That is one thing that I still have been unable to get used to with the ribbon.
Some of the tabs are quite frequently home to single use items...for example sometimes do other things on the data tab in excel...but 90% of the time when I go there, it is to do a "refresh all" and be done. But then it hangs out on that tab forever.
To make matters worse, the active ribbon is switched by keyboard shortcuts. So even if I never click on the data tab and instead use alt-ARA to refresh all, now my ribbon is hanging out on the data tab...
Either the 10 bus from right in front of the museum or the 6 bus across the street will get you downtown in a jiffy by running express on the highway (which takes you past some more shady areas but not through them).
Google Voice is a separate text and voice bases service that actually can operate across the carrier networks. Its voicemail features are sweet...and the free texting is nice (but the android app requires a data connection and is seems kind of buggy when you have bad service...while texts are still reliable)
While I do my work in SAS and recognize where it has strengths (especially running on a sas server with lots of shared libraries and huge datasets...sometimes it is nice that datasets are disk-space limited and not ram-limited)...R is better than SAS for the submitter.
Its not a pretty and easy GUI like excel, but it is going to be no more difficult to implement than SAS (and since the language is less archaic, it might be more intuitive) and it is free. There is a large community to provide support to get quick answers from other people who are just "dabblers". Due to the cost of running SAS, almost all of the support online is written by and for people who use it daily and as such may not feel as accessible to a newbie as the R community.
Maybe some bastardized gui tool like sas enterprise guide could solve the problems of the user as well...and I always hear about packages like Tableau which might do what they want...but R is quite functional and completely free.
What about trained athletes who have low resting heart rates? I am by no means trained at a high level (although more so than average and *definitely* more than the test subject pictured in the article) and when I checked my pulse after 5 minutes of the song, it was going slightly slower.
My first thought when the song started was "hmm that feels fast like my heart beat is accelerating". The song seems to be at about 60BPM while any young healthy person with any sort of moderate endurance training could be below that.
What I see it as is a helpful way to access things that are buried deep down in the phone.
I might have downloaded "an app for that" a long time ago but I have forgotten what it is called/what the icon looks like/what page it is on but if it integrates with Siri, I could just ask for the function and expect it to happen. Something like "what song is this playing:" would then pull up shazam and ID the song even though I didn't remember that shazam was the app I downloaded with that feature.
Similarily, it could save you from digging through buried options. Being able to tell it "remind me to buy XYZ when I walk past a drug store" is probably a lot faster than navigating who knows how many menus to set this with your fingers (I imagine it is something like setting an event with a lot of options which can be a pain since every box has some slider or dropdown menu or requires you to enter some text before it autocompletes). Its not going to save me any time checking the current radar picture since that app is already on my home screen and doesn't require data entry (and is much less functional when held to my ear to give voice commands since it is something I need to see)...but for certain tasks, voice could be effective.
Of course...I don't want to use voice commands on the bus or in the office...which is probably where I do 80% of my phone interactions...
a company who has thought this through could always included a cash prize equal to approximately [value of prize]*[tax rate]*[1+tax rate]...
This would solve any tax burden problems (which occur not even for large prizes...look at all the oprah guests who got nailed with a tax bill after winning cars)
Did you know that zipcodes do not accurately represent areas? We typically think of a zipcode as a shape like a city/county/state for ease of use, but they are actually references to postal routes. The USPS does *not* maintain actual boundaries (since they don't think of them as areas) but rather as lists of current streets and addresses included in a zip--the actual boundaries can and frequently do change/divide/drift and there area areas of the country that don't have official zip codes since they don't have mail delivery (largely national parks, but other areas as well).
A lovely wrinkle for taxation is that zipcodes are not constrained to county borders. How do you figure out if someone is in county A if their address only has zip (nobody ever asks for county and cities can overlap) and the zip code straddles counties A and B? Now you have to geocode their address that tells you whether this particular house # is far enough down the street to have moved into county B where you don't have to charge another 1% on clothing.
I'm pretty sure the way 3 strikes rules work is that the penalty applies the third time you are convicted.
Presumably this means you have already been in front of a judge *twice* who has told you that this behavior will result in a felony charge. Whether or not you agree with a 17 year old taking nude photos of themselves being a felony-worthy offence, someone who gets caught doing it after being in court for it twice before has only themselves to blame. The law is on the books and actively enforced, so until that law is changed you had better follow the damn thing (and I wouldn't suggest risking sex offender status and a felony in order to try your luck at getting the supreme court to change the law).
Prime is so awesome anyways that I can't see why you wouldn't pay for it if you owned a fire.
It could be worth it for the shipping alone (which is where I get the real utility from it) but when you factor in the ever increasing library of streaming content and the fact that it costs less than netflix...add in integration with the Fire and its completely worth $79 a year.
Hell, with netflix splitting into 2, I wouldn't be surprised to see people dropping netflix streaming for nu-netflix dvds and amazon streaming since the dvd service is still the only way to get old/rare/foreign films that aren't streaming but also are not available at your local video store (or often, not even available to buy anywhere) but amazon is set to rapidly improve their streaming library.
the screen will be more expensive (unless apple got some crazy deal by monopolizing the production) but the rest of the parts are pretty similar with a few back and forth tradeoffs. The 7" might need some smaller, more expensive, versions of parts to get everything to fit, while the 10" may have extra costs in trying to cut power use on other components so that they can power the larger screen with a reasonable battery life.
It seems like a fair price to me (although a little bit too precise to not be reporting a margin of error on an estimate like this)
If this process requires a manual review by an employee which leads to a several day delay, it keeps someone from harvesting complete data on another person through a compromised account. The employee who assembles the data could make an effort to verify that the person requesting the data actually owns the profile and that the mailing (or email if they add some digital delivery option) address seems to correspond with the owner.
How do you handle excess length in cables on your desk? Round loops? Back and forth folds?
I've got the exposed cables on my desk somewhat organized but the relatively short distance between my docking bay and monitor/power means that instead of clean lines, I have all of these big chunks of cable where I have folded up the excess length.
I would think that the publisher does have some recourse.
This isn't like how the movie studios can't stop redbox from renting new movies without paying more (since anything they can't get from a distributor, the operators just go buy at a store)...gamestop probably has a contract.
If gamestop was making a free and clear purchase and then reselling the items, they might be ok doing this...but I bet that in exchange for getting a massive discount on the game, they have agreed to some pretty clear terms which probably include something about selling the product as is.
You know...it is entirely possible that this dude was in the market for a new job and decided to use is proven experience working with android interfaces to get one. He could have applied to HTC and Motorola too while saying "look at what I have...maybe I can help make motoblur not suck?"
Its not like we see a press release from Samsung saying that they sought out this guy and hired him and acquired rights to CM (and you had better believe they would issue something)...My guess is that he got a pretty good job out of the deal and that samsung was just the best offer in terms of money/position/location/whatever since even manufacturers who are anti-modding would still recognize his talent.
Sometimes, they use a LN sprayer....but the volume it outputs is so low that it would be hard to seriously damage anything larger than a wart. The only problem would be finding a mini LN gun.
Other times though...the doctor walks in with a styrofoam coffee cup with a bit of LN and a cotton swab...dips the q-tip in the cup and presses it into the wart (and if you are a child, they will then throw the cup on the floor so you can see it magically disappear). This could be done without any medical training or special equipment without hurting yourself. I have a few warts on my hand that I have not dealt with (I've yet to get any regular doctors in this city) and if I happened to be in the presence of some LN, I would burn one off without hesitation.
ACH transfers between banks still take 3 days (some banks offer "express" transfers that complete in one business day...but they usually have something like a $1000 limit).
Still seems odd that my Amex charges show up in my account minutes after I buy something...but my transfer from checking to savings (at another bank) or my brokerage takes 3 days.
I bought a new phone this week...so I have spent a lot of time on android forums and the fanboyism is TERRIBLE. How do people get so obsessed with a single model of phone? Most of these people don't even keep phones for the duration of a 2 year contract...and yet they get ridiculously worked up over one model of android phone vs another incredibly similar model. On some of those forums (particularily device specific subfora), there is zero possibility of a balanced discussion of two models...everybody just parades their phone like its gods gift to mankind while all other phones current and upcoming are trash (until it is time for them to upgrade again).
Not to mention, reading individual reviews of phones is impossible...some fanboy overuser might be like "My XYZ gets the best battery life ever...blah blah..." only to realize that for them, 12 hours is a crazy amount of battery.
I upgraded on a PC that was built in the summer of...maybe...2007? Its been upgrade a pinch...but nothing major (no video or cpu).
Windows 7 is simply better. It is faster and feels more usable (its hard to explain...). Granted....I got in on a deal with my student email address and it was only like $15. I use XP at work...and there are all of these little improvements that excite me when I use my home computer (which I don't actually use that much now that I am not a student...I use ubuntu on a netbook for most things). Little things like..when you rename a file (and you have show file extensions turned on...what slashdot poster doesn't), it assumes that you don't want to change the extension and it jumps the cursor before the period.
It is faster though for sure...and it is nice that the 64bit version works fluidly (unlike XP-64 which has all sorts of driver and sofware issues) with everything I throw at it.
I have not played in a long time but I used to be a very good medic.
IIRC, the syringe gun already had kind of a high crit rate, and the game increases your crit rate as you live longer and score lots of points. A good medic should stay alive for a long time and as such, the syringe gun had some nice crits.
It was perfect for saving your ass when you had been pulling a group along and something goes wrong and you are suddenly alone. At that point, you should be critting pretty often which can cut through most enemies pretty quick. I would switch back and forth and never could decide which I liked better...so its probably pretty balanced.
Of course I have not played much of the new content (I last played before the engineer update) so maybe the balance has fallen off.
Here's an example application I knew of from some time back. ~2500 downloads from market. ~1500 purchases. ~250,000 pirate installs.The developer abandoned their application. But thankfully pirates assure us they are not the cause of the problems
You know...I think I agree with this here. back when the discussion was about things like photoshop and 3ds max, the pirates weren't the problem. Programs like that cost big money and a majority of the pirates would never ever pay for them--how many teenagers pirated modeling software (how may 15 year olds have hundreds or thousands of dollars for a software license) and honed their skills making cool shit and later got jobs that worked with paid versions of those programs.
With the world of $2 apps...everything is different. Anyone who can afford a smartphone and data plan can also afford a bunch of apps (and your phone would run out of memory before you bought enough apps to equal a creative suite license). The average iphone user doesn't know how to do this (and with new versions that required tethered boot...they don't want to do it) while one doesn't have to look very far to find out how to load non-store apps onto an android phone.
I'm not saying that anywhere near 250k of those pirates would have paid for the app but if less than one percent shelled out two dollars, it would have *doubled* the revenues.
Only if you really want to use Income/3/12 as your solution for recommended monthly housing spending. By that metric, I pay half the rent I should. I'd suggest either starting from after tax income or dividing by 4. Sure, you may have to stretch beyond this in NYC (though this guy lives in queens) but a third of your pre-tax works out to be a lot of money.
Not that I don't agree with you that 50k in NYC is doable. It certainly is and MANY of the people who live there do it with less than that.
I have noticed a lot of the new "trendy" streaming sites have decided to do away with or hide the volume control...
Sometimes I like to adjust the sound of one application vs another and on my work computer, the headphone volume is too loud at the lowest click unless I turn down the application volume (but dropping wave volume all the way down messes with the speaker sound which application volume seems to behave well with)
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Some of the tabs are quite frequently home to single use items...for example sometimes do other things on the data tab in excel...but 90% of the time when I go there, it is to do a "refresh all" and be done. But then it hangs out on that tab forever.
To make matters worse, the active ribbon is switched by keyboard shortcuts. So even if I never click on the data tab and instead use alt-ARA to refresh all, now my ribbon is hanging out on the data tab...
Either the 10 bus from right in front of the museum or the 6 bus across the street will get you downtown in a jiffy by running express on the highway (which takes you past some more shady areas but not through them).
Google Voice is a separate text and voice bases service that actually can operate across the carrier networks. Its voicemail features are sweet...and the free texting is nice (but the android app requires a data connection and is seems kind of buggy when you have bad service...while texts are still reliable)
Its not a pretty and easy GUI like excel, but it is going to be no more difficult to implement than SAS (and since the language is less archaic, it might be more intuitive) and it is free. There is a large community to provide support to get quick answers from other people who are just "dabblers". Due to the cost of running SAS, almost all of the support online is written by and for people who use it daily and as such may not feel as accessible to a newbie as the R community.
Maybe some bastardized gui tool like sas enterprise guide could solve the problems of the user as well...and I always hear about packages like Tableau which might do what they want...but R is quite functional and completely free.
I'm so glad that the real world is open book.
My first thought when the song started was "hmm that feels fast like my heart beat is accelerating". The song seems to be at about 60BPM while any young healthy person with any sort of moderate endurance training could be below that.
Similarily, it could save you from digging through buried options. Being able to tell it "remind me to buy XYZ when I walk past a drug store" is probably a lot faster than navigating who knows how many menus to set this with your fingers (I imagine it is something like setting an event with a lot of options which can be a pain since every box has some slider or dropdown menu or requires you to enter some text before it autocompletes). Its not going to save me any time checking the current radar picture since that app is already on my home screen and doesn't require data entry (and is much less functional when held to my ear to give voice commands since it is something I need to see)...but for certain tasks, voice could be effective.
Of course...I don't want to use voice commands on the bus or in the office...which is probably where I do 80% of my phone interactions...
This would solve any tax burden problems (which occur not even for large prizes...look at all the oprah guests who got nailed with a tax bill after winning cars)
In fact, I bet they knew about it at landing as they probably inventoried everything that came back.
Did you know that zipcodes do not accurately represent areas? We typically think of a zipcode as a shape like a city/county/state for ease of use, but they are actually references to postal routes. The USPS does *not* maintain actual boundaries (since they don't think of them as areas) but rather as lists of current streets and addresses included in a zip--the actual boundaries can and frequently do change/divide/drift and there area areas of the country that don't have official zip codes since they don't have mail delivery (largely national parks, but other areas as well).
A lovely wrinkle for taxation is that zipcodes are not constrained to county borders. How do you figure out if someone is in county A if their address only has zip (nobody ever asks for county and cities can overlap) and the zip code straddles counties A and B? Now you have to geocode their address that tells you whether this particular house # is far enough down the street to have moved into county B where you don't have to charge another 1% on clothing.
Presumably this means you have already been in front of a judge *twice* who has told you that this behavior will result in a felony charge. Whether or not you agree with a 17 year old taking nude photos of themselves being a felony-worthy offence, someone who gets caught doing it after being in court for it twice before has only themselves to blame. The law is on the books and actively enforced, so until that law is changed you had better follow the damn thing (and I wouldn't suggest risking sex offender status and a felony in order to try your luck at getting the supreme court to change the law).
It could be worth it for the shipping alone (which is where I get the real utility from it) but when you factor in the ever increasing library of streaming content and the fact that it costs less than netflix...add in integration with the Fire and its completely worth $79 a year.
Hell, with netflix splitting into 2, I wouldn't be surprised to see people dropping netflix streaming for nu-netflix dvds and amazon streaming since the dvd service is still the only way to get old/rare/foreign films that aren't streaming but also are not available at your local video store (or often, not even available to buy anywhere) but amazon is set to rapidly improve their streaming library.
the screen will be more expensive (unless apple got some crazy deal by monopolizing the production) but the rest of the parts are pretty similar with a few back and forth tradeoffs. The 7" might need some smaller, more expensive, versions of parts to get everything to fit, while the 10" may have extra costs in trying to cut power use on other components so that they can power the larger screen with a reasonable battery life.
It seems like a fair price to me (although a little bit too precise to not be reporting a margin of error on an estimate like this)
If this process requires a manual review by an employee which leads to a several day delay, it keeps someone from harvesting complete data on another person through a compromised account. The employee who assembles the data could make an effort to verify that the person requesting the data actually owns the profile and that the mailing (or email if they add some digital delivery option) address seems to correspond with the owner.
I've got the exposed cables on my desk somewhat organized but the relatively short distance between my docking bay and monitor/power means that instead of clean lines, I have all of these big chunks of cable where I have folded up the excess length.
This isn't like how the movie studios can't stop redbox from renting new movies without paying more (since anything they can't get from a distributor, the operators just go buy at a store)...gamestop probably has a contract.
If gamestop was making a free and clear purchase and then reselling the items, they might be ok doing this...but I bet that in exchange for getting a massive discount on the game, they have agreed to some pretty clear terms which probably include something about selling the product as is.
Its not like we see a press release from Samsung saying that they sought out this guy and hired him and acquired rights to CM (and you had better believe they would issue something)...My guess is that he got a pretty good job out of the deal and that samsung was just the best offer in terms of money/position/location/whatever since even manufacturers who are anti-modding would still recognize his talent.
Sometimes, they use a LN sprayer....but the volume it outputs is so low that it would be hard to seriously damage anything larger than a wart. The only problem would be finding a mini LN gun.
Other times though...the doctor walks in with a styrofoam coffee cup with a bit of LN and a cotton swab...dips the q-tip in the cup and presses it into the wart (and if you are a child, they will then throw the cup on the floor so you can see it magically disappear). This could be done without any medical training or special equipment without hurting yourself. I have a few warts on my hand that I have not dealt with (I've yet to get any regular doctors in this city) and if I happened to be in the presence of some LN, I would burn one off without hesitation.
Still seems odd that my Amex charges show up in my account minutes after I buy something...but my transfer from checking to savings (at another bank) or my brokerage takes 3 days.
Not to mention, reading individual reviews of phones is impossible...some fanboy overuser might be like "My XYZ gets the best battery life ever...blah blah..." only to realize that for them, 12 hours is a crazy amount of battery.
Windows 7 is simply better. It is faster and feels more usable (its hard to explain...). Granted....I got in on a deal with my student email address and it was only like $15. I use XP at work...and there are all of these little improvements that excite me when I use my home computer (which I don't actually use that much now that I am not a student...I use ubuntu on a netbook for most things). Little things like..when you rename a file (and you have show file extensions turned on...what slashdot poster doesn't), it assumes that you don't want to change the extension and it jumps the cursor before the period.
It is faster though for sure...and it is nice that the 64bit version works fluidly (unlike XP-64 which has all sorts of driver and sofware issues) with everything I throw at it.
IIRC, the syringe gun already had kind of a high crit rate, and the game increases your crit rate as you live longer and score lots of points. A good medic should stay alive for a long time and as such, the syringe gun had some nice crits.
It was perfect for saving your ass when you had been pulling a group along and something goes wrong and you are suddenly alone. At that point, you should be critting pretty often which can cut through most enemies pretty quick. I would switch back and forth and never could decide which I liked better...so its probably pretty balanced.
Of course I have not played much of the new content (I last played before the engineer update) so maybe the balance has fallen off.
You know...I think I agree with this here. back when the discussion was about things like photoshop and 3ds max, the pirates weren't the problem. Programs like that cost big money and a majority of the pirates would never ever pay for them--how many teenagers pirated modeling software (how may 15 year olds have hundreds or thousands of dollars for a software license) and honed their skills making cool shit and later got jobs that worked with paid versions of those programs.
With the world of $2 apps...everything is different. Anyone who can afford a smartphone and data plan can also afford a bunch of apps (and your phone would run out of memory before you bought enough apps to equal a creative suite license). The average iphone user doesn't know how to do this (and with new versions that required tethered boot...they don't want to do it) while one doesn't have to look very far to find out how to load non-store apps onto an android phone.
I'm not saying that anywhere near 250k of those pirates would have paid for the app but if less than one percent shelled out two dollars, it would have *doubled* the revenues.
Not that I don't agree with you that 50k in NYC is doable. It certainly is and MANY of the people who live there do it with less than that.
I have noticed a lot of the new "trendy" streaming sites have decided to do away with or hide the volume control...
Sometimes I like to adjust the sound of one application vs another and on my work computer, the headphone volume is too loud at the lowest click unless I turn down the application volume (but dropping wave volume all the way down messes with the speaker sound which application volume seems to behave well with)