Wouldn't visual defects, such as myopia, or an excess of floaters, impact the results of this exam?
or blindness ("Your IQ is zero sir, but luckily your companion dog is smarter than Einstein!"). They've just replaced a culturally biased test with a visually biased one.
People have been 3-D printing buildings from natural materials available on site for thousands of years. Somehow they didn't need new IP protections. Other species have been doing it even longer.
Yeah, that sounds messy, but perhaps claiming a name could revolve around some sort of bitcoin style "mining" service. That would help prevent mass registration and squatting (At least to an extent)
I never cared for pinball on the PC or consoles; it just felt "wrong". But I recently tried Pinball Arcade on my Android tablet and I'm hooked. It must be the way you can lay the tablet flat the way a real pinball table is oriented instead of looking up at a vertical screen.
Productivity improvements are nothing new. They have been happening regularly since agriculture was invented 10,000 years ago. In the past the neither of the two scenarios you listed has happened.
Actually, productivity improvements in the past did result in shorter work weeks. In the late 19th century, most people worked 12 or more hours per day, 6 days a week. Henry Ford standardized on a five day work week in 1926 (unheard of at the time). FDR established a 40 hour work week as standard in 1938. Increased productivity used to mean shorter working hours, however from about 1980 onward, average working hours have actually increased, despite continual productivity increases. The gains from those productivity increases have been captured by the top 1% instead of being spread evenly through the population.
Actually you do. If you're given or are paid in Apple shares, you're taxed the value of the shares at the time you were given them. When you sell the shares, you pay additional taxes (or receive a tax credit) based on any differences in price from when you got them.
In the first instance, you'd pay income tax on the value of the shares; in the second case you'd pay capital gains tax on the increase in value. They are taxed at different rates and not convertible, which can be a problem. Say you worked at Blackberry and received shares as income when the stock was high. The company's stock value tanks and you are laid off. You have to sell your stocks to pay your income tax bill (on the high stock value), but you have to sell the stocks for pennies on the dollar. You can record a capital loss on your stocks but capital losses can only be used to offset capital gains, not income. In short, you're screwed.
The problem with keeping your savings in cash under the mattress is that it is being constantly eroded by inflation (unless you meant gold or silver coins). Bitcoin is a deflationary currency and thus avoids that problem over the long term (at least in theory).
I'm sure they work just as well as other Security Theater props like porno-scanners and face-recognition cameras. In fact, they probably have a lot lower rate of false positives.
There's a lot of comments floating around which say "when you install this this 3rd party start menu and make it boot straight to desktop, it's fine". What they are saying is that if you undo all the big ideas that were added in Windows 8 it's fine.
No, they're saying if you're someone who is resistant to change, you can easily revert the UI to work the way you are used to.
Given that this whole rumor is based on Microsoft ordering 1.5" touchscreens, I wouldn't jump to the conclusion that they're building a smartwatch. Since the WiiU and PS4 both have some kind of touch device in the controller, it's pretty much a given that the XBox720 (or whatever it's called) will also have one.
IANAL but I believe they are paying for the re-broadcasting rights. Since they are receiving from one antenna and sending to multiple customers, they are technically a broadcaster. Aereo is getting around this by having a separate antenna for each customer.
If they already provide a free over-the-air signal, in order to be available to the most viewers (and therefore to the most advertising targets), isn't another company extending that viewer base at no expense to Fox, Univision, CBS, NBC, ABC a *benefit* to them?
There's two things you're missing:
1) OTA networks get paid fees by cable & satellite providers for their content (disputes over these fees sometimes result in certain networks being dropped temporarily by cable & satellite providers). I'm sure Fox & friends would love to charge Aereo similar fees, but that would upset the incumbent providers who are threatened by internet providers like Aereo.
2) Networks are able to geographically limit their coverage (even on satellite providers) which allows them to sell local, regional and national advertising. If Aereo allows people living outside New York (or god forbid, outside the US) to view NYC OTA feeds, they wouldn't be extracting the maximum ad revenue possible.
Nolan Bushnell, who ran video game pioneer Atari in the early 1970s, says he always saw something special in Steve Jobs
No one likes to speak ill of the dead I guess. I read an interview with Bushnell a decade ago were he says that Jobs was a slacker who stunk up the place (as in literally stunk up the place because he didn't bathe). The only thing Jobs accomplished at Atari was the Breakout hardware design which pretty much everyone now admits was actually done by Wozniak in his spare time and Jobs took the credit for. Maybe the "something special" Bushnell saw in Jobs was his brilliant friend?
Copyright is seldom a partisan issue. Conservatives are especially conflicted on the issue since on the one hand they generally support big corporations; but on the other hand they support free markets and oppose government regulations (and copyright is essentially a government-granted monopoly).
This particular decision seemed to break down generationally with the three oldest members of the court voting in dissent. I choose to take that as a hopeful sign that things will get better as the copyright maximalists eventually die off.
If you find my key under a rock in my backyard, it is still theft if you break into my house with it and steal things.
No one is being charged with stealing things. They are being charged with (to extend your analogy) telling the newspaper what an idiot you are for hiding your key under a rock.
Would you complain if the fire department eliminated their free service of protecting your home? There are no free services. Some are paid for directly by the users of the service, some are paid for collectively by taxes or insurance premiums, some are paid for by handing over personal information or viewing advertising. The method used to pay for a service shouldn't affect your ability to complain when the service is removed.
I can't think of a worse possible tribute to open web supporter and RSS pioneer Aaron Swartz than this. Nice one Google, why don't you take a shit on his grave while you're at it.
Corporations have more effect over our everyday lives than the government, so why shouldn't we petition them? Sure not every issue is of the same level of importance, but there's room for lots of petitions on Change.org so why not let everyone have their say?
By the way, it seems whiny and self-entitled to complain about petitions you don't personally agree with. Just find another petition you do want to support.
Having "unenforced" laws on the books that everyone breaks is dangerous because it allows police to selectively enforce those laws when they need to punish a specific individual or group (cracking down on homeless people for loitering for example, or the overly broad "computer hacking" law which was used to go after Arron Swartz).
The only thing I can think of is regulation. Unlike the radio spectrum, the light spectrum is unregulated so no need to worry about running afoul of the FCC and stay under certain power levels/frequency bands/etc. Also it might work in places where Wi-Fi doesn't due to RF interference (microwave oven factory maybe?) but generally there are other ways to fix that. Speaking as someone old enough to remember the colossal failure of IrDA which was based on very similar principles, I don't think this technology has much of a chance.
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or blindness ("Your IQ is zero sir, but luckily your companion dog is smarter than Einstein!"). They've just replaced a culturally biased test with a visually biased one.
People have been 3-D printing buildings from natural materials available on site for thousands of years. Somehow they didn't need new IP protections. Other species have been doing it even longer.
That's such a good idea that I bet someone else already thought of it.
The best part is, while you're tasting it...it's tasting you!
I never cared for pinball on the PC or consoles; it just felt "wrong". But I recently tried Pinball Arcade on my Android tablet and I'm hooked. It must be the way you can lay the tablet flat the way a real pinball table is oriented instead of looking up at a vertical screen.
Actually, productivity improvements in the past did result in shorter work weeks. In the late 19th century, most people worked 12 or more hours per day, 6 days a week. Henry Ford standardized on a five day work week in 1926 (unheard of at the time). FDR established a 40 hour work week as standard in 1938. Increased productivity used to mean shorter working hours, however from about 1980 onward, average working hours have actually increased, despite continual productivity increases. The gains from those productivity increases have been captured by the top 1% instead of being spread evenly through the population.
In the first instance, you'd pay income tax on the value of the shares; in the second case you'd pay capital gains tax on the increase in value. They are taxed at different rates and not convertible, which can be a problem. Say you worked at Blackberry and received shares as income when the stock was high. The company's stock value tanks and you are laid off. You have to sell your stocks to pay your income tax bill (on the high stock value), but you have to sell the stocks for pennies on the dollar. You can record a capital loss on your stocks but capital losses can only be used to offset capital gains, not income. In short, you're screwed.
The problem with keeping your savings in cash under the mattress is that it is being constantly eroded by inflation (unless you meant gold or silver coins). Bitcoin is a deflationary currency and thus avoids that problem over the long term (at least in theory).
I'm sure they work just as well as other Security Theater props like porno-scanners and face-recognition cameras. In fact, they probably have a lot lower rate of false positives.
No, they're saying if you're someone who is resistant to change, you can easily revert the UI to work the way you are used to.
Given that this whole rumor is based on Microsoft ordering 1.5" touchscreens, I wouldn't jump to the conclusion that they're building a smartwatch. Since the WiiU and PS4 both have some kind of touch device in the controller, it's pretty much a given that the XBox720 (or whatever it's called) will also have one.
The White House will not confirm whether these unmanned underwater drones are being used to take out Atlantian terrorists.
IANAL but I believe they are paying for the re-broadcasting rights. Since they are receiving from one antenna and sending to multiple customers, they are technically a broadcaster. Aereo is getting around this by having a separate antenna for each customer.
There's two things you're missing:
1) OTA networks get paid fees by cable & satellite providers for their content (disputes over these fees sometimes result in certain networks being dropped temporarily by cable & satellite providers). I'm sure Fox & friends would love to charge Aereo similar fees, but that would upset the incumbent providers who are threatened by internet providers like Aereo.
2) Networks are able to geographically limit their coverage (even on satellite providers) which allows them to sell local, regional and national advertising. If Aereo allows people living outside New York (or god forbid, outside the US) to view NYC OTA feeds, they wouldn't be extracting the maximum ad revenue possible.
No one likes to speak ill of the dead I guess. I read an interview with Bushnell a decade ago were he says that Jobs was a slacker who stunk up the place (as in literally stunk up the place because he didn't bathe). The only thing Jobs accomplished at Atari was the Breakout hardware design which pretty much everyone now admits was actually done by Wozniak in his spare time and Jobs took the credit for. Maybe the "something special" Bushnell saw in Jobs was his brilliant friend?
Copyright is seldom a partisan issue. Conservatives are especially conflicted on the issue since on the one hand they generally support big corporations; but on the other hand they support free markets and oppose government regulations (and copyright is essentially a government-granted monopoly).
This particular decision seemed to break down generationally with the three oldest members of the court voting in dissent. I choose to take that as a hopeful sign that things will get better as the copyright maximalists eventually die off.
No one is being charged with stealing things. They are being charged with (to extend your analogy) telling the newspaper what an idiot you are for hiding your key under a rock.
Would you complain if the fire department eliminated their free service of protecting your home? There are no free services. Some are paid for directly by the users of the service, some are paid for collectively by taxes or insurance premiums, some are paid for by handing over personal information or viewing advertising. The method used to pay for a service shouldn't affect your ability to complain when the service is removed.
I can't think of a worse possible tribute to open web supporter and RSS pioneer Aaron Swartz than this. Nice one Google, why don't you take a shit on his grave while you're at it.
Corporations have more effect over our everyday lives than the government, so why shouldn't we petition them? Sure not every issue is of the same level of importance, but there's room for lots of petitions on Change.org so why not let everyone have their say?
By the way, it seems whiny and self-entitled to complain about petitions you don't personally agree with. Just find another petition you do want to support.
Having "unenforced" laws on the books that everyone breaks is dangerous because it allows police to selectively enforce those laws when they need to punish a specific individual or group (cracking down on homeless people for loitering for example, or the overly broad "computer hacking" law which was used to go after Arron Swartz).
Denial?
Pretend guns are dangerous and must be banned. Real guns are safe and must be constitutionally protected. The mind boggles.
The only thing I can think of is regulation. Unlike the radio spectrum, the light spectrum is unregulated so no need to worry about running afoul of the FCC and stay under certain power levels/frequency bands/etc. Also it might work in places where Wi-Fi doesn't due to RF interference (microwave oven factory maybe?) but generally there are other ways to fix that. Speaking as someone old enough to remember the colossal failure of IrDA which was based on very similar principles, I don't think this technology has much of a chance.
It was. You, me and millions of others have been alpha testing this product for years. Now, bend over and get ready the beta testing phase.