Unless the FBI's rate of doing good vs. harm in cybersecurity significantly improves, I think I would've preferred the old schedule. Not sure we need a 24/7 task force dedicated to extraditing filesharers from other countries.
According to this page, subscribers have online access to all articles since 1997, which I assume is just because they haven't digitized the pre-1997 articles. I think the part about only having access to the current week's issue is specific to the iPhone/iPad app, where it only shows you the current week's issue in-app. But you can still browse the archives online.
Replying to myself: Actually come to think of it, what really did them in was probably stuff like the Huffington Post. Newsweek correctly guessed in the late 1990s that concise, not very cerebral, cribbed-from-somewhere-else summaries of generic news would have a wider audience than "serious" news, and be cheap to produce, too. So they moved in that direction, and it worked for a while. But then blogs happened, and now, why would you pay for Newsweek when the Huffington Post is almost exactly that, but free and updated more often?
It's hard to say it was a bad decision without using hindsight, because I'm not sure I would've predicted it at the time myself, but they picked the niche that was almost the worst possible niche to be in for competing against online news.
Not all weekly news magazines are doing horribly. The Economist and the New Yorker are both doing fairly well, for somewhat different reasons (New Yorker focuses on long-form journalism, The Economist on concise analytical journalism). I think Newsweek basically gambled the wrong way. I used to subscribe to it in the 1990s, but eventually dropped it as they went in a more pop-news direction. They probably thought that was a good move to broaden their audience, but it left them in a position where it's not clear why you'd read Newsweek rather than any other somewhat trashy news source.
In addition, one of ICF's main goals was to understand the behavior of matter undergoing fusion, which it has contributed extensively to. That's useful scientific knowledge there on its own, but perhaps more relevant to NIF's not-so-secret secondary purpose, it's also been used to improve simulations used in nuclear weapon design and maintenance (since tests are banned, data from experiments like the NIF is very important).
Now you may or may not think improving our nuclear weapon stockpile is a great use of taxpayer money, but then the debate should be over that.
Yes, in this case it isn't even some secret mission, but one of the reasons the program was set up. The NIF's goal is to improve our understanding of fusion. There are two stated applications for doing so: 1) improving designs for possible future fusion-power reactors; and 2) improving understanding of how matter behaves in a thermonuclear explosion.
The news seems to mostly be about #1, but really #2 is a pretty key part of the reason it exists.
CyanogenMod is a community-maintained, enhanced version of Android, which you can replace the regular Android operating system on tablet and smartphones with, by flashing the ROM.
ROM Manager is an app for, well, managing Android ROMs. Until now, CyanogenMod has relied on it for installation and updates. However, it is 3rd party and not open-source.
OTA, contrary to the implication, is not a CyanogenMod-specific technology, but a general way of manufacturers pushing updates to their smartphone/tablet ROMs. See here.
CyanogenMod will now be using OTA updates to update its ROMs, so it should look to users more like a "regular" phone, which updates itself through the normal mechanism, instead of relying on this third-party ROM manager. (At least, that's my attempted decoding of this story; corrections welcome.)
A shortage typically means that you actually can't buy something. Like, a "fuel shortage" is when people are lining up around the block to buy gasoline because most stations are out of fuel. When gas goes up from $2.00 to $3.00, that's not a "fuel shortage".
They've owned the product for almost three years now, so I'd say that bugs in current versions are their fault for not doing sufficient QA to find/fix, regardless of where they originated. When you own something, you own the responsibility too.
There's not going to be a "shortage", there'll just be what always happens when supply and/or demand change: the prices will adjust to a new equilibrium. Over the past 100 years, pork and bacon have sometimes cost more, and sometimes cost less. It's not really a huge deal. If the prices go up, you can choose to pay them, or buy something else instead.
full-body MRI for a few hundred bucks in much of the US
Where is this? I've never seen a full-body MRI for under $1000 anywhere in the US, and often considerably higher than that. Or are you referring to just your copay amount, with the rest covered by health insurance?
At most schools, the cost of the new book is what's considered the "reasonable expenditure" (e.g. if you're on financial aid, that's what they budget for).
Even most "locked" articles are still edited by crowds, just somewhat smaller crowds. When an article's locked to anonymous edits, it just means that you need a Wikipedia account to edit it. But literally hundreds of thousands of people have Wikipedia accounts; it's not like some exclusive club you have to apply to join.
It might even help get some decent articles started in some areas. Maybe we should convince various countries that they're falling behind Gibraltar—they, too, need to start paying people to write informative Wikipedia articles on their towns, cities, and historical sites.
Not really accurate. The strongest period in American history, the mid-to-late 20th-century, was when it had the biggest government. The U.S. wasn't much of anything in the 1850s compared to what it was in the 1960s. And among Western countries, those with larger governments tend to be more successful; for example, the Nordic countries are the most successful economies in Europe.
Unlike in the U.S., which has a huge mess of laws nobody knows about from dozens of agencies and levels of government, in the Nordic countries the legal system is actually fairly streamlined, and most citizens are aware of their rights and obligations under the law. One reason you don't see the jails as full of people as in the USA.
It's an interesting model, but feeding a poll aggregate into a statistical prediction algorithm has been standard practice for years now. On the internet, fivethirtyeight is probably the first prominent site to have done so (originally as an independent site, before the NYTimes bought them).
Well, insufficient funding for public education is one of the main problems currently facing California, so it seems relevant to me, in response to your lazy right-wing barb.
The sales tax in Alaska is regional rather than statewide, so depends on where you live. Of the two biggest cities, Juneau charges a 5% sales tax, while Anchorage has no sales tax.
If only CA could do something useful with the money, like create some of the world's best public universities. But such a backwards state could never create anything like UC Berkeley...
EA, for a while now, has been spooked by Facebook and web games' rapid rise in market share, and desperately worried that they're eking out legacy profits on a sinking ship. To make matters worse, their last gamble on a designer-led Maxis game, Spore, didn't turn out to be very profitable. So I'm not too surprised by this position, even if I don't like it artistically.
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Unless the FBI's rate of doing good vs. harm in cybersecurity significantly improves, I think I would've preferred the old schedule. Not sure we need a 24/7 task force dedicated to extraditing filesharers from other countries.
According to this page, subscribers have online access to all articles since 1997, which I assume is just because they haven't digitized the pre-1997 articles. I think the part about only having access to the current week's issue is specific to the iPhone/iPad app, where it only shows you the current week's issue in-app. But you can still browse the archives online.
Replying to myself: Actually come to think of it, what really did them in was probably stuff like the Huffington Post. Newsweek correctly guessed in the late 1990s that concise, not very cerebral, cribbed-from-somewhere-else summaries of generic news would have a wider audience than "serious" news, and be cheap to produce, too. So they moved in that direction, and it worked for a while. But then blogs happened, and now, why would you pay for Newsweek when the Huffington Post is almost exactly that, but free and updated more often?
It's hard to say it was a bad decision without using hindsight, because I'm not sure I would've predicted it at the time myself, but they picked the niche that was almost the worst possible niche to be in for competing against online news.
Not all weekly news magazines are doing horribly. The Economist and the New Yorker are both doing fairly well, for somewhat different reasons (New Yorker focuses on long-form journalism, The Economist on concise analytical journalism). I think Newsweek basically gambled the wrong way. I used to subscribe to it in the 1990s, but eventually dropped it as they went in a more pop-news direction. They probably thought that was a good move to broaden their audience, but it left them in a position where it's not clear why you'd read Newsweek rather than any other somewhat trashy news source.
In addition, one of ICF's main goals was to understand the behavior of matter undergoing fusion, which it has contributed extensively to. That's useful scientific knowledge there on its own, but perhaps more relevant to NIF's not-so-secret secondary purpose, it's also been used to improve simulations used in nuclear weapon design and maintenance (since tests are banned, data from experiments like the NIF is very important).
Now you may or may not think improving our nuclear weapon stockpile is a great use of taxpayer money, but then the debate should be over that.
Yes, in this case it isn't even some secret mission, but one of the reasons the program was set up. The NIF's goal is to improve our understanding of fusion. There are two stated applications for doing so: 1) improving designs for possible future fusion-power reactors; and 2) improving understanding of how matter behaves in a thermonuclear explosion.
The news seems to mostly be about #1, but really #2 is a pretty key part of the reason it exists.
For those who were as confused as I was:
CyanogenMod is a community-maintained, enhanced version of Android, which you can replace the regular Android operating system on tablet and smartphones with, by flashing the ROM.
ROM Manager is an app for, well, managing Android ROMs. Until now, CyanogenMod has relied on it for installation and updates. However, it is 3rd party and not open-source.
OTA, contrary to the implication, is not a CyanogenMod-specific technology, but a general way of manufacturers pushing updates to their smartphone/tablet ROMs. See here.
CyanogenMod will now be using OTA updates to update its ROMs, so it should look to users more like a "regular" phone, which updates itself through the normal mechanism, instead of relying on this third-party ROM manager. (At least, that's my attempted decoding of this story; corrections welcome.)
A shortage typically means that you actually can't buy something. Like, a "fuel shortage" is when people are lining up around the block to buy gasoline because most stations are out of fuel. When gas goes up from $2.00 to $3.00, that's not a "fuel shortage".
They've owned the product for almost three years now, so I'd say that bugs in current versions are their fault for not doing sufficient QA to find/fix, regardless of where they originated. When you own something, you own the responsibility too.
There's not going to be a "shortage", there'll just be what always happens when supply and/or demand change: the prices will adjust to a new equilibrium. Over the past 100 years, pork and bacon have sometimes cost more, and sometimes cost less. It's not really a huge deal. If the prices go up, you can choose to pay them, or buy something else instead.
Science is sort of like Vespene gas, found naturally on Mars but can only be gathered with certain equipment.
full-body MRI for a few hundred bucks in much of the US
Where is this? I've never seen a full-body MRI for under $1000 anywhere in the US, and often considerably higher than that. Or are you referring to just your copay amount, with the rest covered by health insurance?
At most schools, the cost of the new book is what's considered the "reasonable expenditure" (e.g. if you're on financial aid, that's what they budget for).
Even most "locked" articles are still edited by crowds, just somewhat smaller crowds. When an article's locked to anonymous edits, it just means that you need a Wikipedia account to edit it. But literally hundreds of thousands of people have Wikipedia accounts; it's not like some exclusive club you have to apply to join.
It might even help get some decent articles started in some areas. Maybe we should convince various countries that they're falling behind Gibraltar—they, too, need to start paying people to write informative Wikipedia articles on their towns, cities, and historical sites.
Not really accurate. The strongest period in American history, the mid-to-late 20th-century, was when it had the biggest government. The U.S. wasn't much of anything in the 1850s compared to what it was in the 1960s. And among Western countries, those with larger governments tend to be more successful; for example, the Nordic countries are the most successful economies in Europe.
I feel like I might actually be dumber having read that series of comments.
Unlike in the U.S., which has a huge mess of laws nobody knows about from dozens of agencies and levels of government, in the Nordic countries the legal system is actually fairly streamlined, and most citizens are aware of their rights and obligations under the law. One reason you don't see the jails as full of people as in the USA.
It's an interesting model, but feeding a poll aggregate into a statistical prediction algorithm has been standard practice for years now. On the internet, fivethirtyeight is probably the first prominent site to have done so (originally as an independent site, before the NYTimes bought them).
Santa Clara's even worse: they're spending taxpayer money on a goddamn football stadium.
If you show me where I can sign to reduce the ridiculous prison spending, I'll sign ASAP.
We could start by repealing the absurd drug criminalization, and the 3-strikes law.
Well, insufficient funding for public education is one of the main problems currently facing California, so it seems relevant to me, in response to your lazy right-wing barb.
The sales tax in Alaska is regional rather than statewide, so depends on where you live. Of the two biggest cities, Juneau charges a 5% sales tax, while Anchorage has no sales tax.
If only CA could do something useful with the money, like create some of the world's best public universities. But such a backwards state could never create anything like UC Berkeley...
EA, for a while now, has been spooked by Facebook and web games' rapid rise in market share, and desperately worried that they're eking out legacy profits on a sinking ship. To make matters worse, their last gamble on a designer-led Maxis game, Spore, didn't turn out to be very profitable. So I'm not too surprised by this position, even if I don't like it artistically.