It's probably more useful for writers, but it allows you to fully structure your day. That's important, because at least you know what you're supposed to be doing in a given time period.
I've been working remotely for years on and off, and if I had this years ago, well, I would have done more work!
The program forgot to mention that each iPad and iPhone is dipped in blood extracted from Chinese infants then wiped clean with the spittle from Foxconn executives before shipment.
Besides that, the program was totally accurate in all respects.
From what I've read, there's only one firm that does White House transitions. I think it's Bechtel, but it's been so long that I've read anything about transitions that I have around a 15% confidence level in that piece of data.
Google "white house transition" and you'll see that it's a total mess. If you want to read about it, there's info here:
From what little I've read, you basically get a mostly empty building (the White House). It's up to the team to build/rebuild the infrastructure...but as any operations person knows, IT infrastructure is usually way behind everything else. The general executive branch IT has been a low priority for decades. What's more important, email or setting up the phone so the president can call someone (or someone can call the president)?
At that point, the team is probably so far behind that they're screwed continuously for the one or two terms.
Are the guys running the systems any good? I'd ask you: how many of you could pass a background and attitude check? You think the process etc at your workplace is bad, imagine how bad it is in the Executive branch.
That said, it might be fun...but it's probably a nightmare. "I can't print out this $15 billion dollar appropriation because the f*cking printer doesn't work!" "People in PA are starving because the email server ate all of our emails!"
Every minute is a crisis, with everyone breathing down your neck 24/7. Does that sound like something you'd want to do for 24/7/365/4 years?
Democracy doesn't rely on the "best", whatever that means. Democracy, as structured in the US, is designed in a way that one individual politician doesn't have an overabundance of power.
That has tended to prevent demagogues and has led to what has become a pretty successful society, if you compare it to societies past and present. Saying people aren't smart enough for a Democracy to flourish (or, as people have pointed out, a Republic as in the US) is prima facie incorrect. Intelligence is not a prerequisite for successful government.
I'd say that the best defense is a large cloud of small particles, like BBs. Anything flying through space will be flying pretty quickly. Flying through a field of BBs will effectively destroy anything.
They're cheap, hard to detect, and pretty deadly when you hit one going 15,000 mph.
You can even make lanes, like a big 3d minefield. Good luck trying to discover the path through those.
For offense, fling a couple of million BBs in a given direction. Space is big, things are slow, and you can do math fast enough to figure out the probable intersection points of your BB cloud and your targets. They're so cheap that you don't really need to be accurate. They're small so you can carry billions of them. And in a pinch, you can use them for building materials or something.
This is one of the benefits of having your own team do everything.
While Android struggles mightily trying to render screens smoothly at today's resolutions*, Apple jumps ahead and renders a display with a whole lot more pixels a whole lot better. Or will, when the iPad 3 comes out.
* Most Android users don't seem to care that their display doesn't render well, for some reason. Do you guys just not see it, or don't care about it?
The way you do it is you sell the old one after you buy the new one. Also conflating "iPad user" with "Mac user" is incorrect. A whole lot of people are buying these, and I doubt most of them are Mac users.
The iPad 2s should be worth more than the iPad 1s over the same time frame. If I had waited until the flood of iPad 1s abated I could have sold the iPad 1 for at least $75 more. I'll do that when I sell my iPad 2.
Note that this is why you keep the original box - because you probably will resell your iPad...and you get more if it comes in the original box (that's true of almost all Apple products).
The iPad isn't obsolete, far from it. iPad 1s are still great - for most people the iPad 1 would have been fine; they run everything except Facetime. Pretty much every game/app I have that runs on the iPad 2 runs just fine on the iPad 1, including Mame. It's just things look better on the iPad 2.
"There is a reason that mic's or gestures will never become popular"
That's funny - iOS and Android seem to be plenty popular, and they use gestures.
What you may not have noticed, because you don't work in the UX department, or don't have a lot of UI imagination. That's OK, this is a geek site.
How many games have a short tutorial at the beginning? A lot. Do they help? Yep!
What about the kinect? How do people learn how to use it?
The problem with voice is you can't be specific enough to target an on-screen object with voice.
The problem with visual gestures is that it's awkward to control.
Obviously, what you need to do is combine them. Visual gestures for objects, voice for verbs. There, problem solved.
There are lots of other problems, but with both audio and visual gestures you can get the minimal direct object/verb combination. Natural language is icing.
Luckily Apple has all three parts. Well, they have two parts public, and one patent on the visual gesture stuff.
The hard part isn't doing it, the hard part is thinking about what to do.
The reason it doesn't work now is because it all sucks. Look at smartphones before the iPhone. Nobody in the industry knew smartphones sucked - well, that's probably not true. Lots of people thought smartphones sucked, but that's how it was; there's nothing you can do to change that.
What everyone forgets is how much of a risk the iPhone was. Cingular was the only company willing to give it a go. Pretty much 99% of the tech world thought it would fail. And well, there you go.
This is why Samsung is nervous. Nobody thought this would happen to smartphones. Nobody thought the music industry would be dominated by iTunes. Apple's done it twice now, with music and phones. That's a pretty impressive track record - and with a record like that, you'd be remiss in ignoring Apple.
The article states that it's possible to determine the underlying numbers, not that they did it.
That's just like the MD5 collision problem a few years back.
The bad thing is that now that researchers have discovered this possibility there may have been someone that discovered it before and is actively exploiting it. Which is problematic, but I suspect that it's easier to compromise the back-end instead of attacking TLS directly.
Actually, my iPad 1 battery life is just fine. And it runs pretty much all the apps that my iPad 2 does. Same goes for my iPhone 2G - battery life is still good, and it still runs a surprisingly large number of apps, even at iOS 3.1.3.
Quite frankly, you should do some research before you speculate
There's imprecise, and there's "we fucked up." My google-fu is weak tonight and I can't find a study showing different sector IPO first-day results. But there's this:
Linkedin: priced at $45, closed at $94.25. Linkedin got screwed out of $45/share.
Zygna: priced at $10, down 5% on first day. Excellent! Zygna didn't lose anything.
Jive: priced at $12, closed up 25%. Not bad for the underwriters and their freinds.
Of course nobody would take the deal - because the game is fixed due to conflicts of interest. The underwriters have a definite conflict of interest - they flog the shares to their customers, and why would they want their customers to take a hit on the first day? Who doesn't want a nice juicy no-risk gain for their brokerage clients and buddies?
And plus, everybody wins - just some people win more than others. That's why Google did when it did when it IPO'd, but that's a game that nobody really wanted to play; they had to, because of the money.
Remember, a pop in the stock price isn't a sign of success - it's a sign that your underwriter priced your stock too low and you got shafted.
Facebook should have a clause that if the stock pops more than 10% on opening day the lead underwriter must pay them at least 70% of the lost proceeds:
Price: $100/share Opens: $180/share Payout from lead underwriter: $56/share
That'll make sure that the models are accurate. The only reason to go to these guys is to maximize the cash you get for your company. Your job isn't to make them and their clients more money.
"Most big mattress chains double a wholesale price and then add some dollars for negotiating room, say local retailers and manufacturers. That means a $500 mattress can jump to $1,399 in the showroom. Typically, they say, big stores will cut those margins by no less than 50 percent for promotions. "
That's OK - the $100m put the Fear of Apple into the Android licensing community. Apple's not like Microsoft, who wants to take a chunk of Android money and call it even.
Hopefully this is making the Android team (and the Android hardware partners) less likely to rip off Apple's IP. Why? Because if Apple spend $100m, the manufacturers must have spend more defending themselves.
It seems everyone's forgotten how different things were before the iPhone. All this "obvious" shit wasn't obvious at all back then, and it was only a few years ago. Has anyone saying different ever used an old Symbian/WinMo/WinCE device? They sucked. Half of the iOS stuff was impossible to do, and nobody was even thinking about the rest of it. That's how lame the field was.
An old friend of mine's father was in the Pope's press pool. Talk about exempt from screening; those guys got away with everything. Not to mention the reporters!
In the footsteps of Iraqi Information Minister Muhammed Saeed al-Sahaf comes Eric Schmidt:
"No, what you are seeing is not fragmentation, it's differentiation!" "Google search plus your World is not favoring Google+ results - it's just reranking them more appropriately!"
VPN access exists as long as the Chinese government allows it to exist. If they can probe and whack TOR, that shows they can whack anything - and that they choose not to.
Note that some sites in China do actively block VPN connections.
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So basically baboons are worse at recognizing words than dogs and babies? Why is this news?
Pigs can do this too, if you believe farmers.
What this paper seems to say is that if you spend lots of money and time you can get baboons to do stuff that's marginally interesting.
11 -> sounds like someone's been reading The Bell Curve again.
Drobo -> mostly reliable local backup
BackBlaze -> mostly reliable offsite backup
You might want to substitute a ZFS-based FreeNAS for the Drobo, if you're so inclined. It's less automatic, but seems just as reliable.
Seriously.
http://dailyroutineapp.com/
It's probably more useful for writers, but it allows you to fully structure your day. That's important, because at least you know what you're supposed to be doing in a given time period.
I've been working remotely for years on and off, and if I had this years ago, well, I would have done more work!
The program forgot to mention that each iPad and iPhone is dipped in blood extracted from Chinese infants then wiped clean with the spittle from Foxconn executives before shipment.
Besides that, the program was totally accurate in all respects.
From what I've read, there's only one firm that does White House transitions. I think it's Bechtel, but it's been so long that I've read anything about transitions that I have around a 15% confidence level in that piece of data.
Google "white house transition" and you'll see that it's a total mess. If you want to read about it, there's info here:
http://whitehousetransitionproject.org/
From what little I've read, you basically get a mostly empty building (the White House). It's up to the team to build/rebuild the infrastructure...but as any operations person knows, IT infrastructure is usually way behind everything else. The general executive branch IT has been a low priority for decades. What's more important, email or setting up the phone so the president can call someone (or someone can call the president)?
At that point, the team is probably so far behind that they're screwed continuously for the one or two terms.
Are the guys running the systems any good? I'd ask you: how many of you could pass a background and attitude check? You think the process etc at your workplace is bad, imagine how bad it is in the Executive branch.
That said, it might be fun...but it's probably a nightmare. "I can't print out this $15 billion dollar appropriation because the f*cking printer doesn't work!" "People in PA are starving because the email server ate all of our emails!"
Every minute is a crisis, with everyone breathing down your neck 24/7. Does that sound like something you'd want to do for 24/7/365/4 years?
Has everyone forgotten this classic?
As a note, Wizardry 1 was really awesome - it was hours and hours and hours of fun. Trebor and Werdna ruled!
Democracy doesn't rely on the "best", whatever that means. Democracy, as structured in the US, is designed in a way that one individual politician doesn't have an overabundance of power.
That has tended to prevent demagogues and has led to what has become a pretty successful society, if you compare it to societies past and present. Saying people aren't smart enough for a Democracy to flourish (or, as people have pointed out, a Republic as in the US) is prima facie incorrect. Intelligence is not a prerequisite for successful government.
Chains are chains, no matter who wields them. Apple's chains are much more comfortable than Android's chains. Plus, the games are better.
I'd say that the best defense is a large cloud of small particles, like BBs. Anything flying through space will be flying pretty quickly. Flying through a field of BBs will effectively destroy anything.
They're cheap, hard to detect, and pretty deadly when you hit one going 15,000 mph.
You can even make lanes, like a big 3d minefield. Good luck trying to discover the path through those.
For offense, fling a couple of million BBs in a given direction. Space is big, things are slow, and you can do math fast enough to figure out the probable intersection points of your BB cloud and your targets. They're so cheap that you don't really need to be accurate. They're small so you can carry billions of them. And in a pinch, you can use them for building materials or something.
This is one of the benefits of having your own team do everything.
While Android struggles mightily trying to render screens smoothly at today's resolutions*, Apple jumps ahead and renders a display with a whole lot more pixels a whole lot better. Or will, when the iPad 3 comes out.
* Most Android users don't seem to care that their display doesn't render well, for some reason. Do you guys just not see it, or don't care about it?
The way you do it is you sell the old one after you buy the new one. Also conflating "iPad user" with "Mac user" is incorrect. A whole lot of people are buying these, and I doubt most of them are Mac users.
Here's the costing:
iPad 1: $629 (3g/16gb)
iPad 2: $729 (3g + 32gb)
Sell iPad 1: $400
iPad 1 cost: $229/year
Theoretical:
Buy iPad 3: $629 (3g/16gb)
Sell iPad 2: $525
iPad 2 cost: $100/year
The iPad 2s should be worth more than the iPad 1s over the same time frame. If I had waited until the flood of iPad 1s abated I could have sold the iPad 1 for at least $75 more. I'll do that when I sell my iPad 2.
Note that this is why you keep the original box - because you probably will resell your iPad...and you get more if it comes in the original box (that's true of almost all Apple products).
The iPad isn't obsolete, far from it. iPad 1s are still great - for most people the iPad 1 would have been fine; they run everything except Facetime. Pretty much every game/app I have that runs on the iPad 2 runs just fine on the iPad 1, including Mame. It's just things look better on the iPad 2.
Why does the stove need to be solar?
For the heat storage solutions, what happens when someone (a child) kicks the stove over by mistake? Burns, disfigurement, death. Great.
Why not just a propane stove with a "turn off if you tip over" design?
"There is a reason that mic's or gestures will never become popular"
That's funny - iOS and Android seem to be plenty popular, and they use gestures.
What you may not have noticed, because you don't work in the UX department, or don't have a lot of UI imagination. That's OK, this is a geek site.
How many games have a short tutorial at the beginning? A lot. Do they help? Yep!
What about the kinect? How do people learn how to use it?
The problem with voice is you can't be specific enough to target an on-screen object with voice.
The problem with visual gestures is that it's awkward to control.
Obviously, what you need to do is combine them. Visual gestures for objects, voice for verbs. There, problem solved.
There are lots of other problems, but with both audio and visual gestures you can get the minimal direct object/verb combination. Natural language is icing.
Luckily Apple has all three parts. Well, they have two parts public, and one patent on the visual gesture stuff.
The hard part isn't doing it, the hard part is thinking about what to do.
The reason it doesn't work now is because it all sucks. Look at smartphones before the iPhone. Nobody in the industry knew smartphones sucked - well, that's probably not true. Lots of people thought smartphones sucked, but that's how it was; there's nothing you can do to change that.
What everyone forgets is how much of a risk the iPhone was. Cingular was the only company willing to give it a go. Pretty much 99% of the tech world thought it would fail. And well, there you go.
This is why Samsung is nervous. Nobody thought this would happen to smartphones. Nobody thought the music industry would be dominated by iTunes. Apple's done it twice now, with music and phones. That's a pretty impressive track record - and with a record like that, you'd be remiss in ignoring Apple.
The article states that it's possible to determine the underlying numbers, not that they did it.
That's just like the MD5 collision problem a few years back.
The bad thing is that now that researchers have discovered this possibility there may have been someone that discovered it before and is actively exploiting it. Which is problematic, but I suspect that it's easier to compromise the back-end instead of attacking TLS directly.
Actually, my iPad 1 battery life is just fine. And it runs pretty much all the apps that my iPad 2 does. Same goes for my iPhone 2G - battery life is still good, and it still runs a surprisingly large number of apps, even at iOS 3.1.3.
Quite frankly, you should do some research before you speculate
I suspect that, at the Macro level, chaotic uncertainty is overwhelmed by statistical probabilities.
There's imprecise, and there's "we fucked up." My google-fu is weak tonight and I can't find a study showing different sector IPO first-day results. But there's this:
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/ipo-stocks-fared-15525164#.TzDCYJjRUyE
Linkedin: priced at $45, closed at $94.25. Linkedin got screwed out of $45/share.
Zygna: priced at $10, down 5% on first day. Excellent! Zygna didn't lose anything.
Jive: priced at $12, closed up 25%. Not bad for the underwriters and their freinds.
Of course nobody would take the deal - because the game is fixed due to conflicts of interest. The underwriters have a definite conflict of interest - they flog the shares to their customers, and why would they want their customers to take a hit on the first day? Who doesn't want a nice juicy no-risk gain for their brokerage clients and buddies?
And plus, everybody wins - just some people win more than others. That's why Google did when it did when it IPO'd, but that's a game that nobody really wanted to play; they had to, because of the money.
It'd be the same as FB, if they wanted to play.
Remember, a pop in the stock price isn't a sign of success - it's a sign that your underwriter priced your stock too low and you got shafted.
Facebook should have a clause that if the stock pops more than 10% on opening day the lead underwriter must pay them at least 70% of the lost proceeds:
Price: $100/share
Opens: $180/share
Payout from lead underwriter: $56/share
That'll make sure that the models are accurate. The only reason to go to these guys is to maximize the cash you get for your company. Your job isn't to make them and their clients more money.
"Most big mattress chains double a wholesale price and then add some dollars for negotiating room, say local retailers and manufacturers. That means a $500 mattress can jump to $1,399 in the showroom. Typically, they say, big stores will cut those margins by no less than 50 percent for promotions. "
http://www.oregonlive.com/business/index.ssf/2012/01/as_mattress_world_closes_its_d.html
That's OK - the $100m put the Fear of Apple into the Android licensing community. Apple's not like Microsoft, who wants to take a chunk of Android money and call it even.
Hopefully this is making the Android team (and the Android hardware partners) less likely to rip off Apple's IP. Why? Because if Apple spend $100m, the manufacturers must have spend more defending themselves.
It seems everyone's forgotten how different things were before the iPhone. All this "obvious" shit wasn't obvious at all back then, and it was only a few years ago. Has anyone saying different ever used an old Symbian/WinMo/WinCE device? They sucked. Half of the iOS stuff was impossible to do, and nobody was even thinking about the rest of it. That's how lame the field was.
An old friend of mine's father was in the Pope's press pool. Talk about exempt from screening; those guys got away with everything. Not to mention the reporters!
In the footsteps of Iraqi Information Minister Muhammed Saeed al-Sahaf comes Eric Schmidt:
"No, what you are seeing is not fragmentation, it's differentiation!"
"Google search plus your World is not favoring Google+ results - it's just reranking them more appropriately!"
If they had sex with a supermodel they'd be complaining that it ruined their sex life forever.
VPN access exists as long as the Chinese government allows it to exist. If they can probe and whack TOR, that shows they can whack anything - and that they choose not to.
Note that some sites in China do actively block VPN connections.