It's the cloud, man - streaming from the cloud. We're all 4G here, we can install apps from the cloud at will, and who keeps copies of media anymore? That's so 2005...
Soon as you shoot that HD video in the jungles of Timbuktu, stream it out 4G to the cloud - they've got 4G in Timbuktu, don't they?
Newsflash Cupertino: we don't even have decent 4G coverage in the American mid-west. Your 16G phone will be a POS for anybody who ever leaves a city, even just for vacation.
Holding mainland Europe (even without the bomb falling on your key strategic supplies) for a decade would have been a miserable siege exercise for all involved, but ultimately futile for the ones holding the tiny, war torn continent.
For Hitler to conquer, anything really, he would have had to win "hearts and minds" and convert lots of people to his cause... or at least not piss off the rest of the world enough to try to stop him. Doesn't seem likely that would have happened, unless he somehow altered his propaganda message to work for people without blonde hair and blue eyes.
We had an iPad 1 (original, maybe 6 months post-launch) - the OS updates, etc. have left it worth less than when it was new - stuff that it used to do, it doesn't anymore.
IMHO, this behavior should be compensated with a refund of the purchase price. It's like your car dealer filling your gas tank with bricks every time you come in for (mandatory) service.
The carboniferous period (coal seams) was before mushrooms. Now the fungi decay fallen wood, very little carbon gets sequestered - coal is a non-renewable resource.
"In most homes the refrigerator is the second-largest user of electricity (13.7%), right after the air conditioner (14.1%)" mostly because they are old and inefficient.
Modern energy efficient refrigerators use ~425 to 600kWh / year.
You say a gaming rig draws ~350W "when fully spun up", I say my 2nd gen PS3 draws over 200W when sitting at the menu bar "doing nothing." The article is talking about gamers that never let their systems go to sleep, so let's settle on 300W draw while powered up, and figure your average gamer leaves his system on 24-7, so it doesn't have problems from thermal cycling, or whatever their excuse is - so:
300W running for 24x365 hours = 2600kWh, or about 5 "modern" refrigerators.
Means the phone can consume unlimited data, but they (try to) restrict hotspot usage to 5G.
T-Mobile also sells Nexus phones without their proprietary software on-board, I'm pretty sure my Nexus has gone over the hotspot limit without getting dinged for it - because they just don't know. On the other hand, I'm not using my hotspot for anything that's easily detectable as different like torrents or such... also, I have a limited data plan with a more limited hotspot cap, just seems that the hotspot cap is irrelevant on unlocked / clean phones.
Sorry, I was probably off on the price point - technology has moved on. Still, it wasn't a widely advertised fact that almost all "gaming" LCD monitors sold before IPS were 6 bit, or 6 bit with "dithering" which is not really much better.
If you are viewing images on an LCD monitor, the first thing you can do is strip them down from 24bit color to 18bit color, because your sub-$1000 monitors don't display more than 6 bits per color channel.
Nature of bird injury mostly depends on how the bird is exposed - full on strike, or did he just get "winged?"
Maybe with large migratory populations, the carnage will continue for a long time. The elevated track people mover in Miami didn't run for a year or so after the tracks were built - pigeons thought the tracks were just the greatest place ever made to hang out, nest, etc. The first months of operation (of the very quiet electric cars) were a nasty pigeon bloodbath, feathers and guts everywhere. After a few months, the remaining pigeons caught on, there's hardly ever one run over anymore. I don't think any special mitigations (tiny cow-catchers, warning lights, sounds) were put in place, just Darwin in action.
Part of your freedom equation is: "have some land" - if you have anything, land, a home, in some states even a car, you are taxed on that possession. The only way to pay taxes is with money, you can't give the tax man a bushel of corn you grew or a nifty widget your robot made, you've got to give him money. Can't pay the tax, you lose the possession, or go to jail, or both (and in some states, neither - they don't take your primary residence, they just pile you deeper in debt so that if you ever do get any money, you've got to hand it over immediately.)
>if Americans stopped listening to shallow arguments given in 30 second TV commercials, if they started to demand rational argument instead of the shallow blather that has so far persuaded them, then they could...
A behavior I've seen among police I've known is profiling and persecuting. Mark a bad apple, then bust'em on whatever you can. Preventative enforcement - very efficient, completely unfair, and difficult to prove as illegal.
Getting "in the groove" is great and all, but I find that when I'm working 50-60 hours a week I'll find myself feeling "in the groove" a lot, then when I look back at what I created during that all work and no play stretch, it's crap - I was in a rut and couldn't see the bigger picture where the solution I was grinding out was not a good fit to the overall problem - it can be a beautiful, error free, maintainable, extensible piece of crap because of tunnel vision that usually sets in during those long productive spells where nobody interrupts you or makes you sit in any boring meetings.
Considering a variety of perspectives is more important to an overall elegant solution than polishing the perfect little cutting diamond.
I don't think the relationship should be linear - 2.5x the work for 2.5x the hours...
If you count waking hours, a typical (3 weeks vacation M-F 9-5) job expects 49 *40 / (52 * 7 * 16 ) = 1960 / 5824 = right at 33% of your life. As they take away my free time, I have to hire (and manage) people to do things for me that I would normally do for myself - this drives up costs by as much as 3-4x in many instances, and can become incalculable when it means hiring people to watch my children grow up for me.
I think a fair overtime formula would be paying you 4x your standard hourly rate by the time you reach 80 hours a week, something like P = P * (H / 40)^2 when H > 40 - by the time they've taken all your waking hours, pay would be at 9x standard. Is getting the project out on-time critically important to the financial future of the company? If it really is, the team that "gives their all" should be getting more than "attaboys" in return.
If it's a short-term crisis where 4 or 40 extra hours worked at a critical juncture can be "paid back" in comp-time within a week or two, that makes total sense in an "overtime exempt" relationship. If the crisis is dragging for months and all you're getting is a gold star on your annual review, put in a few extra hours a week to shop for a better working relationship.
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My 1980 Honda Civic (with comfortable seating for 4 6'2" adults) weighed something ridiculous like 1600lbs before the people got in it.
10 years later, a "super lightweight" Mazda Miata was tipping the scales around 2200lbs.
It's the cloud, man - streaming from the cloud. We're all 4G here, we can install apps from the cloud at will, and who keeps copies of media anymore? That's so 2005...
Soon as you shoot that HD video in the jungles of Timbuktu, stream it out 4G to the cloud - they've got 4G in Timbuktu, don't they?
Newsflash Cupertino: we don't even have decent 4G coverage in the American mid-west. Your 16G phone will be a POS for anybody who ever leaves a city, even just for vacation.
The bomb would have changed that.
Holding mainland Europe (even without the bomb falling on your key strategic supplies) for a decade would have been a miserable siege exercise for all involved, but ultimately futile for the ones holding the tiny, war torn continent.
For Hitler to conquer, anything really, he would have had to win "hearts and minds" and convert lots of people to his cause... or at least not piss off the rest of the world enough to try to stop him. Doesn't seem likely that would have happened, unless he somehow altered his propaganda message to work for people without blonde hair and blue eyes.
It was a coverup, man.
Sadly, I have to concur. I had a couple of Sony products after the PS3 launched, all were expensive, highly featured, and short lived by design.
So, they're keeping up with Apple then?
We had an iPad 1 (original, maybe 6 months post-launch) - the OS updates, etc. have left it worth less than when it was new - stuff that it used to do, it doesn't anymore.
IMHO, this behavior should be compensated with a refund of the purchase price. It's like your car dealer filling your gas tank with bricks every time you come in for (mandatory) service.
The carboniferous period (coal seams) was before mushrooms. Now the fungi decay fallen wood, very little carbon gets sequestered - coal is a non-renewable resource.
Tell that to my kids - I turn off the (abandoned, lost interest hours ago) PS3 about 4 times a week.
http://michaelbluejay.com/elec...
"In most homes the refrigerator is the second-largest user of electricity (13.7%), right after the air conditioner (14.1%)" mostly because they are old and inefficient.
Modern energy efficient refrigerators use ~425 to 600kWh / year.
You say a gaming rig draws ~350W "when fully spun up", I say my 2nd gen PS3 draws over 200W when sitting at the menu bar "doing nothing." The article is talking about gamers that never let their systems go to sleep, so let's settle on 300W draw while powered up, and figure your average gamer leaves his system on 24-7, so it doesn't have problems from thermal cycling, or whatever their excuse is - so:
300W running for 24x365 hours = 2600kWh, or about 5 "modern" refrigerators.
Think about V twin motorcycle engines and all that they represent in our culture...
Not everybody wants to fit in, be efficient, save money, or listen to what anybody else thinks.
If mom wasn't paying the electricity bills, the energy savings after a year or so would also buy an updated GPU.
Agreed, but this is the bitter price of incremental improvement: backward compatibility.
Maybe it's time to open a new "expanded emoji" section with inflection dimensions and leave the old ones where they are for backward compatibility.
But, how many varieties of avocado will we need? http://ucavo.ucr.edu/avocadova...
New meaning to cork screw.
Disagree, if you're going to do emojis at all, you need to do every possible concept, most of them several times for nuances of expression.
Means the phone can consume unlimited data, but they (try to) restrict hotspot usage to 5G.
T-Mobile also sells Nexus phones without their proprietary software on-board, I'm pretty sure my Nexus has gone over the hotspot limit without getting dinged for it - because they just don't know. On the other hand, I'm not using my hotspot for anything that's easily detectable as different like torrents or such... also, I have a limited data plan with a more limited hotspot cap, just seems that the hotspot cap is irrelevant on unlocked / clean phones.
Sorry, I was probably off on the price point - technology has moved on. Still, it wasn't a widely advertised fact that almost all "gaming" LCD monitors sold before IPS were 6 bit, or 6 bit with "dithering" which is not really much better.
Depends on your monitor, of course, but a whole (recent) generation of "LCD gaming screens" only showed 6 bits of color depth:
http://compreviews.about.com/o...
Also, even when you show people the bottom 2 bits, they usually don't perceive them:
http://rahuldotgarg.appspot.co...
If you are viewing images on an LCD monitor, the first thing you can do is strip them down from 24bit color to 18bit color, because your sub-$1000 monitors don't display more than 6 bits per color channel.
Nature of bird injury mostly depends on how the bird is exposed - full on strike, or did he just get "winged?"
Maybe with large migratory populations, the carnage will continue for a long time. The elevated track people mover in Miami didn't run for a year or so after the tracks were built - pigeons thought the tracks were just the greatest place ever made to hang out, nest, etc. The first months of operation (of the very quiet electric cars) were a nasty pigeon bloodbath, feathers and guts everywhere. After a few months, the remaining pigeons caught on, there's hardly ever one run over anymore. I don't think any special mitigations (tiny cow-catchers, warning lights, sounds) were put in place, just Darwin in action.
Part of your freedom equation is: "have some land" - if you have anything, land, a home, in some states even a car, you are taxed on that possession. The only way to pay taxes is with money, you can't give the tax man a bushel of corn you grew or a nifty widget your robot made, you've got to give him money. Can't pay the tax, you lose the possession, or go to jail, or both (and in some states, neither - they don't take your primary residence, they just pile you deeper in debt so that if you ever do get any money, you've got to hand it over immediately.)
>if Americans stopped listening to shallow arguments given in 30 second TV commercials, if they started to demand rational argument instead of the shallow blather that has so far persuaded them, then they could...
doesn't matter, won't happen.
A behavior I've seen among police I've known is profiling and persecuting. Mark a bad apple, then bust'em on whatever you can. Preventative enforcement - very efficient, completely unfair, and difficult to prove as illegal.
MIT has done nice glass for a long time:
http://glasslab.scripts.mit.ed...
Getting "in the groove" is great and all, but I find that when I'm working 50-60 hours a week I'll find myself feeling "in the groove" a lot, then when I look back at what I created during that all work and no play stretch, it's crap - I was in a rut and couldn't see the bigger picture where the solution I was grinding out was not a good fit to the overall problem - it can be a beautiful, error free, maintainable, extensible piece of crap because of tunnel vision that usually sets in during those long productive spells where nobody interrupts you or makes you sit in any boring meetings.
Considering a variety of perspectives is more important to an overall elegant solution than polishing the perfect little cutting diamond.
I don't think the relationship should be linear - 2.5x the work for 2.5x the hours...
If you count waking hours, a typical (3 weeks vacation M-F 9-5) job expects 49 *40 / (52 * 7 * 16 ) = 1960 / 5824 = right at 33% of your life. As they take away my free time, I have to hire (and manage) people to do things for me that I would normally do for myself - this drives up costs by as much as 3-4x in many instances, and can become incalculable when it means hiring people to watch my children grow up for me.
I think a fair overtime formula would be paying you 4x your standard hourly rate by the time you reach 80 hours a week, something like P = P * (H / 40)^2 when H > 40 - by the time they've taken all your waking hours, pay would be at 9x standard. Is getting the project out on-time critically important to the financial future of the company? If it really is, the team that "gives their all" should be getting more than "attaboys" in return.
If it's a short-term crisis where 4 or 40 extra hours worked at a critical juncture can be "paid back" in comp-time within a week or two, that makes total sense in an "overtime exempt" relationship. If the crisis is dragging for months and all you're getting is a gold star on your annual review, put in a few extra hours a week to shop for a better working relationship.