And why didn't they spend the last bit of their fuel to do a short jump in hyperspace to the planet that has defenses and launch the transports from there, or land the damn fleet on the planet.
And the tracking through hyperspace plot. WTF? A rendezvous point is chosen not as the first jump, but as the final location as everyone goes off in different directions. Why do the ships only have enough for 2 jumps? Why was the jump all of them together instead of each going in a different direction to separate locations and only weeks later going to an agreed upon location?
The entire middle plot with going to get the code breaker did about as much good as Indiana Jones trying to stop the Nazi's from getting the arc of the covenant, which he failed to do and the Nazi's died as soon as opening it, making the whole plot a waste.
Also, once Luke had died, how could Kylo have gone into the base and found the projected dice on the floor?
Did every joke need to be queued? What happened to the witty humor that was woven in before? Now each joke has to be a 30 second exchange between two characters?
There is this demand from investors to not only make profit, but to make more profit than before. Changing the release cycle would send the stock plummeting as investors would believe they would be getting less return.
I recall reading blog posts about app development and the author encouraging developers to release often so that users know your project is active. Personally I turned off auto update, and check through the list occasionally to see if an app I'm using has an update, and what features they have added. If all they say is "more bug fixes and features", or "we'll let you know of the features in the app", that app doesn't get updated, and may eventually be uninstalled. To me the frequent call for updates is annoying. Unless I'm actually experiencing a bug, or it's a security patch, I don't really care about the latest feature. If I did I would check if an update has been made available.
I did have a bank force an update on me so it would be compatible with iPhone X, even though I'm using an iPhone 6s.
I figure I've saved perhaps 100Gb of unneeded downloads for apps like YouTube, Facebook (while, this one is now uninstalled), and the various bundled iOS apps that are 500-1000 Mb.
From my experience at Intel when they were trying to get into Android phones we start a cycle on a new version with everything broken and barely get everything working again just in time for Google to release yet another update which breaks something again. The point updates would take a couple weeks maybe to fix, but the major version updates were hell.
My other experience from a user study which was for Intel's health and technology showed that it wasn't just Google that makes it shitty, and perhaps it wasn't Google at all, but every time we tested something and filed a bug the next day they would have marked all bugs as fixed and told us to test on the new version where we would inevitably find the same bug. Bug fixing makes them seem like they are making progress and looks like a good metric to management, where really they are just sweeping shit under the rug.
I picked up my Brothers Laser printer for just over $100 brand new for school. I've printed over 200 pages on the original toner and it looks to still be going strong. It does copies, scans, and has WiFi and LAN support. Unlike HP it's always just worked for printing and never required a coin flip over whether or not I'll have to reinstall the drivers (granted that was their OfficeJet ink printers). What are you adding to it that costs another $100-$200?
My friend has the previous generation of the same printer which he has used through two XL cartridges and is still going strong. The internal drum is rated for 10,000 sheets, which he might need to replace with his next thing of toner.
The whole alert system was a poorly planned out. After the first alert jarring me while driving, almost causing collisions, and inciting a state of panic, I turned that feature off and no longer get any level of alerts. A softer, longer, tone which does not blast at me would have been much more welcomed.
In Taiwan during the cold (for them) winters I would often go to the 7-11 and purchase a can of coffee or ovaltine which was kept in a heated box. Just crack it open and you have a hot beverage.
My HP was flip a coin and maybe it'll print without having to reinstall the drivers. My Brother printer has gone 100 pages and counting, printing every couple days, and I only had to install drivers. My friend has the last generation one and has gone through 3 or 4 toner cartridges which would be somewhere around 6-10,000 pages, and has never had an issue.
Same here. And I sleep better at night too! I occasionally check, but realize every time that the notifications are just spam, someone I might have followed commented on a post I know something about? Fuck that. Now those occasions are getting fewer and further between. Some day I will go through and figure out which websites I have Facebook authentication with and remove it. Once that is done, download all my FB data and delete the account.
Nope, turns out this person is arguing for software quality. They think CI/CD is settled in the sense that it isn't going away, stop trying to change it, move on to other things like the latest buzz words. I believe CI/CD is what has made software shit these days. Companies start by promising x number of features, and rush it out the door after x-y>0 features are partially done, then CI/CD with users as their beta testers. You no longer have a finished version and solid piece of software, and no way to stick with a particular version, which is especially true on the walled garden of iOS. Gone are the days of a solid product coming out that stands on its own for years without the need for anything but occasional security updates.
That's sort of the point. First start by preserving the few areas that have truly dark skies, then we can work on better regulations and planning to undue much of the light pollution we have created. There isn't any night sky to preserve in Portland, OR, it would be like declaring Time Square a wildlife preserve. We do have wildlife preserves, and are building out green spaces in cities, sort of a similar idea. Start by preserving what you have and work on creating more.
Switch to sodium-vapor lamp and observatories can filter out the narrow notch of orange-yellow light it produces. Or use smart lamps that permit the scheduling of lowering of the level of street lights.
Using both approaches would be of greater benefit. There is no reason at all to have light leaking skyward, it's both a waste of energy, and pollutes the night sky for ordinary people to observe.
With highways that are mandatory self-driving you could also eliminate street lights and headlights.
Most self driving systems rely on visual observations to stay in the lane. Tesla's stated goal is to be able to do full autonomy with only normal camera's and not the whole ladar gizmos that Google uses. Unless we start building other kind of track and location information into the roads it would be hard to make sure that you stay on the road. Headlights should be sufficient for this, and streetlights not needed.
I tried in vain for years to convince my local HOA of this, they would have none of it. Despite our Alley way being a private street, H shaped with no through traffic, they still insisted that we must have our alley light on. It was obvious that none of my neighbors believed it was necessary as most of those 3 years 7 out of 10 houses on our little alley had dead bulbs, and mine was turned off on principle, making 8 out of 10 houses without alley lights. About once a year the management company would come out and write up tickets for all of us, then never come back and check.
How the houses were built they all had ambient light sensors to automatically turn the alley light on. I had applied to change this from an ambient light sensor to a timer where I could set it to turn off at a decent hour, but was denied. One of the chairs of the committee would always spread the false safety concern on the Facebook group, and I'd always reply with the studies that shows that more light does not correlate to less crime, to which he would be dismissive.
I was once on a transpacific flight which happened to be at night. Being a bit curious I opened the window cover and placed my jacket over my head and looked out towards the night sky. It was an amazing view. Some others saw me and copied the action, then vainly attempted to take a picture of the night sky not understanding that their iPhone wouldn't be capable of capturing that view.
I've taken my wife out on one of the local astronomical society camping trips and she was amazed at the number of stars that could be seen, and how distinct the Milky Way appears in the sky. That trip was also when I found out that the Milky Way travels across the night sky as I stayed up all night looking through various members telescopes and seeing distant galaxies.
I hear Equifax just got some openings in information security, and they might be willing to pay a little more for someone with a degree relevant to the field.
The GPS part of the immobilizer is to help aid in repossessing the vehicle. It would suck to disable it then have to go hunting everywhere to figure out where the car was located when it got disabled. Of course, this should only be used lawfully for the contracted purpose of missed payments and repossession.
My use of FB has dropped substantially since all the pages I followed had decided to jump on the sensational bandwagon. Funny how once I dropped George Takei my newsfeed went silent almost. No more "These 10 things...", or "I couldn't believe Number 5" showing up ten times a day and being recycled.
Despite your rhetoric, you do point out a large problem, the glass left on the road. probably 99% of it is from either car accidents, or drivers/passengers in cars dropping bottles on the road into the cycling path. During cleanup after accidents it seems that the standard is to make it "good enough" for car traffic to go through with no thought of cycling traffic which is highly prone to punctures from pieces of glass. Why they don't take the extra 10 minutes to actually clean up all the glass is beyond me, other than their priority being to get car traffic flowing.
It doesn't matter if you're riding 150 PSI road tires (though I mostly know only of 120 PSI being commonly ridden), or 60 PSI cross tires, they are all susceptible to sharp shards of glass working into the rubber and puncturing the inner tube. I've even had punctures on mountain bike tires riding down the same roads as my road bike.
For me it's the complete lack of ability to actually loan the book to someone else which should be pretty damn simple. But instead Amazon decided to make it overly complicated, and limited to a once in a lifetime nonsense, with 30 days to read. The lack of this feature, and resale, I believe, is why eBooks are overpriced.
At my previous residence we had 1-2 bars on the top floor North bedroom, 0 bars in the rest of the house. We were supposedly in the middle of a 4G area. They sent me a Cell Amplifier, which basically worked by placing the receiver end in the window of the aforementioned bedroom, and the extender somewhere central to my house, for us the Garage worked fine. This unit did not hook into the internet, but acted as a mini tower in our house. Had great coverage there with them after that.
Certainly not for everybody, but my wife being from Taiwan we already have a number there. With Chunghwa Telecom, which is sort of like the Taiwanese version of AT&T, we put her phone on a pay as you go plan. With this plan we only have to add about $3US ($100TWD) every 6 months to keep it active. That money stays on the account. When we go to visit about once a year the account will have perhaps $6 ($200TWD) in it. For about $30 ($1000TWD) we get an unlimited data plan AND the $30 we paid for the plan goes as a credit for voice and text but now expires at the end of the month. This means that we virtually have unlimited voice and text for the 14 days we are there, unlimited 4G data, and that $6 we paid during the year to keep the account active also just went towards the unlimited plan we purchased. It also has the great benefit of keeping her number, so when we get to Taiwan, we post on Facebook that we're back, and can instantly get phone calls from any of our friends or family.
On one family trip within the country the B&B we were staying at had horrible internet on the 4th floor, but thanks to our unlimited plan I just started a hot spot and shared it with all four of us.
The rest of the time we use Ting in the US. For our needs that amounts to less than $40/mo.
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And why didn't they spend the last bit of their fuel to do a short jump in hyperspace to the planet that has defenses and launch the transports from there, or land the damn fleet on the planet.
And the tracking through hyperspace plot. WTF? A rendezvous point is chosen not as the first jump, but as the final location as everyone goes off in different directions. Why do the ships only have enough for 2 jumps? Why was the jump all of them together instead of each going in a different direction to separate locations and only weeks later going to an agreed upon location?
The entire middle plot with going to get the code breaker did about as much good as Indiana Jones trying to stop the Nazi's from getting the arc of the covenant, which he failed to do and the Nazi's died as soon as opening it, making the whole plot a waste.
Also, once Luke had died, how could Kylo have gone into the base and found the projected dice on the floor?
Did every joke need to be queued? What happened to the witty humor that was woven in before? Now each joke has to be a 30 second exchange between two characters?
Other than Slashdot I don't know of a site that lets me use my username.
There is this demand from investors to not only make profit, but to make more profit than before. Changing the release cycle would send the stock plummeting as investors would believe they would be getting less return.
I recall reading blog posts about app development and the author encouraging developers to release often so that users know your project is active. Personally I turned off auto update, and check through the list occasionally to see if an app I'm using has an update, and what features they have added. If all they say is "more bug fixes and features", or "we'll let you know of the features in the app", that app doesn't get updated, and may eventually be uninstalled. To me the frequent call for updates is annoying. Unless I'm actually experiencing a bug, or it's a security patch, I don't really care about the latest feature. If I did I would check if an update has been made available.
I did have a bank force an update on me so it would be compatible with iPhone X, even though I'm using an iPhone 6s.
I figure I've saved perhaps 100Gb of unneeded downloads for apps like YouTube, Facebook (while, this one is now uninstalled), and the various bundled iOS apps that are 500-1000 Mb.
From my experience at Intel when they were trying to get into Android phones we start a cycle on a new version with everything broken and barely get everything working again just in time for Google to release yet another update which breaks something again. The point updates would take a couple weeks maybe to fix, but the major version updates were hell.
My other experience from a user study which was for Intel's health and technology showed that it wasn't just Google that makes it shitty, and perhaps it wasn't Google at all, but every time we tested something and filed a bug the next day they would have marked all bugs as fixed and told us to test on the new version where we would inevitably find the same bug. Bug fixing makes them seem like they are making progress and looks like a good metric to management, where really they are just sweeping shit under the rug.
I picked up my Brothers Laser printer for just over $100 brand new for school. I've printed over 200 pages on the original toner and it looks to still be going strong. It does copies, scans, and has WiFi and LAN support. Unlike HP it's always just worked for printing and never required a coin flip over whether or not I'll have to reinstall the drivers (granted that was their OfficeJet ink printers). What are you adding to it that costs another $100-$200?
My friend has the previous generation of the same printer which he has used through two XL cartridges and is still going strong. The internal drum is rated for 10,000 sheets, which he might need to replace with his next thing of toner.
The model I got: DCP-L2540DW
The whole alert system was a poorly planned out. After the first alert jarring me while driving, almost causing collisions, and inciting a state of panic, I turned that feature off and no longer get any level of alerts. A softer, longer, tone which does not blast at me would have been much more welcomed.
In Taiwan during the cold (for them) winters I would often go to the 7-11 and purchase a can of coffee or ovaltine which was kept in a heated box. Just crack it open and you have a hot beverage.
They took their vacation in 15 min increments.
My HP was flip a coin and maybe it'll print without having to reinstall the drivers. My Brother printer has gone 100 pages and counting, printing every couple days, and I only had to install drivers. My friend has the last generation one and has gone through 3 or 4 toner cartridges which would be somewhere around 6-10,000 pages, and has never had an issue.
Same here. And I sleep better at night too! I occasionally check, but realize every time that the notifications are just spam, someone I might have followed commented on a post I know something about? Fuck that. Now those occasions are getting fewer and further between. Some day I will go through and figure out which websites I have Facebook authentication with and remove it. Once that is done, download all my FB data and delete the account.
Nope, turns out this person is arguing for software quality. They think CI/CD is settled in the sense that it isn't going away, stop trying to change it, move on to other things like the latest buzz words. I believe CI/CD is what has made software shit these days. Companies start by promising x number of features, and rush it out the door after x-y>0 features are partially done, then CI/CD with users as their beta testers. You no longer have a finished version and solid piece of software, and no way to stick with a particular version, which is especially true on the walled garden of iOS. Gone are the days of a solid product coming out that stands on its own for years without the need for anything but occasional security updates.
That's sort of the point. First start by preserving the few areas that have truly dark skies, then we can work on better regulations and planning to undue much of the light pollution we have created. There isn't any night sky to preserve in Portland, OR, it would be like declaring Time Square a wildlife preserve. We do have wildlife preserves, and are building out green spaces in cities, sort of a similar idea. Start by preserving what you have and work on creating more.
Switch to sodium-vapor lamp and observatories can filter out the narrow notch of orange-yellow light it produces. Or use smart lamps that permit the scheduling of lowering of the level of street lights.
Using both approaches would be of greater benefit. There is no reason at all to have light leaking skyward, it's both a waste of energy, and pollutes the night sky for ordinary people to observe.
With highways that are mandatory self-driving you could also eliminate street lights and headlights.
Most self driving systems rely on visual observations to stay in the lane. Tesla's stated goal is to be able to do full autonomy with only normal camera's and not the whole ladar gizmos that Google uses. Unless we start building other kind of track and location information into the roads it would be hard to make sure that you stay on the road. Headlights should be sufficient for this, and streetlights not needed.
I tried in vain for years to convince my local HOA of this, they would have none of it. Despite our Alley way being a private street, H shaped with no through traffic, they still insisted that we must have our alley light on. It was obvious that none of my neighbors believed it was necessary as most of those 3 years 7 out of 10 houses on our little alley had dead bulbs, and mine was turned off on principle, making 8 out of 10 houses without alley lights. About once a year the management company would come out and write up tickets for all of us, then never come back and check. How the houses were built they all had ambient light sensors to automatically turn the alley light on. I had applied to change this from an ambient light sensor to a timer where I could set it to turn off at a decent hour, but was denied. One of the chairs of the committee would always spread the false safety concern on the Facebook group, and I'd always reply with the studies that shows that more light does not correlate to less crime, to which he would be dismissive.
I was once on a transpacific flight which happened to be at night. Being a bit curious I opened the window cover and placed my jacket over my head and looked out towards the night sky. It was an amazing view. Some others saw me and copied the action, then vainly attempted to take a picture of the night sky not understanding that their iPhone wouldn't be capable of capturing that view. I've taken my wife out on one of the local astronomical society camping trips and she was amazed at the number of stars that could be seen, and how distinct the Milky Way appears in the sky. That trip was also when I found out that the Milky Way travels across the night sky as I stayed up all night looking through various members telescopes and seeing distant galaxies.
I hear Equifax just got some openings in information security, and they might be willing to pay a little more for someone with a degree relevant to the field.
Most of the time I run into this problem is on news sites playing the video clip of the article I'm reading. Not sure how that is making them money.
If all those customers are ones on unlimited plans that are now using 90% of their unlimited amount instead of 30% the carriers will start to care.
The GPS part of the immobilizer is to help aid in repossessing the vehicle. It would suck to disable it then have to go hunting everywhere to figure out where the car was located when it got disabled. Of course, this should only be used lawfully for the contracted purpose of missed payments and repossession.
My use of FB has dropped substantially since all the pages I followed had decided to jump on the sensational bandwagon. Funny how once I dropped George Takei my newsfeed went silent almost. No more "These 10 things...", or "I couldn't believe Number 5" showing up ten times a day and being recycled.
Despite your rhetoric, you do point out a large problem, the glass left on the road. probably 99% of it is from either car accidents, or drivers/passengers in cars dropping bottles on the road into the cycling path. During cleanup after accidents it seems that the standard is to make it "good enough" for car traffic to go through with no thought of cycling traffic which is highly prone to punctures from pieces of glass. Why they don't take the extra 10 minutes to actually clean up all the glass is beyond me, other than their priority being to get car traffic flowing. It doesn't matter if you're riding 150 PSI road tires (though I mostly know only of 120 PSI being commonly ridden), or 60 PSI cross tires, they are all susceptible to sharp shards of glass working into the rubber and puncturing the inner tube. I've even had punctures on mountain bike tires riding down the same roads as my road bike.
For me it's the complete lack of ability to actually loan the book to someone else which should be pretty damn simple. But instead Amazon decided to make it overly complicated, and limited to a once in a lifetime nonsense, with 30 days to read. The lack of this feature, and resale, I believe, is why eBooks are overpriced.
There's a Chinese idiom, "Compare merchandise at three shops and you won't be sorry."
At my previous residence we had 1-2 bars on the top floor North bedroom, 0 bars in the rest of the house. We were supposedly in the middle of a 4G area. They sent me a Cell Amplifier, which basically worked by placing the receiver end in the window of the aforementioned bedroom, and the extender somewhere central to my house, for us the Garage worked fine. This unit did not hook into the internet, but acted as a mini tower in our house. Had great coverage there with them after that.
Certainly not for everybody, but my wife being from Taiwan we already have a number there. With Chunghwa Telecom, which is sort of like the Taiwanese version of AT&T, we put her phone on a pay as you go plan. With this plan we only have to add about $3US ($100TWD) every 6 months to keep it active. That money stays on the account. When we go to visit about once a year the account will have perhaps $6 ($200TWD) in it. For about $30 ($1000TWD) we get an unlimited data plan AND the $30 we paid for the plan goes as a credit for voice and text but now expires at the end of the month. This means that we virtually have unlimited voice and text for the 14 days we are there, unlimited 4G data, and that $6 we paid during the year to keep the account active also just went towards the unlimited plan we purchased. It also has the great benefit of keeping her number, so when we get to Taiwan, we post on Facebook that we're back, and can instantly get phone calls from any of our friends or family.
On one family trip within the country the B&B we were staying at had horrible internet on the 4th floor, but thanks to our unlimited plan I just started a hot spot and shared it with all four of us.
The rest of the time we use Ting in the US. For our needs that amounts to less than $40/mo.