If I had mod points I would mod you up. My phone contract expires in about 8 weeks. With a contract renewal I will get a new phone. I have a bunch of criteria that I have around what I need but being 1mm thinner than the previous model isn't on my list. With Apple having issues with bending phones with the last release I would be tempted to think that unless they make the whole phone bendable a thinner phone will simply mean a fragile phone. Removing the audio jack is design wank. A bunch of "creative types" has decided that they want a thinner, sleeker phone and that it would be cool not to have the audio jack. Marketing thinks it's great because they get to sell lots of Beats by Dr Dre headphones at vastly inflated prices. Customer think it's a con because they have wired headsets and are still smarting from having to replace their expensive Bose speakers because of the Lighting Connector. Change for the sake of change.
If an infinite number of monkeys with an infinite number of typewriters will eventually write Romeo and Juliet, a handful of syphilitic code-monkeys with iMacs seem to have produced iTunes and unleashed it upon the masses.
It's not central Australia that's the issue. Have a look at some of the images from the Black Saturday fires in Victoria, Australia in 2009. 1.1 million acres burned and 173 people died. Victoria is Australia's most densley-populated state. Melbourne's temperature reached over 46C, (115 F). If you have a look here you will see the cloud of smoke from the fires, the land mass on the right of the picture is New Zealand, and the cloud is covering most of the South Island. Entire towns were virtually destroyed by the fires. So the issue isn't just central Australia, it's the populated areas.
Yep, I had Kanga Bangas for dinner last night. Not as succulent (fatty) as regular sausages and with a stronger flavour but not bad all the same. Kangaroo burgers rock, and Kangaroo steak is great when done quite rare, but overcook it and it goes tougher than a pair of Chuck Norris's boots. Kangaroo meat is also much better for you and the environment than beef. Kangaroos need to be culled in many parts of Australia due to rising population levels (there are considerably more kangaroos in Australia now than before white settlement, due to agriculture), the meat is very low in fat, and kangaroos fart far less than cows, so we don't get the methane output that cows produce. If you can get kangaroo meat, try it.
You're on Slashdot. I think a high proportion of the people on here will not have a remote chance of having children. But if any of the neckbeards on here want to justify their lack of children by saying they lived in fear of one day having kids used against them by the FBI, rather than the fact that no sane woman with most of her own teeth would sleep with them, then you have helped the less fortunate of the world and done your good deed for the day.
They are facing the very real reality that Windows 8 will flop. Tens of thousands of PC's are being replaced with ipads both at home, and in the enterprise. This trend is likely to explode in 2012, when a large enough portion of the non developer population will be using them to matter. Sure, they're doing extremely well in video games, but their own mobile efforts haven't panned out, and probably won't. If Microsoft loses the Enterprise to Apple, they will be effectively marginalized in their core business. So what do you expect them to do? Those that can't make an honest living litigate. If the entertainment industry has taught us nothing, it's that.
Apple isn't going to win the enterprise space any time soon. Sure they will get companies who buy iToys for their employees, but let's face it, iPads are an unmanageable mess for an IT organisation. How do you effectively manage the data held on them, and the security on them? If big organisations can't control laptops, how do you think they will control iPads? I know of a lot of large organisations who would like to use tablets but won't go near Apple because they don't understand corporates. Sure they're shiny and employees want them ("we'll be more productive" hehehe now get me Angry Birds) but controlling what is on them and who gets access to it is a nightmare. Even Apple know that this isn't even in their sights. Nobody who actually uses a PC for more than just email and presentations will use a tablet for core business use. You need to add a keyboard and a mouse and a bigger screen if you use it for more than a few hours, but wait, that's now a very expensive and underspecced laptop. Just wait for all the OH&S claims when people start complaining of eye strain or issues with handling the bloody thing all the time.
I don't agree with Microsoft suing over obvious and broad patents, but trying to say that Windows 8 will flop because Apple brought out a tablet is facile. Apple are even more litigous than Microsoft. In fact, one thing that constantly amuses me is the fact that all the reasons why Apple fanbois give to hate Microsoft, Apple are actually worse at (EULAs, screwing over competitors, screwing over customers, anti-competitive, vendor lock-in, etc).
John Brown is an amazing character that is held up as a hero by the far right and the far left and of whom even the "middle" stand in awe (if a bit uncomfortably). The things that happened at Harpers Ferry are still affecting us today.
If you like historical romps the whole "Flashman" series by George MacDonald Fraser are excellent, and they even include one that centres on the events of Harpers Ferry. The concept is that Flashman (the bully from "Tom Brown's School Days") is expanded on and his life after being expelled is explained. In his memoirs he describes how he became a hero and celebrated soldier all the while he was a scoundrel, coward and cad. Excellent series of books. Apparently when it was first published, at least one reviewer thought it was a real memoir.
Terry Pratchett, Robert Rankin, Jasper Fforde are all great, quite British but I'm sure an American wouldn't be too put off by anything in there.
Came to Australia in 1998 and thought the polymer notes looked like Monopoly money. Having used it for a while it's so much better than the paper stuff. Hardly ever tears, is easy to see how much you have in your wallet just by opening it. Stands out from a wad of receipts. Whenever I have to go the US I hate having to use those crappy bits of toilet paper that feel like they been stuck to some homeless guy's arse since 1973.
My view is that the reason science and religion come up with different answers is because they ask different questions.
Science can tell you how to create a bomb that will kill lots of people. Religion can try to tell you whether or not creating such a bomb is a good idea.
I agree that science and religion ask different questions but I would suggest that Science will tell you discover how to create a bomb that will kill lots of people, Religion will tell you to use it on those unbelievers over there.
Who said I was arguing for the status quo? The reason jobs went overseas is government manipulation of the economy. I won't pretend (unlike others) that the situation can be fixed without undoing the damage that has been done. The only way it can be undone, though, is by overturning the legislation that caused the problem. Then shipping costs will be unappealing and jobs will come back home. Until then, don't hate companies for surviving and trying to give you the lowest-priced product possible despite government manipulation.
Care to tell us what "government manipulation" of the economy there was? The reason jobs went overseas was that companies can make more profit if they have a lower cost base. Henry Ford had a very smart aphorism - There is one rule for industrialists and that is: make the best quality of goods possible at the lowest cost possible, paying the highest wages possible. What has happened in the past decade is that companies have made the worst quality products that they can, at the lowest cost, playing the lowest wages. How is this the fault of the government?
objective? maybe honest, they are unapologetically conservatively biased unlike the liberal media that pretends to be objective.
You're either joking or trolling. "Fair and Balanced" they are not. If their slogan was "Biased and Right Wing" then you could call them "unapoligetically conservative". Perhaps I can edit your comment for accuracy. They are ultra-conservatively biased unlike other media that tries to be objective.
Re:Very easy to bring them back
on
The SUV Is Dethroned
·
· Score: 1, Insightful
All these companies have to do is change them over to a serial hybrid esp for trucks. The reason is that the serial hybrid is perfect for working as a generator. A construction worker can drive to the job site and then use their batteries/hybrid as power for the job sites. My guess is that one of these companies will get smart and soon deliver just this. Ah, you forget that you are dealing with American car companies. Guessing that they will get smart is not a good bet considering they have been getting dumber by the day for the past 40 years. Find me an innovative, exciting car company which is producing cars that lead the market and you won't find GM or Ford in the top ten. I think your idea is very good and makes sense. I would bet $100 that the first to market will be a Japanese car company, probably Toyota.
Try this one. True story but I can't find the link at the moment. A couple run a home-based child-care centre. Husband mows the lawn on a ride on mower and a child gets out and is accidentally run over by the mower. Who gets sued? The lawnmower manufacturer. They were found to be negligent because the mower went over the kid backwards and didn't have a device to prevent it from going backwards. Never mind the fact that no ride-on mower has one, or that one doesn't even exist. Never mind the fact that the couple were negligent in letting a child out unattended (I think it was a 2 year-old) or that he was mowing the lawns while the children were there. The couple didn't even get sued. So if you live in the US, then maybe you would sue BMW because, hey, they have deep pockets.
Socialized medicine may work, but it isn't the cheapest or most efficient solution, not to mention that it is incompatable with the basic ideas of freedom (why should I be forced at gunpoint to provide health care for some stranger? I'm not selfish (don't even try to come back with that argument), but I compassion comes from the heart and from one's volition, not from force).
If your argument is to hold weight, then why should I be forced to pay for the incarceration of the man who beats you and steals your money? He has done me no harm and I am forced at gunpoint to pay for his rehabilitation. It is clear that while I suffer no immediate damage, society, is damaged if he is left unpunished. It is the same with healthcare, if everyone has access to healthcare, the whole of society is better for it in terms of productivity, consumer spending etc. Socialised medicine is only incompatible with the basic ideas of freedom if you consider freedom to be a state of nature against which the social contract.
If there were no taxes and only what you wished to contribute, do you think there would be welfare, healthcare, low cost housing, police, etc?
and when you are paying extremely hefty taxes in order to support the health care system, whose costs increases as more government regulations are imposed and enforced The US pays about twice as much on healthcare as the UK does (user pays vs socialised healthcare) and yet the USian is twice as likely to suffer from diabetes, cancer etc http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/05/0 3/0726218.
I doubt you'll hear a peep about Al Jazeera or the BBC on this thread.
Perhaps because Al-Jazeera is the only non state-run media organisation in the Middle East. And the BBC is arguably the most independent and un-biased news source in the world. Neither is without bias, cultural and selective, but Fox News is a mouthpiece for the Republican Party, so much so that even other Fox programs acknowledge this.
Rich but diabetic and cancer riddled, sleep-deprived and stressed or well-off and less likely to be chronically ill, well rested and relaxed. Hmm, now let me think...
Australia Standards state that car speedometers must be accurate to within 10%. When the cops start fining people for going over by 3%, then it begins to get people's backs up. You can be done for speeding, while your legally acceptable speedo reads less than the speed limit. That's what annoys a lot of people.
Having said that, I know that in both of my cars, one is accurate to within about 1% while the other overreports by about 4%.
Slashdot Mirror
If I had mod points I would mod you up.
My phone contract expires in about 8 weeks. With a contract renewal I will get a new phone. I have a bunch of criteria that I have around what I need but being 1mm thinner than the previous model isn't on my list. With Apple having issues with bending phones with the last release I would be tempted to think that unless they make the whole phone bendable a thinner phone will simply mean a fragile phone.
Removing the audio jack is design wank. A bunch of "creative types" has decided that they want a thinner, sleeker phone and that it would be cool not to have the audio jack. Marketing thinks it's great because they get to sell lots of Beats by Dr Dre headphones at vastly inflated prices. Customer think it's a con because they have wired headsets and are still smarting from having to replace their expensive Bose speakers because of the Lighting Connector. Change for the sake of change.
If an infinite number of monkeys with an infinite number of typewriters will eventually write Romeo and Juliet, a handful of syphilitic code-monkeys with iMacs seem to have produced iTunes and unleashed it upon the masses.
Thank you for the response with the exact level of pedanticness I would have gone for personally. You saved me some time.
I think you mean pedantry :)
It's not central Australia that's the issue. Have a look at some of the images from the Black Saturday fires in Victoria, Australia in 2009. 1.1 million acres burned and 173 people died. Victoria is Australia's most densley-populated state. Melbourne's temperature reached over 46C, (115 F).
If you have a look here you will see the cloud of smoke from the fires, the land mass on the right of the picture is New Zealand, and the cloud is covering most of the South Island. Entire towns were virtually destroyed by the fires. So the issue isn't just central Australia, it's the populated areas.
Yep, I had Kanga Bangas for dinner last night. Not as succulent (fatty) as regular sausages and with a stronger flavour but not bad all the same. Kangaroo burgers rock, and Kangaroo steak is great when done quite rare, but overcook it and it goes tougher than a pair of Chuck Norris's boots.
Kangaroo meat is also much better for you and the environment than beef. Kangaroos need to be culled in many parts of Australia due to rising population levels (there are considerably more kangaroos in Australia now than before white settlement, due to agriculture), the meat is very low in fat, and kangaroos fart far less than cows, so we don't get the methane output that cows produce. If you can get kangaroo meat, try it.
That would be because conservatives have a proven track record of turning lots of places into war zones. Purely coincidence.
That seems a little over-the-top. Sure it strips your clothes off your body, to display a naked gray image of your breasts and penis.
I was going to correct you and say you can't have breasts and a penis. And then I remembered where I was. Carry on.
You're on Slashdot. I think a high proportion of the people on here will not have a remote chance of having children. But if any of the neckbeards on here want to justify their lack of children by saying they lived in fear of one day having kids used against them by the FBI, rather than the fact that no sane woman with most of her own teeth would sleep with them, then you have helped the less fortunate of the world and done your good deed for the day.
If you want to try to correct someone, at least make sure you're right. It's spelled meters everywhere I've been (no I haven't been to UK).
Looks like you've only ever been in the US then
They are facing the very real reality that Windows 8 will flop. Tens of thousands of PC's are being replaced with ipads both at home, and in the enterprise. This trend is likely to explode in 2012, when a large enough portion of the non developer population will be using them to matter. Sure, they're doing extremely well in video games, but their own mobile efforts haven't panned out, and probably won't. If Microsoft loses the Enterprise to Apple, they will be effectively marginalized in their core business. So what do you expect them to do? Those that can't make an honest living litigate. If the entertainment industry has taught us nothing, it's that.
Apple isn't going to win the enterprise space any time soon. Sure they will get companies who buy iToys for their employees, but let's face it, iPads are an unmanageable mess for an IT organisation. How do you effectively manage the data held on them, and the security on them? If big organisations can't control laptops, how do you think they will control iPads?
I know of a lot of large organisations who would like to use tablets but won't go near Apple because they don't understand corporates. Sure they're shiny and employees want them ("we'll be more productive" hehehe now get me Angry Birds) but controlling what is on them and who gets access to it is a nightmare. Even Apple know that this isn't even in their sights. Nobody who actually uses a PC for more than just email and presentations will use a tablet for core business use. You need to add a keyboard and a mouse and a bigger screen if you use it for more than a few hours, but wait, that's now a very expensive and underspecced laptop. Just wait for all the OH&S claims when people start complaining of eye strain or issues with handling the bloody thing all the time.
I don't agree with Microsoft suing over obvious and broad patents, but trying to say that Windows 8 will flop because Apple brought out a tablet is facile. Apple are even more litigous than Microsoft. In fact, one thing that constantly amuses me is the fact that all the reasons why Apple fanbois give to hate Microsoft, Apple are actually worse at (EULAs, screwing over competitors, screwing over customers, anti-competitive, vendor lock-in, etc).
John Brown is an amazing character that is held up as a hero by the far right and the far left and of whom even the "middle" stand in awe (if a bit uncomfortably). The things that happened at Harpers Ferry are still affecting us today.
If you like historical romps the whole "Flashman" series by George MacDonald Fraser are excellent, and they even include one that centres on the events of Harpers Ferry. The concept is that Flashman (the bully from "Tom Brown's School Days") is expanded on and his life after being expelled is explained. In his memoirs he describes how he became a hero and celebrated soldier all the while he was a scoundrel, coward and cad. Excellent series of books. Apparently when it was first published, at least one reviewer thought it was a real memoir.
Terry Pratchett, Robert Rankin, Jasper Fforde are all great, quite British but I'm sure an American wouldn't be too put off by anything in there.
Came to Australia in 1998 and thought the polymer notes looked like Monopoly money. Having used it for a while it's so much better than the paper stuff. Hardly ever tears, is easy to see how much you have in your wallet just by opening it. Stands out from a wad of receipts.
Whenever I have to go the US I hate having to use those crappy bits of toilet paper that feel like they been stuck to some homeless guy's arse since 1973.
The judge has nothing to be embarrassed about. He followed the law. The legal system should be embarrassed.
almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea
My view is that the reason science and religion come up with different answers is because they ask different questions.
Science can tell you how to create a bomb that will kill lots of people. Religion can try to tell you whether or not creating such a bomb is a good idea.
I agree that science and religion ask different questions but I would suggest that Science will tell you discover how to create a bomb that will kill lots of people, Religion will tell you to use it on those unbelievers over there.
Who said I was arguing for the status quo? The reason jobs went overseas is government manipulation of the economy. I won't pretend (unlike others) that the situation can be fixed without undoing the damage that has been done. The only way it can be undone, though, is by overturning the legislation that caused the problem. Then shipping costs will be unappealing and jobs will come back home. Until then, don't hate companies for surviving and trying to give you the lowest-priced product possible despite government manipulation.
Care to tell us what "government manipulation" of the economy there was? The reason jobs went overseas was that companies can make more profit if they have a lower cost base.
Henry Ford had a very smart aphorism - There is one rule for industrialists and that is: make the best quality of goods possible at the lowest cost possible, paying the highest wages possible.
What has happened in the past decade is that companies have made the worst quality products that they can, at the lowest cost, playing the lowest wages. How is this the fault of the government?
We have the right to bare arms. PERIOD.
Look, if you feel that strongly about wearing short sleeves I'm sure we can reword the constitution.
objective? maybe honest, they are unapologetically conservatively biased unlike the liberal media that pretends to be objective.
You're either joking or trolling. "Fair and Balanced" they are not. If their slogan was "Biased and Right Wing" then you could call them "unapoligetically conservative". Perhaps I can edit your comment for accuracy.
They are ultra-conservatively biased unlike other media that tries to be objective.
My guess is that one of these companies will get smart and soon deliver just this. Ah, you forget that you are dealing with American car companies. Guessing that they will get smart is not a good bet considering they have been getting dumber by the day for the past 40 years. Find me an innovative, exciting car company which is producing cars that lead the market and you won't find GM or Ford in the top ten.
I think your idea is very good and makes sense. I would bet $100 that the first to market will be a Japanese car company, probably Toyota.
Nothing to see here. This story was on the front page less than 24 hours ago3 24211
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/07/11/2
Try this one. True story but I can't find the link at the moment.
A couple run a home-based child-care centre. Husband mows the lawn on a ride on mower and a child gets out and is accidentally run over by the mower. Who gets sued? The lawnmower manufacturer. They were found to be negligent because the mower went over the kid backwards and didn't have a device to prevent it from going backwards. Never mind the fact that no ride-on mower has one, or that one doesn't even exist. Never mind the fact that the couple were negligent in letting a child out unattended (I think it was a 2 year-old) or that he was mowing the lawns while the children were there. The couple didn't even get sued. So if you live in the US, then maybe you would sue BMW because, hey, they have deep pockets.
Socialized medicine may work, but it isn't the cheapest or most efficient solution, not to mention that it is incompatable with the basic ideas of freedom (why should I be forced at gunpoint to provide health care for some stranger? I'm not selfish (don't even try to come back with that argument), but I compassion comes from the heart and from one's volition, not from force).
0 3/0726218.
If your argument is to hold weight, then why should I be forced to pay for the incarceration of the man who beats you and steals your money? He has done me no harm and I am forced at gunpoint to pay for his rehabilitation. It is clear that while I suffer no immediate damage, society, is damaged if he is left unpunished. It is the same with healthcare, if everyone has access to healthcare, the whole of society is better for it in terms of productivity, consumer spending etc. Socialised medicine is only incompatible with the basic ideas of freedom if you consider freedom to be a state of nature against which the social contract.
If there were no taxes and only what you wished to contribute, do you think there would be welfare, healthcare, low cost housing, police, etc?
and when you are paying extremely hefty taxes in order to support the health care system, whose costs increases as more government regulations are imposed and enforced
The US pays about twice as much on healthcare as the UK does (user pays vs socialised healthcare) and yet the USian is twice as likely to suffer from diabetes, cancer etc http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/05/
I doubt you'll hear a peep about Al Jazeera or the BBC on this thread.
Perhaps because Al-Jazeera is the only non state-run media organisation in the Middle East. And the BBC is arguably the most independent and un-biased news source in the world. Neither is without bias, cultural and selective, but Fox News is a mouthpiece for the Republican Party, so much so that even other Fox programs acknowledge this.
Rich but diabetic and cancer riddled, sleep-deprived and stressed or well-off and less likely to be chronically ill, well rested and relaxed. Hmm, now let me think...
Australia Standards state that car speedometers must be accurate to within 10%. When the cops start fining people for going over by 3%, then it begins to get people's backs up. You can be done for speeding, while your legally acceptable speedo reads less than the speed limit. That's what annoys a lot of people.
Having said that, I know that in both of my cars, one is accurate to within about 1% while the other overreports by about 4%.