I think I know who it is but I'm not 100% sure. I'll give you a clue - he's a former editor of a major national tabloid and widely hated. But he's not Piers Morgan.
It's not Alan Shearer. I know who it is but there's no way I'm going posting it here. All I'm saying is that he's not very well known and if I tell you you'll shrug.
You wouldn't be conscious when you get there, but you'd wake up.
Again referring to a conversation I had with a private jet pilot the other week, he was talking about how the plane he was flying had an auto-descent function if cabin pressure was lost. This is because at over 40,000ft, you black out so quickly that it's pretty hard for the pilot to get his mask on in time. So the plane immediately bombs to 11,000 feet and levels out. The reason that it goes to this height is that this is when oxygen levels will be high enough to bring people round again.
I was talking to a private jet pilot about this just the other week, actually. Now, they fly quite a bit higher than commercial airliners, at 40-something thousand feet, but he said that in the event of sudden depressurisation, his time of "useful consciousness" would be about six seconds. So if he doesn't get that mask on immediately, everybody's in big trouble. Of course, chances are that the people in the back would be unconscious and even brain-damaged by the time he got to a breathable altitude anyway, but one must do what one can.
So remember kids, if that mask ever drops, don't muck about, get it on right away.
To move the window, if you're on a Mac. The grabbable area in a Chrome window is tiny, and quite often you'll end up hiding it by accident. It's mighty annoying and I'd gladly give up a few pixels for a proper bar that works like everything else.
Hang on - aren't most pickups rear-wheel drive, with very little weight over the driven wheels when unloaded (as they invariably are), and therefore the absolute worst thing to drive in snow?
Sadly, this is what sells cars, and so this is what car manufacturers have to cater for. And in fact, not just cars, but even their accessories. Tyre manufacturers frequently reject new, better-performing tread patterns because they don't look pretty enough. Personally, I find this completely bizarre, because I'm fairly certain that almost nobody chooses tyres based on looks, but it's true all the same.
Sure there is. And furthermore, you'll find huge differences between different social and ethnic groups even within those cities. There's an infinite variety of subtle and not-so-subtle differences which constantly cross-pollinate. Any attempt to ring-fence something and declare it "standard English" is doomed.
The Fiesta very much is made by Ford, in their factory in Cologne (and maybe some other places too by now). I really don't know what you're talking about.
You should compare it to the European one. I've driven both. They look the same on the outside, but drive very differently, and the American one has noticeably inferior interior trim. But then, in America the Focus is a really cheap car, whereas in Europe it's average family transport and thus is built to a higher spec.
He probably just wishes he could buy a European Ford in America as they're generally far superior. Presumably the reason why they aren't available is that Americans aren't used to paying so much money for small cars. There's less of a perceived correlation between size, status and quality on this side of the pond.
They're terrified, that's why. They like the cover of trees to keep them safe from predators. Leaving them in an open field with no cover means they turn to each other for protection.
Not only that, but it's incredibly misogynistic. Which might seem perverse, as its target market is middle-aged women, but it would seem that in the Mail's estimation, there's nothing they hate more than other women.
I'm not at all sure about cats, but I know for sure that dogs do that because they're surprisingly bad at spotting things which aren't moving. Their vision's all geared up for tracking moving prey, so as you say, they'll follow the trajectory of a moving object, or even its expected trajectory, no problem. But once it stops moving, they're actually better off using secondary cues, such as watching you to try and work out what you did with it.
Anyway, is this really a test of intelligence, or persistence?
I have a friend who worked for a while on a lion breeding programme in Zimbabwe, reintroducing captive-bred animals to the wild. He's got no end of hair-raising anecdotes about the scrapes that the lions in his charge got him into as they learned to hunt and so on. But he's very lucky in that during his time there he seemed to be a magnet for wild dogs. They're pretty rare, and most people never get to see them, but he was fortunate enough to have several encounters. He says that you knew when the wild dogs had rolled into the area because everything else left. Animals will put up with lions hanging around, even in really close proximity, because most of the time they're no threat. But the dogs? Relentless hunting machines that always got what they came for.
Just one man's point of view, but an interesting one.
Make people pick a strong password and then let them keep it. I mean, if it never exists outside somebody's head, it can't get lost or stolen. Forcing regular changes makes them likely to forget, or run out of ideas and choose weaker passwords. For example, I know someone who copes with the requirement to change regularly by cycling through the names and numbers of the players of his football team. This is fairly easily guessed at, and he wouldn't have to do it if he didn't have to keep changing his password.
Obviously I've no numbers to back it up, but I'd imagine security is breached far more often by finding passwords scribbled on Post-Its than by brute-forcing. I mean, that's really hard to do, and the rewards have to be well worth the effort, which they seldom are. So eliminate the need to write them down which so many people obviously feel.
Nobody knows my passwords but me. I've never written them down. I've never suffered any security compromises.
I know someone who works there, and he tells me that when it was bought out, that Tom guy was very resistant to making the sort of changes to the site that anybody could see were needed. So it limped on with its awful mess of a Coldfusion codebase and no attempt to give it the sort of stickiness that saw Facebook skyrocket.
It's too late now. They've had their five years in the sun which any site like this can expect to have. It's just another graveyard like Geocities now. And honestly, did anybody expect anything else?
0-60 times really have nothing to do with the situation you describe. Diesels tend not to be so hot on them, because before the turbo spins up they can be sluggish. Try looking at the 30-70 in-gear time, which more closely replicates pulling into fast-moving traffic, and you'll find that they perform very nicely.
The most impressive thing about Salisbury Cathedral is that that whacking great building, with its 400-foot steeple, has foundations that are four feet deep. And it's built on a water meadow. It essentially floats. How's that for engineering?
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I think I know who it is but I'm not 100% sure. I'll give you a clue - he's a former editor of a major national tabloid and widely hated. But he's not Piers Morgan.
It's not Alan Shearer. I know who it is but there's no way I'm going posting it here. All I'm saying is that he's not very well known and if I tell you you'll shrug.
Oh, right. What about the letter bomber active in Scotland this very week? Do I even need to mention Northern Ireland?
You wouldn't be conscious when you get there, but you'd wake up.
Again referring to a conversation I had with a private jet pilot the other week, he was talking about how the plane he was flying had an auto-descent function if cabin pressure was lost. This is because at over 40,000ft, you black out so quickly that it's pretty hard for the pilot to get his mask on in time. So the plane immediately bombs to 11,000 feet and levels out. The reason that it goes to this height is that this is when oxygen levels will be high enough to bring people round again.
I was talking to a private jet pilot about this just the other week, actually. Now, they fly quite a bit higher than commercial airliners, at 40-something thousand feet, but he said that in the event of sudden depressurisation, his time of "useful consciousness" would be about six seconds. So if he doesn't get that mask on immediately, everybody's in big trouble. Of course, chances are that the people in the back would be unconscious and even brain-damaged by the time he got to a breathable altitude anyway, but one must do what one can.
So remember kids, if that mask ever drops, don't muck about, get it on right away.
Weren't the rolling blackouts caused by people like Enron speculating with the energy supply?
To move the window, if you're on a Mac. The grabbable area in a Chrome window is tiny, and quite often you'll end up hiding it by accident. It's mighty annoying and I'd gladly give up a few pixels for a proper bar that works like everything else.
It's definitely worth getting the warranty...
Hang on - aren't most pickups rear-wheel drive, with very little weight over the driven wheels when unloaded (as they invariably are), and therefore the absolute worst thing to drive in snow?
Sadly, this is what sells cars, and so this is what car manufacturers have to cater for. And in fact, not just cars, but even their accessories. Tyre manufacturers frequently reject new, better-performing tread patterns because they don't look pretty enough. Personally, I find this completely bizarre, because I'm fairly certain that almost nobody chooses tyres based on looks, but it's true all the same.
Training.
Don't forget lots and lots of revenue from selling people training in new ways to do things they already knew how to do.
Sure there is. And furthermore, you'll find huge differences between different social and ethnic groups even within those cities. There's an infinite variety of subtle and not-so-subtle differences which constantly cross-pollinate. Any attempt to ring-fence something and declare it "standard English" is doomed.
The Fiesta very much is made by Ford, in their factory in Cologne (and maybe some other places too by now). I really don't know what you're talking about.
You should compare it to the European one. I've driven both. They look the same on the outside, but drive very differently, and the American one has noticeably inferior interior trim. But then, in America the Focus is a really cheap car, whereas in Europe it's average family transport and thus is built to a higher spec.
He probably just wishes he could buy a European Ford in America as they're generally far superior. Presumably the reason why they aren't available is that Americans aren't used to paying so much money for small cars. There's less of a perceived correlation between size, status and quality on this side of the pond.
They're terrified, that's why. They like the cover of trees to keep them safe from predators. Leaving them in an open field with no cover means they turn to each other for protection.
Not only that, but it's incredibly misogynistic. Which might seem perverse, as its target market is middle-aged women, but it would seem that in the Mail's estimation, there's nothing they hate more than other women.
I'm not at all sure about cats, but I know for sure that dogs do that because they're surprisingly bad at spotting things which aren't moving. Their vision's all geared up for tracking moving prey, so as you say, they'll follow the trajectory of a moving object, or even its expected trajectory, no problem. But once it stops moving, they're actually better off using secondary cues, such as watching you to try and work out what you did with it.
Anyway, is this really a test of intelligence, or persistence?
I have a friend who worked for a while on a lion breeding programme in Zimbabwe, reintroducing captive-bred animals to the wild. He's got no end of hair-raising anecdotes about the scrapes that the lions in his charge got him into as they learned to hunt and so on. But he's very lucky in that during his time there he seemed to be a magnet for wild dogs. They're pretty rare, and most people never get to see them, but he was fortunate enough to have several encounters. He says that you knew when the wild dogs had rolled into the area because everything else left. Animals will put up with lions hanging around, even in really close proximity, because most of the time they're no threat. But the dogs? Relentless hunting machines that always got what they came for.
Just one man's point of view, but an interesting one.
Lions.
Make people pick a strong password and then let them keep it. I mean, if it never exists outside somebody's head, it can't get lost or stolen. Forcing regular changes makes them likely to forget, or run out of ideas and choose weaker passwords. For example, I know someone who copes with the requirement to change regularly by cycling through the names and numbers of the players of his football team. This is fairly easily guessed at, and he wouldn't have to do it if he didn't have to keep changing his password.
Obviously I've no numbers to back it up, but I'd imagine security is breached far more often by finding passwords scribbled on Post-Its than by brute-forcing. I mean, that's really hard to do, and the rewards have to be well worth the effort, which they seldom are. So eliminate the need to write them down which so many people obviously feel.
Nobody knows my passwords but me. I've never written them down. I've never suffered any security compromises.
I know someone who works there, and he tells me that when it was bought out, that Tom guy was very resistant to making the sort of changes to the site that anybody could see were needed. So it limped on with its awful mess of a Coldfusion codebase and no attempt to give it the sort of stickiness that saw Facebook skyrocket.
It's too late now. They've had their five years in the sun which any site like this can expect to have. It's just another graveyard like Geocities now. And honestly, did anybody expect anything else?
You'd have a point if it was plastic. But it's glass.
0-60 times really have nothing to do with the situation you describe. Diesels tend not to be so hot on them, because before the turbo spins up they can be sluggish. Try looking at the 30-70 in-gear time, which more closely replicates pulling into fast-moving traffic, and you'll find that they perform very nicely.
The most impressive thing about Salisbury Cathedral is that that whacking great building, with its 400-foot steeple, has foundations that are four feet deep. And it's built on a water meadow. It essentially floats. How's that for engineering?