if only ..
.. there was an editor that was only eight megs, even if that did mean it was constantly swapping.
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That's the big problem with using Windows to run machines. It's not really practical to update any but the most expensive machines out in the field, so they'll tend to run with whatever was current at installation time.
Even if there's a maintenance contract, a new Windows version 10 years after installation is probably going to involve replacing the hardware./ You're not going to just install an update CD on something with machine control systems. So you essentially limit the machine's lifetime to the life of a Windows release.
Two things follow from the registration number formatting rules.
1. Entering O instead of 0 cause an easily detectable invalid number. This could be immediately reported by either the app or the front-end system and the sale refused.
2. It's also therefore trivial to self-correct the data entry.
Since neither of these were done, the parking authority took money for an invalid sale. This is fraud.
The lawyers for the drivers did an extremely bad job in only getting a refund. They should have got a prosecution for fraud for the mis-sale of parking permission, and embezzlement for proceding to a fine.
He has staff.
Some of them are even still not corrupt.
Don't imagine for a moment that he has the right launch codes, even if he knew where to find them.
In fact, given the American farce of an election, it's likely no president has ever been trusted with the real launch codes. Even when they were 000000.
Not a bit surprised by the result. I voted that way myself and the arguments were just preaching to the converted.
But I was really disappointed by the 'against' argument - very weak, I thought, admitting from the start that most 'AI' is just ML and merely trying to justify that it wasn't useless. Fair enough -that's true, but it's not at argument that 'AI isn't just PR'.
I do actually think AI will eventually come. It might take a lot more pronouncements that it's 10 years away, and the first practical use isn't going to be in self-driving cars (which I think is just about realising that it's many years from being on the open road, though it could cope with a closed system, such as a motorway with fenced lanes pretty well). But statistical advertising trendfollowers are not AI.
In my view, AI is not characterised by responding convincingly to Turing style testing. A Turing test that convinces me that the co-respondent is human is one where the AI drives the conversation, not one that answers my questions. I'm not disagreeing with Turing : I'm saying that a conversation goes both ways.
Can't you find some current AI researchers who believe in what they're doing and can point to some REAL AI - even if it's weak and incomplete ? I'd far rather read the thoughts of someone who knows the subject and has some hope that it's going somewhere. Rather than a marketeer trying to persuade me that what's being pushed by commercial interests now is living up to the promise.
It depends how you measure it.
Corbyn's problem was that he was too honest to be a politician. Never mind whether you agree with Marxism or not, he wouldn't attack for the sake of attack.
He failed to take a strong position on Brexit (something I'd have liked him to do, negatively) because he could see two sides : but instead of this being taken as intelligent analysis and openness to the needs of the electorate, it was seen as sitting on the fence.
He wouldn't - despite his strong anti-racism feelings - take a strong position on Israel because he couldn't fight antisemitism in the expected manner without also hurting the palestinians who he also considered as needing support.
The media demand a loud, aggressive, unthinking jingoism for political parties. They're too stupid and greedy to consider anything more nuanced. And the result is support for the likes of Johnson or Trump over actual ability.
Taking a step back .. Johnson-cummings is widely regarded as the worst prime minister in living memory. I agree. But what interests me is when we last had a GOOD prime minister. John Smith was possibly the closest we approached to one.
Can anyone here suggest another candidate for a country-building, honest, effective, inclusive prime minister ? Have we EVER had one ?
3. This will kill any idea of a free trade deal with the EU as, well, they're pretty hot on making sure nobody gains an advantage from State Aid. I suspect the US won't like it either.
4. Shock! Horror! This is Socialism! How will we get that past (a) the Tory Party rump and (b) the rightwing press?
Fund the share price, not the company's bottom line. The cabinet and the fool cummings, have negative tech knowledge so they don't understand the long-term business anyway : they merely want to grow the share price and reward the shareholders.
Sure they do, but they're not infinite.Or anywhere near as big as the lorry parks being created in Kent.
It's like the R number, or Mister Micawber's income - once you have a queue that doesn't clear customs before the next ferry arrives, full storage spaces are inevitable.
I noticed a change too - better constructed sentences looking more human, but somehow no more easy to read. I think the keeper of amanfrommars should try simulating the number of words that can be spoken in one breath and punctuate the output accordingly.
It's odd that writing and reading, which don't rely on the breath-timing of speech, are so affected in this way. But they are.
Epic should try selling through traditional channels involving shipping, stock, distribution. They'd be lucky to get 30% of the retail price, and their own product would cost them more to produce.
They're taking advantage of a market built and maintained by Apple (or Google).
Live with it or build your own platform.
Sympathy = 0
I don't know if it excuses his assholeness, but I do respect Job's insistence on getting it right. It's what kept Apple in the public eye, and has been notably missing since his death.
Like most engineers, I'm happy to have something working well enough. Making it work to match the vision is an additional step that I admire.
I despise the auto data conversion (and many other autocorrect features that seem to get it wrong far more times than they get it right : I turn them off for a more productive experience).
But if you were regularly importing CSV into a spreadsheet, wouldn't you write a macro that set the column types first, then imported it ? And pass that macro around the community ?
Nobody NEEDs the always-on availability. A lot might find it convenient but that's negotiable as the discussion about secure working above shows.
The only people who might be considered to NEED both (ie their job requires both communication and protection from the consequences of communication) are authority-sponsored types such as military. In that case, the essential communication is done using appropriate equipment : and a lot of money goes into providing that equipment.
Seconds don't count any more than they used to. Yes, you might get someone with a heart attack who can be saved by fast action. A few years ago that person would have died regardless. Requiring that everyone who might benefit from such action is able to, is an edge case and a trade off.
Currently, emergency services aren't protected from the consequences of leaking the location information. Perhaps some day that will be necessary, but at the moment the people who deliberately attack them don't appear to be organised to obtain location information - they're usually one-offs.
While I'm not a big fan of lawyers, it's really only lawyers and doctors - rather than *every* professional - that has the status of being considered above reproach in the matter of seeing and preserving someone's secrets.
I don't think it would be easy to extend this status. It's pretty hard to justify keeping for them, given the number of cases where it's seen to be broken.
You're probably better off getting yourself uniquely qualified as a pentesting lawyer rather than declaring all pentesters guilt-free..
I grew up on TECO. I was happy to move to a screen-based editor once they were common, but I do think that background makes me a bit more accepting of line-based one, even though they're mostly crap compared with TECO.
I don't recall the commands for edlin now. But MS-DOS's general model was to take some tool built for Unix or RSX-11, dumb it down until it was nearly, but not completely unusable, change some things (like the directory separator character) so your muscle-memory constantly misled you, and then make it essential.