You forgot the first-generation Pontiac Aztek, and arguably, the VW Thing. But the Aztek is undeniable. It looks like the bounding box for a PT Cruiser. It looks like the shipping crate for a Citroen.
I rate the Aztek as being less ugly that the PT Cruiser, plus the Aztek never made it outside the US.
I've seen a PT Cruiser Cabrio and thought it'd have to be the most useless convertible ever, You'd only be able to use it on unlit roads at the dead of night to ensure no-one saw you in it.
No, HP is pretty much dead in the enterprise as well. Their hardware is now lacklustre and only seems to exist as a part of selling their overpriced consulting services under HP Enterprise Services (Formerly EDS).
Lack of sleep puts you at risk for just about everything in the way of illness.
Might be related, but when I get sick I tend to sleep a lot. The last bout of Man Flu I got I only emerged from bed to seek food and sometimes medication.
But for me, the number 1 reason that I get sick is the fact I work in the middle of an open plan office (AKA an incubator). I get subject to every airborne illness that any other worker carries in, I swear they're actually fighting in a battle royale to determine which one will infect me.
So..here we go with Obama and the PC folks, basically needing to re-write history again. No more old symbols, if it is something a white guy did, gotta take that down, etc.
Geez...why are we needing to tear down everything old or rename it in the name of political correctness or whatever. Let things be and build from there, eh?
every time i see someone whine about "political correctness", i notice what they're really asking for is continuing permission to be a jerk to others.
Pretty sure Muslims worldwide will claim these findings are offensive and disrespectful to Islam and as such we will put them aside and pretend they don't exist. Which is pretty much the modus operandi from the West for anything that might offend Muslims.
Pretty sure most Muslims wont give a shit.
But people who watch Fox News wont have a clue as they'll only show some obscure cleric out in Bumfuckistan having a big old rant about it.
If Al Jazera was like Fox news, they'd claim a Klansman was the average American.
The average Muslim takes their religions as seriously as the average Christian these days. If you look hard enough, you'll find nutters in every faith.
The astronomical cost of the F-35 means that 1) we won't make that many of them and 2) we won't deploy that many of them.
The F35 is a peace time fighter. Same with the F22 and Eurofighter. Too expensive and complex for a proper shooting war. Even the Russian and Chinese offerings will need to be put through some simplification before they're ready to be mass produced on the scale needed for war.
If the shit really hit the fan (and somehow no-one dropped the bomb) then the current crop of aircraft will be radically redesigned to be cheaper and simpler to manufacture. WWII demonstrated that with Nazi Germany producing vastly superior tanks but because of their complexity, they were swarmed by cheaper, mass produced tanks. So in a shooting war against an enemy that can defend itself, the fighters we have dont matter as much as the fighters we can build.
The British had the same problem in WWII, their existing bomber force consisting of Blenheims and Wellingtons would be wiped out in 3 months. So they started designing new bombers, such as that thing they knocked together out of balsa wood and glue which became one of the most famous fighter-bombers of all time.
Oh, I lived - and worked - in Belgium and Chile for 2 years each.
I know for a fact the Belgium one is a lie. When you get a working visa for the Schengen countries you're automatically registered with the governments of the Eurozone. That's the purpose of getting a visa and you cant work without a visa.
You dont register with the local police, if the local police need to know anything about you they can look you up.
Lesson 1 about lying on the internet. Keep your lies believable.
Now that we've established the Belgium part is a fabrication, I'll wager good money the Chile and China parts are also fabrications. I've got a working visa in Hong Kong, no need to register with the police there. Shortly I'll have one for the UK, done a crapload of research, again no need to register with the police.
I know when I travel to Asia, South America, or Europe, I need to present my passport at all hotels I stay at
Sounds like you've never travelled to Asia, South America or Europe... Because you only use your passport as a method of ID at hotels. A Hotel needs to know that you are the person you claim to be. I travel to a few places in SE Asia on a regular basis. They know who I am and dont bother asking for ID any more. So much so I've even got a rapport with a few customs officers at Perth.
Also, I was also required to present ID at every US hotel I stayed at. The most convenient form is the Passport as they're fairly standard from country to country. I had more than a few US bartenders squint at my Western Australian drivers license for a while before they served me.
When I worked in Belgium, Chile and China, I had to register with the Government and provide the local police station with my information
When I travel to the United States, I have to Register with the Electronic System for Travel Authorisation in order to board a flight to the US. No ESTA, no entry.
It costs about $4 and there are a variety of middlemen who charge upwards of $20 to do the same thing (so make sure you go to the DHS website). This form asks for a variety of information, not just for ID purposes, but personal questions as well (like "Do you have gonorrhoea") feel free to go through it yourself. At least they've stopped asking if I'm a Nazi.
Also when I was coming back to the US from South America a few years back I had to provide proof of an outgoing flight and my hotel prior to being permitted to board a flight in Panama.
I don't think that tourists need to provide their passports at hotels, nor do visa holders need to register with the local police station.
Next time, stop writing after "think".
As an Australian traveller, the US is an oddity. There are few places in the world where I need to fill in an application form to visit.
Oh well then, just drop in to your nearest police station or FBI department every morning during your stay to say howdy. Nothing wrong with that.
The equivalent took place in former communist countries. I remember visiting the DDR (East Germany) and having to turn in my passport every night. Get a little perspective here, please.
I know 3 people from the former DDR and I've never heard any of them refer to it as "the land of the free".
We do not need Apple for this. What we need is an interface that is porgrammable that can do all of this and do it regardless of Apple or Samsung.
What we need are head units that are replaceable.
Head units will become obsolete faster than brakes, suspension or radiators, yet all of these are easy to replace.
In 5 years, your head unit will be horribly out of date, not just in software but hardware which cant be fixed by a firmware update. A $150 head unit will be more advanced than a $1000 head unit from 5 years ago. Even if the manufacturer has bothered to update it.
"I'd be happy if folks would just bother to use their blinkers, instead of fiddling around with other hi-tech in their cars."
I'd be happy if people would go forward when the light changes so I can get through the intersection before the light turns red again. instead of texting, or updating Facebook, or whatever the fuck they're doing with their stupid phones.
You have a device fitted to your vehicle for use in these cases. Its usually connected to the steering wheel (although old SAABs liked to put it in strange places) and when engaged it will make a loud sound.
I give people about 3 seconds before I do this, for those with a difficulty in perceiving time, this is long enough to say "wake up Jeff, we need you for the show".
BTW, as the owner of a loud car, when I see someone on their phone at the lights in my rear view mirror, I generally give it a bit of throttle to wake them up. Its fun to watch them drop their phone and panic. The death stares they give me after they realise I'm doing it deliberately are priceless.
what keeps you up? the noise, the awkward body position?
I wish it was that simple an answer.
I simply do not know, it's definitely not noise as I've slept through a cyclone before. Once asleep, I am a very difficult person to wake. Probably not vibration either as I can sleep in cars and trains.
Could be the atmospheric conditions (dry air, pressurised to a higher altitude) but I cant say anything for certain except I dont sleep on planes.
That being said, I think the Nexus 5 really was the best looking phone on the market when I bought one. Mostly because it did not have that goofy curved back that some Samsung phones have, nor that absurdly large bezel that Motorola has. I hope the Nexus 5mkII looks the same.
When I showed my Nexus 5 to my car detailer, he was shocked at how good it was simply to hold compared to his Iphone 6 and Samsung Galaxy S 5.
This is a car detailer, so he really didn't know much, nor care about the technical details. He was just impressed by how easy it is to hold for such a large phone (IMHO, its due to the type of plastic used for the backing). These are the kinds of things that non-phone people find important. His first question was about how good the camera is, which is pretty damn good on the Nexus 5. The problem is, the Nexus 5 is no longer for sale.
That and the airports usually require that the airport location not charge more than their locations in the city center. So somebody like McDonald's has to charge the same price. The newsstands typically *only* have airport locations so there is no baseline comparison.
Erm, I've seen newsagents in the centre of most cities I've visited so there is a baseline comparison.
The big difference is you've got more foot traffic willing to buy in a city centre.
Nobody who has done Android development is surprised to hear this.
I generally find the opposite, the ones crowing about fragmentation tend to be the ones who have no experience in development on Android (and indeed any non-iPhone platform) and handling perfectly pedestrian problems that we've been working with for all of programming history...
Different hardware and OS versions is standard standard, part of being a programmer...
This.
If you want to avoid version issues with Android, target the lower API levels. Sure you miss out all of the newer features, but you dont need those for a fart app. Android itself handles most (or all of, in most cases) of the backwards compatibility.
Besides this, we've seen the problems inherent in monocultures in IT. Remember I.E. 6... This is why aged web developers never complain about writing compatibility layers for Firefox, Chrome and Webkit browsers.
I can't think of a valid reason an individual LEO should be allowed control of an individual self-driving vehicle, ever. There is simply too much potential for abuse.
The correct answer to "when should cops be allowed to take control of an autonomous vehicle" is "never".
An autonomous vehicle should never allow remote control because it's only a matter of time before it gets compromised and then used by someone with less than benign purposes.
How do I pull off this witchcraft? I don't go to sleep the night before a flight. so when I get to the plane... I'm pretty tired... and I can reliably sleep whenever and where ever I want to sleep.
He's a witch, can we burn him.
Seriously, I cant just turn my self off like a light. Tried, failed and it doesn't matter how tired I am. The only time I've ever slept on a plane was chemically assisted (I was royally hung over) and this was on a 1 hour flight from Bangkok to Phnom Penn.
I've flown from Perth, Western Australia to Las Vegas (assuming everyone knows where that is) and didn't get a jot of sleep, I even stayed up until 9 PM local time to avoid jet lag which worked, I was completely functional at 8 AM the next day, which is odd, I'm not normally functional at that time. I spent 42 hours waking in total considering I arrived at LV at 3 PM.
I'm sure I'm not the first person in the world to have come up with the idea of putting a Dollar Store in an airport. Since I've never owned or operated a retail outlet of any kind, though, I can imagine there's some sort of prohibition to the idea that I haven't thought of yet
The reason you don't see dollar stores at airports or malls, is that they operate at very low margins. If they sell you stuff at $1, they would simply not be able to afford rent at a premium spot like that. There is no law against it, it is just not economical.
This, low margins and high volume.
Only a certain type of businesses can afford to support the higher rents of an airport with high volume, this is why Burger King/Mickey D's is the same price airside but newsagents charge $4 for a pen. A McD's will see the volume necessary to support those prices and still make a profit whilst a dollar store wont.
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Yep the one car that is uglier than a PT Cruiser.
You forgot the first-generation Pontiac Aztek, and arguably, the VW Thing. But the Aztek is undeniable. It looks like the bounding box for a PT Cruiser. It looks like the shipping crate for a Citroen.
I rate the Aztek as being less ugly that the PT Cruiser, plus the Aztek never made it outside the US. I've seen a PT Cruiser Cabrio and thought it'd have to be the most useless convertible ever, You'd only be able to use it on unlit roads at the dead of night to ensure no-one saw you in it.
i3? Yuck.
Yep the one car that is uglier than a PT Cruiser.
I used to play in a garage band called Brain Eating Amoebas.
I was once in a band called 1023 Megabytes, we never made it to our first gig.
Cause so many workers dislike their jobs, or in the words of Deichkind, "Arbeit nervt" - "work is annoying"
I like my work.
Its the people I have to deal with that I find horribly annoying.
Also, didn't you have to go to the bathroom?
Not as much as you'd think.
Also, buckets are handy.
No, HP is pretty much dead in the enterprise as well. Their hardware is now lacklustre and only seems to exist as a part of selling their overpriced consulting services under HP Enterprise Services (Formerly EDS).
Might be related, but when I get sick I tend to sleep a lot. The last bout of Man Flu I got I only emerged from bed to seek food and sometimes medication.
But for me, the number 1 reason that I get sick is the fact I work in the middle of an open plan office (AKA an incubator). I get subject to every airborne illness that any other worker carries in, I swear they're actually fighting in a battle royale to determine which one will infect me.
So..here we go with Obama and the PC folks, basically needing to re-write history again. No more old symbols, if it is something a white guy did, gotta take that down, etc.
Geez...why are we needing to tear down everything old or rename it in the name of political correctness or whatever. Let things be and build from there, eh?
every time i see someone whine about "political correctness", i notice what they're really asking for is continuing permission to be a jerk to others.
Denali was originally known by that name not only by native peoples in the area, but also locally by the state of Alaska.
so not only are you really asking, "hey, why can't i continue being disrespectful to native Alaskans?", you also hate states' rights. good work there.
This.
I'm sure when the native Alaskans claimed changing the name of Denali was political correctness, they got a rifle but to the face.
I firmly believe that anyone who whinges about "PC" needs the same. After all, that is the world they're so desperate to bring back.
Pretty sure Muslims worldwide will claim these findings are offensive and disrespectful to Islam and as such we will put them aside and pretend they don't exist. Which is pretty much the modus operandi from the West for anything that might offend Muslims.
Pretty sure most Muslims wont give a shit.
But people who watch Fox News wont have a clue as they'll only show some obscure cleric out in Bumfuckistan having a big old rant about it.
If Al Jazera was like Fox news, they'd claim a Klansman was the average American.
The average Muslim takes their religions as seriously as the average Christian these days. If you look hard enough, you'll find nutters in every faith.
The F35 is a peace time fighter. Same with the F22 and Eurofighter. Too expensive and complex for a proper shooting war. Even the Russian and Chinese offerings will need to be put through some simplification before they're ready to be mass produced on the scale needed for war.
If the shit really hit the fan (and somehow no-one dropped the bomb) then the current crop of aircraft will be radically redesigned to be cheaper and simpler to manufacture. WWII demonstrated that with Nazi Germany producing vastly superior tanks but because of their complexity, they were swarmed by cheaper, mass produced tanks. So in a shooting war against an enemy that can defend itself, the fighters we have dont matter as much as the fighters we can build.
The British had the same problem in WWII, their existing bomber force consisting of Blenheims and Wellingtons would be wiped out in 3 months. So they started designing new bombers, such as that thing they knocked together out of balsa wood and glue which became one of the most famous fighter-bombers of all time.
I know for a fact the Belgium one is a lie. When you get a working visa for the Schengen countries you're automatically registered with the governments of the Eurozone. That's the purpose of getting a visa and you cant work without a visa.
You dont register with the local police, if the local police need to know anything about you they can look you up.
Lesson 1 about lying on the internet. Keep your lies believable.
Now that we've established the Belgium part is a fabrication, I'll wager good money the Chile and China parts are also fabrications. I've got a working visa in Hong Kong, no need to register with the police there. Shortly I'll have one for the UK, done a crapload of research, again no need to register with the police.
Sounds like you've never travelled to Asia, South America or Europe... Because you only use your passport as a method of ID at hotels. A Hotel needs to know that you are the person you claim to be. I travel to a few places in SE Asia on a regular basis. They know who I am and dont bother asking for ID any more. So much so I've even got a rapport with a few customs officers at Perth. Also, I was also required to present ID at every US hotel I stayed at. The most convenient form is the Passport as they're fairly standard from country to country. I had more than a few US bartenders squint at my Western Australian drivers license for a while before they served me.
When I travel to the United States, I have to Register with the Electronic System for Travel Authorisation in order to board a flight to the US. No ESTA, no entry. It costs about $4 and there are a variety of middlemen who charge upwards of $20 to do the same thing (so make sure you go to the DHS website). This form asks for a variety of information, not just for ID purposes, but personal questions as well (like "Do you have gonorrhoea") feel free to go through it yourself. At least they've stopped asking if I'm a Nazi.
Also when I was coming back to the US from South America a few years back I had to provide proof of an outgoing flight and my hotel prior to being permitted to board a flight in Panama.
Next time, stop writing after "think".
As an Australian traveller, the US is an oddity. There are few places in the world where I need to fill in an application form to visit.
Sir, I wish I had some mod points.
Instead, please have some carriage returns (sorry about that, you make a very compelling argument but seriously, wall of text).
Oh well then, just drop in to your nearest police station or FBI department every morning during your stay to say howdy. Nothing wrong with that.
The equivalent took place in former communist countries. I remember visiting the DDR (East Germany) and having to turn in my passport every night. Get a little perspective here, please.
I know 3 people from the former DDR and I've never heard any of them refer to it as "the land of the free".
A little perspective indeed sir.
in-vehicle concierge (43%) - that means that 57% do use it
No it doesn't. It would have been faster for everyone if you had of said "I dont understand surveys" because that's what you said.
Remember there will be a large percentage of people who answered along the lines of "I dont have this feature", "I dont know" and "I'm not sure".
We do not need Apple for this. What we need is an interface that is porgrammable that can do all of this and do it regardless of Apple or Samsung.
What we need are head units that are replaceable.
Head units will become obsolete faster than brakes, suspension or radiators, yet all of these are easy to replace.
In 5 years, your head unit will be horribly out of date, not just in software but hardware which cant be fixed by a firmware update. A $150 head unit will be more advanced than a $1000 head unit from 5 years ago. Even if the manufacturer has bothered to update it.
"I'd be happy if folks would just bother to use their blinkers, instead of fiddling around with other hi-tech in their cars."
I'd be happy if people would go forward when the light changes so I can get through the intersection before the light turns red again. instead of texting, or updating Facebook, or whatever the fuck they're doing with their stupid phones.
You have a device fitted to your vehicle for use in these cases. Its usually connected to the steering wheel (although old SAABs liked to put it in strange places) and when engaged it will make a loud sound.
I give people about 3 seconds before I do this, for those with a difficulty in perceiving time, this is long enough to say "wake up Jeff, we need you for the show".
BTW, as the owner of a loud car, when I see someone on their phone at the lights in my rear view mirror, I generally give it a bit of throttle to wake them up. Its fun to watch them drop their phone and panic. The death stares they give me after they realise I'm doing it deliberately are priceless.
what keeps you up? the noise, the awkward body position?
I wish it was that simple an answer.
I simply do not know, it's definitely not noise as I've slept through a cyclone before. Once asleep, I am a very difficult person to wake. Probably not vibration either as I can sleep in cars and trains.
Could be the atmospheric conditions (dry air, pressurised to a higher altitude) but I cant say anything for certain except I dont sleep on planes.
I can see you do not own an iPhone either.
That being said, I think the Nexus 5 really was the best looking phone on the market when I bought one. Mostly because it did not have that goofy curved back that some Samsung phones have, nor that absurdly large bezel that Motorola has. I hope the Nexus 5mkII looks the same.
When I showed my Nexus 5 to my car detailer, he was shocked at how good it was simply to hold compared to his Iphone 6 and Samsung Galaxy S 5.
This is a car detailer, so he really didn't know much, nor care about the technical details. He was just impressed by how easy it is to hold for such a large phone (IMHO, its due to the type of plastic used for the backing). These are the kinds of things that non-phone people find important. His first question was about how good the camera is, which is pretty damn good on the Nexus 5. The problem is, the Nexus 5 is no longer for sale.
That and the airports usually require that the airport location not charge more than their locations in the city center. So somebody like McDonald's has to charge the same price. The newsstands typically *only* have airport locations so there is no baseline comparison.
Erm, I've seen newsagents in the centre of most cities I've visited so there is a baseline comparison.
The big difference is you've got more foot traffic willing to buy in a city centre.
Those of us born between 1955 and 1990 associate M with this character.
Nobody who has done Android development is surprised to hear this.
I generally find the opposite, the ones crowing about fragmentation tend to be the ones who have no experience in development on Android (and indeed any non-iPhone platform) and handling perfectly pedestrian problems that we've been working with for all of programming history...
Different hardware and OS versions is standard standard, part of being a programmer...
This.
If you want to avoid version issues with Android, target the lower API levels. Sure you miss out all of the newer features, but you dont need those for a fart app. Android itself handles most (or all of, in most cases) of the backwards compatibility.
Besides this, we've seen the problems inherent in monocultures in IT. Remember I.E. 6... This is why aged web developers never complain about writing compatibility layers for Firefox, Chrome and Webkit browsers.
I can't think of a valid reason an individual LEO should be allowed control of an individual self-driving vehicle, ever. There is simply too much potential for abuse.
The correct answer to "when should cops be allowed to take control of an autonomous vehicle" is "never".
An autonomous vehicle should never allow remote control because it's only a matter of time before it gets compromised and then used by someone with less than benign purposes.
He's a witch, can we burn him.
Seriously, I cant just turn my self off like a light. Tried, failed and it doesn't matter how tired I am. The only time I've ever slept on a plane was chemically assisted (I was royally hung over) and this was on a 1 hour flight from Bangkok to Phnom Penn.
I've flown from Perth, Western Australia to Las Vegas (assuming everyone knows where that is) and didn't get a jot of sleep, I even stayed up until 9 PM local time to avoid jet lag which worked, I was completely functional at 8 AM the next day, which is odd, I'm not normally functional at that time. I spent 42 hours waking in total considering I arrived at LV at 3 PM.
I'm sure I'm not the first person in the world to have come up with the idea of putting a Dollar Store in an airport. Since I've never owned or operated a retail outlet of any kind, though, I can imagine there's some sort of prohibition to the idea that I haven't thought of yet
The reason you don't see dollar stores at airports or malls, is that they operate at very low margins. If they sell you stuff at $1, they would simply not be able to afford rent at a premium spot like that. There is no law against it, it is just not economical.
This, low margins and high volume.
Only a certain type of businesses can afford to support the higher rents of an airport with high volume, this is why Burger King/Mickey D's is the same price airside but newsagents charge $4 for a pen. A McD's will see the volume necessary to support those prices and still make a profit whilst a dollar store wont.