As an aside, it used to be that SUVs were essentially cars built on truck bodies. They were good and sturdy--the sort of thing you wanted when you were off-roading. Of course, they weren't necessarily that safe--trucks don't have to worry about the same safety-standards as passenger cars because they're generally not used that way. Of course, they also handle and ride differently.
CUVs/crossovers are built on car bodies so they handle and ride more like cars.
Yeah, I gotta admit I saw the, "current customers who are still interested in our services will receive compensation." and thought, "Yeah. The both of them."
I know this won't happen. One reason is that as annoying as it might look to people that fly regularly those safety briefings at the beginning of the flight is important. Even if you don't care if your passengers are comfortable, or even if they survive, a 25 kg child getting tossed about in the cabin during turbulence can damage the plane. Having someone on the plane to check for seat belts and whatever is cheap insurance.
I disagree.
First, you get rid of the pilots. You don't get rid of the Flight Attendants. They're the ones who check these things anyway.
Second, suppose they get rid of the pilot and cut 30% off the ticket price. They will have no problem getting people in that airplane. Airline passengers care about price and that's it. You go to cheapotickets and you sort by price. You might make some adjustments based on the time you want to depart. But if you saw American was 30% cheaper than Delta and they left at around the same time? You'd hop on American. You'd bitch and moan about the service, but you'd get on the damn airplane.
As I understand it, fractal compression works somewhat similarly--you take the snippet and create a fractal equation that reproduces that part of the image. Since you're basically just storing inputs to the equation, you can get very small compression. Of course, you need pretty good CPU power to generate the pixels and the equation will start to fall apart if you scale too high.
"deskill"? Is that like roadkill, but with your desk?
(Yes, I know, It's de-skill. As in lose skills. But I read it "desk-kill" and thought it was funny. Like the pilot will suddenly go postal sitting behind a desk or something.)
"Freedom of Speech" means you are free to speak without government interference. But it does not say that other people have to listen, agree, or not try to shout you down. "The Marketplace of Ideas" will decide things like that.
Actually, at a place where I used to work, one of my co-workers was married to a body-builder. He had an 8x10 of his wife holding a trophy she had just won in a competition. So, yeah, she was oiled up and wearing an eeny-weeny bikini. It struck me as a guy who's proud of his wife's accomplishments and, perhaps, finds motivation in her success.
I used to work with a woman who had a few postcards on the wall by her desk featuring handsome men with six-pack abs. These weren't even people she knew. She just liked the pictures.
So, if I derive some sort of peace or motivation or something from the picture, yes, I think it's appropriate for a work environment.
Just because she says or thinks she is harassed [...] doesn't make that true.
Actually, I'm not so sure about that.
Years ago, I went through "Sexual Harassment Training" (No, it wasn't what you think). And, as the lawyer basically said, there are really no guidelines in the law for what is and isn't sexual harassment. What the courts have pretty much done is said that, "If you think you were harassed, you were." The defense usually boils down to whether or not you communicated your feelings to the company and whether or not the company acted appropriately. There's no "That's not sexual harassment" defense.
This is why we have things like "harassing environments" and people not being allowed to have a picture of their wife in a bikini on their desk.
Slashdot Mirror
BBC1 put up a message apologising for the fault and played saxophone music.
Let me guess...
I'm sure they'd find something in the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.
If you're in the US, you are the descendant of immigrants.
Unless you're the one who came here. Then you are the immigrant.
And what about those of us who were here before there was a United States?
Dunno. Perhaps that's why they tend to go with NWA.
Wait...they put GTA in vi? Take that, emacs!
2 Spaces 4 America!
But we're gonna get that...
As an aside, it used to be that SUVs were essentially cars built on truck bodies. They were good and sturdy--the sort of thing you wanted when you were off-roading. Of course, they weren't necessarily that safe--trucks don't have to worry about the same safety-standards as passenger cars because they're generally not used that way. Of course, they also handle and ride differently.
CUVs/crossovers are built on car bodies so they handle and ride more like cars.
Yeah, I gotta admit I saw the, "current customers who are still interested in our services will receive compensation." and thought, "Yeah. The both of them."
Too soon. :^(
I know this won't happen. One reason is that as annoying as it might look to people that fly regularly those safety briefings at the beginning of the flight is important. Even if you don't care if your passengers are comfortable, or even if they survive, a 25 kg child getting tossed about in the cabin during turbulence can damage the plane. Having someone on the plane to check for seat belts and whatever is cheap insurance.
I disagree.
First, you get rid of the pilots. You don't get rid of the Flight Attendants. They're the ones who check these things anyway.
Second, suppose they get rid of the pilot and cut 30% off the ticket price. They will have no problem getting people in that airplane. Airline passengers care about price and that's it. You go to cheapotickets and you sort by price. You might make some adjustments based on the time you want to depart. But if you saw American was 30% cheaper than Delta and they left at around the same time? You'd hop on American. You'd bitch and moan about the service, but you'd get on the damn airplane.
US Out of North America!
They might...if we start seeing x86_64 emulators. We're only seeing 32-bit Intel emulators.
As I understand it, fractal compression works somewhat similarly--you take the snippet and create a fractal equation that reproduces that part of the image. Since you're basically just storing inputs to the equation, you can get very small compression. Of course, you need pretty good CPU power to generate the pixels and the equation will start to fall apart if you scale too high.
"deskill"? Is that like roadkill, but with your desk?
(Yes, I know, It's de-skill. As in lose skills. But I read it "desk-kill" and thought it was funny. Like the pilot will suddenly go postal sitting behind a desk or something.)
I think it's only economical if you have the right geography.
Well, when you have surplus power, you spend it on bulldozers to make a really tall hill. Eventually, you have a mountain to lift water up to.
The PowerMac Cube was actually pretty cool.
I'll go with the Apple III as the biggest miss.
Leave Britney Alone!
Sorry.
I don't know Paltrow's qualifications,
Are you kidding?! She plays the CEO of Stark Industries!
Actually, Gwyneth founded Goop, a "lifestyle" site.
Uh, no it isn't.
"Freedom of Speech" means you are free to speak without government interference. But it does not say that other people have to listen, agree, or not try to shout you down. "The Marketplace of Ideas" will decide things like that.
If the startup can make a profit in a safe way then the government should get out of the way.
True. Now, who defines the criteria for "safe"?
Actually, at a place where I used to work, one of my co-workers was married to a body-builder. He had an 8x10 of his wife holding a trophy she had just won in a competition. So, yeah, she was oiled up and wearing an eeny-weeny bikini. It struck me as a guy who's proud of his wife's accomplishments and, perhaps, finds motivation in her success.
I used to work with a woman who had a few postcards on the wall by her desk featuring handsome men with six-pack abs. These weren't even people she knew. She just liked the pictures.
So, if I derive some sort of peace or motivation or something from the picture, yes, I think it's appropriate for a work environment.
Just because she says or thinks she is harassed [...] doesn't make that true.
Actually, I'm not so sure about that.
Years ago, I went through "Sexual Harassment Training" (No, it wasn't what you think). And, as the lawyer basically said, there are really no guidelines in the law for what is and isn't sexual harassment. What the courts have pretty much done is said that, "If you think you were harassed, you were." The defense usually boils down to whether or not you communicated your feelings to the company and whether or not the company acted appropriately. There's no "That's not sexual harassment" defense.
This is why we have things like "harassing environments" and people not being allowed to have a picture of their wife in a bikini on their desk.
That's what I came here for. If only it was spelled correctly.
What if the button was called "interesting..." instead?
I have mod points, but I'm not willing to try it to find out...