Yes, but they are a software company, not an ISP / cell carrier. They obviously did not consider the fact that the existing cellular networks could not handle that many customers in one small area accessing high bandwidth resources at the same time. Had they alerted the carriers, the carriers could have set up temporary mobile cells for the event, and / or Niantic could have set up their own free Wifi hotspots for the attendees.
Either way, this was a very, very expensive way for them to learn about these kinds of connectivity logistics.
There are many drugs kept only for emergencies, in settings that have few emergencies, that must be thrown out and replaced when they expire. A good example is a general practitioner's office. They will keep a defibrillator, epinephrine, atropine, D50W, etc for medical emergencies, and may never use them over the course of a decade or two.
Another example is the now infamous EpiPen. People that have severe allergic reactions must keep them on hand to ward off anaphylaxis, but they are usually so diligent about avoiding their allergens that they never need them. Thus they expire before they are used.
Think of all the times patients are prescribed a medication but they cannot finish taking them (there are side affects, or the medicine isn't effective so another med is prescribed, etc, etc) and there are full pill bottles sitting around that could be used to treat other family members when they become ill. That would be.... efficient, would it not?
Netflix would also have the option of syndicating and selling rights to play its original content on traditional networks if desired or needed for income down the road.
Wow, what a biased way to spin things and distort facts.
A majority of Republicans and right-leaning independents think higher education has a negative effect on the country
That is not the question the Pew Research survey asked, nor how they reported the results. The question was whether or not colleges and universities are having a positive or negative affect on the way things are going in the country. "Higher education" is far more general terminology than "colleges and universities", and by underhandedly substituting that term they make it sound like Republicans think that being educated or obtaining a higher education is bad for the country.
But then, what else should we expect from The Chronicle of Higher Education but that kind of bias?
Verily’s male mosquitoes were infected with the Wolbachia bacteria, which is harmless to humans, but when they mate with and infect their female counterparts, it makes their eggs unable to produce offspring.
Amazon is the new Walmart, it's been happening for decades just with a different store name.
That is not correct. Amazon is the new Sears. Sears grew to tremendous power via mail order catalog - exactly the same as Amazon with just a different method of initiating an order is all. Sears was an unbelievably huge company. They built the tallest building in the world (at the time). They had $1 billion in sales in 1945 (non-adjusted currency). In 1960 one in three Americans had a Sears credit card. 1 in every 200 workers in the country worked for Sears.
Anyone scared Amazon is going to destroy X, Y and Z needs to recall that we've already been down this path with Sears before.
Yes, it is expensive to transport goods to remote areas. However, and I'm sure you've seen this too, price gouging most definitely occurs, far beyond the additional expense due to transportation. Little shops in the middle of nowhere have a monopoly, and it is often abused as goods can be double the price and more compared to what you'd pay in a regular supermarket or store like Walmart. I've also literally seen signs in tiny country stores that said the likes of "If you don't start buying your milk here then we will have to stop carrying it and it won't be available locally in case you need it."
I'm just throwing this out there off the top of my head, but one thing that might work is for Amazon to partner with small rural stores. If the customer picked up their order at the store then there could be a slight discount, because Amazon would save on that final mile of delivery which is the most expensive. Amazon could then evaluate what that community is purchasing most often and then allow the store owner to keep an inventory on hand of those items. The local merchant would then get some percentage of the sale of those items. Of course that also brings customers into their store, increasing the likelihood of purchasing other items as well.
However, I doubt the Ruth-Anne type would go for having a big corporation like Amazon working their tentacles into their business. Bonus points if you know who I'm talking about.:)
It's interesting how you redirected the discussion from "violence" to "drug offenses", which are entirely different things. According to the FBI stats in 2013, there were 2,698 murders committed by blacks, and and 2,755 committed by whites. When you consider that blacks only comprise 12.2% of the population, yet committed nearly as many murders as whites which are 63.7% of the population, there is a significant tendency towards violence. Additionally, 83% of the people murdered by blacks were also black, so majority of those murders were not racially motivated either.
In order for your theory about blacks being found guilty more often to also hold true for murder, whites would have to be found guilty of murder roughly 1/5th of the amount that blacks are to account for the huge discrepancy in the murder rates we see.
So you're saying that the President of the United States has no First Amendment rights, and cannot speak their personal opinion on matters like all the rest of the citizens? Now I'm not debating whether it is a good idea for him to do so, but you're talking about filing a lawsuit because a person speaks their personal opinion on Twitter like millions of other people. How is that illegal?
What is the purpose of this experiment running from orbit, or from some greater distance than it had been done before? Was there some speculation that entanglement would no longer manifest due to distance or difference in velocity or within the vacuum of space or something?
The reputation of the quality of service provided has finally saturated to the point that companies looking to save a buck on offshoring now think twice. I've seen too many companies with executive level decisions made by individuals with absolutely no understanding of the technology or quality of service - their decisions were only based on the cheap (up front) cost of the services. Enough companies have learned the hard way that the supposed cost savings don't pan out for several reasons, and that has become common knowledge in non-tech circles. Americans in general have experienced and been unhappy with support provided by individuals that speak very poor English, to the point that it now reflects poorly on whatever company is using such services as being second-rate in their support. The bubble is bursting and things will normalize, and that will definitely result in a sharp reduction in the amount of services demanded of India.
Walmart dictates terms to manufacturers moreso than just about any retail middleman had before, and continues the monolithic control all of the way from the importation process up through the cash register.
Walmart still pales in comparison to Sears at its peak. In 1960 one in three Americans had a Sears credit card. 1 in every 200 workers in the country worked for Sears. In 1974 they built the tallest building in the world at the time. They literally sold mail-order houses, and of course every single item that you could ever need to put inside that house, including the appliances themselves, which were manufactured under the brands Sears owned. Farmers could order parts for their tractors from Sears.
Walmart merely has the ability to say "We will sell your product if you provide it to us at this price"... but doesn't every other retailer have the ability to say the same thing? The fact that Walmart would then order such a vast quantity of them to make an extremely low profit margin appealing to a manufacturer is just the leverage they have because of their size. The manufacturer can still say no if they want to, or if they feel that is in their best business interests.
Regardless, Walmart does not have the clout Sears had at its peak - Sears was vastly more disturbing in many, many ways with their vertical monopoly, and we can see how that eventually worked out for them down the road.
To their credit, they managed to produce the hardware and software and get it to market, and apparently it worked fine. There is just a lot of competition in that space right now (like this: https://www.amazon.com/Withing...), plus most all fitness trackers (Fitbit, and even the Apple Watch) do a decent job tracking sleep. Personally I use my Apple Watch with a free app to track my sleep, and as a bonus I get to see how all my cardio exercise results in nice low heart rates while I'm in deep sleep.
It was a BBC article, and James Proud (the aforementioned Briton) relocated to Silicon Valley after getting a grant from Peter Thiel to kick it off. Thus the BBC was highlighting the fact that the founder was British.
Even as Bitcoin hits its all-time high, it has waned people's interest in other cryptocurrency,
What the? Do you mean interest in Bitcoin has waned? Or are you trying to say it is whetted or perhaps piqued people's interest in other cryptocurrency? That's what the rest of the story is stating, while the above seems to state the exact opposite.
Also, Apple Inc. recently added payment services to its iMessage chat service, taking a page from Tencent's playbook.
A number of messaging services in the US have had this feature for many years. Facebook's Messenger is one example. If you want to get pedantic, a more accurate headline is "Apple copies Facebook Messenger's payment feature".
Having a software feature in common, or offering a similar kind of rental service, is nothing like the kind of copying that the Chinese government run industries have been doing, which is more akin to reverse engineering a physical product in order to manufacture it themselves.
I have a camper that is normally parked behind my house. For two years now it has not been plugged into the grid once. I have modest solar capability on it, and have switched all the lighting over to LED, and have low-power DC electronics as much as possible (a 12V TV, a Nintendo Wii - which runs off 12V DC FYI, switched out the furnace for non-electric gas heater, etc). I know it is silly, but there's something about "knowing" that everything is functional and is totally stand-alone and self sufficient in that way. It's mostly a mental thing, but the lack of the physical connection drives home just where the power is coming from, much more than some numbers saying "we put more solar power into the grid than we took from it" .
As a former EMT-Cardiac, and having worked in a number of emergency departments, I can say that the blood pressure obtained by many clinicians is off by more than that, and I'll explain why. When using a sphygmomanometer and auscultating for blood to begin flowing through the veins, on the systolic (the first number / highest pressure value) you will only hear the sound of the blood flow on the heart beat. So the rate in which you are letting air out of the cuff determines the accuracy, and further, the slower the patient's heartrate, the greater the inaccuracy will be.
So let's say they are letting air out of the cuff at 20 mmHg per second (thus from full inflation at 200 mmHg to a normal diastolic of 70 it would be 130 mmHg = 6.5 seconds), and a patient's heartrate is 60 beats per minute. The heart is beating once each second and the needle is moving 20 mmHg per second, thus the number they see when the heart beats could be as much as 20 mmHg lower than the actual blood pressure. I'm sure you have had nurses take your blood pressure and they took way less than 6.5 seconds to measure it - in that case the error margin would be even greater.
For the systolic value the inaccuracy will be a lower value than actual, and for the diastolic the inaccuracy will result in a higher value than actual.
Right, but the point is that when all the bitcoins have been mined, there will be a large number of individuals who wish to speculate in and mine the next cryptocurrency. Obviously with Bitcoin, the fact that it (seemed) to have any intrinsic value at first was because people were mining it, not because it was useful for actually purchasing things (since no one accepted it). If a large enough number of people jump onto a new crpytocurrency bandwagon (which seems likely as the early adoption payback is incredibly high), then voila - you have your network effect.
Assuming this story is accurate (and it is probably overstating the entire thing), it is still inconsequential. People do not buy iPhones because of Siri. Siri not performing as well as (although in some specific cases it probably does perform better than) some other phone ecosystem's digital assistant is not going to cause people to switch from iPhone to that other platform. Apple knows this, and they are not particularly concerned about getting into a slugfest over it. Apple's style is to behave as if they make the only device of that type in the world, and they will not even acknowledge any competition exists (except in defending their patents). Siri only has to work well enough to do the basic things, and Apple will throw in a small enhancement on occasion and act like it's the greatest thing since sliced bread, and their customers will be perfectly content.
Nothing Trump has promised to do would be good for the country and quite a bit of his agenda will hurt a lot of people.
Well, that of course is your opinion. Reigning in the federal government, both in terms of power and size, is something a lot of us want to see, along with fiscal responsibility. Trump at least promised those kinds of things, and we all know Clinton couldn't care less about changing the status quo in those areas. The "America first" concept also has merit in this day and age, as it sure seems our government is throwing billions of dollars every which way globally, to prop up and otherwise fund any number of governments and organizations. I'm not saying that isn't necessary or in our best interests, but it surely seems excessive at first glance.
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Yes, but they are a software company, not an ISP / cell carrier. They obviously did not consider the fact that the existing cellular networks could not handle that many customers in one small area accessing high bandwidth resources at the same time. Had they alerted the carriers, the carriers could have set up temporary mobile cells for the event, and / or Niantic could have set up their own free Wifi hotspots for the attendees.
Either way, this was a very, very expensive way for them to learn about these kinds of connectivity logistics.
There are many drugs kept only for emergencies, in settings that have few emergencies, that must be thrown out and replaced when they expire. A good example is a general practitioner's office. They will keep a defibrillator, epinephrine, atropine, D50W, etc for medical emergencies, and may never use them over the course of a decade or two.
Another example is the now infamous EpiPen. People that have severe allergic reactions must keep them on hand to ward off anaphylaxis, but they are usually so diligent about avoiding their allergens that they never need them. Thus they expire before they are used.
Think of all the times patients are prescribed a medication but they cannot finish taking them (there are side affects, or the medicine isn't effective so another med is prescribed, etc, etc) and there are full pill bottles sitting around that could be used to treat other family members when they become ill. That would be.... efficient, would it not?
Netflix would also have the option of syndicating and selling rights to play its original content on traditional networks if desired or needed for income down the road.
It's way too early in the morning for me to exert this much brainpower trying to decipher such a poorly worded summary.
Wow, what a biased way to spin things and distort facts.
A majority of Republicans and right-leaning independents think higher education has a negative effect on the country
That is not the question the Pew Research survey asked, nor how they reported the results. The question was whether or not colleges and universities are having a positive or negative affect on the way things are going in the country. "Higher education" is far more general terminology than "colleges and universities", and by underhandedly substituting that term they make it sound like Republicans think that being educated or obtaining a higher education is bad for the country.
But then, what else should we expect from The Chronicle of Higher Education but that kind of bias?
Summary is missing the important bit.
Verily’s male mosquitoes were infected with the Wolbachia bacteria, which is harmless to humans, but when they mate with and infect their female counterparts, it makes their eggs unable to produce offspring.
Crap. Something told me I should have written some stupid, pointless yet viral Chrome extension a year ago.
Amazon is the new Walmart, it's been happening for decades just with a different store name.
That is not correct. Amazon is the new Sears. Sears grew to tremendous power via mail order catalog - exactly the same as Amazon with just a different method of initiating an order is all. Sears was an unbelievably huge company. They built the tallest building in the world (at the time). They had $1 billion in sales in 1945 (non-adjusted currency). In 1960 one in three Americans had a Sears credit card. 1 in every 200 workers in the country worked for Sears.
Anyone scared Amazon is going to destroy X, Y and Z needs to recall that we've already been down this path with Sears before.
Yes, it is expensive to transport goods to remote areas. However, and I'm sure you've seen this too, price gouging most definitely occurs, far beyond the additional expense due to transportation. Little shops in the middle of nowhere have a monopoly, and it is often abused as goods can be double the price and more compared to what you'd pay in a regular supermarket or store like Walmart. I've also literally seen signs in tiny country stores that said the likes of "If you don't start buying your milk here then we will have to stop carrying it and it won't be available locally in case you need it."
I'm just throwing this out there off the top of my head, but one thing that might work is for Amazon to partner with small rural stores. If the customer picked up their order at the store then there could be a slight discount, because Amazon would save on that final mile of delivery which is the most expensive. Amazon could then evaluate what that community is purchasing most often and then allow the store owner to keep an inventory on hand of those items. The local merchant would then get some percentage of the sale of those items. Of course that also brings customers into their store, increasing the likelihood of purchasing other items as well.
However, I doubt the Ruth-Anne type would go for having a big corporation like Amazon working their tentacles into their business. Bonus points if you know who I'm talking about. :)
It's interesting how you redirected the discussion from "violence" to "drug offenses", which are entirely different things. According to the FBI stats in 2013, there were 2,698 murders committed by blacks, and and 2,755 committed by whites. When you consider that blacks only comprise 12.2% of the population, yet committed nearly as many murders as whites which are 63.7% of the population, there is a significant tendency towards violence. Additionally, 83% of the people murdered by blacks were also black, so majority of those murders were not racially motivated either.
In order for your theory about blacks being found guilty more often to also hold true for murder, whites would have to be found guilty of murder roughly 1/5th of the amount that blacks are to account for the huge discrepancy in the murder rates we see.
Don't forget the destabilization of Ukraine and the annexation of Crimea.
So you're saying that the President of the United States has no First Amendment rights, and cannot speak their personal opinion on matters like all the rest of the citizens? Now I'm not debating whether it is a good idea for him to do so, but you're talking about filing a lawsuit because a person speaks their personal opinion on Twitter like millions of other people. How is that illegal?
What is the purpose of this experiment running from orbit, or from some greater distance than it had been done before? Was there some speculation that entanglement would no longer manifest due to distance or difference in velocity or within the vacuum of space or something?
The reputation of the quality of service provided has finally saturated to the point that companies looking to save a buck on offshoring now think twice. I've seen too many companies with executive level decisions made by individuals with absolutely no understanding of the technology or quality of service - their decisions were only based on the cheap (up front) cost of the services. Enough companies have learned the hard way that the supposed cost savings don't pan out for several reasons, and that has become common knowledge in non-tech circles. Americans in general have experienced and been unhappy with support provided by individuals that speak very poor English, to the point that it now reflects poorly on whatever company is using such services as being second-rate in their support. The bubble is bursting and things will normalize, and that will definitely result in a sharp reduction in the amount of services demanded of India.
You must be referring to encryption algorithms and commits to help out projects like OpenSSL?
Walmart dictates terms to manufacturers moreso than just about any retail middleman had before, and continues the monolithic control all of the way from the importation process up through the cash register.
Walmart still pales in comparison to Sears at its peak. In 1960 one in three Americans had a Sears credit card. 1 in every 200 workers in the country worked for Sears. In 1974 they built the tallest building in the world at the time. They literally sold mail-order houses, and of course every single item that you could ever need to put inside that house, including the appliances themselves, which were manufactured under the brands Sears owned. Farmers could order parts for their tractors from Sears.
Walmart merely has the ability to say "We will sell your product if you provide it to us at this price"... but doesn't every other retailer have the ability to say the same thing? The fact that Walmart would then order such a vast quantity of them to make an extremely low profit margin appealing to a manufacturer is just the leverage they have because of their size. The manufacturer can still say no if they want to, or if they feel that is in their best business interests.
Regardless, Walmart does not have the clout Sears had at its peak - Sears was vastly more disturbing in many, many ways with their vertical monopoly, and we can see how that eventually worked out for them down the road.
To their credit, they managed to produce the hardware and software and get it to market, and apparently it worked fine. There is just a lot of competition in that space right now (like this: https://www.amazon.com/Withing...), plus most all fitness trackers (Fitbit, and even the Apple Watch) do a decent job tracking sleep. Personally I use my Apple Watch with a free app to track my sleep, and as a bonus I get to see how all my cardio exercise results in nice low heart rates while I'm in deep sleep.
It was a BBC article, and James Proud (the aforementioned Briton) relocated to Silicon Valley after getting a grant from Peter Thiel to kick it off. Thus the BBC was highlighting the fact that the founder was British.
Even as Bitcoin hits its all-time high, it has waned people's interest in other cryptocurrency,
What the? Do you mean interest in Bitcoin has waned? Or are you trying to say it is whetted or perhaps piqued people's interest in other cryptocurrency? That's what the rest of the story is stating, while the above seems to state the exact opposite.
Also, Apple Inc. recently added payment services to its iMessage chat service, taking a page from Tencent's playbook.
A number of messaging services in the US have had this feature for many years. Facebook's Messenger is one example. If you want to get pedantic, a more accurate headline is "Apple copies Facebook Messenger's payment feature".
Having a software feature in common, or offering a similar kind of rental service, is nothing like the kind of copying that the Chinese government run industries have been doing, which is more akin to reverse engineering a physical product in order to manufacture it themselves.
I have a camper that is normally parked behind my house. For two years now it has not been plugged into the grid once. I have modest solar capability on it, and have switched all the lighting over to LED, and have low-power DC electronics as much as possible (a 12V TV, a Nintendo Wii - which runs off 12V DC FYI, switched out the furnace for non-electric gas heater, etc). I know it is silly, but there's something about "knowing" that everything is functional and is totally stand-alone and self sufficient in that way. It's mostly a mental thing, but the lack of the physical connection drives home just where the power is coming from, much more than some numbers saying "we put more solar power into the grid than we took from it" .
As a former EMT-Cardiac, and having worked in a number of emergency departments, I can say that the blood pressure obtained by many clinicians is off by more than that, and I'll explain why. When using a sphygmomanometer and auscultating for blood to begin flowing through the veins, on the systolic (the first number / highest pressure value) you will only hear the sound of the blood flow on the heart beat. So the rate in which you are letting air out of the cuff determines the accuracy, and further, the slower the patient's heartrate, the greater the inaccuracy will be.
So let's say they are letting air out of the cuff at 20 mmHg per second (thus from full inflation at 200 mmHg to a normal diastolic of 70 it would be 130 mmHg = 6.5 seconds), and a patient's heartrate is 60 beats per minute. The heart is beating once each second and the needle is moving 20 mmHg per second, thus the number they see when the heart beats could be as much as 20 mmHg lower than the actual blood pressure. I'm sure you have had nurses take your blood pressure and they took way less than 6.5 seconds to measure it - in that case the error margin would be even greater.
For the systolic value the inaccuracy will be a lower value than actual, and for the diastolic the inaccuracy will result in a higher value than actual.
Right, but the point is that when all the bitcoins have been mined, there will be a large number of individuals who wish to speculate in and mine the next cryptocurrency. Obviously with Bitcoin, the fact that it (seemed) to have any intrinsic value at first was because people were mining it, not because it was useful for actually purchasing things (since no one accepted it). If a large enough number of people jump onto a new crpytocurrency bandwagon (which seems likely as the early adoption payback is incredibly high), then voila - you have your network effect.
Assuming this story is accurate (and it is probably overstating the entire thing), it is still inconsequential. People do not buy iPhones because of Siri. Siri not performing as well as (although in some specific cases it probably does perform better than) some other phone ecosystem's digital assistant is not going to cause people to switch from iPhone to that other platform. Apple knows this, and they are not particularly concerned about getting into a slugfest over it. Apple's style is to behave as if they make the only device of that type in the world, and they will not even acknowledge any competition exists (except in defending their patents). Siri only has to work well enough to do the basic things, and Apple will throw in a small enhancement on occasion and act like it's the greatest thing since sliced bread, and their customers will be perfectly content.
Nothing Trump has promised to do would be good for the country and quite a bit of his agenda will hurt a lot of people.
Well, that of course is your opinion. Reigning in the federal government, both in terms of power and size, is something a lot of us want to see, along with fiscal responsibility. Trump at least promised those kinds of things, and we all know Clinton couldn't care less about changing the status quo in those areas. The "America first" concept also has merit in this day and age, as it sure seems our government is throwing billions of dollars every which way globally, to prop up and otherwise fund any number of governments and organizations. I'm not saying that isn't necessary or in our best interests, but it surely seems excessive at first glance.