How did this get modded up? The AC seems to be having an argument with someone that agrees with him, presumably because he didn't follow the thread properly.
Even that three hours of "homework club" is an absurdity. Your child would likely benefit far more from using those remaining daylight hours to socialize, run around outside, and have an opportunity explore her own interests. See Alfie Kohn's "The Homework Myth" for a very well-cited exploration of the research and a discussion of why the vast majority of homework is totally without merit.
They have to fully fund the benefits of every postal employee; that's actual employees, not any potential employee they might hire in the next 75 years. Meaning that for any new (young) employee they get, they must fully fund his retirement/benefits that wouldn't normally have to be paid until his retirement 40 or 50 years from now. The cost you cited is correct, and the requirement is justifiably called absurd and not a thing any private company is burdened with, but getting hyperbolic with the requirements of the law itself simply give your opponents a way to wave off your entire argument by pointing out this one innacuracy. I know it isn't you that started that little misinformational bit of hyperbole, but I've heard it a bunch and I've seen plenty of conservatives shrug off the entire argument by pointing this out and claiming the whole thing is "union lies" or some such. Whoever started the 75 years thing did their cause a terrible disservice.
That said, another restriction Congress has put on USPS is the requirement not to raise rates faster than inflation (based on CPI or something like that). Fuel costs go up 30% this year? Well, suck it up, because you're not raising rates more than 1.67%!
Conservatives like to point at the apparent failure of the USPS as an indicator that the government is simply wasteful in everything it does (instead we should privatize things so our corporate friends can take the profitable areas and leave everyone else to rot!), but that is a ludicrous assertion given that USPS is under restrictions such as the above which no private business would have to work under. Add to that the requirement that they serve every American, no matter where, with the same rates (a good and proper one, IMO) and it's amazing they're even close to profitable.
Exactly. Might as well say "The GUI is a gimmick. It doesn't make the phone any more useful." because you can do things via the command line instead. The command line is in many ways more flexible and more powerful, but for a lot of everyday tasks a GUI is just plain simpler and faster.
I use Siri all the time, even when I'm not driving/hiding the phone in my jacket. Earlier today, I told Siri, "Remind me when I leave the house in the morning, or by noon, that I need to stop by Mom's house and fix her router." 5 seconds to say + 5 seconds for Siri to process and confirm, and my reminder was set up. I certainly could have done this manually, but Find Reminders app -> Open Reminders app -> Add new reminder -> Add "when I leave the house" geofence criterion -> Add "At noon tomorrow" criterion -> Type "Stop by Mom's house and fix her router" into description field -> Save is unquestionably going to take longer.
This is something that Germany was very aware of in the aftermath or WWI and run-up to WWII. Having your nations military so beholden to outside sources gives others a stranglehold over it. Of course, the same could be said for the nation's economy as a whole...
The standard iOS alarm app doesn't do recurring alarms. That's a deficiency in the alarm app, not Siri. Ask her for a recurring event at 6 am and she'll do that, but unfortunately the events alarm is not sufficient to wake a typical person. Hopefully once Siri is out of beta there'll be a developer API so it can be integrated with better alarm apps!
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Backups. Apple wasn't about to do an OTA update scheme when there was no way for users to back up and restore their data OTA also. Now with iCloud, that's covered.
Don't forget that high-volume stores get a huge break on their wholesale costs as well, due to volume purchasing power. A friend of mine owned his own little very successful local camera store for decades, but the past ten years things just got worse and worse to the point where he had to shut down. Costco was literally selling identical camera equipment at retail prices that were 2/3 or sometimes even 1/2 his WHOLESALE costs. I imagine small electronics and computer stores have the same problem.
I'm confused, because it sounds like you're disagreeing with the GP and yet your link is a perfect support for his argument (and against the libertarian privatization argument). That fire department was NOT funded by taxes. Unlike the neighboring counties, that county voted not to have a taxpayer-funded department and instead people had to BUY coverage from a city fire department. This guy chose not to buy said coverage. Welcome to Libertopia.
How backward can you get? He isn't demanding anyone believe as he does. He is not asking for money to say In No Gods Do We Trust - that would also be the government pushing an opinion on religion. He's asking the government to stay out of it altogether by not printing religious-themed mottos on its money at all.
That is pretty clear, and that you choose to ignore the obvious and instead fall back to a whiny and false "But now I'm being victimized!" defense is a sign that you don't have a solid argument to back you up.
I suspect you looking at the "Browser DVDs" section. That still has the old interface, which as I said quickly scrolls through an entire row at a time - we all could live with it just how it is. The new interface, which everyone is complaining about, is in the "Watch Instantly" section (now the default/main section), and it scrolls at the glacial pace of 1 movie per second (not incrementally row-by-row or even movie-by-movie, but continuously inching its way across the screen).
I am better than everyone else, so whatever just got posted I must disagree with! I will throw out some random cliche assumed to be true, and will ignore any actual factual information about the specific case at hand!
Search is great, when you know what you're looking for. If I want to look through the latest TV or movies they've added, it has to be no faster than 1 per second; the "see all" button doesn't exist, and there's no way to get a sortable list. If I want to browse through and find movies with good ratings - well, in addition to the slow-as-molasses scrolling, I can't see the ratings for the movies either unless I hover the mouse over each one one at a time!
The scroll really is atrocious. You used to click the "next" arrow and it would quickly scroll in and entire new row. Now you have to hover the mouse over one end or the other (no visual feedback on that, even) and it will begin to slowly scroll them by, at a rate of less than one movie per second. To scroll through thirty movies used to take maybe five seconds, and now it takes upwards of thirty. For those who say, "Users always hate change!", I am a person who welcomes a new and improved interface, but this is out-and-out, unequivocally less useful and more time consuming to use than the old interface. How anyone thought it was a good idea is beyond me.
It is only automatically assumed as a work for hire if the creator is an employee of the person/company that did the hiring. One-off contracts like with a wedding photographer or a tattoo artist are not employer-employee relationships, and the works are not assumed to be works-for-hire unless the contract says so (now, a wedding photographer is going to spell it out in their contract either way, because they want to make it clear to you).
Your group is "staff". You are running as a user with administration privileges, which is close to, but not the same as, root. You may want to make your everyday account a normal user, and keep a separate administration account for times when you need it.
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Apple set an upper limit of $14.99 for any of the iBooks 2 textbooks. A quick googling would have gotten you that answer within seconds.
How did this get modded up? The AC seems to be having an argument with someone that agrees with him, presumably because he didn't follow the thread properly.
That's just the way maths works.
Make up your mind, you Limey bastard! Is it singular or plural?!
Even that three hours of "homework club" is an absurdity. Your child would likely benefit far more from using those remaining daylight hours to socialize, run around outside, and have an opportunity explore her own interests. See Alfie Kohn's "The Homework Myth" for a very well-cited exploration of the research and a discussion of why the vast majority of homework is totally without merit.
Not just In the 90's. Even nowadays somehow the cameras in 7 separate police cars can "malfunction" simultaneously: http://www.theagitator.com/2010/08/12/when-police-videos-go-missing/
Accidentally modded this troll when I meant insightful! Posting to undo..
They have to fully fund the benefits of every postal employee; that's actual employees, not any potential employee they might hire in the next 75 years. Meaning that for any new (young) employee they get, they must fully fund his retirement/benefits that wouldn't normally have to be paid until his retirement 40 or 50 years from now. The cost you cited is correct, and the requirement is justifiably called absurd and not a thing any private company is burdened with, but getting hyperbolic with the requirements of the law itself simply give your opponents a way to wave off your entire argument by pointing out this one innacuracy. I know it isn't you that started that little misinformational bit of hyperbole, but I've heard it a bunch and I've seen plenty of conservatives shrug off the entire argument by pointing this out and claiming the whole thing is "union lies" or some such. Whoever started the 75 years thing did their cause a terrible disservice.
That said, another restriction Congress has put on USPS is the requirement not to raise rates faster than inflation (based on CPI or something like that). Fuel costs go up 30% this year? Well, suck it up, because you're not raising rates more than 1.67%!
Conservatives like to point at the apparent failure of the USPS as an indicator that the government is simply wasteful in everything it does (instead we should privatize things so our corporate friends can take the profitable areas and leave everyone else to rot!), but that is a ludicrous assertion given that USPS is under restrictions such as the above which no private business would have to work under. Add to that the requirement that they serve every American, no matter where, with the same rates (a good and proper one, IMO) and it's amazing they're even close to profitable.
Wish I had mod points; someone mod the parent up.
Exactly. Might as well say "The GUI is a gimmick. It doesn't make the phone any more useful." because you can do things via the command line instead. The command line is in many ways more flexible and more powerful, but for a lot of everyday tasks a GUI is just plain simpler and faster.
I use Siri all the time, even when I'm not driving/hiding the phone in my jacket. Earlier today, I told Siri, "Remind me when I leave the house in the morning, or by noon, that I need to stop by Mom's house and fix her router." 5 seconds to say + 5 seconds for Siri to process and confirm, and my reminder was set up. I certainly could have done this manually, but Find Reminders app -> Open Reminders app -> Add new reminder -> Add "when I leave the house" geofence criterion -> Add "At noon tomorrow" criterion -> Type "Stop by Mom's house and fix her router" into description field -> Save is unquestionably going to take longer.
Voice control is far more than just a gimmick.
This is something that Germany was very aware of in the aftermath or WWI and run-up to WWII. Having your nations military so beholden to outside sources gives others a stranglehold over it. Of course, the same could be said for the nation's economy as a whole...
Sorry, I hadnt realized that feature was added. Not one of the heavily advertised changes I guess.
The standard iOS alarm app doesn't do recurring alarms. That's a deficiency in the alarm app, not Siri. Ask her for a recurring event at 6 am and she'll do that, but unfortunately the events alarm is not sufficient to wake a typical person. Hopefully once Siri is out of beta there'll be a developer API so it can be integrated with better alarm apps!
Backups. Apple wasn't about to do an OTA update scheme when there was no way for users to back up and restore their data OTA also. Now with iCloud, that's covered.
No kidding. Imagine what might have happened if we'd let German "physicists" anywhere near our nuclear weapons program!
Don't forget that high-volume stores get a huge break on their wholesale costs as well, due to volume purchasing power. A friend of mine owned his own little very successful local camera store for decades, but the past ten years things just got worse and worse to the point where he had to shut down. Costco was literally selling identical camera equipment at retail prices that were 2/3 or sometimes even 1/2 his WHOLESALE costs. I imagine small electronics and computer stores have the same problem.
I'm confused, because it sounds like you're disagreeing with the GP and yet your link is a perfect support for his argument (and against the libertarian privatization argument). That fire department was NOT funded by taxes. Unlike the neighboring counties, that county voted not to have a taxpayer-funded department and instead people had to BUY coverage from a city fire department. This guy chose not to buy said coverage. Welcome to Libertopia.
How backward can you get? He isn't demanding anyone believe as he does. He is not asking for money to say In No Gods Do We Trust - that would also be the government pushing an opinion on religion. He's asking the government to stay out of it altogether by not printing religious-themed mottos on its money at all.
That is pretty clear, and that you choose to ignore the obvious and instead fall back to a whiny and false "But now I'm being victimized!" defense is a sign that you don't have a solid argument to back you up.
Because the iPad has a shift key?
I suspect you looking at the "Browser DVDs" section. That still has the old interface, which as I said quickly scrolls through an entire row at a time - we all could live with it just how it is. The new interface, which everyone is complaining about, is in the "Watch Instantly" section (now the default/main section), and it scrolls at the glacial pace of 1 movie per second (not incrementally row-by-row or even movie-by-movie, but continuously inching its way across the screen).
I am better than everyone else, so whatever just got posted I must disagree with! I will throw out some random cliche assumed to be true, and will ignore any actual factual information about the specific case at hand!
Search is great, when you know what you're looking for. If I want to look through the latest TV or movies they've added, it has to be no faster than 1 per second; the "see all" button doesn't exist, and there's no way to get a sortable list. If I want to browse through and find movies with good ratings - well, in addition to the slow-as-molasses scrolling, I can't see the ratings for the movies either unless I hover the mouse over each one one at a time!
The scroll really is atrocious. You used to click the "next" arrow and it would quickly scroll in and entire new row. Now you have to hover the mouse over one end or the other (no visual feedback on that, even) and it will begin to slowly scroll them by, at a rate of less than one movie per second. To scroll through thirty movies used to take maybe five seconds, and now it takes upwards of thirty. For those who say, "Users always hate change!", I am a person who welcomes a new and improved interface, but this is out-and-out, unequivocally less useful and more time consuming to use than the old interface. How anyone thought it was a good idea is beyond me.
It is only automatically assumed as a work for hire if the creator is an employee of the person/company that did the hiring. One-off contracts like with a wedding photographer or a tattoo artist are not employer-employee relationships, and the works are not assumed to be works-for-hire unless the contract says so (now, a wedding photographer is going to spell it out in their contract either way, because they want to make it clear to you).
Your group is "staff". You are running as a user with administration privileges, which is close to, but not the same as, root. You may want to make your everyday account a normal user, and keep a separate administration account for times when you need it.
This is Slashdot, try not to make it obvious that you're making up an anecdote.
...But in case you're serious: Since both you and your girlfriend are cool with it, mind sending her over here for a bit?