It's already outsourced. Most of the electronics in cars comes from 3rd parties.
Bad timing for that feature, after Toyotos troubles. People now know that steering wheels, accelerator pedals, brakes are just interfaces, not the actual "controls". I think many people would prefer for cars to be less automatic and give them more control from that perspective.
What happens when Ford, like Toyoto, outsources some component to a third party who fucks up? You are driving along one day when you car decides you aren't driving properly and decides to ram you into a tree.
I'm actually wondering why launch a monkey at all. Or even a chimp. I think we're pretty sure at this point that no one is going to die from the space vapors or the orbiting hordes of vacuum leaches. What sort of telemetry do they get from a monkey that you can't get from a sensor package?
It's not win:win. It win for most homeowners who never experience a fire and would not feel a need to pay a yearly fee. It's lose for the fire department that doesn't have an income stream while they are waiting for your house to burn down.
It's also probably not good public policy to pay a fire department on a per fire basis.
They responded because the neighbor DID pay for fire protection. Which is why they put out the fire on the neighbor's property.
I'm not sure what you point is: the home owner lives outside of the town. The town can't tax him to pay for fire services. The town voluntarily allows people to pay $75/year to be included in the town's fire protection services. The home owner didn't pay. The neighbor did. Everything pretty much worked the way it was supposed to.
Yes, most losses are employee related. And most receipt checkers aren't looking for shoplifted mechandise. They are looking to make sure that your buddy, the employee, didn't charge you for a pack of gum when you brought the DVD player up to his cash register.
I walk right past them, too. A store's inventory control is not my responsibility.
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You're a little late to the party to get one soon. Pre-order lists started a few months ago, and as far as anyone knows fewer than 200 shipped this week for the first time. It will probably be mid to late May before they start showing up on store shelves.
And more pressure on users to keep their systems patched up. It's a rare virus/worm that comes in through an unknown exploit.
If someone wrote a destructive netsky/bagle variant the email traffic on the Internet would probalby drop in half overnight as infected machines got taken out.
It was posted on a motorcycle forum. Next I saw it was on Metafilter. The version that's up now has been edited it a bit, she removed some of the more personal information.
Dial-up ISP's are a dime a dozen, and if the customer base isn't shrinking already it probably will be soon. Rather than competing against MSN, it's likely to canabalize people that are looking for a low cost alternative to their AOL account.
I have one and I love it, but you do have to keep in mind a few things:
You aren't going to get rid of your vacuum. With the Roomba, there's a lot more sweeping than sucking going on, so it's not going to haul all that sand out of that shag carpet you installed in the 60's. OTOH, if you have a lot of hardwood floors and low nap carpeting (I do), it does a really good job.
It's not quicker than vacuuming. You don't watch live TV on your Tivo and you don't set the Roomba out on room you need cleaned quickly. I just set it out a couple of times a week in different parts of the house and let it run while I'm at work.
You have to Roomba-safe your rooms. That means all the cables off the floor, buddy. All that stuff lying on the floor that you go around with the vacuum? Well, the Roomba will try and suck it up. Carpet fringe is also bad for the Roomba.
Once you make your house a Roomba-friendly environment, it's great. It cleans the hardwood floors. It cleans the carpet. It cleans the bathroom floor, the tile in the kitchen, under the beds, it even mucked out the unending-fountain-of-dustballs that was the underside of my couch.
You don't burn black bars, in fact, it's sort of the opposite effect. If you watch a lot of 4:3 material, the black bars won't burn as much as the center of the screen, so when you watch a 16:9 show, the outside edges will appear brighter than the center. Hence the grey bars to burn the outside edges evenly with the center.
Huh? The signal doesn't come over the laptop's power cord. There's a box that plugs into the wall that has an ethernet or USB jack on it. You connect the laptop to that jack. It doesn't matter how the laptop is getting it's power.
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It's already outsourced. Most of the electronics in cars comes from 3rd parties.
Bad timing for that feature, after Toyotos troubles. People now know that steering wheels, accelerator pedals, brakes are just interfaces, not the actual "controls". I think many people would prefer for cars to be less automatic and give them more control from that perspective.
What happens when Ford, like Toyoto, outsources some component to a third party who fucks up? You are driving along one day when you car decides you aren't driving properly and decides to ram you into a tree.
I'm actually wondering why launch a monkey at all. Or even a chimp. I think we're pretty sure at this point that no one is going to die from the space vapors or the orbiting hordes of vacuum leaches. What sort of telemetry do they get from a monkey that you can't get from a sensor package?
They recently bought sage.tv, I suspect what they come up with will look a lot like that.
What are you talking about? Amazon allows you to download content from the clouddisk thingy.
There are BMW's that do that already.
The guy that refused to pay them $75, is going to pay thousands? Did he have the cash on him?
The city used to have a policy that allowed non-payers to be billed $500 (not thousands). 50% never paid.
It's pretty likely his insurance policy was based on fire services being available. That $75 he saved may end up costing a lot more.
It's not win:win. It win for most homeowners who never experience a fire and would not feel a need to pay a yearly fee. It's lose for the fire department that doesn't have an income stream while they are waiting for your house to burn down.
It's also probably not good public policy to pay a fire department on a per fire basis.
And the morally correct thing to do is to not pay a small yearly fee to help cover the cost of fire services in your community?
They responded because the neighbor DID pay for fire protection. Which is why they put out the fire on the neighbor's property. I'm not sure what you point is: the home owner lives outside of the town. The town can't tax him to pay for fire services. The town voluntarily allows people to pay $75/year to be included in the town's fire protection services. The home owner didn't pay. The neighbor did. Everything pretty much worked the way it was supposed to.
Yeah. You don't live in a place that gets chilly do you? Air-to-air's lose it around 20F.
MS didn't change the protocol. Evolution was screen scraping the web interface. The web interface changed.
But, yeah, use IMAP, and suck it up and use the web interface for the calendaring.
Yes, most losses are employee related. And most receipt checkers aren't looking for shoplifted mechandise. They are looking to make sure that your buddy, the employee, didn't charge you for a pack of gum when you brought the DVD player up to his cash register.
I walk right past them, too. A store's inventory control is not my responsibility.
You're a little late to the party to get one soon. Pre-order lists started a few months ago, and as far as anyone knows fewer than 200 shipped this week for the first time. It will probably be mid to late May before they start showing up on store shelves.
I paid $349 for my first 14-hour Tivo.
And more pressure on users to keep their systems patched up. It's a rare virus/worm that comes in through an unknown exploit.
If someone wrote a destructive netsky/bagle variant the email traffic on the Internet would probalby drop in half overnight as infected machines got taken out.
It was posted on a motorcycle forum. Next I saw it was on Metafilter. The version that's up now has been edited it a bit, she removed some of the more personal information.
My keyboard is obviously a part of the conspiracy. Butterscotch martian sky
This link was posted on a prevous story. Of course it's all a vast global conspiracy to mask the true color of the martian sky.
How about the Canadian division of the parent company of this new ISP? AOL Canada
Nothing?
Dial-up ISP's are a dime a dozen, and if the customer base isn't shrinking already it probably will be soon. Rather than competing against MSN, it's likely to canabalize people that are looking for a low cost alternative to their AOL account.
If you have an AD environment, you're probably much better off using SUS.
I have one and I love it, but you do have to keep in mind a few things:
You aren't going to get rid of your vacuum. With the Roomba, there's a lot more sweeping than sucking going on, so it's not going to haul all that sand out of that shag carpet you installed in the 60's. OTOH, if you have a lot of hardwood floors and low nap carpeting (I do), it does a really good job.
It's not quicker than vacuuming. You don't watch live TV on your Tivo and you don't set the Roomba out on room you need cleaned quickly. I just set it out a couple of times a week in different parts of the house and let it run while I'm at work.
You have to Roomba-safe your rooms. That means all the cables off the floor, buddy. All that stuff lying on the floor that you go around with the vacuum? Well, the Roomba will try and suck it up. Carpet fringe is also bad for the Roomba.
Once you make your house a Roomba-friendly environment, it's great. It cleans the hardwood floors. It cleans the carpet. It cleans the bathroom floor, the tile in the kitchen, under the beds, it even mucked out the unending-fountain-of-dustballs that was the underside of my couch.
You don't burn black bars, in fact, it's sort of the opposite effect. If you watch a lot of 4:3 material, the black bars won't burn as much as the center of the screen, so when you watch a 16:9 show, the outside edges will appear brighter than the center. Hence the grey bars to burn the outside edges evenly with the center.
Huh? The signal doesn't come over the laptop's power cord. There's a box that plugs into the wall that has an ethernet or USB jack on it. You connect the laptop to that jack. It doesn't matter how the laptop is getting it's power.