I had 3 laptops during the last 3 years and they all fit the same docking station. Not sure why you think that every laptop needs a new docking station.
The point is that sales data of windows laptops is meaningless when you're trying to determine if the "desktop setup" (external monitor, mouse & keyboard) is "legacy".
Why you are being so obtuse and stubborn about this is not clear. Go to some offices and see if people doing their daily work with a touchscreen is anywhere close to being the typical setup.
Yes it is. The massive conversion to laptops show that [the desktop is a legacy platform]. The sales data for 6 years clearly show that. You may not like that it is a legacy platform, Microsoft doesn't but it is.
Sorry, but that is nonsense. Companies have increasingly moved to laptops, that is certainly true, but that doesn't mean what you think it does. Everyone in my office has a multi-monitor setup with a mouse and keyboard - powered by a laptop that is connected to docking station. This has pretty much become the typical setup.
It's terribly naive to believe that Snowden ever cared about anonymous internet communications. His only goal was to damage the United States.
Note that internal spying that China, Russia and North Korea engage in are almost never brought to light by Snowden and if they are, it is always something very minor. The NSA would have lots of knowledge of these programs and probably even tapped into them, so why isn't Snowden doing all he can to bring those to light?
To be clear, the internal that the NSA engaged in crossed the line and should have been exposed. That is a very small part of what Snowden has revealed though. It's just given him domestic cover to give away military secrets.
You keep using the word "city", I do not think it means what you think it means. Not every city in the country is like NYC - in fact it is pretty much the exception (maybe Chicago).
Take for example Los Angeles, Miami, Atlanta, Dallas and Houston. Very few places that people want to go in those cities are "within 5 miles". The population of those cities is surrounded by huge suburbs.
Ever wonder why major cities in the US have huge traffic jams - it's not because people are driving from one farm to another. It's driving from one suburb to another or a suburb to a business district.
It's all in the phrasing though. Atheists were demonized for generations as being wicked and disturbed, so it still carries a negative stigma to even those that aren't very religious at all. The famous Jack Chick tracts portrayed athiests as being worse than actually being evil.
That's why most tend to describe themselves as secular humanists.
The guy was already on the plane and the situation was over. Would you really act out some sort of revenge fantasy because you the guy hurt your feelings?
Unfortunately, he would have been arrested for making threats at the airport and would have been subject to a very violent arrest.
That's why this situation is so serious. Police go nuts when an incident at the airport is reported and that agent could have caused a man's life to be destroyed or even ended.
You missed the entire point. It doesn't matter if the gate agent was right or wrong about whether his kids could board with him.
The point is that he was pulled off the plane for a non-threatening comment he made on twitter. Obviously Southwest gets the point as they're compensating the guy.
Lawyers cost money. The Tor Foundation will have to spend a lot of money defending this - even if they're successful. That's plenty of harm right there.
If you want more harm, you could consider the chilling effect that this will have on other foundations or projects.
But you do have to remember that Pancreatic Cancer is tough, and Jobs had a particularly bad version of it.
No, that is completely backwards. Jobs had a rare type that was much easier to treat. It was nothing like the type that Swayze had. Jobs lived 8 years after his diagnosis.
Assuming it's caught before spreading and treated aggressively, the 5-year mortatlity rate is about 80%. If I remember correctly, in Steve Jobs' case, it wasn't discovered until it had affected his liver so the year or so that he stuck around was actually a pretty damn good fight.
You have all of that exactly backwards. Steve Jobs lived 8 years after his diagnosis. Jobs had a rare type of pancreatic cancer that grows very slowly and is much easier to treat.
You're perfectly free to respond to every single question asked at a checkpoint with "I don't talk to the police, may I leave now?" and there's not a damned thing they can do about it, unless of course you're under the influence.....
And if you do that, they will "suspect" that you are intoxicated and detain you. There's a saying that cops love, "you can beat the rap, but you can't beat the ride."
That's not really a practical option for DVRs as they tend to take a significant time to boot up and initialize. Even non-DVR cable boxes take a long time to update the program listings after being powered off.
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I had 3 laptops during the last 3 years and they all fit the same docking station. Not sure why you think that every laptop needs a new docking station.
The point is that sales data of windows laptops is meaningless when you're trying to determine if the "desktop setup" (external monitor, mouse & keyboard) is "legacy".
Why you are being so obtuse and stubborn about this is not clear. Go to some offices and see if people doing their daily work with a touchscreen is anywhere close to being the typical setup.
Sorry, but that is nonsense. Companies have increasingly moved to laptops, that is certainly true, but that doesn't mean what you think it does. Everyone in my office has a multi-monitor setup with a mouse and keyboard - powered by a laptop that is connected to docking station. This has pretty much become the typical setup.
Actually he is. The Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle holds with or without an observer.
To be clear, it's a common mistake.
You're confusing Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle with the "observer effect".
It's terribly naive to believe that Snowden ever cared about anonymous internet communications. His only goal was to damage the United States.
Note that internal spying that China, Russia and North Korea engage in are almost never brought to light by Snowden and if they are, it is always something very minor. The NSA would have lots of knowledge of these programs and probably even tapped into them, so why isn't Snowden doing all he can to bring those to light?
To be clear, the internal that the NSA engaged in crossed the line and should have been exposed. That is a very small part of what Snowden has revealed though. It's just given him domestic cover to give away military secrets.
You keep using the word "city", I do not think it means what you think it means. Not every city in the country is like NYC - in fact it is pretty much the exception (maybe Chicago).
Take for example Los Angeles, Miami, Atlanta, Dallas and Houston. Very few places that people want to go in those cities are "within 5 miles". The population of those cities is surrounded by huge suburbs.
Ever wonder why major cities in the US have huge traffic jams - it's not because people are driving from one farm to another. It's driving from one suburb to another or a suburb to a business district.
You would probably end up dead without electricity as well unless you had the firepower to seize from others.
Watch "Naked and Afraid" - without modern technology it's a real struggle to survive even in decently hospitable locations.
Humans have lived without modern technology before, but never at this population level. Also, during those times wild food was much more abundant.
Also, why do you feel that people wanting to use their phones is some sort of weakness?
It may not have been claimed in the article, but it was claimed on the show itself.
It's all in the phrasing though. Atheists were demonized for generations as being wicked and disturbed, so it still carries a negative stigma to even those that aren't very religious at all. The famous Jack Chick tracts portrayed athiests as being worse than actually being evil.
That's why most tend to describe themselves as secular humanists.
The guy was already on the plane and the situation was over. Would you really act out some sort of revenge fantasy because you the guy hurt your feelings?
Unfortunately, he would have been arrested for making threats at the airport and would have been subject to a very violent arrest.
That's why this situation is so serious. Police go nuts when an incident at the airport is reported and that agent could have caused a man's life to be destroyed or even ended.
To be fair, Southwest caters to a different demographic than most other airlines.
You missed the point. He was already on the plane and the situation was over. There was no reason for the gate agent to go nuclear on him.
That's one of the reasons that they claim keeps their prices low - they're the fast food of the airline world.
You missed the entire point. It doesn't matter if the gate agent was right or wrong about whether his kids could board with him.
The point is that he was pulled off the plane for a non-threatening comment he made on twitter. Obviously Southwest gets the point as they're compensating the guy.
Every country was made of and founded by immigrants.
You could make that same case for any administration.
Lawyers cost money. The Tor Foundation will have to spend a lot of money defending this - even if they're successful. That's plenty of harm right there.
If you want more harm, you could consider the chilling effect that this will have on other foundations or projects.
But you do have to remember that Pancreatic Cancer is tough, and Jobs had a particularly bad version of it.
No, that is completely backwards. Jobs had a rare type that was much easier to treat. It was nothing like the type that Swayze had. Jobs lived 8 years after his diagnosis.
Assuming it's caught before spreading and treated aggressively, the 5-year mortatlity rate is about 80%. If I remember correctly, in Steve Jobs' case, it wasn't discovered until it had affected his liver so the year or so that he stuck around was actually a pretty damn good fight.
You have all of that exactly backwards. Steve Jobs lived 8 years after his diagnosis. Jobs had a rare type of pancreatic cancer that grows very slowly and is much easier to treat.
You're perfectly free to respond to every single question asked at a checkpoint with "I don't talk to the police, may I leave now?" and there's not a damned thing they can do about it, unless of course you're under the influence.....
And if you do that, they will "suspect" that you are intoxicated and detain you. There's a saying that cops love, "you can beat the rap, but you can't beat the ride."
We don't all live in the arctic either.
The 140 watt claim wasn't correct either - as the article later states it's "as much as 35 watts".
That's not really a practical option for DVRs as they tend to take a significant time to boot up and initialize. Even non-DVR cable boxes take a long time to update the program listings after being powered off.
Meta-studies rarely have any scientific validity though.