They're marketing to fanboys who want it to be trendy and 'just work', not to nerds.
This is an over-simplification. Many of us were first in line for the first iPods and the first iPhones. How many of us will buy the first iPad? Seriously? The NetPad is just a new area for Apple. They're almost there, but not quite yet.
Sorry, but the question itself is dumb and pointless. If owners of some company decide that they are going to pay CEO hueg amount of $, then for them he is worth it. It's their money and their decision, not yours. Want CEOs who get less money? start your own company and hire them on your own terms.
Most of us do not get a say in the matter. We may own common (voting) stock, through our pension plans or our 401ks, but we do not get to exercise those votes, plus we're only allowed to select our investments solely through general broad categories (we're not allowed to chose the specific companies our money goes into).
And yes as small investors, we can certainly set up our own investment account (outside of our employer) and trade individual stocks that way, but our legal tax system is geared against us doing this kind of thing (if one is investing money without maxing out his/her 401k/pension plan first, then he/she is throwing money down the drain).
If owners of some company decide that they are going to pay CEO hueg amount of $, then for them he is worth it.
If you happen to own a controlling interest in a company and if that means you can make your brother-in-law (or friend) CEO or VP of said company, then yes, it may be worth it to you. That being said, it being worth it to you doesn't necessarily mean it's going to be worth it to the rest of the shareholders -- who are also going to be paying for his compensation.
And finally, speaking of ownership again, since we did the bailout of so many corporations, that means we also own a piece of them that way. That's another reason we should be careful about how our money is spent.
Whether it's through our pension plans, or the government bailouts, it's someone else that's making the decisions for our money -- and people can certainly be pretty cavalier when they're spending other people's money. That's why these types of decisions need constant monitoring on our part.
Garmin now offers a lifetime update option [garmin.com] for $119.99... 'lifetime' being defined as "until your product's useful life expires or Garmin no longer receives map data from its third party supplier".
Which doesn't say much. I purchased a low-end Garmin unit with an SD card slot at Costco two years ago (at the time, the map was already two years old, and the POIs data set was just incomplete -- it didn't have the Points of Interests I was looking for, even the ones that should have been there four years ago, for at least 70% of the time). Now my map is four years old, and they still haven't released any data update (for my specific model) that I could buy.
And since its internals are proprietary, I can't even update the POIs (without hacking Windows Mobile that's it running on -- which I'd rather not do -- it doesn't sound easy). Personally, I'd be careful with Garmin (unless it's their gps watch or something, I have a Garmin 405 and at least that one uses readable xml data interchange format, so I can't complain there).
You mean http://portabletor.sourceforge.net/ or http://sourceforge.net/projects/freenet/. Thank god those projects are already mirrored internationally by a decentralized network, otherwise the net effect of this export control would be to just keep encryption out of the citizens of those same repressive governments, not those governments themselves.
If you don't like that query, blame the New York Times, or blame the author of that book. Don't blame Google. The same goes for the rest of those queries, you can probably blame the rest of those queries on TV Quiz shows, or on people trying to game the system. In any case, "why" is a super-vague query, most people enter quite a few more meaningful keywords. Judging Google on that criterion alone just tells us more about you than anything it tells us about Google.
Also, not everyone wants VC money. VCs want you to take over the World, or die trying. They also want the controlling stake in your business, or nothing at all. There is rarely any middle ground for them.
Now business owners and CEOs may re-mortgage their homes, liquidate their existing 401ks, get funding from friends and relatives, or do something else that's equally stupid to fund their venture, but for many of them -- the demands that the VCs make to them are just not worth it.
There are two kinds of prepaid. The first kind is "I have no money. I have no credit" prepaid. And the second kind of prepaid is "I spent $3,000 on an unlocked phone the last time I was in Japan, and hell if I'm going to sign your horrendous stupid contract, I don't need to."-prepaid.
If you're on the second kind of prepaid, you get unlimited 3G data (and you do get unlimited uncut service unlike some unlimited contracts I've seen). Just recently, T-Mobile has introduced postpaid month-to-month contracts, it's basically the equivalent of not being locked-in into an over-priced contract, but that's still very new and I think that's just a way for them to distinguish from these two very different types of customers.
Where do you find your TZones? If it's at a Starbucks, note that they are being slowly phased out in Favor of AT&T services. Besides, now in Starbucks you can basically get 2 hours of free wifi each day (although, there can be an initial wait of 48 hours to set up your account). Same goes for Borders coffee shops, you could probably still find your TZones over there, but why would you even want to now that they just introduced free wifi??? (For Borders, all you have to do is just click through their terms and services, a registration page will appear, but filling it out is optional, and as far as I know, there is no time limit each day for Borders)
There is nothing new about this. This is what any human being (a PI, or a stalker) would intuitively try to do. This is just streamlining and automating that process.
I'm not 100% sure, but I'd bet this is retaliation for the Chinese Steel subsidies/trade practices. I believe American and European manufacturers are not allowed to buy steel in China or in Chinese-controlled markets. In other words, the price Chinese bicycle manufacturers are paying for steel is artificially low and could be considered by some as an unfair manufacturing advantage.
That being said, this is just speculation on my part. The Steel thing is real. Many industries that rely on steel in the US are certainly complaining about it. But I don't really know about the rest.
What do you want to happen? Apparently, the civil lawsuit isn't finished yet. The driver wasn't drunk (he was tested right away). He stopped. And he didn't know the victims. Do you want to put the driver in prison for the next ten years? What else are you suggesting?
He should definitely pay for what he did, but in the form of financial restitution. Personally, I'm sorry this happened, but as long as this isn't a pattern -- I'd rather not have my tax dollars be used in locking this guy up for years.
Mules also happen to have their own logistics costs, are slower, less capable, and can not reach all the same terrains this robot can.
May be, but that's at least ten years out. Having a robot that works as intended under ideal spec'd conditions is one thing, but having a robot that won't break down too frequently on the field and actually work as well as a mule under unpredictable conditions. That will be something else.
That being said, you have to start somewhere. It's good that they're funding this. And it's good that they test this out in the field. It's a learning experience if nothing else. It's important that the military keeps on trying new things, even if occasionally those things don't work out too well the first couple of iterations.
It's always been worthless because the assclown with family connections will get the job over any random summa cum laude.
Ok, you've made your case, and I agree with the sentiment. Ass-clowns with family connections don't need degrees. What about the rest of us, ass-clowns with no family connections? Having a good transcript/degree can sometimes be a good differentiator.
Or does it? Since experience and personal contacts mean much more than degrees, the earlier you can get a job, the better.
Yes, the earlier you can get the right kind of job, the better it will be for you. That being said, this assumes that you will be able to get the right kind of job at the right place initially. Few people are that lucky, or have the social maturity and good sense, to make those kinds of good decisions right from the beginning (personally, I know I wasn't that smart to begin with, and I certainly didn't have the family connections. Knowing myself, I would have probably landed at a dead-end workplace/job. Today, I still do not have a College degree, I actually dropped out, but I still wouldn't trade that limited College experience for anything else in the World).
Also, motorcycle riders can fuck off sideways; the average motorcycle has ten times the emissions per mile of the average car,
We're now in 2010. The EPA has phased in new standards for on-road motorcycle emissions starting in 2006 and finally starting in 2010.
and the average motorcycle actually gets about 40 mpg when driven normally
That's simply not true. An average pre-2006 on-road motorcycle will pollute way more than a Jetta, yes, but it will still consumes much less fuel than a small car. You're confusing fuel consumption with fuel emissions (granted, those two are usually correlated, but not in this case). If you don't believe me about the fuel consumption, just ask the next person you see refueling pretty much any motorcycle at a gas station.
Also 14 authors/publishers does not make a lot of people for a country like India. Can't someone in India start a counter-petition? Acquiring more than 14 signatures shouldn't be too difficult these days. With a site like Facebook or its Indian equivalent, it shouldn't take more than five seconds.
Having two different modes, one mode that you rarely use (since one rarely shuts off the engine when the car is moving), probably led to even more confusion. Jakob Nielsen, the modeless zealout, must really be having a field-day with this.
Actually, it's one thing to go to management and ask for more money, and it's another to go to management and ask that they don't pay as much or defer payment to their sales people. That latter request, cutting costs and pissing off an entire department of sales employees, is what will make you look like management material.
Let me guess, you're exempt and don't get over-time. And the sales people are mostly commissioned-based, and their commission is not based on the completion (nor the success) of the project (but just on having a signed contract with the client).
If that's the case, and if you don't rise up, expect this kind of pattern of behavior to continue. I've seen sales people take down companies because they were chasing poorly structured commissions (instead of worrying about the viability and profitability of each deal they were making).
The objectives of prison, whether implied or otherwise, are: deterrence, protection, rehabilitation, and vindication.
they are called "correctional facilities".
This is for the most part a euphemism, to try to make the idea more palatable to opponents and bystanders. And yes, this is no excuse, euphemisms are dishonest and euphemisms suck.
Just count yourself lucky your stalker wasn't a cop. This is also how the cops do it in California (according to a recent lawsuit in San Francisco from a disgruntled employee). Before they're dating someone, or if one of their relatives is dating someone, they'll pull up all his/her medication information and mental health history. They can do that from their own laptop/computer. It doesn't matter how low of a rank they are. No justification is needed. And their query for this information doesn't even get tracked.
Yes, Nokia can cache the files. After all, it owns the NavTeq, and NavTeq has the maps in vector format.
That being said, Google Maps doesn't allow you to cache the maps for too long. I don't remember the exact terms, but you'll have to look at them (they're in the terms of services for the developers using the google maps api). Also, Google doesn't actually own its own maps right now (I'm sure it could negotiate a better licensing deal, or try to buy the company that owns those maps, or perhaps as a developer -- one could negotiate a special deal with the map supplier). Google's previous supplier was NavTeq, now they're using a different supplier (I forget their name), although maps from both suppliers will still appear on Google Maps.
Yes, TomTom on the iPhone will reroute you around traffic (thought, just like TomTom, TomTom on the iPhone is not free). The same goes for TomTom on Windows Mobile. The Service by Nokia will do the same as well (thought, I've never actually tried it on Nokia, since this announcement of the free service is still pretty fresh, on my Nokia E71 I've been running AmazeGPS in the background to listen to the turn-by-turn directions with Google Latitude/Traffic running on the foreground to look at the traffic flow, both are free applications on Nokia).
Now, I don't know about Android in general, but from what I've seen on the Nexus One, the turn-by-turn directions are finally done very well. I can only assume that they also include the traffic information in their calculations. With Google Latitude, Google is getting and publishing real-time traffic information everywhere, even on the small roads not normally tracked by the CalTrans (FastTrack) silent sensors.
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They're marketing to fanboys who want it to be trendy and 'just work', not to nerds.
This is an over-simplification. Many of us were first in line for the first iPods and the first iPhones. How many of us will buy the first iPad? Seriously? The NetPad is just a new area for Apple. They're almost there, but not quite yet.
Sorry, but the question itself is dumb and pointless. If owners of some company decide that they are going to pay CEO hueg amount of $, then for them he is worth it. It's their money and their decision, not yours. Want CEOs who get less money? start your own company and hire them on your own terms.
Most of us do not get a say in the matter. We may own common (voting) stock, through our pension plans or our 401ks, but we do not get to exercise those votes, plus we're only allowed to select our investments solely through general broad categories (we're not allowed to chose the specific companies our money goes into).
And yes as small investors, we can certainly set up our own investment account (outside of our employer) and trade individual stocks that way, but our legal tax system is geared against us doing this kind of thing (if one is investing money without maxing out his/her 401k/pension plan first, then he/she is throwing money down the drain).
If owners of some company decide that they are going to pay CEO hueg amount of $, then for them he is worth it.
If you happen to own a controlling interest in a company and if that means you can make your brother-in-law (or friend) CEO or VP of said company, then yes, it may be worth it to you. That being said, it being worth it to you doesn't necessarily mean it's going to be worth it to the rest of the shareholders -- who are also going to be paying for his compensation.
And finally, speaking of ownership again, since we did the bailout of so many corporations, that means we also own a piece of them that way. That's another reason we should be careful about how our money is spent.
Whether it's through our pension plans, or the government bailouts, it's someone else that's making the decisions for our money -- and people can certainly be pretty cavalier when they're spending other people's money. That's why these types of decisions need constant monitoring on our part.
Garmin now offers a lifetime update option [garmin.com] for $119.99... 'lifetime' being defined as "until your product's useful life expires or Garmin no longer receives map data from its third party supplier".
Which doesn't say much. I purchased a low-end Garmin unit with an SD card slot at Costco two years ago (at the time, the map was already two years old, and the POIs data set was just incomplete -- it didn't have the Points of Interests I was looking for, even the ones that should have been there four years ago, for at least 70% of the time). Now my map is four years old, and they still haven't released any data update (for my specific model) that I could buy.
And since its internals are proprietary, I can't even update the POIs (without hacking Windows Mobile that's it running on -- which I'd rather not do -- it doesn't sound easy). Personally, I'd be careful with Garmin (unless it's their gps watch or something, I have a Garmin 405 and at least that one uses readable xml data interchange format, so I can't complain there).
You mean http://portabletor.sourceforge.net/ or http://sourceforge.net/projects/freenet/. Thank god those projects are already mirrored internationally by a decentralized network, otherwise the net effect of this export control would be to just keep encryption out of the citizens of those same repressive governments, not those governments themselves.
What would we do with out such an enormous cultural asset such as Google?
Why do men have nipples? is a humor book. It's a New York Times Bestseller.
If you don't like that query, blame the New York Times, or blame the author of that book. Don't blame Google. The same goes for the rest of those queries, you can probably blame the rest of those queries on TV Quiz shows, or on people trying to game the system. In any case, "why" is a super-vague query, most people enter quite a few more meaningful keywords. Judging Google on that criterion alone just tells us more about you than anything it tells us about Google.
Also, not everyone wants VC money. VCs want you to take over the World, or die trying. They also want the controlling stake in your business, or nothing at all. There is rarely any middle ground for them.
Now business owners and CEOs may re-mortgage their homes, liquidate their existing 401ks, get funding from friends and relatives, or do something else that's equally stupid to fund their venture, but for many of them -- the demands that the VCs make to them are just not worth it.
Prepay doesn't have data.
There are two kinds of prepaid. The first kind is "I have no money. I have no credit" prepaid. And the second kind of prepaid is "I spent $3,000 on an unlocked phone the last time I was in Japan, and hell if I'm going to sign your horrendous stupid contract, I don't need to."-prepaid.
If you're on the second kind of prepaid, you get unlimited 3G data (and you do get unlimited uncut service unlike some unlimited contracts I've seen). Just recently, T-Mobile has introduced postpaid month-to-month contracts, it's basically the equivalent of not being locked-in into an over-priced contract, but that's still very new and I think that's just a way for them to distinguish from these two very different types of customers.
Where do you find your TZones? If it's at a Starbucks, note that they are being slowly phased out in Favor of AT&T services. Besides, now in Starbucks you can basically get 2 hours of free wifi each day (although, there can be an initial wait of 48 hours to set up your account). Same goes for Borders coffee shops, you could probably still find your TZones over there, but why would you even want to now that they just introduced free wifi??? (For Borders, all you have to do is just click through their terms and services, a registration page will appear, but filling it out is optional, and as far as I know, there is no time limit each day for Borders)
There is nothing new about this. This is what any human being (a PI, or a stalker) would intuitively try to do. This is just streamlining and automating that process.
I'm not 100% sure, but I'd bet this is retaliation for the Chinese Steel subsidies/trade practices. I believe American and European manufacturers are not allowed to buy steel in China or in Chinese-controlled markets. In other words, the price Chinese bicycle manufacturers are paying for steel is artificially low and could be considered by some as an unfair manufacturing advantage.
That being said, this is just speculation on my part. The Steel thing is real. Many industries that rely on steel in the US are certainly complaining about it. But I don't really know about the rest.
What do you want to happen? Apparently, the civil lawsuit isn't finished yet. The driver wasn't drunk (he was tested right away). He stopped. And he didn't know the victims. Do you want to put the driver in prison for the next ten years? What else are you suggesting?
He should definitely pay for what he did, but in the form of financial restitution. Personally, I'm sorry this happened, but as long as this isn't a pattern -- I'd rather not have my tax dollars be used in locking this guy up for years.
Mules also happen to have their own logistics costs, are slower, less capable, and can not reach all the same terrains this robot can.
May be, but that's at least ten years out. Having a robot that works as intended under ideal spec'd conditions is one thing, but having a robot that won't break down too frequently on the field and actually work as well as a mule under unpredictable conditions. That will be something else.
That being said, you have to start somewhere. It's good that they're funding this. And it's good that they test this out in the field. It's a learning experience if nothing else. It's important that the military keeps on trying new things, even if occasionally those things don't work out too well the first couple of iterations.
It's always been worthless because the assclown with family connections will get the job over any random summa cum laude.
Ok, you've made your case, and I agree with the sentiment. Ass-clowns with family connections don't need degrees. What about the rest of us, ass-clowns with no family connections? Having a good transcript/degree can sometimes be a good differentiator.
Or does it? Since experience and personal contacts mean much more than degrees, the earlier you can get a job, the better.
Yes, the earlier you can get the right kind of job, the better it will be for you. That being said, this assumes that you will be able to get the right kind of job at the right place initially. Few people are that lucky, or have the social maturity and good sense, to make those kinds of good decisions right from the beginning (personally, I know I wasn't that smart to begin with, and I certainly didn't have the family connections. Knowing myself, I would have probably landed at a dead-end workplace/job. Today, I still do not have a College degree, I actually dropped out, but I still wouldn't trade that limited College experience for anything else in the World).
Also, motorcycle riders can fuck off sideways; the average motorcycle has ten times the emissions per mile of the average car,
We're now in 2010. The EPA has phased in new standards for on-road motorcycle emissions starting in 2006 and finally starting in 2010.
and the average motorcycle actually gets about 40 mpg when driven normally
That's simply not true. An average pre-2006 on-road motorcycle will pollute way more than a Jetta, yes, but it will still consumes much less fuel than a small car. You're confusing fuel consumption with fuel emissions (granted, those two are usually correlated, but not in this case). If you don't believe me about the fuel consumption, just ask the next person you see refueling pretty much any motorcycle at a gas station.
Also 14 authors/publishers does not make a lot of people for a country like India. Can't someone in India start a counter-petition? Acquiring more than 14 signatures shouldn't be too difficult these days. With a site like Facebook or its Indian equivalent, it shouldn't take more than five seconds.
Good example, just wrong country (wrong jurisdiction).
Having two different modes, one mode that you rarely use (since one rarely shuts off the engine when the car is moving), probably led to even more confusion. Jakob Nielsen, the modeless zealout, must really be having a field-day with this.
People aren't going to form emotional attachments to people who may mysteriously vanish from their cubicals after the next quarterly results.
Let me guess, you've never been to College, or you've never had any emotional attachments there.
Of course one day pigs will fly too.
Actually, it's one thing to go to management and ask for more money, and it's another to go to management and ask that they don't pay as much or defer payment to their sales people. That latter request, cutting costs and pissing off an entire department of sales employees, is what will make you look like management material.
Let me guess, you're exempt and don't get over-time. And the sales people are mostly commissioned-based, and their commission is not based on the completion (nor the success) of the project (but just on having a signed contract with the client).
If that's the case, and if you don't rise up, expect this kind of pattern of behavior to continue. I've seen sales people take down companies because they were chasing poorly structured commissions (instead of worrying about the viability and profitability of each deal they were making).
The stated goals of prisons are to rehabilitate
The objectives of prison, whether implied or otherwise, are: deterrence, protection, rehabilitation, and vindication.
they are called "correctional facilities".
This is for the most part a euphemism, to try to make the idea more palatable to opponents and bystanders. And yes, this is no excuse, euphemisms are dishonest and euphemisms suck.
Is this the new preferred car for gangstas?
I doubt it. Gangsters will opt for better fuel economy, but just without the billowing black diesel smoke. They'll probably get a Hummer or something.
Just count yourself lucky your stalker wasn't a cop. This is also how the cops do it in California (according to a recent lawsuit in San Francisco from a disgruntled employee). Before they're dating someone, or if one of their relatives is dating someone, they'll pull up all his/her medication information and mental health history. They can do that from their own laptop/computer. It doesn't matter how low of a rank they are. No justification is needed. And their query for this information doesn't even get tracked.
Yes, Nokia can cache the files. After all, it owns the NavTeq, and NavTeq has the maps in vector format.
That being said, Google Maps doesn't allow you to cache the maps for too long. I don't remember the exact terms, but you'll have to look at them (they're in the terms of services for the developers using the google maps api). Also, Google doesn't actually own its own maps right now (I'm sure it could negotiate a better licensing deal, or try to buy the company that owns those maps, or perhaps as a developer -- one could negotiate a special deal with the map supplier). Google's previous supplier was NavTeq, now they're using a different supplier (I forget their name), although maps from both suppliers will still appear on Google Maps.
Yes, TomTom on the iPhone will reroute you around traffic (thought, just like TomTom, TomTom on the iPhone is not free). The same goes for TomTom on Windows Mobile. The Service by Nokia will do the same as well (thought, I've never actually tried it on Nokia, since this announcement of the free service is still pretty fresh, on my Nokia E71 I've been running AmazeGPS in the background to listen to the turn-by-turn directions with Google Latitude/Traffic running on the foreground to look at the traffic flow, both are free applications on Nokia).
Now, I don't know about Android in general, but from what I've seen on the Nexus One, the turn-by-turn directions are finally done very well. I can only assume that they also include the traffic information in their calculations. With Google Latitude, Google is getting and publishing real-time traffic information everywhere, even on the small roads not normally tracked by the CalTrans (FastTrack) silent sensors.