Am I the only one that's relieved that for once, facebook announced a way to make money that does not involve selling or abusing peoples personal data?
civil war - A war between citizens of the same country.
Al-qaeda affiliated terrorists or not as long as the vast majority of rebels are Syrian citizens, which they are, than its a civil war
Everyone assumes that this was done deliberately but Syria is in the middle of a civil war and technical problems could be just as likely. I imagine router replacement parts would be hard to come by at the very least.
If you simply uninstall all so called "windows look and feel" more commonly known as metroUI applications, than the start screen becomes essentially a start menu.
This goes a long way to making windows 8 usable on a non tablet system (touchscreens on desktops or even laptops are pretty much a novelty as the combination of keyboard mouse/track-pad makes for a much more capable input device) but it doesn't cure all ills. Microsoft made all kinds of trade-offs to make a supposedly unified UI, One that particularly annoys me is the inability to rearrange the order of wireless networks. I am no stranger to the command line but it seems rather nonsensical to make something as simple as reordering wireless networks impossible from the gui.
Most people know that taking too much Tylenol is dangerous but very few understand that McNeil, the company behind Tylenol, is just selling overpriced acetaminophen.
I wish journalists would stop including the mandatory bit about how this might lead to such and such practical applications when reporting on scientific discoveries.
Knowledge is worth pursuing even if it doesn't lead to any practical applications.
Depression is a mental illness and we must be very careful as belief can be a double edged sword in this situation. As you described it can be a positive influence but
unfortunately when mentally-ill people take it upon themselves to decide whats "gods purpose" for them is, the consequences are often tragic.
People are so worried about how long they have to live and what will happen to them after death that they forget to enjoy the life they have.
A close relative was diagnosed with low grade lymphoma a few months ago (manageable but unfortunately uncurable ) and she wander why I took such a devastating diagnosis to open her eye to the happiness of everyday life. "I don’t take life for granted anymore. I learned to live in the moment. I also realized that when I live in the present moment, life is wonderful" she said to me. It sounded like a frigging cliche but she seems happier than she has ever been.
Perhaps we are just wired to constantly worry and its only when faced with the prospect of death that we realize how futile an effort it is.
"'It's a deal with the devil,' one studio executive" [said]. I agree with that, but I would say the devil is the MPAA and the studio executives not Bittorrent.
Unfortunately being better informed doesn't necessarily makes us smarter. We are just as susceptible to the misuse of knowledge as our ancestors were, if not more so.
And we know that guns are even more commonly used for suicide; suicide is NOT inelastic to supply of convenient suicide methods, and we know this because the suicide rate in England went down dramatically when they got rid of town gas (i.e. partially burned coal containing high levels of carbon monoxide used as fuel in ovens and such, a very convenient suicide method).
Prevent suicides by making it unaffordable for people to conveniently kill themselves. Now that is a real winner for society. We can take solace in our belief that we have done all that we can to prevent suicides and we can avoid all those unconformable discussions about the role that mental illness and social injustice play in people that act against their most basic instinct.
Most manufacturers sold unlocked phones and you could by directly from them. Problem was that it didn't make much financial sense. Until recently (t-mobile which is the smallest of the nationwide carrier switched to a no contracts policy recently) Using a phone without a contract meant you were paying much higher rates so you were essentially forced into a contract. Since you were signing up for a contract it made sense to simply buy the handset at a discount from the carrier rather than paying full price for a unlocked one.
Each carrier uses different frequencies. The majority of phones in the USA are sold by the carriers rather than the manufacturer, which they then sell to the user for a steep discount in exchange for signing up for a multi-year contract. Because it is the carriers rather than the end user who is making the actual purchase from the manufacturer, they typically ask them to do things like place sim-card restrictions and drop support for frequencies they do not use.
According to Google’s Andy Rubin, the reason Google didn't include LTE support on the Nexus 4 was because “A lot of the networks that have deployed LTE haven’t scaled completely yet — they’re hybrid networks [...] which means the devices need both radios built into them [] When we did the Galaxy Nexus with LTE we had to do just that, and it just wasn’t a great user experience.”
Whatever the reasons, after getting skewered for the decision, Google is backtracking and seems poised to release a LTE Nexus 4 sometime next month.
I can sort of understand their reasoning. Letting your enemies know that your Air Force management is so inept they can't even keep their hardware maintained properly, would have been a huge blow to the perceived strength of U.S.A's military might.
News networks don't reports news. What they do is 24/7 real life drama. If they simply changed the "news" on their labels to "reality TV" all the issues would be solved.
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Am I the only one that's relieved that for once, facebook announced a way to make money that does not involve selling or abusing peoples personal data?
civil war - A war between citizens of the same country. Al-qaeda affiliated terrorists or not as long as the vast majority of rebels are Syrian citizens, which they are, than its a civil war
Drosophila melanogaster is commonly known as the fruit fly. Its brain has about 100,000 neurons. The human brain avarages 85,000,000,000.
Everyone assumes that this was done deliberately but Syria is in the middle of a civil war and technical problems could be just as likely. I imagine router replacement parts would be hard to come by at the very least.
If you simply uninstall all so called "windows look and feel" more commonly known as metroUI applications, than the start screen becomes essentially a start menu. This goes a long way to making windows 8 usable on a non tablet system (touchscreens on desktops or even laptops are pretty much a novelty as the combination of keyboard mouse/track-pad makes for a much more capable input device) but it doesn't cure all ills. Microsoft made all kinds of trade-offs to make a supposedly unified UI, One that particularly annoys me is the inability to rearrange the order of wireless networks. I am no stranger to the command line but it seems rather nonsensical to make something as simple as reordering wireless networks impossible from the gui.
Most people know that taking too much Tylenol is dangerous but very few understand that McNeil, the company behind Tylenol, is just selling overpriced acetaminophen.
There is a more in-depth article, titled "Experiencing existential dread? Tylenol may do the trick" and dated April 16, on the medicalexpress website. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-experiencing-existential-dread-tylenol.html
I wish journalists would stop including the mandatory bit about how this might lead to such and such practical applications when reporting on scientific discoveries. Knowledge is worth pursuing even if it doesn't lead to any practical applications.
Depression is a mental illness and we must be very careful as belief can be a double edged sword in this situation. As you described it can be a positive influence but unfortunately when mentally-ill people take it upon themselves to decide whats "gods purpose" for them is, the consequences are often tragic.
People are so worried about how long they have to live and what will happen to them after death that they forget to enjoy the life they have. A close relative was diagnosed with low grade lymphoma a few months ago (manageable but unfortunately uncurable ) and she wander why I took such a devastating diagnosis to open her eye to the happiness of everyday life. "I don’t take life for granted anymore. I learned to live in the moment. I also realized that when I live in the present moment, life is wonderful" she said to me. It sounded like a frigging cliche but she seems happier than she has ever been. Perhaps we are just wired to constantly worry and its only when faced with the prospect of death that we realize how futile an effort it is.
"'It's a deal with the devil,' one studio executive" [said]. I agree with that, but I would say the devil is the MPAA and the studio executives not Bittorrent.
Unfortunately being better informed doesn't necessarily makes us smarter. We are just as susceptible to the misuse of knowledge as our ancestors were, if not more so.
I am not worried about performance data. What worries me is the 10 seconds of driver actions recorded and kept by government mandate.
All this data come from car's on board computer. In case you didn't know. Your car is spying on you!
Most of EU gm imports are grains for animal feed. If farmers were forced to raise their livestock with non-gm crops, prices would skyrocket.
And we know that guns are even more commonly used for suicide; suicide is NOT inelastic to supply of convenient suicide methods, and we know this because the suicide rate in England went down dramatically when they got rid of town gas (i.e. partially burned coal containing high levels of carbon monoxide used as fuel in ovens and such, a very convenient suicide method).
Prevent suicides by making it unaffordable for people to conveniently kill themselves. Now that is a real winner for society. We can take solace in our belief that we have done all that we can to prevent suicides and we can avoid all those unconformable discussions about the role that mental illness and social injustice play in people that act against their most basic instinct.
Most manufacturers sold unlocked phones and you could by directly from them. Problem was that it didn't make much financial sense. Until recently (t-mobile which is the smallest of the nationwide carrier switched to a no contracts policy recently) Using a phone without a contract meant you were paying much higher rates so you were essentially forced into a contract. Since you were signing up for a contract it made sense to simply buy the handset at a discount from the carrier rather than paying full price for a unlocked one.
Each carrier uses different frequencies. The majority of phones in the USA are sold by the carriers rather than the manufacturer, which they then sell to the user for a steep discount in exchange for signing up for a multi-year contract. Because it is the carriers rather than the end user who is making the actual purchase from the manufacturer, they typically ask them to do things like place sim-card restrictions and drop support for frequencies they do not use.
According to Google’s Andy Rubin, the reason Google didn't include LTE support on the Nexus 4 was because “A lot of the networks that have deployed LTE haven’t scaled completely yet — they’re hybrid networks [...] which means the devices need both radios built into them [] When we did the Galaxy Nexus with LTE we had to do just that, and it just wasn’t a great user experience.” Whatever the reasons, after getting skewered for the decision, Google is backtracking and seems poised to release a LTE Nexus 4 sometime next month.
The idea is to limit their freedom of movement, especially in and out of the country.
I can sort of understand their reasoning. Letting your enemies know that your Air Force management is so inept they can't even keep their hardware maintained properly, would have been a huge blow to the perceived strength of U.S.A's military might.
News networks don't reports news. What they do is 24/7 real life drama. If they simply changed the "news" on their labels to "reality TV" all the issues would be solved.
Some should inform him of where the food we eat come from!
The CEO of EA just get fired because of EA's poor performance. It seems that people will not keep buying EA software no matter what, after all!
I agree! For a 100mil we could get 2/3 of a F22. Think about it for a minute, in 10 years we could add another 6 to the 187 we already have.