At least the Canadian police, after responding to the perceived threat, had the sense to see that it was a mistake and released him with no further repercussions. I'd say that they did their job properly; you could question the need for so many officers, but it would depend on what they were told originally. The important thing, though, is dropping it once it's clear there was a misunderstanding.
As an example of an alternative, I gave to americares.org. They get an excellent Charity Navigator rating.
As for the Red Cross, the fact that they only spend what they think they need to is not necessarily bad in my book. It means they'll have money & supplies for the lower profile problems they tackle. If they can't efficiently use all they are given for a particular problem, I'd rather they don't waste it.
I just read mine - I have one in Nov 2009 & one in Dec 2009. I seem to recall that both of those were caused by some script on cnet.com; it was certainly one particular site in both cases. I start each morning with a fresh 12 tabs open and go through the day opening & closing tons of tabs. Maybe this is "lighter" browser use, but I also have a machine at home which keeps 50+ tabs open for weeks at a time & almost never crashes. This leads me to agree with the GP, claiming that Firefox has major problems with crashing sounds like shill bs.
The problem is, there's a fundamental difference between adding color and adding the ability to trick our brains into seeing depth where there is none. Aside from the "needing special glasses" problem, there's a disconnect between the perceived focal planes and what your eyes can really focus on which isn't going to be solved by anything short of 3d displays with real depth to them, which won't be cheap or convenient. It may happen, but it's not inevitable either.
Pretty sure that the iPhone was never king among the geeks that care about hardware specs.
I'm not so sure, the biggest phone geek I know has switched to an iphone. "User experience" is important for geeks too, and I have to say the iphone seems to deliver a great one (at a price).
Google sells the phone unlocked, and T-Mobile no-contract/no subsidy plans are $10 per month cheaper than the "free phone" plans. So there's no problem switching if you want, you could just sell the handset.
Unfortunately the only plan available has but 500 anytime minutes.
You could just buy it & run it on any plan with a SIM card, if you don't want the subsidized phone+plan deal.
Also, the 500 minute plan from T-Mo is $40/mo if you're not getting a Nexus but should you decide to grab the phone and the accompanying plan, you'll be paying $80/mo. What is the logic here?
They might be processing.mts files from their HD camcorder - that's the only thing that my ~2 year old machine is killed by. Photoshop isn't that bad, huge compressed video files really are the worst case I come across.
Actually, it seems T-mobile is doing just that now - "Even More" is their standard subsidized phones + 2 year contract deal, "Even More Plus" is the same plans but no "free" phones or contracts & $10/month less. Maybe the other carriers will follow if T-mobile starts getting people to switch because of this.
OTOH, if you want T-mobile & a Google phone, it makes more sense to pay the extra $10/month to get the subsidized phone, because the amount of subsidy (($530-$180)/24) is almost $15/month.
The fact is, the people of the US were better off when we were mostly isolationist and had extremely limited foreign trade partners. We were certainly better off before our government let our corporations sell us out to cheap 3rd world labor.
If you look at the numbers, that's just not true. For example, the census bureau has per capita money income data here: http://www.census.gov/hhes/www/income/histinc/incpertoc.html Look at the first one - you can see that between 1967 & 2008 per capita money income, adjusted to 2008 dollars, doubled. And the years leading up to 1967 were ones of unprecedented growth in the US. The fact is, the people of the US would be much worse off if we were "mostly isolationist" and limited our trade.
Im not fond of the BBC news, although im not fond of Fox, MSNBC, or CNN either so... YMMV.
If you're basing your opinion on the BBC America news, you're seeing a second rate version and I'd agree it's not great. The real BBC news in the UK is much much better, or at least was when I lived there.
when my 79 MG is more reliable and gets better mileage than newer cars (even if you do it based on weight). thats just sad.
I can't believe that your 79 MG is more reliable than OLD cars, let alone newer ones...
(Owner of a 1970 British motorcycle, "powered" by Lucas.)
Seriously though, my 03 minivan has 80k+ miles on it, and other than normal wear and tear parts the only thing that's gone wrong is a little bulb that lights the clock on the dash. I have changed the oil once in the last 4 years on my 03 Suzuki motorcycle, otherwise I have lubed the chain & checked the tire pressures - it starts every time. I used to work on my motorcycles etc, but don't have the time, inclination or most importantly need to anymore. Modern vehicles are amazing.
I have read that there's also the possibility of adding a Broadcom decoder chip to offload the work of video decoding, which might allow 1080p video while keeping power consumption low. That's what I'd like to see in my next netbook.
From TFA: "The difficulty, officials said, is that adding encryption to a network that is more than a decade old involves more than placing a new piece of equipment on individual drones. Instead, many components of the network linking the drones to their operators in the U.S., Afghanistan or Pakistan have to be upgraded to handle the changes." So they didn't do it because it's complicated and expensive and until July, they hadn't seen that anyone was grabbing the streams.
I tried a few things in our small business before settling on Zoneminder with a PV-149 8-port analog card & analog cameras. I have it running on a cheap Dell server (Pentium Dual Core, I think), and several weeks of events can be kept on the 80GB drive. It has been an extremely reliable setup for the last couple of years. If you use the Axis IP cameras with their own event triggering you can get away with a very low-powered machine, but the image processing otherwise means you want something at least halfway decent. If your box is powerful enough I can't see why Asterisk wouldn't run ok as well, but I haven't tried that yet. For a while I had it running with some cheap USB webcams, but they weren't as stable as the analog cams, and it's easy to get analog cams that switch over to IR in the dark.
I have lived in Europe and the US - people in Europe really have a hard time understanding the American way of driving. Every winter we (family of 4, plus dog) take a trip of 2000 miles round trip, and most summers we take another of 1000 miles. A 400 mile round trip camping trip is something we do twice a year. No way am I going to rent a van 4+ times a year, I love my minivan and all its creature comforts.
Look at the statistics - Americans have almost twice as many cars per head as in Europe, and they drive each of those cars almost twice as far each year. The fact that we get our fuel "almost for free" may not justify such behavior, but it does help explain it.
I think that a lot of Europeans kid themselves that their virtuous behavior is due to a moral superiority when really, if fuel suddenly cost one third of what it does now in Norway, I'd predict in a couple of years you'd be seeing a lot of V8s on your roads.
Until oil prices go up, don't expect any good technology to prevail. The four stroke petrol engine will die, but not before oil costs increase.
First, there aren't diesel fuel subsidies in Europe; the reason people there buy "poor performing, smaller cars" is because fuel taxes there are much much higher than in the US. So you don't have to wait until oil prices go up, you can tax consumption and watch the market adjust. Americans started buying a lot more small cars when gas hit $4/gal; imagine if it were taxed up to $8 as in most of Europe.
This actually seems like a great way to give someone an iphone or touch for Christmas - way cooler than just leaving it in the standard box. Plus since you'll have already charged it up it's ready to go right away.
I lived in London in the mid 90s - already by then even lots of kids had phones, largely due to the fact that they were cheap to have and get calls on, though they were expensive to actually MAKE calls on. Which I guess is why texting took off in Europe before it did here. I wouldn't be surprised if they were also common across Scandinavia by then.
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At least the Canadian police, after responding to the perceived threat, had the sense to see that it was a mistake and released him with no further repercussions. I'd say that they did their job properly; you could question the need for so many officers, but it would depend on what they were told originally. The important thing, though, is dropping it once it's clear there was a misunderstanding.
As an example of an alternative, I gave to americares.org. They get an excellent Charity Navigator rating.
As for the Red Cross, the fact that they only spend what they think they need to is not necessarily bad in my book. It means they'll have money & supplies for the lower profile problems they tackle. If they can't efficiently use all they are given for a particular problem, I'd rather they don't waste it.
I just read mine - I have one in Nov 2009 & one in Dec 2009. I seem to recall that both of those were caused by some script on cnet.com; it was certainly one particular site in both cases. I start each morning with a fresh 12 tabs open and go through the day opening & closing tons of tabs. Maybe this is "lighter" browser use, but I also have a machine at home which keeps 50+ tabs open for weeks at a time & almost never crashes. This leads me to agree with the GP, claiming that Firefox has major problems with crashing sounds like shill bs.
The problem is, there's a fundamental difference between adding color and adding the ability to trick our brains into seeing depth where there is none. Aside from the "needing special glasses" problem, there's a disconnect between the perceived focal planes and what your eyes can really focus on which isn't going to be solved by anything short of 3d displays with real depth to them, which won't be cheap or convenient. It may happen, but it's not inevitable either.
Pretty sure that the iPhone was never king among the geeks that care about hardware specs.
I'm not so sure, the biggest phone geek I know has switched to an iphone. "User experience" is important for geeks too, and I have to say the iphone seems to deliver a great one (at a price).
Google sells the phone unlocked, and T-Mobile no-contract/no subsidy plans are $10 per month cheaper than the "free phone" plans. So there's no problem switching if you want, you could just sell the handset.
Unfortunately the only plan available has but 500 anytime minutes.
You could just buy it & run it on any plan with a SIM card, if you don't want the subsidized phone+plan deal.
Also, the 500 minute plan from T-Mo is $40/mo if you're not getting a Nexus but should you decide to grab the phone and the accompanying plan, you'll be paying $80/mo. What is the logic here?
I'd guess you're paying $40 for data.
If you don't board, they pull your luggage.
This guy was willing to explode a crotch bomb, he'd be willing to board.
They might be processing .mts files from their HD camcorder - that's the only thing that my ~2 year old machine is killed by. Photoshop isn't that bad, huge compressed video files really are the worst case I come across.
What I'd really like is to have a passively cooled box that's able to play 1080p H.264.
This may be what you're looking for:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16883103228&Tpk=aspire%20revo
Lifehacker & others have instructions to put XBMC on it using VDPAU, seems really nice.
I wouldn't call the post-war years "isolationist" by any stretch.
Screw that, for $530 I demand a rotary dial!
Actually, it seems T-mobile is doing just that now - "Even More" is their standard subsidized phones + 2 year contract deal, "Even More Plus" is the same plans but no "free" phones or contracts & $10/month less. Maybe the other carriers will follow if T-mobile starts getting people to switch because of this.
OTOH, if you want T-mobile & a Google phone, it makes more sense to pay the extra $10/month to get the subsidized phone, because the amount of subsidy (($530-$180)/24) is almost $15/month.
The fact is, the people of the US were better off when we were mostly isolationist and had extremely limited foreign trade partners. We were certainly better off before our government let our corporations sell us out to cheap 3rd world labor.
If you look at the numbers, that's just not true. For example, the census bureau has per capita money income data here:
http://www.census.gov/hhes/www/income/histinc/incpertoc.html
Look at the first one - you can see that between 1967 & 2008 per capita money income, adjusted to 2008 dollars, doubled. And the years leading up to 1967 were ones of unprecedented growth in the US. The fact is, the people of the US would be much worse off if we were "mostly isolationist" and limited our trade.
Im not fond of the BBC news, although im not fond of Fox, MSNBC, or CNN either so... YMMV.
If you're basing your opinion on the BBC America news, you're seeing a second rate version and I'd agree it's not great. The real BBC news in the UK is much much better, or at least was when I lived there.
And you'd pay five bucks shipping...
when my 79 MG is more reliable and gets better mileage than newer cars (even if you do it based on weight). thats just sad.
I can't believe that your 79 MG is more reliable than OLD cars, let alone newer ones...
(Owner of a 1970 British motorcycle, "powered" by Lucas.)
Seriously though, my 03 minivan has 80k+ miles on it, and other than normal wear and tear parts the only thing that's gone wrong is a little bulb that lights the clock on the dash. I have changed the oil once in the last 4 years on my 03 Suzuki motorcycle, otherwise I have lubed the chain & checked the tire pressures - it starts every time. I used to work on my motorcycles etc, but don't have the time, inclination or most importantly need to anymore. Modern vehicles are amazing.
I have read that there's also the possibility of adding a Broadcom decoder chip to offload the work of video decoding, which might allow 1080p video while keeping power consumption low. That's what I'd like to see in my next netbook.
From TFA:
"The difficulty, officials said, is that adding encryption to a network that is more than a decade old involves more than placing a new piece of equipment on individual drones. Instead, many components of the network linking the drones to their operators in the U.S., Afghanistan or Pakistan have to be upgraded to handle the changes."
So they didn't do it because it's complicated and expensive and until July, they hadn't seen that anyone was grabbing the streams.
I tried a few things in our small business before settling on Zoneminder with a PV-149 8-port analog card & analog cameras. I have it running on a cheap Dell server (Pentium Dual Core, I think), and several weeks of events can be kept on the 80GB drive. It has been an extremely reliable setup for the last couple of years. If you use the Axis IP cameras with their own event triggering you can get away with a very low-powered machine, but the image processing otherwise means you want something at least halfway decent. If your box is powerful enough I can't see why Asterisk wouldn't run ok as well, but I haven't tried that yet. For a while I had it running with some cheap USB webcams, but they weren't as stable as the analog cams, and it's easy to get analog cams that switch over to IR in the dark.
I have lived in Europe and the US - people in Europe really have a hard time understanding the American way of driving. Every winter we (family of 4, plus dog) take a trip of 2000 miles round trip, and most summers we take another of 1000 miles. A 400 mile round trip camping trip is something we do twice a year. No way am I going to rent a van 4+ times a year, I love my minivan and all its creature comforts.
Look at the statistics - Americans have almost twice as many cars per head as in Europe, and they drive each of those cars almost twice as far each year. The fact that we get our fuel "almost for free" may not justify such behavior, but it does help explain it.
I think that a lot of Europeans kid themselves that their virtuous behavior is due to a moral superiority when really, if fuel suddenly cost one third of what it does now in Norway, I'd predict in a couple of years you'd be seeing a lot of V8s on your roads.
Until oil prices go up, don't expect any good technology to prevail. The four stroke petrol engine will die, but not before oil costs increase.
First, there aren't diesel fuel subsidies in Europe; the reason people there buy "poor performing, smaller cars" is because fuel taxes there are much much higher than in the US. So you don't have to wait until oil prices go up, you can tax consumption and watch the market adjust. Americans started buying a lot more small cars when gas hit $4/gal; imagine if it were taxed up to $8 as in most of Europe.
Yeah, maybe not for a geek, but if you were getting one for a spouse or kid it would be fun.
This actually seems like a great way to give someone an iphone or touch for Christmas - way cooler than just leaving it in the standard box. Plus since you'll have already charged it up it's ready to go right away.
I lived in London in the mid 90s - already by then even lots of kids had phones, largely due to the fact that they were cheap to have and get calls on, though they were expensive to actually MAKE calls on. Which I guess is why texting took off in Europe before it did here. I wouldn't be surprised if they were also common across Scandinavia by then.