Now that even little kids can wear shoes that light up as they walk, will the automobile industry be able to cope with the flashier competition? "I don't like cars. I run!" said Johny Demply, age 6. Shoes are selling at a higher rate than ever before and new "smartshoes" offer portability and ease of use not found in ancient vehicular relics like cars. As the era of the car comes to an end, will automobile manufacturers and dealers be able to adapt to sell accessories for shoes or will they be relegated to the dustbin of shameful obsolescence?
And in that short post you claimed that all criticism is pointless.
Why criticize a movie? Watch another movie. Why review a game? Play another game. You don't like this Beatles song? How dare you say so - go listen to something else!
I won't even pretend to think I would ever be at this level, but I would love to sit in a room and watch how they work one day as a fly on the wall. Just what does set these people apart?
Newsflash: they're people like you and me, and eat and shit the exact same way we do. They even work the same way we do. The difference? They were at the right time, the right place to use their particular skills (marketing/design/direction in the case of Jobs, identification of long-term market trends in the case of Gerstner, etc). Most of them are smart - some even scary smart. But not 1:1000000 smart, and certainly not that exceedingly knowledgeable. From what I've seen, what sets CEOs apart from others is that they are very, very good at schmoozing. 1:1000000 good. Otherwise, they'd never have been in the right place at the right time.
QFT.
Sadly, megaschmoozing is wonderful for becoming CEO but not very good when it comes to generating long term profit.
Of course it hasn't increased. Crime-rate continues to go down, and are like always at the lowest point in the life-span of humanity. On top of that Sweden is a much more safe place than most countries.
Citation needed (on the first claim). And even with a citation, why expect reported crime rates to even correlate with the rate of committed crimes?
1 in 3200 odds of any person in the world being hit, so basically 1 in 3200 x 7 billion gives you your personal odds.
I've been trying to figure out why that felt wrong since I read it from the Bad Astronomer earlier today. I think the problem is that it only counts cases where exactly one person is his by debris. There's a small but not vanishingly small chance that if one person is hit, more will be hit as well, so the real odds of an individual escape satellite doom aren't quite as good as your calculation suggests.
Fuck everybody who uses that word. It belongs in the marketing buzzword incinerator with "thought-shower", "synergy", "pro-active", and anything "in the cloud".
Sure must suck having a job that: -pays above minimum wage -has benefits -helps keep the cost of goods from rising insanely -is damned efficient at what it does
Mind you - I'm not going to disagree that there are some socio-economic issues with how walmart does business - but they aren't the only ones playing that game and they're not 100% evil. If you're a business owner - you're pretty much guaranteed to do very well if you can get in the same shopping center as a walmart as long as you're not in the business of selling the same goods walmart does for the same demographics. I've seen cities blossom around such shopping centers and a large portion of the stores nearby have been there for years as a result.
I like that the benefits are based on qualifying for foodstamps and medicaid, but at least they're semi-provided by Walmart because they train employees to sign up for and use those services. See http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0473107/
The micro connector was designed for 10,000 cycles, IIRC. So you can plug and unplug your phone 6 times a day for 4.5 years. Note that the mini-USB was only designed for 1/10th of that, so the micro connector is the better choice. Go check the Wikipedia article if you don't believe me (not that it's any more authoritative than I am).
I've got three devices with micro-USB ports, with an age of ownership of one year. One micro-USB port has failed. I've got four micro-USB cables. Two have failed at the micro-USB connector. I've got upwards of twenty devices with mini-USB ports, with an average age of ownership and frequency of connection similar to the micro-USB devices. None have failed. I've got even more mini-USB cables than devices. None have failed.
Also, it's a lot easier to plug a mini-USB cable into a port without looking at it first.
I don't believe that Apple doesn't have a valid patent on it. Waring has had magnetic breakaway cables for years and has been using them for powering deep friers.
A lot of patents on this sort of tech are simply a reiteration of what should be considered prior art with an appended "in a mobile computing device."
From the blog post: "Another advantage of separate websites is simplicity for our members."
I really don't know how someone can say/write that with a straight face.
It's the Apple-style simplicity that's not so uncommon in tech these days. To you and me, simplicity might mean a single site that seamlessly allows search and queuing of streaming and physical media. In the nouveau-simple mindset, simplicity means removing all but a few options so that customers on a single site "don't have to deal with excessive functionality."
Thanks for finally revealing what ??? means. Now we know that the penultimate step in every business venture is "Invest in new prison construction." Imagine the effect those stolen underpants will have!
Except they will port Office to ARM. TFS says you won't be running Office 2003 on ARM, which we all knew anyway. Running an x86 emulator on top of an already severely underpowered CPU wasn't every in the cards.
To be fair the idea is that the private screeners will have a vested interest in getting passengers through quickly (since they'll be paid for by airlines/airports) and will have no financial interest in tighter security (which is good, since nothing implemented post-9/11 has helped, so it's plenty tight enough.)
To be even fairer, screening used to be entirely private and it was just as effective and less intrusive without costing anything remotely close to $8 billion a year.
I just checked a 1-stop round trip I booked last week, and instead of the dozens of options that Expedia and Travelocity offered, this thing gave me bupkis.
It also tried to force my local airport into the From box, even when I had entered another. How can I fly from two airports two thousand miles apart?
Consider this a Google pre-Alpha release...
It claims my local airport, with about 20 flights to major hubs daily, has 0 flights anywhere. The interface updates quickly, which is nice, but the level of information available just can't compete with Bing.
Don't you think, though, that the people investing $300m in this cable have thought a little bit about their business model and believe it to be sound? Clearly those 6ms are really valuable to some people, and if not high frequency traders then who?
You don't know many people in the financial sector, do you?
And a lot of people also wont post because they dont, they're not sure if they were affected or it was only a small amount so they didn't notice or care.
I'd bet the actual number is much higher.
This is critical. I bet the actual number of affected accounts is 100-10000x higher than the number who post about it on the forum.
And yet it happens on my parents Win7 machine with 4gbs of ram and a core 2 duo. It's unfortunately too hard to get them to switch to anything.
Yet doesn't happen on my Atom + 2GB RAM netbook, which is fully useable 20 seconds after pushing the power button. In the ~20 Win7 boxes I use, not one has sluggishness after the desktop appears. Half of those even have junkware like Symantec Endpoint Protection, too.
There's no way to actually hand hold it with it powered in any remotely safe manner. If it doesn't terrify you, you don't know what you're dealing with, and if it does, you probably don't want one.
I would say you're the one who doesn't know what we're dealing with here. You buy safety goggles to protect your eyes, they make goggles that can protect you against much stronger lasers than this. Yes, it is not a toy, and if you use it like a toy and without adequate safety measures, you will hurt yourself or someone else. But to say it's impossible to use a 1W laser safely is ridiculous.
No.. I think gunshot wounds to your eye are also permanent.
But will guns very feasibly blind a person standing 200 feet behind the user while the user aims the other way? Specular reflections make lasers, even lasers 20x less intense than this, incredibly dangerous. The vast majority of >10 mW laser users have their lasers held in a fixed position. Whenever they want to change that position, even by a couple degrees, they close the room and wear goggles because specular reflections are very hard to predict, even in a controlled lab environment. This 1 W laser, used outside, will blind a lot of people who aren't anywhere near the intended target.
While the old guard hated her, she put the company in a position to be profitable again.
It is looking like firing Carly was an awful idea. Like it or not, she had the company moving in a direction, and they were making plenty of money.They had kicked dell out of the corporate laptop business ( the end of the market that makes money ) and were starting to do the same with corporate desktops. They were making money, lots of it. And they have been chasing their tail since. They will soon spin out into two or three companies, the software services one will crash and burn. The profitable sector will be the one stamping their name on calculators and printers designed and made in China.
She killed their golden egg laying gooses in every department. Sure, cutting costs led to some short term profit but she simply erased the majority of HP's long term prospects. It's hard to believe she didn't know she was trading the future for a few years of profit.
I've been spending a lot of time each week on Slashdot since 1999, but I was such a firm believer in the concept of the AC that I didn't sign up until nearly a decade later. It's strange to hear that there will no longer be a taco at the helm. I feel like I just finished the internet.
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Galileo lost a suit by Apple claiming ownership of earth with rounded corners.
Now that even little kids can wear shoes that light up as they walk, will the automobile industry be able to cope with the flashier competition? "I don't like cars. I run!" said Johny Demply, age 6. Shoes are selling at a higher rate than ever before and new "smartshoes" offer portability and ease of use not found in ancient vehicular relics like cars. As the era of the car comes to an end, will automobile manufacturers and dealers be able to adapt to sell accessories for shoes or will they be relegated to the dustbin of shameful obsolescence?
Don't like it? Use another service.
And in that short post you claimed that all criticism is pointless.
Why criticize a movie? Watch another movie. Why review a game? Play another game. You don't like this Beatles song? How dare you say so - go listen to something else!
I won't even pretend to think I would ever be at this level, but I would love to sit in a room and watch how they work one day as a fly on the wall. Just what does set these people apart?
Newsflash: they're people like you and me, and eat and shit the exact same way we do. They even work the same way we do. The difference? They were at the right time, the right place to use their particular skills (marketing/design/direction in the case of Jobs, identification of long-term market trends in the case of Gerstner, etc). Most of them are smart - some even scary smart. But not 1:1000000 smart, and certainly not that exceedingly knowledgeable. From what I've seen, what sets CEOs apart from others is that they are very, very good at schmoozing. 1:1000000 good. Otherwise, they'd never have been in the right place at the right time.
QFT.
Sadly, megaschmoozing is wonderful for becoming CEO but not very good when it comes to generating long term profit.
Of course it hasn't increased. Crime-rate continues to go down, and are like always at the lowest point in the life-span of humanity. On top of that Sweden is a much more safe place than most countries.
Citation needed (on the first claim). And even with a citation, why expect reported crime rates to even correlate with the rate of committed crimes?
1 in 3200 odds of any person in the world being hit, so basically 1 in 3200 x 7 billion gives you your personal odds.
I've been trying to figure out why that felt wrong since I read it from the Bad Astronomer earlier today. I think the problem is that it only counts cases where exactly one person is his by debris. There's a small but not vanishingly small chance that if one person is hit, more will be hit as well, so the real odds of an individual escape satellite doom aren't quite as good as your calculation suggests.
Fuck everybody who uses that word. It belongs in the marketing buzzword incinerator with "thought-shower", "synergy", "pro-active", and anything "in the cloud".
This sounds like a disruptive idea.
Sure must suck having a job that:
-pays above minimum wage
-has benefits
-helps keep the cost of goods from rising insanely
-is damned efficient at what it does
Mind you - I'm not going to disagree that there are some socio-economic issues with how walmart does business - but they aren't the only ones playing that game and they're not 100% evil. If you're a business owner - you're pretty much guaranteed to do very well if you can get in the same shopping center as a walmart as long as you're not in the business of selling the same goods walmart does for the same demographics. I've seen cities blossom around such shopping centers and a large portion of the stores nearby have been there for years as a result.
I like that the benefits are based on qualifying for foodstamps and medicaid, but at least they're semi-provided by Walmart because they train employees to sign up for and use those services. See http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0473107/
The micro connector was designed for 10,000 cycles, IIRC. So you can plug and unplug your phone 6 times a day for 4.5 years. Note that the mini-USB was only designed for 1/10th of that, so the micro connector is the better choice. Go check the Wikipedia article if you don't believe me (not that it's any more authoritative than I am).
I've got three devices with micro-USB ports, with an age of ownership of one year. One micro-USB port has failed.
I've got four micro-USB cables. Two have failed at the micro-USB connector.
I've got upwards of twenty devices with mini-USB ports, with an average age of ownership and frequency of connection similar to the micro-USB devices. None have failed.
I've got even more mini-USB cables than devices. None have failed.
Also, it's a lot easier to plug a mini-USB cable into a port without looking at it first.
I don't believe that Apple doesn't have a valid patent on it. Waring has had magnetic breakaway cables for years and has been using them for powering deep friers.
A lot of patents on this sort of tech are simply a reiteration of what should be considered prior art with an appended "in a mobile computing device."
From the blog post: "Another advantage of separate websites is simplicity for our members."
I really don't know how someone can say/write that with a straight face.
It's the Apple-style simplicity that's not so uncommon in tech these days. To you and me, simplicity might mean a single site that seamlessly allows search and queuing of streaming and physical media. In the nouveau-simple mindset, simplicity means removing all but a few options so that customers on a single site "don't have to deal with excessive functionality."
No one in Naples has moved away from Vesuvius despite insistent warnings of disaster from seismologists.
4. Invest in new prison construction.
Thanks for finally revealing what ??? means. Now we know that the penultimate step in every business venture is "Invest in new prison construction." Imagine the effect those stolen underpants will have!
Waah porting is hard and stuff!
Except they will port Office to ARM. TFS says you won't be running Office 2003 on ARM, which we all knew anyway. Running an x86 emulator on top of an already severely underpowered CPU wasn't every in the cards.
To be fair the idea is that the private screeners will have a vested interest in getting passengers through quickly (since they'll be paid for by airlines/airports) and will have no financial interest in tighter security (which is good, since nothing implemented post-9/11 has helped, so it's plenty tight enough.)
To be even fairer, screening used to be entirely private and it was just as effective and less intrusive without costing anything remotely close to $8 billion a year.
and I thought Microsoft was irrelevant before.
Ah, the internet, where 90% market share means you just don't matter.
It's also not influenced by any results.
I just checked a 1-stop round trip I booked last week, and instead of the dozens of options that Expedia and Travelocity offered, this thing gave me bupkis.
It also tried to force my local airport into the From box, even when I had entered another. How can I fly from two airports two thousand miles apart?
Consider this a Google pre-Alpha release...
It claims my local airport, with about 20 flights to major hubs daily, has 0 flights anywhere. The interface updates quickly, which is nice, but the level of information available just can't compete with Bing.
Don't you think, though, that the people investing $300m in this cable have thought a little bit about their business model and believe it to be sound? Clearly those 6ms are really valuable to some people, and if not high frequency traders then who?
You don't know many people in the financial sector, do you?
XP and 7 are the good ones. Vista and 8 are the trash OSes (an app store, the ribbon disease spread over the whole OS and a tablet UI? Trash.)
We don't know much about 8 yet, and Vista is vastly superior to XP.
And a lot of people also wont post because they dont, they're not sure if they were affected or it was only a small amount so they didn't notice or care.
I'd bet the actual number is much higher.
This is critical. I bet the actual number of affected accounts is 100-10000x higher than the number who post about it on the forum.
And yet it happens on my parents Win7 machine with 4gbs of ram and a core 2 duo. It's unfortunately too hard to get them to switch to anything.
Yet doesn't happen on my Atom + 2GB RAM netbook, which is fully useable 20 seconds after pushing the power button. In the ~20 Win7 boxes I use, not one has sluggishness after the desktop appears. Half of those even have junkware like Symantec Endpoint Protection, too.
There's no way to actually hand hold it with it powered in any remotely safe manner. If it doesn't terrify you, you don't know what you're dealing with, and if it does, you probably don't want one.
I would say you're the one who doesn't know what we're dealing with here. You buy safety goggles to protect your eyes, they make goggles that can protect you against much stronger lasers than this. Yes, it is not a toy, and if you use it like a toy and without adequate safety measures, you will hurt yourself or someone else. But to say it's impossible to use a 1W laser safely is ridiculous.
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No.. I think gunshot wounds to your eye are also permanent.
But will guns very feasibly blind a person standing 200 feet behind the user while the user aims the other way? Specular reflections make lasers, even lasers 20x less intense than this, incredibly dangerous. The vast majority of >10 mW laser users have their lasers held in a fixed position. Whenever they want to change that position, even by a couple degrees, they close the room and wear goggles because specular reflections are very hard to predict, even in a controlled lab environment. This 1 W laser, used outside, will blind a lot of people who aren't anywhere near the intended target.
While the old guard hated her, she put the company in a position to be profitable again.
It is looking like firing Carly was an awful idea. Like it or not, she had the company moving in a direction, and they were making plenty of money.They had kicked dell out of the corporate laptop business ( the end of the market that makes money ) and were starting to do the same with corporate desktops. They were making money, lots of it. And they have been chasing their tail since. They will soon spin out into two or three companies, the software services one will crash and burn. The profitable sector will be the one stamping their name on calculators and printers designed and made in China.
She killed their golden egg laying gooses in every department. Sure, cutting costs led to some short term profit but she simply erased the majority of HP's long term prospects. It's hard to believe she didn't know she was trading the future for a few years of profit.
I've been spending a lot of time each week on Slashdot since 1999, but I was such a firm believer in the concept of the AC that I didn't sign up until nearly a decade later. It's strange to hear that there will no longer be a taco at the helm. I feel like I just finished the internet.