Essentially they were playing with marked cards, because Sun had memorized subtle flaws on the back of the cards. That's generally regarded as cheating in any card game.
The inconsistency of Safari is weird and the difference from the consistent efficiency of Chrome is odd, but they stopped the tests too soon to tell us much. They should have run tests on Firefox and checked the Activity Monitor to see it they could spot obvious differences. One possibility is that interactions among Apple software may be contributing to the reduction of battery life.
You're missing sites that show mobile versions on desktops/laptops and vice versa. It's either headline type across a 21-inch screen or microtype on a mobile.
The question is why are babies getting bigger. Are they bigger because they are getting better nutrition and developing a bit more before birth? Or are they getting fatter like the adults, who are increasingly overweight and obese?
Wrong group. The New American is indeed a magazine published by the John Birch Society, as clearly stated on their web site . However, the original poster made an error. Lina Khan is a fellow in a program run by The New America Foundation , which was founded in 1999. According to Soucewatch, the New America Foundation received over $6 million through 2013 from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and lesser amounts from other foundations. https://tech.slashdot.org/stor...
The more opaque Google gets, the harder it becomes to rely on their searches. User-specified options would help. Do you want a person, a place, a product? Do you want a fact search with a mobile display because you're discussing some arcane bit of history with a friend? As long as Google controls all the options, the search process remains opaque and becomes increasingly difficult to interpret.
You're pretty damn lucky. For the past few years we typically have had 2-3 cards hacked a year, with those from Bank of America most likely. No chip cards hacked yet, but I suspect that's only a matter of time. We were caught in Target, Hannaford and Home Depot hacks, among others.
Short notes for short-term use with pen on paper. Longer notes that I may want to keep for later reference with a simple text editor or fast and simple word processor, so I can search afterwards. Always use text or RTF to avoid format obsolescence.
Verizon's standard pricing for Internet alone is just a little below that for basic cable plus internet - and they don't have usage caps yet. Just another battle in the war against customers.
It's not just deliberate bricking -- most IoT stuff is junk, anyway. The first wireless light switch lasted a few years; the replacement lasted two months. The replacements can't be plugged in; they have to be wired in, and the first wasn't compatible with the first so the light had to be rewired too. The electrician wants to go back to wires, and I'm with him on that.
And what's the ratio of your salary to hers? My wife works in a middle school; the benefits are great, especially because I'm self-employed. But her salary, even with 15 or so years of experience, is about 35-40% of my gross in a year.
Google had no need for Postini. Google's own spam filtering in Gmail is pretty good.
In my experience, spam filtering in Gmail is pretty BAD because of large numbers of false positives. Its algorithms appear to have some kind of quota for spam, and if your account gets no obvious spam, they will pick some for you out of incoming newsletters, new correspondents, and legitimate commercial email. GMail is the only email server I have to check daily for false positives.
Inner US suburbs have similar problems, 50x100 foot lots, older houses have minimal setbacks from the street (10-15 feet), and a thicket of overhead utility wires. Plus trees and hedges. The big issue is going to be how accurately can the drones be maneuvered and how well can they "see" overhead wires and other obstructions. The last I heard, military UAVs had to avoid areas with overhead wires; they could see the poles, but not the wires.
Autonomous cars could be huge in the rental or fleet market. Imagine hopping into a car at the airport that can get you where you want to go while you work or relax without having to cope with hostile traffic.
Home phone, cable and power wires are small enough in diameter to be hard for radar to detect, so avoidance depends on knowing their locations. That can be deduced reasonably well from pole and tower locations, but that data may not yield precise cable heights, so drones will have to leave safety margins. So unless drones avoid cities with overhead utilities, they're likely to more power failures than drunks and distracted drivers.
Unfortunately, too many designers use tiny light gray type. CONTROL + and CONTROL - don't help much when the contrast is that low, and some designs don't expand enough to be easily readable.
That's one possible reason, but Google gets very fussy about spam and is not very consistent. Sometimes messages from mailing lists get caught in Gmail spam, sometimes they go through. No rhyme or reason, but it seems like most mailing lists get spam-filtered at some point, and that may continue if you don't mark them not spam.
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Essentially they were playing with marked cards, because Sun had memorized subtle flaws on the back of the cards. That's generally regarded as cheating in any card game.
What about credit rating services? They sell subscriptions. Don't they also display ages or dates of birth?
Did Samsung count new units activated to replace the ones recalled before they blew up?
The inconsistency of Safari is weird and the difference from the consistent efficiency of Chrome is odd, but they stopped the tests too soon to tell us much. They should have run tests on Firefox and checked the Activity Monitor to see it they could spot obvious differences. One possibility is that interactions among Apple software may be contributing to the reduction of battery life.
They NY Times (maybe paywalled) reports that Google is spinning off its automous car group as Waymo.
You're missing sites that show mobile versions on desktops/laptops and vice versa. It's either headline type across a 21-inch screen or microtype on a mobile.
The question is why are babies getting bigger. Are they bigger because they are getting better nutrition and developing a bit more before birth? Or are they getting fatter like the adults, who are increasingly overweight and obese?
Wrong group. The New American is indeed a magazine published by the John Birch Society, as clearly stated on their web site . However, the original poster made an error. Lina Khan is a fellow in a program run by The New America Foundation , which was founded in 1999. According to Soucewatch, the New America Foundation received over $6 million through 2013 from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and lesser amounts from other foundations. https://tech.slashdot.org/stor...
The more opaque Google gets, the harder it becomes to rely on their searches. User-specified options would help. Do you want a person, a place, a product? Do you want a fact search with a mobile display because you're discussing some arcane bit of history with a friend? As long as Google controls all the options, the search process remains opaque and becomes increasingly difficult to interpret.
We can't maintain stripes painted on suburban streets; why does anybody think we can install and maintain sensors?
You're pretty damn lucky. For the past few years we typically have had 2-3 cards hacked a year, with those from Bank of America most likely. No chip cards hacked yet, but I suspect that's only a matter of time. We were caught in Target, Hannaford and Home Depot hacks, among others.
Short notes for short-term use with pen on paper. Longer notes that I may want to keep for later reference with a simple text editor or fast and simple word processor, so I can search afterwards. Always use text or RTF to avoid format obsolescence.
Radio's simple and easy, and we've got a few good broadcast FM stations. It still works.
Watch the video -- bricking that thing would be a feature, not a bug.
Verizon's standard pricing for Internet alone is just a little below that for basic cable plus internet - and they don't have usage caps yet. Just another battle in the war against customers.
It's not just deliberate bricking -- most IoT stuff is junk, anyway. The first wireless light switch lasted a few years; the replacement lasted two months. The replacements can't be plugged in; they have to be wired in, and the first wasn't compatible with the first so the light had to be rewired too. The electrician wants to go back to wires, and I'm with him on that.
Counteroffer should be AT&T pays the state $100 million to take the old plant off their hands.
And what's the ratio of your salary to hers? My wife works in a middle school; the benefits are great, especially because I'm self-employed. But her salary, even with 15 or so years of experience, is about 35-40% of my gross in a year.
Perhaps it's time to extend handicap accessibility standards to cover type illegible to those of us with anything less than perfect vision?
Google had no need for Postini. Google's own spam filtering in Gmail is pretty good.
In my experience, spam filtering in Gmail is pretty BAD because of large numbers of false positives. Its algorithms appear to have some kind of quota for spam, and if your account gets no obvious spam, they will pick some for you out of incoming newsletters, new correspondents, and legitimate commercial email. GMail is the only email server I have to check daily for false positives.
Inner US suburbs have similar problems, 50x100 foot lots, older houses have minimal setbacks from the street (10-15 feet), and a thicket of overhead utility wires. Plus trees and hedges. The big issue is going to be how accurately can the drones be maneuvered and how well can they "see" overhead wires and other obstructions. The last I heard, military UAVs had to avoid areas with overhead wires; they could see the poles, but not the wires.
Autonomous cars could be huge in the rental or fleet market. Imagine hopping into a car at the airport that can get you where you want to go while you work or relax without having to cope with hostile traffic.
Home phone, cable and power wires are small enough in diameter to be hard for radar to detect, so avoidance depends on knowing their locations. That can be deduced reasonably well from pole and tower locations, but that data may not yield precise cable heights, so drones will have to leave safety margins. So unless drones avoid cities with overhead utilities, they're likely to more power failures than drunks and distracted drivers.
Unfortunately, too many designers use tiny light gray type. CONTROL + and CONTROL - don't help much when the contrast is that low, and some designs don't expand enough to be easily readable.
That's one possible reason, but Google gets very fussy about spam and is not very consistent. Sometimes messages from mailing lists get caught in Gmail spam, sometimes they go through. No rhyme or reason, but it seems like most mailing lists get spam-filtered at some point, and that may continue if you don't mark them not spam.