15 micrometer is only 0.015 mm. Massive would be 1,500 meters. 0.015 mm is massive compared to 10^-10 m.
Context matters.
They meant massive in the same way politicians did about the increase to people's take-home pay after passing the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017. As one woman tweeted (and Paul Ryan re-tweeted) it will pay for her annual Costco membership.
... their business model is just plain stupid... take $10 a month from users... pay a $10 movie ticket for them up to 30 times a month...
Sure, but are there really 30 movies you -- hell, anyone -- would want to see every month? Perhaps, in a really good month, there are maybe 4 I would consider seeing and that certainly doesn't happen every month - or even most months. Also most people are at work 5 days a week.
The business model relies on the practical matters that (1) there aren't that many movies to watch and (2) most people won't be available to watch them anyway, but it *sounds* like too good deal to pass up so, like a gym membership, (3) people sign up and never, or minimally, use the service and (4) subsidize other people's use. Along with (5) MoviePass selling user data,
They don't say it directly. It comes from constantly promoting office jobs as the thing to aim for while ignoring and marginalizing trades.
You mean from teachers, at a university, teaching things appropriate for an office job, to students presumably there to learn things for an office job? While people learning trade skills are presumably at trade schools learning things appropriate for trade jobs. Even at schools that offer both types of education, you'd only be exposed to those teachers teaching the things you wanted to learn, for the type of job you wanted.
So... your argument makes no actual sense; stop projecting.
"Multi-cloud operations are the new normal"... What? I have literally no *clue* what this could possibly even mean. Are we still talking about computers? On Earth? Humans? Or is this some sort of alien technology from a different world? Multi-cloud operations? Operations? Cloud? Multi-cloud?
I thought there was only one cloud, "the cloud", and everything went there.
Obviously, Canonical has cracked multi-dimensional travel with Ubuntu 18.04 and it can connect with The Cloud in all the other dimensions / Universes. I'm so looking forward to messing with the Google and Amazon search histories of my other-dimension counterparts.
This is largely a myth. Two cars coming off the same production line, one goes left, gets Toyota badging, the other goes right and gets GM. Which one has the higher customer rating? Yup, Toyota. Better life cycle too. Same parts, same labor, same everything, what is the difference?
But... the cars aren't identical. And it seems that in the various rental and friends' cars I've driven over the years that are from US makers, the positions of some/many of the controls are just a little bit off from where I need them to be to reach and operate comfortably. This seems to be less so in Japanese cars.
Perhaps my height 5'6' and particular build are a factor and/or it's just what I'm use to at this point, being 54. My first car was a '69 VW Beetle I bought from my grandfather for $25, my next was a one-year old '87 Honda Prelude SI and my current is a '01 Civic EX. My wife had an '82 Accord hatchback when I met her in 1985, then a '91 Celica GT and lastly an '02 CR-V EX -- she died in 2006, and I still both of the last Hondas. The next time I need a new(er) vehicle, I'll look around as I'm sure many things have changed over time, but will probably get another Honda -- although it seem that they're moving to all keyless entry and ignition, which I hate.
Raises hand: I don't care about safety, not if it means I have to drive some econobox.
Raise hand: I don't care about Ford, not if it means I have to drive a Ford.
Sorry American car makers, I have two Hondas (2001 Civic EX and 2002 CR-V EX - both 5spd manual) and they still run like champs. Seems foreign, especially Japanese, cars have always fit me better and more comfortably than American cars.
Can someone please come up with some alternative to Flat/Material design that can become the hot new trend? Unless it involves just a pure white screen where you have to have previously memorized an invisible design layout it can't help but be better than what the industry is moving towards now.
Okay. How about the all black on black color scheme in Disaster Area's stunt ship:
"It's the wild colour scheme that freaks me," said Zaphod whose love affair with this ship had lasted almost three minutes into the flight, "Every time you try to operate on of these weird black controls that are labelled in black on a black background, a little black light lights up black to let you know you've done it. What is this? Some kind of galactic hyperhearse?"
The walls of the swaying cabin were also black, the ceiling was black, the seats - which were rudimentary since the only important trip this ship was designed for was supposed to be unmanned - were black, the control panel was black, the instruments were black, the little screws that held them in place were black, the thin tufted nylon floor covering was black, and when they had lifted up a corner of it they had discovered that the foam underlay also was black.
"Perhaps whoever designed it had eyes that responded to different wavelengths," offered Trillian.
"Or didn't have much imagination," muttered Arthur.
How about, "Fracking"? It would be a confusing oxymoron describing [a] something we do: hacking computers (and watching SciFi); [b] something we wouldn't do: hydraulic fracturing (forcing liquid at high pressure into fissures) and [c] something no one wants us to do: have sex with them - certainly not in our parents' basement (see description of "b").
As for differentiating out non-hacker hackers, we already have a phrase for that, "Script Kiddies".
IMO, the word "hack" is a lot like the word "shoot". The target is what matters, not the verb. Shoot a Nazi? Get a medal. Shoot up a school? Lethal injection.
Context is what matters.
So true... "Eats, Shoots & Leaves" - a book about the dangers of misused punctuation and, presumably, rogue pandas.
A panda walks into a café. He orders a sandwich, eats it, then draws a gun and proceeds to fire it at the other patrons.
"Why?" asks the confused, surviving waiter amidst the carnage, as the panda makes towards the exit. The panda produces a badly punctuated wildlife manual and tosses it over his shoulder.
"Well, I'm a panda," he says. "Look it up."
The waiter turns to the relevant entry in the manual and, sure enough, finds an explanation. "Panda. Large black-and-white bear-like mammal, native to China. Eats, shoots and leaves."
The place to look for civilizations that pre-date us is, of course, Antarctica. We really have not done much exploring of the Transantarctic Mountains. Who knows what might be found there.
I've got a few fiction recommendations along those lines...
Check out James Rollins' novel Subterranean. Perhaps not his best work, but it was the first one of his I read and got me hooked on him and I've enjoyed his other action-adventure novels, including his SIGMA Force series.
A good military action-adventure read is Matt Reilly's novel Ice Station -- which I'm still hoping someone will make into a movie. I've enjoyed Matt's other novels as well.
Part of this paragraph:
"You are responsible for obtaining, at your own cost, all third party permissions, clearances, and licenses necessary to secure Eventbrite the permissions and rights described above"
And if someone says no? Is their invitation acceptance and participation dependent upon their agreeing to sign a rights waiver? If not, you can't make someone sign away their rights.
I figure those things were calculated in the original price. Where do those three items fit in with tripling the price of the drug?
Corporate economics. Patients are using less so they jack up the price to maintain revenues. It's not based on need, but want - aka: greed.
For example, look at the grass/weed killer RoundUp. A 32oz bottle of regular concentrate costs about $19. The same size bottle of "Extended Control" (prevents growth "up to" 4 months) concentrate is about $33 and the same size bottle of "Max Control 365" (prevents growth "up to" 1 year) is about $45. (from experience, the "up to" parts are generous on their part) The chemical formulation is not that much different, almost certainly not enough to justify the price difference, but consumers can buy it less frequently so the price is higher to compensate for fewer sales.
...that so many Americans identify with and defend patriotically and decry anything else as Socialism/Communism/government overreach. This is the free market and minimal regulation at work, doing what it's supposed to do, regardless of anything except profits and share prices, and you vote for it like true patriots every few years.
"'Money before people', Ted, it's the company motto, written right on the lobby floor. It just looks more heroic in Latin."
-- Veronica Palmer, Better Off Ted, Season 1, Episode 4.
Are there any limitations? The first skill I'd create would be "Privacy" Probably the second would be "Alexa?" Order me some blackjack and hookers./s
Don't be silly. You can't order blackjack.:-)
More seriously... Did you know there are smartphone controlled vibrators? So it's only a matter of time before those can be controlled by Alexa too. How's that going to play out in bed? "Alexa. Set vibrator #3 to pulse-mode 2, change vibrator #1 to continuous-mode and vibrator #2 to manual - and reorder Tide pods."
The number of vacation days you receive often increases with your number of years at a company, as, often, does your pay. New(er), perhaps younger, employees often start out with lower salary and fewer vacation days. How is this a revelation? In addition, people higher up the salary scale may have more experience, perhaps from somewhere else, and negotiated more vacation days during the hiring and/or annual review process. Less experienced employees don't have that leverage.
The US government has already proven and the courts agreed that a finger print can be compelled. I'd like to use a combination of facial recognition, a finger print and a password, and maybe even a physical device. A voice recognition option would be an effective addition as well. Any less and you might as well just not use any security at all.
Why not add a duress password/phrase/keystroke/specific fingerprint that induces a deep wipe pf the device.
IANAL, but using it would probably generate an obstruction of justice, or destruction of evidence, charge against you.
The law says you don't have to help LEOs, but you can't hinder.
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I so wanted to make a "spooky action at a distance" dick joke, but they said "massive scale". :-(
Massive is relative.
15 micrometer is only 0.015 mm. Massive would be 1,500 meters.
0.015 mm is massive compared to 10^-10 m.
Context matters.
They meant massive in the same way politicians did about the increase to people's take-home pay after passing the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017. As one woman tweeted (and Paul Ryan re-tweeted) it will pay for her annual Costco membership.
... their business model is just plain stupid... take $10 a month from users... pay a $10 movie ticket for them up to 30 times a month ...
Sure, but are there really 30 movies you -- hell, anyone -- would want to see every month? Perhaps, in a really good month, there are maybe 4 I would consider seeing and that certainly doesn't happen every month - or even most months. Also most people are at work 5 days a week.
The business model relies on the practical matters that (1) there aren't that many movies to watch and (2) most people won't be available to watch them anyway, but it *sounds* like too good deal to pass up so, like a gym membership, (3) people sign up and never, or minimally, use the service and (4) subsidize other people's use. Along with (5) MoviePass selling user data,
They don't say it directly. It comes from constantly promoting office jobs as the thing to aim for while ignoring and marginalizing trades.
You mean from teachers, at a university, teaching things appropriate for an office job, to students presumably there to learn things for an office job? While people learning trade skills are presumably at trade schools learning things appropriate for trade jobs. Even at schools that offer both types of education, you'd only be exposed to those teachers teaching the things you wanted to learn, for the type of job you wanted.
So... your argument makes no actual sense; stop projecting.
"Multi-cloud operations are the new normal"... What? I have literally no *clue* what this could possibly even mean. Are we still talking about computers? On Earth? Humans? Or is this some sort of alien technology from a different world? Multi-cloud operations? Operations? Cloud? Multi-cloud?
I thought there was only one cloud, "the cloud", and everything went there.
Obviously, Canonical has cracked multi-dimensional travel with Ubuntu 18.04 and it can connect with The Cloud in all the other dimensions / Universes. I'm so looking forward to messing with the Google and Amazon search histories of my other-dimension counterparts.
This is largely a myth. Two cars coming off the same production line, one goes left, gets Toyota badging, the other goes right and gets GM. Which one has the higher customer rating? Yup, Toyota. Better life cycle too. Same parts, same labor, same everything, what is the difference?
But... the cars aren't identical. And it seems that in the various rental and friends' cars I've driven over the years that are from US makers, the positions of some/many of the controls are just a little bit off from where I need them to be to reach and operate comfortably. This seems to be less so in Japanese cars.
Perhaps my height 5'6' and particular build are a factor and/or it's just what I'm use to at this point, being 54. My first car was a '69 VW Beetle I bought from my grandfather for $25, my next was a one-year old '87 Honda Prelude SI and my current is a '01 Civic EX. My wife had an '82 Accord hatchback when I met her in 1985, then a '91 Celica GT and lastly an '02 CR-V EX -- she died in 2006, and I still both of the last Hondas. The next time I need a new(er) vehicle, I'll look around as I'm sure many things have changed over time, but will probably get another Honda -- although it seem that they're moving to all keyless entry and ignition, which I hate.
Instructions to delivery service: Just move dead body over to the side if package will not fit between legs.
Passing this along: Amazon sells Body Bags ...
Raises hand: I don't care about safety, not if it means I have to drive some econobox.
Raise hand: I don't care about Ford, not if it means I have to drive a Ford.
Sorry American car makers, I have two Hondas (2001 Civic EX and 2002 CR-V EX - both 5spd manual) and they still run like champs. Seems foreign, especially Japanese, cars have always fit me better and more comfortably than American cars.
Can someone please come up with some alternative to Flat/Material design that can become the hot new trend? Unless it involves just a pure white screen where you have to have previously memorized an invisible design layout it can't help but be better than what the industry is moving towards now.
Okay. How about the all black on black color scheme in Disaster Area's stunt ship:
"It's the wild colour scheme that freaks me," said Zaphod whose love affair with this ship had lasted almost three minutes into the flight, "Every time you try to operate on of these weird black controls that are labelled in black on a black background, a little black light lights up black to let you know you've done it. What is this? Some kind of galactic hyperhearse?"
The walls of the swaying cabin were also black, the ceiling was black, the seats - which were rudimentary since the only important trip this ship was designed for was supposed to be unmanned - were black, the control panel was black, the instruments were black, the little screws that held them in place were black, the thin tufted nylon floor covering was black, and when they had lifted up a corner of it they had discovered that the foam underlay also was black.
"Perhaps whoever designed it had eyes that responded to different wavelengths," offered Trillian.
"Or didn't have much imagination," muttered Arthur.
How about, "Fracking"? It would be a confusing oxymoron describing [a] something we do: hacking computers (and watching SciFi); [b] something we wouldn't do: hydraulic fracturing (forcing liquid at high pressure into fissures) and [c] something no one wants us to do: have sex with them - certainly not in our parents' basement (see description of "b").
As for differentiating out non-hacker hackers, we already have a phrase for that, "Script Kiddies".
IMO, the word "hack" is a lot like the word "shoot". The target is what matters, not the verb. Shoot a Nazi? Get a medal. Shoot up a school? Lethal injection.
Context is what matters.
So true... "Eats, Shoots & Leaves" - a book about the dangers of misused punctuation and, presumably, rogue pandas.
A panda walks into a café. He orders a sandwich, eats it, then draws a gun and proceeds to fire it at the other patrons.
"Why?" asks the confused, surviving waiter amidst the carnage, as the panda makes towards the exit. The panda produces a badly punctuated wildlife manual and tosses it over his shoulder.
"Well, I'm a panda," he says. "Look it up."
The waiter turns to the relevant entry in the manual and, sure enough, finds an explanation. "Panda. Large black-and-white bear-like mammal, native to China. Eats, shoots and leaves."
The place to look for civilizations that pre-date us is, of course, Antarctica. We really have not done much exploring of the Transantarctic Mountains. Who knows what might be found there.
I've got a few fiction recommendations along those lines...
Check out James Rollins' novel Subterranean. Perhaps not his best work, but it was the first one of his I read and got me hooked on him and I've enjoyed his other action-adventure novels, including his SIGMA Force series.
A good military action-adventure read is Matt Reilly's novel Ice Station -- which I'm still hoping someone will make into a movie. I've enjoyed Matt's other novels as well.
What do you want to bet that "Caroline Haskins, writing for The Outline" has no idea what hacking is.
She might know a little. She might have a cat. They hack up stiff all the time.
Part of this paragraph: "You are responsible for obtaining, at your own cost, all third party permissions, clearances, and licenses necessary to secure Eventbrite the permissions and rights described above"
And if someone says no? Is their invitation acceptance and participation dependent upon their agreeing to sign a rights waiver? If not, you can't make someone sign away their rights.
In any case, I agree with Sean: "yeah, no".
I figure those things were calculated in the original price. Where do those three items fit in with tripling the price of the drug?
Corporate economics. Patients are using less so they jack up the price to maintain revenues. It's not based on need, but want - aka: greed.
For example, look at the grass/weed killer RoundUp. A 32oz bottle of regular concentrate costs about $19. The same size bottle of "Extended Control" (prevents growth "up to" 4 months) concentrate is about $33 and the same size bottle of "Max Control 365" (prevents growth "up to" 1 year) is about $45. (from experience, the "up to" parts are generous on their part) The chemical formulation is not that much different, almost certainly not enough to justify the price difference, but consumers can buy it less frequently so the price is higher to compensate for fewer sales.
...that so many Americans identify with and defend patriotically and decry anything else as Socialism/Communism/government overreach. This is the free market and minimal regulation at work, doing what it's supposed to do, regardless of anything except profits and share prices, and you vote for it like true patriots every few years.
"'Money before people', Ted, it's the company motto, written right on the lobby floor. It just looks more heroic in Latin."
-- Veronica Palmer, Better Off Ted, Season 1, Episode 4.
If profit can be had and they don't do it, then shareholders will come after them with lawyers.
And... If there's any poetic justice, some of them will get cancer and then not be able to afford the drug. (fingers crossed)
Are there any limitations? /s
The first skill I'd create would be "Privacy"
Probably the second would be "Alexa?" Order me some blackjack and hookers.
Don't be silly. You can't order blackjack. :-)
More seriously... Did you know there are smartphone controlled vibrators? So it's only a matter of time before those can be controlled by Alexa too. How's that going to play out in bed? "Alexa. Set vibrator #3 to pulse-mode 2, change vibrator #1 to continuous-mode and vibrator #2 to manual - and reorder Tide pods."
... so strangers will not have access to your couple's trivia game that's personalized for you, your spouse, and your best coupled friends.
Exactly what kind of games is Amazon expecting people to make -- and will they support a password and/or safe-word?
... by Stephan Pasta.
Can't wait for someone to plagiarize Stephan's comic so he can sue them, claiming copypasta.
[ P.S. Love you Elly Elephant ]
The number of vacation days you receive often increases with your number of years at a company, as, often, does your pay. New(er), perhaps younger, employees often start out with lower salary and fewer vacation days. How is this a revelation? In addition, people higher up the salary scale may have more experience, perhaps from somewhere else, and negotiated more vacation days during the hiring and/or annual review process. Less experienced employees don't have that leverage.
I used OneNote once to write a very, very - very - short song. I'm now using TwoNotes.
The US government has already proven and the courts agreed that a finger print can be compelled. I'd like to use a combination of facial recognition, a finger print and a password, and maybe even a physical device. A voice recognition option would be an effective addition as well. Any less and you might as well just not use any security at all.
Why not add a duress password/phrase/keystroke/specific fingerprint that induces a deep wipe pf the device.
IANAL, but using it would probably generate an obstruction of justice, or destruction of evidence, charge against you.
The law says you don't have to help LEOs, but you can't hinder.
I found a crank phone charger on Amazon for $16.
Great, now you're all set for the end of civilization.
*carrier not found*
So... you have T-Mobile. :-)
Pussehl says there's "no crime or threat," so no charges are expected.
Planet Fitness *is* a "Judgement Free Zone". :-)