My alarm clock actually has no Snooze button but has Slap! To snooze.
The Microsoft patent is 'interesting' but I do not really find it practical unless you have to start switching modes all day long: when running where the simple fact that you are running would make it misbehave, probably similar on my bike (SF streets are badly maintained), or worse on the train (I had to disable 'shake to skip' on my iPhone, CalTrain got to be the worse train tracks in the western world).
Something more useful would be to cross reference the ring mode with your calendar. If in a meeting, at the dentist, etc... switch to silent mode. The calendar could even have an option to make the phone super silent and not even vibrate (meeting with CEO).
My wife ATM card was 'used' twice in less than 24h and a few hundred $ got withdrawn each time, all the while her card was actually at home. It was probably copied by someone at a 7/11. Fake readers on top of real ATMs is unfortunately common and sometimes very well done. In short your ATM or credit card can be copied easily without you ever knowing... until the bank calls you or until you get your monthly statement.
The bank actually called my wife on the second transaction and returned all her money. The police never got the bad guys.
I hear you I manage a medium Tomcat farm (few hundred machines) and and some of the servers can take up to 15m to load (we have GBs of caches to fill) and we actually tail the tomcat logs to look for a 'ready to serve pages' notice.
I just tried Hello World in Groovy and it took almost a whole second (measured with time: 0,7s avg, 0.952s max, 0.668s min) for it to run on my MacBookPro (latest high end 17" model, not ssd). Perl did it in about 0.007s average (0.011s max, 0.003s min), Python in 0.020s average (0.023s max, 0.017s min).
So in practice it takes a 100 times longer to load with no libraries included, it get worse if you do have dependencies.
Not an issue for a server/deamon app, a real big deal if you need to write a command line tool.
Thanks for the tip, I hope it will never have to come in handy.
My brother got his truck burglarized and had several thousand euros worth of equipment stollen (used for house inspections before sale). He found the equipment the next day on a shady local version of craigslist, traced the guy name and address. He calls the local (french) police, the guy has a long file, they know him without even looking up the computer, known drug addict that pays his daily supply with stolen equipment... The cops did not lift a finger ! They told my brother the best he could do was setup a meeting go there and try to get his stuff back... from potentially dangerous a druggie !?!
You might have noticed that here it is about US persons (citizens, or residents), on US soil, dealing with US companies, on US soil. The traffic never leaves US soil.
Being on the Internet does not magically make you a Sealand citizen where you would not have to comply with any laws from any country.
Sure Facebook could apply the same tax evasion tricks to avoid to comply with governments laws, but then they would have to move all their employees to some tiny island nation, as well as all their servers.
Good luck with that. As far as I can tell, the majority high level talent loves to stay in the Silicon Valley and Facebook would end up with only crappy employees, or employees that they would have to pay a lot more. Not really viable. The other option to store all the servers outside of the US (for US traffic) would mean that the site would be painfully slow, and then users would actually move to, and stay, at an other social site like Google+.
Now imagine that Facebook actually did all that, well how to they make revenue on these US users ? By selling ads, and the money would come from the US. It would not be too difficult for the government to lock down the money flow. Well maybe not the current US politicians, but not above the european governments which still (mostly) value people before corporations.
I'm not seeing a huge improvement over the Reader button in Safari... which hides all the non article content btw (including ads). Scroll by page ? I would not like it personally since this is an artificial constraint from the legacy paper based medium. Having a maximum number of word letters for the width of the text is a natural constraint: your brain is more efficient than with very very large lines of text. This is why I keep my code under 100 chars width btw.
I doubt you have a 'corporation' when you have 40 devices. That probably mean you have a 100 employees company/startup where the overhead of fine tune management of devices is not worth it. Once you reach a couple hundred accounts, then yes maybe, at the level above it just gets in the way.
You need 'Enterprise' tools to manage 40 devices ?!? Methinks (and from experience) that you will spend more time and money 'managing' the 'Enterprise' tool than to manage the 40 devices directly.
can I record without telling them so if they tell me they might record on their side ? Say I call customer service for company X, they always robot answer "this call may be recorded for quality and training purposes", can I now record without telling a human on their side ?
The thing is why would you expect someone or some corporation to be allowed to make money but not have to comply with local laws ? You want to have the freedom to make a load of profits with no responsibilities ? Google has the mentality that it is easier to ask for forgiveness than for permission. This allowed them to grow real fast try new things, record WiFi data, advertise for illegal pharmacies, etc... Sometimes they get caught and correct it, sometimes they don't bother and then they get a bigger fine. Do you expect to be running a red light and then tell the cop you didn't thing it would hurt anyone, then keep on doing it again ?
A normal plug could work without magnetism so long as you have a rubber band.
Which would wrap over the screen, genius.
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I would not buy an LCD screen/TV/monitor online. Last time I bought a TV I had to do 3 returns, the first model, a high End sony 60" had over 10 bad pixels in the middle of the screen. I eventually got tired of returning an my current 55" TV has one defective pixel, near the border and rarely visible fortunately. Doing returns of a screen online would be a pita.
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IT's called a white wall with a projector. I have a 120" screen that pulls down from the ceiling with the push of a remote button. The gotcha is that it has to be dark, so I don;t watch nice movies until 8:30PM during the summer and 5:30PM in winter. Last time I went to the theatre the picture quality was actually 'worse' than at home, apparently lots of theatre have misconfigured lens setups, not to mention the added soundtrack (crying babies, cell phones etc...).
Fishes are left in a small glass of water all day long at my local Big Name pet store. Always makes me feel sad for the fish especially when you see some of them turning belly up in the evening. I just do not understand how doing this does not fall under some animal cruelty law.
We recently adopted a dog from the rescue and the contract was almost as if we were only a foster family for the dog. With the contract the dog wellness is really the primary goal, not the humans ego or wallet. We got a small mixed terrier which makes me feel better about potential genetic issues so common with pure breeds nowadays. Last month my wife found cute yorkies from a breeder, not only docked tail (bad in my book, that's just plain amputation) but also declawed. I knew it was done to some cats but to dogs !?!
The SF legislation is probably an overreaction to the current issues with existing laws which should protect the animals are just not enforceable.
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Like in that little camp setup in Cuba? Limited time at geological scale? Due process?
My alarm clock actually has no Snooze button but has Slap! To snooze.
The Microsoft patent is 'interesting' but I do not really find it practical unless you have to start switching modes all day long: when running where the simple fact that you are running would make it misbehave, probably similar on my bike (SF streets are badly maintained), or worse on the train (I had to disable 'shake to skip' on my iPhone, CalTrain got to be the worse train tracks in the western world).
Something more useful would be to cross reference the ring mode with your calendar. If in a meeting, at the dentist, etc ... switch to silent mode. The calendar could even have an option to make the phone super silent and not even vibrate (meeting with CEO).
Should I patent this idea?
My wife ATM card was 'used' twice in less than 24h and a few hundred $ got withdrawn each time, all the while her card was actually at home. ... until the bank calls you or until you get your monthly statement.
It was probably copied by someone at a 7/11. Fake readers on top of real ATMs is unfortunately common and sometimes very well done. In short your ATM or credit card can be copied easily without you ever knowing
The bank actually called my wife on the second transaction and returned all her money. The police never got the bad guys.
I hear you I manage a medium Tomcat farm (few hundred machines) and and some of the servers can take up to 15m to load (we have GBs of caches to fill) and we actually tail the tomcat logs to look for a 'ready to serve pages' notice.
I just tried Hello World in Groovy and it took almost a whole second (measured with time: 0,7s avg, 0.952s max, 0.668s min) for it to run on my MacBookPro (latest high end 17" model, not ssd).
Perl did it in about 0.007s average (0.011s max, 0.003s min), Python in 0.020s average (0.023s max, 0.017s min).
So in practice it takes a 100 times longer to load with no libraries included, it get worse if you do have dependencies.
Not an issue for a server/deamon app, a real big deal if you need to write a command line tool.
Calm down, you can't mod him anymore
Thanks for the tip, I hope it will never have to come in handy.
My brother got his truck burglarized and had several thousand euros worth of equipment stollen (used for house inspections before sale). He found the equipment the next day on a shady local version of craigslist, traced the guy name and address. ... The cops did not lift a finger ! They told my brother the best he could do was setup a meeting go there and try to get his stuff back ... from potentially dangerous a druggie !?!
He calls the local (french) police, the guy has a long file, they know him without even looking up the computer, known drug addict that pays his daily supply with stolen equipment
Whose law? The internet is worldwide.
You might have noticed that here it is about US persons (citizens, or residents), on US soil, dealing with US companies, on US soil. The traffic never leaves US soil.
Being on the Internet does not magically make you a Sealand citizen where you would not have to comply with any laws from any country.
Sure Facebook could apply the same tax evasion tricks to avoid to comply with governments laws, but then they would have to move all their employees to some tiny island nation, as well as all their servers.
Good luck with that. As far as I can tell, the majority high level talent loves to stay in the Silicon Valley and Facebook would end up with only crappy employees, or employees that they would have to pay a lot more. Not really viable.
The other option to store all the servers outside of the US (for US traffic) would mean that the site would be painfully slow, and then users would actually move to, and stay, at an other social site like Google+.
Now imagine that Facebook actually did all that, well how to they make revenue on these US users ? By selling ads, and the money would come from the US. It would not be too difficult for the government to lock down the money flow. Well maybe not the current US politicians, but not above the european governments which still (mostly) value people before corporations.
I'm not seeing a huge improvement over the Reader button in Safari ... which hides all the non article content btw (including ads). Scroll by page ? I would not like it personally since this is an artificial constraint from the legacy paper based medium. Having a maximum number of word letters for the width of the text is a natural constraint: your brain is more efficient than with very very large lines of text. This is why I keep my code under 100 chars width btw.
I doubt you have a 'corporation' when you have 40 devices. That probably mean you have a 100 employees company/startup where the overhead of fine tune management of devices is not worth it. Once you reach a couple hundred accounts, then yes maybe, at the level above it just gets in the way.
You need 'Enterprise' tools to manage 40 devices ?!? Methinks (and from experience) that you will spend more time and money 'managing' the 'Enterprise' tool than to manage the 40 devices directly.
You must be old here ... sorry could not resist Mr 5 digits ;-)
can I record without telling them so if they tell me they might record on their side ?
Say I call customer service for company X, they always robot answer "this call may be recorded for quality and training purposes", can I now record without telling a human on their side ?
My iphone is generating tones out of the speaker, can't he just dial 1 with any modern cell phone next to the microphone of the emergency phone ?
100 years ago. Turn of the century
Do you mean 100 years or 10 years ? Last I check the most recent turn of the century happened on January 1st 2001.
You don't say 'yesterday' the whole week when you mean Monday, do you ?
Like the OS that came on my Mac Book Pro ?
more like 10kpy ?
Yes.
The thing is why would you expect someone or some corporation to be allowed to make money but not have to comply with local laws ? You want to have the freedom to make a load of profits with no responsibilities ? Google has the mentality that it is easier to ask for forgiveness than for permission. This allowed them to grow real fast try new things, record WiFi data, advertise for illegal pharmacies, etc ... Sometimes they get caught and correct it, sometimes they don't bother and then they get a bigger fine. Do you expect to be running a red light and then tell the cop you didn't thing it would hurt anyone, then keep on doing it again ?
A normal plug could work without magnetism so long as you have a rubber band.
Which would wrap over the screen, genius.
I would not buy an LCD screen/TV/monitor online. Last time I bought a TV I had to do 3 returns, the first model, a high End sony 60" had over 10 bad pixels in the middle of the screen. I eventually got tired of returning an my current 55" TV has one defective pixel, near the border and rarely visible fortunately. Doing returns of a screen online would be a pita.
IT's called a white wall with a projector. I have a 120" screen that pulls down from the ceiling with the push of a remote button. ...).
The gotcha is that it has to be dark, so I don;t watch nice movies until 8:30PM during the summer and 5:30PM in winter.
Last time I went to the theatre the picture quality was actually 'worse' than at home, apparently lots of theatre have misconfigured lens setups, not to mention the added soundtrack (crying babies, cell phones etc
More like polish jokes in the US actually.
In french speak:
public: government (The People) owned.
private: not owned by the government.
In US speak (AFAIK):
public: anyone can buy the stock.
private: stock owned behind closed doors.
Things don't translate word for word from one culture to an other, I'm not even talking about languages here.
Fishes are left in a small glass of water all day long at my local Big Name pet store. Always makes me feel sad for the fish especially when you see some of them turning belly up in the evening. I just do not understand how doing this does not fall under some animal cruelty law.
We recently adopted a dog from the rescue and the contract was almost as if we were only a foster family for the dog. With the contract the dog wellness is really the primary goal, not the humans ego or wallet. We got a small mixed terrier which makes me feel better about potential genetic issues so common with pure breeds nowadays.
Last month my wife found cute yorkies from a breeder, not only docked tail (bad in my book, that's just plain amputation) but also declawed. I knew it was done to some cats but to dogs !?!
The SF legislation is probably an overreaction to the current issues with existing laws which should protect the animals are just not enforceable.