The space is not "public" once it is rented to the current occupant of the spot! And lingering may be inefficient, but so is circling the block for half an hour looking for a spot.
If efficiency is really the goal, then the city of SF should raise the fee for parking to a market rate. But I suspect that certain interest groups would oppose that...
This is not a new phenomenon. And not an easy one to solve. From The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck:
"I built [this house] with my hands. Straightened old nails to put the sheathing on. Rafters are wired to the stringers with baling wire. It's mine. I built it. You bump it down—I'll be in the window with a rifle. You even come too close and I'll pot you like a rabbit."
"It's not me. There's nothing I can do. I'll lose my job if I don't do it. And look—suppose you kill me? They'll just hang you, but long before you're hung there'll be another guy on the tractor, and he'll bump the house down. You're not killing the right guy."
"That's so," the tenant said. "Who gave you orders? I'll go after him. He's the one to kill."
"You're wrong. He got his orders from the bank. The bank told him, 'Clear those people out or it's your job.'"
"Well, there's a president of the bank. There's a board of directors. I'll fill up the magazine of the rifle and go into the bank."
The driver said, "Fellow was telling me the bank gets orders from the East. The orders were, 'Make the land show profit or we'll close you up.'"
"But where does it stop? Who can we shoot? I don't aim to starve to death before I kill the man that's starving me."
"I don't know. Maybe there's nobody to shoot. Maybe the thing isn't men at all. Maybe like you said, the property's doing it. Anyway I told you my orders."
The online reference doesn't have to be Wikipedia. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy is excellent, and there's no reason why other fields couldn't do the same thing.
But frankly, US roads are in terrible condition compared to the average road in those other regions I mentioned. I'd be glad to pay more for fuel if we could get some decent roads out of it. Most of them here in the Midwest are horribly bumpy and uneven... patches upon patches upon patches on roads that really should have been completely ripped up and relayed years ago.
That's inevitable when your development for the past 50 years has been sprawling subdivisions that require an order of magnitude more road construction than would a dense urban development. The US, particularly the Midwest, has built vast amounts of road mileage relative to the population, and there simply is not enough money available to keep them all in good repair.
It doesn't matter if we WANT a "connected home". We are going to have it, like it or not. In a couple decades, it will be impossible to buy an appliance that isn't "connected'. Connectivity will cost less than whatever the marketing companies will pay to track our habits, and all devices will include connectivity by default. We likely won't even be able to buy unconnected devices, because economies of scale will not exist to make them affordable.
Snowden asserts that he brought no classified files with him when he left the US.
And Russian intelligence has good reasons for spreading a story like this, even if it's false. It makes Russia look smart and the US look stupid. And it will likely the US to abandon a variety of intelligence assets for fear that they are compromised.
I don't think we have any way of knowing who to believe.
I'd guess that cynical or distrustful people end up with lesser social connections to other people, a factor which has already been linked to dementia.
What it does do is raise the question of where the intelligent designer came from and how it evolved.
Nope. Darwinian evolution is a good explanation for how the different types of life forms on earth came to exist. It has nothing to say about how the earth, or for that matter the universe as a whole, came to exist. There was not a competition between different earths, or different universes, in the which the most fit one out-competed the others and became the one we live on. Nor was there a competition between different deities with the most fit one getting to create the universe. Whether an "intelligent designer" created the universe is a philosophical question which has no connection to evolution.
and then complain on the DOSBox forum that it doesn't work, among the sea of other overentitled 'IT pros' that demand a gaming emulator to fit critical application usage
That's a good problem for the DOSBox developers to have. Should provide for some well paying consulting jobs...
When owners threaten to move teams (and sometimes carry out their threats), it puts great pressure on taxpayers to build new stadiums at no expense to the owners, or else risk losing their favorite teams.
If you're a loyal fan, it doesn't help much to know that your market is large so a different team might move to your area 5 or 10 years later.
Many factories are heavy electricity users, so they would benefit from solar panels by decreasing their electric bills. And, like you say, why don't electricity producers shift to solar panels?
We've had solar panels since the 1970s and they could repay their energy investment in seven years back then. Now it's three.
It's easy to see why most individuals haven't done this - they haven't done the cost-benefit calculation themselves, there are large (relatively) one-time costs for installation, and so on. But what about industry? Why hasn't every large factory in Arizona put solar panels on their roof yet? Surely they have accountants and technical staff who are capable of accurately calculating the benefits and arranging for the installation. Either all these people are wrong (rather hard to believe), or solar panels have not actually yet reached the point of commercial viability.
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Better yet, write down most of your password and memorize the rest. Just a few extra letters (it can be the same for every site) will defeat the average pickpocket who obtains your wallet. Meanwhile, the written-down part of the password, which should be different for every site, can be long enough to defeat electronic attacks.
That's nothing. This is the third time this month I've had to get a finger transplant due to compromised biometrics.
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Anyhow. Now you know. If I'm wrong get a refund.
While I think Wayland remote display will end up working just fine, "get a refund" is exactly the wrong attitude, and one that is doing a great deal to hold back open source. Don't like your Firefox buttons switching places every two weeks? Get a refund. Unity's window management for retards driving you up a wall? Get a refund. Newest GNOME version missing half the features you depend on? Get a refund. Guess what? Nobody is going to ask for a refund. They are going to switch to a different piece of software. And if every open source application has been trashed by developers, they'll switch to closed source.
The difference is that everyone knows the media excluded Paul, Johnson, and Stein. If you want, you can tell your friends about it. If enough people are upset, perhaps the media will decide to change.
Whereas if Google decided to manipulate search results before an election, chances are good that nobody would ever find out.
Slashdot Mirror
Who's supposed to do research that affects researchers, if not researchers?
Today's XKCD is timely.
http://xkcd.com/1386/
The space is not "public" once it is rented to the current occupant of the spot! And lingering may be inefficient, but so is circling the block for half an hour looking for a spot.
If efficiency is really the goal, then the city of SF should raise the fee for parking to a market rate. But I suspect that certain interest groups would oppose that...
This is not a new phenomenon. And not an easy one to solve. From The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck:
The online reference doesn't have to be Wikipedia. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy is excellent, and there's no reason why other fields couldn't do the same thing.
That's inevitable when your development for the past 50 years has been sprawling subdivisions that require an order of magnitude more road construction than would a dense urban development. The US, particularly the Midwest, has built vast amounts of road mileage relative to the population, and there simply is not enough money available to keep them all in good repair.
It doesn't matter if we WANT a "connected home". We are going to have it, like it or not. In a couple decades, it will be impossible to buy an appliance that isn't "connected'. Connectivity will cost less than whatever the marketing companies will pay to track our habits, and all devices will include connectivity by default. We likely won't even be able to buy unconnected devices, because economies of scale will not exist to make them affordable.
Snowden asserts that he brought no classified files with him when he left the US.
And Russian intelligence has good reasons for spreading a story like this, even if it's false. It makes Russia look smart and the US look stupid. And it will likely the US to abandon a variety of intelligence assets for fear that they are compromised.
I don't think we have any way of knowing who to believe.
Well, my comment got modded up higher than yours... :)
I'd guess that cynical or distrustful people end up with lesser social connections to other people, a factor which has already been linked to dementia.
Nope. Darwinian evolution is a good explanation for how the different types of life forms on earth came to exist. It has nothing to say about how the earth, or for that matter the universe as a whole, came to exist. There was not a competition between different earths, or different universes, in the which the most fit one out-competed the others and became the one we live on. Nor was there a competition between different deities with the most fit one getting to create the universe. Whether an "intelligent designer" created the universe is a philosophical question which has no connection to evolution.
In Antarctica, isn't every storm from the north?
That's a good problem for the DOSBox developers to have. Should provide for some well paying consulting jobs...
Betteridge's law of headlines also applies.
When owners threaten to move teams (and sometimes carry out their threats), it puts great pressure on taxpayers to build new stadiums at no expense to the owners, or else risk losing their favorite teams.
If you're a loyal fan, it doesn't help much to know that your market is large so a different team might move to your area 5 or 10 years later.
Many factories are heavy electricity users, so they would benefit from solar panels by decreasing their electric bills. And, like you say, why don't electricity producers shift to solar panels?
It's easy to see why most individuals haven't done this - they haven't done the cost-benefit calculation themselves, there are large (relatively) one-time costs for installation, and so on. But what about industry? Why hasn't every large factory in Arizona put solar panels on their roof yet? Surely they have accountants and technical staff who are capable of accurately calculating the benefits and arranging for the installation. Either all these people are wrong (rather hard to believe), or solar panels have not actually yet reached the point of commercial viability.
Better yet, write down most of your password and memorize the rest. Just a few extra letters (it can be the same for every site) will defeat the average pickpocket who obtains your wallet. Meanwhile, the written-down part of the password, which should be different for every site, can be long enough to defeat electronic attacks.
That's nothing. This is the third time this month I've had to get a finger transplant due to compromised biometrics.
While I think Wayland remote display will end up working just fine, "get a refund" is exactly the wrong attitude, and one that is doing a great deal to hold back open source. Don't like your Firefox buttons switching places every two weeks? Get a refund. Unity's window management for retards driving you up a wall? Get a refund. Newest GNOME version missing half the features you depend on? Get a refund. Guess what? Nobody is going to ask for a refund. They are going to switch to a different piece of software. And if every open source application has been trashed by developers, they'll switch to closed source.
I work in the industry. If the industry is upset, there is a good chance of me being upset :)
How do employers know that you wrote the open source code? And not, say, your friend?
EM emissions can get out of a Faraday cage. Just not in.
The difference is that everyone knows the media excluded Paul, Johnson, and Stein. If you want, you can tell your friends about it. If enough people are upset, perhaps the media will decide to change.
Whereas if Google decided to manipulate search results before an election, chances are good that nobody would ever find out.
Of course, processing the plant should be easier. You just burn it.