Snakes are probably the best candidate you can find, for an animal that does have it. A bit more deserving than newborns actually, don't you think?
I thought all it said was that it was Satan in the form of a snake, and not an actual one? Poor bastards got their legs removed for something they didn't even do... musta been one hell of a costume.
It's even worse when an entire city signs a contract like that. That seems to be the prevailing problem in single-ISP cities. I can only assume the city gets some kind of kickback for signing it, because I can't think of any other logical reasons.
I had to get a small business line for other reasons (opening ports, the bastards!), and that's the only way they'd allow me to get a static IP. It costs exactly double, but the advantages are: better QoS for my line, better support, no caps, and it's unfettered (no packet shaping). For people like me who already pay more for that kind of internet access, dropping cable TV is a no-brainer. But yes, you're right... if you're getting your content now without your ISP screaming at you, you won't for that much longer, even if Net Neutrality passes. They'll come up with ways to charge you what they want out of you anyway. In fact, it may even be preferable to them, depending on how content is licensed to them for rebroadcasting.
In fact, my biggest fear outside of Net Neutrality not being legislated is that the big content providers (Hulu, ESPN, etc) will start trying to charge ISPs for their customers to have access to their websites, which (I think) falls outside the context of Net Neutrality.
Somehow I doubt they have the money to prosecute all the slashdotters who will soon be hitting their pages. Just the slashdot effect alone will likely bankrupt them.
Id10ts.
SB
Now this needs to be posted to 4chan for another wave of traffic.
What TFS even tries to say? That our lineage turns out to be not contained strictly to Africa, since the emergence of first live on this planet? I don't think anybody claimed that...
(and I seem to recall there were already some arguments (phylogenetic?) that our "mammalian lineage" was primarily in Asia for a long time)
I guess I'm still in BSG mode, because at first glance I could have sworn that said "since the emergence of the first five on this planet". I was going to correct the typo (should be *final* five, damnit!).
What on earth are you basing this opinion on? For one, I honestly don't know how you'd be experiencing data losses unless you were doing something you were *really* not supposed to be doing.
Two... being an Android owner and an iPod touch owner myself, I can tell you that my Android device has never frozen up. I may have a misbehaving app once in a long run, but that's rare, and it should vary from app to app. The iPod touch has frozen up on me, but I can count the number of times on one hand, plus I've owned it for a much longer period of time. I have experienced data loss with it too, not from a crash or anything, but from the seemingly inability to successfully back up the device and it's data before this latest OS upgrade. After a day of doing that I had to wipe it just to upgrade. Apps seem to crash the same frequency on both devices.
Three, and I'm really trying hard not to be a fanboy here, but basic reliability? At least with my own device (Evo), as I've said above, I've never had this thing crash, freeze, or randomly reboot on me. Ever. It's still young yet, but it's track record so far speaks for itself. My coworker's new iPhone 4 has frozen on him once (that I've heard about). His 3gs froze quite a number of times though. Sometimes this just happens, and both Android and iOS are light years ahead of RIM and Windows mobile (haven't heard much on Windows 7 mobile yet) in terms of reliability, but I think it's a little ignorant to claim Android is actually behind iOS in terms of reliability.
Now, coming from a cell phone that did nothing but dial numbers, and having been an iPod touch owner for a couple years before I got an Android device, I hold the opinion that Android will hog the market in the near future not only because of sheer number of devices it's on, but because it has proven itself to be reliable and a solid platform to put in a mobile device. I'm not sure it could have gained so much ground so fast if that wasn't the case. It was competing against the marketing powerhouse that is Apple, after all.
...not to mention my Plasma TV (Pioneer) runs on a Linux kernel, and hell, even this digital picture frame I've been staring at the last 10 minutes. First two examples off the top of my head.
"I'll bet" would be jumping to conclusions. This assumption is based on experiences from many individuals I know. Sorry if my sample size doesn't satisfy you, but the rule of thumb seems to be: "Anything happen at all? Write them a ticket."
I must say I am pleasantly surprised that State Farm paid Innes, instead of finding him at fault. (whether he is also a State Farm policy holder or not is immaterial--the at-fault person's premium's are going to go up)
Yes, but I'll bet that didn't stop the damn cops from issuing the engineer a ticket, even though he most likely saved a life and a big mess of a wreck. They never miss the chance to cash in...
The hurricane scale goes higher - a level F3 tornado (158 - 206 mph) would be a category 5 hurricane (>155 mph) and there's no match for a F4 or F5 tornado. And thank you very much for that...
It should be noted that the scale used now is the Enhanced Fujita (EF), not the Fujita scale (F). The numbers change a little with that.
"A category 1 tornado is a gentle breeze compared to an F2 tornado. I journaled about it here."
I think you meant
"A category 1 hurricane is a gentle breeze compared to an F2 tornado. I journaled about it here."
And I agree. One of my co-workers in Scotland was commenting that they had a force 7 gale going there. I looked it up. 31-38 mph winds. We have a word for that in Kansas:
Spring.
A semi-calm spring day. Winds in the 40s without an accompanying storm isn't rare. Straight 70+ mph winds during a storm is very common. I'll never get used to that (neighboring you in Nebraska, recently moved here).
And they built it for good reason, too. Have you seen what they put under that place-marker? There's a prison whose sole purpose is to absolutely contain the most feared creature in the universe.
Er, so said the British TV show, anyway.
In related news, that new assistant is easily the hottest one yet.
the organizations surveyed were picked by the Linux Foundation End User Council
Next up:
10 out of 10 randomly selected stock brokers want more deregulation of the financial system
10 out of 10 randomly selected Taliban fighters don't trust the USA
10 out of 10 Microsoft Execs claim Windows Mobile usage is far more than what anyone else tallies.
I rather doubt we will have a "day after tomorrow", things don't happen like that. Instead I see a mechanization of our nature. For example, imagine a sort of nature where things are completely recycled? Sound far fetched? Consider how Switzerland is essentially self-sufficient in copper. Does Switzerland have copper mines? Nope not even close. Copper can be easily recycled and hence Switzerland recycles their own copper. This goes towards rare earths, etc, etc.
While many people believe that we waste, waste, waste, there are many pockets of the world that are now becoming adapt at living with little. Classic example is Israel. Israel can grow crops with water amounts that makes everybody else blush with embarrassment. That is the future...
I just can't wait until we start actually mining our landfills in the US, just to snatch a few extra tons of resources. Nothing like sifting through our old garbage to prove how terrible we are at recycling.
Speaking of which; the next time Sarah Palin claims evolution is too slow, or that we should be able to "see" it happening; will not some idiot reporter remember that HIV, SARS, Swine Flu, and Bird Flu are all examples of evolution in her own lifetime?
Just playing devil's advocate here, but observing the rise of certain diseases or strains of viruses doesn't necessarily mean there was a recent mutation/evolution. All that means is there was some condition that caused them to have a much higher survival rate than before (or vs. another strain that would otherwise clutter the population). So, really, those examples you gave only concretely demonstrate part of the evolutionary process: natural selection.
For all we know, those diseases/strains have existed for a very long time, but it wasn't until recently that a patient zero came into contact with them, or that we killed off enough of a competing strain to be able to observe more of the surviving strain.
Suddenly observing these now doesn't necessarily mean they were "born" yesterday.
But yes, she's pretty pig-headed to ignore how often it does happen (and was physically observed under a microscope) with lower, more simple biological entities.
How many people do you know who accidentally tripped while coding an application and unintentionally programmed a virulent computer virus?
Bio viruses are orders of magnitude more complex, it's exceedingly unlikely to happen by random chance.
If you're mucking around with the structure of a virus, one tiny little mutation can yield a completely different strain. It's insanely easy to accidentally create something extremely dangerous out of something that was rather tame. For the most part, these mutations aren't so much the accident, unless a change you made caused another structure to fall apart or grow; the unexpected result of these mutations are usually the accidents.
...but you see, developing for Android is most definitely not the same experience as developing a typical Java application. Far from it. Have you even tried it?
Had they used Go, it would have made absolutely ZERO difference. The real reason Android is becoming so popular is because of the design and usability of the phone itself, not to mention the fact that they license it for completely FREE to manufacturers. Anybody can use it, and anybody can change it as long as it passes certain criteria. You're telling me that a very usable, very customizable, very powerful phone OS, which is free to manufacturers and a breeze to customize the looks for, wouldn't be a big hit? You're dreaming.
Do you think Apple's development environment was remotely familiar with the masses? Hell no. They offered a fun OS that's very usable. Yet here they are with by far the most apps of anyone out there.
On the other hand, BlackBerry is terribly weak in it's apps department. Guess what they use? That's right: Java.
You're grasping. And that absolutely does not make me, or anybody who sides with Google a "fanboy". That's the weakest excuse I've ever heard anybody say when they don't have anything real to back up their claims.
JavaSE was on the path towards being open sourced, both the class libraries and the JVM via OpenJDK. Then the Tests didn't get opened up and everything stalled. And that's right as Android was being developed. Coincidence?
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Snakes are probably the best candidate you can find, for an animal that does have it. A bit more deserving than newborns actually, don't you think?
I thought all it said was that it was Satan in the form of a snake, and not an actual one? Poor bastards got their legs removed for something they didn't even do... musta been one hell of a costume.
It's even worse when an entire city signs a contract like that. That seems to be the prevailing problem in single-ISP cities. I can only assume the city gets some kind of kickback for signing it, because I can't think of any other logical reasons.
I had to get a small business line for other reasons (opening ports, the bastards!), and that's the only way they'd allow me to get a static IP. It costs exactly double, but the advantages are: better QoS for my line, better support, no caps, and it's unfettered (no packet shaping). For people like me who already pay more for that kind of internet access, dropping cable TV is a no-brainer. But yes, you're right... if you're getting your content now without your ISP screaming at you, you won't for that much longer, even if Net Neutrality passes. They'll come up with ways to charge you what they want out of you anyway. In fact, it may even be preferable to them, depending on how content is licensed to them for rebroadcasting.
In fact, my biggest fear outside of Net Neutrality not being legislated is that the big content providers (Hulu, ESPN, etc) will start trying to charge ISPs for their customers to have access to their websites, which (I think) falls outside the context of Net Neutrality.
I find that I completely ignore what somebody has to say when they confuse "immigration" with "illegal immigration".
Somehow I doubt they have the money to prosecute all the slashdotters who will soon be hitting their pages. Just the slashdot effect alone will likely bankrupt them.
Id10ts.
SB
Now this needs to be posted to 4chan for another wave of traffic.
What TFS even tries to say? That our lineage turns out to be not contained strictly to Africa, since the emergence of first live on this planet? I don't think anybody claimed that...
(and I seem to recall there were already some arguments (phylogenetic?) that our "mammalian lineage" was primarily in Asia for a long time)
I guess I'm still in BSG mode, because at first glance I could have sworn that said "since the emergence of the first five on this planet". I was going to correct the typo (should be *final* five, damnit!).
What on earth are you basing this opinion on? For one, I honestly don't know how you'd be experiencing data losses unless you were doing something you were *really* not supposed to be doing.
Two... being an Android owner and an iPod touch owner myself, I can tell you that my Android device has never frozen up. I may have a misbehaving app once in a long run, but that's rare, and it should vary from app to app. The iPod touch has frozen up on me, but I can count the number of times on one hand, plus I've owned it for a much longer period of time. I have experienced data loss with it too, not from a crash or anything, but from the seemingly inability to successfully back up the device and it's data before this latest OS upgrade. After a day of doing that I had to wipe it just to upgrade. Apps seem to crash the same frequency on both devices.
Three, and I'm really trying hard not to be a fanboy here, but basic reliability? At least with my own device (Evo), as I've said above, I've never had this thing crash, freeze, or randomly reboot on me. Ever. It's still young yet, but it's track record so far speaks for itself. My coworker's new iPhone 4 has frozen on him once (that I've heard about). His 3gs froze quite a number of times though. Sometimes this just happens, and both Android and iOS are light years ahead of RIM and Windows mobile (haven't heard much on Windows 7 mobile yet) in terms of reliability, but I think it's a little ignorant to claim Android is actually behind iOS in terms of reliability.
Now, coming from a cell phone that did nothing but dial numbers, and having been an iPod touch owner for a couple years before I got an Android device, I hold the opinion that Android will hog the market in the near future not only because of sheer number of devices it's on, but because it has proven itself to be reliable and a solid platform to put in a mobile device. I'm not sure it could have gained so much ground so fast if that wasn't the case. It was competing against the marketing powerhouse that is Apple, after all.
...not to mention my Plasma TV (Pioneer) runs on a Linux kernel, and hell, even this digital picture frame I've been staring at the last 10 minutes. First two examples off the top of my head.
Don't you just love buzz words that just relabel an existing tech or methodology? Kinda like how everything is about "the cloud" now. Ugh.
"I'll bet" would be jumping to conclusions. This assumption is based on experiences from many individuals I know. Sorry if my sample size doesn't satisfy you, but the rule of thumb seems to be: "Anything happen at all? Write them a ticket."
So true. Contrary to popular belief, good mathematicians are the most creative people I know.
I must say I am pleasantly surprised that State Farm paid Innes, instead of finding him at fault. (whether he is also a State Farm policy holder or not is immaterial--the at-fault person's premium's are going to go up)
Yes, but I'll bet that didn't stop the damn cops from issuing the engineer a ticket, even though he most likely saved a life and a big mess of a wreck. They never miss the chance to cash in...
Category 3 hurricane is Winds (1 min sustained winds): 111-130 mph Category F2 tornado is Significant Tornado: 112 - 157 mph
The hurricane scale goes higher - a level F3 tornado (158 - 206 mph) would be a category 5 hurricane (>155 mph) and there's no match for a F4 or F5 tornado. And thank you very much for that...
It should be noted that the scale used now is the Enhanced Fujita (EF), not the Fujita scale (F). The numbers change a little with that.
EF2: 113-135MPH
EF3: 136-165MPH
Information on the new scale here.
"A category 1 tornado is a gentle breeze compared to an F2 tornado. I journaled about it here."
I think you meant
"A category 1 hurricane is a gentle breeze compared to an F2 tornado. I journaled about it here."
And I agree. One of my co-workers in Scotland was commenting that they had a force 7 gale going there. I looked it up. 31-38 mph winds. We have a word for that in Kansas:
Spring.
A semi-calm spring day. Winds in the 40s without an accompanying storm isn't rare. Straight 70+ mph winds during a storm is very common. I'll never get used to that (neighboring you in Nebraska, recently moved here).
And they built it for good reason, too. Have you seen what they put under that place-marker? There's a prison whose sole purpose is to absolutely contain the most feared creature in the universe.
Er, so said the British TV show, anyway.
In related news, that new assistant is easily the hottest one yet.
Can't wait for Christmas.
Who was surveyed?
from the TFA:
the organizations surveyed were picked by the Linux Foundation End User Council
Next up: 10 out of 10 randomly selected stock brokers want more deregulation of the financial system 10 out of 10 randomly selected Taliban fighters don't trust the USA
10 out of 10 Microsoft Execs claim Windows Mobile usage is far more than what anyone else tallies.
I rather doubt we will have a "day after tomorrow", things don't happen like that. Instead I see a mechanization of our nature. For example, imagine a sort of nature where things are completely recycled? Sound far fetched? Consider how Switzerland is essentially self-sufficient in copper. Does Switzerland have copper mines? Nope not even close. Copper can be easily recycled and hence Switzerland recycles their own copper. This goes towards rare earths, etc, etc.
While many people believe that we waste, waste, waste, there are many pockets of the world that are now becoming adapt at living with little. Classic example is Israel. Israel can grow crops with water amounts that makes everybody else blush with embarrassment. That is the future...
I just can't wait until we start actually mining our landfills in the US, just to snatch a few extra tons of resources. Nothing like sifting through our old garbage to prove how terrible we are at recycling.
Speaking of which; the next time Sarah Palin claims evolution is too slow, or that we should be able to "see" it happening; will not some idiot reporter remember that HIV, SARS, Swine Flu, and Bird Flu are all examples of evolution in her own lifetime?
Just playing devil's advocate here, but observing the rise of certain diseases or strains of viruses doesn't necessarily mean there was a recent mutation/evolution. All that means is there was some condition that caused them to have a much higher survival rate than before (or vs. another strain that would otherwise clutter the population). So, really, those examples you gave only concretely demonstrate part of the evolutionary process: natural selection.
For all we know, those diseases/strains have existed for a very long time, but it wasn't until recently that a patient zero came into contact with them, or that we killed off enough of a competing strain to be able to observe more of the surviving strain.
Suddenly observing these now doesn't necessarily mean they were "born" yesterday.
But yes, she's pretty pig-headed to ignore how often it does happen (and was physically observed under a microscope) with lower, more simple biological entities.
How many people do you know who accidentally tripped while coding an application and unintentionally programmed a virulent computer virus? Bio viruses are orders of magnitude more complex, it's exceedingly unlikely to happen by random chance.
If you're mucking around with the structure of a virus, one tiny little mutation can yield a completely different strain. It's insanely easy to accidentally create something extremely dangerous out of something that was rather tame. For the most part, these mutations aren't so much the accident, unless a change you made caused another structure to fall apart or grow; the unexpected result of these mutations are usually the accidents.
Woooooosh!
Case in point: electronic strip searches... errr, I mean "full body scanners".
They did it in Superman 3 once.
...but you see, developing for Android is most definitely not the same experience as developing a typical Java application. Far from it. Have you even tried it?
Had they used Go, it would have made absolutely ZERO difference. The real reason Android is becoming so popular is because of the design and usability of the phone itself, not to mention the fact that they license it for completely FREE to manufacturers. Anybody can use it, and anybody can change it as long as it passes certain criteria. You're telling me that a very usable, very customizable, very powerful phone OS, which is free to manufacturers and a breeze to customize the looks for, wouldn't be a big hit? You're dreaming.
Do you think Apple's development environment was remotely familiar with the masses? Hell no. They offered a fun OS that's very usable. Yet here they are with by far the most apps of anyone out there.
On the other hand, BlackBerry is terribly weak in it's apps department. Guess what they use? That's right: Java.
You're grasping. And that absolutely does not make me, or anybody who sides with Google a "fanboy". That's the weakest excuse I've ever heard anybody say when they don't have anything real to back up their claims.
It helps if you make a good argument.
JavaSE was on the path towards being open sourced, both the class libraries and the JVM via OpenJDK. Then the Tests didn't get opened up and everything stalled. And that's right as Android was being developed. Coincidence?
Yes, especially your perception of time frames.