No way is this going to be convenient. The camera is going to be small and have a very limited field of view and range over which it works. So you stand in line to have your eye scanned, 10 seconds per kid maybe.
As opposed to RFID badges that you leave in your pocket or on your lanyard and it gets your code as you walk through the door.
One of the commonest problems is that the error occurs in a way that's not repeatable from the user's point of view. For example, he's editing a file and the software does something weird. Was it that I pressed the A key after I pressed the ESC key? Was it because I pressed the space bar while moving the mouse? Was it because the program's window was maximized in the right display instead of the left display? Was it because the program auto-saved while I was editing and part of my file had swapped out? Was it because there was a glitch in the interaction between the program I'm running and a license key verification subsystem? Or was it something so completely below what I as a user can see that I have no hope of giving you useful information?
The best you can do to find out what the user was doing is write a log file and have an error reporting function that automatically sends the log file. Also, you can include every system request and every subroutine call. It might also be helpful to have the program take a screen shot and include that in the error report. Might be illegal though without the user's permission, and some failure are too hard to have the program do any of that stuff automatically. But then you can have another process monitor the main application and do the automatic reporting actions. If the main program terminates abnormally, you get an automagic bug report.
You do know the difference between profit and revenue, don't you?
I'm one of those people who knows that if you're losing market share, you're headed down a dangerous path, even if your profit numbers still look healthy.
The context of the comment was smartphones. How much Apple is making on tablets and computers is separate. Do you have numbers the profitability of Samsung's smartphone business vs. Apple's smartphone business?
There's also this: the leader in sales is likely to become the leader in profit in not many quarters.
Android Q1 sales are now up to 74% of the market, compared to Apple's 18.2% -- down 4% since last year this time.
Samsung alone has 30.8% of the market. They're increasing their dominance, beating out other Android phone vendors but ALSO taking market share away from Apple.
If I were working for Apple's iPhone business, I'd see Samsung unit sales running away from me and be pretty worried. I remember when smart phone users had to have a Blackberry. I remember when Nokia dominated the mobile phone business. I remember when Motorola dominated the mobile phone business. Where are they now?
Normal staff turnover in the military is 2 years on an assignment. People come in knowing next to nothing, spend two years learning 80% of what the previous incument knew and then move on. It doesn't take many cycles of that before all useful knowledge is lost.
However, these attractions are constantly having new water added because of evaporation and because some water is drained as it passes through various filters and cleansing agents. An extreme example would be Schlitterbahn, where they siphon part of a river into their park and the water runs through once before exiting back into the river without recirculation. Of course, treatment is done when the water comes in and when the water leaves so it's safe to swim in and safe for the environment.
At Schlitterbahn some of the slides eject you and the water directly into the river. Treatment in that case consists of filtering out fish and turtles and blind salamanders on the inlet side and filtering out humans and stray bikinis on the other end. There is no treatment of the water in this case. But that's OK because the water was in the Edwards aquifer half an hour before it went in the top of the slide. It's momentarily exposed to your comparatively filty body and then goes back in the river. The water in the Comal river is already more than safe to swim in with no treatment at all. Where it comes up out of the aquifer in Landa Park, it's safe to drink, too. Other parts of the park use treated water because they recirculate it.
That's a mistranslation. A more correct translation is: "First, God turned on the lights." Cause when you want to do some serious work, you need to see what you're doing.
Google said that a patch for Forristal's vulnerability was provided to Google's OEM and carrier partners in March, and that some (Samsung) have already shipping a patched version of Android to customers. However, that response hasn't been universal — a reflection of Android's fragmented install base."
It's nice that Google's OEM and carrier parters are getting a patch but what's their mechanism for distributing the patch to the installed base of Donut, Eclair, Froyo, Gingerbread, Ice Cream Sandwich and Jelly Bean users in the field who would like their phones to not be infected with malware? And does it affect Kindles and other systems running on Android forks?
Nonsense. Animals can't smell water itself though because they're made of it. Their own body's water would be constantly flooding (pun intended) their water recepetprs.
I can "smell water", by smelling the things that are commonly in water, like algae and I can smell if there are fish in a pond or stream, for instance. I can smell humid air, or the changes that humidity makes in the smells of other things anyway. I can also smell and taste a number of other things that many people say they can't smell. My mother could smell as well as I can and so can my eldest daughter, but my wife doesn't come close. I have at least twice as acute a sense of smell as she has. Probably more than that.
Genes don't necessarily map one-for-one with receptors. A few genes might differentiate many times as many kinds of sensors. How many unique numbers can you represent with 400 bits?
No, those would be gold disks. Bronze is used in this case because it denotes third place, as in, not as good as the original and not even the next best thing. But kinda also pretty good.
For account numbers and passwords, this is a good solution. But IMO, it isn't a good enough solution. A better solution is print them twice. Put one copy in a waterproof, fireproof safe. Put the other copy in a safe deposit bank across town. This is to protect you from the possibility that your whole house and all your computers become inaccessible while you are away from home. (http://www.capitalbay.com/headline/339999-as-landslide-swallows-five-homes-in-wealthy-northern-california-neighborhood-residents-struggle-to-find-the-root-cause.html), (http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2013/07/07/199688745/runaway-train-explosion-still-ablaze-in-quebec).
And since you've got that safe deposit box, it's a great place to put original birth certificates, copies of insurance policies, property deeds, auto titles, and a SSD containing a backup of important data from your computer. A monthly trip to the bank to swap out your backup drive is also a good opportunity to check if your paper docs are up to date. If you don't have very much data that you think needs backing up, you can use a smaller, cheaper USB drive.
Do a screen shot of it, overlay it with a picture of you and your girlfriend or boyfriend having sex and upload it to a revenge porn site, then publicly complain about it having been uploaded without your consent. That guarantees it will be available from any computer for at least 100 years.
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Math uses mostly math tools discovered millenia ago.
I think ethics is right up there with it. It is in most other ways the opposite of math.
No way is this going to be convenient. The camera is going to be small and have a very limited field of view and range over which it works. So you stand in line to have your eye scanned, 10 seconds per kid maybe. As opposed to RFID badges that you leave in your pocket or on your lanyard and it gets your code as you walk through the door.
Contact lenses are pretty transparent.
Polaroid.
The potential for kids messing with it is greater. One little smudge on the lens and the system is down. I predict 75% uptime tops.
It's worse than that. The DOJ uses a HP system.
One of the commonest problems is that the error occurs in a way that's not repeatable from the user's point of view. For example, he's editing a file and the software does something weird. Was it that I pressed the A key after I pressed the ESC key? Was it because I pressed the space bar while moving the mouse? Was it because the program's window was maximized in the right display instead of the left display? Was it because the program auto-saved while I was editing and part of my file had swapped out? Was it because there was a glitch in the interaction between the program I'm running and a license key verification subsystem? Or was it something so completely below what I as a user can see that I have no hope of giving you useful information?
The best you can do to find out what the user was doing is write a log file and have an error reporting function that automatically sends the log file. Also, you can include every system request and every subroutine call. It might also be helpful to have the program take a screen shot and include that in the error report. Might be illegal though without the user's permission, and some failure are too hard to have the program do any of that stuff automatically. But then you can have another process monitor the main application and do the automatic reporting actions. If the main program terminates abnormally, you get an automagic bug report.
You do know the difference between profit and revenue, don't you?
I'm one of those people who knows that if you're losing market share, you're headed down a dangerous path, even if your profit numbers still look healthy.
The context of the comment was smartphones. How much Apple is making on tablets and computers is separate. Do you have numbers the profitability of Samsung's smartphone business vs. Apple's smartphone business?
I look at data I have. http://www.gartner.com/newsroom/id/2482816
There's also this: the leader in sales is likely to become the leader in profit in not many quarters.
Android Q1 sales are now up to 74% of the market, compared to Apple's 18.2% -- down 4% since last year this time.
Samsung alone has 30.8% of the market. They're increasing their dominance, beating out other Android phone vendors but ALSO taking market share away from Apple.
If I were working for Apple's iPhone business, I'd see Samsung unit sales running away from me and be pretty worried. I remember when smart phone users had to have a Blackberry. I remember when Nokia dominated the mobile phone business. I remember when Motorola dominated the mobile phone business. Where are they now?
Normal staff turnover in the military is 2 years on an assignment. People come in knowing next to nothing, spend two years learning 80% of what the previous incument knew and then move on. It doesn't take many cycles of that before all useful knowledge is lost.
Are you sure? Samsung has now overtaken Apple in smartphone revenue.
However, these attractions are constantly having new water added because of evaporation and because some water is drained as it passes through various filters and cleansing agents. An extreme example would be Schlitterbahn, where they siphon part of a river into their park and the water runs through once before exiting back into the river without recirculation. Of course, treatment is done when the water comes in and when the water leaves so it's safe to swim in and safe for the environment.
At Schlitterbahn some of the slides eject you and the water directly into the river. Treatment in that case consists of filtering out fish and turtles and blind salamanders on the inlet side and filtering out humans and stray bikinis on the other end. There is no treatment of the water in this case. But that's OK because the water was in the Edwards aquifer half an hour before it went in the top of the slide. It's momentarily exposed to your comparatively filty body and then goes back in the river. The water in the Comal river is already more than safe to swim in with no treatment at all. Where it comes up out of the aquifer in Landa Park, it's safe to drink, too. Other parts of the park use treated water because they recirculate it.
That's a mistranslation. A more correct translation is: "First, God turned on the lights." Cause when you want to do some serious work, you need to see what you're doing.
Google said that a patch for Forristal's vulnerability was provided to Google's OEM and carrier partners in March, and that some (Samsung) have already shipping a patched version of Android to customers. However, that response hasn't been universal — a reflection of Android's fragmented install base."
It's nice that Google's OEM and carrier parters are getting a patch but what's their mechanism for distributing the patch to the installed base of Donut, Eclair, Froyo, Gingerbread, Ice Cream Sandwich and Jelly Bean users in the field who would like their phones to not be infected with malware? And does it affect Kindles and other systems running on Android forks?
Nonsense. Animals can't smell water itself though because they're made of it. Their own body's water would be constantly flooding (pun intended) their water recepetprs.
I can "smell water", by smelling the things that are commonly in water, like algae and I can smell if there are fish in a pond or stream, for instance. I can smell humid air, or the changes that humidity makes in the smells of other things anyway. I can also smell and taste a number of other things that many people say they can't smell. My mother could smell as well as I can and so can my eldest daughter, but my wife doesn't come close. I have at least twice as acute a sense of smell as she has. Probably more than that.
Genes don't necessarily map one-for-one with receptors. A few genes might differentiate many times as many kinds of sensors. How many unique numbers can you represent with 400 bits?
No, those would be gold disks. Bronze is used in this case because it denotes third place, as in, not as good as the original and not even the next best thing. But kinda also pretty good.
What's described is a smell recording device. The smell reproducing device is another machine, and much more difficult to make, methinks.
With the right hack, your body won't know the difference, even if it doesn't actually *smell* like peanuts.
So for God, errors of 364,000 parts in 365,000 are OK? You'd think with all that omniscience, he could get a detail right once in a while.
For account numbers and passwords, this is a good solution. But IMO, it isn't a good enough solution. A better solution is print them twice. Put one copy in a waterproof, fireproof safe. Put the other copy in a safe deposit bank across town. This is to protect you from the possibility that your whole house and all your computers become inaccessible while you are away from home. (http://www.capitalbay.com/headline/339999-as-landslide-swallows-five-homes-in-wealthy-northern-california-neighborhood-residents-struggle-to-find-the-root-cause.html), (http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2013/07/07/199688745/runaway-train-explosion-still-ablaze-in-quebec).
And since you've got that safe deposit box, it's a great place to put original birth certificates, copies of insurance policies, property deeds, auto titles, and a SSD containing a backup of important data from your computer. A monthly trip to the bank to swap out your backup drive is also a good opportunity to check if your paper docs are up to date. If you don't have very much data that you think needs backing up, you can use a smaller, cheaper USB drive.
Do a screen shot of it, overlay it with a picture of you and your girlfriend or boyfriend having sex and upload it to a revenge porn site, then publicly complain about it having been uploaded without your consent. That guarantees it will be available from any computer for at least 100 years.
Because people care if Windows has bugs.
or to put it another way, they're complaining that their tax evasion strategy is illegal.