Lots of major UI frustration in 8 is now resolved. I've moved every Win machine I manage form 8 to 10 except my wife's machine that's still on 7 and she knows by heart - but that'll go soon too. It's the best touch-windows so far on some Surfaces I manage. Deny every last one of the reporting and sharing options that come up during / after install. Install Malwarebytes and AVG immediately. Spend a half hour removing the fluffware on the home screen and in the programs list. Then install the things that work well for you. It seems like the best unified Win experience since 2000 Pro.
And I just got my rats each a new phone. And I thought their dirty looks were because I got them TracFones. Guess their first call was to their buddies at Cold Spring Harbor Lab.
for some time now. It gives us a buzzy head and make us die sooner. That wasn't good enough. We figured out a way to add circuitry and potentially explosive batteries. We will now get buzzy heads and die sooner but not as soon. We promise not to be surprised when something goes badly. Is it just us or do dolphins sound like they're laughing?
it seems they were holding Breitbart and Newsmax to the same standards as other news sources, namely to see a story in more than one news source before calling it trendworthy. Hard to fault that.
It's kinda hard to screw up pumping gas. Self-checkout for more complicated things hasn't been so successful - and not necessarily because of lack of brow-beating. A borked Walmart or grocery store order needs a human to step in. They all have one or two people standing by - who could be put to better use professionally getting people through lines rather than relying on rookie consumer checkers.
Actually raising gas prices does reduce consumption but with an intermediate step - purchase and use of more efficient vehicles (NBER Working Paper No. 15590, and fact's don't suck.)
Pure and simple. Wages are likely half of their expenses. This would be a 25% increase from $12/hr to $15/hr. So about a 12.5% increase. The price of a dollar burger goes up 13 cents. No one is walking away from that. If you are buying a $4 burger it goes up 50 cents. If you're going to walk away from a $4.50 low-end burger, then maybe you shouldn't be buying $4.50 low-end burgers.
Competitive advantage? Barely. The delta on that window worker will cost you $36 per day. The machine plus the loss from customer frustration and borked orders (see self checkout lessons elsewhere) better cost less than that.
"If something goes wrong, the (Volvo) can safely stop itself at the side of the road." 'Cept if the wrong thing is the brakes fail, and I've got a few stretches of high country road I could introduce you to where you would definitely want human judgement involved concerning what you would generously term "the side of the road".
some solid engineering and user-centric thought here. But $400? Nope. There are $20 hair dryers out there with a thousand 5-star reviews. Is this 20x better? Seeing how Dyson hand dryers spread germs at a rate and range that would make evil geniuses and zombies jealous, I'll pass on this.
"On this particular Thursday, things were moving through the ionosphere many miles above the surface of the planet. Several huge yellow slab-like somethings, huge as office blocks, silent as birds, they hung in the air exactly the same way that bricks don't. The planet was almost totally oblivious of their presence. They went unnoticed at Goonhilly, they passed over Cape Canaveral without a blip, and Woomera and Jodrell Bank looked straight through them; which was a pity, because it was exactly the sort of thing they'd been looking for all these years."
here it's hard to see all the stored energy. Neither image sufficiently well on the large scale to satisfy the second-guessers, and imaging on the smallest scale is diminishing investment. Granted temp and precip forecasts have a pretty tight 90% confidence interval for 24 hours, and earthquakes aren't predicted like that, but you're chasing something that cannot be "seen" without fairly ornate technology.
Also, maybe stop poking holes in the ground and greasing the giant moveable rocks.
Both personal and on campus. 3 years on Applecare, 2 years fingers crossed. I ditched the last two MacBooks only after they were about to go on the obsolete list, they still worked fine. Resold for about $300 each, so net $700 on a laptop over 5 years. Price premium? Not if you do it this way. The phones I do every two years with whichever one is free, to keep the coverage. The rebate on the old one helps pay for the Applecare.
How about demand / customer base? If you have two coconuts and three buyers you have a market. If you have three coconuts and two buyers you don't have a market.
"From all the chiefs that I've talked to, we're hopeful this will give us some insight into how we're going to be able to get into some of the phones sitting in all of our evidence rooms," said Terry Cunningham, police chief in Wellesley, Mass., and president of the International Assn. of Chiefs of Police. "We're clearly anxious to learn what they did and how they did it and if it can be replicated."
(1) is this even true or are they merely saving face? If the latter, i cringe about the gummint even more than i did last week... (2) if true, does the 'vendor' get to move this vulnerability through the usual channels / tell apple first / do the right thing as a tech company? (3) if they cannot, due to national security grumbles, are they in lockdown over this? (4) how long do you think that will remain the case? (5) if true, they have now told every blackhat and knucklehead tat this is now possible - huge gain over "is it possible?" (6) if cracking an iphone is a zebra an no longer a unicorn* doesn't apple get a chance to know the vulnerability/exploit and protect their business? (7) is the gummint smart/good/interested enough to sit down with all parties and work this out like grownups? --- *: yeah, i saw the articles about siberia, point stands.
Um... no. You will not get a coffee bean. Dang, they needed to do more actual biology on Mythbusters. If you mean you could smush the grounds back into a bean shape with the addition of binder and make a thing that could be used as bait in a hipster trap, OK, but since much of the oils and chemicals that make coffee taste like coffee and most of the caffeine gone after the first steeping making it basically useless for making coffee... that's not a coffee bean. If you mean you could use the coffee grounds as compost and provide nutrients to a coffee plant and then if would make new coffee beans, then well, you're a bit closer, but at an astoundingly lousy efficiency, since living things turn everything back into component chemicals, there would be basically none of the complex molecules from the grounds circulating through the plant. The first one is as much a coffee bean as a Cheeto is a wheel of cheddar, the second is as much a coffee bean as the grass in the cemetery is your Aunt Tilly, may she rest in peace.
That's how the banking system does it. The chips are cheap. If your house clock has to have better accuracy than 1 billionth of a second, then you need to re-prioritize. Heck, if your house clock is quartz based and you can't afford to lose a second per month on what you're looking at to cook and watch your favorite tee vee program and get to work on time, it's still bad.
as a bleriot is to a 787. Same underlying principles, but far richer and more integrated means. Yes, there are 40 year old papers discussing the merits of 512x512 graphics and air powered microfiche, but we're a bit beyond that. Mostly in the increasing symmetry between consumption and creation by learners. Educational resources are commodities. Textbooks, videos, eBooks, etc. are available from a wide array of providers. Ditto the wrappers - blackboard, canvas, edx, etc... The wrappers are now also a commodity. Given the state of formal education, a coordinating wrapper around all of these resources is not bad. We used to call those wrappers a classroom/instructor. Gates and Zuck will have to complete in the marketplace, their chief advantage will be already having a mess of people in their ecosystem who will have to learn one less login. Just like there is no best way to teach, there is no best way to teach online. There are a lot of good ways to teach, and a lot of good ways to teach online. Gates and Zuck having a product with a large population to please is really no different from the current state of textbooks, which amounts to "I'll have what Cali and Texas are having" given they have historically had the largest state-buys for textbooks.
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MU BASIC.
Lots of major UI frustration in 8 is now resolved. I've moved every Win machine I manage form 8 to 10 except my wife's machine that's still on 7 and she knows by heart - but that'll go soon too. It's the best touch-windows so far on some Surfaces I manage. Deny every last one of the reporting and sharing options that come up during / after install. Install Malwarebytes and AVG immediately. Spend a half hour removing the fluffware on the home screen and in the programs list. Then install the things that work well for you. It seems like the best unified Win experience since 2000 Pro.
And I just got my rats each a new phone. And I thought their dirty looks were because I got them TracFones. Guess their first call was to their buddies at Cold Spring Harbor Lab.
for some time now. It gives us a buzzy head and make us die sooner. That wasn't good enough. We figured out a way to add circuitry and potentially explosive batteries. We will now get buzzy heads and die sooner but not as soon. We promise not to be surprised when something goes badly. Is it just us or do dolphins sound like they're laughing?
it seems they were holding Breitbart and Newsmax to the same standards as other news sources, namely to see a story in more than one news source before calling it trendworthy. Hard to fault that.
"Bender" mode.
Our former student who used the engine to model and run simulations of Gettysburg.
It's kinda hard to screw up pumping gas. Self-checkout for more complicated things hasn't been so successful - and not necessarily because of lack of brow-beating. A borked Walmart or grocery store order needs a human to step in. They all have one or two people standing by - who could be put to better use professionally getting people through lines rather than relying on rookie consumer checkers. Actually raising gas prices does reduce consumption but with an intermediate step - purchase and use of more efficient vehicles (NBER Working Paper No. 15590, and fact's don't suck.)
Pure and simple. Wages are likely half of their expenses. This would be a 25% increase from $12/hr to $15/hr. So about a 12.5% increase. The price of a dollar burger goes up 13 cents. No one is walking away from that. If you are buying a $4 burger it goes up 50 cents. If you're going to walk away from a $4.50 low-end burger, then maybe you shouldn't be buying $4.50 low-end burgers. Competitive advantage? Barely. The delta on that window worker will cost you $36 per day. The machine plus the loss from customer frustration and borked orders (see self checkout lessons elsewhere) better cost less than that.
with Cardassians but without Kardashians.
Seriously. Why? So you can brag that your fav book is the best? Why not read reviews? Converse with other actual people?
"If something goes wrong, the (Volvo) can safely stop itself at the side of the road." 'Cept if the wrong thing is the brakes fail, and I've got a few stretches of high country road I could introduce you to where you would definitely want human judgement involved concerning what you would generously term "the side of the road".
some solid engineering and user-centric thought here. But $400? Nope. There are $20 hair dryers out there with a thousand 5-star reviews. Is this 20x better? Seeing how Dyson hand dryers spread germs at a rate and range that would make evil geniuses and zombies jealous, I'll pass on this.
wonder how loud the fight was to go straight to 14.
"On this particular Thursday, things were moving through the ionosphere many miles above the surface of the planet. Several huge yellow slab-like somethings, huge as office blocks, silent as birds, they hung in the air exactly the same way that bricks don't. The planet was almost totally oblivious of their presence. They went unnoticed at Goonhilly, they passed over Cape Canaveral without a blip, and Woomera and Jodrell Bank looked straight through them; which was a pity, because it was exactly the sort of thing they'd been looking for all these years."
here it's hard to see all the stored energy. Neither image sufficiently well on the large scale to satisfy the second-guessers, and imaging on the smallest scale is diminishing investment. Granted temp and precip forecasts have a pretty tight 90% confidence interval for 24 hours, and earthquakes aren't predicted like that, but you're chasing something that cannot be "seen" without fairly ornate technology.
Also, maybe stop poking holes in the ground and greasing the giant moveable rocks.
Both personal and on campus. 3 years on Applecare, 2 years fingers crossed. I ditched the last two MacBooks only after they were about to go on the obsolete list, they still worked fine. Resold for about $300 each, so net $700 on a laptop over 5 years. Price premium? Not if you do it this way. The phones I do every two years with whichever one is free, to keep the coverage. The rebate on the old one helps pay for the Applecare.
How about demand / customer base?
If you have two coconuts and three buyers you have a market.
If you have three coconuts and two buyers you don't have a market.
(That's kinda messed up.)
"From all the chiefs that I've talked to, we're hopeful this will give us some insight into how we're going to be able to get into some of the phones sitting in all of our evidence rooms," said Terry Cunningham, police chief in Wellesley, Mass., and president of the International Assn. of Chiefs of Police. "We're clearly anxious to learn what they did and how they did it and if it can be replicated."
(1) is this even true or are they merely saving face? If the latter, i cringe about the gummint even more than i did last week...
(2) if true, does the 'vendor' get to move this vulnerability through the usual channels / tell apple first / do the right thing as a tech company?
(3) if they cannot, due to national security grumbles, are they in lockdown over this?
(4) how long do you think that will remain the case?
(5) if true, they have now told every blackhat and knucklehead tat this is now possible - huge gain over "is it possible?"
(6) if cracking an iphone is a zebra an no longer a unicorn* doesn't apple get a chance to know the vulnerability/exploit and protect their business?
(7) is the gummint smart/good/interested enough to sit down with all parties and work this out like grownups?
---
*: yeah, i saw the articles about siberia, point stands.
Um... no. You will not get a coffee bean. Dang, they needed to do more actual biology on Mythbusters. If you mean you could smush the grounds back into a bean shape with the addition of binder and make a thing that could be used as bait in a hipster trap, OK, but since much of the oils and chemicals that make coffee taste like coffee and most of the caffeine gone after the first steeping making it basically useless for making coffee... that's not a coffee bean. If you mean you could use the coffee grounds as compost and provide nutrients to a coffee plant and then if would make new coffee beans, then well, you're a bit closer, but at an astoundingly lousy efficiency, since living things turn everything back into component chemicals, there would be basically none of the complex molecules from the grounds circulating through the plant. The first one is as much a coffee bean as a Cheeto is a wheel of cheddar, the second is as much a coffee bean as the grass in the cemetery is your Aunt Tilly, may she rest in peace.
That's how the banking system does it. The chips are cheap. If your house clock has to have better accuracy than 1 billionth of a second, then you need to re-prioritize. Heck, if your house clock is quartz based and you can't afford to lose a second per month on what you're looking at to cook and watch your favorite tee vee program and get to work on time, it's still bad.
as a bleriot is to a 787. Same underlying principles, but far richer and more integrated means. Yes, there are 40 year old papers discussing the merits of 512x512 graphics and air powered microfiche, but we're a bit beyond that. Mostly in the increasing symmetry between consumption and creation by learners. Educational resources are commodities. Textbooks, videos, eBooks, etc. are available from a wide array of providers. Ditto the wrappers - blackboard, canvas, edx, etc... The wrappers are now also a commodity. Given the state of formal education, a coordinating wrapper around all of these resources is not bad. We used to call those wrappers a classroom/instructor. Gates and Zuck will have to complete in the marketplace, their chief advantage will be already having a mess of people in their ecosystem who will have to learn one less login. Just like there is no best way to teach, there is no best way to teach online. There are a lot of good ways to teach, and a lot of good ways to teach online. Gates and Zuck having a product with a large population to please is really no different from the current state of textbooks, which amounts to "I'll have what Cali and Texas are having" given they have historically had the largest state-buys for textbooks.
They should be relieved of their duty immediately. I mean ASWCTUV? Please.
My immediate reaction to them was to tell them "and I still want nothing more than to fly on the shuttle, I'd be on it tomorrow if given the chance."