No, petrol and diesel are different substances, and as you indicate in your original post, filling a car with the wrong one will result in a vehicle going nowhere.
One way around actively screws your car up, the other just requires draining/refilling. I can't remember which way around it is, but neither's going to go anywhere:)
Oh that's quite easy. They're still legally responsible for him, as someone who hasn't reached the age of majority. But yeah, 17 year olds are pretty independant and hard to control, and actually whether he was 17 or 18 and legally responsible for himself, wouldn't have much bearing on it.
His parents were the people responsible for bringing him up. They were, as you say, the ones who were able to prepare him for making his own choices, and being a moral well integrated member of society. The kid will still make his own choices, but would it suprise you that there's a high correlation between someone growing up to be a well adjusted adult, and how good that upbringing was?
I'd use the counter argument there - if it's important that your employees are well rested and alert, perhaps you should be looking at just making them work less hours:).
In an office job though, I'm fairly sure people don't really notice that half the people here are actually zombies, and don't really do anything apart from say 'graah' and shuffle about a bit.
I certainly notice when I'm covering 'lates' at work - the time after 16:30 when the rest of the worker drones clear off, my productivity skyrockets due to the lack of noise and general interruption.
Of course, this probably balances out, as sometimes when this happens I decide do 'actively slack off'.
Depends on the pattern. The problem with anything that rotates like that, especially if it covers 'outside normal hours' is it's murderous on the social life.
If your approach to salaried work is - paid to do a job, hours irrelevant. Then yes. It can work quite nicely. I have had jobs that meant I was working late some days, and not working at all other days. Sometimes I'd have to cut lunch, other times I'd have time enough to go have a leisurely meal.
However all too often, what 'salary' translates to, is 'you must be in the office in normal business hours, overtime doesn't get paid, but your future prospects will be directly correlated to how long you spend looking like you're working'.
It's ironic really. Henry Ford did actually study the subject of working hours, and realised he got the same productivity when he went from 6 days/week, 12 hours shifts, to 5 days a week 8 hours shifts. He also had a workforce which didn't burn out as quickly.
Why? Who else is responsible for the upbringing and mental health of this child? Certainly 'raising a perfect child' is essentially impossible, but a child that's sufficiently screwed up as to plan the murder of his parents, frame one of them for a 'murder/suicide' and then actually go ahead and try and implement it?
I'd go as far as to say you'd have to go to some real effort to not notice your child is badly screwed up. Maybe you can't _fix_ it as a parent - but to essentially have so little control of the situation where the child in question is able to gain access to a fire arm and kill someone with it really is a chronic failing on the part of the parents in question.
You can blame a part of it on a culture that thinks 'killing people' is acceptable material for a game, and you can blame another part on a culture that thinks everyone has a right to a weapon for killing people with.
Plenty of blame to go around, but there's absolutely no doubt that the lions share of it must reside with the people responsible for bringing up this child for 17 years.
The gun is somewhat abstracted in this case - you could use it for an assertion either way.
The core point is that the kid (attempts) to murder his parents. Methodology is irrelevant, the fact that he's sufficiently screwed up to try is the concern. Obviously blaming the relatively recently released video game is far more plausible than his parents failing in their duty to bring up a well adjusted kid for 17 years.
Looking at it I consider it far more likely that his lawyer saw a pretty clear cut case, and figured that 'blame it on the video game, you might get a lighter sentence' as the best option.
OK, so they should probably have been more careful with their lockbox - he did still manage, as a minor, to gain access to a firearm.
I guess we could move onto the debate of: If they didn't have a gun in the house, would his attempted murder have had a better net result, but I'm not sure that it's particularly relevant here.
It is actually quite a lot harder to kill someone with a household implement, rather than a handgun though.
I mean, yeah, you _can_ beat someone to death, and people do die quite easily, but a handgun is a weapon specifically built for the purpose of killing things.
Getting them to close their eyes and hit them with a baseball bat (or knife for that matter) might have ended up with the same result, but the odds of a lethal injury are lower. I mean, that's _why_ people have guns, after all - they're better at killing people than cricket bats.
Child: Not able to tell that 'murder' is a bad idea.
How is it anything other than the parents fault? They're responsible for 17 years of this child's development, and he ended up sufficiently screwed up to murder them as they slept. There's no one else you get to pass that responsibility on to.
Psychological addiction isn't the same as physical addiction, but I'll agree it's pretty 'real'. However I'd also make the assertion that as a minor, his "addictions" are the responsiblity of his parents as much as his own.
Of course, the fact that as a society we're quite happy about the idea of games that promote violence and armed assault is something to be questioned, there's no doubt in my mind that having your own child murder you is essentially a 'flunk' in the 'basic parenting coursework'.
It's nothing to do with a game. It's two parents completely failing in their responsiblity to bring up a child adequately.
Basics of parenting include: Don't let your children have firearms. Also teaching them the difference between right and wrong. Or at least, the consequences of being a psychopath.
The game has nothing to do with it, these "parents" have just been admonished for their failure. Although, it's a little bit harsh to get shot in the face, there is no one they can blame but themselves for having so completely screwed up this child that he's able to do such a thing.
Hmm, that's an interesting one. Something as simple as 'this object is in Wikipedia, point phone here to find out about it' has potential. 'specially if e.g. a museum has an extensive database that it's delivering over wi-fi or something, so you can 'make notes' of that thing that really interested you.
Can't you do that with a regular bar code and an extensive database?
Yes, certainly. At least, provided you've a way to read the normal barcode. Which is kinda the point - Windows Mobile devices aren't quite ubiquitous, but they're a lot more prevalent than barcode reading PDAs.
I mean as for your server thing you might as well just have the name printed on it, and you can have written on a sheet of paper what it does.
If you're talking just a few servers, certainly this'll work. I think you're perhaps underestimating just how many 'assets' you get in a large datacentre though. When you start talking about 40,000 pieces of paper with server name, IP address, 'owner' contact information, cabling details, power supply/breaker connectivity, maintenance contract details, service level/outage windows, and all the other things that are useful to have at the finger tips, you start talking about building your own nightmare of maintenance.
Several people have had 'barcodes' for phones, but the problem has always been one of image recognition. I've just tried my WinMo phone on the image on the MS website, off my screen. I was quite impressed at how well it managed to cope actually - it doesn't seem to require particularly much image quality to differentiate the layout, which is quite a step ahead of the 'snowflakes' I've seen doing this sort of thing before.
We have asset tags on our servers. To this day I think it'd be very handy to have encoded 'asset important information' on a 'tag' style thing.
I mean, imagine - blip that server in the corner there, and in my hand I now have everything I need to know about it - configuration, downtime constraints, owners, where it's plugged into, etc.
Also, supermarkets - being able to do 'extended show info' on a product, based on personal preferences. Allergy information is the most useful one, but even things like recipe suggestions (look, yummy strawberries - have you considered how they might go with cream, or dipped in chocolate?) or... well, just simple things like collating 'standard information' about stuff in your shopping, like storage life and nutritional value and pricing.
Organ and tissue regeneration. Bonus points if that carries with it clinical immortality, but I'd settle for being able to replace my bits as they start to creak.
Unless you can define your preferences based on a global profile, presumably tied to recognising your voice print. I mean, imagine the scene where Picard gets his first terminal, and runs through set of 'define "hot" 92 degrees' 'define "iced" 6 degrees'. Of course, if he had preferences there, then it'd make much more sense to say 'Computer, Tea', and have it default to 'Earl Grey, Hot':)
Word for word 'literal' dictation wasn't so much though - it was the fact that at a high level you can hand off your stream of conciousness and skip the filler.
"Make an appointment for Mr Johnson to see me next week, and send him a letter to confirm" is a higher level than you'd end up with than if you typed it yourself. Much less about the dication, as much as the ability to outline parameters of a request - including literal text if you're so inclined, but often abstracting somewhat - and then passing it over to someone else to finish.
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One way around actively screws your car up, the other just requires draining/refilling. I can't remember which way around it is, but neither's going to go anywhere :)
I always find myself wondering "what's wrong with water?"
His parents were the people responsible for bringing him up. They were, as you say, the ones who were able to prepare him for making his own choices, and being a moral well integrated member of society. The kid will still make his own choices, but would it suprise you that there's a high correlation between someone growing up to be a well adjusted adult, and how good that upbringing was?
In an office job though, I'm fairly sure people don't really notice that half the people here are actually zombies, and don't really do anything apart from say 'graah' and shuffle about a bit.
But it's all headcount, right?
4 day weeks sound good to me. I'd quite happily do that, and add my "friday" onto the other 4 days, hours wise.
Of course, this probably balances out, as sometimes when this happens I decide do 'actively slack off'.
Depends on the pattern. The problem with anything that rotates like that, especially if it covers 'outside normal hours' is it's murderous on the social life.
However all too often, what 'salary' translates to, is 'you must be in the office in normal business hours, overtime doesn't get paid, but your future prospects will be directly correlated to how long you spend looking like you're working'.
It's ironic really. Henry Ford did actually study the subject of working hours, and realised he got the same productivity when he went from 6 days/week, 12 hours shifts, to 5 days a week 8 hours shifts. He also had a workforce which didn't burn out as quickly.
I'd go as far as to say you'd have to go to some real effort to not notice your child is badly screwed up. Maybe you can't _fix_ it as a parent - but to essentially have so little control of the situation where the child in question is able to gain access to a fire arm and kill someone with it really is a chronic failing on the part of the parents in question.
You can blame a part of it on a culture that thinks 'killing people' is acceptable material for a game, and you can blame another part on a culture that thinks everyone has a right to a weapon for killing people with.
Plenty of blame to go around, but there's absolutely no doubt that the lions share of it must reside with the people responsible for bringing up this child for 17 years.
Not that unusual. More often though, that's reported as 0.5 caliber though. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.50_caliber_handguns
The core point is that the kid (attempts) to murder his parents. Methodology is irrelevant, the fact that he's sufficiently screwed up to try is the concern. Obviously blaming the relatively recently released video game is far more plausible than his parents failing in their duty to bring up a well adjusted kid for 17 years.
Looking at it I consider it far more likely that his lawyer saw a pretty clear cut case, and figured that 'blame it on the video game, you might get a lighter sentence' as the best option.
OK, so they should probably have been more careful with their lockbox - he did still manage, as a minor, to gain access to a firearm.
I guess we could move onto the debate of: If they didn't have a gun in the house, would his attempted murder have had a better net result, but I'm not sure that it's particularly relevant here.
I mean, yeah, you _can_ beat someone to death, and people do die quite easily, but a handgun is a weapon specifically built for the purpose of killing things.
Getting them to close their eyes and hit them with a baseball bat (or knife for that matter) might have ended up with the same result, but the odds of a lethal injury are lower. I mean, that's _why_ people have guns, after all - they're better at killing people than cricket bats.
Addiction: Not dealt with until far too late.
Child: Not able to tell that 'murder' is a bad idea.
How is it anything other than the parents fault? They're responsible for 17 years of this child's development, and he ended up sufficiently screwed up to murder them as they slept. There's no one else you get to pass that responsibility on to.
I mean, it's not like he didn't have Halo 3 to practise his headshots :)
Psychological addiction isn't the same as physical addiction, but I'll agree it's pretty 'real'. However I'd also make the assertion that as a minor, his "addictions" are the responsiblity of his parents as much as his own.
Of course, the fact that as a society we're quite happy about the idea of games that promote violence and armed assault is something to be questioned, there's no doubt in my mind that having your own child murder you is essentially a 'flunk' in the 'basic parenting coursework'.
Basics of parenting include: Don't let your children have firearms. Also teaching them the difference between right and wrong. Or at least, the consequences of being a psychopath.
The game has nothing to do with it, these "parents" have just been admonished for their failure. Although, it's a little bit harsh to get shot in the face, there is no one they can blame but themselves for having so completely screwed up this child that he's able to do such a thing.
Hmm, that's an interesting one. Something as simple as 'this object is in Wikipedia, point phone here to find out about it' has potential. 'specially if e.g. a museum has an extensive database that it's delivering over wi-fi or something, so you can 'make notes' of that thing that really interested you.
Yes, certainly. At least, provided you've a way to read the normal barcode. Which is kinda the point - Windows Mobile devices aren't quite ubiquitous, but they're a lot more prevalent than barcode reading PDAs.
If you're talking just a few servers, certainly this'll work. I think you're perhaps underestimating just how many 'assets' you get in a large datacentre though. When you start talking about 40,000 pieces of paper with server name, IP address, 'owner' contact information, cabling details, power supply/breaker connectivity, maintenance contract details, service level/outage windows, and all the other things that are useful to have at the finger tips, you start talking about building your own nightmare of maintenance.
Several people have had 'barcodes' for phones, but the problem has always been one of image recognition. I've just tried my WinMo phone on the image on the MS website, off my screen. I was quite impressed at how well it managed to cope actually - it doesn't seem to require particularly much image quality to differentiate the layout, which is quite a step ahead of the 'snowflakes' I've seen doing this sort of thing before.
I mean, imagine - blip that server in the corner there, and in my hand I now have everything I need to know about it - configuration, downtime constraints, owners, where it's plugged into, etc.
Also, supermarkets - being able to do 'extended show info' on a product, based on personal preferences. Allergy information is the most useful one, but even things like recipe suggestions (look, yummy strawberries - have you considered how they might go with cream, or dipped in chocolate?) or ... well, just simple things like collating 'standard information' about stuff in your shopping, like storage life and nutritional value and pricing.
The guy that stole their car might not know the rules, but then even if they did they probably wouldn't care ;)
Even more places have roads that go approximately straight.
Organ and tissue regeneration. Bonus points if that carries with it clinical immortality, but I'd settle for being able to replace my bits as they start to creak.
Unless you can define your preferences based on a global profile, presumably tied to recognising your voice print. I mean, imagine the scene where Picard gets his first terminal, and runs through set of 'define "hot" 92 degrees' 'define "iced" 6 degrees'. Of course, if he had preferences there, then it'd make much more sense to say 'Computer, Tea', and have it default to 'Earl Grey, Hot' :)
"Make an appointment for Mr Johnson to see me next week, and send him a letter to confirm" is a higher level than you'd end up with than if you typed it yourself. Much less about the dication, as much as the ability to outline parameters of a request - including literal text if you're so inclined, but often abstracting somewhat - and then passing it over to someone else to finish.