Moves like this are why I canceled and switched to an ad-free Hulu subscription. It had reached the point where I was paying $9/month to watch Futurama, a few seasons of Top Gear (and not the good ones) and annually one self-produced show. For the latter, I figure I can subscribe for a single month when it comes out. Hulu, meanwhile, has almost everything that I watched that Netflix shed and shows they never carried (ex: Simpsons, Seinfeld, South Park, etc.).
Yep. Thing is, I think a lot of people would answer to that survey question "frequently". Go to a coffee shop and 1/2 the people with laptops have headphones plugged in. People also plug their speakers in to their laptops when they are at their desks, which have -- among other things -- speakers. Oh, and people plug their iPhones into their stereos at home as well. Oh wait.
I guess nobody noticed that maps.google.com now goes to www.google.com/maps, which means you have to give the entire site permission to access your location to let it use your location.
Now ask the question, "How many of you have wired headphones? How often do you use them." You'll get a dramatically different response from the optical drive question.
Exactly. I went to college at on a dry campus, yet a student died at a hazing event after falling off of a balcony. These rules are nearly impossible to enforce, but teaching how to drink responsibly from day one can help.
Well with that the range will about catch up with my M3, but the horsepower and refuel time remain lacking. Regardless, as somebody who actually likes driving, I would still never buy one.
The product I worked on (as I worked on it) was actually targeted at small businesses, not large ones. It allowed a small business to rapidly do very targeted advertising, saving money on sending mail or cold calling. Better put, it did more to help the little guy than every other product I've ever worked on. As for the evolution into PRISM, when I learned what this tech that I'd worked on was being used for, I was pretty upset, but that said, I had no way of knowing at the time it would be used for such a purpose and I had nothing to do with it being utilized in such a manner.
1) Yep. TLO foreshadowed more than anyone anticipated.
2) The initial version of the technology used at Indar/eData/Seisint (we changed names a lot) was based on CTree (internally called Hozed), but by late 2000 it was an entirely different technology which fundamentally worked differently called Hole (pronounced holy). With the way Hole worked, we could actually scale infinitely and no that isn't an exaggeration. Oh, and we had fabulous names for our databases.
See headline, think to myself, "Hmm, I used to know people in this industry." Continue reading, "The Boca Raton, Fla., company's database..." Oh, shit. That's where I was when I knew them. Please don't be somebody I know. Please don't be somebody I know. "Chief Executive Officer Derek Dubner says". FUUUUCKKKKKK. Oddly, though, I don't know him from this industry but rather from a company in another industry that I worked with him at.
On a serious note, some insider information. First, yes, they do in fact know that much about you and yes the tools work incredibly well. I worked on the product that became the NSA's PRISM program (after I was no longer working on it). Believe it or not, it actually started out as a marketing tool to find potential leads. After 9/11, the company's owner Hank Asher realized that it would work well for tracking and researching people for the feds. The tool could query incredibly detailed information on anybody in the US with sub-second response times... in the year 2000. No off the shelf tools like hbase existed back then to do something like this.
About the only way to stay under the radar with this kind of stuff and not be homeless is to have a mailbox at someplace like the UPS Store, get paid under the table and pay cash for everything, and move around every 2 months without any written lease. After that, your new location gets fed into these systems. The time to stay at one place may actually be shorter these days.
What about my right to not participate in somebody else's delusion? What's next? Do we need to start worshiping people who think they're Jesus? Keep in mind that a schizophrenia diagnosis goes hand in hand with somebody who has gender identity problems.
Do vegetarians seriously think that everybody is suddenly going to abandon eating meat when a fake meat alternative is created? In the West, we happen to live in a place where food is plentiful enough that vegetarians have the luxury of being vegetarians.
1) Take time to pick your location carefully. If you're going to a developed campsite, don't show up on Friday or Saturday. Your options will be limited. Understand that reception make suck at the site at ground level, but just by hoisting a cell phone 10 feet, you'll get good reception. Have a bluetooth ear piece to help facilitate this.
2) Pick your laptops *carefully*. I use an Asus T100 for backpacking because has a long battery life and it charges off of standard USB and is relatively lightweight. When developed camping, I use an Asus UX-305.
3) Solar backpacking equipment is more or less useless, as is the reactor hydrogen fuel cell. The solar cells are too small to produce a meaningful voltage. Your best bet is to bring charged batteries.
And the conventional Spark starts at $12,170, so the EV is more than twice the price. His point holds. Additionally, there's not a comparable conventional Prius, so there's no way to make a comparison.
On what basis do you make the claim that they are "nicer to drive?" I'll put a BMW M3 -- or if you prefer a soft ride a Rolls Royce -- up against a Nissan Leaf any day. Ride quality and handling are subjective parameters and these 'feel' parameters are based on the configuration of the suspension, wheels, brakes, etc. not the technology causing propulsion. Additionally, because you have a transmission, you can get less wheel spin in the winter in a conventional car by selecting an appropriate gear when you get stuck.
> cleaner (in all senses)
Done properly, biofuels can be carbon negative rather than carbon neutral. Boeing has found a plant that easily releases its sugars and grows in deserts watered with salt water. The end result is that land that is currently not arable such as the Sahara and the Arabian Peninsula can be utilized to grow these crops.
> and you can make it's fuel yourself at home
I can make E100 ethanol or biodiesel at home if I was so inclined, it's just easier to go to go to a gas station.
Remember that electric cars are an old technology and one we ditched years ago because it simply wasn't that good. Even today it still has the same exact problems it had back then.
While he's a brilliant industrial designer, he doesn't know crap about UI design and the UI's he's produced more than show it. I've used OS X since 10.0. I used Next in the 90's. I used classic Apple. I've been in the Apple camp for decades. I frankly can't stand to look at them, so the new UIs have chased me off of the platform.
> the more I read literature from other, somewhat-related fields... [such as] psychology... the more I felt they have little opportunity to repeat experiments
As somebody who is writing a paper entitled "A Generalized Theory on Abnormal Psychology", I assure you that Psychology is about to gain the ability to repeat experiments.
The irony is that it is Tesla which is interested in a monopoly. Dealerships exist to because you can peg dealer against dealer, resulting in a lower price for you.
In the last ten days I've seen two articles which, IMO, spell the inevitable death of the electric car's resurgence. The first talked about a new process that breaks down normal plant cellulose into sugar, meaning that the entire corn crop can be converted into ethanol rather than just the second and the second talks about a huge breakthrough by Boeing. I can't find the link to the first, but here's the second:
The Boeing breakthrough basically means we can turn the Sahara Desert into a giant farm to grow ethanol crops. And unlike with conventional fuels or even electric, you can build inefficiencies into the system to absorb more CO2 than you expel back into the atmosphere. Better put, you can have carbon negative fuels.
Complete and utter BS. The only thing Tesla wants is a monopoly. Tesla isn't banned from selling cars in Texas; they can sell their cars in Texas through dealerships. Why don't they want to? Because doing so provides downward pressure on prices. When you have multiple dealerships, you can go to different dealerships and peg one against another and get the best price. Dealerships then pressure the manufacturer to sell them the car at a lower price so they can in turn get a higher profit off of the lower price. When the manufacturer owns all the dealerships, you lose all of your leverage -- every bit of it. You can't go to the dealership down the street and get a better price anymore, because Tesla owns that dealership as well. GM, Ford, etc. were banned from selling directly to the public way back when for a reason... because they were trying to drive up prices.
I've frankly seen some very pretty and very elegant perl code. I've also seen complete crap implemented in other languages, and perl doesn't force you into boxes with a battering ram like a lot of other languages (Python comes to mind). Perl can be old-school function oriented programming, modern OOP or functional. Additionally, you don't spend hours on end trying to figure out how to fix typing issues -- something you will spend far more time doing than allowing bad types to fail in development. Javascript's primary problems come from never properly implementing objects and inheritance, something that would have been fixed had Microsoft not killed the proposal to use Flex/Actionscript as the HTML5 specification.
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Moves like this are why I canceled and switched to an ad-free Hulu subscription. It had reached the point where I was paying $9/month to watch Futurama, a few seasons of Top Gear (and not the good ones) and annually one self-produced show. For the latter, I figure I can subscribe for a single month when it comes out. Hulu, meanwhile, has almost everything that I watched that Netflix shed and shows they never carried (ex: Simpsons, Seinfeld, South Park, etc.).
Yep. Thing is, I think a lot of people would answer to that survey question "frequently". Go to a coffee shop and 1/2 the people with laptops have headphones plugged in. People also plug their speakers in to their laptops when they are at their desks, which have -- among other things -- speakers. Oh, and people plug their iPhones into their stereos at home as well. Oh wait.
I guess nobody noticed that maps.google.com now goes to www.google.com/maps, which means you have to give the entire site permission to access your location to let it use your location.
Now ask the question, "How many of you have wired headphones? How often do you use them." You'll get a dramatically different response from the optical drive question.
Exactly. I went to college at on a dry campus, yet a student died at a hazing event after falling off of a balcony. These rules are nearly impossible to enforce, but teaching how to drink responsibly from day one can help.
Well with that the range will about catch up with my M3, but the horsepower and refuel time remain lacking. Regardless, as somebody who actually likes driving, I would still never buy one.
The product I worked on (as I worked on it) was actually targeted at small businesses, not large ones. It allowed a small business to rapidly do very targeted advertising, saving money on sending mail or cold calling. Better put, it did more to help the little guy than every other product I've ever worked on. As for the evolution into PRISM, when I learned what this tech that I'd worked on was being used for, I was pretty upset, but that said, I had no way of knowing at the time it would be used for such a purpose and I had nothing to do with it being utilized in such a manner.
1) Yep. TLO foreshadowed more than anyone anticipated.
2) The initial version of the technology used at Indar/eData/Seisint (we changed names a lot) was based on CTree (internally called Hozed), but by late 2000 it was an entirely different technology which fundamentally worked differently called Hole (pronounced holy). With the way Hole worked, we could actually scale infinitely and no that isn't an exaggeration. Oh, and we had fabulous names for our databases.
See headline, think to myself, "Hmm, I used to know people in this industry." Continue reading, "The Boca Raton, Fla., company's database..." Oh, shit. That's where I was when I knew them. Please don't be somebody I know. Please don't be somebody I know. "Chief Executive Officer Derek Dubner says". FUUUUCKKKKKK. Oddly, though, I don't know him from this industry but rather from a company in another industry that I worked with him at.
On a serious note, some insider information. First, yes, they do in fact know that much about you and yes the tools work incredibly well. I worked on the product that became the NSA's PRISM program (after I was no longer working on it). Believe it or not, it actually started out as a marketing tool to find potential leads. After 9/11, the company's owner Hank Asher realized that it would work well for tracking and researching people for the feds. The tool could query incredibly detailed information on anybody in the US with sub-second response times... in the year 2000. No off the shelf tools like hbase existed back then to do something like this.
About the only way to stay under the radar with this kind of stuff and not be homeless is to have a mailbox at someplace like the UPS Store, get paid under the table and pay cash for everything, and move around every 2 months without any written lease. After that, your new location gets fed into these systems. The time to stay at one place may actually be shorter these days.
My preferred instrument is the mouse organ. Here's a performance by an early pioneering mouse organist:
https://entertainment.slashdot...
You have a right to not self-incriminate. Handing over your cellphone for such an analysis violates that.
There's no protection for severe mental illness. Gender identity disorders are strongly linked to schizophrenia. Diagnosis is almost always automatic.
What about my right to not participate in somebody else's delusion? What's next? Do we need to start worshiping people who think they're Jesus? Keep in mind that a schizophrenia diagnosis goes hand in hand with somebody who has gender identity problems.
Do vegetarians seriously think that everybody is suddenly going to abandon eating meat when a fake meat alternative is created? In the West, we happen to live in a place where food is plentiful enough that vegetarians have the luxury of being vegetarians.
Here are the tricks of the trade I've found:
1) Take time to pick your location carefully. If you're going to a developed campsite, don't show up on Friday or Saturday. Your options will be limited. Understand that reception make suck at the site at ground level, but just by hoisting a cell phone 10 feet, you'll get good reception. Have a bluetooth ear piece to help facilitate this.
2) Pick your laptops *carefully*. I use an Asus T100 for backpacking because has a long battery life and it charges off of standard USB and is relatively lightweight. When developed camping, I use an Asus UX-305.
3) Solar backpacking equipment is more or less useless, as is the reactor hydrogen fuel cell. The solar cells are too small to produce a meaningful voltage. Your best bet is to bring charged batteries.
And the conventional Spark starts at $12,170, so the EV is more than twice the price. His point holds. Additionally, there's not a comparable conventional Prius, so there's no way to make a comparison.
> EVs are nicer to drive
On what basis do you make the claim that they are "nicer to drive?" I'll put a BMW M3 -- or if you prefer a soft ride a Rolls Royce -- up against a Nissan Leaf any day. Ride quality and handling are subjective parameters and these 'feel' parameters are based on the configuration of the suspension, wheels, brakes, etc. not the technology causing propulsion. Additionally, because you have a transmission, you can get less wheel spin in the winter in a conventional car by selecting an appropriate gear when you get stuck.
> cleaner (in all senses)
Done properly, biofuels can be carbon negative rather than carbon neutral. Boeing has found a plant that easily releases its sugars and grows in deserts watered with salt water. The end result is that land that is currently not arable such as the Sahara and the Arabian Peninsula can be utilized to grow these crops.
> and you can make it's fuel yourself at home
I can make E100 ethanol or biodiesel at home if I was so inclined, it's just easier to go to go to a gas station.
Remember that electric cars are an old technology and one we ditched years ago because it simply wasn't that good. Even today it still has the same exact problems it had back then.
While he's a brilliant industrial designer, he doesn't know crap about UI design and the UI's he's produced more than show it. I've used OS X since 10.0. I used Next in the 90's. I used classic Apple. I've been in the Apple camp for decades. I frankly can't stand to look at them, so the new UIs have chased me off of the platform.
> the more I read literature from other, somewhat-related fields... [such as] psychology ... the more I felt they have little opportunity to repeat experiments
As somebody who is writing a paper entitled "A Generalized Theory on Abnormal Psychology", I assure you that Psychology is about to gain the ability to repeat experiments.
The irony is that it is Tesla which is interested in a monopoly. Dealerships exist to because you can peg dealer against dealer, resulting in a lower price for you.
In the last ten days I've seen two articles which, IMO, spell the inevitable death of the electric car's resurgence. The first talked about a new process that breaks down normal plant cellulose into sugar, meaning that the entire corn crop can be converted into ethanol rather than just the second and the second talks about a huge breakthrough by Boeing. I can't find the link to the first, but here's the second:
http://www.energypost.eu/exclu...
The Boeing breakthrough basically means we can turn the Sahara Desert into a giant farm to grow ethanol crops. And unlike with conventional fuels or even electric, you can build inefficiencies into the system to absorb more CO2 than you expel back into the atmosphere. Better put, you can have carbon negative fuels.
I'm actually looking at this one to a degree as an example of how not to build scalable database systems.
Complete and utter BS. The only thing Tesla wants is a monopoly. Tesla isn't banned from selling cars in Texas; they can sell their cars in Texas through dealerships. Why don't they want to? Because doing so provides downward pressure on prices. When you have multiple dealerships, you can go to different dealerships and peg one against another and get the best price. Dealerships then pressure the manufacturer to sell them the car at a lower price so they can in turn get a higher profit off of the lower price. When the manufacturer owns all the dealerships, you lose all of your leverage -- every bit of it. You can't go to the dealership down the street and get a better price anymore, because Tesla owns that dealership as well. GM, Ford, etc. were banned from selling directly to the public way back when for a reason... because they were trying to drive up prices.
Twitter told them to go screw themselves. They can do the same.
I've frankly seen some very pretty and very elegant perl code. I've also seen complete crap implemented in other languages, and perl doesn't force you into boxes with a battering ram like a lot of other languages (Python comes to mind). Perl can be old-school function oriented programming, modern OOP or functional. Additionally, you don't spend hours on end trying to figure out how to fix typing issues -- something you will spend far more time doing than allowing bad types to fail in development. Javascript's primary problems come from never properly implementing objects and inheritance, something that would have been fixed had Microsoft not killed the proposal to use Flex/Actionscript as the HTML5 specification.