What's difference between talking on a phone and talking to someone I am traveling with as far as noise disruption?
Because of low (or absent) sidetone on cell phones, people tend to speak much more loudly than they would in a regular conversation. Additionally, if the connection is poor people tend to shout. This is why most people find cell conversations disruptive.
I flew from San Francisco to Los Angeles, and the people behind me talked loudly non-stop about golf the whole way. Aaaargh! If only I had a golf club handy I might have joined the conversation... (I was halfway through a 30+ hour flight from London to Sydney at the time, and I was rather tired and short of patience).
So there had better be "yakking" and "non-yakking" compartments on planes if mobile/cell phones are allowed. We have "quiet carriages" on some of our trains now.
Right now I am imagining a bug that causes a self-printing printer to go out of control, so that the printers keeps printing printers that keep printing printers that keep...
Xperia Z1 was released same day as iPhone 5s. It is faster, waterproof, and has higher res 1080 screen. It also has a 20.7MP camera with a much larger 1/2.3" sensor.
I thought you could get an app that makes the iPhone waterproof? Yeah, here's the ad.
More interesting: how does this compare to the overall number of self-published e-books? Afaik self-publishing as a whole is growing fast, too. If the number of self-published titles has doubled, it's no wonder zombie-titles doubled too.
Even more interesting: the number of zombies has doubled too.
So this is the year of the Linux "everything except the desktop": phones, tablets, networks, servers, entertainment units, cars, everything with Android, etc... even your Chromebook. But not your desktop.
If you're that paranoid, you'll have to build the motherboard yourself.
Actually, if you are that paranoid you would have to build yourself first. Otherwise someone might have implanted something in you that restricts your freedom.
It all goes back to the fact that we cannot trust Ken Thompson. And it is not like he could trust anybody...
So you mean to tell me all those people in the passing lane, who are driving significantly slower than the speed limit, weaving from side to side within their lane, and have their head tilted over, looking down, with their cell phone clamped to their ear are safe drivers?????
Yes, but the drivers driving near them are unsafe. They keep panicking when the cell-phioning drivers swerve too near - while the cell-phoning drivers remain calm (or "oblivious", as I like to call it) during the maneuver.
Sure I would - after I had read the studies about its reliability and watched you do it first.
I have had really good people take blood from a vein (including a nervous pathology collector who did a perfect job) and at least one agonising experience (medical registrar).
At least you don't have to make inane conversation with robodracula while it drills for oil in your arm (oops, that was the medical registrar).
Finally we can see that Linux Road Plan that Microsoft claims the open source world has never had.
* Linux 3.11 for Workgroups * Linux 95 * Linux 98 * Linux 98 SE (one of the better kernels) * Linux ME (Linus should be ashamed of this one) * Linux 2000 (aka Linux 2K) * Linux XP - which people will use for years to come) * Linux Vista (like Linux ME only worse on a bigger scale) * Linux 7 (the one they'll get right) * Linux 8 Metro edition - the first one to run on ARM chips? which takes us so far into the future that the road plan disappears.
Microsoft always knew that the open source world was derivative - just ripping off the commercial innovators.
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Sad, isn't it? We live under far worse tyranny today than we did under King George III.
You could always revoke the Declaration of Independence.
The chromebook primary market is the home users.
And schools. So ... The chromebook primary market is the home and school users.
Key!
Damn! That should be "Hey!"
Who said the Kindle is "the most evil"? I've not seen that. In what ways is it supposedly an evil device?
Just look at the word "Kindle" (=starting a burning fire ... as in hell) and the letters it contains:
The letters D, E, I, L are also found in the word "devil". And we all know that satan finds work for IDLE hands!
The letters L, I, E (which spells "lie" - a work of the devil) are found in the word "Lucifer". Kindle contains a lie from Lucifer.
And N, I, K are found in "Nick" (as in the satanic name "Old Nick"). Kindle is "kin" with Old Nick!
Every letter in the word "Kindle" is found in one or more of the common names for the devil.
It is positiviely brimming with evil! (Key! "brimstone" - get it?)
It's no wonder that mice are so successful as a species. We put so much effort into making them healthier.
Now we are giving them the elixir of youth as well.
What's difference between talking on a phone and talking to someone I am traveling with as far as noise disruption?
Because of low (or absent) sidetone on cell phones, people tend to speak much more loudly than they would in a regular conversation. Additionally, if the connection is poor people tend to shout. This is why most people find cell conversations disruptive.
I flew from San Francisco to Los Angeles, and the people behind me talked loudly non-stop about golf the whole way. Aaaargh! If only I had a golf club handy I might have joined the conversation... (I was halfway through a 30+ hour flight from London to Sydney at the time, and I was rather tired and short of patience).
So there had better be "yakking" and "non-yakking" compartments on planes if mobile/cell phones are allowed. We have "quiet carriages" on some of our trains now.
Right now I am imagining a bug that causes a self-printing printer to go out of control, so that the printers keeps printing printers that keep printing printers that keep ...
Elop has succeeded in destroying Nokia.
"Mission accomplished!"
It is "Fear and consumption".
A way to keep the populations under control. The Roman Empire used "Bread and circuses".
2000 years, and nothing has changed.
In the case of the Roman Empire, the "fear" part was obviously the circus clowns.
New phone almost as fast as month old phone.
Xperia Z1 was released same day as iPhone 5s. It is faster, waterproof, and has higher res 1080 screen. It also has a 20.7MP camera with a much larger 1/2.3" sensor.
I thought you could get an app that makes the iPhone waterproof?
Yeah, here's the ad.
There's probably a better way to research gravity than randomly throwing satellites at the earth...
Yeah. We should clearly be throwing satellites at the earth in a systematic fashion!
Just tried this with TCC (Fabrice Bellard's Tiny C Compiler) and GCC:
tcc: I got first post!
gcc: No, I got first post!
More interesting: how does this compare to the overall number of self-published e-books? Afaik self-publishing as a whole is growing fast, too. If the number of self-published titles has doubled, it's no wonder zombie-titles doubled too.
Even more interesting: the number of zombies has doubled too.
So this is the year of the Linux "everything except the desktop": phones, tablets, networks, servers, entertainment units, cars, everything with Android, etc... even your Chromebook. But not your desktop.
Yet.
Cats must have very clean brains!?
It's hard work running the world and performing the duties of an Egyptian god.
Every cat knows that the human race is merely there to serve them and that's a huge responsibility.
And then there's scripting all those funny cat videos just to keep us humans (their pets) amused.
No wonder cats are tired out most of the time.
This is about Oracle and well they have PostgresSQL beat by a mile
If you need that mile of bookshelves for people to be able to use your product, something has gone horribly wrong.
Oracle - a quick evaluation:
Pro: Everything can be configured.
Con: Everything has to be configured.
Utter rubbish. The French eat meat and have a high fat diet, but have a very low incidence of heart problems
Your link is to a fad-diet site.
Ah, the French Paradox. Not sure whether that is actually valid:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_paradox#Theory_that_the_French_paradox_is_a_statistical_illusion
Where does it say that "State Secrets" trumps the constitution?
That's classified information.
Of course, back then, we burned people at the stake for such ideas...
Can you name any actual historically verified case where a person was burned at the stake for thinking or saying that life came from Mars?
Or is this just one more made up "fact" about another age of history and how superior we are today?
If you're that paranoid, you'll have to build the motherboard yourself.
Actually, if you are that paranoid you would have to build yourself first. Otherwise someone might have implanted something in you that restricts your freedom.
It all goes back to the fact that we cannot trust Ken Thompson. And it is not like he could trust anybody...
So you mean to tell me all those people in the passing lane, who are driving significantly slower than the speed limit, weaving from side to side within their lane, and have their head tilted over, looking down, with their cell phone clamped to their ear are safe drivers?????
Yes, but the drivers driving near them are unsafe. They keep panicking when the cell-phioning drivers swerve too near - while the cell-phoning drivers remain calm (or "oblivious", as I like to call it) during the maneuver.
Where do you expect this Windows 8 and Surface fiasco will ultimately take Microsoft? What will happen?
Windows 9 will be 'The best Windows ever! Now with NEW mouse and Start Menu support!'
But Microsoft spends a lot of time telling us how terrible the last version of Windows was. Every release, they pan the old version.
Why not get ahead of the pack and pan the new one too?
After all, you know they are going to pan it as well eventually.
Sure I would - after I had read the studies about its reliability and watched you do it first.
I have had really good people take blood from a vein (including a nervous pathology collector who did a perfect job) and at least one agonising experience (medical registrar).
At least you don't have to make inane conversation with robodracula while it drills for oil in your arm (oops, that was the medical registrar).
Finally we can see that Linux Road Plan that Microsoft claims the open source world has never had.
* Linux 3.11 for Workgroups
* Linux 95
* Linux 98
* Linux 98 SE (one of the better kernels)
* Linux ME (Linus should be ashamed of this one)
* Linux 2000 (aka Linux 2K)
* Linux XP - which people will use for years to come)
* Linux Vista (like Linux ME only worse on a bigger scale)
* Linux 7 (the one they'll get right)
* Linux 8 Metro edition - the first one to run on ARM chips?
which takes us so far into the future that the road plan disappears.
Microsoft always knew that the open source world was derivative - just ripping off the commercial innovators.
I don't know but... isn't THAT some kind of treason or betrayal of your fellow countrymen or something?
Damn that unpatriotic Telstra! They should have been spying for the Australian government. How dare they spy for another government instead.