Yup, we've been trying to duplicate the stuff for thousands of years, but we haven't been able to crack this stupid Deity's Responsibile for Making the universe scheme...
Maybe those folks on Doom9 will succeed where the Alchemists failed.
You know, it's really only in the US that doctors make an assload of cash... here in Canada they're paid similarly to any other professional (i.e. reasonably). Since this story is coming from the UK, I'd imagine it's similar there too.
But no, privatized healthcare is more cost-effective... *ducks*
It's designed to grab your location from MobileMe's Find My iPhone and update Google Latitude, but you can probably short-circuit the process with a bit of elbow grease:)
Contraposition only works with "if and only if", aka <=>. Otherwise I could say "If it's a Toyota, then it's a car. If it's NOT a Toyota, then it's NOT a car".
So I think what you meant was:
Traditional OS <=> Run Compiler
!(Run Compiler) <=> !(Traditional OS)
And please, the functionality and features of Gmail and Google calendar absolutely crap on the lame excuse of the Apple offerings. Don't even try to argue this one
I got about this far, thought about how I use Gmail+GoogleContacts+GoogleCalendar on my iPhone right now (and they work perfectly), and stopped reading.
So what you're saying is that by carrying a second extended battery with you, you get... 10%-20% more battery life than a MacBook Pro? And it only costs
- Shutting down (or Hibernating) halfway through your work to switch batteries
- The weight of that second battery in your bag
- The price of the second battery ($200?)
- The fact you have to swap 'em half way through to recharge your laptop beyond (an effective) 50%
I understand if the extra 10-20% battery life is important to you, but honestly, I'd rather buy the Apple computer:)
I ran into that too. I've had Compiz configured with Meta+Button1 = move a window, Meta+Button3 = resize a window for as long as I can remember. It's quite handy - no more groping for that little resize handle, just click-drag click-drag done.
Then, I tried out whatever build of GNOME that was, and suddenly Meta+Button3 brings up the window context menu (with "close" helpfully placed at the top so I hit it every time I try to do a quick resize).
Try to set the binding in CCSM? It claims to have changed, but Meta+Button3 still brings up the menu, and if I close and reopen CCSM it's back to not being set. I checked keyboard preferences, keyboard shortcuts, everything. Couldn't find the source of it. It just overwrote whatever I told CCSM to do, with no indication of why. I tried hacking it in gconf, I tried the "Simple CCSM", no avail. And here I thought Linux was about user choice... maybe I'll buy a Mac instead:)
This is nearly as bad as Firefox using your GTK Icon Theme for the back/forward buttons under Linux - it only works on Linux (not Mac and Windows), and even then only if you have GTK and an icon theme installed! It's a travesty! How dare they build a feature that only works on one platform!
Linux with GTK and an Icon Theme: Working
Anything Else: Not Working
I don't know how they got away with this... somebody should report them to the police or something.
Don't try them between the snow and the time the streetsweepers clean up the sand, either:)
There are a couple of those by my house too, and they're wayyy too much fun to take at speed. Since they're on a standard residential road (they're "traffic calming"), you can legally take them at 2-3x the speed they're designed for. Which means you can take them as fast as you and your car are capable of:)
That's true, but it's hellish to walk on a narrow sidewalk squished between a flat building wall and the aforementioned roadway, even if the traffic is moving more slowly. Which is exactly what you need to intimidate the drivers in the first place.
I'd rather walk on a spacious sidewalk with a nice wide grassy patch between me and the 50MPH traffic:)
Or until it's too late. I did my driver training with Young Drivers of Canada, which teaches 'defensive driving' - i.e. assume everyone's trying to hit you, and it's your job to not let them. I've been driving for ~4 years now, and I haven't hit anything (which is pretty good around these parts).
Personally, I believe defensive driving training should be mandatory for everyone. Even if they're not your fault, accidents still suck:)
Or have one of the larger bigscreen TVs (i.e. a projector) like a lot of home theater setups do. I know it's relatively expensive (although you can get a decent projector+screen for $1200 if you have a sufficiently dark room), but it still supports my argument of "theaters have to complete with better pricing".
This summarizes everything I hate about reading the newspaper - at least in my hometown (Calgary). There's no actual information in a newspaper article anymore. It's just endless paragraphs starting with "How did you feel when your neighbors house exploded?" "Well, slightly singed at first, but now I'm sad. It was a pretty house". That's the most important fact you could find about the story? Don't mention that it was a meth lab, or condemned, or that the house was full of big red explosive barrels - nope, it's the rushed (and edited) opinion of a neighbor.
The only thing worse is the televised news' reinterpretation of this trope. The interviewer goes out, finds someone with no prior knowledge of events in question, and then interviews them. It usually goes something like this:
Reporter: Have you heard about your neighbor's house exploding?
Neighbor: My neighbor's house exploded!?
Reporter: How does your neighbor's house exploding make you feel?
Neighbor: OH GOD MY NEIGHBOR'S HOUSE EXPLODED!
[ cut back to stock footage ]
Reporter: Clearly blaming the fire department for their poor response times, neighbors are trying to rebuild. Back to you, (anchor name)
That's just it - when you eat out, you get a better experience than if you cook at home. You don't have to cook the meal, or clean up afterwards, and you get the pleasant atmosphere of your favorite restaurant.
On the other hand, when you go see a movie at a theater instead of watching it at home, you have to deal with the two-year-old behind you kicking the back of your seat, the popcorn and bubblegum-coated floor, the neck-breaking view (if it's a popular movie, and you can't get a seat in the middle), and the inability to pause the movie if you need to run to the bathroom (or get more snacks).
Basically, eating out is (sometimes) preferable to eating at home, therefore a price premium is justified. Watching a movie at a theater is worse (in almost every regard) than watching it at home, therefore it must be cheaper if it hopes to compete.
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And HTML has hover effects too, so your logic would also have us abandon HTML in favor of some other proprietary Apple technology.
Ooh! Ooh! Can we abandon HTML in favor of HTML5?
Yup, we've been trying to duplicate the stuff for thousands of years, but we haven't been able to crack this stupid Deity's Responsibile for Making the universe scheme...
Maybe those folks on Doom9 will succeed where the Alchemists failed.
You know, it's really only in the US that doctors make an assload of cash... here in Canada they're paid similarly to any other professional (i.e. reasonably). Since this story is coming from the UK, I'd imagine it's similar there too.
But no, privatized healthcare is more cost-effective... *ducks*
I totally misread that URL as "colon clogs" the first time through... Actually, no, that sounds about right :p
That's stupid. What if I only want to look at one page at once? Or I have a second monitor for doing that?
Wouldn't it make a whole lot more sense to flow to the size of my screen like anything else, so I can do either?
With an iPhone, I would recommend looking at something like http://nat.org/blog/2009/08/playnice-google-apple/
:)
It's designed to grab your location from MobileMe's Find My iPhone and update Google Latitude, but you can probably short-circuit the process with a bit of elbow grease
You could make a Facebook group! And if we get enough members, then Twitter will...
Nope, sorry guys, I can't bring myself to finish that sentence.
Contraposition only works with "if and only if", aka <=>. Otherwise I could say "If it's a Toyota, then it's a car. If it's NOT a Toyota, then it's NOT a car".
So I think what you meant was:
Traditional OS <=> Run Compiler
!(Run Compiler) <=> !(Traditional OS)
And please, the functionality and features of Gmail and Google calendar absolutely crap on the lame excuse of the Apple offerings. Don't even try to argue this one
I got about this far, thought about how I use Gmail+GoogleContacts+GoogleCalendar on my iPhone right now (and they work perfectly), and stopped reading.
Nice trolling, though. It was a good try.
So what you're saying is that by carrying a second extended battery with you, you get... 10%-20% more battery life than a MacBook Pro? And it only costs
:)
- Shutting down (or Hibernating) halfway through your work to switch batteries
- The weight of that second battery in your bag
- The price of the second battery ($200?)
- The fact you have to swap 'em half way through to recharge your laptop beyond (an effective) 50%
I understand if the extra 10-20% battery life is important to you, but honestly, I'd rather buy the Apple computer
I ran into that too. I've had Compiz configured with Meta+Button1 = move a window, Meta+Button3 = resize a window for as long as I can remember. It's quite handy - no more groping for that little resize handle, just click-drag click-drag done.
:)
Then, I tried out whatever build of GNOME that was, and suddenly Meta+Button3 brings up the window context menu (with "close" helpfully placed at the top so I hit it every time I try to do a quick resize).
Try to set the binding in CCSM? It claims to have changed, but Meta+Button3 still brings up the menu, and if I close and reopen CCSM it's back to not being set. I checked keyboard preferences, keyboard shortcuts, everything. Couldn't find the source of it. It just overwrote whatever I told CCSM to do, with no indication of why. I tried hacking it in gconf, I tried the "Simple CCSM", no avail. And here I thought Linux was about user choice... maybe I'll buy a Mac instead
I don't know how they got away with this... somebody should report them to the police or something.
Don't try them between the snow and the time the streetsweepers clean up the sand, either :)
:)
There are a couple of those by my house too, and they're wayyy too much fun to take at speed. Since they're on a standard residential road (they're "traffic calming"), you can legally take them at 2-3x the speed they're designed for. Which means you can take them as fast as you and your car are capable of
That's true, but it's hellish to walk on a narrow sidewalk squished between a flat building wall and the aforementioned roadway, even if the traffic is moving more slowly. Which is exactly what you need to intimidate the drivers in the first place.
:)
I'd rather walk on a spacious sidewalk with a nice wide grassy patch between me and the 50MPH traffic
Or until it's too late. I did my driver training with Young Drivers of Canada, which teaches 'defensive driving' - i.e. assume everyone's trying to hit you, and it's your job to not let them. I've been driving for ~4 years now, and I haven't hit anything (which is pretty good around these parts).
:)
Personally, I believe defensive driving training should be mandatory for everyone. Even if they're not your fault, accidents still suck
You used to, but they opened it up to everyone a couple years ago.
:)
I still think the best solution overall is to just not use Facebook at all
Or have one of the larger bigscreen TVs (i.e. a projector) like a lot of home theater setups do. I know it's relatively expensive (although you can get a decent projector+screen for $1200 if you have a sufficiently dark room), but it still supports my argument of "theaters have to complete with better pricing".
This!
This summarizes everything I hate about reading the newspaper - at least in my hometown (Calgary). There's no actual information in a newspaper article anymore. It's just endless paragraphs starting with "How did you feel when your neighbors house exploded?" "Well, slightly singed at first, but now I'm sad. It was a pretty house". That's the most important fact you could find about the story? Don't mention that it was a meth lab, or condemned, or that the house was full of big red explosive barrels - nope, it's the rushed (and edited) opinion of a neighbor.
The only thing worse is the televised news' reinterpretation of this trope. The interviewer goes out, finds someone with no prior knowledge of events in question, and then interviews them. It usually goes something like this:
Reporter: Have you heard about your neighbor's house exploding?
Neighbor: My neighbor's house exploded!?
Reporter: How does your neighbor's house exploding make you feel?
Neighbor: OH GOD MY NEIGHBOR'S HOUSE EXPLODED!
[ cut back to stock footage ]
Reporter: Clearly blaming the fire department for their poor response times, neighbors are trying to rebuild. Back to you, (anchor name)
That's just it - when you eat out, you get a better experience than if you cook at home. You don't have to cook the meal, or clean up afterwards, and you get the pleasant atmosphere of your favorite restaurant.
On the other hand, when you go see a movie at a theater instead of watching it at home, you have to deal with the two-year-old behind you kicking the back of your seat, the popcorn and bubblegum-coated floor, the neck-breaking view (if it's a popular movie, and you can't get a seat in the middle), and the inability to pause the movie if you need to run to the bathroom (or get more snacks).
Basically, eating out is (sometimes) preferable to eating at home, therefore a price premium is justified. Watching a movie at a theater is worse (in almost every regard) than watching it at home, therefore it must be cheaper if it hopes to compete.