I think the point was that it is weird to be promoting 15cm "nearby" transfer instead of just dropping the device in a little desktop dish (still a wireless solution), gently curved and slippery to help the phone settle at distance of, say,.5cm. This might even be nicer for users - chargers do make it easier to locate your phone.
My questions:
1) any chance of an interoperable standard? Or are we back to the bad old days of pre-microUSB proprietary chargers?
2) what's the power use when there's no phone nearby?
Furthermore, the First Amendment ASSUMES that Rackspace (aka citizens) will discourage hate speech in a democratic, consensus-driven way, so the corruptible government doesn't have to.
Stephenson has argued that techies SHOULD be interested in the past. You're welcome to disagree, but he's not abandoning you. I thought the history of science and technology built into his Baroque Cycle was interesting, and really the only redeeming feature of that very long book.
They don't have to police the review. They just have to read the sales pitch. The FTC can call a PR firm (based on tips, probably) and say "Hey, I'm at XYZ startup. Can you hook us up with some fake reviews, sans disclosure?" Only one answer to that is legal.
What this will do is smash it as a money maker. Big, legit brands will avoid it. Mom-on-Pop's on Yelp will probably get away with it. The Yelp's of the world, who can make educated guesses about the profile of a fake reviewer (IP address, for one thing), will help police this, with the FTC as the hammer in rare cases.
This is, in the grand scheme, a pretty fair trade.
Per the role playing game tech manuals, the Star Wars "blaster" (the hand weapon) is supposed to be firing a little bloop of highly excited gas/plasma/whatever exiting the gun at high speed. This all holds up pretty well: the visible motion, the light emitted, nearly endless ammo, and why the different guns make different colors. They do however call the big towers "turbolasers" which I blame on Jar-Jar because it makes no sense.
Light sabers, on the other hand, are pretty clearly just cool fucking swords.
Can anyone link me to the actual decision, particularly the apparently barnburning dissent? Why why why can't mainstream media link to primary documents occasionally?
It's a problem because it's not about ideology (which is inherently transparent), it's about power brokers.
Most of the cases in TFA are about Republican primaries... where conservative vs liberal is mostly a non-issue. Instead, readers do look to commenters with a track record to sort out the serious candidates from the celebrities (think Whitman in CA - real or not?). When these commentors go up for auction, and it's done in secret, it's incredibly corrosive to honest discourse. You say you're selling political insight, but you're really selling readers to campaigns.
The readers aren't the customer anymore, they're the product. And damn right they should be upset.
Many teachers get put in tough settings because they are in fact good at their jobs and can handle it. However, they don't get the test scores of their peers. Should they be shamed?
The problem here isn't too much data -- it's not enough. What's the context to these aggregates? What do students and peers say about these teachers? Without this thick description, and partial data can really hurt. These metrics should be deeper. Skip the aggregate class score and instead look at later performance of students, relative to their class on day one. Etc etc etc. Children are not numbers, and reporting them as such leads to some wonky results. And when those are aimed at human beings, then the people pulling the trigger on the story have some responsibility to get it right.
Your metric is dumb. "The teachers unions" get lumped together, but other industries (finance) get treated as individual donors. Wall Street is the biggest campaign contributor. Unions have influence, but don't pretend it rivals the big boys.
People forget that Rosa Parks was hand picked by organizers as a sympathy provoking test case, a role she played brilliantly for decades. Compare that to online freedoms, which are usually tested on child abusers.
They don't have to win to have power. To use a slashdot-grade analogy, holding a gun to your head will influence your behavior even if I never pull the trigger.
Google will lose money some day. And when it does, all kinds of Not Evil stuff will be under assault.
It was Amazon who came up with the stats, who wants 'ebook' to be synonymous with 'Kindle', and thus puts out PR. I am confident that Jane Austin has done pretty well in ebooks over the years, but our economic institutions (and attendant media) do not have tools to value the enjoyment these books bring people. Only books which extract profit from readers are worth counting.
In the last days of this congressional session, our elected reps faced two urgent spending requests. One was for ongoing combat in Afghanistan. The other was to keep several thousand public school teachers from being laid off in the fall. One of those got funded.
But, sure, dick around with the grading scale and pretend it'll fix things.
> This is one of those areas where I WANT the government to intervene.
As rampaging institutions go, in this case the government is a much smaller, more transparent, more containable, more democratic beast than the telecoms and media companies.
So yeah, on this issue I'll go with those bastards over the other bastards any day.
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I think the point was that it is weird to be promoting 15cm "nearby" transfer instead of just dropping the device in a little desktop dish (still a wireless solution), gently curved and slippery to help the phone settle at distance of, say, .5cm. This might even be nicer for users - chargers do make it easier to locate your phone.
My questions:
1) any chance of an interoperable standard? Or are we back to the bad old days of pre-microUSB proprietary chargers?
2) what's the power use when there's no phone nearby?
Furthermore, the First Amendment ASSUMES that Rackspace (aka citizens) will discourage hate speech in a democratic, consensus-driven way, so the corruptible government doesn't have to.
By this logic, Cisco also plans to buy The Internet.
Remember that head-scratcher about Cisco going after the iPad with a "business tablet"?
And then remember the ask-Slashdot about how to do a Skype-dedicated device, and the answer was they all kind of blow?
Perhaps that $200 Cisco 7900 phone on your desk might get a little more sexy.
http://tech.slashdot.org/index2.pl?fhfilter=cisco+tablet
Welcome the very, very messed up world of journalism law in the early 21st Century. Tech advances, the law plays catch up.
Your reading list:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libel_tourism
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2010/08/26/speech-act-now-a-law-big-win-for-libel-reform/
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:_V2BY9JufdkJ:immi.is/%3Fl%3Den%26p%3Dvision+immi.is&cd=3&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&client=firefox-a
Are techies now some sort of homogeneous hive mind?
I see you've read The Diamond Age...
Stephenson has argued that techies SHOULD be interested in the past. You're welcome to disagree, but he's not abandoning you. I thought the history of science and technology built into his Baroque Cycle was interesting, and really the only redeeming feature of that very long book.
Execution is everything, as Apple has itself demonstrated many times.
Also, EPUB is not an Apple product. It's an open standard that Apple has adopted somewhat grudgingly. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EPUB
Uh, whoops. That's supposed to read Mom-and-Pops. Mom-on-Pops are an entirely different part of the internet.
They don't have to police the review. They just have to read the sales pitch. The FTC can call a PR firm (based on tips, probably) and say "Hey, I'm at XYZ startup. Can you hook us up with some fake reviews, sans disclosure?" Only one answer to that is legal.
What this will do is smash it as a money maker. Big, legit brands will avoid it. Mom-on-Pop's on Yelp will probably get away with it. The Yelp's of the world, who can make educated guesses about the profile of a fake reviewer (IP address, for one thing), will help police this, with the FTC as the hammer in rare cases.
This is, in the grand scheme, a pretty fair trade.
Per the role playing game tech manuals, the Star Wars "blaster" (the hand weapon) is supposed to be firing a little bloop of highly excited gas/plasma/whatever exiting the gun at high speed. This all holds up pretty well: the visible motion, the light emitted, nearly endless ammo, and why the different guns make different colors. They do however call the big towers "turbolasers" which I blame on Jar-Jar because it makes no sense.
Light sabers, on the other hand, are pretty clearly just cool fucking swords.
Thank you.
Nevermind, I got it. http://caselaw.findlaw.com/us-9th-circuit/1497005.html
Can anyone link me to the actual decision, particularly the apparently barnburning dissent? Why why why can't mainstream media link to primary documents occasionally?
It's a problem because it's not about ideology (which is inherently transparent), it's about power brokers.
Most of the cases in TFA are about Republican primaries... where conservative vs liberal is mostly a non-issue. Instead, readers do look to commenters with a track record to sort out the serious candidates from the celebrities (think Whitman in CA - real or not?). When these commentors go up for auction, and it's done in secret, it's incredibly corrosive to honest discourse. You say you're selling political insight, but you're really selling readers to campaigns.
The readers aren't the customer anymore, they're the product. And damn right they should be upset.
With disclosure: no problem. Without, a scam.
Many teachers get put in tough settings because they are in fact good at their jobs and can handle it. However, they don't get the test scores of their peers. Should they be shamed?
The problem here isn't too much data -- it's not enough. What's the context to these aggregates? What do students and peers say about these teachers? Without this thick description, and partial data can really hurt. These metrics should be deeper. Skip the aggregate class score and instead look at later performance of students, relative to their class on day one. Etc etc etc. Children are not numbers, and reporting them as such leads to some wonky results. And when those are aimed at human beings, then the people pulling the trigger on the story have some responsibility to get it right.
Your metric is dumb. "The teachers unions" get lumped together, but other industries (finance) get treated as individual donors. Wall Street is the biggest campaign contributor. Unions have influence, but don't pretend it rivals the big boys.
People forget that Rosa Parks was hand picked by organizers as a sympathy provoking test case, a role she played brilliantly for decades. Compare that to online freedoms, which are usually tested on child abusers.
They don't have to win to have power. To use a slashdot-grade analogy, holding a gun to your head will influence your behavior even if I never pull the trigger.
Google will lose money some day. And when it does, all kinds of Not Evil stuff will be under assault.
> being publicly available does not mean they don't control the company anymore.
Minority shareholder lawsuit. Google it.
It was Amazon who came up with the stats, who wants 'ebook' to be synonymous with 'Kindle', and thus puts out PR. I am confident that Jane Austin has done pretty well in ebooks over the years, but our economic institutions (and attendant media) do not have tools to value the enjoyment these books bring people. Only books which extract profit from readers are worth counting.
> In this case, since he's dead, there is no one to stop the publishing houses from raping his corpse.
Ironic, given that raping corpses figures prominently in his books. In soviet russia, the books...
In the last days of this congressional session, our elected reps faced two urgent spending requests. One was for ongoing combat in Afghanistan. The other was to keep several thousand public school teachers from being laid off in the fall. One of those got funded.
But, sure, dick around with the grading scale and pretend it'll fix things.
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0710/40137.html
http://www.pe.com/localnews/stories/PE_News_Local_D_teach28.44ac093.html
> This is one of those areas where I WANT the government to intervene.
As rampaging institutions go, in this case the government is a much smaller, more transparent, more containable, more democratic beast than the telecoms and media companies.
So yeah, on this issue I'll go with those bastards over the other bastards any day.
USB port = keyboard?
If so, I'm buying one.