embedded magnets to allow the unit to configure itself automatically for the template).
American lost the Vietnam War because we weren't able to cope with a situation where there was so much guerrilla warfare taking place.
Add in the things that made prosecuting the war harder for the military, like LBJ's insistence on personally approving all targets for the bombing campaign to ensure that the selection of targets 'sent the right message' to the NVA government.
If/when there's a war between the US and someone who can actually harm them if they limit themselves to visual range, they will change the ROE. The same is true of any advanced nation.
Or they'll take up tactics like they used in Vietnam, where a flight would split up when they detected a target and send one section straight for the targets at full honk to blow past them at a high rate of speed, then disengage once they had a visual identification, while the other section hung back and launched when the first section gave them a positive ID.
If you had sensors on each landing gear, you'd be able to make a CG calculation based on the pattern of weight distribution across the gear
...or get mugged by someone who thinks that's fun.
Which is my main objection to open-world PvP; there are always enough jerks whose sole measure of personal value and gaming skill seems to be how fast their level-capped combat monster can gank your single-digit-level newbie character, and who will melt into the shadows rather than face anything that even looks like it might be a fair fight, to make your experience an unending frustration cycle.
My Prius Plug-in was $27,000 BEFORE tax rebates. The Chevy Spark EV is $25,000.
My previous car, an Accord wagon, could fit 22 banker's boxes in the back with the rear seat down, and I used it for three moves, filling it repeatedly when moving the items that weren't big enough to require a truck rental. How many times more trips would I have had to make with a Prius or Spark to get the same volume of cargo carried?
I am reminded of a small bit in E.E. 'Doc' Smith's novel First Lensman, where Virgil Samms is visiting Rigel IV, and is being driven to a meeting with potential candidates for receiving a Lens. Samms is telepathically linked to the driver, and notices an object on the side of the road that, while perceived by the driver, produces no information about it, but which Samms' Lens decipers as "Eat Teegmee's Food!" -- and the driver comments, "Advertising. You do not notice yours, either?" The bit is foreshadowed by an earlier scene on Earth where Samms is driving his car and is chagrined at having had his attention grabbed by a particularly flamboyant advertisement for cough drops. The stories may seem hackneyed now, but 'Doc' Smith had a good eye for some of the finer aspects of human behavior.
This is why systems written in MUMPS have great transaction throughput and the UIs are usually responsive, but running reports is a nightmare.
It's not necessarily a nightmare; it depends on the flexibility of the reporting tool. I've pretty well given up on using the built-in reporting tool at work for the reports I'm asked to produce because the tool doesn't allow for making the sort of complex links between globals that the report needs (i.e., patients with a given diagnosis who are also on a given medication, and their most recent result from a specified lab test), while producing the data with a MUMPS routine is straightforward because of the internal arrangement of the data. So I would have to say that creating the reports requires a high level of expertise, while running them once they're created is easy.
And the OPM breach has shown us even more clearly the consequences of failing to use the strongest encryption, security tools, and IA policies available. Using encryption technology that's designed to be bypassed at need, with that 'need' determined by anyone other than the owner of the data, is the electronic equivalent of hiding a spare key under the welcome mat and believing that your home is still secure when it's locked up.