A factory worker in China can make up to as much as a pilot. A unionized pilot in USA for one of the big airlines makes $250k to $500k.
[citation needed]. Most pilots earn US$20-50K a year in the US, and a captain at one of the big airlines (which is the pinnacle of the profession for only the most elite) can earn 3-4x that. I've never heard of a pilot earning US$250K, let alone over that.
It's funny how different Slashdot sentiment was when it was discussing Google as the plaintiff trying to get an injunction over standards-essential patents...
They should "hail" him in a future episode...
The only way the civilized world is going to limit the cost of dealing with the ultimate war with N. Korea is to prepare S. Korea, with the help other friendly countries, to do a massive surgical strike to take out the entire N. Korean military and its facilities and have S. Korea able and supplied and armed with its own people who can move in to supplie staples and organization to the society.
I am not convinced the military which is ultimately in control of everything, will ever give up its power, no matter what the "Glorius Leader" says or does, as he can be replaced.
You let the cancer grow or you cut it out and deal with the consequences. Of course this could never happen within the next 4 years because of leaders in power now who have no vision other than their own personal power.
We certainly have battle plans ready that would allow us to militarily unify Korea under the south. There would be nothing "surgical" about it, though. North Korea has massive numbers of troops, rockets, artillery, etc., and South Korea's capital is only 35 miles from the border, within range of the larger NK guns. Here's a map of what could happen. Seoul would be a pawn in the battle, and it would destabilize the entire area for some time.
I think the fundamental question here is whether this is a show of strength being done because North Korea wants to talk but has nothing else to negotiate with. If so, perhaps you meet them, acknowledge their big scary threats, trade around for some perks (maybe make Kim Jong Il the equivalent of the British Royal family in the new Korea, with a figurehead role), and unify them peacefully with everyone coming out ahead. On the other hand, maybe they want to remain independent and hold a nuclear threat over the United States' head... in which case better to strike sooner, before they have the capability. I don't have any of that information, so I'm not going to second-guess the decisions.
This study says A, that study says B.
Seriously, there are literally hundreds of climate models littering the back issues of science journals. Coming up with data and a model that fits some historical context is one thing, but we're still no closer to knowing what 10, 50 or 100 years from now will look like. When was the last time someone showed you the famous Al Gore hockey stick graph, without hastily and profusely making excuses about it?
Ah, so we've moved from "global warming doesn't exist", right through "global warming isn't caused by humans", and now we're at "who knows what will happen in the future with global warming". I guess that's progress.
Well, do the studies again by yourselves - Africans are the only homo sapiens, who did not interbreed - rest of the world have mixed genes. Do not know about chinese, but papua people did not interbreed with Neanderthals, but so called Denisovans.
Right now we are sure, that Neanderthals inhabited just Europe, Middle East and central Asia along with parts in Siberia.
Yes, and all humans who left Africa went through the Middle East where the Neaderthals were resident. All non-Africans are currently suspected of having Neanderthal DNA, while many Asians are also suspected of having some Denisovan DNA. It's not a settled matter, though, given difficulty in determining what is Neanderthal DNA when we share 99.7% of our base pairs with them.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neanderthal_admixture_theory#Neanderthals
It's also interesting to note that all tests were done on Windows. Despite him using Tomcat for Java and IIS for C# because that's the "typical" usage, he then completely does an about-face and deploys the Tomcat on Windows-- a configuration I've actually never seen and which has to give C# a bit of an advantage as the vendor-supplied OS. And yet Java still won when talking about doing anything substantial...
I think in retrospect the emergency landing was the right call and the inflatable slides were not. You don't fool around with fire in a plane, but asking passengers to deplane via slide is also not to be taken lightly. And I think you're probably right that the previous incidents led them to over-react on the evacuation. But in the end it was the pilot's call and I'd rather have a pro-active pilot than one afraid to do what they think is right.
Stocks go up on profit. And profit does not grow only with revenue. You can also deduct spendings. That's how big businesses work. They spend enormously for marketing, branding, hire unnecessary amount of people, to build a brand.
Not sure if you're talking about Apple or competition. Apple spends way less on marketing, offers no incentives, than, say, Samsung, which has has virtually bought their market share dollar-for-sale. http://www.asymco.com/2012/12/05/the-mystery-of-samsung-electronics-sga/
Unless they explicitly sign it over, everyone has copyright over any creative work they contribute (and coding is creative). However, most employers (in the US) require employees to sign a contract stipulating that the employer gets the copyright assigned to them automatically. If this developer ALSO signed over the copyright to the open source project, then he signed it away twice and it's up to the courts to decide which contract takes precedence.
So VMWare probably has a reasonable legal claim to the copyright of any source written while under their employ, and can thus change the licensing terms at any time, and even claim that the previous license was never valid. Of course that's trying to close the barn door a little late, so as others have said as a practical matter it makes little sense for VMWare to go nuclear here. But calling people dense for making valid points is unhelpful.
"Maybe there's no land life, but perhaps very clever dolphins," Livio joked.
Except dolphins are descended from land life. Fish are thick as quite thick shit. Most likely due to the lack of sufficient oxygen to run big brains. I hadn't actually considered that before.
During the quarter, Nokia sold 4.4 million Lumia smartphones - a significant rise from the previous quarter, which featured sales of 2.9 million Lumia devices
So they got a 50% improvement going from a non-Holiday quarter to a Holiday quarter, and have sold 14 million total since the Lumia line was released. While Symbian year-over-year sales figures went from 28.3M/quarter two years ago to 19M/quarter last year to 2.2M this past quarter.
Regardless about whether you consider a minor bump for the biggest shopping season of the year "significant" or "selling well", it's clear that Lumia is not carrying the volume it needs to to make up for the death of Symbian.
It's possible Nokia could pull out of a sales dive like this, although no phone company to date ever has.
http://www.asymco.com/2013/01/10/getting-to-know-the-meaning-of-sisu/
Show me where you can edit the list of trusted SSL certificates and I'll concede and call it a user's phone.
Your idealisms are unfortunately blocked by fact, and that knowledge was reflected in my post.
Show me a way to allow this without creating a huge potential security hole and I'll concede this should be something that's easy to do.
Would "I'd delegate it to a Java Programmer" be a valid response?
No, it would weed you out because it shows you don't know the difference between Java and JavaScript.
We've had nice paper thin displays for years now. But a thin display doesn't mean a thin tablet. Until we have thin CPUs and thin RAM sticks, and thin flash memory and thin connectors, we aren't going to have a paper thin tablet.
When you get all the components you need for a tablet you end up with something just as thick as what we've got on shelves today. By no means thick, but not paper-thin.
Yup. If you've ever looked inside an iPad you know it's basically a huge battery with a couple of circuits and display tacked on.
Any circuit design must contain at least one part which is obsolete, two parts which are unobtainable, and three parts which are still under development.
