Agreed, no problem on watch battery (at 78% at the end of today). But it seems to be killing my iPhone battery, likely all the low level continuous Bluetooth communication. I know it's supposed to be blue tooth LE. But still my iPhone battery is dying. Anybody else having the same problem?
Please tell me what these Islamist terrorists are doing. There was shoe bomber, whose comical attempt to light his shoe on fire like wiley coyote was stopped by passenger. underwear bomber who did the same thing. the boston marathon guys were not aligned with a particular terrorist group like AQAP or ISIS, just touched in the head. where are all the boogeymen in the closet?
the fisa court is a new addition to the judicial system and has never been tested in the supreme court. I would argue that the FISA court does not satisfy the due process requirements in the fifth amendments and are basically rubberstamped warrants.
>If you demote someone, they may legally quit and (surprise, surprise!) file for employment insurance as this is considered constructive dismissal. Once again, if this happens more than very rarely, the company will be on the hook to give more money to the government or other employees they demote (who then quit).
I don't know where you live, but in CA this sounds really iffy. link?
soft skills could also be inspiring dedicated effort from your subordinates or translating squishy goals from the higher ups to concrete goals that your subordinates can achieve.
there are two bedrock norms in America that cause all sorts of distortions in the labor pool: * you can promote people but not demote them * you can give people raises but not cut their base pay.
As a result of these norms, it's easier to fire 10% of your workforce then lower all pay by 10%. Similarly they can cut benefits (ie by lowering their retirement contribution or increasing health costs) which is effectively a salary reduction. If you're hourly they also will cut back your hours, but not your pay.
This is how societal norms distort what economists like to imagine is the free market.
laaaame. That stereotype has been out of date for at least 30 years, and is perpetuated primarily by people who have never been to china or met a Chinese national.
Yes, it blended. Sapphire and most other semiprecious stones are AlO3 (add some impurities to get the desired color). So sapphire is basically transparent aluminum, used for scratch-proof purposes like protecting my brand new smart watch. Even so, it blended quite nicely.
if you're a data vacuum, what great about a website is you can track where else your customers go. So you go to amazon.com, and it can tell from various cookie networks that you also like going to furrydice.org, so amazon.com will show you a wide selection of furry dice. in an app this isn't possible because apps are sandbox and have very limited visibility into happenings outside the app.
On the other hand, apps are great for attention span, to force the user to pay attention and finish the transaction rather than just ctrl-t open xkcd.
Now on the mobile side, this becomes even more important I suspect, with a not-insignificant number of folks swapping between platforms every year or two...
who are all these platform switchers? People who want iphones get iphones, people who want androids get androids. Perhaps somebody makes a switch at some point, I seriously doubt they ever go back. I think you're overstating the churn. I used an android phone for a couple years, and since then I've been using the iphone. I have no plans on switching.
yes but then they're out of the pool of productive people. it's better to keep people productive and contributing to society so we can pay for all the smokers and fatties who duck out early.
actually you're probably right. siri can open programs but not directly interact with them, so you'd have to set your fart app to automatically fart upon startup.
Is your username an acronym? I've been staring at it for a while but I cant figure it out.
actually, the thing I'm looking forward to the most is how easy it will be to use siri. one, the "hey siri" function will be active all the time, whereas on the iphone it's only active when the phone is charging. two, because the apple watch doesn't need to unlock (you unlock it once when you put it on, then it stays unlocked until you take it off), you don't need to enter your passcode before siri can help you (i.e. pull up driving directions). combine this with the added dictation features that apple has been adding without making a big deal of it ("hey siri, read me my new text messages) I think it promises a lot of hands free and eye-free interaction. Also, I'm curious how it will work to speak on the phone from your wrist. "hey siri, call farble1670". That's easy, but talking using the speaker and microphone on the watch? I'm a little dubious.
I thought you wrote "mid-day", because you were too STUPID to use a capital letter for 'May'. But then, you were also too stupid to use capital letters for the first word of half of your sentences. WTF?
grammar rules are a fiction and a way the ruling class imposes control on others by establishing an arbitrary "right way to do things" then castigating those who do not kowtow to it. This article published in the academic journal English Today is a screed against the Strunk and White book "Elements of Style" that explores both the specific party fouls and the overarching inconsistencies and outright hubris of the book.
I hear ya! I got the space grey sport, which according to this poll is 2.5 times more popular than the silver sport watch (including all band colors for the silver sport).
retrospect, I didn't like the silver sport band colors cuz they're a little too informal for me, but if there are other rubber band colors like a maroon or navy, the silver would look super sweet.
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I'm still not entirely clear what the Apple Watch is supposed to do for me, especially when it's still reliant on a cell phone to function.
you know, I agree with you? I ordered one and it will be delivered in mid-may (even though I placed the order 3 mins after midnight -_-). I thought the NYT review was most interesting. It said for the first three days the guy had no idea how to use it and then starting on the fourth day it was indispensable. So maybe it's just something you have to experience? There's a return policy, so I can return it if it isn't functional. Also, it's fun to do the whole "stay up until midnight, mash the order button" thing once and a while.
the funny thing is that I often find myself drowning in emails, and there are so many that I end up missing some urgent ones. Will the watch help me manage these messages or will it just be more overload??
the problem is that "the other guy dying for his country" is more than likely just a person who is going about his business, and lives in a random country that has not declared war on the united states. I'm surprised that the local govts don't get immediately toppled for allowing this.
Your ideas sound super in a world where US has declared war on a country and all the soldiers where bright uniforms. It sucks when the US just bombs random countries without declaring war and crosses its fingers that hopefully it hits some combatants. Yes, it was in the NYTimes today. http://nyti.ms/1PrJJN5. this doesn't sound like a war, it sounds like brutal occupation.
You know who else does that? fires of random missiles into somebody else's territory? hamas.
I thought a bit on your response and my original statement, and here’s what I got. I’m doubling down on my comment, there’s something so despicable about drones. First, there’s always something weird about an asymmetrical war. But drones are even worse. Imagine living in Pakistan, and never knowing when death will come down from above with no warning? It could be targeting you or somebody next to you, there’s no way to know. That’s not the kind of world I want to live in, where one government has such power to terrorize.
Inb4 these threats will never happen in US: the LAPD already owns two drones. What would be stopping them from owning weaponized drones? There’s already a precedent to put snipers in helicopters. And the “officers in harms way” bs is often trotted out.
Also, you must realize that your role in RPA is just a stop gap – over time they will become more and more automated, to the point you don’t need pilots at all. Then, you can launch a thousand drones and just let them circle lazily in the sky like hawks. This is also not the world I want to live in.
Lastly, just as military tech bleeds into civilian law enforcement, it also bleeds out to our foes who can use it against us.
Drone strikes where you just decide whatever civilians are nearby deserved to die results in unintended deaths.
Who fucking knew?
I think you're trying to be snarky, but you're actually +1 accurate. The administration set a rule for deciding how many deaths are militants vs innocent civilians. They assume that any man between the age of 18 and 65 is a militant. this lowers the amount of "collateral damage".
I also want to give a shout out to the Russians, who are the masters at taking a hard line on terrorism even at the risk of civilians. Several years ago 50 armed Chechen terrorists seized a movie theater and 850 hostages, and wouldn't let people out unless their demands were met. After a long standoff the Russians went in by releasing poison gas into the ventilation system then going in with gas masks and automatic weapons. All 50 of the terrorists died, and 130 hostages. Doh!
The Onion had the best headline on this: "Russia declares war on terrorists, civilians".
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Agreed, no problem on watch battery (at 78% at the end of today). But it seems to be killing my iPhone battery, likely all the low level continuous Bluetooth communication. I know it's supposed to be blue tooth LE. But still my iPhone battery is dying. Anybody else having the same problem?
Please tell me what these Islamist terrorists are doing. There was shoe bomber, whose comical attempt to light his shoe on fire like wiley coyote was stopped by passenger. underwear bomber who did the same thing. the boston marathon guys were not aligned with a particular terrorist group like AQAP or ISIS, just touched in the head. where are all the boogeymen in the closet?
the fisa court is a new addition to the judicial system and has never been tested in the supreme court. I would argue that the FISA court does not satisfy the due process requirements in the fifth amendments and are basically rubberstamped warrants.
>If you demote someone, they may legally quit and (surprise, surprise!) file for employment insurance as this is considered constructive dismissal. Once again, if this happens more than very rarely, the company will be on the hook to give more money to the government or other employees they demote (who then quit).
I don't know where you live, but in CA this sounds really iffy. link?
soft skills could also be inspiring dedicated effort from your subordinates or translating squishy goals from the higher ups to concrete goals that your subordinates can achieve.
there are two bedrock norms in America that cause all sorts of distortions in the labor pool:
* you can promote people but not demote them
* you can give people raises but not cut their base pay.
As a result of these norms, it's easier to fire 10% of your workforce then lower all pay by 10%. Similarly they can cut benefits (ie by lowering their retirement contribution or increasing health costs) which is effectively a salary reduction. If you're hourly they also will cut back your hours, but not your pay.
This is how societal norms distort what economists like to imagine is the free market.
Lots of hipster jokes in these comments, but I like yours the best. Seriously, what's up with the mustache wax? Maybe they don't like getting laid.
But is google constantly scanning all the text I enter into webpages, even text into a https page? That seems wrong and scary.
laaaame. That stereotype has been out of date for at least 30 years, and is perpetuated primarily by people who have never been to china or met a Chinese national.
Who cares... does it blend? Waiting...
Yes, it blended. Sapphire and most other semiprecious stones are AlO3 (add some impurities to get the desired color). So sapphire is basically transparent aluminum, used for scratch-proof purposes like protecting my brand new smart watch. Even so, it blended quite nicely.
if you're a data vacuum, what great about a website is you can track where else your customers go. So you go to amazon.com, and it can tell from various cookie networks that you also like going to furrydice.org, so amazon.com will show you a wide selection of furry dice. in an app this isn't possible because apps are sandbox and have very limited visibility into happenings outside the app.
On the other hand, apps are great for attention span, to force the user to pay attention and finish the transaction rather than just ctrl-t open xkcd.
Now on the mobile side, this becomes even more important I suspect, with a not-insignificant number of folks swapping between platforms every year or two...
who are all these platform switchers? People who want iphones get iphones, people who want androids get androids. Perhaps somebody makes a switch at some point, I seriously doubt they ever go back. I think you're overstating the churn. I used an android phone for a couple years, and since then I've been using the iphone. I have no plans on switching.
yes but then they're out of the pool of productive people. it's better to keep people productive and contributing to society so we can pay for all the smokers and fatties who duck out early.
i thought niagara falls was in buffalo?
actually you're probably right. siri can open programs but not directly interact with them, so you'd have to set your fart app to automatically fart upon startup.
Is your username an acronym? I've been staring at it for a while but I cant figure it out.
blither snyp's frognouth sitely norberg higgle farnard clsan's splff
I assumed that since your sentence ends with "spliff", I didn't understand the meaning but I understood your state of mind!
actually, the thing I'm looking forward to the most is how easy it will be to use siri. one, the "hey siri" function will be active all the time, whereas on the iphone it's only active when the phone is charging. two, because the apple watch doesn't need to unlock (you unlock it once when you put it on, then it stays unlocked until you take it off), you don't need to enter your passcode before siri can help you (i.e. pull up driving directions). combine this with the added dictation features that apple has been adding without making a big deal of it ("hey siri, read me my new text messages) I think it promises a lot of hands free and eye-free interaction. Also, I'm curious how it will work to speak on the phone from your wrist. "hey siri, call farble1670". That's easy, but talking using the speaker and microphone on the watch? I'm a little dubious.
I thought you wrote "mid-day", because you were too STUPID to use a capital letter for 'May'. But then, you were also too stupid to use capital letters for the first word of half of your sentences. WTF?
grammar rules are a fiction and a way the ruling class imposes control on others by establishing an arbitrary "right way to do things" then castigating those who do not kowtow to it. This article published in the academic journal English Today is a screed against the Strunk and White book "Elements of Style" that explores both the specific party fouls and the overarching inconsistencies and outright hubris of the book.
I hear ya! I got the space grey sport, which according to this poll is 2.5 times more popular than the silver sport watch (including all band colors for the silver sport).
http://9to5mac.com/2015/04/10/...
retrospect, I didn't like the silver sport band colors cuz they're a little too informal for me, but if there are other rubber band colors like a maroon or navy, the silver would look super sweet.
I'm still not entirely clear what the Apple Watch is supposed to do for me, especially when it's still reliant on a cell phone to function.
you know, I agree with you? I ordered one and it will be delivered in mid-may (even though I placed the order 3 mins after midnight -_-). I thought the NYT review was most interesting. It said for the first three days the guy had no idea how to use it and then starting on the fourth day it was indispensable. So maybe it's just something you have to experience? There's a return policy, so I can return it if it isn't functional. Also, it's fun to do the whole "stay up until midnight, mash the order button" thing once and a while.
the funny thing is that I often find myself drowning in emails, and there are so many that I end up missing some urgent ones. Will the watch help me manage these messages or will it just be more overload??
the problem is that "the other guy dying for his country" is more than likely just a person who is going about his business, and lives in a random country that has not declared war on the united states. I'm surprised that the local govts don't get immediately toppled for allowing this.
Your ideas sound super in a world where US has declared war on a country and all the soldiers where bright uniforms. It sucks when the US just bombs random countries without declaring war and crosses its fingers that hopefully it hits some combatants. Yes, it was in the NYTimes today. http://nyti.ms/1PrJJN5. this doesn't sound like a war, it sounds like brutal occupation.
You know who else does that? fires of random missiles into somebody else's territory? hamas.
I read that if this supervolcano explodes it could cause an extinction event by spewing ash into the air and blocking out the sun.
I thought a bit on your response and my original statement, and here’s what I got. I’m doubling down on my comment, there’s something so despicable about drones. First, there’s always something weird about an asymmetrical war. But drones are even worse. Imagine living in Pakistan, and never knowing when death will come down from above with no warning? It could be targeting you or somebody next to you, there’s no way to know. That’s not the kind of world I want to live in, where one government has such power to terrorize.
Inb4 these threats will never happen in US: the LAPD already owns two drones. What would be stopping them from owning weaponized drones? There’s already a precedent to put snipers in helicopters. And the “officers in harms way” bs is often trotted out.
Also, you must realize that your role in RPA is just a stop gap – over time they will become more and more automated, to the point you don’t need pilots at all. Then, you can launch a thousand drones and just let them circle lazily in the sky like hawks. This is also not the world I want to live in.
Lastly, just as military tech bleeds into civilian law enforcement, it also bleeds out to our foes who can use it against us.
So in short, the drone program is despicable.
Drone strikes where you just decide whatever civilians are nearby deserved to die results in unintended deaths.
Who fucking knew?
I think you're trying to be snarky, but you're actually +1 accurate. The administration set a rule for deciding how many deaths are militants vs innocent civilians. They assume that any man between the age of 18 and 65 is a militant. this lowers the amount of "collateral damage".
I also want to give a shout out to the Russians, who are the masters at taking a hard line on terrorism even at the risk of civilians. Several years ago 50 armed Chechen terrorists seized a movie theater and 850 hostages, and wouldn't let people out unless their demands were met. After a long standoff the Russians went in by releasing poison gas into the ventilation system then going in with gas masks and automatic weapons. All 50 of the terrorists died, and 130 hostages. Doh!
The Onion had the best headline on this: "Russia declares war on terrorists, civilians".