China's labor force is busy making products that we buy here. If you force Foxconn to shut down because you feel it is a "sweatshop", then those employees have to find a job at a different sweat shop. As more and more shut down, the choices of where to go become more limited, and they abuse the workers even more.
Believe it or not, the way to fix the problem is to create more sweat shops in China. As workers there have more choices, they will find the ones that have the best pay and treat their employees the best. The final result is that the sweat shops will cease to be sweat shops, and China will be a strong economic leader with a strongly developed workforce.
I realize a lot of people have this seething hate for employers, and are looking for a place to focus it. But, those who provide jobs are not the enemy. The jobs may seem terrible to you, but when you have a workforce this large, where everyone is just trying to get a piece of the pie, any additional job there is a good thing. The jobs will not get better until there are as many jobs available as there are people to fill them.
Well, the equation is always valid, it's just not useful when alpha*L is so tiny.
In the case of neutrinos, L is essentially zero, when talking about planet-sized chunks of rocks. The number of neutrinos from our sun at night is almost exactly the number received at day. Far less than 1% of neutrinos from our sun are stopped by the earth.
I'm skeptical of this also, but for very different reasons. Neutrinos are extremely hard to detect. They have to be very big. They're usually filled with heavy water. And they're usually buried more than 1km below ground, to cut down on interference. Using the internet, you get about 261ms latency from Australia to Virginia. Although it's not perfect, I don't know what kind of message is so important that you couldn't wait an extra quarter second for it. Building a giant multi-million dollar neutrino detector a kilometer under ground may get better speed, but it's not worth it just to play Counterstrike.
Extreme Tech:... effectively creating a 360-degree laser beam.
/me dons his cynic's hat.
Photodynamic therapy is one of the only ways to treat cancer
And, I suppose you are going to say your laser can be used to cure cancer now.
MIT's laser could be threaded into almost any part of the body, where the ability to produce pixels of laser light at any point along its length would make it a highly accurate device."
You didn't disappoint. Unfortunately your entertaining article is rather short. If it was a bit longer, I would have expected solutions for rebuilding the glacier shelf and ending violence in the mid-east.
As I understand it, yes. But you would have to use every square inch of the skin of your house as a light output, and may even need to suspend it high enough in the atmosphere so that light emitted from the bottom of your house did not reflect off the earth back up to your house, thus warming it. I doubt that it could ever cool your house by even a millionth of a degree (either C or F), and all hopes are gone if you conducted the test during the daytime.
Buying and running an air conditioner is still your best choice.
non-existent. All carriers can use the term however they wish to mean whatever they wish.
All carriers want to be the first with the "next-generation phone", which is why the gaps between each generation have become smaller and smaller. The difference between 2G (digital) and 2.5G (General Packet Radio Service) was probably larger than the total gap from 3G to 5G.
As a game developer who has made a game for the 360 and PS3, I can tell you that my biggest complaints about the ps3 were the memory limitations (cpu and gpu memory is separated), the horrible software for the devkits, and the devkits themselves, which suck so much power that they require you to run air conditioning even in the winter.
The main difference that you hit when making a cross-platform title is DirectX (d3d) versus OpenGL ES. Those libraries need to understand the lowlying architecture, but they pretty much take care of everything for the developer.
And, not everyone has changed to the Gregorian calendar yet.
There's a few areas of European that refused to change from the Julian to the Gregorian, not because of any scientific reason, but because of a political reason. You see for quite a while, the main purpose of a complicated calendar was to keep track of when exactly Easter should be celebrated, and the different Orthodox churches quibbled about this. For a while, there was two different Easters, one for people on the Julian calendar, and one for people using the Gregorian.
The whole world changed to Gregorian, so they had to compromise. The compromise is one of the most hilarious developments in time tracking: the Revised Julian Calendar
Those who follow the Revised Julian Calendar never obey the "every 400 years" rule. Instead, they celebrate leap years every 4, unless the year is divisible by 100, unless the year is mod 900 is 200 or 600
The net result is that those countries were in agreemet with us retroactively in 1600, and in 2000, but the system will fall apart in 2400. The designers then get to live knowing that their principles have not been compromised, yet it will leave the fallout of the difference to their descendants.
Well, for every person like you who lost 78 pounds by playing exercise games, there's another person who gained 78 pounds playing exercise games.
Sorry, that was sarcastic. l, too, have lost weight (40 lbs) by playing exercise games (DDR in my case). Clearly, if you want to lose weight, these games can work, and make the weight loss much easier than just a boring treadmill. When I was playing DDR regularly, I was exercising 5x to 10x more than I had before buying the game.
The study is interesting, but it is kids age 9-12, who tend to be more active than adults anyway. Kids in both groups exercised vigorously for an average of 3-3.5 hours per week, which is far more than adults average.
If your child is exercising under the average amount, and you really want to change that, I still think exercise games are an excellent choice. The difference between you and the parents in the study is that you actually care enough to encourage your kids to play the exercise games instead of watching TV.
They should make a second product, called Facebook-revealed, where all logged data is freely available to everyone.
Then they just tell the FBI that it is their job to move everyone over to the new system. Send them free vouchers for marketing workshops. I'm sure that the FBI has a sense of humor.:)
It would be nice to think that rulings like this might have some effect on the traditional corporate practice of making new users sign "contracts" that basically give one party the right to change the terms any damn time they want and in any damn way they want, while giving the other party the right to pay their money and shut up.
I'm thinking that even if you made your own cell carrier, that you'd still be upset with the service you provided yourself.
Guaranteeing "unlimited use" forever, in spite of how the market and usage patterns change, is just impossible. It's like your Natalie Portman dream plus hot grits. If you want to argue that AT&T should have never made such bogus claims in the first place, then I could agree with you. If you think you are justified to take 30% of the bandwidth of your tower just so you can run a Natalie Portman fansite off your phone, then you and I come from different planets.
AT&T should just admit that they goofed. Tell all of us that our unlimited contracts will not be continued past the end of the year, and offer us some token discount on our next phone. Sure, some people will have hissy fits, but for customers like me, I'll just be pleased that for once they aren't trying to lie to me.
"Could ride a horse" and "could ride a horse great distances" are very different things.
I have family that has horses, so I occasionally ride. But, I get terribly sore, even if I'm just out an hour. If I had to use one daily, it would take a while to get accustomed to it.
As far as the generalizations about Americans, I believe they too are unfair. There is a growing segment of the population who expects to always depend on welfare and food stamps, but on the whole, I'd still put us up against any other nation.
I grew up in a small rural town in the heartland, but still felt like the sky was the limit for what I could be/do. I've been on missions trips to other countries, and their provincial/rural areas are entirely different. Those born in rural areas of most other countries have no hope of education, and and rarely have the opportunity of doing anything different than their parents before them.
Oh, I definitely did not say it is outrageous. Quite the opposite, spending 45k on a plane is probably a better investment than spending 15k on a car, once you consider how much the value will decrease on both over 2-3 years.
I was just saying that 15k for an airworthy plane is not right. The AC above me threw out that number, and had to be corrected.
> If you say flying is too expensive, consider that you can get an airworthy 2-seater for about $15,000.
I just went over to trade-a-plane.com to make sure that the market hadn't suddenly dropped out. You are completely wrong.
If you find a plane for $15,000, it probably doesn't fly. If you find one that does, it only has a few hours left until it needs an overhaul, which costs $15,000 - $30,000. On top of that, the fabric will probably need to be replaced, if you actually find a plane for that price.
Realistically, expect to spend about $45,000 for an airworthy plane. The upside is that you can use it for a couple years, and then sell it again, and get back pretty much every penny you spent. Because of the unreasonable FAA restrictions, nearly all low-cost single engine planes are 50+ years old, and it will be that same lot of planes that new pilots will train on for ever. So, even after a couple years of use, the value of the plane will probably go up.
Well, they're obviously moving much faster than openoffice did. The product looks very clean, opens fast, and is mostly enjoyable to use.
There's still a number of key combinations that Calc is missing (most noticeably ctrl-D to copy cell above), and the background color tool is still horribly designed (only contains colors too dark for use as a background, and it does not remember the last chosen color). It's simple stuff like this that keeps people on Excel.
If you look at the patent, he's not claiming to have "invented the internet". The patent is basically for use of the embed tag (which is described quite elaborately in the patent).
The patent is technically for a "Distributed Hypermedia Method For Automatically Invoking External Application Providing Interaction And Display Of Embedded Objects Within A Hypermedia Document".
One point that the original article seems to be missing is that KDP Select titles can only be borrowed by people who a) are Amazon Prime subscribers and b) own Amazon Kindle devices. While this doesn't completely inoculate the service from the sort of "gaming" that he refers to on MP3.com, that's a much higher barrier to entry than signing up for an account and downloading a file for free.
So, the idea is that one fan can no longer download your book 50 times, so that will stop the fraud. Well, it doesn't stop the fraud, it just makes the fraud more creative.
Kings of Chaos is a game built around this very principle! Each player gets a unique link that they share with their friends, and every time it is clicked on, you get more troops for your army. Each of your friends can only click on your link once every 24 hours.
So, people form giant guilds (thousands in a guild), and they all store their links in a "recruiter" (search the page for it). Then you spend an hour each night using the recruiter. For every link that you click on in the recruiter, it increases how often your link is shown to others.
It's rather amazing how much effort people put into a game that really has no point (ie. KOC). KDP Select appears to me to be KOC again, but it's no longer a game, and real money is given out. I fully expect it to be a complete disaster.
Some people confuse it, though, with MicronPC, a dotcom-bubble company that was well known for sponsoring bowl games, but eventually declared bankruptcy in 2008.
A lot of people hear "experimental aircraft", and assume that it is a high-risk, never-proved type of aircraft, but that's rarely true. "Experimental" is just a type of aircraft certification by the FAA.
The different certificates available can be seen here on Wikipedia. Almost everything that is homebuilt or home-modified carries this certification, even if that model of plane has been built thousands of times by other builders, and has been in constant use for decades. Even a change to the engine will throw a stock plane into the experimental category.
You probably have a friend or two who is a member of the EAA. That organization's name is "Experimental Aircraft Association".
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China's labor force is busy making products that we buy here. If you force Foxconn to shut down because you feel it is a "sweatshop", then those employees have to find a job at a different sweat shop. As more and more shut down, the choices of where to go become more limited, and they abuse the workers even more.
Believe it or not, the way to fix the problem is to create more sweat shops in China. As workers there have more choices, they will find the ones that have the best pay and treat their employees the best. The final result is that the sweat shops will cease to be sweat shops, and China will be a strong economic leader with a strongly developed workforce.
I realize a lot of people have this seething hate for employers, and are looking for a place to focus it. But, those who provide jobs are not the enemy. The jobs may seem terrible to you, but when you have a workforce this large, where everyone is just trying to get a piece of the pie, any additional job there is a good thing. The jobs will not get better until there are as many jobs available as there are people to fill them.
There are lots of ways to go for my daily commute. Just because one is faster one day doesn't mean that it always will be.
Yes, I have kept logs for my travel times. I figure that saving a minute a day definitely adds up over the course of a couple of years.
Well, the equation is always valid, it's just not useful when alpha*L is so tiny.
In the case of neutrinos, L is essentially zero, when talking about planet-sized chunks of rocks. The number of neutrinos from our sun at night is almost exactly the number received at day. Far less than 1% of neutrinos from our sun are stopped by the earth.
I'm skeptical of this also, but for very different reasons. Neutrinos are extremely hard to detect. They have to be very big. They're usually filled with heavy water. And they're usually buried more than 1km below ground, to cut down on interference. Using the internet, you get about 261ms latency from Australia to Virginia. Although it's not perfect, I don't know what kind of message is so important that you couldn't wait an extra quarter second for it. Building a giant multi-million dollar neutrino detector a kilometer under ground may get better speed, but it's not worth it just to play Counterstrike.
The CFLs don't seem to flicker as bad as the old ones, but they're still annoying.
The ESLs are already on the market, and have been since December. This article seems rather late.
Dude, you put the more significant digits first.
Pi is now 201203.14 (201.203,14 with European punctuation).
Extreme Tech: ... effectively creating a 360-degree laser beam.
/me dons his cynic's hat.
Photodynamic therapy is one of the only ways to treat cancer
And, I suppose you are going to say your laser can be used to cure cancer now.
MIT's laser could be threaded into almost any part of the body, where the ability to produce pixels of laser light at any point along its length would make it a highly accurate device."
You didn't disappoint. Unfortunately your entertaining article is rather short. If it was a bit longer, I would have expected solutions for rebuilding the glacier shelf and ending violence in the mid-east.
As I understand it, yes. But you would have to use every square inch of the skin of your house as a light output, and may even need to suspend it high enough in the atmosphere so that light emitted from the bottom of your house did not reflect off the earth back up to your house, thus warming it. I doubt that it could ever cool your house by even a millionth of a degree (either C or F), and all hopes are gone if you conducted the test during the daytime.
Buying and running an air conditioner is still your best choice.
The 4G standard is
non-existent. All carriers can use the term however they wish to mean whatever they wish.
All carriers want to be the first with the "next-generation phone", which is why the gaps between each generation have become smaller and smaller. The difference between 2G (digital) and 2.5G (General Packet Radio Service) was probably larger than the total gap from 3G to 5G.
As a game developer who has made a game for the 360 and PS3, I can tell you that my biggest complaints about the ps3 were the memory limitations (cpu and gpu memory is separated), the horrible software for the devkits, and the devkits themselves, which suck so much power that they require you to run air conditioning even in the winter.
The main difference that you hit when making a cross-platform title is DirectX (d3d) versus OpenGL ES. Those libraries need to understand the lowlying architecture, but they pretty much take care of everything for the developer.
And, not everyone has changed to the Gregorian calendar yet.
There's a few areas of European that refused to change from the Julian to the Gregorian, not because of any scientific reason, but because of a political reason. You see for quite a while, the main purpose of a complicated calendar was to keep track of when exactly Easter should be celebrated, and the different Orthodox churches quibbled about this. For a while, there was two different Easters, one for people on the Julian calendar, and one for people using the Gregorian.
The whole world changed to Gregorian, so they had to compromise. The compromise is one of the most hilarious developments in time tracking: the Revised Julian Calendar
Those who follow the Revised Julian Calendar never obey the "every 400 years" rule. Instead, they celebrate leap years every 4, unless the year is divisible by 100, unless the year is mod 900 is 200 or 600
The net result is that those countries were in agreemet with us retroactively in 1600, and in 2000, but the system will fall apart in 2400. The designers then get to live knowing that their principles have not been compromised, yet it will leave the fallout of the difference to their descendants.
Well, for every person like you who lost 78 pounds by playing exercise games, there's another person who gained 78 pounds playing exercise games.
Sorry, that was sarcastic. l, too, have lost weight (40 lbs) by playing exercise games (DDR in my case). Clearly, if you want to lose weight, these games can work, and make the weight loss much easier than just a boring treadmill. When I was playing DDR regularly, I was exercising 5x to 10x more than I had before buying the game.
The study is interesting, but it is kids age 9-12, who tend to be more active than adults anyway. Kids in both groups exercised vigorously for an average of 3-3.5 hours per week, which is far more than adults average.
If your child is exercising under the average amount, and you really want to change that, I still think exercise games are an excellent choice. The difference between you and the parents in the study is that you actually care enough to encourage your kids to play the exercise games instead of watching TV.
They should make a second product, called Facebook-revealed, where all logged data is freely available to everyone.
Then they just tell the FBI that it is their job to move everyone over to the new system. Send them free vouchers for marketing workshops. I'm sure that the FBI has a sense of humor. :)
It would be nice to think that rulings like this might have some effect on the traditional corporate practice of making new users sign "contracts" that basically give one party the right to change the terms any damn time they want and in any damn way they want, while giving the other party the right to pay their money and shut up.
I'm thinking that even if you made your own cell carrier, that you'd still be upset with the service you provided yourself.
Guaranteeing "unlimited use" forever, in spite of how the market and usage patterns change, is just impossible. It's like your Natalie Portman dream plus hot grits. If you want to argue that AT&T should have never made such bogus claims in the first place, then I could agree with you. If you think you are justified to take 30% of the bandwidth of your tower just so you can run a Natalie Portman fansite off your phone, then you and I come from different planets.
AT&T should just admit that they goofed. Tell all of us that our unlimited contracts will not be continued past the end of the year, and offer us some token discount on our next phone. Sure, some people will have hissy fits, but for customers like me, I'll just be pleased that for once they aren't trying to lie to me.
I just wish I could open up a wormhole, and send this headline to the version of myself who existed 10 years ago. That would be one confused sonofa...
"Could ride a horse" and "could ride a horse great distances" are very different things.
I have family that has horses, so I occasionally ride. But, I get terribly sore, even if I'm just out an hour. If I had to use one daily, it would take a while to get accustomed to it.
As far as the generalizations about Americans, I believe they too are unfair. There is a growing segment of the population who expects to always depend on welfare and food stamps, but on the whole, I'd still put us up against any other nation.
I grew up in a small rural town in the heartland, but still felt like the sky was the limit for what I could be/do. I've been on missions trips to other countries, and their provincial/rural areas are entirely different. Those born in rural areas of most other countries have no hope of education, and and rarely have the opportunity of doing anything different than their parents before them.
P3P has been Old and Busted since Slashdot first covered it in 2002.
Microsoft would never bring it up, if they weren't already in panic mode. This seems to indicate that MS is in far worse shape than we know.
The Japanese version made out of sewage, was, in fact a hoax.
Oh, I definitely did not say it is outrageous. Quite the opposite, spending 45k on a plane is probably a better investment than spending 15k on a car, once you consider how much the value will decrease on both over 2-3 years.
I was just saying that 15k for an airworthy plane is not right. The AC above me threw out that number, and had to be corrected.
> If you say flying is too expensive, consider that you can get an airworthy 2-seater for about $15,000.
I just went over to trade-a-plane.com to make sure that the market hadn't suddenly dropped out. You are completely wrong.
If you find a plane for $15,000, it probably doesn't fly. If you find one that does, it only has a few hours left until it needs an overhaul, which costs $15,000 - $30,000. On top of that, the fabric will probably need to be replaced, if you actually find a plane for that price.
Realistically, expect to spend about $45,000 for an airworthy plane. The upside is that you can use it for a couple years, and then sell it again, and get back pretty much every penny you spent. Because of the unreasonable FAA restrictions, nearly all low-cost single engine planes are 50+ years old, and it will be that same lot of planes that new pilots will train on for ever. So, even after a couple years of use, the value of the plane will probably go up.
Well, they're obviously moving much faster than openoffice did. The product looks very clean, opens fast, and is mostly enjoyable to use.
There's still a number of key combinations that Calc is missing (most noticeably ctrl-D to copy cell above), and the background color tool is still horribly designed (only contains colors too dark for use as a background, and it does not remember the last chosen color). It's simple stuff like this that keeps people on Excel.
As you can see, I'm on Fedora Core 15. Is it available at other repositories?
If you look at the patent, he's not claiming to have "invented the internet". The patent is basically for use of the embed tag (which is described quite elaborately in the patent).
The patent is technically for a "Distributed Hypermedia Method For Automatically Invoking External Application Providing Interaction And Display Of Embedded Objects Within A Hypermedia Document".
One point that the original article seems to be missing is that KDP Select titles can only be borrowed by people who a) are Amazon Prime subscribers and b) own Amazon Kindle devices. While this doesn't completely inoculate the service from the sort of "gaming" that he refers to on MP3.com, that's a much higher barrier to entry than signing up for an account and downloading a file for free.
So, the idea is that one fan can no longer download your book 50 times, so that will stop the fraud. Well, it doesn't stop the fraud, it just makes the fraud more creative.
Kings of Chaos is a game built around this very principle! Each player gets a unique link that they share with their friends, and every time it is clicked on, you get more troops for your army. Each of your friends can only click on your link once every 24 hours.
So, people form giant guilds (thousands in a guild), and they all store their links in a "recruiter" (search the page for it). Then you spend an hour each night using the recruiter. For every link that you click on in the recruiter, it increases how often your link is shown to others.
It's rather amazing how much effort people put into a game that really has no point (ie. KOC). KDP Select appears to me to be KOC again, but it's no longer a game, and real money is given out. I fully expect it to be a complete disaster.
Some people confuse it, though, with MicronPC, a dotcom-bubble company that was well known for sponsoring bowl games, but eventually declared bankruptcy in 2008.
A lot of people hear "experimental aircraft", and assume that it is a high-risk, never-proved type of aircraft, but that's rarely true. "Experimental" is just a type of aircraft certification by the FAA.
The different certificates available can be seen here on Wikipedia. Almost everything that is homebuilt or home-modified carries this certification, even if that model of plane has been built thousands of times by other builders, and has been in constant use for decades. Even a change to the engine will throw a stock plane into the experimental category.
You probably have a friend or two who is a member of the EAA. That organization's name is "Experimental Aircraft Association".