Traffic flow would be analogous to fluid flow, but fluid isn't stupid.
Sure, if you define "not stupid" as being satisfied with the right amount of cars arriving at a destination, instead of bringing specific cars from source to destination.
You sound like a person who might not have heard the notion that yellow means "clear the intersection" but even if you aren't, I'm posting this here on the off-chance it might help someone who encounters this later.
Okay, sorry to tell you, but that makes no sense. Anyone who would be able (or rather need) to "clear the intersection" shouldn't be able to see the yellow light (well, there may be some intersections with the lights on the exit side), and if you can see the yellow light, it shouldn't be uses as an excuse to enter the intersection just so you can then clear it.
One solution that comes to mind is a nag-screen-like alert
God that would be annoying. Maybe Apple should have made WiFi Assist opt-in rather than opt-out, but I really don't see the problem with this feature.
If Apple made it opt-in, they would still sue for false advertisement, because a promised feature wasn't available. You can't win against litigious idiots - well, in court you can. After a couple of years.
But overall, Amazon is profitable, right? Therefore there must be some products that earn money.
Sometimes it is (but not by much), but most of the time it isn't. And that despite making 30%+ on most of their downloads. They have to lose money on something.
Nope, it died when they started taking movie stunts as actual things that can happen. This was what, 3-4 years before they cut the rest of the team?
The show was great, they just ran out of myths to bust.
Hey, people still believe JATO-car is possible, if only they did it right, after three whole episodes showing it going out of control every time. OTOH they did show you could skip a car over water like in the Speed Zone (aka Cannonball Fever) movie - which nobody thought would work.
It was a television show meant to entertain an audience.
The problem is that this notion is lost on a lot of people. Those who don't understand what science is, believe it to be making random guesses, blowing shit up and they writing busted on the screen. It doesn't even need to be statistics based. A lot of what the end up with is the correct conclusion by trial an error. Unfortunately a lot of their failures are ignoring externalities or not replicating ideal environments.
Funny thing: that sounds exactly like the arguments from the readers that leads them to revisit myths - and that almost always changes nothing in the result.
I suspect this was just a case of the show being on for a very long time and the two stars having retirement money. At this point they're simply not having fun anymore and want to move onto something new. From the article it sounds like Hyneman wants a job where he just wants to build stuff while Savage wants to do some new TV.
You're correct... but in a year they may really miss it... Well, maybe not, I don't know them, but sometimes you don't know the best time of your life until it is over...
Well, maybe they do a reunion in a couple of years. Planned for six shows (TV episodes or on-stage), but aborted after 3 because they really hate each other.
Their issue was that hardly anyone actually paid to use the patent, they just cross licences some patents of their own. Apple didn't have any valuable technology patents, just shitty design patents on rounded corners and bounce scrolling. Some of them were invalid too, like the slide to unlock one. So the only option they had was to pay cash on every iPhone sold, and they really really didn't want to.
The terms were fair, a percentage of the retail price. Same as everyone else gets.
Yep, percentage of the retail price of the CHIP Apple bought. Like everybody else does it. Why do you think Motorola single-sidedly canceled that licenses deal just for Apple as a customer of Qualcomm so they could pretend that Apple had to pay directly to them?
South Korean consumer giant Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. is preparing to file lawsuits against a number of mobile phone handset makers in Taiwan, mainland China and Hong Kong, who it alleges have copied its products and breached its patents, according to a Taiwan government online report.
This a year before the iPhone came out, from a company owning the most US design patents - 50% more than the 2nd, Sony.
That's why Apple is not raking in as much profit in macs as they do in iphone. Iphone cost ~$200 to manufacture, yet Apple sell it for $700 or much more depending on amount of storage and different market around the world. Now compare this to near flagship Android phones in $200 - $400 range, and Fat Apple Tax is very evident.
Errm, yeah. Only that the Android flagship phones start at $500 and go to $1000. Not counting stuff like the Vertu Signature Touch.
Because they're not much of an innovator. This is not a troll. They've never been terribly good at inventing brand new things.
Agree with everything you said except this part. They're not a hardware innovator. If you've opened up Macbooks to repair them, you'll find the same commodity parts used by every other laptop manufacturer.
Yawn. Everybody but you remembers that Apple always used those horrible proprietary chips - and still weren't innovative.
Not only that but Sony acted like dicks (surprise!!!) and insisted on having a small, unpowered port as part of the standard for their laptops. That caused not only cable fragmentation but also for most laptops you needed wretched external power bricks to power firewire disks, which sucked.
it didn't really matter, because most disks at the time were 3.5" anyway, and you couldn't get enough power down firewire to spin them up. now we have usb3 and don't care
Bwahaha. You forgot to mention that it took USB years to even provide enough power to charge an iPod.
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Traffic flow would be analogous to fluid flow, but fluid isn't stupid.
Sure, if you define "not stupid" as being satisfied with the right amount of cars arriving at a destination, instead of bringing specific cars from source to destination.
You sound like a person who might not have heard the notion that yellow means "clear the intersection" but even if you aren't, I'm posting this here on the off-chance it might help someone who encounters this later.
Okay, sorry to tell you, but that makes no sense. Anyone who would be able (or rather need) to "clear the intersection" shouldn't be able to see the yellow light (well, there may be some intersections with the lights on the exit side), and if you can see the yellow light, it shouldn't be uses as an excuse to enter the intersection just so you can then clear it.
But a real-time display of this value as a percentage of data cap, just like the battery usage indicator, is what would be really useful.
How would Apple know the data cap on your cell phone plan? They aren't Google, you know.
One solution that comes to mind is a nag-screen-like alert
God that would be annoying. Maybe Apple should have made WiFi Assist opt-in rather than opt-out, but I really don't see the problem with this feature.
If Apple made it opt-in, they would still sue for false advertisement, because a promised feature wasn't available. You can't win against litigious idiots - well, in court you can. After a couple of years.
But overall, Amazon is profitable, right? Therefore there must be some products that earn money.
Sometimes it is (but not by much), but most of the time it isn't. And that despite making 30%+ on most of their downloads. They have to lose money on something.
Yes, because Benghazi had nothing to do with a secretary of state ignoring warnings that something was going down
You are confusing that with the actual "Bin Laden Determined To Strike in US" CIA brief given to Dubya 36 days before 9/11.
At $50, does Amazon make a tiny profit? Or is it a money-loosing product launched to kill weaker competitors?
Isn't almost anything Amazon does a money-loosing product launched to kill weaker competitors?
A comupter in every home was not the dream of Bill Gates. It was the dream of guys like Woz, Ed Roberts, Les Solomon and the Homebrew Computer Club.
Bioll Gates dream was to have an expensive Microsoft OS running on every computer on every desktop.
FTFY.
As if we needed further evidence that "Ars Technica" is in Amazon's pockets - more like "Arse Amazon".
Nope, it died when they started taking movie stunts as actual things that can happen. This was what, 3-4 years before they cut the rest of the team? The show was great, they just ran out of myths to bust.
Hey, people still believe JATO-car is possible, if only they did it right, after three whole episodes showing it going out of control every time. OTOH they did show you could skip a car over water like in the Speed Zone (aka Cannonball Fever) movie - which nobody thought would work.
Feh...
Kari never toted natural hair color.
Wait...Kari had hair? I wasn't looking at the top of her head apparently.
But I bet you would have loved to see the top of her head.
It was a television show meant to entertain an audience.
The problem is that this notion is lost on a lot of people. Those who don't understand what science is, believe it to be making random guesses, blowing shit up and they writing busted on the screen. It doesn't even need to be statistics based. A lot of what the end up with is the correct conclusion by trial an error. Unfortunately a lot of their failures are ignoring externalities or not replicating ideal environments.
Funny thing: that sounds exactly like the arguments from the readers that leads them to revisit myths - and that almost always changes nothing in the result.
I suspect this was just a case of the show being on for a very long time and the two stars having retirement money. At this point they're simply not having fun anymore and want to move onto something new. From the article it sounds like Hyneman wants a job where he just wants to build stuff while Savage wants to do some new TV.
You're correct... but in a year they may really miss it... Well, maybe not, I don't know them, but sometimes you don't know the best time of your life until it is over...
Well, maybe they do a reunion in a couple of years. Planned for six shows (TV episodes or on-stage), but aborted after 3 because they really hate each other.
Actually, Page wasn't CEO at the time, though it was still Page and Brin that drove the no-patents decision.
No patents, ehh? https://www.google.com/patents...
Are you being intentionally obtuse? A handful of patent filings don't constitute a corporate patent strategy.
Yeah, just like being sort of evil doesn't mean you are actually evil. Or like being a little pregnant.
Their issue was that hardly anyone actually paid to use the patent, they just cross licences some patents of their own. Apple didn't have any valuable technology patents, just shitty design patents on rounded corners and bounce scrolling. Some of them were invalid too, like the slide to unlock one. So the only option they had was to pay cash on every iPhone sold, and they really really didn't want to.
The terms were fair, a percentage of the retail price. Same as everyone else gets.
Yep, percentage of the retail price of the CHIP Apple bought. Like everybody else does it. Why do you think Motorola single-sidedly canceled that licenses deal just for Apple as a customer of Qualcomm so they could pretend that Apple had to pay directly to them?
This is not a troll, if anything it's flamebait.
7 direct replies, and none of them a flame. Troll.
Using a design patent in litigation against their supplier Samsung is mostly what the sneering is about. Who uses a design patent offensively?
How exactly could someone even use a design patent defensively?
BTW: http://www.eetimes.com/documen...
South Korean consumer giant Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. is preparing to file lawsuits against a number of mobile phone handset makers in Taiwan, mainland China and Hong Kong, who it alleges have copied its products and breached its patents, according to a Taiwan government online report.
This a year before the iPhone came out, from a company owning the most US design patents - 50% more than the 2nd, Sony.
That's why Apple is not raking in as much profit in macs as they do in iphone. Iphone cost ~$200 to manufacture, yet Apple sell it for $700 or much more depending on amount of storage and different market around the world. Now compare this to near flagship Android phones in $200 - $400 range, and Fat Apple Tax is very evident.
Errm, yeah. Only that the Android flagship phones start at $500 and go to $1000. Not counting stuff like the Vertu Signature Touch.
Agree with everything you said except this part. They're not a hardware innovator. If you've opened up Macbooks to repair them, you'll find the same commodity parts used by every other laptop manufacturer.
Yawn. Everybody but you remembers that Apple always used those horrible proprietary chips - and still weren't innovative.
Not only that but Sony acted like dicks (surprise!!!) and insisted on having a small, unpowered port as part of the standard for their laptops. That caused not only cable fragmentation but also for most laptops you needed wretched external power bricks to power firewire disks, which sucked.
it didn't really matter, because most disks at the time were 3.5" anyway, and you couldn't get enough power down firewire to spin them up. now we have usb3 and don't care
Bwahaha. You forgot to mention that it took USB years to even provide enough power to charge an iPod.
Actually, Page wasn't CEO at the time, though it was still Page and Brin that drove the no-patents decision.
No patents, ehh? https://www.google.com/patents...
You're just holding it wrong.
http://www.cnn.com/2010/TECH/m...
http://dontholditwrong.tumblr....
Except that I do keep it in my front pocket and it still "butt dials".
Wow, you must have a really big butt, if it reaches all the way to the front pockets ;-)