I don't understand your point about "sharing a road with cars, or perhaps being loaded on a ferry". Sharing a road is almost unheard of in the UK (although it was once common when railway sidings reached into factories). As for loading onto a ferry, quite rare, but the main-line loco would not go onto the ferry. Only the wagons or carriages would be put on board, and they would be handled on and off with diesel shunter locos.
I was only trying to come up with possible examples.
I do have a road shared with an active railway with diesel trains near where I live, but I don't have any expertise in that field.
Good point about the ferry. I've never actually taken one with wagons on it. I've only heard about them. It does make sense that they wouldn't load the locomotive itself, but just the wagons.
Population density, the auto/oil lobby, the universality and the affordability of the driver license in the US, road subsidies vs. low taxes on gasoline, and last but not least: the divide between rich and poor. Those are some of the reasons public transportation is not faring well in the US.
That sounds kind of dumb. Why would a train need batteries for propulsion?
Because wires can be unsightly, third rails need to be maintained and secured over long distances, and there is always the occasional flooding or natural disaster that could disable an electrical line at the worst possible location when it's sharing a road with cars, or perhaps being loaded on a ferry. And of course, sometimes electrical trains are chosen over non-electrical trains because they make less noise and less smoke.
In the context of the article he's talking about Microsoft's *old* phone strategy. Windows Mobile was basically an attempt to do the Blackberry thing with Windows. It could have done worse, but obviously it didn't succeed, which is why they dumped it for Windows Phone.
However, as an outsider, I'll let you in on a little secret. With all of the wars, and all of the droughts, and all of the torture, December's shootings remain the most embarrassing thing on the planet at this time.
As Americans, we've stopped being embarrassed long ago.
He built a home on Eel Pie Island in the 1970s for £20,000
Wow! That bit is interesting! So he lives on an island in the Thames in London?!
Yes, here is an example of a house Eel Pie Island (It's not his, but I'm just linking to it as a reference point). Obviously, if he just sells his house, he should be able to rent something a bit more modest, and not have to work ever again for the rest of his life.
The next thing he's going to tell us is that he's selling his Rolls Royce, just to be able to afford macaroni and cheese. For someone who didn't even invent the wind-up radio originally, but only invented a derivative of that idea (which is now no longer in use), he's still in denial and still has huge feelings of entitlements. May be the patent system should be reformed, like he says, and his house should be given to the original inventor instead.
Insisting that if I wish to maintain anonymity I should avoid social sites is similar to the way I was ostracized when I attempted socialization when I was younger.
Yes, the real name policy is idiotic, but you shouldn't "avoid social sites" because of it. You should just be careful about what you disclose on social sites (just like everybody else should too). There is no reason you can't have one login for social sites and a different login for other bulletin boards.
That's how real life works too. Everybody has multiple layers of identities. And everybody practices different levels of self-disclosure based on the different persons they're talking to.
Even the kids that ostracized you when you were younger, I'll bet that they didn't talk about the fact that their mom and dad were alcoholics, or that they were caught shoplifting the week before, or whatever else they might have been embarrassed about themselves. Knowing how much to disclose, and how much not to disclose, and to whom, is an important life skill to have.
Yes, they provide it, but not directly in the Terms of Services for Google Play (only in the Privacy Policy for Google Wallet).
Which buries the information even more.
And yes, their Terms of Services pages are cross-linked with each other so if you agree to one with that little checkbox, you agree to the other, or if you browse the one from Google Play, you can click on that ones' privacy policy to get to the other one on Google Wallet, or if you've registered your credit card with Google Wallet previously, you must have obviously agreed to all their policies at some point, but that's not the original point I was trying to make.
My point is that this information should also be posted on the Permissions tab just when you're about to click on "Accept & Buy". And it should be posted in plain English: "Seller will know your full name, mailing address, & email address associated with your Google Wallet account. " in addition to the little TofS checkbox already there.
That's it. Just tell us what you're doing in one phrase. Don't bury this information two links down. And don't inundate us with generally worded Terms of Services that are so obvious, or so wordy, that they're just added noise to the real information we care about.
Do they make a car where you cant either turn the key off, or shift it into neutral or just pull up the emergency brake??? Also, if he was already stuck going 125 by the time he got ahold of the police, how did they ever catch him?? Im suspicious of this whole story.
That car model, the Renault Laguna, is especially made to be modded for disabled people. I don't know what kind of disability the driver has (the article doesn't say, although he did have two epileptic seizures because of and during the hectic drive).
According to the original article in French. The car only reached 125 miles per hour near the end of the journey.
Plus, I don't think it's a matter of catching up to him as much as it was a matter of waiting for him. They opened three toll booths for him. And the cops/poulets* used a supped-up Renault Megane to keep up with him (for how long it kept up, the article doesn't say).
note * Poulet means chicken in French. It's what we say casually when we say 'cops'. The word chicken in French doesn't have any of the same negative connotations that the same word has in English so it's ok to use. If you're an American visiting France and if you want to blend in, "poulet" is the word you should use when talking to a cop in France.
Turn it to "off" and the engine will lose power. The car will stop. Also, you can shift it in to neutral.
The Renault Laguna is not a normal car.
Lecerf has filed a legal complaint after his Renault Laguna, which is adapted for disabled drivers, jammed at 200km/h (125mph) and the brakes failed, forcing him to continue careering along a vast stretch of French motorway and into Belgium.
Might this be a case of sour grapes and a way to get back and give RIM, I mean Blackberry, a bit of a black eye?
Actually, if the headline had been been written like this:
"Recently Ousted RIM co-CEO Jim Balsillie Sells all his RIM Stocks Today"
...there would have been no black eye or misunderstanding to begin with. And its following paragraph would have been immediately seen for the click-baiting fabricated lie that it really is: "While it's common to see high-level executives sell some of their shares to gain some liquidity, it's unusual to see them exit their positions completely. This has to be seen as a massive vote of 'no confidence' from someone who was on the inside long enough to know what's going on in the company. " - emphasis in bold mine.
PS: And please, don't take this to mean that I'm some Blackberry fanboy. I'm not. I personally don't have confidence in that company either. It's just that I hate to see the "news" purposefully misinterpreted in this way.
On the other hand, I've been spammed by people I've bought goods from through Amazon's Marketplace, so I'm not keen on that happening again. The ideal solution would be for Google to provide a forwarding, anonymised email address to the developers, like Facebook do with Facebook app developers.
And also, they should just provide the country, the city, and the zip code instead of the full mailing address (unless the transaction is above $20). Or at least, they should make it more explicit that they're providing this information to the developer.
Your counter-measure is useless in this case, unless you can also anonymize your payment information (may be, that might possible if you have a Google Wallet gift card you could buy somewhere for cash??).
But this information "leak" only affects applications that are being sold for actual money. For free applications on Google Play/the Market, it doesn't give the developer any personal information on the person who downloaded your application and installed it.
Do peer reviewers of scientific papers come out and call something great or bad during the review process?
She never did. Her study had been commissioned and published by the State of Maine two years prior to the time she was even appointed to the EPA.
Do auditors come out and give off the cuff remarks about what they are seeing during the audit?
She never made "off the cuff remarks" about that flame retardant. When asked about any public positions she had taken on chemicals during her appointment, she stated that she had none.
And to this day, she regards the scientific study she undertook for her employer two years prior not a public position, but just work that she undertook for her employer at the time.
Log into your Office account and deregister the current installation. That will free it up for installation to a new/different machine. You can do this as often as you want.
This change to the Terms of Services was just made. It's clear their infrastructure hasn't changed yet. Give it some time.
It's not like the reporter is making this story up, he's in been getting clarifications from Microsoft's PR department (even if, by his own admission, tech support at Microsoft hasn't been made aware of this change yet).
How about just walking, going up and down some stairs, stretching, looking out the window, eating a fruit, or drinking a glass of water? If you want to gamify that activity, you could even place a pebble into a jar every time you performed that activity to keep track of your progress.
It's a great idea, but the puzzle given is too complicated.
If they really want to popularize this concept among programmers, many of whom have forgotten regular expressions even if they had once mastered them, they should really create much simpler puzzles in a mounting order of difficulty.
Hopefully, someone enthused by the idea will create and publish such puzzles.
I'm not sure I understand. How does one browse products via twitter...?
I think it would work more like a combination of adwords and a one-click purchase button.
In other words, if you were to mention something like #Xbox in a tweet, a price and one-click purchase button would suddenly appear on the side of your tweet for yourself and your followers.
Isn't it common sense to fully charge an electric car before embarking on a journey to test the car's range? This guy should be fired from the NYT.
Fired? Really? I would hate to have you as my manager.
Notice that the CEO of Tesla only claims to have hard numbers, he certainly doesn't disclose any of those numbers.
“It showed in fact [Broder] had not charged up to the maximum charge in the car,” Musk said. “It’s like starting off a drive with a tank that’s not full.”
Musk said he and his team had explicitly told Broder and the Times that in order to do this trip, the car needs to be fully charged, cannot take detours, and drive at a reasonable speed.
Musk told Bloomberg TV. “He did not charge the car to full capacity – not even close..."
So at what level did he start the car at? 99% 98% 70% Somehow, I doubt that it was 70%, otherwise Musk would have disclosed that number already.
And what's with this "reasonable speed" nonsense? Later in the article, he says that the driver exceeded the "speed limit", not that he exceeded a "reasonable speed". A "reasonable speed" is rarely the same as the "speed limit". Case in point.
A motorist also can be cited for impeding traffic if he or she is traveling at the speed limit but traffic is flowing much faster, Crosby said. [source]
The CEO of Tesla has the logs. If he wants us to believe him, he better stop the outrage, and actually show us the logs. Then, we'll be able to ascertain how much of the car was charged, if the speed was reasonable, or if there was even a detour to begin with (which the New York Times reporter denies).
Absent the log made public, I will assume that Tesla is the one lying.
Seriously, behavior like this makes me LESS likely to want to look for a new job through Dice.com and tarnishes the reputation of the companies being highlighted in the posts.
You won't miss much, far too many spamming recruiters have taken root on Dice.com anyhow. Dice used to be great, but now it's as bad as Monster.com
Two things man is exceptionally good at with great consistency; overestimating his progress in the future and underestimating the resilience of nature.
Hey, the survey only talked about "sending" a human to Mars.
"Sending" is the easy part. It's the actual travel, landing, and staying alive that is going to be difficult. May be we should just let Russia, China, or India, figure it all out for us. The US has become too risk adverse these days.
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I don't understand your point about "sharing a road with cars, or perhaps being loaded on a ferry". Sharing a road is almost unheard of in the UK (although it was once common when railway sidings reached into factories). As for loading onto a ferry, quite rare, but the main-line loco would not go onto the ferry. Only the wagons or carriages would be put on board, and they would be handled on and off with diesel shunter locos.
I was only trying to come up with possible examples.
I do have a road shared with an active railway with diesel trains near where I live, but I don't have any expertise in that field.
Good point about the ferry. I've never actually taken one with wagons on it. I've only heard about them. It does make sense that they wouldn't load the locomotive itself, but just the wagons.
Population density, the auto/oil lobby, the universality and the affordability of the driver license in the US, road subsidies vs. low taxes on gasoline, and last but not least: the divide between rich and poor. Those are some of the reasons public transportation is not faring well in the US.
That sounds kind of dumb. Why would a train need batteries for propulsion?
Because wires can be unsightly, third rails need to be maintained and secured over long distances, and there is always the occasional flooding or natural disaster that could disable an electrical line at the worst possible location when it's sharing a road with cars, or perhaps being loaded on a ferry. And of course, sometimes electrical trains are chosen over non-electrical trains because they make less noise and less smoke.
In the context of the article he's talking about Microsoft's *old* phone strategy. Windows Mobile was basically an attempt to do the Blackberry thing with Windows. It could have done worse, but obviously it didn't succeed, which is why they dumped it for Windows Phone.
I don't think he's criticizing Windows Phone.
But then, why is he criticizing Ballmer too?
However, as an outsider, I'll let you in on a little secret. With all of the wars, and all of the droughts, and all of the torture, December's shootings remain the most embarrassing thing on the planet at this time.
As Americans, we've stopped being embarrassed long ago.
It's a coping mechanism.
Ah, in the United States perhaps. But if I express that opinion in Canada, it might in fact be defamation. Oops!
And yet, part of what they're suing him about, was published when the blogger/librarian was still living and working in the United States.
He built a home on Eel Pie Island in the 1970s for £20,000
Wow! That bit is interesting! So he lives on an island in the Thames in London?!
Yes, here is an example of a house Eel Pie Island (It's not his, but I'm just linking to it as a reference point). Obviously, if he just sells his house, he should be able to rent something a bit more modest, and not have to work ever again for the rest of his life.
The next thing he's going to tell us is that he's selling his Rolls Royce, just to be able to afford macaroni and cheese. For someone who didn't even invent the wind-up radio originally, but only invented a derivative of that idea (which is now no longer in use), he's still in denial and still has huge feelings of entitlements. May be the patent system should be reformed, like he says, and his house should be given to the original inventor instead.
Insisting that if I wish to maintain anonymity I should avoid social sites is similar to the way I was ostracized when I attempted socialization when I was younger.
Yes, the real name policy is idiotic, but you shouldn't "avoid social sites" because of it. You should just be careful about what you disclose on social sites (just like everybody else should too). There is no reason you can't have one login for social sites and a different login for other bulletin boards.
That's how real life works too. Everybody has multiple layers of identities. And everybody practices different levels of self-disclosure based on the different persons they're talking to.
Even the kids that ostracized you when you were younger, I'll bet that they didn't talk about the fact that their mom and dad were alcoholics, or that they were caught shoplifting the week before, or whatever else they might have been embarrassed about themselves. Knowing how much to disclose, and how much not to disclose, and to whom, is an important life skill to have.
Ah ok, hopefully someone will mod your post up.
I didn't know that. And someone implied earlier that this wasn't the case.
Yes, they provide it, but not directly in the Terms of Services for Google Play (only in the Privacy Policy for Google Wallet).
Which buries the information even more.
And yes, their Terms of Services pages are cross-linked with each other so if you agree to one with that little checkbox, you agree to the other, or if you browse the one from Google Play, you can click on that ones' privacy policy to get to the other one on Google Wallet, or if you've registered your credit card with Google Wallet previously, you must have obviously agreed to all their policies at some point, but that's not the original point I was trying to make.
My point is that this information should also be posted on the Permissions tab just when you're about to click on "Accept & Buy". And it should be posted in plain English: "Seller will know your full name, mailing address, & email address associated with your Google Wallet account. " in addition to the little TofS checkbox already there.
That's it. Just tell us what you're doing in one phrase. Don't bury this information two links down. And don't inundate us with generally worded Terms of Services that are so obvious, or so wordy, that they're just added noise to the real information we care about.
Do they make a car where you cant either turn the key off, or shift it into neutral or just pull up the emergency brake???
Also, if he was already stuck going 125 by the time he got ahold of the police, how did they ever catch him??
Im suspicious of this whole story.
That car model, the Renault Laguna, is especially made to be modded for disabled people. I don't know what kind of disability the driver has (the article doesn't say, although he did have two epileptic seizures because of and during the hectic drive).
According to the original article in French. The car only reached 125 miles per hour near the end of the journey.
Plus, I don't think it's a matter of catching up to him as much as it was a matter of waiting for him. They opened three toll booths for him. And the cops/poulets* used a supped-up Renault Megane to keep up with him (for how long it kept up, the article doesn't say).
note * Poulet means chicken in French. It's what we say casually when we say 'cops'. The word chicken in French doesn't have any of the same negative connotations that the same word has in English so it's ok to use. If you're an American visiting France and if you want to blend in, "poulet" is the word you should use when talking to a cop in France.
Turn it to "off" and the engine will lose power. The car will stop. Also, you can shift it in to neutral.
The Renault Laguna is not a normal car.
Lecerf has filed a legal complaint after his Renault Laguna, which is adapted for disabled drivers, jammed at 200km/h (125mph) and the brakes failed, forcing him to continue careering along a vast stretch of French motorway and into Belgium.
Might this be a case of sour grapes and a way to get back and give RIM, I mean Blackberry, a bit of a black eye?
Actually, if the headline had been been written like this:
"Recently Ousted RIM co-CEO Jim Balsillie Sells all his RIM Stocks Today"
...there would have been no black eye or misunderstanding to begin with. And its following paragraph would have been immediately seen for the click-baiting fabricated lie that it really is: "While it's common to see high-level executives sell some of their shares to gain some liquidity, it's unusual to see them exit their positions completely. This has to be seen as a massive vote of 'no confidence' from someone who was on the inside long enough to know what's going on in the company. " - emphasis in bold mine.
PS: And please, don't take this to mean that I'm some Blackberry fanboy. I'm not. I personally don't have confidence in that company either. It's just that I hate to see the "news" purposefully misinterpreted in this way.
On the other hand, I've been spammed by people I've bought goods from through Amazon's Marketplace, so I'm not keen on that happening again. The ideal solution would be for Google to provide a forwarding, anonymised email address to the developers, like Facebook do with Facebook app developers.
And also, they should just provide the country, the city, and the zip code instead of the full mailing address (unless the transaction is above $20). Or at least, they should make it more explicit that they're providing this information to the developer.
Your counter-measure is useless in this case, unless you can also anonymize your payment information (may be, that might possible if you have a Google Wallet gift card you could buy somewhere for cash??).
But this information "leak" only affects applications that are being sold for actual money. For free applications on Google Play/the Market, it doesn't give the developer any personal information on the person who downloaded your application and installed it.
Isn't the whole point of medals to reward someone for putting their life on the line to protect their country?
Not anymore.
Now the entire military infrastructure, from cleaning the latrines to killing suspicious civilians, can be gamified.
You're right. My brain must be too simple.
Nothing gets by you.
Do peer reviewers of scientific papers come out and call something great or bad during the review process?
She never did. Her study had been commissioned and published by the State of Maine two years prior to the time she was even appointed to the EPA.
Do auditors come out and give off the cuff remarks about what they are seeing during the audit?
She never made "off the cuff remarks" about that flame retardant. When asked about any public positions she had taken on chemicals during her appointment, she stated that she had none.
And to this day, she regards the scientific study she undertook for her employer two years prior not a public position, but just work that she undertook for her employer at the time.
Log into your Office account and deregister the current installation. That will free it up for installation to a new/different machine. You can do this as often as you want.
This change to the Terms of Services was just made. It's clear their infrastructure hasn't changed yet. Give it some time.
It's not like the reporter is making this story up, he's in been getting clarifications from Microsoft's PR department (even if, by his own admission, tech support at Microsoft hasn't been made aware of this change yet).
How about just walking, going up and down some stairs, stretching, looking out the window, eating a fruit, or drinking a glass of water? If you want to gamify that activity, you could even place a pebble into a jar every time you performed that activity to keep track of your progress.
It's a great idea, but the puzzle given is too complicated.
If they really want to popularize this concept among programmers, many of whom have forgotten regular expressions even if they had once mastered them, they should really create much simpler puzzles in a mounting order of difficulty.
Hopefully, someone enthused by the idea will create and publish such puzzles.
I'm not sure I understand. How does one browse products via twitter...?
I think it would work more like a combination of adwords and a one-click purchase button.
In other words, if you were to mention something like #Xbox in a tweet, a price and one-click purchase button would suddenly appear on the side of your tweet for yourself and your followers.
Isn't it common sense to fully charge an electric car before embarking on a journey to test the car's range? This guy should be fired from the NYT.
Fired? Really? I would hate to have you as my manager.
Notice that the CEO of Tesla only claims to have hard numbers, he certainly doesn't disclose any of those numbers.
“It showed in fact [Broder] had not charged up to the maximum charge in the car,” Musk said. “It’s like starting off a drive with a tank that’s not full.”
Musk said he and his team had explicitly told Broder and the Times that in order to do this trip, the car needs to be fully charged, cannot take detours, and drive at a reasonable speed.
Musk told Bloomberg TV. “He did not charge the car to full capacity – not even close..."
So at what level did he start the car at? 99% 98% 70% Somehow, I doubt that it was 70%, otherwise Musk would have disclosed that number already.
And what's with this "reasonable speed" nonsense? Later in the article, he says that the driver exceeded the "speed limit", not that he exceeded a "reasonable speed". A "reasonable speed" is rarely the same as the "speed limit". Case in point.
A motorist also can be cited for impeding traffic if he or she is traveling at the speed limit but traffic is flowing much faster, Crosby said. [source]
The CEO of Tesla has the logs. If he wants us to believe him, he better stop the outrage, and actually show us the logs. Then, we'll be able to ascertain how much of the car was charged, if the speed was reasonable, or if there was even a detour to begin with (which the New York Times reporter denies).
Absent the log made public, I will assume that Tesla is the one lying.
Seriously, behavior like this makes me LESS likely to want to look for a new job through Dice.com and tarnishes the reputation of the companies being highlighted in the posts.
You won't miss much, far too many spamming recruiters have taken root on Dice.com anyhow. Dice used to be great, but now it's as bad as Monster.com
Two things man is exceptionally good at with great consistency; overestimating his progress in the future and underestimating the resilience of nature.
Hey, the survey only talked about "sending" a human to Mars.
"Sending" is the easy part. It's the actual travel, landing, and staying alive that is going to be difficult. May be we should just let Russia, China, or India, figure it all out for us. The US has become too risk adverse these days.