Maybe we're not talking about the same Fukashima but I distinctly recall pretty much total confusion and paralysis by the Japanese government and TEPCO. It was clear they did not have a good handle on the situation. They clearly lied, obfuscated and just refused to talk at times.
THAT is what was so scary. Nobody believed what the government was saying. It was extraordinarily hard to figure out exactly what was going on. Waving Geiger counters around isn't the best way to determine health risks but that is exactly what the general public was forced to do given the poor official response. This went on for months. So, I'm supposed to believe them now?
Note the similarities between Chernoble and Fukashima. Both governments caught unawares. Both governments go into minimize mode. The real situation turns out to be, in fact, pretty bad. People distrust official statements, get upset, get hyperbolic, perhaps panic.
Kind of undercuts his basic argument, that we should vote for him because he's a good manager. In fact, he makes me think of every bad manager I've ever worked for.
No, not 'nearly everyone' liked the Start button and Task Bar. Major publications like InfoWorld, PC World and Byte (remember Byte?) had articles about how these changes would never be adopted for one reason or another and how Microsoft was going to tank because of it.
The VP is generally considered a waste product. You don't pick your VP to match your views you pick your VP to fill in the blanks in your own personality.
Given that Romney's personality is totally blank, his VP needs to combine Winston Churchill with Groucho Marx mixed in with a bit of Madonna and Gandhi.
Adobe has a well documented lack of interest in fixing its bugs without charging its customers. For years now, Photoshop has ignored its placebo settings panel and attached itself to storage volumes despite the wishes of users (After three years, I can only assume the purpose is nefarious, and probably related to terrorism and or a desire to harm small animals). A spokesman claims the company has finally fixed the bug in CS6, but have told users they must http://feedback.photoshop.com/photoshop_family/topics/disk_could_not_be_ejected_because_photoshop_is_using_itpony up $800+ for the antidote. Most of us will never know whether it's fixed or not.
So they fix that particular bug, ignore the 100+ other bugs that have been hanging out since version 5 and create new bugs.
Seriously? I've been working on my vehicles for 38 years... I didn't have very many 'special service tools' back then but, while there are still a few bolts on vehicles, I would say the typical modern vehicle requires a lot more specialized tools to do basic things. I wouldn't be at all surprised to find that your ratchets aren't useful on your 2050 model vehicle. The head bolts on my 1993 toyota diesel can't be removed with a traditional 6 point hex socket, I need a 12 point socket.. You need a micrometer to determine whether you can re-use the head bolts or need to replace them. There are now hose clamps buried so deep inside the engine compartment you need a cable-actuated clamping tool to remove/install them.
Bringing us back to "Linux", used to be that Unix tools were primarily single-purpose until Linux came along and people started adding "-R" and "-r" options to commands like 'grep', or 'chown' or 'chmod'... Back in my day, we would use 'find'. 'ls' never used to have colors. So your Unix tools may never have changed, but mine did.
I wonder what the automobile equivalent of the Single Sided 360K floppy disk is....
Oh this has been going on for years. Even before the 1980's - SAAB, Volvo - I'm looking at you with your weird little engine tools. British stuff didn't need anything special (other than Whitworth wrenches) - a hammer and a screwdriver would disassemble pretty much any Triumph, Spitfire or Land Rover engine ever made. Of course, they couldn't hold a quart of oil for more than 48 hours, but you never had to actually change the oil, you just replaced it.
I recall the angst surrounding Windows 95. Pretty much everybody had the same idea - it's the end of Microsoft as we know it. On top of that, the world was ending, Carter was a failure, the Russians were winning and we're all gonna die.
Patents are evaluated in a civil court, not criminal. Until that concept is quite clear in your mind, it's best that you refrain from worrying about some of the finer points of the issue.
It gets harder the further out you go. Less sunlight, less efficient solar power leading to use of nuclear isotopic power supplies. IIRC only the US and USSR have used nuc thermal supplies in space - although India does have an active nuclear energy research program and nucular weapons. Harder communications - India doesn't have world wide tracking systems.
India doesn't seem to have a clear path to space. Seems like their missions are scatter shot - one moon, then Mars, then whatever. Who knows what internal politics are going on? Mars also offers the chance to piggy back on US / ESO communication links although I have not heard they plan on doing that.
Besides, Mars is cool. Although in general, I agree. I'd love to see many more Jovian moon missions.
On the other hand, I'll gladly pay $5/mo. Now whenever I get a junk call, I can harass Verizon about it. Why did I get this call? What will you do to prevent this in the future? When they do nothing, then we do what good Americans do, complain and sue!
It's an unlisted number, not an undialable number.
Robodialer goes 728-1234, 1235, 1236, 1237 and on and on. It doesn't care who you are. You're just another meat popsicle. Perfectly interchangeable.
Because people need to get work done and not every company can provide every thing for every employee. Security is always a balance.
If you locked out Dropbox, then I could 'steal' documents using my USB Flash drive. Or just photograph screens with my iPhone. In fact, my iPhone has this nifty 'scanner' app that takes pictures of documents, does OCR and converts them to PDFs. Just the thing for industrial espionage (as if the 8MP camera wasn't enough).
Just you go and try to block USB ports from a typical business. Maybe if you're military or do high end research - it might be warranted and doable at that point. But for a social media company? Right.
It is a sad day, but our low UID forebearers are going senile. I guess it was only a matter of time.
Yeah, but we're still going to be able to whip your sorry little triclosan impregnated asses. You're gonna be pretty sad when grandpa's Viagra enhanced body can 'outperform' your wimpy little chemically castrated muscles.
Where I live, the temperature is below freezing for much of the year. That means I need to wear mittens while driving. Which touchscreen technology is most mitten-friendly?
Step 1: Turn on vehicle Step 2: Turn on HEATER (look for something that is colored red and isn't an ejection button) Step 3: Wait a minute or so and relax in the comfort of your climate controlled vehicle.
You will be totally amazed at how far automotive technology has progressed!
Problem here is user training. It takes a while to get really used to the interface on a modern DSLR. Usually takes me a month or two of fairly heavy use to get used to a new camera - and I stick to one brand who's UI has been basically similar since 1995. However, that is what is expected of the user. It's a high end machine, you are expected to put a bit of work into it to get good results out of it.
Cars, not so much. The analogy would be to point-and-shoot cameras where you only expect the user to turn the thing on and point it in the general direction of the item to be photographed. P&S cameras are doing more and more for the 'photographer' all of the time. Detecting faces, turning the flash on and off, setting the aperture, shutter speed, ISO and half a dozen other parameters.
So car manufacturers really have to design their interfaces for the lowest common denominator. Unfortunately, they fail at that big time.
Old ones were a mechanic's ticket to heaven. Their only advantage is that most repairs could be effected by a few coathangers and a big pair of pliers.
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Maybe we're not talking about the same Fukashima but I distinctly recall pretty much total confusion and paralysis by the Japanese government and TEPCO. It was clear they did not have a good handle on the situation. They clearly lied, obfuscated and just refused to talk at times.
THAT is what was so scary. Nobody believed what the government was saying. It was extraordinarily hard to figure out exactly what was going on. Waving Geiger counters around isn't the best way to determine health risks but that is exactly what the general public was forced to do given the poor official response. This went on for months. So, I'm supposed to believe them now?
Note the similarities between Chernoble and Fukashima. Both governments caught unawares. Both governments go into minimize mode. The real situation turns out to be, in fact, pretty bad. People distrust official statements, get upset, get hyperbolic, perhaps panic.
SNAFU....
Kind of undercuts his basic argument, that we should vote for him because he's a good manager. In fact, he makes me think of every bad manager I've ever worked for.
Meet the new boss, same as your old boss.
No, not 'nearly everyone' liked the Start button and Task Bar. Major publications like InfoWorld, PC World and Byte (remember Byte?) had articles about how these changes would never be adopted for one reason or another and how Microsoft was going to tank because of it.
Your history glasses need some Windex.
The VP is generally considered a waste product. You don't pick your VP to match your views you pick your VP to fill in the blanks in your own personality.
Given that Romney's personality is totally blank, his VP needs to combine Winston Churchill with Groucho Marx mixed in with a bit of Madonna and Gandhi.
Tang.
I rest my case.
Plus I saw a job available there once, plutonium manger, previous experience required. lol
What? Your take is that a 'plutonium manager' should just get on-the-job training?
Adobe has a well documented lack of interest in fixing its bugs without charging its customers. For years now, Photoshop has ignored its placebo settings panel and attached itself to storage volumes despite the wishes of users (After three years, I can only assume the purpose is nefarious, and probably related to terrorism and or a desire to harm small animals). A spokesman claims the company has finally fixed the bug in CS6, but have told users they must http://feedback.photoshop.com/photoshop_family/topics/disk_could_not_be_ejected_because_photoshop_is_using_itpony up $800+ for the antidote. Most of us will never know whether it's fixed or not.
So they fix that particular bug, ignore the 100+ other bugs that have been hanging out since version 5 and create new bugs.
Hey, it's one way to make money.
The mugs they give out at the National Association of Photoshop Professionals meeting are pretty cool.
Seriously? I've been working on my vehicles for 38 years... I didn't have very many 'special service tools' back then but, while there are still a few bolts on vehicles, I would say the typical modern vehicle requires a lot more specialized tools to do basic things. I wouldn't be at all surprised to find that your ratchets aren't useful on your 2050 model vehicle. The head bolts on my 1993 toyota diesel can't be removed with a traditional 6 point hex socket, I need a 12 point socket.. You need a micrometer to determine whether you can re-use the head bolts or need to replace them. There are now hose clamps buried so deep inside the engine compartment you need a cable-actuated clamping tool to remove/install them.
Bringing us back to "Linux", used to be that Unix tools were primarily single-purpose until Linux came along and people started adding "-R" and "-r" options to commands like 'grep', or 'chown' or 'chmod'... Back in my day, we would use 'find'. 'ls' never used to have colors. So your Unix tools may never have changed, but mine did.
I wonder what the automobile equivalent of the Single Sided 360K floppy disk is ....
Oh this has been going on for years. Even before the 1980's - SAAB, Volvo - I'm looking at you with your weird little engine tools. British stuff didn't need anything special (other than Whitworth wrenches) - a hammer and a screwdriver would disassemble pretty much any Triumph, Spitfire or Land Rover engine ever made. Of course, they couldn't hold a quart of oil for more than 48 hours, but you never had to actually change the oil, you just replaced it.
I recall the angst surrounding Windows 95. Pretty much everybody had the same idea - it's the end of Microsoft as we know it. On top of that, the world was ending, Carter was a failure, the Russians were winning and we're all gonna die.
Nothing to see here, move along.
Patents are evaluated in a civil court, not criminal. Until that concept is quite clear in your mind, it's best that you refrain from worrying about some of the finer points of the issue.
It gets harder the further out you go. Less sunlight, less efficient solar power leading to use of nuclear isotopic power supplies. IIRC only the US and USSR have used nuc thermal supplies in space - although India does have an active nuclear energy research program and nucular weapons. Harder communications - India doesn't have world wide tracking systems.
India doesn't seem to have a clear path to space. Seems like their missions are scatter shot - one moon, then Mars, then whatever. Who knows what internal politics are going on? Mars also offers the chance to piggy back on US / ESO communication links although I have not heard they plan on doing that.
Besides, Mars is cool. Although in general, I agree. I'd love to see many more Jovian moon missions.
We have NOAA purchasing HP ammunition in large quantities.
DHS purchasing 450 mln rounds of HP, and then another 750mln rounds of ammo.
Now we see the SSA doing something similar.
http://www.infowars.com/social-security-administration-to-purchase-174-thousand-rounds-of-hollow-point-bullets/
Doesn't this qualify as 'stuff that matters'?
Do you trust your Democrat Overloards that much?
I think I'll be heading to Walmart myself to stock up.
.357 125 gr hollow points?
About the only thing that round is good for is shooting yourself in the foot.
What total and complete wimps.
On the one hand, this is bullshit.
On the other hand, I'll gladly pay $5/mo. Now whenever I get a junk call, I can harass Verizon about it. Why did I get this call? What will you do to prevent this in the future? When they do nothing, then we do what good Americans do, complain and sue!
It's an unlisted number, not an undialable number.
Robodialer goes 728-1234, 1235, 1236, 1237 and on and on. It doesn't care who you are. You're just another meat popsicle. Perfectly interchangeable.
Initially this will be for better cruise missiles, only after the technology has matured would they consider it for human transport.
Really? Can we get rides on regular cruise missiles now?
That would be fun. For a while, at least.
Because people need to get work done and not every company can provide every thing for every employee. Security is always a balance.
If you locked out Dropbox, then I could 'steal' documents using my USB Flash drive. Or just photograph screens with my iPhone. In fact, my iPhone has this nifty 'scanner' app that takes pictures of documents, does OCR and converts them to PDFs. Just the thing for industrial espionage (as if the 8MP camera wasn't enough).
Just you go and try to block USB ports from a typical business. Maybe if you're military or do high end research - it might be warranted and doable at that point. But for a social media company? Right.
It is a sad day, but our low UID forebearers are going senile. I guess it was only a matter of time.
Yeah, but we're still going to be able to whip your sorry little triclosan impregnated asses. You're gonna be pretty sad when grandpa's Viagra enhanced body can 'outperform' your wimpy little chemically castrated muscles.
Start running now, kid.
Where I live, the temperature is below freezing for much of the year. That means I need to wear mittens while driving. Which touchscreen technology is most mitten-friendly?
Step 1: Turn on vehicle
Step 2: Turn on HEATER (look for something that is colored red and isn't an ejection button)
Step 3: Wait a minute or so and relax in the comfort of your climate controlled vehicle.
You will be totally amazed at how far automotive technology has progressed!
Problem here is user training. It takes a while to get really used to the interface on a modern DSLR. Usually takes me a month or two of fairly heavy use to get used to a new camera - and I stick to one brand who's UI has been basically similar since 1995. However, that is what is expected of the user. It's a high end machine, you are expected to put a bit of work into it to get good results out of it.
Cars, not so much. The analogy would be to point-and-shoot cameras where you only expect the user to turn the thing on and point it in the general direction of the item to be photographed. P&S cameras are doing more and more for the 'photographer' all of the time. Detecting faces, turning the flash on and off, setting the aperture, shutter speed, ISO and half a dozen other parameters.
So car manufacturers really have to design their interfaces for the lowest common denominator. Unfortunately, they fail at that big time.
That's only new ones.
Old ones were a mechanic's ticket to heaven. Their only advantage is that most repairs could be effected by a few coathangers and a big pair of pliers.
That touch interface for a mall is really going to be popular when it is flu season.
You actually have that backwards.
Don't even try.
If they really believe you were serious then they have many more issues than you can address in an Internet post.
Temporarily deactivate the steering wheel? You're kidding right?
Yes, I was....please press disconnect and turn the wheel to the right to raise your humor setting a bit.
That generally calls for modifying the BIOS settings and a reboot.
Or two.
The hard part is that the 'alliance' has so much power, they manipulate any third party out of credibility so that no change can occur.
Malcolm Reynolds for President!