I didn't care about the new design in the least, until I clicked on a featured article.
Then the middle section turned white with black text, that had absolutely no formatting. It looked like a 17-page wall of text, with the black vertical sidebars framing it in. HORRIBLE.
I immediately closed the tab, and went back to espn.com.
I hadn't loaded an actual article until I read your reply, thanks for the prompting - now that I have, however, I don't see any issue with it whatsoever. White background, black text, no crazy formatting, no 12-page slideshow for a 6 paragraph article, no animations, no graphical background...? Sounds like an ideal in readability! Kinda like a printed book, you know?
(The sidebars are distracting however, I'll give you that.)
I'd never visited sports.yahoo.com before. From that perspective, I like the new format better. YMMV of course, but it makes me wonder how much of the outcry is about somebody's cheese being moved, and how much of it is about actual loss of usability and functionality.
I nearly fainted once. My experience consisted of:
Tunnel vision
Loud ringing in my ears
Euphoric, tingly feeling
I can get a similar experience on certain high-g roller coasters. I can only speculate that it would be the same for me if I had heart issues like the GP. No simply fade-to-black for me.
(I can totally see how somebody predisposed would interpret that as a religious experience.)
There's no indication in TFS what the definitions of "skilled" and "talented" are. The examples presented look to me to be two different people who are each good at their jobs, with no indication why they are different. (And with it being from infoworld, I'm not going to RTFA.) But there are some other posters who have proposed distinctions, which I will comment about:
Innate thought processes.
Acquired knowledge.
And I will add a third - dedication or drive.
The first can be thought of as "intuition." I've encountered it when my thought process matched somebody else's. There have been times when I've had to work with a new bit of software I wasn't familiar with, and when trying to figure out something I'd think "Where would I put function X if I was writing this?" and I'd go look there and find what I was looking for. It's also worked against me - I've encountered software which worked completely different from how I would have done it, and it's very difficult for me to deal with it.
There's also an aspect of natural intelligence here, which I won't get in to much. Creativity, ability to learn, ability to make logical connections, etc.
And something often called "genius" which to me is the ability to make illogical connections that are nevertheless correct.
Then there's skillset. Intuition and intelligence can help, but won't get you very far if you don't know the syntax of something, or the capabilities of something... You can't say to yourself "If I was designing C++, how would I do it?" and then expect to produce bug free code that compiles under gcc based off your thoughts.
Finally, there's just how much effort you're willing to put into your work.
IMO, the first and third items are equally important - you can't get results without them, and I don't think they're easy to acquire through learning - but the second is of lesser importance because somebody well endowed in the first and third should be able to pick up the info needed for the second.
It can be a challenge, however, to judge somebody's innate thought processes and dedication to work during an interview. Much easier to ask fact based questions.
Pizza (cold or not) for programmers was so prevalent, in fact, that there was developed an ANSI Standard Pizza configuration. Pepperoni and mushroom. (Although having just looked it up, I hadn't realized at the time it was mostly a CMU thing.)
There are fourteen WiFi channels, each corresponding to electromagnetic radiation ranging from 2412 MHz (12.43 cm) to 2484 MHz (12.07 cm.) The visible light we see with is also electromagnetic radiation, but ranges from 700 to 390 nm wavelength. I'm not sure what materials reflect, absorb and transmit 12.43 to 12.07 cm wavelength light, but once that's accounted for wouldn't "seeing" WiFi essentially be the same as seeing a rapidly flashing, single colored (assuming it was operating on a single channel,) omnidirectional light bulb? The rainbow emanations in TFA strike me as pretty artistic interpretations, which is apparently the point in order to drum up "appreciation" for WiFi, but my IANAP (I Am Not A Physicist) understanding suggests there's little to do with reality here.
Some of the controversy surrounding Google Glass is people worried about being video recorded by others and having that video made public and subject to whatever scrutiny and ridicule the friends, family, neighbors, coworkers and public in general can come up with.
But what if you're the one wearing Glass, and get accused of something you didn't do? Or somebody does something to you and there's otherwise no evidence? Suddenly your Glass can save your bacon. It can be abused, of course, but it can also be a powerful form of self defense. If either GZ or TM had a video record of what happened that night, I wonder first about how the events would have unfolded differently and second if there would have been nearly as much controversy if there wasn't the he-said-she-said aspect.
For some interesting sci-fi reading about related subjects, check out The Light Of Other Days by Arthur C Clarke and Stephen Baxter, and The Truth Machine by James L. Halperin.
How sure is "pretty sure"? Is it sure enough to include some studies, or a source for numbers, or...?
I found this blog post from somebody who put together some related numbers. It doesn't exactly relate to the carbon costs of farming the food and collecting/refining the gasoline, but it discusses the carbon mass per unit distance emitted by the various modes of transportation.
Here are the interesting numbers. CO2 produced per 3.2 km of travel above what is produced by breathing at rest:
By car: 0.88 kg CO2
Walking: 0.039 kg CO2
Riding a bike: 0.017 kg CO2
So traveling by car produces 51 times as much CO2 emissions than biking. As I said, that doesn't include the carbon cost of farming, so I found this study showing that producing food produces 2.778E-7 tons of CO2 per kcal. Going back to that bike ride, the 3.2 km bike ride consumed 49 kcal more than resting, and the amount of CO2 produced from farming/etc. operations for 49 kcal of food is 0.014 kg of CO2. So it nearly doubles the CO2 produced to ride a bike, to.03 kg, but driving a car still produces 28.75 times more CO2. And that doesn't even account for the cost of getting the fuel - it's only tailpipe emissions. Even carpooling, say with five people in the car, produces more CO2 than each person individually riding a bike.
(Please let me know of any errors I've made. I don't claim to be infallible.)
LEGO Logo
A PC running DOS
Turbo Pascal Chaos by James Gleick.
The simple text and graphical outputs of Turbo Pascal and DOS, and the obvious outputs of LEGO bricks, allowed me to focus on syntax and algorithms, rather than window managers, objects and weird system APIs. By programming my own versions of cellular automatons, fractals, chaotic attractors and the like I learned about boundary conditions, debugging, algorithm analysis, recursion, etc... All self-taught by thinking "I want to do X" and looking for X in the index, rather than structured tutorials. I was playing with a fun toy, essentially.
Being in the market for a mortgage right now, I've done some reading on points. My reading suggests you're mistaken about the significance of points. Yes, they work by the borrower paying some up-front money in return for a lower interest rate, but you're mistaken that low interest rates reduces their significance, and you're also mistaken that house price is a factor as well. Points are structured such that (these days, with a few different lenders I've done the math for their quotes, assuming a 30 year mortgage) in about 12 or 13 years, you break even. That is, your reduced payments mean you've saved enough money to equal your points payment. For years 17 on, you're saving money. It's basically a gamble that you're going to keep that same mortgage for more than 13 years, which is a question best left up to each individual borrower. And it doesn't matter if it's a $250k house or a $2.5mil house - each borrower still saves money after 12 or 13 years, and if they are each abiding by the same guidelines on affordability based on income, they savings is equally proportional to that income.
I stopped using a PC as a gaming rig in 2007 when my PC couldn't do recent games very well and I got an Xbox 360 Elite. At $450 for nearly six years worth of use (not one RROD, somehow) your argument works that PC gaming is better regarding upgrades than it used to be, but not good enough to make me want to go back to PCs. A Live Gold subscription is still cheaper than a graphics card every two years. On the other hand, reading about how games on PCs tend to have better graphics than their console counterparts these days has been tempting me... but depending on the specifics of the XBox One when it comes out (eg, price, DRM restrictions, etc.) I might once again have a console for half a dozen years worth of gaming with no hardware upgrades required.
I just hope the new console is really good at AA. The pixilation on my 360 bugs me.
I've never had a job other than IT support, so I don't know how it compares to other work, but I have had different IT support jobs with wildly different stress levels.
On the low-stress side, picture a small shop. 50 to 100 servers, two or three admins. You know each server, what it does, what its quirks are, what external systems it talks to, you control not only the server but its storage and networking and backups, you're the dba, the webmaster, you know by name all the developers that write the code that runs on the servers, you know most of the users and all of the managers of the company by name... It's a lot of different hats, but with the limited number of systems you have enough time to pay each its proper attention. You can tweak each server individually. Only in extremely rare occasions like a failed controller on the SAN do you get called off-hours. This sort of job is fun and engaging.
The high-stress job is from being on a team that "owns" a few thousand servers in a global corporation with a poorly set up support model - but you only has access to the OS. No ability to work on the databases or SAN, no rights to the switches or hypervisor, and when it's your turn to be on-call you are guaranteed to get calls all through the night - calls ranging ranging from hung servers that need a reboot, to performance issues that take hours and hours to coordinate troubleshooting with the SAN team that swears it's not their issue even though its several systems all connected to the same controller, users on the other side of the world having whatever issue, on systems you don't know they first thing about except its a database server or whatever because of the naming convenntion. No sleep that week, no ability to go to a movie without fear of being paged... Pure stress for the week of being on-call, and dreadful anticipation all other times.
I was glad to have been laid off from a job like the latter during the financial crisis.
I'll take a job like the former, even with a micro-managing, cover-sheet-your-TPS-report, the-sky-is-falling type boss, over another one like the latter any day.
I'm no expert in the satellite industry, but I get the impression that there aren't any NOAA employees building satellites. Don't they already contract with corporations to build, launch and operate the satellites? Then how is it that PlanetIQ would be able to provide the same capabilities for less money than some other company that already has lots of experience with satellites? Is it the overhead of the government acquisition process? Reduced capabilities, longevity or reliability? (I can certainly see cost savings by launching sats with capabilities X, Y and Z and saying "Hey, come consume our data," but what if what NOAA really needs, and is driving the cost of existing satellites, are capabilities foo and bar?) A different philosophy of many cheap sats vs. a few expensive ones somehow leading to savings? The whole lease vs buy thing? (But how will they make a profit if the lease doesn't add up to more than the cost?)
This morning on Morning Edition NPR broadcast a talk with Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg. (Probably because Sandberg has a new book out on the subject.) I thought it was quite interesting.
Slight correction - TFA states that the area studied was from 45 N and up, but does not state that everything north of there is greener.
Increased growth - 34 to 41%
Decreased growth - 3 to 5%
No change - 51 to 62%
Looking at the pretty picture in the fine article, the impression I get is that most of the increase is over in Europe and Asia. Here in North America, there's a swath of increased plant growth immediate above 45 N to about 52ish N, then a swath of no change or decrease, then around 60 to 70 N the increased plan growth takes effect again. The biggest increase by percentage seems to be in far NE Russia - Sakha and Chukotka.
Almost all BMWs are top speed limited to less than 150 mph. It's policy.
Not really true. 130 mph limit for cars that come with all season tires from the factory, 155 mph limit for cars that come with summer performance tires from the factory. And from what I can tell the higher performance models come with the 155 limit only.
High-res ambient light display, possibly e-ink, with toggle-able backlight. It has to look good, first of all.
GPS, accelerometer and biometric sensors. APIs into the sensors could be used to track sleeping patterns, workout intensity, heart arrhythmia, etc.
Encryption chip. Everything gets encrypted.
Token generator for two-factor authentication. Token can be displayed as a PIN, passphrase, 2D barcode, or even an audio signal depending on the input the computer, website, ATM, phone rep, etc. is looking for.
NFC, with proper security. Pay for things without having to pull out wallet or phone or keychain. Communicate with car and home locks to lock and unlock. (With proper safeguards to prevent inadvertently locking or unlocking.)
Microphone. With "evidence" mode streaming to online storage. Void where prohibited by law.
WiFi, cellular data and bluetooth. Connect to headsets and cars for voice communication. Establish hotspot for tablet and notebook use.
Fingerprint reader, voice recognition or facial recognition. (Assuming these methods are more secure than a four-digit PIN, and easier to use than a 12-character alphanumeric+symbol passphrase.)
Voice recognition. For those input and query needs that a small screen isn't good for. (Eg, "Watch, make reservations at Abacus for tomorrow at 7pm." "Watch, what was last night's final score?" "Watch, add milk to my grocery list.")
Camera for video conferencing. Maybe. I'm not sure how useful that would actually be and hardware packaging would be an issue.
Inductive charging would be nice for when you take the watch off at night,
but only if the hardware is small enough. Some magnetic port otherwise.
64GB of storage. Play movies and music on compatible entertainment systems via WiFi.
Must have at least one week battery life when used just as a watch. 24 hours when used as a phone. And must have 10 hour battery life when used as a hotspot for typical browsing.
While Australia has 45C temperatures, you can survive that for a few days, if you're lucky. Here when it hits -30C you might have 5-6 hours if you're not dressed for it.
For what it's worth - if you ever find yourself in a 45C environment, keep in mind that death can easily happen in a 5-6 hours as well if you're not prepared for it. What helps is shade, plenty of drinking water, staying put, and alcohol or caffeine. I've gone hiking in Big Bend National Park where its rather common for a person or two to die of exposure each year. http://www.nps.gov/bibe/parknews/upload/SurviveTheSun_SB.pdf It's a beautiful area though, if you know how to experience it safely.
It's not a perfect pen, but the Uniball Vision is my pen of choice these days. (The Elite model specifically.)
1) The 0.5mm tip is thin enough for my usage.
2) There's no bleeding on standard weight printer paper.
3) Drying can be a problem, especially on credit card receipts which aren't very absorbant, but on above mentioned printer paper or regular notebook paper it's usually dry by the time I finish my thoughts, meeting, etc.
4) It's difficult, although not impossible, to tell apart the beginning and end of lines.
5) No issue with needing extra pressure.
Extra bonuses: No bleeding out the tips during airplane flights, and cheap.
I'm not sure if you'd like it, but I think it's worth you getting one to try out if you haven't already.
First, under Jobs, I can only assume that this "brewing tension" was held in check by Jobs' vision and force of personality. That it came to this, the ouster of senior execs, makes me wonder about Cook's ability to manage a diverse and sometimes contentious herd of cats that nevertheless can create a level of energy that leads to some innovative products. So now Cook is surrounding himself with people of a monolithic view...
Second, consider the relative popularity of the iPhone (huge) and iMac (small.) Forstall and his bright iOS icons (I'm assuming here, I really don't know how iOS 1.0 came about) led a revolution in smartphones. I can only theorize on what would have happened with the iPhone if the software came out all in shades of grey, with a few subtle touches of blue here and there, but my theories aren't optimistic. Well, we'll see I guess.
Uh... I'm not sure if this was your intent, but your link to a "Microsoft Store" actually is of an Apple store. One giveaway is the Apple Genius logo on the back wall. From searching, it seems the pic is from 9to5mac - here's a similar shot of what appears to be the same store: 9to5mac.
As of this posting, the event is scheduled to start at 6am MDT (noon UTC if I'm converting correctly) on Tuesday, October 9. The official webpage is http://www.redbullstratos.com/
Interesting coincidence - I just finished the book at lunch today. I've read sci-fi for as long as I've been reading, but never read this one - for no particular reason. I felt I owed it to myself to read it when I found it at Half Price Books, since it's considered a classic in the genre. Honestly though, while it was well written and good to read, it didn't strike me as anything special. Possibly because I wasn't an adult during the time it was written? (Despite there being certain parallels between Vietnam and current military events.) Anybody care to contemplate how well a modern day movie adaption can be? I'm not sure.
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I didn't care about the new design in the least, until I clicked on a featured article.
Then the middle section turned white with black text, that had absolutely no formatting. It looked like a 17-page wall of text, with the black vertical sidebars framing it in. HORRIBLE.
I immediately closed the tab, and went back to espn.com.
I hadn't loaded an actual article until I read your reply, thanks for the prompting - now that I have, however, I don't see any issue with it whatsoever. White background, black text, no crazy formatting, no 12-page slideshow for a 6 paragraph article, no animations, no graphical background...? Sounds like an ideal in readability! Kinda like a printed book, you know?
(The sidebars are distracting however, I'll give you that.)
I'd never visited sports.yahoo.com before. From that perspective, I like the new format better. YMMV of course, but it makes me wonder how much of the outcry is about somebody's cheese being moved, and how much of it is about actual loss of usability and functionality.
I nearly fainted once. My experience consisted of:
I can get a similar experience on certain high-g roller coasters. I can only speculate that it would be the same for me if I had heart issues like the GP. No simply fade-to-black for me.
(I can totally see how somebody predisposed would interpret that as a religious experience.)
There's no indication in TFS what the definitions of "skilled" and "talented" are. The examples presented look to me to be two different people who are each good at their jobs, with no indication why they are different. (And with it being from infoworld, I'm not going to RTFA.) But there are some other posters who have proposed distinctions, which I will comment about:
Innate thought processes.
Acquired knowledge.
And I will add a third - dedication or drive.
The first can be thought of as "intuition." I've encountered it when my thought process matched somebody else's. There have been times when I've had to work with a new bit of software I wasn't familiar with, and when trying to figure out something I'd think "Where would I put function X if I was writing this?" and I'd go look there and find what I was looking for. It's also worked against me - I've encountered software which worked completely different from how I would have done it, and it's very difficult for me to deal with it.
There's also an aspect of natural intelligence here, which I won't get in to much. Creativity, ability to learn, ability to make logical connections, etc.
And something often called "genius" which to me is the ability to make illogical connections that are nevertheless correct.
Then there's skillset. Intuition and intelligence can help, but won't get you very far if you don't know the syntax of something, or the capabilities of something... You can't say to yourself "If I was designing C++, how would I do it?" and then expect to produce bug free code that compiles under gcc based off your thoughts.
Finally, there's just how much effort you're willing to put into your work.
IMO, the first and third items are equally important - you can't get results without them, and I don't think they're easy to acquire through learning - but the second is of lesser importance because somebody well endowed in the first and third should be able to pick up the info needed for the second.
It can be a challenge, however, to judge somebody's innate thought processes and dedication to work during an interview. Much easier to ask fact based questions.
Pizza (cold or not) for programmers was so prevalent, in fact, that there was developed an ANSI Standard Pizza configuration. Pepperoni and mushroom. (Although having just looked it up, I hadn't realized at the time it was mostly a CMU thing.)
There are fourteen WiFi channels, each corresponding to electromagnetic radiation ranging from 2412 MHz (12.43 cm) to 2484 MHz (12.07 cm.) The visible light we see with is also electromagnetic radiation, but ranges from 700 to 390 nm wavelength. I'm not sure what materials reflect, absorb and transmit 12.43 to 12.07 cm wavelength light, but once that's accounted for wouldn't "seeing" WiFi essentially be the same as seeing a rapidly flashing, single colored (assuming it was operating on a single channel,) omnidirectional light bulb? The rainbow emanations in TFA strike me as pretty artistic interpretations, which is apparently the point in order to drum up "appreciation" for WiFi, but my IANAP (I Am Not A Physicist) understanding suggests there's little to do with reality here.
Some of the controversy surrounding Google Glass is people worried about being video recorded by others and having that video made public and subject to whatever scrutiny and ridicule the friends, family, neighbors, coworkers and public in general can come up with.
But what if you're the one wearing Glass, and get accused of something you didn't do? Or somebody does something to you and there's otherwise no evidence? Suddenly your Glass can save your bacon. It can be abused, of course, but it can also be a powerful form of self defense. If either GZ or TM had a video record of what happened that night, I wonder first about how the events would have unfolded differently and second if there would have been nearly as much controversy if there wasn't the he-said-she-said aspect.
For some interesting sci-fi reading about related subjects, check out The Light Of Other Days by Arthur C Clarke and Stephen Baxter, and The Truth Machine by James L. Halperin.
How sure is "pretty sure"? Is it sure enough to include some studies, or a source for numbers, or...?
.03 kg, but driving a car still produces 28.75 times more CO2. And that doesn't even account for the cost of getting the fuel - it's only tailpipe emissions. Even carpooling, say with five people in the car, produces more CO2 than each person individually riding a bike.
I found this blog post from somebody who put together some related numbers. It doesn't exactly relate to the carbon costs of farming the food and collecting/refining the gasoline, but it discusses the carbon mass per unit distance emitted by the various modes of transportation.
Here are the interesting numbers. CO2 produced per 3.2 km of travel above what is produced by breathing at rest:
By car: 0.88 kg CO2
Walking: 0.039 kg CO2
Riding a bike: 0.017 kg CO2
So traveling by car produces 51 times as much CO2 emissions than biking. As I said, that doesn't include the carbon cost of farming, so I found this study showing that producing food produces 2.778E-7 tons of CO2 per kcal. Going back to that bike ride, the 3.2 km bike ride consumed 49 kcal more than resting, and the amount of CO2 produced from farming/etc. operations for 49 kcal of food is 0.014 kg of CO2. So it nearly doubles the CO2 produced to ride a bike, to
(Please let me know of any errors I've made. I don't claim to be infallible.)
LEGO Logo
A PC running DOS
Turbo Pascal
Chaos by James Gleick.
The simple text and graphical outputs of Turbo Pascal and DOS, and the obvious outputs of LEGO bricks, allowed me to focus on syntax and algorithms, rather than window managers, objects and weird system APIs. By programming my own versions of cellular automatons, fractals, chaotic attractors and the like I learned about boundary conditions, debugging, algorithm analysis, recursion, etc... All self-taught by thinking "I want to do X" and looking for X in the index, rather than structured tutorials. I was playing with a fun toy, essentially.
Being in the market for a mortgage right now, I've done some reading on points. My reading suggests you're mistaken about the significance of points. Yes, they work by the borrower paying some up-front money in return for a lower interest rate, but you're mistaken that low interest rates reduces their significance, and you're also mistaken that house price is a factor as well. Points are structured such that (these days, with a few different lenders I've done the math for their quotes, assuming a 30 year mortgage) in about 12 or 13 years, you break even. That is, your reduced payments mean you've saved enough money to equal your points payment. For years 17 on, you're saving money. It's basically a gamble that you're going to keep that same mortgage for more than 13 years, which is a question best left up to each individual borrower. And it doesn't matter if it's a $250k house or a $2.5mil house - each borrower still saves money after 12 or 13 years, and if they are each abiding by the same guidelines on affordability based on income, they savings is equally proportional to that income.
I stopped using a PC as a gaming rig in 2007 when my PC couldn't do recent games very well and I got an Xbox 360 Elite. At $450 for nearly six years worth of use (not one RROD, somehow) your argument works that PC gaming is better regarding upgrades than it used to be, but not good enough to make me want to go back to PCs. A Live Gold subscription is still cheaper than a graphics card every two years. On the other hand, reading about how games on PCs tend to have better graphics than their console counterparts these days has been tempting me... but depending on the specifics of the XBox One when it comes out (eg, price, DRM restrictions, etc.) I might once again have a console for half a dozen years worth of gaming with no hardware upgrades required.
I just hope the new console is really good at AA. The pixilation on my 360 bugs me.
I've never had a job other than IT support, so I don't know how it compares to other work, but I have had different IT support jobs with wildly different stress levels.
On the low-stress side, picture a small shop. 50 to 100 servers, two or three admins. You know each server, what it does, what its quirks are, what external systems it talks to, you control not only the server but its storage and networking and backups, you're the dba, the webmaster, you know by name all the developers that write the code that runs on the servers, you know most of the users and all of the managers of the company by name... It's a lot of different hats, but with the limited number of systems you have enough time to pay each its proper attention. You can tweak each server individually. Only in extremely rare occasions like a failed controller on the SAN do you get called off-hours. This sort of job is fun and engaging.
The high-stress job is from being on a team that "owns" a few thousand servers in a global corporation with a poorly set up support model - but you only has access to the OS. No ability to work on the databases or SAN, no rights to the switches or hypervisor, and when it's your turn to be on-call you are guaranteed to get calls all through the night - calls ranging ranging from hung servers that need a reboot, to performance issues that take hours and hours to coordinate troubleshooting with the SAN team that swears it's not their issue even though its several systems all connected to the same controller, users on the other side of the world having whatever issue, on systems you don't know they first thing about except its a database server or whatever because of the naming convenntion. No sleep that week, no ability to go to a movie without fear of being paged... Pure stress for the week of being on-call, and dreadful anticipation all other times.
I was glad to have been laid off from a job like the latter during the financial crisis.
I'll take a job like the former, even with a micro-managing, cover-sheet-your-TPS-report, the-sky-is-falling type boss, over another one like the latter any day.
I'm no expert in the satellite industry, but I get the impression that there aren't any NOAA employees building satellites. Don't they already contract with corporations to build, launch and operate the satellites? Then how is it that PlanetIQ would be able to provide the same capabilities for less money than some other company that already has lots of experience with satellites? Is it the overhead of the government acquisition process? Reduced capabilities, longevity or reliability? (I can certainly see cost savings by launching sats with capabilities X, Y and Z and saying "Hey, come consume our data," but what if what NOAA really needs, and is driving the cost of existing satellites, are capabilities foo and bar?) A different philosophy of many cheap sats vs. a few expensive ones somehow leading to savings? The whole lease vs buy thing? (But how will they make a profit if the lease doesn't add up to more than the cost?)
This morning on Morning Edition NPR broadcast a talk with Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg. (Probably because Sandberg has a new book out on the subject.) I thought it was quite interesting.
Slight correction - TFA states that the area studied was from 45 N and up, but does not state that everything north of there is greener.
Increased growth - 34 to 41%
Decreased growth - 3 to 5%
No change - 51 to 62%
Looking at the pretty picture in the fine article, the impression I get is that most of the increase is over in Europe and Asia. Here in North America, there's a swath of increased plant growth immediate above 45 N to about 52ish N, then a swath of no change or decrease, then around 60 to 70 N the increased plan growth takes effect again. The biggest increase by percentage seems to be in far NE Russia - Sakha and Chukotka.
Almost all BMWs are top speed limited to less than 150 mph. It's policy.
Not really true. 130 mph limit for cars that come with all season tires from the factory, 155 mph limit for cars that come with summer performance tires from the factory. And from what I can tell the higher performance models come with the 155 limit only.
It's been a long, long time since I've knowingly clicked an informationweek article in a slashdot submission...
Damn, that'll teach me about limiting my proofreading to spelling only sometimes! :-O
While Australia has 45C temperatures, you can survive that for a few days, if you're lucky. Here when it hits -30C you might have 5-6 hours if you're not dressed for it.
For what it's worth - if you ever find yourself in a 45C environment, keep in mind that death can easily happen in a 5-6 hours as well if you're not prepared for it. What helps is shade, plenty of drinking water, staying put, and alcohol or caffeine. I've gone hiking in Big Bend National Park where its rather common for a person or two to die of exposure each year. http://www.nps.gov/bibe/parknews/upload/SurviveTheSun_SB.pdf It's a beautiful area though, if you know how to experience it safely.
It's not a perfect pen, but the Uniball Vision is my pen of choice these days. (The Elite model specifically.)
1) The 0.5mm tip is thin enough for my usage.
2) There's no bleeding on standard weight printer paper.
3) Drying can be a problem, especially on credit card receipts which aren't very absorbant, but on above mentioned printer paper or regular notebook paper it's usually dry by the time I finish my thoughts, meeting, etc.
4) It's difficult, although not impossible, to tell apart the beginning and end of lines.
5) No issue with needing extra pressure.
Extra bonuses: No bleeding out the tips during airplane flights, and cheap.
I'm not sure if you'd like it, but I think it's worth you getting one to try out if you haven't already.
I'm worried about a couple things.
First, under Jobs, I can only assume that this "brewing tension" was held in check by Jobs' vision and force of personality. That it came to this, the ouster of senior execs, makes me wonder about Cook's ability to manage a diverse and sometimes contentious herd of cats that nevertheless can create a level of energy that leads to some innovative products. So now Cook is surrounding himself with people of a monolithic view...
Second, consider the relative popularity of the iPhone (huge) and iMac (small.) Forstall and his bright iOS icons (I'm assuming here, I really don't know how iOS 1.0 came about) led a revolution in smartphones. I can only theorize on what would have happened with the iPhone if the software came out all in shades of grey, with a few subtle touches of blue here and there, but my theories aren't optimistic. Well, we'll see I guess.
Uh... I'm not sure if this was your intent, but your link to a "Microsoft Store" actually is of an Apple store. One giveaway is the Apple Genius logo on the back wall. From searching, it seems the pic is from 9to5mac - here's a similar shot of what appears to be the same store: 9to5mac.
As of this posting, the event is scheduled to start at 6am MDT (noon UTC if I'm converting correctly) on Tuesday, October 9. The official webpage is http://www.redbullstratos.com/
Interesting coincidence - I just finished the book at lunch today. I've read sci-fi for as long as I've been reading, but never read this one - for no particular reason. I felt I owed it to myself to read it when I found it at Half Price Books, since it's considered a classic in the genre. Honestly though, while it was well written and good to read, it didn't strike me as anything special. Possibly because I wasn't an adult during the time it was written? (Despite there being certain parallels between Vietnam and current military events.) Anybody care to contemplate how well a modern day movie adaption can be? I'm not sure.