There's far more reasons than not getting lost to use a GPS. I use it more so because fuel is expensive and polluting, and so following the most efficient route saves money and the damage to the environment. Of course it's only an estimate of the best route even with a GPS. But it's a better estimate than people make for unfamiliar journeys.
You say that getting lost has the advantage of discovering new places. But so does GPS - it will take you down routes you've never taken before, when otherwise you might stick to the familiar routes. (And either method might take you down an unsuitable route.)
It is. Unlike WatsUpWithThat it's actually written by domain experts. Climate scientists. If you think being climate scientists disqualifies them from being a reliable source on the topic, you're a cretin.
Okay, so let's say I'm sceptic and not a denier. After a quick Google search, I stumbled on these two links: http://wattsupwiththat.com/201...
Your first clue is that anyone who says climate is warming based on a period that not an integer number of years is an imbecile. If you are taking odd months on, at best you're contaminating the data with seasons rather than years.
Once you've appreciated that, realise that climate is an average of temperature over enough years that the noise is minimised. At 18 years it's still mostly weather. For a strong climate signal you have always needed at about 30 at least.
Anyone using less WAS doing it because they were cherry picking a period to start at the high point El Nino. It's no longer possible to do even that because 2014 exceeded that temperature. Which is why they are no reduced to the stupidity of using periods that are not even divisible by 12 months.
The only positive there for open source is the visibility. With the defect report as with the source. It's certainly not any more likely to be dealt with in a timely way, or at all with open source. People being paid is the best way to get uninteresting bugs fixed in a timely way, and that happens a lot more often with commercial software.
That entirely depends on the company and the seriousness of the defect.
You're even more likely to get ignored by everyone if reporting a defect on an open source project. Mostly they'll expect you to fix it yourself or wait until someone with the appropriate skills takes an interest. And of course usually almost no-one that experiences the bug has the skills and knowledge of the particular project's internals to be able to fix it.
Yeah, there's gamers and then there's gamers....easy and caters to the masses.
Careful, that's edging towards #gamergate.
A gamer isn't what a self selected bunch of white middle class young men decide a gamer is. A gamer is simply someone who likes to play games. Even if it's Farmville, Monopoly, or even Twister.
I'm afraid you've just shown you don't know how to play Monopoly. Like any dice game it has a luck element, but there are strategies to employ that mean you can win around 50% of 4 person games. Doubling your chance of a win is not not "almost entirely luck".
For example it's not just children and brain dead people that are unaware of the widely varying probabilities of landing on the different squares. Which groups have worthwhile paybacks, and which do not. And what the optimum number of houses to build is. Then there's the skill of trading, both negotiation, and knowing what to negotiate for.
You think that having to say what you've worked on for a day for which you were paid, and what you intend to work on for the next paid day is abuse? Then you are spoilt beyond belief.
As to working hours, if you don't enjoy what you're doing, then go home when you've done your hours for the day. If that's not acceptable where you work, there's plenty of ordinary paying jobs where it is.
How many more years do you imagine you'll be relying on a 1980s/90s standard data line? In most of the developed world consumers would be in an uproar of they didn't have more than 1 Mbps (A)DSL. And you're running a business on a dial-up line?
Don't imagine your backwoods experience is any limitation on the majority.
If the car wasn't built with a supercharger in mind it might not be practical. Charging generates heat, and too much heat causes malfunctions at best and fires at worst.
What you assume is incorrect. Automatic updates are not enabled on my Mac, and this update was the first ever that installed all by itself, merely notifying me after it had done so.
...while "automatic", it does not install automatically unless you've enabled automatic software updates.
Not true. I have not enabled automatic updates, and this update for the first time ever, installed all by itself. I got the notification in the top corner, but it was only to say that the security update had been installed. There was no option.
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That doesn't appear to be true.
There's far more reasons than not getting lost to use a GPS. I use it more so because fuel is expensive and polluting, and so following the most efficient route saves money and the damage to the environment. Of course it's only an estimate of the best route even with a GPS. But it's a better estimate than people make for unfamiliar journeys.
You say that getting lost has the advantage of discovering new places. But so does GPS - it will take you down routes you've never taken before, when otherwise you might stick to the familiar routes. (And either method might take you down an unsuitable route.)
Not most apps, no. They are a minority. At least that's the case on iOS.
It is. Unlike WatsUpWithThat it's actually written by domain experts. Climate scientists. If you think being climate scientists disqualifies them from being a reliable source on the topic, you're a cretin.
WatsUpWithThat blog has never presented "the best data". It's a crank anti-science web-blog.
Even the concept that unadjusted data is better data is dumb conspiracy theory material.
Okay, so let's say I'm sceptic and not a denier. After a quick Google search, I stumbled on these two links:
http://wattsupwiththat.com/201...
Your first clue is that anyone who says climate is warming based on a period that not an integer number of years is an imbecile. If you are taking odd months on, at best you're contaminating the data with seasons rather than years.
Once you've appreciated that, realise that climate is an average of temperature over enough years that the noise is minimised. At 18 years it's still mostly weather. For a strong climate signal you have always needed at about 30 at least.
Anyone using less WAS doing it because they were cherry picking a period to start at the high point El Nino. It's no longer possible to do even that because 2014 exceeded that temperature. Which is why they are no reduced to the stupidity of using periods that are not even divisible by 12 months.
Procrastination is not the answer. And "Immediately" was 20 years ago.
The only positive there for open source is the visibility. With the defect report as with the source. It's certainly not any more likely to be dealt with in a timely way, or at all with open source. People being paid is the best way to get uninteresting bugs fixed in a timely way, and that happens a lot more often with commercial software.
That entirely depends on the company and the seriousness of the defect.
You're even more likely to get ignored by everyone if reporting a defect on an open source project. Mostly they'll expect you to fix it yourself or wait until someone with the appropriate skills takes an interest. And of course usually almost no-one that experiences the bug has the skills and knowledge of the particular project's internals to be able to fix it.
Much of that is down to snobbery. Risk isn't that much higher at 8751st.
After all, how can a gamer be smug about liking a game that "the masses" know how to play?
Yeah, there's gamers and then there's gamers. ...easy and caters to the masses.
Careful, that's edging towards #gamergate.
A gamer isn't what a self selected bunch of white middle class young men decide a gamer is. A gamer is simply someone who likes to play games. Even if it's Farmville, Monopoly, or even Twister.
I'm afraid you've just shown you don't know how to play Monopoly. Like any dice game it has a luck element, but there are strategies to employ that mean you can win around 50% of 4 person games. Doubling your chance of a win is not not "almost entirely luck".
For example it's not just children and brain dead people that are unaware of the widely varying probabilities of landing on the different squares. Which groups have worthwhile paybacks, and which do not. And what the optimum number of houses to build is.
Then there's the skill of trading, both negotiation, and knowing what to negotiate for.
You still can't beat Monopoly.
You think that having to say what you've worked on for a day for which you were paid, and what you intend to work on for the next paid day is abuse? Then you are spoilt beyond belief.
As to working hours, if you don't enjoy what you're doing, then go home when you've done your hours for the day. If that's not acceptable where you work, there's plenty of ordinary paying jobs where it is.
You'd lose on the Zuckerberg element of that wager.
http://www.google.co.uk/search...
How many more years do you imagine you'll be relying on a 1980s/90s standard data line? In most of the developed world consumers would be in an uproar of they didn't have more than 1 Mbps (A)DSL. And you're running a business on a dial-up line?
Don't imagine your backwoods experience is any limitation on the majority.
You looking on Wikipedia is convincing nobody.
I have a full mathematical base education and some advanced subjects like logic and algebra.
If you think logic and algebra are advanced subjects then you are just as mathematically challenged as I said. But you clearly don't realise it.
There are few scientists with maths as poor as gweihir.
If the car wasn't built with a supercharger in mind it might not be practical. Charging generates heat, and too much heat causes malfunctions at best and fires at worst.
Yeah. Looks like the second appeared in Mountain Lion, and the default was ticked, even though "Allow updates automatically" wasn't.
So most people who have had "Allow updates automatically" unchecked for years won't have ever seen the newer option.
I'm not complaining. But some people will have room to do so.
Apple can't push anything without user opting-in to auto updates.
As multiple people are reporting, they can, and are as of this update. Your assumption is wrong.
What you assume is incorrect. Automatic updates are not enabled on my Mac, and this update was the first ever that installed all by itself, merely notifying me after it had done so.
...while "automatic", it does not install automatically unless you've enabled automatic software updates.
Not true. I have not enabled automatic updates, and this update for the first time ever, installed all by itself. I got the notification in the top corner, but it was only to say that the security update had been installed. There was no option.
What are these adverts of which you speak?