Apple buys VW/Audi and rebrands (since the brands will be taking a big hit very soon), and consumers forget about dieselgate. Apple gets the infrastructure to build cars, as well as an eager dealership network. They throw money at some new designers to oversee the existing engineers and make the vehicles they want to make.
Book it, done deal.
Plus, Apple does software much better than VW. Nobody will ever find out if the A&W Golf TDI cheats on emissions tests.
An $18 billion dollar fine for... misleading customers with respect to the true performance of their cars? Really? How many people lost their jobs over this? How many people were actually materially affected by it?
The fine BP faced for the Macondo (Deepwater Horizon) oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico was $18.7 billion -- pretty much identical. The environmental impacts of that incident and its ramifications in terms of real human suffering were far, far greater than this. Shouldn't that be part of the calculus in determining a penalty?
Either VW's fine is too large or BP's was too small, but the scale and significance of the offences involved are just not comparable.
I dislike Elsevier's extortionate rates for information access as much as the next researcher and try to pay them as little as I can get away with. However, Wikipedia has only ever been a starting point for investigation into any topic. At best it may give you a fair understanding of the subject and/or the issues at play, but generally it serves as an aggregator and should not be construed as anything more definitive. As such, allowing citations of closed sources such as those from Elsevier is pretty much the same as what Google already does and has always done. There's no real controversy here.
Disclaimer: I have contributed mods to Wikipedia in the past. I do not work for Elsevier or any other publisher.
OTOH it could be an out: "I just passed the mouse cursor over the link, your Worship; I didn't actually access the page. Firefox's default behaviour just makes it look like I did and the Crown cannot prove otherwise."
It will be very interesting -- and I think they should do a follow-up (but I'm not holding my breath) -- to see how many of these girls are still coding at all in 5-years time and how many are earning a living from software development 10 years from now.
Could someone on the spot please video it and post it to YouTube? I'd love to see this but won't be able to catch the live-stream and certainly can't be in DC for the occasion. Would really appreciate it!
Michael Geist reports that records show the extension is the result of backroom lobbying with monthly meetings between senior government officials and music industry lobbyists paving the way for copyright term extension without public consultation or debate.
Because that pretty much sums up the way the Harper government operates -- and has, ever since they were elected.
"Sorry -- the back seat of my Corolla's kinda full with that big screen jammed in there... but if you wouldn't mind just wedging yourself in beside it, we'll be on our way..."
You know what? I appear to be uninformed or behind the times on both scores.
(1) apparently there's a way to export MyPlaces maps in KML format from old Maps and then import them into new Maps. I haven't tested it yet, but the Google Maps Help Forum group reports that it does exist.
(2) new Google Maps has both a line drawing tool (for custom route display) and a distance tool (for measuring distances over a single distance or a custom route).
(1) my old personal maps (MyPlaces)? I've generated a few over the years that I still refer back to once in a while. I didn't see any migration path to the new version for those.
(2) the custom tools in the old version? One of the most useful for me personally was the distance measuring tool which gave a straight line distance between 2 points (or a series of points) that you marked on a map. Don't think that's there in the new version either.
Loss of these functionality alone means that being forced onto the new version is going to suck.
Google appears so overwhelmingly better at handling all of those complex mapping scenarios to the point where OSM can't be seriously considered for people trying to use it to navigate that city.
Interestingly, for one of my favourite mapping application -- establishing coastal sea-kayaking routes -- Google Maps is worse than useless. Google fuzzes out the offshore regions, leaving large blank areas where I know that islands/archipelagos exist. OSM does not do this, making it a much better tool for the job.
... on alternative "medicine" generally, especially homeopathy: Simon Singh, PhD and Edzard Ernst, MD, "Trick Or Treatment: The Undeniable Facts about Alternative Medicine", Norton, 2009 (ISBN 0393337782)
Anywhere short of the exact center there is still more mass ahead of you than behind you, so gravitational attraction will continue to pull you toward the center.
"When asked whether his company vets the software they pre-install on their machines, [Lenovo CTO Peter Hortensius] said, "Yes, we do. Obviously in this case we didn't do enough. The intent of loading this tool was to help enhance our users’ shopping experience. The feedback from users was that it wasn’t useful, and that’s why we turned it off. Our reputation is everything and our products are ultimately how we have our reputation."
Far too little and far, far too late!
If Superfish was merely not "useful", some people would carp about it and most would just ignore it. It is far more dangerous than that because it deliberately behaves in a way that undermines the integrity of the trust system on which internet is based and so jeopardizes the security of the user. To claim that this was done in order to "enhance" the user's experience is cynical beyond belief. I'm certain Hortensius is right when he says that the software was vetted at Lenovo. I'm also quite sure that it performed precisely the way it was intended to. But who on earth thought that was a good idea?
There has to be a price to pay for this major failure of judgement and I can only hope that it is both hefty and that it impacts those at Lenovo who were ultimately responsible for it, Hortensius among them.
How does the cosmic background radiation -- Penzias/Wilson's discovery -- fit in with this new cosmological theory? I thought that was supposed to be significant supporting evidence for the Big Bang? Neither TFA nor TOFP says anything about it (although there is some speculation in the commentary which follows TFN).
Slashdot Mirror
... low-digit IDs posting on this topic. Yep, that's the demographic.
(disclaimer: I too have an old plastic K&E tucked away in a box somewhere downstairs)
Having this new government is like waking up from a terrible nightmare.
Absolutely right!
This would also force academics to be graded on a different scale for tenure, etc. if "number of accepted submissions" doesn't mean anything anymore.
Yeah, they would have to be graded using another criterion, like ... oh, I don't know ... the significance and originality of their work, perhaps?
Apple buys VW/Audi and rebrands (since the brands will be taking a big hit very soon), and consumers forget about dieselgate. Apple gets the infrastructure to build cars, as well as an eager dealership network. They throw money at some new designers to oversee the existing engineers and make the vehicles they want to make.
Book it, done deal.
Plus, Apple does software much better than VW. Nobody will ever find out if the A&W Golf TDI cheats on emissions tests.
An $18 billion dollar fine for ... misleading customers with respect to the true performance of their cars? Really? How many people lost their jobs over this? How many people were actually materially affected by it?
The fine BP faced for the Macondo (Deepwater Horizon) oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico was $18.7 billion -- pretty much identical. The environmental impacts of that incident and its ramifications in terms of real human suffering were far, far greater than this. Shouldn't that be part of the calculus in determining a penalty?
Either VW's fine is too large or BP's was too small, but the scale and significance of the offences involved are just not comparable.
I dislike Elsevier's extortionate rates for information access as much as the next researcher and try to pay them as little as I can get away with. However, Wikipedia has only ever been a starting point for investigation into any topic. At best it may give you a fair understanding of the subject and/or the issues at play, but generally it serves as an aggregator and should not be construed as anything more definitive. As such, allowing citations of closed sources such as those from Elsevier is pretty much the same as what Google already does and has always done. There's no real controversy here.
Disclaimer: I have contributed mods to Wikipedia in the past. I do not work for Elsevier or any other publisher.
... surf's up! :-)
Really, really very well put. Thank you for posting this.
- a fellow (albeit North American) cyclist
OTOH it could be an out: "I just passed the mouse cursor over the link, your Worship; I didn't actually access the page. Firefox's default behaviour just makes it look like I did and the Crown cannot prove otherwise."
Superfish
Should be all that has to be said. There should be a price to pay.
Well, I hope Neil Young will remember
A Spotify man don't need him around anyhow
It will be very interesting -- and I think they should do a follow-up (but I'm not holding my breath) -- to see how many of these girls are still coding at all in 5-years time and how many are earning a living from software development 10 years from now.
Could someone on the spot please video it and post it to YouTube? I'd love to see this but won't be able to catch the live-stream and certainly can't be in DC for the occasion. Would really appreciate it!
Michael Geist reports that records show the extension is the result of backroom lobbying with monthly meetings between senior government officials and music industry lobbyists paving the way for copyright term extension without public consultation or debate.
Because that pretty much sums up the way the Harper government operates -- and has, ever since they were elected.
"Sorry -- the back seat of my Corolla's kinda full with that big screen jammed in there ... but if you wouldn't mind just wedging yourself in beside it, we'll be on our way ..."
Yeah. No thanks.
You know what? I appear to be uninformed or behind the times on both scores.
(1) apparently there's a way to export MyPlaces maps in KML format from old Maps and then import them into new Maps. I haven't tested it yet, but the Google Maps Help Forum group reports that it does exist.
(2) new Google Maps has both a line drawing tool (for custom route display) and a distance tool (for measuring distances over a single distance or a custom route).
I'll make the switch.
(1) my old personal maps (MyPlaces)? I've generated a few over the years that I still refer back to once in a while. I didn't see any migration path to the new version for those.
(2) the custom tools in the old version? One of the most useful for me personally was the distance measuring tool which gave a straight line distance between 2 points (or a series of points) that you marked on a map. Don't think that's there in the new version either.
Loss of these functionality alone means that being forced onto the new version is going to suck.
Google appears so overwhelmingly better at handling all of those complex mapping scenarios to the point where OSM can't be seriously considered for people trying to use it to navigate that city.
Interestingly, for one of my favourite mapping application -- establishing coastal sea-kayaking routes -- Google Maps is worse than useless. Google fuzzes out the offshore regions, leaving large blank areas where I know that islands/archipelagos exist. OSM does not do this, making it a much better tool for the job.
How about: it's bug-free?
... on alternative "medicine" generally, especially homeopathy: Simon Singh, PhD and Edzard Ernst, MD, "Trick Or Treatment: The Undeniable Facts about Alternative Medicine", Norton, 2009 (ISBN 0393337782)
Anywhere short of the exact center there is still more mass ahead of you than behind you, so gravitational attraction will continue to pull you toward the center.
More coffee all around.
LOL wishing I still had mod pts for you
"When asked whether his company vets the software they pre-install on their machines, [Lenovo CTO Peter Hortensius] said, "Yes, we do. Obviously in this case we didn't do enough. The intent of loading this tool was to help enhance our users’ shopping experience. The feedback from users was that it wasn’t useful, and that’s why we turned it off. Our reputation is everything and our products are ultimately how we have our reputation."
Far too little and far, far too late!
If Superfish was merely not "useful", some people would carp about it and most would just ignore it. It is far more dangerous than that because it deliberately behaves in a way that undermines the integrity of the trust system on which internet is based and so jeopardizes the security of the user. To claim that this was done in order to "enhance" the user's experience is cynical beyond belief. I'm certain Hortensius is right when he says that the software was vetted at Lenovo. I'm also quite sure that it performed precisely the way it was intended to. But who on earth thought that was a good idea?
There has to be a price to pay for this major failure of judgement and I can only hope that it is both hefty and that it impacts those at Lenovo who were ultimately responsible for it, Hortensius among them.
I keep my code undeadable with a liberal use of goto statements.
You made an infinite loop with goto?
Hasn't everyone at some point early in their career?
How does the cosmic background radiation -- Penzias/Wilson's discovery -- fit in with this new cosmological theory? I thought that was supposed to be significant supporting evidence for the Big Bang? Neither TFA nor TOFP says anything about it (although there is some speculation in the commentary which follows TFN).