The very title says, "nobody's counting" — how do we know, it is the smartphones
Sigh,
Literally dozens, if not hundreds of studies into the subject.
Also first responders, at the scene of most crashes they now find a smartphone in the footwell. Granted, that is anecdotal, but I trust a police or ambulance officer to know more about the subject than some random on/. who is trying everything they can, up to and including the old "immigrant" trope to avoid admitting they have a bad habit that could easily kill someone. Every Cop or Ambo I've met in the last 5 years has told me the same thing, phones are the leading cause of fatal crashes.
We've also had a steady rise in the complexity and abundance of infotainment systems that needlessly complicate the few tasks you legitimately need to attend to while driving.
Which manufacturers are you talking about?
I bought a new BMW 2 series earlier this year and the infotainment system is extremely discrete and non-invasive, not to mention ergonomic. Most tasks have a single button to access them (Nav, Music, Radio) and the scroll wheel is very easy to use, not to mention the steering wheel controls. Here's a picture. its positioned so that your hand can easily reach it without turning, in fact its positioned so that it's uncomfortable to use if you're looking at it.
Its also pretty damn customisable, so you can set it up so you dont need to mess around with it. The BMW even recognises which key is in the car and changes the settings to that drivers customisations.
Infotainment systems dont have to be terrible to use in order to be complex, I guess it depends on which manufacturer you get, I suspect cheap brands like Chevrolet and Citroen are pretty terrible.
What's the sentence for breaking that law? Fine? Community Service? Make it a mandatory 5 years of imprisonment, and I'll bet behaviors will change.
Here in our state, there are often road signs that say "Fines double in work zones". Perhaps the same should be applied to all traffic incidents when a cell phone is being used.
For laws to be effective, they need to be enforced. Here in the UK, just about everyone does a few miles over on the motorway because the Rozzers dont care if you're doing 10 over on a quite motorway. Few people tailgate and act aggressively because then the plod will pull you over and you will get a court date (and time off the road).
Laws on the books wont help if there is less than a full effort to enforce them. In order for punishment to serve as a deterrent, the likelihood of being caught needs to be high.
Some say that an armed society is a more polite one.. I'm inclined to agree...
And you'd both be wrong.
Try spending some time in countries with lots of guns, like France (30 firearms per capita), then try spending time in countries that have few guns, like the Netherlands (4 firearms per capita). The Dutch are amongst the most polite and friendly people in the world.
Exactly. Google is a search engine. All it does, and all it SHOULD do, is return indexed results based on the query the user gave it. I don't want a search engine to try and apply some kind of arbitrary "truthyness" filter, I want it to give me everything it can find that has the words I requested contained within it.
However those results need to be relevant to what the user is searching for to remain useful to the user (and to keep Google on top of the search market).
Providing users with incorrect information is a quick way to force users to your competitors, so Google has a vested interest in keeping searches accurate. This means they need to find a way to cut down on "fake news" because if Google dont, someone else will and eat Google's lunch.
OTOH, every fake news purveyor on the interwebs is trying to game Goolge's and Facebook's engines, so some are bound to slip through the cracks.
It took a good 30 years for the horseless carriage to catch on. By that time the costs plummeted and it started showing real advantages including actually being faster and more comfortable than the horse drawn counterpart.
What you are describing is the diffusion of innovation, kind of.
It take approximately 25 years for a technology to reach saturation from a commercial release.
What you're forgetting is that not every new technology automatically surpasses the one that came before it, especially if there is no major improvement over the previous technology. In fact quite a few technologies fail to catch on, remember LaserDisc, the Cue Cat, QR codes.
Lets take movies for example, DVD, it replaced VCR pretty quickly because the benefits were immediately obvious, they had immediately noticeable improvement in quality over VCR, no rewinding, the ability to skip chapters, subtitle tracks, were much smaller and much cheaper. Now lets consider Blu-Ray vs DVD, Blu-Ray has not supplanted DVD as the dominant physical media for movies because the benefits weren't there, the difference in quality was not noticeable, they didn't introduce any new features, they were more expensive and realistically, digital download was taking off anyway and that has supplanted DVD and Blu-Ray.
Now Bluetooth is an amazing bit of tech, upon its release it very quickly replaced all the various short wave radio and IR technologies being used for the same purpose, but what it was not a replacement for was the headphone jack and its not going to any time soon.
The only type of person capable of taking out that shooter from the crowd at the critical moment would be a fully trained and equipped sniper with combat experience, and who was also expecting the threat and was in already position.
Even then he'd need a support team to spot the target, and probably multiple shots to neutralise. Rampaging nutcases aren't known for standing still like a paper target at the range.
Not sure if you've seen the Mandalay Bay hotel, but it's bright fucking gold and highly reflective in a town in with a love affair with neon lights. Practically the best camouflage a maniac or bond villain could ask for.
Reliability, portability, and length of time the data can be stored, possibly speed. LTO-4 and lower is definitely going to be slower. LTO-5+ might be faster for writing depending on the RAID setup.
Pretty much the reasons you would use tape in the first place.
This,
Also ease of transportation. If I want to move my data off-site, especially to more than one location tape is the easiest way to do that. Speed and availability dont matter for off-site backups. Also cost, where can I get a 3TB HDD for £30? Some data I need to keep unadulterated records of for 7 years (some government requirements even preclude de-duplication, although this is rare).
The GP said the WEST is progressive. That goes beyond just the US (or the UK with Brexit).,
It's a nice idea, but the west is centrist.
The west used to be centrist, but the sad reality is we've been solidly goose-stepping further right for the last 20 or 30 years. In Clinton's era, the US would have never considered a nationalist like Trump, let alone Europe and Clinton was definitely right of Eisenhower.
The West desperately needs to move back to the centre, but that wont happen whilst people are buying hate and it's best buddies, xenophobia and jingoism by the tonne.
Personally I have no issue with the right or the left (third way personally) until either side goes too far. Currently, most western governments have gone too far to the right.
Sounds like the biggest problem it has is that it's sold exclusively through carriers... specifically one carrier in one country that runs a network incompatible with the ROTW. I couldn't get one in the UK or anywhere in Europe (or Asia for that matter).
They would have sold many more units if it were unlocked and available world wide.
But that isn't what lost them their license, the bad part is that they haven't been responding to criminal activity in their vehicles, whether by their employees (the UK isn't buying that contractor malarkey) or by the passengers.
That's actually not true. Uber was reporting the alleged incidents to Transport for London, the very governmental body that just took its license away. The logic TfL is employing (as far as I can make out, that Uber should have gone straight to the police when somehow neither TfL nor, more importantly, the passenger in the Uber seemed to think that was necessary) seems very strained and results-oriented.
So basically you've just backed up what I said.
They failed to respond, TFL is not the place to report crimes, TFL would have told them to report it to the police and Uber failed to do so. So actually it is true.
Uber hasn't failed at that. Drivers need to have badges, and they need to get licensed car plates for the car from TfL. Otherwise you can't operate as a driver.
I think you are assuming that Uber's actions in other countries have also been the case in the UK. But they haven't.
Nice to see you didn't read my post and just substituted it with whatever you thought.
1. It is the responsibility of the hiring PHV company to ensure all drivers comply with relevant licensing laws. PHV companies are not to hire drivers who do not comply with these regulations. Although this isn't the problem, TFL has been letting uber get away with not doing this for years.
2. PHV companies must co-operate with police and investigators when a complaint has been made. PHV companies must also have an internal process for dealing with complaints. Uber has failed both of these duties as several complaints have been made to police and Uber did not follow them up. That is why TFL has taken the step not to renew their licenses.
The article is terribly biased, but I've been following the issue for some time and this is not unexpected. Uber can skirt regulations, especially in London which is very business friendly, but when the rozzers got involved they should have taken it seriously.
I've only flown on a 787 once, but it's a huge improvement over any other standard-class flight I've been on. The higher pressure is really noticeable - I got about 4 hours of work done, and slept soundly for much of the rest of the time. Oh, and it was the only flight I've been on (including in business) where the skin on the lower halves of my legs didn't dry out and remain itchy for a week afterwards.
I've done a 10 hour flight on a 787 and there is no noticeable improvement compared to an A330 or B777. Its nowhere near as quite and smooth as an A380.
There are some serious design flaws with the 787 that make it uncomfortable. First, there is no window recess, the reason I like the window seat is so my 55cm + shoulders have that little bit of extra room in the 17" (45 CM) seats that seem to be favoured on these aircraft. Secondly, there are no window shutters, instead they dim the window but it can never be properly opaque, all it does is flood the cabin with blue light which is not conclusive to sleeping (in fact its the opposite). Both of these are a serious issue when trying to adjust from US central time (-5 GMT) to British Summer Time (GMT +1) and your flight runs during the night (because red-eye flights are cheaper and work has a mandate to cut costs).
No one would notice the pressure changes if they weren't heavily advertised. That B787 flight from LHR to DFW was easily the worst I've ever been on. So much so that this time I'm going via Miami because that route uses a B777 and A319.
Not everybody has been sucking at the tit of Microsoft, Sony, or Nintendo. In the PC space there have been a ton of AAA and Indie games that just aren't available on console.
This, a thousand times this.
Lets be honest, AAA has gotten pretty crappy. Everything is just a rehash of last year, another Call of Boredom; Modern Snorefare, 2018.5, recycled shooters, recycled sports games. I've realised the last AAA game I liked was released 2 years ago (Fallout 4) and even then, there are consolisation elements I despise (and mod out). Things like DLC and pay to win have ruined most competitive games. I'd much rather play Endless Space 2 or Cities: Skylines these days to whatever is being advertised on TV.
I'm definitely in the PCGMR, but I have nothing against consoles... except when a console is desperately trying to be a PC, consoles need to be consoles, fun accessible machines that I can play with a bunch of friends who may not be gamers. Things like Mario Kart which is why three of the last five consoles I've bought have been Nintendo. Consoles are not meant to push the boundary like PC games, they're meant to be simple and fun.
Which is a trick they are using to avoid complying with the law. It doesn't make them something else than they are.
Yep, they are a private hire transport company, or a mini-cab company in laymans terms. And you're right, they aren't complying with the extremely lax regulations for private hire vehicles.
Its not a difficult thing to get a PHV (Private Hire Vehicle) drivers license and it is the drivers responsibility to get it, but the hiring company is still responsible for ensuring all drivers carry the correct license class and insurance. Uber has failed at that. But its the response or lack there of to complaints about criminal activity by drivers and passengers that has earned the ire of TFL (Transport For London). Uber has been permitted to skirt the rules on licenses and insurance for years, however when allegations of assault or theft go unanswered, thats when TFL can no longer ignore the situation.
Well in English terminiology, we'd call them a minicab operation.
Also on that, the fine article got one thing horribly wrong.
it is one of the most regulated markets where Uber operates.
For minicabs (private hire vehicles) London isn't. There are huge amounts of regulations for black cabs, but not minicabs. The difference between the two is that a minicab must be pre-booked and cant simply pick someone up off the street.
What Uber has done is fail the most basic duty of care requirements for any employer by ensuring that their drivers are licensed and insured to a point where they can operate a private hire vehicle, it's not a stringent system as anyone who's ever taken a minicab could attest to. But that isn't what lost them their license, the bad part is that they haven't been responding to criminal activity in their vehicles, whether by their employees (the UK isn't buying that contractor malarkey) or by the passengers.
The real reason we have a lot of Diesel cars in Europe is because of taxes. Gasoline is taxed more than diesel and cars tend to consume more. People are quick to do the maths and opt for the more economical solution, especially those who drive a lot.
This, it's also mainly historical in many countries. Excise on diesel fuels in the UK is the same for petrol and diesel at 57.95 pence per litre.
Countries in Europe are slowly equalising petrol and diesel fuel taxes. The UK did years ago, the French are doing so this year, Germany is likely to follow. However over here people are still in the mindset that Diesel == cheap despite that not being the case any more. It will take some time for this to change but it will eventually change, the diesel passenger car is living on borrowed time and it's about time it died. Small diesels are dreadful to drive.
Having been through one of these acquisitions (I work in the Semiconductor industry) the President had nothing to do with it. The FTC was involved and had to approve. Just more Trump bashing by CNN
Live by the sword, die by the sword.
Trump is trying to put his name against every good thing that has happened since his presidency, granted, there haven't been many so he's been trying to put his name against every good sounding thing. This means he'll get lambasted for every bad thing as well. Of course Trump doesn't want this (no doubt he'll call it Fake News(TM)) but it'll happen.
Besides this is better than the way Fox News carried on about Obama, they did far worse than this to him and Obama was nowhere near the media whore Trump is.
And sadly, until you stop consuming this bollocks, it'll keep getting worse.
Anandtech did some analysis a while back and determined that geekbench 3 scores were crap, but that geekbench 4 scores lined up very accurately with what they measured.
And the current ones?
I'll wait until I see some independent tests. It's well known that Apple stipulates a lot of provisions when giving out devices for review, doubly so for pre-release. I would never expect to see unfavourable results pre-release.
How many professional uses do you use your Android for?
Every one that an Iphone is capable of and more.
Lets face it, Iphones have no special business use either, but are more limited than Android. If you've flown on a recently designed airliner, one thing you should notice is that the IFE's are now Android based. Android is actually getting quite big in the embedded device space. How's IOS doing there?
Say what you will about Apple and iPhone -- they don't pull this kind of shit with customers.
Pretty sure they'd have a time limit on their cloud services.
It might last longer than 2 months (not sure what you expect from a free service, but the entitlement wankers have come out of the woodwork over this) but Apple shafts you in every other possible way.
This is really unbelievably crap behavior by Google. You can have a trillion emails on your gmail account forever, but you phone backup goes away in 2 months? WTF?
Why does everyone get so entitled when they use a free service?
Its a free service, they can set whatever terms they like. Also, all you have to do is connect to the service once every 2 months to keep it going.
Can someone please explain what is evil here, because I'm not exactly seeing any kittens being tortured here.
Antisemitism has historically been linked to anti-banker and anti-capitalist sentiments
Except for the largest antisemitic group in history, the Nazis who were decidedly right wing. Or the current crop of anti-semites who are also decidedly right wing (Sorry, but nowhere has HAMAS said they want justice and social harmony for Palestinians, their main goal is simply the destruction of Israel, same with Iran as theocracy centralises power, not distributes wealth. Both Iran and Palestine have capitalist systems firmly in place as the place was a centre of trade for millennia before the US even existed).
Dont confuse people being anti-Jewish with being anti-Bankers. They're quite happy to accept white bankers.
Proper leftists have no issues with Jews, Antisemitism tends to be linked to extremist nationalism, which is firmly on the extreme right.
It's no accident that the enemy of the Party in Nineteen Eighty-Four had a Jewish name: Jews were seen as the enemies of socialism (and the Party, like the USSR, still claimed to be socialist in spite of having few traits in common with socialism).
It helps if you read Nineteen Eighty-Four before commenting on it. The society in 1984 (for brevity's sake) still used money (although there were shortages of almost everything). The idea behind IngSoc is that it was neither English, nor Socialist. Pretty sure George Orwell used those exact words in the novel 1984. You see 1984 was a diatribe against Nazi Facism, it centred on the theme of an institutionalised class structure (inner party members -> outer party members -> Proles) with each cast receiving fewer rights than the one above it, institutionalised surveillance and government control as well extreme nationalism and the perpetual war that comes along with it. The use of the Jewish name Goldstein, was just to link it to Nazism and their Antisemitism and the fact that National Socialism has nothing to do with Socialism as we define it.
Orwell left thinly veiled cues of the society he was ripping off in names, for example in Animal Farm, his diatribe against Stalinist Communism he used Trotsky pigs as the farm animal's leaders in reference to Leon Trotsky who was an early Communist party member under Lenin and who Stalin had killed when he took power after Lenins death.
These things are not mutually exclusive at all. "Left" does not mean you want a communist central leadership. "Right" does not mean you want a fascist central leadership.
-I- want global coorperation for our global problems, and I want as much freedom as possible without destroying the world in exploding anarchy.
Do I need to explain this further? Labels mean nothing, as everyone has a different meaning attached to it.
B-B-B-But if they don't label people with thought terminating cliches, how can they stop people from critically thinking about the extremist philosophy they're trying to expunge.
Communism is an extremist left-wing government, Fascism is an extremist right wing government.
They're both bad, not because they are left/right, but because they're both extremist philosophies. Doesn't matter if you're left or right, as long as you're not taking it to the extreme.
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The very title says, "nobody's counting" — how do we know, it is the smartphones
Sigh,
/. who is trying everything they can, up to and including the old "immigrant" trope to avoid admitting they have a bad habit that could easily kill someone. Every Cop or Ambo I've met in the last 5 years has told me the same thing, phones are the leading cause of fatal crashes.
Literally dozens, if not hundreds of studies into the subject.
Also first responders, at the scene of most crashes they now find a smartphone in the footwell. Granted, that is anecdotal, but I trust a police or ambulance officer to know more about the subject than some random on
We've also had a steady rise in the complexity and abundance of infotainment systems that needlessly complicate the few tasks you legitimately need to attend to while driving.
Which manufacturers are you talking about?
I bought a new BMW 2 series earlier this year and the infotainment system is extremely discrete and non-invasive, not to mention ergonomic. Most tasks have a single button to access them (Nav, Music, Radio) and the scroll wheel is very easy to use, not to mention the steering wheel controls. Here's a picture. its positioned so that your hand can easily reach it without turning, in fact its positioned so that it's uncomfortable to use if you're looking at it.
Its also pretty damn customisable, so you can set it up so you dont need to mess around with it. The BMW even recognises which key is in the car and changes the settings to that drivers customisations.
Infotainment systems dont have to be terrible to use in order to be complex, I guess it depends on which manufacturer you get, I suspect cheap brands like Chevrolet and Citroen are pretty terrible.
What's the sentence for breaking that law? Fine? Community Service? Make it a mandatory 5 years of imprisonment, and I'll bet behaviors will change.
Here in our state, there are often road signs that say "Fines double in work zones". Perhaps the same should be applied to all traffic incidents when a cell phone is being used.
For laws to be effective, they need to be enforced. Here in the UK, just about everyone does a few miles over on the motorway because the Rozzers dont care if you're doing 10 over on a quite motorway. Few people tailgate and act aggressively because then the plod will pull you over and you will get a court date (and time off the road).
Laws on the books wont help if there is less than a full effort to enforce them. In order for punishment to serve as a deterrent, the likelihood of being caught needs to be high.
Some say that an armed society is a more polite one.. I'm inclined to agree...
And you'd both be wrong.
Try spending some time in countries with lots of guns, like France (30 firearms per capita), then try spending time in countries that have few guns, like the Netherlands (4 firearms per capita). The Dutch are amongst the most polite and friendly people in the world.
Exactly. Google is a search engine. All it does, and all it SHOULD do, is return indexed results based on the query the user gave it. I don't want a search engine to try and apply some kind of arbitrary "truthyness" filter, I want it to give me everything it can find that has the words I requested contained within it.
However those results need to be relevant to what the user is searching for to remain useful to the user (and to keep Google on top of the search market).
Providing users with incorrect information is a quick way to force users to your competitors, so Google has a vested interest in keeping searches accurate. This means they need to find a way to cut down on "fake news" because if Google dont, someone else will and eat Google's lunch.
OTOH, every fake news purveyor on the interwebs is trying to game Goolge's and Facebook's engines, so some are bound to slip through the cracks.
It took a good 30 years for the horseless carriage to catch on. By that time the costs plummeted and it started showing real advantages including actually being faster and more comfortable than the horse drawn counterpart.
What you are describing is the diffusion of innovation, kind of.
It take approximately 25 years for a technology to reach saturation from a commercial release.
What you're forgetting is that not every new technology automatically surpasses the one that came before it, especially if there is no major improvement over the previous technology. In fact quite a few technologies fail to catch on, remember LaserDisc, the Cue Cat, QR codes.
Lets take movies for example, DVD, it replaced VCR pretty quickly because the benefits were immediately obvious, they had immediately noticeable improvement in quality over VCR, no rewinding, the ability to skip chapters, subtitle tracks, were much smaller and much cheaper. Now lets consider Blu-Ray vs DVD, Blu-Ray has not supplanted DVD as the dominant physical media for movies because the benefits weren't there, the difference in quality was not noticeable, they didn't introduce any new features, they were more expensive and realistically, digital download was taking off anyway and that has supplanted DVD and Blu-Ray.
Now Bluetooth is an amazing bit of tech, upon its release it very quickly replaced all the various short wave radio and IR technologies being used for the same purpose, but what it was not a replacement for was the headphone jack and its not going to any time soon.
The only type of person capable of taking out that shooter from the crowd at the critical moment would be a fully trained and equipped sniper with combat experience, and who was also expecting the threat and was in already position.
Even then he'd need a support team to spot the target, and probably multiple shots to neutralise. Rampaging nutcases aren't known for standing still like a paper target at the range.
Not sure if you've seen the Mandalay Bay hotel, but it's bright fucking gold and highly reflective in a town in with a love affair with neon lights. Practically the best camouflage a maniac or bond villain could ask for.
Reliability, portability, and length of time the data can be stored, possibly speed. LTO-4 and lower is definitely going to be slower. LTO-5+ might be faster for writing depending on the RAID setup.
Pretty much the reasons you would use tape in the first place.
This,
Also ease of transportation. If I want to move my data off-site, especially to more than one location tape is the easiest way to do that. Speed and availability dont matter for off-site backups. Also cost, where can I get a 3TB HDD for £30? Some data I need to keep unadulterated records of for 7 years (some government requirements even preclude de-duplication, although this is rare).
The GP said the WEST is progressive. That goes beyond just the US (or the UK with Brexit).,
It's a nice idea, but the west is centrist.
The west used to be centrist, but the sad reality is we've been solidly goose-stepping further right for the last 20 or 30 years. In Clinton's era, the US would have never considered a nationalist like Trump, let alone Europe and Clinton was definitely right of Eisenhower.
The West desperately needs to move back to the centre, but that wont happen whilst people are buying hate and it's best buddies, xenophobia and jingoism by the tonne.
Personally I have no issue with the right or the left (third way personally) until either side goes too far. Currently, most western governments have gone too far to the right.
Sounds like the biggest problem it has is that it's sold exclusively through carriers... specifically one carrier in one country that runs a network incompatible with the ROTW. I couldn't get one in the UK or anywhere in Europe (or Asia for that matter).
They would have sold many more units if it were unlocked and available world wide.
But that isn't what lost them their license, the bad part is that they haven't been responding to criminal activity in their vehicles, whether by their employees (the UK isn't buying that contractor malarkey) or by the passengers.
That's actually not true. Uber was reporting the alleged incidents to Transport for London, the very governmental body that just took its license away. The logic TfL is employing (as far as I can make out, that Uber should have gone straight to the police when somehow neither TfL nor, more importantly, the passenger in the Uber seemed to think that was necessary) seems very strained and results-oriented.
So basically you've just backed up what I said.
They failed to respond, TFL is not the place to report crimes, TFL would have told them to report it to the police and Uber failed to do so. So actually it is true.
Uber hasn't failed at that. Drivers need to have badges, and they need to get licensed car plates for the car from TfL. Otherwise you can't operate as a driver.
I think you are assuming that Uber's actions in other countries have also been the case in the UK. But they haven't.
Nice to see you didn't read my post and just substituted it with whatever you thought.
1. It is the responsibility of the hiring PHV company to ensure all drivers comply with relevant licensing laws. PHV companies are not to hire drivers who do not comply with these regulations. Although this isn't the problem, TFL has been letting uber get away with not doing this for years.
2. PHV companies must co-operate with police and investigators when a complaint has been made. PHV companies must also have an internal process for dealing with complaints. Uber has failed both of these duties as several complaints have been made to police and Uber did not follow them up. That is why TFL has taken the step not to renew their licenses.
The article is terribly biased, but I've been following the issue for some time and this is not unexpected. Uber can skirt regulations, especially in London which is very business friendly, but when the rozzers got involved they should have taken it seriously.
I've only flown on a 787 once, but it's a huge improvement over any other standard-class flight I've been on. The higher pressure is really noticeable - I got about 4 hours of work done, and slept soundly for much of the rest of the time. Oh, and it was the only flight I've been on (including in business) where the skin on the lower halves of my legs didn't dry out and remain itchy for a week afterwards.
I've done a 10 hour flight on a 787 and there is no noticeable improvement compared to an A330 or B777. Its nowhere near as quite and smooth as an A380.
There are some serious design flaws with the 787 that make it uncomfortable. First, there is no window recess, the reason I like the window seat is so my 55cm + shoulders have that little bit of extra room in the 17" (45 CM) seats that seem to be favoured on these aircraft. Secondly, there are no window shutters, instead they dim the window but it can never be properly opaque, all it does is flood the cabin with blue light which is not conclusive to sleeping (in fact its the opposite). Both of these are a serious issue when trying to adjust from US central time (-5 GMT) to British Summer Time (GMT +1) and your flight runs during the night (because red-eye flights are cheaper and work has a mandate to cut costs).
No one would notice the pressure changes if they weren't heavily advertised. That B787 flight from LHR to DFW was easily the worst I've ever been on. So much so that this time I'm going via Miami because that route uses a B777 and A319.
Not everybody has been sucking at the tit of Microsoft, Sony, or Nintendo. In the PC space there have been a ton of AAA and Indie games that just aren't available on console.
This, a thousand times this.
Lets be honest, AAA has gotten pretty crappy. Everything is just a rehash of last year, another Call of Boredom; Modern Snorefare, 2018.5, recycled shooters, recycled sports games. I've realised the last AAA game I liked was released 2 years ago (Fallout 4) and even then, there are consolisation elements I despise (and mod out). Things like DLC and pay to win have ruined most competitive games. I'd much rather play Endless Space 2 or Cities: Skylines these days to whatever is being advertised on TV.
I'm definitely in the PCGMR, but I have nothing against consoles... except when a console is desperately trying to be a PC, consoles need to be consoles, fun accessible machines that I can play with a bunch of friends who may not be gamers. Things like Mario Kart which is why three of the last five consoles I've bought have been Nintendo. Consoles are not meant to push the boundary like PC games, they're meant to be simple and fun.
Also I wish that Brits, as the inventors of the English language, would ban using "uber" as a verb.
As bloody well we should, its a German word.
The correct word in English is Superior in this context (uber in German also means over or above), and as penance, Uber should be renamed forthwith
Which is a trick they are using to avoid complying with the law. It doesn't make them something else than they are.
Yep, they are a private hire transport company, or a mini-cab company in laymans terms. And you're right, they aren't complying with the extremely lax regulations for private hire vehicles. Its not a difficult thing to get a PHV (Private Hire Vehicle) drivers license and it is the drivers responsibility to get it, but the hiring company is still responsible for ensuring all drivers carry the correct license class and insurance. Uber has failed at that. But its the response or lack there of to complaints about criminal activity by drivers and passengers that has earned the ire of TFL (Transport For London). Uber has been permitted to skirt the rules on licenses and insurance for years, however when allegations of assault or theft go unanswered, thats when TFL can no longer ignore the situation.
it is one of the most regulated markets where Uber operates.
For minicabs (private hire vehicles) London isn't. There are huge amounts of regulations for black cabs, but not minicabs. The difference between the two is that a minicab must be pre-booked and cant simply pick someone up off the street.
What Uber has done is fail the most basic duty of care requirements for any employer by ensuring that their drivers are licensed and insured to a point where they can operate a private hire vehicle, it's not a stringent system as anyone who's ever taken a minicab could attest to. But that isn't what lost them their license, the bad part is that they haven't been responding to criminal activity in their vehicles, whether by their employees (the UK isn't buying that contractor malarkey) or by the passengers.
The real reason we have a lot of Diesel cars in Europe is because of taxes.
Gasoline is taxed more than diesel and cars tend to consume more. People are quick to do the maths and opt for the more economical solution, especially those who drive a lot.
This, it's also mainly historical in many countries. Excise on diesel fuels in the UK is the same for petrol and diesel at 57.95 pence per litre.
Countries in Europe are slowly equalising petrol and diesel fuel taxes. The UK did years ago, the French are doing so this year, Germany is likely to follow. However over here people are still in the mindset that Diesel == cheap despite that not being the case any more. It will take some time for this to change but it will eventually change, the diesel passenger car is living on borrowed time and it's about time it died. Small diesels are dreadful to drive.
Having been through one of these acquisitions (I work in the Semiconductor industry) the President had nothing to do with it. The FTC was involved and had to approve. Just more Trump bashing by CNN
Live by the sword, die by the sword.
Trump is trying to put his name against every good thing that has happened since his presidency, granted, there haven't been many so he's been trying to put his name against every good sounding thing. This means he'll get lambasted for every bad thing as well. Of course Trump doesn't want this (no doubt he'll call it Fake News(TM)) but it'll happen.
Besides this is better than the way Fox News carried on about Obama, they did far worse than this to him and Obama was nowhere near the media whore Trump is.
And sadly, until you stop consuming this bollocks, it'll keep getting worse.
Anandtech did some analysis a while back and determined that geekbench 3 scores were crap, but that geekbench 4 scores lined up very accurately with what they measured.
And the current ones? I'll wait until I see some independent tests. It's well known that Apple stipulates a lot of provisions when giving out devices for review, doubly so for pre-release. I would never expect to see unfavourable results pre-release.
How many professional uses do you use your Android for?
Every one that an Iphone is capable of and more. Lets face it, Iphones have no special business use either, but are more limited than Android. If you've flown on a recently designed airliner, one thing you should notice is that the IFE's are now Android based. Android is actually getting quite big in the embedded device space. How's IOS doing there?
Say what you will about Apple and iPhone -- they don't pull this kind of shit with customers.
Pretty sure they'd have a time limit on their cloud services.
It might last longer than 2 months (not sure what you expect from a free service, but the entitlement wankers have come out of the woodwork over this) but Apple shafts you in every other possible way.
This is really unbelievably crap behavior by Google. You can have a trillion emails on your gmail account forever, but you phone backup goes away in 2 months? WTF?
Why does everyone get so entitled when they use a free service?
Its a free service, they can set whatever terms they like. Also, all you have to do is connect to the service once every 2 months to keep it going.
Can someone please explain what is evil here, because I'm not exactly seeing any kittens being tortured here.
Antisemitism has historically been linked to anti-banker and anti-capitalist sentiments
Except for the largest antisemitic group in history, the Nazis who were decidedly right wing. Or the current crop of anti-semites who are also decidedly right wing (Sorry, but nowhere has HAMAS said they want justice and social harmony for Palestinians, their main goal is simply the destruction of Israel, same with Iran as theocracy centralises power, not distributes wealth. Both Iran and Palestine have capitalist systems firmly in place as the place was a centre of trade for millennia before the US even existed).
Dont confuse people being anti-Jewish with being anti-Bankers. They're quite happy to accept white bankers.
Proper leftists have no issues with Jews, Antisemitism tends to be linked to extremist nationalism, which is firmly on the extreme right.
It's no accident that the enemy of the Party in Nineteen Eighty-Four had a Jewish name: Jews were seen as the enemies of socialism (and the Party, like the USSR, still claimed to be socialist in spite of having few traits in common with socialism).
It helps if you read Nineteen Eighty-Four before commenting on it. The society in 1984 (for brevity's sake) still used money (although there were shortages of almost everything). The idea behind IngSoc is that it was neither English, nor Socialist. Pretty sure George Orwell used those exact words in the novel 1984. You see 1984 was a diatribe against Nazi Facism, it centred on the theme of an institutionalised class structure (inner party members -> outer party members -> Proles) with each cast receiving fewer rights than the one above it, institutionalised surveillance and government control as well extreme nationalism and the perpetual war that comes along with it. The use of the Jewish name Goldstein, was just to link it to Nazism and their Antisemitism and the fact that National Socialism has nothing to do with Socialism as we define it.
Orwell left thinly veiled cues of the society he was ripping off in names, for example in Animal Farm, his diatribe against Stalinist Communism he used Trotsky pigs as the farm animal's leaders in reference to Leon Trotsky who was an early Communist party member under Lenin and who Stalin had killed when he took power after Lenins death.
These things are not mutually exclusive at all. "Left" does not mean you want a communist central leadership. "Right" does not mean you want a fascist central leadership.
-I- want global coorperation for our global problems, and I want as much freedom as possible without destroying the world in exploding anarchy.
Do I need to explain this further? Labels mean nothing, as everyone has a different meaning attached to it.
B-B-B-But if they don't label people with thought terminating cliches, how can they stop people from critically thinking about the extremist philosophy they're trying to expunge.
Communism is an extremist left-wing government, Fascism is an extremist right wing government.
They're both bad, not because they are left/right, but because they're both extremist philosophies. Doesn't matter if you're left or right, as long as you're not taking it to the extreme.