Huh. I guess I'm not a regular WSJ reader and don't know how the paywall is applied. When I googled it, and now I can't remember the exact search terms, it let me read the whole article. Oh well, there are similar articles out there.
Endeavour, the newest, was built in '92 and could have been kept in rotation until there was a viable American-controlled alternative.
If you are going to have people riding controlled explosions into space (at great expense, no less), make sure there is an escape plan if things start exploding in the wrong places.
I don't know what planet you live on, but here on planet earth Subway overtook McDonald's some time ago as the fast food chain with the largest number of locations world wide. They are continuing to open new locations - in the US and around the world - at a much faster clip than McDonald's as well. Even with most of their locations franchises, how would they be able to keep opening so many new restaurants if they were not doing well? They would have a hard time convincing franchisees to put down the capital to open a new location if they were doing poorly.
There's also a lot of Internet radio it can receive now, including local radio stations. The only two stations I care about, my favorite NPR affiliate and a certain rock station that likes to bill itself as "world famous" come right up when I tell Echo to play them.
Voice 'activation' or 'recognition' SUCKS currently. These types of devices ride a VERY SHORT hype train just like Siri did, and then no one at all cares.
I have an Echo as do several people at at my work. The voice recognition is far better than any other device I've ever used and often is able to be activated from the other room. The only issues I've had is figuring out the exact phrasing Amazon's servers are listening for to listen a particular artist, album, or podcast, but the device is incredibly accurate for detecting the words I'm saying (you can read back what Echo hears you say to it using the app).
I know it's popular to bag on Echo and Amazon for privacy reasons, but it's no different than a similar service on your phone.
I'd guess if you looked at office worker usage of Excel, you'd probably find only a couple percent of office workers actually use those advanced functions which you couldn't find in Calc.
Unfortunately, that relatively small percentage are creating all the reports and templates the rest of the lot are using.
Writer is a passable substitute for MS Word, but Calc doesn't come close to Excel, and most cube critters already have years of experience abusing Excel. It's the old saying, "When all you have is a hammer..."
But we shouldn't get the impression that Slashdot is run by a bunch of Elon Musk's male concubines...
One of the oldest tricks of yellow journalism is to 'represent both sides' by picking a reasonable sounding source on the side you prefer and the most mentally unstable source on the side you dislike.
We already have aircraft that can go 80MPH and take almost no fuel
Gliders (sailplanes) can hit about 170. Granted, then they occasionally need to slow down and fly around in circles in pockets of lift, but even their average speed is probably a lot faster than most people realize.
"The exploit is trivial, so we expect it to be available within hours of this post," Huber wrote in a blog post.
Wouldn't it be prudent to get the maintainers for the library to patch first before making it exploit available to the public?
No matter how long it takes to get a patched version of IM, it will take far longer for people to hunt down all the places that it's running. Five years from now people will still regularly be discovering sites running vulnerable versions of it because it's everywhere and there is likely to be no quick easy way to scan for it aside from uploading a malicious file.
Because the hard way is the best way. No parachutes are needed, it's landing-site agnostic, the rocket doesn't need to be strengthened in any other dimensions than it already is for launch, they're already working extensively on propulsive soft landings for their crew module and most importantly to Musk, I imagine, the technology scales up with bigger rockets.
Here you go. For future reference, just tack an "&t=8m53s" on the end of the link, substituting whatever value for minutes and seconds you're looking for. I linked a bit earlier than 9:10 to establish context.
While we're talking Iridium, they produce the brightest satellite flares, which can be rather striking. The website Heavens Above even has a helpful page where you can see when and where they are visible.
It does make you wonder what Snapchat was thinking with this feature. Did nobody anticipate that jerks would drive crazy speeds because of this thing?
Their EULA makes a gentle suggestion that you not be reckless:
We also care about your safety while using our Services. So do not use our Services in a way that would distract you from obeying traffic or safety laws. And never put yourself or others in harm's way just to capture a Snap.
Kids these days, real gamers used to know how to free 640K better than anyone else.
I distinctly remember the sense of accomplishment after learning to load my sound and joystick drivers first, then restart without them to get Privateer to run. I'm not sure why it worked but it did.
But Trump - no one really figured he'd get here. Im a bit wary. What people haven't realized up to now is it's not about Trump it's about the voters. The fact that we have a large number of people voting for Trump with no experience and no real plan
Hillary is the dream candidate to run against--if you're an establishment Republican. I suspect a small but significant number of Republicans will vote for her because they'd rather go with the Devil they know than the Devil nobody knows because he makes absolutely no sense.
File "phone with no button" along with "thinner phone." I don't need or want it. I don't care if my phone has one button, or three, or none. For that matter, I don't really care if my phone has a fingerprint reader due to legal and practical reasons.
but at least in the arcade you were having fun while most mobile games try to exploit human psychology to get you addicted to doing boring and repetitive tasks in exchange for a false sense of achievement.
Arcade games were more fun because time was limited and there was a challenge to get more value out of it. The games needed to be rewarding but quickly ramp up in difficulty to empty the most pockets.
That scarcity is central to the experience, and it's impossible to replicate that when everyone has unlimited access to the platform. That's why MAME or purchasing the game for your platform of choice just doesn't feel like it used to in the pizza parlor. It's like playing poker without stakes.
That said, you could write a book on how pavlovian the arcade experience was. Insert money, push button, get audio and visual rewards. I don't see how the sense of achievement was more genuine; just different.
Can I ask the reason, with that much power, not to include a real OS?
Also it's disingenuous to name high specs, then say "starting at $lowprice", and THEN say the low specs that go with the low price. That smells like slashvertising.
Because it's not for you. This is for someone who wants an iPad with a built-in keyboard.
If a Linux system message popped up during a live broadcast, people (here) would assume that the machine was misconfigured for their use case. There is a wealth of information on the Internet about how to deal with these messages, and if you don't have proper IT support to configure systems in your broadcast tool chain, you are clearly doing it wrong.
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Huh. I guess I'm not a regular WSJ reader and don't know how the paywall is applied. When I googled it, and now I can't remember the exact search terms, it let me read the whole article. Oh well, there are similar articles out there.
Summary: they aren't doing well.
Endeavour, the newest, was built in '92 and could have been kept in rotation until there was a viable American-controlled alternative.
If you are going to have people riding controlled explosions into space (at great expense, no less), make sure there is an escape plan if things start exploding in the wrong places.
I don't know what planet you live on, but here on planet earth Subway overtook McDonald's some time ago as the fast food chain with the largest number of locations world wide. They are continuing to open new locations - in the US and around the world - at a much faster clip than McDonald's as well. Even with most of their locations franchises, how would they be able to keep opening so many new restaurants if they were not doing well? They would have a hard time convincing franchisees to put down the capital to open a new location if they were doing poorly.
Are you sure about that? http://www.wsj.com/articles/su...
There's also a lot of Internet radio it can receive now, including local radio stations. The only two stations I care about, my favorite NPR affiliate and a certain rock station that likes to bill itself as "world famous" come right up when I tell Echo to play them.
Voice 'activation' or 'recognition' SUCKS currently. These types of devices ride a VERY SHORT hype train just like Siri did, and then no one at all cares.
I have an Echo as do several people at at my work. The voice recognition is far better than any other device I've ever used and often is able to be activated from the other room. The only issues I've had is figuring out the exact phrasing Amazon's servers are listening for to listen a particular artist, album, or podcast, but the device is incredibly accurate for detecting the words I'm saying (you can read back what Echo hears you say to it using the app).
I know it's popular to bag on Echo and Amazon for privacy reasons, but it's no different than a similar service on your phone.
I'd guess if you looked at office worker usage of Excel, you'd probably find only a couple percent of office workers actually use those advanced functions which you couldn't find in Calc.
Unfortunately, that relatively small percentage are creating all the reports and templates the rest of the lot are using.
Is using the features present in Excel now considered abuse?
Great question... which you answered:
It's significantly faster to get a dedicated report using scripts created in Excel, even if it's a much worse solution in the long run.
Writer is a passable substitute for MS Word, but Calc doesn't come close to Excel, and most cube critters already have years of experience abusing Excel. It's the old saying, "When all you have is a hammer..."
But we shouldn't get the impression that Slashdot is run by a bunch of Elon Musk's male concubines...
One of the oldest tricks of yellow journalism is to 'represent both sides' by picking a reasonable sounding source on the side you prefer and the most mentally unstable source on the side you dislike.
You should be kinder to yourself.
He was arrested for actually hacking the website.
Correct. He is being charged with gray hatting.
We already have aircraft that can go 80MPH and take almost no fuel
Gliders (sailplanes) can hit about 170. Granted, then they occasionally need to slow down and fly around in circles in pockets of lift, but even their average speed is probably a lot faster than most people realize.
"The exploit is trivial, so we expect it to be available within hours of this post," Huber wrote in a blog post.
Wouldn't it be prudent to get the maintainers for the library to patch first before making it exploit available to the public?
No matter how long it takes to get a patched version of IM, it will take far longer for people to hunt down all the places that it's running. Five years from now people will still regularly be discovering sites running vulnerable versions of it because it's everywhere and there is likely to be no quick easy way to scan for it aside from uploading a malicious file.
Because the hard way is the best way. No parachutes are needed, it's landing-site agnostic, the rocket doesn't need to be strengthened in any other dimensions than it already is for launch, they're already working extensively on propulsive soft landings for their crew module and most importantly to Musk, I imagine, the technology scales up with bigger rockets.
Here you go. For future reference, just tack an "&t=8m53s" on the end of the link, substituting whatever value for minutes and seconds you're looking for. I linked a bit earlier than 9:10 to establish context.
While we're talking Iridium, they produce the brightest satellite flares, which can be rather striking. The website Heavens Above even has a helpful page where you can see when and where they are visible.
It does make you wonder what Snapchat was thinking with this feature. Did nobody anticipate that jerks would drive crazy speeds because of this thing?
Their EULA makes a gentle suggestion that you not be reckless:
We also care about your safety while using our Services. So do not use our Services in a way that would distract you from obeying traffic or safety laws. And never put yourself or others in harm's way just to capture a Snap.
Kids these days, real gamers used to know how to free 640K better than anyone else.
I distinctly remember the sense of accomplishment after learning to load my sound and joystick drivers first, then restart without them to get Privateer to run. I'm not sure why it worked but it did.
Of course I would never go back.
But Trump - no one really figured he'd get here. Im a bit wary. What people haven't realized up to now is it's not about Trump it's about the voters. The fact that we have a large number of people voting for Trump with no experience and no real plan
Hillary is the dream candidate to run against--if you're an establishment Republican. I suspect a small but significant number of Republicans will vote for her because they'd rather go with the Devil they know than the Devil nobody knows because he makes absolutely no sense.
File "phone with no button" along with "thinner phone." I don't need or want it. I don't care if my phone has one button, or three, or none. For that matter, I don't really care if my phone has a fingerprint reader due to legal and practical reasons.
I didn't think Trump supporters were smart enough to know of or use Second Life!
*ducks
Only kidding! But seriously folks...
Smart enough? I'm pretty sure the only winning move is not to play.
I hated iTunes so much that I ran out and bought a Zune. I'm not kidding.
That's funny. I bought a Zune because it was a nice media player.
but at least in the arcade you were having fun while most mobile games try to exploit human psychology to get you addicted to doing boring and repetitive tasks in exchange for a false sense of achievement.
Arcade games were more fun because time was limited and there was a challenge to get more value out of it. The games needed to be rewarding but quickly ramp up in difficulty to empty the most pockets.
That scarcity is central to the experience, and it's impossible to replicate that when everyone has unlimited access to the platform. That's why MAME or purchasing the game for your platform of choice just doesn't feel like it used to in the pizza parlor. It's like playing poker without stakes.
That said, you could write a book on how pavlovian the arcade experience was. Insert money, push button, get audio and visual rewards. I don't see how the sense of achievement was more genuine; just different.
This wasn't a system message, or an error. This was an advertisement/nagscreen.
Because other operating systems don't notify you in any way when a new release is available?
Can I ask the reason, with that much power, not to include a real OS? Also it's disingenuous to name high specs, then say "starting at $lowprice", and THEN say the low specs that go with the low price. That smells like slashvertising.
Because it's not for you. This is for someone who wants an iPad with a built-in keyboard.
Why mod this down? He's right.
If a Linux system message popped up during a live broadcast, people (here) would assume that the machine was misconfigured for their use case. There is a wealth of information on the Internet about how to deal with these messages, and if you don't have proper IT support to configure systems in your broadcast tool chain, you are clearly doing it wrong.