I don't care one bit about some paparazzi revenge porn site going out of business. Yes, it is troublesome that this may have revenge for some semi valid journalism, but the real blight on the WWW are sites like this that exist to do nothing but make money off celebrity mishaps. It will be good for these parasites to get a real job.
Cosmology is a young science and there are hypothesis being made on the best data available. This is what science does. Collect data, see if the hypothesis fits the data, adjust the hypothesis, and look for areas where the hypothesis does not work.
Certain parts of science, like Newtonian mechanics, is mature enough so we know where it works and know where it does not work. We know the bad assumption that we made, and how to back fix it so it is now ok.
Cosmology, on the other hand, has lots of problems. General relativity explains a lot, but we have black holes which we observe as a phenomena and identify as black holes but that could be part of the problems we have elsewhere. We have quantum mechanics which is might have significant impact on the way the universe evolves, but we may not be factoring in the full impact. And of course there is part in the middle that is still to be discovered.
Why is not connecting the two earbuds with a cord innovative. The only benifit I can see is to Samsung who are going to have increased when people lose one. Are you going to have to buy these in pairs or will they sell replacement singles. Will they sell the replacement case that you need to recharge. It is not like you can just plug a USB cable into the headset like with every other case. No, you need to put the earbuds in the charger every hour.
I appreciate how much power they packed into these earbuds, From an engineering point of view I think they are probably very well designed. They can independently track activity and play music, so they are kind of cool. If this were 20 years ago where we left the house without a phone if would be really useful. But today we are more likely to leave our wallets home that our phones when we go out and play.
The review said the keyboard was almost useless.
The screen is smaller than the Air, and they are not promoting resolution so it is probably crap. A 1 TB SSD is only $300, so charging $200 more than top f the line 12" Air. Just saying because if you don't want an air there are a lot of good machines out there, I have an HP that is thin,light, and comes with a small power brick. If you do want an Air then this is not the knockoff to buy.
Tesla, in an effort to maximize the number of cup holder in their vehicle, did not pay enough engineering attention to fundamentals such as doors and windows that open and close and seats that stay upright. While technologically the cars may be very innovative except software that freezes more often the MS Vista, the car reminds us of a Ford Pinto which was a competently built care with design compromises that made it unsafe at any speed.
Minimizing the seriousness of these issues will ultimately be destructive to Tesla. These could be the result of a flawed engineering process that needs to be highlighted and repaired before it gets to the level of Fords. A competent engineering team does not a let a car go out if the doors don't work.
Many rural areas provide good services through cooperatives. Most rural areas have electricty, and the people who provide it might be able to provide broadband. Cooperatives do not subsidize or encourage freeloaders. Everyone in the cooperative pays for shared infrastructure, and individuals pay for the the 'last mile'.
Government funds can help pay for initial infrastructure and allow the cooperative to build out.
What she is talking about is the design process, and it is hard to teach. This is what something like robotics teaches in elementary and middle school. You learn to prototype, refine, and prototype again. It is a good method because it is concrete enough for young minds to understand, but still has some abstract components.
Coding, though, in it's most general sense, is about translation and abstraction. If you add explicitly teaching the design process, if you make the problem too real world, the student is going to be overwhelmed by the forest and not learn how to build a complete solution using individual trees.
Here is what I mean. Alice was a graphical tool that taught students to break apart problems, solve the small ones, and then put it back together in a very concrete manner. it reliably taught OO design and the engineering process, but it did not teach anything real about coding. On the other hand, if you ask a kid to sort a list, you can start with a very simple program, then add pieces. Along the way students learn a couple skills at a time, learn how to debug code, and learn what is needed to create and refine interfaces and factoring. In fact this is how a senior level class was taught mainly aimed at seniors who were learning to code. We solved a hydrogen atom, each week adding a new level of complexity.
The design process is a skill that we must teach students, and there are programs that introduce it in middle school and over years refine it to a high school senior thesis. I don't think it should be taught in isolation or solely in the context of an individual class. It is something that students have to understand is a universal problem solving process.
Not libertarian would be having congress pass a law that made something generally accepted as not a crime to become a crime specifically to vanquish your enemy.
This case has to do with private property rights, which libertarians mostly prize. Hulk Hogan is a brand that is property of those who invest in the performer. Gawker arguably diminished that property. Some libertarians acknowledge that the governement can have a role in helping to solve such disputes, because it is cleaner to solve such disputes in the courts.
I have a real switch keyboard, the German thing that everyone uses. While it is a bit nostolgia, I don't really see myself more efficient on it than on my Air.
What I hate is my HP laptop. Typing is a real pain. It has the full backspace, delete, and a hundred other keys that no one uses.
I think the aluminum was for weight, and all of the sudden it was a thing that everyone had to have, and it slide out of control. I don't use a laptop on my lap so much anymore.
Of course a light computer is what we have been striving for since the Obsornes. I orignally did not get an air because the work I was doing required the power of a Pro, but then worked changed and the Air became a real option.
Given that I am older now and a 15" screen would not be horrible, probably equal to the old 17", it might be time to go back to a MacBook Pro. I do think the Air line has run it's course.
This is what I was thinking. Anytime you break a usability standard you introduce a new vector for malware. It is like when banks started using interstitial for adverting during log on. User now expect man-in-the-middle attacks.
Any rational person that is going to commit a crime is going to commit the crime though a third party to protect itself. That is why it is as illegal to hire a murderer as it is to be a murderer. It is as illegal to hire a dodgy tax preparer as it is to be a dodgy tax preparer.
Now for some reason due diligence is not required when hiring contractors for building. So, if this building falls and kills everyone Tesla is not going to be liable because it contracted out the building. Likewise, there is no expectation of due dilligance in building. There is no reason why any Tesla person should ever walked by the construction site to check on progress and notice that it is not the typical work force, as ask if the workers are qualified and being paid.
One thing I will give the reflexives defenders of Tesla. The law, except in a few states like Texas, does not have any penalties for wage theft. Therefore it is almost always better to steal wages and then come to a settlement when you get caught. It is almost always cheaper that way. It is just good business.
Like Microsoft and Mobile,Google seems to be unable to do social media. I think it is for similar reasons. MS wanted a mobile presence go extend the it's near monopoly status from the desktop to the small screen. Google wants social because users are going back to an relative walled garden, i.e. facebook and the like, rather than exploring the internet themselves. How many questions have been posted here and elsewhere that could be answered by a simple search. Google is losing advertisting dollars, and, more importantly, data that can be sold to advertisers.
Also, I must admit, for some purposes Bing is much, much better than Google. And many products that built some loyalty to google, like Docs, Drive, etc, are becoming really dated and have supplanted by better options.
In any case, given Googles tacker record on building lame tools, then ending support abruptly even on tools that aren't lame, like Hangouts, it would not be prudent for anyone to treat this as anything more that temporary toy.
the problem is that we are punishing people for having an arbitrary limit rather than activity that has caused harm. Now, on average, drinking, putting on makeup, texting, and lack of sleep all have the ability to cause significant harm. We are in the current situation because, historically, drinking could be used as an affirmative defense for murder. Killing a family of 5 while under the influence could be used to turn a prosecution for mass murder to a simple accident. As in the case of the affluenza kid, he did not commit a felony that lead to a the murder of many people, but simply was out partying and through no fault of his own accidentally killed many people.
What might be better than punishing people for crimes they might commit is to punish them for crimes they do commit. If someone chooses to do drugs and the chooses to engage in activity that leads in the death of harm of another person or persons, they should be prosecuted as if they had commuted the act voluntary and with forethought.
This is what reporters don't seem to want to admit. The ad executives are all in an uproar because people can watch shows on netflix without commercials, but commercials on broadcast TV are largely optional, unless one has grown up in the 1950's and believe that TV must be consumed in real time, are a shut in, or a person who watches sports. Otherwise you can encode and strip commercials pretty automagically, or simply use one of the many devices to skip commercials with the press of a button.
This is why the studios should have really pushed Hulu instead of letting it fall to the wayside. It was the one place that absolutely mandated commercial watching. Now they are offering commercial free fare for a fee.
This is the key, whether a retailer have to collect sales tax. Historically what would happen is that I work in MA by live in NH. Should the retailers in MA be required to collect additional sales tax because I am going to use the product in MA. What created the most problems was mail order, where I buy seeds from Iowa to plant my garden in Ca. The seeds are clearly going to be used in Ca so the retailer should collect tax and send it Ca. This is clearly a budersome process, so it was decided that retailer are not responsible for interstate tax, the customers are.
I believe the reason Amazon end up paying sales tax to the states is because Amazon is in those states. Amazon was trying to create a fiction that even though it had warehouses in almost every state, since those were contracted. It would be like McDonalds saying it only owed taxes in states where it had corporate owned stores. Since Amazon is shipping in a state, it already has the necessary infrastructure.
I still think it makes sense for a retailer that does not have any presence in a state to not collect sales tax. I think this works because any large retailer will have a presence in almost every state. For instance Jet seems to subcontract a fair amount, and therefore probably has some business presence. OTOH, states are probably going to have to come up with a different, less regressive system.
If you agree to make payments, then you are liable for those payments. The issue here is if the firm is sufficiently disclosing the fact that it is a subscription service with recurring monthly fees, and if it is sufficiently disclosing how to cancel. Any credit card charge can be disputed, and if the firm is in fact collecting without disclosure the charge will be revoked. Likewise if you make an agreement to pay then pay using credentials you know will expire, that is similar to writing a bad check.
The reason these service thrive is that people do not use their credit card aggressively as a weapon. I recall one set of charges that were placed on my card by a third party, but branded by my credit card. I called the credit card company and was told I first had to call the third party. I told the credit card that it was branded by them, and I had the literature, so they were liable, and the charges were gone. The credit card will usually throw merchants and partners under the bus to protect the brand.
Columbia house is a bit different because they did not take you money before the fact. Columbia house had to invest in resources to get customers to pay. Most did not give a credit card that would be billed every month.
This is more akin to the health club model, where you sign up, give a credit card, and are obligated to make payments for the rest of your life. This is where I find the flaw to be in these enterprises. Not that you are signing up to make payments for a year or two, but you are signing up to make forever, and to cancel requires some effort. I could deal with health clubs on shopping clubs if they allowed you to cancel, or suspend as Hulu does, simply by clicking a button on a web site. I can't deal with canceling being any more difficult than that.
Fortunately credit cards do provide some protection for the consumer. I would think that if one sent a complaint to the credit card company with a screen shot showing you made a a call to cancel and it was not answered for 30 minutes, so the charge is fraudulent, this would end the charge., I suspect if a charge appeared on the credit card after sending an email canceling the service, that charge would also be seen as fraudulent. I think if enough people did this, the cost of fraudulent charges would cause a business to go under.
I know young store managers that are on salary around $25K. The hours they work for that money means they make little more than minimum wage. Some of them are trying to go to school. For them the benifit is going to be working few hours for the money. They may be cut back to $10 an hour, which means they will have $15 overtime, which means they may have to work 45 hours a week to make the same money instead of 50 like they do now.
Or they may just suck it up and pay managers $50K, since keeping up with hours for managerial staff is kind of cumbersome.
Where this is going to be a stickler is actually some government jobs. For instance some places do not pay teachers $50K yet they are exempt employees. It will be interesting to see how this pans out.
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Or when the prior art is over 2500 years old, don't freak out when someone mistakenly thinks it is public domain.
I don't care one bit about some paparazzi revenge porn site going out of business. Yes, it is troublesome that this may have revenge for some semi valid journalism, but the real blight on the WWW are sites like this that exist to do nothing but make money off celebrity mishaps. It will be good for these parasites to get a real job.
Giving that Google is primarily ads and not consumer products, I bought a y-cam instead of dropcam. Did not trust google to actually innovate.
Certain parts of science, like Newtonian mechanics, is mature enough so we know where it works and know where it does not work. We know the bad assumption that we made, and how to back fix it so it is now ok.
Cosmology, on the other hand, has lots of problems. General relativity explains a lot, but we have black holes which we observe as a phenomena and identify as black holes but that could be part of the problems we have elsewhere. We have quantum mechanics which is might have significant impact on the way the universe evolves, but we may not be factoring in the full impact. And of course there is part in the middle that is still to be discovered.
I appreciate how much power they packed into these earbuds, From an engineering point of view I think they are probably very well designed. They can independently track activity and play music, so they are kind of cool. If this were 20 years ago where we left the house without a phone if would be really useful. But today we are more likely to leave our wallets home that our phones when we go out and play.
I don't think that fsck has been rewritten to turn on the pleasure mode. For 599 I hope it would at least vacuum. The TV entertains the kids for free.
The review said the keyboard was almost useless. The screen is smaller than the Air, and they are not promoting resolution so it is probably crap. A 1 TB SSD is only $300, so charging $200 more than top f the line 12" Air. Just saying because if you don't want an air there are a lot of good machines out there, I have an HP that is thin ,light, and comes with a small power brick. If you do want an Air then this is not the knockoff to buy.
Minimizing the seriousness of these issues will ultimately be destructive to Tesla. These could be the result of a flawed engineering process that needs to be highlighted and repaired before it gets to the level of Fords. A competent engineering team does not a let a car go out if the doors don't work.
Government funds can help pay for initial infrastructure and allow the cooperative to build out.
We should not have to put up with bad research. On the internet no one knows you are a dog.
Coding, though, in it's most general sense, is about translation and abstraction. If you add explicitly teaching the design process, if you make the problem too real world, the student is going to be overwhelmed by the forest and not learn how to build a complete solution using individual trees.
Here is what I mean. Alice was a graphical tool that taught students to break apart problems, solve the small ones, and then put it back together in a very concrete manner. it reliably taught OO design and the engineering process, but it did not teach anything real about coding. On the other hand, if you ask a kid to sort a list, you can start with a very simple program, then add pieces. Along the way students learn a couple skills at a time, learn how to debug code, and learn what is needed to create and refine interfaces and factoring. In fact this is how a senior level class was taught mainly aimed at seniors who were learning to code. We solved a hydrogen atom, each week adding a new level of complexity.
The design process is a skill that we must teach students, and there are programs that introduce it in middle school and over years refine it to a high school senior thesis. I don't think it should be taught in isolation or solely in the context of an individual class. It is something that students have to understand is a universal problem solving process.
Not libertarian would be having congress pass a law that made something generally accepted as not a crime to become a crime specifically to vanquish your enemy. This case has to do with private property rights, which libertarians mostly prize. Hulk Hogan is a brand that is property of those who invest in the performer. Gawker arguably diminished that property. Some libertarians acknowledge that the governement can have a role in helping to solve such disputes, because it is cleaner to solve such disputes in the courts.
What I hate is my HP laptop. Typing is a real pain. It has the full backspace, delete, and a hundred other keys that no one uses.
I think the aluminum was for weight, and all of the sudden it was a thing that everyone had to have, and it slide out of control. I don't use a laptop on my lap so much anymore.
Of course a light computer is what we have been striving for since the Obsornes. I orignally did not get an air because the work I was doing required the power of a Pro, but then worked changed and the Air became a real option.
Given that I am older now and a 15" screen would not be horrible, probably equal to the old 17", it might be time to go back to a MacBook Pro. I do think the Air line has run it's course.
This is what I was thinking. Anytime you break a usability standard you introduce a new vector for malware. It is like when banks started using interstitial for adverting during log on. User now expect man-in-the-middle attacks.
Number 1 opening weekend, $39 million. It not like they are one of males who is inevitable going to be the loser for president.
Now for some reason due diligence is not required when hiring contractors for building. So, if this building falls and kills everyone Tesla is not going to be liable because it contracted out the building. Likewise, there is no expectation of due dilligance in building. There is no reason why any Tesla person should ever walked by the construction site to check on progress and notice that it is not the typical work force, as ask if the workers are qualified and being paid.
One thing I will give the reflexives defenders of Tesla. The law, except in a few states like Texas, does not have any penalties for wage theft. Therefore it is almost always better to steal wages and then come to a settlement when you get caught. It is almost always cheaper that way. It is just good business.
I now. For instance it is clear that there was no one in the US who could build a factory, so Tesla had to bring in Eastern Europeans and pay them $5 a hour.
Also, I must admit, for some purposes Bing is much, much better than Google. And many products that built some loyalty to google, like Docs, Drive, etc, are becoming really dated and have supplanted by better options.
In any case, given Googles tacker record on building lame tools, then ending support abruptly even on tools that aren't lame, like Hangouts, it would not be prudent for anyone to treat this as anything more that temporary toy.
the problem is that we are punishing people for having an arbitrary limit rather than activity that has caused harm. Now, on average, drinking, putting on makeup, texting, and lack of sleep all have the ability to cause significant harm. We are in the current situation because, historically, drinking could be used as an affirmative defense for murder. Killing a family of 5 while under the influence could be used to turn a prosecution for mass murder to a simple accident. As in the case of the affluenza kid, he did not commit a felony that lead to a the murder of many people, but simply was out partying and through no fault of his own accidentally killed many people. What might be better than punishing people for crimes they might commit is to punish them for crimes they do commit. If someone chooses to do drugs and the chooses to engage in activity that leads in the death of harm of another person or persons, they should be prosecuted as if they had commuted the act voluntary and with forethought.
This is why the studios should have really pushed Hulu instead of letting it fall to the wayside. It was the one place that absolutely mandated commercial watching. Now they are offering commercial free fare for a fee.
I believe the reason Amazon end up paying sales tax to the states is because Amazon is in those states. Amazon was trying to create a fiction that even though it had warehouses in almost every state, since those were contracted. It would be like McDonalds saying it only owed taxes in states where it had corporate owned stores. Since Amazon is shipping in a state, it already has the necessary infrastructure.
I still think it makes sense for a retailer that does not have any presence in a state to not collect sales tax. I think this works because any large retailer will have a presence in almost every state. For instance Jet seems to subcontract a fair amount, and therefore probably has some business presence. OTOH, states are probably going to have to come up with a different, less regressive system.
"the station with more music and Les Nessman."
The reason these service thrive is that people do not use their credit card aggressively as a weapon. I recall one set of charges that were placed on my card by a third party, but branded by my credit card. I called the credit card company and was told I first had to call the third party. I told the credit card that it was branded by them, and I had the literature, so they were liable, and the charges were gone. The credit card will usually throw merchants and partners under the bus to protect the brand.
Columbia house is a bit different because they did not take you money before the fact. Columbia house had to invest in resources to get customers to pay. Most did not give a credit card that would be billed every month.
This is more akin to the health club model, where you sign up, give a credit card, and are obligated to make payments for the rest of your life. This is where I find the flaw to be in these enterprises. Not that you are signing up to make payments for a year or two, but you are signing up to make forever, and to cancel requires some effort. I could deal with health clubs on shopping clubs if they allowed you to cancel, or suspend as Hulu does, simply by clicking a button on a web site. I can't deal with canceling being any more difficult than that.
Fortunately credit cards do provide some protection for the consumer. I would think that if one sent a complaint to the credit card company with a screen shot showing you made a a call to cancel and it was not answered for 30 minutes, so the charge is fraudulent, this would end the charge., I suspect if a charge appeared on the credit card after sending an email canceling the service, that charge would also be seen as fraudulent. I think if enough people did this, the cost of fraudulent charges would cause a business to go under.
Or they may just suck it up and pay managers $50K, since keeping up with hours for managerial staff is kind of cumbersome.
Where this is going to be a stickler is actually some government jobs. For instance some places do not pay teachers $50K yet they are exempt employees. It will be interesting to see how this pans out.