Fines about these should work exponentially. So if the first one is 1000, the second should be 1000^2 and the third 1000^3.
So, the more valuable the currency unit is, the steeper the slope. If the first fine is in 2009 Zimbabwean dollars, the second one will be worth more than the entire world economy.
* The hardware generally outlasts its competition (my main laptop is a 4-year-old MacBook Pro in near-perfect condition, that shows no signs of slowing down.)
* Resale value, as in, >2 year old Macs actually have one.
These are issues that Apple is working hard to fix. Just look at the latest MacBooks. Sealed battery, almost impossible to repair or upgrade. Apple wants its devices to last 3 years, the duration of their AppleCare plan, no more. It wasn't the case before. The first generation of unibody MacBook pros (2009) was great.
Mansplaining? Maybe it is more prevalent against women but I can guarantee that some guys (girls too) fresh out of school will do that to anyone who can hear it. I usually blame it on inexperience, at school, you are taught to work in a vacuum and the real world isn't. Some people never seem to learn though.
Final Cut Pro is Mac-only. There are probably other examples. Artists in particular tend do like OSX and a Hackintosh is an interesting option if they need a powerful machine.
About private aircraft, it is not completely true. In France, we have certified aircraft and ultralight. The requirements are much more drastic on certified aircraft : the exam is more difficult, there are medical checkups, sustained activity requirements, scheduled and exceptional maintenance done by certified mechanics, etc... With ultralight, anything goes. Once you and your plane have a license, you are good to go for the rest of your lives. No more question asked, except for the radio equipment. Maintainance, is entirely on your own. In the end, despite the major differences, the rate of accident is similar. The reason : ultralight pilots don't want to die, so when something must be done, they do it. And because they are fully responsible for they own safety, when in doubt, they go check themselves instead of relying on some rubber stamped certificate. Putting one's life on the line is a pretty good motivator.
It does lower the price of ads for those companies who aren't as picky. They are the only winners here. Content producers and Google are not happy because cheaper ads mean less money for them. As for viewers, they still see the same amount of advertisement.
Is there something in the leaked documents that mention Snowden or whistleblowers? This is a watermark system system mostly intended to unmask foreign spies. It wouldn't have stopped Snowden since he used airgaps and released everything at once after leaving and was quickly caught after that. It looks similar to the kind of tool content owners use to track pirates. Not all secret documents are stolen by whistleblowers and journalists, far, far from it.
You may get interested in the demoscene then, because being creative and overcoming limitations is exactly what they do. They can do really impressive stuff on old computers (C64, Amiga,...) or with modern PCs with extreme size constraints (ex : everything must fit in 4kB). And they always manage to find new things. Last year, for example, a demo called "8088 MPH" came out, doing things on a 8088 IBM PC that were never done before, like showing 1024 colors on a 16 color system. Of course, these are not practical applications, it makes no sense to have such self-imposed constraints nowadays, but some people just like the challenge.
Well, except for the "electric" part, we already have that. The "VTOL aircraft" are helicopters and "vertiports" are heliports. And I wouldn't bet on commercially viable electric full-size helicopters now. Energy density is crucial and today's batteries simply can't compete with hydrocarbons fuels.
So I bet the only thing that will come out of it is an app that helps get pilots and customers in touch. That's if anything happens at all.
I'm a Professional Engineer in the Province of Ontario and yeah, you can't call yourself an engineer without having that designation.
I've often wondered what would happen if you described yourself as 'Graduate from Engineering Course at XXX University'.
Usually you can say anything as long as it doesn't say "me = engineer". I don't live in Oregon so the rules may be different but my school wasn't an official (software) engineering school when I graduated so we had to get creative. We used formulations like "expert in software engineering", "engineer-level degree", "engineering background", etc... just to avoid the protected word. It is legal, and is usually pretty obvious that it means "I claim to have the skills of an engineer but I don't have the title".
Fake news publishers are still protected, they have every right to publish it.
Not everywhere. Among "free countries", Europe tend to put much more limits on free speech than the US. For example, in France and Germany, it is almost impossible to talk about the Nazis in a way that isn't approved by the state. You can get condemned for defamation even if you speak the truth. In some cases, insults are outlawed too, and they can lead to prison sentences if they are racial in nature. In general, "hate speech" is considered a serious offense.
Making a custom case is not that big a deal. And it doesn't seem they intend to do more than that. And "making" in this context probably means "give the CAD files to a company in China and let them do the dirty work". A case is not high tech stuff, any schmuck can design a case. The airflow may not be ideal and it may not be the most convenient but it will work.
Considering the size of the company (11-50 employees), I don't consider it a risky endeavor. Designing laptops is their real goal but they prefer to start slow with desktops. A very sensible idea if you ask me.
Your whole company must be in the 1% of the population that uses ALL the features of MS Office. What business are you in? I'm not asking the company, just the industry, since that is really weird.
What you said is a widespread fallacy. No one use all the features of MS Office, but many people use a subset of features that are only available on MS Office. The same thing can be said of similarly complex software like the Adobe suite, IDEs, 3D modelers, etc... These software are complex because everyone have specific needs and the software need to address most of them in the easiest way possible. Usually commercial software is better than free software in this area.
Assuming your suggestion really is a good one, and most of the times it isn't, it may compete with other people ideas. Users have different priorities and developers can't do everything. So if you make a suggestion that some people aren't interested in, and developers implement it, it may delay the treatment of their own issues. It even applies to obvious bugs. For example, if you post a bug report saying that a crash can occur if you open a file containing Arabic text, you may get dissed by people who don't have this problem. They may give out weak arguments like "full Arabic support would require a complete redesign of the GUI" when the only thing you asked is for the software not to crash. They fear your suggestion may divert the attention of developers.
I agree with you that we can't use the evolution argument every time. The reason I used it is : - The human brain is highly plastic, it constantly rewires itself. And the prevalence of mental diseases show that nature is trying new things with our brains. Some mental diseases actually have some positive traits, and some cause symptoms that can be partially reproduced using LSD (schizophrenia). - The body can already produce DMT, a powerful psychedelic. - Positive traits typically associated with psychedelics, like insight and creativity can offer a survival and sexual advantage. Someone who can more easily come up with novel techniques for feeding or defense against predator gets and edge over those who don't. He can also make beautiful things to attract mates, lead the tribe through their insights (and get all the best mates), etc...
I'd go with the "firing of synapses without purpose" hypothesis. It if was actually productive, evolution probably would have made it available to us without drugs. Psychedelics are not special, these are relatively simple molecules imitating neurotransmitters. So if tripping were so beneficial, it could probably be triggered through normal pathways, with the added bonus of being able to switch from high to baseline at will.
But fact is we make about 20% less than the boomers did. That's why we're struggling.
What is this number? 20% relative to what. The world was different back then. Some things were cheaper (like housing in dense areas), some things were more expensive (like electronics).
Google had to to it in the least damaging way possible. It was a necessary condition if they wanted libraries to cooperate. Non-library books were processed destructively, by cutting off the spine.
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Fines about these should work exponentially. So if the first one is 1000, the second should be 1000^2 and the third 1000^3.
So, the more valuable the currency unit is, the steeper the slope.
If the first fine is in 2009 Zimbabwean dollars, the second one will be worth more than the entire world economy.
* The hardware generally outlasts its competition (my main laptop is a 4-year-old MacBook Pro in near-perfect condition, that shows no signs of slowing down.)
* Resale value, as in, >2 year old Macs actually have one.
These are issues that Apple is working hard to fix.
Just look at the latest MacBooks. Sealed battery, almost impossible to repair or upgrade. Apple wants its devices to last 3 years, the duration of their AppleCare plan, no more.
It wasn't the case before. The first generation of unibody MacBook pros (2009) was great.
Mansplaining? Maybe it is more prevalent against women but I can guarantee that some guys (girls too) fresh out of school will do that to anyone who can hear it.
I usually blame it on inexperience, at school, you are taught to work in a vacuum and the real world isn't. Some people never seem to learn though.
This is the response to Apple rounded corners.
Final Cut Pro is Mac-only. There are probably other examples.
Artists in particular tend do like OSX and a Hackintosh is an interesting option if they need a powerful machine.
About private aircraft, it is not completely true.
In France, we have certified aircraft and ultralight.
The requirements are much more drastic on certified aircraft : the exam is more difficult, there are medical checkups, sustained activity requirements, scheduled and exceptional maintenance done by certified mechanics, etc...
With ultralight, anything goes. Once you and your plane have a license, you are good to go for the rest of your lives. No more question asked, except for the radio equipment. Maintainance, is entirely on your own.
In the end, despite the major differences, the rate of accident is similar. The reason : ultralight pilots don't want to die, so when something must be done, they do it. And because they are fully responsible for they own safety, when in doubt, they go check themselves instead of relying on some rubber stamped certificate. Putting one's life on the line is a pretty good motivator.
It does lower the price of ads for those companies who aren't as picky.
They are the only winners here. Content producers and Google are not happy because cheaper ads mean less money for them. As for viewers, they still see the same amount of advertisement.
Is there something in the leaked documents that mention Snowden or whistleblowers?
This is a watermark system system mostly intended to unmask foreign spies. It wouldn't have stopped Snowden since he used airgaps and released everything at once after leaving and was quickly caught after that.
It looks similar to the kind of tool content owners use to track pirates.
Not all secret documents are stolen by whistleblowers and journalists, far, far from it.
The problem with visible light is that it is easily blocked by clothes.
This is unfortunate, in more way than one.
You are comparing the internet to a big truck, but the internet is not a big truck, it is a series of tubes.
You may get interested in the demoscene then, because being creative and overcoming limitations is exactly what they do. They can do really impressive stuff on old ...) or with modern PCs with extreme size constraints (ex : everything must fit in 4kB).
computers (C64, Amiga,
And they always manage to find new things. Last year, for example, a demo called "8088 MPH" came out, doing things on a 8088 IBM PC that were never done before, like showing 1024 colors on a 16 color system.
Of course, these are not practical applications, it makes no sense to have such self-imposed constraints nowadays, but some people just like the challenge.
Well, except for the "electric" part, we already have that. The "VTOL aircraft" are helicopters and "vertiports" are heliports.
And I wouldn't bet on commercially viable electric full-size helicopters now. Energy density is crucial and today's batteries simply can't compete with hydrocarbons fuels.
So I bet the only thing that will come out of it is an app that helps get pilots and customers in touch. That's if anything happens at all.
I'm a Professional Engineer in the Province of Ontario and yeah, you can't call yourself an engineer without having that designation.
I've often wondered what would happen if you described yourself as 'Graduate from Engineering Course at XXX University'.
Usually you can say anything as long as it doesn't say "me = engineer". I don't live in Oregon so the rules may be different but my school wasn't an official (software) engineering school when I graduated so we had to get creative. We used formulations like "expert in software engineering", "engineer-level degree", "engineering background", etc... just to avoid the protected word. It is legal, and is usually pretty obvious that it means "I claim to have the skills of an engineer but I don't have the title".
Fake news publishers are still protected, they have every right to publish it.
Not everywhere. Among "free countries", Europe tend to put much more limits on free speech than the US.
For example, in France and Germany, it is almost impossible to talk about the Nazis in a way that isn't approved by the state. You can get condemned for defamation even if you speak the truth. In some cases, insults are outlawed too, and they can lead to prison sentences if they are racial in nature. In general, "hate speech" is considered a serious offense.
... it doesn't make Bram Cohen rich enough.
The simplest one is a comparaison function for a generic "sort" function.
It is much more convenient with lambdas.
Making a custom case is not that big a deal. And it doesn't seem they intend to do more than that. And "making" in this context probably means "give the CAD files to a company in China and let them do the dirty work".
A case is not high tech stuff, any schmuck can design a case. The airflow may not be ideal and it may not be the most convenient but it will work.
Considering the size of the company (11-50 employees), I don't consider it a risky endeavor. Designing laptops is their real goal but they prefer to start slow with desktops. A very sensible idea if you ask me.
Your whole company must be in the 1% of the population that uses ALL the features of MS Office. What business are you in? I'm not asking the company, just the industry, since that is really weird.
What you said is a widespread fallacy.
No one use all the features of MS Office, but many people use a subset of features that are only available on MS Office. The same thing can be said of similarly complex software like the Adobe suite, IDEs, 3D modelers, etc...
These software are complex because everyone have specific needs and the software need to address most of them in the easiest way possible. Usually commercial software is better than free software in this area.
Assuming your suggestion really is a good one, and most of the times it isn't, it may compete with other people ideas.
Users have different priorities and developers can't do everything. So if you make a suggestion that some people aren't interested in, and developers implement it, it may delay the treatment of their own issues.
It even applies to obvious bugs. For example, if you post a bug report saying that a crash can occur if you open a file containing Arabic text, you may get dissed by people who don't have this problem. They may give out weak arguments like "full Arabic support would require a complete redesign of the GUI" when the only thing you asked is for the software not to crash. They fear your suggestion may divert the attention of developers.
I agree with you that we can't use the evolution argument every time. The reason I used it is :
- The human brain is highly plastic, it constantly rewires itself. And the prevalence of mental diseases show that nature is trying new things with our brains. Some mental diseases actually have some positive traits, and some cause symptoms that can be partially reproduced using LSD (schizophrenia).
- The body can already produce DMT, a powerful psychedelic.
- Positive traits typically associated with psychedelics, like insight and creativity can offer a survival and sexual advantage. Someone who can more easily come up with novel techniques for feeding or defense against predator gets and edge over those who don't. He can also make beautiful things to attract mates, lead the tribe through their insights (and get all the best mates), etc...
I'd go with the "firing of synapses without purpose" hypothesis.
It if was actually productive, evolution probably would have made it available to us without drugs. Psychedelics are not special, these are relatively simple molecules imitating neurotransmitters. So if tripping were so beneficial, it could probably be triggered through normal pathways, with the added bonus of being able to switch from high to baseline at will.
It is heads up, no limit.
Out of how many people the sample is taken out of doesn't matter.
What matters is the sample size relative to the effect, and proper selection.
But fact is we make about 20% less than the boomers did. That's why we're struggling.
What is this number? 20% relative to what.
The world was different back then. Some things were cheaper (like housing in dense areas), some things were more expensive (like electronics).
Google had to to it in the least damaging way possible. It was a necessary condition if they wanted libraries to cooperate.
Non-library books were processed destructively, by cutting off the spine.