This is different from all other sounds, including regular music, how?
Square waves, triangle waves, sawtooth waves, and the ever popular noise (play with a SID chip someday). Sure, they're approximated by putting together sine waves, and they might even just happen to "evolve" from selected sine wave combinations, but the meaning came across just fine.
There is a probability that it will make mistakes and punish the innocent, and there is a social cost for that, and there is a cost to setting guilty men free.
The cost of letting a guilty man go free is always less than the cost of punishing the innocent, since unless the crime was completely fabricated, a guilty man went free so that the innocent man could be punished.
what if there were longer growing seasons? Isn't it possible that more food
Sure, if you had some way to control the climate so that your longer growing season didn't include a month of scorching heat in the middle that killed all your crops.
Don't individuals have their own marketing department, like they have their own accounting department and operations department? How is it questionable?
Why yes, every last one of us has accounting degress and MBAs and arts degrees and... oh wait, no we don't.
I agree, it's fairly difficult to parse since most of the adjectives are modifying other adjectives. Perhaps if the sentence was reworded into a normal list of adjectives, it would be easier to read, eg "As a three-year-old, lesbian, father-of-seven and socialist COBOL programmer...".
I think that it's not right for one person to have a gold plated plan
"ZOMG COMMUNISM" debate aside, my problem with this specific point is that plans are expensive based on your medical history, not because it's "gold plated" or some BS like that. Someone with a so-called "cadillac" health plan is paying big bucks due to the fact that they have cancer or diabetes or MS or maybe they're just 55 years old and the insurance company is hoping to get rid of them before they have a heart attack or a stroke.
Well duh, that's because government shouldn't be legislating morality. Unless of course it's two guys screwing each other, that's just disgusiting and should be made a capital crime.
It's probably paypal's last attempt at getting someone to care. They're probably just now realizing that the winner of this thing is going to be some incredibly boring shopping cart script written in PHP because it's going to be the only entry.
I can't find anything useful on google about android on dual screens (beyond "oh hey nook is a dual screen ereader running android"), and definitely nothing about it on android's own site. You might be able to get an app to run, but it would probably run on the tiny strip at the bottom.
Am I wrong to assume this means the device will be pretty "open"?
Mostly, yes. Running on Android doesn't mean much unless they produce a SDK to allow people to write applications that can use both screens and the touch sensor, and possibly (but almost certainly not, though one can hope they'd allow use of wifi) the internet.
In other words, it'll be abused until someone rich enough (or well connected enough) to afford the lawyers to appeal all the way to the supreme court gets the cops slapped down, and then they'll just abuse it more carefully.
That is the real precedent our government has set for over a century of telegraph taps, wiretaps, internet traffic capture, infrared cameras and soon, this.
You mean the place they told you they were making the meat. 'Round back is the slaughterhouse where the stuff you bought actually came from.
I think you underestimate the power of "or else you lose your job" when it comes to keeping secrets. If people really were as glib as you suggest, we wouldn't have whistle-blower laws, everyone would be bouncing around like a giddy 6 year old screaming "I've got a secret I've got a secret".
Looking at the specs, it reads PDF, eReader and EPUB in addition to B&N's own format, so a lot of ground is covered outside of just B&N's store (eg Project Gutenberg) but you're right, it will be up to publishers to say "we want nook users to be able to read this" either through B&N or some other means.
If B&N moves forward with opening it to developers (even if we're only allowed to use wifi) I will buy at least one.
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That would be an unconventional convention then.
So what you're saying is that you think the year 2000 was part of the '90s?
If you were running a company, corporation, or your own shop, and your "essense" would EXPIRE?
I would hope to God that I can invent more than one new idea in 75 years and not be stuck hawking century old shit when its protection expires.
Picking "not guilty" for the guy who committed the crime in no way implies that there'll be a second trial involving some other poor schmuck.
Picking "guilty" for some other poor schmuck directly indicates that there will be no second trial involving the guy who committed the crime.
This is different from all other sounds, including regular music, how?
Square waves, triangle waves, sawtooth waves, and the ever popular noise (play with a SID chip someday). Sure, they're approximated by putting together sine waves, and they might even just happen to "evolve" from selected sine wave combinations, but the meaning came across just fine.
The families of those four policemen who were murdered by a paroled felon last month would like to hear your answer.
And you'll talk to the families of the little boys who were raped while Ricardo Rachell sat in prison for a crime he didn't commit?
There is a probability that it will make mistakes and punish the innocent, and there is a social cost for that, and there is a cost to setting guilty men free.
The cost of letting a guilty man go free is always less than the cost of punishing the innocent, since unless the crime was completely fabricated, a guilty man went free so that the innocent man could be punished.
what if there were longer growing seasons? Isn't it possible that more food
Sure, if you had some way to control the climate so that your longer growing season didn't include a month of scorching heat in the middle that killed all your crops.
Sorry, but that ‘don’t kill yourself” usually comes from people who can’t imagine a situation, where killing yourself actually is the best option.
The majority of them can: ask them about what child molesters should do.
Don't individuals have their own marketing department, like they have their own accounting department and operations department? How is it questionable?
Why yes, every last one of us has accounting degress and MBAs and arts degrees and ... oh wait, no we don't.
I agree, it's fairly difficult to parse since most of the adjectives are modifying other adjectives. Perhaps if the sentence was reworded into a normal list of adjectives, it would be easier to read, eg "As a three-year-old, lesbian, father-of-seven and socialist COBOL programmer...".
I think that it's not right for one person to have a gold plated plan
"ZOMG COMMUNISM" debate aside, my problem with this specific point is that plans are expensive based on your medical history, not because it's "gold plated" or some BS like that. Someone with a so-called "cadillac" health plan is paying big bucks due to the fact that they have cancer or diabetes or MS or maybe they're just 55 years old and the insurance company is hoping to get rid of them before they have a heart attack or a stroke.
You're all barking up the wrong tree, anyway. After all, it was the spinach that gave you the runs! Don't buy and eat anything, it could kill you!
Well duh, that's because government shouldn't be legislating morality. Unless of course it's two guys screwing each other, that's just disgusiting and should be made a capital crime.
It's probably paypal's last attempt at getting someone to care. They're probably just now realizing that the winner of this thing is going to be some incredibly boring shopping cart script written in PHP because it's going to be the only entry.
I can't find anything useful on google about android on dual screens (beyond "oh hey nook is a dual screen ereader running android"), and definitely nothing about it on android's own site. You might be able to get an app to run, but it would probably run on the tiny strip at the bottom.
Close, but your accent is a bit off. Try pronouncing it more like "|4|\/|3"
You think you're being sarcastic, but has anyone ever seen a network go down in flames due to slashdotting, or has it always been the server?
If she's smart she'll ask for every IP/timestamp he ever edited under.
Am I wrong to assume this means the device will be pretty "open"?
Mostly, yes. Running on Android doesn't mean much unless they produce a SDK to allow people to write applications that can use both screens and the touch sensor, and possibly (but almost certainly not, though one can hope they'd allow use of wifi) the internet.
Since intentionally interfering with the proper operation of *any* radio station already is illegal, you'd be right.
What radio station is this thing going to operate as? WKOP?
I'm sure this radar system will follow precedent.
In other words, it'll be abused until someone rich enough (or well connected enough) to afford the lawyers to appeal all the way to the supreme court gets the cops slapped down, and then they'll just abuse it more carefully.
That is the real precedent our government has set for over a century of telegraph taps, wiretaps, internet traffic capture, infrared cameras and soon, this.
Censorship is serious. Save the rant for when there's actually some censorship going on otherwise we'll be in a crying wolf situation.
Censorship is censorship, and I'm betting the guy whose homework was "eaten" by google's censor is finding it very serious.
go to the place they are making the meat
You mean the place they told you they were making the meat. 'Round back is the slaughterhouse where the stuff you bought actually came from.
I think you underestimate the power of "or else you lose your job" when it comes to keeping secrets. If people really were as glib as you suggest, we wouldn't have whistle-blower laws, everyone would be bouncing around like a giddy 6 year old screaming "I've got a secret I've got a secret".
Looking at the specs, it reads PDF, eReader and EPUB in addition to B&N's own format, so a lot of ground is covered outside of just B&N's store (eg Project Gutenberg) but you're right, it will be up to publishers to say "we want nook users to be able to read this" either through B&N or some other means.
If B&N moves forward with opening it to developers (even if we're only allowed to use wifi) I will buy at least one.
Safe, predictable garbage not aimed at me
Modern Disney, perhaps. Maybe you should watch their older stuff again. I think maybe you'll see those classics in a new light.