It would probably be difficult to build the "disturbance detecting" chip in a way that couldn't be circumvented but that also wouldn't trip accidentally. Any light detecting mechanism better not get accidentally triggered by electromagnetic rays (like infra-red) that are slightly outside the visible spectrum, but can easily pass through plastic. Also, if it was light sensitive, you could just disassemble the phone in a darkroom.
Kids started to apprentice really young back in the old days. Now students have to wait until university/college until they are allowed to specialize, at least as far as school is concerned. Perhaps we should give high school students more freedom to specialize at a younger age. If some kid knows he wants to be a carpenter, why not let him have a wood shop class every semester.
It's one thing for the government to have to serve the people in a certain language, it's another thing entirely to force business owners to operate their business in a specific language. If people don't speak the languages offered by the business, then the business either won't survive, due to lack of customers, or it will survive, because there are enough people who speak the language, in which case, they serve their customers just fine. It's amazing that in a multicultural city like Montreal, that it's completely fine for businesses to operate to not speak any English, but against the law for them to not speak French.
I guess if you're in a bar, you can tell the owner/manager to get rid of the person with the camera. If they don't then you can just leave. The owner/manager of the bar can make their decision if it's more in their business interests to allow of disallow Google Glass. There's almost always better solutions than violence.
It can be more dangerous to more than just addicts. They put acetaminophen/Tylenol in a lot of medications. If patients don't pay attention to which medications contain acetaminophen then they could overdose by accident. The difference between the maximum daily dose and fatal dose is not that big. People who don't realized their opiates contain acetaminophen could also be taking cold medicine or tylenol (you know, for the pain), and end up doing a lot of damage to their body.
How does one verify that the hardware they designed to be free is implemented in the proper way? Since the FSF doesn't own any fabs, they'd have to commission someone else to build the chips. If you'[re talking about tablets and phones, they usually consist of a SOC (System on a Chip). How do you verify that they didn't place any back doors in the hardware when manufacturing the hardware. With software you can read the source, and compile it yourself (and even write your own compiler if you're paranoid). But once a chip is built, it's difficult or impossible to verify what's actually going on inside the chip.
Is IE really to blame in this case. From what I'm understanding, the web sites/servers themselves are being compromised. Once the web server is compromised, it doesn't matter what browser you're using, as login credentials, or any other information you're sending to or receiving from the site would be easily intercepted.
20 mph is 32km/h. I can easily maintain that on the flats with my bike, and my bike isn't amazing, and I am not in that good shape. The speeds you see quoted on that website are the overall average speed for the entire ride, which will most likely contain a few hills. The stopping distance of a bike, or even an e-bike is short enough that even going 30 km/h when everyone else is going 15 km/h will still give you plenty of time to react to other cyclists.
A more efficient motor would mean that the battery could last longer, even if you were limited to low speeds. Speaking of speed limitations though, the literature for the Faraday Porteur says that it has a 350 W motor, which means its too powerful to qualify as an electric bicycle in Europe and many other places. Personally I find that the speed limitations are another big problem. The highest speed limitations I've seen are 32 km/h, which I can easily maintain on my non-electric bike.
I don't get why all these electric bikes have you sitting in such an upright position. I don't see why nobody takes an existing touring bike (like a road/racing bike, with drop bars, but a beefier frame and ability to add fenders and panniers), and adds an electric motor to that. With a much more aerodynamic position the motor would be much more efficient, and as most cyclists know, these bikes are much more comfortable anyway. Plus it would be a nice advantage to not have a completely unride-able bike in the case where your battery runs out.
I think that mobile has been re-inventing the worst problems, and it's not just because of the apps. Getting an upgrade for an Android phone doesn't happen very often, sometimes never depending on which phone you got. Every phone from every different manufacturer has different features and completely different UIs, even if it runs the same operating system. I haven't had to reboot my computer in months (other than updates), but I frequently have to reboot my phone. Run-away apps can be hard to pin down because the entire phone becomes unresponsive. Everytime I look at my phone I feel like I'm being sent back 15 years in terms of user experience.
I had the exact opposite experience. For my first programming course in university, we were told to program everything in notepad, and compile using the command line (using Java btw). Now that I know how to properly use an IDE, I realize how much time I wasted trying to debug things with many calls to system.out.println. While the IDE can be a little overwhelming at first, programming without a proper step-through debugger is painful.
Personally I find I don't have much of need to pirate content now that I have Netflix. Sure there's some movies that aren't available, but I'm not the kind of person that just "has to" watch a specific movie. If a movie isn't available for agreeable terms, then I just simply won't watch it. If there's a movie that I really want to see and it isn't avaialble on Netflix, I can go to the theatre, rent it from iTunes/Play/Cable Company/etc, or even buy the DVD.
Personally, I like having machines to experiment on, but my phone is not one of them. I want my phone to be rock solid. I also don't like experimenting on my main desktop or laptop either, because I like to keep them running smoothly. I think this is why the Raspberry Pi and Ardruino are so popular. Because you can experiment with them very cheaply, and don't having to spend hours setting up your main work machine when something gets borked. If you want to experiment with stuff hooked up to the cell network, you can get 3G dongles for the Raspberry Pi. Not that the experience on stock devices is so great, but I definitely don't see the fun in experimenting with the phone I walk around with everyday.
Also, could Facebook have just built a similar service for less than $16 billion? How hard would it be for facebook to set up a system that allows you to do exactly what WhatsApp does?
Your phone company sucks. I'm in Canada, and I get unlimited messaging included in my plan. Even their cheapest plan of $20 per month includes unlimited texting, and unlimited local calls.
I haven't looked at vp9, but I haven't known dropped frames due to a slow CPU to be a problem for at least 5 year, if not a decade. Perhaps on mobile devices, but we should be using hardware decoders in that use case. I'm not sure why more desktops and notebooks don't have hardware decoders for most of the popular formats.
Microsoft is actually doing quite well with their current batch of tablets, with most models being sold out at many locations. They know battery life is important, and that's why their newest surface tablet runs for 10+ hours on a single charge.Not that many people are buying Chromebooks, and many of those who are, are buying one just to install Linux on it anyway. They may not have caught up to the iPad yet, but they actually have quite a strong product offering, especially if you look at the various tablets and convertible notebooks from other OEMs.
Which brings up this. When you try out for the school basketball team (or pick another sport), they seem to have no problem posting the names of the kids who made the team, and then publish in the school paper how every player did in each game, as well as how the team is doing in relation to other teams. Sure being on the team is optional, an extra curricular if you will, but we still have no problem comparing people when it comes to sport. Why can't the same work for academics? Making the scores public might demoralize some students, but also might make it more competitive, and push students to work harder.
I think the current plans for sending people to mars have no such plans though. They want to send people with no plans of sending any supplies and no plans of sending the necessary life support systems in the first place. Sending a resupply mission would be a major project, and lead times of 6 months to 2 years depending on orbits can make things difficult. With colonization they may had a high chance of death, but they were travelling places with plenty of fresh air, water, and food. Most of the deaths were due to either disease or disagreements with the locals. Many died of malnutrition. But they still had the intentions of living, those who are planning the current Mars trip have no such intentions.
Except that it's a really inefficient way to run things. When the driver works overtime he's getting paid at a premium, usually 1.5 times their usual pay . Before overtime hours are given out, they should ensure that nobody who hasn't reached their overtime quota (such as part time employees) wants to fill those hours. If there's enough overtime that there's still a lot of overtime for employees to pick up, then more people should be hired. Obviously a little bit of overtime is OK because of the overhead of hiring an employee is higher then letting someone work an extra hour or two a week, but they should aim to optimize their expenses. There shouldn't be enough overtime for workers to be able to double their salary. It's also dangerous for people to be overworked and driving a large vehicle.
I guess if you ratio it at 400, then it works out, since even if you only pay your employees $10,000 a year, you could still earn $4,000,000 per year as CEO. But there are organizations like Wagemark which think a ratio of 8:1 makes more sense. I think it's hard to find a correct ratio for this kind of stuff though. Put the ratio too low and the CEO earns little more than the employees, even though so much responsibility is on his shoulders. Put the ratio too high, and you can pay the employees whatever you want, while still being quite rich.
Also, you still don't account for how the organization can be restructure to ensure that the low paid employees don't actually work for the same company as the CEO. In fact, CEOs that keep lower paying jobs in house would be penalized, while those that offshore everything to companies in third world countries would be rewarded.
I understand why you would doubt me, but here you go. Mind you, it's mostly because they are doing a ton of overtime, but really I don't want my drivers doing too much overtime, as there's only so many hours you can safely drive in a week.
I've heard about this idea, but I think there are some major flaws. Basing the CEOs pay on the pay of their lowest paid employees doesn't work out. Microsoft probably has very few low paid employees by virtue of business sector they are in. They design software, so the majority of their employees are going to be paid quite well. Starbucks on the other hand sells coffee. Even though they pay pretty well, I would have to say that the average Starbucks employee makes nowhere close to the same amount as the average Microsoft employee, and they shouldn't because that job simply doesn't require the same expertise. Should the Apple CEO get a large salary because their employees are well paid, or should he get a small salary because Apple's devices are made by low paid workers in China. Sure they are directly employees of Apple, but if it wasn't for the low paid factory workers, Apple wouldn't have so much money to spread around to their official employees.
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It would probably be difficult to build the "disturbance detecting" chip in a way that couldn't be circumvented but that also wouldn't trip accidentally. Any light detecting mechanism better not get accidentally triggered by electromagnetic rays (like infra-red) that are slightly outside the visible spectrum, but can easily pass through plastic. Also, if it was light sensitive, you could just disassemble the phone in a darkroom.
Kids started to apprentice really young back in the old days. Now students have to wait until university/college until they are allowed to specialize, at least as far as school is concerned. Perhaps we should give high school students more freedom to specialize at a younger age. If some kid knows he wants to be a carpenter, why not let him have a wood shop class every semester.
It's one thing for the government to have to serve the people in a certain language, it's another thing entirely to force business owners to operate their business in a specific language. If people don't speak the languages offered by the business, then the business either won't survive, due to lack of customers, or it will survive, because there are enough people who speak the language, in which case, they serve their customers just fine. It's amazing that in a multicultural city like Montreal, that it's completely fine for businesses to operate to not speak any English, but against the law for them to not speak French.
I guess if you're in a bar, you can tell the owner/manager to get rid of the person with the camera. If they don't then you can just leave. The owner/manager of the bar can make their decision if it's more in their business interests to allow of disallow Google Glass. There's almost always better solutions than violence.
It can be more dangerous to more than just addicts. They put acetaminophen/Tylenol in a lot of medications. If patients don't pay attention to which medications contain acetaminophen then they could overdose by accident. The difference between the maximum daily dose and fatal dose is not that big. People who don't realized their opiates contain acetaminophen could also be taking cold medicine or tylenol (you know, for the pain), and end up doing a lot of damage to their body.
Kevin Spacey In ASCII for all those who were wondering.
How does one verify that the hardware they designed to be free is implemented in the proper way? Since the FSF doesn't own any fabs, they'd have to commission someone else to build the chips. If you'[re talking about tablets and phones, they usually consist of a SOC (System on a Chip). How do you verify that they didn't place any back doors in the hardware when manufacturing the hardware. With software you can read the source, and compile it yourself (and even write your own compiler if you're paranoid). But once a chip is built, it's difficult or impossible to verify what's actually going on inside the chip.
Is IE really to blame in this case. From what I'm understanding, the web sites/servers themselves are being compromised. Once the web server is compromised, it doesn't matter what browser you're using, as login credentials, or any other information you're sending to or receiving from the site would be easily intercepted.
20 mph is 32km/h. I can easily maintain that on the flats with my bike, and my bike isn't amazing, and I am not in that good shape. The speeds you see quoted on that website are the overall average speed for the entire ride, which will most likely contain a few hills. The stopping distance of a bike, or even an e-bike is short enough that even going 30 km/h when everyone else is going 15 km/h will still give you plenty of time to react to other cyclists.
A more efficient motor would mean that the battery could last longer, even if you were limited to low speeds. Speaking of speed limitations though, the literature for the Faraday Porteur says that it has a 350 W motor, which means its too powerful to qualify as an electric bicycle in Europe and many other places. Personally I find that the speed limitations are another big problem. The highest speed limitations I've seen are 32 km/h, which I can easily maintain on my non-electric bike.
I don't get why all these electric bikes have you sitting in such an upright position. I don't see why nobody takes an existing touring bike (like a road/racing bike, with drop bars, but a beefier frame and ability to add fenders and panniers), and adds an electric motor to that. With a much more aerodynamic position the motor would be much more efficient, and as most cyclists know, these bikes are much more comfortable anyway. Plus it would be a nice advantage to not have a completely unride-able bike in the case where your battery runs out.
I think that mobile has been re-inventing the worst problems, and it's not just because of the apps. Getting an upgrade for an Android phone doesn't happen very often, sometimes never depending on which phone you got. Every phone from every different manufacturer has different features and completely different UIs, even if it runs the same operating system. I haven't had to reboot my computer in months (other than updates), but I frequently have to reboot my phone. Run-away apps can be hard to pin down because the entire phone becomes unresponsive. Everytime I look at my phone I feel like I'm being sent back 15 years in terms of user experience.
I had the exact opposite experience. For my first programming course in university, we were told to program everything in notepad, and compile using the command line (using Java btw). Now that I know how to properly use an IDE, I realize how much time I wasted trying to debug things with many calls to system.out.println. While the IDE can be a little overwhelming at first, programming without a proper step-through debugger is painful.
Personally I find I don't have much of need to pirate content now that I have Netflix. Sure there's some movies that aren't available, but I'm not the kind of person that just "has to" watch a specific movie. If a movie isn't available for agreeable terms, then I just simply won't watch it. If there's a movie that I really want to see and it isn't avaialble on Netflix, I can go to the theatre, rent it from iTunes/Play/Cable Company/etc, or even buy the DVD.
Personally, I like having machines to experiment on, but my phone is not one of them. I want my phone to be rock solid. I also don't like experimenting on my main desktop or laptop either, because I like to keep them running smoothly. I think this is why the Raspberry Pi and Ardruino are so popular. Because you can experiment with them very cheaply, and don't having to spend hours setting up your main work machine when something gets borked. If you want to experiment with stuff hooked up to the cell network, you can get 3G dongles for the Raspberry Pi. Not that the experience on stock devices is so great, but I definitely don't see the fun in experimenting with the phone I walk around with everyday.
Also, could Facebook have just built a similar service for less than $16 billion? How hard would it be for facebook to set up a system that allows you to do exactly what WhatsApp does?
Your phone company sucks. I'm in Canada, and I get unlimited messaging included in my plan. Even their cheapest plan of $20 per month includes unlimited texting, and unlimited local calls.
I haven't looked at vp9, but I haven't known dropped frames due to a slow CPU to be a problem for at least 5 year, if not a decade. Perhaps on mobile devices, but we should be using hardware decoders in that use case. I'm not sure why more desktops and notebooks don't have hardware decoders for most of the popular formats.
Microsoft is actually doing quite well with their current batch of tablets, with most models being sold out at many locations. They know battery life is important, and that's why their newest surface tablet runs for 10+ hours on a single charge.Not that many people are buying Chromebooks, and many of those who are, are buying one just to install Linux on it anyway. They may not have caught up to the iPad yet, but they actually have quite a strong product offering, especially if you look at the various tablets and convertible notebooks from other OEMs.
Which brings up this. When you try out for the school basketball team (or pick another sport), they seem to have no problem posting the names of the kids who made the team, and then publish in the school paper how every player did in each game, as well as how the team is doing in relation to other teams. Sure being on the team is optional, an extra curricular if you will, but we still have no problem comparing people when it comes to sport. Why can't the same work for academics? Making the scores public might demoralize some students, but also might make it more competitive, and push students to work harder.
I think the current plans for sending people to mars have no such plans though. They want to send people with no plans of sending any supplies and no plans of sending the necessary life support systems in the first place. Sending a resupply mission would be a major project, and lead times of 6 months to 2 years depending on orbits can make things difficult. With colonization they may had a high chance of death, but they were travelling places with plenty of fresh air, water, and food. Most of the deaths were due to either disease or disagreements with the locals. Many died of malnutrition. But they still had the intentions of living, those who are planning the current Mars trip have no such intentions.
Except that it's a really inefficient way to run things. When the driver works overtime he's getting paid at a premium, usually 1.5 times their usual pay . Before overtime hours are given out, they should ensure that nobody who hasn't reached their overtime quota (such as part time employees) wants to fill those hours. If there's enough overtime that there's still a lot of overtime for employees to pick up, then more people should be hired. Obviously a little bit of overtime is OK because of the overhead of hiring an employee is higher then letting someone work an extra hour or two a week, but they should aim to optimize their expenses. There shouldn't be enough overtime for workers to be able to double their salary. It's also dangerous for people to be overworked and driving a large vehicle.
I guess if you ratio it at 400, then it works out, since even if you only pay your employees $10,000 a year, you could still earn $4,000,000 per year as CEO. But there are organizations like Wagemark which think a ratio of 8:1 makes more sense. I think it's hard to find a correct ratio for this kind of stuff though. Put the ratio too low and the CEO earns little more than the employees, even though so much responsibility is on his shoulders. Put the ratio too high, and you can pay the employees whatever you want, while still being quite rich.
Also, you still don't account for how the organization can be restructure to ensure that the low paid employees don't actually work for the same company as the CEO. In fact, CEOs that keep lower paying jobs in house would be penalized, while those that offshore everything to companies in third world countries would be rewarded.
I understand why you would doubt me, but here you go. Mind you, it's mostly because they are doing a ton of overtime, but really I don't want my drivers doing too much overtime, as there's only so many hours you can safely drive in a week.
I've heard about this idea, but I think there are some major flaws. Basing the CEOs pay on the pay of their lowest paid employees doesn't work out. Microsoft probably has very few low paid employees by virtue of business sector they are in. They design software, so the majority of their employees are going to be paid quite well. Starbucks on the other hand sells coffee. Even though they pay pretty well, I would have to say that the average Starbucks employee makes nowhere close to the same amount as the average Microsoft employee, and they shouldn't because that job simply doesn't require the same expertise. Should the Apple CEO get a large salary because their employees are well paid, or should he get a small salary because Apple's devices are made by low paid workers in China. Sure they are directly employees of Apple, but if it wasn't for the low paid factory workers, Apple wouldn't have so much money to spread around to their official employees.