There was a quote that I read on reddit some time ago, I can't remember who said it, but they had said "The world isn't getting worse, we just have better access to the information"
EDIT: Thanks to u/barista2000 for linking the article on it. http://www.geekwire.com/2016/ray-kurzweil-world-isnt-getting-worse-information-getting-better/
If I did I'd copyleft it. Free for everyone but it stays free. No monopoly.
I'm fine, don't want to be rich. I just want to read in bed.
Hopefully someone makes an open source version and the market is flooded with cheap ones. Innovation happens best when there's real competition.
I'd love to see it happen. Just a gift from me to the world.
Anyway, that's my hope.
Edit: the idea already exists. http://www.geekwire.com/2013/ebook-projector-amazon-kindle-vet/
Good question - back at the time that Excel was introduced 30 years ago, there was a huge opportunity to help people and organizations be more productive as PCs were becoming more common.
There's a cool interview with some of the original team members who worked on v1.0 you can check out here:
-Dave
After years of dealing with the tablets being called iPads, it must really suck for Microsoft to hear there's a problem with the Microsoft surface tablets from Microsoft over and over again.
FYI Contour is back in business. And I guess they're suing GoPro for patent infringement. edit: link to article re patent lawsuit
I have Prime and like it.
However, at the risk of downvotes, there actually are (at least) 2 outstanding lawsuits claiming that, inter alia, Amazon encourages its vendors to hide shipping costs within inflated item prices and charges Prime members higher prices than non-Prime users.
While this may surprise no one, and doesn't address whether Prime is worthwhile for the other services it offers, the lawsuits certainly raise the question of whether Prime's shipping actually is "free".
> To name just one example, there has been a 79% decline in the number of 1st year undergraduate women interested in a Computer Science major between 2000 and 2011.
Is there a known correlation between the implementation of girls-only STEM promotion programs and a decrease in interest in computer science? Recently I read a flurry of articles about female high school senior disinterest in computer science because some university did a study about the women's cultural stereotypes of computer science--it was seen as a nerdy, lonely profession for social outcasts. I can think of three female computer scientists on tv shows off the top of my head (NCIS, Arrow, and Criminal Minds) and only one of them subverts this stereotype--the other two are oddballs who don't dress or behave like anyone else in their professional environments. And the one who does presently subvert the stereotype was an oddball in the past. I also feel that it is necessary to point out that there was a general overall decrease in computer science majors from 2000-2011 (dat burst bubble) that has only recently picked up again.
So maybe it's not the fact that girls-only programs exist, but that they're attempting to solve the wrong problem. From your description, it sounds as if these programs are "ra ra, girls can do anything, even science!" affairs that try to appeal to "feminine" interests, Barbie Astronaut style. Instead these programs should attack inaccurate cultural stereotypes by introducing girls and women to different types of STEM experiences without explicitly attempting to "gender" them. Still, such programs should be accepting of "gendered" responses to assignments. That is, a CAD design of a jewelry holder or makeup case should be just as valid as a car or rocket design. To insinuate that "women's" products are somehow "lesser" just reinforces more stereotypes.
Not basically everyone at all. Greather than 50% of my family/relatives are not members of Amazon Prime. I'd venture to say that less than 50% of the U.S. population are Prime members.
According to THIS report, there may only be 30-40 million prime members.
According to THIS census data, there are on average 2.54 members per household in the US.
According to THIS data, there are 321 million people in the US.
Based on this data, we can roughly calculate that every member of the household with a prime account is sharing it with the entire household, and even assuming 50 million prime accounts in the US (the high watermark), that would come out to 127 million Americans with access to Amazon Prime which is about 39.5% of the US population.
So I would disagree that this encompasses "basically everyone".
http://www.geekwire.com/2013/busted-seahawks-caught-twitter-bots-promote-seahawks-hashtag/
Which sources this reddit thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/nfl/comments/1q1wt1/are_the_seahawks_running_a_network_of_bots_to/ (which is deleted)
Yup. Wanna know something cool?
Washington post is owned by nash holdings LLC, a front company created solely for this purchase. It is owned by jeff Bezos. Who is the head of Amazon....
Who has scored a 16 million dollar contract from clinton for Kindles.
http://www.geekwire.com/2012/bezos-secretary-clinton-announce-amazon-kindleus-gov-deal/
And a 600 million dollar contract for the CIA
http://www.alternet.org/media/what-will-washington-post-be-under-jeff-bezos
Almost everything he does goes through a shell company to hide paper trails.
Never forget the day reddit, twitter, and the democratic party were freaking out about this story.
This is why I can't stand the left.
How many crashes would there likely be per day in the US with self driving cars?
Edit just found this link that predicts a 90% decline.
I live in Oregon and we're going over earthquakes in my Geology class. My professor brought up that article and told us not to lose too much sleep over it. It's fairly accurate, but got a little dramatic. There was a great AMA a few months ago where some local experts talked about the article. RE: the statement about everything west of I-5 being "toast":
>Communications may black out, transportation may grind to a halt, stores conceivably could run out of goods for a while, but that doesn't constitute "toast" in one's mind. The speaker must have been referring to some aspect of those problems, not to smoking rubble.
If you don't want to read through the whole thing, this article sums it up pretty nicely.
It's definitely a threat, but Seattle and Portland probably aren't going to be wiped out by a massive tsunami a la "The Day After Tomorrow." Coastal regions? Different story.
Everyone's already forgotten about it right? And everyone's stopped playing?
http://steamcharts.com/app/271290#All
The problem with Hawken was VC money. There was so much hype about the reveal that Hawken managed to close a $18M funding round, somehow forgetting that all that hype was just down to some fancy mechs.
And with $18M of VC, you can't just build a good game. You have to build a "service". You can't just launch on Steam, you have to create your own platform. You can't just let players run their own servers, you need to have fancy centralised cloud things so you can better keep tabs on your hat economy.
And as soon as your plan to rebuild the entire PC gaming market around your game fails and your VC backers realise they won't 10x their investment? To the bargin bin!
From this article:
> Which Seahawks player would make the toughest video game boss? Sherman and Wagner both concurred that defensive end Michael Bennett would be the toughest video game boss to defeat. They outlined a strategy of using a razor to cut off his beard, which apparently would weaken him. Seahawk rivals may want to take note of this strategy.
>This changes nothing.
It changes a lot. You can now be held legally liable for not fulfilling a kick-starter project. There's precedent.
http://www.geekwire.com/2014/attorney-general-asylum-playing-cards-crowdfunded-project/
And other failed kickstarters are beginning to give refunds out of fear of being sued and find by the US government;
http://venturebeat.com/2014/09/19/neal-stephenson-kills-clang/
It's also a violation of facebooks TOS, and illegal since 2013
>On Friday, Facebook warned employers not to ask job applicants for their passwords to the site so they can poke around on their profiles, noting that it would break its terms of service. The company threatened legal action against applications that violate its long-standing policy against sharing passwords.
>A Facebook executive cautioned that if an employer discovers that a job applicant is a member of a protected group, the employer may be vulnerable to claims of discrimination if it doesn't hire that person. Facebook profiles often include personal information such as gender, race, religion and age – all details that are protected from being used to determine employment suitability by federal employment law. The same strictures apply in the UK.
>Facebook said in a statement: "We don't think employers should be asking prospective employees to provide their passwords because we don't think it's the right thing to do. While we do not have any immediate plans to take legal action against any specific employers, we look forward to engaging with policy makers and other stakeholders, to help better safeguard the privacy of our users."
>Not sharing passwords is a basic tenet of online conduct. Aside from the privacy concerns, Facebook considers the practice a security risk.
Excerpt from this Guardian article from 2012
True, but Spock was more a cultural and logical outcast and his emotional outburst (particularly during Pon Farr) and his understanding of other peoples social commentary made him feel a little more perfectionist than anything else.
The thing about Data was that he clearly meant well and wanted to be a part of things, but simply couldn't do it. The whole "Data discovering what it is to be human" story held very true for a lot of us. Spock wasn't quite so clear cut - it was clear that his logical devotion was done out of a belief that it made him a better person. Data didn't have any such belief. He had no choice.
He wanted to be something he couldn't be. It was a wonderful story for people like myself who honestly wondered if we were good people. Sure, he was just a character on a TV show, but Data was proof positive that you could be a good, honest and productive member of society without fitting in.
http://www.geekwire.com/2013/brent-spiner-star-trek/
I also wasn't alone in feeling this way. Here's an article where the actor (Spiner) relates how shocked he was when autistic and aspergers people come up to him and thank him for giving someone for them to relate with on telly. What i love about Data is that he is a genuinely positive, decent, kind, even loving character who is genuinely incapable of understanding how they do it. He wasn't an autistic character but he was a character autistic people could relate with, just as Spock was with the Jews.
That is how sci-fi should be written. It shouldn't be written for people, but the issues surrounding it should be relatable and mutable. Data just happened to get it right thanks to remarkably consistent writing and an actor genuinely ignorant of the context. Spiner turned up, said his lines and played the part. He didn't "seek inspiration from" autistic people. He just was.
Municipal broadband is a necessity for Seattle to be the “technology mecca” we claim to be, and the only thing preventing us from having municipal broadband is political will. When the mayor released that broadband study a few weeks ago, I wrote a position paper arguing for a public utility model for citywide broadband to bring the city up to 1 Gbps. This is a perfect example of what I mean when I say that there is a severe shortage of imagination at city hall: most of our elected officials seem to think the internet is a luxury or a toy, and the current council isn’t even interested in discussing a $5 million pilot project -- chump change for a project of this tremendous significance. I say devote the capital and, as a city, we will reap the rewards for decades.
I’ll also note that I think the ignorance on this issue is cultural: a lot of tech workers who get the incredible importance of municipal broadband are marginalized from conversations about the future of our city. Tech companies are more than their CEOs, and when we either demonize or ignore the thousands of tech-savvy people in our city, we end up with a city government that sees the internet as just a Facebook delivery system. I wrote an article on this phenomenon for GeekWire a couple weeks ago. The bottom line is that we need tech people’s voices in government, not just their CEOs.
http://www.geekwire.com/2013/busted-seahawks-caught-twitter-bots-promote-seahawks-hashtag/
Did anyone else see that amazing comback? #Seahawks
Plus, I mean, Paul Allen is their owner. They're based in a city known for its tech presence and being on the cutting edge.
To be fair, I think most teams will be doing this 5-10 years down the road.
So we hear nothing about that MS is planning to do with their shiny new toy, and then they expose this?
CLARIFICATION: This is not the modding API.
Here's a better look at what the addin actually does
EDIT: the media is speculating that MS is trying to entice would-be software developers to learn its tools instead of rivals like Eclipse or others.
The NFL has had issues with this and their deal with Mircosoft. Announcers kept calling them iPads. http://www.geekwire.com/2015/oops-al-michaels-refers-to-microsoft-surface-as-an-ipad-on-nfls-opening-night/
Since this does not warrant a self-post, I'll talk about it here.
Jeff Bezos finally (sort-of) responded to the barge landing. Here's what he had to say:
> Q: Jeff, you’re not the only one who is looking at that aspect of re-usability and practice. There’s Elon Musk, for example. You had your reusable rocket landing. The latest one was just this month. And just in the last few days, Elon had a rocket land on an at-sea platform. Richard Branson is involved, too, [with Virgin Galactic]. There’s been a lot of talk about who has the best approach. How is that space ecosystem coming together? Is this a dog-eat-dog world, or is this a rising tide that lifts all boats?
> A: That’s what I think. Oftentimes, it’s very natural to think of business competition like a sporting event. In a sporting event, there actually is a winner and a loser. Somebody leaves the arena a winner, and somebody leaves the arena a loser. In business, it’s usually a little different from that. Great industries are usually built by not just one, or two or three companies, but usually by dozens of companies. There can be many winners, even hundreds and thousands of companies in a truly great industry. I think that’s what we are headed toward here. From my point of view, the more, the merrier. I want Virgin Galactic to succeed, I want SpaceX to succeed, I want United Launch Alliance to succeed, I want Arianespace to succeed, and of course I want Blue Origin to succeed. And I think they all can.
Amazon is currently suing 4 major clearinghouses that are providing these fake reviews to dishonest 3rd party sellers.
These cockroaches go so far as to ship empty boxes to each other to fool Amazon's "verified purchase" system.
Tossing my ring in the Valve & Steam /circlejerk: Gabe is right: it is service issue, not a pricing issue. Today, is another day a pirate served us better than EA did.
I think you have it spot on but the response from amazonians to NYT cracks me up.
>There is no intricate machine, and I have no idea what Jeff’s ambitions are, other than to continue to grow Amazon. Most of us work here because we want to solve the world’s most challenging technology problems.
Like really? You are solving global impoverishment, violence, or how to get the most out of a 100 ton spinning steam turbine? Or maybe how to send a man to Mars. Its written as if he works in some company that is literally writing the future. No, fuck you, you are solving how to get a god damned waffle maker in under an hour to someone in America while still making money. The disillusion here is troubling, sorry but no way.
From what I recall, Notch is pretty depressed.
Basically he's alienated his friends and former employees and his new lifestyle makes it hard to appear "normal". Clearly regrets selling Minecraft, and knows that whatever new project he will take up will inevitably be compared to Minecraft and fail to live up to the expectations.
Sure, here's some quick google-fu:
Valve Working with Oculus >January 17, 2014 - Valve has no plans to launch in-house rig
Facebook Buys Oculus $2bn >Mar 25, 2014 - Facebook buys Oculus a little after WhatsApp
Oculus takes Valve Developers >Mar 28, 2014
The timeline looks like it would've really stung for Valve. Working with Oculus in good faith it appears, and then FB comes in with tons of cash, and Oculus takes Valve Employees.
This is pretty standard terminology for marketshare. "Apple takes smartphone market share from Android thanks to strong iPhone sales" [1] and similar. The idea is that the marketshare was one place, and another company was able to grab it. Maybe through a better product, maybe through cheaper pricing, maybe through a big ad campaign, maybe through mismanagement at the first company, maybe through changes in trends and styles, lots of possible reasons. Whether they "earned" it or not in some moral sense isn't usually particularly decidable or relevant. [1] http://www.geekwire.com/2015/apple-takes-smartphone-market-s...
Specifically, Google bought their data source, and Bing declined/refused to continue paying them for access. (http://www.geekwire.com/2014/farewell-farecast-microsoft-kills-airfare-price-predictor-dismay-creator/)
No, stories like these have been in the news for a little while. Like the little girl who "accidentally" ordered cookies and a dollhouse... and then TV news covering the story played the clip, resulting in purchases made in the homes of viewers with an Alexa. But the point of this is that most people don't want others (particularly large corporate entities or clandestine government agencies) listening in on their conversations.
As a reminder, the city council is considering capping the number of drivers who could be on any single rideshare service at one time at 150.
Uber says they regularly exceed 300 drivers at any one time -- more than twice the proposed cap.
Also because valve studied price elasticity and are very smart. http://www.geekwire.com/2011/experiments-video-game-economics-valves-gabe-newell/
>Now we did something where we decided to look at price elasticity. Without making announcements, we varied the price of one of our products. We have Steam so we can watch user behavior in real time. That gives us a useful tool for making experiments which you can’t really do through a lot of other distribution mechanisms. What we saw was that pricing was perfectly elastic. In other words, our gross revenue would remain constant. We thought, hooray, we understand this really well. There’s no way to use price to increase or decrease the size of your business.
>But then we did this different experiment where we did a sale. The sale is a highly promoted event that has ancillary media like comic books and movies associated with it. We do a 75 percent price reduction, our Counter-Strike experience tells us that our gross revenue would remain constant. Instead what we saw was our gross revenue increased by a factor of 40. Not 40 percent, but a factor of 40
Edit: TL;DR: Steam sales of 75% can boost revenue by fourty times
You may want to check out this article as I found it useful in formulating our equity split.
As the author points out, the only wrong answer is 50/50. One of you needs to be empowered to make executive decisions. It sounds as if you're a bit intimidated by your partner, so you need to determine what you bring to the table and be confident of your worth. This formula may help you with that. And of course, I would also suggest being very transparent and open about the decision as it's just the first of many obstacles to work through. Good luck!
Edit: added emphasis to the only wrong answer
It didn't. What was more likely is that you simply re-seated the cartridge so that the contacts connected better. Blowing on it didn't matter, what mattered wss taking it out and putting it back.
Edit: for the down-voting haters:
Your breath did nothing good, and probably a lot of bad.
Xbox One sold 10 million by its first year. By the time Halo 3 came out, there were only 9.3 million Xbox 360's sold. Basically more people had the chance to play the Halo 5: Guardians Beta than than Halo 3 at release.
And Amazon and Microsoft as well. Happy employees are better employees. Also, if you are head quartered in a state without gay marriage, you lose out on recruiting some talent. Acquiring and retaining talent is something these companies are extremely concerned about.
That does NOT excuse it! And it boggles my mind that people think it does.
I'm a .NET developer, and if MS were to invalidate all our company's licences because the "inadvertently" thought we were using an unlicensed server, you better be damned sure they'd be paying reparations for all contracts breached or lost due to halted production.
If they did this to several companies, it would be all over the news and seriously damage MS's sales because it would expose working with MS technology as a risk factor.
"YouTuber" is a serious profession for a lot of people. There are entire business ventures that sprung out of it, and for people like this guy, it constitutes their entire livelihood.
MS's actions and subsequent response equates to: "Ooopsy daisy, looks like I destroyed your busyness. Don't worry I'll fix it at some point... maybe. Also, we are kinda looking into ways to pursue our business interests without destroying yours. LOL"
How anyone would consider this "acceptable" or "understandable" is simply beyond me.
http://www.geekwire.com/2011/experiments-video-game-economics-valves-gabe-newell/
>But then we did this different experiment where we did a sale. The sale is a highly promoted event that has ancillary media like comic books and movies associated with it. We do a 75 percent price reduction, our Counter-Strike experience tells us that our gross revenue would remain constant. Instead what we saw was our gross revenue increased by a factor of 40. Not 40 percent, but a factor of 40. Which is completely not predicted by our previous experience with silent price variation. … > >Then we decided that all we were really doing was time-shifting revenue. We were moving sales forward from the future. Then when we analyzed that we saw two things that were very surprising. Promotions on the digital channel increased sales at retail at the same time, and increased sales after the sale was finished, which falsified the temporal shifting and channel cannibalization arguments. Essentially, your audience, the people who bought the game, were more effective than traditional promotional tools. So we tried a third-party product to see if we had some artificial home-field advantage. We saw the same pricing phenomenon. Twenty-five percent, 50 percent and 75 percent very reliably generate different increases in gross revenue.
>exclusives are trememdously important to any console ecosystem.
Are you sure?
People still forget how the PS4 was called the Bloodborne machine while the Wii U had many times more pure exclusives with green scores at metacritic.
I don't think quantity and quality of exclusive sell as many consoles as people are thinking.
Considering the Blue Origin tried to (and failed) prevent SpaceX from using this technique, you may be right but for different reasons.
Doug Baldwin is a big fan of this new helmet, that actually has some hardcore science to prove it's a lot safer than a normal helmet and it was created by a Seattle company. I don't know if the team has started using them yet but I imagine they will sometime in the near future after it has been approved for NFL play and everything.
Edit - The helmet uses tiny rods that can compress and divert energy on impact. To show just how much better it could be for players, I found this stat: "Vicis has performed 20-50% better in head trauma reduction tests in comparison to Riddell and Schutt."
This "competition" of spacex vs blue origin going to be so much more entertaining than vs Boeing or ULA..
Check this Q&A of Jeff today lol
http://www.geekwire.com/2015/jeff-bezos-blue-origin-space-trips-cant-wait-amazon-213986/
And in other news, Tesla and Toyota are relasing patents to push innovation.
And in other news, entire countries are abandoning the patent system cause it's shit.
Given in 2014 the CEO of Microsoft said women should trust HR to give them raises based off their merit, instead of trying to negotiate, I'm not totally surprised.
Of course he apologized right after and all, but it just kind of shows that some people at MS aren't really viewing things from a woman's perspective as much as they could be.
Friends looked through his car but didn't find anything out of the ordinary. It looks like a search party is going to be looking through the area today.
http://www.geekwire.com/2014/search-way-missing-microsoft-program-manager-car-found-deception-pass/
EDIT: I should also note that According to Google, they use a number of sources, "including government departments of transportation, private data providers, and users of Google Maps for mobile..."
For those interested in learning more about these helmets, here's an article from Geekwire and a video.
The article also states that this helmet is being released to a limited number of other college teams, but I can't figure out who those teams are.
This is kind of in the works on the south side. Back in 2012, Pat Quinn gave 2 million in funding to this company called Gigabit Squared as part of a competition to build a state-wide fiber optic network. Gigabit squared has undertaken this effort in a few cities, namely chicago, and seattle. Each project has been a bust for the most part, landing gigabit squared in court as a result of their failures.
A little information:
They never got that loan, they didn't even get the initial 20 million to jump start the project. The CEO of Condo Internet nailed it back in June of last year.
>“They are announcing pricing with no idea about the construction costs,” he said of Gigabit Squared. “They have never built any fiber infrastructure anywhere, ever, in the U.S. Until you know what it costs to build something like this out, it’s an awfully bold commitment to make.”
http://www.geekwire.com/2013/condointernet-gigabit/
You can also blame some of this on McGinn who never bothered to do a credit check on the company to see if they had the ability to borrow the money needed to jump start this, or even verify what experience they had in building or providing gigabit access. Gigabit Squared just went in there, lowballed everyone else, won the bid, then struggled for 6 months to find the money. Near the end of the election, McGinn probably knew the project was in danger, but still tugged on everyones hate strings for Comcast just to get votes and it worked, but not well enough.
Keurig style pods for warm lube.
something something tech/consumerism bubble (also see the Glowforge delay)
Not at all. Just ask their CEO Spencer Rascoff, whose home recently sold for 40% less than its Zestimate.
Excel's 30th anniversary was last month. Geekwire did an interview with some members of the original development team. You can check it out here: http://www.geekwire.com/2015/recalc-or-die-30-years-later-microsoft-excel-1-0-vets-recount-a-project-that-defied-the-odds/
-Dave
Because the company appears to be run by temps. So there's no institutional knowledge about long-term problems.
Would love to hear a refutation of that claim if someone knows otherwise, though.
Mostly they're all in a digital format, yes, however its not as simple as just hooking up a laptop or low end desktop computer. There is surround sound to deal with, along with rendering the super high bitrate and resolution film and decoding it perfectly Would like to get more info from an actual technician on this though. I know IMAX has special servers for it. http://www.geekwire.com/2015/photos-inside-one-of-the-worlds-most-advanced-imax-movie-theaters/
That link is wrong in many ways: 1. It does not take into account that Lake Union is a charted seaplane base (2 actually, 0W0 and W55), where aircraft fly below 500' in order to land. 2. It says it's perfectly acceptable to fly it right over the runway on the Renton airport [RNT], which is a Class D (controlled to the surface and with an operating control tower) and there there is a significant amount of air traffic.
In fact, you're not the first person to attempt these shots. There was this incident last year.
I think UAVs are actually pretty neat, and I'd love to build one someday. But please do a better job of checking airspace before you fly. Learn how to interpret FAA charts and use SkyVector (or similar) before you fly. As scheduled air service, Kenmore Air (with paying passengers and all) flies literally right where your drone is to land on the lake.
Bandwagon is just a term thrown around by people who want to be seen as hipster "fans before it was cool".
Compounding the problem is Seattle "natives"[1] are known for snobbiness, so there's that.
[1] Nevermind that Chief Seattle's tribe are the only true natives, wtf.
Everyone is freaking out about this because one guy from MS was taken completely out of context. He wasn't saying that it could do EVERYTHING - just that MS already had a lot of interactive voice commands already integrated before Apple added their (purchased from elsewhere) Siri into the phone...
Obviously Siri's language options are more enhanced, but I can easily use WP7 to search for a local steakhouse. I can also carry on a text message conversation without ever once looking at the phone. It can tell me that there's a message, I can ask it to read it to me, then I can ask it to reply and dictate my reply. And WP7 has been able to do that for quite some time.
He was pointing to those elements of the phone, which are indeed present and quite easy to use. Tech media, especially have had a field day acting like he said it was exactly the same or something, which is clearly not what he is saying. He identifies the features EXACTLY in the interview:
Is Siri ahead? Yeah. But this guy never denied it. He just said - correctly - that WP7 could already do many things like it. I mean, I had a text message conversation tonight without touching my phone once, just using the voice commands. It works.
EDIT Proofreading!
Amazon is the biggest, it currently has 4600 open positions they're trying to hire for, Google, Facebook, Apple, Expedia are expanding into much larger spaces, Expedia's HQ is in Bellevue but they're building a new campus downtown Seattle, Google has 2 offices they've outgrown, Apple is building a second. Facebook just moved to a much larger building so they can continue expanding.
EMC and F5 networks are big companies, RealNetwork, there are several hundred startups and many more non fortune 500 companies that work for the big 5. Panasonic's corporate office is here. Even Nordstrom has engineering jobs here which I don't think of when I think software.
Tableau has exploded, Nintendo is in Redmond, Disney and EA have engineering offices in Seattle. There are a bunch of game studios, Big fish, 17 bit, Popcap, Valve, etc. Valve is in Bellevue.
Vulcan, Allen Institute, Gates Foundation, and a bunch of non profits also utilize the smaller companies as well as their own internal engineering teams.
There a ton, here's the top 200 startups not counting established businesses: http://www.geekwire.com/geekwire-200/
Airbnb, Lyft, Dropbox, Groupon, GoDaddy, HP, etc have an engineering office, Alibaba has an office rumored to become their north american HQ.
There's a ton I'm not remembering or haven't heard of but that have thousands of employees.
Because large public events have nothing to do with a massive number of users over saturating the cellular system.
http://www.crainsdetroit.com/article/20130113/NEWS/301139964/sports-fans-tech-thirst-drains-local-stadiums http://www.geekwire.com/2014/city-seattle-emergency-cell-phone/ http://www.sportsbusinessdaily.com/Journal/Issues/2012/02/27/In-Depth/Lead.aspx
Bezos owns Amazon and WaPo. Snowden caused Amazon a lot of shit over encryption and handling customer data and forced amazon to change the way they operated.
Just sayin.
Edit: caused by specifically calling out Amazon.
Edit 2: That was 2014, but the issue re-emerged in March 2016. Amazon under fire for stripping encryption from Fire devices
>When it comes to encryption, Amazon’s record is controversial. In 2014 NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden called Amazon’s encryption practices “morally irresponsible,” because its customers can browse for books and other products without any security measures.
>According to Snowden, Amazon encrypts credit card transactions, which would hide a customer’s purchases, but product searches are conducted in “plain text,” without encryption and that enables governments and others to peek at those searches.
Yes, ability to rent short term may become more limited. Earlier this month, Seattle lawmakers proposed new rules to curb Airbnb rentals. Under the proposal, rental units that aren't within the landlord's primary residence can be rented out for only 90 days. If it is within the primary residence, the operator has no limit, but the owner does need to obtain a new "short term rental operator" license from the City of Seattle. Also, all property owners would have to provide:
GeekWire reported that, "The regulations are designed to discourage landlords from operating hotel-like businesses where they would otherwise provide long-term rentals for residents." The city says it will hold two months of public discussion on these regulations before a council vote in August or September.
Edit: Formatting
> How about just loosening regulations to encourage competition
We've actually done that. The city council amended the director's rule which had been preventing fiber cabinets from being installed, it passed unanimously Sawant included.
The council also voted to eliminate cable franchise districts, again unanimously. CenturyLink has begun testing out PrismTV in some areas as a result.
Private ISPs are not interested in providing everyone with service, they're interested in making money, which is understandable. I actually contacted CenturyLink's gigabit sales department for Seattle and was told flat out that even though they were planning on deploying to my area, they were not interested in connecting my apartment because they didn't want to spend the money to also run Cat5e cables to each unit.
Given that each private entity's network is closed to competition, it's hard to rationalize the capital costs of building an overlapping redundant network to an area already served by an incumbent, so it doesn't happen much. If we had last mile unbundling, maybe that would be different. I would hope that any public project sets this standard and allows third party access to the infrastructure as well.
Dude... Sony man... GoPro and Sony are neck and neck far as quality goes. Contour went out of business., they're now Back in Business, but their ContourROAM2 has nowhere near the recording options of the GoPro Hero3+ or the Sony HDR-AS100VR.
Sony's biggest mistake was using Model Numbers for their brand. GoPro has the HERO, Contour has the ROAM, and Sony has the HDR-AS100VR.
The fact you hadn't heard of Sony's Action Cam, goes to show just how shitty they are marketing it.
Elisa on kyllä toiminut hienosti noiden suhteen. Tuossakin tiedotteessa suoraan vittuilevat virastomuumioille että "Toimijoiden pitäisi keskittyä toimenpiteisiin, joilla aidosti voidaan vähentää piratismia eli käytännössä sisällön saamista verkkojakeluun kohtuullisella hinnalla ja samaan aikaan muun jakelun kanssa."
Itse en ole warettanut yhtään levyä sitten Spotifyn ilmestymisen. Saman kun vielä saisi leffoille. Voddlerhan periaattessa on, mutta se ei vaan toimi tarpeeksi sulavasti. Plus se on Adobe AIRilla koodattu, eikä natiiviohjelma.
Applen iTunes leffavuokraus saapui myös Suomeen, mutta ne ovat turhan hintavia. Siellä saisi olla low-res versiot halpaan hintaan, sillä yleensä katson leffat läppärin ruudulta ikkunamoodissa, eikä Full HD-laatu ei kiinnosta.
Toissapäivänä täällä pörräsi tämä artikkeli, jossa Gabe Newell kertoo hinnoittelutesteistään ja kuinka ovat onnistuneet tekemään piratismia kuhisevan Venäjän toisiksi suurimmaksi markkinaksi Euroopassa (Saksan jälkeen) tarjoamalla edulliseen hintaan pelejä helpommin kuin piraattina.
Wow, so the church didn't even hit $100m/year? Microsoft employees have been donating more for years: http://www.geekwire.com/2014/microsoft-2013-employee-giving-program/
Another fun fact from that article: Microsoft, a greedy for-profit company trying to return value to its shareholders, has donated over $1bn since 1983... And the church had a pretty damn good lead in the 80s when it comes to budget.
Well, you may be correct about OP and the site, but I found this story newsworthy.
Besides, a quick Google-search revelealed dozens of other sites who covered this story about 10 days ago. http://www.geekwire.com/2015/chinese-startup-gives-teslas-as-a-bonus-for-the-new-year/
Complete BS. That's USD 750,000 /year - there's just no way they're paying that much to a 21 year old.
The old CFO, peter Kien who offered him the job in the story (besides which CFOs don't hire engineers) earns about $500,000/year (+stock http://www.geekwire.com/2013/microsoft-paying-cfo-amy-hood/).
If it's true at all, maybe a decimal place error - $75,000 is more realistic. But I think based on his 'anti-hacking' system, it's entirely made up.
Author of article says:
> 125,000 retail workers have been laid off over the past two years.
But Amazon hired 110k workers just this year.
Selling online doesn't mean you don't need employees. Those boxes in amazon warehouses are not packed by machines. Web servers are not maintained by robots. Packages are not delivered by self-driving cars. Amazon hires more and more people, there is absolutely no evidence it kills jobs - on the contrary it creates them.
Ahh.
I remember a while back reading that on Xbox you couldn't do this, at least on the 360.
It wasn't about Netflix in this article, more about BBC iPlayer and the reason it wasn't on Xbox Live was because you had to have XBOX Gold to use onDemand services, so the BBC couldn't allow it to be used on Xbox's as it breaks some rule or whatever at the BBC.
EDIT: This changed for Xbox Live in June 2014, 2 bloody years ago to watch On Demand services without requiring Xbox Live. http://www.geekwire.com/2014/xbox-owners-can-now-access-180-apps-free/
To check if you have this update:
run: explorer.exe shell:::{d450a8a1-9568-45c7-9c0e-b4f9fb4537bd} or if that feels shady, go to the Start menu and type in "view installed updates" in the search field (as suggested by capecodcarl)
this brings up "Installed Updates" window
Then put this in the search: KB3068708 OR KB3022345 OR KB3068708 OR KB3075249 OR KB3080149
That'll tell you if you have any of the updates mentioned in the article.
If you already updated to Windows 10, check out this article which shows you how to hide updates: http://www.geekwire.com/2015/microsoft-offers-way-to-opt-out-of-automatic-windows-10-updates/
Seattle has the 4th worst traffic in the US. However, it is not the 4th largest city in the US. It has disproportionately bad traffic for its size.
It's not like Taxi's are going to disappear. Your mother will still be able to take her cab wherever she wants to go.
What we're talking about with Uber, Lyft, et-al is competition. We're already seeing the Taxi industry step up to comptete...I highly doubt this would have happened without the introduction of ridesharing services.
I stopped paying for Prime when I realized many items were more expensive for Prime members. After looking at an item, use incognito mode to price check. There were some lawsuits filed a couple years ago over the practice, although I don't know what the outcomes were:
http://www.geekwire.com/2014/amazon-shoppers-question-whether-prime-membership-scam/
You realize the reason parking meters & zoned parking exist is to keep enough available parking, right? If parking was free, people would camp in every spot and there would be no free spots anywhere. Supply and demand.
These days, the meters can vary the rate so during peak hours it charges more and in off hours it charges less (or nothing). The intent being to charge just enough to make sure there is at least some available street parking. See here and here
Everyone's been on the Amazon hate train and yet they just introduced 1-hr booze delivery : / http://www.geekwire.com/2015/amazon-set-to-launch-new-amazon-flex-package-pickup-service-in-seattle-area-with-prime-now/
> I support quality developers as little as possible too.
>edit: yes, downvote me because you I'm right and refuse to accept it.
Actually you're being downvoted because you're dead wrong.
> We do a 75 percent price reduction, our Counter-Strike experience tells us that our gross revenue would remain constant. Instead what we saw was our gross revenue increased by a factor of 40. Not 40 percent, but a factor of 40.
Source is Gaben himself.
Maybe it's the combination of CST-100 on top of the Atlas V that is producing some unexpected acoustic effects?
In fact, if you read the linked article that this Ars Technica article is based on, it gives a more elaborate quote:
> even though it’s been working through challenges related to the mass of the spacecraft and aeroacoustic issues related to integration with its United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 launch vehicle.
So it seems it's not Atlas V but the integration of Atlas V and CST-100 that's producing unexpected aeroacoustic problems.
I know for SLS there have been windtunnel tests at Ames, I assume the same was done for CST-100.
Those intel commercials are all from the all-star game, a special event where they were able to coordinate the 360 view. This was a special thing,, they don't have them in every game and arena.
This article, titled "CEOS Aren't as Powerful as Most People Think," would be really helpful to people involved in this cause.
Ohanian's duties as a board member are "marketing, communications, strategy, and community." and while he does get downvoted, nobody but Pao gets on the front-page with a Hitler mustache.
It really feels like when people blame (or praise) the president for the economy. Despite all the tasteless Hitler comparisons, Reddit (like modern governments and nearly all corporations) isn't a dictatorship. So, the cause would have a lot more legitimacy if people showed that they were aware of this.
They don't exactly have a strong track record of compliance with local government.
IIRC too, during the (sad attempt at a) sting operation, Uber was flagging "cops" in the system as soon as they were identified and cancelling their rides.
I looked into it a little bit.
Here is the article and a video if you are interested. Its a skeptical claim at first glance but he stated this in 2012 so 50 years would be 1962, seeing as microsoft was founded in 1975 and apple 1976 it doesn't seem entirely ridiculous that 50 years from now other companies will be in the spotlight but Gates philanthropy will live on.
For those that don't get the joke...
He has four knives on his PC.
Knives running faster is a reference to a mechanic in Counter Strike. (Where, equipping a knife causes you to run faster.)
Counter Strike was made by Valve.
Valve is ran by our glorious leader, GabeN!
Really? We're doing this in two separate threads? Is this /r/apple?
Everyone is freaking out about this because one guy from MS was taken completely out of context. He wasn't saying that it could do EVERYTHING - just that MS already had a lot of interactive voice commands already integrated before Apple added their (purchased from elsewhere) Siri into the phone...
Obviously Siri's language options are more enhanced, but I can easily use WP7 to search for a local steakhouse. I can also carry on a text message conversation without ever once looking at the phone. It can tell me that there's a message, I can ask it to read it to me, then I can ask it to reply and dictate my reply. And WP7 has been able to do that for quite some time.
He was pointing to those elements of the phone, which are indeed present and quite easy to use. Tech media, especially have had a field day acting like he said it was exactly the same or something, which is clearly not what he is saying. He identifies the features EXACTLY in the interview:
Is Siri ahead? Yeah. But this guy never denied it. He just said - correctly - that WP7 could already do many things like it. I mean, I had a text message conversation tonight without touching my phone once, just using the voice commands. It works.
Just a general PSA: If taken from a drone (I suspect it was), be careful there. Some places have been going after people flying drones above crowds. You could get some SERIOUS fines, possibly jail time (although unlikely), for that kind of maneuver.
Some consequnces...http://www.geekwire.com/2017/seattle-drone-pilot-gets-jail-time-faa-reports-increase-possible-collisions/
Non-annoying comment: cool photo comparison.
The idea is that if we're making all of our AIs female, we're doing no better than reenforcing notions that female voices and personas exist to serve us. If you value promoting equality, I'd recommend looking into it.
From http://www.geekwire.com/2016/why-is-ai-female-how-our-ideas-about-sex-and-service-influence-the-personalities-we-give-machines/ > Assigning gender to these AI personalities may say something about the roles we expect them to play. Virtual assistants like Siri, Cortana, and Alexa perform functions historically given to women. They schedule appointments, look up information, and are generally designed for communication.
From https://newrepublic.com/article/134560/stop-giving-digital-assistants-female-voices > Ultimately, the more our culture teaches us to associate women with assistants, the more real women will be seen as assistants, and penalized for not being assistant-like. At this moment in culture, when more and more attention is being paid to women’s roles in the workplace, it’s essential to pay attention to our cultural inputs, too. Let’s eschew the false choice between male and female voices. If these A.I. assistants are meant to lead us into the future, why not transcend gender entirely— perhaps a voice could be ambiguously gendered, or shift between genders? At the very least, the default settings for these assistants should not always be women. Change Viv to Victor, and maybe one fewer woman will be asked to be the next meeting’s designated note-taker.
> I feel like this is definitely a place where a much simpler Operating System with a lower focus on productivity would be useful.
They're already way ahead of you and have been for years. The Surfaces used by the NFL are custom, including the OS:
> All other features of a consumer-grade Surface...have been stripped away. The tablets only allow access to a Sideline Viewing System app that provides the photos of recent plays
BS, Amazon had to raise money and almost went out of business more than once.
http://www.geekwire.com/2013/jeff-bezos-60-meetings-raise-1m-amazoncom-giving-20-early-investors/
>Bezos: “The riskiest moment for Amazon, Charlie, was at the very, very beginning. I needed to raise $1 million at a certain point, and I ended up giving away 20 percent of the company for a million dollars.”
>I had to take 60 meetings to raise $1 million, and I raised it from 22 people at approximately $50,000 a person. And it was nip and tuck whether I was going to be able to raise that money. So, the whole thing could have ended before the whole thing started. That was 1995, and the first question every investor asked me was: ‘What’s the Internet?'”
https://www.fundable.com/learn/startup-stories/amazon >Follow on Funding - Amazon raised a series A of $8M from Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers in 1995. In 1997, Amazon went public to raise additional capital.
If you think Amazon never had to raise money you are just to young or too dumb to know better. Either get off my lawn :) or admit your stupidity!
I literally lost track of the number of times I read about how Amazon would never make a profit and would go bankrupt.
Remember when Microsoft gave the NFL coaches a bunch of surface tablets to get them some exposure but the commentators kept calling them iPads?
You aren't totally wrong about it. Anecdotal advice is the reason Amazon values its reviews so highly. People do find a lot of value in reading another person's experience. I'm one of them: I bought the watch that I'm currently wearing after reading over a dozen user reviews on Amazon.
However, unlike with scientific evidence, you should be much more skeptical about relying on anecdotes. There are plenty of fake reviews on Amazon. In fact, there are so any that Amazon has had to take action. So proceed with caution and try to get a LOT of feedback so that you aren't influenced by false or misleading reviews.
Well, this strikes me as incredibly silly and counter-productive. I don't use Uber much, but the last time I used it the driver was a former taxi driver who said that he liked using Uber a hell of a lot more than being a taxi driver.
And indeed, unless I'm presented with some kind of counter-analysis, I'm inclined to believe that taxi drivers do like Uber and other online taxi platforms more than being a traditional taxi driver. They are able to set their own hours and own their own labor, way more than if they have to hire out a car from a taxi company and get registered and whatnot.
-edit- Actually I did a quick Google search and it does seem like taxi drivers in Seattle are generally upset about Uber disrupting their business. But this doesn't seem like its a homogeneous phenomena across different cities--for example, in San Francisco ~1/3 of taxi drivers have switched to Uber and other ride-share companies.
So whatevs about the action against Uber in Seattle, I guess its raising awareness and that's good.
I think you are vastly overstating the danger they pose to public safety in those circumstances.
Here are a couple of articles from a recent conviction of someone who was using a drone recklessly:
Even in that pretty extreme case (and literally the only one brought since 2015), there was no slicing of throats and limbs. There was a concussion and bruising.
As noted in the Geekwire article and my previous comment, operating drones near actual flight paths and landmarks is dumb, dumb, dumb, and those are worth being reported.
I ain't gonna waste my time reporting others, even if it is illegal, because unless they start concussing people more often than once every couple years, it's a danger worth worrying about on the same level as a cougar attack in Volunteer Park.
Here's a perspective--Amazon was in the same boat raising capital while many Wall Street "analysts" complained about the need for quarterly profits. Quarterly profits versus capital for growth. Where's AMZN now? http://www.geekwire.com/2013/jeff-bezos-60-meetings-raise-1m-amazoncom-giving-20-early-investors/
I believe a portion of the valuation is due to the lack of tech IPO's within the last year. You have the "unicorn" companies that have no need to go public and then this piece of shit that everyone is gravitating to.
I tried reinstalling snap after not using it for a couple of years and immediately took it off my phone because of all the ads. They are getting desperate for other revenue streams and came out with this horse shit : http://www.geekwire.com/2017/theyre-vending-machine-snapchat-spectacles-pops-seattle/
As if gopro didn't already prove that walking around with a camera on your face just makes you look like an obnoxious hipster.
Yeah, it was called Swanluv. Seems like it never got off the ground, probably because most people thought it was an awful idea. It was originally a loan platform, but switched to a crowdfunding platform late in the game, and then it flopped.
http://www.geekwire.com/2016/use-amazons-snowball-snowballs-unleashes-45-foot-truck-model/
This truck was introduced at AWS reinvent this year. It's purpose is to transport exabytes of data to send to AWS.
Predictions:
Hopefully Valve hires new people for their teams, as they're moving to a twice as big headquarters.
MatchMaking will be more playable.
TF2 Competitive will be somewhat more popular than its current state.