Guaranteed supply. Really? So who is going to guarantee the supply? The fuelbank will have to buy their uranium from somewhere and what if the country supplying the uranium decides to stop selling it? Or ups the price? Unless the fuelbank has it's own inexhaustible supply of uranium it cannot guarantee anything.
Yes but you have to look at it from the point of view of the cabin crew. They can't take the time to evaluate every single piece of electronic equipment passengers want to use during the flight to make sure that none of them are transmitting. God, look how long it takes everyone just to stow their bags and sit their asses down in their seats. Now imagine the cabin crew having to check everyone's devices individually as well. The plane would never take off. So its easier to use the blanket statement of "No electronic devices during take off and landing". Honestly, is it really that fucking hard to not fiddle with your gps, or phone, or kindle, or tablet, or ipad, or whatever for a few minutes? Read the damn sky mall magazine for fuck's sake.
At a recent family gathering, my father (who really is pretty sharp) raved about how the iPad changed his life. He talked about loading docs into the cloud so he wouldn't have to carry briefcases of papers. (And he's no PHP, he was talking about Dropbox and similar.)
I remarked, that style of usage doesn't work for me because I am heavily involved in splitting and re-splicing files, saving them, and more. At which point Father confessed to having a second Mac computer. But by then I had almost won the discussion, if you want to do hard file processing, iPads start to get seriously in the way.
The right tool for the right job. For some reason when it comes to computers or electronics people seem to forget this.
The iPad gets in the way because it is not the right tool for content creation. As you know (and your father learned) you want an actual computer for that.
...if you upgraded your old non-HD tv to HD by buying parts and installing them yourself.
Or if you upgraded your old CRT tv to flatscreen plasma or lcd by buying the parts and installing them yourself.
No one?
So why get your panties in a twist when a computer manufacturer decides to make their computers non-upgradable? There are already so many non-upgradable consumer electronics out there. This is no different.
Biology is science. Evolution is science. Creationism is not science, it is religion. If you want to teach creationism then create a religion class and teach it there.
Why don't they do just that? Why do the expect a science class to teach religion? It would be the same as expecting and English class to cover algebra...well they both use letters...durp.
Other than proving it can be done, why would you drop that amount of money on a retina display macbook pro and then install linux on it? OS X is already *nix and has a much, much cleaner and better looking gui than anything available for linux.
Easily defeated without opening or examining the vehicle. Simply surround the vehicle as it leaves the embassy grounds with police cars. Then just drive really, really, really, really slowly. So slow that it would take a week to get to the airport. Switch out the cop cars as necessary but keep the embassy vehicle surrounded and controlled. If the embassy its country protest simply explain you are providing them with protection....that you have credible intelligence that they are at risk from terrorists. When their vehicle finally runs out of gas, wait them out. The person you are after will get out of the car eventually.
Kissane says WikiLeaks supporters gathered there say five police have entered the building housing the embassy. However, it is unclear if they have entered the embassy itself.
Sounds like the embassy is a set of offices inside of a building. The police have simply entered the building housing the embassy.
The UK is expecting Ecuador to back down and hand Assange over.
If they (the UK) were to actually storm the embassy they would be immediately putting their diplomats around the world at risk because they would have just shown how little they think of another country's embassy.
China does not permit immigration. You can get a residence permit if you have a real job, but it is only 1 year and is renewed at the pleasure of your local government. I have seen respected businessmen denied for no reason. They have to leave the country and their business predictably fails soon thereafter. There is a China green card program that is granted to a very small number of people every year. You won't get one, don't bother. You can marry a Chinese and get a 1-year "visiting relative" visa that can be renewed as long as you stay married, but this visa class is the same as a tourist visa and you cannot work on this visa, at least not in China. You'd have to have a WWW business or something.
It's funny how people from Western countries with ridiculously lax immigration procedures go abroad, expecting every country to be just like their own. They are shocked, shocked to find out that a visa is a sovereign act of a nation and it is that country's choice to set the rules.
It is the policies of countries like that, that make me wish my country was just as difficult to get into. While I do love my country I would jump at the chance to live somewhere else for a while but most other countries immigration policies make it practically impossible and yet they expect to be able to just walk into my country be given a place to live, health care, and a job or a welfare cheque.
My account keeps being hacked*, despite the fact I don't login, have no real interest in playing the games, change it to random passwords even I don't remember, run linux day to day, and have it associated to a gmail account which hasn't had any suspicious activity. I've tried to reason with them, but they refuse to listen. I've come to the conlusion that Blizzard are incompetant in this area.
* I've never seen any proof of my account being hacked besides their e-mails telling me and locking my account. I managed to get them unlocked the first few times, my characters still has all items and gold I remember. Now they want me to fax a passport or some 'real identification'. I honestly don't want the games that bad, I'm just annoyed they're taking them off me.
If I had mod points I'd vote this up.
My battle.net / wow account was fine for years. Never had a problem. Then I installed StarCraft2 and its updates. A day later I get a legitimate e-mail from Blizzard telling me my account had been used to spam the chat channels on wow. Changed my password, and started using their iPhone authenticator app. Nothing from any of my characters was missing. Not a single thing.
When it comes to security I don't think Blizzard knows what it is doing.
WAAAAAAH this makes me so sad. The business owner clearly did not give a flying fuck if authors' revenues dried up as a result of strangers swapping ebooks in his digital marketplace, rather than buying them from Amazon or B&N. Tough shit for them, they need a better business model, he would've said.
Instead, it's tough shit for the business owner.
No. Amazon gave the strangers the ability to swap ebooks. All this guy did was make a place where strangers could meet and compare lists of books. If anything these authors and publisher should be kicking themselves for giving Amazon this ability.
I used pen and paper when I returned to school for some course a few years ago. I saw a lot of the kids with laptops in classes but when I looked most of them were surfing or posting on Facebook.
Plus side of pen and paper....you can quickly draw any diagrams or graphs your prof puts up. Try that with a laptop.
What confuses me is that the story says they're using speakers, meaning every player hears the sound at the same time. So where's the issue?
It seems that the speakers convey the sound of a guy with an actual gun further behind. But why aren't the players training themselves to react to the first sound, disregarding the real noise. More importantly, why the hell is there even a real gun out there if they've got the speakers? They couldn't have started using a prerecorded sound years ago?
It appears to me that the real story here is that these officials are so slavish to hopelessly outdated traditions that they'll continue sticking to them even long after it's become evident that it's detrimental. It reminds me of FIFA's long time refusal to accept replays or goal line technology.
You've got that right. Look at the electronic "pistol" picture in the article. They designed it to look like a large gun. Why not just a small button held in the hand? Better yet...nothing. Just have the speakers play the "start" sound and the runners take off. They're looking at the ground when in the starting blocks anyways, not the guy standing off to the side.
HIV and a broken femur will both put you in the hospital. But it certainly isn't semantics to argue that a broken femur is not a virus.
Same goes for this argument. A trojan is not a virus and saying so is not a smug comment. Saying "Windows PCs are far superior in every way to Macs" however, is a smug comment.
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Guaranteed supply. Really? So who is going to guarantee the supply? The fuelbank will have to buy their uranium from somewhere and what if the country supplying the uranium decides to stop selling it? Or ups the price? Unless the fuelbank has it's own inexhaustible supply of uranium it cannot guarantee anything.
Or better yet, stop posting as AC and get enough karma on slashdot to turn off ads.
Yes but you have to look at it from the point of view of the cabin crew. They can't take the time to evaluate every single piece of electronic equipment passengers want to use during the flight to make sure that none of them are transmitting. God, look how long it takes everyone just to stow their bags and sit their asses down in their seats. Now imagine the cabin crew having to check everyone's devices individually as well. The plane would never take off. So its easier to use the blanket statement of "No electronic devices during take off and landing". Honestly, is it really that fucking hard to not fiddle with your gps, or phone, or kindle, or tablet, or ipad, or whatever for a few minutes? Read the damn sky mall magazine for fuck's sake.
Anecdote:
At a recent family gathering, my father (who really is pretty sharp) raved about how the iPad changed his life. He talked about loading docs into the cloud so he wouldn't have to carry briefcases of papers. (And he's no PHP, he was talking about Dropbox and similar.)
I remarked, that style of usage doesn't work for me because I am heavily involved in splitting and re-splicing files, saving them, and more. At which point Father confessed to having a second Mac computer. But by then I had almost won the discussion, if you want to do hard file processing, iPads start to get seriously in the way.
The right tool for the right job. For some reason when it comes to computers or electronics people seem to forget this.
The iPad gets in the way because it is not the right tool for content creation. As you know (and your father learned) you want an actual computer for that.
...if you upgraded your old non-HD tv to HD by buying parts and installing them yourself.
Or if you upgraded your old CRT tv to flatscreen plasma or lcd by buying the parts and installing them yourself.
No one?
So why get your panties in a twist when a computer manufacturer decides to make their computers non-upgradable? There are already so many non-upgradable consumer electronics out there. This is no different.
Biology is science. Evolution is science. Creationism is not science, it is religion. If you want to teach creationism then create a religion class and teach it there.
Why don't they do just that? Why do the expect a science class to teach religion? It would be the same as expecting and English class to cover algebra...well they both use letters...durp.
To everyone asking "Why would you do this?" I can see two reasons:
1) It is nice to have a nice, lightweight, high-end laptop that can run OS X, Windows, and Linux. The Macbook Pro 17" was great for this.
Install VirtualBox, then install linux and/or windows. Tada!
Other than proving it can be done, why would you drop that amount of money on a retina display macbook pro and then install linux on it? OS X is already *nix and has a much, much cleaner and better looking gui than anything available for linux.
Sure...but that takes all the fun out of leaving them captured in the car for hours or even days.
Of course I probably just a sadist.
Easily defeated without opening or examining the vehicle. Simply surround the vehicle as it leaves the embassy grounds with police cars. Then just drive really, really, really, really slowly. So slow that it would take a week to get to the airport. Switch out the cop cars as necessary but keep the embassy vehicle surrounded and controlled. If the embassy its country protest simply explain you are providing them with protection....that you have credible intelligence that they are at risk from terrorists. When their vehicle finally runs out of gas, wait them out. The person you are after will get out of the car eventually.
At least not from the article linked.
Kissane says WikiLeaks supporters gathered there say five police have entered the building housing the embassy. However, it is unclear if they have entered the embassy itself.
Sounds like the embassy is a set of offices inside of a building. The police have simply entered the building housing the embassy.
The UK is expecting Ecuador to back down and hand Assange over.
If they (the UK) were to actually storm the embassy they would be immediately putting their diplomats around the world at risk because they would have just shown how little they think of another country's embassy.
China does not permit immigration. You can get a residence permit if you have a real job, but it is only 1 year and is renewed at the pleasure of your local government. I have seen respected businessmen denied for no reason. They have to leave the country and their business predictably fails soon thereafter. There is a China green card program that is granted to a very small number of people every year. You won't get one, don't bother. You can marry a Chinese and get a 1-year "visiting relative" visa that can be renewed as long as you stay married, but this visa class is the same as a tourist visa and you cannot work on this visa, at least not in China. You'd have to have a WWW business or something.
It's funny how people from Western countries with ridiculously lax immigration procedures go abroad, expecting every country to be just like their own. They are shocked, shocked to find out that a visa is a sovereign act of a nation and it is that country's choice to set the rules.
It is the policies of countries like that, that make me wish my country was just as difficult to get into. While I do love my country I would jump at the chance to live somewhere else for a while but most other countries immigration policies make it practically impossible and yet they expect to be able to just walk into my country be given a place to live, health care, and a job or a welfare cheque.
My account keeps being hacked*, despite the fact I don't login, have no real interest in playing the games, change it to random passwords even I don't remember, run linux day to day, and have it associated to a gmail account which hasn't had any suspicious activity. I've tried to reason with them, but they refuse to listen. I've come to the conlusion that Blizzard are incompetant in this area.
* I've never seen any proof of my account being hacked besides their e-mails telling me and locking my account. I managed to get them unlocked the first few times, my characters still has all items and gold I remember. Now they want me to fax a passport or some 'real identification'. I honestly don't want the games that bad, I'm just annoyed they're taking them off me.
If I had mod points I'd vote this up.
My battle.net / wow account was fine for years. Never had a problem. Then I installed StarCraft2 and its updates. A day later I get a legitimate e-mail from Blizzard telling me my account had been used to spam the chat channels on wow. Changed my password, and started using their iPhone authenticator app. Nothing from any of my characters was missing. Not a single thing.
When it comes to security I don't think Blizzard knows what it is doing.
WAAAAAAH this makes me so sad. The business owner clearly did not give a flying fuck if authors' revenues dried up as a result of strangers swapping ebooks in his digital marketplace, rather than buying them from Amazon or B&N. Tough shit for them, they need a better business model, he would've said.
Instead, it's tough shit for the business owner.
No. Amazon gave the strangers the ability to swap ebooks. All this guy did was make a place where strangers could meet and compare lists of books.
If anything these authors and publisher should be kicking themselves for giving Amazon this ability.
I own them. Neither Amazon nor the author can take them away from me.
I can loan them to whomever I wish for however long I wish and the author can go pound sand.
Your mouse. How to move it left and right AND up and down on your screen.
I used pen and paper when I returned to school for some course a few years ago. I saw a lot of the kids with laptops in classes but when I looked most of them were surfing or posting on Facebook.
Plus side of pen and paper....you can quickly draw any diagrams or graphs your prof puts up. Try that with a laptop.
Combine them all together. Men, women, transgender all compete together in the events.
Women want equality, so here is equality. They can compete against men in the events.
Oh, right. Women only want equality when it benefits them.
Add one more to the pointy haired boss pool.
What confuses me is that the story says they're using speakers, meaning every player hears the sound at the same time. So where's the issue?
It seems that the speakers convey the sound of a guy with an actual gun further behind. But why aren't the players training themselves to react to the first sound, disregarding the real noise. More importantly, why the hell is there even a real gun out there if they've got the speakers? They couldn't have started using a prerecorded sound years ago?
It appears to me that the real story here is that these officials are so slavish to hopelessly outdated traditions that they'll continue sticking to them even long after it's become evident that it's detrimental. It reminds me of FIFA's long time refusal to accept replays or goal line technology.
You've got that right. Look at the electronic "pistol" picture in the article. They designed it to look like a large gun. Why not just a small button held in the hand?
Better yet...nothing. Just have the speakers play the "start" sound and the runners take off. They're looking at the ground when in the starting blocks anyways, not the guy standing off to the side.
Why not have an HR professional come in and give talks on appropriate office behaviour?
Yes, sexual harassment is one possibility. But there are others...like bullying in the workplace and how to identify it.
HIV and a broken femur will both put you in the hospital. But it certainly isn't semantics to argue that a broken femur is not a virus.
Same goes for this argument. A trojan is not a virus and saying so is not a smug comment. Saying "Windows PCs are far superior in every way to Macs" however, is a smug comment.
It's not a virus.
You mean those safes where hotel staff have a master code that unlocks them in case the guest forgets the code they set? Those safes?