All of the shows they used in the study were created by networks that broadcast over the air. People in the age range surveyed are probably much more likely to watch shows created by cable and premium channels. How is it that they didn't include any shows from FX, Comedy Central, HBO, Showtime, or AMC? I'm a bit older than the surveyed demographic and I would find it difficult to even name 5 shows that aired on any over-the-air network, let alone match the show to the network. They should perform this study again using shows and networks that participants of the survey actually watch.
I haven't had a chance to watch this trailer yet but I thought Dead Island had one of the best trailers I had ever seen at that point in time. I've never had a chance to play the game, but the trailer was very emotionally evocative.
Comey was pressured by the president, the person with the greatest amount of power in the country, to drop an investigation into his campaign and you think that the best course of action would have been for Comey to leave his post? That would have allowed Trump to appoint his own personal sycophant who could ensure the investigation is dropped as soon as they were confirmed. He would have been doing Trump a favor. Instead, he leaked the memo and stayed in office. That left Trump with the options of firing Comey and taking a ton of negative press and looking even more guilty or letting Comey stay and having the investigation continue unimpeded. Comey knew that he would likely be fired but he forced the president to make that move and subsequently soak up all of the justified negative press. After all, the only thing worse than pressuring a member of your administration to drop an investigation against your campaign is to fire that person after he refuses to drop it.
This is an excellent point. I've been extremely frustrated with software that has been using JSON or YAML lately since they don't provide specs for their format. It often takes a lot of guesswork to determine if an entity is a subentity and if so, what is the parent entity, is this entity a list, is the entity a String that requires quotes or a non-quoted data type. These standards are a bit more pithy but a lot more ambiguous.
Red Hat has that market largely sewn up. On my personal machines, I prefer Ubuntu to Red Hat but for servers, Red Hat has been in the business longer, so I would likely go with them for support. With that said, Ubuntu may be able to differentiate itself and be pretty successful if it shipped server versions with Upstart rather than SystemD. I'm not trying to troll - they need something to differentiate themselves from their biggest competitor and that is an option that no other enterprise Linux company is currently providing.
So instead you chop your soul into millions of pieces and sell those pieces to thousands of greedy psychopaths rather than just one. I honestly don't know which is worse.
Most employment agreements are such that the company owns it even if it is outside of normal hours. So inventions you come up with on your own time are not yours.
I had this happen to me once. There was a document buried in the mountain of new-hire paperwork which asked me list all of the projects in which I claimed IP rights. All other copyrightable material I created for the duration of my employment was considered property of my employer, even if I used my own time and resources. I signed every other form and left that one unsigned in the middle of the pile. Later, the HR person brought it back to me and informed me that I forgot to sign it. I casually said that I didn't consent to the language in the form. When she asked why, I told her "what I do with company time and company resources is property of the company and what I do with my time and my resources is my property". She was flustered and said she had to consult the legal team. Shortly thereafter she came back with a modified document that agreed with my prior statement and I signed that. The point is, your employer can't make you become a slave - only you have the power to do that. Also, ask a new employer for a copy of the employee agreement before you give notice to your current employer. That will allow you to determine if it's worth leaving your current job if the new employee agreement is too draconian.
While this may seem like a very ambitious endeavor for a relatively small company, Uber plans to create cars that can fly by simply ignoring the laws of physics.
We're running old software because the manufacturers don't care about us after they've gotten our money. My experience with the Motorola G4 is a prime example of this. The phone came out in May 2016 with Android 6. Android 7 was released in August 2016, just three months after my phone was released, and I still don't have any update available for my phone despite the fact that Android 7 has been out for seven months! The worst part is that the OS on the G4 is practically stock Android, so it should take relatively little effort to customize the image and push it out. It seems the only way to guarantee access to new versions of Android is to buy a Google phone but the Pixel has one of the worst performance to price ratios of any Android phone. At this point, I have no idea what my next phone will be, but I have a lot of ideas about what it won't be.
Sleight of hand is all about deflecting attention somewhere else and Trump has mastered this like few others. The media and many liberals take the bait almost every time because it makes them feel smarter than other people but they're just playing right into his manipulation.
The best part about being a compulsive liar is that it only takes seconds to make an outrageous lie but minutes/hours/days for people to gather enough evidence to definitively prove it's a lie. By that point, the compulsive liar has made dozens more outrageous lies. I used to think that this behavior tends to catch up to liars but apparently the consequences amount to becoming president.
We all know that Qualcomm must license their wireless technology patents under FRAND terms (for comically cheap prices) in order for their technologies to be included in the standard, but are Qualcomm forced or sell Apple chips or could they tell Apple to make their own damned chips?
You are conflating patents with copyrights. Patents were created to protect concrete inventions, not abstract ideas. Copyright covers written compositions and recorded performances. For some reason, the U.S. has deemed software as one of the few things on the planet capable of receiving both protections. It makes complete sense for software to be covered under copyright since the part of software development that defines value is in the source code which is protect by copyright law. However, patents don't make sense at all for covering software because the "invention" is already defined in perfect detail by the source code. Therefore, granting additional protection on abstract concepts via the use of patents essentially covers the idea rather than the actual invention. Therefore, software should receive absolutely no protection under patent law and the rest of the world has already come to that conclusion. I imagine the U.S. will eventually join the rest of the world at some point in this regard - it's just a matter of how much business we'll lose until we can correct this mistake.
So Apple released a closed-source patch for this issue and Consumer Reports is supposedly taking them on their word that the new software is legit. Is there any way to verify that the fixed software is definitely not using cached data so that the test accurately reflects the browsing habits of a user visiting many different sites over the course of the battery cycle? If not, then how do we know that Apple isn't faking the test by using cached data in a similar fashion to the way VW faked emissions tests in their diesel vehicles?
For years, I've refused to buy a new phone because they always had an annoying headphone jack. I always hated it with its stupid port and for providing me with the option to listen to music while charging. I was really excited when Apple innovated the iPhone 7 without the headphone jack but I'm not really into the iPhone right now because it doesn't offer enough dongles yet. Thank you, HTC, for recognizing what users want and giving us a reason to shell out money for a new phone!
Have no fear - deep in my basement, I am actively working on "Artificial Stupidity".
It looks like your technology will be able to replace the leaders of the engineering departments that are making stupid decisions such as removing commonly used ports from their flagship phones.
Many of the warehouse jobs are part-time and they hire tons of temps over the holiday season to avoid having to pay overtime to the part-timers. I spoke with a friend that works part-time in one of their warehouses and he said that he got fewer hours over the holiday season than last year because of the number of temps that they hired. So the number of workers will go up but the hours of the existing workers could potentially decline.
Well, we know it likely wasn't an Apple employee since they would be more interested in a laptop with no screen, or at least a screen that requires a dongle.
So then they should DDOS the legal system by having all BitCoin holders affected by the behavior of the IRS file individual suits against the government.
Windows 10 Insider builds will feature the green error screen, while stable Windows 10 versions will continue to use the classic blue-themed error page
I think that's setting the bar pretty low for the term "stable".
I came here to make that same comment. I've seen a number of streams that abruptly ended because Windows 10 thought it would be a great time to update. At first people laughed it off but it's quickly losing its charm.
Everyone seems insistent on copying all of the features of the iPhone, even the absolutely braindead ones like removing the headphone jack. If I was Apple, I would "leak" rumors of extremely ridiculous changes to the next version of the iPhone, watch as the competition scrambled to beat me to market to release a phone full of things nobody wants, and then release a new iPhone that has the features people actually want. Of course that will never happen since Apple itself is all too focused on figuring out the next great thing to remove from their own phones. Sometimes I think the phone manufacturers have a bet to see who's customers have the highest levels of attrition.
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All of the shows they used in the study were created by networks that broadcast over the air. People in the age range surveyed are probably much more likely to watch shows created by cable and premium channels. How is it that they didn't include any shows from FX, Comedy Central, HBO, Showtime, or AMC? I'm a bit older than the surveyed demographic and I would find it difficult to even name 5 shows that aired on any over-the-air network, let alone match the show to the network. They should perform this study again using shows and networks that participants of the survey actually watch.
I haven't had a chance to watch this trailer yet but I thought Dead Island had one of the best trailers I had ever seen at that point in time. I've never had a chance to play the game, but the trailer was very emotionally evocative.
Comey was pressured by the president, the person with the greatest amount of power in the country, to drop an investigation into his campaign and you think that the best course of action would have been for Comey to leave his post? That would have allowed Trump to appoint his own personal sycophant who could ensure the investigation is dropped as soon as they were confirmed. He would have been doing Trump a favor. Instead, he leaked the memo and stayed in office. That left Trump with the options of firing Comey and taking a ton of negative press and looking even more guilty or letting Comey stay and having the investigation continue unimpeded. Comey knew that he would likely be fired but he forced the president to make that move and subsequently soak up all of the justified negative press. After all, the only thing worse than pressuring a member of your administration to drop an investigation against your campaign is to fire that person after he refuses to drop it.
Minor correction: AAA is a non-profit organization.
I've never heard of Screening Room. What is it, some kind of Kodi add-on?
This is an excellent point. I've been extremely frustrated with software that has been using JSON or YAML lately since they don't provide specs for their format. It often takes a lot of guesswork to determine if an entity is a subentity and if so, what is the parent entity, is this entity a list, is the entity a String that requires quotes or a non-quoted data type. These standards are a bit more pithy but a lot more ambiguous.
Red Hat has that market largely sewn up. On my personal machines, I prefer Ubuntu to Red Hat but for servers, Red Hat has been in the business longer, so I would likely go with them for support. With that said, Ubuntu may be able to differentiate itself and be pretty successful if it shipped server versions with Upstart rather than SystemD. I'm not trying to troll - they need something to differentiate themselves from their biggest competitor and that is an option that no other enterprise Linux company is currently providing.
So instead you chop your soul into millions of pieces and sell those pieces to thousands of greedy psychopaths rather than just one. I honestly don't know which is worse.
I had this happen to me once. There was a document buried in the mountain of new-hire paperwork which asked me list all of the projects in which I claimed IP rights. All other copyrightable material I created for the duration of my employment was considered property of my employer, even if I used my own time and resources. I signed every other form and left that one unsigned in the middle of the pile. Later, the HR person brought it back to me and informed me that I forgot to sign it. I casually said that I didn't consent to the language in the form. When she asked why, I told her "what I do with company time and company resources is property of the company and what I do with my time and my resources is my property". She was flustered and said she had to consult the legal team. Shortly thereafter she came back with a modified document that agreed with my prior statement and I signed that. The point is, your employer can't make you become a slave - only you have the power to do that. Also, ask a new employer for a copy of the employee agreement before you give notice to your current employer. That will allow you to determine if it's worth leaving your current job if the new employee agreement is too draconian.
While this may seem like a very ambitious endeavor for a relatively small company, Uber plans to create cars that can fly by simply ignoring the laws of physics.
We're running old software because the manufacturers don't care about us after they've gotten our money. My experience with the Motorola G4 is a prime example of this. The phone came out in May 2016 with Android 6. Android 7 was released in August 2016, just three months after my phone was released, and I still don't have any update available for my phone despite the fact that Android 7 has been out for seven months! The worst part is that the OS on the G4 is practically stock Android, so it should take relatively little effort to customize the image and push it out. It seems the only way to guarantee access to new versions of Android is to buy a Google phone but the Pixel has one of the worst performance to price ratios of any Android phone. At this point, I have no idea what my next phone will be, but I have a lot of ideas about what it won't be.
Sleight of hand is all about deflecting attention somewhere else and Trump has mastered this like few others. The media and many liberals take the bait almost every time because it makes them feel smarter than other people but they're just playing right into his manipulation.
The best part about being a compulsive liar is that it only takes seconds to make an outrageous lie but minutes/hours/days for people to gather enough evidence to definitively prove it's a lie. By that point, the compulsive liar has made dozens more outrageous lies. I used to think that this behavior tends to catch up to liars but apparently the consequences amount to becoming president.
We all know that Qualcomm must license their wireless technology patents under FRAND terms (for comically cheap prices) in order for their technologies to be included in the standard, but are Qualcomm forced or sell Apple chips or could they tell Apple to make their own damned chips?
You are conflating patents with copyrights. Patents were created to protect concrete inventions, not abstract ideas. Copyright covers written compositions and recorded performances. For some reason, the U.S. has deemed software as one of the few things on the planet capable of receiving both protections. It makes complete sense for software to be covered under copyright since the part of software development that defines value is in the source code which is protect by copyright law. However, patents don't make sense at all for covering software because the "invention" is already defined in perfect detail by the source code. Therefore, granting additional protection on abstract concepts via the use of patents essentially covers the idea rather than the actual invention. Therefore, software should receive absolutely no protection under patent law and the rest of the world has already come to that conclusion. I imagine the U.S. will eventually join the rest of the world at some point in this regard - it's just a matter of how much business we'll lose until we can correct this mistake.
So Apple released a closed-source patch for this issue and Consumer Reports is supposedly taking them on their word that the new software is legit. Is there any way to verify that the fixed software is definitely not using cached data so that the test accurately reflects the browsing habits of a user visiting many different sites over the course of the battery cycle? If not, then how do we know that Apple isn't faking the test by using cached data in a similar fashion to the way VW faked emissions tests in their diesel vehicles?
For years, I've refused to buy a new phone because they always had an annoying headphone jack. I always hated it with its stupid port and for providing me with the option to listen to music while charging. I was really excited when Apple innovated the iPhone 7 without the headphone jack but I'm not really into the iPhone right now because it doesn't offer enough dongles yet. Thank you, HTC, for recognizing what users want and giving us a reason to shell out money for a new phone!
It looks like your technology will be able to replace the leaders of the engineering departments that are making stupid decisions such as removing commonly used ports from their flagship phones.
Many of the warehouse jobs are part-time and they hire tons of temps over the holiday season to avoid having to pay overtime to the part-timers. I spoke with a friend that works part-time in one of their warehouses and he said that he got fewer hours over the holiday season than last year because of the number of temps that they hired. So the number of workers will go up but the hours of the existing workers could potentially decline.
Well, we know it likely wasn't an Apple employee since they would be more interested in a laptop with no screen, or at least a screen that requires a dongle.
So then they should DDOS the legal system by having all BitCoin holders affected by the behavior of the IRS file individual suits against the government.
I think that's setting the bar pretty low for the term "stable".
I came here to make that same comment. I've seen a number of streams that abruptly ended because Windows 10 thought it would be a great time to update. At first people laughed it off but it's quickly losing its charm.
True, but Apple hates ports!
Everyone seems insistent on copying all of the features of the iPhone, even the absolutely braindead ones like removing the headphone jack. If I was Apple, I would "leak" rumors of extremely ridiculous changes to the next version of the iPhone, watch as the competition scrambled to beat me to market to release a phone full of things nobody wants, and then release a new iPhone that has the features people actually want. Of course that will never happen since Apple itself is all too focused on figuring out the next great thing to remove from their own phones. Sometimes I think the phone manufacturers have a bet to see who's customers have the highest levels of attrition.