Maybe the fact that DC movies in general are getting unexpectedly low ratings and box office results. Which is all fine in my book, I hope that at some point the studios will return to regular old fashioned blockbuster movies to pass the summer (or winter), instead of the current overload of superhero garbage.
The problem I have with that idea is that it never ever stops there. Why cap wealth at $10B, or even 100 million? Surely 50 million is enough? Or 10? The vast majority of people in this world have a net worth of $1M so let's make that the cap. And then you end up with what we have here, with every "fortune" of over €25.000 slapped with a "wealth" tax.
Bottom line is: you don't get rich taxing rich people, as individuals they own a lot but there aren't enough of them. Take Bezos' fortune from him and the next guy will do a better job of hiding it in a tax haven. No, in the end it is the middle class they will come after. Always. Because that's where the money is.
Isn't there any obligation on the part of the company responsible for storing this data (i.e. Uber)? In the Netherlands (and from 2018 in all of Europe), companies must report large scale data breaches to the relevant national authorities within 72 hours or they are subject to serious fines. In addition, if the data breach is likely to have an impact on personal privacy, the affected individuals must be informed "without undue delay".
I smell a rat. That free educational access plan might well have been introduced precisely to bring up this argument against net neutrality. Same as our providers who started plans with unlimited Spotify access just around the time the discussion on net neutrality started here in the EU. It’s similar to cities whose budgets are cut (here they get money from tbe national govt): they never say they’ll cut overhead, but instead they’ll loudly proclaim they’ll have to shut down public swimming pools and libraries. It’s all politics.
Just how many did we need to begin with? In a lot of cases I've seen (perhaps the majority), MBA education did more harm than good. They instilled exaggerated self-esteem, an overrated appreciation of one's abilities, and the idea that the world can be run by Excel sheets.
Yeah, because Apple are really strapped for cash. What is their reserve these days, a mere $250 billion or so? They can buy countries with that.
But sure, I see what you're getting at. Apple can adopt the same strategy though: sell HomePod at a loss to lock people tighter into their ecosystem and sell more devices with healthy profit margins as a result. Their stuff already works like that: it works really well together with other Apple equipment, but with 3rd party devices not so much.
Finally someone gets it. Voice activation works well for short interactions where unlocking your phone and starting the right app is already too much bother. In this case, Echo works pretty well in a home automation setup. My main niggle is that the Echoes aren't location aware... if I say "lights on", it should turn on the lights in whichever room I am in. Currently I'm stuck with having to define separate commands for each room.
Exactly. Like the iPhone: Apple didn't invent the smartphone, they took a good idea and made it great. But it seems that Apple increasingly have a lot of trouble even just getting it "right". Some of the recent changes to the iPhone come to mind. Every change to iTunes that made an already legendary shitty product even worse. And don't get me started on HomeKit: Apple really don't seem to get home automation (hint: it's more than just remote control). With all those billions in revenue in the balance, you'd figure they would at least get the basics right when making inroads into new markets, even if they didn't manage to raise the bar like they did with the iPhone.
From what I’m reading, this change will address those multi domain cookies. One site will add a Taboola cookie and will be able to read it, but if another site attempts to access the Taboola cookie, Firefox will pretend it isn’t there, and the second site will the proceed to create its own Taboola cookie. So cookies for 3rd party domains are still allowed, but they are sandboxed per domain in the browser.
Over here in the Netherlands, companies can place unsollicited calls, but there's a national "do not call me" register that is respected by pretty much all Dutch companies. Similarly, there are stickers for the mailslot to indicate whether or not you want unsolicited crap and/or the free local newspapers, and those are respected as well. Pretty much all spam from European companies comes from firms that got your email address through legitimate means, e.g. you ordered something from them, and all contain an unsubscribe link that actually works.
I'm all for free enterprise but I am glad that in this regard we do have some laws with teeth.
That’s why I gave up on project management: I’m just not very good at doing all jobs a PM needs to be doing. However, the architect job can be delegated to an actual architect. People management can be delegated to some degree to a technical team lead (used to be that we had one of those on every project, even small ones). Problem is: I also suck at delegating.
This same problem exists for other managers as well, by the way: line managers / middle management. They need to be good at various jobs that are not only rather different but often also require rather different personalities. In this age of hyperspecialisation (especially in IT), why isn’t the job of management split into parts? Sure, there are management teams but usually each member of such teams has his own team and needs to fulfill all management roles within that team. What if management or project leadership teams didn’t consist of a set of generic managers, but of specialists? For example: A Leader who handles the day to day, chairs meetings and ensures things keep running. A Team Lead who handles people management. And a Strategist who sets direction and does long range planning. Oh, and while such a leadership team is jointly responsible, it’s the strategist who should have the final say, not the Leader.
If your successful project only has a $12/year business value, then blame your business analyst, portfolio / program manager, steering group, or whoever greenlights and monitors your projects. A PM’s job is to deliver on time, within budget, and according to agreed requirements. In some cases gathering the high level requirements is also part of the project and arguably the responsibility of the PM, but if those requirements are way off what you actually need, you can blame a whole lot of other people besides the PM. For one, the people who signed off on those requirements.
Any trucker here able to shed light on what a typical long haul drive looks like? No sane person drives 800 miles in one go; one needs to rest every now and then, eat, etc. I imagine it's no different for truckers, in fact there's rules. EU rules say a trucker can drive at most 9 hours a day and must take 45 minutes of rest after 4.5 hours of driving (or take 2 breaks with one at least 30 minutes). That's long enough to fully recharge the truck, provided there's a supercharger station. So it seems to be that this truck will work just fine for long hauls, at least in Europe.
They say invention is 10% inspiration and 90% transpiration. The same goes for innovation: 10% is about the ideas themselves, 90% is about implementing them. That doesn't only require engineering, but also someone to direct those engineers, raise capital, make the right strategic decisions, spend the right amount of cash on the right stuff at the right time, hire the right guys, and build a strong executive team with similar capabilities. There's a hell of a lot more to it than luck, or being at the right place at the right time: a good entrepreneur knows what to do when luck presents itself, and there's plenty examples of those that didn't know and consequently fail.
doesn't even do basic stuff like auto rain sensing
Seriously? I remember reading somewhere that the Model 3 doesn't have that sensor either, and the windshield wiper control on/near the steering wheel only let you turn it on or off; the speed being controlled via the LCD panel. I couldn't quite believe that they'd leave out such a basic feature... That's gonna be a lot of fun on the highway.
The laser beam would presumably pass through some kind of optical turret, which can track a moving target. That's the easy part, leaving the energy and weight requirements.
I looked at bikes, cars and aircraft for travel. Driving beat biking in that it was way faster. Flying added little, it is way more expensive and it took longer (you need to get to the airfield first). One exception is long distance travel, where flying did improve outcomes.
The short version is: hammers are useful tools, but not for all jobs.
To some extent. The problem is that a lot depends on how and where you keep your paper records. The more they are moved, aggregated and the longer they are stored, the more opportunity there is to tamper with them, and on a larger scale.
The sad part is that it's not only security experts who should be saying this. Voting should not only be accurate, but that accuracy needs to be verifiable by laymen, and they should be able to understand the end-of-end process to tally and verify the count. Voting by computer violates that principle on a fundamental level.
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Maybe the fact that DC movies in general are getting unexpectedly low ratings and box office results. Which is all fine in my book, I hope that at some point the studios will return to regular old fashioned blockbuster movies to pass the summer (or winter), instead of the current overload of superhero garbage.
The vast majority of people in this world have a net worth of $1M
Should be: don't have.
The problem I have with that idea is that it never ever stops there. Why cap wealth at $10B, or even 100 million? Surely 50 million is enough? Or 10? The vast majority of people in this world have a net worth of $1M so let's make that the cap. And then you end up with what we have here, with every "fortune" of over €25.000 slapped with a "wealth" tax.
Bottom line is: you don't get rich taxing rich people, as individuals they own a lot but there aren't enough of them. Take Bezos' fortune from him and the next guy will do a better job of hiding it in a tax haven. No, in the end it is the middle class they will come after. Always. Because that's where the money is.
Isn't there any obligation on the part of the company responsible for storing this data (i.e. Uber)? In the Netherlands (and from 2018 in all of Europe), companies must report large scale data breaches to the relevant national authorities within 72 hours or they are subject to serious fines. In addition, if the data breach is likely to have an impact on personal privacy, the affected individuals must be informed "without undue delay".
I smell a rat. That free educational access plan might well have been introduced precisely to bring up this argument against net neutrality. Same as our providers who started plans with unlimited Spotify access just around the time the discussion on net neutrality started here in the EU. It’s similar to cities whose budgets are cut (here they get money from tbe national govt): they never say they’ll cut overhead, but instead they’ll loudly proclaim they’ll have to shut down public swimming pools and libraries. It’s all politics.
Just how many did we need to begin with? In a lot of cases I've seen (perhaps the majority), MBA education did more harm than good. They instilled exaggerated self-esteem, an overrated appreciation of one's abilities, and the idea that the world can be run by Excel sheets.
Yeah, because Apple are really strapped for cash. What is their reserve these days, a mere $250 billion or so? They can buy countries with that.
But sure, I see what you're getting at. Apple can adopt the same strategy though: sell HomePod at a loss to lock people tighter into their ecosystem and sell more devices with healthy profit margins as a result. Their stuff already works like that: it works really well together with other Apple equipment, but with 3rd party devices not so much.
Finally someone gets it. Voice activation works well for short interactions where unlocking your phone and starting the right app is already too much bother. In this case, Echo works pretty well in a home automation setup. My main niggle is that the Echoes aren't location aware... if I say "lights on", it should turn on the lights in whichever room I am in. Currently I'm stuck with having to define separate commands for each room.
Exactly. Like the iPhone: Apple didn't invent the smartphone, they took a good idea and made it great. But it seems that Apple increasingly have a lot of trouble even just getting it "right". Some of the recent changes to the iPhone come to mind. Every change to iTunes that made an already legendary shitty product even worse. And don't get me started on HomeKit: Apple really don't seem to get home automation (hint: it's more than just remote control). With all those billions in revenue in the balance, you'd figure they would at least get the basics right when making inroads into new markets, even if they didn't manage to raise the bar like they did with the iPhone.
From what I’m reading, this change will address those multi domain cookies. One site will add a Taboola cookie and will be able to read it, but if another site attempts to access the Taboola cookie, Firefox will pretend it isn’t there, and the second site will the proceed to create its own Taboola cookie. So cookies for 3rd party domains are still allowed, but they are sandboxed per domain in the browser.
Over here in the Netherlands, companies can place unsollicited calls, but there's a national "do not call me" register that is respected by pretty much all Dutch companies. Similarly, there are stickers for the mailslot to indicate whether or not you want unsolicited crap and/or the free local newspapers, and those are respected as well. Pretty much all spam from European companies comes from firms that got your email address through legitimate means, e.g. you ordered something from them, and all contain an unsubscribe link that actually works.
I'm all for free enterprise but I am glad that in this regard we do have some laws with teeth.
Then I actually will get rich quick from their stupid schemes.
That’s why I gave up on project management: I’m just not very good at doing all jobs a PM needs to be doing. However, the architect job can be delegated to an actual architect. People management can be delegated to some degree to a technical team lead (used to be that we had one of those on every project, even small ones). Problem is: I also suck at delegating.
This same problem exists for other managers as well, by the way: line managers / middle management. They need to be good at various jobs that are not only rather different but often also require rather different personalities. In this age of hyperspecialisation (especially in IT), why isn’t the job of management split into parts? Sure, there are management teams but usually each member of such teams has his own team and needs to fulfill all management roles within that team. What if management or project leadership teams didn’t consist of a set of generic managers, but of specialists? For example: A Leader who handles the day to day, chairs meetings and ensures things keep running. A Team Lead who handles people management. And a Strategist who sets direction and does long range planning. Oh, and while such a leadership team is jointly responsible, it’s the strategist who should have the final say, not the Leader.
If your successful project only has a $12/year business value, then blame your business analyst, portfolio / program manager, steering group, or whoever greenlights and monitors your projects. A PM’s job is to deliver on time, within budget, and according to agreed requirements. In some cases gathering the high level requirements is also part of the project and arguably the responsibility of the PM, but if those requirements are way off what you actually need, you can blame a whole lot of other people besides the PM. For one, the people who signed off on those requirements.
This baloney about "micro-aggressions" can be pretty hard to follow for regular un-autistic rational beings as well. You're not alone there, Damore...
Hence the distinction between invention and innovation. One of these is not like the other.
They've taken the deposit from their advertising budget, most likely.
Any trucker here able to shed light on what a typical long haul drive looks like? No sane person drives 800 miles in one go; one needs to rest every now and then, eat, etc. I imagine it's no different for truckers, in fact there's rules. EU rules say a trucker can drive at most 9 hours a day and must take 45 minutes of rest after 4.5 hours of driving (or take 2 breaks with one at least 30 minutes). That's long enough to fully recharge the truck, provided there's a supercharger station. So it seems to be that this truck will work just fine for long hauls, at least in Europe.
They say invention is 10% inspiration and 90% transpiration. The same goes for innovation: 10% is about the ideas themselves, 90% is about implementing them. That doesn't only require engineering, but also someone to direct those engineers, raise capital, make the right strategic decisions, spend the right amount of cash on the right stuff at the right time, hire the right guys, and build a strong executive team with similar capabilities. There's a hell of a lot more to it than luck, or being at the right place at the right time: a good entrepreneur knows what to do when luck presents itself, and there's plenty examples of those that didn't know and consequently fail.
doesn't even do basic stuff like auto rain sensing
Seriously? I remember reading somewhere that the Model 3 doesn't have that sensor either, and the windshield wiper control on/near the steering wheel only let you turn it on or off; the speed being controlled via the LCD panel. I couldn't quite believe that they'd leave out such a basic feature... That's gonna be a lot of fun on the highway.
What the hell is a phone call?
The laser beam would presumably pass through some kind of optical turret, which can track a moving target. That's the easy part, leaving the energy and weight requirements.
I looked at bikes, cars and aircraft for travel. Driving beat biking in that it was way faster. Flying added little, it is way more expensive and it took longer (you need to get to the airfield first). One exception is long distance travel, where flying did improve outcomes.
The short version is: hammers are useful tools, but not for all jobs.
To some extent. The problem is that a lot depends on how and where you keep your paper records. The more they are moved, aggregated and the longer they are stored, the more opportunity there is to tamper with them, and on a larger scale.
The sad part is that it's not only security experts who should be saying this. Voting should not only be accurate, but that accuracy needs to be verifiable by laymen, and they should be able to understand the end-of-end process to tally and verify the count. Voting by computer violates that principle on a fundamental level.