there was a suggestion a while back that overall accident rates have remained about the same, slightly decreasing as cars become safer from airbags and whatnot, but the choices available for officers to make when writing up accidents tends to be more dynamic.
what might have been written up as "driver lost control of vehicle" 10 years ago perhaps now the officer asks if they have a cell phone and then writes down "driver distraction" instead. the actual accident rates and situations may have changed less than our descriptions of them has, so the statistics that we get are measures of semantics rather than mechanisms.
I like the way AT&T mandates that all smart phones on their network have a data plan. God forbid someone have a smart phone, do smart phone stuff over wifi, and just use it as a regular phone the rest of the time not eating into AT&T's precious bandwidth.
If you find a contemporary publication you like, seek out some back issues and set aside some time to read the interesting articles in depth. Very rewarding.
If management would reward clean code, they would get it.
Instead they reward doing many simple tasks quickly until they realize you are getting in the way of people doing real work, and then they promote you to management.
safety costs money, people don't purchase energy on the basis of safety, management and engineers have to make compromises to deliver product at a price that doesn't include a safety premium.
what I'd like is a comment system where the comments are shared across sites.
If a popular news item comes up, I might be interested in the editorial slant at theregister, but perhaps I first saw it on digg, and there's a tech angle at slashdot that's interesting too. It's the same *story* and I want different news outlets to do their own research, conclusions, and editorializing, but it would be cool if the comments were shared so that if someone posted a witty +5 remark on slashdot, people on digg would see it and could respond there, even if they don't have a slashdot account.
notice it was specifically *pool* towels. i have to wonder if they were just counting towels removed from the pool area as losses. what i've often done is take a pool towel back to my room and leave it there for the maid to whisk away with the bath towels.
possibly they weren't actually losing that many pool towels from the premises overall, they were just being diverted to the wrong pile. if they need RFID to tell a pool towel from a bath towel, i would suggest color coding or size/weight differences instead.
It is jarring for me to realize that pages are being taken down because they merely *offend* others. These aren't kiddie porn or drug dealer pages, it's just people talking about stuff. They talk about their friends, their enemies, their schools, their governments. It's not all flowers and happiness. If they want real people on facebook, they need to realize that some people are going to say unpleasant things.
Maybe have a counter at the top of the pages that says "this page has received N complaints" but leave the content there so all can judge for themselves.
I was going to trash talk Mr. Dziuba, just like everyone else, but you know what, he didn't actually submit this to slashdot. He ranted on his own blog own his own private website. Someone ELSE submitted it to slashdot, not Ted. Someone ELSE approved it and posted it, not Ted.
He's probably laughing his ass off that everyone's got their panties in a wad over something he probably wrote in less than 15 minutes and has already worked around all by himself already.
It's possible that the judge wants sony to find a good, solid reason to keep it in CA, so that he can rule against them later on. If he shines it on to NJ, he loses control of the case.
(a) you are factually incorrect: population percentage doesn't have anything to do with normal. would you call black children abnormal? in many school districts the percentage of blacks and gays is about the same. (b) you are factually incorrect: yes, some kids are gay at age 6 and know it, and it's dreadfully common for kids to realize by then that if adults lie about santa claus they are probably also lying about god. (c) you got this one right, yes the BSA is the worst offender, and many youth organizations go to great lengths to distance themselves from their 16th century nonsense (d) you are factually incorrect: the prohibitions indeed apply to children. the court cases they've fought have been over adult members. they have a history of settling the kid's cases out of court because they know a jury will side with a kid no matter what.
Troll alert. My failure to respond to any future messages by you is is no way to be presumed to be an admission the BSA's policies are acceptable.
it seems reasonable to take as axiomatic that one should not discriminate against *anyone* when it comes to what should be an enriching childhood experience.
seriously, how messed up do you have to be to tell perfectly normal kids they can't have merit badges because they are gay? wtf.
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My newly patented 25.99" wheel will be an astounding success!
there was a suggestion a while back that overall accident rates have remained about the same, slightly decreasing as cars become safer from airbags and whatnot, but the choices available for officers to make when writing up accidents tends to be more dynamic.
what might have been written up as "driver lost control of vehicle" 10 years ago perhaps now the officer asks if they have a cell phone and then writes down "driver distraction" instead. the actual accident rates and situations may have changed less than our descriptions of them has, so the statistics that we get are measures of semantics rather than mechanisms.
I like the way AT&T mandates that all smart phones on their network have a data plan. God forbid someone have a smart phone, do smart phone stuff over wifi, and just use it as a regular phone the rest of the time not eating into AT&T's precious bandwidth.
hand phone to 3 year old.
problem solved!
You can run through your comcast monthly bandwidth cap in 8.3 seconds.
Just negate each statement that Ballmer says, and you will start to value him as a source of information.
just for the record, it was arsenic-based DNA, not cyanide.
If you find a contemporary publication you like, seek out some back issues and set aside some time to read the interesting articles in depth. Very rewarding.
If management would reward clean code, they would get it.
Instead they reward doing many simple tasks quickly until they realize you are getting in the way of people doing real work, and then they promote you to management.
NO I'M NOT BITTER WHY DO YOU ASK?!?!
safety costs money, people don't purchase energy on the basis of safety, management and engineers have to make compromises to deliver product at a price that doesn't include a safety premium.
it puts the cheeseburger in its mouth
what I'd like is a comment system where the comments are shared across sites.
If a popular news item comes up, I might be interested in the editorial slant at theregister, but perhaps I first saw it on digg, and there's a tech angle at slashdot that's interesting too. It's the same *story* and I want different news outlets to do their own research, conclusions, and editorializing, but it would be cool if the comments were shared so that if someone posted a witty +5 remark on slashdot, people on digg would see it and could respond there, even if they don't have a slashdot account.
4) free military interventions in oil-rich but politically unfriendly nations.
the person running your company is a borderline-retarded monkey with a persperation problem.
pls fix ASAP!
wake me up when waterbear is implemented in waterbear.
since when is a MAC per-person either?
might be a NAT, might be a server, might be spoofed.
a 2 year old can use the iPad, as can non-techie grandparents. that's why apple is selling them by the millions.
nothing to do with platform loyalty or netbooks or supply chain or anything. it's a good product that appeals to millions of people.
notice it was specifically *pool* towels. i have to wonder if they were just counting towels removed from the pool area as losses. what i've often done is take a pool towel back to my room and leave it there for the maid to whisk away with the bath towels.
possibly they weren't actually losing that many pool towels from the premises overall, they were just being diverted to the wrong pile. if they need RFID to tell a pool towel from a bath towel, i would suggest color coding or size/weight differences instead.
It is jarring for me to realize that pages are being taken down because they merely *offend* others. These aren't kiddie porn or drug dealer pages, it's just people talking about stuff. They talk about their friends, their enemies, their schools, their governments. It's not all flowers and happiness. If they want real people on facebook, they need to realize that some people are going to say unpleasant things.
Maybe have a counter at the top of the pages that says "this page has received N complaints" but leave the content there so all can judge for themselves.
i'm having a difficult time getting past the 70's porn mustache.
I was going to trash talk Mr. Dziuba, just like everyone else, but you know what, he didn't actually submit this to slashdot. He ranted on his own blog own his own private website. Someone ELSE submitted it to slashdot, not Ted. Someone ELSE approved it and posted it, not Ted.
He's probably laughing his ass off that everyone's got their panties in a wad over something he probably wrote in less than 15 minutes and has already worked around all by himself already.
possibly, the most productive workers are rewarded with an extra monitor.
It's possible that the judge wants sony to find a good, solid reason to keep it in CA, so that he can rule against them later on. If he shines it on to NJ, he loses control of the case.
(a) you are factually incorrect: population percentage doesn't have anything to do with normal. would you call black children abnormal? in many school districts the percentage of blacks and gays is about the same.
(b) you are factually incorrect: yes, some kids are gay at age 6 and know it, and it's dreadfully common for kids to realize by then that if adults lie about santa claus they are probably also lying about god.
(c) you got this one right, yes the BSA is the worst offender, and many youth organizations go to great lengths to distance themselves from their 16th century nonsense
(d) you are factually incorrect: the prohibitions indeed apply to children. the court cases they've fought have been over adult members. they have a history of settling the kid's cases out of court because they know a jury will side with a kid no matter what.
Troll alert. My failure to respond to any future messages by you is is no way to be presumed to be an admission the BSA's policies are acceptable.
it seems reasonable to take as axiomatic that one should not discriminate against *anyone* when it comes to what should be an enriching childhood experience.
seriously, how messed up do you have to be to tell perfectly normal kids they can't have merit badges because they are gay? wtf.