All of my relatives' houses that I was able to view in Street View were taken at times they were away at work (no cars in the drive, etc). So, the subject of the photos are inanimate objects (house, basketball hoop, mailbox, etc). They do not think, therefore they are freely subjectable to photographing.
Taking bribes, cooking the books, etc are all illegal. People caught doing it get sent to prison. What, do you want to make it illegaler?
Go ahead, nationalize banks, prisons, whatever. Some one will figure out the system and find a way to skim some money for them self. Instead of a prison company doing the bribing, it'll be the toilet paper supplier. More people in prison, more pooping that goes on, profit! Government does not save you from any similar corruption.
This is Slashdot. People here will claim to know the difference between every possible combination of audio/video codecs, file format, bitrate, etc. And my silent FLAC collection is way more clear than my neighbor's crappy 128kb MP3 silent audio files. I can hear the silence WAY, WAY better.
This same "argument" comes up with every Google story on here. I really want to know just how many companies are out there that have this super-secret information that they turn over to some Web 2.0 company?
Then again, it's probably just another Slashdot meme with no basis in reality. A company doing such a thing (too cheap to spend a few bucks for their own Google Apps box) deserves whatever becomes public.
Let's be honest people, once it is named, it will be forgotten within 100 hours. How many Americans can recall the names of each individual section of the space station (without Wikipedia, Google, etc)? How many Americans know there is a space station up there? This is not going to be like naming the Apollo lunar lander touching down on the Moon or anything. Come to think of it, we could device some plan to use this module as a rescue pod so we can hear them astronauts say, "Houston, the Colbert has landed."
Anyway, let's have some fun with it! Space can be fun, too, ya know.
I suppose the submitter thought Google would just stop developing it after moving the old beta to the stable branch. So it was news to him. But this is just a dupe of the of the story yesterday.
Yeah, the "only" difference is people get to benefit from it. It is hugely preferable to Microsoft's buy-and-charge-outrageous-price or buy-and-discard-to-kill-competition models.
A few years ago, Blockbuster stores did away with their outrageous late fees and stuff to better compete against Netflix. The catch was that they'd bill your credit card after like 2-3 weeks for the price of the movie (less rental fee), then refund it when you did bring it back. This was around the time I signed up for BB Online (about 2006). At that time, they gave you two coupons each month for free in-store rentals (game or movie).
Then they added the in-store exchange with a free rental. I'd get the three mail movies, turn those in for three in-store movies about once a week. That came to 12 movies a month, and two game/movie coupons in the store. The was was pregnant and on permanent bed-rest, so it worked out. After the baby was born and home though, we pretty quickly burned out on it. That was about the time Blockbuster realized they weren't making money from us no-good BBO customers. I'd look around while waiting in line to check out, and there were more people doing the BBO exchanges than there were paying cash to rent movies. (Nevermind they were doing their damn hardest to sign anyone up, right down to filling out the web form for the old ladies who never used a computer.) So, they took down the coupons for a bit, brought them back as one per month and movie only, no video games, and only if you subscribed to the 3-dvds-at-a-time plan.
In my experience, turning the movies in to the store did not cause them to ship out the next movies in the queue immediately. It would still take two or three days, just as if I mailed them in myself. The free rentals made up for it though, so I didn't nit-pick. Facing burn-out, rising fees, capping the in-store exchanges, no video games with coupons, I bowed out a couple years ago. Now, I see they're up to $20 for the 3-dvd plan. No, they are definitely not worth it anymore.
It's simple, lawsuits. They were missed over promotion not because they are incompetent, but because of their race, gender, etc. I've seen a number of real young folks that cannot take any criticism, correction, etc. at my job. They are personally offended if you tell them they're not doing something the correct way. What can ya do?
I've been on GrandCentral for a year now, and thus far, it's been great for filtering many calls I don't care to receive much. Anytime I started a new service (cable, credit card, etc), I just tell them my GC number. Now, I don't waste my time with Comcast calling to try and tell me it's "only" $130 to add internet phone to my cable bill, or Best Buy calling me every day to say I haven't spent my $5 reward zone coupon. Hell, once I get converted and can just get text message transcripts, I'll be in heaven. My job doesn't leave able to use the cell phone, and I can't get away to listen to voicemail too often. But I can flip it open, read a text message, and put it away in five seconds to know if it's worth me following up.
So, you can just do a slow migration like this. It's free, so it's worth keeping the option open. If Google allows more groups in the address book than GC, with lots of configuration options, I could perhaps see myself migrating family/friends to that number too.
This is Slashdot, home of TCBOO, there can be only one. For every one person that says "Hmm, this could be useful for me," cue a hundred others, "Don't trust X, they are evil!! Just set up a Linux box, install A-J packages, configure them, secure them, tweak them, and voila, it's about as good and The Man doesn't have ahold of your nuts."
Here we go, another battle of the I-won't-let-Google-host-my-company's-top-secret-documents people vs the Pay-for-Google-Apps-and-run-it-internally-so-your-top-secret-documents-aren't-exposed people.
No. The truth is that posters on Slashdot are far, far wiser than anyone in all of the government's IT departments.
Oh, and pay no attention to the myriad of posts claiming they could run Google appliances internally. They are just posts by The Man, trying to throw you off. Keep up the good conspiracy work!
How many people even view Slashdot? I only ask because I don't know of many. Does it even exist? I asked the baby sitter and she said no. Also, what are these personal computer things? My company only lets us use winterms. Obviously, this whole PC fad is not ready for any real use since my job gets by just fine without them and my job is the determining factor for anything needing to exist.
0.1% downtime comes to 8.75 hours per year. Fifteen days service for just 9 hours downtime doesn't sound bad for the vast majority of Google users. If you're doing well enough to lose thousands of dollars an hour, you can afford a better agreement.
Yeah, these crazy kids making a minibrowser to look up some small piece of information for their quest, when they can just spend money instead on bigger video cards, extra monitors, until you want to control that extra monitor so now you need extra computers, keyboards, bigger desk, etc.
Yeah, that is so much simpler than using a crappy little web browser in a game.
Don't bother with these kinds, they're all over this place. Every invention they don't already use is pointless. Why would they ever want to do X when they can already do Y with a little workaround? Then they come back with, well, even if I had to do Z, I'd rather go home and do Y + 5 other workarounds, then resort to using this invention. If the people working on this invention just quit and found a cure for cancer instead of wasting their time, the world would be a better place.
The police report does say she "is know to me and the administration based on prior negative contacts." So she wasn't a first offense kinda gal. Even with that, what would she have faced for texting in class? Take the phone away and have the parents pick it up after school? She escalated the issue by refusing to cooperate at every point in the process.
followed over the next few years by a period of rapid temperature increases.
So, what was it that caused global warming 1710+? SUVs? Aerosol deodorant? Oil refineries? Americans consuming too much? Because today, these sort of things are the reasons for global warming. The globalwarmites definately never want to hear anything like "temperatures fluctuate."
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All of my relatives' houses that I was able to view in Street View were taken at times they were away at work (no cars in the drive, etc). So, the subject of the photos are inanimate objects (house, basketball hoop, mailbox, etc). They do not think, therefore they are freely subjectable to photographing.
There, problem solved.
Reading will just slow things down, we need to act fast, dammit! Just vote yes, whatever it is.
Or else...
Taking bribes, cooking the books, etc are all illegal. People caught doing it get sent to prison. What, do you want to make it illegaler?
Go ahead, nationalize banks, prisons, whatever. Some one will figure out the system and find a way to skim some money for them self. Instead of a prison company doing the bribing, it'll be the toilet paper supplier. More people in prison, more pooping that goes on, profit! Government does not save you from any similar corruption.
This is Slashdot. People here will claim to know the difference between every possible combination of audio/video codecs, file format, bitrate, etc. And my silent FLAC collection is way more clear than my neighbor's crappy 128kb MP3 silent audio files. I can hear the silence WAY, WAY better.
This same "argument" comes up with every Google story on here. I really want to know just how many companies are out there that have this super-secret information that they turn over to some Web 2.0 company?
Then again, it's probably just another Slashdot meme with no basis in reality. A company doing such a thing (too cheap to spend a few bucks for their own Google Apps box) deserves whatever becomes public.
Just wait until Cloud 2.0. Man, that is going to be AMAZING!
Let's be honest people, once it is named, it will be forgotten within 100 hours. How many Americans can recall the names of each individual section of the space station (without Wikipedia, Google, etc)? How many Americans know there is a space station up there? This is not going to be like naming the Apollo lunar lander touching down on the Moon or anything. Come to think of it, we could device some plan to use this module as a rescue pod so we can hear them astronauts say, "Houston, the Colbert has landed."
Anyway, let's have some fun with it! Space can be fun, too, ya know.
The only proper measurement here is how many MP3s would fit in a standard volcanic eruption.
I suppose the submitter thought Google would just stop developing it after moving the old beta to the stable branch. So it was news to him. But this is just a dupe of the of the story yesterday.
Yeah, the "only" difference is people get to benefit from it. It is hugely preferable to Microsoft's buy-and-charge-outrageous-price or buy-and-discard-to-kill-competition models.
A few years ago, Blockbuster stores did away with their outrageous late fees and stuff to better compete against Netflix. The catch was that they'd bill your credit card after like 2-3 weeks for the price of the movie (less rental fee), then refund it when you did bring it back. This was around the time I signed up for BB Online (about 2006). At that time, they gave you two coupons each month for free in-store rentals (game or movie).
Then they added the in-store exchange with a free rental. I'd get the three mail movies, turn those in for three in-store movies about once a week. That came to 12 movies a month, and two game/movie coupons in the store. The was was pregnant and on permanent bed-rest, so it worked out. After the baby was born and home though, we pretty quickly burned out on it. That was about the time Blockbuster realized they weren't making money from us no-good BBO customers. I'd look around while waiting in line to check out, and there were more people doing the BBO exchanges than there were paying cash to rent movies. (Nevermind they were doing their damn hardest to sign anyone up, right down to filling out the web form for the old ladies who never used a computer.) So, they took down the coupons for a bit, brought them back as one per month and movie only, no video games, and only if you subscribed to the 3-dvds-at-a-time plan.
In my experience, turning the movies in to the store did not cause them to ship out the next movies in the queue immediately. It would still take two or three days, just as if I mailed them in myself. The free rentals made up for it though, so I didn't nit-pick. Facing burn-out, rising fees, capping the in-store exchanges, no video games with coupons, I bowed out a couple years ago. Now, I see they're up to $20 for the 3-dvd plan. No, they are definitely not worth it anymore.
It's simple, lawsuits. They were missed over promotion not because they are incompetent, but because of their race, gender, etc. I've seen a number of real young folks that cannot take any criticism, correction, etc. at my job. They are personally offended if you tell them they're not doing something the correct way. What can ya do?
I've been on GrandCentral for a year now, and thus far, it's been great for filtering many calls I don't care to receive much. Anytime I started a new service (cable, credit card, etc), I just tell them my GC number. Now, I don't waste my time with Comcast calling to try and tell me it's "only" $130 to add internet phone to my cable bill, or Best Buy calling me every day to say I haven't spent my $5 reward zone coupon. Hell, once I get converted and can just get text message transcripts, I'll be in heaven. My job doesn't leave able to use the cell phone, and I can't get away to listen to voicemail too often. But I can flip it open, read a text message, and put it away in five seconds to know if it's worth me following up.
So, you can just do a slow migration like this. It's free, so it's worth keeping the option open. If Google allows more groups in the address book than GC, with lots of configuration options, I could perhaps see myself migrating family/friends to that number too.
This is Slashdot, home of TCBOO, there can be only one. For every one person that says "Hmm, this could be useful for me," cue a hundred others, "Don't trust X, they are evil!! Just set up a Linux box, install A-J packages, configure them, secure them, tweak them, and voila, it's about as good and The Man doesn't have ahold of your nuts."
Here we go, another battle of the I-won't-let-Google-host-my-company's-top-secret-documents people vs the Pay-for-Google-Apps-and-run-it-internally-so-your-top-secret-documents-aren't-exposed people.
No. The truth is that posters on Slashdot are far, far wiser than anyone in all of the government's IT departments.
Oh, and pay no attention to the myriad of posts claiming they could run Google appliances internally. They are just posts by The Man, trying to throw you off. Keep up the good conspiracy work!
The Chicago Way is for Plutonians to "donate" to a legislature's campaign fund.
How many people even view Slashdot? I only ask because I don't know of many. Does it even exist? I asked the baby sitter and she said no. Also, what are these personal computer things? My company only lets us use winterms. Obviously, this whole PC fad is not ready for any real use since my job gets by just fine without them and my job is the determining factor for anything needing to exist.
0.1% downtime comes to 8.75 hours per year. Fifteen days service for just 9 hours downtime doesn't sound bad for the vast majority of Google users. If you're doing well enough to lose thousands of dollars an hour, you can afford a better agreement.
And if it doesn't succeed, you can always just ask for a bailout! It's a win for everybody.
Yeah, these crazy kids making a minibrowser to look up some small piece of information for their quest, when they can just spend money instead on bigger video cards, extra monitors, until you want to control that extra monitor so now you need extra computers, keyboards, bigger desk, etc.
Yeah, that is so much simpler than using a crappy little web browser in a game.
Don't bother with these kinds, they're all over this place. Every invention they don't already use is pointless. Why would they ever want to do X when they can already do Y with a little workaround? Then they come back with, well, even if I had to do Z, I'd rather go home and do Y + 5 other workarounds, then resort to using this invention. If the people working on this invention just quit and found a cure for cancer instead of wasting their time, the world would be a better place.
The police report does say she "is know to me and the administration based on prior negative contacts." So she wasn't a first offense kinda gal. Even with that, what would she have faced for texting in class? Take the phone away and have the parents pick it up after school? She escalated the issue by refusing to cooperate at every point in the process.
But then you lose the "I spent $X,000 on my superawesomeness gaming rig" pissing contests when you play those games online...
followed over the next few years by a period of rapid temperature increases.
So, what was it that caused global warming 1710+? SUVs? Aerosol deodorant? Oil refineries? Americans consuming too much? Because today, these sort of things are the reasons for global warming. The globalwarmites definately never want to hear anything like "temperatures fluctuate."