2. People especially don't like to move someplace far away.
3. People especially especially don't like to move someplace far away in another country.
4. People especially especially especially don't like to move someplace far away in another country where they don't speak the language and they have a completely different cuisine and culture.
5. People especially especially especially especially don't like to move someplace far away in another country where they don't speak the language and they have a completely different cuisine and culture.and where you have to live in a tiny apartment in an overcrowded city with really bad air pollution.
To me, that seems like that should be enough reasons. But okay, sure:
6. People especially especially especially especially especially don't like to move someplace far away in another country where they don't speak the language and they have a completely different cuisine and culture.and where you have to live in a tiny apartment in an overcrowded city with really bad air pollution AND the government won't let you go to all the internet sites you might want to.
7. People especially especially especially especially especially especially don't like to move someplace far away in another country where they don't speak the language and they have a completely different cuisine and culture.and where you have to live in a tiny apartment in an overcrowded city with really bad air pollution AND the government won't let you go to all the internet sites you might want to AND you can get thrown in Jail for no reason at all and left to rot until you die...
I know you don't own a Surface. So just stop it already. The Surface is actually a pretty good piece of hardware - I didn't say it sucked. I just said they haven't sold any.
Well, I have a surface Pro 4... So they sold at least one...
I used it this weekend to draw out plans and write down measurements for putting my TV on the wall in One Note. I love the stylus and One Note. It's easier than pen and paper and I have a copy of it for future reference. I also use it at work for taking notes and when I am traveling as my portable computer. It reduced the weight in my travel backpack by about 2lbs.
The one problem that I do have with it is that while the Stylus is magnetic and sticks to the side, it's not strong enough. Just the movement of carrying it in my work backpack causes it to release and drop to the bottom of my bag.
I'm pretty sure Belichick has a 30-40 point IQ advantage over you.
So, yeah. I'd trust Belichick's opinion over yours any day of the week.
Belichick prefers paper because it doesn't have the glitches that can happen with computers.
Given the NFL's track record with getting wireless headsets right, what makes you think that the problem is the Surface Pro itself and not just the underlying wireless service and/or the software that they are using?
But hey Belichick is smart, so he must be a computer, wireless, and software expert and knows exactly where the problem lies... right...
This kind of tech has been around since the invention of the multifunction hot beverage machine. It grinds beans, steeps coffee, blends creamer and such to the users specification. theres not much special about extending this to fast food. mcdonalds has had pilot instances of french fry machines for more than a decade now.
the trouble with these machines comes when capitalism rears its ugly head. hot beverage machines become brake-dust dispensers as the drive for profit leads to borderline rancid beans sourced from auction in a 50lb hopper. in the 21st century i cant think of a single person that would stuff 60 cents into one of these and expect a decent cup of black coffee (the arguable standard by which such a machine is judged to make other beverages.) Pretty soon ingredients like cheese are replaced with cheese topping, and other ingredients become dehydrated synonyms of their original embodiment. Automation of fast food is an excellent idea, so long as silicon valley understands that doing so further enables companies to cut costs and corners, ultimately delivering a mediocre product from an almost bankrupt franchise. McDonalds is the meat-space embodiment of this capitalism-until-death model, with kiosks to place orders and automatic fry droppers and ten pound caulk guns filled with toppings shipped four thousand miles across the country. Maybe companies will realize customers dont embrace automation if the machine is flipping garbage, but the continued existence of the 'hot beverage' machine in my companies breakroom seems to suggest companies dont give a shit what customers want in an automated form factor.
And this is the first step towards every restaurant being a Taco Bell.... (grin)
Though Cherry Cobbler IS fully enclosed in pastry, and isn't a "pie"....
Pumpkin pie and, incidentally, sweet potato pie I would not consider pies... simply because I don't like either... (grin)
My favorite is lemon meringue pie. I would argue that anything with meringue on top is considered a pie because the meringue is the top to the pie in place of the crust. Some would argue that this is a tarte, but tartes tend not to have meringue on the top, they just have the filling. Though meringue can be used as a filling for tartes...
If they included a copy of the Bluray or movie download when released for sale, it might be worth it. But not for a rental. For a rental I would be willing to pay no more than the movie theater price, about $10 to $15.
I just realized they they are trying to make up revenue from the loss of at least 3 movie tickets (i.e. 2 adults and a child). So $25 to $35 wouldn't be that bad for a family. I do think that $50 would be too much, though.
If they included a copy of the Bluray or movie download when released for sale, it might be worth it. But not for a rental. For a rental I would be willing to pay no more than the movie theater price, about $10 to $15.
I'm still not sure if the submitter was being serious when they created the petition.
Nope... but I do remember the petition to release the DLCs for Skyrim for the PS3. Bethesda, at the time, said that the PS3 wasn't powerful enough. I ended up having to buy the PC version of Skyrim and migrate my save games to the PC. Of course, going from the PS3 to a PC with a GTX 970 made a big difference in graphics and load times.
This experience reminded me of the limitations of consoles. It didn't stop me from upgrading to a PS4, but it did remind me why I use my desktop as my main gaming rig.
It still seems to be a bad thing, or a less worse thing if you are Samsung.
This is the case where Samsung was found guilty of infringing on Apple's patents for look and feel. In my opinion, some of the rulings went beyond what a reasonable person with basic technology understanding would find infringing. In that sense, it's still a bad thing.
From Samsung's perspective it's a less bad thing. It means that they can argue that they should be paying fractions of what they were ordered to pay in the first place because the full value of the product is not directly tied to what was found to be infringing. There will now be another 2 year battle arguing the exact value that these components adds to the overall product.
FYI: I am not a lawyer. The above are personal opinions.
During a keynote Cook showed a slide listing the top revenue generating watch companies - this was based on a table that was published elsewhere.
Cook then showed the total revenue generated by the Apple watch (his was v1) being 2nd only to Rolex, which sells between 500K and 1 Million luxury watches per year.
Well, haters say the Apple Watch is a flop. I don't know, I think I wouldn't mind flopping with that level of revenue...
Yet again, there is this thing called data that is missing from the slide.
For example, in addition to actual watch sales, they may have included watch apps, accessories, etc. We also don't know if this is actual end user retail sales or if it includes inventory (accounting tricks). We don't know whether this trend continued or if the sales chart looked like a hockey stick after the first year (i.e. high sales for the shiny new product and then a huge drop).
That's the problem with how Apple presents it's financial information. There is a bit of fog that doesn't allow an investor to assess just how well certain product lines are doing. From other articles, I get a sense that most refer to how well Apple suppliers are doing as a gauge rather than just relying on the Apple hype.
I havent watched anything on netflix in weeks precisely because I cant find anything with any quality or depth.
Am strongly considering cancelling my subscription.
I dropped my Netflix subscription three years ago when they stopped getting new movies (dropped contracts with major movie studios). I enjoy movies and have no interest in watching old TV series.
This study is poor. They are evaluating their current customer base. The problem with this is that the majority of movie fans have already left the service. What this means is that the majority using it today do so to watch TV shows and original content. The only reason why they use Netflix for movies is simply convenience.
In other words, it shows Netflix who their current customers are but not the potential market. It's like Tesla saying that trucks are not needed beause all of their customers drive cars...
The summary has the names (or it does now, anyway) but not the numbers or the symbols, which would have been nice to include. Would've been good to include some etymology as well.
Google is your friend... In any case, here is a better link with the numbers, symbols, and etymology...
There's got to be more to it than that. Something else has to be in there to provide the peculiar sour flavor notes and the mealy texture.
That's the one thing that I noticed when I moved to the US from Canada, the American chocolate is basically candy, it isn't chocolate. When I go home for Christmas I bring chocolates back with me. If I don't my co-workers become an extremely unhappy bunch...
It's cool to read about this stuff, but as I lack the multiple PhDs to really follow the physics, I'm afraid my brute need is to know when to buy. Everybody wants to avoid buying the next Betamax or HD-DVD, obviously, but also you want to not buy in just as the price drops below $3000...and also shortly before it crashes to $999.
I managed to hold off buying a large flatscreen until 1080p was standard, at least (remember the nail-biter of choosing between 720p and 1080i ?) and feel very smart to have grabbed one of the last plasma sets before LCDs more-or-less pushed them off the market; everybody comments on the superior colour. That's not near to wearing out yet at 5 years, so I'm in no hurry to jump ship until I get even better colour, resolution, and anything else they're cooking up.
This may be the Next Big Thing, but it's become a hard call with things like 3D, 4K, high-frame-rate, and HDR zooming in and out of popularity on a yearly basis.
I wasn't in a hurry to jump either, but my plasma developed the dreaded vertical lines. Bought a Samsung 4K HDR KS8000 with Quantum Dot. Colors look good, whites are brighter than what I am used to, the ideal viewing angle is smaller, the blacks look good, much better than most LED screens that I have seen.
I have to say that 4K HDR Blu-ray movies look great!!
Finally, if as stated the concern is with electronic voting machines, why would they call for recounts in Michigan and Wisconsin, which use paper ballots?
It just defies logic and sense. Is this just fake news which has found its way onto CNN via NYMag?
You missed the point. The point is to verify that the paper count matches the machine count and then to find the reason for any discrepancy, if any. That could be an electronic voting machine or a tabulation machine.
Most counties do not tabulate votes by hand, they use an electronic tabulating machine. That machine is basing the vote count on an electronic form and uses that to match who the user voted for. If that form or that machine was compromised, then the votes could be switched. The machine is typically upgraded/updated from a PC that, in theory, also could have been hacked.
The only way to know is to do a hand count and then verify the results against the electronic count.
Still millions of ballots that will never be counted.
Absentee ballots in most states with clear winners are not counted.
The popular vote is 'too close to call', statistical tie. Doesn't matter anyhow.
The votes are all counted and, when done, the election is "certified". It is called well before then for clear winners, but vote counting is still taking place.
iPhones and other smartphones being made here will probably up the prices slightly, but most of the estimates I've heard are absurd.
No they are not. For one many/most of the key components for smartphones (and laptops and desktops and...) are made in China too. Where do you think you are going to get parts? The supply chain for these does not exist in the US or EU. Worse China has a monopoly on rare earth minerals without which you cannot build many modern electronics. The US has reserves of these but re-opening the mines for these would not happen overnight.
In regards to rare earth minerals, this doesn't bode well... The mines could be re-opened, but it would probably require government intervention.
"Mountain Pass rare earth mine: On August 31, 2016 Molycorp Inc. emerged from chapter 11 bankruptcy as Neo Performance Materials, leaving behind the mine as Molycorp Minerals LLC in its own separate chapter 11 bankruptcy. As of October 2016, Molycorp Minerals LLC and the mine is still under the control of a chapter 11 bankruptcy trustee and is being actively marketed for sale."
What does the Trump win mean for tech? Not a clue.
And I seriously doubt anyone else has a clue either. But we should have a lot of fun poking holes in the Other Guy (tm) who thinks his WAG (wild-ass guess) is better than our WAG....
To be slightly more serious, ignore the Trump win, look at the House and Senate, and you might have less WA in your WAG....
If he holds to his election promises, the tech industry should see a reduction in work visas, a blockade of any new outsourcing initiatives, and new tariffs (or trade deals) to make foreign made products (practically everything tech related) less attractive (i.e. our toys will get more expensive).
Something I don't get: vetting content sent TO her should not be her job. There should be professional scrubbers doing that kind of work. I've worked in many orgs, and executives aren't expected to be doing that kind of "grunt" work. It goes to cubicle peons, like me.
Also, her home server is not necessarily more or less safer than the regular office email. In fact, the regular S.D. email server was hacked. (There is a separate message system for classified content, but it's not technically "email". It's a diff animal.) The home-vs-office dichotomy seems moot, at least as far as handling classified info*. Putting it on the wrong office box versus the wrong personal box seems the same sin to me.
* She didn't get "official" approval to use a home server, and also didn't follow the proper rules for archiving. But that's diff than the classified info issue.
Except that those rules were not in place at the time that Clinton was Secretary of State. They were enacted after she left...
Doesn't matter. She can still be prosecuted for not turning over all of her State Department official correspondence and destroying it. Bill Clinton had to pardon former CIA Director Deutch because he kept government documents after he left the CIA. It is a real crime and is very often prosecuted. And you can't claim that she didn't know that she had the documents. Even if you did try to claim that, I do not believe the law does not require intent for that.
Hillary didn't destroy the email. Her email administrator was asked to delete personal email months before any subpoena. He was lazy and finally did it later. But there has been no evidence showing that he was ordered to do so after the subpoena by Hillary or anyone in her camp. He avoided prosecution by getting immunity and had the chance to implicate her and never did.
As for classified email, the vast majority were classified retroactively, except for the two or three that the FBI talked about with poor markings. It's one thing to knowingly keeping marked classified documents. Its a different thing to handle unclassified documents that later have their classifications changed.
Something I don't get: vetting content sent TO her should not be her job. There should be professional scrubbers doing that kind of work. I've worked in many orgs, and executives aren't expected to be doing that kind of "grunt" work. It goes to cubicle peons, like me.
Also, her home server is not necessarily more or less safer than the regular office email. In fact, the regular S.D. email server was hacked. (There is a separate message system for classified content, but it's not technically "email". It's a diff animal.) The home-vs-office dichotomy seems moot, at least as far as handling classified info*. Putting it on the wrong office box versus the wrong personal box seems the same sin to me.
* She didn't get "official" approval to use a home server, and also didn't follow the proper rules for archiving. But that's diff than the classified info issue.
Except that those rules were not in place at the time that Clinton was Secretary of State. They were enacted after she left...
Of course nothing changes. Comey's conclusions in July still stand: Clinton repeated many lies during her remarks to the public and before congress. She destroyed evidence under subpoena. She casually handled classified information on a home computer and passed it around to non-cleared staff. She failed to turn over thousands of work-related emails despite lying and saying that she and/or her lawyers had read every single one of them to err on the side of over-providing... and on and on.
He's not changing the fact that he said anyone else doing what she did would face serious consequences, and that different treatment applied to her. He's not changing the fact that the FBI spent more time interviewing Brad Pitt about his argument with his son on an airplane than they spent interviewing Hillary Clinton... and she got to have her immunity-deal-getting staff WITH her in that drive-by interview which was conducted not under oath and no recordings allowed. During which, she pretended to be so dumb, uninformed, and forgetful that she managed to avoid answering pretty much any question that would have demonstrated her obvious guilt. Guilt for doing things that would see any one of her State Department underlings out of a job and possible out of liberty from jail.
Yup, nothing has changed since July. Same corruption and the lasting pressure from the Clinton political machine through Obama down to Loretta Lynch's office. No change at all.
And yet no evidence of corruption... but hey, lets keep beating that dead horse... You can make a conspiracy theory about almost anything if you look hard enough. The point is that either Hillary is as good as Area 51 in hiding secrets and evidence or there just isn't anything there that actually breaks the law. I agree that she acted poorly in a couple of situations, the email server being one of them. You can argue that these broke ethical rules but that's not at the same level as corruption.
A 200,000/year H-1B quota is why the tech companies have been writing checks to the Clinton Foundation. The web monkeys and cubicle trolls of Slashdot are about to vote themselves out of their own industry.
Because Clinton and the Democrats have the power to change the quota all on their own.... right? Oh wait, that's congress.... controlled by Republicans... and you think that a Trump presidency would do anything about it?
I'm not saying that Clinton will either. But if you want change, start with voting in a Congress that will fix it.
I think you're right, there is a lot of violence in some muslim countries. But I think the bigger threat to USA is his "war on terrorism" which by definition never ends and requires us to give up more and more of our freedoms.
Think about it. "Iraq war" we won because we caught Saddam. "Afghanistan war" I guess wound down because the Al Quaeda was pretty much broken. But the War on Terrorism has no fixed endpoint. We will be fighting it forever.
Pop quiz hotshot: there has always been terrorism, and there always will be terrorism.
"The war on Drugs" had it's role to play in the militarization of police forces. It too has no end and required giving up rights such as overly broad search and seizure laws, mandatory sentencing, etc. The War on terror takes it even further. But, in my opinion, without the war on drugs, the freedoms lost to the war on terror would have shocked people to no end.
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1. People don't like to move.
2. People especially don't like to move someplace far away.
3. People especially especially don't like to move someplace far away in another country.
4. People especially especially especially don't like to move someplace far away in another country where they don't speak the language and they have a completely different cuisine and culture.
5. People especially especially especially especially don't like to move someplace far away in another country where they don't speak the language and they have a completely different cuisine and culture.and where you have to live in a tiny apartment in an overcrowded city with really bad air pollution.
To me, that seems like that should be enough reasons. But okay, sure:
6. People especially especially especially especially especially don't like to move someplace far away in another country where they don't speak the language and they have a completely different cuisine and culture.and where you have to live in a tiny apartment in an overcrowded city with really bad air pollution AND the government won't let you go to all the internet sites you might want to.
7. People especially especially especially especially especially especially don't like to move someplace far away in another country where they don't speak the language and they have a completely different cuisine and culture.and where you have to live in a tiny apartment in an overcrowded city with really bad air pollution AND the government won't let you go to all the internet sites you might want to AND you can get thrown in Jail for no reason at all and left to rot until you die...
I know you don't own a Surface. So just stop it already. The Surface is actually a pretty good piece of hardware - I didn't say it sucked. I just said they haven't sold any.
Well, I have a surface Pro 4... So they sold at least one...
I used it this weekend to draw out plans and write down measurements for putting my TV on the wall in One Note. I love the stylus and One Note. It's easier than pen and paper and I have a copy of it for future reference. I also use it at work for taking notes and when I am traveling as my portable computer. It reduced the weight in my travel backpack by about 2lbs.
The one problem that I do have with it is that while the Stylus is magnetic and sticks to the side, it's not strong enough. Just the movement of carrying it in my work backpack causes it to release and drop to the bottom of my bag.
I'm pretty sure Belichick has a 30-40 point IQ advantage over you.
So, yeah. I'd trust Belichick's opinion over yours any day of the week.
Belichick prefers paper because it doesn't have the glitches that can happen with computers.
Given the NFL's track record with getting wireless headsets right, what makes you think that the problem is the Surface Pro itself and not just the underlying wireless service and/or the software that they are using?
But hey Belichick is smart, so he must be a computer, wireless, and software expert and knows exactly where the problem lies... right...
This kind of tech has been around since the invention of the multifunction hot beverage machine. It grinds beans, steeps coffee, blends creamer and such to the users specification. theres not much special about extending this to fast food. mcdonalds has had pilot instances of french fry machines for more than a decade now.
the trouble with these machines comes when capitalism rears its ugly head. hot beverage machines become brake-dust dispensers as the drive for profit leads to borderline rancid beans sourced from auction in a 50lb hopper. in the 21st century i cant think of a single person that would stuff 60 cents into one of these and expect a decent cup of black coffee (the arguable standard by which such a machine is judged to make other beverages.) Pretty soon ingredients like cheese are replaced with cheese topping, and other ingredients become dehydrated synonyms of their original embodiment. Automation of fast food is an excellent idea, so long as silicon valley understands that doing so further enables companies to cut costs and corners, ultimately delivering a mediocre product from an almost bankrupt franchise. McDonalds is the meat-space embodiment of this capitalism-until-death model, with kiosks to place orders and automatic fry droppers and ten pound caulk guns filled with toppings shipped four thousand miles across the country. Maybe companies will realize customers dont embrace automation if the machine is flipping garbage, but the continued existence of the 'hot beverage' machine in my companies breakroom seems to suggest companies dont give a shit what customers want in an automated form factor.
And this is the first step towards every restaurant being a Taco Bell.... (grin)
Hmm, Pumpkin Pie isn't fully enclosed in pastry.
Neither is chocolate meringue pie.
Though Cherry Cobbler IS fully enclosed in pastry, and isn't a "pie"....
Pumpkin pie and, incidentally, sweet potato pie I would not consider pies... simply because I don't like either... (grin)
My favorite is lemon meringue pie. I would argue that anything with meringue on top is considered a pie because the meringue is the top to the pie in place of the crust. Some would argue that this is a tarte, but tartes tend not to have meringue on the top, they just have the filling. Though meringue can be used as a filling for tartes...
$25 is ok... $50 is way too much.
If they included a copy of the Bluray or movie download when released for sale, it might be worth it. But not for a rental. For a rental I would be willing to pay no more than the movie theater price, about $10 to $15.
I just realized they they are trying to make up revenue from the loss of at least 3 movie tickets (i.e. 2 adults and a child). So $25 to $35 wouldn't be that bad for a family. I do think that $50 would be too much, though.
$25 is ok... $50 is way too much.
If they included a copy of the Bluray or movie download when released for sale, it might be worth it. But not for a rental. For a rental I would be willing to pay no more than the movie theater price, about $10 to $15.
>iPhone 8 is going to have TWO screens. One on the front and one on the back.
So its screen will break two times as often
Cue the beginnings of the iPhone double bounce video meme. Can you break both screens at once with the same drop test...
Oh god, does anyone else remember that cringe-worthy petition to get Bloodborne released on PC?
https://www.change.org/p/from-...
I'm still not sure if the submitter was being serious when they created the petition.
Nope... but I do remember the petition to release the DLCs for Skyrim for the PS3. Bethesda, at the time, said that the PS3 wasn't powerful enough. I ended up having to buy the PC version of Skyrim and migrate my save games to the PC. Of course, going from the PS3 to a PC with a GTX 970 made a big difference in graphics and load times.
This experience reminded me of the limitations of consoles. It didn't stop me from upgrading to a PS4, but it did remind me why I use my desktop as my main gaming rig.
The only way they could have designed this to be more of a meme is if they made it an 'Internet of Things' device, and made it 'wirelessly charging'.
I want the umbrella from The Kingsman...
Is this a good thing, or a bad thing?
It still seems to be a bad thing, or a less worse thing if you are Samsung.
This is the case where Samsung was found guilty of infringing on Apple's patents for look and feel. In my opinion, some of the rulings went beyond what a reasonable person with basic technology understanding would find infringing. In that sense, it's still a bad thing.
From Samsung's perspective it's a less bad thing. It means that they can argue that they should be paying fractions of what they were ordered to pay in the first place because the full value of the product is not directly tied to what was found to be infringing. There will now be another 2 year battle arguing the exact value that these components adds to the overall product.
FYI: I am not a lawyer. The above are personal opinions.
During a keynote Cook showed a slide listing the top revenue generating watch companies - this was based on a table that was published elsewhere.
Cook then showed the total revenue generated by the Apple watch (his was v1) being 2nd only to Rolex, which sells between 500K and 1 Million luxury watches per year.
Well, haters say the Apple Watch is a flop. I don't know, I think I wouldn't mind flopping with that level of revenue...
here is a link with picture of the slide:
http://www.wareable.com/apple/...
Yet again, there is this thing called data that is missing from the slide.
For example, in addition to actual watch sales, they may have included watch apps, accessories, etc. We also don't know if this is actual end user retail sales or if it includes inventory (accounting tricks). We don't know whether this trend continued or if the sales chart looked like a hockey stick after the first year (i.e. high sales for the shiny new product and then a huge drop).
That's the problem with how Apple presents it's financial information. There is a bit of fog that doesn't allow an investor to assess just how well certain product lines are doing. From other articles, I get a sense that most refer to how well Apple suppliers are doing as a gauge rather than just relying on the Apple hype.
I havent watched anything on netflix in weeks precisely because I cant find anything with any quality or depth.
Am strongly considering cancelling my subscription.
I dropped my Netflix subscription three years ago when they stopped getting new movies (dropped contracts with major movie studios). I enjoy movies and have no interest in watching old TV series.
This study is poor. They are evaluating their current customer base. The problem with this is that the majority of movie fans have already left the service. What this means is that the majority using it today do so to watch TV shows and original content. The only reason why they use Netflix for movies is simply convenience.
In other words, it shows Netflix who their current customers are but not the potential market. It's like Tesla saying that trucks are not needed beause all of their customers drive cars...
The summary has the names (or it does now, anyway) but not the numbers or the symbols, which would have been nice to include. Would've been good to include some etymology as well.
Google is your friend... In any case, here is a better link with the numbers, symbols, and etymology...
http://www.sciencealert.com/it...
and... here is a link to a large image for printing out, you know... for wall art... (grin)
https://www.iupac.org/cms/wp-c...
There's got to be more to it than that. Something else has to be in there to provide the peculiar sour flavor notes and the mealy texture.
That's the one thing that I noticed when I moved to the US from Canada, the American chocolate is basically candy, it isn't chocolate. When I go home for Christmas I bring chocolates back with me. If I don't my co-workers become an extremely unhappy bunch...
It's cool to read about this stuff, but as I lack the multiple PhDs to really follow the physics, I'm afraid my brute need is to know when to buy. Everybody wants to avoid buying the next Betamax or HD-DVD, obviously, but also you want to not buy in just as the price drops below $3000 ...and also shortly before it crashes to $999.
I managed to hold off buying a large flatscreen until 1080p was standard, at least (remember the nail-biter of choosing between 720p and 1080i ?) and feel very smart to have grabbed one of the last plasma sets before LCDs more-or-less pushed them off the market; everybody comments on the superior colour. That's not near to wearing out yet at 5 years, so I'm in no hurry to jump ship until I get even better colour, resolution, and anything else they're cooking up.
This may be the Next Big Thing, but it's become a hard call with things like 3D, 4K, high-frame-rate, and HDR zooming in and out of popularity on a yearly basis.
I wasn't in a hurry to jump either, but my plasma developed the dreaded vertical lines. Bought a Samsung 4K HDR KS8000 with Quantum Dot. Colors look good, whites are brighter than what I am used to, the ideal viewing angle is smaller, the blacks look good, much better than most LED screens that I have seen.
I have to say that 4K HDR Blu-ray movies look great!!
Finally, if as stated the concern is with electronic voting machines, why would they call for recounts in Michigan and Wisconsin, which use paper ballots?
It just defies logic and sense. Is this just fake news which has found its way onto CNN via NYMag?
You missed the point. The point is to verify that the paper count matches the machine count and then to find the reason for any discrepancy, if any. That could be an electronic voting machine or a tabulation machine.
Most counties do not tabulate votes by hand, they use an electronic tabulating machine. That machine is basing the vote count on an electronic form and uses that to match who the user voted for. If that form or that machine was compromised, then the votes could be switched. The machine is typically upgraded/updated from a PC that, in theory, also could have been hacked.
The only way to know is to do a hand count and then verify the results against the electronic count.
Still millions of ballots that will never be counted.
Absentee ballots in most states with clear winners are not counted.
The popular vote is 'too close to call', statistical tie. Doesn't matter anyhow.
The votes are all counted and, when done, the election is "certified". It is called well before then for clear winners, but vote counting is still taking place.
iPhones and other smartphones being made here will probably up the prices slightly, but most of the estimates I've heard are absurd.
No they are not. For one many/most of the key components for smartphones (and laptops and desktops and...) are made in China too. Where do you think you are going to get parts? The supply chain for these does not exist in the US or EU. Worse China has a monopoly on rare earth minerals without which you cannot build many modern electronics. The US has reserves of these but re-opening the mines for these would not happen overnight.
In regards to rare earth minerals, this doesn't bode well... The mines could be re-opened, but it would probably require government intervention.
"Mountain Pass rare earth mine: On August 31, 2016 Molycorp Inc. emerged from chapter 11 bankruptcy as Neo Performance Materials, leaving behind the mine as Molycorp Minerals LLC in its own separate chapter 11 bankruptcy. As of October 2016, Molycorp Minerals LLC and the mine is still under the control of a chapter 11 bankruptcy trustee and is being actively marketed for sale."
What does the Trump win mean for tech? Not a clue.
And I seriously doubt anyone else has a clue either. But we should have a lot of fun poking holes in the Other Guy (tm) who thinks his WAG (wild-ass guess) is better than our WAG....
To be slightly more serious, ignore the Trump win, look at the House and Senate, and you might have less WA in your WAG....
If he holds to his election promises, the tech industry should see a reduction in work visas, a blockade of any new outsourcing initiatives, and new tariffs (or trade deals) to make foreign made products (practically everything tech related) less attractive (i.e. our toys will get more expensive).
Something I don't get: vetting content sent TO her should not be her job. There should be professional scrubbers doing that kind of work. I've worked in many orgs, and executives aren't expected to be doing that kind of "grunt" work. It goes to cubicle peons, like me.
Also, her home server is not necessarily more or less safer than the regular office email. In fact, the regular S.D. email server was hacked. (There is a separate message system for classified content, but it's not technically "email". It's a diff animal.) The home-vs-office dichotomy seems moot, at least as far as handling classified info*. Putting it on the wrong office box versus the wrong personal box seems the same sin to me.
* She didn't get "official" approval to use a home server, and also didn't follow the proper rules for archiving. But that's diff than the classified info issue.
Except that those rules were not in place at the time that Clinton was Secretary of State. They were enacted after she left...
Doesn't matter. She can still be prosecuted for not turning over all of her State Department official correspondence and destroying it. Bill Clinton had to pardon former CIA Director Deutch because he kept government documents after he left the CIA. It is a real crime and is very often prosecuted. And you can't claim that she didn't know that she had the documents. Even if you did try to claim that, I do not believe the law does not require intent for that.
Hillary didn't destroy the email. Her email administrator was asked to delete personal email months before any subpoena. He was lazy and finally did it later. But there has been no evidence showing that he was ordered to do so after the subpoena by Hillary or anyone in her camp. He avoided prosecution by getting immunity and had the chance to implicate her and never did.
As for classified email, the vast majority were classified retroactively, except for the two or three that the FBI talked about with poor markings. It's one thing to knowingly keeping marked classified documents. Its a different thing to handle unclassified documents that later have their classifications changed.
Something I don't get: vetting content sent TO her should not be her job. There should be professional scrubbers doing that kind of work. I've worked in many orgs, and executives aren't expected to be doing that kind of "grunt" work. It goes to cubicle peons, like me.
Also, her home server is not necessarily more or less safer than the regular office email. In fact, the regular S.D. email server was hacked. (There is a separate message system for classified content, but it's not technically "email". It's a diff animal.) The home-vs-office dichotomy seems moot, at least as far as handling classified info*. Putting it on the wrong office box versus the wrong personal box seems the same sin to me.
* She didn't get "official" approval to use a home server, and also didn't follow the proper rules for archiving. But that's diff than the classified info issue.
Except that those rules were not in place at the time that Clinton was Secretary of State. They were enacted after she left...
Of course nothing changes. Comey's conclusions in July still stand: Clinton repeated many lies during her remarks to the public and before congress. She destroyed evidence under subpoena. She casually handled classified information on a home computer and passed it around to non-cleared staff. She failed to turn over thousands of work-related emails despite lying and saying that she and/or her lawyers had read every single one of them to err on the side of over-providing ... and on and on.
He's not changing the fact that he said anyone else doing what she did would face serious consequences, and that different treatment applied to her. He's not changing the fact that the FBI spent more time interviewing Brad Pitt about his argument with his son on an airplane than they spent interviewing Hillary Clinton ... and she got to have her immunity-deal-getting staff WITH her in that drive-by interview which was conducted not under oath and no recordings allowed. During which, she pretended to be so dumb, uninformed, and forgetful that she managed to avoid answering pretty much any question that would have demonstrated her obvious guilt. Guilt for doing things that would see any one of her State Department underlings out of a job and possible out of liberty from jail.
Yup, nothing has changed since July. Same corruption and the lasting pressure from the Clinton political machine through Obama down to Loretta Lynch's office. No change at all.
And yet no evidence of corruption... but hey, lets keep beating that dead horse... You can make a conspiracy theory about almost anything if you look hard enough. The point is that either Hillary is as good as Area 51 in hiding secrets and evidence or there just isn't anything there that actually breaks the law. I agree that she acted poorly in a couple of situations, the email server being one of them. You can argue that these broke ethical rules but that's not at the same level as corruption.
A 200,000/year H-1B quota is why the tech companies have been writing checks to the Clinton Foundation. The web monkeys and cubicle trolls of Slashdot are about to vote themselves out of their own industry.
Because Clinton and the Democrats have the power to change the quota all on their own.... right? Oh wait, that's congress.... controlled by Republicans... and you think that a Trump presidency would do anything about it?
I'm not saying that Clinton will either. But if you want change, start with voting in a Congress that will fix it.
I think you're right, there is a lot of violence in some muslim countries. But I think the bigger threat to USA is his "war on terrorism" which by definition never ends and requires us to give up more and more of our freedoms.
Think about it. "Iraq war" we won because we caught Saddam. "Afghanistan war" I guess wound down because the Al Quaeda was pretty much broken. But the War on Terrorism has no fixed endpoint. We will be fighting it forever.
Pop quiz hotshot: there has always been terrorism, and there always will be terrorism.
"The war on Drugs" had it's role to play in the militarization of police forces. It too has no end and required giving up rights such as overly broad search and seizure laws, mandatory sentencing, etc. The War on terror takes it even further. But, in my opinion, without the war on drugs, the freedoms lost to the war on terror would have shocked people to no end.