Why go to all that trouble - it's easier just to put "iPhone" or "iPad" in the summary to the editors and be done with it. Especially if it's on Timothy's watch.
You, and most musical composers and other artists, are engaging in a speculative work.
Should you wish to "pay the bills," you may wish to engage in a "work for hire" where you receive a specification (regardless of how tight or loose) from someone who needs a program to perform a particular action. You negotiate a fee, and they pay you for the work, either as a lump sum or in time and materials fashion. Much art was produced this way for centuries (heck, millenia) without copyright law.
There are ways to pay the bills without resorting to speculation; your method of sustenance is your choice (though it may be so for may good reasons).
You know, it depends on how well you know the reference and what you're looking for. I can find certain sections of commonly referenced code* far faster with a 1000 page book than I can look it up in e-form, since it takes far longer to grab the book and flip to (say) page 634 than to find and open the PDF**. For stuff I need to find, but I don't reference often, the computer can be faster since I can do a search. Oddly, things I almost never reference are usually faster in the paper version because I can "scan" the book faster and find the section I need (pdf readers really need to get better at flipping pages). This is particularly true since some searches are very hard to properly parse. A search for "exit stair width," for example, will find hundreds of hits as individual words, none as a phrase. What I would need to be able to search for is "width" in sections about "stairs" in the chapter(s) which cover "egress". None of the readers I have can do that, but I know that I can flip through about 40 pages scanning and find the one or two sections I need in less than a minute.
*the International Building Code to be specific
**I happen to use close to a hundred references in "daily" work, so shortcuts are pretty much useless - they still have to be filed somewhere. Even if it file is only three clicks and a keystroke away, I can get my answer faster than a 20-30MB PDF can open in any reader I've tried. Now, if someone can find a way to accelerate opening and - especially - thumnail indexing and page flipping, including with large images (12,000x16,000 bitmaps for arch. prints), I'm all ears.
The desire to keep one's job is likely at the heart of this. If they see someone taking lots of pictures, they could be an amateur photographer, a tourist, an internal security force auditor, a journalist, or a terrorist - in that order of probability I'd guess. Now, if anything bad happens on their watch, they're going to be flipping burgers next week. They've been taught (in the regular "classes") the signs of potential trouble, and someone taking lots of photos is one of those signs. Since journalists, photogs, and tourists aren't covered in those classes - except possibly in passing. That means the guy taking pictures is mostly likely a terrorist, or possibly someone from your security company checking up on how well you applied your recent training.
The possible results are that the photog and the tourist will very quickly comply since they're not really interested in getting into trouble - they just wanted a neat picture. The auditor or terrorist will flash false journalist or other credentials (i.e. a fake letter). The real journalist would have registered and your superior would have notified you if there were some event happening.
So, to keep you job, you hassle everyone. If they're persistant, you call the police and let them sort it out.
Is this a good practice? Hell no. It sucks.
IMO, the proper response for a moderate-risk target would be to ask for and verify the ID, verify the purpose and authorization. Take a copy of the authorization (like the letter) and report to the next level up. If there is none, note the place and time of the incident and, ideally, get a photo of the people involved - report it up the chain.
The gueard was clearly in the wrong, but to be fair - he may have just been looking to save his own ass.
That would be awesome. Then we could bitch about the clusterfuck that 10 million viPhone users on Verizon's network caused. Seriously - if you have several thousand people on a cell all trying to stream their own Pandora channels, you're going to have issues no matter what color the tower is.
Wrong. You're buying the support system - an OS and a large slate of applications which are tailored to the kind of things that tablet can do well. The iPhone would be useless (and, quite frankly - was) without the applications available. Everybody has some basic apps, but the odd things that make it fun/interesting/useful are what make it a success. The hardware matters little, except to be sure that it doesn't get in the way (good touch screen, enough res for 3", minimal and mostly self-evident buttons, real headphone jack). Heck, even I'll give Jobs a pass on the stupidity of the battery and the speaker location, because - mostly - the device doesn't get in the way. It's the little things that seem to be the coolest, too (like a pitch pipe, really good golf gps, and an HP48gx emulator).
Apparently it doesn't affect all of them. If the rumors about incorrectly applied coatings can be believed, then it makes a bit of sense. Those which have sufficient coating thickness (probably a clear coat of sorts) insulate the band from the user's skin (preventing bridging). It's not like we're talking about a 6+-9s manufacturing operation.
It's not too surprising that there are manufacturing issues - they happen with just about every new device.
Equipment costs are small relative to the personnel and facility costs. Besides, whether you use a $400 camera or a $2,000 "custom" (i.e OTS, integrated) CCD in a $50,000 detection machine where most of the money is in something other than hardware (i.e.: R&D, liability, marketing, OH&P), the net cost to consumers in any first world country will be the same.
You didn't really think that this is going to have a $400 pricetag at your local doctor's office, did you? Worse yet, are you going to find a practicing doctor with the free time to hack together a cancer detector and the balls to actually use it in a production setting? And - really - would you trust some guy with barely 4 years of general studies college and two years of classroom medical training whom you've never met to decide whether or not you need lifesaving procedures based on something they built in their garage so you can save $300 on a diagnostic visit?
Mine almost deactivated her FB account because she felt addicted to it. Part of it was that my daughter liked to play, but is too young for FB, so my wife let her play with her account, and then ended up "helping" all the time.
Luckily she canned all the games (afaik) and stayed on FB, but she definitely has some issues with the socially immersive site.
The chances are identical then, when considering any day of the week, not just tuesday, and also in the case of a girl born on tuesday (or any day). The fallacy comes from stipulating that one of your children is a boy, not that it occurs on a particular day.
We need multiple sources. I like solar from a purist standpoint: it's the primary source for all energy on earth save geothermal and nuclear (though it could technically be responsible for those, we'll ignore that). Still, I think solar conversion to electricity is still a long way from long term commerical viability. (yes, it's been done, but I don't see anybody making a killing in solar farms, despite the energy source being free)
Nuclear has the advantage of being cheap (at least, according to my electric bill, it's less than half the cost of coal per kWh) Solar has the advantage of being great for A/C induced peaking loads NG is very good for peaking loads which are not concurrent with solar generation
Of course hydroelectric is great for peaking, too - especially if practiced like France and Switzerland. The Swiss buy power from the French (nuclear) during off-peak and use it to pump water into dammed lakes, then generate power through those dams during peak periods and sell it back to the French. The challenege is that there are only so many areas which can be powered this way do to the need for proper topography.
Flying insects might suffer, but I'm not sure if that's good or bad for most (non-insect-pollinated) farming.
Even for insect pollinated farming it's probably irrelevant. This is used for elimination of frost on frost-sensitive crops, which means application during freezing temperatures, or near-freezing temps with clear night skies. Very low occurrence of pollination going on at those times. I can see a potential mis-use to try and eliminate pests at other times, but the energy cost may preclude its use for that.
There are fairly minor increments to the ICE system - most of the rapid depreciation of an ICE model comes when a new body style is brought out!
The first few years of electric and hybrid production cars had a lot of "problems" which were corrected or significantly improved in newer models. Until the technology reaches a plateau, the earlier vehicles will have real drawbacks compared to the most recent.
Of course, you're talking about a 15% difference in value (relative to your original investment) over a 10 year period, or a 1.5% difference per year. On a $30k vehicle, that's about $38/mo. One would hope you're saving that much in maintenance and fuel costs.
Two things: you've been conditioned to accept gaming graphics of yesteryear, and your need for more complex game play now trumps pure visuals. You can drop in a $100 video card, set the quality to give you excellent frame rates, and it looks fucking awesome because you remember playing Doom. Also, once you get to a certain point, the eye candy takes a backseat to game play and story - the basic cards hit that point pretty easily now.
Back when we used to game, you needed just about every cycle you could get to make basic gameplay what would now be considered "primitive". Middling level detail is great, in my opinion. Going up levels to the maximum detail really adds very little. I won't argue that it's cool to see that last bit of realism, but it's not worth doubling the cost of a computer to get it.
Is it more than the man? See, there's still inequality which makes the males more "reliable".
A sibling poster mentioned that men in the US get FMLA (up to 12 weeks of leave) for a new child. Except, of course, that that leave is unpaid. If both parents are out of work for 3 months, it's unlikely that their savings will sustain them. Remember, here I'm talking about Americans, who's credit card debt normally exceeds their savings by a significant multiple. Most can't be out of work for more than 3-4 weeks of unpaid leave without serious financial impact, and most have very little leave saved up - the typical young worker gets 15 days of total leave annually, including sick and vacation. Just going to the doctor with your wife will eat up 3-4 days of that. It's a double whammy if both parents work and their lifestyle is based on that double income. Most Americans will max their credit on cars and housing, and end up with 40-50% of their income committed to debt service.
I wondered the same thing, but then I realized that I pay for prime - which means I get everything 2 day, and since the USPS won't guarantee anything be delivered on time they won't use them (aside from it being horrifically expensive).
The only time it matters is if you need a Sunday or Holiday delivery - in which case the USPS will deliver express mail on those days.
I own a Fuze, and the screen is very nice. The only problem is that the OS it runs was made for a stylus, and the input system is very difficult when you try to use it with a finger. IMHO, Apple has sacrificed usability for developer convenience on the iP4. By a simple doubling of the resolution (per axis, for the pedants out there), they can 2x the existing apps and nobody is any the wiser. I have a 3Gs, and there are certain things I prefer on the Fuze (God, I miss my keyboard) - but the user interface/input is so far superior I'm willing to live witht he shortcomings of the iPhone
If Apple were really interested in maximizing the interface, they could have reworked it just a bit to get a 16:9 screen, which would have been much nicer for landscape media. They also could have shifted the speaker up a bit to eliminate some of that annoying, wasted bezel space.
Me? I'd have been happy with 480x854 - I think 640 is overkill and will require more graphics processing (i.e. power consumption) than is actually necessary). But I suppose Jobs decided to give iP4 users at least one metric where you would win in a measuring contest.
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Why go to all that trouble - it's easier just to put "iPhone" or "iPad" in the summary to the editors and be done with it. Especially if it's on Timothy's watch.
*Devil's Advocate mode on*
You, and most musical composers and other artists, are engaging in a speculative work.
Should you wish to "pay the bills," you may wish to engage in a "work for hire" where you receive a specification (regardless of how tight or loose) from someone who needs a program to perform a particular action. You negotiate a fee, and they pay you for the work, either as a lump sum or in time and materials fashion. Much art was produced this way for centuries (heck, millenia) without copyright law.
There are ways to pay the bills without resorting to speculation; your method of sustenance is your choice (though it may be so for may good reasons).
Whatever you do, don't let them know that Cyanide is made of carbon and nitrogen. It could spell the end of California!
Actually, on second thought...what the hell, let's tell 'em and see what happens!
You know, it depends on how well you know the reference and what you're looking for. I can find certain sections of commonly referenced code* far faster with a 1000 page book than I can look it up in e-form, since it takes far longer to grab the book and flip to (say) page 634 than to find and open the PDF**. For stuff I need to find, but I don't reference often, the computer can be faster since I can do a search. Oddly, things I almost never reference are usually faster in the paper version because I can "scan" the book faster and find the section I need (pdf readers really need to get better at flipping pages). This is particularly true since some searches are very hard to properly parse. A search for "exit stair width," for example, will find hundreds of hits as individual words, none as a phrase. What I would need to be able to search for is "width" in sections about "stairs" in the chapter(s) which cover "egress". None of the readers I have can do that, but I know that I can flip through about 40 pages scanning and find the one or two sections I need in less than a minute.
*the International Building Code to be specific
**I happen to use close to a hundred references in "daily" work, so shortcuts are pretty much useless - they still have to be filed somewhere. Even if it file is only three clicks and a keystroke away, I can get my answer faster than a 20-30MB PDF can open in any reader I've tried. Now, if someone can find a way to accelerate opening and - especially - thumnail indexing and page flipping, including with large images (12,000x16,000 bitmaps for arch. prints), I'm all ears.
The desire to keep one's job is likely at the heart of this. If they see someone taking lots of pictures, they could be an amateur photographer, a tourist, an internal security force auditor, a journalist, or a terrorist - in that order of probability I'd guess. Now, if anything bad happens on their watch, they're going to be flipping burgers next week. They've been taught (in the regular "classes") the signs of potential trouble, and someone taking lots of photos is one of those signs. Since journalists, photogs, and tourists aren't covered in those classes - except possibly in passing. That means the guy taking pictures is mostly likely a terrorist, or possibly someone from your security company checking up on how well you applied your recent training.
The possible results are that the photog and the tourist will very quickly comply since they're not really interested in getting into trouble - they just wanted a neat picture. The auditor or terrorist will flash false journalist or other credentials (i.e. a fake letter). The real journalist would have registered and your superior would have notified you if there were some event happening.
So, to keep you job, you hassle everyone. If they're persistant, you call the police and let them sort it out.
Is this a good practice? Hell no. It sucks.
IMO, the proper response for a moderate-risk target would be to ask for and verify the ID, verify the purpose and authorization. Take a copy of the authorization (like the letter) and report to the next level up. If there is none, note the place and time of the incident and, ideally, get a photo of the people involved - report it up the chain.
The gueard was clearly in the wrong, but to be fair - he may have just been looking to save his own ass.
Sure, you only get 4 colors in hires on an Apple, but what can you draw with a 40x40 grid anyway (except, maybe, a Mark Spitz retrospective).
That would be awesome. Then we could bitch about the clusterfuck that 10 million viPhone users on Verizon's network caused. Seriously - if you have several thousand people on a cell all trying to stream their own Pandora channels, you're going to have issues no matter what color the tower is.
Wrong. You're buying the support system - an OS and a large slate of applications which are tailored to the kind of things that tablet can do well. The iPhone would be useless (and, quite frankly - was) without the applications available. Everybody has some basic apps, but the odd things that make it fun/interesting/useful are what make it a success. The hardware matters little, except to be sure that it doesn't get in the way (good touch screen, enough res for 3", minimal and mostly self-evident buttons, real headphone jack). Heck, even I'll give Jobs a pass on the stupidity of the battery and the speaker location, because - mostly - the device doesn't get in the way. It's the little things that seem to be the coolest, too (like a pitch pipe, really good golf gps, and an HP48gx emulator).
Apparently it doesn't affect all of them. If the rumors about incorrectly applied coatings can be believed, then it makes a bit of sense. Those which have sufficient coating thickness (probably a clear coat of sorts) insulate the band from the user's skin (preventing bridging). It's not like we're talking about a 6+-9s manufacturing operation.
It's not too surprising that there are manufacturing issues - they happen with just about every new device.
Nice, I guess, if you don't mind driving something so fucking ugly that it hurts just to look at.
Equipment costs are small relative to the personnel and facility costs. Besides, whether you use a $400 camera or a $2,000 "custom" (i.e OTS, integrated) CCD in a $50,000 detection machine where most of the money is in something other than hardware (i.e.: R&D, liability, marketing, OH&P), the net cost to consumers in any first world country will be the same.
You didn't really think that this is going to have a $400 pricetag at your local doctor's office, did you? Worse yet, are you going to find a practicing doctor with the free time to hack together a cancer detector and the balls to actually use it in a production setting? And - really - would you trust some guy with barely 4 years of general studies college and two years of classroom medical training whom you've never met to decide whether or not you need lifesaving procedures based on something they built in their garage so you can save $300 on a diagnostic visit?
...otherwise, sir, please turn in your geek card immediately.
Mine almost deactivated her FB account because she felt addicted to it. Part of it was that my daughter liked to play, but is too young for FB, so my wife let her play with her account, and then ended up "helping" all the time.
Luckily she canned all the games (afaik) and stayed on FB, but she definitely has some issues with the socially immersive site.
Just checking to see if this woman happens to live in Canada. Just sayin'...
The chances are identical then, when considering any day of the week, not just tuesday, and also in the case of a girl born on tuesday (or any day). The fallacy comes from stipulating that one of your children is a boy, not that it occurs on a particular day.
We need multiple sources. I like solar from a purist standpoint: it's the primary source for all energy on earth save geothermal and nuclear (though it could technically be responsible for those, we'll ignore that). Still, I think solar conversion to electricity is still a long way from long term commerical viability. (yes, it's been done, but I don't see anybody making a killing in solar farms, despite the energy source being free)
Nuclear has the advantage of being cheap (at least, according to my electric bill, it's less than half the cost of coal per kWh)
Solar has the advantage of being great for A/C induced peaking loads
NG is very good for peaking loads which are not concurrent with solar generation
Of course hydroelectric is great for peaking, too - especially if practiced like France and Switzerland. The Swiss buy power from the French (nuclear) during off-peak and use it to pump water into dammed lakes, then generate power through those dams during peak periods and sell it back to the French. The challenege is that there are only so many areas which can be powered this way do to the need for proper topography.
As a long time /.er, you clearly will never have a need for any additional passengers!
Most "beneficial" insects are not active during frost periods - i.e. below freezing or near-freezing with clear night skies.
Flying insects might suffer, but I'm not sure if that's good or bad for most (non-insect-pollinated) farming.
Even for insect pollinated farming it's probably irrelevant. This is used for elimination of frost on frost-sensitive crops, which means application during freezing temperatures, or near-freezing temps with clear night skies. Very low occurrence of pollination going on at those times. I can see a potential mis-use to try and eliminate pests at other times, but the energy cost may preclude its use for that.
There are fairly minor increments to the ICE system - most of the rapid depreciation of an ICE model comes when a new body style is brought out!
The first few years of electric and hybrid production cars had a lot of "problems" which were corrected or significantly improved in newer models. Until the technology reaches a plateau, the earlier vehicles will have real drawbacks compared to the most recent.
Of course, you're talking about a 15% difference in value (relative to your original investment) over a 10 year period, or a 1.5% difference per year. On a $30k vehicle, that's about $38/mo. One would hope you're saving that much in maintenance and fuel costs.
Two things: you've been conditioned to accept gaming graphics of yesteryear, and your need for more complex game play now trumps pure visuals. You can drop in a $100 video card, set the quality to give you excellent frame rates, and it looks fucking awesome because you remember playing Doom. Also, once you get to a certain point, the eye candy takes a backseat to game play and story - the basic cards hit that point pretty easily now.
Back when we used to game, you needed just about every cycle you could get to make basic gameplay what would now be considered "primitive". Middling level detail is great, in my opinion. Going up levels to the maximum detail really adds very little. I won't argue that it's cool to see that last bit of realism, but it's not worth doubling the cost of a computer to get it.
Is it more than the man? See, there's still inequality which makes the males more "reliable".
A sibling poster mentioned that men in the US get FMLA (up to 12 weeks of leave) for a new child. Except, of course, that that leave is unpaid. If both parents are out of work for 3 months, it's unlikely that their savings will sustain them. Remember, here I'm talking about Americans, who's credit card debt normally exceeds their savings by a significant multiple. Most can't be out of work for more than 3-4 weeks of unpaid leave without serious financial impact, and most have very little leave saved up - the typical young worker gets 15 days of total leave annually, including sick and vacation. Just going to the doctor with your wife will eat up 3-4 days of that. It's a double whammy if both parents work and their lifestyle is based on that double income. Most Americans will max their credit on cars and housing, and end up with 40-50% of their income committed to debt service.
I wondered the same thing, but then I realized that I pay for prime - which means I get everything 2 day, and since the USPS won't guarantee anything be delivered on time they won't use them (aside from it being horrifically expensive).
The only time it matters is if you need a Sunday or Holiday delivery - in which case the USPS will deliver express mail on those days.
I own a Fuze, and the screen is very nice. The only problem is that the OS it runs was made for a stylus, and the input system is very difficult when you try to use it with a finger. IMHO, Apple has sacrificed usability for developer convenience on the iP4. By a simple doubling of the resolution (per axis, for the pedants out there), they can 2x the existing apps and nobody is any the wiser. I have a 3Gs, and there are certain things I prefer on the Fuze (God, I miss my keyboard) - but the user interface/input is so far superior I'm willing to live witht he shortcomings of the iPhone
If Apple were really interested in maximizing the interface, they could have reworked it just a bit to get a 16:9 screen, which would have been much nicer for landscape media. They also could have shifted the speaker up a bit to eliminate some of that annoying, wasted bezel space.
Me? I'd have been happy with 480x854 - I think 640 is overkill and will require more graphics processing (i.e. power consumption) than is actually necessary). But I suppose Jobs decided to give iP4 users at least one metric where you would win in a measuring contest.
You've clearly never had to manage files on a WM phone. A 3.5" screen, even with 480 resolution, is not conducive to intensive file management.