Plots... the funniest of which was the powder-in-the-shoes-to-make-the-beard-fall-out. Exploding conch shells were in the works, too, I suppose for if the poison diving suit didn't work.
As far as the pleasures, don't forget cruising around in the convertible '59 Cadillac.
Finally somebody's getting at what's behind all the meddling in Cuba. Virulent anti-Castro Cuban ex-pats hold a lot of political sway, and giving them what they want doesn't annoy many other US citizens. So they get what they want because the cost to politicians is near zero. Never mind that Cuba isn't the falling domino threatening to take the rest of Latin America to communism that it was thought to be 50 years ago and really has little effect on anyone outside its borders. Sure, there are a few dinosaurs and misadventurers in the US government or three-letter-agencies, but they wouldn't get funding if it weren't for the ex-pats' influence. Shouldn't funds go instead to countering real threats like Bermuda, the Canaries, and Palmyra?
Having written BATch files since 1985, the first time I tried JScript I decided not to use BATs again except for very simple things. Windows Scripting Host was a good idea that apparently 1) appeared too late, and 2) wasn't supported on all Windows versions for a long time. Too bad.
Familiarity, in this case, bred contempt. I've written far more code in all sorts of dialects of BASIC than anything else, and I avoid it now if at all possible. For 1964 or the limited hardware in the 70s (6502s, Z80s, etc.) I suppose it was OK. But this isn't 1964 or 1978. VB isn't Dartmouth BASIC, but it looks and feels like V'GER—all sorts of stuff agglomerated onto a simple-minded core to add capabilities. So I'll celebrate not having to use it. MS made gigabucks in spite of BASIC, not because of it. Too bad K&R didn't get to work a few years sooner so we would never have heard of it. Some older cities still have lead pipes. Doesn't mean it was ever a good idea, and they'd be better off had they never used lead in the first place.
Or here's another suggestion: phones in motion automatically limit the length of the call. Even if this doesn't limit the nature of the distraction, it limits the amount of time it applies, which would have a huge impact on the overall risk.
I don't know how banning people from yapping while driving can be accomplished at this late date.
There's a good reason to think yapping is more distracting than texting. The worst part of texting is the necessity for most people to look somewhere besides the road ahead. Texting doesn't require the immediate attention like holding a voice conversation with someone does. If you pause a few seconds while composing or reading a text, no biggie. Mobile conversers are very aware that pausing while talking disrupts the conversation for the stationary participant, and that pausing while listening means missing something the other party said. So while yapping doesn't require looking away from the road, it does take primary attention away from driving. I've paid enough attention to how it affects me to know that my situational awareness goes way down and I have a sort of tunnel vision, where my brain only registers stuff directly in front of me. Notice how yappers usually drive more slowly? Their brain is automatically trying to compensate for their increased reaction time due to the distraction. So maybe instead of banning texting, we should push for a far better interface for it with heads-up display and voice input, and ban conversing. The asynchronous nature of texting might be just the thing we need to replace the yapping.
I guess it depends on your definition of success. If it's volume sales, OK, I'll go along with that. If it's innovation, no, Mazda did more of that through the 1970s before Ford. Ford has had mixed success with others, too. Aston Martin might not have achieved the quality or volume without Ford, and that's really what they lacked. So I think Ford left Aston better off than they would have been (had they even continued to exist). But Ford nearly ruined Jaguar with their X Type and S Type half-Lincolns, complete misunderstanding of Jaguar's potential market, and repeated quashing of F Type development.
ESI ! I'm an alumnus. But I went back when it was only $99.95 (plus 29.95 for a "sealer" coat). Problem with that is I assume he wants a lifetime degree, and Earl's only lasts you about 3 years. Also, at least in the past, you had to choose one of the colors, er, disciplines, they already offered. No design-your-own interdisciplinary resprays, um, degrees.
But not wasting your time... I'm all for a solid CS education and I'd give brownie points for it. But if it bugs you to study what you think you already know, then don't. I really can't imagine that a BS in CS is going to impress most hiring managers more than your dozen years of experience plus some other 4 year degree. So get the 4 year degree in something else quantitative in which you have interest. Physics, statistics, math, chemistry, etc. Take your time, and enjoy learning something outside of your normal field.
Just an observation of cause-and-effect. Too great a distance between wealthy and the masses, and you get a revolution, which might turn out bad for everyone. So avoid that situation. It is both ways; the 1% do wrong and the rest, in response, do wrong. Didn't your mother tell you that two wrongs don't make a right?
So... open source everything, that anyone can compile to executable. Then focus on obfuscated code, about the only avenue left for malicious code. It only takes one major manufacturer to publicly announce that "we're publishing our code so that it can be verified, unlike our competitors" for it to spread to the competitors.
The Terrors are a great reason to never let things get so bad that you end up with that sort of revolution. It's not an argument against the working class knocking off the ruling class, it's an argument against allowing extreme discrepancies to ever occur.
Intelligence is not just a one-dimensional thing. Better tailoring education to each individual addresses all the students' needs, not just those of the "best and brightest". Nations who do so will benefit more than will nations with a tight focus on students who perform well in certain ways.
"Intellectual Capital"??? All human labor involves some intelligence. And there's no human labor employed to produce more than one copy of anything that can't be replaced with a sufficiently sophisticated machine. Just call it "labor". No need for more loaded buzzwords.
$2000 + $60/tape isn't what I'd call cheap for home use. Or is that stuff available for a LOT less? Neither is the $20/month from an earlier post. Now $5/month for Backblaze is sounding ballpark-ish...
And just when did floppies get down to 8"? 14" is the way to go. Either that or boxes of cards. As long as they're protected from moisture, you can use them to insulate your walls. If things get really desperate, you'll have fuel for the fire. Not just 80 but 132 characters per card!
Newer cars have this. If your opponent in court really thinks you caused the crash, he may try to subpoena the data from your car's "black box". Most likely he'll succeed. If he doesn't try to get it, that might suggest he isn't convinced it's your fault, in which case you might be able to use it in your own defense.
Let's say more like $1,000, a much higher cost than for a consumer SPOT transmitter. Rather than stream everything, just transmit the GPS coordinates. Where the trail ends is where the search begins. Commercial trucks and trains are tracked, why not airliners? It's not a privacy issue, as it might be on a private aircraft.
Yeah, I wondered about that. Wouldn't this be a double-edged sword, for theft? Either discourages theft, or encourages hiding the victim's body so nobody will disable the phone?
In a word, it's ugly. Compete other electrics? Not likely, given that most others range in looks from so-so to very attractive. No, this thing might be an option for a Camry hybrid buyer considering pure electric instead.
Agreed. Unless we're talking more corporate welfare disguised as "economic development". Richard Florida has it right. Do what you can for the "creative class", and the rest will follow. If you're going to give employers something, give them training incentives or programs in nearby schools, solid utilities, deductions for rehabilitating dilapidated structures, not tax credits just for showing up.
There's a lot to be said on all sides of this issue. But here's a point of view I see underrepresented: people who live in the city and commute away from it are supporting the city far more than those who live in the 'burbs and commute in to work. Buying lunch downtown during workdays is not a match for paying property taxes and having educated people vote for competent city officials (this isn't an argument to disenfranchise uneducated people, it's an argument to make sure everyone's educated, which also depends on a solid tax base).
After reading TFA, I wondered why this hadn't already been done on a large scale. After all, for the most part, the hardware is already in place. It's just a software/process problem. But then I read a few of the comments here, and realized that it hadn't already been done because many lack the imagination to see how well this is going to work. "Just have it delivered to your house"??? So it's either stolen or sits outside in the rain all day. Nice. "Just have it delivered to your office"??? Are you sure it comes in a plain brown wrapper? The only serious downside I read was that cars in unattended areas might be subject to break-in after deliveries are observed. Which brings me to the other piece of hardware I'd want—a camera in the trunk, or even the back window, that records events leading up to the trunk being opened and closed and immediately saves those in a hardened place or sends them somewhere else. Also, the camera may make it unnecessary to empty the trunk ahead of time, as the UPS man would be recorded not stealing the stuff that was already in there because he's either honest or knows he'll be watched.
I do think that for the most part, deliverers will have to know the car's delivery-day (or pickup-day) general location at least a day ahead of delivery-day (pickup-day) so as to optimize their travel.
If I'm the deliverer, I want the trunk to pop open completely before I'm standing in front of it to avoid nasty surprises left for me.
If all else fails, use the trunk monkey.
What will this lead to? Commonly used outdoor-access closets/boxes with Internet-connected electronic locks for parcel delivery/pickup at home. I'm already planning to add one. I'm pretty sure they already exist, but I've yet to see one.
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Plots... the funniest of which was the powder-in-the-shoes-to-make-the-beard-fall-out. Exploding conch shells were in the works, too, I suppose for if the poison diving suit didn't work.
As far as the pleasures, don't forget cruising around in the convertible '59 Cadillac.
Finally somebody's getting at what's behind all the meddling in Cuba. Virulent anti-Castro Cuban ex-pats hold a lot of political sway, and giving them what they want doesn't annoy many other US citizens. So they get what they want because the cost to politicians is near zero. Never mind that Cuba isn't the falling domino threatening to take the rest of Latin America to communism that it was thought to be 50 years ago and really has little effect on anyone outside its borders. Sure, there are a few dinosaurs and misadventurers in the US government or three-letter-agencies, but they wouldn't get funding if it weren't for the ex-pats' influence. Shouldn't funds go instead to countering real threats like Bermuda, the Canaries, and Palmyra?
Having written BATch files since 1985, the first time I tried JScript I decided not to use BATs again except for very simple things. Windows Scripting Host was a good idea that apparently 1) appeared too late, and 2) wasn't supported on all Windows versions for a long time. Too bad.
Familiarity, in this case, bred contempt. I've written far more code in all sorts of dialects of BASIC than anything else, and I avoid it now if at all possible. For 1964 or the limited hardware in the 70s (6502s, Z80s, etc.) I suppose it was OK. But this isn't 1964 or 1978. VB isn't Dartmouth BASIC, but it looks and feels like V'GER—all sorts of stuff agglomerated onto a simple-minded core to add capabilities. So I'll celebrate not having to use it. MS made gigabucks in spite of BASIC, not because of it. Too bad K&R didn't get to work a few years sooner so we would never have heard of it. Some older cities still have lead pipes. Doesn't mean it was ever a good idea, and they'd be better off had they never used lead in the first place.
Or here's another suggestion: phones in motion automatically limit the length of the call. Even if this doesn't limit the nature of the distraction, it limits the amount of time it applies, which would have a huge impact on the overall risk.
I don't know how banning people from yapping while driving can be accomplished at this late date.
There's a good reason to think yapping is more distracting than texting. The worst part of texting is the necessity for most people to look somewhere besides the road ahead. Texting doesn't require the immediate attention like holding a voice conversation with someone does. If you pause a few seconds while composing or reading a text, no biggie. Mobile conversers are very aware that pausing while talking disrupts the conversation for the stationary participant, and that pausing while listening means missing something the other party said. So while yapping doesn't require looking away from the road, it does take primary attention away from driving. I've paid enough attention to how it affects me to know that my situational awareness goes way down and I have a sort of tunnel vision, where my brain only registers stuff directly in front of me. Notice how yappers usually drive more slowly? Their brain is automatically trying to compensate for their increased reaction time due to the distraction. So maybe instead of banning texting, we should push for a far better interface for it with heads-up display and voice input, and ban conversing. The asynchronous nature of texting might be just the thing we need to replace the yapping.
Yep. And we're finding out that the methane leaked during fracking is a pretty serious problem, since methane is a much worse greenhouse gas than CO2.
I guess it depends on your definition of success. If it's volume sales, OK, I'll go along with that. If it's innovation, no, Mazda did more of that through the 1970s before Ford. Ford has had mixed success with others, too. Aston Martin might not have achieved the quality or volume without Ford, and that's really what they lacked. So I think Ford left Aston better off than they would have been (had they even continued to exist). But Ford nearly ruined Jaguar with their X Type and S Type half-Lincolns, complete misunderstanding of Jaguar's potential market, and repeated quashing of F Type development.
I'd like an MS in something, please.
I once wondered if Earl and the actor that played Uncle Lewis on Christmas Vacation were the same guy...
ESI ! I'm an alumnus. But I went back when it was only $99.95 (plus 29.95 for a "sealer" coat). Problem with that is I assume he wants a lifetime degree, and Earl's only lasts you about 3 years. Also, at least in the past, you had to choose one of the colors, er, disciplines, they already offered. No design-your-own interdisciplinary resprays, um, degrees.
But not wasting your time... I'm all for a solid CS education and I'd give brownie points for it. But if it bugs you to study what you think you already know, then don't. I really can't imagine that a BS in CS is going to impress most hiring managers more than your dozen years of experience plus some other 4 year degree. So get the 4 year degree in something else quantitative in which you have interest. Physics, statistics, math, chemistry, etc. Take your time, and enjoy learning something outside of your normal field.
Just an observation of cause-and-effect. Too great a distance between wealthy and the masses, and you get a revolution, which might turn out bad for everyone. So avoid that situation. It is both ways; the 1% do wrong and the rest, in response, do wrong. Didn't your mother tell you that two wrongs don't make a right?
So... open source everything, that anyone can compile to executable. Then focus on obfuscated code, about the only avenue left for malicious code. It only takes one major manufacturer to publicly announce that "we're publishing our code so that it can be verified, unlike our competitors" for it to spread to the competitors.
The Terrors are a great reason to never let things get so bad that you end up with that sort of revolution. It's not an argument against the working class knocking off the ruling class, it's an argument against allowing extreme discrepancies to ever occur.
Intelligence is not just a one-dimensional thing. Better tailoring education to each individual addresses all the students' needs, not just those of the "best and brightest". Nations who do so will benefit more than will nations with a tight focus on students who perform well in certain ways.
"Intellectual Capital"??? All human labor involves some intelligence. And there's no human labor employed to produce more than one copy of anything that can't be replaced with a sufficiently sophisticated machine. Just call it "labor". No need for more loaded buzzwords.
$2000 + $60/tape isn't what I'd call cheap for home use. Or is that stuff available for a LOT less? Neither is the $20/month from an earlier post. Now $5/month for Backblaze is sounding ballpark-ish...
And just when did floppies get down to 8"? 14" is the way to go. Either that or boxes of cards. As long as they're protected from moisture, you can use them to insulate your walls. If things get really desperate, you'll have fuel for the fire. Not just 80 but 132 characters per card!
I should have specified "in the US". I don't know which other countries require such things.
Newer cars have this. If your opponent in court really thinks you caused the crash, he may try to subpoena the data from your car's "black box". Most likely he'll succeed. If he doesn't try to get it, that might suggest he isn't convinced it's your fault, in which case you might be able to use it in your own defense.
Let's say more like $1,000, a much higher cost than for a consumer SPOT transmitter. Rather than stream everything, just transmit the GPS coordinates. Where the trail ends is where the search begins. Commercial trucks and trains are tracked, why not airliners? It's not a privacy issue, as it might be on a private aircraft.
Yeah, I wondered about that. Wouldn't this be a double-edged sword, for theft? Either discourages theft, or encourages hiding the victim's body so nobody will disable the phone?
In a word, it's ugly. Compete other electrics? Not likely, given that most others range in looks from so-so to very attractive. No, this thing might be an option for a Camry hybrid buyer considering pure electric instead.
Agreed. Unless we're talking more corporate welfare disguised as "economic development". Richard Florida has it right. Do what you can for the "creative class", and the rest will follow. If you're going to give employers something, give them training incentives or programs in nearby schools, solid utilities, deductions for rehabilitating dilapidated structures, not tax credits just for showing up.
There's a lot to be said on all sides of this issue. But here's a point of view I see underrepresented: people who live in the city and commute away from it are supporting the city far more than those who live in the 'burbs and commute in to work. Buying lunch downtown during workdays is not a match for paying property taxes and having educated people vote for competent city officials (this isn't an argument to disenfranchise uneducated people, it's an argument to make sure everyone's educated, which also depends on a solid tax base).
Yeah, well, if you stomp the break pedal your car should realize you need to stop for the break.
After reading TFA, I wondered why this hadn't already been done on a large scale. After all, for the most part, the hardware is already in place. It's just a software/process problem. But then I read a few of the comments here, and realized that it hadn't already been done because many lack the imagination to see how well this is going to work. "Just have it delivered to your house"??? So it's either stolen or sits outside in the rain all day. Nice. "Just have it delivered to your office"??? Are you sure it comes in a plain brown wrapper? The only serious downside I read was that cars in unattended areas might be subject to break-in after deliveries are observed. Which brings me to the other piece of hardware I'd want—a camera in the trunk, or even the back window, that records events leading up to the trunk being opened and closed and immediately saves those in a hardened place or sends them somewhere else. Also, the camera may make it unnecessary to empty the trunk ahead of time, as the UPS man would be recorded not stealing the stuff that was already in there because he's either honest or knows he'll be watched.
I do think that for the most part, deliverers will have to know the car's delivery-day (or pickup-day) general location at least a day ahead of delivery-day (pickup-day) so as to optimize their travel.
If I'm the deliverer, I want the trunk to pop open completely before I'm standing in front of it to avoid nasty surprises left for me.
If all else fails, use the trunk monkey.
What will this lead to? Commonly used outdoor-access closets/boxes with Internet-connected electronic locks for parcel delivery/pickup at home. I'm already planning to add one. I'm pretty sure they already exist, but I've yet to see one.