I think we had a reasonably good middle ground. Pre-9/11 you went through the metal detector and if you were carrying a gun or large knife you couldn't take it on the plane. Add in reinforcing the cockpit door and you have a solution that would still be reasonable today. Metal detectors for people and x-rays for luggage are both fast and reasonable given that guns on airplanes are a really bad idea. The security people didn't care who you were, you could accompany friends right up to the gate and it was the airline's responsibility not to let extra people on the plane. But then we wouldn't really need the TSA and we couldn't possible cut any budget area that's for our 'security', right?
Some levels you could destroy just about anything, some levels were pretty much indestructible. It was still better than most games where you shoot a window with a rocket launcher and the window survives.
Very true, but if I have to call every month it's also a whole lot of hours of my life that I could be doing anything other than talking to a CSR that barely speaks English and is just trying to get rid of me as quickly as possible without giving me anything. A few grand over my life time really isn't all that significant to me.
Time machine at my house backs up onto a windows share. It was painful to set up (although there are tutorials online), but works fine once it gets going.
Thing is, if it's just a buck or two per month it's really not worth my time to wait on hold for an hour to get it fixed. Especially since I'll have to wait, get escalated, wait again, get denied and ask for a supervisor, wait again, and then maybe get my $2 back. I can find better ways to get that money in that time.
Controlling interest != owns. Hell, he isn't even on the board any more since he has a conflict of interest being in charge of Apple. He also doesn't own 10%, he owns about 7%. To put that into perspective, Gates still owns around 10% of MS, would you say Bill still owns Microsoft?
In rush hour what city are you in that traffic moves quickly enough that a bike couldn't keep up? For enough room to be safe you need to be partly into the next lane to pass a bike anyway (unless you have bike lanes or really wide lanes), so why not force you to actually change lanes so you aren't just drifting into a lane that someone else is using?
Don't know about your laws, but where I am it's perfectly legal for a bike to be on the street, other than major highways. You are no speed minimums here, so they're just another vehicle. In fact there's a campaign now for bikes to ride in the center of the lane to force cars to actually change lanes to pass because of the number of cyclists killed by drivers who don't know where there car is and try to pass without changing lanes.
Wal-mart only has to worry about places they have a store - they don't care where the customers come from or places where counties are divided on a street so even number addresses are in one county and odd numbers are in a different one. They have a big list somewhere of all the counties they have a store in and they just watch those areas for tax changes. This is very different from trying to figure out what tax to charge someone when all I know about their address is a PO box...
Depends on how you mean that. In the case of SS I expect the money to be invested in ways that get slightly better than inflation, so yes, in pure dollar terms it should be reasonable to get 3 times back what you put in if you contribute over 40 or more years. Adjusted for inflation not so much, but SS is an investment more than a savings account.
And if it isn't they'll pester you until it is. I had a bit too much in the lounge waiting for a delayed flight once, and the flight attendant checked quite a few times to make sure I knew the drink was complimentary and was I sure I just wanted coke? I guess not many people flying first class need to drive themselves home from the airport when they land:)
Quit thinking of JS as object-oriented. Just stop. Yes, it has some OO cludges, and it can kinda-sorta-not-really do objects, but it's much closer to a functional language.
Sure you can, Google does it quite well. Adds are automatically chosen based on what they know about you, marketers give Google adds, and Google decides who sees which adds. More money means more people see it. It seems to work quite well.
It would be really, really hard to write a law that can determine if I've actually forgotten a password or not. Or would your 'clarifications' make it illegal to forget a password?
I learned to drive on a standard, and I never figured out why people think it makes you pay more attention. It takes longer to learn properly, yes no question, but once you really know it it's all unconscious. I learned on a vehicle without a tachometer (82 Datsun pickup), you listened to the engine and felt how responsive the gas was to figure out when to shift. When I drive standard now it's no different than automatic for me. My hands and feet know what to do and I can pretty much ignore the car as much as I can in an automatic once I figure out where everything is.
So now 'deleted' = 'read'? What kind of an idiot idea is that? Set up folders and filters that make sense for what you're doing, use schemes that work for you. Just like if you had an actual filing system. And if you're high enough up, make sure to fire any admin who suggests that exchange should cap each user at some arbitrary account size. Space is cheap. Managing space isn't much more expensive.
Actually the spam to my gmail has dropped by about 2 orders of magnitude in the past couple years. I used to get about 10k per month, now I'm down to a couple hundred per month. I don't know if Google is just dropping the really obvious spam before it gets to the account, or if there's actually less spam, but I certainly see less. Combine that with the fact that the gmail filter has been running at 100% correct for close to a year now and I would say we have beaten spam. It is no longer an issue.
The Cessna might actually break some windows, these things are probably closer to the DA20 in weight, so they may scratch the glass a bit if you fly them into a building,
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I think we had a reasonably good middle ground. Pre-9/11 you went through the metal detector and if you were carrying a gun or large knife you couldn't take it on the plane. Add in reinforcing the cockpit door and you have a solution that would still be reasonable today. Metal detectors for people and x-rays for luggage are both fast and reasonable given that guns on airplanes are a really bad idea. The security people didn't care who you were, you could accompany friends right up to the gate and it was the airline's responsibility not to let extra people on the plane. But then we wouldn't really need the TSA and we couldn't possible cut any budget area that's for our 'security', right?
Some levels you could destroy just about anything, some levels were pretty much indestructible. It was still better than most games where you shoot a window with a rocket launcher and the window survives.
Very true, but if I have to call every month it's also a whole lot of hours of my life that I could be doing anything other than talking to a CSR that barely speaks English and is just trying to get rid of me as quickly as possible without giving me anything. A few grand over my life time really isn't all that significant to me.
2G is EDGE, the specification for which does not allow for simultaneous voice and data IIRC.
Time machine at my house backs up onto a windows share. It was painful to set up (although there are tutorials online), but works fine once it gets going.
In my experience it's the cell phone that racks up mystery charges more than the land line.
Thing is, if it's just a buck or two per month it's really not worth my time to wait on hold for an hour to get it fixed. Especially since I'll have to wait, get escalated, wait again, get denied and ask for a supervisor, wait again, and then maybe get my $2 back. I can find better ways to get that money in that time.
I was kinda thinking that half of that was probably me alone. I should ask them to give it back.
Controlling interest != owns. Hell, he isn't even on the board any more since he has a conflict of interest being in charge of Apple. He also doesn't own 10%, he owns about 7%. To put that into perspective, Gates still owns around 10% of MS, would you say Bill still owns Microsoft?
In rush hour what city are you in that traffic moves quickly enough that a bike couldn't keep up? For enough room to be safe you need to be partly into the next lane to pass a bike anyway (unless you have bike lanes or really wide lanes), so why not force you to actually change lanes so you aren't just drifting into a lane that someone else is using?
Don't know about your laws, but where I am it's perfectly legal for a bike to be on the street, other than major highways. You are no speed minimums here, so they're just another vehicle. In fact there's a campaign now for bikes to ride in the center of the lane to force cars to actually change lanes to pass because of the number of cyclists killed by drivers who don't know where there car is and try to pass without changing lanes.
He's the biggest single shareholder of Disney, but he's a long way form owning the 51% it would require to really say he owns it.
Wal-mart only has to worry about places they have a store - they don't care where the customers come from or places where counties are divided on a street so even number addresses are in one county and odd numbers are in a different one. They have a big list somewhere of all the counties they have a store in and they just watch those areas for tax changes. This is very different from trying to figure out what tax to charge someone when all I know about their address is a PO box...
First time parent, and too young to remember when mercury wasn't scary.
Depends on how you mean that. In the case of SS I expect the money to be invested in ways that get slightly better than inflation, so yes, in pure dollar terms it should be reasonable to get 3 times back what you put in if you contribute over 40 or more years. Adjusted for inflation not so much, but SS is an investment more than a savings account.
And if it isn't they'll pester you until it is. I had a bit too much in the lounge waiting for a delayed flight once, and the flight attendant checked quite a few times to make sure I knew the drink was complimentary and was I sure I just wanted coke? I guess not many people flying first class need to drive themselves home from the airport when they land :)
Quit thinking of JS as object-oriented. Just stop. Yes, it has some OO cludges, and it can kinda-sorta-not-really do objects, but it's much closer to a functional language.
Sure you can, Google does it quite well. Adds are automatically chosen based on what they know about you, marketers give Google adds, and Google decides who sees which adds. More money means more people see it. It seems to work quite well.
It would be really, really hard to write a law that can determine if I've actually forgotten a password or not. Or would your 'clarifications' make it illegal to forget a password?
I learned to drive on a standard, and I never figured out why people think it makes you pay more attention. It takes longer to learn properly, yes no question, but once you really know it it's all unconscious. I learned on a vehicle without a tachometer (82 Datsun pickup), you listened to the engine and felt how responsive the gas was to figure out when to shift. When I drive standard now it's no different than automatic for me. My hands and feet know what to do and I can pretty much ignore the car as much as I can in an automatic once I figure out where everything is.
How about tidal?
So now 'deleted' = 'read'? What kind of an idiot idea is that? Set up folders and filters that make sense for what you're doing, use schemes that work for you. Just like if you had an actual filing system. And if you're high enough up, make sure to fire any admin who suggests that exchange should cap each user at some arbitrary account size. Space is cheap. Managing space isn't much more expensive.
Actually the spam to my gmail has dropped by about 2 orders of magnitude in the past couple years. I used to get about 10k per month, now I'm down to a couple hundred per month. I don't know if Google is just dropping the really obvious spam before it gets to the account, or if there's actually less spam, but I certainly see less. Combine that with the fact that the gmail filter has been running at 100% correct for close to a year now and I would say we have beaten spam. It is no longer an issue.
The Cessna might actually break some windows, these things are probably closer to the DA20 in weight, so they may scratch the glass a bit if you fly them into a building,
And when you land at a different airport you'll no longer have to figure out where to put your plane and pay a taxi to get you somewhere useful.