Now wait, maybe she has blinking LED sensitivity? That's a serious issue, especially when you have nothing to do all day but stare at blinking LEDs.
Remember, when a blinking LED is on, it's transmitting electromagnetic radiation....
Or are you suggesting that something so ephemeral as an image could lead to action on the part of rage induced media overload
That was pretty much the claim that was made when Sarah Palin's group showed Gabby Giffords' congressional district with a crosshair over it.
LK
Remind me again why phones and tablets needed a different programming language?
For iOS, the current main programming language not a different programming language for the one heavily used for OS X desktop applications. (And the language Apple would like to see be a main programming language is also intended both for iOS and OS X.)
For Android, you have an OS with a different history; it uses a different language from the ones heavily used for applications on desktop operating systems, and, as they didn't try to make it into a desktop operating system (not many very open niches in that ecosystem), that didn't turn it into a popular language for desktop platforms. As for why they chose Java, well, maybe Andy Rubin liked it for some reason.
For Windows Phone/Windows RT/whatever, Microsoft didn't go for a different language from one of the languages for the desktop. Why they went
So phones and tablets don't need different languages from laptops and desktops; the mix of languages is different for historical reasons.
Google (and all other search engines) try their best to return the results the user has asked for.
More precisely, they try their best to return the results they infer that the user would really want, based on the syntax of the query.
It's never going to be perfect at doing this, if only because people use the same phrases in different ways from time to time.
Yes, it's never going to be perfect at inferring what the user wants. The original poster is complaining that Google has been getting worse at inferring what he wants, especially for particular narrow queries.
I've seen the same problems he has. Perhaps that's an unfortunate side-effect of trying to do a better job of handling most users' queries.
If Google (or the search engine of your choice) is returning results that aren't what you want, then your best option is to make the query more specific. Either add relevant keywords, search for a phrase instead of individual words (using quotes), or exclude some other keywords (in Google, prepend - to the beginning of the word you want to exclude...other search engines are probably similar).
Yes, the original poster is quite aware of quoting; as he says, "Searching for exact strings is an option with Google". What he wants is a search engine that doesn't try as hard to infer what the user really wants, rather than one that has to be forced, with more use of quotes, to just look for the damn string. Perhaps that's a sufficiently small niche that no search engine would bother to offer that, and he'll just have to live with typing more double-quote characters.
Given Microsoft’s public commitment to open source, a patent war likely isn’t going to happen; that would make the company look bad at a time when it needs all the developer support it can get.
So why don't they just relicense the
Until then, anything not under Apache 2 is suspect.
Most Nordic countries are smaller than my city (metropolitan area).
You gotta problem with that?
(Or is it movies rather than money?)
You cut $200 off your utility bill in a few weeks with a new thermostat...
My conclusion is that you could not figure out how to turn in on an went without any sort of heat or AC for several weeks.
Haha, yes! I am that stupid! No wonder I was sweating buckets and passing out all summer!
GP is probably Al Gore incognito. Heating or cooling his mansion could easily use that much energy.
Bwahahaha! Oh, man, that's fresh.
Al Gore. Heh.
the new unit had pretty much paid for itself within a few weeks
Woah. You saved $200 on heating costs in a few weeks? Just your savings represents about 2 months of heating costs for me, during the winter. What, exactly, was your old thermostat doing? Did you have to use cash money to light the pilot light?
In this case, it was A/C. Like I said, the house was old: it had a very old, inefficient central A/C unit at the time (which we also replaced, once we could afford to.) It wasn't a big house, but it was a drafty house, so it didn't exactly hold its temperature all that well.
So instead of having a house that basically always kept itself cool (I'm somewhat forgetful and distracted, especially first thing in the morning; my wife and I rarely thought/remembered to crank the temp when leaving for the day), the new thermostat always remembered to turn off for half the day--and the hottest half, at that. The fact that it was a stupid-hot, stupid-humid Maryland summer counted for something, too.
How is that Utopia working out for all of you people that keep thinking more Government will solve all our problems?
Are there, in fact, any people making that rather-broad argument, as opposed to, say, arguing that some particular problem might be better handled with more government?
That's sort of how the libertarian viewpoint evolves, I guess. Like Reagan started out as a democrat, presumably because he cared about people and favored social reforms. Then after living through the Communist purges in the McCarthy era,
Living through and not exactly vigorously opposing them. Whilst he did say he didn't think that the Communist Party should be outlawed:
Whether the party should be outlawed, I agree with the gentlemen that preceded me that that is a matter for the Government to decide. As a citizen I would hesitate, or not like, to see any political party outlawed on the basis of its political ideology. We have spent 170 years in this country on the basis that democracy is strong enough to stand up and fight against the inroads of any ideology.
he was, as the article says, a bit of a "friendly witness".
So I rather doubt that McCarthyism made him a Republican.
(Unless you meant that all those horrible Commies in Hollywood made him anti-government.)
Pi plus some student programmers - should be done for $1500. Which begs the question - if it still works, why replace it?
In my old house, there was an analog thermostat.
This thermostat came with the house, probably cost $20, and worked just fine.
Me, being the foolhardy spendthrift I am, dropped TEN TIMES that on a fancy-shmancy programmable thing with all sorts of stupid, complicated bits inside.
As it turns out, my previous model--while perfectly functional--was really quite inefficient, and the new unit had pretty much paid for itself within a few weeks.
Doing things properly can save tons of money.
So less than 2 dozen schools need to spend upwards of $2 million dollars to... control the HVAC?
Really?
That is the bigger issue, IMHO...
Well, if the new system ends up saving them more than $2 million over its lifespan (hardly a stretch of the imagination, given the cost of heating and cooling large buildings,) wouldn't they be fools to not have done this already?
"Just deal with it like grownups" is a cop-out philosophy of managers not wanting to do their jobs
No, its a simple matter of: The company is paying for your time right now. How you spend your own time, and with whom you spend it is your own affair, but on company time, it is not acceptable to be actively engaged in anything other than business. Acting like an adult means recognizing that your rights to become emotionally involved with any consenting adult caries with it the companies right to not suffer economic loss when you are incapable of keeping your private affairs private.
I have a friend who runs his own (quite successful) company here in Baltimore. I'm going to point you to a recent blog post of his regarding version 2.0 of the company handbook. It's a fast read, is well written, and provides a very concrete, real-world example of why I so strongly disagree with the "just be professional" sentiment.
Not everything is about the NSA all the time.
Yes, sometimes it's about 3D printing instead.
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