OS image size is 30k, including a bunch of stuff IoT probably doesn't need (pre-emptive multithreading, multiple network support, multiple platform support, etc...)
Keurig coffee is crap, and it creates a huge amount of disposable waste.
We use re-usable K-Cup filters with good coffee. The machine itself is more efficient as it doesn't need to keep one or two carafes of coffee hot as well as the large hot-water boiler, it just keeps a few cups of water hot at a time. Also you don't get the wasted, burned coffee at the bottom of the pot.
Of course I'm talking about an office environment where we go through intermittent bursts of large amounts of coffee ingestion:)
Last year: Hey Apple, you can't collude with other companies to prevent poaching from each other! This year: Hey Apple, you can't poach other company's employees!
Well which is it? Either you can hire other company's employees or you can't.
La Guardia is right next to the Triborough and at the top of the BQE. You can get to midtown via taxi in 20 minutes in heavy traffic. It takes ten minutes from the time you are off the Jetway, down the escalator, at the luggage carousel, and to the cab stand.
Granted, landing and taking off can be... exciting. One day we had a nasty tail wind, so the pilot had to gun the engines as we were making the turn onto the runway to get enough speed - something I've never seen anyone do before.
Otherwise, I'd give up useless amenities for expediency.
The reason you got iOS 8 the day after it was released is because Apple didn't announce the release until it was ready to push to your iPad. Google must release Android updates to the OEMs many months before they can get it delivered to devices.
The images for 5.0 on Nexus went GA in mid-November of 2014 for Nexus. Reports started coming in about OTA upgrades at the end of that month. I didn't get my OTA upgrade until February.
I thought the whole point of Nexus was that it would be a first-tier Google device. If Google is going to hold back on pushing updates to appease partners, why bother having them in the first place? They are *great* tablets (except for the new 9" model which, IMHO, is a dog.)
Stop all federal funding for new construction projects in all of Hawaii. Cancel everything. Close all federally funded operations. Close Pearl Harbor and move the base back to the mainland. Cut all federal spending for Hawaii, including energy, roads, and education.
Would this ever happen in normal operation? I would think that every few hundred hours of flight time the plane would be pulled out of service for maintenance where everything would be shut down for a couple of days.
What on earth are you talking about? It's a "wingnut" position that the professional organization for psychologists probably shouldn't be advising the government on torture techniques? Please explain your logic.
It's e-books, not e-readers. You can read an e-book on practically any device with a screen, from a $30 e-reader to a cell phone or a 10 year-old computer.
Same difference. There are libraries filled with books you can read for free. It's a sunk cost. What specific problem are ebooks going to solve?
You mean like this?
Exactly. Now take the money wasted on ebooks and fund that instead.
By definition the middle class can AFFORD things, the poor and lower class need help MORE than the middle-class does.
So we're blowing money on e-readers when, last time I checked, libraries still exist? How about $250 million worth of more free pre-school for underprivileged kids, which has been proven to lead to better outcomes?
Seriously, I've never seen mechanical energy expressed in BTUs, and I'm in the US. I know a few automotive engineers and they use W/h when calculating engine efficiency.
I've yet to have anyone explain clearly why having the internet under the same regulatory regime as the telephone system would be a, net, positive thing. Title II explicitly permits a lot of bad behavior. To me, it fixes one problem and introduces a few dozen others.
The company I work for has only ever hired one H-1B worker, because he was literally the only qualified candidate. That's one worker over a ten year period.
The H-1B program is useful, but I don't see why it needs to be expanded.
Researcher B: Sure, it uses a novel Beysian quantitative analysis based on 3 dimensional heat maps of multivariate data. I'm sure you have a team of domain-specific PhDs to go over the statistical methodology.
EPA: No, we're going to need more evidence...
Researcher B: What's that? I can't hear you over the screaming Greenpeace and Audubon Society protesters. Seriously, you need to do something about this industrial toxin poisoning our biosphere!
If you're wondering why using "secret" science to regulate various environmental issues is a bad idea:
Researcher A: I've just discovered a substrate that makes solar cells 50% more efficient. This pushes their cost effectiveness to the point of making widespread adoption a no-brainer.
Researcher B, funded by the coal lobby: Hey EPA - this new solar substrate causes birth defects in robins! You can't show the proof to anyone though as it involves a secret process...
EPA: OK, effective immediately this substrate is banned.
Comparatively, chimps are fairly intelligent animals. Of course, compared to worms, chickens are fairly intelligent animals, and chickens are incredibly dumb.
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OS image size is 30k, including a bunch of stuff IoT probably doesn't need (pre-emptive multithreading, multiple network support, multiple platform support, etc...)
Depends on how many language tricks they use to get the code size down that small. Ever see RSA implemented in a single line of Perl regex?
Keurig coffee is crap, and it creates a huge amount of disposable waste.
We use re-usable K-Cup filters with good coffee. The machine itself is more efficient as it doesn't need to keep one or two carafes of coffee hot as well as the large hot-water boiler, it just keeps a few cups of water hot at a time. Also you don't get the wasted, burned coffee at the bottom of the pot.
Of course I'm talking about an office environment where we go through intermittent bursts of large amounts of coffee ingestion :)
Last year: Hey Apple, you can't collude with other companies to prevent poaching from each other!
This year: Hey Apple, you can't poach other company's employees!
Well which is it? Either you can hire other company's employees or you can't.
I'd imagine everyone who worked on the Manhattan project has a hefty FBI file.
La Guardia is right next to the Triborough and at the top of the BQE. You can get to midtown via taxi in 20 minutes in heavy traffic. It takes ten minutes from the time you are off the Jetway, down the escalator, at the luggage carousel, and to the cab stand.
Granted, landing and taking off can be... exciting. One day we had a nasty tail wind, so the pilot had to gun the engines as we were making the turn onto the runway to get enough speed - something I've never seen anyone do before.
Otherwise, I'd give up useless amenities for expediency.
The reason you got iOS 8 the day after it was released is because Apple didn't announce the release until it was ready to push to your iPad. Google must release Android updates to the OEMs many months before they can get it delivered to devices.
The images for 5.0 on Nexus went GA in mid-November of 2014 for Nexus. Reports started coming in about OTA upgrades at the end of that month. I didn't get my OTA upgrade until February.
I thought the whole point of Nexus was that it would be a first-tier Google device. If Google is going to hold back on pushing updates to appease partners, why bother having them in the first place? They are *great* tablets (except for the new 9" model which, IMHO, is a dog.)
Yes, it is Google's fault. My Nexus 7 2013 got 5.0 OTA three months after it's release. That's the *Google branded* device. And it was buggy.
5.1 came much faster - took a few weeks, and it's much better.
When iOS 8 was released, it was available on our iPad Air the next day.
Stop all federal funding for new construction projects in all of Hawaii. Cancel everything. Close all federally funded operations. Close Pearl Harbor and move the base back to the mainland. Cut all federal spending for Hawaii, including energy, roads, and education.
There, now Hawaii is protected.
Would this ever happen in normal operation? I would think that every few hundred hours of flight time the plane would be pulled out of service for maintenance where everything would be shut down for a couple of days.
What on earth are you talking about? It's a "wingnut" position that the professional organization for psychologists probably shouldn't be advising the government on torture techniques? Please explain your logic.
It's e-books, not e-readers. You can read an e-book on practically any device with a screen, from a $30 e-reader to a cell phone or a 10 year-old computer.
Same difference. There are libraries filled with books you can read for free. It's a sunk cost. What specific problem are ebooks going to solve?
You mean like this?
Exactly. Now take the money wasted on ebooks and fund that instead.
By definition the middle class can AFFORD things, the poor and lower class need help MORE than the middle-class does.
So we're blowing money on e-readers when, last time I checked, libraries still exist? How about $250 million worth of more free pre-school for underprivileged kids, which has been proven to lead to better outcomes?
I'm sorry I forgot to put the /h after Watt.
Seriously, I've never seen mechanical energy expressed in BTUs, and I'm in the US. I know a few automotive engineers and they use W/h when calculating engine efficiency.
Why is energy here measured in BTUs? I've usually seen total energy use expressed in Watts, especially in the mechanical realm.
I've yet to have anyone explain clearly why having the internet under the same regulatory regime as the telephone system would be a, net, positive thing. Title II explicitly permits a lot of bad behavior. To me, it fixes one problem and introduces a few dozen others.
The company I work for has only ever hired one H-1B worker, because he was literally the only qualified candidate. That's one worker over a ten year period.
The H-1B program is useful, but I don't see why it needs to be expanded.
Your argument is like saying "OMG! The Prosecutor can seek charges whenever he wants! Clearly he will abuse this power to arrest millions for years!"
That may not be the best example for alleging hyperbole.
LOL regulatory capture :)
http://grist.org/politics/2011...
EPA: We need to see that study.
Researcher B: Sure, it uses a novel Beysian quantitative analysis based on 3 dimensional heat maps of multivariate data. I'm sure you have a team of domain-specific PhDs to go over the statistical methodology.
EPA: No, we're going to need more evidence...
Researcher B: What's that? I can't hear you over the screaming Greenpeace and Audubon Society protesters. Seriously, you need to do something about this industrial toxin poisoning our biosphere!
If you're wondering why using "secret" science to regulate various environmental issues is a bad idea:
Researcher A: I've just discovered a substrate that makes solar cells 50% more efficient. This pushes their cost effectiveness to the point of making widespread adoption a no-brainer.
Researcher B, funded by the coal lobby: Hey EPA - this new solar substrate causes birth defects in robins! You can't show the proof to anyone though as it involves a secret process...
EPA: OK, effective immediately this substrate is banned.
Yes. That's the difference between car services and taxi cabs. Usually they are regulated differently.
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Gigabyte
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Winbook/Powerspec
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Elo
Samsung
Viewsonic
Comparatively, chimps are fairly intelligent animals. Of course, compared to worms, chickens are fairly intelligent animals, and chickens are incredibly dumb.
How many antitrust investigations happened to Nokia when they had the vast majority of the smartphone market in Europe? None? That's weird.