The unique innovation is to do $X on an iPhone !!!
So it not only just got invented, but just got patented. Just like things already patented were re-patented by adding " . . . on an iPhone".
Or, " . . . on a computer", depending on which patent troll.
I don't want wireless charging, I want wireless exploding batteries. How about Apple joining a consortium for that? Now if only there were a partner company.
They were once something amazing too. How long will it be before a 100 GB quad layer Blu ray disk only holds a dozen Word files, each containing the text "Hello World" ?
Similarly we need new batteries for our new toys. But new toys have outpaced batteries.
Fortunately new batteries don't have the backward compatibility constraints that optical disks have. If there are ten billion optical disks out there, it's a big deal to suddenly try to change to a new format. Not quite so much a problem with Tesla, or even Black & Decker switching to a different battery. Not totally trivial, but not nearly the problem either.
RT is only propaganda. It's not going to burn your eyes. But FoxNews is also propaganda, often factually wrong on matters of fact not opinion. When I see either one I know what I'm looking at. Consider the source. Also consider the questions asked. And the questions NOT asked. American media said not a peep about SOPA until the day big internet sites went dark. When Snowden news broke in 2013, CNN covered it in an extremely one-sided way as if there could be no other point of view. Naturally foreign media took a slightly different view that the NSA was 'merely' spying on 'foreigners' -- where 'foreigners' make up 96 % of the world population.
"It's all a matter of perspective." -- Delenn, ambassador to Babylon 5, member of the gray - - - er, ooops, nevermind.
You don't have to make a claim of fake news. Just claim that some site is enabling piracy and an internet backbone that has no backbone will just block it for you.
It all depends on whether the unions or the employers are the biggest abusers at any given time. How do you write regulations for that?
But then there is the siren call of deregulate everything! Corporations should be able to do absolutely anything they can imagine to fulfill their shareholders' dreams without any kind of restraints whatsoever!
Which is relatively more morally outrageous:
(A) exploitation of workers. (As an employee benefit install nets around building exterior to prevent employee suicide by jumping off building)
(B) paying someone in a ruse to pose as an employee and get hired in order to agitate workers into starting a union
(C) paying lobbyists and bribing legislators / governors / presidents to force unions
(D) paying lobbyists and bribing legislators / governors / presidents to outlaw unions
(E) Windows 10
It seems that unions are the good or bad guys depending upon the circumstances of the time. When employers are exploiting workers, unions are the good guys who stand up for the little guy, and rightly so. When unions grow in power and influence their purpose becomes all about their own greatness (any resemblance to a current or future president unintentional and purely coincidental). And about maximizing union dues. Then the unions are the bad guys putting employers out of business or forcing jobs to move elsewhere or become more automated.
I remember years ago in an online discussion, possibly here on slashdot, and definitely about a Honda plant, where a worker said it was better to have a job at $18 / hour that they could get versus a union job at $25 / hour that they could not get.
I agree with another poster who said that if Elon takes good care of his employees that they will have little incentive to form a union.
No. Security is less of a concern when there is a very limited marketplace of items that can plug in. That's Apple's security philosophy. Security by constantly changing connectors and standards. Got to keep ahead of the bad guys.
We can just build a wall around the crack. Problem solved.
Similarly the children of a hoarder can just build a wall around it.
Its no worse a challenge than building a wall along the Canada-Australia border.
Simple solutions for simple problems. And if that doesn't work, sign an executive order to do something about it. Heck, maybe a few tweets can fix the crack.
Hey red states, check out the last sentence of Revelation 11:18.
The nations were angry,
and your wrath has come.
The time has come for judging the dead,
and for rewarding your servants the prophets
and your people who revere your name,
both great and small— and for destroying those who destroy the earth.
NIV
Concatenation is okay if you want to define it as an operator. This opens up the question of how far to take this. Can I just invent new operators? What about a function that takes X and Y and returns, arbitrarily, say, 2x + 3y / 2 ?
My point is, if you can invent the operators / functions you need, then at what point is this cheating? At what point does the game become uninteresting?
Now I can see the fun if you are limited to a pre-defined set of operations, including maybe concatenation.
Back in the (ahem) late 1970's when I got a new TI 57 programmable quackulator for college, I remember this game in the calculator's manual. For Four 4's.
I seem to remember that it said the problem had been solved for all integers up to, oh, what was it, about 120 or something. I didn't realize the game went back further than that.
I always thought that someday I might build a program to do this. Looking back several decades, I could not have imagined the kind of tools and languages that would make this easy today. Like Clojure core.logic. Or miniKanren in Scheme. Or even just old fashioned Prolog. Just specify the rules and let the computer do the search for all possible results.
Yes. The media is largely responsible. I remember when CNN was respectable. It was about real news. I watched it deteriorate over decades. They got rid of Headline News. Replaced it with basically gossip and fluff. Stopped doing real analysis. The invasion of the Talking Heads. Sound Bites.
I remember when CNN closed their foreign bureaus. Fired their investigative journalists. At the time, a friend and I wondered how CNN would continue to operate. Now it is clear. Pretend news. Infotainment. It's mostly editorial. Regurgitating government hand outs. The government figured out with 9/11 that it could seize control of the news media with "embedded journalists". They could simultaneously sanitize the war news coverage while also holding the news media hostage to the deliciously addictive handouts of news bits from the government as long as journalists play nice and don't get their access revoked. You can see this today in the white house press briefing room.
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You're behind the times, sir.
Our new national obsession is voting general incompetence and asinine behavior into power.
The unique innovation is to do $X on an iPhone !!!
So it not only just got invented, but just got patented. Just like things already patented were re-patented by adding " . . . on an iPhone".
Or, " . . . on a computer", depending on which patent troll.
I don't want wireless charging, I want wireless exploding batteries. How about Apple joining a consortium for that? Now if only there were a partner company.
They were once something amazing too. How long will it be before a 100 GB quad layer Blu ray disk only holds a dozen Word files, each containing the text "Hello World" ?
Similarly we need new batteries for our new toys. But new toys have outpaced batteries.
Fortunately new batteries don't have the backward compatibility constraints that optical disks have. If there are ten billion optical disks out there, it's a big deal to suddenly try to change to a new format. Not quite so much a problem with Tesla, or even Black & Decker switching to a different battery. Not totally trivial, but not nearly the problem either.
RT is only propaganda. It's not going to burn your eyes. But FoxNews is also propaganda, often factually wrong on matters of fact not opinion. When I see either one I know what I'm looking at. Consider the source. Also consider the questions asked. And the questions NOT asked. American media said not a peep about SOPA until the day big internet sites went dark. When Snowden news broke in 2013, CNN covered it in an extremely one-sided way as if there could be no other point of view. Naturally foreign media took a slightly different view that the NSA was 'merely' spying on 'foreigners' -- where 'foreigners' make up 96 % of the world population.
"It's all a matter of perspective." -- Delenn, ambassador to Babylon 5, member of the gray - - - er, ooops, nevermind.
I don't have FaceTwit. Are there any others?
It is possible to get news from multiple sources. BBC. Jerusalem Post. Al Jazeera. RT. And others.
But aren't they all biased? Yes, they are. Just like CNN, MSNBC or FoxNews.
Are we grown up enough to read through the bias if presented with multiple points of view?
That remains to be seen.
Maybe that is like eating more than just potato chips? But I still like chips, even though I don't have FaceTwit.
I thought AT&T was too busy screwing their customers to be distracted with screwing their employees too.
If corporations don't like employees in a given state or country, can't they just go elsewhere?
Doesn't it work the same with the shoe on the other foot?
Londo Mollari: my shoes are too tight.
You don't have to make a claim of fake news. Just claim that some site is enabling piracy and an internet backbone that has no backbone will just block it for you.
It all depends on whether the unions or the employers are the biggest abusers at any given time. How do you write regulations for that?
But then there is the siren call of deregulate everything! Corporations should be able to do absolutely anything they can imagine to fulfill their shareholders' dreams without any kind of restraints whatsoever!
No, the one sent to Mars.
He could be an ordinary employee, suddenly approached by union and bribed to start complaining. That hypothesis could explain the behavior.
Referral Bonus is a nice euphemism for it.
Which is relatively more morally outrageous:
(A) exploitation of workers. (As an employee benefit install nets around building exterior to prevent employee suicide by jumping off building)
(B) paying someone in a ruse to pose as an employee and get hired in order to agitate workers into starting a union
(C) paying lobbyists and bribing legislators / governors / presidents to force unions
(D) paying lobbyists and bribing legislators / governors / presidents to outlaw unions
(E) Windows 10
It seems that unions are the good or bad guys depending upon the circumstances of the time. When employers are exploiting workers, unions are the good guys who stand up for the little guy, and rightly so. When unions grow in power and influence their purpose becomes all about their own greatness (any resemblance to a current or future president unintentional and purely coincidental). And about maximizing union dues. Then the unions are the bad guys putting employers out of business or forcing jobs to move elsewhere or become more automated.
I remember years ago in an online discussion, possibly here on slashdot, and definitely about a Honda plant, where a worker said it was better to have a job at $18 / hour that they could get versus a union job at $25 / hour that they could not get.
I agree with another poster who said that if Elon takes good care of his employees that they will have little incentive to form a union.
You are woefully misinformed. I think you would have a solution in less than one quarter of a galactic rotation.
No. Security is less of a concern when there is a very limited marketplace of items that can plug in. That's Apple's security philosophy. Security by constantly changing connectors and standards. Got to keep ahead of the bad guys.
Shouldn't one or two dongles be enough for anybody?
What if Monster Cable became Monster Dongle?
Yes, but Apple can't appear to be trying to say that. Because stockholders.
I don't believe Obama can serve another term.
If a chunk of ice breaks off and nobody from an extinct species is there to hear it, did the climate actually change?
We can just build a wall around the crack. Problem solved.
Similarly the children of a hoarder can just build a wall around it.
Its no worse a challenge than building a wall along the Canada-Australia border.
Simple solutions for simple problems. And if that doesn't work, sign an executive order to do something about it. Heck, maybe a few tweets can fix the crack.
Hey red states, check out the last sentence of Revelation 11:18.
The nations were angry,
and your wrath has come.
The time has come for judging the dead,
and for rewarding your servants the prophets
and your people who revere your name,
both great and small—
and for destroying those who destroy the earth.
NIV
Concatenation is okay if you want to define it as an operator. This opens up the question of how far to take this. Can I just invent new operators? What about a function that takes X and Y and returns, arbitrarily, say, 2x + 3y / 2 ?
My point is, if you can invent the operators / functions you need, then at what point is this cheating? At what point does the game become uninteresting?
Now I can see the fun if you are limited to a pre-defined set of operations, including maybe concatenation.
Back in the (ahem) late 1970's when I got a new TI 57 programmable quackulator for college, I remember this game in the calculator's manual. For Four 4's.
I seem to remember that it said the problem had been solved for all integers up to, oh, what was it, about 120 or something. I didn't realize the game went back further than that.
I always thought that someday I might build a program to do this. Looking back several decades, I could not have imagined the kind of tools and languages that would make this easy today. Like Clojure core.logic. Or miniKanren in Scheme. Or even just old fashioned Prolog. Just specify the rules and let the computer do the search for all possible results.
I just copy/pasted from somewhere. No deliberate intent to leave off something important. My point was about obfuscation by a government agency.
Yes. The media is largely responsible. I remember when CNN was respectable. It was about real news. I watched it deteriorate over decades. They got rid of Headline News. Replaced it with basically gossip and fluff. Stopped doing real analysis. The invasion of the Talking Heads. Sound Bites.
I remember when CNN closed their foreign bureaus. Fired their investigative journalists. At the time, a friend and I wondered how CNN would continue to operate. Now it is clear. Pretend news. Infotainment. It's mostly editorial. Regurgitating government hand outs. The government figured out with 9/11 that it could seize control of the news media with "embedded journalists". They could simultaneously sanitize the war news coverage while also holding the news media hostage to the deliciously addictive handouts of news bits from the government as long as journalists play nice and don't get their access revoked. You can see this today in the white house press briefing room.