Yes. My kid ends up taking the sticker off the apple and then sticking them in odd places. It's not the most burning problem in the world, but I wouldn't miss them. Also there's nothing like the feeling of failure when I mix up a gin and tonic and then see a sticker on the section of lime I've already submerged.
Amazon should ship over a Tailor to get your size.
When I read the headline, I was hoping Amazon had found a way to use a app + cameraphone to make a reasonable 3d scan of a customer's body and then map that onto sizing. They wouldn't need to ship a tailor!
I guess the only missing part is combining this with the "auto renew" function they already have for toothbrushes and the like. "Send me five shirts I might like every three months" doesn't seem too much of a stretch here. I know my wife has ordered many pairs of shoes from Zappos (bought by Amazon in 2009) and they make returns very easy, so she will get multiple sizes to see which fit the best and return all the others.
We have an antenna connected to a TiVo plus the usual suspects with respect to streaming services. If they had followed in the footsteps of Starz by offering this as an add-on to Amazon Prime for a few bucks a month I'd likely have given it a shot, or even offered it straight up on Amazon as a subscription I'd have taken a look. But another login, a show that looks kinda meh and a backlog of other stuff that's been getting decent reviews or I'm already into? Plus GoT coming back July 16th... I can wait to see if there's anything here worthwhile. The other things I watch on CBS are sports (NFL football) and Big Bang Theory, although truth be told that show is really coasting along nowadays and if I never watched another episode I doubt I'll miss a thing.
Aye aye Captain, let's put it on Netflix everywhere else but make US consumers jump through stupid hoops. Also, we won't air it on the broadcast network in the US and we'll charge money for the app access with no other compelling content, then dribble the episodes out as long as we can. I'm giving all I've got!
I checked the website of the Waldorf schools in my (US) state. Preschool is $17K/yr, K-8 is $23K/yr, 9-12 is $29K/yr. There is some "tuition help" listed, but only up to 50% off for those who qualify. These schools are in some of the most affluent areas of my state, with real estate prices regularly flirting with $1M+ for pretty "normal" houses. They also have some of the best public schools in the state. So yeah, at least in my area, anyone who attends Waldorf school is going to be self-selected as someone who can not only afford to live in the most expensive towns but above that has enough income to spend ~$25K (or n*$25k/yr if there are siblings) to send their kids to school. I'm willing to bet these kids would be "successful" no matter what, since their family has access to wealth and resources that aren't available to quite literally the other 99% of society.
We I live they are building a Whole Foods and we already have a Wegman's. We shop at Wegman's because, well, it's Wegman's and Wegman's is awesome. I'm happy they are building the Whole Foods, though, since it should help property values go up although I never plan on setting foot in it and will keep shopping at Wegman's. Also, my spouse is from western NY so shopping at somewhere other than Wegman's requires a damned good excuse!
Yes, I do believe this is a good use of funding. Some particular areas: 1) weather forecasting and modeling. Weather forecasting is time-bound, so computation speed matters. Places that better weather forecasting saves lives or property include tornadoes, hurricanes/typhoons or effects/severity of winter storms. Tornadoes the place where minutes matter. Given inputs from radars, being able to accurately predict when tornadoes will form and what path they will take can give people more time to get to shelter. For hurricanes and typhoons, similar conditions but do to the fact the storms are larger and move more slowly, you do have more lead time, but forecasters can still have trouble estimating intensity, rain/snowfall amounts, etc. 2) Tsunami detection and forecasting. Given a earthquake, will there be a tsunami and where will it hit? Sounding alarms allow people to get to higher ground. Given that a lot of humanity lives next to the ocean this use case can matter. More computing power means models can be more accurate and alerts more targeted. 3) brain research -- current supercomputers can only handle a bare fraction of even a simple brain, e.g a worm or part of a rat brain, but even with that amount of power there have still be advances made. Scientists are finding that it's not merely a linked node problem, but the 3-d geometry of the brain cells that matter, too. As we live longer and memory diseases such as Alzheimer's become more prevalent, not to mention costly for heath systems to pay for, understanding the brain and developing therapeutics also matter, and a computer simulation allows for better drug testing -- and we need vastly larger amounts of compute capability to model the human brain. 4) GPUs are used in many supercomputers, nVidia has entered the Top 500 Supercomputer list with a machine put together using their DGX machines.
The CEO of Whole Foods is pretty conservative/libertarian. If you assume Whole Foods customers are tree hugging greenies who have Greenpeace stickers on their Volvos and aspire to join a commune, they don't seem to mind. They might welcome that their market is being bought by the same guy who owns WaPo, which has all those journalists and editors going after Trump. Of course, those local specialty markets have largely been run out of town by Whole Foods or Amazon already. Unless, of course, they were an upmarket grocery chain that was already bought by Whole Foods years ago.
Sources:
John Mackey https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Jeff Bezos https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
I agree. As someone whose entire career has been involved with working on tools used by engineers and scientists, it's disheartening to see so many turning their backs on advances in science and technology, especially when the anti-science folks use the fruits of decades technological advancement (Internet, smartphones, high speed mobile communication networks, flash storage, antenna design, touchscreen interface, battery advances, integrated circuit improvements, etc) as the bullhorn for their ignorance.
Yes. It's useful, in the same way that research into the extremes of anything is useful. People develop better things all the time and some of those innovations will become changes to mass market goods. Examples of that kind of thing might include carbon fiber (was exotic, now seen in many autos and planes), all the innovations associated with the microprocessor, solar cells, etc. Supercomputing is the far end of the scale of the computing spectrum where really hard problems are tackled, pushing the bounds of what we can do with computing to the limit. In some respects, it's the Formula 1 of computing.
Medical - Drug discovery, proteins, brain modeling all require enormous amounts of computational power.
Climate modeling - more compute power means climate models become more sophisticated. Not only is this valuable for climate change research but also better weather forecasting, which feeds into commerce, farming, air travel, tornado warnings, etc. Weather forecasting is time-dependent -- there's no use in a forecast that's hours or days late.
Nuclear weapons simulation - I'd much rather have a nuke be popped off in the cyber
Machine learning/intelligence/AI work
Chemistry/biology - genetics, chemical reaction simulation, etc
General computing algorithms - making things work at scale often provides insight into better algorithms, and paves the way for when the rest of computing catches up. Maybe in 20 years our smartphones will be capable of exascale computation, although at that point of course they will just be using our brain power since they will be part of our neural lace.
General computing hardware - running at giant scale with networking, storage, etc uncovers new and novel ways to do things better that eventually make their way down to commodity computing hardware.
Initial load can take a while to push (a week?), but then you only need to push the diffs which are much smaller. I've done this with multiple backup services as I've moved from one to another, and both services handled this just fine. I just kept the old service paid up till I moved to the new one and my stuff uploaded. Were I to move to this from Crashplan it would be the same story. It's all automated so it's not like it requires active participation.
What happens when your house floods, catches fire, electrical storm fries the machine, RAID controller fails and writes gibberish, OS update goes sideways, you fat finger an rm command, etc?
Offsite backups can be very useful. Maybe you don't push everything offsite but there's probably a class of data you'd like to know will survive when something happens to your freenas.
I'm glad my workplace allows us to set hours with some degree of flexibility and absolutely DOES NOT consider us "a text or phone call away", except for jobs where such arrangements are specifically part of the job description. When I walk out the door, I don't think about work till I come back. Same for vacation.
I've been watching NOVA on PBS for ages. Their "Intelligent Design on Trial" episode detailing how creationists, er, intelligent design proponents try to push it as science along with the corresponding court case was absolutely fantastic, but generally the episodes are well made, well directed and in depth enough for casual viewers. It's also generally acceptable for watching with kids, too.
Nature is also in a similar vein as NOVA, although more focused on... nature. Also good family viewing in many cases.
That 30 minute show will also contain about seven minutes of actual content. Intro (cut with cliffhanger). Commercial break. Re-run intro after break. Content. Have sum-up of content before commercial break. Commercial break. Recap of content before break. Some more content. Teaser for after commercial. Commercial break. Recap content of previous two commercial breaks. Induce tension. Reveal whatever. Credits run over reveal.
Thirty minutes of life you never get back gone away into the universe's bit bucket.
I read a lot of scifi and fantasy growing up. Historical fiction was relegated to "boring". Someone encouraged me to pick up "Master and Commander", the first book in the Aubrey/Maturin series. It chronicles the journey of Jack Aubrey in the Royal Navy, along with his doctor companion Stephen Maturin. It is hands down some of the best fiction I've ever read, of any fiction genre. The characters are vibrant, and the ship actions/historical events are the result of research from the archives of the Royal Navy. The (excellent) movie "Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World" only scratches the surface of the world that O'Brian created.
As mentioned before, I read a lot of scifi growing up. Some was good, some was great, some was just simply crap. I'd heard a lot about Iain Banks one way or another, but it took I while till I picked up one of his books. They are smart, challenging, thought-provoking and anything but the normal scifi grind. I'm particular fond of Use of Weapons, The Player of Games and Excession. There's been only one book in the series that really didn't work for me (Matter).
On a similar note, I'd heard about Altered Carbon (by Richard K Morgan) and Takeshi Kovacs for a really long time before I picked them up. Like Banks, he's challenging but he also throws a lot of atmosphere in, and the trilogy is a work of noir mastery. Also some of the tightest writing I've ever read. Morgan can describe scenes in the absolute minimum amount of words required, as to not bog down your enjoyment of the world. The first two are also fantastic in audiobook form, then they changed narrators for the third one and ruined it.
TV networks like reality TV because it's low-cost filler compared to scripted drama or comedy. The problem is that it's low-cost filler, and often edited or (poorly) scripted to make up loads of fake drama. It was one of the main reasons I cut the cord and gave up cable, the amount I was shelling out each month for cable wasn't really producing a good amount of value. I found that many of the decent programming I liked was also available on places like Amazon, where I could pay just for the series I liked and still save a pile of money. The irony here is that Apple revived a lagging music singles market with iTunes, and in turn electronic album sales. They did miss the boat with streaming for a very long while but have been able to make up the lost time because of their control of the phone market. Apple also has a history of selling as a premium brand. I'm wondering what logic went into starting with the low cost commodity filler of screen entertainment instead of going for something of higher quality. HBO, Amazon and Netflix have already demonstrated that people will shell out for quality entertainment. Heck, they could have picked up some sort of sports programming, they have the cash and the market share to get major sports league attention, and people will spend money to watch sports.
A lot of EBT recipients live in "food deserts" where there's no easy access to a supermarket. So an Amazon Prime membership could allow grocery items to be bought and delivered rather than relying upon convenience stores for food. So it could save time and money for grocery items. Sure, it's not the same as getting fresh vegetables but food options at gas stations are pretty horrible. http://americannutritionassoci...
Not necessarily. I've replaced/upgraded TiVo hard drives and power supplies by getting parts from Weaknees (
https://www.weaknees.com/). The subscription is not tied to the hard drive. You can also add a external unit for more space. Difficulty level was about the same as swapping a hard drive or power supply in a desktop PC -- take the case off, unscrew a few things, disconnect cable, put back together. I've done it in a Series 1, Series 2 and Series 3. I'm kind of amazed I haven't needed to do it in the Premier yet, although it would probably be snappier with a SSD.
Lifetime subscriptions are also transferable, so if you can pick up a used unit that has one it's a quick call to TiVo support to transfer it. I got my Series 3 HD from a co-worker who upgraded for $100. Transfer went quick and easy.
We have lifetime membership/All In One on all our TiVos, so we paid once and promptly forgot about it. To put that in perspective, the oldest in-service device was bought and activated in 2010, so seven years in service and still going fine. We recently bought a new Bolt to upgrade from our old Series 3 HD when they did a $100 "transfer your lifetime subscription" promotion, that ended up being about $300 all in.
We have an antenna to fill in the local shows thing, that feeds right into the TiVo. The TiVo also covers most of the streaming services, and an XBox covers any outliers.
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Yes. My kid ends up taking the sticker off the apple and then sticking them in odd places. It's not the most burning problem in the world, but I wouldn't miss them. Also there's nothing like the feeling of failure when I mix up a gin and tonic and then see a sticker on the section of lime I've already submerged.
Amazon should ship over a Tailor to get your size.
When I read the headline, I was hoping Amazon had found a way to use a app + cameraphone to make a reasonable 3d scan of a customer's body and then map that onto sizing. They wouldn't need to ship a tailor!
I guess the only missing part is combining this with the "auto renew" function they already have for toothbrushes and the like. "Send me five shirts I might like every three months" doesn't seem too much of a stretch here. I know my wife has ordered many pairs of shoes from Zappos (bought by Amazon in 2009) and they make returns very easy, so she will get multiple sizes to see which fit the best and return all the others.
We have an antenna connected to a TiVo plus the usual suspects with respect to streaming services. If they had followed in the footsteps of Starz by offering this as an add-on to Amazon Prime for a few bucks a month I'd likely have given it a shot, or even offered it straight up on Amazon as a subscription I'd have taken a look. But another login, a show that looks kinda meh and a backlog of other stuff that's been getting decent reviews or I'm already into? Plus GoT coming back July 16th ... I can wait to see if there's anything here worthwhile. The other things I watch on CBS are sports (NFL football) and Big Bang Theory, although truth be told that show is really coasting along nowadays and if I never watched another episode I doubt I'll miss a thing.
Aye aye Captain, let's put it on Netflix everywhere else but make US consumers jump through stupid hoops. Also, we won't air it on the broadcast network in the US and we'll charge money for the app access with no other compelling content, then dribble the episodes out as long as we can. I'm giving all I've got!
I checked the website of the Waldorf schools in my (US) state. Preschool is $17K/yr, K-8 is $23K/yr, 9-12 is $29K/yr. There is some "tuition help" listed, but only up to 50% off for those who qualify. These schools are in some of the most affluent areas of my state, with real estate prices regularly flirting with $1M+ for pretty "normal" houses. They also have some of the best public schools in the state. So yeah, at least in my area, anyone who attends Waldorf school is going to be self-selected as someone who can not only afford to live in the most expensive towns but above that has enough income to spend ~$25K (or n*$25k/yr if there are siblings) to send their kids to school. I'm willing to bet these kids would be "successful" no matter what, since their family has access to wealth and resources that aren't available to quite literally the other 99% of society.
We I live they are building a Whole Foods and we already have a Wegman's. We shop at Wegman's because, well, it's Wegman's and Wegman's is awesome. I'm happy they are building the Whole Foods, though, since it should help property values go up although I never plan on setting foot in it and will keep shopping at Wegman's. Also, my spouse is from western NY so shopping at somewhere other than Wegman's requires a damned good excuse!
Yes, I do believe this is a good use of funding. Some particular areas: 1) weather forecasting and modeling. Weather forecasting is time-bound, so computation speed matters. Places that better weather forecasting saves lives or property include tornadoes, hurricanes/typhoons or effects/severity of winter storms. Tornadoes the place where minutes matter. Given inputs from radars, being able to accurately predict when tornadoes will form and what path they will take can give people more time to get to shelter. For hurricanes and typhoons, similar conditions but do to the fact the storms are larger and move more slowly, you do have more lead time, but forecasters can still have trouble estimating intensity, rain/snowfall amounts, etc. 2) Tsunami detection and forecasting. Given a earthquake, will there be a tsunami and where will it hit? Sounding alarms allow people to get to higher ground. Given that a lot of humanity lives next to the ocean this use case can matter. More computing power means models can be more accurate and alerts more targeted. 3) brain research -- current supercomputers can only handle a bare fraction of even a simple brain, e.g a worm or part of a rat brain, but even with that amount of power there have still be advances made. Scientists are finding that it's not merely a linked node problem, but the 3-d geometry of the brain cells that matter, too. As we live longer and memory diseases such as Alzheimer's become more prevalent, not to mention costly for heath systems to pay for, understanding the brain and developing therapeutics also matter, and a computer simulation allows for better drug testing -- and we need vastly larger amounts of compute capability to model the human brain. 4) GPUs are used in many supercomputers, nVidia has entered the Top 500 Supercomputer list with a machine put together using their DGX machines.
The CEO of Whole Foods is pretty conservative/libertarian. If you assume Whole Foods customers are tree hugging greenies who have Greenpeace stickers on their Volvos and aspire to join a commune, they don't seem to mind. They might welcome that their market is being bought by the same guy who owns WaPo, which has all those journalists and editors going after Trump. Of course, those local specialty markets have largely been run out of town by Whole Foods or Amazon already. Unless, of course, they were an upmarket grocery chain that was already bought by Whole Foods years ago. Sources: John Mackey https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... Jeff Bezos https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
I agree. As someone whose entire career has been involved with working on tools used by engineers and scientists, it's disheartening to see so many turning their backs on advances in science and technology, especially when the anti-science folks use the fruits of decades technological advancement (Internet, smartphones, high speed mobile communication networks, flash storage, antenna design, touchscreen interface, battery advances, integrated circuit improvements, etc) as the bullhorn for their ignorance.
Initial load can take a while to push (a week?), but then you only need to push the diffs which are much smaller. I've done this with multiple backup services as I've moved from one to another, and both services handled this just fine. I just kept the old service paid up till I moved to the new one and my stuff uploaded. Were I to move to this from Crashplan it would be the same story. It's all automated so it's not like it requires active participation.
What happens when your house floods, catches fire, electrical storm fries the machine, RAID controller fails and writes gibberish, OS update goes sideways, you fat finger an rm command, etc? Offsite backups can be very useful. Maybe you don't push everything offsite but there's probably a class of data you'd like to know will survive when something happens to your freenas.
I'm glad my workplace allows us to set hours with some degree of flexibility and absolutely DOES NOT consider us "a text or phone call away", except for jobs where such arrangements are specifically part of the job description. When I walk out the door, I don't think about work till I come back. Same for vacation.
They alter the deal all the time, and you pray they don't alter it further.
The technique actually has a name ... not surprisingly called the "Ken Burns effect" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Nature is also in a similar vein as NOVA, although more focused on ... nature. Also good family viewing in many cases.
Thirty minutes of life you never get back gone away into the universe's bit bucket.
As mentioned before, I read a lot of scifi growing up. Some was good, some was great, some was just simply crap. I'd heard a lot about Iain Banks one way or another, but it took I while till I picked up one of his books. They are smart, challenging, thought-provoking and anything but the normal scifi grind. I'm particular fond of Use of Weapons, The Player of Games and Excession. There's been only one book in the series that really didn't work for me (Matter).
On a similar note, I'd heard about Altered Carbon (by Richard K Morgan) and Takeshi Kovacs for a really long time before I picked them up. Like Banks, he's challenging but he also throws a lot of atmosphere in, and the trilogy is a work of noir mastery. Also some of the tightest writing I've ever read. Morgan can describe scenes in the absolute minimum amount of words required, as to not bog down your enjoyment of the world. The first two are also fantastic in audiobook form, then they changed narrators for the third one and ruined it.
TV networks like reality TV because it's low-cost filler compared to scripted drama or comedy. The problem is that it's low-cost filler, and often edited or (poorly) scripted to make up loads of fake drama. It was one of the main reasons I cut the cord and gave up cable, the amount I was shelling out each month for cable wasn't really producing a good amount of value. I found that many of the decent programming I liked was also available on places like Amazon, where I could pay just for the series I liked and still save a pile of money. The irony here is that Apple revived a lagging music singles market with iTunes, and in turn electronic album sales. They did miss the boat with streaming for a very long while but have been able to make up the lost time because of their control of the phone market. Apple also has a history of selling as a premium brand. I'm wondering what logic went into starting with the low cost commodity filler of screen entertainment instead of going for something of higher quality. HBO, Amazon and Netflix have already demonstrated that people will shell out for quality entertainment. Heck, they could have picked up some sort of sports programming, they have the cash and the market share to get major sports league attention, and people will spend money to watch sports.
Uber fare to a damned supermarket.
I can see the headline on Breitbart. "EBT BOTTOM FEEDERS TAKING UBER TO THE SUPERMARKET"
A lot of EBT recipients live in "food deserts" where there's no easy access to a supermarket. So an Amazon Prime membership could allow grocery items to be bought and delivered rather than relying upon convenience stores for food. So it could save time and money for grocery items. Sure, it's not the same as getting fresh vegetables but food options at gas stations are pretty horrible. http://americannutritionassoci...
Lifetime subscriptions are also transferable, so if you can pick up a used unit that has one it's a quick call to TiVo support to transfer it. I got my Series 3 HD from a co-worker who upgraded for $100. Transfer went quick and easy.
We have lifetime membership/All In One on all our TiVos, so we paid once and promptly forgot about it. To put that in perspective, the oldest in-service device was bought and activated in 2010, so seven years in service and still going fine. We recently bought a new Bolt to upgrade from our old Series 3 HD when they did a $100 "transfer your lifetime subscription" promotion, that ended up being about $300 all in.
We have an antenna to fill in the local shows thing, that feeds right into the TiVo. The TiVo also covers most of the streaming services, and an XBox covers any outliers.