Although better graphics would be nice calling them amateurish is rather silly.
Why? The KDE desktop looks like the state-of-the-art from say 1993. If I wanted my desktop to look like Xaw3d, I'd just fall through a time warp and go back there. At least the music was better.
I'm pretty happy with my KDE desktop, but I use it as a tool to get work done, not because it looks pretty.
I bought a hammer from the hardware store that looks almost exactly like the 1920's era hammer my great grandfather used (though the handle is fiberglass instead of wood), but it works well and gets the job done. Just because a desktop "looks" old doesn't make it useless. I tried Unity and Windows Metro and found them to be much less usable for my developer/operations tasks.
That original $30,000 shipment was apparently 2,000 multimeters. I'm guessing that $30,000 "worth" of Fluke meters, while a nice gift, will constitute a lot fewer units, meaning fewer makers will end up getting their hands on a meter.
I guess the makers will have to get by on $10 eBay meters instead of $15 SparkFun meters (that coincidentally, *also* have the Fluke color scheme).
That original $30,000 shipment was apparently 2,000 multimeters. I'm guessing that $30,000 "worth" of Fluke meters, while a nice gift, will constitute a lot fewer units, meaning fewer makers will end up getting their hands on a meter.
I guess the makers will have to get by on $10 eBay meters instead of $15 SparkFun meters (that coincidentally, *also* have the Fluke color scheme).
Or do you think the head of the Senate Committee on Intelligence is making a baseless accusation, even when such an accusation makes her sound like a hypocrite?
I'm sure that the big providers did know (or looked the other way and pretended not to know) about the data collection either under an implied or explicit threat that the data collection project was to remain absolutely secret under penalty of law. It's unlikely that the NSA spent the time and money to reverse-engineer (and continually update) whatever protocol Google uses to back up customer data across datacenters to let them effectively snoop that data -- without Google's help there's too much danger of a code change breaking the surveillance, letting data go unmonitored until the NSA catches up again. And it's pointless to dedicate hundreds of engineers to doing this continual reverse engineering when all it takes is a national security letter to force Google to cooperate.
So since the providers have continued to stay silent and refuse to admit that they knew anything about it, why would the NSA "reward" them for their cooperation by revealing that the providers knew about it all along?
Are we really supposed to believe that they put in a system that can scan emails at major email providers and even scan emails on the fly at internet exchange points, yet they didn't design the system to allow keyword scanning?
If they are really targeting specific email addresses, then why do they need the system at all? Just get warrants and get the data from the user's ISP.
To be fair, the purpose of Trademarks is different from other IP; a large part of allowing trademarks it is to protect the consumer.
Let's say that people buy these look-alikes expecting that they came from Fluke, because Fluke make good products. Instead, they start exploding and burning people's hands off.
My TV has a black screen and a black border, but I don't expect it to be Sony since it says LG on the front.
Unless these meters say "Fluke" or "Fluk3" or "Flukee" or some other confusing variant, I simply don't believe that someone is going to confuse it with a Fluke -- certainly not by anyone that knows enough about multimeters to know that they want a genuine Fluke meter.
Google voice works great for those that hop between prepaid wireless providers. I've switched providers several times in the past few years and didn't have to deal with porting my number around
How do you deal with your outgoing calls coming from a strange number instead of from your Google Voice number?
I don't make many outbound calls, but if it were a problem, I'd just route them all through Google Voice.
Google voice works great for those that hop between prepaid wireless providers. I've switched providers several times in the past few years and didn't have to deal with porting my number around (some mvnos are better than others when it comes to porting)... I just ported my long time cell number to GV and now it doesn't matter what phone number I have on my cell... Everyone can keep calling my "old" number at GV and it rings my cell. And if I lose or break my cell phone I can quickly repoint GV at another number (or not, since I get voice mails and sms's in my email so don't really *have* to answer the phone)
sorry but how is $10 a month a good deal per TB for backup (especially when they will charge you extra for restores). it may be more convenient but it is still way more expensive then do it yourself solutions such as backup and store at a friends house. In a 2 year period you are paying 5-6 times what the storage actually costs, more that money there are far cheaper and better solutions. myself and a friend provide hosting for each others backup data (onine), costs us a tiny fraction of what Amazon or Google charge and we get to maintain control of our data.
I think you just answered that -- it's more convenient (and it's automatic).
Soon after adding new photos to my NAS, they are backed up on Amazon, no need to remember to do a drive exchange with a friend across town.
If I have to do a restore from my Glacier backups, then that means that both my NAS and backup drives have failed, so I've had a major catastrophe (and in the event of an earthquake it's likely that the friend across town is suffering from the same catastrophe). So in that case, I really don't care if I have to pay a couple hundred dollars to do a restore.
When I can place a single order and get each item in its own huge box with lots of padding and empty space, maybe they can work on that too
I'm certain that Amazon's data analytics team knows exactly how much it costs them to ship empty space (probably not much since they must have very preferable rates from the carriers), and whatever it costs them must be less than it would cost to stock boxes in more sizes or pay someone to pack goods tighter.
They already have free shipping at the $35 order mark, so... no.
The free shipping is "standard 5-8 day shipping", so it's not quite the same as free 2-day prime shipping.
Plus, my orders rarely exceed $35, so it might take weeks to accumulate an order that big.
Prime still provides value to me (I dropped my $7.99 Netflix subscription when Amazon added free Prime movie streaming - both Netflix and Amazon streaming catalogs are equally poor), even when they increase it from $6.60/month to $8.25/month.
If you're looking for long-term archival storage, Amazon Glacier is a pretty good deal at a $0.01/GB. I backed a few hundred GB's of data there and it's only costing me a few dollars/month. Restores will cost money, but if my house burns down and I lose my NAS + backups, I won't mind paying them a few hundred dollars to restore my data to a hard drive and ship it to me. Does Google Drive provide a way to ship your data on a hard drive? It would take me days or weeks to download data over my currrent internet connection (assuming I don't hit my ISP's data cap)
Good idea -- otherwise, Google might miss out on some of your browsing activity if you're using another browser, use their DNS to make sure they can capture all of your activity.
As opposed to Comcast capturing all your activity?
If Comcast is your ISP, they can track your DNS queries whether you use their DNS servers or not. Not even DNSSEC will hide your DNS queries - you need DNSCrypt for that.
Sure, the prisoner will escape, but by the time the drone lands, he will be dead.
Dear inmates, If the best thing that you can think of doing with a drone is getting drugs, then you're doing it wrong. Drugs won't get you out of prison. Next time, have the drone bring you a lockpick set and a couple of smoke grenades.
I'm not sure that's true, there have been a number of helicopter prison breaks, and a civilian helicopter offers only moderate protection against rifle fire.
They'll need more than the 40 seconds of battery life for the helicopters in the video link I provided to get a safe distance away to a getaway car, but $10K helicopter drones are a lot easier to come by than a $500K helicopter.
Or maybe there's a problem with 021yy.org's authoritative nameservers - maybe only/some/ of them, and whichever algorithm Comcast uses to choose one is picking the bad ones. Or maybe there's a temporary general problem with Comcast's own nameservers - which were your control sites, to make sure those would work? Or maybe Mechanical Turk workers know what you're up to and are trolling you.
The 022yy.org Nameserver configs look fine to me, repeated requests to both of their nameservers work fine, I checked a half dozen recursive nameservers at various ISP's and they all resolve the name, but Comcast still says NXDOMAIN.
Good idea -- otherwise, Google might miss out on some of your browsing activity if you're using another browser, use their DNS to make sure they can capture all of your activity.
People will concentrate where more people already are. The location of bike facilities and support infrastructure like bike paths will dominate the "flow". It's not really all that insightful or interesting for that matter.
People don't innately know where other cyclists are, or where the most popular bike routes are, so maps that show where other people ride can be useful to find the best route to where they're going. "Official" bike routes aren't always the best route.
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Although better graphics would be nice calling them amateurish is rather silly.
Why? The KDE desktop looks like the state-of-the-art from say 1993. If I wanted my desktop to look like Xaw3d, I'd just fall through a time warp and go back there. At least the music was better.
I'm pretty happy with my KDE desktop, but I use it as a tool to get work done, not because it looks pretty.
I bought a hammer from the hardware store that looks almost exactly like the 1920's era hammer my great grandfather used (though the handle is fiberglass instead of wood), but it works well and gets the job done. Just because a desktop "looks" old doesn't make it useless. I tried Unity and Windows Metro and found them to be much less usable for my developer/operations tasks.
That original $30,000 shipment was apparently 2,000 multimeters. I'm guessing that $30,000 "worth" of Fluke meters, while a nice gift, will constitute a lot fewer units, meaning fewer makers will end up getting their hands on a meter.
I guess the makers will have to get by on $10 eBay meters instead of $15 SparkFun meters (that coincidentally, *also* have the Fluke color scheme).
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Digita...
Or this $5 unit from Harbor Freight, that also happens to have a spot for testing PNP and NPN transistors.
That is, $5 if you don't have one of the "free multimeter" coupons they put in the Sunday paper every other week.
That one won't work, it's red, not yellow. Yellow meters are better, that's why everyone wants a Fluke.
That original $30,000 shipment was apparently 2,000 multimeters. I'm guessing that $30,000 "worth" of Fluke meters, while a nice gift, will constitute a lot fewer units, meaning fewer makers will end up getting their hands on a meter.
I guess the makers will have to get by on $10 eBay meters instead of $15 SparkFun meters (that coincidentally, *also* have the Fluke color scheme).
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Digita...
They don't. Data collected in the US can only be touched with a search warrant.
Sorry, reality is much more boring than the conspiracy theories.
Until, of course, reality surpasses conspiracy theories.
http://www.cnn.com/2014/03/11/...
Or do you think the head of the Senate Committee on Intelligence is making a baseless accusation, even when such an accusation makes her sound like a hypocrite?
I'm sure that the big providers did know (or looked the other way and pretended not to know) about the data collection either under an implied or explicit threat that the data collection project was to remain absolutely secret under penalty of law. It's unlikely that the NSA spent the time and money to reverse-engineer (and continually update) whatever protocol Google uses to back up customer data across datacenters to let them effectively snoop that data -- without Google's help there's too much danger of a code change breaking the surveillance, letting data go unmonitored until the NSA catches up again. And it's pointless to dedicate hundreds of engineers to doing this continual reverse engineering when all it takes is a national security letter to force Google to cooperate.
So since the providers have continued to stay silent and refuse to admit that they knew anything about it, why would the NSA "reward" them for their cooperation by revealing that the providers knew about it all along?
Are we really supposed to believe that they put in a system that can scan emails at major email providers and even scan emails on the fly at internet exchange points, yet they didn't design the system to allow keyword scanning?
If they are really targeting specific email addresses, then why do they need the system at all? Just get warrants and get the data from the user's ISP.
You dont think coca-cola would be upset if a product came out called coka-cola
These meters weren't branded with a name similar to Fluke, so that's not a good analogy.
in a red and white can?
There are already competitors to Coke that sell in red and white cans:
http://www.colawp.com/database...
To be fair, the purpose of Trademarks is different from other IP; a large part of allowing trademarks it is to protect the consumer.
Let's say that people buy these look-alikes expecting that they came from Fluke, because Fluke make good products. Instead, they start exploding and burning people's hands off.
My TV has a black screen and a black border, but I don't expect it to be Sony since it says LG on the front.
Unless these meters say "Fluke" or "Fluk3" or "Flukee" or some other confusing variant, I simply don't believe that someone is going to confuse it with a Fluke -- certainly not by anyone that knows enough about multimeters to know that they want a genuine Fluke meter.
Google voice works great for those that hop between prepaid wireless providers. I've switched providers several times in the past few years and didn't have to deal with porting my number around
How do you deal with your outgoing calls coming from a strange number instead of from your Google Voice number?
I don't make many outbound calls, but if it were a problem, I'd just route them all through Google Voice.
Google voice works great for those that hop between prepaid wireless providers. I've switched providers several times in the past few years and didn't have to deal with porting my number around (some mvnos are better than others when it comes to porting)... I just ported my long time cell number to GV and now it doesn't matter what phone number I have on my cell... Everyone can keep calling my "old" number at GV and it rings my cell. And if I lose or break my cell phone I can quickly repoint GV at another number (or not, since I get voice mails and sms's in my email so don't really *have* to answer the phone)
sorry but how is $10 a month a good deal per TB for backup (especially when they will charge you extra for restores). it may be more convenient but it is still way more expensive then do it yourself solutions such as backup and store at a friends house. In a 2 year period you are paying 5-6 times what the storage actually costs, more that money there are far cheaper and better solutions. myself and a friend provide hosting for each others backup data (onine), costs us a tiny fraction of what Amazon or Google charge and we get to maintain control of our data.
I think you just answered that -- it's more convenient (and it's automatic).
Soon after adding new photos to my NAS, they are backed up on Amazon, no need to remember to do a drive exchange with a friend across town.
If I have to do a restore from my Glacier backups, then that means that both my NAS and backup drives have failed, so I've had a major catastrophe (and in the event of an earthquake it's likely that the friend across town is suffering from the same catastrophe). So in that case, I really don't care if I have to pay a couple hundred dollars to do a restore.
When I can place a single order and get each item in its own huge box with lots of padding and empty space, maybe they can work on that too
I'm certain that Amazon's data analytics team knows exactly how much it costs them to ship empty space (probably not much since they must have very preferable rates from the carriers), and whatever it costs them must be less than it would cost to stock boxes in more sizes or pay someone to pack goods tighter.
Just noticed today.
That happened back in October:
http://www.dailyfinance.com/on...
They already have free shipping at the $35 order mark, so... no.
The free shipping is "standard 5-8 day shipping", so it's not quite the same as free 2-day prime shipping.
Plus, my orders rarely exceed $35, so it might take weeks to accumulate an order that big.
Prime still provides value to me (I dropped my $7.99 Netflix subscription when Amazon added free Prime movie streaming - both Netflix and Amazon streaming catalogs are equally poor), even when they increase it from $6.60/month to $8.25/month.
If you're looking for long-term archival storage, Amazon Glacier is a pretty good deal at a $0.01/GB. I backed a few hundred GB's of data there and it's only costing me a few dollars/month. Restores will cost money, but if my house burns down and I lose my NAS + backups, I won't mind paying them a few hundred dollars to restore my data to a hard drive and ship it to me. Does Google Drive provide a way to ship your data on a hard drive? It would take me days or weeks to download data over my currrent internet connection (assuming I don't hit my ISP's data cap)
Speed reading seems like a solution in search of a problem to me.
Could you write that more quickly please?
Spd rdng sms lk a sltn n srch o' a prblm t' me.
Good idea -- otherwise, Google might miss out on some of your browsing activity if you're using another browser, use their DNS to make sure they can capture all of your activity.
As opposed to Comcast capturing all your activity?
If Comcast is your ISP, they can track your DNS queries whether you use their DNS servers or not. Not even DNSSEC will hide your DNS queries - you need DNSCrypt for that.
Wish I had mod points, I'd moderate you "informative".
You would if you made more interesting remarks than this.
Wish I had mod points, I'd moderate you "insightful".
Sure, the prisoner will escape, but by the time the drone lands, he will be dead.
Dear inmates,
If the best thing that you can think of doing with a drone is getting drugs, then you're doing it wrong. Drugs won't get you out of prison. Next time, have the drone bring you a lockpick set and a couple of smoke grenades.
I'm not sure that's true, there have been a number of helicopter prison breaks, and a civilian helicopter offers only moderate protection against rifle fire.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L...
They'll need more than the 40 seconds of battery life for the helicopters in the video link I provided to get a safe distance away to a getaway car, but $10K helicopter drones are a lot easier to come by than a $500K helicopter.
Or maybe there's a problem with 021yy.org's authoritative nameservers - maybe only /some/ of them, and whichever algorithm Comcast uses to choose one is picking the bad ones. Or maybe there's a temporary general problem with Comcast's own nameservers - which were your control sites, to make sure those would work? Or maybe Mechanical Turk workers know what you're up to and are trolling you.
The 022yy.org Nameserver configs look fine to me, repeated requests to both of their nameservers work fine, I checked a half dozen recursive nameservers at various ISP's and they all resolve the name, but Comcast still says NXDOMAIN.
Do not use comcast DNS... just use googles.
https://developers.google.com/...
Good idea -- otherwise, Google might miss out on some of your browsing activity if you're using another browser, use their DNS to make sure they can capture all of your activity.
How long until drones are used to fly a prisoner out of prison?
http://www.techspot.com/news/5...
People will concentrate where more people already are. The location of bike facilities and support infrastructure like bike paths will dominate the "flow". It's not really all that insightful or interesting for that matter.
People don't innately know where other cyclists are, or where the most popular bike routes are, so maps that show where other people ride can be useful to find the best route to where they're going. "Official" bike routes aren't always the best route.
Here's something similar that covers more areas... a heat map of Strava rides:
http://raceshape.com/heatmap/
an Austineer could make several trips a year to NY and elsewhere to pick up cultural goodies like plays and still come out way ahead.
That's a good point.
Several annual trips to NYC makes you a tourist, it's not nearly the same as living there.