Exactly. Satellite imagery of better than 50cm resolution has been available from European satellites for some time. This is just the USA playing catch-up in the commercial marketplace
What these drivers are asking for is a special privilege to be a superior class of citizen: To be spared any natural competition.
And what they're doing is not protesting. It's throwing a tantrum.
In saying that, you demonstrate that you have no idea how good London cabbies are at their job, an dhow hard they have to work to get to that position.
They are vetted and must have no criminal record, and they are regulated by the Public Carriage Office
The Knowledge is notoriously difficult, and leads to them having an encyclopaedic knowledge of the streets of central London - something like every street in a 10 mile radius of Charing Cross, every hotel, cinema, theatre, etc. Every time they've been put into competition with a SatNav, the route they calculate *in their head* is superior to anything that technology can come up with.
There's no way some guy with a smartphone app can be seen as anything like a peer for a proper London Cabbie.
Everyone seems to be getting all gussied up about drones, but (excuse my ignorance here) what's the difference between drones and remote control aircraft? People seem to have been playing happily with the latter for years, but when they get called "drones", they're seen as evil?
If the main thing about this aircraft is it's high speed, it seems odd to me that the replica is going to be powered by engines which will only allow it to reach a fraction of the quoted max speed
Accept that there will be a certain degree of bugginess in code, and cater for this in project timescales, workload allocation, etc. As bugs get teased out of the product, they get fixed. It's all part of the process, and implicitly it's accepted that developers will include some bugs in their code (for which the testing process is included in the development lifecycle)
BUT....there is a limit as to how much bugginess a single developer can be responsible for. When their output drops below an acceptable standard, i.e. bugs:code ratio is not good enough, then they get fired.
Copying your work to give away for free or to sell should have a much much shorter leash, as should the privilege to restrict others from creating new things based on your work. 5 years seems more than enough to me in this digital age.
Why? Why the hell should that be the case? If I pour loads of MY time and MY effort and MY resources into creating something, then it's MY creation and I want to keep it then I can, because it's MINE.
Sorry, but it just boils my p**s that everyone these days just thinks they have a God*-given right for unfettered access to anything they like for free,
Now that they've got that one nailed down, they should do a similar study to test certain long-held theories about bicyclist behavior in the Tour de France.
You mean maybe the birds can fly long distances because they're off their faces on drugs?
“We encourage our patrons to remember that they are sharing a common wish to be entertained and to treat their fellow moviegoers with courtesy and respect.”
Is there any greater display of courtesy and respect for someone than not shooting them dead?
It's just a shame he could only make 7p/minute from it. What happened to £1/minute premium rate lines?
Actually, going for a cheaper rate is a smart move. A lot of companies block outgoing calls to >=£1/minute numbers, but something in the region of 10p/minute could slip through those filters....that allows him to get - and make money from - calls that he might not get if he'd gone for a more expensive line.
And yes, I agree - epic win
Apple seems to be more about the rumours and the stories about their products nowadays, more so than being about their product innovations.
Makes me think of 'C' list celebrities, who are really famous for being famous rather than for anything substantive that they might actually do
I'm in England, and English is the only language I speak fluently. I know a smattering of French, Arabic and German, all of which occasionally come in handy as sometimes work with people for whom one of those languages in their mother tongue.
Every so often I think "it'd be worth me learning to speak better French", but then a few months later projects/priorities change and I find myself thinking the same about Arabic, or whatever. If I was working on projects for customers in Spain or Mexico, I'd be thinking about learning Spanish.
I don't think there's a definitive answer to this. I have found though that even knowing how to greet someone in their own language can do a lot to endear you to them, as it shows you're making some sort of effort
Also, I often find, because the English are notoriously bad at learning other languages, that foreigners will naturally converse with me in English. In any context, it's really good to be aware of any cultural-specific things which you need to be aware of (e.g. certain hand-gestures considered commonplace in one culture are offensive in others, which pocket you place a business card in is really important in Japan, etc)
So now his sentence is solitary confinement for accessing a computer which had no security on it?
You make it sound like the fact that the computer had no security on it makes it OK to access it. Fundamentally, accessing the computer was wrong - maybe an embarrassment for the computer owner, but unauthorised access is unauthorised access,
You could extend that logic to say it's OK to mug little old ladies because they're defence-less and open to attack. A crime is a crime is a crime, regardless of how hard to have to work to perpetrate it.
Yesterday I had someone posting some defamatory stuff on a Facebook page that I set up for an app that I develop/distribute. I tried posting a reasonable, level-headed comment in response and got an even harsher reply from him.
After a laughably small amount of detective work I managed to get the guy's phone number so I called him to ask him to explain himself. There was an amazing change in attitude when he realised he was speaking to the same guy he'd been bad-mouthing online just a few minutes earlier.
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Exactly. Satellite imagery of better than 50cm resolution has been available from European satellites for some time. This is just the USA playing catch-up in the commercial marketplace
I hope so - somebody needs to stop freetards running amok with other people's hard work
Indeed. Jack Rosenthal's "The Knowledge" gives a great insight into how they learn all of this...it's available on DVD and is worth tracking down.
What these drivers are asking for is a special privilege to be a superior class of citizen: To be spared any natural competition.
And what they're doing is not protesting. It's throwing a tantrum.
In saying that, you demonstrate that you have no idea how good London cabbies are at their job, an dhow hard they have to work to get to that position.
They are vetted and must have no criminal record, and they are regulated by the Public Carriage Office
The Knowledge is notoriously difficult, and leads to them having an encyclopaedic knowledge of the streets of central London - something like every street in a 10 mile radius of Charing Cross, every hotel, cinema, theatre, etc. Every time they've been put into competition with a SatNav, the route they calculate *in their head* is superior to anything that technology can come up with.
There's no way some guy with a smartphone app can be seen as anything like a peer for a proper London Cabbie.
Everyone seems to be getting all gussied up about drones, but (excuse my ignorance here) what's the difference between drones and remote control aircraft? People seem to have been playing happily with the latter for years, but when they get called "drones", they're seen as evil?
If the main thing about this aircraft is it's high speed, it seems odd to me that the replica is going to be powered by engines which will only allow it to reach a fraction of the quoted max speed
Accept that there will be a certain degree of bugginess in code, and cater for this in project timescales, workload allocation, etc. As bugs get teased out of the product, they get fixed. It's all part of the process, and implicitly it's accepted that developers will include some bugs in their code (for which the testing process is included in the development lifecycle) BUT....there is a limit as to how much bugginess a single developer can be responsible for. When their output drops below an acceptable standard, i.e. bugs:code ratio is not good enough, then they get fired.
Copying your work to give away for free or to sell should have a much much shorter leash, as should the privilege to restrict others from creating new things based on your work. 5 years seems more than enough to me in this digital age.
Why? Why the hell should that be the case? If I pour loads of MY time and MY effort and MY resources into creating something, then it's MY creation and I want to keep it then I can, because it's MINE.
Sorry, but it just boils my p**s that everyone these days just thinks they have a God*-given right for unfettered access to anything they like for free,
* other deities may be available
The US dollar is backed by the world's largest economy
Please remind me, how big is the national debt of the country with the world's largest economy?
At least the UK's carrier building programme is running slow...it'd just be embarrassing if we had carriers but no planes to put on them....
It's not green, so it doesn't have people in it yet. So what secret will we discover is the ingredient in Soylent Grey?
Old people
Now that they've got that one nailed down, they should do a similar study to test certain long-held theories about bicyclist behavior in the Tour de France.
You mean maybe the birds can fly long distances because they're off their faces on drugs?
Is there any greater display of courtesy and respect for someone than not shooting them dead?
I know nothing about java,
This is about JavaScript, so that shouldn't be an issue then....
It's just a shame he could only make 7p/minute from it. What happened to £1/minute premium rate lines?
Actually, going for a cheaper rate is a smart move. A lot of companies block outgoing calls to >=£1/minute numbers, but something in the region of 10p/minute could slip through those filters....that allows him to get - and make money from - calls that he might not get if he'd gone for a more expensive line. And yes, I agree - epic win
That .. would actually make sense to the 2 or 3 people who actually miss Clippy.
FTFY
The 4th one reminds me of something from a Red Hot Chilli Peppers video
where are the new products now? where is the innovation now? where is the creative vision now?
Apple seems to be more about the rumours and the stories about their products nowadays, more so than being about their product innovations. Makes me think of 'C' list celebrities, who are really famous for being famous rather than for anything substantive that they might actually do
Seeing as the link given isn't working, there's a bit more detail at http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/01/16/developer_oursources_job_china/
See title
I'm in England, and English is the only language I speak fluently. I know a smattering of French, Arabic and German, all of which occasionally come in handy as sometimes work with people for whom one of those languages in their mother tongue.
Every so often I think "it'd be worth me learning to speak better French", but then a few months later projects/priorities change and I find myself thinking the same about Arabic, or whatever. If I was working on projects for customers in Spain or Mexico, I'd be thinking about learning Spanish.
I don't think there's a definitive answer to this. I have found though that even knowing how to greet someone in their own language can do a lot to endear you to them, as it shows you're making some sort of effort
Also, I often find, because the English are notoriously bad at learning other languages, that foreigners will naturally converse with me in English. In any context, it's really good to be aware of any cultural-specific things which you need to be aware of (e.g. certain hand-gestures considered commonplace in one culture are offensive in others, which pocket you place a business card in is really important in Japan, etc)
So now his sentence is solitary confinement for accessing a computer which had no security on it?
You make it sound like the fact that the computer had no security on it makes it OK to access it. Fundamentally, accessing the computer was wrong - maybe an embarrassment for the computer owner, but unauthorised access is unauthorised access, You could extend that logic to say it's OK to mug little old ladies because they're defence-less and open to attack. A crime is a crime is a crime, regardless of how hard to have to work to perpetrate it.
Yesterday I had someone posting some defamatory stuff on a Facebook page that I set up for an app that I develop/distribute. I tried posting a reasonable, level-headed comment in response and got an even harsher reply from him. After a laughably small amount of detective work I managed to get the guy's phone number so I called him to ask him to explain himself. There was an amazing change in attitude when he realised he was speaking to the same guy he'd been bad-mouthing online just a few minutes earlier.
How long before Apple start making trousers with pockets just the right size to hold an iDevice? iPants anyone?
BTW....first post! woot!! etc....