Mr. Burns: I see. Well, I-...Oh, that reminds me, it is time for your annual contribution. How much should I give?
Male Admissions Officer: Well frankly, test scores like Larry's would merit a very generous donation. A score of 400 would require new football uniforms. 300 would require a new dormitory. And in Larry's case? We'd need an international airport.
Female Admissions Officer: Yale could use an international airport, Mr. Burns.
Mr. Burns: Are you mad?! I am not made of airports! Get out!
In the 80s Kodak sold a # of awful computers for image manipulation. They ran on some proprietary non-DOS OS and you could never get them to run DOS because they ran off weirdly formatted 5.25 inch disks and they cost like $2000. They were horrible. Who would buy a proprietary box for a single use case in this era? It never even worked in the 80s when the hardware was sufficiently horrendous that you could ALMOST justify such specialization.
I didn’t even know that existed until recently when I saw it on YouTube.
“We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things (accomplishments and aspirations), not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win.”
The Gigafactory is where Tesla makes batteries is it not? Tesla makes cars in the former NUMMI plant in Fremont.
Can someone explain why FF would want their car factory to match the splendor of Tesla's battery factory?
Simple answer: to scam more investors. The pitch from YT was “look we can match Tesla, don’t you want to be part of the next Tesla?”. It was an easy way to get people excited and hopefully invest into the company.
China doesn’t need any carriers, military airplanes, or build artificial islands in South China Sea. They totally could use that money to build more bridges, skyscrapers and maybe fix the roads between Tianjin and Beijing. Or maybe a few more nuclear plants.
...all the way to his own private Hawaiian island (Lanai)!
You know why he bought that island, right? It’s inown for pineapples. He’s able to cut out the middle man and directly source the pineapples to use on/in Oracle customers.
No offense to CS majors, but this EE major tends to understand "How a computer works" at a lower level than most of you programmer types. While not universally true, in my experience a Computer Science major generally get's outside their comfort zone with hardware once you get past "Plug it in and turn it on." I don't blame them, there is a lot of stuff happening at lower levels than a CS major needs to know to do their job.
That some CS major is concerned about how SSD's fail because he doesn't understand their failure modes is fine. We tend to fear what we don't understand and let's face it, there is a LOT of stuff going on inside a computer that high level users simply don't need to know. Heck, even I don't need to know some of that stuff and I've designed computing systems in the past. Fear not, if it works, it works, if it doesn't you just replace it anyway.
This ^^^. I had a brilliant CS college roommate. But when he built his first computer himself, the motherboard was held to the case with one screw. He couldn’t figure out why it was crashing all the time. Everything in the machine was barely in their slots/socket. This is back in the Pentium days. Days of VLB and very early AGP. And sometimes IRQ switches.
Amazon really does sell everything from.A to Z. Didn’t even think of ordering bear spray from them. But now I feel the need to order a case of bear spray. I don’t need it but I’m going to have it on hand in case a bear breaks into my house.
... Coming from the so-called talent pool at the Goog. Overpaid engineers working in silos so narrow they cannot stretch their wings. Work there a few years and you forget how to fly.
#DontHireGooglers
You have to learn how to fly without wings. But coming down is the hardest thing.
You could go into a Gucci store in Italy, buy 10 bags and ship it to yourself, CBP will stop that shipment and claim itâ(TM)s counterfeit even if you show the original receipt.
I call BS on this one.
it would seem that it MATTERS if you mail to yourself for personal use or to yourself as a business, with intent for resale.
personal use is what seems to be the thing that breaks your assertion. can you cite that even personal use would mean the good you mailed to yourself are considered counterfeit?
similarly, your link talked about greymarket and many of us regularly buy (or bought) cameras that were greymarket and they most certainly did make it to BH, adorama, etc - and are not stopped at the border.
so, I call BS on this. personal use is OK and greymarket is NOT automatically illegal. Nikon would like to think so (and that's why I stopped supporting nikon) but its not ILLEGAL to import or sell greymarket goods, as long as its marked as such (ie, no US warranty or local post-sales support from the US support org)
You're welcome to try mailing 10 Gucci bags to yourself for personal use if you don't believe me. Hell, you don't even have to mail it to yourself. Just try to land in LAX with more than 5 new Italian bags. Even if you declared it and paid the duty on it, they're going to give you a hard time. I've had a friend had a box of returned merchandise get seized at LAX. His friend had a thrift store in some Asian country, bought items from here, but couldn't sell it and had him bring it back to be returned to the manufacturers here. Fully documentation on the shipment, CBP claimed that he intended to sell counterfeit merchandise and confiscated the items.
One of my ex-gf does graymarket import/export for a living. Generally depending on the port of entry and port of departure, you have 1% to 10% chance of inspection. If you're unlucky and your shipment gets inspected, you better have a license from the trademark holder for that shipment. What probably happened is Apple complained to CBP and Rossman's shipment was flagged for inspection. If it has an Apple trademarking on it and he didn't have a license from Apple to import, then his shipment is going to get seized.
The rule for importing “branded” items is pretty clear. If you bring something that you claim is by a brand you better have a license with that brand. Else CBP will just assume it’s counterfeit. You could claim it as a replacement part for a device but the moment you say that part is original, you’re in trouble. You could go into a Gucci store in Italy, buy 10 bags and ship it to yourself, CBP will stop that shipment and claim it’s counterfeit even if you show the original receipt.
I have a big trampoline in the backyard, I’ll let the Russians and NASA use it for a minimal fee. What are the alternatives to getting men into space? Starliner? Dragon crew module? Chinese copies of the Soyuz? I think my trampoline is the safest method.
I find myself committing much less error in RPN mode. Especially for long list of numbers with the same operand. Plus it’s faster once you’ve enter in the numbers and basically hold down the same operand until everything is done.
Because some of us like to live dangerously. He’s probably just running Insider Fast Ring on a gaming machine and not something critical. That’s actually the problem with the Insider program, people aren’t finding the bugs because it’s being installed on non-critical machines. Then once it’s release all these under reported bugs start popping up.
I’m back in the 1990s. First thing, buy as many three letter domains as possible. Then buy as much Apple stock as possible. Oh yeah, tell Clinton to kill bin Laden.
I have Windows laptops that older that still gets OS updates. And until High Sierra, my wife’s ancient 2008 MacBook was still getting the latest version of MacOS. My desktop is almost that old and it’s perfectly functional.
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I thought Google left China and is currently working on a version of their site for China.
Mr. Burns: I see. Well, I- ...Oh, that reminds me, it is time for your annual contribution. How much should I give?
Male Admissions Officer: Well frankly, test scores like Larry's would merit a very generous donation. A score of 400 would require new football uniforms. 300 would require a new dormitory. And in Larry's case? We'd need an international airport.
Female Admissions Officer: Yale could use an international airport, Mr. Burns.
Mr. Burns: Are you mad?! I am not made of airports! Get out!
Solitaire was probably the most use bundled application of Windows until they ladened it with microtractions.
In the 80s Kodak sold a # of awful computers for image manipulation. They ran on some proprietary non-DOS OS and you could never get them to run DOS because they ran off weirdly formatted 5.25 inch disks and they cost like $2000. They were horrible. Who would buy a proprietary box for a single use case in this era? It never even worked in the 80s when the hardware was sufficiently horrendous that you could ALMOST justify such specialization.
I didn’t even know that existed until recently when I saw it on YouTube.
https://youtu.be/ABOJLR7bRIA
“Did you know that disco record sales were up 400% for the year ending 1976? If these trends continues... AAY!"
“We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things (accomplishments and aspirations), not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win.”
The Gigafactory is where Tesla makes batteries is it not?
Tesla makes cars in the former NUMMI plant in Fremont.
Can someone explain why FF would want their car factory to match the splendor of Tesla's battery factory?
Simple answer: to scam more investors. The pitch from YT was “look we can match Tesla, don’t you want to be part of the next Tesla?”. It was an easy way to get people excited and hopefully invest into the company.
China doesn’t need any carriers, military airplanes, or build artificial islands in South China Sea. They totally could use that money to build more bridges, skyscrapers and maybe fix the roads between Tianjin and Beijing. Or maybe a few more nuclear plants.
It’s an app to manage your subscriptions from Microsoft. It better be free. This is like saying the Steam application is free for download.
...all the way to his own private Hawaiian island (Lanai)!
You know why he bought that island, right? It’s inown for pineapples. He’s able to cut out the middle man and directly source the pineapples to use on/in Oracle customers.
Visual Py#
Homer Simpson: mmm, Pie
Doesn't know how SSD's work.
No offense to CS majors, but this EE major tends to understand "How a computer works" at a lower level than most of you programmer types. While not universally true, in my experience a Computer Science major generally get's outside their comfort zone with hardware once you get past "Plug it in and turn it on." I don't blame them, there is a lot of stuff happening at lower levels than a CS major needs to know to do their job.
That some CS major is concerned about how SSD's fail because he doesn't understand their failure modes is fine. We tend to fear what we don't understand and let's face it, there is a LOT of stuff going on inside a computer that high level users simply don't need to know. Heck, even I don't need to know some of that stuff and I've designed computing systems in the past. Fear not, if it works, it works, if it doesn't you just replace it anyway.
This ^^^. I had a brilliant CS college roommate. But when he built his first computer himself, the motherboard was held to the case with one screw. He couldn’t figure out why it was crashing all the time. Everything in the machine was barely in their slots/socket. This is back in the Pentium days. Days of VLB and very early AGP. And sometimes IRQ switches.
Damn, next you're going to tell me the Sun is hot.
Amazon really does sell everything from.A to Z. Didn’t even think of ordering bear spray from them. But now I feel the need to order a case of bear spray. I don’t need it but I’m going to have it on hand in case a bear breaks into my house.
It seems they are going overboard with originality when it comes to naming. Are the next electric car companies going to get named Coulomb or Ampere ?
Ampere is already taken. https://www.amperemotor.com/
... Coming from the so-called talent pool at the Goog. Overpaid engineers working in silos so narrow they cannot stretch their wings. Work there a few years and you forget how to fly.
#DontHireGooglers
You have to learn how to fly without wings. But coming down is the hardest thing.
You could go into a Gucci store in Italy, buy 10 bags and ship it to yourself, CBP will stop that shipment and claim itâ(TM)s counterfeit even if you show the original receipt.
I call BS on this one.
it would seem that it MATTERS if you mail to yourself for personal use or to yourself as a business, with intent for resale.
personal use is what seems to be the thing that breaks your assertion. can you cite that even personal use would mean the good you mailed to yourself are considered counterfeit?
similarly, your link talked about greymarket and many of us regularly buy (or bought) cameras that were greymarket and they most certainly did make it to BH, adorama, etc - and are not stopped at the border.
so, I call BS on this. personal use is OK and greymarket is NOT automatically illegal. Nikon would like to think so (and that's why I stopped supporting nikon) but its not ILLEGAL to import or sell greymarket goods, as long as its marked as such (ie, no US warranty or local post-sales support from the US support org)
You're welcome to try mailing 10 Gucci bags to yourself for personal use if you don't believe me. Hell, you don't even have to mail it to yourself. Just try to land in LAX with more than 5 new Italian bags. Even if you declared it and paid the duty on it, they're going to give you a hard time. I've had a friend had a box of returned merchandise get seized at LAX. His friend had a thrift store in some Asian country, bought items from here, but couldn't sell it and had him bring it back to be returned to the manufacturers here. Fully documentation on the shipment, CBP claimed that he intended to sell counterfeit merchandise and confiscated the items.
One of my ex-gf does graymarket import/export for a living. Generally depending on the port of entry and port of departure, you have 1% to 10% chance of inspection. If you're unlucky and your shipment gets inspected, you better have a license from the trademark holder for that shipment. What probably happened is Apple complained to CBP and Rossman's shipment was flagged for inspection. If it has an Apple trademarking on it and he didn't have a license from Apple to import, then his shipment is going to get seized.
The rule for importing “branded” items is pretty clear.
If you bring something that you claim is by a brand you better have a license with that brand. Else CBP will just assume it’s counterfeit. You could claim it as a replacement part for a device but the moment you say that part is original, you’re in trouble. You could go into a Gucci store in Italy, buy 10 bags and ship it to yourself, CBP will stop that shipment and claim it’s counterfeit even if you show the original receipt.
https://www.law.cornell.edu/cf...
I have a big trampoline in the backyard, I’ll let the Russians and NASA use it for a minimal fee. What are the alternatives to getting men into space? Starliner? Dragon crew module? Chinese copies of the Soyuz? I think my trampoline is the safest method.
I find myself committing much less error in RPN mode. Especially for long list of numbers with the same operand. Plus it’s faster once you’ve enter in the numbers and basically hold down the same operand until everything is done.
A lot of high school forbid the anything above the TI-85. I’ve seen some school limit it to TI-83 Plus or lower.
It’s a shame that kids today don’t learn about RPN.
So San Francisco without the expensive real estate and drugs.
Because some of us like to live dangerously. He’s probably just running Insider Fast Ring on a gaming machine and not something critical. That’s actually the problem with the Insider program, people aren’t finding the bugs because it’s being installed on non-critical machines. Then once it’s release all these under reported bugs start popping up.
I’m back in the 1990s. First thing, buy as many three letter domains as possible. Then buy as much Apple stock as possible. Oh yeah, tell Clinton to kill bin Laden.
I have Windows laptops that older that still gets OS updates. And until High Sierra, my wife’s ancient 2008 MacBook was still getting the latest version of MacOS. My desktop is almost that old and it’s perfectly functional.