They have no intrinsic value. Iron could be more valuable than gold as anybody would discover going to a fight with a golden sword against an iron one. People have been trained to believe that gold is precious. It will be as long as this belief lasts.
Gold and silver currencies are not as important as the other ones you listed, not even close to being fundamental. Some countries used shells, they are the same. Gold you mine, shells you fish.
You should check the law of your country. Apparently in the UK the money is legally property of the bank and the same happens in Italy (in short: the bank gets the property but has to give you back the money when you ask it).
You're right. That's why I bring my eeepc901 on planes, but I hardly fly for business and that small netbook is adequate when I go on vacation. It still does some things my phone doesn't do well (programming, storing emails for offllne use, backup for photos) and the other way round (almost anything else).
The eeepc fits well on my knees (one knee, actually - it's tiny) and I don't have to use the seat table. That gives me more room. My 16:10 15" laptop is a little too large and sometimes I have the kind of problems you run into. The eeepc is also better on trains, even if there are less problems with space there.
Nevertheless planes and trains are not major use cases for me and I'm looking forward to taller displays. Hopefully I won't have to change my laptop soon (fingers crossed) and I'm waiting to see what happens with resolution, size and touch displays.
Like most legal documents, you usually don't actually need a lawyer to write it.
And even if you need them Iubenda is an example of a self service privacy policy generator. They have a legal team that writes the standardized pieces you put together for your site. I've been using it for a couple of web services. Iubenda is specific for the web but I bet the same could be done for mobile applications.
The Diamonds is conventional, maybe Jobs wanted something "different". The Infinitas is *very* unconventional. I'm not sure to like it but Jobs should have tought along those lines than the ugly ones he ended up with.
The researchers failed the IQ test. The villagers are more fit than them for their environment so it should be up to them to define what smart is there. Bring them to NYC and the roles are reversed. IMHO smart and dumb are not absolutes.
I'd remember the name of that law about questions in titles and No as an answer. Nevertheless I'm afraid that we are just getting better at passing those tests we are taught to pass. That might actually be all there is in being smart (optimal fit to the environment) but I'd be surprised that the essence of being smart can be captured by logic tests.
I'm sure this is a big opportunity for them. I went browsing to Google News Brazil. I read the news with a little help from Translate and got an idea of what's going in the country. The big sites will discover they're not essential, nevertheless some people will leave Google News for the newspaper sites. We'll see what the pageviews will be an year from now.
Actually I think that big newspapers with recognized brands will get more page hits because they'll be the hubs people go to read news. Small news sites will suffer. On my country's google news page there are articles of sites I never heard about and I'll never remember if they get out of google news. But they are linked there and I click them as often as big news sites.
Agreed. I'm sure somebody has OO or LO on his/her Linux box and never used it. Anyway I read in another comment to this article that Windows accounts for about 80% of LO downloads, Mac 15%. If those numbers are real, and they feel like they are, the influence of Linux distributions on the overall usage is marginal. The popularity of OO vs LO is driven by the upgrade choices of Windows users. But actually, should I care if in a couple of years OO takes again a definite lead in the FOSS office space? I don't have any strong opinion about them. They're both open source and they feel about the same to me. Am I missing anything?
You can count as LO all Ubuntu installs and upgrades in the last year. Canonical switched to LO and my computer followed suit automatically. I could have overridden that but I knew LO and OO are about the same. However as a Linux user myself I think Windows users's downloads dwarf Linux downloads. I really don't know how many Windows users, which don't have a distribution upgrade system, bothered moving to LO. To be fair, there are not many visibile improvements I can think of. They might have stuck to OO because of inertia or even because they didn't knew about LO.
Actually I think that to succeed those devices need to do without the docking station. One should be able to walk into a friend house or any office and borrow a usb/bluetooth keyboard and mouse and connect to any hdmi screen. One doesn't have to leave a docking station at work, another one at home and a third one somewhere else. That's too inconvenient.
That said, I agree with you on the other requirements. I'd love to have my current computer compacted into my phone form factor (and SG2) but we'll also have to think to some new usage scenarios. For example you want to bring your phone with you when you leave your office desk to go to another room, out for lunch, to the restroom, coffe machine, etc. Tethering the phone with cables to screen, mouse and keyboards will be a bad idea because you don't want to detach/reattach those cables everytime. As IMHO docking stations are also a bad idea we'll need some wireless link to screens as well, something that disconnects and reattaches quickly to the phone when it goes back to the desk. Maybe is there already something like that?
Let's suppose that this is right... When the moon is new it is between the sun and earth. That's why we see it as dark and it's there that sun eclypses happen, when it is exactly on the light of sight between us and the sun. The next new moon will be on October 10. At that time one side of the moon will get light from sun and the other one will get light reflected by earth. On which side of the moon will be this L2 point at that time?
The only way out is that L2 will be on the night side of earth but I understood that this is the L2 point of the moon-earth system, not earth-sun.
I also quite like Touchwiz. A friend of mine has a Nexus with ICS and I don't see any gain or loss of functionality and speed. The look and feel is different, but that's a matter of personal tastes. Touchwiz on the SG2 is fast, don't know on older phones. Furthermore what I'm using most are the apps (browser, email, ebook reader, etc) and they are exactly the same whatever Android "skin" one is using. This bug is nasty, I installed exDialer as a workaround as explained in the XDA thread about the bug. I hope Samsung fixes it quickly. The update to 4.1 for my unbranded SG2 is scheduled for November, hopefully they'll bundle it in that one. Don't know what happens on older phones which don't get updates or with carrier specific firmware that has to be approved by the carriers.
There is a national law about that in Italy. Link in Italian, automatic translation of the relevant excerpt: Law 533/1977, article 2 "prohibits the use of helmets and other items which are likely to make in whole or in part unrecognizable citizens participating in public events carried on in public or in a place open to the public;" (I won't do much better, that's law-speak). That's aimed at some kind of political/violent events, not at Carnival:-)
I'm still not convinced. In my reference frame I write the message, put it into a warp drive bottle, send it to a starship moving at near light speed at 1 light year from me. That bottle is fast and it will take only one minute to catch the ship. The ship receives the bottle, istantaneusly sends it back to me and after another minute it's on my desk. That's two minutes in my future. How can I receive it in my past? Furthermore I don't see how the speed of the starship affects the experiment. If it travels at a speed close to c its passengers will look like moving very slowly to me (and I look speeded up to them) but that's all, or I'm missing something? It has been a long time since I studied relativity so I won't be surprised if I'm neglecting some important point.
You are right about IE8 but in the summary I read "Adobe announced on the Photoshop Blog that the next version of Photoshop CS would support only Windows 7 and 8."
If MS forces almost half of its customers (that's more or less what the 43% of the desktop/laptop market is) to upgrade they are going to lose some of them in the process. Some people will buy a Mac instead of a new PC, some will buy a tablet and forget about their old PC, some will install Linux. I can understand why Google is happy with that, even understand why Adobe doesn't care about XP (its customers have to keep working with its sw, no matter what) but MS is sending some of its customers to somebody else. Furthermore I believe that many companies are waiting to get a boost thanks to the WinXP end of life in 2014.
A sends a signal S. Later on B leaves A travelling faster than light. B catches up with S and sends S back to A. A receives S after A sent it and S travelled at the speed of light all the time. A would receive S later than it sent it even if B was already travelling (towards A, not leaving A of course) and comes back faster than light to deliver S in person. Probably you were thinking about a different setup. I can't think of it but I'd love to know it.
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They have no intrinsic value. Iron could be more valuable than gold as anybody would discover going to a fight with a golden sword against an iron one. People have been trained to believe that gold is precious. It will be as long as this belief lasts.
Gold and silver currencies are not as important as the other ones you listed, not even close to being fundamental. Some countries used shells, they are the same. Gold you mine, shells you fish.
You should check the law of your country. Apparently in the UK the money is legally property of the bank and the same happens in Italy (in short: the bank gets the property but has to give you back the money when you ask it).
You're right. That's why I bring my eeepc901 on planes, but I hardly fly for business and that small netbook is adequate when I go on vacation. It still does some things my phone doesn't do well (programming, storing emails for offllne use, backup for photos) and the other way round (almost anything else).
The eeepc fits well on my knees (one knee, actually - it's tiny) and I don't have to use the seat table. That gives me more room. My 16:10 15" laptop is a little too large and sometimes I have the kind of problems you run into. The eeepc is also better on trains, even if there are less problems with space there.
Nevertheless planes and trains are not major use cases for me and I'm looking forward to taller displays. Hopefully I won't have to change my laptop soon (fingers crossed) and I'm waiting to see what happens with resolution, size and touch displays.
They are not widescreen, they are reduced height. When you look at them in this way you understand the complaints.
And even if you need them Iubenda is an example of a self service privacy policy generator. They have a legal team that writes the standardized pieces you put together for your site. I've been using it for a couple of web services. Iubenda is specific for the web but I bet the same could be done for mobile applications.
The Diamonds is conventional, maybe Jobs wanted something "different". The Infinitas is *very* unconventional. I'm not sure to like it but Jobs should have tought along those lines than the ugly ones he ended up with.
The most static boat design I ever saw. It's great only if the goal was disguising it with the buildings in the harbor.
The researchers failed the IQ test. The villagers are more fit than them for their environment so it should be up to them to define what smart is there. Bring them to NYC and the roles are reversed. IMHO smart and dumb are not absolutes.
I'd remember the name of that law about questions in titles and No as an answer. Nevertheless I'm afraid that we are just getting better at passing those tests we are taught to pass. That might actually be all there is in being smart (optimal fit to the environment) but I'd be surprised that the essence of being smart can be captured by logic tests.
Half of the USA east coast gets more sun than Italy. Any map will confirm that. Does that have any meaning?
I'm sure this is a big opportunity for them. I went browsing to Google News Brazil. I read the news with a little help from Translate and got an idea of what's going in the country. The big sites will discover they're not essential, nevertheless some people will leave Google News for the newspaper sites. We'll see what the pageviews will be an year from now.
Actually I think that big newspapers with recognized brands will get more page hits because they'll be the hubs people go to read news. Small news sites will suffer. On my country's google news page there are articles of sites I never heard about and I'll never remember if they get out of google news. But they are linked there and I click them as often as big news sites.
Agreed. I'm sure somebody has OO or LO on his/her Linux box and never used it. Anyway I read in another comment to this article that Windows accounts for about 80% of LO downloads, Mac 15%. If those numbers are real, and they feel like they are, the influence of Linux distributions on the overall usage is marginal. The popularity of OO vs LO is driven by the upgrade choices of Windows users. But actually, should I care if in a couple of years OO takes again a definite lead in the FOSS office space? I don't have any strong opinion about them. They're both open source and they feel about the same to me. Am I missing anything?
You can count as LO all Ubuntu installs and upgrades in the last year. Canonical switched to LO and my computer followed suit automatically. I could have overridden that but I knew LO and OO are about the same. However as a Linux user myself I think Windows users's downloads dwarf Linux downloads. I really don't know how many Windows users, which don't have a distribution upgrade system, bothered moving to LO. To be fair, there are not many visibile improvements I can think of. They might have stuck to OO because of inertia or even because they didn't knew about LO.
Actually I think that to succeed those devices need to do without the docking station. One should be able to walk into a friend house or any office and borrow a usb/bluetooth keyboard and mouse and connect to any hdmi screen. One doesn't have to leave a docking station at work, another one at home and a third one somewhere else. That's too inconvenient.
That said, I agree with you on the other requirements. I'd love to have my current computer compacted into my phone form factor (and SG2) but we'll also have to think to some new usage scenarios. For example you want to bring your phone with you when you leave your office desk to go to another room, out for lunch, to the restroom, coffe machine, etc. Tethering the phone with cables to screen, mouse and keyboards will be a bad idea because you don't want to detach/reattach those cables everytime. As IMHO docking stations are also a bad idea we'll need some wireless link to screens as well, something that disconnects and reattaches quickly to the phone when it goes back to the desk. Maybe is there already something like that?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=328WhjAXpcs 42:24, thanks
Let's suppose that this is right... When the moon is new it is between the sun and earth. That's why we see it as dark and it's there that sun eclypses happen, when it is exactly on the light of sight between us and the sun. The next new moon will be on October 10. At that time one side of the moon will get light from sun and the other one will get light reflected by earth. On which side of the moon will be this L2 point at that time?
The only way out is that L2 will be on the night side of earth but I understood that this is the L2 point of the moon-earth system, not earth-sun.
Dark side as in "never receives the light of the Sun"? The Pink Floyd are still casting a dark shadow on astronomy beliefs ;-)
I also quite like Touchwiz. A friend of mine has a Nexus with ICS and I don't see any gain or loss of functionality and speed. The look and feel is different, but that's a matter of personal tastes. Touchwiz on the SG2 is fast, don't know on older phones. Furthermore what I'm using most are the apps (browser, email, ebook reader, etc) and they are exactly the same whatever Android "skin" one is using.
This bug is nasty, I installed exDialer as a workaround as explained in the XDA thread about the bug. I hope Samsung fixes it quickly. The update to 4.1 for my unbranded SG2 is scheduled for November, hopefully they'll bundle it in that one. Don't know what happens on older phones which don't get updates or with carrier specific firmware that has to be approved by the carriers.
There is a national law about that in Italy. Link in Italian, automatic translation of the relevant excerpt: Law 533/1977, article 2 "prohibits the use of helmets and other items which are likely to make in whole or in part unrecognizable citizens participating in public events carried on in public or in a place open to the public;" (I won't do much better, that's law-speak). That's aimed at some kind of political/violent events, not at Carnival :-)
I'm still not convinced. In my reference frame I write the message, put it into a warp drive bottle, send it to a starship moving at near light speed at 1 light year from me. That bottle is fast and it will take only one minute to catch the ship. The ship receives the bottle, istantaneusly sends it back to me and after another minute it's on my desk. That's two minutes in my future. How can I receive it in my past?
Furthermore I don't see how the speed of the starship affects the experiment. If it travels at a speed close to c its passengers will look like moving very slowly to me (and I look speeded up to them) but that's all, or I'm missing something? It has been a long time since I studied relativity so I won't be surprised if I'm neglecting some important point.
You are right about IE8 but in the summary I read "Adobe announced on the Photoshop Blog that the next version of Photoshop CS would support only Windows 7 and 8."
If MS forces almost half of its customers (that's more or less what the 43% of the desktop/laptop market is) to upgrade they are going to lose some of them in the process. Some people will buy a Mac instead of a new PC, some will buy a tablet and forget about their old PC, some will install Linux. I can understand why Google is happy with that, even understand why Adobe doesn't care about XP (its customers have to keep working with its sw, no matter what) but MS is sending some of its customers to somebody else. Furthermore I believe that many companies are waiting to get a boost thanks to the WinXP end of life in 2014.
A sends a signal S. Later on B leaves A travelling faster than light. B catches up with S and sends S back to A. A receives S after A sent it and S travelled at the speed of light all the time. A would receive S later than it sent it even if B was already travelling (towards A, not leaving A of course) and comes back faster than light to deliver S in person. Probably you were thinking about a different setup. I can't think of it but I'd love to know it.