But could you advertise something as having "unlimited peanuts" and then have peanuts plus something else (really slow peanuts) in it? You are never going to really be able to eat an infinite amount of peanuts so the upper bound is meaningless.
If you try the Denny's "All You Can Eat Pancakes for $4," you experience just this behaviour: It is actually "2 pancakes plus 1 pancake every 30 minutes until your friends make you leave because they're bored."
I was under the impression that the "sport" version didn't require a phone for use. My assumption, then, was that it would sync to your phone when you got back from your run. After re-reading some parts of the Apple website, I have neither confirmed nor denied my initial thought (I think I got that impression from the hilarious Chinese-dubbed WWDC video). Was I wrong? Do you have a citation?
A cute (open source?) strength tester I have been playing with recently is made by a guy at Dropbox. It has some flaws**, but it's cute and it analyzes weaknesses.
** Mostly dictionary size, but in order to run in the browser without sending the password to a server for analysis, the dictionaries need to be small enough to load in a reasonable time.
I bought a new (entirely coincidence: "Cash for Clunkers" brought new cars into used-car price range) car for the reliability scores. It has lasted 5 years already, and I'm hoping for another 10. When I bought it, my goal was to never buy another ICE vehicle, and I'm beginning to think that was a reasonable aspiration.
The dealer asked if I wanted to trade it in for a newer model year "for the same or lower monthly payment." They lost interest when I asked if the payment would be lower than 0.
Red Bull. Apparently, it does not in fact give you wings. If you have had one since 2002, you are eligible for compensation under a successful class action suit: http://www.energydrinksettlement.com/. I almost wish I were making this up.
Besides, alcoholic beverages can't go through a self-scan.
They do here. The guy who oversees six self-scan booths** gets a ping when I scan the booze, and either (1) guesses my age and clicks the approve button or (2) walks over, interrupts me for the 15 seconds to verify my age, approves it, and goes back to his booth.
** Presumably to discourage obvious or brazen thievery?
I couldn't help but think "Someone has to have tried to get this into AOSP. It seems ridiculous that they wouldn't have.
It turns out that at least some of the code was written a year ago and still hasn't been merged. If one of you Slashdotters is a gerrit reviewer, can you check out the thesetwo requests?
I looked at the F-Droid.ics adapter source, which looked like it would work for importing and exporting.ics files, but after the events were in, that was the end of the life cycle. It probably couldn't maintain a subscription in case of event cancellations or updates.
...Oh. Sorry. Just did some research. You're talking about this, instead, right?
My cynical theory on why there is crappy support in the AOSP app is that Google specifically desires you to use their calendar so they can mine the data.
I had heard (IIRC it was on/. itself) that the (a?) problem with the battles in the BSG remake is this: if there is FTL travel, one can jump in a few light-minutes from a target*, see exactly where they are**, and jump in right on top of them to launch nukes before they have a chance to "see" the radiation emanating from your first exit from FTL because it has to travel the minutes or hours to reach them.
* Substitute light-hours if your FTL charge-time requires it
** Or (more precisely) where they were very recently
Sorry to meta, but it was amazing to see a disagreement on the internet (over a misunderstanding, even; between recognized users, even) turn into a semblance of consensus.
With respect to the Verizon/non-Verizon service, I had been tracking that (excitedly) at the time. There was an investment package from various wireless companies and a roll out plan for non-Verizon cell service in (1) the top 20 stations for October 2009, (2) all other underground stations by Fall 2010, and (3) all tunnels by October 2012.
They got the first two down, but the third step never materialized, with Metro blaming the wireless companies for not doing the work, and the wireless companies correspondingly blaming Metro for scheduling times for them to install the equipment in the tunnels (which required Metro staff to be there, and necessitated diverting trains around them), but then not showing up as agreed. Here's a story by The Examiner on the he-said she-said stuff. (Note: The Examiner is very right-biased on political issues, but I've found their local investigative reporting to be sound and insightful.)
I have plenty of material for crazy-thing-happened-on-the-Metro stories, but I'll save those for another time.
Science fiction allows you to craft a setting around an idea in order to explore the idea more fully. The setting could be past, present, future, whatever.
Convincing a high school english teacher that robots didn't automatically make a story unreadable once proved very difficult.
This is my expectation of what would happen if a non-U.S. government [subpoena]ed records stored in the U.S. belonging to some company:
If company says "yes:" Government obviously gets the records.
If, however, company says "no, these are out of your jurisdiction," the government can try to do one of the following:
- Convince the U.S. government to compel the company to turn over the records
- Fine the business
- Revoke business's permit to operate in the country
- Seize the local portion of the business
What other recourse does the that government have?
- It can't send agents to the U.S. to physically seize the records. That would be all kinds of hell for it. U.S. pols would go apeshit.
Correspondingly, Microsoft is hoping here that it falls into the "too big to fail" category and that it can bluster itself out of the present situation. If M$ can convince Uncle Sam that he has more to lose by the dissolution of M$ than by the exposure of the records, Microsoft "wins."
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But could you advertise something as having "unlimited peanuts" and then have peanuts plus something else (really slow peanuts) in it? You are never going to really be able to eat an infinite amount of peanuts so the upper bound is meaningless.
If you try the Denny's "All You Can Eat Pancakes for $4," you experience just this behaviour: It is actually "2 pancakes plus 1 pancake every 30 minutes until your friends make you leave because they're bored."
I was under the impression that the "sport" version didn't require a phone for use. My assumption, then, was that it would sync to your phone when you got back from your run. After re-reading some parts of the Apple website, I have neither confirmed nor denied my initial thought (I think I got that impression from the hilarious Chinese-dubbed WWDC video). Was I wrong? Do you have a citation?
That's still better than what I get from my ISP.
This needs to be linked here: Living with Lag (IRL)
Is the White House breach a result of this bug? Inquiring minds want to know!
I can't remember the film, but I remember being excited when I saw a HollywoodOS that used KDE.
I really want to understand your last sentence, but I can't (no sarcasm). Can you restate and/or elaborate?
A cute (open source?) strength tester I have been playing with recently is made by a guy at Dropbox. It has some flaws**, but it's cute and it analyzes weaknesses.
** Mostly dictionary size, but in order to run in the browser without sending the password to a server for analysis, the dictionaries need to be small enough to load in a reasonable time.
Ah. I should have read the details. My coworker presented it to me as if it were settled. Serves me right. :)
She said, "If you've enjoyed a Red Bull since 2002, you can get ten bucks..."
Me: "Enjoyed?"
I bought a new (entirely coincidence: "Cash for Clunkers" brought new cars into used-car price range) car for the reliability scores. It has lasted 5 years already, and I'm hoping for another 10. When I bought it, my goal was to never buy another ICE vehicle, and I'm beginning to think that was a reasonable aspiration.
The dealer asked if I wanted to trade it in for a newer model year "for the same or lower monthly payment." They lost interest when I asked if the payment would be lower than 0.
I don't think I fit your leasing model.
Red Bull. Apparently, it does not in fact give you wings. If you have had one since 2002, you are eligible for compensation under a successful class action suit: http://www.energydrinksettlement.com/. I almost wish I were making this up.
Besides, alcoholic beverages can't go through a self-scan.
They do here. The guy who oversees six self-scan booths** gets a ping when I scan the booze, and either (1) guesses my age and clicks the approve button or (2) walks over, interrupts me for the 15 seconds to verify my age, approves it, and goes back to his booth.
** Presumably to discourage obvious or brazen thievery?
Just curious, did you read the paywall version as well? (I didn't.) If so, I'm interested in what details it has over the droid-life summary.
I couldn't help but think "Someone has to have tried to get this into AOSP. It seems ridiculous that they wouldn't have.
It turns out that at least some of the code was written a year ago and still hasn't been merged. If one of you Slashdotters is a gerrit reviewer, can you check out the these two requests?
I looked at the F-Droid .ics adapter source, which looked like it would work for importing and exporting .ics files, but after the events were in, that was the end of the life cycle. It probably couldn't maintain a subscription in case of event cancellations or updates.
...Oh. Sorry. Just did some research. You're talking about this, instead, right?
My cynical theory on why there is crappy support in the AOSP app is that Google specifically desires you to use their calendar so they can mine the data.
I was likewise glad to see Niven's Bussard ramjet space battles mentioned.
I had heard (IIRC it was on /. itself) that the (a?) problem with the battles in the BSG remake is this: if there is FTL travel, one can jump in a few light-minutes from a target*, see exactly where they are**, and jump in right on top of them to launch nukes before they have a chance to "see" the radiation emanating from your first exit from FTL because it has to travel the minutes or hours to reach them.
* Substitute light-hours if your FTL charge-time requires it
** Or (more precisely) where they were very recently
A picture is worth 500 trees, if they're selling trees at $2 each, and fining for pictures at $1,000 each.
But seriously, thanks for posting this. I remembered reading the book and was hoping someone would make the citation so I could remember the numbers.
Sorry to meta, but it was amazing to see a disagreement on the internet (over a misunderstanding, even; between recognized users, even) turn into a semblance of consensus.
Carry on. =)
With respect to the Verizon/non-Verizon service, I had been tracking that (excitedly) at the time. There was an investment package from various wireless companies and a roll out plan for non-Verizon cell service in (1) the top 20 stations for October 2009, (2) all other underground stations by Fall 2010, and (3) all tunnels by October 2012.
They got the first two down, but the third step never materialized, with Metro blaming the wireless companies for not doing the work, and the wireless companies correspondingly blaming Metro for scheduling times for them to install the equipment in the tunnels (which required Metro staff to be there, and necessitated diverting trains around them), but then not showing up as agreed. Here's a story by The Examiner on the he-said she-said stuff. (Note: The Examiner is very right-biased on political issues, but I've found their local investigative reporting to be sound and insightful.)
I have plenty of material for crazy-thing-happened-on-the-Metro stories, but I'll save those for another time.
How did this get a mod point!? What's next (Godwin's law alert)?
"Would that we had a fuhrer again to get rid of the [ethnic group] problem?"
Science fiction allows you to craft a setting around an idea in order to explore the idea more fully. The setting could be past, present, future, whatever.
Convincing a high school english teacher that robots didn't automatically make a story unreadable once proved very difficult.
And then, a few days later, we have the Yahoo story break, where we find out that you're fined a quarter mil every day you stand your ground...
I'm a Pebble owner. I agree with this sentiment. I liked the ad for Apple Watch, but I'm not going to remember to plug the thing in every day.
Unobtrusive notifications are nice (at the cinema, say), and on-wrist walking directions can be really convenient, but not $350+ convenient.
Also, the "Share my heartbeat" thing seems creepy.
This is my expectation of what would happen if a non-U.S. government [subpoena]ed records stored in the U.S. belonging to some company:
If company says "yes:" Government obviously gets the records.
If, however, company says "no, these are out of your jurisdiction," the government can try to do one of the following:
- Convince the U.S. government to compel the company to turn over the records
- Fine the business
- Revoke business's permit to operate in the country
- Seize the local portion of the business
What other recourse does the that government have?
- It can't send agents to the U.S. to physically seize the records. That would be all kinds of hell for it. U.S. pols would go apeshit.
Correspondingly, Microsoft is hoping here that it falls into the "too big to fail" category and that it can bluster itself out of the present situation. If M$ can convince Uncle Sam that he has more to lose by the dissolution of M$ than by the exposure of the records, Microsoft "wins."
Posting to remove accidental downvote.