The guy who cooked up the "100% Angus burger" sales gimmick was brilliant. It's just another breed of dairy cow, although the term somehow suggests quality. The truth is that all the good cuts of beef are sold at premium prices in grocery stores and restaurants. The stuff that's pulverized into fast food burgers is the garbage left over after the good cuts have been stripped. It makes no difference that it's 100% Angus garbage.
Beef is graded according to quality - Prime, Choice and Select are the better cuts. Bargain cuts are Standard and Commercial grades. Fast food burgers are made from the garbage meat (utility, cutter and canner). So, yeah, it's cow meat. Just not good quality.
A well trained crew does not simply declare an in-flight emergency for fun. They'd much rather proceed to their destination than put the aircraft down at the nearest alternate after an ear-popping emergency descent which is rapidly followed by an emergency evacuation and a transportation board investigation. As for your assertion that their reaction was manic, do you remember this? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swissair_Flight_111
Originally a term used in Jungian psychology to describe how one presents their consciousness (persona/image/self) to the outside world. In this context, it indicates that Brooke responds to the world in a manner appropriate for a 5-year-old.
Dear mother of god. There is nothing reasonable about a company that offers free storage of your photos suddenly announcing, "we're changing our terms of service to give ourselves the right to sell your images now." Instagram's business model is an updated version of the dotcom asshattery that made such a mess of the industry a decade ago -- attract seed money, convince VCs that the unprofitable 13-person "company" is The Next Big Thing because millions of people use its free service and then cash out by dumping it on a hoodie-wearing nitwit who's willing to pay a billion dollars for site that crops photos square and applies ghasty filters to them.
Because Instagram is a massive cloud service that tried to take ownership of content generated and curated by its users. It's about as reasonable as a hotel declaring that you, your luggage and your kids are their property simply because you're in one of their hotel rooms for the night. Perhaps there is a sliver of hope that the CEO of a future hot company will remember The Instagram Implosion and step away from similar behaviour. I won't hold my breath, though.
Can you imagine how small the Lego section of a toy shop would be if they sold generic sets? There'd be six or seven sets of varying size, perhaps with a few accessory packs (wheels, people, gears). And next year... The exact same sets would be sitting in exactly the same spot. By marketing hundreds of sets as specific creations, the company can pad shelf space and (more importantly) give my kid something to choose between when shopping for a friend's birthday.
In the end, all the parts end up in a huge bucket in the closet that's used to create weird and wonderful space ships, bizarre marble mazes and all manner of buildings.
Why is Slashdot attempting to live blog the pursuit of a suspected murderer who appears to be mentally ill? We get that he once owned a software company, but that was a long time ago.
Just because something isn't the first doesn't mean it should be dismissed. The news here is that the PengPad Kickstarter project was successful. It's a strong indicator that there is a market for multi-boot tablets that aren't locked down, although I suspect it will be a year or two (if ever) before we see top notch hardware in that niche.
That's not true. USPS is by far the cheapest way to send or receive a package internationally. It's also the only way of sending a physical document across the country for well under a dollar. I suspect that there's an incredible amount of waste in the system -- cutting Saturday delivery is easy, as is the idea of integrating postal counters into existing businesses (mini outlets in supermarkets, drugstores and convenience stores) where possible. Rethink door-to-door delivery (Canada Post has been using community mailboxes in new neighborhoods for years, dramatically increasing carrier efficiency).
Having worked in the software division of a large engineering company for almost a decade, I am sure. From the Alberta association's web site: "APEGA generally recommends that unless a person is a professional member of APEGA, they should avoid using the words “engineer”, “geologist”, “geophysicist”, or “geoscientist” in any position title or representation to ensure that they remain in compliance with statute and to ensure that no one is misled by their title. This is because the EGP Act prohibits unlicensed individuals or companies from using titles that represent or imply that they are entitled to engage in the practice of engineering or geoscience."
Here in Canada, you have to be a licensed P.Eng to call yourself a software engineer. Even though I have an MSc from an EECS program, I would have to satisfy all the academic requirements of an undergrad engineer, work as a supervised engineer-in-training for between 2-4 years and pass a professional practice exam to qualify.
US Immigration has facilities and staff in major Canadian airports. Passengers flying to the USA pass through border inspection in Canada, which allows the flight to be treated as domestic flight when it arrives in the US -- you just walk off the plane as if you arrived from Newark or San Jose without the need for immigration staff. It makes sense because there are only a dozen or so key airports in Canada with flights to hundreds of US destinations. It's also a lot cheaper to deny entry into the country before a passenger sets foot on US soil.
Honestly, don't bother. Technology changes so quickly that anything you install now will look daft in 3 years, let alone a decade. My 5-year old house has hard wired Ethernet running into every room, but it simply isn't used because everything has wifi. Ditto for power drops - the family tends to wander around the house with tablets or notebooks, so we don't need a handful of extra plug ins for printers, massive monitors, and whirring server behemoths. And thank god we didn't install a flat screen monitor or two anywhere, because we'd be digging under-spec'd old plasma screens out of the wall and trying to figure out how to install something a bit larger.
From the source of that post [9to5mac.com]: "We created the likely pricing matrix for the smaller iPad shown above."
In other words, it's just a wild guess by a blogger to attract page views for his site. Everyone keeps repeating it as if it's an official document.
A quick glance at Apple's pricing shows that they strongly prefer prices that end in 49 or 99 for the iPod and iPad lines (the cellular equipped iPad is an exception). I'd expect to see an 8GB iPad Mini at $249 or $299, but it won't be a big seller. In fact, Apple may severely constrain supply to push buyers to a more profitable price point, while the media loudly touts "A breakthrough $249 iPad" that is almost impossible to get. Most buyers will opt to spend another $100 for an extra $10 worth of flash memory, especially if it's available for immediate purchase.
And, unlike this retarded tablet that autocorrects my slimy screen taps into a weird ESL interpretation of what I meant to write, the damn thing actually has a keyboard.
Unlike previous iterations of ChromeOS, this version allows at least a semblance of being able to work offline - there's an offline email client and you can use Google Docs without an internet connection. That said, I'm not sure it matters much because I suspect that very few typical users actually work offline much. Access to the web, email and social media pretty well requires a connection.
The really cool think here is that we're seeing the impact of Moore's Law in new direction. ARM-based hardware in its various guises (cheap notebooks, tablets and smartphones) has ushered in a wave of inexpensive machines that has been made possible by the availability of incredibly cheap chipsets that are just good enough for the task at hand at prices that are absolutely astounding (I remember carrying a work-issued laptop in 1996 that cost almost $3,000).
My 10 year old loves The Scratch programming environment from the MIT Media Lab. It's free from http://scratch.mit.edu/ -- there's an online community that lets kids post their projects, and my kid was highly motivated to enter and win several little community competitions. The graphical coding interface is easy to tweak and allows clever kids to push things a bit more than you might expect. One essential aspect of the experience is that you can download the source scripts for the projects, which is a fantastic way to speed learning (one of my favorite ways to improve my code is to see how others tackle similar problems).
Hugo Chavez is left wing. The Dali Lama is left wing. Romney and Obama? On the broad global stage, they're both sharply right wing. The fact that their campaigns have you believing they're worlds apart is simply not reflected in their actual policies and rhetoric.
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The guy who cooked up the "100% Angus burger" sales gimmick was brilliant. It's just another breed of dairy cow, although the term somehow suggests quality. The truth is that all the good cuts of beef are sold at premium prices in grocery stores and restaurants. The stuff that's pulverized into fast food burgers is the garbage left over after the good cuts have been stripped. It makes no difference that it's 100% Angus garbage.
Beef is graded according to quality - Prime, Choice and Select are the better cuts. Bargain cuts are Standard and Commercial grades. Fast food burgers are made from the garbage meat (utility, cutter and canner). So, yeah, it's cow meat. Just not good quality.
A well trained crew does not simply declare an in-flight emergency for fun. They'd much rather proceed to their destination than put the aircraft down at the nearest alternate after an ear-popping emergency descent which is rapidly followed by an emergency evacuation and a transportation board investigation. As for your assertion that their reaction was manic, do you remember this? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swissair_Flight_111
Originally a term used in Jungian psychology to describe how one presents their consciousness (persona/image/self) to the outside world. In this context, it indicates that Brooke responds to the world in a manner appropriate for a 5-year-old.
Dear mother of god. There is nothing reasonable about a company that offers free storage of your photos suddenly announcing, "we're changing our terms of service to give ourselves the right to sell your images now." Instagram's business model is an updated version of the dotcom asshattery that made such a mess of the industry a decade ago -- attract seed money, convince VCs that the unprofitable 13-person "company" is The Next Big Thing because millions of people use its free service and then cash out by dumping it on a hoodie-wearing nitwit who's willing to pay a billion dollars for site that crops photos square and applies ghasty filters to them.
Because Instagram is a massive cloud service that tried to take ownership of content generated and curated by its users. It's about as reasonable as a hotel declaring that you, your luggage and your kids are their property simply because you're in one of their hotel rooms for the night. Perhaps there is a sliver of hope that the CEO of a future hot company will remember The Instagram Implosion and step away from similar behaviour. I won't hold my breath, though.
Can you imagine how small the Lego section of a toy shop would be if they sold generic sets? There'd be six or seven sets of varying size, perhaps with a few accessory packs (wheels, people, gears). And next year... The exact same sets would be sitting in exactly the same spot. By marketing hundreds of sets as specific creations, the company can pad shelf space and (more importantly) give my kid something to choose between when shopping for a friend's birthday. In the end, all the parts end up in a huge bucket in the closet that's used to create weird and wonderful space ships, bizarre marble mazes and all manner of buildings.
Forget using a knee or elbow. We're tool users, fer chrissakes. Just smash their skulls with a tree branch.
Why is Slashdot attempting to live blog the pursuit of a suspected murderer who appears to be mentally ill? We get that he once owned a software company, but that was a long time ago.
Just because something isn't the first doesn't mean it should be dismissed. The news here is that the PengPad Kickstarter project was successful. It's a strong indicator that there is a market for multi-boot tablets that aren't locked down, although I suspect it will be a year or two (if ever) before we see top notch hardware in that niche.
That's not true. USPS is by far the cheapest way to send or receive a package internationally. It's also the only way of sending a physical document across the country for well under a dollar. I suspect that there's an incredible amount of waste in the system -- cutting Saturday delivery is easy, as is the idea of integrating postal counters into existing businesses (mini outlets in supermarkets, drugstores and convenience stores) where possible. Rethink door-to-door delivery (Canada Post has been using community mailboxes in new neighborhoods for years, dramatically increasing carrier efficiency).
We used engineering to create the social problems in the first place. ;)
Having worked in the software division of a large engineering company for almost a decade, I am sure. From the Alberta association's web site: "APEGA generally recommends that unless a person is a professional member of APEGA, they should avoid using the words “engineer”, “geologist”, “geophysicist”, or “geoscientist” in any position title or representation to ensure that they remain in compliance with statute and to ensure that no one is misled by their title. This is because the EGP Act prohibits unlicensed individuals or companies from using titles that represent or imply that they are entitled to engage in the practice of engineering or geoscience."
Here in Canada, you have to be a licensed P.Eng to call yourself a software engineer. Even though I have an MSc from an EECS program, I would have to satisfy all the academic requirements of an undergrad engineer, work as a supervised engineer-in-training for between 2-4 years and pass a professional practice exam to qualify.
No. It looks like a wasteland of Walmart parking lots and awfully designed suburban tract housing. We should fix that.
US Immigration has facilities and staff in major Canadian airports. Passengers flying to the USA pass through border inspection in Canada, which allows the flight to be treated as domestic flight when it arrives in the US -- you just walk off the plane as if you arrived from Newark or San Jose without the need for immigration staff. It makes sense because there are only a dozen or so key airports in Canada with flights to hundreds of US destinations. It's also a lot cheaper to deny entry into the country before a passenger sets foot on US soil.
Honestly, don't bother. Technology changes so quickly that anything you install now will look daft in 3 years, let alone a decade. My 5-year old house has hard wired Ethernet running into every room, but it simply isn't used because everything has wifi. Ditto for power drops - the family tends to wander around the house with tablets or notebooks, so we don't need a handful of extra plug ins for printers, massive monitors, and whirring server behemoths. And thank god we didn't install a flat screen monitor or two anywhere, because we'd be digging under-spec'd old plasma screens out of the wall and trying to figure out how to install something a bit larger.
From the source of that post [9to5mac.com]: "We created the likely pricing matrix for the smaller iPad shown above."
In other words, it's just a wild guess by a blogger to attract page views for his site. Everyone keeps repeating it as if it's an official document.
A quick glance at Apple's pricing shows that they strongly prefer prices that end in 49 or 99 for the iPod and iPad lines (the cellular equipped iPad is an exception). I'd expect to see an 8GB iPad Mini at $249 or $299, but it won't be a big seller. In fact, Apple may severely constrain supply to push buyers to a more profitable price point, while the media loudly touts "A breakthrough $249 iPad" that is almost impossible to get. Most buyers will opt to spend another $100 for an extra $10 worth of flash memory, especially if it's available for immediate purchase.
And, unlike this retarded tablet that autocorrects my slimy screen taps into a weird ESL interpretation of what I meant to write, the damn thing actually has a keyboard.
The really cool think here is that we're seeing the impact of Moore's Law in new direction. ARM-based hardware in its various guises (cheap notebooks, tablets and smartphones) has ushered in a wave of inexpensive machines that has been made possible by the availability of incredibly cheap chipsets that are just good enough for the task at hand at prices that are absolutely astounding (I remember carrying a work-issued laptop in 1996 that cost almost $3,000).
Morten et al recently examined DNA in 158 bone fossils and determined the half-life of DNA to be 521 years in their sample. Even if Martian DNA functioned in the same manner, the idea that environmental conditions on Mars were suitable to sustain life as late as the year 1491 is ludicrous. http://rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/early/2012/10/05/rspb.2012.1745.abstract?sid=abb89d94-00f1-431b-8863-c62996e35478
When your competitor has OWNED the market for several years, you don't MATCH their price, you blow it away.
You mean the way Apple blew away Nokia's pricing model by introducing a single handset that cost more than their most expensive model? ;)
I think you mean cartoons of the prophet Muhammad. He was the dude who passed along stuff he heard from the Archangel Gabriel, who was Allah's PR guy.
My 10 year old loves The Scratch programming environment from the MIT Media Lab. It's free from http://scratch.mit.edu/ -- there's an online community that lets kids post their projects, and my kid was highly motivated to enter and win several little community competitions. The graphical coding interface is easy to tweak and allows clever kids to push things a bit more than you might expect. One essential aspect of the experience is that you can download the source scripts for the projects, which is a fantastic way to speed learning (one of my favorite ways to improve my code is to see how others tackle similar problems).
Take a look at this chart of the political opinions expressed by world leaders: http://www.politicalcompass.org/images/internationalchart.png
Hugo Chavez is left wing. The Dali Lama is left wing. Romney and Obama? On the broad global stage, they're both sharply right wing. The fact that their campaigns have you believing they're worlds apart is simply not reflected in their actual policies and rhetoric.