By no means am I claiming that the U.S.A. is perfect, or the most civilized nation. I voted against prop 8 and for prop 19, and was more than a little upset that neither one went the way I wanted it to. But I can speak out against my government, and I can advocate for a more civilized society. Try doing that in China.
It could be sorta handy to have it automatically pause if someone gets up to grab a beer / go to the bathroom / whatever, and then resume when said person returns.
Hardly something I've waited my whole life for, but still. I say, props to M$ for actually attempting to innovate. And I say this typing on a Microsoft keyboard with a Microsoft mouse...through Chrome under Debian...whoops.
If you were buying a $600,000 house, could you justify buying a $70,000 car because it's a drop in the bucket? Google hardly has a majority contribution (plurality maybe? Haven't read the article...), but about 12% is a non-trivial contribution in my book.
Is anyone else having trouble parsing this sentence?
They paint a picture of a Zuckerberg more sinister than portrayed in the movie The Social Network actively out to sucker his investors that the site, including Ceglia.
Either I'm having trouble with English, or the editors are...
I did think it looked very well typeset for something that old. I have some textbooks which honestly don't look that good. They're still in print, though they were written some time ago -- this one is particularly ugly (you can do the "look inside" thing to see).
They want to protect your data and your privacy, of course.
Oh, sometimes I crack myself up! In all seriousness though, props for releasing this information. (Also -- wanting to protect your data but not your privacy is not a real contradiction...just going for the cheap shot.)
I wonder if keeping multiple formats will actually make it feasible to cater to financially distinct -- yet geographically similar -- markets. For example, sell the DVD for $5, but sell the Blu-ray for $20.
While a strong believer that pi should be "replaced" by tau or similar, I think tau is a lousy choice as it will just get confused with time constants. Capital Pi is good, although I guess it could get confused with a repeated product. Maybe we could introduce "Ip," in the same way we have Mho.
Learning the mathematical definition of a limit isn't going to benefit, say, a future baker in any way. why teach it to them?
You hold a party and invite one friend, with instructions for that person to invite another friend who will eat half as much as your friend. That guest then has instructions to invite another friend who eats half as much, and so forth.
It takes 1 cup of flour to make a loaf of bread for your friend, and thus, 1/2 cup of flour to make a loaf of bread for your friend's friend, 1/4 for your friend's friend's friend, etc. Assuming infinitely many people show up at your party (and you do not consume any bread), how many cups of flour are required to bake bread for the crowd?
My bet is sadly on the closed one winning. Most people view phones* as appliances and as such they should just work.
I think that's a very accurate assessment (though I don't even have a smart phone). I'm all for toys and openness; I cut my teeth on Slackware (using Debian currently), don't take my car to the mechanic for trivial stuff, fix my audio gear myself (picked up a Dyna ST-70 for free a while back...score!) etc. But I can see a day when I'll want a system -- be it an entertainment system, a car or a smartphone -- that "just works." And sadly, this is more easily achieved when a single manufacturer controls the hardware.
I'll probably get modded into oblivion because I'm pointing out the good side of a controlling company, but that's just my opinion. (And for the record, I think Apple's being ridiculous in the limiting-what-you-can-run department. I think it would make the most sense to have "Apple Approved" apps, and a free-for-all. If you want something that Just Works (and, if Apple did their job reviewing it, isn't malware), then stick to the official app store. Else, well, eat your heart out.)
I didn't realize that anyone filled them out with real information. Why would you? To help Kroger track trends and marketing? Forget that, just give me the discount.:P
Filling them out with fake information is almost as useful for them (assuming you do indeed use the card). Think of it as a click-tracking cookie, but for a supermarket instead of a web site. Sure, it's nice to have all the personal information you can get, but it's still useful without that.
Certain demographic statistics will get screwed up, of course (wow, that 82 year old woman sure loves her beer, Oreos and frozen pizza!). However, a huge reason that discount cards are issued is for statistical information on purchases relative to each other. If you're in a supermarket and you see two seemingly unrelated items next to each other, there's a chance that there's a purchasing correlation.
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Damn straight!
By no means am I claiming that the U.S.A. is perfect, or the most civilized nation. I voted against prop 8 and for prop 19, and was more than a little upset that neither one went the way I wanted it to. But I can speak out against my government, and I can advocate for a more civilized society. Try doing that in China.
And the USA barely qualifies as civilized.
Many of the world's best institutions of higher education would beg to differ.
The good ol' U.S. of A has some serious issues, to be sure. But to call it "barely civilized" is just stupid.
Since when did calling something "amusing" count as criticism?
Yeah, it's amusing that nuclear power reactors can use the same method as a 1800's steam engine.
"Low-Latency" is in the summary title, and that's really the best you can do for a first post?
Where the adds coming from...
What I want to know is, where the subtracts coming from? ;)
I prefer Audi, but suit yourself.
It could be sorta handy to have it automatically pause if someone gets up to grab a beer / go to the bathroom / whatever, and then resume when said person returns.
Hardly something I've waited my whole life for, but still. I say, props to M$ for actually attempting to innovate. And I say this typing on a Microsoft keyboard with a Microsoft mouse...through Chrome under Debian...whoops.
I mean, someone has the Xeon / Opteron designs...
If you were buying a $600,000 house, could you justify buying a $70,000 car because it's a drop in the bucket? Google hardly has a majority contribution (plurality maybe? Haven't read the article...), but about 12% is a non-trivial contribution in my book.
They paint a picture of a Zuckerberg more sinister than portrayed in the movie The Social Network actively out to sucker his investors that the site, including Ceglia.
Either I'm having trouble with English, or the editors are...
I did think it looked very well typeset for something that old. I have some textbooks which honestly don't look that good. They're still in print, though they were written some time ago -- this one is particularly ugly (you can do the "look inside" thing to see).
Just don't plug your laptop into his brain. You know, the whole positronic-electronic charge carrier annihilation thing.
They want to protect your data and your privacy, of course.
Oh, sometimes I crack myself up! In all seriousness though, props for releasing this information. (Also -- wanting to protect your data but not your privacy is not a real contradiction...just going for the cheap shot.)
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Will it be able to left-click on /. links?
And I bet the sysadmins are always bragging about their uptime.
Yeah...heck, Torvalds is a self-proclaimed git.
You could just hold the phone upside-down. More fun for everyone!
I wonder if keeping multiple formats will actually make it feasible to cater to financially distinct -- yet geographically similar -- markets. For example, sell the DVD for $5, but sell the Blu-ray for $20.
While a strong believer that pi should be "replaced" by tau or similar, I think tau is a lousy choice as it will just get confused with time constants. Capital Pi is good, although I guess it could get confused with a repeated product. Maybe we could introduce "Ip," in the same way we have Mho.
Learning the mathematical definition of a limit isn't going to benefit, say, a future baker in any way. why teach it to them?
You hold a party and invite one friend, with instructions for that person to invite another friend who will eat half as much as your friend. That guest then has instructions to invite another friend who eats half as much, and so forth.
It takes 1 cup of flour to make a loaf of bread for your friend, and thus, 1/2 cup of flour to make a loaf of bread for your friend's friend, 1/4 for your friend's friend's friend, etc. Assuming infinitely many people show up at your party (and you do not consume any bread), how many cups of flour are required to bake bread for the crowd?
Hah, and you said it wasn't useful!
My bet is sadly on the closed one winning. Most people view phones* as appliances and as such they should just work.
I think that's a very accurate assessment (though I don't even have a smart phone). I'm all for toys and openness; I cut my teeth on Slackware (using Debian currently), don't take my car to the mechanic for trivial stuff, fix my audio gear myself (picked up a Dyna ST-70 for free a while back...score!) etc. But I can see a day when I'll want a system -- be it an entertainment system, a car or a smartphone -- that "just works." And sadly, this is more easily achieved when a single manufacturer controls the hardware.
I'll probably get modded into oblivion because I'm pointing out the good side of a controlling company, but that's just my opinion. (And for the record, I think Apple's being ridiculous in the limiting-what-you-can-run department. I think it would make the most sense to have "Apple Approved" apps, and a free-for-all. If you want something that Just Works (and, if Apple did their job reviewing it, isn't malware), then stick to the official app store. Else, well, eat your heart out.)
I didn't realize that anyone filled them out with real information. Why would you? To help Kroger track trends and marketing? Forget that, just give me the discount. :P
Filling them out with fake information is almost as useful for them (assuming you do indeed use the card). Think of it as a click-tracking cookie, but for a supermarket instead of a web site. Sure, it's nice to have all the personal information you can get, but it's still useful without that.
Certain demographic statistics will get screwed up, of course (wow, that 82 year old woman sure loves her beer, Oreos and frozen pizza!). However, a huge reason that discount cards are issued is for statistical information on purchases relative to each other. If you're in a supermarket and you see two seemingly unrelated items next to each other, there's a chance that there's a purchasing correlation.