screw the 17", I really wanted a 13" with a retina display. To add insult to injury, they removed the 13" model with a dedicated nvidia graphics card:(
I'm not a fan of progressive taxing on the rich because it seems punitive. This idea of progressive fines, however, sounds great. A fine for running a stop sign is supposed to be punitive and clearly it doesn't punish a millionaire as much as it punishes someone making 20 grand a year. Best of all, it's within our control to not pay the fine by not doing the crime. Of course, what is the fine based on? last year's claimed income? you'll still see some stories of a rich trust fund bastard who has a yearly claimed income of $15 only facing a $.33 fine for running a stop sign and killing an old lady.
still, I would wholeheartedly support this and wonder why none of our candidates ever bring it up.
I don't want to wait 2 seconds between each interface change on my phone. 1 second to release the current buttons. 1 second for new buttons to form. I'm sure it's all very glorious and cool the first time you see it. It's probably agonizingly boring every time thereafter.
I think you need to be around 19 - 25 to get the most out of a college kegger. High IQ doesn't seem to produce the hormones required for full enjoyment. This kid can spend the next decade working into a tenured professorship or inventing something awesome and have no responsibilities but partying as hard as he can by the time he's in his 20s. I wish i had done it that way.
Well, there seems to be a strong correlation between scoring high on our "modernity" tests and graduating medical school, becoming an accomplished pianist, earning a black belt, composing music, being an accomplished pianist, and just plain being a genius.
An algorithm like this isn't going to always pick a trendy and fashionable design. It's going to pick the least bad design you have. If you make 15 designs now, they will probably all be tired in 2 years. Sure the algorithm will say design 7 is the best 2 years from now, but it's probably not as good as whatever your designer would come up with at that time. Its probably better to plan on your designer making the 15 designs over the span of the 2 years.That way you know you are submitting designs made under the influence of the current culture and tastes.
How does going into debt make it worth it over a cheap car?
reliability? convenience? ridiculously low interest rates? Sure, you can compare the prices of repair costs on a beater vs interest on a new car and say, "look, it's cheaper to just buy a car for a thousand dollars, throw it away after a year, and buy another." But that involves constantly registering a vehicle, constantly looking for a new beater, the risk that your car is going to break down somewhere and strand you. How can you put a value on that? Do you like shopping for cars? Did you miss a job interview because your beater broke down? did it happen while you were taking your pregnant wife to the hospital?
I'm not advocating buying the most expensive car you can find based on how much you think you can part with a month, but i think my last car loan was at.5%. I had it paid off in a couple years instead of 4, and i received a car that i never had to worry about. It's got 100k miles on it six years later and i'm only just starting to consider what i might replace it with. When the time comes, i could buy another car for cash. However, if I can get another loan at that rate, it seems prudent to leave my 20 grand in some interest earning account and buy the car on credit.
I'm eager for a future when my glasses or contacts have some magic screen that can overlay high res holographic images in my field of view, and this may be a step in that direction. However, it looks like the kind of tech that is more of a complication than a convenience. I'm supposed to walk around with that stupid thing on my head, taking up 33% of my field of view with it's screen all the time just so i can surreptitiously take a picture? At least my phone is only visible when i need it's information. At other times, it's really unobstrusive in my pocket.
If I see you early adopters on the street, staring off into space, fiddling with cumbersomely tiny controls, trying to get your gps location on your goggles, i will laugh at you. Know though, that i appreciate everything you are doing to move this technology forward.
If I go to Walmart, then Walmart pays people to watch the cameras so I don't walk out with a big screen tv under my shirt.
Walmart sets it's prices to ensure it can afford to hire people to watch the cameras. If you buy something from walmart, you ARE paying to have those people watch you.
Maybe he was burnt out or disgruntled or something. He certainly seemed to have a fanatical opposition to games for a long time. These stories about how he was treated at atari as a 19 year old seem like just the thing to create some weird brooding hatred of the game industry.
The suit alleges that only big time investors were apprised that rising use of mobile would affect revenue. This was known to everyone weeks ago, well before the IPO. here's an article from a week prior to the IPO all about the mobile risks
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There's an exhibit in the national portrait gallery here in DC called, "The Art of Video Games" This exhibit has a number of playable games on display from many eras. I've been in the building several times since the exhibit started and the most popular games are always pac-man and super mario bros.
When a site has ~800 million active users, you can generally expect that the person you want to communicate with is using that company's services
Considering that there are an estimated 2.25 billion people who use the Internet, I would say that with 800 million users, the probability that the person you want to communicate with is actually on Facebook is a little more than 1 in 3...
i would buy a lottery ticket every week if the odds were 1 in 3. Hell, I'd buy TWO!
"A systems engineer and electrical engineer with 30 years at a fortune 500 company" that could be a lot of people, but what if it was the Woz? You naysayers wouldn't be saying nay then!
You beat me to it. That was my first thought. The overly complicated doorknob and the tv that would turn off if you slump too much also seemed like overwrought solutions to nonexistent problems.
Still, as a switch for something in an amusement park, the technology did seem pretty promising.
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Then it would become popular for rich people to buy rusted out kias and run stop signs.
screw the 17", I really wanted a 13" with a retina display. To add insult to injury, they removed the 13" model with a dedicated nvidia graphics card :(
I'm not a fan of progressive taxing on the rich because it seems punitive. This idea of progressive fines, however, sounds great. A fine for running a stop sign is supposed to be punitive and clearly it doesn't punish a millionaire as much as it punishes someone making 20 grand a year. Best of all, it's within our control to not pay the fine by not doing the crime. Of course, what is the fine based on? last year's claimed income? you'll still see some stories of a rich trust fund bastard who has a yearly claimed income of $15 only facing a $.33 fine for running a stop sign and killing an old lady.
still, I would wholeheartedly support this and wonder why none of our candidates ever bring it up.
And this is different from conventional war...how?
nobody gets hurt?
i'm all for escalation of weapons that can only do as much damage to me as i want.
you never had a bug that would transfer all funds to a swiss bank account? it's happened to me many times.
you can't replace someone like a Steve Jobs, a Mark Zuckerberg, or a Sergei Brin with a computer YET
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I don't want to wait 2 seconds between each interface change on my phone. 1 second to release the current buttons. 1 second for new buttons to form. I'm sure it's all very glorious and cool the first time you see it. It's probably agonizingly boring every time thereafter.
how much time would it take to make that model in blender instead?
I think you need to be around 19 - 25 to get the most out of a college kegger. High IQ doesn't seem to produce the hormones required for full enjoyment. This kid can spend the next decade working into a tenured professorship or inventing something awesome and have no responsibilities but partying as hard as he can by the time he's in his 20s. I wish i had done it that way.
Well, there seems to be a strong correlation between scoring high on our "modernity" tests and graduating medical school, becoming an accomplished pianist, earning a black belt, composing music, being an accomplished pianist, and just plain being a genius.
An algorithm like this isn't going to always pick a trendy and fashionable design. It's going to pick the least bad design you have. If you make 15 designs now, they will probably all be tired in 2 years. Sure the algorithm will say design 7 is the best 2 years from now, but it's probably not as good as whatever your designer would come up with at that time. Its probably better to plan on your designer making the 15 designs over the span of the 2 years .That way you know you are submitting designs made under the influence of the current culture and tastes.
How does going into debt make it worth it over a cheap car?
reliability? convenience? ridiculously low interest rates? Sure, you can compare the prices of repair costs on a beater vs interest on a new car and say, "look, it's cheaper to just buy a car for a thousand dollars, throw it away after a year, and buy another." But that involves constantly registering a vehicle, constantly looking for a new beater, the risk that your car is going to break down somewhere and strand you. How can you put a value on that? Do you like shopping for cars? Did you miss a job interview because your beater broke down? did it happen while you were taking your pregnant wife to the hospital?
.5%. I had it paid off in a couple years instead of 4, and i received a car that i never had to worry about. It's got 100k miles on it six years later and i'm only just starting to consider what i might replace it with. When the time comes, i could buy another car for cash. However, if I can get another loan at that rate, it seems prudent to leave my 20 grand in some interest earning account and buy the car on credit.
I'm not advocating buying the most expensive car you can find based on how much you think you can part with a month, but i think my last car loan was at
I'm eager for a future when my glasses or contacts have some magic screen that can overlay high res holographic images in my field of view, and this may be a step in that direction. However, it looks like the kind of tech that is more of a complication than a convenience. I'm supposed to walk around with that stupid thing on my head, taking up 33% of my field of view with it's screen all the time just so i can surreptitiously take a picture? At least my phone is only visible when i need it's information. At other times, it's really unobstrusive in my pocket.
If I see you early adopters on the street, staring off into space, fiddling with cumbersomely tiny controls, trying to get your gps location on your goggles, i will laugh at you. Know though, that i appreciate everything you are doing to move this technology forward.
This is horribly pedantic, but if you analyze skin in a color space other than RGB, like HSV, everyone falls into a relatively narrow hue band.
If I go to Walmart, then Walmart pays people to watch the cameras so I don't walk out with a big screen tv under my shirt.
Walmart sets it's prices to ensure it can afford to hire people to watch the cameras. If you buy something from walmart, you ARE paying to have those people watch you.
Maybe he was burnt out or disgruntled or something. He certainly seemed to have a fanatical opposition to games for a long time. These stories about how he was treated at atari as a 19 year old seem like just the thing to create some weird brooding hatred of the game industry.
The suit alleges that only big time investors were apprised that rising use of mobile would affect revenue. This was known to everyone weeks ago, well before the IPO. here's an article from a week prior to the IPO all about the mobile risks
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/facebook/9257232/Facebook-issues-revenue-warning-over-mobile-growth.html
That's no moon.
There's an exhibit in the national portrait gallery here in DC called, "The Art of Video Games" This exhibit has a number of playable games on display from many eras. I've been in the building several times since the exhibit started and the most popular games are always pac-man and super mario bros.
A lot of us would like to fly more than one RC helicopter at the same time.
When a site has ~800 million active users, you can generally expect that the person you want to communicate with is using that company's services
Considering that there are an estimated 2.25 billion people who use the Internet, I would say that with 800 million users, the probability that the person you want to communicate with is actually on Facebook is a little more than 1 in 3...
i would buy a lottery ticket every week if the odds were 1 in 3. Hell, I'd buy TWO!
Maybe carriers would reduce their crazy pricing models for SMS messages!
Then they will just raise the prices of the stuff that i do use.
"A systems engineer and electrical engineer with 30 years at a fortune 500 company" that could be a lot of people, but what if it was the Woz? You naysayers wouldn't be saying nay then!
You beat me to it. That was my first thought. The overly complicated doorknob and the tv that would turn off if you slump too much also seemed like overwrought solutions to nonexistent problems.
Still, as a switch for something in an amusement park, the technology did seem pretty promising.