I don't think that the FAA really wants to require registration of the $50 pocket size quadcopters that you can easily hide in a backpack. They want people to register the bigger drones that are capable of doing serious damage if they crash into an airplane or a crowd of people.
You can thank the morons who have been flying these near airports and over major sporting events for these new laws. We didn't have this problem with RC Airplane pilots, but it seems that the lower difficulty of flying a GPS guided drone has attracted a new breed of idiots to the hobby.
Yeah... one of the reasons I like Chrome so much is that my bookmarks are updated automatically on my Windows Desktop PC, Mac Laptop, Android Tablet, and iPhone. I doubt that I'll be able to pull off that stunt with Edge for awhile.
Walmart and Walmart.com are probably starting to have problems making a decent profit margin on some products because Amazon.com is undercutting them on price. Amazon can do this because they don't have a giant store network with hundreds of thousands of employees to support, and they have a separate giant cloud hosting business to draw revenue from. They are also working on crazy new instant shipping options like bike and drone delivery that threaten Walmart's Brick and Mortar operations.
Walmart's solution? Try to put a dent in Amazon's hosting business by offering an open source cloud hosting option! If it's successful, you just forced Amazon to offer cheaper cloud hosting to fend off the new competition. Amazon now has less revenue for new R&D, which hopefully keeps them from further expanding into other product offerings that compete with Walmart.
If it works, it's a genius move. I'm not sure if they have the technical clout to pull it off, though. I guess that we'll have to wait for the code dump to GitHub to see.
I think that you're being sarcastic, but there are already tons of laws on the books at the state level that say that gun owners need to keep their guns locked up and away from children.
Perhaps we should start giving these people 10 year prison terms for manslaughter until people get the message.
Apple tries, but they aren't nearly restrictive as Amazon. If you want to use your iPad to read your Kindle books or watch Amazon Prime movies, for example, there are apps for that.
You're not going to use any of the Google Play apps on a Fire tablet without a fight, though, even though the tablet is based on Android.
I think that the plan is to make up the loss on content delivery. If they lock down the tablet enough, they can make it so the average person needs to go to Amazon to buy/rent any apps or media that you want to use.
I guess that I could make sense for Amazon to undercut the price of their competitors for their tablet since they can configure Fire OS to only allow purchases from Amazon.
Want an movie? Buy it and download it from Amazon! Want a book? Buy it and download it from Amazon! Want some music? You get the idea.
Did we mention that you get a discount and some "free" downloads if you sign up for Prime? Come on, it's only $99 a year!
I'm sure that they'll make it difficult as hell to sideload apps and download content to the tablet via USB as well. No thanks, I'll pass on this one.
I never understood why they give you all of this parental time off during the first year, when the baby spends a lot of time sleeping and is mostly stationary. In parenting terms, that year isn't the hardest one to handle unless the baby is colicky and can't sleep well.
They should REALLY give you the extra time off when the kid is two years old and is trying to break anything that isn't either locked up or three feet off the ground every time you turn your back on them.
Forget Maternity and Paternity Leave... Give me Toddler Leave, dammit!
It's particularly depressing considering that you can now get a $20 Android phone from your local Family Dollar or Dollar General without a contract that will outperform it in practically every performance and feature category.
I wonder if a company like IBM could make good money reselling unused IP addresses in their 9.x.x.x block until everyone finally migrates to IPv6. There is no way that they need that many public facing IP addresses.
Well... I guess that they could get bought out by someone like Microsoft or Oracle.
If you think that the stealth sponsored Dice posts are annoying now, just wait for the "10 reasons why you should upgrade to ProductX today! Number 7 will SHOCK you!" type product promo posts.
Yeah, it's usually been a bad idea to let Windows update it's own drivers. They have a bad habit of downgrading things like Video drivers with older "Microsoft Certified" versions, and break/remove a bunch of features in the process.
Almost every other Windows version treats driver downloads as "optional" so they aren't automatically installed even if Automatic updates are on. Has this changed with Windows 10?
I have that Acer Aspire One with the same system specs as well. It's running Windows 7 fairly well, but even doing something simple like watching a Youtube or CNN video on it will bring the entire system to it's knees. It just doesn't have either the memory or the processing power to decode video with a decent framerate.
I guess that it would be fine if you used it for word processing with an old version of Word, but it simply cannot handle a modern web browser.
Yeah... I bet that the "New Earth" creationists will be touting this headline for years, even though they don't really understand most of the words in it.
They've been spouting doubt about carbon dating methods for years, and fall back to the "God CREATED it with age!" excuse if you're crazy enough to refute their claims with actual scientific information.
You've been able to buy gift cards with Bitcoin for years (I did it to unload my Bitcoin long before the taxman regulated it), but then you're probably stuck paying VAT again for your purchases.
So much for using Bitcoin as a tax dodge in that case.
I think that domestic software engineers should be paid more in general regardless of gender. That's my somewhat biased opinion, since I fall under that category. I don't want my kid to follow in my footsteps, since I'm not sure if there will be any well paying entry level jobs in this field by the time she graduates.
That said, offering bonuses or other incentives to get more diversity in the CS field wouldn't be a bad thing.
Why don't you try offering them MORE MONEY, and watch the problem resolve itself! It might not be cool, but classic labor Economics still works in the 21st century.
Of course, Microsoft (or any other big tech company) doesn't really have a reason to do that as long as they can get a bunch of cheap H1-B workers to fill the positions instead.
I was trying to fix a broken backup process on an AIX box, and found that there were a ton of stuck Legato processes on the system. Rather than kill each one individually, entered the killall command to get the correct syntax to kill all of the processes with legato in the name.
In Linux, entering killall gives you the syntax on how the killall command works. In the old version of AIX this system was using, it killed EVERYTHING with no warning and basically rebooted the box. That's not usually not a big deal, except that this was the primary SAP database server for a Fortune 500 company. It took the DBA's about a day to clean up the mess.
The system was clustered, thankfully, but it probably cost about 10K in labor to clean up the mess.
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I don't think that the FAA really wants to require registration of the $50 pocket size quadcopters that you can easily hide in a backpack. They want people to register the bigger drones that are capable of doing serious damage if they crash into an airplane or a crowd of people.
You can thank the morons who have been flying these near airports and over major sporting events for these new laws. We didn't have this problem with RC Airplane pilots, but it seems that the lower difficulty of flying a GPS guided drone has attracted a new breed of idiots to the hobby.
Yeah... one of the reasons I like Chrome so much is that my bookmarks are updated automatically on my Windows Desktop PC, Mac Laptop, Android Tablet, and iPhone. I doubt that I'll be able to pull off that stunt with Edge for awhile.
Walmart and Walmart.com are probably starting to have problems making a decent profit margin on some products because Amazon.com is undercutting them on price. Amazon can do this because they don't have a giant store network with hundreds of thousands of employees to support, and they have a separate giant cloud hosting business to draw revenue from. They are also working on crazy new instant shipping options like bike and drone delivery that threaten Walmart's Brick and Mortar operations.
Walmart's solution? Try to put a dent in Amazon's hosting business by offering an open source cloud hosting option! If it's successful, you just forced Amazon to offer cheaper cloud hosting to fend off the new competition. Amazon now has less revenue for new R&D, which hopefully keeps them from further expanding into other product offerings that compete with Walmart.
If it works, it's a genius move. I'm not sure if they have the technical clout to pull it off, though. I guess that we'll have to wait for the code dump to GitHub to see.
I think that you're being sarcastic, but there are already tons of laws on the books at the state level that say that gun owners need to keep their guns locked up and away from children.
Perhaps we should start giving these people 10 year prison terms for manslaughter until people get the message.
Apple tries, but they aren't nearly restrictive as Amazon. If you want to use your iPad to read your Kindle books or watch Amazon Prime movies, for example, there are apps for that.
You're not going to use any of the Google Play apps on a Fire tablet without a fight, though, even though the tablet is based on Android.
I think that the plan is to make up the loss on content delivery. If they lock down the tablet enough, they can make it so the average person needs to go to Amazon to buy/rent any apps or media that you want to use.
I guess that I could make sense for Amazon to undercut the price of their competitors for their tablet since they can configure Fire OS to only allow purchases from Amazon.
Want an movie? Buy it and download it from Amazon! Want a book? Buy it and download it from Amazon! Want some music? You get the idea.
Did we mention that you get a discount and some "free" downloads if you sign up for Prime? Come on, it's only $99 a year!
I'm sure that they'll make it difficult as hell to sideload apps and download content to the tablet via USB as well. No thanks, I'll pass on this one.
Yeah, I got a whole whopping 3 personal days when my kid was born. Yay.
I never understood why they give you all of this parental time off during the first year, when the baby spends a lot of time sleeping and is mostly stationary. In parenting terms, that year isn't the hardest one to handle unless the baby is colicky and can't sleep well.
They should REALLY give you the extra time off when the kid is two years old and is trying to break anything that isn't either locked up or three feet off the ground every time you turn your back on them.
Forget Maternity and Paternity Leave... Give me Toddler Leave, dammit!
Yeah, I would love to see a real high end enthusiast processor with 8 cores, hyperthreading, a 4+ GHz clock speed, and no integrated graphics.
I'm thinking THAT processor would have more than a puny 30% performance increase over a 4 year old Sandy Bridge part.
Maybe they could brand it with something new like "Core i9 Extreme Edition" to make it sound even more badass to the l33t gamer types.
Wow, that phone review was really sad.
It's particularly depressing considering that you can now get a $20 Android phone from your local Family Dollar or Dollar General without a contract that will outperform it in practically every performance and feature category.
I wonder if a company like IBM could make good money reselling unused IP addresses in their 9.x.x.x block until everyone finally migrates to IPv6. There is no way that they need that many public facing IP addresses.
Well... I guess that they could get bought out by someone like Microsoft or Oracle.
If you think that the stealth sponsored Dice posts are annoying now, just wait for the "10 reasons why you should upgrade to ProductX today! Number 7 will SHOCK you!" type product promo posts.
Ah, so HE'S the guy who caused Ouya to fail by only playing the game demos without buying anything. You bastard!
Yeah, it's usually been a bad idea to let Windows update it's own drivers. They have a bad habit of downgrading things like Video drivers with older "Microsoft Certified" versions, and break/remove a bunch of features in the process.
Almost every other Windows version treats driver downloads as "optional" so they aren't automatically installed even if Automatic updates are on. Has this changed with Windows 10?
Jeans (as long as they aren't ripped or stained) are considered OK for Business Casual now. Have been for a few years.
Yeah, and only about 18 months behind Chrome on this feature.
I wonder if the new Microsoft Edge browser has this feature. If so, Mozilla can gloat about beating them to it by a week!
I have that Acer Aspire One with the same system specs as well. It's running Windows 7 fairly well, but even doing something simple like watching a Youtube or CNN video on it will bring the entire system to it's knees. It just doesn't have either the memory or the processing power to decode video with a decent framerate.
I guess that it would be fine if you used it for word processing with an old version of Word, but it simply cannot handle a modern web browser.
IP Webcam is a fantastic free tool, but I found that it can make some Android phones overheat and crash if you leave it running all the time.
Definately worth a try, though!
Yeah... I bet that the "New Earth" creationists will be touting this headline for years, even though they don't really understand most of the words in it.
They've been spouting doubt about carbon dating methods for years, and fall back to the "God CREATED it with age!" excuse if you're crazy enough to refute their claims with actual scientific information.
You've been able to buy gift cards with Bitcoin for years (I did it to unload my Bitcoin long before the taxman regulated it), but then you're probably stuck paying VAT again for your purchases.
So much for using Bitcoin as a tax dodge in that case.
I think that domestic software engineers should be paid more in general regardless of gender. That's my somewhat biased opinion, since I fall under that category. I don't want my kid to follow in my footsteps, since I'm not sure if there will be any well paying entry level jobs in this field by the time she graduates.
That said, offering bonuses or other incentives to get more diversity in the CS field wouldn't be a bad thing.
Why don't you try offering them MORE MONEY, and watch the problem resolve itself! It might not be cool, but classic labor Economics still works in the 21st century.
Of course, Microsoft (or any other big tech company) doesn't really have a reason to do that as long as they can get a bunch of cheap H1-B workers to fill the positions instead.
I was trying to fix a broken backup process on an AIX box, and found that there were a ton of stuck Legato processes on the system. Rather than kill each one individually, entered the killall command to get the correct syntax to kill all of the processes with legato in the name.
In Linux, entering killall gives you the syntax on how the killall command works. In the old version of AIX this system was using, it killed EVERYTHING with no warning and basically rebooted the box. That's not usually not a big deal, except that this was the primary SAP database server for a Fortune 500 company. It took the DBA's about a day to clean up the mess.
The system was clustered, thankfully, but it probably cost about 10K in labor to clean up the mess.
At least Google isn't having a knee jerk overreaction like Apple banning Civil War games because they have a friggin Confederate flag in them.