I agree that Apple should be paying more, especially when they have more cash than they know what to do with. I was just saying that if you focus more of your buying in countries that don't have these sweatshop conditions, then there will be less work available in those sweatshop countries. Yes, it is crappy work, but when the choice is between food and starvation, then it's better than nothing.
If someone is desperate enough to take one of those crappy worker-unfriendly jobs, then doesn't it follow that they likely need it even more than one of the workers from a more worker-friendly company/nation? Are you helping them by encouraging the movement of jobs elsewhere, when even they agreed that the job was better than the alternative (ie. starvation)?
It's the first thing I do too. But there's something else going on that's pegging processes at 100%. Knotify4 seems to be a big part of it. But whenever I investigate each issue, it always seems to lead back to akonadi.
I don't want my window manager managing the sharing of data between applications (most of which aren't even KDE apps). I would just like them to release a window-manager only edition.
If KDE would just stick to managing Windows, I'd agree that it's the best. But after many years of use, I finally had to give up on it just recently. The whole semantic desktop/akonadi/nepomuk disaster had finally taken its toll on me. No matter how desperately I would try to turn it off, it would always find some way back on, pegging my i7 at 100% and thrashing my disks (leading to the need for a hard reset). Been dealing with this for years now on several systems.
People have been complaining about this crap for longer than they have had these dumb tablet UIs, but the KDE devs just won't give in and let us leave all of that out of the compile. It will never work and nobody asked for it, so please just let it go. I want my KDE window manager back.
Nvidia's consistent support for near flawless video drivers is why I won't even consider anyone else. I wouldn't even be using linux if it weren't for them. I can't think of another computer company that has so ensured my product loyalty.
They both started out as protest movements against the banker bailouts, so I'd say it's entirely appropriate to be linking them together. That and I'd come across the same core group of people at both functions. Yes, their solutions are quite different. But it's the Tea Party/OWS/Arab Spring vs our crooked establishment and the apathy of their neighbors (at least in the early days before each movement fell apart). I'm sure we'll see another similar movement with a whole new name by 2013.
I've never been sympathetic to cell phone use (talking and texting) while driving because it's always been obvious that those people were far worse then you typical drunk driver. But yours is an important distinction. My pandora classical channel calms me down and makes me a safer driver. The navigation app keeps me from constantly taking my eyes off the road to review some hand written directions. A smart phone can be used responsibly, but at least half the people out there don't yet seem capable of it.
I don't think it's practical to legislate between the two types of use. We just need more of these studies to hammer it home to people so that they'll start changing their behavior on their own.
Isn't the whole point of texting is that it doesn't have to be in real time, unlike a phone call? Why not just wait till you get where you're going? Drinking and driving actually seems far more understandable to me, in that the alternative is pretty much not drinking at restaurants and bars. The alternative to not texting while driving is merely having your response take an extra 10-20 mintues.
I definitely prefer google+ and it made me dislike facebook even more than I had before. But since no one you know is on it, you end up follow a lot of strangers (did find some interesting people). The problem is that the filter controls are so awful (the last I looked) that I never want to use it. The circles concept is great, but they never got it out of the early development stage. Your stream consists of everybody or one circle. They released a beta and moved on to focusing on auto-sharing everything you do with your circles and a whole lot of other things that nobody wanted.
At the end of the day, I just don't have time for it. With sensible noise controls, that could change. But with everything else going so wrong with google this past year, I don't really want to use their products anymore anyway.
So I went back to facebook, sort of. It was such a sorry experience compared to g+ that I find I hardly visit there anymore either. I'll do a quick check in once in a while and then get out.
Why should FB have to pay 25 people a year to do the government's dirty work? Companies should be able to submit a research bill to the government for these kinds of requests. There's no better check on power than a budget.
(as long as the decision is not based on certain criteria like race/color/religion/gender/etc). Stupidity is not a protected group.
So why should a genetic predisposition to lower intelligence be less protected than a religious choice?
Personally, I think a private business should be able to do business with whomever it chooses, but I am curious as to why people draw the arbitrary lines that they do.
These masks first started being used, outside and after the movie, during certain fringe Ron Paul events. They were initially brought into the spotlight during a Paul moneybomb, on the 5th of November, 2007. Then the first Tea Party in 2007 (another Ron Paul fundraiser) and it was at the later Tea Parties that these masks continued to grow. The OWS came along, where the masks really took off. OWS was partly a reaction to the Tea Party, but ironically enough, a good quarter of the most active, early participants, were the same people I'd see at the early Tea Parties (both movements initially protesting the banker bailouts). And now we have many form OWS helping out in the campaign. Of course he's serious, because Ron Paul kick started this whole thing and has been at the center of it throughout.
How do you wipe a defective drive? Sometimes you have a small window before it dies, sometimes it won't power up at all. It's up to the refurbisher to refurbish it into a like new condition, and that includes wiping any data (which should naturally occur anyway as part of testing).
That being said, unless it's an encrypted drive, I won't typically send it back, eating the cost.
You don't have to agree with anti-abortion people, but so long as you're honest with yourself, and understand that for them, that baby is a human life entitled to the same civil liberties of the mother, then you wouldn't be so confused by the "apparent" contradiction.
Why would a tablet be a better form factor for netflix, amazon VOD, or hulu? Why would I want an expensive console just to stream video? I have a 3D TV and I never use the 3D (I've got nothing against it, but there's nothing to watch). I do however use the apps quite a bit.
I'll only ever log into google through chrome. If I want to search the web, I'll use firefox. Don't see the point of crossing the two.
I once had high hopes for Google+ but Google seems to be screwing up on so many levels now, integrating g+ into everything else (dumbing everything else down in the process), while not getting around to properly integrating other google services into g+.
People have been begging for noise/circle controls forever now. Well I controlled the noise by not logging in anymore. They really needed to get that site out of beta first before trying all this squirrely shit. Actually, they just need some competent management.
Even if that were true, and it's not, then I'd still rather go with the "gut instinct" of the guy who predicted the housing crash on the floor of the congress back in 2002, to all the other candidates who have been telling me that "we're in recovery" from 2007 onward.
Just have my 20th last month. First one I even bothered going to because I was constantly reminded of the invite list, and as more people signed up, more people wanted to. Everyone could message other people on the invite list and goad them into coming. I can't imagine that they would have even found a way to contact me otherwise. I can't see how Facebook is not good for reunions.
Nobody tailgates and swerves around good drivers. Good drivers simply get passed. The ones who get tailgated are the ones who are going 10 miles under the speed limit in the passing lane. Usually because they are trying to force their notion of "good driving" on everyone else. But all they're really doing is making the problem worse.
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I agree that Apple should be paying more, especially when they have more cash than they know what to do with. I was just saying that if you focus more of your buying in countries that don't have these sweatshop conditions, then there will be less work available in those sweatshop countries. Yes, it is crappy work, but when the choice is between food and starvation, then it's better than nothing.
If someone is desperate enough to take one of those crappy worker-unfriendly jobs, then doesn't it follow that they likely need it even more than one of the workers from a more worker-friendly company/nation? Are you helping them by encouraging the movement of jobs elsewhere, when even they agreed that the job was better than the alternative (ie. starvation)?
It's the first thing I do too. But there's something else going on that's pegging processes at 100%. Knotify4 seems to be a big part of it. But whenever I investigate each issue, it always seems to lead back to akonadi.
I don't want my window manager managing the sharing of data between applications (most of which aren't even KDE apps). I would just like them to release a window-manager only edition.
If KDE would just stick to managing Windows, I'd agree that it's the best. But after many years of use, I finally had to give up on it just recently. The whole semantic desktop/akonadi/nepomuk disaster had finally taken its toll on me. No matter how desperately I would try to turn it off, it would always find some way back on, pegging my i7 at 100% and thrashing my disks (leading to the need for a hard reset). Been dealing with this for years now on several systems.
People have been complaining about this crap for longer than they have had these dumb tablet UIs, but the KDE devs just won't give in and let us leave all of that out of the compile. It will never work and nobody asked for it, so please just let it go. I want my KDE window manager back.
Nvidia's consistent support for near flawless video drivers is why I won't even consider anyone else. I wouldn't even be using linux if it weren't for them. I can't think of another computer company that has so ensured my product loyalty.
They both started out as protest movements against the banker bailouts, so I'd say it's entirely appropriate to be linking them together. That and I'd come across the same core group of people at both functions. Yes, their solutions are quite different. But it's the Tea Party/OWS/Arab Spring vs our crooked establishment and the apathy of their neighbors (at least in the early days before each movement fell apart). I'm sure we'll see another similar movement with a whole new name by 2013.
I've never been sympathetic to cell phone use (talking and texting) while driving because it's always been obvious that those people were far worse then you typical drunk driver. But yours is an important distinction. My pandora classical channel calms me down and makes me a safer driver. The navigation app keeps me from constantly taking my eyes off the road to review some hand written directions. A smart phone can be used responsibly, but at least half the people out there don't yet seem capable of it.
I don't think it's practical to legislate between the two types of use. We just need more of these studies to hammer it home to people so that they'll start changing their behavior on their own.
At least drunks go when the light turns green. And there are far fewer of them out there.
Isn't the whole point of texting is that it doesn't have to be in real time, unlike a phone call? Why not just wait till you get where you're going? Drinking and driving actually seems far more understandable to me, in that the alternative is pretty much not drinking at restaurants and bars. The alternative to not texting while driving is merely having your response take an extra 10-20 mintues.
I definitely prefer google+ and it made me dislike facebook even more than I had before. But since no one you know is on it, you end up follow a lot of strangers (did find some interesting people). The problem is that the filter controls are so awful (the last I looked) that I never want to use it. The circles concept is great, but they never got it out of the early development stage. Your stream consists of everybody or one circle. They released a beta and moved on to focusing on auto-sharing everything you do with your circles and a whole lot of other things that nobody wanted.
At the end of the day, I just don't have time for it. With sensible noise controls, that could change. But with everything else going so wrong with google this past year, I don't really want to use their products anymore anyway.
So I went back to facebook, sort of. It was such a sorry experience compared to g+ that I find I hardly visit there anymore either. I'll do a quick check in once in a while and then get out.
Actually, I had a Kodak "poloroid" camera. They eventually got sued and had to discontinue them.
Why should FB have to pay 25 people a year to do the government's dirty work? Companies should be able to submit a research bill to the government for these kinds of requests. There's no better check on power than a budget.
(as long as the decision is not based on certain criteria like race/color/religion/gender/etc). Stupidity is not a protected group.
So why should a genetic predisposition to lower intelligence be less protected than a religious choice?
Personally, I think a private business should be able to do business with whomever it chooses, but I am curious as to why people draw the arbitrary lines that they do.
But it wasn't used politically (certainly not in any mass way) until Nov. 5th, 2007.
These masks first started being used, outside and after the movie, during certain fringe Ron Paul events. They were initially brought into the spotlight during a Paul moneybomb, on the 5th of November, 2007. Then the first Tea Party in 2007 (another Ron Paul fundraiser) and it was at the later Tea Parties that these masks continued to grow. The OWS came along, where the masks really took off. OWS was partly a reaction to the Tea Party, but ironically enough, a good quarter of the most active, early participants, were the same people I'd see at the early Tea Parties (both movements initially protesting the banker bailouts). And now we have many form OWS helping out in the campaign. Of course he's serious, because Ron Paul kick started this whole thing and has been at the center of it throughout.
How do you wipe a defective drive? Sometimes you have a small window before it dies, sometimes it won't power up at all. It's up to the refurbisher to refurbish it into a like new condition, and that includes wiping any data (which should naturally occur anyway as part of testing).
That being said, unless it's an encrypted drive, I won't typically send it back, eating the cost.
You would prefer instead the "good hearted" politicians who are for indefinite detention and the assassination of American citizens?
You don't have to agree with anti-abortion people, but so long as you're honest with yourself, and understand that for them, that baby is a human life entitled to the same civil liberties of the mother, then you wouldn't be so confused by the "apparent" contradiction.
Why would a tablet be a better form factor for netflix, amazon VOD, or hulu? Why would I want an expensive console just to stream video? I have a 3D TV and I never use the 3D (I've got nothing against it, but there's nothing to watch). I do however use the apps quite a bit.
I'll only ever log into google through chrome. If I want to search the web, I'll use firefox. Don't see the point of crossing the two.
I once had high hopes for Google+ but Google seems to be screwing up on so many levels now, integrating g+ into everything else (dumbing everything else down in the process), while not getting around to properly integrating other google services into g+.
People have been begging for noise/circle controls forever now. Well I controlled the noise by not logging in anymore. They really needed to get that site out of beta first before trying all this squirrely shit. Actually, they just need some competent management.
Even if that were true, and it's not, then I'd still rather go with the "gut instinct" of the guy who predicted the housing crash on the floor of the congress back in 2002, to all the other candidates who have been telling me that "we're in recovery" from 2007 onward.
What you call rigidity, others call principle. And it's sorely missed in Washington. I'll happily vote for someone who's rigidly anti-SOPA.
Just have my 20th last month. First one I even bothered going to because I was constantly reminded of the invite list, and as more people signed up, more people wanted to. Everyone could message other people on the invite list and goad them into coming. I can't imagine that they would have even found a way to contact me otherwise. I can't see how Facebook is not good for reunions.
Now JP Morgan can raid future MF Globals all that much faster, while hiding their shenanigans at the COMEX.
Nobody tailgates and swerves around good drivers. Good drivers simply get passed. The ones who get tailgated are the ones who are going 10 miles under the speed limit in the passing lane. Usually because they are trying to force their notion of "good driving" on everyone else. But all they're really doing is making the problem worse.