They have no such card now. You can get "points" or cash back with no explanation of what a point it. The cash back card has 5% on gas but then 0.25% on everything else.
The video made it clear that it would use "crappiest digital projections" new crappy digital projector. I'm surprised you knew the TM name for the technology.
The examples you gave involve small hazards to society (though extreme to those who pay the price) with small benefits. These are much easier risks to quantity with performance tests. The cost of building thousands of cars for crash testing is not so prohibitive that we haven't done it and vastly improved crash survivability. It is notable that what engineers thought would make a safe car in the 1950s was not so good. It took the actual testing in an emergency situation to find out that the design needed many fixes.
On the other head, a Fukushima type disaster where the wind didn't always blow out to sea and where there was not an ocean nearby to put waste into would be an accident beyond comprehension. As is there will be an exclusion zone for the foreseeable future--and that is in the upwind direction. If TMI had a china syndrome, it could have been that New York City would have had to evacuate indefinitely. The cost to the economy as people's way of life is awesome. Did we make it safe before we took this risk? Well, we thought we did... but then it turned out we just got a little lucky in a very unlucky moment. What will lead to safety improvements over the next several decades? Probably more trial and error. Lets let that happen in France and Japan.
Because I talked to a friend who did some rad. assessment post TMI and he was told, while on site a few days after the incident, that it was just luck.
As for safety, you appear to have drunk the kool-aid, "it's safe now because we have new technology." Similarly, I've been hearing for decades, "the advancement diesel has made over the last 5 or 10 years have made it comparable to gas." The problem is that there is no testing methodology for this type of problem and humans tend to miss the same types of mistakes. The enterprise is inherently unsafe, and some may choose to accept that, but at least acknowledge that is what you are doing.
The GP wrote, "The nuclear industry has an excellent track record - it took decades before the first incident of a civilian reactor letting out any measurable contamination". I agree that the noble gases were not going to pose any threat to anyone. However, the difference between TMI and a china syndrome reactor is just luck.
Just found it in voice, "Directly connects calls when phones are answered" as opposed to what I have it set to, "Announces caller and lets you listen as caller leaves a message." But I can't do the former because I want my home phone to ring too.
Anyways, my wife told me that if she wasn't married to me, she would just hang up when she got the confusing screening message, so the service is basically worthless to me (except for making it easy for my wife to text me).
"Many people who understand how things work are baffled by some current Apple UI choices." I'd guess that this is more like, "I don't know how to use a Mac as well as I know how to use my current OS, so I think it is much better." I think you have to take a few weeks to use an OS before you can judge it, and be sure to ask an expert when you are having problems. I appreciated Windows much more after I did this (though neither Gnome or KDE did much for me when I last did this--I just use the CLI on linux boxes now and wish they had Apple's "open" command and agreed on its name).
fixed? Nothing has changed. You can still drag removable drives to the trash can to eject them, but the main method is still to select eject from a drop down. I actually think this was supposed to be a joke or perhaps easter egg.
Originally, yes, audio was recorded directly onto vinyl. That is why the music is "arranged" because this person would move around performers to get the levels right.
More recently, it was recorded onto very high quality (low noise) analog tapes and then poured onto digital or whatever. You always have clipping, the questions is what do you do about it: analog (tapes, vinyl) do linear up to the clip and then log. CD does linear up to the clip and then top hat. The log isn't ideal, but there isn't anything ideal and it is a lot better than the top hat.
What always bothers me is that, on DVDs, if person is in a dark shot there is often only about four colors on their face and so I can see four (smooth) polygons moving around and I sometimes get stuck in this view and can even briefly lose the sense that it is a face and not four polygons.
Netflix has content owners do rips, they never rip. If you call to complain about a bad rip they often say, "yeah, we know, we have been asking for a new rip for awhile..."
Google Voice, is this for real? I've never called someone and had google voice answer (I use google voice, so I know it scares callers away, but I've never even heard what it says).
Really? I'd say the brake shop would have been liable there, unless there is a failure path that they can't know about, then you just have a shitty car.
As for liability, I imagine it will be like pilots are now. You CAN turn on auto, but you are still responsible for everything that happens.
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I'd argue the Earth's warping of space so I tend to stay near it is really, really useful. That and the sun's kindly keeping us in its vicinity.
I couldn't find anything about cashing in points on these pages. Did they link to it?
They have no such card now. You can get "points" or cash back with no explanation of what a point it. The cash back card has 5% on gas but then 0.25% on everything else.
If what we do on Earth is build ant hills then what we would do on Mars would be ant hills too. Really expensive ant hills, but ant hills nonetheless.
The video made it clear that it would use "crappiest digital projections" new crappy digital projector. I'm surprised you knew the TM name for the technology.
The examples you gave involve small hazards to society (though extreme to those who pay the price) with small benefits. These are much easier risks to quantity with performance tests. The cost of building thousands of cars for crash testing is not so prohibitive that we haven't done it and vastly improved crash survivability. It is notable that what engineers thought would make a safe car in the 1950s was not so good. It took the actual testing in an emergency situation to find out that the design needed many fixes.
On the other head, a Fukushima type disaster where the wind didn't always blow out to sea and where there was not an ocean nearby to put waste into would be an accident beyond comprehension. As is there will be an exclusion zone for the foreseeable future--and that is in the upwind direction. If TMI had a china syndrome, it could have been that New York City would have had to evacuate indefinitely. The cost to the economy as people's way of life is awesome. Did we make it safe before we took this risk? Well, we thought we did... but then it turned out we just got a little lucky in a very unlucky moment. What will lead to safety improvements over the next several decades? Probably more trial and error. Lets let that happen in France and Japan.
Because I talked to a friend who did some rad. assessment post TMI and he was told, while on site a few days after the incident, that it was just luck.
As for safety, you appear to have drunk the kool-aid, "it's safe now because we have new technology." Similarly, I've been hearing for decades, "the advancement diesel has made over the last 5 or 10 years have made it comparable to gas." The problem is that there is no testing methodology for this type of problem and humans tend to miss the same types of mistakes. The enterprise is inherently unsafe, and some may choose to accept that, but at least acknowledge that is what you are doing.
The GP wrote, "The nuclear industry has an excellent track record - it took decades before the first incident of a civilian reactor letting out any measurable contamination". I agree that the noble gases were not going to pose any threat to anyone. However, the difference between TMI and a china syndrome reactor is just luck.
There was measurable contamination from Three Mile Island--there is no doubt that unstable nuclides of nobel gases escaped into the wild.
Good thing they have a fleet to average over.
Just found it in voice, "Directly connects calls when phones are answered" as opposed to what I have it set to, "Announces caller and lets you listen as caller leaves a message." But I can't do the former because I want my home phone to ring too.
Anyways, my wife told me that if she wasn't married to me, she would just hang up when she got the confusing screening message, so the service is basically worthless to me (except for making it easy for my wife to text me).
Michael? He was the only one staying out of the sensational.
Thanks. I had an analog TV at the time, so I guess it was the result of a low quality DAC on the component jacks out or poor encoding.
How, exactly, does that work? It rings on several phones and they get deconflicted how?
"scared of computers" suggests... I don't know... computers. But maybe that is just me.
"Many people who understand how things work are baffled by some current Apple UI choices." I'd guess that this is more like, "I don't know how to use a Mac as well as I know how to use my current OS, so I think it is much better." I think you have to take a few weeks to use an OS before you can judge it, and be sure to ask an expert when you are having problems. I appreciated Windows much more after I did this (though neither Gnome or KDE did much for me when I last did this--I just use the CLI on linux boxes now and wish they had Apple's "open" command and agreed on its name).
fixed? Nothing has changed. You can still drag removable drives to the trash can to eject them, but the main method is still to select eject from a drop down. I actually think this was supposed to be a joke or perhaps easter egg.
2%? They have a two tier system now, there is a fixed cost and then a variable cost (you can look those up on wikipedia if you don't know them).
Yeah, 'cause it is 1994 and Apple isn't Unix.
Originally, yes, audio was recorded directly onto vinyl. That is why the music is "arranged" because this person would move around performers to get the levels right.
More recently, it was recorded onto very high quality (low noise) analog tapes and then poured onto digital or whatever. You always have clipping, the questions is what do you do about it: analog (tapes, vinyl) do linear up to the clip and then log. CD does linear up to the clip and then top hat. The log isn't ideal, but there isn't anything ideal and it is a lot better than the top hat.
What always bothers me is that, on DVDs, if person is in a dark shot there is often only about four colors on their face and so I can see four (smooth) polygons moving around and I sometimes get stuck in this view and can even briefly lose the sense that it is a face and not four polygons.
Netflix has content owners do rips, they never rip. If you call to complain about a bad rip they often say, "yeah, we know, we have been asking for a new rip for awhile..."
Hey, 1994 called, and they want their objections to apple back. "using the trash can to eject"? seriously?
Google Voice, is this for real? I've never called someone and had google voice answer (I use google voice, so I know it scares callers away, but I've never even heard what it says).
Really? I'd say the brake shop would have been liable there, unless there is a failure path that they can't know about, then you just have a shitty car.
As for liability, I imagine it will be like pilots are now. You CAN turn on auto, but you are still responsible for everything that happens.