I don't understand your fear. Why would anyone even care that you're taking a photo in the shop in the first place? Is this an American thing?
Paranoia? Yeah - that's a pretty big deal here in America;-) Seriously though, I really don't understand this fear/concern at all. Nobody's going to arrest you for taking a picture of a lightsaber in the Target toy department. I've taken literally HUNDREDS of photos of products and price labels at big box stores, over the past few years, and nobody cares.
Raw eggs in the US run about 1:20,000-1:40,000 chance of salmonella, and a healthy adult is capable of fighting off the amount of salmonella in the average tainted egg.
WRT to beef though, salmonella poisoning by beef is almost completely unheard of - chicken yes, beef no. Where this whack job got his numbers from is anyone's guess but they are wrong.
This is great - we will not longer have to rely on the mass media journalists to decide what comments make it in a story, and in what context. I'm sick of seeing stories that ignore or downplay one side or the other by skewing the comments of the person that doesn't meet their agenda.
he was the one spearheading legislation capitualiting (sic) to big telecoms on getting rid of net neutrality
I haven't made up my mind on net neutrality yet, but your statement here is a great example of the blatant distortion and fear mongering that the net-neutrality backers are so full of. Frankly, it's one of the reasons I can't get fully behind them! You see, by saying that the oposition wants to 'get rid of' net neutrality, you are implying that we currently have laws supporting such neutrality, and the evil telcos want to abolish those laws that have so well served a greatful populace lo these many years...
Problem is, that's completely untrue. The truth is that net-neutrality backers want new laws enacted to protect their business models and revenue streams.
What Stevens was actually doing was opposing new types of government interference in data communications. When you put it that way, it doesn't sound so evil...
Honestly, I can't understand why I would ever even consider a DVR not integrated into my satellite receiver. How would it get guide listings? How would it turn the receiver on and off, or set the channel? How could it record two shows at once? It just doesn't make sense.
Umm, problem solved 10 years ago with TiVos first shipping product. For 1, it's a phoneline, WiFi adapter, or Ethernet cable. For 2 it's IR Blasters or a serial cable.
You're missing one major item here - CableCard. In order to get an MCE box with CableCard support, you need to pay enormous amounts of cash to buy a pre-built box. And don't go screwing with the hardware too much, or your $2k box will stop working with that fancy CableCard until you get a new one from your cable co.
IT Companies can hire Americans - if they can find any that aren't employed already... The unemployment rate is way down, and if you've tried to do any tech hiring lately you'd know how hard it is to find qualified candidates. Espeically in places like the Bay Area!
Funy, I normally get ~200K or so on my edge connection... Geeks like to throw around the 'dial up speed' bugaboo around EDGE, but given the mismatch between their claims and reality, it just comes across as whiney...
What is smart about a device that claims to support e-mail but does not support a required protocol for doing so?
What braindead monkey over at RIM left out SMTP, let alone SMTP with support for authentication and TLS?
You must have missed the memo - Blackberry is not an email device, it's an email *infrastructure* - the handheld is just the interface to said infrastructure. I'm not saying that's good or bad, but it's a horrible misconception to believe that a blackberry handheld without the infrastructure is going to work...
Possibly true for your average Joe but amongst the demographic the Phone is aimed at, they know.
The iPhone *is* aimed at the average joe. It's not aimed at the BB/PalmOS/WinMo toting geeks, apple recognized that those phones while popular with us make up a TINY fraction of US and worldwide phone sales. Apple is going after a chunk of the other 97%, and if they drag some of us along with them so much the better.
I swear, it's like the iPod all over again - geeks whining about what it doesn't do, while the other 97% of people see that it *does* what they want it to, and well. Why are we geeks so blind to the real world?
Assuming the bad laptop can boot into firewire target mode (and it's hard to mess up a macbook so badly that it won't), just connect your spare to it, boot off a CD, and clone the drive using CCC or superduper. Skip the network, this is faster.
It's called a power switch. When I don't want to check email, I don't do it. Anyone who is bullied into doing so by their employer either has no cause for complaint (it was their choice) or should seek new employment. Personally, I find my BB to ADD to the time I have with my family; I'm on the road a lot, and am able to keep up on email so when I get back to my home office a the end of the day I don't have to send any time catching up.
Ok, I'm nitpicking here, but the US doesn't have a federal sales tax at all. Only state and local goverments have sales taxes, and not all of them have them.
That's what BIOS support for USB HID is for. This has been around for a while, and would be included in any standard mobo that didn't incorporate PS/2 style adapters.
You're proving the GP's point. The market decided that we didn't need or want AM stereo, so we don't have it. I didn't have to spend extra money on every radio I've bought in the past 20 years, and radio stations didn't have to upgrade their equipment, all for something nobody wanted. If the FCC had mandated AM stereo we'd have wasted hundreds of millions of dollars as a country for something nobody wants.
Well, if a job is created elsewhere that could have been created in the US, isn't that a job lost?"
No, probably not. Let's pretend we're in a world without outsourcing - we'll call it ProtectionLand. I've got a company that makes a box automagically makes your website Web2.0ish. Yup, my device will add round corners to every table on your website, and give it prettier colors to boot, all with no re-design work - sweet eh? Now I'm selling these by the millions, and come up with a GREAT new idea for a Blog-O-Matic. After careful research, I decide I can't afford to hire the 8 developers, 2 marketing folks, 2 technical writers, and 4 add'l QA staff, 2 Sales reps, and one SE that the new product will require, so I file it away, and it dies. ProtectionLand has just 'lost' jobs (by your logic, if they're not created they're lost, right?).
Now back to America and the real world. This time around I hire local 'mericans for the marketing, sales, writing, in-house QA writing jobs. Looks like in America I'm 'creating' 10-12 jobs - does your math still say we're losing them?
This cuts both ways.. iTunes and QuickTime Player does not behave like Windows applications.. and that's propably one very powerful reason why these applications are shunned to a large extent.
Hunh? iTunes has a HUGE, RABID fanbase amongst windows users. I know tons of people who use iTunes on windows in spite of the fact that they don't even have iPods! Heck, a number of people I know have begun their investigation into switching due to the (relative) awesomeness that is iTunes... Perhaps the techno-elite who love xmpp or winamp can't stand it, but to say that iTunes is 'shunned to a large extent' is just plain silly...
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Indeed. We have this little chestnut to roast too:
"...has previously used ultrasound fields to levitate globs of iridium and mercury, very heavy materials."
A 1 gram 'glob' of mercury is equal in weight to 1 gram of feathers. Iridium and mercury may have a higher density, but they are not intrinsically heavy.
When even the author of an article is confused about basic physical properties you have to worry, IMHO.
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Quite simple really, the ability to levitate an object using this method is dependent on its physical dimensions, and obviously a 10mm cube of mercury is much heavier than a 10mm cube of feathers. Lifting a heavier object is harder than lifting a light one, so this IS in fact significant.
I just don't see security being a huge problem. Every single voter could self-monitor that their vote counted by logging back in to make sure that no hacker had changed their vote.
Except that now your union rep could force you to vote the way the union wants, or I could go out and literally purchase votes to sell in a block on eBay. Any time there isn't an option for private voting, you open up a pandora's box of problems.
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Doesn't it seem likely that the remaining spider ate the other? I mean, it's not like spiders have a strong moral objection to cannibalism...
Paranoia? Yeah - that's a pretty big deal here in America ;-) Seriously though, I really don't understand this fear/concern at all. Nobody's going to arrest you for taking a picture of a lightsaber in the Target toy department. I've taken literally HUNDREDS of photos of products and price labels at big box stores, over the past few years, and nobody cares.
WRT to beef though, salmonella poisoning by beef is almost completely unheard of - chicken yes, beef no. Where this whack job got his numbers from is anyone's guess but they are wrong.
Your DVR can change the channel for you....
How are the two even remotely related? The logicube boxes require you to *remove* the hard drive and *clone* it to another. Whaaa?
This is great - we will not longer have to rely on the mass media journalists to decide what comments make it in a story, and in what context. I'm sick of seeing stories that ignore or downplay one side or the other by skewing the comments of the person that doesn't meet their agenda.
Problem is, that's completely untrue. The truth is that net-neutrality backers want new laws enacted to protect their business models and revenue streams.
What Stevens was actually doing was opposing new types of government interference in data communications. When you put it that way, it doesn't sound so evil...
You're missing one major item here - CableCard. In order to get an MCE box with CableCard support, you need to pay enormous amounts of cash to buy a pre-built box. And don't go screwing with the hardware too much, or your $2k box will stop working with that fancy CableCard until you get a new one from your cable co.
IT Companies can hire Americans - if they can find any that aren't employed already... The unemployment rate is way down, and if you've tried to do any tech hiring lately you'd know how hard it is to find qualified candidates. Espeically in places like the Bay Area!
Funy, I normally get ~200K or so on my edge connection... Geeks like to throw around the 'dial up speed' bugaboo around EDGE, but given the mismatch between their claims and reality, it just comes across as whiney...
I swear, it's like the iPod all over again - geeks whining about what it doesn't do, while the other 97% of people see that it *does* what they want it to, and well. Why are we geeks so blind to the real world?
Assuming the bad laptop can boot into firewire target mode (and it's hard to mess up a macbook so badly that it won't), just connect your spare to it, boot off a CD, and clone the drive using CCC or superduper. Skip the network, this is faster.
It's called a power switch. When I don't want to check email, I don't do it. Anyone who is bullied into doing so by their employer either has no cause for complaint (it was their choice) or should seek new employment. Personally, I find my BB to ADD to the time I have with my family; I'm on the road a lot, and am able to keep up on email so when I get back to my home office a the end of the day I don't have to send any time catching up.
Ok, I'm nitpicking here, but the US doesn't have a federal sales tax at all. Only state and local goverments have sales taxes, and not all of them have them.
That's what BIOS support for USB HID is for. This has been around for a while, and would be included in any standard mobo that didn't incorporate PS/2 style adapters.
Now back to America and the real world. This time around I hire local 'mericans for the marketing, sales, writing, in-house QA writing jobs. Looks like in America I'm 'creating' 10-12 jobs - does your math still say we're losing them?
works with USB hubs -- woohoo (many disk/printer sharing widgets don't)
[blockquote] Indeed. We have this little chestnut to roast too: "...has previously used ultrasound fields to levitate globs of iridium and mercury, very heavy materials." A 1 gram 'glob' of mercury is equal in weight to 1 gram of feathers. Iridium and mercury may have a higher density, but they are not intrinsically heavy. When even the author of an article is confused about basic physical properties you have to worry, IMHO. [/blockquote] Quite simple really, the ability to levitate an object using this method is dependent on its physical dimensions, and obviously a 10mm cube of mercury is much heavier than a 10mm cube of feathers. Lifting a heavier object is harder than lifting a light one, so this IS in fact significant.