At least around here (can't say about SF or other cities, but I'm assuming it's similar), they're being incredibly slow with merely installing subterranean antennas so that cellphones can get a signal in the subway. Replacing all the card scanners (and all the cards!) currently in use with wireless or wired ones would be non-trivial for an efficient organization, so I'm assuming it's just about impossible for the average transportation authority.
However, that doesn't mean nothing can be done about it. Just need to have proper encryption, possibly partly on the card itself. Then it just becomes a cat and mouse game between hackers and organizations, as is the case for just about anything end-users can get their hands on.
Apple lovers must be stopped. They're driving ad revenue and hits to all these *retarded* articles. They keep writing them because people keep clicking on them. STOP IT people!
Sometimes I think it might actually be a good idea to find a way to "power" your devices using your own energy - so finding a way of converting ATP into electricity for electronic devices. Out of juice? No problem, just eat a sandwich and you're good to go!
As a bonus, you'd be able to say you lost weight by running folding@home. Solves obesity problems and advances science!
You do realize there'd be a horizon on a flat Earth too, right?
It wouldn't be in the same place and it wouldn't exhibit all the particularities that a spherical Earth has, but just saying that having a horizon means the Earth is curved is entirely false.
That's what I get for skimming the abstract. 0.0146km^2/g is the hypothetical maximum surface area they have determined through computational simulations. The actual surface area of the material they have conceived is around 7000 m^2/g.
In other news, 1.35 billion people (China) is more than 1.13 billion people (Europe and North America combined).
Should we really be surprised by this? China's simply catching up to the levels first world countries are at, and will most likely exceed them since they don't have the petty squabbles that Europe and the US have. That is, unless China's economy crashes.
Because whatever you think of filtering against piracy or pornography (I don't like either, but I can understand the latter for young children), it's fairly clear cut and simple to know what is piracy and what is pornography.
How do you quantitatively define libel? Do you just remove anything that anybody claims is libel against them? That'll work just fine, right?
Which is exactly the same case for Steam as it is for these other services. That's not the argument being made here. The argument was that Steam was somehow so much worse and more evil than everybody else.
I believe that's the point the GP was trying to make. The call center is what gives taxi companies an edge, but somebody has to pay for it. If the call center is made redundant by a simple mobile app, then taxi companies lose much of their advantage.
Apple has but a handful of hardware variants. Each manufacturer has dozens of phones, all with different hardware configurations.
I fully agree that the current system is broken, but blaming Google for it isn't exactly going to help. I wouldn't expect Google to offer drivers for all possible hardware configurations. There's just way too many of them. The responsibility should fall on the manufacturer.
Nah, what Google would have to do instead is require the manufacturer to provide timely updates for a certain time frame in order to have access to the Google Framework (which includes the official Google apps and Play store access). The manufacturer has an incentive to provide support, yet it's not Google's problem to implement all dozens of variations. Extremely cheap hardware usually doesn't offer the Google Framework and thus probably won't see updates, but then you get what you pay for.
I'll point out finally that the proper comparison between Apple and Google is by looking at Nexus phones. My Nexus S went through Gingerbread, ICS and now Jelly Bean in a very timely fashion. The Nexus line is the proper equivalent to the iPhone, because it's officially supported by Google, as opposed to a third party. I will however agree that Google's handling of the Nexus One was sloppy and that it should've had a update to ICS too.
Quantum correlations do exist and are part of the description of quantum mechanics. They do not however allow to transmit information, since the correlations are purely random.
To be fair, the likelihood of us being right is much higher than of us being wrong. All of what we have gathered as evidence points at our current understanding being correct.
New theories may appear, but as with old theories they usually tend towards old theories (just like how relativistic mechanics and quantum mechanics, when approximated to our scale, give classical mechanics).
Oh they've grown up alright. In their early days, they tended to do a lot of nifty things and leave them up. It's only fairly recently that they started pruning systems, APIs and services. Why? Because they don't give them a return on their investment.
I like Google, but I realize that they're in there for the money, just like every other corporation out there. If a service is only draining cash, it's not worth keeping up from a business standpoint. iGoogle's nice for its users, but it was isolated from the rest of the Google ecosystem (the widget system isn't really used anywhere else, it doesn't work with Google+, etc.) and didn't pull ad revenue. You could find similar reasoning for most products Google killed. Those that are still around are the successful, profit-making ones.
I'll still miss iGoogle because I like having a single page that shows my agenda, my RSS reader and my emails, but I can understand why it's being retired.
I have a friend whom, half the time I meet in class, spends half the course messing with wicd on his compiled from source Gentoo laptop. In the meantime, I'm happily browsing on Windows 7 and listening to the class. I had trouble even with Mint, where graphics acceleration plain and simply wouldn't work with my AMD switchable graphics setup (it's shitty on Windows, imagine on Linux).
A Linux distro that works 99% of the time and doesn't break on each update is the bare minimum if the community really wants to see a significant switch to Linux. You'll need games and applications on top, as well as lots of marketing, but a solid core is the first step. Unfortunately, despite all the jokes about the "Year of the Linux Desktop", I think most Linux aficionados don't actually want it to gain mass market traction.
Much of Apple's success should be attributed to Jonathan Ive. It's the iconic design of the iThings that initially (and even now, with those lawsuits) distinguished and propelled Apple forward.
What Steve Jobs did right was to give the design reins to Ive. In other words, Jobs was a businessman, and a savvy one at that, but he's not the all-around genius who singlehandedly restored Apple from near destruction as is often claimed.
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At least around here (can't say about SF or other cities, but I'm assuming it's similar), they're being incredibly slow with merely installing subterranean antennas so that cellphones can get a signal in the subway. Replacing all the card scanners (and all the cards!) currently in use with wireless or wired ones would be non-trivial for an efficient organization, so I'm assuming it's just about impossible for the average transportation authority.
However, that doesn't mean nothing can be done about it. Just need to have proper encryption, possibly partly on the card itself. Then it just becomes a cat and mouse game between hackers and organizations, as is the case for just about anything end-users can get their hands on.
On the flip side, perhaps this'll be the death knell for SlashBI.
Considering what "innovation" did to Lifehacker and other Gawker sites, I think the last thing you want is innovation.
Apple lovers must be stopped. They're driving ad revenue and hits to all these *retarded* articles. They keep writing them because people keep clicking on them. STOP IT people!
Don't worry, nobody ever reads TFA anyways.
This is one of the few times where I'll be cheering for the lawyers to suck as much money out of both of them as possible.
Many phones have micro-HDMI ports. You know, that standard that happens to have been designed for the purpose of carrying video and audio?
Japan's already experienced what it'd be like - rolling blackouts and other such problems.
Then the solution will be found: build more coal/oil powerplants. How brilliant!
Sometimes I think it might actually be a good idea to find a way to "power" your devices using your own energy - so finding a way of converting ATP into electricity for electronic devices. Out of juice? No problem, just eat a sandwich and you're good to go!
As a bonus, you'd be able to say you lost weight by running folding@home. Solves obesity problems and advances science!
You can't bitch and whine about it, you can't criticize it, thus the average /. commenter sees no interest.
You do realize there'd be a horizon on a flat Earth too, right?
It wouldn't be in the same place and it wouldn't exhibit all the particularities that a spherical Earth has, but just saying that having a horizon means the Earth is curved is entirely false.
My first reaction was "Wow, iPad users watch a lot of porn."
They've been having that technology for years, it's called the Reality Distortion Field.
They just needed to see whether it still worked without a Steve Jobs close by. Seems like they figured that yes, it does.
That's what I get for skimming the abstract. 0.0146km^2/g is the hypothetical maximum surface area they have determined through computational simulations. The actual surface area of the material they have conceived is around 7000 m^2/g.
That would be 1.46e32 barns.
(Or 0.0146 km squared if you want to be boring...)
In other news, 1.35 billion people (China) is more than 1.13 billion people (Europe and North America combined).
Should we really be surprised by this? China's simply catching up to the levels first world countries are at, and will most likely exceed them since they don't have the petty squabbles that Europe and the US have. That is, unless China's economy crashes.
Because whatever you think of filtering against piracy or pornography (I don't like either, but I can understand the latter for young children), it's fairly clear cut and simple to know what is piracy and what is pornography.
How do you quantitatively define libel? Do you just remove anything that anybody claims is libel against them? That'll work just fine, right?
Which is exactly the same case for Steam as it is for these other services. That's not the argument being made here. The argument was that Steam was somehow so much worse and more evil than everybody else.
I believe that's the point the GP was trying to make. The call center is what gives taxi companies an edge, but somebody has to pay for it. If the call center is made redundant by a simple mobile app, then taxi companies lose much of their advantage.
Apple has but a handful of hardware variants. Each manufacturer has dozens of phones, all with different hardware configurations.
I fully agree that the current system is broken, but blaming Google for it isn't exactly going to help. I wouldn't expect Google to offer drivers for all possible hardware configurations. There's just way too many of them. The responsibility should fall on the manufacturer.
Nah, what Google would have to do instead is require the manufacturer to provide timely updates for a certain time frame in order to have access to the Google Framework (which includes the official Google apps and Play store access). The manufacturer has an incentive to provide support, yet it's not Google's problem to implement all dozens of variations. Extremely cheap hardware usually doesn't offer the Google Framework and thus probably won't see updates, but then you get what you pay for.
I'll point out finally that the proper comparison between Apple and Google is by looking at Nexus phones. My Nexus S went through Gingerbread, ICS and now Jelly Bean in a very timely fashion. The Nexus line is the proper equivalent to the iPhone, because it's officially supported by Google, as opposed to a third party. I will however agree that Google's handling of the Nexus One was sloppy and that it should've had a update to ICS too.
Quantum correlations do exist and are part of the description of quantum mechanics. They do not however allow to transmit information, since the correlations are purely random.
To be fair, the likelihood of us being right is much higher than of us being wrong. All of what we have gathered as evidence points at our current understanding being correct.
New theories may appear, but as with old theories they usually tend towards old theories (just like how relativistic mechanics and quantum mechanics, when approximated to our scale, give classical mechanics).
Oh they've grown up alright. In their early days, they tended to do a lot of nifty things and leave them up. It's only fairly recently that they started pruning systems, APIs and services. Why? Because they don't give them a return on their investment.
I like Google, but I realize that they're in there for the money, just like every other corporation out there. If a service is only draining cash, it's not worth keeping up from a business standpoint. iGoogle's nice for its users, but it was isolated from the rest of the Google ecosystem (the widget system isn't really used anywhere else, it doesn't work with Google+, etc.) and didn't pull ad revenue. You could find similar reasoning for most products Google killed. Those that are still around are the successful, profit-making ones.
I'll still miss iGoogle because I like having a single page that shows my agenda, my RSS reader and my emails, but I can understand why it's being retired.
I have a friend whom, half the time I meet in class, spends half the course messing with wicd on his compiled from source Gentoo laptop. In the meantime, I'm happily browsing on Windows 7 and listening to the class. I had trouble even with Mint, where graphics acceleration plain and simply wouldn't work with my AMD switchable graphics setup (it's shitty on Windows, imagine on Linux).
A Linux distro that works 99% of the time and doesn't break on each update is the bare minimum if the community really wants to see a significant switch to Linux. You'll need games and applications on top, as well as lots of marketing, but a solid core is the first step. Unfortunately, despite all the jokes about the "Year of the Linux Desktop", I think most Linux aficionados don't actually want it to gain mass market traction.
Just wait until the 360 is retired, you'll see a major shift to DX11, which cannot run on XP.
Or you could also upgrade to 7 because it's plain and simply a better, more modern OS?
Much of Apple's success should be attributed to Jonathan Ive. It's the iconic design of the iThings that initially (and even now, with those lawsuits) distinguished and propelled Apple forward.
What Steve Jobs did right was to give the design reins to Ive. In other words, Jobs was a businessman, and a savvy one at that, but he's not the all-around genius who singlehandedly restored Apple from near destruction as is often claimed.