Oh I'm sure Russia will affect America. But I what I asked was this:
"Is there a clear course of action in this conflict that will be best for America in the future?"
No, there isn't a clear course of action. It's not obvious which actions would make the situation better and which actions would make the situation worse.
* Gaza can send thousands of rockets targeting Israeli citizens and they won't even say a word.
Affects Americans right now? -- no. Is there a clear course of action in this conflict that will be best for America in the future? -- no.
* Iran can make nuclear weapons and they won't even say a word.
Affects Americans right now? -- no. Is there a clear course of action in this conflict that will be best for America in the future? -- no.
* Russia can take over Crimea and they get bashed harshly with... a speech.
Affects Americans right now? -- no. Is there a clear course of action in this conflict that will be best for America in the future? -- no.
*ISIS can take over Iraq and kill thousands and they won't say a word.
Affects Americans right now? -- no. Is there a clear course of action in this conflict that will be best for America in the future? -- no.
Now here's a bullet point that you didn't mention:
* Ubiquitous healthcare for Americans
Affects Americans right now? -- YES! Was it a clear course of action that will be best for America in the future? -- YES!
At first I read about Verizon throttling their "unlimited data plan" customers and I got concerned.
But then I read that the throttling will NOT affect the majority of customers who are paying over the odds for an unlimited data plan that they don't actually need. That's good. So long as they're not affected, things are okay. Please go ahead with your plans, Verizon!
[...] bottle of Corona than to cool a bottle of brew-from-sewer.
Um, isn't that the same thing?
I don't think WaveGlider is a submersible. It's a surface-vessel, with solar panels!, and with energy-generating fins in its keel. Wikipedia explains: "The Wave Glider is composed of two parts: the float is roughly the size and shape of a surfboard and stays at the surface; the sub has wings and hangs 6 meters below on an umbilical tether"
So yes, it's impressive as heck that the WaveGlider survived a typhoon. The float part of it will be tossed around like crazy on top of the waves. It will stay tethered to the float part underwater. The tether will be yanked every which way.
I've never come across a fair, statistically meaningful measure of how "good" a teacher is.
I think VW might contract the actual manufacturing to Chrysler.
Indeed. The VW Routan was a Chrysler Town and Country with some different skins on the inside and out. It was so much not a VW product that the VCDS system (the thing you can use to do vehicle diagnostics on any VW, Audi, Seat, or Skoda product since the early 90s) doesn't even talk to it.
In the German market, VW sells Vans of all different sizes. None of them are currently imported to the US; the Eurovan was the last rest-of-world van that was available in North America.
We have 3 kids in car seats, and an Odyssey.
When we lived in town, it was great. Back then, my only serious gripe with the Odyssey is that if you are running a second set of wheels (e.g. for permanently mounted snow tires), and don't fit a 2nd set of expensive TPMS sensors to those wheels, the VSA (stability control) cannot be defeated via the console switch.
This is a problem because the VSA implementation sucks and is frankly unsafe when accelerating on surface transitions - for instance, when you are waiting on a gravel road and are about to pull onto a paved highway, the VSA system senses differing levels of wheel grip between the wheel on pavement and the wheel still on gravel, and cuts power, precisely when you need maximum power to quickly get to highway speed.
Last fall we moved to a rural area, and now poorly maintained roads (deep snow in the winters until I clear it, deep ruts whenever there are rains) has really shown me the shortcomings of the vehicle. My wife has gotten it stuck 4 times in our first winter.
The Odyssey needs 2 things to be superlative. Air suspension with adjustable ride height (it is a very low vehicle, for ease of entry/exit for small kids), and a proper AWD system.
My wife is now desperately wanting an AWD vehicle. But to get a proper AWD system (e.g. locking transfer case or at least a torsen differential), and the useful seating capacity of a minivan, you need to be looking at full-size truck based SUVs, like the Excursion or Sequoia.
I'm aware that the Sienna comes in an AWD version, but its particular AWD system and ride height doesn't inspire me that they will be foolproof enough to want to make the switch.
Sadly, my wife also refuses to drive a Mercedes G-wagen
As an aside, the Odyssey towing capacity isn't really sufficient. It's 3500lbs, and it requires upfitting the vehicle considerably with things that don't come factory - PS cooler, ATF cooler, hitch wiring, etc. (In addition to the actual hitch receiver).
When we were considering camping options, essentially nothing that had enough floor space for a family of 5 could be towed behind an Odyssey.
ONCE I LIVED IN CAPITALS
MY LIFE INTENSELY PHALLICbut now I'm sadly lowercase
with the occasional italic
Roger McGough.
It looks like it's impossible for Apple to issue an honest denial, because...
http://www.zdziarski.com/blog/...
there are actually back-doors specifically built into iOS devices -- back doors not used by any Apple software on the device, not usable by genius-bar or any user-benefitting scenario, but still that make it possible for "someone" to get at a lot of the personal data.
Quote: "Why do we need a packet-sniffer running on 600 million personal iOS devices?"
Quote: "com.apple.mobile_file_relay - exposes much personal data - very intentionally placed and intended to dump data from the device by request"
Quote: "Apple has worked hard to ensure that Apple can access data on behalf of law enforcement.
I think the reason "anything can be picked apart" is because Apple DO create backdoors for the benefit of government, but for PR purposes they want to appear to deny it.
Hi there. Been an engineer at Microsoft since 2000. Have interviewed hundreds of people at all skill levels.
Why do you assume that wages at Microsoft aren't increasing?
I understand the compensation model, and how it has changed in my 14 years. The comp packages we are offering to college grads these days are astoundingly lucrative. Every few years in my career, there has been a big compensation realignment based on market realities. Everytime something at work upsets me enough that I start talking to other companies, their comp packages (especially with cost of living factored in) aren't able to match what I'm getting now from Microsoft.
Lately, high comp packages are required to compete with Google, Facebook, Amazon, etc, who all have plenty of money, and, for younger developers, are often seen as cooler places to work than old stodgy Microsoft.
I just see no evidence that H1-Bs are a mechanism for the company to save money. Dealing with HB-1 hassles involves a lot of overhead and expense that are not applicable to domestic employees.
As I said earlier, I have interviewed many, many folks, for many positions. The hire rate is not as high as we would like it to be. It never feels good to have to turn someone down, and it is a waste of time for everyone when an interview doesn't go well. But the bottom line is, we talk to many more people than we can feel confident about making an offer to. There are lots of STEM graduates, foreign and domestic. But not all of them are someone we could feel comfortable hiring. I'm sure you've known people in your CS class who could get good grades but who couldn't code... those people count as "qualified STEM applicants" to people that are pushing the "H1B is evil" rhetoric, but we all know that just because someone has a degree doesn't mean they are employable in that field... and certainly not by the top organizations in that field.
I've also seen no evidence that Microsoft has a preference for hiring H1-Bs, or that there is any compensation disparity for H1-Bs. I have seen evidence that H1-Bs cost the company money that domestic employees do not. For example, the company has special lawyers and paperwork people that deal with H1-B and other immigrant-labor related problems. That's a cost. When H1-B engineers are dealing with this stuff (which is frustratingly often), they aren't writing code or analyzing tests. That's a hit to their productivity, which ultimately, is another cost.
This runs into the problem of cluck-bait... Stupid zero-content fluff pieces but with headlines that entice you in (e.g. Upworthy, HuffingtonPost) but then you discover that they're stupid. If I had to pay even 1c before seeing the content (and discovering that I'd been duped) then I'd start to get angry, and start to refuse to pay for more sites. Even on legit sites like BBC News, by "internet attention span" is satisfied by about half way through the article, so something long enough to be a good preview is ling enough for me not to need to pay.
I seem to recall reading something like 1% of customers generating 98% of the in-app purchases, as a general trend across the industry. Can't remember where I read it though.
so you basically want apple to make a flip phone.
No not at all! Where did you get that from? (and actually, even back in 2002 I remember having WAP and IMAP on my phone, so they also divulged my location).
What I want is (1) for Apple to continue to be truthful, (2) for the "don't let app/webpage feature use my location" to be trustworthy with respect to apps and to all the various ways that location can be deduced (bluetooth, wifi, cellular, GPS), and (3) for COMPLETE disclosure of the other times when the iOS system keeps a record of those location-related metadata things, and of all the times when the iOS system uploads or indirectly implies information from these.
I'm not sure if this is a moving goalposts or no real scotsman issue. How can apple issue a denial that would satisfy people like you? Surely anything would be picked apart.
"Whenever you access an online service, that online service will know your approximate geographical location to city level, and also the intervening network infrastructure (cellphone towers &c.) will know. This is common to ALL mobile devices. Also, whenever your device is set to connect to networks (cellphone, wifi, bluetooth,
Beyond that, your iPhone internally knows your location through various means (GPS, cellular triangulation, wifi base station names). However, all location information from these sources (including information which might indirectly allow your approximation location to be deduced) is UNAVAILABLE to apps unless you specifically opt to allow them to have the information. Therefore, apps are unable to pass the information on to any third party.
Other than apps, your iPhone also includes system software. If you chose the following settings [...] then the iPhone keeps no historical logs of location information or metadata. Additionally, the iPhone itself never allows any location data to leave the iPhone, except when you connect it to a computer via iTunes."
I don't know about everyone else, but this would satisfy me!
If all else fails, lower your standards.
