Let's see how it is implemented before we make that kind of complaint.
The problem is, some of us are over 21, and have seen the other things the auto industry has implemented. The omens are all bad here. (I can feel the force).
If you want control over when and where your vehicle will go, you need a mechanically injected diesel. (No need for electricity at all). See today's post on tractors: "Farmers Struggling With High-Tech Farm Equipment". Hooray for hot-bulb engines!
Unfortunately, it is not possible to google for numeric strings in any useful way, naming 3.17.5 "Pregnant Pussy" makes it possible for a search engine to find the information you want (or a load of cat sequin porn and some Hello Kitty related spam - but you always get that anyway),
It is true your colleagues will think you are an utter nutter, but they think that anyway - mostly because you are,
For men, it is true that the optimum weight/BMI* is "normal" and any increase is bad.
For women, health outcome steadily improves with weight until an extra pound tips you into "obese". That extra pound is associated with a severely adverse health expectancy. Ie it is not the weight that causes the illness, it is being labelled "obese" that is the cause of problems.
*BMI is rubbish anyway: BMI fails to take into account that muscle is denser than fat. Most professional sports people of either sex have BMIs which a lot of the medical profession would claim lead to instant death.
"Trust me - I'm a doctor" is often in the same league as "trust me, I am a mafioso".
did people at Bletchley have any idea how valuable his work would be more generally?
There were many different types of people there, but the majority would almost certainly be so worried about living to the end of the week, that "long term" was probably next month for of them. However, there were certainly a core who knew the significance, and that included Turing and his close colleagues - especially those who went to Los Alamos, and those who went on the build computers most certainly knew.
Everyone knew that they could not talk outside the project. This was a time when you were told daily that discussion the NAAFII canteen menu could risk men's lives. (Because analysis of the menu could reveal extra calories indicating the men were about to be deployed to the front).
Firing squads were in regular used "pour encourager les outres" as they say en Francais.
I do love that I can listen to what was my grand-parents' music on Youtube, including tracks I have not heard since primary school, and never knew the names of the artists.
The chances of getting fantastic quality recordings of 1930's artists, or even 1950's artists for that matter, from anywhere at all, are close to zero. 78 RPM disks were often recorded without the aid of any electronics at all!
As for Lonnie Donigan and the rest of the skiffle craze, well yeah, it was never very good artistically or technically, but it sure brings back great memories, with or without the hiss and crackle.
I certainly would not pay one cent for anything the top 100 since the CD was invented. A lot of it I might even pay NOT to hear. I am certainly not going to accept gangsta rap in glorious 3D as a substitute for piss-poor transcriptions of doo-wap music. No way. Never.
If you find out where I can get high quality digital remasters of Decca West Africa's collection from the 1950s, Let me know! I would definitely pay for that!
And you might need to cut my lawn to find a way to get off it!
I've got old 500MB harddrives that read/work just fine
I have got data from when 5MB H/Ds were introduced ON TAPE, written with tar that is still readable. Good luck reading your ST506 interface H/Ds written with DOS 4.2.
The manufacturers claimed 30 years for CDs, few of which seem to last even one year on my desk.
OTOH, I have read tapes after 30 years. If long term storage is what you want, the LTOx is the answer. Make multiple tapes and put them in different places (countries, continents).
The equivalent for Andoid is to require the boot loader to be unlocked for free if there is no free availability of security updates. Then you can use the ROM of your choice. It is open source, so people can, and probably will, fix bugs if there is still a significant user base*. If not unlocked, then Google or the manufacturer is wilfully converting the phone landfill, and should be billed accordingly.
Clearly, this needs to be a legal right. There is a remote chance of this in Europe, but probably none in the USA - there are no consumer rights in the land of the free.
* I would argue that the source (and data sheet) for device drivers should be compulsorily released to public domain where the hardware manufacturer is not maintaining them.
Adult phone users have slightly more grownup expectations: If the hardware is not busted, then the phone should be fixable by the end user following a viable procedure - eg taking it to the local phone shop.
We do not need any more landfill.
I have two Android phones, one running the latest software available for it - the other, CM. I also use two Nokias that are 5 and 8 years old. My computer has been regulary upgraded, but is, in the vewi of most of my family, over 10 years old (runs Linux Mint). If Android phones have a very short life, I wont be buying more of them, considering the extremely high price.
If Google do not address security risks, then their market share means this is a National Security Risk and I expect my government to act - using RPGs and nuking from high orbit if required.
However, if this security failing leads to a major loss of money or privacy for Android users, I suspect Google could be on the recieving end of a multi-gazillion dollar class action.
And so could the handset manufacturers.
This is going to be so big, the lawyers wont bother laughing all the way to the bank - the banks will come to them.
It is also nearly impossible for any equipment of any origin to deliver descent content given the crap that is the available content. We have an HD setup, but I do not recall watching any content in HD other than the demos, cos there is nothing we want to watch! We have just cancelled our Sky subscription cos we were not actually watching anything on Sky.
Some people just don't want to watch Hollywood stuff or the Bellisario family products, or sport. It seems there isn't much else, and if there is, its in plain old PAL anyway.
You are free to work at Disney without a vaccination, but if you infect a bunch of kids, you agree to indemnify Disney against the inevitable lawsuits for tens of thousands of wrongful deaths, when those you infect, go on to infect other unvaccinated morons across the world.
Tell that to the millions of unvaccinated in the world, there simply is no mass extinction from measles. You are fear mongering.
You are the classic moron. There may be no mass extinction from measles right now, but before there was vaccination, huge numbers of people died or were permanently damaged by it annually.
You are relatively safe for the monent, because the vast majority of people are vaccinated, even in developing countries, except where stupid CIA trickery has discredited the health profession. Don't expect that to last if you manage to persuade many people with your stupid ideas.
No, but you could easily flick the lever that dings the bell with a finger. It stuck out a mile and was really accessible on most portable machines. The double ding was a common thing to do to attract the attention of people passing your desk (think wolf-whistle without risk of being accused of sexual harassment or neglecting work).
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The problem is, some of us are over 21, and have seen the other things the auto industry has implemented. The omens are all bad here. (I can feel the force).
If you want control over when and where your vehicle will go, you need a mechanically injected diesel. (No need for electricity at all). See today's post on tractors: "Farmers Struggling With High-Tech Farm Equipment". Hooray for hot-bulb engines!
It is true your colleagues will think you are an utter nutter, but they think that anyway - mostly because you are,
This is true, but misleading.
For men, it is true that the optimum weight/BMI* is "normal" and any increase is bad.
For women, health outcome steadily improves with weight until an extra pound tips you into "obese". That extra pound is associated with a severely adverse health expectancy. Ie it is not the weight that causes the illness, it is being labelled "obese" that is the cause of problems.
*BMI is rubbish anyway: BMI fails to take into account that muscle is denser than fat. Most professional sports people of either sex have BMIs which a lot of the medical profession would claim lead to instant death.
"Trust me - I'm a doctor" is often in the same league as "trust me, I am a mafioso".
There were many different types of people there, but the majority would almost certainly be so worried about living to the end of the week, that "long term" was probably next month for of them. However, there were certainly a core who knew the significance, and that included Turing and his close colleagues - especially those who went to Los Alamos, and those who went on the build computers most certainly knew.
Everyone knew that they could not talk outside the project. This was a time when you were told daily that discussion the NAAFII canteen menu could risk men's lives. (Because analysis of the menu could reveal extra calories indicating the men were about to be deployed to the front).
Firing squads were in regular used "pour encourager les outres" as they say en Francais.
I think you have this backwards. Kids like that should be kept well away from that school. They can obviously learn far more almost anywhere else.
I do love that I can listen to what was my grand-parents' music on Youtube, including tracks I have not heard since primary school, and never knew the names of the artists.
The chances of getting fantastic quality recordings of 1930's artists, or even 1950's artists for that matter, from anywhere at all, are close to zero. 78 RPM disks were often recorded without the aid of any electronics at all!
As for Lonnie Donigan and the rest of the skiffle craze, well yeah, it was never very good artistically or technically, but it sure brings back great memories, with or without the hiss and crackle.
I certainly would not pay one cent for anything the top 100 since the CD was invented. A lot of it I might even pay NOT to hear. I am certainly not going to accept gangsta rap in glorious 3D as a substitute for piss-poor transcriptions of doo-wap music. No way. Never.
If you find out where I can get high quality digital remasters of Decca West Africa's collection from the 1950s, Let me know! I would definitely pay for that!
And you might need to cut my lawn to find a way to get off it!
With Neural net, we can get more stuff wrong, faster
WTF???
Profit
Based on current deployments, probably 3 in posh areas, and 2 for everyone else.
Oh, Wait ...
Please - Think of the ponies!
I have got data from when 5MB H/Ds were introduced ON TAPE, written with tar that is still readable. Good luck reading your ST506 interface H/Ds written with DOS 4.2.
OTOH, I have read tapes after 30 years. If long term storage is what you want, the LTOx is the answer. Make multiple tapes and put them in different places (countries, continents).
The equivalent for Andoid is to require the boot loader to be unlocked for free if there is no free availability of security updates. Then you can use the ROM of your choice. It is open source, so people can, and probably will, fix bugs if there is still a significant user base*. If not unlocked, then Google or the manufacturer is wilfully converting the phone landfill, and should be billed accordingly.
Clearly, this needs to be a legal right. There is a remote chance of this in Europe, but probably none in the USA - there are no consumer rights in the land of the free.
* I would argue that the source (and data sheet) for device drivers should be compulsorily released to public domain where the hardware manufacturer is not maintaining them.
We do not need any more landfill.
I have two Android phones, one running the latest software available for it - the other, CM. I also use two Nokias that are 5 and 8 years old. My computer has been regulary upgraded, but is, in the vewi of most of my family, over 10 years old (runs Linux Mint). If Android phones have a very short life, I wont be buying more of them, considering the extremely high price.
If Google do not address security risks, then their market share means this is a National Security Risk and I expect my government to act - using RPGs and nuking from high orbit if required.
And so could the handset manufacturers.
This is going to be so big, the lawyers wont bother laughing all the way to the bank - the banks will come to them.
Nothing new here. Move along please.
Some people just don't want to watch Hollywood stuff or the Bellisario family products, or sport. It seems there isn't much else, and if there is, its in plain old PAL anyway.
You are free to work at Disney without a vaccination, but if you infect a bunch of kids, you agree to indemnify Disney against the inevitable lawsuits for tens of thousands of wrongful deaths, when those you infect, go on to infect other unvaccinated morons across the world.
You are the classic moron. There may be no mass extinction from measles right now, but before there was vaccination, huge numbers of people died or were permanently damaged by it annually.
You are relatively safe for the monent, because the vast majority of people are vaccinated, even in developing countries, except where stupid CIA trickery has discredited the health profession. Don't expect that to last if you manage to persuade many people with your stupid ideas.
Yes, but think of the children!
That probably puts large parts of the UK in the 3rd world category.
Perhaps Obama should declare war on SQL injection?
"Real men use reel-to-reel tape drives".
I believe DTMF-tones-enable is an option on Cyanogenmod.
No, but you could easily flick the lever that dings the bell with a finger. It stuck out a mile and was really accessible on most portable machines. The double ding was a common thing to do to attract the attention of people passing your desk (think wolf-whistle without risk of being accused of sexual harassment or neglecting work).