What's with the "f_ck" and "a_s"? If you thought the word and probably say the word, why not type the word?
Fuck and Ass. There, no one died.
That should be "F" word, "A" word, and I guess donkey is now the "D" word. Or maybe Google should be the "G" word.
And for the record, no, I don't like that donkey doing that to my butt.
Netbook: $300.
iPad: $500. iPad keyboard: $50. Cellular data connection at $60 per month for 36 months: $2,160.
I just saved over $2,400 by switching to a netbook.
Yeah, because everybody has free wifi in their home. Internet connections are so 2010.
It allows me to not worry about getting "behind" in a series as I can watch it at my own pace, and leave the house at any time without concern about what I am missing. It allows me to have down time when I need it (and as you should very well know, having relaxing time is very important for physical and mental health).
People have been able to do that since around 1980 with the VCR.
There's a "dirty little secret" in ham radio that skews these numbers, though. When the morse code requirements were lowered and eventually dropped, many of the "old order" of radio operators literally drove the new hams off the air. There was vile hatred towards the new hams, and they were told they were not "real hams", or that they held a "general lite" or "extra lite" license. They wouldn't speak to the new hams on the air, and in many cases they would deliberately interfere with them on the air. It got so bad that many new hams would work to get their license, spend $1,000 or more on equipment, get on the air, then sell their equipment again a few months later. They had lowered the code requirement to 5 words per minute by the time I got my Extra, and there were people in my own local club trying to belittle me. I did eventually give it up totally about 5 years ago, selling my own gear as well.
1) What is the average age of US hams? I would guess it's pretty old.
2) What is the rate of death of people of that age group?
And even if I'm wrong about how many hams are alive, I know from listening that the bands are not getting 3.5% more busy every year -- that no one can deny...
The average age at our local club is between 30 and 40. I've been a ham for over 10 years, and I'm 39.
I have zero reason NOT to be with Microsoft, that's why. Win7 is stable, doesn't slow my computer down, runs all the programs I could ever need, and I haven't actually "caught" a virus on Windows in the last 15 years, so why on earth would I switch to something else other than just for the sake of switching? That would just be stupid. Learn a brand new operating system and lose 95% of the programs that I use now? Fuck that, that makes no sense.
You cannot drive them at fast speeds on public roads. They need to be cheap and have longer ranges. That is all.
Agreed. Speed hasn't been a problem since they broke 75 miles per hour. We need the charge to at least last long enough to get you BACK from where you are going. Actually I guess what we really need is a way to charge while you are away from home, same as I may drive to a neighboring city now yet need to buy fuel to get home.
My sure fire plan is not to fucking worry about it. FB only posts what I tell it to post. So they know I went to a certain website? Honestly, it doesn't matter. I've never noticed it make a single change in my life other than giving me ads about stuff I'm interested in as opposed to ads I couldn't give a damn less about. Oooo, big bad facebook.
that we need the government to ensure we know the difference between organic results and "ads"... what a step backwards for the human race methinks!
Apparently. Personally, I've NEVER ONCE clicked on a link on Google thinking it was a normal link and been directed to a sponsored ad. Evidently this is to protect those that repeatedly click on the ads and never actually learn the difference between the ads and the regular search results - you know, the ones with their fingerprints missing because they never learned not to dip your fingers in boiling water when cooking even though it hurts like hell every time they've done it.
It's not a matter of just being ok with it, it's a matter of not being able to do anything about it. Where I live, your choices are Time Warner or dial-up. No matter how bad Time Warner can be (although it hasn't been that bad for me), there's no other game in town. They own the only infrastructure we have.
No, it's not a necessity to survive, but in more and more cases it IS a requirement for kids in school of almost any age. Textbooks are disappearing in class, and the kids are expected to access an online version at home.
Let me test your blood... and ruin your remaining 10 years of being lucid. Please don't test my blood unless you can cure me.
That's totally true. Some people may be OK with it and strive to get the most out of life in the meantime. But others (especially those who have been around people with the disease and aren't just going by a definition they've read or heard about) could see it as a death sentence. I know it would probably drive me crazy if I knew.
Why not have a voluntary blood test for everyone in the country, once a year. Use the blood to screen for every known disease. If done on a massive scale it could save hundreds of billions of dollars a year just by catching various terminal illnesses in their early stages.
Because if insurance companies knew for a fact you were going to get sick with something that costs a lot of money to treat, they wouldn't insure you.
If these contracts are known for being so bad, why do people continue to sign them?
Because in order to bring in huge numbers of ticket buyers to see you in concert, which is where the artists DO make millions in some cases, you have to have your music being heard by the public. The only way to GET your music heard is from the exposure that only a big record company can provide. Many entire concert tours (and very successful ones at that) have happened on the strength of one single.
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What's with the "f_ck" and "a_s"? If you thought the word and probably say the word, why not type the word?
Fuck and Ass. There, no one died.
That should be "F" word, "A" word, and I guess donkey is now the "D" word. Or maybe Google should be the "G" word. And for the record, no, I don't like that donkey doing that to my butt.
12 minutes left to April 2nd here, and that's only on the east coast.
but he also proved that you would need a infinity amount of energy to just reach the light speed and that impossible in the reality to go beyond that
But photons don't have infinite amounts of energy.
Netbook: $300. iPad: $500. iPad keyboard: $50. Cellular data connection at $60 per month for 36 months: $2,160. I just saved over $2,400 by switching to a netbook.
Yeah, because everybody has free wifi in their home. Internet connections are so 2010.
It allows me to not worry about getting "behind" in a series as I can watch it at my own pace, and leave the house at any time without concern about what I am missing. It allows me to have down time when I need it (and as you should very well know, having relaxing time is very important for physical and mental health).
People have been able to do that since around 1980 with the VCR.
There's a "dirty little secret" in ham radio that skews these numbers, though. When the morse code requirements were lowered and eventually dropped, many of the "old order" of radio operators literally drove the new hams off the air. There was vile hatred towards the new hams, and they were told they were not "real hams", or that they held a "general lite" or "extra lite" license. They wouldn't speak to the new hams on the air, and in many cases they would deliberately interfere with them on the air. It got so bad that many new hams would work to get their license, spend $1,000 or more on equipment, get on the air, then sell their equipment again a few months later. They had lowered the code requirement to 5 words per minute by the time I got my Extra, and there were people in my own local club trying to belittle me. I did eventually give it up totally about 5 years ago, selling my own gear as well.
Two questions:
1) What is the average age of US hams? I would guess it's pretty old.
2) What is the rate of death of people of that age group?
And even if I'm wrong about how many hams are alive, I know from listening that the bands are not getting 3.5% more busy every year -- that no one can deny...
The average age at our local club is between 30 and 40. I've been a ham for over 10 years, and I'm 39.
There's no way fracking could have caused an earthquake. Captain Crunch fracked long distance lines for years and never caused an earthquake.
I have zero reason NOT to be with Microsoft, that's why. Win7 is stable, doesn't slow my computer down, runs all the programs I could ever need, and I haven't actually "caught" a virus on Windows in the last 15 years, so why on earth would I switch to something else other than just for the sake of switching? That would just be stupid. Learn a brand new operating system and lose 95% of the programs that I use now? Fuck that, that makes no sense.
You cannot drive them at fast speeds on public roads. They need to be cheap and have longer ranges. That is all.
Agreed. Speed hasn't been a problem since they broke 75 miles per hour. We need the charge to at least last long enough to get you BACK from where you are going. Actually I guess what we really need is a way to charge while you are away from home, same as I may drive to a neighboring city now yet need to buy fuel to get home.
My sure fire plan is not to fucking worry about it. FB only posts what I tell it to post. So they know I went to a certain website? Honestly, it doesn't matter. I've never noticed it make a single change in my life other than giving me ads about stuff I'm interested in as opposed to ads I couldn't give a damn less about. Oooo, big bad facebook.
...Aside from the fact that as this story proves, they gather *other* information as well!
Inferring other sites DON'T do this. OMG, facebook knows that I visited CNN.com and slashdot. There goes my private life.
that we need the government to ensure we know the difference between organic results and "ads"... what a step backwards for the human race methinks!
Apparently. Personally, I've NEVER ONCE clicked on a link on Google thinking it was a normal link and been directed to a sponsored ad. Evidently this is to protect those that repeatedly click on the ads and never actually learn the difference between the ads and the regular search results - you know, the ones with their fingerprints missing because they never learned not to dip your fingers in boiling water when cooking even though it hurts like hell every time they've done it.
wtf does 24 September mean
It means you're very sheltered.
"New Research Cracks AES Keys 3-5x Faster"
(the fine print)
"it would still take a few billion years with current computers to actually break anything.."
Yeah, but that still means were down to 5 billion years from the previous 25 billion years, right?
It's not a matter of just being ok with it, it's a matter of not being able to do anything about it. Where I live, your choices are Time Warner or dial-up. No matter how bad Time Warner can be (although it hasn't been that bad for me), there's no other game in town. They own the only infrastructure we have.
Since this is Slashdot, I have to assume the orange goo comes from either a Microsoft security flaw, or a privacy issue with facebook.
I'm really looking forward to the required power supply that will be the approximate size and weight of a cinder block.
It's not a necessity to survive.
No, it's not a necessity to survive, but in more and more cases it IS a requirement for kids in school of almost any age. Textbooks are disappearing in class, and the kids are expected to access an online version at home.
Let me test your blood... and ruin your remaining 10 years of being lucid. Please don't test my blood unless you can cure me.
That's totally true. Some people may be OK with it and strive to get the most out of life in the meantime. But others (especially those who have been around people with the disease and aren't just going by a definition they've read or heard about) could see it as a death sentence. I know it would probably drive me crazy if I knew.
Why not have a voluntary blood test for everyone in the country, once a year. Use the blood to screen for every known disease. If done on a massive scale it could save hundreds of billions of dollars a year just by catching various terminal illnesses in their early stages.
Because if insurance companies knew for a fact you were going to get sick with something that costs a lot of money to treat, they wouldn't insure you.
No, we are 100% IN a police state right now.
If it's so slow, why would you change they keys daily? If your key has sufficient entropy, you are set for years.
Because apparently, judging from the responses I've seen, there are some people on here who are unbelievably paranoid.
If these contracts are known for being so bad, why do people continue to sign them?
Because in order to bring in huge numbers of ticket buyers to see you in concert, which is where the artists DO make millions in some cases, you have to have your music being heard by the public. The only way to GET your music heard is from the exposure that only a big record company can provide. Many entire concert tours (and very successful ones at that) have happened on the strength of one single.
Uhhh, so, the cable needs to have gold connectors while the plug you are connecting it to does not :-/