I never really thought about it, but that's certainly true. If you're signed up for paperless billing it's not like anything is ever going to get mailed there.
That's also an interesting point about Canadian cards at gas pumps.
I think a big part of the hesitation to change currencies here, whether coin or paper, is the installation of machine readers (meaning vending machines, atms, etc). Obviously there are vending machines in other countries that handle different size bills so the problem isn't insurmountable, and it might generate some jobs (though I would consider it busy-work). I don't think any machines take pennies any more. A pay phone might take nickels, but that's about it.
I figure prices can stay the same. If you're paying by card (electronically) or by check then the price stands. If you're paying in cash it's rounded to the nearest small denomination (say $0.10 in this case). If the shop wants to take the policy that it rounds up at 0.03 then so be it, but state that up front.
This is what I came to say. Why would an application draw from memory it hasn't written to yet? I know that games often go to a black screen at launch. Is it just chance that it chose an area that was zeroed vs random garbage? I would think that if it just pulled from the beginning of memory that people would see some old image pretty often. Maybe that is the case and we just perceive it as a flicker unless it hangs for a moment as it did for him.
I figure the solution is simple. All you need to do is hack the government officials computers and drop the files then make some concerned citizen phone calls. All the officials go to jail for a decade and we can move on with some more intelligent replacements (hopefully).
Of course, in reality your phone calls about questionable contents on govt official computers would go ignored and nothing would change. You'd probably get caught and go to jail for computer crimes. But one can dream.
The issue here is informing the public. Being a non-pilot myself I have no idea how the "system" notifies the pilot that he needs to take control. Then how does the pilot indicate that he's is ready to take control?
The last thing I want is the car "I don't know what to do. You take it" and giving up control. If there's a buzzer and/or light indicating "I want you to take control" while it continues so I can grab the wheel and hit a button or tap the brakes (like turning off cruise control) would work fine in my opinion. I think manual mode is necessary for places that an autonomous car just won't know how to handle. Some service vehicle need to go down a service road (essentially a dirt road, perhaps overgrown some). I don't think an autonomous car will gladly go driving through the woods. The service roads along train tracks would also be places you don't want "user" vehicles, but service vehicles need to go on. Service vehicles also have arbitrary destinations, or "stop here" moments.
Your regular user vehicle is a much simpler "take me to the mall" use case. An autonomous car might even be able to drop you off and go park itself. How nice would that be at Christmas time?
I don't agree with the "shared roads" argument. It feels like a "if you want to use this you need to use it this way" policy. I'm more of a "once I bought it I'll use it how I'd like to" kind of guy.
That said you can feel free to remove your black box, but when my black box does not demonstrate that I'm at fault and you don't have a black box - guess who's at fault? You are. At least that's how the law should be worded.
A black box doesn't transmit data anywhere so there is no tracking/spying. Unless someone's coming to your car an regularly downloading the last X minutes of activity (all the black box records) then you're safe. The only time it's data comes into play is when they read that data after an accident.
If Joe Schmoe is going to get his panties in a bunch if you fly a drone over his property he can buy a no-fly broadcaster of his own. Sounds like a win-win.
Yea. I was thinking that both examples given are temporary no-fly locations. The woods (where the forest fire is) would normally be a fine place to fly. A police manhunt is "right now in this location", but certainly not a fixed area like "the airport".
So you can't expect something like a car navigation system or a tom tom to have a clue about those areas, because they probably never get updated.
It would have to be a live "tell me no-fly zones near me" web-like or continuous broadcast radio/satellite style system.
Cell data built in would raise the cost quite a bit. If they built a radio system and dedicated some channel to it then airports/fixed locations could have dedicated hardware broadcasting and police could have mobile broadcasters. Just like cell phone jammers and stingrays they have now. Firefighters could do likewise.
This is the gist of what I came to say. I have an older Canon camera that takes nice pictures and can do video, but when my daughter was born I looked around for a true video camera and all that jazz. I never truly found anything I was into, but cell phones are smaller, always around, have longer battery life, etc. So you can get a dedicated device if you want, but don't blow the budget on it because it's likely to find a spot on a shelf to live out its days.
As far as formats I usually just transfer the pics and vids to the computer and leave them in native format. I have Handbrake on their so I can shuffle the format if I desire, but don't usually need to bother.
If I hit Start - All then hit N it does not take me to N (read "the first program/folder that starts with N"). The Windows 7 start menu does. The way to do that now is to click on any letter/heading, which takes you to an alphabet, then click the letter you want to jump to. To my knowledge there is no keyboard way to do that other than paging down.
You can drag, delete, pin tiles. So my tiles are pretty trim. It does take me longer than finding a program that had been pinned to the top of the Windows 7 start menu, but that will resolve with time. I feel that they take more space, but when I'm in the start menu I'm not using the desktop so I really don't care that it's being chewed up.
The dark color scheme is a way to save battery on mobile devices. It also uses less power in plugged in PCs, so we're burning less coal to generate power. I'm fine with that. If anyone thinks it doesn't make a difference, any tiny change made over a billion PCs adds up pretty damn fast.
If you sat in your office chair all day, then went home and binge watched Game of Thrones and tried to go to sleep you may not get good rest. But if you put of that last episode to go for a 30 minute jog, took a shower, then went to bed your body is much happier to get a good night's rest.
We're not meant to be sedentary creatures. That's what he was trying to say.
A sick person is supposed to get plenty of rest, however.
I would be somewhat interested in seeing some charts done. How many IPs fall into ARIN, LACNIC, APNIC, etc? In the US how many fall into Comcast, Time Warner, business ranges? Just out of curiosity.
I also wonder if the list keeps track of a First Received On and Last Received On date, maybe a counter of Mails Received.
Except that it was Denali long before it was Mt McKinley. It simply had 2 names during the time McKinley got slapped on it. McKinley never visited the mountain, so his name being attached to it was pomp theater to begin with. What's ridiculous is how long the indigenous people who named it in the first place had to fight to get his name removed.
Like George Carlin said, you are aware that there are two knobs on the tv - one to change the channel and one to turn it off. If you don't like it go F yourself.
I may have paraphrased that a bit. And I'm aware that your TV likely has no knobs. So if you were going to whine about that you can definitely F off.
The Theon scenes were disturbing, and they were meant to be. Nothing about torture should be appealing. Nothing from those scenes was simply made up or sensationalized, those were all torture or psychological warfare that people have done in the past. History is filled with cruel things that people have done to each other. History also shows redeeming factors that can restore faith in humanity.
Nothing in GoT should make anyone say to themselves "Hey, let's go rape/torture/poison/etc someone today." If you're claiming that a show is sensationalizing something, you would think that the show was making it seem OK or at least less bad. I don't think GoT is doing that at all.
I notice they're not complaining about GoT's depiction of homosexuality as buggery and bad.
As the AC said above YOU DO NOT HAVE A RIGHT TO NOT BE OFFENDED!
It would be interesting if you could filter everything with the windows firewall installed on the box. Most of it you can turn off by selecting the right options at various points of the install or later in the control panel / settings. Those are at least somewhat clear on what they are going to affect.
The tough part is figuring out what things you do or don't want and how to block the various things piecemeal. For instance I want windows update to do it's thing, but I don't want every keystroke sent to the mother ship.
City councilman Johnny Khamis dismissed such criticism: "This is a public street. You're not expecting privacy on a public street."
And I'm not expecting my city to blow thousands of dollars on something it doesn't need either. How much does it cost? Some for the hardware, some for maintenance, some for the DB and software running it, some for the data connection, and none of that goes away. So congratulations you just raised the cost to live in your community.
The so called benefit was to reduce car theft, so now a car thief needs a screw driver so he can remove the plates....ooooh, I don't think they'll figure that out.
From what I've heard, and it's not like I'm following it closely, Hillary was not given an email address by the government (using the general term). So she continued to use her own.
Why isn't the investigation into how someone got appointed Secretary of State and no one thought to create an email account? The fact that months in nobody said "Hey, why doesn't she have an email account?" strikes me as odd. That no one sending her emails rose a red flag saying "why don't you have a government email?" strikes me as even more odd. This seems like a colossal IT failure and taking it out on the user is asinine. Of course, it seems to me that she also failed to request a government email box.
For all the buzz that Republicans are making such a fuss about this email failure I would like to remind you about the W. flub where the white house IT said "oops, we can't retrieve old emails".
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I never really thought about it, but that's certainly true. If you're signed up for paperless billing it's not like anything is ever going to get mailed there.
That's also an interesting point about Canadian cards at gas pumps.
I think a big part of the hesitation to change currencies here, whether coin or paper, is the installation of machine readers (meaning vending machines, atms, etc). Obviously there are vending machines in other countries that handle different size bills so the problem isn't insurmountable, and it might generate some jobs (though I would consider it busy-work). I don't think any machines take pennies any more. A pay phone might take nickels, but that's about it.
I figure prices can stay the same. If you're paying by card (electronically) or by check then the price stands. If you're paying in cash it's rounded to the nearest small denomination (say $0.10 in this case). If the shop wants to take the policy that it rounds up at 0.03 then so be it, but state that up front.
If electrical usage is on par with LED and they don't contain mercury I would imagine quite the opposite reaction.
This is what I came to say. Why would an application draw from memory it hasn't written to yet? I know that games often go to a black screen at launch. Is it just chance that it chose an area that was zeroed vs random garbage? I would think that if it just pulled from the beginning of memory that people would see some old image pretty often. Maybe that is the case and we just perceive it as a flicker unless it hangs for a moment as it did for him.
I figure the solution is simple. All you need to do is hack the government officials computers and drop the files then make some concerned citizen phone calls. All the officials go to jail for a decade and we can move on with some more intelligent replacements (hopefully).
Of course, in reality your phone calls about questionable contents on govt official computers would go ignored and nothing would change. You'd probably get caught and go to jail for computer crimes. But one can dream.
Wow. I want to +1 that.
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The issue here is informing the public. Being a non-pilot myself I have no idea how the "system" notifies the pilot that he needs to take control. Then how does the pilot indicate that he's is ready to take control?
The last thing I want is the car "I don't know what to do. You take it" and giving up control. If there's a buzzer and/or light indicating "I want you to take control" while it continues so I can grab the wheel and hit a button or tap the brakes (like turning off cruise control) would work fine in my opinion. I think manual mode is necessary for places that an autonomous car just won't know how to handle. Some service vehicle need to go down a service road (essentially a dirt road, perhaps overgrown some). I don't think an autonomous car will gladly go driving through the woods. The service roads along train tracks would also be places you don't want "user" vehicles, but service vehicles need to go on. Service vehicles also have arbitrary destinations, or "stop here" moments.
Your regular user vehicle is a much simpler "take me to the mall" use case. An autonomous car might even be able to drop you off and go park itself. How nice would that be at Christmas time?
I don't agree with the "shared roads" argument. It feels like a "if you want to use this you need to use it this way" policy. I'm more of a "once I bought it I'll use it how I'd like to" kind of guy.
That said you can feel free to remove your black box, but when my black box does not demonstrate that I'm at fault and you don't have a black box - guess who's at fault? You are. At least that's how the law should be worded.
A black box doesn't transmit data anywhere so there is no tracking/spying. Unless someone's coming to your car an regularly downloading the last X minutes of activity (all the black box records) then you're safe. The only time it's data comes into play is when they read that data after an accident.
replying to myself in bad form to add some more.
If Joe Schmoe is going to get his panties in a bunch if you fly a drone over his property he can buy a no-fly broadcaster of his own. Sounds like a win-win.
Yea. I was thinking that both examples given are temporary no-fly locations. The woods (where the forest fire is) would normally be a fine place to fly. A police manhunt is "right now in this location", but certainly not a fixed area like "the airport".
So you can't expect something like a car navigation system or a tom tom to have a clue about those areas, because they probably never get updated.
It would have to be a live "tell me no-fly zones near me" web-like or continuous broadcast radio/satellite style system.
Cell data built in would raise the cost quite a bit. If they built a radio system and dedicated some channel to it then airports/fixed locations could have dedicated hardware broadcasting and police could have mobile broadcasters. Just like cell phone jammers and stingrays they have now. Firefighters could do likewise.
This is the gist of what I came to say. I have an older Canon camera that takes nice pictures and can do video, but when my daughter was born I looked around for a true video camera and all that jazz. I never truly found anything I was into, but cell phones are smaller, always around, have longer battery life, etc. So you can get a dedicated device if you want, but don't blow the budget on it because it's likely to find a spot on a shelf to live out its days.
As far as formats I usually just transfer the pics and vids to the computer and leave them in native format. I have Handbrake on their so I can shuffle the format if I desire, but don't usually need to bother.
If I hit Start - All then hit N it does not take me to N (read "the first program/folder that starts with N"). The Windows 7 start menu does.
The way to do that now is to click on any letter/heading, which takes you to an alphabet, then click the letter you want to jump to. To my knowledge there is no keyboard way to do that other than paging down.
You can drag, delete, pin tiles. So my tiles are pretty trim. It does take me longer than finding a program that had been pinned to the top of the Windows 7 start menu, but that will resolve with time. I feel that they take more space, but when I'm in the start menu I'm not using the desktop so I really don't care that it's being chewed up.
The dark color scheme is a way to save battery on mobile devices. It also uses less power in plugged in PCs, so we're burning less coal to generate power. I'm fine with that. If anyone thinks it doesn't make a difference, any tiny change made over a billion PCs adds up pretty damn fast.
But it's good advice for a healthy person.
If you sat in your office chair all day, then went home and binge watched Game of Thrones and tried to go to sleep you may not get good rest. But if you put of that last episode to go for a 30 minute jog, took a shower, then went to bed your body is much happier to get a good night's rest.
We're not meant to be sedentary creatures. That's what he was trying to say.
A sick person is supposed to get plenty of rest, however.
I would be somewhat interested in seeing some charts done. How many IPs fall into ARIN, LACNIC, APNIC, etc? In the US how many fall into Comcast, Time Warner, business ranges? Just out of curiosity.
I also wonder if the list keeps track of a First Received On and Last Received On date, maybe a counter of Mails Received.
Except that it was Denali long before it was Mt McKinley. It simply had 2 names during the time McKinley got slapped on it.
McKinley never visited the mountain, so his name being attached to it was pomp theater to begin with. What's ridiculous is how long the indigenous people who named it in the first place had to fight to get his name removed.
Like George Carlin said, you are aware that there are two knobs on the tv - one to change the channel and one to turn it off. If you don't like it go F yourself.
I may have paraphrased that a bit. And I'm aware that your TV likely has no knobs. So if you were going to whine about that you can definitely F off.
The Theon scenes were disturbing, and they were meant to be. Nothing about torture should be appealing. Nothing from those scenes was simply made up or sensationalized, those were all torture or psychological warfare that people have done in the past. History is filled with cruel things that people have done to each other. History also shows redeeming factors that can restore faith in humanity.
Nothing in GoT should make anyone say to themselves "Hey, let's go rape/torture/poison/etc someone today." If you're claiming that a show is sensationalizing something, you would think that the show was making it seem OK or at least less bad. I don't think GoT is doing that at all.
I notice they're not complaining about GoT's depiction of homosexuality as buggery and bad.
As the AC said above YOU DO NOT HAVE A RIGHT TO NOT BE OFFENDED!
I use Linux as my primary desktop at home. Even my 4 year old daughter uses Linux just fine.
The times when you need to really mess with things are much much fewer than the old days.
It would be interesting if you could filter everything with the windows firewall installed on the box. Most of it you can turn off by selecting the right options at various points of the install or later in the control panel / settings. Those are at least somewhat clear on what they are going to affect.
The tough part is figuring out what things you do or don't want and how to block the various things piecemeal. For instance I want windows update to do it's thing, but I don't want every keystroke sent to the mother ship.
Exactly. All it needs is a nub so it doesn't fit that way. If you file off the nub then you accept the risk.
City councilman Johnny Khamis dismissed such criticism: "This is a public street. You're not expecting privacy on a public street."
And I'm not expecting my city to blow thousands of dollars on something it doesn't need either. How much does it cost? Some for the hardware, some for maintenance, some for the DB and software running it, some for the data connection, and none of that goes away. So congratulations you just raised the cost to live in your community.
The so called benefit was to reduce car theft, so now a car thief needs a screw driver so he can remove the plates....ooooh, I don't think they'll figure that out.
Pun intended on the subject line.
Well now you mentioned it. Damn it man!
Is it just "less fear" or is it reduced inhibitions, period? Neither would have great results in people in general.
But I thought of Ceasar, and Rise of the Planet of the Apes.
From what I've heard, and it's not like I'm following it closely, Hillary was not given an email address by the government (using the general term). So she continued to use her own.
Why isn't the investigation into how someone got appointed Secretary of State and no one thought to create an email account? The fact that months in nobody said "Hey, why doesn't she have an email account?" strikes me as odd. That no one sending her emails rose a red flag saying "why don't you have a government email?" strikes me as even more odd. This seems like a colossal IT failure and taking it out on the user is asinine. Of course, it seems to me that she also failed to request a government email box.
For all the buzz that Republicans are making such a fuss about this email failure I would like to remind you about the W. flub where the white house IT said "oops, we can't retrieve old emails".
1. To prove a concept
2. To get a military contract
3. Profit
Looks like more than 1 to me.