Everybody's talking Intel vs ARM, etc., but TFS clearly says Samsung's major market is not processors, but memory chips (which I assume includes various forms of flash). The market for these things is huge, yet they are essentially commodity components. The volume of proprietary IP in a single Intel processor is vast compared to what Samsung produces. Even Samsung's processors use technology licensed from ARM. I don't think Intel is quaking in its boots just yet. The idea that Korean chaebols are huge, supply the world with manufactured goods, and make a lotta money is not new.
A few searches leads me to believe that Dell, Lenovo, and LG have all put out devices with Wacom stylus technology. I wonder what this "universal stylus" technology will be based on? I wonder whose patents it will depend on?
Am I dumb... or just old... that I never really think about having a cellphone on me as being essential in the event of an emergency? If I walk out of the house without my phone, my first thought is more likely to be, "What if my friend tries to text me because he wants to go get beers?" Or "What if I'm at a store and I want to price check on Amazon and I can't?" Or, "Damn this is a long bus ride, I wish I could check Facebook!"
In an actual emergency, I think I could figure shit out. Worst case scenario, I'd run into the nearest business (or to a bouncer at a concert) and scream that I need an ambulance.
There has been some research that people who record things with their phone have a poorer memory of the event because they're not actually paying attention to it, they're paying attention to the phone they're recording it with.
Similar research has been done around taking notes in classes. I've certainly seen the effects of that myself. I seldom took notes but paid attention to the speaker. Later, while studying, I saw some fellow students really struggling, even though they had practically written their own textbook with the notes they were taking. They were concentrating on taking the notes, which meant they had to "teach themselves" the material from the notes after the fact.
California companies got in a lot of trouble hiring "permanent temp workers" a number of years back. The laws in this state are very strict on who can be considered a contractor/freelancer and who cannot.
Yes, he was passed out and the car wasn't moving. Under California law, that's still drunk driving. A friend of mine had his car conk out just as he left the Bay Bridge. He was able to roll it over to the curb, park it, and call a tow truck. A CHP officer beat the tow truck to the scene, though, and determined my friend had been drinking. Because he was still sitting in the car while he waited for the tow, he was charged with a DUI in a car that was motionless and would not even start if he tried.
I think social media in general exchanges rational behavior for attention seeking narcissism. The more extreme your behavior, the more attention you get which is normal but social media exploits to provide dopamine feedback for attention.
I honestly have no idea where to find all these "attention seeking narcissists" that/.ers are always talking about. Maybe you're thinking of YouTube? On Facebook, all I ever see are:
News stories people post
Announcements of shows, events, etc.
Reviews of the same
Memes and joke videos
Pictures of people's pets
Pictures of food
If all that adds up to hideous narcissism to you, all I can say is you must be fun at parties.
Do they really ever need to exceed 50 miles in a day?
I don't know. I wouldn't be shocked if they did that much in L.A. The thing is, I've heard it said that because police cars spend so much time idling while the officers are doing paperwork, sipping coffee, etc, cop car mechanics have instruments to tell them how long the engine has actually been running, rather than just looking at the odometer. I imagine an all-electric vehicle would get less overall wear and tear in this way, because the motor isn't doing anything when you're not moving?
Terry Gross is probably the best in the world at what she does.
Wow, I just couldn't disagree more. I stopped listening to her years ago because of her softball interviewing style, with questions that are either uninformed or ignorant or that just plain miss the point. If her interview subjects end up saying really interesting things, it's not because of anything Terry Gross did. I think she's really terrible, and I'm not talking about political interviews, either. If she had Guillermo del Toro on, I expect she'd ask him how he first got interested in water.
A new study published in the journal Current Biology found that as much as 99 percent of baby green sea turtles in warm equatorial regions are being born female.
I thought their next Big Thing was supposed to be a car? If true, that's a pretty big shift and executing on that plan is going to take a long time. But as long as they keep selling $1,200 iPhones, it seems like they have time to burn.
Luke chapter 2 says shepherds were sleeping outside overnight with their flocks when he was born so... yeah, it wasn't likely anywhere near Dec 25 by a large margin.
I dunno, the interwebs tells me that weather in Bethlehem in December averages around 59 degrees Fahrenheit, with record temperatures of up to 83 degrees -- so it doesn't sound crazy. You live the shepherd life back then, you're probably sleeping outdoors a lot.
Court-declared monopolist declares that monopolies, in effect, do not exist, or are at least irrelevant. Stay tuned in the next half hour to hear prognostications about the color of the sky.
Damn, actually clicked the link to post essentially just that. Scientology is what immediately sprang to mind, especially given everything else we know about Uber.
Someone wants a car and has firewood. They look at Craigslist and find the kind of car they want sells for 2 BTC. Actually 1.8BTC now. No, wait, 2.2 BTC. They make arrangements to sell 2.2BTC worth of firewood. After the people pick up the firewood and the payments clear, they contact Craigslist sellers, who now want 3BTC for a car.
Isn't what's happening the opposite, though? As the value of 1 BTC goes up, the sticker price of the car goes down.
Stop pretending that the United States of America is the most racist nation in the world, when in actually it is probably the least racist country.
Stop with this bullshit binary thinking. No, just because the U.S. might not be the most racist nation in the world does not make it the least racist nation.
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To be fair, the the officer determined your friend to be drunk, and the car was his, the car didn't get there on its own.
Well of course not. And right past the off-ramp of the Bay Bridge is hardly a rest area.
What I found amusing is the epilog of the story: My friend managed to plead his DUI down to a reckless driving charge (in a car that wouldn't start).
I appreciate the humor, but it doesn't apply as I don't know how to drive.
Sorry, the Open Group talked about Open Software, not open source Software. You may remember using the term open source, but your memory is faulty.
Everybody's talking Intel vs ARM, etc., but TFS clearly says Samsung's major market is not processors, but memory chips (which I assume includes various forms of flash). The market for these things is huge, yet they are essentially commodity components. The volume of proprietary IP in a single Intel processor is vast compared to what Samsung produces. Even Samsung's processors use technology licensed from ARM. I don't think Intel is quaking in its boots just yet. The idea that Korean chaebols are huge, supply the world with manufactured goods, and make a lotta money is not new.
A few searches leads me to believe that Dell, Lenovo, and LG have all put out devices with Wacom stylus technology. I wonder what this "universal stylus" technology will be based on? I wonder whose patents it will depend on?
Am I dumb ... or just old ... that I never really think about having a cellphone on me as being essential in the event of an emergency? If I walk out of the house without my phone, my first thought is more likely to be, "What if my friend tries to text me because he wants to go get beers?" Or "What if I'm at a store and I want to price check on Amazon and I can't?" Or, "Damn this is a long bus ride, I wish I could check Facebook!"
In an actual emergency, I think I could figure shit out. Worst case scenario, I'd run into the nearest business (or to a bouncer at a concert) and scream that I need an ambulance.
Except that's a quote from "The Roof Is On Fire" by Rock Master Scott and the Dynamic Three from the 80s.
There has been some research that people who record things with their phone have a poorer memory of the event because they're not actually paying attention to it, they're paying attention to the phone they're recording it with.
Similar research has been done around taking notes in classes. I've certainly seen the effects of that myself. I seldom took notes but paid attention to the speaker. Later, while studying, I saw some fellow students really struggling, even though they had practically written their own textbook with the notes they were taking. They were concentrating on taking the notes, which meant they had to "teach themselves" the material from the notes after the fact.
California companies got in a lot of trouble hiring "permanent temp workers" a number of years back. The laws in this state are very strict on who can be considered a contractor/freelancer and who cannot.
Yes, he was passed out and the car wasn't moving. Under California law, that's still drunk driving. A friend of mine had his car conk out just as he left the Bay Bridge. He was able to roll it over to the curb, park it, and call a tow truck. A CHP officer beat the tow truck to the scene, though, and determined my friend had been drinking. Because he was still sitting in the car while he waited for the tow, he was charged with a DUI in a car that was motionless and would not even start if he tried.
So don't drink and drive, m'kay?
I think social media in general exchanges rational behavior for attention seeking narcissism. The more extreme your behavior, the more attention you get which is normal but social media exploits to provide dopamine feedback for attention.
I honestly have no idea where to find all these "attention seeking narcissists" that /.ers are always talking about. Maybe you're thinking of YouTube? On Facebook, all I ever see are:
If all that adds up to hideous narcissism to you, all I can say is you must be fun at parties.
Do they really ever need to exceed 50 miles in a day?
I don't know. I wouldn't be shocked if they did that much in L.A. The thing is, I've heard it said that because police cars spend so much time idling while the officers are doing paperwork, sipping coffee, etc, cop car mechanics have instruments to tell them how long the engine has actually been running, rather than just looking at the odometer. I imagine an all-electric vehicle would get less overall wear and tear in this way, because the motor isn't doing anything when you're not moving?
Terry Gross is probably the best in the world at what she does.
Wow, I just couldn't disagree more. I stopped listening to her years ago because of her softball interviewing style, with questions that are either uninformed or ignorant or that just plain miss the point. If her interview subjects end up saying really interesting things, it's not because of anything Terry Gross did. I think she's really terrible, and I'm not talking about political interviews, either. If she had Guillermo del Toro on, I expect she'd ask him how he first got interested in water.
A new study published in the journal Current Biology found that as much as 99 percent of baby green sea turtles in warm equatorial regions are being born female.
Coincidentally, I've got 99 problems.
I thought their next Big Thing was supposed to be a car? If true, that's a pretty big shift and executing on that plan is going to take a long time. But as long as they keep selling $1,200 iPhones, it seems like they have time to burn.
Luke chapter 2 says shepherds were sleeping outside overnight with their flocks when he was born so... yeah, it wasn't likely anywhere near Dec 25 by a large margin.
I dunno, the interwebs tells me that weather in Bethlehem in December averages around 59 degrees Fahrenheit, with record temperatures of up to 83 degrees -- so it doesn't sound crazy. You live the shepherd life back then, you're probably sleeping outdoors a lot.
Court-declared monopolist declares that monopolies, in effect, do not exist, or are at least irrelevant. Stay tuned in the next half hour to hear prognostications about the color of the sky.
Damn, actually clicked the link to post essentially just that. Scientology is what immediately sprang to mind, especially given everything else we know about Uber.
Someone wants a car and has firewood.
They look at Craigslist and find the kind of car they want sells for 2 BTC.
Actually 1.8BTC now.
No, wait, 2.2 BTC.
They make arrangements to sell 2.2BTC worth of firewood.
After the people pick up the firewood and the payments clear, they contact Craigslist sellers, who now want 3BTC for a car.
Isn't what's happening the opposite, though? As the value of 1 BTC goes up, the sticker price of the car goes down.
Anybody who remembers "Segway will transform entire cities" (followed by ban) should have seen this coming.
Delivery robots are an idiotic idea anyway. Imagine I'm a disaffected teenager and I see a delivery robot coming down the sidewalk. List my options.
Yeah, theyâ(TM)ll be much safer with UPS and fedex trucks driving around.
Eh? UPS and FedEx trucks don't drive up onto the sidewalk.
Stop pretending that the United States of America is the most racist nation in the world, when in actually it is probably the least racist country.
Stop with this bullshit binary thinking. No, just because the U.S. might not be the most racist nation in the world does not make it the least racist nation.
If women or Blacks or whoever feels uncomfortable, that's their problem to solve. It's not anyone's job to make someone else comfortable.
Actually it is, and there are plenty of laws about it.
You might want to get a newer dictionary.
He is republican in the sense that he was appointed by Trump.
Ummmm ... and before that he was appointed by Obama.