Nah, just have a small squad of armed personnel, ready to go and shoot anyone who fucks up like GSK did, along with shooting the management-team. That should fix things after 2-3 incidents..
Seriously! How long would one have to be away and kicking himself that he forgot to change the thermostat setting before having one of these new fangled ones would pay for itself?
Looking at the spiel from Nest, these products pay for themselves through regular use, not through exceptions:
Auto-Schedule makes it easy to create an energy efficient schedule that can help you save up to 20% on your heating and cooling bills. All the Nest Thermostat's features combined can get you even bigger savings
One thing I'd like to know is, how do BitPay, Coinbase and GoCoin avoid ending up with 90%+ of all BTC?
Since most stores that take BTC also take a "real" currency, the idea that people would convert their normal currency to BTC in order to pay with BTC, seems to me to be a bit silly. Why not just pay with regular money?
They are purchasing this to get Minecraft on the Windows Phone-no-longer-called-Phone platform, in the hope that people will buy their devices to play Minecraft on.
Yes, I'm not actually bullshitting you on that one.
Don't get me wrong, I'm fond of my language when it comes to identity and culture. But when it comes to communication having global terminology and one way of doing it makes everything so much simpler. Yes, there's a whole lot of "English" speakers out there but any resemblance of a common tongue beats trying to use translators. It's something of a first world issue though as 16% of the world is still illiterate in their first language but I hope that in 100 years you could talk to at least half the world's population in one language.
Now you know why I started to learn Mandarin a few years ago - yeah, I've accepted that I won't get far on Danish alone, and there are more people knowing Mandarin/Hindi/Spanish than English:)
Meanwhile, I'm trying to recall the short-cuts in MS Office's Danish version... thinking they are the same as in the UK version.
Play your console-shooters using a mouse+keyboard then?
There is nothing technical in the current and previous console generations that keeps you from using a USB or Bluetooth mouse in shooters. The game-developer might have decided to not support it, but that is a question of the game, and not the platform.
Would suggest people also go through and revoke any logins, computers and devices after they set up 2FA - should be right there in the Security tab on Google account settings.
Purely observation: In recent months, firefox has become mostly unusable for me when watching streamed video - I have to use Safari to get anywhere near fluid playback on a laptop with more than enough CPU power. It seems a recent'ish change to something in firefox messed up plugins....
Why is it any more evil than animated GIFs? Both play automatically, neither happen with sound, and compression on x264 is *way* better than with animated gifs.
I was initially opposed to autoplay on FB, but after thinking about it, I changed my mind. We already see tons of animated stuff on web pages, and the videos from people who show up on my page about are usually things I'd find interesting (if the user posting them didn't usually post interesting things, I'd have stopped following them). There's no unexpected sounds to bug me, and the quality to size ratio versus animated gifs is, what, two orders of magnitude better?
1) I suspect videos tend to be larger than Anim-GIFs by an order of magnitude 2) Anim-GIFs do not have any sound, while video tend to have sound (ie. more data transferred even if muted during playback) 3) Modern browsers have options for disabling auto-play of Anim-GIF, while similar control for video might be up to a 3rd party plugin
Note how Google can use Anim-GIFs as a preview for YouTube videos on Google+ - I'm thinking they aren't doing this because it is fun.
Well, if the comfort for the luxury-class up front comes at an increase in flights being diverted or returning to the departure airport.... I'm thinking the people up front would be willing to yield a few inches to ensure the flight gets to its destination.
Wish I could upgrade. My company will only book the cheapest fare (X or lower), which....
This is actually a core part of the problem - as companies switched to this policy of Cheapest-Fare-Only, and only looking at the immediate costs (and not extras, like luggage, meals, oxygen etc), airline companies got into a race to the bottom in costs (services etc per passenger) without any profitable group to help offset their bottom-line; business customers used to be good money for the airline companies when they traveled Business or First class.
So now we have a setup where the immediate ticket price is the only thing that matters (try getting approval for a route that costs 20USD more while taking 30 minutes less); Service, well-being, flight-time/route and other things that the traveler might be interested in have gone away, and if you're scheduled to meet a customer it is your own fault for looking like shite after 5-6 hours squeezed into a painful, static sitting "position".
The airline companies are giving their largest customers (i.e. companies) exactly what they want: a seemingly cheap flight for some employee.
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Make sense - I've seen printers sold for less than the cost of the ink-cartridges.
Consumptions of infected simian meat has been the explanation for a very long time. Why does everyone seem surprised?
Because, at the same time, we've been told HIV can't spread orally.
Uhm, I think you've gotten the concept of Oral Sex wrong, if you think it is largely similar to daily consumption of meat...
Nah, just have a small squad of armed personnel, ready to go and shoot anyone who fucks up like GSK did, along with shooting the management-team.
That should fix things after 2-3 incidents..
Ubuntu phones don't have to battle with anybody[..] All it needs to provide is an open source Linux based phone that respects users' privacy
Sooo ... It just needs to battle Jolla?
Seriously! How long would one have to be away and kicking himself that he forgot to change the thermostat setting before having one of these new fangled ones would pay for itself?
Looking at the spiel from Nest, these products pay for themselves through regular use, not through exceptions:
Auto-Schedule makes it easy to create an energy efficient schedule that can help you save up to 20% on your heating and cooling bills. All the Nest Thermostat's features combined can get you even bigger savings
More: https://nest.com/thermostat/sa...
Some dude, who may very well be paid by Nest, tweeted this:
After a year using my @Nest thermostat, I've saved $326.74 / 2,651 kWh over the previous year.
Linky: https://twitter.com/MattClippe...
Not saying that all of the above is true, but at least it seems that they'd consider your premise incorrect.
One thing I'd like to know is, how do BitPay, Coinbase and GoCoin avoid ending up with 90%+ of all BTC?
Since most stores that take BTC also take a "real" currency, the idea that people would convert their normal currency to BTC in order to pay with BTC, seems to me to be a bit silly. Why not just pay with regular money?
Don't tax food [...]
Having been to the US on occasions, I'd question just what would be exempted by that statement.
It wouldn't suck if they made more profit on less revenue.
Sure it could.
For example, Boeing could take the $4B and spend $5B on R&D having negative profit; while SpaceX could take the $2B and make $1B profit.
But then Boeing's technology will have improved by $5B in R while SpaceX's will have only benefited 1/5th as much
Boeing could take the $4B and spend $5B on R&D, then be awarded another $2B to cover unforeseen expenses ... (FTFY)
you forgot to include the word "Dingo" in there...
How about we "bing" that?
They are purchasing this to get Minecraft on the Windows Phone-no-longer-called-Phone platform, in the hope that people will buy their devices to play Minecraft on.
Yes, I'm not actually bullshitting you on that one.
Don't get me wrong, I'm fond of my language when it comes to identity and culture. But when it comes to communication having global terminology and one way of doing it makes everything so much simpler. Yes, there's a whole lot of "English" speakers out there but any resemblance of a common tongue beats trying to use translators. It's something of a first world issue though as 16% of the world is still illiterate in their first language but I hope that in 100 years you could talk to at least half the world's population in one language.
Now you know why I started to learn Mandarin a few years ago - yeah, I've accepted that I won't get far on Danish alone, and there are more people knowing Mandarin/Hindi/Spanish than English :)
Meanwhile, I'm trying to recall the short-cuts in MS Office's Danish version ... thinking they are the same as in the UK version.
Play your console-shooters using a mouse+keyboard then?
There is nothing technical in the current and previous console generations that keeps you from using a USB or Bluetooth mouse in shooters. The game-developer might have decided to not support it, but that is a question of the game, and not the platform.
Language support. MS is American and only do English well. Any other language is a total clusterfsck on Windows.
That's kinda impressive - from experience, there aren't all that many Americans, that "do English well" :)
Fahrenheit is based on the coldest you can get brine before it freezes and the approximate human body temperature.
Well, the average temperature of inmates living in inhygenic conditions.
And ladies ... he's single.
With that much toilet-usage ... I think (hope?) not...
Would suggest people also go through and revoke any logins, computers and devices after they set up 2FA - should be right there in the Security tab on Google account settings.
We (Denmark) would be doing it up around Greenland ... and thats a fracking cold and inhospitable place to be building islands.
Instead, we're planning on going to war with Canada over Hans Ø / Tartupaluk.
(not really)
This seems designed as a demo-kit, for inclusion in IoT stuff, not for use at home in funny projects.
Purely observation: In recent months, firefox has become mostly unusable for me when watching streamed video - I have to use Safari to get anywhere near fluid playback on a laptop with more than enough CPU power. It seems a recent'ish change to something in firefox messed up plugins....
I'm glad it didn't hit the US - newspapers would have been screaming "INVASION" or something equally silly for days....
Why is it any more evil than animated GIFs? Both play automatically, neither happen with sound, and compression on x264 is *way* better than with animated gifs.
I was initially opposed to autoplay on FB, but after thinking about it, I changed my mind. We already see tons of animated stuff on web pages, and the videos from people who show up on my page about are usually things I'd find interesting (if the user posting them didn't usually post interesting things, I'd have stopped following them). There's no unexpected sounds to bug me, and the quality to size ratio versus animated gifs is, what, two orders of magnitude better?
1) I suspect videos tend to be larger than Anim-GIFs by an order of magnitude
2) Anim-GIFs do not have any sound, while video tend to have sound (ie. more data transferred even if muted during playback)
3) Modern browsers have options for disabling auto-play of Anim-GIF, while similar control for video might be up to a 3rd party plugin
Note how Google can use Anim-GIFs as a preview for YouTube videos on Google+ - I'm thinking they aren't doing this because it is fun.
I think there's a ferry you could take... More service, luxury etc compared to the flights, shorter travel-time than the longboatds.
Well, if the comfort for the luxury-class up front comes at an increase in flights being diverted or returning to the departure airport .... I'm thinking the people up front would be willing to yield a few inches to ensure the flight gets to its destination.
Wish I could upgrade. My company will only book the cheapest fare (X or lower), which ....
This is actually a core part of the problem - as companies switched to this policy of Cheapest-Fare-Only, and only looking at the immediate costs (and not extras, like luggage, meals, oxygen etc), airline companies got into a race to the bottom in costs (services etc per passenger) without any profitable group to help offset their bottom-line; business customers used to be good money for the airline companies when they traveled Business or First class.
So now we have a setup where the immediate ticket price is the only thing that matters (try getting approval for a route that costs 20USD more while taking 30 minutes less); Service, well-being, flight-time/route and other things that the traveler might be interested in have gone away, and if you're scheduled to meet a customer it is your own fault for looking like shite after 5-6 hours squeezed into a painful, static sitting "position".
The airline companies are giving their largest customers (i.e. companies) exactly what they want: a seemingly cheap flight for some employee.