And it's as accurate as the "hottubbing makes you infertile" fake stories from the 80's, 90's,00's and 10's...
At least in a hottub my nuts are kept at 108-110 degrees for 1-2 hours 3 times a week. far FAR more of a temperature rise for a far longer time than any heat from a laptop can generate.
Most of them I see are raving frothing at the mouth android owners who cant afford iDevices.
God, just STFU about your fricking phone, nobody cares about it. I dont run around rubbing my iphone in your face whenever I see you talking on yours. Yet you haveto announce to the whole world, "Look there's another apple sheep" while I stand there making a business call.
Makes me think all Android owners are immature children.
Yes if someone compiles a new OS and software package and delivers a "hack" that eliminates their control.
I'm just betting the "ad supported" version will become the first target as someone compiles and makes a file that turns it into a normal kindle. Then we will hear of a federal bailout of the Executives as they will barely afford new Mercedes once a month anymore....
IF you are trying to show the same content then you are a fool.
Your backend php/asp shuold already be doing browser detection and simply swapping between mobile and big-ass-screen(tm) css leading to ONE site that services all devices.
Honestly this is fricking Webdesign 101, are you people seriously having trouble with serving comtent to both devicetypes? I can detect android devices and ios devices and serve up css that makes the webpages look and act like native apps. been doing this for over 2 years now.
I see the opposite. WE suggest skype, twitter, etc. and they all want Email only instead. Hell some still ask for a Fax number and we have not had one in years.
But then we deal with scientific companies and really really rich people so it's probably a different demographic than you have.
KDE gas meets ASRAE requirements but it does not meet LEEDS requirements. we would have to kill far fewer kittens at the office daily to be able to use KDE gas.
dude, working at Best Buy Geek Squad does not mean you are "trained".
If you cant get ubuntu, fedora, Debian, or any of the others outside of Gentoo and Slackware in a useable state in short order then you are a complete and utter idiot.
Granted, many people call ubuntu in it's current "unity" mode "unuseable" but it's a whiny bitch stage of crudgemugeons. (yes I hate unity, get off my lawn you whipper snallers!) but it's as usable as windows 7 windows 8 and OSX is.
Or are you going to trot out a BS software list that you "claim" is usability. a business can run with libre office. I work at one that has been there for 2 years with Open Office and this year with Libre Office. it works perfectly once you get past the whiney babies that dont like change.
"With glass over the top, there's a risk of frying people, "
I am certain they are not stupid enough to make it a Fresnel lens or a magnifying glass.
And if you have a couple of vent towers with the air intakes piped to the bottom of the shaft, heat convection will refresh the air automatically and for free.
The problem with earthen homes and earth berm homes is NOT difficulty but Local laws that forbid "wierd" homes and idiot home buyers that want a home that looks like everyone elses cookie cutter.
you CAN build a home in the ground easier than building upwards. and most homes do it both ways by building up and down... I.E. the rare "basement" part of a lot of homes. Poured cement walls or cinder brick are far easier to build than stick frame. and a earthen home only has windows on one side and a series of skylite shafts.
the drawback is that they need that wall situated to the south in the Northern hemisphere or to the north in the southern hemisphere.
Oh and they need to be on a decent sized plot of land and a hill to build into. In the city, it's easier to build 3 walls and use the building next to you as the 4th wall. In fact cities are impossible to build efficient housing and buildings, because cities in general are pretty darn half assed.
you CAN build efficient cities, but it requires people to do what they are told by a grand architect and beaten when they ask for something stupid. Even planned cities like Washington DC are completely half assed.
"For someone who works with sensitive information, yet is in a publicly accessible area, this is a genuinely great idea"
no it's not. if you are working with sensitive info in a public area then you are being very, very, VERY stupid. at LEAST work against a wall where it is impossible for someone to walk up from behind.
It's why the SQL guy at most corporations get's an office or a corner cube that has a single path in and no way for someone to look over his shoulder.
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And it's as accurate as the "hottubbing makes you infertile" fake stories from the 80's, 90's,00's and 10's...
At least in a hottub my nuts are kept at 108-110 degrees for 1-2 hours 3 times a week. far FAR more of a temperature rise for a far longer time than any heat from a laptop can generate.
Most of them I see are raving frothing at the mouth android owners who cant afford iDevices.
God, just STFU about your fricking phone, nobody cares about it. I dont run around rubbing my iphone in your face whenever I see you talking on yours. Yet you haveto announce to the whole world, "Look there's another apple sheep" while I stand there making a business call.
Makes me think all Android owners are immature children.
It's not just "grumpy attitude" SMS is not guarenteed to get there. I see all the time arguments over "I Messaged you!" " I did not get it!"
using a comms channel that is unreliable for important communication is silly and a waste of time.
Also Chat is a distraction. If I'm 3 hours into a coding session I am NOT going to be running a chat program so I can be distracted every 10 minutes.
"If the PDF's don't display correctly, use Calibre to convert them to mobi format."
This is downright funny.
Anyone that has used Calibre knows that it's convert PDF to anything else is so horrible that you end up with a complete mess that is unreadable.
Yes if someone compiles a new OS and software package and delivers a "hack" that eliminates their control.
I'm just betting the "ad supported" version will become the first target as someone compiles and makes a file that turns it into a normal kindle.
Then we will hear of a federal bailout of the Executives as they will barely afford new Mercedes once a month anymore....
IF you are trying to show the same content then you are a fool.
Your backend php/asp shuold already be doing browser detection and simply swapping between mobile and big-ass-screen(tm) css leading to ONE site that services all devices.
Honestly this is fricking Webdesign 101, are you people seriously having trouble with serving comtent to both devicetypes?
I can detect android devices and ios devices and serve up css that makes the webpages look and act like native apps. been doing this for over 2 years now.
And I'm not even a professional webdesigner.
a chat session demands no time from me. I ignore them over emails.
Priority is , walk to my office, call me, email me, any of the other useless communication channels.
Absolute bottom is SMS message my phone. I will ignore you for 7 days if you SMS me.
I see the opposite. WE suggest skype, twitter, etc. and they all want Email only instead. Hell some still ask for a Fax number and we have not had one in years.
But then we deal with scientific companies and really really rich people so it's probably a different demographic than you have.
KDE gas meets ASRAE requirements but it does not meet LEEDS requirements. we would have to kill far fewer kittens at the office daily to be able to use KDE gas.
So you cant make the php or asp code also see what the browser is and adjust?
If you have "articles" and run flat html and css you need to stop right now and get out of the web design business.
It's called CSS and those of us who paid attention have been using it for years.
it is not hard to make a webpage that looks good on a pc AND a mobile device with CSS.
Keeping that while the idiot client wants you to put in more blinking and scrolling crap is another matter..
you jail them by creating laws that are stupid.
At least that is what we do here in the usa. See the problem of drug laws.
Because nobody is buying the bullshit that OSS has a higher TCO, so they are trying the "IT's destroying jobs!!!!111!1! ZOMG!" angle.
The company is phasing out unicorn farts. We are replacing them with the far more LEEDS certified gnome gas.
" If your software requires a ton of hands on support, you might as well charge for the hands-on support"
That's called a support contract, and a LOT of crapware vertical market companies do that.
$13,500 for that billing system and another $10,000 a year for "updates" and "support"
without the support contract the system is a useless turd that breaks within weeks as you discover old bugs in their crappy VB6 code.
dude, working at Best Buy Geek Squad does not mean you are "trained".
If you cant get ubuntu, fedora, Debian, or any of the others outside of Gentoo and Slackware in a useable state in short order then you are a complete and utter idiot.
Granted, many people call ubuntu in it's current "unity" mode "unuseable" but it's a whiny bitch stage of crudgemugeons. (yes I hate unity, get off my lawn you whipper snallers!) but it's as usable as windows 7 windows 8 and OSX is.
Or are you going to trot out a BS software list that you "claim" is usability. a business can run with libre office. I work at one that has been there for 2 years with Open Office and this year with Libre Office. it works perfectly once you get past the whiney babies that dont like change.
"Maybe we can flip around the next MS based TCO study and be all, MS hates jobs."
They need to get over it, the man is dead. Cripes is ballmer still holding a grudge against Jobs?
Thank republicans for that.
"how do they plan emergency evacuation of this thing if the pumps fail? Maybe during an earthquake?"
Flotation devices. just float around until you reach the top.
actually the value of minerals 830 miles in the air are quite high. There is a lot of dead satelites made of aluminum and precious metals up there.
"With glass over the top, there's a risk of frying people, "
I am certain they are not stupid enough to make it a Fresnel lens or a magnifying glass.
And if you have a couple of vent towers with the air intakes piped to the bottom of the shaft, heat convection will refresh the air automatically and for free.
air movement is not hard. Mines do it all the time because they secretly have people down there doing the work.
The problem with earthen homes and earth berm homes is NOT difficulty but Local laws that forbid "wierd" homes and idiot home buyers that want a home that looks like everyone elses cookie cutter.
you CAN build a home in the ground easier than building upwards. and most homes do it both ways by building up and down... I.E. the rare "basement" part of a lot of homes. Poured cement walls or cinder brick are far easier to build than stick frame. and a earthen home only has windows on one side and a series of skylite shafts.
the drawback is that they need that wall situated to the south in the Northern hemisphere or to the north in the southern hemisphere.
Oh and they need to be on a decent sized plot of land and a hill to build into. In the city, it's easier to build 3 walls and use the building next to you as the 4th wall. In fact cities are impossible to build efficient housing and buildings, because cities in general are pretty darn half assed.
you CAN build efficient cities, but it requires people to do what they are told by a grand architect and beaten when they ask for something stupid. Even planned cities like Washington DC are completely half assed.
Funny, I have polarized 3d in my basement.
"For someone who works with sensitive information, yet is in a publicly accessible area, this is a genuinely great idea"
no it's not. if you are working with sensitive info in a public area then you are being very, very, VERY stupid. at LEAST work against a wall where it is impossible for someone to walk up from behind.
It's why the SQL guy at most corporations get's an office or a corner cube that has a single path in and no way for someone to look over his shoulder.