It's not a non-replaceable battery. It's a non-user-replaceable battery. $129 gets you a new one, and Apple will install it. That's cheaper than most spare batteries.
Also, I don't know if you've used a glossy screen, but I'm switching to them. I got a glossy Sony LCD that I love, and a MacBook that I take everywhere and love even more. Glare shmare.
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I wish IBM (Big Blue) would buy Sun and rename the new company Blue Sun.
And while they say that they factored out irrelevant things like petroleum use (what if smog is a factor? never mind), it's simple economics that cable roll-outs occurred first in high-income neighborhoods with new construction close to urban areas. Similarly, I'm getting Verizon's fiber-to-the-door (FiOS) service in my neighborhood now - when will it roll out in Wisconsin?
The highest rates of autism are in silicon valley, the Baltimore-Washington corridor, North Carolina's red triangle, and Boston. These are also places that got cable pretty early, but the more important factor, to me, is that they're places where geeky Asperger's types congregate. Several studies have shown that kids with autism tend to have older (but not OLD) fathers and more analytical than average parents. Sounds like geek breeding habits to me, but what do I know.
Besides, they're also reporting that it's genetic today:
As the father of an autistic, I follow this stuff a little closer than the regular/. reader. So trust me when I tell you that new causes for autism come out in the news more often than iPod killers. And similarly, they almost never amount to anything. I've learned to take just about everything I hear about autism with a grain of salt. Jared, the son I was told would never talk or read or develop, is now reading above a first-grade level and doing well in Kindergarten. The kid they told me would never understand emotion or show affection told me on Friday, "It's good to have you home, daddy" and then gave me a big hug with an even bigger smile plastered on his face.
So don't trust anybody that tells you that they understand autism.
No, no, no. Locks are there to indicate that somebody has entered or opened the locked item by breaking the lock just like a wax seal on an envelope (with the advantage that you can relock them). If you had the illusion that they were preventing somebody from opening something, that's your problem.
I mean, no lock in the world is going to stop a determined attacker - anybody with a 10-pound sledgehammer can smash through the walls of your house, locks or no locks. But you can see that they've done it, just like when they cut a lock.
And thinner than the nomad. Why is it that only Apple seems to care about making pocket-sized objects that would actually fit in your pocket. I had a friend with some godawful ugly Creative iPod-Killer that he kept telling me was so much better, but the screen was tiny, the interface was worse than useless and it was almost twice as thick as my 3G iPod. Gah!
The question was never about genetic material, and there is no answer. It's meant to be a question of semantics: what do we mean by a chicken and what do we mean by a chicken egg?
Clearly a chicken egg is an egg layed by a chicken, so the chicken had to come first. But just as clearly, a chicken is just what it says: a chicken. So a chicken born from any egg is still a chicken, and the egg came before it. So the egg came first. And while an egg that hatches a chicken is clearly a chicken egg... well you take it from there: how many ways can you think of to define each so that it's first?
The point isn't to have an answer, it's to ask questions about the nature of things. So bravo to everyone invoved in TFA, because they don't know what the hell they're talking about.
How cute: Hatsumi wants to have it both ways. On the one hand, he says he teaches an art about avoiding confrontation and self-defense, on the other, he obtains his authority as a teacher from the fact that he's the apprentice of the last "fighting ninja" who was a bodyguard and assassin. Let's all meditate on that, shall we?
Sounds to me like Hatsumi is the one who lost the spirit of Ninjitsu.
At a demonstration I sponsored in June, she was able to show quite convincingly how a very small woman is able to take down, bind and otherwise incapacitate an assailant a foot taller, and several tens of pounds heavier. The assailant in this case was a student of classical Okinawan karate with an aproximately equal skill level.
At a demonstration sponsored by David Copperfield a few years back, he was able to show quite convincingly how a very small woman is able to turn into a tiger, and a totally-not-planted audience member (wink, wink) can be sawed in half. And put back together! Seriously, it was amazing.
Physics doesn't stop being physics because you play-fight a lot with your friends. To quote the greatest fighting movie ever, "It's a simple question of weight ratios." Smaller fists don't hit with the same force as bigger ones. Smaller muscles don't have the same strength as bigger ones.
SIZE is not the determining factor. TECHNIQUE is. Regardless of how well your opponent resists, it is, simply put, child's play to defeat an opponent, even one of equal or greater skill, if you adhere to basic principles of technique.
Yeah, that's why real martial arts have all gotten rid of weight classes. Cause, you know, technique is all that matters. Oh wait, even the UFC has weight classes. Dumbass.
Speaking of technique, do you all remember UFC 2? This "Ninja" Scott Morris ("We don't really know a lot about this guy, except that he's a ninja.") squared off against a kick-boxer, Pat Smith. Three or four elbows to the face later, the ninja is crumpling to the floor with his nose newly flattened and the kickboxer hasn't broken a sweat. Seriously, he broke this guy's orbital bone and took out some teeth. I don't know if all ninjas are frauds, but that guy was. Hey Scott, where's your shuriken now?
I can say from long experience that the victory goes not to the best trained, but to the one who fails to make mistakes.
Nice mumbo-jumbo, confucious, but wouldn't the one who makes the least mistakes be the one who trained the best? Go back through the fortune cookie fortunes you've glued to the mirror on your vanity and find something that makes sense.
Sad to seen an art form like this die out? What the hell are you talking about? This guy's best stories are ripping out eyeballs, and his best "technique" is pepper spray. We're not talking about art, we're talking about assassination. And an assassin is nothing more than a deadly whore. Except that whores make people happy and ninjas kill people. So they're lower than road whores.
> I think the only permission anybody ought to need in order to eavesdrop on a communication is the owner of the wire.
Evidently you need to go to classes on "common carriers" and "the right to privacy" just as much as the Bush legal team.
> If you want it to be unreadable, encrypt it.
And get everyone you know to use encryption. That interoperates. And exchange keys securely. And pray that the government doesn't have a trivial way of breaking whatever encryption you choose. Feh. Not much of an option.
> I sincerely doubt that I am that person or one of his correspondents, unless he is a spammer.
Or unless any one of the thousands of people who will have access to such a system are in the least bit unscrupulous. It only takes one.
Did everybody forget about those FBI agents up in New England who used unclassified information about ongoing investigations to blackmail and extort money from big companies? Or the sysadmin who left his job at a call center and took all of the customer SSNs and credit cards with him?
It only takes one bad apple with access to your personal info to screw you over.
And now that the Bush administration has decided that it can decide who is and isnt a terrorist without a trial and then keep those people (even American citizens) in jail in gitmo forever, you had better hope that none of your ex-girlfriends ever get a job scanning email headers. "I see that jdavidb has been sending encrypted emails to terrorists with a subject line about bombs. We should arrest him and torture him until he confesses."
Well, I don't know about the quantity of quality games, but the big sticking point for most people is the price. People are pretty comfortable with the GameBoy $100-$130 price range and $250 is pretty hight. Since there isn't a huge price difference between the 360 and the PS3, that guy's argument doesn't work.
Interesting - when did this become about democrats and republicans? I know I didn't mention either.
I guess we'll add you to the deeply partisan camp. =-)
But answer your points:
Rwanda: everybody ignored that, not just the Dems. There's enough blame to go around on that one. Darfur?
Military Spending, et. al: actually, that's the Gingrich-led Republican Revolution that you're thinking of. Remember? They were the ones that closed all the bases. Admittedly Clinton was president, but the Republicans wrote the budgets that cut the spending. And if you look at the kinds of programs that were cut, I'd say that both sides did a pretty good job: they cut the kind of military expenses that were much more useful in WWII and Korea than they are today. The fact that the Bushies are trying to fight that kind of war in Iraq with the wrong kind of military is just an example of their incompetence.
Wiretapping: What are you talking about? Are you one of those idiots who think that because the Bush whitehouse ran the idea of wiretapping past the gang of four that that counts as consent? Because... well, you're an idiot. =-)
Deeply Partisan: If you haven't noticed that folks on the right are a bit more partisan than folks on the left... well, then I'm sorry that you're blind. Nobody's innocent, but compare the statements that Rush, O'Reilly, Coulter, Hannity or Liddy make to anybody on the left - even Michael Moore if you'd like. There's no comparison. Saying that Bush's interests in Saudi Arabia might be slanting his perspective on Iraq isn't anything like Limbaugh accusing Hillary of murder and Bill of rape. You know? Go read "What Liberal Media?" By Eric Alterman.
We lefties get so upset because we care about our country not as a plot of land, but as the fulfillment of an ideal. Anybody can love the land they're from - there's nothing special about loving your mother. But we care about the things that truly make our country great: freedom, democracy, liberty, and transparency. And we absolutely despise Bush because he's taking the things that make America great and flushing them down the toilet.
We're losing the moral high ground - and that might just be the worst thing that Bush has taken away.
I recommend Typo to people willing to get their hands dirty. It's built on Ruby on Rails, uses AJAX, and all the other Web 2.0 goodness could want (tagging is in the works, feeds for everything, yellow fade, blue gradients).
I recommend Typo to people willing to get their hands dirty. It's built on Ruby on Rails, uses AJAX, and all the other Web 2.0 goodness could want (tagging is in the works, feeds for everything, yellow fade, blue gradients).
I posted this on my blog the other day, but I'd like more people to see it in case they want to add it to their talking points:
As far as I can tell from reading the testimony in the Dover trial, Intelligent Design is the belief that the universe was set in motion by God billions of years ago like a giant set of dominoes, and that God used evolution as part of his plan to create life on earth, but that God couldn't set up the dominoes properly, so evolution only worked some of the time. Evidently, God couldn't think of how to get the process of evolution to create certain features like eyeballs or little tails for germs, so he had to magic them into existence.
Really.
People who believe in Intelligent Design don't think God was smart enough to do what he set out to do in creating the earth without fudging things along the way.
I was always shocked that proponents of Intelligent Design were so bad at science, but now I'm even more shocked that they're so bad at theology. Who wants to worship a stupid God?
And more to the point, shouldn't they call it Stupid Design?
Waitaminute... The AMDs use less power and are faster than the Intels? And they're cheaper? Would somebody please explain to me again why Apple is moving to Intel?
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You've chosen some sloppy words there: there are no viruses in this story.
It's not a non-replaceable battery. It's a non-user-replaceable battery. $129 gets you a new one, and Apple will install it. That's cheaper than most spare batteries.
Also, I don't know if you've used a glossy screen, but I'm switching to them. I got a glossy Sony LCD that I love, and a MacBook that I take everywhere and love even more. Glare shmare.
I wish IBM (Big Blue) would buy Sun and rename the new company Blue Sun.
Somebody not only voted for Ron Paul but was willing to admit it? Wow - that kind of brazen lunacy is usually reserved for use in the south.
You're exactly right.
/. reader. So trust me when I tell you that new causes for autism come out in the news more often than iPod killers. And similarly, they almost never amount to anything. I've learned to take just about everything I hear about autism with a grain of salt. Jared, the son I was told would never talk or read or develop, is now reading above a first-grade level and doing well in Kindergarten. The kid they told me would never understand emotion or show affection told me on Friday, "It's good to have you home, daddy" and then gave me a big hug with an even bigger smile plastered on his face.
And while they say that they factored out irrelevant things like petroleum use (what if smog is a factor? never mind), it's simple economics that cable roll-outs occurred first in high-income neighborhoods with new construction close to urban areas. Similarly, I'm getting Verizon's fiber-to-the-door (FiOS) service in my neighborhood now - when will it roll out in Wisconsin?
The highest rates of autism are in silicon valley, the Baltimore-Washington corridor, North Carolina's red triangle, and Boston. These are also places that got cable pretty early, but the more important factor, to me, is that they're places where geeky Asperger's types congregate. Several studies have shown that kids with autism tend to have older (but not OLD) fathers and more analytical than average parents. Sounds like geek breeding habits to me, but what do I know.
Besides, they're also reporting that it's genetic today:
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/15294367/
As the father of an autistic, I follow this stuff a little closer than the regular
So don't trust anybody that tells you that they understand autism.
No, no, no. Locks are there to indicate that somebody has entered or opened the locked item by breaking the lock just like a wax seal on an envelope (with the advantage that you can relock them). If you had the illusion that they were preventing somebody from opening something, that's your problem.
I mean, no lock in the world is going to stop a determined attacker - anybody with a 10-pound sledgehammer can smash through the walls of your house, locks or no locks. But you can see that
they've done it, just like when they cut a lock.
Yeah, and that's why they would need highly-volatile chemicals... and not MATCHES and VODKA which are allowed - and served! - on the plane.
And thinner than the nomad. Why is it that only Apple seems to care about making pocket-sized objects that would actually fit in your pocket. I had a friend with some godawful ugly Creative iPod-Killer that he kept telling me was so much better, but the screen was tiny, the interface was worse than useless and it was almost twice as thick as my 3G iPod. Gah!
The question was never about genetic material, and there is no answer. It's meant to be a question of semantics: what do we mean by a chicken and what do we mean by a chicken egg?
Clearly a chicken egg is an egg layed by a chicken, so the chicken had to come first. But just as clearly, a chicken is just what it says: a chicken. So a chicken born from any egg is still a chicken, and the egg came before it. So the egg came first. And while an egg that hatches a chicken is clearly a chicken egg... well you take it from there: how many ways can you think of to define each so that it's first?
The point isn't to have an answer, it's to ask questions about the nature of things. So bravo to everyone invoved in TFA, because they don't know what the hell they're talking about.
How cute: Hatsumi wants to have it both ways. On the one hand, he says he teaches an art about avoiding confrontation and self-defense, on the other, he obtains his authority as a teacher from the fact that he's the apprentice of the last "fighting ninja" who was a bodyguard and assassin. Let's all meditate on that, shall we?
Sounds to me like Hatsumi is the one who lost the spirit of Ninjitsu.
At a demonstration I sponsored in June, she was able to show quite convincingly how a very small woman is able to take down, bind and otherwise incapacitate an assailant a foot taller, and several tens of pounds heavier. The assailant in this case was a student of classical Okinawan karate with an aproximately equal skill level.
At a demonstration sponsored by David Copperfield a few years back, he was able to show quite convincingly how a very small woman is able to turn into a tiger, and a totally-not-planted audience member (wink, wink) can be sawed in half. And put back together! Seriously, it was amazing.
Physics doesn't stop being physics because you play-fight a lot with your friends. To quote the greatest fighting movie ever, "It's a simple question of weight ratios." Smaller fists don't hit with the same force as bigger ones. Smaller muscles don't have the same strength as bigger ones.
SIZE is not the determining factor. TECHNIQUE is. Regardless of how well your opponent resists, it is, simply put, child's play to defeat an opponent, even one of equal or greater skill, if you adhere to basic principles of technique.
Yeah, that's why real martial arts have all gotten rid of weight classes. Cause, you know, technique is all that matters. Oh wait, even the UFC has weight classes. Dumbass.
Speaking of technique, do you all remember UFC 2? This "Ninja" Scott Morris ("We don't really know a lot about this guy, except that he's a ninja.") squared off against a kick-boxer, Pat Smith. Three or four elbows to the face later, the ninja is crumpling to the floor with his nose newly flattened and the kickboxer hasn't broken a sweat. Seriously, he broke this guy's orbital bone and took out some teeth. I don't know if all ninjas are frauds, but that guy was. Hey Scott, where's your shuriken now?
I can say from long experience that the victory goes not to the best trained, but to the one who fails to make mistakes.
Nice mumbo-jumbo, confucious, but wouldn't the one who makes the least mistakes be the one who trained the best? Go back through the fortune cookie fortunes you've glued to the mirror on your vanity and find something that makes sense.
Sad to seen an art form like this die out? What the hell are you talking about? This guy's best stories are ripping out eyeballs, and his best "technique" is pepper spray. We're not talking about art, we're talking about assassination. And an assassin is nothing more than a deadly whore. Except that whores make people happy and ninjas kill people. So they're lower than road whores.
Isn't that because Moz 1.7.12 is based on the latest version of Gecko? Sience FF1.5 is based on an older version, this is actually an upgrade.
So in replying to your post, am I trying to kill you or sleep with you?
> I think the only permission anybody ought to need in order to eavesdrop on a communication is the owner of the wire.
Evidently you need to go to classes on "common carriers" and "the right to privacy" just as much as the Bush legal team.
> If you want it to be unreadable, encrypt it.
And get everyone you know to use encryption. That interoperates. And exchange keys securely. And pray that the government doesn't have a trivial way of breaking whatever encryption you choose. Feh. Not much of an option.
> I sincerely doubt that I am that person or one of his correspondents, unless he is a spammer.
Or unless any one of the thousands of people who will have access to such a system are in the least bit unscrupulous. It only takes one.
Did everybody forget about those FBI agents up in New England who used unclassified information about ongoing investigations to blackmail and extort money from big companies? Or the sysadmin who left his job at a call center and took all of the customer SSNs and credit cards with him?
It only takes one bad apple with access to your personal info to screw you over.
And now that the Bush administration has decided that it can decide who is and isnt a terrorist without a trial and then keep those people (even American citizens) in jail in gitmo forever, you had better hope that none of your ex-girlfriends ever get a job scanning email headers. "I see that jdavidb has been sending encrypted emails to terrorists with a subject line about bombs. We should arrest him and torture him until he confesses."
Well, it might help their resale and reliability numbers.
It's sad when satire trumps truth.
Well, I don't know about the quantity of quality games, but the big sticking point for most people is the price. People are pretty comfortable with the GameBoy $100-$130 price range and $250 is pretty hight. Since there isn't a huge price difference between the 360 and the PS3, that guy's argument doesn't work.
Interesting - when did this become about democrats and republicans? I know I didn't mention either.
I guess we'll add you to the deeply partisan camp. =-)
But answer your points:
Rwanda: everybody ignored that, not just the Dems. There's enough blame to go around on that one. Darfur?
Military Spending, et. al: actually, that's the Gingrich-led Republican Revolution that you're thinking of. Remember? They were the ones that closed all the bases. Admittedly Clinton was president, but the Republicans wrote the budgets that cut the spending. And if you look at the kinds of programs that were cut, I'd say that both sides did a pretty good job: they cut the kind of military expenses that were much more useful in WWII and Korea than they are today. The fact that the Bushies are trying to fight that kind of war in Iraq with the wrong kind of military is just an example of their incompetence.
Wiretapping: What are you talking about? Are you one of those idiots who think that because the Bush whitehouse ran the idea of wiretapping past the gang of four that that counts as consent? Because... well, you're an idiot. =-)
Deeply Partisan: If you haven't noticed that folks on the right are a bit more partisan than folks on the left... well, then I'm sorry that you're blind. Nobody's innocent, but compare the statements that Rush, O'Reilly, Coulter, Hannity or Liddy make to anybody on the left - even Michael Moore if you'd like. There's no comparison. Saying that Bush's interests in Saudi Arabia might be slanting his perspective on Iraq isn't anything like Limbaugh accusing Hillary of murder and Bill of rape. You know? Go read "What Liberal Media?" By Eric Alterman.
Apple Breaks RSS? What is wrong with the editors?
The correct headline should be something like: "Apple iPhoto's RSS Broken". It's not as though RSS no longer works because of Apple.
Not that we all don't love some hyperbole...
WRONG, WRONG, WRONG.
People on the left don't wake up despising our country. We wake up despising the people that make our country look:
We lefties get so upset because we care about our country not as a plot of land, but as the fulfillment of an ideal. Anybody can love the land they're from - there's nothing special about loving your mother. But we care about the things that truly make our country great: freedom, democracy, liberty, and transparency. And we absolutely despise Bush because he's taking the things that make America great and flushing them down the toilet.
We're losing the moral high ground - and that might just be the worst thing that Bush has taken away.
Wow - is it just me or would all of the current submissions be a step down for the GIMP?
If you have a creative bone in your body, please submit something.
I recommend Typo to people willing to get their hands dirty. It's built on Ruby on Rails, uses AJAX, and all the other Web 2.0 goodness could want (tagging is in the works, feeds for everything, yellow fade, blue gradients).
I recommend Typo to people willing to get their hands dirty. It's built on Ruby on Rails, uses AJAX, and all the other Web 2.0 goodness could want (tagging is in the works, feeds for everything, yellow fade, blue gradients).
I posted this on my blog the other day, but I'd like more people to see it in case they want to add it to their talking points:
More here.
Waitaminute... The AMDs use less power and are faster than the Intels? And they're cheaper? Would somebody please explain to me again why Apple is moving to Intel?