No no no! This is Windows 9, not Server 2015. Server 2015 will still maintain the Modern interface and force you to use the start screen.
Your rumors are stale, Mr. Coward. From what I hear, Microsoft plans to integrate Kinect technology into Server 2015 as user testing has shown many data center workers have been using "hand gestures" when attempting to work with the Metro interface.
Except that parallel construction to circumvent the 4th would likely result in dismissal with prejudice, and possibly prosecution of the offending party, were it discovered. Ethics portion of basic criminal law course.
How do you prove it's actually parallelly constructed? Sounds like a hell of a thing to prove, especially considering how un-auditable the police consider themselves to be (see earlier story about Mass. SWAT teams claiming they're privatized so have no oversight).
Tell them repeatedly and ad nauseum that you do not consent to the search; object loudly and often, and make sure your attorney hears about it. Anything they uncover will be inadmissible. If you're extremely lucky, your cell phone will contain the only incriminating evidence, and you can walk away on a technicality.
The illegal phone search could support the original "hidden" search, while another team/person on the LEO side is building a "plausible, legal reasoning" that you or someone connected to you is guilty of some crime.
In Germany citizens and co-ops own about half of the solar capacity. So it is the average tax payer who both pays for and benefits from the subsides. It represents a real democratization of the energy market. "Not only has energy production in Germany been pried from the hands of the “Big Four,” namely the four utility giants that had dominated the German energy market, but it is now also radically decentralized."
Are the anti-solar folks just complete f*cking tools for big coal/utilites? Energy independence is a very real very powerful thing and will only become more important in the future as we go past peak oil and energy needs increase.
Props to Germany for empowering their citizenry to supply their own power.
Electric cars are superior to Fuel Cells in every possible way. They are the present and future of transportation.
I couldn't have said it better. Fuel cells are much of a roadbump in the long drive of automotive technology development as are 3D TVs for home entertainment (i.e., not quite as bad as DIVX, but ultimately not mainstream usable). The manufacture and distribution of hydrogen alone is a herculean task let alone the fact that it would require changes to an entrenched distribution network of gas/diesel.
It seems to me that if a reasonable interpretation of a law leads to negative unintended consequences, it then becomes the legislative branch's duty to rectify it
The legislative branch has lately seemed to ignore likely "negative unintended consequences" if a vocal minority with a disproportionate amount of campaign money supports a bill.
To take it a step further - it seems as if those negative consequences are not at all unintended and designed simply to throw a wrench in the works. No refinement here, no distillation of legal intent - the extremists in Congress are very interested in putting sugar in the gas tank of American society.
Think I'm kidding? How about that oh-so-convenient-but-WTF case where a witness to a case concerning the *legality of the No Fly List* was put on the No Fly list while the DOJ lied about the facts about the blocking, delaying her testimony [1].
The corruption in Washington has been festering for at least a dozen years. Forget Skynet - this is the dystopian menace that is going to ruin our world.
Perhaps you forgot to take into consideration the speed of light through fiber is less than c?
And the speed of light over Verizon fiber will vary based on whether it's sending Netflix photons or not.
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... it's just the way people use it.
Perl was designed as a powerful, flexible, loosely typed scripting language for munging text files and streams, and that's exactly what it is.
Perhaps it's not Perl that died, but the philosophy of Perl - the need for a *wicked fast* scripting language to code up 1-100 lines of code gluing together entire systems. The philosophy of which is power, speed, massive flexibility (very very loosely typed language, you could demo complex data structure creation on the fly using the REPL) which empowered the lone programmer, not the IT department or enterprise software firm.
The diminishing of Perl is indicative of the wild wild web being tamed, and the Internet corporatized. A sad thing, but definitely predictable. I still use Perl once in a while (I'd say once or twice a year for a new compact script), but I never really share those scripts.
Large organizations will consistently fail to hire/staff competent people for data security related issues, and will push back on fines or punitive findings by criminalizing publicizing their incompetence.
Thus sending all such talent straight to criminals who'll be happy to reward them with hard cash.
"While supplies last." That's the funniest thing I've heard all day.
That's not supplies of Surface Pro 3 which is likely infinite for all intents and purposes, but supplies of "goodwill" from the "benevolent corporate ruler" Microsoft. After all, it takes goodwill to buy a competitor's product - even if it is at a significant discount and even if it is only for credits towards purchase of your own product.
This site is about as social as i normally get. I had to turn the advertising off because it started throwing pop up in new windows.
The hope, I think, for advertisers and their customers, was that social media users were as gullible and low-info like TV watchers. The problem they ignore is that the web is simply not designed for ads nearly as well as TV (though TiVO/DVR revolution is almost analogous to ad-block in it's dampening of ad spots), and the social media user base isn't nearly as comfortable with being spammed as TV users.
Part of me wonders whether advertising actually works, or is simply a formalized form of hidden bribery (i.e., ad company that has numerous large accounts simply paves the way for customers to work towards common goals anonymously). Of course, no one went broke overestimating the stupidity of people in large numbers.
Of course, so was MacWorld and the like. Anyone remember what a big deal HotWired was back in the mid nineties? Gladly, we can kill online ads through ad blockers so the revenue stream for such a magazine doesn't support it as a sustainable "business".
Any meaningful insight comes straight from important folks' blogs, tweets and mouths at conferences. Discussion or editorials are done at places like/. , Reddit or HN. Internet successfully disintermediates yet another "market" and everyone benefits.
4K displays @ 60Hz with Retina pixel doubling = fantastic coding display [1] Of course, I don't have this at work - I have two separate 24" monitors but my spend most of my time on my 15" retina screen.
As in why anyone would want a smartphone from Amazon.
I can easily see why amazon would like to add to it's monopoly.
The real question is can it offer ANY advantage to us for using it's hardware? If it can't, then they should give away an app, not try to sell us hardware.
For me, I can't think of anything they can do for me with hardware that they can't do with software.
Why would Amazon want a tablet? Perhaps for the same reason that Microsoft wants Azure? Everything is converging to phone/tablet/laptop combined with branded could services to support the basics (email, calendar, music, video, shopping, app store...), so Amazon is just doing what it feels is necessary to keep up with the Joneses.
Either Apple was very prescient or just lucky to have gotten there first?
I just purchased an 8-core THL w200s from Amazon for 200.00 bucks and Prime shipping. If they preloaded this phone with the Amazon App Store and marketed the hell out of it, they could sell the crap out of these phones for 200.00 bucks a pop. A similar American phone would sell in the 500.00 - 600.00 range.
And that is exactly how they could make a big splash in the Smartphone Market. A kick-butt phone in the 200.00 to sub-200.00 price range...
There is no way that being tied to AT&T will allow them to hit the $200 price point without a dreaded 2 year subscription (when the unsubsidized price hits $500-600) AT&T don't roll like that - that's what their off-brand MVNO is for (Go Phone, etc).
By the by, quality is the degree to which a deliverable satisfies requirements. A car that falls apart after 5 years isn't any higher quality than a car that runs for 50 years, if you're going to replace either in 5 years anyway. If the former is much cheaper to own and maintain for the first 5 years than the latter, then the former is of higher quality; if the latter is cheaper to own and maintain, then the latter is over-engineered and can be stripped back to last 5 years and cost much less, better satisfying quality requirements.
By ignoring resale value, your numbers are completely divorced from reality and lead to irrational conclusions.
t's also why the Prius would get about 40mpg even if it had no hybrid features. If Toyota sold that car, they'd really corner the market, as it would have a better ROI than the hybrid Prius, and wouldn't have any risk about battery replacement (which isn't always covered by warranty).
Why not look it up before spouting untruths? By default Toyota gives you 8 years warranty on the hybrid battery. In CA and other states you get 10.
Regarding the mileage, I truly doubt you'd get 40mpg city with no hybrid drivetrain... more like 30. And I get 50-55mpg highway, not 40. I get closer to 60 if there's a lot of traffic for many commute days (stop/go is a lot like city driving).
It's amazing how many folks spout on about cars and technology they know nothing about.
If I was in the market for a new car, I think by far I'd go for something Tesla.
If you can afford one, go for it. I'd do the same, but then again, I have a 10 year old Prius that's going fine (got a high-voltage battery replacement just last week - but that's covered under my state-mandated 10 year warranty) - cost to upgrade - $75k+, cost to keep my 50+mpg car? close to zero.
Now if I could buy an EV or hybrid minivan (none of this Prius V bullshit, Toyota - you sell the Hybrid Estima in Japan, why not here!?!) - I'd buy one in a heartbeat and replace my Prius.
btw, If you're complaint about the Prius appearance - what's the drag coefficient of your car? Is it as good as my 10 year old Prius? 'Cause that's why it looks like it does - it's part of it's design elegance.
Actually, there is a good online one-stop-shop available: Google (other search engines are available). If I want a book, DVD or pretty much anything else I Google to see who has it available and at what price. If Amazon don't, hey, I probably won't even notice; I'll be busy comparing price and delivery options for the companies that do.
Even better - get same-day delivery if you happen to be in a GSX market. Even more limited supply than Amazon, but same-day has resulted in some pretty awesome results when it comes to almost-forgotten last-minute birthday/anniversary gifts:)
Largely I think publishers just don't give a fuck about quality anymore. If I judged publishers solely by the piss-poor print-to-e-book conversion jobs they've been doing I have to say they're fucking worthless. I'm reading one book right now on my kindle that makes it painfully clear no one at Bantam bothered to even edit the e-book format. There are so many word fuckups from the OCR process it's not even funny.
Is it the case that the original publisher is also doing the e-book? I know sometimes authors retain rights to the e-book that the publisher doesn't get, and they may have chosen a bad e-book publishing model.
Looks like Google is doubling down on making it harder for you to stay private. Classy move, Google. You make it easier for me to avoid recommending the Play store and Android altogether.
Personally, I look forward with glee to the day when Glass IS build into prescription glasses, some business discriminates against them, and said business is crushed under the ADA. Unfortunately, it does increasingly look like that may be what it takes to finally slap this particular platoon in the luddite brigade down.
Be careful what you wish for. You may not like the result. Using the ADA to further the Google panopticon? I've heard of more ridiculous, but it's not Glass that the ADA is protecting, but the prescription lenses. Maybe the solution is not to bind the two together.
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No no no! This is Windows 9, not Server 2015. Server 2015 will still maintain the Modern interface and force you to use the start screen.
Your rumors are stale, Mr. Coward. From what I hear, Microsoft plans to integrate Kinect technology into Server 2015 as user testing has shown many data center workers have been using "hand gestures" when attempting to work with the Metro interface.
Except that parallel construction to circumvent the 4th would likely result in dismissal with prejudice, and possibly prosecution of the offending party, were it discovered. Ethics portion of basic criminal law course.
How do you prove it's actually parallelly constructed? Sounds like a hell of a thing to prove, especially considering how un-auditable the police consider themselves to be (see earlier story about Mass. SWAT teams claiming they're privatized so have no oversight).
Tell them repeatedly and ad nauseum that you do not consent to the search; object loudly and often, and make sure your attorney hears about it. Anything they uncover will be inadmissible. If you're extremely lucky, your cell phone will contain the only incriminating evidence, and you can walk away on a technicality.
The illegal phone search could support the original "hidden" search, while another team/person on the LEO side is building a "plausible, legal reasoning" that you or someone connected to you is guilty of some crime.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P...
> We can drop nukes in tornadoes too for much less, not that I'm advocating that either.
But MAN.... that'd be cool to watch. From a safe distance.
Ripley recommends from orbit.
In Germany citizens and co-ops own about half of the solar capacity. So it is the average tax payer who both pays for and benefits from the subsides. It represents a real democratization of the energy market. "Not only has energy production in Germany been pried from the hands of the “Big Four,” namely the four utility giants that had dominated the German energy market, but it is now also radically decentralized."
Are the anti-solar folks just complete f*cking tools for big coal/utilites? Energy independence is a very real very powerful thing and will only become more important in the future as we go past peak oil and energy needs increase.
Props to Germany for empowering their citizenry to supply their own power.
Electric cars are superior to Fuel Cells in every possible way. They are the present and future of transportation.
I couldn't have said it better. Fuel cells are much of a roadbump in the long drive of automotive technology development as are 3D TVs for home entertainment (i.e., not quite as bad as DIVX, but ultimately not mainstream usable). The manufacture and distribution of hydrogen alone is a herculean task let alone the fact that it would require changes to an entrenched distribution network of gas/diesel.
It seems to me that if a reasonable interpretation of a law leads to negative unintended consequences, it then becomes the legislative branch's duty to rectify it
The legislative branch has lately seemed to ignore likely "negative unintended consequences" if a vocal minority with a disproportionate amount of campaign money supports a bill.
To take it a step further - it seems as if those negative consequences are not at all unintended and designed simply to throw a wrench in the works. No refinement here, no distillation of legal intent - the extremists in Congress are very interested in putting sugar in the gas tank of American society.
Judge Anna Brown
Think I'm kidding? How about that oh-so-convenient-but-WTF case where a witness to a case concerning the *legality of the No Fly List* was put on the No Fly list while the DOJ lied about the facts about the blocking, delaying her testimony [1].
The corruption in Washington has been festering for at least a dozen years. Forget Skynet - this is the dystopian menace that is going to ruin our world.
[1] https://www.techdirt.com/artic...
Perhaps you forgot to take into consideration the speed of light through fiber is less than c?
And the speed of light over Verizon fiber will vary based on whether it's sending Netflix photons or not.
... it's just the way people use it.
Perl was designed as a powerful, flexible, loosely typed scripting language for munging text files and streams, and that's exactly what it is.
Perhaps it's not Perl that died, but the philosophy of Perl - the need for a *wicked fast* scripting language to code up 1-100 lines of code gluing together entire systems. The philosophy of which is power, speed, massive flexibility (very very loosely typed language, you could demo complex data structure creation on the fly using the REPL) which empowered the lone programmer, not the IT department or enterprise software firm.
The diminishing of Perl is indicative of the wild wild web being tamed, and the Internet corporatized. A sad thing, but definitely predictable. I still use Perl once in a while (I'd say once or twice a year for a new compact script), but I never really share those scripts.
Large organizations will consistently fail to hire/staff competent people for data security related issues, and will push back on fines or punitive findings by criminalizing publicizing their incompetence.
Thus sending all such talent straight to criminals who'll be happy to reward them with hard cash.
It's like these guys _want_ a dystopian future.
"While supplies last." That's the funniest thing I've heard all day.
That's not supplies of Surface Pro 3 which is likely infinite for all intents and purposes, but supplies of "goodwill" from the "benevolent corporate ruler" Microsoft. After all, it takes goodwill to buy a competitor's product - even if it is at a significant discount and even if it is only for credits towards purchase of your own product.
This site is about as social as i normally get. I had to turn the advertising off because it started throwing pop up in new windows.
The hope, I think, for advertisers and their customers, was that social media users were as gullible and low-info like TV watchers.
The problem they ignore is that the web is simply not designed for ads nearly as well as TV (though TiVO/DVR revolution is almost analogous to ad-block in it's dampening of ad spots), and the social media user base isn't nearly as comfortable with being spammed as TV users.
Part of me wonders whether advertising actually works, or is simply a formalized form of hidden bribery (i.e., ad company that has numerous large accounts simply paves the way for customers to work towards common goals anonymously). Of course, no one went broke overestimating the stupidity of people in large numbers.
Of course, so was MacWorld and the like. Anyone remember what a big deal HotWired was back in the mid nineties?
Gladly, we can kill online ads through ad blockers so the revenue stream for such a magazine doesn't support it as a sustainable "business".
Any meaningful insight comes straight from important folks' blogs, tweets and mouths at conferences. Discussion or editorials are done at places like /. , Reddit or HN. Internet successfully disintermediates yet another "market" and everyone benefits.
I wish I didn't wait through the advert just to hear the guy speak. What's the point of a video of a vehicle that's not moving?
4K displays @ 60Hz with Retina pixel doubling = fantastic coding display [1]
Of course, I don't have this at work - I have two separate 24" monitors but my spend most of my time on my 15" retina screen.
[1] http://support.apple.com/kb/ht...
As in why anyone would want a smartphone from Amazon.
I can easily see why amazon would like to add to it's monopoly.
The real question is can it offer ANY advantage to us for using it's hardware? If it can't, then they should give away an app, not try to sell us hardware.
For me, I can't think of anything they can do for me with hardware that they can't do with software.
Why would Amazon want a tablet? Perhaps for the same reason that Microsoft wants Azure? Everything is converging to phone/tablet/laptop combined with branded could services to support the basics (email, calendar, music, video, shopping, app store...), so Amazon is just doing what it feels is necessary to keep up with the Joneses.
Either Apple was very prescient or just lucky to have gotten there first?
I just purchased an 8-core THL w200s from Amazon for 200.00 bucks and Prime shipping. If they preloaded this phone with the Amazon App Store and marketed the hell out of it, they could sell the crap out of these phones for 200.00 bucks a pop. A similar American phone would sell in the 500.00 - 600.00 range.
And that is exactly how they could make a big splash in the Smartphone Market. A kick-butt phone in the 200.00 to sub-200.00 price range...
There is no way that being tied to AT&T will allow them to hit the $200 price point without a dreaded 2 year subscription (when the unsubsidized price hits $500-600) AT&T don't roll like that - that's what their off-brand MVNO is for (Go Phone, etc).
By the by, quality is the degree to which a deliverable satisfies requirements. A car that falls apart after 5 years isn't any higher quality than a car that runs for 50 years, if you're going to replace either in 5 years anyway. If the former is much cheaper to own and maintain for the first 5 years than the latter, then the former is of higher quality; if the latter is cheaper to own and maintain, then the latter is over-engineered and can be stripped back to last 5 years and cost much less, better satisfying quality requirements.
By ignoring resale value, your numbers are completely divorced from reality and lead to irrational conclusions.
t's also why the Prius would get about 40mpg even if it had no hybrid features. If Toyota sold that car, they'd really corner the market, as it would have a better ROI than the hybrid Prius, and wouldn't have any risk about battery replacement (which isn't always covered by warranty).
Why not look it up before spouting untruths? By default Toyota gives you 8 years warranty on the hybrid battery. In CA and other states you get 10.
Regarding the mileage, I truly doubt you'd get 40mpg city with no hybrid drivetrain... more like 30. And I get 50-55mpg highway, not 40. I get closer to 60 if there's a lot of traffic for many commute days (stop/go is a lot like city driving).
It's amazing how many folks spout on about cars and technology they know nothing about.
If I was in the market for a new car, I think by far I'd go for something Tesla.
If you can afford one, go for it. I'd do the same, but then again, I have a 10 year old Prius that's going fine (got a high-voltage battery replacement just last week - but that's covered under my state-mandated 10 year warranty) - cost to upgrade - $75k+, cost to keep my 50+mpg car? close to zero.
Now if I could buy an EV or hybrid minivan (none of this Prius V bullshit, Toyota - you sell the Hybrid Estima in Japan, why not here!?!) - I'd buy one in a heartbeat and replace my Prius.
btw, If you're complaint about the Prius appearance - what's the drag coefficient of your car? Is it as good as my 10 year old Prius? 'Cause that's why it looks like it does - it's part of it's design elegance.
Actually, there is a good online one-stop-shop available: Google (other search engines are available). If I want a book, DVD or pretty much anything else I Google to see who has it available and at what price. If Amazon don't, hey, I probably won't even notice; I'll be busy comparing price and delivery options for the companies that do.
Even better - get same-day delivery if you happen to be in a GSX market. Even more limited supply than Amazon, but same-day has resulted in some pretty awesome results when it comes to almost-forgotten last-minute birthday/anniversary gifts :)
Largely I think publishers just don't give a fuck about quality anymore. If I judged publishers solely by the piss-poor print-to-e-book conversion jobs they've been doing I have to say they're fucking worthless. I'm reading one book right now on my kindle that makes it painfully clear no one at Bantam bothered to even edit the e-book format. There are so many word fuckups from the OCR process it's not even funny.
Is it the case that the original publisher is also doing the e-book? I know sometimes authors retain rights to the e-book that the publisher doesn't get, and they may have chosen a bad e-book publishing model.
Looks like Google is doubling down on making it harder for you to stay private. Classy move, Google. You make it easier for me to avoid recommending the Play store and Android altogether.
Personally, I look forward with glee to the day when Glass IS build into prescription glasses, some business discriminates against them, and said business is crushed under the ADA. Unfortunately, it does increasingly look like that may be what it takes to finally slap this particular platoon in the luddite brigade down.
Be careful what you wish for. You may not like the result. Using the ADA to further the Google panopticon? I've heard of more ridiculous, but it's not Glass that the ADA is protecting, but the prescription lenses. Maybe the solution is not to bind the two together.