The stories I've heard from my in-laws lend evidence that men were not terribly involved in the lives of the young children or even at-times the family. My FIL didn't get married until his forties, and most of his friends that did marry young still went out drinking with the guys, even as their wives became pregnant and raised children.
If expectations now are shifting more toward participation with the family then it would follow that men might be more inclined themselves to hold-off having kids until they're ready. Also, the use of birth control being more acceptable means that people generally have more options to entertain themselves without having kids.
You've clearly not been to Phoenix and its surrounding metro area. In 1980 the population of the county was about 1.5 million people, now it's around 5 million people. The uptown part of higher density construction has yielded importance back to the old downtown and its convention center, sports arenas, and the supporting businesses. Most of the taller buildings were built sometime after 1980, and the blight that the construction of the lightrail inevitably caused has given-way to four and five story mixed-use buildings. New universities have sprung-up and existing universities have expanded to having multiple campuses, many along that lightrail line. Portions of the Phoenix metro area are *gasp* walkable, and the downtowns of Phoenix, Tempe, and Mesa are reachable without requiring a car or having to change buses anymore.
Sure, the suburbs are suburbs, and continue to sprawl in every direction that isn't blocked by an indian reservation, but even there one can see the differences in trends and tastes, and one can see where relatively cheap homes built as McMansions taking up all of the lot square footage with the smallest setbacks that the city will allow will very likely become bad neighborhoods, while other developments with actual land will probably remain expensive neighborhoods.
Repetitive jobs, not simply low-skilled jobs, are the ones at risk. The job has to be the kind that can be automated. Manufacturing is most efficient when it makes loads of identical or nearly-identical-with-predictable-variation units, and it becomes even more cost effective when humans are no longer required to perform those tasks repetitively. That $200,000 robot may cost more than the $40,000 worker, but if that robot produces for more than five years without significant maintenance or downtime then it's paid for itself, and really any further work is essentially free.
I would rather actually fund education so more people would be qualified for work beyond being a meat-part in a machine, doing the same thing over and over again for days, months, years.
Texting is also leaving a message for them, not requiring them to read it now and never have access to it. Texting creates a record that the recipient can refer back to.
Most people don't care for the idea of their phone conversations being recorded, but they don't have a problem with the records created by text messages unless those records are later used as evidence against them.
The crux of the matter is that the payphone isn't the important part of the story. Rachel's unnatural nature is. While the payphone is becoming less common they're not entirely gone either.
Also, one can imagine a scenario where a police detective knows how the technology works, and actually makes a point of avoiding technology that's personally tied to him where actions he takes could arguably be used to demonstrate that he's compromised in some fashion. If you will, he uses the payphone because it's not his phone, so it's harder for a cursory investigation to identify that he made that call in the first place. Admittedly this would be something of a retcon since I doubt that it was even a consideration when the film was made. On the other hand we don't have flying cars, a postapocalyptic landscape, or extraterrestrial colonies either.
Enjoy the story, don't focus on the inane details, they're not important in this case.
One requires oxygen to survive. Too much oxygen is toxic and may be fatal.
One requires sugar to survive. Too much sugar is toxic and may be fatal.
Granted, the mechanisms and time-scales of these process are different. Too much oxygen will cause harm or death sooner than too much sugar will, but the deleterious effects are known.
If it's attached to the car with tools and requires tools to remove, my argument is that it conveyed with the car. It's not their immobilizer anymore, therefore they engaged in electronic tampering at a distance and should be prosecuted accordingly.
Anything installed by the dealer attached to the car that requires tools to remove at the time of sale is conveyed with the car. One can make the argument that they illegally accessed his immobilizer system.
It doesn't even matter whether or not he could access or use the immobilizer, it was part of the car they sold to him, therefore it's his.
Sure. But if there's anything I've learned in dealing with enterprise IT, it's that some things are greatly trivialized. It's possible that the sales person for the software vendor didn't themselves understand the difficulty and thus the project was quoted or bid for less than it should have actually cost. If the customer gets a quote that makes it seem cheap then it would be no surprise to consider it.
In that sense it almost doesn't matter if it really was harder than that, depending on the nature of the contract. I have seen vendors manage to screw themselves over if they over-promised and the contract did not leave a lot of wiggle-room. Doesn't happen often, but it's glorious when it does.
It means I research the significance of the left phalange, so that I can determine what issues with the left phalange mean for me. Knowing that the product has a left phalange means I have a starting point for further research, and I may find that it doesn't matter if the left phalange will fail under particular circumstances if those circumstances are unlikely or impossible in my application.
When I did QA testing I had to create plausible scenarios for my testing. This meant researching how something really could expect to be used or realistically misused, and then testing with those criteria in mind.
If the proprietary applications mentioned in the article summary are derivatives of their desktop or tablet cousins, then I could understand the business argument in favor of attempting to keep with the same platform, especially depending on development costs for the Windows Phone versions of those applications compared to possibly much higher costs for developing whole new applications for either Apple's phone or an Android model. It may well be possible that the costs for the applications was low enough to give some justification for trying Windows Phone generally.
That said, if the platform was already on life support then I hope they got a screaming-good-deal for their attempt. Several years ago we faced attempting to upgrade to the latest Novell Netware or migrating to Active Directory. Netware had been in-service in the organization since the 3.x days when there was no network between sites other than for the AS/400 connectivity, so we had a long and successful history with it, but it was clear that Netware was not seeing the new development that it needed, and the time between a new version of Windows coming out and full Netware client support was getting worse with each new release. As much as we'd been successful with Novell in the past, it was clear that future success with them was strongly in-doubt, and we ultimately left.
It's standard practice to use rockets manufactured to be ICBMs as space launch platforms. Sometimes it's for testing of new rockets, and sometimes it's to use-up rockets that were manufactured at great cost instead of simply scrapping them unflown.
I expect that for self-driving cars to really work, some compromises in how traffic redirection for special cases is handled. I would not be surprised if cones and other barriers are required to have some technology, even something as simple as a pattern that the car can interpret, that describes something of the conditions and the expected behavior from the car. That would allow cars to at least handle construction zones and other "men working" zones better.
Still doesn't address things like power lines and road debris though.
Correct. What went wrong for other people? Why did it go wrong? Will this function impact me?
As a case in point it's not really possible to buy an inexpensive TV that lacks "smart" features anymore. Smart features are very inconsistent from manufacturer to manufacturer. Thing is, if I never connect my TV to anything but an antenna, do those smart features matter? I need to read other users' experiences with a given TV or a range of candidate TVs to see what features work and what don't, and just because a TV gets poor reviews doesn't mean that the functions that I'll use are the ones poorly reviewed. It could be that the Internet connectivity stuff is what's garbage, or like the one I actually bought, the stock remote sucks but if I get a $10 remote from the previous model TV, I get 80% of the features back that normally require a cell phone with Bluetooth or other "smart" feature to work.
We were around 75%. Didn't make any plans, grabbed a carboard box, poked a hole in it to make my own quick and dirty pinhole camera to view the crescent, and went out and looked.
Did glance up a couple times more than I probably should have, but it was intermittently overcast so didn't stare into the sun.
If the documentaries I've seen are any indication, while there are various national governments that lay claim to regions, the borders are quite porous and there's nothing to stop people from migrating around the region. East Africa is not a country, it may well be a culture.
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The stories I've heard from my in-laws lend evidence that men were not terribly involved in the lives of the young children or even at-times the family. My FIL didn't get married until his forties, and most of his friends that did marry young still went out drinking with the guys, even as their wives became pregnant and raised children.
If expectations now are shifting more toward participation with the family then it would follow that men might be more inclined themselves to hold-off having kids until they're ready. Also, the use of birth control being more acceptable means that people generally have more options to entertain themselves without having kids.
You've clearly not been to Phoenix and its surrounding metro area. In 1980 the population of the county was about 1.5 million people, now it's around 5 million people. The uptown part of higher density construction has yielded importance back to the old downtown and its convention center, sports arenas, and the supporting businesses. Most of the taller buildings were built sometime after 1980, and the blight that the construction of the lightrail inevitably caused has given-way to four and five story mixed-use buildings. New universities have sprung-up and existing universities have expanded to having multiple campuses, many along that lightrail line. Portions of the Phoenix metro area are *gasp* walkable, and the downtowns of Phoenix, Tempe, and Mesa are reachable without requiring a car or having to change buses anymore.
Sure, the suburbs are suburbs, and continue to sprawl in every direction that isn't blocked by an indian reservation, but even there one can see the differences in trends and tastes, and one can see where relatively cheap homes built as McMansions taking up all of the lot square footage with the smallest setbacks that the city will allow will very likely become bad neighborhoods, while other developments with actual land will probably remain expensive neighborhoods.
So follow the "hello moto" model and introduce a projector screen into a portable videophone, use a blank section of wall to stare at.
I thought jails were gender-segregated. How are you going to get a broad in a jail?
Repetitive jobs, not simply low-skilled jobs, are the ones at risk. The job has to be the kind that can be automated. Manufacturing is most efficient when it makes loads of identical or nearly-identical-with-predictable-variation units, and it becomes even more cost effective when humans are no longer required to perform those tasks repetitively. That $200,000 robot may cost more than the $40,000 worker, but if that robot produces for more than five years without significant maintenance or downtime then it's paid for itself, and really any further work is essentially free.
I would rather actually fund education so more people would be qualified for work beyond being a meat-part in a machine, doing the same thing over and over again for days, months, years.
Texting is also leaving a message for them, not requiring them to read it now and never have access to it. Texting creates a record that the recipient can refer back to.
Most people don't care for the idea of their phone conversations being recorded, but they don't have a problem with the records created by text messages unless those records are later used as evidence against them.
With the right series of three adapters after spending hundreds of dollars, yes.
The crux of the matter is that the payphone isn't the important part of the story. Rachel's unnatural nature is. While the payphone is becoming less common they're not entirely gone either.
Also, one can imagine a scenario where a police detective knows how the technology works, and actually makes a point of avoiding technology that's personally tied to him where actions he takes could arguably be used to demonstrate that he's compromised in some fashion. If you will, he uses the payphone because it's not his phone, so it's harder for a cursory investigation to identify that he made that call in the first place. Admittedly this would be something of a retcon since I doubt that it was even a consideration when the film was made. On the other hand we don't have flying cars, a postapocalyptic landscape, or extraterrestrial colonies either.
Enjoy the story, don't focus on the inane details, they're not important in this case.
One requires oxygen to survive. Too much oxygen is toxic and may be fatal.
One requires sugar to survive. Too much sugar is toxic and may be fatal.
Granted, the mechanisms and time-scales of these process are different. Too much oxygen will cause harm or death sooner than too much sugar will, but the deleterious effects are known.
The hard part would be concealing the Katana.
The way the summary is written, most readers might be concerned that this affects USB flash drives.
If it's attached to the car with tools and requires tools to remove, my argument is that it conveyed with the car. It's not their immobilizer anymore, therefore they engaged in electronic tampering at a distance and should be prosecuted accordingly.
Anything installed by the dealer attached to the car that requires tools to remove at the time of sale is conveyed with the car. One can make the argument that they illegally accessed his immobilizer system.
It doesn't even matter whether or not he could access or use the immobilizer, it was part of the car they sold to him, therefore it's his.
Hopefully this'll work out better for humanity than when Colossus and Guardian worked together.
Sure. But if there's anything I've learned in dealing with enterprise IT, it's that some things are greatly trivialized. It's possible that the sales person for the software vendor didn't themselves understand the difficulty and thus the project was quoted or bid for less than it should have actually cost. If the customer gets a quote that makes it seem cheap then it would be no surprise to consider it.
In that sense it almost doesn't matter if it really was harder than that, depending on the nature of the contract. I have seen vendors manage to screw themselves over if they over-promised and the contract did not leave a lot of wiggle-room. Doesn't happen often, but it's glorious when it does.
It means I research the significance of the left phalange, so that I can determine what issues with the left phalange mean for me. Knowing that the product has a left phalange means I have a starting point for further research, and I may find that it doesn't matter if the left phalange will fail under particular circumstances if those circumstances are unlikely or impossible in my application.
When I did QA testing I had to create plausible scenarios for my testing. This meant researching how something really could expect to be used or realistically misused, and then testing with those criteria in mind.
Why does it have a higher chance of being good? I see not enough data points if there are not enough reviews. Its quality is ill-defined, not good.
If the proprietary applications mentioned in the article summary are derivatives of their desktop or tablet cousins, then I could understand the business argument in favor of attempting to keep with the same platform, especially depending on development costs for the Windows Phone versions of those applications compared to possibly much higher costs for developing whole new applications for either Apple's phone or an Android model. It may well be possible that the costs for the applications was low enough to give some justification for trying Windows Phone generally.
That said, if the platform was already on life support then I hope they got a screaming-good-deal for their attempt. Several years ago we faced attempting to upgrade to the latest Novell Netware or migrating to Active Directory. Netware had been in-service in the organization since the 3.x days when there was no network between sites other than for the AS/400 connectivity, so we had a long and successful history with it, but it was clear that Netware was not seeing the new development that it needed, and the time between a new version of Windows coming out and full Netware client support was getting worse with each new release. As much as we'd been successful with Novell in the past, it was clear that future success with them was strongly in-doubt, and we ultimately left.
It's standard practice to use rockets manufactured to be ICBMs as space launch platforms. Sometimes it's for testing of new rockets, and sometimes it's to use-up rockets that were manufactured at great cost instead of simply scrapping them unflown.
Most Titan launches were of this type, including the Gemini, Pioneer, and Voyager programs.
Aka, don't subscribe to video content services, option 3.
We don't have any paid content services, and frankly there are so many channels over the air right now that we don't need paid content services.
I expect that for self-driving cars to really work, some compromises in how traffic redirection for special cases is handled. I would not be surprised if cones and other barriers are required to have some technology, even something as simple as a pattern that the car can interpret, that describes something of the conditions and the expected behavior from the car. That would allow cars to at least handle construction zones and other "men working" zones better.
Still doesn't address things like power lines and road debris though.
Correct. What went wrong for other people? Why did it go wrong? Will this function impact me?
As a case in point it's not really possible to buy an inexpensive TV that lacks "smart" features anymore. Smart features are very inconsistent from manufacturer to manufacturer. Thing is, if I never connect my TV to anything but an antenna, do those smart features matter? I need to read other users' experiences with a given TV or a range of candidate TVs to see what features work and what don't, and just because a TV gets poor reviews doesn't mean that the functions that I'll use are the ones poorly reviewed. It could be that the Internet connectivity stuff is what's garbage, or like the one I actually bought, the stock remote sucks but if I get a $10 remote from the previous model TV, I get 80% of the features back that normally require a cell phone with Bluetooth or other "smart" feature to work.
We were around 75%. Didn't make any plans, grabbed a carboard box, poked a hole in it to make my own quick and dirty pinhole camera to view the crescent, and went out and looked.
Did glance up a couple times more than I probably should have, but it was intermittently overcast so didn't stare into the sun.
If the documentaries I've seen are any indication, while there are various national governments that lay claim to regions, the borders are quite porous and there's nothing to stop people from migrating around the region. East Africa is not a country, it may well be a culture.