More importantly, my car has a built in hands free that I can operate by voice. Why should I not be allowed to use it.
Bad example. It's counter-intuitive, but apparently hands-free doesn't actually reduce the risk of a distracted driving accident.
If we really want to make the roads safer, give me the power to arrest the dipshits that fly around me on the Interstate doing 20 miles above the speed limit and changing lanes like they are at Daytona.
You really shouldn't be in the middle lane if people are passing you on the right. Also, If the average speed is 20 over the posted limit, there are a number of states whose traffic laws I think could be interpreted to mean that you are the one who breaking the law and creating a hazard by not keeping up.
There is a technical solution to texting while driving (and also eating cheeseburgers while driving, which iirc is far more dangerous...). It is called autonomous cars. Then you can text and pig out all you want because the car is in control. Once we have one that is demonstrably safer than human drivers, we just need to find a way to deal with all the irrational ninnies who will want to keep the human in control of the vehicle.
"spinning reserve" means they're basically burning coal for nothing, right? 0% efficiency to back-up the renewables? So we should attribute the carbon emissions for spinning reserve to the renewables?
I guess the question is, factoring in the spinning reserve, how do the carbon emissions of the renewables actually compare to just having straight coal plants?
So, it's fine as long as we don't go around breaking it up and dispersing it into the air, and our solution if it ever becomes commonplace will not be to just stop using it in new construction and take extra care when removing old construction, but to actively go in and smash up the walls of old buildings to make sure it gets broken up and dispersed to maximum effect in an occupied building.
The real solution is to start a fare comparison site that displays and sorts on more than just price/time, (leg room, width, amenities, etc) possibly with a user-rating component built-in.
Android is a linux distribution put together by Google, with Google extensions and optimizations. Not sure with that has to do with the argument that Microsoft is less open source than Apple and was not "banned" from government procurement, therefore the motivation for China's action is probably not open sourc-y-ness.
Sounds like the obvious answer is "Then don't watch it."
This is not necessarily the same thing as not paying for it, though.
But I can see this article isn't about rationality, but about "I want to watch it" and "I want it to be free" and "I want it available under my terms".
An important question is: who paid for the stadium?
I'm not sure the FCC ought to be involved, but any city paying for a stadium ought to negotiate, as part of the deal, that their residents can watch the games on free TV or on at-cost tickets or something until the city gets back its investment. Also, maybe we should stop electing star-struck fanbois who keep giving away the farm any time someone famous comes to town.
While I'm inclined to believe that Apple's products are unlikely to be secure against the level of hacking that a state actor could afford to level, your assertion makes the assumption that China doesn't want to be able to hack the computers of government employees....
No, that job is 10% of an IT staffer. It might require 60% of the CEO's time, and that's assuming the CEO even has sufficient knowledge to be that effective.
It might further be the case that the CEO could be using that 60% time more effectively to improve the company than is saved by not having an IT person. Avoiding that opportunity loss would be worth hiring an entire IT person to take care of it, but then you're back in the 90% time wasted position, and while having some slack time is good, that is not going to be a very satisfying job for any professional.
Anyone that hates the Chromebook has probably not watched "regular people" use one.
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I picked up a c720 new for $175, put a larger SSD in it to dual boot Linux and Chrome OS and its been worth every dime.
... the fact that I can use a sub $200 device to do most of what I need
I'm not sure that someone who changes the OS and storage is representative of "regular people." Or of a sub $200 device, for that matter. How much did the SSD cost?
In general outsourcers won't save you money if your IT department is competently run (outsourcers need to make a profit), but for the 90% of other cases your job is in danger.
What if your needs are small enough that having whole person doing it is 90% more people than you need? An outsourcing company could aggregate several businesses in the same situation, resulting in more efficient use of the staff and equipment.
Price is definitely a big factor in my own reading decisions as well. As a result of price, I typically go on reading "binges" where I will read something, remember how much I like to read things and go through another few things on my list until I notice I'm thinking about buying something for $14 and I just bought three or four other books in the past couple weeks, and do I really need to read this thing right now? Maybe I can wait until it's been out for a little bit and see if my library gets it or the price comes down.
Then my library doesn't have it, and I exhaust all the things on my list that they currently have (or I sign up for a few things and am in a queue that is likely months long...) and stop reading. After a few weeks, I will continue to not read until it occurs to me to check on a book, and maybe that $14 book is down to $9 (still not great, but I haven't read anything in a while (i.e. my budget has recovered), so what the hey)
The middlemen taking a big chunk of the money for distribution made sense when distribution was the difficult and expensive part of the proposition. It hardly makes sense for this to continue when the cost to produce a copy of an ebook is vanishingly small and half of it is the customer's responsibility.
Do they do tipping in France. I'm not sure tipping as a concept really makes sense anyway. Why do I pay the restaurant for the food and separately an essentially independent contractor (can I bring my own, then...) to deliver it, and the contractor's fee is completely at my discretion after the fact?
Nearly all the smartphones people are using have either Linux or BSD on them. Linux on a phone turns out to have been a great idea, but it's not a new idea.
It's a cliche on slashdot, where every sixth article has 100 comments using it. There have to be more ways to compare society to a prison than just using the name of single prison design, no matter how effective that design happened to be.
Search is abysmal. Forget recommendations and work on improving search. Sometimes I don't need a recommendation because I know what I'm looking for - something in a particular category (or intersection of categories) that I haven't seen yet.
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More importantly, my car has a built in hands free that I can operate by voice. Why should I not be allowed to use it.
Bad example. It's counter-intuitive, but apparently hands-free doesn't actually reduce the risk of a distracted driving accident.
If we really want to make the roads safer, give me the power to arrest the dipshits that fly around me on the Interstate doing 20 miles above the speed limit and changing lanes like they are at Daytona.
You really shouldn't be in the middle lane if people are passing you on the right. Also, If the average speed is 20 over the posted limit, there are a number of states whose traffic laws I think could be interpreted to mean that you are the one who breaking the law and creating a hazard by not keeping up.
There is a technical solution to texting while driving (and also eating cheeseburgers while driving, which iirc is far more dangerous...). It is called autonomous cars. Then you can text and pig out all you want because the car is in control. Once we have one that is demonstrably safer than human drivers, we just need to find a way to deal with all the irrational ninnies who will want to keep the human in control of the vehicle.
It's 9 and 3 if you have an airbag, according to the NHTSA.
I'm skeptical as to whether there has been any benefit to 10 and 2 since power steering became common.
"spinning reserve" means they're basically burning coal for nothing, right? 0% efficiency to back-up the renewables? So we should attribute the carbon emissions for spinning reserve to the renewables?
I guess the question is, factoring in the spinning reserve, how do the carbon emissions of the renewables actually compare to just having straight coal plants?
So, you want to build pressurized bike tunnels? I think it could work, as long as you have an elevator at the "stations"
There are three levels of "Max"?!?
So, it's fine as long as we don't go around breaking it up and dispersing it into the air, and our solution if it ever becomes commonplace will not be to just stop using it in new construction and take extra care when removing old construction, but to actively go in and smash up the walls of old buildings to make sure it gets broken up and dispersed to maximum effect in an occupied building.
The real solution is to start a fare comparison site that displays and sorts on more than just price/time, (leg room, width, amenities, etc) possibly with a user-rating component built-in.
Interesting. Has the argument been made that the car doesn't have agency, and therefore can't be held responsible for its actions?
It has fixed focal length? Did they forget to consult with optics engineers? No one in the design group owns a telescope or a pair of binoculars?
Android is a linux distribution put together by Google, with Google extensions and optimizations. Not sure with that has to do with the argument that Microsoft is less open source than Apple and was not "banned" from government procurement, therefore the motivation for China's action is probably not open sourc-y-ness.
Sounds like the obvious answer is "Then don't watch it."
This is not necessarily the same thing as not paying for it, though.
But I can see this article isn't about rationality, but about "I want to watch it" and "I want it to be free" and "I want it available under my terms".
An important question is: who paid for the stadium?
I'm not sure the FCC ought to be involved, but any city paying for a stadium ought to negotiate, as part of the deal, that their residents can watch the games on free TV or on at-cost tickets or something until the city gets back its investment. Also, maybe we should stop electing star-struck fanbois who keep giving away the farm any time someone famous comes to town.
While I'm inclined to believe that Apple's products are unlikely to be secure against the level of hacking that a state actor could afford to level, your assertion makes the assumption that China doesn't want to be able to hack the computers of government employees....
Not sure how much it makes sense to ban Apple, then, as opposed to Microsoft, considering that at least a portion of Apple products are open source
No, that job is 10% of an IT staffer. It might require 60% of the CEO's time, and that's assuming the CEO even has sufficient knowledge to be that effective.
It might further be the case that the CEO could be using that 60% time more effectively to improve the company than is saved by not having an IT person. Avoiding that opportunity loss would be worth hiring an entire IT person to take care of it, but then you're back in the 90% time wasted position, and while having some slack time is good, that is not going to be a very satisfying job for any professional.
Anyone that hates the Chromebook has probably not watched "regular people" use one.
(bolding mine)
I picked up a c720 new for $175, put a larger SSD in it to dual boot Linux and Chrome OS and its been worth every dime.
... the fact that I can use a sub $200 device to do most of what I need
I'm not sure that someone who changes the OS and storage is representative of "regular people." Or of a sub $200 device, for that matter. How much did the SSD cost?
In general outsourcers won't save you money if your IT department is competently run (outsourcers need to make a profit), but for the 90% of other cases your job is in danger.
What if your needs are small enough that having whole person doing it is 90% more people than you need? An outsourcing company could aggregate several businesses in the same situation, resulting in more efficient use of the staff and equipment.
Price is definitely a big factor in my own reading decisions as well. As a result of price, I typically go on reading "binges" where I will read something, remember how much I like to read things and go through another few things on my list until I notice I'm thinking about buying something for $14 and I just bought three or four other books in the past couple weeks, and do I really need to read this thing right now? Maybe I can wait until it's been out for a little bit and see if my library gets it or the price comes down.
Then my library doesn't have it, and I exhaust all the things on my list that they currently have (or I sign up for a few things and am in a queue that is likely months long...) and stop reading. After a few weeks, I will continue to not read until it occurs to me to check on a book, and maybe that $14 book is down to $9 (still not great, but I haven't read anything in a while (i.e. my budget has recovered), so what the hey)
The middlemen taking a big chunk of the money for distribution made sense when distribution was the difficult and expensive part of the proposition. It hardly makes sense for this to continue when the cost to produce a copy of an ebook is vanishingly small and half of it is the customer's responsibility.
Do they do tipping in France. I'm not sure tipping as a concept really makes sense anyway. Why do I pay the restaurant for the food and separately an essentially independent contractor (can I bring my own, then...) to deliver it, and the contractor's fee is completely at my discretion after the fact?
Not sure about beta, but sometimes I set the user agent to iOS for a cleaner page. You get more control over column width, for instance....
Hmm. And suppose you power it using an ethanol fuel cell? Each fill would last pretty long, I think.
Nearly all the smartphones people are using have either Linux or BSD on them. Linux on a phone turns out to have been a great idea, but it's not a new idea.
Are you talking about dwarf fortress? 60 fps would be indecipherable madness...
It's a cliche on slashdot, where every sixth article has 100 comments using it. There have to be more ways to compare society to a prison than just using the name of single prison design, no matter how effective that design happened to be.
It's not libertarians who are keeping the TSA "4th amendment free" zones going.
Search is abysmal. Forget recommendations and work on improving search. Sometimes I don't need a recommendation because I know what I'm looking for - something in a particular category (or intersection of categories) that I haven't seen yet.