Parallel parking isn't exactly science and replacing it not necessary.
Parallel parking is already a solved problem. Backup-cameras (mandatory in all new cars in 2018) make parallel parking easy. Many new cars have an "auto-park" feature that makes it even easier. Even my wife can now parallel park.
If you want a car that moves sideways, a better way to do it is to just make the steering pivot a full 90 degrees. Then you can still have robust tires with treads.
Storage vendors could pull what the government in Ontario, Canada did to us.
No they can't. The government of Ontario is a monopoly, so they can unilaterally raise prices. Disk vendors compete. If one raises prices, it loses market share. If they all raise prices, they may be prosecuted for price fixing, and will also encourage other companies to enter (or re-enter) the storage market.
Maybe the storage vendors will continue with their trend of consumer grade and enterprise grade stuff
Cloud companies do NOT use "enterprise grade". They use consumer HDDs. "Enterprise" HDDs have no reliability or lifespan advantage over consumer drives. They just have an extended warranty, and you are an idiot if you pay extra for that.
What's un-American is one company thinking it can invite the private property of another company.
These poles are on public property. The city of Louisville gave AT&T the easement to install the poles, and they can set any condition on that easement that is not specifically prohibited in the contract. There is a public benefit to competitive markets, so this is a appropriate action by the government. We don't expect FedEx, UPS, and other delivery companies to each build their own roads. It makes no more sense for each wired utility to install their own poles.
And yet, solid-state electronics with no moving part fail fairly regularly.
Only if by "fairly regularly" you mean "almost never". ICs may become obsolete, but they don't "wear out". Even solder cracks or whiskers are very rare on modern SMT boards. Computers fail when the HDD bearings wear out, or when you drop it and crack the display, not because of the electronics. Most replaced computers are still functional, they are just no longer cost effective in terms of productivity and power consumption.
The correct response to her is, "Tough shit, princess!"
Even better would be to append your review to say that they contacted you and tried to intimidate you into changing the review. That is relevant information, and future buyers should be aware of what they are doing.
If you are going to become a mathematician, scientist, or engineer, then "new math" was a good basis for learning advanced math. But for the majority that need to be able to make change at the grocery store, it was a disaster. I remember learning set theory in 4th grade, with unions, intersections, and Venn diagrams. I "got it" immediately, but was surprised when most of the class didn't. The teacher spent the rest of the year going over and over the same concepts, and many students learned nothing. Teaching abstract concepts to nine year olds was not a good idea.
The problem is that replacing subways and trains with self-driving cabs will make the cost of public transportation skyrocket.
I don't think so. If I exclude parking, it is cheaper for me to drive than to take a bus or train. Poor people don't use public transit because it is cheaper than driving, they use it because they can't afford to own a car. But with self-driving-taxis, they don't need to own it, and the cost of the car is amortized across many more people. SDCs will likely be cheaper, and certainly far more convenient, than current mass transit. Even poor people value their time.
That seems more dangerous than having the driver do all or most of the work
It may seem that way, but nevertheless there is overwhelming evidence that Autopilot improves safety. You should look at actual data rather than relying on gut feelings about what "seems" to be true.
Both the DNC and the GOP are quite guilty of using their dominant positions in politics to keep other parties from gaining any kind of traction.
That is an inherent characteristic of winner-take-all plurality voting. 2016 is a strange year to be complaining that the establishment locks out other voices. An insurgent won the nomination of one major party, and another insurgent came close in the other party.
Do you think they even realize the deep hypocritical irony?
Although HRC and others have accepted millions in "speaking fees" from Wall Street and big pharma, Elizabeth Warren has not. She is not being hypocritical, since she has also spoken out about the influence of big money on politics.
That's the story of automation - what the rich are paying for today, the upper middle class will find affordable due to automation (with less prestigious branding), and the median family will have in a generation after that.
... and to be clear, we are talking about "technology generations" not human generations. Woodrow Wilson once complained that automobiles were playthings for the rich, and created envy and socialist feelings among the masses. Just five years later, the Model-T was in production, and anyone with a median income could afford one. A few years after that, the Soviet Union banned the film "Grapes of Wrath" because they didn't want their citizens to see that in America, even the dirt poor Joads, the lowest of the low, fleeing the dustbowl, could still afford to own a car.
Considering China's population problems and the shortage of women there, I'd think the government would want their citizens to get all the porn they want.
Porn is not completely banned in China, but there are restrictions. No erect penises, no exposes clitorises, etc. But if you just want some pics of naked chicks, you can find that easily.
China certainly isn't as weird about porn as Japan, where even mainstream newspapers and magazines have a few pages of nekkid chick pics, but pubic hair is banned, so the models shave it off. The result is that many boys/men look at these pictures, and think that is "normal", so Japanese women often shave off their public hair to meet that expectation. Japan also has a lot of porn that focuses on various fetishes, like foot fetishes, teen porn, and bondage rape fantasies. But no pubic hair!
I lived for several years in both China and Japan. While Chinese people have many big differences from the West, they are at least recognizably human. In Japan, I often felt I had been transported to a different planet.
So you say that isn't a good choice? Do you prefer having to put const everywhere?
You don't have to put const "everywhere". Most const values are defined in header files, where you write them once and rarely look at them again. For the code that you spend 90% of your time writing and maintaining, most variables are non-const.
most PIN being the birth year of the individual... or something equally stupid (1234, 0000)
I was not given an option to select a PIN. It was randomly generated by the IRS. And it was five digits, not four.
Obvious solution: Since the numbers are random, people are going to record them anyway, so just add extra digits. Make it 10 digits instead of 5, and the problem is basically solved.
That's why I noted the other criteria (SSN, Name, etc).
In most companies, anyone who works in HR has access to name/SSN for all employees. Employees at hospitals and clinics have access to name/SSN of all patients. When I was in the military, my name/SSN was printed on hundreds of routine forms, often in triplicate. SSNs are not private information, and we shouldn't pretend that they are.
the trouble with Britain and America right now is that there's been 40 years of policy that benefits well educated upper middle class college grads and hurts blue collar workers.
The problem is not "policy" but "reality". The modern world values knowledge and education. You are not going to do well if you have no skills and are competing with a servo motor.
It's a sickening sign that liberalism is entrenching itself in Austin.
Austin is a college town and has always been liberal (at least by Texas standards). College students tend to favor authoritarian solutions to economic issues. There is nothing new about that.
So is waging war and letting people live on the street, but you don't see many right wingers demand ending that.
The funny thing is that the Bible says we should live in peace, forgive our enemies, and help the poor. It says nothing about abortion. The story of Essau and Jacob implies that life begins at birth, not conception.
And were forced into austerity measures that would leave their people as slaves for the next century.
That was done as an example to Italy, Spain and Portugal (and maybe France too). If Greece had been let off easy, others would have wanted the same deal, and the dominoes would have fallen. By making the bailout prohibitively painful, the Germans created a firewall that stopped the rot from spreading.
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Parallel parking isn't exactly science and replacing it not necessary.
Parallel parking is already a solved problem. Backup-cameras (mandatory in all new cars in 2018) make parallel parking easy. Many new cars have an "auto-park" feature that makes it even easier. Even my wife can now parallel park.
If you want a car that moves sideways, a better way to do it is to just make the steering pivot a full 90 degrees. Then you can still have robust tires with treads.
And I assume software RAID?
Correct. AWS uses software raid only. Azure likely does the same.
Storage vendors could pull what the government in Ontario, Canada did to us.
No they can't. The government of Ontario is a monopoly, so they can unilaterally raise prices. Disk vendors compete. If one raises prices, it loses market share. If they all raise prices, they may be prosecuted for price fixing, and will also encourage other companies to enter (or re-enter) the storage market.
Maybe the storage vendors will continue with their trend of consumer grade and enterprise grade stuff
Cloud companies do NOT use "enterprise grade". They use consumer HDDs. "Enterprise" HDDs have no reliability or lifespan advantage over consumer drives. They just have an extended warranty, and you are an idiot if you pay extra for that.
What's un-American is one company thinking it can invite the private property of another company.
These poles are on public property. The city of Louisville gave AT&T the easement to install the poles, and they can set any condition on that easement that is not specifically prohibited in the contract. There is a public benefit to competitive markets, so this is a appropriate action by the government. We don't expect FedEx, UPS, and other delivery companies to each build their own roads. It makes no more sense for each wired utility to install their own poles.
And yet, solid-state electronics with no moving part fail fairly regularly.
Only if by "fairly regularly" you mean "almost never". ICs may become obsolete, but they don't "wear out". Even solder cracks or whiskers are very rare on modern SMT boards. Computers fail when the HDD bearings wear out, or when you drop it and crack the display, not because of the electronics. Most replaced computers are still functional, they are just no longer cost effective in terms of productivity and power consumption.
The correct response to her is, "Tough shit, princess!"
Even better would be to append your review to say that they contacted you and tried to intimidate you into changing the review. That is relevant information, and future buyers should be aware of what they are doing.
If you are going to become a mathematician, scientist, or engineer, then "new math" was a good basis for learning advanced math. But for the majority that need to be able to make change at the grocery store, it was a disaster. I remember learning set theory in 4th grade, with unions, intersections, and Venn diagrams. I "got it" immediately, but was surprised when most of the class didn't. The teacher spent the rest of the year going over and over the same concepts, and many students learned nothing. Teaching abstract concepts to nine year olds was not a good idea.
The problem is that replacing subways and trains with self-driving cabs will make the cost of public transportation skyrocket.
I don't think so. If I exclude parking, it is cheaper for me to drive than to take a bus or train. Poor people don't use public transit because it is cheaper than driving, they use it because they can't afford to own a car. But with self-driving-taxis, they don't need to own it, and the cost of the car is amortized across many more people. SDCs will likely be cheaper, and certainly far more convenient, than current mass transit. Even poor people value their time.
That seems more dangerous than having the driver do all or most of the work
It may seem that way, but nevertheless there is overwhelming evidence that Autopilot improves safety. You should look at actual data rather than relying on gut feelings about what "seems" to be true.
Having the car on autopilot, but requiring the driver to "pay attention" and be ready to take over within seconds is the worst combination possible.
No. Having the human in full control is worse. Despite this fatality, Autopilot still has a far better safety record than human drivers.
Both the DNC and the GOP are quite guilty of using their dominant positions in politics to keep other parties from gaining any kind of traction.
That is an inherent characteristic of winner-take-all plurality voting. 2016 is a strange year to be complaining that the establishment locks out other voices. An insurgent won the nomination of one major party, and another insurgent came close in the other party.
Ye she is endorsing Clinton instead of Sanders, hmmm...
Maybe that is because Sanders will not be on the ballot.
Do you think they even realize the deep hypocritical irony?
Although HRC and others have accepted millions in "speaking fees" from Wall Street and big pharma, Elizabeth Warren has not. She is not being hypocritical, since she has also spoken out about the influence of big money on politics.
That's the story of automation - what the rich are paying for today, the upper middle class will find affordable due to automation (with less prestigious branding), and the median family will have in a generation after that.
... and to be clear, we are talking about "technology generations" not human generations. Woodrow Wilson once complained that automobiles were playthings for the rich, and created envy and socialist feelings among the masses. Just five years later, the Model-T was in production, and anyone with a median income could afford one. A few years after that, the Soviet Union banned the film "Grapes of Wrath" because they didn't want their citizens to see that in America, even the dirt poor Joads, the lowest of the low, fleeing the dustbowl, could still afford to own a car.
there is going to be a massive price shock when the reserve is finally empty.
Then why don't you buy up the helium now, while it is cheap, and then get rich when the price skyrockets?
Considering China's population problems and the shortage of women there, I'd think the government would want their citizens to get all the porn they want.
Porn is not completely banned in China, but there are restrictions. No erect penises, no exposes clitorises, etc. But if you just want some pics of naked chicks, you can find that easily.
China certainly isn't as weird about porn as Japan, where even mainstream newspapers and magazines have a few pages of nekkid chick pics, but pubic hair is banned, so the models shave it off. The result is that many boys/men look at these pictures, and think that is "normal", so Japanese women often shave off their public hair to meet that expectation. Japan also has a lot of porn that focuses on various fetishes, like foot fetishes, teen porn, and bondage rape fantasies. But no pubic hair!
I lived for several years in both China and Japan. While Chinese people have many big differences from the West, they are at least recognizably human. In Japan, I often felt I had been transported to a different planet.
So you say that isn't a good choice? Do you prefer having to put const everywhere?
You don't have to put const "everywhere". Most const values are defined in header files, where you write them once and rarely look at them again. For the code that you spend 90% of your time writing and maintaining, most variables are non-const.
Pitch correctors mostly remove the chipmunk effect.
Even better, is a speech to text converter, so that I can just read the transcript.
the point of entertainment for me is to enjoy a stretch of time, not to consume a quantity of media.
Not all videos are about entertainment.
I used TurboTax. So maybe the PIN was from Intuit, rather than the IRS.
most PIN being the birth year of the individual ... or something equally stupid (1234, 0000)
I was not given an option to select a PIN. It was randomly generated by the IRS. And it was five digits, not four.
Obvious solution: Since the numbers are random, people are going to record them anyway, so just add extra digits. Make it 10 digits instead of 5, and the problem is basically solved.
That's why I noted the other criteria (SSN, Name, etc).
In most companies, anyone who works in HR has access to name/SSN for all employees. Employees at hospitals and clinics have access to name/SSN of all patients. When I was in the military, my name/SSN was printed on hundreds of routine forms, often in triplicate. SSNs are not private information, and we shouldn't pretend that they are.
the trouble with Britain and America right now is that there's been 40 years of policy that benefits well educated upper middle class college grads and hurts blue collar workers.
The problem is not "policy" but "reality". The modern world values knowledge and education. You are not going to do well if you have no skills and are competing with a servo motor.
It's a sickening sign that liberalism is entrenching itself in Austin.
Austin is a college town and has always been liberal (at least by Texas standards). College students tend to favor authoritarian solutions to economic issues. There is nothing new about that.
So is waging war and letting people live on the street, but you don't see many right wingers demand ending that.
The funny thing is that the Bible says we should live in peace, forgive our enemies, and help the poor. It says nothing about abortion. The story of Essau and Jacob implies that life begins at birth, not conception.
And were forced into austerity measures that would leave their people as slaves for the next century.
That was done as an example to Italy, Spain and Portugal (and maybe France too). If Greece had been let off easy, others would have wanted the same deal, and the dominoes would have fallen. By making the bailout prohibitively painful, the Germans created a firewall that stopped the rot from spreading.