Do they need access to any feeds at all? It might not be a bot searching for show names but Facebook providing data to their system on show mentions similar to how "Trending" section to the top right of facebook. That's not based on my friends that's based on the whole of facebook, all with out access to the feeds of the rest of facebook.
Saying all that a ridiculous number of people have their profile set to to public in full.
So US system took all the names of an old system and gave them new definitions? How is that better?
I don't think that hearing people from the USA refer to Feet, Pounds, Ounces and Gallons and thinking that maybe they're using the system I've been taught those measurements derive from.
Okay lets say that instead of 5 pedestrians outside, we instead have a pregnant wife in the passenger seat (let's assume they don't know that the air bag might kill their unborn child). This happens I've seen stories.
Collision about to occur, - Head on, all dead. - Swerve Right (hit passenger side hit), wife dies. - Swerve Left (hit driver side), driver/father dies.
What do we make the driverless car do assuming a complete stop is not possible or just as dangerous?
I've thought this too and I think it'll be a city that does it first. City traffic is the worst affected by the start stop of signalling and a perfected driverless system wouldn't need signalling as they could flow efficiently (assuming the system is aware of every other car's location).
We have a few cities here in the UK that are becoming completely pedestrian/mass, you get to a point on the city boundary where you have to park and a bus takes you in the rest of the way. I think a city might pilot a "auto mode only" area at some point.
The law abiding nature of them reminds me of another dilemma I've wondered about. If the car is about to crash and has become sophisticated enough to know that X maneuver would result in 5 pedestrian deaths but Y maneuver only kills the driver.
Do they make it kill the driver?
How do you sell something that is programmed to kill you if certain circumstances are met?
No one uses hundredweight in the UK any more, I used to teach Maths and not even I was aware of 112lb in a Hundredweight. We "weigh" ourselves in Kilograms (regardless of that being a unit of Mass not Weight) now but the previous generation is still using Stones, it's getting less and less common though. At school the imperial system is now completely gone from the curriculum except Miles to Kilometres and a few other memorable conversions such as 60kg is roughly 9 Stone if a students asks.
We (the UK) use Imperial for road signage and that's about it. Metric for industry, science, education, we even sell petrol in Litres but oddly still use Miles per Gallon for fuel efficiency, probably to obfuscate how much we pay for fuel here.
The ROI might not be money though but a stronger economy of better educated people more likely to make them money in the future even if indirectly or by inventing something they can invest in to make a direct return from.
$20 per month for phone + $60 for 6GB I tether my phone a lot and on a month where I'm watching a show during my commute to work I'll usually use about 5GB. If I'm holiday I'll use up even more watching films in the evening.
So in the USA I'd have to pay $80 a month (before even considering the extra fee for tethering) which is £51! With-out a phone too! I pay £15 a month for 100 Mins (which I never use), 5000 texts (which I never use) and unlimited data.
My home internet doesn't even cost £50, it's £26 for 60 Mbit/s fibre with no data caps. (I think there's some throttling if I download so many GB in a short period of time). How do they manage to charge so much more for less service? Is it just the lack of competition in many areas?
Almost all the people I've met with Macbooks have been musicians, despite the advent of diigital distribution being able to burn a CD or music is still something a lot of them do. Also having enough connectivity for Midi controllers and other peripherals is a must.
I get the Mac Book Air, it's effectively Chrome Book's worth of connectivity for people with more money than sense.
But isn't the Mac Book meant to be a production machine, that what people are always trying to convince me they are, and to be fair audio editing software as good as what comes free with a Macbook does make the price more seem more reasonable for the spec.
Did the Australian government stop to ask why they might be pirating so much? Perhaps the country has gotten a little tired of paying $100 (AUS) a month watch American TV shows 6 months to a year after their release.
Lack of legal access to content at a fair price in this globalised world isn't working. Australia is a diverse nation, I have friends living there and I'm from Britain. I would imagine that they're getting annoyed having to wait all the time for new releases. I've heard of series being delayed for longer than a year before now and there's not even any translating to do. The video games market was at one time just as bad, games delayed by overly strict censorship, like having to remove all the gore from Left 4 Dead 2.
We get loans for Tuition and Living and then the repayments are 9% of what we earn over £22000. If you earn less than that, or haven't paid off the total by the time we're 65 the rest is written off.
The only major issues are that not everyone is entitled to the same amount of loan, it depends on your household income which if you live at home includes your parent (or parent). I've seen quite a few people be screwed by this because their family have a high income on paper but also large outgoings and can't make up the almost £3500 you don't get over a certain income.
It shouldn't really be called a loan, a tax is a far more accurate representation and I feel that calling it a loan puts people off even looking at going to University. It doesn't affect your credit here, doesn't make it harder to get credit cards of mortgages and no one will ever be chasing you down for it as the payments are automatically calculating when your taxes are worked out by your employer.
Compare the rate at which CO2 emission was growing between 1900 and 1990 to the rate at which it's growing now and it's quite an achievement. We've leveled off the production of CO2 whilst still increasing the net amount of Electricty produced since 1990. Or am I reading the post wrong?
They can't all be convinced, there isn't enough money in the world for them to all buy the legal copy hence why the 1 pirate to 1 sale thing doesn't quite work. You can't be sure that if the pirate couldn't pirate they would buy.
The AC above was me neglecting to remember I wasn't logged in at Uni. I had a Pre 2 as well before I dropped it in a bucket of water, I thought the Pre 3 would be better but if I'm completely honest the Pre 2 was a lot more stable in many ways. My Pre 3 has had some odd little errors and issues that I can't seem to fix, I'd have probably swapped to an Android phone by now if any of the manufacturers would be nice enough to release a phone with a physical keyboard here in the UK.
I've still got Palm Zires, Palm IIIs and a Palm Lifedrive knocking about some where, should get them put in display cases or something...
While I'm not entirely certain gorilla arm is a big an issue as it's made to be (if extending your arm repeatedly was really that painful we wouldn't be using white boards would we?) I don't see my self using a vertical touch screen, putting touch that far away seems odd.
However a PC set out like a Nintendo DS (for lack of a better analogous device) would be awesome. Keyboard when you need it, drawing board when you need it, move things up to the top screen to view, type on and read then down to the bottom for in depth manipulation. Probably still with a mouse just to soften the change.
I personally can't stand it when people try to draw in either MS Office or OpenOffice as 90% it's not quite what you want and it only looks the way you drew it on 50% of the computers you try to open it on. OpenOffice has a Drawing Application, MS Office sometimes has Visio... a lot of formatting issues and content going missing would be easily solved if people used a fit for purpose application to do the drawing and then used the Word or Writer to import the graphics in their completed form.
Words and Writer's drawing options are like the tacky extra HTML tags that only certain browsers could understand that were not part of any proper standard. I never expect them to look the same between versions of either. Then again I'm saying this as some one who studies computing rather than someone who just uses them to do work and not unfairly expects them to work as intended.
Their website does seem to be something of a "we were here all along doing this for ages, no really" sort of quick knock up... I'm leaning towards troll but then again the patent system is getting ridiculous.
I'll just say, having gotten this far into the comments and no one else having said, that in Britain "tariff" does not mean Tax you are indeed correct. It is broadly applied to anything of a repeat payment nature, usually essential services such as Gas, Electricity, Water and I suppose in today's world Internet Services and Mobile Phone plans.
In fact tariff never means Tax in English technically, but as you said they are applied to goods usually when imported or exported but as a fee not a tax. (Slavishly paraphrased from Wikipedia as I was curious).
Wish I had mod points so bad, Izzard references are always worthy of moding up in my book. If people don't want to read the humorous posts that's what the mod system is for:D
Not me, I had a WiFi lexmark printer that would fall off my network if you left it plugged in for more than 10 minutes at a time (my theory was the the Power Supply was getting so hot it disrupted the Wifi chip right next to it). Few other friends had issues with them which led to use all saying that "Lexmark don't make printers, they make the idea of printers":D
Apple tries to patent and monopolise all the awesome things, I was already sold on the surface pro being the first tablet I'd buy... strangely I'm now even more certain I'll buy one.
Dictionaries also list the word "quite" as meaning "complete"... as in "quite good" meaning "completely good" and not "some what good" as most people use it. Dictionaries also list a meaning of irony that people get wrong every single day. My point is that languages are living, dictionaries are by their very nature out of date as soon as they are published. They are the be all and end all of a language unless you're playing scrabble.
Gender has in the past decade come more and more to describe a psychological state rather than a state based purely on what set of sexual organs you happen to have been born with.
Sex is the biological difference between two animals and even that's a grey line occasionally. You can have XX chromosomes and still appear Male.
To get the Galaxy Tab banned would they now have to prove that the Tab is cool enough to be confused with an iPad? Not that I think any tablet is particularly cool to be honest, they're all oversized media consumption devices. I prefer the older HP windows running tablets that were actual fully capable computers, but at the the time the price point was not consumer level at all... and as much as I can't stand Microsoft products (if I weren't a heavy PC gamer I wouldn't be using Windows) the Surface Pro might actually be a tablet I'd consider.
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Do they need access to any feeds at all? It might not be a bot searching for show names but Facebook providing data to their system on show mentions similar to how "Trending" section to the top right of facebook. That's not based on my friends that's based on the whole of facebook, all with out access to the feeds of the rest of facebook.
Saying all that a ridiculous number of people have their profile set to to public in full.
So US system took all the names of an old system and gave them new definitions? How is that better?
I don't think that hearing people from the USA refer to Feet, Pounds, Ounces and Gallons and thinking that maybe they're using the system I've been taught those measurements derive from.
Okay lets say that instead of 5 pedestrians outside, we instead have a pregnant wife in the passenger seat (let's assume they don't know that the air bag might kill their unborn child). This happens I've seen stories.
Collision about to occur,
- Head on, all dead.
- Swerve Right (hit passenger side hit), wife dies.
- Swerve Left (hit driver side), driver/father dies.
What do we make the driverless car do assuming a complete stop is not possible or just as dangerous?
Bridges and tunnels, they should ever mix. Like how we don't let cars use the train tracks.
I've thought this too and I think it'll be a city that does it first. City traffic is the worst affected by the start stop of signalling and a perfected driverless system wouldn't need signalling as they could flow efficiently (assuming the system is aware of every other car's location).
We have a few cities here in the UK that are becoming completely pedestrian/mass, you get to a point on the city boundary where you have to park and a bus takes you in the rest of the way. I think a city might pilot a "auto mode only" area at some point.
The law abiding nature of them reminds me of another dilemma I've wondered about. If the car is about to crash and has become sophisticated enough to know that X maneuver would result in 5 pedestrian deaths but Y maneuver only kills the driver.
Do they make it kill the driver?
How do you sell something that is programmed to kill you if certain circumstances are met?
No one uses hundredweight in the UK any more, I used to teach Maths and not even I was aware of 112lb in a Hundredweight. We "weigh" ourselves in Kilograms (regardless of that being a unit of Mass not Weight) now but the previous generation is still using Stones, it's getting less and less common though. At school the imperial system is now completely gone from the curriculum except Miles to Kilometres and a few other memorable conversions such as 60kg is roughly 9 Stone if a students asks.
The USA uses the Imperial System.
We (the UK) use Imperial for road signage and that's about it. Metric for industry, science, education, we even sell petrol in Litres but oddly still use Miles per Gallon for fuel efficiency, probably to obfuscate how much we pay for fuel here.
The ROI might not be money though but a stronger economy of better educated people more likely to make them money in the future even if indirectly or by inventing something they can invest in to make a direct return from.
$20 per month for phone + $60 for 6GB I tether my phone a lot and on a month where I'm watching a show during my commute to work I'll usually use about 5GB. If I'm holiday I'll use up even more watching films in the evening.
So in the USA I'd have to pay $80 a month (before even considering the extra fee for tethering) which is £51! With-out a phone too!
I pay £15 a month for 100 Mins (which I never use), 5000 texts (which I never use) and unlimited data.
My home internet doesn't even cost £50, it's £26 for 60 Mbit/s fibre with no data caps. (I think there's some throttling if I download so many GB in a short period of time). How do they manage to charge so much more for less service? Is it just the lack of competition in many areas?
Almost all the people I've met with Macbooks have been musicians, despite the advent of diigital distribution being able to burn a CD or music is still something a lot of them do. Also having enough connectivity for Midi controllers and other peripherals is a must.
I get the Mac Book Air, it's effectively Chrome Book's worth of connectivity for people with more money than sense.
But isn't the Mac Book meant to be a production machine, that what people are always trying to convince me they are, and to be fair audio editing software as good as what comes free with a Macbook does make the price more seem more reasonable for the spec.
Did the Australian government stop to ask why they might be pirating so much? Perhaps the country has gotten a little tired of paying $100 (AUS) a month watch American TV shows 6 months to a year after their release.
Lack of legal access to content at a fair price in this globalised world isn't working. Australia is a diverse nation, I have friends living there and I'm from Britain. I would imagine that they're getting annoyed having to wait all the time for new releases. I've heard of series being delayed for longer than a year before now and there's not even any translating to do. The video games market was at one time just as bad, games delayed by overly strict censorship, like having to remove all the gore from Left 4 Dead 2.
We get loans for Tuition and Living and then the repayments are 9% of what we earn over £22000. If you earn less than that, or haven't paid off the total by the time we're 65 the rest is written off.
The only major issues are that not everyone is entitled to the same amount of loan, it depends on your household income which if you live at home includes your parent (or parent). I've seen quite a few people be screwed by this because their family have a high income on paper but also large outgoings and can't make up the almost £3500 you don't get over a certain income.
It shouldn't really be called a loan, a tax is a far more accurate representation and I feel that calling it a loan puts people off even looking at going to University. It doesn't affect your credit here, doesn't make it harder to get credit cards of mortgages and no one will ever be chasing you down for it as the payments are automatically calculating when your taxes are worked out by your employer.
Myself and almost everyone I play with has a girlfriend, or boyfriend so have you actually met any one who plays EVE?
Compare the rate at which CO2 emission was growing between 1900 and 1990 to the rate at which it's growing now and it's quite an achievement. We've leveled off the production of CO2 whilst still increasing the net amount of Electricty produced since 1990. Or am I reading the post wrong?
They can't all be convinced, there isn't enough money in the world for them to all buy the legal copy hence why the 1 pirate to 1 sale thing doesn't quite work. You can't be sure that if the pirate couldn't pirate they would buy.
The AC above was me neglecting to remember I wasn't logged in at Uni. I had a Pre 2 as well before I dropped it in a bucket of water, I thought the Pre 3 would be better but if I'm completely honest the Pre 2 was a lot more stable in many ways. My Pre 3 has had some odd little errors and issues that I can't seem to fix, I'd have probably swapped to an Android phone by now if any of the manufacturers would be nice enough to release a phone with a physical keyboard here in the UK.
I've still got Palm Zires, Palm IIIs and a Palm Lifedrive knocking about some where, should get them put in display cases or something...
While I'm not entirely certain gorilla arm is a big an issue as it's made to be (if extending your arm repeatedly was really that painful we wouldn't be using white boards would we?) I don't see my self using a vertical touch screen, putting touch that far away seems odd.
However a PC set out like a Nintendo DS (for lack of a better analogous device) would be awesome. Keyboard when you need it, drawing board when you need it, move things up to the top screen to view, type on and read then down to the bottom for in depth manipulation. Probably still with a mouse just to soften the change.
I personally can't stand it when people try to draw in either MS Office or OpenOffice as 90% it's not quite what you want and it only looks the way you drew it on 50% of the computers you try to open it on. OpenOffice has a Drawing Application, MS Office sometimes has Visio... a lot of formatting issues and content going missing would be easily solved if people used a fit for purpose application to do the drawing and then used the Word or Writer to import the graphics in their completed form.
Words and Writer's drawing options are like the tacky extra HTML tags that only certain browsers could understand that were not part of any proper standard. I never expect them to look the same between versions of either. Then again I'm saying this as some one who studies computing rather than someone who just uses them to do work and not unfairly expects them to work as intended.
Am I alone thinking this?
Their website does seem to be something of a "we were here all along doing this for ages, no really" sort of quick knock up... I'm leaning towards troll but then again the patent system is getting ridiculous.
I'll just say, having gotten this far into the comments and no one else having said, that in Britain "tariff" does not mean Tax you are indeed correct. It is broadly applied to anything of a repeat payment nature, usually essential services such as Gas, Electricity, Water and I suppose in today's world Internet Services and Mobile Phone plans.
In fact tariff never means Tax in English technically, but as you said they are applied to goods usually when imported or exported but as a fee not a tax. (Slavishly paraphrased from Wikipedia as I was curious).
Wish I had mod points so bad, Izzard references are always worthy of moding up in my book. If people don't want to read the humorous posts that's what the mod system is for :D
Not me, I had a WiFi lexmark printer that would fall off my network if you left it plugged in for more than 10 minutes at a time (my theory was the the Power Supply was getting so hot it disrupted the Wifi chip right next to it). Few other friends had issues with them which led to use all saying that "Lexmark don't make printers, they make the idea of printers" :D
Apple tries to patent and monopolise all the awesome things, I was already sold on the surface pro being the first tablet I'd buy... strangely I'm now even more certain I'll buy one.
Dictionaries also list the word "quite" as meaning "complete"... as in "quite good" meaning "completely good" and not "some what good" as most people use it. Dictionaries also list a meaning of irony that people get wrong every single day. My point is that languages are living, dictionaries are by their very nature out of date as soon as they are published. They are the be all and end all of a language unless you're playing scrabble.
Gender has in the past decade come more and more to describe a psychological state rather than a state based purely on what set of sexual organs you happen to have been born with.
Sex is the biological difference between two animals and even that's a grey line occasionally. You can have XX chromosomes and still appear Male.
To get the Galaxy Tab banned would they now have to prove that the Tab is cool enough to be confused with an iPad? Not that I think any tablet is particularly cool to be honest, they're all oversized media consumption devices. I prefer the older HP windows running tablets that were actual fully capable computers, but at the the time the price point was not consumer level at all... and as much as I can't stand Microsoft products (if I weren't a heavy PC gamer I wouldn't be using Windows) the Surface Pro might actually be a tablet I'd consider.