I'm in the minority because I like the Bush administration
I'm going to make an assumption that you're fond of the current government due to your religious convictions, based on the content of your signature link.
Your religious beliefs are yours and yours alone, and I do not wish to criticise them or you. However, please know that the current administration is as far away from religious morality as possible. The administration purposely tailored its message towards religious members of this country, solely in order to get into power. They have lied to you like they have lied to every other group in this country, perhaps even more so to people like you because of the sheer number in the religious right here in the US.
Remember, the primary message of religion should be peace. Not war, not discrimination, not senseless killing & torturing for oil or for the guise of a "war on terror", peace. They manipulated you just to get your vote, and then they set about ruining this country for the sake of profits. Please don't support them in their actions.
Are you excited about Jeff Han's multitouch displays? Then why are you not excited about having one in your pocket?
I loved Han's presentation at TED 2006, but that does not make me want to go out and get an iPhone.
Plain & simple, it simply does not do things that I can currently do with my existing Windows Mobile-based smartphone, namely:
1) No voice dialing.
2) No IM clients.
3) No Outlook syncing.
4) No easily swappable battery.
Don't get me wrong, it's a slick phone, the interface is top notch, the size is excellent, but it doesn't do things my current phone does, and it's not available for my carrier (Verizon). I'd have to pay a fee for early service termination, plus pay the $600+ for an iPhone, just to lose features to which I'm already acclimated.
On top of that, I'd still need to carry an iPod, because I have over 600 CDs, and an 8 GB iPhone is not going to hold even a fraction of my collection. I have an 80 GB iPod, and it only has 8 gigs free on it.
So until the iPhone can actually replace my phone and iPod, I simply won't buy it, no matter how skinny it is or how cool the multi-touch display looks.
Let's imagine a case where all the illegals either (a) walked home or (b) demanded the prevailing wage that a legal worker would get. McDonalds and Wendy's would have to charge more. Their people would get paid more. These people could then afford to pay more for rent and maybe apartment building owners could make some improvements. See? Everybody wins.
The one problem in your formula is that if those grease-traps start charging any more for their awful excuse for food, people won't eat there. If their food cost the same as a real, proper restaurant, who in their right mind would put that garbage into their bodies?
Why did Apple choose to use millimetres to represent the thickness comparisons, but then use inches to represent the screen size comparisons? Is this some kind of marketing ploy made to emphasise the minuteness of the millimetre, and the heft of the inch?
How about they pick a unit of measure and stick with it? If you want to describe thickness (I'm surprised they didn't say thinness) in mm, then use mm/cm for the screen size too.
This event took place in Australia, and was reported by an Australian paper; therefore, it was correctly reported in the metric altitude of 530 kilometres.
So why was the summary changed by slashdot editors to the imperial unit?
Firstly, not everyone who reads this site is American, and secondly, this is an audience of nerds. I think we can handle kilometres! Even the USA's NASA is all metric now.
The scientists who developed this scramjet used metric, the country it was tested in used metric, the newspaper that reported it used metric, so how about we keep it that way?
Business cards tends to vary between a few different sizes, usually depending on from which country the card came.
The international standard size is the same as a credit card, which is 85.6 mm x 53.98 mm. It's defined by ISO 7810, ID-1. Oddly enough, the US uses that sizing standard for its credit cards & drivers licenses, but not for business cards.
The business cards my Italian relatives have given me from Italy are always in a slightly different format than international size, they're instead 85 mm x 55 mm. Just slightly less wide and a slight bit taller than international size.
Mind you, I vote independent, and I'm sure there are plenty of Democrats for this measure, so I'm not trying to defend them. That said, what people tend to forget is that a large number of Congressional Republicans are no longer in favour of small government, and low taxes. Most people with that mentality went to the Libertarian party.
Yes, Blu-ray sold more, but you can't just arbitrarily pick two movies and choose a winner based on them, especially when the movies are priced wildly apart from each other, and appeal to two completely different demographics.
I'm not a proponent of either setup, I don't have a single Blu-ray or HD-DVD disc. I just think the comparison here is flat-out stupid. Next thing you know, we'll have a Slashdot story about Casino Royale Blu-ray release outselling the HD-DVD version of Bruce Almighty.
At those prices, even though Pirates of the Caribbean sold many more units, it only brought in a roughly $200K more than the Matrix Trilogy.
This is ridiculous comparison, the movies appeal to different fan bases, and are in completely different formats (trilogy box set versus individual movies sold separately). If this was a comparison of, say, the Matrix Trilogy released on both formats at the same price point, it would far more realistic.
I mean do they not see the dangers in doing this? Or do they just not care?
Based upon the fact that the person who started the site is awaiting trial for drug charges, I'm guessing the latter.
Sean Bucci, a former Boston-area disc jockey, set up WhosaRat.com after federal prosecutors charged him with selling marijuana in bulk from his house. Bucci is under house arrest awaiting trial.
Bad analogy. A bartender knows how many drinks they have served to a patron, and can watch their behavior, etc. The only way Myspace could do something similar is if they have staff members sitting there reading each message, etc. Even then, they can't guarantee that the age someone enters into the site is accurate. Either way, I don't agree with the bartender (or Myspace) being sued. The drinker has to have some level of personal responsibility, as do the parents of these children, plain & simple.
The parents in these cases were likely negligent, and now they're looking to make a quick buck because someone didn't do their job for them. I hope their cases are thrown out.
Recently, my dog and my girlfriend were attacked by a Staffordshire terrier ("pitbull") that was allowed to run off of his lead. Due to the extremely high vet bills for my dog, a friend of mine set up a donation fund and created a new paypal account. I didn't know about it, and then was surprised with a nice gift from my friends to help me through a rough time; it was all very touching.
However, Paypal would not let me associate my bank account with the account he created, since it was already associated with my account. So, we just forwarded the money in my friend's account to my account, where I then moved it to my bank account.
Apparently this set off some red flags for Paypal. They called my friend not once, not twice, but five times, each time asking him to reiterate why he created the account, what the money was for, and why I was putting it in my account. Each time he told them what it was for, why it was set up, linked them to the donation web page, etc., and the next day, they would call him back. Apparently they never made notes of the fact that they called him the previous day.
I'm very glad that I removed the money from my account as soon as possible, Paypal has been known to freeze accounts for various reasons, and it seemed like they were looking for a reason to do so in this case. The thing that I found most odd is that they put you through hoops to speak to a real person over there, but try to do something nice for someone, and they grill you like a criminal in an interrogation room.
If Paypal weren't so ubiquitous, especially among eBayers, I would never touch it again.
This makes them inappropriate for stairwells, bathrooms, and any place with automatic light sensors.
Absolutely correct. I had 2 of them in the stairwell leading down to the basement of my house, and as silly as it sounds, I would flip on the switch, and then have to stop myself as the stairwell remained dark for a second or two. This became so frustrating that I swapped out those two bulbs for standard incandescents, just because I hated standing at the top of the steps waiting.
The fact that it takes them a while to get up to full brightness is also irritating. I want full brightness, and I want it on immediately. Get me those two things, and I'll replace every bulb in my house. Until then, incandescents stay in my hallways, bathrooms, and stairwells.
Also, the sidebar was in very very early Vista builds from long before OSX10.4 was released, just as Vista builds had instant search long before OSX10.4
iTunes had that "Dashboard" functionality long before public Vista builds were coming out. I recall using it back on OS X 10.1/10.2.
Windows+F in Windows 2000 & XP simply brings up the main search dialog. It does not allow you to use Find As You Type functionality, ala Spotlight or the FAYT toolbar in Firefox.
The video is absolutely hysterical, and clearly tongue-in-cheek. In case anyone got the impression from the summary that he was actually trying to defend Vista, he's not. Mr. Pogue says, in regards to Microsoft's new Spotlight rip-off:
"This is how you find things in Mac Os X. You hit a keystroke, you type in what you're looking for, and Spotlight, as the feature is called, finds all the files, folders, and email messages from your entire system.
Well, now they have that in Windows Vista too. Up pops the start menu, you type what you want in this little box...but is this a rip off of Apple's spotlight feature?
It is not. How can I prove it? Watch again.
Apple's search feature is in the upper right corner of the screen, Microsoft's search box is in the lower left corner of the screen. Not the same thing at all!"
I burst out into laughter in the middle of my office. This OS is the most blatant rip-off from Apple that MS has done in years.
From the Ledger-Enquirer article about the Dentist trying to buy 15 PSPs:
"I only want one, but I know there's other people that are going to want them, too," said Williams, who has a 7-year-old son..."You're using your money and authority to pay people for what you want, and that's wrong."
Wait, using money to pay people is wrong now?! Thank you Cindy Williams of Columbus, Ohio for setting us all straight! I know I'll never make that mistake again. By the way, Cindy, can you further explain what authority a dentist has? I mean, unless he commandeered the store, I'm not really sure what authority he abused.
People with a lot of money can almost always get what they want. It might be unfair, but that's capitalism; deal with it.
Good to know, thank you. Here in the US, it's used very often, I see lots of large businesses use that mapping to spell out various things with their phone numbers. Several comedians have poked fun at the practice as well, such as Mitch Hedberg:
You know when a company wants to use letters in their phone number, but often they'll use too many letters? "Call 1-800-I-Really-Enjoy-Brand-New-Carpeting." Too many letters, man, must I dial them all? "Hello? Hold on, man, I'm only on 'Enjoy.'"
If you rearrange the letters and the numbers they correspond with, won't that screw up phone numbers that use text spellings?
For example, Comcast's main phone number is 1-800-COMCAST (800-266-2278). If suddenly your keypad has "TUY" mapped to number 2 instead of number 8, that spelling isn't going to work any longer. With "MobileQwerty", 1-800-COMCAST becomes 1-800-739-7472, aka a wrong number.
What are they planning on doing, only having the letters arranged differently for sending text messages, and otherwise having the standard ABC configuration for normal dialing? Seems like it would be very confusing.
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I'm going to make an assumption that you're fond of the current government due to your religious convictions, based on the content of your signature link.
Your religious beliefs are yours and yours alone, and I do not wish to criticise them or you. However, please know that the current administration is as far away from religious morality as possible. The administration purposely tailored its message towards religious members of this country, solely in order to get into power. They have lied to you like they have lied to every other group in this country, perhaps even more so to people like you because of the sheer number in the religious right here in the US.
Remember, the primary message of religion should be peace. Not war, not discrimination, not senseless killing & torturing for oil or for the guise of a "war on terror", peace. They manipulated you just to get your vote, and then they set about ruining this country for the sake of profits. Please don't support them in their actions.
A few examples (first three are a bit tongue-in-cheek):
Or, perhaps a bit more plainly, "Privacy protects us from abuses by those in power, even if we're doing nothing wrong at the time of surveillance.".
I loved Han's presentation at TED 2006, but that does not make me want to go out and get an iPhone.
Plain & simple, it simply does not do things that I can currently do with my existing Windows Mobile-based smartphone, namely:
1) No voice dialing.
2) No IM clients.
3) No Outlook syncing.
4) No easily swappable battery.
Don't get me wrong, it's a slick phone, the interface is top notch, the size is excellent, but it doesn't do things my current phone does, and it's not available for my carrier (Verizon). I'd have to pay a fee for early service termination, plus pay the $600+ for an iPhone, just to lose features to which I'm already acclimated.
On top of that, I'd still need to carry an iPod, because I have over 600 CDs, and an 8 GB iPhone is not going to hold even a fraction of my collection. I have an 80 GB iPod, and it only has 8 gigs free on it.
So until the iPhone can actually replace my phone and iPod, I simply won't buy it, no matter how skinny it is or how cool the multi-touch display looks.
Let's imagine a case where all the illegals either (a) walked home or (b) demanded the prevailing wage that a legal worker would get. McDonalds and Wendy's would have to charge more. Their people would get paid more. These people could then afford to pay more for rent and maybe apartment building owners could make some improvements. See? Everybody wins.
The one problem in your formula is that if those grease-traps start charging any more for their awful excuse for food, people won't eat there. If their food cost the same as a real, proper restaurant, who in their right mind would put that garbage into their bodies?
"AMD Considering Getting Out of Fabrication Busines"
/. helper routine and emailed the on-duty editor, and this still went live with a blatant typo.
You know, I even did the good little
I'm not trying to sound like a jerk, but come on editors, this is basic stuff here.
Why did Apple choose to use millimetres to represent the thickness comparisons, but then use inches to represent the screen size comparisons? Is this some kind of marketing ploy made to emphasise the minuteness of the millimetre, and the heft of the inch?
How about they pick a unit of measure and stick with it? If you want to describe thickness (I'm surprised they didn't say thinness) in mm, then use mm/cm for the screen size too.
This event took place in Australia, and was reported by an Australian paper; therefore, it was correctly reported in the metric altitude of 530 kilometres.
So why was the summary changed by slashdot editors to the imperial unit?
Firstly, not everyone who reads this site is American, and secondly, this is an audience of nerds. I think we can handle kilometres! Even the USA's NASA is all metric now.
The scientists who developed this scramjet used metric, the country it was tested in used metric, the newspaper that reported it used metric, so how about we keep it that way?
Business cards tends to vary between a few different sizes, usually depending on from which country the card came.
The international standard size is the same as a credit card, which is 85.6 mm x 53.98 mm. It's defined by ISO 7810, ID-1. Oddly enough, the US uses that sizing standard for its credit cards & drivers licenses, but not for business cards.
The business cards my Italian relatives have given me from Italy are always in a slightly different format than international size, they're instead 85 mm x 55 mm. Just slightly less wide and a slight bit taller than international size.
That's 7.62 cm x 4.57 cm, for everyone reading this who isn't American.
Please put all smart-ass/pro-SAE comments about the metric system below this post, thanks.
Mind you, I vote independent, and I'm sure there are plenty of Democrats for this measure, so I'm not trying to defend them. That said, what people tend to forget is that a large number of Congressional Republicans are no longer in favour of small government, and low taxes. Most people with that mentality went to the Libertarian party.
Yes, Blu-ray sold more, but you can't just arbitrarily pick two movies and choose a winner based on them, especially when the movies are priced wildly apart from each other, and appeal to two completely different demographics.
I'm not a proponent of either setup, I don't have a single Blu-ray or HD-DVD disc. I just think the comparison here is flat-out stupid. Next thing you know, we'll have a Slashdot story about Casino Royale Blu-ray release outselling the HD-DVD version of Bruce Almighty.
Matrix Trilogy HD-DVD: $79.99
Pirates of the Caribbean: $29.99
At those prices, even though Pirates of the Caribbean sold many more units, it only brought in a roughly $200K more than the Matrix Trilogy.
This is ridiculous comparison, the movies appeal to different fan bases, and are in completely different formats (trilogy box set versus individual movies sold separately). If this was a comparison of, say, the Matrix Trilogy released on both formats at the same price point, it would far more realistic.
Sean Bucci, a former Boston-area disc jockey, set up WhosaRat.com after federal prosecutors charged him with selling marijuana in bulk from his house. Bucci is under house arrest awaiting trial.
Bad analogy. A bartender knows how many drinks they have served to a patron, and can watch their behavior, etc. The only way Myspace could do something similar is if they have staff members sitting there reading each message, etc. Even then, they can't guarantee that the age someone enters into the site is accurate. Either way, I don't agree with the bartender (or Myspace) being sued. The drinker has to have some level of personal responsibility, as do the parents of these children, plain & simple.
The parents in these cases were likely negligent, and now they're looking to make a quick buck because someone didn't do their job for them. I hope their cases are thrown out.
Recently, my dog and my girlfriend were attacked by a Staffordshire terrier ("pitbull") that was allowed to run off of his lead. Due to the extremely high vet bills for my dog, a friend of mine set up a donation fund and created a new paypal account. I didn't know about it, and then was surprised with a nice gift from my friends to help me through a rough time; it was all very touching.
However, Paypal would not let me associate my bank account with the account he created, since it was already associated with my account. So, we just forwarded the money in my friend's account to my account, where I then moved it to my bank account.
Apparently this set off some red flags for Paypal. They called my friend not once, not twice, but five times, each time asking him to reiterate why he created the account, what the money was for, and why I was putting it in my account. Each time he told them what it was for, why it was set up, linked them to the donation web page, etc., and the next day, they would call him back. Apparently they never made notes of the fact that they called him the previous day.
I'm very glad that I removed the money from my account as soon as possible, Paypal has been known to freeze accounts for various reasons, and it seemed like they were looking for a reason to do so in this case. The thing that I found most odd is that they put you through hoops to speak to a real person over there, but try to do something nice for someone, and they grill you like a criminal in an interrogation room.
If Paypal weren't so ubiquitous, especially among eBayers, I would never touch it again.
This makes them inappropriate for stairwells, bathrooms, and any place with automatic light sensors.
Absolutely correct. I had 2 of them in the stairwell leading down to the basement of my house, and as silly as it sounds, I would flip on the switch, and then have to stop myself as the stairwell remained dark for a second or two. This became so frustrating that I swapped out those two bulbs for standard incandescents, just because I hated standing at the top of the steps waiting.
The fact that it takes them a while to get up to full brightness is also irritating. I want full brightness, and I want it on immediately. Get me those two things, and I'll replace every bulb in my house. Until then, incandescents stay in my hallways, bathrooms, and stairwells.
Also, the sidebar was in very very early Vista builds from long before OSX10.4 was released, just as Vista builds had instant search long before OSX10.4
iTunes had that "Dashboard" functionality long before public Vista builds were coming out. I recall using it back on OS X 10.1/10.2.
Windows+F in Windows 2000 & XP simply brings up the main search dialog. It does not allow you to use Find As You Type functionality, ala Spotlight or the FAYT toolbar in Firefox.
Also, Dashboard is an obvious rip off of Konfabulator, so shut up already about how the sidebar is a rip off of Dashboard.
Actually, Dashboard is a rip-off of...wait for it...Apple's own Desk Ornaments from the original 1984 Macintosh!
I burst out into laughter in the middle of my office. This OS is the most blatant rip-off from Apple that MS has done in years.
Um, eBay owns 25% of them.
Thank you for the correction, I didn't realize. Aside from the "More News From" sidebar entry that says "Columbus, GA", I wouldn't have noticed. :)
Wait, using money to pay people is wrong now?! Thank you Cindy Williams of Columbus, Ohio for setting us all straight! I know I'll never make that mistake again. By the way, Cindy, can you further explain what authority a dentist has? I mean, unless he commandeered the store, I'm not really sure what authority he abused.
People with a lot of money can almost always get what they want. It might be unfair, but that's capitalism; deal with it.
If you rearrange the letters and the numbers they correspond with, won't that screw up phone numbers that use text spellings? For example, Comcast's main phone number is 1-800-COMCAST (800-266-2278). If suddenly your keypad has "TUY" mapped to number 2 instead of number 8, that spelling isn't going to work any longer. With "MobileQwerty", 1-800-COMCAST becomes 1-800-739-7472, aka a wrong number. What are they planning on doing, only having the letters arranged differently for sending text messages, and otherwise having the standard ABC configuration for normal dialing? Seems like it would be very confusing.