Why do you have to ask for it? From what I've seen by doing a bit of car shopping recently it seems like unless you go balls wall with a new car you're not going to get anything beyond a standard radio/CD system anyway. If you're lucky it'll have an iPod connector. Most low end cars don't have advanced head units as an option.
Point in case: I was looking at the new Subaru Outbacks. I have an indash GPS in my car and I'd like for my new car to have one too. The Outback starts around 23k. It isn't until you get into the Outbacks that are about 29-30k that you find the updated head units. It's not even an option in the low end. I'm sure if you went to a dealership something could be worked out but it's not like these spiffy new heads are coming stock on the plain Jane models.
Outdated in what fashion? I find that term is used way too often.
The question of being outdated should be in the form of a device's utility. Sadly this isn't the case anymore. Now-a-days outdated is determined by how high the watermark is raised from outside the system. So what if your car radio isn't the latest and greatest as long as it does what you want it to do. The only kinds of people who look at another system and become envious to the point that they feel ripped off by their older technology are 17 year kids and techno-narcissists.
If you look at a new unit and you feel ripped off by a unit that you were perfectly happy with yesterday than what is outdated is your way of thinking.
Care to cite that? I do a fair amount of astronomical observations and to date I haven't noticed any correlations between lunar cycles and the pledge campaigns.
I'm fine with you having your opinion of it but it still doesn't address the idea that he just came up with not as much a cure but an understanding of the plague. An understanding that even after a fair amount of research most college freshmen with a biology major would have known without having to open a book.
In any case... to me the book just dwelled on Neville's being a drunk too much. While it's an honest approach it hardly makes for engrossing reading. The only part of the book that really moved me was the death of the dog. There was just too much tedium in some parts of it. Sometimes I don't mind it in my readings but Matheson just didn't strike a chord with me when he did it. Who knows.
More than I expected but still just as lame. You've already shown your bias in plain sight with your rants where you sounds like a rabid dog. I'm sorry but it's hard to take people seriously who present themselves that way. I'm sure you have good intentions but that doesn't matter for much when you're a loose cannon.
I most certainly agree with you but the problem is partisanship. It's not a problem for those at the top, it's a problem for those that actually think their party is going to work for them. These falsely perceived differences between the parties is what's helping the parties get away with whatever they want while the man on the streets stands like a loyal dog by his party that does little of note for him. If people weren't so loyal to their parties we may have actual numbers defecting. I don't foresee this happening in my lifetime tho.
Never said it was created recently and never said that it was from some women. I guess you have to try to discredit me before I even have a say in the matter? Wow. I just love that maneuver. You must be a politician yourself.
Having a grass roots structure doesn't mean that everyone is a pauper and there is no money involved. It means that it has a popular backing. That backing has largely toned down into the form of mainstay Republicans. This effectively ended the Tea Party as an entity. Again, it's the Democrats who have to keep screaming "teabagger" who keep the ghost of it alive.
Oh, and people who like to project their ideas of what others think even though they never said it.
Oh well, typical Slashdot.... a retort of trying to twist the words of another that were never said, a nice unbiased cite and an attempt to shame another user. Very well played.
Its a sign of the degeneracy of this nation toward conservatism.
Right. Right along with how legalized gay marriage and marijuana is spreading.
Your kind of banter is part of the problem. The country is shifting to the left and you're still running around with your hair on fire screaming of "a dark and malignant cancer" and "a sign of the degeneracy of this nation toward conservatism".
Ok. So show me where the nation is "degenerating" toward conservatism. You want to paint the right leaning Republican as a racist but can you produce proof? Are you spooked by the fact that the states are making decisions on marriage equality and the legal status of marijuana without the help of big borther?
So much talk like this and so little proof. Do you look under your bed for the boogie man at night too?
And don't get me wrong, I don't vote Republican or Democrat, but these cries of racism are really an ugly attempt to discredit others with little to no justification. I'm sure there are racists in the Republican party but there are just as many in the Democratic party. But keep the blinders on. Keep being part of the problem yourself.
The same could be said for the Democrats. Yesterday I had seen an interesting placement of links on a new site... one was about how Michelle Obama had hired some high priced fashion advisor while the next link said that 76% of all Americans live paycheck to paycheck. Barak spent more in both elections then the "big money" Republicans.
When it comes right down to it the big political parties are turning into the next aristocracy and their followers turn a blind eye to their excesses and abuses. We can't afford to offer tours of the White House but we can bring in AAA rated pop stars to do birthday parties? Are you kidding me?
I don't believe a Republican administration would be that much different.
It's a party, to be sure... and you're not invited unless you can write some big money checks.
But those who are replacing the incumbents are still in the same party. There's a reason I made it bold text in my first reply to you. Most of what the Tea Party did when it still had some legitimacy was getting liberal leaning Republicans off the ticket. That didn't change a damn thing in the general elections. My saying "My Party, right or wrong" isn't me saying that political parties can't be dynamic in nature. Only an idiot would think that.
Again, a few people getting thrown out on their ear as their party screams "RINO" at them is not a mandate. The majority of this movement happened in 2010. If there was any real force behind the Tea Party we would have seen them as a larger factor in 2012 but it just didn't happen. Given the current political unrest, if there isn't a significant motion to the right in 2014 it can safely be said that the Tea Party is a dead issue. But this won't stop every leftist from screaming "teabagger" at even the most moderate of Republicans.
Meh. The fact of the matter is that the two party system keeps the minds of the American voter in check as the status quo is maintained regardless of the costs to the man on the street. Anyone seeing the Tea Party as a significant break from the mainstream Republican party only helps support my thoughts on this matter.
I think that I Am Legend is pretty weak from the science fiction aspect. Omega Man and I Am Legend (the movie) did a better version of the story. The idea that Neville coming up with a cure for the plague without any prior education is a bit far fetched.
But over all his short stories are a good read and he did write my favorite Twilight Zone episode (Night Call). I've never read the story that was to be made into Night Call, if one exists. Does anyone know?
Several times? A few one-offs hardly represent a mandate from the people when you're dealing with a combined legislative body of 535. The US legislature has the approval rating of a two bit whore at a church gathering and you call a handful of incumbents being ousted by other people normally from the same party a reason to think that Americans are blind to politics beyond the little Rs and Ds that follow a politicians name?
The fact that you called them "insurgents" speaks volumes to your own political outlook. When the so-called Tea Party looks like a radical departure from the Republican party you know the blinders are on. While the Tea Party did have a good grassroots structure behind it at one point, today it's just another faction of a slightly fractured party. It certainly isn't enough to think that there is serious momentum from the status quo. Even more so apparent when you consider where the "Tea Party" is today compared to these grass roots. It's safe to say the Tea Party would be pretty much forgotten if it weren't for the Democrats trying to whip anyone they didn't like into the mold of a "teabagger."
Looking like the good guy matters less by the day. "My party, right or wrong" has been the battle cry of American politics for a long while but the lengths to which this is take in the past few administrations has become insane.
the implication is that a regular power connector doesn't come out when you pull on it.
Maybe, maybe not but I got sick of paying top dollar for high end HPs (Nearly as much as I paid for my MBP) that used more traditional power ports that would go buggy about 3 minutes after the warranty was up. HP's solution? Buy a new systemboard for about 800 USD... and install it yourself. You want HP to do it? You're looking at a cool grand on top of the 2200 you already spent on top of buying their laptop.
I'm not an Apple fanboy but I felt great about over paying for a MBP knowing that this wasn't going to be another 2000+ laptop that I was going to throw on the junk heap because of another bad power port. And mine isn't the only one I've seen go that way, I have a number of friends who've come to me with power port issues with the same story that I've told. And I don't know how long Apple keeps spare parts floating around for their old machines but at least 2 people I know have told me that HP no longer produced the systemboard after a couple years and they were SOL.
So yeah, I feel pretty damn good about shelling out money for a machine with a magnetic power port. I'd recommend every manufacturer do it
GoogleScope. Street View of the world through the eyes of a sniper. GoogleShotglass. Street View through the eyes of a drunk. GoogleCokemirror. Street View through the eyes of a drug addict.
Disclaimer: I have not seen the film and probably won't see it anytime this decade.
I hate to tell you but maybe the 11 year old demographic is the target audience at this point.
I know that us middle aged geeks have become accustom to Hollywood trying to string us along but maybe they're finding the gulf between the camps of the younger consumers and the disgruntled middle age so-and-sos a bit wide so they're finally giving up. After all, your parents went to films they had no interest in but you did. I can hardly imagine the thrill my parents felt by me dragging them to great spectacles of cinema like The Dark Crystal and The NeverEnding Story (and these were the good ones!). Now it's your turn to ante up for all kinds of inane crap drummed up by some ex-advertising executive who's decided to try his hand at film making.
The sooner that people start to realize that Hollywood (and pretty much all major entertainment industries) sees the aging consumer as a second class market the sooner the aging consumers will let go of pop culture. And it's a good thing too. It's not like there isn't a market for the adult consumer, it's just not the same market as what you embraced 20 or even 10 years ago. Comic book/fantasy-adventure movies just aren't going to target the adult market, at least on any great scale.
Ask them what their expectations are and work from there. Everyone's ideas on what computing is or should be are different.
But I would suggest that if coding is going to be part of what this club is that you get a group consensus on what kind of project they'd like to do and start something on SourceForge or the like. It'll get some public recognition even if it's not too great and people will see their name on the web. People like that kind of thing.
I do a public astronomy outreach with my local amateur astronomy group. It's nice to work with the public and get some recognition even though I'm not great at it. It's one of the few reasons I still set up my equipment on public nights. I'm more comfortable working within the group but it's still nice to be part of a bigger community through public participation.
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If it worked properly then it would not have "unwittingly" collected data that it should not have had.
Why do you have to ask for it? From what I've seen by doing a bit of car shopping recently it seems like unless you go balls wall with a new car you're not going to get anything beyond a standard radio/CD system anyway. If you're lucky it'll have an iPod connector. Most low end cars don't have advanced head units as an option.
Point in case: I was looking at the new Subaru Outbacks. I have an indash GPS in my car and I'd like for my new car to have one too. The Outback starts around 23k. It isn't until you get into the Outbacks that are about 29-30k that you find the updated head units. It's not even an option in the low end. I'm sure if you went to a dealership something could be worked out but it's not like these spiffy new heads are coming stock on the plain Jane models.
Outdated in what fashion? I find that term is used way too often.
The question of being outdated should be in the form of a device's utility. Sadly this isn't the case anymore. Now-a-days outdated is determined by how high the watermark is raised from outside the system. So what if your car radio isn't the latest and greatest as long as it does what you want it to do. The only kinds of people who look at another system and become envious to the point that they feel ripped off by their older technology are 17 year kids and techno-narcissists.
If you look at a new unit and you feel ripped off by a unit that you were perfectly happy with yesterday than what is outdated is your way of thinking.
The only real down-side is that the FM radio side sucks.
That has nothing to do with the head unit... broadcast radio sucks under any and all circumstances.
I wonder how loudly the judge would have laughed if someone like Robert Morris Jr. would have used this as a defense.
"Sorry, your honor, I didn't wittingly bring down the internets."
It would have certainly been much more honest.... Just another case of the powers-that-be defending their own asshattery.
Wow. Talk about not having a sense of humor. Oh well, It's the Slashdot way.
they come along once in a blue moon.
Care to cite that? I do a fair amount of astronomical observations and to date I haven't noticed any correlations between lunar cycles and the pledge campaigns.
I'm fine with you having your opinion of it but it still doesn't address the idea that he just came up with not as much a cure but an understanding of the plague. An understanding that even after a fair amount of research most college freshmen with a biology major would have known without having to open a book.
In any case... to me the book just dwelled on Neville's being a drunk too much. While it's an honest approach it hardly makes for engrossing reading. The only part of the book that really moved me was the death of the dog. There was just too much tedium in some parts of it. Sometimes I don't mind it in my readings but Matheson just didn't strike a chord with me when he did it. Who knows.
More than I expected but still just as lame. You've already shown your bias in plain sight with your rants where you sounds like a rabid dog. I'm sorry but it's hard to take people seriously who present themselves that way. I'm sure you have good intentions but that doesn't matter for much when you're a loose cannon.
I most certainly agree with you but the problem is partisanship. It's not a problem for those at the top, it's a problem for those that actually think their party is going to work for them. These falsely perceived differences between the parties is what's helping the parties get away with whatever they want while the man on the streets stands like a loyal dog by his party that does little of note for him. If people weren't so loyal to their parties we may have actual numbers defecting. I don't foresee this happening in my lifetime tho.
Never said it was created recently and never said that it was from some women. I guess you have to try to discredit me before I even have a say in the matter? Wow. I just love that maneuver. You must be a politician yourself.
Having a grass roots structure doesn't mean that everyone is a pauper and there is no money involved. It means that it has a popular backing. That backing has largely toned down into the form of mainstay Republicans. This effectively ended the Tea Party as an entity. Again, it's the Democrats who have to keep screaming "teabagger" who keep the ghost of it alive.
Oh, and people who like to project their ideas of what others think even though they never said it.
Oh well, typical Slashdot.... a retort of trying to twist the words of another that were never said, a nice unbiased cite and an attempt to shame another user. Very well played.
Its a sign of the degeneracy of this nation toward conservatism.
Right. Right along with how legalized gay marriage and marijuana is spreading.
Your kind of banter is part of the problem. The country is shifting to the left and you're still running around with your hair on fire screaming of "a dark and malignant cancer" and "a sign of the degeneracy of this nation toward conservatism".
Ok. So show me where the nation is "degenerating" toward conservatism. You want to paint the right leaning Republican as a racist but can you produce proof? Are you spooked by the fact that the states are making decisions on marriage equality and the legal status of marijuana without the help of big borther?
So much talk like this and so little proof. Do you look under your bed for the boogie man at night too?
And don't get me wrong, I don't vote Republican or Democrat, but these cries of racism are really an ugly attempt to discredit others with little to no justification. I'm sure there are racists in the Republican party but there are just as many in the Democratic party. But keep the blinders on. Keep being part of the problem yourself.
The same could be said for the Democrats. Yesterday I had seen an interesting placement of links on a new site... one was about how Michelle Obama had hired some high priced fashion advisor while the next link said that 76% of all Americans live paycheck to paycheck. Barak spent more in both elections then the "big money" Republicans.
When it comes right down to it the big political parties are turning into the next aristocracy and their followers turn a blind eye to their excesses and abuses. We can't afford to offer tours of the White House but we can bring in AAA rated pop stars to do birthday parties? Are you kidding me?
I don't believe a Republican administration would be that much different.
It's a party, to be sure... and you're not invited unless you can write some big money checks.
But those who are replacing the incumbents are still in the same party. There's a reason I made it bold text in my first reply to you. Most of what the Tea Party did when it still had some legitimacy was getting liberal leaning Republicans off the ticket. That didn't change a damn thing in the general elections. My saying "My Party, right or wrong" isn't me saying that political parties can't be dynamic in nature. Only an idiot would think that.
Again, a few people getting thrown out on their ear as their party screams "RINO" at them is not a mandate. The majority of this movement happened in 2010. If there was any real force behind the Tea Party we would have seen them as a larger factor in 2012 but it just didn't happen. Given the current political unrest, if there isn't a significant motion to the right in 2014 it can safely be said that the Tea Party is a dead issue. But this won't stop every leftist from screaming "teabagger" at even the most moderate of Republicans.
Meh. The fact of the matter is that the two party system keeps the minds of the American voter in check as the status quo is maintained regardless of the costs to the man on the street. Anyone seeing the Tea Party as a significant break from the mainstream Republican party only helps support my thoughts on this matter.
I think that I Am Legend is pretty weak from the science fiction aspect. Omega Man and I Am Legend (the movie) did a better version of the story. The idea that Neville coming up with a cure for the plague without any prior education is a bit far fetched.
But over all his short stories are a good read and he did write my favorite Twilight Zone episode (Night Call). I've never read the story that was to be made into Night Call, if one exists. Does anyone know?
Several times? A few one-offs hardly represent a mandate from the people when you're dealing with a combined legislative body of 535. The US legislature has the approval rating of a two bit whore at a church gathering and you call a handful of incumbents being ousted by other people normally from the same party a reason to think that Americans are blind to politics beyond the little Rs and Ds that follow a politicians name?
The fact that you called them "insurgents" speaks volumes to your own political outlook. When the so-called Tea Party looks like a radical departure from the Republican party you know the blinders are on. While the Tea Party did have a good grassroots structure behind it at one point, today it's just another faction of a slightly fractured party. It certainly isn't enough to think that there is serious momentum from the status quo. Even more so apparent when you consider where the "Tea Party" is today compared to these grass roots. It's safe to say the Tea Party would be pretty much forgotten if it weren't for the Democrats trying to whip anyone they didn't like into the mold of a "teabagger."
Looking like the good guy matters less by the day. "My party, right or wrong" has been the battle cry of American politics for a long while but the lengths to which this is take in the past few administrations has become insane.
the implication is that a regular power connector doesn't come out when you pull on it.
Maybe, maybe not but I got sick of paying top dollar for high end HPs (Nearly as much as I paid for my MBP) that used more traditional power ports that would go buggy about 3 minutes after the warranty was up. HP's solution? Buy a new systemboard for about 800 USD... and install it yourself. You want HP to do it? You're looking at a cool grand on top of the 2200 you already spent on top of buying their laptop.
I'm not an Apple fanboy but I felt great about over paying for a MBP knowing that this wasn't going to be another 2000+ laptop that I was going to throw on the junk heap because of another bad power port. And mine isn't the only one I've seen go that way, I have a number of friends who've come to me with power port issues with the same story that I've told. And I don't know how long Apple keeps spare parts floating around for their old machines but at least 2 people I know have told me that HP no longer produced the systemboard after a couple years and they were SOL.
So yeah, I feel pretty damn good about shelling out money for a machine with a magnetic power port. I'd recommend every manufacturer do it
No. Being accepted as a diplomat to a country is an agreement between the two countries. I don't think the British would be too keen on this.
Not to mention it would make Ecuador look like a joke. Ecuador is alread putting their necks out enough for this guy.
I'm ok with that as long as it plays the backing music to My Second Wife by The Residents over and over again while it's recording.
GoogleScope. Street View of the world through the eyes of a sniper.
GoogleShotglass. Street View through the eyes of a drunk.
GoogleCokemirror. Street View through the eyes of a drug addict.
Disclaimer: I have not seen the film and probably won't see it anytime this decade.
I hate to tell you but maybe the 11 year old demographic is the target audience at this point.
I know that us middle aged geeks have become accustom to Hollywood trying to string us along but maybe they're finding the gulf between the camps of the younger consumers and the disgruntled middle age so-and-sos a bit wide so they're finally giving up. After all, your parents went to films they had no interest in but you did. I can hardly imagine the thrill my parents felt by me dragging them to great spectacles of cinema like The Dark Crystal and The NeverEnding Story (and these were the good ones!). Now it's your turn to ante up for all kinds of inane crap drummed up by some ex-advertising executive who's decided to try his hand at film making.
The sooner that people start to realize that Hollywood (and pretty much all major entertainment industries) sees the aging consumer as a second class market the sooner the aging consumers will let go of pop culture. And it's a good thing too. It's not like there isn't a market for the adult consumer, it's just not the same market as what you embraced 20 or even 10 years ago. Comic book/fantasy-adventure movies just aren't going to target the adult market, at least on any great scale.
Jack is what the 14 year old kids drink. But since this is for high schoolers it just migjht fit the bill.
If you're going to have Coke you need some Jim Beam to go with that.
Ask them what their expectations are and work from there. Everyone's ideas on what computing is or should be are different.
But I would suggest that if coding is going to be part of what this club is that you get a group consensus on what kind of project they'd like to do and start something on SourceForge or the like. It'll get some public recognition even if it's not too great and people will see their name on the web. People like that kind of thing.
I do a public astronomy outreach with my local amateur astronomy group. It's nice to work with the public and get some recognition even though I'm not great at it. It's one of the few reasons I still set up my equipment on public nights. I'm more comfortable working within the group but it's still nice to be part of a bigger community through public participation.