Metro is good as it forces people to into an iOS-style walled garden where Microsoft gets 30% of all sales and gets to control what people install. I'm hoping you weren't looking for how Metro is good for users, because in the short and long term, it's not.
Yes, in exactly the same way that any Linux desktop distro that comes with a preconfigured set of software repositories could attempt take control of what people install.
OS X and Windows 8 have app stores where you can conveniently find and install software for your machine. Neither Apple nor Microsoft have ever made any indication that they will ever eventually prevent users from installing software that comes from a different source. And yet here on Slashdot we continuously get comments that imply that such a thing has already happened.
But this is a SAN FRANCISCO start up! They are going to collect all that data and sell it to advertisers! This is major automotive DISRUPTION you are witnessing!
This nanny device could allow parents to spy on their kids driving habits. No more rally driving for them !
Or they can buy a Ford, which can already do that for parents and more - like you can set it so the radio can't be turned on if the driver isn't wearing a seatbelt, or the low-fuel light comes on sooner because your kids are idiots, etc.
Maybe you should know that the big banks who do HFT also co-locate inside the exchanges and front run orders making hundreds of billions per year.
Also, you might want to know that if the market crashes and restarts like today the big banks can get their losing trades reversed and you can't.
All the profit they're making has to come from somewhere. Are you so certain it doesn't come out of your pocket?
HFT exists to take advantage of arbitrage situations. They are reactive to changes in the market and colocating inside exchanges helps them to react quicker. It is certainly a profitable venture, as you can see.
Big Banks do not get any sort of priority over anyone else when having trades reversed. For starters, you are certainly not trading on the exchange for yourself, are you? You have a brokerage account, right? In that case, broker XYZ made the trade in their name. Your ownership of that stock exists as a notation on their books. That's it. Fidelity trades with Ameritrade. Bob does not trade with Joe. If some crazy event happens and trades are going to be reversed, Fidelity will ask for their affected trades to be reversed. All of them. Including the ones they made for you. But now, if you were trading for yourself, you can also ask for the trades to be reversed. I'm not going to paste a link here, but you can find it with less than 3 minutes of googling. Each exchange has a form on their website. Fill it in and email it to them. They can't refuse you just because you're a nobody. Really, they can't.
Now, as far as who's pocket HFT profits come from - that's a good question. First of all, there is no way to take any money from your pocket unless you are a party to the transaction. I had lots of money "in the market" as part of my retirement planning, but I didn't have any buy or sell orders. So I was completely unaffected by this flash crash. Right? My retirement was in jeopardy for 4 minutes. I didn't notice. I was working. Then the market recovered and my retirement plans were back on! Yay! Alright, so before HFT, buy/sell spreads were large. Now they are small. That's actually a very large benefit to me when I buy or sell stock. So no, I am not so sure that HFT is pulling money out of my pocket. Perhaps they are pulling money out of the pocket of the people that benefited when the buy/sell spread was large. Brokerages? I am not sure..
While I am always happy to see obvious patent ruled as invalid, I wonder if it is the job of an administrative commission to do that job.
It's only invalid in the sense that the ITC won't do anything about it.
But the real issue is that an administrative commission is proving to be completely gutless when it comes to two American companies fighting each other. They have gone in circles for around 3 years now trying to figure out how to not do anything at all (while the lawyers on both sides have collected many millions of dollars in fees). The sole remedy available when you file an ITC case is a ban on importation and the ITC is simply unwilling to ban importation of popular products because they don't want to create any political backlash.
If there ever was any proof that giving federal judges a lifetime appointment to protect them from politics as much as possible, this is it
I suppose its nothing to do with the fact that the PC I bought 5 years ago is pretty much still as good as those I can get off the shelf today.
And do you know why? Because every.NET release makes it easier for mediocre developers to write software that takes advantage of your multicore machine. And.NET 4.5 (released with Windows 8) continues along that path.
Your 5-year old PC was running a lot of single-threaded code back when you got it. It's running a lot less of it now, even though the developers who wrote the code probably have no idea what they are doing.
IMHO, it should be a condition that the public are given access to the scope site etc. The last time I was on Big Island, the road that would take you to the base of the volcano where this is to be situated was prohibited to rental vehicles (4WD included). It was full of pot holes but passable with care. I've driven rentals over worse roads of of Hwy 50 in NV.
Get the state to fix this and there would be a source of income to the observatory from Tourists.
Hardly rocket science now is it?
It is a public road, and it's a bad road on purpose. In fact, once you reach a certain elevation, the road is a wonderfully smooth ribbon of concrete - they don't want dust to interfere with the telescopes. They also don't want ridiculous traffic jams beyond what they already have. So the first few miles beyond the visitor center is a terrible gravel road. Most people turn around.
The rental vehicle prohibition is between you and your rental car company. It has nothing to do with the State of Hawaii. If you feel like taking your rental car to the top, go right ahead. You will find that you are probably only one of a dozen FWD sedans on the top of the mountain. But... earlier this year some idiot tourists took their rental sedan up the mountain and forgot to put it in park when they got out. It slowly drove itself off the road and flipped over. It took the state more than a month to be able to get machinery in place to retrieve the wrecked car and take it down the mountain. Guess what - those tourists had to pay for the car AND the removal. You want to take that risk? Go ahead. Just remember that there aren't very many parking spaces up at the top of a mountain.
I highly recommend finding a way to get up there though - perhaps one of the many tour companies that do it? In fact, I think you'll find it to be a better experience. Most of those tours will get you up there so you can walk around a bit and watch the sun set. Then they take you down the mountain a bit to a secluded enough spot and give you an hour or more for stargazing - along with a very knowledgeable guide and a $10,000 telescope. The temperature will be well below freezing, so they also bring warm weather clothes for you - something you probably didn't bring on your trip to Hawaii.
Sure, if you are doing a new build or renovation. Some of us are stuck with old houses and old fixtures.
I'm slowly renovating an older house, and I'm looking into stringing low-voltage wiring to support LED lights without needing a power converter in every fixture or unit.
Yeah, next month I'm moving into a new place and each bedroom will have a fully wired junction box in the middle of the ceiling. I have to provide the fixture.
I'm looking at LED fixtures and finding any useful information online is proving to be difficult. I see a lot of no-name Chinese stuff and I have no idea if it is good or if it is junk.
I see various stuff from names I recognize, such as Philips, but then you are looking at ~$500. I can buy a standard fixture and some LED bulbs for less than $100. If there is really some reason I should go for the LED fixture I would love to know it, but the info online is fairly useless for making a reasonably safe decision.
Is the rest of the industry still stuck at 32nm for ARM processors? I haven't seen anything yet that suggests that TSMC can meet 28nm demand on the various ARM chips they have contracts for.
At some point, the x86 Atom at 22nm or 20nm (or whatever is next) is going to be more powerful and more energy efficient than a real-world ARM chip.
Broadcast TV allows me to watch programming I enjoy, for free, without my stream lagging to hell whenever my ISP arbitrarily decides to throttle me.
And I would rather have my indecency standards set by a monolithic, slow-as-molasses bureaucracy than by the whims of a media company.
Until net neutrality is settled, I would ask that you not sign any petition doing away with public TV.
I've been visiting US a few times per year for many years (business travel) and each and every time I'm amazed how you can endure watching anything with the amount of advertising intruding on the shows.
Hmm, business travel in the United States. Large amounts of television commercials. Business travel in the United States. Large amounts of television commercials.
"It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it." -Upton Sinclair
That was the kind of thing which happened while people's parents could still afford to send them to school to "find themselves", but over the last few years has mostly gone away.
I have never priced out a PhD in Literature, but I have looked at other fields. At least at the schools I have looked at, a PhD candidate gets a stipend every year, not a tuition bill. You can cynically look at them as below minimum wage jobs that eventually give you a fancy degree; meanwhile the opportunity costs compound year after year.
Before going too far off topic, I'll just close by saying that I've never heard of a situation where a parent pays for a child to get a PhD.
Reading the article helps. He was arrested for "downloading excessive material".
That's wrong. He was charged with computer fraud and abuse (CFAA), not "downloading excessive material" (or even copyright violation). Although he was not affiliated with MIT, he connected to its network, evaded attempts to kick him off the network, physically entered a wiring closet on campus to circumvent restrictions on the wireless network, and attempted to conceal a machine there. He tried to hide his face from security cameras, and he did all that even though he would have had access to the network at Harvard. And his charges and penalties were based on the work and disruption he caused to MIT users and staff.
Yes, physically and intentionally hooking up to a network you have no right to be on, on someone else's private property that you have no right to be on, is a crime, with the severity of the sentence determined by how much damage you cause.
This has been my main issue with Aaron Swartz for some time. He has correctly identified things that are wrong, but he has always taken the wrong approach to fixing the problem. The fact that the results of taxpayer-funded research is behind a paywall is wrong. It should be open and accessible. But the proper way to fix that is to get the government to pay the costs. The government doles out billions of dollars for the research to occur but cannot see fit to add a few thousand dollars to each grant specifically to pay for the costs of peer review and publication. It costs money to run a proper academic journal. It really does. But it's practically nothing compared to the amount of money they give out for research. An organized campaign to get Congress to fix the problem is what should have happened.
It's the same thing with his PACER -> RECAP project. The US Congress required the federal judiciary to create an electronic docketing system. They also required it to be available to the general public AND to pay for itself. Is it any surprise that they are now forced to charge money to access it? Could Congress have funded the entire project with money they found in the couch cushions in a single US Senator's office? Yes, of course they could. The only reason PACER charges money is because Congress makes them. Is that wrong? YES, it is. Is RECAP the proper solution? No, it is not. An organized campaign to get Congress to fix the problem is what should have happened.
What about showing NFL games?? they don't have the rights to show them out of area same thing for FOX MLB games.
Also local games as well WGN can not show all of the bulls games on wgn america and no blackhawks games on wgn america.
These are examples of licensing agreements between content owners/producers and licensed broadcasters. The law has nothing to do with it.
This particular ruling probably ends up being better than Aereo expected. The court said that Aereo does not engage in public performances, therefore it doesn't need a license to do what it is doing. In the eyes of the court, Aereo is an antenna, a DVR, a Slingbox and a really long network cable. It doesn't matter how long the network cable is, and it doesn't matter if you own the equipment or rent it. Since it doesn't matter how long the network cable is, it doesn't matter if it is so long that your antenna is located in a different broadcast area.
Keep in mind that this court ruling is about a preliminary injunction in a lawsuit. Aereo still has the actual trial ahead of it (probably more than a year away). But if Aereo wins, I don't think they will have any geographic limitations applied to their business. You could live in California and rent an antenna in NYC.
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I am biased as I already have a Purdue degree, earned 12 years ago. It was far cheaper back then - tuition and fees were less than $7500 per year. Add in the cost of housing and food and I was all in for around $50000. My first job after college paid more than that per year.
Now, 12 years later, I have three quarters of a million dollars in the bank and a six-figure job. I can write a check for a Tesla sedan without flinching. And as the years pass, I will continue to increase my financial standing.
On the other hand, if I were to buy a Tesla sedan and use it for 12 years I would have an obsolete car with a severely diminished battery. Now, don't think that I dislike Tesla. I have high hopes for them. I made a lot of money buying long-term call options several years ago - in fact it was when the Model S was announced and everyone thought they would be out of business in a year. I put my own money on the line, in the face of overwhelming negative opinion.
I think that electric cars will prove to have far lower operating costs than IC cars - and the benefit gets larger the longer you own and the more miles you drive. But let's be perfectly honest. A degree helps you make money. A car costs you money.
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has mandated that, by December 2002, all cellular telephone carriers must market handsets capable of providing an emergency locator service. This emergency locator service, known as E911, will enable personnel at the public safety answering point (PSAP) to pinpoint the location of a cellular telephone user dialing 911. This FCC mandate further requires that the user not be able to override the emergency locator service in the case of a 911 emergency call.
This technology has raised public concern that, in addition to being used for emergency location, the locator service may be used by cellular carriers or by others to track the movements of cell phone users without their consent. There is therefore a need for a system that complies with the FCC mandate for location service while providing maximum privacy protection for cell phone users.
The invention overcoming these and other problems in the art relates in one regard to a system and method for selectively activating or deactivating E911 tracking service, in an embodiment by disabling power to GPS locator circuitry in a cellular telephone until the key sequence "9-1-1-Send" is detected. In one embodiment, the power to the GPS circuitry in a cellular handset may be activated by detection of a keypad sequence and the rotation of a physical switch to permit power delivery. When the handset detects the key sequence "9-1-1" it may output a signal that loads the switch into a "ready" position. When the user presses the "Send" button, the switch closes, enabling power to be delivered to the GPS circuitry. In other embodiments, the selective delivery of power may be controlled by software.
Motorola has been building phones for more than a decade in which the GPS circuitry is physically separated from electrical power until the user does something that causes it to be connected. This obviously doesn't help you if your phone has been hacked or modified and it doesn't help you avoid network triangulation, but it makes you wonder how all these supposed experts know all about the "dangers" of cell phones without having done much research or talking to the people who actually made the phones (you know, the inventors of patents are listed on the patents).
That's hilarious, because if, in fact, he was honestly following through with this experiment (and had, apparently, neglected to leave himself an out-clause), they should have had him jump off a bridge.
Committing suicide is usually illegal in US states (not that they can put you in jail after you are dead). US contract law cannot bind you to illegal acts, thus the shareholders cannot force him to do it regardless of how honestly he was following the experiment.
12 hours is not going to sole the UK's problem that "engineers" and all of us with technical skills are considered greasy plebs" who will drip oil over the drawing room carpet.
You not going to over turn hundreds of years of history in one flight.
Sure, 12 hours isn't going to solve any problems in the UK. But think of all the time they will spend at the useless conference and then the additional 12 hours on the way back to the US.
Silicon Valley might actually have 36 straight hours of nobody selling them out! Think of all the greatness that could come of it!
I propose a THE-BOSS-IS-GONE-HACK-A-THON to take place at the same time as this event. We can see which groups solve more problems.
I am in Australia and have been applying for job after job without even getting an interview. I have a computer science degree and great skills in a number of technologies but no-one is willing to give me any "commercial experience" (in fact, it wouldn't surprise me if my last job doing VB.NET, SQL Server and SQL Server Reporting Services work at a state government department isn't being counted as "commercial experience" by the IT recruitment people who see my resume in the pile of other resumes)
I realize that you are in Australia and that it may be different than the United States, but I'll tell you my story anyway. I was laid off many years ago and was not having much luck finding a new job. The economy was bad, I didn't really know exactly what I wanted to do, my skills had become very specialized at my previous employer, etc.
So I started a company. It was easy. I downloaded a PDF from my state government website, filled it out (leave everything blank except the parts that they absolutely require you to write something) and mailed it along with a check for US$100. They mailed it back to me with a stamp and a registration number and a note that to complete the registration I need to take it over to my local county recorder of deeds and have it recorded into the public record. That cost US$15. Then I fill out a form asking for a US Federal Employer Identifier. Mailed it to the IRS. A week later I get my identifier in the mail.
That's it. I had formed a company. From that point on, I wasn't sitting in my living room doing projects on my own. I was building a high-tech start-up. After about a year, I shut it down (it cost another US$100 or so but was pretty simple) and started looking for a real job again. I got lots of interviews. I told them my start-up failed and then excitedly talked about all the things I learned. It worked really well - I had multiple job offers to choose from.
So, back to Australia. Maybe it's harder and costlier to start a company. If so, I would like to point out that you don't have to be a US citizen to start a company in the US...
None of which can claim to be better than 99.999% uptime, since it's practically impossible to achieve.
Having worked for half a decade on mobile communications infrastructure that regularly exceed 99.999% uptime, I feel qualified to say that it is neither impossible nor super difficult. If it is a goal and you are willing to spend a lot of money than you can accomplish it.
But nobody is going to pay $X for 99.99999% uptime when 98% uptime is available for $X / 100 unless they are forced to. Look at all of the various highly-funded internet services that go down completely when a single Amazon data center has an outage. They aren't even willing to pay a little bit extra and do the extra work to make their services run on multiple data centers at a time. Clearly, it is not a requirement of the venture capital that they are getting.
Ah, you've hit on one of the subtle broken bits in the U.S. Jobs are posted without any hint of salary, and there's implicitly a requirement that all workers are super secretive about how much they make, so that every single person can be taken for a ride. There is no real competition, no informed labor marketplace, and never appropriate raises. Ever.
The legal world (well, large firms) have set salaries for all associates based on what year out of law school you are. Everybody of the same year makes the same money. End of year bonuses are variable, but typically based heavily on the number of hours you've billed in that year according to a published schedule.
It's an interesting system. In order to bill hours, you must be staffed on a case, which is entirely based upon whether anyone wants to work with you and whether the client is willing to accept your work at the your published hourly rate. If you don't bill enough hours, you are told that you should find a new line of work and given 3 to 6 months to do so, as quietly as you wish. If everyone likes your work and you bill a ridiculous number of hours, your bonus is huge and if you do that for 8 years in a row, you likely become part owner of the firm.
I've always wondered how a system like this might work in the tech world, with a few necessary modifications of course.
That's basically it. When I check in to a hotel, the person at the desk spends five minutes typing on the keyboard. Why? What kind of garbage reservation system are hotels using that forces the worker to type so much?
Want to reduce your personnel costs? Get a reservation system that doesn't require so much typing and you could have a single clerk at the desk instead of three.
Might want to update your prices. Student version is pretty much gone. Office 2013 Home and Student Edition is more and is locked to a single PC.
Office 365 for education is $80 and allows the full Office Suite installed on any two machines at any one time, Mac or PC. For four years, all updates and new versions included. After 3 years, you are allowed to re-up for another four years at the educational price - perhaps the perfect thing to do right before graduation.
MS is smart. It's cheap enough that Mom & Dad (or even the incoming student themselves) can easily spring for the "Industry-Standard" office suite for their precious young adult; covers their entire college career; never worry about it again, etc.
Sure, college is all about trying new things. But why would you try a free office suite when you already have the "best"?
This is what Apple is doing now but people flip out about it. Apps in the app store can only interact with files through the OS file chooser, so they are effectively sandboxed and can only see files explicitly allowed by the user.
Apple is going even further with this, as an App Store "app" - now is encouraged to contain XPC services. Each service runs as its own process (started and stopped by the OS as needed) within its own sandbox and its own reduced set of privileges (and it is explicitly NOT possible for one of these services to get root).
I really don't understand why the legal system needs to be bothered to deal with this. My tax dollars have better things to do...
There must be some sort of controversy involved. If you file a lawsuit, you must state specifically what the other side is doing wrong, with citations to the relevant laws that prove that such action is wrong. Anything less and the court will sanction you for wasting their time as well as the other side's time.
In this particular case, the shopper is asking Amazon for products made by company A using words which in that particular context and combination form trademarks and/or copyrights owned by company A. Amazon says that they have no products made by company A but that they went ahead and, on behalf of the shopper, ran a different search using words in that particular context and combination which are still trademarks and/or copyrights of company A. Those results produce listing for products made by companies B, C, and D. There is your controversy. The law says that using the trademarks and/or copyrights belonging to company A to sell competing products is unfair, but is Amazon actually being unfair in this instance? Remember that the controversy lies in the Amazon-generated query, not the shopper-generated query.
Determining the answer certainly seems like a fair use of the legal system to me.
What? You think that the manufacturers wont pass on the savings to their customers? I can't believe that would happen. I mean, they would have to be incredibly greedy.
Manufacturers would certainly avoid passing savings on to their customers as long as they can get away with it, but it would never last. The first manufacturer to reduce price by 10% (and still earn an exorbitant profit) to gain even a sliver of market share would trigger a price war that permanently brings the cost in line with reality.
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Metro is good as it forces people to into an iOS-style walled garden where Microsoft gets 30% of all sales and gets to control what people install. I'm hoping you weren't looking for how Metro is good for users, because in the short and long term, it's not.
Yes, in exactly the same way that any Linux desktop distro that comes with a preconfigured set of software repositories could attempt take control of what people install.
OS X and Windows 8 have app stores where you can conveniently find and install software for your machine. Neither Apple nor Microsoft have ever made any indication that they will ever eventually prevent users from installing software that comes from a different source. And yet here on Slashdot we continuously get comments that imply that such a thing has already happened.
But this is a SAN FRANCISCO start up! They are going to collect all that data and sell it to advertisers! This is major automotive DISRUPTION you are witnessing!
This nanny device could allow parents to spy on their kids driving habits. No more rally driving for them !
Or they can buy a Ford, which can already do that for parents and more - like you can set it so the radio can't be turned on if the driver isn't wearing a seatbelt, or the low-fuel light comes on sooner because your kids are idiots, etc.
You couldn't care less...
Maybe you should know that the big banks who do HFT also co-locate inside the exchanges and front run orders making hundreds of billions per year.
Also, you might want to know that if the market crashes and restarts like today the big banks can get their losing trades reversed and you can't.
All the profit they're making has to come from somewhere. Are you so certain it doesn't come out of your pocket?
HFT exists to take advantage of arbitrage situations. They are reactive to changes in the market and colocating inside exchanges helps them to react quicker. It is certainly a profitable venture, as you can see.
Big Banks do not get any sort of priority over anyone else when having trades reversed. For starters, you are certainly not trading on the exchange for yourself, are you? You have a brokerage account, right? In that case, broker XYZ made the trade in their name. Your ownership of that stock exists as a notation on their books. That's it. Fidelity trades with Ameritrade. Bob does not trade with Joe. If some crazy event happens and trades are going to be reversed, Fidelity will ask for their affected trades to be reversed. All of them. Including the ones they made for you. But now, if you were trading for yourself, you can also ask for the trades to be reversed. I'm not going to paste a link here, but you can find it with less than 3 minutes of googling. Each exchange has a form on their website. Fill it in and email it to them. They can't refuse you just because you're a nobody. Really, they can't.
Now, as far as who's pocket HFT profits come from - that's a good question. First of all, there is no way to take any money from your pocket unless you are a party to the transaction. I had lots of money "in the market" as part of my retirement planning, but I didn't have any buy or sell orders. So I was completely unaffected by this flash crash. Right? My retirement was in jeopardy for 4 minutes. I didn't notice. I was working. Then the market recovered and my retirement plans were back on! Yay! Alright, so before HFT, buy/sell spreads were large. Now they are small. That's actually a very large benefit to me when I buy or sell stock. So no, I am not so sure that HFT is pulling money out of my pocket. Perhaps they are pulling money out of the pocket of the people that benefited when the buy/sell spread was large. Brokerages? I am not sure..
While I am always happy to see obvious patent ruled as invalid, I wonder if it is the job of an administrative commission to do that job.
It's only invalid in the sense that the ITC won't do anything about it.
But the real issue is that an administrative commission is proving to be completely gutless when it comes to two American companies fighting each other. They have gone in circles for around 3 years now trying to figure out how to not do anything at all (while the lawyers on both sides have collected many millions of dollars in fees). The sole remedy available when you file an ITC case is a ban on importation and the ITC is simply unwilling to ban importation of popular products because they don't want to create any political backlash.
If there ever was any proof that giving federal judges a lifetime appointment to protect them from politics as much as possible, this is it
I suppose its nothing to do with the fact that the PC I bought 5 years ago is pretty much still as good as those I can get off the shelf today.
And do you know why? Because every .NET release makes it easier for mediocre developers to write software that takes advantage of your multicore machine. And .NET 4.5 (released with Windows 8) continues along that path.
Your 5-year old PC was running a lot of single-threaded code back when you got it. It's running a lot less of it now, even though the developers who wrote the code probably have no idea what they are doing.
IMHO, it should be a condition that the public are given access to the scope site etc.
The last time I was on Big Island, the road that would take you to the base of the volcano where this is to be situated was prohibited to rental vehicles (4WD included). It was full of pot holes but passable with care. I've driven rentals over worse roads of of Hwy 50 in NV.
Get the state to fix this and there would be a source of income to the observatory from Tourists.
Hardly rocket science now is it?
It is a public road, and it's a bad road on purpose. In fact, once you reach a certain elevation, the road is a wonderfully smooth ribbon of concrete - they don't want dust to interfere with the telescopes. They also don't want ridiculous traffic jams beyond what they already have. So the first few miles beyond the visitor center is a terrible gravel road. Most people turn around.
The rental vehicle prohibition is between you and your rental car company. It has nothing to do with the State of Hawaii. If you feel like taking your rental car to the top, go right ahead. You will find that you are probably only one of a dozen FWD sedans on the top of the mountain. But... earlier this year some idiot tourists took their rental sedan up the mountain and forgot to put it in park when they got out. It slowly drove itself off the road and flipped over. It took the state more than a month to be able to get machinery in place to retrieve the wrecked car and take it down the mountain. Guess what - those tourists had to pay for the car AND the removal. You want to take that risk? Go ahead. Just remember that there aren't very many parking spaces up at the top of a mountain.
I highly recommend finding a way to get up there though - perhaps one of the many tour companies that do it? In fact, I think you'll find it to be a better experience. Most of those tours will get you up there so you can walk around a bit and watch the sun set. Then they take you down the mountain a bit to a secluded enough spot and give you an hour or more for stargazing - along with a very knowledgeable guide and a $10,000 telescope. The temperature will be well below freezing, so they also bring warm weather clothes for you - something you probably didn't bring on your trip to Hawaii.
Sure, if you are doing a new build or renovation. Some of us are stuck with old houses and old fixtures.
I'm slowly renovating an older house, and I'm looking into stringing low-voltage wiring to support LED lights without needing a power converter in every fixture or unit.
Yeah, next month I'm moving into a new place and each bedroom will have a fully wired junction box in the middle of the ceiling. I have to provide the fixture.
I'm looking at LED fixtures and finding any useful information online is proving to be difficult. I see a lot of no-name Chinese stuff and I have no idea if it is good or if it is junk.
I see various stuff from names I recognize, such as Philips, but then you are looking at ~$500. I can buy a standard fixture and some LED bulbs for less than $100. If there is really some reason I should go for the LED fixture I would love to know it, but the info online is fairly useless for making a reasonably safe decision.
Is the rest of the industry still stuck at 32nm for ARM processors? I haven't seen anything yet that suggests that TSMC can meet 28nm demand on the various ARM chips they have contracts for.
At some point, the x86 Atom at 22nm or 20nm (or whatever is next) is going to be more powerful and more energy efficient than a real-world ARM chip.
Broadcast TV allows me to watch programming I enjoy, for free, without my stream lagging to hell whenever my ISP arbitrarily decides to throttle me.
And I would rather have my indecency standards set by a monolithic, slow-as-molasses bureaucracy than by the whims of a media company.
Until net neutrality is settled, I would ask that you not sign any petition doing away with public TV.
I've been visiting US a few times per year for many years (business travel) and each and every time I'm amazed how you can endure watching anything with the amount of advertising intruding on the shows.
Hmm, business travel in the United States. Large amounts of television commercials. Business travel in the United States. Large amounts of television commercials.
"It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it."
-Upton Sinclair
That was the kind of thing which happened while people's parents could still afford to send them to school to "find themselves", but over the last few years has mostly gone away.
I have never priced out a PhD in Literature, but I have looked at other fields. At least at the schools I have looked at, a PhD candidate gets a stipend every year, not a tuition bill. You can cynically look at them as below minimum wage jobs that eventually give you a fancy degree; meanwhile the opportunity costs compound year after year.
Before going too far off topic, I'll just close by saying that I've never heard of a situation where a parent pays for a child to get a PhD.
That's wrong. He was charged with computer fraud and abuse (CFAA), not "downloading excessive material" (or even copyright violation). Although he was not affiliated with MIT, he connected to its network, evaded attempts to kick him off the network, physically entered a wiring closet on campus to circumvent restrictions on the wireless network, and attempted to conceal a machine there. He tried to hide his face from security cameras, and he did all that even though he would have had access to the network at Harvard. And his charges and penalties were based on the work and disruption he caused to MIT users and staff.
Yes, physically and intentionally hooking up to a network you have no right to be on, on someone else's private property that you have no right to be on, is a crime, with the severity of the sentence determined by how much damage you cause.
This has been my main issue with Aaron Swartz for some time. He has correctly identified things that are wrong, but he has always taken the wrong approach to fixing the problem. The fact that the results of taxpayer-funded research is behind a paywall is wrong. It should be open and accessible. But the proper way to fix that is to get the government to pay the costs. The government doles out billions of dollars for the research to occur but cannot see fit to add a few thousand dollars to each grant specifically to pay for the costs of peer review and publication. It costs money to run a proper academic journal. It really does. But it's practically nothing compared to the amount of money they give out for research. An organized campaign to get Congress to fix the problem is what should have happened.
It's the same thing with his PACER -> RECAP project. The US Congress required the federal judiciary to create an electronic docketing system. They also required it to be available to the general public AND to pay for itself. Is it any surprise that they are now forced to charge money to access it? Could Congress have funded the entire project with money they found in the couch cushions in a single US Senator's office? Yes, of course they could. The only reason PACER charges money is because Congress makes them. Is that wrong? YES, it is. Is RECAP the proper solution? No, it is not. An organized campaign to get Congress to fix the problem is what should have happened.
What about showing NFL games?? they don't have the rights to show them out of area same thing for FOX MLB games.
Also local games as well WGN can not show all of the bulls games on wgn america and no blackhawks games on wgn america.
These are examples of licensing agreements between content owners/producers and licensed broadcasters. The law has nothing to do with it.
This particular ruling probably ends up being better than Aereo expected. The court said that Aereo does not engage in public performances, therefore it doesn't need a license to do what it is doing. In the eyes of the court, Aereo is an antenna, a DVR, a Slingbox and a really long network cable. It doesn't matter how long the network cable is, and it doesn't matter if you own the equipment or rent it. Since it doesn't matter how long the network cable is, it doesn't matter if it is so long that your antenna is located in a different broadcast area.
Keep in mind that this court ruling is about a preliminary injunction in a lawsuit. Aereo still has the actual trial ahead of it (probably more than a year away). But if Aereo wins, I don't think they will have any geographic limitations applied to their business. You could live in California and rent an antenna in NYC.
I am biased as I already have a Purdue degree, earned 12 years ago. It was far cheaper back then - tuition and fees were less than $7500 per year. Add in the cost of housing and food and I was all in for around $50000. My first job after college paid more than that per year.
Now, 12 years later, I have three quarters of a million dollars in the bank and a six-figure job. I can write a check for a Tesla sedan without flinching. And as the years pass, I will continue to increase my financial standing.
On the other hand, if I were to buy a Tesla sedan and use it for 12 years I would have an obsolete car with a severely diminished battery. Now, don't think that I dislike Tesla. I have high hopes for them. I made a lot of money buying long-term call options several years ago - in fact it was when the Model S was announced and everyone thought they would be out of business in a year. I put my own money on the line, in the face of overwhelming negative opinion.
I think that electric cars will prove to have far lower operating costs than IC cars - and the benefit gets larger the longer you own and the more miles you drive. But let's be perfectly honest. A degree helps you make money. A car costs you money.
US Patent 7751826 - Motorola submitted the patent in 2002, it was issued in 2010:
US Patent 7,751,826
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has mandated that, by December 2002, all cellular telephone carriers must market handsets capable of providing an emergency locator service. This emergency locator service, known as E911, will enable personnel at the public safety answering point (PSAP) to pinpoint the location of a cellular telephone user dialing 911. This FCC mandate further requires that the user not be able to override the emergency locator service in the case of a 911 emergency call.
This technology has raised public concern that, in addition to being used for emergency location, the locator service may be used by cellular carriers or by others to track the movements of cell phone users without their consent. There is therefore a need for a system that complies with the FCC mandate for location service while providing maximum privacy protection for cell phone users.
The invention overcoming these and other problems in the art relates in one regard to a system and method for selectively activating or deactivating E911 tracking service, in an embodiment by disabling power to GPS locator circuitry in a cellular telephone until the key sequence "9-1-1-Send" is detected. In one embodiment, the power to the GPS circuitry in a cellular handset may be activated by detection of a keypad sequence and the rotation of a physical switch to permit power delivery. When the handset detects the key sequence "9-1-1" it may output a signal that loads the switch into a "ready" position. When the user presses the "Send" button, the switch closes, enabling power to be delivered to the GPS circuitry. In other embodiments, the selective delivery of power may be controlled by software.
Motorola has been building phones for more than a decade in which the GPS circuitry is physically separated from electrical power until the user does something that causes it to be connected. This obviously doesn't help you if your phone has been hacked or modified and it doesn't help you avoid network triangulation, but it makes you wonder how all these supposed experts know all about the "dangers" of cell phones without having done much research or talking to the people who actually made the phones (you know, the inventors of patents are listed on the patents).
That's hilarious, because if, in fact, he was honestly following through with this experiment (and had, apparently, neglected to leave himself an out-clause), they should have had him jump off a bridge.
Committing suicide is usually illegal in US states (not that they can put you in jail after you are dead). US contract law cannot bind you to illegal acts, thus the shareholders cannot force him to do it regardless of how honestly he was following the experiment.
12 hours is not going to sole the UK's problem that "engineers" and all of us with technical skills are considered greasy plebs" who will drip oil over the drawing room carpet.
You not going to over turn hundreds of years of history in one flight.
Sure, 12 hours isn't going to solve any problems in the UK. But think of all the time they will spend at the useless conference and then the additional 12 hours on the way back to the US.
Silicon Valley might actually have 36 straight hours of nobody selling them out! Think of all the greatness that could come of it!
I propose a THE-BOSS-IS-GONE-HACK-A-THON to take place at the same time as this event. We can see which groups solve more problems.
I am in Australia and have been applying for job after job without even getting an interview. I have a computer science degree and great skills in a number of technologies but no-one is willing to give me any "commercial experience" (in fact, it wouldn't surprise me if my last job doing VB.NET, SQL Server and SQL Server Reporting Services work at a state government department isn't being counted as "commercial experience" by the IT recruitment people who see my resume in the pile of other resumes)
I realize that you are in Australia and that it may be different than the United States, but I'll tell you my story anyway. I was laid off many years ago and was not having much luck finding a new job. The economy was bad, I didn't really know exactly what I wanted to do, my skills had become very specialized at my previous employer, etc.
So I started a company. It was easy. I downloaded a PDF from my state government website, filled it out (leave everything blank except the parts that they absolutely require you to write something) and mailed it along with a check for US$100. They mailed it back to me with a stamp and a registration number and a note that to complete the registration I need to take it over to my local county recorder of deeds and have it recorded into the public record. That cost US$15. Then I fill out a form asking for a US Federal Employer Identifier. Mailed it to the IRS. A week later I get my identifier in the mail.
That's it. I had formed a company. From that point on, I wasn't sitting in my living room doing projects on my own. I was building a high-tech start-up. After about a year, I shut it down (it cost another US$100 or so but was pretty simple) and started looking for a real job again. I got lots of interviews. I told them my start-up failed and then excitedly talked about all the things I learned. It worked really well - I had multiple job offers to choose from.
So, back to Australia. Maybe it's harder and costlier to start a company. If so, I would like to point out that you don't have to be a US citizen to start a company in the US...
None of which can claim to be better than 99.999% uptime, since it's practically impossible to achieve.
Having worked for half a decade on mobile communications infrastructure that regularly exceed 99.999% uptime, I feel qualified to say that it is neither impossible nor super difficult. If it is a goal and you are willing to spend a lot of money than you can accomplish it.
But nobody is going to pay $X for 99.99999% uptime when 98% uptime is available for $X / 100 unless they are forced to. Look at all of the various highly-funded internet services that go down completely when a single Amazon data center has an outage. They aren't even willing to pay a little bit extra and do the extra work to make their services run on multiple data centers at a time. Clearly, it is not a requirement of the venture capital that they are getting.
Ah, you've hit on one of the subtle broken bits in the U.S. Jobs are posted without any hint of salary, and there's implicitly a requirement that all workers are super secretive about how much they make, so that every single person can be taken for a ride. There is no real competition, no informed labor marketplace, and never appropriate raises. Ever.
The legal world (well, large firms) have set salaries for all associates based on what year out of law school you are. Everybody of the same year makes the same money. End of year bonuses are variable, but typically based heavily on the number of hours you've billed in that year according to a published schedule.
It's an interesting system. In order to bill hours, you must be staffed on a case, which is entirely based upon whether anyone wants to work with you and whether the client is willing to accept your work at the your published hourly rate. If you don't bill enough hours, you are told that you should find a new line of work and given 3 to 6 months to do so, as quietly as you wish. If everyone likes your work and you bill a ridiculous number of hours, your bonus is huge and if you do that for 8 years in a row, you likely become part owner of the firm.
I've always wondered how a system like this might work in the tech world, with a few necessary modifications of course.
I just want to check-in faster.
That's basically it. When I check in to a hotel, the person at the desk spends five minutes typing on the keyboard. Why? What kind of garbage reservation system are hotels using that forces the worker to type so much?
Want to reduce your personnel costs? Get a reservation system that doesn't require so much typing and you could have a single clerk at the desk instead of three.
Might want to update your prices. Student version is pretty much gone. Office 2013 Home and Student Edition is more and is locked to a single PC.
Office 365 for education is $80 and allows the full Office Suite installed on any two machines at any one time, Mac or PC. For four years, all updates and new versions included. After 3 years, you are allowed to re-up for another four years at the educational price - perhaps the perfect thing to do right before graduation.
MS is smart. It's cheap enough that Mom & Dad (or even the incoming student themselves) can easily spring for the "Industry-Standard" office suite for their precious young adult; covers their entire college career; never worry about it again, etc.
Sure, college is all about trying new things. But why would you try a free office suite when you already have the "best"?
This is what Apple is doing now but people flip out about it. Apps in the app store can only interact with files through the OS file chooser, so they are effectively sandboxed and can only see files explicitly allowed by the user.
Apple is going even further with this, as an App Store "app" - now is encouraged to contain XPC services. Each service runs as its own process (started and stopped by the OS as needed) within its own sandbox and its own reduced set of privileges (and it is explicitly NOT possible for one of these services to get root).
I really don't understand why the legal system needs to be bothered to deal with this. My tax dollars have better things to do...
There must be some sort of controversy involved. If you file a lawsuit, you must state specifically what the other side is doing wrong, with citations to the relevant laws that prove that such action is wrong. Anything less and the court will sanction you for wasting their time as well as the other side's time.
In this particular case, the shopper is asking Amazon for products made by company A using words which in that particular context and combination form trademarks and/or copyrights owned by company A. Amazon says that they have no products made by company A but that they went ahead and, on behalf of the shopper, ran a different search using words in that particular context and combination which are still trademarks and/or copyrights of company A. Those results produce listing for products made by companies B, C, and D. There is your controversy. The law says that using the trademarks and/or copyrights belonging to company A to sell competing products is unfair, but is Amazon actually being unfair in this instance? Remember that the controversy lies in the Amazon-generated query, not the shopper-generated query.
Determining the answer certainly seems like a fair use of the legal system to me.
What? You think that the manufacturers wont pass on the savings to their customers? I can't believe that would happen. I mean, they would have to be incredibly greedy.
Manufacturers would certainly avoid passing savings on to their customers as long as they can get away with it, but it would never last. The first manufacturer to reduce price by 10% (and still earn an exorbitant profit) to gain even a sliver of market share would trigger a price war that permanently brings the cost in line with reality.