Which Bush? I still remember in 1992 how the mainstream media kept shilling about the "worst economy in forty years". Then, on election night, once Bubba had won enough electoral votes to win, Dan Rather said "here we are on the verge of an economic recovery", as though the mere election of his favorite candidate had suddenly changed the world, two months before he would even take the oath.
Remember "Slashdot Beta"? That's what that whole thing felt like to me, making a change for change's sake. Too many web sites are fucked with simply because nothing has changed in a while. It sure feels like the usual middle manager "Something must be done! This is something, so let's do it!" compulsion to rearrange the deck chairs twice a year so that he can justify his existence on the annual review.
Ironically a lot of that stuff doesn't get carried over FM.
Two talk radio stations in my area, one here and one in a nearby city, have low-power FM simulcasts. These are only good for roughly within the local city limits, but usually give better reception when in range. The AM station is good for at least 100 miles.
The CRTC ordered wireless providers to implement the system to distribute warnings of imminent safety threats such as tornadoes, floods, Amber Alerts or terrorist threats.
One of these things is not like the other... one of these things is not the same...
I'm not sure what kind of flawed logic you need to consider an "Amber Alert" (which basically affects a single child) to be a safety threat anywhere near on the same level as natural disasters. Many "terrorist threats" may be false or localized, but even those affect many more people than a single child.
Don't forget the requirement for back-up cameras in cars (at the expense of yet another couple hundred bucks each) because of photogenic parents of photogenic kids, who couldn't be bothered to pay attention to where their kids are, or what's behind their car when backing up. And they also couldn't be bothered to tell their kids not to play sitting down in the driveway behind cars. So because a few hundred of these happen every year, we all need to pay for tens of millions of new back-up cameras every year.
Some people listen to the radio for things other than brain-rotting pop music and (c)rap. News, sports, traffic, those are all things you can't cram into a flash drive and listen to later.
I've been doing that since 1985 when the screen was just 512x342. Now my usual screen is 1920x1200, with a web browser taking up about 60% of that area. You just have to learn a few habits, mostly strategic management of edges and corners, hiding apps you aren't using, and often the Dock's "bring all windows of one application to the front" behavior helps too.
Actually, the thing that helps that most is apps that remember where you last put windows and which things you last had open. Web browsers remembering all their tabs when they crash was a big thing, then OS X later being able to reboot and reliably re-open all your documents was enormous.
I remember seeing the picture a week or two ago (the usual delay for Slashdot) and the image of the bag was too washed out and blurry to see anything. Usually only big stores bother to customize them, so chances are it came from the THANK YOU corporation.
Because we had to think of the trees! When did you ever see a beautiful plastic bush? Nobody wants to save those! Also, it costs less for a stack of more bags, which saves even more money by not needing to bring more bags to the register as often.
I prefer cloth bags for grocery shopping anyhow, because I would rather not have the temptation to save a bunch of crappy little plastic bags. Those things just love to rip once you try to use them for anything serious.
Well, I had a "Windtunnel" G4, and when it was eight or so years old, it was having heat problems, and the heat sink needed to be re-spackled. Thanks to that flip-down door design, it took me 15 minutes to redo the heat sink for both CPUs, without even having to remove the computer from the floor. I don't know if iFixit was around then, but it they might have been tempted to give it a 11/10 for repair-ability. That's how you design a case.
And here we are now, where it seems like Apple would happily jump at the chance to encase a whole laptop in epoxy, if it would shave 0.5mm of thickness.
Apparently so. Not that it is the source of the pollution (it's not even built yet!) or would cause such pollution. In fact, it seems to me that these ozone levels probably don't even come from inside Wisconsin. Hmm, I wonder where it comes from, it must be those darned Wisconsin ozone swamps, right? Oh wait, look at this big city over here where both the ozone and the even more toxic legal action is coming from! But to be fair, I suppose some of the ozone could have come from Michigan.
So it may have hit 70 at some point (Summer is usually worse), but it's probably not a frequent occurrence that it's up there.
Of course not, all the EPA cares about is even a few days of "non-attainment". Even if the ozone came from hundreds of miles away, or from out of the country (Texas sometimes has troubles from slash-and-burn agriculture in Mexico), it's all the fault and responsibility of the local area where the "pollutant" is detected.
They aren't "local". Many are simply spoofing your own number with the last four digits changed. If you actually think there is any guarantee that the caller ID number is valid, then you are naive at best, or completely stupid. Fortunately I live in a big enough city that we recently got an overlay area code, so the chance of someone worth talking to with those digits being the same is extremely low. It also means that they will likely never call back with the same number out of the 10000 possibilities, so trying to block it is useless.
With the currently available features from the phone company, I only get to block 100 numbers (it used to be 20), with no wildcards, and no filter on the name. If I could filter on the name, and have a wildcard on the last two or three digits (some apparently have blocks of legitimate numbers to call from), that would eliminate half of my junk calls, at least until they start to randomize the name too.
You are making the false assumption that the caller ID information is correct, or even a valid number. This has not been true for years, and the most recent behavior is to use your own number with the last four digits changed.
Supposedly some of the junk calls that don't respond even when you answer are designed to get you to call back the number. A pre-screened idiot calling you back is already wonderful for scammers; getting a few pennies per call would just encourage them more.
More importantly, why would they need to spoof a different number each time, in the case of the "same exchange" scam, where they use your own phone number with the last four digits changed?
So you're implying they would do something smart like base a decision like that on actual data, and not just what some executives thought would look cool and make it.5mm thinner?
The 8100/80? Built like a tank? Absolutely! You even had to tear it completely apart to change the RAM, just like a real tank! Hey, at least it wasn't a 4400.
It's the old "lack of parity implies discrimination" fallacy. They don't represent 50% of garbage collectors either. Who is going to rectify that even bigger delta?
Unless they've made a radical change in keyboard mechanisms, there is no such thing as a "sensor" for just one key. It's a bunch of sheets of plastic with metallic traces on them, and a rubber sheet with little domes that are pressed down by a scissor-like mechanism. If one key on your keyboard is bad, the whole thing has to be replaced. Even worse, it is attached to the top case, under everything else. In the 2008-2012 era (I haven't seen inside a newer one, which is probably held together with a lot of glue) it was held on with 70 screws, and that was only after you removed everything else from the case. Many people just replace the entire top case. So what they were going to charge you $795 for was to replace the entire stop surface of the computer.
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Which Bush? I still remember in 1992 how the mainstream media kept shilling about the "worst economy in forty years". Then, on election night, once Bubba had won enough electoral votes to win, Dan Rather said "here we are on the verge of an economic recovery", as though the mere election of his favorite candidate had suddenly changed the world, two months before he would even take the oath.
Remember "Slashdot Beta"? That's what that whole thing felt like to me, making a change for change's sake. Too many web sites are fucked with simply because nothing has changed in a while. It sure feels like the usual middle manager "Something must be done! This is something, so let's do it!" compulsion to rearrange the deck chairs twice a year so that he can justify his existence on the annual review.
I'll get worried when they start doing zerg rushes. And you'll know things have gone too far when they start dabbing on the battlefield.
Good work reading my post, knuckle dragger.
Ironically a lot of that stuff doesn't get carried over FM.
Two talk radio stations in my area, one here and one in a nearby city, have low-power FM simulcasts. These are only good for roughly within the local city limits, but usually give better reception when in range. The AM station is good for at least 100 miles.
Now when do they solve the robo-caller identity verification problem?
The CRTC ordered wireless providers to implement the system to distribute warnings of imminent safety threats such as tornadoes, floods, Amber Alerts or terrorist threats.
One of these things is not like the other... one of these things is not the same...
I'm not sure what kind of flawed logic you need to consider an "Amber Alert" (which basically affects a single child) to be a safety threat anywhere near on the same level as natural disasters. Many "terrorist threats" may be false or localized, but even those affect many more people than a single child.
Don't forget the requirement for back-up cameras in cars (at the expense of yet another couple hundred bucks each) because of photogenic parents of photogenic kids, who couldn't be bothered to pay attention to where their kids are, or what's behind their car when backing up. And they also couldn't be bothered to tell their kids not to play sitting down in the driveway behind cars. So because a few hundred of these happen every year, we all need to pay for tens of millions of new back-up cameras every year.
Some people listen to the radio for things other than brain-rotting pop music and (c)rap. News, sports, traffic, those are all things you can't cram into a flash drive and listen to later.
I prefer Doctor Mystery myself. (Disclaimer: I was a patient for some kidney work.)
I've been doing that since 1985 when the screen was just 512x342. Now my usual screen is 1920x1200, with a web browser taking up about 60% of that area. You just have to learn a few habits, mostly strategic management of edges and corners, hiding apps you aren't using, and often the Dock's "bring all windows of one application to the front" behavior helps too.
Actually, the thing that helps that most is apps that remember where you last put windows and which things you last had open. Web browsers remembering all their tabs when they crash was a big thing, then OS X later being able to reboot and reliably re-open all your documents was enormous.
I remember seeing the picture a week or two ago (the usual delay for Slashdot) and the image of the bag was too washed out and blurry to see anything. Usually only big stores bother to customize them, so chances are it came from the THANK YOU corporation.
Because we had to think of the trees! When did you ever see a beautiful plastic bush? Nobody wants to save those! Also, it costs less for a stack of more bags, which saves even more money by not needing to bring more bags to the register as often.
I prefer cloth bags for grocery shopping anyhow, because I would rather not have the temptation to save a bunch of crappy little plastic bags. Those things just love to rip once you try to use them for anything serious.
Well, I had a "Windtunnel" G4, and when it was eight or so years old, it was having heat problems, and the heat sink needed to be re-spackled. Thanks to that flip-down door design, it took me 15 minutes to redo the heat sink for both CPUs, without even having to remove the computer from the floor. I don't know if iFixit was around then, but it they might have been tempted to give it a 11/10 for repair-ability. That's how you design a case.
And here we are now, where it seems like Apple would happily jump at the chance to encase a whole laptop in epoxy, if it would shave 0.5mm of thickness.
Either one is preferable to systemd.
Apparently so. Not that it is the source of the pollution (it's not even built yet!) or would cause such pollution. In fact, it seems to me that these ozone levels probably don't even come from inside Wisconsin. Hmm, I wonder where it comes from, it must be those darned Wisconsin ozone swamps, right? Oh wait, look at this big city over here where both the ozone and the even more toxic legal action is coming from! But to be fair, I suppose some of the ozone could have come from Michigan.
So it may have hit 70 at some point (Summer is usually worse), but it's probably not a frequent occurrence that it's up there.
Of course not, all the EPA cares about is even a few days of "non-attainment". Even if the ozone came from hundreds of miles away, or from out of the country (Texas sometimes has troubles from slash-and-burn agriculture in Mexico), it's all the fault and responsibility of the local area where the "pollutant" is detected.
They aren't "local". Many are simply spoofing your own number with the last four digits changed. If you actually think there is any guarantee that the caller ID number is valid, then you are naive at best, or completely stupid. Fortunately I live in a big enough city that we recently got an overlay area code, so the chance of someone worth talking to with those digits being the same is extremely low. It also means that they will likely never call back with the same number out of the 10000 possibilities, so trying to block it is useless.
With the currently available features from the phone company, I only get to block 100 numbers (it used to be 20), with no wildcards, and no filter on the name. If I could filter on the name, and have a wildcard on the last two or three digits (some apparently have blocks of legitimate numbers to call from), that would eliminate half of my junk calls, at least until they start to randomize the name too.
You are making the false assumption that the caller ID information is correct, or even a valid number. This has not been true for years, and the most recent behavior is to use your own number with the last four digits changed.
Supposedly some of the junk calls that don't respond even when you answer are designed to get you to call back the number. A pre-screened idiot calling you back is already wonderful for scammers; getting a few pennies per call would just encourage them more.
More importantly, why would they need to spoof a different number each time, in the case of the "same exchange" scam, where they use your own phone number with the last four digits changed?
So you're implying they would do something smart like base a decision like that on actual data, and not just what some executives thought would look cool and make it .5mm thinner?
The 8100/80? Built like a tank? Absolutely! You even had to tear it completely apart to change the RAM, just like a real tank! Hey, at least it wasn't a 4400.
I demand at least some up-close pictures of the event, not a stock-footage-worthy picture of a generic volcano taken from a very safe distance.
It's the old "lack of parity implies discrimination" fallacy. They don't represent 50% of garbage collectors either. Who is going to rectify that even bigger delta?
Unless they've made a radical change in keyboard mechanisms, there is no such thing as a "sensor" for just one key. It's a bunch of sheets of plastic with metallic traces on them, and a rubber sheet with little domes that are pressed down by a scissor-like mechanism. If one key on your keyboard is bad, the whole thing has to be replaced. Even worse, it is attached to the top case, under everything else. In the 2008-2012 era (I haven't seen inside a newer one, which is probably held together with a lot of glue) it was held on with 70 screws, and that was only after you removed everything else from the case. Many people just replace the entire top case. So what they were going to charge you $795 for was to replace the entire stop surface of the computer.