Don't be so hard on him. Even Google Translate (to Hindi, and back again) makes the same mistake. If Google can't write a good bot for this, what makes you think Slashdot can do any better.
Afrikaans is a language for which there is little web content, including Hindi, and will affect the discovery of new changes in Icelandic. Google translation of the relevant web pages will be written in English and to show those results, too.
What job? He was never an employee. He was a contractor. And contractors are supposed to control their own work environment and own their own tools, etc (not that this what happens in real life, many full time contractors have actually successfully sued to be considered full time employees, much to the chagrin of their employers, but this is what happens when an employer tries to have all the benefits of an employee, but none of the associated obligations that come with it -- by labeling that employee a contractor).
In any case, the company wasn't worried about the Twitter account until the guy started suing them for not paying him the revenue-share he was promised. Of course, I'm not a lawyer, but trying to classify him now as an employee could be a mistake. As a former employee, the Department of Labor would recover all his wages in no-times flat, but as a contractor, he'll have to continue going through the courts and they could stonewall him indefinitely (and pay other creditors before they pay him).
Also, I doubt the "employer" will get any love from Twitter if Twitter has any say in the court proceedings. Last I checked, Twitter doesn't charge individual users, but it does charge you if you create a Twitter account representing a business. So if you have a business account on Twitter, and are not paying them, which is actually super easy to do if you're cheap and careless about business accounts and terms and services, don't be surprised if you get that account deleted right from under you just because you're violating their terms of services.
The most embarrassing part is that, like many Android devices, the Fire can't scroll smoothly despite having a dual core processor.
...like many Android devices? You mean, like many of the bargain bins Android-based devices that don't even qualify to connect to the Google Market (since they don't satisfy any of the minimum specs).
Because my Samsung Tab 10.1 certainly scrolls smoothly, and even most of the pre-Honeycomb tablets I've tested also scroll smoothly, as long as they satisfy the minimum requirements (PDF) required by Google to be officially called an "Android device" and connected to the official Google market, then you know you have a tablet that will scroll smoothly.
What is it about this task is so difficult? iOS 1.0 handled it back in 2007 on less powerful devices.
Don't blame Android. Blame the Apple fanboys for thinking that their iPad is still the best device for almost everything, despite the mounting evidence against it.
Take for instance the person who submitted this piece of news to Slashdot (or the person he's trying to quote). Does anyone actually still think the iPad is the best for watching Movies? Seriously? I personally don't. How many iPads are on 4G these days? It still wasn't long ago, that the only iPads you could get were wifi-enabled, or 3G-enabled. Can people even watch movies on 3G with an iPad? AT&T didn't even allow you guys to use FaceTime on 3G. I doubt that watching movies on it would work that well on it either.
Even FaceTime between two adjacent wifi-iPads inside an Apple store during off-peak semi-deserted hours got all choppy through wifi-only. Do you think FaceTime would even work on the slower bandwidth of your home? I doubt it. My android tablet at least, can stream video either way, on 3G, wifi, or 4G, but on 4G (even after you substract all the marketing bullshit, I still get speeds of around 1 MB per second, and that means I can stream HD content in almost real-time). 4G-enabled Honeycomb tablets, those are the current best devices for watching movies.
Do all races (not just African Americans) need Caucasian male partners to improve their chances for success.
I think, you're confusing "the success of getting VC-funding" with "the general success of a business venture". Those two types of success are not generally the same thing.
For one thing, the VC gets paid whether the business succeeds wildly, or whether the business gets completely driven into the ground. Most VCs never invest their own money (even if they happen to be millionaires), they usually invest other people's money (and other people tend to trust them a lot more if they think they're already a millionaire and believe that they've already invested in the business they've selected). What they get paid on is actually a straight commission on the capital they've been bringing into the company. So if they can convince other people to invest 20 million dollars into a startup, that usually means they're getting a straight commission of something like 5% (in other words, a commission of 1 million dollars).
And so, if there is one thing VCs are particularly good at, it's getting the original entrepreneur(s) to take on additional partners, and/or eventually making them give up the majority stake or their company. The less control the original entrepreneur has in his/her original business, then the more money the VC can try to raise for the company, even if that company doesn't even need that money in the first place (thereby only maximizing his straight-through commission).
That is why, nowadays. Since the technology is getting cheaper and cheaper everyday. It can become far more profitable for a new tech entrepreneur to try to obtain Angel funding, or getting funding from friends and family, or bootstraping his own company, so as to avoid giving up the control of it (to someone who has completely different incentives than he does).
And yes, technically phones are powerful enough to do that.
Just keep in mind that HD can mean multiple types of resolutions, and that usually phones are at the lower end of what's considered HD. And my phone for instance, the Sprint Evo 4G, which is already dated, and which was the first phone with a micro-HDMI port, can output full HDMI resolutions (after I rooted it and installed a custom Android ROM on it). Now I believe, rooting the phone is no longer needed on most Android-micro-HDMI phones to get the full HDMI mirroring functionality, but you should still check that before you buy a phone, you never know.
This means I can play games like JetCar on huge HD television screens. This means I can demo any Android app I want to recommend to my friends. And that when I need to go somewhere and make a powerpoint presentation, I don't need my laptop anymore, I just need to bring my phone and cable (assuming the room will have a modern-enough projector with an HDMI port on it).
And technically, I could also watch HD Youtube and Hulu through it, which I believe is what you were asking about, after all I can get speeds of at least 1 MB per second with 4G, which is far better than my home DSL speed, but I really don't do that since I live a little bit out of the way, and I don't get good Sprint 4G signal inside my place (inside I usually just get good 3G).
...imprisoning me over deleting my facebook account seems to be... harsh
In the US, divorce court is just a civil proceeding, not a criminal one.
If you don't care about losing your divorce case, don't even bother deleting your facebook account, then just don't give them your password, give up on the case, and tell the judge to give everything your ex-spouse is asking for. I'm sure the judge has better things to do, than to pry into your personal life, or satisfy your exe's curiosity, or even play your little word games about following his court order.
If you're willing to concede your case early, then he can just go home early (or perhaps, just move on to the many other family cases he probably still has on his docket).
May be, you should just build yourself a fake FedEx drop off box or a fake UPS drop off box and place it just in front of a police station. The only thing you'd do would be to record all the routing information stored on the *outside* of those envelopes. That wouldn't count as intercepting their mail right, since you wouldn't actually open their envelopes, and you'd put them in a real drop off box as soon as possible to avoid being discovered.
I'm sure the cops would absolutely love you for something like that. The only companies being pissed off at you would be FedEx or UPS, but then Trademark infringement is normally a civil matter, not a criminal one.
After all, would you trust them for important data even if they did have those certifications? Hell no! I personally wouldn't. At least, not after what happened a couple of months ago. I don't think I will ever trust them for that kind of security. And I don't think anyone should trust me as a business if I started trusting them for keeping that kind of data.
And in that sense, their recent decision is the right one. They shouldn't pretend they're something they're not. As a business owner, I would still trust them with data I really didn't care about (and fellow geeks, please do not pretend this kind of data doesn't exist, it does even for businesses). Sometimes, I just need the convenience, and I need it quickly. For that, there is nothing better than DropBox (it doesn't happen often, but it does happen).
And when I need something more secure, I just use another solution. For those of you that think that business users are too stupid to know the difference, do not think that disclaimers will actually help stupid users. Disclaimers may change stupid people's behavior in the short term, but then once they become common enough, they become just like background noise and no one pays attention to them anymore.
The Sony Android Honeycomb tablet. Laid down on a table, its screen is still slightly inclined. It doubles nicely as a remote control (which it is what Sony optimized it for). It's 9" inch screen makes it slightly smaller than the iPad or the Samsung 10.1 Tab, but it weighs less than the iPad and weighs about the same as the Samsung tab (but still feels nicer in your hands than the Tab).
Like most slightly more expensive tablets, it has good haptic feedback. Do not skimp on that, especially for the hard of hearing. And if you do get an Android tablet, do get an Honeycomb one, it's way easier to use than any Android 2.x tablets, and just looks better. Just be sure to read the amazon customer reviews of any tablet you get her. She may not need wifi at her nursing home, but with wifi it will be a lot easier for you or your other relatives to load up new games that she'll like. And expect that you will be doing that frequently, until you figure out their tastes.
Yes, I am complacent and lazy. And no, I'm not even being facetious. I like to have ATMs (I use, with no extra per-use fee) near the place I live, near the places I work, and near the places I shop. Usually, a Credit Union will only be able to satisfy one of those conditions, not all three.
If someone can explain to me what will happen to all my Bank of America ATMs once I switch away from Bank of America, that might help me effect the move. I know that Credit Unions say they have no ATM fees, but then again, Credit Unions have no ATMs either. And yes, there are still a few of us who prefer to deal in cash, and not just credit cards.
Besides, they can always try to sue themselves if it's not "kosher". With GPL, it's only the copyright owner who can sue the downstream copyright infringer (as a user, your only recourse is to report the infringer to the original GPL copyright owner).
Just imagine the court case, you would need to be some kind of genius, or have some kind of split personality disorder, in order for you to be able to sue yourself. I'm not saying this is not possible, after all in the land of the free, anything is possible. I'm just saying it would be very difficult.;-)
Did a quick re-read and it turns out they are going to offer it for free to developers in hopes of forcing customers to click on a button to get charged for better network speeds.
Just like the Amazon app store, there is also no reason they won't start charging developers for this service (in a reverse-auction fashion) once they have enough of them using it. Reverse-auction seems to be the new buzzword for carriers these days (not just the Amazon app store). Carriers are already starting to reverse-auction us (the developers) for better placement. The next logical step is to start reverse-auctioning us for better latency as well.
Yes, but does Akamai charge you the consumer as well? That answer is no. Akamai does not charge both the site and the consumer to connect them together.
Also, Akamai does not get special privileges, special considerations for eminent domain, exemptions from some types of liability, nor subsidizations from the government like most cell networks and other common carriers do.
Technically the Executive has no power to do anything about any of this, so why bother with the dialogue? Every issue has to be resolved in the other two branches, so what did they hope to accomplish?
The Executive can issue sole executive agreements, sole executive agreements can be done by the President alone, and sole executive agreements have replaced almost all our international treaties at a ratio of 10 to 1. One reason this is important is because even Obama is trying to bully other countries into accepting software patents and super draconian copyright laws (laws that no one would consider politically/legally viable for our own population here in the US).
For instance, the three strikes and you're cut off from the internet law. Do you think that is something France came up on its own? No, that's an American invention. And what levers do you think the US uses when it threatens a country like France? It doesn't use the Congress, a congressional-executive agreement takes too long. It simply uses the President. The President can issue an international threat and back it up with signed piece of paper that very same day (with no oversight from any other body).
Also sometimes, what's agreed through international treaties/executive agreements can come back to us as momentum and pressure to start changing our own internal laws in the same direction.
Note that Apple always lists its sales in its SEC statements. And these are sales figures to the end consumer, not shipments.
Apple does projections too in its quarterly reports.
For instance, this last October it projected it was going to sell 22 million iPhones, and it only sold 17 milllion. In any case, everybody publishes their sales figures to their investors. It's just that most of us don't care about last October Sales figures, we care about future sales (or at least current sales), and that kind of information is hard-to-come by if we need it to be reliable.
Are you sure it's the HMOs driving this? I don't think so. If you take a look at the recommendations this group has given in the past, many of those recommendations would go against the interests of HMOs, so I do not see any particular pattern emerging one way or another.
Is Canada more like the UK by any chance? I don't know if they call software developers engineers in the UK, but they do label almost everybody who deals with machinery some kind of engineer: a train operator, a car mechanic, an elevator repairman, a factory worker, a janitor, etc. To them, they're all engineers.
So if you're not the software kind, what kind of engineer are you? Do you happen to be a train engineer by any chance?
The $25 fee must be something new because I've heard of people getting charged $60 for a single movie.
The problem with the red kiosks is that they're not all "owned" by RedBox. They're all the exact same machines (they have the same manufacturers), they're the same red color, their signage are almost identical, the cartridges for their DVDs are also the same and work in both, and they're even both operated by the same exact third party company to service and refill them.
But if you rent one movie from one kiosk and return it to what seems like an identical kiosk next to it (except that one doesn't have the brand "RedBox" on it, but some generic brand name like DVD Rentals or something like that), then your movie is lost and good luck getting it back. And despite the fact that RedBox has your email address, they don't even notify you that your DVD hasn't come back yet (so that you can try to mitigate your fees, or try to rectify your mistake), They just automatically bill you without any warning after two months of extra rental fees.
And the same exact thing happens when you rent a movie from one of those red kiosk lookalikes and return it to a RedBox by mistake. The two companies do not even communicate with each other. And yet, the customer service at both companies knows there is a real problem, but won't do anything to address it. And why should they stop it anyway? Both companies, assuming we accept their claim that they're both indeed different companies, are currently making money from this simple misunderstanding. And they're probably not pissing off real customers anyway, they're just pissing off a fraction of the millions of people that got free promo codes and used them (and unless their selection gets better anytime soon, it's not like those people would have become real customers anyway).
He probably is. After all, it doesn't matter what subject it is, but most people think they're above average. And it wouldn't be much of a stretch to think that 50% of the population also think they're part of that top 1 or 2%.
Exactly ; they've done studies [codinghorror.com] that prove this...
If that study proves anything, it's that most (if not all) Computer Science academics are not effective teachers.
Personally, I would have used the same technique I used to teach my nephews about multiplication to teach those same Computer Science flunkies about operator assignment. I'd make my own boxes (or I'd use some cubby holes) to represent the variables and I'd use some nuts to represent the values to put into each.
And not only that, but I'd verify that each student actually understood my metaphorical demonstration by asking them to explain a couple of lines of code back to me using those same objects (different lines of code so the students can't copy each other). And then, I would do enough spot-checking to make sure that the students had retained that understanding the following day, the following week, the following month, and until the very end of my course (after all, if there is no repetition, there is usually no learning).
Obviously, this is not what Computer Science Professors do, and if any of them tried to do what I'd suggest, that might even possibly get them into trouble it's so counter to the existing culture instilled in Computer Science departments (it also runs counter to the way they're being incentivized). There is just no hand-holding in Computer Science. Its high degree of difficulty is not considered a flaw, it's considered a badge of honor. In a way, that difficulty is also a misguided survival mechanism, after all there are so many kids wanting to get into computer science all because they've been playing computer games most of their childhood (and they're under the naive assumption that programming a computer game will be as easy playing one, which couldn't be farther from the truth of course). Most Computer Science departments feel the need to make sure those students get weeded out early, that's already how they see themselves as, not just as teachers, but as gatekeepers that make sure that the new influx of modern lazy kids are weeded out early.
And let me guess, you don't own an HP PC, you just own an HP laser printer (thus proving the point that people and even businesses still buy HP laser printers just for their printers, and not as parts of larger HP PC bundles).
The entire business model of RedBox is based on giving away free promo codes and then charging fraudulent late fees one or two months later. So if you (or your friends) haven't used one of their free promo codes, just consider yourself and your friends lucky.
Did you actually read the article you linked to? Microsoft denies it, yes, but the article seems to come up with the same conclusion, that they did use Google to get some of their results (obviously, they can't use Google for **all** their results, because they'd lose their #1 ranking for many of their own internet properties, not something that they would want).
Just read the quote from Bing's Vice President, Harry Shum, on that very same article you linked to. His denial is so guarded, tangential, and so carefully well-crafted, that it's not telling us anything of what really happened. His failed attempt at obfuscation is pretty damning. If you ask me, he should just have kept his mouth shut.
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The sound quality on audible.com is not that great. There are many other sources of better audiobooks than audible.com.
Don't be so hard on him. Even Google Translate (to Hindi, and back again) makes the same mistake. If Google can't write a good bot for this, what makes you think Slashdot can do any better.
Afrikaans is a language for which there is little web content, including Hindi, and will affect the discovery of new changes in Icelandic. Google translation of the relevant web pages will be written in English and to show those results, too.
What job? He was never an employee. He was a contractor. And contractors are supposed to control their own work environment and own their own tools, etc (not that this what happens in real life, many full time contractors have actually successfully sued to be considered full time employees, much to the chagrin of their employers, but this is what happens when an employer tries to have all the benefits of an employee, but none of the associated obligations that come with it -- by labeling that employee a contractor).
In any case, the company wasn't worried about the Twitter account until the guy started suing them for not paying him the revenue-share he was promised. Of course, I'm not a lawyer, but trying to classify him now as an employee could be a mistake. As a former employee, the Department of Labor would recover all his wages in no-times flat, but as a contractor, he'll have to continue going through the courts and they could stonewall him indefinitely (and pay other creditors before they pay him).
Also, I doubt the "employer" will get any love from Twitter if Twitter has any say in the court proceedings. Last I checked, Twitter doesn't charge individual users, but it does charge you if you create a Twitter account representing a business. So if you have a business account on Twitter, and are not paying them, which is actually super easy to do if you're cheap and careless about business accounts and terms and services, don't be surprised if you get that account deleted right from under you just because you're violating their terms of services.
The most embarrassing part is that, like many Android devices, the Fire can't scroll smoothly despite having a dual core processor.
...like many Android devices? You mean, like many of the bargain bins Android-based devices that don't even qualify to connect to the Google Market (since they don't satisfy any of the minimum specs).
Because my Samsung Tab 10.1 certainly scrolls smoothly, and even most of the pre-Honeycomb tablets I've tested also scroll smoothly, as long as they satisfy the minimum requirements (PDF) required by Google to be officially called an "Android device" and connected to the official Google market, then you know you have a tablet that will scroll smoothly.
What is it about this task is so difficult? iOS 1.0 handled it back in 2007 on less powerful devices.
Don't blame Android. Blame the Apple fanboys for thinking that their iPad is still the best device for almost everything, despite the mounting evidence against it.
Take for instance the person who submitted this piece of news to Slashdot (or the person he's trying to quote). Does anyone actually still think the iPad is the best for watching Movies? Seriously? I personally don't. How many iPads are on 4G these days? It still wasn't long ago, that the only iPads you could get were wifi-enabled, or 3G-enabled. Can people even watch movies on 3G with an iPad? AT&T didn't even allow you guys to use FaceTime on 3G. I doubt that watching movies on it would work that well on it either.
Even FaceTime between two adjacent wifi-iPads inside an Apple store during off-peak semi-deserted hours got all choppy through wifi-only. Do you think FaceTime would even work on the slower bandwidth of your home? I doubt it. My android tablet at least, can stream video either way, on 3G, wifi, or 4G, but on 4G (even after you substract all the marketing bullshit, I still get speeds of around 1 MB per second, and that means I can stream HD content in almost real-time). 4G-enabled Honeycomb tablets, those are the current best devices for watching movies.
Do all races (not just African Americans) need Caucasian male partners to improve their chances for success.
I think, you're confusing "the success of getting VC-funding" with "the general success of a business venture". Those two types of success are not generally the same thing.
For one thing, the VC gets paid whether the business succeeds wildly, or whether the business gets completely driven into the ground. Most VCs never invest their own money (even if they happen to be millionaires), they usually invest other people's money (and other people tend to trust them a lot more if they think they're already a millionaire and believe that they've already invested in the business they've selected). What they get paid on is actually a straight commission on the capital they've been bringing into the company. So if they can convince other people to invest 20 million dollars into a startup, that usually means they're getting a straight commission of something like 5% (in other words, a commission of 1 million dollars).
And so, if there is one thing VCs are particularly good at, it's getting the original entrepreneur(s) to take on additional partners, and/or eventually making them give up the majority stake or their company. The less control the original entrepreneur has in his/her original business, then the more money the VC can try to raise for the company, even if that company doesn't even need that money in the first place (thereby only maximizing his straight-through commission).
That is why, nowadays. Since the technology is getting cheaper and cheaper everyday. It can become far more profitable for a new tech entrepreneur to try to obtain Angel funding, or getting funding from friends and family, or bootstraping his own company, so as to avoid giving up the control of it (to someone who has completely different incentives than he does).
And yes, technically phones are powerful enough to do that.
Just keep in mind that HD can mean multiple types of resolutions, and that usually phones are at the lower end of what's considered HD. And my phone for instance, the Sprint Evo 4G, which is already dated, and which was the first phone with a micro-HDMI port, can output full HDMI resolutions (after I rooted it and installed a custom Android ROM on it). Now I believe, rooting the phone is no longer needed on most Android-micro-HDMI phones to get the full HDMI mirroring functionality, but you should still check that before you buy a phone, you never know.
This means I can play games like JetCar on huge HD television screens. This means I can demo any Android app I want to recommend to my friends. And that when I need to go somewhere and make a powerpoint presentation, I don't need my laptop anymore, I just need to bring my phone and cable (assuming the room will have a modern-enough projector with an HDMI port on it).
And technically, I could also watch HD Youtube and Hulu through it, which I believe is what you were asking about, after all I can get speeds of at least 1 MB per second with 4G, which is far better than my home DSL speed, but I really don't do that since I live a little bit out of the way, and I don't get good Sprint 4G signal inside my place (inside I usually just get good 3G).
...imprisoning me over deleting my facebook account seems to be... harsh
In the US, divorce court is just a civil proceeding, not a criminal one.
If you don't care about losing your divorce case, don't even bother deleting your facebook account, then just don't give them your password, give up on the case, and tell the judge to give everything your ex-spouse is asking for. I'm sure the judge has better things to do, than to pry into your personal life, or satisfy your exe's curiosity, or even play your little word games about following his court order.
If you're willing to concede your case early, then he can just go home early (or perhaps, just move on to the many other family cases he probably still has on his docket).
That's a great airtight defense you have there.
May be, you should just build yourself a fake FedEx drop off box or a fake UPS drop off box and place it just in front of a police station. The only thing you'd do would be to record all the routing information stored on the *outside* of those envelopes. That wouldn't count as intercepting their mail right, since you wouldn't actually open their envelopes, and you'd put them in a real drop off box as soon as possible to avoid being discovered.
I'm sure the cops would absolutely love you for something like that. The only companies being pissed off at you would be FedEx or UPS, but then Trademark infringement is normally a civil matter, not a criminal one.
DropBox is pursuing convenience, not compliance.
After all, would you trust them for important data even if they did have those certifications? Hell no! I personally wouldn't. At least, not after what happened a couple of months ago. I don't think I will ever trust them for that kind of security. And I don't think anyone should trust me as a business if I started trusting them for keeping that kind of data.
And in that sense, their recent decision is the right one. They shouldn't pretend they're something they're not. As a business owner, I would still trust them with data I really didn't care about (and fellow geeks, please do not pretend this kind of data doesn't exist, it does even for businesses). Sometimes, I just need the convenience, and I need it quickly. For that, there is nothing better than DropBox (it doesn't happen often, but it does happen).
And when I need something more secure, I just use another solution. For those of you that think that business users are too stupid to know the difference, do not think that disclaimers will actually help stupid users. Disclaimers may change stupid people's behavior in the short term, but then once they become common enough, they become just like background noise and no one pays attention to them anymore.
The Sony Android Honeycomb tablet. Laid down on a table, its screen is still slightly inclined. It doubles nicely as a remote control (which it is what Sony optimized it for). It's 9" inch screen makes it slightly smaller than the iPad or the Samsung 10.1 Tab, but it weighs less than the iPad and weighs about the same as the Samsung tab (but still feels nicer in your hands than the Tab).
Like most slightly more expensive tablets, it has good haptic feedback. Do not skimp on that, especially for the hard of hearing. And if you do get an Android tablet, do get an Honeycomb one, it's way easier to use than any Android 2.x tablets, and just looks better. Just be sure to read the amazon customer reviews of any tablet you get her. She may not need wifi at her nursing home, but with wifi it will be a lot easier for you or your other relatives to load up new games that she'll like. And expect that you will be doing that frequently, until you figure out their tastes.
The truth of it is, they are complacent and lazy.
Yes, I am complacent and lazy. And no, I'm not even being facetious. I like to have ATMs (I use, with no extra per-use fee) near the place I live, near the places I work, and near the places I shop. Usually, a Credit Union will only be able to satisfy one of those conditions, not all three.
If someone can explain to me what will happen to all my Bank of America ATMs once I switch away from Bank of America, that might help me effect the move. I know that Credit Unions say they have no ATM fees, but then again, Credit Unions have no ATMs either. And yes, there are still a few of us who prefer to deal in cash, and not just credit cards.
Besides, they can always try to sue themselves if it's not "kosher". With GPL, it's only the copyright owner who can sue the downstream copyright infringer (as a user, your only recourse is to report the infringer to the original GPL copyright owner).
Just imagine the court case, you would need to be some kind of genius, or have some kind of split personality disorder, in order for you to be able to sue yourself. I'm not saying this is not possible, after all in the land of the free, anything is possible. I'm just saying it would be very difficult. ;-)
Did a quick re-read and it turns out they are going to offer it for free to developers in hopes of forcing customers to click on a button to get charged for better network speeds.
Just like the Amazon app store, there is also no reason they won't start charging developers for this service (in a reverse-auction fashion) once they have enough of them using it. Reverse-auction seems to be the new buzzword for carriers these days (not just the Amazon app store). Carriers are already starting to reverse-auction us (the developers) for better placement. The next logical step is to start reverse-auctioning us for better latency as well.
Yes, but does Akamai charge you the consumer as well? That answer is no. Akamai does not charge both the site and the consumer to connect them together.
Also, Akamai does not get special privileges, special considerations for eminent domain, exemptions from some types of liability, nor subsidizations from the government like most cell networks and other common carriers do.
Technically the Executive has no power to do anything about any of this, so why bother with the dialogue? Every issue has to be resolved in the other two branches, so what did they hope to accomplish?
The Executive can issue sole executive agreements, sole executive agreements can be done by the President alone, and sole executive agreements have replaced almost all our international treaties at a ratio of 10 to 1. One reason this is important is because even Obama is trying to bully other countries into accepting software patents and super draconian copyright laws (laws that no one would consider politically/legally viable for our own population here in the US).
For instance, the three strikes and you're cut off from the internet law. Do you think that is something France came up on its own? No, that's an American invention. And what levers do you think the US uses when it threatens a country like France? It doesn't use the Congress, a congressional-executive agreement takes too long. It simply uses the President. The President can issue an international threat and back it up with signed piece of paper that very same day (with no oversight from any other body).
Also sometimes, what's agreed through international treaties/executive agreements can come back to us as momentum and pressure to start changing our own internal laws in the same direction.
Note that Apple always lists its sales in its SEC statements. And these are sales figures to the end consumer, not shipments.
Apple does projections too in its quarterly reports.
For instance, this last October it projected it was going to sell 22 million iPhones, and it only sold 17 milllion. In any case, everybody publishes their sales figures to their investors. It's just that most of us don't care about last October Sales figures, we care about future sales (or at least current sales), and that kind of information is hard-to-come by if we need it to be reliable.
...is like old people fucking. It's messy and not much gets accomplished.
You must be either very courageous, or very old, for publicly admitting that you love to watch that kind of thing.
Kudos to you either way.
Are you sure it's the HMOs driving this? I don't think so. If you take a look at the recommendations this group has given in the past, many of those recommendations would go against the interests of HMOs, so I do not see any particular pattern emerging one way or another.
Is Canada more like the UK by any chance? I don't know if they call software developers engineers in the UK, but they do label almost everybody who deals with machinery some kind of engineer: a train operator, a car mechanic, an elevator repairman, a factory worker, a janitor, etc. To them, they're all engineers.
So if you're not the software kind, what kind of engineer are you? Do you happen to be a train engineer by any chance?
The $25 fee must be something new because I've heard of people getting charged $60 for a single movie.
The problem with the red kiosks is that they're not all "owned" by RedBox. They're all the exact same machines (they have the same manufacturers), they're the same red color, their signage are almost identical, the cartridges for their DVDs are also the same and work in both, and they're even both operated by the same exact third party company to service and refill them.
But if you rent one movie from one kiosk and return it to what seems like an identical kiosk next to it (except that one doesn't have the brand "RedBox" on it, but some generic brand name like DVD Rentals or something like that), then your movie is lost and good luck getting it back. And despite the fact that RedBox has your email address, they don't even notify you that your DVD hasn't come back yet (so that you can try to mitigate your fees, or try to rectify your mistake), They just automatically bill you without any warning after two months of extra rental fees.
And the same exact thing happens when you rent a movie from one of those red kiosk lookalikes and return it to a RedBox by mistake. The two companies do not even communicate with each other. And yet, the customer service at both companies knows there is a real problem, but won't do anything to address it. And why should they stop it anyway? Both companies, assuming we accept their claim that they're both indeed different companies, are currently making money from this simple misunderstanding. And they're probably not pissing off real customers anyway, they're just pissing off a fraction of the millions of people that got free promo codes and used them (and unless their selection gets better anytime soon, it's not like those people would have become real customers anyway).
He probably is. After all, it doesn't matter what subject it is, but most people think they're above average. And it wouldn't be much of a stretch to think that 50% of the population also think they're part of that top 1 or 2%.
Exactly ; they've done studies [codinghorror.com] that prove this...
If that study proves anything, it's that most (if not all) Computer Science academics are not effective teachers.
Personally, I would have used the same technique I used to teach my nephews about multiplication to teach those same Computer Science flunkies about operator assignment. I'd make my own boxes (or I'd use some cubby holes) to represent the variables and I'd use some nuts to represent the values to put into each.
And not only that, but I'd verify that each student actually understood my metaphorical demonstration by asking them to explain a couple of lines of code back to me using those same objects (different lines of code so the students can't copy each other). And then, I would do enough spot-checking to make sure that the students had retained that understanding the following day, the following week, the following month, and until the very end of my course (after all, if there is no repetition, there is usually no learning).
Obviously, this is not what Computer Science Professors do, and if any of them tried to do what I'd suggest, that might even possibly get them into trouble it's so counter to the existing culture instilled in Computer Science departments (it also runs counter to the way they're being incentivized). There is just no hand-holding in Computer Science. Its high degree of difficulty is not considered a flaw, it's considered a badge of honor. In a way, that difficulty is also a misguided survival mechanism, after all there are so many kids wanting to get into computer science all because they've been playing computer games most of their childhood (and they're under the naive assumption that programming a computer game will be as easy playing one, which couldn't be farther from the truth of course). Most Computer Science departments feel the need to make sure those students get weeded out early, that's already how they see themselves as, not just as teachers, but as gatekeepers that make sure that the new influx of modern lazy kids are weeded out early.
And let me guess, you don't own an HP PC, you just own an HP laser printer (thus proving the point that people and even businesses still buy HP laser printers just for their printers, and not as parts of larger HP PC bundles).
The entire business model of RedBox is based on giving away free promo codes and then charging fraudulent late fees one or two months later. So if you (or your friends) haven't used one of their free promo codes, just consider yourself and your friends lucky.
You thought wrong.
Did you actually read the article you linked to? Microsoft denies it, yes, but the article seems to come up with the same conclusion, that they did use Google to get some of their results (obviously, they can't use Google for **all** their results, because they'd lose their #1 ranking for many of their own internet properties, not something that they would want).
Just read the quote from Bing's Vice President, Harry Shum, on that very same article you linked to. His denial is so guarded, tangential, and so carefully well-crafted, that it's not telling us anything of what really happened. His failed attempt at obfuscation is pretty damning. If you ask me, he should just have kept his mouth shut.