from the chevy web site:
Volt is unique among electric vehicles because you have two sources of energy. You have an electric source–a battery–that allows you to drive gas–free for an EPA–estimated 35 miles. And there's also an onboard gas generator that produces electricity so you can go up to a total of 375 miles on a full tank of gas
It's 20+ miles each way to work, and I can go 360 miles on a tank in my 7 year old hyundai.
With your 40 mile round-trip to work, you'd use 5 miles worth of gas in a Volt daily, and with a 375 mile gas tank that means you'd fill up every 75 days, or about 5 times a year.
so if a solar pancake works, with the down facing solar panels and everything, what about stacking several cubes at their corners, like several of these on top of each other? That way you don't have sections that are not facing sunlight like you do with the MIT solar pancake design since there's no solar panels on the side of the structure, with a cube balanced on a tip you'd have a sun facing panel at all times. Set-up would be a breeze too since you don't have to face it towards the sun like the MIT design.
...what Minecraft is, can someone explain why that calc is an accomplishment?
What's the difficulty of doing something like that? What elements do you have available? Do you have logic-gates, math functions, full-blown scripting, or what?
basically, it's a primitive PC, using blocks that move to perform calculations.
Think of a calculator, and when you click 2 + 4 that 2 button is connected to a box that has 2 blocks in it that fall and when you click the 4 button another 4 blocks fall from another box. The + then puts those 6 blocks together in a box, and then.... erhm, magic happens, and something figures out the total is 6 and displays a 6 on the screen.
You could do this in real life with enough blocks and something the size of a skyscraper to do the calculations.
I'm not looking to replace my entire library of DVD with Blu Ray, since I have literally hundreds of DVDs. But some movies which I really like I've re-invested in them because seeing them in full HD is worth it if I can find the disk on sale.
Doesn't matter, lowering the price is a stop-gap to what's inevitable. The consumers will get what they want whether the movie industry likes it or not.
Fast forward, and the movie industry is on the exact same path of destruction as the music industry. Doesn't anyone learn? Look, you can try and sell blu-ray discs for $20+ a pop, but that's just going to drive more people to streaming. Give us $5 BD and start a universal streaming service and make money again or someone else will and they'll take your money. It's your choice, but in the end we will have a streaming movie service and we won't be paying $20+ for discs just like no one buys $15 CDs anymore.
I can't help but feel like this article is just designed to put the idea into millions of readers' heads that you can go into a casino with a strategy or method or system and take home millions at the blackjack table.
It might help if you read the article, then you'd lose that feeling.
I think this is the only quote I needed to lose the feeling of heading to a blackjack table to be a millionaire: "He had to pony up $1 million of his own money to start, but, as he would say later: “You’d never lose the million. If you got to [$500,000 in losses], you would stop and take your 20 percent discount. You’d owe them only $400,000.” "
So he was already a millionaire... actually, multi-millionaire, because he had one million to just hand to the casino to play a game.
The whole article they make him sound like Joe the Plumber that just played one day and won millions. Nothing could be further from the truth, this guy reaches in his pocket and hands out a million dollars to play a game.
At any rate, the teacher should be reinstated and the damned administrators should be fired.
Naw, I'm pretty sure it went like this:
Parent: This book is pornographic and the teacher is reading it to my 14 yr old! Superintendent: Ender's Game? (thinking: I haven't read that) What parts are pornographic? (read: take quotes out of context and make them sound bad) Parent: (thinking: shit! I haven't read it either! I just hate that teacher!).... um.... (quickly googles ender's game pornographic).... See! It's right there, at the top of google! Ender's Game is pornographic! Superintendent: OH! Well! That changes everything! I will definitely fire that teacher!.... by the way, are you voting for Santorum? Google "Santorum" and let's see what comes up....
I want to set up a business card with one of those digicodes on the back that can be scanned by a smartphone, such as appear on YouTube VEVO broadcasts.
Realistically, business cards are for giving people your contact info, and nothing more. I never give business cards to people who already have my contact info, but they're invaluable for shows and conferences where they don't have your contact info.
Plus they're handy for dropping in to those "win a meal" restaurant promotion draws.:)
Business cards are about as useful as books or magazines: they're instantly available, need no electricity, can be passed from person to person, etc. You can run into someone in an elevator and during your 20 second pitch hand them a card. Not everyone's going to say "Oh let me get out my smartphone and start the QR code app and scan the QR code, etc". Maybe they don't have time for you. Maybe they're already using their phone (very likely). Maybe they only half heard you because they have something else on their mind. Whatever the reason, business cards are useful.
I still have IT internet-savvy entrepreneur.com types ask for business cards. They're not dead.
Usually I hang on to cards I'm handed until I have a few seconds to scan the QR code. If there isn't a code I take a photo of the card with the smartphone and toss the card.
I have to agree. The real potential damage by Netflix is so small, suing them makes little sense to begin with. That said, I find it amusing that they mention in the TOS that you can sue in small claims. A torrent of those could do a lot of damage, and would be difficult to defend. (Insufficient legal resources) Probably what the AT&T guy was going for.
I saw that. Small claims goes to 3 or 5 grand depending on the state. Netflix is what, about $10 a month? What could possible happen that I would need to sue for more than $3,000? "OH NOES TOy SToRy Z GON iz sue 4 10000000000!!!"
Yeah, I forgot that a random slashdotter and a Wired reporter represented a more objective and thoroughly-demonstrated truth than a public trial. My bad.
Yeah, we've never had examples of bad verdicts. Never ever. Perfect justice system is what the US has.
Real nice...your comments here were almost as offensive as the OP suggesting to use a gun to recover an iPad.
What's the alternative?
Citizen: Help, Police! That man stole my (VALUABLE_ITEM)
Police: What seems to be the trouble?
Citizen: He stole my (VALUABLE_ITEM)
Police: Oh? And you know this?
Citizen: Yes, I know for a fact he stole my (VALUABLE_ITEM)
Police: Sorry, we can't help you
Citizen: What? Why?
Police: There isn't sufficient evidence he stole your (VALUABLE_ITEM)
Citizen: Ok.... well, what can I do? He stole my (VALUABLE_ITEM)!!
Police: Nothing can be done, just go home, your (VALUABLE_ITEM) is gone and even though you know who stole it there is nothing that can be done to recover it.
He tried to do things the proper way, but when the police won't help you what can you do? Break in yourself? Steal it back? Can you get arrested for stealing something you own?
This story makes no sense, there must be more to it that's been lost in translation.
Facebook.... well, Mark Zuckerberg, kind of deserves this. It's well known he stole Facebook from several people. Sure he wrote the code, but he was paid to write Facebook. Yes I know Paul and the twins ended up losing their lawsuit, but just because they couldn't afford to fight a billion-dollar legal team doesn't mean they're wrong.
Is Yahoo's lawsuits just karma catching up with Mark?
"My issue is that these registries are run by private corporations with a financial incentive to be able to harvest people's organs and there aren't enough regulations in place. I would be willing to donate if it didn't involve money and I knew my rights would be protected. "
This. It is profitable to the deciding party to declare you dead. That's why I will never be a organ donor. They take your organ and sell it for $500,000+ and give your family nothing. How is this even still going on? You think you're saving people's lives when really you're giving doctors and hospital administrators Porsches.
Same with blood: they take your blood, give you a cookie and a sticker saying "I gave blood today", and sell that pint for $300+.
This is also why there's not as much research as there could be in artificial blood or organs, because people keep giving their blood and organs away for free. Why invent something new when you get the originals for free?
I find it funny coming from the side that had iPhone 3G supported a mere 6 months after last production stopped. Apple is not the ideal here, neither do I give out any praise in the Android manufacturer area.
PS: It's actually ODMs obligation to keep the functionality at least at the same level.
You mean the 3G from 2008? Wow! A 2008 phone can't run the latest and greatest? Thats completely unacceptable, good thing every Android phone from 2008 can run ICS.
I'm surprised the 2009 3GS can run the latest iOS, you won't find many android phones from 2009 doing that... or 2010... or 2011... or... I give up, only real feature Android offers over iOS is the ability for its owners to bash iPhone owners every chance they get.
Agreed. I'm still on my old 3GS and was worried about ios5. I'm eligible for an upgrade but the 4s just doesn't offer enough to want to upgrade and the 3gs runs ios5 rather well. The 4s really needed 4g to be worth upgrading to, hopefully the 5 will follow the iPad 3 and offer 4g.
Frankly, I am sick and tired of these integrated GPUs. The theory is that its a cost saver, but since I just put in a dedicated graphics card it ends up being a cost with no benefit. Ah well.
So sure, it's not better than a $200 dedicated card, but it's far better than what integrated cards use to be like. Integrated will never be faster than dedicated, but if I can get about 50% of the performance from integrated then that's reasonable until I have an extra $200 for a "real" video card.
I remember that when I lived in France, I wanted to get a loan for a car and the guy in the shop asked me how much money I made and how much rent I paid per month, and if I had any other fix expenses. He later told me that the French law forbids banks to give you any loan which will make you get into a situation of paying more than 33% of your salary for loans+rent. So if you earn 3000â a month and pay 500â rent you will only get a loan which has a maximum repayment of 500â per month.
It's the exact same in the US, there's still a debt-to-income ratio of 50%, difference is people were lying on their mortgage paperwork saying they were making far more than they were and banks were not checking on it. Sometimes the loan officer would tell them to put down higher than they were really making, but the buyers still put down a number they knew wasn't true.
I was a loan officer until 2006, that's how I know. After the market fell I went back to IT, but it was fun while it lasted, made a lot of money fast and I was my own boss, now I'm back 9 to 5 in a cubical on a timeframe:(
Of course the user base for star chamber is dwindling. There hasn't been an expansion since 2007. Collectible games need expansions to survive. Otherwise people get bored and move on.
Sony Online Entertainment. Where games go to die.
Doesn't have to be that way, has Sony even looked for a new buyer? Perhaps one of the players might even be interested in paying for the game and taking over, any alternative has got to be better than "Sony To Delete Virtual Goods".
Obviously someone is concerned enough over this to have the story posted on/.
This story concerns me because I still regularly play Supreme Commander which was released in 2007. Fortunately it doesn't require an internet server to play, but what if it did, and they decided to disconnect it, saying "Well, it is from 2007"?
The most important part of your link: "With more than a 100-year supply of natural gas in the United States and an average price per gasoline gallon equivalent of $1.00 to $2.00, the fuel is plentiful, affordable and domestic. "
Plus it probably fills with natural gas as fast if not faster than using gasoline, compared to a electric car that takes hours, and I can fill it up at home, in my garage, I'd never have to go to a gas station again.
Drones I can understand, they're primarily detailed to doing surveillance or limited to small munitions, but now we're talking about a full bomber that could be remote controlled? Seriously? There's nothing that can't be hacked! If it's controllable by something outside of the craft itself, it is vulnerable to hacking! Oh let's give enemies the opportunity to hack our BOMBERS, with a Nuclear option no less!
They should just put a little studio apartment in the drone bomber and let the guy live there a few weeks at a time. Fly it from the ground and if something goes wrong he can take over.... actually that's not a bad idea, he can nap on the plane while someone else flies from the ground. Huh, I started this as a joke but why not? "Radio Control this is Alpha Drone, I'm gonna play some PS3 you guys got this for awhile?"
Most Americans surf while watching TV. For those that have "cut the cord" and stream or download all of their media it's only natural that they use a laptop or tablet to find new content and display it on the larger screen.
We cut the cord several years ago, and since streaming media offers few commercials we're not well informed when it comes to new movies or TV series. We'll often use our laptops or tablet (HP Touchpad) while watching TV and come across a movie or new series that looks interesting and start streaming it to the TV through a HTPC. It makes sense that eventually we won't need a HTPC and everything will be sent through the tablet.
Inflate the share price, and buy out companies by swapping shares. No cash needed.
With a PE ratio of 1000+ LNKD does not worth the current valuation.
Coupled with my experience that only 1 out of 10 of my friends have account there, on average.
This. I've had a LinkedIn account for... oh, at least 5 years, and what have I gotten from it? Spam and... spam, and more spam. All my info's up there and everything, have linked coworkers, employees, etc, but not one offer in IT.
Honestly I've done better finding jobs by asking around on Facebook. Seriously Facebook should start a "seeking job" section or something, since everyone's already on there.
Also none of the people I've hired have come from LinkedIn.
...they removed the drive from the PSP. After spending considerable $$$ on games on those tiny disks, they made them unreadable and unplayable on their new hotness... and that was the end of my relationship with them.
Any console manufacturer that tosses compatibility in the trash is saying "hey, feel absolutely free to take a look at all the competition and see if there's something better!" at the very same time you're steaming mad at them for turning your investment into a waste.
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from the chevy web site: Volt is unique among electric vehicles because you have two sources of energy. You have an electric source–a battery–that allows you to drive gas–free for an EPA–estimated 35 miles. And there's also an onboard gas generator that produces electricity so you can go up to a total of 375 miles on a full tank of gas
It's 20+ miles each way to work, and I can go 360 miles on a tank in my 7 year old hyundai.
35 miles on battery, with gasoline to get you the rest of the way with a Volt, vs 50 miles on battery in Nissan Leaf before you're stranded.
With your 40 mile round-trip to work, you'd use 5 miles worth of gas in a Volt daily, and with a 375 mile gas tank that means you'd fill up every 75 days, or about 5 times a year.
Think I'd just fill up 5 times a year myself.
Picture available here. It's a solar pancake!
so if a solar pancake works, with the down facing solar panels and everything, what about stacking several cubes at their corners, like several of these on top of each other? That way you don't have sections that are not facing sunlight like you do with the MIT solar pancake design since there's no solar panels on the side of the structure, with a cube balanced on a tip you'd have a sun facing panel at all times. Set-up would be a breeze too since you don't have to face it towards the sun like the MIT design.
...what Minecraft is, can someone explain why that calc is an accomplishment? What's the difficulty of doing something like that? What elements do you have available? Do you have logic-gates, math functions, full-blown scripting, or what?
basically, it's a primitive PC, using blocks that move to perform calculations.
Think of a calculator, and when you click 2 + 4 that 2 button is connected to a box that has 2 blocks in it that fall and when you click the 4 button another 4 blocks fall from another box. The + then puts those 6 blocks together in a box, and then.... erhm, magic happens, and something figures out the total is 6 and displays a 6 on the screen.
You could do this in real life with enough blocks and something the size of a skyscraper to do the calculations.
I'm not looking to replace my entire library of DVD with Blu Ray, since I have literally hundreds of DVDs. But some movies which I really like I've re-invested in them because seeing them in full HD is worth it if I can find the disk on sale.
Doesn't matter, lowering the price is a stop-gap to what's inevitable. The consumers will get what they want whether the movie industry likes it or not.
Music industry fought mp3, suing everyone, until Apple came in and cleaned their clock. Now instead of $15 CDs we buy songs for $1 and the music industry does whatever Apple says because Apple sells more music than Walmart. Had the music industry stopped suing their customers and start selling to their customers they would be the ones with $100 billion instead of Apple.
Fast forward, and the movie industry is on the exact same path of destruction as the music industry. Doesn't anyone learn? Look, you can try and sell blu-ray discs for $20+ a pop, but that's just going to drive more people to streaming. Give us $5 BD and start a universal streaming service and make money again or someone else will and they'll take your money. It's your choice, but in the end we will have a streaming movie service and we won't be paying $20+ for discs just like no one buys $15 CDs anymore.
Resistance is futile. We are your consumers.
I can't help but feel like this article is just designed to put the idea into millions of readers' heads that you can go into a casino with a strategy or method or system and take home millions at the blackjack table.
It might help if you read the article, then you'd lose that feeling.
I think this is the only quote I needed to lose the feeling of heading to a blackjack table to be a millionaire:
"He had to pony up $1 million of his own money to start, but, as he would say later: “You’d never lose the million. If you got to [$500,000 in losses], you would stop and take your 20 percent discount. You’d owe them only $400,000.” "
So he was already a millionaire... actually, multi-millionaire, because he had one million to just hand to the casino to play a game.
The whole article they make him sound like Joe the Plumber that just played one day and won millions. Nothing could be further from the truth, this guy reaches in his pocket and hands out a million dollars to play a game.
At any rate, the teacher should be reinstated and the damned administrators should be fired.
Naw, I'm pretty sure it went like this:
.... um.... (quickly googles ender's game pornographic) .... See! It's right there, at the top of google! Ender's Game is pornographic! .... by the way, are you voting for Santorum? Google "Santorum" and let's see what comes up....
Parent: This book is pornographic and the teacher is reading it to my 14 yr old!
Superintendent: Ender's Game? (thinking: I haven't read that) What parts are pornographic? (read: take quotes out of context and make them sound bad)
Parent: (thinking: shit! I haven't read it either! I just hate that teacher!)
Superintendent: OH! Well! That changes everything! I will definitely fire that teacher!
I want to set up a business card with one of those digicodes on the back that can be scanned by a smartphone, such as appear on YouTube VEVO broadcasts.
Realistically, business cards are for giving people your contact info, and nothing more. I never give business cards to people who already have my contact info, but they're invaluable for shows and conferences where they don't have your contact info.
Plus they're handy for dropping in to those "win a meal" restaurant promotion draws. :)
Business cards are about as useful as books or magazines: they're instantly available, need no electricity, can be passed from person to person, etc. You can run into someone in an elevator and during your 20 second pitch hand them a card. Not everyone's going to say "Oh let me get out my smartphone and start the QR code app and scan the QR code, etc". Maybe they don't have time for you. Maybe they're already using their phone (very likely). Maybe they only half heard you because they have something else on their mind. Whatever the reason, business cards are useful.
.com types ask for business cards. They're not dead.
I still have IT internet-savvy entrepreneur
Usually I hang on to cards I'm handed until I have a few seconds to scan the QR code. If there isn't a code I take a photo of the card with the smartphone and toss the card.
But thank you for this article, reminded me I should see if there's "an app for that", some sort of app that can scan a business card and add them to my contacts. Quick google search lead me to this page with the top 10 iPhone business card scanning apps available. I'll try some of the free versions and see which works best.
I have to agree. The real potential damage by Netflix is so small, suing them makes little sense to begin with. That said, I find it amusing that they mention in the TOS that you can sue in small claims. A torrent of those could do a lot of damage, and would be difficult to defend. (Insufficient legal resources) Probably what the AT&T guy was going for.
I saw that. Small claims goes to 3 or 5 grand depending on the state. Netflix is what, about $10 a month? What could possible happen that I would need to sue for more than $3,000? "OH NOES TOy SToRy Z GON iz sue 4 10000000000!!!"
His name is known to millions of struggling female math students around the world.
suppose that's why I've never heard of him, let me find a struggling female student and ask her....
Yeah, I forgot that a random slashdotter and a Wired reporter represented a more objective and thoroughly-demonstrated truth than a public trial. My bad.
Yeah, we've never had examples of bad verdicts. Never ever. Perfect justice system is what the US has.
Real nice...your comments here were almost as offensive as the OP suggesting to use a gun to recover an iPad.
What's the alternative?
Citizen: Help, Police! That man stole my (VALUABLE_ITEM)
Police: What seems to be the trouble?
Citizen: He stole my (VALUABLE_ITEM)
Police: Oh? And you know this?
Citizen: Yes, I know for a fact he stole my (VALUABLE_ITEM)
Police: Sorry, we can't help you
Citizen: What? Why?
Police: There isn't sufficient evidence he stole your (VALUABLE_ITEM)
Citizen: Ok.... well, what can I do? He stole my (VALUABLE_ITEM)!!
Police: Nothing can be done, just go home, your (VALUABLE_ITEM) is gone and even though you know who stole it there is nothing that can be done to recover it.
He tried to do things the proper way, but when the police won't help you what can you do? Break in yourself? Steal it back? Can you get arrested for stealing something you own?
This story makes no sense, there must be more to it that's been lost in translation.
Facebook.... well, Mark Zuckerberg, kind of deserves this. It's well known he stole Facebook from several people. Sure he wrote the code, but he was paid to write Facebook. Yes I know Paul and the twins ended up losing their lawsuit, but just because they couldn't afford to fight a billion-dollar legal team doesn't mean they're wrong.
Is Yahoo's lawsuits just karma catching up with Mark?
"My issue is that these registries are run by private corporations with a financial incentive to be able to harvest people's organs and there aren't enough regulations in place. I would be willing to donate if it didn't involve money and I knew my rights would be protected. "
This. It is profitable to the deciding party to declare you dead. That's why I will never be a organ donor. They take your organ and sell it for $500,000+ and give your family nothing. How is this even still going on? You think you're saving people's lives when really you're giving doctors and hospital administrators Porsches.
Same with blood: they take your blood, give you a cookie and a sticker saying "I gave blood today", and sell that pint for $300+.
This is also why there's not as much research as there could be in artificial blood or organs, because people keep giving their blood and organs away for free. Why invent something new when you get the originals for free?
I find it funny coming from the side that had iPhone 3G supported a mere 6 months after last production stopped. Apple is not the ideal here, neither do I give out any praise in the Android manufacturer area. PS: It's actually ODMs obligation to keep the functionality at least at the same level.
You mean the 3G from 2008? Wow! A 2008 phone can't run the latest and greatest? Thats completely unacceptable, good thing every Android phone from 2008 can run ICS.
I'm surprised the 2009 3GS can run the latest iOS, you won't find many android phones from 2009 doing that... or 2010... or 2011... or... I give up, only real feature Android offers over iOS is the ability for its owners to bash iPhone owners every chance they get.
Agreed. I'm still on my old 3GS and was worried about ios5. I'm eligible for an upgrade but the 4s just doesn't offer enough to want to upgrade and the 3gs runs ios5 rather well. The 4s really needed 4g to be worth upgrading to, hopefully the 5 will follow the iPad 3 and offer 4g.
Frankly, I am sick and tired of these integrated GPUs. The theory is that its a cost saver, but since I just put in a dedicated graphics card it ends up being a cost with no benefit. Ah well.
According to this review, the AMD A8-3850 is 50% faster than the ~$50 Radeon 6450, but 50% slower than the ~$75 Radeon 6670.
So sure, it's not better than a $200 dedicated card, but it's far better than what integrated cards use to be like. Integrated will never be faster than dedicated, but if I can get about 50% of the performance from integrated then that's reasonable until I have an extra $200 for a "real" video card.
I remember that when I lived in France, I wanted to get a loan for a car and the guy in the shop asked me how much money I made and how much rent I paid per month, and if I had any other fix expenses. He later told me that the French law forbids banks to give you any loan which will make you get into a situation of paying more than 33% of your salary for loans+rent. So if you earn 3000â a month and pay 500â rent you will only get a loan which has a maximum repayment of 500â per month.
It's the exact same in the US, there's still a debt-to-income ratio of 50%, difference is people were lying on their mortgage paperwork saying they were making far more than they were and banks were not checking on it. Sometimes the loan officer would tell them to put down higher than they were really making, but the buyers still put down a number they knew wasn't true.
:(
I was a loan officer until 2006, that's how I know. After the market fell I went back to IT, but it was fun while it lasted, made a lot of money fast and I was my own boss, now I'm back 9 to 5 in a cubical on a timeframe
Of course the user base for star chamber is dwindling. There hasn't been an expansion since 2007. Collectible games need expansions to survive. Otherwise people get bored and move on.
Sony Online Entertainment. Where games go to die.
Doesn't have to be that way, has Sony even looked for a new buyer? Perhaps one of the players might even be interested in paying for the game and taking over, any alternative has got to be better than "Sony To Delete Virtual Goods".
/.
Obviously someone is concerned enough over this to have the story posted on
This story concerns me because I still regularly play Supreme Commander which was released in 2007. Fortunately it doesn't require an internet server to play, but what if it did, and they decided to disconnect it, saying "Well, it is from 2007"?
That's arithmetic not math!
That's akin to saying "That's physics not science!"
"Mathematics can, broadly speaking, be subdivided into the study of quantity, structure, space, and change (i.e. arithmetic, algebra, geometry, and analysis)."
So yes, arithmetic is math
The most important part of your link:
"With more than a 100-year supply of natural gas in the United States and an average price per gasoline gallon equivalent of $1.00 to $2.00, the fuel is plentiful, affordable and domestic. "
$1 per gallon vs almost $4? This natural gas Honda travels 25 miles on $1.47 worth of natural gas:
"estimated fuel cost for this vehicle to drive 25 miles for a combination of city and highway driving is $1.47 using CNG."
Plus it probably fills with natural gas as fast if not faster than using gasoline, compared to a electric car that takes hours, and I can fill it up at home, in my garage, I'd never have to go to a gas station again.
Where do I sign up?
If you need "a physical element to playing the game" there's already a physical board game with birds and a catapult and plastic wood you make structures out of.
Drones I can understand, they're primarily detailed to doing surveillance or limited to small munitions, but now we're talking about a full bomber that could be remote controlled? Seriously? There's nothing that can't be hacked! If it's controllable by something outside of the craft itself, it is vulnerable to hacking! Oh let's give enemies the opportunity to hack our BOMBERS, with a Nuclear option no less!
They should just put a little studio apartment in the drone bomber and let the guy live there a few weeks at a time. Fly it from the ground and if something goes wrong he can take over.... actually that's not a bad idea, he can nap on the plane while someone else flies from the ground. Huh, I started this as a joke but why not? "Radio Control this is Alpha Drone, I'm gonna play some PS3 you guys got this for awhile?"
I think we're already there.
Most Americans surf while watching TV. For those that have "cut the cord" and stream or download all of their media it's only natural that they use a laptop or tablet to find new content and display it on the larger screen.
We cut the cord several years ago, and since streaming media offers few commercials we're not well informed when it comes to new movies or TV series. We'll often use our laptops or tablet (HP Touchpad) while watching TV and come across a movie or new series that looks interesting and start streaming it to the TV through a HTPC. It makes sense that eventually we won't need a HTPC and everything will be sent through the tablet.
Inflate the share price, and buy out companies by swapping shares. No cash needed.
With a PE ratio of 1000+ LNKD does not worth the current valuation.
Coupled with my experience that only 1 out of 10 of my friends have account there, on average.
This. I've had a LinkedIn account for... oh, at least 5 years, and what have I gotten from it? Spam and... spam, and more spam. All my info's up there and everything, have linked coworkers, employees, etc, but not one offer in IT.
Honestly I've done better finding jobs by asking around on Facebook. Seriously Facebook should start a "seeking job" section or something, since everyone's already on there.
Also none of the people I've hired have come from LinkedIn.
Any console manufacturer that tosses compatibility in the trash is saying "hey, feel absolutely free to take a look at all the competition and see if there's something better!" at the very same time you're steaming mad at them for turning your investment into a waste.
Wait what?? You can't play your old games on your new console?? Gee, weren't you around for the NES, SNES, N64 and Game Cube? None of those consoles played games from the previous console, and yet Nintendo still has the best selling console all these years later.