"It is difficult to stay focused on the task at all times. So when a single user has momentary attention lapses, it matters. But when there are two users, a lapse by one will not have much effect, so you stay on target,"
They correlate inputs from two pilots to improve accuracy, but at the same time in the quote above they assume that the inputs from the pilots would not correlate. Its is not like two pilots in a jet liner would miss something as big as their destination airport.
After the the debacle that was Windows Vista followed more recently by the misguided Windows 8 and Surface, hate does not seems as a good description for the attitude towards Microsoft. I think I am seeing a combination of mild amusement, disbelief and pity. May be this is the Steve Balmer's master plan: if you can't get good karma with the products you sell, at least get people to pity you rather than hate you. So far it seems to work.
This is for two devices:
Fed USF Cellular $1.08
E911 Tax (Wireless) $6.00
FCC Regulatory Fee (Wireless) $0.03
Some of these fees may depend on the usage. E911 depends on the state and is usually $3 per device.
Ting is great (I am with them), bit it is not going to work in this specific case. They need a SIM that can be plugged in the laptop or be exchanged between the laptop and the phone. From the original post it looks like they may be traveling outside US and want to have the option to stick a local SIM to avoid roaming charges. This is not going to work with Ting. Ting is using not only the Sprint network but also Sprint phones (complete with the Sprint logo). These are locked down in chains buried in concrete. Even the LTE phones with radios that can work abroad don't have removable SIMs. So once you step outside US you will be paying like a champ.
They are still well build and well designed, and that's why they have a loyal following. I bought my thinkpad (I also own a think station) because it was well designed, which allows me to:
1. Service and upgrade it effortlessly. How many laptops do you know where you need to remove just one screw to change the hard drive? They even have the service and repair manuals on their website!
2. Have a good keyboard with that wonderful red cl... mousey thing.
3. Have 16GB of RAM.
The rest of the features are also top quality, without being flashy (back-light keyboard, IPS screens, extra large wifi antennas)
Apple products are well designed, but with a completely different goal in mind. They are trying to prevent you from accessing the hardware (hell you are not allowed even to change the battery). Trying to byte into apple's user base is the stupidest thing they can do. Apple fan's are not going to buy lenovo just because it looks as cool as apple product. On the other hand the people that buy thinkpads for what they are will drop them as a ton of bricks.
I can't imagine cushier job than a thinkpad brand manager: Just sit back and don't do anything, besides making sure that the quality stays the same, the corners are sharp and the color is black. Every year you spend not doing anything only strengthens the brand. So why change a ting?
But they don't want to sell volume, because this will eat the tuition fees they are getting from their regular students. Who is going to pay tuition and room and board if they can lay on their couch and take the course for two bucks? They would like to have their cake and eat it too. The same thing is going on in my place (it seems that paid online courses are all the rage in US universities). When I try to explain to my colleagues that no one is going to pay to see their course when there are free alternatives, I am drawing blank stares.
Jail, right. You must be joking. He said, she said, we said, they said...then it all just magically goes away,and a lot of attorneys get rich.
That's what would have happened if Autonomy duped some public office and got away with taxpayer's money. In this case they screwed over HP and as it stands now the former Autonomy executives don't have anybody to watch their back. I can bet that Deloitte, which is also sued by HP, will do their best to pin the blame on them.
Because their business plan was not to run their business, but to sell it as quickly as possible to the first idiot that they can dupe. The bigger the number at the bottom of their accounting sheet, the easier it would have been to get HP's CEO Apotheker salivating. The bigger the potential reward, the less like he was to do his due diligence. This is standard conman operating procedure.If this particular case does not turn out to be an insulated incident it can put a lot of people in jail.
Netflix management should take the blame for yesterdays outage and the moronic way they communicated (or should I say did not communicate) the problem to their clients. From what I see all they could muster was one misleading twitter update saying that 'some devices' are being affected (it was a massive outage) and than another one blaming it on amazon. Not a word on their portal page, which was encouraging people to sign up for service. I am curious what would their new clients think when after dishing out their credit card numbers all the saw was 'not connected to the internet' error. While amazon is technically at fault this is the second time this year Netflix goes down due to problems in the amazon North Virginia data center. You would think a company responsible for 1/3 of the internet traffic would have build some infrastructure of their own or at least bothered with a backup plan.
Second this. The market of any ISP that claims that they need to implement caps to prevent congestion should immediately be opened for bidding to competitors that can build better (wink wink) infrastructure.
You forgot the most important part of Major Jack D Ripper's argument:
General Jack D. Ripper: He said war was too important to be left to the generals. When he said that, 50 years ago, he might have been right. But today, war is too important to be left to politicians. They have neither the time, the training, nor the inclination for strategic thought. I can no longer sit back and allow Communist infiltration, Communist indoctrination, Communist subversion and the international Communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids.
Beneficial use of collegiate football in our society is extremely limited. Apart from those students who use it as their only exercise to stay fit, college football matches are used exclusively for entertainment. Yet this collegiate sport does not require much skill to cause repetitive brain injuries, often to students who play ball only to get into college. So spare us the stupidity of the "sports are for athletics, sports don't hurt people, etc". So people should have access only to participate in the sports they have a reasonable use for. They should be licensed, and inspected regularly for head trauma. It costs our health insurance companies quite a bit of money to cover sports injuries, after all.
Yeah, see how well that line of thinking would fly. You see, the problem with thinking of that sort is that it's a slippery slope.
Your logic is weak and based on comparing on equal grounds things that are not equal. You are comparing sport that is practiced by willing and informed participants following strict rules to somebody walking to you and in violation of the rule (law) shooting you. Do you see how this is not a slippery slope?
Besides, Europe has, pretty much, got U.S. per capita deaths due to guns converted to similar order of magnitude per capita abductions into the sex trade. I think I'd much rather my kid be dead, thank you very much.
You Sir are an idiot. Computers have multiple primary uses that are indispensable for the life of everyone. Hacking a computer to kill somebody requires significant skill and fair amount of luck. In contrast beneficial use of guns in our society is extremely limited. Apart from law the enforcement and army, they are used exclusively for entertainment (hunting, target shooting, propping the confidence of people with small dicks). Yet they do not require any skill to kill anybody you wish to, particularly random by passers and elementary school kids. So spare us the stupidity of the "guns are tools, guns do not kill people, etc". So people should have access only to the armaments they have a reasonable use for. They should be licensed, and inspected regularly. We do this for cars, why aren't we doing this for guns?
1) Detecting a switch from stereo to mono is bypassed by broadcasting commercials in the same audio format as the program.
2)This can result in false positives by having black frames between scenes in the programming.
3)What if they didn't utilize any cue tones?
There's no theoretical reason that a commercial could not be made completely indistinguishable from the broadcasted program by an automated appliance without developing an AI that is about as intelligent as a human being.
1. All these approaches require changing the current systems at the content providers. Some how it is always easier to spend money on lawyers than on R&D.
2. The content providers actually need the add queues to provide regional and interactive advertising. Certainly these can be removed when the ads are inserted, but again this will require changing the current systems.
3. All these countermeasures can be circumvented by fingerprinting the ads. Yes, couple of ads can slip the first time they are aired and the viewers are watching the live stream. But both the satellite and cable providers can/do update their boxes remotely, so I can imagine that new ads will be picked up quite quickly. I can also imagine that it will not be hard to find volunteers to identify and fingerprint the adds that slip the filter.
This is an arms race that can prove very expensive and with low chance of success for the content providers. I think they may have a better chance at protecting at least in part the ad revenue by reducing the add content, increasing the ad cost and pushing interactive ads. This will also put pressure on advertisers to rely more on the quality and less on the quantity of the ads. Then again they can simply sue everybody, including their customers.
Disclaimer: I have recently cut my satellite TV connection, as I didn't see any value in paying subscription fee for obnoxious ads. I am currently paying directly for what I want to see by using Netflix and Amazon
Was his 3yr old doing something productive? What previously learned skills and software had his son to give up to make the transition from windows 2K/XP/7 to windows 8?
Adam Desrosier is completely missing to central point of the windows 8 critiques, that is that an OS should stay out of the way and have a consistent user interface. Windows 8 break both of these with the introduction of radically new interface while keeping the "classic" view for the part of the software.
I am in a similar position. Unfortunately where I live the only other choice is ATT and they are not much more appealing. I think I am going to switch to Ting mobile. They are a Sprint MVNO so the network will suck as badly as it sucks now, but they will be at least two fold cheaper. This is after you account for a paying a full price on a shiny new android phone.
I will give you the bow and arrows. I also would like to thank you for the vivid picture your post painted in my imagination. A picture of a world were we all roam naked with nothing but a bow and arrow in our hands. Does Bear Archery take squirrel furs or sea shells as payment for their fine product?
Do any of these products contain plastic, fibers, pigments, metal, rubber or electronic components? if so more likely than not they contain parts not made in the US.
I like my population studies with rigorously documented statistical methods and sample selection procedures. This one has neither, so it is neither news for nerds, nor stuff that matters.
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"It is difficult to stay focused on the task at all times. So when a single user has momentary attention lapses, it matters. But when there are two users, a lapse by one will not have much effect, so you stay on target,"
They correlate inputs from two pilots to improve accuracy, but at the same time in the quote above they assume that the inputs from the pilots would not correlate. Its is not like two pilots in a jet liner would miss something as big as their destination airport.
It's easy to blame the outsourcing.
Ok so if it wasn't outsourcing what was the problem?
But, in this instance, it wasn't so much the outsourcing, as it was the decision to modularize a complicated problem too soon.'
Oh, so it was outsourcing, they were just trying to outsource as early as possible so they won't have to pay engineers to develop the specs.
After the the debacle that was Windows Vista followed more recently by the misguided Windows 8 and Surface, hate does not seems as a good description for the attitude towards Microsoft. I think I am seeing a combination of mild amusement, disbelief and pity. May be this is the Steve Balmer's master plan: if you can't get good karma with the products you sell, at least get people to pity you rather than hate you. So far it seems to work.
This is for two devices: Fed USF Cellular $1.08 E911 Tax (Wireless) $6.00 FCC Regulatory Fee (Wireless) $0.03 Some of these fees may depend on the usage. E911 depends on the state and is usually $3 per device.
Ting is great (I am with them), bit it is not going to work in this specific case. They need a SIM that can be plugged in the laptop or be exchanged between the laptop and the phone. From the original post it looks like they may be traveling outside US and want to have the option to stick a local SIM to avoid roaming charges. This is not going to work with Ting. Ting is using not only the Sprint network but also Sprint phones (complete with the Sprint logo). These are locked down in chains buried in concrete. Even the LTE phones with radios that can work abroad don't have removable SIMs. So once you step outside US you will be paying like a champ.
They are still well build and well designed, and that's why they have a loyal following. I bought my thinkpad (I also own a think station) because it was well designed, which allows me to:
1. Service and upgrade it effortlessly. How many laptops do you know where you need to remove just one screw to change the hard drive? They even have the service and repair manuals on their website!
2. Have a good keyboard with that wonderful red cl... mousey thing.
3. Have 16GB of RAM.
The rest of the features are also top quality, without being flashy (back-light keyboard, IPS screens, extra large wifi antennas)
Apple products are well designed, but with a completely different goal in mind. They are trying to prevent you from accessing the hardware (hell you are not allowed even to change the battery). Trying to byte into apple's user base is the stupidest thing they can do. Apple fan's are not going to buy lenovo just because it looks as cool as apple product. On the other hand the people that buy thinkpads for what they are will drop them as a ton of bricks.
I can't imagine cushier job than a thinkpad brand manager: Just sit back and don't do anything, besides making sure that the quality stays the same, the corners are sharp and the color is black. Every year you spend not doing anything only strengthens the brand. So why change a ting?
But they don't want to sell volume, because this will eat the tuition fees they are getting from their regular students. Who is going to pay tuition and room and board if they can lay on their couch and take the course for two bucks? They would like to have their cake and eat it too. The same thing is going on in my place (it seems that paid online courses are all the rage in US universities). When I try to explain to my colleagues that no one is going to pay to see their course when there are free alternatives, I am drawing blank stares.
Jail, right. You must be joking. He said, she said, we said, they said...then it all just magically goes away,and a lot of attorneys get rich.
That's what would have happened if Autonomy duped some public office and got away with taxpayer's money. In this case they screwed over HP and as it stands now the former Autonomy executives don't have anybody to watch their back. I can bet that Deloitte, which is also sued by HP, will do their best to pin the blame on them.
Because their business plan was not to run their business, but to sell it as quickly as possible to the first idiot that they can dupe. The bigger the number at the bottom of their accounting sheet, the easier it would have been to get HP's CEO Apotheker salivating. The bigger the potential reward, the less like he was to do his due diligence. This is standard conman operating procedure.If this particular case does not turn out to be an insulated incident it can put a lot of people in jail.
Netflix management should take the blame for yesterdays outage and the moronic way they communicated (or should I say did not communicate) the problem to their clients. From what I see all they could muster was one misleading twitter update saying that 'some devices' are being affected (it was a massive outage) and than another one blaming it on amazon. Not a word on their portal page, which was encouraging people to sign up for service. I am curious what would their new clients think when after dishing out their credit card numbers all the saw was 'not connected to the internet' error. While amazon is technically at fault this is the second time this year Netflix goes down due to problems in the amazon North Virginia data center. You would think a company responsible for 1/3 of the internet traffic would have build some infrastructure of their own or at least bothered with a backup plan.
Second this. The market of any ISP that claims that they need to implement caps to prevent congestion should immediately be opened for bidding to competitors that can build better (wink wink) infrastructure.
General Jack D. Ripper: He said war was too important to be left to the generals. When he said that, 50 years ago, he might have been right. But today, war is too important to be left to politicians. They have neither the time, the training, nor the inclination for strategic thought. I can no longer sit back and allow Communist infiltration, Communist indoctrination, Communist subversion and the international Communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids.
The fact that Boeing's customers treat their passengers as sacks of potatoes is purely coincidental.
Beneficial use of collegiate football in our society is extremely limited. Apart from those students who use it as their only exercise to stay fit, college football matches are used exclusively for entertainment. Yet this collegiate sport does not require much skill to cause repetitive brain injuries, often to students who play ball only to get into college. So spare us the stupidity of the "sports are for athletics, sports don't hurt people, etc". So people should have access only to participate in the sports they have a reasonable use for. They should be licensed, and inspected regularly for head trauma. It costs our health insurance companies quite a bit of money to cover sports injuries, after all.
Yeah, see how well that line of thinking would fly. You see, the problem with thinking of that sort is that it's a slippery slope.
Your logic is weak and based on comparing on equal grounds things that are not equal. You are comparing sport that is practiced by willing and informed participants following strict rules to somebody walking to you and in violation of the rule (law) shooting you. Do you see how this is not a slippery slope?
Besides, Europe has, pretty much, got U.S. per capita deaths due to guns converted to similar order of magnitude per capita abductions into the sex trade. I think I'd much rather my kid be dead, thank you very much.
That's not true. I am not sure where are you getting your statistics from but here is where I get mine: http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/cri_gun_vio_hom_fir_hom_rat_per_100_pop-rate-per-100-000-pop No EU country is even close to US.
You Sir are an idiot. Computers have multiple primary uses that are indispensable for the life of everyone. Hacking a computer to kill somebody requires significant skill and fair amount of luck. In contrast beneficial use of guns in our society is extremely limited. Apart from law the enforcement and army, they are used exclusively for entertainment (hunting, target shooting, propping the confidence of people with small dicks). Yet they do not require any skill to kill anybody you wish to, particularly random by passers and elementary school kids. So spare us the stupidity of the "guns are tools, guns do not kill people, etc". So people should have access only to the armaments they have a reasonable use for. They should be licensed, and inspected regularly. We do this for cars, why aren't we doing this for guns?
I recall when /.'ers were much, much better informed --- now they fall for any pseudo-corporate hoodoo-voodoo......
And I recall the time when baseless conspiracy theories were laughed out Slashdot instead of being moded "Insightful".
Excellent point. I have lived in Germany for several years and I can attest that they have invested heavily in energy efficiency.
1) Detecting a switch from stereo to mono is bypassed by broadcasting commercials in the same audio format as the program.
2)This can result in false positives by having black frames between scenes in the programming.
3)What if they didn't utilize any cue tones?
There's no theoretical reason that a commercial could not be made completely indistinguishable from the broadcasted program by an automated appliance without developing an AI that is about as intelligent as a human being.
1. All these approaches require changing the current systems at the content providers. Some how it is always easier to spend money on lawyers than on R&D.
2. The content providers actually need the add queues to provide regional and interactive advertising. Certainly these can be removed when the ads are inserted, but again this will require changing the current systems.
3. All these countermeasures can be circumvented by fingerprinting the ads. Yes, couple of ads can slip the first time they are aired and the viewers are watching the live stream. But both the satellite and cable providers can/do update their boxes remotely, so I can imagine that new ads will be picked up quite quickly. I can also imagine that it will not be hard to find volunteers to identify and fingerprint the adds that slip the filter.
This is an arms race that can prove very expensive and with low chance of success for the content providers. I think they may have a better chance at protecting at least in part the ad revenue by reducing the add content, increasing the ad cost and pushing interactive ads. This will also put pressure on advertisers to rely more on the quality and less on the quantity of the ads. Then again they can simply sue everybody, including their customers.
Disclaimer: I have recently cut my satellite TV connection, as I didn't see any value in paying subscription fee for obnoxious ads. I am currently paying directly for what I want to see by using Netflix and Amazon
Was his 3yr old doing something productive? What previously learned skills and software had his son to give up to make the transition from windows 2K/XP/7 to windows 8? Adam Desrosier is completely missing to central point of the windows 8 critiques, that is that an OS should stay out of the way and have a consistent user interface. Windows 8 break both of these with the introduction of radically new interface while keeping the "classic" view for the part of the software.
I am in a similar position. Unfortunately where I live the only other choice is ATT and they are not much more appealing. I think I am going to switch to Ting mobile. They are a Sprint MVNO so the network will suck as badly as it sucks now, but they will be at least two fold cheaper. This is after you account for a paying a full price on a shiny new android phone.
I am pretty sure it shipped from China. I have the invoice and fedex tracking information to prove it.
I will give you the bow and arrows. I also would like to thank you for the vivid picture your post painted in my imagination. A picture of a world were we all roam naked with nothing but a bow and arrow in our hands. Does Bear Archery take squirrel furs or sea shells as payment for their fine product?
Do any of these products contain plastic, fibers, pigments, metal, rubber or electronic components? if so more likely than not they contain parts not made in the US.
That would certainly deter me from buying products that were manufactured or contained parts that were manufactured abroad.
Name one such product.
I like my population studies with rigorously documented statistical methods and sample selection procedures. This one has neither, so it is neither news for nerds, nor stuff that matters.