If we're going to go down that route, give me a damn smartwatch that actually works on its own. Then I'll add a bluetooth headset and use the watch as the phone, and use a tablet as the screen-based device.
...the saga of making phones that do everything well except actually working as phones...
I have an idea for a phone, how about making it so that the back of the phone, not the screen, is where the mic and speaker are? If not that, how about one of the two long edges?
Modern phones have gotten unwieldy, especially with large screens, and after using a phone the screen ends up smudged through contact with skin and hair. Using the back or an edge would correct the smudging, and using the side would probably correct both the smudging and the unwieldiness. Plus, without having to work around the screen, it's likely that better speakers and mics can be used.
Biggest problem I see is that they created the idea of the TARDIS specifically as a derivative work (ie, back before Gallifrey, before they were called Timelords, there was a madman in a junkyard that built a time machine inside of an old MET Police Box), so I don't see them having a lot of room to prevent people from attempting to create their own MET Police Boxes.
Only thing that I can see them having a handle on is the specifics of the design as they deviated from the original, mostly in the form of the number of inlaid panels between the rails on the sides and doors, but that even follows basic cabinet making techniques.
Perhaps a better solution would be to increase the time window for this event- spread the crowd over a few months instead of a few days.
You're trying to find a logical solution to a religious problem. That works so rarely that people are almost aghast when a Sikh removes his turban and uses it to stop the bleeding from a bullet wound on a child.
Not all nations have this problem. Indonesia has been cited as the largest Muslim nation, but its people don't seem to have been caught-up in either the religious fervor or in the stereotypes normally associated with Turk, Arab, or Persian people, or the rest of south Asia.
On the other hand, I don't think that religious insanity is ever very far away from any group. We see it leak-out from time to time in the United States and in Europe even most people in these places feel they're beyond it. The Balkan Wars are proof enough of that, people that had been peaceful neighbors for years killed each other even though no one benefited from it. I have no doubt that there are otherwise-functional people that in the right circumstances would attempt to kill me over my religious views even though they stand nothing to lose through my views.
That's my biggest problem with how the Wor on Terrah has been handled, instead of showing how base and petty and low these people are by simply trying them, convicting them, and throwing them in jail like any other murderers and thugs we elevate them by making their actions somehow different. Just throw 'em to the system like any other criminal and move on.
"Normal" people didn't start buying PCs until about 1995 anyway. If you really want to push the definition back you might be able to claim 1990. So that's 20 to 25 years of PCs being relatively common in the home.
Most people will look at the end-use. The tablet "walled garden" scenario developed because the traditional mass-market PC and OS makers dropped the ball on giving the customer what they wanted, and Google and Apple picked up the slack and actually gave the customer what they wanted. I personally find tablets generally lacking given what I want to do, but for most people it's apparently right up their alley.
Yep, it was offered here too. I took it privately though because I couldn't spare the instruction time during the school day for a whole semester when a single full weekend's practice with professional driving instructor was sufficient that I didn't even need to take a driving test with the motor vehicle department to qualify for my license.
On the other hand, lots of people that play high school sports exemplify people portrayed in Bruce Springsteen's song, "Glory Days."
You make it sound like the number of seats available to teach programming are limited and very competitively sought. This is not the case. It's also true that while some entry level programming can benefit those that work in computers in-general, for those that don't make a career out of programming specifically there is an upper limit. I do LAN/WAN work and I write reasonably complex shell scripts on a regular basis, but that evolved out of my use of MS-DOS and batch files more than it did out of the C and C++ that I took in high school and college, and the scripts that I write are for myself and maybe a few others on my team, not for mass-use by the organization, and the organization actually frowns upon locally-designed things like that since there's no support if I leave.
My point is that it's great for kids to have, "Computing Essentials," that involve more than how to load a web browser or how to format a document in Microsoft Word, but there is a point where the student is going to choose some subjects over others, and proficient professional computer use and proficient administration are not the same as proficient programming.
For PCs, how old is acceptable? A 486 can run Warcraft II. I kind of wish that I had kept Pentium or Pentium II with a 3dFX card and Soundblaster 16 to run older DOS-based games.
I suspect as micropayments and other in-game purchase models become more common it might make more sense to make use of the TV built in to a lot of newer vehicles to do in-vehicle gaming with some kind of in-car console.
On the other hand I wonder if being able to fill every idle moment with some easily provided stimulus is not terribly good for us. I'm certainly not immune to seeking diversion myself, but having to figure out how to entertain myself by reflecting on my thoughts or my environment can be very calming and can help bring me back down to earth when I get too caught-up in things. For me, road trips and vacations to remote areas are a way to find that calm and to detach from my every day life for awhile, and have been since I was an adolescent.
Or if the money / benefits are good enough with a lot of layers between upper management and the IT staff, the layers essentially insulate the end-workers from scrutiny and blame and no matter what the upper management calls for, procedures at the bottom do not change in the slightest.
Scott Adams in one of his Dilbert compilation books wrote of a quality initiative instituted by the upper management of Pacific Bell. By the time it trickled-down to him as an engineer the only change he saw was, "Quality!" printed on the top of the undersized notepads available in the supply closet.
A lot of it is perception. Intermediate managers choose what to report up and down the chain, and depending on how they feel about themselves, about the people below them, about the people above them, and about the place in general they can choose what gets shared up and down the chain. The IT department could be doing phenomenal work but if the IT manager has an axe to grind that success might be glossed-over. If the department is doing poorly, the manager could cherry-pick successes to make them sound more important than they are and can butter-up the upper management with platitudes and socialization to make failures suddenly turn into successes. Both are true even if there are degrees of independent metrics, as it's sometimes hard to quantify service and support when it can't be measured in widgets produced or terribly easily on customer satisfaction.
I think his point is that these people don't even have the minimal training of a pharmacy technician, something that takes little time to get but can probably be any eye-opener for the day-to-day procedures of the job. Getting training and spending a little bit of time working might actually give the decision maker some kind of knowledge as to how the workflow in the pharmacy actually functions, so that they're better able to make informed decisions as to how to change or improve, or what kinds of negatives will go along with what positives.
If management actually listens to their professionals-in-position then they don't themselves necessarily need to be professionals of that discipline themselves, but that's often not the case. I've had nontechnical bosses that were good bosses, and I've had nontechnical bosses that were bad bosses. I've had technical bosses that were bad bosses (often lying or otherwise obfuscating the details to their superiors and subordinates) and I've had technical bosses that were good to work for.
Yeah. Magnesium, for its weight-saving properties, has been used for automobile engine blocks and wheels ("mag" wheels were literally magnesium wheels originally) but there's some form of isolation between the magnesium part and that which is likely to cause the friction or other ignition to light it. Engine blocks have steel or iron sleeves and the cylinder heads aren't magnesium, and the wheels have tires that keep them separated from the road. On top of that these are usually performance or aftermarket applications only, so random customer isn't going to end up with these magnesium parts and not understand the risks involved.
That grille had wonderful even heat distribution. It was literally the best performing grille we've ever had. Unfortunately as a very casual griller using propane, I could not justify the risks associated with keeping it, even knowing what its flaw was. We got the recall notice right after I had thoroughly cleaned it for the first time, and as we were loading it into the truck to take back to the store I saw where I had gouged through the oxide layer to the fresh magnesium underneath. Not a guarantee that we would have had a fire next time we used it, but the coincidental timing was a little chilling.
Cars in both places are very safe in general. There is always room for improvement, but if you meet the requirements, and don't make inaccurate claims, then what is the problem? This just looks like an attempt to capitalize on the current VW drama.
Probably. "Hey look, a duck!" seems to be a common reaction when something bad is brought up.
I expect it would be much harder to fake crash test results than to fake emissions results. Even if one could detect that a car was being crash-tested instead of being in a real-world crash, there would be no performance advantage to not performing just as well in real crashes as in tests. Besides, many testing entities procure cars through regular retail channels so that manufacturers can't tweak a particular car to get better results.
If the American cars in European markets didn't meet Europe's standards they wouldn't be sold there. EuroNCAP is voluntary, but if one looks at the Chinese offerings that failed spectacularly, those brands generally aren't found in Europe because no one wants to buy cars that are that dangerous. The American cars are safe enough for Europe's roads.
I wouldn't worry at all. IIHS procedures are very cut and dry. They do 40% overlap and 20% overlap tests. The 20% had results all over the damn place from cars form all makers. If I remember right, Toyota fared the worst in that crash mode.
I actually like the IIHS. Their goal is to reduce the costs of insurance payments. That means they look at both the low-speed and the high-speed modes, low speed to minimize crash damage, and the high-speed to minimize passenger injuries. They're not beholden to the automakers and they're not government, so they can develop new tests whenever they want and the results of those tests push manufacturers to make their cars safer to try to avoid bad press.
It's one of the few instances where the private sector 'regulation' works better than public sector.
First thing that popped into my mind was a shoe being slammed down on the mechanical cockroach and Right Arm screaming in pain as he pulls the headphones off his ears... Now everyone around me is wondering why I'm laughing...
So the key statement is, "The Fair Work Commission didn't find that unfriending someone on Facebook constitutes workplace bullying," which is the exact opposite of what the Slashdot summary says.
At most, unfriending someone on Facebook in this particular instance was merely another action in a series of actions that as a whole constituted systemic bullying.
Even if the emissions was not part of the sales-pitch, it's a defective product that was fraudulently manufactured and distributed. Fault lies entirely with the company, not with the consumer in any way, so the consumer should not have the burden of any loss on themselves.
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And requires carrying a second device.
If we're going to go down that route, give me a damn smartwatch that actually works on its own. Then I'll add a bluetooth headset and use the watch as the phone, and use a tablet as the screen-based device.
...the saga of making phones that do everything well except actually working as phones...
I have an idea for a phone, how about making it so that the back of the phone, not the screen, is where the mic and speaker are? If not that, how about one of the two long edges?
Modern phones have gotten unwieldy, especially with large screens, and after using a phone the screen ends up smudged through contact with skin and hair. Using the back or an edge would correct the smudging, and using the side would probably correct both the smudging and the unwieldiness. Plus, without having to work around the screen, it's likely that better speakers and mics can be used.
Biggest problem I see is that they created the idea of the TARDIS specifically as a derivative work (ie, back before Gallifrey, before they were called Timelords, there was a madman in a junkyard that built a time machine inside of an old MET Police Box), so I don't see them having a lot of room to prevent people from attempting to create their own MET Police Boxes.
Only thing that I can see them having a handle on is the specifics of the design as they deviated from the original, mostly in the form of the number of inlaid panels between the rails on the sides and doors, but that even follows basic cabinet making techniques.
Well, when you've got a Five Man Electrical Band to protect, a sign obviously isn't going to cut it...
Perhaps a better solution would be to increase the time window for this event- spread the crowd over a few months instead of a few days.
You're trying to find a logical solution to a religious problem. That works so rarely that people are almost aghast when a Sikh removes his turban and uses it to stop the bleeding from a bullet wound on a child.
Not all nations have this problem. Indonesia has been cited as the largest Muslim nation, but its people don't seem to have been caught-up in either the religious fervor or in the stereotypes normally associated with Turk, Arab, or Persian people, or the rest of south Asia.
On the other hand, I don't think that religious insanity is ever very far away from any group. We see it leak-out from time to time in the United States and in Europe even most people in these places feel they're beyond it. The Balkan Wars are proof enough of that, people that had been peaceful neighbors for years killed each other even though no one benefited from it. I have no doubt that there are otherwise-functional people that in the right circumstances would attempt to kill me over my religious views even though they stand nothing to lose through my views.
That's my biggest problem with how the Wor on Terrah has been handled, instead of showing how base and petty and low these people are by simply trying them, convicting them, and throwing them in jail like any other murderers and thugs we elevate them by making their actions somehow different. Just throw 'em to the system like any other criminal and move on.
So you're saying you don't bathe, wear clean clothing, and are an asshole?
I think I work with that guy.
...than the latest Euroweenie, ecowussy diesels
But I thought that these VWs in question lacked Urea injection...
"Normal" people didn't start buying PCs until about 1995 anyway. If you really want to push the definition back you might be able to claim 1990. So that's 20 to 25 years of PCs being relatively common in the home.
Most people will look at the end-use. The tablet "walled garden" scenario developed because the traditional mass-market PC and OS makers dropped the ball on giving the customer what they wanted, and Google and Apple picked up the slack and actually gave the customer what they wanted. I personally find tablets generally lacking given what I want to do, but for most people it's apparently right up their alley.
You sure there's no fuel-injector in that espresso machine? I sure feel energized after having one!
Yep, it was offered here too. I took it privately though because I couldn't spare the instruction time during the school day for a whole semester when a single full weekend's practice with professional driving instructor was sufficient that I didn't even need to take a driving test with the motor vehicle department to qualify for my license.
On the other hand, lots of people that play high school sports exemplify people portrayed in Bruce Springsteen's song, "Glory Days."
You make it sound like the number of seats available to teach programming are limited and very competitively sought. This is not the case. It's also true that while some entry level programming can benefit those that work in computers in-general, for those that don't make a career out of programming specifically there is an upper limit. I do LAN/WAN work and I write reasonably complex shell scripts on a regular basis, but that evolved out of my use of MS-DOS and batch files more than it did out of the C and C++ that I took in high school and college, and the scripts that I write are for myself and maybe a few others on my team, not for mass-use by the organization, and the organization actually frowns upon locally-designed things like that since there's no support if I leave.
My point is that it's great for kids to have, "Computing Essentials," that involve more than how to load a web browser or how to format a document in Microsoft Word, but there is a point where the student is going to choose some subjects over others, and proficient professional computer use and proficient administration are not the same as proficient programming.
How old is old?
For PCs, how old is acceptable? A 486 can run Warcraft II. I kind of wish that I had kept Pentium or Pentium II with a 3dFX card and Soundblaster 16 to run older DOS-based games.
I suspect as micropayments and other in-game purchase models become more common it might make more sense to make use of the TV built in to a lot of newer vehicles to do in-vehicle gaming with some kind of in-car console.
On the other hand I wonder if being able to fill every idle moment with some easily provided stimulus is not terribly good for us. I'm certainly not immune to seeking diversion myself, but having to figure out how to entertain myself by reflecting on my thoughts or my environment can be very calming and can help bring me back down to earth when I get too caught-up in things. For me, road trips and vacations to remote areas are a way to find that calm and to detach from my every day life for awhile, and have been since I was an adolescent.
Or if the money / benefits are good enough with a lot of layers between upper management and the IT staff, the layers essentially insulate the end-workers from scrutiny and blame and no matter what the upper management calls for, procedures at the bottom do not change in the slightest.
Scott Adams in one of his Dilbert compilation books wrote of a quality initiative instituted by the upper management of Pacific Bell. By the time it trickled-down to him as an engineer the only change he saw was, "Quality!" printed on the top of the undersized notepads available in the supply closet.
A lot of it is perception. Intermediate managers choose what to report up and down the chain, and depending on how they feel about themselves, about the people below them, about the people above them, and about the place in general they can choose what gets shared up and down the chain. The IT department could be doing phenomenal work but if the IT manager has an axe to grind that success might be glossed-over. If the department is doing poorly, the manager could cherry-pick successes to make them sound more important than they are and can butter-up the upper management with platitudes and socialization to make failures suddenly turn into successes. Both are true even if there are degrees of independent metrics, as it's sometimes hard to quantify service and support when it can't be measured in widgets produced or terribly easily on customer satisfaction.
I think his point is that these people don't even have the minimal training of a pharmacy technician, something that takes little time to get but can probably be any eye-opener for the day-to-day procedures of the job. Getting training and spending a little bit of time working might actually give the decision maker some kind of knowledge as to how the workflow in the pharmacy actually functions, so that they're better able to make informed decisions as to how to change or improve, or what kinds of negatives will go along with what positives.
If management actually listens to their professionals-in-position then they don't themselves necessarily need to be professionals of that discipline themselves, but that's often not the case. I've had nontechnical bosses that were good bosses, and I've had nontechnical bosses that were bad bosses. I've had technical bosses that were bad bosses (often lying or otherwise obfuscating the details to their superiors and subordinates) and I've had technical bosses that were good to work for.
Yeah. Magnesium, for its weight-saving properties, has been used for automobile engine blocks and wheels ("mag" wheels were literally magnesium wheels originally) but there's some form of isolation between the magnesium part and that which is likely to cause the friction or other ignition to light it. Engine blocks have steel or iron sleeves and the cylinder heads aren't magnesium, and the wheels have tires that keep them separated from the road. On top of that these are usually performance or aftermarket applications only, so random customer isn't going to end up with these magnesium parts and not understand the risks involved.
That grille had wonderful even heat distribution. It was literally the best performing grille we've ever had. Unfortunately as a very casual griller using propane, I could not justify the risks associated with keeping it, even knowing what its flaw was. We got the recall notice right after I had thoroughly cleaned it for the first time, and as we were loading it into the truck to take back to the store I saw where I had gouged through the oxide layer to the fresh magnesium underneath. Not a guarantee that we would have had a fire next time we used it, but the coincidental timing was a little chilling.
If I understand it, that's average across all brand's sales.
Start selling electrics to offset the lesser-performing vehicles.
Amused readers love your work. You're performing on their stage for free.
Keep up the good work.
Cars in both places are very safe in general. There is always room for improvement, but if you meet the requirements, and don't make inaccurate claims, then what is the problem? This just looks like an attempt to capitalize on the current VW drama.
Probably. "Hey look, a duck!" seems to be a common reaction when something bad is brought up.
I expect it would be much harder to fake crash test results than to fake emissions results. Even if one could detect that a car was being crash-tested instead of being in a real-world crash, there would be no performance advantage to not performing just as well in real crashes as in tests. Besides, many testing entities procure cars through regular retail channels so that manufacturers can't tweak a particular car to get better results.
If the American cars in European markets didn't meet Europe's standards they wouldn't be sold there. EuroNCAP is voluntary, but if one looks at the Chinese offerings that failed spectacularly, those brands generally aren't found in Europe because no one wants to buy cars that are that dangerous. The American cars are safe enough for Europe's roads.
I wouldn't worry at all. IIHS procedures are very cut and dry. They do 40% overlap and 20% overlap tests. The 20% had results all over the damn place from cars form all makers. If I remember right, Toyota fared the worst in that crash mode.
I actually like the IIHS. Their goal is to reduce the costs of insurance payments. That means they look at both the low-speed and the high-speed modes, low speed to minimize crash damage, and the high-speed to minimize passenger injuries. They're not beholden to the automakers and they're not government, so they can develop new tests whenever they want and the results of those tests push manufacturers to make their cars safer to try to avoid bad press.
It's one of the few instances where the private sector 'regulation' works better than public sector.
First thing that popped into my mind was a shoe being slammed down on the mechanical cockroach and Right Arm screaming in pain as he pulls the headphones off his ears... Now everyone around me is wondering why I'm laughing...
But you don't work for/with them, so you have no grounds for a workplace claim...
So the key statement is, "The Fair Work Commission didn't find that unfriending someone on Facebook constitutes workplace bullying," which is the exact opposite of what the Slashdot summary says.
At most, unfriending someone on Facebook in this particular instance was merely another action in a series of actions that as a whole constituted systemic bullying.
Even if the emissions was not part of the sales-pitch, it's a defective product that was fraudulently manufactured and distributed. Fault lies entirely with the company, not with the consumer in any way, so the consumer should not have the burden of any loss on themselves.