. If you are talking "gigawatts" and "can't blow up", then you are likely talking nonsense.
He linked to a Wikipedia article explaining it. Your lack of understanding does not mean he is wrong. These are passively safe designs. They cannot blow up.
They should have slowly phased out DVD-by-mail by paring down the available DVD catalog in favor of streaming offerings
My Netflix queue contains exactly 200 items, of which 53 are available via streaming. When 190 of the 200 items are available on streaming, *then* they can start to get rid of the DVD business.
Because those countries tend to have lower crime rates overall.
Years ago, the UN did a survey (they I can't find freely available anymore, unfortunately) of every country in the world. The correltaed "non-suicide gun-related deaths per capita" to "guns ownership per capita" along with a bunch of other figures. Based on those numbers, there was no correlation. For example: European countries with mandatory gun ownership had comparable non-suicide gun-related deaths per capita had similar crime rates to countries where guns were rare.
So were the laws working? Mostly yes: gun ownership per capita was lower in countries with stricter laws.
So what *does* correlate fewer non-suicide gun-related deaths? Better education. Lower overall crime.
It was a fascinating set of statistics and I wish I could link to it so that everyone could read it.
Would he have been concerned about being charged with a gun control violation, when he already faces 50 counts of murder? One could argue that such a law might have been a deterrent by making it more difficult to get the gun. But if one is bent on mass murder, that seems unrealistic.
FYI: Worked for me, Office 2010 Pro. I used the Fill Handle to do it since I only know the old menu-based way. Completely non-obvious how to do it, but it worked just fine.
Carriers incur no cost for messages, because they are part of the phone's sync to the tower,
I thought the same way until a previous Slashdot comment explained how this works in detail. While the text messages use the same packet format as the phone's sync to the tower, it still causes additional packets, and bigger packets. So the bandwidth is not free. It would be like sending an email by embedding it inside DNS requests. Yes, you need to make DNS requests anyway, but sending an email through them would not make the bandwidth free.
Ultimately, this does not change your point though, it is just a nitpick. Their policies are ridiculous. Charging for Face Time over cell networks is an awesome example of why we need network neutrality. (Sorry Ron Paul - I like you but you are wrong on this one!) If I were Verizon, I would have my marketing department jump all over this one. I can use my bandwidth for whatever I want on my Verizon + Android combo.
Actually, lots and lots and lots of companies work that way. For example: Suppose that the tractor is so good it costs $250,000 to build: parts and labor. And the R&D to develop it was $50 million. No farmer could afford that. But they might be able to afford paying a per-crop fee so long as they used the tractor. And it might still wind-up with them saving money because it cuts their work down.
Medical devices work this way, as one example. So do inkjet printers & ink. And movies. And restaurant franchises.
One year later, Rietveldt purchased a Harry Potter DVD only to find that his piece was being used on DVDs around the world without his permission.
I can't access the TorrentFreak link from my office. How did it wind-up on a Harry Potter DVD? Did the anti-piracy group get their message as a special feature on the DVD somehow?
I expected $15 - $20 based on the platform, description, and the estimated 8 hours of gameplay. I've gotten hundreds of hours out of $20 Indie games recently.
This approach is nifty, but is too limited for general purpose robotics use. It isn't accurate. It requires multiple wifi hotspots. It doesn't let you move your wifi routers or change them out - even a firmware update the changes the power output or the channel (which some routers do automatically) might break it. It requires training.
Let me add why this an important the next step in indoor robotics. The Roomba and similar robots and toys have avoided this problem by operating blindly, or by using limited aids such as virtual walls or markers. But these parlor tricks aren't good for long-term intelligent indoor robots. They need to not just avoid obstacles, but also find the refrigerator, skip vacuuming the garage, and know to use different cleaning fluids on the kitchen ceramic tile -vs- the dining room hardwood. They should stay away from the dog's cage and the cat's litter box. Flying robots need to avoid ceiling fans. etc. etc.
But people rarely buy shrink wrap software anymore. They buy it online, and they see this nice box that says: "[ ] Click here to acknowledge the License Agreement". So the "I didn't get to read it beforehand" argument isn't going to last for long.
As a Mac user, I read "An entirely white, lightweight, minimalist designed hand with no unnecessary bloat or user replaceable battery reaches out from a grave and chokes the life out of Flash."
Lemme guess: Some corporate intranet app? And it only works on Windows and IE6 right?
I have seen apps compiled under Java 0.9 in 1995 run fine on current versions. But it seems like every corporate slideshow or training app fails miserably unless the configuration is *exactly* right. They go out of their way to make them incompatible or something. They rarely work in Firefox either, even though it uses the same Java runtime!
This isn't new. Microsoft has been making the start menu harder and harder to use ever since Windows '9x, and adding more fancy options to try and counter that. If they aren't aware that they are doing this they need to step back and look at the progression.
On Windows '98, the start menu would adjust size to the number of items. It could take up the entire screen. It cascaded to the right as you opened folders. If the novice user merely hovered over a folder it would expand to the right so that the the existing folders didn't move so it wasn't intrusive. It said "Start" so if you had no clue what to do with windows, you knew what to do.
On Windows 7 the start menu is a fixed height. So if you have more items than fit in that fixed area, you must scroll, even if the items would have fit on the screen just fine. There is no hover. When you click on a category, it expands the item vertically, shifting all the other options down. If there wasn't a scroll bar before, now there is! That scroll bar makes you lose horizontal space too, cutting off some folder names and possibly adding a horizontal scroll bar. If that wasn't the category you wanted, you must click again to close it whereas in '98 you just kept moving your mouse.
They completely forgot why they made the start menu. It was single-click access to the list of programs, and one more click to run. No shifting, moving, or scrolling. I like pinning things too, but it doesn't work for everything.
You hit the nail on the head with volume - we are in the exact opposite scenario as you. In our case, we make devices that cost $100,000+ each to build, so volume is low. Sales targets are often at 100 a year. We do sell consumables for those devices, in insane mass volume (which is where the profit is), and we never have a supply interruption there.
I have yet to see a satisfactory analysis of this. Everything I read in the product literature indicates that they have more than enough lifetime. The engineering articles indicate that even if they were to fail prematurely, it would result in a read-only disk. Yet every real-world report on these drives is that the entire contents of the drive suddenly vanishes, or the drive cannot be recognized at all.
Either the users are exaggerating the error reports, or lying; or the engineers and product literature are wrong. Something doesn't add-up.
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. If you are talking "gigawatts" and "can't blow up", then you are likely talking nonsense.
He linked to a Wikipedia article explaining it. Your lack of understanding does not mean he is wrong. These are passively safe designs. They cannot blow up.
They should have slowly phased out DVD-by-mail by paring down the available DVD catalog in favor of streaming offerings
My Netflix queue contains exactly 200 items, of which 53 are available via streaming. When 190 of the 200 items are available on streaming, *then* they can start to get rid of the DVD business.
The Wired article claims that this is being challenged by a small telecom company called Credo.
Because those countries tend to have lower crime rates overall.
Years ago, the UN did a survey (they I can't find freely available anymore, unfortunately) of every country in the world. The correltaed "non-suicide gun-related deaths per capita" to "guns ownership per capita" along with a bunch of other figures. Based on those numbers, there was no correlation. For example: European countries with mandatory gun ownership had comparable non-suicide gun-related deaths per capita had similar crime rates to countries where guns were rare.
So were the laws working? Mostly yes: gun ownership per capita was lower in countries with stricter laws.
So what *does* correlate fewer non-suicide gun-related deaths? Better education. Lower overall crime.
It was a fascinating set of statistics and I wish I could link to it so that everyone could read it.
Would he have been concerned about being charged with a gun control violation, when he already faces 50 counts of murder? One could argue that such a law might have been a deterrent by making it more difficult to get the gun. But if one is bent on mass murder, that seems unrealistic.
FYI: Worked for me, Office 2010 Pro. I used the Fill Handle to do it since I only know the old menu-based way. Completely non-obvious how to do it, but it worked just fine.
Carriers incur no cost for messages, because they are part of the phone's sync to the tower,
I thought the same way until a previous Slashdot comment explained how this works in detail. While the text messages use the same packet format as the phone's sync to the tower, it still causes additional packets, and bigger packets. So the bandwidth is not free. It would be like sending an email by embedding it inside DNS requests. Yes, you need to make DNS requests anyway, but sending an email through them would not make the bandwidth free.
Ultimately, this does not change your point though, it is just a nitpick. Their policies are ridiculous. Charging for Face Time over cell networks is an awesome example of why we need network neutrality. (Sorry Ron Paul - I like you but you are wrong on this one!) If I were Verizon, I would have my marketing department jump all over this one. I can use my bandwidth for whatever I want on my Verizon + Android combo.
Actually, lots and lots and lots of companies work that way. For example: Suppose that the tractor is so good it costs $250,000 to build: parts and labor. And the R&D to develop it was $50 million. No farmer could afford that. But they might be able to afford paying a per-crop fee so long as they used the tractor. And it might still wind-up with them saving money because it cuts their work down.
Medical devices work this way, as one example. So do inkjet printers & ink. And movies. And restaurant franchises.
One year later, Rietveldt purchased a Harry Potter DVD only to find that his piece was being used on DVDs around the world without his permission.
I can't access the TorrentFreak link from my office. How did it wind-up on a Harry Potter DVD? Did the anti-piracy group get their message as a special feature on the DVD somehow?
I am confused. This is a case of IP law working very well. Are you suggesting that this person should receive no payment for their music?
Were you, by chance, on top of a pyramid?
Mod up please!
I expected $15 - $20 based on the platform, description, and the estimated 8 hours of gameplay. I've gotten hundreds of hours out of $20 Indie games recently.
No wars... right... (Score:5, Insightful)
The article doesn't say no wars. You just refuted a point the article didn't make.
Some of them you can discard as "non-major countries", but too many of them had major, nuclear-armed powers on at least one side.
Exactly as the article says. Things like police actions and proxy wars will still be fought.
I can imagine people made the same argument about the rifle in pre-Napoleonic Europe.
Imaginings are not evidence.
Also: Any Wikipedia list of anything will be biased toward current events.
As the article points out: the remaining wars are fought against nations that don't have nukes.
This approach is nifty, but is too limited for general purpose robotics use. It isn't accurate. It requires multiple wifi hotspots. It doesn't let you move your wifi routers or change them out - even a firmware update the changes the power output or the channel (which some routers do automatically) might break it. It requires training.
Let me add why this an important the next step in indoor robotics. The Roomba and similar robots and toys have avoided this problem by operating blindly, or by using limited aids such as virtual walls or markers. But these parlor tricks aren't good for long-term intelligent indoor robots. They need to not just avoid obstacles, but also find the refrigerator, skip vacuuming the garage, and know to use different cleaning fluids on the kitchen ceramic tile -vs- the dining room hardwood. They should stay away from the dog's cage and the cat's litter box. Flying robots need to avoid ceiling fans. etc. etc.
But people rarely buy shrink wrap software anymore. They buy it online, and they see this nice box that says: "[ ] Click here to acknowledge the License Agreement". So the "I didn't get to read it beforehand" argument isn't going to last for long.
Windows server admins don't find intermittent lockups and reboots to be unusual. :-)
Is there a system call that actually could return 23:59:60 as a valid time???
As a Mac user, I read "An entirely white, lightweight, minimalist designed hand with no unnecessary bloat or user replaceable battery reaches out from a grave and chokes the life out of Flash."
Lemme guess: Some corporate intranet app? And it only works on Windows and IE6 right?
I have seen apps compiled under Java 0.9 in 1995 run fine on current versions. But it seems like every corporate slideshow or training app fails miserably unless the configuration is *exactly* right. They go out of their way to make them incompatible or something. They rarely work in Firefox either, even though it uses the same Java runtime!
This isn't new. Microsoft has been making the start menu harder and harder to use ever since Windows '9x, and adding more fancy options to try and counter that. If they aren't aware that they are doing this they need to step back and look at the progression.
On Windows '98, the start menu would adjust size to the number of items. It could take up the entire screen. It cascaded to the right as you opened folders. If the novice user merely hovered over a folder it would expand to the right so that the the existing folders didn't move so it wasn't intrusive. It said "Start" so if you had no clue what to do with windows, you knew what to do.
On Windows 7 the start menu is a fixed height. So if you have more items than fit in that fixed area, you must scroll, even if the items would have fit on the screen just fine. There is no hover. When you click on a category, it expands the item vertically, shifting all the other options down. If there wasn't a scroll bar before, now there is! That scroll bar makes you lose horizontal space too, cutting off some folder names and possibly adding a horizontal scroll bar. If that wasn't the category you wanted, you must click again to close it whereas in '98 you just kept moving your mouse.
They completely forgot why they made the start menu. It was single-click access to the list of programs, and one more click to run. No shifting, moving, or scrolling. I like pinning things too, but it doesn't work for everything.
You hit the nail on the head with volume - we are in the exact opposite scenario as you. In our case, we make devices that cost $100,000+ each to build, so volume is low. Sales targets are often at 100 a year. We do sell consumables for those devices, in insane mass volume (which is where the profit is), and we never have a supply interruption there.
I have yet to see a satisfactory analysis of this. Everything I read in the product literature indicates that they have more than enough lifetime. The engineering articles indicate that even if they were to fail prematurely, it would result in a read-only disk. Yet every real-world report on these drives is that the entire contents of the drive suddenly vanishes, or the drive cannot be recognized at all.
Either the users are exaggerating the error reports, or lying; or the engineers and product literature are wrong. Something doesn't add-up.