Earlier this year, Toyota opened their first new factory in Japan in 18 years. There are very few robots in the factory; they even have humans doing the welding work. Toyota claims that all of the savings gained by robots is lost due to building the factory to accommodate automation and buying and maintaining the robots. In fact, Toyota has been moving away from heavy automation for the last 10 years.
they made an economical decision how to invest the 1.6M - and it is a very lucrative investion.
It is not without risk. If someone wins the jackpot for that drawing, they win exactly zero dollars. According to the article, that has happened once before. Additionally, the article mentions that if you buy $100,000 in tickets you have a 72% chance of winning more than $100,000. It is not guaranteed.
I'm pretty sure that's Google's exact intention. If you force people to use their real name, tracking them over all the web gets much easier.
When I was in college, there were four people with the same name as me. I just checked LinkedIn, and there are eleven people with the same name as me in the same city as me. I admit that I live in a big city, but I don't have a common first or last name. The world just has a lot of people on it.
If you know what you're doing, you can create a recovery CD from the contents of the download; and in a month or so, they're going to release it on USB stick.
The download is an installer package. When you are done downloading, you have to launch the installer package to initiate the upgrade. You are also free to copy that installer package to any number of media devices that you own. It's just one file, drag and drop will do the trick.
Uh. Really? Howabout the MacBook Air? It's basically an Apple Netbook, but they won't call it that. There are plenty of sites explaining how to install MacOS onto price-cheaper Dell and getting basically the same thing. Just Google "Hackintosh Dell".
Granted it's from 2 years ago, but there's plenty describing hackintoshing the Dell Mini 10v. A quick search found one as recent as Jan 2 this year.
That is ridiculous. The Macbook Air is most definitely underpowered. But comparing it to the Mini 9 & 10v? You are comparing a computer with a Core2Duo to a computer with a single-core Atom (only the newest Dell Minis have dual-core Atoms - but that is still an Atom vs. a C2D).
All that aside, your link has 18 steps to complete. I don't think the average person is going to tackle something like this. By the way, how much are you valuing time? My free time is worth a lot more than my work time, so I better be saving a lot of money by doing this. I'm thinking I would be better off just buying a Macbook Air if what I really want is a Macbook Air.
QA has always been considered the bastard children of software development. I've never worked on a project where they weren't treated like shit. I'm guilty too; which is really bad because I started out in QA/QC.
And on the business side, stop this horseshit of releasing code and having the customer find the bugs. Of course that won't happen. Some dipshit mgr is thinking, "Why have QA when the customers will find the bugs. We'll fix the first few and the charge them for a new and better release!" Now, this is the one time when blaming/bashing Microsoft is proper. They are the ones who made it the industry norm.
Microsoft's Visual C++ compiler will throw a huge number of warnings for things like strcpy, telling you to use strncpy_s or something like that. If you follow the recommendation, potential buffer overflows become pretty obvious very quickly because the function zeros out the entire memory area that it is allowed to reach based on the parameters passed to it - and then does the copy. Your program will blow up during testing.
The current favored design pattern for a C# application is MVVC - model-view-view controller. This pattern makes it very easy to write test cases to automate testing of your interface.
I enjoy bashing MS when appropriate, but if you actually follow their recommendations you can avoid a lot of problems.
If you'd like to read what the mistakes *are*, instead of a fluff piece that amounts to "oh, they're so awful! And people make them all the time, too!", here's the actual original article: http://cwe.mitre.org/top25/index.html
Is one of the mistakes "Not being able to click on a link"? I would check myself, but I can't click on the link.
The VA doesn't seem to want to use this system; in fact, they have an open "Request for Proposal" for the creation of an open source Electronic Health Records system.
Perhaps some people here may be interested in helping. The VA is huge; whatever they standardize on, especially if it is free, is likely to be implemented in many places.
The actual request (with more information linked) is available here
You can drop the anti-American rhetoric. Roman's never used a fiat money system(their coins were made of silver/gold) and almost no government uses the gold standard whether they have a real army or not. Large scale fiat currency has only been used for ~50 years. Gold only has value in the real world is for making certain goods, it's value is grossly inflated(that it's near the price of platinum is absurd).
Roman currency was essentially fiat currency. The coin value was always higher than the value of the metal content, and as time went on the precious metal content dropped to the point where there was almost none at all in the coins.
The value was declared by fiat, just like now. The idea that current money has no intrinsic value is laughable. The bullion value of a US nickel is higher than 5 cents
I also have a firstname.lastname@gmail.com account and frequently get email that is neither intended for me nor sent to me. I sometimes look at the email headers and many times my email address is nowhere to be found. It appears that if Gmail receives an email for a non-existent account it simply routes it to whatever account it can find that is most similar. And I believe that firstname.lastname@gmail.com accounts get ranked highest because they have no numerical permutation.
Chrome OS's coolest features are the quick boot—under ten seconds—and instant resume. There's no need not to simply close the notebook while walking from place to place. The only drawback is that the OS occasionally resumes faster than the Wi-Fi can connect.
My wife has a new Thinkpad with Windows 7 and an SSD. It boots in about 20 seconds and shuts down in about 10. It also resumes from sleep faster than the Wi-Fi can connect.
My 4-year old Macbook with an SSD boots to OS X in about 15 seconds and shuts down in 5-10. It has always resumed from sleep faster than the Wi-Fi can connect, even when it had a spinning-platter drive.
With the advent of App Store for OS X and problems getting GPL software in app stores (how to distribute source?), what is needed is an open source app store.
The only issue with the Apple App Store and the GPL is that the App Store requires you to agree to not distribute the binary beyond the 5 computers (at a time) on which you are allowed to install the application. The App Store page for any particular application shows the publisher and the publisher's URL. If you want to distribute the source, just put it on the linked web site. How is that a problem?
Optotraffic representatives said the photos are not intended to capture the actual act of speeding, and are taken nearly 50 feet down the road from sensors as a way to prove the vehicle was on the road.
How does proving that a car was on the road prove that it was speeding?
I live in a modern high-rise building in the middle of a dense downtown area. To comply with fire codes, all interior studs are metal - in fact almost nothing inside the building (besides furniture) will burn. This definitely affects my WiFi - I have my router in my living room and I have trouble getting a usable signal in my bedroom. My solution of course was to wire the place with ethernet and have multiple routers.
On the other hand, I have floor-to-ceiling glass for about 40% of my exterior walls. Thus I see about 30 or 40 WiFi routers from neighboring buildings - with very good signal strength. It's a strange dynamic - it's hard to see nearby routers but distant routers are easy to see.
Obviously, all you have to do is hit return to get the results like you always could. However, even when your request isn't blacklisted, you're not getting the SAME results that you would get by hitting return. Entering "murder" into the search bar and hitting a space gets you suggestions of mostly band names. It's only after you hit return that you can learn the other sinister meaning of the word. What we have here is a demonstration of how content can be filtered, controlled, and ultimately suppressed. It is indeed a good thing that Google isn't evil.
The algorithm was designed to keep this stuff from happening. This case was nothing more than a simple oversight on Google's part. Their response was poor and arrogant.
Google defended themselves by saying that they shouldn't be held responsible for the output of an algorithm that they created. That's weak.
They should have said "Crap, we screwed up. We'll fix it right away." No judge or jury would think that Google did it on purpose. But with a response like this, they are sure to think that Google doesn't care.
I just finished reading the entire decision. It was quite interesting but at 45 pages I doubt many people here would bother.
The judge pointed out quite a few problems with the settlement proposal, but two of the most important are: 1) It's pretty likely that the settlement would violate a number of US and international laws. 2) It would contradict recent US Supreme Court decisions that say it is the job of Congress to update copyright law for changing technology.
In any patent litigation, the inventor(s) of a patent can be deposed by the defendants. In this particular patent, the other side can force Sergey Brin to sit in front of a video camera for hours and answer all manner of questions about Google Co. The relevance of those questions is given a lot of latitude. Then, that video and a transcript become public documents in the lawsuit.
Jesus christ, it's just an IDE. You can still develop Mac apps with vim and gcc.
Without XCode? Getting a working toolchain on OS X without first installing XCode (which includes gcc and binutils) is non-trivial.
Apple released an updated version of XCode 3 today (3.2.6). Looking at the release notes, it includes the latest build tools as well as the updated SDK for developing iOS 4.3 apps. It also includes some updates/changes to the XCode 3 IDE.
Apple is charging the $5 for the fancy new IDE only. You still get everything else with the free download.
Yeah, and Obama wants to put $50B into high speed trains when:
1) He not only didn't get Bush's spending under control, but increased it. 2) He knows damn well that the American public has no broad interest in high speed trains (thus it would be Amtrak 2.0, at best).
This diversion at least doesn't add insult to injury by costing a ton of money Utah doesn't have and should take a committee in the legislature all of about half an hour to push out the appropriate language for a general vote.
High Speed trains are a necessary transportation feature in the future of the US. Plain and simple. The United States growth rate is quite high for a developed nation. We have a lot of suburban sprawl. Combine those two facts and think about the outcome: When our current airports reach their capacity, where will new airports be built? In Chicago, the selected site for the next airport is 50 miles from downtown! Go look at a map and see if you can find any space near Los Angeles or New York City for another airport.
The high speed rail plans are using mostly already existing railroad right-of-ways. They can be built where people already live.
Thank you for the link... The blog post says that the Trojan can "control" the phone but nowhere does it say that "control" means anything other than prompting the user to install or delete other applications.
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Earlier this year, Toyota opened their first new factory in Japan in 18 years. There are very few robots in the factory; they even have humans doing the welding work. Toyota claims that all of the savings gained by robots is lost due to building the factory to accommodate automation and buying and maintaining the robots. In fact, Toyota has been moving away from heavy automation for the last 10 years.
15-87,5% profit. without risk.
they made an economical decision how to invest the 1.6M - and it is a very lucrative investion.
It is not without risk. If someone wins the jackpot for that drawing, they win exactly zero dollars. According to the article, that has happened once before. Additionally, the article mentions that if you buy $100,000 in tickets you have a 72% chance of winning more than $100,000. It is not guaranteed.
I'm pretty sure that's Google's exact intention. If you force people to use their real name, tracking them over all the web gets much easier.
When I was in college, there were four people with the same name as me. I just checked LinkedIn, and there are eleven people with the same name as me in the same city as me. I admit that I live in a big city, but I don't have a common first or last name. The world just has a lot of people on it.
If you know what you're doing, you can create a recovery CD from the contents of the download; and in a month or so, they're going to release it on USB stick.
The download is an installer package. When you are done downloading, you have to launch the installer package to initiate the upgrade. You are also free to copy that installer package to any number of media devices that you own. It's just one file, drag and drop will do the trick.
A job is magic? I know times are tough these days, but I didn't think they were that bad.
Uh. Really? Howabout the MacBook Air? It's basically an Apple Netbook, but they won't call it that. There are plenty of sites explaining how to install MacOS onto price-cheaper Dell and getting basically the same thing. Just Google "Hackintosh Dell".
Base price of a MacBook Air: $1000
Price of a hackintosh-friendly Dell Mini 9: $400
Result: $1000 = $400 * 2.5
Site: http://gizmodo.com/5156903/how-to-hackintosh-a-dell-mini-9-into-the-ultimate-os-x-netbook
Granted it's from 2 years ago, but there's plenty describing hackintoshing the Dell Mini 10v. A quick search found one as recent as Jan 2 this year.
That is ridiculous. The Macbook Air is most definitely underpowered. But comparing it to the Mini 9 & 10v? You are comparing a computer with a Core2Duo to a computer with a single-core Atom (only the newest Dell Minis have dual-core Atoms - but that is still an Atom vs. a C2D).
All that aside, your link has 18 steps to complete. I don't think the average person is going to tackle something like this. By the way, how much are you valuing time? My free time is worth a lot more than my work time, so I better be saving a lot of money by doing this. I'm thinking I would be better off just buying a Macbook Air if what I really want is a Macbook Air.
QA has always been considered the bastard children of software development. I've never worked on a project where they weren't treated like shit. I'm guilty too; which is really bad because I started out in QA/QC.
And on the business side, stop this horseshit of releasing code and having the customer find the bugs. Of course that won't happen. Some dipshit mgr is thinking, "Why have QA when the customers will find the bugs. We'll fix the first few and the charge them for a new and better release!" Now, this is the one time when blaming/bashing Microsoft is proper. They are the ones who made it the industry norm.
Microsoft's Visual C++ compiler will throw a huge number of warnings for things like strcpy, telling you to use strncpy_s or something like that. If you follow the recommendation, potential buffer overflows become pretty obvious very quickly because the function zeros out the entire memory area that it is allowed to reach based on the parameters passed to it - and then does the copy. Your program will blow up during testing.
The current favored design pattern for a C# application is MVVC - model-view-view controller. This pattern makes it very easy to write test cases to automate testing of your interface.
I enjoy bashing MS when appropriate, but if you actually follow their recommendations you can avoid a lot of problems.
If you'd like to read what the mistakes *are*, instead of a fluff piece that amounts to "oh, they're so awful! And people make them all the time, too!", here's the actual original article: http://cwe.mitre.org/top25/index.html
Is one of the mistakes "Not being able to click on a link"? I would check myself, but I can't click on the link.
The VA doesn't seem to want to use this system; in fact, they have an open "Request for Proposal" for the creation of an open source Electronic Health Records system.
Perhaps some people here may be interested in helping. The VA is huge; whatever they standardize on, especially if it is free, is likely to be implemented in many places.
The actual request (with more information linked) is available here
through time honored tradition like gold.
You can drop the anti-American rhetoric. Roman's never used a fiat money system(their coins were made of silver/gold) and almost no government uses the gold standard whether they have a real army or not. Large scale fiat currency has only been used for ~50 years. Gold only has value in the real world is for making certain goods, it's value is grossly inflated(that it's near the price of platinum is absurd).
Roman currency was essentially fiat currency. The coin value was always higher than the value of the metal content, and as time went on the precious metal content dropped to the point where there was almost none at all in the coins.
The value was declared by fiat, just like now. The idea that current money has no intrinsic value is laughable. The bullion value of a US nickel is higher than 5 cents
Microsoft Windows Live Mesh 2011 is Microsoft's very similar product and it has the exact same system requirements.
I also have a firstname.lastname@gmail.com account and frequently get email that is neither intended for me nor sent to me. I sometimes look at the email headers and many times my email address is nowhere to be found. It appears that if Gmail receives an email for a non-existent account it simply routes it to whatever account it can find that is most similar. And I believe that firstname.lastname@gmail.com accounts get ranked highest because they have no numerical permutation.
Chrome OS's coolest features are the quick boot—under ten seconds—and instant resume. There's no need not to simply close the notebook while walking from place to place. The only drawback is that the OS occasionally resumes faster than the Wi-Fi can connect.
My wife has a new Thinkpad with Windows 7 and an SSD. It boots in about 20 seconds and shuts down in about 10. It also resumes from sleep faster than the Wi-Fi can connect.
My 4-year old Macbook with an SSD boots to OS X in about 15 seconds and shuts down in 5-10. It has always resumed from sleep faster than the Wi-Fi can connect, even when it had a spinning-platter drive.
With the advent of App Store for OS X and problems getting GPL software in app stores (how to distribute source?), what is needed is an open source app store.
The only issue with the Apple App Store and the GPL is that the App Store requires you to agree to not distribute the binary beyond the 5 computers (at a time) on which you are allowed to install the application. The App Store page for any particular application shows the publisher and the publisher's URL. If you want to distribute the source, just put it on the linked web site. How is that a problem?
From the article:
Optotraffic representatives said the photos are not intended to capture the actual act of speeding, and are taken nearly 50 feet down the road from sensors as a way to prove the vehicle was on the road.
How does proving that a car was on the road prove that it was speeding?
I live in a modern high-rise building in the middle of a dense downtown area. To comply with fire codes, all interior studs are metal - in fact almost nothing inside the building (besides furniture) will burn. This definitely affects my WiFi - I have my router in my living room and I have trouble getting a usable signal in my bedroom. My solution of course was to wire the place with ethernet and have multiple routers.
On the other hand, I have floor-to-ceiling glass for about 40% of my exterior walls. Thus I see about 30 or 40 WiFi routers from neighboring buildings - with very good signal strength. It's a strange dynamic - it's hard to see nearby routers but distant routers are easy to see.
Replying to my own post:
The Google Blacklist
Obviously, all you have to do is hit return to get the results like you always could. However, even when your request isn't blacklisted, you're not getting the SAME results that you would get by hitting return. Entering "murder" into the search bar and hitting a space gets you suggestions of mostly band names. It's only after you hit return that you can learn the other sinister meaning of the word. What we have here is a demonstration of how content can be filtered, controlled, and ultimately suppressed. It is indeed a good thing that Google isn't evil.
The algorithm was designed to keep this stuff from happening. This case was nothing more than a simple oversight on Google's part. Their response was poor and arrogant.
Google defended themselves by saying that they shouldn't be held responsible for the output of an algorithm that they created. That's weak.
You left out the key part regarding searches from users. The output is determined by the input, the input is dictated by users.
And in America, Google has a blacklist of words that are never included in their autocomplete results. They knew this kind of stuff would happen.
Google defended themselves by saying that they shouldn't be held responsible for the output of an algorithm that they created. That's weak.
They should have said "Crap, we screwed up. We'll fix it right away." No judge or jury would think that Google did it on purpose. But with a response like this, they are sure to think that Google doesn't care.
I just finished reading the entire decision. It was quite interesting but at 45 pages I doubt many people here would bother.
The judge pointed out quite a few problems with the settlement proposal, but two of the most important are:
1) It's pretty likely that the settlement would violate a number of US and international laws.
2) It would contradict recent US Supreme Court decisions that say it is the job of Congress to update copyright law for changing technology.
In any patent litigation, the inventor(s) of a patent can be deposed by the defendants. In this particular patent, the other side can force Sergey Brin to sit in front of a video camera for hours and answer all manner of questions about Google Co. The relevance of those questions is given a lot of latitude. Then, that video and a transcript become public documents in the lawsuit.
This is not something Google wants to do.
Jesus christ, it's just an IDE. You can still develop Mac apps with vim and gcc.
Without XCode? Getting a working toolchain on OS X without first installing XCode (which includes gcc and binutils) is non-trivial.
Apple released an updated version of XCode 3 today (3.2.6). Looking at the release notes, it includes the latest build tools as well as the updated SDK for developing iOS 4.3 apps. It also includes some updates/changes to the XCode 3 IDE.
Apple is charging the $5 for the fancy new IDE only. You still get everything else with the free download.
Yeah, and Obama wants to put $50B into high speed trains when:
1) He not only didn't get Bush's spending under control, but increased it.
2) He knows damn well that the American public has no broad interest in high speed trains (thus it would be Amtrak 2.0, at best).
This diversion at least doesn't add insult to injury by costing a ton of money Utah doesn't have and should take a committee in the legislature all of about half an hour to push out the appropriate language for a general vote.
High Speed trains are a necessary transportation feature in the future of the US. Plain and simple. The United States growth rate is quite high for a developed nation. We have a lot of suburban sprawl. Combine those two facts and think about the outcome: When our current airports reach their capacity, where will new airports be built? In Chicago, the selected site for the next airport is 50 miles from downtown! Go look at a map and see if you can find any space near Los Angeles or New York City for another airport.
The high speed rail plans are using mostly already existing railroad right-of-ways. They can be built where people already live.
I drive a car that nobody wants to steal. In fact, so few people wanted my car that Volvo stopped selling it in the US.
Thank you for the link... The blog post says that the Trojan can "control" the phone but nowhere does it say that "control" means anything other than prompting the user to install or delete other applications.