I have a perfect record getting people to the stations, sometimes needing to cut off a departing bus, or running up to a train to keep the doors from closing. An autonomous cab cannot do that (yet?).
God, I hope not. What the world really needs is less of that, not more.
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I just went to ebay and logged in, and was surprised to see nothing regarding this on their main page.
“eBay Inc. (Nasdaq: EBAY) said beginning later today it will be asking eBay users to change their passwords...”
[...]it should not automatically connect to an insecure network that it has never seen before.
Well, if that's what you meant, then you're in luck. As you originally wrote, "There needs to be an update to iOS and Android that gives users the option to disable this feature." That's not necessary, because there are (and have always been) a grand total of two toggles in the Wi-Fi settings on iOS: "On/Off" and "Ask to Join Networks."
I would just shrug and go, "Huh. That was an expensive mistake... managers just don't understand workplace economics these days." Then walk out.
Firing an employee is the worst thing for a company. It removes the employee's expertise, disrupts current operations, then requires retraining of other employees to cope.
All of this presumes that the employee's position won't simply be eliminated. Considering that this happened during a conference call during which potentially hundreds of layoffs were announced, it's quite probable that the standard economic model doesn't necessarily apply.
Seriously, bearing in mind that there are non-fictional species on Earth that can effectively change their reproductive systems within their own lifetimes
You may want to look into what some animals on Earth are capable of.
And then he went on to give me examples of things about which I'd already written, as quoted. Of course, that I wrote about it seemed to imply that I already knew this.
With sex being a changeable characteristic, labels like "mother" and "father" get confusing....
...to your limited human understanding. Seriously, bearing in mind that there are non-fictional species on Earth that can effectively change their reproductive systems within their own lifetimes, that's hardly the most imaginative, alien concept ever to pass through the canon of the Doctor.
historically in much of the world cooking was done apart from living spaces - either outside or in an alcove or courtyard. So many of today's houses and apartments really are not that well thought out, if you stop to think about it.
Oh, yes, especially considering how often we cook by burning wood or charcoal inside our homes today. It's a wonder that no one has pointed out the danger of our anachronistic cooking methods before.
It's sensless to compare software and cars age-wise.
Cars get degraded as the years pass. Software is identical, it's not worn of or anything like that.
Although it's true that the car analogy was highly flawed, it's also unwise to imply that Windows installations do not degrade over time. There was a time, in the not-too-distant-past, when Microsoft would recommend periodic re-installation of Windows.
I don't know what kind of applications you run to need 8gb of ram; video editing, big games?
Adobe Photoshop, Lightroom, and image files at either ~21MP or 5300 DPI (depending on whether I used a full-frame DSLR or scanned 35mm negatives). At a mere 16GB RAM in my primary workstation, I'm due for an upgrade.
Right, so like going to a store and asking for a product that they don't have and being directed to similar products. As mentioned in the case and equally insane.
Oh, I'm fully supportive of Amazon's business model, and believe that the lawsuit had no merit; the judge should have hurled the gavel into the general direction of the plaintiff's lawyers heads. It's simply quite wearisome to watch people comment on things they haven't made the most basic effort to understand.
(I know full well that the response to that should be "welcome to Slashdot.")
Go to a store and you'll generally see competing products next to each other and that's okay. But try to do something similar on-line?
...writes the person who clearly didn't read the article. I say that because if you did, you'd know that the products in question quite specifically aren't actually available on Amazon.com.
The file copy ones used to drive me nuts. If I'm moving files from one source to one destination, you'd think the transfer speeds would be pretty consistent and the time estimates pretty accurate. I can't pretend to know why they used to be so bad, but they do seem better now.
If you're referring to moving files from one disk to another one nearby, then it was probably due to fragmentation. When drives were smaller, it was more likely for a single file to end up scattered across the disk. They were also slower back then, which only served to exacerbate the problem.
There's also a read penalty that increases when dealing with larger and larger numbers of smaller and smaller files. The original estimate is based upon the raw size of the data, but doesn't immediately factor what it might require to move that amount in small segments.
Credit card? Cash baby! You get the benefit of a lower cost per gallon...
Oh, yeah, there are some gas stations that charge more for using a credit card... just not anywhere near where I live and work. Aside from that, my credit card pays me 4% back when I use it at a gas station.
Let's get the entire population of US citizens to file a suit against the government, and all the politicians individually, for wasting our money bailing out failing companies.
That would be something, if the US government hadn't earned a profit of $22.7 billion on the AIG bailout. If I recall correctly, that's part of the substance of AIG's complaint that's being discussed here.
We don't need to do that; we still have laws, and we can still pass laws that rein in corporations.
That would be useful if we could pass laws and enforce them retroactively. However, Article 1 of our Constitution forbids ex post facto laws, so that's a problem.
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I have a perfect record getting people to the stations, sometimes needing to cut off a departing bus, or running up to a train to keep the doors from closing. An autonomous cab cannot do that (yet?).
God, I hope not. What the world really needs is less of that, not more.
I just went to ebay and logged in, and was surprised to see nothing regarding this on their main page.
“eBay Inc. (Nasdaq: EBAY) said beginning later today it will be asking eBay users to change their passwords...”
A tablet may not be the best place to run virtual machines or servers, and nothing else really requires more than 8GB of RAM.
Running Adobe Photoshop and Lightroom on less than 16GB can be painful.
[...]it should not automatically connect to an insecure network that it has never seen before.
Well, if that's what you meant, then you're in luck. As you originally wrote, "There needs to be an update to iOS and Android that gives users the option to disable this feature." That's not necessary, because there are (and have always been) a grand total of two toggles in the Wi-Fi settings on iOS: "On/Off" and " Ask to Join Networks ."
I would just shrug and go, "Huh. That was an expensive mistake... managers just don't understand workplace economics these days." Then walk out.
Firing an employee is the worst thing for a company. It removes the employee's expertise, disrupts current operations, then requires retraining of other employees to cope.
All of this presumes that the employee's position won't simply be eliminated. Considering that this happened during a conference call during which potentially hundreds of layoffs were announced, it's quite probable that the standard economic model doesn't necessarily apply.
Seriously, bearing in mind that there are non-fictional species on Earth that can effectively change their reproductive systems within their own lifetimes
You may want to look into what some animals on Earth are capable of.
And then he went on to give me examples of things about which I'd already written, as quoted. Of course, that I wrote about it seemed to imply that I already knew this.
With sex being a changeable characteristic, labels like "mother" and "father" get confusing....
...to your limited human understanding. Seriously, bearing in mind that there are non-fictional species on Earth that can effectively change their reproductive systems within their own lifetimes, that's hardly the most imaginative, alien concept ever to pass through the canon of the Doctor.
historically in much of the world cooking was done apart from living spaces - either outside or in an alcove or courtyard. So many of today's houses and apartments really are not that well thought out, if you stop to think about it.
Oh, yes, especially considering how often we cook by burning wood or charcoal inside our homes today. It's a wonder that no one has pointed out the danger of our anachronistic cooking methods before.
This is the same basic logic that's employed by Skynet and most other fictional rampant AI.
Most cost overruns are due to scope creep.
See also, The Pentagon Wars .
It's sensless to compare software and cars age-wise.
Cars get degraded as the years pass. Software is identical, it's not worn of or anything like that.
Although it's true that the car analogy was highly flawed, it's also unwise to imply that Windows installations do not degrade over time. There was a time, in the not-too-distant-past, when Microsoft would recommend periodic re-installation of Windows.
(Do user-choosable errors even count as problems?)
Of course they do. There's even a specific category for that.
I don't know what kind of applications you run to need 8gb of ram; video editing, big games?
Adobe Photoshop, Lightroom, and image files at either ~21MP or 5300 DPI (depending on whether I used a full-frame DSLR or scanned 35mm negatives). At a mere 16GB RAM in my primary workstation, I'm due for an upgrade.
Ok, yes, if the owner has left the keys in the ignition, the doors unlocked, and walked away leaving a big sign on the car saying "please steal me".
Of course, because no otherwise secure system has ever been compromised by a zero-day attack.
Did you not notice how 7.8 has a longer cycle than 8?
Did you notice that 7.8 was released more recently than 8?
Fucking know-nothing ar-tards, the only material to use for geologic time scales is unobtanium.
Bah! Clearly wonderflonium would be the better substance for this particular application.
Right, so like going to a store and asking for a product that they don't have and being directed to similar products. As mentioned in the case and equally insane.
Oh, I'm fully supportive of Amazon's business model, and believe that the lawsuit had no merit; the judge should have hurled the gavel into the general direction of the plaintiff's lawyers heads. It's simply quite wearisome to watch people comment on things they haven't made the most basic effort to understand.
(I know full well that the response to that should be "welcome to Slashdot.")
Go to a store and you'll generally see competing products next to each other and that's okay. But try to do something similar on-line?
...writes the person who clearly didn't read the article. I say that because if you did, you'd know that the products in question quite specifically aren't actually available on Amazon.com.
The file copy ones used to drive me nuts. If I'm moving files from one source to one destination, you'd think the transfer speeds would be pretty consistent and the time estimates pretty accurate. I can't pretend to know why they used to be so bad, but they do seem better now.
If you're referring to moving files from one disk to another one nearby, then it was probably due to fragmentation. When drives were smaller, it was more likely for a single file to end up scattered across the disk. They were also slower back then, which only served to exacerbate the problem.
There's also a read penalty that increases when dealing with larger and larger numbers of smaller and smaller files. The original estimate is based upon the raw size of the data, but doesn't immediately factor what it might require to move that amount in small segments.
Credit card? Cash baby! You get the benefit of a lower cost per gallon ...
Oh, yeah, there are some gas stations that charge more for using a credit card... just not anywhere near where I live and work. Aside from that, my credit card pays me 4% back when I use it at a gas station.
They do, however, believe in the threat of various, very real, viral contagions. You know. Like the flu?
*yawn*
You say that, but there are underlying causes for depression.
Very often, those underlying causes are related to brain chemistry, not external factors.
Let's get the entire population of US citizens to file a suit against the government, and all the politicians individually, for wasting our money bailing out failing companies.
That would be something, if the US government hadn't earned a profit of $22.7 billion on the AIG bailout. If I recall correctly, that's part of the substance of AIG's complaint that's being discussed here.
We don't need to do that; we still have laws, and we can still pass laws that rein in corporations.
That would be useful if we could pass laws and enforce them retroactively. However, Article 1 of our Constitution forbids ex post facto laws, so that's a problem.
That is fine for photos in your phone...
...which brings us back to the subject we're discussing, at least if you've read the article/summary.