So - marry one. Plenty of women are socially awkward nerds, and the Internet means it is now possible to meet them. Mind you, as a socially awkward nerd married to a woman who does all the social stuff for both of us and likes to have someone dependable who ensures that all the infrastructure just works and brings in good money - I recommend this too.
Mitsubishi abandoned hub motors for its miev precisely because they make the unsprung weight too high. The results is poor handling as the wheels bounce around. It is better to go down the Toyota route with a hybrid design that uses two electric motors to provide the variable gearing (there are explanations on the Web). The Yaris hybrid already achieves 79g/km for carbon dioxide emissions using an optimised gasoline engine, and a Diesel variant wouldn't be worth the additional build, servicing and repair cost.
What do you think Samsung are telling the channel right now? Despite its profitability, Apple is scared. Better not get stuck with too much Apple stock....and that mini iPad is pretty lame for the money...how about a nice promotion on the Note 2?
The judge in question (I think Jacobs) commented that was ridiculous and invited Tim Cook to take the stand and justify it. Apple really hasn't understood that in this country judges are just as bolshy and independent as are federal US judges, and have absolutely no love for US corporations. And if they don't understand technology, their kids will explain it to them.
I'm delighted about this outcome because I thought that the Appeal Court would be very pissed off with Apple and my lawyer kid said no, business as usual. First time in a long time I've been proven right on a commercial legal matter.
In fact film formats were 1.5 to 1 (35mm and 6x9), 4:3 (15 on 120), 4:5 (plate formats) and square. I have used all of these and I feel that 4:5 is overall the best for static images. But it is inconvenient for laptops. 16 by 9 is tolerable, but then for actual work I stack two monitors vertically which gives 2160 by 1920 - a good compromise for development. For anybody over 40, monitor size is far more important than minute pixels.
As someone who was nearly killed by measles and who could have died of the 76 flu had I note been treated, I suggest that you are writing nonsense. Mind you, the reference to replacing metal fillings with ceramic rather gives away where you're coming from.
Yes a tiny number of people have died of vaccines. Have you any idea of how many would have died without them?
Vaccination has been around since the 19th century and smallpox has returned as a major killer...oh not it hasn't. In fact there were discussions some years ago about whether it was right to keep ANY smallpox virus at all in the world for research. (In case the North Koreans or the North Americans were developing a resistant strain).
At the time I was playing field games all year, could easily run five miles, and was getting a very good diet. I was in bed for 10 days with the 76 flu. I later learned that with many viruses the exact opposite of what you claim is the truth - plenty of exercise results in muscle cell damage which makes it easier for the virus to enter them, so athletic people can suffer worse than sedentary people. Poliomyelitis is another one that can do this.
You are confusing completely different things. Vaccines have generally been extremely safe and effective, despite some arseholes trying to spread fud about them for commercial gain (you can easily find who I mean). Drugs...recent drugs have tended to be ineffective and a lot has been spent on dodgy trials and high pressure salesmanship.
Having said that I was laid out for two days solid by this year's flu vaccine and really would like to see a better one.
My first company PC was a Dell with a 12.5HMz 286 CPU that cost $4500 in about1986. My first development laptop running a modern OS cost over $3000. My current development laptop is an Asus N56V with 22nm i7, 16G of RAM, a 1920 by 1080 screen, and cost about $1200. It runs SQL Server 2012 and every IDE I need far more than adequately. Development machines aren't a huge market anyway, but the truth is you do not have to pay MacBook prices for the ability to run loads of phone and tablet VMs (OK, not Apple...but Android and BB OS 10, for starters) and do effective development.
If anything, if working computers become less mainstream and more aligned to production needs, some of the more annoying features should go away.
Learn some physiology of vision. As we age, our lenses lose adaptation, so we cannot change the distance of focus easily. Contact lenses do not fix this; in fact they are less use than glasses. My resting focal point is about a metre. This means that I can drive, walk around etc. with no problems, but I find it hard to use a laptop screen under 15 inches. If I had contacts to see closer, I would need glasses when walking around or I would bump into things. So I would need two sets of equipment to get the same utility I get now with one cheap pair of reading glasses (actually I have 4 sets, left in the house, office and so on so I don't forget them.)
I still use a webOS phone (Palm Pre 3) because the UI is so good that I can use it easily despite being over 60 and moderately long sighted. One of the mistakes RIM made is that current Blackberries are almost impossible to use for older people without glasses, and as the platform has aged so have the users.
I don't know what I will do when HP pulls the plug or the hardware dies: perhaps a Note 2. But it is silly that to get the same ease of use as a phone with a 3.6 inch screen, I should be looking at one over 5 inches.
I think few atheists who know anything about it would argue that, in their time and context, Jesus's teachings were bad. But that isn't enough for sectarian Christians. Their identity tends to be bound up with a positively tribal interpretation of Christianity; in fact, Protestants may hate Protestants of a slightly different sect more than they hate Muslims or Catholics, because it is easier to hate someone where you can point to an exact area of disagreement. In the same way, the present "Pope" is more opposed to the Catholic theologian Hans Kung than to married priests joining the Catholic Church from the Church of England. (I put "Pope" in quotes because I personally regard him as an anti-Pope. But that's just me: I'm an agnostic).
Edwina Currie (former British politician) just revealed that when she married out from Judaism her father refused ever to speak to her again. Yet her father was a nonobservant Jew, an atheist. Now there is a high level example of failure, not only to re-evaluate your views, but even to do so in the interests of consistency. So - even having a real problem resulting from those views may not be enough.
No, they are exposed to an extremely partial story. It is easy enough to understand. Suppose I said to you "There is a thing called a car which is a moving vehicle powered by a series of explosions." You would probably think of reasons why that was very unlikely; wouldn't people be harmed by the explosions? Wouldn't it go along in a series of jerks?
Creationists have been told, in effect, that scientists believe that living things arose from non-living matter by a process of random aggregation. Placed in context with the idea that the Earth is 6000 years old, this is clearly unbelievable. It is necessary to know a great deal - about the actual age of the Universe, what is known about the early Earth, some basic biochemistry - before you can start to hold any meaningful opinion about evolution by natural selection. During the 19th century it took scientists the best part of a hundred years to understand just how old the Earth was. The body of knowledge collected was enormous - rates of erosion of rock, the meaning of the fossil record and stratification, what the Coal Measures actually were. Even so, it wasn't until the 20th century that a mechanism - radioactivity - was discovered that explained how the Universe could be that old and still have active stars in it.
Creationists do not know that stuff. They, in my experience, may have a technician level understanding of a science - even physicians are basically technicians, which is how you can have medical doctors who are Creationists - but not the kind of broad appreciation of the scientific hinterland that is needed to grasp just why evolution, the Big Bang and so are are generally accepted by scientists.
The rest of the educated population mostly takes the conclusions of scientists in trust - in, say, Europe - but elsewhere they will listen to whoever seems to have the most authority.
This was a pre-Internet, left wing/anarchic/anti-religion British version of Peanuts. I wish I had kept the books...anyway, it featured the Pooliverse. The eyeballs in the sky
If there is anything which is an aesthetic offence on the water, it is the Eurostyle powerboat. By the 1930s, with the exception of some aspects of underwater design, pretty much everything was known about how to design a power boat. My wife's grandfather was an officer on the Cutty Sark, which was an early 20th century sailing ship, and already they had composite construction and remarkably good performance. The use of alumin(i)um post WW2 has made quite a difference to boat design, but not always for the better (it doesn't lend itself to the same fair curves as plank construction). So "Throwback to the 30's"? Hardly. It looks more like a post-WW2 German river cruiser.
It's a strange combination. The topsides (above waterline hull) looks like a WW1 cruiser, only fatter and with a much higher freeboard. The rest of it looks like a Bauhaus bus shelter. It looks as if it should suffer quite badly from gusting due to the large surface exposed to wind and the lack of any tumblehome on the house, or overhang on the windows.
It looks like a boat designed by two people who weren't actually interested in boats or why good ones look the way they do. Let's just hope for the crew's sake that a proper marine architect was engaged for all the bits below the waterline.
I seem to recall meeting Imran Khan once, at Lords. I've also seen the website of the 'Heartland Institute'. I'll take Imran Khan over a neoFascist website any day.
My family is slightly infested with lawyers, and my observation can easily be verified. If you have evidence of judicial corruption it is your duty to lay it before the CPS - there are rare cases of judicial corruption and they get prosecuted.
That I don't know for certain that the Appeal judges use Blackberries. It was just a throwaway observation - BB is still popular in the UK, though iPhones are also common in the legal profession. If this makes anyone to mod the parent overrated, please feel free.
The UK can use the resulting trickle-down money from our legal system. English commercial courts are increasingly used as international courts because it's recognised that English judges are pretty corruption-proof; no-one has ever made that claim about courts in California or Texas, say. Well, perhaps they have, but then did anyone take it very seriously?
It was three Appeal judges. This sort of thing really is a mistake where they are concerned, and I imagine they will be contacting one another about it on their Blackberries. If Apple now goes to the UK Supreme Court, they will not be very popular.
Microsoft does have to be congratulated on a better choice of materials than Apple. Using a magnesium alloy chassis with vapor deposited coating makes a lot of sense. It is lighter than aluminum and the chipping problem on the iPhone 5 should not happen. Having seen the demos, I might even buy one, and I am a serial Microsoft avoider. It looks as if it has some real advantages over the Asus Transformer line, and avoids most of the bad features of the iPad.
The share price is currently in the deepest fall for a while. The load of new announcements did nothing to change this. They have apparently issued a 13Q1 income warning. Remember the claims they would soon hit $1000? If the hype ever starts to be doubted, a lot of people will lose money even if the company is very profitable, and those people will express their displeasure. The fact that they are gamblers doesn't make things any better for them.
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So - marry one. Plenty of women are socially awkward nerds, and the Internet means it is now possible to meet them. Mind you, as a socially awkward nerd married to a woman who does all the social stuff for both of us and likes to have someone dependable who ensures that all the infrastructure just works and brings in good money - I recommend this too.
Mitsubishi abandoned hub motors for its miev precisely because they make the unsprung weight too high. The results is poor handling as the wheels bounce around. It is better to go down the Toyota route with a hybrid design that uses two electric motors to provide the variable gearing (there are explanations on the Web). The Yaris hybrid already achieves 79g/km for carbon dioxide emissions using an optimised gasoline engine, and a Diesel variant wouldn't be worth the additional build, servicing and repair cost.
What do you think Samsung are telling the channel right now? Despite its profitability, Apple is scared. Better not get stuck with too much Apple stock....and that mini iPad is pretty lame for the money...how about a nice promotion on the Note 2?
I'm delighted about this outcome because I thought that the Appeal Court would be very pissed off with Apple and my lawyer kid said no, business as usual. First time in a long time I've been proven right on a commercial legal matter.
In fact film formats were 1.5 to 1 (35mm and 6x9), 4:3 (15 on 120), 4:5 (plate formats) and square. I have used all of these and I feel that 4:5 is overall the best for static images. But it is inconvenient for laptops. 16 by 9 is tolerable, but then for actual work I stack two monitors vertically which gives 2160 by 1920 - a good compromise for development. For anybody over 40, monitor size is far more important than minute pixels.
Yes a tiny number of people have died of vaccines. Have you any idea of how many would have died without them?
Vaccination has been around since the 19th century and smallpox has returned as a major killer...oh not it hasn't. In fact there were discussions some years ago about whether it was right to keep ANY smallpox virus at all in the world for research. (In case the North Koreans or the North Americans were developing a resistant strain).
At the time I was playing field games all year, could easily run five miles, and was getting a very good diet. I was in bed for 10 days with the 76 flu. I later learned that with many viruses the exact opposite of what you claim is the truth - plenty of exercise results in muscle cell damage which makes it easier for the virus to enter them, so athletic people can suffer worse than sedentary people. Poliomyelitis is another one that can do this.
Having said that I was laid out for two days solid by this year's flu vaccine and really would like to see a better one.
If anything, if working computers become less mainstream and more aligned to production needs, some of the more annoying features should go away.
Learn some physiology of vision. As we age, our lenses lose adaptation, so we cannot change the distance of focus easily. Contact lenses do not fix this; in fact they are less use than glasses. My resting focal point is about a metre. This means that I can drive, walk around etc. with no problems, but I find it hard to use a laptop screen under 15 inches. If I had contacts to see closer, I would need glasses when walking around or I would bump into things. So I would need two sets of equipment to get the same utility I get now with one cheap pair of reading glasses (actually I have 4 sets, left in the house, office and so on so I don't forget them.)
I don't know what I will do when HP pulls the plug or the hardware dies: perhaps a Note 2. But it is silly that to get the same ease of use as a phone with a 3.6 inch screen, I should be looking at one over 5 inches.
I think few atheists who know anything about it would argue that, in their time and context, Jesus's teachings were bad. But that isn't enough for sectarian Christians. Their identity tends to be bound up with a positively tribal interpretation of Christianity; in fact, Protestants may hate Protestants of a slightly different sect more than they hate Muslims or Catholics, because it is easier to hate someone where you can point to an exact area of disagreement. In the same way, the present "Pope" is more opposed to the Catholic theologian Hans Kung than to married priests joining the Catholic Church from the Church of England. (I put "Pope" in quotes because I personally regard him as an anti-Pope. But that's just me: I'm an agnostic).
Edwina Currie (former British politician) just revealed that when she married out from Judaism her father refused ever to speak to her again. Yet her father was a nonobservant Jew, an atheist. Now there is a high level example of failure, not only to re-evaluate your views, but even to do so in the interests of consistency. So - even having a real problem resulting from those views may not be enough.
Creationists have been told, in effect, that scientists believe that living things arose from non-living matter by a process of random aggregation. Placed in context with the idea that the Earth is 6000 years old, this is clearly unbelievable. It is necessary to know a great deal - about the actual age of the Universe, what is known about the early Earth, some basic biochemistry - before you can start to hold any meaningful opinion about evolution by natural selection. During the 19th century it took scientists the best part of a hundred years to understand just how old the Earth was. The body of knowledge collected was enormous - rates of erosion of rock, the meaning of the fossil record and stratification, what the Coal Measures actually were. Even so, it wasn't until the 20th century that a mechanism - radioactivity - was discovered that explained how the Universe could be that old and still have active stars in it.
Creationists do not know that stuff. They, in my experience, may have a technician level understanding of a science - even physicians are basically technicians, which is how you can have medical doctors who are Creationists - but not the kind of broad appreciation of the scientific hinterland that is needed to grasp just why evolution, the Big Bang and so are are generally accepted by scientists.
The rest of the educated population mostly takes the conclusions of scientists in trust - in, say, Europe - but elsewhere they will listen to whoever seems to have the most authority.
This was a pre-Internet, left wing/anarchic/anti-religion British version of Peanuts. I wish I had kept the books...anyway, it featured the Pooliverse. The eyeballs in the sky
If there is anything which is an aesthetic offence on the water, it is the Eurostyle powerboat. By the 1930s, with the exception of some aspects of underwater design, pretty much everything was known about how to design a power boat. My wife's grandfather was an officer on the Cutty Sark, which was an early 20th century sailing ship, and already they had composite construction and remarkably good performance. The use of alumin(i)um post WW2 has made quite a difference to boat design, but not always for the better (it doesn't lend itself to the same fair curves as plank construction). So "Throwback to the 30's"? Hardly. It looks more like a post-WW2 German river cruiser.
It looks like a boat designed by two people who weren't actually interested in boats or why good ones look the way they do. Let's just hope for the crew's sake that a proper marine architect was engaged for all the bits below the waterline.
I seem to recall meeting Imran Khan once, at Lords. I've also seen the website of the 'Heartland Institute'. I'll take Imran Khan over a neoFascist website any day.
My family is slightly infested with lawyers, and my observation can easily be verified. If you have evidence of judicial corruption it is your duty to lay it before the CPS - there are rare cases of judicial corruption and they get prosecuted.
That I don't know for certain that the Appeal judges use Blackberries. It was just a throwaway observation - BB is still popular in the UK, though iPhones are also common in the legal profession. If this makes anyone to mod the parent overrated, please feel free.
The UK can use the resulting trickle-down money from our legal system. English commercial courts are increasingly used as international courts because it's recognised that English judges are pretty corruption-proof; no-one has ever made that claim about courts in California or Texas, say. Well, perhaps they have, but then did anyone take it very seriously?
It was three Appeal judges. This sort of thing really is a mistake where they are concerned, and I imagine they will be contacting one another about it on their Blackberries. If Apple now goes to the UK Supreme Court, they will not be very popular.
Microsoft does have to be congratulated on a better choice of materials than Apple. Using a magnesium alloy chassis with vapor deposited coating makes a lot of sense. It is lighter than aluminum and the chipping problem on the iPhone 5 should not happen. Having seen the demos, I might even buy one, and I am a serial Microsoft avoider. It looks as if it has some real advantages over the Asus Transformer line, and avoids most of the bad features of the iPad.
The share price is currently in the deepest fall for a while. The load of new announcements did nothing to change this. They have apparently issued a 13Q1 income warning. Remember the claims they would soon hit $1000? If the hype ever starts to be doubted, a lot of people will lose money even if the company is very profitable, and those people will express their displeasure. The fact that they are gamblers doesn't make things any better for them.