"No, the real question is, has politics stooped so low that political staff (and possibly politicians) feel entitled to act like petulant little children and expect to get away with it?"
I hear there was a Chicago Alderman who was removed from office because he decided to get back at his ex-wife by defunding snow removal to her neighborhood...
"And, if so, why is society prepared to live with their politicians and staff acting like such douchebags?"
Because if we don't vote for our petulant douchebag, the wrong petulant douchebag might win.
You might find this book an interesting read http://www.amazon.com/Boss-Richard-J-Daley-Chicago/dp/0452261678 It's been over 30 years since I first read it for poli-sci class and it seems politics will always be the same. It's about wielding power like a king.
Current govt in Washington seems to be the best at wielding this sort of power, at least since the days of Nixon, perhaps even better since they actually did use IRS to go after people whereas Nixon only proposed doing it before he got caught and had to resign
I would suspect this is not limited solely to XP because I've experienced horrible delays with recent updates on a Win7 machine, which is only 6-7 months old. It's a new laptop I got from my company to replace an older XP machine and I recall updates were very snappy at first, now getting progressively more greedy for processing time.
Well that was the whole deal with CATV many decades ago, when it was beginning to be widely marketed they said we would pay for transmission of programming and not see advertising, or a very small amount of ads. We can plainly see how that's turned out, there's much more advertising than content on pretty much every channel except C-SPAN. I don't hate ads, but please we need to see a higher percentage of content versus ads.
That's the reasoning I was given by an off duty flight attendant who was flying standby in the seat next to me. She said that during the takeoff and landing segments, the crew would rather the passengers be alert and ready since those are the riskiest segments of the trip. And I'd agree, especially flying in the Rocky mountain states where the wind shear in the late afternoon - early evening timeframes makes any roller coaster seem dull. I couldn't care less about the numbskull in the next row yelling at his ex on the phone, except that he'd better not be an obstacle when we need to evac the aircraft.
Actually the LECs have been doing this for many decades, charging a smaller but significant monthly fee for unlisted phone numbers. I remember AT&T (then Southwestern Bell) charging about $1.50/month for unlisted number back in the 1980's, so VZW is doing what has always been done. Albeit with a substantially higher charge.
Boeing 727 were built with a aft stairway door that opened like a cargo ramp, and often were used for debarking the plane in the days when jetbridges were not yet in common use. This is how the legendary D.B. Cooper jumped from a 727 into the forest after hijacking the Northwest Orient flight, so pilot could have exited in the same way. But he likely wouldn't have been carrying $200k in small bills.
Give the writer a break, he probably thinks anything bigger than an iPhone is a mainframe. Although, Unix/Linux eventually made it to the mainframe, especially on IBM z-Series.
Rogue was best enjoyed on a PDP or VAX minicomputer running BSD, and using a VT100 terminal; countless hours of Rogue were more than just entertainment, they trained my keyboard fingers to be very instinctive when writing code using vi.
Mod +3 on this comment! That's exactly what occurred in Los Angeles when the cost of fuel began to spike ever higher in the past 10 years, the MTA would cancel routes to save cost despite an increasing demand for seats by folks not willing to pay more each week at the pump.
Mass transit in the US is a make-work boondoggle in nearly all the nation, virtually all of the transit agencies are gov't or quasi-gov't with all the plodding inefficiency of rampant corruption and disinterest amongst the managers.
So can you jailbreak an Android phone and update the OS to the latest yourself? Is there a blog or tracker anywhere with a phone-OS-company matrix that shows who lets you use what on what?
There is the group at www.xda-developers.com where you can get all the tools needed to jailbreak/root your Android phone. Also, www.androidcentral.com, www.androidforums.com, etc. which have very well organized forums for each Android device - whether phone or tablet.
ummm... collecting rain is and has been illegal in a lot of places in the US because of senior water rights holders, these have been law since the 1800's when the western states were settled.
That has been my thought from the start. Speech rec is extraordinarily accurate now and IBM has a world class engine, so that would give a bit more of a real challenge to see Watson process the input of Alex's reading of the question. It's not clear why the team did not build that engine into Watson's front end, it certainly has more than enough power to run a speech rec engine.
Of course, I'd love to have 50 servers running umpteen cores for my speech rec IVR system, but my firm won't give me the entire capital budget for this year...
So true, the craft of touch typing is seldom taught now, nearly everyone I hire recently have been two finger peck typists. While they are rather quick to type, you can see that few of them can compose while typing, they continually watch their index fingers and marvel that I can sit and type notes while engaging them in a meeting. Don't presume that I'm slamming them, I honestly am sad they were not taught proper touch typing skills and had the benefit of it through their careers. Knowing where the keys reside on a QWERTY keyboard compensates a little for the lacking tactile feedback of touchscreens. Alas, my fingers are fat now and can't easily tap just a single key on any screen keyboard, even when I know where it is.
So I think a lot of the views you're hearing are people who are connected to the internet and the unspoken voice of someone who has neither the internet nor a cell phone is actually a large consumer of the programs on air wave TV and products advertised on nationally broadcasted programs. Just something to consider, after helping her through this change I would be doubtful that she is alone or unique to her age group.
I have a similar experience with my friend's very elderly father. Her father is continually confused by the extra box (converter) which he can't remember to turn on or return to the proper channel. He is a channel flipper and enjoyed scanning the dial on his very nice Sony 32" TV. Since his memory is failing, he cannot re-learn how to use the TV remotes, so it's frustrating for him as he grabs the wrong remote.Now when he scans channels he loses connection to channel 3 so all he sees is static until she gets home to get him back onto the converter box. I'm betting he is not the only one, but rather a typical profile of the octo- and nono-genarian population.
No. Unless you have a smart ass that wants to get technical on you.
Well then, technically yes. Otherwise you could not have touchdown runs exceeding 100 yards, such as the 109 yard play in 2007 NFL season.
Typically, football field measurements presume only the offensive field of play and not the scoring areas of the end zones, each 10 yards long.
Recalling the BWB work done at McDonell Douglas and Boeing in the '90s, there was considerable resistance from passenger focus groups who could not get comfortable not seeing windows. The arrangement I remember seeing was similar to a theater seating with 3 or 4 rectangular sections in the thickest part of the chord of the wing, which could carry several hundreds of passengers in a ship not nearly as long as a 747. Cost per passenger mile is much better optimized in such an arrangement; perhaps with all the novelty items found in typical Emirates accommodations there will be less resistance to the windowless cabin.
Alas, it was RIAA which taught the current generation to think the music is free, due to their intransigence at the dawn of the Napster age.
I remember writing to the music companies back in those days encouraging them to unlock their enormous catalogues of the previous decades, to sell at a nominal price of 10 to 25 cents per download. Imagine how much money could have been made had the RIAA labels begun selling like this in early 2000? This revenue stream on extant music could have re-energized the labels for creating new music with new artists and genres. I'm sure iTunes would have come into being as Apple was already building the iPod, but certainly iTunes would not become the largest purveyor of music on the planet.
I did use Napster in those early days because I thought fair use allowed me a copy of music I already owned on vinyl or CD in MP3 form. But I abandoned downloading after the Napster takedown and continued searching for better ripping apps to convert my collection of CDs to MP3. Tried other P2P (Bearshare, torrent, etc) but am spooked by a dread of trojans and other nasties so I abandoned those too. Now, I sometimes buy from iTunes but mainly still buy CD and rip them myself to eliminate DRM. Every once in a while I buy from Amazon download, and have begun patronizing artists' sites directly because I would rather the artist get the lion's share of the payment rather than the RIAA firms who continue to rip-off the artists. I get paid for work I do and feel strongly that artists need to be paid for what they do.
Indeed! I was introduced to PLATO V in 1980 when I started at U of I in Urbana, and was amazed at the plasma touchscreen, I loved the orange on black - much easier on the eyes than VT100 or 3270 of the same era. Used many of the PLATO lessons for programming FORTRAN and simulating flight. Truly exciting part was fact that it ran on top of a bona fide supercomputer Illiac IV.
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"No, the real question is, has politics stooped so low that political staff (and possibly politicians) feel entitled to act like petulant little children and expect to get away with it?"
I hear there was a Chicago Alderman who was removed from office because he decided to get back at his ex-wife by defunding snow removal to her neighborhood...
"And, if so, why is society prepared to live with their politicians and staff acting like such douchebags?"
Because if we don't vote for our petulant douchebag, the wrong petulant douchebag might win.
You might find this book an interesting read http://www.amazon.com/Boss-Richard-J-Daley-Chicago/dp/0452261678
It's been over 30 years since I first read it for poli-sci class and it seems politics will always be the same. It's about wielding power like a king.
Current govt in Washington seems to be the best at wielding this sort of power, at least since the days of Nixon, perhaps even better since they actually did use IRS to go after people whereas Nixon only proposed doing it before he got caught and had to resign
I would suspect this is not limited solely to XP because I've experienced horrible delays with recent updates on a Win7 machine, which is only 6-7 months old. It's a new laptop I got from my company to replace an older XP machine and I recall updates were very snappy at first, now getting progressively more greedy for processing time.
Well that was the whole deal with CATV many decades ago, when it was beginning to be widely marketed they said we would pay for transmission of programming and not see advertising, or a very small amount of ads. We can plainly see how that's turned out, there's much more advertising than content on pretty much every channel except C-SPAN. I don't hate ads, but please we need to see a higher percentage of content versus ads.
That's the reasoning I was given by an off duty flight attendant who was flying standby in the seat next to me. She said that during the takeoff and landing segments, the crew would rather the passengers be alert and ready since those are the riskiest segments of the trip. And I'd agree, especially flying in the Rocky mountain states where the wind shear in the late afternoon - early evening timeframes makes any roller coaster seem dull. I couldn't care less about the numbskull in the next row yelling at his ex on the phone, except that he'd better not be an obstacle when we need to evac the aircraft.
The picture at the top of the article is a USAF KC-10 Extender cargo aircraft. Is the Navy going to include all the USAF airlift capacity in TET?
Graphing calculators are typically banned anyway.
The most you'll be taking a test with is a TI-30.
Do you have to bring the TI-30 inside its original vinyl blue-denim case? Looped through your belt?
Actually the LECs have been doing this for many decades, charging a smaller but significant monthly fee for unlisted phone numbers. I remember AT&T (then Southwestern Bell) charging about $1.50/month for unlisted number back in the 1980's, so VZW is doing what has always been done. Albeit with a substantially higher charge.
Boeing 727 were built with a aft stairway door that opened like a cargo ramp, and often were used for debarking the plane in the days when jetbridges were not yet in common use. This is how the legendary D.B. Cooper jumped from a 727 into the forest after hijacking the Northwest Orient flight, so pilot could have exited in the same way. But he likely wouldn't have been carrying $200k in small bills.
Give the writer a break, he probably thinks anything bigger than an iPhone is a mainframe. Although, Unix/Linux eventually made it to the mainframe, especially on IBM z-Series.
Rogue was best enjoyed on a PDP or VAX minicomputer running BSD, and using a VT100 terminal; countless hours of Rogue were more than just entertainment, they trained my keyboard fingers to be very instinctive when writing code using vi.
Mod +3 on this comment! That's exactly what occurred in Los Angeles when the cost of fuel began to spike ever higher in the past 10 years, the MTA would cancel routes to save cost despite an increasing demand for seats by folks not willing to pay more each week at the pump.
Mass transit in the US is a make-work boondoggle in nearly all the nation, virtually all of the transit agencies are gov't or quasi-gov't with all the plodding inefficiency of rampant corruption and disinterest amongst the managers.
So can you jailbreak an Android phone and update the OS to the latest yourself? Is there a blog or tracker anywhere with a phone-OS-company matrix that shows who lets you use what on what?
There is the group at www.xda-developers.com where you can get all the tools needed to jailbreak/root your Android phone. Also, www.androidcentral.com, www.androidforums.com, etc. which have very well organized forums for each Android device - whether phone or tablet.
And in Portland, they drain an entire reservoir after one guy takes a leak
http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2011/06/16/Reservoir-drained-due-to-urine/UPI-10781308249177/
ummm... collecting rain is and has been illegal in a lot of places in the US because of senior water rights holders, these have been law since the 1800's when the western states were settled.
That has been my thought from the start. Speech rec is extraordinarily accurate now and IBM has a world class engine, so that would give a bit more of a real challenge to see Watson process the input of Alex's reading of the question. It's not clear why the team did not build that engine into Watson's front end, it certainly has more than enough power to run a speech rec engine. Of course, I'd love to have 50 servers running umpteen cores for my speech rec IVR system, but my firm won't give me the entire capital budget for this year...
Seems like the Square credit card swipe dongle is doing something similar. Does anyone know if the method is same as Hijack?
Look out, here comes Ungoliant!
There was measurable snowfall accumulation in Malibu in both Jan-2007 and Dec-2008, albeit for just a hour or so each time.
So true, the craft of touch typing is seldom taught now, nearly everyone I hire recently have been two finger peck typists. While they are rather quick to type, you can see that few of them can compose while typing, they continually watch their index fingers and marvel that I can sit and type notes while engaging them in a meeting. Don't presume that I'm slamming them, I honestly am sad they were not taught proper touch typing skills and had the benefit of it through their careers. Knowing where the keys reside on a QWERTY keyboard compensates a little for the lacking tactile feedback of touchscreens. Alas, my fingers are fat now and can't easily tap just a single key on any screen keyboard, even when I know where it is.
So I think a lot of the views you're hearing are people who are connected to the internet and the unspoken voice of someone who has neither the internet nor a cell phone is actually a large consumer of the programs on air wave TV and products advertised on nationally broadcasted programs. Just something to consider, after helping her through this change I would be doubtful that she is alone or unique to her age group.
I have a similar experience with my friend's very elderly father. Her father is continually confused by the extra box (converter) which he can't remember to turn on or return to the proper channel. He is a channel flipper and enjoyed scanning the dial on his very nice Sony 32" TV. Since his memory is failing, he cannot re-learn how to use the TV remotes, so it's frustrating for him as he grabs the wrong remote.Now when he scans channels he loses connection to channel 3 so all he sees is static until she gets home to get him back onto the converter box. I'm betting he is not the only one, but rather a typical profile of the octo- and nono-genarian population.
No. Unless you have a smart ass that wants to get technical on you.
Well then, technically yes. Otherwise you could not have touchdown runs exceeding 100 yards, such as the 109 yard play in 2007 NFL season. Typically, football field measurements presume only the offensive field of play and not the scoring areas of the end zones, each 10 yards long.
Recalling the BWB work done at McDonell Douglas and Boeing in the '90s, there was considerable resistance from passenger focus groups who could not get comfortable not seeing windows. The arrangement I remember seeing was similar to a theater seating with 3 or 4 rectangular sections in the thickest part of the chord of the wing, which could carry several hundreds of passengers in a ship not nearly as long as a 747. Cost per passenger mile is much better optimized in such an arrangement; perhaps with all the novelty items found in typical Emirates accommodations there will be less resistance to the windowless cabin.
Alas, it was RIAA which taught the current generation to think the music is free, due to their intransigence at the dawn of the Napster age.
I remember writing to the music companies back in those days encouraging them to unlock their enormous catalogues of the previous decades, to sell at a nominal price of 10 to 25 cents per download. Imagine how much money could have been made had the RIAA labels begun selling like this in early 2000? This revenue stream on extant music could have re-energized the labels for creating new music with new artists and genres. I'm sure iTunes would have come into being as Apple was already building the iPod, but certainly iTunes would not become the largest purveyor of music on the planet.
I did use Napster in those early days because I thought fair use allowed me a copy of music I already owned on vinyl or CD in MP3 form. But I abandoned downloading after the Napster takedown and continued searching for better ripping apps to convert my collection of CDs to MP3. Tried other P2P (Bearshare, torrent, etc) but am spooked by a dread of trojans and other nasties so I abandoned those too. Now, I sometimes buy from iTunes but mainly still buy CD and rip them myself to eliminate DRM. Every once in a while I buy from Amazon download, and have begun patronizing artists' sites directly because I would rather the artist get the lion's share of the payment rather than the RIAA firms who continue to rip-off the artists. I get paid for work I do and feel strongly that artists need to be paid for what they do.
Indeed! I was introduced to PLATO V in 1980 when I started at U of I in Urbana, and was amazed at the plasma touchscreen, I loved the orange on black - much easier on the eyes than VT100 or 3270 of the same era. Used many of the PLATO lessons for programming FORTRAN and simulating flight. Truly exciting part was fact that it ran on top of a bona fide supercomputer Illiac IV.
It was station manager Arthur Carlson, played by the late Gordon Jump.