As a lifelong Chicagoan, I'm glad that the venerable WGN-TV and WGN AM 720 didn't fall to Sinclair. These stations are an invaluable source of independent, local news reporting.
One can "cut the cord", then tape a leaf antenna to the window and get an over-the-air-only TiVo. It can grab local programming (like the news) and ad-supported shows off the air.
It also can play all the major streaming services. Not only that, but it can record the current season of a show off the air, and combine that with previous seasons from Your Favorite Streaming Service into a single list of episodes.
Sucralose can cause bloating and diarrhea. In my experience it's fine in beverage-sweetener quantities, but in foods, especially snack foods, I might consume more than I really want to contend with.
If the users are trying to replace their whole diet with these bars, they certainly could consume enough to have some sucralose-related difficulties.
I wonder how those curbside electric charging stations will fare with a four-foot mountain of salt-laden snow and slush pushed onto them after a good snow, which we get once or twice a year in Chicagoland.
The plows don't care. The fire department goes around after a big storm and digs out their hydrants.
It's all marketing hype and mere armchair statistics.
Fortune doesn't know how to do the math, I don't know how to do the math, Musk doesn't know how to do the math, but perhaps a few readers of this comment could do the math.
It would take 275 million miles of autonomous driving to have any confidence at all that an autonomous car is safer than a human driver.
Ars Technica reported on it, and if you want to see the math, the RAND corporation, who are kind of experts at the math, have a detailed report available, which explains the math.
Basically, while the marketing engine can claim that autonomous driving is safer, it's not even possible to have any proof of it within any reasonable level of statistical confidence.
I mean, sure, we try to make driving safer, and assisted driving may help, but please, let's be realistic about where we're at.
This whole autonomous car thing is going too far, too fast, without enough common sense being applied to it. So presuming this is some autonomous feature that the driver activated with the secret handshake:
Basically, there are 2-ton 328 hp autonomous battering rams sitting around on the street, and they don't have the ability to avoid colliding with other objects (or have some kind of flaw in their collision avoidance). These are by some loss of sanity considered to be street legal motor vehicles.
When a driver has an impairment and loses control of a vehicle, we may take away their license.
Thank goodness it was only a trailer it hit, not a child.
Oh, and by the way, the driver didn't click CANCEL? That's the problem? So the default action is the more dangerous one. Poor human factors engineering.
The part I don't understand is: I walk into an Apple Store, and I buy/replace my iPhone. If I pay for it, no charge from Verizon. If it's on Apple's payment plan, $20. The way the payment plan works is that Apple signs you up for a loan with a third party bank. What does Verizon care how I pay for a phone I buy from somebody else?
On top of that, Verizon is rarely involved. Apple Stores have access to activate phones and update accounts, and the labor is done by an Apple employee. This part at least is a pure cash grab.
"it's understood the venture would be legally separate from Ford, in part to shield the automaker from liability concerns"...because it may eliminate 33,000 deaths/year "someday".
This is not showing a whole lot of confidence for the short term, however. If there was a high confidence that the cars actually were safer, and that the financial risks were manageable, then Ford would just build the cars without a liability shield.
Ford and Google will take the profits, and the public can assume the risks.
What an impersonal goodbye. Just an announcement from Adam and Jamie, some video clips, and a stock photo.
While I could believe Adam's thanks for all their work, he seemed strained somehow. I think the network did it, after the wrap of filming for the last episode.
It really lacked the warmth that a heartfelt goodbye, shot in the M7 workshop with a handheld camera, hugs, and tears.
I speculate that the network forced the reconfiguration of the show after filming of that episode ended.
Not to mention the environmental cost of making an electric car, which is much higher than for an internal-combustion vehicle. IEEE had an article which explored this idea.
I figure, since I only drive 7,000 miles or so a year, mostly long trips (I go to work by train), my ICE car is much cleaner than an electric, especially after I buy carbon offsets for it (I think those cost me less than $50/year).
I'm a Mac developer, and when we developers have a problem with Apple policies (no forum to discuss iPhone amongst ourselves due to NDA?) we file bugs at the bugreporter.
These channels might result in the message getting to people who actually have a say in the policy. Of course, Apple's free to not listen.
And it preserves their customers' freedom to get help with their products.
More like "labelling". So it's easier to make labels now. When I think tagging, I think free tagging like there is here or on del.icio.us. Multiple tags per message. Assistance finding relevant tags that already exist. Advanced searching via tags.
I downloaded TB, and it's, well, okay. Nothing to write home about. Activity spinner still never turns off on my MacBookPro.
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As a lifelong Chicagoan, I'm glad that the venerable WGN-TV and WGN AM 720 didn't fall to Sinclair. These stations are an invaluable source of independent, local news reporting.
Editorial at the Sun-Times says it well.
It might not be your thing, but it's a thing.
One can "cut the cord", then tape a leaf antenna to the window and get an over-the-air-only TiVo. It can grab local programming (like the news) and ad-supported shows off the air.
It also can play all the major streaming services. Not only that, but it can record the current season of a show off the air, and combine that with previous seasons from Your Favorite Streaming Service into a single list of episodes.
So yeah, some of us still use one.
As a "pie in the sky" project, the Sonic Cruiser had the advantage of using actual sky.
Sucralose can cause bloating and diarrhea. In my experience it's fine in beverage-sweetener quantities, but in foods, especially snack foods, I might consume more than I really want to contend with.
If the users are trying to replace their whole diet with these bars, they certainly could consume enough to have some sucralose-related difficulties.
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I wonder how those curbside electric charging stations will fare with a four-foot mountain of salt-laden snow and slush pushed onto them after a good snow, which we get once or twice a year in Chicagoland.
The plows don't care. The fire department goes around after a big storm and digs out their hydrants.
It's all marketing hype and mere armchair statistics.
Fortune doesn't know how to do the math, I don't know how to do the math, Musk doesn't know how to do the math, but perhaps a few readers of this comment could do the math.
It would take 275 million miles of autonomous driving to have any confidence at all that an autonomous car is safer than a human driver.
Ars Technica reported on it, and if you want to see the math, the RAND corporation, who are kind of experts at the math, have a detailed report available, which explains the math.
Basically, while the marketing engine can claim that autonomous driving is safer, it's not even possible to have any proof of it within any reasonable level of statistical confidence.
I mean, sure, we try to make driving safer, and assisted driving may help, but please, let's be realistic about where we're at.
This whole autonomous car thing is going too far, too fast, without enough common sense being applied to it. So presuming this is some autonomous feature that the driver activated with the secret handshake:
Basically, there are 2-ton 328 hp autonomous battering rams sitting around on the street, and they don't have the ability to avoid colliding with other objects (or have some kind of flaw in their collision avoidance). These are by some loss of sanity considered to be street legal motor vehicles.
When a driver has an impairment and loses control of a vehicle, we may take away their license.
Thank goodness it was only a trailer it hit, not a child.
Oh, and by the way, the driver didn't click CANCEL? That's the problem? So the default action is the more dangerous one. Poor human factors engineering.
Wow, maybe I'll upgrade my Kindle, wait, $289!?
What would be really handy for that outrageous price would be colored LED backlighting, so you could adjust to red tones when reading in the dark.
I figure this is the early-adopter cost for the 300 dpi e-ink, and the price will come down eventually. My paperwhite will serve until then.
The part I don't understand is: I walk into an Apple Store, and I buy/replace my iPhone. If I pay for it, no charge from Verizon. If it's on Apple's payment plan, $20. The way the payment plan works is that Apple signs you up for a loan with a third party bank. What does Verizon care how I pay for a phone I buy from somebody else?
On top of that, Verizon is rarely involved. Apple Stores have access to activate phones and update accounts, and the labor is done by an Apple employee. This part at least is a pure cash grab.
"it's understood the venture would be legally separate from Ford, in part to shield the automaker from liability concerns"...because it may eliminate 33,000 deaths/year "someday".
This is not showing a whole lot of confidence for the short term, however. If there was a high confidence that the cars actually were safer, and that the financial risks were manageable, then Ford would just build the cars without a liability shield.
Ford and Google will take the profits, and the public can assume the risks.
What an impersonal goodbye. Just an announcement from Adam and Jamie, some video clips, and a stock photo.
While I could believe Adam's thanks for all their work, he seemed strained somehow. I think the network did it, after the wrap of filming for the last episode.
It really lacked the warmth that a heartfelt goodbye, shot in the M7 workshop with a handheld camera, hugs, and tears.
I speculate that the network forced the reconfiguration of the show after filming of that episode ended.
Sad, really.
Not to mention the environmental cost of making an electric car, which is much higher than for an internal-combustion vehicle. IEEE had an article which explored this idea.
I figure, since I only drive 7,000 miles or so a year, mostly long trips (I go to work by train), my ICE car is much cleaner than an electric, especially after I buy carbon offsets for it (I think those cost me less than $50/year).
Paying lower prices requires just a little effort. You can pay almost $40 for a converter, or about $6.50.
The key is buying the cable someplace other than you bought your big-ticket computer or HDTV.
Active parts allow a choice of medium (copper, fiber) and compensate for cable characteristics (impedance, for instance).
The documentation for the GN2033 chip in use says it "delivers reliable data transfer at cutting-edge speeds over low cost, thin-gauge copper cables."
There are four 10Gb/s channels (two running each way) in that cable. Signal conditioning is a good thing.
Apple corporate offices: 408-996-1010
Bug reporter: http://bugreporter.apple.com/ (requires free online Apple Developer Connection membership)
I'm a Mac developer, and when we developers have a problem with Apple policies (no forum to discuss iPhone amongst ourselves due to NDA?) we file bugs at the bugreporter.
These channels might result in the message getting to people who actually have a say in the policy. Of course, Apple's free to not listen.
And it preserves their customers' freedom to get help with their products.
This is about freedom, am I correct?
More like "labelling". So it's easier to make labels now. When I think tagging, I think free tagging like there is here or on del.icio.us. Multiple tags per message. Assistance finding relevant tags that already exist. Advanced searching via tags.
I downloaded TB, and it's, well, okay. Nothing to write home about. Activity spinner still never turns off on my MacBookPro.