And wells have been causing ground water levels to steadily drop over the last 10 years through most of the Colorado and Mississippi basins for the last 20 years
Which is true, but entirely beside the point. The OP opined that there was no water visible, therefore no water. I was merely offering a correction.
Nextel has been touting GPS features built into some of its latest phone handsets. You might look at those. I'm not sure whether they can connect to PC mapping software like a standalone GPS handset or not.
Meh. I have a Nextel i58sr with GPS. It's absolutely useless. First the GPS antenna is on the BACK of the phone, so you have to hold it face down with a clear view of the sky. Second, it takes like a minute and a half to get a fix. And third, all the out-of-the-box GPS function does is provide a lat-lon reading. In theory this lat-lon can be used by a java program (you can only load them via the Nextel wireless network service, of course) running on the phone's pitiful JVM, but I'd hate to have to read a map on this tiny two-bit* grayscale screen. Really, it's little more than a gimmick designed to give the phone one more bullet point on the sales brochure.
* literally two-bit, as in "00=white 01=gray 10=dark gray 11=black"
And would you want to live there- given that there is little to no water? There's a REASON Nevada has more BLM land than any other state in the Union.
I noticed the same thing- about the time I also noticed that I hadn't seen a creek within 30 miles.
There's a lot of water there, it's just underground. Seriously, the Great Basin (northern Nevada, essentially) is like a giant funnel that directs millions of acre-feet of water down towards the colorado river, most of it underground. People don't live there because a) it sucks, climate wise and b) there's already plenty of awful places to live that are closer to metropolitan areas.
"But only a tiny number of Earth's six billion inhabitants are direct participants. For the rest of us, the adventure is vicarious and akin to that of watching a science fiction movie. At the end of the day, I ask myself whether our huge national commitment of technical talent to human spaceflight and the ever present potential for the loss of precious human life are really justifiable."
Is he really suggesting that a life form that has 6 billion+ instances is actually precious on the level of each instance? Or is he just bandying about the largely unsubstantiated modern notiont of "every life is precious" because he wasn't satisfied with the "too expensive money-wise" angle? Really, every life is not precious in any general sense. The loss of, say, half a dozen volunteer astronauts is utterly inconsequential to the vast majority of the race in general.
Now, before soom boob says "how would you like it if YOUR MOTHER was blown up in a moon rocket" and thinks he's come up with an unbeatable counter-argument, let me acknowledge that yes, people DO care about their friends and relatives. But I would never dishonor my mother's dreams of space exploration by saying she never should have been allowed to volunteer for that fateful doomed moon mission. Van Allen has no business telling someone they have no right to risk their own life on space exploration, as if he or anyone else has some claim on the value of another person's life. Dammit, my mother deserves the right to risk her life going to the moon if she wants!
Just like you could subscribe to a GM Television service (DirectTV)
Not anymore. GM sold it to Rupert Murdoch a while ago. Besides, they only had DirecTV because they bought up Hughes Aircraft Company and left it pretty much alone to run itself. Of course, they then screwed it all up by spinning off the defense electronics division and selling that to Raytheon (evil company)* and then selling DirecTV to Newscorp. I'm wondering how long before they divest themselves of the Hughes satellite division. GM just doesn't seem to have the stomach for diversity.
* My father, Hughes employee since 1967, retired the year before Raytheon bought it from GM. Hughes/GM had a policy of allowing retirees to keep their company health insurance group plan. The first thing Raytheon did was say "we're continuing that policy, but moving all retirees into their own group, separate from regular employees". Now how much do you suppose an insurance company is going to charge a small group of mostly 60+ year old retirees vs. a large varied group encompassing the entire company? Basically, they saved a few pennies in premiums for the current employees (who they pay for) by jacking up the premiums for retired employees paying their own way. They're jerks.
Remember the 'internet' is just one form of broadcasting of content
Actually, internet communications generally fail to fit the definition of "broadcast", being that is delivered only on-demand. But yeah, point taken. It certainly is no better than traditionally broadcast crap.
Quite how a history of the ATM can be quite so blinkered is slightly staggering, but then again I shouldn't be disappointed to find anything I read is badly researched nowadays. journalism is a shoddy business.
Well, it's partly due to how one defines the word "Teller" in ATM. A machine that spits out bills in exchange for prepurchased vouvhers or cards does perform one of the primary uses of modern ATMs, but spitting out cash does not an ATM make. Taking deposits is a highly necessary function. A machine that can't take deposits, transfer money between accounts, or check account balances really isn't an ATM.
"What you might find truly surprising, however, is that as a rule, large banks actually lose money on these moneymakers--at a rate of about $250 a month per machine. They are, ironically, loss leaders, since banks don't generally charge their own customers if they use the banks' machines."
If that's the case, then are human tellers also considered loss leaders? I'm sure a human teller costs more than $250 a month.
Yeah, the article writer is making a dubious comparison between retail stores and banks. Really, only retail stores can have "loss leaders" in the classic sense, because banks don't sell merchandise. So yeah, pretty much anything a bank does that's not "collecting a loan payment" or "taking a deposit" is in some way a "loss leader"-- or, as it's usually called, overhead.
This is why you only buy SMALL TICKET items off of ebay.
Im talking dvds, videogames, maybe hdds. If you get ripped off, the loss is minimal.
I thought everyone knew this already:)
I think it's a matter of common sense. I bought a 1990 VW Vanagon off ebay last week. The laptop I'm working on right now came off ebay, as did the one I had before it. With the car, though, I went out to pick it up with a USPS money order, and the laptops I bought from Dell Financial Services (they sell off-lease Dell refurbs). No way I would buy anything over a couple hundred bucks from someone sight-unseen when they're selling them using stock manufacturer's photos.
In terms of the immorality of their methods, I totally agree. However, WRT to the question that was asked ("I wonder if the IRA has motivation to attack anyone other than the English"), the chances that the IRA is going to start firing mortars at anyone other than the Loyalists and Brits are slim to none. Their ideology is very much about local issues. Radical islamic terrorism has a much wider scope, as it's basically "Fundamentalist Islam vs. The Entire Western World".
Programming Language creators should include a provision in their license that forces programmers to use the copyright system and not the patent system
Non-starter. Programming language creators don't have the power to dictate how their language is used after the fact, and if they try to make people sign a contract before giving them a compiler, no one will use their language.
Regards wheels; look at the Steering wheel. Henry Ford had a patent on that little device. the Stanley Brothers who at the time were marketing a car called "the Steamer" were SOL and went out of business.
What are you talking about? The Stanley brothers made their steamer until 1918, when one of them was killed in a crash and the remaining brother sold the company. The company remained in business and the Stanley Steamer was sold until 1925, finally going out of business primarilly because of competition from companies who adopted mass production.
True, but I wonder if the IRA has motivation to attack anyone other than the English
Actually, they don't like the protestant irish. By extension, they dislike the English for sending in the army to try and stop them both from killing each other.It's a catholic vs. protestant conflict, but only in the sense that one side wants N.Ireland to be an independent state and the other doesn't. It's essentially a civil war. Not really the same thing as what the radical islamic fringe guys are doing.
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I life my life for myself. Many will think that a selfish attitude, and they are right. But it is no more selfish than those who would tell me how to live my life, for example by telling me to not climb mountains, get shot at, or sleep alone and unprotected in Grizzly country. It is my life, and my choices.
This sounds fine, until my tax dollars go to cover the unimaginable medical costs required for your care and rehabilitation from a gruesome and totally unnecessary "accident" that is really the result of your foolhardiness and yes, selfishness.
So, to paraphrase your position:
"Because the State has overstepped its bounds by forcing society as a whole to foot the bill for
all of others' misfortunes (be they self-inflicted or not), then the State should futher exceed its bounds by curtailing individual freedom in order to save money on an expense it had no business taking on in the first place."
Mind you, this argument assumes that I'm uninsured and can't pay for my own medical care, and that even if I am insured and pose no financial risk to the State, I should still be restrained from engaging in risky behavior. Frankly, that kind of thinking is idiotic.
To say nothing of the risk and harm that your actions bring to others. Once a bear tastes your flesh he will want mine as well, and yes that is your fault and you should be restrained.
Bears don't work that way fucktard. Bears aren't vicious, predatory monsters who only don't attack humans because they don't realize they taste good. Bears attack humans only when they're attacked themselves or surprised. Given warning, a bear will usually avoid you. Your arguments are ignorant and ill-conceived.
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Heh...my experience has been to hear computer neophytes use the term 'hard drive' to mean the entire computer.
....or they use "memory" in reference to the hard drive. I asked my girlfriend once why she got the two confused so often and she explained it as: "It's the memory because that's where it remembers stuff when you turn it off."
One of these two languages will dominate the world in 50 years and it'll all depend on whether China becomes an open and democratic society. I'm going to start learning Mandarin.
The fact that a significant number of Chinese mandarin speakers are already learning/using english suggests that you likely won't need that mandarin. Besides, as far as choosing a "lingua franca", nobody, not even the Chinese, would suggest that the world learn mandarin.
It's "recognition" in the sense of "being recognized for his accomplishments," not in the sense of "getting lots of PR." And believe it or not, to a lot of people the first is more important than the second.
Oh, I in no way meant to imply that being knighted is of no importance. It is indeed a great recognition. My issue was with the article submitter's speculation that being knighted might bring him any significantly wider recognition.
Uhhh, I'm going to have to stop you there. Writing ability isn't something that just springs fully grown from your forehead
That's why I said "may have" at the beginning of the sentence. It sets up a hypothetical situation wherein the two people are assumed to have the writing ability already, and then makes the assertion that the Mac owner is more likely to care about how other see their writing.
"Hopefully more people will now recognise the great work he did!"
Oh, yeah, because beinbg knighted by the superfluous monarchy of a tiny island nation is such a springboard to recognition! Honestly, can anyone name six famous people who've been knighted who weren't already famous before being knighted?
I'm not going to challenge this argument except to say construction workers don't use SUV's to carry material to the site and that most SUV owners merely carry their asses to the sight.
It only takes ONE painter, hauling paint ladders and dropcloths in a beat up '95 For Explorer or ONE concrete guy towing a concrete pump with a Chevy Suburban to invalidate your apparent counterargument of "construction workers don't drive SUVs". I can produce evidence of that painter and Explorer if you like. He painted my apartment building last month.
Arrogant and condescending? How? By saying that people who pay attention to how they appear to others might buy a computer that looks better in their living room? Attention to appearance doesn't necessarily have to come at the expense of anything else (except maybe money).
(I would wager I am better educated and more literate than you)
And I'd wager that your superiority in this regard has neither bearing on this discussion, nor on my life in general. I claim neither to be highly educated nor of unequalled literacy. My statements were in no way meant to imply one group is more literate than the other. In fact, my entire point was that this is something you cannot judge based on slashdot posts.
Two typos (and I LOVED the one you made next to the word typos (emphasis YOURS)),
I liked it too. That's why I left it in. I even considered adding a few more, because it's usually much worse (stupid undersized Dell laptop keyboard), but that would have been too silly, even for me.
and one use of a made-up phrase ("scabbed-together"?
There's nothing preventing one from making up phrases, so long as the meaning is conveyed.
And this after you made sure not to hit the "submit" button until you were "absolutely positive that (your) grammar and spelling (were) perfect".
Heh. I see. You've mistaken me for a Mac zealot. Actually, I'm a PC/Linux zealot. The argument I make is secretly to excuse my sloppy typing and lack of effective self-editing.
Well educated smart people tend to have more money than others
How do you explain Paris Hilton?
He never said that people with money are smart, he said people who are smart tend to have more money. Paris Hilton is probably just another case of Trophy Wife Syndrome*.
* this is a theory I've developed over the years to explain a certain trend I've noticed among rich folks I've met in the Brentwood/Bel Air/Beverly Hills area. Trophy Wife Syndrome: (1)a man is a shrewd financial genius and makes GOBS of money; (2) genius marries a gorgeous, but highly vacuous and dull-witted woman; (3) the children turn out very pretty, but tend toward being vacuous and dull witted; (4) children eventually either a)inherit the father's business empire and run it into the ground because they're dimwits, or b) the father realized his children were dopes and set the business to run itself while the children hold figurehead VP jobs in the corporation, or maybe just livew lives of luxury.
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Which is true, but entirely beside the point. The OP opined that there was no water visible, therefore no water. I was merely offering a correction.
Meh. I have a Nextel i58sr with GPS. It's absolutely useless. First the GPS antenna is on the BACK of the phone, so you have to hold it face down with a clear view of the sky. Second, it takes like a minute and a half to get a fix. And third, all the out-of-the-box GPS function does is provide a lat-lon reading. In theory this lat-lon can be used by a java program (you can only load them via the Nextel wireless network service, of course) running on the phone's pitiful JVM, but I'd hate to have to read a map on this tiny two-bit* grayscale screen. Really, it's little more than a gimmick designed to give the phone one more bullet point on the sales brochure.
* literally two-bit, as in "00=white 01=gray 10=dark gray 11=black"
There's a lot of water there, it's just underground. Seriously, the Great Basin (northern Nevada, essentially) is like a giant funnel that directs millions of acre-feet of water down towards the colorado river, most of it underground. People don't live there because a) it sucks, climate wise and b) there's already plenty of awful places to live that are closer to metropolitan areas.
"But only a tiny number of Earth's six billion inhabitants are direct participants. For the rest of us, the adventure is vicarious and akin to that of watching a science fiction movie. At the end of the day, I ask myself whether our huge national commitment of technical talent to human spaceflight and the ever present potential for the loss of precious human life are really justifiable."
Is he really suggesting that a life form that has 6 billion+ instances is actually precious on the level of each instance? Or is he just bandying about the largely unsubstantiated modern notiont of "every life is precious" because he wasn't satisfied with the "too expensive money-wise" angle? Really, every life is not precious in any general sense. The loss of, say, half a dozen volunteer astronauts is utterly inconsequential to the vast majority of the race in general.
Now, before soom boob says "how would you like it if YOUR MOTHER was blown up in a moon rocket" and thinks he's come up with an unbeatable counter-argument, let me acknowledge that yes, people DO care about their friends and relatives. But I would never dishonor my mother's dreams of space exploration by saying she never should have been allowed to volunteer for that fateful doomed moon mission. Van Allen has no business telling someone they have no right to risk their own life on space exploration, as if he or anyone else has some claim on the value of another person's life. Dammit, my mother deserves the right to risk her life going to the moon if she wants!
Not anymore. GM sold it to Rupert Murdoch a while ago. Besides, they only had DirecTV because they bought up Hughes Aircraft Company and left it pretty much alone to run itself. Of course, they then screwed it all up by spinning off the defense electronics division and selling that to Raytheon (evil company)* and then selling DirecTV to Newscorp. I'm wondering how long before they divest themselves of the Hughes satellite division. GM just doesn't seem to have the stomach for diversity.
* My father, Hughes employee since 1967, retired the year before Raytheon bought it from GM. Hughes/GM had a policy of allowing retirees to keep their company health insurance group plan. The first thing Raytheon did was say "we're continuing that policy, but moving all retirees into their own group, separate from regular employees". Now how much do you suppose an insurance company is going to charge a small group of mostly 60+ year old retirees vs. a large varied group encompassing the entire company? Basically, they saved a few pennies in premiums for the current employees (who they pay for) by jacking up the premiums for retired employees paying their own way. They're jerks.
Actually, internet communications generally fail to fit the definition of "broadcast", being that is delivered only on-demand. But yeah, point taken. It certainly is no better than traditionally broadcast crap.
Well, it's partly due to how one defines the word "Teller" in ATM. A machine that spits out bills in exchange for prepurchased vouvhers or cards does perform one of the primary uses of modern ATMs, but spitting out cash does not an ATM make. Taking deposits is a highly necessary function. A machine that can't take deposits, transfer money between accounts, or check account balances really isn't an ATM.
If that's the case, then are human tellers also considered loss leaders? I'm sure a human teller costs more than $250 a month.
Yeah, the article writer is making a dubious comparison between retail stores and banks. Really, only retail stores can have "loss leaders" in the classic sense, because banks don't sell merchandise. So yeah, pretty much anything a bank does that's not "collecting a loan payment" or "taking a deposit" is in some way a "loss leader"-- or, as it's usually called, overhead.
I did, two weeks ago. It's great.
I think it's a matter of common sense. I bought a 1990 VW Vanagon off ebay last week. The laptop I'm working on right now came off ebay, as did the one I had before it. With the car, though, I went out to pick it up with a USPS money order, and the laptops I bought from Dell Financial Services (they sell off-lease Dell refurbs). No way I would buy anything over a couple hundred bucks from someone sight-unseen when they're selling them using stock manufacturer's photos.
In terms of the immorality of their methods, I totally agree. However, WRT to the question that was asked ("I wonder if the IRA has motivation to attack anyone other than the English"), the chances that the IRA is going to start firing mortars at anyone other than the Loyalists and Brits are slim to none. Their ideology is very much about local issues. Radical islamic terrorism has a much wider scope, as it's basically "Fundamentalist Islam vs. The Entire Western World".
Non-starter. Programming language creators don't have the power to dictate how their language is used after the fact, and if they try to make people sign a contract before giving them a compiler, no one will use their language.
What are you talking about? The Stanley brothers made their steamer until 1918, when one of them was killed in a crash and the remaining brother sold the company. The company remained in business and the Stanley Steamer was sold until 1925, finally going out of business primarilly because of competition from companies who adopted mass production.
Actually, they don't like the protestant irish. By extension, they dislike the English for sending in the army to try and stop them both from killing each other.It's a catholic vs. protestant conflict, but only in the sense that one side wants N.Ireland to be an independent state and the other doesn't. It's essentially a civil war. Not really the same thing as what the radical islamic fringe guys are doing.
This sounds fine, until my tax dollars go to cover the unimaginable medical costs required for your care and rehabilitation from a gruesome and totally unnecessary "accident" that is really the result of your foolhardiness and yes, selfishness.
So, to paraphrase your position:
Mind you, this argument assumes that I'm uninsured and can't pay for my own medical care, and that even if I am insured and pose no financial risk to the State, I should still be restrained from engaging in risky behavior. Frankly, that kind of thinking is idiotic.
To say nothing of the risk and harm that your actions bring to others. Once a bear tastes your flesh he will want mine as well, and yes that is your fault and you should be restrained.
Bears don't work that way fucktard. Bears aren't vicious, predatory monsters who only don't attack humans because they don't realize they taste good. Bears attack humans only when they're attacked themselves or surprised. Given warning, a bear will usually avoid you. Your arguments are ignorant and ill-conceived.
hard to argue with that.
"Hey everybody look at me! Look at me!" Pow! He was decapitated! They found his head over by the snowcone concession!
"Stuart" rules.
The fact that a significant number of Chinese mandarin speakers are already learning/using english suggests that you likely won't need that mandarin. Besides, as far as choosing a "lingua franca", nobody, not even the Chinese, would suggest that the world learn mandarin.
Oh, I in no way meant to imply that being knighted is of no importance. It is indeed a great recognition. My issue was with the article submitter's speculation that being knighted might bring him any significantly wider recognition.
Sir Galahad
Sir Lancelot
Sir Bedevere
Sir Mordred
Sir Gawain
Sir Walter Raleigh
Sorry, I meant to specify "in this century".
That's why I said "may have" at the beginning of the sentence. It sets up a hypothetical situation wherein the two people are assumed to have the writing ability already, and then makes the assertion that the Mac owner is more likely to care about how other see their writing.
Oh, yeah, because beinbg knighted by the superfluous monarchy of a tiny island nation is such a springboard to recognition! Honestly, can anyone name six famous people who've been knighted who weren't already famous before being knighted?
It only takes ONE painter, hauling paint ladders and dropcloths in a beat up '95 For Explorer or ONE concrete guy towing a concrete pump with a Chevy Suburban to invalidate your apparent counterargument of "construction workers don't drive SUVs". I can produce evidence of that painter and Explorer if you like. He painted my apartment building last month.
Arrogant and condescending? How? By saying that people who pay attention to how they appear to others might buy a computer that looks better in their living room? Attention to appearance doesn't necessarily have to come at the expense of anything else (except maybe money).
(I would wager I am better educated and more literate than you)
And I'd wager that your superiority in this regard has neither bearing on this discussion, nor on my life in general. I claim neither to be highly educated nor of unequalled literacy. My statements were in no way meant to imply one group is more literate than the other. In fact, my entire point was that this is something you cannot judge based on slashdot posts.
Two typos (and I LOVED the one you made next to the word typos (emphasis YOURS)),
I liked it too. That's why I left it in. I even considered adding a few more, because it's usually much worse (stupid undersized Dell laptop keyboard), but that would have been too silly, even for me.
and one use of a made-up phrase ("scabbed-together"?
There's nothing preventing one from making up phrases, so long as the meaning is conveyed.
And this after you made sure not to hit the "submit" button until you were "absolutely positive that (your) grammar and spelling (were) perfect".
Heh. I see. You've mistaken me for a Mac zealot. Actually, I'm a PC/Linux zealot. The argument I make is secretly to excuse my sloppy typing and lack of effective self-editing.
How do you explain Paris Hilton?
He never said that people with money are smart, he said people who are smart tend to have more money. Paris Hilton is probably just another case of Trophy Wife Syndrome*.
* this is a theory I've developed over the years to explain a certain trend I've noticed among rich folks I've met in the Brentwood/Bel Air/Beverly Hills area. Trophy Wife Syndrome: (1)a man is a shrewd financial genius and makes GOBS of money; (2) genius marries a gorgeous, but highly vacuous and dull-witted woman; (3) the children turn out very pretty, but tend toward being vacuous and dull witted; (4) children eventually either a)inherit the father's business empire and run it into the ground because they're dimwits, or b) the father realized his children were dopes and set the business to run itself while the children hold figurehead VP jobs in the corporation, or maybe just livew lives of luxury.