And how many people have this either installed or can be made to install this?
~5 years ago, when I cared about making sure I installed all the media codecs, I installed the GStreamer Bad plugins. Only reason I don't install it now is because things work fine without it?
What would happen if someone downloaded and tried to play one of these files now (thinking they were downloading a Taylor Swift.mp3 off of Pirate Bay)? Would the OS offer to download GStreamer Bad plugin? If it did, how many users would even blink before okaying the download (after all, it's from the repositories) and entering in the administrator privileges to get things done so they can listen to their (supposed).mp3.
As many of the other replies allude to, there's living and there's living well.
When I retire I want to live well and in good health. Depending on what age I retire it will likely take over $1M.
Retirement investing books are interesting. They talk about a 4% draw down on your investments during retirement in order to not run out of money too early and figuring out your expected life expectancy based on actuarial tables and your parents' health.
Sure you can retire at 55 years old without a mega-buck, but the risks that you will either end up broke in a medicaid nursing home or die early due to lack of ability to afford medical treatment goes up dramatically.
I plan to retire at 55, but only if I can get closer to 5M in equity investments. That way I can afford to live well while retired, traveling regularly and not concerned about food stamps.
Was discussing this with people I work with. We agreed that if we won it big in the lottery we would still work together. Just much less hours and under more relaxed conditions. (ie: 4 hour work days, no calls, no weekends, have a greeter at the front door, etc.)
Agree 100%. Best thing about Mindstorm is that it's LEGO, so you can extend any of their other lego creations with it.
Got it for my son last year (he was nine at the time). He played with it for a couple months (creating the pre-programmed structures), put it away, and just recently brought it back out and wants to learn the programing that goes along with it.
having climbed almost 9 percent in the past month. It has climbed around 80 percent so far this year, far exceeding its 35 percent rise in 2015.
Don't forget mentioning that it may actually make up all the losses from 2014.
I like the idea of Bitcoin. It's fantastic.
But in reality it's still trading more like a commodity than a currency. Sort of like how Susan B. Anthony dollar coins are more hoarded than used as actual currency.
One ass I work with has a 90 minute commute to work.
He was apparently gloating to people at lunch that he watches videos on an iPad which he keeps on the steering wheel during the drive.
He's already totaled one car (luckily no one else was involved).
Frankly, I don't think too many people would be upset if he drove himself into a tree (he's not a particularly likeable person). My problem is if he hits another car on the road.
Is there much need for this, even in the corporate world?
I think what's much more useful in the corporate world is screencasting, so that the screen is essentially agnostic and you can project any video source on it, not be limited to x86 phone apps. That way if you want to use a windows mobile app with attachable keyboard, that's fine. If on the other hand you use an iPhone or Android app, it will still work just fine.
Microsoft has to face facts: They've lost the mobile market and have to create standards that others are compelled (either due to corporate environment or actual user needs) to follow.
Elon Musk most certainly wanted this to happen, but he actually recused himself from the actual vote, citing conflict of interest.
That being said, good for him and other Tesla investors (I don't own any stock in any individual company, but I own mutual funds which own just about all stocks in the market) for looking a little bit at the long game rather than the next quarterly profit.
If you think about it, there's limited difference between creativity within a small scope of action and trying out a billion combinations within that scope.
ie: Deciding on a floral pattern based on the types of flowers you have in your shop. A robot will have a complete image inventory of how all your flowers look now and estimation of they will look in 37 hours (at time of delivery) and come up with an optimal arrangement at minimized cost (or maximized profit) that will still be considered aesthetically pleasing (based on various parameters used to determine aesthetically pleasing, such as amounts of various primary colors, number of different types of flowers, the month of the year, the occasion, the preference of the ordering (or receiving) individual, etc).
And this sort of thing can happen with current software.
(800)Flowers is essentially a middleman currently. Imagine how many jobs would be lost if they teamed up with Amazon.com and cut out the small time flower shops?
So what exactly is Ubuntu Budgie? The linked to website didn't give any specifics. It's obviously some sort of DE built on top of Ubuntu. Is it MATE? Or something else?
They'll only have my Aluminum macbook when it's a burning heap of toxic chemicals.
I still like it a lot. Kids still use it as their primary machine (running Linux Mint 18) and it's certainly fast enough for light browsing, playing music on banshee, and as a Kodi client.
What Apple needs to do is own the IoT market. Make a secure hub that is easy to setup, all the usual bells and whistle IoT devices, and easy setup and management.
LED bulb speakers that change colors? What if they had a microphone that allowed both Siri integration as well as change the lighting based on the music playing? Lots of fun things. May not interest us, but my 14 year old daughter would love mood lighting in her room when her friends come over and play music on surround speakers.
A Nest-type thermostat hooked into the network which could figure out if anyone was home or on their way home (based on sound picked up on a microphone built into a lightbulb or GPS coordinates of the iPhones associated with the network) and adjust the temperature accordingly.
blending a monthly bucket metaphor with that of a time-based subscription system
So is a month no longer considered a unit of time? Is it now a unit of distance?
But seriously, I was on one of the grandfathered in unlimited plans. Last time I went to the AT&T store with my wife, we were looking to cut the cost of our monthly bill. The rep looked at how much actual data I used every month over the past year and offered to cut the bill dramatically by putting me in a capped plan with a cap twice as high as my highest monthly usage.
Bill Maher (of the HBO show Real Time with Bill Maher) had a great monologue about how regardless of how this election goes, Donald Trump will likely be the last major candidate born in the 40s, with formative years and values stuck in the 50s. When he says make America great again, he's talking about making it like the 50s again.
Which was great, if you were a straight white male.
I would be quite interested in something like this combing the internet and by text messages for all my posts and creating an AI that would respond like I would. At the very least, it could give insight to my friends and family after I've gone. Particularly if a decade after I'm dead my kids would want to ask me a question.
The problem is the false sense of security and subsequent lack of proofreading and error correction.
Try voice recognition software for a week. You'll likely find that you will read over something that you dictated and not realize that there are errors in it. People are less likely to find errors in something they dictated than in something they typed.
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Awesome. Linux Mint is my desktop and I stick to LTS because, well, I've got better things to do with my time than re-install an OS every six months.
That being said, an in-place upgrade from 18 to 18.1 doesn't sound like a big deal. :-)
And how many people have this either installed or can be made to install this?
~5 years ago, when I cared about making sure I installed all the media codecs, I installed the GStreamer Bad plugins. Only reason I don't install it now is because things work fine without it?
What would happen if someone downloaded and tried to play one of these files now (thinking they were downloading a Taylor Swift .mp3 off of Pirate Bay)? Would the OS offer to download GStreamer Bad plugin? If it did, how many users would even blink before okaying the download (after all, it's from the repositories) and entering in the administrator privileges to get things done so they can listen to their (supposed) .mp3.
So the patch knocked computers off of the internet.
How are they planning on patching them if they can't access the internet?
What am I missing here?
As many of the other replies allude to, there's living and there's living well.
When I retire I want to live well and in good health. Depending on what age I retire it will likely take over $1M.
Retirement investing books are interesting. They talk about a 4% draw down on your investments during retirement in order to not run out of money too early and figuring out your expected life expectancy based on actuarial tables and your parents' health.
Sure you can retire at 55 years old without a mega-buck, but the risks that you will either end up broke in a medicaid nursing home or die early due to lack of ability to afford medical treatment goes up dramatically.
I plan to retire at 55, but only if I can get closer to 5M in equity investments. That way I can afford to live well while retired, traveling regularly and not concerned about food stamps.
Was discussing this with people I work with. We agreed that if we won it big in the lottery we would still work together. Just much less hours and under more relaxed conditions. (ie: 4 hour work days, no calls, no weekends, have a greeter at the front door, etc.)
Agree 100%. Best thing about Mindstorm is that it's LEGO, so you can extend any of their other lego creations with it.
Got it for my son last year (he was nine at the time). He played with it for a couple months (creating the pre-programmed structures), put it away, and just recently brought it back out and wants to learn the programing that goes along with it.
having climbed almost 9 percent in the past month. It has climbed around 80 percent so far this year, far exceeding its 35 percent rise in 2015.
Don't forget mentioning that it may actually make up all the losses from 2014.
I like the idea of Bitcoin. It's fantastic.
But in reality it's still trading more like a commodity than a currency. Sort of like how Susan B. Anthony dollar coins are more hoarded than used as actual currency.
One ass I work with has a 90 minute commute to work.
He was apparently gloating to people at lunch that he watches videos on an iPad which he keeps on the steering wheel during the drive.
He's already totaled one car (luckily no one else was involved).
Frankly, I don't think too many people would be upset if he drove himself into a tree (he's not a particularly likeable person). My problem is if he hits another car on the road.
Is there much need for this, even in the corporate world?
I think what's much more useful in the corporate world is screencasting, so that the screen is essentially agnostic and you can project any video source on it, not be limited to x86 phone apps. That way if you want to use a windows mobile app with attachable keyboard, that's fine. If on the other hand you use an iPhone or Android app, it will still work just fine.
Microsoft has to face facts: They've lost the mobile market and have to create standards that others are compelled (either due to corporate environment or actual user needs) to follow.
Elon Musk most certainly wanted this to happen, but he actually recused himself from the actual vote, citing conflict of interest.
That being said, good for him and other Tesla investors (I don't own any stock in any individual company, but I own mutual funds which own just about all stocks in the market) for looking a little bit at the long game rather than the next quarterly profit.
If you think about it, there's limited difference between creativity within a small scope of action and trying out a billion combinations within that scope.
ie: Deciding on a floral pattern based on the types of flowers you have in your shop. A robot will have a complete image inventory of how all your flowers look now and estimation of they will look in 37 hours (at time of delivery) and come up with an optimal arrangement at minimized cost (or maximized profit) that will still be considered aesthetically pleasing (based on various parameters used to determine aesthetically pleasing, such as amounts of various primary colors, number of different types of flowers, the month of the year, the occasion, the preference of the ordering (or receiving) individual, etc).
And this sort of thing can happen with current software.
(800)Flowers is essentially a middleman currently. Imagine how many jobs would be lost if they teamed up with Amazon.com and cut out the small time flower shops?
False equivalence.
[...]Or underneath somebody dancing while trying to sleep.
This is Vegas. If someone over you is dancing, you just paid $20 and probably not looking forward to a nap.
Is Budgie the name of the DE? It doesn't even have a wikipedia entry.
So what exactly is Ubuntu Budgie? The linked to website didn't give any specifics. It's obviously some sort of DE built on top of Ubuntu. Is it MATE? Or something else?
I'm not a fan. Been in the Model X a number of times. The glass roof looks wonderful from the inside.
But when it's really sunny out you're constantly moving your visor around to block the sunlight.
Guess this is for those that like convertibles. Luckily a classic hardtop is still an option.
They'll only have my Aluminum macbook when it's a burning heap of toxic chemicals.
I still like it a lot. Kids still use it as their primary machine (running Linux Mint 18) and it's certainly fast enough for light browsing, playing music on banshee, and as a Kodi client.
What Apple needs to do is own the IoT market. Make a secure hub that is easy to setup, all the usual bells and whistle IoT devices, and easy setup and management.
LED bulb speakers that change colors? What if they had a microphone that allowed both Siri integration as well as change the lighting based on the music playing? Lots of fun things. May not interest us, but my 14 year old daughter would love mood lighting in her room when her friends come over and play music on surround speakers.
A Nest-type thermostat hooked into the network which could figure out if anyone was home or on their way home (based on sound picked up on a microphone built into a lightbulb or GPS coordinates of the iPhones associated with the network) and adjust the temperature accordingly.
Lots of options available.
Still love my Aluminum Macbook from late 2008. Too old for my kids' Minecraft, but does flash games and internet in general fine.
Of course it's too slow for recent versions of MacOS, but still works nicely on the latest version of Linux Mint.
Apple hardware is still good (when they have updated specs, of course), it's just their OSs that makes things obsolete.
blending a monthly bucket metaphor with that of a time-based subscription system
So is a month no longer considered a unit of time? Is it now a unit of distance?
But seriously, I was on one of the grandfathered in unlimited plans. Last time I went to the AT&T store with my wife, we were looking to cut the cost of our monthly bill. The rep looked at how much actual data I used every month over the past year and offered to cut the bill dramatically by putting me in a capped plan with a cap twice as high as my highest monthly usage.
So I took it. Money's money.
How are you going to find good paying jobs when robots and automation in general are taking away all the jobs?
Are American consumers willing to pay more for goods produced in the U.S. by humans?
Bill Maher (of the HBO show Real Time with Bill Maher) had a great monologue about how regardless of how this election goes, Donald Trump will likely be the last major candidate born in the 40s, with formative years and values stuck in the 50s. When he says make America great again, he's talking about making it like the 50s again.
Which was great, if you were a straight white male.
But why wait until someone is dead?
I would be quite interested in something like this combing the internet and by text messages for all my posts and creating an AI that would respond like I would. At the very least, it could give insight to my friends and family after I've gone. Particularly if a decade after I'm dead my kids would want to ask me a question.
The problem is the false sense of security and subsequent lack of proofreading and error correction.
Try voice recognition software for a week. You'll likely find that you will read over something that you dictated and not realize that there are errors in it. People are less likely to find errors in something they dictated than in something they typed.
She was probably just trying to curtail cost by firing the male employees.
Wasn't this reported in The Onion?