My plan if I were emperor: 1. Let engineers determine the capacity of the roads. 2. Auction off only as many road licenses as the roads can handle. 3. Use the auction proceeds to maintain the roads, funneling the rest into public transit.
I've always wondered what the long-term AC method to follow discussions is. Registered users get notified when there is a reply. Do you make a bunch of bookmarks and keep manually checking or something?
I just want to know when the critics here thought that a charitable contribution was ever going to be taxed? If he gave the whole sum to the Gates Foundation, we would never see a dime. In fact, keeping it in an LLC will at least mean that some taxes could happen in the unlikely event that the LLC ever makes a profit.
The man gave $100 million to the Newark School District and you won't give him more than a few days to give away over $40 billion dollars?
Whether he gives away the money directly or does it through an LLC does not have major tax implications. LLC is pass-through. Any money made by an LLC is taxable to the individual who owns it.
It's a pass-through corporation, so any charity work that is done by the company is going to be an awful lot like him doing the work directly. I'm not sure why everyone is hung up on the tax structure of a billionaire's charitable doings - judge him by what he does instead.
Yeah, my very first phone from either '99 or '00 had analog fallback. My wife's phone was cheaper and had digital only. When my phone was in analog mode the battery life was really bad. I actually liked that phone quite a bit - a Sanyo SCP-4000.
Right, I understand that the networks were not finally turned off until 8 years ago, but very few subscribers were still using them at that time. I've personally never owned an analog phone, but the StarTac went digital in 1996 and analog phones steadily fell off the face of the earth. By the time I bought a phone in 1999 or maybe 2000, all of the affordable plans were digital.
AMPS was longer than 10 years ago. Sure, it technically still existed, but it was too expensive for anyone to actually use. Most people were on digital systems by then.
Training for unlikely scenarios is the whole point of having human pilots. If we were willing to accept a crash every time something went wrong, we'd just let the computer run the whole show.
They have nouns and verbs. I'm not well versed in the emoji kung-fu (I'm too old), but I've seen strings on them on Facebook that have meaning. Like a cow followed by a turd. A birthday cake for happy birthday. That sort of thing. The character set is less than 1000 - and as you point out, has a totally different origin. When it hits 8,000 it will be up to a literate Chinese level, 20,000 or so to meet parity.
(I'm not suggesting emoji will ever become a full-blown language. I'm just pointing out that an ad-hoc collection of little glyphs with no alphabet can in fact become one. Dismissing glyphs as "stupid little graphics" is arbitrary since they are clearly filling a communications need.)
Then what non-ridiculous method of conditional access to video would be acceptable to the companies that fund production of feature films?
What makes flash acceptable now? The DRM as a supposed protector of their content?
Challenge: find an example of a show/movie on Netflix that is also not available as a torrent or on usenet DRM free. Anyone willing to "record" Netflix is not going to be terribly bothered by running Popcorn Time.
I think you are stretching. Chinese writing has been around a very long time and has an extensive collection of glyphs. While what you say is true, my basic premise still holds - the concept between Chinese glyphs and emoji is not just similar, but the same. Emojis are just more realistic because they are not limited by writing implements of 3000 years ago, or the need to "write" them at all.
Real-life example: I work with Hong Kong (Cantonese) and Taiwan (Mandarin-ish) Chinese guys. We're all sitting at a restaurant in Taiwan with Koreans. Everyone at the table can speak English except for the Cantonese speakers. The solution? They would write in Chinese, the writing could be read by the Mandarin speakers and then translated to English for everyone else. When we needed to speak to the Hong Kong guys, the process was reversed and they would read the glyphs written by the Taiwanese guys. It kind of blew my mind, that these guys could communicate without speaking a common language - but that's the reality.
Nothing wipes out humiliation of a country that no longer exists like going to the moon 60 years later with a rocket that - still on paper - is 1/6 as capable.
If you ever want to slum it, I've found myself quite happy with Sennheiser CX-150s (2 for $30 special on Newegg). Those are my most expensive set. My others are neon-green Panasonic RPHJE120G, $6 each. When sitting at work listening to music or podcasts, the Sennheisers are slightly better than the cheap Panasonics. When mowing the lawn or working outside, it really doesn't matter except that the seal with the ear needs to be tight.
I'm happy to report that I don't have golden ears:)
Standby time on larger devices will be excellent. There is plenty of room for a battery and the non-screen electronics draw the same amount as the smaller phones. My problem is that I don't like phones with 5" screens, let alone phablets or tablets. I want something that I can stick in my rear jeans pocket and sit on like a wallet.
Needless to say, I haven't spend $700 on headphones if you total up my entire 40 years - and that includes two sets of noise cancelling headphones from when I used to take a lot of long flights. So my headphones are rarely worthy of a new jack. I'll just be happy if the weakest link is moved one step up the chain.
I can't be the only one who has been disappointed for over 30 years by the 3.5mm headphone connector. I think the failure mode for every set of headphones that I've ever had has been the stupid 3.5mm connector (or worse, the socket in the device). I don't have an iPhone, so I don't really have a dog in this fight - but I'll be thrilled if this leads to better connectors for headphones.
You must not use the screen much. It's rated around the same as the iPhone 6. I've yet to find a really high-capacity phone, though "phablets" like yours have a lot more room for battery. So, if you don't use the ginormous, power-draining screen then you will get a lot more time on standby or talk.
Even at $5, it wouldn't supplant the Arduino for projects where using a micro-controller is simpler. If you need the horsepower, then it would be fantastic. But shooting firmware to a micro-controller will always be simpler than setting up a Linux application on a Raspberry Pi.
You are making me restate my point. Yes, you are technically correct. I cannot argue with a single point in your post. Yet, it is pedantic and useless to most people. The camera is doing nothing. If you want to call that "inactive", "standby", or "disabled" or whatever, it is the same thing from a practical standpoint as "off". Rare would be the end user who gives a crap, especially when the product doesn't even make a claim to be "off".
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I directly load programs into memory though the tape-in port by modulating my flatulence into a microphone.
I have no problem with changing my plan over time. I'm a fickle emperor.
My plan if I were emperor:
1. Let engineers determine the capacity of the roads.
2. Auction off only as many road licenses as the roads can handle.
3. Use the auction proceeds to maintain the roads, funneling the rest into public transit.
I've always wondered what the long-term AC method to follow discussions is. Registered users get notified when there is a reply. Do you make a bunch of bookmarks and keep manually checking or something?
I just want to know when the critics here thought that a charitable contribution was ever going to be taxed? If he gave the whole sum to the Gates Foundation, we would never see a dime. In fact, keeping it in an LLC will at least mean that some taxes could happen in the unlikely event that the LLC ever makes a profit.
The man gave $100 million to the Newark School District and you won't give him more than a few days to give away over $40 billion dollars?
Whether he gives away the money directly or does it through an LLC does not have major tax implications. LLC is pass-through. Any money made by an LLC is taxable to the individual who owns it.
It's a pass-through corporation, so any charity work that is done by the company is going to be an awful lot like him doing the work directly. I'm not sure why everyone is hung up on the tax structure of a billionaire's charitable doings - judge him by what he does instead.
Slashdot needs a "like" button.
(And Facebook needs a moderation system)
Yeah, my very first phone from either '99 or '00 had analog fallback. My wife's phone was cheaper and had digital only. When my phone was in analog mode the battery life was really bad. I actually liked that phone quite a bit - a Sanyo SCP-4000.
Right, I understand that the networks were not finally turned off until 8 years ago, but very few subscribers were still using them at that time. I've personally never owned an analog phone, but the StarTac went digital in 1996 and analog phones steadily fell off the face of the earth. By the time I bought a phone in 1999 or maybe 2000, all of the affordable plans were digital.
AMPS was longer than 10 years ago. Sure, it technically still existed, but it was too expensive for anyone to actually use. Most people were on digital systems by then.
Training for unlikely scenarios is the whole point of having human pilots. If we were willing to accept a crash every time something went wrong, we'd just let the computer run the whole show.
They have nouns and verbs. I'm not well versed in the emoji kung-fu (I'm too old), but I've seen strings on them on Facebook that have meaning. Like a cow followed by a turd. A birthday cake for happy birthday. That sort of thing. The character set is less than 1000 - and as you point out, has a totally different origin. When it hits 8,000 it will be up to a literate Chinese level, 20,000 or so to meet parity.
(I'm not suggesting emoji will ever become a full-blown language. I'm just pointing out that an ad-hoc collection of little glyphs with no alphabet can in fact become one. Dismissing glyphs as "stupid little graphics" is arbitrary since they are clearly filling a communications need.)
Then what non-ridiculous method of conditional access to video would be acceptable to the companies that fund production of feature films?
What makes flash acceptable now? The DRM as a supposed protector of their content?
Challenge: find an example of a show/movie on Netflix that is also not available as a torrent or on usenet DRM free. Anyone willing to "record" Netflix is not going to be terribly bothered by running Popcorn Time.
I think you are stretching. Chinese writing has been around a very long time and has an extensive collection of glyphs. While what you say is true, my basic premise still holds - the concept between Chinese glyphs and emoji is not just similar, but the same. Emojis are just more realistic because they are not limited by writing implements of 3000 years ago, or the need to "write" them at all.
Real-life example: I work with Hong Kong (Cantonese) and Taiwan (Mandarin-ish) Chinese guys. We're all sitting at a restaurant in Taiwan with Koreans. Everyone at the table can speak English except for the Cantonese speakers. The solution? They would write in Chinese, the writing could be read by the Mandarin speakers and then translated to English for everyone else. When we needed to speak to the Hong Kong guys, the process was reversed and they would read the glyphs written by the Taiwanese guys. It kind of blew my mind, that these guys could communicate without speaking a common language - but that's the reality.
Nothing wipes out humiliation of a country that no longer exists like going to the moon 60 years later with a rocket that - still on paper - is 1/6 as capable.
Any non-alphabetic language is basically emoji. Think of unicode emojis as a kind of universal Chinese if it makes you feel any better.
If you ever want to slum it, I've found myself quite happy with Sennheiser CX-150s (2 for $30 special on Newegg). Those are my most expensive set. My others are neon-green Panasonic RPHJE120G, $6 each. When sitting at work listening to music or podcasts, the Sennheisers are slightly better than the cheap Panasonics. When mowing the lawn or working outside, it really doesn't matter except that the seal with the ear needs to be tight.
I'm happy to report that I don't have golden ears :)
Standby time on larger devices will be excellent. There is plenty of room for a battery and the non-screen electronics draw the same amount as the smaller phones. My problem is that I don't like phones with 5" screens, let alone phablets or tablets. I want something that I can stick in my rear jeans pocket and sit on like a wallet.
You don't think they'll adopt the new USB connector?
Needless to say, I haven't spend $700 on headphones if you total up my entire 40 years - and that includes two sets of noise cancelling headphones from when I used to take a lot of long flights. So my headphones are rarely worthy of a new jack. I'll just be happy if the weakest link is moved one step up the chain.
I can't be the only one who has been disappointed for over 30 years by the 3.5mm headphone connector. I think the failure mode for every set of headphones that I've ever had has been the stupid 3.5mm connector (or worse, the socket in the device). I don't have an iPhone, so I don't really have a dog in this fight - but I'll be thrilled if this leads to better connectors for headphones.
You must not use the screen much. It's rated around the same as the iPhone 6. I've yet to find a really high-capacity phone, though "phablets" like yours have a lot more room for battery. So, if you don't use the ginormous, power-draining screen then you will get a lot more time on standby or talk.
Even at $5, it wouldn't supplant the Arduino for projects where using a micro-controller is simpler. If you need the horsepower, then it would be fantastic. But shooting firmware to a micro-controller will always be simpler than setting up a Linux application on a Raspberry Pi.
You are making me restate my point. Yes, you are technically correct. I cannot argue with a single point in your post. Yet, it is pedantic and useless to most people. The camera is doing nothing. If you want to call that "inactive", "standby", or "disabled" or whatever, it is the same thing from a practical standpoint as "off". Rare would be the end user who gives a crap, especially when the product doesn't even make a claim to be "off".