Here's one case: there's been a small mudslide on the road and more is expected. Police / road workers are closing the road in a hurry. Central authority / maps have not been updated. You car MUST stop. But I guess it's enough to put a barrier in the middle of the road to get any car to stop, automated or not.
In the words of Knuth the Great: "Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it."
It reminds me of a story from the late 80s (?) at a tech conference. The makers of a real-time OS with real-time snapshots would periodically pull the plug on their systems, plug it back in and it would resume exactly what it was doing, to the delight and amazement of all the techies in the assistance. In the much larger and much more expensive booth in front of them was a richer vendor. The techies started coaxing them to do the same. After much hand wringing, they did, and after a very long rebuild time the system came back as a mess. Conclusion: the 1st vendor went out of business, the 2nd one is still very big.
Well, I used to make my own bread (when in the US where the bread universally sucks), but I had to look up the penny stove. Ha, OK, it's a can stove. But what's the penny for ?
One of the properties of junk DNA is that it can endure brutal mutations since it's not used for anything. So over time it can change a LOT. Then suddenly another mutation suddenly activates it by mistake and *poof* you have a new magic super-power (more often than not, lethal). Starting from a crucial gene won't work since the slightest modification will reduce your survival rate, since by definition it's crucial.
They are not on sale, so why would a PR campaign be necessary...? I kinda fail to follow your reasoning; I find the possibilities interesting though. When I see how fast electric bikes are currently taking off in Europe with no advertisement, it wouldn't surprise me if autonomous vehicles take over in only a matter of years. Thinking about the consequences beforehand is not a bad thing.
I don't know about that because where I live motor vehicles are forbidden to go off paved roads. So no ATCs and no dirt bike making noise for kilometers around and terrorizing hikers and wildlife. But electric bikes are currently a grey area. Officially they can go where bikes go... but they DO have a motor. OK, they are quiet, but when you see the latest models with as much power as a dirt bike (and much lighter), I'm beginning to worry about the next wave of idiots who will come tearing up the trails and you won't even hear them coming...
Yes, this. If I wanted to communicate using little drawings I'd learn to read and write chinese.I find it much simpler to read the word 'peanut' than to try to remember and identify a potato-looking 8-pixel high symbol. As for remembering the keyboard combination to actually draw it, good luck. Oh, BTW, I hate icons too.
It's possible to remap the menu key to a different hardware key (such as Ins, Pause, or even the weird 'Calc' key I have on my Dell 17"), but it's harder to remap than most other keys, which you can do easily in Linux (In KDE it's in the advanced options in the keyboard settings).
In a KDE Konsole terminal, it's the same as Ctrl-S / Ctrl-Q, so in other words a real scroll lock.
I also use it to switch out of a virtual machine in VirtualBox.
But back to the original question, in Linux, replace Caps-Lock with a Compose key by setting it in [Settings][Input Devices][Keyboard][Advanced][Position of Compose Key][Caps Lock] and then enjoy being able to type any accents or weird letter very simply.
And also for the idiots who never use right-click or the Menu key: you are an idiot and should never be allowed to hit two stones together to try and make fire. (Dell, I'm looking at you for removing the Menu key even from 17" laptops!)
I wonder if we are still going to war. We do a few 'surgical' drone strike that take out one or 2 guys and leave the rest of the family alive (and angry). But it used to be that you'd burn to the ground entire cities, where the few survivors would be only too relieved to see you coming and not shoot them afterwards. I wonder if we are going towards a state of perpetual low level warfare. At least when you wipe out an entire country you have a generation or two of peace afterwards. I think we are improving but I'm not so certain. Remember, a massive amount of violence solved the nazi problem.
Mainly because biological weapons are uncontrollable and likely to hit your own people as much as the enemy. Even combat gas wasn't used much because a change of wind would wipe out your infantry.
I have no idea what a baseball cap is used for except looking like a redneck, but what are you supposed to wear besides a T-shirt ? Going bare chested ?
It's been so long since I last saw an add on the web that I didn't even think of that ! I guess the warning now comes up before AddBlock even gets to them.
I normally have a "no flash start" plugin, meaning I have to click on videos to get them started. That's fine.
But with the recent security zero-days Ubuntu implemented an ask first policy. And I now see the message on virtually every friggin' website, even text-only sites. Why do so many websites use flash for things that the user doesn't need ? I can understand for videos or games, but for a forum...
Yeah. Isn't there a link between Australians and Japanese Ainus ? It's pretty sure that Ainus weren't isolated and had similar populations in Asia, which would migrate towards America just like the other asian populations, albeit in smaller numbers.
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Here's one case: there's been a small mudslide on the road and more is expected. Police / road workers are closing the road in a hurry. Central authority / maps have not been updated. You car MUST stop. But I guess it's enough to put a barrier in the middle of the road to get any car to stop, automated or not.
Yes, that's the story, thank you.
It reminds me of a story from the late 80s (?) at a tech conference. The makers of a real-time OS with real-time snapshots would periodically pull the plug on their systems, plug it back in and it would resume exactly what it was doing, to the delight and amazement of all the techies in the assistance. In the much larger and much more expensive booth in front of them was a richer vendor. The techies started coaxing them to do the same. After much hand wringing, they did, and after a very long rebuild time the system came back as a mess. Conclusion: the 1st vendor went out of business, the 2nd one is still very big.
...and Bruce Jenner (before Caitlin)
Like OP I have no idea who those people are... but isn't that the street name of the Hulk ?
Well, I used to make my own bread (when in the US where the bread universally sucks), but I had to look up the penny stove. Ha, OK, it's a can stove. But what's the penny for ?
One of the properties of junk DNA is that it can endure brutal mutations since it's not used for anything. So over time it can change a LOT. Then suddenly another mutation suddenly activates it by mistake and *poof* you have a new magic super-power (more often than not, lethal). Starting from a crucial gene won't work since the slightest modification will reduce your survival rate, since by definition it's crucial.
Not knowing enough is not the same as knowing nothing.
Add some wheels and a trailer hook to that thing so that you can move it around !
They are not on sale, so why would a PR campaign be necessary...? I kinda fail to follow your reasoning; I find the possibilities interesting though. When I see how fast electric bikes are currently taking off in Europe with no advertisement, it wouldn't surprise me if autonomous vehicles take over in only a matter of years. Thinking about the consequences beforehand is not a bad thing.
I don't know about that because where I live motor vehicles are forbidden to go off paved roads. So no ATCs and no dirt bike making noise for kilometers around and terrorizing hikers and wildlife. But electric bikes are currently a grey area. Officially they can go where bikes go... but they DO have a motor. OK, they are quiet, but when you see the latest models with as much power as a dirt bike (and much lighter), I'm beginning to worry about the next wave of idiots who will come tearing up the trails and you won't even hear them coming...
It is nearly always better to make the code simple and readable than to try and produce the best possible code.
One of my former bosses told me upon starting the job: "Whenever you think of a clever programming trick: forget it !"
If you think the movie was depressing, DON'T read the book !
You mean like burning houses with babies in them ?
Yes, this. If I wanted to communicate using little drawings I'd learn to read and write chinese.I find it much simpler to read the word 'peanut' than to try to remember and identify a potato-looking 8-pixel high symbol. As for remembering the keyboard combination to actually draw it, good luck. Oh, BTW, I hate icons too.
It's possible to remap the menu key to a different hardware key (such as Ins, Pause, or even the weird 'Calc' key I have on my Dell 17"), but it's harder to remap than most other keys, which you can do easily in Linux (In KDE it's in the advanced options in the keyboard settings).
Our senior sysadmin here types with only one finger while looking at the keyboard. 40 years experience too...
I also use it to switch out of a virtual machine in VirtualBox.
But back to the original question, in Linux, replace Caps-Lock with a Compose key by setting it in [Settings][Input Devices][Keyboard][Advanced][Position of Compose Key][Caps Lock] and then enjoy being able to type any accents or weird letter very simply.
And also for the idiots who never use right-click or the Menu key: you are an idiot and should never be allowed to hit two stones together to try and make fire. (Dell, I'm looking at you for removing the Menu key even from 17" laptops!)
Except if it's the wrong person...
Plus there's this gem: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
The possibility to manipulate gamma ray coherence, even to a small degree, would be interesting
You don't say... A friggin' gamma ray laser and scientists aren't jumping on it like maggots on peanut butter ?!?
When I go to war... I go to WAR.
I wonder if we are still going to war. We do a few 'surgical' drone strike that take out one or 2 guys and leave the rest of the family alive (and angry). But it used to be that you'd burn to the ground entire cities, where the few survivors would be only too relieved to see you coming and not shoot them afterwards. I wonder if we are going towards a state of perpetual low level warfare. At least when you wipe out an entire country you have a generation or two of peace afterwards. I think we are improving but I'm not so certain. Remember, a massive amount of violence solved the nazi problem.
Mainly because biological weapons are uncontrollable and likely to hit your own people as much as the enemy. Even combat gas wasn't used much because a change of wind would wipe out your infantry.
I have no idea what a baseball cap is used for except looking like a redneck, but what are you supposed to wear besides a T-shirt ? Going bare chested ?
It's been so long since I last saw an add on the web that I didn't even think of that ! I guess the warning now comes up before AddBlock even gets to them.
But with the recent security zero-days Ubuntu implemented an ask first policy. And I now see the message on virtually every friggin' website, even text-only sites. Why do so many websites use flash for things that the user doesn't need ? I can understand for videos or games, but for a forum...
Yeah. Isn't there a link between Australians and Japanese Ainus ? It's pretty sure that Ainus weren't isolated and had similar populations in Asia, which would migrate towards America just like the other asian populations, albeit in smaller numbers.