FaceTime is a beautifully simple interface that Just Works, provided that you're an Apple user calling another Apple user. Steve Jobs (peace be upon him) promised to open up the interface to all comers, but a patent troll called Virnetx hijacked the FaceTime implementation, forcing Apple to change the implementation to one that cannot be open-sourced.
I have been a Skype user from the very beginning. At first it was a convenient way of avoiding those high long distance fees we used to have for domestic calls. Remember when we had to choose a "long distance provider" for our PSTN landlines?
When Skype added subscription plans for foreign cell and landline phones, we sprang for the pricey world plan, to communicate with our plethora of overseas relatives. All but two of these people are too old to have ever heard of anything beyond landlines, so that arrangement suited us fine.
Then Microsoft got hold of Skype, and they have systematically screwed phone subscription users out of all the features that allow us to use phone subscriptions. The iOS app no longer even supports adding and managing phone numbers. I can understand adding social media features to capture the young, but why are they still offering telephone subscriptions that the product no longer supports? Why remove function after function that a lot of users still need?
What benefited France most of all was a policy of simply not listening to yammerheads and just plowing ahead with construction. That's how we need to approach it: develop a legal principle that "I don't like it" does not give you standing to argue court cases over technology.
You just have to use the right current terminology to avoid the dreaded classification. When I was young, we had Jew-baiting in certain corners of the political spectrum; now it's anti-Zionist activism. We once had segregated lunch counters; now we call them "safe spaces."
A leak should, by applying a minute thrust to the station, cause it to spin. Observe the degree of spin carefully to determine the location of the leak. Reaction wheels or thruster self-corrrects would have to be turned off while this test is in progress.
When the old-line mail order purveyor of fine writing instruments Pen Island became aware of the potential of online commerce, it registered the obvious penisland.com . The company was totally unprepared for the porn avalanche that followed. Similar hilarity ensued when Experts Exchange came online.
This would never happen in the US because of the Second Amendment.
No, this would never happen in the US because someone would declare the site 'sacred' or claim that the project emits radiation of some kind. We don't do science any more, which is why we have to be tourists in China if we want to visit some research.
Also, there seems to be a problem with Florida. Maybe we should build a wall around there?
Finally, a good argument in favor of Trump's coal promotion plan. If the oceans rise another hundred feet when most of the ice melts, Florida will disappear completely.
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FaceTime is a beautifully simple interface that Just Works, provided that you're an Apple user calling another Apple user. Steve Jobs (peace be upon him) promised to open up the interface to all comers, but a patent troll called Virnetx hijacked the FaceTime implementation, forcing Apple to change the implementation to one that cannot be open-sourced.
7. (Excuse the raised voice) Restore the ability to call goddamned telephones!!"
I have been a Skype user from the very beginning. At first it was a convenient way of avoiding those high long distance fees we used to have for domestic calls. Remember when we had to choose a "long distance provider" for our PSTN landlines?
When Skype added subscription plans for foreign cell and landline phones, we sprang for the pricey world plan, to communicate with our plethora of overseas relatives. All but two of these people are too old to have ever heard of anything beyond landlines, so that arrangement suited us fine.
Then Microsoft got hold of Skype, and they have systematically screwed phone subscription users out of all the features that allow us to use phone subscriptions. The iOS app no longer even supports adding and managing phone numbers. I can understand adding social media features to capture the young, but why are they still offering telephone subscriptions that the product no longer supports? Why remove function after function that a lot of users still need?
Exactly, but carbon-free energy is the sort of peaceful purpose that would benefit the world if all major countries behaved this way.
What benefited France most of all was a policy of simply not listening to yammerheads and just plowing ahead with construction. That's how we need to approach it: develop a legal principle that "I don't like it" does not give you standing to argue court cases over technology.
Colonialism is an emergent property of power:
https://www.businessinsider.co...
India leads the world in cold-calling supposed Microsoft support phone calls and virus removal.
Because responding to Windows problems takes a billion-person support team.
This post is an example of what happens when you eat the new biodegradable Lego blocks.
Pence is here warming up for his forthcoming at-bat.
He and the People's Republic of California deserve each other. This story reads like the punchline of a canonical lawyer joke.
You just have to use the right current terminology to avoid the dreaded classification. When I was young, we had Jew-baiting in certain corners of the political spectrum; now it's anti-Zionist activism. We once had segregated lunch counters; now we call them "safe spaces."
Simply having a small minority of right- or left leaning individuals "determining" that something is hate speech, does not make it such.
And apparently a number of these people are mods right here.
Go south to Santa Monica, and you get real British pubs.
Sorry, that one got autocorrected: ...not going to want to know...
And as every organist knows, the frequency would be a function of the hole size. If your detector hears a chord, it's bad news.
You would be amazed at what NASA can figure out from small measures of thrust.
Do you remember his prohibition on transgender people in the military? I do.
Wait until you get the impeachment you crave. You're not going to know what President Pence's views on LBGTSPUEQI* are going to be.
It will be interesting to hear what is the source of the leak
This would be literally another means of detecting: listen for a faint whistle.
Spotted the Safelite Auto Glass rep!
A leak should, by applying a minute thrust to the station, cause it to spin. Observe the degree of spin carefully to determine the location of the leak. Reaction wheels or thruster self-corrrects would have to be turned off while this test is in progress.
When the old-line mail order purveyor of fine writing instruments Pen Island became aware of the potential of online commerce, it registered the obvious penisland.com . The company was totally unprepared for the porn avalanche that followed. Similar hilarity ensued when Experts Exchange came online.
This would never happen in the US because of the Second Amendment.
No, this would never happen in the US because someone would declare the site 'sacred' or claim that the project emits radiation of some kind. We don't do science any more, which is why we have to be tourists in China if we want to visit some research.
I keep checking the UK online press for the start of London's civil war between terrorists and moped criminals.
Because the highest mountain is only 160 ft above sea level ?
*squint*
Because Hollywood people know shit about geography. Yet we trust them to inform us on the fine points of nuclear physics.
Also, there seems to be a problem with Florida. Maybe we should build a wall around there?
Finally, a good argument in favor of Trump's coal promotion plan. If the oceans rise another hundred feet when most of the ice melts, Florida will disappear completely.