Was there a GPS logging that could confirm one story or the other? 54 mph vs 60 is quite a big difference on this long of a journey...
The data logging showed speeds as high as 81 MPH. That's hardly limping along at 45 and it's certainly not a "difference in wheel sizes" as the reporter claims. Plus he drove.6 miles in circles mostly at speeds between 10-15 MP while supposed "looking for a charging station". If you didn't find it on your first time circling the small 100 car lot, why wouldn't you just slow down to look for it rather than going in circles around the lot 30-40 times at a speed too fast to carefully look?
FWIW, Microsoft bashing aside, MSFT is claiming that the Surface PRO sold out. Now maybe they only manufactured 10 of them... LOL... We won't know what "Sold Out" actually means until we get actual sales figures.
I've seen some progress bars that do exactly that - go backwards.
Almost as bad... multiple progress bars. Each subsection gets a progress bar so you see one bar after another after another... but there is nothing meaningful about overall time.
If you can't afford $85 more for a tablet with better spec's without the hassle of having to "do something to make it work better", you probably shouldn't be buying a tablet at all.
You never considered the possibility of receiving a Kindle Fire HD as a gift and then wanting to maximize it's utility? Significant numbers of Fire HD's were given as gifts (with a huge spike in sales around XMas).
If you're dealing with developers with a formal college education, they have a pretty high chance of understanding English. I just gave an English talk to developers in China Runtime CPU Performance Spike Detection Using Manual and Automated Compiler Instrumentation and while there was a translator (you could get headphones), most of the attendees chose to listen to the talk in English.
You may consider making localizable strings for the UI contained in an INI or other file though and be able to check if a local file with the country extension exists. If you have enough users for the product and make localization easy, you'll find a volunteer to do the work for you.
Being as we're all geeks here, I think we'd vote for the guy who knew how to use a wire-wrap gun over the slick marketing guy.
You don't have to like everything about a company, even if you like the products they produce.
Slick products are why Apple is still around though. You can have brilliant inventions but with crap marketing or no business savvy still fail as a company.
I know a lot of people who are twitter users and were pissed off at Instagram when they broke Twitter integration. The unfavorable TOS just was the last straw to get Tweeters to leave in droves.
Chrome has a "Click to Play" mode that won't run any plug-ins on a page without user intervention but it's fairly easy (one click) to run the plug-in on content you want to see.
In Chrome select "Settings" from options menu or navigate to "chrome://chrome/settings/"
Click Link "Show advanced Settings"
Click button "Content settings..." under Privacy
Look Under "Plug-ins"
Select the option "Click to play" which will prevent plug-ins from running on a page unless you manually click on a bar which allows them to run.
Well, for what it's worth, both Kickstarter and Indiegogo let you build up a list of people interested in your projects and send them updates on your project's status. You could send e-mails specifying cartridges you need to your entire list of funders and as long as you don't do it to often (i.e. less than once a month) people probably won't find it intrusive.
Have you thought about an Indiegogo campaign or Kickstarter to fund your effort for European and Japanese cartridges?
Crowd-funding of projects is hot right now and it might be easier to find thousands of people who think your efforts are worth $10 to them than to find a single person willing to part with $25,000 for old game cartridges.
Since when has any Apple customer cared about a price difference of $100?
You're right, Apple customers obviously don't care about saving $100 since they are still customers, but Apple ex-customers do. That is precisely how Apple lost the lead in the smartphone market.
Apple may not have a majority of sales in the smartphone market. However, they have a majority of PROFIT in the smartphone market. They don't bother competing over dwindling profits with half-baked ever crappier hardware. They make nicer hardware that upholds their "premium brand" and they make 2-5X more per item sold than their nearest competitor.
You may be behaving in a "LEGAL" manner but if you are an obnoxious asshole whose deliberate behavior is making a lot of other customers uncomfortable and causing inconveniences to both the company and other customers, then a PRIVATE company has the right to deny you service. That is exactly what Delta did.
Exactly... and in this case the pilot was "standing up for his rights" to remove a customer from the flight whose deliberately obnoxious actions were delaying the flight for the rest of the customers and whose choice of actions made the other passengers uncomfortable. It's NOT OK to mention bombs, terrorists, and killing all americans on a plane even if you are just joking about it or wearing a t-shirt that is joking about it any more than it's OK to joke about "fire" in a crowded theater.
He was standing up for his rights and mocking a reviled government agency. And they let him past! It was Delta that bounced him and pitched a fit. Yep, Delta screwed him over because some people were uncomfortable. Never flying Delta...
I don't have a problem with Delta kicking him off. The guy was an ass -- he knew he was wearing something that might be considered "offensive" to other travelers and could making other customers uncomfortable. People are not comfortable with bombs or terrorists being mentioned on a plane when you travel. No one wants to hear about you talk about how often planes crash when you are boarding a plane either. Delta acted not only because passengers were "uncomfortable" but also because this one guy INCONVENIENCED AND DELAYED an entire plane by his behavior.
See, the Guy goes to the airport while wearing a shirt which jokes about "BOMBS", "TERRISTS", and "GONNA KILL US ALL". You shouldn't mention the word "bomb" in a security screening at an airport even in jest anymore than you should shout "FIRE" in a crowded theater. Unfortunately, any mention of "bombs" has to be investigated and leads to additional screenings and delays even if it's a joke in bad taste. This is a pretty well known fact. Then the guy acts beligerant and deliberately difficult while being screened which causes the screening to take longer and delays the flight for everyone else. They eventually let him through and none of his rights were violated but the additional time to screen him for his joke (again the equivalent of shouting "FIRE!!! -- NOT!!! JUST KIDDING!!!" in a theater) caused a delay.
Pilot gets fed up with all the delays caused but a stupid passenger who is trying to make a statement and inconveniencing a plane full of people who just want to travel without making it a political statement. Result is that Pilot makes a decision for the courtesy of the other passengers to continue his flight without a deliberately obnoxious passenger and his co-travelers who caused delays on the flight.
Only if you want to spend money with Apple. I'll stick with building my own, or using a laptop from a brand where I can upgrade it if I want.
Most consumers would take a notebook that thinner and lighter and sleeker looking than one that is upgradeable. The only thing you can upgrade on most laptops is HD and RAM anyhow. It's not like you can swap out the CPU or the Graphics Chip.
No, actually we don't. It depends on what the people want, since this is a democracy. If the people are a bunch of religious nuts, then the education standard needs to include religion (whichever flavor the majority wants) and omit evolution (of that's what a majority wants). This is the price of democracy: you have to share with all the other people you co-inhabit a region with.
Before you respond further, please read up on Tyranny of the Majority, and why it's a bad thing, and how respecting the rights of the individual is essential to a functioning democracy. (Hint: Your logic eats itself.)
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Was there a GPS logging that could confirm one story or the other? 54 mph vs 60 is quite a big difference on this long of a journey...
The data logging showed speeds as high as 81 MPH. That's hardly limping along at 45 and it's certainly not a "difference in wheel sizes" as the reporter claims. Plus he drove .6 miles in circles mostly at speeds between 10-15 MP while supposed "looking for a charging station". If you didn't find it on your first time circling the small 100 car lot, why wouldn't you just slow down to look for it rather than going in circles around the lot 30-40 times at a speed too fast to carefully look?
Nuh uh! All 10 surface pro buyers are furious!
FWIW, Microsoft bashing aside, MSFT is claiming that the Surface PRO sold out. Now maybe they only manufactured 10 of them... LOL... We won't know what "Sold Out" actually means until we get actual sales figures.
I've seen some progress bars that do exactly that - go backwards.
Almost as bad... multiple progress bars. Each subsection gets a progress bar so you see one bar after another after another... but there is nothing meaningful about overall time.
If you can't afford $85 more for a tablet with better spec's without the hassle of having to "do something to make it work better", you probably shouldn't be buying a tablet at all.
You never considered the possibility of receiving a Kindle Fire HD as a gift and then wanting to maximize it's utility? Significant numbers of Fire HD's were given as gifts (with a huge spike in sales around XMas).
If you're dealing with developers with a formal college education, they have a pretty high chance of understanding English. I just gave an English talk to developers in China Runtime CPU Performance Spike Detection Using Manual and Automated Compiler Instrumentation and while there was a translator (you could get headphones), most of the attendees chose to listen to the talk in English.
You may consider making localizable strings for the UI contained in an INI or other file though and be able to check if a local file with the country extension exists. If you have enough users for the product and make localization easy, you'll find a volunteer to do the work for you.
Plenty of it... Just a couple weeks ago they made a major advance in plastic surgery by removing a mole from a monkey IN ORBIT.
Plenty of it... Just a couple weeks ago they performed a major breakthrough in plastic surgery by removing a mole from a monkey while IN ORBIT.
Are you going to go for a rematch with the Tuff-Writer pen?
It would have been nice to include a link to their "Will It Blend" - style video.
Being as we're all geeks here, I think we'd vote for the guy who knew how to use a wire-wrap gun over the slick marketing guy.
You don't have to like everything about a company, even if you like the products they produce.
Slick products are why Apple is still around though. You can have brilliant inventions but with crap marketing or no business savvy still fail as a company.
I know a lot of people who are twitter users and were pissed off at Instagram when they broke Twitter integration. The unfavorable TOS just was the last straw to get Tweeters to leave in droves.
This blocks Java, Quicktime, Flash, etc. You can say Good-Bye to most of the Internet's annoying adverts when you enable "Click to Play".
Chrome has a "Click to Play" mode that won't run any plug-ins on a page without user intervention but it's fairly easy (one click) to run the plug-in on content you want to see.
In Chrome select "Settings" from options menu or navigate to "chrome://chrome/settings/"
Click Link "Show advanced Settings"
Click button "Content settings..." under Privacy
Look Under "Plug-ins"
Select the option "Click to play" which will prevent plug-ins from running on a page unless you manually click on a bar which allows them to run.
Well, for what it's worth, both Kickstarter and Indiegogo let you build up a list of people interested in your projects and send them updates on your project's status. You could send e-mails specifying cartridges you need to your entire list of funders and as long as you don't do it to often (i.e. less than once a month) people probably won't find it intrusive.
Have you thought about an Indiegogo campaign or Kickstarter to fund your effort for European and Japanese cartridges?
Crowd-funding of projects is hot right now and it might be easier to find thousands of people who think your efforts are worth $10 to them than to find a single person willing to part with $25,000 for old game cartridges.
Either Apple will start developing the chips themselves or someone else will.
Apple already develops their own chips. However, they do not manufacture them.
Since when has any Apple customer cared about a price difference of $100?
You're right, Apple customers obviously don't care about saving $100 since they are still customers, but Apple ex-customers do. That is precisely how Apple lost the lead in the smartphone market.
Apple may not have a majority of sales in the smartphone market. However, they have a majority of PROFIT in the smartphone market. They don't bother competing over dwindling profits with half-baked ever crappier hardware. They make nicer hardware that upholds their "premium brand" and they make 2-5X more per item sold than their nearest competitor.
Seriously... my eyes haven't hurt that much looking at a site since myspace went away.... myspace did go away, didnt it?
Won't wirelessly stream video to my HDTV.
I know it's a joke, but Current gen iOS devices already do this with AppleTV or AirPlay enabled devices.
You may be behaving in a "LEGAL" manner but if you are an obnoxious asshole whose deliberate behavior is making a lot of other customers uncomfortable and causing inconveniences to both the company and other customers, then a PRIVATE company has the right to deny you service. That is exactly what Delta did.
Exactly... and in this case the pilot was "standing up for his rights" to remove a customer from the flight whose deliberately obnoxious actions were delaying the flight for the rest of the customers and whose choice of actions made the other passengers uncomfortable. It's NOT OK to mention bombs, terrorists, and killing all americans on a plane even if you are just joking about it or wearing a t-shirt that is joking about it any more than it's OK to joke about "fire" in a crowded theater.
He was standing up for his rights and mocking a reviled government agency. And they let him past! It was Delta that bounced him and pitched a fit. Yep, Delta screwed him over because some people were uncomfortable. Never flying Delta...
I don't have a problem with Delta kicking him off. The guy was an ass -- he knew he was wearing something that might be considered "offensive" to other travelers and could making other customers uncomfortable. People are not comfortable with bombs or terrorists being mentioned on a plane when you travel. No one wants to hear about you talk about how often planes crash when you are boarding a plane either. Delta acted not only because passengers were "uncomfortable" but also because this one guy INCONVENIENCED AND DELAYED an entire plane by his behavior.
See, the Guy goes to the airport while wearing a shirt which jokes about "BOMBS", "TERRISTS", and "GONNA KILL US ALL". You shouldn't mention the word "bomb" in a security screening at an airport even in jest anymore than you should shout "FIRE" in a crowded theater. Unfortunately, any mention of "bombs" has to be investigated and leads to additional screenings and delays even if it's a joke in bad taste. This is a pretty well known fact. Then the guy acts beligerant and deliberately difficult while being screened which causes the screening to take longer and delays the flight for everyone else. They eventually let him through and none of his rights were violated but the additional time to screen him for his joke (again the equivalent of shouting "FIRE!!! -- NOT!!! JUST KIDDING!!!" in a theater) caused a delay.
Pilot gets fed up with all the delays caused but a stupid passenger who is trying to make a statement and inconveniencing a plane full of people who just want to travel without making it a political statement. Result is that Pilot makes a decision for the courtesy of the other passengers to continue his flight without a deliberately obnoxious passenger and his co-travelers who caused delays on the flight.
It's probably more than I could easily justify but I figured it was for a good cause and I really wanted one of the limited signed comic books :-)
Only if you want to spend money with Apple. I'll stick with building my own, or using a laptop from a brand where I can upgrade it if I want.
Most consumers would take a notebook that thinner and lighter and sleeker looking than one that is upgradeable. The only thing you can upgrade on most laptops is HD and RAM anyhow. It's not like you can swap out the CPU or the Graphics Chip.
No, actually we don't. It depends on what the people want, since this is a democracy. If the people are a bunch of religious nuts, then the education standard needs to include religion (whichever flavor the majority wants) and omit evolution (of that's what a majority wants). This is the price of democracy: you have to share with all the other people you co-inhabit a region with.
Before you respond further, please read up on Tyranny of the Majority, and why it's a bad thing, and how respecting the rights of the individual is essential to a functioning democracy. (Hint: Your logic eats itself.)
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In 1967, when the Supreme Court struck down anti-miscegenation laws, 72% of Americans believed that Interracial Marriages should be illegal.
But seriously, in this era of re-discovering and correctly honouring scientists for their hard-work and genius why is Tesla still languishing?
Maybe this American home-school textbook can explain why Tesla isn't appreciated.