I figured as much. The claimed variance in rate of decay is so miniscule that it doesn't change anything, not that they'd be willing to acknowledge anything that disagrees with their views.
- An entire planet existing as a city? This makes no sense from a material logistics point of view, at all. There is nothing like this in Star Trek.
I happen to like Star Trek more, but I also think ST is very often worse in this respect. One episode featured a Dyson sphere, in a form even more aggressive than what Freeman Dyson envisioned.
No, teachbook.com is a social networking site, which is why Facebook is after it. None of your examples appear to be social networking sites. Whether you agree with that distinction for trademarks is a different matter, but it should not be that hard to discern the difference.
One thing I don't get is why people would pay $80 for a photo of him, other than maybe a press bureau. Is it because he's the hair model of the Lego minifigs?
That's the only way for a reboot to make sense in the context of a flight sim. The story line isn't very long, maybe unless you tie it to a war, each edition covering a year of said war, with missions and craft specific to that year.
I hope it is stable. For one thing, every other Firefox patch update seems to break and fix pdf file associations on my computer and the problem doesn't seem fixable under their setup pane. It was enough for me to try the alternatives.
Do you think Doritos would be allowed to sell bags as "up to a pound" when they averaged 9oz and some had quite a bit less? The big problem is it's one way. When you are promised Xmbps, you get some number, Y, where Y
If they say "up to" they can provide any speed between and including zero and the "up to" figure and still be correct.
I don't think anyone expects any industry to deliver more than promised, seems to be a lost cause.
This problem will not go away so easily when the average person isn't paying attention and even supposedly technically knowledgeable people do not understand the language enough to see the weaseling before they sign up. Then there's the problem where a/. submitter and editor do not understand basic statistical terms.
I was just going to post the same thing. Looking through 12 pages of "geek squad" images, I don't see any images that Best Buy uses that could be confused with this one.
I hope that's sarcasm, there's plenty of similarity between the "God Squad" logo they used on their Beetle and the "Geek Squad" logos on their Beetles, changing the letters in one word makes it a pretty simple case of trademark rip-off.
I think it's easy to tell the difference just by reading the top word, but Best Buy can't afford to allow an unauthorized entity to reappropriate their trademark.
I'm not seeing how this improves fuel efficiency unless you're always turning. Unless you live on a winding road, it's hard to see how someone is on a tight enough curve for this to change efficiency on typical roads.
A lot of cars seem to have enough caster built into their suspensions, I don't know how increasing that will change efficiency. Another thing to consider is that changing caster probably won't require special tires, and this guy is out to sell special tires. I would guess that it's more an astroturf on a green blog than an actual product that helps fuel economy.
When you call an individual, you give one person your phone number. When you mail someone, you give one person your address. And often, you want them to have your number and address. Cell phones aren't listed. A geotagged photo might be available to millions of people.
To use a register of deeds, wouldn't you need to have an actual address to start with?
Metadata can lie, but the tools to make it lie are hardly convenient.
I guess MMA is Mixed Martial Arts, I've never heard of that term or acronym before.
Humans have been into aggression for since before the dawn of the earliest civilizations, do you really think it's going to go away any time soon? Maybe you need to brush up on your history a little bit, "civilized" societies can and do go from their pinnacle to their worst in short time spans, shockingly short if there is a lot of pent-up tension. In some ways, I think it might be argued that civilized societies pretend they are free of humanity's worst aspects, when it's just denial or turning a blind eye.
I see it both ways. I watch 3D movies and enjoy it as an occasional treat, but I don't know if I want to watch everything in 3D, not with the current technology. I don't mind watching one 3D film a month, but I don't know if I want to watch 3D every night or every weekend. I'm not convinced that this round of 3D is a fad, that can go both ways as well. People groused about not needing sound, stereo, surround, color, widescreen, HD, I think 3D will eventually fall into the standard way of doing things, whether it takes hold in the next five years or 20 years from now, I think it's eventually going to be accepted.
And yes, I agree, it MUST be made up front with 3D in mind or forget it. The Pixar shots I've seen look fantastic, but they also have a relatively easy way to manage it compared to physical production (more sliders vs. a bigger, more complicated camera rig), and I've attended a presentation where some Pixar cinematographers discussed their methods and intents, and they do talk about how they adjust the apparent 3D depth and other factors to enhance the mood, and they're very careful to not to too much of the extreme "in your face" 3D.
The problem is the motivation. Until the market pushes for cheaper and more energy-efficient, there isn't much motivation. From what I gather, trying to improve the speed while keeping the price as high as possible is more profitable than just letting the price slide and improving efficiency. Staying afloat financially in the high tech business is pretty hard as it is, so I really don't blame them for not going down on price if they can avoid it.
Maybe you're not representative of a typical user in the broad sense? Slashdot and Fark represent niches, not the general population. Heck, not even I try to read such huge threads, I keep./ at a level where I only see the top 20 or so posts, even on a desktop computer. I'm not interested in reading page after page on a 3.5" screen.
The cost of the mission is largely related to the cost of making and launching the rover. The reason why probes are made of exotic materials and fold up so compactly is that every kilogram costs tens of thousands of dollars to launch into space, and increased physical size means a larger & heavier shell. The increased cost of materials is more than made up by the reduced cost of fuel. The bigger and heavier the rover, the more it costs to send it to Mars. They can only get so much budget for a project, so they make the project fit the budget as well as they can. The successes appear to have made it easier to get more money for larger successive missions.
Sojourner did pretty darn well against expectations and it had smaller wheels . Spirit and Opportunity were considerably larger and it greatly exceeded expectations in terms of what it discovered and how long they lasted.
Something I forgot to mention is that it's tough to pay extra to a telco or cable company to extend service to an area they decide isn't worth it. I think I offered $10,000 to the local cable company to put in more equipment or lay cable, I was only a mile outside their regular grid and told there just wasn't a process for that, they just wouldn't give me a price.
For a couple years, I was paying quite a lot just so I can get a T1 line, it was $450/mo at the time. I had hoped to use various wireless devices to sell high speed internet to the neighbors. There were two takers in WiFi range, given proper antennas. I loaned one subscriber a huge 24" ft dish for 2 mile range, the guy with the dish ended up getting cable because the company decided to offer service in his direction, though still not my direction. I ended up giving up because the equipment I had wasn't reliable enough to push the service to a wider base, and I didn't have the patience or money to invest in better equipment.
I've never had UPS or FedEx say they can't deliver a package. One thing they do is hand it off to their competitor, that might be cheaper to do than to handle the package themselves. They also trade packages when one or the other has a glut somewhere, I guess they probably find it cheaper to trade services than to build excess capacity to handle the busy times.
Another thing I've seen them do is charge a slightly higher fee for delivery to remote destinations, the worst of which that I've found was maybe $3 a package, not too bad in my opinion.
I don't know if sound is that much of an improvement, what fraction of cars to people look at when they hear one in a parking lot? Pedestrians should be looking both ways before crossing traffic lanes, whether they hear something or not.
It's too bad that we can't expect people to be good drivers, good driving is probably the best safety measure of all.
I hope whatever measure is taken doesn't make EVs annoying. I hate vehicles that have those piercingly loud and high pitched backup sounds.
Frankly, I've never heard of people thinking one product is less than a different product just by comparing version numbers. I don't doubt they exist, but I really don't think that would ultimately work if the implementation isn't up to par.
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Or the Nazis? Eisenhower took the idea of the interstate highway system from the Nazi's Autobahn. Hitler must approve.
Crazy how crazy people can't decide whether were going to the far right or the far left. Mr. Beck seems to be bipolar in that respect.
I figured as much. The claimed variance in rate of decay is so miniscule that it doesn't change anything, not that they'd be willing to acknowledge anything that disagrees with their views.
- An entire planet existing as a city? This makes no sense from a material logistics point of view, at all. There is nothing like this in Star Trek.
I happen to like Star Trek more, but I also think ST is very often worse in this respect. One episode featured a Dyson sphere, in a form even more aggressive than what Freeman Dyson envisioned.
No, teachbook.com is a social networking site, which is why Facebook is after it. None of your examples appear to be social networking sites. Whether you agree with that distinction for trademarks is a different matter, but it should not be that hard to discern the difference.
One thing I don't get is why people would pay $80 for a photo of him, other than maybe a press bureau. Is it because he's the hair model of the Lego minifigs?
That's the only way for a reboot to make sense in the context of a flight sim. The story line isn't very long, maybe unless you tie it to a war, each edition covering a year of said war, with missions and craft specific to that year.
I hope it is stable. For one thing, every other Firefox patch update seems to break and fix pdf file associations on my computer and the problem doesn't seem fixable under their setup pane. It was enough for me to try the alternatives.
Do you think Doritos would be allowed to sell bags as "up to a pound" when they averaged 9oz and some had quite a bit less? The big problem is it's one way. When you are promised Xmbps, you get some number, Y, where Y
If they say "up to" they can provide any speed between and including zero and the "up to" figure and still be correct.
I don't think anyone expects any industry to deliver more than promised, seems to be a lost cause.
This problem will not go away so easily when the average person isn't paying attention and even supposedly technically knowledgeable people do not understand the language enough to see the weaseling before they sign up. Then there's the problem where a /. submitter and editor do not understand basic statistical terms.
I should add to this that there is probably an exemption for parody, it would be a stretch to call this a parody use.
I was just going to post the same thing. Looking through 12 pages of "geek squad" images, I don't see any images that Best Buy uses that could be confused with this one.
I hope that's sarcasm, there's plenty of similarity between the "God Squad" logo they used on their Beetle and the "Geek Squad" logos on their Beetles, changing the letters in one word makes it a pretty simple case of trademark rip-off.
I think it's easy to tell the difference just by reading the top word, but Best Buy can't afford to allow an unauthorized entity to reappropriate their trademark.
I'm not seeing how this improves fuel efficiency unless you're always turning. Unless you live on a winding road, it's hard to see how someone is on a tight enough curve for this to change efficiency on typical roads.
A lot of cars seem to have enough caster built into their suspensions, I don't know how increasing that will change efficiency. Another thing to consider is that changing caster probably won't require special tires, and this guy is out to sell special tires. I would guess that it's more an astroturf on a green blog than an actual product that helps fuel economy.
When you call an individual, you give one person your phone number. When you mail someone, you give one person your address. And often, you want them to have your number and address. Cell phones aren't listed. A geotagged photo might be available to millions of people.
To use a register of deeds, wouldn't you need to have an actual address to start with?
Metadata can lie, but the tools to make it lie are hardly convenient.
The CBC story doesn't mention photos and videos.
Seems like several businesses were trying to hail a "second age" of airships. They come and go, and I'm sure they want us to forget that history too.
I guess MMA is Mixed Martial Arts, I've never heard of that term or acronym before.
Humans have been into aggression for since before the dawn of the earliest civilizations, do you really think it's going to go away any time soon? Maybe you need to brush up on your history a little bit, "civilized" societies can and do go from their pinnacle to their worst in short time spans, shockingly short if there is a lot of pent-up tension. In some ways, I think it might be argued that civilized societies pretend they are free of humanity's worst aspects, when it's just denial or turning a blind eye.
I see it both ways. I watch 3D movies and enjoy it as an occasional treat, but I don't know if I want to watch everything in 3D, not with the current technology. I don't mind watching one 3D film a month, but I don't know if I want to watch 3D every night or every weekend. I'm not convinced that this round of 3D is a fad, that can go both ways as well. People groused about not needing sound, stereo, surround, color, widescreen, HD, I think 3D will eventually fall into the standard way of doing things, whether it takes hold in the next five years or 20 years from now, I think it's eventually going to be accepted.
And yes, I agree, it MUST be made up front with 3D in mind or forget it. The Pixar shots I've seen look fantastic, but they also have a relatively easy way to manage it compared to physical production (more sliders vs. a bigger, more complicated camera rig), and I've attended a presentation where some Pixar cinematographers discussed their methods and intents, and they do talk about how they adjust the apparent 3D depth and other factors to enhance the mood, and they're very careful to not to too much of the extreme "in your face" 3D.
The problem is the motivation. Until the market pushes for cheaper and more energy-efficient, there isn't much motivation. From what I gather, trying to improve the speed while keeping the price as high as possible is more profitable than just letting the price slide and improving efficiency. Staying afloat financially in the high tech business is pretty hard as it is, so I really don't blame them for not going down on price if they can avoid it.
Maybe you're not representative of a typical user in the broad sense? Slashdot and Fark represent niches, not the general population. Heck, not even I try to read such huge threads, I keep ./ at a level where I only see the top 20 or so posts, even on a desktop computer. I'm not interested in reading page after page on a 3.5" screen.
The cost of the mission is largely related to the cost of making and launching the rover. The reason why probes are made of exotic materials and fold up so compactly is that every kilogram costs tens of thousands of dollars to launch into space, and increased physical size means a larger & heavier shell. The increased cost of materials is more than made up by the reduced cost of fuel. The bigger and heavier the rover, the more it costs to send it to Mars. They can only get so much budget for a project, so they make the project fit the budget as well as they can. The successes appear to have made it easier to get more money for larger successive missions.
Sojourner did pretty darn well against expectations and it had smaller wheels . Spirit and Opportunity were considerably larger and it greatly exceeded expectations in terms of what it discovered and how long they lasted.
For the most part, I agree, this is all information you can get with Google.
However, Facebook's privacy settings are change often and can be confusing. The blame really should go to Facebook at least for that.
Something I forgot to mention is that it's tough to pay extra to a telco or cable company to extend service to an area they decide isn't worth it. I think I offered $10,000 to the local cable company to put in more equipment or lay cable, I was only a mile outside their regular grid and told there just wasn't a process for that, they just wouldn't give me a price.
For a couple years, I was paying quite a lot just so I can get a T1 line, it was $450/mo at the time. I had hoped to use various wireless devices to sell high speed internet to the neighbors. There were two takers in WiFi range, given proper antennas. I loaned one subscriber a huge 24" ft dish for 2 mile range, the guy with the dish ended up getting cable because the company decided to offer service in his direction, though still not my direction. I ended up giving up because the equipment I had wasn't reliable enough to push the service to a wider base, and I didn't have the patience or money to invest in better equipment.
I've never had UPS or FedEx say they can't deliver a package. One thing they do is hand it off to their competitor, that might be cheaper to do than to handle the package themselves. They also trade packages when one or the other has a glut somewhere, I guess they probably find it cheaper to trade services than to build excess capacity to handle the busy times.
Another thing I've seen them do is charge a slightly higher fee for delivery to remote destinations, the worst of which that I've found was maybe $3 a package, not too bad in my opinion.
I don't know if sound is that much of an improvement, what fraction of cars to people look at when they hear one in a parking lot? Pedestrians should be looking both ways before crossing traffic lanes, whether they hear something or not.
It's too bad that we can't expect people to be good drivers, good driving is probably the best safety measure of all.
I hope whatever measure is taken doesn't make EVs annoying. I hate vehicles that have those piercingly loud and high pitched backup sounds.
Frankly, I've never heard of people thinking one product is less than a different product just by comparing version numbers. I don't doubt they exist, but I really don't think that would ultimately work if the implementation isn't up to par.
Did you miss the headline? Is there a data center in the Himalayas? If not, then it's not in the running for "most remote data center".
Besides, a location that you can't even get near for half the year seems to win.