A former co-worker of mine did something innocent that aroused a lot of suspicion at a checkpoint a few years ago, she left an unused round of ammunition in a bag (following a hunting trip) and the TSA detected it. She was unarmed and it was an honest mistake. After a long ordeal she was let go, but she claims to have been put on a list that basically guarantees additional screening every time she flies.
I wonder if Paul will be put on the troublemaker list?
I recently was using a "4G" phone on AT&T, then switched to a 3g phone on Sprint. I don't believe there is any difference whatsoever in data speed between the two. If there is any, it's completely indiscernible.
In a way, Apple has been wise to wait on 4G to catch up to the point where... well, where it actually means something because it doesn't mean anything right now.
More to the point, what does this mean for the layman?
Was the fuel consumed in the disaster? Did the containment vessel melt and the fuel escape? What are the possibilities, for those whose science courses are quite a few years back?:)
Surely this will change - the Kindle app, for example, can handle textbooks and is available on the Mac desktop as well as on iOS.
I get that Apple feels (rightly) this will drive iPad sales, but it wouldn't make much sense to shut out potential customers for the textbooks who don't own an iPad.
Martin Luther (not King) was instrumental in getting the Bible out of the domain of the church where only the clergy who were trained in latin, the language of the bible in Germany at the time, he by insisting it was translated into the local language, which in itself helped make that the official language of Germany, helped give people their own version of the bible to read rather then have to take the word of their religious leader about its true contents.
But he was also a rabid anti-semite and one of the ground layers for what would centuries later result in the holocaust and the countless violent outburst against Jews.
Luther was also someone who'd had rigorous academic training and was well qualified to speak on the subject matter, being a member of the Augustinian order.
The matter of his anti-semitism is of course regrettable, and I think the counterpoint you'd usually see presented is that this emerged late in his life after most of his work was complete, and was not expressed intensely in his writing until late in life.
But the larger point with Luther would be that there are ugly aspects of everyone's personality but that doesn't necessarily disqualify them. Someone suffering from a methamphetamine addiction may well be the best auto mechanic in town.
If someone is educated and trained, well qualified in the subject matter, then it allows the layman to distinguish between people whose views should carry technical weight and those who are just bloating or self-promoting.
One thing I was thinking of when writing GP post was the Kindle books which are self published. These are almost universally of fecal quality. And there's some good self-published music out there, but by and large the amateurish production values subtract rather than add to the quality.
My point was only that the internet age, the age of the blogosphere, of twitter, etc., has left us communicating more than ever but with a seeming dearth of people who know what the heck they're talking about.
I'm sure these works are worthy, and I didn't mean to say there were NO good self published works out there. But exceptions don't prove generalizations wrong.
One problem with "self-published homemade works" is that there are few areas where these are yet of any quality.
The internet gives everyone a voice, true. This carries many benefits, but it also weeds out the structure that before prevented kooks and cranks from influencing as many as they do today.
The mechanisms by which this was accomplished are not in and of themselves wholly good, but there was good in the fact that most people with influential voices in media, in medicine, etc. were educated and trained. Today bloggers feel they are journalists and rumors/gossip too often pass for news. Fact checking, not just in media but in people's psyches as a whole, is quickly becoming extinct.
You can look at the growth in general public belief in any number of dubious conspiracy theories, in the emoting against vaccines, and armies of the dumb outraged about breastfeeding and any number of other topics which in the past were inane and not considered social advocacy issues. The internet has amplified many times over the voice of the dumb, while the voice of those qualified to speak on a topic is also amplified, it's often being drowned out.
Self-publishing of educational textbooks is not, in my opinion, going to affect this trend in the right direction.
It was said once that evil will always triumph because good is dumb. Well.. stupid triumphs because the internet age hasn't adapted for it, and smart isn't loud enough.
It's just 5 hardware changes across all devices you own worldwide, which is even more ridiculous. Those hoping to play the game on both a desktop PC and a laptop around the house or on the road are even worse off. (again, something Ubisoft's best customers are more likely to do than anyone else)
I agree in principle. I don't think I have ever pirated a PC game, but I would never buy a game that I can't continue to use in perpetuity. I understand their efforts to prevent piracy, but this rises to the level of me paying full price for a game and only getting a temporary license for it. No thanks.
At least if I buy a console game I can be sure I won't get zapped with a "Sorry, you have to pay for this game again" screen eventually.
It doesn't seem smart at all for Ubisoft to alienate their best customers, power gamers who probably make more hardware chances than anyone.
I think they've been selling files without DRM for a while now. Old files that were bought in the DRM era still have it, but I think you can do things to the DRM-free ones like convert them to MP3 now without having to burn them to a CD and then re-import.
Maybe there was some agreement made with the record companies at the time they changed up the DRM policies that is in play here.
I find it useful, because it basically keeps my phone and my laptop (my main pc) in sync without me ever having to do anything. (such as plug the phone into the laptop and take the sync manually)
Most on/. won't like the idea of living in Apple's ecosystem, but if you're using an iPhone anyway it's convenient.
I wish they'd remove that 10% that is required in some areas.
It used to be that at some gas pumps there'd be 0% ethanol and 10% ethanol in different spouts; I'd choose the 0% every time. It's doing your engine a much bigger favor than those snake-oil detergents in the premium grades do.
I had a Ford truck that would run on E85, but it said right in the owner's manual that the gas mileage was 15-20% poorer.
Ethanol is a net loss of energy. It takes more energy to produce a gallon than you get by burning it. Combine that with the fact that we could cover the entire country in corn and still not be independent of fossil fuels - it's a complete boondoggle.
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...unless and until Ron is elected President
*rim shot*
Without a firearm chambered for that round, you couldn't do anything with it.
In response to the prior post, it was in the early 2000s, and I don't have contact with this person anymore so I can't ask for any further details.
Right, that was the overall point. AT&T is selling things with "4G" written on them that are no faster than 3G.
No, Minneapolis has coverage and the phone indicated it was connected to such.
A former co-worker of mine did something innocent that aroused a lot of suspicion at a checkpoint a few years ago, she left an unused round of ammunition in a bag (following a hunting trip) and the TSA detected it. She was unarmed and it was an honest mistake. After a long ordeal she was let go, but she claims to have been put on a list that basically guarantees additional screening every time she flies.
I wonder if Paul will be put on the troublemaker list?
I recently was using a "4G" phone on AT&T, then switched to a 3g phone on Sprint. I don't believe there is any difference whatsoever in data speed between the two. If there is any, it's completely indiscernible.
You can still get uncapped mobile data, though only one carrier offers it.
Why not support that carrier instead of one of the data cappers?
In a way, Apple has been wise to wait on 4G to catch up to the point where... well, where it actually means something because it doesn't mean anything right now.
If you're going to pay the same rate for two years, why not get a free phone thrown in?
More to the point, what does this mean for the layman?
Was the fuel consumed in the disaster? Did the containment vessel melt and the fuel escape? What are the possibilities, for those whose science courses are quite a few years back? :)
It reminds me of manbearpig... We'd better pass some laws against plasma clouds immediately! :)
Yes - the inhabitants of that planet need to know how much longer they have to stop manbearpig.
Surely this will change - the Kindle app, for example, can handle textbooks and is available on the Mac desktop as well as on iOS.
I get that Apple feels (rightly) this will drive iPad sales, but it wouldn't make much sense to shut out potential customers for the textbooks who don't own an iPad.
From TFA, it sounds like iBooks will be upgraded with textbook capabilities, and iBooks Author will allow you to publish yourself.
Martin Luther (not King) was instrumental in getting the Bible out of the domain of the church where only the clergy who were trained in latin, the language of the bible in Germany at the time, he by insisting it was translated into the local language, which in itself helped make that the official language of Germany, helped give people their own version of the bible to read rather then have to take the word of their religious leader about its true contents.
But he was also a rabid anti-semite and one of the ground layers for what would centuries later result in the holocaust and the countless violent outburst against Jews.
Luther was also someone who'd had rigorous academic training and was well qualified to speak on the subject matter, being a member of the Augustinian order.
The matter of his anti-semitism is of course regrettable, and I think the counterpoint you'd usually see presented is that this emerged late in his life after most of his work was complete, and was not expressed intensely in his writing until late in life.
But the larger point with Luther would be that there are ugly aspects of everyone's personality but that doesn't necessarily disqualify them. Someone suffering from a methamphetamine addiction may well be the best auto mechanic in town.
If someone is educated and trained, well qualified in the subject matter, then it allows the layman to distinguish between people whose views should carry technical weight and those who are just bloating or self-promoting.
One thing I was thinking of when writing GP post was the Kindle books which are self published. These are almost universally of fecal quality. And there's some good self-published music out there, but by and large the amateurish production values subtract rather than add to the quality.
My point was only that the internet age, the age of the blogosphere, of twitter, etc., has left us communicating more than ever but with a seeming dearth of people who know what the heck they're talking about.
I'm sure these works are worthy, and I didn't mean to say there were NO good self published works out there. But exceptions don't prove generalizations wrong.
One problem with "self-published homemade works" is that there are few areas where these are yet of any quality.
The internet gives everyone a voice, true. This carries many benefits, but it also weeds out the structure that before prevented kooks and cranks from influencing as many as they do today.
The mechanisms by which this was accomplished are not in and of themselves wholly good, but there was good in the fact that most people with influential voices in media, in medicine, etc. were educated and trained. Today bloggers feel they are journalists and rumors/gossip too often pass for news. Fact checking, not just in media but in people's psyches as a whole, is quickly becoming extinct.
You can look at the growth in general public belief in any number of dubious conspiracy theories, in the emoting against vaccines, and armies of the dumb outraged about breastfeeding and any number of other topics which in the past were inane and not considered social advocacy issues. The internet has amplified many times over the voice of the dumb, while the voice of those qualified to speak on a topic is also amplified, it's often being drowned out.
Self-publishing of educational textbooks is not, in my opinion, going to affect this trend in the right direction.
It was said once that evil will always triumph because good is dumb. Well.. stupid triumphs because the internet age hasn't adapted for it, and smart isn't loud enough.
Well, they didn't lock Castlevania to only one console serial number. I'm guessing in the future things might not be as simple...
It's just 5 hardware changes across all devices you own worldwide, which is even more ridiculous. Those hoping to play the game on both a desktop PC and a laptop around the house or on the road are even worse off. (again, something Ubisoft's best customers are more likely to do than anyone else)
I agree in principle. I don't think I have ever pirated a PC game, but I would never buy a game that I can't continue to use in perpetuity. I understand their efforts to prevent piracy, but this rises to the level of me paying full price for a game and only getting a temporary license for it. No thanks.
At least if I buy a console game I can be sure I won't get zapped with a "Sorry, you have to pay for this game again" screen eventually.
It doesn't seem smart at all for Ubisoft to alienate their best customers, power gamers who probably make more hardware chances than anyone.
I think they've been selling files without DRM for a while now. Old files that were bought in the DRM era still have it, but I think you can do things to the DRM-free ones like convert them to MP3 now without having to burn them to a CD and then re-import.
Maybe there was some agreement made with the record companies at the time they changed up the DRM policies that is in play here.
I find it useful, because it basically keeps my phone and my laptop (my main pc) in sync without me ever having to do anything. (such as plug the phone into the laptop and take the sync manually)
Most on /. won't like the idea of living in Apple's ecosystem, but if you're using an iPhone anyway it's convenient.
I wish they'd remove that 10% that is required in some areas.
It used to be that at some gas pumps there'd be 0% ethanol and 10% ethanol in different spouts; I'd choose the 0% every time. It's doing your engine a much bigger favor than those snake-oil detergents in the premium grades do.
I had a Ford truck that would run on E85, but it said right in the owner's manual that the gas mileage was 15-20% poorer.
Ethanol is a net loss of energy. It takes more energy to produce a gallon than you get by burning it. Combine that with the fact that we could cover the entire country in corn and still not be independent of fossil fuels - it's a complete boondoggle.
Not likely, since ethanol is still a dogwhistle issue for uninformed voters in important election states, and subsidies are a cheap way to buy votes.
FIFY :)