I want to like Intel's NUC, but I just can't find a reason for it that isn't better served with other hardware (sometimes cheaper considering all you have to buy for it) and very seldom is form factor the primary concern. Why not just get a mini tower? It needed to come out 2-3 years ago and the Mac Mini beat them by a long shot, plus it needs USB 3.0 instead.
Great now I want to dig out and play Homeworld again. Send out the miners to the local asteroid field and commence harvesting, cue the ethereal music. Forget building capital ships, building anything from material harvested from an asteroid would be pretty cool (except kinetic weapons).
You rarely see so much FUD in/. comments, this whole thread being an exception. Angus is not a dairy cow, it's raised for it's beef. And you couldn't be more wrong about "garbage left over after the good cuts have been stripped", unless you are thinking they usually put brisket and fillets in hamburger. There's a reason why it's hamburger is because it's not a choice cut like a rib eye or T-bone.
If I was a business that had any data that was proprietary maybe. As a home user, all my docs and spreadsheets are nothing I really care about for privacy and I wouldn't put confidential info on there but that's limited to just a few files. I've got them all synced (via nesting) Dropbox, Google Docs, SkyDrive.
Pictures (+home videos) backed up to G+ which is unlimited.
Music all synced with Google Play.
And for good measure all that backed up with an external drive (and soon Crashplan to a friends house). The programs and such on my tower I can just reinstall if it dies. It makes for great anywhere access as well as I don't have to manage lots of expensive redundancy hardware if I don't want to.
Yes...you can finance your phone by paying between $200 to $400 up front and paying the remaining $450 over a 2 yr period via a 2 yr contract...for between $80/month and $100/month with data + taxes/fees. But that adds up to about $2,000 + $200 = $2,400 for iPhone + 2 yrs of service.
That's only a legitimate calculation on the phone cost if they would otherwise give you a discount if you brought your own phone. Most carriers do not give you a discount on the contract pricing in the US.
Not if it's one of or is your primary communication/entertainment/information device. While it may be compared to other countries, that's fairly avg for US.
Or the problem is when states raid the "road and bridges fund" brought in by fuel taxes and use it in other areas instead of on, you know, roads and bridges. Then cry foul when something like this happens and they are short on the budget.
We are stuck here. There is no escape. Dream all you want--write stories about it, make movies about it. But we ain't leaving.
A thousand years ago the idea of leaving South America was ludicrous. A hundred years ago landing on the moon was ludricous. No, nobody alive will ever see a terraformed planet, but it will happen.
How about we large scale terraform the Sahara or Gobi deserts here on earth first? Conditions are 100x more favorable than on some remote planet with little support from Earth.
Are you a complete an utter moron? Moderation in no way took away your right to free speech. Heck, deleting your comment would not be a violation of your rights either, but that would be harder to explain to you.
Your comment added nothing to the discussion, and you got modded down. Get over it and quit crying.
Let alone preventing him from posting on a non-governmental discussion forum would also not be a violation of his free speech rights.
My bad, this is the building, but from a bad angle as you don't see the companies listed nor the Walgreens on the bottom floors until you look at the other side.
And yet, even in the linked article there is no picture of the building. How hard would it be to at least have a pic of the actual building in one of the most photographed places on earth?
According to other posters, it's not completely empty, a Walgreens takes up the first 3 floors, but still, a nice retirement package for the guy that bought it.
I'd only like to see more of 3D used in Sports. That's about the only time where I've seen it used where I really thought it added to the experience. Though TBH regular 3D I don't mind so much if it's well done. Avatar and Hobbit are some good examples.
The EU had, and still has, a tacit agreement with equipment vendors to this end in-place, but it's not legally binding and there is no penalty for not following it. Apple signed it, along with most other mobile device equipment vendors, then reneged on their promise and released the Lightning connector anyway. Apple does not care about the environment, it does not care about standards, it does not care about FRAND licensing of its patents, and it sure as hell doesn't care about its customers.
They provided a free converter Lightning-USB dongle for all EU purchases.
Apple cares about making as much money for its shareholders as possible. Period.
The Z-1 spacesuit will potentially be used to explore different planets.
The last suit redesign was just in '98. I don't know of any upcoming plans for planet exploration. By that time there will be many more iterations of design/improvements/new materials. This is not even potentially first mission until '15 at the earliest.
/not the Christmas present I wanted NASA and what about this big announcement you were to make a couple weeks ago?
Let alone the food and air requirements to keep a crew alive. There is only so much recycling you can do. No we cannot do a generational ship b/c you would have to take everything with you and as far as we know, elements in interstellar space are quite slim with no tech to turn any regolith or meteors into edible nutrients.
The problem has two parts: mental illness and guns. In China, with no guns, a mentally ill guy assaults 20 people and none of them are dead. In the US, with prolific guns, a mentally ill guy assaults 28 people, and 26 are dead.
That's rather selective of events though. In OKC, McVeigh blew up 19 kids and killed 150 more with some fertilizer and other common ingredients. No guns needed.
Hundreds if not thousands (esp worldwide) of children die every year from starvation, which is long drawn out death vs instant, 'more bad' IMHO. Thousands to millions more die via a simple knife and suction before they get out of the womb. Yet these children are not at the forefront of discussion. Should AR's be regulated? Of course. Should we limit gun ownership where reasonably possible, yes. Yet, none of that would have prevented the event.
I would more say this was a win-win for Google. They made demands of Apple, Apple said 'no, we can do this without you', Apple took a huge PR hit for pushing out a sub-par application that did not have Google's data anymore... and now Google has swept in to save the day with their own branded application instead...
Possibly, and I've downloaded it myself, but most users know there are many more Map apps out there, including those with turn by turn and are free if they don't like what the baked in Apple maps gives them (for most it's just fine unless you are a tech blogger). I don't think this is Google sweeping in to "save the day" as much as Google fans would like to believe.
"Developer freedom" is lost.
What? That is the most made up, sympathy-baiting term I've heard on this site. Oh, and not everyone on this site (far from it) is a software developer.
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I want to like Intel's NUC, but I just can't find a reason for it that isn't better served with other hardware (sometimes cheaper considering all you have to buy for it) and very seldom is form factor the primary concern. Why not just get a mini tower? It needed to come out 2-3 years ago and the Mac Mini beat them by a long shot, plus it needs USB 3.0 instead.
Great now I want to dig out and play Homeworld again. Send out the miners to the local asteroid field and commence harvesting, cue the ethereal music. Forget building capital ships, building anything from material harvested from an asteroid would be pretty cool (except kinetic weapons).
Breyers sucks anyways. If you ever are in the midwest, try BlueBell (stores) or Braums (regional chain) ice cream.
You rarely see so much FUD in /. comments, this whole thread being an exception. Angus is not a dairy cow, it's raised for it's beef. And you couldn't be more wrong about "garbage left over after the good cuts have been stripped", unless you are thinking they usually put brisket and fillets in hamburger. There's a reason why it's hamburger is because it's not a choice cut like a rib eye or T-bone.
If I was a business that had any data that was proprietary maybe. As a home user, all my docs and spreadsheets are nothing I really care about for privacy and I wouldn't put confidential info on there but that's limited to just a few files. I've got them all synced (via nesting) Dropbox, Google Docs, SkyDrive.
Pictures (+home videos) backed up to G+ which is unlimited.
Music all synced with Google Play.
And for good measure all that backed up with an external drive (and soon Crashplan to a friends house). The programs and such on my tower I can just reinstall if it dies. It makes for great anywhere access as well as I don't have to manage lots of expensive redundancy hardware if I don't want to.
Very interesting product. I couldn't tell by the products, but will these really run Hulu?
Yes...you can finance your phone by paying between $200 to $400 up front and paying the remaining $450 over a 2 yr period via a 2 yr contract...for between $80/month and $100/month with data + taxes/fees. But that adds up to about $2,000 + $200 = $2,400 for iPhone + 2 yrs of service.
That's only a legitimate calculation on the phone cost if they would otherwise give you a discount if you brought your own phone. Most carriers do not give you a discount on the contract pricing in the US.
Not if it's one of or is your primary communication/entertainment/information device. While it may be compared to other countries, that's fairly avg for US.
Or the problem is when states raid the "road and bridges fund" brought in by fuel taxes and use it in other areas instead of on, you know, roads and bridges. Then cry foul when something like this happens and they are short on the budget.
Men and women each have their strengths and weaknesses and it seems the fear of not being PC is somewhat hindering our greater efficiency.
But as a counterpoint to your example, in all my schooling, the technical people in engineering that were the smartest were usually women.
We are stuck here. There is no escape. Dream all you want--write stories about it, make movies about it. But we ain't leaving.
A thousand years ago the idea of leaving South America was ludicrous. A hundred years ago landing on the moon was ludricous. No, nobody alive will ever see a terraformed planet, but it will happen.
How about we large scale terraform the Sahara or Gobi deserts here on earth first? Conditions are 100x more favorable than on some remote planet with little support from Earth.
Are you a complete an utter moron? Moderation in no way took away your right to free speech. Heck, deleting your comment would not be a violation of your rights either, but that would be harder to explain to you.
Your comment added nothing to the discussion, and you got modded down. Get over it and quit crying.
Let alone preventing him from posting on a non-governmental discussion forum would also not be a violation of his free speech rights.
My bad, this is the building, but from a bad angle as you don't see the companies listed nor the Walgreens on the bottom floors until you look at the other side.
And yet, even in the linked article there is no picture of the building. How hard would it be to at least have a pic of the actual building in one of the most photographed places on earth?
According to other posters, it's not completely empty, a Walgreens takes up the first 3 floors, but still, a nice retirement package for the guy that bought it.
I'd only like to see more of 3D used in Sports. That's about the only time where I've seen it used where I really thought it added to the experience. Though TBH regular 3D I don't mind so much if it's well done. Avatar and Hobbit are some good examples.
The EU had, and still has, a tacit agreement with equipment vendors to this end in-place, but it's not legally binding and there is no penalty for not following it. Apple signed it, along with most other mobile device equipment vendors, then reneged on their promise and released the Lightning connector anyway. Apple does not care about the environment, it does not care about standards, it does not care about FRAND licensing of its patents, and it sure as hell doesn't care about its customers.
They provided a free converter Lightning-USB dongle for all EU purchases.
Apple cares about making as much money for its shareholders as possible. Period.
They are a corporation, that is their function.
Or you could, you know, just have a usb splitter and plug in the corresponding cables. Done. I'm failing to see the benefit of their device.
The Z-1 spacesuit will potentially be used to explore different planets.
The last suit redesign was just in '98. I don't know of any upcoming plans for planet exploration. By that time there will be many more iterations of design/improvements/new materials. This is not even potentially first mission until '15 at the earliest.
/not the Christmas present I wanted NASA and what about this big announcement you were to make a couple weeks ago?
I'd ban any automatic weapon.
Automatic weapons are already banned.
Let alone the food and air requirements to keep a crew alive. There is only so much recycling you can do. No we cannot do a generational ship b/c you would have to take everything with you and as far as we know, elements in interstellar space are quite slim with no tech to turn any regolith or meteors into edible nutrients.
The problem has two parts: mental illness and guns. In China, with no guns, a mentally ill guy assaults 20 people and none of them are dead. In the US, with prolific guns, a mentally ill guy assaults 28 people, and 26 are dead.
That's rather selective of events though. In OKC, McVeigh blew up 19 kids and killed 150 more with some fertilizer and other common ingredients. No guns needed.
Hundreds if not thousands (esp worldwide) of children die every year from starvation, which is long drawn out death vs instant, 'more bad' IMHO. Thousands to millions more die via a simple knife and suction before they get out of the womb. Yet these children are not at the forefront of discussion. Should AR's be regulated? Of course. Should we limit gun ownership where reasonably possible, yes. Yet, none of that would have prevented the event.
I would more say this was a win-win for Google. They made demands of Apple, Apple said 'no, we can do this without you', Apple took a huge PR hit for pushing out a sub-par application that did not have Google's data anymore... and now Google has swept in to save the day with their own branded application instead...
Possibly, and I've downloaded it myself, but most users know there are many more Map apps out there, including those with turn by turn and are free if they don't like what the baked in Apple maps gives them (for most it's just fine unless you are a tech blogger). I don't think this is Google sweeping in to "save the day" as much as Google fans would like to believe.
"Developer freedom" is lost. What? That is the most made up, sympathy-baiting term I've heard on this site. Oh, and not everyone on this site (far from it) is a software developer.
Global warming doesn't care whether you believe in it.
Stop anthropomorphizing Global Warming. It doesn't like that.
It'll be a very long time before world peace is achieved,
That depends highly on your definition of "world peace".