I wonder if we made a law that said all airline executives had to fly economy whether they would be so keen to make these changes
Actually, Delta's CEO Richard H. Anderson is known for flying coach.... albeit in an exit row seat, which has extra leg room. Here's a thread about him on Flyertalk, a website for very frequent fliers: Richard H. Anderson rides in coach
Police have a huge amount of discretion in who they write up and for what. He could actually, y'know, work, and catch people posing some threat to those around him; but instead, he'd rather sit at a stop light and give tickets to fish in a barrel - To people at least trying to do the right thing and not text while driving (even if still technically "operating" their car).
After I submitted the article, it occured to me that Gwinnett County Officer Jessie Myers has perfected a method of pulling over young, attractive women.
Since he is focusing on drivers stopped at traffic signals, he has the opportunity to see how attractive his target is and then decide whether or not to stop her. Even better, when multiple hot women are queued at a red light, Officer Myers has the opportunity to pick on the hottest. (Motorists can easily sit at least two minutes waiting at a Gwinnett County red light, so odds are they are going to check their phones while sitting there.)
It would be very interesting to see the breakdown of Officer Myers he has stopped, by gender, age and race. Even if he is not intentionally trying to single out women, he might be doing so because his eyes are drawn to them.
To all the good cops out there - This guy explains why we loathe you all so much. When you hear about shit like this, a good blanket party would do a world of wonders for your overall PR.
Corporations are moving to BYOD on iPhone/Android, and the non-corporate market is completely lost to BlackBerry. How is Watsa going to make a profit on his investment?
The three leading smartphone options (Android, Apple and Microsoft/Nokia) are all controlled by US companies.
Going forward, I think many corporate and government purchasers are going to see a lot of value in standardizing on smartphones from a non-US company given all of the recent NSA revelations.
"Fairfax Financial announces a $4.6 billion writedown on the value of their BlackBerry acquisition. Layoffs are proceeding. Fairfax Financial has announced plans to sell off all corporate assets including BlackBerry's patent portfolio. A buyer has not been identified at this time."
The problem with this scenario is that Fairfax's Chairman and CEO Prem Watsa, who controls half of its stock. Watsa is a self-made man; he graduated from the Indian Institute of Technology Madras in 1972, then migrated to Canada.
People who know a lot more about investing than I do refer to Mr. Watsa as the Canadian Warren Buffet.
Gee, I wonder why NSA employees are handing out printed copies of the letter instead of just emailing (or Facebook sharing) it to their family members?
(There might be a lesson there for the rest of us.....)
But if you look at the "Information Dominance Center", you can see violation of the Star Trek design right away. For example, The Chair is not positioned so that the commander can see every one at once and it has a ridiculous metal shell behind it creating a giant blind spot behind it. And it's built into a line of work desks, so that you can't easily walk around to behind The Chair.
That blind spot is actually an improvement -- an "out of sight, out of mind" place for Wesley!
There is only one way for ocean water to go in and out, and that’s through the Golden Gate, a 300-foot-deep gap in the Coastal Range that was originally gouged out thousands of years ago by a mighty river.
As a result of this lucky geological accident, it would be possible in theory to control the water level in the Bay—to put a stopper in the bathtub drain—by building a massive tidal gate, more or less in the shadow of the Golden Gate Bridge. The ideal location, based on tidal velocities and the topography of the Bay bottom, would be about half a mile east of the bridge, as shown in the graphic above.
The author overlooked the Sacramento & San Joaquin Rivers, both of which drain into the San Francisco Bay.
You don't put a "stopper in the bathtub drain" when you cannot turn off the faucet flowing into that bathtub.
Background: I've got a Surface RT - picked it up about a week ago due to the 30% price drop on impulse to replace my iPad while on holiday.
The email app on the Surface is roughly about as functional as the iPad email app - the design is fairly close; although I find the Surface one has a slight edge since it uses screen space better, and doesn't become unusable when you switch to portrait mode.
The big killer for me though (and why I got it to replace my iPad) is the built-in kickstand and the snap on keyboard -- I didn't flick on my laptop once to respond to a work email while away; that's a big change
How cool would it be if Apple, Samsung, Oracle and Google got into a Mexican Standoff on Ask Patents? If each of those companies had three or four engineers dedicating a few hours every day to picking off their competitors’ applications, the number of granted patents to those companies would grind to a halt."
What, if anything, is stopping other countries (Russia, China, or even Venezuela & Cuba) from sponsoring engineers to pick off patent applications from US companies?
I fly a lot for work --two roundtrips per month-- and have been carrying my Chromebook as a second machine, to supplement my corporate laptop. Being a corporate machine, I do not have admin rights to the laptop and my employer tells me they reserve the right to monitor what I'm doing with it, so I assume the laptop has spyware on it.
The Chromebook gets used for my personal stuff in the evenings, when I'm in my hotel room - I figure that my employer doesn't need to know what I'm buying/selling on ebay, nor do they need to know what political sites I read, nor do they need to know what stories I'm submitting to slashdot.... nor do they need to know that I prefer big breasted brunettes.
When flying, I almost always sit in tiny "economy class" seats - the chromebook works well in those seats. I can actually open it up and actually type on it while sitting on a plane, even tiny regional jets. I usually can't open my corporate notebook up on a plane because it is too big to fit between me and the seat in front of me.... and that's before the jerk in front of me reclines back into my space.
The Chromebook also came with a dozen free Gogo passes. Gogo passes were costing $14 each, if I remembered to buy them prior to my flight.... so the dozen free passes were worth $168 to me. All in all, I consider my $250 Samsung Chromebook was money very well spent.
Along with this is the problem of grade inflation in high schools. I spent most of my career as a college math professor, and I ran into students every year who thought they were good at math because they had gotten good grades in it, but when I handed out problem sets the first week which reviewed prerequisite material, they could not do them at all.
Had their been no grade inflation, their high school transcript would have showed Bs and Cs.... would your college have admitted them with those grades?
If you want to run fifteen year old shit, stop being such a whiney little pisser and learn how to fucking configure your computer. Fucking pathetic slashdot psuedo-nerds.
Good to see an Epson employee posting --- the more time you spend on slashdot the less time you have to spend on figuring out how to put even less ink into your "full" cartridges.
Oh and in all my years I have NEVER seen Windows shit all over one of my drivers with an update
I have an indestructable LaserJet 4 that runs fine under XP and the latest version of my preferred linux distribution. That same printer will not work with Windows 7 or 8 because there is no compatible driver for it.
Slashdot Mirror
A New Yorker explained to me that, in NYC, the correct pronunciation is Schmuck Schumer.
Who says the storage center is implemented well?
Angela Merkel
WTF is this doing on Slashdot?
It's on slashdot because you failed to submit something better: http://slashdot.org/~msobkow/submissions
I wonder if we made a law that said all airline executives had to fly economy whether they would be so keen to make these changes
Actually, Delta's CEO Richard H. Anderson is known for flying coach.... albeit in an exit row seat, which has extra leg room. Here's a thread about him on Flyertalk, a website for very frequent fliers: Richard H. Anderson rides in coach
And another thread about Southwest's CEO: [Southwest CEO Gary Kelly flys Delta...IN FIRST CLASS
Which if you've been an engineer for more than, say, 10 minutes, is something you've experienced in your career.
I really hope you are not a bridge engineer!
Police have a huge amount of discretion in who they write up and for what. He could actually, y'know, work, and catch people posing some threat to those around him; but instead, he'd rather sit at a stop light and give tickets to fish in a barrel - To people at least trying to do the right thing and not text while driving (even if still technically "operating" their car).
After I submitted the article, it occured to me that Gwinnett County Officer Jessie Myers has perfected a method of pulling over young, attractive women.
Since he is focusing on drivers stopped at traffic signals, he has the opportunity to see how attractive his target is and then decide whether or not to stop her. Even better, when multiple hot women are queued at a red light, Officer Myers has the opportunity to pick on the hottest. (Motorists can easily sit at least two minutes waiting at a Gwinnett County red light, so odds are they are going to check their phones while sitting there.)
It would be very interesting to see the breakdown of Officer Myers he has stopped, by gender, age and race. Even if he is not intentionally trying to single out women, he might be doing so because his eyes are drawn to them.
To all the good cops out there - This guy explains why we loathe you all so much. When you hear about shit like this, a good blanket party would do a world of wonders for your overall PR.
Agreed!
The segment "NBC tech support in India", from Conan O'Brien's old show, seems topical again: http://www.noob.us/humor/conan-obrien-nbc-tech-support-in-india/
Corporations are moving to BYOD on iPhone/Android, and the non-corporate market is completely lost to BlackBerry. How is Watsa going to make a profit on his investment?
The three leading smartphone options (Android, Apple and Microsoft/Nokia) are all controlled by US companies.
Going forward, I think many corporate and government purchasers are going to see a lot of value in standardizing on smartphones from a non-US company given all of the recent NSA revelations.
In 2 years time, watch for this news headline:
"Fairfax Financial announces a $4.6 billion writedown on the value of their BlackBerry acquisition. Layoffs are proceeding. Fairfax Financial has announced plans to sell off all corporate assets including BlackBerry's patent portfolio. A buyer has not been identified at this time."
The problem with this scenario is that Fairfax's Chairman and CEO Prem Watsa, who controls half of its stock. Watsa is a self-made man; he graduated from the Indian Institute of Technology Madras in 1972, then migrated to Canada.
People who know a lot more about investing than I do refer to Mr. Watsa as the Canadian Warren Buffet.
Checking last years balance sheet 4.7 billion is about how much RIM has in owned property.
Does that $4.7 billion balance sheet include the $1 billion worth of unsold phones that Blackberry is stuck with?
(As reported in the Wall Street Journal: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323308504579087471781835480.html)
Gee, I wonder why NSA employees are handing out printed copies of the letter instead of just emailing (or Facebook sharing) it to their family members?
(There might be a lesson there for the rest of us.....)
But if you look at the "Information Dominance Center", you can see violation of the Star Trek design right away. For example, The Chair is not positioned so that the commander can see every one at once and it has a ridiculous metal shell behind it creating a giant blind spot behind it. And it's built into a line of work desks, so that you can't easily walk around to behind The Chair.
That blind spot is actually an improvement -- an "out of sight, out of mind" place for Wesley!
(Sorry Clevernickname!)
Please don't whine about how much wine it takes to run Wine!
Remember when that stood for chip manufacturing? Me neither.
I do, but I am ancient enough to also remember when "Silicon Beach" meant implants in bikinis.
There is only one way for ocean water to go in and out, and that’s through the Golden Gate, a 300-foot-deep gap in the Coastal Range that was originally gouged out thousands of years ago by a mighty river.
As a result of this lucky geological accident, it would be possible in theory to control the water level in the Bay—to put a stopper in the bathtub drain—by building a massive tidal gate, more or less in the shadow of the Golden Gate Bridge. The ideal location, based on tidal velocities and the topography of the Bay bottom, would be about half a mile east of the bridge, as shown in the graphic above.
The author overlooked the Sacramento & San Joaquin Rivers, both of which drain into the San Francisco Bay. You don't put a "stopper in the bathtub drain" when you cannot turn off the faucet flowing into that bathtub.
Nissan will be ready with revolutionary commercially-viable Autonomous Drive in multiple vehicles by the year 2020
Why would anyone buy a new Nissan, now that Nissan has told us that if we wait for six years (at the longest!) we could get one with Autonomous Drive?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osborne_Effect
And in 2010, Mark Hurd took a $37 Million payoff to leave HP: http://www.dailyfinance.com/2010/08/09/why-did-mark-hurd-hps-disgraced-ex-ceo-get-37-million/
I'm sure the timing of the neologism is just a coincidence.
Back in 2005, Carly Fiorina took $21 million to walk away from HP: http://money.cnn.com/2005/02/09/technology/hp_fiorina/
Yes, they only are scanning the IPv4 internet, per page 7 of the PDF linked to in the slashdot article:
Introducing ZMap, an open source tool that can port scan the entire IPv4 address space from just one machine in under 45 minutes with 98% coverage
Background: I've got a Surface RT - picked it up about a week ago due to the 30% price drop on impulse to replace my iPad while on holiday.
The email app on the Surface is roughly about as functional as the iPad email app - the design is fairly close; although I find the Surface one has a slight edge since it uses screen space better, and doesn't become unusable when you switch to portrait mode.
The big killer for me though (and why I got it to replace my iPad) is the built-in kickstand and the snap on keyboard -- I didn't flick on my laptop once to respond to a work email while away; that's a big change
You are doing "on holiday" wrong.
How cool would it be if Apple, Samsung, Oracle and Google got into a Mexican Standoff on Ask Patents? If each of those companies had three or four engineers dedicating a few hours every day to picking off their competitors’ applications, the number of granted patents to those companies would grind to a halt."
What, if anything, is stopping other countries (Russia, China, or even Venezuela & Cuba) from sponsoring engineers to pick off patent applications from US companies?
I fly a lot for work --two roundtrips per month-- and have been carrying my Chromebook as a second machine, to supplement my corporate laptop. Being a corporate machine, I do not have admin rights to the laptop and my employer tells me they reserve the right to monitor what I'm doing with it, so I assume the laptop has spyware on it.
The Chromebook gets used for my personal stuff in the evenings, when I'm in my hotel room - I figure that my employer doesn't need to know what I'm buying/selling on ebay, nor do they need to know what political sites I read, nor do they need to know what stories I'm submitting to slashdot.... nor do they need to know that I prefer big breasted brunettes.
When flying, I almost always sit in tiny "economy class" seats - the chromebook works well in those seats. I can actually open it up and actually type on it while sitting on a plane, even tiny regional jets. I usually can't open my corporate notebook up on a plane because it is too big to fit between me and the seat in front of me.... and that's before the jerk in front of me reclines back into my space.
The Chromebook also came with a dozen free Gogo passes. Gogo passes were costing $14 each, if I remembered to buy them prior to my flight.... so the dozen free passes were worth $168 to me. All in all, I consider my $250 Samsung Chromebook was money very well spent.
Along with this is the problem of grade inflation in high schools. I spent most of my career as a college math professor, and I ran into students every year who thought they were good at math because they had gotten good grades in it, but when I handed out problem sets the first week which reviewed prerequisite material, they could not do them at all.
Had their been no grade inflation, their high school transcript would have showed Bs and Cs.... would your college have admitted them with those grades?
If you want to run fifteen year old shit, stop being such a whiney little pisser and learn how to fucking configure your computer. Fucking pathetic slashdot psuedo-nerds.
Good to see an Epson employee posting --- the more time you spend on slashdot the less time you have to spend on figuring out how to put even less ink into your "full" cartridges.
Oh and in all my years I have NEVER seen Windows shit all over one of my drivers with an update
I have an indestructable LaserJet 4 that runs fine under XP and the latest version of my preferred linux distribution. That same printer will not work with Windows 7 or 8 because there is no compatible driver for it.