Let's not get ahead of ourselves. The reaper doesn't even have a radar suitable for detecting other airplanes and its only air-to-air weapons are the sidewinder and stinger. Even if the reapers somehow knew exactly where the F35 was, it would kill them all before getting even remotely near their weapons range. Even after the F35 ran out of munitions, it could simply run away from any number of reapers at multiple times their speed.
B&N is a company that valiantly strived to make the transition from bricks-and-mortar to the Internet, just as we are constantly chiding outmoded companies like Kodak for failing to do (or the RIAA for actively fighting, when it comes to music). By releasing the Nook line of e-readers, B&N took a leap into leading the transition of print publication away from paper. I for one bought a Nook for my daughter a couple years ago, and she reads on it all the time. Yet still they are gradually falling by the wayside, like all the other big booksellers that pre-date the Internet. For all we blame top management for failing to make the transition, re-inventing a running company seems to be all but impossible.
Or maybe it will be more like the F14, which was built exclusively for air-to-air, never adapted for anything else (unlike the F15E), and as a result saw virtually no action throughout its entire service life.
The Maximum Wage exactly isn't a law, like the Minimum Wage. It's just a gentlemen's agreement, that whenever supply and demand drive wages for something out of line with cultural expectations, we can just change the laws (H1-B) or ignore them (illegal immigrants).
Well, not really. Israel imports substantial quantities of grain (approximately 80% of local consumption) What does that have to do with water? Grain trade is essentially a trade of water, in concentrated form. Growing wheat, for example, takes 584 lbs of water per lb of crop produced (it might even be worse, since I'm not sure if that is the entire wheat plant or just the grain). So importing 1 lb of wheat equates to importing about 600 lb of water. Maybe we think "water" means drinking water or taking showers, but that is a minuscule fraction of overall usage.
Why would you ever design a product that's completely and utterly dependent on a service provided by someone else...?
And why do people ask rhetorical questions without at least considering the most obvious answer?
Because there is only one facebook. One ebay. One Microsoft Windows. People don't dance with the devil because they're stupid, they do it because he owns the dance hall and it's either that or sit out in the cold. Even if you are snuffed out in the end, you may still have had more success ($) than if you abstained, and implemented on GNU Hurd instead because it's safer.
I'm sure there are second-years studying military strategy who are shaking their heads at newbie errors.
Well, it is a game. I won't claim blowing stuff up is the whole point, but it's certainly a big part of the attraction. They were in the Great Battle of 2013. (I'm betting they have a more colorful commemorative name for it already.)
The desire to not have ignorant users like yourself gimp the iPad with slow flash memory is why Apple does not have an SD port.
Digital cameras have had expandable storage since day 1 people seem to manage, despite the possibility for problems e.g. if using an SD card too slow for capturing HD video.
And unlike the built-in option, you can upgrade a camera with a card that is bigger and faster than anything available when the camera was made.
Having a camera kit hanging out of the tablet at all times is a ridiculous option compared to having a tiny MicroSD slot.
I don't have a tablet so I'm not too familiar with how they run. The Nexus-7 looks like a decent midrange one and has a quad-core 1.3GHz processor, 1GB RAM, and solid-state storage, which certainly sounds better than PCs were when I started using gimp. But maybe not comparable.
I am interested in making a remote control for my HTPC based on an e-book reader which is why I'm curious about how programmable these tablets really are. I think e-paper would be great for a remote because a multi-function remote could have all the buttons labeled properly.
Prior to this battery issue, the most noted aspect of the 787 was the composite construction, which was certainly pioneered in military aircraft.
Maybe lithium-ion batteries have been, too; I don't know. But IMHO considering how many millions of lithium-ion batteries are in service around the world, and in how many different applications, this can't be such a fundamental flaw. I think more likely a bug.
Well, I enjoy washing my car occasionally too. But washing cars all day every day for an entire summer was very different.
I have also joked with my current boss about trading duties with the groundskeeper for one hour per day - just in the spring and fall when the weather is nice. He said, "maybe, if you want to trade paychecks too."
It's more or less the same thing, because monotonous work is agonizing. It makes the time crawl by. I had a job putting stickers onto jugs on an assembly line and it was really unpleasant. Have you had any jobs of this type?
What I said above is going to be rationalized and mis-interpreted several different ways.
Let's put it this way: if I had my choice of going back to making $6/hr washing cars. vs doing my present job as a researcher for $4/hr, I would rather take the research job.
Maybe it's not about stigma, but simply about how hard work is vs. how much it pays?
We have become so deeply ingrained with the idea that easier work should pay more, that we simply can't imagine it any other way.
My first job was planting gladiola bulbs. I might have made $30 over the summer (granted not a huge number of hours). Then delivering newspapers, then milk, then cashier, and so on, through computer support, web development, jr. programmer... today I have an office job as a researcher making over 20 times as much per hour as I made as a cashier. I would not pick fruit for the same pay, let alone 20% the pay.
Without exception, every job has been easier and paid better than the last.
You mean the average joe on youtube who licenses a song to make a cover of it, and then gets mad when somebody else also licenses the same song to make a cover of it, which in his opinion sounds too similar to his own cover?
The link doesn't say that happened. It says if that had happened, then the guy would have had a case.
I think he's wrong to complain (except in that he's getting a lot of free publicity). He wants credit for a derivative of a derivative (i.e. similarity - not sampling - of a cover), which is too much of a stretch.
You seem to think that there is some secret cabal who controls wages for tech workers... Tech workers aren't more special than anyone else and there is no small group that controls their wages.
Are we even reading the same article? The H1-B legislation and its backers are nothing but a cabal to manipulate the wages of tech workers, by targeting them with specific regulation to increase the supply of talent so wages don't get out of hand. It doesn't even purport to be anything else.
The supply of domestic tech workers will never increase until the price (pay) is allowed to rise with demand.
People argue about the minimum wage. This is what I call our "maximum wage" policy. We have this fixed notion of what different jobs "should" make. And when supply and demand gets out of line with our preconceptions, we allow immigration to drive down wages on picking fruit, or construction, nannying, technology work, or whatever.
Screw that! If we need this for anything, it's doctors, since the supply is artificially limited by the AMA. So why isn't that happening?
Wow, that is just making me angry about stagnation on the desktop. I have some 30" dell monitors from years ago at that resolution and I know of nothing better, still. And the docking station for my brand-new Dell laptop CANNOT even drive them at full resolution over DVI (DisplayPort only) without a $50 DisplayPort->DVI adapter. As if 5 or 7 year old tech were cutting edge.
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Let's not get ahead of ourselves. The reaper doesn't even have a radar suitable for detecting other airplanes and its only air-to-air weapons are the sidewinder and stinger. Even if the reapers somehow knew exactly where the F35 was, it would kill them all before getting even remotely near their weapons range. Even after the F35 ran out of munitions, it could simply run away from any number of reapers at multiple times their speed.
Um, how much do you know about the female body?
B&N is a company that valiantly strived to make the transition from bricks-and-mortar to the Internet, just as we are constantly chiding outmoded companies like Kodak for failing to do (or the RIAA for actively fighting, when it comes to music). By releasing the Nook line of e-readers, B&N took a leap into leading the transition of print publication away from paper. I for one bought a Nook for my daughter a couple years ago, and she reads on it all the time. Yet still they are gradually falling by the wayside, like all the other big booksellers that pre-date the Internet. For all we blame top management for failing to make the transition, re-inventing a running company seems to be all but impossible.
Or maybe it will be more like the F14, which was built exclusively for air-to-air, never adapted for anything else (unlike the F15E), and as a result saw virtually no action throughout its entire service life.
The Maximum Wage exactly isn't a law, like the Minimum Wage. It's just a gentlemen's agreement, that whenever supply and demand drive wages for something out of line with cultural expectations, we can just change the laws (H1-B) or ignore them (illegal immigrants).
Well, not really. Israel imports substantial quantities of grain (approximately 80% of local consumption) What does that have to do with water? Grain trade is essentially a trade of water, in concentrated form. Growing wheat, for example, takes 584 lbs of water per lb of crop produced (it might even be worse, since I'm not sure if that is the entire wheat plant or just the grain). So importing 1 lb of wheat equates to importing about 600 lb of water. Maybe we think "water" means drinking water or taking showers, but that is a minuscule fraction of overall usage.
And why do people ask rhetorical questions without at least considering the most obvious answer?
Because there is only one facebook. One ebay. One Microsoft Windows. People don't dance with the devil because they're stupid, they do it because he owns the dance hall and it's either that or sit out in the cold. Even if you are snuffed out in the end, you may still have had more success ($) than if you abstained, and implemented on GNU Hurd instead because it's safer.
Well, it is a game. I won't claim blowing stuff up is the whole point, but it's certainly a big part of the attraction. They were in the Great Battle of 2013. (I'm betting they have a more colorful commemorative name for it already.)
Digital cameras have had expandable storage since day 1 people seem to manage, despite the possibility for problems e.g. if using an SD card too slow for capturing HD video.
And unlike the built-in option, you can upgrade a camera with a card that is bigger and faster than anything available when the camera was made.
Having a camera kit hanging out of the tablet at all times is a ridiculous option compared to having a tiny MicroSD slot.
There is no excuse. It is a money grab.
The lack of a MicroSD slot on the Apple products is a complete racket.
Moreso than Win 3.1 Photoshop?
I am interested in making a remote control for my HTPC based on an e-book reader which is why I'm curious about how programmable these tablets really are. I think e-paper would be great for a remote because a multi-function remote could have all the buttons labeled properly.
Am I totally off base here?
Maybe lithium-ion batteries have been, too; I don't know. But IMHO considering how many millions of lithium-ion batteries are in service around the world, and in how many different applications, this can't be such a fundamental flaw. I think more likely a bug.
I see more of a marketing ploy than an underdog story in this.
I have also joked with my current boss about trading duties with the groundskeeper for one hour per day - just in the spring and fall when the weather is nice. He said, "maybe, if you want to trade paychecks too."
It's more or less the same thing, because monotonous work is agonizing. It makes the time crawl by. I had a job putting stickers onto jugs on an assembly line and it was really unpleasant. Have you had any jobs of this type?
Let's put it this way: if I had my choice of going back to making $6/hr washing cars. vs doing my present job as a researcher for $4/hr, I would rather take the research job.
We have become so deeply ingrained with the idea that easier work should pay more, that we simply can't imagine it any other way.
My first job was planting gladiola bulbs. I might have made $30 over the summer (granted not a huge number of hours). Then delivering newspapers, then milk, then cashier, and so on, through computer support, web development, jr. programmer... today I have an office job as a researcher making over 20 times as much per hour as I made as a cashier. I would not pick fruit for the same pay, let alone 20% the pay.
Without exception, every job has been easier and paid better than the last.
You mean the average joe on youtube who licenses a song to make a cover of it, and then gets mad when somebody else also licenses the same song to make a cover of it, which in his opinion sounds too similar to his own cover?
I think he's wrong to complain (except in that he's getting a lot of free publicity). He wants credit for a derivative of a derivative (i.e. similarity - not sampling - of a cover), which is too much of a stretch.
Are we even reading the same article? The H1-B legislation and its backers are nothing but a cabal to manipulate the wages of tech workers, by targeting them with specific regulation to increase the supply of talent so wages don't get out of hand. It doesn't even purport to be anything else.
People argue about the minimum wage. This is what I call our "maximum wage" policy. We have this fixed notion of what different jobs "should" make. And when supply and demand gets out of line with our preconceptions, we allow immigration to drive down wages on picking fruit, or construction, nannying, technology work, or whatever.
Screw that! If we need this for anything, it's doctors, since the supply is artificially limited by the AMA. So why isn't that happening?
Hey, I said "most." I had 2 of those 21" monsters on my desktop.
Wow, that is just making me angry about stagnation on the desktop. I have some 30" dell monitors from years ago at that resolution and I know of nothing better, still. And the docking station for my brand-new Dell laptop CANNOT even drive them at full resolution over DVI (DisplayPort only) without a $50 DisplayPort->DVI adapter. As if 5 or 7 year old tech were cutting edge.