I remember my geology professor telling us this exact thing back in the 80's. Was College level geology professors teaching as fact something that was only a theory?
Why could they not have ran the same tests? Gas Chromatagraphs existed back then, so setting it up to crush a sample and then test the gasses released would have been trivial.
Windows 1.xx-2.xx - Crap Windows 3.11 Good Windows 95 - Crap Windows 98 - good windows ME - Crap Windows XP Good Windows Vista Crap Windows 7 Good Windows 8....
No I dont count NT and 2000 in there because those are Professional OS's and they both rocked.. 2000 Was better than 98 by a long shit because of the security and pro features. Problem is Windows 8 is a consumer home OS not a Professional OS.
Almost nobody wants the nearfield cards except for merchants and the banks. Because it's easier to spend they get more money.
Several of the fast food resturants around here, Mc Donalds for example had the readers outside the drive up windows and have cince removed them as nobody was using them. Even TARGET, has removed all the nearfield readers from all their stores.
I suggest looking at what the stores are doing and ignore the PR releases from the banks. No way in hell Mastercard is going to up the fees to mcdonalds, they cant afford to lose a giant company like them.
They already tried this in the USA with the stupid nearfield credit cards. it was an epic failure. Paypal has tried it several times and failed and is on their next failure with this technology.
People DO NOT WANT to have loosey Goosey access to their money. It is why you dont see RFID on all your groceries and a push and pay register at Walmart... if they could lay off almost all the cashiers forever they would.
Good luck canada, but Mastercard could not get enough banks and people to use their atempt, I think you will have about the same chance.
Yes global warming is real, but most of the nimrods are running around claiming that the Heat wave was proof of it. I got so sick of trying to explain it that I started saying, "yes, and it's going to go up another 4 degrees every month, you had better start selling your Florida property before others find out! Minnesota is the new florida buy land near fargo!
We have a car recycling center, they drop the cars intact on the conveyor and chop them into super tiny bits. they then use a magnet to get the ferrous metals out and a travelling magnet to fling the non ferrous out, the material stream is passed through the separators 4 times and all the metals come out. what is left is plastic and rubber parts. They recycle 20 cars an hour this way.
If you think they take cars apart, you are completely silly.
You are shoing significant ignorance by saying "THEY CANT BE REPAIRED" they can be. I have repaired several ipad2's iphone 4S's and others. All of this is just bullshit being spread around by the ignorant.
This sounds like the same crap when SMT components hit the market... "We cant fix things anymore" or when the transistor replaced tubes.
They CAN be repaired and a lot of people are doing it.
that actually started the day Jobs died. That company was 100% him. When he left the first time, they went into the toilet with stupid moves quite rapidly. Jobs came back with his iron fist and brought them back.
It seems the current executives threw out his playbook and are doing really stupid crap like suing everyone for everything. There is nobody leading that company that gives a rats ass about the companies image or it's longevity. Jobs and Woz started the company so they cared more for it than anyone else on the planet.
now you have a CEO that cares only about his bonuses and the size of his parachute. Apple will start going away from the direction it had and back to, "maximize profits at all costs, we must make the board and stockholders richer at the cost of the company."
A lot of people hated Jobs, but the man had the balls to tell the board to go Screw themselves and had a drive and vision that the current one does not.
Actually if I had my choice I would rather have an 11.5 inch ipad. I want an 8.5X11 or A5 size screen. but then I also want to have palm rejection and a wacom stylus integrated. 512 levels of pressure in an accurate stylus. It suddenly turns the tablet into a serious art and business device.
Then the cops need to have helmet cameras on all the time and all their footage available for public review all the time.
Police need to be held to a HIGHER standard than the public. They are sworn to serve and protect. I'm of the belief that an off duty cop should lose his job forever if he speeds.
"We're talking about the FUTURE here. Rewind 10 years and tell me you EVER thought you would be sitting around with 3 terabytes and 32GB of RAM inside your "personal" computer at home"
I still have that Mac tower that has 32 gig of ram in it that was new in 2002. It only has 1 TB in it for storage but it was the only choice for Huge ram back them, no Intel based computer could do over 16 gig of ram. and yes I needed it. I was editing HD video back them. And yes it was my personal computer, and no I was not stupid enough to buy he ram from apple. (Yes there was a trick to get 4gig sticks in there and have the system recognize and use it. I used 16 gig of the ram as a insanely fast ram-disk for rendering.)
Many of us, specifically the ones that create or are techies, will have a "PC" always. the Post PC era is for the appliance operators, the ones that treat the PC as a toaster, and it's about time this happened. I have always said that a computer is NOT what most people need, they need something that is like a game machine. Fixed OS they cant write to, and software as read only. Give them a space they can write to for storage and call it done. An Xbox360 or PS3 kind of device that is a home computer.
Luckily it's coming to pass. and all people that have done IT support in their life will rejoice.
Lower interest rates? I have yet to see a credit union that can offer a mortgage at the rate that the big banks do. and the credit union CD rates suck. They are less than the Interest bearing Checking account at my bank.
Credit unions used to be a great idea, but they are no different than banks, just smaller with less perks.
Server huts... so you get to work outside when you work on these things. Rain, snow, 120 degree heat. No thanks.
I worked long enough in the Cellular industry to be abused by working on these god-for-saken "huts" they think they invented... The Cellphone industry has had them cince the late 90's.. it's not new, they are not innovative. And they SUCK to work on.
"give it to Apple for free environmentally responsible disposal / recycling."
No, you GIVE IT to a techie nerd that does not make $40.00 an hour so they can take it apart and fix it. Only scumbags turn in tech for recycling. honest people put it up on freecycle or give it away to a local hacker group.
"You aren't understanding how the Internet works. If you had taps on all nodes at the same time and the data was encrypted end to end, then you would still be able to "see" who sent what when"
so if you do something impossible, you can then do the impossible.
Taps on all the exit nodes... That's the same as counting all the grains of sand on the beach.
i have a red thumb drive in my desk drawer that has written on it, IN CASE OF DEATH. It has a flat text file I update every 3 months that has all the information they need. plus it has photos of safety deposit keys so they can be replicated if not found. Plus a copy of my will in two forms. regular and as images showing my signature.
Wife knows where it is, once a year a copy is made and placed in the fire safe. Daughter knows as well. No releasing the info here is not a problem. none of you know where I live let alone what province or country. and none of you can get past the security system or the combination on the drawer (It's not 12345) Nor would you know what desk I am talking about, and if it actually has drawers or a secret compartment that if opened wrong fires a 10 gauge sawed off shotgun at your groin.
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Oh christ, your teeth will not BLACKEN.. they will mottle and turn a little brown. and it's highly rare.
No wonder you are modded Troll, you went so far overboard even the sharks in the water are looking at you with the "is he insane" look.
I remember my geology professor telling us this exact thing back in the 80's. Was College level geology professors teaching as fact something that was only a theory?
Why could they not have ran the same tests? Gas Chromatagraphs existed back then, so setting it up to crush a sample and then test the gasses released would have been trivial.
Windows 1.xx-2.xx - Crap ....
Windows 3.11 Good
Windows 95 - Crap
Windows 98 - good
windows ME - Crap
Windows XP Good
Windows Vista Crap
Windows 7 Good
Windows 8
No I dont count NT and 2000 in there because those are Professional OS's and they both rocked.. 2000 Was better than 98 by a long shit because of the security and pro features. Problem is Windows 8 is a consumer home OS not a Professional OS.
Almost nobody wants the nearfield cards except for merchants and the banks. Because it's easier to spend they get more money.
Several of the fast food resturants around here, Mc Donalds for example had the readers outside the drive up windows and have cince removed them as nobody was using them. Even TARGET, has removed all the nearfield readers from all their stores.
I suggest looking at what the stores are doing and ignore the PR releases from the banks. No way in hell Mastercard is going to up the fees to mcdonalds, they cant afford to lose a giant company like them.
They already tried this in the USA with the stupid nearfield credit cards. it was an epic failure. Paypal has tried it several times and failed and is on their next failure with this technology.
People DO NOT WANT to have loosey Goosey access to their money. It is why you dont see RFID on all your groceries and a push and pay register at Walmart... if they could lay off almost all the cashiers forever they would.
Good luck canada, but Mastercard could not get enough banks and people to use their atempt, I think you will have about the same chance.
What does the Higgs Boson taste like?
IT was hot this summer! GLOBAL WARMING!!!!
Yes global warming is real, but most of the nimrods are running around claiming that the Heat wave was proof of it. I got so sick of trying to explain it that I started saying, "yes, and it's going to go up another 4 degrees every month, you had better start selling your Florida property before others find out! Minnesota is the new florida buy land near fargo!
Wow you know nothing about recycling.
We have a car recycling center, they drop the cars intact on the conveyor and chop them into super tiny bits. they then use a magnet to get the ferrous metals out and a travelling magnet to fling the non ferrous out, the material stream is passed through the separators 4 times and all the metals come out. what is left is plastic and rubber parts. They recycle 20 cars an hour this way.
If you think they take cars apart, you are completely silly.
special solvents? I use fricking Goo gone.
any idiot can fix an iphone or ipad if you know how and have the right tools.
You are shoing significant ignorance by saying "THEY CANT BE REPAIRED" they can be. I have repaired several ipad2's iphone 4S's and others. All of this is just bullshit being spread around by the ignorant.
This sounds like the same crap when SMT components hit the market... "We cant fix things anymore" or when the transistor replaced tubes.
They CAN be repaired and a lot of people are doing it.
that actually started the day Jobs died. That company was 100% him. When he left the first time, they went into the toilet with stupid moves quite rapidly. Jobs came back with his iron fist and brought them back.
It seems the current executives threw out his playbook and are doing really stupid crap like suing everyone for everything. There is nobody leading that company that gives a rats ass about the companies image or it's longevity. Jobs and Woz started the company so they cared more for it than anyone else on the planet.
now you have a CEO that cares only about his bonuses and the size of his parachute. Apple will start going away from the direction it had and back to, "maximize profits at all costs, we must make the board and stockholders richer at the cost of the company."
A lot of people hated Jobs, but the man had the balls to tell the board to go Screw themselves and had a drive and vision that the current one does not.
Actually if I had my choice I would rather have an 11.5 inch ipad. I want an 8.5X11 or A5 size screen. but then I also want to have palm rejection and a wacom stylus integrated. 512 levels of pressure in an accurate stylus. It suddenly turns the tablet into a serious art and business device.
Then the cops need to have helmet cameras on all the time and all their footage available for public review all the time.
Police need to be held to a HIGHER standard than the public. They are sworn to serve and protect. I'm of the belief that an off duty cop should lose his job forever if he speeds.
That police are simply thugs. If they are doing no wrong, then they should welcome public oversight like this.
Any cop that is against being recorded is a dirty cop that needs to be removed and put in jail.
"We're talking about the FUTURE here. Rewind 10 years and tell me you EVER thought you would be sitting around with 3 terabytes and 32GB of RAM inside your "personal" computer at home"
I still have that Mac tower that has 32 gig of ram in it that was new in 2002. It only has 1 TB in it for storage but it was the only choice for Huge ram back them, no Intel based computer could do over 16 gig of ram. and yes I needed it. I was editing HD video back them. And yes it was my personal computer, and no I was not stupid enough to buy he ram from apple. (Yes there was a trick to get 4gig sticks in there and have the system recognize and use it. I used 16 gig of the ram as a insanely fast ram-disk for rendering.)
Many of us, specifically the ones that create or are techies, will have a "PC" always. the Post PC era is for the appliance operators, the ones that treat the PC as a toaster, and it's about time this happened. I have always said that a computer is NOT what most people need, they need something that is like a game machine. Fixed OS they cant write to, and software as read only. Give them a space they can write to for storage and call it done. An Xbox360 or PS3 kind of device that is a home computer.
Luckily it's coming to pass. and all people that have done IT support in their life will rejoice.
" buyer with low-800s credit"
Come back to reality.... 90% of buyers today are 680-720 stop picking the best crop that just does not exist today.
Lower interest rates? I have yet to see a credit union that can offer a mortgage at the rate that the big banks do. and the credit union CD rates suck. They are less than the Interest bearing Checking account at my bank.
Credit unions used to be a great idea, but they are no different than banks, just smaller with less perks.
Server huts... so you get to work outside when you work on these things. Rain, snow, 120 degree heat. No thanks.
I worked long enough in the Cellular industry to be abused by working on these god-for-saken "huts" they think they invented... The Cellphone industry has had them cince the late 90's.. it's not new, they are not innovative. And they SUCK to work on.
"give it to Apple for free environmentally responsible disposal / recycling."
No, you GIVE IT to a techie nerd that does not make $40.00 an hour so they can take it apart and fix it. Only scumbags turn in tech for recycling. honest people put it up on freecycle or give it away to a local hacker group.
Like all the Occupy protesters that have ipads and iphones...
"You aren't understanding how the Internet works. If you had taps on all nodes at the same time and the data was encrypted end to end, then you would still be able to "see" who sent what when"
so if you do something impossible, you can then do the impossible.
Taps on all the exit nodes... That's the same as counting all the grains of sand on the beach.
Only the old farts....
00:00:00:00:00:00 is where the hip anons lurk.
" As for financial accounts, she should have HER OWN LOGIN for that stuff."
So I need to sue Chase bank for not allowing multiple accounts to access the same financial accounts.
Sounds like you dont know about that witch you talk about. Most banks have one login, and sucks to be you if you want two.
Same as my scotttrade account.
i have a red thumb drive in my desk drawer that has written on it, IN CASE OF DEATH. It has a flat text file I update every 3 months that has all the information they need. plus it has photos of safety deposit keys so they can be replicated if not found. Plus a copy of my will in two forms. regular and as images showing my signature.
Wife knows where it is, once a year a copy is made and placed in the fire safe. Daughter knows as well. No releasing the info here is not a problem. none of you know where I live let alone what province or country. and none of you can get past the security system or the combination on the drawer (It's not 12345) Nor would you know what desk I am talking about, and if it actually has drawers or a secret compartment that if opened wrong fires a 10 gauge sawed off shotgun at your groin.
Oh watch out for the spike traps and snake pit.