I understand that thin equals lighter, and so for a laptop or tablet, there is some advantage, but I wonder if this "thinnest whatever" craze is useful after a certain point? How do these "paper thin" devices feel in the hand? Are they so susceptible to damage that you need to buy a case anyway? What about the internals? Heat kills electronics... Sure, "thin is sexy", but I want something that feels good in the hands, is light but not feather light, and doesn't burn my nuts if I leave it on my lap too long. I sort-of lust after a Mac Book, but my ThinkPad is substantial enough that I don't worry about breaking it just by looking at it, and from NASA pictures, they seem to feel the same way, the ISS has quite a few installed.
Verizon Communications will sell its local wireline operations in California, Florida and Texas for $10.5 billion, citing uncertainty around federal Internet regulation as one reason for the move
Fine, if Verizon has a problem with Net Nutrality, perhaps they should not be in the Internet business anyway.
I think their best be is to go the HP route and switch to ink-jet printer ink.
Former employers almost NEVER say things like that about employees that are asked to leave because there is a lot of liability involved, so they opt to have a blanket policy of saying nothing at all.
Most of the parents claiming allergies are full of shit, the majority of these so-called allergies are in the parent's mind and not supported by a diagnosis from a legitimate unbiased medical professional.
Not all, but certainly most of these people are full of it.
These types of robots will never replace humans in the fast food industry because high school drop-outs and liberal arts masters grads will always be cheaper. Might make a nice bartender on the long trip to Mars.
A Mars bas would be outstanding for Amazon, send its stock into the stratosphere, because it's a perfect location to drop-ship for the customers on the outer reaches of our solar system...
And keep in mind, Mr. Musk is not some schmuck like the Amazon guy who has a Space Vanity Project. SpaceX has launched real rockets into real space with real payloads. Musk and SpaceX are here to stay.
There are many things Anonymous does which are morally dubious.
For example they have already forgotten about their pledge to take down ISIS interweb sites...
Sometimes I think they are just a bunch of publicity whores, but I haven't yet figured out what it is they get out of making announcments, doing it 1/4 assed, and quickily forgetting what they were doning and moving on to the next great headline grabber...
SpaceX will sell the Air Farce the rockets. The AF launches their gear into orbit. SpaceX has nothing to do with it more than to get paid for the hardware and some support personnel who will have to have security clearances.
That's not really the way DoD rocket launches work. It's certainly not how Boeing and ULA work.
Launching spy satellite is a very very lucrative business, and if Elon Musk is too headstrong into butting his SpaceX in, who knows what ULA will do next...
Like what? Send over a few "tough guys"? Sabotage at SpaceX? ULA is going to have to "re-factor" their cash cow to be more competitive, or they will continue lose out on choice US government work; the public eye is on this stuff now, the politicians will have to answer for this sort of thing.
Maybe someone high up in the USAF food chain is retireing soon and looking for a job... Boeing obviously didn't pay them off enough to keep exclusivity on their overpriced program.
The model for today's social networks appear to be to deliberately start with low-friction, low-bullshit, come-in-we're-open policies (sometimes after a beta-for-the-leet-only period), become popular, then cash in and pile on the restrictions, rules, ads and dataraping.
A lot of this is because at a certain point the realize / understand that the vulture capitalists who invested the bizziolns of cash for the cool office space and retro pinball machines want a return on their investment. The other part is that many or even most of these start-ups have from the word "go" operated under the plan of developing a product and than offloading it to Facebook for a billion or two. It's all about the money, and you can't make money without "monetizing" the product.
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Sure, the hardware sucks, but honestly I think people here are more interested in how the software works.
Perhaps not very well or very fast on hardware that sucks...
I have just witnessed Slashdot featuring right on the front page and article about *both* terrorism and child pornography!
Burn the witch!
"Think of the children!"
I wouldn't mind having a phone as thin and light as a credit card. Then it would feel like a... credit card, which you know, feels fine in my hand.
Until you sit on it, forget it's there and run it through the was, or leave it on a pile of paper on your desk that later gets shredded...
Is it even noticeable without a precision caliber?
When buying tablets, I always bring a set good to .001, a fraction of a mm makes a significant difference in consumer purchasing decisions.
I understand that thin equals lighter, and so for a laptop or tablet, there is some advantage, but I wonder if this "thinnest whatever" craze is useful after a certain point? How do these "paper thin" devices feel in the hand? Are they so susceptible to damage that you need to buy a case anyway? What about the internals? Heat kills electronics... Sure, "thin is sexy", but I want something that feels good in the hands, is light but not feather light, and doesn't burn my nuts if I leave it on my lap too long. I sort-of lust after a Mac Book, but my ThinkPad is substantial enough that I don't worry about breaking it just by looking at it, and from NASA pictures, they seem to feel the same way, the ISS has quite a few installed.
Verizon Communications will sell its local wireline operations in California, Florida and Texas for $10.5 billion, citing uncertainty around federal Internet regulation as one reason for the move
Fine, if Verizon has a problem with Net Nutrality, perhaps they should not be in the Internet business anyway.
I think their best be is to go the HP route and switch to ink-jet printer ink.
Former employers almost NEVER say things like that about employees that are asked to leave because there is a lot of liability involved, so they opt to have a blanket policy of saying nothing at all.
Most of the parents claiming allergies are full of shit, the majority of these so-called allergies are in the parent's mind and not supported by a diagnosis from a legitimate unbiased medical professional.
Not all, but certainly most of these people are full of it.
It's almost like Christian Science.
The insurance that Uber provides has many limitations on it. If you get hurt in an Uber car, expect to have to sue both Uber and the driver.
Do a Google on the facts about Uber driver insurance...
These types of robots will never replace humans in the fast food industry because high school drop-outs and liberal arts masters grads will always be cheaper. Might make a nice bartender on the long trip to Mars.
Yes, yes, I know. "Machine Learning" ...
"Library"? What's that?
There is no way to disable this, and certainly not with your damned Windows phone.
Just because you are an anti-MS drone does not validate your argument.
The big issue will be that people will use this to display rude things on random people's armbands.
So you are saying the Anonymous script kiddies will use this to advance their devilish plan to "out" pedos and bring down ISIS?
The whole "Internet of Things" craze, or article summaries that presume everyone knows the acronym?
And still I don't know what that means. I guess the old chestnut "Google Is Your Friend" is in order here...
And to pay this fine, the execs have their coffee ladies sweep the corners of the executive lounge for dropped money...
A Mars bas would be outstanding for Amazon, send its stock into the stratosphere, because it's a perfect location to drop-ship for the customers on the outer reaches of our solar system...
And keep in mind, Mr. Musk is not some schmuck like the Amazon guy who has a Space Vanity Project. SpaceX has launched real rockets into real space with real payloads. Musk and SpaceX are here to stay.
That's pretty much how teenagers operate in general.
And don't forget those "cool" masks...
Anonymous isn't some kind of coordinated collective. Anyone can take on the name...
Apperently, almost 100% of those now using the name are glorified skript kiddies.
There are many things Anonymous does which are morally dubious.
For example they have already forgotten about their pledge to take down ISIS interweb sites...
Sometimes I think they are just a bunch of publicity whores, but I haven't yet figured out what it is they get out of making announcments, doing it 1/4 assed, and quickily forgetting what they were doning and moving on to the next great headline grabber...
SpaceX will sell the Air Farce the rockets. The AF launches their gear into orbit. SpaceX has nothing to do with it more than to get paid for the hardware and some support personnel who will have to have security clearances.
That's not really the way DoD rocket launches work. It's certainly not how Boeing and ULA work.
Launching spy satellite is a very very lucrative business, and if Elon Musk is too headstrong into butting his SpaceX in, who knows what ULA will do next ...
Like what? Send over a few "tough guys"? Sabotage at SpaceX? ULA is going to have to "re-factor" their cash cow to be more competitive, or they will continue lose out on choice US government work; the public eye is on this stuff now, the politicians will have to answer for this sort of thing.
Maybe someone high up in the USAF food chain is retireing soon and looking for a job... Boeing obviously didn't pay them off enough to keep exclusivity on their overpriced program.
The model for today's social networks appear to be to deliberately start with low-friction, low-bullshit, come-in-we're-open policies (sometimes after a beta-for-the-leet-only period), become popular, then cash in and pile on the restrictions, rules, ads and dataraping.
A lot of this is because at a certain point the realize / understand that the vulture capitalists who invested the bizziolns of cash for the cool office space and retro pinball machines want a return on their investment. The other part is that many or even most of these start-ups have from the word "go" operated under the plan of developing a product and than offloading it to Facebook for a billion or two. It's all about the money, and you can't make money without "monetizing" the product.
I hereby announce slashdotplus. It's like slashdot but without stories.
Slashdot has stories? When did this happen?