People always say this. I don't think they've actually looked at real Ikea furniture, just Ikea-inspired 'modular' furniture from Walmart and Target. There is a major difference.
The La-Z-boy chair is the lowest quality furniture in my living room. And feels it.
Ikea isn't low quality furniture, but it is built to a price.
I.E. Product development in Ikea is to give a team 100 Euro and say "build a table". So they build a table for 100 Euro and I have to say the Swede's are pretty good at it.
I've got an Ikea desk I bought for A$110 in 2002. I still have it, the laminate has faded but its still strong and stable enough to be a work bench in the shed.
Infosys is basically a staffing company, a "middle man" if you will.
If an American company wants to hire an American worker, why would that American company go through an Indian "middle man?"
Of course Infosys hires mostly Indian workers, American employers don't have to go through an Indian staffing company to hire an American.
Which is the point.
An American company that wants to avoid the hassle of going through the process of hiring cheap off shored labour will go through an "American" Indian middle man. The middle man is a local company that stocks up on off shore staff and offers them out to companies, this way the companies can still claim they aren't off shoring when sending jobs overseas.
The same thing happens in Australia. Outsourcer A stocks up on Indians, Indonesians and a variety of other nationalities with as many MS certificates as possible. Claims they have highly talented engineers with hundreds of hours of experience, smoozes their way into the board room, does a job poorly unleashes the lawyers (aside from the managers, the only Australians on staff) when the client calls them out on it.
These companies should be fined out of existence. The operators reduced to paupers and denied welfare.
Please note I have nothing against Indians, I've met plenty of competent Indians who can get work in Australia, the US or the country of their choosing on their own merits. I simply hate the companies abusing both Indian workers and local companies.
What's the deal with all the crazy vegans around here lately? Go to your local hippie store and look at the vegans. Then go to your local CrossFit and look at the paleo eaters. Which group looks healthier to you?
Then go look at someone who eats a balanced diet including meat, dairy, grains, fruits and vegetables.
Extreme diets like Vegan and Paleo are unhealthy, even if they dont look it.
BTW, most gym junkies are steroid users. Your average healthy person does not look like that.
As an American, I don't know enough about the NBN program to say. If Labour sucks then let Australian voters throw them out.
Labor hasn't done that bad of a job, there's just a lot of people who hated Julia Gillard for no rational reason (I.E. rich single men complaining that she'd lost touch with the average Australian family).
The real problem is that the Liberals are even worse. Tony Abbott is nothing but a frontman for the party powerbrokers, he is even more spineless and weasely than the average politician. The biggest thing he has going for him is the fact that people hated Julia Gillard. But he's lost this edge now that Kevin Rudd is back in charge.
Seriously though, I dont mindlessly hate the Liberals, just the current form of the Liberal party. Abbott talks about "faceless men" in Labor yet expects us to ignore the strings attached to Abbott. If the Liberals really wanted to win this election, they'd sack Abbott and put Malcolm Turnbull in charge, but the "faceless men" of the Liberal party wont do this because 1) Turnbull is too much of a centrist for their liking, 2) Turnbull will not blindly follow their agenda.
Boy is dead man walking... Putin gave the NSA several weeks to bag him at the airport before he was actually "inside" Russia... But again, the NSA/CIA are a failure because they are supposed to clean these messes up on their own... Or fall on their swords... That this got left at Obama's feet means they SEVERELY disrespected him. Obama needs to be "Darth Vader" -ing his security chiefs (and families if needed) and fast-tracking promotions till the Snowden problem is fixed... Note, I didn't SAY Obama order Snowden killed... Whatever NSA policies are for this should NEVER REACH the President to make that call.... If it gets in the open... NSA directors fall on their swords and accept responsibility.
The airport would have been too public.
You've got to be a fool to think they wouldn't have planned it though.
Now he's inside Russia there's a chance he can disappear down a dark alley. The problem any would be "disappearance" would have is that Snowden made himself a very public person. So if he stops being seen all of a sudden people will notice. So any potential assassinations need to wait until he's disappeared from the public consciousness. If any three letter agencies or politico's thought that they could get away with killing him, it would have been on the news moments after it happened.
After he's gone from the public consciousness, there's no point in killing him either. At this point you need to put him in front of a judge, a good show trial to make an example of him (a la Manning). The NSA/CIA et al are not tin pot dictatorships concerned with petty revenge, rather they are concerned with their effect on others so killing them quietly does not send a message to anyone who thinks of doing the same thing and that is what they really need.
Consider walking somewhere in New York city. You will be 'seen' by potentially thousands of people but noticed by none. Ask them 5 minutes later and show them a picture of you and you'll get no useful information. Yet you were in 'public' and were seen many times over. That is the privacy of being lost in a crowd that you can have even in a public space.
That is a terrible analogy.
If you take a walk through London or NYC, you'll be captured by potentially hundreds of cameras (a lot of businesses in NYC will have security cameras, same with London). If someone wants to find where you've been they can find a way to search those cameras (pretend to be cops, public cameras would be subject to FOI). The information can be retained for some time.
"Getting lost in a crowd" depends on no-one looking.
I would love to have a hidden 360 degree camera, or even a hidden dash cam. However, in the DC-Baltimore metro area, leaving any electronic device in the car is an open invitation to a smash and grab theft. As a result, I keep almost nothing in my car.
I have a DOD GSE 550. This camera is smaller than a Canon Ixus and will easily fit in your pocket. It's not that hard to remove from the windscreen mount. The only thing you leave in your car is the mount power cable.
NONE of those things would make you 'a better driver'.
+10,000
Drivers aids dont make bad drivers better.
They dont even make mediocre drivers better.
They dont because if a driver cant notice road signs, other vehicles, obstructions on the road or the road itself the driver will ignore any beeps, bloops or klaxons that a warning system will produce. In fact it will have the opposite effect and make a bad driver worse because they think they are magically protected by these driver aids. We live in a world where "death by GPS" is a term used by coroners because people were too busy watching the GPS and not the road that came to an abrupt end.
Tie it to a infrared camera so when your driving in rural areas in the night it could warn you of dangerous deer on the road.
If you are outdriving your headlights you are a dangerous driver.
This
I live in Australia where we have animals a lot deadlier than deer (Kangaroos not only weight more, they're faster and can jump over bull bars). So if you're driving at night were there's a chance of encountering an animal on the road, you put the high beams on and slow the hell down.
It's not that dangerous to drive at night with animals about, it's just dangerous to do it at speed. Slow down so you can have more time to react and need less road to stop.
Same with fog, heavy rain, smoke, haze and anything else that limits your visibility. Drive to the conditions.
Cops in the US have radios, cell phones and laptop computers going at basically all times. Yet they don't seem to have they same issues as the general population. It's the training that GPS, phones and Glass users aren't getting and so are using things in stupid ways.
Cops do the same in Australia.
If the average driver got half as much driver training as the average cop, I wouldn't mind about phones as much. But the fact is they dont, most drivers cant even drive a manual let alone stop without ABS or even manage their car without electronic traction control. Hell, most drivers cant even keep a consistent speed on a flat, straight road without the aid of cruise control. The average driver is simply too incompetent to use this technology.
When the cop needs to concentrate on the road, the cop throws the phone into the passenger side footwell. You're average driver would never consider doing this, they'll clutch the phone for dear life right up until impact. Above this, the punishment for a cop who causes an accident is a lot more than for a civilian. If an (Aussie) cop causes a road accident because he's on the phone, he'd be very, very lucky to keep his job beyond the charges (negligence).
The fact is, the average driver wont take the training to become a better driver. Worse yet, bad drivers believe they are good drivers because of driver assist technology.
UI advances like GG are supposed to make driving with technology safer, not more dangerous. Let's be real: we're only a few short years from on-windshield HUDs for navigation, driving metrics, etc.
The problem is, the human can be easily distracted by something not relating to driving and in the case of GG the human is in control of the UI.
I wouldn't mind a HUD system that had a transparent projection on my windscreen, things like speed, RPM, current time and maybe even nav information (the only piece of in-car navigation I have is a paper based map book, when you live in a city for over a decade and cant navigate around it unassisted you have problems).
This would be all I'd want out of it although I could also use it to display Distance to Empty, intake pressure, boost pressure, MAF information and a bunch of other things but lets face it, the average idiot on the road would use a HUD to display their facebook.
So I can easily see people using GG for facebook or to watch a movie making it more dangerous than helpful.
This isn't accurate. Fastboot will only flash something that's signed by the manufacturer, unless the bootloader is unlocked, which won't matter anyway if the device is encrypted. Nexus devices are locked too, and unlocking the bootloader wipes all data, so you still won't get access to anything. ADB sideloading requires ADB to be enabled and the RSA fingerprint of the PC to be accepted.
I wasn't talking about flashing anything, simply reading, copying to and modifying files on the file system. Fastboot enables the ADB bridge.
If you've gotten into fastboot, you've probably bypassed most if not all the security measures (most importantly, the physical security).
Linus isn't really linux by itself, he just had a critical part to play. The more accurate question would be "is Microsoft losing relevance and marketshare?" to which the answer is yes, and not really a surprise.
So the question isn't "Has Linus won" rather it's "Is Microsoft losing".
The sad thing is, a lot of users are just swapping the old benevolent tyrant (Microsoft) for a new sadistic tyrant (Apple).
Even with USB debugging enabled (which some handsets constantly nag to have it turned off), Android handsets use a public/private key system. If the charger tries to get access, the phone will ask if it should have full data rights to it.
Of course, this means that if someone clicks OK, they are hosed, but it is better than just sticking an adapter on and doing dirty work without knowing the device's PIN or password.
Not quite,
If the device is in fastboot mode it'll let any device have it's way with its file system.
But you need have put the device in fastboot mode, which means the user is an idiot or you've got physical access to the device. In which case on device security wont help one iota.
How unlockable (if at all) is the bootloader? Just an OEM unlock (like the Nexus line), sign in and get an unlock key (like HTC and Sony), or a special "dev" edition like previously.
I love the quality of the radios on Moto products, but for a decent Android ROM, unless Motorola opens their devices up, I'll probably pass this round of their offerings.
This,
Hardware wise the Motorola Milestone (Droid in the US) was the best Android phone I've ever owned. However the software was lacking... Badly. No updates from Moto, locked bootloader, crapload of hacking to get an unstable version of 2.2 on there.
I'd be happy to replace my GNex with a Moto X as long as the bootloader is unlocked. Even though this device comes with 4.2.2 and my GNex was just updated to 4.3, as long as I can load a ROM of my choosing that is fine.
I think, if anything, the fact their HD Wii isn't selling as well as their regular Wii shows that Nintendo's original disinterest in HD never hurt them.
Given how profitable the Wii was, the only thing that has been hurting, is finding a place to keep all that money.
The Wii U was a disappointment, but it'll still do better than Microsoft's and Sony's offerings.
Yeah,it is important, because in Asia you can relatively easily point your antenna across the border and get overseas channels if your TV can tune/decode them. In Vietnam you can pick up Cambodian, Thai and Chinese TV channels, and the TV sets sold there have a massive array of options to let you choose colour standard, field rate, audio subcarrier frequency, etc. to ensure that you can decode and view anything you can receive. DPKR doesn't look so kindly on such features.
You can pick up those channels in Australia if you've got a big enough dish.
The problem for the average NRNK'er is that getting the equipment is difficult. They could probably trade some rice and eggs across the border, but minefields and machine guns are a bitch to deal with.
While not specifically mentioned in the report, notable cases of theft by TSA agents include a 2012 case in which two former employees pleaded guilty to stealing $40,000 from a checked bag at New York's John F. Kennedy Airport, and a 2011 guilty plea from an officer who admitted stealing between $10,000 and $30,000 from travelers at Newark Liberty International Airport in New Jersey.
And what does the poor schmoe who had his travel money stolen? Did the TSA make all those people whole?
Doubt it.
This is why I never put money into luggage. Cash goes out of my wallet and is kept on my person at all times.
Really you've got to be pretty daft to keep cash in your luggage. It's the easiest thing to steal as you dont have to fence it to get cash.
It's about getting lied to. It fucking sucks. If the operates 10% slower than it performs on tests, I would expect - at the least - an explanation or a discount off the outrageous selling price. Yes, I really don't care if it operates at peak performance, the way I use my phone I suspect I wouldn't see any performance differential.
But I wouldn't want to buy a Delorean advertised to be capable of going 95 mph, only to find out that it can go 95 mph when it's being timed on a closed course; when normally used, it can only physically run at 86mph. I need 88 mph in a mall parking lot, otherwise the mother fucking Libyans will get me.
Then dont ever test the limitations of your car.
All of the benchmarks will be "under controlled conditions".
Ford may say the Focus ST will do 230 KPH (figures pulled from by butt), but this is because they did it on a dyno whilst the car is stationary. No wind resistance. Honda says my car can do 280 KPH... on a dyno. The best you can hope for on the track is 245 KPH because of wind resistance, friction and so forth, hence they advertise the top speed as 245 KPH drag limited (drag limited means that the car reaches it's top speed before the engine does). A lot of manufacturers advertise dyno speeds because they can get away with it.
The same with fuel economy. Under controlled conditions.
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People always say this. I don't think they've actually looked at real Ikea furniture, just Ikea-inspired 'modular' furniture from Walmart and Target. There is a major difference.
The La-Z-boy chair is the lowest quality furniture in my living room. And feels it.
Ikea isn't low quality furniture, but it is built to a price.
I.E. Product development in Ikea is to give a team 100 Euro and say "build a table". So they build a table for 100 Euro and I have to say the Swede's are pretty good at it.
I've got an Ikea desk I bought for A$110 in 2002. I still have it, the laminate has faded but its still strong and stable enough to be a work bench in the shed.
Infosys is basically a staffing company, a "middle man" if you will.
If an American company wants to hire an American worker, why would that American company go through an Indian "middle man?"
Of course Infosys hires mostly Indian workers, American employers don't have to go through an Indian staffing company to hire an American.
Which is the point.
An American company that wants to avoid the hassle of going through the process of hiring cheap off shored labour will go through an "American" Indian middle man. The middle man is a local company that stocks up on off shore staff and offers them out to companies, this way the companies can still claim they aren't off shoring when sending jobs overseas.
The same thing happens in Australia. Outsourcer A stocks up on Indians, Indonesians and a variety of other nationalities with as many MS certificates as possible. Claims they have highly talented engineers with hundreds of hours of experience, smoozes their way into the board room, does a job poorly unleashes the lawyers (aside from the managers, the only Australians on staff) when the client calls them out on it.
These companies should be fined out of existence. The operators reduced to paupers and denied welfare.
Please note I have nothing against Indians, I've met plenty of competent Indians who can get work in Australia, the US or the country of their choosing on their own merits. I simply hate the companies abusing both Indian workers and local companies.
I remember time when you have to pay Yahoo to get approved and listed on the web. Those glorious secure 90s.., the music was better too.
You miss 90's music? That just means you were a teen in the 90's.
No, it means he can hear.
What's the deal with all the crazy vegans around here lately? Go to your local hippie store and look at the vegans. Then go to your local CrossFit and look at the paleo eaters. Which group looks healthier to you?
Then go look at someone who eats a balanced diet including meat, dairy, grains, fruits and vegetables.
Extreme diets like Vegan and Paleo are unhealthy, even if they dont look it.
BTW, most gym junkies are steroid users. Your average healthy person does not look like that.
If it's yellow, let it mellow. If it's brown, DNS flush it down.
wow that is harsh, I hope he lives to see that cure for cancer be found.
I hope he gets cancer, a cure for cancer is found and he's cured so that after he's cured we can hang him.
I also hope we can bring him back as a zombie and hang him again.
Yes I know zombies cant be asphyxiated, I like the idea of watching Zombie Murdoch continually flailing from he highest yard arm in Sydney harbour.
Labor hasn't done that bad of a job, there's just a lot of people who hated Julia Gillard for no rational reason (I.E. rich single men complaining that she'd lost touch with the average Australian family).
The real problem is that the Liberals are even worse. Tony Abbott is nothing but a frontman for the party powerbrokers, he is even more spineless and weasely than the average politician. The biggest thing he has going for him is the fact that people hated Julia Gillard. But he's lost this edge now that Kevin Rudd is back in charge.
Seriously though, I dont mindlessly hate the Liberals, just the current form of the Liberal party. Abbott talks about "faceless men" in Labor yet expects us to ignore the strings attached to Abbott. If the Liberals really wanted to win this election, they'd sack Abbott and put Malcolm Turnbull in charge, but the "faceless men" of the Liberal party wont do this because 1) Turnbull is too much of a centrist for their liking, 2) Turnbull will not blindly follow their agenda.
Boy is dead man walking... Putin gave the NSA several weeks to bag him at the airport before he was actually "inside" Russia... But again, the NSA/CIA are a failure because they are supposed to clean these messes up on their own... Or fall on their swords... That this got left at Obama's feet means they SEVERELY disrespected him. Obama needs to be "Darth Vader" -ing his security chiefs (and families if needed) and fast-tracking promotions till the Snowden problem is fixed... Note, I didn't SAY Obama order Snowden killed... Whatever NSA policies are for this should NEVER REACH the President to make that call.... If it gets in the open... NSA directors fall on their swords and accept responsibility.
The airport would have been too public.
You've got to be a fool to think they wouldn't have planned it though.
Now he's inside Russia there's a chance he can disappear down a dark alley. The problem any would be "disappearance" would have is that Snowden made himself a very public person. So if he stops being seen all of a sudden people will notice. So any potential assassinations need to wait until he's disappeared from the public consciousness. If any three letter agencies or politico's thought that they could get away with killing him, it would have been on the news moments after it happened.
After he's gone from the public consciousness, there's no point in killing him either. At this point you need to put him in front of a judge, a good show trial to make an example of him (a la Manning). The NSA/CIA et al are not tin pot dictatorships concerned with petty revenge, rather they are concerned with their effect on others so killing them quietly does not send a message to anyone who thinks of doing the same thing and that is what they really need.
Consider walking somewhere in New York city. You will be 'seen' by potentially thousands of people but noticed by none. Ask them 5 minutes later and show them a picture of you and you'll get no useful information. Yet you were in 'public' and were seen many times over. That is the privacy of being lost in a crowd that you can have even in a public space.
That is a terrible analogy.
If you take a walk through London or NYC, you'll be captured by potentially hundreds of cameras (a lot of businesses in NYC will have security cameras, same with London). If someone wants to find where you've been they can find a way to search those cameras (pretend to be cops, public cameras would be subject to FOI). The information can be retained for some time.
"Getting lost in a crowd" depends on no-one looking.
Don't worry, Airbuses have better safety track than Boeings. You'll be fine.
This,
The biggest difference between the A330 and the B777 is that the B777 crams in an extra seat per row.
Airline and pilot are the big factors in determining if a plane is safe or not.
I've got my first flight in an A380 coming up and I _am_ looking forward to that (just not the other 500 passengers I'll have to be around).
I would love to have a hidden 360 degree camera, or even a hidden dash cam. However, in the DC-Baltimore metro area, leaving any electronic device in the car is an open invitation to a smash and grab theft. As a result, I keep almost nothing in my car.
I have a DOD GSE 550. This camera is smaller than a Canon Ixus and will easily fit in your pocket. It's not that hard to remove from the windscreen mount. The only thing you leave in your car is the mount power cable.
NONE of those things would make you 'a better driver'.
+10,000
Drivers aids dont make bad drivers better.
They dont even make mediocre drivers better.
They dont because if a driver cant notice road signs, other vehicles, obstructions on the road or the road itself the driver will ignore any beeps, bloops or klaxons that a warning system will produce. In fact it will have the opposite effect and make a bad driver worse because they think they are magically protected by these driver aids. We live in a world where "death by GPS" is a term used by coroners because people were too busy watching the GPS and not the road that came to an abrupt end.
Tie it to a infrared camera so when your driving in rural areas in the night it could warn you of dangerous deer on the road.
If you are outdriving your headlights you are a dangerous driver.
This
I live in Australia where we have animals a lot deadlier than deer (Kangaroos not only weight more, they're faster and can jump over bull bars). So if you're driving at night were there's a chance of encountering an animal on the road, you put the high beams on and slow the hell down.
It's not that dangerous to drive at night with animals about, it's just dangerous to do it at speed. Slow down so you can have more time to react and need less road to stop.
Same with fog, heavy rain, smoke, haze and anything else that limits your visibility. Drive to the conditions.
Cops in the US have radios, cell phones and laptop computers going at basically all times. Yet they don't seem to have they same issues as the general population. It's the training that GPS, phones and Glass users aren't getting and so are using things in stupid ways.
Cops do the same in Australia.
If the average driver got half as much driver training as the average cop, I wouldn't mind about phones as much. But the fact is they dont, most drivers cant even drive a manual let alone stop without ABS or even manage their car without electronic traction control. Hell, most drivers cant even keep a consistent speed on a flat, straight road without the aid of cruise control. The average driver is simply too incompetent to use this technology.
When the cop needs to concentrate on the road, the cop throws the phone into the passenger side footwell. You're average driver would never consider doing this, they'll clutch the phone for dear life right up until impact. Above this, the punishment for a cop who causes an accident is a lot more than for a civilian. If an (Aussie) cop causes a road accident because he's on the phone, he'd be very, very lucky to keep his job beyond the charges (negligence).
The fact is, the average driver wont take the training to become a better driver. Worse yet, bad drivers believe they are good drivers because of driver assist technology.
UI advances like GG are supposed to make driving with technology safer, not more dangerous. Let's be real: we're only a few short years from on-windshield HUDs for navigation, driving metrics, etc.
The problem is, the human can be easily distracted by something not relating to driving and in the case of GG the human is in control of the UI.
I wouldn't mind a HUD system that had a transparent projection on my windscreen, things like speed, RPM, current time and maybe even nav information (the only piece of in-car navigation I have is a paper based map book, when you live in a city for over a decade and cant navigate around it unassisted you have problems).
This would be all I'd want out of it although I could also use it to display Distance to Empty, intake pressure, boost pressure, MAF information and a bunch of other things but lets face it, the average idiot on the road would use a HUD to display their facebook.
So I can easily see people using GG for facebook or to watch a movie making it more dangerous than helpful.
This isn't accurate. Fastboot will only flash something that's signed by the manufacturer, unless the bootloader is unlocked, which won't matter anyway if the device is encrypted. Nexus devices are locked too, and unlocking the bootloader wipes all data, so you still won't get access to anything. ADB sideloading requires ADB to be enabled and the RSA fingerprint of the PC to be accepted.
I wasn't talking about flashing anything, simply reading, copying to and modifying files on the file system. Fastboot enables the ADB bridge.
If you've gotten into fastboot, you've probably bypassed most if not all the security measures (most importantly, the physical security).
It's a silly question, anyway.
Linus isn't really linux by itself, he just had a critical part to play. The more accurate question would be "is Microsoft losing relevance and marketshare?" to which the answer is yes, and not really a surprise.
So the question isn't "Has Linus won" rather it's "Is Microsoft losing".
The sad thing is, a lot of users are just swapping the old benevolent tyrant (Microsoft) for a new sadistic tyrant (Apple).
Even with USB debugging enabled (which some handsets constantly nag to have it turned off), Android handsets use a public/private key system. If the charger tries to get access, the phone will ask if it should have full data rights to it.
Of course, this means that if someone clicks OK, they are hosed, but it is better than just sticking an adapter on and doing dirty work without knowing the device's PIN or password.
Not quite,
If the device is in fastboot mode it'll let any device have it's way with its file system.
But you need have put the device in fastboot mode, which means the user is an idiot or you've got physical access to the device. In which case on device security wont help one iota.
How unlockable (if at all) is the bootloader? Just an OEM unlock (like the Nexus line), sign in and get an unlock key (like HTC and Sony), or a special "dev" edition like previously.
I love the quality of the radios on Moto products, but for a decent Android ROM, unless Motorola opens their devices up, I'll probably pass this round of their offerings.
This, Hardware wise the Motorola Milestone (Droid in the US) was the best Android phone I've ever owned. However the software was lacking... Badly. No updates from Moto, locked bootloader, crapload of hacking to get an unstable version of 2.2 on there. I'd be happy to replace my GNex with a Moto X as long as the bootloader is unlocked. Even though this device comes with 4.2.2 and my GNex was just updated to 4.3, as long as I can load a ROM of my choosing that is fine.
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That's the way I see this ending, pretty much.
It's amazed me that he hasn't been "accidentally" killed in a plane crash, or other public disaster; it's not like the Russian Govt cares.
It Does amaze me that America is now a place to seek asylum From. :facepalm:
It doesn't surprise me.
I'm sure the Russians are making sure Mr Snowden is happy and healthy.
Why, because he embarrasses the United States and this makes for good propaganda. I hope for Snowden's sake the Russians remain easily amused
I think, if anything, the fact their HD Wii isn't selling as well as their regular Wii shows that Nintendo's original disinterest in HD never hurt them.
Given how profitable the Wii was, the only thing that has been hurting, is finding a place to keep all that money.
The Wii U was a disappointment, but it'll still do better than Microsoft's and Sony's offerings.
Yeah,it is important, because in Asia you can relatively easily point your antenna across the border and get overseas channels if your TV can tune/decode them. In Vietnam you can pick up Cambodian, Thai and Chinese TV channels, and the TV sets sold there have a massive array of options to let you choose colour standard, field rate, audio subcarrier frequency, etc. to ensure that you can decode and view anything you can receive. DPKR doesn't look so kindly on such features.
You can pick up those channels in Australia if you've got a big enough dish.
The problem for the average NRNK'er is that getting the equipment is difficult. They could probably trade some rice and eggs across the border, but minefields and machine guns are a bitch to deal with.
While not specifically mentioned in the report, notable cases of theft by TSA agents include a 2012 case in which two former employees pleaded guilty to stealing $40,000 from a checked bag at New York's John F. Kennedy Airport, and a 2011 guilty plea from an officer who admitted stealing between $10,000 and $30,000 from travelers at Newark Liberty International Airport in New Jersey.
And what does the poor schmoe who had his travel money stolen? Did the TSA make all those people whole?
Doubt it.
This is why I never put money into luggage. Cash goes out of my wallet and is kept on my person at all times.
Really you've got to be pretty daft to keep cash in your luggage. It's the easiest thing to steal as you dont have to fence it to get cash.
It's about getting lied to. It fucking sucks. If the operates 10% slower than it performs on tests, I would expect - at the least - an explanation or a discount off the outrageous selling price. Yes, I really don't care if it operates at peak performance, the way I use my phone I suspect I wouldn't see any performance differential.
But I wouldn't want to buy a Delorean advertised to be capable of going 95 mph, only to find out that it can go 95 mph when it's being timed on a closed course; when normally used, it can only physically run at 86mph. I need 88 mph in a mall parking lot, otherwise the mother fucking Libyans will get me.
Then dont ever test the limitations of your car.
All of the benchmarks will be "under controlled conditions".
Ford may say the Focus ST will do 230 KPH (figures pulled from by butt), but this is because they did it on a dyno whilst the car is stationary. No wind resistance. Honda says my car can do 280 KPH... on a dyno. The best you can hope for on the track is 245 KPH because of wind resistance, friction and so forth, hence they advertise the top speed as 245 KPH drag limited (drag limited means that the car reaches it's top speed before the engine does). A lot of manufacturers advertise dyno speeds because they can get away with it.
The same with fuel economy. Under controlled conditions.
Samsung is not a friendly company,
True, but compared to Apple, Samsung are saints.
When confronted with two evil choices, always choose the lesser of the two evils.