I'll grant you some envy for having a Model M that old. You can hardly blame Microsoft for not taking very old hardware into account when designing their OS UI. That said you can probably remap some other useless key or set of keys to perform the same function. I think I've seen someone mention that ctl+esc might perform the same funciton.
This has already happened for some goods, grains being the most prominent. World hunger could be a complete non-issue. The only thing keeping people starving in third world countries is other people that use the deprivation of foodstuffs as a source of power.
Are you aware that the windows key, the key with the windows emblem on it typically located between the "ctrl "and "alt" button will switch the UI between Metro and Desktop?
It honestly didn't take me hours to get used to 8 for my normal usage. What sucked was setting everything up. When installing and building the system up you need to do a lot of reboots and fiddle with settings. Doing those specific functions is different than what I was used to under XP. That isn't something that normal users will ever be involved in doing though. So all they really need to know is how to get to the desktop UI and how to power down the system. Now that everything is setup I rarely find myself frustrated with the differences. The only time I see the Metro UI is when I'm searching for something and it flashes up before I start typing the name of what I'm looking for. I would have been perfectly happy with 7 instead of 8, but 8 was cheaper and will likely be supported a little longer, or offer an easy upgrade path.
In my neck of the woods we have Public Schools, Magnet Schools and if some people have their way we'll get Charter Schools. The Magnet Schools sound more like the Charter Schools that other areas have. They have competitive admittance and if a kid slacks off and isn't doing well enough they get kicked out. The primary "perk" for the proposed Charter Schools is that they wouldn't have to follow all of the same rules as the other publicly funded schools, standardized testing and teaching evolutionary theory being the ones I've primarily heard about.
Less intrusive than a facemask, you mean like a clear plastic bag?
The reason Polio and other things like Measles have made come backs is that they were never actually eradicated. They were just rare here in the US where most of us are vaccinated. Many of these diseases are still prevalent in other parts of the world. And people being social animals move around and share their diseases with others. We are nearing the point though that we can actually destroy Polio by vaccinating enough of the world population.
I could see them working out a deal with the cell phone service providers to get a very good rate, say a few dollars a year. They would only need to use the cell service once every so often to upload data. And that usage could be scheduled such that it took place during the wee hours of the morning or something.
It could be that my city is an outlier but I just looked it up in the municipal code and it is legal here. First the law states that anyone, whether or not they are a bus, may stop and load or unload passengers in an expeditous manner so long they do not impede the flow of other traffic or a bus. Secondly the law doesn't seem to differentiate between privately or publicly owned buses. I'm sure the law could be different in San Fransisco but I couldn't find anything relating to bus stops in their municipal code.
GPS receivers are cheap enough they could actually just incorporate it in with the rest of the car's electronics and only install the stuff that lets you use it if you buy the option. Hell seeing as how cheap cell phones are they could include the ability for it to phone home periodically to relay your driving history even if you don't buy that option.
My favored solution would be to find the GPS unit and then disable the antenna that it uses in a temporary fashion.
So at this point the miners are producing so many coins that it significantly influences the value of existing coins. That devaluing pressure is countered by demand, represented through new money, and or hoarding. I say hoarding because that effectively removes coins from the market for the time being which tightens the demand.
Unless the cost of electricity in producing a coin is very close to the coins current value on the market I would expect that most miners are hedging their bets and only selling some fraction of what they mine to cover costs, produce a bit of profit, and then hoarding the rest.
I would think that logically once it is established that the poster of a possibly libelous review can't be identified, that the next step would be to request the review be taken down. If Yelp then refused to take it down they could be sued for libel themselves.
Why are new bit coins required to maintain the price of an existing bit coin? New bit coins should be creating inflation pressure. As with all fiat currencies a bit coin has little to no inherent value. Just because it costs someone $50 in electricity and CPU time to mine a new bit coin doesn't mean anyone has to pay that price. The relative value of a bit coin will always rely on demand, if people want to use them and have to compete for them on the market then the value goes up, if not it goes down.
Probably not much in the ceiling honestly, but certainly not much on target. The M16 and M4 have very little kickback and the muzzle rise isn't bad, unless you try shooting Rambo style.
It isn't so much the rating scale that is broken but the ways in which it is used. They same basic system is used for all performance evaluations from the lowliest enlisted folk to the fattest officers. In all cases your performance rating contributes significantly to scores for promotion. What ends up happening is one asshole decides that all his troops, or even just a few are deserving of that top rating, which should represent like 1% or less of the force. Every other supervisor sees this happen exactly once unfairly and decides to give all of their troops top ratings whenever possible in order to not cripple their chances at promotion. Before you know it everyone gets "firewall 5's" as we called them. In fact if you tried to give a troop a rating that was less than 5 you would have to go talk to the commander and explain why you were willing to throw out that persons career. Getting a score lower than a 5 once would give you a handicap versus every other troop when testing for promotion for something like 3 or 4 years. For enlisted this sucks but unless you are close to high year tenure it's not critical. But for Officers once you reach certain thresholds if you miss promotion a few times your career is officially over.
The solution should be to simply go to a pass fail system. The current system is completely corrupted I've known guys that got rated lower because they "weren't involved enough in the community" while others skated by doing jack shit except licking the commanders asshole getting awards like crazy.
Exactly, they seem to only be looking at it in terms of bringing materials down to Earth's surface. The biggest boon of this kind of work is that it will finally mean having access to inexpensive, relatively speaking, materials for construction in space and possibly on other planetary bodies.
According to my Father, who was a Green Berret in Vietnam, the only trained use for full auto at the time was psychological. In the event of a patrol being ambushed the trained response was for everyone to immediately unload a full magazine on full auto into the surrounding greenery as a suppresive action. Then swap magainzes and mode of fire to semi-auto for actually trying to pick off enemies.
So full auto in a personal firearm has it's uses, they just aren't good for hitting targets in most scenarios. On top of that an M16 has a cyclic rate of more than 700 rounds a minute, that means you can completely empty a 30 round magazine in under 3 seconds. Even a Marine can't carry enough ammo to sustainably use fullauto in a firefight.
There are several problems that this brings to mind for me.
First is that we as a society need to drop all the negative associations with mental illness. Some are treatable and or possible to fully recover from. Others are treatable but still a lifelong thing. Others aren't really treatable with our current knowledge, and of course there is an infinite spectrum in between all of that. But in the USA a one time diagnosis of a mental disorder is essentially a lifetime conviction.
Second, because of the negative connotations associated with mental illness most people will go to extreme lengths to avoid such a diagnosis. This is especially problematic with our veterans who even without physical damage have to readjust to a world that is different than when they left it.
Thirdly, veterans who have been involved in IED explosions often have brain injuries that will be permanent but are difficult to diagnos. These injuries whether diagnosed or not often lead to behavioural problems which leads to dishonorable discharges. Such a discharge then prevents or severely hampers those veterans from getting the help they need. And the really sickening part is that while the military has partially recognized this problem they still under diagnos such injuries, and even when diagnosed they frequently act deliberately to expell the service member without benefits anyways.
There was a very good series of articles about this in the Colorado Springs Gazette awhile back. It took me a couple weeks to get through it because reading about the deliberate mistreatment of our vets was very hard for me to stomach as a veteran myself. The bottom line for me though is that I think that some mental illnesses should lead to suspension of 2nd amendment rights on a temporary basis. As a society we should be helping those people so afflicted to heal and overcome their problems, whether they are, Vets or not, so that they can be fully functioning members of society again, including being able to responsibly own a firearm.
Oh how I regret not having any mod points today, that was a great zinger.
That said I've a desktop and a laptop at home both with 8 and my family seems to be adjusting to it alright. Still some horrible UI design decisions but nothing show stopping yet. I haven't tried out 8.1 because I've heard of it creating problems for some of the games that I play.
Someone told me on here before that you can close most any metro app pos by click dragging from the top of the screen to the bottom. I suppose that is like pushing it down off the screen or something on a touch interface.
Additionally it is not at all uncommon for businesses to ask their patrons how they heard of the product/service to start with. I can't count how many times I've been asked that or seen it in written form. And occasionally the appropriate answer would be I heard or saw an illegal copy, but that isn't ordinarily a given option to check.
I'm not sure how you could be anymore wrong. Manning displayed far less responsibility in releasing material than Snowden. Manning dumped more than half a million documents. A number so large that it was physically impossible for him to have reviewed each document for relevance let alone anything else. Snowden meanwhile has released at most a few thousand documents to the news organizations and published a small percentage of them. I personally have created and reviewed a few thousand documents over the course of a month, so it is entirely plausible in my mind that Snowden has reviewed each of the documents he chose to release. Additionally Manning released actual mission reports from a war zone, Snowden hasn't released anything of such minute detail, everything we've heard so far has been higher level policy type stuff, the only exception to that which I can recall being the tapping of Merkel's phone.
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I'll grant you some envy for having a Model M that old. You can hardly blame Microsoft for not taking very old hardware into account when designing their OS UI. That said you can probably remap some other useless key or set of keys to perform the same function. I think I've seen someone mention that ctl+esc might perform the same funciton.
This has already happened for some goods, grains being the most prominent. World hunger could be a complete non-issue. The only thing keeping people starving in third world countries is other people that use the deprivation of foodstuffs as a source of power.
Apple owns the look and feel patent for rounded corners.
Are you aware that the windows key, the key with the windows emblem on it typically located between the "ctrl "and "alt" button will switch the UI between Metro and Desktop?
It honestly didn't take me hours to get used to 8 for my normal usage. What sucked was setting everything up. When installing and building the system up you need to do a lot of reboots and fiddle with settings. Doing those specific functions is different than what I was used to under XP. That isn't something that normal users will ever be involved in doing though. So all they really need to know is how to get to the desktop UI and how to power down the system. Now that everything is setup I rarely find myself frustrated with the differences. The only time I see the Metro UI is when I'm searching for something and it flashes up before I start typing the name of what I'm looking for. I would have been perfectly happy with 7 instead of 8, but 8 was cheaper and will likely be supported a little longer, or offer an easy upgrade path.
In my neck of the woods we have Public Schools, Magnet Schools and if some people have their way we'll get Charter Schools. The Magnet Schools sound more like the Charter Schools that other areas have. They have competitive admittance and if a kid slacks off and isn't doing well enough they get kicked out. The primary "perk" for the proposed Charter Schools is that they wouldn't have to follow all of the same rules as the other publicly funded schools, standardized testing and teaching evolutionary theory being the ones I've primarily heard about.
Less intrusive than a facemask, you mean like a clear plastic bag?
The reason Polio and other things like Measles have made come backs is that they were never actually eradicated. They were just rare here in the US where most of us are vaccinated. Many of these diseases are still prevalent in other parts of the world. And people being social animals move around and share their diseases with others. We are nearing the point though that we can actually destroy Polio by vaccinating enough of the world population.
I could see them working out a deal with the cell phone service providers to get a very good rate, say a few dollars a year. They would only need to use the cell service once every so often to upload data. And that usage could be scheduled such that it took place during the wee hours of the morning or something.
It could be that my city is an outlier but I just looked it up in the municipal code and it is legal here. First the law states that anyone, whether or not they are a bus, may stop and load or unload passengers in an expeditous manner so long they do not impede the flow of other traffic or a bus. Secondly the law doesn't seem to differentiate between privately or publicly owned buses. I'm sure the law could be different in San Fransisco but I couldn't find anything relating to bus stops in their municipal code.
Even the Dorms in Mountain View aren't affordable. When I was there over a decade ago a single bedroom was $1700 a month.
GPS receivers are cheap enough they could actually just incorporate it in with the rest of the car's electronics and only install the stuff that lets you use it if you buy the option. Hell seeing as how cheap cell phones are they could include the ability for it to phone home periodically to relay your driving history even if you don't buy that option.
My favored solution would be to find the GPS unit and then disable the antenna that it uses in a temporary fashion.
It's called "Lobbying" and it is usually engaged in with elected representatives.
So at this point the miners are producing so many coins that it significantly influences the value of existing coins. That devaluing pressure is countered by demand, represented through new money, and or hoarding. I say hoarding because that effectively removes coins from the market for the time being which tightens the demand.
Unless the cost of electricity in producing a coin is very close to the coins current value on the market I would expect that most miners are hedging their bets and only selling some fraction of what they mine to cover costs, produce a bit of profit, and then hoarding the rest.
I would think that logically once it is established that the poster of a possibly libelous review can't be identified, that the next step would be to request the review be taken down. If Yelp then refused to take it down they could be sued for libel themselves.
Why are new bit coins required to maintain the price of an existing bit coin? New bit coins should be creating inflation pressure. As with all fiat currencies a bit coin has little to no inherent value. Just because it costs someone $50 in electricity and CPU time to mine a new bit coin doesn't mean anyone has to pay that price. The relative value of a bit coin will always rely on demand, if people want to use them and have to compete for them on the market then the value goes up, if not it goes down.
Probably not much in the ceiling honestly, but certainly not much on target. The M16 and M4 have very little kickback and the muzzle rise isn't bad, unless you try shooting Rambo style.
It isn't so much the rating scale that is broken but the ways in which it is used. They same basic system is used for all performance evaluations from the lowliest enlisted folk to the fattest officers. In all cases your performance rating contributes significantly to scores for promotion. What ends up happening is one asshole decides that all his troops, or even just a few are deserving of that top rating, which should represent like 1% or less of the force. Every other supervisor sees this happen exactly once unfairly and decides to give all of their troops top ratings whenever possible in order to not cripple their chances at promotion. Before you know it everyone gets "firewall 5's" as we called them. In fact if you tried to give a troop a rating that was less than 5 you would have to go talk to the commander and explain why you were willing to throw out that persons career. Getting a score lower than a 5 once would give you a handicap versus every other troop when testing for promotion for something like 3 or 4 years. For enlisted this sucks but unless you are close to high year tenure it's not critical. But for Officers once you reach certain thresholds if you miss promotion a few times your career is officially over.
The solution should be to simply go to a pass fail system. The current system is completely corrupted I've known guys that got rated lower because they "weren't involved enough in the community" while others skated by doing jack shit except licking the commanders asshole getting awards like crazy.
Exactly, they seem to only be looking at it in terms of bringing materials down to Earth's surface. The biggest boon of this kind of work is that it will finally mean having access to inexpensive, relatively speaking, materials for construction in space and possibly on other planetary bodies.
According to my Father, who was a Green Berret in Vietnam, the only trained use for full auto at the time was psychological. In the event of a patrol being ambushed the trained response was for everyone to immediately unload a full magazine on full auto into the surrounding greenery as a suppresive action. Then swap magainzes and mode of fire to semi-auto for actually trying to pick off enemies.
So full auto in a personal firearm has it's uses, they just aren't good for hitting targets in most scenarios. On top of that an M16 has a cyclic rate of more than 700 rounds a minute, that means you can completely empty a 30 round magazine in under 3 seconds. Even a Marine can't carry enough ammo to sustainably use fullauto in a firefight.
And of course I forgot to include the link that I spent so much time looking up for the Colorado Springs Gazette Investigative series.
http://cdn.csgazette.biz/soldiers/index.html
There are several problems that this brings to mind for me.
First is that we as a society need to drop all the negative associations with mental illness. Some are treatable and or possible to fully recover from. Others are treatable but still a lifelong thing. Others aren't really treatable with our current knowledge, and of course there is an infinite spectrum in between all of that. But in the USA a one time diagnosis of a mental disorder is essentially a lifetime conviction.
Second, because of the negative connotations associated with mental illness most people will go to extreme lengths to avoid such a diagnosis. This is especially problematic with our veterans who even without physical damage have to readjust to a world that is different than when they left it.
Thirdly, veterans who have been involved in IED explosions often have brain injuries that will be permanent but are difficult to diagnos. These injuries whether diagnosed or not often lead to behavioural problems which leads to dishonorable discharges. Such a discharge then prevents or severely hampers those veterans from getting the help they need. And the really sickening part is that while the military has partially recognized this problem they still under diagnos such injuries, and even when diagnosed they frequently act deliberately to expell the service member without benefits anyways.
There was a very good series of articles about this in the Colorado Springs Gazette awhile back. It took me a couple weeks to get through it because reading about the deliberate mistreatment of our vets was very hard for me to stomach as a veteran myself. The bottom line for me though is that I think that some mental illnesses should lead to suspension of 2nd amendment rights on a temporary basis. As a society we should be helping those people so afflicted to heal and overcome their problems, whether they are, Vets or not, so that they can be fully functioning members of society again, including being able to responsibly own a firearm.
Oh how I regret not having any mod points today, that was a great zinger.
That said I've a desktop and a laptop at home both with 8 and my family seems to be adjusting to it alright. Still some horrible UI design decisions but nothing show stopping yet. I haven't tried out 8.1 because I've heard of it creating problems for some of the games that I play.
Someone told me on here before that you can close most any metro app pos by click dragging from the top of the screen to the bottom. I suppose that is like pushing it down off the screen or something on a touch interface.
Additionally it is not at all uncommon for businesses to ask their patrons how they heard of the product/service to start with. I can't count how many times I've been asked that or seen it in written form. And occasionally the appropriate answer would be I heard or saw an illegal copy, but that isn't ordinarily a given option to check.
I'm not sure how you could be anymore wrong. Manning displayed far less responsibility in releasing material than Snowden. Manning dumped more than half a million documents. A number so large that it was physically impossible for him to have reviewed each document for relevance let alone anything else. Snowden meanwhile has released at most a few thousand documents to the news organizations and published a small percentage of them. I personally have created and reviewed a few thousand documents over the course of a month, so it is entirely plausible in my mind that Snowden has reviewed each of the documents he chose to release. Additionally Manning released actual mission reports from a war zone, Snowden hasn't released anything of such minute detail, everything we've heard so far has been higher level policy type stuff, the only exception to that which I can recall being the tapping of Merkel's phone.