Because it doesn't make a difference if you're simply looking at a DATE OF BIRTH. It's not like their passport says "16 years old"... usually a document will state something like "DOB: XX-XX-1992". Therefore, East Asian age reckoning is irrelevant in this situation.
Wow, thanks for that. I've run across that site several times, and always get ticked that I can see a solution post in the google results, yet when I click I get the subscription crap. I always gave up before scrolling down far enough.
"It might possibly work out" does not make it a good strategic move. They have no legal basis for their threats, and their lawyers are morons if they think they do. I highly doubt any court is going to side with them and agree that simply pointing to publicly available information is illegal. You think they'd try the same stunt against Slashdot or Google? Probably not. It is, in fact, an idiotic move that will only cause the Streisand effect and a whole lot of negative publicity. If you don't want it out in public, secure it (you can't argue that it was secured AT ALL when any browser can get it) and don't complain when people find it.
Your Blackberry 8800 has an actual GPS receiver in it...TFA is talking about triangulating your location based on cell tower locations. Completely different. This is meant for phones WITHOUT GPS.
It may not be as accurate as full-on GPS, but now you can do searches for nearby businesses...without having to type in your location. I don't know how many times I've been looking for something NEARBY and either didn't know what zip code or city I was in (keep in mind in a place like LA, something might be nearby but technically in a different city, and sometimes it wouldn't find things unless you gave it specific locations - I know this from experience). I finally resorted to doing a browser Google search because the maps app just wasn't finding stuff.
I've also noticed that now, when you search without putting in a location (i.e. "pizza" instead of "pizza los angeles ca") it will search the nearby area visible on the map. With the previous version, for some reason, it kept giving me locations in the UK when I didn't specify a city/state in the US instead of just searching the area of the map that was currently visible.
Too bad the "My Location" feature doesn't currently work on Sprint Touch and Mogul phones (whether this is a Google or Sprint thing, who knows...) as it says the phones aren't reporting any cell towers (you can see this in Help>About where it says "myl: N/A". Oh, well...hopefully it will work sometime in the future.
I use an SLA machine on a daily basis (a Spectrum Z510 from Z Corporation). It's the powder/curing fluid type rather than the gel/laser type that used to be more common (and more pricy and slower). They are NOT meant for making many copies, I don't know why you hold this against them. They are PROTOTYPING machines. I can create a 3-D model in SolidWorks or any other CAD program and have a 3-D part in a matter of minutes or a couple of hours. This is what rapid prototyping machines are FOR. Do you know how long it takes to create tooling (even pilot tooling meant for only limited pieces and not full production runs) for injection molded plastic parts, and how expensive it is? When all you need to do is have a physical copy of a 3-D model you have on the computer in order to visualize it, show it to customers, put it into other assemblies to see how it looks, ect...SLA machines are absolutely incredible. It's not "misplaced enthusiasm"... you're just confused about their true purpose.
The iPhone is a GSM handset (for now at least), I'm assuming the GP means he wants to keep his Verizon (CDMA) service...the two network types aren't compatible.
Hmm...I was wondering why, for the first time ever, I was having trouble sleeping...since I normally have trouble staying awake. Didn't even think about the fact that I had quit cold turkey...makes sense. Luckily it's back to normal...although I seem to get pissed off easily and I'm only on my third week...haha
An example, it's illegal to drive drunk (surprise!:-) ) in many countries, but in the US the police can't stop to check unless you do anything else illegal.
I used to think this, but I wonder about the sobriety checkpoints and roadblocks some PD's set up. I have no idea how they get away with this, really...it's like a cop walking up to you on the street and asking what you've been doing all evening just to see if you MAY have done something illegal. Is this some kind of right to privacy we give up when getting a DL? I don't remember ever seeing any 'terms and conditions' when getting my license, but who knows...it's been a while.
I am by no means advocating drinking and driving, but I certainly don't like to be stopped an questioned on suspicion WITHOUT probable cause. Ah, well that's my $0.02...carry on...
So, you're right. A blackberry does do most everything the iPhone does, but from all that we've seen, I'm thinking that the iPhone just does it a little nicer. And I think that matters to consumers.
Also a Pearl owner here and a long time Blackberry addict...and I have to say that your statement may hold true for consumers who want multimedia, but someone who does a lot of messaging (as do most Blackberry owners) will rarely consider a device without a keyboard. I'm having a hard enough time dealing with SureType, and sure miss my QWERTY. I wouldn't ever give it up for a device with an on-screen keyboard. The iPhone means nothing to me as a phone/messaging device.
Besides, I have 10 albums stored on my Pearl with a 2GB card and room to spare...the MP3 player works great, interrupts calls which you can answer through the headset, and you can even voice dial from the headphones as well. As much as I love having my entire collection on my iPod, I'd NEVER give up having a phone with a keyboard just to get better multimedia. The iPhone doing things "a little nicer" than a Blackberry is, in my opinion, completely irrelevant when it doesn't have a keyboard!
You're talking about both cost of production, and PRICE, which are two different things. Theft and fraud DO bring price up, even though they don't directly affect the cost of production. Ever heard of shrinkage?
I don't know if it will work for you, but I was able to velcro the Scan Gauge to the top of my rearview mirror and route the cable down the headliner and down the A-Pillar. It was a stretch, and had to sorta cut straight to the OBD-II connector once it got behind the instrument cluster, but it worked.
Also, it looks like CAT-5, so if it is, you might be able to make your own cable as long as you need it.
The gauge works great above the mirror, it doesn't move, and it's easy to view.
As far as the USB plans, I have no idea...last I heard, they were due out at the end of last year - so either they got dropped, or REALLY delayed.
100% agreed, you just said what was going through my head as I read the summary. I don't understand why the submitter needs to attack eBay in this regard. The Lifetime Achievement Award - you know, the actual subject of the article - seems to fade behind all this eBay bashing. What, are we going to say eBay is evil because they allow people to buy and sell ANYTHING that can be used as a weapon, or PART of a weapon? Please...
I live in Virginia, know several engineering students at Tech, and have friends who were in that building that day, I know students of the teachers that died, and I know people who lost friends in the massacre. It hit me pretty close to home, being so near to everything and everyone, so I am by no means downplaying the events that happened that day.
I was just bothered by the way this summary completely shifts the focus from the article, and turns it into senseless eBay bashing.
Or, you know, check their logs to see who was logged in at the time of the alleged downloads. They DO make you log in, right? My school did...but who knows.
On topic: One city is plenty fine, especially given what I've seen so far. I'd be interested to see how much of the interior spaces are accessible. Anybody have info on that?
I hear you can actually take the hookers into a hotel room, which is a bit more classy than the backseat of a stolen car. You can even beat them over the head with a lamp from the nightstand and take your money back, rather than having to resort to an old baseball bat.
"'Unlike a helicopter, though, this is aerodynamically neutral and you can bump into walls and not smash the rotor,' said the inventor.
"And, unlike a hovercraft, you can fly it as high as you want.'
The dome-shaped object is powered by an electricity-driven propeller on top that pushes air over the outer surfaces, and has controllable flaps. Geoff's Flying Saucers - the original name for his GFS Projects company - are based on an aerodynamic principle that has been around for nearly 100 years.
Known as the Coanda Effect, after a Romanian jet-engine pioneer, the principle is today used primarily in helicopters that have no tail rotors."
Sounds to me like it's even less complicated than a traditional helicopter. The blades in a traditional helicopter go through some incredibly complex motion. From the pictures in TFA, it looks to me like this is a simple propeller. Rather than relying on complicated mechanisms on the blades, it exploits the properties of the working fluid (air in this case). The adjustable flaps over that outer surface look simple enough.
Seems to me like a lot less complex, mechanically, than the helicopters we've been deploying to wars for decades.
"Meanwhile, the recording industry association continues to give the impression that it's doing something by occasionally threatening to sue college students who share their record collections online. But apart from scaring the dickens out of a few dozen kids, that's just an amusing sideshow."
Threatening to sue? Has the NY Times not noticed that they actually ARE suing a bunch of people? I think the amount of time and money that has been spent in courtrooms over actual lawsuits is a little more than "just an amusing sideshow."
I dislike the RIAA as much as the next guy, but I just couldn't help noticing that this article downplays the RIAA lawsuits quite a bit...it's not like they're not doing anything, they're just doing the WRONG things.
Wow, I wasn't even aware of that. I used to subscribe to Y! Music Unlimited and my first (and only) digital album purchase was an album through them, in 2005. Later that year (or perhaps early '06), I tried to play the album on my new computer, only to find out I couldn't do it because of DRM. I was extremely pissed off, to the point that I cancelled my subscription and wrote them a nasty feedback letter regarding their DRM. I told them I had been a happy camper until then, but would have no more of their DRM'd music.I guess I wasn't the only one to voice my opinion, and I guess they actually listened.
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Sure, why don't you have a seat right over here...
I swear I used to work near that person. I saw that plate on a small yellow Mazda wagon. I loved it.
Because it doesn't make a difference if you're simply looking at a DATE OF BIRTH. It's not like their passport says "16 years old" ... usually a document will state something like "DOB: XX-XX-1992". Therefore, East Asian age reckoning is irrelevant in this situation.
Wow, thanks for that. I've run across that site several times, and always get ticked that I can see a solution post in the google results, yet when I click I get the subscription crap. I always gave up before scrolling down far enough.
"It might possibly work out" does not make it a good strategic move. They have no legal basis for their threats, and their lawyers are morons if they think they do. I highly doubt any court is going to side with them and agree that simply pointing to publicly available information is illegal. You think they'd try the same stunt against Slashdot or Google? Probably not. It is, in fact, an idiotic move that will only cause the Streisand effect and a whole lot of negative publicity. If you don't want it out in public, secure it (you can't argue that it was secured AT ALL when any browser can get it) and don't complain when people find it.
Dammit man, we already had a car analogy going, and you had to go and reply with one that makes sense...
I almost spit out my water there...thanks...
Your Blackberry 8800 has an actual GPS receiver in it...TFA is talking about triangulating your location based on cell tower locations. Completely different. This is meant for phones WITHOUT GPS.
It may not be as accurate as full-on GPS, but now you can do searches for nearby businesses...without having to type in your location. I don't know how many times I've been looking for something NEARBY and either didn't know what zip code or city I was in (keep in mind in a place like LA, something might be nearby but technically in a different city, and sometimes it wouldn't find things unless you gave it specific locations - I know this from experience). I finally resorted to doing a browser Google search because the maps app just wasn't finding stuff.
I've also noticed that now, when you search without putting in a location (i.e. "pizza" instead of "pizza los angeles ca") it will search the nearby area visible on the map. With the previous version, for some reason, it kept giving me locations in the UK when I didn't specify a city/state in the US instead of just searching the area of the map that was currently visible.
Too bad the "My Location" feature doesn't currently work on Sprint Touch and Mogul phones (whether this is a Google or Sprint thing, who knows...) as it says the phones aren't reporting any cell towers (you can see this in Help>About where it says "myl: N/A". Oh, well...hopefully it will work sometime in the future.
I use an SLA machine on a daily basis (a Spectrum Z510 from Z Corporation). It's the powder/curing fluid type rather than the gel/laser type that used to be more common (and more pricy and slower). They are NOT meant for making many copies, I don't know why you hold this against them. They are PROTOTYPING machines. I can create a 3-D model in SolidWorks or any other CAD program and have a 3-D part in a matter of minutes or a couple of hours. This is what rapid prototyping machines are FOR. Do you know how long it takes to create tooling (even pilot tooling meant for only limited pieces and not full production runs) for injection molded plastic parts, and how expensive it is? When all you need to do is have a physical copy of a 3-D model you have on the computer in order to visualize it, show it to customers, put it into other assemblies to see how it looks, ect...SLA machines are absolutely incredible. It's not "misplaced enthusiasm" ... you're just confused about their true purpose.
The iPhone is a GSM handset (for now at least), I'm assuming the GP means he wants to keep his Verizon (CDMA) service...the two network types aren't compatible.
Hmm...I was wondering why, for the first time ever, I was having trouble sleeping...since I normally have trouble staying awake. Didn't even think about the fact that I had quit cold turkey...makes sense. Luckily it's back to normal...although I seem to get pissed off easily and I'm only on my third week...haha
An example, it's illegal to drive drunk (surprise! :-) ) in many countries, but in the US the police can't stop to check unless you do anything else illegal.
I used to think this, but I wonder about the sobriety checkpoints and roadblocks some PD's set up. I have no idea how they get away with this, really...it's like a cop walking up to you on the street and asking what you've been doing all evening just to see if you MAY have done something illegal. Is this some kind of right to privacy we give up when getting a DL? I don't remember ever seeing any 'terms and conditions' when getting my license, but who knows...it's been a while.
I am by no means advocating drinking and driving, but I certainly don't like to be stopped an questioned on suspicion WITHOUT probable cause. Ah, well that's my $0.02...carry on...
So, you're right. A blackberry does do most everything the iPhone does, but from all that we've seen, I'm thinking that the iPhone just does it a little nicer. And I think that matters to consumers.
Also a Pearl owner here and a long time Blackberry addict...and I have to say that your statement may hold true for consumers who want multimedia, but someone who does a lot of messaging (as do most Blackberry owners) will rarely consider a device without a keyboard. I'm having a hard enough time dealing with SureType, and sure miss my QWERTY. I wouldn't ever give it up for a device with an on-screen keyboard. The iPhone means nothing to me as a phone/messaging device.
Besides, I have 10 albums stored on my Pearl with a 2GB card and room to spare...the MP3 player works great, interrupts calls which you can answer through the headset, and you can even voice dial from the headphones as well. As much as I love having my entire collection on my iPod, I'd NEVER give up having a phone with a keyboard just to get better multimedia. The iPhone doing things "a little nicer" than a Blackberry is, in my opinion, completely irrelevant when it doesn't have a keyboard!
Just my $0.02...
RTFA. It's not just that some people were PRETENDING to be children, there were, allegedly, groups in there trading actual illegal material within SL.
You're talking about both cost of production, and PRICE, which are two different things. Theft and fraud DO bring price up, even though they don't directly affect the cost of production. Ever heard of shrinkage?
I don't know if it will work for you, but I was able to velcro the Scan Gauge to the top of my rearview mirror and route the cable down the headliner and down the A-Pillar. It was a stretch, and had to sorta cut straight to the OBD-II connector once it got behind the instrument cluster, but it worked.
Also, it looks like CAT-5, so if it is, you might be able to make your own cable as long as you need it.
The gauge works great above the mirror, it doesn't move, and it's easy to view.
As far as the USB plans, I have no idea...last I heard, they were due out at the end of last year - so either they got dropped, or REALLY delayed.
100% agreed, you just said what was going through my head as I read the summary. I don't understand why the submitter needs to attack eBay in this regard. The Lifetime Achievement Award - you know, the actual subject of the article - seems to fade behind all this eBay bashing. What, are we going to say eBay is evil because they allow people to buy and sell ANYTHING that can be used as a weapon, or PART of a weapon? Please...
I live in Virginia, know several engineering students at Tech, and have friends who were in that building that day, I know students of the teachers that died, and I know people who lost friends in the massacre. It hit me pretty close to home, being so near to everything and everyone, so I am by no means downplaying the events that happened that day.
I was just bothered by the way this summary completely shifts the focus from the article, and turns it into senseless eBay bashing.
I don't think it's profit, I think it's "???" ...
Or, you know, check their logs to see who was logged in at the time of the alleged downloads. They DO make you log in, right? My school did...but who knows.
It's out to reproduce, that's its job.
How'd it get THAT job? I'm gonna kill my guidance counselor...
On topic: One city is plenty fine, especially given what I've seen so far. I'd be interested to see how much of the interior spaces are accessible. Anybody have info on that?
I hear you can actually take the hookers into a hotel room, which is a bit more classy than the backseat of a stolen car. You can even beat them over the head with a lamp from the nightstand and take your money back, rather than having to resort to an old baseball bat.
FTA:
"'Unlike a helicopter, though, this is aerodynamically neutral and you can bump into walls and not smash the rotor,' said the inventor.
"And, unlike a hovercraft, you can fly it as high as you want.'
The dome-shaped object is powered by an electricity-driven propeller on top that pushes air over the outer surfaces, and has controllable flaps.
Geoff's Flying Saucers - the original name for his GFS Projects company - are based on an aerodynamic principle that has been around for nearly 100 years.
Known as the Coanda Effect, after a Romanian jet-engine pioneer, the principle is today used primarily in helicopters that have no tail rotors."
Sounds to me like it's even less complicated than a traditional helicopter. The blades in a traditional helicopter go through some incredibly complex motion. From the pictures in TFA, it looks to me like this is a simple propeller. Rather than relying on complicated mechanisms on the blades, it exploits the properties of the working fluid (air in this case). The adjustable flaps over that outer surface look simple enough.
Seems to me like a lot less complex, mechanically, than the helicopters we've been deploying to wars for decades.
FTA:
"Meanwhile, the recording industry association continues to give the impression that it's doing something by occasionally threatening to sue college students who share their record collections online. But apart from scaring the dickens out of a few dozen kids, that's just an amusing sideshow."
Threatening to sue? Has the NY Times not noticed that they actually ARE suing a bunch of people? I think the amount of time and money that has been spent in courtrooms over actual lawsuits is a little more than "just an amusing sideshow."
I dislike the RIAA as much as the next guy, but I just couldn't help noticing that this article downplays the RIAA lawsuits quite a bit...it's not like they're not doing anything, they're just doing the WRONG things.
Wow, I wasn't even aware of that. I used to subscribe to Y! Music Unlimited and my first (and only) digital album purchase was an album through them, in 2005. Later that year (or perhaps early '06), I tried to play the album on my new computer, only to find out I couldn't do it because of DRM. I was extremely pissed off, to the point that I cancelled my subscription and wrote them a nasty feedback letter regarding their DRM. I told them I had been a happy camper until then, but would have no more of their DRM'd music .I guess I wasn't the only one to voice my opinion, and I guess they actually listened.