I was going to suggest little teeny tiny earpieces for the bees, but then I got to thinking - isn't Bluetooth radio waves too? Will nothing save the bees and us from this onslaught of radiation!
At this point it's pretty obvious that BP is out of ideas - well, aside from a nuke - so maybe chewing gum is the next option?
You know, If I was drilling oil via a pipe that went 5000 ft straight down into the water I'd have made sure there was a pretty much foolproof way to shut the damned thing down before beginning.
Good on MS for building on their twenty years of technical marketing triumphs like the MS mouse, the wavy keyboard, the Zun... ah... did I mention the mouse?
The goal of FB is to sell eyeballs to advertisers. Like Google they figured out that packaging users into nice groups makes them worth more money.
What they're doing now is eliminating all of the people that likely aren't making them revenue - the losers, the people with no profile info, the grouches that aren't in the advertiser's target group.
In other words, every time some slashdotter or blogger drops out of Facebook they're actually helping FB to be MORE successful!
Maybe things have changed in the last few years, but the last time I checked the real problem was the lack of anything suitable for small - to mid-sized groups.
Raiser's Edge will surely do darned near anything, but you have to have both the budget and the dedicated staff to make it worthwhile. The average small non-profit lacks both of those resources.
What would be really wonderful is a small, easy to use but flexible system that creates easily exportable files structures.
Sadly the norm seems to be Filemaker hacks thats some well-intended volunteer created just before leaving town.
(We won't talk about inheriting ten years of fundraising data, each year in seperate file, with changing field names and data types, from seven different programs ranging between dBase, FM, Excel, and Word...)
(Or that the volunteer neglected to leave behind the admin password because he didn't want anyone messing with his masterpiece.)
In my case, the problem was simple - I was shoveling gravel, moved wrong with a heavy shovel extended, and shifted a bone ever so slightly out of place
I'm sorry, but is that even possible? As far as I know (IANAD or AC)all of our bones are pretty much solidly in place thanks to muscle, ligaments and other stuff. I suspect that if a bone became "out of place" you'd be writhing around in the back of an ambulance, not trekking to mall to find a chiropractor.
Now if you can tell me that a trained medical professional (aka "real" doctor) using diagnostic imaging equipment made that diagnosis I may be convinced. Otherwise I'll assume you had nothing more than a strained muscle.
Given the horrid behavior of Facebook over the last month I'm feeling a lot better about Google. Maybe they're equally sleazy, but at least they don't whack you over the head with their sleaze.
If anything it's Facebook's "We honestly don't give a shit what you think 'cause millions of others won't care what we do as long as they've got Farmville" attitude that annoys me more than the privacy issues.
... crack it open and you can remove the wireless card and replace it with your own... the wireless card had been glued to the router board... I ended up using a pair of scissors to pry them apart and I thought for certain I had ruined either the card or the router board.
Most people want to know how to do things better. It's just that a lot of people are really lousy trainers. And a lot of managers think that training is money wasted.
When did we abandon the idea of including training in system implementation? If you're considering a system like this you need to also be prepared to sit down each user (or groups of same) and teach them how to use it most effectively.
And to provide hand-holding and support for some period afterwards, and to provide user friendly (not "man pages") documentation for the moments when they forget how to do something.
I'd argue that anonymous (or pseudonymous) speech is far less damaging than identifiable speech, precisely because we don't know who's saying it and whether they are credible or not.
That's actually a viable point to make when you're defending yourself in the lawsuit. Beyond that though "I don't like it!" is not really considered a serious defense in court - not in Canada anyhow.
Despite reducing the number of cars entering this intersection during a red light, RLC do not seem to prevent traffic collisions at this monitored intersection. Alternative means of injury prevention must be investigated.
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I was going to suggest little teeny tiny earpieces for the bees, but then I got to thinking - isn't Bluetooth radio waves too? Will nothing save the bees and us from this onslaught of radiation!
Wow - modded flamebait AND redundant! Why do I think that BP has some people following this discussion! I'm so proud!
At this point it's pretty obvious that BP is out of ideas - well, aside from a nuke - so maybe chewing gum is the next option?
You know, If I was drilling oil via a pipe that went 5000 ft straight down into the water I'd have made sure there was a pretty much foolproof way to shut the damned thing down before beginning.
Try self-trepanning and see what's on your mind!
Maybe one solar panel can run a PC and ten monitors, but how do you power the Cappuccino maker?
Good on MS for building on their twenty years of technical marketing triumphs like the MS mouse, the wavy keyboard, the Zun... ah... did I mention the mouse?
Hey Taco! "Vulnerable" and "Affected by" are not synonyms.
By all indications the guy is a jerk. In any setting there are expectations of a professional level of behaviour, and he chose not to abide by them.
These are not the 1960s. No one in academia can claim not to understand where the line is drawn when interacting with other colleagues.
"It was just a joke" has long since ceased to be an adequate excuse for offensive behaviour.
You can (allegedly) actually delete it, but you need to find the secret link and wait out a two week cooling off period.
In several US States you can actually buy a handgun faster than you can delete your Facebook account.
The goal of FB is to sell eyeballs to advertisers. Like Google they figured out that packaging users into nice groups makes them worth more money.
What they're doing now is eliminating all of the people that likely aren't making them revenue - the losers, the people with no profile info, the grouches that aren't in the advertiser's target group.
In other words, every time some slashdotter or blogger drops out of Facebook they're actually helping FB to be MORE successful!
Maybe things have changed in the last few years, but the last time I checked the real problem was the lack of anything suitable for small - to mid-sized groups.
Raiser's Edge will surely do darned near anything, but you have to have both the budget and the dedicated staff to make it worthwhile. The average small non-profit lacks both of those resources.
What would be really wonderful is a small, easy to use but flexible system that creates easily exportable files structures.
Sadly the norm seems to be Filemaker hacks thats some well-intended volunteer created just before leaving town.
(We won't talk about inheriting ten years of fundraising data, each year in seperate file, with changing field names and data types, from seven different programs ranging between dBase, FM, Excel, and Word...)
(Or that the volunteer neglected to leave behind the admin password because he didn't want anyone messing with his masterpiece.)
In my case, the problem was simple - I was shoveling gravel, moved wrong with a heavy shovel extended, and shifted a bone ever so slightly out of place
I'm sorry, but is that even possible? As far as I know (IANAD or AC)all of our bones are pretty much solidly in place thanks to muscle, ligaments and other stuff. I suspect that if a bone became "out of place" you'd be writhing around in the back of an ambulance, not trekking to mall to find a chiropractor.
Now if you can tell me that a trained medical professional (aka "real" doctor) using diagnostic imaging equipment made that diagnosis I may be convinced. Otherwise I'll assume you had nothing more than a strained muscle.
Given the horrid behavior of Facebook over the last month I'm feeling a lot better about Google. Maybe they're equally sleazy, but at least they don't whack you over the head with their sleaze.
If anything it's Facebook's "We honestly don't give a shit what you think 'cause millions of others won't care what we do as long as they've got Farmville" attitude that annoys me more than the privacy issues.
Tried that - they won't let me change my age to under 18 because people under 18 aren't allowed to make changes like that. Or something.
... crack it open and you can remove the wireless card and replace it with your own ... the wireless card had been glued to the router board ... I ended up using a pair of scissors to pry them apart and I thought for certain I had ruined either the card or the router board.
God I love slashdot.... always the best advice!
Most people want to know how to do things better. It's just that a lot of people are really lousy trainers. And a lot of managers think that training is money wasted.
When did we abandon the idea of including training in system implementation? If you're considering a system like this you need to also be prepared to sit down each user (or groups of same) and teach them how to use it most effectively.
And to provide hand-holding and support for some period afterwards, and to provide user friendly (not "man pages") documentation for the moments when they forget how to do something.
As noted repeatedly in TFA, the phone actually has - gasp! - recognizable SEAMS!
Oh how the mighty have fallen.... I am so disappointed, and will choose to stay with my Moto ROKR!
...pulled this off four or five decades ago! In Asia as I recall.
Inventors these days just don't cut the mustard!
I'd argue that anonymous (or pseudonymous) speech is far less damaging than identifiable speech, precisely because we don't know who's saying it and whether they are credible or not.
That's actually a viable point to make when you're defending yourself in the lawsuit. Beyond that though "I don't like it!" is not really considered a serious defense in court - not in Canada anyhow.
Wow - the comments on the Globe and Mail site are even less informed than those found on Slashdot for discussions like this!
What's hard to understand? If you write or broadcast something libelous or slanderous you risk a lawsuit.
Just because you identified yourself as Poopybear4556 doesn't eliminate your liability.
If you don't want to be identified the onus is on you to hide yourself, not on whoever runs a web site.
How will I tell the "promoted Tweets" from the everyday Twitter spam?
Wow, no doubt in mind that the Kin and the Pre are facing a real battle for market share!
The guy does 400+ successful installs, then runs into a decidedly obscure hardware problem, and people flame him? And Windows 7?
Yee Gods. Get a life folks. I read this as a success story, both for the author and for Microsoft.