They don't need to do anything until the court case is over or there is a court order telling them to remove it. Apple just bent over for the patent holders, at their request, even if there is no actual infringement.
The big problem for me isn't even the cutout, which is annoying but not too bad. It's the fact that the car manufacturers want an extra $2000 for their option, which includes no updates...
They're all over in my area, but most of the ones on local roads are tuned to only detect a car once you've made it to the line - that makes them useless for gliding through an intersection.
There's only a couple areas in NJ that fit your stereotype - Camden, Trenton, Newark - but the rest is what makes NJ the state with the second highest gross income per capita out of all the states.
It's funny, because they've emphasized the departments that stores have been failing in recently. A/V shops, computer stores, photography shops, music and movie stores.....each of those industries has been hit hard recently with the bankruptcy of large chains.
The 6,000 year theory of many Christian faiths definitively eliminates the possibility of evolution by its' time frame alone. These are the people who believe dinosaur bones are a trick God planted in the ground to test their faith.
No, to all of the above, but it is reasonable to say that we're literally creating value from less than thin air. While knowledge and ideas are powerful, they are even less material than the software people in this field create - definitely moreso than people who specialize in finding and extracting black gold.
Working in moderation at another social service, I can tell you this is dead on. Porn and the like gets overflagged, to the point where even moderately suggestive stuff (pics with too low cut of a shirt) gets flagged.
The exploit issue is non-existant if it's part of the interview process and monitored. The skills issue is larger, but it can be overcome for the positions where you would want to use this kind of software.
Comparing a 17" $450 Lenovo to a 13" $1100 MBP is a completely unfair comparison, which is what I was concerned with in your post. The screen is sucking up a much higher portion of the price to begin with, and you're still talking about spending more than double on the MBP. Compare a $1100 13" Lenovo next time.
The thing is that the example in the summary has a clear application to a specific job (bar tending), not general applicability to all jobs. I could see lots of games like this being created for different professions, and used as a skills check before letting someone work. For this one in particular, it answers a couple of the most important questions for a bartender. Can you manage a bunch of people's needs at once effectively? Do you know the mixed drinks? Those two are the sorts of skills that are hard to quantify via an interview alone, and someone can exhibit them for the employer to see while playing the game.
You never mention a couple important things. When did you purchase each (at least near the same time, or years apart..) ? What did you spend on the Lenovo? What size screen (i.e. did you splurge on a 18" monster, or 7" Atom junk, that you're comparing to a 13" MBP)? What's the RAM on the Lenovo?
It may be the case that the MBP is really better in this comparison, but what you posted is lacking in the information to even see if it's a good comparison on the tech side. Customer support is clear enough, though.
That's not a realistic expectation of a metered broadband plan. 10GB is a typical low-end plan, AFAIK, in the UK, and we could likely expect the same, if not a higher cap, here.
I haven't seen Dallas, but I can tell you that I don't know the outcome (just as a sidenote, there is no definite ending yet - it's two books away from the supposed end, so there literally is no ending). Plenty of the good guys have died - there's no clear winner at the end of this whole thing. I pegged Ned Stark as the "good guy winner" of the series (I imagine this is who you thought was going to come out on top based on the first few episodes) - he died near the end of the first season. Then I thought Robb Stark (son of Ned), but some spoilering asshole mentioned in the comments of an article on it that he dies too. Then I pegged it on Bran (running Winterfell after the war over Ned's death starts), who just died last episode. It's throwing you for a loop, even if you don't believe so based on the first couple of episodes.
John Snow has already been conflicted multiple times internally. Theon has changed from being the adopted Stark son to taking Winterfell and burning Bran alive. The same kind of total changes and development go for every major character other than Joffrey, who's been a douche the whole way.
Contrast that to Harry Potter, who was the same kid the entire way through, and was going to be the clear victor from the very beginning. There's no depth to that plot - the "good guy always wins" is a mantra attributable to melodrama, not drama, and GoT is proving along the whole way that it's not a melodrama. In fact, the plot may even play off of people expecting a melodrama out of it, if my reaction is common.
It is most definitely melodrama. Test by: Go over the dialog and situations in your head and try to imagine real people acting that way. No, right? To have a collection of people that mean and that thoughtless and that self-absorbed, and (the important part) that transparent about it, is not realistic. The characters are painfully exaggerated, and this is where drama => melodrama.
This is NOT the modern definition of melodrama in film. Melodrama is, in basic terms, where the story is posed like a drama, but you know the outcome. It's more complicated, of course, and is better defined by the total lack of character development and emphasis on action, but the basic test above fails for any melodrama. Titanic is a melodrama. Both are a melodrama by the Victorian-era standard, but not by the current definition. Sidney Lumet (Before the Devil Knows You're Dead):
""In a well-written drama, the story comes out of the characters. The characters in a well-written melodrama come out of the story."
If you watch GoT, it's clearly within that definition of drama. Ayn Rand:
"a drama involves primarily a conflict of values within a man (as expressed in action); a melodrama involves only a conflict of man with other men."
Again, GoT has more internal conflict than external conflict. One last one, from Dictionary.com:
1. a dramatic form that does not observe the laws of cause and effect and that exaggerates emotion and emphasizes plot or action at the expense of characterization.
Again, GoT is clearly within the definition of drama here. I don't know about BG, or SG, or Firefly, but it's the trend in film (both TV series and movies) that nearly everything is melodrama - the top tier (each channel has a few big "anchor" shows they refer to that way as a group, like GoT, Boardwalk Empire and True Blood for HBO) subscription channel series are the most consistent exception to that rule, and their base material is picked specifically for depth for these series. I had a professor that worked at HBO for 25 years, from long before the Sopranos to about 3 years ago, and he had a whole lecture devoted to melodrama vs drama because most of the class couldn't tell him the difference the week before.
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They don't need to do anything until the court case is over or there is a court order telling them to remove it. Apple just bent over for the patent holders, at their request, even if there is no actual infringement.
Very true. Camden is a nightmare; Seaside Park is a dream compared to Camden. Also, the Jersey Shore morons are from Staten Island, so blame New York.
They do punish actual harm, with a lesser penalty for first order potentials, and then again lesser for second order potentials...
The big problem for me isn't even the cutout, which is annoying but not too bad. It's the fact that the car manufacturers want an extra $2000 for their option, which includes no updates...
They're all over in my area, but most of the ones on local roads are tuned to only detect a car once you've made it to the line - that makes them useless for gliding through an intersection.
There's only a couple areas in NJ that fit your stereotype - Camden, Trenton, Newark - but the rest is what makes NJ the state with the second highest gross income per capita out of all the states.
It's funny, because they've emphasized the departments that stores have been failing in recently. A/V shops, computer stores, photography shops, music and movie stores.....each of those industries has been hit hard recently with the bankruptcy of large chains.
Better to prevent yesterday's attacks at all than to leave the hole open for all time...
The 6,000 year theory of many Christian faiths definitively eliminates the possibility of evolution by its' time frame alone. These are the people who believe dinosaur bones are a trick God planted in the ground to test their faith.
Don't you see the beauty? They're really easy to train!
No, to all of the above, but it is reasonable to say that we're literally creating value from less than thin air. While knowledge and ideas are powerful, they are even less material than the software people in this field create - definitely moreso than people who specialize in finding and extracting black gold.
Too many pieces to the logic for large organizations to understand.
I'm pretty sure Zuck did much better than if he could create gold from thin air...
Working in moderation at another social service, I can tell you this is dead on. Porn and the like gets overflagged, to the point where even moderately suggestive stuff (pics with too low cut of a shirt) gets flagged.
The exploit issue is non-existant if it's part of the interview process and monitored. The skills issue is larger, but it can be overcome for the positions where you would want to use this kind of software.
Comparing a 17" $450 Lenovo to a 13" $1100 MBP is a completely unfair comparison, which is what I was concerned with in your post. The screen is sucking up a much higher portion of the price to begin with, and you're still talking about spending more than double on the MBP. Compare a $1100 13" Lenovo next time.
The thing is that the example in the summary has a clear application to a specific job (bar tending), not general applicability to all jobs. I could see lots of games like this being created for different professions, and used as a skills check before letting someone work. For this one in particular, it answers a couple of the most important questions for a bartender. Can you manage a bunch of people's needs at once effectively? Do you know the mixed drinks? Those two are the sorts of skills that are hard to quantify via an interview alone, and someone can exhibit them for the employer to see while playing the game.
You never mention a couple important things. When did you purchase each (at least near the same time, or years apart..) ? What did you spend on the Lenovo? What size screen (i.e. did you splurge on a 18" monster, or 7" Atom junk, that you're comparing to a 13" MBP)? What's the RAM on the Lenovo?
It may be the case that the MBP is really better in this comparison, but what you posted is lacking in the information to even see if it's a good comparison on the tech side. Customer support is clear enough, though.
Exactly this. It's much easier to work a 50 hour week when you don't spend another 10 commuting.
Military equipment is all made in the US, and it's also the largest arms exporter in the world by a wide margin...
Only if Chrome OS actually catches some momentum, which it doesn't seem to have happening anytime soon.
That's not a realistic expectation of a metered broadband plan. 10GB is a typical low-end plan, AFAIK, in the UK, and we could likely expect the same, if not a higher cap, here.
.....and I just finished this week's episode. Bran's alive. Didn't see that coming either.
I haven't seen Dallas, but I can tell you that I don't know the outcome (just as a sidenote, there is no definite ending yet - it's two books away from the supposed end, so there literally is no ending). Plenty of the good guys have died - there's no clear winner at the end of this whole thing. I pegged Ned Stark as the "good guy winner" of the series (I imagine this is who you thought was going to come out on top based on the first few episodes) - he died near the end of the first season. Then I thought Robb Stark (son of Ned), but some spoilering asshole mentioned in the comments of an article on it that he dies too. Then I pegged it on Bran (running Winterfell after the war over Ned's death starts), who just died last episode. It's throwing you for a loop, even if you don't believe so based on the first couple of episodes.
John Snow has already been conflicted multiple times internally. Theon has changed from being the adopted Stark son to taking Winterfell and burning Bran alive. The same kind of total changes and development go for every major character other than Joffrey, who's been a douche the whole way.
Contrast that to Harry Potter, who was the same kid the entire way through, and was going to be the clear victor from the very beginning. There's no depth to that plot - the "good guy always wins" is a mantra attributable to melodrama, not drama, and GoT is proving along the whole way that it's not a melodrama. In fact, the plot may even play off of people expecting a melodrama out of it, if my reaction is common.
It is most definitely melodrama. Test by: Go over the dialog and situations in your head and try to imagine real people acting that way. No, right? To have a collection of people that mean and that thoughtless and that self-absorbed, and (the important part) that transparent about it, is not realistic. The characters are painfully exaggerated, and this is where drama => melodrama.
This is NOT the modern definition of melodrama in film. Melodrama is, in basic terms, where the story is posed like a drama, but you know the outcome. It's more complicated, of course, and is better defined by the total lack of character development and emphasis on action, but the basic test above fails for any melodrama. Titanic is a melodrama. Both are a melodrama by the Victorian-era standard, but not by the current definition. Sidney Lumet (Before the Devil Knows You're Dead):
""In a well-written drama, the story comes out of the characters. The characters in a well-written melodrama come out of the story."
If you watch GoT, it's clearly within that definition of drama. Ayn Rand:
"a drama involves primarily a conflict of values within a man (as expressed in action); a melodrama involves only a conflict of man with other men."
Again, GoT has more internal conflict than external conflict. One last one, from Dictionary.com:
1. a dramatic form that does not observe the laws of cause and effect and that exaggerates emotion and emphasizes plot or action at the expense of characterization.
Again, GoT is clearly within the definition of drama here. I don't know about BG, or SG, or Firefly, but it's the trend in film (both TV series and movies) that nearly everything is melodrama - the top tier (each channel has a few big "anchor" shows they refer to that way as a group, like GoT, Boardwalk Empire and True Blood for HBO) subscription channel series are the most consistent exception to that rule, and their base material is picked specifically for depth for these series. I had a professor that worked at HBO for 25 years, from long before the Sopranos to about 3 years ago, and he had a whole lecture devoted to melodrama vs drama because most of the class couldn't tell him the difference the week before.