You don't even know what these things are. Read the other posts. As to iBeacon, it's not giving data to Apple. Some business, e.g. MLB, buys and installs iBeacon technology in order to sell goods and services or enhance their experience. The purchaser of iBeacon, not Apple. If a user allows his/her device to communicate with iBeacon - the owner or user of the device, the iBeacon or the business operating it - then and only then is their an exchange of data. Any device that has cellular communications or bluetooth turned on is providing some data to whatever is scanning for it, It's the nature of electronic communications. The issue is whether or not it provides data you've put in or made available to your device and that is what Apple puts in the device owner's/user's control.
Yes, and if one disk in an array fails, the likelihood that another disk in the same array will fail soon goes way up. That's because they many disk failures are related to environmental factors - power, air, particulate matter, etc. Whatever factors contributed to the first disk failure are also present for the other disks in the array. So it's best to replace disks that have impending failure as soon as you can.
Stations sample at a point. Adding more stations is adding more sample points. The distribution of the locations of the stations is no longer the same and that skews the sample, i.e. it's representation of the entire planet is different so you have to change the weightings so you aren't giving more weight to areas that have a different station density.
I agree. They kind of remind me of Xerox PARC. Lot's of smart people creatively innovating - even inventing on occasion - but no follow through to actually turn these investments into products they can make money on. Google gives away Android, ChomeOS and the Chrome browser in order to sell more ads and yet they make more money off of (ads on) iOS than they do Android. Google has yet to find an additional source of profits beyond advertising. If they don't make some changes then at some point the window of opportunity will close on them and they will fade into irrelevance.
Make some decisions. There isn't any video content I can't live without. There is more content available than I have the time I'm willing to allocate. So I'll prioritize and buy the content at the top of my list up to the budget - money and time - I've allocated for video content. It's not that hard.
What employers say they need and what they want are not the same thing. Employers have said they want certain skills but then they bring in H1B's with the same or inferior skills as their American counterparts. What employers really want from H1B's is cheap labor that is compliant and they get that because the H1B's they sponsor have no leverage. They have to accept whatever the employer decides with no recourse except to be sent home. If the employers were really just seeking skills they cannot find here then they'd be happy to allow the H1Bs to be free to leave for other employers or negotiate a better salary. H1B's are a distortion of the labor market because the H1B's are indentured servants. Eliminate that and let's see what the market brings us. Our current regulations and rules don't work. It's too easy for the employers to gave the system or outright lie.
A lot of the rules you're asking for exist, but they aren't enforced. Lawyers put together some plausible but incorrect statements and file them with authorities who aren't eager to check them out. There are videos on the internet showing various lawyers and clients conspiring to do this. To top it off, most in Congress are more loyal to the executives in the IT industry demanding higher quotas then they are to common people. Even when it's been demonstrated that these executives, Bill Gates included, are lying through their teeth about the salaries they pay the H1B's. Your last suggestions hint at a better solution and that is to remove employer sponsorship and control from the H1B process and the visa award completely. H1B holders should be able to change jobs at will and compete for whatever salaries they can get. Currently H1B holders are cheap and compliant due to the fact that they can't change jobs and it is that which makes them so appealing to employers. Free the H1B's and then they will only be valued based on their skills and productivity.
Aren't you just providing the details behind his assertion? The US was not willing to prosecute total war in order to win and it lost the will to fight a protracted guerrilla campaign. The British won their war in Malaysia using more overwhelming numbers and cutting off access to the villages by the guerrillas. It took about 10 years if I recall. It also takes a good 10 to 1 manpower advantage to pull this off. The US wasn't willing to make that commitment and the US population lost patience. News reports and general agitation by those opposing the war raised the public's consciousness about the war and how it was being prosecuted. (Interesting factoid, even though at the peak we had over 524000 service men and women in Vietnam, only 80,000 had direct combat roles. That' the same number the French had with only 140,000 + soldiers.) The French didn't have golf courses and pizza delivery by helicopter.
a little rumba that comes out and vacuums up the crumbs from my desk and keyboard. If it also tossed my old napkins and put out new ones it would be perfect. Wait, what about a beer & wine cooler and a little arm that would serve me a fresh one or a refill? Innovation!
No they weren't. As for various assertions about scientists supposedly saying the climate was getting colder, the report on climate change debunks all that. http://nca2014.globalchange.go...
Correction, Wikipedia cites some articles dating back to 1952. I was recalling the first scientific announcements I would recall which as a couple of years after the first Earth Day.
Climate change was first noted in the early 1970's. The change itself has been ongoing and accelerating over the past 500 years or so. So, no the bees' problem does not predate climate change.
Except for a couple of defensive posts, it's interesting that few of the posters seem to recognize that they are part of the 13%. I'd wager that where 13% might be the share of the general population, here at/. the share - based on comments on all topics - seem to be about 70%. The year of the Linux desktop. Symbian was sooooo great. Gnome versus KDE. Zune. Apple is doomed. Google is such an innovator and friend of open source. Etc.
Apple and Facebook. Facebook is probably the bigger threat in that they value market share whilst Apple values profit, i.e. they're happy to take the 20% share where 90% of the profit is and leave the rest to others.
AFTER Blackberry? Blackberry routes its messages through its own servers. It keeps copies. On a number of occasions they turned these messages over to governments when it was demanded. India was one of those countries if you want to look it up. Apple's work in this area includes 1) the encryption of data that Apple itself cannot break, 2) reducing the amount of information about you that Apple has as a result of your using their products (e.g. Apple Pay doesn't have your CC or see your transactions, 3) refusing to sell that information to third parties and 4) not allowing applications to collect data about you without your consent. Overall, that's better than Blackberry ever did. Yes, its take awhile to get this far, but they are moving in the right direction.
I work for one. They aren't shams in that there is no profit for shareholders. Yes, the top execs compensate themselves very very well. I'm a top of the heap individual contributor and highly paid and our CEO still makes about 100 times I do - literally. You'd think they'd return some to the "owners" (members), but they only do that - premium adjustments - when competitive or regulatory pressures give them no choice.
These are the same documents that are used to prohibit all manner of discrimination - sex, "gender self-identification, sexual preference, race, religion, ethnicity, etc. You can disagree with the law, but declaring it to be immoral is presumptuous.
How is it "immoral"? First of all the law isn't against "thought" - stupid prejudice; it's about "deed" - actively discriminating against someone for reasons irrelevant to the job. We legislate against deeds all the time. Murder, for instance, is mostly illegal. You can think about murdering someone, but you can't take actions that might lead to that result, i.e. hiring a hitman, firing a gun at someone, stabbing someone in the neck with a pencil, etc.
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Exactly, I second everything you wrote here.
You don't even know what these things are. Read the other posts. As to iBeacon, it's not giving data to Apple. Some business, e.g. MLB, buys and installs iBeacon technology in order to sell goods and services or enhance their experience. The purchaser of iBeacon, not Apple. If a user allows his/her device to communicate with iBeacon - the owner or user of the device, the iBeacon or the business operating it - then and only then is their an exchange of data. Any device that has cellular communications or bluetooth turned on is providing some data to whatever is scanning for it, It's the nature of electronic communications. The issue is whether or not it provides data you've put in or made available to your device and that is what Apple puts in the device owner's/user's control.
Please explain what you wrote. Provide some factual examples. As far as I can tell Apple only sells goods and services to people.
Yes, and if one disk in an array fails, the likelihood that another disk in the same array will fail soon goes way up. That's because they many disk failures are related to environmental factors - power, air, particulate matter, etc. Whatever factors contributed to the first disk failure are also present for the other disks in the array. So it's best to replace disks that have impending failure as soon as you can.
The far left and the far right are both autocratic. Taking an extreme view requires a high degree of certainty which correlates to a closed mind.
Stations sample at a point. Adding more stations is adding more sample points. The distribution of the locations of the stations is no longer the same and that skews the sample, i.e. it's representation of the entire planet is different so you have to change the weightings so you aren't giving more weight to areas that have a different station density.
I agree. They kind of remind me of Xerox PARC. Lot's of smart people creatively innovating - even inventing on occasion - but no follow through to actually turn these investments into products they can make money on. Google gives away Android, ChomeOS and the Chrome browser in order to sell more ads and yet they make more money off of (ads on) iOS than they do Android. Google has yet to find an additional source of profits beyond advertising. If they don't make some changes then at some point the window of opportunity will close on them and they will fade into irrelevance.
Make some decisions. There isn't any video content I can't live without. There is more content available than I have the time I'm willing to allocate. So I'll prioritize and buy the content at the top of my list up to the budget - money and time - I've allocated for video content. It's not that hard.
OS 9 - the current version runs on devices as old as the 4S. I believe the 4S was introduced in 2011. That's a lot longer than 2 years.
I'd mod you up but I use my last one 2 minutes ago. Sorry.
What employers say they need and what they want are not the same thing. Employers have said they want certain skills but then they bring in H1B's with the same or inferior skills as their American counterparts. What employers really want from H1B's is cheap labor that is compliant and they get that because the H1B's they sponsor have no leverage. They have to accept whatever the employer decides with no recourse except to be sent home. If the employers were really just seeking skills they cannot find here then they'd be happy to allow the H1Bs to be free to leave for other employers or negotiate a better salary. H1B's are a distortion of the labor market because the H1B's are indentured servants. Eliminate that and let's see what the market brings us. Our current regulations and rules don't work. It's too easy for the employers to gave the system or outright lie.
A lot of the rules you're asking for exist, but they aren't enforced. Lawyers put together some plausible but incorrect statements and file them with authorities who aren't eager to check them out. There are videos on the internet showing various lawyers and clients conspiring to do this. To top it off, most in Congress are more loyal to the executives in the IT industry demanding higher quotas then they are to common people. Even when it's been demonstrated that these executives, Bill Gates included, are lying through their teeth about the salaries they pay the H1B's. Your last suggestions hint at a better solution and that is to remove employer sponsorship and control from the H1B process and the visa award completely. H1B holders should be able to change jobs at will and compete for whatever salaries they can get. Currently H1B holders are cheap and compliant due to the fact that they can't change jobs and it is that which makes them so appealing to employers. Free the H1B's and then they will only be valued based on their skills and productivity.
Aren't you just providing the details behind his assertion? The US was not willing to prosecute total war in order to win and it lost the will to fight a protracted guerrilla campaign. The British won their war in Malaysia using more overwhelming numbers and cutting off access to the villages by the guerrillas. It took about 10 years if I recall. It also takes a good 10 to 1 manpower advantage to pull this off. The US wasn't willing to make that commitment and the US population lost patience. News reports and general agitation by those opposing the war raised the public's consciousness about the war and how it was being prosecuted. (Interesting factoid, even though at the peak we had over 524000 service men and women in Vietnam, only 80,000 had direct combat roles. That' the same number the French had with only 140,000 + soldiers.) The French didn't have golf courses and pizza delivery by helicopter.
a little rumba that comes out and vacuums up the crumbs from my desk and keyboard. If it also tossed my old napkins and put out new ones it would be perfect. Wait, what about a beer & wine cooler and a little arm that would serve me a fresh one or a refill? Innovation!
No they weren't. As for various assertions about scientists supposedly saying the climate was getting colder, the report on climate change debunks all that. http://nca2014.globalchange.go...
Correction, Wikipedia cites some articles dating back to 1952. I was recalling the first scientific announcements I would recall which as a couple of years after the first Earth Day.
Climate change was first noted in the early 1970's. The change itself has been ongoing and accelerating over the past 500 years or so. So, no the bees' problem does not predate climate change.
Except for a couple of defensive posts, it's interesting that few of the posters seem to recognize that they are part of the 13%. I'd wager that where 13% might be the share of the general population, here at /. the share - based on comments on all topics - seem to be about 70%. The year of the Linux desktop. Symbian was sooooo great. Gnome versus KDE. Zune. Apple is doomed. Google is such an innovator and friend of open source. Etc.
Apple and Facebook. Facebook is probably the bigger threat in that they value market share whilst Apple values profit, i.e. they're happy to take the 20% share where 90% of the profit is and leave the rest to others.
AFTER Blackberry? Blackberry routes its messages through its own servers. It keeps copies. On a number of occasions they turned these messages over to governments when it was demanded. India was one of those countries if you want to look it up. Apple's work in this area includes 1) the encryption of data that Apple itself cannot break, 2) reducing the amount of information about you that Apple has as a result of your using their products (e.g. Apple Pay doesn't have your CC or see your transactions, 3) refusing to sell that information to third parties and 4) not allowing applications to collect data about you without your consent. Overall, that's better than Blackberry ever did. Yes, its take awhile to get this far, but they are moving in the right direction.
I work for one. They aren't shams in that there is no profit for shareholders. Yes, the top execs compensate themselves very very well. I'm a top of the heap individual contributor and highly paid and our CEO still makes about 100 times I do - literally. You'd think they'd return some to the "owners" (members), but they only do that - premium adjustments - when competitive or regulatory pressures give them no choice.
Care First is a not for profit company. No shares. No investors. It's member owned.
These are the same documents that are used to prohibit all manner of discrimination - sex, "gender self-identification, sexual preference, race, religion, ethnicity, etc. You can disagree with the law, but declaring it to be immoral is presumptuous.
How is it "immoral"? First of all the law isn't against "thought" - stupid prejudice; it's about "deed" - actively discriminating against someone for reasons irrelevant to the job. We legislate against deeds all the time. Murder, for instance, is mostly illegal. You can think about murdering someone, but you can't take actions that might lead to that result, i.e. hiring a hitman, firing a gun at someone, stabbing someone in the neck with a pencil, etc.
Can't the submitter at least read the article they are submitting? Moron.