jonhendry

More importantly, the bus stop attracts seniors who are trying to leave the facility, which is dangerous because they aren't able to do so safely, and are likely to end up lost and dying of exposure or exhaustion.

A fake cafe or bookshop wouldn't really be any more useful than the cafeteria or day room that the facility probably already has.

The fake bus stop could be on a private road or driveway that the actual buses never travel on.

Hell, the fake bus stop could probably be on a gravel path that doesn't actually connect with public roads, as long as the ends of the path are hidden behind trees.

The ability to buy anything under $100 using your iPhone and the Apple Store app, without talking to anyone, should help with that a little, as people learn about it. Especially during the holidays.

I think you can also use the app to pre-order things, so that they are ready to be picked up when you get there.

Adobe licensed Photoshop from the creators.

Prior to that Adobe's business was based on PostScript, and they developed Illustrator to take advantage of PostScript's capabilities. Then they licensed Photoshop.

"Those guys are the typical case of the "free" brainwashing. They see taking money as something filthy and immoral to do."

I don't think that's quite the case.

They went free because they saw a lot of profitable apps using the free + In-App-Purchase model.

The problem is they didn't think through what their own IAP model should be. They just focused on not being exploitative (the part that makes many of those free apps so profitable), when they should have been thinking about how much they needed to charge to be profitable, given the single IAP they had to work with.

They also might have gimped the free version a bit more to encourage people to buy the IAP.

FYI, that isn't a newspaper, it's published by a right-wing lobbying group.

I don't think anyone would care about this, if Samsung didn't seem to have a compulsion to copy so many Apple designs.

Copying Xcode's UI is not, in itself, a huge issue. But along with all the rest, it just looks rather shabby.

Is there another IDE other than Xcode whose widget palette shows an icon and a lengthy textual description like that?

"is it possible that you'd be able to point out such similarities between any two IDEs"

Most IDEs (Delphi, Eclipse, VS, VB) look a lot like VS & VB. That seems to be the template most often.

Xcode, having roots at NeXT, has always been a bit different, UI-wise. It has similar functions, presented in different ways, sometimes significantly different.

If you think Visual Basic looks anything like Xcode, you're either detail-blind, or you've never used Xcode.

The amount of detail-blindness I'm seeing here is astounding.

No wonder so many UIs are terrible.

Xcode's panels aren't movable, like Visual Studio's are. There are panels that appear in certain places, and can be hidden, and their sizes adjusted. But it's not like VS where you can grab something tear it off, stick it on the other side of the window, etc.

And I haven't seen any pictures that suggest Samsung's IDE has any configuration other than one that mimics Xcode's appearance.

But it's more than just the arrangement of functional areas. It's the appearance of the functional areas. The widget palette looks just like Xcode's, with icons on the left and lengthy descriptive text. That's different from the inspector on Delphi/VS, where there's a dynamic list of attributes for the selected UI widget in the UI editor, and each attribute that is editable has a place to edit it.

You're missing the forest for the trees.

The Ritz-Carlton charges high prices, but that doesn't mean they have a monopoly on hotel rooms.

"From the last paragraph I got you're OK with having an unregulated surveillance system in the US which records information about you and makes god-knows-what conclusions from your movements, behaviour etc."

And no evidence for this has been supplied.

For example, you're assuming the "central database" is one big one run by the government. The term would equally well apply to a computer in a university's security office, which receives feeds from all the university's security cameras, which it likely records digitally, because it's 2012 and that's how we do things now.

The location of that university security office is probably "undisclosed" because really who cares if you don't need to go there? It's "disclosed" to people for whom that information is relevant, like people who work there.

Why is it so hard to believe that they would be wearing flip-flops? Under-equipped fighters is nothing new. Here's a photo of a barefoot Khmer Rouge fighter with an RPG, at the fall of Phnom Penh.

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-mYN-WF164gg/T40tDKWNLDI/AAAAAAAAas...

Have you never seen the picture of the guy with an assault rifle, wearing gardening gloves, a life vest, and sneakers?

http://borderland-beat-forum.924382.n3.nabble.com/file/n4027...

When George Washington led 12,000 men into winter camp at Valley Forge, 2/3 had no shoes. In December. In Pennsylvania.

At least Libya was probably warm enough for flip-flops.

If the deadline was "by August 9th", it's ambiguous whether that means "by 11:59 PM August 8th", or "by 11:59 PM August 9th".

If it's "11:59 PM August 8th", then it would probably be reasonable to hold it open until around noon on the 9th, to take into account places in the Pacific (Hawaii, UTC-10; American Samoa, UTC-11, etc)

The people in Japan could be US expats.

More importantly, the site is utterly impotent. It's not like voting or campaign donations by foreign nationals, so I'm not sure why it matters. If some Japanese wingnuts want to embarrass themselves on the site, more power to them.

I'm pretty sure they have a duplicate hardware setup for testing beforehand and debugging problems, which ought to help avoid such problems, and help fixing problems that arise.

They had a financial interest in the deaths of their employees. Bob in Housewares in Dubuque dies in a car accident, and his employer profits. That just creates all kinds of messed up incentives.

It's just plain f'ed up.

And they weren't just insuring key persons, whose untimely demise could actually result in costs to the company that would be worth hedging against.

Not quite free:

"How did the two billionaires get such a coveted parking place? Officials at NASA Ames Research Center said the space agency signed an agreement signed last month that allowed it to place instruments and scientists on planes owned by principals of H211, which in addition to the Boeing 767-200 includes two Gulfstream Vs, to collect scientific data on some flights. In exchange, NASA will receive about $1.3 million in annual fees for being host to the plane at Moffett, said Steven Zornetzer, associate director for institutions and research at NASA Ames Research Center."

This benefit is probably not taxable until you actually die and the spouse gets the money, whereas contributions to life insurance are likely considered taxable income during life.

They've actually posted a few anaglyph 3D images. Perhaps they manipulate the images to approximate the same focal length (cropping, maybe).

Ah - they used the hazard avoidance cameras: http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA16002

The main thing is that the rover only has about 8 minutes a day to transmit to the orbiting satellites.

The optimal thing would be a satellite in areostationary orbit over Mars' equator such that it is always reachable by the lander.

Unfortunately such a satellite wouldn't be well-placed for many other potential landing sites.

"You say that a site allowing lenders to be matched to borrows would... what? You can only loan each book once."

Yes, but everyone with that ebook can lend it once. Matching sites like the one under discussion make it more likely that an ebook will be lent, than would be the case if the customer were just lending to friends (I know I have books that are of no interest to any of my friends, so without a matching service, I would never lend them to anyone.)

" it takes a long time for data to travel from there to here"

It doesn't take that long for it to travel, the data transmission rate is not very fast, and Curiosity doesn't have constant access to the Mars-orbiting satellites that relay the data to Earth.

And besides that, its primary job is not taking pretty pictures.

Sure, but they might have shopped at Amazon anyway. Given Amazon's size, it's likely they'd do so anyway.

"Which, in meatspace, you can lend an infinite number of times."

Well, no, because in meatspace you have a more limited social circle. Few people would lend a physical book to a complete stranger, or if they did, would know they'd probably never get it back. Plus of course time is a limitation, and if a borrower is not local, there's the time of transit back and forth, which doesn't exist for an e-book.

And as a practical matter, it is pretty unlikely that you'd be able to find a borrower for every one of your physical books. But that would be possible with e-books, given a way to lend them to strangers, because of the way the site can match borrowers to lenders.

"I think a lot of it is the shifting demographics of TV watchers"

That's true, but I believe the pharma ads started because of a change in regulatory restrictions that allowed them to advertise.

If the demographics were different, cash-rich pharma would probably still use a ton of air time, it would just be ads for different target markets. Acne medications, ADHD meds, anti-depressants, smoking cessation drugs, etc.

Um, the whole point of LendInk is to not send business their way. Business would imply purchasing. LendInk is a way to avoid purchasing.