Oh they know exactly what they're doing. They just don't care. It's the taxpayers' dime after all.
Most likely reason has less to do with government waste than with Oracle's VM licensing scheme:
The department likely parked one small RAC cluster on a VM farm, and Oracle's licensing (at least used to) demand that, no matter how many vCPU you assign the VM, you must license every last socket on every last hypervisor box on the entire VM farm for *each* production VM running Oracle RDBS....and *that* is why the majority of production Oracle RAC clusters still reside on discrete physical hardware.
And yes, if Larry Ellison were to die painfully in a fire, half the tech world would cheer.
Yep, Oracle licensing is still that bad.
So much so that most people still use physical boxes for Oracle where everything else runs fantastically on virtual boxes.
As a sysadmin I'd love to see nothing but hypervisors and storage in the server room, but Oracle is determined to prevent that.
Most cars now have active (chipped) keys that will not let you start or sometimes even turn the key unless it sees the signal from the key. Those keys may also be necessary to put the car in neutral for towing.
Most cars have a manual method of switching to neutral. This is necessary because it simply doesn't make sense to cause thousands of dollars of damage to a car while towing simply because of an electrical problem.
Even if you can't get the car in neutral, it only takes a few seconds to jack up the car and put dollies under the wheels.
Also most cars are 2 wheel drive. Even most "all wheel drive" cars are just front wheel drive with a transfer box that is disengaged until the electronics detect the front wheels slipping. So all you do is jack up the front and take the handbrake off.
It doesn't matter what industry segment you look at, the "leaders" always take the credit for other's work. Some guy on the shop floor saved $2 million a year in manufacturing costs? The shop floor manager gets the bonus.
Leaders dont take all the credit.
Bosses take all the credit. People like Jobs were bosses.
Leaders ensure that everyone gets rewarded for their work. When you're good at your job you can choose to work for leaders, instead of bosses.
Also remember that a lot of engineers dont want fame, so they're happy for the leader to be the front man and despite this, a leader will still make sure his team is thanked, both publicly and monetary. To be honest, if give the choice between money and fame or just money, I'd take the money and run. I'm not a narcissist and too much ill can come from fame.
If you and I are given the same resources as Jobs, could we have created a Mac or iPhone? Jobs' greatness is not because he was a great inventor (though media simplifies it to that). But it is the ability to put all the resource available to him to realize a dream. I say this even though I am not a fan of Jobs or Apple. Quite the opposite.
You've got to remember that Jobs was a credit stealer. He didn't invent most of the stuff he put his name to.
So yes, give me the same talent that Jobs had working under him and yes, I could do the same. In fact I think I could do better as I dont have the same ideological bend as Jobs so I'd spend my time trying to find the best solutions, not the one that fit in with my Dogma.
I prefer to follow better leaders in business. Bill Gates recognised that all his success came from the fact he had some very talented and very competent people working for him and made sure that they were properly rewarded for it, same with Brin and Page from Google. For all bad things we can say about Gates, we cant say he was a bad businessman or even a bad person. The thing about Gates, Page and Brin is that they didn't make cults of personality around themselves.
Every successful businessman has told me that in business, you need to be dispassionate about your decisions. Jobs was anything but dispassionate so he's an oddity, he didn't get success through skill, he got it through sheer luck and the fact the people working for him were good enough to compensate for his ego.
I live on a residential block behind a few bars. If they had less parking, there would be more people parking in our neighborhood. We got the city to create a residential parking zone, with towing for non-residents, but it's only for one block; drunks could just park deeper into the neighborhood and walk a little further. And the thing about drunks walking home at 1 AM from a bar is that they are obnoxiously loud, like to urinate on whatever they happen to be near, and occasionally toss a brick through a car window just for grins.
So no thanks, I'd rather have mandatory parking on site. If you want to stop drunks from driving, catch them as they pull out of the parking lot. Or build cities to better support public transportation, and have that transportation run late enough into the night to service the evening crowd. Or legalize Uber and let their drivers///suckers deal with puke in their cars.
You can do what Australia does, give every police officer a breathalyser and training on how to use it. If you blow over the limit you have the option of accepting the punishment or requesting a blood test that will be more accurate.
High range drink driving is so rare over here that anyone blowing 0.10 or over (twice the legal limit) is national news.
Also make the punishment fit the crime. Not just fines, revoke their license or impound their car if they keep driving on a suspended license.
As for parking at bars, there's plenty of reasons why you should have it. I could be the designated driver, drinking soft drinks whilst shuttling my drunk mates about, I could have just popped in for 1 beer with colleagues after work or I might be there for a meal with family or friends and not consume enough alcohol to put me over the legal limit (or any alcohol at all).
If you want to reduce drink driving, you need to target the culture that permits it, not the means. If you take away the car parks all the drink drivers will do is park on the street. If they're willing to risk a DUI charge, do you honestly think a parking ticket is going to stop them?
And with that, you then just call the cops.... if someone is actually capable of hurting your wife and children if you don't do what they say, they are also capable of doing so even if you do...
But, as an organised criminal, why go to all that trouble?
People put under pressure react in strange and unpredictable ways. Why do all of that when you dont need to. You just set up the drone and let it work automatically. Not as if there aren't enough people who have the knowledge and lack of scruples who wont set all of this up for money. Hell, they've probably got a few who are part of the organisation.
As for payment, the people on the inside have already paid for it, some with money, others with services (erm. as in cell block strongman, not escort).
Yeah I'm not super keen on renting out my Toyota Corolla or VW whatever car, but I would be willing to buy a car designed and maintained by uber, but I could take on road trips/extended whatever simply by turning "off" the taxi mode an hour or two ahead of when I need to use it, like going camping for the weekend or whatever.
Hi, it sounds like you dont understand Uber's business model. Would you like some help.
Well stiff, you're getting some.
Uber's business model consists of taking the profits whilst shifting as many costs as possible onto the vehicle owner as possible. So if you buy a car for Uber, you'll be paying the maintenance costs, some other manufacturer (Toyota, Renault, Tata, whoever) will pay the development costs. Ubers entire business model relies on them being the middleman for minimal cost to them.
But you dont need to worry about that. By the time autonomous cars are good enough to do what you imagine, Uber will be nothing but a joke you say when you dont have enough wind to pass.
Autonomous cars can be parked a lot closer than any cars that need to open doors to let people out. So think about a few parking garages advertising "robot rates" and cutting the parking stalls down to car-size+3-inches-on-three-sides. The cars drop off their human passengers and then pack themselves into the robot garages.
Again, I doubt it's going to happen as people dont want to have to wait in a line for 10 minutes at a designated pickup zone for their car to come when they can walk 2 minutes to go straight to their car.
Alternatively, if you're worried about someone soiling your pristine car, then charge enough to have it professionally cleaned before you want it back. And insist that the customers pay electronically so that you know EXACTLY who the offender was.
In the model they're talking about, you wont own the car. This another reason why their utopian vision will never come true. Personal car ownership is considered a right and necessity in many places.
Autonomous cars will never be the traffic messiah people think they are. They wont be doing 200 MPH bumper to bumper because they'll be programmed to follow the road rules. They'll keep a 3 second gap, they'll never exceed the speed limit, they'll slow down for heavy traffic, pedestrians and inclement weather, they'll stop on an amber light, they'll let people in.
A lot of people will retain manual control because they're used to breaking all these rules. Imagine the average driver with a "litte richard" fuming that their car just let some jerk into THEIR lane.
PUE (power usage effectiveness)
WEE (water equivalent energy)
and somewhere at datacenter dynamics magazine theres a giggling intern that needs to be shown the door.
In correct English, PUE is not pronounced Poo. The U sound is emphasised and the e is de-emphasised. It will sound closer to "pew" than "poo" in your simple parlance.
Pronouncing the U sound as a double O is Spanish, not English.
Once you do, being an asshole has no cost. I already am one. I am white, middle age, have a job, never been on welfare, never sucked another man's dick, never smoked crack, and never went to a hip-hop rave, I am not a fat ghetto hog with more children than rooms in my section 8 apartment.
I am an asshole by what I AM by my very NATURE according to you twats.
Sounds like your problem is a mix of low self esteem/image combined with an inferiority complex.
That is what makes you an arsehole, not all the other stuff. Why?
Because I'm white, I'm middle class, no children, not gay, I am gainfully employed, dont have a drug habit and prefer 70's to 90's rock and metal and you know what, I'M NOT AN ARSEHOLE.
What you SJWs
And here you're just looking to blame someone else for your own inadequacies.
Personally I cant fathom why "Social Justice Warrior" is bad. Being Social is good, Justice is good and in cultural terms, warriors are associated with good things (I.E. code of honour, strength, defending the weak and the like) so combined I cant really see why it's an insult. It really sounds like the imaginings of a middle aged, constipated angry man who has finally realised that he's said "Political Correctness" so many times that the saying has lost any meaning, so that's what he's invented as a replacement.
Erm, point in short, I cant take anyone who uses SJW seriously.
It's not really old data, it's just that the modern author hasn't considered the practicalities of the situation.
Offices *still* have 40 year old men (and 20 year old ones, and 50 year old ones) in them, it just happens they have a bunch of women too.
So how do we manages this so as not to be a part of the Patriarchy and it's incessant microagressions?
Do we adjust the temperature to suit the one lady in my office who likes it at 80 degrees?
Do we adjust it to another lady who likes it at 68 degrees?
This.
Ignoring the fact that 80 C is enough to kill someone one you will inevitably get this conflict if you allow open access to the thermostat in your office. One lady thinks its too hot, turns up the air con, another lady thinks its too cold and turns it down. They go back and forth all day, leaving passive aggressive notes but never actually confronting each other. Meanwhile other staff are forced to suffer temprature changes 15 times a day.
The battle for thermal constancy in the office becomes so bad that management is forced to send out an email that the temperature is to be set to 23 degrees and left there. However these ladies think they're above the law and keep going until one day the manager replaces the old mechanical thermostat with an electronic control locked in the server room. For shits and giggles he left the old one on the wall... disconnected.
I've yet to see a color laser that can print photos as well as even the cheapest color ink jets.
Anyone who cares about photograpic quality isn't using a cheap inkjet. They're using a very expensive printer with a continuous ink system so that argument is completely superfluous to this discussion.
Most people will head down to the nearest department store/office supply store with their camera to print high quality photos.
To the person who prints things infrequently or just wants to print out a full colour web page or Google Maps route for about 10-20 fellow JDM enthusiasts every few months, a cheap colour laser fits the bill far better than any inkjet.
In fact, given how cheap laser printers have become, the last inkjet I saw was an A0 plotter with ink tanks.
After getting rid of this battery shit, get rid of the goddamn video and audio capabilities that have been added recently.
I dont agree with this.
What we need is a browser that has this capability but does _NOT_ under any circumstances allow it to autoplay. Flashblock used to perform this functionality admirably, but since we all moved to HTML5 and all its magical wonder we've gone back to the point where browsers automatically play anything.
And I warned all of you years ago you'd rue the day you blindly adopted HTML5 as the browser Jesus.
If the chips are read only they would not be able to receive security updates (not that manufacturers issue ROM updates most of the time...). It would be a mess the first time a firmware security hole was found that couldn't be patched.
Nor could well liked features be removed so that they could be charged for... Or the code changed to make third party cables incompatible.
"At WWDC last week Apple announced that it receives 5 billion requests per week for its mapping services and that Apple Maps is used 3.5 times more frequently than âoethe next leading maps appââ"i.e. Google Maps."
on IOS only.
And lets face it, Apple users are used to being lost. I think between all platforms Google will be receiving more than 5 billion requests per day. 5 billion requests is only 5 requests per Android user.
I tried to use Apple Maps for the first time in 2 years the other day. It still cant find basic landmarks like train stations here in Perth. Not like the state government makes that information free to anyone who wants to contact Landgate for it or anything.
Also, if you could provide an article that isn't a blatant advertisement for Apple, that'd be golden.
If I'm going to get my liquid cannibal on, I want the taste of real hamburger-fed 'muricans!
Too fatty. Besides, vegans are grass-fed. Gives better flavor than grain-fed.
Yes but there is very little actual meat on a vegan, most of it has broken down due to lack of protein as well.
OTOH the sedentary lifestyle of the hamburger fed 'murican means that the meat is very tender and the excess fat can be used in the cooking process (for both greasing and cooking fuel).
I had plenty of tasty food when I was in the UK. It would probably have made a modern nutritionist have an apoplectic fit, but still.
There's a reason why British TV chefs who refuse to eat junk food are still a bit chunky. British comfort food is typically carb or sugar loaded (or both).
But your diet is not meant to consist mainly of comfort foods but occasionally someone eats all the pies.
As a highly-taxed driver (gas and registration), I'm getting rather tired of cyclists requesting more and more road upgrades despite them not paying even a small share of the costs for those upgrades.
I know! And what about all those leeching pedestrians? Sidewalks don't just appear! Plus pedestrians slow me down when I'm in a hurry! We should require registration to walk in the city!:-)
So basically you hate pedestrians doing to you just what you do to motorists.
But hang on, how many cyclists out there, who are of age to drive, don't also own a car?
Quite a few.
Every regular cyclist I know here in Perth doesn't have a car, in fact the only regular cyclist I know who does have a Class C drivers license makes it a point not to ride on roads as much as possible. I imagine it's worse in somewhere like London where you can live quite well without a car.
Do you have evidence that the majority of cyclists have licenses. If not your anecdotal evidence is only as good as my anecdotal evidence.
Now the only reason I want cyclists to be registered is so they can be identified and have their road using privileges revoked when they do something wrong, just like motorists and motorcyclists are. I've seen too many near accidents from cyclists pulling out into traffic without looking (and somehow motorists are the bad guy here). Of course cyclists are going to oppose being registered and having to wear an identifying number because they know they will have to start obeying the same traffic laws as the rest of us. Cyclists want equal rights on the road, fine, I agree but you must also have equal responsibility.
I'm a member of a race club, we take our driving very seriously and several times before when we've caught a member acting stupidly (especially off the track) we throw him to the wolves. We will report them ourselves then toss them out of the club. Cyclists on the other hand still refuse to admit that a cyclists is even capable of doing anything wrong and worse still, protect those who are endangering themselves and other road users out of some belief that motorists are always the bad guys. I've never seen or even heard of a cyclists dobbing in another.
Then there's the complete disregard for traffic lights (oh, the light's red? Well I'm a pedestrian now, so screw you and give way as I suddenly pull out of my lane and ride across the crosswalk without warning!)
If a signal has remained red for five minutes despite my bike's front and rear wheels being directly over the crack in the street that indicates an induction loop sensor, what else am I supposed to do?
First of all, we dont believe that you actually stopped at a red light.
Secondly, do what motorcyclists do and hit the pedestrian cross button. I dont ride a motorcycle either, that's just common knowledge.
Also, you're attempt to make up esoteric scenarios to justify running red lights in peak hour traffic is terribly transparent.
Funny thing is, motorists do the exact same things as cyclists. Yet, when a motorist does it, it is a bad driver. When a cyclist does it, it is a generalization that applies to all cyclists.
This is because a very, very small percentage of motorists regularly run red lights. Cyclists do it all the time.
Most motorists at least try to fit into traffic, all cyclists demand that traffic changes to accommodate them.
Even worse, when a purpose built cycle path or cycle lane is made to accommodate the special snowflake cyclists they refuse to use them quoting all kinds of silly reaons like there's dirt on the path they might slip on or they may hit a power pole.
But the thing that gets my goat is, when motorists do bad things the motoring community recognises this and seeks out the individuals breaking laws and making things unsafe. When a cyclists does bad things they cycling community circles the wagons around the perpetrators, denies that any wrong was done, blames the motorists for whatever they can and then claim that cyclists can do no wrong.
Cyclists have earned their bad name.
If you're making a left turn, it is far safer to take the left turning lane to prevent cars from passing you while making the turn
But yet it's perfectly OK for the cyclist to try to pass a turning car on the inside.
In Japan, it is required for a turning driver to pull into the curb precisely to cut off anyone on two wheels. The difference between you and the Japanese is that the Japanese wont make a huge song and dance over it because they know they shouldn't try to pass on the inside.
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Oh they know exactly what they're doing. They just don't care. It's the taxpayers' dime after all.
Most likely reason has less to do with government waste than with Oracle's VM licensing scheme:
The department likely parked one small RAC cluster on a VM farm, and Oracle's licensing (at least used to) demand that, no matter how many vCPU you assign the VM, you must license every last socket on every last hypervisor box on the entire VM farm for *each* production VM running Oracle RDBS. ...and *that* is why the majority of production Oracle RAC clusters still reside on discrete physical hardware.
And yes, if Larry Ellison were to die painfully in a fire, half the tech world would cheer.
Yep, Oracle licensing is still that bad.
So much so that most people still use physical boxes for Oracle where everything else runs fantastically on virtual boxes.
As a sysadmin I'd love to see nothing but hypervisors and storage in the server room, but Oracle is determined to prevent that.
Most cars now have active (chipped) keys that will not let you start or sometimes even turn the key unless it sees the signal from the key. Those keys may also be necessary to put the car in neutral for towing.
Most cars have a manual method of switching to neutral. This is necessary because it simply doesn't make sense to cause thousands of dollars of damage to a car while towing simply because of an electrical problem.
Even if you can't get the car in neutral, it only takes a few seconds to jack up the car and put dollies under the wheels.
Also most cars are 2 wheel drive. Even most "all wheel drive" cars are just front wheel drive with a transfer box that is disengaged until the electronics detect the front wheels slipping. So all you do is jack up the front and take the handbrake off.
It doesn't matter what industry segment you look at, the "leaders" always take the credit for other's work. Some guy on the shop floor saved $2 million a year in manufacturing costs? The shop floor manager gets the bonus.
Leaders dont take all the credit.
Bosses take all the credit. People like Jobs were bosses.
Leaders ensure that everyone gets rewarded for their work. When you're good at your job you can choose to work for leaders, instead of bosses.
Also remember that a lot of engineers dont want fame, so they're happy for the leader to be the front man and despite this, a leader will still make sure his team is thanked, both publicly and monetary. To be honest, if give the choice between money and fame or just money, I'd take the money and run. I'm not a narcissist and too much ill can come from fame.
If you and I are given the same resources as Jobs, could we have created a Mac or iPhone? Jobs' greatness is not because he was a great inventor (though media simplifies it to that). But it is the ability to put all the resource available to him to realize a dream. I say this even though I am not a fan of Jobs or Apple. Quite the opposite.
You've got to remember that Jobs was a credit stealer. He didn't invent most of the stuff he put his name to.
So yes, give me the same talent that Jobs had working under him and yes, I could do the same. In fact I think I could do better as I dont have the same ideological bend as Jobs so I'd spend my time trying to find the best solutions, not the one that fit in with my Dogma.
I prefer to follow better leaders in business. Bill Gates recognised that all his success came from the fact he had some very talented and very competent people working for him and made sure that they were properly rewarded for it, same with Brin and Page from Google. For all bad things we can say about Gates, we cant say he was a bad businessman or even a bad person. The thing about Gates, Page and Brin is that they didn't make cults of personality around themselves.
Every successful businessman has told me that in business, you need to be dispassionate about your decisions. Jobs was anything but dispassionate so he's an oddity, he didn't get success through skill, he got it through sheer luck and the fact the people working for him were good enough to compensate for his ego.
I live on a residential block behind a few bars. If they had less parking, there would be more people parking in our neighborhood. We got the city to create a residential parking zone, with towing for non-residents, but it's only for one block; drunks could just park deeper into the neighborhood and walk a little further. And the thing about drunks walking home at 1 AM from a bar is that they are obnoxiously loud, like to urinate on whatever they happen to be near, and occasionally toss a brick through a car window just for grins.
So no thanks, I'd rather have mandatory parking on site. If you want to stop drunks from driving, catch them as they pull out of the parking lot. Or build cities to better support public transportation, and have that transportation run late enough into the night to service the evening crowd. Or legalize Uber and let their drivers///suckers deal with puke in their cars.
You can do what Australia does, give every police officer a breathalyser and training on how to use it. If you blow over the limit you have the option of accepting the punishment or requesting a blood test that will be more accurate.
High range drink driving is so rare over here that anyone blowing 0.10 or over (twice the legal limit) is national news.
Also make the punishment fit the crime. Not just fines, revoke their license or impound their car if they keep driving on a suspended license.
As for parking at bars, there's plenty of reasons why you should have it. I could be the designated driver, drinking soft drinks whilst shuttling my drunk mates about, I could have just popped in for 1 beer with colleagues after work or I might be there for a meal with family or friends and not consume enough alcohol to put me over the legal limit (or any alcohol at all).
If you want to reduce drink driving, you need to target the culture that permits it, not the means. If you take away the car parks all the drink drivers will do is park on the street. If they're willing to risk a DUI charge, do you honestly think a parking ticket is going to stop them?
And with that, you then just call the cops.... if someone is actually capable of hurting your wife and children if you don't do what they say, they are also capable of doing so even if you do...
But, as an organised criminal, why go to all that trouble?
People put under pressure react in strange and unpredictable ways. Why do all of that when you dont need to. You just set up the drone and let it work automatically. Not as if there aren't enough people who have the knowledge and lack of scruples who wont set all of this up for money. Hell, they've probably got a few who are part of the organisation.
As for payment, the people on the inside have already paid for it, some with money, others with services (erm. as in cell block strongman, not escort).
Yeah I'm not super keen on renting out my Toyota Corolla or VW whatever car, but I would be willing to buy a car designed and maintained by uber, but I could take on road trips/extended whatever simply by turning "off" the taxi mode an hour or two ahead of when I need to use it, like going camping for the weekend or whatever.
Hi, it sounds like you dont understand Uber's business model. Would you like some help.
Well stiff, you're getting some.
Uber's business model consists of taking the profits whilst shifting as many costs as possible onto the vehicle owner as possible. So if you buy a car for Uber, you'll be paying the maintenance costs, some other manufacturer (Toyota, Renault, Tata, whoever) will pay the development costs. Ubers entire business model relies on them being the middleman for minimal cost to them.
But you dont need to worry about that. By the time autonomous cars are good enough to do what you imagine, Uber will be nothing but a joke you say when you dont have enough wind to pass.
But think about other changes as well.
Autonomous cars can be parked a lot closer than any cars that need to open doors to let people out. So think about a few parking garages advertising "robot rates" and cutting the parking stalls down to car-size+3-inches-on-three-sides. The cars drop off their human passengers and then pack themselves into the robot garages.
Again, I doubt it's going to happen as people dont want to have to wait in a line for 10 minutes at a designated pickup zone for their car to come when they can walk 2 minutes to go straight to their car.
Alternatively, if you're worried about someone soiling your pristine car, then charge enough to have it professionally cleaned before you want it back. And insist that the customers pay electronically so that you know EXACTLY who the offender was.
In the model they're talking about, you wont own the car. This another reason why their utopian vision will never come true. Personal car ownership is considered a right and necessity in many places.
Autonomous cars will never be the traffic messiah people think they are. They wont be doing 200 MPH bumper to bumper because they'll be programmed to follow the road rules. They'll keep a 3 second gap, they'll never exceed the speed limit, they'll slow down for heavy traffic, pedestrians and inclement weather, they'll stop on an amber light, they'll let people in.
A lot of people will retain manual control because they're used to breaking all these rules. Imagine the average driver with a "litte richard" fuming that their car just let some jerk into THEIR lane.
PUE (power usage effectiveness)
WEE (water equivalent energy)
and somewhere at datacenter dynamics magazine theres a giggling intern that needs to be shown the door.
In correct English, PUE is not pronounced Poo. The U sound is emphasised and the e is de-emphasised. It will sound closer to "pew" than "poo" in your simple parlance.
Pronouncing the U sound as a double O is Spanish, not English.
Once you do, being an asshole has no cost. I already am one. I am white, middle age, have a job, never been on welfare, never sucked another man's dick, never smoked crack, and never went to a hip-hop rave, I am not a fat ghetto hog with more children than rooms in my section 8 apartment.
I am an asshole by what I AM by my very NATURE according to you twats.
Sounds like your problem is a mix of low self esteem/image combined with an inferiority complex. That is what makes you an arsehole, not all the other stuff. Why? Because I'm white, I'm middle class, no children, not gay, I am gainfully employed, dont have a drug habit and prefer 70's to 90's rock and metal and you know what, I'M NOT AN ARSEHOLE.
What you SJWs
And here you're just looking to blame someone else for your own inadequacies.
Personally I cant fathom why "Social Justice Warrior" is bad. Being Social is good, Justice is good and in cultural terms, warriors are associated with good things (I.E. code of honour, strength, defending the weak and the like) so combined I cant really see why it's an insult. It really sounds like the imaginings of a middle aged, constipated angry man who has finally realised that he's said "Political Correctness" so many times that the saying has lost any meaning, so that's what he's invented as a replacement.
Erm, point in short, I cant take anyone who uses SJW seriously.
It's not really old data, it's just that the modern author hasn't considered the practicalities of the situation.
Offices *still* have 40 year old men (and 20 year old ones, and 50 year old ones) in them, it just happens they have a bunch of women too.
So how do we manages this so as not to be a part of the Patriarchy and it's incessant microagressions?
Do we adjust the temperature to suit the one lady in my office who likes it at 80 degrees?
Do we adjust it to another lady who likes it at 68 degrees?
This.
Ignoring the fact that 80 C is enough to kill someone one you will inevitably get this conflict if you allow open access to the thermostat in your office. One lady thinks its too hot, turns up the air con, another lady thinks its too cold and turns it down. They go back and forth all day, leaving passive aggressive notes but never actually confronting each other. Meanwhile other staff are forced to suffer temprature changes 15 times a day.
The battle for thermal constancy in the office becomes so bad that management is forced to send out an email that the temperature is to be set to 23 degrees and left there. However these ladies think they're above the law and keep going until one day the manager replaces the old mechanical thermostat with an electronic control locked in the server room. For shits and giggles he left the old one on the wall... disconnected.
Upload it to the website
privacy? what privacy?
We don't really care about pictures of your ugly wife, fat children or mutated cat.
Sincerely, The NSA.
Anyone who cares about photograpic quality isn't using a cheap inkjet. They're using a very expensive printer with a continuous ink system so that argument is completely superfluous to this discussion.
Most people will head down to the nearest department store/office supply store with their camera to print high quality photos.
To the person who prints things infrequently or just wants to print out a full colour web page or Google Maps route for about 10-20 fellow JDM enthusiasts every few months, a cheap colour laser fits the bill far better than any inkjet.
In fact, given how cheap laser printers have become, the last inkjet I saw was an A0 plotter with ink tanks.
I originally read the headline as "Using Meth to Tune Videogames" and thought that explains a lot.
I dont agree with this.
What we need is a browser that has this capability but does _NOT_ under any circumstances allow it to autoplay. Flashblock used to perform this functionality admirably, but since we all moved to HTML5 and all its magical wonder we've gone back to the point where browsers automatically play anything.
And I warned all of you years ago you'd rue the day you blindly adopted HTML5 as the browser Jesus.
If the chips are read only they would not be able to receive security updates (not that manufacturers issue ROM updates most of the time...). It would be a mess the first time a firmware security hole was found that couldn't be patched.
Nor could well liked features be removed so that they could be charged for... Or the code changed to make third party cables incompatible.
I mean think of the lost profits.
Apple already has "dislodged" Google Maps on Apple devices....
http://fortune.com/2015/06/16/...
"At WWDC last week Apple announced that it receives 5 billion requests per week for its mapping services and that Apple Maps is used 3.5 times more frequently than âoethe next leading maps appââ"i.e. Google Maps."
on IOS only.
And lets face it, Apple users are used to being lost. I think between all platforms Google will be receiving more than 5 billion requests per day. 5 billion requests is only 5 requests per Android user.
I tried to use Apple Maps for the first time in 2 years the other day. It still cant find basic landmarks like train stations here in Perth. Not like the state government makes that information free to anyone who wants to contact Landgate for it or anything.
Also, if you could provide an article that isn't a blatant advertisement for Apple, that'd be golden.
>> Not only are its ingredients vegan
Who the f*** wants to drink pureed vegans?
If I'm going to get my liquid cannibal on, I want the taste of real hamburger-fed 'muricans!
Too fatty. Besides, vegans are grass-fed. Gives better flavor than grain-fed.
Yes but there is very little actual meat on a vegan, most of it has broken down due to lack of protein as well.
OTOH the sedentary lifestyle of the hamburger fed 'murican means that the meat is very tender and the excess fat can be used in the cooking process (for both greasing and cooking fuel).
I had plenty of tasty food when I was in the UK. It would probably have made a modern nutritionist have an apoplectic fit, but still.
There's a reason why British TV chefs who refuse to eat junk food are still a bit chunky. British comfort food is typically carb or sugar loaded (or both).
But your diet is not meant to consist mainly of comfort foods but occasionally someone eats all the pies.
If the intelligence agencies were smart
If they were smart, the New World Order would be a real thing instead of just a conspiracy theory.
A lot of our freedoms are owed to the idiocy and utter incompetence of the men and women serving in those intelligence agencies.
When you bought that foreign car, you voted with your money that auto workers in that country are better than domestic ones.
a lot of fords and chevys are made in mexico, and a lot of foreign brands are made in US. careful when you fling your jingoistic mud.
Yup, the all 'Merican Camaro is an Australian designed car made in Canada?
I know! And what about all those leeching pedestrians? Sidewalks don't just appear! Plus pedestrians slow me down when I'm in a hurry! We should require registration to walk in the city! :-)
So basically you hate pedestrians doing to you just what you do to motorists.
But hang on, how many cyclists out there, who are of age to drive, don't also own a car?
Quite a few.
Every regular cyclist I know here in Perth doesn't have a car, in fact the only regular cyclist I know who does have a Class C drivers license makes it a point not to ride on roads as much as possible. I imagine it's worse in somewhere like London where you can live quite well without a car.
Do you have evidence that the majority of cyclists have licenses. If not your anecdotal evidence is only as good as my anecdotal evidence.
Now the only reason I want cyclists to be registered is so they can be identified and have their road using privileges revoked when they do something wrong, just like motorists and motorcyclists are. I've seen too many near accidents from cyclists pulling out into traffic without looking (and somehow motorists are the bad guy here). Of course cyclists are going to oppose being registered and having to wear an identifying number because they know they will have to start obeying the same traffic laws as the rest of us. Cyclists want equal rights on the road, fine, I agree but you must also have equal responsibility.
I'm a member of a race club, we take our driving very seriously and several times before when we've caught a member acting stupidly (especially off the track) we throw him to the wolves. We will report them ourselves then toss them out of the club. Cyclists on the other hand still refuse to admit that a cyclists is even capable of doing anything wrong and worse still, protect those who are endangering themselves and other road users out of some belief that motorists are always the bad guys. I've never seen or even heard of a cyclists dobbing in another.
Then there's the complete disregard for traffic lights (oh, the light's red? Well I'm a pedestrian now, so screw you and give way as I suddenly pull out of my lane and ride across the crosswalk without warning!)
If a signal has remained red for five minutes despite my bike's front and rear wheels being directly over the crack in the street that indicates an induction loop sensor, what else am I supposed to do?
First of all, we dont believe that you actually stopped at a red light.
Secondly, do what motorcyclists do and hit the pedestrian cross button. I dont ride a motorcycle either, that's just common knowledge.
Also, you're attempt to make up esoteric scenarios to justify running red lights in peak hour traffic is terribly transparent.
This is because a very, very small percentage of motorists regularly run red lights. Cyclists do it all the time.
Most motorists at least try to fit into traffic, all cyclists demand that traffic changes to accommodate them.
Even worse, when a purpose built cycle path or cycle lane is made to accommodate the special snowflake cyclists they refuse to use them quoting all kinds of silly reaons like there's dirt on the path they might slip on or they may hit a power pole.
But the thing that gets my goat is, when motorists do bad things the motoring community recognises this and seeks out the individuals breaking laws and making things unsafe. When a cyclists does bad things they cycling community circles the wagons around the perpetrators, denies that any wrong was done, blames the motorists for whatever they can and then claim that cyclists can do no wrong.
Cyclists have earned their bad name.
But yet it's perfectly OK for the cyclist to try to pass a turning car on the inside.
In Japan, it is required for a turning driver to pull into the curb precisely to cut off anyone on two wheels. The difference between you and the Japanese is that the Japanese wont make a huge song and dance over it because they know they shouldn't try to pass on the inside.