You want us to be blind to political motivations? The GOP cares not a wit about environmental protection. Time and time again the GOP has shown this to be the case. It's entirely appropriate to ask cuo bono? This is so transparently a loophole. Anytime there is a proposed regulation and the underlying science cannot be reproduced by the Heartland Foundation then that will tie the EPA's hands. Of course the Heartland Foundation would give a good faith effort to reproduce the results, right?
Btw, this is my first experience with the beta. If this stays, I go.
Wholeheartedly agree. I consistently hit my Dell trackpad wrong because of this. Enough time has passed that I can say definitely that I did not adapt.
It's not clear that these obviously looked like musical instruments to a person who isn't accustomed to seeing various kinds of flutes. Bundle of reeds with notches in them. Customs probably thought they were bongs.
I also don't see why this is on Slashdot. Customs official opens a bag and doesn't notice that these reed looking things are flutes, promptly destroys the reeds. Guy should have kept these with him if he valued them so much. Shit happens. Not sure why this particular shit happening made it on Slashdot.
Everyone else kinda stopped selling netbooks didn't they? I would have preferred a netbook with roughly the same specs as a Chromebook and for roughly the same price, but such a thing didn't exist. Just a few years back there seemed to be plenty of different options.
Office space yes. Desk space no. I've never had the problem of needing a computer crammed into a small cylinder because otherwise I just couldn't fit it into an office of any size.
Spec out a $5k mac. How much does the PC equivalent cost?
Also, I think "as small as we can" is bogus. If this is supposed to be a business product who gives a fig about smallness. Make it functional and normal looking.
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If someone doesn't have a CS background and yet would like to get into programming in some fashion, what should they be doing instead of Ruby? Python or Java?
I'm not really in a position to know, but I thought A-players had a tendency to job hop fairly often which it would seem to me would be problematic in a different way than B-player dead weight or whatever. If your A-players are constantly moving on to greener pastures this must have a deleterious effect on any long term projects.
It seems to me that in a free market light bulb manufacturers have a disincentive to produce a product that doesn't need to be replaced for 7 years versus a product that needs to be replaced far more regularly. Am I missing something?
Is there some reason why Khan Academy never updated their Python video tutorial to use Python 3? I've always avoided it because I'd prefer not to go through a tutorial that may require me to unlearn things at the end.
Bailing out companies that are "too big to fail" is a poltical reality. There does not exist the political will to allow a "too big to fail" company to fail and with it take down a large swath of the national economy. That's why you had George Bush's "free market" Goldman Treasury guy Paulson begging on hands and knees to Congress with tears in his eyes to give Wall St. a blank check. And this is exactly what the solution to "too big to fail" is to make sure nothing gets big enough to become "too big to fail."
How long before the user base starts to decline precipitously? There's the mom factor. For all the young kids who get a kick out of posting outrageous stuff to Facebook, the fact that their mom is now on facebook is a killer. There’s the “it’s the new email” factor. By that I mean, it’s the new thing that everyone uses to communicate, so I get tons of useless shit, and I mostly ignore it all now. I think you can spot this with Facebook event RSVPs having earlier been more accurate and now being worthless. Anyone else want to chime in?
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They'd call that job killing regulation.
You want us to be blind to political motivations? The GOP cares not a wit about environmental protection. Time and time again the GOP has shown this to be the case. It's entirely appropriate to ask cuo bono? This is so transparently a loophole. Anytime there is a proposed regulation and the underlying science cannot be reproduced by the Heartland Foundation then that will tie the EPA's hands. Of course the Heartland Foundation would give a good faith effort to reproduce the results, right?
Btw, this is my first experience with the beta. If this stays, I go.
And a matte screen instead of glossy.
Wholeheartedly agree. I consistently hit my Dell trackpad wrong because of this. Enough time has passed that I can say definitely that I did not adapt.
It's not clear that these obviously looked like musical instruments to a person who isn't accustomed to seeing various kinds of flutes. Bundle of reeds with notches in them. Customs probably thought they were bongs.
I also don't see why this is on Slashdot. Customs official opens a bag and doesn't notice that these reed looking things are flutes, promptly destroys the reeds. Guy should have kept these with him if he valued them so much. Shit happens. Not sure why this particular shit happening made it on Slashdot.
I'd put releasing the XBone with Kinect on a list. It'll be out of the box by April is my guess.
Mine is a C7 w/ 320 gb hard drive. 16 SSD seems a bit small to me.
Everyone else kinda stopped selling netbooks didn't they? I would have preferred a netbook with roughly the same specs as a Chromebook and for roughly the same price, but such a thing didn't exist. Just a few years back there seemed to be plenty of different options.
From that standpoint the blame should lay with MS and Windows 8. No one wants to give anyone who may need support a laptop with Win 8 on it.
I wiped the Chome OS off of the Chrombook. For me it was just a cheap netbook.
Office space yes. Desk space no. I've never had the problem of needing a computer crammed into a small cylinder because otherwise I just couldn't fit it into an office of any size.
Then put it on the floor. Is desk space really an issue for anyone? Seriously?
A problem occurs when a relative or whoever calls you and you need to walk them through how to do something on their Win 8 machine.
Spec out a $5k mac. How much does the PC equivalent cost?
Also, I think "as small as we can" is bogus. If this is supposed to be a business product who gives a fig about smallness. Make it functional and normal looking.
Because touch screen?
If someone doesn't have a CS background and yet would like to get into programming in some fashion, what should they be doing instead of Ruby? Python or Java?
I'm not really in a position to know, but I thought A-players had a tendency to job hop fairly often which it would seem to me would be problematic in a different way than B-player dead weight or whatever. If your A-players are constantly moving on to greener pastures this must have a deleterious effect on any long term projects.
You should be modded up.
It seems to me that in a free market light bulb manufacturers have a disincentive to produce a product that doesn't need to be replaced for 7 years versus a product that needs to be replaced far more regularly. Am I missing something?
Is there some reason why Khan Academy never updated their Python video tutorial to use Python 3? I've always avoided it because I'd prefer not to go through a tutorial that may require me to unlearn things at the end.
Bailing out companies that are "too big to fail" is a poltical reality. There does not exist the political will to allow a "too big to fail" company to fail and with it take down a large swath of the national economy. That's why you had George Bush's "free market" Goldman Treasury guy Paulson begging on hands and knees to Congress with tears in his eyes to give Wall St. a blank check. And this is exactly what the solution to "too big to fail" is to make sure nothing gets big enough to become "too big to fail."
How long before the user base starts to decline precipitously? There's the mom factor. For all the young kids who get a kick out of posting outrageous stuff to Facebook, the fact that their mom is now on facebook is a killer. There’s the “it’s the new email” factor. By that I mean, it’s the new thing that everyone uses to communicate, so I get tons of useless shit, and I mostly ignore it all now. I think you can spot this with Facebook event RSVPs having earlier been more accurate and now being worthless. Anyone else want to chime in?
I haven't heard anything bad about the new Nexus 7. What's the problem?
i don't understand then. Over the weekend i did cyanogenmod w/out google apps, but i have the play store on my phone right now.