It's only pleasant if time really isn't a factor. It's great if you just want to treat the journey as part of the trip, rather than just the destination. One of the downsides is freight traffic seems to get some sort of priority. On one trip, excessive freight traffic added 4 hours to the journey. I was fine with it since I was in the observation car with 3G and a power outlet, but I can see how other people could find that frustrating.
For me the big culprit was Pittsburgh International. It's about 30 minutes out from downtown Pittsburgh, which means either take the bus, which will take an hour, or take a cab, which will cost a fortune.
Thing dingbat that decided to roast his chestnuts was not an Arab.
That's racial profiling, and you're right, it does not work. Too many false positives, and overly susceptible to false negatives. What does work is behavioral profiling, and it seems to me the main reason it's not being used is that people (like you just have) confuse the two and assume all profiling is bad!
Yeah, probably. I mean, it all depends on how often this needs to be done. If I'm doing that trip every week, obviously the time spent on a train/driving would really start to add up. But these days if I have to go to a conference once or twice a year I'll opt for the train. I can get a lot of work done in my sleeper room anyway.
Also it's not that much more expensive. Cheapest round trip flight I can find from Philadelphia to Seattle on Orbitz is $624. Cheapest round trip for Amtrak is $857. So $233 more for a train, or about 40% more. If you get a sleeper it is more, but then again you get all your meals free.
Perhaps if I had a wife and kids I wanted to see, you're probably right. At this time in my life I'm more concerned about my leg room and free apple juice, however.
Me, although not an 8 hour drive but an 8 hour train ride. I used to travel from Pittsburgh to Philadelphia a lot. The plane trip is ~30 minutes, while the train ride is about 6-7 hours. With all the BS in the terminal, and traffic at the airport, the plane ride turned into a ~4 hour affair. The seats are cramped, there were no outlets, not much of a view, especially sitting in the aisle.
On the train, the seats go almost all the way back, I can get up and walk around, there are outlets at every seat, there's a viewing car I can sit in and watch the countryside go by, a movie car, a dining car, and I can even get a private room with a fold out bed if I want. And hey, if you're a smoker you can light up a cigg at every stop! Sure it costs a little more but my god it's worth it, and this was before the days of full body scanners. Now... my god I'd never fly unless I was absolutely forced to.
Huh, when I read the headline I assumed the CAD files for the housing, electronics, etc would all be available. Looking closer it seems like you're right, which is a little disappointing (although not much since I'd never build one of these anyway).
If you're lumping Diablo in the category of "Adventure" I'm curious as to your idea of the genre. When I think of adventure, I think of the old Sierra series (Kings Quest, Space Quest, Shivers, Phantasmagoria) or games like Myst, Syberia, Still Life, etc. I never played this Fate game, but looking at screen shots the genre you're looking for is "Action Adventure"
No I'm not. The article notes that professionals in telecom and IT are left out from getting a Nobel Prize. I don't think of professionals in IT as scientists. A researcher at a company that does IT and telecom maybe (Bell Labs comes to mind), but "IT professional" makes me think of Larry the sysadmin lamenting that he'll never get a Nobel Prize.
Isn't the Nobel prize for scientists? I guess aside from the Nobel Peace and Literature Prizes. I guess I just can't imagine anything in the IT field being Nobel Prize worthy. Should my electrician or my lawyer also be miffed he's not getting a Nobel Prize?
To be fair, Hilter wasn't really elected. His rise to power was pretty (evil) genius, in an senator Palpatine kind of way, and not something I would expect from the Sarah Palin Bus Tour.
Granted I've never used the Linux client, but the Windows client has only been getting worse and worse. It's pretty much the definition of bloat, consuming 100MB RAM currently and not being any more capable than I remember 3 versions ago.
Exactly. Slashdotters seem to have an irrational fear against anything touched by MS, and feel dirty having the client even on their machine. For the rest of us, we don't give a damn who owns the company as long as the service works.
I think at first they were against it, but after they saw how it was taking off they decided to ride the PR wave.
In the case of Skype, it benefits from network effects; as more people use it, more people want to use it. So if MS ultimately doesn't want to spend resources to support a small userbase like Linux, maybe it would be beneficial for them to let a minority of people access the service through an unauthorized third party.
I believe the Windows Mobile 7 interface requires multi-touch gestures in areas. And Windows 7 touch uses multi-touch gestures. Your mouse can't replicate multi-touch.
Windows Phone 7 can handle multi touch gestures, but using the device is single touch (tap, tap hold, drag). Windows 7 has a variety of multi touch gestures (2 finger pan, rotate, pinch) but also other single touch gestures they call "flicks"
Xbox features the metro UI. That said I don't think the reason Zune never took off was because of the UI. Lack of marketing, US only markplace, limited international availability, competition with the most popular MP3 player on the planet, and a shift away from MP3 players toward phones all contributed more heavily. I know it's selection bias to say everyone who owns a Zune loves it, but iPod users I've shown my Zune to had 0 complaints about the UI and were very impressed by it.
As for Windows Phone 7, it too has stiff competition and is entering the race later than the other players. Again, general concerns are missing features, lack of international availability, and US centric marketplace. A lot of this is changing with the mango release. Remenber, this platform is only 7 months old. Android was nothing to write home about at the same age.
I think in general what I've found is positive feedback from people who have actually used a metro UI, trepidation from people who have only seen pictures (since part of the draw of the UI is how kinetic it is), and dislike from people who are predisposed to dislike anything from MS anyway.
So, apparently according to the WHO, DDT is as carcinogenic as coffee.
FTFY. Of course DDT is more dangerous than coffee, but it's not more carcinogenic. Sure a bullet to the brain isn't going to give you cancer, but I sure as hell would like to avoid that at all costs.
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It's only pleasant if time really isn't a factor. It's great if you just want to treat the journey as part of the trip, rather than just the destination. One of the downsides is freight traffic seems to get some sort of priority. On one trip, excessive freight traffic added 4 hours to the journey. I was fine with it since I was in the observation car with 3G and a power outlet, but I can see how other people could find that frustrating.
For me the big culprit was Pittsburgh International. It's about 30 minutes out from downtown Pittsburgh, which means either take the bus, which will take an hour, or take a cab, which will cost a fortune.
Will they still not allow my modded PSP because it's see-through and the sight of electronics scares the shit out of them?
Does this go with a story? Would love to hear it.
Thing dingbat that decided to roast his chestnuts was not an Arab.
That's racial profiling, and you're right, it does not work. Too many false positives, and overly susceptible to false negatives. What does work is behavioral profiling, and it seems to me the main reason it's not being used is that people (like you just have) confuse the two and assume all profiling is bad!
Yeah, probably. I mean, it all depends on how often this needs to be done. If I'm doing that trip every week, obviously the time spent on a train/driving would really start to add up. But these days if I have to go to a conference once or twice a year I'll opt for the train. I can get a lot of work done in my sleeper room anyway.
Also it's not that much more expensive. Cheapest round trip flight I can find from Philadelphia to Seattle on Orbitz is $624. Cheapest round trip for Amtrak is $857. So $233 more for a train, or about 40% more. If you get a sleeper it is more, but then again you get all your meals free.
Perhaps if I had a wife and kids I wanted to see, you're probably right. At this time in my life I'm more concerned about my leg room and free apple juice, however.
Me, although not an 8 hour drive but an 8 hour train ride. I used to travel from Pittsburgh to Philadelphia a lot. The plane trip is ~30 minutes, while the train ride is about 6-7 hours. With all the BS in the terminal, and traffic at the airport, the plane ride turned into a ~4 hour affair. The seats are cramped, there were no outlets, not much of a view, especially sitting in the aisle.
On the train, the seats go almost all the way back, I can get up and walk around, there are outlets at every seat, there's a viewing car I can sit in and watch the countryside go by, a movie car, a dining car, and I can even get a private room with a fold out bed if I want. And hey, if you're a smoker you can light up a cigg at every stop! Sure it costs a little more but my god it's worth it, and this was before the days of full body scanners. Now... my god I'd never fly unless I was absolutely forced to.
Hooray!
Huh, when I read the headline I assumed the CAD files for the housing, electronics, etc would all be available. Looking closer it seems like you're right, which is a little disappointing (although not much since I'd never build one of these anyway).
I meant using it as the hilt for a sword. What were you thinking?
Well one that looks like this, I can think of a couple uses for it...
FTFA: "Both companies target China as a market for their products rather than as a place to make goods cheaply for export."
If you're lumping Diablo in the category of "Adventure" I'm curious as to your idea of the genre. When I think of adventure, I think of the old Sierra series (Kings Quest, Space Quest, Shivers, Phantasmagoria) or games like Myst, Syberia, Still Life, etc. I never played this Fate game, but looking at screen shots the genre you're looking for is "Action Adventure"
No I'm not. The article notes that professionals in telecom and IT are left out from getting a Nobel Prize. I don't think of professionals in IT as scientists. A researcher at a company that does IT and telecom maybe (Bell Labs comes to mind), but "IT professional" makes me think of Larry the sysadmin lamenting that he'll never get a Nobel Prize.
There is no mathematics prize. Closest you get to math is physics.
Isn't the Nobel prize for scientists? I guess aside from the Nobel Peace and Literature Prizes. I guess I just can't imagine anything in the IT field being Nobel Prize worthy. Should my electrician or my lawyer also be miffed he's not getting a Nobel Prize?
To be fair, Hilter wasn't really elected. His rise to power was pretty (evil) genius, in an senator Palpatine kind of way, and not something I would expect from the Sarah Palin Bus Tour.
Granted I've never used the Linux client, but the Windows client has only been getting worse and worse. It's pretty much the definition of bloat, consuming 100MB RAM currently and not being any more capable than I remember 3 versions ago.
Exactly. Slashdotters seem to have an irrational fear against anything touched by MS, and feel dirty having the client even on their machine. For the rest of us, we don't give a damn who owns the company as long as the service works.
I think at first they were against it, but after they saw how it was taking off they decided to ride the PR wave.
In the case of Skype, it benefits from network effects; as more people use it, more people want to use it. So if MS ultimately doesn't want to spend resources to support a small userbase like Linux, maybe it would be beneficial for them to let a minority of people access the service through an unauthorized third party.
I believe the Windows Mobile 7 interface requires multi-touch gestures in areas. And Windows 7 touch uses multi-touch gestures. Your mouse can't replicate multi-touch.
Windows Phone 7 can handle multi touch gestures, but using the device is single touch (tap, tap hold, drag). Windows 7 has a variety of multi touch gestures (2 finger pan, rotate, pinch) but also other single touch gestures they call "flicks"
Xbox features the metro UI. That said I don't think the reason Zune never took off was because of the UI. Lack of marketing, US only markplace, limited international availability, competition with the most popular MP3 player on the planet, and a shift away from MP3 players toward phones all contributed more heavily. I know it's selection bias to say everyone who owns a Zune loves it, but iPod users I've shown my Zune to had 0 complaints about the UI and were very impressed by it.
As for Windows Phone 7, it too has stiff competition and is entering the race later than the other players. Again, general concerns are missing features, lack of international availability, and US centric marketplace. A lot of this is changing with the mango release. Remenber, this platform is only 7 months old. Android was nothing to write home about at the same age.
I think in general what I've found is positive feedback from people who have actually used a metro UI, trepidation from people who have only seen pictures (since part of the draw of the UI is how kinetic it is), and dislike from people who are predisposed to dislike anything from MS anyway.
So, apparently according to the WHO, DDT is as carcinogenic as coffee.
FTFY. Of course DDT is more dangerous than coffee, but it's not more carcinogenic. Sure a bullet to the brain isn't going to give you cancer, but I sure as hell would like to avoid that at all costs.
Just took a look at their website. They need to hire a designer, asap.
Apple still had a HUGE warchest of money (close to a billion) - that $150M was barely a drop in the bucket.
They had $1.2b, but I don't see how a 13% increase in that can be considered a "drop"