Offering $100 rebate on a $99 phone means 100 million free phones... (Using the $10B MS gave Nokia) that's a lot of phones by anyone's standards. But it'll be pathetic if WP7 isn't worth paying for... and unless sales are at least modest, that is the market verdict.
From all accounts the N9 was the pinnacle of Nokia engineering. People *wanted* it. But alas, Nokia would not sell it in any market that matters.
By your own logic, that added H2O will be out of the atmosphere in weeks. Nevermind that we don't have equilibrium, so we have this thing called weather. And we can't ever have equilibrium because of the energy balance is always changing.
What if, heaven forbid, the CO2 release was a natural result of warming? Say you're coming out of an ice age (we are) and you thaw peat bogs and tundra (it's happening) that naturally increases CO2.
You can't argue for static CO2 content or temperature, because due to orbital characteristics, we'll never have equilibrium. So you're arguing for something that never existed nor could ever exist. That's why we don't have to worry about it. Because doing so is meaningless.
Compare the absorption profile of H20 vs CO2. Water is several times more. And a good bit of CO2s absorption profile is NOT in the infrared. Then recall that water vapor is 10x more common than CO2, then recall that CO2 is not concentrated at the surface, where we are concerned about the warming. CO2 does warm the upper atmosphere a few fractions of a degree, but not anywhere that matters for glaciers, sea level rise or malaria.
1+2 = AGW, fine, but don't forget to multiply by 0.00039445% (0.039445%), which is the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere. Add to that that the 0.039445% is not evenly distributed, with most of it found at altitude Computer the long-term specific heat trends of the oceans (80% of surface)on 11 year solar and 26,000 year precessional cycles,
Then argue that it's the high-altitude 0.039445% of the atmosphere and not the oceans that dominate weather at the surface.
Keeping in mind that the water vapor is far more potent greenhouse gas, and is 0.4% of the atmosphere (over 10x more common than CO2) which can be found on all three states in proximity to the surface.
And therefore you can set whatever terms you want. They are in effect asking you to store company materials at your house. You cannot be required to provide the company storage. And if you do, you are able to be compensated. Your online property is no different.
If they want marketing, let them hire a marketing company.
Note that the site's terms of use may prohibit some or all actions as well.
Clearly smart phone users have dealt with far more and gotten far less. Anyone see this as a thinly veiled attempt at flooding the market with windows phones?
I mean a free phone for a connectivity glitch? Fixed with a software update? That only shows up on 1 in 3 phones, but anyone is eligible... Come on...
You really want fascism, or something a but more authoritarian. Remember the "Mythical Man Month"? What did that have to say about getting stuff done? Have one visionary, have others work under that person to accomplish their vision. I've seen plenty of software projects fail because of lose group leadership. If the worker's aren't aligned in vision, with clear decision making capability then everyone goes off in their own direction.
The findings aren't new, I've been interested in the topic for some time. Every story I read about women being put in a "man's" position indicates that they (broad generalizing here) are not comfortable making executive decisions.
So in effect, this means you don't want women in leadership roles, at least when it comes to accomplishing anything. (Again, broad generalization -- I've worked with quite a few assertive women who really did impress me, and I was very happy to work with, but for 9 out of 10 times they won't)
Just because we've said "domocracy" is the "best" government to have, does not mean it is the best for industry as well.
As someone who dabbles in UI design, I've seen us go from orthogonal by necessity, to round by revolt, and now we're back to orthogonal again. How much of this is a passing fad. Never mind that the damn tiles UI is more about wasting space than putting display space to good use. I predict the DPIs will go higher the panels bigger, just to accommodate this lousy aesthetic.
Microsoft shouldn't be in the position to push aesthetics anymore. At one point they needed to push usability, but this goes far beyond that, resulting in something less usable. I rather like the special effects for movies, which I find are logical and innovative. At most Mocrosoft should support some skinning interface the way Qt apps do so that the USER or VENDOR gets to force their design on something. Given that MS still has lousy fixed-geometry windows all over in Windows 7, I vote no confidence in MS to deliver anything really usable.
Windows Phone will fail (sorry Nokia) and Win 8 will fail. It's not your call anymore Microsoft. And what you are pushing is too different. Remember the XP backlash of GREEN start button and RED [X]? That at least could be argued as usability enhancements. Now Metro goes the other way and decreases usability.
1. Safer web browsing. 2. UPDATES! A unified system updater exists. No more having a Java updater, an AIR updater, and various other updaters. It's all in one place! This seems small but it's huge to a noob that is bombarded with updates to install on what seems like a daily basis these days.
Did graduate? We should stop educating people because it leads to a life of crime. 3 out of 5 people in jail did graduate compared to 2 out of 5.. Clearly graduation is correlated with a life of crime. Plus who wants smart criminals?
Sample calculations in the article provide 70n of thrust at 1AU, over 28 years would result in a displacement of 6 822 402 370 meters. The earth is 12 756 000 meters in diameter. This means that it would miss by 534 earth-diameters. Depending on which direction it is we're either really safe or more screwed. Note I did not take into account orbital mechanics, and only did a linear calculation. I think the odds would be even in better favor if we got the sail on it and it orbited closer to the sun where the magnetic pressure is higher.
Given that magsails are 1/10000th the power of a solar sail, I still think the sail idea has it licked.
I've on occasion attempted to text while driving. Yes, I know, bad me, but unlike others I do realize how terribly risky it is. So I only do it at red lights now. However there are a few things that make it even more tempting to do while in motion: Swype keyboard (and others) - with decent enough recognition, you can almost thumb-swype a whole message without looking. Corrections are a pain though. Dictation (Siri, Evi, and speech-to-text) - actually works quite well. But they all take more concentration from the road than they should.
I think combining a HUD with dictation might just be the way of the future. We need to get these systems developed and studied before we blanket-ban messaging and driving.
These "pseudo science" articles indicate that pseudo science works better than science seems to indicate. Plecebo works better than the real thing (warning:vulgar language)
First, this is the wrong way, but it works. Use VMware player to install an OS image of your choice. Oh, but you don't have admin rights, so you might have to use QEMU. The networking might be an issue if you can't install the networking drivers, so you might have to find a way around that. Maybe USB? But once you have a VM with networking you can do anything in it with relative impunity. Your host will probably use a proxy (transparent or otherwise) so you still can't browse porn.
The right way is to get your own damn laptop. Newegg has them for under $500 (17" too!). I have to question your judgement if you in this economy would chose to use your laptop over a job. Also, if you do anything enterprising on your VM, your company can claim ownership of that too (if they know you have it). So just be smart and use your own laptop.
This then means that anything the UVA does is public property, it cannot have intellectual property of its own, it cannot have copyright or patent rights.
Way to throw the baby out with the bath water. Look at the lengths they go to to prevent the release of information. This is right up there with the ruling that criminals don't have to register their guns because that would violate their right against self-incrimination. Anytime you get conflict like this, there is an agenda forcing the ruling.
This, while publicized, was a misprint and has since been retracted. The proper arrangement if digits is "2350". It was a transcription error and if you read the report that cites the source, the source material is the 300-year later date.
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Even the product the Lumia 900 replaced, the N9 can receive calls in the background (Meego OS)
What you expected a message body?
Offering $100 rebate on a $99 phone means 100 million free phones... (Using the $10B MS gave Nokia) that's a lot of phones by anyone's standards. But it'll be pathetic if WP7 isn't worth paying for... and unless sales are at least modest, that is the market verdict.
From all accounts the N9 was the pinnacle of Nokia engineering. People *wanted* it. But alas, Nokia would not sell it in any market that matters.
By your own logic, that added H2O will be out of the atmosphere in weeks. Nevermind that we don't have equilibrium, so we have this thing called weather. And we can't ever have equilibrium because of the energy balance is always changing.
What if, heaven forbid, the CO2 release was a natural result of warming? Say you're coming out of an ice age (we are) and you thaw peat bogs and tundra (it's happening) that naturally increases CO2.
You can't argue for static CO2 content or temperature, because due to orbital characteristics, we'll never have equilibrium. So you're arguing for something that never existed nor could ever exist. That's why we don't have to worry about it. Because doing so is meaningless.
There's no specious use of percentages.
Check out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infrared_window
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Atmospheric_Transmission.png
Compare the absorption profile of H20 vs CO2. Water is several times more. And a good bit of CO2s absorption profile is NOT in the infrared. Then recall that water vapor is 10x more common than CO2, then recall that CO2 is not concentrated at the surface, where we are concerned about the warming. CO2 does warm the upper atmosphere a few fractions of a degree, but not anywhere that matters for glaciers, sea level rise or malaria.
If you don't believe me, then look at the at the IPCC models vs the NASA AIRS satallite data: http://icecap.us/images/uploads/Evans-CO2DoesNotCauseGW.pdf
1+2 = AGW, fine, but don't forget to multiply by 0.00039445% (0.039445%), which is the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere.
Add to that that the 0.039445% is not evenly distributed, with most of it found at altitude
Computer the long-term specific heat trends of the oceans (80% of surface)on 11 year solar and 26,000 year precessional cycles,
Then argue that it's the high-altitude 0.039445% of the atmosphere and not the oceans that dominate weather at the surface.
Keeping in mind that the water vapor is far more potent greenhouse gas, and is 0.4% of the atmosphere (over 10x more common than CO2) which can be found on all three states in proximity to the surface.
And therefore you can set whatever terms you want. They are in effect asking you to store company materials at your house. You cannot be required to provide the company storage. And if you do, you are able to be compensated. Your online property is no different.
If they want marketing, let them hire a marketing company.
Note that the site's terms of use may prohibit some or all actions as well.
Clearly smart phone users have dealt with far more and gotten far less. Anyone see this as a thinly veiled attempt at flooding the market with windows phones?
I mean a free phone for a connectivity glitch? Fixed with a software update? That only shows up on 1 in 3 phones, but anyone is eligible... Come on...
You really want fascism, or something a but more authoritarian. Remember the "Mythical Man Month"? What did that have to say about getting stuff done? Have one visionary, have others work under that person to accomplish their vision. I've seen plenty of software projects fail because of lose group leadership. If the worker's aren't aligned in vision, with clear decision making capability then everyone goes off in their own direction.
The findings aren't new, I've been interested in the topic for some time. Every story I read about women being put in a "man's" position indicates that they (broad generalizing here) are not comfortable making executive decisions.
So in effect, this means you don't want women in leadership roles, at least when it comes to accomplishing anything. (Again, broad generalization -- I've worked with quite a few assertive women who really did impress me, and I was very happy to work with, but for 9 out of 10 times they won't)
Just because we've said "domocracy" is the "best" government to have, does not mean it is the best for industry as well.
As someone who dabbles in UI design, I've seen us go from orthogonal by necessity, to round by revolt, and now we're back to orthogonal again. How much of this is a passing fad. Never mind that the damn tiles UI is more about wasting space than putting display space to good use. I predict the DPIs will go higher the panels bigger, just to accommodate this lousy aesthetic.
Microsoft shouldn't be in the position to push aesthetics anymore. At one point they needed to push usability, but this goes far beyond that, resulting in something less usable. I rather like the special effects for movies, which I find are logical and innovative. At most Mocrosoft should support some skinning interface the way Qt apps do so that the USER or VENDOR gets to force their design on something. Given that MS still has lousy fixed-geometry windows all over in Windows 7, I vote no confidence in MS to deliver anything really usable.
Windows Phone will fail (sorry Nokia) and Win 8 will fail. It's not your call anymore Microsoft. And what you are pushing is too different. Remember the XP backlash of GREEN start button and RED [X]? That at least could be argued as usability enhancements. Now Metro goes the other way and decreases usability.
Mer is the Qt-based successor to Meego. Tizen is all HTML5 happy, without Qt.
1. Safer web browsing.
2. UPDATES! A unified system updater exists. No more having a Java updater, an AIR updater, and various other updaters. It's all in one place! This seems small but it's huge to a noob that is bombarded with updates to install on what seems like a daily basis these days.
Should I send them scans of the digital signatures?
In hex or binary?
Because your request was sent with neutrinos and neutrinos are fast than light it references and article that doesn't exist yet.
Did graduate? We should stop educating people because it leads to a life of crime. 3 out of 5 people in jail did graduate compared to 2 out of 5.. Clearly graduation is correlated with a life of crime. Plus who wants smart criminals?
Cops cannot use thermal imaging to see inside without a warrant. What you saw on Weeds was just a TV show.
The walls of your house create an expectation of privacy, and that privacy is protected by the constitution.
Well then use a real sail. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic_sail
Sample calculations in the article provide 70n of thrust at 1AU, over 28 years would result in a displacement of 6 822 402 370 meters. The earth is 12 756 000 meters in diameter. This means that it would miss by 534 earth-diameters. Depending on which direction it is we're either really safe or more screwed. Note I did not take into account orbital mechanics, and only did a linear calculation. I think the odds would be even in better favor if we got the sail on it and it orbited closer to the sun where the magnetic pressure is higher.
Given that magsails are 1/10000th the power of a solar sail, I still think the sail idea has it licked.
Correction, 28 years.
And let the solar wind push it out. You only need to alter its orbit by 5 minutes in the next 22 years to miss completely.
I've on occasion attempted to text while driving. Yes, I know, bad me, but unlike others I do realize how terribly risky it is. So I only do it at red lights now. However there are a few things that make it even more tempting to do while in motion:
Swype keyboard (and others) - with decent enough recognition, you can almost thumb-swype a whole message without looking. Corrections are a pain though.
Dictation (Siri, Evi, and speech-to-text) - actually works quite well.
But they all take more concentration from the road than they should.
I think combining a HUD with dictation might just be the way of the future. We need to get these systems developed and studied before we blanket-ban messaging and driving.
These "pseudo science" articles indicate that pseudo science works better than science seems to indicate. :vulgar language)
Plecebo works better than the real thing (warning
Accupunture works, doesn't matter where
Accupunture works
First, this is the wrong way, but it works.
Use VMware player to install an OS image of your choice. Oh, but you don't have admin rights, so you might have to use QEMU. The networking might be an issue if you can't install the networking drivers, so you might have to find a way around that. Maybe USB? But once you have a VM with networking you can do anything in it with relative impunity. Your host will probably use a proxy (transparent or otherwise) so you still can't browse porn.
The right way is to get your own damn laptop. Newegg has them for under $500 (17" too!). I have to question your judgement if you in this economy would chose to use your laptop over a job. Also, if you do anything enterprising on your VM, your company can claim ownership of that too (if they know you have it). So just be smart and use your own laptop.
Don't forget that it can't hold copyright or patents rights as well :-)
This then means that anything the UVA does is public property, it cannot have intellectual property of its own, it cannot have copyright or patent rights.
Way to throw the baby out with the bath water. Look at the lengths they go to to prevent the release of information. This is right up there with the ruling that criminals don't have to register their guns because that would violate their right against self-incrimination. Anytime you get conflict like this, there is an agenda forcing the ruling.
This, while publicized, was a misprint and has since been retracted. The proper arrangement if digits is "2350". It was a transcription error and if you read the report that cites the source, the source material is the 300-year later date.