It's the political holy grail! They will be able to vote yes and no at the same time.
Politicians are already in a superposition of their principles - the measurement of what those principles are depends entirely on the who the observer is doing the measuring.
It could be better. If Amazon were serious about it (and I think it would be in their interest to be serious about it), they could set up a kiosk in these bookstores that would keep cached copies of as much of the Kindle library as possible on a local server, and have some Kindles set up to use them, and allow people to browse the Kindle books in their entirety in the store - just like a real book. This would drive people to the stores for a better eBook-buying experience (where they can buy other stuff as well) and gets around the publishers' restrictions on doing the same online.
Amazon, drop me a line if you wanna outsource this.;)
1) take over a huge multinational company with critical patents to the largest growth sector of the tech industry 2) cut its market cap in half 3) sell the board on an acquisition by the company that sent you
then there's a CEO job waiting for you too.
But... cutting XBox? That would be worth a Sony CEO position...
It's $10M plus "what happened to Joseph Nacchio won't happen to you". Remember, these guys have all the phone calls (at least metadata, probably more) and all the emails of all the execs running these corporations. I'm sure they all lead lily-white lives, right?
After all the Snowden briefings, who will be surprised to learn that these TLA's have groups that specializes in collecting "strategic data" on people those TLA's need to get certain behavior from?
Is there a chance that somebody might mistake his website for Ubuntu, or is it clear that his website is talking about Ubuntu?
If Canonical is selling out its users' privacy for paid placement of results, then criticism is fair and use of the term "Ubuntu" is unavoidable (unlike actually using Ubuntu, which is completely avoidable). If Canonical is using legal threats to silence its critics who have truthful complaints, then all the more reason to do so.
People use trademarked terms and logos *all the time* when talking about the respective products. Sometimes they have a "duh" disclaimer when they do. I'm not sure if this disclaimer, currently on the site, is new or not, but it's clear:
Disclaimer: In case you are either 1) a complete idiot; or 2) a lawyer; or 3) both, please be aware that this site is not affiliated with or approved by Canonical Limited. This site criticizes Canonical for certain privacy-invading features of Ubuntu and teaches users how to fix them. So, obviously, the site is not approved by Canonical. And our use of the trademarked term Ubuntu is plainly descriptiveâ"it helps the public find this site and understand its message.
The so-called Constitutionalists and Libertarians are merely shills for their big business masters, who also control the Democrats.
That doesn't even make sense - Libertarians want to *do away* with corporations. If Libertarianism is so good for the corporations, why don't the corporations support the libertarians?
they may as well have taken it out back and shot it. Be quicker, and probably cheaper in the long run too.
If they did this, they'd just catch a bunch of nerd range. This way, they hack together a cheap and craptacular installer, and then the nerds demand it be shut down. Parent company closes down a money-losing business with the users' blessing.
I'm not 100% sure but isn't such a skid plate protecting a gas tank normally only found in off-road vehicles? Seems like the Tesla offers more protection than a normal gasoline car.
Yeah, I was going to say, "good luck comparing a 1/4" steel plate to a.035" fuel line wall, but there may be a confounding factor - the Model S has an awesome air suspension that allows the car to sink down to (IIRC) 2" above the road surface at highway speeds, to maximize fuel efficiency. That's like a Formula One race car, but government roads suck and Formula One tracks don't. And it's unlikely that many fuel lines are that close to the road.
Maybe they just need to firmware upgrade the things to be slightly less efficient - there's a manual override anyway for people who understand what they are doing.
What the GP has described seems like a situation where an autopilot would _excel_ at.
Though, to play devil's advocate, what if there are a bunch of bumps around a blind curve, and the human driver would know about this, and if there were a path that could be taken before the blind curve to avoid the bumps, but no way to do so once around the curve - that's where learning would come in.
Machines *could* do this very well with a networked database of road hazards, and actually avoid the problem before it's a problem, but uploading their hazard sensor data. A model like Tesla's "we worry about the connectivity" would be a natural fit for such data sharing, but somebody like GM could upsell it like OnStar. The downside is the privacy implications of people with legal immunities misusing that data.
Fair enough. Yet other people, including fans of the setting, did want a more serious story. And we got it.
That's fair too. It's just a shame that, because of all this legal nonsense, it was called "The Hobbit". My kids and I paid to see The Hobbit and got something else. I think a lot of other people weren't expecting "inspired by The Hobbit, with lots of Massive" either - I've never seen a trailer booed, but that's what I saw with the Part II trailer at another recent film.
I suppose the box office numbers will be telling real soon now.
$3 billion is what the Navy is spending on a singe new Zumwalt destroyer (the next 4 in that fleet will cost $2.5B each) to fight nonexistent maritime enemies.
which is insane (well, no, actually it's just plain corruption and corporate welfare)
That's two NSF budgets
and almost 1% of the budget deficit. The trouble with spending, generally, is that nobody wants to give up their program that is only 1/1000th of the problem, and a thousand people who are in their own.1% program feel the same way.
Science funding can be the last thing cut, as far as I'm concerned, but I'm also very uneasy about everything jut continuing as-is. Science funding from the feds won't disappear gradually - one year there will just be $0 in appropriations. Then what?
It's the government - just make shit up. It doesn't matter even if it turns out right or works at all - get a new grant next year with more bullshit rationales.
Amen to that. Speaking of which, who loves driving their kids to school? The first time I actually had a need for anti-lock brakes (glare ice, downhill T intersection, cliff over the top bar of the T), I was very glad a computer was running my brakes.
I'd have my car bring the kids to school, bring them to my office in the next town over after school (the bus doesn't go there, which complicates logistics - they've wanted an autopilot for years) and during the day it would go to Home Depot, the grocery store, and run various other errands for me. Crikey, I could get another 20% of my waking day out of such a thing. There might even be a boom in home catering once the delivery driver cost is factored out.
One thing I would want was reliable cell service, so they could make a call from the car if there was a problem. We don't have that here, and it might be a deal killer.
I can see your point, but when there is a problem such as this, it's the government's function to pass laws that deal with it...that's one of the reasons why we have governments.
Interesting, I'll have to check it out. The complaints I was seeing were on the Google product forums, vs. mozilla.org. The trick here is that half of my volunteers are retirees. The per-site minimum font size extension mentioned on that page will be worth looking at.
I guess I just don't understand this entire web app thing. I don't WANT my stuff stored and running on the Internet, and I have clients that are absolutely nothing but google apps. Having to upgrade my computer to read their stuff (they send links--not attachments--requiring a login to look at what they sent me in email -- what is that?)
It's pretty simple, really - they're externalizing their IT costs onto you, and other people they work with. Sorry there's not a happy answer.
Yeah, I started using Apps for nonprofits for a local group, and sometime in the early summer, the spreadsheets stopped working for anything but Chrom[e,ium], as far as columns lining up with the row markers. There's an open issue on it, lots of people bitching about current Firefox being broken, but no fixes or response from Google.
Obviously, I need to switch to a different solution, since I can't force all my volunteers to use a particular browser.
Slashdot Mirror
these days confronting reality is "flamebait". Welcome to lala land.
It's the political holy grail! They will be able to vote yes and no at the same time.
Politicians are already in a superposition of their principles - the measurement of what those principles are depends entirely on the who the observer is doing the measuring.
It could be better. If Amazon were serious about it (and I think it would be in their interest to be serious about it), they could set up a kiosk in these bookstores that would keep cached copies of as much of the Kindle library as possible on a local server, and have some Kindles set up to use them, and allow people to browse the Kindle books in their entirety in the store - just like a real book. This would drive people to the stores for a better eBook-buying experience (where they can buy other stuff as well) and gets around the publishers' restrictions on doing the same online.
Amazon, drop me a line if you wanna outsource this. ;)
apparently my debit card is a popular clutch disc part!
Nothing on the first 15 pages of Google results for me. I guess my bank should be happy.
If you can take less than three years to:
1) take over a huge multinational company with critical patents to the largest growth sector of the tech industry
2) cut its market cap in half
3) sell the board on an acquisition by the company that sent you
then there's a CEO job waiting for you too.
But ... cutting XBox? That would be worth a Sony CEO position...
I had no idea AT&T was such a cheap date.
It's $10M plus "what happened to Joseph Nacchio won't happen to you". Remember, these guys have all the phone calls (at least metadata, probably more) and all the emails of all the execs running these corporations. I'm sure they all lead lily-white lives, right?
After all the Snowden briefings, who will be surprised to learn that these TLA's have groups that specializes in collecting "strategic data" on people those TLA's need to get certain behavior from?
Is there a chance that somebody might mistake his website for Ubuntu, or is it clear that his website is talking about Ubuntu?
If Canonical is selling out its users' privacy for paid placement of results, then criticism is fair and use of the term "Ubuntu" is unavoidable (unlike actually using Ubuntu, which is completely avoidable). If Canonical is using legal threats to silence its critics who have truthful complaints, then all the more reason to do so.
People use trademarked terms and logos *all the time* when talking about the respective products. Sometimes they have a "duh" disclaimer when they do. I'm not sure if this disclaimer, currently on the site, is new or not, but it's clear:
Of course, they ought to have known about and also considered the Streisand effect.
There are paid results in Dash now? I didn't know that, but now I have something else to talk about when people ask "why not Ubuntu?".
(seriously, not just playing along)
The so-called Constitutionalists and Libertarians are merely shills for their big business masters, who also control the Democrats.
That doesn't even make sense - Libertarians want to *do away* with corporations. If Libertarianism is so good for the corporations, why don't the corporations support the libertarians?
they may as well have taken it out back and shot it. Be quicker, and probably cheaper in the long run too.
If they did this, they'd just catch a bunch of nerd range. This way, they hack together a cheap and craptacular installer, and then the nerds demand it be shut down. Parent company closes down a money-losing business with the users' blessing.
I'm not 100% sure but isn't such a skid plate protecting a gas tank normally only found in off-road vehicles? Seems like the Tesla offers more protection than a normal gasoline car.
Yeah, I was going to say, "good luck comparing a 1/4" steel plate to a .035" fuel line wall, but there may be a confounding factor - the Model S has an awesome air suspension that allows the car to sink down to (IIRC) 2" above the road surface at highway speeds, to maximize fuel efficiency. That's like a Formula One race car, but government roads suck and Formula One tracks don't. And it's unlikely that many fuel lines are that close to the road.
Maybe they just need to firmware upgrade the things to be slightly less efficient - there's a manual override anyway for people who understand what they are doing.
I see government contractors continuously fail and then get new contracts - it just has to be a failure, not a lie, see?
What the GP has described seems like a situation where an autopilot would _excel_ at.
Though, to play devil's advocate, what if there are a bunch of bumps around a blind curve, and the human driver would know about this, and if there were a path that could be taken before the blind curve to avoid the bumps, but no way to do so once around the curve - that's where learning would come in.
Machines *could* do this very well with a networked database of road hazards, and actually avoid the problem before it's a problem, but uploading their hazard sensor data. A model like Tesla's "we worry about the connectivity" would be a natural fit for such data sharing, but somebody like GM could upsell it like OnStar. The downside is the privacy implications of people with legal immunities misusing that data.
Fair enough. Yet other people, including fans of the setting, did want a more serious story. And we got it.
That's fair too. It's just a shame that, because of all this legal nonsense, it was called "The Hobbit". My kids and I paid to see The Hobbit and got something else. I think a lot of other people weren't expecting "inspired by The Hobbit, with lots of Massive" either - I've never seen a trailer booed, but that's what I saw with the Part II trailer at another recent film.
I suppose the box office numbers will be telling real soon now.
Also, the book still works.
$3 billion is what the Navy is spending on a singe new Zumwalt destroyer (the next 4 in that fleet will cost $2.5B each) to fight nonexistent maritime enemies.
which is insane (well, no, actually it's just plain corruption and corporate welfare)
That's two NSF budgets
and almost 1% of the budget deficit. The trouble with spending, generally, is that nobody wants to give up their program that is only 1/1000th of the problem, and a thousand people who are in their own .1% program feel the same way.
Science funding can be the last thing cut, as far as I'm concerned, but I'm also very uneasy about everything jut continuing as-is. Science funding from the feds won't disappear gradually - one year there will just be $0 in appropriations. Then what?
It's the government - just make shit up. It doesn't matter even if it turns out right or works at all - get a new grant next year with more bullshit rationales.
Getting rid of tedious work is reason enough.
Amen to that. Speaking of which, who loves driving their kids to school? The first time I actually had a need for anti-lock brakes (glare ice, downhill T intersection, cliff over the top bar of the T), I was very glad a computer was running my brakes.
I'd have my car bring the kids to school, bring them to my office in the next town over after school (the bus doesn't go there, which complicates logistics - they've wanted an autopilot for years) and during the day it would go to Home Depot, the grocery store, and run various other errands for me. Crikey, I could get another 20% of my waking day out of such a thing. There might even be a boom in home catering once the delivery driver cost is factored out.
One thing I would want was reliable cell service, so they could make a call from the car if there was a problem. We don't have that here, and it might be a deal killer.
I'd imagine any autopilot that goes on sale will already have to avoid potholes, so it will have some sort of terrain management logic built into it.
Would it even know to avoid them on the 2nd pass?
Would you accept avoiding them on the first pass?
I can see your point, but when there is a problem such as this, it's the government's function to pass laws that deal with it...that's one of the reasons why we have governments.
Can every problem be solved with enough laws?
Interesting, I'll have to check it out. The complaints I was seeing were on the Google product forums, vs. mozilla.org. The trick here is that half of my volunteers are retirees. The per-site minimum font size extension mentioned on that page will be worth looking at.
the only thing obvious here is that firefox is not following the w3c standard.
Strong claim - which one would that be?
they are much more likely to oblige if you offer them money in return for their services
Google Apps devs are participating?
What's the polite way to say "Google doesn't want you as a customer"?
I guess I just don't understand this entire web app thing. I don't WANT my stuff stored and running on the Internet, and I have clients that are absolutely nothing but google apps. Having to upgrade my computer to read their stuff (they send links--not attachments--requiring a login to look at what they sent me in email -- what is that?)
It's pretty simple, really - they're externalizing their IT costs onto you, and other people they work with. Sorry there's not a happy answer.
Aside from the advertising issue, blocking third party cookies could break behaviour that the user is expecting
Blocking third party cookies is the Safari default. If the site works for Mac and iOS users, it'll work for Firefox users too.
IIRC, fewer than 10% of Safari users have gone and turned on third-party cookies.
Yeah, I started using Apps for nonprofits for a local group, and sometime in the early summer, the spreadsheets stopped working for anything but Chrom[e,ium], as far as columns lining up with the row markers. There's an open issue on it, lots of people bitching about current Firefox being broken, but no fixes or response from Google.
Obviously, I need to switch to a different solution, since I can't force all my volunteers to use a particular browser.