You know what they say about any product named "pro?" It's not for pros, it's for wannabes. Get roughly twice as much computer for the money by going with Linux.
i7, 16 GB RAM, 512 GB SSD, Geforce 960m... These are about Macbook Pro spec for 2016. A Macbook Pro costs £2,699 for the 512 GB SSD. I bought an Asus with those specs for £750.
I dual boot Linux and Windows, so I get the power of Linux when I need it and can play all of my Windows games when I want to.... for 1/3 the cost of a Macbook Pro. I expect that the Asus is going to last me over 5 years like my last one did (it still works, but struggles to run any game since 2015).
That being said, I doubt they'll be able to do that anymore. They don't have the same dominance they used to have. At this point, Microsoft is just trying to survive, it's no longer capable of dominating anymore.
This, they tried to do the three E's thing with Windows Phone, leveraging their waning dominance on the server/desktop market to a phone market they ignored whilst Google ate their lunch. The process was more akin to the DABDA stages of grief.
Denial = Android will never take off.
Anger = Hurrr, we'll sue Google for everything. And release our own half arsed operating system with tiles and solitaire.
Bargaining = Maybe if we buy Nokia people will buy it.
Depression = Why won't people buying Windows Phones.
Acceptance = Lets start making apps for Android and try to forget this whole Windows Phone palaver.
Microsoft's power has waned from the days of the 90's when they could take down competition at a whim. Microsoft are now starting to lose their grip on the enterprise market.
It's not hard to avoid sounding like an inbred (and no one's even suggesting that you need to learn the pronunciation of more challenging words, such as "height" or "sherbet").
Its not hard to avoid sounding like a mealy mouthed 50 yr old virgin by pointing out things politely and acknowledging that you knew exactly what he meant despite an extremely minor grammatical error.
Also, it's inbreed, not inbred when using it in the present tense. Inbred is the past tense. Had you not had a go at the OP I would have been happy to ignore this as I knew what you meant.
They're, there, their, ssss'OK; all Grammar nazi's are hates me. Any other grammatical or spelling errors, intentional or otherwise are there for your annoyance.
At least 60% of Americans are living paycheck to paycheck. That's not middle class and it's certainly not "no longer at risk of poverty".
How many of those are in that position because they put everything onto credit. Not just the house and car, which are big costs and necessities (even many places in Europe, it's difficult to live without a car)?
Holiday on credit, shopping on credit, food on credit and no worries(TM) until you get a big bill at the end of the month.
What Thatcher should have said was "the problem with using other people's money is that eventually they'll want it back... and some".
Amazon wasn't forced to pay $15/hr. They decided to freely do so... which i'll admit comes ahead of an eventual bill that would have cost them significantly more.
Still, they do set a new standard which will drag up a lot of other companies around them. I still wonder what happened to uber. Their rates have gone up, not down, yet drivers seem to be making substantially less than just a few years ago. Too many cars idling and not getting rides? Uber increased their cut? Something else?
Uber is already dead, it's just that they don't know it.
No-one involved in Uber is making any money, not the drivers, not Uber, not anyone. It seems the business model of "illegally undercut taxis" isn't a sustainable one because we're quickly finding out that the costs of taxi fares barely covers the costs of running a taxi.
Unlike the politicians, the "tech heavyweights" at least listen to some degree to experts, or they go out of business in the long run. That means they are aware of the utter stupidity of this legislation. Quite a few companies would probably have to stop doing business in Australia to not endanger their global business.
The thing is, Australia's never had a big IT sector. Our politicians are far too short sighted for that, especially when the money from mining was rolling in left right and centre when we should have been investing in tech.
What the politicans really don't get is how unenforcable this is. Australia isn't as powerful as China, we cant simply turn to local industries and say "copy this" and then deny sales to overseas vendors who don't comply, firstly because said industries do not exist, secondly because Australia is (meant to be) an advanced developed nations with good international ties and a very high quality of living.
When the Australian government asks for a backdoor into Cisco or Juniper equipment, Cisco and Juniper are going to laugh and tell them to sod off. So will most of the telco's in Australia after saying "are you going to pay for it".
However this kind of stupidity is what you get when you let the far right take over. The LNP has been trying to oust the remaining centrist for years and has managed to do a good job of it at the expense of the economy, living standards and education.
I support deplatforming all extremists. Nazis and commies alike.
Deplatforming is a euphimism for silencing. I support freedom of speech.
No it isn't.
Nowhere does the freedom of speech mean that you're entitled to whatever platform you like and however you like it... If people are telling you to go away, that is them exercising their right to free speech.
And yes, the fewer Nazis or Racists out there, the better.
The SEC backed down from insisting on removing his as CEO.
But did force his removal as chairman and the appointment of two independent directors, which probably now makes it a realistic possibility that the board itself could remove him as CEO if he doesn't get his act together.
Yep, the SEC didn't back down, Musk did, the SEC won.
The SEC like many prosecutors in the US like to use scare tactics, this means throwing every charge they can at someone so they will cave in and accept a deal on lesser charges, in this case being the fine (20 million IIRC) and Musk stepping down as Chairman.
It's one of the slowest in the world - Britain has faster and I swear they still use cans and string - and one of the most expensive, whilst also being one of the most restrictive.
Whilst you've got a very good point about how backwards and expensive telecoms are in the US, the UK is actually quite good. Here I can get a SIM only contract with 1.5GB of data (plus some calls and texts, but who uses that any more) for only £6. Unlimited BT Fibre to my home starts at £25 (for a mere 50 mbps).
In fact I'm going to the US this month for a few days and I'll need my phone for navigation (I'm driving) and I've found that it's cheaper for me to buy a £10 Three SIM here in the UK and with that I can get 1 GB of data in the US... Its cheaper for me to use a UK SIM roaming in the US than it is for me to get a local one, that's seriously fucked up.
So 1300 people overstaying their visa (leaving the US at that point, as well - unless we want to put them in jail?). And almost 200 million spent on that program in 2017 alone (with 1 billion planned by 2025) What's the cost per visa overstayer? And what is the benefit to us, as a nation (other than another pork barrel for the DHS and their contractors)
Hi there, I'm Troy Mclure, you may remember me from such propaganda films such as, "Brown, the colour out to get you" and "Justifiable Homicide III: My Lai"
Well first of all, we don't call them "visa overstayers", that term is too PC and not alarmist enough. It gives people the impression that it's just someone who's stayed on holiday a few days past when they're meant to. We are supposed to call them "illegal economic immigrants". The economic part doesn't mean anything, it just scares people and that is a good thing TM. Now this is important as it allows us to keep expensive programs going to which funnels hard working American Taxpayer dollars into the private accounts of rich businessmen in the Cayman Islands. Doing otherwise would simply be comunazomuslism... Do you want to be a pinko? I didn't think so, now drink your LSD laden cool aid and stop questioning your government superiors.
Biometrics are used at customs, but not as a primary identification source. Your primary source of identification is still your passport.
There are two ways to do biometrics.
1. Cheap and fast with high error rates.
2. Accurate but slow and expensive.
Most places go with option 1 so accept a high level of false positives. I've been going through the biometric terminals at Australian airports, A human doesn't even look at my passport any more when entering Oz. Given that I've never experienced any trouble going through I'm gathering that they accept a high degree of inaccuracy. When doing this, biometrics should never be used as a means of authentication, only a means of identification. In that regard, my passport is my password and I'm responsible for making sure no-one else has it (or if they do, changing it... which is a £300 pain in the arse when you live in the UK).
This is why I just use the same password for everything. It's much easier to remember, and more secure since I don't have to write it down or store it anywhere.
Better idea than that... make up a formula something like: The third letter from the name of the website. (so for example Slashdot that would be "a"). Then take that letter's position in the alphabet (1). Then take the 5th letter and do the same. And then finish with some random string you use in common across all websites such as "passwud123##" to pad the length. The formula would give you:
a1h8passwud123##
Easy to remember, and if someone got a hold of one password they wouldn't be able to apply it directly to any other website. I use a formula for all of my password websites (but it's actually very different to the one above, I don't think anyone could ever reverse engineer my password to figure out my formula- the example above they could if they tried- best to use a formula that would only have meaning to you so it can't be reverse engineered but is quick for you to figure out)
I think your formula is far too complex. Did I swap the o for a u or a zero, where was the 8, how many hashes was it, did I use the fourth or fifth letter because this websites got a space in the name... so on and so forth. Further more, it's based on a dictionary word with common substitutions making it easier to guess. A better password is:
Frank1
That's all you should have to remember to make a complex password. A simple for or 5 letter word, followed by a number. In the case of requiring a special character just use the exclamation mark (or bang) and capitalise the first letter. To meet the length requirements simply double up the first word so your password becomes "Frank1!frank" but all you have remember is "Frank1".
Already you have a simple to remember password that meets stringent requirements and is hard for computers to guess. Its a pattern that can be repeated to whatever length you need, I.E. "Frank1!frank1!frank1!frank", all you need to remember is the number of repetitions.
Why would the cabins be shrinking? Aircraft don't shrink and they last a long time. New models tend ti be longer.
Intergenerationally,
Cabin width of a 777 - 587 cm
Cabin width of a 787 - 549 cm
That's almost an 8% drop in cabin space... but airlines are still shoving in seats 9 abreast (Boeing has even advertised a 10 abrest version of the Squeezeliner). Something has to be smaller, and give the aisles have to be so many CM wide by law, it's the seats.
I suspect every driver is a bad driver on occasion. Humans aren't machines, even the best-trained professionals make the occasional mistake. I know I do, despite several advanced driving courses and a rigorous attitude to driving (no distractions, etc.).
I don't believe there are bad drivers. "bad" implies that its somehow not their fault and cant be improved, nothing could be further from the truth.
What we have are lazy and/or arrogant drivers. These are drivers who could do better, but wont bother and are completely unwilling to change.
Whilst I agree that every driver has bad moments, bits where our attention falters. However the differences between a good driver and a lazy or arrogant driver is:
1. A good driver makes mistakes infrequently.
2. A good driver tries never to make the same mistake twice.
3. A good driver will recognise when they've made a mistake.
Lazy, arrogant drivers will never admit to making a mistake and as a result, will make the same mistake with alarming regularity.
No, having a BAD DRIVER in the loop is a setup for failure.
No. Humans are fallible and non-deterministic. Good drivers are also a setup for failure.
And machines are peferct and godlike.
To err is human, to really fuck up requires a computer, as the old cliche goes.
As recent tests, including this article, show is that computers are not as good as a decent human driver... not a good one, just a mediocre one. This is because computers cant handle fuzzy logic, to put all the "intuition" things that drivers do instinctively into absolutes that computers are good at dealing with would require computers that might fit onto a small articulated lorry. Not to mention infallible all weather sensors which do not yet exist. Computer systems are far too dependent on pre-existing data and are terrible at operating on sensed information alone. Hell, some automatic transmissions depend on being pre-loaded with topographical information to operate efficiently (so their MPG goes through the roof when travelling somewhere without this information).
I've noticed that economy class seats have got a lot better in the last few years. Used to be that sleeping was next to impossible, there was just no support for your head and lower back. They are still not great but a hell of a lot better than they used to be.
For noise foam earplugs can't be beaten for comfort. The only down side is that there is nowhere to store them when you need to take them out temporarily. The pointless magazine/safety leaflet pouch could be a lot more useful.
Not sure who you've been flying (seriously, I'm interested) but economy seats have gotten worse for me. Singapore Airlines still holds the gold standard for me with 19" wide seats, almost no other airline comes close. However with the ever growing desire to shove more and more people into shrinking cabins, comfort hasn't been one of the things I've seen increase. The 787 Squeezeliner is by far the worst. Not only are they shoving as many seats as 777 into less space, they've also gotten rid of the window recess and window blinds.
As a gentleman with 19" shoulders (blade to blade, not including the fleshy bits) I rely on the window recess to sit remotely comfortably.
Millennials are also the first generation where bullshit like "I should be able to walk down the street naked and have nothing happen to me" is considered neither a joke nor a statement of "why yes, I am bat shit crazy, just wanted to get that out there while breaking the ice." Or girls just leaving their apartments unlocked and then wondering why they had problems with creeps.
No, they aren't. Young people being a bit naive is nothing new... The fact is young people just lack the experience we take for granted. I'm a gen-xer... Which makes me older than you. You were once the naive young fool you think all young people people are.
Wisdom comes with age and experience, your kind of thinking is when you gain years, but retard experience.
Of all your examples, there were young people of my generation doing it, there were young people of my parents generation... Remember the 60's... Of course you don't but they weren't much different. Cars were crappier, petrol was a bit cheaper and it had lead in it but we're not fundamentally different as humans.
Most (all?) inter-terminal airport trams I've seen don't have anything else that can occupy their tracks.
All of the inter-terminal trains I've seen have had completely enclosed tracks. Its closer to automating the Las Vegas monorail, not much of anything is expected to be on the tracks. We over here in Europe and the UK would call those trains rather than trams.
The trams in Potsdam and many other European cities are run along roads which also have car and goods vehicle traffic. A tram is a light rail system following existing streets, in fact the colloquial difference between a train and a tram is that trams are run along roadways (sometimes without rails) where as train lines are laid off road (barring crossings). What you're calling a "tram" is what we'd call a train as it's on an independent set of tracks. An inter-terminal tram would be if LAX put some light rail on World Way that also interacted with traffic (and having been to LAX a few times... I doubt any AI would last an hour doing that, those bus drivers must have the patience of saints to be driving that road all day).
Apple's decision to forgo Qualcomm this year and source all cellular modems from Intel is not responsible for the RF power output limitations in the new iPhone models. The cellular baseband modem is separate from and well upstream of the amplifiers that generate the conducted power and antennas that generate the radiated power being measured in lab testing. ...where is all that power going? Where is it being diminished? The answer lies in antenna gain.
Indeed, deeper analysis of the FCC OET authorization filings shows the underwhelming EIRP figures to be almost entirely products of negative antenna gain.
So not only do they have shitty modems (yep, other phones with Intel modems have a lot of problems, I cant believe that they've magically fixed them for Apple but no-one else) but they've also got a shitty antenna design (seems to have become an Apple standard).
And to some of you wondering how this is possible. Why aren't drivers quitting? Well, I'd say 99% of drivers did quit three or four years ago. Me, I am part of the new batch of replacement drivers. I've seen my income slowly get reduced overtime, but definitely not as much as the drivers did four years ago when they went through a massive price cut.
So you are part of the current lot of suckers who replaced the last lot of suckers who finally wizened up that they weren't making money and doing stupid amounts of unpaid hours... SPOILER ALERT... eventually you'll come to the same conclusion that its actually costing you more than you earn and look for a job at McDonalds. Then the next bunch of starry eyed suckers will move right in and start the process all over again. Despite P. T. Barnum's alleged assertion being true, there is still a finite number of suckers who'll fall for the Uber trap, at this point they'll end up with the drivers who literally cant get work anywhere else and will put up with sub poverty line wages and corporate abuse.
Of course, the end result of the "gig" economy is that after you've run out of fresh suckers, you go out of business.
I think that there are more pressing causes of death, which might increase the need for a drink.
Above that, its lying by statistics. It isn't that alcohol is the cause of the fatality, often it's just a contributing factor. I.E. for young people dying in an alcohol related accident, the problem isn't the alcohol, the problem is the society that permits and in many cases encourages drink driving.
Which idiots said that? Given the Metropolitan Railway already existed showing that underground railways were in fact possible with the materials and engineering of the day.
Unlike trying to build the worlds biggest (by FAR) vacuum chamber with moving parts and people in those parts and of course, which hasn't been demonstrated as actually possible with current materials and engineering.
The thing with the London Underground is that it was built during a time of great economic and technological change in great Britain where pushing the envelope was encouraged and great men like Brunel were permitted to work with drive and vision uninhibited by petty politics and tabloid backstabbing.
The politicians of the day simply set a mandate and got the hell out of the way, even if there were naysayers (and I'm certain their were naysayers to the Underground, there always were). In today's age of "populist" politics, politicians are afraid to do anything except stop sticking their noses into where they're not needed. Anything like the London Underground today would have been buried by the Daily Mail today via "tunnels of death" or "90 billion down the tube" headlines.
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You know what they say about any product named "pro?" It's not for pros, it's for wannabes. Get roughly twice as much computer for the money by going with Linux.
i7, 16 GB RAM, 512 GB SSD, Geforce 960m... These are about Macbook Pro spec for 2016. A Macbook Pro costs £2,699 for the 512 GB SSD. I bought an Asus with those specs for £750.
I dual boot Linux and Windows, so I get the power of Linux when I need it and can play all of my Windows games when I want to.... for 1/3 the cost of a Macbook Pro. I expect that the Asus is going to last me over 5 years like my last one did (it still works, but struggles to run any game since 2015).
Embrace, Extend, and Extinguish.
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That being said, I doubt they'll be able to do that anymore. They don't have the same dominance they used to have. At this point, Microsoft is just trying to survive, it's no longer capable of dominating anymore.
This, they tried to do the three E's thing with Windows Phone, leveraging their waning dominance on the server/desktop market to a phone market they ignored whilst Google ate their lunch. The process was more akin to the DABDA stages of grief.
Denial = Android will never take off.
Anger = Hurrr, we'll sue Google for everything. And release our own half arsed operating system with tiles and solitaire.
Bargaining = Maybe if we buy Nokia people will buy it.
Depression = Why won't people buying Windows Phones.
Acceptance = Lets start making apps for Android and try to forget this whole Windows Phone palaver.
Microsoft's power has waned from the days of the 90's when they could take down competition at a whim. Microsoft are now starting to lose their grip on the enterprise market.
It's not hard to avoid sounding like an inbred (and no one's even suggesting that you need to learn the pronunciation of more challenging words, such as "height" or "sherbet").
Its not hard to avoid sounding like a mealy mouthed 50 yr old virgin by pointing out things politely and acknowledging that you knew exactly what he meant despite an extremely minor grammatical error.
Also, it's inbreed, not inbred when using it in the present tense. Inbred is the past tense. Had you not had a go at the OP I would have been happy to ignore this as I knew what you meant.
They're, there, their, ssss'OK; all Grammar nazi's are hates me. Any other grammatical or spelling errors, intentional or otherwise are there for your annoyance.
At least 60% of Americans are living paycheck to paycheck. That's not middle class and it's certainly not "no longer at risk of poverty".
How many of those are in that position because they put everything onto credit. Not just the house and car, which are big costs and necessities (even many places in Europe, it's difficult to live without a car)?
Holiday on credit, shopping on credit, food on credit and no worries(TM) until you get a big bill at the end of the month.
What Thatcher should have said was "the problem with using other people's money is that eventually they'll want it back... and some".
Amazon wasn't forced to pay $15/hr. They decided to freely do so ... which i'll admit comes ahead of an eventual bill that would have cost them significantly more.
Still, they do set a new standard which will drag up a lot of other companies around them. I still wonder what happened to uber. Their rates have gone up, not down, yet drivers seem to be making substantially less than just a few years ago. Too many cars idling and not getting rides? Uber increased their cut? Something else?
Uber is already dead, it's just that they don't know it.
No-one involved in Uber is making any money, not the drivers, not Uber, not anyone. It seems the business model of "illegally undercut taxis" isn't a sustainable one because we're quickly finding out that the costs of taxi fares barely covers the costs of running a taxi.
Unlike the politicians, the "tech heavyweights" at least listen to some degree to experts, or they go out of business in the long run. That means they are aware of the utter stupidity of this legislation. Quite a few companies would probably have to stop doing business in Australia to not endanger their global business.
The thing is, Australia's never had a big IT sector. Our politicians are far too short sighted for that, especially when the money from mining was rolling in left right and centre when we should have been investing in tech.
What the politicans really don't get is how unenforcable this is. Australia isn't as powerful as China, we cant simply turn to local industries and say "copy this" and then deny sales to overseas vendors who don't comply, firstly because said industries do not exist, secondly because Australia is (meant to be) an advanced developed nations with good international ties and a very high quality of living.
When the Australian government asks for a backdoor into Cisco or Juniper equipment, Cisco and Juniper are going to laugh and tell them to sod off. So will most of the telco's in Australia after saying "are you going to pay for it".
However this kind of stupidity is what you get when you let the far right take over. The LNP has been trying to oust the remaining centrist for years and has managed to do a good job of it at the expense of the economy, living standards and education.
I support deplatforming all extremists. Nazis and commies alike.
Deplatforming is a euphimism for silencing. I support freedom of speech.
No it isn't.
Nowhere does the freedom of speech mean that you're entitled to whatever platform you like and however you like it... If people are telling you to go away, that is them exercising their right to free speech.
And yes, the fewer Nazis or Racists out there, the better.
The SEC backed down from insisting on removing his as CEO.
But did force his removal as chairman and the appointment of two independent directors, which probably now makes it a realistic possibility that the board itself could remove him as CEO if he doesn't get his act together.
Yep, the SEC didn't back down, Musk did, the SEC won.
The SEC like many prosecutors in the US like to use scare tactics, this means throwing every charge they can at someone so they will cave in and accept a deal on lesser charges, in this case being the fine (20 million IIRC) and Musk stepping down as Chairman.
It's one of the slowest in the world - Britain has faster and I swear they still use cans and string - and one of the most expensive, whilst also being one of the most restrictive.
Whilst you've got a very good point about how backwards and expensive telecoms are in the US, the UK is actually quite good. Here I can get a SIM only contract with 1.5GB of data (plus some calls and texts, but who uses that any more) for only £6. Unlimited BT Fibre to my home starts at £25 (for a mere 50 mbps).
In fact I'm going to the US this month for a few days and I'll need my phone for navigation (I'm driving) and I've found that it's cheaper for me to buy a £10 Three SIM here in the UK and with that I can get 1 GB of data in the US... Its cheaper for me to use a UK SIM roaming in the US than it is for me to get a local one, that's seriously fucked up.
So 1300 people overstaying their visa (leaving the US at that point, as well - unless we want to put them in jail?). And almost 200 million spent on that program in 2017 alone (with 1 billion planned by 2025) What's the cost per visa overstayer? And what is the benefit to us, as a nation (other than another pork barrel for the DHS and their contractors)
Hi there, I'm Troy Mclure, you may remember me from such propaganda films such as, "Brown, the colour out to get you" and "Justifiable Homicide III: My Lai"
Well first of all, we don't call them "visa overstayers", that term is too PC and not alarmist enough. It gives people the impression that it's just someone who's stayed on holiday a few days past when they're meant to. We are supposed to call them "illegal economic immigrants". The economic part doesn't mean anything, it just scares people and that is a good thing TM. Now this is important as it allows us to keep expensive programs going to which funnels hard working American Taxpayer dollars into the private accounts of rich businessmen in the Cayman Islands. Doing otherwise would simply be comunazomuslism... Do you want to be a pinko? I didn't think so, now drink your LSD laden cool aid and stop questioning your government superiors.
Biometrics are used at customs, but not as a primary identification source. Your primary source of identification is still your passport.
There are two ways to do biometrics.
1. Cheap and fast with high error rates.
2. Accurate but slow and expensive.
Most places go with option 1 so accept a high level of false positives. I've been going through the biometric terminals at Australian airports, A human doesn't even look at my passport any more when entering Oz. Given that I've never experienced any trouble going through I'm gathering that they accept a high degree of inaccuracy. When doing this, biometrics should never be used as a means of authentication, only a means of identification. In that regard, my passport is my password and I'm responsible for making sure no-one else has it (or if they do, changing it... which is a £300 pain in the arse when you live in the UK).
This is why I just use the same password for everything. It's much easier to remember, and more secure since I don't have to write it down or store it anywhere.
Better idea than that... make up a formula something like: The third letter from the name of the website. (so for example Slashdot that would be "a"). Then take that letter's position in the alphabet (1). Then take the 5th letter and do the same. And then finish with some random string you use in common across all websites such as "passwud123##" to pad the length. The formula would give you:
a1h8passwud123##
Easy to remember, and if someone got a hold of one password they wouldn't be able to apply it directly to any other website. I use a formula for all of my password websites (but it's actually very different to the one above, I don't think anyone could ever reverse engineer my password to figure out my formula- the example above they could if they tried- best to use a formula that would only have meaning to you so it can't be reverse engineered but is quick for you to figure out)
I think your formula is far too complex. Did I swap the o for a u or a zero, where was the 8, how many hashes was it, did I use the fourth or fifth letter because this websites got a space in the name... so on and so forth. Further more, it's based on a dictionary word with common substitutions making it easier to guess. A better password is:
Frank1
That's all you should have to remember to make a complex password. A simple for or 5 letter word, followed by a number. In the case of requiring a special character just use the exclamation mark (or bang) and capitalise the first letter. To meet the length requirements simply double up the first word so your password becomes "Frank1!frank" but all you have remember is "Frank1".
Already you have a simple to remember password that meets stringent requirements and is hard for computers to guess. Its a pattern that can be repeated to whatever length you need, I.E. "Frank1!frank1!frank1!frank", all you need to remember is the number of repetitions.
Why would the cabins be shrinking? Aircraft don't shrink and they last a long time. New models tend ti be longer.
Intergenerationally,
Cabin width of a 777 - 587 cm
Cabin width of a 787 - 549 cm
That's almost an 8% drop in cabin space... but airlines are still shoving in seats 9 abreast (Boeing has even advertised a 10 abrest version of the Squeezeliner). Something has to be smaller, and give the aisles have to be so many CM wide by law, it's the seats.
I suspect every driver is a bad driver on occasion. Humans aren't machines, even the best-trained professionals make the occasional mistake. I know I do, despite several advanced driving courses and a rigorous attitude to driving (no distractions, etc.).
I don't believe there are bad drivers. "bad" implies that its somehow not their fault and cant be improved, nothing could be further from the truth.
What we have are lazy and/or arrogant drivers. These are drivers who could do better, but wont bother and are completely unwilling to change.
Whilst I agree that every driver has bad moments, bits where our attention falters. However the differences between a good driver and a lazy or arrogant driver is:
1. A good driver makes mistakes infrequently.
2. A good driver tries never to make the same mistake twice.
3. A good driver will recognise when they've made a mistake.
Lazy, arrogant drivers will never admit to making a mistake and as a result, will make the same mistake with alarming regularity.
No, having a BAD DRIVER in the loop is a setup for failure.
No. Humans are fallible and non-deterministic. Good drivers are also a setup for failure.
And machines are peferct and godlike.
To err is human, to really fuck up requires a computer, as the old cliche goes.
As recent tests, including this article, show is that computers are not as good as a decent human driver... not a good one, just a mediocre one. This is because computers cant handle fuzzy logic, to put all the "intuition" things that drivers do instinctively into absolutes that computers are good at dealing with would require computers that might fit onto a small articulated lorry. Not to mention infallible all weather sensors which do not yet exist. Computer systems are far too dependent on pre-existing data and are terrible at operating on sensed information alone. Hell, some automatic transmissions depend on being pre-loaded with topographical information to operate efficiently (so their MPG goes through the roof when travelling somewhere without this information).
I've noticed that economy class seats have got a lot better in the last few years. Used to be that sleeping was next to impossible, there was just no support for your head and lower back. They are still not great but a hell of a lot better than they used to be.
For noise foam earplugs can't be beaten for comfort. The only down side is that there is nowhere to store them when you need to take them out temporarily. The pointless magazine/safety leaflet pouch could be a lot more useful.
Not sure who you've been flying (seriously, I'm interested) but economy seats have gotten worse for me. Singapore Airlines still holds the gold standard for me with 19" wide seats, almost no other airline comes close. However with the ever growing desire to shove more and more people into shrinking cabins, comfort hasn't been one of the things I've seen increase. The 787 Squeezeliner is by far the worst. Not only are they shoving as many seats as 777 into less space, they've also gotten rid of the window recess and window blinds. As a gentleman with 19" shoulders (blade to blade, not including the fleshy bits) I rely on the window recess to sit remotely comfortably.
Why it's Apple's job or any other company's job to monitor links to content outside their control?
Let ***ME*** decide if the links are valuable or not.
It is there responsibility to monitor the content of the links they're suggesting to people.
Its also in their best interest as bad experiences lead to customers leaving.
Millennials are also the first generation where bullshit like "I should be able to walk down the street naked and have nothing happen to me" is considered neither a joke nor a statement of "why yes, I am bat shit crazy, just wanted to get that out there while breaking the ice." Or girls just leaving their apartments unlocked and then wondering why they had problems with creeps.
No, they aren't. Young people being a bit naive is nothing new... The fact is young people just lack the experience we take for granted. I'm a gen-xer... Which makes me older than you. You were once the naive young fool you think all young people people are.
Wisdom comes with age and experience, your kind of thinking is when you gain years, but retard experience.
Of all your examples, there were young people of my generation doing it, there were young people of my parents generation... Remember the 60's... Of course you don't but they weren't much different. Cars were crappier, petrol was a bit cheaper and it had lead in it but we're not fundamentally different as humans.
Most (all?) inter-terminal airport trams I've seen don't have anything else that can occupy their tracks.
All of the inter-terminal trains I've seen have had completely enclosed tracks. Its closer to automating the Las Vegas monorail, not much of anything is expected to be on the tracks. We over here in Europe and the UK would call those trains rather than trams.
The trams in Potsdam and many other European cities are run along roads which also have car and goods vehicle traffic. A tram is a light rail system following existing streets, in fact the colloquial difference between a train and a tram is that trams are run along roadways (sometimes without rails) where as train lines are laid off road (barring crossings). What you're calling a "tram" is what we'd call a train as it's on an independent set of tracks. An inter-terminal tram would be if LAX put some light rail on World Way that also interacted with traffic (and having been to LAX a few times... I doubt any AI would last an hour doing that, those bus drivers must have the patience of saints to be driving that road all day).
These people had an iPhone with a superior Qualcomm modem before. Now they have a cheaper one from Intel. Enjoy,
It's almost certainly this.
https://www.wiwavelength.com/2...
Apple's decision to forgo Qualcomm this year and source all cellular modems from Intel is not responsible for the RF power output limitations in the new iPhone models. The cellular baseband modem is separate from and well upstream of the amplifiers that generate the conducted power and antennas that generate the radiated power being measured in lab testing.
...where is all that power going? Where is it being diminished? The answer lies in antenna gain.
Indeed, deeper analysis of the FCC OET authorization filings shows the underwhelming EIRP figures to be almost entirely products of negative antenna gain.
So not only do they have shitty modems (yep, other phones with Intel modems have a lot of problems, I cant believe that they've magically fixed them for Apple but no-one else) but they've also got a shitty antenna design (seems to have become an Apple standard).
And to some of you wondering how this is possible. Why aren't drivers quitting? Well, I'd say 99% of drivers did quit three or four years ago. Me, I am part of the new batch of replacement drivers. I've seen my income slowly get reduced overtime, but definitely not as much as the drivers did four years ago when they went through a massive price cut.
So you are part of the current lot of suckers who replaced the last lot of suckers who finally wizened up that they weren't making money and doing stupid amounts of unpaid hours... SPOILER ALERT... eventually you'll come to the same conclusion that its actually costing you more than you earn and look for a job at McDonalds. Then the next bunch of starry eyed suckers will move right in and start the process all over again. Despite P. T. Barnum's alleged assertion being true, there is still a finite number of suckers who'll fall for the Uber trap, at this point they'll end up with the drivers who literally cant get work anywhere else and will put up with sub poverty line wages and corporate abuse.
Of course, the end result of the "gig" economy is that after you've run out of fresh suckers, you go out of business.
Sarcasm? Because cane toads were a spectacular failure - they didn't eat the pets sitting on top the cane, but devoured native species on the ground.
Since you're unfamiliar with the ancient Australian concept of bleeding obvious sarcasm, I shall close the cash drawer at this time, cobber.
List of causes of death by rate
I think that there are more pressing causes of death, which might increase the need for a drink.
Above that, its lying by statistics. It isn't that alcohol is the cause of the fatality, often it's just a contributing factor. I.E. for young people dying in an alcohol related accident, the problem isn't the alcohol, the problem is the society that permits and in many cases encourages drink driving.
Wait?! You have a working £ symbol in your post.
Did Slashdot fix it or are you using something other than 'Plain Old Text' as your comment format?
You need to use the unicode forma of:
and you get £
Slashdot hasn't updated it, they never will and that's how we like it.
Which idiots said that? Given the Metropolitan Railway already existed showing that underground railways were in fact possible with the materials and engineering of the day.
Unlike trying to build the worlds biggest (by FAR) vacuum chamber with moving parts and people in those parts and of course, which hasn't been demonstrated as actually possible with current materials and engineering.
The thing with the London Underground is that it was built during a time of great economic and technological change in great Britain where pushing the envelope was encouraged and great men like Brunel were permitted to work with drive and vision uninhibited by petty politics and tabloid backstabbing.
The politicians of the day simply set a mandate and got the hell out of the way, even if there were naysayers (and I'm certain their were naysayers to the Underground, there always were). In today's age of "populist" politics, politicians are afraid to do anything except stop sticking their noses into where they're not needed. Anything like the London Underground today would have been buried by the Daily Mail today via "tunnels of death" or "90 billion down the tube" headlines.