Except there is no affect on the driver's skill and attention if a passenger is texting. Why restrict the passengers when it is the driver we need to worry about.
Likewise, this solution would prevent texting on buses, trains, and other mass transit.
Ummm... we must have different definitions of abrupt.
Turn off the engine in any standard transmission vehicle I have driven and you slow quickly, but not abruptly... The engine makes a decent brake, but not a good one.
Parking in gear only on any grade more than a slight slope and the car will creep down the hill. The steeper the hill, the faster it creeps.
If I remember right, Borland spelled out a "treat it like a book" license agreement. You could install and run Turbo Pascal on any number of systems, so long as you kept it to one system at a time.
... so there should be a scanner for every paper ballot station (or so...3:1, 4:1 seem good too). Scan it in and if it reports what you want, good, submit it. If it throws up ERROR or the wrong candidates, destroy it and get a new ballot.....
You mean the optical scanner I inserted my ballot in when I finished voting here in snowy Minnesota?
I can only speak for my precinct, but every election (going back to '90 when I moved here), has had one of those optical scanners to kick out double votes and other errors.
Personally, I liked the older "complete the arrow" optical scan ballot, but this election's "fill in the bubble" worked just fine for me.
This lack of physically continuous files on the S/38 continued onto the AS/400 (now iSeries).
There are still files - I can create, open, copy, etc the file object.
For the most part, the file system on the 400 does not expose the physical disk units. The closest analog in the Linux world would be all the devices being added to a very large LVM.
This has advantages -- running out of space, add more drives. There is no need to worry about moving files around to these new drives. The OS balances the data load out on to all the arms.
The data can be unprotected (loose one disk, loose all the data), or the disks can be RAID-5, RAID-6, or Mirrored protection.
But don't get the idea that the iSeries has no files.
Code written for the 1988 release of the AS/400 still runs on the current incarnations of the iSeries with no modifications. They have swapped out the processor architecture twice (at least) since that first announce.
And I expect someone from the zSeries (nee s/360) to come along and point out a date 20 years earlier...
You just know someone is going to sue claiming that abolishing software patents is a "Taking" under the fifth amendment and that they (and all the other patent trolls) are due compensation.
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Tub 'o water is more to deal with the heating of the tank when it is filled.
NS Savannah http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NS_Savannah
Nuclear powered freighter...
Except there is no affect on the driver's skill and attention if a passenger is texting. Why restrict the passengers when it is the driver we need to worry about.
Likewise, this solution would prevent texting on buses, trains, and other mass transit.
Use APL much?
IBM's Microchannel?
Live backups are HIGH AVAILABILITY - NOT BACKUP.
Both can be part of a Disaster Recovery plan.
HA protects you from (some) hardware failures and site failures.
Backup protects you from mistaken deletes, bad programs, malware etc.
Ahh.. big iron
So much stuff that would be useful at home here in the data center. At least in the winter, when excess heat is a good thing.
I was sooo hoping this was about a revival of the Avengers...
Now I have the theme song stuck in my head.
That or...
Supreme leader, I regret to inform you that our forward observation post on the moon orbiting the third planet has been destroyed by enemy action...
Commercial licenses in the US do have different endorsements for different equipment -- air brakes vs 'normal' brakes
Ummm... we must have different definitions of abrupt.
Turn off the engine in any standard transmission vehicle I have driven and you slow quickly, but not abruptly... The engine makes a decent brake, but not a good one.
Parking in gear only on any grade more than a slight slope and the car will creep down the hill. The steeper the hill, the faster it creeps.
Several of our local gas stations sell 'off-road' fuels that do not have the road tax included. Either for farm, heating, or track use.
Didn't Douglas Adams theorize on this in one of the first couple of Hitchhikers' books?
Something about having to sit perfectly still when listening to the radio so that your gestures don't change the station...
Hey, some of us use 5250 block devices, not 3270.
Get off my lawn!
If I remember right, Borland spelled out a "treat it like a book" license agreement. You could install and run Turbo Pascal on any number of systems, so long as you kept it to one system at a time.
So we need to design it so that a door opens and a sign pops out saying some form of "Ha!"
... so there should be a scanner for every paper ballot station (or so...3:1, 4:1 seem good too). Scan it in and if it reports what you want, good, submit it. If it throws up ERROR or the wrong candidates, destroy it and get a new ballot.....
You mean the optical scanner I inserted my ballot in when I finished voting here in snowy Minnesota?
I can only speak for my precinct, but every election (going back to '90 when I moved here), has had one of those optical scanners to kick out double votes and other errors.
Personally, I liked the older "complete the arrow" optical scan ballot, but this election's "fill in the bubble" worked just fine for me.
This lack of physically continuous files on the S/38 continued onto the AS/400 (now iSeries).
There are still files - I can create, open, copy, etc the file object.
For the most part, the file system on the 400 does not expose the physical disk units. The closest analog in the Linux world would be all the devices being added to a very large LVM.
This has advantages -- running out of space, add more drives. There is no need to worry about moving files around to these new drives. The OS balances the data load out on to all the arms.
The data can be unprotected (loose one disk, loose all the data), or the disks can be RAID-5, RAID-6, or Mirrored protection.
But don't get the idea that the iSeries has no files.
Time to load the washing machine?
Back when a machine room looked like a machine room... Spinning tapes with vac columns, operators running around mounting disk packs, card sorters...
Nowadays all you see are beige or black boxes with a few blinky lights.
"Bond only nails 1 girl the entire time. What's up with that?"
That fits with the original Casino Royale (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0061452/)
Where David Niven plays a non-womanizing Bond...
Ummm... IBM called, would like their title back.
Code written for the 1988 release of the AS/400 still runs on the current incarnations of the iSeries with no modifications. They have swapped out the processor architecture twice (at least) since that first announce.
And I expect someone from the zSeries (nee s/360) to come along and point out a date 20 years earlier...
_Debt of Honor_ - Tom Clancy
It also involved a easter egg in the trading computers.
You just know someone is going to sue claiming that abolishing software patents is a "Taking" under the fifth amendment and that they (and all the other patent trolls) are due compensation.
74xxx TTL logic chips... had lots of fun with those in college.
Great chips for playing with logic
Open range vs closed range...
One of the topics covered in The Farmer and the Cowhand in Oklahoma!...