Apple has the high-end smart-phone market, Android the mid and low end, and - horror of honours it looks as though Blackberry's old corporate market for centrally controlled and secured phones might be going to MicroSoft.
Everybody's focussing on this "tight space" bit and ignoring the fact that a self-parking car will be far more likely to center itself in its lane than a regular driver.
Maybe that's because both the summary and the article specifically mention squeezing in to tight spaces as one of the uses of the system.
I would like to see how well the sensors work in winter season here in Finland when your car is covered in snow, ice and thick layer of dirt 4-5 months of the year...
As a matter of interest how well do the existing "parking sensors" work?
So you can expect to come back to the car park and find your car boxed in by one of these parked each side six inches from your car.
Have you thought that the car would try to wirelessly communicate with the nearby cars to see if they support a similar parking feature and only park in a tight spot if they reply YES?
TFA certainly doesn't mention this - is Ford including it?
No... that's one of the problems with anonymity, it's easier to fake. However, it's very, very important, especially in places in which your vote is more likely to be coerced. The advantages of anonymity far outweigh the disadvantages.
There are strongly held views, based in particular on reported first-hand
experience by some campaigners and elected representatives in particular,
that electoral fraud is more likely to be committed by or in support of
candidates standing for election in areas which are largely or predominately
populated by some South Asian communities, specifically those with roots in
parts of Pakistan or Bangladesh.
I wonder what the stance is if you have a car capable of doing it for you in the test? Maybe not too common now, but in the future..
You have this now, Even thirty years ago when I took my test, when most of us had to hone clutch control for the slow manoeuvres like the three point turn and reversing round the corner , a friend of mine took hist test in a Land Rover and just engaged low ratio. Now my car has hill-start assist, turns the wipers on when it rains, the lights on when it gets dark - many will parallel park - all things that could make the difference between a pass and a fail. Oh and an emergency stop in the wet required more judgement before ABS.
This is ideal for both parking in tight spaces (i.e., you don't have to squeeze your way out of your vehicle while trying not to bang the next car's door)
So you can expect to come back to the car park and find your car boxed in by one of these parked each side six inches from your car. I've had this done to me manually occasionally (one parking forward and one reverse so both drivers' doors face away) and it's very annoying.
And yet, what is their plan to keep everyone on the wifi from being banned from everything everywhere? You get hundreds of people on one IP address from one gigantic wireless router and you've got a problem. One person does something stupid on slashdot, you're all IP banned. Last I heard, they don't send down individual outside IPs to everyone who connects. Even if they do, it'd shift around so much that it's basically the pay phone of the internet. You can commit any crime online and they'll never find you because it's anonymous. Yeah, they can sort of track it but I can sort of fake my MAC address and laptop name too.
First of all there is no necessity to use a single IP address, they could route to a pool of addresses. When IPV6 comes along they could use individual addresses. Even if they use one address, they just won't ban it from Google services. For the reset "not our problem, contact the site admin"
They are indeed members of the species "homo sapiens". And you're right, no other species on earth would do such a thing. Mostly because no other species on earth builds graphics cards.
Daglass: I figure the following: Sanch is regressing to Homo neanderthalenus. Right now Sanch you're Homo erectus but who knows how long you’ve got? Sanchez: I appreciate you being straight with me. Reed: And you and I are Homo sapiens? Daglass: Correct. Reed: But if we’re all basically Homos, shouldn’t we get along?
I agree, some things like halving halves to make a quarter are easier to show in two dimensions.
And how do you visualize 1/3-1/5 or 1/3+1/5 with pies or tootsie rolls ? Either metaphor (pies or tootsie rolls) is fundamentally flawed in that it captures only 1 property of fractions (fraction of a whole) and that's it.
In UK schools they use Unifix blocks which are essentially the same as the "tootsie roll" examples. The way these would be used would be to make several columns of 15 blocks. One would be divided into three parts and the other into five. They could then easily illustrate adding 1/3 + 1/5 by adding one of the "three part division" to one of the "five part division". Counting would show that the answer was 8/15 and comparrison to the whole 15 parts would show that it is just over half.
This would also illustrate why you have to get the fractions to have the same denominator. Subtraction is a bit harder - they would have to take away the 3 15ths from the 5 15ths but you get the idea
Was it pure failure,or today's sick fascination with 'mobile' that would lead a 'modern-replacement-for-X' project to have "multi-monitor issues"?I
The thing is that Weyland is just as mobile friendly as Mir: The freedesktop site says: "The Weston compositor is a minimal and fast compositor and is suitable for many embedded and mobile use cases".
You specified Ubuntu GNOME, yet the article was about Ubuntu in particular. Despite Ubuntu GNOME being Ubuntu based, I had expected that if anything, they would be supporting Wayland. Did the Ubuntu GNOME group express any sort of interest in Mir?
No the point is that when Ubuntu switches to Mir, Ubuntu gnome will have to replace the whole graphics server and compositor rather than just teh display manager, amd to get advantage of Weyland use Weyland-enabled apps. It probaby won't be worth doing - the resulting system would be so different that you may as well have your own debian based distribution as making a variant of Ubuntu.
I have a difficult time believing that there are no special rules/exemptions for convertibles. They would seriously demand that you lock your doors to protect fifty bucks worth of groceries, AND be fully prepared to pay for the replacement of your top when somebody sliced it to open the door lock and get at those groceries?
What is not covered? ...
* loss or damage caused by theft or attempted theft or fire if your car has been unlocked and
unattended or the keys have been left in or on your car ...
* property from an open and/or unlocked convertable car, unless the property was locked in
the boot or glove compartment
It would if we were interested in the botnet owner' profit margin. However, we're more interested in what costs the botnet owner impose on society in comparison to his private gains. Someone who would smash a $1000 computer to gain $1000 for himself is deemed less contemptible than the one would do it for $1 for himself.
I'm not sure about that. There was an article in a local paper about someone who did £1,000 worth of damage breaking into a soft-top sports car to steal a pack of biscuits on the seat. The general consensus was that he was a loser and a moron but he got a lower fine than someone stealing £1,000 worth of goods woula have done.
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Apple has the high-end smart-phone market, Android the mid and low end, and - horror of honours it looks as though Blackberry's old corporate market for centrally controlled and secured phones might be going to MicroSoft.
Everybody's focussing on this "tight space" bit and ignoring the fact that a self-parking car will be far more likely to center itself in its lane than a regular driver.
Maybe that's because both the summary and the article specifically mention squeezing in to tight spaces as one of the uses of the system.
I would like to see how well the sensors work in winter season here in Finland when your car is covered in snow, ice and thick layer of dirt 4-5 months of the year...
As a matter of interest how well do the existing "parking sensors" work?
So you can expect to come back to the car park and find your car boxed in by one of these parked each side six inches from your car.
Have you thought that the car would try to wirelessly communicate with the nearby cars to see if they support a similar parking feature and only park in a tight spot if they reply YES?
TFA certainly doesn't mention this - is Ford including it?
No... that's one of the problems with anonymity, it's easier to fake. However, it's very, very important, especially in places in which your vote is more likely to be coerced. The advantages of anonymity far outweigh the disadvantages.
I totally agree. When the UK abandoned this fraud became more common. Of course Muslims are forcing votes in order to get sharia and terrorist friendly representatives:
There are strongly held views, based in particular on reported first-hand experience by some campaigners and elected representatives in particular, that electoral fraud is more likely to be committed by or in support of candidates standing for election in areas which are largely or predominately populated by some South Asian communities, specifically those with roots in parts of Pakistan or Bangladesh.
I wonder what the stance is if you have a car capable of doing it for you in the test? Maybe not too common now, but in the future..
You have this now, Even thirty years ago when I took my test, when most of us had to hone clutch control for the slow manoeuvres like the three point turn and reversing round the corner , a friend of mine took hist test in a Land Rover and just engaged low ratio. Now my car has hill-start assist, turns the wipers on when it rains, the lights on when it gets dark - many will parallel park - all things that could make the difference between a pass and a fail. Oh and an emergency stop in the wet required more judgement before ABS.
This is ideal for both parking in tight spaces (i.e., you don't have to squeeze your way out of your vehicle while trying not to bang the next car's door)
So you can expect to come back to the car park and find your car boxed in by one of these parked each side six inches from your car. I've had this done to me manually occasionally (one parking forward and one reverse so both drivers' doors face away) and it's very annoying.
And yet, what is their plan to keep everyone on the wifi from being banned from everything everywhere? You get hundreds of people on one IP address from one gigantic wireless router and you've got a problem. One person does something stupid on slashdot, you're all IP banned. Last I heard, they don't send down individual outside IPs to everyone who connects. Even if they do, it'd shift around so much that it's basically the pay phone of the internet. You can commit any crime online and they'll never find you because it's anonymous. Yeah, they can sort of track it but I can sort of fake my MAC address and laptop name too.
First of all there is no necessity to use a single IP address, they could route to a pool of addresses. When IPV6 comes along they could use individual addresses. Even if they use one address, they just won't ban it from Google services. For the reset "not our problem, contact the site admin"
Weaver said in an email, while the traceable nature of bitcoin transfers means the FBI "can now easily follow the money."
WTF I thought part of the point of Bitcoin was it's bloody difficult to trace!!
I find all money difficult to trace .... my wife takes it and I see not race of it again.
They are indeed members of the species "homo sapiens". And you're right, no other species on earth would do such a thing. Mostly because no other species on earth builds graphics cards.
Reminds me of Garth Marenghi's Darkplace:
Daglass: I figure the following: Sanch is regressing to Homo neanderthalenus. Right now Sanch you're Homo erectus but who knows how long you’ve got?
Sanchez: I appreciate you being straight with me.
Reed: And you and I are Homo sapiens?
Daglass: Correct.
Reed: But if we’re all basically Homos, shouldn’t we get along?
And the number of jobs that require less thinking is decreasing relative to the number of people that can't think well.
You are talking outside of politics, aren't you?
I do admire the Chinese.Just think - being chased by a deadly hornet and still measuring the distance run with such accuracy.
We've used to use Jaffa Cakes to teach phases of the moon in the UK.
I like the idea of that .... take bigger bites out until its gone!
They need to use both.
I agree, some things like halving halves to make a quarter are easier to show in two dimensions.
And how do you visualize 1/3-1/5 or 1/3+1/5 with pies or tootsie rolls ? Either metaphor (pies or tootsie rolls) is fundamentally flawed in that it captures only 1 property of fractions (fraction of a whole) and that's it.
In UK schools they use Unifix blocks which are essentially the same as the "tootsie roll" examples. The way these would be used would be to make several columns of 15 blocks. One would be divided into three parts and the other into five. They could then easily illustrate adding 1/3 + 1/5 by adding one of the "three part division" to one of the "five part division". Counting would show that the answer was 8/15 and comparrison to the whole 15 parts would show that it is just over half.
This would also illustrate why you have to get the fractions to have the same denominator. Subtraction is a bit harder - they would have to take away the 3 15ths from the 5 15ths but you get the idea
They need to use both.
I agree, some things like halving halves to make a quarter are easier to show in two dimensions.
What the fuck is a tootsie roll?
Was it pure failure,or today's sick fascination with 'mobile' that would lead a 'modern-replacement-for-X' project to have "multi-monitor issues"?I
The thing is that Weyland is just as mobile friendly as Mir: The freedesktop site says: "The Weston compositor is a minimal and fast compositor and is suitable for many embedded and mobile use cases".
You specified Ubuntu GNOME, yet the article was about Ubuntu in particular. Despite Ubuntu GNOME being Ubuntu based, I had expected that if anything, they would be supporting Wayland. Did the Ubuntu GNOME group express any sort of interest in Mir?
No the point is that when Ubuntu switches to Mir, Ubuntu gnome will have to replace the whole graphics server and compositor rather than just teh display manager, amd to get advantage of Weyland use Weyland-enabled apps. It probaby won't be worth doing - the resulting system would be so different that you may as well have your own debian based distribution as making a variant of Ubuntu.
If they continue to have problems perhaps they will go back to the idea of supporting the Wayland project. There's hope for Ubuntu Gnome yet.
I have a difficult time believing that there are no special rules/exemptions for convertibles. They would seriously demand that you lock your doors to protect fifty bucks worth of groceries, AND be fully prepared to pay for the replacement of your top when somebody sliced it to open the door lock and get at those groceries?
I don't know about every policy, but this is typical:
What is not covered?
...
...
* loss or damage caused by theft or attempted theft or fire if your car has been unlocked and unattended or the keys have been left in or on your car
* property from an open and/or unlocked convertable car, unless the property was locked in the boot or glove compartment
The moron was the owner of the car.
Speaking as an old California boy, who has always had convertibles... anyone who locks the doors of a convertible deserves what they get.
Not necessarily in the UK, where leaving a car unlocked can be grounds for the insurance refusing to pay out if it gets stolen. -- ~~~~
It would if we were interested in the botnet owner' profit margin. However, we're more interested in what costs the botnet owner impose on society in comparison to his private gains. Someone who would smash a $1000 computer to gain $1000 for himself is deemed less contemptible than the one would do it for $1 for himself.
I'm not sure about that. There was an article in a local paper about someone who did £1,000 worth of damage breaking into a soft-top sports car to steal a pack of biscuits on the seat. The general consensus was that he was a loser and a moron but he got a lower fine than someone stealing £1,000 worth of goods woula have done.
That's not true anymore. The explosives has been removed year ago.
Probably safer. All it takes is for one of the guards to convert to Islam and BOOM
Imagine the Republicans are in the same situation some time and a democratic congress adds a clause into a budget enacting gun control. Fair?
So you're replying to comments not yet made? GOD I hope there won't be any fanboy replies.
I'm a fanboi of the French you insensitive clod