I was thinking of qualified accountants and marketers who later finish an MBA program. It's not a useless degree, so long as it's paired with useful skills (i.e. not a BA who switched from a BSc, BE or BBA program because they couldn't hack it) and the bearer of that degree doesn't become an incompetent bullshit-spewing PHB. (It's acronym-soup day!)
I agree with your second point. I was thinking in terms of the car industry in the linked article. A company's top position should be filled by someone who's specialized in that company's field.
MBAs are useful, but not in leadership roles. Give the top jobs to engineers who understand what their company is building, and have competent accountants and marketers working as advisers to the engineers. (And no, I'm not an engineer looking out for number one. I'm actually an accounting student.)
5) Intel breaks their graphics driver in recent kernel versions making Xorg crash instantly on startup on an otherwise perfectly functional desktop PC, which makes anything newer than OpenSUSE 11.3, Fedora 13, Ubuntu 10.04, Slackware 13.1 and derivatives thereof totally unusable.
I had similar problems with Spideroak. I wanted to like it, since it seemed a good way to backup and sync files across multiple machines at a reasonable price, but the client software is a huge resource hog on both Windows and Linux.
I got the exact same error. I had my android phone plugged in to charge, but had ejected it so I could access the micro-sd card. Unplugging the cable fixed the problem.
A netbook is a far less expensive and far more capable development platform than any smartphone, regardless of whether you're talking about long-term mobile contracts or unsubsidized phone purchases.
Newspapers? I've tried accessing one of those. They've got this awful fixed-size layout; any decent web developer will find a way to make a mobile-friendly version these days. Other serious usability issues are the lack of effective hyperlinks ("see page 5" is about as useful as "it's somewhere on the sitemap"), no way to stream audio or video, no RSS feeds, no search function, and no way to instantly update with breaking news. That's not even getting into the startup costs for a newspaper versus installing drupal on a VPS.
I just don't see how these new newspaper things are going to get a foothold in the market, considering all their disadvantages compared to established technologies.
There's nothing wrong with a deep and complicated story, but the problem with DS9 is that they completely botched the execution of the premise. I would have loved to see a series focusing on the reconstruction of Bajor. No dominion, no wormhole, no Chosen One junk, no hostile shapeshifters, no screw-TNG-continuity-let's-go-to-war-with-the-Klingons crap, and no technobabble.
Take some ambivalent Federation prime-directive fans and mostly-peaceful isolationist Bajorans who both want the Federation far away from Bajor, some cheerful and enthusiastic Federation and Bajoran goodie-goodies who get along well and want to work together for a better future, and some bitter screw-the-ungrateful-violent-hicks Federation crew and militant kill-the-foreign-infidel Bajorans who despise each other for various reasons.
Keep the station in orbit above Bajor to make visits to and from the planet more common, and have more scenes on Bajor showing what problems they had and what was being done to fix them. Show more of Bajor's cities, towns, and villages; show the ordinary people on the ground. Show the tension between traders, diplomats, priests, politicians, veterans. Show the differences between the provinces. Make it the story of one world of no importance to the galaxy, but make it a deep one with fleshed-out characters. Don't be afraid to permanently replace major characters. Make the climax of the series to be admission of Bajor to the Federation.
And above all, less Starfleet! DS9 was the perfect chance to show how the civilian side of the Federation works. Maybe have some of Starfleet's equivalent of the US Army Corps of Engineers, a handful of security officers, and maybe a liason to Starfleet, but that should have been it. Make the person in charge a civilian Federation official, someone with a well-rounded view of Bajor's politics and economics. Throw in the odd patrolling-starship-visits episode for variety if you really must have your Starfleet fix.
Canadians can't get it streaming on Android at all, even if you have a paid account. It's about mobile broadcast licensing being different from desktop streaming, apparently. Frankly, it sounds like a load of horseshit.
I'm not losing any sleep over it anymore, though. I canceled my lastfm subscription entirely after that and never looked back. Three bucks per month was worth it to me, but only as long as streaming worked on all devices for which there's a working client.
I think you're dead-on accurate when it comes to pricing. This is expensive hardware. If they sell it at cost or at a profit, then they're giving up the kid market to Nintendo. Price-conscious parents will see the 3DS and the older DSi as having the three critical cheaper/Mario/Pokemon factors. If they sell it to compete with the 3DS, then they'll be bleeding money for years until component prices drop. Adult non-geeks will just keep gaming on their phones. The market for adult geeks willing to drop $400 or more on a dedicated gaming handheld is pretty damn small compared to the kid-and-nongeek markets.
And you're absolutely right when it comes to Sony finding some way to fuck up. They always do. Instead of standard mini or micro USB cables for charging and data transfer, it could be some bizarre new proprietary cables. Battery life could be awful. If there is an external card slot, it could be some new memory stick form factor that no other device on planet earth uses. They might even reprise their epic-fail PSPGo decision to use only wireless-B in a device released in 2009. There's endless opportunities for screwing up.
The only way a 3G connection makes any sense to me is if they have a Kindle whispernet-style functionality. The connection would be limited to the Sony game store, but the cost of the data transfer is hidden within the cost of the purchased game itself and wouldn't require a data contract with a monthly limit. Maybe they could sell regular web browsing for an extra monthly charge for people who really want it.
Or maybe I'm just a biased 3DS soon-to-be-owner who's eager to rag on Sony. Nintendo may not make the most advanced systems, but I've never felt that I've wasted my money with them.
I would argue that it's Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman. They're taking a pro-science and pro-engineering philosophy, making it entertaining without compromising the facts, and presenting it to a mass audience. As always, xkcd has it right.
Take a look at Sansa's Clip+. It's compact, cheap, weighs almost nothing, has great battery life, has a microsdhc card slot, works as a standard USB mass storage device, has genuine physical buttons, plays ogg and flac in addition to mp3 and wma, and has sound quality easily as good as your Zen.
Don't forget the Kobo. It's cheap, shows up as a plain old USB mass storage drive on any modern OS, and reads DRM-free standard epub files.
It'll also read DRM'd adobe digital editions stuff, but that DRM is trivial to crack. I buy the books, strip the DRM, then load them by USB. The author gets paid for their hard work, and I get a backup-able file that can't be yanked back remotely like Kindle books can. Win-win all around.
Ron Paul is a nutcase of the most epic sort, but at least he's an honest and self-consistent nutcase. He believes in personal freedom from government interference, and self-sufficiency. I disagree with 99% of his opinions, and I think that his policies are both deeply flawed and deeply stupid, but at least I can respect him for his sincerity and conviction.
Rand Paul is a hypocrite of the worst sort. He's a full-scale moralizing dipshit who believes that the role of government is to enforce the will of the religious-right, both domestically and internationally. He has no convictions, no intellectual honesty, no respect for individual rights, and no policies that weren't bought and paid for by lobbyists.
I respect Ron Paul, even though I disagree with him. I have no respect for his idiot son.
First of all, you can only find them on barren planets in the Neutral Zone - that alone will stir up a possible confrontation with the Romulan Star Empire. Second, every time you put another piece of technology near one, it'll zap the second gadget with a transmitter-probe that'll screw up the second gadget's OS.
I just hope that Acer has the good sense to allow manual closing of the probe launch bay doors. If there's no way to trigger a reactor explosion with backwash from the rockets, we're all doomed.
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I was thinking of qualified accountants and marketers who later finish an MBA program. It's not a useless degree, so long as it's paired with useful skills (i.e. not a BA who switched from a BSc, BE or BBA program because they couldn't hack it) and the bearer of that degree doesn't become an incompetent bullshit-spewing PHB. (It's acronym-soup day!)
I agree with your second point. I was thinking in terms of the car industry in the linked article. A company's top position should be filled by someone who's specialized in that company's field.
MBAs are useful, but not in leadership roles. Give the top jobs to engineers who understand what their company is building, and have competent accountants and marketers working as advisers to the engineers. (And no, I'm not an engineer looking out for number one. I'm actually an accounting student.)
5) Intel breaks their graphics driver in recent kernel versions making Xorg crash instantly on startup on an otherwise perfectly functional desktop PC, which makes anything newer than OpenSUSE 11.3, Fedora 13, Ubuntu 10.04, Slackware 13.1 and derivatives thereof totally unusable.
I had similar problems with Spideroak. I wanted to like it, since it seemed a good way to backup and sync files across multiple machines at a reasonable price, but the client software is a huge resource hog on both Windows and Linux.
It's a surprise because mac users are usually happy when someone else decides what's best for them.
I felt a disturbance in the Force... as if a million voices suddenly broke into cheers, and could not be silenced.
I got the exact same error. I had my android phone plugged in to charge, but had ejected it so I could access the micro-sd card. Unplugging the cable fixed the problem.
Who would vote for such a law?
Those who aren't teaparty-supporting sociopaths may want to thing twice about financially supporting Baen.
A netbook is a far less expensive and far more capable development platform than any smartphone, regardless of whether you're talking about long-term mobile contracts or unsubsidized phone purchases.
Newspapers? I've tried accessing one of those. They've got this awful fixed-size layout; any decent web developer will find a way to make a mobile-friendly version these days. Other serious usability issues are the lack of effective hyperlinks ("see page 5" is about as useful as "it's somewhere on the sitemap"), no way to stream audio or video, no RSS feeds, no search function, and no way to instantly update with breaking news. That's not even getting into the startup costs for a newspaper versus installing drupal on a VPS.
I just don't see how these new newspaper things are going to get a foothold in the market, considering all their disadvantages compared to established technologies.
There's nothing wrong with a deep and complicated story, but the problem with DS9 is that they completely botched the execution of the premise. I would have loved to see a series focusing on the reconstruction of Bajor. No dominion, no wormhole, no Chosen One junk, no hostile shapeshifters, no screw-TNG-continuity-let's-go-to-war-with-the-Klingons crap, and no technobabble.
Take some ambivalent Federation prime-directive fans and mostly-peaceful isolationist Bajorans who both want the Federation far away from Bajor, some cheerful and enthusiastic Federation and Bajoran goodie-goodies who get along well and want to work together for a better future, and some bitter screw-the-ungrateful-violent-hicks Federation crew and militant kill-the-foreign-infidel Bajorans who despise each other for various reasons.
Keep the station in orbit above Bajor to make visits to and from the planet more common, and have more scenes on Bajor showing what problems they had and what was being done to fix them. Show more of Bajor's cities, towns, and villages; show the ordinary people on the ground. Show the tension between traders, diplomats, priests, politicians, veterans. Show the differences between the provinces. Make it the story of one world of no importance to the galaxy, but make it a deep one with fleshed-out characters. Don't be afraid to permanently replace major characters. Make the climax of the series to be admission of Bajor to the Federation.
And above all, less Starfleet! DS9 was the perfect chance to show how the civilian side of the Federation works. Maybe have some of Starfleet's equivalent of the US Army Corps of Engineers, a handful of security officers, and maybe a liason to Starfleet, but that should have been it. Make the person in charge a civilian Federation official, someone with a well-rounded view of Bajor's politics and economics. Throw in the odd patrolling-starship-visits episode for variety if you really must have your Starfleet fix.
"New care plans and strategies" sounds like HMO-speak for "cut off people before they cost us more than we soak in from them".
I knew I'd heard that music before. Now I need to find my old Homeworld CDs.
If you don't buy a new car every three years, how on earth are you supposed to show your neighbor how much bigger your penis is than his?
A high-end-CPU laptop isn't a laptop, it's a portable desktop with a built-in UPS.
Canadians can't get it streaming on Android at all, even if you have a paid account. It's about mobile broadcast licensing being different from desktop streaming, apparently. Frankly, it sounds like a load of horseshit.
I'm not losing any sleep over it anymore, though. I canceled my lastfm subscription entirely after that and never looked back. Three bucks per month was worth it to me, but only as long as streaming worked on all devices for which there's a working client.
I think you're dead-on accurate when it comes to pricing. This is expensive hardware. If they sell it at cost or at a profit, then they're giving up the kid market to Nintendo. Price-conscious parents will see the 3DS and the older DSi as having the three critical cheaper/Mario/Pokemon factors. If they sell it to compete with the 3DS, then they'll be bleeding money for years until component prices drop. Adult non-geeks will just keep gaming on their phones. The market for adult geeks willing to drop $400 or more on a dedicated gaming handheld is pretty damn small compared to the kid-and-nongeek markets.
And you're absolutely right when it comes to Sony finding some way to fuck up. They always do. Instead of standard mini or micro USB cables for charging and data transfer, it could be some bizarre new proprietary cables. Battery life could be awful. If there is an external card slot, it could be some new memory stick form factor that no other device on planet earth uses. They might even reprise their epic-fail PSPGo decision to use only wireless-B in a device released in 2009. There's endless opportunities for screwing up.
The only way a 3G connection makes any sense to me is if they have a Kindle whispernet-style functionality. The connection would be limited to the Sony game store, but the cost of the data transfer is hidden within the cost of the purchased game itself and wouldn't require a data contract with a monthly limit. Maybe they could sell regular web browsing for an extra monthly charge for people who really want it.
Or maybe I'm just a biased 3DS soon-to-be-owner who's eager to rag on Sony. Nintendo may not make the most advanced systems, but I've never felt that I've wasted my money with them.
I would argue that it's Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman. They're taking a pro-science and pro-engineering philosophy, making it entertaining without compromising the facts, and presenting it to a mass audience. As always, xkcd has it right.
Whoosh.
Are you sassing me in Eskimo talk?
Take a look at Sansa's Clip+. It's compact, cheap, weighs almost nothing, has great battery life, has a microsdhc card slot, works as a standard USB mass storage device, has genuine physical buttons, plays ogg and flac in addition to mp3 and wma, and has sound quality easily as good as your Zen.
Don't forget the Kobo. It's cheap, shows up as a plain old USB mass storage drive on any modern OS, and reads DRM-free standard epub files.
It'll also read DRM'd adobe digital editions stuff, but that DRM is trivial to crack. I buy the books, strip the DRM, then load them by USB. The author gets paid for their hard work, and I get a backup-able file that can't be yanked back remotely like Kindle books can. Win-win all around.
Ron Paul is a nutcase of the most epic sort, but at least he's an honest and self-consistent nutcase. He believes in personal freedom from government interference, and self-sufficiency. I disagree with 99% of his opinions, and I think that his policies are both deeply flawed and deeply stupid, but at least I can respect him for his sincerity and conviction.
Rand Paul is a hypocrite of the worst sort. He's a full-scale moralizing dipshit who believes that the role of government is to enforce the will of the religious-right, both domestically and internationally. He has no convictions, no intellectual honesty, no respect for individual rights, and no policies that weren't bought and paid for by lobbyists.
I respect Ron Paul, even though I disagree with him. I have no respect for his idiot son.
First of all, you can only find them on barren planets in the Neutral Zone - that alone will stir up a possible confrontation with the Romulan Star Empire. Second, every time you put another piece of technology near one, it'll zap the second gadget with a transmitter-probe that'll screw up the second gadget's OS.
I just hope that Acer has the good sense to allow manual closing of the probe launch bay doors. If there's no way to trigger a reactor explosion with backwash from the rockets, we're all doomed.