No, that's not the real story, that's a line of condescending bullshit from someone who probably doesn't have kids or kids in daycare. Yes, I see the hidden attitude -- dual income parents, who want to have it all -- material possessions and kids -- and who, at the end of the day, are just too tired or self-absorbed from their ceaseless search for money and goods to take proper care of their children.
I got news for you. Ain't the case. Life is expensive. Very expensive. You really can't take care of a family in this shitty, overpriced, bought-and-sold by Goldman Sachs world of ours without dual incomes. This necessitates daycare, which I might add is extremely expensive, $1300 a month for us, and even when you pay as much as you can you still find yourself making sure they do things right (ie, milk at meals).
It's *so* tiring to hear people without kids get sanctimonious about how people with kids live their lives, as if it were a simple set of choices made by logic.
What I found strange about the "story", which incidentally, I also thought read like a successfully placed bit of corporate propaganda, is that AT&T is currently running commercials that capitalize on their data network being faster than Verizon's, and IIRC there have recently (last 3-6 months) been multiple stories from multiple sources (Engadget/Gizmodo, some cellular research company) that have BOTH released the same results -- AT&T's data network is faster than Verizon's.
My own personal datapoint as a customer who switched from Verizon to AT&T in the last 9 months is that I get *better* coverage with AT&T in my primary area (Twin Cities), fewer dead spots and the data service on my iPhone is faster than it was on my Motorola Q on Verizon.
My complaints about AT&T are really centered on the coverage in rural areas of MN and North Dakota -- I'm lucky if I get a solid 1x, many no service areas, and wifi is needed for any data services you'd normally expect to use on 3G. But I think that whole area is pretty much Alltel territory and nobody uses anything but Alltel up there. Verizon roams there just fine and there's decent EVDO coverage in many places AT&T wheezes on a weak 1x signal.
I know it's real popular to feel such a level of disgust for the United States that you kind of lose sight of reality, but how exactly is Iran inching towards freedom?
Since the election, which many *Iranians* feel was rigged by Ahmadinejad and/or those in his camp, the government has steadily ratcheted up the level of oppression in Iran, including increased censorship, Internet filtering, limits on cell phone communication, etc. The Iranian government has admitted to torturing and killing its own citizens who were detained protesting the election; internally there have been allegations of rape used as an instrument of torture.
It's also apparent you have lost your "hope". Presumably "the people of USA" have actually made a stride TOWARDS more freedom -- voting the first African American President into office in a decade, in a landslide election that was widely acknowledged to be a repudiation of Bush/Cheney and their policies.
China continues to jail its political opponents, even those seeking redress for issues which the government was responsible such as development and land use issues, and practices widespread censorship of the internet in addition to organized hacking campaigns against human rights advocates. Google has complained about it and is threatening to leave China over the issue.
It was largely hyperbole, but I've always been horribly underwhelmed by audiobook narration.
Usually the problem is when they hire a third-rate actor who embellishes in a cheesy manner, usually with the ethnicity or the gender of the character they are speaking for.
Personally I would prefer straightforward reading, ideally with someone who has a really good voice (I'm thinking Ian McKellan).
Think about it. Audible, publishers, authors who sell the "audio performance" rights of their book separately from the printed rights, performers, publishers, there's a whole food chain making money off of books on tape, and its probably been a growth industry since the iPod, which makes it easier to stop/start/carry around a book on tape, plus downloading them is much more convenient than a whole stack of CDs or having to rip them to the PC.
I see their point, a bit, but I would challenge the books on tape industry to win by creating a *better product* than text-to-speech. I like a book on tape for a long car drive, but most presentations are REALLY lame and not much better than automation. Perhaps more inspired narration (when appropriate) and FX that makes the book on tape a richer experience would sell the product better against text to speech.
I've wondered how they can call it "better" when they make access to the actual interfaces so hard to get to.
Vista had the same problem, but you could hack the registry to enable display of all control panels. Win7 has those registry keys locked out so they apparently can't be modified by anyone.
The locations scheme would make some sense if they included a way to store/configure adapter settings with each location. I'm still wondering why I can't easily load a config for "home" with static IPs, "coffee shop" has dynamic, etc.
You just answered your own question, "California". That means you must keep your guns disassembled and non-firing.
I'm pretty sure it also only applies to a place that would qualify as a dwelling, such as a house, an apartment, and most temporary housing (hotels, motor homes, etc). You can use deadly force in a business, but its a lot more complicated than a home is (this varies by state, too).
I'm sure they wouldn't bother, but what happens when the BSA wants to audit an entity that sits behind locked doors with real armed guards? They'd be forced to get a court order and probably an escort with US Marshalls or the county sheriff if the company didn't want to go along with it.
6. You're inane ramblings about drunken escapades, football or other idle chatter are worthwhile enough to people with thousands of dollars worth of eavesdropping equipment to spend time trying to listen in on your phone call.
Everyone benefits from an informed society, but where do you stop? Broadband is worthless without a computer, and nearly worthless without a *contemporary* PC that can keep up with the inane software requirements of the Adobe Flash/Javascript/IE8 world.
And what about college/post-secondary education? That is not free, either.
None of this shit is free, it comes out of the pockets of people who (still) earn a living. Maybe if you woke up and realized that Goldmine Sachs was paying bonuses earned with YOUR MONEY, you'd quit whining about what free luxuries you don't enjoy.
Don't live on a municipal sewer system? Guess what, you're building your own septic system.
Water? Drill your own well.
Natural gas? Hope the LP guy delivers or you can deliver your own.
Electricity? They'll usually extend service for you, but it's like $1000 a yard or something outrageous to set poles and string a line. Otherwise, buy a generator and hope the LP guy and/or the diesel guy deliver.
After we first make sure that everyone has access to broadband, we can give them computers to use on it. Then software.
After a while, we can make sure everyone has a pony, too.
How many people want broadband that can't get it now? Move or pay the price. No one should pay so you can live in stumblefuck and get the benefits of urban living. Sorry, I'm not buying you a pony.
Yes, many places are stuck with shitty providers and no choice. That's a different issue, and I'd like to see something done about that.
Doesn't serving "everyone" have daunting technical/physical challenges, if not financial ones at a minimum?
How does an extra month give you a good answer that's not completely unrealistic -- "just run fiber to everyone's house" -- and impossibly expensive?
That being said, I'm not against broadband/networking being invested in by the government, for the same reasons I'm not against the government building roads. It's a common thing we all need good, local access to. You benefit from roads, even if you don't personally drive -- it enables economic activity, enables things & people to move easily, etc. Municipal fiber infrastructure makes sense and can pay for itself.
I don't see how meeting everyone's needs can be done responsibly, though, and wouldn't want to see some of the excess paid for (eg, individual people living in remote areas requiring 10s of thouands of investment to get high speed internet access) at all.
Until not that long ago, wasn't North Dakota something like the world's #3 or #4 nuclear power? Between the missile silos and the airbases in Grand Forks and Minot, I think they had plenty of nukes.
Have you seen how grossly obese Margaret Andersen-Kelliher is? She likes to tax the way she likes to eat. There is no self-control there, only the willingness to keep gorging herself.
Don't you mean mid-June? I was in the market for a new phone last spring and it was all vapor and smoke about what, if any, "new" iPhone was coming out on the market.
I ended up gaming the system a little -- my wife went freelance and needed a new phone, so I bought an iPhone for myself and just got her a number with no contract and threw the sim card in an old RAZR.
When the 3GS came out, I got that with her contract/discount and gave her the 3G iPhone I'd had for about two months.
I'm sure I'll be annoyed with envy at the new shiny in June, but what the heck.
I saw it in a local multiplex that had a 3D Imax screen.
First, "3D Imax" apparently isn't Imax like at the science museum where the seating is very steep and the screen is a large concave surface. At the multiplex, they just used one of the larger "main" auditoriums with a temporary/movable partially curved screen that seemed not that much larger than the normal screen for that space.
Bottom line -- I did not get the "IMAX" experience like you get at the science museum or some traditional Imax theater.
As for the 3D part, that was good, although after a while I stopped thinking about it; it wasn't overdone but in some cases it seemed too subtle to be worthwhile. The visuals are all so stunning that I think 3D is like fudge sauce added to ice cream that already has 8 other kinds of sauces on it.
The good thing was that I wear glasses and the polarized 3D glasses fit over my regular glasses well and I had no problems with fuzzy depth of field as I have in other recent non-Imax 3D films. This was my biggest worry.
I'd kind of like to see it at the Zoo here which has a traditional IMAX screen; I think it might have more impact. The problem with Avatar is that the movie isn't that good. Every native people/environmental/military/corporate cliche gets used to beat you over the head, and the storyline is extremely simplistic, and the backstory non-existent. We can travel 5 years in huge space ships but our world back home sucks?
I wish the Navi were more complicated, compromised in some way that made them actually threatening or morally culpable. I wish there was something to like about the corporation and the mercenaries. I wish I knew what the heck unobtainium was and what it was for; the drive to get it at any cost MIGHT have been justifiable if it was some kind of magic energy source needed to keep alive the entire planet earth for example; or at least it would have made for good discussion.
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No, that's not the real story, that's a line of condescending bullshit from someone who probably doesn't have kids or kids in daycare. Yes, I see the hidden attitude -- dual income parents, who want to have it all -- material possessions and kids -- and who, at the end of the day, are just too tired or self-absorbed from their ceaseless search for money and goods to take proper care of their children.
I got news for you. Ain't the case. Life is expensive. Very expensive. You really can't take care of a family in this shitty, overpriced, bought-and-sold by Goldman Sachs world of ours without dual incomes. This necessitates daycare, which I might add is extremely expensive, $1300 a month for us, and even when you pay as much as you can you still find yourself making sure they do things right (ie, milk at meals).
It's *so* tiring to hear people without kids get sanctimonious about how people with kids live their lives, as if it were a simple set of choices made by logic.
Ha! My complaint as well.
All it means is that the author has managed to link his favorite subjects together. Obama, Facebook, big numbers, it must mean something....
What I found strange about the "story", which incidentally, I also thought read like a successfully placed bit of corporate propaganda, is that AT&T is currently running commercials that capitalize on their data network being faster than Verizon's, and IIRC there have recently (last 3-6 months) been multiple stories from multiple sources (Engadget/Gizmodo, some cellular research company) that have BOTH released the same results -- AT&T's data network is faster than Verizon's.
My own personal datapoint as a customer who switched from Verizon to AT&T in the last 9 months is that I get *better* coverage with AT&T in my primary area (Twin Cities), fewer dead spots and the data service on my iPhone is faster than it was on my Motorola Q on Verizon.
My complaints about AT&T are really centered on the coverage in rural areas of MN and North Dakota -- I'm lucky if I get a solid 1x, many no service areas, and wifi is needed for any data services you'd normally expect to use on 3G. But I think that whole area is pretty much Alltel territory and nobody uses anything but Alltel up there. Verizon roams there just fine and there's decent EVDO coverage in many places AT&T wheezes on a weak 1x signal.
I know it's real popular to feel such a level of disgust for the United States that you kind of lose sight of reality, but how exactly is Iran inching towards freedom?
Since the election, which many *Iranians* feel was rigged by Ahmadinejad and/or those in his camp, the government has steadily ratcheted up the level of oppression in Iran, including increased censorship, Internet filtering, limits on cell phone communication, etc. The Iranian government has admitted to torturing and killing its own citizens who were detained protesting the election; internally there have been allegations of rape used as an instrument of torture.
It's also apparent you have lost your "hope". Presumably "the people of USA" have actually made a stride TOWARDS more freedom -- voting the first African American President into office in a decade, in a landslide election that was widely acknowledged to be a repudiation of Bush/Cheney and their policies.
China continues to jail its political opponents, even those seeking redress for issues which the government was responsible such as development and land use issues, and practices widespread censorship of the internet in addition to organized hacking campaigns against human rights advocates. Google has complained about it and is threatening to leave China over the issue.
That problem is going away -- since the economy and real estate collapsed, the map makers will catch up.
It was largely hyperbole, but I've always been horribly underwhelmed by audiobook narration.
Usually the problem is when they hire a third-rate actor who embellishes in a cheesy manner, usually with the ethnicity or the gender of the character they are speaking for.
Personally I would prefer straightforward reading, ideally with someone who has a really good voice (I'm thinking Ian McKellan).
Think about it. Audible, publishers, authors who sell the "audio performance" rights of their book separately from the printed rights, performers, publishers, there's a whole food chain making money off of books on tape, and its probably been a growth industry since the iPod, which makes it easier to stop/start/carry around a book on tape, plus downloading them is much more convenient than a whole stack of CDs or having to rip them to the PC.
I see their point, a bit, but I would challenge the books on tape industry to win by creating a *better product* than text-to-speech. I like a book on tape for a long car drive, but most presentations are REALLY lame and not much better than automation. Perhaps more inspired narration (when appropriate) and FX that makes the book on tape a richer experience would sell the product better against text to speech.
Bravo! Original, copy or some bastardized version of something else?
I've wondered how they can call it "better" when they make access to the actual interfaces so hard to get to.
Vista had the same problem, but you could hack the registry to enable display of all control panels. Win7 has those registry keys locked out so they apparently can't be modified by anyone.
The locations scheme would make some sense if they included a way to store/configure adapter settings with each location. I'm still wondering why I can't easily load a config for "home" with static IPs, "coffee shop" has dynamic, etc.
You just answered your own question, "California". That means you must keep your guns disassembled and non-firing.
I'm pretty sure it also only applies to a place that would qualify as a dwelling, such as a house, an apartment, and most temporary housing (hotels, motor homes, etc). You can use deadly force in a business, but its a lot more complicated than a home is (this varies by state, too).
I'm sure they wouldn't bother, but what happens when the BSA wants to audit an entity that sits behind locked doors with real armed guards? They'd be forced to get a court order and probably an escort with US Marshalls or the county sheriff if the company didn't want to go along with it.
Or has some kind of high security clearance?
6. You're inane ramblings about drunken escapades, football or other idle chatter are worthwhile enough to people with thousands of dollars worth of eavesdropping equipment to spend time trying to listen in on your phone call.
Everyone benefits from an informed society, but where do you stop? Broadband is worthless without a computer, and nearly worthless without a *contemporary* PC that can keep up with the inane software requirements of the Adobe Flash/Javascript/IE8 world.
And what about college/post-secondary education? That is not free, either.
None of this shit is free, it comes out of the pockets of people who (still) earn a living. Maybe if you woke up and realized that Goldmine Sachs was paying bonuses earned with YOUR MONEY, you'd quit whining about what free luxuries you don't enjoy.
A number of years ago? Try today.
Don't live on a municipal sewer system? Guess what, you're building your own septic system.
Water? Drill your own well.
Natural gas? Hope the LP guy delivers or you can deliver your own.
Electricity? They'll usually extend service for you, but it's like $1000 a yard or something outrageous to set poles and string a line. Otherwise, buy a generator and hope the LP guy and/or the diesel guy deliver.
After we first make sure that everyone has access to broadband, we can give them computers to use on it. Then software.
After a while, we can make sure everyone has a pony, too.
How many people want broadband that can't get it now? Move or pay the price. No one should pay so you can live in stumblefuck and get the benefits of urban living. Sorry, I'm not buying you a pony.
Yes, many places are stuck with shitty providers and no choice. That's a different issue, and I'd like to see something done about that.
Doesn't serving "everyone" have daunting technical/physical challenges, if not financial ones at a minimum?
How does an extra month give you a good answer that's not completely unrealistic -- "just run fiber to everyone's house" -- and impossibly expensive?
That being said, I'm not against broadband/networking being invested in by the government, for the same reasons I'm not against the government building roads. It's a common thing we all need good, local access to. You benefit from roads, even if you don't personally drive -- it enables economic activity, enables things & people to move easily, etc. Municipal fiber infrastructure makes sense and can pay for itself.
I don't see how meeting everyone's needs can be done responsibly, though, and wouldn't want to see some of the excess paid for (eg, individual people living in remote areas requiring 10s of thouands of investment to get high speed internet access) at all.
Jesus, she'd crush you. And you can forget going back door; you're not getting through there without an extension pole.
They belong to whoever has them, the Federal government is merely confident in the loyalty of the soldiers in which they have entrusted them.
You don't own anything you can't carry in your own two hands at a run.
Until not that long ago, wasn't North Dakota something like the world's #3 or #4 nuclear power? Between the missile silos and the airbases in Grand Forks and Minot, I think they had plenty of nukes.
Have you seen how grossly obese Margaret Andersen-Kelliher is? She likes to tax the way she likes to eat. There is no self-control there, only the willingness to keep gorging herself.
You do know that insiders only trade on their own account when they have to unload stock options or for other PR reasons.
They make real their money on inside trades through proxies and third parties.
He sounds like the kind of guy that shows up with a sawed-off shotgun one day and pulps the office.
Doesn't Flash fall under the no-scripting-languages-allowed rubric? Or since Apple controls the browser this doesn't matter?
Don't you mean mid-June? I was in the market for a new phone last spring and it was all vapor and smoke about what, if any, "new" iPhone was coming out on the market.
I ended up gaming the system a little -- my wife went freelance and needed a new phone, so I bought an iPhone for myself and just got her a number with no contract and threw the sim card in an old RAZR.
When the 3GS came out, I got that with her contract/discount and gave her the 3G iPhone I'd had for about two months.
I'm sure I'll be annoyed with envy at the new shiny in June, but what the heck.
You know, they made a movie about that called "Deep Throat".
I saw it in a local multiplex that had a 3D Imax screen.
First, "3D Imax" apparently isn't Imax like at the science museum where the seating is very steep and the screen is a large concave surface. At the multiplex, they just used one of the larger "main" auditoriums with a temporary/movable partially curved screen that seemed not that much larger than the normal screen for that space.
Bottom line -- I did not get the "IMAX" experience like you get at the science museum or some traditional Imax theater.
As for the 3D part, that was good, although after a while I stopped thinking about it; it wasn't overdone but in some cases it seemed too subtle to be worthwhile. The visuals are all so stunning that I think 3D is like fudge sauce added to ice cream that already has 8 other kinds of sauces on it.
The good thing was that I wear glasses and the polarized 3D glasses fit over my regular glasses well and I had no problems with fuzzy depth of field as I have in other recent non-Imax 3D films. This was my biggest worry.
I'd kind of like to see it at the Zoo here which has a traditional IMAX screen; I think it might have more impact. The problem with Avatar is that the movie isn't that good. Every native people/environmental/military/corporate cliche gets used to beat you over the head, and the storyline is extremely simplistic, and the backstory non-existent. We can travel 5 years in huge space ships but our world back home sucks?
I wish the Navi were more complicated, compromised in some way that made them actually threatening or morally culpable. I wish there was something to like about the corporation and the mercenaries. I wish I knew what the heck unobtainium was and what it was for; the drive to get it at any cost MIGHT have been justifiable if it was some kind of magic energy source needed to keep alive the entire planet earth for example; or at least it would have made for good discussion.