Given the frequency and urgency that frequently comes with volume adjustment made the lack of volume control a deal breaker however.
I wonder, and I haven't read any of their marketing materials, but: perhaps they could spin the power button as a "hardware mute and pause button"? Still, I'd rather have the granularity of a volume control, than a binary all-or-nothing switch...
Yes, the latter [iPad] has been successful. So are high heeled shoes, which fail every objective test for the usefulness of a shoe. Just saying.
You missed one objective test: to put the wearer on eye-to-eye level with the people they are talking to. Similarly, see Dean Kamen's robotic wheelchair.
Just change your credit card number; report it as lost or stolen, your bank will do this for free. I had my identity stolen a couple years ago, and had a stupid Best Buy service contract for my phone which when I bought it they said I would get a loaner, then when I tried to use the service they said I couldn't. I kept planning to cancel it, but then when my card# was stolen and I got the replacement card, I just ignored their requests for payment, and am whole. I expect a similar thing is possible with Netflix/Verizon. Alternately, a membership to Pre-Paid Legal (now some other name, I think LegalShield) is about $27 per month depending on the state you live in, and they'll write one letter or make one phone call for any issue; a letter or phone call from an attorney generally tends to help a company cancel my accounts.:)
Hi, just wanted to report that the "News" link (on rh-technology.com) appears to loop back to whatever page you are currently on. If I hand-edit it to "news.html" in the URL bar, then I see the news page -- in other words, the page exists, just it's not being pointed to.
Loving the cynicism in your final sentence. No further consequences to the thieving employee, other than he loses a small portion of his (ill-gotten) income.
It's a sad commentary when good things come from parts of the system working at cross purposes, but it works.
I don't know; I see it as similar to a RAID array: every drive I purchase will fail, but by arranging my activities correctly, I will never lose data. Similarly, corruption may be present in all areas of government, but by arranging it just right it has made it more than 200 years. Current trends seem to indicate it won't make it to 300.
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Not only do I not collect stamps, I mush bash stamp collectors every chance I get whether or not it's stupid and offtopic. You're not only offtopic, you're redundant.
Just as I suspected: philately will get you nowhere.
Yep, that's the unknown filter theory of the paradox. Something drives advanced, technologically capable civilizations extinct, and we have no idea what that is. Which is scary, because it implies it might be something that could happen to us at any moment.
It could be that we're a simulation, running on a grad student's professor's computer. Once we achieve nanotechnology, that simulation will then need to resolve every atom, where before it might have just kept "table", "chair", "cat", etc. The singularity will cause the professor to lose computing power, who will then direct the grad student to end the simulation. Sure, it's just speculation, but I like the tragic aspect of it: our greatest hope for salvation becomes that which destroys us.
Yeah, it was a rather localized joke. (I just got some probiotics a few days ago, and began taking them this morning, so hopefully they will help in making my enjoyment of bacon an end-to-end experience...)
The Moon is just about the only item in that list which I can agree with as being "rare", and as you say, its influence is debatable.
For life to evolve, requires a changing environment. Without the moon's tidal effects, there would be a lot less dynamic events happening on the Earth. (I agree there still would be a magnetic field and plate tectonics; however, perhaps both of those were a result of the collision of pre-Earth and Theia which created the moon.)
Additionally, one effect the moon had when it was closer (it's moving away at a rate of 1.5 inches per year, we know thanks to the reflectors placed there in the 60s which scientists are bouncing a laser off, daily, since then) was that it sloshed the oceans around a lot more.
That sloshing brought nutrients from the land into the ocean (accounting for the salty taste), and allowed those nutrients to slam into each other, combining in different ways that ultimately led to life. As the moon receded, the sloshing was reduced, allowing the life that had evolved to better survive.
If I was to speculate, I would actually speculate the opposite of what I quoted above: I would imagine that every world that has evolved life has a moon.
Sounds like a good read. Robert L. Foward wrote "Dragon's Egg", a novel about creatures living on a neutron star. I recall it fondly, and should re-read it soon. As far as the moon's effect on Earth goes, I highly recommend "Cosmic Collisions" which was a Discovery show, and can be found on Netflix.
Affordable health care is a pipe dream. The more efficient healthcare becomes the more margin there is for profit. I liken it to the cost of gas...
Affordable health care is as close as your fingertips. (That's not the only way to do it, either; there are many energy healing modalities. Sure, a broken limb requires a split; however, most maladies you can cure yourself. We'd been doing just that for thousands of years, before the pill-pushers took over.)
Sometimes voicing dissent or complaining is both fun (for some) and useful (depending on who you voice it to).
I like the Spider Robinson quote that is similar: "Pain shared is diminished; joy shared is increased." A friend and I one day reduced/generalized it, in stages: "Communication tends to help"; then "Communication is helpful"; then "Communication helps"; and she finally ended it with a one-word, raising-fist-gesture, "Communicate!"
The world needs musicians and clothes designers and yes, managers and salesmen, as much as we need good scientists and engineers.
While I agree with you, I think the world actually needs more scientists and engineers than other professions. As much as "the world" needs anything; to finish the thought of what/why the world needs, the world needs this in order to plan for and survive the next asteroid strike, is where I'm thinking, and also to get off this rock and spread. Thinking perhaps too far into your comment, it reminds me of something my dad used to say, "the world needs ditch-diggers too"; my corollary is "but not that many..."
Maybe the answer, if you're good enough to do it, is to change teams and focus on the upscale customer who wants to pay a premium for something better?
Similar to, as Tom Lehrer introduced in a live album a song of his about doctors, his doctor friend who "specializes in diseases of the rich."
"Don't sell yourself short" -- but sell everyone else short? Someone who takes the initiative to improve themselves is worthless if they haven't had people working under them? You're a little silly. I've never built a telephone, but I can use one to be productive.
Absolutely agreed. One is constantly selling one's self. I read the book "How to Work a Room" recently; turns out, every room that you are in, you are "working", whether you know it or not. Great book, wish I had read it half my life ago.
The other response about "not creep out the HR lady" is also spot-on. As I've mentioned in previous posts, I cannot see from my left eye, which tends to be crossed. I have tended to make "body contact" because when I make eye contact, people think that there is danger approaching them from over their left shoulder. So, my vision drifts "down", trying to maintain contact with the person, even though I'm not maintaining contact with their eyes because that is ambiguous and sends the wrong signal. Unfortunately, making "body contact" to females appears as if I'm staring at their tits. I've had several failed interviews in the past which I thought I had (verbally) excelled at; it took some understanding until I realized that my eye(s) were the reason.
Confiscating all those is logistically impossible.
Well, our government at one point confiscated "all" the gold. So, I wouldn't say it's impossible; it's actually far more likely, as the government has a list of all phone users thanks to the NSA boxes hidden in all but Qwest. Gold detectors? I think the next collection effort will have a far higher percentage of success. Not that I'm hoping for it to happen.
Furthermore, I have censored my Ubuntu installation against Facebook, and all its data-collecting sites. From a previous discussion here, this is now my hosts list:
Development is almost always the last link in the chain and, as such, always the department under constant crunch time.
In my experience, QA is the last link in the chain; however, it is the Build team that gets crunched when development overruns. (And, as you pointed out, it's not always development's fault that they overrun.)
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Given the frequency and urgency that frequently comes with volume adjustment made the lack of volume control a deal breaker however.
I wonder, and I haven't read any of their marketing materials, but: perhaps they could spin the power button as a "hardware mute and pause button"? Still, I'd rather have the granularity of a volume control, than a binary all-or-nothing switch...
Yes, the latter [iPad] has been successful. So are high heeled shoes, which fail every objective test for the usefulness of a shoe. Just saying.
You missed one objective test: to put the wearer on eye-to-eye level with the people they are talking to. Similarly, see Dean Kamen's robotic wheelchair.
Just change your credit card number; report it as lost or stolen, your bank will do this for free. I had my identity stolen a couple years ago, and had a stupid Best Buy service contract for my phone which when I bought it they said I would get a loaner, then when I tried to use the service they said I couldn't. I kept planning to cancel it, but then when my card# was stolen and I got the replacement card, I just ignored their requests for payment, and am whole. I expect a similar thing is possible with Netflix/Verizon. Alternately, a membership to Pre-Paid Legal (now some other name, I think LegalShield) is about $27 per month depending on the state you live in, and they'll write one letter or make one phone call for any issue; a letter or phone call from an attorney generally tends to help a company cancel my accounts. :)
Hi, just wanted to report that the "News" link (on rh-technology.com) appears to loop back to whatever page you are currently on. If I hand-edit it to "news.html" in the URL bar, then I see the news page -- in other words, the page exists, just it's not being pointed to.
Loving the cynicism in your final sentence. No further consequences to the thieving employee, other than he loses a small portion of his (ill-gotten) income.
It's a sad commentary when good things come from parts of the system working at cross purposes, but it works.
I don't know; I see it as similar to a RAID array: every drive I purchase will fail, but by arranging my activities correctly, I will never lose data. Similarly, corruption may be present in all areas of government, but by arranging it just right it has made it more than 200 years. Current trends seem to indicate it won't make it to 300.
Nice.
Not only do I not collect stamps, I mush bash stamp collectors every chance I get whether or not it's stupid and offtopic. You're not only offtopic, you're redundant.
Just as I suspected: philately will get you nowhere.
Yep, that's the unknown filter theory of the paradox. Something drives advanced, technologically capable civilizations extinct, and we have no idea what that is. Which is scary, because it implies it might be something that could happen to us at any moment.
It could be that we're a simulation, running on a grad student's professor's computer. Once we achieve nanotechnology, that simulation will then need to resolve every atom, where before it might have just kept "table", "chair", "cat", etc. The singularity will cause the professor to lose computing power, who will then direct the grad student to end the simulation. Sure, it's just speculation, but I like the tragic aspect of it: our greatest hope for salvation becomes that which destroys us.
Yeah, it was a rather localized joke. (I just got some probiotics a few days ago, and began taking them this morning, so hopefully they will help in making my enjoyment of bacon an end-to-end experience...)
The Moon is just about the only item in that list which I can agree with as being "rare", and as you say, its influence is debatable.
For life to evolve, requires a changing environment. Without the moon's tidal effects, there would be a lot less dynamic events happening on the Earth. (I agree there still would be a magnetic field and plate tectonics; however, perhaps both of those were a result of the collision of pre-Earth and Theia which created the moon.)
Additionally, one effect the moon had when it was closer (it's moving away at a rate of 1.5 inches per year, we know thanks to the reflectors placed there in the 60s which scientists are bouncing a laser off, daily, since then) was that it sloshed the oceans around a lot more.
That sloshing brought nutrients from the land into the ocean (accounting for the salty taste), and allowed those nutrients to slam into each other, combining in different ways that ultimately led to life. As the moon receded, the sloshing was reduced, allowing the life that had evolved to better survive.
If I was to speculate, I would actually speculate the opposite of what I quoted above: I would imagine that every world that has evolved life has a moon.
Sounds like a good read. Robert L. Foward wrote "Dragon's Egg", a novel about creatures living on a neutron star. I recall it fondly, and should re-read it soon. As far as the moon's effect on Earth goes, I highly recommend "Cosmic Collisions" which was a Discovery show, and can be found on Netflix.
Affordable health care is a pipe dream. The more efficient healthcare becomes the more margin there is for profit. I liken it to the cost of gas...
Affordable health care is as close as your fingertips. (That's not the only way to do it, either; there are many energy healing modalities. Sure, a broken limb requires a split; however, most maladies you can cure yourself. We'd been doing just that for thousands of years, before the pill-pushers took over.)
"Bacon_run" is what you get shortly after eating, if it's undercooked.
Sometimes voicing dissent or complaining is both fun (for some) and useful (depending on who you voice it to).
I like the Spider Robinson quote that is similar: "Pain shared is diminished; joy shared is increased." A friend and I one day reduced/generalized it, in stages: "Communication tends to help"; then "Communication is helpful"; then "Communication helps"; and she finally ended it with a one-word, raising-fist-gesture, "Communicate!"
Plus, with the radio telescope tuned to the correct frequency, you can hear Mars Needs Women, in the original.
The world needs musicians and clothes designers and yes, managers and salesmen, as much as we need good scientists and engineers.
While I agree with you, I think the world actually needs more scientists and engineers than other professions. As much as "the world" needs anything; to finish the thought of what/why the world needs, the world needs this in order to plan for and survive the next asteroid strike, is where I'm thinking, and also to get off this rock and spread. Thinking perhaps too far into your comment, it reminds me of something my dad used to say, "the world needs ditch-diggers too"; my corollary is "but not that many..."
Maybe the answer, if you're good enough to do it, is to change teams and focus on the upscale customer who wants to pay a premium for something better?
Similar to, as Tom Lehrer introduced in a live album a song of his about doctors, his doctor friend who "specializes in diseases of the rich."
"Don't sell yourself short" -- but sell everyone else short? Someone who takes the initiative to improve themselves is worthless if they haven't had people working under them? You're a little silly. I've never built a telephone, but I can use one to be productive.
Your signature wraps the whole thing up. Well said. I'd rather purchase technology that looks like magic, than magic that looks like technology.
To sell things, you must first sell yourself.
Absolutely agreed. One is constantly selling one's self. I read the book "How to Work a Room" recently; turns out, every room that you are in, you are "working", whether you know it or not. Great book, wish I had read it half my life ago.
The other response about "not creep out the HR lady" is also spot-on. As I've mentioned in previous posts, I cannot see from my left eye, which tends to be crossed. I have tended to make "body contact" because when I make eye contact, people think that there is danger approaching them from over their left shoulder. So, my vision drifts "down", trying to maintain contact with the person, even though I'm not maintaining contact with their eyes because that is ambiguous and sends the wrong signal. Unfortunately, making "body contact" to females appears as if I'm staring at their tits. I've had several failed interviews in the past which I thought I had (verbally) excelled at; it took some understanding until I realized that my eye(s) were the reason.
Confiscating all those is logistically impossible.
Well, our government at one point confiscated "all" the gold. So, I wouldn't say it's impossible; it's actually far more likely, as the government has a list of all phone users thanks to the NSA boxes hidden in all but Qwest. Gold detectors? I think the next collection effort will have a far higher percentage of success. Not that I'm hoping for it to happen.
Furthermore, I have censored my Ubuntu installation against Facebook, and all its data-collecting sites. From a previous discussion here, this is now my hosts list:
Please, feel free to add to this if there are more out there -- both to help me, and other readers. Thanks.
+1, Onion Blades. (Ginsu?)
Development is almost always the last link in the chain and, as such, always the department under constant crunch time.
In my experience, QA is the last link in the chain; however, it is the Build team that gets crunched when development overruns. (And, as you pointed out, it's not always development's fault that they overrun.)