Well, don't worry about it then. Just focus your voting on important issues, like legalizing pot for example, and let people who know what they are talking about make sure that you can keep the (grow) lights on.
Maybe you should talk to the Canadians who are dying to get down here for some cancer treatment. If the US health care is not much better, why would they want to do that?
The traps in both javascript an ruby can make even a grown person's head explode, let alone a kindergartner.
I'm also not convinced by "block programming". OK, it's easy to make a pig move 3 steps forward by sticking three "move forward" blocks together. But that' gets old in minutes, and you want variables and functions. At that point (about an hour in) block programming becomes more of a hassle than typing "A=11".
You are just fucking kidding, right? You get better care at our emergency rooms than in intensive care anywhere else.
Apparently you have missed the whole point of the ACA. Which was to make the best of the best health care we have here in the US available for a larger group of people.
Yet our government keeps cutting both physical education and art, to save money. At the same time the school superintendant in my city makes $500k / year, plus benefits.
What does that even mean? He re-encrypts it every 4 hours and emails out the passwords and the file? This is either super spy sheit, or just plain bull sheit.
Airlines will love this. Even at $1/minute, passengers will rake up pretty good bills by the end of the flight. And I doubt they will stop at a buck a minute, because above 10k feet, well, they got you by the balls.
Actually I wouldn't be surprised if the airline mafia were behind this, with large paychecks for the FCC officials who push this through.
We use one of the best accountants in the entertainment industry. She charges us $300, for a pretty complicated tax return (husband, wife, investments, property income, kids). She saves us way... way more than $300. Not even counting not having to do much more than giving her a big ziploc bag of paperwork and signing a couple pieces of documents.
Are you aware that most human accountants use... tax software?
Yes. But theirs is better. And they already know how to use it.
They also have knowledge of the tax code, which even if not complete, much more than mine, yours, and everyone's who commented on this article, combined.
I tried TurboTax before, granted it was probably a decade ago. After several hours of trying to figure out how to correclty answer questions, gave up.
Just go to an accountant. You can get your taxes prepared and signed for $100-$200. The forms will be filled out correctly. You save a lot of time. You save money by having someone who knows the tax code get you more money back (or pay less taxes).
And spraying my info into the "cloud"? Yeah, no thank you.
People who have no effin idea what the hell they are talking about, but feel compelled to spew their opinion and ask stupid questions. You can find them all over the internets and the workplace.
I'm pretty sure it can run msoffice, although never tried it.
My use case is more like this: photoshop, illustrator, with multiple 2k+ files open, visual studio debugging through vmware and live injecting code updates. Peppered with some misc editor, chrome and whatnot.
Oddly enough, the survey by the online consumer insurance site Car insurance.com also showed that 75% of respondents think they could drive a car better than a computer. Another 64% said computers were not capable of the same quality of decision-making as human drivers. And 75% would not trust a driverless car to take their children to school.
Something like Most Drivers Are Not Ready To Hand The Keys Over To A Computer would've been more appropriate.
Chunk of change, compared to the billions the US government sends down the toilet _every_ _single_ _day_. I'm not saying that makes it OK, but we should start looking at the real problems instead of the smoke and mirrors talking points.
Because it is dependent on light, the technology can't penetrate walls or work in complete darkness. In Chi's case, the Li-Fi receiver must be within three meters of the router, and placed under the LED bulbs so that the sensor can read it.
Am I missing something here? If it can't work in total darkness, and the receiver has to be within 3 meters, what's the application for this? We have a whole bunch of other solutions, like bluetooth for example, that's low power, invisible, and go way further than that.
Sounds like a fun project, but doesn't seem more useful than building a cnc machine out of legos.
The "waycom pen and touchscreen" is the only thing you listed which I don't get with a $600 ultrabook, and it definitely isn't worth the $400 difference to me.
OK, so it's not for you. Which means your comment adds 0 (zero) value to this discussion. Like the dual-path hydrostatic drive doesn't mean anything to me on the John Deere 950J, so I don't make stupid comments about it.
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Well, don't worry about it then. Just focus your voting on important issues, like legalizing pot for example, and let people who know what they are talking about make sure that you can keep the (grow) lights on.
48 rpis = 48 * $35 = $1680
48 cameras = 48 * $30 = $1440
48 piface = 48 * $34 = $1632
48 2gb sd cards = 48 * $8 = $384
48 5V PSU = $48 * 3 = $144
Up to here, it's $5280. Not including:
about half a kilometre of network cable
2 x 24 port switches
1 wireless router
custom laser cut frame
shipping
So let's say $6k. You can buy a nice professional DSLR for much much cheaper than that.
Facts, or never happened.
Maybe you should talk to the Canadians who are dying to get down here for some cancer treatment. If the US health care is not much better, why would they want to do that?
Agreed completely.
The traps in both javascript an ruby can make even a grown person's head explode, let alone a kindergartner.
I'm also not convinced by "block programming". OK, it's easy to make a pig move 3 steps forward by sticking three "move forward" blocks together. But that' gets old in minutes, and you want variables and functions. At that point (about an hour in) block programming becomes more of a hassle than typing "A=11".
As for programming languages, there's also Pascal. Just like BASIC, it was created to for teaching programming.
And why does everything need to be Angry Birds? (Which reminds me, nice slasvertisement again, timothy.)
You are just fucking kidding, right? You get better care at our emergency rooms than in intensive care anywhere else.
Apparently you have missed the whole point of the ACA. Which was to make the best of the best health care we have here in the US available for a larger group of people.
Yet our government keeps cutting both physical education and art, to save money. At the same time the school superintendant in my city makes $500k / year, plus benefits.
What does that even mean? He re-encrypts it every 4 hours and emails out the passwords and the file? This is either super spy sheit, or just plain bull sheit.
Airlines will love this. Even at $1/minute, passengers will rake up pretty good bills by the end of the flight. And I doubt they will stop at a buck a minute, because above 10k feet, well, they got you by the balls.
Actually I wouldn't be surprised if the airline mafia were behind this, with large paychecks for the FCC officials who push this through.
We use one of the best accountants in the entertainment industry. She charges us $300, for a pretty complicated tax return (husband, wife, investments, property income, kids). She saves us way... way more than $300. Not even counting not having to do much more than giving her a big ziploc bag of paperwork and signing a couple pieces of documents.
ask you a lot of detailed questions about your life events and situation
But time to answer those lots of detailed questions, is money. Or at least time wasted, from your life.
Are you aware that most human accountants use ... tax software?
Yes. But theirs is better. And they already know how to use it.
They also have knowledge of the tax code, which even if not complete, much more than mine, yours, and everyone's who commented on this article, combined.
I tried TurboTax before, granted it was probably a decade ago. After several hours of trying to figure out how to correclty answer questions, gave up.
Just go to an accountant. You can get your taxes prepared and signed for $100-$200. The forms will be filled out correctly. You save a lot of time. You save money by having someone who knows the tax code get you more money back (or pay less taxes).
And spraying my info into the "cloud"? Yeah, no thank you.
What could possibly go wrong?
Oh that's easy.
People who have no effin idea what the hell they are talking about, but feel compelled to spew their opinion and ask stupid questions. You can find them all over the internets and the workplace.
except to block malicious extentions they could do just that instead of going nuclear and blocking everything. so no, I dont buy that bs.
add google talk to the list, where they killed the desktop application and blocked third parties
or if you do, we'll just use firefox
I'm pretty sure it can run msoffice, although never tried it.
My use case is more like this: photoshop, illustrator, with multiple 2k+ files open, visual studio debugging through vmware and live injecting code updates. Peppered with some misc editor, chrome and whatnot.
On a laptop.
Make me happy.
I've been using win8 for over a year. Zero problems. Everything works. Faster than win7 and looks better.
Until you provide facts to support your claim of "the most horrible operating system I have ever experienced", you are just spreading FUD.
Oddly enough, the survey by the online consumer insurance site Car insurance.com also showed that 75% of respondents think they could drive a car better than a computer. Another 64% said computers were not capable of the same quality of decision-making as human drivers. And 75% would not trust a driverless car to take their children to school.
Something like Most Drivers Are Not Ready To Hand The Keys Over To A Computer would've been more appropriate.
JPMorgan owes a lot more than 13 billion
Chunk of change, compared to the billions the US government sends down the toilet _every_ _single_ _day_. I'm not saying that makes it OK, but we should start looking at the real problems instead of the smoke and mirrors talking points.
Because it is dependent on light, the technology can't penetrate walls or work in complete darkness. In Chi's case, the Li-Fi receiver must be within three meters of the router, and placed under the LED bulbs so that the sensor can read it.
Am I missing something here? If it can't work in total darkness, and the receiver has to be within 3 meters, what's the application for this? We have a whole bunch of other solutions, like bluetooth for example, that's low power, invisible, and go way further than that.
Sounds like a fun project, but doesn't seem more useful than building a cnc machine out of legos.
and is all but impossible on mobile devices
Now you are just spreading FUD. LMGTFY
The "waycom pen and touchscreen" is the only thing you listed which I don't get with a $600 ultrabook, and it definitely isn't worth the $400 difference to me.
OK, so it's not for you. Which means your comment adds 0 (zero) value to this discussion. Like the dual-path hydrostatic drive doesn't mean anything to me on the John Deere 950J, so I don't make stupid comments about it.
First google shuts down talk by killing the desktop client and closing the protocol.
Now MS kills skype.
What's next?