Actually the top speed for the first electric cars was about 60 MPH. Even at the time they recognized that electric cars were cleaner, pronounced less noise, and more economical. Their downside was the battery, which was primitive and prone to failure.
As in all things, it lost out to gasoline and diesel as those became cheaper to operate and easier to fuel as opposed to swapping out batteries. That didn't necessarily mean that electric sucked, but rather it couldn't compete at the time as fossil fuels were much more abundant and the infrastructure was easier to provide for.
I think that's the point of the article. In your rush to be 'first', you probably failed to notice that the car doesn't run on fossil fuels. Given that the 80's had no such car that was fully electric and ran at 125 MPH, then it's unlikely we'd find such a car unless we went to the future. Say, somewhere around 2013 to find it, no?
Before Apple came along and contracted with Samsung to build the iPhone and iPad pieces, Samsung's phones and pad's looked very different. After apple they are pretty much identical, down to the connectors, the hardware, and even the packaging. Google images on the before and after, even for the packaging. It just looks bad, and smacks of those fake Apple stores being busted up in Japan. Cloning for the sake of consumer confusion.
There is most likely a simple reason Samsung keeps loosing in every country they go to court in; the evidence is pretty damning. Each of the vendors mentioned above manages to make a distinct product that speaks to itself, has it's own flavor, look, and feel from a hardware/packaging perspective, yet Samsung ended up with a clone of Apple's, even going so far as to clone the OS GUI on their earlier smartphones, down to the 'dots' showing that more pages of icons were available, the icon images, etc.
There are also a few hardware patents in there in addition to the suit about copying product design but they never seem to get any play time with everyone so obsessed about that rounded corner nonsense.
Actually the T2 is one of the poorest performers and last for about half the iPhone's battery life. The iPhone scores the highest (note this benchmark is from a year ago so doesn't include the latest and greatest from Android).
Why would you 'edit' a PDF in iCloud? The whole point is that any docs are immediately synced to any device. In other words they are stored locally. You edit it locally and the updates are immediately pushed to every device in your cloud.
Why would you want to 'edit in the cloud' with no benefit?
You can also save the data directly from iTunes. On the apps tab it will list any apps that store data on the phone. Just click the data file and the 'Save As' button should become available. I'm betting the app developers need to code their apps for that however as I only see one of my apps that stores data there, which also happens to be one that lets me export from the app itself.
Correct me if I'm wrong but dropbox is not a backup solution, but rather a data backup solution. It doesn't backup the OS, app settings, icon locations, etc. It can't be used to restore your device. Not sure about Titanium as I've never used it.
Also, the iCloud sync is not only for music but also for data/documents which are then synced to any device you own connected to that cloud account. Contacts, mail, pictures, music, documents, etc. They are synced immediately and it works well. I love that I can create contact on my PC and it's immediately visible on my phone.
Regarding your app data question, that would be something to be addressed by the game developer. I have a few apps that include a backup utility. I wouldn't expect the OS to handle that, but rather the app to have an export function.
It wasn't theft due to simply finding it. He sold goods that didn't belong to him. Since he was in effect claiming ownership when he sold it, he is trafficking in stolen goods. Simply finding it wasn't a crime. Pretending it was his and selling it to the highest bidder is a crime if you don't own the goods in question or you are not authorized to sell the goods in question.
That's because the index defined defines if it's case sensitive, if it uses word breaks, etc. They built the rules allowed in the search right into the index.
Excellent point. Since the carrier charges the same fee to everyone regardless of whether or not they are using a subsidized phone, then there must be some other benefit to a customer locked into a contract for a pre-determined number of months. If I had to guess I'd say it was just having a guaranteed source of income, which would always be desirable to an unknown or unreliable source of income.
On that we can agree. I'm disappointed at the appointments by Obama from the recording industry. When it comes to copyrights, I'm not a fan of the current administration, although from a personal standpoint, that isn't as important to me as civil rights.
As it is with all things political, it often comes down to a choice of which bothers you more. There is no perfect candidate.
Your statement was pretty clear. You specifically were talking about civil rights, not 'rights' in general.
When it comes to civil rights, the republican party lost any credibility after the civil rights act. The souther democrats everyone is so fond of mentioning also switched parties and became republicans after that.
The party of Lincoln is long dead and has no resemblance to the republican party of today.
Both sides, with few exceptions, only support civil rights when they can claim victimization.
Hardly. The Republicans lost all claim to a good civil rights platform after the Civl Rights Act of 1964. There is a reason that minorities and ethnic groups give overwhelmingly to the Democratic party. They choose the party that best represents their interests and those minority and ethnic groups are the most affected by civil rights issues. The last time I checked there are a total of 2 African American's in the Republican party. Two. The last time I checked it was the Republicans who repeatedly throw gay Americans under the bus to buy votes from their base. It is the Republican party who is against unions/workers rights, the right to choose, separation of church and state (1st amendment issues), etc.
Claiming that both parties are the same would tend to have the same representation, the same fundraising, and the same general support for both parties from such groups, yet they overwhelmingly support the Democratic platform.
Can't agree with this more. As to the situation in general, I would have to suggest that you ask the company with the new offer if they are willing to allow you any additional time to transition. Make sure they understand you do not want to leave your existing employer in a lurch. Although it may be an inconvenience, your new employer will often see this loyalty in a good light (as they should). Most are willing to give you additional time for such reasons.
If they are not flexible, then I would turn in your notice, notify your current employer that you will make any necessary effort to help ease the transition, and you could also offer to continue to assist for a short time after you leave but during your off hours (for example, where do I find, how was this setup, etc type questions). As long as you clearly define the limits of when it is acceptable for them to contact you, and for how long. I would not ask for a counter offer. If they offer one and it seems reasonable, then go from there, but do not burn bridges with a 'gimme' attitude when not necessary. You may find the new employer looks too good on the surface for a reason.
I'm a fan of progressives when it comes to civil rights. I just don't see a lot of real strength coming from the right regardless of what's coming out of their mouths.
I'm curious about this as well. I would not give the passcode to an officer and unless they can show just cause to search your car, how would they ever get to your cell phone?
What would they do in such a case? If they arrest you, you then have the right to remain silent, meaning they can't compel the code from you either.
Although the curious side in me might want to see the results of such tests, the likelihood that someone would find such results useful in real world work is highly unlikely. In short, what's the point? At this point browsers have gotten to be fast enough that gains go largely unnoticed. I'm more interested in compatibility, recoverability, and feature set.
Opening the same site in 10 tabs. in 100. At what point does the browser crash? What is the memory usage? Now open the same youtube video in 10 tabs. In 100. Repeat the above. Do the same with trailers.apple.com.
Next, open a youtube video in 10 tabs for each browser, and log how long that pid remains active. Is it still there after a day? After a week? Or does it crash with no user interaction?
Yes, but the problem is that now that they DO know that this is what happens, and it's relatively harmless, they refuse to fix the law with a little sanity and instead seem totally incompetent and out of touch with reality.
This whole law is fucking retarded in regards to teen sexting. Kids are going to be playful, curious, and they are going to send nude pics of themselves, and it's ridiculous to call it a crime. If the pics they send are of themselves, then it's none of the governments damn business. Leave it for the parents to take care of. Classifying it as a crime with tis graduated 3 strikes rule is over the top. What exactly is it suppose to accomplish. It is a distortion of the law to call it child porn to begin with. Instead of making exceptions for self pics from teens, they have again done the wrong thing, albeit it to a very slight lesser degree, instead of just putting an exception in to begin with.
Apple is the industry highest in customer satisfaction for the 8th year in a row. This isn't due to 'marketing' although I know/. loves to write off Apple as such. Apple makes solid products with good design and durability. For day to day wear and tear, the OS is excellent, and doesn't require 3 hours to update, the ports don't break after 12 months, and the power cord doesn't crack the motherboard. The hinges don't fall off, the screen doesn't crack, the bottom doesn't turn brown from excessive heat, it doesn't toast my nuts, and it's generally just pleasant to use. I know these things are hard for a geek to accept. It doesn't have the latest/highest GHz CPU, although it's certainly not at the bottom either. Same for the video card. Apple machines are just well built and it's customers know this. Marketing might get an initial customer, but why would they rank a 'mediocre' product in the top of it's class 8 years in a row?
The anti-Apple crowd on Slashdot will never understand Apple. They will dismiss it as overpriced (in reality it's prices are comparable to any other major vendor like HP), a 'fashion statement', 'gay', etc. These emotional rants don't hold up well to what the market has to say. Apple is now the largest in market cap, the highest in customer satisfaction, and produces products that have the highest customer retention, and the highest customer anticipation for new products. The Slashdot crowd was full of jeers when the iPad came out with claims that it would be gone in a month, wouldn't sell, was overpriced, pointless, etc. It has found a huge market following which no other company has failed to match yet they have been trying for a few years now. All of the bad predictions have fallen flat on their face.
Apple doesn't build a spec system. They never have. This is something that drives a tech geek crazy. Their drive to strap a quad core into a tiny compact space gives you abominations like a 12 pound laptop. Might be great for bragging rights, but it's not very useable to a typical end user. The benefit is questionable to the non-techie. They found out that although the average end user might ask a geek for tech advice, the resulting advice doesn't mean anything to them. They found they can just buy it and it works. They don't need to know how many cores, how much memory, what graphics GPU it has, etc. The 'consulting' role that the typical geek had for computing products is entirely useless for an Apple product. I have to wonder if some of the ill will for Apple comes from that. I was one myself until I bought my first Macbook after experiencing Vista. I haven't looked back since. That original Macbook Pro is still trucking along just fine too. Something my 5 other household laptops from various other vendors have failed to do, due to various failures.
Dismissing Apple as 'fashion' is probably a primary reason why Microsoft is no longer top dog and falling in market capital. Foolish.
Care to explain why you assume that a ridiculous amount of old customers would flee from a mediocre product with good marketing? Or you simply think this is how it works?
You do realize that in order to compress the data, Opera's servers have to render it first? The two technologies are more similar than they are dissimilar. From what I recall, Opera's approach is to pre-render on a proxy server, compress the end result, and send down to the device as a compact binary stream, and Silk appears to be doing pretty much the exact same thing but without any additional compression that I saw mentioned.
In any case, both have to pre-render the page and Opera's approach also removes the bulk of processing as well.
This goes beyond simple theories and pipe dreams. This was actively performed in a lab and the process is well documented. This actually pokes holes in the cholesterol membrane using a chemical called beta-cyclodextrin. This chemical binds to this special type of cholesterol around an HIV cell, which had two desired effects. It prevented the HIV virus from hyper-activating PDC's (the mechanism which damages the immune response itself), and it seems it also damaged it's ability to replicate. The chemical actually leaves the membrane riddled with holes due to this binding process.
This is very promising in that the function they are disrupting is at the very root of what makes HIV effective in avoiding the immune system. Once this happens, the immune system is able to respond to the virus much like it would any other typical pathogen.
The one thing that wasn't made clear was what the impact will be to those who are already infected. It sounds as if this could potentially be useful to existing infections as well but I haven't seen any statements to that effect as of yet.
This appears to be strictly feature driven by UEFI, and Win 8 supports this secure 'feature'. This functionality was apparently in UEFI all the time but not supported in Windows. What this appears to saying is that your motherboard (or PC manufacturer as the case may be) will be able to decide just how locked down your EFI is in regards to 'allowed' boot loaders. Windows doesn't have much to do with it other than opting in to that additional security. I'm guessing this was done to try and avoid rootkits?
From TFA:
Quick summary UEFI allows firmware to implement a security policy Secure boot is a UEFI protocol not a Windows 8 feature UEFI secure boot is part of Windows 8 secured boot architecture Windows 8 utilizes secure boot to ensure that the pre-OS environment is secure Secure boot doesn’t “lock out” operating system loaders, but is is a policy that allows firmware to validate authenticity of components OEMs have the ability to customize their firmware to meet the needs of their customers by customizing the level of certificate and policy management on their platform Microsoft does not mandate or control the settings on PC firmware that control or enable secured boot from any operating system other than Windows
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Actually the top speed for the first electric cars was about 60 MPH. Even at the time they recognized that electric cars were cleaner, pronounced less noise, and more economical. Their downside was the battery, which was primitive and prone to failure.
As in all things, it lost out to gasoline and diesel as those became cheaper to operate and easier to fuel as opposed to swapping out batteries. That didn't necessarily mean that electric sucked, but rather it couldn't compete at the time as fossil fuels were much more abundant and the infrastructure was easier to provide for.
I think that's the point of the article. In your rush to be 'first', you probably failed to notice that the car doesn't run on fossil fuels. Given that the 80's had no such car that was fully electric and ran at 125 MPH, then it's unlikely we'd find such a car unless we went to the future. Say, somewhere around 2013 to find it, no?
Before Apple came along and contracted with Samsung to build the iPhone and iPad pieces, Samsung's phones and pad's looked very different. After apple they are pretty much identical, down to the connectors, the hardware, and even the packaging. Google images on the before and after, even for the packaging. It just looks bad, and smacks of those fake Apple stores being busted up in Japan. Cloning for the sake of consumer confusion.
There is most likely a simple reason Samsung keeps loosing in every country they go to court in; the evidence is pretty damning. Each of the vendors mentioned above manages to make a distinct product that speaks to itself, has it's own flavor, look, and feel from a hardware/packaging perspective, yet Samsung ended up with a clone of Apple's, even going so far as to clone the OS GUI on their earlier smartphones, down to the 'dots' showing that more pages of icons were available, the icon images, etc.
There are also a few hardware patents in there in addition to the suit about copying product design but they never seem to get any play time with everyone so obsessed about that rounded corner nonsense.
Actually the T2 is one of the poorest performers and last for about half the iPhone's battery life. The iPhone scores the highest (note this benchmark is from a year ago so doesn't include the latest and greatest from Android).
http://www.anandtech.com/show/3967/the-tmobile-g2-preview/4
Battery benchmarks are about the middle of the page for a variety of smartphones.
Why would you 'edit' a PDF in iCloud? The whole point is that any docs are immediately synced to any device. In other words they are stored locally. You edit it locally and the updates are immediately pushed to every device in your cloud.
Why would you want to 'edit in the cloud' with no benefit?
You can also save the data directly from iTunes. On the apps tab it will list any apps that store data on the phone. Just click the data file and the 'Save As' button should become available. I'm betting the app developers need to code their apps for that however as I only see one of my apps that stores data there, which also happens to be one that lets me export from the app itself.
Correct me if I'm wrong but dropbox is not a backup solution, but rather a data backup solution. It doesn't backup the OS, app settings, icon locations, etc. It can't be used to restore your device. Not sure about Titanium as I've never used it.
Also, the iCloud sync is not only for music but also for data/documents which are then synced to any device you own connected to that cloud account. Contacts, mail, pictures, music, documents, etc. They are synced immediately and it works well. I love that I can create contact on my PC and it's immediately visible on my phone.
Regarding your app data question, that would be something to be addressed by the game developer. I have a few apps that include a backup utility. I wouldn't expect the OS to handle that, but rather the app to have an export function.
It wasn't theft due to simply finding it. He sold goods that didn't belong to him. Since he was in effect claiming ownership when he sold it, he is trafficking in stolen goods. Simply finding it wasn't a crime. Pretending it was his and selling it to the highest bidder is a crime if you don't own the goods in question or you are not authorized to sell the goods in question.
That's because the index defined defines if it's case sensitive, if it uses word breaks, etc. They built the rules allowed in the search right into the index.
Yes, it's really that painful....on purpose.
Excellent point. Since the carrier charges the same fee to everyone regardless of whether or not they are using a subsidized phone, then there must be some other benefit to a customer locked into a contract for a pre-determined number of months. If I had to guess I'd say it was just having a guaranteed source of income, which would always be desirable to an unknown or unreliable source of income.
Identity Infringement?
On that we can agree. I'm disappointed at the appointments by Obama from the recording industry. When it comes to copyrights, I'm not a fan of the current administration, although from a personal standpoint, that isn't as important to me as civil rights.
As it is with all things political, it often comes down to a choice of which bothers you more. There is no perfect candidate.
Your statement was pretty clear. You specifically were talking about civil rights, not 'rights' in general.
When it comes to civil rights, the republican party lost any credibility after the civil rights act. The souther democrats everyone is so fond of mentioning also switched parties and became republicans after that.
The party of Lincoln is long dead and has no resemblance to the republican party of today.
Hardly. The Republicans lost all claim to a good civil rights platform after the Civl Rights Act of 1964. There is a reason that minorities and ethnic groups give overwhelmingly to the Democratic party. They choose the party that best represents their interests and those minority and ethnic groups are the most affected by civil rights issues. The last time I checked there are a total of 2 African American's in the Republican party. Two. The last time I checked it was the Republicans who repeatedly throw gay Americans under the bus to buy votes from their base. It is the Republican party who is against unions/workers rights, the right to choose, separation of church and state (1st amendment issues), etc.
Claiming that both parties are the same would tend to have the same representation, the same fundraising, and the same general support for both parties from such groups, yet they overwhelmingly support the Democratic platform.
Explain that.
Can't agree with this more. As to the situation in general, I would have to suggest that you ask the company with the new offer if they are willing to allow you any additional time to transition. Make sure they understand you do not want to leave your existing employer in a lurch. Although it may be an inconvenience, your new employer will often see this loyalty in a good light (as they should). Most are willing to give you additional time for such reasons.
If they are not flexible, then I would turn in your notice, notify your current employer that you will make any necessary effort to help ease the transition, and you could also offer to continue to assist for a short time after you leave but during your off hours (for example, where do I find, how was this setup, etc type questions). As long as you clearly define the limits of when it is acceptable for them to contact you, and for how long. I would not ask for a counter offer. If they offer one and it seems reasonable, then go from there, but do not burn bridges with a 'gimme' attitude when not necessary. You may find the new employer looks too good on the surface for a reason.
I'm a fan of progressives when it comes to civil rights. I just don't see a lot of real strength coming from the right regardless of what's coming out of their mouths.
I'm curious about this as well. I would not give the passcode to an officer and unless they can show just cause to search your car, how would they ever get to your cell phone?
What would they do in such a case? If they arrest you, you then have the right to remain silent, meaning they can't compel the code from you either.
Although the curious side in me might want to see the results of such tests, the likelihood that someone would find such results useful in real world work is highly unlikely. In short, what's the point? At this point browsers have gotten to be fast enough that gains go largely unnoticed. I'm more interested in compatibility, recoverability, and feature set.
Yes, but the problem is that now that they DO know that this is what happens, and it's relatively harmless, they refuse to fix the law with a little sanity and instead seem totally incompetent and out of touch with reality.
This whole law is fucking retarded in regards to teen sexting. Kids are going to be playful, curious, and they are going to send nude pics of themselves, and it's ridiculous to call it a crime. If the pics they send are of themselves, then it's none of the governments damn business. Leave it for the parents to take care of. Classifying it as a crime with tis graduated 3 strikes rule is over the top. What exactly is it suppose to accomplish. It is a distortion of the law to call it child porn to begin with. Instead of making exceptions for self pics from teens, they have again done the wrong thing, albeit it to a very slight lesser degree, instead of just putting an exception in to begin with.
Apple is the industry highest in customer satisfaction for the 8th year in a row. This isn't due to 'marketing' although I know /. loves to write off Apple as such. Apple makes solid products with good design and durability. For day to day wear and tear, the OS is excellent, and doesn't require 3 hours to update, the ports don't break after 12 months, and the power cord doesn't crack the motherboard. The hinges don't fall off, the screen doesn't crack, the bottom doesn't turn brown from excessive heat, it doesn't toast my nuts, and it's generally just pleasant to use. I know these things are hard for a geek to accept. It doesn't have the latest/highest GHz CPU, although it's certainly not at the bottom either. Same for the video card. Apple machines are just well built and it's customers know this. Marketing might get an initial customer, but why would they rank a 'mediocre' product in the top of it's class 8 years in a row?
The anti-Apple crowd on Slashdot will never understand Apple. They will dismiss it as overpriced (in reality it's prices are comparable to any other major vendor like HP), a 'fashion statement', 'gay', etc. These emotional rants don't hold up well to what the market has to say. Apple is now the largest in market cap, the highest in customer satisfaction, and produces products that have the highest customer retention, and the highest customer anticipation for new products. The Slashdot crowd was full of jeers when the iPad came out with claims that it would be gone in a month, wouldn't sell, was overpriced, pointless, etc. It has found a huge market following which no other company has failed to match yet they have been trying for a few years now. All of the bad predictions have fallen flat on their face.
Apple doesn't build a spec system. They never have. This is something that drives a tech geek crazy. Their drive to strap a quad core into a tiny compact space gives you abominations like a 12 pound laptop. Might be great for bragging rights, but it's not very useable to a typical end user. The benefit is questionable to the non-techie. They found out that although the average end user might ask a geek for tech advice, the resulting advice doesn't mean anything to them. They found they can just buy it and it works. They don't need to know how many cores, how much memory, what graphics GPU it has, etc. The 'consulting' role that the typical geek had for computing products is entirely useless for an Apple product. I have to wonder if some of the ill will for Apple comes from that. I was one myself until I bought my first Macbook after experiencing Vista. I haven't looked back since. That original Macbook Pro is still trucking along just fine too. Something my 5 other household laptops from various other vendors have failed to do, due to various failures.
Dismissing Apple as 'fashion' is probably a primary reason why Microsoft is no longer top dog and falling in market capital. Foolish.
You do realize that in order to compress the data, Opera's servers have to render it first? The two technologies are more similar than they are dissimilar. From what I recall, Opera's approach is to pre-render on a proxy server, compress the end result, and send down to the device as a compact binary stream, and Silk appears to be doing pretty much the exact same thing but without any additional compression that I saw mentioned.
In any case, both have to pre-render the page and Opera's approach also removes the bulk of processing as well.
This goes beyond simple theories and pipe dreams. This was actively performed in a lab and the process is well documented. This actually pokes holes in the cholesterol membrane using a chemical called beta-cyclodextrin. This chemical binds to this special type of cholesterol around an HIV cell, which had two desired effects. It prevented the HIV virus from hyper-activating PDC's (the mechanism which damages the immune response itself), and it seems it also damaged it's ability to replicate. The chemical actually leaves the membrane riddled with holes due to this binding process.
This is very promising in that the function they are disrupting is at the very root of what makes HIV effective in avoiding the immune system. Once this happens, the immune system is able to respond to the virus much like it would any other typical pathogen.
The one thing that wasn't made clear was what the impact will be to those who are already infected. It sounds as if this could potentially be useful to existing infections as well but I haven't seen any statements to that effect as of yet.
This appears to be strictly feature driven by UEFI, and Win 8 supports this secure 'feature'. This functionality was apparently in UEFI all the time but not supported in Windows. What this appears to saying is that your motherboard (or PC manufacturer as the case may be) will be able to decide just how locked down your EFI is in regards to 'allowed' boot loaders. Windows doesn't have much to do with it other than opting in to that additional security. I'm guessing this was done to try and avoid rootkits?
From TFA:
Does the Blockbuster service offer streaming, or is it strictly disc/games? Would consider switching myself if I can find a comparable service.