I'm betting that the bet in the story is either a fiction (to get journalists to cover the story) or a regular part of some lab's cultures "That'll Never work!" "Bet you it will!" "How Much" "10 gets you 100, I'll put it in writing" "You're on!" "Ooh, that's interesting..."
The summary even deals with the question of why. The sea floor there is fragile and vulnerable to small temperature changes. We're warming the oceans, a small change is making the sea floor less rigid, presto more gas is leaking out
Also, don't just Ask the end users, actually watch them work. Google, MS, Apple, etc., they actually setup labs and watch how people interact with their products. That way you can See if they're having problems with your software, you don't have to rely on the problem being big enough for them to remember and write it down. Some/many users don't want to seem stupid and ask silly questions.
Having Ethernet cables running all over the place is probably a greater measurable hazard than the WiFi. Tripping over a cable and injuring yourself Is a real danger, most workplaces are required to cover any cables running over the floor with heavy rubber mats or something like that. Or they could put in cable boxes into the floor of the rooms, very expensive, and very limiting to room geometry, which teachers Love to change!
I agree. The user should be allowed control of their experience, autodetect is often broken. Some pages I'm subscribed to on FB love to post links to mobile news sites, possibly because think their followers are mostly mobile. But for someone like me who prefers grunty desktops, I have to keep editing the URL. We need browser-based options to turn auto-detect on and off. Website-based ones would require logins, which wouldn't help your private browsing needs, and then you'd have to set it for Every site!
Exactly, self-driving cars aren't a replacment for taxis, not with the current level of technology. We're not talking Jonny Cabs from Total Recall yet, we're looking at reducing the amount of effort the average commuter needs to get from point A to B.
I wonder if self-driving cars would allow better ride-sharing arrangements?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zMAWztZ6TI
This guy in Brazil thought it up in 2002 during a blackout, I'm pretty sure that's more than 2 years ago. This story keeps getting recycled as writers and editors forget that they've already covered it before.
And Australia (under a conservative Gov) made a special provision so Murdoch could keep his 70% of national newspaper ownership (yes, 70%) while no longer being an Australian Citizen!!!
If by short end of the deal you mean 'losing his monopoly on providing premium television/movie content' then I agree with you. Because you won't need a special box or line to get high-end content, Murdoch's monopoly will fall.
Exactly, things like water, power, roads, internet access, these are infrastructure that is necessary for commerce, you'd think any politician who wants business to flourish would Want a Labor-style NBN as it increases the chances for Australians to do business tasks better than other countries!
Don't forget he makes a Lot of money from Foxtel, which people wouldn't pay as much money for if they can get content from a provider like NetFlix, which they'll be able to do if the majority of the country have Fibre instead of the crap Copper lines. He's got a monopoly atm, he doesn't want competitors.
Except that soda is usually made in a local factory from local water supplies, that may not be properly treated. Coke in Pakistan for many years was made with polluted and unsafe water, sickening many drinkers before there was a huge public outcry.
Yet Windows 7 is Windows 7, doesn't take much more to sell/support it in the UK/Australia/etc vs in the USA, why does it cost so much more? Delivery is dirt cheap, support can't justify a 200% cost surely!
It's not like the hardware is made in the USA and shipped to Australia, it's all made in the same Chinese/Asian factories and shipped over the Pacific anyway! Australians buy the same TVs/Computers/Cars (when we can get a decent model on the market) as the USA does. Sure, we're a smaller market, but that cost differences are Immense!
Perhaps a bad example, they went after a non-profit org (as denoted by their.org domain). They tried to enforce their mark, but look to have failed in that case.
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I'm betting that the bet in the story is either a fiction (to get journalists to cover the story) or a regular part of some lab's cultures "That'll Never work!" "Bet you it will!" "How Much" "10 gets you 100, I'll put it in writing" "You're on!" "Ooh, that's interesting..."
The summary even deals with the question of why. The sea floor there is fragile and vulnerable to small temperature changes. We're warming the oceans, a small change is making the sea floor less rigid, presto more gas is leaking out
Also, don't just Ask the end users, actually watch them work. Google, MS, Apple, etc., they actually setup labs and watch how people interact with their products. That way you can See if they're having problems with your software, you don't have to rely on the problem being big enough for them to remember and write it down. Some/many users don't want to seem stupid and ask silly questions.
Exactly, when I saw Access and Excel I thought I had mistyped the URL and was reading The Daily WTF again!
In most western nations, your family also has to agree for your organs to be donated upon your death
Having Ethernet cables running all over the place is probably a greater measurable hazard than the WiFi. Tripping over a cable and injuring yourself Is a real danger, most workplaces are required to cover any cables running over the floor with heavy rubber mats or something like that. Or they could put in cable boxes into the floor of the rooms, very expensive, and very limiting to room geometry, which teachers Love to change!
Perhaps they got China confused with North Korea, where there are regularly huge problems with famines.
I agree. The user should be allowed control of their experience, autodetect is often broken. Some pages I'm subscribed to on FB love to post links to mobile news sites, possibly because think their followers are mostly mobile. But for someone like me who prefers grunty desktops, I have to keep editing the URL. We need browser-based options to turn auto-detect on and off. Website-based ones would require logins, which wouldn't help your private browsing needs, and then you'd have to set it for Every site!
Much simpler to set it once in your browser.
Ballmer is leaving next year, I wonder if stack ranking was his brain child? Sounds about his speed. Real fail of a system.
Exactly, self-driving cars aren't a replacment for taxis, not with the current level of technology. We're not talking Jonny Cabs from Total Recall yet, we're looking at reducing the amount of effort the average commuter needs to get from point A to B. I wonder if self-driving cars would allow better ride-sharing arrangements?
They twice mentioned in the article that the Texas Legislature won't meet again until 2015, is that right? They're all going on holiday for a year?
It's not snow-related, but the Japanese used Lots of bicycles to move infantry quickly through certain parts of Asia
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zMAWztZ6TI This guy in Brazil thought it up in 2002 during a blackout, I'm pretty sure that's more than 2 years ago. This story keeps getting recycled as writers and editors forget that they've already covered it before.
And Australia (under a conservative Gov) made a special provision so Murdoch could keep his 70% of national newspaper ownership (yes, 70%) while no longer being an Australian Citizen!!!
If by short end of the deal you mean 'losing his monopoly on providing premium television/movie content' then I agree with you. Because you won't need a special box or line to get high-end content, Murdoch's monopoly will fall.
Exactly, things like water, power, roads, internet access, these are infrastructure that is necessary for commerce, you'd think any politician who wants business to flourish would Want a Labor-style NBN as it increases the chances for Australians to do business tasks better than other countries!
Don't forget he makes a Lot of money from Foxtel, which people wouldn't pay as much money for if they can get content from a provider like NetFlix, which they'll be able to do if the majority of the country have Fibre instead of the crap Copper lines. He's got a monopoly atm, he doesn't want competitors.
Thank you, oh so much. this is the best I've seen so far!
Damn you, I came here to post about the Real Time WWII tweeting account (https://twitter.com/RealTimeWWII), you stole my idea person in the past!
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Except that soda is usually made in a local factory from local water supplies, that may not be properly treated. Coke in Pakistan for many years was made with polluted and unsafe water, sickening many drinkers before there was a huge public outcry.
Bungie was making Halo for AppleOS, MS came along with a Bucket of money and said "you're now making that for the X-Box as our lead game."
Yet Windows 7 is Windows 7, doesn't take much more to sell/support it in the UK/Australia/etc vs in the USA, why does it cost so much more? Delivery is dirt cheap, support can't justify a 200% cost surely!
It's not like the hardware is made in the USA and shipped to Australia, it's all made in the same Chinese/Asian factories and shipped over the Pacific anyway! Australians buy the same TVs/Computers/Cars (when we can get a decent model on the market) as the USA does. Sure, we're a smaller market, but that cost differences are Immense!
Perhaps a bad example, they went after a non-profit org (as denoted by their .org domain). They tried to enforce their mark, but look to have failed in that case.
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