In London, where the (in)famously racist but highly-competent "black cabs" are ruinously expensive, Uber works really well, and it's much cheaper. Paris too.
I'm very happy with my work iPhone 7; great device within its limitations, and to my mind still a slicker user experience than Android. But - my main personal phone is a Huawai complete with dual sim, SD slot etc. and I can load whatever I want to ensure my data is securely synced to my servers and them only. When my wife's expensive Samsung Note started acting up, it was replaced with this year's updated version of my model. She's happy, but although the specs are slightly better, I was surprised that the price has nearly doubled...
Before Common Era? WTF? As opposed to an "uncommon" one? OK, I'm a (kinda) scientist, so I should maybe be "against" all the religious stuff, but I have no problem with "Before Christ" just as I have no problem with V for Volt(a) or A for Ampere. (Grant you, these were real people, and real scientists too...)
FFS, it's not like "BC" is insulting to Muslims or other people who use a different calendar (many also religion-based), since they're not aligned with the same time period. If anything, "BCE" seems more insulting, since it implies that their alternative calendars are "not common".../rant
"You can, for instance, train a deep-learning algorithm to recognize a cat with a cat-fancier's level of expertise"
Bullshit. It sounds like they can train a system to recognise what probably is a cat-like animal, but a serious cat-fancier can give a reasoned and interesting description of the differences between two pedigree cats - which look to the layman as being both perfect and identical. Background: my wife breeds international competition-grade Maine Coon cats...I used to be bored to death at shows until I started hanging around the judges table.
"Its closest point will come on February 11, 2017 at around 8 UTC, at which time the comet will be 0.08 AU (7.4 million miles, about 12 million km, or some 30 times the moon’s distance) from the Earth. Will you see it? Well are you an experienced observer or astrophotographer, used to finding faint objects in the sky? If not, probably not."
I'm betting you'll get your Chevy faster than your your Model 3; how long is it going to take to make 370k units? Years...even GM (who know a little about mass-producing cars) are only planning to ship 25k units a year, with the possibility of ramping up to 50k units "later".
Of course, since the Model 3 will end up being more expensive than planned, I'm guessing many of those orders will get cancelled...
Rather off topic, but I heartily disagree. Liars and xenophobes should be called out on their toxic crap otherwise they might get elected president one day. Oh wait....
There's this : "imposing tougher visa rules unfairly targets some of its members and will not solve a U.S. labor shortage in technology and engineering" Then this : "contains provisions that may prove challenging for the Indian IT sector...nullify the objective of saving American jobs"
So in other words, "this looks uncomfortably like it might work, so we're going to come up with a load of bullshit while we figure out a way of getting round it".
If there is a labor shortage, surely American jobs don't need saving? Anyway, as many people here have pointed out in the past, this has nothing to do with closet racism, denying smart people with the vital skills we need the right to come and work in the US or protectionism.
It's about unscrupulous people breaking the rules and exploiting their fellow countrymen while careless (in both senses of the word) suits look the other way.
Yup, as all here know I'm a BSD neckbeard but there's a different between industrial-strength OSes like AIX and Solaris and those where basically one guy can come along and fuck things up. Yeah, you guessed, not a fan of systemD
A bit offtopic, but that's not quite true. A neighbour - utterly non-technical - brought back a cheap cam from the hardware store the other day; she plugged it in, followed the instructions and a few minutes later was round my place showing me live streams of her kids playing in the garden on her iPhone. Probably unbelievably insecure, but for her, very convenient. As long as people can get this "instant convenience" they'll uptake IoT.
Most units will interrupt whatever audio source you are listening to if you have the RDS "announcements" function on. Handy for traffic accident warnings etc.
The Channel Tunnel goes under the English Channel / La Manche not the Atlantic. (A tunnel from the British Isles to America under the Atlantic, now THAT would be impressive)
The "Chunnel" is indeed a fine thing, but....
"At £5.5 billion (1985 prices), it was at the time the most expensive construction project ever proposed and the cost finally came in at £9 billion ($21 billion); way over its predicted budget."
I mostly agree, but back in the day both my (high-end admittedly) home and car cassette players had a "skip track" function. They searched for the silences between tracks, (so useless for some classical music pr jazz etc. arrangements), but otherwise worked, albeit slowly. I listened to stuff recorded from records using high-quality tapes and Dolby B. In a noisy environment like a car, was fine. In the home studio, not so much...
I'm guessing most will serve to pad the team's pay packet and IBMs "defensive" patent portfolio that all tech (and other) companies seem to need today. It's all just a giant bullshit bluff game...how many, if seriously challenged, would really turn out to be genuinely innovative, non-obvious, no prior art etc.? IBM used to patent real stuff that went on to be built into real products - hard drives today all use discoveries made by IBM researchers, for example. Hell, when I was working there we had people who had won Nobel prizes working in R&D... Nowadays? Not so much...sad.
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In London, where the (in)famously racist but highly-competent "black cabs" are ruinously expensive, Uber works really well, and it's much cheaper.
Paris too.
Churchill wasn't opposed to barbarous tranny, as long as it was coming from his own country.
Unfortunately, his position on shemales and ladyboys remains unknown.
I'm very happy with my work iPhone 7; great device within its limitations, and to my mind still a slicker user experience than Android.
But - my main personal phone is a Huawai complete with dual sim, SD slot etc. and I can load whatever I want to ensure my data is securely synced to my servers and them only.
When my wife's expensive Samsung Note started acting up, it was replaced with this year's updated version of my model.
She's happy, but although the specs are slightly better, I was surprised that the price has nearly doubled...
Before Common Era? WTF? As opposed to an "uncommon" one?
OK, I'm a (kinda) scientist, so I should maybe be "against" all the religious stuff, but I have no problem with "Before Christ" just as I have no problem with V for Volt(a) or A for Ampere. (Grant you, these were real people, and real scientists too...)
FFS, it's not like "BC" is insulting to Muslims or other people who use a different calendar (many also religion-based), since they're not aligned with the same time period. /rant
If anything, "BCE" seems more insulting, since it implies that their alternative calendars are "not common"...
"You can, for instance, train a deep-learning algorithm to recognize a cat with a cat-fancier's level of expertise"
Bullshit. It sounds like they can train a system to recognise what probably is a cat-like animal, but a serious cat-fancier can give a reasoned and interesting description of the differences between two pedigree cats - which look to the layman as being both perfect and identical.
Background: my wife breeds international competition-grade Maine Coon cats...I used to be bored to death at shows until I started hanging around the judges table.
Loks like a cut and paste error from here:
http://earthsky.org/astronomy-...
"Its closest point will come on February 11, 2017 at around 8 UTC, at which time the comet will be 0.08 AU (7.4 million miles, about 12 million km, or some 30 times the moon’s distance) from the Earth. Will you see it? Well are you an experienced observer or astrophotographer, used to finding faint objects in the sky? If not, probably not."
Except they didn't. (Try harder, that is)...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Stupid name; great car. (and I'm a Ford guy...)
I'm betting you'll get your Chevy faster than your your Model 3; how long is it going to take to make 370k units?
Years...even GM (who know a little about mass-producing cars) are only planning to ship 25k units a year, with the possibility of ramping up to 50k units "later".
Of course, since the Model 3 will end up being more expensive than planned, I'm guessing many of those orders will get cancelled...
Pah! I remember when they were building-sized...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Good comment; agree.
But while we're picking nits....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Whoa! What exactly is "ruined" about Alaska?
Rather off topic, but I heartily disagree. Liars and xenophobes should be called out on their toxic crap otherwise they might get elected president one day.
Oh wait....
There's this : "imposing tougher visa rules unfairly targets some of its members and will not solve a U.S. labor shortage in technology and engineering"
Then this : "contains provisions that may prove challenging for the Indian IT sector...nullify the objective of saving American jobs"
So in other words, "this looks uncomfortably like it might work, so we're going to come up with a load of bullshit while we figure out a way of getting round it".
If there is a labor shortage, surely American jobs don't need saving? Anyway, as many people here have pointed out in the past, this has nothing to do with closet racism, denying smart people with the vital skills we need the right to come and work in the US or protectionism.
It's about unscrupulous people breaking the rules and exploiting their fellow countrymen while careless (in both senses of the word) suits look the other way.
I'm sure Elon's advice will be to keep those subsidies coming!
5$ Bn. so far....as they say, not bad for Govt. work.
http://www.latimes.com/busines...
Or you can buy a cheapo multimeter, which is far more versatile, for less than $10....
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Digita...
Granted, not as cool, compact and easy to use.
Shop around; there are still plenty of decent-quality Android phones with SD card slots, replaceable batteries and often dual SIM slots.
Yup, as all here know I'm a BSD neckbeard but there's a different between industrial-strength OSes like AIX and Solaris and those where basically one guy can come along and fuck things up. Yeah, you guessed, not a fan of systemD
Pay a fine, get off free?
Hope they follow-up in parallel with a criminal case.
A bit offtopic, but that's not quite true.
A neighbour - utterly non-technical - brought back a cheap cam from the hardware store the other day; she plugged it in, followed the instructions and a few minutes later was round my place showing me live streams of her kids playing in the garden on her iPhone.
Probably unbelievably insecure, but for her, very convenient.
As long as people can get this "instant convenience" they'll uptake IoT.
Most units will interrupt whatever audio source you are listening to if you have the RDS "announcements" function on.
Handy for traffic accident warnings etc.
Always wondered how Oracle sales and management suits were "trained"...
The Channel Tunnel goes under the English Channel / La Manche not the Atlantic.
(A tunnel from the British Isles to America under the Atlantic, now THAT would be impressive)
The "Chunnel" is indeed a fine thing, but....
"At £5.5 billion (1985 prices), it was at the time the most expensive construction project ever proposed and the cost finally came in at £9 billion ($21 billion); way over its predicted budget."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
I mostly agree, but back in the day both my (high-end admittedly) home and car cassette players had a "skip track" function.
They searched for the silences between tracks, (so useless for some classical music pr jazz etc. arrangements), but otherwise worked, albeit slowly.
I listened to stuff recorded from records using high-quality tapes and Dolby B. In a noisy environment like a car, was fine.
In the home studio, not so much...
I'm guessing most will serve to pad the team's pay packet and IBMs "defensive" patent portfolio that all tech (and other) companies seem to need today.
It's all just a giant bullshit bluff game...how many, if seriously challenged, would really turn out to be genuinely innovative, non-obvious, no prior art etc.?
IBM used to patent real stuff that went on to be built into real products - hard drives today all use discoveries made by IBM researchers, for example. Hell, when I was working there we had people who had won Nobel prizes working in R&D...
Nowadays? Not so much...sad.
Gloriously offtopic, but who cares.
Health, wealth and harmony in your personal and professional lives to all.
Even those of you not using BSD.