Wait till their short attention span runs out and your 8 year old Alphabet car gets bricked rather than maintained. We need less of this fly by night tech in critical and long term installations.
Therefore, democracy is presently in the West not in a good shape.
Compared to 1970, democracy is in very good shape. Of the countries which you mentioned, two were under a communist dictatorship (Hungary and Poland) and three under a military regime (Greece, Spain, Portugal).
It depends on the timeframe you use for the comparison. As much as I am saddened by what happened in the recent elections in Poland, Hungary or Turkey, I think that these are only bumps, and that these countries present little risks of going back to a real dictatorship.
I have similar needs and tried different solutions over the last 30 years (sigh); I suffered a lot everytime I changed jobs, and first thought that the reason was the closed-source software I used. But I finally understood that the critical issue was the format of the notes, and not the application I used to edit them.
I finally settled for this :
- Text only notes.
- MarkDown format (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markdown).
- Work PC : ResophNotes (http://www.resoph.com)
- Home Mac : nvAlt (http://brettterpstra.com/projects/nvalt/)
- iPhone : SimpleNote (http://simplenote.com/)
- And all notes synchronized with SimpleNote
Yes, it is not an open source solution (even if some parts may be open source); but I am not dependant on any company or its format. If SimpleNote goes bankrupt or starts behaving evil, I can switch to DropBox for file sync (or any other similar service).
It is not as sexy as Evernote, but I am 100% sure that I will be able to access my notes in 20 years.
Connected to my TV. It's clunky and unintuitive, but it works. I can connect to local shares on my lan and run netflix. Good enough and I don't have the time, or the will in my old age, to setup something more fancy.
Same here, except that I put the media on an USB key.
It is simple and cheap; it works so well that we sometimes take it with us on holidays, and hope that the TV has an HDMI port (so far, we have always been lucky).
Apple wants you to use iCloud; a good way is to sell you a 16 GB phone, and then an iCloud subscription when you don't have enough storage for your photos or your music (and maybe Apple Music on top). With the new iCloud pricing of $12 per year for 50 GB, it is not such a bad deal.
I prefer however to buy a 64 GB version and not be dependant of Apple's services, whose reputation is not as good as their hardware.
For something that's so language-based in the first place, localizing the icons makes perfect sense to me. In Spanish, "N" (Negrita), "c" (cursiva), and "s" (subrayada).
If you only use applications in one language, that's fine; but many people around the world use some applications in their native language, and some other ones in English (the ratio varying among people).
I mostly use applications in English, but for some "corporate" applications I have to use the French version; believe me, it is a real PITA to have to use "Ctrl-D" at home and "Ctrl-B" at work to do exactly the same thing in Excel...
Most WYSIWYG editors will use an italic "I" for "Italic", and a bold "B" for "Bold". The fact that it's a convention should probably be enough reason to continue doing it.
That's fine in English, but what about other languages ? Would you use a "F" in German for "Bold" (Fett) and a "G" in French ("Gras") ?
Sorry, I prefer icons that are not language-related.
Again, this works in the US with big suburbs where everyone has a parking lot with an electric outlet. In other countries (like good old Europe), where most people live in apartments and there is just no way you can plug your car at night, it doesn't work.
I live in Europe, in an apartment, with my car in an underground garage 20 meters below. There is an electric plug to charge my electric bike, and I look forward to also charge my Tesla XYZ in a few years...
Not always. Jeanne Calment was once asked what the secret of her long life was and she said that she thought that cutting down her smoking at the age of 96 had a lot to do with it.
From the very same Wikipedia page:
In 1896, at the age of 21, she married her double second cousin, Fernand Nicolas Calment, a wealthy store owner. (...) His wealth made it possible for Calment never to have to work; instead she led a leisured lifestyle, pursuing hobbies such as tennis, cycling, swimming, rollerskating, piano, and opera.
The second thing would be logicals and overlayed directories. They worked like a stack of transparencies like the human anatomy entry in an encyclopedia. The base layer would be a read only version of the operating system. Above that would be a writable layer. Above that, for development users, would be test versions of new OS elements. Regular users wouldn't see these layers. Above that would be applications (read only) with a writeable layer above it.
The purpose of the writeable layer over the read only layer is to trap attempts to overwrite system files.
That's obviously a big assumption; but an even bigger one is that the price difference between day and night remains constant, which will definitely not be the case as soon as a significant part of electricity consumer start charging at night...
5 cents is low. Most time of use differentials are much higher. In my area, it is 14 cents. At that rate, it works out to $1.40 a day.
This is $511 a year return on a $3500 investment... pretty good return.
Yes, but your scenario relies heavily on the price difference between peak and off-peak ; as soon as a significant part of the users start doing this, peaks will be smoothed, and the price difference will decrease.
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Wait till their short attention span runs out and your 8 year old Alphabet car gets bricked rather than maintained. We need less of this fly by night tech in critical and long term installations.
This is why I will never buy an autonomous car.
No problem however in renting one, like a taxi.
Yeah, because when Europe had border controls, there was no terrorism. Period.
On the top of my mind :
Period ?
...their free tier customers.
For me, as free tier customer is not a customer, it is a prospect.
MGTOW page has been deleted all the time
I spent 5 minutes reading about MGTOW, and I am now convinced that it currently has nothing to do in an encyclopedia. Maybe in 5 or 10 years.
Erickson actually paid for the R&D to create something new
Or maybe they have excellent patent lawyers
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I hear a lot about this company named "Yahoo", but can someone explain me what they do ?
Maybe it is become I am European, but I have never used/seen/visited it, and I have been using the web for 20 years now...
Therefore, democracy is presently in the West not in a good shape.
Compared to 1970, democracy is in very good shape. Of the countries which you mentioned, two were under a communist dictatorship (Hungary and Poland) and three under a military regime (Greece, Spain, Portugal).
It depends on the timeframe you use for the comparison. As much as I am saddened by what happened in the recent elections in Poland, Hungary or Turkey, I think that these are only bumps, and that these countries present little risks of going back to a real dictatorship.
I finally settled for this :
Yes, it is not an open source solution (even if some parts may be open source); but I am not dependant on any company or its format. If SimpleNote goes bankrupt or starts behaving evil, I can switch to DropBox for file sync (or any other similar service).
It is not as sexy as Evernote, but I am 100% sure that I will be able to access my notes in 20 years.
BTW : I first typed this in MarkDown...
Connected to my TV. It's clunky and unintuitive, but it works. I can connect to local shares on my lan and run netflix. Good enough and I don't have the time, or the will in my old age, to setup something more fancy.
Same here, except that I put the media on an USB key.
It is simple and cheap; it works so well that we sometimes take it with us on holidays, and hope that the TV has an HDMI port (so far, we have always been lucky).
I would really like to see VW's source code, to see if they took the care of plausible deniability. There was recently a nice contest over here.
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The car needs to know it's under a test.
And this is where the problems begin. Software which needs to be in a special mode when being tested ? You are just asking people to cheat.
Apple wants you to use iCloud; a good way is to sell you a 16 GB phone, and then an iCloud subscription when you don't have enough storage for your photos or your music (and maybe Apple Music on top). With the new iCloud pricing of $12 per year for 50 GB, it is not such a bad deal.
I prefer however to buy a 64 GB version and not be dependant of Apple's services, whose reputation is not as good as their hardware.
Which can only be true if Bitcoin serves its intended purpose as a useful store of value.
Store value with Bitcoin ? This is pretty risky. However, Bitcoin is great to transfer value in a quick and cheap way.
For something that's so language-based in the first place, localizing the icons makes perfect sense to me. In Spanish, "N" (Negrita), "c" (cursiva), and "s" (subrayada).
If you only use applications in one language, that's fine; but many people around the world use some applications in their native language, and some other ones in English (the ratio varying among people).
I mostly use applications in English, but for some "corporate" applications I have to use the French version; believe me, it is a real PITA to have to use "Ctrl-D" at home and "Ctrl-B" at work to do exactly the same thing in Excel...
Most WYSIWYG editors will use an italic "I" for "Italic", and a bold "B" for "Bold". The fact that it's a convention should probably be enough reason to continue doing it.
That's fine in English, but what about other languages ? Would you use a "F" in German for "Bold" (Fett) and a "G" in French ("Gras") ?
Sorry, I prefer icons that are not language-related.
Again, this works in the US with big suburbs where everyone has a parking lot with an electric outlet. In other countries (like good old Europe), where most people live in apartments and there is just no way you can plug your car at night, it doesn't work.
I live in Europe, in an apartment, with my car in an underground garage 20 meters below. There is an electric plug to charge my electric bike, and I look forward to also charge my Tesla XYZ in a few years...
It won't be the government that pushes people towards autonomous cars. It will be insurance companies.
To be precise : it will be the lower price of insurance policies that will push many towards autonomous cars.
However, smart insurance companies will see this as a dangerous erosion of their market, and will probably fight against this...
Not always. Jeanne Calment was once asked what the secret of her long life was and she said that she thought that cutting down her smoking at the age of 96 had a lot to do with it.
From the very same Wikipedia page :
In 1896, at the age of 21, she married her double second cousin, Fernand Nicolas Calment, a wealthy store owner. (...) His wealth made it possible for Calment never to have to work; instead she led a leisured lifestyle, pursuing hobbies such as tennis, cycling, swimming, rollerskating, piano, and opera.
Don't you think it also helped ?
The second thing would be logicals and overlayed directories. They worked like a stack of transparencies like the human anatomy entry in an encyclopedia. The base layer would be a read only version of the operating system. Above that would be a writable layer. Above that, for development users, would be test versions of new OS elements. Regular users wouldn't see these layers. Above that would be applications (read only) with a writeable layer above it. The purpose of the writeable layer over the read only layer is to trap attempts to overwrite system files.
Isn't it what UnionFS offers ?
There is plenty of safari-specific CSS that renders improperly in competitors' browsers
So what ? Just don't use it.
As long as Safari implements the HTML+CSS specs, that's fine with me. This was definitely not the case with Internet Explorer
WTF? No automated system check to determine if all needed files are present before flying??!
Ironically, I would call this "preflight checks"...
assuming electricity prices remain constant.
That's obviously a big assumption; but an even bigger one is that the price difference between day and night remains constant, which will definitely not be the case as soon as a significant part of electricity consumer start charging at night...
5 cents is low. Most time of use differentials are much higher. In my area, it is 14 cents. At that rate, it works out to $1.40 a day. This is $511 a year return on a $3500 investment... pretty good return.
Yes, but your scenario relies heavily on the price difference between peak and off-peak ; as soon as a significant part of the users start doing this, peaks will be smoothed, and the price difference will decrease.
The watch doesn't go beyond measuring heart rates.
And actitvy also.