Regrettably, I think the rural population density does have an impact on the terrible public transit in cities.
A fairly large percentage of the population (generally) have vehicles because of the failure to build impractically expensive public transit from city to city. City planning then developed around the idea that people have vehicles. Younger people who may not have vehicles may wish the cities to undertake projects toward reliable public transit, but they are SOL until they convince older people (who own cars) to pay for it. The young'uns grow up, move out of the city, get a car of their own, and become the ones refusing to pay for those whippersnappers' ideal subway system.
Clearly this is an oversimplification, but I think all those bits are interconnected.
I'm right there with you. I once told an intelligence officer that bulk communication surveillance was impossible because Bruce Schneier said so. I envy that officer's poker face.
Or the watch could work out when it was going to run out in the next 24 hours and encourage you to plug it in at your convenience. The Pebble's notification is "Charged until tonight."
This needs more upmods. As an extension to ftobin: Losing in the legislature twice in 10 years means the legislation will be introduced at the state and local levels, leading to "You can't bring your fooPhone into New Jersey because it has encryption."
We had that with NOPPL ("No Politics, Please"), but it may have gone defunct. Or perhaps some malware author is just waiting to take over the extension and shoulder-surf your Facebook sessions.
I am pretty sure they could then design a detector that determined exactly where you were from even further away. And they'd definitely know it was you, too.
Let me know when you find the median price of a new car. I half-heartedly searched a couple times a few months back and got nothing. I looked again, just now, and found a chart of used car median prices by city from 2012 and something from the Boston Herald that is probably wrong, since it quotes the same number USA Today says is the average.
In a group of 4 cars, a single $90k luxury model can bring the average up to $33k when the three others cost $15k. That's why nobody cites the average home price, but somehow the median car price is impossible to find. You'll notice, if you go searching, that there are a bunch of articles bemoaning how the "median" American can't afford an "average" priced car, but that's a ridiculous comparison. If a person had the "average" wealth of all Americans, s/he would easily be in the top decile, and probably higher.
What's with the hate? Big Five explicitly treats Extraversion and Neuroticism as independent variables. I personally rank low on extraversion and high on neuroticism, but there's no reason there couldn't be a neurotic extrovert or a calm introvert. I dated the former for a while, then gave up and married the latter.
And, as others have pointed out, that comment of Shiller's was especially out of place given how many Mac users point to their still functional and useful "ancient" Macs.
Or iPads, which Shiller presumably doesn't mention. It turns out that the iPad 2 (released 2011) has the most users and almost twice as many as the next highest model. When was 2011 again? Oh, right, five years ago.
I disagree, maybe not completely, but mostly with your analysis of the target audience. The target audience isn't M$, but Apple's customers and event attendees. It's partly a "we're so superior; let's be smug together" crack, but there's also an undercurrent of "don't be like those people; keep being you and buying our products because that's what being you is."
My roommate did this at university. IT instituted a "bandwidth" cap (actually a download cap) for general internet usage, but email was unaffected. Turns out it's not too hard to write a service to email large files to you, split into chunks just under the email size cap, and cat them back together.
I was super irritated when Google first bought it, and I'm hoping BD survives being dropped. Can it buy itself back? Would that work out to a sustainable company?
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This was interesting. If 88% of the population is unemployed, what do they do all day?
The world needs fewer pedants like me.
Regrettably, I think the rural population density does have an impact on the terrible public transit in cities.
A fairly large percentage of the population (generally) have vehicles because of the failure to build impractically expensive public transit from city to city. City planning then developed around the idea that people have vehicles. Younger people who may not have vehicles may wish the cities to undertake projects toward reliable public transit, but they are SOL until they convince older people (who own cars) to pay for it. The young'uns grow up, move out of the city, get a car of their own, and become the ones refusing to pay for those whippersnappers' ideal subway system.
Clearly this is an oversimplification, but I think all those bits are interconnected.
I'm right there with you. I once told an intelligence officer that bulk communication surveillance was impossible because Bruce Schneier said so. I envy that officer's poker face.
Are there enough armed South African office workers that it makes sense for TFS to mention it? "Police arrest drone pilot who doesn't have Ebola" ?
Or the watch could work out when it was going to run out in the next 24 hours and encourage you to plug it in at your convenience. The Pebble's notification is "Charged until tonight."
The EFF has you covered (in a literal sense).
This needs more upmods. As an extension to ftobin: Losing in the legislature twice in 10 years means the legislation will be introduced at the state and local levels, leading to "You can't bring your fooPhone into New Jersey because it has encryption."
'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves...
We had that with NOPPL ("No Politics, Please"), but it may have gone defunct. Or perhaps some malware author is just waiting to take over the extension and shoulder-surf your Facebook sessions.
This "update" ends the "lifetime" and there will thereafter be no more updates.
I am pretty sure they could then design a detector that determined exactly where you were from even further away. And they'd definitely know it was you, too.
Let me know when you find the median price of a new car. I half-heartedly searched a couple times a few months back and got nothing. I looked again, just now, and found a chart of used car median prices by city from 2012 and something from the Boston Herald that is probably wrong, since it quotes the same number USA Today says is the average.
In a group of 4 cars, a single $90k luxury model can bring the average up to $33k when the three others cost $15k. That's why nobody cites the average home price, but somehow the median car price is impossible to find. You'll notice, if you go searching, that there are a bunch of articles bemoaning how the "median" American can't afford an "average" priced car, but that's a ridiculous comparison. If a person had the "average" wealth of all Americans, s/he would easily be in the top decile, and probably higher.
What's with the hate? Big Five explicitly treats Extraversion and Neuroticism as independent variables.
I personally rank low on extraversion and high on neuroticism, but there's no reason there couldn't be a neurotic extrovert or a calm introvert. I dated the former for a while, then gave up and married the latter.
I saw your indented numbering, and I was briefly excited, thinking that Slashdot had finally fixed the CSS for HTML lists. Dammit.
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Watch it be something tenuously connected to Belgium.
Citation? I wear a Pebble, and I would be interested to see your numbers.
And, as others have pointed out, that comment of Shiller's was especially out of place given how many Mac users point to their still functional and useful "ancient" Macs.
Or iPads, which Shiller presumably doesn't mention. It turns out that the iPad 2 (released 2011) has the most users and almost twice as many as the next highest model. When was 2011 again? Oh, right, five years ago.
I disagree, maybe not completely, but mostly with your analysis of the target audience. The target audience isn't M$, but Apple's customers and event attendees. It's partly a "we're so superior; let's be smug together" crack, but there's also an undercurrent of "don't be like those people; keep being you and buying our products because that's what being you is."
I wrote an rpg in a jar. The game sucked, and so did Java, but there you go.
My roommate did this at university. IT instituted a "bandwidth" cap (actually a download cap) for general internet usage, but email was unaffected. Turns out it's not too hard to write a service to email large files to you, split into chunks just under the email size cap, and cat them back together.
I was super irritated when Google first bought it, and I'm hoping BD survives being dropped. Can it buy itself back? Would that work out to a sustainable company?
Your logic is flawed. The two people didn't have to be connected to each other. They just had to be connected via friendship to oneiros' family.
you can't buy shit for $150K.
I see you're into adobe.