There is an argument to be made for having office machines that only do workplace tasks though, instead of being general-purpose machines that do everything. Same can be said for education, that it makes sense to put technology in the hands of students that doesn't simply do everything, because humans are incredibly good at finding other things to do when they don't like the thing that they're supposed to be doing.
You mean you don't like that jaundice-yellow color cast by Sodium-vapour lamps?
When I was in Paris I found it to be dirty and in dis-repair, even in the supposedly fashionable Montparnasse neighborhood where we stayed. There was a whole lot of road construction and building fascade construction going on, making getting around difficult, and the architecture was postwar poured conrete more than anything else.
This probably wasn't personal gain on the officers' part. That said, based on the series of events the insurance company that provides coverage for the city should cancel their policy until the city makes structural changes demonstrating that it won't be a problem again, and flushing the officers that abuse this should be part of that reorganization.
You're disagreeing with me by making my point, in a somewhat roundabout way.
Soldiers are there to fight against another military, and sometimes to deal with non-combat project as they are needed. Gendarme are an occupying force, that act as law enforcement on behalf of the occupier but generally don't fight in combat roles. They're the 'peacekeepers' in that sense, they leave the fighting to the regular army or marines if it's possible to do so.
Trying to make the army act like cops works about as well as arming cops with military equipment without training or rules of engagement.
Calling them "dirtier" is wrong then. Less-clean-than-expected would be accurate. They didn't get dirtier, they simply sold less vehicles to make the air cleaner than it has been without them.
Vehicles are emission-tested based on specifications determined for their model-year of manufacture. In emissions-testing areas, those vehicles still have to meet those requirements for at least 25 years post-manufacture, sometimes they must meet them, PERIOD. We emissions-test everything 1967+ that was not exempt at manufacture.
Even if they're dirtier than they were when brand-new, they're still within-spec.
The machines are designed to need less maintenance and to be mess-free when operating. If it's hooked to a water-line, put in the pod, put in the cup, push button, pick up filled cup, throw away pod.
Because the ability to make a single serving of exactly the coffee one wants and to then have someone else do the exact same thing for their particular tastes is worth something.
US Airways private lounges have these things. Friends of mine have one. Honestly, if there wasn't DRM, I'd be tempted to get one for work, so that I don't have to brew a lot of coffee when I only want one cup.
I don't agree. Satellite pirates were prosecuted for private, in-home personal use only. Sony tried rootkits against end-users. Keurig is in the same market as HP's injket printer business is in- sell your the device fairly cheaply, but sell you the supplies for it at a high price. My guess is that if someone created a concise, easy-to-follow set of directions to make coffee without using new Keurig cups, they'd push to have those directions taken down, even if the document did nothing but explain how do to it without otherwise seeking any profit whatsoever.
In my experience PNG files are signfiicantly larger than other formats to convey the same thing to the end-user. A lot of forums and other sites with size caps can't use them as they're too large. So gif and jpeg still rule the world.
I guess we'll have to see if the elimination of the entire service as a whole (ie, Spain) functions differently than the exclusion of the search results from that service (ie, Germany).
DOOM was also 1993. Wolfenstein 3d was 1992. The various Catacomb games which used the engine that later became associated with Wolfenstein 3d were 1991.
I can't think of the name of it off of the top of my head, but I remember a tank battles game for the Macintosh, playable on the LC and other System 7-based Macs that used 3d rendering. It was already installed on the computers when I found it in 1991, so it might date back even earlier than Catacomb...
Honestly I never was very impressed with consoles for 3d gaming. They worked well for sidescrollers and situational games like Maniac Mansion, but it always felt like 3d needed more input controls than consoles had, and that input control needed to be heavy enough to stay in place on the desk. That meant for me keyboards and later adding mice. I even was decent at Descent with the keyboard and mouse. I tried several PC-games ported to consoles, none of them felt as good as on the computer.
The one exception would be car racing games, because generally one was in a 3d environment but effectively playing in two dimensions.
I will admit to clicking on Google's ad links on their search page when they match exactly what my search was for, but I am aware that they're the ad links and not the search-indexed links.
Trouble with that is it'd still require a means by which to know from where the consumer came from, and that could get problematic if the consumer came in several times from different sites before finally purchasing. Who gets credit and who gets credited for the assist? How do you subdivide that? What if the customer clears their browser history? How long does the retailer need to store referrer information in order to be fair to those sites advertising?
There's an auto enthusiast forum that I use that has a lot of paid subscribers. I'm classed as a supporter because I write articles and take events pictures for them, and have been sent a polo shirt to wear while I'm doing it if I want.
In this case the site is a lot more than just a forum though, the owner and admins go through a lot of effort to organize material so it's easy to reference. It's not quite to Wiki-level organization, but short of being user editable it's pretty damn good.
The rovers' lifespans were only 'warrantied' to 90 Sols, not simply expected to fail after 90 Sols.
This is a guess, but they probably based the solar panel situation on landers' results, which did end up being blocked by dust. Perhaps the landers generally ended up in places where natrual accumulation is worse, or perhaps the act of the rovers turning to different orientations relative to the prevailing winds has made built-up dust easier to shed. Either way, being pessimistic about the performance of one's platform is usually better than being optimistic about it and then being let-down. Look at Curiosity's wheels for an example of that.
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There is an argument to be made for having office machines that only do workplace tasks though, instead of being general-purpose machines that do everything. Same can be said for education, that it makes sense to put technology in the hands of students that doesn't simply do everything, because humans are incredibly good at finding other things to do when they don't like the thing that they're supposed to be doing.
Apparently the cords will indeed resist... That's the problem.
You mean you don't like that jaundice-yellow color cast by Sodium-vapour lamps?
When I was in Paris I found it to be dirty and in dis-repair, even in the supposedly fashionable Montparnasse neighborhood where we stayed. There was a whole lot of road construction and building fascade construction going on, making getting around difficult, and the architecture was postwar poured conrete more than anything else.
And all the shops closed by 7pm.
Then the insurance companies should cancel their policies until a strucutral reorganization that ends this happens.
This probably wasn't personal gain on the officers' part. That said, based on the series of events the insurance company that provides coverage for the city should cancel their policy until the city makes structural changes demonstrating that it won't be a problem again, and flushing the officers that abuse this should be part of that reorganization.
For all we know, "Cirrus" was a committee.
What this shows me is that there's just no way to keep a secret if other people are involved.
You have no idea what a Gendarme is, do you?
You're disagreeing with me by making my point, in a somewhat roundabout way.
Soldiers are there to fight against another military, and sometimes to deal with non-combat project as they are needed. Gendarme are an occupying force, that act as law enforcement on behalf of the occupier but generally don't fight in combat roles. They're the 'peacekeepers' in that sense, they leave the fighting to the regular army or marines if it's possible to do so.
Trying to make the army act like cops works about as well as arming cops with military equipment without training or rules of engagement.
Calling them "dirtier" is wrong then. Less-clean-than-expected would be accurate. They didn't get dirtier, they simply sold less vehicles to make the air cleaner than it has been without them.
Vehicles are emission-tested based on specifications determined for their model-year of manufacture. In emissions-testing areas, those vehicles still have to meet those requirements for at least 25 years post-manufacture, sometimes they must meet them, PERIOD. We emissions-test everything 1967+ that was not exempt at manufacture.
Even if they're dirtier than they were when brand-new, they're still within-spec.
The machines are designed to need less maintenance and to be mess-free when operating. If it's hooked to a water-line, put in the pod, put in the cup, push button, pick up filled cup, throw away pod.
Because the ability to make a single serving of exactly the coffee one wants and to then have someone else do the exact same thing for their particular tastes is worth something.
US Airways private lounges have these things. Friends of mine have one. Honestly, if there wasn't DRM, I'd be tempted to get one for work, so that I don't have to brew a lot of coffee when I only want one cup.
Yes, it is like the inkjet printers.
If you can make an inkjet use the Keurig modules for ink, we could save a ton of money...
I don't agree. Satellite pirates were prosecuted for private, in-home personal use only. Sony tried rootkits against end-users. Keurig is in the same market as HP's injket printer business is in- sell your the device fairly cheaply, but sell you the supplies for it at a high price. My guess is that if someone created a concise, easy-to-follow set of directions to make coffee without using new Keurig cups, they'd push to have those directions taken down, even if the document did nothing but explain how do to it without otherwise seeking any profit whatsoever.
And here you are, posting on Slashdot...
In my experience PNG files are signfiicantly larger than other formats to convey the same thing to the end-user. A lot of forums and other sites with size caps can't use them as they're too large. So gif and jpeg still rule the world.
I guess we'll have to see if the elimination of the entire service as a whole (ie, Spain) functions differently than the exclusion of the search results from that service (ie, Germany).
DOOM was also 1993. Wolfenstein 3d was 1992. The various Catacomb games which used the engine that later became associated with Wolfenstein 3d were 1991.
I can't think of the name of it off of the top of my head, but I remember a tank battles game for the Macintosh, playable on the LC and other System 7-based Macs that used 3d rendering. It was already installed on the computers when I found it in 1991, so it might date back even earlier than Catacomb...
Honestly I never was very impressed with consoles for 3d gaming. They worked well for sidescrollers and situational games like Maniac Mansion, but it always felt like 3d needed more input controls than consoles had, and that input control needed to be heavy enough to stay in place on the desk. That meant for me keyboards and later adding mice. I even was decent at Descent with the keyboard and mouse. I tried several PC-games ported to consoles, none of them felt as good as on the computer.
The one exception would be car racing games, because generally one was in a 3d environment but effectively playing in two dimensions.
Especially if he made him play Chase the Chuck Wagon...
I will admit to clicking on Google's ad links on their search page when they match exactly what my search was for, but I am aware that they're the ad links and not the search-indexed links.
Trouble with that is it'd still require a means by which to know from where the consumer came from, and that could get problematic if the consumer came in several times from different sites before finally purchasing. Who gets credit and who gets credited for the assist? How do you subdivide that? What if the customer clears their browser history? How long does the retailer need to store referrer information in order to be fair to those sites advertising?
I'm a little confused as to what constitutes a high value customer". Wouldn't a customer, to qualify for the title, actually have to buy something?
This is more like "high value mall-rat" than customer.
Eh. You let a few through so it looks like you're not stifling criticism, but only enough to maintain the illusion.
Or they pass the turing test, but are hiding it so they can profit?
There's an auto enthusiast forum that I use that has a lot of paid subscribers. I'm classed as a supporter because I write articles and take events pictures for them, and have been sent a polo shirt to wear while I'm doing it if I want.
In this case the site is a lot more than just a forum though, the owner and admins go through a lot of effort to organize material so it's easy to reference. It's not quite to Wiki-level organization, but short of being user editable it's pretty damn good.
The rovers' lifespans were only 'warrantied' to 90 Sols, not simply expected to fail after 90 Sols.
This is a guess, but they probably based the solar panel situation on landers' results, which did end up being blocked by dust. Perhaps the landers generally ended up in places where natrual accumulation is worse, or perhaps the act of the rovers turning to different orientations relative to the prevailing winds has made built-up dust easier to shed. Either way, being pessimistic about the performance of one's platform is usually better than being optimistic about it and then being let-down. Look at Curiosity's wheels for an example of that.