What about a 80 Mph 180. How well does an Evo handle that? You only have 3 standard lanes to work with (Eastbound, center turning, Westbound). Handle that without touching dirt, and you might be able to hold your own against a stock 90's model Chevrolet Caprice Classic (NOT the 9C1 Police Package).
2) So what? If a line of abuse can be documented that a woman is the perpetrator, they should be treated that way by the law.
5) So what? Women are now allowed to serve, therefore they should be forced into Selective Service just like men if they want to vote. Either that or eliminate Selective Service altogether.
6) So what? They're not now. Haven't been for a while. If they can get opportunities for scholarships just for being a woman, I demand scholarships just for being a man. Either that or get rid of gender-based scholarships altogether.
Equality for genders means that neither gender gets special privileges. If a woman wants the job of a man, they better be prepared to have to perform the job of a man. No bitching if a warehouse job requires lifting 150 lbs crank shafts. If you can't handle it, get a job you can handle. Period. Do not expect concessions to be made just because your physiology prevents you from being able to perform the duties of the job.
Bullshit. The only thing that shatters literacy on the Internet is impatience. I take the time to convey full sentences in my messages simply because it will many times avert confusion and it's easier. I converse with all manner of people through text and messaging, many of whom don't understand txt spk. It's easier for me to take the time to communicate in full sentences to everyone than to have to convey a message twice to someone who I assume would understand txt spk, then find out they don't and have to use the proper sentence anyway.
Unlike DC, where we know whether there's intelligent life in it or not, we don't know if there's intelligent life on mars.
The joke most would infer is that the AC was trying to say that there was no intelligent life in DC. However, it is just as easy to make the inference the other way, in which the AC just comes off as a political ass-kisser.
Let's say you bought those 3 items on 3 separate occasions...and only those 3 items all year. Here's what you spent:
Samsung 10.1" tablet in white - $299 on NewEgg (free 5 day shipping), $325.33 on Amazon ($299 + $26.33 Prime shipping)
Intel Core i5-3570K Ivy Bridge 3.4GHz - $199 on NewEgg (free shipping), $224.32 on Amazon ($197.99 + $26.33 Prime)
ASUS RT-AC66U Dual-Band Wireless-AC1750 - $179.99 on NewEgg (free shipping), $206.33 on Amazon ( $179.99 + $26.34 Prime)
Total Cost NewEgg: 677.99
Total Cost Amazon: 755.98
Also note that the 3-5 day is just when NewEgg Guarantees that the items will arrive. It also depends on your proximity to the Distribution centers. I live close enough that free shipping is usually here within 2 days and 2 day ship is always here next day.. Amazon's 2 day ship option has quite often wound up having the carrier eating the shipping cost to me because they're almost always a day or two late; especially when it goes by DHL.
If you really want to see if you're actually saving anything using prime figure it this way: Deduct the difference of the Prime price from the Non-Prime price of each book you get through prime. Do the same for movies you watch through prime. Add the Non-Prime cost of any TV series you watch on Prime. Then tally up all the shipping you would have otherwise had to pay for if you didn't use Prime. Add all of that together. If the amount comes to $79 or greater, you're getting a good deal. If it doesn't, you're getting ripped off. For my habits, I'd have been getting ripped off.
I do not know if that would be faster/better to do 'join' statement over multiple huge data tables compared to nested queries
Using a joined query instead of nested means that you are hitting the database once per transaction instead of 5, 10, 50 times. The company where I work has an outsourced application that will hit our database first for the top 2000 records, then hit it again and again for each filter that the user applies, one query per filter. In every transaction there's a minimum of two hits on the DB. Multiply this by about 6,000 operations per minute coming in from all around the state, and it's a bandwidth headache. A better way would be if the program hit the database once on boot to ensure the table headings are updated, then have the user set up the filters s/he needs and execute a single joined query.
why would GET & POST requests be involved in security?
Although both can be susceptible to an injection attack, it's simply easier using GET over POST. It can be partially explained by xkcd and it's related explanation. Using POST will allow for more parsing in the back end to be able to sanitize the user's input, thereby reducing the chances of a successful injection attack. With GET it's considerably harder to sanitize the URL before it hits the processing script. When working with security, you want to make decisions that increase the difficulty of the attack vector. Just the difference between GET & POST alone isn't enough for security, but it is a good first step in seeing if a candidate understands the difference and can comprehend how the difference can matter from a security standpoint.
What shitty GPS are you using? I've used my S3 with Google Maps, a Garmin, and a TomTom on different occasions for GPS navigation, handlebar mount with a connection to the bluetooth headset in my helmet with a capable device. It doesn't matter if I'm going 10, 25, 45, 55, or 70+ MPH, all the GPS Solutions have given me turn warnings with plenty of time to make lane changes and prepare for the turn. Regardless of speed or device, I get a 2 mile warning, 1500 foot warning, 500 foot warning, 250 foot warning, and then within 10 feet, there's the imperative "Turn here" notification.
I also only use GPS when traveling in a new area without being able to pre-plan, or if the local signage is just totally screwed up (Instructions say take S.R. 79 North... actual road signage indicates 79 East / West. Take the right specified in instructions and that's 79 East, oops, the actual place I need to go is West of the intersection. Stop, ask for directions, Oh, MapQuest [at the time] is always wrong here because Georgia doesn't know how to name their damn route in line with the convention.)
Or were you just making a poor attempt at a troll?
What about this problem that I had before the ACA:
I'm healthy. My BMI at the high end of Normal, but still not enough to be classed Overweight. I am working on this at my own cost to get back more to the middle of the normal road. I do not smoke, anything. I do not take illicit drugs, and even over the counter stuff requires absolute need before I pop a pill. My cholesterol is good. My Blood pressure is normal. I don't drink but maybe once every few months. My only vice would be caffeine, and that's only a cup of coffee and a Mountain Dew a day. I have not called into work because of illness except for once during an excruciating migraine in the last 3 years.
Before the provisions of the ACA, starting in 2009 I was classified non-insurable due to a preexisting condition that wasn't discovered until a Workman's Compensation claim. I was probably born with it. I have no physical disability from it. I have no mental disability from it. It's not likely to kill me before anything else would. If the condition was a bit worse, I could get surgery to correct it, but at the moment it's too small to touch without neurological damage. Basically it could go away on its own, it could enlarge to a point where it's fixable, or it could always be the size it is now and show no adverse effects, but because it's on my record, I couldn't get insurance.
No. My Pineal Cyst is not your problem. It's not my problem either; not directly my problem, anyway. I'm not going into any other details but there are procedures that I needed that were denied me since I didn't have insurance to afford them. I finally got insurance this year through my employer under the new initiative for compliance with the ACA that they started in July. When my coverage kicked in, I started to get things fixed that have been getting put off for affordability. Things that would have been covered by Insurance to begin with. Things that would not have been as bad as they were had I been able to get to a Doctor sooner. Nothing serious. Nothing life threatening. But they did make day to day living interestingly painful at times.
And one final note. You apparently have no idea how insurance works. By its very definition, in purchasing a policy, you are putting money into a giant pot to cover the costs of catastrophic events for anyone with a stake in that pot. Through this method, the healthy are going to carry the burden of the unhealthy. What makes it worthwhile to put money into this pot is no one knows when anything would happen to shift a person from healthy to unhealthy. Step off the curb at the wrong moment...and live? You are now unhealthy and drawing from the pot. Run over someone who legally stepped into the way of your vehicle at just the wrong moment...and lived? He is now drawing from your share of the pot. Perfectly healthy person finds out the hard way he has a genetic heart condition that won't immediately kill him... he draws from the pot until something does. The big thing with why Insurance Companies are restructuring their plans to fit with ACA guidelines and forcing Policy holders into more expensive plans is so they can grow the pot to cover the influx of potential unhealthies while they minimize the dip in their profit pool.
Of course, I can see why you'd be upset about being forced into participating in the pot. If you've got a good bit of health, you probably don't want to support anyone who's not as lucky or as disciplined as you. But, if you turn out to be not as lucky as you thought you were and wind up having to pay $50,000 - $500,000 for a single stay in a hospital for surgery, or a broken leg, or losing traction in a snow storm and slamming broadside into a tree, breaking a leg as it gets smashed in the door, or any other event... I don't want to hear one iota about how far in debt you are. It can be something very trivial, fleeting, and unexpected that could leave any one of us in the hole for millions and destitute in a wheelchair...or worse, regardles
Except the complaint isn't about how it's spoken. People, out of laziness or ignorance, will actually write the words "should of" because that's how should've sounds to them instead of analyzing what they're trying to say; which apparently takes too long to bother with. Of course, if others want to be lazy and use the wrong phrases and spellings in their communications, who am I to argue? It only makes me look more stellar in my resume causing hiring managers to trip over themselves trying to get to the phone to set up an interview.
Social Engineering is still a hack. It doesn't require nearly the technical know-how in most instances, but it is still a target on one of the most vulnerable points of a system... The User. Information acquired through social engineering is just as damaging as information acquired through technical hacking. Never forget that without the people integrated into it for its self perpetuation, a system would not have a purpose to exist. Any time a person is trained in the operation or management of a system, that person becomes an Agent of the system. An Agent that is social engineered (re-programmed or hacked) into a different way of perceiving the system is the weakest link in breaking the system.
One way I was thinking of to solve the independent ISP issue is, everyone who pays taxes is given the fiber connection by the city government, and the city provides a city wide WAN that is not by default connected to the internet. Anyone within the city can communicate with anyone else, provided they know the IP address. The municipal users could set up whatever servers they want on the line and the government email system would ensure that city information and emergency broadcasts found their way to each taxpayer/user.
Now, any internet service that people wanted that couldn't be accessed from within the city, such as if they wanted to go to Wal-mart.com to place an order for a product that wasn't in the local store; if they wanted to use google, yahoo, bing, or whatever to search the web for information that wasn't online from the library; if they want to play an online game like Mechwarrior Online or World of Warcraft; or even if they to access information from the next town over; this is where the independent ISP would come into play. By authenticating their modem with an Internet access provider (not really a service provider anymore, as the services themselves would be given by the municipalit{y,ies}) they could get a gateway to the internet at large.
I know that there are a lot of kinks in this plan that need to be worked out, but this is just a sketch that I've worked out so far. The hardest bit would definitely be the implementation. It would require co-operation from every level of government because you can bet that the ISP conglomerate are going to fight it tooth and nail. That's the biggest issue I haven't started ironing out yet, and I have no clue where to begin that would be the most effective.
...stubbornly sticking to creationism is ridiculous if 1) you are presented with arguments and evidence; and 2) you have the intellectual capacity to apply it.
Herein lies the trick. I remember a discussion with my Earth Science teacher many many Earth Years ago (specified for the pedantic trolls) where he covered a study that he once took an administrative part in where he and others would put out a test to a sample with a single question: "What causes the earth to have seasons?" The answers were myriad from how close the earth was to the sun during the year, to meteorites passing through orbit, to air current patterns, and even some that attributed it to "Aliens" (I have to wonder if this idiot took part in that study).
After the results were in, the people in the sample were shown a video outlining that seasons primarily come from the Earth's tilt creating areas of direct and indirect sunlight. The hemisphere in direct sunlight had summer, the Hemisphere in indirect sunlight had winter. Then the sample was instructed to answer the same question after the video.
What was found by the study was that generally what people would do with information is, instead of scrapping the false info they had based their belief on and adopting a new belief based on the new info, people would incorporate the new information to justify their old belief of how things were. The angle of the sun was coupled with the distance to create the indirect lighting regardless of the fact that when the Northern Hemisphere is experiencing winter, the earth is actually at its closest to the sun. Meteorites that were passing between the sun and earth during winter were deflecting the light and making it indirect. Aliens were conducting experiments by adjusting the Earth's tilt in orbit.
Basically, what my teacher said he discovered in the study was, quite simply, people are stupid on their own volition and will generally refuse to ever admit their fallacies even when faced with evidence, thus bending the evidence to support their fallacy.
I want to fly my own plane but can't afford the classes right now. Never flew on an airline yet. No use for train travel, which is fine for autonomy anyway. I do steer my own boat. Often. And I often roll on a Motorcycle too, which on a low traveled road is much more pleasurable than having to worry about when this guy that looks like he wants my lane is actually going to decide to take it, or worse, sweep through it... without checking his blind spots. For me, a 50 minute commute on back roads with the Bike is much more pleasant than the 20 minute roll on the interstate. I gladly take the feeling of full control over my transportation over yielding that control to anyone or anything else. In fact, I dare say that the commute is my zen time to decompress from a long day at work. I lose that ability, I'll adapt, but I'll sorely miss that feeling.
Open Source is the Free Market at work. If a technology proves useful, there will be people that are going to be supporting it for as long as it remains useful. If a tech doesn't get wide adoption and people don't see a use in it, it's not going to go far. I argue that if a framework is Open Source, it will last longer than any proprietary format. If no one takes over a project, it's quite likely because no one sees a use in the technology in the form that the project took.
Also, look at it from this way: Microsoft's.NET is still a very popular programming framework in the enterprise, despite its flaws. Microsoft has every bit of power to say that effective at close of business today all.NET development will cease, all licenses are hereby revoked, and no new licenses will be given. Congratulations, every Enterprise that's been relying on.NET for their day to day operation has just been royally fucked and need to adopt a new framework standard to rewrite every single one of their applications YESTERDAY!
Granted, that scenario is hypothetical and not very likely, but it is a very real example of the limitations of reliance on a closed source framework. QT, an open source framework, worked well for the Waslap. If he went with GTK+ it may not fare so well considering the state of Gnome and uncertainty of direction (how many forks are in the wild now?) but it would not have to be a cold turkey forced migration but rather it could be relatively easy to begin a roll over to another available open standard in a phased solution since (correct me if I'm wrong here) it couldn't be done as an immediate all at once license pull.
USB-B: Large Peripheral Client Connection (printers, scanners, etc)
USB-Mini Type B (4 position and 5 position): old connector for small devices too small for a standard USB-B port (still in limited use but being phased out, Mini to Micro and Micro to Mini adapters are available)
USB-Micro Type B: Current connection standard for small devices too small for standard USB-B port
USB-3.0 Type A/B: Same as USB A and B above, only re-designed with extra connectors to support the 3.0 standard
USB- 3.0 Micro Type B: Same as USB-Micro B above, redesigned with extra connectors to support the 3.0 standard
Also note that the USB-3.0 ports are designed to be able to accept all 2.0 connectors.
If I have to plug in multiple devices in to charge at the same time, I use an adequately powered USB hub. When not plugged into the laptop it can still supply power to up to 5 devices while it's plugged into the wall. Just have to make sure the hub is designed to operate in this way. The one I found runs off of a 10A brick and switches down to 2A available per port.
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What about a 80 Mph 180. How well does an Evo handle that? You only have 3 standard lanes to work with (Eastbound, center turning, Westbound). Handle that without touching dirt, and you might be able to hold your own against a stock 90's model Chevrolet Caprice Classic (NOT the 9C1 Police Package).
2) So what? If a line of abuse can be documented that a woman is the perpetrator, they should be treated that way by the law.
5) So what? Women are now allowed to serve, therefore they should be forced into Selective Service just like men if they want to vote. Either that or eliminate Selective Service altogether.
6) So what? They're not now. Haven't been for a while. If they can get opportunities for scholarships just for being a woman, I demand scholarships just for being a man. Either that or get rid of gender-based scholarships altogether.
Equality for genders means that neither gender gets special privileges. If a woman wants the job of a man, they better be prepared to have to perform the job of a man. No bitching if a warehouse job requires lifting 150 lbs crank shafts. If you can't handle it, get a job you can handle. Period. Do not expect concessions to be made just because your physiology prevents you from being able to perform the duties of the job.
Bullshit. The only thing that shatters literacy on the Internet is impatience. I take the time to convey full sentences in my messages simply because it will many times avert confusion and it's easier. I converse with all manner of people through text and messaging, many of whom don't understand txt spk. It's easier for me to take the time to communicate in full sentences to everyone than to have to convey a message twice to someone who I assume would understand txt spk, then find out they don't and have to use the proper sentence anyway.
Also there's the parse where:
Unlike DC, where we know whether there's intelligent life in it or not, we don't know if there's intelligent life on mars.
The joke most would infer is that the AC was trying to say that there was no intelligent life in DC. However, it is just as easy to make the inference the other way, in which the AC just comes off as a political ass-kisser.
Send it to Africa.
Nobody cares about Africa
((end sarcasm / semi-obscure movie reference))
Let's say you bought those 3 items on 3 separate occasions...and only those 3 items all year. Here's what you spent:
Samsung 10.1" tablet in white - $299 on NewEgg (free 5 day shipping), $325.33 on Amazon ($299 + $26.33 Prime shipping)
Intel Core i5-3570K Ivy Bridge 3.4GHz - $199 on NewEgg (free shipping), $224.32 on Amazon ($197.99 + $26.33 Prime)
ASUS RT-AC66U Dual-Band Wireless-AC1750 - $179.99 on NewEgg (free shipping), $206.33 on Amazon ( $179.99 + $26.34 Prime)
Total Cost NewEgg: 677.99
Total Cost Amazon: 755.98
Also note that the 3-5 day is just when NewEgg Guarantees that the items will arrive. It also depends on your proximity to the Distribution centers. I live close enough that free shipping is usually here within 2 days and 2 day ship is always here next day.. Amazon's 2 day ship option has quite often wound up having the carrier eating the shipping cost to me because they're almost always a day or two late; especially when it goes by DHL.
If you really want to see if you're actually saving anything using prime figure it this way: Deduct the difference of the Prime price from the Non-Prime price of each book you get through prime. Do the same for movies you watch through prime. Add the Non-Prime cost of any TV series you watch on Prime. Then tally up all the shipping you would have otherwise had to pay for if you didn't use Prime. Add all of that together. If the amount comes to $79 or greater, you're getting a good deal. If it doesn't, you're getting ripped off. For my habits, I'd have been getting ripped off.
Using a joined query instead of nested means that you are hitting the database once per transaction instead of 5, 10, 50 times. The company where I work has an outsourced application that will hit our database first for the top 2000 records, then hit it again and again for each filter that the user applies, one query per filter. In every transaction there's a minimum of two hits on the DB. Multiply this by about 6,000 operations per minute coming in from all around the state, and it's a bandwidth headache. A better way would be if the program hit the database once on boot to ensure the table headings are updated, then have the user set up the filters s/he needs and execute a single joined query.
Although both can be susceptible to an injection attack, it's simply easier using GET over POST. It can be partially explained by xkcd and it's related explanation. Using POST will allow for more parsing in the back end to be able to sanitize the user's input, thereby reducing the chances of a successful injection attack. With GET it's considerably harder to sanitize the URL before it hits the processing script. When working with security, you want to make decisions that increase the difficulty of the attack vector. Just the difference between GET & POST alone isn't enough for security, but it is a good first step in seeing if a candidate understands the difference and can comprehend how the difference can matter from a security standpoint.
What shitty GPS are you using? I've used my S3 with Google Maps, a Garmin, and a TomTom on different occasions for GPS navigation, handlebar mount with a connection to the bluetooth headset in my helmet with a capable device. It doesn't matter if I'm going 10, 25, 45, 55, or 70+ MPH, all the GPS Solutions have given me turn warnings with plenty of time to make lane changes and prepare for the turn. Regardless of speed or device, I get a 2 mile warning, 1500 foot warning, 500 foot warning, 250 foot warning, and then within 10 feet, there's the imperative "Turn here" notification. I also only use GPS when traveling in a new area without being able to pre-plan, or if the local signage is just totally screwed up (Instructions say take S.R. 79 North... actual road signage indicates 79 East / West. Take the right specified in instructions and that's 79 East, oops, the actual place I need to go is West of the intersection. Stop, ask for directions, Oh, MapQuest [at the time] is always wrong here because Georgia doesn't know how to name their damn route in line with the convention.) Or were you just making a poor attempt at a troll?
If Apple has too many more victories like this, they're finished. Having a 16% reduction in the amount of assessed damages is not a "second victory".
SELinux
"Not Invented Here"
What about this problem that I had before the ACA:
I'm healthy. My BMI at the high end of Normal, but still not enough to be classed Overweight. I am working on this at my own cost to get back more to the middle of the normal road. I do not smoke, anything. I do not take illicit drugs, and even over the counter stuff requires absolute need before I pop a pill. My cholesterol is good. My Blood pressure is normal. I don't drink but maybe once every few months. My only vice would be caffeine, and that's only a cup of coffee and a Mountain Dew a day. I have not called into work because of illness except for once during an excruciating migraine in the last 3 years.
Before the provisions of the ACA, starting in 2009 I was classified non-insurable due to a preexisting condition that wasn't discovered until a Workman's Compensation claim. I was probably born with it. I have no physical disability from it. I have no mental disability from it. It's not likely to kill me before anything else would. If the condition was a bit worse, I could get surgery to correct it, but at the moment it's too small to touch without neurological damage. Basically it could go away on its own, it could enlarge to a point where it's fixable, or it could always be the size it is now and show no adverse effects, but because it's on my record, I couldn't get insurance.
No. My Pineal Cyst is not your problem. It's not my problem either; not directly my problem, anyway. I'm not going into any other details but there are procedures that I needed that were denied me since I didn't have insurance to afford them. I finally got insurance this year through my employer under the new initiative for compliance with the ACA that they started in July. When my coverage kicked in, I started to get things fixed that have been getting put off for affordability. Things that would have been covered by Insurance to begin with. Things that would not have been as bad as they were had I been able to get to a Doctor sooner. Nothing serious. Nothing life threatening. But they did make day to day living interestingly painful at times.
And one final note. You apparently have no idea how insurance works. By its very definition, in purchasing a policy, you are putting money into a giant pot to cover the costs of catastrophic events for anyone with a stake in that pot. Through this method, the healthy are going to carry the burden of the unhealthy. What makes it worthwhile to put money into this pot is no one knows when anything would happen to shift a person from healthy to unhealthy. Step off the curb at the wrong moment...and live? You are now unhealthy and drawing from the pot. Run over someone who legally stepped into the way of your vehicle at just the wrong moment...and lived? He is now drawing from your share of the pot. Perfectly healthy person finds out the hard way he has a genetic heart condition that won't immediately kill him... he draws from the pot until something does. The big thing with why Insurance Companies are restructuring their plans to fit with ACA guidelines and forcing Policy holders into more expensive plans is so they can grow the pot to cover the influx of potential unhealthies while they minimize the dip in their profit pool.
Of course, I can see why you'd be upset about being forced into participating in the pot. If you've got a good bit of health, you probably don't want to support anyone who's not as lucky or as disciplined as you. But, if you turn out to be not as lucky as you thought you were and wind up having to pay $50,000 - $500,000 for a single stay in a hospital for surgery, or a broken leg, or losing traction in a snow storm and slamming broadside into a tree, breaking a leg as it gets smashed in the door, or any other event... I don't want to hear one iota about how far in debt you are. It can be something very trivial, fleeting, and unexpected that could leave any one of us in the hole for millions and destitute in a wheelchair...or worse, regardles
Except the complaint isn't about how it's spoken. People, out of laziness or ignorance, will actually write the words "should of" because that's how should've sounds to them instead of analyzing what they're trying to say; which apparently takes too long to bother with. Of course, if others want to be lazy and use the wrong phrases and spellings in their communications, who am I to argue? It only makes me look more stellar in my resume causing hiring managers to trip over themselves trying to get to the phone to set up an interview.
I never kid during Crunch time.
not everyone likes Smarties.
Social Engineering is still a hack. It doesn't require nearly the technical know-how in most instances, but it is still a target on one of the most vulnerable points of a system... The User. Information acquired through social engineering is just as damaging as information acquired through technical hacking. Never forget that without the people integrated into it for its self perpetuation, a system would not have a purpose to exist. Any time a person is trained in the operation or management of a system, that person becomes an Agent of the system. An Agent that is social engineered (re-programmed or hacked) into a different way of perceiving the system is the weakest link in breaking the system.
One way I was thinking of to solve the independent ISP issue is, everyone who pays taxes is given the fiber connection by the city government, and the city provides a city wide WAN that is not by default connected to the internet. Anyone within the city can communicate with anyone else, provided they know the IP address. The municipal users could set up whatever servers they want on the line and the government email system would ensure that city information and emergency broadcasts found their way to each taxpayer/user.
Now, any internet service that people wanted that couldn't be accessed from within the city, such as if they wanted to go to Wal-mart.com to place an order for a product that wasn't in the local store; if they wanted to use google, yahoo, bing, or whatever to search the web for information that wasn't online from the library; if they want to play an online game like Mechwarrior Online or World of Warcraft; or even if they to access information from the next town over; this is where the independent ISP would come into play. By authenticating their modem with an Internet access provider (not really a service provider anymore, as the services themselves would be given by the municipalit{y,ies}) they could get a gateway to the internet at large.
I know that there are a lot of kinks in this plan that need to be worked out, but this is just a sketch that I've worked out so far. The hardest bit would definitely be the implementation. It would require co-operation from every level of government because you can bet that the ISP conglomerate are going to fight it tooth and nail. That's the biggest issue I haven't started ironing out yet, and I have no clue where to begin that would be the most effective.
Herein lies the trick. I remember a discussion with my Earth Science teacher many many Earth Years ago (specified for the pedantic trolls) where he covered a study that he once took an administrative part in where he and others would put out a test to a sample with a single question: "What causes the earth to have seasons?" The answers were myriad from how close the earth was to the sun during the year, to meteorites passing through orbit, to air current patterns, and even some that attributed it to "Aliens" (I have to wonder if this idiot took part in that study).
After the results were in, the people in the sample were shown a video outlining that seasons primarily come from the Earth's tilt creating areas of direct and indirect sunlight. The hemisphere in direct sunlight had summer, the Hemisphere in indirect sunlight had winter. Then the sample was instructed to answer the same question after the video.
What was found by the study was that generally what people would do with information is, instead of scrapping the false info they had based their belief on and adopting a new belief based on the new info, people would incorporate the new information to justify their old belief of how things were. The angle of the sun was coupled with the distance to create the indirect lighting regardless of the fact that when the Northern Hemisphere is experiencing winter, the earth is actually at its closest to the sun. Meteorites that were passing between the sun and earth during winter were deflecting the light and making it indirect. Aliens were conducting experiments by adjusting the Earth's tilt in orbit.
Basically, what my teacher said he discovered in the study was, quite simply, people are stupid on their own volition and will generally refuse to ever admit their fallacies even when faced with evidence, thus bending the evidence to support their fallacy.
Is that anything like the difference of "all dead" and "mostly dead"?
Sheesh, I'm sure you're the type who'd think that some poor heartsick idiot's sole reason for existing is "To blave."
I want to fly my own plane but can't afford the classes right now. Never flew on an airline yet. No use for train travel, which is fine for autonomy anyway. I do steer my own boat. Often. And I often roll on a Motorcycle too, which on a low traveled road is much more pleasurable than having to worry about when this guy that looks like he wants my lane is actually going to decide to take it, or worse, sweep through it... without checking his blind spots. For me, a 50 minute commute on back roads with the Bike is much more pleasant than the 20 minute roll on the interstate. I gladly take the feeling of full control over my transportation over yielding that control to anyone or anything else. In fact, I dare say that the commute is my zen time to decompress from a long day at work. I lose that ability, I'll adapt, but I'll sorely miss that feeling.
Open Source is the Free Market at work. If a technology proves useful, there will be people that are going to be supporting it for as long as it remains useful. If a tech doesn't get wide adoption and people don't see a use in it, it's not going to go far. I argue that if a framework is Open Source, it will last longer than any proprietary format. If no one takes over a project, it's quite likely because no one sees a use in the technology in the form that the project took.
Also, look at it from this way: Microsoft's .NET is still a very popular programming framework in the enterprise, despite its flaws. Microsoft has every bit of power to say that effective at close of business today all .NET development will cease, all licenses are hereby revoked, and no new licenses will be given. Congratulations, every Enterprise that's been relying on .NET for their day to day operation has just been royally fucked and need to adopt a new framework standard to rewrite every single one of their applications YESTERDAY!
Granted, that scenario is hypothetical and not very likely, but it is a very real example of the limitations of reliance on a closed source framework. QT, an open source framework, worked well for the Waslap. If he went with GTK+ it may not fare so well considering the state of Gnome and uncertainty of direction (how many forks are in the wild now?) but it would not have to be a cold turkey forced migration but rather it could be relatively easy to begin a roll over to another available open standard in a phased solution since (correct me if I'm wrong here) it couldn't be done as an immediate all at once license pull.
Kinda like "Death by snu snu".
How do you plug an HDMI cable directly into an iPhone without a dongle?
Let's see...
Also note that the USB-3.0 ports are designed to be able to accept all 2.0 connectors.
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If I have to plug in multiple devices in to charge at the same time, I use an adequately powered USB hub. When not plugged into the laptop it can still supply power to up to 5 devices while it's plugged into the wall. Just have to make sure the hub is designed to operate in this way. The one I found runs off of a 10A brick and switches down to 2A available per port.