Its similar for me except I use suse linux where the GP uses macos. I am currently setting up a mac for my wife to use for her architectural practice and I have the say the biggest annoyance is that lack of standard, trusted software repositories. I really miss these from working in bsd and linux.
Its back to downloading stuff from random places which is really not good.
Thats very true. One summer my parents cat got into the habit if sleeping on their pot belly stove. First time we used it that year this horrible scream was heard around the house. The cat charged across the living room, bounced off the far corner ricocheted into the kitchen and huddled under the kitchen table.
So then I applied the standard treatment for burns, to immerse the affected area in cold water.....
I work in air traffic control, sometimes on the Human Machine Interface and I have done some UI design on that system. Even on our systems this is a finely balanced area. You need to tell the controller that he has an emergency on one of his aircraft, but not create problems for the other aircraft he is controlling at the same time. With full control of the HMI specific colours are used for Alert and Emergency states. They are used nowhere else on the UI.
Now out in the real world the people you are notifying of your emergency could as you point out be asleep, driving, eating, having sex, flying aircraft, controlling nuclear reactors, performing surgery, and so on. The expected response from those people is different in every case. In no case do you want to add to their problems. But in all cases you need to deliver a specific message.
The only answer I can bring from my ATC background is that the alert condition has to be there in some form all the time. Its not something which just appears. It is something which transitions from off to on. Which is not to say I have all the answers either.
Also, don't overlook the fact that not everybody is going to receive that few-second warning in time to do anything about it. Unless you (or someone in close proximity to you) happen to be glued to the USGS Twitter page, chances are the shaking will be your first warning that an earthquake is underway.
All good points, but now that mobile phones are pretty ubiquitous I would like to see a universal notification system as a mirror of the universal access to emergency calls they already provide.
Shock waves in rock travel slower than light. So if the quake can be detected at the source (under ground) a message can be sent ahead of the shock wave to give a few seconds notice.
Jupiter will be low in the southwest (in the Northern Hemisphere) after sunset this evening — nothing else around it is as bright, so you can't miss it.
I can miss it, because I'm living in the middle of a snow storm. Insensitive clod, etc.
While that publication may have been clear Flamebait is seems he was an established author at the time, which should have counted in has favour. A bit like wanting to execute Carl Sagan because of his TV show.
For the infected users on my mailing list, I sent them a link to a set of instructions I'd written about how to set and un-set their Hotmail auto-reply and how to change their Hotmail password, with the hopes that they'd eventually see the message and follow the steps. 18 users rescued, 200,000 to go.
Why don't you just send them information on how not to use hotmail. And while you are at it, why are you sending mass emails to a bunch of obviously clueless people? Are you a spammer?
I am happy to abandon the term primitive. I agree that it says as much about me as it does about them. Lets just say that Aboriginal culture and Western culture are so different that a merge was never going to work.
Once they decide to go from A to B that is what they do.
Are you implying that they knew what B was, and where it was? If they didn't, they were essentially wandering.
I think they were smarter than we give them credit for being. They were essentially the same as us after all. For sure they wouldn't have known that there was a continent ahead, but they might have decided to walk in a particular direction and see where it took them.
One thousand years is a long time. If you put your mind to it you could walk from Africa to Asia or Europe in a year. I reckon 1000 years is easily enough to go from Africa to Australia. Quite possibly 100 years. Remember they are not diffusing like animals. Once they decide to go from A to B that is what they do. And the people who left Africa at 70000 BP were genetically identical to us, with the same potential.
And I have this idea that sometimes the safest way to be is to move fast, especially if you have the intelligence to make good mental maps. That way if you strike a problem you can use your map to find a solution.
Its about the worst possible interface. Aboriginal people are about the most primitive culture in the world today. They were always going to get steamrolled by Europeans.
As a white Australian I would favour vastly expanded alcohol and petrol bans. Lets talk about the entire Northern Territory. Include South Australia and Western Australia more than 100km outside their capital cities.
I live in Melbourne and a schoolmate of my son is Aboriginal. He is being raised by a white woman who adopted him and arranged for him to have a liver transplant, which saved his life. She takes him home to see his birth family every year. Its a variation of the mistake which led to the stolen generation, but its the only way for this boy.
With those magnificent dark skies the Aboriginal people must have seen a lot of brilliant fireballs over the millenia. Some would generate a shock wave as well. For every crater on the ground I am sure many meteors were seen in the sky.
When you sleep in the open you spend a lot of time staring straight up...
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Its similar for me except I use suse linux where the GP uses macos. I am currently setting up a mac for my wife to use for her architectural practice and I have the say the biggest annoyance is that lack of standard, trusted software repositories. I really miss these from working in bsd and linux.
Its back to downloading stuff from random places which is really not good.
Thats very true. One summer my parents cat got into the habit if sleeping on their pot belly stove. First time we used it that year this horrible scream was heard around the house. The cat charged across the living room, bounced off the far corner ricocheted into the kitchen and huddled under the kitchen table.
So then I applied the standard treatment for burns, to immerse the affected area in cold water.....
I work in air traffic control, sometimes on the Human Machine Interface and I have done some UI design on that system. Even on our systems this is a finely balanced area. You need to tell the controller that he has an emergency on one of his aircraft, but not create problems for the other aircraft he is controlling at the same time. With full control of the HMI specific colours are used for Alert and Emergency states. They are used nowhere else on the UI.
Now out in the real world the people you are notifying of your emergency could as you point out be asleep, driving, eating, having sex, flying aircraft, controlling nuclear reactors, performing surgery, and so on. The expected response from those people is different in every case. In no case do you want to add to their problems. But in all cases you need to deliver a specific message.
The only answer I can bring from my ATC background is that the alert condition has to be there in some form all the time. Its not something which just appears. It is something which transitions from off to on. Which is not to say I have all the answers either.
Also, don't overlook the fact that not everybody is going to receive that few-second warning in time to do anything about it. Unless you (or someone in close proximity to you) happen to be glued to the USGS Twitter page, chances are the shaking will be your first warning that an earthquake is underway.
All good points, but now that mobile phones are pretty ubiquitous I would like to see a universal notification system as a mirror of the universal access to emergency calls they already provide.
The proper response from a Lower Templestowe person would be to say "Dump it in Bulleen".
Maybe around the cryovolcanoes, if they exist.
Shock waves in rock travel slower than light. So if the quake can be detected at the source (under ground) a message can be sent ahead of the shock wave to give a few seconds notice.
Twitter users can be repurposed as sensors for vibration, voltage and even temperature!
Still some interest in them here. My nephew lives near this one and had had his birthday there a few times.
I've got a whole shelf in my garage full of Americium, I just don't know where to get rid of it.
Mmmmm forbidden radioactive doughnuts.
Jupiter will be low in the southwest (in the Northern Hemisphere) after sunset this evening — nothing else around it is as bright, so you can't miss it.
I can miss it, because I'm living in the middle of a snow storm. Insensitive clod, etc.
You live on Titan?
While that publication may have been clear Flamebait is seems he was an established author at the time, which should have counted in has favour. A bit like wanting to execute Carl Sagan because of his TV show.
I saw it happen once with yahoo groups. It wasn't pretty.
For the infected users on my mailing list, I sent them a link to a set of instructions I'd written about how to set and un-set their Hotmail auto-reply and how to change their Hotmail password, with the hopes that they'd eventually see the message and follow the steps. 18 users rescued, 200,000 to go.
Why don't you just send them information on how not to use hotmail. And while you are at it, why are you sending mass emails to a bunch of obviously clueless people? Are you a spammer?
Sickle Cell originated randomly.
Like everything else.
Thats fascinating. I wish Kangaroos would evolve to not try to outrun cars.
I am happy to abandon the term primitive. I agree that it says as much about me as it does about them. Lets just say that Aboriginal culture and Western culture are so different that a merge was never going to work.
Build it and they will come...
Are you implying that they knew what B was, and where it was? If they didn't, they were essentially wandering.
I think they were smarter than we give them credit for being. They were essentially the same as us after all. For sure they wouldn't have known that there was a continent ahead, but they might have decided to walk in a particular direction and see where it took them.
One thousand years is a long time. If you put your mind to it you could walk from Africa to Asia or Europe in a year. I reckon 1000 years is easily enough to go from Africa to Australia. Quite possibly 100 years. Remember they are not diffusing like animals. Once they decide to go from A to B that is what they do. And the people who left Africa at 70000 BP were genetically identical to us, with the same potential.
And I have this idea that sometimes the safest way to be is to move fast, especially if you have the intelligence to make good mental maps. That way if you strike a problem you can use your map to find a solution.
I agree. See the Myall Creek massacre.
Its about the worst possible interface. Aboriginal people are about the most primitive culture in the world today. They were always going to get steamrolled by Europeans.
As a white Australian I would favour vastly expanded alcohol and petrol bans. Lets talk about the entire Northern Territory. Include South Australia and Western Australia more than 100km outside their capital cities.
I live in Melbourne and a schoolmate of my son is Aboriginal. He is being raised by a white woman who adopted him and arranged for him to have a liver transplant, which saved his life. She takes him home to see his birth family every year. Its a variation of the mistake which led to the stolen generation, but its the only way for this boy.
With those magnificent dark skies the Aboriginal people must have seen a lot of brilliant fireballs over the millenia. Some would generate a shock wave as well. For every crater on the ground I am sure many meteors were seen in the sky.
When you sleep in the open you spend a lot of time staring straight up...