In a couple months, SlingTV will have around 20 channels for $20, then be able to add on from there with various options. Apple will get some subscribers just for being Apple, but if they don't have some exclusive content, they'll just drive awareness to the existing, cheaper competition in the IPTV market.
What's it going to take to get representatives (in all branches) in Washington to realize that we shouldn't live in a society where the Government lords over the people, but instead understand they are employees of the people?
Or to quote George Carlin, "Don't I pay your salary? You're a public servant. Get me a glass of water!"
I get that Blackberry has been an industry joke for 6-7 years now, but the opening statement overstates their missteps. Blackberry missed many boats, but not the whole category of smartphones. Touchscreens, app stores, decent browsers...yes. But not smartphones.
In an ideal world, the free market would step in and protect consumers in place of the government having to do so. The Republicans are right on that point (IMHO), but what they re missing, and this is big: broadband is NOT a free market! Municipal governments grant monopoly access to cable and phone companies who double as ISPs. 85% of the country has access to two or fewer choices, and that's at 4Mbps. Faster speeds offer even more pathetic "choice." For a party that decries government monopolies in other sectors, they don't seem to understand that monopolies of ALL kinds are dangerous in their own ways.
UPS recently paid $40 million dollars because they shipped fake drugs. Like they were supposed to open all the packages and verify the contents? FedEx is currently facing fines for up to $1.6 Billion for the same. This may be totally unrelated, but at the very least, they are likely not in the mood to go poking the government in the eye over a niche product.
Original statement: "Most towns in Utah... [use addresses as a]... position in yards relative to the nearest Mormon temple."
One county follows a system of naming streets relative to one temple. Not the nearest, and not most cities. Your own link betrays your lack of reading comprehension. At the time it was founded, it probably made sense for the people to number their streets off the most culturally significant feature of town. Every city in Utah outside Salt Lake County names their streets relative to their own Main Street (which rarely features a temple) which can run East-West or North-South, and Center Street (which, obviously, rune in the other direction).
This and 'serious scientist' Hathaway arguing in favor of love as an interstellar communication medium are the main two reasons this movie is vastly over-rated. It's not a horrible movie, but top 25 all time as votes by IMDB users? That's a total joke.
Remember when Firefox was born as the stripped-down next-generation of the Mozilla Suite? When it was all about getting the code base to the bare minimum and letting the user decide which functions and features they wanted, and let them have those via extensions?
Yeah, me neither. Must have been a dream.
I agree that the summary of this summary (and other stories about this today) make it sound like that, but the more I think of it, that premise seems suspect. Basically, it would be almost constantly streaming audio back to HQ. Now multiply that by 10s (100s?) of thousands of sets across the world, and getting any usable data to improve voice recognition, or parsing which words are intended to be voice control vs. just random talk would take far more computing power and bandwidth than it's worth.
It seems more plausible to interpret the statement to say that while you are issuing voice commands, either via a keyword that can be recognized locally or by pressing a button, THEN any statements that may be unrelated to the functions of the set may be inadvertently picked up and sent to Samsung's (or partners') servers.
Still, even with a favorable interpretation, it seems like an unnecessary, risky, costly "feature" that has only a marginal benefit to customers. Are we so lazy that even pressing a series of buttons takes too much effort? As an accessibility feature, fine, it makes some sense, but it should be turned off by default.
"All of the money from this project will be used to extend the distance our drone can fly, so the more backers we have, the farther it will be able to go,"
Power be damned, they invented a drone that flies on money!
The barycenter of the Earth-Moon system lies inside the Earth. Contrast that with the Pluto-Charon system where that point lies between the bodies, and the difference between a planet/moon and a dual planet becomes clear.
Obviously this group is advocating a simple solution: Set off a couple nukes. Not only would that reduce the world's stockpile, it would also start a mini nuclear-winter, which offsets global warming! It's clearly the solution to both problems these guys worry about.
Call it nostalgia, or even cliche, but the original Star Wars films were the archetypal 'good vs. evil' 'David vs. Goliath' 'farmboy fulfills the prophecy' sort. The Hero with a Thousand Faces. Episode I opens with a trade blockade. I understand Lucas wanting to open up the universe a little, and make it more real, but the tedious, uninteresting parts of 'real' are the worst parts to write into a sci-fi epic.
You can go back and try to re-edit Episodes 4-6 to take out any unnecessary parts, what gets cut? Maybe a few bits here and there, but nothing significant. Episode I? The entire pod racing scene only exists to sell a related video game. It adds nothing to any character, and it's over 10 minutes long.
Bingo. Cool little hack, but what if you want something, you know, useful? Build it into a mini keyboard/trackpad combo like the K400 and you've got something. Small enough to be portable, big enough to have some useful connections, no added peripherals required.
Karpeles kidnapped Ulbricht and made him work on the site. Every evening..."Good night, Ross. Good work. Sleep well. I'll most likely kill you in the morning." Three years he said that. "Good night, Ross. Good work. Sleep well. I'll most likely kill you in the morning." Eventually he wanted to retire. So he took Ross to his cabin and told his secret: "I am not the Dread Pirate Roberts," he said. "My name is Mark. I inherited this site from the previous Dread Pirate Roberts, just as you will inherit it from me."
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In a couple months, SlingTV will have around 20 channels for $20, then be able to add on from there with various options. Apple will get some subscribers just for being Apple, but if they don't have some exclusive content, they'll just drive awareness to the existing, cheaper competition in the IPTV market.
It's worse than that. It was $599 in 1995, which would be over $925 today.
What's it going to take to get representatives (in all branches) in Washington to realize that we shouldn't live in a society where the Government lords over the people, but instead understand they are employees of the people?
Or to quote George Carlin, "Don't I pay your salary? You're a public servant. Get me a glass of water!"
I get that Blackberry has been an industry joke for 6-7 years now, but the opening statement overstates their missteps. Blackberry missed many boats, but not the whole category of smartphones. Touchscreens, app stores, decent browsers...yes. But not smartphones.
Google+ and Hangouts
This isn't a "hey look at this cool story" story. It's a "let's put something from Dice on the front page" story.
I bet he had a bad feeling about this, right before he hit the ground.
It's a very short list of celebrities who are so universally loved.
In an ideal world, the free market would step in and protect consumers in place of the government having to do so. The Republicans are right on that point (IMHO), but what they re missing, and this is big: broadband is NOT a free market! Municipal governments grant monopoly access to cable and phone companies who double as ISPs. 85% of the country has access to two or fewer choices, and that's at 4Mbps. Faster speeds offer even more pathetic "choice." For a party that decries government monopolies in other sectors, they don't seem to understand that monopolies of ALL kinds are dangerous in their own ways.
UPS recently paid $40 million dollars because they shipped fake drugs. Like they were supposed to open all the packages and verify the contents? FedEx is currently facing fines for up to $1.6 Billion for the same. This may be totally unrelated, but at the very least, they are likely not in the mood to go poking the government in the eye over a niche product.
Original statement: "Most towns in Utah ... [use addresses as a] ... position in yards relative to the nearest Mormon temple."
One county follows a system of naming streets relative to one temple. Not the nearest, and not most cities. Your own link betrays your lack of reading comprehension. At the time it was founded, it probably made sense for the people to number their streets off the most culturally significant feature of town. Every city in Utah outside Salt Lake County names their streets relative to their own Main Street (which rarely features a temple) which can run East-West or North-South, and Center Street (which, obviously, rune in the other direction).
Grid pattern: yes. Relative position to the nearest mormon temple. Laughably false.
This and 'serious scientist' Hathaway arguing in favor of love as an interstellar communication medium are the main two reasons this movie is vastly over-rated. It's not a horrible movie, but top 25 all time as votes by IMDB users? That's a total joke.
"The intent of loading this tool was to help enhance our users’ shopping experience."
Also dollars. The intent was dollars.
Remember when Firefox was born as the stripped-down next-generation of the Mozilla Suite? When it was all about getting the code base to the bare minimum and letting the user decide which functions and features they wanted, and let them have those via extensions?
Yeah, me neither. Must have been a dream.
I agree that the summary of this summary (and other stories about this today) make it sound like that, but the more I think of it, that premise seems suspect. Basically, it would be almost constantly streaming audio back to HQ. Now multiply that by 10s (100s?) of thousands of sets across the world, and getting any usable data to improve voice recognition, or parsing which words are intended to be voice control vs. just random talk would take far more computing power and bandwidth than it's worth.
It seems more plausible to interpret the statement to say that while you are issuing voice commands, either via a keyword that can be recognized locally or by pressing a button, THEN any statements that may be unrelated to the functions of the set may be inadvertently picked up and sent to Samsung's (or partners') servers.
Still, even with a favorable interpretation, it seems like an unnecessary, risky, costly "feature" that has only a marginal benefit to customers. Are we so lazy that even pressing a series of buttons takes too much effort? As an accessibility feature, fine, it makes some sense, but it should be turned off by default.
"All of the money from this project will be used to extend the distance our drone can fly, so the more backers we have, the farther it will be able to go,"
Power be damned, they invented a drone that flies on money!
1 a : to go, come, or appear suddenly —often used with up. Often, but not exclusively. If you're going to be a grammar nazi, at least be right.
The barycenter of the Earth-Moon system lies inside the Earth. Contrast that with the Pluto-Charon system where that point lies between the bodies, and the difference between a planet/moon and a dual planet becomes clear.
Additionally, this exact tech was predicted in the early 70's: The Terminal Man
Obviously this group is advocating a simple solution: Set off a couple nukes. Not only would that reduce the world's stockpile, it would also start a mini nuclear-winter, which offsets global warming! It's clearly the solution to both problems these guys worry about.
....but most of the images are locked up for six months.
Call it nostalgia, or even cliche, but the original Star Wars films were the archetypal 'good vs. evil' 'David vs. Goliath' 'farmboy fulfills the prophecy' sort. The Hero with a Thousand Faces. Episode I opens with a trade blockade. I understand Lucas wanting to open up the universe a little, and make it more real, but the tedious, uninteresting parts of 'real' are the worst parts to write into a sci-fi epic.
You can go back and try to re-edit Episodes 4-6 to take out any unnecessary parts, what gets cut? Maybe a few bits here and there, but nothing significant. Episode I? The entire pod racing scene only exists to sell a related video game. It adds nothing to any character, and it's over 10 minutes long.
Bingo. Cool little hack, but what if you want something, you know, useful? Build it into a mini keyboard/trackpad combo like the K400 and you've got something. Small enough to be portable, big enough to have some useful connections, no added peripherals required.
Karpeles kidnapped Ulbricht and made him work on the site. Every evening..."Good night, Ross. Good work. Sleep well. I'll most likely kill you in the morning." Three years he said that. "Good night, Ross. Good work. Sleep well. I'll most likely kill you in the morning." Eventually he wanted to retire. So he took Ross to his cabin and told his secret: "I am not the Dread Pirate Roberts," he said. "My name is Mark. I inherited this site from the previous Dread Pirate Roberts, just as you will inherit it from me."