Or look at individual States, New Jersey has a pop density of 1.2k per square mile but they don't have internet connectivity comparable to the Netherlands or South Korea.
And if you were to look at the second graph on the linked article, you might see that New Jersey, if it were a country, comes in 4th, just behind Hong Kong, and ahead of Switzerland and Netherlands. Vermont, New Hampshire, and Delaware would all come in second, just behind South Korea.
Lesson from that is to build cities that (a) enable people to live without needing a car for everything and (b) provide better public transport services.
Except that Big Oil won't like that and similarly none of the politicians in the pockets of Big Oil will be in favor of that.
No, it's not just Big Oil and the politicians. *I* don't want to live there. And I am not in their pocket.
I've lived in those situations before. Hirise just outside of Madrid. Many apartments here and there. Hell, I born in NYC. Spent a lot of time there visiting relatives.
Don't want to do it again. I like having a little bit of space. I don't want to hear the kids upstairs. I don't want to have to walk around on tiptoes so as not to bother anyone downstairs.
$1500/mo for an apartment in the city, close to everything, or $1500/mo for a 1/2 acre with a house? No contest....the house every time.
Thankfully, we have that choice. Let's keep that choice open.
It's not always "old guys" saying this. Often, it also seems to be urban hipsters, living in a few selected enclaves where everything is within easy walking distance and/or with abundant public transport. Completely ignoring the reality of the other 99% of the country.
The military puts the current president under house arrest. Along with the Cabinet, and has warrants out for several hundred other high officials. Then, they (the military) appoint some other guy to be president. The only reason this new guy is there is because the military heads said "OK dude...you're up". He knows very well which side his peta bread is buttered on.
OK, not direct military control, but control by proxy.
I have also heard the same from manager types in private sector, non-military companies. They had told me in no uncertain terms that they equate ex-military with slackers that have an endless variety of ways of getting out of doing any meaningful work. They claimed this was based entirely on past experience of hiring ex-military.
And when I retired in the late 90's, I heard exactly the opposite. The company (billion dollar multinational), and the CTO, that hired me told me specifically that they like to hire ex-military. I worked for them for almost a decade, and at least 1/3 the IT staff was ex-military.
I thought there was a real reason historically but it just seems that car dealers effectively lobbied their state governments to introduce these "Franchise Laws" after they were established
Because then, as now, car dealers are businessmen. And hang out with the lawmakers. Or are actual lawmakers themselves. Like Scott Rigell in Virginia. Who owns Freedom Ford. Do you really think he would craft laws that challenge the car dealer status quo? Not likely.
Many, many issues abound here. How secure is the separation between the two networks? What protections do I have in case of someone using my connection maliciously? How will this affect my total bandwidth and speed?
do you really think anybody cares about the limitations? i just want to play fun, good quality games. shit games are shit even if i buy them used. i have xbox online anyway so there's no difference it if phones home. in short, mountians out of molehills, you know what that means?
A couple million military members and contractors do care about that. Phone home once a day? Hardcore region locked? Always on microphone? Not happening.
How many of you have received a check from the insurance company to replace a vehicle that was totaled as a direct result of phone use? I have. Trust me...hanging upside down, covered in broken glass, does not make for a fun afternoon.
You cannot multitask nearly as well as you think you can. You might want to look out the windows once in a while, rather than looking at the phone. Unlike the bimbo that t-boned me.
If you self-important phone users would just put the goddamn phone down and actually drive the car, we wouldn't need initiatives like this.
The article, and the/. submission has but one purpose. To bash the US. It even says that right in the/. headline "US Lags at 4th".
Take some small subset of the data, and you can show that any country 'lags'. Why isn't this titled - "South Korea, probably the most connected country on the planet, comes in at dead last with 0% IPv6 adoption" ?
Plans for these have been around forever. Many, many people have built them. hovercraft.com has many plans and kits for sale.
When my son was 9, he called me at work one day. "Dad, do we have a leaf blower?"....Yes..."Do we have a piece of plywood 4 feet wide?"....Yes. (I can see the wheels turning)...He goes on to list a bunch of other parts. 'Ok, dude....why?' "I have a science project! I want to make a hovercraft!"
"OK then." He had gone online and found plans for a simple floating platform. No forward thrust, powered by a leaf blower.
It worked well enough to float my fatass down the driveway.
He got an A. My wife freaked out when I chose this as a teaching moment in how to use a circular saw.
Check the specific terms, but usually no. IMHO. The extended warranty company already has your money. They have every incentive not to give any of it back in the form of a repair.
I had this exact issue with an extended warranty on a slightly used car. Something broke, but as part of the chain of breaking parts was a non-covered part, the timing belt (a consumable), everything after that was not covered. The initial break was a covered part, but that did not matter. Their default answer was deny, deny, deny. Eventually they threw me a bone and paid half.
The tanker was there anyway. it also had to return to Hickam with the F-22's to tank them on the way.
The software glitch was a one time thing, in a brand new aircraft. Fixed within 36 hours.
But yes. Let's continue the theme that the pilots suck, the aircraft are useless, and up until recent times, each and every deployment (be it people or a new machine) went perfectly.
1, it is task oriented. You are not gabbing about grocery lists, or where Ralph in accounting left the Finster file. 2. It is a half-duplex conversation. Your brain is not engaged in listening for the other person to say something, until you release the mic button.
I don't care how Siri was 'designed to be used'. I care abut how it actually works in practice. Do people actually look at the screen? Yes. Is it stable enough and good enough that people actually trust it to not screw up the text? No.
I may be a biased commentator, but I am currently on the hunt for a replacement vehicle specifically because of a texting driver. Luckily, I am still vertical and breathing.
This is but the precursor to the concepts in the book 'The Light of Other Days'. Yes, the past is 100 or 1000 years ago. It is also 0.5 seconds ago.
Do we really want to be under that microscope? Oh well...we won't have a choice. Someone will build it, and we will gladly pay through the nose to have it.
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Or look at individual States, New Jersey has a pop density of 1.2k per square mile but they don't have internet connectivity comparable to the Netherlands or South Korea.
And if you were to look at the second graph on the linked article, you might see that New Jersey, if it were a country, comes in 4th, just behind Hong Kong, and ahead of Switzerland and Netherlands.
Vermont, New Hampshire, and Delaware would all come in second, just behind South Korea.
A server is a server. You can run as many VM's as you want on a server, but every VM exists on a real, physical, rack-mounted, power-consuming server.
I have let's say 4 VM servers, residing on a single physical box. Is that 1, 4, or 5 'servers'?
Lesson from that is to build cities that (a) enable people to live without needing a car for everything and (b) provide better public transport services.
Except that Big Oil won't like that and similarly none of the politicians in the pockets of Big Oil will be in favor of that.
No, it's not just Big Oil and the politicians.
*I* don't want to live there. And I am not in their pocket.
I've lived in those situations before. Hirise just outside of Madrid. Many apartments here and there. Hell, I born in NYC. Spent a lot of time there visiting relatives.
Don't want to do it again. I like having a little bit of space. I don't want to hear the kids upstairs. I don't want to have to walk around on tiptoes so as not to bother anyone downstairs.
$1500/mo for an apartment in the city, close to everything, or $1500/mo for a 1/2 acre with a house? No contest....the house every time.
Thankfully, we have that choice. Let's keep that choice open.
It's not always "old guys" saying this. Often, it also seems to be urban hipsters, living in a few selected enclaves where everything is within easy walking distance and/or with abundant public transport.
Completely ignoring the reality of the other 99% of the country.
Who paid for it often has little relevance on if it was actually done.
"Here's $500,000 to refit your fleet"
"Ok, thanks. We'll get right on that."
The military puts the current president under house arrest. Along with the Cabinet, and has warrants out for several hundred other high officials. Then, they (the military) appoint some other guy to be president. The only reason this new guy is there is because the military heads said "OK dude...you're up". He knows very well which side his peta bread is buttered on.
OK, not direct military control, but control by proxy.
Or in Redneckistan Virginia, 50/25 (FiOS) for $45.
They've been building this out since 2007. Currently 70,000 panels, 13 MW AC.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nellis_Solar_Power_Plant
People in California seem to think that everyone else has this burning desire to live in California.
We don't.
I have also heard the same from manager types in private sector, non-military companies. They had told me in no uncertain terms that they equate ex-military with slackers that have an endless variety of ways of getting out of doing any meaningful work. They claimed this was based entirely on past experience of hiring ex-military.
And when I retired in the late 90's, I heard exactly the opposite. The company (billion dollar multinational), and the CTO, that hired me told me specifically that they like to hire ex-military. I worked for them for almost a decade, and at least 1/3 the IT staff was ex-military.
I thought there was a real reason historically but it just seems that car dealers effectively lobbied their state governments to introduce these "Franchise Laws" after they were established
Because then, as now, car dealers are businessmen. And hang out with the lawmakers.
Or are actual lawmakers themselves. Like Scott Rigell in Virginia. Who owns Freedom Ford. Do you really think he would craft laws that challenge the car dealer status quo? Not likely.
Does no work for you?
Many, many issues abound here. How secure is the separation between the two networks? What protections do I have in case of someone using my connection maliciously? How will this affect my total bandwidth and speed?
do you really think anybody cares about the limitations? i just want to play fun, good quality games. shit games are shit even if i buy them used. i have xbox online anyway so there's no difference it if phones home. in short, mountians out of molehills, you know what that means?
A couple million military members and contractors do care about that. Phone home once a day? Hardcore region locked? Always on microphone? Not happening.
I am as rabidly anti phone use in the car as anyone you'll ever meet. But this is way beyond reasonable.
How many of you have received a check from the insurance company to replace a vehicle that was totaled as a direct result of phone use? I have. Trust me...hanging upside down, covered in broken glass, does not make for a fun afternoon.
You cannot multitask nearly as well as you think you can. You might want to look out the windows once in a while, rather than looking at the phone. Unlike the bimbo that t-boned me.
If you self-important phone users would just put the goddamn phone down and actually drive the car, we wouldn't need initiatives like this.
Introduced Americans or Native Americans?
What you'll find is that the introduced type significantly more defective.
Oh, you mean Europeans?
How big? IBM big.
The article, and the /. submission has but one purpose. To bash the US. /. headline "US Lags at 4th".
It even says that right in the
Take some small subset of the data, and you can show that any country 'lags'. Why isn't this titled - "South Korea, probably the most connected country on the planet, comes in at dead last with 0% IPv6 adoption" ?
I can, and a decade+ later so can he.
Plans for these have been around forever. Many, many people have built them.
hovercraft.com has many plans and kits for sale.
When my son was 9, he called me at work one day. "Dad, do we have a leaf blower?"....Yes..."Do we have a piece of plywood 4 feet wide?"....Yes. (I can see the wheels turning)...He goes on to list a bunch of other parts.
'Ok, dude....why?'
"I have a science project! I want to make a hovercraft!"
"OK then." He had gone online and found plans for a simple floating platform. No forward thrust, powered by a leaf blower.
It worked well enough to float my fatass down the driveway.
He got an A. My wife freaked out when I chose this as a teaching moment in how to use a circular saw.
Check the specific terms, but usually no. IMHO.
The extended warranty company already has your money. They have every incentive not to give any of it back in the form of a repair.
I had this exact issue with an extended warranty on a slightly used car. Something broke, but as part of the chain of breaking parts was a non-covered part, the timing belt (a consumable), everything after that was not covered. The initial break was a covered part, but that did not matter.
Their default answer was deny, deny, deny. Eventually they threw me a bone and paid half.
The tanker was there anyway. it also had to return to Hickam with the F-22's to tank them on the way.
The software glitch was a one time thing, in a brand new aircraft. Fixed within 36 hours.
But yes. Let's continue the theme that the pilots suck, the aircraft are useless, and up until recent times, each and every deployment (be it people or a new machine) went perfectly.
Pilots and radios are completely different.
1, it is task oriented. You are not gabbing about grocery lists, or where Ralph in accounting left the Finster file.
2. It is a half-duplex conversation. Your brain is not engaged in listening for the other person to say something, until you release the mic button.
I don't care how Siri was 'designed to be used'. I care abut how it actually works in practice.
Do people actually look at the screen? Yes.
Is it stable enough and good enough that people actually trust it to not screw up the text? No.
I may be a biased commentator, but I am currently on the hunt for a replacement vehicle specifically because of a texting driver. Luckily, I am still vertical and breathing.
This is but the precursor to the concepts in the book 'The Light of Other Days'. Yes, the past is 100 or 1000 years ago. It is also 0.5 seconds ago.
Do we really want to be under that microscope? Oh well...we won't have a choice. Someone will build it, and we will gladly pay through the nose to have it.