As you know, there is only one programmer working at Google, and he can only work on one issue at a time. That's why the vr program's development delayed your big fix.
You mean when the Russians gave the American people accurate information that America's own leaders were trying to hide? Is that the "meddling" you are referring to?
Digging up all the dirt you can find on a candidate and then dumping it to the public (at the time you think it will do the most damage to their reputation) is not a new practice; when a political campaign does it, it is called "opposition research".
So now we have Russia doing opposition research on behalf of the Republican Party. I'd call that meddling, wouldn't you?
You don't really believe that Putin has the best interests of the American voters in mind, do you?
Hillary's supporters simply do not care about any of this. They aren't electing Hillary - they are electing an ideology.
An alternate explanation: Many of them are voting for Hillary specifically because they don't want Trump anywhere near the White House. The guy is truly insufferable, and a clear and present danger to the nation.
Sure, single party rule worked out OK for the Chinese, lets do it! End the Republican Party!
We already have de facto single-party rule, so long as one of the two parties consistently refuses to participate anything resembling the running of the government.
Let's restore two-party rule by replacing the Republican Party with a functional one. Libertarians, you're up.
The GOP will ensure that no matter the composition of the house and senate after this week, nothing will be allowed to progress under President Clinton. No supreme court vacancies will be filled
I suppose there is no reason for the incoming Democratic Senate not to exercise "the nuclear option" regarding Supreme Court nominations, then.
More likely, removing the SD hardware allowed them to shrink and/or simplify the design; they're very much into simplifying and shrinking things in Cupertino.
Solar received $4.393 in subsidies while generating 19 billion kWh in 2013 (tables ES4 and ES5). That's a subsidy of 23.1 cents/kWh.
Is that a fair way to look at the numbers? Those subsidies went to finance the installation of solar panels that will continue generating power for decades into the future; it's not like the same amount will have to be spent again next year to replace those solar panels; from now on (modulo cleaning and maintenance) all their future power production is "free", so their effective cost per kWh will decrease every day they continue to function.
Saying that the subsidy was 23 cents per kWh is like saying that the new car I bought yesterday costs me $5,000/mile to drive (because it cost me $40,000 and I've driven it 8 miles so far).
The question is... is it good enough to hit the necessary sweet spot? My guess... probably not yet.
Fair enough; on the other hand, it's clearly Elon's guess that the technology is now good enough to hit the necessary sweet spot, and he's putting his money where his mouth is. And he has a notably good track record of noticing when a new technology has become commercially viable.
I'm pretty sure that SolarCity's hardware engineers are aware of the existence of hail, and have designed their solar panels to be adequately robust to handle it.
Whether Elon is aware of the issue or not is irrelevant, since (reports to the contrary notwithstanding) he does not personally oversee every detail of every product.
Any new computer hardware on the market these days is plenty powerful enough to handle anything a typical user might ever want to do.
That means that unless you're a power user (or video game or VR enthusiast), there's going to be very little difference between your experiences using a modern low-end vs a modern high-end system; either one will work just fine for you.
So the remaining criterion (other than purchase price) is the quality of the user-experience -- i.e. how much of your time at the computer is spent getting accomplished the things you want to accomplish, and how much is spent dealing with computer problems?
Minimizing the latter is what Mac users are willing to pay extra for.
A less-contrived example would be when the person cutting the lock is legally authorized to do so. For example, someone leaves the lock (with or without a bicycle) locked to the rail of a handicap-access ramp, or some other place that it isn't allowed to be, and at some point a city employee is tasked to remove the lock. When (s)he does so, (s)he gets gassed. I don't think that would play well from a legal standpoint.
Speaking as an admin, the number of mac users that request elegant peripherals is not trivial.
No doubt, but a business is allowed to say 'no' to those requests, if it feels it's not worth the money to buy the elegant peripherals.
I imagine a lot of businesses probably don't care though, since compared to their ongoing salary costs, the cost of an occasional frou-frou trackpad is rounding error. If a one-time $80 purchase makes a $3000/week employee happier and/or more productive, why not?
Tried that. It didn't work because the technically inept parent still had just as much problem with the Apple product. It turns out that you can't idiot proof something.
Sometimes you gotta up the dose. If a Mac isn't simple enough, switch them to an iPad. If they can't handle the iPad, then there's no hope, you'll need to migrate them back to pen-and-paper.
it's a hidden cost that is virtually impossible to tally on a spreadsheet: your productivity is lost while you fix that problem. Did it take you an hour, where a tech might have taken 10 minutes?
Not really an issue at my employer, where the IT department will always take at least 48 hours to respond, followed by an additional 8 hours to diagnose, only to conclude that my Mac "must have come down with a virus" and recommend that I reinstall Windows on it.
Why would the Clinton campaign risk doing anything now, when they're already cruising towards a landslide victory? Trump did a fantastic job of disqualifying himself at the debates; now all they have to do is run out he clock. To try some "October surprise" at this point would gain them very little, but if it went wrong somehow it could hurt them greatly.
Are there situations where a user would notice a slower flash write speed on their cell phone?
The only time I can think of where a phone would need to write massive amounts to flash is during an OS upgrade (which is hopefully a rare thing) -- even during an app install, the user is likely to be bounded by their network's download speed, not by the speed of writing to flash. Similarly, while recording live video, the phone only needs to write at the bandwidth of the video stream, no faster.
1. Collect all 2.5 million devices into one place 2. Remove all batteries and recycle them 3. Connect all battery-less phones to wall power 4. Connect all phones together into world's biggest Beowulf Cluster 5. Mine Bitcoins 6. Profit!
I'll just point out that you could have a candidate that tells the truth 100% of the time, and half the nation would still think he/she was a liar, because his/her truths wouldn't fit their worldview.
Most people don't have a complete understanding of how the world works, but they are unaware of the limits of their understanding, and when contradicted their first impulse is often to suspect the honesty of the person who contradicted them.
Really? Most programmers I know take pride in their ability to converse calmly and rationally about the problems at hand, without letting their emotions or their egos get the better of them.
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As you know, there is only one programmer working at Google, and he can only work on one issue at a time. That's why the vr program's development delayed your big fix.
You mean when the Russians gave the American people accurate information that America's own leaders were trying to hide? Is that the "meddling" you are referring to?
Digging up all the dirt you can find on a candidate and then dumping it to the public (at the time you think it will do the most damage to their reputation) is not a new practice; when a political campaign does it, it is called "opposition research".
So now we have Russia doing opposition research on behalf of the Republican Party. I'd call that meddling, wouldn't you?
You don't really believe that Putin has the best interests of the American voters in mind, do you?
Hillary's supporters simply do not care about any of this. They aren't electing Hillary - they are electing an ideology.
An alternate explanation: Many of them are voting for Hillary specifically because they don't want Trump anywhere near the White House. The guy is truly insufferable, and a clear and present danger to the nation.
Sure, single party rule worked out OK for the Chinese, lets do it! End the Republican Party!
We already have de facto single-party rule, so long as one of the two parties consistently refuses to participate anything resembling the running of the government.
Let's restore two-party rule by replacing the Republican Party with a functional one. Libertarians, you're up.
The GOP will ensure that no matter the composition of the house and senate after this week, nothing will be allowed to progress under President Clinton. No supreme court vacancies will be filled
I suppose there is no reason for the incoming Democratic Senate not to exercise "the nuclear option" regarding Supreme Court nominations, then.
Did everyone suddenly forget how to use pen and paper for records?
Not at all. Everyone forgot gradually, over the course of many years of always doing everything via computer.
I doubt Apple cares about saving a nickel.
More likely, removing the SD hardware allowed them to shrink and/or simplify the design; they're very much into simplifying and shrinking things in Cupertino.
Solar received $4.393 in subsidies while generating 19 billion kWh in 2013 (tables ES4 and ES5). That's a subsidy of 23.1 cents/kWh.
Is that a fair way to look at the numbers? Those subsidies went to finance the installation of solar panels that will continue generating power for decades into the future; it's not like the same amount will have to be spent again next year to replace those solar panels; from now on (modulo cleaning and maintenance) all their future power production is "free", so their effective cost per kWh will decrease every day they continue to function.
Saying that the subsidy was 23 cents per kWh is like saying that the new car I bought yesterday costs me $5,000/mile to drive (because it cost me $40,000 and I've driven it 8 miles so far).
The question is... is it good enough to hit the necessary sweet spot? My guess... probably not yet.
Fair enough; on the other hand, it's clearly Elon's guess that the technology is now good enough to hit the necessary sweet spot, and he's putting his money where his mouth is. And he has a notably good track record of noticing when a new technology has become commercially viable.
I'm pretty sure that SolarCity's hardware engineers are aware of the existence of hail, and have designed their solar panels to be adequately robust to handle it.
Whether Elon is aware of the issue or not is irrelevant, since (reports to the contrary notwithstanding) he does not personally oversee every detail of every product.
^This.
Any new computer hardware on the market these days is plenty powerful enough to handle anything a typical user might ever want to do.
That means that unless you're a power user (or video game or VR enthusiast), there's going to be very little difference between your experiences using a modern low-end vs a modern high-end system; either one will work just fine for you.
So the remaining criterion (other than purchase price) is the quality of the user-experience -- i.e. how much of your time at the computer is spent getting accomplished the things you want to accomplish, and how much is spent dealing with computer problems?
Minimizing the latter is what Mac users are willing to pay extra for.
Do you ever wonder what the world will look like when everyone has their own personal quantum computer?
I rather wonder what everyone would be doing with their own personal quantum computer. Cracking encryption?
... and 5 years later, it is sold on Craigslist for $50.
... by a guy who smells suspiciously like skunk.
A less-contrived example would be when the person cutting the lock is legally authorized to do so. For example, someone leaves the lock (with or without a bicycle) locked to the rail of a handicap-access ramp, or some other place that it isn't allowed to be, and at some point a city employee is tasked to remove the lock. When (s)he does so, (s)he gets gassed. I don't think that would play well from a legal standpoint.
Speaking as an admin, the number of mac users that request elegant peripherals is not trivial.
No doubt, but a business is allowed to say 'no' to those requests, if it feels it's not worth the money to buy the elegant peripherals.
I imagine a lot of businesses probably don't care though, since compared to their ongoing salary costs, the cost of an occasional frou-frou trackpad is rounding error. If a one-time $80 purchase makes a $3000/week employee happier and/or more productive, why not?
Tried that. It didn't work because the technically inept parent still had just as much problem with the Apple product. It turns out that you can't idiot proof something.
Sometimes you gotta up the dose. If a Mac isn't simple enough, switch them to an iPad. If they can't handle the iPad, then there's no hope, you'll need to migrate them back to pen-and-paper.
it's a hidden cost that is virtually impossible to tally on a spreadsheet: your productivity is lost while you fix that problem. Did it take you an hour, where a tech might have taken 10 minutes?
Not really an issue at my employer, where the IT department will always take at least 48 hours to respond, followed by an additional 8 hours to diagnose, only to conclude that my Mac "must have come down with a virus" and recommend that I reinstall Windows on it.
(only mostly kidding)
Why would the Clinton campaign risk doing anything now, when they're already cruising towards a landslide victory? Trump did a fantastic job of disqualifying himself at the debates; now all they have to do is run out he clock. To try some "October surprise" at this point would gain them very little, but if it went wrong somehow it could hurt them greatly.
Are there situations where a user would notice a slower flash write speed on their cell phone?
The only time I can think of where a phone would need to write massive amounts to flash is during an OS upgrade (which is hopefully a rare thing) -- even during an app install, the user is likely to be bounded by their network's download speed, not by the speed of writing to flash. Similarly, while recording live video, the phone only needs to write at the bandwidth of the video stream, no faster.
Is there some use case I'm missing?
Does it count if the driving controls are present, but disabled, while the car is driving autonomously?
1. Collect all 2.5 million devices into one place
2. Remove all batteries and recycle them
3. Connect all battery-less phones to wall power
4. Connect all phones together into world's biggest Beowulf Cluster
5. Mine Bitcoins
6. Profit!
Isn't there a requirement that the ICBMs be ready to launch within 30 seconds notice, or something aggressive like that?
If so, finding and reinstalling the missing piece of hardware within that 30 second window is going to be a challenge.
Unless you live in a swing state, "protest votes" are the only way to effect any change.
Can you point to any historical examples of protests votes effecting any change? I'm genuinely interested.
I'll just point out that you could have a candidate that tells the truth 100% of the time, and half the nation would still think he/she was a liar, because his/her truths wouldn't fit their worldview.
Most people don't have a complete understanding of how the world works, but they are unaware of the limits of their understanding, and when contradicted their first impulse is often to suspect the honesty of the person who contradicted them.
Really? Most programmers I know take pride in their ability to converse calmly and rationally about the problems at hand, without letting their emotions or their egos get the better of them.