There/their/they're all sound the same, as do here/hear and your/you're and many others. How can I make sure that it used the right one without looking at it?
And even if it were to allow you to keep your eyes on the road, you're still going to be somewhat distracted by the mental effort to verify that what it's reading back is in fact what you want to send.
I don't know about you, but whenever I use the voice-to-text capabilities in android there are multiple wrong words. Given that, I'd be willing to be that the vast majority of people would in fact check to make sure the text was correct before sending.
The system shouldn't be set up to essentially require people to volunteer in order to get experience...but it's basically impossible to prevent people from volunteering _should they so choose_.
An "internship" to me is a paid position for someone who is still in training and is therefore not ready to be hired as a permanent employee.
I worked as an "intern" for 16 months for a telecom provider, and got what I considered to be a decent wage for it. (About 3/5 the starting wage for a fresh-out-of-school programmer at that company).
If someone wants to volunteer for a position on their own time, then that's okay--but that's not what I'd call an internship position, and the system shouldn't be set up to have people needing to volunteer full-time.
While I realize that in many places hands-free is still allowed (here too) there is quite a bit of research that shows that it's still a significant distraction to the driver.
I'd personally be fine with a rule that if a vehicle is travelling above a certain speed (20mph for example) then they shouldn't be allowed to talk on the phone at all. Might be hard to enforce though.
Assuming the air bags deploy, there is almost certainly a record of the time of deployment in the car's on-board computer (assuming a recent enough car).
There are numerous studies that show that a driver who is texting is at least as degraded in terms of driving ability as one who is just over the legal limit for alcohol.
There's a researcher (who is also a trained sommelier) who is using chemistry to produce unconventional wine/food pairings based on underlying shared aromatic compounds. Seems to be working well for him.
We have a paid relationship with a Linux OS vendor. When we find problems we file bugs into their system, and they generally *do* get addressed. Not always as fast as we'd like or in the exact way that we'd like, but they do get attention.
What timezone do you use? Factor in that the timezone may not be correctly set in the first place, or the machine may be roaming, or accessing via a VPN.
I have a 2yr old core i3 laptop that runs office apps just fine. It'll do high def streaming just fine too. "Regular" office stuff just isn't all that strenuous.
There are scenarios where you would see a difference, but they tend to be more technical users...video editing or transcoding, source code compilation, database indexing, numerical simulation, etc.
While I'm interested in what my team members are doing, rarely is it necessary for me to be up-to-date on their daily activities. A weekly catch-up meeting is fine for general "what is everyone working on" stuff.
We all have areas of expertise, and I don't have enough knowledge to have input in some areas of what is being done...similarly, there are only a couple people on the team with the knowledge base to comment on what I'm working on.
If two people independently invent something, then I think it should be non-patentable by definition.
The whole point of patents is to make public information on how to do something *that would otherwise be lost*. If multiple people independently invent something, then it seems to me that it is not in danger of being lost.
If the only reason something is patentable is because nobody ever had that specific problem before, but the solution is obvious to an expert, then it shouldn't be patentable.
I've had to deal with assembly language stuff for x86, powerpc, mips, and arm. Among other things, I've found bugs in the locking in glibc and in the kernel.
While this sort of stuff takes some experience, I wouldn't call it "uber" level....any reasonably proficient programmer could wrap their heads around it if they tried.
For "uber" programmers, I'd point to the core kernel developers, the core X/Wayland developers, the core glibc developers, and presumably the core OSX/Windows developers.
Some Playboy and Penthouse folks have degrees and use them. They're not being nude just to make money.
Sure they are.
The fact that they may *also* be smart/talented doesn't affect the fact that the vast majority of them are getting nude purely for the money. Maybe some for the thrill. They're certainly not doing it to solve world hunger, cure cancer, or bring about global peace.
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Around here the traffic cams are overhead aiming down at an angle. I've never been dazzled by the flash from one.
There/their/they're all sound the same, as do here/hear and your/you're and many others. How can I make sure that it used the right one without looking at it?
And even if it were to allow you to keep your eyes on the road, you're still going to be somewhat distracted by the mental effort to verify that what it's reading back is in fact what you want to send.
I don't know about you, but whenever I use the voice-to-text capabilities in android there are multiple wrong words. Given that, I'd be willing to be that the vast majority of people would in fact check to make sure the text was correct before sending.
One-off stuff is fine, that's called volunteering.
The system shouldn't be set up to essentially require people to volunteer in order to get experience...but it's basically impossible to prevent people from volunteering _should they so choose_.
An "internship" to me is a paid position for someone who is still in training and is therefore not ready to be hired as a permanent employee.
I worked as an "intern" for 16 months for a telecom provider, and got what I considered to be a decent wage for it. (About 3/5 the starting wage for a fresh-out-of-school programmer at that company).
If someone wants to volunteer for a position on their own time, then that's okay--but that's not what I'd call an internship position, and the system shouldn't be set up to have people needing to volunteer full-time.
when the fracking fluids are coming out in the tap water
While I realize that in many places hands-free is still allowed (here too) there is quite a bit of research that shows that it's still a significant distraction to the driver.
I'd personally be fine with a rule that if a vehicle is travelling above a certain speed (20mph for example) then they shouldn't be allowed to talk on the phone at all. Might be hard to enforce though.
Unless you can accurately identify exactly what time the wreck happened, there is no way to tell if someone was texting when the crash happened.
Given the ever-increasing level of techology in cars, I'd be surprised if the on-board computer doesn't have a record of when the crash occurred.
Assuming the air bags deploy, there is almost certainly a record of the time of deployment in the car's on-board computer (assuming a recent enough car).
There are numerous studies that show that a driver who is texting is at least as degraded in terms of driving ability as one who is just over the legal limit for alcohol.
Copying millions of them could be.
There's a researcher (who is also a trained sommelier) who is using chemistry to produce unconventional wine/food pairings based on underlying shared aromatic compounds. Seems to be working well for him.
You don't stop obeying the law, you vote in a new government and get the laws changed.
If you cannot get the laws changed to something you can live with, move somewhere else.
We have a paid relationship with a Linux OS vendor. When we find problems we file bugs into their system, and they generally *do* get addressed. Not always as fast as we'd like or in the exact way that we'd like, but they do get attention.
What timezone do you use? Factor in that the timezone may not be correctly set in the first place, or the machine may be roaming, or accessing via a VPN.
the date formats, THE DATE FORMATS! If only everyone used YYYYMMDD.
ISO 8601, the One True Date Format. Today is 2013-06-06
There are ranges where every integer is represented, other ranges where every other one is missing.
The real smoking gun is that several grades just below a passing grade appear to be promoted up to pass.
I have a 2yr old core i3 laptop that runs office apps just fine. It'll do high def streaming just fine too. "Regular" office stuff just isn't all that strenuous.
There are scenarios where you would see a difference, but they tend to be more technical users...video editing or transcoding, source code compilation, database indexing, numerical simulation, etc.
While I'm interested in what my team members are doing, rarely is it necessary for me to be up-to-date on their daily activities. A weekly catch-up meeting is fine for general "what is everyone working on" stuff.
We all have areas of expertise, and I don't have enough knowledge to have input in some areas of what is being done...similarly, there are only a couple people on the team with the knowledge base to comment on what I'm working on.
If two people independently invent something, then I think it should be non-patentable by definition.
The whole point of patents is to make public information on how to do something *that would otherwise be lost*. If multiple people independently invent something, then it seems to me that it is not in danger of being lost.
If the only reason something is patentable is because nobody ever had that specific problem before, but the solution is obvious to an expert, then it shouldn't be patentable.
So Sasktel has the best coverage by far, but Rogers/Fido/etc. have the better plans for low usage.
I'm actually currently using the 7-11 Speakout plan.
I read somewhere that the 2-year limit actually applies to existing contracts, too. Might be worth checking out.
I've had to deal with assembly language stuff for x86, powerpc, mips, and arm. Among other things, I've found bugs in the locking in glibc and in the kernel.
While this sort of stuff takes some experience, I wouldn't call it "uber" level....any reasonably proficient programmer could wrap their heads around it if they tried.
For "uber" programmers, I'd point to the core kernel developers, the core X/Wayland developers, the core glibc developers, and presumably the core OSX/Windows developers.
Some Playboy and Penthouse folks have degrees and use them. They're not being nude just to make money.
Sure they are.
The fact that they may *also* be smart/talented doesn't affect the fact that the vast majority of them are getting nude purely for the money. Maybe some for the thrill. They're certainly not doing it to solve world hunger, cure cancer, or bring about global peace.