*A human being* testifying "yes, I personally took that photo, and the print you're showing the jury fairly represents what I saw when I took the picture" is evidentiary: that's your accuser.
Who's your accuser in a red-light-camera ticket case? How do you confront him?
Even more reason why they should provide useful status messages: the odds are *much* higher than might be intuitively obvious that the person doing the install can make use of them.
I'm likewise unimpressed with the *order* in which he swapped components; you generally do it in descending order of "likely to be causing this problem".
Shame his installer didn't have a copy of Memtest+ on it, too, ain't it?
just rolls right on past the fact that, if what he was installing was -- oh, say -- a Linux distribution, he wouldn't have an opaque "I'm uncompressing files" thermometer, he'd have real progress status messages, with, y'know, *parameters* and stuff, and -- unlike me this morning with my boss's iPhone -- a hope of actually figuring out what's broken.
But he's apparently completely blind to the fact that that's the *real* problem here.
"We'll just make fault-tolerant users", indeed
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"Because making Unix user-friendly was easier than debugging Windows". The quote is originally attributable to Simon Slavin, on alt.folklore.computers; I stole it from him for a sig quote ca 2003.
> There is nothing in the owners manual that would tell me that you have to hold in the start/stop button in to stop it, I looked. That is beyond bullshit.
This one depends on the car. My 1987 BMW 635 had a separate switch on the clutch pedal to cancel cruise, which was calibrated to trip *before* you got any appreciable amount of slip on the clutch; I understand that's somewhere between "fairly common" and "an FMVSS requirement".
All of your assertions there assume no failure in the cruise control controller and the solenoid (usually vacuum controlled) which actually pulls on the throttle cable.
Come back when you understand how vehicle control systems actually work, and you're not just stylin'.:-)
I do so love the way you say that. Just as if "under a minute" is anything like a short enough time to avoid an accident in the conditions the parent post suggests, which are not at all uncommon.
Oh, wait: those conditions aren't compatible with the only thing you have to say... so you ignore them. Got it.
Well, that depends on whether you consider "requires the user to install one plugin once, for every site" constitutes "in the browser", since I'm pretty sure that's the present state of affairs on Mozilla, at least. Whether there's a browser-side plugin for python on IE, I don't know; I avoid IE whenever possible. Since I'm the IT director, it's *always* possible.:-)
That was me. And, incidentally, "low-tech" has nothing to do with this. If you read TFA, you'll see that Senator Moynihan was led down the garden path by IBM, whom the section helped to the tune of $60M a year...
Even he renounced the change, but they could never get it repealed.
But there is right-of-publicity, and commercial use has different rules than editorial use; Olympians -- excuse me: "atheletes who compete in the biannual international sporting events held around the world -- may sign an agreement that restricts them from allowing companies to use their names commercially without their own agreement with the IOC.
And let's note that all the neodymium magnet manufacturing was bought out by China, and moved offshore... *and* they have most of the raw material, too.
If you figure in everything that can reasonably be called "nuclear medicine", and cume for the entire planet, "nuclear" has *saved* more lives over the last 50 years than it's killed -- even if you add in Hiroshima, Nagasaki, *and* Cherynobl. (I believe I'm remembering the assertion properly).
An assertion was recently made -- I think it was in Cracked, so do your own math:-) -- that the Simpsons' depiction of nuc-u-lar power has set the cause of real nuclear power back a full generation in the US.
I'm inclined to believe it... People are really, *really* stupid.
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Naw; that's 42USC1983, and it provides for treble financial damages, not imprisonment.
I'm going to go whisper it in this guy's ear, though.
He is.
Fighting an illegal ticket, that is.
Photos are *not evidentiary material in court*.
*A human being* testifying "yes, I personally took that photo, and the print you're showing the jury fairly represents what I saw when I took the picture" is evidentiary: that's your accuser.
Who's your accuser in a red-light-camera ticket case? How do you confront him?
*Why* don't people press the 6th amendment?
Correct. Both adjustments help.
My dad did signs and signals for Boston Mass for 30 years.
Even more reason why they should provide useful status messages: the odds are *much* higher than might be intuitively obvious that the person doing the install can make use of them.
I'm likewise unimpressed with the *order* in which he swapped components; you generally do it in descending order of "likely to be causing this problem".
Shame his installer didn't have a copy of Memtest+ on it, too, ain't it?
just rolls right on past the fact that, if what he was installing was -- oh, say -- a Linux distribution, he wouldn't have an opaque "I'm uncompressing files" thermometer, he'd have real progress status messages, with, y'know, *parameters* and stuff, and -- unlike me this morning with my boss's iPhone -- a hope of actually figuring out what's broken.
But he's apparently completely blind to the fact that that's the *real* problem here.
"We'll just make fault-tolerant users", indeed
"Because making Unix user-friendly was easier than debugging Windows". The quote is originally attributable to Simon Slavin, on alt.folklore.computers; I stole it from him for a sig quote ca 2003.
> There is nothing in the owners manual that would tell me that you have to hold in the start/stop button in to stop it, I looked. That is beyond bullshit.
What; you've never had to shut down a PC before?
This one depends on the car. My 1987 BMW 635 had a separate switch on the clutch pedal to cancel cruise, which was calibrated to trip *before* you got any appreciable amount of slip on the clutch; I understand that's somewhere between "fairly common" and "an FMVSS requirement".
All of your assertions there assume no failure in the cruise control controller and the solenoid (usually vacuum controlled) which actually pulls on the throttle cable.
Come back when you understand how vehicle control systems actually work, and you're not just stylin'. :-)
Lincolns and Cadillacs are *much larger* cars -- there's more room to separate the pedals in them.
I do so love the way you say that. Just as if "under a minute" is anything like a short enough time to avoid an accident in the conditions the parent post suggests, which are not at all uncommon.
Oh, wait: those conditions aren't compatible with the only thing you have to say... so you ignore them. Got it.
It's not trivial to shift into neutral *in a car with an electronically controlled automatic*.
The more things that are drive by wire, the more complexity there is on paths where you really don't want more complexity.
It's fairly difficult to quantify complexity, but it's so easy to estimate it that there's really no call for this.
Read *any* of the last 25 year's issues of RISKS Digest for more on this.
FWIW: the colophons generally (I'm tempted to say always) explain the theory behind which a given animal was picked for a cover.
Well, that depends on whether you consider "requires the user to install one plugin once, for every site" constitutes "in the browser", since I'm pretty sure that's the present state of affairs on Mozilla, at least. Whether there's a browser-side plugin for python on IE, I don't know; I avoid IE whenever possible. Since I'm the IT director, it's *always* possible. :-)
That was me. And, incidentally, "low-tech" has nothing to do with this. If you read TFA, you'll see that Senator Moynihan was led down the garden path by IBM, whom the section helped to the tune of $60M a year...
Even he renounced the change, but they could never get it repealed.
Extremely viscous.
Not much chance of you slipping through the cracks at all.
In a related story, UVEX needs to hire a new staff poet; the scansion on that is *miserable*.
But there is right-of-publicity, and commercial use has different rules than editorial use; Olympians -- excuse me: "atheletes who compete in the biannual international sporting events held around the world -- may sign an agreement that restricts them from allowing companies to use their names commercially without their own agreement with the IOC.
Terrapower, a project of Gates buddy Nathan Myhrvold's Intellectual Ventures, on their Traveling Wave Reactor:
http://www.intellectualventures.com/docs/terrappower/IV_Introducing%20TWR_3_6_09.pdf
also:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traveling_wave_reactor
And let's note that all the neodymium magnet manufacturing was bought out by China, and moved offshore... *and* they have most of the raw material, too.
No they're not:
If you figure in everything that can reasonably be called "nuclear medicine", and cume for the entire planet, "nuclear" has *saved* more lives over the last 50 years than it's killed -- even if you add in Hiroshima, Nagasaki, *and* Cherynobl. (I believe I'm remembering the assertion properly).
An assertion was recently made -- I think it was in Cracked, so do your own math :-) -- that the Simpsons' depiction of nuc-u-lar power has set the cause of real nuclear power back a full generation in the US.
I'm inclined to believe it... People are really, *really* stupid.
> Sadly, US law forbids reprocessing of fuel on US soil.
{{citation-needed}}
Yes, LFTR is reported to be able to eat other reactors' waste, too.
I don't know it well enough to be a fanboi, but it does look pretty promising...
Well, one can hope for LFTR, but I'm not betting on it...
Pebble Bed or CANDU, maybe?
Naw; probably another frickin PWR