How you define "planet" or "galaxy" is very much in the nineteenth century scientific mindset of categorizing everything. Haven't we moved beyond that? Names and categories are useful as a way of generalizing a set of characteristics, but if you don't like a given definition, make up a new term for the set of characteristics that you want to generalize about.
Language is not scientific, and it never will be. We can have starfish that aren't fish and koala bears that aren't bears, and that's just fine. Scientists need to be concerned about how things work, not what they're called.
Does this mean that there will be an Android version supporting video soon? While I would rather have an open system than Skype, at least having something cross-platform will be nice.
I think the concern about advertisers having editorial influence is overblown. Certainly if they're using an outside placement network, like Google, then there's a nice buffer between the advertiser and the site.
One thing that I think would be really cool is if they would accept ads, but only if the ads to not include cookies.
The problem with allowing third-party imports to be sold is that consumers will buy the items, expecting the manufacturer to support them (providing warranty service at a minimum). If the product in question is not sold directly domestically, then the manufacturer may not be prepared for the support. Further, the product may have been sold in a country where the cost and level of support is different.
The solution is to require that any imports not authorized by the manufacturer must be clearly advertised as not supported by the manufacturer, with all service provided by the importer.
Firefox on Android is a painful experience. The zooming is jerky. The fonts are ugly. It's not very responsive to clicks. Absolutely a horrible experience. That said, there are sites that just plain didn't work with the default browser that do work correctly with Firefox on Android, so I'll keep it around for that.
If you haven't had any sites fail with the default browser, skip this for now. If you have, try them with Firefox. You'll probably keep Firefox installed just for those sites.
Yes, it is above the expected 50% if the date of pay raises was random, but I doubt it is. My company is within that 50% for its date, but until a few years ago it wasn't. The question is plainly biased.
Further, saying that 36% are looking is a much softer threshold than saying 36% have submitted resumes or job applications. At least it wasn't the completely nebulous "considering" that they sometimes use.
That said, changing jobs is often the best way to get a pay raise, and I don't blame you one bit for trying for it.
Most employers do annual pay adjustments, so asking if they received a pay increase in the past 6 months would, on average, get at least 50% saying no. The report was engineered from the start to get the result that they published.
Wouldn't the simplest solution be to post a warning? They could set up an infrared camera to monitor where the hot spot is, and have a monitor displaying it, so people could avoid it.
It would be relatively simple for the BIOS to turn off CPU features in such a way that they can't be turned back on without a reset. So the easy way to implement this would be for Intel to partner with a PC vendor and charge for the BIOS upgrade that doesn't disable the CPU features in question. With such a system, it would mean that you could pull the CPU and put it in a different motherboard, and get all the features, but that's not going to be a concern for the business model until they're talking about hundreds of dollars for the added features.
Putting this into the CPU would require that the CPUs be designed specifically to support this, which is not as likely to be the case, but would be much more difficult to defeat.
Essentially the media companies are hiring Internet privateers to attack copyright violators. This really sines a new light on which side to assign the term "pirates" to.
I don't see a Dell-EMC merger. The companies are just too different. And as an EMC employee, I wouldn't be happy about it.
As to the partnership, yes, Dell resells EMC products. In trying to buy 3Par, they've shown another indication that they would rather be selling their own stuff than reselling someone else's, which may have some implications for the long-term stability of the partnership.
Dave Donatelli (HP) buying 3Par looks good for EMC. It suggests that HP may stop reselling Hitachi storage in favor of their on 3Par systems, which could be quite bad for Hitachi, at least in the US market. At the same time, it helps keep Dell reselling EMC products as it looks to figure out where to go next.
So the winners are HP and EMC, while the loser is Hitachi. It's not clear that Dell would have been successful with 3Par, so you could argue either side from Dell's perspective.
Now a Dell-NetApp merger would be interesting.
(Note: I have no inside knowledge about any of this.)
If it is a bill to tax executive bonuses from TARP-receiving companies, then the Constitution says that it must originate in the House, not the Senate, but I suppose that detail is ignored.
I had a friend who had a neighbor with an unlicensed above-ground pool. I'm not sure what went wrong, but one day it collapsed, sending all of the water into my friend's back yard, destroying everything there. Building permits are required for good reasons, and they're usually dirt cheap (less than 1% of the project cost). If you're hiring a contractor who doesn't get a building permit, then they're probably not doing it to save you money, but to allow them to skimp on important building code details that might end up costing you a huge amount.
My employer-provided phone is an HTC EVO 4G (Android). I could have chosen a Blackberry or an iPhone (or even Windows Mobile). And I work for a large Fortune-500 company. Corporate America is opening up to the new options.
(My company is large enough that they've outsourced the phone purchasing to some other company that specializes in it. I went to that company's web site, selected the phone that I wanted from the list that had been approved by our IT department, and they shipped it directly to me. All said, it seems like a very good system, especially compared to some of the other services that have been outsourced.)
Android 2.2 is supposed to take Exchange integration a step further, letting corporate IT wipe the phone if it's reported as lost or stolen, as well as allowing corporate security policies to be enforced. So expect Android to compete even more heavily with Blackberry once 2.2 comes out.
Too late. I don't know if I'll ever need to root my phone, but I want to know that I can. I was considering the Droid X and the HTC EVO 4G, and eFuse was the leading reason for selecting the HTC phone.
It's my phone, if I didn't want control, I would get an iPhone.
Not good enough. A random delay will add noise, increasing the number of attempts required, but will not break the attack vector.
What is needed is to insure that the algorithm will respond in the same time when a match fails, regardless of how close the match is. If this were a simple string comparison, you would need a function that compares every character in the input to a padded version of the password, not one that stops at the first mismatch. In most cases, that same approach can be extended to cover more complicated situations.
Yes, the price and market Priority Mail separately, but the whole idea of Priority Mail is that First Class Mail is usually 2-3 days, and the USPS wanted to encourage people to ship small packages First Class. The whole thing is a marketing gimmick. So yes, in some cases, you are simply paying more for the name "Priority."
No, Priority Mail is not guaranteed to be in a given time frame. Last I checked, it was advertised as "Usually 2-3 days," which happens to be the exact same as what they rate first class mail delivery as being.
The price Priority Mail differently, but from a handling perspective, it's the same.
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How you define "planet" or "galaxy" is very much in the nineteenth century scientific mindset of categorizing everything. Haven't we moved beyond that? Names and categories are useful as a way of generalizing a set of characteristics, but if you don't like a given definition, make up a new term for the set of characteristics that you want to generalize about.
Language is not scientific, and it never will be. We can have starfish that aren't fish and koala bears that aren't bears, and that's just fine. Scientists need to be concerned about how things work, not what they're called.
Growing up in Idaho, nobody particularly cared about the ball. Is this just an East Coast thing?
Does this mean that there will be an Android version supporting video soon? While I would rather have an open system than Skype, at least having something cross-platform will be nice.
It would be nice if they at least had a chance to wrap it up, but I suppose the last episode will be a cliffhanger with no resolution.
I prefer ads to begging.
I think the concern about advertisers having editorial influence is overblown. Certainly if they're using an outside placement network, like Google, then there's a nice buffer between the advertiser and the site.
One thing that I think would be really cool is if they would accept ads, but only if the ads to not include cookies.
The problem with allowing third-party imports to be sold is that consumers will buy the items, expecting the manufacturer to support them (providing warranty service at a minimum). If the product in question is not sold directly domestically, then the manufacturer may not be prepared for the support. Further, the product may have been sold in a country where the cost and level of support is different.
The solution is to require that any imports not authorized by the manufacturer must be clearly advertised as not supported by the manufacturer, with all service provided by the importer.
Firefox on Android is a painful experience. The zooming is jerky. The fonts are ugly. It's not very responsive to clicks. Absolutely a horrible experience. That said, there are sites that just plain didn't work with the default browser that do work correctly with Firefox on Android, so I'll keep it around for that.
If you haven't had any sites fail with the default browser, skip this for now. If you have, try them with Firefox. You'll probably keep Firefox installed just for those sites.
Yes, it is above the expected 50% if the date of pay raises was random, but I doubt it is. My company is within that 50% for its date, but until a few years ago it wasn't. The question is plainly biased.
Further, saying that 36% are looking is a much softer threshold than saying 36% have submitted resumes or job applications. At least it wasn't the completely nebulous "considering" that they sometimes use.
That said, changing jobs is often the best way to get a pay raise, and I don't blame you one bit for trying for it.
Most employers do annual pay adjustments, so asking if they received a pay increase in the past 6 months would, on average, get at least 50% saying no. The report was engineered from the start to get the result that they published.
Wouldn't the simplest solution be to post a warning? They could set up an infrared camera to monitor where the hot spot is, and have a monitor displaying it, so people could avoid it.
It would be relatively simple for the BIOS to turn off CPU features in such a way that they can't be turned back on without a reset. So the easy way to implement this would be for Intel to partner with a PC vendor and charge for the BIOS upgrade that doesn't disable the CPU features in question. With such a system, it would mean that you could pull the CPU and put it in a different motherboard, and get all the features, but that's not going to be a concern for the business model until they're talking about hundreds of dollars for the added features.
Putting this into the CPU would require that the CPUs be designed specifically to support this, which is not as likely to be the case, but would be much more difficult to defeat.
Essentially the media companies are hiring Internet privateers to attack copyright violators. This really sines a new light on which side to assign the term "pirates" to.
And if you save them, and dump the sound track with mplayer, you usually end up with a nice 128kbps MP3.
I don't see a Dell-EMC merger. The companies are just too different. And as an EMC employee, I wouldn't be happy about it.
As to the partnership, yes, Dell resells EMC products. In trying to buy 3Par, they've shown another indication that they would rather be selling their own stuff than reselling someone else's, which may have some implications for the long-term stability of the partnership.
Dave Donatelli (HP) buying 3Par looks good for EMC. It suggests that HP may stop reselling Hitachi storage in favor of their on 3Par systems, which could be quite bad for Hitachi, at least in the US market. At the same time, it helps keep Dell reselling EMC products as it looks to figure out where to go next.
So the winners are HP and EMC, while the loser is Hitachi. It's not clear that Dell would have been successful with 3Par, so you could argue either side from Dell's perspective.
Now a Dell-NetApp merger would be interesting.
(Note: I have no inside knowledge about any of this.)
So instead of doing something to actually reduce the odor, they try to mask it by adding yet more smells.
If it is a bill to tax executive bonuses from TARP-receiving companies, then the Constitution says that it must originate in the House, not the Senate, but I suppose that detail is ignored.
The water itself wasn't that bad. It was all the rocks and mud that it carried with it, burying the back yard.
I had a friend who had a neighbor with an unlicensed above-ground pool. I'm not sure what went wrong, but one day it collapsed, sending all of the water into my friend's back yard, destroying everything there. Building permits are required for good reasons, and they're usually dirt cheap (less than 1% of the project cost). If you're hiring a contractor who doesn't get a building permit, then they're probably not doing it to save you money, but to allow them to skimp on important building code details that might end up costing you a huge amount.
My employer-provided phone is an HTC EVO 4G (Android). I could have chosen a Blackberry or an iPhone (or even Windows Mobile). And I work for a large Fortune-500 company. Corporate America is opening up to the new options.
(My company is large enough that they've outsourced the phone purchasing to some other company that specializes in it. I went to that company's web site, selected the phone that I wanted from the list that had been approved by our IT department, and they shipped it directly to me. All said, it seems like a very good system, especially compared to some of the other services that have been outsourced.)
Android 2.2 is supposed to take Exchange integration a step further, letting corporate IT wipe the phone if it's reported as lost or stolen, as well as allowing corporate security policies to be enforced. So expect Android to compete even more heavily with Blackberry once 2.2 comes out.
I just tried it, and the plugin is just grey for Mafia Wars and Farmville.
There are numerous advantages to using lasers instead of traditional weapons:
*) Longer range
*) Better accuracy
*) Unlimited ammunition
*) No pollution from spent weapons
Too late. I don't know if I'll ever need to root my phone, but I want to know that I can. I was considering the Droid X and the HTC EVO 4G, and eFuse was the leading reason for selecting the HTC phone.
It's my phone, if I didn't want control, I would get an iPhone.
Not good enough. A random delay will add noise, increasing the number of attempts required, but will not break the attack vector.
What is needed is to insure that the algorithm will respond in the same time when a match fails, regardless of how close the match is. If this were a simple string comparison, you would need a function that compares every character in the input to a padded version of the password, not one that stops at the first mismatch. In most cases, that same approach can be extended to cover more complicated situations.
Yes, the price and market Priority Mail separately, but the whole idea of Priority Mail is that First Class Mail is usually 2-3 days, and the USPS wanted to encourage people to ship small packages First Class. The whole thing is a marketing gimmick. So yes, in some cases, you are simply paying more for the name "Priority."
No, Priority Mail is not guaranteed to be in a given time frame. Last I checked, it was advertised as "Usually 2-3 days," which happens to be the exact same as what they rate first class mail delivery as being.
The price Priority Mail differently, but from a handling perspective, it's the same.