One thing not well documented (but it is covered if you take the tour at the Minuteman National Historic Site):
A missle will not launch until at least two capsules "vote" for launch. For a capsule to "vote" - both operators must engage the key within N seconds of each other
Or, a missile can also launch if there's a hardware or software bug in the mechanism, or if there's a hardware or software failure.
Catharsis doesn't exist. It's a pop psychology concept from Aristotle and Freud that's discredited in scientific psychology. At least that's my reading on it.
Going out on a limb here I suspect renewables could be cheaper by just not being subject to whatever it is they do that makes their current energy sources ridiculously expensive.
What might make their current energy sources expensive? Going out on a limb here, but I'd guess it's raising taxes directly on the fuel to pay for its external environmental & military & health costs, rather than sweeping those costs under general taxation as we do here in the US...
Let them figure out their labour entitlement system, how is that working out therr (Italy, Spain, or anywherr for that matter, where people cannot be fired because of 'rights', and what that does to freedom and eventually business and hiring)
I worked in Italy for a few years before emigrating to the US, so I can give an actual experience-based answer (i.e. anecdote rather than speculation) about what it's like in practice. I went from a $12k/year job in Italy to a $120k/job year in America. The food in Italy was far better, it was easier to travel within the country and outside it, the work-life balance was uniformly better, people seemed generally happier, they dressed better, and all of this was affordable. The houses and apartments were smaller, fewer people could afford to maintain cars, and there wasn't the same "opportunity" as in America e.g. to just pack up and go backpacking or take up windsurfing. On balance it's a tie. However for people earning less in America it will be a much worse deal here.
You talked about business and hiring. My experience will only be relevant if you're more concerned about quality of life of the population, rather than GDP or the wealth of the business owners.
Seems to me like they have more to work on than animations - maybe they should focus on usability for a bit first.
You think they should focus first on the things where the desired user experience is well understood, so leaving the unknowns and exploratory experiments to be done much closer to ship time?
Your equation makes cloud backup seem much more appealing... $200 more expensive but likely to save me DAYS of work. I currently have three hard drives sitting in my electronics cupboard with offline backups (all slightly out of sync) waiting for me to recover and reconcile them. What a pain.
I'm using 1tb storage for $10/month from Microsoft that includes copies of Office for five devices, which I'm happy with. (and I work at MS so if my cloud provider fails then I'll have lots more worries as well:) )
With both the recent openssl and bash bugs, in addition to fixing the bug, careful investigation was done by the respective communities and additional problems were/are being addressed. I submit that this would likely not have been the case with closed source software.
Why do you submit that?
I work on the VB/C# compiler teams. These compilers used to be closed-source for ten years, and were made open-source earlier this year. Whenever we have a bug, we ALWAYS do careful investigation to look for all the related issues we can find. That's been no different between our closed- and open-source eras. We do it because "high quality software" is the number one driver of satisfaction, and if we make higher quality software then we get more sales. I think it works: you almost never hear people being bitten by VB/C# compiler bugs. We pay people full time to do careful investigations of stuff that (I reckon) most people would find too boring to do without a salary. None of this is affected by closed- vs open-source.
What I've enjoyed is "open-source language design". The language design decisions are still made by stewards of the language as before. But by opening up the process of language-design, we see a lot more viewpoints and ideas from everyone. Better to fix bugs at the design-stage rather than wait until after the thing's been implemented.
I'm willing to believe your submission is true -- but not without evidence, since your claim contradicts my own experience.
I'm glad they'll now use dynamic electronic screens for ads! The old flat paper displays weren't just too restful for me to truly enjoy my underground trips...
You can build a quantum computer out of anything that BEHAVES like a Majorana particle, regardless of whether it's a "real" particle or not. Likewise current computers are built out of "hole/electron pairs" and work just fine even though the hole is a quasi particle.
Dozens, or even hundreds of guys email a couple of women and almost none get any response at all; is it any wonder they escalate to crap?
Yes it is a wonder. If you don't get a response and your reaction is to escalate to stalking, harassment, gross pictures, that's not a normal or healthy response at all and shows that there's something wrong with you.
Otherwise: you get treated like shit, whichever side your on.
"Not getting a response to an unsolicited message" -- this isn't being treated like shit, not at all. If you send out an unsolicited message then you should have ZERO expectation or entitlement of getting a response.
(I'm male by the way, probably about a 6/10 on hot-or-not, and spent several years dating on match.com.)
All start menu items are still there in win8. Swipe the start screen up. Advantage is that you can see more of them on screen now than you could in the past, so you should be able to scan quicker.
In both Win7 and Win8, the windows key (or Ctrl+Esc) has exactly the same functionality as Spotlight on iOS -- they let you type the first few characters of the name of an application, and it finds it. This is considerably easier and quicker than clicking on the Start menu and navigating through cruft and hierarchies from all the apps that install there messily.
The Start Menu as you describe it was basically there for people who like shiny buttons and haven't figured out the easier+faster way to launch apps.
F#, Swift and other functional inspired languages let you omit the wordy boilerplate that gets in the way of readability.
For instance algebraic data types (a.k.a. discriminated unions, or enums in Swift) are less wordy than declaring an inheritance tree like you would in Java/C#, and pattern matching us a shorter more readable way to deconstruct the data than virtual methods.
You'd save 5-30% on your heating+cooling bill if you had a smart thermostat that detected+learnt when you would be away and didn't bother during those times.
(You said you adjusted the thermostat four times a year, i.e. not on days when you're just out late, or your family takes a weekend trip away,...)
Does anyone give two shits what the UN says, I mean really?
You misunderstand the way the UN works. It is a collection of the world's states. The UN blinding-laser protocol is a protocol authored by various states, and signed by various states. In this case the protocol on blinding weapons was co-authored by the US, and was signed by the US in 2009.
Does anyone care what the "UN says"? In this case, yes, in 2009 the US consented to be bound by that protocol, so it becomes part of the body of US federal law, so yes everyone in the US cares about it.
Hint: whenever you say a sentence with phrase "the UN says", replace it with "the collective nations of the world say", and see if it makes sense. If it doesn't (as in this case) then don't bother posting.
One of my primary use cases for my watch is looking at it bleary eyed in the middle of the night when I've been woken up by my cosleeping baby and neither brain nor muscles have booted up enough yet to look at a bedside clock... nor to do anything, in fact, other than look at my watch and groan!
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One thing not well documented (but it is covered if you take the tour at the Minuteman National Historic Site):
A missle will not launch until at least two capsules "vote" for launch. For a capsule to "vote" - both operators must engage the key within N seconds of each other
Or, a missile can also launch if there's a hardware or software bug in the mechanism, or if there's a hardware or software failure.
. There may be something to the idea that allowing them to play out violent fantasies on a computer is catharic enough to reduce real world violence?
Catharsis is a pop psychology concept from Aristotle and Freud that has been discredited in the light of scientific study.
Catharsis doesn't exist. It's a pop psychology concept from Aristotle and Freud that's discredited in scientific psychology. At least that's my reading on it.
Someone told me that Golden Retrievers are a particularly smart breed of dog.
I replied "You shouldn't say that: you should just say that they try hard"
I'm a frequent paraglider pilot, and even this close to earth lethal accidents do happen.
Close to the earth? I thought all lethal paragliding and parachuting accidents happen right ON the earth!
Going out on a limb here I suspect renewables could be cheaper by just not being subject to whatever it is they do that makes their current energy sources ridiculously expensive.
What might make their current energy sources expensive? Going out on a limb here, but I'd guess it's raising taxes directly on the fuel to pay for its external environmental & military & health costs, rather than sweeping those costs under general taxation as we do here in the US...
Let them figure out their labour entitlement system, how is that working out therr (Italy, Spain, or anywherr for that matter, where people cannot be fired because of 'rights', and what that does to freedom and eventually business and hiring)
I worked in Italy for a few years before emigrating to the US, so I can give an actual experience-based answer (i.e. anecdote rather than speculation) about what it's like in practice. I went from a $12k/year job in Italy to a $120k/job year in America. The food in Italy was far better, it was easier to travel within the country and outside it, the work-life balance was uniformly better, people seemed generally happier, they dressed better, and all of this was affordable. The houses and apartments were smaller, fewer people could afford to maintain cars, and there wasn't the same "opportunity" as in America e.g. to just pack up and go backpacking or take up windsurfing. On balance it's a tie. However for people earning less in America it will be a much worse deal here.
You talked about business and hiring. My experience will only be relevant if you're more concerned about quality of life of the population, rather than GDP or the wealth of the business owners.
Are you claiming that OneDrive isn't incremental? Or just assuming it isn't?
Statistically speaking, from the article you linked, most women and men DON'T CARE whether their boss is male or female. Not what you said at all.
Seems to me like they have more to work on than animations - maybe they should focus on usability for a bit first.
You think they should focus first on the things where the desired user experience is well understood, so leaving the unknowns and exploratory experiments to be done much closer to ship time?
Yes, married men with spouses at Apple will no longer have to share with their spouse the cost of egg freezing.*
* doesn't help men not in this position.
** Apple policy doesn't help women not in a particular position either.
Your equation makes cloud backup seem much more appealing... $200 more expensive but likely to save me DAYS of work. I currently have three hard drives sitting in my electronics cupboard with offline backups (all slightly out of sync) waiting for me to recover and reconcile them. What a pain.
I'm using 1tb storage for $10/month from Microsoft that includes copies of Office for five devices, which I'm happy with. (and I work at MS so if my cloud provider fails then I'll have lots more worries as well :) )
Yes, it really is so different.
With both the recent openssl and bash bugs, in addition to fixing the bug, careful investigation was done by the respective communities and additional problems were/are being addressed. I submit that this would likely not have been the case with closed source software.
Why do you submit that?
I work on the VB/C# compiler teams. These compilers used to be closed-source for ten years, and were made open-source earlier this year. Whenever we have a bug, we ALWAYS do careful investigation to look for all the related issues we can find. That's been no different between our closed- and open-source eras. We do it because "high quality software" is the number one driver of satisfaction, and if we make higher quality software then we get more sales. I think it works: you almost never hear people being bitten by VB/C# compiler bugs. We pay people full time to do careful investigations of stuff that (I reckon) most people would find too boring to do without a salary. None of this is affected by closed- vs open-source.
What I've enjoyed is "open-source language design". The language design decisions are still made by stewards of the language as before. But by opening up the process of language-design, we see a lot more viewpoints and ideas from everyone. Better to fix bugs at the design-stage rather than wait until after the thing's been implemented.
I'm willing to believe your submission is true -- but not without evidence, since your claim contradicts my own experience.
I'm glad they'll now use dynamic electronic screens for ads! The old flat paper displays weren't just too restful for me to truly enjoy my underground trips...
You can build a quantum computer out of anything that BEHAVES like a Majorana particle, regardless of whether it's a "real" particle or not. Likewise current computers are built out of "hole/electron pairs" and work just fine even though the hole is a quasi particle.
Dozens, or even hundreds of guys email a couple of women and almost none get any response at all; is it any wonder they escalate to crap?
Yes it is a wonder. If you don't get a response and your reaction is to escalate to stalking, harassment, gross pictures, that's not a normal or healthy response at all and shows that there's something wrong with you.
Otherwise: you get treated like shit, whichever side your on.
"Not getting a response to an unsolicited message" -- this isn't being treated like shit, not at all. If you send out an unsolicited message then you should have ZERO expectation or entitlement of getting a response.
(I'm male by the way, probably about a 6/10 on hot-or-not, and spent several years dating on match.com.)
All start menu items are still there in win8. Swipe the start screen up. Advantage is that you can see more of them on screen now than you could in the past, so you should be able to scan quicker.
In both Win7 and Win8, the windows key (or Ctrl+Esc) has exactly the same functionality as Spotlight on iOS -- they let you type the first few characters of the name of an application, and it finds it. This is considerably easier and quicker than clicking on the Start menu and navigating through cruft and hierarchies from all the apps that install there messily.
The Start Menu as you describe it was basically there for people who like shiny buttons and haven't figured out the easier+faster way to launch apps.
That will work up until it gets before a judge who's an intelligent human rather than a letter-following law robot...
20,000 is not a brute force attack. That will only succeed if your password was 3 characters long.
I find it hard to believe anyone was actually vulnerable to this.
20,000 not brute force?!! Would you call it "subtle and refined"?
You're conflating "succinct" with "terse"...
F#, Swift and other functional inspired languages let you omit the wordy boilerplate that gets in the way of readability.
For instance algebraic data types (a.k.a. discriminated unions, or enums in Swift) are less wordy than declaring an inheritance tree like you would in Java/C#, and pattern matching us a shorter more readable way to deconstruct the data than virtual methods.
And smores
You'd save 5-30% on your heating+cooling bill if you had a smart thermostat that detected+learnt when you would be away and didn't bother during those times.
(You said you adjusted the thermostat four times a year, i.e. not on days when you're just out late, or your family takes a weekend trip away, ...)
Does anyone give two shits what the UN says, I mean really?
You misunderstand the way the UN works. It is a collection of the world's states. The UN blinding-laser protocol is a protocol authored by various states, and signed by various states. In this case the protocol on blinding weapons was co-authored by the US, and was signed by the US in 2009.
Does anyone care what the "UN says"? In this case, yes, in 2009 the US consented to be bound by that protocol, so it becomes part of the body of US federal law, so yes everyone in the US cares about it.
Hint: whenever you say a sentence with phrase "the UN says", replace it with "the collective nations of the world say", and see if it makes sense. If it doesn't (as in this case) then don't bother posting.
One of my primary use cases for my watch is looking at it bleary eyed in the middle of the night when I've been woken up by my cosleeping baby and neither brain nor muscles have booted up enough yet to look at a bedside clock... nor to do anything, in fact, other than look at my watch and groan!