My two sons are in high school. They use Google Docs, Android phones, and gmail for all school related work. They even submit papers using Google Docs and share using various Google tools.
I have mentioned to many co-workers that Microsoft should be very worried about their hegemony in the office when this generation comes out into the workforce and doesn't demand Office or Windows on the desktop.
I doubt Microsoft are that worried.
They still control the enterprise with an iron fist and Google aren't anywhere near replacing O365, let alone on premise exchange. As long as there's no viable competitor to MS Office, they have the business market by the short and curlies.
Also, Google didn't take the classroom from Microsoft, Apple took it from Microsoft. Google is taking it from Apple and its resulted in a marked increase in the quality of candidates. For the last 5 years, candidates for entry level positions have been leaving schools and universities with little to no knowledge on how to operate a computer. This is starting to turn around as they're at least rote memorising an interface that is similar to what they'll use in a workplace.
When my grandparents were in college, they were addressed by their professors as Mr. and Ms. Now, professors address their students by first name. I'm all for insisting on correct spelling and grammar, and for respecting the use of Dr. or Professor, but perhaps the faculty could win support if they treated their students like the adults they are.
When my grandparents were in school, higher education was restricted to the rich and privileged... School teachers were called "sir" and there weren't that many female ones to be called "Ma'am"... and I'm not that old.
We've come a long way.
I used to work for a university, it was up to the individual faculty to determine what the students would call them (obviously within the bounds of good taste). The more relaxed professors went by first names, the less relaxed ones insisted on formal titles (Mr, Professor), some even went by nicknames as that's what they preferred. The only exception was medical where doctors had to be called doctor. Even then, it wasn't a strict subordination/domination thing. All of the doctors I met were very easy going, amenable people.
One thing the University emphasised was that everyone there was to be treated as an adult because everyone there was 18+ (legal adult status in Australia) or only a few months away. This means if they acted like kids, they could be kicked out. One or two first years were kicked out at the start of each semester because of their behaviour. Whether or not they were permitted back depended on how bad their behaviour was. Most were permitted back, but not until next semester.
This is basic stuff, and they graduate high school without learning it. What did they put on their college application, a plagiarized form letter?
Are you kidding?
40% of American High School GRADUATES (yes, graduates) can't read or write. They get graduated anyway. Front cover of Time Magazine.
Are you sure that 40% of graduates cannot read or write? Or do you mean up to a specific level?
Because if you meant the latter, you should really familiarise yourself with the old saying about stones and glass houses.
Sorry if this kills your pointless and inaccurate rant. I'd love for education to be better as I'm in a position of hiring for entry level positions, but the standards of education are down due to diminishing school budgets.
The private market will always surpass the nationalized or state run model for all services.
Never say "always". Market solutions work well when there is competition and transparency, but when those are lacking, governments can often do better than a private monopoly or duopoly. There are many examples of this: America's privately run healthcare system is worse in both cost and outcome compared to any other developed country. Many cities in America have municipal power, water, and even Internet, and these tend to be at least as good as privately run monopolies in neighboring cities.
Whenever possible, rather than directly providing services, the government should focus on making markets more competitive and transparent. We have government owned roads and ports, but the government doesn't own the cars, trucks, and ships. Likewise for Internet, the government should provide wide conduits so any bonded company can pull fiber. Since trenching is by far the biggest cost, this will allow more companies to enter markets at greatly reduced cost.
There are significant cases where market based solutions don't work. Public utilities, heath care and education are some of the biggest examples.
You cant expect the "market" to automagically fix teclo monopolies because it costs millions and millions to lay your own cables. The barriers to entry were not governmental in origin. This is why the NBN under Labor was the closest thing you could get to a market based solution of a public utility. The idea was that the government owned the actual infrastructure but none of the retail. Any retailer could rent the infrastructure at the same price regardless of if they were a huge multinational telecom corporation or 2 guys in a shed.
However the established monopolists could not let this pass, so they sicced their pet LNP onto the NBN to destroy it and they've been largely successful at it.
Now it comes from North Korea? Who wrote this movie? It makes no sense.
No, if you read the article, it contains code also found in known North Korean malware... which means both users just got the code off of whatever the black hat version of Stack Exchange is.
The good news is the driver should be alerted to this problem by a instrument cluster warning light.
The last time all the lights appeared on the dashboard of my 1999 Ford Taurus the head gasket had blown and a piston broke inside engine. My mechanic refused to work on it as it was a waste of money. That was six months after I spent $1,500 on tires and brakes. Pick-N-Pull bought it for $250.
Mechanic was lazy.
When you blow a head gasket, you simply look for a 2nd hand replacement engine. A Ford Mondeo/Taurus uses Fords most common engines, An engine swap shouldn't be more than a days labour at the most. I once got a Nissan SR20DET completely replaced for A$2250 which included a new radiator and turbo.
Fixing a blown head gasket is not worth is as you dont know if the rest of the engine is good until you've got the new gasket in place, but that's why you just drop a good engine in there.
So they are using a Fail Unsafe system. If something fails, put the system in an unsafe state. Brilliant.
Love how they say they _designed_ it to work this way. Ah, no you didn't.
Actually, the sudden deployment of airbags and the seatbelt tensioner would be far more unsafe than to not deploy in an accident.
Beside the startle factor, it's a fairly violent event and it's far safer that in case of problems, the airbag does NOT deploy than deploys.
It's why we have airbag disable switches, and children sets are never allowed in the front seat anymore - because deployment has the chance to cause injury.
That is utter bollocks.
Children are not banned from the front seat, there is an advisory against using rear facing child seats in the front seat.
With almost all airbag fatalities its usually due to people putting their arms over the steering wheel (I.E. hand over hand) rather than doing push-pull steering. Its not the airbag that kills them, its their own radius or ulna that does the job. I haven't seen a car with a user accessible airbag disable switch for some time. Any switches are only there for maintenance purposes only and will set off the SRS warning if not re-enabled when the vehicle is switched on.
As for seat belt tensionsers, you've got to be smoking crack here. Head injuries are the biggest killer in any motor vehicle accident and for the most part these are caused by the shoulders NOT being restrained enough (which is why racing drivers wear a HANS device). I have been in one serious MVA before, my 2 star ANCAP safety rated car was sandwiched between a 5 star ANCAP rated Mazda 3 and a 5 star ANCAP rated Holden Calais... Guess who was the only one not to go to hospital? Yep, me in the 2 star rated car. The paramedics immediately knew why, its because I sat upright with my head against the headrest whilst the other drivers reclined, so their necks were extended. Their heads had a hell of a lot more travel than mine. Without seat belt tensioners, my shoulders would not have been restrained against the seat.
More like general negligence, who outranks incompetence.
I work in the UK, several of our customers are banks, they're all going apeshit with requests to find out if they're vulnerable to the same attack. We keep their shit patched so no, but it's making my evening a living hell.
However I've also worked for several medical clients back in Oz. I'm not surprised this kind of thing can happen. You'd so often see a $1000 PC hooked up to a $350,000 medical scanner. That PC would be running a 5 year old OS because it ran a specific $30,000 piece of software that the scanner required to interpret the raw data. Its not that they didn't want to upgrade the OS or hardware, shit, that's the cheap part. It would be $50,000 to upgrade the firmware on the scanner and $10,000 for the upgrade to the software to get it to run on Windows 7 (at the time, we're talking 2012 here).
Needless to say, we kept those machines isolated from the general network, preferably not connected at all.
If you're hourly, always keep a copy of your hours. Most bosses _will_ try to fuck you on hours, they won't do it on every check. You must continually spot check.
It's really amazing, how their 'errors' always go one way.
Be grateful when errors only go one way.
If you get overpaid, you're legally required to pay that back even when the fuck up is 100% their fault.
That being said, never a bad idea to keep your own records of your hours. Even if you dont get paid by the hour.
But traditional lectures simply aren't effective. Research shows students don't learn by hearing or seeing,
Let's see this alleged "research." I call bullshit.
Fact: some students learn best by doing. I'm one of them.
Corollary: not all students learn best by doing. My wife is in this category.
I believe you're referring to Neil Flemming's VAK model of learning, Visual, Auditory and Kinesthetic.
Visual learners learn best by seeing it (demonstrations, instructions).
Auditory learners learn best by hearing it (lectures, tapes).
Kinesthetic learners learn by doing.
There is actual research, to back up your research. Like you, I'm also kinesthetic, If something is really going to stick in my brain, it's easiest if I do it. I tune out to lectures and demonstrations far too easily.
So 100 million calls costs 400k? That sounds like a competitive rate. Far from being a deterrent its also a guarantee they can't be sued from once they are fined. 2 for the price of 1.
Thats 0.4 pence a call. If they made A 20 quid in every 5000 calls, it's break even.
I'm of the mind where nuisance calls should attract a minimum fine of 1 pound per alleged call (alleged, not proven).
Microsoft's communication head, summing up the situation, "Didn't see that one coming, did you!"
Yeah...
So as the Microsoft store struggles for relevance, it arranges to bring the most popular $0 programs to its store. Colour me completely unsurprised. This couldn't have been more unexpected if it arrived on the back of three red-robed cardinals proclaiming a Spanish inquisition.
Back in the day, flying was one of the few times the traveling businessman got to him(her)self. No computer to work on, no phone calls to make or receive. Then came laptops making it possible to do work on the plane, then in-flight phone calls, and now wireless Internet on flights.
Banning laptops would mean that the business traveler once again legitimately can't get any work done while flying
And legitimately not able to work when you get there because if the sticky fingered baggage handler decided he didn't want your laptop, the carelessness of how it's thrown about would ensure it arrived broken.
Every travel insurer on the planet tells you never to put valuables in checked luggage, this is because airlines have no visibility over what happens to your luggage when it's being handled.
For this reason alone, I expect business travellers to make A LOT of noise over it and it'll be a noise the government cant ignore. I believe that the Bush Administration proposed something similar right after 911, the entirety of the business community rebelled and it was quickly scrapped.
If you want time not working, simply make it. If you cant you are either not important enough to make these decisions (in which case you're basically a serf) or you're choosing not to make time. Most of the time it's the latter and you don't have anyone but yourself to blame for that.
The defining characteristic of a monopoly is not market share, but lack of choice. Google dominates search, and I use it, but I could switch to Bing in 10 seconds. Likewise for advertisers, although Google has a large market share, they don't charge more per eyeball, because advertisers can easily switch.
I have to disagree, Google are a monopoly. What Google are not is an abusive monopoly. Google does not make it hard to switch from their products and services, Google makes their products and services good enough that you have no impetus to switch.
Monopolies are not inherently illegal, it's abusing your dominant position that is illegal. Microsoft was never in trouble for being the dominant operating system vendor, they were in trouble for the the actions they took to maintain that position (I.E strong arming vendors).
Sorry, but I have to be pedantic. In incorrect English (En-US)
I understand that English is your second language, so I have taken the opportunity to offer some corrections.
No need to thank me, I offer this service as a courtesy as all should be able to speak the queens English.
It's dispensed with pressurised CO2,
Lager should really be pressurised with nitrogen rather than carbon dioxide.
with the exception of Beer Engines which are pumps and getting rare even in the UK from my understanding.
Ahh, you also haven't been to England. Once we have fixed your poor understanding of the language, you shall be welcome to visit. Upon your arrival, one of our many fine Chavs will be happy to instruct you on how to drink a real ale which will be available at almost any drinking establishment. I'd suggest not spilling his pint or looking at his girl, those are major faux pas in English society and may illicit a strong response.
Seriously, even a Weatherspoons will offer cask ale, which is dispensed by a pump as it's naturally carbonated.
If the AI starts to evaluate, based SOLEY on data, that a particular racial group *does* tend to re-offend more often and is hence a higher risk....do we as the public start to believe it, or do we say that AI, even though purely scientific and logic based, is not Politically Correct and must have some artificial weights put into the algorithm to keep it from finding that some racial or economic strata of folks are more high risk and should be kept in jail?
Well artificial weights have to be incorporated into the program. We're not talking about strong AI here (Artificial General Intelligence) that can determine things for itself, it has to be given parameters. Race should not be one of those parameters as it's not actually a determiner. Poor white neighbourhoods have the same crime problem as poor black ones.... there's just a greater volume of poor blacks (same for Asians and Hispanics). The RWNJ bogeyman of "Political Correctness" doesn't enter into it, parameters should be selected based on science (criminology and psychology).
In other words, if a program lets a repeat offender out because he's white, the program is broken.
If we do develop AGI and it turns out to be racist, humanity will have far bigger problems than a few people wrongfully kept in lockup.
Only an idiot uses their $750 phone without a good case. I received my Otterbox Defender for the GS8+ two weeks before I got the phone. I've dropped it several times with no problems.
- Necron69
Only an idiot buys a $750 phone when a $375 phone is just as good, if not better. Sorry, not sorry.
My Nexus 5X has taken a few tumbles and is no worse for wear.
I'm also not a klutz that goes around dropping stuff contently, in the 18 months I've had it, I've dropped it twice.
This is yet another good example of how the free market isn't. The entire situation is asymmetric. Companies have more information and control supply. If there was more competition maybe, but between buyouts left and right (thanks to enormous cash reserves left from decades of not taxing anyone) and the simple fact that they can watch each other's prices... well the whole system's busted and I don't see anything fixing it short of UBI + single payer healthcare or the like putting power in consumers hands by ensuring basic needs are met.
Uh, a very transparent market of highly substitutable goods is much closer to ideal competition than most. Sure they play little tricks to nudge out those extra cents of profit but it's important to realize that it makes a huge difference for them if the margin is 2% or 5%. If you're paying $1.02 or $1.05 not so much. If you made it a state monopoly it'd probably cost $1.50 because nobody has strong incentive to make it cheaper, it'll sell because people need it and they can't have it from anywhere else. Socialism is great when there's clear reasons why the market would be dysfunctional. Like:
As much as I disagree with nationalising industry, most socialist countries that control their oil industry provide cheaper fuel than in the west. Some democratic countries too, this is done by subsidising fuels and often making up the shortfall with exports. Malaysia in recent years was forced to relax their fuel subsidy in response to the long term depression in oil prices. Exports just weren't covering the cost enough to keep it at 3 MYR a litre (less than US$1 at the time).
I disagree with fuel subsidies and price fixing because they create disruptions in the market and an artificial dependence on another source of income to continue.
Again, note that I do not advocate nationalising the oil industry in any way, but saying it only increases prices when it doesn't is disingenuous, its got plenty of other problems, but price control isn't one of them.
Now most algorithms are based on demand. Those who buy fuel on the weekend pay more than those who buy it on a Tuesday or a Wednesday because there is more demand for fuel on the weekend. Petrol distributors do this to encourage more people to fill up on the weekdays and move a volume of sales from the peak days to non-peak days. This reduces pressure on logistics and keeps the books looking healthy.
Indeed. I'd like to see how well the simulation does with all of the traffic being autonomous and directed by the intersection controller.. then with, say, twenty-five percent of the cars being operated either by actual people or have the simulation take into account how people might react if there were cars weaving in and out of the intersection at whatever speed the controller thinks is safe.
I started reading the article and when I first read "autonomous vehicle" I immediately stopped reading as it hinged on a technology that didn't exist yet and would likely never work the way the authour imagined.
This idea assumes a perfect scenario where all intersection users have total informationa awareness. Seeing as no British Telco can guarantee me service in Central London, let alone somewhere as far flung as Basingstoke, this is impossible for the vehicles alone, let alone non computer controlled users like pedestrians, cyclists or drivers.
This isn't even a solution looking for a problem. Its a wet dream of someone who doesn't understand how traffic flows.
These all descend from the the Old English dræht, meaning to pull or drag. A draftsman drags a pen across the page. A draft horse pulls a plow. You draw a pint from the tap.
Sorry, but I have to be pedantic, in correct English (En-GB), it's spelled draught beer.
Your entomology is mostly correct, the draught part comes from an old English word meaning pull, this refers to the way a keg beer is poured by pumping the handle in long pulls as its a mechanical pump rather than an electric one as seen in modern pubs. English pubs still carry the traditional draught taps for serving real ale.
While we are at it, can anyone "name one legal thing" that Trump "has been found guilty of in a court of law?"
If we're using Hillary standards here, shouldn't we be judging him on all the things he's just been accused of... and there's been a lot of that in the last 2 years alone... Lets not even mention potential links to organised crime with suspicious payments to several crime families.
Trump == Innocent until well and truly proven guilty, then give him the benefit of the doubt.
Clinton == Mere accusation is evidence of extreme wrongdoing.
The fact is that 99% of the people in the media now "defending" Comey would want his head if he were behaving as a good FBI director under Trump after what they blame him for with Clinton.
It can be perfectly consistent to say that someone should resign and then to object when someone fires them. If you can't imagine a scenario in which that makes sense, then we're not having a conversation; we're just talking at each other.
The distinction between being asked to resign and being dismissed is a purely academic one. You're still being fired.
The real question is, was he fired for being bad at his job or fired because he was a political liability. My money is on the second. He used his position to "assist" Trumps election. Now Trump is having his night of the long knives by getting rid of anyone who could threaten him.
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My two sons are in high school. They use Google Docs, Android phones, and gmail for all school related work. They even submit papers using Google Docs and share using various Google tools.
I have mentioned to many co-workers that Microsoft should be very worried about their hegemony in the office when this generation comes out into the workforce and doesn't demand Office or Windows on the desktop.
I doubt Microsoft are that worried.
They still control the enterprise with an iron fist and Google aren't anywhere near replacing O365, let alone on premise exchange. As long as there's no viable competitor to MS Office, they have the business market by the short and curlies.
Also, Google didn't take the classroom from Microsoft, Apple took it from Microsoft. Google is taking it from Apple and its resulted in a marked increase in the quality of candidates. For the last 5 years, candidates for entry level positions have been leaving schools and universities with little to no knowledge on how to operate a computer. This is starting to turn around as they're at least rote memorising an interface that is similar to what they'll use in a workplace.
When my grandparents were in college, they were addressed by their professors as Mr. and Ms. Now, professors address their students by first name. I'm all for insisting on correct spelling and grammar, and for respecting the use of Dr. or Professor, but perhaps the faculty could win support if they treated their students like the adults they are.
When my grandparents were in school, higher education was restricted to the rich and privileged... School teachers were called "sir" and there weren't that many female ones to be called "Ma'am"... and I'm not that old.
We've come a long way.
I used to work for a university, it was up to the individual faculty to determine what the students would call them (obviously within the bounds of good taste). The more relaxed professors went by first names, the less relaxed ones insisted on formal titles (Mr, Professor), some even went by nicknames as that's what they preferred. The only exception was medical where doctors had to be called doctor. Even then, it wasn't a strict subordination/domination thing. All of the doctors I met were very easy going, amenable people.
One thing the University emphasised was that everyone there was to be treated as an adult because everyone there was 18+ (legal adult status in Australia) or only a few months away. This means if they acted like kids, they could be kicked out. One or two first years were kicked out at the start of each semester because of their behaviour. Whether or not they were permitted back depended on how bad their behaviour was. Most were permitted back, but not until next semester.
This is basic stuff, and they graduate high school without learning it. What did they put on their college application, a plagiarized form letter?
Are you kidding?
40% of American High School GRADUATES (yes, graduates) can't read or write. They get graduated anyway. Front cover of Time Magazine.
Are you sure that 40% of graduates cannot read or write? Or do you mean up to a specific level?
Because if you meant the latter, you should really familiarise yourself with the old saying about stones and glass houses.
Sorry if this kills your pointless and inaccurate rant. I'd love for education to be better as I'm in a position of hiring for entry level positions, but the standards of education are down due to diminishing school budgets.
The private market will always surpass the nationalized or state run model for all services.
Never say "always". Market solutions work well when there is competition and transparency, but when those are lacking, governments can often do better than a private monopoly or duopoly. There are many examples of this: America's privately run healthcare system is worse in both cost and outcome compared to any other developed country. Many cities in America have municipal power, water, and even Internet, and these tend to be at least as good as privately run monopolies in neighboring cities.
Whenever possible, rather than directly providing services, the government should focus on making markets more competitive and transparent. We have government owned roads and ports, but the government doesn't own the cars, trucks, and ships. Likewise for Internet, the government should provide wide conduits so any bonded company can pull fiber. Since trenching is by far the biggest cost, this will allow more companies to enter markets at greatly reduced cost.
There are significant cases where market based solutions don't work. Public utilities, heath care and education are some of the biggest examples.
You cant expect the "market" to automagically fix teclo monopolies because it costs millions and millions to lay your own cables. The barriers to entry were not governmental in origin. This is why the NBN under Labor was the closest thing you could get to a market based solution of a public utility. The idea was that the government owned the actual infrastructure but none of the retail. Any retailer could rent the infrastructure at the same price regardless of if they were a huge multinational telecom corporation or 2 guys in a shed.
However the established monopolists could not let this pass, so they sicced their pet LNP onto the NBN to destroy it and they've been largely successful at it.
Now it comes from North Korea? Who wrote this movie? It makes no sense.
No, if you read the article, it contains code also found in known North Korean malware... which means both users just got the code off of whatever the black hat version of Stack Exchange is.
The good news is the driver should be alerted to this problem by a instrument cluster warning light.
The last time all the lights appeared on the dashboard of my 1999 Ford Taurus the head gasket had blown and a piston broke inside engine. My mechanic refused to work on it as it was a waste of money. That was six months after I spent $1,500 on tires and brakes. Pick-N-Pull bought it for $250.
Mechanic was lazy.
When you blow a head gasket, you simply look for a 2nd hand replacement engine. A Ford Mondeo/Taurus uses Fords most common engines, An engine swap shouldn't be more than a days labour at the most. I once got a Nissan SR20DET completely replaced for A$2250 which included a new radiator and turbo.
Fixing a blown head gasket is not worth is as you dont know if the rest of the engine is good until you've got the new gasket in place, but that's why you just drop a good engine in there.
Actually, the sudden deployment of airbags and the seatbelt tensioner would be far more unsafe than to not deploy in an accident.
Beside the startle factor, it's a fairly violent event and it's far safer that in case of problems, the airbag does NOT deploy than deploys.
It's why we have airbag disable switches, and children sets are never allowed in the front seat anymore - because deployment has the chance to cause injury.
That is utter bollocks.
Children are not banned from the front seat, there is an advisory against using rear facing child seats in the front seat.
With almost all airbag fatalities its usually due to people putting their arms over the steering wheel (I.E. hand over hand) rather than doing push-pull steering. Its not the airbag that kills them, its their own radius or ulna that does the job. I haven't seen a car with a user accessible airbag disable switch for some time. Any switches are only there for maintenance purposes only and will set off the SRS warning if not re-enabled when the vehicle is switched on.
As for seat belt tensionsers, you've got to be smoking crack here. Head injuries are the biggest killer in any motor vehicle accident and for the most part these are caused by the shoulders NOT being restrained enough (which is why racing drivers wear a HANS device). I have been in one serious MVA before, my 2 star ANCAP safety rated car was sandwiched between a 5 star ANCAP rated Mazda 3 and a 5 star ANCAP rated Holden Calais... Guess who was the only one not to go to hospital? Yep, me in the 2 star rated car. The paramedics immediately knew why, its because I sat upright with my head against the headrest whilst the other drivers reclined, so their necks were extended. Their heads had a hell of a lot more travel than mine. Without seat belt tensioners, my shoulders would not have been restrained against the seat.
It smells more to major incompetence.
More like general negligence, who outranks incompetence.
I work in the UK, several of our customers are banks, they're all going apeshit with requests to find out if they're vulnerable to the same attack. We keep their shit patched so no, but it's making my evening a living hell.
However I've also worked for several medical clients back in Oz. I'm not surprised this kind of thing can happen. You'd so often see a $1000 PC hooked up to a $350,000 medical scanner. That PC would be running a 5 year old OS because it ran a specific $30,000 piece of software that the scanner required to interpret the raw data. Its not that they didn't want to upgrade the OS or hardware, shit, that's the cheap part. It would be $50,000 to upgrade the firmware on the scanner and $10,000 for the upgrade to the software to get it to run on Windows 7 (at the time, we're talking 2012 here).
Needless to say, we kept those machines isolated from the general network, preferably not connected at all.
If you're hourly, always keep a copy of your hours. Most bosses _will_ try to fuck you on hours, they won't do it on every check. You must continually spot check.
It's really amazing, how their 'errors' always go one way.
Be grateful when errors only go one way.
If you get overpaid, you're legally required to pay that back even when the fuck up is 100% their fault.
That being said, never a bad idea to keep your own records of your hours. Even if you dont get paid by the hour.
But traditional lectures simply aren't effective. Research shows students don't learn by hearing or seeing,
Let's see this alleged "research." I call bullshit.
Fact: some students learn best by doing. I'm one of them.
Corollary: not all students learn best by doing. My wife is in this category.
I believe you're referring to Neil Flemming's VAK model of learning, Visual, Auditory and Kinesthetic.
Visual learners learn best by seeing it (demonstrations, instructions).
Auditory learners learn best by hearing it (lectures, tapes).
Kinesthetic learners learn by doing.
There is actual research, to back up your research. Like you, I'm also kinesthetic, If something is really going to stick in my brain, it's easiest if I do it. I tune out to lectures and demonstrations far too easily.
So 100 million calls costs 400k? That sounds like a competitive rate. Far from being a deterrent its also a guarantee they can't be sued from once they are fined. 2 for the price of 1.
Thats 0.4 pence a call. If they made A 20 quid in every 5000 calls, it's break even.
I'm of the mind where nuisance calls should attract a minimum fine of 1 pound per alleged call (alleged, not proven).
Microsoft's communication head, summing up the situation, "Didn't see that one coming, did you!"
Yeah...
So as the Microsoft store struggles for relevance, it arranges to bring the most popular $0 programs to its store. Colour me completely unsurprised. This couldn't have been more unexpected if it arrived on the back of three red-robed cardinals proclaiming a Spanish inquisition.
Back in the day, flying was one of the few times the traveling businessman got to him(her)self. No computer to work on, no phone calls to make or receive. Then came laptops making it possible to do work on the plane, then in-flight phone calls, and now wireless Internet on flights.
Banning laptops would mean that the business traveler once again legitimately can't get any work done while flying
And legitimately not able to work when you get there because if the sticky fingered baggage handler decided he didn't want your laptop, the carelessness of how it's thrown about would ensure it arrived broken.
Every travel insurer on the planet tells you never to put valuables in checked luggage, this is because airlines have no visibility over what happens to your luggage when it's being handled.
For this reason alone, I expect business travellers to make A LOT of noise over it and it'll be a noise the government cant ignore. I believe that the Bush Administration proposed something similar right after 911, the entirety of the business community rebelled and it was quickly scrapped.
If you want time not working, simply make it. If you cant you are either not important enough to make these decisions (in which case you're basically a serf) or you're choosing not to make time. Most of the time it's the latter and you don't have anyone but yourself to blame for that.
The defining characteristic of a monopoly is not market share, but lack of choice. Google dominates search, and I use it, but I could switch to Bing in 10 seconds. Likewise for advertisers, although Google has a large market share, they don't charge more per eyeball, because advertisers can easily switch.
I have to disagree, Google are a monopoly. What Google are not is an abusive monopoly. Google does not make it hard to switch from their products and services, Google makes their products and services good enough that you have no impetus to switch.
Monopolies are not inherently illegal, it's abusing your dominant position that is illegal. Microsoft was never in trouble for being the dominant operating system vendor, they were in trouble for the the actions they took to maintain that position (I.E strong arming vendors).
I understand that English is your second language, so I have taken the opportunity to offer some corrections.
No need to thank me, I offer this service as a courtesy as all should be able to speak the queens English.
It's dispensed with pressurised CO2,
Lager should really be pressurised with nitrogen rather than carbon dioxide.
with the exception of Beer Engines which are pumps and getting rare even in the UK from my understanding.
Ahh, you also haven't been to England. Once we have fixed your poor understanding of the language, you shall be welcome to visit. Upon your arrival, one of our many fine Chavs will be happy to instruct you on how to drink a real ale which will be available at almost any drinking establishment. I'd suggest not spilling his pint or looking at his girl, those are major faux pas in English society and may illicit a strong response.
Seriously, even a Weatherspoons will offer cask ale, which is dispensed by a pump as it's naturally carbonated.
Actually that brings up a good point.
If the AI starts to evaluate, based SOLEY on data, that a particular racial group *does* tend to re-offend more often and is hence a higher risk....do we as the public start to believe it, or do we say that AI, even though purely scientific and logic based, is not Politically Correct and must have some artificial weights put into the algorithm to keep it from finding that some racial or economic strata of folks are more high risk and should be kept in jail?
Well artificial weights have to be incorporated into the program. We're not talking about strong AI here (Artificial General Intelligence) that can determine things for itself, it has to be given parameters. Race should not be one of those parameters as it's not actually a determiner. Poor white neighbourhoods have the same crime problem as poor black ones.... there's just a greater volume of poor blacks (same for Asians and Hispanics). The RWNJ bogeyman of "Political Correctness" doesn't enter into it, parameters should be selected based on science (criminology and psychology).
In other words, if a program lets a repeat offender out because he's white, the program is broken.
If we do develop AGI and it turns out to be racist, humanity will have far bigger problems than a few people wrongfully kept in lockup.
Only an idiot uses their $750 phone without a good case. I received my Otterbox Defender for the GS8+ two weeks before I got the phone. I've dropped it several times with no problems.
- Necron69
Only an idiot buys a $750 phone when a $375 phone is just as good, if not better. Sorry, not sorry.
My Nexus 5X has taken a few tumbles and is no worse for wear.
I'm also not a klutz that goes around dropping stuff contently, in the 18 months I've had it, I've dropped it twice.
This is yet another good example of how the free market isn't. The entire situation is asymmetric. Companies have more information and control supply. If there was more competition maybe, but between buyouts left and right (thanks to enormous cash reserves left from decades of not taxing anyone) and the simple fact that they can watch each other's prices... well the whole system's busted and I don't see anything fixing it short of UBI + single payer healthcare or the like putting power in consumers hands by ensuring basic needs are met.
Uh, a very transparent market of highly substitutable goods is much closer to ideal competition than most. Sure they play little tricks to nudge out those extra cents of profit but it's important to realize that it makes a huge difference for them if the margin is 2% or 5%. If you're paying $1.02 or $1.05 not so much. If you made it a state monopoly it'd probably cost $1.50 because nobody has strong incentive to make it cheaper, it'll sell because people need it and they can't have it from anywhere else. Socialism is great when there's clear reasons why the market would be dysfunctional. Like:
As much as I disagree with nationalising industry, most socialist countries that control their oil industry provide cheaper fuel than in the west. Some democratic countries too, this is done by subsidising fuels and often making up the shortfall with exports. Malaysia in recent years was forced to relax their fuel subsidy in response to the long term depression in oil prices. Exports just weren't covering the cost enough to keep it at 3 MYR a litre (less than US$1 at the time).
I disagree with fuel subsidies and price fixing because they create disruptions in the market and an artificial dependence on another source of income to continue.
Again, note that I do not advocate nationalising the oil industry in any way, but saying it only increases prices when it doesn't is disingenuous, its got plenty of other problems, but price control isn't one of them.
Now most algorithms are based on demand. Those who buy fuel on the weekend pay more than those who buy it on a Tuesday or a Wednesday because there is more demand for fuel on the weekend. Petrol distributors do this to encourage more people to fill up on the weekdays and move a volume of sales from the peak days to non-peak days. This reduces pressure on logistics and keeps the books looking healthy.
I've driven a bunch of times lately in Europe and its amazing how long you can go without ever coming across a traffic light.
Holy crap! How do the cities there generate revenue?
General taxation.
Judges tend to frown upon people breaking the highway code for profit in civilised nations. This includes councils and the Rozzers.
Indeed. I'd like to see how well the simulation does with all of the traffic being autonomous and directed by the intersection controller.. then with, say, twenty-five percent of the cars being operated either by actual people or have the simulation take into account how people might react if there were cars weaving in and out of the intersection at whatever speed the controller thinks is safe.
I started reading the article and when I first read "autonomous vehicle" I immediately stopped reading as it hinged on a technology that didn't exist yet and would likely never work the way the authour imagined.
This idea assumes a perfect scenario where all intersection users have total informationa awareness. Seeing as no British Telco can guarantee me service in Central London, let alone somewhere as far flung as Basingstoke, this is impossible for the vehicles alone, let alone non computer controlled users like pedestrians, cyclists or drivers.
This isn't even a solution looking for a problem. Its a wet dream of someone who doesn't understand how traffic flows.
Draft beer -- beer on tap.
These all descend from the the Old English dræht, meaning to pull or drag. A draftsman drags a pen across the page. A draft horse pulls a plow. You draw a pint from the tap.
Sorry, but I have to be pedantic, in correct English (En-GB), it's spelled draught beer.
Your entomology is mostly correct, the draught part comes from an old English word meaning pull, this refers to the way a keg beer is poured by pumping the handle in long pulls as its a mechanical pump rather than an electric one as seen in modern pubs. English pubs still carry the traditional draught taps for serving real ale.
I've heard of a horse....
But what is a "draft" horse?
When you're at the pub, if you don't want a bottled horse you order a draft horse.
While we are at it, can anyone "name one legal thing" that Trump "has been found guilty of in a court of law?"
If we're using Hillary standards here, shouldn't we be judging him on all the things he's just been accused of... and there's been a lot of that in the last 2 years alone... Lets not even mention potential links to organised crime with suspicious payments to several crime families.
Trump == Innocent until well and truly proven guilty, then give him the benefit of the doubt.
Clinton == Mere accusation is evidence of extreme wrongdoing.
No double standards there.
After all it was Comey who got him elected.
Did you help Trump get elected... Because this is what happens when Trump gets elected.
The fact is that 99% of the people in the media now "defending" Comey would want his head if he were behaving as a good FBI director under Trump after what they blame him for with Clinton.
It can be perfectly consistent to say that someone should resign and then to object when someone fires them. If you can't imagine a scenario in which that makes sense, then we're not having a conversation; we're just talking at each other.
The distinction between being asked to resign and being dismissed is a purely academic one. You're still being fired.
The real question is, was he fired for being bad at his job or fired because he was a political liability. My money is on the second. He used his position to "assist" Trumps election. Now Trump is having his night of the long knives by getting rid of anyone who could threaten him.