Do not confuse the two separate bodies of work. The photo itself is actually a copyrighted piece of work, the copyright is owned by the photographer. The website might be, or might not be, owned by the photographer, but it would have a license to use the photo on it.
The student using the photo is in the clear because it was for educational purposes. However, the school itself may not be for reproducing the photograph itself.
Sane laws or not, just because there's a photo on a website doesn't mean you can take that photo and use it elsewhere - that photo is governed by its own copyright. Just because it makes up a small part of the website does not mean it can be used as fair use or fair dealing - it too is a separately licensed piece of work.
Nuclear reactors can handle high temps just fine. Only in places where there is limited cooling water and cooling releases rise above local environmental limits are they cut back.
Nuclear plants have specific cooling requirements. The problem is that the cooling water they use, as it gets warmer, they need more water in order to perform at the same cooling level. As such, either they max out the amount of water they can draw at the intake (either through environmental limits to limit the heat released into rivers, or the amount they can physically pull through their systems).
You have to remember that even if there is normally plentiful flows, the rivers may have shrunk from the heat so there may not even be enough flow to keep the intakes covered.
Thus, they have to run at reduced output to reduce their heat generation.
This heatwave is rather exceptional and likely beyond the initial design requirements of the reactors.
It's just the same in other fields - it can be so hot planes can't fly. Or rather, they can, but the temperature exceeds the performance graphs supplied in the manual, and when that happens, you're not allowed to fly. (No extrapolation required, unless you want to be a test pilot).
Actually, I wonder why GVim for macOS doesn't have support for the Touch Bar. Seems like at the very least, you could turn the entire bar into the Escape Bar.
Why make it an itty-bitty key when you have the ability to get out of whatever mode you're in by tapping with either hand.
(I do remember that I had to fiddle with some Freedos disk juggling at some point of time when ThinkPads were still IBM, but even that was workable though not supported officially).
About the only thing I remember for those was that IBM supplied a program that wrote the disk out since it came as a disk image. The disk image of course contained PC-DOS (IBM, remember?).
But the last machine I had with IBM as a true builder was a Windows 95 ThinkPad and thus even the DOS disk image writers still worked on it.
Although I think IBM was unusual in that every disk they provided in various shrinkwrap packages were also available via the on system "Disk Creator" program. Thought it was neat I could create disks of some stuff, only to find it in the box later when I looked.
That's sort of a "cross that bridge when you come to it" problem. If Android is still a thing in 10 years I'm sure they can figure it out.
Which is actually quite a reasonable thing to do, when you think about it. There aren't many platforms that have lived as long as iOS and Android. Even when iOS came it, it wiped out several platforms like Symbian, PalmOS, and WIndows Mobile. So there's room for a disruption that basically will kill iOS and Android as we know it today, so planning for what happens is premature.
Heck, I've seen the previews of WIndows Mobile after iOS was established. It died a nasty death when everyone's interest shifted to Android. And no, it didn't make it to release.
Just because you have the computer muscle and the 0.997c fiber connections to the exchange "book" to insert yourself into the floor action you think that you're morally entitled to rake in a percentage.
HFT does not '"insert" itself. It relies on things like arbitrage (where two exchanges may have differing prices on something and using that), as well as doing trades like everyone else. It uses computing muscle to scan headlines and articles of the millions of financial advisors out there, as well as corporate news releases to determine if it should buy or sell stocks. If someone says you should buy a stock, HFT algorithms might take notice and increase its holdings hoping it goes up. If it goes up, then it can sell its holdings for the penny or so.
When you put your bid/sale offer on the market, the only thing an HFT can do is take you up on your offer. It cannot insert itself by being a middleman - once your bid is out there, your bid is out there.
They're also pretty awful in that they can't do more than about 12W due to the skinny wires Apple chooses to use. This means you're stuck with slow charging for no good reason other than a fat cable isn't svelte and sexy.
Uh, even most "fast" charging phones are drawing about 2A (10W), so Apple's 12W charge cables are just as fast as other phone chargers. Finding a USB port that will do more than 2.1A is rare until you switch to USB-PD. But since most phones don't u se USB-PD, and even ones that do generally only take 10-12W or so.
So Apple's 12W limit isn't "slow". It's what all the competition has caught up with. And the only reason the competition also uses 10-12W is because Apple has 10-12W chargers and thus made those "high speed" charge ports really cheap and common.
The real travesty is that there are plenty of "12W" adapters out there that only supply 500mA or 1000mA. If you didn't measure it, you'd never guess that it was the reason why the charging is slow. (And Apple does code chargers with how much current they can supply to avoid testing by drawing more method which I've seen destroy cheap chinese chargers in impressive flames).
I have ran across some problems with Think Pads in the past. About 10 years ago Work gave me a Think Pad that just wouldn't load the wireless network card. To make it worse, I worked in a Linux shop,
It's more a testament to how much Linux wirelsss networking has advanced than anything. Because 10 years ago, wireless networking was still in the "iffy" stage. If you had the right chipset, everything is good. If you had the wrong chipset (typically Broadcom) it wouldn't work. Broadcom was typically annoying in general back then - Ethernet could be problematic.
These days we have drivers for everything - I think Broadcom eventually released a set of open-source drivers not out of the kindness of their hearts, but out of necessity - as we progressed to 802.11n and 802.11ac, routers were migrating from RTOSes to Linux, so even in the end, they'd have Linux drivers.
Basically one had to have either a Prism chipset, Intel (Centrino), or certain Cisco chipsets and have relative success.
But these days, ThinkPads are generally more Linux compatible than other brands. About the only other one would be Dell. Other brands we've found to have iffy support for stuff.
I've had this dialogue with managers. It usually goes this way: "If I want fulfillment, my home project has flown on the space shuttle. I do my work to get paid so that I can do those other things, so hold the intangibles, sorry, and pass the salary."
That might work for you, but there are certain intangibles you probably would like to get. Top compensation means nothing if you don't have time or energy to do the things you want.
So they can pay you well and work you such that you go home and sleep and work and sleep and work. And your outside pursuits fall by the wayside due to lack of time and/or energy.
So perhaps some intangibles may be as simple as a 40 hour work week. Yes, they exist, and for me, I'm happy to say practically everyone in the company works 40 hours. There may be times they work more, but they're generally compensated for it with time in lieu. And perhaps vacation time, enough so you can do your pursuits.
I get it - there are some intangibles that I don't care for - a foosball table, a ping pong table, an arcade machine, not terribly exciting to me. But things like paid time off, remote working, etc do appeal, and those are still parts of the compensation package. And even things like flex time, perhaps even the ability to work an hour earlier so you can see your kid home from school on Friday. All these are intangibles and while a lot of companies say they have them, it's often pretend (as in good luck using them).
Yet, those are the ones that cost almost no money at all, and can bring employee satisfaction up
oh.. on second thought... not with you at all. We are talking about a purchase in 1998, not 1978. The complexity of printers had already been reduced to being disposable cartridge.
What may be on their grossly expensive device is a way to force people to pay for their copies. A slot for quarters, a bill reader, etc. Now we are talking about weight because we are talking about security. I imagine many of the public libraries in the country have/had a film reader like this.
Microfilm/fiche printing is still an optical process - not a digital one. The viewer part itself is super light (the heaviest part is the optics and lenses), but the optical printer is basically an analog photocopier. And those things are generally heavy and you have to basically duplicate the entire optical path again (for viewing, the light shines below the film/fiche through the carrier and then a compound lens and mirror array project it onto the screen, making it very light. To print requires reversing the light path (and given the light source is expensive, there's usually only one so you have an array of mirrors to reverse the light so it shines from top to bottom onto a lens projecting onto the drum and the whole toner process within).
My high school library was lucky - they only charged 10 cents per page. They subscribed to basically every magazine on the planet back then and it would come as a dump of fiche they had in drawers. They were nicely indexed - basically you could browse which magazine and issue you wanted, and it would point out which fiche you needed and even its coordinates. It was a nice dense way of storing lots of pages.
also, turn a light or two on... maybe turn on the light in an adjacent room, then turn out the light in the first room a second or so later, so it seems like someone is moving through the house
Yeah, why doesn't this do that? It's supposed to be a smart device, so why doesn't it play audio, turn on the TV for a little while, turn on and off lights and do other things that it has control over?
At least, going by all the ads, that's what people do with them, so it seems a real "away mode" can simply simulate normal use of what already happens... why play fake lines without doing other stuff?
Well, that's a reason, the bigger reason is more fundamental.
How do you find anything?
The web was decentralized, but unless you knew where to go, you were stuck. Web sites had "links" sections that helped bring you to related sites and other interesting things, but unless you knew where to start, it's hard.
It's why we have search engines - but that centralizes the web. Instead of linking to websites and getting information, we evolved into searching for information directly.
You could say something like "Wikipedia" but there to is a central repository of information, with links to outside sources.
That's really the big problem - a decentralized Web is hard to discover what information you need to know. If you know where you need to go, great, it's easy. But without centralized directories, it gets tricky - try finding anything on the web without using central repositories like Wikipedia, Google, or Reddit or similar centralized sites. Try doing it by conjuring up URLs.
It's why the early web was people grabbing domains like "sex.com" or "pets.com" and the like - if there was no search engine, then people might try conjuring up a URL.
About the only other way was internet "Yellow pages" type things, which could be obtained online, in print, or via your library.
Oh wait, those are FAKE Fortnite apps, installed via... the same way as the real Fortnite app.
You may note that none of those apps are on Google Play. And what else is not on Google Play?
I can only imagine there will be a new round of Fortnite phishing apps to steal account credentials along with payment information.
All I can say is you know what the headlines are going to say soon with people installing all the fake versions and Apple will flatly point to those when Epic comes around asking Apple to get rid of the 30%. (Which is apparently making quite a lot of money for Epic - something like $2M a day comes solely from the iOS version).
Epic might have inadvertently poisoned the well on this one if all the headlines are about how to avoid getting the wrong version of Fortnite.
The definition of a non profit is that there aren't any shareholders / owners who take a profit. But employees can still get whopping huge salaries. Just look at all the non profit hospitals whose administrators make millions and have corporate jets.
Take a look at The College Board, you know,the guys who basically sell you every standardized test in the world (SATs, ACTs, Iowa Test of Basic Skills, etc). Their problem has always been spending the money that comes in - yes, they are a non-profit - and instead of lowering the fees or anything sensible like that, they own many hotels and other properties just to spend the excess money that comes in
Tha's because HAL was big and unfriendly and had a voice that was functional, but all in all, you really didn't feel empathetic to HAL.
If you've seen the NAO robots, those things are cute by design (and with the right software can dance and other stuff). It's a lot harder to turn it off.
I don't see anything Nintendo could have done about it if The Tetris Company doesn't want Tetris included in large bundles anymore. When Nintendo originally announced Virtual Console for Wii, Tetris was one of the games it called out as too expensive to license (along with GoldenEye, whose rights at the time were split between Activision and Microsoft).
No, it's not Tetris is expensive to license. It's f'ing impossible to license. The modern rights to Tetris are held by the Tetris Company. But the rights int he 80s were a huge mish-mash of every freaking thing. Some of it dates back to Communism and thus, Tetris was officially owned by the state. And some of it was it was illegally produced without license. And some time later Russia actually got their act together and created ELORG to handle licensing of state-owned stuff. But basically it's a huge mess.
Today, it's super simple.
But now you want to include Tetris, you have to go and figure out who has the copyright on the code itself and see if they're around (and willing to talk to you), see if there's a clear and legitimate license trail between the version you sold back in the 80s and now and plenty more things. It's way easier to produce a new version of tetris today than to figure out all the nasty little details of the 80s version. Heck, there may be an old claim against the 80s version that is still valid, just dormant.
That's a problem with a lot of 80s stuff - the licensing will drive you mad - if you want to include a game, you have to see who published it and who actually owns it now (not easy - most of the 80s companies went bankrupt)
The story of 80's Tetris is quite interesting and there are books (or at least a graphic novel) all about it. I'm sure that's a hairy ball of wax trying to revive an 80's version today.
The problem isn't that people don't know there's fire risk. It's that they don't want to mitigate the risk because it will disturb the natural appearance or historic attributes of the site, or it will be time consuming and expensive, or despite risk assessments they don't take the possibility of fire seriously, or....
Or just change their behavior. Sad thing is, while a large number of fires are started by natural causes (lightning), a shockingly large number of them are started by humans. That's right, human caused fires.
And it's not always obvious - sure you have the basis suspects like a smoker flinging their butt out the window (probably the number one cause of fires especially alongside roads), but you also have people using ATVs and dirt bikes - hot exhausts can spew embers (unless you install a fire screen on the muffler), but even the steel-on-steel sparks can unintentionally cause a fire - bottom out the suspension or other thing.
Then there are campfires, which despite campfire bans, people still love their wood burning fires. Either they leave then unattendeded, embers fly out, or they improperly put them out.
Or you had a couple of kids decide to play with matches and cause one (we know this because the kids admitted it, but it was so dry it pretty much blows up in about 5 minutes, going from a tiny little fire you could stomp out to inferno).
And sometimes, you get people just committed to doing arson and purposefully starting fires that turn into raging infernos just for the hell of it.
Why would one need (or want) to provide proof of identity to use a browser? So the company can pass a permanent, unique ID cookie and data to *every* site you visit? So you can be tracked *everywhere*? I imagine their revenue model relied on selling your browsing data to every/anyone. So that sounds like fun.
Well, there are a few legitimate reasons why you'd want to be "authenticated" - say you're doing some online banking or other things. Then if you log in via a regular browser, your bank will flag those and ask if you actually meant to do them (there are plenty of bank scams now that capture banking information)
Some social media accounts may also wish to be accessed via an authenticated browser to prevent hijacking.
Of course, the problem is all that data - the company may want to sell it, but it would lead to disrepute And keeping them honest will be the hardest thing to do - because they will be holding some very valuable information.
The ceiling would go a bit higher if Apple bothered to significantly update any of its hardware (beyond the iPhone) on a regular basis.
I'm in dire need of a new Mac Pro and a new MacBook Pro. I've got several thousand dollars that I'd be more than happy to hand over to Apple, provided they could bother to market replacements that I cared to buy. There may be some hope for the Mac Pro, depending on what appears in 2019. I don't know if I'll ever buy another MacBook Pro unless someone at Apple begins making rational design decisions instead of focusing on appearance, thinness, and weight alone.
Not really. First off, people seem to "want" a Mac Pro, yet it and the Mac Mini have consistently been Apple's worst selling Macs. This going back all the way. That's why they don't get much love - because the Apple-buying public doesn't give them much love. Oh sure there's a few people who love them, but it's not a big market. Not big enough to justify extensive R&D effort.
It's even worse for the Mac Pro since those are considered high end machines, everyone ends up comparing them to well, high end machines and then they're now in the league of workstation PCs by Dell and others and get compared as such.
If people go see movies that they otherwise would not have seen, because the marginal cost is $0, then more money is on the table. With their current business model, the theaters capture this extra money, not MoviePass. But it may make sense for a theater chain, or consortium of chains, to buy them out and use MoviePass to make movie theaters more like Netflix: All you can watch for one flat price.
The marginal cost of a movie-going patron is not $0. For the first two weeks, it's full ticket price. So if there's an empty seat in a theatre, that empty seat would cost $0. If the theatre filled that seat, it would cost the theatre the full ticket price. That's why no one worked with MoviePass. Filling that seat with a discount ticket means the theatre loses money on that seat (unless forced to buy concessions).
In fact, what MoviePass is doing makes perfect sense - because after the first two weeks (when the studio share is 100% of the ticket price) the studio share goes down slightly. From this, as long as MoviePass pays 80% of the ticket price, the theatre could fill that seat for free. And by doing movie deals, they again reudce the studio take.
Every time a theatre shows a movie, it pays for it - scaled to the number of people in that theatre. It costs money to show it to one more person, so the theatre would like to recoup that money.
Theatres are not like airlines or other transportation services where an empty seat is lost potential profit because the vehicle pretty much costs the same whether it's full or empty. In a theatre, the number of patrons sitting in the seats determines the cost to the theatre. Showing a movie to 1 person costs less than to 100 people.
Maybe that could be a legitimate source of revenue for free-to-play games, if it was a consensual agreement. Gamers typically have high-performance hardware, so why not use excess capability while playing a game, as long as it doesn't interfere with gameplay. Sure, cryptocurrency is generally not worth the electricity it wastes to produce. However, it may be a better alternative to ads or traditional payment schemes.
Except the game wasn't free. You paid for it.
And people will generally be OK with it if you were open about it - you mention in the description up front that it will mine cryptocurrency. You don't go and run it quietly - be up front and fully open about what you do and why.
And of course, you offer the option to disable it would also be desirable.
Why does the notch have to be near the speaker and the mic. When I rotate the phone what were once sides are now top and bottom, it's just a short fat phone.
Well, in general, the sole purpose of a notch is for the selfie-cam. Sure you can do fancy things like have a motorized popout camera that shows up, but other than novelty, that's something that can break easily - either by getting dirt into the mechanism, or subjecting the exposed portion subject to bending forces, etc. Plus waterproofing and such is harder.
The microphone is almost always not at the bottom, and the earpiece either at the top or along the selfie-cam.
Top and bottom notch can be handy in the situation where you turn it sideways, where they can become a set of stereo speakers.(some phones already do this).
The article claims that the Russian Orlan EVA suits are similarly outdated to the NASA ones, and that Russian Sokol suits are sometimes used by NASA astronauts. But it makes no mention of European or Chinese suits.
I don't know what the Europeans have, but the Chinese suits are Russian derivatives, so equally dated designs. There's a nice YouTube video by Chris Hadfield showing them - the fun part of it is having to tie up the umbilical nice and tight and stuffing it in the chest area. Gives new meaning to putting your life on the line (and your knot).
Many companies would benefit from robo-CEOs, alas that's not quite the reality yet. But if it was, would there be anything objectionable about that? If the actual work gets done either way, why would you need a human to do it, work for the sake of work? In a competitive environment, the cost of anything boils down to human effort required to provide the goods or services in question. If required effort approaches zero, then does the cost and isn't that a nice thing. Heck, the internet is full of perfect examples, the cost of providing services to billions is so low, that you can cover it with advertisement and still make a helluva profit. Imagine a reality where that was not the case, where you would have to pay money for every single service you access on the internet. That's the reality we live in with the entire rest of the economy.
Well, of course, because it makes sense to automate a CEO. I mean, most are fairly expensive, with some costing close to $100M/year to have. It really makes sense to automate something that can save $100M/year.
And many companies can easily save tens of millions dollars replacing their CEO with a robo-CEO.
Replacing the lower level staff generally has lower returns - because those staff are more numerous and you will often need to replace them with multiple robotic units. Plus since those generally are involved with production, it generally only scales linearly (to increase production, you need to increase the number of robots). Whereas there is only one CEO per company, needing only one robot to replace them.
So replacing CEOs makes a lot of sense - you can save a lot of money, and you only have one of them.
Printed guns are here. They are freely available. Anyone can make a gun.. They could before also with a little know-how... or just steal one. Fighting this is going to be like fighting movie downloading... It's happening at some level, but most people won't be affected by it. Just deal with it, this is no big deal.
Exactly. Now every two-bit power hungry TSA agent manning a security checkpoint has a perfect excuse to ramp up the checking.
DHS should be all over this as it's a perfect opportunity to enhance the "security" process.
Anytime you need to get through a security checkpoint (including, but not limited to airport security, stadium security, etc) is a perfect opportunity for enhanced screening systems to buy and justify. And to screen more phones, emails and other things looking to see if you even thought about it, so they can justify full body cavity searches.
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Do not confuse the two separate bodies of work. The photo itself is actually a copyrighted piece of work, the copyright is owned by the photographer. The website might be, or might not be, owned by the photographer, but it would have a license to use the photo on it.
The student using the photo is in the clear because it was for educational purposes. However, the school itself may not be for reproducing the photograph itself.
Sane laws or not, just because there's a photo on a website doesn't mean you can take that photo and use it elsewhere - that photo is governed by its own copyright. Just because it makes up a small part of the website does not mean it can be used as fair use or fair dealing - it too is a separately licensed piece of work.
Nuclear plants have specific cooling requirements. The problem is that the cooling water they use, as it gets warmer, they need more water in order to perform at the same cooling level. As such, either they max out the amount of water they can draw at the intake (either through environmental limits to limit the heat released into rivers, or the amount they can physically pull through their systems).
You have to remember that even if there is normally plentiful flows, the rivers may have shrunk from the heat so there may not even be enough flow to keep the intakes covered.
Thus, they have to run at reduced output to reduce their heat generation.
This heatwave is rather exceptional and likely beyond the initial design requirements of the reactors.
It's just the same in other fields - it can be so hot planes can't fly. Or rather, they can, but the temperature exceeds the performance graphs supplied in the manual, and when that happens, you're not allowed to fly. (No extrapolation required, unless you want to be a test pilot).
Actually, I wonder why GVim for macOS doesn't have support for the Touch Bar. Seems like at the very least, you could turn the entire bar into the Escape Bar.
Why make it an itty-bitty key when you have the ability to get out of whatever mode you're in by tapping with either hand.
About the only thing I remember for those was that IBM supplied a program that wrote the disk out since it came as a disk image. The disk image of course contained PC-DOS (IBM, remember?).
But the last machine I had with IBM as a true builder was a Windows 95 ThinkPad and thus even the DOS disk image writers still worked on it.
Although I think IBM was unusual in that every disk they provided in various shrinkwrap packages were also available via the on system "Disk Creator" program. Thought it was neat I could create disks of some stuff, only to find it in the box later when I looked.
Which is actually quite a reasonable thing to do, when you think about it. There aren't many platforms that have lived as long as iOS and Android. Even when iOS came it, it wiped out several platforms like Symbian, PalmOS, and WIndows Mobile. So there's room for a disruption that basically will kill iOS and Android as we know it today, so planning for what happens is premature.
Heck, I've seen the previews of WIndows Mobile after iOS was established. It died a nasty death when everyone's interest shifted to Android. And no, it didn't make it to release.
HFT does not '"insert" itself. It relies on things like arbitrage (where two exchanges may have differing prices on something and using that), as well as doing trades like everyone else. It uses computing muscle to scan headlines and articles of the millions of financial advisors out there, as well as corporate news releases to determine if it should buy or sell stocks. If someone says you should buy a stock, HFT algorithms might take notice and increase its holdings hoping it goes up. If it goes up, then it can sell its holdings for the penny or so.
When you put your bid/sale offer on the market, the only thing an HFT can do is take you up on your offer. It cannot insert itself by being a middleman - once your bid is out there, your bid is out there.
Uh, even most "fast" charging phones are drawing about 2A (10W), so Apple's 12W charge cables are just as fast as other phone chargers. Finding a USB port that will do more than 2.1A is rare until you switch to USB-PD. But since most phones don't u se USB-PD, and even ones that do generally only take 10-12W or so.
So Apple's 12W limit isn't "slow". It's what all the competition has caught up with. And the only reason the competition also uses 10-12W is because Apple has 10-12W chargers and thus made those "high speed" charge ports really cheap and common.
The real travesty is that there are plenty of "12W" adapters out there that only supply 500mA or 1000mA. If you didn't measure it, you'd never guess that it was the reason why the charging is slow. (And Apple does code chargers with how much current they can supply to avoid testing by drawing more method which I've seen destroy cheap chinese chargers in impressive flames).
It's more a testament to how much Linux wirelsss networking has advanced than anything. Because 10 years ago, wireless networking was still in the "iffy" stage. If you had the right chipset, everything is good. If you had the wrong chipset (typically Broadcom) it wouldn't work. Broadcom was typically annoying in general back then - Ethernet could be problematic.
These days we have drivers for everything - I think Broadcom eventually released a set of open-source drivers not out of the kindness of their hearts, but out of necessity - as we progressed to 802.11n and 802.11ac, routers were migrating from RTOSes to Linux, so even in the end, they'd have Linux drivers.
Basically one had to have either a Prism chipset, Intel (Centrino), or certain Cisco chipsets and have relative success.
But these days, ThinkPads are generally more Linux compatible than other brands. About the only other one would be Dell. Other brands we've found to have iffy support for stuff.
That might work for you, but there are certain intangibles you probably would like to get. Top compensation means nothing if you don't have time or energy to do the things you want.
So they can pay you well and work you such that you go home and sleep and work and sleep and work. And your outside pursuits fall by the wayside due to lack of time and/or energy.
So perhaps some intangibles may be as simple as a 40 hour work week. Yes, they exist, and for me, I'm happy to say practically everyone in the company works 40 hours. There may be times they work more, but they're generally compensated for it with time in lieu. And perhaps vacation time, enough so you can do your pursuits.
I get it - there are some intangibles that I don't care for - a foosball table, a ping pong table, an arcade machine, not terribly exciting to me. But things like paid time off, remote working, etc do appeal, and those are still parts of the compensation package. And even things like flex time, perhaps even the ability to work an hour earlier so you can see your kid home from school on Friday. All these are intangibles and while a lot of companies say they have them, it's often pretend (as in good luck using them).
Yet, those are the ones that cost almost no money at all, and can bring employee satisfaction up
Microfilm/fiche printing is still an optical process - not a digital one. The viewer part itself is super light (the heaviest part is the optics and lenses), but the optical printer is basically an analog photocopier. And those things are generally heavy and you have to basically duplicate the entire optical path again (for viewing, the light shines below the film/fiche through the carrier and then a compound lens and mirror array project it onto the screen, making it very light. To print requires reversing the light path (and given the light source is expensive, there's usually only one so you have an array of mirrors to reverse the light so it shines from top to bottom onto a lens projecting onto the drum and the whole toner process within).
My high school library was lucky - they only charged 10 cents per page. They subscribed to basically every magazine on the planet back then and it would come as a dump of fiche they had in drawers. They were nicely indexed - basically you could browse which magazine and issue you wanted, and it would point out which fiche you needed and even its coordinates. It was a nice dense way of storing lots of pages.
Yeah, why doesn't this do that? It's supposed to be a smart device, so why doesn't it play audio, turn on the TV for a little while, turn on and off lights and do other things that it has control over?
At least, going by all the ads, that's what people do with them, so it seems a real "away mode" can simply simulate normal use of what already happens... why play fake lines without doing other stuff?
Well, that's a reason, the bigger reason is more fundamental.
How do you find anything?
The web was decentralized, but unless you knew where to go, you were stuck. Web sites had "links" sections that helped bring you to related sites and other interesting things, but unless you knew where to start, it's hard.
It's why we have search engines - but that centralizes the web. Instead of linking to websites and getting information, we evolved into searching for information directly.
You could say something like "Wikipedia" but there to is a central repository of information, with links to outside sources.
That's really the big problem - a decentralized Web is hard to discover what information you need to know. If you know where you need to go, great, it's easy. But without centralized directories, it gets tricky - try finding anything on the web without using central repositories like Wikipedia, Google, or Reddit or similar centralized sites. Try doing it by conjuring up URLs.
It's why the early web was people grabbing domains like "sex.com" or "pets.com" and the like - if there was no search engine, then people might try conjuring up a URL.
About the only other way was internet "Yellow pages" type things, which could be obtained online, in print, or via your library.
Epic's website maybe not. but you do realize that Fortnite for Android has already been out for over a month now right?
Oh wait, those are FAKE Fortnite apps, installed via... the same way as the real Fortnite app.
You may note that none of those apps are on Google Play. And what else is not on Google Play?
I can only imagine there will be a new round of Fortnite phishing apps to steal account credentials along with payment information.
All I can say is you know what the headlines are going to say soon with people installing all the fake versions and Apple will flatly point to those when Epic comes around asking Apple to get rid of the 30%. (Which is apparently making quite a lot of money for Epic - something like $2M a day comes solely from the iOS version).
Epic might have inadvertently poisoned the well on this one if all the headlines are about how to avoid getting the wrong version of Fortnite.
Take a look at The College Board, you know ,the guys who basically sell you every standardized test in the world (SATs, ACTs, Iowa Test of Basic Skills, etc). Their problem has always been spending the money that comes in - yes, they are a non-profit - and instead of lowering the fees or anything sensible like that, they own many hotels and other properties just to spend the excess money that comes in
Tha's because HAL was big and unfriendly and had a voice that was functional, but all in all, you really didn't feel empathetic to HAL.
If you've seen the NAO robots, those things are cute by design (and with the right software can dance and other stuff). It's a lot harder to turn it off.
No, it's not Tetris is expensive to license. It's f'ing impossible to license. The modern rights to Tetris are held by the Tetris Company. But the rights int he 80s were a huge mish-mash of every freaking thing. Some of it dates back to Communism and thus, Tetris was officially owned by the state. And some of it was it was illegally produced without license. And some time later Russia actually got their act together and created ELORG to handle licensing of state-owned stuff. But basically it's a huge mess.
Today, it's super simple.
But now you want to include Tetris, you have to go and figure out who has the copyright on the code itself and see if they're around (and willing to talk to you), see if there's a clear and legitimate license trail between the version you sold back in the 80s and now and plenty more things. It's way easier to produce a new version of tetris today than to figure out all the nasty little details of the 80s version. Heck, there may be an old claim against the 80s version that is still valid, just dormant.
That's a problem with a lot of 80s stuff - the licensing will drive you mad - if you want to include a game, you have to see who published it and who actually owns it now (not easy - most of the 80s companies went bankrupt)
The story of 80's Tetris is quite interesting and there are books (or at least a graphic novel) all about it. I'm sure that's a hairy ball of wax trying to revive an 80's version today.
Or just change their behavior. Sad thing is, while a large number of fires are started by natural causes (lightning), a shockingly large number of them are started by humans. That's right, human caused fires.
And it's not always obvious - sure you have the basis suspects like a smoker flinging their butt out the window (probably the number one cause of fires especially alongside roads), but you also have people using ATVs and dirt bikes - hot exhausts can spew embers (unless you install a fire screen on the muffler), but even the steel-on-steel sparks can unintentionally cause a fire - bottom out the suspension or other thing.
Then there are campfires, which despite campfire bans, people still love their wood burning fires. Either they leave then unattendeded, embers fly out, or they improperly put them out.
Or you had a couple of kids decide to play with matches and cause one (we know this because the kids admitted it, but it was so dry it pretty much blows up in about 5 minutes, going from a tiny little fire you could stomp out to inferno).
And sometimes, you get people just committed to doing arson and purposefully starting fires that turn into raging infernos just for the hell of it.
Well, there are a few legitimate reasons why you'd want to be "authenticated" - say you're doing some online banking or other things. Then if you log in via a regular browser, your bank will flag those and ask if you actually meant to do them (there are plenty of bank scams now that capture banking information)
Some social media accounts may also wish to be accessed via an authenticated browser to prevent hijacking.
Of course, the problem is all that data - the company may want to sell it, but it would lead to disrepute And keeping them honest will be the hardest thing to do - because they will be holding some very valuable information.
Not really. First off, people seem to "want" a Mac Pro, yet it and the Mac Mini have consistently been Apple's worst selling Macs. This going back all the way. That's why they don't get much love - because the Apple-buying public doesn't give them much love. Oh sure there's a few people who love them, but it's not a big market. Not big enough to justify extensive R&D effort.
It's even worse for the Mac Pro since those are considered high end machines, everyone ends up comparing them to well, high end machines and then they're now in the league of workstation PCs by Dell and others and get compared as such.
The marginal cost of a movie-going patron is not $0. For the first two weeks, it's full ticket price. So if there's an empty seat in a theatre, that empty seat would cost $0. If the theatre filled that seat, it would cost the theatre the full ticket price. That's why no one worked with MoviePass. Filling that seat with a discount ticket means the theatre loses money on that seat (unless forced to buy concessions).
In fact, what MoviePass is doing makes perfect sense - because after the first two weeks (when the studio share is 100% of the ticket price) the studio share goes down slightly. From this, as long as MoviePass pays 80% of the ticket price, the theatre could fill that seat for free. And by doing movie deals, they again reudce the studio take.
Every time a theatre shows a movie, it pays for it - scaled to the number of people in that theatre. It costs money to show it to one more person, so the theatre would like to recoup that money.
Theatres are not like airlines or other transportation services where an empty seat is lost potential profit because the vehicle pretty much costs the same whether it's full or empty. In a theatre, the number of patrons sitting in the seats determines the cost to the theatre. Showing a movie to 1 person costs less than to 100 people.
Except the game wasn't free. You paid for it.
And people will generally be OK with it if you were open about it - you mention in the description up front that it will mine cryptocurrency. You don't go and run it quietly - be up front and fully open about what you do and why.
And of course, you offer the option to disable it would also be desirable.
Well, in general, the sole purpose of a notch is for the selfie-cam. Sure you can do fancy things like have a motorized popout camera that shows up, but other than novelty, that's something that can break easily - either by getting dirt into the mechanism, or subjecting the exposed portion subject to bending forces, etc. Plus waterproofing and such is harder.
The microphone is almost always not at the bottom, and the earpiece either at the top or along the selfie-cam.
Top and bottom notch can be handy in the situation where you turn it sideways, where they can become a set of stereo speakers.(some phones already do this).
I don't know what the Europeans have, but the Chinese suits are Russian derivatives, so equally dated designs. There's a nice YouTube video by Chris Hadfield showing them - the fun part of it is having to tie up the umbilical nice and tight and stuffing it in the chest area. Gives new meaning to putting your life on the line (and your knot).
Well, of course, because it makes sense to automate a CEO. I mean, most are fairly expensive, with some costing close to $100M/year to have. It really makes sense to automate something that can save $100M/year.
And many companies can easily save tens of millions dollars replacing their CEO with a robo-CEO.
Replacing the lower level staff generally has lower returns - because those staff are more numerous and you will often need to replace them with multiple robotic units. Plus since those generally are involved with production, it generally only scales linearly (to increase production, you need to increase the number of robots). Whereas there is only one CEO per company, needing only one robot to replace them.
So replacing CEOs makes a lot of sense - you can save a lot of money, and you only have one of them.
Exactly. Now every two-bit power hungry TSA agent manning a security checkpoint has a perfect excuse to ramp up the checking.
DHS should be all over this as it's a perfect opportunity to enhance the "security" process.
Anytime you need to get through a security checkpoint (including, but not limited to airport security, stadium security, etc) is a perfect opportunity for enhanced screening systems to buy and justify. And to screen more phones, emails and other things looking to see if you even thought about it, so they can justify full body cavity searches.