You wouldn't want to ride in one of those. It would be abused, puked in, with bodily fluids everywhere.
If you owned the car, you would have some incentive to keep it clean and functioning properly.
These visions of old people taking to driving again couldn't become reality because a basic requirement of these automated vehicles would have be manual override capability. Just like autopilot for planes, you really need a qualified driver willing to take control of the vehicle quickly should something unexpected happen that the programmer didn't account for.
Sometimes things fall out of the sky, or a police officer needs to take control of an intersection, or a child on a bicycle in front of you is behaving erratically, and you know as an experienced human that he could swing out in front of your vehicle at any time.
$25 is more than three times what I pay monthly for Netflix. It is also significantly more than I would pay to view it in a theater at full 4K resolution. If I am only going to view a movie twice by myself, is it really worth paying $12.50 per view?
Use your work laptop for work and your personal laptop for personal use. Don't ever make the mistake of mixing the two as it can only lead to bad things later on.
Because you are not a reliable repository. You are an organic machine and subject to its faults. If you get seriously sick / dead they will get a 404 for their request.
If I had mod points, I'd give you some.
So many otherwise intelligent people build a castle around their job, daring others to try to do it. The position themselves so that they are the go-to guy for the job, and create misery for themselves in the process as they can never get a day off and they're consumed by the additional stress.
You need to have documented as a standard practice during every project. Don't just store it electronically either -- networks and computers fail at inopportune times -- but make sure that enough information stored on paper to figure out what is going on if everything breaks especially domain and local admin passwords for each machine. If the paper contains sensitive info, keep it secured (in a safe that he, you, and a trustworthy third party can get into) but still document it.
It is hopeless to try to document all of your work at the end as you will lose a lot of the important details (that one missing simple step that it took you forever to figure out to get the thing working).
Did they -- consciously or unconsciously -- give them extra points for being female?
I've often seen in coed organizations that if a male and female or competing for a similar award (a job, bonus, etc.) and have the same qualifications, the female will often win it because it looks better for the organization ("LOOK! We have females in high positions here!").
I think that's part of what he meant by getting the kinks worked out.
I think the Volt concept is on the right track, but they need to extend it to all of their cars at a commodity price with a smaller battery pack. Trying to get their development costs back on just one car model is resulting is high up front costs to the buyer, with few sales. They need to spread these costs out, and reap a long-term profit.
In about two more generations, the Volt will be very cool indeed.
Another thing that annoys me is when I use a generated random password and it fails a website's password validation algorithm. Oh no, you used a particular special character thrice. So, I then have to modify the password to fit its standards and make it weaker. Very annoying. Also, sometimes password generators will utilize reserved characters which break the website software.
I create a randomized password for every website, stored as a plain text file -- one per website -- in an encrypted directory. When I login to the website, I copy/paste the password from the file. The encrypted directory is not mounted unless I am actively using it.
The problem I run into is that many websites only store an unknown few characters (maybe 8) and truncate the password without informing the user of the new password. This means that it will let you login the first time, but when you try to login later, you can't get in because the password isn't what they stored. This is very frustrating.
And we used Autopatch if we needed to make a phone call. People thought we were silly to carry around our little hand-held transceivers all the time. Now, look around, everyone's doing it, they're just using prettier and smaller radios.
They often have cell phones and shared pay phones. They feel that it's OK to use a phone for business or emergencies. A lot of their policies differ by the opinion of their local bishop.
Can we assign each officer a tag, and have them spray their cuffs with the marker, to prove in court that a particular person was restrained with a particular pair of handcuffs at a particular time?
This would be useful for identifying escaped prisoners, especially in cases where a police officer is murdered.
If this spray is inexpensive and discrete, it would also be useful for identifying vehicles and similar objects.
I'm sensing a certain disconnect from reality present in this article.
They do realize that ankle monitors are already routinely used, but yet are often useless? And fat chance with getting severe penalties put in place in our modern American society. We didn't even have the testicular fortitude to kill Charles Manson and others!
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You wouldn't want to ride in one of those. It would be abused, puked in, with bodily fluids everywhere. If you owned the car, you would have some incentive to keep it clean and functioning properly.
These visions of old people taking to driving again couldn't become reality because a basic requirement of these automated vehicles would have be manual override capability. Just like autopilot for planes, you really need a qualified driver willing to take control of the vehicle quickly should something unexpected happen that the programmer didn't account for. Sometimes things fall out of the sky, or a police officer needs to take control of an intersection, or a child on a bicycle in front of you is behaving erratically, and you know as an experienced human that he could swing out in front of your vehicle at any time.
What good are blind people for studies regarding frame rates? (kidding...)
If they hadn't been told, would many of them even realize it was projected at 48P?
$25 is more than three times what I pay monthly for Netflix. It is also significantly more than I would pay to view it in a theater at full 4K resolution. If I am only going to view a movie twice by myself, is it really worth paying $12.50 per view?
Use your work laptop for work and your personal laptop for personal use. Don't ever make the mistake of mixing the two as it can only lead to bad things later on.
Because you are not a reliable repository. You are an organic machine and subject to its faults. If you get seriously sick / dead they will get a 404 for their request.
If I had mod points, I'd give you some. So many otherwise intelligent people build a castle around their job, daring others to try to do it. The position themselves so that they are the go-to guy for the job, and create misery for themselves in the process as they can never get a day off and they're consumed by the additional stress.
You need to have documented as a standard practice during every project. Don't just store it electronically either -- networks and computers fail at inopportune times -- but make sure that enough information stored on paper to figure out what is going on if everything breaks especially domain and local admin passwords for each machine. If the paper contains sensitive info, keep it secured (in a safe that he, you, and a trustworthy third party can get into) but still document it. It is hopeless to try to document all of your work at the end as you will lose a lot of the important details (that one missing simple step that it took you forever to figure out to get the thing working).
Nothing like painting with a broad brush to make yourself look silly, huh?
Ummm... no. Most Christians (and Jews) do not accept Islam as legitimate.
Did they -- consciously or unconsciously -- give them extra points for being female? I've often seen in coed organizations that if a male and female or competing for a similar award (a job, bonus, etc.) and have the same qualifications, the female will often win it because it looks better for the organization ("LOOK! We have females in high positions here!").
I think that's part of what he meant by getting the kinks worked out. I think the Volt concept is on the right track, but they need to extend it to all of their cars at a commodity price with a smaller battery pack. Trying to get their development costs back on just one car model is resulting is high up front costs to the buyer, with few sales. They need to spread these costs out, and reap a long-term profit. In about two more generations, the Volt will be very cool indeed.
I use GoogleApps with my domain. It's pretty nice to have an near infinite number of email addresses to play with.
Another thing that annoys me is when I use a generated random password and it fails a website's password validation algorithm. Oh no, you used a particular special character thrice. So, I then have to modify the password to fit its standards and make it weaker. Very annoying. Also, sometimes password generators will utilize reserved characters which break the website software.
I create a randomized password for every website, stored as a plain text file -- one per website -- in an encrypted directory. When I login to the website, I copy/paste the password from the file. The encrypted directory is not mounted unless I am actively using it. The problem I run into is that many websites only store an unknown few characters (maybe 8) and truncate the password without informing the user of the new password. This means that it will let you login the first time, but when you try to login later, you can't get in because the password isn't what they stored. This is very frustrating.
And we used Autopatch if we needed to make a phone call. People thought we were silly to carry around our little hand-held transceivers all the time. Now, look around, everyone's doing it, they're just using prettier and smaller radios.
They often have cell phones and shared pay phones. They feel that it's OK to use a phone for business or emergencies. A lot of their policies differ by the opinion of their local bishop.
See UWTV (University of Washinton Television, http://www.uwtv.org/) They have a cable channel, but I usually watch their content on the Internet.
Paint it bright pink with daisies all over it?
We've had "bullet proof" clipboards on patrol for quite some time now. This is certainly nothing new.
I love watching Star Trek legally on Netflix.I hope Netflix will make arrangements to be allowed to distribute it as soon as it is released.
Can we assign each officer a tag, and have them spray their cuffs with the marker, to prove in court that a particular person was restrained with a particular pair of handcuffs at a particular time? This would be useful for identifying escaped prisoners, especially in cases where a police officer is murdered. If this spray is inexpensive and discrete, it would also be useful for identifying vehicles and similar objects.
Not quite, as another option was a staff member override.
I'm sensing a certain disconnect from reality present in this article. They do realize that ankle monitors are already routinely used, but yet are often useless? And fat chance with getting severe penalties put in place in our modern American society. We didn't even have the testicular fortitude to kill Charles Manson and others!