A friend of mine figured out how to sign-up for Renegade boards by manually typing the ANSI escape sequences for color, so his username itself on the boards was in color. He couldn't receive mail because no one could manage to type his actual username, but he was able to be really fancy in teleconference.
Normally though, doctors of medicine who are pledged to do no harm are treating experimentally with work that researchers have conducted studies with and gotten at least some semblance of result, or else medical doctors are working with patients for experimental treatments that won't cause any additional harm anyway.
The eye is not something to trifle with. Unfortunately they did in this case, and it sounds like without any scientific basis.
Only in a post-scarcity society will everyone realize their full potential. Unfortunately access to resources begets a desire for even more resources, so it is basically impossible to have a post-scarcity society because there are those who will not be satisfied with what they have no matter how much they have, or what they desire is a reflection of what their peers have and want to have more than they do.
That was one of the few significant flaws that came out in Roddenberry-controlled Star Trek, it's not really possible to meet the needs, wants, and desires of everyone because some people cannot be satisfied at any cost.
If the Internet is forcing a change it's only because it's one of the more recent agents of change in a long line of changes. Music at one point was by-ear and with live performance. Then it was by notation in the form of sheet music requiring someone to actually play it themselves to enjoy it. Then it was fragile media, then radio, then more durable media, then copyable media, and finally electronic media. Funny thing is, it's still by-ear, in-notation, on the radio, on durable media, on copyable media, in addition to being electronic, and each variation has had its problems with theft (originally stealing ideas, then copying sheet music without paying, etc) so while changing it's not like the old forms are discarded.
The Internet allows for a global audience, but it does not necessarily mean that the global audience will appear, nor does it mean that everyone will value the work the same.
Last Android phone I dug into was not encrypted. The user privileges were set to where my standard use did not have root-level access to the device (which made getting my stuff off of the phone when it broke very difficult) but once I figured out how to get to some obscure menus at boot-time I was able to mostly find what I was looking to find through the filesystem and to copy over to a Linux box.
I would be very happy if Android came with the equivalent of Sudo.
They shouldn't have really opened the door to just any submission either.
I can think of a few ways they could've fixed this so it would have had the desired result.
First, limit who can submit. This is unfortunately probably difficult to do though, unless you use some kind of scholastic submission process like having anyone in the fourth year of schooling and above submit names to their schools, and then letting the schools whittle-down the submissions.
Second, add extra requirements to submit. Require an essay about the name and why it would be a good one. Set a word limit or character lower-limit and use some kind of software to attempt to block out bypass attempts. Don't even bother to note to the submitter whether or not their submission qualified or not, just respond by thanking them for their interest and submission.
Third, use a tiered process to judge entries, weed-down initial submissions through a panel, then provide the final dozen or so to open vote. If those running this submission process are worried about the result this way, encourage the panel to include at least some whimsical submissions that would be acceptable should they happen to win.
There's no reason that this kind of thing has to be an entirely democratic process.
Some of us take care of hundreds of sites where we may have to locally console into devices to work with them. Or we may have to attend conferences or meetings with the organizations that we work with. Or we may have to be on-call.
Most people do not have the necessary skills to safely remove the main panel cover and to clamp ammeters to the hot legs of their electrical service wiring.
Trouble with this approach is it requires a lot of steps in the field, and requires a lot of time in the field. It moves the production line closer to enemy action to destroy it, and if they really do have to form the rough shape in a 3d print process then machine it, that's presumably a lot of space and a lot of time being committed in a vulnerable position, and is also presumably much more dependent on electricity and functional computers that a conventional machine shop.
We can transport just about anything anywhere in the world in 24 hours, and we have the logistics to do that fairly cheaply already. For most parts it simply makes sense to centrally store them or to establish caches in safe locations, then transport them on-demand or else to cache small quantities in forward positions and to refill those caches as the parts are used.
Alternatively, other forms of machining are less reliant on electricity, especially when the materials worked are thin enough for manual process like various bending and cutting processes, and there are various welding processes that don't require electricity or else require very little electricity. Obviously electricity can serve as a wonderful labor-saving technology, but in a forward-deployed situation, if parts are to be produced locally it may make more sense to use these kinds of techniques where unreliable electrical power or battle damage might not destroy the ability to service vehicles and other machinery.
The place where I do like the technique you mention is in space exploration. It is hideously expensive to send materials up to orbit, so the ability to send bulk raw materials that get turned into products on-demand makes much more sense. I would expect that the process would first be used for plastics but could be expanded to other materials if the size of a space-based installation called for them. You'd probably still have a degree of a traditional machine shop though, simply because of the vast and varied techniques that could be applied to metal stock.
I don't think that it would be all that difficult to make roads and cars talk, if countries and automakers could agree on a standard, and if those jurisdictions responsible would implement that standard widely.
Consider the idea of embedding a guide cable into the roadbed. They already embed wiring into the road at stoplights for the inductive sensor to detect the mass of the vehicle to trigger the light, so the technology to modify the road itself while keeping it durable is there. If a protocol were developed to let cars follow the wire in the lane, and if extra readable position indicators were added to the road at increments to help keep the car calibrated for its location and to provide for data like specifics about the road and lights and intersections and the like, and if intelligent construction barriers were implemented that the cars could interrogate to know when they need to deviate from the wire in the road, it probably could make self-driving cars happen very quickly. Unfortunately that's a LOT of road to precision saw-cut and embed the wiring into, plus the power distribution to run it, plus the recordkeeping to ensure that the road data is accurate and is added to the vehicles. No one task is especially difficult and many robotic systems already use this kind of technology for following pathways, but it's simply so much to do that no one wants to take that approach.
Instead they're pushing for cars being able to interpret the existing conditions that normal drivers have to interpret, to find lanes, to observe traffic lights, plus all of the safety stuff for interacting with objects in the real world. What they should consider doing is placing the wire in the road in cities, and then using the observational-only model on limited-access freeways where simple lane-keeping is the bulk of what's needed as there are no at-grade crossings, no traffic lights other that metered ramps to get on the freeway to begin with, and many fewer incidences of pedestrians and other non-vehicle objects on the freeway. Unfortunately to do this requires a strong degree of political will and so far that will doesn't exist.
So a science-fiction movie that twists normal constraints to seem different in the future, and a science-fiction movie that twists normal constraints to seem different in the future.
Examples of real people would be nice. I'd even accept if those real people were named after fictional universes, provided enough time has passed for a degree of public notoriety. An example of that would be the name Madison, which was inspired by the movie Splash and became a popular and common girl's name.
Really? I was under the impression that Google's Java license came from Sun and allowed them to do quite a lot more than a normal Java license would, and Oracle didn't like the terms and tried to alter the deal when they took over Sun.
The salesman is at arms-length to the buyer in a private party purchase. There is no additional business connection. The uber model used Subprime loans/leases and advertised profits to those buyers that apparently could not be realized, with cars that these people arguably could not afford.
In my experience, if work requires you to pay them for something then it becomes morally shady. It's not necessarily egregious if the item is provided at a steep discount or is not a capital purchase, but it does not sound like the drivers got steep discounts and cars should qualify as capital purchases.
Besides, being morally wrong does not always mean being legally wrong. "Bad" as in, "Name ONE other bad thing Uber has done!" could easily be interpreted as the moral-grounds rather than legal grounds.
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So the masculine version of ALSA works when Pulse doesn't?
Lies. I can play games while streaming youtube videos and playing mp3s all at the same time on my pulseaudio-free system.
Well, I mean, you could, before.
Hey. I'm in favor of that, especially if they get rid of the stupid versioning system that was inherited from Chrome...
*grin*
A friend of mine figured out how to sign-up for Renegade boards by manually typing the ANSI escape sequences for color, so his username itself on the boards was in color. He couldn't receive mail because no one could manage to type his actual username, but he was able to be really fancy in teleconference.
Normally though, doctors of medicine who are pledged to do no harm are treating experimentally with work that researchers have conducted studies with and gotten at least some semblance of result, or else medical doctors are working with patients for experimental treatments that won't cause any additional harm anyway.
The eye is not something to trifle with. Unfortunately they did in this case, and it sounds like without any scientific basis.
Yep, be careful.
Ah, I still remember my ANSI animation signature from my BBSer days. Looked great at 9600 baud but those on 2400 baud complained about it.
Only in a post-scarcity society will everyone realize their full potential. Unfortunately access to resources begets a desire for even more resources, so it is basically impossible to have a post-scarcity society because there are those who will not be satisfied with what they have no matter how much they have, or what they desire is a reflection of what their peers have and want to have more than they do.
That was one of the few significant flaws that came out in Roddenberry-controlled Star Trek, it's not really possible to meet the needs, wants, and desires of everyone because some people cannot be satisfied at any cost.
If the Internet is forcing a change it's only because it's one of the more recent agents of change in a long line of changes. Music at one point was by-ear and with live performance. Then it was by notation in the form of sheet music requiring someone to actually play it themselves to enjoy it. Then it was fragile media, then radio, then more durable media, then copyable media, and finally electronic media. Funny thing is, it's still by-ear, in-notation, on the radio, on durable media, on copyable media, in addition to being electronic, and each variation has had its problems with theft (originally stealing ideas, then copying sheet music without paying, etc) so while changing it's not like the old forms are discarded.
The Internet allows for a global audience, but it does not necessarily mean that the global audience will appear, nor does it mean that everyone will value the work the same.
I bet he would disagree with you, if Kilroy was here.
Ship encrypted?
Last Android phone I dug into was not encrypted. The user privileges were set to where my standard use did not have root-level access to the device (which made getting my stuff off of the phone when it broke very difficult) but once I figured out how to get to some obscure menus at boot-time I was able to mostly find what I was looking to find through the filesystem and to copy over to a Linux box.
I would be very happy if Android came with the equivalent of Sudo.
They shouldn't have really opened the door to just any submission either.
I can think of a few ways they could've fixed this so it would have had the desired result.
First, limit who can submit. This is unfortunately probably difficult to do though, unless you use some kind of scholastic submission process like having anyone in the fourth year of schooling and above submit names to their schools, and then letting the schools whittle-down the submissions.
Second, add extra requirements to submit. Require an essay about the name and why it would be a good one. Set a word limit or character lower-limit and use some kind of software to attempt to block out bypass attempts. Don't even bother to note to the submitter whether or not their submission qualified or not, just respond by thanking them for their interest and submission.
Third, use a tiered process to judge entries, weed-down initial submissions through a panel, then provide the final dozen or so to open vote. If those running this submission process are worried about the result this way, encourage the panel to include at least some whimsical submissions that would be acceptable should they happen to win.
There's no reason that this kind of thing has to be an entirely democratic process.
Damn, I guess that "Yellow" wouldn't have been a good name for this submarine...
I'm thinking that the borders with Utah and New Mexico could play a role too.
Some of us take care of hundreds of sites where we may have to locally console into devices to work with them. Or we may have to attend conferences or meetings with the organizations that we work with. Or we may have to be on-call.
Most people do not have the necessary skills to safely remove the main panel cover and to clamp ammeters to the hot legs of their electrical service wiring.
Arizona other than either the Navajo or Hopi reservation does not have DST.
Last I recall, a few counties in SW Indiana also did not have DST, but I haven't exactly kept up to know if they're still that way or not.
Honestly I'm not sure what DST is supposed to do besides screw with sleep schedules.
Trouble with this approach is it requires a lot of steps in the field, and requires a lot of time in the field. It moves the production line closer to enemy action to destroy it, and if they really do have to form the rough shape in a 3d print process then machine it, that's presumably a lot of space and a lot of time being committed in a vulnerable position, and is also presumably much more dependent on electricity and functional computers that a conventional machine shop.
We can transport just about anything anywhere in the world in 24 hours, and we have the logistics to do that fairly cheaply already. For most parts it simply makes sense to centrally store them or to establish caches in safe locations, then transport them on-demand or else to cache small quantities in forward positions and to refill those caches as the parts are used.
Alternatively, other forms of machining are less reliant on electricity, especially when the materials worked are thin enough for manual process like various bending and cutting processes, and there are various welding processes that don't require electricity or else require very little electricity. Obviously electricity can serve as a wonderful labor-saving technology, but in a forward-deployed situation, if parts are to be produced locally it may make more sense to use these kinds of techniques where unreliable electrical power or battle damage might not destroy the ability to service vehicles and other machinery.
The place where I do like the technique you mention is in space exploration. It is hideously expensive to send materials up to orbit, so the ability to send bulk raw materials that get turned into products on-demand makes much more sense. I would expect that the process would first be used for plastics but could be expanded to other materials if the size of a space-based installation called for them. You'd probably still have a degree of a traditional machine shop though, simply because of the vast and varied techniques that could be applied to metal stock.
I don't think that it would be all that difficult to make roads and cars talk, if countries and automakers could agree on a standard, and if those jurisdictions responsible would implement that standard widely.
Consider the idea of embedding a guide cable into the roadbed. They already embed wiring into the road at stoplights for the inductive sensor to detect the mass of the vehicle to trigger the light, so the technology to modify the road itself while keeping it durable is there. If a protocol were developed to let cars follow the wire in the lane, and if extra readable position indicators were added to the road at increments to help keep the car calibrated for its location and to provide for data like specifics about the road and lights and intersections and the like, and if intelligent construction barriers were implemented that the cars could interrogate to know when they need to deviate from the wire in the road, it probably could make self-driving cars happen very quickly. Unfortunately that's a LOT of road to precision saw-cut and embed the wiring into, plus the power distribution to run it, plus the recordkeeping to ensure that the road data is accurate and is added to the vehicles. No one task is especially difficult and many robotic systems already use this kind of technology for following pathways, but it's simply so much to do that no one wants to take that approach.
Instead they're pushing for cars being able to interpret the existing conditions that normal drivers have to interpret, to find lanes, to observe traffic lights, plus all of the safety stuff for interacting with objects in the real world. What they should consider doing is placing the wire in the road in cities, and then using the observational-only model on limited-access freeways where simple lane-keeping is the bulk of what's needed as there are no at-grade crossings, no traffic lights other that metered ramps to get on the freeway to begin with, and many fewer incidences of pedestrians and other non-vehicle objects on the freeway. Unfortunately to do this requires a strong degree of political will and so far that will doesn't exist.
So a science-fiction movie that twists normal constraints to seem different in the future, and a science-fiction movie that twists normal constraints to seem different in the future.
Examples of real people would be nice. I'd even accept if those real people were named after fictional universes, provided enough time has passed for a degree of public notoriety. An example of that would be the name Madison, which was inspired by the movie Splash and became a popular and common girl's name.
Really? I was under the impression that Google's Java license came from Sun and allowed them to do quite a lot more than a normal Java license would, and Oracle didn't like the terms and tried to alter the deal when they took over Sun.
Other than the subject of this article, please cite two examples where "Jack" is demonstrated as a woman's name or nickname.
You sure that it isn't a reference to Lethal Weapon?
The salesman is at arms-length to the buyer in a private party purchase. There is no additional business connection. The uber model used Subprime loans/leases and advertised profits to those buyers that apparently could not be realized, with cars that these people arguably could not afford.
In my experience, if work requires you to pay them for something then it becomes morally shady. It's not necessarily egregious if the item is provided at a steep discount or is not a capital purchase, but it does not sound like the drivers got steep discounts and cars should qualify as capital purchases.
Besides, being morally wrong does not always mean being legally wrong. "Bad" as in, "Name ONE other bad thing Uber has done!" could easily be interpreted as the moral-grounds rather than legal grounds.
That excuse worked so well for Volkswagen and their diesel cars...