Why not a series of monorails?
No one wants an above ground rail system. The feeling is that an above ground rail system brings blight. Should the government attempt such a solution there will be a hard push back from the community affected.
The statement...
... today's six million daily riders are facing constant delays, infrastructure failures, and alarmingly crowded cars and platforms.
should read...
New Yorkers should visit places like Dubai, Shanghai, St Petersburg in Russia or even Singapore City, to see what a subway should look like and function.
Sadly, Americans still think they have the best and greatest in the world.
Those countries have better mass transit than NY because their governments heavily invested in public transportation. Government investments in mass transportation and other urban development projects have been the bane of republicans since the 1970's. NY state legislator was dominated by upstate republicans for a long time so there were no new investments into NYC transit infrastructure. As a matter of fact the NYC MTA was operating with budget deficits because of NY State under funding the agency. However, NYC transit system is not bad when you include city bus services. When you include the city bus system most New Yorkers live at most a couple of blocks from the transit system. Not bad for a city of 9 million and covering 304 square miles.
1 light-year is 63,241 AU.
An AU is the distance from the Earth to the Sun.
The solar system is about 40AU (depending on your definition of planet).
So "close" is really... well, testing things a bit. Astronomically, yes, very close.
Practically? It's 20,000 times the size of the entire solar system away and to my knowledge only two objects have ever left the solar system.
Chronologically? It happened 70,000 years ago which, again, is tiny in astronomical terms but it's already long gone. We could do nothing about it in a reasonable time, we'd barely be able to study it, and if it was slightly to the left we'd all be interstellar dust (again) by now.
Though interesting, it's hardly close or anything we can really utilise or study,
I'd be more worried along the lines of "chances are something else could come and go this and wipe us out and likely we'd never know it was going to happen". Not just stray asteriods (which obviously would be knocked for six by something like this straying close) but an entire damn star. That's solar-system-ending.
The solar system is way bigger than 40 AU. The Oort cloud is part of the solar system and it extends to about 3 light years. So, the solar system extends, at least, to 3 light years. Not to mention, the sun's magnetic bubbles extend that far. I'm not sure why you stopped at the last planet and not include the Kuiper Belt and Oort Cloud as part of the solar system.
I use Private Internet Access and have zero complaints. Easy to use, plenty fast, and about $40/yr. Well worth it.
I concur with everything you wrote. Being using it for 2 years now and would enthusiastically recommend it.
For as much truth or insight as his post may contain, he still really doesn't get Google at all. Google's customers aren't the people who use Android, Google+, Google Voice, etc. Google's customers are advertisers that want to have eyeballs and ear holes to blast their ads at and they don't care about innovation, they just want something that works and Google wants to make sure that they keep those real customers of theirs by offering a rival to anything else that is being used to sell ads online. They didn't make Google+ because they wanted a better social network, they made Google+ so that if social networks became the new center of online advertising instead of web search that Google wouldn't end up out in the rain.
"Google's customers aren't the people who use Android, Google+, Google Voice, etc. Google's customers are advertisers" Is that really true? I don't think that's true at all. The people who use Google products and advertisers who advertise through Google are Google's customers. Why can't both be true?
Leak internal company documents to the media to push your SJW agenda? Not a problem!
Submit feedback as requested after a company training seminar? FIRED
Google was asking for feedback on how to increase female participation in tech. James Damore went beyond what Google was asking for and publish a manifesto that was clearly sexists and misogynistic. In publishing his misogynistic manifesto he broke employment rules governing personal conduct which gave Google cause to fire him. Google had no choice but to fire him because, at that point, he became a huge liability to the company. If Google didn't fire him the next time the company got sued by a female employee that employee could point to James Damore as proof that Google tolerates a climate of sexism. It sucks for James Damore but he should have been more self aware.
Don't buy such a TV. Simple law of economics.
Easier said than done as most TV are smart TV. Good luck finding a big screen TV that doesn't have smart TV features.
Works nicely on very low power devices.
The problem with Tizen is Samsung. Who in their right mind would trust Samsung for their software solutions? They are terrible with software.
> And Bluetooth continues to suck, for a variety of reasons.
Does it? I have bluetooth headphones. I turn my headphones on and audio starts coming out of them. The audio sounds fine. What part of my experience sucks?
Most of the author's complaints seem to revolve around how most fast-pairing protocols are currently proprietary, but... pairing your headphones is something you don't do very often, so it's at best a minor inconvenience.
Define what "audio is fine" means to you. The 3.5mm audio on my smart phone is superior to Bluetooth. The audio quality on the Bluetooth is not as crisp and sharp (especially low frequency sounds) as the 3.5 mm audio. There could be a couple of reasons for this, I admit, (1) the 3.5 mm speakers are better quality than the Bluetooth speakers and (2) I'm using Bluetooth 4.0 which is two generations behind current specs. Even with the newer Bluetooth 4.2 specs I'm still reading complaints of audio quality. It's a shame that we are still debating the merits of Bluetooth audio, which is digital, in comparison to analog 3.5 mm audio. I think one of the issues with Bluetooth is the signal is lossly and too compressed to gave high fidelity. I'm sure that will change in time with better hardware and advancements in Bluetooth technology.
Has anyone worked with boot camp graduates?
I'm sincerely curious about the caliber of people they turn out. I'm perhaps a bit curmudgeonly on this; I think that to be a competent software developer you need to have a pretty thorough grounding in math and science, as well as some native talent... which seems to be far more common in people drawn to math and science. But I'm willing to be proven wrong.
Do you really have to have a throughout grounding in math and science to be a software developer? How much math and science is involved in web development, payroll applications, SQL programming, etc?
I hope I am not in the minority with this, but I honestly enjoyed the concept of Dev/Code Bootcamps. I've had an internal philosophy that no matter what 'career' you do (to some extent, so let's not anon-troll that, please) or hobbies/interests, development skills in some programming language would help you. And if you want to make a career out of it, even better!
However, that being said, I'm also a firm believer in experience over quick buzzy skills any day of the week, 100% of the time. All I viewed this as was a way to 1) make a non-profit for gains in big dollars on the business side (WTF WOULDNT want a successful non-profit) and 2) water-down a field that, in my opinion, should NOT be watered down.
Software engineering/development, bridging advanced mathematics (e.g. linear algebra, calculus, etc.) takes an EXTREME amount of well-rounded background in all things computing, skills and investing into yourself, your study, your craft. It's the field I work in, respect and make a living in. I feel like a chimp in shadows of some truly gifted software developers I've met and worked with in my past and I've been doing this for almost 15 years professionally now. Those people didn't get there by taking a quick 4 week crasher on the shiny-new-topic, whizbang a resume with a thesaurus and try to land a $100K gig for 6 months to build a 'previous employment' line-item they could wow the next place into hiring them on.
It's sad from the ideology of it, but if this is the direction it's going, I'm not totally heartbroken either from the glass-half-empty perspective.
The problem with these kinds of arguments is the absolute position too many of us take. Is every programming assignment require a CS degree? Is a CS degree necessary for web development, payroll applications, database query, etc? I say no. Some programming tasks require a degree in computer science or engineering as a perquisite and other tasks a formal education in CS is not necessary. That's the way it is and should be.
You CAN learn to code in a few months, heck if you are a quick study you could probably learn to code in ONE month. To write GOOD code however takes a LOT longer. Something these code camp twats probably knew damn well, but were more that willing to take money from the ignorant. Also what makes me bang me head against my desk is that people don't realize that coding is not simply learning how an if and a while work, it's about learning how to write a file, read a database (you'll have to learn SQL as well) etc. etc. in your chosen language. That takes a lot of time.
You can say that about most CS graduates. Even those from top CS departments. Hell, you can say that about most professions. There is a reason why real world experience counts so much in IT careers.
The NLRA has some real protections. See here for an analysis. In one case, a guy publicly complained (on Facebook) about the quality of food at a company party, and that was ruled to be protected speech. In another case, a guy put "Bob is such a NASTY M***** F***** don’t know how to talk to people!!!!!! F*** his mother and his entire f****** family!!!! What a LOSER!!!!" on his Facebook page, and the NLRB agreed that it was protected speech. If I had been Google, I would have given him a big severance package along with a nondisclosure agreement to avoid lawsuits. However, it's also possible management at Google doesn't care if they lose a lawsuit, as long as they are perceived as fighting for the correct side.
Except in this case the fired engineer didn't post his manifesto in Facebook. He mailed his manifesto to his fellow employees using company resources. In the cases you mentioned would the outcomes have been different if the offending speech were circulated internally and not on a public domain?
IAAL, though not an employment lawyer and not a California lawyer. I think he has a case- it will survive a motion to dismiss and possibly even summary judgment- but not necessarily one he will win if it goes to final merits. Google is likely to fight hard on this one, but they also understood a lawsuit was the likely outcome of firing him, and likely decided it was worth the cost.
What are you basing your conclusions on? Google said that they fired him because his memo violated his terms of employment contract. The only legal course he has is to argue that his memo didn't violate his terms of employment contract. Good luck with that. Google took as long as they had to fire him because their lawyers were parsing his employment contract. If the case is still in the news 12 months from now Google may give him some compensation to make the situation go away.
Remember, UNIX spelled backwards is XINU. -- Mt.
