... and that something is the Safari browser. As long as you use a different browser, everything is okay, so this looks like a software issue, that will likely be fixed with a routine update, rather than a hardware issue. My spouse has a new Macbook, and uses Chrome so she has the same UI and can sync bookmarks with Windows and Linux. Her battery life is better than expected, and an improvement over her 2014 model.
As has been mentioned before, the idea of them doing self-driving cars seems like it will do more damage to them than keeping the current configuration.
This argument only makes sense if Uber, and only Uber, is capable of offering SDC rides. There is zero chance of that. If they do not move to an SDC business model, someone else will do it instead, and destroy them.
"Keeping the current configuration" is not their choice to make. The market will make it for them.
There is little point in using bitcoins for normal everyday business-to-consumer transactions. So most people do not, and maybe never will, use them. But there are still uses for bitcoins. My company employs a graphic artist living in Karachi. The transaction costs of transferring and converting dollars to pak-rupees are exorbitant. So we pay her in bitcoins. It works well, and, since it is below the radar, we don't have to worry about the 35% tax that our soon-to-be-president will impose on offshoring.
Uber getting involved in autonomous cars makes absolutely zero business sense.
In a traditional business sense, of course it makes no sense. But that doesn't apply here. Uber is in a competitive industry with few barriers to entry, and very little profit, yet they have a market cap of $50B. How can they possibly justify that valuation to their investors? The only way is to convince them that there is something more: That self-driving cars are going to revolutionize transportation, and that Uber is going to play a major role in that, with plenty of profit for everyone.
From a publicity point of view, their defiance of the California DMV was pure genius. Uber got way more news coverage in California than they did for their earlier fully legal SDC rollout in Pennsylvania. They need to be perceived as a gutsy company aggressively pursuing new tech. They achieved that.
Because it is a political stunt to get the Republicans to overturn it when Trump gets in
There is no political mechanism to reverse the decision. Congress could vote to reverse it, but that would be subjected to court challenges questioning the validity of the reversal. But even a congressional vote would be difficult, since it would need 60 votes in the Senate. Not even all Republican senators could be counted on. Why should a senator from Texas, Oklahoma, or North Dakota vote for more oil drilling in the arctic, to compete with oil from their own states? It is possible that there won't be much opposition from oil companies either, since big offshore projects don't compete well against shale oil. Shell recently cancelled a big offshore project in Alaska.
Deepwater Horizon showed that there is no guarantee of no spills, and an accident of that size would have devastating environmental effects in the Arctic Sea.
I refuse to buy any in-app purchases because I see them as a scam.
Most people abandon apps after only a single use, so I would say it is the "pay-up-front" model that is a scam, because what you get often isn't what you expected. With an in-app purchase, you already tried the app and you like the basic functionality, so you pay for more and you know what you are getting.
I also don't like "subscription model" payments. Always end up paying more.
You only pay more if it is something you like. If you don't like it, you cancel after the first small payment, and avoid the big payment.
I'm fairly certain that industrial-grade robots will always be capital intensive and suited to large scale.
"Industrial-grade" robots, are already used in manufacturing, but manufacturing accounts for less than 10% of employment, so further improvements there will have minimal impact. The big impact will be smaller, more flexible robots that can be used to automate services.
The hard part in developing a humanoid robot is the software, which has a marginal cost of $0. Once robots are mass produced in the millions, there is no reason they should cost more than a few thousand dollars. They will have far less hardware than a car, and even poor people own those. If I could buy a robot that could cook, clean, wash the dishes, do the laundry, etc., for, say $2k, I certainly would. If it could save me an hour per day, even at minimum wage, it would pay for itself in less than one year. Except for a few luddites, everyone will own one.
The idea that only "the rich" will have robots is silly. "The rich" didn't stop me from buying a Roomba.
You don't make money by giving people what they say they want. You give people what they are willing to pay for.
I have worked in marketing, and an incremental pay-as-you-go, or subscription model, will almost always generate more profit than a one-time upfront payment. The biggest problem is getting customers past their first commitment, and asking for full payment up-front is a big hurdle. Lots of little payments meet far less psychological resistance.
By looking at previous actions instead of campaign rhetoric, you can easily see Trump gleefully supports outsourcing.
Taking advantage of dumb policies is not the same as believing they are good ideas. I personally take advantage of plenty of tax deductions and government incentives that I believe are idiotic in terms of public policy.
I beg to differ. China has been upsizing their military with trillions in their budget.
You missed the PP's point. China has indeed greatly increased military spending, but that has gone toward tech, not soldiers. China has fewer soldiers today than they did in 1991.
The 1991 Gulf War was a huge jolt to the PLA. They realized that their strategy of overwhelming a technologically superior enemy with huge numbers was NOT going to work in an era of drones and precision munitions. They began reducing the number of grunts, and putting way more resources into tech.
Of course, correlation does not imply causation, so naturally all studies and theories (including ours) are immediately excused as total and complete fabricated bullshit.
Nonsense. Observed correlation does not imply causation, but it often indicates it. So, although no one should conclude from this that social media activity causes depression, it does point in that direction. The true test is a controlled experiment that assigns people randomly to either activity on many sites, or limits them to just one, or maybe none. In a properly conducted controlled study, correlation certainly does imply correlation.
Or ATT still operating under their policy of !@#$ landline users?
Landliners generally can't switch providers, so why should they care? Why do you have landline? If you only have it for emergencies, then set the volume to zero, and only use it for outgoing calls.
Except the spammy douchebags are just spoofing local numbers to fool people into picking them up.
The phone companies could easily detect and block that behavior, if they chose to do so. The problem is that they have no incentive to care. Hopefully, when AT&T starts blocking spam calls, the others will do the same to stay competitive.
Increasing shareholder value, the motherhood of corporate boards everywhere.
Uber is a private company.
That makes shareholder value more important, not less. In a public company, the board members represent the shareholders. In a private company, the board members ARE the shareholders.
It's also one that bleeds the investors' money rather fast.
That is what investor money is for. You spend it to grow faster than you could if you were only reinvesting profit. As long as Uber is growing and expanding into new markets, the investors are getting what they expect. Cashflow will come later.
Anything can connect to a Nest. I can connect directly with my cellphone or a laptop. When people talk about "IoT" they usually don't mean an expensive device like a Nest, with a full computer built in. They mean things like light bulbs, door locks, and motion sensors. Without a separate hub, neither an Amazon Echo nor a Google Home can connect to any of those. With a separate hub, you don't need an Echo or Home, because you can control them through the hub with your cellphone.
And they will still Build Natural Gas plants not Coal.
Indeed. Even if Trump was able to relax environmental requirements for coal (highly unlikely) there is no reason to believe that even more stringent requirements won't be slapped back on in four or eight years. Only a fool would build a new coal plant today. In America, none are being built or even planned. Coal is dead.
Did this guy actually do this entirely on his own?
Yes he did. I live next door to Zuck, and I watched him dig silicate rocks out of his backyard, crush them into sand, smelt his own silicon, and apply the dopants to make transistors. Anything less would have been cheating.
the Amazon Echo pretty much does a great job of integrating all your smart home devices.
No it doesn't. You need to buy a separate hub, such as a Wink, or Samsung Smarthings, and connect that to your Amazon Echo to bridge from Wifi to ZWave. I have both an Echo and a Google Home (hey, I love gadgets) and both of them have totally lame support for IoT.
We don't elect presidents by popular vote in this country.
... and if we did, Trump would have likely still won. Both Hillary and Donald focused on swing states. If they had both run a national campaign to secure the popular vote, it is likely that Trump would have won more votes in blue states than Clinton would have won in red states. The blue states tend to have more concentrated media markets, with target rich concentrations of Democratic voters in metropolitan areas. Red votes tend to be much more diffuse, thinly spread out over rural areas.
I'd be surprised if it doesn't go into a database...
My recollection is that he asked my religion as he was punching it into the blank tags. It wasn't recorded anywhere else, and I walked away with the tags, so I don't see how it could have gone into a DB. Besides, this is back when few people had ever heard of a "database".
in case your tags are lost
I received three tags. Two went around my neck: one to stay with the corpse, the other to be collected and sent in with the casualty report. The third was laced into my boot. To lose all three, I would have been blown into small enough pieces to be seagull chow, and there would have been nothing left to bury.
Hopefully they've learned to do a more effective job this time.
They did an effective job last time. Most of the death camps were profitable. They were very efficiently run, and IBM's tabulating machines helped with that.
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Something is rotten in the state of Apple.
... and that something is the Safari browser. As long as you use a different browser, everything is okay, so this looks like a software issue, that will likely be fixed with a routine update, rather than a hardware issue. My spouse has a new Macbook, and uses Chrome so she has the same UI and can sync bookmarks with Windows and Linux. Her battery life is better than expected, and an improvement over her 2014 model.
As has been mentioned before, the idea of them doing self-driving cars seems like it will do more damage to them than keeping the current configuration.
This argument only makes sense if Uber, and only Uber, is capable of offering SDC rides. There is zero chance of that. If they do not move to an SDC business model, someone else will do it instead, and destroy them.
"Keeping the current configuration" is not their choice to make. The market will make it for them.
There is little point in using bitcoins for normal everyday business-to-consumer transactions. So most people do not, and maybe never will, use them. But there are still uses for bitcoins. My company employs a graphic artist living in Karachi. The transaction costs of transferring and converting dollars to pak-rupees are exorbitant. So we pay her in bitcoins. It works well, and, since it is below the radar, we don't have to worry about the 35% tax that our soon-to-be-president will impose on offshoring.
Uber getting involved in autonomous cars makes absolutely zero business sense.
In a traditional business sense, of course it makes no sense. But that doesn't apply here. Uber is in a competitive industry with few barriers to entry, and very little profit, yet they have a market cap of $50B. How can they possibly justify that valuation to their investors? The only way is to convince them that there is something more: That self-driving cars are going to revolutionize transportation, and that Uber is going to play a major role in that, with plenty of profit for everyone.
From a publicity point of view, their defiance of the California DMV was pure genius. Uber got way more news coverage in California than they did for their earlier fully legal SDC rollout in Pennsylvania. They need to be perceived as a gutsy company aggressively pursuing new tech. They achieved that.
Because it is a political stunt to get the Republicans to overturn it when Trump gets in
There is no political mechanism to reverse the decision. Congress could vote to reverse it, but that would be subjected to court challenges questioning the validity of the reversal. But even a congressional vote would be difficult, since it would need 60 votes in the Senate. Not even all Republican senators could be counted on. Why should a senator from Texas, Oklahoma, or North Dakota vote for more oil drilling in the arctic, to compete with oil from their own states? It is possible that there won't be much opposition from oil companies either, since big offshore projects don't compete well against shale oil. Shell recently cancelled a big offshore project in Alaska.
Deepwater Horizon showed that there is no guarantee of no spills, and an accident of that size would have devastating environmental effects in the Arctic Sea.
I refuse to buy any in-app purchases because I see them as a scam.
Most people abandon apps after only a single use, so I would say it is the "pay-up-front" model that is a scam, because what you get often isn't what you expected. With an in-app purchase, you already tried the app and you like the basic functionality, so you pay for more and you know what you are getting.
I also don't like "subscription model" payments. Always end up paying more.
You only pay more if it is something you like. If you don't like it, you cancel after the first small payment, and avoid the big payment.
I'm fairly certain that industrial-grade robots will always be capital intensive and suited to large scale.
"Industrial-grade" robots, are already used in manufacturing, but manufacturing accounts for less than 10% of employment, so further improvements there will have minimal impact. The big impact will be smaller, more flexible robots that can be used to automate services.
The hard part in developing a humanoid robot is the software, which has a marginal cost of $0. Once robots are mass produced in the millions, there is no reason they should cost more than a few thousand dollars. They will have far less hardware than a car, and even poor people own those. If I could buy a robot that could cook, clean, wash the dishes, do the laundry, etc., for, say $2k, I certainly would. If it could save me an hour per day, even at minimum wage, it would pay for itself in less than one year. Except for a few luddites, everyone will own one.
The idea that only "the rich" will have robots is silly. "The rich" didn't stop me from buying a Roomba.
Nobody wants pay as you go, that is bullshit.
You don't make money by giving people what they say they want. You give people what they are willing to pay for.
I have worked in marketing, and an incremental pay-as-you-go, or subscription model, will almost always generate more profit than a one-time upfront payment. The biggest problem is getting customers past their first commitment, and asking for full payment up-front is a big hurdle. Lots of little payments meet far less psychological resistance.
By looking at previous actions instead of campaign rhetoric, you can easily see Trump gleefully supports outsourcing.
Taking advantage of dumb policies is not the same as believing they are good ideas. I personally take advantage of plenty of tax deductions and government incentives that I believe are idiotic in terms of public policy.
I beg to differ. China has been upsizing their military with trillions in their budget.
You missed the PP's point. China has indeed greatly increased military spending, but that has gone toward tech, not soldiers. China has fewer soldiers today than they did in 1991.
The 1991 Gulf War was a huge jolt to the PLA. They realized that their strategy of overwhelming a technologically superior enemy with huge numbers was NOT going to work in an era of drones and precision munitions. They began reducing the number of grunts, and putting way more resources into tech.
poor people won't own the robots
Why not? People predicted that cars and computers would only be for "the rich", but it didn't turn out that way.
Please tell me this is sarcasm.
It is either sarcasm or ignorance. In America, a private citizen cannot buy or possess an AK-47.
Business requirement and it makes fax use easy.
Oh right, I remember learning about faxes in history class.
Of course, correlation does not imply causation, so naturally all studies and theories (including ours) are immediately excused as total and complete fabricated bullshit.
Nonsense. Observed correlation does not imply causation, but it often indicates it. So, although no one should conclude from this that social media activity causes depression, it does point in that direction. The true test is a controlled experiment that assigns people randomly to either activity on many sites, or limits them to just one, or maybe none. In a properly conducted controlled study, correlation certainly does imply correlation.
Or ATT still operating under their policy of !@#$ landline users?
Landliners generally can't switch providers, so why should they care?
Why do you have landline?
If you only have it for emergencies, then set the volume to zero, and only use it for outgoing calls.
Except the spammy douchebags are just spoofing local numbers to fool people into picking them up.
The phone companies could easily detect and block that behavior, if they chose to do so.
The problem is that they have no incentive to care.
Hopefully, when AT&T starts blocking spam calls, the others will do the same to stay competitive.
Increasing shareholder value, the motherhood of corporate boards everywhere.
Uber is a private company.
That makes shareholder value more important, not less. In a public company, the board members represent the shareholders. In a private company, the board members ARE the shareholders.
It's also one that bleeds the investors' money rather fast.
That is what investor money is for. You spend it to grow faster than you could if you were only reinvesting profit. As long as Uber is growing and expanding into new markets, the investors are getting what they expect. Cashflow will come later.
It will connect directly to a Nest
Anything can connect to a Nest. I can connect directly with my cellphone or a laptop. When people talk about "IoT" they usually don't mean an expensive device like a Nest, with a full computer built in. They mean things like light bulbs, door locks, and motion sensors. Without a separate hub, neither an Amazon Echo nor a Google Home can connect to any of those. With a separate hub, you don't need an Echo or Home, because you can control them through the hub with your cellphone.
Because one is subsidized and the other was successfully taxed and regulated out of existence.
Exactly. It is totally unfair that coal plants had to stop spewing soot and sulfuric acid into the atmosphere. We need to make America great again!
And they will still Build Natural Gas plants not Coal.
Indeed. Even if Trump was able to relax environmental requirements for coal (highly unlikely) there is no reason to believe that even more stringent requirements won't be slapped back on in four or eight years. Only a fool would build a new coal plant today. In America, none are being built or even planned. Coal is dead.
Did this guy actually do this entirely on his own?
Yes he did. I live next door to Zuck, and I watched him dig silicate rocks out of his backyard, crush them into sand, smelt his own silicon, and apply the dopants to make transistors. Anything less would have been cheating.
the Amazon Echo pretty much does a great job of integrating all your smart home devices.
No it doesn't. You need to buy a separate hub, such as a Wink, or Samsung Smarthings, and connect that to your Amazon Echo to bridge from Wifi to ZWave. I have both an Echo and a Google Home (hey, I love gadgets) and both of them have totally lame support for IoT.
We don't elect presidents by popular vote in this country.
... and if we did, Trump would have likely still won. Both Hillary and Donald focused on swing states. If they had both run a national campaign to secure the popular vote, it is likely that Trump would have won more votes in blue states than Clinton would have won in red states. The blue states tend to have more concentrated media markets, with target rich concentrations of Democratic voters in metropolitan areas. Red votes tend to be much more diffuse, thinly spread out over rural areas.
I'd be surprised if it doesn't go into a database ...
My recollection is that he asked my religion as he was punching it into the blank tags. It wasn't recorded anywhere else, and I walked away with the tags, so I don't see how it could have gone into a DB. Besides, this is back when few people had ever heard of a "database".
in case your tags are lost
I received three tags. Two went around my neck: one to stay with the corpse, the other to be collected and sent in with the casualty report. The third was laced into my boot. To lose all three, I would have been blown into small enough pieces to be seagull chow, and there would have been nothing left to bury.
Hopefully they've learned to do a more effective job this time.
They did an effective job last time. Most of the death camps were profitable. They were very efficiently run, and IBM's tabulating machines helped with that.