Why do you think that a passenger should not be allowed to play a game?
While the startup notifications are annoying and condescending, the alerts that popup when you are moving faster than say 15 mph (which is easy to achieve on a bycicle) are condescending, annoying, and require a response which is distracting. I think it would be horribly and terribly ironic if the idiot who was driving while playing was pressing the "i am a passenger" button at the time of impact.
Other apps, eg. Waze do this too. I think the app cannot make the judgement of whether it is safe for me to use. I do not think it should be a function of an application to keep you from doing stupid stuff, nor should the app go out of it's way to make you do stupid stuff (posit a malicious map or game app that purposely puts you in dangerous positions, eg, if pokeman put a Meow Two in the middle of a cloverleaf). An app should be neutral and the app should focus on providing entertainment or information, or whatever it is designed to do. For example, reading The Bible might be good for your soul but there doesn't need to be a disclaimer on the cover 'Please do not read books while operating a motor vehicle'. I think "thou shalt not kill" is universally applicable, perhaps just not taken to heart enough until sad events like this take place.
FYI: BGA = Ball Grid Array, "Ball Grid Array rework is one of the most challenging procedures performed at assembly facilities and repair depots around the world. " --- http://www.circuitrework.com/f...
When you are Secretary of State, isn't it you who determines what needs to be kept secret and what doesn't? How do we know the emails on her personal server weren't "intentional leaks" for the purpose of advancing some statecraft motive?
Awesome demo, when is it going to be released? These are some of the things I been expecting ever since they got decent VR. It's a wonder to me why Siri can't accomplish these things like they intentionally dumbed it down for the masses. There is no excuse why this can't run locally on the phone.
"Read me the front page of the New York Times."
"Read me the first chapter of Moby Dick"
"Tell me who just sent the last text message."... "Read it to me."
"Every weekday morning at 6AM, Wake me up and Play me headline news from Agogo."
I use SUA (Microsoft Subsystem for UNIX-based Applications). It comes as an addon with Win 7 Ultimate and you can run it on Win 7 Enterprise. It isn't perfect but it allows me to run a Korn shell under Windows and do most standard commands like find, grep, ls, tail -f, and vi. It got phased out with Win 8 (MS please stop taking functionality away!!!). I hope this UBUNTU thing will be similar and better, there is alot of room for improvement with SUA but it sure beats not having it for me. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
I wholeheartedly agree! Show me some science backing up this crazy belief that running with headphones is more dangerous than sitting on a sofa watching TV while eating a bag of chips. I always hear this belief but I never see any real hard facts. This is like being afraid of sharks when you are more likely to die slipping in your bathtub.
The fact that phones and music are banned in many marathons and branded Ironman events agravates me. Why can someone have a wrist computer and a bike computer but not a pocket computer? Why do they not want me to be able to communicate? I think a phone is nearly essential for safety's sake when you are out running or biking.
I am a triathlete. I run with my iPhone 5. The one with the size advantage of being small. It can last a 5 hour marathon. It lasts me for 6 hour bike rides. Sadly with IOS 9, in normal mode it will not last for an ironman, it can do a half, if you are fast enough, with gps and music. Put it in a plastic bag to protect it from sweat. Use bluetooth headphones that won't fall out your ears. Pay attention to your surroundings like a defensive driver. I like listening to music while I am running and biking just like people like to listen to music while they are in their car. I use my eyes and other senses to compensate for what my ears are missing. When I feel I need more situational awareness, I reduce the volume or take my headphones off.
Better yet, just outlaw music altogether. And the meek shall inherit the earth...;)
Alaska is a huge expanse, over twice the size of Texas, constituting almost 18 percent of the land mass of the USA. Obama is the first sitting president to visit. Only like 750,000 people live there. Amazing.
At only 21000 feet, Denali doesn't even rank in Earth's highest (altitude) places. Remarkably it is in the top 3 for prominence. No longer will the mountain have to be referenced as "Denali (Mt. McKinley)" or "Mt. McKinley (Denali)". People will no longer have to explain the two names over and over and over.
If only he'd do something else reasonable like creating an executive order forcing the use of the metric system!
I took Sebastian Thrun's excellent class at Udacity concerning programming AI for self-driving cars. There were no neural networks involved. Basically, it is about using sensor data, known maps, and control of steering and velocity, to stay on the road while maintaining safe distances from other objects.
What kind of malicious ignorant douche am I to want to just go to the airport and get on a plane without having to get there early so I can wait in line have my time wasted, my property and body molested by hands, xrays or focussed magnetic fields?
Back in the day a call starts on a originating trunk/port and ends on a terminating trunk/port on a telecom switch. That term trunk can be a local trunk or a route to another switch. Today, I suppose, that inbound trunk could be the internet and the outbound trunk could be the internet as well. Also, the outbound trunk may be a long distance switch which may or may not be owned by the same carrier.
Each switch has a record of where the call came from and its disposition true for sure, matching one switch's records to another's is a relatively simple. If all of the switches are owned by the same company it is possible to match all the call records from multiple switches and have a complete record of the call. I know it's doable because I've done it. If not all switches are owned by the same carrier, it is probably very challenging, (unless something has changed over the years to increase record sharing or something which I belive carriers were loath to do), since you have to get records from all the carriers for the call. Now throw the internet-originated calls into the mix and it's going to be very challenging unless you are somehow listening to everything or have access to everyone's database.
Correct me if I am wrong as it has been quite a few years since I did this telecom stuff. I was only familiar with SS7 and ISDN; it's probably SS10 and ISDN++# today.
A good leader leads to a good place. A bad leader to a bad place. Often a very good leader will make great personal sacrifices. How can a leader that leads to bad place be successful?
In a flock of seagulls or a bike peloton, the leader pulls until he can no longer pull well, then moves back so a fresh leader can arise, that way the group, including the leader, gets to the destination. In these cases the pack chooses the destination.
Leadership is not about power. Leadership is about getting there. A good leader takes you where you want to go.
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I live near train tracks. Most of the noise comes from the whistle!!!
Must see musical: Chi-Raq
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Comments by director Spike Lee:
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Why do you think that a passenger should not be allowed to play a game?
While the startup notifications are annoying and condescending, the alerts that popup when you are moving faster than say 15 mph (which is easy to achieve on a bycicle) are condescending, annoying, and require a response which is distracting. I think it would be horribly and terribly ironic if the idiot who was driving while playing was pressing the "i am a passenger" button at the time of impact.
Other apps, eg. Waze do this too. I think the app cannot make the judgement of whether it is safe for me to use. I do not think it should be a function of an application to keep you from doing stupid stuff, nor should the app go out of it's way to make you do stupid stuff (posit a malicious map or game app that purposely puts you in dangerous positions, eg, if pokeman put a Meow Two in the middle of a cloverleaf). An app should be neutral and the app should focus on providing entertainment or information, or whatever it is designed to do. For example, reading The Bible might be good for your soul but there doesn't need to be a disclaimer on the cover 'Please do not read books while operating a motor vehicle'. I think "thou shalt not kill" is universally applicable, perhaps just not taken to heart enough until sad events like this take place.
FYI: BGA = Ball Grid Array,
"Ball Grid Array rework is one of the most challenging procedures performed at assembly facilities and repair depots around the world. " ---
http://www.circuitrework.com/f...
How are you going to catch Pokemon?
When you are Secretary of State, isn't it you who determines what needs to be kept secret and what doesn't? How do we know the emails on her personal server weren't "intentional leaks" for the purpose of advancing some statecraft motive?
Horseshoe crab blood powder derivitive is used to determine if vaccines are tainted by bacteria.
The difference between the appearance of self awareness to self awareness is essentially what makes us alive. That difference cannot be coded.
No one here gets out alive.
Awesome demo, when is it going to be released? These are some of the things I been expecting ever since they got decent VR. It's a wonder to me why Siri can't accomplish these things like they intentionally dumbed it down for the masses. There is no excuse why this can't run locally on the phone.
"Read me the front page of the New York Times."
"Read me the first chapter of Moby Dick"
"Tell me who just sent the last text message."...
"Read it to me."
"Every weekday morning at 6AM, Wake me up and Play me headline news from Agogo."
Wake up! You're dreaming!!!
Or... the event/act-ual creation of a quantum computer changes the universe in/which it does.
It seems we are all alone in this together.
Realization Concerns Sadly Misplaced: when your daughter comes out as a lesbian.
I use SUA (Microsoft Subsystem for UNIX-based Applications). It comes as an addon with Win 7 Ultimate and you can run it on Win 7 Enterprise. It isn't perfect but it allows me to run a Korn shell under Windows and do most standard commands like find, grep, ls, tail -f, and vi. It got phased out with Win 8 (MS please stop taking functionality away!!!). I hope this UBUNTU thing will be similar and better, there is alot of room for improvement with SUA but it sure beats not having it for me.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Find surveilance of the guy unlocking his phone in public. Problem solved!
I wholeheartedly agree! Show me some science backing up this crazy belief that running with headphones is more dangerous than sitting on a sofa watching TV while eating a bag of chips. I always hear this belief but I never see any real hard facts. This is like being afraid of sharks when you are more likely to die slipping in your bathtub.
The fact that phones and music are banned in many marathons and branded Ironman events agravates me. Why can someone have a wrist computer and a bike computer but not a pocket computer? Why do they not want me to be able to communicate? I think a phone is nearly essential for safety's sake when you are out running or biking.
I am a triathlete. I run with my iPhone 5. The one with the size advantage of being small. It can last a 5 hour marathon. It lasts me for 6 hour bike rides. Sadly with IOS 9, in normal mode it will not last for an ironman, it can do a half, if you are fast enough, with gps and music. Put it in a plastic bag to protect it from sweat. Use bluetooth headphones that won't fall out your ears. Pay attention to your surroundings like a defensive driver. I like listening to music while I am running and biking just like people like to listen to music while they are in their car. I use my eyes and other senses to compensate for what my ears are missing. When I feel I need more situational awareness, I reduce the volume or take my headphones off.
Better yet, just outlaw music altogether. And the meek shall inherit the earth... ;)
Look like he gets an invite to the white house to show his clock.
https://twitter.com/POTUS/stat...
ReXX (and variant Kexx) for text; J for maths, Occam for parallel processing.
Alaska is a huge expanse, over twice the size of Texas, constituting almost 18 percent of the land mass of the USA. Obama is the first sitting president to visit. Only like 750,000 people live there. Amazing.
At only 21000 feet, Denali doesn't even rank in Earth's highest (altitude) places. Remarkably it is in the top 3 for prominence. No longer will the mountain have to be referenced as "Denali (Mt. McKinley)" or "Mt. McKinley (Denali)". People will no longer have to explain the two names over and over and over.
If only he'd do something else reasonable like creating an executive order forcing the use of the metric system!
BPH - Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia
I took Sebastian Thrun's excellent class at Udacity concerning programming AI for self-driving cars. There were no neural networks involved. Basically, it is about using sensor data, known maps, and control of steering and velocity, to stay on the road while maintaining safe distances from other objects.
D = Double precision (as opposed to S = Single precision, C - Complex single precision, or Z - Complex Double precision)
GE = GEneral, as opposed to HErmetian for example.
M = Matrix
M = Multiplication
What kind of malicious ignorant douche am I to want to just go to the airport and get on a plane without having to get there early so I can wait in line have my time wasted, my property and body molested by hands, xrays or focussed magnetic fields?
Back in the day a call starts on a originating trunk/port and ends on a terminating trunk/port on a telecom switch. That term trunk can be a local trunk or a route to another switch. Today, I suppose, that inbound trunk could be the internet and the outbound trunk could be the internet as well. Also, the outbound trunk may be a long distance switch which may or may not be owned by the same carrier.
Each switch has a record of where the call came from and its disposition true for sure, matching one switch's records to another's is a relatively simple. If all of the switches are owned by the same company it is possible to match all the call records from multiple switches and have a complete record of the call. I know it's doable because I've done it. If not all switches are owned by the same carrier, it is probably very challenging, (unless something has changed over the years to increase record sharing or something which I belive carriers were loath to do), since you have to get records from all the carriers for the call. Now throw the internet-originated calls into the mix and it's going to be very challenging unless you are somehow listening to everything or have access to everyone's database.
Correct me if I am wrong as it has been quite a few years since I did this telecom stuff. I was only familiar with SS7 and ISDN; it's probably SS10 and ISDN++# today.
A good leader leads to a good place. A bad leader to a bad place. Often a very good leader will make great personal sacrifices. How can a leader that leads to bad place be successful?
In a flock of seagulls or a bike peloton, the leader pulls until he can no longer pull well, then moves back so a fresh leader can arise, that way the group, including the leader, gets to the destination. In these cases the pack chooses the destination.
Leadership is not about power. Leadership is about getting there. A good leader takes you where you want to go.