No, my pockets aren't big enough to fit any of the latest monstrosities, but I happened to want a new Nexus phone. I've still got a Galaxy Nexus, which is about as large as I can comfortably fit in my pocket, and it's getting a little long in the tooth.
I was hoping for a Nexus 6 mini, but no such luck.
We were talking about this at work not long ago. There's something very satisfying about the sounds of a 3.5" floppy disk/drive, both the ka-chunk of inserting the disk and the djjjt-djjjt... djjjt-djjjt of it being read.
The workaround here is to use keywords: Click the engine dropdown in the search box and choose Manage Search Engines. Create keywords for the search engines you care about (eg. 'g' for google, 'wp' for wikipedia, 'd' for dictionary.com, etc). Perform searches in the Awesome Bar by typing "<keyword> <search terms>" and ignore the search box (except to configure more search engines and/or keywords).
I must admit, though, one of the best moments is when BBC revived Dr. Who and had an episode (maybe the first episode) where the Doctor takes Rose billions of years into the future, with the sun about to engulf the earth.
You're describing the opening scene of s01e02, The End of the World.
The context menu search has always defaulted to the engine selected in the search box. Mine has remained set to Google and Ask.com is not even one of the options I have, so I'm thinking maybe something else has hijacked your settings. Either that or you've changed it yourself without realizing.
I haven't had HBO since I was a kid, so maybe things have changed, but isn't it commercial-free? Isn't that the whole point of paying the premium for it?
The Bible. Except for atheists and agnostics, most people should insert their favorite holy book here.
In the USA, at least, everyone should list The Bible, even if they've never read it or don't believe a word of it. After all, it's largely because of The Bible that...
Gay people can't marry.
Women are second-class citizens who can't be trusted or expected to manage their own lives.
Gays, non-whites, and non-Christians are second-class citizens and are treated with mistrust or contempt, sometimes to the point of assault or murder, and do not deserve to have their views reflected in government or society.
Slavery was all good and well into the 1860's and race discrimination was still going strong 100 years later.
Infant boys have parts of their genitals cut off.
We are in perpetual war with much of the Middle East (the Qur'an shares much of the blame here).
Whether you believe The Bible or not, whether you've read The Bible or not, whether you even care about The Bible or not, it has restricted your liberty if you live amongst those who live by it.
Probably not, but in the last election lots of people picked the president by the VP the other guy chose. "I was leaning toward this guy but his health is questionable and he picked a crazy hick to be his VP."
To some degree a known reference would not be necessary. The camera knows how far away the object is by way of autofocus. If the object is far enough away that the focus goes to infinity, then you're SOL.
...as of a few months ago. Someone posted one of those virus hoaxes that's been floating around via email for 12+ years and I informed them that it was such and linked to the related Snopes article. The comment was rejected because the linked url was "spammy".
Ah, this is where you have your terminology confused:
Religious - You believe in a god.
Atheist - You do not beleive in a god.
Agnostic - You are not sure whether to believe in a god.
Note that not believing in a god is not the same thing as saying there is not a (miniscule) possiblity that one exists. I don't know if a god exists, I'm an Atheist, and what that means is I have no reason to believe in a God, and more than I do in an elephant in my bathtub.
Your terminology is off as well.
A theist believes in a god. A religious person need not (see Buddhism). An atheist is one who is not a theist. They may not believe in god or they may believe there is no god. An agnostic believes that the truth about the existence of god(s) is unknowable.
You can be agnostic in addition to theist or atheist. I don't believe in gods but I also don't think we can be certain about their existence. I'm an agnostic atheist.
Instead, we should focus on a more permanent solution, that of removing people from environments that would necessitate putting an electrode in their brains.
As a 25+ year sufferer, I agree with you somewhat; it's best to put the puzzle piece where it fits rather than take scissors to it. The problem is that sometimes that environment is society itself and it's just not very realistic to remove oneself from society aside from death, which also doesn't technically solve anything.
I often feel like I need to move off the grid somewhere and live a simpler, "natural" life without all the schedules, pressures and expectations of a normal life. Long term survival in the wild would probably stress most people out, but to me it's every day pressures and decisions that are complicated and confusing.
I moved from the woods of upstate NY to St Louis in 2010. It was exciting for a few months but the buzz of the city, even a small city like STL, slowly burned me out. I moved back this past fall.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not some highly dysfunctional hermit: I function rather well in modern society, there's just no contentment in it. Only hiking brings me any significant peace.
So I am leery of any predictions that go far into the future when we can all agree that weathermen's (climatologists) predictions are basically a joke.
Weathermen are meteorologists, not climatologists. There's some relation but it's a significant difference.
Also in the 1970s these same climatologists were claiming that the ice age was right around the corner.
In the 70s a small number of climatologists predicted a cooling period was underway and, even though they were refuted by the vast majority, the news papers and magazines ran with the story as an imminent ice age because that sounds scarier.
I am absolutely not equipped to say that they are right or wrong. What I will say is that they are often wrong about what is going to happen tomorrow. So I place zero value of what they say will happen years into the future.
You don't have to believe their predictions; you can look at the recent records and see that it's hotter now than it's been since the "Medieval Warm Period" which we shot past 5 or so years ago.
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I came across this scan of a magazine spread for it a few years back:
http://imgur.com/a/4s6RF
Mine came with the CGA graphics card and color monitor -- FOUR AMAZING COLORS (including black)!
No, my pockets aren't big enough to fit any of the latest monstrosities, but I happened to want a new Nexus phone. I've still got a Galaxy Nexus, which is about as large as I can comfortably fit in my pocket, and it's getting a little long in the tooth.
I was hoping for a Nexus 6 mini, but no such luck.
you're a nerd, you know nexus exists, what's your excuse?
My pockets are too small.
We were talking about this at work not long ago. There's something very satisfying about the sounds of a 3.5" floppy disk/drive, both the ka-chunk of inserting the disk and the djjjt-djjjt... djjjt-djjjt of it being read.
The workaround here is to use keywords:
Click the engine dropdown in the search box and choose Manage Search Engines.
Create keywords for the search engines you care about (eg. 'g' for google, 'wp' for wikipedia, 'd' for dictionary.com, etc).
Perform searches in the Awesome Bar by typing "<keyword> <search terms>" and ignore the search box (except to configure more search engines and/or keywords).
The Invisible Pink Unicorn statue was built decades ago and nobody has complained yet.
I must admit, though, one of the best moments is when BBC revived Dr. Who and had an episode (maybe the first episode) where the Doctor takes Rose billions of years into the future, with the sun about to engulf the earth.
You're describing the opening scene of s01e02, The End of the World.
The context menu search has always defaulted to the engine selected in the search box. Mine has remained set to Google and Ask.com is not even one of the options I have, so I'm thinking maybe something else has hijacked your settings. Either that or you've changed it yourself without realizing.
I haven't had HBO since I was a kid, so maybe things have changed, but isn't it commercial-free? Isn't that the whole point of paying the premium for it?
Perhaps some puff paint? Maybe some stickers?
That's what PDFCreator is for. Just beware the bundled toolbar.
science doesn't deal with facts
Uh, what? Facts are the foundation of science. If science has any issue with facts it's that Joe Sixpack thinks the hierarchy is...
Hypothesis -> Theory -> Facts
In actuality, it's...
Facts -> Hypothesis -> Theory
Hypotheses and theories are built on facts. Maybe you meant science doesn't deal with proof?
...there is only trademark infringement.
Only 3, I think, but they keep re-releasing them with new titles.
The Bible. Except for atheists and agnostics, most people should insert their favorite holy book here.
In the USA, at least, everyone should list The Bible, even if they've never read it or don't believe a word of it. After all, it's largely because of The Bible that...
Whether you believe The Bible or not, whether you've read The Bible or not, whether you even care about The Bible or not, it has restricted your liberty if you live amongst those who live by it.
Probably not, but in the last election lots of people picked the president by the VP the other guy chose. "I was leaning toward this guy but his health is questionable and he picked a crazy hick to be his VP."
To some degree a known reference would not be necessary. The camera knows how far away the object is by way of autofocus. If the object is far enough away that the focus goes to infinity, then you're SOL.
That's 54 miles per imperial gallon, presumably, which comes to 45 miles per US gallon.
Don't get me wrong, that's still impressive, just... apples to apples and all that.
I pay particular attention to verious details
Yes, you're clearly very detail-oriented. ;)
Oligopoly
...as of a few months ago. Someone posted one of those virus hoaxes that's been floating around via email for 12+ years and I informed them that it was such and linked to the related Snopes article. The comment was rejected because the linked url was "spammy".
Ah, this is where you have your terminology confused:
Note that not believing in a god is not the same thing as saying there is not a (miniscule) possiblity that one exists. I don't know if a god exists, I'm an Atheist, and what that means is I have no reason to believe in a God, and more than I do in an elephant in my bathtub.
Your terminology is off as well.
A theist believes in a god. A religious person need not (see Buddhism).
An atheist is one who is not a theist. They may not believe in god or they may believe there is no god.
An agnostic believes that the truth about the existence of god(s) is unknowable.
You can be agnostic in addition to theist or atheist. I don't believe in gods but I also don't think we can be certain about their existence. I'm an agnostic atheist.
Appeal to nature. Appeal to tradition. Look 'em up.
Instead, we should focus on a more permanent solution, that of removing people from environments that would necessitate putting an electrode in their brains.
As a 25+ year sufferer, I agree with you somewhat; it's best to put the puzzle piece where it fits rather than take scissors to it. The problem is that sometimes that environment is society itself and it's just not very realistic to remove oneself from society aside from death, which also doesn't technically solve anything.
I often feel like I need to move off the grid somewhere and live a simpler, "natural" life without all the schedules, pressures and expectations of a normal life. Long term survival in the wild would probably stress most people out, but to me it's every day pressures and decisions that are complicated and confusing.
I moved from the woods of upstate NY to St Louis in 2010. It was exciting for a few months but the buzz of the city, even a small city like STL, slowly burned me out. I moved back this past fall.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not some highly dysfunctional hermit: I function rather well in modern society, there's just no contentment in it. Only hiking brings me any significant peace.
So I am leery of any predictions that go far into the future when we can all agree that weathermen's (climatologists) predictions are basically a joke.
Weathermen are meteorologists, not climatologists. There's some relation but it's a significant difference.
Also in the 1970s these same climatologists were claiming that the ice age was right around the corner.
In the 70s a small number of climatologists predicted a cooling period was underway and, even though they were refuted by the vast majority, the news papers and magazines ran with the story as an imminent ice age because that sounds scarier.
I am absolutely not equipped to say that they are right or wrong. What I will say is that they are often wrong about what is going to happen tomorrow. So I place zero value of what they say will happen years into the future.
You don't have to believe their predictions; you can look at the recent records and see that it's hotter now than it's been since the "Medieval Warm Period" which we shot past 5 or so years ago.