Forget EV batteries and autonomous driving. Ferrari understands old-school advanced car tech — basically, they just want to make the thing go ridiculously fast.
What is "old-school advanced car tech"? The original "old-school advanced car tech" was stuff to make cars reliable and serviceable in an environment of poor-quality roads and no service centers. Or maybe the "old-school advanced car tech" that Saab created to make their cars safe. The phrase certainly doesn't equate to making the thing go ridiculously fast in my mind.
Yay! Ferrari made another fast car. But everyone is playing with electronics to do the same kinds of things these days and McLaren road cars probably makes better use of their electronics than most any Ferrari does. As far as advanced car tech, I think Lamborghini's use of carbon and how much weight they have been able to take weight out of their cars is a lot more interesting.
Only naive ideologs argue for "no government regulation" or "no taxation" or "privatize everything". It's a sophomoric position, easy to spew but it doesn't make any kind of sense.
That's nice to know. However, most of the people who I know who describe themselves as libertarian promote some combination of those ideas to me. Should I be telling them that they are not really libertarian?
Well, your one bad experience buying a new model car years ago should certainly keep us all away from buying new items at launch...
I have had a lot of first model year cars and I have found them to be no more likely to have issues than subsequent model years. Actually, of the cars that I collect, I usually prefer first model year cars because they usually have quirky or interesting features that are dropped because they were judged not popular enough or cost-reduced out.
I have a first generation iPad and iPod touch from the initial launches of both products. Other than Apple abandoning iOS support for the products (and recently the battery on the iPod touch), I have had no issues with them.
But, if the rumors hold true, the products that Apple will launch tomorrow are going to evolutions (or devolutions) of products that have been out for years, not truly new products, so I don't understand how your point applies.
It did say, however, that the season pass was valid for all season 5 episodes aired in 2012.
a) It did not say this at the time that I purchased Season 5. It was added later.
b) If you read the text of the suit, you will see that some Apple CSRs told customers would be getting all 16 episodes.
c) Another AMC series, Walking Dead, had a mid-season break and included all of the episodes for the season, before and after the break (which was split across calendar years), as part of the 'Season Pass'.
Uh, wasn't OLPC created to serve third-party countries, not first world countries?
Freudian slip?
No, I have been working with integrating third party software alot at work.
Anyway, it's still focused on technology-poor countries. What they've found is that they can subsidize the devices going to these countries further by selling the same product marked up into technology-rich countries, now that they've got their production line up to high capacity. Everything that goes into them, and the design of the products, is aimed at tech-pooor country feedback; tech-rich countries just have the option of paying extra for a piece of the action without affecting the actual design decisions (much).
I disagree. The XO tablet is a generic Android tablet and, unlike the XO laptop, the hardware is not designed for use where there is no service center. It is a sealed unit that is hard to repair if it breaks and the primary user surface is glass. The laptop was repairable and more robust and rugged than the tablet.
It is hard to tell if the original business plan was workable or not; it ended up being undercut by Wintel who didn't want mass third-world usage of a laptop without a Windows OS or an Intel processor.
Nothing much to add to this except that I love my Nook Simple Touch. I hope that new Nooks expand the capability of the Simple Touch (to make it even better at what it does) and not the Tablet.
Explosive test comes up positive in an airport and you wonder why they react strongly? You truly are a fuckwit.
A few years ago, I got a new computer bag. I flew with it a couple of times, but the first time that the bag was randomly selected for a swab test, it came up positive. I got lots of questions (in the public area). Eventually I had to provide some contact and other information and was allowed on my way. A few flights later, the bag was selected again and came up positive again. Got the same kind of questions and had to complete the same form again. After that I stopped flying with that bag.
I was not interrogated in a private room and I wasn't kept off of the plane by the airline. Then again, I am pasty white and I don't fly Jet Blue.
The cost of college will expand to consume the available student loans, grants and financial aid. This has been true since the invention of student loans.
The cost of college (at a state colleges) here has expanded because "we will cut your taxes" politicians kept getting elected, so the state cut their support of the colleges (20-odd% here from 2006-20011), so the colleges are now getting the money from the students.
Did you even listen to the audio from the meeting? At around 0:50, Mr. Armstrong says "I don't care what the press says. I don't care if people leak information...". He also says that "if you talk to your friends, family, the media,...". That doesn't sound to me like he gave the expectation that it was a confidential meeting.
What seems more likely to me is that Armstrong is in over his head and is flailing about.
My favorite part of the Obama press conference today was when he said that, if Snowden feels that he is a whistleblower, then he is safe because Obama signed the Whistleblower Protection Act and extended protection to the intelligence community. Given the increase in the number of whistleblowers that the Obama administration has gone after, I just had to laugh. And I did.
The Snowden/NSA portion of today's press conference was for people who aren't paying attention to what is going on.
Lord knows where they develop the film, though. (Unless setting up your own darkroom is a hipster fad I've overlooked.)
You don't need a darkroom to develop film and scan it.
What you would need a darkroom for is making prints from your negatives. I have actually never done that.
My darkroom is also called the laundry room. Enlarger and trays fit on top of the washer/dryer and there is a bathroom outside of the room for running water. However, I usually scan my negs anyway.
With BestBuny now hosting Apple stores, Samsung stores, Microsoft stores, and god knows how many more; I'm wondering if there will be any space left for me to just buy the goddamned blu-ray movie and ink cartridge that I came for.
That is what I was wondering. At the local Best Buy, the new Samsung store takes up a bunch of space and displaced a bunch of stuff, squeezing that stuff into a smaller area with less selection now. Doing that again to fit in a Microsoft store means that more stuff is gonna get squeezed and selection reduced and makes it less likely I will go to Best Buy.
"OK, we choose to cut weather forecasting for the northeast, rather than... that $200 million supercomputer to beat out the EU (despite the EU supercomputer being less than half as powerful as our current system while still being more accurate)."
That's odd. Cliff Mass, a well-respected climatologist at University of Washington, expressed concern about deficiencies in the NWS computing resources here and here. He was very positive on the NWS computer upgrades.
But, I guess that you know more about this than he does, right?
I used to commute from Orange Co. (South Coast Plaza area) to around LAX. Going to work, traffic would stop at the LA County border. The start and end of my work day was completely flexible, so I would shift my day in crazy ways (like go in at 4am and leave at 2pm or show work programmer hours).
The intersection where the southern end of the 405 split off from the 5 is called the El Toro Y. The area was called 'El Toro' until 1991 when Lake Forest incorporated as a city.
I'm not required to check to see if the buyer of my car has a license.
One is, at least in this state, required to report information about the buyer and the vehicle to the state within days of the transaction. Even private party transactions. Could we at least get that for guns so that there is a name associated with the gun's serial number? Oh, wait! That could be used to build a gun registry and we can't have that.
How on earth is Google supplying free meals not "for the convenience of the employer"? Having free meals on-site means more employers will stay on-campus, rather than leave the campus for probably lengthier lunch breaks, plus they're more likely to share meals with other employees, discussing work issues. You think Google is giving out free meals out of pure generosity?
Exactly. When I am at the office, I usually don't eat lunch. I am not usually hungry then. But I still go out to lunch with my co-workers.
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Forget EV batteries and autonomous driving. Ferrari understands old-school advanced car tech — basically, they just want to make the thing go ridiculously fast.
What is "old-school advanced car tech"? The original "old-school advanced car tech" was stuff to make cars reliable and serviceable in an environment of poor-quality roads and no service centers. Or maybe the "old-school advanced car tech" that Saab created to make their cars safe. The phrase certainly doesn't equate to making the thing go ridiculously fast in my mind.
Yay! Ferrari made another fast car. But everyone is playing with electronics to do the same kinds of things these days and McLaren road cars probably makes better use of their electronics than most any Ferrari does. As far as advanced car tech, I think Lamborghini's use of carbon and how much weight they have been able to take weight out of their cars is a lot more interesting.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LaFerrari
(2013...top speed, 220 mph)
The LaFerrari? That is Ferrari's hybrid.
Only naive ideologs argue for "no government regulation" or "no taxation" or "privatize everything". It's a sophomoric position, easy to spew but it doesn't make any kind of sense.
That's nice to know. However, most of the people who I know who describe themselves as libertarian promote some combination of those ideas to me. Should I be telling them that they are not really libertarian?
Well, your one bad experience buying a new model car years ago should certainly keep us all away from buying new items at launch ...
I have had a lot of first model year cars and I have found them to be no more likely to have issues than subsequent model years. Actually, of the cars that I collect, I usually prefer first model year cars because they usually have quirky or interesting features that are dropped because they were judged not popular enough or cost-reduced out.
I have a first generation iPad and iPod touch from the initial launches of both products. Other than Apple abandoning iOS support for the products (and recently the battery on the iPod touch), I have had no issues with them.
But, if the rumors hold true, the products that Apple will launch tomorrow are going to evolutions (or devolutions) of products that have been out for years, not truly new products, so I don't understand how your point applies.
It did say, however, that the season pass was valid for all season 5 episodes aired in 2012.
a) It did not say this at the time that I purchased Season 5. It was added later.
b) If you read the text of the suit, you will see that some Apple CSRs told customers would be getting all 16 episodes.
c) Another AMC series, Walking Dead, had a mid-season break and included all of the episodes for the season, before and after the break (which was split across calendar years), as part of the 'Season Pass'.
Are seriously comparing systems that are almost 20 year old and trying to make claims about modern systems based on that comparison?
Or is this a message from the past?
See http://arresteddevelopment.wikia.com/wiki/G.O.B.
Uh, wasn't OLPC created to serve third-party countries, not first world countries?
Freudian slip?
No, I have been working with integrating third party software alot at work.
Anyway, it's still focused on technology-poor countries. What they've found is that they can subsidize the devices going to these countries further by selling the same product marked up into technology-rich countries, now that they've got their production line up to high capacity. Everything that goes into them, and the design of the products, is aimed at tech-pooor country feedback; tech-rich countries just have the option of paying extra for a piece of the action without affecting the actual design decisions (much).
I disagree. The XO tablet is a generic Android tablet and, unlike the XO laptop, the hardware is not designed for use where there is no service center. It is a sealed unit that is hard to repair if it breaks and the primary user surface is glass. The laptop was repairable and more robust and rugged than the tablet.
It is hard to tell if the original business plan was workable or not; it ended up being undercut by Wintel who didn't want mass third-world usage of a laptop without a Windows OS or an Intel processor.
Uh, wasn't OLPC created to serve third-party countries, not first world countries?
Nothing much to add to this except that I love my Nook Simple Touch. I hope that new Nooks expand the capability of the Simple Touch (to make it even better at what it does) and not the Tablet.
Explosive test comes up positive in an airport and you wonder why they react strongly? You truly are a fuckwit.
A few years ago, I got a new computer bag. I flew with it a couple of times, but the first time that the bag was randomly selected for a swab test, it came up positive. I got lots of questions (in the public area). Eventually I had to provide some contact and other information and was allowed on my way. A few flights later, the bag was selected again and came up positive again. Got the same kind of questions and had to complete the same form again. After that I stopped flying with that bag.
I was not interrogated in a private room and I wasn't kept off of the plane by the airline. Then again, I am pasty white and I don't fly Jet Blue.
The cost of college will expand to consume the available student loans, grants and financial aid. This has been true since the invention of student loans.
The cost of college (at a state colleges) here has expanded because "we will cut your taxes" politicians kept getting elected, so the state cut their support of the colleges (20-odd% here from 2006-20011), so the colleges are now getting the money from the students.
Did you even listen to the audio from the meeting? At around 0:50, Mr. Armstrong says "I don't care what the press says. I don't care if people leak information ...". He also says that "if you talk to your friends, family, the media, ...". That doesn't sound to me like he gave the expectation that it was a confidential meeting.
What seems more likely to me is that Armstrong is in over his head and is flailing about.
My favorite part of the Obama press conference today was when he said that, if Snowden feels that he is a whistleblower, then he is safe because Obama signed the Whistleblower Protection Act and extended protection to the intelligence community. Given the increase in the number of whistleblowers that the Obama administration has gone after, I just had to laugh. And I did.
The Snowden/NSA portion of today's press conference was for people who aren't paying attention to what is going on.
Where are mod points when I need them?
Lord knows where they develop the film, though. (Unless setting up your own darkroom is a hipster fad I've overlooked.)
You don't need a darkroom to develop film and scan it.
What you would need a darkroom for is making prints from your negatives. I have actually never done that.
My darkroom is also called the laundry room. Enlarger and trays fit on top of the washer/dryer and there is a bathroom outside of the room for running water. However, I usually scan my negs anyway.
With BestBuny now hosting Apple stores, Samsung stores, Microsoft stores, and god knows how many more; I'm wondering if there will be any space left for me to just buy the goddamned blu-ray movie and ink cartridge that I came for.
That is what I was wondering. At the local Best Buy, the new Samsung store takes up a bunch of space and displaced a bunch of stuff, squeezing that stuff into a smaller area with less selection now. Doing that again to fit in a Microsoft store means that more stuff is gonna get squeezed and selection reduced and makes it less likely I will go to Best Buy.
"OK, we choose to cut weather forecasting for the northeast, rather than ... that $200 million supercomputer to beat out the EU (despite the EU supercomputer being less than half as powerful as our current system while still being more accurate)."
That's odd. Cliff Mass, a well-respected climatologist at University of Washington, expressed concern about deficiencies in the NWS computing resources here and here. He was very positive on the NWS computer upgrades.
But, I guess that you know more about this than he does, right?
Mine is up as well. No sign that there was a problem today.
I used to commute from Orange Co. (South Coast Plaza area) to around LAX. Going to work, traffic would stop at the LA County border. The start and end of my work day was completely flexible, so I would shift my day in crazy ways (like go in at 4am and leave at 2pm or show work programmer hours).
Actually I think it's spelled Lake Forest.
The intersection where the southern end of the 405 split off from the 5 is called the El Toro Y. The area was called 'El Toro' until 1991 when Lake Forest incorporated as a city.
I'm not required to check to see if the buyer of my car has a license.
One is, at least in this state, required to report information about the buyer and the vehicle to the state within days of the transaction. Even private party transactions. Could we at least get that for guns so that there is a name associated with the gun's serial number? Oh, wait! That could be used to build a gun registry and we can't have that.
An odd collection, but ...
Wired
Vanity Fair
Rolling Stone
Sports & Exotic Cars
Thoroughbred & Classic Cars (and other UK collector car magazines)
How on earth is Google supplying free meals not "for the convenience of the employer"? Having free meals on-site means more employers will stay on-campus, rather than leave the campus for probably lengthier lunch breaks, plus they're more likely to share meals with other employees, discussing work issues. You think Google is giving out free meals out of pure generosity?
Exactly. When I am at the office, I usually don't eat lunch. I am not usually hungry then. But I still go out to lunch with my co-workers.