That's really interesting. My experience, and I'm on my fourth HTC (and possibly last depending on how well Cyanogen goes). I've never had any hardware problems. I don't even cringe when I accidentally drop my phone onto concrete now because I know it won't break.
Which do you recommend as the better quality brands? The Samsungs have lovely specs but they're huge and look seriously ugly. There just doesn't seem to be much of anyone else in the HD range where I'm looking.
I haven't tried Cyanogen yet but I agree entirely. HTC hardware is right up there with the best but the software ranges from okay to an excercise in frustation and one recent upgrade actually cost me the ability to share files with my Linux computer. Then in frustration I borrowed my wife's Windows laptop and it was only after half an hour that I could share files on that and then only by systematically turning off every bit of HTC software that it had installed on her laptop.
HTC make lovely phones that look and feel superb but they are let down by some really crappy software releases and even crappier software design choices.
Yes, the Canadian government's response was swift and effective and I thought at the time that they had turned things around. But lo and behold it turns out that the Canadian government thought the root cause of the problem was in the military while it was really in the government itself trying to do too much with the Defence allocation, spending on the wrong things, buying the right things the wrong way. The military does what the government tells it to and until the Canadian government gets its defence act together the Canadian military will always have one hand tied behind its back.
The Canadian soldiers were being stolen from every night, at first in an ad hoc way, then later on a systemic basis. These were reportedly the best soldiers in the Canadian army but they had been trained for war and not dealing with hordes of pilfering children. The soldiers got wound up so tight that they would catch kids and beat them. Later they started to torture them. Eventually one of the kids died. Somalia brought out the worst in a lot of the armies there and this behaviour was by no means restricted to the Canadian troops.
It was not one isolated incident. It was the final and most extreme of a long series of incidents. Your commandos were totally unprepared, had no training for that social/political environment and had insufficient support. It was, when seen in retrospect, almost inevitable.
After the parliamentary inquiry things did improve somewhat but to this day whenever I hear that my nation's forces have been deployed alongside Canadian forces I get an uneasy feeling that doesn't go away until the deployment is over.
I believe that the root cause of the problem is that Canada's defense is too important to the US for them to allow it to stay in Canadian hands.
Well as I understand it Princess Pat's Regiment were of a similar standard to the average good Canadian infantryman at the time. They just happened to be in the right place at the right time and saved Seoul from falling to the Chinese and potentially stopped the UN from losing the Korean war. Not bad for a night's work.
This is the Canadian armed forces who are so chronically underfunded and undersupported by their government that their submarines blow up on their remaidened voyage, that their special forces capture and torture to death children caught stealing from their base in Somalia.
I despise the US idea of shoot anything that moves but I'd much rather have that than an underprepared military with little support from the government whose dirty work they do.
At Kapyong in Korea the Canadians showed they the best soldiers in the world. Those days are long long gone.
I tried to open an Amazon account a couple of years ago and belligerent is the only way I could describe them. I never did open an account them. Is it worth the effort to try? It seems very US-centric even once you pass through their positive/negative dichotomy they call an application.
No. PayPal's business model is based on making the transaction really easy and then taking a moderately exhorbitant chunk of the money transacted. For me in Australia to get money from Armenia (for example) PayPal is brilliant and worth every penny. For me to get money from the other side of my city the cost is the same and yet becomes astronomical when the service is seen in perspective. I allow 25-30% to PayPal for every transaction. The reality is higher or lower but it averages out to that amount.
Every contested PayPal transaction I've ever seen has been settled in the buyer's favour. No appeals allowed. Currently my personal balance is running my way but the injustice of it chafes.
Emphasis on the captive user base when comes to eBay. I doubt that anything will come of these changes as long PayPal and eBay are the same company and they have no widely recognised competition.
Does anyone know of any effective competition to the eBay/PayPal behemoth of faceless people in gray suits?
They are probably the most intelligent comments I've ever come across concerning climate change. Thank you. Thank you very much.
But with regards to geoengineering I would have thought we'd like to keep the albedo (light reflected off the ground) bright and glary in the Arctic regions to keep on reflecting heat back into space. That window is closing very fast.
One: if those tiny shelled organisms that eat algae are unable to form proper shells due to the CO2 turning seawater into carbonic acid and this process is irremediably progressed then why isn't the clock at 12:00 just before it tolls? I've even read that the algae will turn the oceans into a hypoxic wasteland once these creatures that eat them are removed from the foodchain.
Two: if the heat problem is recognised by everyone then why are we waiting like crabs in a pot and arguing over why it's getting hot rather than seeding the upper atmosphere with ultrafine particles that will cool things down for decades? Surely there is money to made from that?
I'm just curious and not grandstanding any particular point. I think we're already doomed no matter what we do so if anyone can give reason to change that opinion I'd be grateful.
Some of Dean Kamen's inventions, and they are far too many to list, are serious and lifesaving or serious and useful. Some are astonishing like the whhelchair that lifts the person in it to standing height when they need to. Other inventions of his are kind of fun but rather silly. My personal favourite is an analog clock with oval gears that slows down during work hours and speeds up during lunch break.
Well, with all due respect, the English throne is Dutch and the person on it is Upland Dutch. I've been to Dutchistan including the provinces of Limbourg and Holland and the people there are irremediably polite, spectacularly good company (emphasis on spectacular, not your average place), and irrevocably private.
You my friend are as the Danish could be except with freckles and taller.
Every word carries meaning or meanings, pronunciation or pronunciations, and emotional weights for each variety of those permutations. I believe the study of this is called advertising.
Swear words carry high emotional weight. If they didn't they wouldn't be swear words. Normal words such as crucified, the normal Roman way of killing recalcitrant slaves, can also carry enormous weight and yet the word crucified is not a swear word in any context. The normal way the English killed robbers, hanged, also carries a lot of weight but less because there is no morality attached to murder by hanging while there is morality attached to murder by crucification. Good morality from Roman perspective and bad morality from Christian perspective.
Then, once you have an emotional weight for each word (and the emotional weight of phrases and phrasing takes this into very permuted territory) the emotional use requires understanding to apply. That understanding is required and is why Watson failed.
Solutions to this knot in the rope, the requirement for machines to have emotions, do exist in theory but none is in any way close to application.
Look at photos of modern American soldiers and compare them to, say, photos of WW2 American soldiers. I choose soldiers because they are a trained group of people employed by the Federal Government. It could of course be any contiguous group of American people.
Next work out how much it costs to get one kg of mass into orbit.
All that prime American beef is going to stay right here on Earth and it'll be jockeys that colonise the solar system and turn into space puddings in the process.
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That's really interesting. My experience, and I'm on my fourth HTC (and possibly last depending on how well Cyanogen goes). I've never had any hardware problems. I don't even cringe when I accidentally drop my phone onto concrete now because I know it won't break.
Which do you recommend as the better quality brands? The Samsungs have lovely specs but they're huge and look seriously ugly. There just doesn't seem to be much of anyone else in the HD range where I'm looking.
I haven't tried Cyanogen yet but I agree entirely. HTC hardware is right up there with the best but the software ranges from okay to an excercise in frustation and one recent upgrade actually cost me the ability to share files with my Linux computer. Then in frustration I borrowed my wife's Windows laptop and it was only after half an hour that I could share files on that and then only by systematically turning off every bit of HTC software that it had installed on her laptop.
HTC make lovely phones that look and feel superb but they are let down by some really crappy software releases and even crappier software design choices.
I believe they got the job title wrong - surely it's Windows Blue ScrDETh (thanatest engineer).
Americans love public transport, look how often they catch cabs!
If you named them that you'd be making a boob, well two boobs.
Australia.
Yes, the Canadian government's response was swift and effective and I thought at the time that they had turned things around. But lo and behold it turns out that the Canadian government thought the root cause of the problem was in the military while it was really in the government itself trying to do too much with the Defence allocation, spending on the wrong things, buying the right things the wrong way. The military does what the government tells it to and until the Canadian government gets its defence act together the Canadian military will always have one hand tied behind its back.
The Canadian soldiers were being stolen from every night, at first in an ad hoc way, then later on a systemic basis. These were reportedly the best soldiers in the Canadian army but they had been trained for war and not dealing with hordes of pilfering children. The soldiers got wound up so tight that they would catch kids and beat them. Later they started to torture them. Eventually one of the kids died. Somalia brought out the worst in a lot of the armies there and this behaviour was by no means restricted to the Canadian troops.
It was not one isolated incident. It was the final and most extreme of a long series of incidents. Your commandos were totally unprepared, had no training for that social/political environment and had insufficient support. It was, when seen in retrospect, almost inevitable.
After the parliamentary inquiry things did improve somewhat but to this day whenever I hear that my nation's forces have been deployed alongside Canadian forces I get an uneasy feeling that doesn't go away until the deployment is over.
I believe that the root cause of the problem is that Canada's defense is too important to the US for them to allow it to stay in Canadian hands.
HMCS Chicoutimi.
Nuff said.
Well as I understand it Princess Pat's Regiment were of a similar standard to the average good Canadian infantryman at the time. They just happened to be in the right place at the right time and saved Seoul from falling to the Chinese and potentially stopped the UN from losing the Korean war. Not bad for a night's work.
This is the Canadian armed forces who are so chronically underfunded and undersupported by their government that their submarines blow up on their remaidened voyage, that their special forces capture and torture to death children caught stealing from their base in Somalia.
I despise the US idea of shoot anything that moves but I'd much rather have that than an underprepared military with little support from the government whose dirty work they do.
At Kapyong in Korea the Canadians showed they the best soldiers in the world. Those days are long long gone.
Yes. Big payments a smaller proportion.
I tried to open an Amazon account a couple of years ago and belligerent is the only way I could describe them. I never did open an account them. Is it worth the effort to try? It seems very US-centric even once you pass through their positive/negative dichotomy they call an application.
No. PayPal's business model is based on making the transaction really easy and then taking a moderately exhorbitant chunk of the money transacted. For me in Australia to get money from Armenia (for example) PayPal is brilliant and worth every penny. For me to get money from the other side of my city the cost is the same and yet becomes astronomical when the service is seen in perspective. I allow 25-30% to PayPal for every transaction. The reality is higher or lower but it averages out to that amount.
True dat!
Every contested PayPal transaction I've ever seen has been settled in the buyer's favour. No appeals allowed. Currently my personal balance is running my way but the injustice of it chafes.
Three digit ID? I thought it meant IQ. So I don't really have a seven digit IQ? ... *sigh*
Emphasis on the captive user base when comes to eBay. I doubt that anything will come of these changes as long PayPal and eBay are the same company and they have no widely recognised competition.
Does anyone know of any effective competition to the eBay/PayPal behemoth of faceless people in gray suits?
They are probably the most intelligent comments I've ever come across concerning climate change. Thank you. Thank you very much.
But with regards to geoengineering I would have thought we'd like to keep the albedo (light reflected off the ground) bright and glary in the Arctic regions to keep on reflecting heat back into space. That window is closing very fast.
The two questions are:
One: if those tiny shelled organisms that eat algae are unable to form proper shells due to the CO2 turning seawater into carbonic acid and this process is irremediably progressed then why isn't the clock at 12:00 just before it tolls? I've even read that the algae will turn the oceans into a hypoxic wasteland once these creatures that eat them are removed from the foodchain.
Two: if the heat problem is recognised by everyone then why are we waiting like crabs in a pot and arguing over why it's getting hot rather than seeding the upper atmosphere with ultrafine particles that will cool things down for decades? Surely there is money to made from that?
I'm just curious and not grandstanding any particular point. I think we're already doomed no matter what we do so if anyone can give reason to change that opinion I'd be grateful.
Would that be Dieter von Mitblumenkohl by any chance? (that is dieter fun with cauliflower for those who don't care)
Some of Dean Kamen's inventions, and they are far too many to list, are serious and lifesaving or serious and useful. Some are astonishing like the whhelchair that lifts the person in it to standing height when they need to. Other inventions of his are kind of fun but rather silly. My personal favourite is an analog clock with oval gears that slows down during work hours and speeds up during lunch break.
Well, with all due respect, the English throne is Dutch and the person on it is Upland Dutch. I've been to Dutchistan including the provinces of Limbourg and Holland and the people there are irremediably polite, spectacularly good company (emphasis on spectacular, not your average place), and irrevocably private.
You my friend are as the Danish could be except with freckles and taller.
Those words are nearly all Dutch. Cunt is French/Latin.
Every word carries meaning or meanings, pronunciation or pronunciations, and emotional weights for each variety of those permutations. I believe the study of this is called advertising.
Swear words carry high emotional weight. If they didn't they wouldn't be swear words. Normal words such as crucified, the normal Roman way of killing recalcitrant slaves, can also carry enormous weight and yet the word crucified is not a swear word in any context. The normal way the English killed robbers, hanged, also carries a lot of weight but less because there is no morality attached to murder by hanging while there is morality attached to murder by crucification. Good morality from Roman perspective and bad morality from Christian perspective.
Then, once you have an emotional weight for each word (and the emotional weight of phrases and phrasing takes this into very permuted territory) the emotional use requires understanding to apply. That understanding is required and is why Watson failed.
Solutions to this knot in the rope, the requirement for machines to have emotions, do exist in theory but none is in any way close to application.
Look at photos of modern American soldiers and compare them to, say, photos of WW2 American soldiers. I choose soldiers because they are a trained group of people employed by the Federal Government. It could of course be any contiguous group of American people.
Next work out how much it costs to get one kg of mass into orbit.
All that prime American beef is going to stay right here on Earth and it'll be jockeys that colonise the solar system and turn into space puddings in the process.