200 dollars is a lot for a decent quality install unless they are running cable through a couple walls. I knew a guy that was contracted out much like you mention for Comcast. He would do a complete professional install with CAT5 cable through walls for about 100-150. He wouldn't run a lot of cable, but he would wire up a room or two. He did it really fast so he made a killing. It could be he was just the exception to the rule.
There's more than just that. Though most of British comedy series (with the exception of I.T. Crowd and The Mighty Boosh) I cannot understand the humor in (such as The Office), there are many dramas that get remade in the US which are actually better in the UK version (Shameless comes to mind).
Exactly. If they would follow a distribution system like Steam I would buy music all the time. I used to pirate video games all the damn time as a teenager and young adult because I either I lived in an area that didn't get new releases fast enough or I didn't feel like braving shitty traffic to go to the store to buy it. Im as poor now as I was then however when Steam came out the convenience ended up making it worthwhile to purchase games and download the day of release.
You must listen to crappy music. Good bands have maybe 1-2 songs on their albumn that sucks. NiN, Tool, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Erasure, Depeche Mode, New Order come to mind (for myself) as bands I can actually listen to the whole CD of. Sure, there are good tunes by bands with "junk-and-filler" but frankly if you only have one good tune you should either give up or go back to the drawing board so-to-speak.
Ho there Grishnakh! I challenge ye to combat with my mighty obsidian staff upon the Peak of Eternal Light! Or, if thoust prefer we may battle in the depths of the Chasm of Eternal Darkness amongst the goblin hordes!
GS has a reputation for scams. They bought up a bunch of debt for 70 percent its worth and got the government to guarantee the full 100 percent return. GS is pretty bad, and our government is worse.
It sounds to me like you just don't like tablets. There are plenty of good uses for one, for example paper replacement, reading email, news, ebooks, etc. Maybe they are a bit expensive for that but why the hell does someone else's preferences matter to you? (I dont own a tablet)
I disagree, both with the Intel part as well as the tablet part. Look out how popular the iPad is? Its only a matter of time until someone comes up with an awesome text recognition or formula recognition application and you can transcribe notes digitally from your handwriting and about 50 percent of students and/or engineers will suddenly have one (or the Android equivalent). Think of how many people need a notepad to take down notes in meetings or classes or need a engineering notebook to draw schematics etc? What if this "notepad" also could check email, browse the web, weather, video chat, allow e-books? It becomes the perfect tool for portable productivity. Additionally, with the introduction of OpenCL in the next version of the iPad as well as in the AMD line of Fusion processors it leaves a crapload more options open for software developers to use CPU/GPU in conjunction for all manner of purposes. Intel is way behind in the graphics market due to AMD's acquisition of ATI. I predict that Fusion processors will take over a significant chunk of the laptop market, and tablets will become increasingly common as they mature. I believe Intel will still dominate the desktop/workstation market.
The prison system is extremely flawed and corrupt, but if you were to improve it I don't see why keeping them in a special prison is a bad thing. Maybe call it something else, like a "mental health clinic". If you knew a person would exit jail and go murder someone why would you let them out of jail?
Not entirely. If a child molestor/rapist has done it twice or more times already then they should be isolated from children (which is easiest to do in prison) until such a time that they are cured of their problem. Prison doesn't have to be some horrible place, that's what makes it a shitty thing to do. However, some people need to be separated from society such as serial murderers, rapists, and people you keep committing assault.
I don't really understand why people like this aren't kept in prison. If they have a high chance of committing another crime, enough so this device is warranted, why would you not keep them in prison to protect people? Why not just give every criminal something like this and completely get rid of prison. If you are a violent offender and your blood pressure goes up along with your adrenaline, the cops are called. If you are a thief and you go to the store, a cop is called. It just seems ridiculous that they spend more time and money locking up nonviolent offenders when the only thing our prison system in the US is good at is isolating people from society.
I don't have other options, that is the problem. The best doctors work for places my insurance won't cover. When I had better insurance I had an awesome, well educated doctor from Baylor. Unfortunately students are required to go to the university heath care center which has doctors who get paid 120,000 a year but they can be morons.
My wife has an autistic brother so my heart goes out to you. Funny thing about autistic people is that they have unusual but correct insight sometimes. I tend to think that there is a little savant in most of them.
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200 dollars is a lot for a decent quality install unless they are running cable through a couple walls. I knew a guy that was contracted out much like you mention for Comcast. He would do a complete professional install with CAT5 cable through walls for about 100-150. He wouldn't run a lot of cable, but he would wire up a room or two. He did it really fast so he made a killing. It could be he was just the exception to the rule.
since most albums contain mostly junk-and-filler these days
Clarification, much? I only gave personal examples, hence "come to mind (for myself)". Figure of speech, much?
PS Im aware Shameless is partially a Comedy but it always seemed more dramatic to me.
There's more than just that. Though most of British comedy series (with the exception of I.T. Crowd and The Mighty Boosh) I cannot understand the humor in (such as The Office), there are many dramas that get remade in the US which are actually better in the UK version (Shameless comes to mind).
Exactly. If they would follow a distribution system like Steam I would buy music all the time. I used to pirate video games all the damn time as a teenager and young adult because I either I lived in an area that didn't get new releases fast enough or I didn't feel like braving shitty traffic to go to the store to buy it. Im as poor now as I was then however when Steam came out the convenience ended up making it worthwhile to purchase games and download the day of release.
You must listen to crappy music. Good bands have maybe 1-2 songs on their albumn that sucks. NiN, Tool, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Erasure, Depeche Mode, New Order come to mind (for myself) as bands I can actually listen to the whole CD of. Sure, there are good tunes by bands with "junk-and-filler" but frankly if you only have one good tune you should either give up or go back to the drawing board so-to-speak.
They do have a keyboard for the iPad. As far as the bigger screen I think the iPad 2 is going that route.
Ho there Grishnakh! I challenge ye to combat with my mighty obsidian staff upon the Peak of Eternal Light! Or, if thoust prefer we may battle in the depths of the Chasm of Eternal Darkness amongst the goblin hordes!
Space elevator?
GS has a reputation for scams. They bought up a bunch of debt for 70 percent its worth and got the government to guarantee the full 100 percent return. GS is pretty bad, and our government is worse.
Well, Im all for absolute deregulation if you are all for coal towns and Robber Barons.
It sounds to me like you just don't like tablets. There are plenty of good uses for one, for example paper replacement, reading email, news, ebooks, etc. Maybe they are a bit expensive for that but why the hell does someone else's preferences matter to you? (I dont own a tablet)
I disagree, both with the Intel part as well as the tablet part. Look out how popular the iPad is? Its only a matter of time until someone comes up with an awesome text recognition or formula recognition application and you can transcribe notes digitally from your handwriting and about 50 percent of students and/or engineers will suddenly have one (or the Android equivalent). Think of how many people need a notepad to take down notes in meetings or classes or need a engineering notebook to draw schematics etc? What if this "notepad" also could check email, browse the web, weather, video chat, allow e-books? It becomes the perfect tool for portable productivity. Additionally, with the introduction of OpenCL in the next version of the iPad as well as in the AMD line of Fusion processors it leaves a crapload more options open for software developers to use CPU/GPU in conjunction for all manner of purposes. Intel is way behind in the graphics market due to AMD's acquisition of ATI. I predict that Fusion processors will take over a significant chunk of the laptop market, and tablets will become increasingly common as they mature. I believe Intel will still dominate the desktop/workstation market.
Windows still seems like its not out of Beta as well....
Yep. Kick all the nonviolent drug addicts and dealers out.
The prison system is extremely flawed and corrupt, but if you were to improve it I don't see why keeping them in a special prison is a bad thing. Maybe call it something else, like a "mental health clinic". If you knew a person would exit jail and go murder someone why would you let them out of jail?
Not entirely. If a child molestor/rapist has done it twice or more times already then they should be isolated from children (which is easiest to do in prison) until such a time that they are cured of their problem. Prison doesn't have to be some horrible place, that's what makes it a shitty thing to do. However, some people need to be separated from society such as serial murderers, rapists, and people you keep committing assault.
Thats because they lock up people that would probably be more suited to an enforced drug rehab program.
I don't really understand why people like this aren't kept in prison. If they have a high chance of committing another crime, enough so this device is warranted, why would you not keep them in prison to protect people? Why not just give every criminal something like this and completely get rid of prison. If you are a violent offender and your blood pressure goes up along with your adrenaline, the cops are called. If you are a thief and you go to the store, a cop is called. It just seems ridiculous that they spend more time and money locking up nonviolent offenders when the only thing our prison system in the US is good at is isolating people from society.
I don't have other options, that is the problem. The best doctors work for places my insurance won't cover. When I had better insurance I had an awesome, well educated doctor from Baylor. Unfortunately students are required to go to the university heath care center which has doctors who get paid 120,000 a year but they can be morons.
My wife has an autistic brother so my heart goes out to you. Funny thing about autistic people is that they have unusual but correct insight sometimes. I tend to think that there is a little savant in most of them.
That comment was simply transcendental.
If there were a God of Justice, Wakefield would be felled by polio and end up in an iron lung.....
which through repeated friction from its rubber seal undulations would cause a bad case of necrotizing fasciitis.
There are an infinite number of values between 0 and 1. But 2 isn't one of them.
Its worse than that! There are an uncountably infinite number of values between 0 and 1!
Scientology. Tom Cruise.