From what I know, the cost of servicing the US debts has long since exceeded the amount garnered from taxing the income of its citizens, and its only getting worse.
Wrong. Total revenues for fiscal 2012 are of the order of $2.6 trillion, total budgeted expenditure is $3.7 trillion, leaving a deficit of $1.1 trillion (figures from Wikipedia). Interest on debt for 2012 is budgeted at $474 billion. It's a sad fact to be spending close to a fifth of income on interest repayments, but then I can imagine there's more than a few families out there shelling out a lot more on repayments for mortgages.
What makes it obvious that they were working on it at the time of app submission? The idea might have been around as a "nice to have", but that doesn't mean it was implemented.
And it's likely that, since this guy had implemented it and submitted it for approval a year ago, the hardware was "powerful enough to support" the feature then. My 3GS is getting the same feature, and that's hardware from 2 years ago now. Given Apple hired the guy who created Mobile Notifier, near enough to identical to the new notifications feature, why not hire the guy who developed this one?
No-one is suggesting (yet) that "Dr. Watson" will replace the primary interaction with a doctor - just that they will be able to describe the symptoms and Watson would suggest what it feels is the most likely diagnosis. This diagnosis, combined with the doctor's own experience and probably wider consultation would give more confidence to pursue a particular course of treatment. It's not as though the computer will be able to take your photo and offer you a print out of what's wrong with you to 2 decimal places.
Oh dear, is there a rule of some sort that if you're correcting someone else's grammar/spelling/(mis-)use of words, you'll get something wrong on your own post?
That there is what you call a "compromise candidate" - the one everyone objects to the least. Surprising though that Google, Microsoft & Yahoo got together on something like this outside the context of an industry group like W3C.
As to your better things to do, go ahead and do them - I assume you're a working web developer, so this really can be viewed as a revenue-generating opportunity. Think of it as a chance to tack an extra "SEO structuring" charge on top. If you're not doing them, I know I will!
How many space-based projects have we seen just this year called "Project Icarus"? It's as though there's no other popularly recognisable legend/myth with a reference to flight, let alone one that represents overreach & hubris as a spectacular failure at the point of apparent success.
Because "CHEAP iPad" and "PAY NOTHING FOR iPhone" will be any better? This isn't going to hit the scammers in any way, and it's not as though current promotions are legitimising those scammers either.
I don't think anyone ever contended that all anime was a cut above western animation - the majority of anime will support an audience beyond the "cartoon" stage, but anime that attracts an older audience only comes along once in a while. If you're 35 in Japan and mention you watch anime regularly, the genre is going to matter - watching the teenage market shows is just as laughable as it would be here, but there are anime that are the equivalent of your evening dramas, cop procedurals etc. They're just harder to find.
Let me put in a +1 for that. I travelled in India and it was a godsend, far cheaper than paying the $20/mb my cell provider was attempting to screw me over with.
The fact that these companies are fighting over this indicates that the issue is indeed a significant market share battle ground. Those who buy these things are those who like to read regularly, for long sessions - otherwise why not just buy the occasional book that never needs charging?
It would frustrate me no end to have to charge it daily, or even more than once a week. As it is, my Kindle needs charging about every two weeks because of the amount of reading I do. The iPad my partner has wouldn't last for more than a day's reading, and so it isn't used for that.
Usually, there's a single bank that provides the POS equipment to process the transactions - you'll see it as the branded card processing machines at the register. This leads to the conclusion that CBA was the POS provider for this particular merchant - the question of their liability could be due to a flaw in their system allowing the data to be compromised.
It's hardly a "study" to begin with, what with it being a whole 6 lines of article, but there's something to be said for the fact that a failure rate above 0 would be considered unacceptable by the person expecting the goods.
That's usually put to a "reasonable person" test if it needs to be challenged in a court - if a "reasonable person" pulled off the street would consider it objectionable on those grounds, it would remain banned. Arbitrary banning would get a lot harder - the reasonable person test has generally been... reasonable (sorry).
The X18+ classification for film is interesting especially since kids can view pornography on-line.
Have you so quickly forgotten the Great Filter of Australia this very same government was planning, not that long ago? Don't tempt them.
Basically all these classifications still don't absolve parents from policing what their child can and cannot watch although reasonable ratings do help parents make informed decisions but unfortunately many parents appear to distance themselves from parenting preferring to let Government and so called moral groups dictate that.
Indeed, and it would be interesting to see what impact this has on the retailers. You won't find the big retailers stocking R18+ movies, so will they take the R18+ games off their shelves? How about downloadable games, which would be legally accessible but practically unenforceable?
I'm not saying an R rating for games shouldn't happen, but you can imagine just what kind of a dog-fight this is going to cause if and when it goes through.
And hey, it gets better: ever heard of Hitwise? Also by Experian. Internet tracking. Their own tagline is "the leading online competitive intelligence service". The amount of data that flows through Experian is huge, and I can only imagine how it can be correlated together.
I was this close to working for those guys, and then I wised up and pulled out of the interview process.
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Relevant link for that interest-on-debt figure: http://www.nytimes.com/packages/html/newsgraphics/2011/0119-budget/index.html
From what I know, the cost of servicing the US debts has long since exceeded the amount garnered from taxing the income of its citizens, and its only getting worse.
Wrong. Total revenues for fiscal 2012 are of the order of $2.6 trillion, total budgeted expenditure is $3.7 trillion, leaving a deficit of $1.1 trillion (figures from Wikipedia). Interest on debt for 2012 is budgeted at $474 billion. It's a sad fact to be spending close to a fifth of income on interest repayments, but then I can imagine there's more than a few families out there shelling out a lot more on repayments for mortgages.
That's what the Xperia Play is for, isn't it?
What makes it obvious that they were working on it at the time of app submission? The idea might have been around as a "nice to have", but that doesn't mean it was implemented.
And it's likely that, since this guy had implemented it and submitted it for approval a year ago, the hardware was "powerful enough to support" the feature then. My 3GS is getting the same feature, and that's hardware from 2 years ago now. Given Apple hired the guy who created Mobile Notifier, near enough to identical to the new notifications feature, why not hire the guy who developed this one?
Err, wrong on that mark - Silverlight runs on a Mac too, and on browsers other than IE. It's a fairly straightforward plugin to install.
(and yes, I recognise that I said what the computer "feels".)
No-one is suggesting (yet) that "Dr. Watson" will replace the primary interaction with a doctor - just that they will be able to describe the symptoms and Watson would suggest what it feels is the most likely diagnosis. This diagnosis, combined with the doctor's own experience and probably wider consultation would give more confidence to pursue a particular course of treatment. It's not as though the computer will be able to take your photo and offer you a print out of what's wrong with you to 2 decimal places.
(even though the entry itself state's that...
Oh dear, is there a rule of some sort that if you're correcting someone else's grammar/spelling/(mis-)use of words, you'll get something wrong on your own post?
(*checks and double-checks before submitting*)
That there is what you call a "compromise candidate" - the one everyone objects to the least. Surprising though that Google, Microsoft & Yahoo got together on something like this outside the context of an industry group like W3C.
As to your better things to do, go ahead and do them - I assume you're a working web developer, so this really can be viewed as a revenue-generating opportunity. Think of it as a chance to tack an extra "SEO structuring" charge on top. If you're not doing them, I know I will!
Because they're not a search engine?
How many space-based projects have we seen just this year called "Project Icarus"? It's as though there's no other popularly recognisable legend/myth with a reference to flight, let alone one that represents overreach & hubris as a spectacular failure at the point of apparent success.
There's a reason those scams work, and it's not because the brand is perceived as low value...
Because "CHEAP iPad" and "PAY NOTHING FOR iPhone" will be any better? This isn't going to hit the scammers in any way, and it's not as though current promotions are legitimising those scammers either.
I don't think anyone ever contended that all anime was a cut above western animation - the majority of anime will support an audience beyond the "cartoon" stage, but anime that attracts an older audience only comes along once in a while. If you're 35 in Japan and mention you watch anime regularly, the genre is going to matter - watching the teenage market shows is just as laughable as it would be here, but there are anime that are the equivalent of your evening dramas, cop procedurals etc. They're just harder to find.
... for about a half hour a day before needing a charge.
(I kid, I kid)
Let me put in a +1 for that. I travelled in India and it was a godsend, far cheaper than paying the $20/mb my cell provider was attempting to screw me over with.
The fact that these companies are fighting over this indicates that the issue is indeed a significant market share battle ground. Those who buy these things are those who like to read regularly, for long sessions - otherwise why not just buy the occasional book that never needs charging?
It would frustrate me no end to have to charge it daily, or even more than once a week. As it is, my Kindle needs charging about every two weeks because of the amount of reading I do. The iPad my partner has wouldn't last for more than a day's reading, and so it isn't used for that.
And the last update from ATC had them going to their waypoint at 48.1516 -23.42 to avoid weather, before turning a heading of 049.
If they'd been given a waypoint of 48.1516, -23.42 they certainly weren't heading for Paris....
Spooky enough though, they were closer to 15.16, -23.42, the Cape Verde Islands.
Usually, there's a single bank that provides the POS equipment to process the transactions - you'll see it as the branded card processing machines at the register. This leads to the conclusion that CBA was the POS provider for this particular merchant - the question of their liability could be due to a flaw in their system allowing the data to be compromised.
It's hardly a "study" to begin with, what with it being a whole 6 lines of article, but there's something to be said for the fact that a failure rate above 0 would be considered unacceptable by the person expecting the goods.
That's usually put to a "reasonable person" test if it needs to be challenged in a court - if a "reasonable person" pulled off the street would consider it objectionable on those grounds, it would remain banned. Arbitrary banning would get a lot harder - the reasonable person test has generally been... reasonable (sorry).
They'll charge half the price of a retail box here? Like they already do?
The X18+ classification for film is interesting especially since kids can view pornography on-line.
Have you so quickly forgotten the Great Filter of Australia this very same government was planning, not that long ago? Don't tempt them.
Basically all these classifications still don't absolve parents from policing what their child can and cannot watch although reasonable ratings do help parents make informed decisions but unfortunately many parents appear to distance themselves from parenting preferring to let Government and so called moral groups dictate that.
Indeed, and it would be interesting to see what impact this has on the retailers. You won't find the big retailers stocking R18+ movies, so will they take the R18+ games off their shelves? How about downloadable games, which would be legally accessible but practically unenforceable?
I'm not saying an R rating for games shouldn't happen, but you can imagine just what kind of a dog-fight this is going to cause if and when it goes through.
And hey, it gets better: ever heard of Hitwise? Also by Experian. Internet tracking. Their own tagline is "the leading online competitive intelligence service". The amount of data that flows through Experian is huge, and I can only imagine how it can be correlated together.
I was this close to working for those guys, and then I wised up and pulled out of the interview process.
It started after his death, apparently proposed on a forum some days after.