I might use social networking sites if they had less glittery animated text gifs, music that makes me want to stab my ears out, and mongoloid spelling and grammar.
I have nothing against the concept, it's just that the vast majority of social networking site users (especially Myspace) are people I do not want to have any contact with whatsoever.
As early as 1997, they were known by computer support at my university as "Rapeway."
They had built a reputation for quality and service, but then decided to abandon both and ride that reputation into the ground, selling inferior, unreliable hardware at the prices their name commanded them before their fall.
Packard Bell did this, albeit with a stolen pseudo-reputation (along the lines of Rockwood or Kenford). Compaq did it. HP seems to be in the process of doing it, and Dell is flirting with it. The Big Three US automakers did it. It's a decades-long, proud tradition of failure.
"What's he done for your state other than spend decades loading down bills with pork barrel amendments that do nothing but funnel our tax dollars up to you in the form of subsidies for just living in Alaska?"
If you're talking about the dividend, that is NOT your tax dollars. That is earnings from a state investment fund comprised of a portion of Alaska's portion of oil royalty receipts. And Ted Stevens has nothing to do with that and no more say in it (officially) than any other Alaskan.
Not defending him, or saying he's not a senile old nutcase. He is the only one of Alaska's congressional delegation I ever voted for...because as much of a scumbag as he is, the other two (Frank Murkowski at the time, and Don Young) were/are far more obviously in the pockets of the oil industry than Stevens.
(I haven't voted in Alaska for years, BTW, so this may have changed.)
I recall being told by a librarian once that they cannot restrict access to R-rated movies, and that if they did, they would likely be sued by the MPAA. Why? Because the MPAA didn't want to let their rating system become a tool of government censorship.
I'm not sure if that's true, but I suspect that if it is, New York may be in for a fight.
(Note: Movie theaters are private entities, so them using it so doesn't count.)
But in both cases the user receives the benefits of the software. So is GDP accurate measure here? Why is it considered a good thing when money moves from one pocket to another pocket?
Because then it can move on to another pocket, and so on. The faster it does that, the more money everyone makes that year.
Of course, it's better for the individual that they get something for nothing and are able to decide on other places to send that money.
It's obviously NOT the best for use on the move. I mean he shows it can be done, but it would be easier with just about anything else.
The only advantage I can see to this over, say, a small notebook and a large monitor, is the battery power. If you HAVE to have a 20 inch screen and you have to have it someplace with no power outlets, that's obviously the thing to get. Otherwise, a desktop is going to be cheaper, more upgradeable, and probably more powerful. A real notebook will be more usable on the road. This is obviously a niche machine.
"Desktop replacement" notebooks don't. They sacrifice most of the advantage of having a notebook and don't achieve half the advantages of having a desktop.
I'm pretty sure the negative calories comes from the energy required to break it down so you can metabolize what energy it DOES contain. Squeezing all the juice out kind of defeats the purpose.
Still, they need that 6Mbps connection because some profiles try to load 200MB of videos, sounds, CSS, cursors, and animated GIFs all at the same time.
200 MB of LEECHED videos, sounds, and animated GIFs.
Wow, somebody missed the math on that one. 2080 work hours per year. This works out to (at $30,000/yr) $14.42/hr all the way up to (at $35,000/yr) $16.83. Damn, let me move to take that job!
It's probably a pay CUT. You've gone from hourly to salaried!
Weight IN THE SAME CONFIGURATION equals safety. And only in a two-vehicle accident.
Low center of gravity also equals safety. Having a vehicle actually engineered from the ground up to carry passengers exclusively equals safety. You don't get that with most SUVs.
Oh, and you're more dangerous to pedestrians and the occupants of other vehicles REGARDLESS OF WHAT THEY ARE DRIVING.
A large sedan of similar (or even slightly less) mass will stomp your SUV in almost every safety category. The only type of accident where SUVs offer ANY advantage to anyone is multiple-vehicle, and even then not across the board, and not every SUV.
I suspect the only reason SUVs don't do worse as a category is they mix the car and truck based ones together.
Fuel economy in truck-based, and large unibody SUVs is still abysmal. And in fact, that's one of US automakers' biggest problems right now.
My biggest issue with SUVs though, is that most of them are utter poseurmobiles. They aren't especially good road cars, they aren't very good off-roaders, they're too compromising on all fronts. And the ones that CAN go off-road but DON'T are even more offensive. 4x4s more than a year old should not be shiny. they should be caked with mud or dust or show evidence of abrasion from the previous times they were.
"This will never take off. Expensive wine is no different than expensive diamonds. People buy them because they are expensive."
I think it's obvious this is for the cheap wines. No shit expensive wine producers won't want to do anything that might be perceived as devaluing.
People who are already selling on price would be lining up to increase their quality...AND their margins. If that puts them closer to the more expensive wines in quality, that devalues them whether they like it or not, but the cheaper competitors aren't going to lose any sleep over it.
Joysticks in games either work one of two ways...by controlling the rate of change in orientation or velocity, or by controlling absolutely the orientation or velocity.
In either case, a smaller movement (assuming the change is instant and doesn't build over time) effects a bigger change than with a steering wheel, especially the latter.
There is no fucking way it could ever NOT be awkward.
Hell, when I play video games, I steer with tiny little taps on the sticks, rather than precisely holding it in one position (much easier with a wheel). I cannot imagine parallel parking like that.
But then, i suppose you could have the car do that for me.
Sigh...I want another 84 Corolla...only this time without power steering.
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Who did they tell to take a hike, the customer or the marketroid? Both, I hope.
"Dr Murphy, who began working on the project while a research fellow at the University of Cambridge, described the results as a great leap forward."
Shouldn't that be a great leap BACKWARDS?
I might use social networking sites if they had less glittery animated text gifs, music that makes me want to stab my ears out, and mongoloid spelling and grammar.
I have nothing against the concept, it's just that the vast majority of social networking site users (especially Myspace) are people I do not want to have any contact with whatsoever.
"You can't create life from non-life!"
That one will be unuseable. Either that or they'll insist that what was created isn't life.
Things went to shit WAY earlier than that.
As early as 1997, they were known by computer support at my university as "Rapeway."
They had built a reputation for quality and service, but then decided to abandon both and ride that reputation into the ground, selling inferior, unreliable hardware at the prices their name commanded them before their fall.
Packard Bell did this, albeit with a stolen pseudo-reputation (along the lines of Rockwood or Kenford). Compaq did it. HP seems to be in the process of doing it, and Dell is flirting with it. The Big Three US automakers did it. It's a decades-long, proud tradition of failure.
"What's he done for your state other than spend decades loading down bills with pork barrel amendments that do nothing but funnel our tax dollars up to you in the form of subsidies for just living in Alaska?"
If you're talking about the dividend, that is NOT your tax dollars. That is earnings from a state investment fund comprised of a portion of Alaska's portion of oil royalty receipts. And Ted Stevens has nothing to do with that and no more say in it (officially) than any other Alaskan.
Not defending him, or saying he's not a senile old nutcase. He is the only one of Alaska's congressional delegation I ever voted for...because as much of a scumbag as he is, the other two (Frank Murkowski at the time, and Don Young) were/are far more obviously in the pockets of the oil industry than Stevens.
(I haven't voted in Alaska for years, BTW, so this may have changed.)
So now maybe I won't have to go to 4chan to find moar of some chick whose name I don't know.
I recall being told by a librarian once that they cannot restrict access to R-rated movies, and that if they did, they would likely be sued by the MPAA. Why? Because the MPAA didn't want to let their rating system become a tool of government censorship.
I'm not sure if that's true, but I suspect that if it is, New York may be in for a fight.
(Note: Movie theaters are private entities, so them using it so doesn't count.)
But in both cases the user receives the benefits of the software. So is GDP accurate measure here? Why is it considered a good thing when money moves from one pocket to another pocket?
Because then it can move on to another pocket, and so on. The faster it does that, the more money everyone makes that year.
Of course, it's better for the individual that they get something for nothing and are able to decide on other places to send that money.
It's obviously NOT the best for use on the move. I mean he shows it can be done, but it would be easier with just about anything else.
The only advantage I can see to this over, say, a small notebook and a large monitor, is the battery power. If you HAVE to have a 20 inch screen and you have to have it someplace with no power outlets, that's obviously the thing to get. Otherwise, a desktop is going to be cheaper, more upgradeable, and probably more powerful. A real notebook will be more usable on the road. This is obviously a niche machine.
"Desktop replacement" notebooks don't. They sacrifice most of the advantage of having a notebook and don't achieve half the advantages of having a desktop.
I'm pretty sure the negative calories comes from the energy required to break it down so you can metabolize what energy it DOES contain. Squeezing all the juice out kind of defeats the purpose.
Still, they need that 6Mbps connection because some profiles try to load 200MB of videos, sounds, CSS, cursors, and animated GIFs all at the same time.
200 MB of LEECHED videos, sounds, and animated GIFs.
Don't you mean "Your proprietary formats are small and useless!"
"How about a donation to a university to rip it apart or try to fly it again."
What university could afford to fly a space shuttle?
This isn't Cowboy Bebop.
Why do people own toasters when you can toast your bread in the oven?
A better question is why do they own toasters when an iron can make better toast?
Wow, somebody missed the math on that one. 2080 work hours per year. This works out to (at $30,000/yr) $14.42/hr all the way up to (at $35,000/yr) $16.83. Damn, let me move to take that job!
It's probably a pay CUT. You've gone from hourly to salaried!
Weight IN THE SAME CONFIGURATION equals safety. And only in a two-vehicle accident.
9 no1p49_54.pdf
Low center of gravity also equals safety. Having a vehicle actually engineered from the ground up to carry passengers exclusively equals safety. You don't get that with most SUVs.
Oh, and you're more dangerous to pedestrians and the occupants of other vehicles REGARDLESS OF WHAT THEY ARE DRIVING.
A large sedan of similar (or even slightly less) mass will stomp your SUV in almost every safety category. The only type of accident where SUVs offer ANY advantage to anyone is multiple-vehicle, and even then not across the board, and not every SUV.
Risk to other drivers:
http://www.physicstoday.org/vol-59/iss-1/pdf/vol5
I suspect the only reason SUVs don't do worse as a category is they mix the car and truck based ones together.
Fuel economy in truck-based, and large unibody SUVs is still abysmal. And in fact, that's one of US automakers' biggest problems right now.
My biggest issue with SUVs though, is that most of them are utter poseurmobiles. They aren't especially good road cars, they aren't very good off-roaders, they're too compromising on all fronts. And the ones that CAN go off-road but DON'T are even more offensive. 4x4s more than a year old should not be shiny. they should be caked with mud or dust or show evidence of abrasion from the previous times they were.
The only place I've ever seen such a concentration of people so grotesquely obese is casinos.
"This will never take off. Expensive wine is no different than expensive diamonds. People buy them because they are expensive."
I think it's obvious this is for the cheap wines. No shit expensive wine producers won't want to do anything that might be perceived as devaluing.
People who are already selling on price would be lining up to increase their quality...AND their margins. If that puts them closer to the more expensive wines in quality, that devalues them whether they like it or not, but the cheaper competitors aren't going to lose any sleep over it.
Devalue? Think of all the bum-wine makers who can suddenly increase the value of their product?
Shochu is popular because it's a good way to get a large number of people drunk cheaply.
It's certainly not because it's a particularly good drink.
I also think windmills spoil the rural view.
I think they're cool as fuck.
People care about quantity of fixes because of the quantity of bugs and holes.
If they just had a handful of good quality bugs, careful, deliberate releases of a few good quality patches would be perfectly acceptible.
"War of the Penguins" is for Windows.
Now I'm not normally a Linux nerd but that don't seem quite right.
Joysticks in games either work one of two ways...by controlling the rate of change in orientation or velocity, or by controlling absolutely the orientation or velocity.
In either case, a smaller movement (assuming the change is instant and doesn't build over time) effects a bigger change than with a steering wheel, especially the latter.
There is no fucking way it could ever NOT be awkward.
Hell, when I play video games, I steer with tiny little taps on the sticks, rather than precisely holding it in one position (much easier with a wheel). I cannot imagine parallel parking like that.
But then, i suppose you could have the car do that for me.
Sigh...I want another 84 Corolla...only this time without power steering.