Maybe some people working for Boeing. I've never once heard anyone use that term in my life.
Agreed. Most people who like airplanes seem to try to experience everything - even the "scary" planes like the old Soviet stuff. I've never met anyone who wouldn't travel on an Airbus. Most people don't have any idea what they are traveling on - it's a tube with wings. My wife doesn't even notice when we get on something obviously weird, like a high-winged BAe jet. I think the only comment I've ever heard he make was when we went on a turbo-prop plane and she did notice that it wasn't a jet.
I have to say that I am consistently amazed how many people are not familiar with the Airbus condensation thing that happens when "smoke" comes out of the air vents. It happens almost every time. I guess I used to fly a lot.
The upstairs cabin is very quiet, and thus reserved for business or first class:). Unfortunately my only experience up there was somewhat marred by flying through a typhoon, so it was a tad bumpy! Almost found out what that baggie in the seat pocket is for.
What? I watched the once-a-week flight into New York from my home at the Jersey Shore. It didn't do well because it was expensive to operate, and it had to slow down over land.
Email is a plaintext protocol where, by definition, at least two copies exist of every email. Why in the world would anyone expect email to remain private, with or without GMail?
I have the LTE version of the Moto G (as does my wife). Great phone, great price. I'm under no delusion that it is an iPhone (or other high-end phone), however. I make my wife take pictures with her work iPhone because the camera is so much better. I just can't justify shelling out $600 for a stupid toy that I'll break in a year or two.
The iPhone is built in China - they can pretty much charge the same amount in yuan because the cost to build them will not go up. The absolute number of dollars that they make in profit from China might go down a few percent, but even then only if you assume that the market has stopped growing. Also, any loss of dollar profit in China can be made up for by lower production costs for sales in other countries.
Finally, Apple does not appear to chase market share - they appear to chase profit share. Apple and Apple developers still rule this metric. If a competitor wants to knock itself out chasing the 4% margin low-end business, Apple is willing to let them do that. Only if the high-end market goes away is Apple in trouble.
To be fair, an e-reader lasts weeks on a charge. I very rarely (maybe never?) charge my old Kindle while on vacation - it certainly won't run out on the plane.
Russian reactors didn't just have "plenty of skeptics"... if you read that article, they found it impossible to export their designs - even to some "Eastern Bloc" countries - because of the almost universal perception that they lacked safety. The article was written because they were finally building a PWR with containment.... their very first!
Yikes! The problem with that design (among others, I'm sure) is that a "fusion" bomb is actually a fission bomb that sparks a fusion bomb. That would make things a bit messy.
I deliberately went for the conspiracy tone, so understandable. Irony in writing is tough and I'm no good at it. In real life I'd sound like the comic book guy.
That's probably true, given the mercury and radioactivity released by coal. And that's modern "clean" coal - in the past many have died from good old fashioned air pollution, without even getting into acid rain.
No, I was not crapping on public schools. I send my own kids to public schools. Good, diverse, schools in a first-ring suburb.
Right across the border, the funding level is several thousand dollars less per year. Not that it matters, because funding there doubled over 10 years and outcomes did not change. It's a mix of funding, corruption, sheer incompetency, and a very difficult student population. Rural schools have similar challenges. I'm not sure how we stratified into "pro" and "con" public school camps. I don't fall into either. I think it is self-evident that we need public schools to have a workable democracy. I think that relying on property taxes has led to uneven funding that is bad on even a pragmatic level. But I'm also not going to drink the Koolaid and say that the people running the show necessarily know what they are doing. Even in "good" districts, I think that much of the reason for the good performance is an easy student population. There need to be major reforms: funding and in how the schools are run and staffed. We also need to attack the source of the difficult student populations.
QNX, at least when I used it 10 years ago, is a real-time unix-like OS. It runs basically no services by default... it is as bare-bones as it gets. We used it to control a vision system. You CAN load it up with as much extra gunk as you like - even X11. It is possible that the flaw was in a Blackberry-supplied component - but the OS itself is whatever you want to make it.
I don't think our education system is a laughingstock - people fall all over themselves to attend school here. Our crappy urban and rural public schools are the laughingstock.
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If this is true, then we should call the fire department and have his books burned right away.
They'd have to also fix the crappy Wifi in the cheap client device.
What is this "voice call" you speak of?
Maybe some people working for Boeing. I've never once heard anyone use that term in my life.
Agreed. Most people who like airplanes seem to try to experience everything - even the "scary" planes like the old Soviet stuff. I've never met anyone who wouldn't travel on an Airbus. Most people don't have any idea what they are traveling on - it's a tube with wings. My wife doesn't even notice when we get on something obviously weird, like a high-winged BAe jet. I think the only comment I've ever heard he make was when we went on a turbo-prop plane and she did notice that it wasn't a jet.
I have to say that I am consistently amazed how many people are not familiar with the Airbus condensation thing that happens when "smoke" comes out of the air vents. It happens almost every time. I guess I used to fly a lot.
The upstairs cabin is very quiet, and thus reserved for business or first class :). Unfortunately my only experience up there was somewhat marred by flying through a typhoon, so it was a tad bumpy! Almost found out what that baggie in the seat pocket is for.
What? I watched the once-a-week flight into New York from my home at the Jersey Shore. It didn't do well because it was expensive to operate, and it had to slow down over land.
Free as in beer or free as in open sores?
Email is a plaintext protocol where, by definition, at least two copies exist of every email. Why in the world would anyone expect email to remain private, with or without GMail?
I have the LTE version of the Moto G (as does my wife). Great phone, great price. I'm under no delusion that it is an iPhone (or other high-end phone), however. I make my wife take pictures with her work iPhone because the camera is so much better. I just can't justify shelling out $600 for a stupid toy that I'll break in a year or two.
The iPhone is built in China - they can pretty much charge the same amount in yuan because the cost to build them will not go up. The absolute number of dollars that they make in profit from China might go down a few percent, but even then only if you assume that the market has stopped growing. Also, any loss of dollar profit in China can be made up for by lower production costs for sales in other countries.
Finally, Apple does not appear to chase market share - they appear to chase profit share. Apple and Apple developers still rule this metric. If a competitor wants to knock itself out chasing the 4% margin low-end business, Apple is willing to let them do that. Only if the high-end market goes away is Apple in trouble.
If you want to read at the beach or at the pool, it's the only game in town.
To be fair, an e-reader lasts weeks on a charge. I very rarely (maybe never?) charge my old Kindle while on vacation - it certainly won't run out on the plane.
Russian reactors didn't just have "plenty of skeptics"... if you read that article, they found it impossible to export their designs - even to some "Eastern Bloc" countries - because of the almost universal perception that they lacked safety. The article was written because they were finally building a PWR with containment.... their very first!
Yikes! The problem with that design (among others, I'm sure) is that a "fusion" bomb is actually a fission bomb that sparks a fusion bomb. That would make things a bit messy.
I deliberately went for the conspiracy tone, so understandable. Irony in writing is tough and I'm no good at it. In real life I'd sound like the comic book guy.
My comment was meant to be ironic. Sorry for the confusion.
That's probably true, given the mercury and radioactivity released by coal. And that's modern "clean" coal - in the past many have died from good old fashioned air pollution, without even getting into acid rain.
RBMK (Chernobyl) reactors also were advertised as absolutely fail-safe in their time.
I'm not sure that marketing was really considered credible. Here is a Washington Post artcle from 1978 that has a very skeptical tone regarding Soviet "safety".
The military has been using it for years.
Maybe, in honor of the anniversary, he is including the atom bombs?
No, I was not crapping on public schools. I send my own kids to public schools. Good, diverse, schools in a first-ring suburb.
Right across the border, the funding level is several thousand dollars less per year. Not that it matters, because funding there doubled over 10 years and outcomes did not change. It's a mix of funding, corruption, sheer incompetency, and a very difficult student population. Rural schools have similar challenges. I'm not sure how we stratified into "pro" and "con" public school camps. I don't fall into either. I think it is self-evident that we need public schools to have a workable democracy. I think that relying on property taxes has led to uneven funding that is bad on even a pragmatic level. But I'm also not going to drink the Koolaid and say that the people running the show necessarily know what they are doing. Even in "good" districts, I think that much of the reason for the good performance is an easy student population. There need to be major reforms: funding and in how the schools are run and staffed. We also need to attack the source of the difficult student populations.
QNX, at least when I used it 10 years ago, is a real-time unix-like OS. It runs basically no services by default... it is as bare-bones as it gets. We used it to control a vision system. You CAN load it up with as much extra gunk as you like - even X11. It is possible that the flaw was in a Blackberry-supplied component - but the OS itself is whatever you want to make it.
I don't think our education system is a laughingstock - people fall all over themselves to attend school here. Our crappy urban and rural public schools are the laughingstock.
"Mäenranta is not worried about this being a violation of privacy, since people are already willingly tracked with smartphones, Google or Facebook."
Slippery slope, indeed.
Still, I'd argue that Google does not (yet) have the monopoly on legal use of force on their side.
Seems a lot like OS/2.