Eventually if nobody fits in the seats, then people will stop booking seats on that airline. On the other hand, some people might think that stand up seating similar to the SkyRider would be a welcome option on shorter flights if it meant lower ticket prices. It's like saying that people shouldn't be able to operate a hostel or a capsule hotel because a large percentage of the population doesn't find that type of accommodation adequate, when it works well for a large number of people.

I'm with the parent. If I can't fall asleep, or read a book, or watch a movie, then I'm not interested. Unless they can do it for the same price, or minimal price difference than a similar car without the feature. It would be nice to have my car drive down the road for me. But if I still have to pay attention to traffic and have my hands on the wheel, then it's not really giving me much of and advantage over traditional driving. Personally, I think it would be more dangerous because if the system works well enough, I may be lulled into false sense of security, causing me to not pay attention. When the car inevitably has a problem, I'm not going to be watching, and I'm not going to be prepared to take over in sufficient time to correct the problem.

Anyone can do this "recall" themselves with 50 cents worth of keyring parts from the local hardware store!

And that is exactly why they fixed it this way. Because it fixes the problem with minimal cost of materials, and minimal labor. Replacing the lock cylinder would not only be a more complex task tin terms of parts, but it would also require a mechanic to install it. By replacing the key fob, they can just mail out the replacement. A really smart engineer would have tried to get away with issuing customers a detachable key ring that would allow the key fob to be used without keys hanging off of it (assuming i'm understanding the problem correctly).

It may be peanuts to a company like Google that is used to dealing with large amounts of data. But to an organization like NYPD which isn't used to handling such large amounts of data, and it becomes a problem. Do they try to manage it internally? Do they contract it out to someone else? We saw how well that worked for Obamacare.

I would hate to imagine the data bill that would be incurred from uploading all that data, It would probably be a couple gigabytes, per shift. NYC has a lot of police officers. Also, there's a lot of cases where there would be no cellular connection, like in subway trains, or under bridges. Certain buildings do a pretty good job of cutting off cell reception in the elevators. All the tall buildings in New York create quite a few dead zones, or at least places with less than optimal signal levels which would make uploading video in real time a big problem. Also, what happens when there's a riot, and you get 100 officers all standing in one spot trying to upload video in real time to the same cell tower. Can the towers handle that kind of traffic?

There are 34000 uniformed officers in New York City, and they have 8800 cars. Lets assume that there are 5000 officers working at any one time (that's probably understimating it). Let's say it's 1 mbit/s to get decent video recording. That means the generate 51 TB of data every day. That's 18 petabytes a year. That becomes a storage problem really fast.

I've worked with major corporations that have let domain names lapse. Not their main official one, but still a domain name they were using for a pretty big project. I don't know why they wouldn't just use a subdomain, but after working with some corporations, it was probably easier for them to set up a whole new domain than to get their IT team to create a new subdomain of the main one. Of course the guy who originally created the domain might have since left the company, and they may have no idea what the credentials are for logging into the account to renew the domain.

Not just freelancers, but any business use whatsoever. It's amazing the number of businesses that use ISP email addresses or email addresses from some free service (hotmail, gmail, yahoo, etc.) as their primary contact on business correspondence.

I would add in personal use as well, but it's hard to convince the generic home user of the benefits of owning their own domain name and email address. The best you can hope for with most of them is to use a dedicated email service like gmail rather than what their ISP gives them. No to mention, having your own domain name comes with its own set of problems. Paying to renew the domain name, as well as paying for a hosting service to handle your email isn't fee. Most home users are far more likely to forget to renew their domain name and have it snatched up by a domain squatter than to have a problem with GMail or a similar service.

Maybe you just know different types people than I do, but I very seldom find men that would take the time to watch something just to see a pretty woman. If men want to see pictures of women, they'll go looking specifically for pictures of women. They won't try to catch a glimpse of a good shot that may be in a TV show. As far as my experiences go, women are far more likely to watch a show or see a movie simply because a certain actor is in the movie.

I don't understand why a school would have a master key for all the lockers in the school. First of all, the problem you mention, where students are able to create their own master key, and render all the security on the lockers useless. The other problem is that it offers plausible deniability to anybody who is caught with something they shouldn't have in their locker. It could easily be argued that whoever had access to the master key could have planted the evidence there. Unless there are very good controls and logs for who has access to the master key, it would be very easy to argue for someone with the master key to go around putting stuff into, or stealing stuff from lockers. At my highschool, everybody provided their own locks.

I think the problem is that most people lie or are overestimating how much exercise they do. The human body is a pretty remarkable machine, we are very efficient when walking and running. Our biology is designed for it. So you won't burn that many calories by going for a walk or a slow jog. I find it amazing how slow some people can jog, and still think like they are getting a good work out.

From a quick Google search, it looks like 10,000 steps a day will burn 3500 Calories A WEEK. That's only an extra 500 Calories a day. That can easily be offset by eating unhealthy throughout the day.

I'm with you about what you are saying about diet. People need to eat a reasonable amount of Calories, but they shouldn't be putting their body at a deficit, and only eating 1000 or 1500 Calories a day. But exercise is a big part, because everybody will cheat on their diet from time to time. You have to exercise to use up the extra energy. Also, exercising keeps your lungs, heart, bones and muscles healthy. Eating just the right number of Calories to keep you thin, but you won't be healthy.

I don't think that

MULTIPLY X BY Y GIVING Z

is any more readable than

Z = X * Y

To anybody with sufficient knowledge of math and programming, the second is actually more readable, because it's easier to discern what the values are and where the operators are. Assuming you aren't using simple variable names, but rather more descriptive terms, look at the following.

MULTIPLY LENGTH BY WIDTH GIVING AREA

and

AREA = LENGTH * WIDTH

In the first option, everything is a word, making it hard for your eyes to pick out exactly what's going on. But in the second one, you know right away that you are dealing with AREA, LENGTH, and WIDTH. You know you are dealing with an assignment looking at the start of the statement, and it's easy to see that you are multiplying.

It already exists. It's called the VB.Net compiler. I swear that VB was designed to look like pseudocode. I use it at work, and actually find the readability of it quite good.

It would be trivial to program your own function to do the same. Pseudocode shown below

function daysToEaster($aDate) {
var $nextEaster;

if(aDate <= easter_date(year($aDate))
$nextEaster = easter_date(year($aDate));
else
$nextEaster = easter_date(year($aDate) + 1);

return floor($nextEaster - $aDate/(60*60*24));
}

Exactly. If you work in the service industry, you should be prepared to work when the people who aren't in the service industry are not working. Shops that close at 6 PM every night are at a severe disadvantage, at least when it comes to getting my business. As are shops that refuse to open before 9 AM. If you're only open the hours I'm at work, I'm not going to shop at your store.