The proper course of action would have been for them to line up equally (apparently) qualified academicians on their side of the argument and let the book-buying institutions decide for themselves. It would seem that both sides of the argument were already being hashed out on the blog, and now arrives The Streisand Effect in spades!
I think that I can say it seems like some have gotten better, like large file copy dialogs no longer seem like a suggestion
But, I have to agree that more complex operations like OS installations seem to be out to lunch, I can remember years ago joking about "Microsoft Minutes" during what seemed like Windows Marathon installations. I think with the array of processors, HD speeds, SSDs, etc, perhaps we should dump the x minutes remaining, and rather look at a percentage completion factor, although this too is not perfect because we all like thinks to install quickly so we can get on with using the software
If I pay for it, they better be telling me something reasonably accurate
There should be clauses in your SLA defining what they have to tell you and when, as well as financial penalties for failing to deliver uptime and/or information. If you don't have an SLA then what are you doing paying for it?
It is called "Customer Service". I don't really care if there is an SLA, if the service isn't good, I will contact them, and if I'm satisfied I will continue, if not I will cancel
Case in point is Sirius Satellite Radio. last year just before I paid for the next year they dropped a station that happened to be what I mostly listened to. When I called them up, they offered a reduced rate. This year when it was time to renew, I called them up and they again offered me a discounted rate. I'm still with them because I am paying what I consider is fair for the service. If they do not offer me a discount next year I will drop it. How long you will wait, or accept unacceptable service is up to the individual. I know some that will cancel at the drop of a hat. I tend to be a little more patient, but once I cancel, I don't bother going back, ever
If more people voted with their feet, these companies might get the message.
Isn't the main purpose of the iTunes Music Store to sell iOS hardware? If I recall, doesn't most of the 30% of Apple's cut go into running the store?
Apple is predominantly a hardware company, and they want people to buy their hardware. If the main purpose of their music/app stores is to sell the hardware then why would it matter where people actually get their music/apps from? Amazon is just giving people another reason to get an iOS device. They now have more options for their music purchases. Win/Win.
This may have been the case when it all started, but at some point, Apple realized the earning potential to monetize the entire experience. They provide the Hardware, and the mechanism to provide Apps, as well as provide the content. It is not in Apple's best interests to allow the user to acquire content through other sources. Period.
ITunes is central to Apple's system of consumption. Through this one interface, users can get all the content they would ever need. It is the easiest way to get content onto your iPhone, or Ipod. It is fairly trivial to get videos and songs into Itunes without purchasing it through Apple although many Users will never really do it on a large scale because it involves a couple of extra steps.
Apple can claim all day long that they are just a Hardware Company, but I haven't believed that for a long time.
In short, they'll suck at foreign policy because they'll assume everyone is basically good and willing to follow the rules. Older voters already seem to include a lot of people who don't understand that foreign leaders typically have more in common with Al Capone than with Martin Luther King.
As a foreigner, I completely agree with this statement
This year finds me in the Toronto Airport returning home to Nova Scotia. A late plane caused me to alter my plans so now I should spend the beginning of the New Year airborne.
For an extra $100 I was able to get business class. So if I party too much will grab a hotel in Halifax and drive home tomorrow.
If you have a Metro (Full Screen app) open just take your mouse cursor and put it in the top center of the metro app. It should turn into a hand. Click and hold and drag the screen down the bottom of the screen. This will close the app.
I tried the beta, and the lack of any sort of training mode did me in. I had to guess and google, a lot. In the end, it was easier just not to use it. I figure we just have to wait them out. Windows 9 Desktop Edition (Win 9 DE) will bring back the start button. Windows 9 Mobile Editition (Win 9 ME) will keep the silly tiles. Microsoft seems to have learned the wrong lession with their phone interfaces, you don't need to have the same interface on everything, you need to customize and tweak it for each style of interface, hopefully keeping some elements the same to keep it intuitive allowing your users to feel comfortable in each.
I'm happy to have an Android phone, but I don't want to run that interace on my home desktop computer. My desktop does have a start button, (Mint OS). Like it or not, Microsoft has reinforced the basic design of a modern useful desktop. For some reason now, they want to change it. Personally, I do not care if it is technically inefficient, I still get my work done. I would lay bets that most win8 development is being done on more traditional desktops, perhaps initially because the tools are not there yet for a win8 platform, but I would be interested to see if this continues, or if developers adopt the new desktop.
So far, everything that I have read shows that it is the receiver that will do the "magic". At least we will be able to take advantage of these competing systems and get better accuracy, although I suspect that 1 metre will be good enough for any hiking enthusiast. Getting into the centimetre range will allow surveyers some pretty good accuracy.
As a former submariner, I applaud your unwavering defence of fellow boat people. But please remember, folks make mistakes. Unless there was some sort of emergency on board the boat, I cannot see how they would have come to PD directly in front of a Cruiser. Had the Cruiser been making a turn towards the sub, the periscope watch keeper should have seen that and called to go to safe depth. The only way the Cruiser could have been a fault here, is if they knowingly charged towards the submarine. We know from the article, that as soon as the boat was sighted, "All Back" was ordered. There was no time for the Cruiser to stop.
Someone will be found at fault here, my money is on the CO of the USS Montpelier for at the very least, failing to ensure that proper procedures were followed when bringing the submarine to PD.
Then it's epic #fail on the part of the sub for not knowing where its target is. If this had been a real emergency, said sub would've been sunk.
As a former submariner, you are essentially correct here.
It is the submarine's responsibility to not surface/come shallow in front of a hazard (ship)
Unless you are snorting in a stovepipe (reserved area for the submarine) the ships pretty much have right of way. If the sub is in some sort of trouble, they are supposed to launch a red flare and call out on the underwater telephone (gertrude).
In the second cited article, the boat's periscope was sighted ahead of the Destroyer:
The Navy official says that at approximately 3:30 p.m. the bridge watch aboard the San Jacinto saw the submarine Montpelier rise to periscope depth about 100 to 200 yards ahead of them. The bridge ordered an “all back,” but still collided with the sub.
That's pretty close, I know some of my Navy's turbine ships can stop from cruising speed in about 1.5 times the ship length, the USS San Jacinto is a Ticonderoga class cruiser which is 173m length, which is 189 yards, which means they didn't have the time to stop.
When I was in boats, especially when we were working with/against surface vessels, at Periscope Depth we either kept a continuous all round look, or an intermittent look depending on the proximity of vessels on our plot. Since the periscope was sighted, Montpelier had just come up and was taking their first look, or really botched their periscope drill. Now, before you come up to periscope depth, you certainly resolve your plot to make sure that no one will be close when you do come out of your safe depth. With the limited details given, I have to put the blame on the submarine in this case. If there are mitigating circumstances, then I would be happy to change my mind.
Why is Europe spending billions to create their own GPS constellation when the US government already went through the hassle and expense? The GPS system is free and open to use by anyone with a GPS receiver. This strikes me as nothing but a political move, as if to say "We're independent and don't need America to provide anything for us". This is a completely redundant and pointless project by the EU.
Sigh,
It is a measure of trust. No one, trusts that the US will not screw with GPS if it would give them a military or economic advantage. Sure they say right now that they won't, but who knows what will happen in 5, 10 or 15 years in the future. And trust me, the value of an accurate navigation/timing system makes it well worth the efforts the Europeans, the Russians and the Chinese are making to field their own versions.
This is not the first time climatic change has had profound effects on the human race.
There will be "Population Adjustments" in the future regardless of what measures we take now. The earth can only support so many of us.
Our increasing population has been cited by some to be the cause of climate change. I think they may well be inter-connected.
Let's face it, if the uber-hard-core folks had their way, we would be living a lifestyle from the 1700s. No electricity, no cars, no burning massive amount of fossil fuels. There would be no global economy because there would be no global transportation network. In fact our population would not only have to redistribute out of the urban centres, it would have to suffer a major reduction in numbers. Without modern farming techniques, you can only feed so many mouths.
However you slice it, there will be fewer people on the planet in the future, and it won't be a pleasant transition.
The question to ask is, what are the long term patterns, have we stumbled into a natural cycle, perhaps we have just accelerated what was bound to happen anyways.
It is time to accept that this is happening. Time to make the most of it. There are remote communities that will be well positioned in the Canadian Arctic for incredible economical opportunities.
High Prices for Groceries could become a thing of the past once the ice opens up for longer periods of time.
The Northwest Passage has the potential to become more important than Panama
It may well be too late to stop the warming trend, we will have to make the best of it.
I am part way through Wool, and am having a hard time to see how things will get better.
So far, he has set up the pins and knocked them down a couple of times, I can see what is about to happen, and there is nothing any of the characters can do to stop it. This isn't even taking into account the situation that they are all in, a situation that does not seem to have a chance of improving.
The more I think about it, the more sad it becomes.
Slashdot Mirror
"Would you really want to drive a minivan that seats two people just to have a cheap fuel cell?"
I drive such a minivan, it's called a bike.
Why bother with a fuel cell? use an Internal Combustion Engine
powered by hydrogen?
Updates for Nexus phones are independent of the carriers.
Wow.
According to the timeline, Africa went bankrupt in 1985!
Fact checking at its best
The proper course of action would have been for them to line up equally (apparently) qualified academicians on their side of the argument and let the book-buying institutions decide for themselves. It would seem that both sides of the argument were already being hashed out on the blog, and now arrives The Streisand Effect in spades!
It would appear that this company's reputation is already well pretty. well established
The nicest thing I have seen so far are the comments that say it is just one step above a vanity press.
Ditto for Canada
Scotiabank mandates a certain minimum browser, but I do most of my banking on Scotiabank with Linux/Firefox
I think that I can say it seems like some have gotten better, like large file copy dialogs no longer seem like a suggestion
But, I have to agree that more complex operations like OS installations seem to be out to lunch, I can remember years ago joking about "Microsoft Minutes" during what seemed like Windows Marathon installations. I think with the array of processors, HD speeds, SSDs, etc, perhaps we should dump the x minutes remaining, and rather look at a percentage completion factor, although this too is not perfect because we all like thinks to install quickly so we can get on with using the software
I don't use auto-renew, but get an email a month before the renewel is up.
I think they are pretty desperate to keep subscribers, I don't know anyone yet, who has been refused a discount
Of course, I do not mind kicking them to the curb if they fail to offer me one. :-)
If I pay for it, they better be telling me something reasonably accurate
There should be clauses in your SLA defining what they have to tell you and when, as well as financial penalties for failing to deliver uptime and/or information. If you don't have an SLA then what are you doing paying for it?
It is called "Customer Service". I don't really care if there is an SLA, if the service isn't good, I will contact them, and if I'm satisfied I will continue, if not I will cancel
Case in point is Sirius Satellite Radio. last year just before I paid for the next year they dropped a station that happened to be what I mostly listened to. When I called them up, they offered a reduced rate. This year when it was time to renew, I called them up and they again offered me a discounted rate. I'm still with them because I am paying what I consider is fair for the service. If they do not offer me a discount next year I will drop it. How long you will wait, or accept unacceptable service is up to the individual. I know some that will cancel at the drop of a hat. I tend to be a little more patient, but once I cancel, I don't bother going back, ever
If more people voted with their feet, these companies might get the message.
Isn't the main purpose of the iTunes Music Store to sell iOS hardware? If I recall, doesn't most of the 30% of Apple's cut go into running the store?
Apple is predominantly a hardware company, and they want people to buy their hardware. If the main purpose of their music/app stores is to sell the hardware then why would it matter where people actually get their music/apps from? Amazon is just giving people another reason to get an iOS device. They now have more options for their music purchases. Win/Win.
This may have been the case when it all started, but at some point, Apple realized the earning potential to monetize the entire experience. They provide the Hardware, and the mechanism to provide Apps, as well as provide the content. It is not in Apple's best interests to allow the user to acquire content through other sources. Period.
ITunes is central to Apple's system of consumption. Through this one interface, users can get all the content they would ever need. It is the easiest way to get content onto your iPhone, or Ipod. It is fairly trivial to get videos and songs into Itunes without purchasing it through Apple although many Users will never really do it on a large scale because it involves a couple of extra steps.
Apple can claim all day long that they are just a Hardware Company, but I haven't believed that for a long time.
Modded incorrectly. Posting to resolve.
In short, they'll suck at foreign policy because they'll assume everyone is basically good and willing to follow the rules. Older voters already seem to include a lot of people who don't understand that foreign leaders typically have more in common with Al Capone than with Martin Luther King.
As a foreigner, I completely agree with this statement
This year finds me in the Toronto Airport returning home to Nova Scotia. A late plane caused me to alter my plans so now I should spend the beginning of the New Year airborne. For an extra $100 I was able to get business class. So if I party too much will grab a hotel in Halifax and drive home tomorrow.
If you have a Metro (Full Screen app) open just take your mouse cursor and put it in the top center of the metro app. It should turn into a hand. Click and hold and drag the screen down the bottom of the screen. This will close the app.
I tried the beta, and the lack of any sort of training mode did me in. I had to guess and google, a lot. In the end, it was easier just not to use it. I figure we just have to wait them out. Windows 9 Desktop Edition (Win 9 DE) will bring back the start button. Windows 9 Mobile Editition (Win 9 ME) will keep the silly tiles. Microsoft seems to have learned the wrong lession with their phone interfaces, you don't need to have the same interface on everything, you need to customize and tweak it for each style of interface, hopefully keeping some elements the same to keep it intuitive allowing your users to feel comfortable in each.
I'm happy to have an Android phone, but I don't want to run that interace on my home desktop computer. My desktop does have a start button, (Mint OS). Like it or not, Microsoft has reinforced the basic design of a modern useful desktop. For some reason now, they want to change it. Personally, I do not care if it is technically inefficient, I still get my work done. I would lay bets that most win8 development is being done on more traditional desktops, perhaps initially because the tools are not there yet for a win8 platform, but I would be interested to see if this continues, or if developers adopt the new desktop.
For the tasks most people want a computer for (or think they want a computer for) an ARM-based solution could work just as well as an x86 based one.
Like writing a hipster blog while you sip expensive coffee in a popular coffee shop?
Seriously, most folks would do just fine with an ARM powered laptop, a few most likely would need more power.
So far, everything that I have read shows that it is the receiver that will do the "magic". At least we will be able to take advantage of these competing systems and get better accuracy, although I suspect that 1 metre will be good enough for any hiking enthusiast. Getting into the centimetre range will allow surveyers some pretty good accuracy.
As a former submariner, I applaud your unwavering defence of fellow boat people. But please remember, folks make mistakes. Unless there was some sort of emergency on board the boat, I cannot see how they would have come to PD directly in front of a Cruiser. Had the Cruiser been making a turn towards the sub, the periscope watch keeper should have seen that and called to go to safe depth. The only way the Cruiser could have been a fault here, is if they knowingly charged towards the submarine. We know from the article, that as soon as the boat was sighted, "All Back" was ordered. There was no time for the Cruiser to stop.
Someone will be found at fault here, my money is on the CO of the USS Montpelier for at the very least, failing to ensure that proper procedures were followed when bringing the submarine to PD.
Comments?
The Russians had a special class to be used as padded targets. The Bravo Class submarine was only used for training ASW forces.
Then it's epic #fail on the part of the sub for not knowing where its target is. If this had been a real emergency, said sub would've been sunk.
As a former submariner, you are essentially correct here.
It is the submarine's responsibility to not surface/come shallow in front of a hazard (ship)
Unless you are snorting in a stovepipe (reserved area for the submarine) the ships pretty much have right of way. If the sub is in some sort of trouble, they are supposed to launch a red flare and call out on the underwater telephone (gertrude).
In the second cited article, the boat's periscope was sighted ahead of the Destroyer:
The Navy official says that at approximately 3:30 p.m. the bridge watch aboard the San Jacinto saw the submarine Montpelier rise to periscope depth about 100 to 200 yards ahead of them. The bridge ordered an “all back,” but still collided with the sub.
That's pretty close, I know some of my Navy's turbine ships can stop from cruising speed in about 1.5 times the ship length, the USS San Jacinto is a Ticonderoga class cruiser which is 173m length, which is 189 yards, which means they didn't have the time to stop.
When I was in boats, especially when we were working with/against surface vessels, at Periscope Depth we either kept a continuous all round look, or an intermittent look depending on the proximity of vessels on our plot. Since the periscope was sighted, Montpelier had just come up and was taking their first look, or really botched their periscope drill. Now, before you come up to periscope depth, you certainly resolve your plot to make sure that no one will be close when you do come out of your safe depth. With the limited details given, I have to put the blame on the submarine in this case. If there are mitigating circumstances, then I would be happy to change my mind.
Why is Europe spending billions to create their own GPS constellation when the US government already went through the hassle and expense? The GPS system is free and open to use by anyone with a GPS receiver. This strikes me as nothing but a political move, as if to say "We're independent and don't need America to provide anything for us". This is a completely redundant and pointless project by the EU.
Sigh,
It is a measure of trust. No one, trusts that the US will not screw with GPS if it would give them a military or economic advantage. Sure they say right now that they won't, but who knows what will happen in 5, 10 or 15 years in the future. And trust me, the value of an accurate navigation/timing system makes it well worth the efforts the Europeans, the Russians and the Chinese are making to field their own versions.
Why can't we all be friends?
Yes
As we add satellites, even from different systems, the accuracy will get better. It is very cool.
Aussie's have their drop bears, we Canadians have the feared Snow Snake .
It is a vicious creature, and I can tell you that when it gets down past -30 C, the snow snake can do a lot of damage!
This is not the first time climatic change has had profound effects on the human race.
There will be "Population Adjustments" in the future regardless of what measures we take now. The earth can only support so many of us.
Our increasing population has been cited by some to be the cause of climate change. I think they may well be inter-connected.
Let's face it, if the uber-hard-core folks had their way, we would be living a lifestyle from the 1700s. No electricity, no cars, no burning massive amount of fossil fuels. There would be no global economy because there would be no global transportation network. In fact our population would not only have to redistribute out of the urban centres, it would have to suffer a major reduction in numbers. Without modern farming techniques, you can only feed so many mouths.
However you slice it, there will be fewer people on the planet in the future, and it won't be a pleasant transition.
The question to ask is, what are the long term patterns, have we stumbled into a natural cycle, perhaps we have just accelerated what was bound to happen anyways.
It is time to accept that this is happening. Time to make the most of it. There are remote communities that will be well positioned in the Canadian Arctic for incredible economical opportunities.
High Prices for Groceries could become a thing of the past once the ice opens up for longer periods of time.
The Northwest Passage has the potential to become more important than Panama
It may well be too late to stop the warming trend, we will have to make the best of it.
I am part way through Wool, and am having a hard time to see how things will get better.
So far, he has set up the pins and knocked them down a couple of times, I can see what is about to happen, and there is nothing any of the characters can do to stop it. This isn't even taking into account the situation that they are all in, a situation that does not seem to have a chance of improving.
The more I think about it, the more sad it becomes.
And that being said, I cannot look away.