Why would anyone, ever, browse the web in "public" mode??? Isn't that like saying "Yes, please track me"?
First thing I do on Firefox is set it to dump all cookies/cache/history/etc/etc every time it closes. 100% on all the time private mode would be just fine, thanks. Unless you *like* big brother watching you.
Which ones? Germany and China? Seriously? Sorry, but no. Both are driven by exports and excess savings,
Exactly. Germany is actually *shrinking* in population, but doing quite well, because their economy is not dependant on population growth.
The US is currently growing at about a 1% rate, and is the fastest growing major country. China and the UK are growing at about a 0.5% rate. Germany and Japan are shrinking in population.
This is a problem with the US economy in general - it is based on growth. Those European/Asian countries that have been around for thousands of years are more stable, and have economies based more on sustainable goods and services. One of the main economic numbers that drives the US stock market is "new housing starts" - a number based solely on having the population continually increasing. Once that slows down - and can't even be propped up by the banks fudging mortgages - the entire country is headed for a depression.
Shock resistant, water resistant. (You can't make one truly waterproof without getting rid of things like the USB/charging port and the earphone/mic port).
But - it's one of the poorest selling cell phones out there. So, the market has basically said, we don't want/need a waterproof phone.
Think of a folding partition: as a whole it bends, but it is made up of small non-bending parts.
Flexible PC boards have existed for years, and are inside many consumer devices today - the board as a whole is flexible, the individual chips are not. The chips are small in relation to the board size.
If you run Windows, and buy the Windows version, you still need to do the same steps - to get rid of the bloatware and have a clean Windows install. And in my experience it takes a lot longer to install Windows (and chase down all the drivers) than to install most Linux distros.
Personally I'd buy the Windows one, sell the Windows license for $50, and put on the Dell Ubuntu version. Ends up $50 *cheaper* than the Windows one, $100 less than the official Dell one, even though I end up with the exact same hardware running the exact same software.
Regardless of sobriety, if you kill people while in control of a motor vehicle, expect to be considered for charges.
That is certainly not the case if the person who dies was riding a bicycle. Cyclists are killed daily in the USA, with very very few cases being prosecuted at all.
This. Right now if someone hits and kills a pedestrian, it's called an "accident" and they go free if they're sober - but they go to jail for many years if they had a drink. It doesn't matter that incompetent driving caused the death - the only time a driver is punished appropriately is when they had a drink.
A test for competency would also get a lot of older drivers who cannot drive safely any more off the road.
Signing of apps and signing of drivers is handled by completely different people; I would imagine that signing of boot loaders is another, new group. This may well be their very first submission, so things may not go exactly as planned.
It's much better than ubuntu - with names like "Wanking Warthog", "Horny Heron", and "Onanistic Ocelot", it's no wonder corporations don't take them seriously.
The first thing it does is to tie your online identity to a physical location. (Not sure about MapMyRide - but the (far better) Strava fuzzes your "home" location to help prevent this - but you can still pin down someone's home address within about 1 km. Unless you've chosen a fake name, public property records will give the exact location.
If you've set up your profile with a bike description, and it' s a nice one, now I know you have an expensive bike, and I know your address.
I can also go through your ride history, and see if there's a consistent time when you're not home. People with nice bikes usually have other nice stuff to steal.
Yes, the guy was clearly an idiot. Much smarter: leave your Nike fuelband and your iPhone on your nightside table when you sneak out. Then, when accused of cheating, you can pull down the data from the cloud, and *prove* you were at home sleeping.
Alternately, they could *lease* the car. Then the "sale" is from Tesla Motors to Tesla Finance - and can be done totally in California, since both corporations are in California. The car is owned in California, but driven and garaged in NY/MA.
For most customers in NYC, dealers just across the river in New Jersey are just as convenient anyway. For customers in Boston, New Hampshire is less than an hour's drive. Dealers in those close locations already sell many cars across state lines, and are used to the process. So Tesla could just stop selling cars in NY/MA and lose very few if any customers.
Taking a look around today, there seems to be an awful lot of businesses laying people off after the Obama victory.
Obama would be president today - and for the next two months - even if Mitt Romney had won. So anyone laying off people today is doing it just to make a political statement, not because anything has actually changed.
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The article is flawed - it calls the algorithm least-cost routing. In reality, it is a fixed-maximum-cost routing:
if (cost_per_minute > ARBITRARY_CUTOFF)
drop_call();
Why would anyone, ever, browse the web in "public" mode??? Isn't that like saying "Yes, please track me"?
First thing I do on Firefox is set it to dump all cookies/cache/history/etc/etc every time it closes. 100% on all the time private mode would be just fine, thanks. Unless you *like* big brother watching you.
Which ones? Germany and China? Seriously? Sorry, but no. Both are driven by exports and excess savings,
Exactly. Germany is actually *shrinking* in population, but doing quite well, because their economy is not dependant on population growth.
The US is currently growing at about a 1% rate, and is the fastest growing major country. China and the UK are growing at about a 0.5% rate. Germany and Japan are shrinking in population.
This is a problem with the US economy in general - it is based on growth. Those European/Asian countries that have been around for thousands of years are more stable, and have economies based more on sustainable goods and services. One of the main economic numbers that drives the US stock market is "new housing starts" - a number based solely on having the population continually increasing. Once that slows down - and can't even be propped up by the banks fudging mortgages - the entire country is headed for a depression.
http://www.sonymobile.com/us/products/phones/xperia-active/
Shock resistant, water resistant. (You can't make one truly waterproof without getting rid of things like the USB/charging port and the earphone/mic port).
But - it's one of the poorest selling cell phones out there. So, the market has basically said, we don't want/need a waterproof phone.
Coolness is, by itself, a killer feature.
All Android phones do basically the same thing. Which one sells? The cool one.
Think of a folding partition: as a whole it bends, but it is made up of small non-bending parts.
Flexible PC boards have existed for years, and are inside many consumer devices today - the board as a whole is flexible, the individual chips are not. The chips are small in relation to the board size.
If you run Windows, and buy the Windows version, you still need to do the same steps - to get rid of the bloatware and have a clean Windows install. And in my experience it takes a lot longer to install Windows (and chase down all the drivers) than to install most Linux distros.
Personally I'd buy the Windows one, sell the Windows license for $50, and put on the Dell Ubuntu version. Ends up $50 *cheaper* than the Windows one, $100 less than the official Dell one, even though I end up with the exact same hardware running the exact same software.
on a 13" screen, getting much higher would be useless anyway
1) Come out with a really high resolution display on a small screen - very high pixels-per-inch.
2) Brand name it the "Retina Display"
3) Profit!
Regardless of sobriety, if you kill people while in control of a motor vehicle, expect to be considered for charges.
That is certainly not the case if the person who dies was riding a bicycle. Cyclists are killed daily in the USA, with very very few cases being prosecuted at all.
This. Right now if someone hits and kills a pedestrian, it's called an "accident" and they go free if they're sober - but they go to jail for many years if they had a drink. It doesn't matter that incompetent driving caused the death - the only time a driver is punished appropriately is when they had a drink.
A test for competency would also get a lot of older drivers who cannot drive safely any more off the road.
Signing of apps and signing of drivers is handled by completely different people; I would imagine that signing of boot loaders is another, new group. This may well be their very first submission, so things may not go exactly as planned.
So does that mean that the FSF is going to release a binary without source code? How ironic.
"soon to be available" == vaporware.
Yes, if it ever appears, it might be interesting - but there is no indication that 64 slow cores will beat two fast ones.
What didn't we like about the Mac Mini?
The price.
Unfortunately this Intel box is similarly expensive for what it is.
But it's a phoronix article!! It must be promoted!!
Which would you choose: pretty, but zero available apps; or less elegant, but you can get work done?
It may be "elegant", but I cannot find *ANY* technical advantage this has over some normal, mature Linux distro.
a) the GPL is considered pretty evil by lawyers. If you're trying to develop a commercial product, best make sure it has no GPL code in it.
b) some people hate Richard Stallman even more than they hate Steve Ballmer.
It's much better than ubuntu - with names like "Wanking Warthog", "Horny Heron", and "Onanistic Ocelot", it's no wonder corporations don't take them seriously.
The first thing it does is to tie your online identity to a physical location. (Not sure about MapMyRide - but the (far better) Strava fuzzes your "home" location to help prevent this - but you can still pin down someone's home address within about 1 km. Unless you've chosen a fake name, public property records will give the exact location.
If you've set up your profile with a bike description, and it' s a nice one, now I know you have an expensive bike, and I know your address.
I can also go through your ride history, and see if there's a consistent time when you're not home. People with nice bikes usually have other nice stuff to steal.
Yes, the guy was clearly an idiot. Much smarter: leave your Nike fuelband and your iPhone on your nightside table when you sneak out. Then, when accused of cheating, you can pull down the data from the cloud, and *prove* you were at home sleeping.
Exactly. Anyone who says "both linux and android" has no clear idea of the concept.
OSF zealots correcting things to "GNU/Linux" and "Android/Linux" arriving in 3.....2....1.....
Alternately, they could *lease* the car. Then the "sale" is from Tesla Motors to Tesla Finance - and can be done totally in California, since both corporations are in California. The car is owned in California, but driven and garaged in NY/MA.
For most customers in NYC, dealers just across the river in New Jersey are just as convenient anyway. For customers in Boston, New Hampshire is less than an hour's drive. Dealers in those close locations already sell many cars across state lines, and are used to the process. So Tesla could just stop selling cars in NY/MA and lose very few if any customers.
Taking a look around today, there seems to be an awful lot of businesses laying people off after the Obama victory.
Obama would be president today - and for the next two months - even if Mitt Romney had won. So anyone laying off people today is doing it just to make a political statement, not because anything has actually changed.
I think Zen Magnets (and most of the others) only have silver colored ones. Buckyballs come in many different colors.
And, who doesn't want to have a nice set of blue balls to play with?