I don't know about UK, but here in continental Europe, the good chocolare usually has tin foil
He was probably being a bit pedantic. Though the good stuff may be wrapped in foil, I doubt the foil is made of tin; aluminum, more than likely. I'm pushing 50 years old, and I don't know that I've ever seen "tin foil".
Or maybe, as you implied, he just buys cheap chocolate.:)
After 25 years or so of slapping upgrades in computers of various sorts, I'd have to say an SSD made the most immediate, noticeable difference of any upgrade I've done. Better CPU? Yeah, the new one's a bit snappier...I think; or maybe I want to think that because I spent money. More RAM? Seems like it's not swapping as much, sure. Replace spinning platters with SSD? Did someone just secretly swap out my old computer for a new one? Everything seems faster (okay, not ripping DVDs in Handbrake).
Forget boot times, who reboots enough to even notice? App loading, compiles, anything involving disk access is nearly instant. I'll sacrifice capacity for what an SSD buys me.
Now I'll admit that I wasn't as impressed as I thought I should have been. Two years ago when I bought my first one, bloggers were wetting themselves a bit much over the extra snappiness of an SSD. But SSDs are still a damned impressive upgrade. I really noticed the difference when I went back and forth between my SSD-equipped MacBook Pro and my iMac with a better CPU but 7200 RPM hard drive. When the iMac hits disk, it's annoyingly noticeable.
In summary, SSDs have been worth the money to me for over two years now. The only spinny hard drive I'll be buying from now on will either be a secondary drive, or will go in the NAS.
And if you like the eInk Kindle why would you not start to consider the Fire?
Because if I want an eye-searing backlit reader to use after the lights go out, I'll use my wife's iPad 3 which has a much better DPI than the Fire. Horses for courses, and for reading I'll use my e-ink Kindle whenever I can (and maybe I'll get the new Paperweight to solve the after-dark problem). When I want to use a tablet for tablety stuff, the Fire is not my first choice.
By contrast, I'm offended that so much as a single penny of taxpayer money went toward this.
900 million of your tax pennies just last year, actually. I don't write to my Congress critter as often as I should, but this has prompted me to do so. It would seem that one House member is already starting to ask some hard questions.
Better yet, I'll be writing my representative and asking why we gave the USADA $9 million of my tax dollars last year, and if we can't cut back on that next year.
I personally don't have any clue why they are priced so high.
A P/E of 15 and they pay a (admittedly small) dividend. Me, I'm surprised the price/share isn't higher. I also don't need a rational reason to trade them in a market that makes little sense most of the time.
But if a reason is needed, go to Bellevue Square Mall in the Seattle suburbs. Right in the heart of Microsoft country. Take a look at the Microsoft Store, sad as it is with its employees standing around. Now walk 50 meters to the Apple Store. Notice a difference? Notice how you can barely get in there on a weekend?
Haters can hate, and they can wish for the share price crash that probably isn't going to come any time soon. In the mean time they've missed out on a 76% increase in share price in the last twelve months.
Yes, that would be an accurate summary. Answers are generally required,and I'm not about to give the actual answer. I do not intend to ever use the answers, as I view security questions to be a hole and not a help, but they might as well be recorded.
I didn't know the XBox did this; now I wonder if it also does all that when you got a paid subscription ?
It's even in the summary: yes, paying subscribers see ads.
I don't really care about the ads per se, but that in an effort to cram more ads on the screen the stuff I actually use is buried. Most of the time it doesn't matter, I guess, since I throw a game DVD in the drive and wait for it to load.
But the catch is unlike law school grads, no employee would want to work in that environment. Well at least a good employee knows he can get hired elsewhere and not fear of being fired every day.
Except that when I went to explain to new hires how the stack ranking worked, more than one stated that HR said that Microsoft didn't do stack ranking. Well surprise, surprise "kid who turned down an offer at Google". Granted, this was seven or eight years ago, so maybe the HR department is more honest about it now.
Even if they wanted to do a real background check, there's a serious limit to what yo can find out without a taxID/social security number, and they never ask for any of that.
You signed up for the developer program, but I doubt you'll be selling anything in the App Store without giving Apple a tax ID and some bank information. How else would you propose that they get the money to you?
No sane person worrys about non-ionizing radiation.
That's not entirely true, but for the discussion of cell phones it is. However, you probably don't want to spend a whole lot of time close to the antenna hooked to a 1000W transmitter (or even 100W, depending on frequency). It's non-ionizing, won't give you cancer, but it could heat you up a fair bit.
On the other hand, my handheld amateur radio with the antenna right on top puts out 5W, which is a good bit more than a cell phone. I've not ever read any warnings against putting it close to any part of my body when transmitting. Why would anyone worry about an itty bitty cell phone transmitter?
I don't know about troll, but certainly a brand new UID that posted to one or two other articles while waiting for this to come out of the firehose. My guess is an MSR employee that found out "hey, our stuff's going to be on./!"
But that's neither here nor there, the post is inaccurate garbage.
Besides, we are talking about Microsoft here. A company that has ridiculously long phase outs for their products as a standard practice so businesses feel safe using them (snip) If there is any tech company in the world that you can trust not just going to end support suddenly, it's Microsoft.
"End support suddenly" is pretty much what they did with Office Live Small Business. A couple of emails of warning, then in about two weeks (maybe a month) the plug was pulled. No migration plan to move to Office 365. Oh, MSFT suggested moving to Office 365, but one would just have to start over. That's just one, personal example of a Microsoft business product that I have experience with (and I'm not too broken-hearted, other than the hassle, as their offering kind of sucked). Consumer-level products? Examples abound both from personal experience (PlaysForSure and MSN Music pop right to mind) and those of others on why you don't want to put too many eggs in the Microsoft basket.
MSFT probably won't be ending support for Windows or Office, but I'd be wary of trusting them with anything else.
You don't even need an Extra license. A General will get you most of what you need for long-range HF use. And good thing, because for a software guy with only light electronics experience, that Extra test is hard! General, OTOH, is a couple of weeks of flipping through the book and taking the test. -- KF7SPZ
And my mod points expired just yesterday. I read the headline and said to myself, "that can't be right, they can't just build coal and oil plants in a matter of weeks, and the existing ones surely can't handle the extra load." No one else thought the same thing before commenting? No? Because of./'s pristine track record of headlines matching the facts?
I wouldn't be so eager to go find excuses for getting cut open. As a connoisseur of fine general anesthetics since childhood (lots of surgery as a child, and a few since reaching adulthood), I can tell you that general anesthetics vary wildly in patient experience. It would seem that they are a hell of a lot better than what was used decades ago, with less nausea and overall yucky feeling. The effects (lethargy and the like) don't last for days like they used to, either. I'm not an anesthesiologist, but I'm sure the drugs have changed and maybe they're using less of them.
That said, I've never had a general that I'd stand in line for again. What you describe sounds like one of the many not-quite-general options used for colonoscopies, dental surgery, and the like. Not quite asleep (like a colonoscopy, where you can hear and execute the request to move position), but you probably don't remember anything.
I'll concede the point, and the point jgordon made in follow-up. However, I have to wonder what the hell you two are doing that you're tearing up synchros and whatever damage jgordon maintains occurs when heel/toe is not used. I've driven manual transmissions since I learned to drive several decades ago. I've just about always had a manual tranny car in the garage, and have driven individual vehicles well past the 100K mile mark. I've burned up clutches and throwout bearings, but not once have I ever been required to replace or otherwise crack open a manual tranny. In fact, I'm thinking back to my stint as an ASE-certified mechanic and honestly trying to recall anyone in any shop I worked at replacing a manual transmission (for vehicles that weren't raced), and I come up empty. (Granted, never worked a transmission shop, but myself and coworkers replaced plenty of clutches and autos.)
My long-winded point is, if a manual tranny can typically last the life of the car despite the abuse of the unwashed, how is heel/toe "required" or even a good idea for day-to-day use if the owner won't notice any difference in longevity?
I did wonder what would happen if I chucked the key out the window whilst moving though...
It will continue to run, but won't restart once stopped. At least that's what the valet says my Nissan Leaf does when I forget to give him the key. The valet/forgetful owner situation is just one of the reasons I'm not a fan of RF keys, but at least that scenario was apparently thought through.
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I don't know about UK, but here in continental Europe, the good chocolare usually has tin foil
He was probably being a bit pedantic. Though the good stuff may be wrapped in foil, I doubt the foil is made of tin; aluminum, more than likely. I'm pushing 50 years old, and I don't know that I've ever seen "tin foil".
Or maybe, as you implied, he just buys cheap chocolate. :)
After 25 years or so of slapping upgrades in computers of various sorts, I'd have to say an SSD made the most immediate, noticeable difference of any upgrade I've done. Better CPU? Yeah, the new one's a bit snappier...I think; or maybe I want to think that because I spent money. More RAM? Seems like it's not swapping as much, sure. Replace spinning platters with SSD? Did someone just secretly swap out my old computer for a new one? Everything seems faster (okay, not ripping DVDs in Handbrake).
Forget boot times, who reboots enough to even notice? App loading, compiles, anything involving disk access is nearly instant. I'll sacrifice capacity for what an SSD buys me.
Now I'll admit that I wasn't as impressed as I thought I should have been. Two years ago when I bought my first one, bloggers were wetting themselves a bit much over the extra snappiness of an SSD. But SSDs are still a damned impressive upgrade. I really noticed the difference when I went back and forth between my SSD-equipped MacBook Pro and my iMac with a better CPU but 7200 RPM hard drive. When the iMac hits disk, it's annoyingly noticeable.
In summary, SSDs have been worth the money to me for over two years now. The only spinny hard drive I'll be buying from now on will either be a secondary drive, or will go in the NAS.
It wasn't modded down, he has crappy karma and starts at -1.
And if you like the eInk Kindle why would you not start to consider the Fire?
Because if I want an eye-searing backlit reader to use after the lights go out, I'll use my wife's iPad 3 which has a much better DPI than the Fire. Horses for courses, and for reading I'll use my e-ink Kindle whenever I can (and maybe I'll get the new Paperweight to solve the after-dark problem). When I want to use a tablet for tablety stuff, the Fire is not my first choice.
By contrast, I'm offended that so much as a single penny of taxpayer money went toward this.
900 million of your tax pennies just last year, actually. I don't write to my Congress critter as often as I should, but this has prompted me to do so. It would seem that one House member is already starting to ask some hard questions.
Better yet, I'll be writing my representative and asking why we gave the USADA $9 million of my tax dollars last year, and if we can't cut back on that next year.
Apple's mobile OS doesn't even have real garbage collection.
iOS never had any garbage collection. And now with something as cool as Automatic Reference Counting, it probably never will.
I personally don't have any clue why they are priced so high.
A P/E of 15 and they pay a (admittedly small) dividend. Me, I'm surprised the price/share isn't higher. I also don't need a rational reason to trade them in a market that makes little sense most of the time.
But if a reason is needed, go to Bellevue Square Mall in the Seattle suburbs. Right in the heart of Microsoft country. Take a look at the Microsoft Store, sad as it is with its employees standing around. Now walk 50 meters to the Apple Store. Notice a difference? Notice how you can barely get in there on a weekend?
Haters can hate, and they can wish for the share price crash that probably isn't going to come any time soon. In the mean time they've missed out on a 76% increase in share price in the last twelve months.
Yes, that would be an accurate summary. Answers are generally required,and I'm not about to give the actual answer. I do not intend to ever use the answers, as I view security questions to be a hole and not a help, but they might as well be recorded.
Google me all you want, the real answer to "mother's maiden name" for me is "{ah23#>K&Ep", which I store in 1Password.
Of course, that does no good if Apple simply ignores the security questions.
I didn't know the XBox did this; now I wonder if it also does all that when you got a paid subscription ?
It's even in the summary: yes, paying subscribers see ads.
I don't really care about the ads per se, but that in an effort to cram more ads on the screen the stuff I actually use is buried. Most of the time it doesn't matter, I guess, since I throw a game DVD in the drive and wait for it to load.
Replying to yourself now? Why is it that I picture spittle flying from your mouth as you type this?
You're assuming the alleged statement was made while the new hires were still candidates.
But the catch is unlike law school grads, no employee would want to work in that environment. Well at least a good employee knows he can get hired elsewhere and not fear of being fired every day.
Except that when I went to explain to new hires how the stack ranking worked, more than one stated that HR said that Microsoft didn't do stack ranking. Well surprise, surprise "kid who turned down an offer at Google". Granted, this was seven or eight years ago, so maybe the HR department is more honest about it now.
Even if they wanted to do a real background check, there's a serious limit to what yo can find out without a taxID/social security number, and they never ask for any of that.
You signed up for the developer program, but I doubt you'll be selling anything in the App Store without giving Apple a tax ID and some bank information. How else would you propose that they get the money to you?
No sane person worrys about non-ionizing radiation.
That's not entirely true, but for the discussion of cell phones it is. However, you probably don't want to spend a whole lot of time close to the antenna hooked to a 1000W transmitter (or even 100W, depending on frequency). It's non-ionizing, won't give you cancer, but it could heat you up a fair bit.
On the other hand, my handheld amateur radio with the antenna right on top puts out 5W, which is a good bit more than a cell phone. I've not ever read any warnings against putting it close to any part of my body when transmitting. Why would anyone worry about an itty bitty cell phone transmitter?
I don't know about troll, but certainly a brand new UID that posted to one or two other articles while waiting for this to come out of the firehose. My guess is an MSR employee that found out "hey, our stuff's going to be on ./!"
But that's neither here nor there, the post is inaccurate garbage.
Besides, we are talking about Microsoft here. A company that has ridiculously long phase outs for their products as a standard practice so businesses feel safe using them (snip) If there is any tech company in the world that you can trust not just going to end support suddenly, it's Microsoft.
"End support suddenly" is pretty much what they did with Office Live Small Business. A couple of emails of warning, then in about two weeks (maybe a month) the plug was pulled. No migration plan to move to Office 365. Oh, MSFT suggested moving to Office 365, but one would just have to start over. That's just one, personal example of a Microsoft business product that I have experience with (and I'm not too broken-hearted, other than the hassle, as their offering kind of sucked). Consumer-level products? Examples abound both from personal experience (PlaysForSure and MSN Music pop right to mind) and those of others on why you don't want to put too many eggs in the Microsoft basket.
MSFT probably won't be ending support for Windows or Office, but I'd be wary of trusting them with anything else.
1980.
You don't even need an Extra license. A General will get you most of what you need for long-range HF use. And good thing, because for a software guy with only light electronics experience, that Extra test is hard! General, OTOH, is a couple of weeks of flipping through the book and taking the test.
--
KF7SPZ
And my mod points expired just yesterday. I read the headline and said to myself, "that can't be right, they can't just build coal and oil plants in a matter of weeks, and the existing ones surely can't handle the extra load." No one else thought the same thing before commenting? No? Because of ./'s pristine track record of headlines matching the facts?
I wouldn't be so eager to go find excuses for getting cut open. As a connoisseur of fine general anesthetics since childhood (lots of surgery as a child, and a few since reaching adulthood), I can tell you that general anesthetics vary wildly in patient experience. It would seem that they are a hell of a lot better than what was used decades ago, with less nausea and overall yucky feeling. The effects (lethargy and the like) don't last for days like they used to, either. I'm not an anesthesiologist, but I'm sure the drugs have changed and maybe they're using less of them.
That said, I've never had a general that I'd stand in line for again. What you describe sounds like one of the many not-quite-general options used for colonoscopies, dental surgery, and the like. Not quite asleep (like a colonoscopy, where you can hear and execute the request to move position), but you probably don't remember anything.
I'll concede the point, and the point jgordon made in follow-up. However, I have to wonder what the hell you two are doing that you're tearing up synchros and whatever damage jgordon maintains occurs when heel/toe is not used. I've driven manual transmissions since I learned to drive several decades ago. I've just about always had a manual tranny car in the garage, and have driven individual vehicles well past the 100K mile mark. I've burned up clutches and throwout bearings, but not once have I ever been required to replace or otherwise crack open a manual tranny. In fact, I'm thinking back to my stint as an ASE-certified mechanic and honestly trying to recall anyone in any shop I worked at replacing a manual transmission (for vehicles that weren't raced), and I come up empty. (Granted, never worked a transmission shop, but myself and coworkers replaced plenty of clutches and autos.)
My long-winded point is, if a manual tranny can typically last the life of the car despite the abuse of the unwashed, how is heel/toe "required" or even a good idea for day-to-day use if the owner won't notice any difference in longevity?
You should buy a car with one of those fancy synchronized transmissions, that way heel/toe won't be "required" to downshift.
I did wonder what would happen if I chucked the key out the window whilst moving though...
It will continue to run, but won't restart once stopped. At least that's what the valet says my Nissan Leaf does when I forget to give him the key. The valet/forgetful owner situation is just one of the reasons I'm not a fan of RF keys, but at least that scenario was apparently thought through.