If 9-yo could understand relativity then the industrial revolution would have occurred 600-BC !
1. The industrial revolution was not based on relativity. It was based on Newtonian physics. 2. Plenty of 9 year olds can understand that F=MA. 3. Understanding something is not the same as discovering it. Plenty of big discoveries are "obvious" in hindsight.
They will probably have a very hard time understanding the magnitude of the numbers involved.
So what? You don't have to understand scientific notation to know that you can vaporize Klingons with anti-matter.
When kids ask questions, they just want a quick overview. They aren't expecting you to read them a PhD dissertation. Although that might be effective way to get them to go bother someone else the next time they have a question.
Relativity, spacetime curvature, and mass-energy equivalence are not beyond a nine year old's ability to understand. They aren't going to be able to understand all the formulas, but they can get the gist of the concepts.
If you don't want to explain it to your kid, there are plenty of great Youtube videos you can point to that explain all this stuff really well in kid friendly terms.
Youtube and Wikipedia have made parenting much easier.
Indeed. You have to admire criminals that are willing to accomodate their victims' ability to pay.
Also, ransomware has some positive benefits. For so many areas of computer security, the cost of poor practices is externalized onto the innocent. This is true of data breaches, insecure devices used as spambots, etc. But with ransomware, the cost lands directly in the lap of the people failing to secure their systems and failing to run backups. So ransomware directly incentivizes better security practices that benefit everyone.
Just because my browser has a built-in password manager, doesn't mean I use it. I use Keepass instead
You aren't using it because you are already using something else. But for 90% of the public, if a popup asks "Do you want Chrome to remember this password?", they are going to think "Sure, why not?". But if someone later asks them "Are you using a password manager?", they will say "No", because they don't even know what that is.
The main problem with syrup in Canada is surpluses. . They have production quotas to prevent overproduction and support higher wholesale prices.
The world is not going to run out of pancake syrup, and stupid alarmist articles like this are counter-productive at getting people to take climate change seriously.
It doesn't cost $15/mile to operate. The lease payment divided by the number of miles driven on average is $15/mile.
Exactly. By adding to the total distance, driving to lunch pushed down the average dollar per mile cost, and likely actually saved the taxpayers money.
These journalists should learn how to do basic math, and stop pestering the police.
Note: cell phones and even laptop mics aren't very omnidirectional.
I have participated in many conference calls around a cell phone sitting in the middle of the table. It works pretty well.
A cellphone is a far bigger privacy hole, and you are just in denial because you have too much self esteem invested in feeling superior by not owning an Echo.
More importantly, Trump humiliated Wall Street's chosen candidate (Jeb Bush) in the primary, and then beat their back-up candidate in the general election. Since there was no "legitimate" way for that to happen, it is clear that the American people were "tricked" by criminals, or even worse, Russian criminals.
Perhaps. But is a ballistic missile attack response team really the right career for someone that requires a lot of on-the-job training?
Being excluded from promotion decisions could be one of them.
Well, if they screw up the response to a real ballistic missile attack, then sure, delaying their promotion would be warranted.
Perhaps it is time to question whether we should even have state-level bureaucrats assigned to ballistic missile response. Shouldn't that be something handled at the Federal level? The is especially true for Hawaii, which has near Louisiana levels of corruption and incompetence.
David Ige, the governor of Hawaii has said this has been a "learning experience" for everyone involved, that it will not turn into a witch hunt, and no one will lose their job. In other words, there will be no accountability or consequences, and the same serially incompetent bozos will remain in charge.
Taking shelter can make a big difference. We can learn a lot from what happened at Hiroshima and Nagasaki. People in the open were much more likely to be killed. But shelter helped a lot more in Nagasaki, where most buildings were stone, rather than in Hiroshima, where most were wood. Nagasaki was hit by a bigger bomb (20kT vs 15kT) but fewer people died because there was no firestorm like Hiroshima experienced.
Anyway, I think we are way past the point where anyone is going to take these stupid "alerts" seriously. I heard that less than 5% of Hawaiians actually took shelter, and every false alarm is going to diminish that further.
Actually, they are cheap. Most cars already have power steering and braking, so no new actuators are needed. Just some cameras and some software. Software has a high NRE, but near zero marginal cost.
5 megapixel cameras cost less than $5 each. Beginning on 1/1/2018, rear facing cameras are mandatory on all new cars, so only the front and side/oblique cameras are an additional expense.
Lidar is expensive (~ $5000 per car) but it isn't necessary. Waymo uses it, but Tesla does not. The cost will likely drop a lot with mass production.
Self driving capability will add between 0% and 10% to the cost of a car.
It is not Apple's job to give everyone in the world the equivalent of an American middle-class lifestyle. $2 per hour is a fair wage in China, especially for an unskilled worker. It is not enough to afford an SUV and a four bedroom house with a white picket fence, but it is enough for a moped and a room in shared apartment, and with two adults working, and the grandparents providing childcare (normal in China), it is enough to support a family.
I am sceptical about the accuracy of TFA. Jiangsu is one of the most prosperous provinces in China, and is within commuting distance of metropolitan Shanghai. These workers have plenty of other options, so if the conditions are really as horrific as described, why would they work there?
The wife works in a factory and the husband owns a home decorating business? Well THERE'S your problem.
In China, most factory workers are women. The men are back on the farm doing heavy labor. Most modern factory work requires dexterity, not strength.
But how far up the chain should Apple's responsibility go? Should they be responsible for the farmers that grow the rice served in the company cafeteria?
They didn't invent this tech yet they're patenting the shit out of it.
BofA is behaving rationally. Even if they only intend to act defensively (unlikely) they need a patent portfolio to do so.
The people that work at the USPTO need to be shot.
The USPTO is just doing their job. It is congress who needs to ban software patents.
But people who oppose software patents, and are willing to vote or donate based on the issue, are rare and dispersed. That makes it a politically ineffective issue. So don't expect anything to change.
Sometimes, the best or only way to increase profits is just to keep cutting costs.
That only works if the cost of what is being cut exceeds the profits it generates.
I doubt if this is true for Macs. They are some of the best selling laptops made by any company, and they sell at a significant premium compared to Windows laptops. The only extra cost is maintaining OSX, but I have heard there are only a few dozen employees working on it full time, and there is a lot of source duplication with iOS.
Macs should be a cash cow for Apple.
Disclaimer: I have a newish 15" Macbook Pro and I am very happy with it.
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If 9-yo could understand relativity then the industrial revolution would have occurred 600-BC !
1. The industrial revolution was not based on relativity. It was based on Newtonian physics.
2. Plenty of 9 year olds can understand that F=MA.
3. Understanding something is not the same as discovering it. Plenty of big discoveries are "obvious" in hindsight.
They will probably have a very hard time understanding the magnitude of the numbers involved.
So what? You don't have to understand scientific notation to know that you can vaporize Klingons with anti-matter.
When kids ask questions, they just want a quick overview. They aren't expecting you to read them a PhD dissertation. Although that might be effective way to get them to go bother someone else the next time they have a question.
Relativity, spacetime curvature, and mass-energy equivalence are not beyond a nine year old's ability to understand. They aren't going to be able to understand all the formulas, but they can get the gist of the concepts.
If you don't want to explain it to your kid, there are plenty of great Youtube videos you can point to that explain all this stuff really well in kid friendly terms.
Youtube and Wikipedia have made parenting much easier.
"Ethical hackers"...
Indeed. You have to admire criminals that are willing to accomodate their victims' ability to pay.
Also, ransomware has some positive benefits. For so many areas of computer security, the cost of poor practices is externalized onto the innocent. This is true of data breaches, insecure devices used as spambots, etc. But with ransomware, the cost lands directly in the lap of the people failing to secure their systems and failing to run backups. So ransomware directly incentivizes better security practices that benefit everyone.
Just because my browser has a built-in password manager, doesn't mean I use it. I use Keepass instead
You aren't using it because you are already using something else. But for 90% of the public, if a popup asks "Do you want Chrome to remember this password?", they are going to think "Sure, why not?". But if someone later asks them "Are you using a password manager?", they will say "No", because they don't even know what that is.
The main problem with syrup in Canada is surpluses. . They have production quotas to prevent overproduction and support higher wholesale prices.
The world is not going to run out of pancake syrup, and stupid alarmist articles like this are counter-productive at getting people to take climate change seriously.
Sugar maples are not going away. Their range will just shift northward. There will be fewer in Michigan, but more in northern Ontario.
It doesn't cost $15/mile to operate. The lease payment divided by the number of miles driven on average is $15/mile.
Exactly. By adding to the total distance, driving to lunch pushed down the average dollar per mile cost, and likely actually saved the taxpayers money.
These journalists should learn how to do basic math, and stop pestering the police.
Note: cell phones and even laptop mics aren't very omnidirectional.
I have participated in many conference calls around a cell phone sitting in the middle of the table. It works pretty well.
A cellphone is a far bigger privacy hole, and you are just in denial because you have too much self esteem invested in feeling superior by not owning an Echo.
1) What crime, exactly, was committed?
Trump won.
More importantly, Trump humiliated Wall Street's chosen candidate (Jeb Bush) in the primary, and then beat their back-up candidate in the general election. Since there was no "legitimate" way for that to happen, it is clear that the American people were "tricked" by criminals, or even worse, Russian criminals.
.....continuously prioritized user growth and making money over protecting users
Except Christianity is criticized for controlling thoughts, while Facebook is being criticized for not doing enough though control.
Do we really want Facebook, or any other corporation, to "steer the thoughts and actions of the masses"?
Is it really Facebook's fault that too many people voted the "wrong way" in 2016? Who gets to decide which thoughts are "right"?
Personally, I prefer to not be steered.
There can be accountability besides firings.
Perhaps. But is a ballistic missile attack response team really the right career for someone that requires a lot of on-the-job training?
Being excluded from promotion decisions could be one of them.
Well, if they screw up the response to a real ballistic missile attack, then sure, delaying their promotion would be warranted.
Perhaps it is time to question whether we should even have state-level bureaucrats assigned to ballistic missile response. Shouldn't that be something handled at the Federal level? The is especially true for Hawaii, which has near Louisiana levels of corruption and incompetence.
What percentage of Hawaiians actually knew about the alert between the time it was sent and the time an announcement of the error was made?
Everyone with an 808 area code cellphone that was turned on. Likely 90% of the adult population of Hawaii.
David Ige, the governor of Hawaii has said this has been a "learning experience" for everyone involved, that it will not turn into a witch hunt, and no one will lose their job. In other words, there will be no accountability or consequences, and the same serially incompetent bozos will remain in charge.
Taking shelter can make a big difference. We can learn a lot from what happened at Hiroshima and Nagasaki. People in the open were much more likely to be killed. But shelter helped a lot more in Nagasaki, where most buildings were stone, rather than in Hiroshima, where most were wood. Nagasaki was hit by a bigger bomb (20kT vs 15kT) but fewer people died because there was no firestorm like Hiroshima experienced.
Anyway, I think we are way past the point where anyone is going to take these stupid "alerts" seriously. I heard that less than 5% of Hawaiians actually took shelter, and every false alarm is going to diminish that further.
Those robots are not cheap to buy or maintain.
Actually, they are cheap. Most cars already have power steering and braking, so no new actuators are needed. Just some cameras and some software. Software has a high NRE, but near zero marginal cost.
5 megapixel cameras cost less than $5 each. Beginning on 1/1/2018, rear facing cameras are mandatory on all new cars, so only the front and side/oblique cameras are an additional expense.
Lidar is expensive (~ $5000 per car) but it isn't necessary. Waymo uses it, but Tesla does not. The cost will likely drop a lot with mass production.
Self driving capability will add between 0% and 10% to the cost of a car.
No, they're saying that human-human flea transmission was likely the most direct way for Y. pestis to spread.
Evidence for this hypothesis is found in Iceland. Iceland was hit by bubonic plague several times, yet did not have rats or any other rodents.
...Until is more fair?
It is not Apple's job to give everyone in the world the equivalent of an American middle-class lifestyle. $2 per hour is a fair wage in China, especially for an unskilled worker. It is not enough to afford an SUV and a four bedroom house with a white picket fence, but it is enough for a moped and a room in shared apartment, and with two adults working, and the grandparents providing childcare (normal in China), it is enough to support a family.
I am sceptical about the accuracy of TFA. Jiangsu is one of the most prosperous provinces in China, and is within commuting distance of metropolitan Shanghai. These workers have plenty of other options, so if the conditions are really as horrific as described, why would they work there?
The wife works in a factory and the husband owns a home decorating business? Well THERE'S your problem.
In China, most factory workers are women. The men are back on the farm doing heavy labor. Most modern factory work requires dexterity, not strength.
But how far up the chain should Apple's responsibility go? Should they be responsible for the farmers that grow the rice served in the company cafeteria?
They didn't invent this tech yet they're patenting the shit out of it.
BofA is behaving rationally. Even if they only intend to act defensively (unlikely) they need a patent portfolio to do so.
The people that work at the USPTO need to be shot.
The USPTO is just doing their job. It is congress who needs to ban software patents.
But people who oppose software patents, and are willing to vote or donate based on the issue, are rare and dispersed. That makes it a politically ineffective issue. So don't expect anything to change.
Studies have shown that women are more attractive to men when they're ovulating
Indeed. Strippers earn 30% more in tips when they are ovulating.
Isn't this just another point which shows that the drivers are employees, not contractors?
No. Safety regulations normally apply to both employees and contractors.
Have you ever seen a sign at a construction site that said "Hard hats required unless you are a contractor"?
Sometimes, the best or only way to increase profits is just to keep cutting costs.
That only works if the cost of what is being cut exceeds the profits it generates.
I doubt if this is true for Macs. They are some of the best selling laptops made by any company, and they sell at a significant premium compared to Windows laptops. The only extra cost is maintaining OSX, but I have heard there are only a few dozen employees working on it full time, and there is a lot of source duplication with iOS.
Macs should be a cash cow for Apple.
Disclaimer: I have a newish 15" Macbook Pro and I am very happy with it.
The Air hasn't seen a major upgrade since 2015. The Macbook Pro is a way better machine, and since MBPs no longer have HDDs, it is almost as thin.
Max thickness of Macbook Air: 0.68 inches
Max thickness of Macbook Pro: 0.71 inches
So you save 0.03 inches (less than a mm), and get a far inferior computer.