There was a brief period where Blockbuster Online was actually superior to Netflix. When you returned one of your mail order rentals to a BB store you would get a free rental. That was the best of both worlds as far as selection and convenience. I don't remember it ever being significantly more expensive than Netflix, and the in store rentals more than made up for any small difference.
I wasn't speaking Greek, I was speaking English. A literal translation from one language to another is often quite different than the actual meaning. That's one reason machine translation is so difficult. If you had bothered to do even the tiniest bit of research into the etymology of the word you would know this. Thirteen hours would have been more than enough time.
without God, lacking God. As opposed to "fighting against God". Which is precisely what I had said.
Perhaps you should look up how the word was originally used historically. Words are not mathematical equations in which prefix A plus root B equals meaning C. The word has had the same meaning for thousands of years, and that never meaning has never been what you are trying to claim it as. The only person "co-opting" it is you.
it's funny how the word "atheist" has been co-opted.
When was it "co-opted" exactly? It's taken from the Greek atheos and has had the same meaning since the 5th century BC.
The prefix "a" means "not applicable", or "not concerned with".
Nope, not in this context. The ancient Greek prefix (that I cannot actually type in a Slashdot comment box) a- is what's known as an alpha privative. It literally expresses negation and is used to give the opposite meaning to the word it is attached to. The Greek word transliterated as atheos means "without a god". While in English the a- prefix can be used in the way you are suggesting, you would be co-opting the word "atheist" to suggest that that is the case here. The most appropriate English word to suggest the concept you want would be "irreligious".
You can leave a reader like this plugged in all the time (this is the exact one I have). A smartphone app connects to it via Bluetooth. Even when the car isn't throwing a code it can be great to have realtime data.
and it doesn't have a financial interest in the content of my emails
No, just a paternalistic one. Who knows what phrases will send your emails silently into the void. I'll pass on an email service that doesn't deliver 100% of email received to the intended recipient (into a spam folder is acceptable).
Great, but you have yet to demonstrate why that is relevant. If you have don't have a Mac and smartphone development is something you want to do as a hobby, don't buy an iPhone.
Our shop has a (significantly, actually) lower than industry average safety record, so I know where our company stands on safety. That;s not the point. You cannot control employees like robots. They will choose to do the wrong thing for their own reasons totally unrelated to the job requirements. All PPE sucks, for one thing. You try to require the PPE that sucks the least, but it still sucks more than not wearing it. Despite the fact that it would be a warning, I'll bet I could walk the floor right now and find someone not wearing hearing protection, of all things. No matter how much you tell them, young, healthy people don't care about safety.
I apologize for the omission. Or did you consider $748 for the first year plus $99 for each additional year a reasonable part of a device's total cost of ownership for hobbyist developers?
Accounting for the cost of the computer is disingenuous. There are multiple platforms and operating systems and no matter which one you choose others will be incompatible with it. Just because a tool with cost X only runs on a platform with cost Y doesn't mean make that option suddenly cost X+Y dollars. It might for you, but maybe not for the next guy. It's not a cost you can roll into the tool's cost.
It requires a Microsoft account. That might be acceptable if Microsoft requires less personal information than Google requires. Is this the case?
I have no idea and I don't particularly care. You keep adding on criteria.
It also requires Windows 8 [microsoft.com], which people might not already have for one of at least four reasons. The first is people who use Linux on a PC built from parts to avoid buying Windows in the first place. The second is people who bought a computer prior to Windows 8's general availability on October 26, 2012, and haven't yet dropped $120 (source: microsoftstore.com) on upgrading from Windows 7 to Windows 8. The third is people who prefer the user interface of Windows pre-8 and are unaware of Classic Shell. And the fourth is Mac owners. True, Mac owners are more likely to buy an iPhone, but a Mac owner might consider buying a Windows Phone 8 phone to avoid the $99 per year fee associated with running one's own software on an iPhone. Or are only an insignificant number of users affected by these four cases?
See the first answer. There are many hardware platforms and operating systems. Someone choosing to release their tools on a platform you don't personally own is inevitable. No one platform can run every available option. There is, however, at least one option available for everyone on each of the major platforms as I listed in my first post. You sound like you would only be happy with the Linux on Android option, so go for it.
Free was not one of your original criteria. However, all the necessary Microsoft tools for developing for Windows phone are free. The $49/yr cost is to publish apps on the Windows Store (the Google Play store has a one time $25 fee). If your apps are just for yourself you don't need to pay those. If you want to distribute your apps and you really, really don't want to use that distribution method you can still send your apps through any channel and have the end user sideload it,
"Not every injury is the employer's fault" Yeah, so what? Most of them are.
Do you have a source for that? Because it doesn't fit in any way with my anecdotal evidence. I am on the "safety committee" where I work. Not because my job has anything to do with safety or that I'm even management, just that every business unit needs to send a representative and I drew the IT short straw. Anyway, this means that for almost a decade now I have read the reports on every injury in our facility. This is an large factory operation with thousands of employees. I can't recall the last time an incident was our employer's "fault". The vast majority of the time people are injured because they are being stupid or lazy. Generally they refuse to wear their PPE, sometimes they remove guards from machines or just take shortcuts. One person liked to take literal shortcuts across empty pallets until they fell through the slats and twisted their ankle. A couple months ago we had a guy who didn't wear his harness or close the safety railing on a scissor lift and he fell 30 feet to the warehouse floor. Sometimes they don't care about getting hurt a little bit so they can get time off. Pretty much any time someone gets hurt it's their own damn fault. Every now and then it's no one's fault, just serendipity that nothing could have prevented. I have never seen it be a failing of the employer to provide training, safety equipment or creating any other unsafe condition.
As the OP specifically said, the numbers all pass the checksum. The checksum just tells you if it is a potentially valid number. It doesn't tell you if its expired, cancelled or even leaked deliberately as a honeypot. It's a very basic check that is only there to catch errors in card readers or transcription/typing.
When you 'mine' a bitcoin have you actually produced something of tangible value
The miners are the people who do the computational work to verify transactions. Without miners the system could not process any transactions. So, yes. They provide a necessary service within the context of Bitcoin.
The proponents of BitCoin claim that it was untraceable
I don't know what "Bitcoin proponent" told you that, but you could have just checked the Bitcoin FAQ to see that not only is that not an actual claim anyone knowledgeable about the project is making, but that they remind you of the exact opposite.
I haven't completely broken the habit of bookstores. But if there was an app that would allow me to easily scan a UPC code and wish/purchase an eBook, it would be a convenience
This is one of the main features of the Amazon app for Android (and I assume iOS as well). You can scan the barcode on anything to look it up on Amazon.
Gridiron football is called "football" because the ball was classically 12 inches long. (They shortened it to make the forward pass easier about 100 years ago, so the modern football is 11 1/2 inches.)
No. The American football was derived from a rugby football (as was the game itself), so it made sense to just keep calling it the same thing.
Association football is called "football" because it's played on foot, as opposed to polo, which is played on horseback. The name was originally given derisively; it implied "poor people ball."
This is one of the possible explanations for the word football itself, yes. A more correct explanation is that American football is called football because the games it is derived from are called football.
In the 1850s, the word "soccer" meant "a member of an association." A 19th century soccer star popularized its use to mean "the game played by members of an association football association."
That story is almost certainly apocryphal. The word "soccer" did not appear in print until 1895.
They certainly are in many places in the US. Nineteen states allow them under various circumstances and the Supreme Court in Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceutical set the Federal standard to be the discretion of the judge.
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There was a brief period where Blockbuster Online was actually superior to Netflix. When you returned one of your mail order rentals to a BB store you would get a free rental. That was the best of both worlds as far as selection and convenience. I don't remember it ever being significantly more expensive than Netflix, and the in store rentals more than made up for any small difference.
I wasn't speaking Greek, I was speaking English. A literal translation from one language to another is often quite different than the actual meaning. That's one reason machine translation is so difficult. If you had bothered to do even the tiniest bit of research into the etymology of the word you would know this. Thirteen hours would have been more than enough time.
without God, lacking God. As opposed to "fighting against God". Which is precisely what I had said.
Perhaps you should look up how the word was originally used historically. Words are not mathematical equations in which prefix A plus root B equals meaning C. The word has had the same meaning for thousands of years, and that never meaning has never been what you are trying to claim it as. The only person "co-opting" it is you.
it's funny how the word "atheist" has been co-opted.
When was it "co-opted" exactly? It's taken from the Greek atheos and has had the same meaning since the 5th century BC.
The prefix "a" means "not applicable", or "not concerned with".
Nope, not in this context. The ancient Greek prefix (that I cannot actually type in a Slashdot comment box) a- is what's known as an alpha privative. It literally expresses negation and is used to give the opposite meaning to the word it is attached to. The Greek word transliterated as atheos means "without a god". While in English the a- prefix can be used in the way you are suggesting, you would be co-opting the word "atheist" to suggest that that is the case here. The most appropriate English word to suggest the concept you want would be "irreligious".
A lack of network support was what was holding back a JavaScript VM running Linux from being useful. No other reason whatsoever.
You can leave a reader like this plugged in all the time (this is the exact one I have). A smartphone app connects to it via Bluetooth. Even when the car isn't throwing a code it can be great to have realtime data.
They're three different size balls (that's what she said). You rotate it so the size you need is facing up.
Did he avoid having to listen to one?
Apple doesn't serve targeted ads,
Really? What am I opting out of then?
and it doesn't have a financial interest in the content of my emails
No, just a paternalistic one. Who knows what phrases will send your emails silently into the void. I'll pass on an email service that doesn't deliver 100% of email received to the intended recipient (into a spam folder is acceptable).
Great, but you have yet to demonstrate why that is relevant. If you have don't have a Mac and smartphone development is something you want to do as a hobby, don't buy an iPhone.
Our shop has a (significantly, actually) lower than industry average safety record, so I know where our company stands on safety. That;s not the point. You cannot control employees like robots. They will choose to do the wrong thing for their own reasons totally unrelated to the job requirements. All PPE sucks, for one thing. You try to require the PPE that sucks the least, but it still sucks more than not wearing it. Despite the fact that it would be a warning, I'll bet I could walk the floor right now and find someone not wearing hearing protection, of all things. No matter how much you tell them, young, healthy people don't care about safety.
I apologize for the omission. Or did you consider $748 for the first year plus $99 for each additional year a reasonable part of a device's total cost of ownership for hobbyist developers?
Accounting for the cost of the computer is disingenuous. There are multiple platforms and operating systems and no matter which one you choose others will be incompatible with it. Just because a tool with cost X only runs on a platform with cost Y doesn't mean make that option suddenly cost X+Y dollars. It might for you, but maybe not for the next guy. It's not a cost you can roll into the tool's cost.
It requires a Microsoft account. That might be acceptable if Microsoft requires less personal information than Google requires. Is this the case?
I have no idea and I don't particularly care. You keep adding on criteria.
It also requires Windows 8 [microsoft.com], which people might not already have for one of at least four reasons. The first is people who use Linux on a PC built from parts to avoid buying Windows in the first place. The second is people who bought a computer prior to Windows 8's general availability on October 26, 2012, and haven't yet dropped $120 (source: microsoftstore.com) on upgrading from Windows 7 to Windows 8. The third is people who prefer the user interface of Windows pre-8 and are unaware of Classic Shell. And the fourth is Mac owners. True, Mac owners are more likely to buy an iPhone, but a Mac owner might consider buying a Windows Phone 8 phone to avoid the $99 per year fee associated with running one's own software on an iPhone. Or are only an insignificant number of users affected by these four cases?
See the first answer. There are many hardware platforms and operating systems. Someone choosing to release their tools on a platform you don't personally own is inevitable. No one platform can run every available option. There is, however, at least one option available for everyone on each of the major platforms as I listed in my first post. You sound like you would only be happy with the Linux on Android option, so go for it.
Free was not one of your original criteria. However, all the necessary Microsoft tools for developing for Windows phone are free. The $49/yr cost is to publish apps on the Windows Store (the Google Play store has a one time $25 fee). If your apps are just for yourself you don't need to pay those. If you want to distribute your apps and you really, really don't want to use that distribution method you can still send your apps through any channel and have the end user sideload it,
I'm sure Neil deGrasse Tyson is cut to the quick with your assessment of his intelligence.
So what handheld computer should I use if I want to write my own software but don't want Google
An iOS device, a Windows phone/tablet or any of the Android phones on this list.
"Not every injury is the employer's fault" Yeah, so what? Most of them are.
Do you have a source for that? Because it doesn't fit in any way with my anecdotal evidence. I am on the "safety committee" where I work. Not because my job has anything to do with safety or that I'm even management, just that every business unit needs to send a representative and I drew the IT short straw. Anyway, this means that for almost a decade now I have read the reports on every injury in our facility. This is an large factory operation with thousands of employees. I can't recall the last time an incident was our employer's "fault". The vast majority of the time people are injured because they are being stupid or lazy. Generally they refuse to wear their PPE, sometimes they remove guards from machines or just take shortcuts. One person liked to take literal shortcuts across empty pallets until they fell through the slats and twisted their ankle. A couple months ago we had a guy who didn't wear his harness or close the safety railing on a scissor lift and he fell 30 feet to the warehouse floor. Sometimes they don't care about getting hurt a little bit so they can get time off. Pretty much any time someone gets hurt it's their own damn fault. Every now and then it's no one's fault, just serendipity that nothing could have prevented. I have never seen it be a failing of the employer to provide training, safety equipment or creating any other unsafe condition.
As the OP specifically said, the numbers all pass the checksum. The checksum just tells you if it is a potentially valid number. It doesn't tell you if its expired, cancelled or even leaked deliberately as a honeypot. It's a very basic check that is only there to catch errors in card readers or transcription/typing.
When you 'mine' a bitcoin have you actually produced something of tangible value
The miners are the people who do the computational work to verify transactions. Without miners the system could not process any transactions. So, yes. They provide a necessary service within the context of Bitcoin.
Basically it's no more legally problematic than those vouchers towns put out that can only be spent at local businesses
Those are not legally problematic, but they are taxable.
You don't keep offsite backups of your important files? That's not really a Bitcoin specific problem.
The proponents of BitCoin claim that it was untraceable
I don't know what "Bitcoin proponent" told you that, but you could have just checked the Bitcoin FAQ to see that not only is that not an actual claim anyone knowledgeable about the project is making, but that they remind you of the exact opposite.
Psst, your mail order DVD service also knows exactly what movies you watched. Better cancel it.
I haven't completely broken the habit of bookstores. But if there was an app that would allow me to easily scan a UPC code and wish/purchase an eBook, it would be a convenience
This is one of the main features of the Amazon app for Android (and I assume iOS as well). You can scan the barcode on anything to look it up on Amazon.
Gridiron football is called "football" because the ball was classically 12 inches long. (They shortened it to make the forward pass easier about 100 years ago, so the modern football is 11 1/2 inches.)
No. The American football was derived from a rugby football (as was the game itself), so it made sense to just keep calling it the same thing.
Association football is called "football" because it's played on foot, as opposed to polo, which is played on horseback. The name was originally given derisively; it implied "poor people ball."
This is one of the possible explanations for the word football itself, yes. A more correct explanation is that American football is called football because the games it is derived from are called football.
In the 1850s, the word "soccer" meant "a member of an association." A 19th century soccer star popularized its use to mean "the game played by members of an association football association."
That story is almost certainly apocryphal. The word "soccer" did not appear in print until 1895.
They certainly are in many places in the US. Nineteen states allow them under various circumstances and the Supreme Court in Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceutical set the Federal standard to be the discretion of the judge.