...Except that this is about The Daily, which definitely had a right-wing bias. I stopped reading it pretty early because I was tired of it bashing Obama and his policies every chance it got. It's one thing to provide analyses and counter-arguments, but they'd interject editorial comments all over the place without a shred of evidence. There are enough other places to get news... don't need what amounted to FOX News Tablet Edition.
One fairly new building in south Manhattan has a system where you type the number you want to go to before entering the elevator waiting area, and it tells you what door to wait in front of. When the elevator arrives it lists the floors it will stop at. It seems to optimize for minimal elevator usage, minimal wait times, no overcrowding, etc. Once the elevator system has a little more information it can do a lot better.
What other English-speaking country uses "Americans" to mean anyone in north or south america? My understanding is that Spanish and several other languages use it that way, and that it's a false cognate to translate that into English without changing the word.
The USPS doesn't run on taxes, they are self-sufficient. That's why they're not asking for a bailout, but for an end to Saturday mail delivery and other USPS cost saving measures. At the same time, the USPS is generally hobbled by Congressional requirements that they do this or that and overfund their retirement obligations and all sorts of other things.
Exactly. They are the only agency required to pre-pay all the retirement accounts in full rather than make regular installments into an interest-bearing account. Congress hobbled them with this, along with requirements to keep all rural post offices open and keep delivering on Saturdays, but provided them no way to recoup those costs. Almost all of the $15B is due to the retirement pre-payment requirements.
Any percentage of total revenue is not a negotiating tactic but a blatant misuse of the standards system. A FRAND patent on wi-fi enables a wi-fi chipset to work. They should get a percentage of the chipset's value. If MS puts a better screen on a device and raises its market value, why would Google's wi-fi patent suddenly add more value? It wouldn't.
The "Non-Discriminatory" implies that the licensing costs should be the same regardless of the device it's being put into, based on the ability of the wi-fi chipset to connect to a wi-fi network.
It isn't. With such large numbers like the U.S. electorate, 50.4% to 48.x% is a solid result and the margin of error is somewhere around 0.1% - far away from any ambiguity. Single events might change the outcome within certain groups of people, but with such a large electorate, most of them cancel out each other, and the overall outcome is pretty well determined already, or better: the likelihood of it to stray far away from the predictions is very small.
It's 51.2% to 48.x% and counting, last I checked, as vote-by-mail which were posted by the deadlines continued to come in.
It's the biggest re-election margins in recent history, and a blowout in both the electoral college and, compared to most elections in the last few decades, a blowout in the popular vote as well. Especially considering just how many voters there were, the outcome was quite decisive.
So no, you appear to be just as challenged with numbers as Nate's detractors.
And the obvious point: Apple is selling all they can make right now. Supply and demand would dictate Apple should be charging even MORE, but price is artificially low so people don't start associating the product with an even higher price later on.
You seem to misunderstand what NJ has proposed. Registered voters can request such a ballot, and those voters can return those validated ballots via email. No one who is not registered already or who did not request the ballots can vote, and each requested ballot can only be returned once. The risk, which is that someone will steal another's vote, is vastly lower than the risk someone will be unable to vote due to being displaced. (In other words, this act is likely to increase the accuracy of the voting process, dramatically so in affected areas.)
$80 a year for "free" books and streaming media and 2 day shipping is gouging?
Amazon rarely actually shipped my "free 2 day shipping" via 2-day shipping. They usually ship it ground which is 3-5 days, and I'm not exactly in the back woods (suburban NJ). If you complain they give you a $5 credit and falsely blame the shipping company. And as others have said, the other "free" stuff is crap. Cancelled it.
Ah, yes. Make operators of nuclear plants government employees. If you liked the service at the Post Office, then you'll love what we're going to do with radioactive material!
Home delivery 6 days a week and web forms for everything you could need... I actually really like the service at the Post Office.
The sad part is, the "paper" is probably already covered by copyright.
That's an interesting question. This paper is the output of an automaton, and thus not an original creative work. One would presume it would not be eligible for copyright. But there is obviously much creativity involved in its creation. Fortunately it's unlikely a court will ever have to consider the matter.
FTFA: " that promises to solve the energy crisis as well as helping to curb global warming by removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere."
Complete BS. This will not solve any energy problems because it is not a new energy source. This process will only transfer energy from one location to a gas tank, at a net loss of energy.
Yes, but liquid is a really convenient way to transfer energy around the country and world. The best wind sources tend to be in areas with few people, and most people don't build homes inside volcanoes. Even nuclear power is difficult from a regulatory standpoint when you try to build close to where the need is. We don't have the grid for it. But using that energy to pull CO2 from the air and generate easily-transported (and stored) liquid fuel does seem like a pretty cool thing.
In this case "off" means "you're allowed to track me". Set it to "on" if you want to explicitly limit advertiser's activities.
I'm glad Apple provides this, and it's a nice differentiator for them since Google needs to track users to maintain their profits while Apple just wants to sell you devices.
Somewhere, a parent is thrilled to find that Microsoft's iPads are on sale for $100 off.
Microsoft's tablet has the screen fidelity of an iPad 2 at the price of an iPad 2, and it only took them an extra 1.5 years to come out with it. Here's a hint to the parents: Apple still sells iPad 2s. Just buy one of those.
I work in NYC, and no one cares. All the New Yorkers I know walk at least a mile each workday during their commute. They're already way healthier than the suburbanites. The ABA hosted a rally against the new edict and like 9 people showed up. I'm not sure who's getting worked up over this, but it isn't any New Yorkers I've met.
Or go the opposite route... buy a bunch of empty "surveillance camera" big white cases and install them prominently near a big "No Dumping" sign. Probably a lot cheaper.
If anyone is going to buy Nokia, it makes sense for Microsoft to do so. It could become Microsoft's chief mobile hardware partner, and perhaps could offer something in the Xbox arena. The result would be a partnership similar to Google and Motorola.
Yeah, but Nokia's a publicly traded company. They're valued at about $10B... pocket change for Apple. And they have the best mapping data in the world... Apple has arguably lost more than $10B in valuation for not having such data.
Apple could buy Nokia, keep the mapping and patents, divest the mobile manufacturing to Microsoft and come out way ahead.
If you enter the work force in your early 20's, at 40 you're less than halfway to 65, which is a "normal" retirement age... in other words, at 40 you're still in the first half of your career. No matter what you decide, it's not because you're "too old" that you'll succeed or fail. But in technology it really pays to like what you do and be willing to try lots of technologies, languages, systems, etc. Do side projects you like and if you find one you REALLY like see if you can make it your job. Or just find the highest buck-for-the-bang, slog through your workday and spend the money on insanely fun weekends and vacations. There are a lot of paths here, and I don't think Slashdot can tell you how to live your life.
Waiting for the Sun to release its nucleic binding energy in fusion then allow it to percolate to the surface, only to build a collector to capture some percent of it is for pussies.
REAL civilizations covert their Sun's mass directly to energy before moving on to the next one.
It is obvious based on the geolocation data that Greenland is behind all of this.
I dunno... it looks like there's a town in central Russia where the secret cabal hides. That "109" data point north of Mongolia... there's nothing there on Google Maps...
I realize that this is Slashdot, and no one reads the original article, but this woman was mocking the fact that she got a DUI on Facebook, which is what caught the attention of the judge in the first place.
She was laughing it off as a status update, after hitting another car with, I believe (I read this somewhere else), 4 people in it.
Under normal circumstances, I would agree that the judge was looking for a power grab, but in this case, I think that the judge was trying to make a point to a person that simply did not understand the ramifications of the situation.
Some people are jerks. We still have a first amendment, and it still protects them.
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...Except that this is about The Daily, which definitely had a right-wing bias. I stopped reading it pretty early because I was tired of it bashing Obama and his policies every chance it got. It's one thing to provide analyses and counter-arguments, but they'd interject editorial comments all over the place without a shred of evidence. There are enough other places to get news... don't need what amounted to FOX News Tablet Edition.
One fairly new building in south Manhattan has a system where you type the number you want to go to before entering the elevator waiting area, and it tells you what door to wait in front of. When the elevator arrives it lists the floors it will stop at. It seems to optimize for minimal elevator usage, minimal wait times, no overcrowding, etc. Once the elevator system has a little more information it can do a lot better.
Yeah? Is there a list of what works with it?
Might be easier to list what doesn't, but here are the 16075 packages that work with MacPorts out of the box: http://www.macports.org/ports.php?by=all
Seriously, MacOS X is a certified UNIX, so this stuff is easy.
What other English-speaking country uses "Americans" to mean anyone in north or south america? My understanding is that Spanish and several other languages use it that way, and that it's a false cognate to translate that into English without changing the word.
The USPS doesn't run on taxes, they are self-sufficient. That's why they're not asking for a bailout, but for an end to Saturday mail delivery and other USPS cost saving measures. At the same time, the USPS is generally hobbled by Congressional requirements that they do this or that and overfund their retirement obligations and all sorts of other things.
Exactly. They are the only agency required to pre-pay all the retirement accounts in full rather than make regular installments into an interest-bearing account. Congress hobbled them with this, along with requirements to keep all rural post offices open and keep delivering on Saturdays, but provided them no way to recoup those costs. Almost all of the $15B is due to the retirement pre-payment requirements.
Any percentage of total revenue is not a negotiating tactic but a blatant misuse of the standards system. A FRAND patent on wi-fi enables a wi-fi chipset to work. They should get a percentage of the chipset's value. If MS puts a better screen on a device and raises its market value, why would Google's wi-fi patent suddenly add more value? It wouldn't.
The "Non-Discriminatory" implies that the licensing costs should be the same regardless of the device it's being put into, based on the ability of the wi-fi chipset to connect to a wi-fi network.
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It isn't. With such large numbers like the U.S. electorate, 50.4% to 48.x% is a solid result and the margin of error is somewhere around 0.1% - far away from any ambiguity. Single events might change the outcome within certain groups of people, but with such a large electorate, most of them cancel out each other, and the overall outcome is pretty well determined already, or better: the likelihood of it to stray far away from the predictions is very small.
It's 51.2% to 48.x% and counting, last I checked, as vote-by-mail which were posted by the deadlines continued to come in.
It's the biggest re-election margins in recent history, and a blowout in both the electoral college and, compared to most elections in the last few decades, a blowout in the popular vote as well. Especially considering just how many voters there were, the outcome was quite decisive.
So no, you appear to be just as challenged with numbers as Nate's detractors.
And the obvious point: Apple is selling all they can make right now. Supply and demand would dictate Apple should be charging even MORE, but price is artificially low so people don't start associating the product with an even higher price later on.
You seem to misunderstand what NJ has proposed. Registered voters can request such a ballot, and those voters can return those validated ballots via email. No one who is not registered already or who did not request the ballots can vote, and each requested ballot can only be returned once. The risk, which is that someone will steal another's vote, is vastly lower than the risk someone will be unable to vote due to being displaced. (In other words, this act is likely to increase the accuracy of the voting process, dramatically so in affected areas.)
$80 a year for "free" books and streaming media and 2 day shipping is gouging?
Amazon rarely actually shipped my "free 2 day shipping" via 2-day shipping. They usually ship it ground which is 3-5 days, and I'm not exactly in the back woods (suburban NJ). If you complain they give you a $5 credit and falsely blame the shipping company. And as others have said, the other "free" stuff is crap. Cancelled it.
Ah, yes. Make operators of nuclear plants government employees. If you liked the service at the Post Office, then you'll love what we're going to do with radioactive material!
Home delivery 6 days a week and web forms for everything you could need... I actually really like the service at the Post Office.
The sad part is, the "paper" is probably already covered by copyright.
That's an interesting question. This paper is the output of an automaton, and thus not an original creative work. One would presume it would not be eligible for copyright. But there is obviously much creativity involved in its creation. Fortunately it's unlikely a court will ever have to consider the matter.
Complete BS. This will not solve any energy problems because it is not a new energy source. This process will only transfer energy from one location to a gas tank, at a net loss of energy.
Yes, but liquid is a really convenient way to transfer energy around the country and world. The best wind sources tend to be in areas with few people, and most people don't build homes inside volcanoes. Even nuclear power is difficult from a regulatory standpoint when you try to build close to where the need is. We don't have the grid for it. But using that energy to pull CO2 from the air and generate easily-transported (and stored) liquid fuel does seem like a pretty cool thing.
Note the risk part.
Those two are headed for bankruptcy. If Nokia is very lucky MS will buy them out for a pittance. Likely it will not as killing them is just as good.
Nokia owns Navteq. If only there was another company out there which had over $10B in the bank and could benefit from better mapping data.
In this case "off" means "you're allowed to track me". Set it to "on" if you want to explicitly limit advertiser's activities.
I'm glad Apple provides this, and it's a nice differentiator for them since Google needs to track users to maintain their profits while Apple just wants to sell you devices.
Somewhere, a parent is thrilled to find that Microsoft's iPads are on sale for $100 off.
Microsoft's tablet has the screen fidelity of an iPad 2 at the price of an iPad 2, and it only took them an extra 1.5 years to come out with it. Here's a hint to the parents: Apple still sells iPad 2s. Just buy one of those.
I work in NYC, and no one cares. All the New Yorkers I know walk at least a mile each workday during their commute. They're already way healthier than the suburbanites. The ABA hosted a rally against the new edict and like 9 people showed up. I'm not sure who's getting worked up over this, but it isn't any New Yorkers I've met.
Or go the opposite route... buy a bunch of empty "surveillance camera" big white cases and install them prominently near a big "No Dumping" sign. Probably a lot cheaper.
If anyone is going to buy Nokia, it makes sense for Microsoft to do so. It could become Microsoft's chief mobile hardware partner, and perhaps could offer something in the Xbox arena. The result would be a partnership similar to Google and Motorola.
Yeah, but Nokia's a publicly traded company. They're valued at about $10B... pocket change for Apple. And they have the best mapping data in the world... Apple has arguably lost more than $10B in valuation for not having such data.
Apple could buy Nokia, keep the mapping and patents, divest the mobile manufacturing to Microsoft and come out way ahead.
If you enter the work force in your early 20's, at 40 you're less than halfway to 65, which is a "normal" retirement age... in other words, at 40 you're still in the first half of your career. No matter what you decide, it's not because you're "too old" that you'll succeed or fail. But in technology it really pays to like what you do and be willing to try lots of technologies, languages, systems, etc. Do side projects you like and if you find one you REALLY like see if you can make it your job. Or just find the highest buck-for-the-bang, slog through your workday and spend the money on insanely fun weekends and vacations. There are a lot of paths here, and I don't think Slashdot can tell you how to live your life.
(Disclosure: I'm 39)
Waiting for the Sun to release its nucleic binding energy in fusion then allow it to percolate to the surface, only to build a collector to capture some percent of it is for pussies.
REAL civilizations covert their Sun's mass directly to energy before moving on to the next one.
Is anyone looking for THAT?
It is obvious based on the geolocation data that Greenland is behind all of this.
I dunno... it looks like there's a town in central Russia where the secret cabal hides. That "109" data point north of Mongolia... there's nothing there on Google Maps...
I realize that this is Slashdot, and no one reads the original article, but this woman was mocking the fact that she got a DUI on Facebook, which is what caught the attention of the judge in the first place.
She was laughing it off as a status update, after hitting another car with, I believe (I read this somewhere else), 4 people in it.
Under normal circumstances, I would agree that the judge was looking for a power grab, but in this case, I think that the judge was trying to make a point to a person that simply did not understand the ramifications of the situation.
Some people are jerks. We still have a first amendment, and it still protects them.
No, they can't. The patents in question with cable are FRAND, so at most, Apple might be forced to pay a small tithe.
Google has not hesitated to sue and try to get injunctions based on FRAND patents in the past, unlike Apple.