The reason the tablets we've had since the 90's never really caught on was because they didn't do enough beyond what a notebook did to justify the difference in price.
Yet well before the iPad was this company which took your Apple laptop and made a tablet out of it. They have been around for a while so there must have already been a market for high priced tablets.
There are already clear laws on the books prohibiting cell phones in prisons, yet the FCC will not allow cell jamming in prisons.
What I don't understand is why people want to jam cell phones in prisons. All you need to do is surround the prison with cell towers that *you* control and then whitelist any cell #'s that you authorize. Any other cell # gets cut off at the tower and you have a wonderful record of how many illegal cell phones there are in the prison. No jamming required at all!
Can anyone give recommendations to cell phone boosters that they have used? I'm with T-Mobile and typically get 1 bar in the house (if I am lucky). T-Mobiles solution is to allow calls via Wi-Fi but that only works if you have wi-fi enabled phone AND a contract - and I have neither. And I don't want to change carriers either.
Obviously this service will be used by pirates (and not the "arrgh matey" kind), hackers and terrorists and anyone else that gets labelled as a bad person (tm), so we better pre-emptively ban Amazon as they are the ones offering it up.
"Pirated edition of Galileo's work containing "some of the most important discoveries in scientific literature" (PMM), published the same year as the first edition. This the the first publication of any of Galileo's works outside of Italy...."
Sure its fine to have a data driven writing algorithm that spits out a decent string of sentences. But who are the low paid joes who key on the raw data?
Yeah, I just don't understand why it's not socially acceptable to just send people cash.
To me, the sending of cash is probably the rudest gift giving of all. It amounts to I am compelled to give you a gift but I don't know anything about you at all, so rather than be involved in your life and learning about your experiences I'll send this cash in the off chance that you will buy something for yourself and somehow link the emotion of that buying to me.
A gift from person A to person B should be a symbol saying "I know you, and I believe that you should have this gift I am giving you".
Only that in reality, most (or at least many) gifts are a symbol given to satisfy certain social norms or expectations. While it certainly would be nice if every gift would be the heartfelt symbol you'd like it to be, that's not the world we all live in.
Then those social norms that compel gift giving of shit presents are fucked up and no patent is going to solve that issue.
But every time Aunt Martha sends you a sweater you phone and tell her how much you like it, and drive over during the holiday period wearing it. All because you don't want to hurt her feelings. So she keeps sending them to you.
So you are happy being the architect of your own misery?
However I believe (IMHO) it is not solving the fundamental problem.
A gift from person A to person B should be a symbol saying "I know you, and I believe that you should have this gift I am giving you". If person B is not receiving a desired gift from person A then there are at least 2 issues at stake:
Person A doesn't really know Person B - in which case why are they obligated to send a gift, and whose fault is it for the lack of knowledge?
Person B does not care about Person A, and instead selfishly only wants the gifts that they want and as such ignores the feelings/beliefs of person A - in which case again, why are gifts being sent?
So the fundamental problem is the lack of a proper relationship between Person A and Person B, and that this patent application goes to weaken all such relationships by automatically sweeping the real issues under the electronic carpet.
Tell your doctors to stop outsourcing to labs overseas. Seriously, no test takes more than a month to get a result back.
He's not talking about how long the test takes, but how long it takes for the body to respond to the infection to generate the markers that can be detected by the tests. You can have a rolling window of several months to years for some infections
Not all STDs can be tested for via a urine test, but if average person pee's and detects no infection it may actually give them a false sense of security and thus help increase infection rates of STDs that require blood or other tests.
The above could also lead to a game of "lets pee on the phone *before* we have sex and if we both come up clean then we can ditch the condoms" - yeah that'll help infection rates
Some previous responses have said "People who can afford smart phones are smart enough to use protection". I'll counter with "People who can afford smart phones can also afford alcohol, and alcohol and urgency will decrease protection usage"
Finally what is the false negative rate of this test
You are an idiot. Version control isn't that simple, even in a smaller project. Merges and Tree Conflicts are something that everyone should learn how to work out.
You sir are wrong. I say this because I use VSS in file locking mode and I have none of those problems at all!
FFS why does every article that mentions Siberia always have a picture of snow? I lived there for 6 months and sure, in Winter it was -40 at night, but in the middle of Summer it was almost +40 celsius. It probably pisses me off almost as much as when people use a backwards facing latin R in order to be cutesy when writing English words in a pseudo Russian manner.
Or the fact that every story that mentions Penguins also has to show icebergs,
/rant
Yeah go on, mod me as an off-topic troll, but it doesn't change all the overused, bad and incorrect stereotypes
Good for a laugh, sure, but we all know that if they were actually charged along those lines, MSNBC would have Chris Hansen conducting entrapment operations at every pediatrician's office across the country.
"Hey boss, rather than take the 5 hour flight across country to meet with that critical customer in person and sign off on that that big $$$ deal, I'm going to take about 50 hours to drive one way and about the same back. I won't be able to do any work during the trip, but hey, you'll pick up the expenses for this won't you?".. Yeah as if that will work.
Oh and by the way, you may not have noticed but there are some places you can't get to without flying.. pro tip - take a look at a world atlas and look for all those places separated or surrounded by water
Making the guards feel gay is great and all, but you realize that it's not the guards at the airport that make the rules, right? It's the assholes at corporate headquarters that come up with this shit. The guard just wants to get his paycheck and go home every day, just like everyone else. If he doesn't act like a prick, he'll get fired.
I agree that it is managements fault for hiring the TSA screeners that they do. However in doing so they have effectively condoned the regular asshattery that low wage security guards have inflicted on the traveling public. Case in point was the guy this week who planted fake drugs as practical joke. And this not the only case of TSA screeners being arsehats.
This Friday night, come on down to Club Big Brother! We got a full body scanner, some disco balls, strobe effects, and some kickin' bass! The crowd will go wild when you step into the full nude scanner and it's shown on our 2 story high video wall! No cover for ladies and half-price drinks! Club Big Brother-because privacy violations are one big party!
No no no no no.. no no...you cannot advertise this event this way."No cover charge for ladies and half-price drinks!" is sexist and not allowed under anti-sexual discrimination laws.
Don't know for sure, but I think the text editor in VS2010 might be using WPF, which has a much newer text rendering subsystem than GDI+. As to the specifics, someone else may need to chime in.
Yep it does use WPF but I would have thought that ultimately it all went through the same MS technologies to get to the screen that IE uses. Obviously I am making an assumption there
If you're used to Microsoft's rendering, Apple's text will look slightly blurry. If you're used to Apple's rendering, Microsoft's will look weirdly spaced.
With my eyes, blurry is the normal state of affairs anyway.
Interestingly I don't get the same impression about MS rendering when in VS2010. I feel like I prefer its rendering over VS2008
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The reason the tablets we've had since the 90's never really caught on was because they didn't do enough beyond what a notebook did to justify the difference in price.
Yet well before the iPad was this company which took your Apple laptop and made a tablet out of it. They have been around for a while so there must have already been a market for high priced tablets.
FCC will not allow this.
There are already clear laws on the books prohibiting cell phones in prisons, yet the FCC will not allow cell jamming in prisons.
What I don't understand is why people want to jam cell phones in prisons. All you need to do is surround the prison with cell towers that *you* control and then whitelist any cell #'s that you authorize. Any other cell # gets cut off at the tower and you have a wonderful record of how many illegal cell phones there are in the prison. No jamming required at all!
Can anyone give recommendations to cell phone boosters that they have used? I'm with T-Mobile and typically get 1 bar in the house (if I am lucky). T-Mobiles solution is to allow calls via Wi-Fi but that only works if you have wi-fi enabled phone AND a contract - and I have neither. And I don't want to change carriers either.
Obviously this service will be used by pirates (and not the "arrgh matey" kind), hackers and terrorists and anyone else that gets labelled as a bad person (tm), so we better pre-emptively ban Amazon as they are the ones offering it up.
I was flicking through stuff at random when I saw GALILEI, Galileo. Sidereus nuncius. Frankfurt: Poltheanus, 1610. which has the description:
"Pirated edition of Galileo's work containing "some of the most important discoveries in scientific literature" (PMM), published the same year as the first edition. This the the first publication of any of Galileo's works outside of Italy. ..."
Sure its fine to have a data driven writing algorithm that spits out a decent string of sentences. But who are the low paid joes who key on the raw data?
A technology that allows 1 soldier to do the work of 2 or 3 is useless? How would you recommend spending the money?
How about not having the 2 or 3 in the first place?
Yeah, I just don't understand why it's not socially acceptable to just send people cash.
To me, the sending of cash is probably the rudest gift giving of all. It amounts to I am compelled to give you a gift but I don't know anything about you at all, so rather than be involved in your life and learning about your experiences I'll send this cash in the off chance that you will buy something for yourself and somehow link the emotion of that buying to me.
A gift from person A to person B should be a symbol saying "I know you, and I believe that you should have this gift I am giving you".
Only that in reality, most (or at least many) gifts are a symbol given to satisfy certain social norms or expectations. While it certainly would be nice if every gift would be the heartfelt symbol you'd like it to be, that's not the world we all live in.
Then those social norms that compel gift giving of shit presents are fucked up and no patent is going to solve that issue.
But every time Aunt Martha sends you a sweater you phone and tell her how much you like it, and drive over during the holiday period wearing it. All because you don't want to hurt her feelings. So she keeps sending them to you.
So you are happy being the architect of your own misery?
However I believe (IMHO) it is not solving the fundamental problem.
A gift from person A to person B should be a symbol saying "I know you, and I believe that you should have this gift I am giving you". If person B is not receiving a desired gift from person A then there are at least 2 issues at stake:
So the fundamental problem is the lack of a proper relationship between Person A and Person B, and that this patent application goes to weaken all such relationships by automatically sweeping the real issues under the electronic carpet.
"Oh No! I have herpes!" -Dials phone to inform dirty partner- "Oh No! I have transferred said herpes to my face!"
Um .. bets are that you already have herpes on your face - they are called cold sores
Tell your doctors to stop outsourcing to labs overseas. Seriously, no test takes more than a month to get a result back.
He's not talking about how long the test takes, but how long it takes for the body to respond to the infection to generate the markers that can be detected by the tests. You can have a rolling window of several months to years for some infections
Not all STDs can be tested for via a urine test, but if average person pee's and detects no infection it may actually give them a false sense of security and thus help increase infection rates of STDs that require blood or other tests.
The above could also lead to a game of "lets pee on the phone *before* we have sex and if we both come up clean then we can ditch the condoms" - yeah that'll help infection rates
Some previous responses have said "People who can afford smart phones are smart enough to use protection". I'll counter with "People who can afford smart phones can also afford alcohol, and alcohol and urgency will decrease protection usage"
Finally what is the false negative rate of this test
You are an idiot. Version control isn't that simple, even in a smaller project. Merges and Tree Conflicts are something that everyone should learn how to work out.
You sir are wrong. I say this because I use VSS in file locking mode and I have none of those problems at all!
Windows 1 is 25 years old and what does Ballmer do? He sells a bucket load of MS shares
Coincidence ... or NOT!!!!!!!
FFS why does every article that mentions Siberia always have a picture of snow? I lived there for 6 months and sure, in Winter it was -40 at night, but in the middle of Summer it was almost +40 celsius. It probably pisses me off almost as much as when people use a backwards facing latin R in order to be cutesy when writing English words in a pseudo Russian manner.
Or the fact that every story that mentions Penguins also has to show icebergs,
/rant
Yeah go on, mod me as an off-topic troll, but it doesn't change all the overused, bad and incorrect stereotypes
Good for a laugh, sure, but we all know that if they were actually charged along those lines, MSNBC would have Chris Hansen conducting entrapment operations at every pediatrician's office across the country.
For $deities sake please don't encourage him.
If you dont like it, then dont fly.
"Hey boss, rather than take the 5 hour flight across country to meet with that critical customer in person and sign off on that that big $$$ deal, I'm going to take about 50 hours to drive one way and about the same back. I won't be able to do any work during the trip, but hey, you'll pick up the expenses for this won't you?" .. Yeah as if that will work.
Oh and by the way, you may not have noticed but there are some places you can't get to without flying .. pro tip - take a look at a world atlas and look for all those places separated or surrounded by water
Making the guards feel gay is great and all, but you realize that it's not the guards at the airport that make the rules, right? It's the assholes at corporate headquarters that come up with this shit. The guard just wants to get his paycheck and go home every day, just like everyone else. If he doesn't act like a prick, he'll get fired.
I agree that it is managements fault for hiring the TSA screeners that they do. However in doing so they have effectively condoned the regular asshattery that low wage security guards have inflicted on the traveling public. Case in point was the guy this week who planted fake drugs as practical joke. And this not the only case of TSA screeners being arsehats.
let alone submit to naked pictures.
They can have nekkid pics taken of themselves, but only their husbands are allowed to see them
This Friday night, come on down to Club Big Brother! We got a full body scanner, some disco balls, strobe effects, and some kickin' bass! The crowd will go wild when you step into the full nude scanner and it's shown on our 2 story high video wall! No cover for ladies and half-price drinks! Club Big Brother-because privacy violations are one big party!
No no no no no .. no no ...you cannot advertise this event this way."No cover charge for ladies and half-price drinks!" is sexist and not allowed under anti-sexual discrimination laws.
He's probably wondering how much money he'd have made if he'd charged for it.
Advert revenue? I haven't been to his site so I have no idea if he hosts ads.
Don't know for sure, but I think the text editor in VS2010 might be using WPF, which has a much newer text rendering subsystem than GDI+. As to the specifics, someone else may need to chime in.
Yep it does use WPF but I would have thought that ultimately it all went through the same MS technologies to get to the screen that IE uses. Obviously I am making an assumption there
If you're used to Microsoft's rendering, Apple's text will look slightly blurry. If you're used to Apple's rendering, Microsoft's will look weirdly spaced.
With my eyes, blurry is the normal state of affairs anyway.
Interestingly I don't get the same impression about MS rendering when in VS2010. I feel like I prefer its rendering over VS2008