I voted with my wallet. I bought an iphone. 5s - Got it launch day September 20th 2013
Just over 2 years old. Installed iOS 9.0.2 the other day- Scheduled the install for the middle of the night while I was sleeping.
Of course, I could have stuck with my 4s... That's still currently supported. Launched early october 2011 - Just under 4 years old and it too can run iOS 9.0.2.
Poor guy! He's obviously never getting Lollipop or Marshmallow.
Next time, don't be such a cheapskate, and get yourself an Xperia Z2 or an HTC M8.
They cost more than iPhones, but you get what you pay for.
Carly Fiorina was an aweful CEO because of the Compaq merger.
Choosing the iPod over the Zune, or choosing the iPod over its own HP-made mp3 player, I can't fault her for that.
That would have been a good decision even if she wouldn't have done the temporary deal with Apple. A company can't be the winner in every category. It has to pick and choose its battles (even if no company pays you to lay down your weapons). Also, it takes a lot more than just a good hardware product to win in a particular category (take Nokia as an example).
And no, I don't even know if HP's music players were any good. May be they were, may be they weren't. For me, the locked down iPod or Zune were always out of the question. I only bought mp3 players from Creative Labs (but of course, that wouldn't make me the ideal customer for any of them since I didn't like getting locked into a single source).
As an American, I find the concept of throwing out evidence somewhat questionable is well, as in, if someone is guilty, they are guilty, no matter how the evidence was obtained.
Don't worry, you're not the only one. There was a study that found that 70% of juries still convicted based on the very hint of thrown out confessions (when no other evidence was present to corroborate the guilt of the accused).
This has lead police officers to purposefully avoid mirandizing some of the suspects they arrest, and then interpret almost anything they say as a confession (while at the same time making sure that any recording of the so-called confession gets conveniently lost). Because once the district attorney mentions that there was a confession in front of a jury, and even if the judge throws it out, the accused is then caught in a bind, either he says it wasn't a confession and that claim (that he confessed) possibly gets used against him officially (because as a defendant, if he brings it up in court, it becomes admissible), or he says nothing and the so-called "confession" still possibly gets used unofficially against him by the jury.
This is why you should never talk without your lawyer present. Your lawyer should always bring in his own recorder as well. And you should never answer hypothetical questions about where you think a potential murderer could have buried the body, or what was possibly used to commit the crime, or really say anything at all, until you speak to your own lawyer first.
The truth is that the real harden criminals and the real psycopaths do not confess. They just don't. And that the US criminal justice system makes it so damn hard to convict any kind of people without direct evidence, that we've given the police and the justice system an almost impossible job to do. That's why extraordinary measures are being taken on an almost daily basis to try to make the system work (despite all the rules that prevent it from working in the first place).
The court understands this and won't buy any arguments that it's technically difficult or expensive, because they see it is already being done.
Nevertheless, I think there is something morally wrong about that. There is a reason for people to switch to another country's TLDs, and that's to purposefully go around the censorship of their own country.
But if now censorship even occurs at the ip geolocation level, the censorship won't be as obvious, and the targeted users won't have any idea that what they're reading has been censored. And events like the one at Fukishama will be treated more like the Chernobyl incident pre-internet, with a complete press blackout and no one in the affected areas that know what's going on.
It seems the French government is only complaining about people within France being able to change too easily from Google.fr to Google.com to get around the censorship.
In other words, if China were to ask the same thing (and they could since Google has decided to go back there), it would demand that the original Daila Lama be removed from all the googles search results of all the countries (when those other googles are being accessed from a Chinese ip geolocation). Technically, this is feasible, but imagine the additional waste of time this asinine request would create for every internet company out there.
France is essentially demanding that internet companies region-lock themselves. And of course, there are only two ways they'll be able to region-lock themselves, either they'll filter their results according to geolocation, or the lazier of them will just prevent their users from accessing sister web sites outside of their designated geolocation.
Apparently, high end perfume may also help for the conservation of wolves.
This scent smearing ritual isn't limited to stinky odors. In her studies, Goodmann placed different odors in the wolf enclosures and found that wolves roll in sweet-smelling scents too. Besides rolling in ode-to-cat, elk, mouse, and hog, they also rolled in mint extract, Chanel No. 5, Halt! dog repellant, fish sandwich with tartar sauce, fly repellent, and Old Spice. So the scents aren't necessarily foul, nor are they ones that wolves necessarily like. Goodmann stated, "some of the Wolf Park wolves object when handlers put fly repellent on their ear tips but these same wolves often scent roll readily in fly repellents manufactured to be sprayed onto horses, provided the scents are sprayed on the ground and left for the wolves to discover." [source]
Yes, fish sandwich with tartare sauce. I can confirm that my cat likes that odor too.
In fact, if it was a contest between high end perfume and a fishy smell, for my cat. I can guarantee that the fishy smell would win every time.
For a start ban fast food drive throughs. Silly as it sounds card idling there are a large part of the smog problem.
Or we could just require fast food restaurants to go even faster, so that no cars idle at all.
The payment could just be made through something like FastTrack (or the equivalent in your country or state). You could pre-order your food before you even enter your car. In the end, you would just go to the drive thru to pick up your food and drinks. That would end up saving a ton of emissions and time.
If your department is not seen as the main revenue generator for your company, you can easily be treated like shit by everyone else within your company.
"Man, it's hot out" translates into a device showing a Coke advert. I feel like this isn't far off
I agree, but the way the technology stumbles before it gets perfected.
It will probably be an advertisement for a hot man at a Chip N Dale club. The second time you say it, you'll be more careful enunciating it, but then it will be your Nest thermostat that starts cooling down the inside of your place (not having fully understood the "out" in your statement, when you were obviously just "in" when you said it).
Eventually, you'll just learn to shut up whenever you're in range of that microphone, and you'll be carrying around little pieces of duck tape to place on microphones (just like I had to do last week with my newly upgraded Windows 10 machine).
And then should begin rejecting mails with a CC with multiple email addresses in it outright.
There is nothing preventing you from doing that right now with your own email client.
This would solve half of the world's spam problems in a few years too.
That's assuming the world still even has a spamming problem.
Personally, I don't have a problem with email spam (except for spam faxes). Unfortunately, I still have stupid co-workers that will order things from unsolicited faxes, thus rewarding the spamming behavior, and unfortunately, the phone/fax system is still largely ill-equipped to deal with such problems.
After the app is released, people will flock to the cab app during peak hours because of the cheaper pricing.
That is already happening in cities like San Francisco and New York (without the app).
Taxi cabs simply do not have the extra capacity during peak hours. In New York, a famous black neurosurgeon can't seem to catch a cab, but as a white person in SF, I can't even seem to catch a cab either when I really need one (and as it turns out, I tend to need one during peak hours when everyone else wants one).
The Medaillon system assumes the demand is constant 24 hours a day 7 days a week. It does not increase the number of drivers during peak hours, and at the same time, it forces drivers to work during off-peak hours when nobody needs them to try to recoup the already very high sunk cost of the Medaillon.
The only real market solution is to whitelist a certain number of ad networks, and have sites commit to only running ads from those ad networks, but this segments the internet into the haves (premium inventory, high quality sites, premium ad networks, premium ads, all expensive) and the have nots (mom and pop sites with mediocre inventory that nobody visits because of the chance of getting cancer from the shit networks they have to run). Beyond that, this problem is unlikely to go away - it's simply too easy to game the system and put whatever you want into many adspaces.
Many of us are already doing that, using adblock to blacklist everything by default, and whitelisting ads on a case by case basis.
I'm glad that someone in the online advertising industry is finally advocating for this strategy. It took you guys a while.
The mix-up is likely due to the fact that my email address is a shortened version of a common first name and a common Hispanic last name.
Dear Canadian Hispanic friend,
I feel for you. I'm also a politician and someone has registered my email address by mistake as well. Luckily that person is 10 years younger, 30~ pounds lighter, 3 inch taller, and an homosexual, according to the leaked data, which definitely proves that my Ashley account was started by someone completely different.
So I can't really say that my situation is as dire as yours.
Are iTunes, Spotify and Netflix all banned on the African continent?
Banned is the wrong word.
The rights holders seldom sell the full international distribution rights to all the online services. This is why if you're in the UK, Netflix only has a fraction of what's available if you're in the US (at least, this was last year, I don't know if it's still the case right now). And this is why in most countries, you can't get Netflix or Spotify at all, unless you pay with an American credit card or some other foreign credit card, and then use a VPN to tunnel through to the service.
And then again, some of those services simply do not care about the parts of the African continent, that do not have high bandwidth, or that still pay for bandwidth by the Kb.
Uber rates are not always cheaper, especially when it comes to picking up many drunk people after the Bart has already closed down and the taxis can't meet the spike in the demand.
But if you know of any stories like those reported, I want you to escalate to HR. You can also email me directly at jeff@amazon.com. Even if it’s rare or isolated, our tolerance for any such lack of empathy needs to be zero.
Bezos doesn't get it.
The New York Times article criticized the informing culture and the negatively-focused work culture of Amazon (even if it did exaggerate some aspects of it through their own agenda, or through sampling bias). I must have missed the part where the authors of the article were calling for more ways to inform on others and for more zero tolerance thinking (like they didn't haven enough of these already). And even if they had, I don't think that most people would agree that empathy could be rekindled that way.
You know the saying: "If the only tool you have is a hammer, every problem you will have will look like a nail." Well, Bezos has no idea that a different management tool could even exist. His response is the perfect illustration of that fact.
People who come in with a cold already well underway, with many sick days to spare, have a false sense of loyalty. Their image of a good loyal worker may be safeguarded, but it's at the cost of infecting everyone else.
I am not a manager, but I refuse to work with such people. They need to go home and get some rest. And managers need to send those people home, that's their job as managers, to see the entire picture.
The company should pay for their cab fare back home if it has to. And when this happens, HR should be working on getting someone in to vaccinate workers (who are willing to get vaccinated). By that time, it may be too late for some, but not for everyone yet.
The use for this is clearly not for your car, but for the lazy impatient passenger-owner of the car. Once charging stations become self-driving, they will catch up to self-driving cars, and plug themselves in to charge them while those self-driving cars are still going around the block indefinitely because their lazy impatient passenger-owners told their self-driving cars not to park too far (in a place that is almost impossible to find parking) and to be ready to pick them up at a moment's notice.
According to the homeowner who shot the drone, the confrontation was almost immediate, and the police was called right away. Also, the homeowner seems to be very aware that if he had used a higher caliber, he would have gone to jail automatically for it just because of safety concerns.
So tell me, which one would be easier while waiting for the police to arrive?
Tell a family member to go hide the original rifle used, or take it to a neighbors house, and then shoot a shotgun into some pillows and a mattress before the police gets to your house? Or use your Hollywood mad hacker-skills while waiting in your car for the police to arrive to hack your own iPad and phantom drone remains, falsify all its flight data, delete any video footage, and scrub the internal Flash memory chips of both the iPad and the drone to make sure you don't leave any traces of your evidence tampering?
No, only your cell phone can record everybody around it. Cell phones are the real problem since anyone can pretend they're talking to someone or playing with their device, and actually recording you instead even when they're not facing you.
The Google Glass, on the other, will blink its camera light when it's recording you and it will heat up so much after 40 minutes of recording things that it will burn the side of your head and drain all its battery.
Next time, he should just do like the KISS band, and encourage lookalikes to perform as well. A bunch of wigs with dreadlocks shouldn't cost that much. While the "hologram" idea makes a good South Park joke, live performances from (both bad and sometimes good) imitators are a lot more fun.
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I voted with my wallet. I bought an iphone. 5s - Got it launch day September 20th 2013
Just over 2 years old. Installed iOS 9.0.2 the other day- Scheduled the install for the middle of the night while I was sleeping.
Of course, I could have stuck with my 4s... That's still currently supported. Launched early october 2011 - Just under 4 years old and it too can run iOS 9.0.2.
Poor guy! He's obviously never getting Lollipop or Marshmallow.
Next time, don't be such a cheapskate, and get yourself an Xperia Z2 or an HTC M8.
They cost more than iPhones, but you get what you pay for.
Carly Fiorina was an aweful CEO because of the Compaq merger.
Choosing the iPod over the Zune, or choosing the iPod over its own HP-made mp3 player, I can't fault her for that.
That would have been a good decision even if she wouldn't have done the temporary deal with Apple. A company can't be the winner in every category. It has to pick and choose its battles (even if no company pays you to lay down your weapons). Also, it takes a lot more than just a good hardware product to win in a particular category (take Nokia as an example).
And no, I don't even know if HP's music players were any good. May be they were, may be they weren't. For me, the locked down iPod or Zune were always out of the question. I only bought mp3 players from Creative Labs (but of course, that wouldn't make me the ideal customer for any of them since I didn't like getting locked into a single source).
How about, "I have hundreds of books that I didn't purchase through Amazon, and therefore aren't in the Amazon cloud."
An Amazon drone strike is on its way to your location as we speak.
Because then it would be trivial for you to also read books that you *didn't* get from Amazon. And we can't have that, now can we?
No we can't. Not for $50 at least.
If you want a $200 tablet for the price of $50, obviously something has to give. Amazon is not in the charity business.
The same goes if Amazon suddenly rents you the tablet for 1 penny a month.
Amazon has to recoup its hardware cost somehow.
As an American, I find the concept of throwing out evidence somewhat questionable is well, as in, if someone is guilty, they are guilty, no matter how the evidence was obtained.
Don't worry, you're not the only one. There was a study that found that 70% of juries still convicted based on the very hint of thrown out confessions (when no other evidence was present to corroborate the guilt of the accused).
This has lead police officers to purposefully avoid mirandizing some of the suspects they arrest, and then interpret almost anything they say as a confession (while at the same time making sure that any recording of the so-called confession gets conveniently lost). Because once the district attorney mentions that there was a confession in front of a jury, and even if the judge throws it out, the accused is then caught in a bind, either he says it wasn't a confession and that claim (that he confessed) possibly gets used against him officially (because as a defendant, if he brings it up in court, it becomes admissible), or he says nothing and the so-called "confession" still possibly gets used unofficially against him by the jury.
This is why you should never talk without your lawyer present. Your lawyer should always bring in his own recorder as well. And you should never answer hypothetical questions about where you think a potential murderer could have buried the body, or what was possibly used to commit the crime, or really say anything at all, until you speak to your own lawyer first.
The truth is that the real harden criminals and the real psycopaths do not confess. They just don't. And that the US criminal justice system makes it so damn hard to convict any kind of people without direct evidence, that we've given the police and the justice system an almost impossible job to do. That's why extraordinary measures are being taken on an almost daily basis to try to make the system work (despite all the rules that prevent it from working in the first place).
The court understands this and won't buy any arguments that it's technically difficult or expensive, because they see it is already being done.
Nevertheless, I think there is something morally wrong about that. There is a reason for people to switch to another country's TLDs, and that's to purposefully go around the censorship of their own country.
But if now censorship even occurs at the ip geolocation level, the censorship won't be as obvious, and the targeted users won't have any idea that what they're reading has been censored. And events like the one at Fukishama will be treated more like the Chernobyl incident pre-internet, with a complete press blackout and no one in the affected areas that know what's going on.
It seems the French government is only complaining about people within France being able to change too easily from Google.fr to Google.com to get around the censorship.
In other words, if China were to ask the same thing (and they could since Google has decided to go back there), it would demand that the original Daila Lama be removed from all the googles search results of all the countries (when those other googles are being accessed from a Chinese ip geolocation). Technically, this is feasible, but imagine the additional waste of time this asinine request would create for every internet company out there.
France is essentially demanding that internet companies region-lock themselves. And of course, there are only two ways they'll be able to region-lock themselves, either they'll filter their results according to geolocation, or the lazier of them will just prevent their users from accessing sister web sites outside of their designated geolocation.
Apparently, high end perfume may also help for the conservation of wolves.
This scent smearing ritual isn't limited to stinky odors. In her studies, Goodmann placed different odors in the wolf enclosures and found that wolves roll in sweet-smelling scents too. Besides rolling in ode-to-cat, elk, mouse, and hog, they also rolled in mint extract, Chanel No. 5, Halt! dog repellant, fish sandwich with tartar sauce, fly repellent, and Old Spice. So the scents aren't necessarily foul, nor are they ones that wolves necessarily like. Goodmann stated, "some of the Wolf Park wolves object when handlers put fly repellent on their ear tips but these same wolves often scent roll readily in fly repellents manufactured to be sprayed onto horses, provided the scents are sprayed on the ground and left for the wolves to discover."
[source]
Yes, fish sandwich with tartare sauce. I can confirm that my cat likes that odor too.
In fact, if it was a contest between high end perfume and a fishy smell, for my cat. I can guarantee that the fishy smell would win every time.
Urine has ammonia. And ammonia does have some medicinal properties according to western science. There is actually nothing weird about that.
For a start ban fast food drive throughs. Silly as it sounds card idling there are a large part of the smog problem.
Or we could just require fast food restaurants to go even faster, so that no cars idle at all.
The payment could just be made through something like FastTrack (or the equivalent in your country or state). You could pre-order your food before you even enter your car. In the end, you would just go to the drive thru to pick up your food and drinks. That would end up saving a ton of emissions and time.
IT is just like HR.
If your department is not seen as the main revenue generator for your company, you can easily be treated like shit by everyone else within your company.
It may not just be because you're a woman.
Do not go to bed. You talk too much when you sleep.
"Man, it's hot out" translates into a device showing a Coke advert. I feel like this isn't far off
I agree, but the way the technology stumbles before it gets perfected.
It will probably be an advertisement for a hot man at a Chip N Dale club. The second time you say it, you'll be more careful enunciating it, but then it will be your Nest thermostat that starts cooling down the inside of your place (not having fully understood the "out" in your statement, when you were obviously just "in" when you said it).
Eventually, you'll just learn to shut up whenever you're in range of that microphone, and you'll be carrying around little pieces of duck tape to place on microphones (just like I had to do last week with my newly upgraded Windows 10 machine).
And then should begin rejecting mails with a CC with multiple email addresses in it outright.
There is nothing preventing you from doing that right now with your own email client.
This would solve half of the world's spam problems in a few years too.
That's assuming the world still even has a spamming problem.
Personally, I don't have a problem with email spam (except for spam faxes). Unfortunately, I still have stupid co-workers that will order things from unsolicited faxes, thus rewarding the spamming behavior, and unfortunately, the phone/fax system is still largely ill-equipped to deal with such problems.
After the app is released, people will flock to the cab app during peak hours because of the cheaper pricing.
That is already happening in cities like San Francisco and New York (without the app).
Taxi cabs simply do not have the extra capacity during peak hours. In New York, a famous black neurosurgeon can't seem to catch a cab, but as a white person in SF, I can't even seem to catch a cab either when I really need one (and as it turns out, I tend to need one during peak hours when everyone else wants one).
The Medaillon system assumes the demand is constant 24 hours a day 7 days a week. It does not increase the number of drivers during peak hours, and at the same time, it forces drivers to work during off-peak hours when nobody needs them to try to recoup the already very high sunk cost of the Medaillon.
The only real market solution is to whitelist a certain number of ad networks, and have sites commit to only running ads from those ad networks, but this segments the internet into the haves (premium inventory, high quality sites, premium ad networks, premium ads, all expensive) and the have nots (mom and pop sites with mediocre inventory that nobody visits because of the chance of getting cancer from the shit networks they have to run). Beyond that, this problem is unlikely to go away - it's simply too easy to game the system and put whatever you want into many adspaces.
Many of us are already doing that, using adblock to blacklist everything by default, and whitelisting ads on a case by case basis.
I'm glad that someone in the online advertising industry is finally advocating for this strategy. It took you guys a while.
The mix-up is likely due to the fact that my email address is a shortened version of a common first name and a common Hispanic last name.
Dear Canadian Hispanic friend,
I feel for you. I'm also a politician and someone has registered my email address by mistake as well. Luckily that person is 10 years younger, 30~ pounds lighter, 3 inch taller, and an homosexual, according to the leaked data, which definitely proves that my Ashley account was started by someone completely different.
So I can't really say that my situation is as dire as yours.
Are iTunes, Spotify and Netflix all banned on the African continent?
Banned is the wrong word.
The rights holders seldom sell the full international distribution rights to all the online services. This is why if you're in the UK, Netflix only has a fraction of what's available if you're in the US (at least, this was last year, I don't know if it's still the case right now). And this is why in most countries, you can't get Netflix or Spotify at all, unless you pay with an American credit card or some other foreign credit card, and then use a VPN to tunnel through to the service.
And then again, some of those services simply do not care about the parts of the African continent, that do not have high bandwidth, or that still pay for bandwidth by the Kb.
Uber rates are not always cheaper, especially when it comes to picking up many drunk people after the Bart has already closed down and the taxis can't meet the spike in the demand.
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But if you know of any stories like those reported, I want you to escalate to HR. You can also email me directly at jeff@amazon.com. Even if it’s rare or isolated, our tolerance for any such lack of empathy needs to be zero.
Bezos doesn't get it.
The New York Times article criticized the informing culture and the negatively-focused work culture of Amazon (even if it did exaggerate some aspects of it through their own agenda, or through sampling bias). I must have missed the part where the authors of the article were calling for more ways to inform on others and for more zero tolerance thinking (like they didn't haven enough of these already). And even if they had, I don't think that most people would agree that empathy could be rekindled that way.
You know the saying: "If the only tool you have is a hammer, every problem you will have will look like a nail." Well, Bezos has no idea that a different management tool could even exist. His response is the perfect illustration of that fact.
People who come in with a cold already well underway, with many sick days to spare, have a false sense of loyalty. Their image of a good loyal worker may be safeguarded, but it's at the cost of infecting everyone else.
I am not a manager, but I refuse to work with such people. They need to go home and get some rest. And managers need to send those people home, that's their job as managers, to see the entire picture.
The company should pay for their cab fare back home if it has to. And when this happens, HR should be working on getting someone in to vaccinate workers (who are willing to get vaccinated). By that time, it may be too late for some, but not for everyone yet.
The use for this is clearly not for your car, but for the lazy impatient passenger-owner of the car. Once charging stations become self-driving, they will catch up to self-driving cars, and plug themselves in to charge them while those self-driving cars are still going around the block indefinitely because their lazy impatient passenger-owners told their self-driving cars not to park too far (in a place that is almost impossible to find parking) and to be ready to pick them up at a moment's notice.
According to the homeowner who shot the drone, the confrontation was almost immediate, and the police was called right away. Also, the homeowner seems to be very aware that if he had used a higher caliber, he would have gone to jail automatically for it just because of safety concerns.
So tell me, which one would be easier while waiting for the police to arrive?
Tell a family member to go hide the original rifle used, or take it to a neighbors house, and then shoot a shotgun into some pillows and a mattress before the police gets to your house? Or use your Hollywood mad hacker-skills while waiting in your car for the police to arrive to hack your own iPad and phantom drone remains, falsify all its flight data, delete any video footage, and scrub the internal Flash memory chips of both the iPad and the drone to make sure you don't leave any traces of your evidence tampering?
No, only your cell phone can record everybody around it. Cell phones are the real problem since anyone can pretend they're talking to someone or playing with their device, and actually recording you instead even when they're not facing you.
The Google Glass, on the other, will blink its camera light when it's recording you and it will heat up so much after 40 minutes of recording things that it will burn the side of your head and drain all its battery.
Next time, he should just do like the KISS band, and encourage lookalikes to perform as well. A bunch of wigs with dreadlocks shouldn't cost that much. While the "hologram" idea makes a good South Park joke, live performances from (both bad and sometimes good) imitators are a lot more fun.