We XP embedded in a (duh) embedded application. It's OK for the most part, but there are two problems. First, since the system is not patched after manufacture, viruses are a problem. Yes, it's partially bad design - but viruses won't be a problem with QNX. Security through obscurity means fewer support calls. The other problem is that it decides to take a little break every once in a while. It's probably just cleaning up memory or something, and it only lasts a few hundred milliseconds - but it is enough that we have to make allowances for that in the real-time part of our system (which runs mostly on vxWorks and on DSPs). Coincidentally, we used to run QNX (pre acquisition by Blackberry) for this application, but had to switch because an important library was unsupported. Also, at the time USB thumbdrive support was not good in QNX (and utterly atrocious in vxWorks). If Ford is doing anything that cannot tolerate a little 100ms timeout once in a while, then they conceivably would need to switch to a real-time OS.
Reboot Restore Rx is a free solution. It puts Windows back to the "frozen" state at each boot. I move the user directories over to another partition so that those are persistent. When you want to add a new program or make some other change, you simply log in as an Admin and disable the tool from the notification icon, make your changes, and then re-enable the tool after a reboot. It works with any version of Windows back to 2000.
That is not true. Nazis held large swaths of territory in Africa, and if you visit the Holocaust Museum in DC you can see exhibits about their attempts at bringing science to racial classification.
You can even cache, if you have access to the certs on the client. Google "squid in the middle". Any school or work environment with legit reasons to filter or cache content still can.
There's a bunch of people at work who smoke cigarettes several times each day. They get to go outside and have more fresh air than the rest of us. Cigarettes must be fine, because these people are doing it every day. I even saw a journalist smoke once.
People are touching on it every day. We answer race-based questions on our census, and almost every government form we fill out. Talk of the "achievement gap" is one of the dominant themes in education at the moment. There is nothing even remotely taboo about race-centered research. These is a taboo on interpreting the results as "blacks are dumb", or however one likes to couch it.
To do so, you would have to first come up with a scientific definition of the term "race". I submit that any "scientific" classification system that cannot describe most of the US population is not all that useful when trying to study the US population.
Of course, like almost everything in life, even that statement is too straightforward. Reality is far more nuanced. There is no denying that when you look at black vs. white students there is an "achievement gap", even after correcting for socioeconomic factors. But what are you going to do? Force more school time on people who self-identify as black? That would certainly cut down on the number of people who self-identify as black, at least officially. You could reject race and force remedial training for the poorest performers. That would close the bottom part of the gap, but would do nothing for the middle and top. Not a "black and white" problem at all - very vexing. In my community, there is an organization which targets blacks and they are trying to encourage black kids to attend their enrichment programs. The programs are not exclusionary, but all of the outreach is to blacks. I think this is promising - but will only snag the families who already value education enough to give up a Saturday, so not likely to help the lowest performers.
It is in some places, in others white politicians might throw bananas at black politicians. If you are willing to go back 75 years, you had a whole militaristic society based on white supremacy, and another based on Asian supremacy. With all of the Nazi scientists working on racial research, don't you think they would have come up with something that supported their worldview? They tried all sorts of things, and none of it holds up to any kind of scientific scrutiny.
So yeah, it might be fair to say that it is taboo, here and now. But plenty of "research" has been done in the past and there remain a few societies that would love to have scientific proof of one group's genetic superiority to another. Nothing ever has come of it, because it appears to be nonsense.
We should make an email viewer that de-moronifies school emails. In all fairness to the teachers, the content delivery systems that they are stuck with are also very painful.
It's still a valid point. Certainly there is some value in trying to change the existing organization, but if you disagree with the leadership then it makes sense to "break up". You can download and use the entire Wikipedia database for free in whatever project you end up supporting.
For reasons that escape me, my kids' teachers use clip art on everything. You get a flyer with 5 words on it and twice as many clip-art renderings of school buses and apples.
And all it would take is a bit of time on your part to use cash and monitor your bank account.
No, "all" that it would take is for me to convince the rest of the population to also stop using their cards, because the transaction cost is already baked-in.
I spend roughly $200/week on "pocket money". Groceries mostly, but also meals out, dry cleaning, sundries, clothes, etc. I know this because I budget fairly tightly. That's roughly $10,000/year, and between $100-200 in additional costs due to transaction fees. Over 50 years that is $10,000 using the larger number. Meh. I'll pay $100,000 in car insurance over the same period, and that doesn't save me from having to take "a bit of time... to use cash and monitor" my bank account.
And finally, there is one thing you might not have considered - street robberies might pick up if everyone started carrying around more cash. Right now someone who robbed me would get $3. I've seen this happen in "real life". When I was in college the neighboring school was Ivy League, and those students developed a reputation for carrying a large amount of cash (> $100). Criminals would come into our city from surrounding cities to mug students, because of this reputation. The problem solved itself when we all stopped carrying cash.
You might not like this answer, but I recognize that they are making a few percent and I'm cool with it. It is a couple of things to me: 1. Convenient. I can track my spending. I can pay for things online. I don't have to constantly hit the ATM. If I'm short a few bucks, they spot me the money without me having to hit up friends, family, or take out a loan. 2. Insurance - if I lose my wallet or I'm robbed, I don't lose any money.
Am I getting my money's worth? I think so. Compare to a state sales tax, for instance.
The stores get something, too - I used to work retail and I hated doing the cash drops. You feel like such a target. Dealing with cash is not zero-cost or zero-risk. Employee theft, counterfeit bills, mistakes, robbery, change, transaction times, etc...
Which is great until sometime between steps 6 and 7 the customer overspends on their credit card.
That's my wife and I. I still have credit cards, but we use prepaid cards as our budgeting tool. When the money on the card is gone, oh well - wait 'till next week. It's kind of like the old "envelope budgeting" but simpler.
On the other hand, I don't really have a problem with programs that actively solicit the under-represented party - so long as they are not exclusionary. So if they call it a "girls event" to try and draw in girls but actually don't forbid boys from participating I'm OK with it. It's not like they'll be checking genitalia at the door.
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We XP embedded in a (duh) embedded application. It's OK for the most part, but there are two problems. First, since the system is not patched after manufacture, viruses are a problem. Yes, it's partially bad design - but viruses won't be a problem with QNX. Security through obscurity means fewer support calls. The other problem is that it decides to take a little break every once in a while. It's probably just cleaning up memory or something, and it only lasts a few hundred milliseconds - but it is enough that we have to make allowances for that in the real-time part of our system (which runs mostly on vxWorks and on DSPs). Coincidentally, we used to run QNX (pre acquisition by Blackberry) for this application, but had to switch because an important library was unsupported. Also, at the time USB thumbdrive support was not good in QNX (and utterly atrocious in vxWorks). If Ford is doing anything that cannot tolerate a little 100ms timeout once in a while, then they conceivably would need to switch to a real-time OS.
We are all capable of making our own decisions
I think you are getting drunk wrong.
Explain why it is our problem, and why the force of the state is necessary to provide you a living?
Reboot Restore Rx is a free solution. It puts Windows back to the "frozen" state at each boot. I move the user directories over to another partition so that those are persistent. When you want to add a new program or make some other change, you simply log in as an Admin and disable the tool from the notification icon, make your changes, and then re-enable the tool after a reboot. It works with any version of Windows back to 2000.
Why not? My kids don't have tax returns or anything like that on there and it's behind a NAT.
That is not true. Nazis held large swaths of territory in Africa, and if you visit the Holocaust Museum in DC you can see exhibits about their attempts at bringing science to racial classification.
You can even cache, if you have access to the certs on the client. Google "squid in the middle". Any school or work environment with legit reasons to filter or cache content still can.
Yes, they are finally nailing down the technology for smaller vehicles, but it's still problematic to scale it up to "truck".
A universe is what happens when God clogs a black hole?
There's a bunch of people at work who smoke cigarettes several times each day. They get to go outside and have more fresh air than the rest of us. Cigarettes must be fine, because these people are doing it every day. I even saw a journalist smoke once.
People are touching on it every day. We answer race-based questions on our census, and almost every government form we fill out. Talk of the "achievement gap" is one of the dominant themes in education at the moment. There is nothing even remotely taboo about race-centered research. These is a taboo on interpreting the results as "blacks are dumb", or however one likes to couch it.
To do so, you would have to first come up with a scientific definition of the term "race". I submit that any "scientific" classification system that cannot describe most of the US population is not all that useful when trying to study the US population.
Of course, like almost everything in life, even that statement is too straightforward. Reality is far more nuanced. There is no denying that when you look at black vs. white students there is an "achievement gap", even after correcting for socioeconomic factors. But what are you going to do? Force more school time on people who self-identify as black? That would certainly cut down on the number of people who self-identify as black, at least officially. You could reject race and force remedial training for the poorest performers. That would close the bottom part of the gap, but would do nothing for the middle and top. Not a "black and white" problem at all - very vexing. In my community, there is an organization which targets blacks and they are trying to encourage black kids to attend their enrichment programs. The programs are not exclusionary, but all of the outreach is to blacks. I think this is promising - but will only snag the families who already value education enough to give up a Saturday, so not likely to help the lowest performers.
It is in some places, in others white politicians might throw bananas at black politicians. If you are willing to go back 75 years, you had a whole militaristic society based on white supremacy, and another based on Asian supremacy. With all of the Nazi scientists working on racial research, don't you think they would have come up with something that supported their worldview? They tried all sorts of things, and none of it holds up to any kind of scientific scrutiny.
So yeah, it might be fair to say that it is taboo, here and now. But plenty of "research" has been done in the past and there remain a few societies that would love to have scientific proof of one group's genetic superiority to another. Nothing ever has come of it, because it appears to be nonsense.
We should make an email viewer that de-moronifies school emails. In all fairness to the teachers, the content delivery systems that they are stuck with are also very painful.
It's still a valid point. Certainly there is some value in trying to change the existing organization, but if you disagree with the leadership then it makes sense to "break up". You can download and use the entire Wikipedia database for free in whatever project you end up supporting.
I'll open the ".DOC" file that they send via email and see :)
For reasons that escape me, my kids' teachers use clip art on everything. You get a flyer with 5 words on it and twice as many clip-art renderings of school buses and apples.
And all it would take is a bit of time on your part to use cash and monitor your bank account.
No, "all" that it would take is for me to convince the rest of the population to also stop using their cards, because the transaction cost is already baked-in.
I spend roughly $200/week on "pocket money". Groceries mostly, but also meals out, dry cleaning, sundries, clothes, etc. I know this because I budget fairly tightly. That's roughly $10,000/year, and between $100-200 in additional costs due to transaction fees. Over 50 years that is $10,000 using the larger number. Meh. I'll pay $100,000 in car insurance over the same period, and that doesn't save me from having to take "a bit of time... to use cash and monitor" my bank account.
And finally, there is one thing you might not have considered - street robberies might pick up if everyone started carrying around more cash. Right now someone who robbed me would get $3. I've seen this happen in "real life". When I was in college the neighboring school was Ivy League, and those students developed a reputation for carrying a large amount of cash (> $100). Criminals would come into our city from surrounding cities to mug students, because of this reputation. The problem solved itself when we all stopped carrying cash.
The processing contracts specifically allow gas stations an exemption, but only for the gas.
You might not like this answer, but I recognize that they are making a few percent and I'm cool with it. It is a couple of things to me:
1. Convenient. I can track my spending. I can pay for things online. I don't have to constantly hit the ATM. If I'm short a few bucks, they spot me the money without me having to hit up friends, family, or take out a loan.
2. Insurance - if I lose my wallet or I'm robbed, I don't lose any money.
Am I getting my money's worth? I think so. Compare to a state sales tax, for instance.
The stores get something, too - I used to work retail and I hated doing the cash drops. You feel like such a target. Dealing with cash is not zero-cost or zero-risk. Employee theft, counterfeit bills, mistakes, robbery, change, transaction times, etc...
Which is great until sometime between steps 6 and 7 the customer overspends on their credit card.
That's my wife and I. I still have credit cards, but we use prepaid cards as our budgeting tool. When the money on the card is gone, oh well - wait 'till next week. It's kind of like the old "envelope budgeting" but simpler.
Zing!
Maybe, but the legacy systems administrators are just high-tech janitors.
On the other hand, I don't really have a problem with programs that actively solicit the under-represented party - so long as they are not exclusionary. So if they call it a "girls event" to try and draw in girls but actually don't forbid boys from participating I'm OK with it. It's not like they'll be checking genitalia at the door.
It reverted to "reasonable and prudent" for a short time in the mid-90s after the feds no longer required a 55 speed limit.