I'm curious what percent of applications come in from minorities comparatively, and what the reasons are for declining those who are declined. I think it's important for the debate/argument (in either direction) to know how many people of each minority are TRYING to work there, compared to which are accepted, as well as the reasoning behind those decisions and the qualifications of each.
I used to get the fast track insider builds on my work machine, but I got tired of constantly having to troubleshoot stuff that got broken along the way. It became really annoying to constantly have to reinstall visual studio problems, troubleshoot vbox issues, etc.
Ultimately I just formatted the machine and went back to the standard production build.
I gave up caring about the characters a couple seasons ago. It's devolved into a constant barrage of idiots making dumb decision after dumb decision. None of these people would be alive at this point after alienating every person they come across. They also haven't come up with a single new or inventive plot device since season 2.
MS got itself in hot water last time over its browser integration and forcing users to have IE installed while discouraging use of competing browsers. This doesn't seem like a very big departure from that behavior. They just got out from under the antitrust watchdogs w/in the last couple years and this move looks like they're trying to earn them back.
They should have made all the cups 100% biodegradable/compostable from the moment they realized how popular they were becoming. Recycling is fine and good but the vast majority of people aren't going to recycle these cups... The least they could do is make it so they're not a long term drain on the environment.
While that's a good tablet for a good price, for someone who reads a lot of ebooks, the kindle just offers a better reading experience. I've tried an android tablet and two ipads and ultimately replaced them all with a kindle voyage for ereading.
I suppose. I have a kindle voyage. I used to have an ipad mini but the reading experience isn't as good so I replaced it with the voyage for e-reading. The ipad was harder on the eyes and required you to jump through hoops to buy books since apple's ecosystem would require amazon to destroy their book profit margin in order to fully integrate.
Ultimately I ended up giving the ipad away to a family member as I didn't use it anymore.
Honestly this seems like a significant step backwards from their current offerings. The lopsided design with page turn buttons on one side is a headscratcher. I read in bed before I sleep every night, laying down on my side, with the kindle aligned to my sight-line. I swap side to side and my hand rests on which ever side of the kindle is pointing at the ceiling and that's how I turn the pages.
This kindle wouldn't allow that convenience.
The button design is pretty clunky as well. The buttons should have been flush with the surface and larger.
You're not supposed to... This is a stand alone e-reader for people who want a stand alone e-reader. No one should ever expect to replace an ipad or phone with one. That's absurd.
That's really stretching things. If you use something as simple as microseconds on a clock as the seed for your "random" number generation, there's "pretty much" no way you can exploit that short of hacking the device itself. It's not like people are going to stand there with a stopwatch and tell the TSA guy "OK....press the button...Now!"
I think it's still a very useful thing to be able to understand though. English is absolutely loaded with ill-formed utterances in order to impart humor, sarcasm, intent, etc. It'll be very important for artificial systems to be able to reproduce and understand things like these.
Changes of that nature are rarely, if ever, retroactive. A ToS change would almost certainly only apply to future versions/updates to the engine.
There would also be no wisdom in changing a revenue model that guarantees AWS income to one that would drive people away from providing that income. It would be counter-productive to attempt to screw over your customer base.
No, the "Internet of things" is not referring to the internet itself. It's referring to a specific "protocol" or "implementation" that various devices can/do use which allows them to interact with and/or control one another.
While it can/does happen over the internet, it's not limited to the internet, and typically their interaction is with other devices on the same local network.
I think the idea behind the confusing name is that your devices will create their own "mini internet" in your home....or something like that. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
This has absolutely NOTHING to do with a "politically correct narrative." This is a bunch of asshole teenagers on the internet being led by a couple basement dwelling 40 year olds who are mad at everyone for no good reason.
It's the dregs of humanity...on the internet...being assholes. Plain and simple.
Not a single "threat" would have been followed through on because these people either never leave their homes, or they're still under their parent's jurisdiction.
I've owned a couple kindle fires and a few kindles. At this point my remaining kindle fire is a game machine for my daughter, my wife has a paperwhite, and I have a voyage. I specifically opted for the e-reader experience because i wanted a standalone reading device with a backlit screen and e-ink. I read on my ipad for a long time and it just isn't as comfortable on the eyes.
Point being: People will buy what they want based on their personal taste and needs/desires. What Amazon did isn't "hurting" their e-reader sales. It's "helping" them appeal to more customers and deliver specifically what people want. In short: everyone wins.
Yeah, this is pretty much it. There's a LOT of cynicism but it's well deserved. The Federal gov't has proven to all of us that they are not to be trusted. Trust is EARNED not inherent. If you violate the trust someone has in you, it may never return, or at best it's going to take a lot of time and work.
IMHO the YF-23 was superior to the (Y)F-22 in almost every way. They should have gone with it instead, but politics instead of common sense won out in the end. Ugh.
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I'm curious what percent of applications come in from minorities comparatively, and what the reasons are for declining those who are declined. I think it's important for the debate/argument (in either direction) to know how many people of each minority are TRYING to work there, compared to which are accepted, as well as the reasoning behind those decisions and the qualifications of each.
I used to get the fast track insider builds on my work machine, but I got tired of constantly having to troubleshoot stuff that got broken along the way. It became really annoying to constantly have to reinstall visual studio problems, troubleshoot vbox issues, etc.
Ultimately I just formatted the machine and went back to the standard production build.
I gave up caring about the characters a couple seasons ago. It's devolved into a constant barrage of idiots making dumb decision after dumb decision. None of these people would be alive at this point after alienating every person they come across. They also haven't come up with a single new or inventive plot device since season 2.
MS got itself in hot water last time over its browser integration and forcing users to have IE installed while discouraging use of competing browsers. This doesn't seem like a very big departure from that behavior. They just got out from under the antitrust watchdogs w/in the last couple years and this move looks like they're trying to earn them back.
Did MS learn nothing from their antitrust rulings in the early 00s?
And yes, bing is a terrible abhorrent creation. MS should be ashamed.
They should have made all the cups 100% biodegradable/compostable from the moment they realized how popular they were becoming. Recycling is fine and good but the vast majority of people aren't going to recycle these cups... The least they could do is make it so they're not a long term drain on the environment.
No, keurig coffee is legitimately terrible. It's just convenient.
Fair point. Aesthetically it still makes my brain hurt, and those buttons are still awful though. :P
While that's a good tablet for a good price, for someone who reads a lot of ebooks, the kindle just offers a better reading experience. I've tried an android tablet and two ipads and ultimately replaced them all with a kindle voyage for ereading.
I suppose. I have a kindle voyage. I used to have an ipad mini but the reading experience isn't as good so I replaced it with the voyage for e-reading. The ipad was harder on the eyes and required you to jump through hoops to buy books since apple's ecosystem would require amazon to destroy their book profit margin in order to fully integrate.
Ultimately I ended up giving the ipad away to a family member as I didn't use it anymore.
Honestly this seems like a significant step backwards from their current offerings. The lopsided design with page turn buttons on one side is a headscratcher. I read in bed before I sleep every night, laying down on my side, with the kindle aligned to my sight-line. I swap side to side and my hand rests on which ever side of the kindle is pointing at the ceiling and that's how I turn the pages.
This kindle wouldn't allow that convenience.
The button design is pretty clunky as well. The buttons should have been flush with the surface and larger.
You're not supposed to... This is a stand alone e-reader for people who want a stand alone e-reader. No one should ever expect to replace an ipad or phone with one. That's absurd.
That's really stretching things. If you use something as simple as microseconds on a clock as the seed for your "random" number generation, there's "pretty much" no way you can exploit that short of hacking the device itself. It's not like people are going to stand there with a stopwatch and tell the TSA guy "OK....press the button...Now!"
...The coworker sitting next to me us using a 5.5 year old macbook pro and defending it as "still as good as anything new."
What a barbarian.
JS/Node/NPM are the new PHP.
I think it's still a very useful thing to be able to understand though. English is absolutely loaded with ill-formed utterances in order to impart humor, sarcasm, intent, etc. It'll be very important for artificial systems to be able to reproduce and understand things like these.
Changes of that nature are rarely, if ever, retroactive. A ToS change would almost certainly only apply to future versions/updates to the engine.
There would also be no wisdom in changing a revenue model that guarantees AWS income to one that would drive people away from providing that income. It would be counter-productive to attempt to screw over your customer base.
No, the "Internet of things" is not referring to the internet itself. It's referring to a specific "protocol" or "implementation" that various devices can/do use which allows them to interact with and/or control one another.
While it can/does happen over the internet, it's not limited to the internet, and typically their interaction is with other devices on the same local network.
I think the idea behind the confusing name is that your devices will create their own "mini internet" in your home....or something like that. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
http://gizmodo.com/this-130-wi...
Asus and Intel are making these types of devices. There are probably other companies making them by now as well.
But....
http://www.pandaandpolarbear.c...
This has absolutely NOTHING to do with a "politically correct narrative." This is a bunch of asshole teenagers on the internet being led by a couple basement dwelling 40 year olds who are mad at everyone for no good reason.
It's the dregs of humanity...on the internet...being assholes. Plain and simple.
Not a single "threat" would have been followed through on because these people either never leave their homes, or they're still under their parent's jurisdiction.
I took apart 2-3 clocks growing up. Where's my medal?
I've owned a couple kindle fires and a few kindles. At this point my remaining kindle fire is a game machine for my daughter, my wife has a paperwhite, and I have a voyage. I specifically opted for the e-reader experience because i wanted a standalone reading device with a backlit screen and e-ink. I read on my ipad for a long time and it just isn't as comfortable on the eyes.
Point being: People will buy what they want based on their personal taste and needs/desires. What Amazon did isn't "hurting" their e-reader sales. It's "helping" them appeal to more customers and deliver specifically what people want. In short: everyone wins.
Yeah, this is pretty much it. There's a LOT of cynicism but it's well deserved. The Federal gov't has proven to all of us that they are not to be trusted. Trust is EARNED not inherent. If you violate the trust someone has in you, it may never return, or at best it's going to take a lot of time and work.
IMHO the YF-23 was superior to the (Y)F-22 in almost every way. They should have gone with it instead, but politics instead of common sense won out in the end. Ugh.