I used to fly a Cessna 172. From the front seats, there's good visibility over the dash when flying. When taxiing, your view is a little obscured, especially if you're short, but it's definitely manageable. Of course, he didn't have to deal with that.
I'm not sure why the tower didn't work with him to turn on his landing lights...although the story seems to be a bit odd... his first attempt was aborted because of being blinded by the setting sun, and then his 4th attempt was "in the pitch dark". That's a really long time.
Anyway, even without the landing lights, visibility at night is still good enough with giving ambient light.
Still, pretty cool dude to be able to do this... more so that he didn't crash from stalling. He mentioned he did stall, but recovered. It sounds like he had at least *some* knowledge of what it took to fly.
This blurb is different from the article. I don't see in the article what Google itself is doing to correct the problem. To me, it seems simple on their part, just band justmugshots.com and whatever other domains are being used. That's what I was hoping to see, but nope, the Do Know Evil company is still not only including mug shot sites in their image search results, but they're unjustifiably highly ranked.
Here's my problem...
My name shows up in image search results. Great here's what "first_name last_name" looks like. However, the top results are a bunch of mugshots. Ok, so I've made sure my actual image is properly SEO'd and linked to from a bunch of sites, but still, the mugshots are showing higher ranked images (of not me, but people with the same name and in some cases they look similar).
How are the mugshots so highly ranked? Are people really sending inbound links to them? I don't think so, but even if they were, Google should be banning these domains.
And no, this wouldn't be censorship... besides being a company and not the government, Google wouldn't be preventing the sites or the information from being available, but simply doing two things: 1) Justifiably punishing sites that obviously broke the rules in terms of SEO. 2) Protecting people a little bit more from being extorted.
Well, as you pointed out, it has that and it hasn't been selling.
For me those things don't really matter...
USB - I can print just fine with AirPrint. Mouse... I vaguely remember seeing one of those last decade.
SD card slot - There's an adapter, but why bother when I can just use WiFi hard drives and WiFi SD cards?
Video out port. As long as I'm buying an adapter, what's the difference in buying an adapter for the iPad versus another for the Surface? I've rarely used mine since AirPlay is much easier.
What would make the Surface RT sell is a time machine so they could go back in time before iOS and Android came to dominate the market.
The RT version is dead, and Microsoft should give up on it as all of the Windows RT partners have.
I've been using Pandora since shortly after launch. I've been using iTunes Radio since the beta launched.
Generally I prefer iTunes Radio, although there are some custom stations I've made in Pandora that I can't seem to get the same level of match quality in iTunes Radio. Usually the opposite is true though, the stations in iTunes seem to be better matched and have more songs rotating.
It's also hard to beat that iTunes Radio is commercial free with iTunes Match, which I have anyway, so it's just a bonus. On the other hand, Pandora's premium service without ads is incredibly dirt cheap.
For me, it all depends on what Apple wants to do with content as a business. If it uses content to sell hardware, then I'd imagine iTunes Radio will be iOS and iTunes (Mac/Windows) only. However, if Apple discovers that content can be a worthwhile business in of itself, it could license iTunes Radio and make it available on other platforms (as well as their TV shows, movies, and other content).
If they license, then great, my Sonos system will likely get iTunes radio as well as the bazillions of other smart devices I have which get Pandora now. In that case Pandora (and others would likely die).
The reason is that if Apple licenses iTunes Radio or develops apps for a broad range of non-Apple platforms, Apple will have a mega-advantage in several ways besides just the brand advantage. Apple already has bazillions of credit cards active on file with Apple IDs making it very easy for people to join in. Apple has bazillions of people buying music every day and has been tracking their purchases through Genius Playlists for years now, so they have a huge-ass database of matched music and are well equipped to provide better smart stations. Apple also has the ability to bundle advertising with other ad sales, instead of just having it be a smart radio ad buy. And of course Apple makes money through increased music (and other content) sales as well as feeding the overall ecosystem. I just don't see how anyone could compete with that, unless Apple just decides not to license or build on other platforms.
"There was a single codecs directory which contained the codec files."
Well then, I must be reading this wrong, because it makes no sense how this was special in any way. It's exactly how QuickTime has *always* worked. I'm not even sure I could come up with a different way to do this... put some codec extensions in the Desktop directory and others in the Trash... that will fool them!!!
Wouldn't it be easier to just shut down divisions?
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Instead of breaking up Microsoft, wouldn't it be easier to just shut everything down that wasn't Windows, Office, and Exchange?
Arguably, the Xbox could survive on its own, although not if burdened with the billions in losses it accumulated over the years before it turned a profit.
I was working for a company in 2001 when I got laid off. I'm tempted to name the company or at least the former CEO of the company in order to praise them. The company is still very much in business.
9/11 hit right in the middle of the 2 weeks, so the CEO gave us an additional week.
This was really a big deal. Not only in terms of the money earned during that time, but also to get our stuff together, finish projects and hand stuff off to those who wouldn't be laid off. Sure, it was a given we'd also be working on putting our portfolios and resumes together, but it really was a decent and appreciated way to go out and help leave something behind that could be successful (and maybe re-employ us again).
I've also been given notice when the company was going under. The CEO was straight with telling us how much runway we had and things weren't looking good for a while. He was trying to sell the company and we could hang on, but each week would be a risk. Most of us did, and the company was eventually purchased with all of us who stayed given jobs.
I've always given 2 weeks notice, if not more. I don't know why you wouldn't. I could see if someone offered a job where I had to start right away, but I've never been offered a job under those terms. Everyone expects that you'll want to start as soon as possible, but that would be at least 2 weeks.
I guess the answer to the question could be best given if the question is rephrased... when is it ok to act like a jerk? When you're getting treated worse by even bigger jerks.
Wow, I'll be the first to admit that 6 million Surface tablets that Microsoft had to do write-offs on was bat-shit insane, but I do think Microsoft needs more than 3 units on hand.
My brother's girlfriend's cousin from Canada wants to buy one, that would be 33% of their inventory right there.
Seriously though, what is this guy thinking? Being a bigger failure is somehow going to result in people wanting to buy more? It's not like the lack of apps, being ridiculously late to market, and being over-priced had anything to do with it.
But that's not exactly what PBS did. They provide an open/standards way of accessing the content via the Web. They've then looked at developing native apps, and saw that it was easy enough on iOS, but not so much on Android.
Should a public organization not do any platform unless it does them all? While that may sound "fair", it's potentially restricting them in ways that would be unreasonable. For example, if they could do Android and iOS, would the same rule apply for people complaining about Windows Phone, Blackberry, Symbian, WebOS?
To me, it makes sense for public organizations to go with open/standards where applicable and not do proprietary solutions until afterwards, but once they have the open/standards solution done, it makes sense to work on proprietary solutions based on reaching the most amount of people per dollar spent on the project.
I agree, I'm wondering too what site he's using as a comparison. Wasn't Safari the first, or one of the first to pass Acid3? And I know the Acid3 test isn't without criticism but Safari was scoring 100/100 when IE was scoring 20/100.
I pretty much build in Safari, check in Chrome and Firefox, which will always work and then allocate twice as much time as all of that took to make it work with all the versions of IE I need to test for.
Put in 7/23/2013 and 8:45pm Look for EVA28. It will be a large purple plane coming in from the top left of the screen passing over the center of SFO at 11,000'.
The plane that crashed did the same thing. It pass over SFO at high altitude (common) and then turned cross-wide while rapidly descending. I live in Portola Valley and lived in Palo Alto... You can hear planes doing this because they make a very distinctive whooshing sound as they deploy flaps and decelerate.
EVA28 got to 600' and aborted landing between the San Mateo bridge and Coyote point.
I've heard from a 777 pilot, and this seems plausible to me... that this plane has an automated mode where it will auto-throttle when you're coming in for a landing, allowing you to pitch only and letting the plane handle the throttle.
The problem is on rapid descent, pilots will disengage the auto-throttle. If they fail to re-engage it... they'll pitch up as they're getting too low and expect the auto-throttle to kick in. When it doesn't, there isn't much time to realize it's off and either turn it back on, or throttle back up.
Worse, throttling up in these jets takes a while to kick in.
600'... if the description of the auto-throttle situation is correct... wow, that almost splashed.
In similar news, AT&T is expected to soon launch it's 5G 1Gbps network nationwide with speeds expected to reach *up to* 10Mbps. Rollout is expected to begin as soon as 5G/1GBps icons and logos are complete.
I don't believe it was consistently HFCS throughout the country. I remember flying around the country a lot and getting Coke from different bottlers. I was getting to the point where I could say, "Oooh, Atlanta Coke, yummy" or whatever without first looking at where it was bottled. It really confused me when I watched The Coca-Cola Kid when he said that Coke was the same formula all around the world, when I could clearly taste the difference without looking. I think the difference was sugar versus HFCS (as well as water differences).
It seems really low to me to. I go to the show every year in San Francisco. If it's really only $100K, it seems like it would be well in the city's financial interest to pay for it. The city makes a ton of money that week from attendees/tourists.
I'm wondering if we're tracking all of them, or even able to track them. Sure, they're probably old and what not, but if we're not tracking them, one could be sent into a port... unless we have some kind of submarine fence/detection system?
Still, an undetected sub could leave North Korea with a nuke and then hijack a cargo ship from a US friendly country, transferring the nuke to the ship.
Not Digg. No, just, no! There's so many things wrong with this.
Here comes Digg thinking Google Reader was just an RSS reader and now wants to join in on the replacement game. Great, so now we'll have a Bazillion and TWO RSS readers!
Google Reader was more than just an RSS client (which there have always been more than enough of). Google Reader was a feed manager and aggregator, with the ability to share posts from feeds and generate new feeds based on the combination of shared items along with a public API for all of it.
The loss of this functionality is pretty significant, especially since Google crushed and eliminated all competition in this field. This is what is needed.
One really important criteria for anyone attempting to fill in here, is that they have to be trust worthy long term. Many sites/companies invested a lot in Google Reader's infrastructure and are now feeling some serious pain as Google has abandoned it. The last thing we want to do is trust someone with a history of foolish abandonment.
So, Digg...
1) You apparently don't even understand what Google Reader is.
Canon has moved to dual SD & CF card slots with their new higher-end DSLRs and has had SD slots in their consumer cameras for years.. Personally, I like both for different uses. SD is great for casual stuff, and of course Eye-Fi, but when it comes to pro-photography, CF is still where it's at. Not that I'm a pro photographer... I suck, but I can appreciate the robustness of CF.
If you buy iWork (Apple's office suite), or any other app in the App Store, you can install it on as many Macs as you own. Buy a new Mac and connect online, sign in and click Install for all of the apps you ever purchased through the App Store to download and install. No serial numbers to enter, no activations, no registrations, no hardware checking. Go ahead and swap out your hard drive, optical drive, RAM or whatever. It doesn't matter. Sign in and click Install.
You can argue that Apple is "including the price of the OS" in the hardware so every time you're buying a Mac, you're buying the OS over again... Whoop-dee-friggin' Doo, Mountain Lion is all of $20, and again, buy once and install on any Mac you sign in on... as much as you want. But be that as it may, pretty much all consumer PCs are sold with Windows anyway so each of those has the price of Windows "baked in".
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I used to fly a Cessna 172. From the front seats, there's good visibility over the dash when flying. When taxiing, your view is a little obscured, especially if you're short, but it's definitely manageable. Of course, he didn't have to deal with that.
I'm not sure why the tower didn't work with him to turn on his landing lights...although the story seems to be a bit odd... his first attempt was aborted because of being blinded by the setting sun, and then his 4th attempt was "in the pitch dark". That's a really long time.
Anyway, even without the landing lights, visibility at night is still good enough with giving ambient light.
Still, pretty cool dude to be able to do this... more so that he didn't crash from stalling. He mentioned he did stall, but recovered. It sounds like he had at least *some* knowledge of what it took to fly.
This blurb is different from the article. I don't see in the article what Google itself is doing to correct the problem. To me, it seems simple on their part, just band justmugshots.com and whatever other domains are being used. That's what I was hoping to see, but nope, the Do Know Evil company is still not only including mug shot sites in their image search results, but they're unjustifiably highly ranked.
Here's my problem...
My name shows up in image search results. Great here's what "first_name last_name" looks like. However, the top results are a bunch of mugshots. Ok, so I've made sure my actual image is properly SEO'd and linked to from a bunch of sites, but still, the mugshots are showing higher ranked images (of not me, but people with the same name and in some cases they look similar).
How are the mugshots so highly ranked? Are people really sending inbound links to them? I don't think so, but even if they were, Google should be banning these domains.
And no, this wouldn't be censorship... besides being a company and not the government, Google wouldn't be preventing the sites or the information from being available, but simply doing two things:
1) Justifiably punishing sites that obviously broke the rules in terms of SEO.
2) Protecting people a little bit more from being extorted.
Well, as you pointed out, it has that and it hasn't been selling.
For me those things don't really matter...
USB - I can print just fine with AirPrint. Mouse... I vaguely remember seeing one of those last decade.
SD card slot - There's an adapter, but why bother when I can just use WiFi hard drives and WiFi SD cards?
Video out port. As long as I'm buying an adapter, what's the difference in buying an adapter for the iPad versus another for the Surface? I've rarely used mine since AirPlay is much easier.
What would make the Surface RT sell is a time machine so they could go back in time before iOS and Android came to dominate the market.
The RT version is dead, and Microsoft should give up on it as all of the Windows RT partners have.
The iPhone just brought in more revenue over the weekend than the entire enterprise value of Nokia.
I'm sorry if we're boring you with this.
I've been using Pandora since shortly after launch. I've been using iTunes Radio since the beta launched.
Generally I prefer iTunes Radio, although there are some custom stations I've made in Pandora that I can't seem to get the same level of match quality in iTunes Radio. Usually the opposite is true though, the stations in iTunes seem to be better matched and have more songs rotating.
It's also hard to beat that iTunes Radio is commercial free with iTunes Match, which I have anyway, so it's just a bonus. On the other hand, Pandora's premium service without ads is incredibly dirt cheap.
For me, it all depends on what Apple wants to do with content as a business. If it uses content to sell hardware, then I'd imagine iTunes Radio will be iOS and iTunes (Mac/Windows) only. However, if Apple discovers that content can be a worthwhile business in of itself, it could license iTunes Radio and make it available on other platforms (as well as their TV shows, movies, and other content).
If they license, then great, my Sonos system will likely get iTunes radio as well as the bazillions of other smart devices I have which get Pandora now. In that case Pandora (and others would likely die).
The reason is that if Apple licenses iTunes Radio or develops apps for a broad range of non-Apple platforms, Apple will have a mega-advantage in several ways besides just the brand advantage. Apple already has bazillions of credit cards active on file with Apple IDs making it very easy for people to join in. Apple has bazillions of people buying music every day and has been tracking their purchases through Genius Playlists for years now, so they have a huge-ass database of matched music and are well equipped to provide better smart stations. Apple also has the ability to bundle advertising with other ad sales, instead of just having it be a smart radio ad buy. And of course Apple makes money through increased music (and other content) sales as well as feeding the overall ecosystem. I just don't see how anyone could compete with that, unless Apple just decides not to license or build on other platforms.
"There was a single codecs directory which contained the codec files."
Well then, I must be reading this wrong, because it makes no sense how this was special in any way. It's exactly how QuickTime has *always* worked. I'm not even sure I could come up with a different way to do this... put some codec extensions in the Desktop directory and others in the Trash... that will fool them!!!
Instead of breaking up Microsoft, wouldn't it be easier to just shut everything down that wasn't Windows, Office, and Exchange?
Arguably, the Xbox could survive on its own, although not if burdened with the billions in losses it accumulated over the years before it turned a profit.
I was working for a company in 2001 when I got laid off. I'm tempted to name the company or at least the former CEO of the company in order to praise them. The company is still very much in business.
9/11 hit right in the middle of the 2 weeks, so the CEO gave us an additional week.
This was really a big deal. Not only in terms of the money earned during that time, but also to get our stuff together, finish projects and hand stuff off to those who wouldn't be laid off. Sure, it was a given we'd also be working on putting our portfolios and resumes together, but it really was a decent and appreciated way to go out and help leave something behind that could be successful (and maybe re-employ us again).
I've also been given notice when the company was going under. The CEO was straight with telling us how much runway we had and things weren't looking good for a while. He was trying to sell the company and we could hang on, but each week would be a risk. Most of us did, and the company was eventually purchased with all of us who stayed given jobs.
I've always given 2 weeks notice, if not more. I don't know why you wouldn't. I could see if someone offered a job where I had to start right away, but I've never been offered a job under those terms. Everyone expects that you'll want to start as soon as possible, but that would be at least 2 weeks.
I guess the answer to the question could be best given if the question is rephrased... when is it ok to act like a jerk? When you're getting treated worse by even bigger jerks.
Wow, I'll be the first to admit that 6 million Surface tablets that Microsoft had to do write-offs on was bat-shit insane, but I do think Microsoft needs more than 3 units on hand.
My brother's girlfriend's cousin from Canada wants to buy one, that would be 33% of their inventory right there.
Seriously though, what is this guy thinking? Being a bigger failure is somehow going to result in people wanting to buy more? It's not like the lack of apps, being ridiculously late to market, and being over-priced had anything to do with it.
Nah... Triple-down!!!
But that's not exactly what PBS did. They provide an open/standards way of accessing the content via the Web. They've then looked at developing native apps, and saw that it was easy enough on iOS, but not so much on Android.
Should a public organization not do any platform unless it does them all? While that may sound "fair", it's potentially restricting them in ways that would be unreasonable. For example, if they could do Android and iOS, would the same rule apply for people complaining about Windows Phone, Blackberry, Symbian, WebOS?
To me, it makes sense for public organizations to go with open/standards where applicable and not do proprietary solutions until afterwards, but once they have the open/standards solution done, it makes sense to work on proprietary solutions based on reaching the most amount of people per dollar spent on the project.
I agree, I'm wondering too what site he's using as a comparison. Wasn't Safari the first, or one of the first to pass Acid3? And I know the Acid3 test isn't without criticism but Safari was scoring 100/100 when IE was scoring 20/100.
I pretty much build in Safari, check in Chrome and Firefox, which will always work and then allocate twice as much time as all of that took to make it work with all the versions of IE I need to test for.
I learned to fly at San Carlos too (and Palo Alto... West Valley Flying Club).
Take a look at:
http://webtrak.bksv.com/oak
Put in 7/23/2013 and 8:45pm Look for EVA28. It will be a large purple plane coming in from the top left of the screen passing over the center of SFO at 11,000'.
The plane that crashed did the same thing. It pass over SFO at high altitude (common) and then turned cross-wide while rapidly descending. I live in Portola Valley and lived in Palo Alto... You can hear planes doing this because they make a very distinctive whooshing sound as they deploy flaps and decelerate.
EVA28 got to 600' and aborted landing between the San Mateo bridge and Coyote point.
I've heard from a 777 pilot, and this seems plausible to me... that this plane has an automated mode where it will auto-throttle when you're coming in for a landing, allowing you to pitch only and letting the plane handle the throttle.
The problem is on rapid descent, pilots will disengage the auto-throttle. If they fail to re-engage it... they'll pitch up as they're getting too low and expect the auto-throttle to kick in. When it doesn't, there isn't much time to realize it's off and either turn it back on, or throttle back up.
Worse, throttling up in these jets takes a while to kick in.
600'... if the description of the auto-throttle situation is correct... wow, that almost splashed.
Apple never sold music below 128kbps, nor as MP3. They currently sell music as 256kbps AAC.
"More relevant: Can slashdot stage a comeback?"
NO, and if they don't revert their last design overhaul, I'm going to delete my account!
In similar news, AT&T is expected to soon launch it's 5G 1Gbps network nationwide with speeds expected to reach *up to* 10Mbps. Rollout is expected to begin as soon as 5G/1GBps icons and logos are complete.
TIL: people don't put their laptops in cars, and cars don't ever experience hardware failures for 6-10 years.
I don't believe it was consistently HFCS throughout the country. I remember flying around the country a lot and getting Coke from different bottlers. I was getting to the point where I could say, "Oooh, Atlanta Coke, yummy" or whatever without first looking at where it was bottled. It really confused me when I watched The Coca-Cola Kid when he said that Coke was the same formula all around the world, when I could clearly taste the difference without looking. I think the difference was sugar versus HFCS (as well as water differences).
I find your baby needs disturbing.
It seems really low to me to. I go to the show every year in San Francisco. If it's really only $100K, it seems like it would be well in the city's financial interest to pay for it. The city makes a ton of money that week from attendees/tourists.
North Korea has 70 submarines (the US has 71):
http://www.globalfirepower.com/country-military-strength-detail.asp?country_id=North-Korea
I'm wondering if we're tracking all of them, or even able to track them. Sure, they're probably old and what not, but if we're not tracking them, one could be sent into a port... unless we have some kind of submarine fence/detection system?
Still, an undetected sub could leave North Korea with a nuke and then hijack a cargo ship from a US friendly country, transferring the nuke to the ship.
Not Digg. No, just, no! There's so many things wrong with this.
Here comes Digg thinking Google Reader was just an RSS reader and now wants to join in on the replacement game. Great, so now we'll have a Bazillion and TWO RSS readers!
Google Reader was more than just an RSS client (which there have always been more than enough of). Google Reader was a feed manager and aggregator, with the ability to share posts from feeds and generate new feeds based on the combination of shared items along with a public API for all of it.
The loss of this functionality is pretty significant, especially since Google crushed and eliminated all competition in this field. This is what is needed.
One really important criteria for anyone attempting to fill in here, is that they have to be trust worthy long term. Many sites/companies invested a lot in Google Reader's infrastructure and are now feeling some serious pain as Google has abandoned it. The last thing we want to do is trust someone with a history of foolish abandonment.
So, Digg...
1) You apparently don't even understand what Google Reader is.
2) You have a horrible history of abandonment.
Canon has moved to dual SD & CF card slots with their new higher-end DSLRs and has had SD slots in their consumer cameras for years.. Personally, I like both for different uses. SD is great for casual stuff, and of course Eye-Fi, but when it comes to pro-photography, CF is still where it's at. Not that I'm a pro photographer... I suck, but I can appreciate the robustness of CF.
"What happens when that SSD starts failing from the heavy IO load of desktop software? Or one of the fans blows a bearing?"
you throw it away and buy a new one.
Do you think microsoft expects anything else?
Yes. I expect them to tell me that I have to buy all new software as well.
Except for those who do mind, and must use. Oh wait, they'll pirate. Nevermind.
How is Apple "eviler"?
If you buy iWork (Apple's office suite), or any other app in the App Store, you can install it on as many Macs as you own. Buy a new Mac and connect online, sign in and click Install for all of the apps you ever purchased through the App Store to download and install. No serial numbers to enter, no activations, no registrations, no hardware checking. Go ahead and swap out your hard drive, optical drive, RAM or whatever. It doesn't matter. Sign in and click Install.
You can argue that Apple is "including the price of the OS" in the hardware so every time you're buying a Mac, you're buying the OS over again... Whoop-dee-friggin' Doo, Mountain Lion is all of $20, and again, buy once and install on any Mac you sign in on... as much as you want. But be that as it may, pretty much all consumer PCs are sold with Windows anyway so each of those has the price of Windows "baked in".