The wi-fi balloons will provide the needed networking infrastructure in those areas, infrastructure that assists the medical and other health professionals with their tasks.
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Gates needs to look past his self-important blinders.
The legal system sits firmly a decade behind technology.
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Maybe the discussion needs to be whether or not technology advancement needs to be slowed down in order for civilasation to keep up with the changes......
When I buy a printed book, I own the book. I can read the book whenever and where ever I want.
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When I buy an eBook, I do not own the book. In order to read the book, I have to hope that some DRM server somewhere will authorize the eBook reader to show me the book I want to read.
I have books on my book shelves that are over 50 years old, and I can still read them fine. Can the same be said about eBooks 50 years from now?
If she works as a dev at Intel and is subject to such abusive language because of the work she does at Intel, then Intel could have a harassment lawsuit in their future.
Microsoft's Board of Directors need to fix the root cause of Microsoft's problems.
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Unless and until Mr. Ballmer is shown the door, he will just continue re-arranging the deck chairs on the Titanic, and Microsoft will continue its slow voyage to the bottom...
In one company where I worked, I was able to have the end users funnel all their bug reports through the company's internal education department. If the "bug" were actually a prevalent user error, the education department would note that and modify their internal courses to instruct the users on proper usage. If the"bug" were actually a programming problem, the bug reports we got from the education department were very helpful to resolving the problem.
FINRA tries to pass itself off as an independent regulator of the financial industry.
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Just take a look at the firms that make up FINRA and you will see what a farce it is to use FINRA and financial industry regulation in the same sentence.
Chrome is just unbearably creepy. It installs itself like a virus, keeps begging you to 'sign in' to something you dont want or need so you can be more effectively tracked....
when Firefox will halt up for 5-10 seconds rendering a new tab
You've noticed that also.
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Though I would call it more of a paralysis than a halt. Firefox goes completely unresponsive.
Unnerving at best. And hardly what I would expect of a top-rated "performance-crown-winning" browser.
... Firefox by a relatively small margin. Indeed, in some areas, Firefox is slow, other areas, such as Javascript, Firefox is, at best, middling.
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At this point, if you are deciding upon which browser to use, perhaps the browser with the marginally highest performance benchmark numbers may not be the browser for you.
Here is a difference that matters more to me: when I change the http proxy settings in Firefox, only Firefox is affected. However, when i change the http proxy settings in Chrome, the proxy settings for Windows are changed, meaning that other applications are affected. For this reason I use Firefox instead of Chrome, even though Firefox is a lot slower on a web page I frequent a lot.
If apps start requiring Directx 11.n and, as a result, I cannot run those apps on Windows 7; then that will be one more reason why Windows is no longer a solution for me.
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First Microsoft releases an awful version of Windows (8.0), then Microsoft backtracks (temporarily?) and restores some useful functionality that was removed (emphasis on some).
The question remains, how long before Microsoft has another dose of stupid, and re-removes the Start button and boot to desktop. Strategically, it is what they want to do, so you know they will keep trying to do it.
Of course by this time our interest was piqued - with just a simple google search we discovered the girls website - while the content of the site was not porn the masthead showed her posing in bondage gear, and copy relating to her various preferences! She did get an interview but the cards were already on the table.
Why did you waste her time with an interview if the cards were already on the table?
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From what you describe, I suspect if she did get the job, it would have been a hostile work environment for her, with too many busybodies poking around into her private life.
As a hiring manager, my focus is whether or not the applicant is able to do well in the position. I've never really concerned myself with the online presence of the applicant. I look at rummaging around in google to check out an applicant as more or less equivalent to hiring an investigator to do a background check. The fact that googling is easier and cheaper than hiring an investigator does not change the motive for doing so.
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An exception would be if the applicant links to his professional online presence in the CV. Then I would use that as I would any other information on the CV. However the presence on the web does not make the information different than having the same information on the CV.
If I were hiring for a sensitive position where a background check is warranted, then I would do a real background check.
But if no background check is required, why go poking around in someone's private life.
Some sites block you if you do not allow their cookies unfettered access. One example is target.com (the department store). You cannot get past the home page unless you open up your browser to all the cookies they want to place on your disk. It doesn't make sense for a store to prevent customers from using their website to shop.
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Target needs to re-evaluate their purpose for having a website - do they want to use the website to place cookies on peoples' disks? Or does target want to use the website to sell merchandise?
You need to do double-blind testing to see whether you are really bothered by the LED flicker, or you just think you are bothered by the flicker.
...has increasingly started to bug me: backlight flicker...
Perhaps it has increasingly started to bug you because you are becoming increasingly aware of it, and not vice versa.
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It is a common marketing ploy to create a perceived problem, then magically have a product available for sale that just happens to assuage that newly perceived problem.
With the ever-increasing price of tickets, using revenue as a judge of "record-breaking" is grossly inaccurate, as it erroneously compares unequal ticket prices and ignores the effect of inflation over the years.
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It would be more accurate (though still not completely accurate) to use the number of tickets sold as the basis for judging whether all-time records have been broken.
Slashdot Mirror
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Gates needs to look past his self-important blinders.
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Maybe the discussion needs to be whether or not technology advancement needs to be slowed down in order for civilasation to keep up with the changes......
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When I buy an eBook, I do not own the book. In order to read the book, I have to hope that some DRM server somewhere will authorize the eBook reader to show me the book I want to read.
I have books on my book shelves that are over 50 years old, and I can still read them fine. Can the same be said about eBooks 50 years from now?
If she works as a dev at Intel and is subject to such abusive language because of the work she does at Intel, then Intel could have a harassment lawsuit in their future.
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Unless and until Mr. Ballmer is shown the door, he will just continue re-arranging the deck chairs on the Titanic, and Microsoft will continue its slow voyage to the bottom...
In one company where I worked, I was able to have the end users funnel all their bug reports through the company's internal education department. If the "bug" were actually a prevalent user error, the education department would note that and modify their internal courses to instruct the users on proper usage. If the"bug" were actually a programming problem, the bug reports we got from the education department were very helpful to resolving the problem.
there is a current investigation by FINRA
FINRA tries to pass itself off as an independent regulator of the financial industry.
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Just take a look at the firms that make up FINRA and you will see what a farce it is to use FINRA and financial industry regulation in the same sentence.
I've restarted Firefox with the "Restart with Add-ons Disabled" option. And I still see the paralysis.
Chrome is just unbearably creepy. It installs itself like a virus, keeps begging you to 'sign in' to something you dont want or need so you can be more effectively tracked....
I cannot disagree.
when Firefox will halt up for 5-10 seconds rendering a new tab
You've noticed that also.
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Though I would call it more of a paralysis than a halt. Firefox goes completely unresponsive. Unnerving at best. And hardly what I would expect of a top-rated "performance-crown-winning" browser.
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At this point, if you are deciding upon which browser to use, perhaps the browser with the marginally highest performance benchmark numbers may not be the browser for you. Here is a difference that matters more to me: when I change the http proxy settings in Firefox, only Firefox is affected. However, when i change the http proxy settings in Chrome, the proxy settings for Windows are changed, meaning that other applications are affected. For this reason I use Firefox instead of Chrome, even though Firefox is a lot slower on a web page I frequent a lot.
More like simplifying.
When you make something idiot-proof, only idiots will want to use it.
As long as it doesn't break Noscript
Given Firefox's history of breaking plug-ins, why would you expect NoScript to continue to work?
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First Microsoft releases an awful version of Windows (8.0), then Microsoft backtracks (temporarily?) and restores some useful functionality that was removed (emphasis on some).
The question remains, how long before Microsoft has another dose of stupid, and re-removes the Start button and boot to desktop. Strategically, it is what they want to do, so you know they will keep trying to do it.
it could be ANY Altair8080
Ummm... no.
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An Altair 8080 is a different computer entirely.
Of course by this time our interest was piqued - with just a simple google search we discovered the girls website - while the content of the site was not porn the masthead showed her posing in bondage gear, and copy relating to her various preferences! She did get an interview but the cards were already on the table.
Why did you waste her time with an interview if the cards were already on the table?
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From what you describe, I suspect if she did get the job, it would have been a hostile work environment for her, with too many busybodies poking around into her private life.
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An exception would be if the applicant links to his professional online presence in the CV. Then I would use that as I would any other information on the CV. However the presence on the web does not make the information different than having the same information on the CV.
If I were hiring for a sensitive position where a background check is warranted, then I would do a real background check.
But if no background check is required, why go poking around in someone's private life.
Simple solution: do not use Target's website
Target has already made that decision for me --- they do not allow me to use their website.
unless users actually refuse to use Target's web site because they don't want to be tracked.
Target's website refuses entry for those customers who do not have tracking cookies enabled. It is Target's choice, not the customers'.
I'm sure Target has carefully evaluated the situation, and the result is the decisions they've made.
Yeah, preventing customers from walking through the main entrance and buy things is always a good thing for a store to do.
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Target needs to re-evaluate their purpose for having a website - do they want to use the website to place cookies on peoples' disks? Or does target want to use the website to sell merchandise?
So do LEDs bother your eyes?
You need to do double-blind testing to see whether you are really bothered by the LED flicker, or you just think you are bothered by the flicker.
...has increasingly started to bug me: backlight flicker...
Perhaps it has increasingly started to bug you because you are becoming increasingly aware of it, and not vice versa.
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It is a common marketing ploy to create a perceived problem, then magically have a product available for sale that just happens to assuage that newly perceived problem.
and your point is?
...a whopping $125.1 million....
With the ever-increasing price of tickets, using revenue as a judge of "record-breaking" is grossly inaccurate, as it erroneously compares unequal ticket prices and ignores the effect of inflation over the years.
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It would be more accurate (though still not completely accurate) to use the number of tickets sold as the basis for judging whether all-time records have been broken.
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WHITElist = good
BLACKlist = bad
Instead of trying to put the label of political correctness on the attempts to rid software of racial bias, why not just rid software of racial bias?
It really would be a lot easier than to engage in an artificial political battle.