Ironically, what I've seen most illegal dumpers will do it in the woods under a mile from the actual dump, or state parks. It's not about the money, it's about being an asshat.
Courier was an iPad "me too" response. Trying to steal some Apple/Android thunder.... That failed miserably. Its classic Microsoft that they have brilliant people that put it together... But it was TOO dangerous to MICROSOFT (OS? Gaming? Smartphone? Office?) so the baby got killed in committee.
Meaning you buy a small adapter and use mini-USB power you already have. Alternatively, the Lightening cable is just USB so most third parties have started making "compatible" equipment by putting standard USB on chargers.
The joke is that even with using miniUSB, most chargers from other phones I have don't have the "handshake" or lately the power wattage requirements for modern phones. Unless you are buying iPad compatible 10W chargers most smartphones are pushing past most chargers you already have.
To be fair, Apple needs to do a lot more work on the finer points of this stuff. They tout many new features on stage only good on the very latest products... AirPlay being one of those even Engadget editors got wrong the first time they reviewed it. I'd dred if they all got cheap ipad1 versions, that Apple dropped support for ridiculously quickly. Same with a mixed environment of Apple TV 2&3.
Apple TV would be awesome for the kiosk market. Put power over Ethernet, or sell a a cord with an extra tail, and it could be a "one stop" display, or even projector adapter (business presentation adapters have a special place in hell Apple could have killed) but wait, you can't actually play an Apple Keynote presentation, in a loop, on just an Apple TV? Really? That's the kind of thing teachers need to "just work" and even gadget blogs cant get a straight answer out of Apple on this stuff.
Many schools have separate funding for "operations" and "infrastructure" now. You can go to the tax payers and ask for a whole school of new computers... And legally can't spend one dime of that to not layoff a teacher.
The samsung patent is a FRAND patent. It's part of an industry specification (supported by the FCC) and they have to license at a reasonable rate. Samsung's actions are a completely unrelated legal issue.
I think if this is a real threat, Apple already has an initial shipment in the air right now. They will have SOMETHING on the ground before Samsung's lawyers can get to court.
Not really. Steve claimed patents on iPhone from day one. No other phone ad ALL the features iPhone did when it was released. In fact, when Google was designing Android, they LEFT OUT certain features like the pinch to zoom because Apple had a patent on those feataures from 2000 era Fingerworks multitouch devices.
Google had inside information because their boss sat on Apple's board. Samsung had inside information because they were selling the parts. They brazenly chose to copy and lost that bet.
The Dyson Vacuum commercial is a perfect example of Apple's position. Apple put a lot of effort in to be unique and they want the dollars for that. If it wasn't such a big deal, why did Samsung's own documents point out how important it was to not lose market to iPhone?
But what you described is "carrying" equipment on the craft. If something happens, there is nothing stopping you from pushing the stuff out the door.
The issue is that a helicopter is vey noisy, you can't just put the music on speakers... everybody has to wear headsets just to be heard. This is where it gets sticky because you are piping the music into the WORKING comms. I would think most craft would have a toggle so the pilot can talk to air control without the passengers overhearing or interrupting. You would just need to find a system with one more toggle for a music player. That would be no different than turning a specific headset off.
The poster said "tours" so they probably tour scenery, monuments, etc. I'd guess they want some dramatic music while they fly, and the pilot can narrate as needed. The problem with these operations is that they don't really have extra staff to talk to the customers... Pilots do it all. Which leads to the other issue, do you WANT the pilot worrying about in-flight entertainment versus flying ?
No, it's very useful. Microsoft Windows is basically a monopoly on the PC desktop now. Microsoft is ALSO an ad company. They have Bing set as default and built into the OS, they dont need that specific kind of tracking to make their money. By setting the flag they kneecap the other agencies for oppressing the users... And get to play "white knight" about it in the press.
This is about Microsoft using the standard to kick other ads out, I'm sure they have exceptions when the ad servers are contacted by the OS itself. Not to mention Microsoft is moving to their "fully owned " platforms. Who can turn off XBox ads, Windows Mobile Ads, Windows Surface Ads?
I think that Microsoft has turned that around. By setting the flag to not track, they then bully the OTHER ad agencies.
Remember, Microsoft is ALSO an ad agency. They get to embed Bing right ino the browser as the default. It doesn't matter if they follow DNT flag or not, they have a huge captured market just from people that don't do anything. Just like Apple, they are working to build ads into the "metro" platform as well... That's all "outside" the Do Not Track debate because the DNT flag only effects "browsers".
The problem is that most schools are funded by LOCAL property taxes. That's not really "the problem" but many politicians have had states takeover handing out the money, bringing everybody down.
Let's use Michigan. Literally half of property tax goes to schools. It USED to go directly from the county treasurer to the school district and the states chipped in maybe 10-20% the Feds almost nothing except discrete programs (for instance lunches are pulled from food stamp money). The changes are pretty drastic after 1990's... The rules are different now.
In Michigan we passes a law that added 2% to sales tax and capped "homestead" personal home taxes to inflation, only adjusting at sale time. There was a problem because seniors were being "taxed" out of their homes because property values shot thru the roof. Unfortunately, that IS how property tax is supposed to work to allocate resources more efficiently.
The problems started immediately. The State 2% sales tax increase didn't cover the spread of decreased property taxes. Worse, the state handed out all the districts the same share. A boon to poor districts, but huge cuts where localities with lots of professionals were paying 50% more taxes in some cases.
To "fix" that problem, of individual districts voting in MORE taxes to cover the losses, passed another law that the districts had to have most of the operating taxes sent THRU the state. AND localities couldn't add more operating taxes because that wasn't "fair" to poor districts.
So now NOBODY will vote for one more dime of school taxes because it doesn't go to THEIR schools. We have districts with great building and technology budgets, but they legally can't pay their teachers one dime more. Of course just as fast as the state grabbed all that money, the first thing to go was that 2% committed to schools... Or rather it became 2% for "education spending". Then the state cut its share of general fund to colleges and trade schools... Taking the funds away from k-12 schools that the law moved to the State's care. (and nobody can raise local taxes... Still) what's worse is that the "education" fund (that 2% sales tax) had a balance for over a Decade... Not a lot, but enough to smooth over year-to-year tax changes... But the most recent Govenor took THAT fund and paid it to colleges instead of the State's normal yearly share. So we spent 15 years building a cushion and in one budget we trashed it. Not to mention the state has been starving higher education for decades as well. It was just in the last few years that State University tuition cut from the STUDENTS is more than from the state (the other third comes from federal, alumni, and industry grants).
So sure, blame unions or whatever... How about blame the people that are pushing the system to break intentionally as they possibly can?
Unfortunately, most schools are not built to handle the summer heat. Those buildings are dangerously hot in the summer and most don't have AC, and can't be easily retrofitted.
Except any other day it would be these same publishers/producers giving a shrug when it happens as "no big deal".
Streaming only works for the big networks... If its not covered on TV (and streamed by a network ditectly) then it's not important enough to worry about. The bots work for the BOSSES of these people... To protect their interests... In this case protecting the interests of the bosses by limiting speech of the artists... For their own good!
Statistically, if you believed in reincarnation, your chances are well over 60% that you would get reborn in Africa, India, China, etc with barely enough food to live to be 30... If you werent one of the millions of children that die starving and sick by age 5. globally, your chances of seein AN APPLE, ever, after reincarnation are pretty poor... Let alone the fruity logo.
They probably ran out of stock. They would be well into ramping up the next one. They aren't Apple that has enough new products to keep a whole factory dedicated just for them to keep knocking them out.
I'd guess they missed their "out of stock" date, and the new ones aren't ready to be announced and shipping just yet. Or maybe some other company started buying up 7" panels even though that company denies a 7" tablet?
Its about MEDIA. With OSX you could have a real, solid Unix command line, and still sync your phone, iPod, etc. to run Linux well, you need to buy from a handful of companies that will actually support their machines, or you could just get a Mac and have a foot in both sides. It also helps that Macs have had access to at least some official enterprise packages, for instance they get "real" MS Office and "real" licensed Exchange support.
Eventually trying to keep a Linux Desktop that's USEFUL for anything except Linux is a hardship. When you grow up and need to stop getting your media from pirate sites, and need to access company systems that are wretchedly old, you have to choose Mac or PC... With Mac you can even run Windows along side (no dual booting!) so it becomes a settled issue. When you hit the $100k a year mark, your employer is paying for RESULTS not your political statement.
Your still the Crown's subject. Legally the Crown (government in England is still descended from Christian Monarchy, Parliment "borrows" that authority) owns every subject, so they can't have them killing off the State's people (even if it's yourself you are killing)
also, the Monarchy and government is part of the Church of England that has a pro-life stance, so their opinion in Court carries Legal weight.
Because China is catching up to US style middle class..that can barely afford to have one kid and hope it gets a job. Most of East Asia is well along that path. India is next on the up and comers. Most of South America, particularly Brazil is approaching Centeral European standards of living, really Central America and Africa is the furthest behind now because of constant violence.
It's really a two-prong approach. First child welfare improves... So you don't need to keep knocking out babies just to get two that live to be adults. The current boom is because it takes a whole generation of stability for that to kick in. Then we have fewer kids based on economics. The second stick is having a stable enough society you can live to old age without needed blood kin to defend you from harm on a nightly basis.. And enough government stability to provide social benefits so you are not destitute when you can't work. (how much stability does it take for "little people" to have 401k... When the banks are turned to rubble every 20 years?)
We need to change the idea of "life" from just "not dying" to defining what "living" is.
Of course the majority of people on this rock live in conditions worse than most nursing homes, worse than we would allow convicts to live in. None of this makes things better for MOST of the people in the world that live in conditions we'd "check out" over.
My grandmother was in excellent health till she had an accident and broke her leg at 85. Lady crawled 50 feet with a broken leg thru snow, up stairs, across her house to the one phone to call.... My mom... She thought she needed help? The extra stress of healing, surgeries to keep it mended, and lack of being able to be active in the community is what did her in... She was still 93. She was lucky to still be in her house living on her own walking around till the very last two weeks.
What people DON'T want is living in a nursing home, alone, crippled, "not dying". Being brought back from the edge multiple times. Even cancer patients deal with that... They can hook you to machines that keep 2-3 organs going now. The thing that gets most old people now is when they start the "spiral" of drugs for heart and lungs that do the opposite things.... Till their bodies just cant take it. You'll never, ever leave the bed, but your not "dead" yet. Particularly gruesome stuff like lung cancer where you basically suffocate to death over three+ months on your back. Both my Father and Aunt (smoked lots) we're "blessed" to find out about their cancer at stage 4 when they were still "well" so they got one good solid chance to fight the cancer... Then went out "swinging" a short time after treatment still being themselves.. Barely time to say goodbye.
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Ironically, what I've seen most illegal dumpers will do it in the woods under a mile from the actual dump, or state parks. It's not about the money, it's about being an asshat.
Egg McMuffins.... The Clown is cornering the market!
The excess is sent to Hormel for "canned meat product".
Courier was an iPad "me too" response. Trying to steal some Apple/Android thunder.... That failed miserably. Its classic Microsoft that they have brilliant people that put it together... But it was TOO dangerous to MICROSOFT (OS? Gaming? Smartphone? Office?) so the baby got killed in committee.
Now when we look for a job they can link our Sourceforge contributions to our resumes! That should be good.
They won't link our Slashdot IDs to our Dice account... Here come 10 years of batshit crazy comments back to bite you!
Meaning you buy a small adapter and use mini-USB power you already have. Alternatively, the Lightening cable is just USB so most third parties have started making "compatible" equipment by putting standard USB on chargers.
The joke is that even with using miniUSB, most chargers from other phones I have don't have the "handshake" or lately the power wattage requirements for modern phones. Unless you are buying iPad compatible 10W chargers most smartphones are pushing past most chargers you already have.
It's not fair that Minecraft gets all the geek love. And in-game programming devices.
To be fair, Apple needs to do a lot more work on the finer points of this stuff. They tout many new features on stage only good on the very latest products... AirPlay being one of those even Engadget editors got wrong the first time they reviewed it. I'd dred if they all got cheap ipad1 versions, that Apple dropped support for ridiculously quickly. Same with a mixed environment of Apple TV 2&3.
Apple TV would be awesome for the kiosk market. Put power over Ethernet, or sell a a cord with an extra tail, and it could be a "one stop" display, or even projector adapter (business presentation adapters have a special place in hell Apple could have killed) but wait, you can't actually play an Apple Keynote presentation, in a loop, on just an Apple TV? Really? That's the kind of thing teachers need to "just work" and even gadget blogs cant get a straight answer out of Apple on this stuff.
Many schools have separate funding for "operations" and "infrastructure" now. You can go to the tax payers and ask for a whole school of new computers... And legally can't spend one dime of that to not layoff a teacher.
The samsung patent is a FRAND patent. It's part of an industry specification (supported by the FCC) and they have to license at a reasonable rate. Samsung's actions are a completely unrelated legal issue.
I think if this is a real threat, Apple already has an initial shipment in the air right now. They will have SOMETHING on the ground before Samsung's lawyers can get to court.
Not really. Steve claimed patents on iPhone from day one. No other phone ad ALL the features iPhone did when it was released. In fact, when Google was designing Android, they LEFT OUT certain features like the pinch to zoom because Apple had a patent on those feataures from 2000 era Fingerworks multitouch devices.
Google had inside information because their boss sat on Apple's board. Samsung had inside information because they were selling the parts. They brazenly chose to copy and lost that bet.
The Dyson Vacuum commercial is a perfect example of Apple's position. Apple put a lot of effort in to be unique and they want the dollars for that. If it wasn't such a big deal, why did Samsung's own documents point out how important it was to not lose market to iPhone?
But what you described is "carrying" equipment on the craft. If something happens, there is nothing stopping you from pushing the stuff out the door.
The issue is that a helicopter is vey noisy, you can't just put the music on speakers... everybody has to wear headsets just to be heard. This is where it gets sticky because you are piping the music into the WORKING comms. I would think most craft would have a toggle so the pilot can talk to air control without the passengers overhearing or interrupting. You would just need to find a system with one more toggle for a music player. That would be no different than turning a specific headset off.
The poster said "tours" so they probably tour scenery, monuments, etc. I'd guess they want some dramatic music while they fly, and the pilot can narrate as needed. The problem with these operations is that they don't really have extra staff to talk to the customers... Pilots do it all. Which leads to the other issue, do you WANT the pilot worrying about in-flight entertainment versus flying ?
No, it's very useful. Microsoft Windows is basically a monopoly on the PC desktop now. Microsoft is ALSO an ad company. They have Bing set as default and built into the OS, they dont need that specific kind of tracking to make their money. By setting the flag they kneecap the other agencies for oppressing the users... And get to play "white knight" about it in the press.
This is about Microsoft using the standard to kick other ads out, I'm sure they have exceptions when the ad servers are contacted by the OS itself. Not to mention Microsoft is moving to their "fully owned " platforms. Who can turn off XBox ads, Windows Mobile Ads, Windows Surface Ads?
I think that Microsoft has turned that around. By setting the flag to not track, they then bully the OTHER ad agencies.
Remember, Microsoft is ALSO an ad agency. They get to embed Bing right ino the browser as the default. It doesn't matter if they follow DNT flag or not, they have a huge captured market just from people that don't do anything. Just like Apple, they are working to build ads into the "metro" platform as well... That's all "outside" the Do Not Track debate because the DNT flag only effects "browsers".
The problem is that most schools are funded by LOCAL property taxes. That's not really "the problem" but many politicians have had states takeover handing out the money, bringing everybody down.
Let's use Michigan. Literally half of property tax goes to schools. It USED to go directly from the county treasurer to the school district and the states chipped in maybe 10-20% the Feds almost nothing except discrete programs (for instance lunches are pulled from food stamp money). The changes are pretty drastic after 1990's... The rules are different now.
In Michigan we passes a law that added 2% to sales tax and capped "homestead" personal home taxes to inflation, only adjusting at sale time. There was a problem because seniors were being "taxed" out of their homes because property values shot thru the roof. Unfortunately, that IS how property tax is supposed to work to allocate resources more efficiently.
The problems started immediately. The State 2% sales tax increase didn't cover the spread of decreased property taxes. Worse, the state handed out all the districts the same share. A boon to poor districts, but huge cuts where localities with lots of professionals were paying 50% more taxes in some cases.
To "fix" that problem, of individual districts voting in MORE taxes to cover the losses, passed another law that the districts had to have most of the operating taxes sent THRU the state. AND localities couldn't add more operating taxes because that wasn't "fair" to poor districts.
So now NOBODY will vote for one more dime of school taxes because it doesn't go to THEIR schools. We have districts with great building and technology budgets, but they legally can't pay their teachers one dime more. Of course just as fast as the state grabbed all that money, the first thing to go was that 2% committed to schools... Or rather it became 2% for "education spending". Then the state cut its share of general fund to colleges and trade schools... Taking the funds away from k-12 schools that the law moved to the State's care. (and nobody can raise local taxes ... Still) what's worse is that the "education" fund (that 2% sales tax) had a balance for over a Decade... Not a lot, but enough to smooth over year-to-year tax changes... But the most recent Govenor took THAT fund and paid it to colleges instead of the State's normal yearly share. So we spent 15 years building a cushion and in one budget we trashed it. Not to mention the state has been starving higher education for decades as well. It was just in the last few years that State University tuition cut from the STUDENTS is more than from the state (the other third comes from federal, alumni, and industry grants).
So sure, blame unions or whatever... How about blame the people that are pushing the system to break intentionally as they possibly can?
Unfortunately, most schools are not built to handle the summer heat. Those buildings are dangerously hot in the summer and most don't have AC, and can't be easily retrofitted.
Except any other day it would be these same publishers/producers giving a shrug when it happens as "no big deal".
Streaming only works for the big networks... If its not covered on TV (and streamed by a network ditectly) then it's not important enough to worry about. The bots work for the BOSSES of these people... To protect their interests... In this case protecting the interests of the bosses by limiting speech of the artists... For their own good!
Statistically, if you believed in reincarnation, your chances are well over 60% that you would get reborn in Africa, India, China, etc with barely enough food to live to be 30... If you werent one of the millions of children that die starving and sick by age 5. globally, your chances of seein AN APPLE, ever, after reincarnation are pretty poor... Let alone the fruity logo.
They probably ran out of stock. They would be well into ramping up the next one. They aren't Apple that has enough new products to keep a whole factory dedicated just for them to keep knocking them out.
I'd guess they missed their "out of stock" date, and the new ones aren't ready to be announced and shipping just yet. Or maybe some other company started buying up 7" panels even though that company denies a 7" tablet?
Its about MEDIA. With OSX you could have a real, solid Unix command line, and still sync your phone, iPod, etc. to run Linux well, you need to buy from a handful of companies that will actually support their machines, or you could just get a Mac and have a foot in both sides. It also helps that Macs have had access to at least some official enterprise packages, for instance they get "real" MS Office and "real" licensed Exchange support.
Eventually trying to keep a Linux Desktop that's USEFUL for anything except Linux is a hardship. When you grow up and need to stop getting your media from pirate sites, and need to access company systems that are wretchedly old, you have to choose Mac or PC... With Mac you can even run Windows along side (no dual booting!) so it becomes a settled issue. When you hit the $100k a year mark, your employer is paying for RESULTS not your political statement.
Your still the Crown's subject. Legally the Crown (government in England is still descended from Christian Monarchy, Parliment "borrows" that authority) owns every subject, so they can't have them killing off the State's people (even if it's yourself you are killing)
also, the Monarchy and government is part of the Church of England that has a pro-life stance, so their opinion in Court carries Legal weight.
Because China is catching up to US style middle class..that can barely afford to have one kid and hope it gets a job. Most of East Asia is well along that path. India is next on the up and comers. Most of South America, particularly Brazil is approaching Centeral European standards of living, really Central America and Africa is the furthest behind now because of constant violence.
It's really a two-prong approach. First child welfare improves... So you don't need to keep knocking out babies just to get two that live to be adults. The current boom is because it takes a whole generation of stability for that to kick in. Then we have fewer kids based on economics. The second stick is having a stable enough society you can live to old age without needed blood kin to defend you from harm on a nightly basis.. And enough government stability to provide social benefits so you are not destitute when you can't work. (how much stability does it take for "little people" to have 401k... When the banks are turned to rubble every 20 years?)
I think you hit on it right there.
We need to change the idea of "life" from just "not dying" to defining what "living" is.
Of course the majority of people on this rock live in conditions worse than most nursing homes, worse than we would allow convicts to live in. None of this makes things better for MOST of the people in the world that live in conditions we'd "check out" over.
My grandmother was in excellent health till she had an accident and broke her leg at 85. Lady crawled 50 feet with a broken leg thru snow, up stairs, across her house to the one phone to call.... My mom... She thought she needed help? The extra stress of healing, surgeries to keep it mended, and lack of being able to be active in the community is what did her in... She was still 93. She was lucky to still be in her house living on her own walking around till the very last two weeks.
What people DON'T want is living in a nursing home, alone, crippled, "not dying". Being brought back from the edge multiple times. Even cancer patients deal with that... They can hook you to machines that keep 2-3 organs going now. The thing that gets most old people now is when they start the "spiral" of drugs for heart and lungs that do the opposite things.... Till their bodies just cant take it. You'll never, ever leave the bed, but your not "dead" yet. Particularly gruesome stuff like lung cancer where you basically suffocate to death over three+ months on your back. Both my Father and Aunt (smoked lots) we're "blessed" to find out about their cancer at stage 4 when they were still "well" so they got one good solid chance to fight the cancer... Then went out "swinging" a short time after treatment still being themselves.. Barely time to say goodbye.
Enter Regeneration!
1103 ... Then you run out of regenerations! And get shot by your wife.
Unless you really have 507?
That's because moon rocks are poisonous. He only live 40 more years after exposure to them!