I grew up in houses with lead paint and I don't have any problems (twitch, twitch). But then I was raised in a culture where chewing on the woodwork was not considered proper play behavior for a child. That and my mom actually cleaned the house on a regular basis.
First you wanted to be able to run remote desktop.
Then the user complained of how slow it was and only 1% (of something) used that feature.
Actually, over a decent LAN (Intranet, and now even with broadband around the world) running remote apps over X has worked reasonably well.
Back when I was at Boeing, I used to manage machines all over the Puget Sound region this way (20 to 30 miles between sites). And we had Windows NT with an X client front end, so people with *NIX systems could open a Windows desktop on the rare occasion that some manager e-mailed out a Word Doc with macros* and you absolutely had to run Word to see it.
It was Microsoft's sales staff that kept telling us we didn't need to do that. A common approach for technologies that they are behind in.
*More often than not, the macro was an infection, not something the boss actually sent out. Most of my bosses couldn't change the fonts in MS Word, let alone write a macro.
... when I worked for Boeing, this was their company policy. No cameras, radios, or recording devices were allowed on company property. Although this was necessary in areas where classified DoD work was being done, they just applied this policy to all facilities. As cell phones and PDAs with cameras andd recording capabilities became commonplace, they pretty much gave up on enforcing the 'no devices allowed' rule (probably still in force in actual secure areas).
I would consider them (Boeing) and others in their line of business to have about the most conservative position on such technology. Seeing as how they have pretty much given up on such rules, I don't see how any other employers expect to get away with them.
Also, if employees are going to steal proprietary data (for which I'm sure there is a company policy prohibiting said activity), sneaking a camera, USB drive or whatever onto the property in violation of rules is not going to be a deterrent.
My car has this rather advanced system. Once it becomes dark outside, I simply pull a little knob on the dashboard and an integral lighting system is activated, illuminating the road, pedestrians and other obstacles ahead of me.
The process is mostly secret, because NASA has agreed to let bidders declare their proposals proprietary, keeping them out of the view of competitors and the public.
And out of the view of upstarts like SpaceX. Who here will be surprised if these facilities end up in the hands of Boeing and/or Lockheed? And future launch contracts as well.
There's actually quite a market for tablets, in case you haven't noticed.
That's a different market. Tablets are for content consumers. Mice and keyboards are for content producers.
Most of the people I see with tablets use them to read or view content, with only occasional interaction. When they start doing significant input, they invariably adapt some sort of keyboard/mouse combination to the tablet. With varying degrees of success.
The people doing significant content creation don't put up with mini keyboards and cheap track pads happily. There's still quite a market for the old IBM clicky keyboards among this group for a reason.
If Al Jazeera wants to capture US attention, they should buy ESPN and alternate between their news and ball games. Odds are most American sports fans won't have the initiative to get up and change the channel.
Because Pentagon procurement is all about sending as much business as possible to suppliers who will in turn make large contributions to members of legislative DoD oversight committees.
But how do you capture the actual impact to road costs of a heavy vehicle driven very little vs a light vehicle driven a lot more? Taxing mileage would work, but the proposed technologies (GPS plus logging and reporting to a government agency) raise too many privacy concerns.
Fuel consumption is the best proxy for vehicle weight plus usage that anyone has come up with to date*. What's wrong with that? Need more revenue? Increase the fuel tax.
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I thought you folks in Sweden already had a solution for long, cold winter nights.
The big problem with long flights is eyesight - lack of long distance focus causes the eyeball to change shape gradually
Fix that with special glasses.
Yes but which one is number zero?
Lead paint. Don't forget the lead paint.
I grew up in houses with lead paint and I don't have any problems (twitch, twitch). But then I was raised in a culture where chewing on the woodwork was not considered proper play behavior for a child. That and my mom actually cleaned the house on a regular basis.
First you wanted to be able to run remote desktop.
Then the user complained of how slow it was and only 1% (of something) used that feature.
Actually, over a decent LAN (Intranet, and now even with broadband around the world) running remote apps over X has worked reasonably well.
Back when I was at Boeing, I used to manage machines all over the Puget Sound region this way (20 to 30 miles between sites). And we had Windows NT with an X client front end, so people with *NIX systems could open a Windows desktop on the rare occasion that some manager e-mailed out a Word Doc with macros* and you absolutely had to run Word to see it.
It was Microsoft's sales staff that kept telling us we didn't need to do that. A common approach for technologies that they are behind in.
*More often than not, the macro was an infection, not something the boss actually sent out. Most of my bosses couldn't change the fonts in MS Word, let alone write a macro.
Bring your cell phone to work. Just don't connect it to the company network.
I would consider them (Boeing) and others in their line of business to have about the most conservative position on such technology. Seeing as how they have pretty much given up on such rules, I don't see how any other employers expect to get away with them.
Also, if employees are going to steal proprietary data (for which I'm sure there is a company policy prohibiting said activity), sneaking a camera, USB drive or whatever onto the property in violation of rules is not going to be a deterrent.
My car has this rather advanced system. Once it becomes dark outside, I simply pull a little knob on the dashboard and an integral lighting system is activated, illuminating the road, pedestrians and other obstacles ahead of me.
They want their X Windows back.
The process is mostly secret, because NASA has agreed to let bidders declare their proposals proprietary, keeping them out of the view of competitors and the public.
And out of the view of upstarts like SpaceX. Who here will be surprised if these facilities end up in the hands of Boeing and/or Lockheed? And future launch contracts as well.
Like this?
Its a shame we don't have some sort of error handling facility that would throw an exception in cases like this.
I think you left the stove on.
There's actually quite a market for tablets, in case you haven't noticed.
That's a different market. Tablets are for content consumers. Mice and keyboards are for content producers.
Most of the people I see with tablets use them to read or view content, with only occasional interaction. When they start doing significant input, they invariably adapt some sort of keyboard/mouse combination to the tablet. With varying degrees of success.
The people doing significant content creation don't put up with mini keyboards and cheap track pads happily. There's still quite a market for the old IBM clicky keyboards among this group for a reason.
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Toyota already has the autonomous acceleration bit figured out. Now all we need is a car that steers itself wherever it wants.
Its not like it has a big market share.
If Al Jazeera wants to capture US attention, they should buy ESPN and alternate between their news and ball games. Odds are most American sports fans won't have the initiative to get up and change the channel.
Because Pentagon procurement is all about sending as much business as possible to suppliers who will in turn make large contributions to members of legislative DoD oversight committees.
Got all those nasty bugs ironed out? Like the divide by zero bug that locked up the USS Yorktown helm?
No, Not yet.
Most of the women I know got their degree and then had the breasts installed after graduation.
But how do you capture the actual impact to road costs of a heavy vehicle driven very little vs a light vehicle driven a lot more? Taxing mileage would work, but the proposed technologies (GPS plus logging and reporting to a government agency) raise too many privacy concerns.
Fuel consumption is the best proxy for vehicle weight plus usage that anyone has come up with to date*. What's wrong with that? Need more revenue? Increase the fuel tax.
*I do like the idea of a studded tire tax.