The 50s, 60s and 70s saw huge innovations in technology. They were focused on the right people for the job and there was little to no racial prejudice. It was largely after that that race became an issue in science and technology. Now, it is not whether the person is right for the job but whether the person will help meet our diversification quotas. We won the race wars in the 50s and 60s and now the race war is conquering us again.
What do you expect? We no longer have the motivation or the desire or the technology to go back to the moon. Nor do we have the engineering expertise necessary to redevelop what we have lost. Back in the 60s we had unprecedented spending by the government on education, research and technology, which led to the space program, huge advances in engineering, computing, science and technology. Now we have unprecedented spending on self perpetuating programs designed to keep people at home in front of their TVs and remove any incentives or concerns that perhaps they ought to educate themselves or learn a skill. Go to the moon? Heck, in another 20 years, we will probably be back to most people not ever venturing further than 100 miles from their house, something unheard of in the last 2 centuries.
On the other hand, to me it looks like the spin doctors won this one. Only one of those summaries hints at the plane being shot down. All of the others are calling it a crash. Even FOX news, as conservative as they supposedly are, were not calling it shot down. They also called it a plane crash. I'm sorry, but the plane did not crash. It was shot down. There is zero doubt about that. So why are all the news agencies trying to downplay the missile strike?
FYI, military jets already have civilian transponders. When they are not in actual combat or conducting military operations, transponders are used by ATC to separate all Instrument Flight Rule flights, military or civilian, and when available and asked, to provider advisories for flights operating under Visual Flight Rules.
I don't know what airline you are on, but if you arrived at 8:43 for a 9:07 flight on most airlines, they would not let you on the plane. Policy is that you must be at the boarding area 30 minutes prior to takeoff. Many of them won't even let you check in and get your boarding pass, let alone attempt to make it through security.
Tiles is not innovation, it is just copying.
To use a car analogy, using tiles on the desktop is like replacing the steering wheel, pedals, radio knobs, light switches, climate control knobs and shifter in a car with an Atari joystick because it worked so great for playing Pole Position.
How is searching for tiles easier than searching a list in the menu?
Even in previous Windows versions, the default display in folders was to show icons. The first thing I did was change that to list view and unhide extensions. Trying to find an item in a list is an order of magnitude easier than trying to find some splotch of color among 100 different splotches of color. Microsoft should do some UX interviews sometime.
Just like when a cop gets right up on your bumper to read your license plate before pulling you over. If you had to stop quickly due to some emergency in the road ahead and the copy smacked into you, you will be charged with driving too close to the officer.
It is not against the law to operate a radio controlled craft in populated areas. AS long as the craft is within line of site of the operators and is being controlled through means of radio communication then no laws were broken by anyone by the police.
The FAA says that model aircraft flights should be kept below 400 feet above ground level (AGL), should be flown a sufficient distance from populated areas and full scale aircraft, and are not for business purposes. I'm pretty sure two out of three of those rules were busted. One for certain.
The Police also violated FAA regulations by approaching within 500 feet of a person, structure or aircraft.
It's not legal. Nor is it legal to fly your helicopter in the vicinity of the other illegally operating vehicle. An illegal act does not justify another illegal act.
Yes, and where I live the paramedics are more likely to get to the scene of an accident, homicide or assault before any cops. Our paramedics wear bulletproof vests.
Wow, I can't believe the guy is only demanding that the officer be fired. If anyone else had done this, he would be in jail and PETA would be throwing blood on him.
I agree with you, with the caveat that breaking the law is not the correct response to breaking the law. Hopefully, the idiot drone pilots and the idiot NYPD pilot will both share a jail cell.
It looks like 6 people worldwide and 0 people in Pennsylvania. So they should also remark that it is not just sending them out to people who were born in the 1800s but also that it is sending out to people who are no longer alive. Kind of like a Chicago voter registration.
Bitcoin is money when the government wants it to be so they can take it from you or accuse you of money laundering. Bitcoin is not money when the government doesn't want it to be such as if you want to use it to pay taxes.
And that bullshit about powering on electronics if you're flying to the States? That just got broadened to *all* flights *anywhere*. I knew it was coming, I just didn't expect it within 3 fucking days...
I remember this "war on dead batteries" starting as far back as 1996, after some sort of bomb threat or something. They forced you to fire up your laptop, but only if it wasn't rush hour, and then after about two or three weeks, they stopped doing it because it wasn't worth the effort.
That's why you create two copies: you hand one over to them with password. Second copy, you keep sealed with dual keys, like in a bank locker. You change password on the original and continue your business.
That won't work. They will just subpeona that copy as well.
Not store specific, but there were pre-order bonuses of 15th anniversary cars. In order to play some of the seasonal events, you have to have one of these cars. Under no circumstances should one ever be forced to buy aftermarket (or premarket) content in order to play a game. If they want to sell content to make it easier, to add bonus missions, to put stupid costumes on your character or whatever, that is fine. But I bought the game and I should be able to play it to completion with spending an extra penny.
There are less polite terms I want to use instead of "forget 'em."
Here's a free car analogy: scalable websites are like CAFE-required design elements on modern cars. Everything looks the same and ends up less efficient than it could be.
This. And for the ultimate example, I give you Metro. Let's have the same interface across all platforms, and since mobile devices can't do the more efficient input methods, we will instead dumb down the desktop so that it uses the inefficient input methods.
Even nerd top 10 lists are still a popularity contest. These are the best celebrity programmers, but chances are there are thousands of better programmers that just have their heads down in code at some obscure company somewhere. Probably many of them have solved complex algorithmic issues in clever ways that other programmers like the ones in the list are still struggling with.
Likening the use of storage devices to repositories of child porn is but a step away from condemning personal computers for the same principle. "You wouldn't mind us searching if you have nothing to hide, right?"
Well, there are likely in the 100s of billions of storage devices out there in the world, and probably thouands or even tens of thousands of them have some CP on them, so the odds are perhaps 1 in 10 million that a device has that on it. Far better to try to spend money trying to find that 1 in 10 million than to actually catch and prosecute ACTUAL child molestors.
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The 50s, 60s and 70s saw huge innovations in technology. They were focused on the right people for the job and there was little to no racial prejudice. It was largely after that that race became an issue in science and technology. Now, it is not whether the person is right for the job but whether the person will help meet our diversification quotas. We won the race wars in the 50s and 60s and now the race war is conquering us again.
What do you expect? We no longer have the motivation or the desire or the technology to go back to the moon. Nor do we have the engineering expertise necessary to redevelop what we have lost. Back in the 60s we had unprecedented spending by the government on education, research and technology, which led to the space program, huge advances in engineering, computing, science and technology. Now we have unprecedented spending on self perpetuating programs designed to keep people at home in front of their TVs and remove any incentives or concerns that perhaps they ought to educate themselves or learn a skill. Go to the moon? Heck, in another 20 years, we will probably be back to most people not ever venturing further than 100 miles from their house, something unheard of in the last 2 centuries.
On the other hand, to me it looks like the spin doctors won this one. Only one of those summaries hints at the plane being shot down. All of the others are calling it a crash. Even FOX news, as conservative as they supposedly are, were not calling it shot down. They also called it a plane crash. I'm sorry, but the plane did not crash. It was shot down. There is zero doubt about that. So why are all the news agencies trying to downplay the missile strike?
FYI, military jets already have civilian transponders. When they are not in actual combat or conducting military operations, transponders are used by ATC to separate all Instrument Flight Rule flights, military or civilian, and when available and asked, to provider advisories for flights operating under Visual Flight Rules.
I don't know what airline you are on, but if you arrived at 8:43 for a 9:07 flight on most airlines, they would not let you on the plane. Policy is that you must be at the boarding area 30 minutes prior to takeoff. Many of them won't even let you check in and get your boarding pass, let alone attempt to make it through security.
where else can you get hundreds of channels of TV i hate and crappy internet for one low price of $200 a month?
$200 a month? That is a heck of a deal. I've got the $99 Cox Bundle and that costs about $250 a month.
Tiles is not innovation, it is just copying.
To use a car analogy, using tiles on the desktop is like replacing the steering wheel, pedals, radio knobs, light switches, climate control knobs and shifter in a car with an Atari joystick because it worked so great for playing Pole Position.
How is searching for tiles easier than searching a list in the menu?
Even in previous Windows versions, the default display in folders was to show icons. The first thing I did was change that to list view and unhide extensions. Trying to find an item in a list is an order of magnitude easier than trying to find some splotch of color among 100 different splotches of color. Microsoft should do some UX interviews sometime.
Just like when a cop gets right up on your bumper to read your license plate before pulling you over. If you had to stop quickly due to some emergency in the road ahead and the copy smacked into you, you will be charged with driving too close to the officer.
If it is military, then they would be idiots to shoot it down. They'd probably get shot down in retaliation.
It is not against the law to operate a radio controlled craft in populated areas. AS long as the craft is within line of site of the operators and is being controlled through means of radio communication then no laws were broken by anyone by the police.
The FAA says that model aircraft flights should be kept below 400 feet above ground level (AGL), should be flown a sufficient distance from populated areas and full scale aircraft, and are not for business purposes. I'm pretty sure two out of three of those rules were busted. One for certain.
The Police also violated FAA regulations by approaching within 500 feet of a person, structure or aircraft.
It's not legal. Nor is it legal to fly your helicopter in the vicinity of the other illegally operating vehicle. An illegal act does not justify another illegal act.
Yes, and where I live the paramedics are more likely to get to the scene of an accident, homicide or assault before any cops. Our paramedics wear bulletproof vests.
Wow, I can't believe the guy is only demanding that the officer be fired. If anyone else had done this, he would be in jail and PETA would be throwing blood on him.
I agree with you, with the caveat that breaking the law is not the correct response to breaking the law. Hopefully, the idiot drone pilots and the idiot NYPD pilot will both share a jail cell.
It looks like 6 people worldwide and 0 people in Pennsylvania. So they should also remark that it is not just sending them out to people who were born in the 1800s but also that it is sending out to people who are no longer alive. Kind of like a Chicago voter registration.
Bitcoin is money when the government wants it to be so they can take it from you or accuse you of money laundering. Bitcoin is not money when the government doesn't want it to be such as if you want to use it to pay taxes.
But one large dome probably contains 100 times the volume of the individual buildings it encapsulates.
And that bullshit about powering on electronics if you're flying to the States? That just got broadened to *all* flights *anywhere*. I knew it was coming, I just didn't expect it within 3 fucking days...
I remember this "war on dead batteries" starting as far back as 1996, after some sort of bomb threat or something. They forced you to fire up your laptop, but only if it wasn't rush hour, and then after about two or three weeks, they stopped doing it because it wasn't worth the effort.
That's why you create two copies: you hand one over to them with password. Second copy, you keep sealed with dual keys, like in a bank locker. You change password on the original and continue your business.
That won't work. They will just subpeona that copy as well.
Not store specific, but there were pre-order bonuses of 15th anniversary cars. In order to play some of the seasonal events, you have to have one of these cars. Under no circumstances should one ever be forced to buy aftermarket (or premarket) content in order to play a game. If they want to sell content to make it easier, to add bonus missions, to put stupid costumes on your character or whatever, that is fine. But I bought the game and I should be able to play it to completion with spending an extra penny.
Out of the 2 Android phones that I have had, zero of them came with Facebook preinstalled. I blame the mobile phone provider.
There are less polite terms I want to use instead of "forget 'em."
Here's a free car analogy: scalable websites are like CAFE-required design elements on modern cars. Everything looks the same and ends up less efficient than it could be.
This. And for the ultimate example, I give you Metro. Let's have the same interface across all platforms, and since mobile devices can't do the more efficient input methods, we will instead dumb down the desktop so that it uses the inefficient input methods.
Even nerd top 10 lists are still a popularity contest. These are the best celebrity programmers, but chances are there are thousands of better programmers that just have their heads down in code at some obscure company somewhere. Probably many of them have solved complex algorithmic issues in clever ways that other programmers like the ones in the list are still struggling with.
Likening the use of storage devices to repositories of child porn is but a step away from condemning personal computers for the same principle. "You wouldn't mind us searching if you have nothing to hide, right?"
Well, there are likely in the 100s of billions of storage devices out there in the world, and probably thouands or even tens of thousands of them have some CP on them, so the odds are perhaps 1 in 10 million that a device has that on it. Far better to try to spend money trying to find that 1 in 10 million than to actually catch and prosecute ACTUAL child molestors.