There most definitely is an advantage in sniping, you yourself give an example of it. It's not just unbid items though, you will always have a chance of ending up better off if your opponents have no time to bid you up to your limit.
No. the entire idea behind ebay is to bid the maximum amount you are willing to pay. If you do that there is NEVER a reason to make a 2nd bid. Someone else snipes your $20 bid and you get upset, then you didn't bid your maximum from the start. If you follow the idea and always give the highest amount you are willing to pay then there should never be any hurt feelings, and sniping can't hurt you because the sniper bid more than you were willing to pay.
Don't you still have to have additional cabling to support the fiber? I would expect that using plain fiber optic cable would break / stretch under it's own weight. I know my verizon Fios cable comes in bonded with a steel cable, and its just running in conduit in the ground.
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Dear Google, please stop using the scroll wheel to zoom in/out in Google Maps. It drives me nuts every time I use it. Better yet, give us an option to use the wheel to pan (which would be the logical mapping of that function) instead of zoom.
No way, I love scroll wheel zooming and get frustrated when it doesn't work on other maps. Sounds like it needs to be an optional setting.
"The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized."
Once again, please tell me what is being searched or seized when placing a tracking device on the outside of your car? It is functionally equivalent to the police following yourcar, which they can do without a warrant.
I've said before that I don't think it's right that the police can do this, but it is NOT a 4th amendment issue. Go find the proper law and use THAT to stop it.
Is not whether this tracking is constitutional: it's an obvious violation of the fourth amendment, among other civil rights. The question is whether the court will do its duty, or once again provide a pretense of legitimacy to a power-grab.
-jcr
How is it obvious? The 4th amendment provides protections from searches and seizures. Attaching a GPS externally to your car while is is on a public street doesn't involve searching anything, and doesn't involve taking any of your property.
I think it's wrong that it can be done without a warrant, but I don't think it falls under the 4th amendment at all.
Then that engineer is a dipshit half the time, because nothing you can do from your machine itself is an effective remedy for a rootkit.
You never heard of changing the boot order and starting from a clean CD? There are several ways to get back to a clean system from "the machine itself". I can think of 3 right off the top of my head.
1. Boot to CD 2. Swap hard drives 3. Boot to a different partition
Ohh, got some more. 4.Reinstall from CD 5. Restore a backup.
Actually, there is a safe level of water. There is a certain level of water that is unsafe for you, but that doesn't mean that less is unsafe. Drinking no water, ever, if very unsafe. There is a certain level of water you can drink that can actually increase your health. Same goes for things like salt, and sunlight. 0 radiation is the best amount. Any amount more than that while it may be not be significantly harmful, definitely isn't beneficial to you.
Are you sure about that? Maybe from the theoretical "pure water" point of view. But in the real world all water that people commonly have access to contains pollutants of some kind.
There is no safe level of radiation - there are simply levels that don't significantly increase risk. It may well be discovered that hanging out by XRay sources isn't as un-bad for your health as previously assumed (perhaps due to not actually testing..) I'm so glad my tax dollars paid for all this tech and will now pay all the large sums that will get awarded in the inevitable law suits.. Yay.
There is no safe level of anything. Too much water can kill you, too much sunlight, too much salt, driving a car, walking down the road. EVERYTHING has risks, nothing is truly safe.
They should have come out saying that the product is not yet ready for professional use, and they are hoping to add the missing features in a certain timeframe. No, Apple hardly ever comes out and says this, but in this case I see no downside. The software seems brilliant for most users, and the Apple MO is to make big changes in the playing field, and giving people no choice except to embrace it or to fuck right off. But right now it is not a question of doing things differently, there are huge and gaping issues that render the software unusable for use in many environments.
Perhaps they shouldn't put the word "Pro" in the title of the application if it isn't meant for professional users. Maybe "Final Cut Newb" would have been a better choice.
That's a bit of a bizarre measurement for river waters, no? Makes it sound at first glance that it's under 1,007 feet of water. Why not the height above the normal crest? It would make it a bit easier to visualize that's for sure.
Saying that the flood is at 1007ft of 1014ft capacity of the walls makes it sound a lot more scary that saying its at 7ft of the 14ft walls. It's nothing but anti-nuclear fud. The whole story is designed to make it hard to visualize to make it scarier.
I don't know...a pencil is pretty easy to use, but it's trivial to use the wrong end (thereby erasing the work you've already done) or to poke yourself with it, etc.
Then again, I'm one of those people that gets annoyed with devices that try too hard to protect me from myself. That's one of the reasons why I prefer stick-shift cars, manual focus cameras, Linux, and such.
I think it depends on your definition of "easy to use". If a significant number of people manage to use something incorrectly despite given clear instructions on its use, then you shouldn't try to claim that it is easy to use. The harshness of the consequences of improper use also factor in here. An easy to make mistake that has extremely harsh consequences may raise the difficulty rating of a task.
With your pencil example, how many people actually mistake the eraser for the point? Children understand pencils very quickly. I would say pencils are easy to use.
That's the most insanely impractical philosophy I can imagine. I have to assume you don't actually make anything people use.
If you think about it, it's not really that impractical. If, given very clear instructions on how to use something, people still manage to use it incorrectly, then it isn't really easy to use. I'm not arguing that everything NEEDS to be easy to use, just that some of the things people claim are easy are not really all that easy.
So if someone sticks a fork in a toaster and gets electrocuted, does that mean the appliance was poorly designed? No matter how easy something is to use, some idiot will find a way to misuse it.
I would say yes. If you can literally kill yourself by sticking a piece of metal in to a toaster, then the toaster could be designed better.
The battery life is only 3 hours, and is non rechargeable.. I'd REALLY hate being the intern at a company using a swarm of 1000s of these guys after the first experiment.
the camera sensor itself will be the ir sensor. ir pulses will be decoded from the incoming camera image.
Not if there is a piece of IR filtering tape over the camera as the OP mentioned in Option B. The IR will be blocked, but visible light will be allowed through to the camera.
Third, I'm pretty sure you are not being taxed at twelve years old, so there's not really an issue of representation.:)
Sales taxes. Even the disenfranchised must pay them on their purchases.
If you are 12 years old, the money you use to buy things doesn't legally belong to you, its belongs to your parents. Therefore the sales tax is on them, not you.
Windows Phone 7 is nothing but a shell on top of WinCE. WinCE is still running in Windows Phone 7, but they've purposely locked out a lot of the functionality. You never know what crazy thing Microsoft is going to do.
Do you have any documentation on that? Everything I've seen so far has said that its a total rewrite, from the kernel on up.
You mean like happened when they went from Windows Mobile to Windows Phone 7? You might as well not be able to develop for that platform, considering how locked down it is. Can't even open a socket.
Windows Phone 7 might as well be a completely new, alien, OS. Like I said in my original post, you can clearly see from the video that the desktop version of windows 7 is still running in windows 8.
If you watched the same video I did of the Windows 8 preview it very clearly shows the the existing windows 7-ish interface is still there, and the the new fancy gui is actually just a full screen application that acts as a host container for these special windows 8 apps. Why does anyone think they would remove support for the huge code base of existing applications? They won't suddenly stop working, and you won't suddenly not be able to develop them any more.
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There most definitely is an advantage in sniping, you yourself give an example of it. It's not just unbid items though, you will always have a chance of ending up better off if your opponents have no time to bid you up to your limit.
No. the entire idea behind ebay is to bid the maximum amount you are willing to pay. If you do that there is NEVER a reason to make a 2nd bid. Someone else snipes your $20 bid and you get upset, then you didn't bid your maximum from the start. If you follow the idea and always give the highest amount you are willing to pay then there should never be any hurt feelings, and sniping can't hurt you because the sniper bid more than you were willing to pay.
Copper weighs more than a fiber optic cable.
Don't you still have to have additional cabling to support the fiber? I would expect that using plain fiber optic cable would break / stretch under it's own weight. I know my verizon Fios cable comes in bonded with a steel cable, and its just running in conduit in the ground.
Dear Google, please stop using the scroll wheel to zoom in/out in Google Maps. It drives me nuts every time I use it. Better yet, give us an option to use the wheel to pan (which would be the logical mapping of that function) instead of zoom.
No way, I love scroll wheel zooming and get frustrated when it doesn't work on other maps. Sounds like it needs to be an optional setting.
No USB, so what are you plugging your keyboards into?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PS/2_connector
Once again, please tell me what is being searched or seized when placing a tracking device on the outside of your car?
It is functionally equivalent to the police following yourcar, which they can do without a warrant.
I've said before that I don't think it's right that the police can do this, but it is NOT a 4th amendment issue. Go find the proper law and use THAT to stop it.
Is not whether this tracking is constitutional: it's an obvious violation of the fourth amendment, among other civil rights. The question is whether the court will do its duty, or once again provide a pretense of legitimacy to a power-grab.
-jcr
How is it obvious? The 4th amendment provides protections from searches and seizures. Attaching a GPS externally to your car while is is on a public street doesn't involve searching anything, and doesn't involve taking any of your property.
I think it's wrong that it can be done without a warrant, but I don't think it falls under the 4th amendment at all.
Then that engineer is a dipshit half the time, because nothing you can do from your machine itself is an effective remedy for a rootkit.
You never heard of changing the boot order and starting from a clean CD? There are several ways to get back to a clean system from "the machine itself". I can think of 3 right off the top of my head.
1. Boot to CD
2. Swap hard drives
3. Boot to a different partition
Ohh, got some more. .Reinstall from CD
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5. Restore a backup.
Actually, there is a safe level of water. There is a certain level of water that is unsafe for you, but that doesn't mean that less is unsafe. Drinking no water, ever, if very unsafe. There is a certain level of water you can drink that can actually increase your health. Same goes for things like salt, and sunlight. 0 radiation is the best amount. Any amount more than that while it may be not be significantly harmful, definitely isn't beneficial to you.
Are you sure about that? Maybe from the theoretical "pure water" point of view. But in the real world all water that people commonly have access to contains pollutants of some kind.
There is no safe level of radiation - there are simply levels that don't significantly increase risk. It may well be discovered that hanging out by XRay sources isn't as un-bad for your health as previously assumed (perhaps due to not actually testing..) I'm so glad my tax dollars paid for all this tech and will now pay all the large sums that will get awarded in the inevitable law suits.. Yay.
There is no safe level of anything. Too much water can kill you, too much sunlight, too much salt, driving a car, walking down the road. EVERYTHING has risks, nothing is truly safe.
They should have come out saying that the product is not yet ready for professional use, and they are hoping to add the missing features in a certain timeframe. No, Apple hardly ever comes out and says this, but in this case I see no downside. The software seems brilliant for most users, and the Apple MO is to make big changes in the playing field, and giving people no choice except to embrace it or to fuck right off. But right now it is not a question of doing things differently, there are huge and gaping issues that render the software unusable for use in many environments.
Perhaps they shouldn't put the word "Pro" in the title of the application if it isn't meant for professional users. Maybe "Final Cut Newb" would have been a better choice.
That's a bit of a bizarre measurement for river waters, no? Makes it sound at first glance that it's under 1,007 feet of water.
Why not the height above the normal crest? It would make it a bit easier to visualize that's for sure.
Saying that the flood is at 1007ft of 1014ft capacity of the walls makes it sound a lot more scary that saying its at 7ft of the 14ft walls. It's nothing but anti-nuclear fud. The whole story is designed to make it hard to visualize to make it scarier.
How is this going to "End the failed war on drugs finally"? The "war" is over more than just marijuana.
What happened to the days of old when some laptops came with built in power supplies and you just needed an AC cable? I liked those.
Laptops got smaller.
I don't know...a pencil is pretty easy to use, but it's trivial to use the wrong end (thereby erasing the work you've already done) or to poke yourself with it, etc.
Then again, I'm one of those people that gets annoyed with devices that try too hard to protect me from myself. That's one of the reasons why I prefer stick-shift cars, manual focus cameras, Linux, and such.
I think it depends on your definition of "easy to use". If a significant number of people manage to use something incorrectly despite given clear instructions on its use, then you shouldn't try to claim that it is easy to use. The harshness of the consequences of improper use also factor in here. An easy to make mistake that has extremely harsh consequences may raise the difficulty rating of a task.
With your pencil example, how many people actually mistake the eraser for the point? Children understand pencils very quickly. I would say pencils are easy to use.
That's the most insanely impractical philosophy I can imagine. I have to assume you don't actually make anything people use.
If you think about it, it's not really that impractical. If, given very clear instructions on how to use something, people still manage to use it incorrectly, then it isn't really easy to use. I'm not arguing that everything NEEDS to be easy to use, just that some of the things people claim are easy are not really all that easy.
So if someone sticks a fork in a toaster and gets electrocuted, does that mean the appliance was poorly designed? No matter how easy something is to use, some idiot will find a way to misuse it.
I would say yes. If you can literally kill yourself by sticking a piece of metal in to a toaster, then the toaster could be designed better.
If it allows you to do something incorrectly then it isn't very easy to use.
Yet those are only reproductions of original recordings.
And books are only copies of the original manuscript.
The battery life is only 3 hours, and is non rechargeable.. I'd REALLY hate being the intern at a company using a swarm of 1000s of these guys after the first experiment.
the camera sensor itself will be the ir sensor. ir pulses will be decoded from the incoming camera image.
Not if there is a piece of IR filtering tape over the camera as the OP mentioned in Option B. The IR will be blocked, but visible light will be allowed through to the camera.
Third, I'm pretty sure you are not being taxed at twelve years old, so there's not really an issue of representation. :)
Sales taxes. Even the disenfranchised must pay them on their purchases.
If you are 12 years old, the money you use to buy things doesn't legally belong to you, its belongs to your parents. Therefore the sales tax is on them, not you.
Windows Phone 7 is nothing but a shell on top of WinCE. WinCE is still running in Windows Phone 7, but they've purposely locked out a lot of the functionality. You never know what crazy thing Microsoft is going to do.
Do you have any documentation on that? Everything I've seen so far has said that its a total rewrite, from the kernel on up.
You mean like happened when they went from Windows Mobile to Windows Phone 7? You might as well not be able to develop for that platform, considering how locked down it is. Can't even open a socket.
Windows Phone 7 might as well be a completely new, alien, OS. Like I said in my original post, you can clearly see from the video that the desktop version of windows 7 is still running in windows 8.
If you watched the same video I did of the Windows 8 preview it very clearly shows the the existing windows 7-ish interface is still there, and the the new fancy gui is actually just a full screen application that acts as a host container for these special windows 8 apps. Why does anyone think they would remove support for the huge code base of existing applications? They won't suddenly stop working, and you won't suddenly not be able to develop them any more.