Comment Re:24/7 Live Global Radio (Score 1) 415
Anonymous Coward,
We would rather you buy our garbage can shaped Mac Pro.
--Tim Cook.
Anonymous Coward,
We would rather you buy our garbage can shaped Mac Pro.
--Tim Cook.
The article also seems to think 3D printers can make anything out of thin air. You save transportation costs because you don't need to ship anything, and you avoid supply chain disruptions because you don't have to ship anything.
From the article:
The effects of natural disasters extend far beyond individual companies. In 2012, a severe drought temporarily halted the transport of goods down the Mississippi River, affecting the entire region. This is the type of problem likely to become more common in a changing climate. The ability to print goods where they are needed would clearly decrease vulnerability to droughts and other disruptive weather events.
From the linked Bloomberg Article on the drought:
which could be shut to cargo from companies including Archer-Daniels-Midland Co. next month.
-Agricultural. We can print food now?
“If you’re shipping raw materials to a steel mill in Chicago, you’re trying to figure out if you can go to Cincinnati or Louisville, Kentucky, unload it out of the barge and rail it up to the steel mill.”
-Thank god 3D printers can print steel out of nothing
Barges on the Mississippi handle about 60 percent of the nation’s grain exports entering the Gulf of Mexico through New Orleans, as well as 22 percent of its petroleum and 20 percent of its coal.
Good thing we can print fossil fuels now too.
Can we get a network of 3D printed things?
sorry, let me re-word that for the New Slashdot
You Won't Believe this Network of 3D Printed Things!
Is it a Beowulf cluster? Imagine a Beowulf cluster of these things!
Except, obviously, that it's Windows 10, not Windows 8.1. My HP tablet comes with Windows 8.1 with Bing, and I've been suspecting the "free upgrade" I'll be getting will be to an equivalent Windows 10 version.
Windows 8.1 with Bing is actually free to manufacturers of cheaper devices. I assume that was partly why it was on my $150 HP tablet.
Is it a Stream? I've been surprised at how well my $100 HP Stream 7 (with free case) runs. Chrome (even in desktop mode) is actually designed for touch use (keyboard pops up when required, mobile type select, copy, paste functions), and I'm surprised that most desktop applications function properly with drag scrolling, and pinch zooming.
>I think the purpose of tarrifs and duties is to specifically hinder this kind of ad-hoc cross-border arbitrage
Duties on all items brought over for personal consumption/use is GST, or HST in areas having HST. This pegs the maximum legal of charge at 13%.
There is actually a parts of Canada outside Ontario. Here HST is 15%.
The agreement was that you would not only pay the fee but also pay it from United States soil and remain on United States soil while viewing works available through the service. What makes such a contract invalid?
No. I setup a Netflix Canada account. A courtesy they provide to all Netflix users is to provide the content library of the region you appear to be in, regardless of where you registered your account. They just think me, and thousands of other Canadians, and UK, and Australians, are just visiting the USA for months at a time, from the same IP.
It can't even be imagined as "stealing" in my mind. Since it's paid for in the U.S., I fail to see the difference if you had driven to the U.S. and purchased something to take back to Canada. it might be "smuggling" if anything, by way of avoiding paying whatever bullshit tariffs Canada might be able to levy, if there even are any that apply.
You actually set up a Netflix Canada account, and pay in Canadian Dollars. Connect by VPN (or DNS proxy), and Netflix thinks you're "visiting" the US. Regardless of where you registered your account, Netflix will provide the content library of the country you appear to be in. Netflix will do this no problem even though you were just in Canada moments earlier, and even though you apparently travel to the states for months at a time, and are coming from the same IP as hundreds or thousands of other Canadians (and other international customers).
Netflix very much turns a blind eye to this. There's no way they don't know about how many people are bypassing region locks, but they turn a blind eye because they know people will pay to sign up for the crappy Canadian content, with the intention of VPNing into the US content. They try to do the bare minimum to make content creators think that they are trying to block it, without really doing anything.
Myself, I use TVUnblock It's free, and it's just a DNS setting. To get it to work on Chromecast, I set the router DNS to TVUnblock, and I set a firewall on the router to prevent Chromecast from connecting to Google's DNS servers (8.8.8.8, 8.8.4.4) causing it to fall back on the router's DNS settings.
It is coincidental that this article comes out just as I lost a lot of data on my computer last night after shutting it off. I have an SSD, however I think it might have been because I didn't let Windows 8 shut down cleanly I simply powered it off. I can't be sure if it is because of the unclean shutdown or being off for a number of hours. When I booted my machine just moments ago and tried to login, it said the nvidia and intel graphics drivers were corrupt. Also, my laptop's updater tool is missing from the program files. I don't know how many different files I might have lost. I was able to boot into safe mode and start repairing, however. Note: I don't normally just shut it off like that, but I was heading to bed and I was bit groggy so I just held the power button out of apathy. I really didn't expect an utter catastrophe to follow.
You haven't been supposed to just force power off since at least Windows 95, so almost 20 years. You must have been running on battery, normally I go start->shutdown, then walk away and let it do it's thing (or just leave it running). What make/ model SSD do you have?
The drives will instantly brick themselves at the following Monday.
That's being optimistic. More likely is Saturday night at 3AM, resulting in a call in to repair the downed system. Bonus points if you don't require people to be "on-call" rotation, so you have to find someone that isn't too drunk to come in.
Notice at 0:44 the lady talked about windows apps. Contrary to popular belief Apple didn't invent the word "App"
-twitter -tweet
Even if i think that it is seriously problematic to include "twitter/tweets" in searches, i understand that more sources available to search is usually not a bad thing; BUT i have serious problems with excluding terms in Google, i.e., this "-" thing does not always work (i can even claim that "often does not work") - and it (as the other logic operators) used to work always for me in the pre-Google era...
Actually this is my major criticism for Google: i want my logic operators back.
Another Slashdot user pointed this out to me:
On your search results, go Search tools->All Results->Verbatim.
I like the search engine "StartPage" (Google results minus the tracking) but browsers seem to be getting broken as far as adding custom search engines.
https://startpage.com/
People are more interested in: Price, Fuel Economy, Reliability, Safety, handling, availability of repair network.
Forgot to mention: Passenger comfort, Passenger capacity, cargo capacity, and tow rating.
When I first clicked the link I was expecting an article about how Electric cars (Like Tesla), or Self driving cars (Like Google) were going to be disruptive to the industry.
The Infotainment system?
Good grief.
Maybe I'm wrong, and while I admit a lot of shoppers are shallow, I think basic practicality places much higher than the infotainment system. Aux-in / Bluetooth pairing are essential (or highly desirable), but after that most people really don't care about the entertainment system. People are more interested in: Price, Fuel Economy, Reliability, Safety, handling, availability of repair network. A PC, you can setup a monitor, keyboard, and mouse, and you can't tell and wouldn't care what brand PC they were attached to. There's a lot more reasons to buy a car, and a lot more difference between brands and models.
And as it is a phone has a "life" of 2-3 years. Though owners with high disposable income may change to the new shiny car in 2-3 years, on average 10 year old cars are very common. At that point is the version of Android Dash even relevant any more? As it is, the stereo in many old cars with only get a second life because a cassette/aux in adapter can be used. That's two complete generations of in-car entertainment out of date (CD player, and then the current USB/Bluetooth paired phone). There's even new cars shipping that stopped shipping with CD players.
You mean the Bush phone? After all the first cellphones were issued in 2008, when Bush was president.
Is your cat Pusheen?
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