More truck means slower pursuit and longer interdiction times, but just think of how many doughnuts a Yukon with a lift kit will haul! no more embarassing loading-u-haul-in-the-crispy-creme-parking-lot for NY cops.
this argument is invalidated by Samsung successfully carving niches for a 5" note, a 7" tablet, and phones with wider and taller screens than the iphone's. the iphone itself has also grown an extra row of icons in height. there are criteria regarding screen size selection that have outgrown the original 'human hand' argument.
Rounded edges. Wow. Not having rounded edges are uncomfortable in your pocket. Oblong, well oval or round phones are not comfortable in your pocket either and you'd also like something that doesn't use more space other than to house the required components, of which the size of the touch screen is probably the most important factor.
Most people handed the same components would come up with the same generic design.
This is precisely the argument, except the components were proprietary at the time. During the development of the phones in dispute, Samsung was responsible for mfg. parts for the iphone and ipad, including screen. of course they would have intimate access to the components ahead of the competition, which is how apple stays ahead. Samsung abused their agreements with apple, and were given an unfair competitive advantage./p
You magnetically drop your device into place onto a block on a power cord. Instead of plugging the power cord into your device. The actual distinction in convenience is a half a second of fiddling per day.
this was why i was genuinely surprised to see cordless mice and keyboards being so commonplace, even though the distance and hassle is so minimal with such devices.
cables are a necessary evil. i'd much rather have a clean desk.
Right, the music industry made such a big comeback and now you see music stores on every corner. CD's are still sold, but not many in independent shops.
Who said anything about CD's?
Before Technology seems to be interesting again.
No, places I would never expect would be Kansas, Siberia and the middle of the Sahara. If cable television has taught me anything, it's that the sea is out to kill me. If I can smell saltwater in the air, I'm expecting some explosion of deadliness.
who says they have to be marine only? bioinvasive, freshwater jellies have been found:
we can farm turtles through aquaculture techniques and mitigate directed fishing pressure on sea turtles and wild eggs. this farm has been operating for over 40 years, and can complete the life cycle from hatch to reproductive recruitment.
"We must plant the sea and herd its animals using the sea as farmers instead of hunters. That is what civilization is all about - farming replacing hunting." - Jacques Yves Cousteau
correct. I was referring to the disproportionate definitions of 'freedom' when you compare an actual war with not being able to buy an electric car. Your statement is non sequitor.
Iraq and Afganistan have nothing to do with being able to buy a Tesla in Texas.
how can we bomb the shit out of people around the world to bring them freedom when we don't even have it at home?
I can appreciate this sentiment, but "I can't buy the luxury car of my choice" is not the same type of freedom as, "go to school, get shot in the face."
Sometimes I wonder if the lack of "graphic material" has caused a dissonance from death. As a young kid my father killed pigs so they could eat (or at least watched it). He saw them get sick and die. Several family members died unexpectedly in his youth. He had real life experience with death.
I'd like to see something similar for war: show death instead of glamour. Instead of showing shiny war machines, guns, and bombs via "embedded reporters", report from a hospital emergency ward and show the effect and damage of the war machines, guns, and bombs. Instead of interviewing specially-selected soldiers and operators to propagandise the war effort, have an "embeded doctor" talk about the difficulties involved in blast injuries or treating pediatric bullet trauma.
If we were forced to see the death, injury and destruction, I wonder if we would be so complacent about the bloody conflicts the world is currently mired in.
Great, so now it's not just one battery pack in the back that's a fire risk, the whole exterior of the car could spontaneously combust at any moment. Oh, and good bye independant body shops.
Do you walk around with a phone thinking "in my pocket, near my crotch is a continuing, unending fire risk that occasionally makes phone calls".
A flaming car is an exceptional event, but say 'hello' to a rash of volvo body panel thefts!
the building i lived in recently had performed a treatment with diatomaceous earth when my neighbor had an outbreak. they used a bulb duster to poot DE into the power outlets, under the floor moulding, under the beds and the radiator, and across the gaps in the front door. I have a dust allergy, and did not even notice the treatment, which was done in about 10 minutes.
the small shards of the diatom's silica skeleton cut the bed bugs apart, but are harmless to people. Diatomaceous earth is the most effective, least hazardous way of mitigating bed bugs.
Look on the bright side. When they were blinded while flying fifty feet off the ground, they would only have about two seconds to worry about whether their eyesight would ever return.
such pesssimism! they'd have their whole lives to worry about their eyesight returning.
I see this attitude ALL THE TIME and it never fails to baffle me. Because someone thinks that China is the new boogeyman, that means that China must not be hacking at all. It's all about the all-powerful US government boogeyman instead!
Note you're the only person that said that "China must not be hacking at all": neither me nor GP said this. congratulations on your hasty strawman creation.
(newsflash, Obama is the good guy, the media is on his side these days)
If you continue to think in binary "good guy, bad guy" terms, we'll never get past this caveman "us vs them". The first things you should check at the door is any notion of American exceptionalism, and your blind faith in "the media".
you claim China has been 'cracking the west', and yet you conveniently ignore stuxnet and flame. you're more pissed off at a whistleblower's "BS" than plain evidence the US government has been engaging in rampant data mining and surveillance on a global scale.
China is the new 'enemy' that the US has been waiting for since the end of the Cold War. No doubt this escalating rivalry will drive the development and purchase of a new generation of military equipment, and justify the US government exerting unilateral control over ever more aspects of online activity and identity. Rest easy: we'll all continue to enjoy unending war in our lifetimes.
Apparently Telus' deal to buy Mobilicity got blocked by the government yesterday. When Mobilicity won their spectrum block in 2009, it was on the condition that it not be sold to any of the existing wireless providers for at least five years. As you said, the intention was to bring in some competition for the big three. Mobilicity had been warned the sale would be blocked on that reason alone, but they went ahead and got approval from everyone else first (shareholders, regulatory approval, etc.) I guess they were hoping that the government would just rubber-stamp the sale if all other parties had approved it.
I expect Rogers will get the same response.
I'm hoping that the CRTC will keep sticking up for consumers; they seem to be one of the few government agencies which are engaging with the public rather than the incumbent service providers. if Telus were enjoined from acquiring Mobilicity, we should also hope that Rogers is blocked from purchasing the same AWS spectrums (UMTS 1700) from Shaw, which obtained the mobilicity/public/wind spectrum in the same initial auction which formed the upstart companies. this spectrum was provided to Shaw to create competition in western Canada, but its sale to Rogers would work against competition.
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Any publicity is good publicity! we're talking about the drink, right? oh crap.
Maybe Princeton shouldn't be in the business of playing gatekeeper to a dead man's paranoiac death wishes about publication. .
what.cd admins took down the file out of respect to the author as well. Princeton's not the only gatekeeper in this story.
More truck means slower pursuit and longer interdiction times, but just think of how many doughnuts a Yukon with a lift kit will haul! no more embarassing loading-u-haul-in-the-crispy-creme-parking-lot for NY cops.
guaranteed if Newegg is taking such a strong position vs. patent trolls, this is not over by a long shot.
expect appeals for years to come.
the "no rootkit" canary LED?
The design is OBVIOUS.
this argument is invalidated by Samsung successfully carving niches for a 5" note, a 7" tablet, and phones with wider and taller screens than the iphone's. the iphone itself has also grown an extra row of icons in height. there are criteria regarding screen size selection that have outgrown the original 'human hand' argument.
Rounded edges. Wow. Not having rounded edges are uncomfortable in your pocket. Oblong, well oval or round phones are not comfortable in your pocket either and you'd also like something that doesn't use more space other than to house the required components, of which the size of the touch screen is probably the most important factor.
I too, have 20/20 hindsight. You also focus on the hardware design, and fail to acknowledge the blatant copying of the the IOS look and feel. it wasn't accidental, there are 132 pages which look at every aspect of the iphone with the intention to copy software features wholesale.
Most people handed the same components would come up with the same generic design.
This is precisely the argument, except the components were proprietary at the time. During the development of the phones in dispute, Samsung was responsible for mfg. parts for the iphone and ipad, including screen. of course they would have intimate access to the components ahead of the competition, which is how apple stays ahead. Samsung abused their agreements with apple, and were given an unfair competitive advantage./p
You magnetically drop your device into place onto a block on a power cord. Instead of plugging the power cord into your device. The actual distinction in convenience is a half a second of fiddling per day.
this was why i was genuinely surprised to see cordless mice and keyboards being so commonplace, even though the distance and hassle is so minimal with such devices.
cables are a necessary evil. i'd much rather have a clean desk.
Right, the music industry made such a big comeback and now you see music stores on every corner. CD's are still sold, but not many in independent shops.
Who said anything about CD's? Before Technology seems to be interesting again.
No, places I would never expect would be Kansas, Siberia and the middle of the Sahara. If cable television has taught me anything, it's that the sea is out to kill me. If I can smell saltwater in the air, I'm expecting some explosion of deadliness.
who says they have to be marine only? bioinvasive, freshwater jellies have been found:
Hamilton County
Erie County, Ohio
Trenton, Ontario
Hoosier county (aka Laporte), Indiana
we can farm turtles through aquaculture techniques and mitigate directed fishing pressure on sea turtles and wild eggs. this farm has been operating for over 40 years, and can complete the life cycle from hatch to reproductive recruitment.
"We must plant the sea and herd its animals using the sea as farmers instead of hunters. That is what civilization is all about - farming replacing hunting." - Jacques Yves Cousteau
Sorry, I didn't mean to sound facetious.
I didn't perceive you were being facetious. Rather, you came off as an antiintellectual.
get a better dictionary.
CS6 has content aware fill.
So far
Take it far enough, we might find that the diagnosis of just being alive comes with a 100% morality rate.
correct. I was referring to the disproportionate definitions of 'freedom' when you compare an actual war with not being able to buy an electric car. Your statement is non sequitor.
Iraq and Afganistan have nothing to do with being able to buy a Tesla in Texas.
how can we bomb the shit out of people around the world to bring them freedom when we don't even have it at home?
I can appreciate this sentiment, but "I can't buy the luxury car of my choice" is not the same type of freedom as, "go to school, get shot in the face."
Sometimes I wonder if the lack of "graphic material" has caused a dissonance from death. As a young kid my father killed pigs so they could eat (or at least watched it). He saw them get sick and die. Several family members died unexpectedly in his youth. He had real life experience with death.
I'd like to see something similar for war: show death instead of glamour. Instead of showing shiny war machines, guns, and bombs via "embedded reporters", report from a hospital emergency ward and show the effect and damage of the war machines, guns, and bombs. Instead of interviewing specially-selected soldiers and operators to propagandise the war effort, have an "embeded doctor" talk about the difficulties involved in blast injuries or treating pediatric bullet trauma.
If we were forced to see the death, injury and destruction, I wonder if we would be so complacent about the bloody conflicts the world is currently mired in.
If you are deliberately killing innocent people with drones, you aren't doing it right. That is why they don't deliberately target innocent people.
That's the point: they don't deliberately target innocent people. Drones seem to still kill a fuckton of civilians, though.
Former US drone pilot quits, regretting bombing innocents, including children
U.S. Accused of Using Drones to Target Rescue Workers and Funerals in Pakistan
Living Under Drones: Stanford International Human Rights & Conflict Resolution Clinic"
Great, so now it's not just one battery pack in the back that's a fire risk, the whole exterior of the car could spontaneously combust at any moment. Oh, and good bye independant body shops.
Do you walk around with a phone thinking "in my pocket, near my crotch is a continuing, unending fire risk that occasionally makes phone calls".
A flaming car is an exceptional event, but say 'hello' to a rash of volvo body panel thefts!
the building i lived in recently had performed a treatment with diatomaceous earth when my neighbor had an outbreak. they used a bulb duster to poot DE into the power outlets, under the floor moulding, under the beds and the radiator, and across the gaps in the front door. I have a dust allergy, and did not even notice the treatment, which was done in about 10 minutes.
the small shards of the diatom's silica skeleton cut the bed bugs apart, but are harmless to people. Diatomaceous earth is the most effective, least hazardous way of mitigating bed bugs.
Look on the bright side. When they were blinded while flying fifty feet off the ground, they would only have about two seconds to worry about whether their eyesight would ever return.
such pesssimism! they'd have their whole lives to worry about their eyesight returning.
no.
also, the developer shouldn't be eating, rolling and smoking, blowing his nose, wiping his ass, fanning himself, or wearing development money.
I see this attitude ALL THE TIME and it never fails to baffle me. Because someone thinks that China is the new boogeyman, that means that China must not be hacking at all. It's all about the all-powerful US government boogeyman instead!
Note you're the only person that said that "China must not be hacking at all": neither me nor GP said this. congratulations on your hasty strawman creation.
(newsflash, Obama is the good guy, the media is on his side these days)
If you continue to think in binary "good guy, bad guy" terms, we'll never get past this caveman "us vs them". The first things you should check at the door is any notion of American exceptionalism, and your blind faith in "the media".
you claim China has been 'cracking the west', and yet you conveniently ignore stuxnet and flame. you're more pissed off at a whistleblower's "BS" than plain evidence the US government has been engaging in rampant data mining and surveillance on a global scale.
China is the new 'enemy' that the US has been waiting for since the end of the Cold War. No doubt this escalating rivalry will drive the development and purchase of a new generation of military equipment, and justify the US government exerting unilateral control over ever more aspects of online activity and identity. Rest easy: we'll all continue to enjoy unending war in our lifetimes.
Apparently Telus' deal to buy Mobilicity got blocked by the government yesterday. When Mobilicity won their spectrum block in 2009, it was on the condition that it not be sold to any of the existing wireless providers for at least five years. As you said, the intention was to bring in some competition for the big three. Mobilicity had been warned the sale would be blocked on that reason alone, but they went ahead and got approval from everyone else first (shareholders, regulatory approval, etc.) I guess they were hoping that the government would just rubber-stamp the sale if all other parties had approved it.
I expect Rogers will get the same response.
I'm hoping that the CRTC will keep sticking up for consumers; they seem to be one of the few government agencies which are engaging with the public rather than the incumbent service providers. if Telus were enjoined from acquiring Mobilicity, we should also hope that Rogers is blocked from purchasing the same AWS spectrums (UMTS 1700) from Shaw, which obtained the mobilicity/public/wind spectrum in the same initial auction which formed the upstart companies. this spectrum was provided to Shaw to create competition in western Canada, but its sale to Rogers would work against competition.