Raise the level of skill needed to pass the driving test, skill not necessary being a function of how well somebody follows the letter of the law, but of the conditions that might be reasonably encountered outside of the driving test. Not only would there be fewer drivers, but all of the drivers would be certified to be of a skill level appropriate for real world conditions.
For example, some driving tests involve navigating a bunch of cones at 25 or 30MPH. How about making drivers navigate the cones at a 60MPH minimum (and spacing the cones out appropriately)? Because on the highway, drivers will not be going 30MPH, they'd probably be going 65 or 70.
Or, vary the spaceing of those cones (and use something taller than just a cone), from wide to so narrow that there's very little room on either side of the car. Do it for both straight runs and turns.
Also, a safe way to present unforseen obstacles on the course (like you see on TV with the special forces training) would be using water, kinda like this system in Sydney.
The real problem, of course, is that a car is a very powerful piece of equipment. Misued, mishandled, very bad things can result, even at low speeds. The low bar to entry for a driver's license is the state washing their own hands clean of the responsibility of keeping the roads safe.
Microsoft has their fanbois too (albeit not as many as Apple). Where are the Facebook fanbois?
See the thing is, Microsoft's evil was limited to developers and partners initially (less so recently). So the user was largely shielded from these tales of woe. Facebook, on the other hand, was user-facing from day one, and treated them like crap from day one.
That's because talking smack is only a part of the game. It's not personal. To keep talking smack once the competition is takes things from professional to personal, which is indeed bad form.
These types of people only stop competing with each other at death, so the smack talk will continue until somebody dies.
Note this doesn't mean Bill Gates is no longer competing with Apple. It's just that he's aiming in Tim Cook's direction now.
Considering you have about 90 degrees of forward-backwards movement in either direction in a normal car, but you have that plus close to a full 360 degrees of vertical-horizontal movement in a flying car, there's a lot more ways to crash a flying vehicle. And yes, you can crash into things going up.
Even if they had one, it seems it's not one that is so simple as to make unauthorized decryption effortless. I would rather think that they purposely included some design flaws into their scheme, and are using those known flaws as an exploit to (much) more easily get to the key.
Their problem is that the company's run by marketers instead of engineers.
No, Apple is run by marketers. Microsoft is run by salespeople.
The difference between a salesperson and a marketer is that marketers look for what people want, and try to emphasize it. Salespeople tell people what they want.
Word is fairly underpowered for professional writing, but if you were an accountant, you'd be hard-pressed to find a replacement to Excel.
Microsoft Office's professional products are more Excel, Powerpoint, Outlook, and Access. Word is just something to round out their offerings, an easy-to-use, amateurish but sufficiently featureful product that'll get their foot in the door.
If this isn't completely killed by the major publishers of art (music, movies, etc.) in the near term, then this could end up being a major distribution channel rivaling iTunes.
Imagine grabbing a torrent and having the option of directly paying the band, or having the option of going to the band's homepage or storefront for physical media or memorabilia. That would be pretty sweet. Of course, this could theoretically be subverted by bad actors (like people falsely representing others, the publishers themselves, or malware peddlers), so Bittorrent as the gatekeepers would have to be very careful about what they accept and not.
The bundles site itself is atrocious though. They really should be taking design cues from popular trackers and not the old Myspace pages of the artists they're featuring.
Sure, if you were a part of Amazon, Ebay, Yahoo, or Google, they might have the resources to figure out how much sales tax you owe to which state and when to pay.
But if you're a smaller, independent retailer with your own payment processor, then you're screwed. You'll spend several million dollars developing or licensing a taxation management system. That's several million dollars you could've been spending on being competitive with the big dogs in the market, or several million passed right back onto the customer.
Nice. Way to promote small business growth, congress.
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Raise the level of skill needed to pass the driving test, skill not necessary being a function of how well somebody follows the letter of the law, but of the conditions that might be reasonably encountered outside of the driving test. Not only would there be fewer drivers, but all of the drivers would be certified to be of a skill level appropriate for real world conditions.
For example, some driving tests involve navigating a bunch of cones at 25 or 30MPH. How about making drivers navigate the cones at a 60MPH minimum (and spacing the cones out appropriately)? Because on the highway, drivers will not be going 30MPH, they'd probably be going 65 or 70.
Or, vary the spaceing of those cones (and use something taller than just a cone), from wide to so narrow that there's very little room on either side of the car. Do it for both straight runs and turns.
Also, a safe way to present unforseen obstacles on the course (like you see on TV with the special forces training) would be using water, kinda like this system in Sydney.
The real problem, of course, is that a car is a very powerful piece of equipment. Misued, mishandled, very bad things can result, even at low speeds. The low bar to entry for a driver's license is the state washing their own hands clean of the responsibility of keeping the roads safe.
You mean those junk DNA results were faked?
One of the authors of the paper. Hello mods?
I think everyone would really appreciate it if you didn't comment on anything else anymore.
Sounds like it has the qualifications to run for public office.
Microsoft has their fanbois too (albeit not as many as Apple). Where are the Facebook fanbois?
See the thing is, Microsoft's evil was limited to developers and partners initially (less so recently). So the user was largely shielded from these tales of woe. Facebook, on the other hand, was user-facing from day one, and treated them like crap from day one.
Javascript.
That's because talking smack is only a part of the game. It's not personal. To keep talking smack once the competition is takes things from professional to personal, which is indeed bad form.
These types of people only stop competing with each other at death, so the smack talk will continue until somebody dies.
Note this doesn't mean Bill Gates is no longer competing with Apple. It's just that he's aiming in Tim Cook's direction now.
It's SeeCool, buddy.
It's derived from the experience programmers have with their bosses when using it.
Programmer: See?
Manager: Cool.
Considering you have about 90 degrees of forward-backwards movement in either direction in a normal car, but you have that plus close to a full 360 degrees of vertical-horizontal movement in a flying car, there's a lot more ways to crash a flying vehicle. And yes, you can crash into things going up.
I am not sure if american astronauts do so much singing, and perhaps its covered extensively by their local media's lawyers
This is why we can't have nice things in the U.S.
Even if they had one, it seems it's not one that is so simple as to make unauthorized decryption effortless. I would rather think that they purposely included some design flaws into their scheme, and are using those known flaws as an exploit to (much) more easily get to the key.
Their problem is that the company's run by marketers instead of engineers.
No, Apple is run by marketers. Microsoft is run by salespeople.
The difference between a salesperson and a marketer is that marketers look for what people want, and try to emphasize it. Salespeople tell people what they want.
It has a higher success rate. For people here anyway.
I can tell you that if the cat wasn't neutered, it would sound like a trip to the hospital.
I'm still waiting for the Linux version of Active Directory. Until then, I don't think they're going to have an easy time moving away from Exchange.
Word is fairly underpowered for professional writing, but if you were an accountant, you'd be hard-pressed to find a replacement to Excel.
Microsoft Office's professional products are more Excel, Powerpoint, Outlook, and Access. Word is just something to round out their offerings, an easy-to-use, amateurish but sufficiently featureful product that'll get their foot in the door.
Write to your congressperson! Write to your senators! Write to everybody! If enough people write, then maybe there's a chance this will pass.
There's no battle going on. Google Docs is nowhere near Microsoft Office. If there is a battle, it's only on the Google side.
If this isn't completely killed by the major publishers of art (music, movies, etc.) in the near term, then this could end up being a major distribution channel rivaling iTunes.
Imagine grabbing a torrent and having the option of directly paying the band, or having the option of going to the band's homepage or storefront for physical media or memorabilia. That would be pretty sweet. Of course, this could theoretically be subverted by bad actors (like people falsely representing others, the publishers themselves, or malware peddlers), so Bittorrent as the gatekeepers would have to be very careful about what they accept and not.
The bundles site itself is atrocious though. They really should be taking design cues from popular trackers and not the old Myspace pages of the artists they're featuring.
The lack of control in an airplane is one of the reasons why the newest "anti-"terrorism security measures are so easy to implement in the airport.
People want control. Period.
They did one better and put out Windows RT. Man is it hard to find a working ISO for that.
Arguably, they've had some success with piracy before all this activation thing. Microsoft Bob wasn't very popular with the pirates, IIRC.
Is Mircrosoft reporting their code?
That would be unfairly skewing the numbers upwards against proprietary software, what with both Windows RT and 8 being completely defective and all.
That's because it didn't have a countdown timer. Everybody knows it's only a bomb if there's a LCD readout of the time left to detonation.
Yup. There goes the medium-sized businesses.
Sure, if you were a part of Amazon, Ebay, Yahoo, or Google, they might have the resources to figure out how much sales tax you owe to which state and when to pay.
But if you're a smaller, independent retailer with your own payment processor, then you're screwed. You'll spend several million dollars developing or licensing a taxation management system. That's several million dollars you could've been spending on being competitive with the big dogs in the market, or several million passed right back onto the customer.
Nice. Way to promote small business growth, congress.