Tell me about it. We've been working on that problem in Seattle for some time now, and we still haven't gotten it right. Part of it is that we consider buses to be primarily about environmentalism rather than a social service like they are in the cities you mention. And part of it is that we haven't gotten to the point where we're willing to bite the bullet and completely redo all our routes. Half of which all run through our downtown core. Making for trips that don't logically start or end near there take longer and added confusion about when to pay the fare.
We're getting light rail which should help the situation out, but that's mostly being tunneled and not going to be complete for at least a decade at this point. Even then it's not going to be comprehensive.
Indeed, this has been a known problem for a while. Groupon typically recommends that businesses set some sort of a limit on the number of coupons available, at least during the first try to see what the response is and to verify that you can handle the extra business. While I do have sympathy for business owners that fail to heed the recommendation, it's hardly Groupon's fault if you don't set any sort of limit on the number of coupons being sold.
Now, had this been a glitch on Groupon's side, that would be completely different.
Indeed, this sounds dangerously like changing the OSI model as it applies to wireless. I suspect that they could find away of doing that without changing the model, but one of the reasons for a lot of the network design decisions surrounding WiFi was to allow for the same protocol to be used for as much of the process as possible.
I'm sure that there are all sorts of neat things that we could do if we chuck it in the waste bin, but we'd also have to upgrade a substantial amount of infrastructure to do it. I suspect that there's a way of avoiding most of that, but it's not a particularly easy fix. Especially when things like HVAC and such shouldn't be operated wirelessly anyways.
Precisely, which is why you'd get that response. If the company wanted you to use an iPad for your job they would either provide it or provide resources with which IT would support it. It's really clear that under typical circumstances that they won't provide the support unless they provide the equipment.
Plus, self entitled assholes like you make it a lot more difficult for the rest of us to get our work done.
Also by convention in the third person singular you typically use "he" unless you know the sex of the individual to whom you're referring. That's starting to change, but I wouldn't personally put any particular stock in sexism without more than just adhering to that one convention.
I've seen that frequently. In my experience it's even worse in union shops where the management is also trying to destroy the union as an ego trip. The problem is that in the US there is this culture that it's the managers that produce everything and the workers who are leeches, when the reality is that without competent workers there would be no money or resources for the managers to manage.
With programming this is a lot more reasonable than it is in other endeavors. Back in olden times when development was more expensive to get into, I doubt very much that anybody that wasn't interested enough to own the tools was interested enough to even apply.
Unlike other types of jobs, programming experience can at least be had for cheap, even if you do have to work at a sucky job while you do your first few projects.
Good luck getting jobs where you do have to actually have a job, rather than just samples, in order to get an entry level position.
The problem there is that we don't know everything and as long as there are things we don't know and can't be presently studying, that void is going to be filled by something. The main problem is that religion doesn't end up being benign as people tend to get really militant about the fact that they aren't right, that there is no conclusive evidence to support their views.
If you read up on Einstein's religious views, they are somewhat at odds with the popular notion of him as a scientist, but they weren't particularly in conflict with them either. The main line not to cross as a scientist is when you accept them as fact without having adequately studied and verified them.
Indeed, I'm rather heavy into meditation these days and the things which come with it, but it's never clear precisely where the line between metaphor and reality lies in terms of instruction. And that's really pretty common outside of science, and really in it as well. One is never really sure when it comes to the Heisenberg uncertainty principle if you really can't know both location and speed or if the knowledge requires something which we haven't yet determined. Hypothetically there are all sorts of scenarios in which we could know both, it's just that nobody has managed to find one that is scientifically defensible and as such the reality at present is that it's one or the other.
So, they disabled the preference, but didn't remove it completely? I'm sorry, but that's just not responsible. There are some things which the user should have to do without help. If he wants to open the file, fine, but automatically opening random files that have been downloaded isn't something that should be allowed, with or without the users approval.
Which is really why companies need to be held accountable for exploits in their code rather than being allowed to require that somebody else pay for their incompetence. It worries me a great deal how many sites don't use https for log ins or insist upon not giving users a way of getting in without Flash.
I'm sure we'd see serious movement quickly if all of a sudden they were themselves responsible for their actions or inaction as the case may be.
I'm always shocked by the sites I pay for in one way or another that have advertisers as well. Seems to me that if the business is selling things to me and I'm paying, that I shouldn't also have to put up with advertisements for other sites, worst ones are the ones with tracking and no ads, and no particular explanation or apology for it.
It gets a bit iffy when states regulate businesses that do business in multiple states. There is a body of precedence to cover much of it, but the courts still haven't caught up with more recent innovations that have come from the internet so I'd expect it to be a while to firmly establish what the rules are and how the various constitutions apply.
The OP was joking, but I definitely agree with you there. It's troubling to me that I have to install addons in order to opt out of being tracked by businesses with whom I have no business. I've gotten to the point that I just blacklist ad firm cookies because they don't care whether or not I consent to be tracked.
Unfortunately, web sites are not required to make it clear with whom they share my information or who actually owns all that javascript that they seem to think is essential to browsing the site.
It's more common in some areas of medicine than in others. But I know that in psychiatry if they don't make a diagnosis then the insurance company definitely won't pay. Whereas if they do suddenly the patient gets crap treatment and most of their medical complaints blamed on mental illness.
What's worse is that the area of psychiatry is hardly one where diagnoses are clearly separable from other options, and doctors usually get the difference between insomnia and depression wrong leading to patients being prescribed antidepressants when bed rest would do more good. Antidepressants usually interfere with sleep leading to often times even worse sleep.
That's not common. For one thing there's no way in hell that insurance would cover all that testing, and for another, there's only so many tests a doctor can talk a patient into for a minor malady.
This, but ultimately it depends a lot upon how well the scripts were coded and whether or not portability was taken into consideration. If the scripts use the relevant modules to handle things like paths, that's much more likely to work out. But if they haven't, it's probably going to be a huge pain to try and port them over to Windows.
One of the ideas I've seen floating around is actually traveling far distances by going into space and then dropping down where you're wanting to go. I think that's the most likely application for this, at least in the near term. The other one being an orbiting hotel.
That's not how that works. If you've got the obnoxious music inside the car, there is no way that you could direct this technology where you'd be able to hear the motorcycle. You could however direct it so that they could hear you're obnoxious music, but you couldn't hear them.
There's that, but there's also the question of why that would be desirable anyways. I assumed that meant between sets, but even that doesn't seem particularly useful. If you've genuinely blocked the sound from penetrating in that direction the people on the other side of the wall shouldn't have anything relevant to say.
I'm not sure this would be of any use in a recording studio. Typically they use monitors, and it's not because of the wall. The reason for the sound proofing is because the audio engineer is more interested in what they've got on tape than what's actually being produced. Because ultimately that's what they're going to have available when they go to master the CDs, not the actual sound that's being produced.
You really wouldn't want to turn it around either, because you don't want to have to find completely silent equipment just so that you can talk to the band without using an intercom.
I suppose if you wanted to give the execs a way of ducking in to listen to a bit of production without disturbing things this would be helpful, but otherwise I'm not seeing a use here.
It's been pretty well established that schizophrenics are rarely truly incapable of communication, just that frequently they encode the messages in an ad hoc register known only to them. I remember my abnormal psych book quoting patients that had been doing that prior to treatment. I've found that it's been fairly accurate in the limited number of people I've met that communicate like that. But if you've got access to the code book you can often times decode the speech. It's not easy because it requires a lot of working memory, but the speech is usually not completely incomprehensible. Of course it really depends which type of schizophrenia you're referring to.
The communication style itself depends heavily upon a large memory capacity and increased ability to infer meaning. I don't personally have enough experience dealing with folks with schizophrenia to really know how accurate that perception is, but my observations would definitely be consistent with that.
I also spent a period schizoaffective and my memory back then was a lot better than it is now. I'd rarely if ever forget anything, and I'm still haunted by that. It's inherently unsettling to find that somebody you sat on the same bus with several months previous has been gunned down in a murder suicide.
I wouldn't care to suggest a causal relation there, but as my social interactions improved my memory eventually started to diminish. Oddly enough, I also started to dream at night rather than during the day.
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Tell me about it. We've been working on that problem in Seattle for some time now, and we still haven't gotten it right. Part of it is that we consider buses to be primarily about environmentalism rather than a social service like they are in the cities you mention. And part of it is that we haven't gotten to the point where we're willing to bite the bullet and completely redo all our routes. Half of which all run through our downtown core. Making for trips that don't logically start or end near there take longer and added confusion about when to pay the fare.
We're getting light rail which should help the situation out, but that's mostly being tunneled and not going to be complete for at least a decade at this point. Even then it's not going to be comprehensive.
Indeed, this has been a known problem for a while. Groupon typically recommends that businesses set some sort of a limit on the number of coupons available, at least during the first try to see what the response is and to verify that you can handle the extra business. While I do have sympathy for business owners that fail to heed the recommendation, it's hardly Groupon's fault if you don't set any sort of limit on the number of coupons being sold.
Now, had this been a glitch on Groupon's side, that would be completely different.
Indeed, this sounds dangerously like changing the OSI model as it applies to wireless. I suspect that they could find away of doing that without changing the model, but one of the reasons for a lot of the network design decisions surrounding WiFi was to allow for the same protocol to be used for as much of the process as possible.
I'm sure that there are all sorts of neat things that we could do if we chuck it in the waste bin, but we'd also have to upgrade a substantial amount of infrastructure to do it. I suspect that there's a way of avoiding most of that, but it's not a particularly easy fix. Especially when things like HVAC and such shouldn't be operated wirelessly anyways.
Precisely, which is why you'd get that response. If the company wanted you to use an iPad for your job they would either provide it or provide resources with which IT would support it. It's really clear that under typical circumstances that they won't provide the support unless they provide the equipment.
Plus, self entitled assholes like you make it a lot more difficult for the rest of us to get our work done.
Also by convention in the third person singular you typically use "he" unless you know the sex of the individual to whom you're referring. That's starting to change, but I wouldn't personally put any particular stock in sexism without more than just adhering to that one convention.
I've seen that frequently. In my experience it's even worse in union shops where the management is also trying to destroy the union as an ego trip. The problem is that in the US there is this culture that it's the managers that produce everything and the workers who are leeches, when the reality is that without competent workers there would be no money or resources for the managers to manage.
With programming this is a lot more reasonable than it is in other endeavors. Back in olden times when development was more expensive to get into, I doubt very much that anybody that wasn't interested enough to own the tools was interested enough to even apply.
Unlike other types of jobs, programming experience can at least be had for cheap, even if you do have to work at a sucky job while you do your first few projects.
Good luck getting jobs where you do have to actually have a job, rather than just samples, in order to get an entry level position.
The problem there is that we don't know everything and as long as there are things we don't know and can't be presently studying, that void is going to be filled by something. The main problem is that religion doesn't end up being benign as people tend to get really militant about the fact that they aren't right, that there is no conclusive evidence to support their views.
If you read up on Einstein's religious views, they are somewhat at odds with the popular notion of him as a scientist, but they weren't particularly in conflict with them either. The main line not to cross as a scientist is when you accept them as fact without having adequately studied and verified them.
Indeed, I'm rather heavy into meditation these days and the things which come with it, but it's never clear precisely where the line between metaphor and reality lies in terms of instruction. And that's really pretty common outside of science, and really in it as well. One is never really sure when it comes to the Heisenberg uncertainty principle if you really can't know both location and speed or if the knowledge requires something which we haven't yet determined. Hypothetically there are all sorts of scenarios in which we could know both, it's just that nobody has managed to find one that is scientifically defensible and as such the reality at present is that it's one or the other.
So, they disabled the preference, but didn't remove it completely? I'm sorry, but that's just not responsible. There are some things which the user should have to do without help. If he wants to open the file, fine, but automatically opening random files that have been downloaded isn't something that should be allowed, with or without the users approval.
Which is really why companies need to be held accountable for exploits in their code rather than being allowed to require that somebody else pay for their incompetence. It worries me a great deal how many sites don't use https for log ins or insist upon not giving users a way of getting in without Flash.
I'm sure we'd see serious movement quickly if all of a sudden they were themselves responsible for their actions or inaction as the case may be.
I'm always shocked by the sites I pay for in one way or another that have advertisers as well. Seems to me that if the business is selling things to me and I'm paying, that I shouldn't also have to put up with advertisements for other sites, worst ones are the ones with tracking and no ads, and no particular explanation or apology for it.
It gets a bit iffy when states regulate businesses that do business in multiple states. There is a body of precedence to cover much of it, but the courts still haven't caught up with more recent innovations that have come from the internet so I'd expect it to be a while to firmly establish what the rules are and how the various constitutions apply.
The OP was joking, but I definitely agree with you there. It's troubling to me that I have to install addons in order to opt out of being tracked by businesses with whom I have no business. I've gotten to the point that I just blacklist ad firm cookies because they don't care whether or not I consent to be tracked.
Unfortunately, web sites are not required to make it clear with whom they share my information or who actually owns all that javascript that they seem to think is essential to browsing the site.
5 sounds overly optimistic, I'd say at most 1 or 2.
This.
It's more common in some areas of medicine than in others. But I know that in psychiatry if they don't make a diagnosis then the insurance company definitely won't pay. Whereas if they do suddenly the patient gets crap treatment and most of their medical complaints blamed on mental illness.
What's worse is that the area of psychiatry is hardly one where diagnoses are clearly separable from other options, and doctors usually get the difference between insomnia and depression wrong leading to patients being prescribed antidepressants when bed rest would do more good. Antidepressants usually interfere with sleep leading to often times even worse sleep.
That's not common. For one thing there's no way in hell that insurance would cover all that testing, and for another, there's only so many tests a doctor can talk a patient into for a minor malady.
This, but ultimately it depends a lot upon how well the scripts were coded and whether or not portability was taken into consideration. If the scripts use the relevant modules to handle things like paths, that's much more likely to work out. But if they haven't, it's probably going to be a huge pain to try and port them over to Windows.
Really? You're going to sell us inferior products at low prices, even as stealing the designs for yourself?
One of the ideas I've seen floating around is actually traveling far distances by going into space and then dropping down where you're wanting to go. I think that's the most likely application for this, at least in the near term. The other one being an orbiting hotel.
That's not how that works. If you've got the obnoxious music inside the car, there is no way that you could direct this technology where you'd be able to hear the motorcycle. You could however direct it so that they could hear you're obnoxious music, but you couldn't hear them.
There's that, but there's also the question of why that would be desirable anyways. I assumed that meant between sets, but even that doesn't seem particularly useful. If you've genuinely blocked the sound from penetrating in that direction the people on the other side of the wall shouldn't have anything relevant to say.
I'm not sure this would be of any use in a recording studio. Typically they use monitors, and it's not because of the wall. The reason for the sound proofing is because the audio engineer is more interested in what they've got on tape than what's actually being produced. Because ultimately that's what they're going to have available when they go to master the CDs, not the actual sound that's being produced.
You really wouldn't want to turn it around either, because you don't want to have to find completely silent equipment just so that you can talk to the band without using an intercom.
I suppose if you wanted to give the execs a way of ducking in to listen to a bit of production without disturbing things this would be helpful, but otherwise I'm not seeing a use here.
Looks fine to me. Say, when's your next appointment with your psychiatrist?
It's been pretty well established that schizophrenics are rarely truly incapable of communication, just that frequently they encode the messages in an ad hoc register known only to them. I remember my abnormal psych book quoting patients that had been doing that prior to treatment. I've found that it's been fairly accurate in the limited number of people I've met that communicate like that. But if you've got access to the code book you can often times decode the speech. It's not easy because it requires a lot of working memory, but the speech is usually not completely incomprehensible. Of course it really depends which type of schizophrenia you're referring to.
The communication style itself depends heavily upon a large memory capacity and increased ability to infer meaning. I don't personally have enough experience dealing with folks with schizophrenia to really know how accurate that perception is, but my observations would definitely be consistent with that.
I also spent a period schizoaffective and my memory back then was a lot better than it is now. I'd rarely if ever forget anything, and I'm still haunted by that. It's inherently unsettling to find that somebody you sat on the same bus with several months previous has been gunned down in a murder suicide.
I wouldn't care to suggest a causal relation there, but as my social interactions improved my memory eventually started to diminish. Oddly enough, I also started to dream at night rather than during the day.