Ok, they still (re)released it last week, and the statement still said they *had* to track users to give them a good experience, so how does the fact that it was originally stated a year ago change the fact that they've stated publicly the exact opposite of what Steve is claiming now? We know they are recording cellphone tower information for an indefinite amount of time, we know that the information is available to applications, and most importantly we *know* that the information is available under subpoena (both criminal and civil) whereas the Android data is remove after 24 hours.
Then why did they come out with a statement last week saying they *had* to track users to give them the best experience? I'm not buying what Steve's selling.
Bluetooth and A2DP are the best for this, my dad's phones sync to his car and he can voice dial them with the integrated audio stuff and steering wheel controls, the 2012 Equinox is supposed to have a full A2DP stack so you should be able to control things like Pandora using the wheel controls. This is one of the reasons I'm waiting till this fall to replace my current car (along with waiting to see if BMW brings the x1 diesel, if Ford brings the Vertrek concept as the next Escape, and whether Mazda will bring the CX-7 diesel to the US, I want a high MPG crossover with AWD).
You know what, my survival kit has bluetip matches in paraffin but I'll probably never use the matches because I also have a couple BIC's and a mini-torch, should both of those fail I'm just as likely to use the flint from the BIC's to start a fire as I am the matches. Of course the paraffin is a good idea for starting wet kindling and the matches don't take up that much additional volume so I guess it's ok as a last resort.
The one thing I didn't see in your list is Iodine tabs/water purifier, the canteen isn't going to do you much good if you can't make water potable, though perhaps that's in the etc column =)
Yeah, our CEO does a lunch and learn with our department a couple times a year and back in early 2009 one of his biggest rants was about how many of the brightest people went into finance instead of science and engineering. His favorite statistic was that for every civil engineer we graduated one hundred and something jobs were created but for every finance major we graduated we lost one thousand jobs. He did his very best to keep people on during the recession and while we had to severely trim a few departments (we won't be developing new properties for the foreseeable future so the development department was all but eliminated) our overall headcount today is only down about 10% from what it was before the recession.
I'm thinking they are really pushing their luck filing a new case with claims that the same court has already dismissed as being unenforceable under law. These guys have already pissed this judge off, if they don't watch out he's likely to go after their license. The judge has already admonished them that using the federal circuit as a business office is not the intent of the law, trying to refile the same claims he has rejected in a similar case is really just asking to have the hammer brought down on their heads.
Do you think they would experience $700k in breakage and theft a month? Because that's what they are claiming the unsubsidized pricing is costing them over Netflixes rates.
Do they need to reduce theft and breakage? If the increased cost of shipping is more than the losses from the others then you put up with them to get the cheaper rates. This is what Netflix has done and they are the obviously more successful business. Life is about choices, making poor ones and then going crying to the government about how it's unfair that you're not having your poor choices subsidized is just lame.
Not true, they get ~$150M in appropriations from Congress each year. Not huge in the $45B annual budget but not peanuts either. There's also all the mail that federal agencies are required by mandate to send through the USPS instead of commercial carrier which is in effect a subsidy.
Uh, Gamefly's mailers were intentionally made to stack with regular first class and were plain to avoid theft, Netflix mailers were square and brightly colored. It's a lot harder to spot they Gamefly mailer *by their design* so yes they should be charged, if the cost of additional handling is more than the loss to theft then they should redesign their mailer.
Uh, yes I'm actually familiar with the facts in the case, the order says they were discriminated against by having their mailers machine processed instead of hand sorted. The *reason* they aren't hand sorted is that Gamefly *chose* to make their mailers not stick out to reduce theft. You can't complain that your mailers aren't being pulled before the sorts *and* try to make them not stick out. Gamefly *also* chose to use a tougher but heavier mailer to reduce their breakage costs but which result in higher fuel costs for the USPS, forcing the USPS to lose money on heavier envelopes or increase rates for the companies that were willing to reduce their fuel costs is stupid bureaucracy at its best.
Why should the USPS be forced to subsidize a business that's unwilling to make simple technical changes that would reduce their cost to process their bulk mail? If you cost them more money you *should* be charged more, especially when you are told what fixes you can make to accommodate them and get the better rates. The postal service is subsidized by the taxpayers and any shortfall from a bulk customer like Gamefly will either be shoulder by us directly through larger appropriations or through rate hikes.
High compression direct injection engines are starting to come out, some are coupled with turbos but others aren't. They are getting much better fuel economy and can produce decent torque from small displacement so they fit well into the US market that has so far dismissed diesels. The most fuel efficient AWD crossovers for sale in the US are both high compression direct injection (Chevy Equinox and Nissan Juke, though the Juke has problems fuel economy with cold temperatures).
I've not replace the plugs on my last 3 vehicles and they went 225k, 250k, and the current one is at 146k miles and all 3 got above their EPA estimate to the end. All 3 were Ford Duratec V6's with the factory platinum plugs.
On the previous two it was a good thing they lasted so long because the engine was crammed into the bay in such a way that it required a header removal to replace the rear bank, and to further increase the badness the overhead cams didn't ride on bearing but a machined channel in the header so if you don't reassemble things perfectly your engine is toast.
BS, no real world statistics I've seen are anywhere near that.The Internet Archive's rate is 2% (was as high as 6% at one point), MS says 5% AFR for nearline SATA and 2.75% for nearline SAS, Google's numbers were between 2% and 6% depending on the age of the drive. Also the ES drives are nearline not low end and they spin at a much lower speed so if both were built to the same standards I would expect they would have a MUCH lower AFR but they aren't.
We have 3 building on our HQ campus, I went in to outline each building and tag it with the appropriate address to make it easier for people to find the correct building when they visit the campus. There's no apparent way to do that as you have to specify a type of business when you select the drawing tool and none of the categories fit.
Perhaps their low end line is bad *because* they bought Maxtor. Their enterprise line is still just fine, been cruising at ~1.5% AFR here for the last 5 years with ~90% Seagate disks.
PV solar is good for localized generation and since a substantial amount of peak load coincides with peak output it's a good fit to demand, for base load molten salt solar is a scalable, relatively low cost solution. We need both renewable's and nuclear to move off coal and NG.
Heck, there was a US airbase within a couple hour helo flight, all they had to do was ask and I'm sure whatever heavy lift capability we had was at their disposal, I mean is the base commander really going to say "no you can't borrow our resource's we'd rather the airmen take anti-radiation meds"?
No, the generators were the right cycle, wrong voltage and configuration. They needed say 480V 3 phase and the generators they received were 208 WYE, you can convert from one to the other with a transformer but none of the correct type and rating were immediately available.
Sweet, well then when they get hacked and cause widespread outages I hope they get fined megabucks for every minute of downtime and are sued by their critical contract customers for gross negligence. Someone needs to force these guys to do things in a competent manner and apparently a decade of being warned about cybercrime hasn't been sufficient so I guess the only way they will listen is if it hits their bottom line.
MS didn't ship a phone optimized version of CE until 2002 but there were partners using regular CE for smartphones in 2000. I guess that Kyocera phone qualifies as a Palm based smartphone but since I never saw one in person I'm not sure how much of an impact they had on the market, the Treo was the first one in any kind of widespread use.
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Ok, they still (re)released it last week, and the statement still said they *had* to track users to give them a good experience, so how does the fact that it was originally stated a year ago change the fact that they've stated publicly the exact opposite of what Steve is claiming now? We know they are recording cellphone tower information for an indefinite amount of time, we know that the information is available to applications, and most importantly we *know* that the information is available under subpoena (both criminal and civil) whereas the Android data is remove after 24 hours.
Then why did they come out with a statement last week saying they *had* to track users to give them the best experience? I'm not buying what Steve's selling.
Bluetooth and A2DP are the best for this, my dad's phones sync to his car and he can voice dial them with the integrated audio stuff and steering wheel controls, the 2012 Equinox is supposed to have a full A2DP stack so you should be able to control things like Pandora using the wheel controls. This is one of the reasons I'm waiting till this fall to replace my current car (along with waiting to see if BMW brings the x1 diesel, if Ford brings the Vertrek concept as the next Escape, and whether Mazda will bring the CX-7 diesel to the US, I want a high MPG crossover with AWD).
You know what, my survival kit has bluetip matches in paraffin but I'll probably never use the matches because I also have a couple BIC's and a mini-torch, should both of those fail I'm just as likely to use the flint from the BIC's to start a fire as I am the matches. Of course the paraffin is a good idea for starting wet kindling and the matches don't take up that much additional volume so I guess it's ok as a last resort .
The one thing I didn't see in your list is Iodine tabs/water purifier, the canteen isn't going to do you much good if you can't make water potable, though perhaps that's in the etc column =)
Yeah, our CEO does a lunch and learn with our department a couple times a year and back in early 2009 one of his biggest rants was about how many of the brightest people went into finance instead of science and engineering. His favorite statistic was that for every civil engineer we graduated one hundred and something jobs were created but for every finance major we graduated we lost one thousand jobs. He did his very best to keep people on during the recession and while we had to severely trim a few departments (we won't be developing new properties for the foreseeable future so the development department was all but eliminated) our overall headcount today is only down about 10% from what it was before the recession.
I'm thinking they are really pushing their luck filing a new case with claims that the same court has already dismissed as being unenforceable under law. These guys have already pissed this judge off, if they don't watch out he's likely to go after their license. The judge has already admonished them that using the federal circuit as a business office is not the intent of the law, trying to refile the same claims he has rejected in a similar case is really just asking to have the hammer brought down on their heads.
Do you think they would experience $700k in breakage and theft a month? Because that's what they are claiming the unsubsidized pricing is costing them over Netflixes rates.
Actually I looked it up and it's rule 140 =)
Do they need to reduce theft and breakage? If the increased cost of shipping is more than the losses from the others then you put up with them to get the cheaper rates. This is what Netflix has done and they are the obviously more successful business. Life is about choices, making poor ones and then going crying to the government about how it's unfair that you're not having your poor choices subsidized is just lame.
Not true, they get ~$150M in appropriations from Congress each year. Not huge in the $45B annual budget but not peanuts either. There's also all the mail that federal agencies are required by mandate to send through the USPS instead of commercial carrier which is in effect a subsidy.
Uh, Gamefly's mailers were intentionally made to stack with regular first class and were plain to avoid theft, Netflix mailers were square and brightly colored. It's a lot harder to spot they Gamefly mailer *by their design* so yes they should be charged, if the cost of additional handling is more than the loss to theft then they should redesign their mailer.
God, is there an internet rule that states that for any reasonably technical topic that there will be an xkcd comic for it? =)
Uh, yes I'm actually familiar with the facts in the case, the order says they were discriminated against by having their mailers machine processed instead of hand sorted. The *reason* they aren't hand sorted is that Gamefly *chose* to make their mailers not stick out to reduce theft. You can't complain that your mailers aren't being pulled before the sorts *and* try to make them not stick out. Gamefly *also* chose to use a tougher but heavier mailer to reduce their breakage costs but which result in higher fuel costs for the USPS, forcing the USPS to lose money on heavier envelopes or increase rates for the companies that were willing to reduce their fuel costs is stupid bureaucracy at its best.
Why should the USPS be forced to subsidize a business that's unwilling to make simple technical changes that would reduce their cost to process their bulk mail? If you cost them more money you *should* be charged more, especially when you are told what fixes you can make to accommodate them and get the better rates. The postal service is subsidized by the taxpayers and any shortfall from a bulk customer like Gamefly will either be shoulder by us directly through larger appropriations or through rate hikes.
High compression direct injection engines are starting to come out, some are coupled with turbos but others aren't. They are getting much better fuel economy and can produce decent torque from small displacement so they fit well into the US market that has so far dismissed diesels. The most fuel efficient AWD crossovers for sale in the US are both high compression direct injection (Chevy Equinox and Nissan Juke, though the Juke has problems fuel economy with cold temperatures).
I've not replace the plugs on my last 3 vehicles and they went 225k, 250k, and the current one is at 146k miles and all 3 got above their EPA estimate to the end. All 3 were Ford Duratec V6's with the factory platinum plugs.
On the previous two it was a good thing they lasted so long because the engine was crammed into the bay in such a way that it required a header removal to replace the rear bank, and to further increase the badness the overhead cams didn't ride on bearing but a machined channel in the header so if you don't reassemble things perfectly your engine is toast.
I wonder which government asked them to do that, oh yeah ALL of them...
BS, no real world statistics I've seen are anywhere near that.The Internet Archive's rate is 2% (was as high as 6% at one point), MS says 5% AFR for nearline SATA and 2.75% for nearline SAS, Google's numbers were between 2% and 6% depending on the age of the drive. Also the ES drives are nearline not low end and they spin at a much lower speed so if both were built to the same standards I would expect they would have a MUCH lower AFR but they aren't.
We have 3 building on our HQ campus, I went in to outline each building and tag it with the appropriate address to make it easier for people to find the correct building when they visit the campus. There's no apparent way to do that as you have to specify a type of business when you select the drawing tool and none of the categories fit.
Perhaps their low end line is bad *because* they bought Maxtor. Their enterprise line is still just fine, been cruising at ~1.5% AFR here for the last 5 years with ~90% Seagate disks.
PV solar is good for localized generation and since a substantial amount of peak load coincides with peak output it's a good fit to demand, for base load molten salt solar is a scalable, relatively low cost solution. We need both renewable's and nuclear to move off coal and NG.
Heck, there was a US airbase within a couple hour helo flight, all they had to do was ask and I'm sure whatever heavy lift capability we had was at their disposal, I mean is the base commander really going to say "no you can't borrow our resource's we'd rather the airmen take anti-radiation meds"?
No, the generators were the right cycle, wrong voltage and configuration. They needed say 480V 3 phase and the generators they received were 208 WYE, you can convert from one to the other with a transformer but none of the correct type and rating were immediately available.
Sweet, well then when they get hacked and cause widespread outages I hope they get fined megabucks for every minute of downtime and are sued by their critical contract customers for gross negligence. Someone needs to force these guys to do things in a competent manner and apparently a decade of being warned about cybercrime hasn't been sufficient so I guess the only way they will listen is if it hits their bottom line.
MS didn't ship a phone optimized version of CE until 2002 but there were partners using regular CE for smartphones in 2000. I guess that Kyocera phone qualifies as a Palm based smartphone but since I never saw one in person I'm not sure how much of an impact they had on the market, the Treo was the first one in any kind of widespread use.