Glucose (dextrose) is roughly half as sweet as fructose. People use HFCS because it's sweeter than normal syrup.
The main reason people in the US use HFCS is because corn production is heavily subsidized and that makes sweetening food with corn syrup cheaper than using sugar.
There is a reason that Mexican Coke is yummier... its not local taste preferences, it is economic protectionism.
Apple is currently earning around $18 billion in profit each quarter. So, while I'm sure it will be a boon for Wisconsin and Apple will try to get out of paying it - $823 million isn't going to hurt Apple's bottom line too much. I'm sure they see it as the cost of doing business.
"At the end of the day, reducing cycling accidents may boil down to something simple: Making sure that bikers know the rules of the road — and that drivers know how to deal with bikers."
No, reducing cycling accidents boils down redesigning roads to make them save for cylclings (and pedestrians). Making sure everyone knows the rules of the road is important but fixing the systemic issues is the real way to address the problem.
The issue is that the sample population is small and the effects of bias is often subtle so the suggestion that the image is "inappropriate" by overwhelm what my already be a "weak signal."
I don't think the goal was to determine of one image is considered more or less inappropriate it was to determine bias. So why not - "Our university is developing promotional material to attract more women. Would you use this image?" Or even better, show both images and then say "Which image would you choose for promotional material (1) image a, (2) image b, (3) neither images."
Bias is something rarely acknowledged and (thankfully) discouraged. As a result it is difficult to study. But there is a large body of rigorous research that consistently shows that even the most enlightened of us have implicit biases that effect our decision and actions on a daily basis. A very quick google came up with this literature review (http://kirwaninstitute.osu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/2014-implicit-bias.pdf). I haven't read and I'm not familiar with the Kirwan Institue but it looks like a good survey to my quick skim.
Your question mentions a work context and already suggests that the image is inappropriate. The wording is hardly impartial and may sway respondents who might otherwise be unsure how to answer and thus influenced by internalized/unconscious bias.
Also, this is a delicate topic. If you want to people to take your writing seriously, you should work hard at using respectful language. Referring to to the two graduates/mothers as "girls" is belittling.
the phone's shortcomings actually raise more interesting questions — about why the free-market system rewards companies for pulling off miracles at the hardware level, but not for fixing software bugs that should be easy to catch.
It doesn't. Apple is taking over half of the smartphone profit share while LG is loosing money on smart phones. Apples hardware is good but it isn't so much better than its competitors. The differentiation that makes it so profitable is software.
The article has it wrong (and this comment has it right). Its not that studios "allow Netflix to send out DVDs to their subscribers by mail" its that that can't stop them. This is a long article based false assumptions and zero research.
I commuted for years by bicycle in LA. I've always wondered if it was increasing or decreasing my life expectancy.
On the one hand, my heart and body were getting a lot of exercise. On the other hand, I was sucking in a lot of pollutions and despite being a pretty careful rider I seem to get into an accident with a care once every three years.
(If you are curios, I walked away from all the accidents but a few of my ribs may never be the same again.)
I don't think its a good assumption that the 5c is lower margin relative to the 5s.
Apple has always sold last years model at a discount. The 5c is essentially a 5 engineered to be cheaper to produce - Plastic (err Polycarbonate) vs Aluminum and I'm guessing other tweaks as well.
The 5s on the other hand has two brand new processors the 64 bit A7 and the M7 (anyone know if the GPU is new too).
I wouldn't be surprised if the 5s is the lower margin device. I think the allowed for preorders on the 5c but not the 5s so they could sell as many 5cs as the good to improve their overall margins.
Almost all the posted comments are talking about formatting (tabs vs spaces, indentation, line breaks, etc).
While its good to be consistent with these. Style is so much more.
Consistant naming schemes for variables/functions/classes/methods etc.
Useful and meaningful comments.
Handling non-expected input and states gracefully
Catching and handling of exceptions
meaningful feedback to the user if there is a problem.
I would call all these things and more "style." These are the things that make it easy to maintain code after it is written. They also help to reduce the incidence of bugs.
There is nothing for Apple to "come clean" about. They never said they didn't do market research (especially how it was described in the trial as tuning their marketing). What they have consistently said is that they don't use focus groups for product development.
"It's really hard to design products by focus groups. A lot of times, people don't know what they want until you show it to them." -- Steve Jobs, BusinessWeek, May 25 1998
In Novell's case I think its inertia. There was a time that Novell offered a suit of solutions that worked together well and made things easier. Eventually, industry surpassed Novell.
Good IT managers are conservative. In the short term, "If it ain't broke don't fix it" is a good motto. But sometimes sticking with the old becomes a burden and its good to be proactive. Knowing when to migrate or upgrade (and when not to) is what separates the good managers from the great ones.
I'm guessing you are an engineer. The willies you get from sales is your BS detector going off. The sales people are selling product they don't completely understand. The management making the buy decision is buying a product they don't completely understand. But the sales people and the management speak the same language. The engineers usually do not. So the management trusts the sales people and the "monster" is purchased.
They have had something like this at BWI for years. Even better - you don't have to look at your phone while driving. There are red and green lights marking open spots and the number of free spaces listed at the head of each row.
Similarly, the parking structure at the Grove in LA lists the number of free spaces per floor.
I wasn't as clear as I could have been. The 50% could have been people waiting to report their broken phone until after a new one was released. (Was there a dip in claims in the preceding months? No way of knowing from the article).
What found problematic was the 'Four in ten of the iPhone claims received by Supercover is deemed "suspicious."'...Korina said that iPhones are very difficult to damage, making the false claims are actually easy to spot.' My iPhone was pretty dented up from normal use and the screen cracked when I dropped it from waist height (somehow missed my pocket). It sounds like they would say my phone was "suspicious" but I was pretty careful with it (drop not-withstanding).
I don't know how they define "suspicious." I had an original iPhone with a cracked screen. It wasn't pretty but still worked so I held on to it until the 3Gs came out. Then I got a new iPhone. I'm sure that would have looked suspicious to the insurance company but it actually would have saved them money.
AT&T says that the majority of the nearly $18 billion it will spend this year on its networks will be diverted into upgrades and expansions to meet the surging demands on the 3G network.
If they had 18 billion ear marked to spend on their networks what else would they be spending it on besides upgrades and expansions?
The main down-side is that there has to be a single price of parking in the municipal area.
I mentioned the card in a thread higher up but I forgot about the electronic version. Thanks for the reminder. I have a vague recollection (not sure about this) that there might be 2 different "zones" with two different rates.
What's to stop people from padding their cards by 20 minutes, 30 minutes, an hour or whatever?
Fear of getting caught/penalties I guess. The same thing that keeps many people from not feeding a meter when they are running into a store for 15 min.
I should have mentioned that typically you buy the cards in advance and keep them in your glove compartment. You don't normally have to find a store, buy a ticket, and then return to your car.
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Glucose (dextrose) is roughly half as sweet as fructose. People use HFCS because it's sweeter than normal syrup.
The main reason people in the US use HFCS is because corn production is heavily subsidized and that makes sweetening food with corn syrup cheaper than using sugar.
There is a reason that Mexican Coke is yummier ... its not local taste preferences, it is economic protectionism.
Apple is currently earning around $18 billion in profit each quarter. So, while I'm sure it will be a boon for Wisconsin and Apple will try to get out of paying it - $823 million isn't going to hurt Apple's bottom line too much. I'm sure they see it as the cost of doing business.
That should have been "app thinning."
Apple has been working on a number of technologies to reduce storage requirements including Photo's iCloud storage and app slicing.
I'm pretty sure Apple knows what they are doing when it comes to balancing costumer satisfaction and profit.
"At the end of the day, reducing cycling accidents may boil down to something simple: Making sure that bikers know the rules of the road — and that drivers know how to deal with bikers."
No, reducing cycling accidents boils down redesigning roads to make them save for cylclings (and pedestrians). Making sure everyone knows the rules of the road is important but fixing the systemic issues is the real way to address the problem.
It looks similar to Adobe Source Code Pro.
Similar design goals . Also open source on github.
To my eyes Source Code Pro looks more refined.
The issue is that the sample population is small and the effects of bias is often subtle so the suggestion that the image is "inappropriate" by overwhelm what my already be a "weak signal."
I don't think the goal was to determine of one image is considered more or less inappropriate it was to determine bias. So why not - "Our university is developing promotional material to attract more women. Would you use this image?" Or even better, show both images and then say "Which image would you choose for promotional material (1) image a, (2) image b, (3) neither images."
Bias is something rarely acknowledged and (thankfully) discouraged. As a result it is difficult to study. But there is a large body of rigorous research that consistently shows that even the most enlightened of us have implicit biases that effect our decision and actions on a daily basis. A very quick google came up with this literature review (http://kirwaninstitute.osu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/2014-implicit-bias.pdf). I haven't read and I'm not familiar with the Kirwan Institue but it looks like a good survey to my quick skim.
Your question mentions a work context and already suggests that the image is inappropriate. The wording is hardly impartial and may sway respondents who might otherwise be unsure how to answer and thus influenced by internalized/unconscious bias.
Also, this is a delicate topic. If you want to people to take your writing seriously, you should work hard at using respectful language. Referring to to the two graduates/mothers as "girls" is belittling.
Did anyone else click on this story hoping to see some sort of magnet dart gun or EMP gun used for disabling drones?
the phone's shortcomings actually raise more interesting questions — about why the free-market system rewards companies for pulling off miracles at the hardware level, but not for fixing software bugs that should be easy to catch.
It doesn't. Apple is taking over half of the smartphone profit share while LG is loosing money on smart phones. Apples hardware is good but it isn't so much better than its competitors. The differentiation that makes it so profitable is software.
The article has it wrong (and this comment has it right). Its not that studios "allow Netflix to send out DVDs to their subscribers by mail" its that that can't stop them. This is a long article based false assumptions and zero research.
I commuted for years by bicycle in LA. I've always wondered if it was increasing or decreasing my life expectancy.
On the one hand, my heart and body were getting a lot of exercise. On the other hand, I was sucking in a lot of pollutions and despite being a pretty careful rider I seem to get into an accident with a care once every three years.
(If you are curios, I walked away from all the accidents but a few of my ribs may never be the same again.)
I don't think its a good assumption that the 5c is lower margin relative to the 5s.
Apple has always sold last years model at a discount. The 5c is essentially a 5 engineered to be cheaper to produce - Plastic (err Polycarbonate) vs Aluminum and I'm guessing other tweaks as well.
The 5s on the other hand has two brand new processors the 64 bit A7 and the M7 (anyone know if the GPU is new too).
I wouldn't be surprised if the 5s is the lower margin device. I think the allowed for preorders on the 5c but not the 5s so they could sell as many 5cs as the good to improve their overall margins.
Almost all the posted comments are talking about formatting (tabs vs spaces, indentation, line breaks, etc).
While its good to be consistent with these. Style is so much more.
Consistant naming schemes for variables/functions/classes/methods etc.
Useful and meaningful comments.
Handling non-expected input and states gracefully
Catching and handling of exceptions
meaningful feedback to the user if there is a problem.
I would call all these things and more "style." These are the things that make it easy to maintain code after it is written. They also help to reduce the incidence of bugs.
There is nothing for Apple to "come clean" about. They never said they didn't do market research (especially how it was described in the trial as tuning their marketing). What they have consistently said is that they don't use focus groups for product development.
"It's really hard to design products by focus groups. A lot of times, people don't know what they want until you show it to them."
-- Steve Jobs, BusinessWeek, May 25 1998
Really? Before I was annoyed now I'm bitter.
In Novell's case I think its inertia. There was a time that Novell offered a suit of solutions that worked together well and made things easier. Eventually, industry surpassed Novell.
Good IT managers are conservative. In the short term, "If it ain't broke don't fix it" is a good motto. But sometimes sticking with the old becomes a burden and its good to be proactive. Knowing when to migrate or upgrade (and when not to) is what separates the good managers from the great ones.
I'm guessing you are an engineer. The willies you get from sales is your BS detector going off. The sales people are selling product they don't completely understand. The management making the buy decision is buying a product they don't completely understand. But the sales people and the management speak the same language. The engineers usually do not. So the management trusts the sales people and the "monster" is purchased.
Maybe my employer will finally move away from Novell's terrible Web Services, GroupWise, and iPrint.
I have a dream that one day I'll be able to have my name, longer than 8 characters, supported as a username w/o being cut off.
They have had something like this at BWI for years. Even better - you don't have to look at your phone while driving. There are red and green lights marking open spots and the number of free spaces listed at the head of each row.
Similarly, the parking structure at the Grove in LA lists the number of free spaces per floor.
Great response - if I could mod you up I would.
I wasn't as clear as I could have been. The 50% could have been people waiting to report their broken phone until after a new one was released. (Was there a dip in claims in the preceding months? No way of knowing from the article).
What found problematic was the 'Four in ten of the iPhone claims received by Supercover is deemed "suspicious."'...Korina said that iPhones are very difficult to damage, making the false claims are actually easy to spot.' My iPhone was pretty dented up from normal use and the screen cracked when I dropped it from waist height (somehow missed my pocket). It sounds like they would say my phone was "suspicious" but I was pretty careful with it (drop not-withstanding).
I don't know how they define "suspicious." I had an original iPhone with a cracked screen. It wasn't pretty but still worked so I held on to it until the 3Gs came out. Then I got a new iPhone. I'm sure that would have looked suspicious to the insurance company but it actually would have saved them money.
AT&T says that the majority of the nearly $18 billion it will spend this year on its networks will be diverted into upgrades and expansions to meet the surging demands on the 3G network.
If they had 18 billion ear marked to spend on their networks what else would they be spending it on besides upgrades and expansions?
The main down-side is that there has to be a single price of parking in the municipal area.
I mentioned the card in a thread higher up but I forgot about the electronic version. Thanks for the reminder. I have a vague recollection (not sure about this) that there might be 2 different "zones" with two different rates.
What's to stop people from padding their cards by 20 minutes, 30 minutes, an hour or whatever?
Fear of getting caught/penalties I guess. The same thing that keeps many people from not feeding a meter when they are running into a store for 15 min.
I should have mentioned that typically you buy the cards in advance and keep them in your glove compartment. You don't normally have to find a store, buy a ticket, and then return to your car.