One that has better things to do than spend a couple hours of his life every day at a simple but stressful, not particularly rewarding task of piloting a personal transportation unit through the notoriously heavy traffic of the bay area.
Maybe he wants to read medical journals, or goof off playing video games instead. Lots of things are better uses of your time. You should be able to drive when you want to, not because you have to be a mini-bus-driver just to get to your real job.
Up here in the NE, people seem to think the turn signal means, "speed up and close the gap to block you out" So, the only rational approach is to wait until the last moment before executing a lane change maneuver before activating it.
Which has obvious safety implications (especially when it's the lane to you're right, because you're getting ready to take an exit. Or one of our infamous "left exits" always conveniently placed across four lanes of traffic, 200 ft down-range of the ramp you got ON in the first place..), but apparently we're not very good at game theory up here....
You're talking about an industry which, until something like 2002, was still using unencrypted, 800 MHz AM transceivers and relying on laws passed by congress to force radio shack to cripple it's scanners...
Instead of pirating it, and thereby giving them your mind-share and potential future purchases, you could just not play it at all. Which hurts them even more and gives you something to do with that other game you bought for its receipt.
For a beginner, this is not a problem. A "good" programming environment isn't a fancy IDE. It's a text editor and a command line with access to multiple compilers. Linux and OSX rule the roost here, as they both come with multiple compilers and interpreters out of the box. New languages are a little easier to obtain for Linux using the repository system.
Windows isn't completely in the dark. For instance, you can get the intel reference compiler for free, I think. The experience is more piecemeal, though, I think.
IDEs come later, when you have more complicated things you want to do that need more powerful organization.
I was was also born with an inability to compete at the world class level in running. How about we let me bring a bicycle to even things up a bit. I promise to make sure the bike doesn't make me any faster than a typical world class runner...
Kidding aside, when you start allowing mechanical assistance into a sport, you have to provide some justification for what you allow and what you exclude, and that justification needs to be something you can consistently apply. You don't want to accidentally turn track into the tour de france, or biathlon into live-action battlezone because you weren't careful in defining what your sport really is.
No, the question is whether it gives him an advantage over his unaugmented and unamputated self. If you can design the prosthetics to any level of performance, up to and including superior performance to your competitors, It doesn't really make it "more fair" to choose 80th percentile or 90th percentile or 50th percentile level performance. It's not really a contest at that point, but a demo.
Really, what they should do is offer a separate category of competition: "open" and "natural". In the "open" contests any competitor should be able to use any contraption they choose (including nothing), as long as there is no stored energy at the start of the competition and/or no net change in energy at the end of the competition.
This rule would take care of the problem where a jetpack full of rocket fuel would change the very nature of a road race, but spring-feet even though they need to be compressed somewhat at the start might be acceptable.
In fact, we've already got machine augmented races using just those sort of rules: NASCAR and speed skating both follow the above model.
Indeed. Verizon workers should be perfectly free to strike. Also, Verizon should be perfectly free to end their contracts and hire new people *. Let everyone vote with their feet.
*Unless said contracts include a clause which prevents this....
It's fun that you think your employer pays 11% of your pay for NHS...
Take amount you think you're getting in compensation. Your salary, the value of any benefits you're getting, etc. before taxes.
Now take the amount you think the your employer pays on your behalf. The NHS benefit, any payroll type taxes that also don't show up (does the UK have something like FICA?) etc. These numbers might be more difficult to find, as they might not printed directly on your pay-stub.
Add those numbers together. That is what you're worth to your employer.
Actually, it's the lower bound of what you're worth to your employer. If you weren't doing something worth more than that amount to them, they simply wouldn't be able to afford to keep you on. You might be worth more to them. Perhaps quite a bit more, even.
But that is, at least, the level of compensation that you both agreed to. Both of you weighing in factors of what you needed to do, and what you could do against the market of other workers. Do you really think that without the government demanding that a portion of your compensation be spent in a certain way, that you wouldn't be able to get that level of compensation and that you wouldn't be better off if you could spend it yourself in the way that is most beneficial to you?
"Speeding up their plans" is also a good thing. It's the same thing as saying, "hastily come up with a new plan and execute that instead."
The new plan likely to be far less robust than the old plan (that, obviously, has been going well enough that we haven't discovered it yet..). It exposes the bad actors to more risk of discovery and/or failure.
You could get that with self-signed certs if the browsers would put a little certificate management functionality in. Like the ability to snapshot the cert for a site you're on, and compare it to previous snapshots. If the cert hasn't changed (or leaked...), you can be pretty confident you're dealing with the same organization. That might not be the organization you intended to do business with, but it'll be the same org nonetheless.
if you hate bags, maybe you should try getting mowers with a "mulching" setting. No point in throwing away all that free fertilizer.
There's really no point in bagging unless you're trying to gather up vegetative waste for a purpose, like perhaps a compost pile or something. "Filling up the county dump with yard waste" is not a worthwhile purpose.
That's the thing that bugs me about the iPod Touch: It always assumes you have an internet connection.
You could've made things work by hopping from wifi to wifi if it bothered caching things a little bit. Like, the maps app caching a half-mile radius of its max detail around you, so that the wifi finder app would have a place to paint its cached store. Or the restaurant finder apps caching a few megabytes worth of restaurant info. (which my guess, would cover well over a half-mile...)
Even the smallest iPod touch for sale right now has over 8 GB of space, it can't spare a few megs to cache a little map data? or a few pre-fetched web pages? Seriously?
Patents, as formed in the US founding documents are intended to reward disclosure. They are a monumental failure at that: they are not written in a language that laymen can understand, and they are usually not even written in a language that an engineer would use...
Frankly, I think it would be quite generous if we allowed patents to exist for five years before pruning: Any patent not quoted or referenced in a scholarly journal or textbook in its field should expire.
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That depends on how often you drive through tunnels.
I suspect there will be Dutch geeks whose entire commute is, apparently, through a tunnel....
One that has better things to do than spend a couple hours of his life every day at a simple but stressful, not particularly rewarding task of piloting a personal transportation unit through the notoriously heavy traffic of the bay area.
Maybe he wants to read medical journals, or goof off playing video games instead. Lots of things are better uses of your time. You should be able to drive when you want to, not because you have to be a mini-bus-driver just to get to your real job.
Up here in the NE, people seem to think the turn signal means, "speed up and close the gap to block you out" So, the only rational approach is to wait until the last moment before executing a lane change maneuver before activating it.
Which has obvious safety implications (especially when it's the lane to you're right, because you're getting ready to take an exit. Or one of our infamous "left exits" always conveniently placed across four lanes of traffic, 200 ft down-range of the ramp you got ON in the first place..), but apparently we're not very good at game theory up here....
You're talking about an industry which, until something like 2002, was still using unencrypted, 800 MHz AM transceivers and relying on laws passed by congress to force radio shack to cripple it's scanners...
Instead of pirating it, and thereby giving them your mind-share and potential future purchases, you could just not play it at all. Which hurts them even more and gives you something to do with that other game you bought for its receipt.
For a beginner, this is not a problem. A "good" programming environment isn't a fancy IDE. It's a text editor and a command line with access to multiple compilers. Linux and OSX rule the roost here, as they both come with multiple compilers and interpreters out of the box. New languages are a little easier to obtain for Linux using the repository system.
Windows isn't completely in the dark. For instance, you can get the intel reference compiler for free, I think. The experience is more piecemeal, though, I think.
IDEs come later, when you have more complicated things you want to do that need more powerful organization.
I was was also born with an inability to compete at the world class level in running. How about we let me bring a bicycle to even things up a bit. I promise to make sure the bike doesn't make me any faster than a typical world class runner...
Kidding aside, when you start allowing mechanical assistance into a sport, you have to provide some justification for what you allow and what you exclude, and that justification needs to be something you can consistently apply. You don't want to accidentally turn track into the tour de france, or biathlon into live-action battlezone because you weren't careful in defining what your sport really is.
No, the question is whether it gives him an advantage over his unaugmented and unamputated self. If you can design the prosthetics to any level of performance, up to and including superior performance to your competitors, It doesn't really make it "more fair" to choose 80th percentile or 90th percentile or 50th percentile level performance. It's not really a contest at that point, but a demo.
Really, what they should do is offer a separate category of competition: "open" and "natural". In the "open" contests any competitor should be able to use any contraption they choose (including nothing), as long as there is no stored energy at the start of the competition and/or no net change in energy at the end of the competition.
This rule would take care of the problem where a jetpack full of rocket fuel would change the very nature of a road race, but spring-feet even though they need to be compressed somewhat at the start might be acceptable.
In fact, we've already got machine augmented races using just those sort of rules: NASCAR and speed skating both follow the above model.
Indeed. Verizon workers should be perfectly free to strike. Also, Verizon should be perfectly free to end their contracts and hire new people *. Let everyone vote with their feet.
*Unless said contracts include a clause which prevents this....
It's fun that you think your employer pays 11% of your pay for NHS...
Take amount you think you're getting in compensation. Your salary, the value of any benefits you're getting, etc. before taxes.
Now take the amount you think the your employer pays on your behalf. The NHS benefit, any payroll type taxes that also don't show up (does the UK have something like FICA?) etc. These numbers might be more difficult to find, as they might not printed directly on your pay-stub.
Add those numbers together. That is what you're worth to your employer.
Actually, it's the lower bound of what you're worth to your employer. If you weren't doing something worth more than that amount to them, they simply wouldn't be able to afford to keep you on. You might be worth more to them. Perhaps quite a bit more, even.
But that is, at least, the level of compensation that you both agreed to. Both of you weighing in factors of what you needed to do, and what you could do against the market of other workers. Do you really think that without the government demanding that a portion of your compensation be spent in a certain way, that you wouldn't be able to get that level of compensation and that you wouldn't be better off if you could spend it yourself in the way that is most beneficial to you?
"Speeding up their plans" is also a good thing. It's the same thing as saying, "hastily come up with a new plan and execute that instead."
The new plan likely to be far less robust than the old plan (that, obviously, has been going well enough that we haven't discovered it yet..). It exposes the bad actors to more risk of discovery and/or failure.
You could get that with self-signed certs if the browsers would put a little certificate management functionality in. Like the ability to snapshot the cert for a site you're on, and compare it to previous snapshots. If the cert hasn't changed (or leaked...), you can be pretty confident you're dealing with the same organization. That might not be the organization you intended to do business with, but it'll be the same org nonetheless.
You want the start and end node to be the same, so you can put the mower shed right next to it...
if you hate bags, maybe you should try getting mowers with a "mulching" setting. No point in throwing away all that free fertilizer.
There's really no point in bagging unless you're trying to gather up vegetative waste for a purpose, like perhaps a compost pile or something. "Filling up the county dump with yard waste" is not a worthwhile purpose.
Maybe it's a pizza for angina sufferers?
That's the thing that bugs me about the iPod Touch: It always assumes you have an internet connection.
You could've made things work by hopping from wifi to wifi if it bothered caching things a little bit. Like, the maps app caching a half-mile radius of its max detail around you, so that the wifi finder app would have a place to paint its cached store. Or the restaurant finder apps caching a few megabytes worth of restaurant info. (which my guess, would cover well over a half-mile...)
Even the smallest iPod touch for sale right now has over 8 GB of space, it can't spare a few megs to cache a little map data? or a few pre-fetched web pages? Seriously?
Who keeps track of this, though. What metric do they use to determine when you're playing along or not?
Unless they're girls....
Due to the tech bubble, you mean....
I can choose not to buy anything from a private company....
What? There can be only ONE. His last name is Solo for crying out loud.
Patents, as formed in the US founding documents are intended to reward disclosure. They are a monumental failure at that: they are not written in a language that laymen can understand, and they are usually not even written in a language that an engineer would use...
Frankly, I think it would be quite generous if we allowed patents to exist for five years before pruning: Any patent not quoted or referenced in a scholarly journal or textbook in its field should expire.
Surely that processing can be done with robots...
Did I just write a hollywood movie? Or a series of movies????
Depends.. Isn't that the plot of Batman Begins?
Look, superman III had a lot of lessons to teach. It's really too bad on villains watched it...