+1 to this. If a college degree was so meaningless and innefectual, why are all of the companies run by these 1-in-a-million college dropouts staffed almost entirely with college graduates?
Same here--I'm pretty sure I got placed into the database when I got my digital fingerprints taken as part of a background check for an internship at the Federal Reserve. I would have preferred not to provide them but that was the only way to get cleared for the area I wanted to work in.
Shouldn't be any problem with a legitimate offence but its pretty hard to get incorrectly flagged for something when you aren't in the system to start with.
There are plenty of class actions that can be beneficial to the claimants (as well as the lawyers). These aren't the class actions you get postcards in the mail about some made up offense ("nutella isn't healthy!"), they are situations where you have experienced a real harm and you are probably aware of it. It turns into a class action when a bunch of people who have experienced the same harm try to sue and get consolidated into a class (or start out has a class but would have had legitimate cases on their own). These cases help make it easier for the plaintiffs to prove their case and collect. Think of something like a fraudulent scheme involving a stock you purchased which then lost half of its value when the fraud was revealed--Whatever lawyer gets to represent the class is going to make a bunch of money, but you are going to get paid real money based on how many shares you owned and when you bought/sold them. Often the attorney's fees for the class lawyers will be calculated on top of these damages (although if you retained your own lawyer, they will probably want a cut) so if there is a punitive award, you end up with more money than you actually lost. To collect anything from a suit like this, you will likely be required to provide extensive proof that you were in fact a valid claimant who was harmed (such as trading records and brokerage statements).
The post-card class actions seem to exist only to punish the company...but they are also very easy to join. Remember the CD price fixing suit? They just assumed everyone had bought at least one CD so they didn't even bother asking for proof that you should be a member of the class...same goes for things like the Nutella or Ticketmaster suits. Not sure how ticketmaster got away with "paying" with vouchers for more concert tickets (which you would then have to pay ticketmaster fees on top of) but I imagine it has something to do with the fact that in order to be a member of the class, you have to be a past ticket purchaser, and thus you are being given a discount on something you are likely to be a future purchaser of. In those suits, the lawyers win a lot, the companies lose a little, and the consumer might get their lunch paid for if they are lucky.
I think the more likely scenario is that back when there were things such as 10 cent candy bars and comic books, the registers weren't so sophisticated and you could do this sort of math. If your register (or the records you kept by hand) just keeps track of total sales, keeping the rounding errors for yourself is what makes the math add up.
and what would they do with that money? Spend it on entertainment?
There is some very good television out there and the fact that they are watching it on Prime instead of live makes me think they aren't watching Honey Boo Boo. Nothing wrong with opting for leisure (and maybe opening up discussion topics) over spending every waking hour trying to make money.
Would it be a problem if they spent that same time playing WoW or reading a book?
I thought it would be pretty funny if he pointed at the fixed surveillance camera and said "Oh, the camera feed stopped working, so I am doing it manually until the repair crew can get out here"
Apparently you didn't watch the videos where he kept opening the door and pushing his way into the scientology church. Or the active classrooms. Or where he went through what appeared to be an unmarked door (so definitely not a storefront or something) and climbed the stairs to watch a bunch of people playing mahjong.
Antics like these really defeated the point of this production in my mind. He was not in a public place and had already been asked to leave. He was trespassing. He should have stuck to taping parked cars or windows from the sidewalk.
Also, would be more interesting to see it done within the field of view of a real surveillance camera (either on a tripod or him walking around with it). The closest he gets in those videos is some comments like "Weren't there cameras in the store you just came out of?". Would be much more compelling if he were saying "well that camera right up there is filming both of us right now, why don't you care about that one?"
I don't know if you have ever driven a car, but you can move your gallon of fuel through many stories of elevation change (along with literally tons of steel) for maybe a teaspoon or two of combusted fuel.
This is why everything still uses combustion engines (including series-hybrid trains which are driven by purely electric motors connected to diesel generators).
Let him rewrite the Zahn trilogy for screen and it might have a chance (but I doubt it will appeal to the kind of audience Disney wants...)
There is so much star wars content (that has been blessed by way of licensing agreements) that takes place after the original trilogy that it seems like there would be no room to write anything original and not make it suck.
That seems like a poorly configured setup somewhere. We have mandatory password changes here and my account never gets locked when my phone doesn't yet have the new password. My phone pops up some notice along the lines of "Password Error: Please verify whether you have the correct password or if it has been recently changed".
Maybe it is an iOS problem (my corporate email goes through the Touchdown activesync client on my android phone) but locked accounts from not simultaneously changing the password on every device seems like a problem. What happens if you get the mandatory change at 9AM when you get to the office but your tablet is sitting at home retrying every 10 minutes.
I'm not sure I agree that that is the cause of the decline of netbooks. I think the bells and whistles are a result of the manufacturers trying to avoid the inevitable death of the netbook market.
I bought into maybe the first 10" netbook, the eeepc 1000h (which I think has the same hardware as your 901) when it was released around the summer of 2008. The retail price was kind of high, but it was the time of 30% bing cashback on ebay buy-it-nows so the actual price was reasonable. A couple of my friends bought the next model (the 1000ha) which by then had fallen to pretty reasonable prices.
Then we stopped buying them. Here we are, 4 years later, and I am still using that thing almost every day while I eat breakfast. My friend's 1000ha lives next to his couch and I see it in use everytime I am at his place (as the go-to device for playing music, checking email, or looking things up online). I just put a 60gb ssd ($30 on slickdeals) in mine, replaced the malfunctioning keyboard for $10, and ordered a new battery. Switched from a ~2010 ubuntu netbook remix to xubuntu 12.04 and XFCE with the SSD makes the thing seem super snappy again. I'll probably keep it going for another year or two before I even consider replacing it.
I bought it for a purpose in 2008 and it still serves that purpose. New netbooks are better, but they are only marginally better for my breakfast/couch surfing and light travel usage, and they are never going to replace my full size systems. Even if we were flooded with great $200 10" netbooks, I doubt I would be buying anytime soon.
Apple on the other hand had made tons of people hand over money for an ipad that they can bring on a plane or use to surf the internet at breakfast...but they have also managed to make you feel like your 2 year old device is outdated, anemic junk that should be replaced soon.
Except isn't it everyone's responsibility to look over the jurors? If this guy had been upfront and honest, I bet both parties and the judge would have wanted him out since he is too big of a risk.
Samsung didn't let him into the trial--everyone let him in (and I would think samsung would have preferred a juror without a chip on his shoulder to a possible excuse for a new trial).
I dunno...it is sort of true. Some smooth tires (even if they are like 1.5-1.75" city tires that still absorb plenty of bumps) and a rigid fork/hardtail with a comfortable geometry makes cycling easy and efficient. Don't need 21 speeds (people rarely shift them and they add weight) but rather either just a single relaxed speed or a 3-speed hub (or even 5, 7, or 8) labeled Low, Medium, High.
Compare that to some walmart full-suspension "mountain" bike with the cheapest possible 2.25" knobby tires--it will weigh close to 40 pounds, will have a ton of rolling resistance as the tire pressure gets low, and will have some saggy suspension that saps all of your power without actually doing much. Swapping on some cheap city tires will make a noticeable difference but the other problems will all still exist.
It doesn't have to be as fancy as something like the Linus 3-speed roadster...It can still be something with flat bars, straight gauge tubes, a saddle that sucks after more than 30 minutes, and whatever other cheapo parts that a walmart bike normally has, but just designed in a way that matches the intended use of the customer. Unfortunately the customers don't understand this and will grab the Y-framed full suspension NEXT bike with crazy graphics since they think it looks cool and that the shocks will make it more comfortable (nevermind the fact that it would probably break with real MTB trail riding).
I don't know about in the UK, but in the US it is perfectly legal to ride two-abreast in the lane. A single bicycle is entitled to the entire lane of traffic if they so desire to claim it. Courteous cyclists will stay to the side so you can pass in situations where they are safe (particularly those where there is not a huge risk of some idiot not looking behind them before flinging their car door open) but they are allowed to occupy 100% of the lane if they want and in most of the US can share that space with a second bicycle.
I'm not a supporter of helmet laws for adults. I don't buy into the research that says helmets make things *more* dangerous, but I think that with the kind of riding casual cyclists do, it can be a perfectly rational decision not to wear a helmet. At full speed racing/training/fitness riding levels, I always wear a helmet, but I don't worry about it too much on the slow bike that I ride 4 blocks to the grocery store.
My current IP geolocates to Kansas. I've never even been to Kansas. Foursquare links you directly to a physical address or GPS location...
I would imagine that you could get a better than 50km margin if you started building more complex rules. If you checked into a hotel during the same week as all of your other checkins in that city, then it is probably a vacation destination (bonus points for checking in at the airport too). If you regularly check into a restaurant on tuesdays at 8PM, then maybe it is a neighborhood establishment that you go to when you get home late and don't feel like cooking (where as a saturday evening dinner would have a lower weighting since people are more likely to go further from home).
My foursquare might not be very informative since I have only checked in twice (both to claim some free offer)--one of them was a hotel in my own city and the other was a restaurant on a thursday evening on the other side of the country...but give me the logs from a fairly active foursquare user and I could probably tell you where they live down to the neighborhood.
Yeah, is there any OS that handles this quite right?
I recently bought one of those korean ebay 2560x1440 27" displays and it looks great...but not *everything* looks great on it. Win7 UI elements scale pretty well with the built in settings, but if you turn off "Use XP compatible scaling" (or similar), applications start doing really stupid things. I believe that what they do with any application that does not report it is dpi-scaling-aware (and unfortunately, just because it says it is, doesn't mean it actually is) is that it renders the app on an off screen framebuffer and then literally just zooms the image and drops it onto your desktop.
For image content, this is no different than what a browser does when you hit ctrl-+ a few times, but it makes all text look awful since it just zooms the image of the text instead of rendering a larger font size.
I know that this is mostly the fault of 3rd party developers (which is why it occurs on other OSes as well) but maybe if Windows defaulted to ugly mode (instead of XP compatability mode which just leaves everything really small), then app developers would be forced to fix these issues. It is sort of like the iphone vs android screen size issues that are cropping up on the iphone 5...android developers have always had to develop for wildy varying screen DPI (as well as size) while apple let them sit with guaranteed DPI (and then just did 4x for retina) which means they can't just adjust the screen resolution without making all existing apps really ugly.
I was under the impression that China was perfectly willing to let this go so that American business travelers had no trouble doing business with them. Maybe not some "shady" roll your own linux vpn...but some Cisco product? Why not?
Yeah, that makes sense. I didn't realize he was making them in china (huh, it takes a boat *how long* to get here?)
The only kickstarters I have funded have been more like art or film projects where you really are just giving them money with no real expectation in return. Heck, I've yet to even watch the videos made for one (I keep waiting until I have time...and then forget that I want to watch them when I have time).
I've considered others that are more like the one you described...somebody is a leatherworker or something and has an idea but it won't be profitable unless he can buy full hides and a bulk order of hardware. There's nothing really stopping it from being successful--If he doesn't get enough money to meet his minimums, everybody gets their money back, otherwise he just starts cranking them out.
Good headphones are great for bringing sound out of small devices...but you can't physically feel the sound. Mid-level bookshelf speakers (or any level floorstanding speaker) can generate sound that you can both hear and feel. Laptop speakers can generate gross sound and headphones can turn it into great sound, but neither of them will let you feel the low notes in your chest.
I wonder if anyone ever runs a setup where they wear headphones in a listening room that also has subwoffers (and maybe some low-mid drivers as well).
Did you really drink as much soda though? There are plenty of 350lb people who drink pepsi by the 1 or 2-liter bottle.
I enjoyed a good can of mountain dew in high school/early college...for a while being at 2 cans on a normal day. I had access too as much as I wanted but, unless I was staying up late to finish a paper or something, I never could stomach drinking more than 2. Then it became just one...and then it became none.
Consuming 2 liters of pop a day is pretty hard to defeat with just exercise.
The key is that the canned beer has to be poured into a glass (the can taste is all because your bare lip is touching freshly sheared aluminum). What do you think a keg is if it isn't a big can? You can get many great beers in cans and I find I prefer them...recently I have had several beers from Surly, an IPA from Two Brothers, and many cans of 312 from Goose Island. The latter is the only one I can do a comparison on (the other two are fantastic, but unavailable in bottles) and I think a can of 312 poured into a glass tastes noticeably fresher than a bottle of 312 poured into a glass. Maybe not if they were both just bottled/canned today--but you take something that has sat around at a store for a while and the cans win.
I know they spend a lot of time searching Lexis Nexis TV & Radio news transcripts. I'm not sure if that give you the actual clip or just a reference. But if you are willing to pay for archival footage, I think you can get that kind of stuff fairly easily as long as you can tell them "I want these 14 seconds that aired at 12:34 on 8/12/08".
Not something that is very friendly to the inexperienced researcher (or the person who doesn't want to pay for lexisnexis.
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+1 to this. If a college degree was so meaningless and innefectual, why are all of the companies run by these 1-in-a-million college dropouts staffed almost entirely with college graduates?
Shouldn't be any problem with a legitimate offence but its pretty hard to get incorrectly flagged for something when you aren't in the system to start with.
Except for the fact that any number of people could have been in the area in 1999 without being permanent residents who still live there today.
There are plenty of class actions that can be beneficial to the claimants (as well as the lawyers). These aren't the class actions you get postcards in the mail about some made up offense ("nutella isn't healthy!"), they are situations where you have experienced a real harm and you are probably aware of it. It turns into a class action when a bunch of people who have experienced the same harm try to sue and get consolidated into a class (or start out has a class but would have had legitimate cases on their own). These cases help make it easier for the plaintiffs to prove their case and collect. Think of something like a fraudulent scheme involving a stock you purchased which then lost half of its value when the fraud was revealed--Whatever lawyer gets to represent the class is going to make a bunch of money, but you are going to get paid real money based on how many shares you owned and when you bought/sold them. Often the attorney's fees for the class lawyers will be calculated on top of these damages (although if you retained your own lawyer, they will probably want a cut) so if there is a punitive award, you end up with more money than you actually lost. To collect anything from a suit like this, you will likely be required to provide extensive proof that you were in fact a valid claimant who was harmed (such as trading records and brokerage statements).
The post-card class actions seem to exist only to punish the company...but they are also very easy to join. Remember the CD price fixing suit? They just assumed everyone had bought at least one CD so they didn't even bother asking for proof that you should be a member of the class...same goes for things like the Nutella or Ticketmaster suits. Not sure how ticketmaster got away with "paying" with vouchers for more concert tickets (which you would then have to pay ticketmaster fees on top of) but I imagine it has something to do with the fact that in order to be a member of the class, you have to be a past ticket purchaser, and thus you are being given a discount on something you are likely to be a future purchaser of. In those suits, the lawyers win a lot, the companies lose a little, and the consumer might get their lunch paid for if they are lucky.
I think the more likely scenario is that back when there were things such as 10 cent candy bars and comic books, the registers weren't so sophisticated and you could do this sort of math. If your register (or the records you kept by hand) just keeps track of total sales, keeping the rounding errors for yourself is what makes the math add up.
There is some very good television out there and the fact that they are watching it on Prime instead of live makes me think they aren't watching Honey Boo Boo. Nothing wrong with opting for leisure (and maybe opening up discussion topics) over spending every waking hour trying to make money.
Would it be a problem if they spent that same time playing WoW or reading a book?
I thought it would be pretty funny if he pointed at the fixed surveillance camera and said "Oh, the camera feed stopped working, so I am doing it manually until the repair crew can get out here"
Antics like these really defeated the point of this production in my mind. He was not in a public place and had already been asked to leave. He was trespassing. He should have stuck to taping parked cars or windows from the sidewalk.
Also, would be more interesting to see it done within the field of view of a real surveillance camera (either on a tripod or him walking around with it). The closest he gets in those videos is some comments like "Weren't there cameras in the store you just came out of?". Would be much more compelling if he were saying "well that camera right up there is filming both of us right now, why don't you care about that one?"
This is why everything still uses combustion engines (including series-hybrid trains which are driven by purely electric motors connected to diesel generators).
There is so much star wars content (that has been blessed by way of licensing agreements) that takes place after the original trilogy that it seems like there would be no room to write anything original and not make it suck.
Maybe it is an iOS problem (my corporate email goes through the Touchdown activesync client on my android phone) but locked accounts from not simultaneously changing the password on every device seems like a problem. What happens if you get the mandatory change at 9AM when you get to the office but your tablet is sitting at home retrying every 10 minutes.
I'm not sure I agree that that is the cause of the decline of netbooks. I think the bells and whistles are a result of the manufacturers trying to avoid the inevitable death of the netbook market.
I bought into maybe the first 10" netbook, the eeepc 1000h (which I think has the same hardware as your 901) when it was released around the summer of 2008. The retail price was kind of high, but it was the time of 30% bing cashback on ebay buy-it-nows so the actual price was reasonable. A couple of my friends bought the next model (the 1000ha) which by then had fallen to pretty reasonable prices.
Then we stopped buying them. Here we are, 4 years later, and I am still using that thing almost every day while I eat breakfast. My friend's 1000ha lives next to his couch and I see it in use everytime I am at his place (as the go-to device for playing music, checking email, or looking things up online). I just put a 60gb ssd ($30 on slickdeals) in mine, replaced the malfunctioning keyboard for $10, and ordered a new battery. Switched from a ~2010 ubuntu netbook remix to xubuntu 12.04 and XFCE with the SSD makes the thing seem super snappy again. I'll probably keep it going for another year or two before I even consider replacing it.
I bought it for a purpose in 2008 and it still serves that purpose. New netbooks are better, but they are only marginally better for my breakfast/couch surfing and light travel usage, and they are never going to replace my full size systems. Even if we were flooded with great $200 10" netbooks, I doubt I would be buying anytime soon.
Apple on the other hand had made tons of people hand over money for an ipad that they can bring on a plane or use to surf the internet at breakfast...but they have also managed to make you feel like your 2 year old device is outdated, anemic junk that should be replaced soon.
Samsung didn't let him into the trial--everyone let him in (and I would think samsung would have preferred a juror without a chip on his shoulder to a possible excuse for a new trial).
Compare that to some walmart full-suspension "mountain" bike with the cheapest possible 2.25" knobby tires--it will weigh close to 40 pounds, will have a ton of rolling resistance as the tire pressure gets low, and will have some saggy suspension that saps all of your power without actually doing much. Swapping on some cheap city tires will make a noticeable difference but the other problems will all still exist.
It doesn't have to be as fancy as something like the Linus 3-speed roadster...It can still be something with flat bars, straight gauge tubes, a saddle that sucks after more than 30 minutes, and whatever other cheapo parts that a walmart bike normally has, but just designed in a way that matches the intended use of the customer. Unfortunately the customers don't understand this and will grab the Y-framed full suspension NEXT bike with crazy graphics since they think it looks cool and that the shocks will make it more comfortable (nevermind the fact that it would probably break with real MTB trail riding).
I'm not a supporter of helmet laws for adults. I don't buy into the research that says helmets make things *more* dangerous, but I think that with the kind of riding casual cyclists do, it can be a perfectly rational decision not to wear a helmet. At full speed racing/training/fitness riding levels, I always wear a helmet, but I don't worry about it too much on the slow bike that I ride 4 blocks to the grocery store.
I would imagine that you could get a better than 50km margin if you started building more complex rules. If you checked into a hotel during the same week as all of your other checkins in that city, then it is probably a vacation destination (bonus points for checking in at the airport too). If you regularly check into a restaurant on tuesdays at 8PM, then maybe it is a neighborhood establishment that you go to when you get home late and don't feel like cooking (where as a saturday evening dinner would have a lower weighting since people are more likely to go further from home).
My foursquare might not be very informative since I have only checked in twice (both to claim some free offer)--one of them was a hotel in my own city and the other was a restaurant on a thursday evening on the other side of the country...but give me the logs from a fairly active foursquare user and I could probably tell you where they live down to the neighborhood.
I recently bought one of those korean ebay 2560x1440 27" displays and it looks great...but not *everything* looks great on it. Win7 UI elements scale pretty well with the built in settings, but if you turn off "Use XP compatible scaling" (or similar), applications start doing really stupid things. I believe that what they do with any application that does not report it is dpi-scaling-aware (and unfortunately, just because it says it is, doesn't mean it actually is) is that it renders the app on an off screen framebuffer and then literally just zooms the image and drops it onto your desktop.
For image content, this is no different than what a browser does when you hit ctrl-+ a few times, but it makes all text look awful since it just zooms the image of the text instead of rendering a larger font size.
I know that this is mostly the fault of 3rd party developers (which is why it occurs on other OSes as well) but maybe if Windows defaulted to ugly mode (instead of XP compatability mode which just leaves everything really small), then app developers would be forced to fix these issues. It is sort of like the iphone vs android screen size issues that are cropping up on the iphone 5...android developers have always had to develop for wildy varying screen DPI (as well as size) while apple let them sit with guaranteed DPI (and then just did 4x for retina) which means they can't just adjust the screen resolution without making all existing apps really ugly.
I was under the impression that China was perfectly willing to let this go so that American business travelers had no trouble doing business with them. Maybe not some "shady" roll your own linux vpn...but some Cisco product? Why not?
The only kickstarters I have funded have been more like art or film projects where you really are just giving them money with no real expectation in return. Heck, I've yet to even watch the videos made for one (I keep waiting until I have time...and then forget that I want to watch them when I have time).
I've considered others that are more like the one you described...somebody is a leatherworker or something and has an idea but it won't be profitable unless he can buy full hides and a bulk order of hardware. There's nothing really stopping it from being successful--If he doesn't get enough money to meet his minimums, everybody gets their money back, otherwise he just starts cranking them out.
What is the current status of the project? unintended issues with the final design that didn't appear in the prototypes?
I wonder if anyone ever runs a setup where they wear headphones in a listening room that also has subwoffers (and maybe some low-mid drivers as well).
I enjoyed a good can of mountain dew in high school/early college...for a while being at 2 cans on a normal day. I had access too as much as I wanted but, unless I was staying up late to finish a paper or something, I never could stomach drinking more than 2. Then it became just one...and then it became none.
Consuming 2 liters of pop a day is pretty hard to defeat with just exercise.
The key is that the canned beer has to be poured into a glass (the can taste is all because your bare lip is touching freshly sheared aluminum). What do you think a keg is if it isn't a big can? You can get many great beers in cans and I find I prefer them...recently I have had several beers from Surly, an IPA from Two Brothers, and many cans of 312 from Goose Island. The latter is the only one I can do a comparison on (the other two are fantastic, but unavailable in bottles) and I think a can of 312 poured into a glass tastes noticeably fresher than a bottle of 312 poured into a glass. Maybe not if they were both just bottled/canned today--but you take something that has sat around at a store for a while and the cans win.
I know they spend a lot of time searching Lexis Nexis TV & Radio news transcripts. I'm not sure if that give you the actual clip or just a reference. But if you are willing to pay for archival footage, I think you can get that kind of stuff fairly easily as long as you can tell them "I want these 14 seconds that aired at 12:34 on 8/12/08". Not something that is very friendly to the inexperienced researcher (or the person who doesn't want to pay for lexisnexis.