In many cases the age is the salient factor....a given action from a 2yo is cute or precocious, but from a 5yo is just normal and from a 15yo is babyish. So the age is critically important, while the sex of the child is not relevant.
Also, given that it's not relevant, I think it's entirely reasonable to keep the gender of one's children a private affair rather than post it on the internet for all to see. I may not always do it myself, but it's still reasonable.
It would have been better to have the phone contract be separate from the service contract, so you could cancel the service contract and continue to pay off the phone at X dollars/month.
But to do that they'd probably need to charge interest on the outstanding phone balance to make up for their own opportunity cost.
They're complaining that the advertising claims there is no contract, when in fact there is still a contract about the phone....just not the cell service.
All they have to do is update the advertising to make it clear that the money is still owing on the phone--which is just common sense in any case.
I took an embedded systems course in university (Engineering Physics program)....we had to build boards up from components, write software in assembly, and then load it into the hardware and cause the hardware to do stuff.
My longest debug session was when I couldn't figure out why my software wasn't working properly...turned out that my team-mates had mis-wired the stepper motor. Once I figured out exactly how they had screwed up the wiring I was able to compensate in software and it worked perfectly.
You can either run Netflix-on-Windows in a VM or run Netflix via wine....in both cases you could grab the unencrypted video output and dump it to a file for a pristine digital copy (well, as good as what you were watching anyway).
Once all the menial jobs are replaced by robots, what do people that are only suited to menial jobs do? Not everyone can be a robot technician, and there will be fewer robot technicians than robots.
Given that it is physically impossible for the economy to keep growing (due to resource scarcity if nothing else) at some point productivity increases must lead to either a reduced population or else a lower average work week.
This is happening in North America too...here in Canada one of the major banks just got a bunch of bad publicity for shipping skilled technical labour offshore because it's cheaper. It's becoming a global economy, places with relatively high cost of living are going to have a tough time keeping their population employed.
The sibling post made the point about finding replacement parts for when things die. That was always my motivation for a complete system upgrade - something dieing and needing to be replaced without me digging deep enough to find something that would work with the old system.
Buy new machine running Win7/8, install free vmware/virtualbox, run specialist software in VM fullscreen. Done
And for those that want the best of both worlds, there is the x32 ABI, which uses all the good stuff from x86-64 (more registers, better floating-point performance, faster position-independent code shared libraries, function parameters passed via registers, faster syscall instruction... ) while using 32-bit pointers and thus avoiding the overhead of 64-bit pointers.
They're working on porting Linux to the new ABI...kernel and compiler support is there, not sure about all the userspace stuff.
The very fact that people are "hooking their virus-ridden, spam-slugging crapfests of consumer grade hardware" to your network should be causing you to add much more robust *internal* security on your network. This is a *good* thing because it makes it harder for infections to spread once they get past the outer perimeter.
He's either a grad student, took a long time to get his degree, got more than one degree, started his degree later in life, or got his/. account really young.
Heck, I only finished school in 2000 and I've got a 5-digit ID.
Screaming down the highway at 75MPH is *exactly* where I want a self-driving car. I live in the Canadian prairies, the nearest large city is 5hrs of highway driving, next nearest is 7hrs. I would _love_ to put my car on autopilot for that trip.
Also, on the highway you generally have long straight sections, sight lines are long, cars are further apart, there are no pedestrians, and often you have divided highways so you don't even need to worry about oncoming traffic.
Obviously the board is doing something wrong when they make a product that so totally ignores a huge market segment (geeky types).
Either they hired a crappy marketing guy, or they drank the kool-aid that someone gave them.
Regardless of the issues of running a business, the board still needs to know what their flagship product actually is, why people buy it, who they are, and what they want.
According to the first link the issue can be fixed with a software change, and can also be worked around by a full discharge followed by letting the system rest. Doesn't say how long a rest is needed though, depends on the implementation I suspect.
I just want the ability to detect a fault and then run my entire system backwards to figure out where the problem came in. Wind River Simics can do this, but it's expensive and time-consuming to get a model of your hardware unless it happens to be something they already support. It's also slow to run (as you'd expect).
They're basically equivalent to a small laptop...the only difference is that everything is crammed together more tightly, not that they're more complicated.
Since non-linear video editing became more common there haven't been any new "must-have" functionality that bogged down the system to the point where people feel like they need a faster system. (Yes, gaming can be the exception to this, but most "normal" people aren't high-end gamers.)
The last computing device I bought was a firesale HP Touchpad that now dual-boots Android. Before that I spent under $450 on a Dell laptop that I'm still using today. It works fine for surfing the web, doing email, playing videos (even high def), etc. While it would be fun to upgrade, I don't *need* to.
The Philips 22W bulb needs to *replace a standard bulb*. That is, the complete unit including the power supply needs to fit in the space of a regular bulb, and it needs to radiate in a certain pattern. If you're not limited by the standard bulb form factor then a bunch of different options open up.
Also, your comparison with the MK-R are misleading. According to their web page, a single Cree MK-R uses 15W to put out 1800 lumens (which is what the Phillips bulb puts out). Only the 2700K/3000K versions are available in a 90CRI version, and the higher the CRI the lower the lumens/Watt.
You can buy rebranded Cree CR6 fixtures at Home Depot. These replace standard 6" ceiling pot fixtures, but rather than use a bulb shape they actually replace the bulb and ceiling trim too. This lets them put the LEDs on a flat circuit board and also lets them extend some of the heat sink down onto the ceiling to radiate away the heat rather than trapping it in the fixture.
I just bought 4 and the only complaint I have is that they keep their colour temperature when dimmed. I'd prefer that they shift to orange like incandescent bulbs.
They're harder to find than the normal "AmbientLED" ones, but the Philips L-Prize bulb has a CRI of 92 instead of the ~80 of most LED bulbs. Much more accurate colour spectrum.
Once this sort of thing is good enough then augmented reality will be the killer app.
Imagine driving in your car with the GPS route you need to take overlaid onto the actual road, or repairing your car/computer/whatever with instructions pointing to each part to remove/replace in sequence along with tips on how to properly do it. Imagine meeting people and seeing their name and a brief biography floating in between you. Virtual geo-tagging left at physical landmarks by previous people. Heck, I could see people having fun with virtual redecorating (preferably leaving the walls/furniture where they really are).
Right now, however, it's nowhere near seamless enough to handle that effectively.
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In many cases the age is the salient factor....a given action from a 2yo is cute or precocious, but from a 5yo is just normal and from a 15yo is babyish. So the age is critically important, while the sex of the child is not relevant.
Also, given that it's not relevant, I think it's entirely reasonable to keep the gender of one's children a private affair rather than post it on the internet for all to see. I may not always do it myself, but it's still reasonable.
It would have been better to have the phone contract be separate from the service contract, so you could cancel the service contract and continue to pay off the phone at X dollars/month.
But to do that they'd probably need to charge interest on the outstanding phone balance to make up for their own opportunity cost.
They're complaining that the advertising claims there is no contract, when in fact there is still a contract about the phone....just not the cell service.
All they have to do is update the advertising to make it clear that the money is still owing on the phone--which is just common sense in any case.
I took an embedded systems course in university (Engineering Physics program)....we had to build boards up from components, write software in assembly, and then load it into the hardware and cause the hardware to do stuff.
My longest debug session was when I couldn't figure out why my software wasn't working properly...turned out that my team-mates had mis-wired the stepper motor. Once I figured out exactly how they had screwed up the wiring I was able to compensate in software and it worked perfectly.
You can either run Netflix-on-Windows in a VM or run Netflix via wine....in both cases you could grab the unencrypted video output and dump it to a file for a pristine digital copy (well, as good as what you were watching anyway).
Once all the menial jobs are replaced by robots, what do people that are only suited to menial jobs do? Not everyone can be a robot technician, and there will be fewer robot technicians than robots.
Given that it is physically impossible for the economy to keep growing (due to resource scarcity if nothing else) at some point productivity increases must lead to either a reduced population or else a lower average work week.
This is happening in North America too...here in Canada one of the major banks just got a bunch of bad publicity for shipping skilled technical labour offshore because it's cheaper. It's becoming a global economy, places with relatively high cost of living are going to have a tough time keeping their population employed.
The sibling post made the point about finding replacement parts for when things die. That was always my motivation for a complete system upgrade - something dieing and needing to be replaced without me digging deep enough to find something that would work with the old system.
Buy new machine running Win7/8, install free vmware/virtualbox, run specialist software in VM fullscreen. Done
And for those that want the best of both worlds, there is the x32 ABI, which uses all the good stuff from x86-64 (more registers, better floating-point performance, faster position-independent code shared libraries, function parameters passed via registers, faster syscall instruction... ) while using 32-bit pointers and thus avoiding the overhead of 64-bit pointers.
They're working on porting Linux to the new ABI...kernel and compiler support is there, not sure about all the userspace stuff.
The very fact that people are "hooking their virus-ridden, spam-slugging crapfests of consumer grade hardware" to your network should be causing you to add much more robust *internal* security on your network. This is a *good* thing because it makes it harder for infections to spread once they get past the outer perimeter.
I live in Canada, and with first-past-the-post my vote essentially means nothing at all due to where I live.
Our national government has a "majority" with less than 40% of the popular vote.
Something to do with my hands after working with my brain all day.
He's either a grad student, took a long time to get his degree, got more than one degree, started his degree later in life, or got his /. account really young.
Heck, I only finished school in 2000 and I've got a 5-digit ID.
Screaming down the highway at 75MPH is *exactly* where I want a self-driving car. I live in the Canadian prairies, the nearest large city is 5hrs of highway driving, next nearest is 7hrs. I would _love_ to put my car on autopilot for that trip.
Also, on the highway you generally have long straight sections, sight lines are long, cars are further apart, there are no pedestrians, and often you have divided highways so you don't even need to worry about oncoming traffic.
Obviously the board is doing something wrong when they make a product that so totally ignores a huge market segment (geeky types).
Either they hired a crappy marketing guy, or they drank the kool-aid that someone gave them.
Regardless of the issues of running a business, the board still needs to know what their flagship product actually is, why people buy it, who they are, and what they want.
A big part of the Ouya is the proper gaming controllers...
According to the first link the issue can be fixed with a software change, and can also be worked around by a full discharge followed by letting the system rest. Doesn't say how long a rest is needed though, depends on the implementation I suspect.
I just want the ability to detect a fault and then run my entire system backwards to figure out where the problem came in. Wind River Simics can do this, but it's expensive and time-consuming to get a model of your hardware unless it happens to be something they already support. It's also slow to run (as you'd expect).
They're basically equivalent to a small laptop...the only difference is that everything is crammed together more tightly, not that they're more complicated.
Since non-linear video editing became more common there haven't been any new "must-have" functionality that bogged down the system to the point where people feel like they need a faster system. (Yes, gaming can be the exception to this, but most "normal" people aren't high-end gamers.)
The last computing device I bought was a firesale HP Touchpad that now dual-boots Android. Before that I spent under $450 on a Dell laptop that I'm still using today. It works fine for surfing the web, doing email, playing videos (even high def), etc. While it would be fun to upgrade, I don't *need* to.
Heck, my in-laws are still running Vista.
The Philips 22W bulb needs to *replace a standard bulb*. That is, the complete unit including the power supply needs to fit in the space of a regular bulb, and it needs to radiate in a certain pattern. If you're not limited by the standard bulb form factor then a bunch of different options open up.
Also, your comparison with the MK-R are misleading. According to their web page, a single Cree MK-R uses 15W to put out 1800 lumens (which is what the Phillips bulb puts out). Only the 2700K/3000K versions are available in a 90CRI version, and the higher the CRI the lower the lumens/Watt.
LED-based bulbs can use additional coloured emitters to fill in gaps in the phosphor spectrum.
I have some Cree CR6 bulbs and they use multiple colours of emitters to give a "white" light.
You can buy rebranded Cree CR6 fixtures at Home Depot. These replace standard 6" ceiling pot fixtures, but rather than use a bulb shape they actually replace the bulb and ceiling trim too. This lets them put the LEDs on a flat circuit board and also lets them extend some of the heat sink down onto the ceiling to radiate away the heat rather than trapping it in the fixture.
I just bought 4 and the only complaint I have is that they keep their colour temperature when dimmed. I'd prefer that they shift to orange like incandescent bulbs.
They're harder to find than the normal "AmbientLED" ones, but the Philips L-Prize bulb has a CRI of 92 instead of the ~80 of most LED bulbs. Much more accurate colour spectrum.
Once this sort of thing is good enough then augmented reality will be the killer app.
Imagine driving in your car with the GPS route you need to take overlaid onto the actual road, or repairing your car/computer/whatever with instructions pointing to each part to remove/replace in sequence along with tips on how to properly do it. Imagine meeting people and seeing their name and a brief biography floating in between you. Virtual geo-tagging left at physical landmarks by previous people. Heck, I could see people having fun with virtual redecorating (preferably leaving the walls/furniture where they really are).
Right now, however, it's nowhere near seamless enough to handle that effectively.
and perfectly lined up with the real world. Smartphones do NOT do that already.