And some people wonder why I don't take everything doctors tell me as 'word of God'
And we'll continue to do so. You're comparing someone's knowledge of some completely unrelated skill to something they spent years honing at medical school. I'm a safety systems engineer. The fact I haven't a clue how to knit a sweater and have no intention of ever putting any effort into learning how to knit a sweater doesn't make me a worse engineer as a result.
Generically I of course agree with you, but his examples were pretty specific. Calling tech support from the operating room to learn how to use equipment is pretty scary. It speaks to horrible judgment, however specialized and extensive your education.
Yeah, I'm sure Google would be seriously hurt if it had to fork out $20M for something that would give it amazing publicity around the world. That's why they're cancelling it. Sure.
BMW and Porsche also have plans to introduce all-electric supercars, and Marchionne says "I don't know of a [business] that is making money selling electric vehicles unless you are selling them at the very, very high end of the spectrum."
Precisely. EV are luxury items. May as well go all the way.
Most likely they're bullshitting in the hope it gives the US left an excuse to say that 'ballistic missile defence can't non ballistic missile threats, therefore it's not worth doing'.
Which has been the US Left's line (though for all missile defense, not just non-ballistic) more or less forever.
Eh...I finally dropped it after 15 years...they're just not competitive on price any more. Things they post as "on-sale" are still 10-20% higher than their competitors.
Maybe some things, but by no means all, or even most.
Prime makes sense for a lot of people, including me. I order a LOT online. I do comparison shop, but still end up getting a lot from Amazon every month.
Combine that with the Prime video - which I like, as I like eclectic stuff and I don't care if the latest hot popular series or movies are included - and it's a great value.
Same here. For the free shipping and the video, it's a no brainer.
For those who can't figure this out: yes, some Prime items might be overpriced to account for shipping, but by no means all. That's why you do this thing called "comparison shop". It's made much easier by this other thing called "the internet".
Don't bother looking for this new Linux distro. You won't be able to find it. GLinux, like Goobuntu before it, is strictly for internal Google use.
Don't they have to publish the source under GPL? (I realise that this is different from having a downloadable pre-compiled distribution, but it is still available)
No, they only have to distribute source if they distribute binaries. If they only use it internally they don't have to distribute source.
Michigan is literally surrounded by fresh water and that doesn't seem to be changing. If " that extra boost of nitrogen won't be enough" because water, then why do you think the trees won't have enough water?
Maybe there's a reason, but the excerpt provided does not give it or even hint at it. (And I won't break tradition by actually reading TFA.)
There is an optimal rate, not near 100% and not near 0%, that maximizes revenue. Raising rates above the optimal rate hurts revenue, reducing them below the optimal rate reduces revenue.
Indeed.
And as I think you touch on later, we might want to optimize for things other than revenue too. Optimal revenue might not be optimal for economic growth, employment, etc. for example. Revenue is not the only variable we should care about:)
It gives the politicians who give away massive amounts of wealth to the corporations a simple talking point.
That's why this move makes very little sense. I've never thought of anybody in Apple's upper echelons as being a Trump supporter by any stretch of the imagination.
Quite right, they aren't. Puzzling, isn't it?
Maybe... just maybe... a better tax environment is better for business, which is better for paid non-governmental employment. Maybe wascally wepubwicans aren't as awful as you thought.
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172 billion? That's all??
The internet is just a big pipe for lots of stuff ... music? Web pages? Streaming video? Email? Social media?
So 1/7 of a day per day, for most of my reading and video and music consumption and remote communication? Not too bad ...
And some people wonder why I don't take everything doctors tell me as 'word of God'
And we'll continue to do so. You're comparing someone's knowledge of some completely unrelated skill to something they spent years honing at medical school. I'm a safety systems engineer. The fact I haven't a clue how to knit a sweater and have no intention of ever putting any effort into learning how to knit a sweater doesn't make me a worse engineer as a result.
Generically I of course agree with you, but his examples were pretty specific. Calling tech support from the operating room to learn how to use equipment is pretty scary. It speaks to horrible judgment, however specialized and extensive your education.
Yeah, I'm sure Google would be seriously hurt if it had to fork out $20M for something that would give it amazing publicity around the world. That's why they're cancelling it. Sure.
Fair enough, but then ... why?
Of those, 57 percent belong to women.
Why ... does that matter?
Is that supposed to make us care more or something?
Almost Any State, USA.
Um, no, in what state do 90% of property taxes go to the state? That's not common.
BMW and Porsche also have plans to introduce all-electric supercars, and Marchionne says "I don't know of a [business] that is making money selling electric vehicles unless you are selling them at the very, very high end of the spectrum."
Precisely. EV are luxury items. May as well go all the way.
Well, you have to launch it from your submarine anyway - you don't want it to detonate on top of you, do you?
This is a "Drone Torpedo" capable of 6,200mile range. It *is* the submarine.
To have that range yes, it was have to more or less be a complete drone submarine. Which makes it even more dubious.
Most likely they're bullshitting in the hope it gives the US left an excuse to say that 'ballistic missile defence can't non ballistic missile threats, therefore it's not worth doing'.
Which has been the US Left's line (though for all missile defense, not just non-ballistic) more or less forever.
So buy a phone that does have a standard headphone jack. Like a Moto.
Bonus: it won't be so thin that breathing on it snaps it.
But people are so jealous of California that they pretend not to know what the Mission District is.
The really funny part is that you think they are pretending.
Eh...I finally dropped it after 15 years...they're just not competitive on price any more. Things they post as "on-sale" are still 10-20% higher than their competitors.
Maybe some things, but by no means all, or even most.
Prime makes sense for a lot of people, including me. I order a LOT online. I do comparison shop, but still end up getting a lot from Amazon every month.
Combine that with the Prime video - which I like, as I like eclectic stuff and I don't care if the latest hot popular series or movies are included - and it's a great value.
Same here. For the free shipping and the video, it's a no brainer.
For those who can't figure this out: yes, some Prime items might be overpriced to account for shipping, but by no means all. That's why you do this thing called "comparison shop". It's made much easier by this other thing called "the internet".
Sustainable my ass. Now that they've got people hooked Amazon wants to make sure they don't leave again and lock them in for a full year.
Bonus side effect: they get to charge people who cannot afford a lump sum of 100$ more. Being poor is expensive.
Discounts on longer terms are ... common. Evil? I don't think so, but even if so, Amazon didn't invent it ...
Don't they have to publish the source under GPL? (I realise that this is different from having a downloadable pre-compiled distribution, but it is still available)
No, they only have to distribute source if they distribute binaries. If they only use it internally they don't have to distribute source.
Whoosh ...
The ability to manipulate symbols not in itself sufficient for leadership. News at 11.
The excerpt is somewhat less than explanatory.
Michigan is literally surrounded by fresh water and that doesn't seem to be changing. If " that extra boost of nitrogen won't be enough" because water, then why do you think the trees won't have enough water?
Maybe there's a reason, but the excerpt provided does not give it or even hint at it. (And I won't break tradition by actually reading TFA.)
Mengele would be the new Kevorkian today.
Modern US culture would have no problem with him, as long as he had fair racial distributions among his victims.
publishing photographs of the insides emergency management and civil defense facilities isn't such a hot idea either. Information wants to be free.
No kidding. Reminds me of when the officially admitted submarine depth capability had to be doubled, due to something said on a #%&^% TV documentary!
"Oh, um ... I guess say "greater than 800 feet" now. Because we are idiots."
There is an optimal rate, not near 100% and not near 0%, that maximizes revenue. Raising rates above the optimal rate hurts revenue, reducing them below the optimal rate reduces revenue.
Indeed.
And as I think you touch on later, we might want to optimize for things other than revenue too. Optimal revenue might not be optimal for economic growth, employment, etc. for example. Revenue is not the only variable we should care about :)
That's why this move makes very little sense. I've never thought of anybody in Apple's upper echelons as being a Trump supporter by any stretch of the imagination.
Quite right, they aren't. Puzzling, isn't it?
Maybe ... just maybe ... a better tax environment is better for business, which is better for paid non-governmental employment. Maybe wascally wepubwicans aren't as awful as you thought.
Watch the techie heads explode like a 60's scifi robot caught in a contradiction, lol :)
Must love Apple ... must hate Trump ... must love Apple ... error, error ...
Getting to hear what a bunch of Slashdotters think about natural planning ... is like asking Kalahari bushmen what stocks to short this week.
Or something.
Dang, I messed up the quotes. Sorry.