Down here in Melbourne, Australia we have a free app from Metlink (called Metlink), which gives you the timetables for all bus, train and tram services, including country trains and the after midnight bus service (public transport isn't 24/7 down here as yet).
Neat features included in this app is the ability to program a starting location, a destination and either a departure or arrival time and it will plot the most efficient route for you.
It also includes a feature reporting all service cancellations and planned disruptions (such as line works).
The public transit authority also have another free app which gives you real time location information for the tram system which taps into the same data as is used to populate the live arrivals boards at premium stops. This can be used to predict the arrival time at a specific stop of any specific tram (based on your current location).
I don't know if I have an actual allergy (medically defined term) or merely an intolerance. The smell of fish makes me nauseous, shell fish brings on a migraine and vomiting within 30 minutes, as does strawberries. The last time I had any strawberry (it was a minor ingredient in a glaze on a store bought cheesecake not listed in the ingredients but later confirmed with the manufacturer) I spat it out after finding the seeds and was vomiting for nearly 48 hours.
In Australia sexual violence is illegal, making the vast majority of BDSM porn illegal, even a small amount of spanking is considered illegal.
Depending on the jurisdiction you are flying into , the quantity of vanilla porn can of itself be illegal, there is a limit in Victoria of 50 titles. While the law was written in the time of films and video cassettes, I wonder how it copes with internet downloads.
In all seriousness, back when I used to do computer repairs for a living, academics were the worst for not having backups. I lost count of the number of people who told me I just HAD to get their data back because it was the only copy of their thesis which they'd been working on for 5+ years.
Modern power networks are being implemented to manage load control at the sub-sector and even unique address level. This will minimise the effect the type of attack you are proposing could have, as increasing the load at a domestic level will simply result in your meter switching off supply. It will switch back on after a delay, and if the load is still over a given threshold, will switch off again. Lather, rinse, repeat.
I read the irony into the fact that he made his fortune making barrier devices and died by going off a cliff that (presumably) had no barrier to prevent accidental airborne acrobatics.
... That said if you play any MMO game that is simple enough for kids to play, you will likely read or hear the worst language you have ever had the misfortune to be exposed to.
I've never seen any language in an MMO I wouldn't want my children exposed to. OTOH, I've seen racism, anti-semitism, homophobia, and worst of all, incredible levels of misogyny that I would want to see anyone exposed to.
I routinely see what I consider to be inappropriate and unnecessary language in my MMO of choice (WoW) from people hanging out in trade chat. That's on top of the racism, anti-semitism, homophobia and misogyny you previously mentioned.
I don't know that's I'd say "Don't teach 'Fine arts Students' programming", instead, why not take advantage of their presumed creative strengths and give them a toolbox to design games rather then build coding assets.
Most games that I pick up and fail to finish is because of the gameplay, not because of the artwork or quality of the coding.
Long gone is the day where a developer was expected to be expert in all roles form programming to sprite design to environments, lighting, storyline, marketing, etc... People are expected to be specialists.
The idea of partnering them up with students doing game development courses to do the programming is a good one. IF the FAS get interested in the coding aspect, they can choose to pursue it, but how about feeding their core strengths?
As a slightly different take, I would be giving them a couple of stacks of index cards and focusing on the concepts of story flow, decision trees, character interactions, pacing, types of encounters - the bits that constitute game mechanics rather than just another course on how to program/use an application.
The principle isn't that different from how websites used to be mocked up on paper to understand the pathing and wire frames before you started coding it.
There were rolling controlled blackouts across most of the city over a period of about 3 days to manage load demand and prevent uncontrolled blackouts in unpredictable locations or durations while they identified the source.
Since this time additional power generation has been added to the system which should minimise the need for doing this again. Though the AMI Smart Meter project will enable performing this function while leaving life-support customers connected, should the need arise again in the future.
The Encyclopaedia Galactica defines a robot as a mechanical apparatus designed to do the work of a man. The marketing division of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation defines a robot as "Your Plastic Pal Who's Fun To Be With."
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy defines the marketing division of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation as "a bunch of mindless jerks who'll be the first against the wall when the revolution comes," with a footnote to the effect that the editors would welcome applications from anyone interested in taking over the post of robotics correspondent
Hence the interest by utilities companies in Smart Meters and Smart Networks, the meters/nodes call home with a last gasp wireless transmission when they lose power notifying the power company in real time of an outage and allowing them to map the extent of the outage. The distribution of the outage can significantly reduce the time to isolate the failure point.
Disclaimer: currently working on a smart meter rollout project
I currently work for a power company (transmission and distribution), we currently run a dark fibre SCADA network on the transmission side and are in the process of running a fibre/wifi network to the node on the distribution side.
Given our SLAs, I don't see us relying on the interwebs for priority network traffic. Unfortunately, incidents that take out large segments of the power network (say a natural disaster) also take out large segments of the comms network. For smaller incidents we can re-route.
I'm a feminist and most of my friends are guys. I'm also married and am the primary breadwinner in our household.
I don't want my husband to be m doormat anymore than I believe that I should be his. It's a partnership.
The impression I get from your posting is that you don't believe men and women can have a relationship on an equal footing. I am sad for you and your narrow world view.
In theory, the modern idea behind gaining a life partner (wife/husband/de facto/same-sex partner) is to find someone you enjoy spending time with, sharing the better and worse, growing old with and on a mutually agreeable schedule bumping uglies.
Contrary to popular misconception - it is normal for women to have a sex drive and actually want to have sex with their partner. While it is possible that the frequency may not match exactly (it's not unheard of for females to want more sex than their male partner), provided it's close enough both partners will be happy.
If a VR partner enabled you to manage the desire gap effectively you'd probably be fine, but if your partner is left hanging because your giving it to a robot instead of them when they actually want it, you'll probably be ducking frypans and alimony settlements shortly.
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Down here in Melbourne, Australia we have a free app from Metlink (called Metlink), which gives you the timetables for all bus, train and tram services, including country trains and the after midnight bus service (public transport isn't 24/7 down here as yet).
Neat features included in this app is the ability to program a starting location, a destination and either a departure or arrival time and it will plot the most efficient route for you.
It also includes a feature reporting all service cancellations and planned disruptions (such as line works).
The public transit authority also have another free app which gives you real time location information for the tram system which taps into the same data as is used to populate the live arrivals boards at premium stops. This can be used to predict the arrival time at a specific stop of any specific tram (based on your current location).
Somehow I can't see someone breaking in and walking off with Stonehenge in the night...
Maybe they could paint it pink and erect a simple SEP field...
I don't know if I have an actual allergy (medically defined term) or merely an intolerance. The smell of fish makes me nauseous, shell fish brings on a migraine and vomiting within 30 minutes, as does strawberries. The last time I had any strawberry (it was a minor ingredient in a glaze on a store bought cheesecake not listed in the ingredients but later confirmed with the manufacturer) I spat it out after finding the seeds and was vomiting for nearly 48 hours.
I believe they are using "shop" and a contraction of "workshop" not a synonym to "store".
But I don't want to think of the friction rash if the denier wasn't fine enough.
In Australia sexual violence is illegal, making the vast majority of BDSM porn illegal, even a small amount of spanking is considered illegal.
Depending on the jurisdiction you are flying into , the quantity of vanilla porn can of itself be illegal, there is a limit in Victoria of 50 titles. While the law was written in the time of films and video cassettes, I wonder how it copes with internet downloads.
In all seriousness, back when I used to do computer repairs for a living, academics were the worst for not having backups. I lost count of the number of people who told me I just HAD to get their data back because it was the only copy of their thesis which they'd been working on for 5+ years.
People seem to have been doing this in spades recently :(
Hence the invention of the AssJet!
Modern power networks are being implemented to manage load control at the sub-sector and even unique address level. This will minimise the effect the type of attack you are proposing could have, as increasing the load at a domestic level will simply result in your meter switching off supply. It will switch back on after a delay, and if the load is still over a given threshold, will switch off again. Lather, rinse, repeat.
I was in the bridal party of the head of ANZ online security program, don't try them either. He's an ex-sniper and has the requisite morals.
I read the irony into the fact that he made his fortune making barrier devices and died by going off a cliff that (presumably) had no barrier to prevent accidental airborne acrobatics.
Which is the reason Tim Robbins never released the soundtrack for the movie Bob Roberts.
It's obviously a sign of virility...
... That said if you play any MMO game that is simple enough for kids to play, you will likely read or hear the worst language you have ever had the misfortune to be exposed to.
I've never seen any language in an MMO I wouldn't want my children exposed to. OTOH, I've seen racism, anti-semitism, homophobia, and worst of all, incredible levels of misogyny that I would want to see anyone exposed to.
I routinely see what I consider to be inappropriate and unnecessary language in my MMO of choice (WoW) from people hanging out in trade chat. That's on top of the racism, anti-semitism, homophobia and misogyny you previously mentioned.
I don't know that's I'd say "Don't teach 'Fine arts Students' programming", instead, why not take advantage of their presumed creative strengths and give them a toolbox to design games rather then build coding assets.
Most games that I pick up and fail to finish is because of the gameplay, not because of the artwork or quality of the coding.
Long gone is the day where a developer was expected to be expert in all roles form programming to sprite design to environments, lighting, storyline, marketing, etc... People are expected to be specialists.
The idea of partnering them up with students doing game development courses to do the programming is a good one. IF the FAS get interested in the coding aspect, they can choose to pursue it, but how about feeding their core strengths?
As a slightly different take, I would be giving them a couple of stacks of index cards and focusing on the concepts of story flow, decision trees, character interactions, pacing, types of encounters - the bits that constitute game mechanics rather than just another course on how to program/use an application. The principle isn't that different from how websites used to be mocked up on paper to understand the pathing and wire frames before you started coding it.
There were rolling controlled blackouts across most of the city over a period of about 3 days to manage load demand and prevent uncontrolled blackouts in unpredictable locations or durations while they identified the source.
Since this time additional power generation has been added to the system which should minimise the need for doing this again. Though the AMI Smart Meter project will enable performing this function while leaving life-support customers connected, should the need arise again in the future.
The Encyclopaedia Galactica defines a robot as a mechanical apparatus designed to do the work of a man. The marketing division of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation defines a robot as "Your Plastic Pal Who's Fun To Be With."
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy defines the marketing division of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation as "a bunch of mindless jerks who'll be the first against the wall when the revolution comes," with a footnote to the effect that the editors would welcome applications from anyone interested in taking over the post of robotics correspondent
Hence the interest by utilities companies in Smart Meters and Smart Networks, the meters/nodes call home with a last gasp wireless transmission when they lose power notifying the power company in real time of an outage and allowing them to map the extent of the outage. The distribution of the outage can significantly reduce the time to isolate the failure point.
Disclaimer: currently working on a smart meter rollout project
I currently work for a power company (transmission and distribution), we currently run a dark fibre SCADA network on the transmission side and are in the process of running a fibre/wifi network to the node on the distribution side.
Given our SLAs, I don't see us relying on the interwebs for priority network traffic. Unfortunately, incidents that take out large segments of the power network (say a natural disaster) also take out large segments of the comms network. For smaller incidents we can re-route.
I think you must have a very sad life if you think the only two things a girlfriend/wife can do is nag or have sex with you.
I'm a feminist and most of my friends are guys. I'm also married and am the primary breadwinner in our household.
I don't want my husband to be m doormat anymore than I believe that I should be his. It's a partnership.
The impression I get from your posting is that you don't believe men and women can have a relationship on an equal footing. I am sad for you and your narrow world view.
That she needs to be introduced to a Hitachi Magic Wand.
In theory, the modern idea behind gaining a life partner (wife/husband/de facto/same-sex partner) is to find someone you enjoy spending time with, sharing the better and worse, growing old with and on a mutually agreeable schedule bumping uglies.
Contrary to popular misconception - it is normal for women to have a sex drive and actually want to have sex with their partner. While it is possible that the frequency may not match exactly (it's not unheard of for females to want more sex than their male partner), provided it's close enough both partners will be happy.
If a VR partner enabled you to manage the desire gap effectively you'd probably be fine, but if your partner is left hanging because your giving it to a robot instead of them when they actually want it, you'll probably be ducking frypans and alimony settlements shortly.