This is a very good step in the right direction. There are non-majority but very valid use cases where one might need to limit memory and especially CPU usage and threading when wanted. For example, on hosted or application servers that serve thin clients. Please give as much control to users and system administrators as possible.
This also holds just as important for single-user systems. One thing I hope they especially pay attention to is some way to quell the rampant misuse of local resources by websites that throw more and more meaningless "fancy" effects at us. Barely a site remains that doesn't fade in and out every single element, loads endlessly, creates tight busy loops, presents continuous animation for no real reason, etc. It just chews through CPU and on battery powered devices, it unnecessarily decimates stored power, it presents never ending barriers and distractions to getting to useful information on sites. Give us tools and settings to slow and limit such nonsense. Return control of our resources to us.
In the past, Firefox was all about CHOICE and CONFIGURABILITY. For years as Firefox has become "Chrome-ified" in look and mission, user choice has wrongfully and systematically removed in favor of "simplicity". Stop trying to be Chrome, it is not helping anyone!
Firefox stands as the only remaining main-stream, completely open source, multiplatform browser developed by a community model. Here is a last chance to prevent it from become totally obscure.... EMBRACE USER CONTROL. Differentiate yourself based on that. It is something Chrome sorely lacks. We need real choices and real competition, not a world left with one browser controlled by a single information overlord who lives based on tracking, capturing, and sharing information about us. Been there, done that.... Mozilla set us free once. Please be there to prevent us from sliding back into it again:)
>"How does this work in the US ? Here around in Europe, the authorities are supposed to immediately broadcast informations about the alert on all available channels (TV, radio, web, public announcement systems, etc.) "
Correct, that is the way it works here. If sirens go off, you are supposed to seek out a broadcast to determine the nature of the emergency. Where I live, it is always a weather emergency (like a tornado warning; and no, even though we don't live in "tornado alley", several touch down every year).
They are also used for nuclear power plant incidents, extreme thunderstorms, hurricanes, and civil defense.
Going from SD to HD is a *huge* difference, but even that difference a lot of people don't notice and/or care. The difference from HD to UHD is negligible for "normal" sized TV's (50-80") at realistic distances (typically 8 to 12 feet) for just about anybody. I have actually tested other people just out of curiosity, and nobody I have tested can tell which is which (2K vs 4K, same video, 8-10' from a 75" UHD).
UHD for TV is primarily a marketing concept to try to get people to re-buy all their equipment and content, yet again. The remainder of the usefulness is only HDR (very recent) and for very large screens (movie theaters, 120+" home projection systems, etc). Also useful for monitors, where you are going to sit 12-20" from the screen.
>Why is UHD useless? do they just not have any offering?
Because at any normal distance on any TV, almost nobody can realize any difference with 4K. Also, a large percent of people don't have the bandwidth (25+Mb/s *continuously*). HDR is a different matter, but even that can't be noticed by most people, and few have devices that support it.
>If they're going to leave shortly perhaps then they're overqualified for the position or your not paying appropriately.
And often the hiring manager has ZERO control or flexibility on what can be offered. People here rarely see the view of the employer or hiring manager. When there are hundreds of applications, previous pay *is* a good indicator of WASTING THE EMPLOYER'S TIME. If they are overqualified and/or were making too much for what you could pay, most of the time (not always) they will not stay. They will stay just long enough to find something else. Turnover is very expensive and disruptive to an employer, so is hiring and interviewing.... especially for smaller shops and most especially for positions that are complicated, and/or obscure, and/or and wear lots of hats (where the training is very long).
>1. The big screen. There's something to be said about watching visual storytelling on a three-story screen, particularly when the film really takes advantage of the format.
Sitting 10 feet from my 75" UHDTV is just fine for me
>2. People everywhere. A group of people laughing together simultaneously triggers a feeling that you should laugh, too; during a suspenseful moment, you can feel dozens of strangers suck in their breath together.
I don't like comedies, generally. And I don't need my mood "enhanced" by what others feel.
>3. Focus. Even people who try their hardest to give a movie their undivided attention on a living-room screen have fallen victim to temptations like "Well, I'm just sitting here, I might as well pay the electric bill."
Are you kidding? I don't know about most people, but I don't play games or pay bills while watching a movie at home. And I certainly don't need to be "trapped" someplace to have self-discipline.
>4. Relentlessness. Part of the advantage of that kind of focus is that movies that are tense, scary, or deeply emotional can cast much more of a spell over you when you don't have the option to pause or turn away from the worst, then rewind later to catch it safely out of context.
The only time I pause is to go to the bathroom or something. The only time I fast-forward is when the content is so BORING or STUPID that I am trying to salvage the otherwise poor content.
>5. A massive speaker system.
More massive than what I have in my house for my smaller area? I have a high-end amplifier and speakers and perfectly tuned and balanced surround sound system. I have yet to be in a theater that has even remotely as close a correct balance. Usually theaters are just LOUD... so loud I have to wear EARPLUGS!
>6. Previews.
That is an advantage? To have to get there early to get a decent seat and then be subjected to 15 to 20 MINUTES of previews, ads, and public service messages? If I want to watch previews, I can do that on my phone, tablet, computer, anytime I want, and for FREE.
>7. Disruption. A problem with watching movies at home is that it makes the film-watching experience blur into the same experience as surfing cable [...]
OK, you HAVE to be kidding. People talking, chewing, walking around, crinkling food wrappers, crying, messing with phones, wearing tons of nasty perfume, yelling, tapping on my seat... what could be MORE disruption than sitting in a typical theater?
>8. Alone time. Going to the movies with friends or your significant other can be a cherished pastime, especially when you're surrounded by an excited audience.
This is about the only thing on the entire list that has some validity. But guess what? My friends can come over and watch at my home, too.
>9. 32 ounces of cola in the dark.
Why would I want that? I typically drink water and I am certainly not going to pay $6 for some stupid soda worth $0.50.
>10. Bragging rights.
??? Bragging about what? That I was "man enough" to fight traffic, parking, and all the above inconveniences and distractions and earplugs to have watched a movie in a theater? Wow.
Google, instead of wasting tons of hours programming a silly temporary game in a MAP program, how about using those resources to have freaking reminders on the Google Calendar for birthdays? People have only been asking for this for what, 5 years now?? Yeah, really, it is still impossible for the calendar to send notifications so users don't miss peoples' birthdays!
I could go down the list of dozens of important things that people have been waiting for in Android, Maps, Chrome, ChromeOS, etc. But this is a great example.
>"will offer full backward compatibility with legacy OS/2, DOS and Windows 3.1 applications, as well as "ported Linux applications."
So how is this better than just running free and open-source Linux? Then one gets all Linux applications, and can also run MS-DOS and 32 and 64 bit MS-Windows apps with WINE, Virtualbox, containers, whatever, under a very mature and stable OS. Are there even any useful or relevant OS/2 apps out there?
It says in the article: "with telecom spectrum." Admittedly I don't really understand the plan here, but....
This sounds ridiculous! So the government will just give 20Mhz of extremely valuable bandwidth to only AT&T. AT&T will just add it to their existing towers and phone/mobile system. And then the Fed will just mandate all the responders everywhere use AT&T? There, standardized!
They make it sound like some "special" system, but to me, it just sounds like mobile broadband. Inotherwords A NETWORK. Isn't that what we already have with the carriers?
How is this fair to T-Mobile, Sprint, or Verizon? How does this foster competition, good service, good pricing, or good support? How does this using a single carrier create redundancy? How does this allow us to change to some other company if we don't like how it works?
Oops, the nearby AT&T tower went down. NONE of our stuff works now. Wonderful!
>"If the comparison determines that the vehicle control processor is better able to handle the anomaly, the vehicle is placed in autonomous mode," IBM stated
So I could be in self-driving mode and the computer rips control from me because it thinks it can do a better job? No thanks! Maybe if it detected I was somehow impaired, but the idea of my control being removed randomly is not attractive. Sounds like it would be OK if it were an OPTIONAL mode/setting (3 modes- computer drive, human drive, or hybrid/auto-switching).
>"co-inventor on the patent."
Really? That is worth a patent? Seems like a pretty obvious idea to me. Oh, since I thought of allowing it to be 3 separate modes, could we patent that??
* Am not subjected to smelling nasty perfumes, oils, and BO.
I *do* enjoy a good theater experience out sometimes, it is just so difficult to get a good experience. Even when I wait a long time for the movie to be in the last few weeks, and go at a time when there are few, if any other people (which eliminates most of the problems) I still have to deal with wearing earplugs because the theaters seem to think:
1) Nobody knows what correct surround sound is like 2) Louder is better, of course, right?? 3) Louder drowns out other noise, or so they think
Even wearing expensive, silicone, musician's earplugs, it is annoying (it still distorts sound).
>"This is a story that needs to carry you through the suspenseful situation, and make you feel like you are there, and the only way to do that is through theatrical distribution,"
Oh really!
So, I can sit in my darkened greatroom, and watch my high-end 75" 4K TV from my high-end electric lazy-boy chair, listening to my high-end, perfectly balanced and tuned surround system... and that is somehow inferior to a "theatrical distribution"??
* No extra noise through the entire movie * Better sound than I have EVER had at any theater * Correct volume level so I don't have to wear earplugs * No people waving phones or making other visual distractions * Nobody tapping or kicking my chair or sending vibrations through connected chairs * Seated perfectly in the center of the screen, every time * Perfect ambient temperature * Ability to pause and do something else IF WANTED * No having to drive anywhere or wait in any lines * No 20 minutes of "previews" and commercials.
>"This new dock looks nice but really what work are you going to get done with a quirky android-desktop-ish userland and a webrowser? Yeah. Not much. You're gonna go use a cheap netbook or chromebook - And you get to use your phone as a phone at the same time!"
I can't say without actually using it. But a Galaxy S8 is far more powerful than any "desktop from phone" attempt before. For some people, it might work just dandy and be as fast as a current lower-end laptop from a few years ago. If the desktop "work" they need to do is mostly browser based (and that isn't unusual nowadays) it might be no less feasible than a Chromebook currently is...
As for using the phone at the same time, we don't know quite yet how that is addressed. But I don't see why one couldn't text from the big screen, make calls using bluetooth and speakerphone, etc, while it is in the dock. The technology is all there, it really just comes down to how well they implemented it all. I am somewhat curious, although not a target customer.
>"If the idea sounds familiar, it's because Microsoft attempted to do this with its Microsoft Display Dock that requires a Windows 10 Lumia 950 or 950 XL with Continuum and a USB-C connector"
Nice try giving MS "innovation", but that is not the only example. This has been tried before in many various ways over the years. Here are just a few:
>"No. "Everyone" is a collective noun [chompchomp.com]. In this context, the intent is that each member of that collective needs to take action individually. Therefore a plural pronoun would be appropriate."
I disagree as such that it could still be corrected by adding "own" if necessary (otherwise it is implied):
"Everyone needs to be sure to tighten one's own safety belt before approaching the cliff."
>Buytaert claims he did this "because it came to my attention that he holds views that are in opposition with the values of the Drupal project. [...]in which men are inherently superior to women."]
This is crazy. Who cares about his sex life? Aren't we above that type of thing??? Besides, such role-playing sex fantasy has nothing to do with men being "superior" to women, in fact, it is often the other way around and still has nothing to do with "real life".
This is not a social club or religion, it is a set of computer program tools. It would be difference if his CODING or PROJECT philosophy ran contrary to the the group, because that is actually related to the project. Even then there should be some amount of tolerance.
I abhor some of the political correctness going around, but generally I am intolerant of intolerance. Hopefully others in the Drupal project agree.
>"Illegal exhaust and boom boxes are a law enforcement issue. e.g. compare Santa Ana with Irvine."
And here nothing is done about it, and it won't change.
>"Dogs are subject to ultrasound, easy to manage."
Not easy when not your dogs. Trust me, I tried.
>"And the sirens are new to me. You are suggesting that running the siren when going to fire is unnecessary? Or that agencies without need run their sirens?"
Yes. I estimate 75% of the time they are running with sirens unnecessarily; the lights are enough. In fact, often the sirens just scare people and are actually counter productive. They are a major source of unnecessary noise pollution. Many studies corroborate this.
Airports and interstates don't bother me much; and I am near both (2 miles from an International airport, 1 mile from a major interstate).
What DOES bother me are:
* Motorcycles and cars/trucks with illegal exhaust modifications * Dogs barking from neighbors * Boom-box bass cars, which I can hear a MILE AWAY sometimes * Unnecessary sirens
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This is a very good step in the right direction. There are non-majority but very valid use cases where one might need to limit memory and especially CPU usage and threading when wanted. For example, on hosted or application servers that serve thin clients. Please give as much control to users and system administrators as possible.
This also holds just as important for single-user systems. One thing I hope they especially pay attention to is some way to quell the rampant misuse of local resources by websites that throw more and more meaningless "fancy" effects at us. Barely a site remains that doesn't fade in and out every single element, loads endlessly, creates tight busy loops, presents continuous animation for no real reason, etc. It just chews through CPU and on battery powered devices, it unnecessarily decimates stored power, it presents never ending barriers and distractions to getting to useful information on sites. Give us tools and settings to slow and limit such nonsense. Return control of our resources to us.
In the past, Firefox was all about CHOICE and CONFIGURABILITY. For years as Firefox has become "Chrome-ified" in look and mission, user choice has wrongfully and systematically removed in favor of "simplicity". Stop trying to be Chrome, it is not helping anyone!
Firefox stands as the only remaining main-stream, completely open source, multiplatform browser developed by a community model. Here is a last chance to prevent it from become totally obscure.... EMBRACE USER CONTROL. Differentiate yourself based on that. It is something Chrome sorely lacks. We need real choices and real competition, not a world left with one browser controlled by a single information overlord who lives based on tracking, capturing, and sharing information about us. Been there, done that.... Mozilla set us free once. Please be there to prevent us from sliding back into it again :)
>"How does this work in the US ? Here around in Europe, the authorities are supposed to immediately broadcast informations about the alert on all available channels (TV, radio, web, public announcement systems, etc.) "
Correct, that is the way it works here. If sirens go off, you are supposed to seek out a broadcast to determine the nature of the emergency. Where I live, it is always a weather emergency (like a tornado warning; and no, even though we don't live in "tornado alley", several touch down every year).
They are also used for nuclear power plant incidents, extreme thunderstorms, hurricanes, and civil defense.
Going from SD to HD is a *huge* difference, but even that difference a lot of people don't notice and/or care. The difference from HD to UHD is negligible for "normal" sized TV's (50-80") at realistic distances (typically 8 to 12 feet) for just about anybody. I have actually tested other people just out of curiosity, and nobody I have tested can tell which is which (2K vs 4K, same video, 8-10' from a 75" UHD).
UHD for TV is primarily a marketing concept to try to get people to re-buy all their equipment and content, yet again. The remainder of the usefulness is only HDR (very recent) and for very large screens (movie theaters, 120+" home projection systems, etc). Also useful for monitors, where you are going to sit 12-20" from the screen.
>Why is UHD useless? do they just not have any offering?
Because at any normal distance on any TV, almost nobody can realize any difference with 4K. Also, a large percent of people don't have the bandwidth (25+Mb/s *continuously*). HDR is a different matter, but even that can't be noticed by most people, and few have devices that support it.
>Netflix allows 3 simultaneous logins per account,
Nope. The simultaneous watching is based on plans and there are three streaming plans:
$8 for 1 screen at SD (eeeew)
$10 for 2 screens at HD
$12 for 4 screens at HD and [useless] UHD
>"If there's a company match, it's a function of salary as well."
Um, no. Most employers around here, including mine, match a flat amount of DOLLARS and has nothing to do with % of pay.
>If they're going to leave shortly perhaps then they're overqualified for the position or your not paying appropriately.
And often the hiring manager has ZERO control or flexibility on what can be offered. People here rarely see the view of the employer or hiring manager. When there are hundreds of applications, previous pay *is* a good indicator of WASTING THE EMPLOYER'S TIME. If they are overqualified and/or were making too much for what you could pay, most of the time (not always) they will not stay. They will stay just long enough to find something else. Turnover is very expensive and disruptive to an employer, so is hiring and interviewing.... especially for smaller shops and most especially for positions that are complicated, and/or obscure, and/or and wear lots of hats (where the training is very long).
Let's analyze this:
>1. The big screen. There's something to be said about watching visual storytelling on a three-story screen, particularly when the film really takes advantage of the format.
Sitting 10 feet from my 75" UHDTV is just fine for me
>2. People everywhere. A group of people laughing together simultaneously triggers a feeling that you should laugh, too; during a suspenseful moment, you can feel dozens of strangers suck in their breath together.
I don't like comedies, generally. And I don't need my mood "enhanced" by what others feel.
>3. Focus. Even people who try their hardest to give a movie their undivided attention on a living-room screen have fallen victim to temptations like "Well, I'm just sitting here, I might as well pay the electric bill."
Are you kidding? I don't know about most people, but I don't play games or pay bills while watching a movie at home. And I certainly don't need to be "trapped" someplace to have self-discipline.
>4. Relentlessness. Part of the advantage of that kind of focus is that movies that are tense, scary, or deeply emotional can cast much more of a spell over you when you don't have the option to pause or turn away from the worst, then rewind later to catch it safely out of context.
The only time I pause is to go to the bathroom or something. The only time I fast-forward is when the content is so BORING or STUPID that I am trying to salvage the otherwise poor content.
>5. A massive speaker system.
More massive than what I have in my house for my smaller area? I have a high-end amplifier and speakers and perfectly tuned and balanced surround sound system. I have yet to be in a theater that has even remotely as close a correct balance. Usually theaters are just LOUD... so loud I have to wear EARPLUGS!
>6. Previews.
That is an advantage? To have to get there early to get a decent seat and then be subjected to 15 to 20 MINUTES of previews, ads, and public service messages? If I want to watch previews, I can do that on my phone, tablet, computer, anytime I want, and for FREE.
>7. Disruption. A problem with watching movies at home is that it makes the film-watching experience blur into the same experience as surfing cable [...]
OK, you HAVE to be kidding. People talking, chewing, walking around, crinkling food wrappers, crying, messing with phones, wearing tons of nasty perfume, yelling, tapping on my seat... what could be MORE disruption than sitting in a typical theater?
>8. Alone time. Going to the movies with friends or your significant other can be a cherished pastime, especially when you're surrounded by an excited audience.
This is about the only thing on the entire list that has some validity. But guess what? My friends can come over and watch at my home, too.
>9. 32 ounces of cola in the dark.
Why would I want that? I typically drink water and I am certainly not going to pay $6 for some stupid soda worth $0.50.
>10. Bragging rights.
??? Bragging about what? That I was "man enough" to fight traffic, parking, and all the above inconveniences and distractions and earplugs to have watched a movie in a theater? Wow.
I wouldn't say "entitled", just frustrated. And I am certainly not alone in that regard.
Google, instead of wasting tons of hours programming a silly temporary game in a MAP program, how about using those resources to have freaking reminders on the Google Calendar for birthdays? People have only been asking for this for what, 5 years now?? Yeah, really, it is still impossible for the calendar to send notifications so users don't miss peoples' birthdays!
I could go down the list of dozens of important things that people have been waiting for in Android, Maps, Chrome, ChromeOS, etc. But this is a great example.
I am not hating anything, just asking questions.
>"will offer full backward compatibility with legacy OS/2, DOS and Windows 3.1 applications, as well as "ported Linux applications."
So how is this better than just running free and open-source Linux? Then one gets all Linux applications, and can also run MS-DOS and 32 and 64 bit MS-Windows apps with WINE, Virtualbox, containers, whatever, under a very mature and stable OS. Are there even any useful or relevant OS/2 apps out there?
>"Comcast, Verizon, AT&T Inc said Friday they would not sell customers' individual internet browsing information,"
What about Cox?
Not that I believe any of this, anyway....
It says in the article: "with telecom spectrum." Admittedly I don't really understand the plan here, but....
This sounds ridiculous! So the government will just give 20Mhz of extremely valuable bandwidth to only AT&T. AT&T will just add it to their existing towers and phone/mobile system. And then the Fed will just mandate all the responders everywhere use AT&T? There, standardized!
They make it sound like some "special" system, but to me, it just sounds like mobile broadband. Inotherwords A NETWORK. Isn't that what we already have with the carriers?
How is this fair to T-Mobile, Sprint, or Verizon? How does this foster competition, good service, good pricing, or good support? How does this using a single carrier create redundancy? How does this allow us to change to some other company if we don't like how it works?
Oops, the nearby AT&T tower went down. NONE of our stuff works now. Wonderful!
>"If the comparison determines that the vehicle control processor is better able to handle the anomaly, the vehicle is placed in autonomous mode," IBM stated
So I could be in self-driving mode and the computer rips control from me because it thinks it can do a better job? No thanks! Maybe if it detected I was somehow impaired, but the idea of my control being removed randomly is not attractive. Sounds like it would be OK if it were an OPTIONAL mode/setting (3 modes- computer drive, human drive, or hybrid/auto-switching).
>"co-inventor on the patent."
Really? That is worth a patent? Seems like a pretty obvious idea to me. Oh, since I thought of allowing it to be 3 separate modes, could we patent that??
I forgot to add:
* Am not subjected to smelling nasty perfumes, oils, and BO.
I *do* enjoy a good theater experience out sometimes, it is just so difficult to get a good experience. Even when I wait a long time for the movie to be in the last few weeks, and go at a time when there are few, if any other people (which eliminates most of the problems) I still have to deal with wearing earplugs because the theaters seem to think:
1) Nobody knows what correct surround sound is like
2) Louder is better, of course, right??
3) Louder drowns out other noise, or so they think
Even wearing expensive, silicone, musician's earplugs, it is annoying (it still distorts sound).
>"This is a story that needs to carry you through the suspenseful situation, and make you feel like you are there, and the only way to do that is through theatrical distribution,"
Oh really!
So, I can sit in my darkened greatroom, and watch my high-end 75" 4K TV from my high-end electric lazy-boy chair, listening to my high-end, perfectly balanced and tuned surround system... and that is somehow inferior to a "theatrical distribution"??
* No extra noise through the entire movie
* Better sound than I have EVER had at any theater
* Correct volume level so I don't have to wear earplugs
* No people waving phones or making other visual distractions
* Nobody tapping or kicking my chair or sending vibrations through connected chairs
* Seated perfectly in the center of the screen, every time
* Perfect ambient temperature
* Ability to pause and do something else IF WANTED
* No having to drive anywhere or wait in any lines
* No 20 minutes of "previews" and commercials.
>"This new dock looks nice but really what work are you going to get done with a quirky android-desktop-ish userland and a webrowser? Yeah. Not much. You're gonna go use a cheap netbook or chromebook - And you get to use your phone as a phone at the same time!"
I can't say without actually using it. But a Galaxy S8 is far more powerful than any "desktop from phone" attempt before. For some people, it might work just dandy and be as fast as a current lower-end laptop from a few years ago. If the desktop "work" they need to do is mostly browser based (and that isn't unusual nowadays) it might be no less feasible than a Chromebook currently is...
As for using the phone at the same time, we don't know quite yet how that is addressed. But I don't see why one couldn't text from the big screen, make calls using bluetooth and speakerphone, etc, while it is in the dock. The technology is all there, it really just comes down to how well they implemented it all. I am somewhat curious, although not a target customer.
>"If the idea sounds familiar, it's because Microsoft attempted to do this with its Microsoft Display Dock that requires a Windows 10 Lumia 950 or 950 XL with Continuum and a USB-C connector"
Nice try giving MS "innovation", but that is not the only example. This has been tried before in many various ways over the years. Here are just a few:
https://www.technobuffalo.com/...
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/d...
http://maruos.com/
http://www.ubergizmo.com/2014/...
>"No. "Everyone" is a collective noun [chompchomp.com]. In this context, the intent is that each member of that collective needs to take action individually. Therefore a plural pronoun would be appropriate."
I disagree as such that it could still be corrected by adding "own" if necessary (otherwise it is implied):
"Everyone needs to be sure to tighten one's own safety belt before approaching the cliff."
>"Consider this sentence, for instance. "Everyone needs to be sure to tighten ____ safety belt before approaching the cliff."
Sorry, that is easy and was solved hundreds of years ago and without using "his". The answer is "one's".
"Everyone needs to be sure to tighten one's safety belt before approaching the cliff."
>Buytaert claims he did this "because it came to my attention that he holds views that are in opposition with the values of the Drupal project. [...]in which men are inherently superior to women."]
This is crazy. Who cares about his sex life? Aren't we above that type of thing??? Besides, such role-playing sex fantasy has nothing to do with men being "superior" to women, in fact, it is often the other way around and still has nothing to do with "real life".
This is not a social club or religion, it is a set of computer program tools. It would be difference if his CODING or PROJECT philosophy ran contrary to the the group, because that is actually related to the project. Even then there should be some amount of tolerance.
I abhor some of the political correctness going around, but generally I am intolerant of intolerance. Hopefully others in the Drupal project agree.
>"Illegal exhaust and boom boxes are a law enforcement issue. e.g. compare Santa Ana with Irvine."
And here nothing is done about it, and it won't change.
>"Dogs are subject to ultrasound, easy to manage."
Not easy when not your dogs. Trust me, I tried.
>"And the sirens are new to me. You are suggesting that running the siren when going to fire is unnecessary? Or that agencies without need run their sirens?"
Yes. I estimate 75% of the time they are running with sirens unnecessarily; the lights are enough. In fact, often the sirens just scare people and are actually counter productive. They are a major source of unnecessary noise pollution. Many studies corroborate this.
http://www.jems.com/articles/2...
http://noiseabatementsociety.c...
https://www.emergencydispatch....
https://www.emergencydispatch....
http://gradworks.umi.com/35/54...
Airports and interstates don't bother me much; and I am near both (2 miles from an International airport, 1 mile from a major interstate).
What DOES bother me are:
* Motorcycles and cars/trucks with illegal exhaust modifications
* Dogs barking from neighbors
* Boom-box bass cars, which I can hear a MILE AWAY sometimes
* Unnecessary sirens
None of that is on the map.
Oooh, thanks for the autoplay tip! Didn't know that.