1) Why modal text editor (editor with modes) Answer: Because writing text and editing text are two very different operations. Cutting, copying, pasting, replacing, overwriting, searching, etc are done often enough that constantly holding down a modifier key becomes questionable for some. IANAVU.
You seem to be suggesting that Emacs requires typing more commands (using modifier keys like Ctrl) than a modal editor like vi, but that is simply not true. In Emacs you are always in text-insert mode, and you never exit it; there is no mode. To do something other than text insertion in Emacs requires typing a command (which does not involve entering any "mode" first), which is a modified key (e.g. Ctrl-S for search, or Alt-F for forward word, or Alt-D for delete-word-backwards). Or you can use the mouse, if you just want to point at where to put the cursor.
Contrast with vi, where you have to constantly enter and exit command mode (and only then get to type your letter commands, albeit without the Ctrl key) in order to do anything besides insert text.
What taxi company is a monopoly? I have never been to a city in America with only on taxi company in my life, and I seriously doubt you could come up with one.
The Washington D.C. area has had monopoly arrangements with taxi companies since at least the 1960s. For example, only one company was ever allowed to service Dulles airport. However, now Uber can service there too (and that monopoly is thereby somewhat broken). I hate Uber, by the way -- just stating some facts here.
Google owns Waze, which does these sponsored pop-up ads. I tried using Waze as an in-vehicle navigator, but it constantly pops-up nearly-full-screen ads for every imaginable thing along the route. They totally obscure the map and are very difficult to dismiss (must pick up the phone and carefully click just-so to get rid of the ad; basically impossible to do safely while driving). This is why I don't use Waze, and have stuck with Google Maps.
1. Looks like it's time to buy (a) Garmin device that might not be as smart, but doesn't spam me. (b) NTS - buy GRMN 2. No longer need anything like my Note 5 (primary app was Google Maps and GasBuddy), maybe a tiny iPhone is better?
Since my flirtation with Waze, I have been wondering, "When will Google push this horrible lossage into Maps?" Wait no more, the future is here. And it is crap-tastic!
UFO is picking up speed and climbing. I'm going in closer. I can see it now. Whatever this is, it's big. Two cylindrical projections, or maybe a horseshoe. Purpose undetermined.
Must have taken quite a bit to build a ship like this...
Nobody is telling you that you aren't properly identifying as something, but that when you do so inconsistently, you shouldn't be treated the same as someone that is consistent.
The FAA regulates flying (aircraft, pilots, airspace, etc.) but state government's regulate their land. The state is the authority on property zoning laws. They can't prevent you from flying over their land, but they can certainly prevent you from landing on it. They can regulate whether you can have an airport, grass landing strip, place to land a helicopter, etc. For another example, some states will fine you if you make an emergency landing on a road (and they will confiscate your aircraft). The FAA only gets involved in the land issues as it regards the construction and operation of airports/helipads. The state can most certainly tell you that you can't land a helicopter on your private land. (Which tells you something about how private your "private property" really is, if you weren't clear on the concept.)
From the article, sounds like an air taxi company called Air Resources will be supplying helicopter service as usual. The helicopters happen to be made by Airbus. Air Resources will not only do the helicopter pickup/dropoff, but will also push buttons on the normal Uber app to hail the cars. (Normally they would call a limo car service on the phone, but instead they will call an unlicensed limo service on the app.) Uber has nothing to do with the helicopter part of it, really.
How this is different from the passenger pushing the buttons on the Uber app on their own phone is unclear, and at most, a very minor detail.
The cost of helicopters is related to things like fuel, landing pads, helicopters being very high-precision things, and the fact that being a helicopter pilot is *hard*.
I don't believe that. I rode on a helicopter over the Mauna Loa caldera. Each group flew with minimal admin overhead. There was another helicopter tour company across the street, and yet another next door, so there was plenty of competition. I paid $150 for a one hour tour. That is a tiny fraction of a typical per-person booking fee for a helicopter in the SF Bay Area (where I live). The difference was low overhead and competition.
Tour rates will be different than "air taxi" rates in any event; they are regulated quite differently.
WIth a few minutes of searching, I could not find any advertised rates for helicopter air taxi rates in the Bay area.
Nobody is going to buy smart guns, except for Obama-mandated experimentation and "evaluation". No policeman or soldier will accept carrying a weapon that is so inherently unreliable. And for the same reasosn, the public won't want them, either.
Maybe in 50 or 100 years the technology will be good enough for a dependable smart gun. Of course, criminals in 100 years will still have regular dumb guns that can't be deactivated accidentally or by third parties...
Drone manufacturers like DGI (Phantom) are being required by the FAA to implement "geofencing" in the drone firmware. This will prevent the drone from taking off if it is within 30 miles of Washington, D.C., for example. Doesn't matter if it is indoors or not.
I believe encryption is built into Outlook, but I don't use it so can't comment on how easy it is to set it up and enable it. On OS X however, it is definitely built in to the Apple Mail app.
The difficult part is the whole web-of-trust thing involved in getting a digital signature, and the lack of most people's understanding of the importance of this
The problem with encryption/signed messages is that people might trust their authenticity. Because all these messages are coming from compromised (infected) systems that can generate fake messages, keyboard capture passphrases, etc.
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If taxis are so much better than Uber in NYC, then how to Uber drivers make enough money to stay on the road?
It's always easy to make money if you ignore the law. There are costs involved in maintaining a civilised society.
What law is being ignored by Uber drivers?
Oh, only the "law" that says that only yellow cabs may operate.
You're asking two different question:
1) Why modal text editor (editor with modes)
Answer: Because writing text and editing text are two very different operations. Cutting, copying, pasting, replacing, overwriting, searching, etc are done often enough that constantly holding down a modifier key becomes questionable for some. IANAVU.
You seem to be suggesting that Emacs requires typing more commands (using modifier keys like Ctrl) than a modal editor like vi, but that is simply not true. In Emacs you are always in text-insert mode, and you never exit it; there is no mode. To do something other than text insertion in Emacs requires typing a command (which does not involve entering any "mode" first), which is a modified key (e.g. Ctrl-S for search, or Alt-F for forward word, or Alt-D for delete-word-backwards). Or you can use the mouse, if you just want to point at where to put the cursor.
Contrast with vi, where you have to constantly enter and exit command mode (and only then get to type your letter commands, albeit without the Ctrl key) in order to do anything besides insert text.
What taxi company is a monopoly? I have never been to a city in America with only on taxi company in my life, and I seriously doubt you could come up with one.
The Washington D.C. area has had monopoly arrangements with taxi companies since at least the 1960s. For example, only one company was ever allowed to service Dulles airport. However, now Uber can service there too (and that monopoly is thereby somewhat broken). I hate Uber, by the way -- just stating some facts here.
This is nothing that can't be solved by duct taping a beer can to the steering wheel...
WOW!
Jared, is that you?
The question is: Does it have a KILL switch?
(Umm, I mean a "shutdown" switch, not a "Hey, sweet mama, wanna Kill All Humans?" switch)
Yes. Since almost all the NSA does is to manipulate strings, it is *THE* language for the job. They should be praised for using it.
String manipulation is why they use SNOWDEN, a variant of SNOBOL.
Google owns Waze, which does these sponsored pop-up ads. I tried using Waze as an in-vehicle navigator, but it constantly pops-up nearly-full-screen ads for every imaginable thing along the route. They totally obscure the map and are very difficult to dismiss (must pick up the phone and carefully click just-so to get rid of the ad; basically impossible to do safely while driving). This is why I don't use Waze, and have stuck with Google Maps.
1. Looks like it's time to buy (a) Garmin device that might not be as smart, but doesn't spam me. (b) NTS - buy GRMN
2. No longer need anything like my Note 5 (primary app was Google Maps and GasBuddy), maybe a tiny iPhone is better?
Since my flirtation with Waze, I have been wondering, "When will Google push this horrible lossage into Maps?"
Wait no more, the future is here.
And it is crap-tastic!
UFO is picking up speed and climbing. I'm going in closer. I can see it now. Whatever this is, it's big. Two cylindrical projections, or maybe a horseshoe. Purpose undetermined.
Must have taken quite a bit to build a ship like this...
Nobody is telling you that you aren't properly identifying as something, but that when you do so inconsistently, you shouldn't be treated the same as someone that is consistent.
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They should switch to foam-tipped arrows instead of lightsabres.
Escrow the keys with your federal government. You'll soon be forced to do this soon, anyway,
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The FAA regulates flying (aircraft, pilots, airspace, etc.) but state government's regulate their land. The state is the authority on property zoning laws. They can't prevent you from flying over their land, but they can certainly prevent you from landing on it. They can regulate whether you can have an airport, grass landing strip, place to land a helicopter, etc. For another example, some states will fine you if you make an emergency landing on a road (and they will confiscate your aircraft). The FAA only gets involved in the land issues as it regards the construction and operation of airports/helipads. The state can most certainly tell you that you can't land a helicopter on your private land. (Which tells you something about how private your "private property" really is, if you weren't clear on the concept.)
From the article, sounds like an air taxi company called Air Resources will be supplying helicopter service as usual. The helicopters happen to be made by Airbus. Air Resources will not only do the helicopter pickup/dropoff, but will also push buttons on the normal Uber app to hail the cars. (Normally they would call a limo car service on the phone, but instead they will call an unlicensed limo service on the app.) Uber has nothing to do with the helicopter part of it, really.
How this is different from the passenger pushing the buttons on the Uber app on their own phone is unclear, and at most, a very minor detail.
The whole thing is just random trivial hype.
The cost of helicopters is related to things like fuel, landing pads, helicopters being very high-precision things, and the fact that being a helicopter pilot is *hard*.
I don't believe that. I rode on a helicopter over the Mauna Loa caldera. Each group flew with minimal admin overhead. There was another helicopter tour company across the street, and yet another next door, so there was plenty of competition. I paid $150 for a one hour tour. That is a tiny fraction of a typical per-person booking fee for a helicopter in the SF Bay Area (where I live). The difference was low overhead and competition.
Tour rates will be different than "air taxi" rates in any event; they are regulated quite differently.
WIth a few minutes of searching, I could not find any advertised rates for helicopter air taxi rates in the Bay area.
Radar picks up clowns car 0.654m away, 0.612m away 40ms later, calculates whether a collision may occur, engages brake 5ms later, preventing collision.
What do you think will happen?
I think that about 6.12 secs later, 11.0 clowns will be pouring out of the clown car, and absolute hilarity will ensue!
Nobody is going to buy smart guns, except for Obama-mandated experimentation and "evaluation". No policeman or soldier will accept carrying a weapon that is so inherently unreliable. And for the same reasosn, the public won't want them, either.
Maybe in 50 or 100 years the technology will be good enough for a dependable smart gun. Of course, criminals in 100 years will still have regular dumb guns that can't be deactivated accidentally or by third parties...
Drone manufacturers like DGI (Phantom) are being required by the FAA to implement "geofencing" in the drone firmware. This will prevent the drone from taking off if it is within 30 miles of Washington, D.C., for example. Doesn't matter if it is indoors or not.
I believe encryption is built into Outlook, but I don't use it so can't comment on how easy it is to set it up and enable it.
On OS X however, it is definitely built in to the Apple Mail app.
The difficult part is the whole web-of-trust thing involved in getting a digital signature, and the lack of most people's understanding of the importance of this
The problem with encryption/signed messages is that people might trust their authenticity.
Because all these messages are coming from compromised (infected) systems that
can generate fake messages, keyboard capture passphrases, etc.
This "auto-brewery syndrome" comes from overeating Twinkies, I suspect.
You forgot Lisp!
Party like it's 1999!
Happy New Year!
Is it transparent?