The first wrist watch ever was built by Pierre Cartier for the brasilian air plane pioneer Alberto Santos-Dumont. It was the "Cartier Santos" in 1904. Your turn.
From Wikipedia: The concept of the wristwatch goes back to the production of the very earliest watches in the 16th century. Elizabeth I of England received a wristwatch from Robert Dudley in 1571, described as an arm watch. The oldest surviving Wristwatch (then described as a bracelet watch) is one made in 1806 and given to Joséphine de Beauharnais.[9] .
There is even an image in the article of an advertising flier for a wristwatch that was in use in the Boer War which began in 1899 and ended 1902.
Good enough for commercial aviation, good enough for pro football?
They are. Delta for instance issues Surface tablets to all pilots in lieu of the old hardcopy manuals and charts. It's not just iPads being used this way. Also, note the Wikipedia alert that the article you linked is "written like an advertisement".
TVA President Bill Johnson said Watts Bar 2, the first U.S. reactor to enter commercial operation in 20 years, would offer clean, cheap and reliable energy to residents of several southern states for at least another generation.
Clean - as long as you don't count the radioactive waste that has to be stored somewhere for the next thousand years.
Stored for the next thousand years, but ideally (if it weren't for NIMBYs) stored in secured and protected underground caverns where the radioactivity is isolated and contained. As opposed to coal, which spreads radioactivity all over the place or fossil fuels which release massive amounts of greenhouse gasses. Isn't it better to make a very small, unused area really dirty compared to making large swathes of used and inhabited lands only kind of dirty? And in those thousand years that we are storing the nuclear waste we may come up with technology that can reuse that waste for some other purpose.
This announcement means Nintendo has officially left the console market and is now competing with ipads.
This device appears to be nothing but a 7" tablet with a little plastic charging/video-out docking port that can use external wireless controllers.
This might be the next thing in portable gaming systems, but there is no way this will be 'console' class. It is basically a PS-vita with a dock.
Personally if I was going to carry around a 7" tablet device, I would just carry a real tablet that can do so much more.
If they strike a deal with Amazon to allow the Kindle and Video apps, this thing would actually replace a lot of what I use my phone for. The use case for this that has me interested is more mobile at home gaming, letting me move from the bedroom to the couch to the kitchen and let me keep playing using a controller, or disconnecting the controller for more general tablet use. Of course, my interest does hinge on the usability of the tablet as an actual, separate tablet.
Whatever the excuse, hopefully it will get bitch slapped by the Supremes and struck down.
Since the bitch will get to choose the Supremes and remove last vestiges of the pretense of a rule of law, nope.
Too bad the Republicans blew their chance to have a semi-moderate judge appointed to the Supreme Court, but they decided to bet everything on red and it landed on green (well, orange might be better fore the analogy with Trump) and will probably end up with another liberal appointment, completely changing the polarity of the Supreme Court for at least the next decade or so.
The driver could well be a deaf and dumb guy who can drive, and that would be it.
So what happens if the passenger or the driver has a medical emergency, or the vehicle is involved with in a wreck? There could be a local emergency requiring road closures and detours that isn't on the driver's GPS. There are a number of reasons why you would want a driver carrying paying passengers to have a minimum and set standard of comprehension of the local language.
Build up. San Francisco has like no high rise apartments or even 3-4 story buildings. But of course, that would block their precious view of the Bay or whatever.
How about just take the money and build more damn houses and apartment complexes. Of course, all those people that already have housing in SF don't want their property values to drop or lose the "lifestyle" of living in hip little neighborhoods.
We wanted to make sure it was as hard as possible for people to leave until our deal with Verizon went through, as more users equals more money for the deal. It was especially important once people became aware of our massive data breach. But now we need the good PR because Verizon is having second thoughts about the proposed deal and wants to renegotiate terms.
If you want to send a "fuck you" to the whole system, why the he'll are you voting for anyone running with an "R" or a "D" after their name?
Because saying "fuck you" by voting for the Libertarian or Green candidates is like saying "fuck you" while you're standing out in the middle of the woods with nobody listening. The vote is lost.
This reminds me of a popular anecdote at Georgia Tech. The question was "when is it ok to leave class if the professor hasn't shown up?" and the (comic) answer was "you should only leave if 15% of the class has already left."
Knowing the kind of people that go to Tech, I would say the answer is really "when your beer starts getting warm".
What worries me is that with trump there is a good chance we wind up not with a Burlesconi ( who was mostly just an embarrassment) but rather a Duterte (who has authorized and encouraged thousands of extrajudicial killings of his own citizens) or Putin (who has had political opponents murdered and is doing his best to consolidate all the power and wealth in Russia with him and his cronies). The first option is bad. The last two would be catastrophic.
If you want to send a "fuck you" to the whole system, why the he'll are you voting for anyone running with an "R" or a "D" after their name? They only way to take down the system is to tell the parties you aren't beholden to them any more.
I got a bunch of them for about a week straight a few months ago. One time they called me and left a message saying they were from the IRS and I owed money and there was a warrant out for my arrest. They then called me back 10 minutes later stating they were from the Canadian IRS.....really can't believe people fall for this stuff.
This multi-national prosecution tends to prove the value in reporting offshore computer crimes.
On a related note, and not sure why it hasn't made Slashdot yet as we often rail against it, but just a few days ago in India several hundred people were arrested for operating call centers running those IRS scams (because we all know the IRS attempts to collect back taxes by using Indian call centers/sarcasm). So it does happen occasionally.
Not going to grant the ad revenue of the sensational video but 10 frames or ~.5-1s of noise can't confirm much but there are a lot of non-ape alternatives. Plenty of animals are bipedal for short periods of time.
The arms and legs are too long and it's motions too smooth to be a bear on two legs. It's almost certainly a hominin, with the most likely explanation being a person.
Another benefit I won't use from Amazon. Amazon Video has some good content, but they don't separate the free stuff from the pay stuff, which makes it a lot more difficult to browse through, so I just use Netflix.
You are aware that on both the full site and the Amazon Video app you can sort by "Included with Prime", right?
I am guessing that new releases will not be included in this.
I was looking at the current offerings for Prime Reading. Most of them are book 1 of a multi-book series. What do you think the odds are that later books in the series never get added to Prime Reading? To be fair though, I did download The Man in the High Castle(which is on Prime Reading), as I enjoyed the show and alternate history can be a fun read.
Is anyone surprised? Nope, not a bit. Except maybe by the fact that it took so many hours to get a PR firm to put together a few weasel-words and slimy phrases. I'd have thought they already had lots of in-house expertise in that area, by way of spinning the bad news they've repeatedly delivered to their shareholders.
It probably took so long because they had to have lawyers keep going over proposed statements to make sure that they weren't running afoul of any agreements made with the government regarding exposure or release a statement that would imply an admission of guilt and open them up to possible lawsuits.
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Perhaps Delta should have invested money in internal baggage tracking instead.
Because somehow only passengers will have access to the RFID readings and not the ramp crews?
The first wrist watch ever was built by Pierre Cartier for the brasilian air plane pioneer Alberto Santos-Dumont. It was the "Cartier Santos" in 1904. Your turn.
From Wikipedia: The concept of the wristwatch goes back to the production of the very earliest watches in the 16th century. Elizabeth I of England received a wristwatch from Robert Dudley in 1571, described as an arm watch. The oldest surviving Wristwatch (then described as a bracelet watch) is one made in 1806 and given to Joséphine de Beauharnais.[9] .
There is even an image in the article of an advertising flier for a wristwatch that was in use in the Boer War which began in 1899 and ended 1902.
Why not use something airline pilots are already using?
Good enough for commercial aviation, good enough for pro football?
They are. Delta for instance issues Surface tablets to all pilots in lieu of the old hardcopy manuals and charts. It's not just iPads being used this way. Also, note the Wikipedia alert that the article you linked is "written like an advertisement".
Frrom the article:
TVA President Bill Johnson said Watts Bar 2, the first U.S. reactor to enter commercial operation in 20 years, would offer clean, cheap and reliable energy to residents of several southern states for at least another generation.
Clean - as long as you don't count the radioactive waste that has to be stored somewhere for the next thousand years.
Stored for the next thousand years, but ideally (if it weren't for NIMBYs) stored in secured and protected underground caverns where the radioactivity is isolated and contained. As opposed to coal, which spreads radioactivity all over the place or fossil fuels which release massive amounts of greenhouse gasses. Isn't it better to make a very small, unused area really dirty compared to making large swathes of used and inhabited lands only kind of dirty? And in those thousand years that we are storing the nuclear waste we may come up with technology that can reuse that waste for some other purpose.
This announcement means Nintendo has officially left the console market and is now competing with ipads. This device appears to be nothing but a 7" tablet with a little plastic charging/video-out docking port that can use external wireless controllers. This might be the next thing in portable gaming systems, but there is no way this will be 'console' class. It is basically a PS-vita with a dock. Personally if I was going to carry around a 7" tablet device, I would just carry a real tablet that can do so much more.
If they strike a deal with Amazon to allow the Kindle and Video apps, this thing would actually replace a lot of what I use my phone for. The use case for this that has me interested is more mobile at home gaming, letting me move from the bedroom to the couch to the kitchen and let me keep playing using a controller, or disconnecting the controller for more general tablet use. Of course, my interest does hinge on the usability of the tablet as an actual, separate tablet.
Whatever the excuse, hopefully it will get bitch slapped by the Supremes and struck down.
Since the bitch will get to choose the Supremes and remove last vestiges of the pretense of a rule of law, nope.
Too bad the Republicans blew their chance to have a semi-moderate judge appointed to the Supreme Court, but they decided to bet everything on red and it landed on green (well, orange might be better fore the analogy with Trump) and will probably end up with another liberal appointment, completely changing the polarity of the Supreme Court for at least the next decade or so.
The driver could well be a deaf and dumb guy who can drive, and that would be it.
So what happens if the passenger or the driver has a medical emergency, or the vehicle is involved with in a wreck? There could be a local emergency requiring road closures and detours that isn't on the driver's GPS. There are a number of reasons why you would want a driver carrying paying passengers to have a minimum and set standard of comprehension of the local language.
Because nuclear and dirty bombs and terrorism.
Have you seen the kinds of stuff Trump tweets out? Blocking his tweets in a region would actually benefit his campaign there.
Why are you tipping before you get your food?
Build up. San Francisco has like no high rise apartments or even 3-4 story buildings. But of course, that would block their precious view of the Bay or whatever.
How about just take the money and build more damn houses and apartment complexes. Of course, all those people that already have housing in SF don't want their property values to drop or lose the "lifestyle" of living in hip little neighborhoods.
We wanted to make sure it was as hard as possible for people to leave until our deal with Verizon went through, as more users equals more money for the deal. It was especially important once people became aware of our massive data breach. But now we need the good PR because Verizon is having second thoughts about the proposed deal and wants to renegotiate terms.
Didn't Switzerland just vote a few years ago to ban minarets from Muslim religious buildings?
If you want to send a "fuck you" to the whole system, why the he'll are you voting for anyone running with an "R" or a "D" after their name?
Because saying "fuck you" by voting for the Libertarian or Green candidates is like saying "fuck you" while you're standing out in the middle of the woods with nobody listening. The vote is lost.
This reminds me of a popular anecdote at Georgia Tech. The question was "when is it ok to leave class if the professor hasn't shown up?" and the (comic) answer was "you should only leave if 15% of the class has already left."
Knowing the kind of people that go to Tech, I would say the answer is really "when your beer starts getting warm".
What worries me is that with trump there is a good chance we wind up not with a Burlesconi ( who was mostly just an embarrassment) but rather a Duterte (who has authorized and encouraged thousands of extrajudicial killings of his own citizens) or Putin (who has had political opponents murdered and is doing his best to consolidate all the power and wealth in Russia with him and his cronies). The first option is bad. The last two would be catastrophic.
If you want to send a "fuck you" to the whole system, why the he'll are you voting for anyone running with an "R" or a "D" after their name? They only way to take down the system is to tell the parties you aren't beholden to them any more.
I got a bunch of them for about a week straight a few months ago. One time they called me and left a message saying they were from the IRS and I owed money and there was a warrant out for my arrest. They then called me back 10 minutes later stating they were from the Canadian IRS.....really can't believe people fall for this stuff.
This multi-national prosecution tends to prove the value in reporting offshore computer crimes.
On a related note, and not sure why it hasn't made Slashdot yet as we often rail against it, but just a few days ago in India several hundred people were arrested for operating call centers running those IRS scams (because we all know the IRS attempts to collect back taxes by using Indian call centers /sarcasm). So it does happen occasionally.
Not going to grant the ad revenue of the sensational video but 10 frames or ~.5-1s of noise can't confirm much but there are a lot of non-ape alternatives. Plenty of animals are bipedal for short periods of time.
The arms and legs are too long and it's motions too smooth to be a bear on two legs. It's almost certainly a hominin, with the most likely explanation being a person.
Another benefit I won't use from Amazon. Amazon Video has some good content, but they don't separate the free stuff from the pay stuff, which makes it a lot more difficult to browse through, so I just use Netflix.
You are aware that on both the full site and the Amazon Video app you can sort by "Included with Prime", right?
I am guessing that new releases will not be included in this.
I was looking at the current offerings for Prime Reading. Most of them are book 1 of a multi-book series. What do you think the odds are that later books in the series never get added to Prime Reading? To be fair though, I did download The Man in the High Castle(which is on Prime Reading), as I enjoyed the show and alternate history can be a fun read.
Is anyone surprised? Nope, not a bit. Except maybe by the fact that it took so many hours to get a PR firm to put together a few weasel-words and slimy phrases. I'd have thought they already had lots of in-house expertise in that area, by way of spinning the bad news they've repeatedly delivered to their shareholders.
It probably took so long because they had to have lawyers keep going over proposed statements to make sure that they weren't running afoul of any agreements made with the government regarding exposure or release a statement that would imply an admission of guilt and open them up to possible lawsuits.
All Chinese are Asians? No shit, Sherlock
Not all
after what she and the DNC did to Sanders
Not someone who has always declared themselves as a member of a different party? Oh, the horror.
You mean like the Republicans did?