Unmanned vessel
Who can claim an unmanned vessel? Didn't find anything in the article that says whether the incident happend in international waters. Anyone here knows something about martime law?
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@PatientOne
Half the population is of below median intelligence.
This statement is true by definition of median. No one before mentioned IQ or that IQ is a suitable measure for intelligence. Whether the statement is relevant to the "powerful combination" is an entirely different question though.
Perfection? Not at all. If a project would (or indeed even could) be managed perfectly it would rather be a disaster. A project is usually a continuous control cycle of checking, comparing, and adjusting and hence cannot be perfect (meaning complete) by definition.
Suboptimal in terms of project management I see as e.g. having goals set against available better knowledge, not checking the project's progress properly, not doing necessary adjustments against available better knowledge. I'd like to emphasis "available better knowledge" because here it is about what is known at the time of acting (and not in hindsight). An example which I encountered in numerous variations in many projects is sticking to a once chosen path but being rather flexible about the original goals.
Now, at least, I understand what it is about. (Of course, that was just me and me not having heard of Radbot before.) And I really like the attitude of not only reporting about success but also what goes wrong.
Besides a suboptimally managed project I wonder if there's also something suboptimal in the marketing...
If need be, I select and test a sample on the basis of probable error and then write something like "14 out of a risk-based sample of 20 items were deficient." That the addressee of my report will think about an error rate of 70 per cent - well, that's part of the game.
Of course, to the best of my knowledge it might just as well be a total of 14 errors out of a population of umpteen thousands. But based on the approach it is simply not possible to draw any conclusions on the population.
Has your precious data centre been turned into storage? Not exactly "mine" but yes, that happened in the past. It was especially nice with all the combustible material stored that in case of fire would render the whole extinguishing system useless. (That wasn't just an ordinary server room but a data centre of one of the 30 FSB G-SIBs).
More recently, and on a much smaller scale, it was the storage room to which a server rack was added. And why installing an aircon when we simply can remove the door and walls of the rack to allow for free air circulation?
1) You can have and process my personal data if I give it to you.
2) You can share my data if I consent to.
3) If you share my data without my consent you shall rot in hell, i.e. die the slow death of litigation.
This is what I call a balanced approach. And I can't see how this is limiting opportunities.
"She tried sending emails, but it didn't work out so well..."
Must have been the millennials at the ballot box since apparently it's worse to use an illicit mail server than all the con of a professional hustler and self-acclaimed tremendously successful business man.
Well, I don't know really how the Linux kernel development process works. It seems pretty much centred around Linus and I wonder how continuity is ensured. Maybe it's all well arranged but it raises some questions when the guy at the top of the pyramid* has to release the kernel and also is the one ranting about some bad practice.
* No idea if it really is a pyramid. Maybe an upside-down T?
Not talking about Windows Mobile but I'd be happy to get back the desktop look and feel of the time around W2k. For Windows and especially MS Office. No, it wasn't perfect - far from it. But it was far better than the 365 crap I'm dealing with now.
I wonder if they (not only Microsoft, the problem spreads much further) ever heard of usability. Or maybe they even run a usability lab but have a different understanding of its concept (along the line of how to maximise the number of mouse clicks and time to locate a basic function).
Colin Hughes, I think you are mistaken on a few points. I absolutely agree that an ethical company would want to help disabled users. I'm a bit confused though - you didn't attribute "ethical company" to Apple, did you? I mean, we're talking about Apple here. At best it's a company that strives to show an ethical facade. And do you seriously believe that Apple wants to be associated with cripples? Young, dynamic, healthy, idiotic, rich. That's their user archetype. If their staff is anything to go by (check their average age!) I might replace the latter with "white".
I'm off to order a OnePlus and see if it's any better. Luckily I don't have any other Apple stuff to integrate with.
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Indeed, clearly off the medication. As any fule kno cats taste like rabbit (true!). And rabbit, like everything else except cats and chicken, taste like chicken. You can make hats, shoes and whatever out of them. My codpiece is made of a cat white paper bag.
Have to leave, the doctor ordered me back inside.
Someone else noticed the spider abseiling into the plume a few seconds into the video? It might have gotten an actual view from the inside - a very brief one though.
Very impressive images nevertheless! Take this, you eye cancer inducing HDR people out there with your petty little photoshop skills.
...strange that a Belgian court would not have jurisdiction of what physically happens in Belgium
Indeed, and it's a tricky one; likely not going to be solved any time soon. Think of it this way: you set up a website that is adhering to all regulations in the country where the website is hosted. Along comes another country ruling that the cookies your website writes is unlawful. Why should this be any of your business? After all, all you do is running a perfectly legal website. This seems the reasoning behind the appeal court's decision. (By the way, anyone or lazy journo knows which court of appeal that was?)
But, I assume that FarceBook is actually doing business in Belgium. For example, presumably, with local ads? And that, one might think, should nullify the "outside Belgian jurisdiction" argument.
Placing coloured blocks of code is still a form of programming being it a robot or whatever. Will this arouse interest in the kids to later on pursue a career in IT? Or should they rather learn to write actual programs and feel the real pleasures of coding assembly and stuff?
I'm actually with disgustedoftunbridgewells on this. About 25 years ago cooking classes became mandatory for all pupils around here (before only for the female). Did this lead to a surge in boys becoming chefs? Certainly not. And when thinking about domestic cookery I believe Jamie Oliver had by far a greater impact than those classes taught at school.
What is needed for children to choose a certain career path are positive experiences or role models in the respective profession. They might be found in school - for someone wanting to become a teacher. But role models for most other professions are rather found outside school and its curriculum.
@Destroy All Monsters
Your idea is on the right track, i.e. it is not a bad thing when British businesses are sold abroad (cf. Buzzword above), but with dodgy reasoning. When the GBP is being devalued the effect will be that the island inhabitants can import less for the same amount of GBP.
...there wouldn't be a risk of radioactive debris entering our atmosphere
That is, not until its radioactive debris comes around in a couple of years time. At least, probably by then we, or rather the monkeys who will have taken over by then, won't get the very highly radioactive stuff. Or maybe it will be the cause why other apes are going to take over?
I'm game for bashing Apple. And there's still plenty of reason to do so (e.g. the voice of an iphone 6 user randomly fading in and out on the other end of the phone connection). But this "genital" remote control? I do see it, with a little help of this not very subtle article but it doesn't seem so obvious. Then again, I've never saw and let alone handled one of those in real life...
[On a second thought, maybe your or my penis -I tend not to compare mine to that of other people- have an odd shape and the remote control indeed resembles one.]