Apple proposes combining two or more standard ports into the physical space of a single port, allowing any one (but only one at a time) of the corresponding standard cables to be inserted into that combined port.
Do they extract/produce their own (bio)diesel fuel, or is it somehow OK to be connected to the oil industry (or to biodiesel farms, which also have serious environmental issues)?
It looks like the median target of $34 which is much higher than the current price of $23.32, so you might want to consider picking some up.
They originally forecast that it would double in value on the day of the IPO.
[Citation needed]
Most analysts I read at the time suggested a "Wait-and-see" stance. A few (most of them associated with the underwriters, or otherwise with vested interests) rated the stock as a buy, but only Joe Bloggs types forecast it would double.
I occasionally wonder if they have ever thought about the fact that if cows and chickens weren't tasty, they would likely be extinct?
Probably. Either that, or they would evolve into more capable species through survival of the fittest. Those species, as well as other ones we grow only for their meat, eggs, milk and fur, were never widely spread in the wild to begin with - we created them through selective breeding.
Another question is, would it be a tragedy if they went extinct?
We've taken over massive wildlife areas to feed them and and keep them protected and confined, and in doing so, we have brought varying degrees of danger to some wild species, from displacement to total extinction. Factor in the miserable living conditions of many of those animals (not all of them, I know - I don't mean cows peacefully grazing on prairies, I mean chickens living in the dark, fed processed food and pumped full of hormones so they can lay more eggs / be delivered as food as quickly as possible), and the question becomes less easy.
Full disclosure, this is by no means a defense of PETA. I don't know enough about them to have a strong opinion, but those "defamation" accusations they are making and other stuff in the HuffPost article don't exactly portray them in a positive light in my book.
That, and if you take a lot of business logic to DB level you REALLY have to know what you're doing, with triggers, constraints and other stuff creating race conditions and various other side effects and making the system harder to debug.
Not that you shouldn't use stored procs, etc but you shouldn't become obsessed over it either.
Nobody lost anything except the bot herders that sold at -150 because they trusted their bots.
Not really. A lot of manual trades probably hit a "stop-loss" and incurred losses. And only the bots that jumped on the crash bandwagon late or with too aggressive targets lost money.
And yes, I know this time they're being fined for failing to show the "choice screen" rather than for bundling the browser, but that ridiculous browser ballot requirement can be trace to the browser bundling.
Which in this day and age is a PEBKAC for those users (I seriously doubt those are "most windows users"), not something you could blame MS for.
What are they supposed to do, release an OS without a browser? Yeah, why not. After all, you should download your favorite browser via FTP or telnet.
This made a little sense in the days of dominance of IE6 (and IE7, to a lesser extent) when they were really abusing their monopoly with those non-standard compliant browsers.
Amusing how people keep regurgitating those stories, as if MS hadn't done far more evil things.
I am in the EU, so, egotistically, I guess I should welcome the cash... if I wasn't sure MS will just pass it on to paying customers.
If I let a distributor release them they want all the rights and if I release them independently the readers claim they have the rights. The joke is if I leave them unpublished then I keep all my rights and no one can claim them.
Hm, can you clarify that? Honest question - I buy quite a few e-books from Amazon.
Readers can't claim they "have the rights" just from having bought a book, at least not the copyright. You retain the copyright.
I still don't understand why you don't release them as e-books on Amazon/Google Play/iTunes. What's the worst that could happen? People copying the books? How is that worse than remaining unpublished and unknown?
I understand you must be concerned about plagiarizers - meaning people who take your book and sell it, or a work that borrows heavily from it, as their own. However that is not indeed not the topic here. No one is saying plagiarism should be OK, every country signatory to the WTO IP agreement (almost every country in the world) is required to have laws against it, and that is not controversial.
A progress bar can be accurate for processes that perform one single action, when all relevant factors are under the program's control or at least predictable. Such as copying one single file, or burning an ISO.
But processes that perform multiple actions depending on a variety of requirements are quite another story.
For example, adding or updating an application through the Ubuntu Software Manager in simple terms involves downloading the software (which requires bandwidth) and installing and configuring it (which mostly depends on hard drive/CPU speeds). In many cases, especially for software from non-Ubuntu repositories, software must be downloaded from different servers, each with its own bandwidth, etc. The progress bar for that process is rather inaccurate.
Progress bars for process that build or update data warehouses or produce complex reports from multiple sources are also very tricky for the same reasons.
Speccy FTW! In all fairness, I find it quite a stretch to call it visual, windowed and auto-completed. As I understand it,
Visual == including a WYSIWYG functionality to edit the user interface
Auto-complete == search-as-you-type keywords and variable names (not the same as a single keystroke generating a keyword, as cool as it was)
Windowed == having at least some ability to resize and move windows
I've been running BlueStacks [bluestacks.com] on my laptop for over a year now
Is it getting any better, as of late? I had to deinstall it in frustration, caused by all the bugs that I kept running into. I think I last had it on my desktop PC in November.
Also: do you know how to enable access to Google Play, on Bluestacks?
AFAIK there is no way to place a shortcut to Google Play, but the "App Search" app queries four app stores including Google Play. So it's possible to run Google Play, if in a little convoluted way: click "My Apps" > Click "App Search" > In the textbox, type any app name (e.g. Maps) and click "Find". That will search not only on Google Play but also on three other app stores. Anyway if you click on any result on the list under the green robot, that will effectively launch Google Play complete with its interface.
Considering the problem appears to be about a rough cell tower-based location being reported as a GPS-accurate location, I only find it interesting that this doesn't happen far more often.
The lack of SD card is definitely a downside, but the reason I am staying away from HTC from now on is their feet-dragging when it comes to Android upgrades - when they do provide them. Any trust I had in them was lost when they broke their promise to bring ICS to the Desire HD. They say they can't upgrade it while preserving apps and settings - fair enough, but at least provide an optional upgrade (doesn't have to be OTA) for those of us who would appreciate it. Also, after realizing the offline turn-by-turn navigation provided by HTC Sense is not free after all, and with Google Maps now providing that functionality, I see very little reason for wanting HTC Sense.
I know Samsung are also slow to provide upgrades, but to the best of my knowledge, they have never announced an upgrade for a phone in no uncertain terms and then retracted it, like HTC did with the DHD. And Samsung's devices tend to comply with CTS, which makes it easier to release unofficial upgrades.
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Apple proposes combining two or more standard ports into the physical space of a single port, allowing any one (but only one at a time) of the corresponding standard cables to be inserted into that combined port.
Yeah, just like ESATAp
Do they extract/produce their own (bio)diesel fuel, or is it somehow OK to be connected to the oil industry (or to biodiesel farms, which also have serious environmental issues)?
This was covered by many sources (for instance, Computerworld). Apparently the process that failed was the Nasdaq IPO Cross.
It looks like the median target of $34 which is much higher than the current price of $23.32, so you might want to consider picking some up.
They originally forecast that it would double in value on the day of the IPO.
[Citation needed]
Most analysts I read at the time suggested a "Wait-and-see" stance. A few (most of them associated with the underwriters, or otherwise with vested interests) rated the stock as a buy, but only Joe Bloggs types forecast it would double.
I occasionally wonder if they have ever thought about the fact that if cows and chickens weren't tasty, they would likely be extinct?
Probably. Either that, or they would evolve into more capable species through survival of the fittest. Those species, as well as other ones we grow only for their meat, eggs, milk and fur, were never widely spread in the wild to begin with - we created them through selective breeding.
Another question is, would it be a tragedy if they went extinct?
We've taken over massive wildlife areas to feed them and and keep them protected and confined, and in doing so, we have brought varying degrees of danger to some wild species, from displacement to total extinction. Factor in the miserable living conditions of many of those animals (not all of them, I know - I don't mean cows peacefully grazing on prairies, I mean chickens living in the dark, fed processed food and pumped full of hormones so they can lay more eggs / be delivered as food as quickly as possible), and the question becomes less easy.
Full disclosure, this is by no means a defense of PETA. I don't know enough about them to have a strong opinion, but those "defamation" accusations they are making and other stuff in the HuffPost article don't exactly portray them in a positive light in my book.
Nah. Urban legend.
Not that you shouldn't use stored procs, etc but you shouldn't become obsessed over it either.
Nobody lost anything except the bot herders that sold at -150 because they trusted their bots.
Not really. A lot of manual trades probably hit a "stop-loss" and incurred losses. And only the bots that jumped on the crash bandwagon late or with too aggressive targets lost money.
Just an oldish variation of a rather common name.
Know any Catholic (or Catholic-raised person) named Frank? He may very well have been baptized Francis.
Similarly, do you know anyone named Benedict?
Well, guess what, I am not sure I know one, because they probably go by Ben.
What do you mean, this does above on slashdot?
And yes, I know this time they're being fined for failing to show the "choice screen" rather than for bundling the browser, but that ridiculous browser ballot requirement can be trace to the browser bundling.
Which in this day and age is a PEBKAC for those users (I seriously doubt those are "most windows users"), not something you could blame MS for.
What are they supposed to do, release an OS without a browser? Yeah, why not. After all, you should download your favorite browser via FTP or telnet.
This made a little sense in the days of dominance of IE6 (and IE7, to a lesser extent) when they were really abusing their monopoly with those non-standard compliant browsers.
Amusing how people keep regurgitating those stories, as if MS hadn't done far more evil things.
I am in the EU, so, egotistically, I guess I should welcome the cash... if I wasn't sure MS will just pass it on to paying customers.
the likes of WordPress, Reddit and Mega embrace it (...) Namecheap also
Such massively powerful supporters! Impressive indeed! USD, JPY, EUR, GBP, be afraid, be very afraid of the new cyber currency!
TVCatchup does live TV streaming, despite its name suggests.
www.tvcatchup.com streams, I think, all Freeview channels as long as you access it from the UK with a UK ISP. HD for HD channels.
Doesn't work with AdBlock enabled.
Its legality is being challenged, unsuccessfully so far, according to wikipedia. As a side note, you're still supposed to pay for TV licence.
If I let a distributor release them they want all the rights and if I release them independently the readers claim they have the rights. The joke is if I leave them unpublished then I keep all my rights and no one can claim them.
Hm, can you clarify that? Honest question - I buy quite a few e-books from Amazon.
Readers can't claim they "have the rights" just from having bought a book, at least not the copyright. You retain the copyright.
I still don't understand why you don't release them as e-books on Amazon/Google Play/iTunes. What's the worst that could happen? People copying the books? How is that worse than remaining unpublished and unknown?
I understand you must be concerned about plagiarizers - meaning people who take your book and sell it, or a work that borrows heavily from it, as their own. However that is not indeed not the topic here. No one is saying plagiarism should be OK, every country signatory to the WTO IP agreement (almost every country in the world) is required to have laws against it, and that is not controversial.
Next time, just make sure you buy a kibiton bomb.
A progress bar can be accurate for processes that perform one single action, when all relevant factors are under the program's control or at least predictable. Such as copying one single file, or burning an ISO.
But processes that perform multiple actions depending on a variety of requirements are quite another story.
For example, adding or updating an application through the Ubuntu Software Manager in simple terms involves downloading the software (which requires bandwidth) and installing and configuring it (which mostly depends on hard drive/CPU speeds). In many cases, especially for software from non-Ubuntu repositories, software must be downloaded from different servers, each with its own bandwidth, etc. The progress bar for that process is rather inaccurate.
Progress bars for process that build or update data warehouses or produce complex reports from multiple sources are also very tricky for the same reasons.
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Speccy FTW! In all fairness, I find it quite a stretch to call it visual, windowed and auto-completed. As I understand it,
Visual == including a WYSIWYG functionality to edit the user interface
Auto-complete == search-as-you-type keywords and variable names (not the same as a single keystroke generating a keyword, as cool as it was)
Windowed == having at least some ability to resize and move windows
I've been running BlueStacks [bluestacks.com] on my laptop for over a year now
Is it getting any better, as of late? I had to deinstall it in frustration, caused by all the bugs that I kept running into. I think I last had it on my desktop PC in November.
Also: do you know how to enable access to Google Play, on Bluestacks?
AFAIK there is no way to place a shortcut to Google Play, but the "App Search" app queries four app stores including Google Play. So it's possible to run Google Play, if in a little convoluted way: click "My Apps" > Click "App Search" > In the textbox, type any app name (e.g. Maps) and click "Find". That will search not only on Google Play but also on three other app stores. Anyway if you click on any result on the list under the green robot, that will effectively launch Google Play complete with its interface.
It isn't even the second time, as others have pointed out.
Considering the problem appears to be about a rough cell tower-based location being reported as a GPS-accurate location, I only find it interesting that this doesn't happen far more often.
No, it also gives you a nostalgia for goto statements.
The lack of SD card is definitely a downside, but the reason I am staying away from HTC from now on is their feet-dragging when it comes to Android upgrades - when they do provide them. Any trust I had in them was lost when they broke their promise to bring ICS to the Desire HD. They say they can't upgrade it while preserving apps and settings - fair enough, but at least provide an optional upgrade (doesn't have to be OTA) for those of us who would appreciate it. Also, after realizing the offline turn-by-turn navigation provided by HTC Sense is not free after all, and with Google Maps now providing that functionality, I see very little reason for wanting HTC Sense.
I know Samsung are also slow to provide upgrades, but to the best of my knowledge, they have never announced an upgrade for a phone in no uncertain terms and then retracted it, like HTC did with the DHD. And Samsung's devices tend to comply with CTS, which makes it easier to release unofficial upgrades.
That's assuming he was not using a webmail (a pretty big assumption).