I learned something, but this cost me a pricey double repair bill on a 23-year-old car to which I have a sentimental attachment.
What your need to learn is that:
If its less than 5 years old, the cheapest option is probably to replace the entire car - even the dealer probably cant fix the "blobs" inside. (There are several "ECU"s, and generally the manufacturer does not employ anyone who knows what is inside it - like the pyramids - those that built it are conveniently "laid off").
5 - 15 years old, the main dealer can probably fix it (for some brands anyway), but some local guy can to it for 1/5 the cost, and probably more reliably - so long as the business employs less than 10 people.
if its more than 15 years old, the repair shop can't fix it cos they charge the value of the car per hour for repairs, but it is probably cheap and easy to do yourself - if you don't know how to fix a car yourself, you should not drive one older than 15 years - or do some Googling.
These rules may differ depending on your location.
Because it's simpler to change the time twice a year for everyone at a common time than having everyone constantly switching their hours and schedules randomly
Which totally explains why Americans change theirs different from everyone else.
eg a plane will leave France and timetabled to arrive at a certain (local Moroccan) time
Morocco was different from France before, and will be different from France after the change. And very few people in Morocco have any regard for time anyway - I am pretty sure it runs on "African Time" ie an hour late for everything. I think you chose the wrong example here.
The reality is that DST sucks. In some countries, the length of the day changes by less than an hour anyway. Here in the UK, it changes (gradually) between 18 hours of daylight and 6 hours of daylight. So DST might be considered to "help" for about an hour, for about a month, During that month, dawn and dusk are not when your body clock expects, leading to more accidents, especially for people driving to or from work. Six months later, it goes the other way, with similar "benefits".
As for the theory that it helps farmers - I have news for you - cows and sheep don't wear watches, not even Apple ones, and goats would disregard them even if they could tell the time. The sun shines and rain falls with absolutely no regard for the church clock, and have done since church clocks were introduced roughly 1,000 years ago. So, no. No use to farmers. But, changing the (solar) time that "Farmer's World" is broadcast, probably costs it significant audience share.
As for political muppets "thinking", what planet are you on?
Just had a look at my notes - I have been using it for over 20 years. Mostly on Sparc/Sparc64 servers and Thinkpad notebooks.
In that 20 years, I have had at most 2 software related crashes.
That does not mean I don't also use other OSes. I do - none has been anywhere near as reliable, but many can do things OpenBSD can not.
In a database server (which is behind a front end) for a billing system which is 150 miles away, 2 years uptime is more important than supporting a graphics card (it runs headless). The Internet facing machine is duplicated, so one machine can be updated while the other handles the traffic, If the update goes wrong, it can stay like that til a routine visit. If the database engine (or even the switchover) went wrong, someone has to go there and a lot of money is lost before he gets there.
You are already in front of your gaming machine. If it goes BSOD, you press the reset button. Its not the same scenario.
As to the people who made a fuss over QWERTZ, I am OK with German keyboards, but can't manage French. I am British, and American keyboards are useless - not enough keys.
I am joking, I assumed the argument was traditional versus Dvorjak or ABC, or ECG based. When microprocessors first started, a load of idiots started to make things like ticket machines and parking meters with ABC keyboards. While QUERTY is only good for typists, ABC on three rows is useless for everyone, in the same way that hierarchical dropdown menus are useless for illiterate people, while icons are useless for everyone.
I remember this same discussion about 50 years ago.
Firstly, if you are going to learn to use a keyboard, you might as well learn the one you are going to find everywhere, and not some weirdness that is mildly more efficient (VHS v Betamax).
Secondly, if accuracy matters, you need control over every key stroke. You need a programming language and to enter every character personally. If it doesn't, then get drunk and go talk slang with your mates in the bar - its more fun, but won't get the bugs out.
Voice input won't work - hell, I can't understand the dialogue in half the American content on the TV, and I have yet to meet an IVR system that understands what I say at all. I speak standard BBC English, and I cant get the damn things to understand "yes" and "no".
EU citizens expect the EU to at least attempt to protect them from being ripped off.
Americans believe they actually enjoy the constitutional right to be ripped off by large corporations, and so see the EU as evil. Its called "cultural difference".
If the EU was really "all powerful" it would not need more money. As it is, many of us think that Google needs a lot less of our money.
Many big tech companies have business models built entirely on collecting as much user data as possible.
Many criminals have build a career of committing crime. If caught they are expected to be punished. Companies should expect the same - and the punishment should be served by the directors.
s there any reason we can't have the efficiency of a modern 4 cylinder engine, drive-train without all the useless "features" that just adds to complexity and cost?
In most of the world, regardless of civilised or not, slavery is not connected with race, and in some countries is still going on.
The relationship between subsystems on a bus is most definitely NOT parent-child - which may be appropriate for (example) software tasks.
When the bus master tells you to jump, it tells you when and how high. I do not want my peripheral subsystems being incited to rise up against their masters just because Americans have linguistic problems.
This is not a case for re-education: some people need to be sent to an educational system in the first place.
This is in the same league as hiding file extensions in Windows - absolutely fantastic for criminals, a pain in the ass for the average user, and horrendous for support staff.
I firmly believe in bringing back hanging and flogging (possibly in the reverse order) for making non-essential changes to UIs
The problem here is that people accept these jobs in part because they know they can rely on the government to compensate because it is better than starving to death, or having poor people start a revolution.
As a true/.ian, I have not read TFA, but my understanding is that people (generically) are being paid piddling wages by a bunch of filthy rich scum. Amazon is a (good) example, but hardly the only ones. This is similar to slavery - which did not always involve grotesque amounts of violence.
How to address this is not a new problem. It was a major talking point throughout the 18th and 19th century in the UK. It is hard to improve the lot of the poor without ending up creating more poor, etc.
Several people have in the past, and I myself have promoted the concept that, where a company pays so little that any one of its employees are on benefits, it should be illegal to pay dividends to the shareholders. As things stand (at least here in the UK) we have a situation where companies who behave well, and employees whose situation is OK, are (heavily) taxed to fund their unscrupulous competitors. As a fat capitalist (waistline to prove it), I strongly disapprove of this situation. This should be dealt with by the legislation which also deals with the kind of asset stripper who buys a company, pays his cronies huge sums, and bankrupts the company owing millions to the supply chain (laws exist, but are not enforced). This is called trading illegally, but unfortunately does not appear to result in long jail terms, unlike other forms of armed robbery and "obtaining pecuniary advantage by deception".
The proposal described above is a different solution to (effectively) the same problem, and unless you are the greediest type scum, it is hard to find a case against something of this type being done. Even if you are filthy rich sum, you might want to do something, as the alternative could involve the loss of your own life.
To know what will happen if nothing is done, you might want to Google "the French Revolution" - however, organisations such as ISIS and Boko Haram, and, indeed Trump voters, will give you a basic idea of the consequences of serious abuse of large numbers of poor people.
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As someone who used to design CPUs, I ask "when is Oracle going to go away completely?" It can't be a moment too soon.
What your need to learn is that:
These rules may differ depending on your location.
"working around" is a bit of an exaggeration. In the fullness of time, it will likely turn out that "working" was an exaggeration.
Which totally explains why Americans change theirs different from everyone else.
Morocco was different from France before, and will be different from France after the change. And very few people in Morocco have any regard for time anyway - I am pretty sure it runs on "African Time" ie an hour late for everything. I think you chose the wrong example here.
The reality is that DST sucks. In some countries, the length of the day changes by less than an hour anyway. Here in the UK, it changes (gradually) between 18 hours of daylight and 6 hours of daylight. So DST might be considered to "help" for about an hour, for about a month, During that month, dawn and dusk are not when your body clock expects, leading to more accidents, especially for people driving to or from work. Six months later, it goes the other way, with similar "benefits".
As for the theory that it helps farmers - I have news for you - cows and sheep don't wear watches, not even Apple ones, and goats would disregard them even if they could tell the time. The sun shines and rain falls with absolutely no regard for the church clock, and have done since church clocks were introduced roughly 1,000 years ago. So, no. No use to farmers. But, changing the (solar) time that "Farmer's World" is broadcast, probably costs it significant audience share.
As for political muppets "thinking", what planet are you on?
In that 20 years, I have had at most 2 software related crashes.
That does not mean I don't also use other OSes. I do - none has been anywhere near as reliable, but many can do things OpenBSD can not.
In a database server (which is behind a front end) for a billing system which is 150 miles away, 2 years uptime is more important than supporting a graphics card (it runs headless). The Internet facing machine is duplicated, so one machine can be updated while the other handles the traffic, If the update goes wrong, it can stay like that til a routine visit. If the database engine (or even the switchover) went wrong, someone has to go there and a lot of money is lost before he gets there.
You are already in front of your gaming machine. If it goes BSOD, you press the reset button. Its not the same scenario.
I am sure the EU will want more money quite soon, so keep your fingers crossed.
Not true - we all know the key in question is in North East Spain, or Alberta, Canada, or ???
I did not actually say that, but ...
As to the people who made a fuss over QWERTZ, I am OK with German keyboards, but can't manage French. I am British, and American keyboards are useless - not enough keys.
I am joking, I assumed the argument was traditional versus Dvorjak or ABC, or ECG based. When microprocessors first started, a load of idiots started to make things like ticket machines and parking meters with ABC keyboards. While QUERTY is only good for typists, ABC on three rows is useless for everyone, in the same way that hierarchical dropdown menus are useless for illiterate people, while icons are useless for everyone.
No. The issue at stake is that it is often far from voluntary for one participant.
In Lagos, you can haggle with the taxi driver. Try that with London black cabs or Uber.
Firstly, if you are going to learn to use a keyboard, you might as well learn the one you are going to find everywhere, and not some weirdness that is mildly more efficient (VHS v Betamax).
Secondly, if accuracy matters, you need control over every key stroke. You need a programming language and to enter every character personally. If it doesn't, then get drunk and go talk slang with your mates in the bar - its more fun, but won't get the bugs out.
Voice input won't work - hell, I can't understand the dialogue in half the American content on the TV, and I have yet to meet an IVR system that understands what I say at all. I speak standard BBC English, and I cant get the damn things to understand "yes" and "no".
Americans believe they actually enjoy the constitutional right to be ripped off by large corporations, and so see the EU as evil. Its called "cultural difference".
If the EU was really "all powerful" it would not need more money. As it is, many of us think that Google needs a lot less of our money.
FTFY
Many criminals have build a career of committing crime. If caught they are expected to be punished. Companies should expect the same - and the punishment should be served by the directors.
Only if you have adequate diagnostic skills.
Once the sloc reaches a million, what chance is there that it WILL do exactly as its told?
Never mind, in other /. news Microsoft, Google and Facebook kill 9/10.
Yes, skulduggery and lobbying.
The relationship between subsystems on a bus is most definitely NOT parent-child - which may be appropriate for (example) software tasks.
When the bus master tells you to jump, it tells you when and how high. I do not want my peripheral subsystems being incited to rise up against their masters just because Americans have linguistic problems.
This is not a case for re-education: some people need to be sent to an educational system in the first place.
If enough of your patients are facing death, your own life may be in danger.
This is in the same league as hiding file extensions in Windows - absolutely fantastic for criminals, a pain in the ass for the average user, and horrendous for support staff.
I firmly believe in bringing back hanging and flogging (possibly in the reverse order) for making non-essential changes to UIs
That is where you are wrong: even bad quality is still quality!
Microsoft has always been proof of this.
FTFY
FTFY
How to address this is not a new problem. It was a major talking point throughout the 18th and 19th century in the UK. It is hard to improve the lot of the poor without ending up creating more poor, etc.
Several people have in the past, and I myself have promoted the concept that, where a company pays so little that any one of its employees are on benefits, it should be illegal to pay dividends to the shareholders. As things stand (at least here in the UK) we have a situation where companies who behave well, and employees whose situation is OK, are (heavily) taxed to fund their unscrupulous competitors. As a fat capitalist (waistline to prove it), I strongly disapprove of this situation. This should be dealt with by the legislation which also deals with the kind of asset stripper who buys a company, pays his cronies huge sums, and bankrupts the company owing millions to the supply chain (laws exist, but are not enforced). This is called trading illegally, but unfortunately does not appear to result in long jail terms, unlike other forms of armed robbery and "obtaining pecuniary advantage by deception".
The proposal described above is a different solution to (effectively) the same problem, and unless you are the greediest type scum, it is hard to find a case against something of this type being done. Even if you are filthy rich sum, you might want to do something, as the alternative could involve the loss of your own life.
To know what will happen if nothing is done, you might want to Google "the French Revolution" - however, organisations such as ISIS and Boko Haram, and, indeed Trump voters, will give you a basic idea of the consequences of serious abuse of large numbers of poor people.