After a ruling like this, congress should be proactive and fix the law. But they won't. Why? 'cause they could give two shits about making things right. They're busy trying to make themselves look good. So they're going to be 100% focused on "fixing" health care.
On the contrary, some thermal mass makes a lot of sense when you want to heat a space that has high velocity freezing air blowing against the outside of it.
I don't know what you look like, or smell like after biking 20-miles, but I know that when I do it I'm not exactly "ready for work" when I arrive. 1 hour 10 minute + time to shower and change? You're talking almost 3 hours a day to commute. I'm not going to say that I couldn't be paid enough to have a commute that long, but it's unlikely anybody would be willing to meet the price. I'd pick the 30 minute carpool option over biking almost every day of the week if it took that long. And that doesn't even begin to address the issue of the sun going down before I leave work most days... Or winter.
In reality I've picked the "working less than 5 miles from home" option.
But it could just idle the gas engine to generate heat. It should consume very little gas to idle the engine, and if there's one thing ICEs are good at doing with high efficiency, it's generating heat.
Having been a "fry cook" at McDonalds, I'm going to say that you're the delusional one. The CEO almost certainly works much harder. Maybe not enough to justify the salary difference, but in terms of time invested and levels of stress endured the CEO wins the effort contest hands down.
The only way you could see it the other way is if you're only counting physical labor.
AOL's acquisition of these well-trafficked "blogs" was a turnaround alright. It was a turnaround for the blogs. They all started to suck.
It's almost guaranteed that if you see the AOL logo at the bottom of a blog, it's going to be a maze of links you think head off to references, stories, and other places of interest, but instead link back to other pages on the blog itself. Imagine slashdot if the link to TFA was just a link back to the dupe from three days ago, and you've got every AOL blog out there.
It's a shame, 'cause some of them were pretty good before the takeover.
For starters, there are plenty of places to use your car other than private roads. Sure, most people don't do that, but plenty do.
Secondly, there are often valid reasons to exceed the speed limit. You sometimes need to accelerate to avoid an accident.
Finally, since the speed limit on many roads is designed for revenue generation, and not safety, if they limited the top speed of all cars where would the money come from?
As an aside, the number of "speeding related" incidents is vastly overstated. You can't say that "x% of accidents involve a speeding vehicle" and have it mean anything without also knowing what percentage of vehicles speed. If I had to guess I'd say that most accidents are caused by inexperience, aggression, and lack of attention. Not speed.
Same configuration, sans KDE (Desktop environments are resource wastes), but 64-bit on a Core 2 Duo 6700, and I get about 4 FPS. Video is a Quadro FX 4000.
I couldn't help but think about a Slashdot post about VRML from 1998. It was "the future", but it performed like crap on more than half the machines out there and died a much needed death.
Distributing interactive content as markup is just dumb. Wasteful, bloated, and stupid.
-you know, because while you may have a professional skill set, you didn't take the first job opening down a the local Wal Mart.
So you are, in fact, willfully unemployed then, right?
Just 'cause your too proud to take the job that's available for you doesn't mean you can't find work... And that's what the unemployment figure is really about. It doesn't matter to anybody how many people are working or not. What matters is how many people want a job but are unable to find one. The point of the statistic is to tell us if the economy is creating enough jobs. It doesn't do anybody any good to create more jobs for the losers who won't take the job we already created for them.
It's bloated, underperforming, and not significantly more featured than things that were on the market a decade ago. The new "ribbon" interface is the re-implementation of WordStar 3 for DOS keyboard shortcuts, except with the mouse and icons instead of function keys and a cardboard overlay. They have a steep "learning" curve until you find out where everything you need is hidden, and they make the interface ridiculously un-intuitive for anybody who hasn't been using a Word-like word processor for the last 10 years. It also forces you onto an unending upgrade treadmill where you pay again for the next version even if you don't care about the new features simply so that you can continue to interoperate with others.
To top it off, it's really expensive.
Instead of "excellent", I think a better word would be "nightmareish", or "wretched".
Your typical $5 USB-to-serial adaptor isn't upgradeable either to my knowledge, why should this be?
Some of them are. The ones that aren't are that way simply because they took the non-volatile memory out to save a buck, and instead the firmware is uploaded to the device every single time you plug it in. Of course, that means you need to have the manufacturer's driver installed on the computer you wish to use the device on....
Um, no. You can't do it from user mode. The technique described uses a debugger to attach to the firmware updater with a breakpoint after the privilege escalation.
This is sensationalist article. Did you read it? It basically says that you can flash bad firmware onto a device. He picked an Apple keyboard for attention. He could have picked a Logitech keyboard, or any number of other PC accessories, or your PC's BIOS. Most of which (including this keyboard) have no security whatsoever stopping you from flashing something other than the manufacturer's image onto the device.
Did you miss the part of the story where PS3 costs dropped by 70%? They're probably making a profit on PS3 sales. So no, it's not "only" losses from PS3 sales.
Where did the money go then? Well, they just developed a completely new console, which they needed to ramp up manufacturing on before it goes on sale in October...
Of course they were probably counting on strong software/PS3 sales to cover most of that loss. Oops.
Clearly you're not an <any kind of software at all> developer.
Business types pick the subject matter they think will sell, then the platform(s) that give them the market size they want to sell into, and then they hire/invest in some development team to produce their product. Rarely do they give a half-shit if it's easy or not to develop unless it's sufficiently difficult to develop for a particular platform that it will cause a competitor to beat them to market.
When you're talking about something as complex as a game engine, saying that the PS3 is harder to develop for than the 360, while perhaps technically true, you need to take that in context. In terms of overall project difficulty, it's only a small percentage more difficult to develop for one platform over the other.
You would be hard pressed to find even a single major title out there that was developed for one console or the other because of difficulty. The big studios are either making cross-platform titles, or they're making an exclusive based on a business deal (not based on the difficulty to develop).
Additional context. Sony announced a newer, cooler PSP, but you can't buy it yet. They spent a buttload of money on development, which they haven't had a chance to recoup yet, and PSP sales are artificially low now that everybody knows to wait for the new one coming out in two months. This is probably the biggest source of their losses.
Also, now that they said this, can we finally lose the "Sony loses $x00 on every PS3 sold" crap? Clearly they're cashflow positive on the hardware now.
Except for numbers 8 and 9, you've described every individual contributor type job from McDonalds cashier up to senior engineer. (Some of those people get extra pay for being called in, but the same goes for system administrators. And as an experienced former system administrator, I will say unequivocally that if you're getting called in during the night very often, you're doing it wrong.)
If in fact they attempt this, and staff or a student have a bona-fide medical emergency and are unable to summon emergency services, this district will then be tasked for paying for a home nurse to wipe the drool off of said victim's face for the rest of their lives.
Oh, and if there's an emergency there's a school supplied cell phone in every room just in case no students are carrying one?
Nope. There isn't. The "needed for emergencies" argument is a giant load of bullshit.
The only people who would be upset or hurt by jamming in schools are kids using the phones when they probably shouldn't, and terrible parents who are failing to teach their kids how to cope on their own by being unable to let go of every possible tether to their children.
Remember when kids could go play away from home for hours and parents had no way to contact them at all if they were out of earshot? And somehow they still survived....
I find it funny that Jobs wants music non-protected and open, but he seals-up his iPod and iPhone tighter than a 16-year-old woman on prom night.
A clear case of, "Do as I say but ignore how I act."
I was about to comment about how, perhaps, you didn't go to the prom......but then I remembered how easy it is to remove the restrictions on an iPhone/iPod....
They could maintain the quality of the software offered in the App Store without (completely) locking people out of installing non-App-Store software--people who want the Apple Quality User Experience(tm) could stick with App Store software, and people who wanted extra functionality could try alternatives. That would broaden their appeal without reducing the appeal among the existing base.
I disagree. No matter what roadblocks and warnings you put in the way, any third party application that made the device malfunction would cause the user to think negatively of Apple and Apple's device. As soon as some killer third-party app was released outside the app store, everybody would be installing it, and if it caused instability the prevailing attitude would be that the iPhone is unstable.
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After a ruling like this, congress should be proactive and fix the law. But they won't. Why? 'cause they could give two shits about making things right. They're busy trying to make themselves look good. So they're going to be 100% focused on "fixing" health care.
On the contrary, some thermal mass makes a lot of sense when you want to heat a space that has high velocity freezing air blowing against the outside of it.
That's a great idea. You can use solar to recharge your car when you get home for the night!
I don't know what you look like, or smell like after biking 20-miles, but I know that when I do it I'm not exactly "ready for work" when I arrive. 1 hour 10 minute + time to shower and change? You're talking almost 3 hours a day to commute. I'm not going to say that I couldn't be paid enough to have a commute that long, but it's unlikely anybody would be willing to meet the price. I'd pick the 30 minute carpool option over biking almost every day of the week if it took that long. And that doesn't even begin to address the issue of the sun going down before I leave work most days... Or winter.
In reality I've picked the "working less than 5 miles from home" option.
I doubt it does this for PR reasons...
But it could just idle the gas engine to generate heat. It should consume very little gas to idle the engine, and if there's one thing ICEs are good at doing with high efficiency, it's generating heat.
Having been a "fry cook" at McDonalds, I'm going to say that you're the delusional one. The CEO almost certainly works much harder. Maybe not enough to justify the salary difference, but in terms of time invested and levels of stress endured the CEO wins the effort contest hands down.
The only way you could see it the other way is if you're only counting physical labor.
AOL's acquisition of these well-trafficked "blogs" was a turnaround alright. It was a turnaround for the blogs. They all started to suck.
It's almost guaranteed that if you see the AOL logo at the bottom of a blog, it's going to be a maze of links you think head off to references, stories, and other places of interest, but instead link back to other pages on the blog itself. Imagine slashdot if the link to TFA was just a link back to the dupe from three days ago, and you've got every AOL blog out there.
It's a shame, 'cause some of them were pretty good before the takeover.
For starters, there are plenty of places to use your car other than private roads. Sure, most people don't do that, but plenty do.
Secondly, there are often valid reasons to exceed the speed limit. You sometimes need to accelerate to avoid an accident.
Finally, since the speed limit on many roads is designed for revenue generation, and not safety, if they limited the top speed of all cars where would the money come from?
As an aside, the number of "speeding related" incidents is vastly overstated. You can't say that "x% of accidents involve a speeding vehicle" and have it mean anything without also knowing what percentage of vehicles speed. If I had to guess I'd say that most accidents are caused by inexperience, aggression, and lack of attention. Not speed.
I don't buy it. Most cars have a fuel shutoff that won't let you over-rev the engine. Why let the car rev that fast if it's bad for it?
And if he popped the clutch in low gear while going too fast to exceed the red-line, they absolutely should void his warranty.
Same configuration, sans KDE (Desktop environments are resource wastes), but 64-bit on a Core 2 Duo 6700, and I get about 4 FPS. Video is a Quadro FX 4000.
I couldn't help but think about a Slashdot post about VRML from 1998. It was "the future", but it performed like crap on more than half the machines out there and died a much needed death.
Distributing interactive content as markup is just dumb. Wasteful, bloated, and stupid.
-you know, because while you may have a professional skill set, you didn't take the first job opening down a the local Wal Mart.
So you are, in fact, willfully unemployed then, right?
Just 'cause your too proud to take the job that's available for you doesn't mean you can't find work... And that's what the unemployment figure is really about. It doesn't matter to anybody how many people are working or not. What matters is how many people want a job but are unable to find one. The point of the statistic is to tell us if the economy is creating enough jobs. It doesn't do anybody any good to create more jobs for the losers who won't take the job we already created for them.
It's popular to hate on Word, yet all the Pro-Word comments are modded up, and the anti-Word comments are modded down?
Something doesn't add up.
Excellent software?
It's bloated, underperforming, and not significantly more featured than things that were on the market a decade ago. The new "ribbon" interface is the re-implementation of WordStar 3 for DOS keyboard shortcuts, except with the mouse and icons instead of function keys and a cardboard overlay. They have a steep "learning" curve until you find out where everything you need is hidden, and they make the interface ridiculously un-intuitive for anybody who hasn't been using a Word-like word processor for the last 10 years. It also forces you onto an unending upgrade treadmill where you pay again for the next version even if you don't care about the new features simply so that you can continue to interoperate with others.
To top it off, it's really expensive.
Instead of "excellent", I think a better word would be "nightmareish", or "wretched".
I know you're probably joking, but it's true!
Skateboarders can't stop quickly enough to make old people who can't move out of the way quickly feel uncomfortable.
(Spoken as somebody who used to be a skateboarder a long-Looooong time ago, and is now starting to identify more with the latter group.
Your typical $5 USB-to-serial adaptor isn't upgradeable either to my knowledge, why should this be?
Some of them are. The ones that aren't are that way simply because they took the non-volatile memory out to save a buck, and instead the firmware is uploaded to the device every single time you plug it in. Of course, that means you need to have the manufacturer's driver installed on the computer you wish to use the device on....
Um, no. You can't do it from user mode. The technique described uses a debugger to attach to the firmware updater with a breakpoint after the privilege escalation.
Most mac keyboards don't have bluetooth.
This is sensationalist article. Did you read it? It basically says that you can flash bad firmware onto a device. He picked an Apple keyboard for attention. He could have picked a Logitech keyboard, or any number of other PC accessories, or your PC's BIOS. Most of which (including this keyboard) have no security whatsoever stopping you from flashing something other than the manufacturer's image onto the device.
No offense to the voice actors... They're great, of course...
But I'd rather have the original writers back. Any word on them?
Did you miss the part of the story where PS3 costs dropped by 70%? They're probably making a profit on PS3 sales. So no, it's not "only" losses from PS3 sales.
Where did the money go then? Well, they just developed a completely new console, which they needed to ramp up manufacturing on before it goes on sale in October...
Of course they were probably counting on strong software/PS3 sales to cover most of that loss. Oops.
Clearly you're not an <any kind of software at all> developer.
Business types pick the subject matter they think will sell, then the platform(s) that give them the market size they want to sell into, and then they hire/invest in some development team to produce their product. Rarely do they give a half-shit if it's easy or not to develop unless it's sufficiently difficult to develop for a particular platform that it will cause a competitor to beat them to market.
When you're talking about something as complex as a game engine, saying that the PS3 is harder to develop for than the 360, while perhaps technically true, you need to take that in context. In terms of overall project difficulty, it's only a small percentage more difficult to develop for one platform over the other.
You would be hard pressed to find even a single major title out there that was developed for one console or the other because of difficulty. The big studios are either making cross-platform titles, or they're making an exclusive based on a business deal (not based on the difficulty to develop).
Additional context. Sony announced a newer, cooler PSP, but you can't buy it yet. They spent a buttload of money on development, which they haven't had a chance to recoup yet, and PSP sales are artificially low now that everybody knows to wait for the new one coming out in two months. This is probably the biggest source of their losses.
Also, now that they said this, can we finally lose the "Sony loses $x00 on every PS3 sold" crap? Clearly they're cashflow positive on the hardware now.
Except for numbers 8 and 9, you've described every individual contributor type job from McDonalds cashier up to senior engineer. (Some of those people get extra pay for being called in, but the same goes for system administrators. And as an experienced former system administrator, I will say unequivocally that if you're getting called in during the night very often, you're doing it wrong.)
If in fact they attempt this, and staff or a student have a bona-fide medical emergency and are unable to summon emergency services, this district will then be tasked for paying for a home nurse to wipe the drool off of said victim's face for the rest of their lives.
Oh, and if there's an emergency there's a school supplied cell phone in every room just in case no students are carrying one?
Nope. There isn't. The "needed for emergencies" argument is a giant load of bullshit.
The only people who would be upset or hurt by jamming in schools are kids using the phones when they probably shouldn't, and terrible parents who are failing to teach their kids how to cope on their own by being unable to let go of every possible tether to their children.
Remember when kids could go play away from home for hours and parents had no way to contact them at all if they were out of earshot? And somehow they still survived....
I find it funny that Jobs wants music non-protected and open, but he seals-up his iPod and iPhone tighter than a 16-year-old woman on prom night.
A clear case of, "Do as I say but ignore how I act."
I was about to comment about how, perhaps, you didn't go to the prom... ...but then I remembered how easy it is to remove the restrictions on an iPhone/iPod....
I disagree. No matter what roadblocks and warnings you put in the way, any third party application that made the device malfunction would cause the user to think negatively of Apple and Apple's device. As soon as some killer third-party app was released outside the app store, everybody would be installing it, and if it caused instability the prevailing attitude would be that the iPhone is unstable.