Moto X was a relatively expensive phone, with low specs. If you had $600 dollars to spend on a phone (either yourself or through contract subsidies), there would be very little reason to pick Moto X. The main attraction of the Moto X is that there are many variants in terms of colors and materials, and that's what you pay a premium for. Problem is, in this price range you already have lots of choices for very nicely designed phones, many with better specs. What's left is a niche market that is willing to pay a premium for stuff like a wooden phone back on a otherwise mediocre phone. That's still some market. However, I don't see how you can expect that to sell as well as a cheap phone with good specs like Moto G.
Also, the article suggests in tone that Moto X and phones like Moto X sell better in asia, but the fact is Moto X hasn't sold well anywhere. It's just completely different phones like Moto G that are doing well.
I agree that most of what is written there sounds like nonsense, but to be pedantic, carbon as the name of an organic substance predates the discovery of atoms by a vast amount of time. To be even more pedantic, a common definition of an organic compound is that the molecule contains carbon.
If you have a site where an attacker would have bothered with the elaborate process of getting the private key, and then do MITM attacks with it on users, and it would actually matter, you wouldn't have used StartSSL in the first place, and $25 would be absolutely nothing for you.
Both of our KDE's use much more resources than XFCE or LXDE. And it's worth it. But that's still the facts.
And if you want to use name KDE SC for the set of programs everyone has always called KDE, be my guest. I will keep using the term KDE, thank you very much.
That's just doublespeak to cloud the issue of KDE not being lightweight... He mentions all the right factors himself: low memory, low cpu use, fast, not too many features. His complaint seems to be that there is no definition of a cutoff point from where something ceases to be lightweight. That's like saying you can't call an airplane fast transportation, because there is no fixed definition of 'fast'. However, most people who say an airplane is fast are comparing it to cars, walking, boats, etc. They are not referring to comparisons with the speed of light. And, lets be honest here, if a desktop environment is being called lightweight, that means compared to KDE and Gnome. Don't tell me you can not be more memory, CPU, feature and speed efficient than those two.
Disclaimer: I love KDE, use it every day and I happily trade my resources in for the features I get for it.
If Netflix could get away with raising prices without losing too many customers, do you think they wouldn't have done it regardless of this event?
For 95% of non-commodity products, the only factor in setting a price is what the client is willing to pay for it. Cost has some influence there, but it's not nearly as direct as many people seem to think.
This will probably just eat into the margins of Netflix.
To be fair, this is more of an airline issue than a TSA issue. As long as he has proper ID, passes security, and doesn't pose a threat, the TSA likely won't care one way or another. They never cared about fake tickets that could get you through security before in any case.
Of course, being able to get on a flight with this is new, so maybe they will suddenly start caring.
And of course, it may be 30k in lost revenue, but their actual cost per unit, including shipping, was probably closer to $5. I'd be surprised if they actually lost more than 10k on this.
"Well, if the talent isn't worth the money in terms of bang for buck for the company, then I guess that's that, employer doesn't get a new employee and the employee doesn't get the job. Its unfortunate for both sides at that point"
Given that you said yourself that the employees are nearly universally employed already (for a salary they apparently accepted), I would say that from the side of the employee this is not an unfortunate situation at all.
Never really thought about it, but we hooked up a small linux system for GPS-tracking the Olympic torch at the Youth Olympics. Of course, youth olympics are not really a big or important event, but it is 'official' olympic fire from Olympia.
The thing with Linux systems is that unless something really weird is happening, you would never know you are looking at one. I suspect there is much more linux around us than we realize.
Most Tesla buyers in Europe and the US also get it more for show than the environment.
IMHO that's a good thing, you now have some people getting a Nissan Leaf because it makes economic sense in some situations, and some people get a Tesla because a Tesla is an awesome car. Electric cars are not just about the environment anymore, and that in the end will help the environment.
(I'm not saying nobody gets a Tesla for the environment, but despite what people may say it's for, lets be honest, usually it isn't really)
There is a huge difference between making a law and applying a law, obviously. This is just standards, not what you will actually find when you measure.
Well, it may seem like a wash because it's complicated. The EU only sets broad rules, which the individual countries then must implement.
Also, you can't always directly compare rules.
However, For instance for some directly possible comparison:
SO2 Annual mean is 20 microgram per m^3 in the EU, 79 in US. NOx: 40 vs 100 ug/m^3 PM10: 40 vs 50 ug/m^3 Ozone: 120 vs 160 ug/m^3 (way of measurement differs slightly) CO: same for both 10000 ug/m^3
These are *huge* differences. It may seem like a wash, but on the scales we are talking about, these are enormous differences.
Of course, some regulations may be stricter in the US than EU, I didn't do a full on study on this.
(these numbers may be a couple of years out of date, but I doubt there were many changes)
Having said that, my previous comment wasn't entirely meant to be serious. In fact, I'm all in favor of applying more pressure on countries to do things about pollution. Also, the EU regulation might be a bit over the top.
A factor of 1.5 won't matter for the drake equation, hell, a factor of 1000 is inconsequential. The only relevant parts are fl and fi (chance of life, and chance of life evolving into intelligent life), and we will never find them out even in approximation.
Slashdot Mirror
Moto X was a relatively expensive phone, with low specs. If you had $600 dollars to spend on a phone (either yourself or through contract subsidies), there would be very little reason to pick Moto X. The main attraction of the Moto X is that there are many variants in terms of colors and materials, and that's what you pay a premium for. Problem is, in this price range you already have lots of choices for very nicely designed phones, many with better specs. What's left is a niche market that is willing to pay a premium for stuff like a wooden phone back on a otherwise mediocre phone. That's still some market. However, I don't see how you can expect that to sell as well as a cheap phone with good specs like Moto G.
Also, the article suggests in tone that Moto X and phones like Moto X sell better in asia, but the fact is Moto X hasn't sold well anywhere. It's just completely different phones like Moto G that are doing well.
The comments back then were so much better that this link made me homesick for good old Slashdot. Still entertaining to read, but what happened?
I agree that most of what is written there sounds like nonsense, but to be pedantic, carbon as the name of an organic substance predates the discovery of atoms by a vast amount of time. To be even more pedantic, a common definition of an organic compound is that the molecule contains carbon.
Note the 'Virgin Galactic astronaut wings', not Nasa or US. Nothing is stopping you from handing out Mobydisk Astronaut Wings for playing Kerbal.
If you have a site where an attacker would have bothered with the elaborate process of getting the private key, and then do MITM attacks with it on users, and it would actually matter, you wouldn't have used StartSSL in the first place, and $25 would be absolutely nothing for you.
Hint: not you
Both of our KDE's use much more resources than XFCE or LXDE. And it's worth it. But that's still the facts.
And if you want to use name KDE SC for the set of programs everyone has always called KDE, be my guest. I will keep using the term KDE, thank you very much.
That's just doublespeak to cloud the issue of KDE not being lightweight... He mentions all the right factors himself: low memory, low cpu use, fast, not too many features. His complaint seems to be that there is no definition of a cutoff point from where something ceases to be lightweight. That's like saying you can't call an airplane fast transportation, because there is no fixed definition of 'fast'. However, most people who say an airplane is fast are comparing it to cars, walking, boats, etc. They are not referring to comparisons with the speed of light. And, lets be honest here, if a desktop environment is being called lightweight, that means compared to KDE and Gnome. Don't tell me you can not be more memory, CPU, feature and speed efficient than those two.
Disclaimer: I love KDE, use it every day and I happily trade my resources in for the features I get for it.
If Netflix could get away with raising prices without losing too many customers, do you think they wouldn't have done it regardless of this event?
For 95% of non-commodity products, the only factor in setting a price is what the client is willing to pay for it. Cost has some influence there, but it's not nearly as direct as many people seem to think.
This will probably just eat into the margins of Netflix.
To be fair, this is more of an airline issue than a TSA issue. As long as he has proper ID, passes security, and doesn't pose a threat, the TSA likely won't care one way or another. They never cared about fake tickets that could get you through security before in any case.
Of course, being able to get on a flight with this is new, so maybe they will suddenly start caring.
And of course, it may be 30k in lost revenue, but their actual cost per unit, including shipping, was probably closer to $5. I'd be surprised if they actually lost more than 10k on this.
I guess it wouldn't hurt to have static typing in PHP, but for the love of god, why not just pick a more standard syntax?
Some of their examples:
?hh ...
function f1(): ?resource {
}
public function bar(): (string, string) {
Might look good in some languages, but in PHP I would really expect that type before the function name.
Quite the contrary, if the customer didn't want this, they wouldn't care about it.
Don't be silly, the Mayan gods that went there first have been dead for over a year.
Thiefs like money?
The fact that all the answers so far point to VIM is no coincidence: VIM is actually winning that war.
Given that you said yourself that the employees are nearly universally employed already (for a salary they apparently accepted), I would say that from the side of the employee this is not an unfortunate situation at all.
So according to the map, Netherlands is already completely flooded with just millimetres of sea level rise. Somehow I think they forgot some factors.
Never really thought about it, but we hooked up a small linux system for GPS-tracking the Olympic torch at the Youth Olympics. Of course, youth olympics are not really a big or important event, but it is 'official' olympic fire from Olympia.
The thing with Linux systems is that unless something really weird is happening, you would never know you are looking at one. I suspect there is much more linux around us than we realize.
The real security for blackberry apps is in that they made it such a PITA to develop for Blackberry that nobody bothers.
Never was so much owed by so many to so few bankers.
Most Tesla buyers in Europe and the US also get it more for show than the environment.
IMHO that's a good thing, you now have some people getting a Nissan Leaf because it makes economic sense in some situations, and some people get a Tesla because a Tesla is an awesome car. Electric cars are not just about the environment anymore, and that in the end will help the environment.
(I'm not saying nobody gets a Tesla for the environment, but despite what people may say it's for, lets be honest, usually it isn't really)
There is a huge difference between making a law and applying a law, obviously. This is just standards, not what you will actually find when you measure.
But here you go:
China:
SO2: 20ug/m^3 (60 in urban areas)
NOx: 50ug/m^3
PM10: 40ug/m^3 (70 in urban areas)
Ozone: 160 ug/m^3
CO: 10000 ug/m^3
Well, it may seem like a wash because it's complicated. The EU only sets broad rules, which the individual countries then must implement.
Also, you can't always directly compare rules.
However, For instance for some directly possible comparison:
SO2 Annual mean is 20 microgram per m^3 in the EU, 79 in US.
NOx: 40 vs 100 ug/m^3
PM10: 40 vs 50 ug/m^3
Ozone: 120 vs 160 ug/m^3 (way of measurement differs slightly)
CO: same for both 10000 ug/m^3
These are *huge* differences. It may seem like a wash, but on the scales we are talking about, these are enormous differences.
Of course, some regulations may be stricter in the US than EU, I didn't do a full on study on this.
(these numbers may be a couple of years out of date, but I doubt there were many changes)
Having said that, my previous comment wasn't entirely meant to be serious. In fact, I'm all in favor of applying more pressure on countries to do things about pollution. Also, the EU regulation might be a bit over the top.
Great, so will the US then also meet EU polution standards? Or does this rule only apply when you like it?
A factor of 1.5 won't matter for the drake equation, hell, a factor of 1000 is inconsequential. The only relevant parts are fl and fi (chance of life, and chance of life evolving into intelligent life), and we will never find them out even in approximation.