Nope. You drive drunk, people will find out about it. But it is common, I think (and based on what I see in newspaper notices and the like) that people are commonly sentenced to alcohol treatment instead of, or in addition to, the usual punishment.
Which is normally getting your license revoked and a heavy fine in mild cases, and prison (even for the first offence) in heavy cases, and that's just for you having eleveted blood alcohol. If you get caught after causing an accident or something things will really go downhill from there.
Basically, if you're not an alcoholic you don't take a chance. You don't drive the morning after a party, or think "I'm sure this beer will be gone by the time I need to leave" or anything like that. I know that at bike meets, where people will often party then drive back home the next day, the organizers will set up test stations with breathalyzers so you can confirm that you're completely sober before you hit the road.
Which is what Sweden has: 0%. But toallow for measurement error, the practical limit is 0.02%. Which may sound not too far away from 0.05%, but that is of course before a measurement margin is applied.
In practice, you don't drink at all before driving if you value your license. And you had better either be moderate the night before, or skip the driving the next day if you're going to a party. Good.
It's actually quite easy to legally get a gun in many countries. Typically you can get a hunting license or join a shooting club. And yet, the vast majority of people don't bother. In fact, a substantial fraction of those that do get a gun choose to keep them at the club or at some other separate storage, just so they don't have to keep a dangerous weapon at home.
So, there may be people that think this will revolutionize things, in reality it's rather a non-event. People without guns mostly can get them already, but don't want to. Those that want them, already have them.
It's different for different parts of the business of course, but the graphic designers I know personally (through a family member) don't care about monitor gamut or colour fidelity at all. Sounds odd, perhaps, but there's good reason for it.
Most graphic design is not for the web, but for physical objects. Anything you see around you that's printed or patterned - kitchen utensils, tools, and household objets; clothes and textile prints; books, calendars, pamphlets; not to mention the cardboard and plastic boxes it all came in - has been designed by a graphic designer. And it's all printed using different kind of processes, on different materials, with different kinds of inks and dyes.
A monitor, any monitor, simply can't show you what the finished design will look like, since it can't replicate the effect of the particular ink and material combination you're going to use. So they don't even try. Instead they do the design on the computer, but choose the precise colour and material combination by Pantone patches. We've got shelves of sample binders at home, with all kinds of colour and material combinations for reference. As an added bonus you can take samples into different light conditions and see what they look like there.
The finished design is usually sent off as a set of monochrome layers, with an accompanying specification on what Pantone colour each layer should use. They do make a colour version of it too, but that's just to give the client a rough idea of what the design will look like.
Google Glass flashes an LED at you whenever the camera is operating. Phones, meanwhile have lots of ways to stop the fake shutter sound (including apps, and just simply cover the speaker), and they don't make any sound at all for movies.
"You're more likely to notice someone holding out a smartphone taking pictures and stuff"
People have smartphones out in their hands all around me every day. On my commute half a dozen people could be taking my picture or filming me every second of the time without any way for me to know or avoid it.
Any privacy fear that apply to Glass applies to any smartphone as well. If anything, it's a lot less obvious when a smartphone user takes a picture or shoots a video than when a Glass wearer does the same.
If you worry about this aspect of privacy, you should have spoken out at about the time phones first started getting cameras.
Actually, not too many years ago, the Greens in Sweden (and, I strongly suspect, Germany) were the dumping grounds for nutjobs no other party wanted to do with. I strongly suspect that is a phase any new party has to go through on the way to become a long-term viable political force.
Mitsubishi isn't a major shareholder in the bank from what it seems. It's a merger of several banks, one of which (Tokyo-Mitsubishi) was owned in part by the Mitsubishi group.
As I said, I thought like you for ten years, and I still basically agree with you. It's not really inconvenient to be without a watch, even if you don't use a phone.
What happened to me was, my wife got her wristwatch repaired and started using it regularly again. And suddenly I found myself asking her for the time whenever we were together, rather than check my phone, look for a public watch or any of the other options. So, I got my own old watch fixed (change of battery) as much to spare her as to find out if perhaps a watch is worth using after all.
Turns out I really like using a watch. Also turns out I'm no fan of my old watch. Not really the design or the type I would choose today. A bit dinky and boring; I originally got it because it was inoffensive and fit my student budget. And when I started looking, I found lots of watch designs I really like. I picked one, and use it now, happily. I bet I'll probably get a second one with a different design in a year or two.
That's a major part of it, I think. A watch is a "permitted" accessory for men, and that surely accounts for a major part of the continued popularity. But that also means that, like other accessories, people want choice. You _don't_ want to wear the same thing as half a dozen other people in the office. That's the reason all watch makers have a huge array of models. And that's going to be a real challenge for any smartwatch maker.
I believe the problem with the coming crop of "smart watches" is that they all need a phone to connect to. They're really more of an extra terminal to your phone rather than a standalone device.
So if you're a rock climber or hiker, all the negative aspects of bringing a phone apply to these terminals too. You really need to get an actua watch with the appropriate functions.
I stopped using a watch ten years ago, in favour of my phone. This winter I got myself a new wristwatch, and started wearing them again. The watch can get bumped and scratched without worry, works fine in bad weather, I never have to worry about recharging it. And, I cna check the time without having to pull out my phone, turning it on, the putting it back again.
I fully understand all the people that use a phone as their only time tevice. I did so myself for ten years and was happy with that. But after going back to a wristwatch, I do fully understand the people that prefer that too. To me it really is more convenient than the phone. I also like how it looks on me; that's pretty important too.
With that said, I don't think I'm interested in a _smart_ watch. The point of the wristwatch, to me, is the ruggedness and the simplicitly. A smartwatch seems to throw away exactly those features and become, well, a phone on the wrist. I have a phone already. Safe and secure in a pocket, not out on my wrist.
The last two times I got myself a new laptop, I did because the previous one was breaking expensively (screen going bad in both cases), not because it was actually getting too slow or anything like it. That's not to say I don't enjoy the higher speed and capability of my latest one â" an SSD and enough RAM not to need swap is nice â" but nowadays such performance bumps are firmly in the "nice to have" category, not "pressing need" for me.
Been using Zotero with LaTeX for most of my career, and it's been a good fit for my work. I was a bit curious about Mendeley and what it could perhaps do that Zotero can't, but with the earlier rumours and todays news that curiosity is well and truly squashed.
At least one installation I know about still has only 2.5 and will likely never get updated to anything newer. This is not an uncommon situation, so to the tools I use have to support 2.5 upwards too (2.4 support just disappeared last year). Which means any solution for supporting Python 3 would need to allow for that.
Happy to see another bugfix release for 2.7. Like it or not, 2.7 is going to remain the main or only version of Python for years to come at many installations. Which means tools that depend on Python at such places also only or mostly support the 2.7 series.
The developers for the tool I use have just only begun discussing the possibility of perhaps beginning support for Python 3 in addition to the 2.5-2.7 versions for unspecified later versions; but only if it is possible to do without too much code duplication and maintenance efort.
I got a Nexus 7 with 16GB memory. Half a year of daily, even constant use, and several large apps and games (Final Fantasy III for instance; and Dungeon Defenders) and I've used up all of 4.5GB.
Storage is important, I agree, and we all use our devices differently. But don't make the mistake of blindly believing that you always need more. I've noticed on my desktop too, that storage has actually outgrown my needs for it for years now. It surprises me now to remember a time when I'd actually have to uninstall a large game or app in order to install another one; have to actually select what Linux packages to install or choose one desktop over another in order to save space.
I don't trust Evernote either. It is their main line of business so it's unlikely to be "spring cleaned". But they can certainly go bankupt or bought by a rival and lose the cervice altogether. Or they can move in a direction that makes future versions bad or unusable for me. When it's the cloud you can never stay with a previous version.
Anything critical, you use an offline app. Use the net only for syncing, preferably through file sharing or other system-agnostic manner.
Isn't the authors point really that subtractive milling is just as simple as additive printing? And that for most uses you're better off using either to make a mold rather than make your item directly, because of material limitations? All the mold-making and casting steps are the same whichever technology you happen to use.
Exactly. I don't care what drives the local display as long as I can ssh and run apps remotely on our big machines. It's something I depend on all day, every day.
If Wayland and Mir both offer a stable, reliable way to run X apps then fine, give me either; I don't care. If one of them don't offer X then it's effectively broken and not an alternative to me, no matter what features it otherwise offers. Same thing with development: any apps I write will be able to use the X protocol for display; if not then I couldn't use it myself.
I am one of those people that can never have enough power for work. But I get that from a large machine I access over the net, not from my laptop. That one is mostly a development machine and a terminal to the big system; I could probably replace it with an ARM system in a few years and be none the wiser.
Yes, there are plenty of people that need as much power as they can on their laptops. I fully agree an ARM system can likely never replace an x86 system for those people.
The question is, are they a large enough fraction of all users that they will prevent a wholesale shift to cheaper, slower platforms? Or are they few enough today that they will simply become an island of increasingly expensive and rarefied X85 "mobile workstations" in a market sea of ARM laptops?
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Nope. You drive drunk, people will find out about it. But it is common, I think (and based on what I see in newspaper notices and the like) that people are commonly sentenced to alcohol treatment instead of, or in addition to, the usual punishment.
Which is normally getting your license revoked and a heavy fine in mild cases, and prison (even for the first offence) in heavy cases, and that's just for you having eleveted blood alcohol. If you get caught after causing an accident or something things will really go downhill from there.
Basically, if you're not an alcoholic you don't take a chance. You don't drive the morning after a party, or think "I'm sure this beer will be gone by the time I need to leave" or anything like that. I know that at bike meets, where people will often party then drive back home the next day, the organizers will set up test stations with breathalyzers so you can confirm that you're completely sober before you hit the road.
Which is what Sweden has: 0%. But toallow for measurement error, the practical limit is 0.02%. Which may sound not too far away from 0.05%, but that is of course before a measurement margin is applied.
In practice, you don't drink at all before driving if you value your license. And you had better either be moderate the night before, or skip the driving the next day if you're going to a party. Good.
It's actually quite easy to legally get a gun in many countries. Typically you can get a hunting license or join a shooting club. And yet, the vast majority of people don't bother. In fact, a substantial fraction of those that do get a gun choose to keep them at the club or at some other separate storage, just so they don't have to keep a dangerous weapon at home.
So, there may be people that think this will revolutionize things, in reality it's rather a non-event. People without guns mostly can get them already, but don't want to. Those that want them, already have them.
It's different for different parts of the business of course, but the graphic designers I know personally (through a family member) don't care about monitor gamut or colour fidelity at all. Sounds odd, perhaps, but there's good reason for it.
Most graphic design is not for the web, but for physical objects. Anything you see around you that's printed or patterned - kitchen utensils, tools, and household objets; clothes and textile prints; books, calendars, pamphlets; not to mention the cardboard and plastic boxes it all came in - has been designed by a graphic designer. And it's all printed using different kind of processes, on different materials, with different kinds of inks and dyes.
A monitor, any monitor, simply can't show you what the finished design will look like, since it can't replicate the effect of the particular ink and material combination you're going to use. So they don't even try. Instead they do the design on the computer, but choose the precise colour and material combination by Pantone patches. We've got shelves of sample binders at home, with all kinds of colour and material combinations for reference. As an added bonus you can take samples into different light conditions and see what they look like there.
The finished design is usually sent off as a set of monochrome layers, with an accompanying specification on what Pantone colour each layer should use. They do make a colour version of it too, but that's just to give the client a rough idea of what the design will look like.
Google Glass flashes an LED at you whenever the camera is operating. Phones, meanwhile have lots of ways to stop the fake shutter sound (including apps, and just simply cover the speaker), and they don't make any sound at all for movies.
People have smartphones out in their hands all around me every day. On my commute half a dozen people could be taking my picture or filming me every second of the time without any way for me to know or avoid it.
Any privacy fear that apply to Glass applies to any smartphone as well. If anything, it's a lot less obvious when a smartphone user takes a picture or shoots a video than when a Glass wearer does the same.
If you worry about this aspect of privacy, you should have spoken out at about the time phones first started getting cameras.
Actually, not too many years ago, the Greens in Sweden (and, I strongly suspect, Germany) were the dumping grounds for nutjobs no other party wanted to do with. I strongly suspect that is a phase any new party has to go through on the way to become a long-term viable political force.
Mitsubishi isn't a major shareholder in the bank from what it seems. It's a merger of several banks, one of which (Tokyo-Mitsubishi) was owned in part by the Mitsubishi group.
As I said, I thought like you for ten years, and I still basically agree with you. It's not really inconvenient to be without a watch, even if you don't use a phone.
What happened to me was, my wife got her wristwatch repaired and started using it regularly again. And suddenly I found myself asking her for the time whenever we were together, rather than check my phone, look for a public watch or any of the other options. So, I got my own old watch fixed (change of battery) as much to spare her as to find out if perhaps a watch is worth using after all.
Turns out I really like using a watch. Also turns out I'm no fan of my old watch. Not really the design or the type I would choose today. A bit dinky and boring; I originally got it because it was inoffensive and fit my student budget. And when I started looking, I found lots of watch designs I really like. I picked one, and use it now, happily. I bet I'll probably get a second one with a different design in a year or two.
That's a major part of it, I think. A watch is a "permitted" accessory for men, and that surely accounts for a major part of the continued popularity. But that also means that, like other accessories, people want choice. You _don't_ want to wear the same thing as half a dozen other people in the office. That's the reason all watch makers have a huge array of models. And that's going to be a real challenge for any smartwatch maker.
I believe the problem with the coming crop of "smart watches" is that they all need a phone to connect to. They're really more of an extra terminal to your phone rather than a standalone device.
So if you're a rock climber or hiker, all the negative aspects of bringing a phone apply to these terminals too. You really need to get an actua watch with the appropriate functions.
I stopped using a watch ten years ago, in favour of my phone. This winter I got myself a new wristwatch, and started wearing them again. The watch can get bumped and scratched without worry, works fine in bad weather, I never have to worry about recharging it. And, I cna check the time without having to pull out my phone, turning it on, the putting it back again.
I fully understand all the people that use a phone as their only time tevice. I did so myself for ten years and was happy with that. But after going back to a wristwatch, I do fully understand the people that prefer that too. To me it really is more convenient than the phone. I also like how it looks on me; that's pretty important too.
With that said, I don't think I'm interested in a _smart_ watch. The point of the wristwatch, to me, is the ruggedness and the simplicitly. A smartwatch seems to throw away exactly those features and become, well, a phone on the wrist. I have a phone already. Safe and secure in a pocket, not out on my wrist.
The last two times I got myself a new laptop, I did because the previous one was breaking expensively (screen going bad in both cases), not because it was actually getting too slow or anything like it. That's not to say I don't enjoy the higher speed and capability of my latest one â" an SSD and enough RAM not to need swap is nice â" but nowadays such performance bumps are firmly in the "nice to have" category, not "pressing need" for me.
I've been using it since shortly after it went public. I've been at my current career for about ten years, so yes, it is "most of my career".
To automatically generate a single Bibtex file, install the extension here: http://rtwilson.com/academic/autozotbib
Been using Zotero with LaTeX for most of my career, and it's been a good fit for my work. I was a bit curious about Mendeley and what it could perhaps do that Zotero can't, but with the earlier rumours and todays news that curiosity is well and truly squashed.
So, out of curiosity, how do you handle strings in other encodings, such as Shift-JS or EUC-JP?
At least one installation I know about still has only 2.5 and will likely never get updated to anything newer. This is not an uncommon situation, so to the tools I use have to support 2.5 upwards too (2.4 support just disappeared last year). Which means any solution for supporting Python 3 would need to allow for that.
Happy to see another bugfix release for 2.7. Like it or not, 2.7 is going to remain the main or only version of Python for years to come at many installations. Which means tools that depend on Python at such places also only or mostly support the 2.7 series.
The developers for the tool I use have just only begun discussing the possibility of perhaps beginning support for Python 3 in addition to the 2.5-2.7 versions for unspecified later versions; but only if it is possible to do without too much code duplication and maintenance efort.
I got a Nexus 7 with 16GB memory. Half a year of daily, even constant use, and several large apps and games (Final Fantasy III for instance; and Dungeon Defenders) and I've used up all of 4.5GB.
Storage is important, I agree, and we all use our devices differently. But don't make the mistake of blindly believing that you always need more. I've noticed on my desktop too, that storage has actually outgrown my needs for it for years now. It surprises me now to remember a time when I'd actually have to uninstall a large game or app in order to install another one; have to actually select what Linux packages to install or choose one desktop over another in order to save space.
I don't trust Evernote either. It is their main line of business so it's unlikely to be "spring cleaned". But they can certainly go bankupt or bought by a rival and lose the cervice altogether. Or they can move in a direction that makes future versions bad or unusable for me. When it's the cloud you can never stay with a previous version.
Anything critical, you use an offline app. Use the net only for syncing, preferably through file sharing or other system-agnostic manner.
Isn't the authors point really that subtractive milling is just as simple as additive printing? And that for most uses you're better off using either to make a mold rather than make your item directly, because of material limitations? All the mold-making and casting steps are the same whichever technology you happen to use.
Exactly. I don't care what drives the local display as long as I can ssh and run apps remotely on our big machines. It's something I depend on all day, every day.
If Wayland and Mir both offer a stable, reliable way to run X apps then fine, give me either; I don't care. If one of them don't offer X then it's effectively broken and not an alternative to me, no matter what features it otherwise offers. Same thing with development: any apps I write will be able to use the X protocol for display; if not then I couldn't use it myself.
I am one of those people that can never have enough power for work. But I get that from a large machine I access over the net, not from my laptop. That one is mostly a development machine and a terminal to the big system; I could probably replace it with an ARM system in a few years and be none the wiser.
Yes, there are plenty of people that need as much power as they can on their laptops. I fully agree an ARM system can likely never replace an x86 system for those people.
The question is, are they a large enough fraction of all users that they will prevent a wholesale shift to cheaper, slower platforms? Or are they few enough today that they will simply become an island of increasingly expensive and rarefied X85 "mobile workstations" in a market sea of ARM laptops?
The depth and razor-sharp incisiveness of this analysis leaves me breathless.
Add a quote from a taxi driver in Beirut and it could be Thomas Friedman under a pseudonym.