The idea that a corporate person should have freedom of speech is, I think, a problem. For example, it allows them to spend vast amounts of money on political campaigns. This is undemocratic. Corporations don't get to vote or stand for election, but are allowed to have huge influence over politics through money. Since they are not real people they often act without morals or any sense of human decency, and try to get politicians with a similar disposition elected and the law change to reflect their myopic obsession with profit above all else.
That's true. It's what happens when you only do programming as an occasional hobby instead of a profession.You tend to forget all the tricks you learned in school.
Yes, by putting the year first, it would short circuit the rest of the evals, but my code's goal was to have it not run *only* today, so you definitely want to stick with AND, otherwise you're shutting it down for the whole year.;-)
Ann Arbor's streets look like they were laid out during an argument between English & French surveyors. It's the only place I've ever seen a 2-way street become a 1-way street half way down the street.
A good test for these autonomous vehicles will be "drive within a 2 block radius until you find a parking spot."
I didn't see any mention of Cortana or Google Now. Doesn't seem like a very good study if it excludes those. As a consumer, I'd like to know if any voice recognition performed a lot better during driving than the others. Also, I wonder how distracted they were having gear strapped to their heads?
My 2000 Pontiac Seville has a pretty nice feature on it that lets the drive press an E/M button, and the speedometer automatically converts to metric. No need for 2 scales on the speedometer.
Years back, I worked with one fellow who survived a lightning strike. He said it was actually the best thing that had ever happened to him. Before being hit, he suffered from extreme difficulties obtaining an erection, and even when he managed to get one he couldn't sustain it for more than a minute or two. But after being hit, he said those problems went away. As he described it, he was then able to get the "fattest throbbing fatties" (I think those were his words, or something along those lines) that he'd ever had, and he'd talk about how he could "screw his wife for hours" before ejaculating.
Any time I hear about spinal injuries in rats, it always reminds me of this (go to 3:56). "Well that's good news, huh? Getting all those rats up and around again!":-D
I've heard several people say "I'll google it on Bing." Mostly older people who have Windows 8 & IE as their browser by default. Your argument is invalid.
Linked to by the Dice non-article, can be found here. There appears to be exactly one victim that they can identify. Given the rest of the junk the guy tweets, my guess is it's a troll, done on an older, non-working phone. Sounds like some people are trying to create a news story where none exists.
My understanding is: without religion, there would have been no holocaust.
Your understanding is mistaken. There were Christians who supported Hitler, and there were Christians who opposed him. There were Christians who hated Jews, and there were Christians who hid them & helped them escape. Hitler hated Christians, and would have eventually done the same thing to Christians as he did to Jews. Wikipedia actually has a pretty good description of his religious upbringing and the influence it had on him.
I'm completely paralyzed by your intractable logic.
Sorry if I came across a little harsh. The problem I have is all of the people who just do shoulder shrugging while politicians and bureaucrats run roughshod over our rights.
Regulation is a word that bristles the hair about your neck, but there are enough flaws in the human condition that we pretty much need some rules to protect us from each other.
This may be one of those times.
So basically what you're saying is humans are flawed, so we need some flawed humans to make rules for the rest of the flawed humans? If the people can't be trusted to make decisions for themselves, then how can we trust that they made good decisions when they voted for the current set of elected officials?
If businesses and individuals can have drones, then the terrorists have already won. Sadly, the terrorists won right after 9/11 when the Federal government ballooned into a never before seen size, with the passage of the unPATRIOTic Act. Any time the government gets more power, the people lose.
I hope you guys are enjoying the government you've elected. It doesn't matter if you voted for Bush, Gore, Kerry, Obama, McCain or Romney, the result would all be the same. We kept hearing over and over again "Things like this won't happen when Obama is president!". But guess what? They do happen, and they're happening more often.
That's the end of my libertarian rant. Now start with your straw man attacks.
He had Lasik and they messed up, but it was partly due to a pre-existing issue he had with his eyes. Now he has to take some medicine & eye drops every day.
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The idea that a corporate person should have freedom of speech is, I think, a problem. For example, it allows them to spend vast amounts of money on political campaigns. This is undemocratic. Corporations don't get to vote or stand for election, but are allowed to have huge influence over politics through money. Since they are not real people they often act without morals or any sense of human decency, and try to get politicians with a similar disposition elected and the law change to reflect their myopic obsession with profit above all else.
Same thing for Unions.
According to the alert on CNN, he has just died from Ebola.
That's true. It's what happens when you only do programming as an occasional hobby instead of a profession.You tend to forget all the tricks you learned in school.
Just a nitpick, but it's more efficient to use OR...
while (date.year != 2014 || date.month != 10 || date.day != 7) {
Yes, by putting the year first, it would short circuit the rest of the evals, but my code's goal was to have it not run *only* today, so you definitely want to stick with AND, otherwise you're shutting it down for the whole year. ;-)
Ann Arbor's streets look like they were laid out during an argument between English & French surveyors. It's the only place I've ever seen a 2-way street become a 1-way street half way down the street.
A good test for these autonomous vehicles will be "drive within a 2 block radius until you find a parking spot."
And yes, I realize the real problem was pinging their server.
It was probably short-sighted to write their main event loop like this:
while (!((date.day == 7) && (date.month == 10) && (date.year == 2014))) {
// rest of router code follows
}
I didn't see any mention of Cortana or Google Now. Doesn't seem like a very good study if it excludes those. As a consumer, I'd like to know if any voice recognition performed a lot better during driving than the others. Also, I wonder how distracted they were having gear strapped to their heads?
I know that GM likes to rebrand automobiles and use different nameplates in the Canadian market, but a Pontiac Seville? That's a new one.
Brain lapse on my part. It's a Pontiac Bonneville.
My 2000 Pontiac Seville has a pretty nice feature on it that lets the drive press an E/M button, and the speedometer automatically converts to metric. No need for 2 scales on the speedometer.
Years back, I worked with one fellow who survived a lightning strike. He said it was actually the best thing that had ever happened to him. Before being hit, he suffered from extreme difficulties obtaining an erection, and even when he managed to get one he couldn't sustain it for more than a minute or two. But after being hit, he said those problems went away. As he described it, he was then able to get the "fattest throbbing fatties" (I think those were his words, or something along those lines) that he'd ever had, and he'd talk about how he could "screw his wife for hours" before ejaculating.
So basically, super powers.
Any time I hear about spinal injuries in rats, it always reminds me of this (go to 3:56). "Well that's good news, huh? Getting all those rats up and around again!" :-D
I think we can all agree that ten million sales last year is better than ten million sales today.
You're right. Last year they had a measly 9 million in sales for the first weekend of the iPhone 5s.
Nobody says "well use Bing to google it then".
I've heard several people say "I'll google it on Bing." Mostly older people who have Windows 8 & IE as their browser by default. Your argument is invalid.
The optimal time to launch a larger model would've been then, not a full year later. They missed the boat.
Yeah, to the tune of 10 million sales over the weekend. ;-)
Linked to by the Dice non-article, can be found here. There appears to be exactly one victim that they can identify. Given the rest of the junk the guy tweets, my guess is it's a troll, done on an older, non-working phone. Sounds like some people are trying to create a news story where none exists.
My understanding is: without religion, there would have been no holocaust.
Your understanding is mistaken. There were Christians who supported Hitler, and there were Christians who opposed him. There were Christians who hated Jews, and there were Christians who hid them & helped them escape. Hitler hated Christians, and would have eventually done the same thing to Christians as he did to Jews. Wikipedia actually has a pretty good description of his religious upbringing and the influence it had on him.
I'm completely paralyzed by your intractable logic.
Sorry if I came across a little harsh. The problem I have is all of the people who just do shoulder shrugging while politicians and bureaucrats run roughshod over our rights.
Regulation is a word that bristles the hair about your neck, but there are enough flaws in the human condition that we pretty much need some rules to protect us from each other.
This may be one of those times.
So basically what you're saying is humans are flawed, so we need some flawed humans to make rules for the rest of the flawed humans? If the people can't be trusted to make decisions for themselves, then how can we trust that they made good decisions when they voted for the current set of elected officials?
If businesses and individuals can have drones, then the terrorists have already won. Sadly, the terrorists won right after 9/11 when the Federal government ballooned into a never before seen size, with the passage of the unPATRIOTic Act. Any time the government gets more power, the people lose.
I hope you guys are enjoying the government you've elected. It doesn't matter if you voted for Bush, Gore, Kerry, Obama, McCain or Romney, the result would all be the same. We kept hearing over and over again "Things like this won't happen when Obama is president!". But guess what? They do happen, and they're happening more often.
That's the end of my libertarian rant. Now start with your straw man attacks.
And here's my alibi, officer: I was at the gym and took a swing at a punching bag.
It seems pretty obvious that the tracker would also have GPS to correlate the time of the event with the location.
So if someone steals your phone and buys something with it, they can receive and delete the text confirming their purchase?
They'd also need your fingerprint. If they have that, you probably have bigger concerns.
It's about control. Why else would the government mandate it?
He had Lasik and they messed up, but it was partly due to a pre-existing issue he had with his eyes. Now he has to take some medicine & eye drops every day.
...if its goal was to prevent drug usage.
It's been a rousing success for the law enforcement and prison industries though!