In America, pernicious, thin-skinned, militant P.C. is widespread. Seinfeld no longer plays American colleges because of it and Bill Mahar opines often as well.
In too many "retail" universities, there needs to be more fracturing of groupthink and expanding of thought and expression, not bikeshedding on edge-case, perceived "offense" to shout down a well-meaning and -intentioned joke.
Anything printed on most (but not all) color printer can be traced back to the printer on which it was printed (serial number) and often date stamp as well.
Religion is a fantastical illusion of foolish beliefs.
The sooner civilization rids itself fanatical, magical thinking, the sooner there will be fewer fools blowing themselves up for 473 virgins that don't exist and telling others their happy-clappy means something. Replace all that nonsense with logic and humanism, hear and now.
Investments in companies mostly make money evaporate as a standard practice.
Large-scale investors gravitate towards big risk/big reward ventures which require significant capital because it's saves having to make a zillion angel-scale deals. Plus, it seems sexier with extra-awesome brownie points to go after something which may be r/evolutionary.
PS: Color was a snausage clusterfuck of dbag, hubris behaviors that ruined the team (and the venture). Hopefully, that elicited a corrective learning experience.
B&A is a boring-sounding organization which is the primary income sheet profit-center, which rakes in slightly more than tuition; SMC is balance sheet (aka investment) management.
Stanford is unlike most other universities in the fact that there is no pretense of firewalling business opportunity development from academic research. I think this pushes away some pure-research, money-is-evil people and attracts more entrepreneurial folks.
People whom get outside and actually examined "suspicious behavior" may be shocked to find normal, harmless people and that it was their own hobgoblins of their minds criminalizing people based on nothing more than their own fears, ignorance and prejudices, probably from watching too much TV and Hollywood movies rather than experiencing the real world.
Wow, this is incredibly stupid: conflating http and https with minor errors. It should show half a lock icon and half of a page icon, diagonally-split to indicate mixed/unsecured content. Globbing the two together creates false comfort and hides problems.
What kind of NT drivers (USB, Storage, what)? What kind of Linux kernel modules?
I've worked on storage drivers for Linux (2.6), Mac (10.6+ - 10.8) and Windows.
What like Nt vs Zw? Are you fucking serious? Do I need a badge and certification from you too, your majesty? You haven't proven you've done shit either, but it doesn't matter.
You don't have experience with xnu kexts (which make much more sense, at least more so than the Linux model), so I don't see how you can claim, broad pseudo-expert "opinion" on something you know nothing about.
Regardless, these three approaches are still irrelevant because they're critically flawed: granting transfinite trust to the kernel driver developer to not fuck up. A real microkernel model, only a process would likely crash. QNX runs on billions of devices, including now BlackBerry 10 since they acquired it: game, set, match.
That's the boat you've missed trying to go off into the weeds and make it a personal attack, because you have nothing.
The two current biggest issues with thermoplastic 3D printers are:
- electricity usage: heating a baseplate, feed head and mechanical effort of moving a massive apparatus bazillion^3 times.
- speed (or lack thereof) of moving one or two heads those bz^3 times to get anything made
We're still in the "horse-and-buggy"-days of distributed manufacturing, so one approach or another will eventually find something scalable, Edison-style. More inventions and approaches are definitely a good-thing.
KeyCue lets you perform the action by interacting with the semi-transparent HUD and has themes to make adjustments. 20 € is crazy high for modern app pricing, definitely not at an optimal supply-demand point.
Here's the zillions of options, which vary widely in usefulness:
Plus, you're buying support and sustainability (unless someone were to torrent it, which risks malware and reduces support & sustainability).
Cheat is very limited. It won't show modifier-only keys as KeyCue does, and it won't even let me take a screenshot of it (because that involves Shift).
Minimal and free, or expensive, pretty with features: pick one. ;)
Or hold Command (⌘) if they have a Mac and KeyCue.
(It uses the accessibility information for the visually-impaired to construct an exhaustive list of every possible key-binding in the current application context. Another example of many of designing for accessibility paying dividends for beneficial, unintended uses.)
Visa to China sounds like a winner: Never had to do that myself, but it seems arcane, shady magic that some friends from Hong Kong know how to perform whenever we needed to go.
There are plenty of these infrequent, but non-zero, official, lifestyle and corporate customer processes that are PITAs, for a variety of reasons. People would gladly pay to avoid the hassle themselves, where cost-efficient, eventually-expert, standardized "schlepping" can make a good business model or 10. Relieve pain for $; enough people will gladly hand you $ to make it happen.
Crows went into my mechanics shop, got up on a toolbox and stole a recently opened bag of in-shell sunflower seeds, without being seen, and had a sunflower seed-opening party in the back parking lot. (I arrived to pick up a vehicle to find the bag of nuts on the ground next to it and hundreds of empty shells all over the area, and the service writer laughing at finding someone's snack being snacked on elsewhere.)
Whether that implies some crows are smart or I should find another mechanic, is debatable.
Both CAFE and Smog Check-style programs are gamed terribly, across multiple manufacturers... but VW gets the blame, which it rightly deserves.
Testing of emissions needs to happen at the tailpipe while driving with mobile equipment in the real-world with certain types of traffic / road conditions.
Mileage needs to be calculated by metered fuel measurement on a test track with both highway- and (stop-and-go traffic) city-driving.
In addition to either two, Tesla vehicles and other full electric vehicles cannot come quickly enough to supplant gasoline/diesel/CNG/LNG/flex fuel/etc.
PS: I just California Smog Check'ed my '85 Vanagon, which has direct-port fuel injection, mass-airflow sensor and rudimentary "computer" (Digijet) after replacing the catalytic converter, O2 sensor and having a VW specialist shop tune it up. NOx (nitrous oxides) went from barely failing 15 and 25 mph limits to near zero. HC (hydrocarbons) and CO were also barely detectible. Emissions on it (a 90 hp motor) are currently at the levels of a PZEV or a new vehicle, and it gets 24 (real-world) MPG (9.8 L/100km).
Already, CA Smog Check station owners are foreseeing additional mandated equipment investments to perform tests on modern vehicles not just via the OBDII port under the steering wheel. This is a good thing but it's hard to sell small-business owners on capital and labor expenses up against the status quo/sunk costs fallacy.
In too many "retail" universities, there needs to be more fracturing of groupthink and expanding of thought and expression, not bikeshedding on edge-case, perceived "offense" to shout down a well-meaning and -intentioned joke.