when he iphone came out redmond took 4 years to consider the prospect of a competitive product. Once they released it, nobody cared because two smartphone manufacturers already existed in the market.
The fitbit is a 7 year old product. most cellphone accellerometers do the same thing, including the windows phone. regardless microsoft decided to make this thing, 7 years into the market when everyone from nike to apple already have a competing product with greater market share.
about as informative as an old Bud Light commercial
If the technical discussion inevitably inherent in most historic articles regarding the controversy and operational functionality of systemd is indistinguishable from spuds McKenzie or three gurgling anthropomorphic frogs, you may not be a good fit here.
Why not try Wired? they have a bunch of real neat articles on halloween costumes and even a picture hunt challenge! If you find yourself worn out after a few paragraphs its okay. Cookie clicker should help to clear the frustration.
Many of the poorest and most rural states in the country tend to favor Republican politicians.
Many of the poorest, most rural states also feature a large minority population disenfranchised by Voter ID laws, early voting elimination, absentee ballot restrictions, and gerrymandered districts that favour a republican leadership. Most of these states like Kentucky, Georgia, and Louisiana also strip your voter rights if youve been convicted of a felony in the past, requiring a governors pardon to restore them. Stacking the desk means people like louie gomert can call for a ban on muslim immigrants, shariah law, and female contraception because they understand no matter how incendiary their comments, the chances of their unemployment are pretty low. a large plurality of residents in these states categorically do not care for republican politicians.
What ive found to be lacking in this article is the technical details of the dummies. Here at humanetics our dummies are actually quite advanced as the details on a few recently manufactured units will surely attest:
model 13543: Fudge: Meant to simulate the average child in america, Fudge comes pre-treated with cookie dough and its kinematic range has been artificially limited for realism. Fudge stands 4'4, and weights 230 pounds. Convenient multi-grip handles are provided as Fudge requres a team-lift for safety. model 9543: Lerleen: lerleen measures 5' tall and weighs more than 400 pounds. Kinematics have been removed for savings/realism and the materials impregnated with a mix of cigarette smoke resin, liquid yogurt, and imitation chocolate. Installation is easy with the included guide rails and lift straps for most counterbalance indoor fork-lift trucks. Mass can be redirected to the feet, and feet are also removable in order to simulate lifelike condition of end-stage diabetes. model 15442: Cobbler: Cobbler represents the average adult american male, at 5'11 and 550 pounds. This model is not kinematic, however is poseable in a variety of styles to simulate heart attack, COPD related loss of consciousness, or food-related motor vehicle operator distraction. Cobbler is impregnated with a malty, earthy aroma comprised of barbecue sauce and artificial cheese, and must be installed by a certified mover/millwright.
"I'm proud to see this purchase has been completed. I've always advocated for Motorola to be purchased by Google, and now that theyve been purchased by Lenovo im sure they'll make even better products and services. Who knows, maybe 6 or 7 other companies can purchase them and I can finally retire in hawaii."
Scientists, as has been readily confirmed by all news outlets, arent a part of this discussion. Here are the latest forecasts from the newsdroids you trust(c) most:
November: cold front of phobia and ostracization provided through state quarantines and youtube videos of isolated ebola victims. Viewers should expect to vote based entirely on ebola, and ensure they include ebola in casual conversations at least 4 times per day. At no point should viewers stop consuming the product, or attempt to calmly rationalize this situation. Purchase precisely what television doctors prescribe, and adhere to name brands only.
December:Ebola will be entirely forgotten, do not include ebola in any conversations. Focus on black friday, cyber monday, spendy saturday, and subprime mortgage sunday. Holiday spirit, Bing Crosby, and santa trackers will be hauled out of cold storage and our graphics department will ensure concerns of this "disease" are re-applied solely to african and east asian nations far out of the grasp of American geographic knowledge. Drive directly into inexorably sprawling suburban traffic to your largest supermall or box store and purchase nose hair trimmers, cologne, candy, and oil drum sized tins of popped corn. Assume/insist ebola has been cured.
January sneak peek: after guzzling champagne and shitting your weight in cakes and pies, prepare for the next Avengers film, government shutdown, internet advocacy trend, exercise resolution, civil unrest, and iProduct. and hey, thanks for another great programming year!
As a regular slashed dot user I think this is all over-reaction. I've been checking www.slashdorrt.org every day for the latest news articles about my tablets and e-phones, and even sometimes the governments totally patriotic spying but this article is just goofy. The FBI wasn't anymore interested in the Sea-tultymes.com as they would have been in slishdart.org, they were just trying to protect americans and preserve freedom.
now if we could just get back to talking about that
EDWARD SNOWDEN
and maybe what we all think about
WIKI LEAKS
I think that would be a much better topic of investig....er discussion....
Companies like Verizon, Cisco, HP, and Walmart contract employment because direct-hire is nearly impossible. These companies insist you work in armpits like Bentonville Arkansas or Decalb Georgia so your salary can be shuffled down the chain to 40 grand a year not under the implication that your services are worthless, but under the assertion that the "cost of living" is so inexpensive you shouldnt need a respectable wage. American workers caught on to this shifty crap pretty quickly and now in the race to pedal labor in general into the earth, contract companies are picking up the slack. Cognizent and Infosys are two companies that actively avoid american labour capable of contesting wage theft and frivolous litigation in court. They avoid it by specifying explicitly the requirement for an H1B in order to incense foreign workers to apply. If you receive a call as an american, its generally from a roaring indian callcenter with poor diction and once your salary comes up, the call ends.
H1B is the new slave-ship, and because corporations control the general direction of american government, it isnt likely the H1B process will get any more reasonable.
If you want to know who is in charge, Find the person you're not allowed to talk about. Being a recipient of the controversial retroactive immunity for spying, as well as a contentious and vociferous opponent of net neutrality, Its fairly clear who cracks the whip. So if the arguably two largest concerns facing the internet and tech community are off-limits for SugarString, how is it they intend to beat the competition 'at their own game' if the competition offers in depth, comprehensive coverage and analysis?
As a theoretical physics doctoral candidate I've spent many a night staring into the ceiling hoping the pope would confirm the fundamental compoent of everything from my undergraduate education to my last twelve grant proposals. My boyfriend, a medical doctor, is equally relieved to understand his approach to antibiotics has been validated in the context of the theory of evolution and not as medical science once assumed to 'the aetherous ichor of daemons betwixt these foul realms.'
First: Can someone get Bennet a fucking livejournal. Jesus Christ.
Second: yes. yes it can. By becoming a B corporation it can make ad-free high security social networking its mandate, but should it run aground of shareholders and explicitly the legal definition of a corporation (that it continue to provide increasing profits yearly) it can become a co-operative where the users become the owners. In business this is called a poison pill and is often coded into the sale, merger, or buyout in such a way that it cannot be avoided. If there were a takeover, this option would kick in and as owners, the users could decide they simply dont want ads anymore. as a majority minority stakeholder, the users would crush the board.
another option is to open-source everything. Not just BSD, but GPLv3 or Affero. GPL codes forkability is a land mine that no corporation wants to step on. Ello will have to provide continually excellent service and listen to its customers, or forks of the project will begin to take root (mysql, dokeos, foswiki for examples) and bury the host company.
find an android device that can be rooted, and start blacklisting advertising sites in the hosts file. I literally cut my data usage in half doing this. Make sure the device is set to connect to wireless whenever possible, and look around for municipal wifi or wimax where available. Unlimited data is $100 or more depending on how reliable and fast you'd like it, whereas skype and a tablet connected to $80 per month internet is still much more preferable. Find out exactly how much data she uses, calculate overages for various carriers, and compare this to total usage with a wireless connection. If you're a slashdotter with some tech skills, why not speak with the management and see if they'd be willing to expand wireless connectivity to other rooms in exchange for installation and configuration on your part (I once did this with an apartment complex i lived in.)
Microsoft makes video games, consoles, operating systems, telephones, cloud services, office applications, car stereos, tablets, mice, keyboards, voip calling, a search engine, an internet browser, almost a dozen proprietary coding languages, educational books, a GPS map website, portable music players, internet chat, wireless display adapters, internet email and storage, a SQL server, and a gob of money on its training and certification services. The problem is mircosoft is creating products people do not need.
each of the aforementioned offerings has had an industry or at least socially accepted standard in place for more than 2 years, and in some cases more than a decade. Microsofts problem is that they cant come up with new ideas and fail to see the logic behind existing ideas. Arm started out as a Unix platform, and has been extensively developed as a Linux platform. the Linux kernels ARM support has existed for 4 years, which seems to be the average amount of time it takes redmond to realize something new has happened. Even if Redmond offered an arm-server version of windows, it would have to compete with well documented, functional, and most importantly free versions of Linux that likely exist on ARM because they were proven assets in X86 for their particular task, not because Windows didnt exist at the time. the standard track-run of a microsoft offering will likely be provided with their ARM offering:
1. Arm is offered, priced to buy, and servers preloaded with the microsoft tax
2. Arm is subsidized in standard licensing contracts to major businesses beholden to redmond in their desktop environment. rejecting the subsidies will cause a loss of already existing discounts, just like Azure.
3. this dole will be touted as market acceptance of Windows for ARM. metrics will be conveyed in trade journals and PHB will respond with demo units for the tech teams.
4. Tech teams will ignore the device as its not needed and performance is significantly worse than the existing *nix, not to mention exising code ported from x86 unix/linux systems wont run on it.
5. Microsoft will bail cash from XBox revenue into their ARM venture for 5-8 years, or roughly 1 zune.
6. Microsoft will quietly EOL the product and never speak of it again.
7. Microsoft will spin the wayback machine 4 years into the past and try their hand at Microsoft twitter or some equally doomed project.
Regardless of all that freedom-isnt-free these-colours-dont-run support-the-troops rhetoric, 13 years after the original terrorist attack on America this is still happening. Terrorists have succeeded in doing what they sought to achieve: terrorizing. liquids are treason on airplanes, nail clippers are an assassins blade, and full body virtual nudity is encouraged prior to boarding. Now, a simple SSID is cause to lock down an entire flight. For all your achievements, oh how the mighty have fallen. We once sent real people to the moon and laughed at the vacuum of space. Lawn darts existed for a decade before their retirement. even a 9 year old can have access to a fully automatic machine gun. however the minute someone breathes an utterance of terrorism its secret prisons, wiretaps, indefinite detention, extrajudicial rendition targeted killings, and secret courts. and you know whats hillarious? Heart disease kills 600 million americans a year. thats 150 times the number of people who died in the world trade center but we still sell sandwiches called the baconator and a small or as we rebranded it 'regular' drink is still 22 ounces. smoking kills almost 400,000 americans a year, or roughly 32000 times the number of people who died in the pentagon on 9/11 but we still sell vape kits and marlboros and 5% of the states in our union still permit indoor smoking.
Apple rejected your app because apple is not selling a product, it is selling a means of consumption to a product. Any productivity or meaningfulness actualized from iDevices is purely coincidental and is designed to keep the user entertained long enough to interact with apples ecosystem of other products which in turn sell other apple products and services, along with the users personal information to third party vendors. Apple isnt interested in making waves, its interested in herding cattle and the best we can do is wildly speculate as to why apples nontransparent review process green-lights or curb-stomps your code. "not enough lasting value" means you arguably havent committed enough value to the idea of keeping people engaged in their apple product, not that the function or end-goal of your application is devoid of any value. If you submitted your app under the GPL thats an automatic rejection.
stop writing apps for apple and microsoft. At worst you should consider writing them for Android, but even then its the same business model with a slightly roomier yoke. Write applications for the open source ecosystem F-Droid. Interesting and legitimately worthwhile products like firewall, adblock, and an mpd client licensed under the GPL can be made available.
Creation Summit secured a room at the university's business school through a student religious group
So this has nothing to do with science, critical thinking, debate, or academic discussion. This is an 8-topic 1-day masturbation session technically located at a college that can later be rolled into propaganda and touted as a hallmark of the legitimacy of "creation science" despite an overwhelmingly scientific concensus to the contrary. Its sole purpose is to re-enforce validity for communities of homeschooled kids, backwoods churches, and easily exploited students around campus. This isnt being held in a student center because that would invite public opinion and attract unwelcome and highly critical dissent. Its not being held in a lecture hall because the topic of discussion isnt academic. and it sure as shit doesnt get time in the biosciences buildings because the hardware store would run out of pitchforks before the presenters could ever get approval.
reviewer 1: works well to charge ipad, cellphone, and ensure carkeys glow cherry red. reviewer 2: dresser charges cellphone quickly, washing machine bricks laptops in a jiffy reviewer 3: washing machine wiped credit cards and screwed up my bluetooth carkey. Excellent feature to ensure laundry gets done.
We've had this technology in the US since around 2006, however it was restricted to trunk/hybrid, or analogue radio systems and came bundled as part of a radio scanner. Scanners in many states are illegal to operate in a motor vehicle, hence the technology never really caught on. its biggest, perhaps only manufacturer, was uniden with their 'beartracker' feature
in the states many municipalities still use antiquated strobe technology to change traffic signals in the event an emergency vehicle needs to pass. several of our radar detectors alert for these 'strobes' of IR radiation. "Safety radar" was an invention that never saw much usage in the united states but would alert the driver of road hazards and approaching ambulances using dedicated transcievers. its largely been discontinued.
radios in the United States use APCO P25; this change was made largely after 2001. A digital system, it has cryptographic capability and is best-effort in protocol. Gnu Radio projects to capture and decode the unencrypted traffic are successful, and can yield through data capture, ping latency and triangulation a wealth of information such as who is in a given vicinity, their name, their unit number, the radio MAC address, what shift they work, and even their routes. much of this data wouldnt require 'listening' to the communication at all but is, much to our chagrin as slashdotters im sure, metadata
IRS agent: Gentlemen you're accounts have all been seized, no doubt you're curious as to why. Walmart CEO: Yeah what gives? is this a mistake? Oracle CEO: We filed our taxes last month! as you can see we owed nothing. GE CEO: Hes right! we didnt owe a damned thing on that 20 billion in profit we made IRS Agent: yes through a system of complex accounting and offshore assets you've managed to not only avoid paying taxes but in some cases demand millions in tax refunds. So we got to thinking...who would be so nefarious as to intentionally defraud the government in such a malevolent way. And thats when we decided you're all drug dealing terrorist shariah muslim ISIS fighters. Microsoft CEO: we are not! we make helpful electronics and software for everybody to become more productive!! IRS Agent:....Thats exactly what id expect some Zune making terrorist to say...
'steering' exists in meatspace, and most consumers actively embrace it. Take the average supermarket. High value items are placed at the edges of the aisles so you'll see them first. floor tiles are set in different sized to influence your cadence and ultimately how long you spend in a particular section. the 'landing zone' of a supermarket features specially illuminated produce first, typically directly in the path of locomotion. loyaty cards belch coupons for related goods and services the grocery store wishes to 'move' that may be of a lower or higher price point. milk in the front of the store costs more than milk in the back, and its tagged and tracked through the payment system differently. Baskets are commonly difficult to find and carts have since 1970 increased 60% in size in order to induce the shopper to buy more.
bars and resaraunts do this as well. by pricing well drinks closer or identically to call drinks, the bar discourages patrons with less income. happy hour is cheaper than saturday night, and cheaper still than valentines evening.
McDonald's hasn't changed its basic system of taking orders since its founding in the 1950s
Since the WSJ is a Murdoch paper now, its now been saddled with a conservative agenda just the same as fox. However, Mcdonalds has evolved ordering consistently throughout the past 30 years. multi-lane drivethroughs, extending the station model of drivethrough to the dine-in area, wireless communications systems, touchscreen back of house systems, and tap card payments are all recent additions to most stores. Its unrelated, but many McDonalds stores jave an automated fryer robot that drops and pulls fries based on order demand, allowing the drivethrough attendant to pack fries and food as well as take orders.
The united states is currently shitlisting, per ITAR, 27 of the following contries:
Afghanistan, Belarus, Central African Republic, Cuba, Cyprus, Eritrea, Fiji, Iran, Iraq, Cote d'Ivoire, Lebanon, Libya, North Korea, Syria, Vietnam, Myanmar, China, Haiti, Liberia, Rwanda, Somalia, Sri Lanka, Republic of the Sudan (Northern Sudan), Yemen, Zimbabwe, Venezuela, Democratic Republic of the Congo.
ITAR means military goods and services are categorically banned. whats hillarious about this is many of these countries have militant regimes or massive destabilization as a direct result of our foreign intervention so its almost as though ITAR is to us as a 1 year AA chip is to an alcoholic. Others are just boogeymen left over from the cold war, and paradoxically countries like China and Vietnam are already enormous trading partners that could, if they decided to, temporarily grind the US to a halt with a trade embargo. Surprisingly Syria and Iraq, despite being on ITAR, receive funding and training from the US military respectively. Bureaucrats are strange.
Ultimately we cant sustain this simultaneous ideological demonization and capitalist embrace of free trade because, as is evidenced by our arms conractors at least, the United states is governed by private industry. What we do is no different than a baptist minister preeching against gays, but hiring a male prostitute on the weekends.
This happened in 2006 as well. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... Instead of exercising their right in america to free trade, DPW just chose to back away cautiously from the frothing psychosis that is american political and social policy.
While you might find 911 service operable and efficient in the burbs, cash strapped cities with large populations like Miami run out of operators before they run out of capacity. dialing 911 in Cincinnati for example, or any other major city in the rust belt, results in a pre-recorded message instructing you to stay on the line and wait for the next available operator. Its a fun joke to make on sitcoms, but when you've actually in danger its not. Having been backed over on a motorcycle by a truck, I was at the mercy of this hold system for nearly 10 minutes in a busy downtown intersection.
in neonatal units for example, nearly everything is wireless and unencrypted. Its why visitors and parents are frequently told to shut off cellphones as no ones entirely certain the devices wont interfere with heart rate monitors or life support systems. Its theoretically possible to create a denial of service condition in a hospital where a nurses station for an entire floor suddenly sees life-threatening conditions for every patient, or receives a nurse request page for every patient. Injection attacks can also result in patients that are dead for hours but reported as still alive.
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when he iphone came out redmond took 4 years to consider the prospect of a competitive product. Once they released it, nobody cared because two smartphone manufacturers already existed in the market. The fitbit is a 7 year old product. most cellphone accellerometers do the same thing, including the windows phone. regardless microsoft decided to make this thing, 7 years into the market when everyone from nike to apple already have a competing product with greater market share.
about as informative as an old Bud Light commercial
If the technical discussion inevitably inherent in most historic articles regarding the controversy and operational functionality of systemd is indistinguishable from spuds McKenzie or three gurgling anthropomorphic frogs, you may not be a good fit here.
Why not try Wired? they have a bunch of real neat articles on halloween costumes and even a picture hunt challenge! If you find yourself worn out after a few paragraphs its okay. Cookie clicker should help to clear the frustration.
Many of the poorest and most rural states in the country tend to favor Republican politicians.
Many of the poorest, most rural states also feature a large minority population disenfranchised by Voter ID laws, early voting elimination, absentee ballot restrictions, and gerrymandered districts that favour a republican leadership. Most of these states like Kentucky, Georgia, and Louisiana also strip your voter rights if youve been convicted of a felony in the past, requiring a governors pardon to restore them. Stacking the desk means people like louie gomert can call for a ban on muslim immigrants, shariah law, and female contraception because they understand no matter how incendiary their comments, the chances of their unemployment are pretty low. a large plurality of residents in these states categorically do not care for republican politicians.
What ive found to be lacking in this article is the technical details of the dummies. Here at humanetics our dummies are actually quite advanced as the details on a few recently manufactured units will surely attest:
model 13543: Fudge: Meant to simulate the average child in america, Fudge comes pre-treated with cookie dough and its kinematic range has been artificially limited for realism. Fudge stands 4'4, and weights 230 pounds. Convenient multi-grip handles are provided as Fudge requres a team-lift for safety.
model 9543: Lerleen: lerleen measures 5' tall and weighs more than 400 pounds. Kinematics have been removed for savings/realism and the materials impregnated with a mix of cigarette smoke resin, liquid yogurt, and imitation chocolate. Installation is easy with the included guide rails and lift straps for most counterbalance indoor fork-lift trucks. Mass can be redirected to the feet, and feet are also removable in order to simulate lifelike condition of end-stage diabetes.
model 15442: Cobbler: Cobbler represents the average adult american male, at 5'11 and 550 pounds. This model is not kinematic, however is poseable in a variety of styles to simulate heart attack, COPD related loss of consciousness, or food-related motor vehicle operator distraction. Cobbler is impregnated with a malty, earthy aroma comprised of barbecue sauce and artificial cheese, and must be installed by a certified mover/millwright.
"I'm proud to see this purchase has been completed. I've always advocated for Motorola to be purchased by Google, and now that theyve been purchased by Lenovo im sure they'll make even better products and services. Who knows, maybe 6 or 7 other companies can purchase them and I can finally retire in hawaii."
--Joes Electric Business Sign co.
Scientists, as has been readily confirmed by all news outlets, arent a part of this discussion. Here are the latest forecasts from the newsdroids you trust(c) most:
November: cold front of phobia and ostracization provided through state quarantines and youtube videos of isolated ebola victims. Viewers should expect to vote based entirely on ebola, and ensure they include ebola in casual conversations at least 4 times per day. At no point should viewers stop consuming the product, or attempt to calmly rationalize this situation. Purchase precisely what television doctors prescribe, and adhere to name brands only.
December:Ebola will be entirely forgotten, do not include ebola in any conversations. Focus on black friday, cyber monday, spendy saturday, and subprime mortgage sunday. Holiday spirit, Bing Crosby, and santa trackers will be hauled out of cold storage and our graphics department will ensure concerns of this "disease" are re-applied solely to african and east asian nations far out of the grasp of American geographic knowledge. Drive directly into inexorably sprawling suburban traffic to your largest supermall or box store and purchase nose hair trimmers, cologne, candy, and oil drum sized tins of popped corn. Assume/insist ebola has been cured.
January sneak peek: after guzzling champagne and shitting your weight in cakes and pies, prepare for the next Avengers film, government shutdown, internet advocacy trend, exercise resolution, civil unrest, and iProduct. and hey, thanks for another great programming year!
As a regular slashed dot user I think this is all over-reaction. I've been checking www.slashdorrt.org every day for the latest news articles about my tablets and e-phones, and even sometimes the governments totally patriotic spying but this article is just goofy. The FBI wasn't anymore interested in the Sea-tultymes.com as they would have been in slishdart.org, they were just trying to protect americans and preserve freedom.
now if we could just get back to talking about that
EDWARD SNOWDEN
and maybe what we all think about
WIKI
LEAKS
I think that would be a much better topic of investig....er discussion....
A team of physicists based at Brown University has succeeded in shattering a quantum wave function
Well hurry up and put it back together! i use these damned functions all the time and i cant spend another 6 years as a graduate assistant!!
Companies like Verizon, Cisco, HP, and Walmart contract employment because direct-hire is nearly impossible. These companies insist you work in armpits like Bentonville Arkansas or Decalb Georgia so your salary can be shuffled down the chain to 40 grand a year not under the implication that your services are worthless, but under the assertion that the "cost of living" is so inexpensive you shouldnt need a respectable wage. American workers caught on to this shifty crap pretty quickly and now in the race to pedal labor in general into the earth, contract companies are picking up the slack. Cognizent and Infosys are two companies that actively avoid american labour capable of contesting wage theft and frivolous litigation in court. They avoid it by specifying explicitly the requirement for an H1B in order to incense foreign workers to apply. If you receive a call as an american, its generally from a roaring indian callcenter with poor diction and once your salary comes up, the call ends.
H1B is the new slave-ship, and because corporations control the general direction of american government, it isnt likely the H1B process will get any more reasonable.
If you want to know who is in charge, Find the person you're not allowed to talk about. Being a recipient of the controversial retroactive immunity for spying, as well as a contentious and vociferous opponent of net neutrality, Its fairly clear who cracks the whip. So if the arguably two largest concerns facing the internet and tech community are off-limits for SugarString, how is it they intend to beat the competition 'at their own game' if the competition offers in depth, comprehensive coverage and analysis?
As a theoretical physics doctoral candidate I've spent many a night staring into the ceiling hoping the pope would confirm the fundamental compoent of everything from my undergraduate education to my last twelve grant proposals. My boyfriend, a medical doctor, is equally relieved to understand his approach to antibiotics has been validated in the context of the theory of evolution and not as medical science once assumed to 'the aetherous ichor of daemons betwixt these foul realms.'
First: Can someone get Bennet a fucking livejournal. Jesus Christ.
Second: yes. yes it can. By becoming a B corporation it can make ad-free high security social networking its mandate, but should it run aground of shareholders and explicitly the legal definition of a corporation (that it continue to provide increasing profits yearly) it can become a co-operative where the users become the owners. In business this is called a poison pill and is often coded into the sale, merger, or buyout in such a way that it cannot be avoided. If there were a takeover, this option would kick in and as owners, the users could decide they simply dont want ads anymore. as a majority minority stakeholder, the users would crush the board.
another option is to open-source everything. Not just BSD, but GPLv3 or Affero. GPL codes forkability is a land mine that no corporation wants to step on. Ello will have to provide continually excellent service and listen to its customers, or forks of the project will begin to take root (mysql, dokeos, foswiki for examples) and bury the host company.
find an android device that can be rooted, and start blacklisting advertising sites in the hosts file. I literally cut my data usage in half doing this. Make sure the device is set to connect to wireless whenever possible, and look around for municipal wifi or wimax where available. Unlimited data is $100 or more depending on how reliable and fast you'd like it, whereas skype and a tablet connected to $80 per month internet is still much more preferable. Find out exactly how much data she uses, calculate overages for various carriers, and compare this to total usage with a wireless connection. If you're a slashdotter with some tech skills, why not speak with the management and see if they'd be willing to expand wireless connectivity to other rooms in exchange for installation and configuration on your part (I once did this with an apartment complex i lived in.)
Redmond wants to diversify its strategy.
Microsoft makes video games, consoles, operating systems, telephones, cloud services, office applications, car stereos, tablets, mice, keyboards, voip calling, a search engine, an internet browser, almost a dozen proprietary coding languages, educational books, a GPS map website, portable music players, internet chat, wireless display adapters, internet email and storage, a SQL server, and a gob of money on its training and certification services. The problem is mircosoft is creating products people do not need.
each of the aforementioned offerings has had an industry or at least socially accepted standard in place for more than 2 years, and in some cases more than a decade. Microsofts problem is that they cant come up with new ideas and fail to see the logic behind existing ideas. Arm started out as a Unix platform, and has been extensively developed as a Linux platform. the Linux kernels ARM support has existed for 4 years, which seems to be the average amount of time it takes redmond to realize something new has happened. Even if Redmond offered an arm-server version of windows, it would have to compete with well documented, functional, and most importantly free versions of Linux that likely exist on ARM because they were proven assets in X86 for their particular task, not because Windows didnt exist at the time. the standard track-run of a microsoft offering will likely be provided with their ARM offering:
1. Arm is offered, priced to buy, and servers preloaded with the microsoft tax
2. Arm is subsidized in standard licensing contracts to major businesses beholden to redmond in their desktop environment. rejecting the subsidies will cause a loss of already existing discounts, just like Azure.
3. this dole will be touted as market acceptance of Windows for ARM. metrics will be conveyed in trade journals and PHB will respond with demo units for the tech teams.
4. Tech teams will ignore the device as its not needed and performance is significantly worse than the existing *nix, not to mention exising code ported from x86 unix/linux systems wont run on it.
5. Microsoft will bail cash from XBox revenue into their ARM venture for 5-8 years, or roughly 1 zune.
6. Microsoft will quietly EOL the product and never speak of it again.
7. Microsoft will spin the wayback machine 4 years into the past and try their hand at Microsoft twitter or some equally doomed project.
Regardless of all that freedom-isnt-free these-colours-dont-run support-the-troops rhetoric, 13 years after the original terrorist attack on America this is still happening. Terrorists have succeeded in doing what they sought to achieve: terrorizing. liquids are treason on airplanes, nail clippers are an assassins blade, and full body virtual nudity is encouraged prior to boarding. Now, a simple SSID is cause to lock down an entire flight. For all your achievements, oh how the mighty have fallen. We once sent real people to the moon and laughed at the vacuum of space. Lawn darts existed for a decade before their retirement. even a 9 year old can have access to a fully automatic machine gun. however the minute someone breathes an utterance of terrorism its secret prisons, wiretaps, indefinite detention, extrajudicial rendition targeted killings, and secret courts. and you know whats hillarious? Heart disease kills 600 million americans a year. thats 150 times the number of people who died in the world trade center but we still sell sandwiches called the baconator and a small or as we rebranded it 'regular' drink is still 22 ounces. smoking kills almost 400,000 americans a year, or roughly 32000 times the number of people who died in the pentagon on 9/11 but we still sell vape kits and marlboros and 5% of the states in our union still permit indoor smoking.
Apple rejected your app because apple is not selling a product, it is selling a means of consumption to a product. Any productivity or meaningfulness actualized from iDevices is purely coincidental and is designed to keep the user entertained long enough to interact with apples ecosystem of other products which in turn sell other apple products and services, along with the users personal information to third party vendors. Apple isnt interested in making waves, its interested in herding cattle and the best we can do is wildly speculate as to why apples nontransparent review process green-lights or curb-stomps your code. "not enough lasting value" means you arguably havent committed enough value to the idea of keeping people engaged in their apple product, not that the function or end-goal of your application is devoid of any value. If you submitted your app under the GPL thats an automatic rejection.
stop writing apps for apple and microsoft. At worst you should consider writing them for Android, but even then its the same business model with a slightly roomier yoke. Write applications for the open source ecosystem F-Droid. Interesting and legitimately worthwhile products like firewall, adblock, and an mpd client licensed under the GPL can be made available.
Creation Summit secured a room at the university's business school through a student religious group
So this has nothing to do with science, critical thinking, debate, or academic discussion. This is an 8-topic 1-day masturbation session technically located at a college that can later be rolled into propaganda and touted as a hallmark of the legitimacy of "creation science" despite an overwhelmingly scientific concensus to the contrary. Its sole purpose is to re-enforce validity for communities of homeschooled kids, backwoods churches, and easily exploited students around campus.
This isnt being held in a student center because that would invite public opinion and attract unwelcome and highly critical dissent. Its not being held in a lecture hall because the topic of discussion isnt academic. and it sure as shit doesnt get time in the biosciences buildings because the hardware store would run out of pitchforks before the presenters could ever get approval.
reviewer 1: works well to charge ipad, cellphone, and ensure carkeys glow cherry red.
reviewer 2: dresser charges cellphone quickly, washing machine bricks laptops in a jiffy
reviewer 3: washing machine wiped credit cards and screwed up my bluetooth carkey. Excellent feature to ensure laundry gets done.
We've had this technology in the US since around 2006, however it was restricted to trunk/hybrid, or analogue radio systems and came bundled as part of a radio scanner. Scanners in many states are illegal to operate in a motor vehicle, hence the technology never really caught on. its biggest, perhaps only manufacturer, was uniden with their 'beartracker' feature
in the states many municipalities still use antiquated strobe technology to change traffic signals in the event an emergency vehicle needs to pass. several of our radar detectors alert for these 'strobes' of IR radiation. "Safety radar" was an invention that never saw much usage in the united states but would alert the driver of road hazards and approaching ambulances using dedicated transcievers. its largely been discontinued.
radios in the United States use APCO P25; this change was made largely after 2001. A digital system, it has cryptographic capability and is best-effort in protocol. Gnu Radio projects to capture and decode the unencrypted traffic are successful, and can yield through data capture, ping latency and triangulation a wealth of information such as who is in a given vicinity, their name, their unit number, the radio MAC address, what shift they work, and even their routes. much of this data wouldnt require 'listening' to the communication at all but is, much to our chagrin as slashdotters im sure, metadata
http://www.crypto.com/blog/p25... unrelated but this presentation gives insight into how pointlessly flawed APCO p25 is.
IRS agent: Gentlemen you're accounts have all been seized, no doubt you're curious as to why.
Walmart CEO: Yeah what gives? is this a mistake?
Oracle CEO: We filed our taxes last month! as you can see we owed nothing.
GE CEO: Hes right! we didnt owe a damned thing on that 20 billion in profit we made
IRS Agent: yes through a system of complex accounting and offshore assets you've managed to not only avoid paying taxes but in some cases demand millions in tax refunds. So we got to thinking...who would be so nefarious as to intentionally defraud the government in such a malevolent way. And thats when we decided you're all drug dealing terrorist shariah muslim ISIS fighters.
Microsoft CEO: we are not! we make helpful electronics and software for everybody to become more productive!!
IRS Agent:....Thats exactly what id expect some Zune making terrorist to say...
'steering' exists in meatspace, and most consumers actively embrace it. Take the average supermarket. High value items are placed at the edges of the aisles so you'll see them first. floor tiles are set in different sized to influence your cadence and ultimately how long you spend in a particular section. the 'landing zone' of a supermarket features specially illuminated produce first, typically directly in the path of locomotion. loyaty cards belch coupons for related goods and services the grocery store wishes to 'move' that may be of a lower or higher price point. milk in the front of the store costs more than milk in the back, and its tagged and tracked through the payment system differently. Baskets are commonly difficult to find and carts have since 1970 increased 60% in size in order to induce the shopper to buy more.
bars and resaraunts do this as well. by pricing well drinks closer or identically to call drinks, the bar discourages patrons with less income. happy hour is cheaper than saturday night, and cheaper still than valentines evening.
McDonald's hasn't changed its basic system of taking orders since its founding in the 1950s
Since the WSJ is a Murdoch paper now, its now been saddled with a conservative agenda just the same as fox. However, Mcdonalds has evolved ordering consistently throughout the past 30 years. multi-lane drivethroughs, extending the station model of drivethrough to the dine-in area, wireless communications systems, touchscreen back of house systems, and tap card payments are all recent additions to most stores. Its unrelated, but many McDonalds stores jave an automated fryer robot that drops and pulls fries based on order demand, allowing the drivethrough attendant to pack fries and food as well as take orders.
The united states is currently shitlisting, per ITAR, 27 of the following contries:
Afghanistan, Belarus, Central African Republic, Cuba, Cyprus, Eritrea, Fiji, Iran, Iraq, Cote d'Ivoire, Lebanon, Libya, North Korea, Syria, Vietnam, Myanmar, China, Haiti, Liberia, Rwanda, Somalia, Sri Lanka, Republic of the Sudan (Northern Sudan), Yemen, Zimbabwe, Venezuela, Democratic Republic of the Congo.
ITAR means military goods and services are categorically banned. whats hillarious about this is many of these countries have militant regimes or massive destabilization as a direct result of our foreign intervention so its almost as though ITAR is to us as a 1 year AA chip is to an alcoholic. Others are just boogeymen left over from the cold war, and paradoxically countries like China and Vietnam are already enormous trading partners that could, if they decided to, temporarily grind the US to a halt with a trade embargo. Surprisingly Syria and Iraq, despite being on ITAR, receive funding and training from the US military respectively. Bureaucrats are strange.
Ultimately we cant sustain this simultaneous ideological demonization and capitalist embrace of free trade because, as is evidenced by our arms conractors at least, the United states is governed by private industry. What we do is no different than a baptist minister preeching against gays, but hiring a male prostitute on the weekends.
This happened in 2006 as well. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Instead of exercising their right in america to free trade, DPW just chose to back away cautiously from the frothing psychosis that is american political and social policy.
While you might find 911 service operable and efficient in the burbs, cash strapped cities with large populations like Miami run out of operators before they run out of capacity. dialing 911 in Cincinnati for example, or any other major city in the rust belt, results in a pre-recorded message instructing you to stay on the line and wait for the next available operator. Its a fun joke to make on sitcoms, but when you've actually in danger its not. Having been backed over on a motorcycle by a truck, I was at the mercy of this hold system for nearly 10 minutes in a busy downtown intersection.
in neonatal units for example, nearly everything is wireless and unencrypted. Its why visitors and parents are frequently told to shut off cellphones as no ones entirely certain the devices wont interfere with heart rate monitors or life support systems. Its theoretically possible to create a denial of service condition in a hospital where a nurses station for an entire floor suddenly sees life-threatening conditions for every patient, or receives a nurse request page for every patient. Injection attacks can also result in patients that are dead for hours but reported as still alive.