Don't worry - I'm sure feminists are pushing to widen the definition of rape so far it'll include having sex without getting written permission signed in triplicate beforehand and approved by a lawyer.
The term is so widely abused now its almost meaningless and does a disservice to women who have suffered real rape - not just had a change of mind the next morning after the beer goggles wore off and the guy wasn't as hot as they thought.
Hey, are you trying to confuse people with the truth?? You can knock that off right this minute my friend or we'll send the right-on thought police around!
It might be regulations, but I doubt the manufacturers are too cut up about having to supply their own service personal, equipment and parts at a high price to solve these problems.
In europe things went the opposite way , with cars anyway. The EU mandated anyone must be able to interrogate the ECU, clone a keyless fob and service the vehicle via the ODBC2 port. Which is fine, except that now any thief with some cheap equipment can break into keyless cars, clone a key fob within a minute and drive away with it.
Err, the batteries or super capacitors are probably charged up before each shot then discharge during it, so most of the time they'll do very little if you hit them with a shell.
However successive UK governments have seen "improving" the navy as meaning strip it of as many ships as it can. Soon it'll consist of 2 men and a rowing boat. Oh, and one overpriced aircraft carrier with no planes that can fly from it.
3-4 naysayers? More like the majority of the linux community. As for a new init process, sure , there's room for *improvement*. Systemd is not an improvement - its a bug ridden overly complex dogs dinner that is one mans ego trip being ridden roughshod through the whole linux/unix principal of KISS and do one thing well. Now you might not give a stuff about that principal but most of us do and we do not want to see this POS being installed by default.
"You don't install a system and watch how stable it is, but how useful it is"
A system that goes down halfway through updating a million rows of customer data is not terribly useful. The whole point about *nix is its stability. You can leave the Oooh Shiny Features and piss poor stability to Microsoft, they've got that covered.
Try driving in some european cities with windy narrow streets where cars have to pull in to let others pass and drivers cutting each other up left, right and centre. Good luck to a google car managing that. And even they are easy compared to some asian cities where the vehicles can hardly move due to obstructions and people.
Maybe, maybe not. It depends how many people are willing to travel in an automated vehicle if there is an alternative one with a human driver. Plus costs will play a part too - they may be no option if automated cabs can seriously undercut human driven cabs and eventually the latter go out of business.
" I'd predict that eventually everyone will have a subscription to an automatic transportation service."
Err, why? You can be a subscriber to normal taxi services now in many countries. How many people bother? I think you underestimate the desirability of the private car to a large proportion of the population of the planet. And if you think thats just a western viewpoint take a look at whats happened in china in the last 20 years with the exponential increase in private car ownership.
If you don't believe me remove one of the legs of your chair and see how long you can remain upright while sitting on it. Now you sprawled on the floor is also a stable equlibria but I doubt its where you want to be - and similarly a fucked up ecosystem that is "stable" with a highly reduced number of species isn't necessaily a good place to be be for this planets enviroment or frankly us.
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In that case you *seriously* need to get a life.
" do not have a spare phone to revert to should I break the current one. "
So buy one then.
Anyway, if you need your phone for ALL of your work you really should get a better job since you're obviously tied to the office 24/7/365.
Don't worry - I'm sure feminists are pushing to widen the definition of rape so far it'll include having sex without getting written permission signed in triplicate beforehand and approved by a lawyer.
The term is so widely abused now its almost meaningless and does a disservice to women who have suffered real rape - not just had a change of mind the next morning after the beer goggles wore off and the guy wasn't as hot as they thought.
Art is a pastime like knitting or stamp collecting, not a fundamental part of an education to operate in the 21st century.
Hey, are you trying to confuse people with the truth?? You can knock that off right this minute my friend or we'll send the right-on thought police around!
Quite. Though its more than an agenda now - its an entire industry where offense is deliberately being taken in order to manufacture grievances.
Nice rewrite of what actually happened there but lets not let facts get in the way of your standard issue feminist argument.
Jobs was never a programmer and Woz was involved in computers and electronics long before they met.
Most stolen cars are shipped off in containers to countries where no one gives a shit. Its not like they're driven through a port. Ditto parts.
It might be regulations, but I doubt the manufacturers are too cut up about having to supply their own service personal, equipment and parts at a high price to solve these problems.
In europe things went the opposite way , with cars anyway. The EU mandated anyone must be able to interrogate the ECU, clone a keyless fob and service the vehicle via the ODBC2 port. Which is fine, except that now any thief with some cheap equipment can break into keyless cars, clone a key fob within a minute and drive away with it.
Do you think navy ships are still powered by sails or something? FFS.
"What do we need a large navy for now?"
If you think the threat from russia has gone you're kidding youself.
Err, the batteries or super capacitors are probably charged up before each shot then discharge during it, so most of the time they'll do very little if you hit them with a shell.
However successive UK governments have seen "improving" the navy as meaning strip it of as many ships as it can. Soon it'll consist of 2 men and a rowing boat. Oh, and one overpriced aircraft carrier with no planes that can fly from it.
POssibly the moon is formed from 2 bodies colliding and before it could completely settle down into a round shape it froze with that ridge remaining?
Seriously, that guy has been shouting at the pigeons for years. And I speak as an open source user and advocate.
How typical of slashdot - pick and choose responses to suit your own point and dismiss the ones you don't agree with. You've got to laugh :o)
"the 7th fleet is a different story."
I'm not *entirely* sure how much use that would be on the moon.
3-4 naysayers? More like the majority of the linux community. As for a new init process, sure , there's room for *improvement*. Systemd is not an improvement - its a bug ridden overly complex dogs dinner that is one mans ego trip being ridden roughshod through the whole linux/unix principal of KISS and do one thing well. Now you might not give a stuff about that principal but most of us do and we do not want to see this POS being installed by default.
"You don't install a system and watch how stable it is, but how useful it is"
A system that goes down halfway through updating a million rows of customer data is not terribly useful. The whole point about *nix is its stability. You can leave the Oooh Shiny Features and piss poor stability to Microsoft, they've got that covered.
Try driving in some european cities with windy narrow streets where cars have to pull in to let others pass and drivers cutting each other up left, right and centre. Good luck to a google car managing that. And even they are easy compared to some asian cities where the vehicles can hardly move due to obstructions and people.
"That's going to be huge in the future."
Maybe, maybe not. It depends how many people are willing to travel in an automated vehicle if there is an alternative one with a human driver. Plus costs will play a part too - they may be no option if automated cabs can seriously undercut human driven cabs and eventually the latter go out of business.
" I'd predict that eventually everyone will have a subscription to an automatic transportation service."
Err, why? You can be a subscriber to normal taxi services now in many countries. How many people bother? I think you underestimate the desirability of the private car to a large proportion of the population of the planet. And if you think thats just a western viewpoint take a look at whats happened in china in the last 20 years with the exponential increase in private car ownership.
If you don't believe me remove one of the legs of your chair and see how long you can remain upright while sitting on it. Now you sprawled on the floor is also a stable equlibria but I doubt its where you want to be - and similarly a fucked up ecosystem that is "stable" with a highly reduced number of species isn't necessaily a good place to be be for this planets enviroment or frankly us.
If I go back in time and kill the old version of myself - is that suicide or murder?
They did go for C++. On Linux. It was more than just issues with .NET.