You don't need a data plan, you just need WiFi capability. My BB switches automatically to WiFi when I'm in my house and doesn't use any of my data plan. I can't see what this does better (or at all really) over existing offerings.
No they do not. Venturing at the upper levels have always been co-ed, but Girl Guides and Girl Scouts are typically solely for girls. Likewise Boy Scouts are typically solely for boys. Additionally, Boy Scouts refuse membership to homosexuals either as a member or as a leader.
Basically private groups can do mostly whatever they want, and that's the way it should be.
Don't get me wrong, I believe that everyone has a right to their own beliefs, but segregation is something that is not in keeping with the American spirit, a land where all men (as in the human race, not the gender) are created equal. If you want to segregate yourselves fine, but not in this country.
Yup. And the Girl Guides and Boy Scouts of America are obviously evil fronts to corrupt our youth organized by evil Muslim clerics bent on the destruction of America. And if it wasn't then it must be because of those damn liberal Democrats..
I've never heard of anyone running to the circuit breaker for a grease fire. That's what fire extinguishers are for. regardless with a grease fire you don't end up blaming the stove for imaginary software errors. The operator screwed up - accept it. Don't shift blame to something else.
I've 'seen' MAX A/C (my wife has that) but any car I've bought - Toyota, Mazda, Ford, have never had it.
My current car has climate control. I set it to the temperature I want and the car does whatever it needs to do to get there, ac or not. I can also override parts of it to force AC on or off, or to limit fan speed (Ford).
But generally I agree with you - companies really need to do a better job of usability engineering.
Combing through lines of code looking for a "mistake" is like looking for a needle in a haystack, except you don't know you are looking for a needle!
That's why NASA did that because that's what NASA does best. NASA mandates code walkthroughs of it's safety critical code so they know exactly what to look for. They do this all the time on any software that goes anywhere near an astronaut. If NASA did a 10 month safety analysis and code walkthrough and said it's ok, then you can be damn sure there is absolutely nothing wrong with that code.
And don't forget that simultaneously with all those errors you mentioned, the black box data loggers failed in such a way to falsely incriminate the driver.
A safety rated emergency stop system can be in fact all-digital.
Not in any industry I've seen. Any automated device around people where the device has the potential to kill must have an all mechanical e-stop system. In the medical industry the safety system cannot have any software whatsoever. In most industries, if an 'e-stop' is all digital, then it cannot be legally called an e-stop - it's usually called a soft-stop or something similar.
When there is a crash, logging stops and it all gets dumped to permanent storage.
Absolutely not!!! I had a moron developer who took this approach and the result was logs that looked like this:
Good data
Good data
Good Data
System entered Fail State
log ends.
Completely useless! The log stopped when an error occurred and the jackass didn't even think to actually log the data that caused the error itself, just the fact that the system entered the fail state. No information as to why at all. Couldn't get him to understand what the problem was.
What you simply dont understand is most of these instances are *driver error*, and the rest are badly placed floormats which I'd argue is again *driver error*. If you don't know how to drive your electronic car then buy a '72 Ford Pinto and shut the hell up.
Depends what state/province you live in. Some let you have a printed licence taped to your window. Where I live you *must* be plated and you have to order your plate when you buy your car and have it installed at the dealer. Or if its a private sale you have to bring your plate you want to use with you.
they do this now. Many shows that are downloadable from US networks like NBC or CBS are blocked if you try and get them from outside the US. Even some TV shows broadcast on satellite are blocked if your receiver is outside of the US.
Most of the time it doesn't really matter, anyway.
Sure it does. When I visit the US I have no idea how fast I'm going, how far something is, or how warm it is inside or out. I'd say most of the time it really matters!
Well the US is the only country left using the imperial system, and even then most industry uses metric (all the bolts in your car are metric for example, regardless of where it was made). Get with the times!
Of course you still have to get that power to somewhere useful, unless you expect us to all move to the Sahara. Besides that calculation in Wikipedia is demonstrably wrong.
And? The heat for every nuclear plant dissipates into a nearby body of water, and they all flow into the sea.
Not quite true. The Candu reactors use heavy water that does not dump into the sea, but do use a body of water for heat transfer. No water is cycled through those reactors and back out - they are self contained.
That's priceless, because speaking as someone who was raised as a Christian, we often speak of our troubles, minor and major, as being "our cross to bear". It's not offensive. It's common usage.
Then you don't really understand what the phrase really means.
Just FYI, its actually documented Jesus did NOT carry his own cross.
That's ok. It's also fully documented that Jesus didn't write the bible nor did anything in the manger story actually ever happen. The man existed but those stories are made up to give the Catholics power. But that's neither here nor there, my point remains the same that people who know and understand the reference are upset by it because it minimizes what the reference is about.
As I originally state, this is people manufacturing crap to either have "news" or they're living a rather pitiful excuse of a life.
If you replace 'people' with 'Sarah Palin' I completely agree with you. She took a news tragedy and twisted it to get herself on the news. Pathetic.
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Try getting a phone without a camera, web, email, bullshit feature after BS feature.
Here you go: http://www.greatcall.com/Phones/
You don't need a data plan, you just need WiFi capability. My BB switches automatically to WiFi when I'm in my house and doesn't use any of my data plan. I can't see what this does better (or at all really) over existing offerings.
I said *typically*. Specific cases do not mean an organization wide sanctioned change,; it's just done at the local level when allowed.
If you go to their main site it states
Girl Scouts of the USA is the world’s preeminent organization dedicated solely to girls
. Not sure how more clear that can be.
No they do not. Venturing at the upper levels have always been co-ed, but Girl Guides and Girl Scouts are typically solely for girls. Likewise Boy Scouts are typically solely for boys. Additionally, Boy Scouts refuse membership to homosexuals either as a member or as a leader.
Basically private groups can do mostly whatever they want, and that's the way it should be.
Don't get me wrong, I believe that everyone has a right to their own beliefs, but segregation is something that is not in keeping with the American spirit, a land where all men (as in the human race, not the gender) are created equal. If you want to segregate yourselves fine, but not in this country.
Yup. And the Girl Guides and Boy Scouts of America are obviously evil fronts to corrupt our youth organized by evil Muslim clerics bent on the destruction of America. And if it wasn't then it must be because of those damn liberal Democrats..
I've never heard of anyone running to the circuit breaker for a grease fire. That's what fire extinguishers are for. regardless with a grease fire you don't end up blaming the stove for imaginary software errors. The operator screwed up - accept it. Don't shift blame to something else.
I've 'seen' MAX A/C (my wife has that) but any car I've bought - Toyota, Mazda, Ford, have never had it.
My current car has climate control. I set it to the temperature I want and the car does whatever it needs to do to get there, ac or not. I can also override parts of it to force AC on or off, or to limit fan speed (Ford).
But generally I agree with you - companies really need to do a better job of usability engineering.
Combing through lines of code looking for a "mistake" is like looking for a needle in a haystack, except you don't know you are looking for a needle!
That's why NASA did that because that's what NASA does best. NASA mandates code walkthroughs of it's safety critical code so they know exactly what to look for. They do this all the time on any software that goes anywhere near an astronaut. If NASA did a 10 month safety analysis and code walkthrough and said it's ok, then you can be damn sure there is absolutely nothing wrong with that code.
And don't forget that simultaneously with all those errors you mentioned, the black box data loggers failed in such a way to falsely incriminate the driver.
A safety rated emergency stop system can be in fact all-digital.
Not in any industry I've seen. Any automated device around people where the device has the potential to kill must have an all mechanical e-stop system. In the medical industry the safety system cannot have any software whatsoever. In most industries, if an 'e-stop' is all digital, then it cannot be legally called an e-stop - it's usually called a soft-stop or something similar.
When there is a crash, logging stops and it all gets dumped to permanent storage.
Absolutely not!!! I had a moron developer who took this approach and the result was logs that looked like this:
Good data
Good data
Good Data
System entered Fail State
log ends.
Completely useless! The log stopped when an error occurred and the jackass didn't even think to actually log the data that caused the error itself, just the fact that the system entered the fail state. No information as to why at all. Couldn't get him to understand what the problem was.
What you simply dont understand is most of these instances are *driver error*, and the rest are badly placed floormats which I'd argue is again *driver error*. If you don't know how to drive your electronic car then buy a '72 Ford Pinto and shut the hell up.
All of your issues are because you have a PONTIAC. There's a reason why GM usually holds something like 7 spots on the annual ten worst cars made.
Depends what state/province you live in. Some let you have a printed licence taped to your window. Where I live you *must* be plated and you have to order your plate when you buy your car and have it installed at the dealer. Or if its a private sale you have to bring your plate you want to use with you.
Demand proof that you are from where you are
they do this now. Many shows that are downloadable from US networks like NBC or CBS are blocked if you try and get them from outside the US. Even some TV shows broadcast on satellite are blocked if your receiver is outside of the US.
Yes but its being phased out. When the UK joined the EU, they agreed to adopt all the EU measures which are SI based.
Most of the time it doesn't really matter, anyway.
Sure it does. When I visit the US I have no idea how fast I'm going, how far something is, or how warm it is inside or out. I'd say most of the time it really matters!
Com on guys can't you even to a simple search on past articles before posting a new one?
Can't you? Do you know how many people have already pointed out that this is a duplicate post?
I don't see why 'same power as a toaster' is misleading - it's a comparison of power. What does your example prove?
Well the US is the only country left using the imperial system, and even then most industry uses metric (all the bolts in your car are metric for example, regardless of where it was made). Get with the times!
Toasters use about 1.5kW which is about 2 horsepower
I never understood the term horsepower. Show me two horses that can make toast.
Of course you still have to get that power to somewhere useful, unless you expect us to all move to the Sahara. Besides that calculation in Wikipedia is demonstrably wrong.
And? The heat for every nuclear plant dissipates into a nearby body of water, and they all flow into the sea.
Not quite true. The Candu reactors use heavy water that does not dump into the sea, but do use a body of water for heat transfer. No water is cycled through those reactors and back out - they are self contained.
That's priceless, because speaking as someone who was raised as a Christian, we often speak of our troubles, minor and major, as being "our cross to bear". It's not offensive. It's common usage.
Then you don't really understand what the phrase really means.
Just FYI, its actually documented Jesus did NOT carry his own cross.
That's ok. It's also fully documented that Jesus didn't write the bible nor did anything in the manger story actually ever happen. The man existed but those stories are made up to give the Catholics power. But that's neither here nor there, my point remains the same that people who know and understand the reference are upset by it because it minimizes what the reference is about.
As I originally state, this is people manufacturing crap to either have "news" or they're living a rather pitiful excuse of a life.
If you replace 'people' with 'Sarah Palin' I completely agree with you. She took a news tragedy and twisted it to get herself on the news. Pathetic.