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I think you're losing sight of the bigger picture. Just because it isn't currency doesn't mean it can't be stolen.

But it's just data and we're always told about how taking away somebody's exclusive rights to that data is not theft.

ie. if I stole your car, because it's not currency, I can't go to jail?

And then perfectly towing the MPAA/RIAA line you go with the "You wouldn't steal a car" analogy.

It's still cheaper to raise humans to act like sex robots;
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Coincidentally, Thursday's Google Doodle was Grapes of Wrath-inspired...

"Wherever there's a tech company not payin' enough to use city bus stops, I'll be there."
--Tom Joad

Amazon Prime Air Kidney Unboxing :-)

Somewhat irrelevant trivia: in Toronto there is a moving company called "El Cheapo." Their motto is "Don't be a shmoe call EL CHEAPO" (replete with missing comma.) Ecce!

Here you go.
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I have screenshots of past "Apple Challenges" Ive done, if youre interested. Heres one from 2011:
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Youll note that the HP has double the RAM, a better processor, and a substantially better video card, and costs $1000 less.

Its generally been like that for some time; the Apple margin has gotten better in some of the more competitive areas, but generally they have been insanely overpriced compared to what you get. And I really dont buy any nonsense about lasting longer, since all of the parts come from the same manufacturers, the same countries, etc.

Heck, you can even look at the Mac Pro from this year. Ignore the graphics card, and all of a sudden the Mac is WAY more expensive than anything comparable: they charge $3000 to UPGRADE the processor to a Xeon which only costs $2400 retail; they charge $400 to go from 16GB to 32GB of ECC RAM; buying the whole 32GB on the market (newegg) would only cost $350. At least in the case of the RAM thats more than a 100% markup over retail. Its generally true that its cheaper to buy the Mac with the base specs, then buy the upgrades you want new off of Amazon or Newegg, and youll not only save substantial money, youll have the base-specced parts as freebies to boot.

To be fair Apple isnt the only one who does this; look at Dell server harddrive or RAM prices, and youll see the same sort of gouging (dell charges ~$400 for $200 WD RE5 drives, etc). Its just that by far Apple has been the worst offender, and theyre the only ones with a contingent of fans who defend their practice.

The other solution is a utility trailer. When I was a kid (I'm 46) you saw all kinds of people hauling trailers with their cars when they had to move stuff. You rarely see it today. We have a utility trailer that we fill up when we're doing things like hauling gear to the cabin in the summer Rest of the time it's disconnected. Only downside is it can be difficult to back up.

Here's a picture: http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3184/2705266016_cc2cb0009f_z.jpg

Probably worth mentioning that Code.org's online programming tutorial for kids, created in 2013 with collaboration with engineers from Microsoft, Google, Twitter and Facebook, is kind of like a dumbed-down, albeit slicker, version of online instruction given to children in 1973 on the University of Illinois' PLATO computer-assisted instruction system.

Programming by Children (1973): "Young children can be taught the basic elements of programming...In Figure 7a the child has walked the man, one step at a time, through a maze."

Overview of Code.org's Hour of Code activity (2013): "Our activity is a set of 20 self-guided puzzles that teach the basics of computer science for users with no prior experience. In each puzzle, students write a program that gets a character through a maze."

Stop and smell the tulips.

Ahh...the smell of old electronics...

And in the 80's it was the balans chair
Not sure if they were used much in offices, but when I was a kid, it seemed like everyone that could afford a computer at home just had to have one

Looking at your link (this one), it says the monthly premium for Bronze is $1161, but the annual total cost is $20,125. How does that work?

If one plugs the First Family's income and ages into the web-based DC Health Link Calculator, the annual health care cost estimates for the Obama household come out to be $20,125 (Bronze), $19,537 (Silver), and $21,902 (Gold), not a good deal at all when compared to the starting-at-under-$200-a-month family health coverage available to the President and Congress through the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program. By the way, if the Obama family members were 10 years older and their combined household income was reduced to $95,000, the estimated cost would be a staggering $26,339 (Bronze), $25,728 (Silver), and $29,021 (Gold).

If one plugs the First Family's income and ages into the web-based DC Health Link Calculator, the annual health care cost estimates for the Obama household come out to be $20,125 (Bronze), $19,537 (Silver), and $21,902 (Gold), not a good deal at all when compared to the starting-at-under-$200-a-month family health coverage available to the President and Congress through the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program. By the way, if the Obama family members were 10 years older and their combined household income was reduced to $95,000, the estimated cost would be a staggering $26,339 (Bronze), $25,728 (Silver), and $29,021 (Gold).

If one plugs the First Family's income and ages into the web-based DC Health Link Calculator, the annual health care cost estimates for the Obama household come out to be $20,125 (Bronze), $19,537 (Silver), and $21,902 (Gold), not a good deal at all when compared to the starting-at-under-$200-a-month family health coverage available to the President and Congress through the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program. By the way, if the Obama family members were 10 years older and their combined household income was reduced to $95,000, the estimated cost would be a staggering $26,339 (Bronze), $25,728 (Silver), and $29,021 (Gold).

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such as spell downranking

Spell-downranking wasn't planned, but proved to be efficient, so it didn't get removed, but turned into something more under control - at least healers got well-defined lesser-powered cheaper spells as replacement for the down-ranked ones. Not as fine granularity though.

What killed it for me was loss of the FSR. Being forced to spam low-power spells isn't exactly fun. Better to take a break and watch (carefully) instead.

I don't necessarily want Eve's learning curve but what they have now is not a curve at all.

You'll find the game with the steepest curve by far at hitechcreations.com.

Obligatory WoW history: Started a few months into vanilla, ended that version as a Naxx 40 raider 9/15. Progression cleared everything in BC save the Sunwell and burned out of hardcore raiding. Took some time off during Wrath but came back for the end and did a fair amount of casual raiding as well as "fleet" building. (I had one of every class and had them all to the level cap.) Played Cata on and off but at most just leveled the fleet to cap. And then Mists hit and of all the versions of WoW it has been the one I have played the least. I leveled only 3 of my toons to the cap, no raiding other than LFR, and then left the game.

And a number of things really turned me off to WoW with the direction they took with Mists:

1. Lack of 5 man content. This is huge. When leveling up I really do like questing but without some 5 man content every now and then to break things up it can get a bit tedious. And the lack of 5 man content in Mists while leveling was unlike any previous version of WoW. Without a decent amount of 5 man content, while leveling, I will never go back to WoW.

2. Daily grinds. I am not at all interested in doing daily quests really at all. Sometimes I might feel up to them but the idea of doing daily quests is not fun to me at all. And then locking things behind those quests was just the last nail in the coffin.

3. Oversimplification. I get that the old talent trees were often just cut and pasted from EJ. But it is a lie to say that they did not make the game simpler by turning them into what they are now. The fact that you can no longer get them wrong shows that lie. And that goes for a lot of other things that they have done in the game as well such as spell downranking, stat simplification, and such. After playing Skyrim a lot lately I look back on my early play and think man I was doing that wrong but now I learned. I don't necessarily want Eve's learning curve but what they have now is not a curve at all.

New Labour

carear

What the fuck is this? One of these?

Kodak had a specialised film made for weddings and portraits, and I can't remember seeing anything other than caucasians in the example brochures.

Kodak Professional Pro Image 100. Box. This one seems a localized version for the Asian market, with some very white asians. Mine has white people only: this is it.

See also: Haiti.

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It looks like lining the walls with foil wasn't so stupid after all.

I'm one step ahead of ya:
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Overhead Shot: $5B Planned Apple HQ and Old-School Magnetic Tape Reel. Less tape would increase the resemblance!

Comparison: $5B Planned Apple HQ and Old-School Magnetic Tape Reel. Would look even more similar with a white write ring! :-)

My radio lets me see all of the HF spectrum at once. Zooming in to the 28 to 28.45mhz area, you can see everyone who is participating. Pretty awesome! http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3729/10175968294_a0143cb3ff_o.png

I'm not quite shocked.

I see what you did there.

Boiling water is 100C, Coffee is made with boiling water.
Some degrees less by cooling and you get to 85C to 90C. And that is what I would expect coffee to be and that is what it was.
So unless she ordered an ice coffee or they made the coffee superheated in the container or threw the coffee in that persons lap, I would say stupidity from the customer.

If you are stoopid enough to put that in your lap in a moving vehicle, then that is YOUR fault. If I spill my milkshake, I do not expect them to clean my car.

If I burn my lips on a flaming sambucca, who can I sue? And yes, the burn were horrifying, but that is not related to the fact that it was HER stupidity. One again:
1) Boiling water is hot
2) Coffee is made with boiling water
3) A moving car is not stable
If those three do not make you able to deduct that you should not put coffee near your person in a driving vehicle, then you should be labeled as a person unfit to do their own purchases.

Oblig.

It isn't just slashdot either. Extraordinary claims + no extraordinary evidence = BAM front page of major news site + accepted as fact by 1/3 of our facebook friends.

This story is far fetched and is definately not the simplest possible explanation. I call bullshit. Slashdot should know better.

This pic says it better than I can.

I'd go with Rocks

"the professionals at the NSA" Huh? You mean those two guys, Gen. Clapper and Gen. Alexander, who lied before congress? Or do you mean the fellow who took his oath, both in the US Army and to his gov't, seriously? http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5324/9015134540_462a8637a0_b.jpg

Strange how no-one "rejected change" in any other office version.

What change? Seriously, what was the big UI change between Office 95, 98, 2000, and 2003 that people would have objected to?

Word 5.1 for the Macintosh was obviously the best version ever.
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Interestingly, it has a floating sidebar.

I agree, although red pandas do have bush tails they also have distinct rings on it and markings on their faces which are not shown on this logo which is obviously a fox.

Still a Concept Car. :-)

Your are not paid to THINK ....

Meet the casts of Code.org and FWD.us

Are you being dense?

No. I'm thinking, based on what info Apple has provided so far on this specific machine, rather than making assumptions. You should try it.

You have six TB ports, which are Mini-DisplayPort compatible

You're making an assumption here, when Apple has, this far, said the machine can drive three monitors. Your assumption may, or may not, be a good one. I, on the other hand, am not making any assumptions. However, if it turns out that all of these can drive monitors, that's good, but then that leaves me with firewire drives, which isn't.

Where do you put put it? You put the new Pro and an good external RAID box, and maybe a nice potted plant, in the huge empty space on your desk left by not having a huge tower case full of fans.

You assume I want a raid box. I don't. You assume all this will have a smaller and safer footprint than a current gen mac pro. It won't. You're going to need power strips, power bricks, and HD bricks *at a minimum*. As for space, the old Mac Pro (I have an 8-core, externally physically like the current gen), and do you see it inconveniencing me here? No, you don't. And I don't plan to go there, either.

(I might have to take that back. I think the USSR did something similar. Made a really pretty lake, if I recall, but they could never keep it stocked with fish. But I can’t find a link so it might be my imagination.)

You are thinking of Lake Chagan, part of the "Nuclear Explosions for the National Economy" project that Russia did.

It does seem to be quite pretty.

What pumps? I believe the locks are gravity fed..

This is what happens when you don't use bull fertilizer.
Have you ever seen a more pathetic harvest?

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Of course.

Look at the punishments in Buddhism.
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The problem with your argument is that you are ignoring the salient detail which drives the greenhouse effect.

Dear "Webmaster", nobody cares about your shitty website packed full of annoying ads. Get over it already.

If someone clicks the Google Image Search 'high-resolution' link for one of my photos from Flickr, they get a medium-resolution version with no description, attribution or copyright information. (Example search page here.

If they go to the ad-free Flickr page, they get links to much higher resolution versions, associated images and also get informed that it's under a super-open Creative Commons Attribution licence.

Differentials in air temperature, density, and content (moisture etc) cause tiny amounts of refracting. This adds up to cause the beam to "jitter"

This gets worse as the distance increases. The same phenomena is why earth-bound telescopes don't hold a candle to space telescopes such as the Hubble.

It's worth mentioning that the summary proposes the subscription model to justify theater upgrades:

" Thousands of independent theaters that couldn't afford equipment upgrades have closed over the last 10 years, according to industry experts. Hundreds of others — which, like the Met, still show print films — remain on the brink. The subscription business model could pay for the new equipment. "

Keep in mind that there are plenty of independent movie theaters which play older/obscure/foreign movies, and having character and not being newfangled everything is part of the experience. San Diego's Ken Cinema, being a good example. Before the movie starts they throw out huge balloons everybody swats around, there are no annoying ushers to see if you're sneaking in the drink, and they play movies you wouldn't find at an AMC, like Pink Flamingos*. The only downside of that theater being that it's in a neighborhood infested with grown up hipster-sissies. Still, those are the theaters which deserve my money. If I wanted to see predictable, stale crap like Transformers 5 or X-men 10 I'd reach for the torrent.

* Whoa, man. What a fucked up movie. A lot of it's chatty gay humor, but where else are you gonna see the main character (a man in drag) suck her son's cock, a man fucking two (real) dead chickens, and a finale of eating dog shit.

-- Ethanol-fueled

You know, that doesn't work for everyone. It sounds great when it works for YOU, but it's entirely possible to eat reasonably, exercise a lot, and *still* not lose weight. I exercise five days a week, two hours a day, and I'm not talking light exercise. I don't eat sweets, I don't drink, I control my carbs, I make sure I don't drown in meat proteins... I *love* veggies and eat them every day, both salads and side dishes, and I *still* have trouble controlling my weight. Yeah, I'm strong and have stamina and flexibility -- all important targets for my undertakings -- but the fat wants to hang around regardless. I have *never* been "cut." Kinda sleek looking like a seal back in my teenage days, pretty big through the chest and shoulders, but even then I carried extra weight (i'm talking fat) on my thighs and ass. And I was active as hell. Caving, swimming, martial arts, biking, dragging musical equipment from gig to gig, rope climbing, pushing lawn mowers... I hardly ever sat still.

Today I have students that are so cut, so defined, so obviously on the extreme low end of the body fat range it would make you cry... and if that didn't do it, watching them wolf down $15 worth of McDonald's poison surely would. I can't eat that crap at *all* or my weight takes right off. Not that I really want to, but still, the message is clear: What makes me fat doesn't make you fat, and so forth.

Everyone's experience is not the same. Metabolism, infection, allergies, immune system fuckarows and Darwin knows what else...

"Exercise and eat healthy food" is not a universal prescription for "control body fat." It's just a good start for baseline health.

I wouldn't be the least bit surprised if someone identifies one (or more) independent factors that drive fat retention. I've suspected it for years.

National Treasure 3 (2014). Here's a still photo from the set. :-)