But there is one bug that's been very annoying for my wife. Apparently none of her custom ringtones work in iOS 11. They just revert back to the system default ringtone, which is bad because she ignores calls from anybody who doesn't have a custom ringtone set. The worst part is that the ringtone files are still there and can be set and previewed in the address book, but when an actual call comes in the phone refuses to use them.
An extra 1/4" would almost double the thickness of the phone. It would be noticeable. That said, I would be all over it if the extra thickness meant I didn't have to buy a case for the thing and the battery lasted for at least a couple of days on a charge.
I can't believe I had to scroll all the way to the bottom to get this comment. Uber is all prepaid, no amount of GPS tomfoolery should affect the fare. There is something missing from this story. Does Uber have a different business model in different countries?
Or you can do what everybody who cares a lick about security does and set a fully alphanumeric passcode instead. Also, the 6 digit pin option has been available for years.
This paper is arguably the origin of the modern disinformation campaign against carbon pollution. This is the point where politically powerful interests realized that their core business model was in danger and that they needed to do something to stop it. Now we have an entire political party who's official position is to ignore the blatantly obvious and to be actively hostile to the kind of research that produced this paper.
Yeah, and it's very noticeable. In the original SC the AI was fairly predictable, you build and expansion base and the AI is going to mobilize the army to attack it just as your resource hub is finishing. In SC2 you can actually deny the computer information by intercepting its scouts and build expansion bases much more freely.
Seems strange that the bots were not able to deal with an early game rush, that seems like the area were bots could do quite well since the strategies are well known and it mostly comes down to playing out a script precisely.
I rarely return anything, pretty much only if it arrives broken. It seems shocking to me that a full third of all purchases get returned online. Even that 9% for in-store seems crazy high. Are there people who just buy stuff and return it all day long?
And he got caught because he was incredibly stupid about how he did the cheating. He didn't even try to hide what he was doing, just log in and change that 20 to a 100 like the professor won't notice. This guy is a real piece of work.
It really depends on what the catalog is like for the service. GameFly presumably has a good selection of recent and old releases, while this service could very well end up being mostly Madden 2013 and other similar bargain bin dust collectors. Being able to pick up a game in store doesn't really help when the store never has any game you would want to play.
Video stores had the option to buy cassettes for movies before they were available for general retail, but they paid a premium for it. These cassettes would be marked as "for rental". I can see how a video store drone could be confused that they had to buy "special" tapes for everything in the store when they saw those. If a video store were willing to wait (and look so much less cool than the one down the street) they could just pick the tapes up at retail prices.
I guess it was too self evident and they didn't think it would need to be spelled out in big bold letters for you.
As you concentrate more and more wealth at the top, the money is drained from the poor and middle class. The problem is that the poor and middle class are the drivers of the economy. Trickle down economics is a big lie the Cato Institute made up to hide the fact that they're just giving billionaires huge handouts. The economy is largely driven by demand, not supply. As you squeeze the majority of the population demand drops. The drop in demand slows the economy, further reducing demand. In the long run your economy collapses.
Increasing supply only helps when the economy was supply constrained, and that is typically not the case in a well functioning economy and definitely not the case in one where the capital is too heavily concentrated up top.
An economy where everybody was equal would be the most efficient, but that's kind of like saying that an airline that didn't have to worry about wind resistance would be the cheapest to fly on. True, but academic. The goal is then to reduce inequality down to reasonable levels to avoid choking the economy to death.
There has been no better system in history for efficiently distributing resources at scale. Nothing has even come close. Centrally managed economies have been largely a disaster. Feudal systems are even worse.
You are right to point out that capitalism is poor at protecting limited resources, that's another job for the government not the markets. For the system to work you need a strong government that is willing and able to stand up to corporate interests. It is one thing that globalism has been bad about. Allowing multinational corporations to shop around for the most favorable terms has been a disaster for not only the working class but also for the environment and it encourages countries with strong protections to weaken them for competitive reasons, creating a race to the bottom. This is a highly undesirable state of affairs for the people who don't own multinational corporations and don't have an escape plan for when the environment becomes too toxic to sustain life.
Eh? If anything the patent system has served to entrench modern companies against upstarts. Google is hardly unique in this, nor were they the first by any stretch. But really the patent system is a discussion for another day.
Are you suggesting inheritance and dynasties have not been a thing in the past? Or are you saying that the most effective means of reducing concentration has not been very good at doing its job outside of catastrophes? Sure the Black Death did a lot to develop a middle class in Europe, but that's really not the route I'd like to explore today.
Well, if government doesn't do it who does? Will the 1% suddenly feel tremendously more charitable than before? History says no. Will the masses rise up and kill the wealthy? History says when this happens the wealth is not transferred fairly and it just creates a new ruling elite who are just as greedy as the previous elite. Government is the only solution to this problem that has worked in the past.
You forgot about the primary source of wealth: wealth. If you have money you can make money with it. That's a feature of capitalism, but also one of it's flaws. Because money begets money wealth will naturally concentrate at the top and drain from the bottom. Eventually the system becomes too top heavy and collapses. That's why capitalism doesn't work in the long term without a strong government willing to drain wealth from the top and re-inject it at the bottom.
How about funding infrastructure projects? Rail lines. Bridges. Roads. Schools. Parks. Trails. Basic research. The stuff that not only pays dividends in the future, but employs people in the present, injecting capital back into the bottom of the system where it does the most good.
Currencies may not be pegged to Gold anymore, but that doesn't mean they are limitless. A limitless currency has no value. Growth has to be restricted for it to be useful, and if only a small percentage of the population consume all of that growth (or more than the growth, as is the case today) then those billionaires will prevent you from living a better life than your parents.
Capitalism is the best system we have for efficiently managing resources, but it is not perfect. It has a natural tendency to accumulate wealth at the top. If left unchecked all of the wealth gets trapped at the top and the whole system collapses. This is why you need the counterbalance of a government taking money from the top to inject it on the bottom.
If you have ever played Monopoly you can see this in action. The victory condition for Monopoly is one player controlling all of the money and properties, but this also represents a complete collapse of the game's economy. No more commerce will happen, the money instantly becomes useless paper. One much reviled but popular house rule in Monopoly is to put all fees in the Free Parking space and award those fees to anybody who lands there. This is a very crude form of wealth redistribution, and what does it do? It redistributes wealth to the players, causing games to go on for much longer than normal. In the real world we want the economy to keep working forever, we need to redistribute the wealth.
These are designed to compete directly with Intel's -U processors. 15W design power, able to be clocked down to 12W or up to 30W depending on the situation. When idle the chip can shut down 95% of the graphics part and 100% of the compute part, leaving just enough to keep the screen drawn. When watching video it can also shut down most all of the CPU for better battery life. This is probably AMD's most aggressively mobile chip ever. It will be interesting to see if the major OEMs bite beyond the meager three offerings at launch.
There are apparently ways to detect which kind of matter you are looking at, and regular matter utterly dominates the universe. There is no antimatter half as far as we know.
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This was the dumbest Satoshi theory yet. I can't believe that Elon actually responded to it.
But there is one bug that's been very annoying for my wife. Apparently none of her custom ringtones work in iOS 11. They just revert back to the system default ringtone, which is bad because she ignores calls from anybody who doesn't have a custom ringtone set. The worst part is that the ringtone files are still there and can be set and previewed in the address book, but when an actual call comes in the phone refuses to use them.
An extra 1/4" would almost double the thickness of the phone. It would be noticeable. That said, I would be all over it if the extra thickness meant I didn't have to buy a case for the thing and the battery lasted for at least a couple of days on a charge.
On the other hand, the last time they went story heavy with a Metroid title we got The Other M" and a whole lot of Samus Daddy Issues.
I can't believe I had to scroll all the way to the bottom to get this comment. Uber is all prepaid, no amount of GPS tomfoolery should affect the fare. There is something missing from this story. Does Uber have a different business model in different countries?
Or you can do what everybody who cares a lick about security does and set a fully alphanumeric passcode instead. Also, the 6 digit pin option has been available for years.
This paper is arguably the origin of the modern disinformation campaign against carbon pollution. This is the point where politically powerful interests realized that their core business model was in danger and that they needed to do something to stop it. Now we have an entire political party who's official position is to ignore the blatantly obvious and to be actively hostile to the kind of research that produced this paper.
Yeah, and it's very noticeable. In the original SC the AI was fairly predictable, you build and expansion base and the AI is going to mobilize the army to attack it just as your resource hub is finishing. In SC2 you can actually deny the computer information by intercepting its scouts and build expansion bases much more freely.
With the big binary blob from Broadcom? Pis are not open hardware.
Seems strange that the bots were not able to deal with an early game rush, that seems like the area were bots could do quite well since the strategies are well known and it mostly comes down to playing out a script precisely.
It is copy-paste nonsense.
I rarely return anything, pretty much only if it arrives broken. It seems shocking to me that a full third of all purchases get returned online. Even that 9% for in-store seems crazy high. Are there people who just buy stuff and return it all day long?
And he got caught because he was incredibly stupid about how he did the cheating. He didn't even try to hide what he was doing, just log in and change that 20 to a 100 like the professor won't notice. This guy is a real piece of work.
It really depends on what the catalog is like for the service. GameFly presumably has a good selection of recent and old releases, while this service could very well end up being mostly Madden 2013 and other similar bargain bin dust collectors. Being able to pick up a game in store doesn't really help when the store never has any game you would want to play.
Video stores had the option to buy cassettes for movies before they were available for general retail, but they paid a premium for it. These cassettes would be marked as "for rental". I can see how a video store drone could be confused that they had to buy "special" tapes for everything in the store when they saw those. If a video store were willing to wait (and look so much less cool than the one down the street) they could just pick the tapes up at retail prices.
I guess it was too self evident and they didn't think it would need to be spelled out in big bold letters for you.
As you concentrate more and more wealth at the top, the money is drained from the poor and middle class. The problem is that the poor and middle class are the drivers of the economy. Trickle down economics is a big lie the Cato Institute made up to hide the fact that they're just giving billionaires huge handouts. The economy is largely driven by demand, not supply. As you squeeze the majority of the population demand drops. The drop in demand slows the economy, further reducing demand. In the long run your economy collapses.
Increasing supply only helps when the economy was supply constrained, and that is typically not the case in a well functioning economy and definitely not the case in one where the capital is too heavily concentrated up top.
An economy where everybody was equal would be the most efficient, but that's kind of like saying that an airline that didn't have to worry about wind resistance would be the cheapest to fly on. True, but academic. The goal is then to reduce inequality down to reasonable levels to avoid choking the economy to death.
There has been no better system in history for efficiently distributing resources at scale. Nothing has even come close. Centrally managed economies have been largely a disaster. Feudal systems are even worse.
You are right to point out that capitalism is poor at protecting limited resources, that's another job for the government not the markets. For the system to work you need a strong government that is willing and able to stand up to corporate interests. It is one thing that globalism has been bad about. Allowing multinational corporations to shop around for the most favorable terms has been a disaster for not only the working class but also for the environment and it encourages countries with strong protections to weaken them for competitive reasons, creating a race to the bottom. This is a highly undesirable state of affairs for the people who don't own multinational corporations and don't have an escape plan for when the environment becomes too toxic to sustain life.
Eh? If anything the patent system has served to entrench modern companies against upstarts. Google is hardly unique in this, nor were they the first by any stretch. But really the patent system is a discussion for another day.
Are you suggesting inheritance and dynasties have not been a thing in the past? Or are you saying that the most effective means of reducing concentration has not been very good at doing its job outside of catastrophes? Sure the Black Death did a lot to develop a middle class in Europe, but that's really not the route I'd like to explore today.
Well, if government doesn't do it who does? Will the 1% suddenly feel tremendously more charitable than before? History says no. Will the masses rise up and kill the wealthy? History says when this happens the wealth is not transferred fairly and it just creates a new ruling elite who are just as greedy as the previous elite. Government is the only solution to this problem that has worked in the past.
You forgot about the primary source of wealth: wealth. If you have money you can make money with it. That's a feature of capitalism, but also one of it's flaws. Because money begets money wealth will naturally concentrate at the top and drain from the bottom. Eventually the system becomes too top heavy and collapses. That's why capitalism doesn't work in the long term without a strong government willing to drain wealth from the top and re-inject it at the bottom.
How about funding infrastructure projects? Rail lines. Bridges. Roads. Schools. Parks. Trails. Basic research. The stuff that not only pays dividends in the future, but employs people in the present, injecting capital back into the bottom of the system where it does the most good.
Currencies may not be pegged to Gold anymore, but that doesn't mean they are limitless. A limitless currency has no value. Growth has to be restricted for it to be useful, and if only a small percentage of the population consume all of that growth (or more than the growth, as is the case today) then those billionaires will prevent you from living a better life than your parents.
Capitalism is the best system we have for efficiently managing resources, but it is not perfect. It has a natural tendency to accumulate wealth at the top. If left unchecked all of the wealth gets trapped at the top and the whole system collapses. This is why you need the counterbalance of a government taking money from the top to inject it on the bottom.
If you have ever played Monopoly you can see this in action. The victory condition for Monopoly is one player controlling all of the money and properties, but this also represents a complete collapse of the game's economy. No more commerce will happen, the money instantly becomes useless paper. One much reviled but popular house rule in Monopoly is to put all fees in the Free Parking space and award those fees to anybody who lands there. This is a very crude form of wealth redistribution, and what does it do? It redistributes wealth to the players, causing games to go on for much longer than normal. In the real world we want the economy to keep working forever, we need to redistribute the wealth.
These are designed to compete directly with Intel's -U processors. 15W design power, able to be clocked down to 12W or up to 30W depending on the situation. When idle the chip can shut down 95% of the graphics part and 100% of the compute part, leaving just enough to keep the screen drawn. When watching video it can also shut down most all of the CPU for better battery life. This is probably AMD's most aggressively mobile chip ever. It will be interesting to see if the major OEMs bite beyond the meager three offerings at launch.
There are apparently ways to detect which kind of matter you are looking at, and regular matter utterly dominates the universe. There is no antimatter half as far as we know.