What's important to me is that the hardware is small enough to not be distracting in a pocket, and that it's not vulnerable to the dings and dust of outdoor work. Hence I use a $12 flip phone. It has decent battery life and does the job, and if it does get busted it's cheap to replace.
I also noticed how someone in the article whines about all the local road traffic caused by having ships in port... funny how a lot of places cruise ships go rely on tourism to sustain their economy....
Tellya what... I'll be glad to share the wealth generated by my machine, so long as you contribute proportionally to the cost of building, maintaining, and paying asset taxes on it.
Someone once pointed out that McDonalds isn't in the hamburger businss; it's in the real estate investment business. All the more true when prime high-traffic business locations go for a couple million dollars for a 6000 square foot lot.
As I recall, Nevada's presidential ballot is required to include "None of the Above".
The problem is, this is about as useful as voting for a minor party candidate; generally it just dilutes the votes for the less-horrible major candidate.
I think the parent poster was referring to Delaware being the US's version of a corporate tax haven, and since everyone knows it, all the secrecy that's required is -- none.
Also, the big migrations mostly happened after the climate cooled off (causing crop failures and famines in northern regions), not during the Roman warm period. By that point Rome had already pulled back and was falling apart internally.
Further, research on the Sahara indicates that during warm periods, it gets enough moisture that it greens up. Is that not more habitable than a rocky desert? North Africa was Rome's breadbasket (and had Roman cities which are now covered by sand). What is it now?
And finally, an average degree or two one way or the other makes damn little difference in how tolerable the heat is... I say as a longtime desert dweller who worked outdoors in temps up to +122F. But a couple degrees average cooling is sufficient to bring on an ice age. Which do you prefer?
There's a lot of random space junk floating around up there. I think I'd have to eliminate that possibility before I looked for explanations further afield (even tho I don't think we're alone in the cosmos).
I did wonder what the triangular one came from; it looks like part of a pressure latch.
One problem with the footage is there's no real perspective. Is it a tiny object right next to the lens, or a big object far away?
Another reason these strike me as random space junk is that the shapes look like parts of something else, not whole in themselves.
As to the apparently-irregular movement, 3D rotation can be very deceptive.
And such a barrier need not be expensive; you can get a dog barrier for about $65, which would suffice to keep the average perp in the back seat. Won't do much against someone with a serious weapon, but neither would anything short of floor-to-roof armor plate.
Anywhere north of some point between Idaho Falls and Dillon MT was still roaming as of May 2014. Would hand off from T-Mobile to AT&T or occasionally Cellular One or... mighta been CenturyLink, I forget. Also noticed it roaming somewhere around Bishop CA, but didn't pay much attention as I was just passing through.
Good to know. When I had T-Mobile (Dec.2011-May 2014) support via phone was bloody awful. If I needed support, I did better to drive to the nearest T-Mobile store, where they were still dumb as rocks but at least spoke a known language and had seen whatever problem before, so it got fixed. And low-end (prepaid) accounts were throttled, so I'd get two bars when someone with worse hardware but an expensive account got 4 or 5. And voicemail didn't work when roaming, which was pretty much everywhere outside of major metro corridors.
Anyway, IMO they'd earned that bad repute, but if they've improved -- well, I'm glad to hear that; we need more viable competition, and customer service is a big part of that.
And this is why I read all the negative reviews before I buy a product. Which has let me leave some very positive reviews for what I eventually bought... cuz I didn't buy the ones with tons of complaints.
I went to a school that was built in 1930 and is still in excellent condition. A little overbuilt to start with and good maintenance throughout its life worked wonders.
I too think human civilizations have been around a lot longer, and were far more widespread and more advanced than is commonly believed. I look at the carvings and think -- they're already to not only the concept of art, but to sophisticated abstract art with complex expression... and they have the leisure to do it, which means tools and infrastructure (agriculture and communication at the very least). This is a mature culture, not some proto-pre-civilization still working out the notion of tool-using.
Hmm. I have javascript disabled, but I wonder if that was what had made the layout look funny lately (harder to read) cuz now that problem seems to have gone away.
Anyway, it's great that Slashdot is once again about the users. Thumbs up.
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What's important to me is that the hardware is small enough to not be distracting in a pocket, and that it's not vulnerable to the dings and dust of outdoor work. Hence I use a $12 flip phone. It has decent battery life and does the job, and if it does get busted it's cheap to replace.
Excellent point.
I also noticed how someone in the article whines about all the local road traffic caused by having ships in port... funny how a lot of places cruise ships go rely on tourism to sustain their economy....
Tellya what... I'll be glad to share the wealth generated by my machine, so long as you contribute proportionally to the cost of building, maintaining, and paying asset taxes on it.
Someone once pointed out that McDonalds isn't in the hamburger businss; it's in the real estate investment business. All the more true when prime high-traffic business locations go for a couple million dollars for a 6000 square foot lot.
As I recall, Nevada's presidential ballot is required to include "None of the Above".
The problem is, this is about as useful as voting for a minor party candidate; generally it just dilutes the votes for the less-horrible major candidate.
I think the parent poster was referring to Delaware being the US's version of a corporate tax haven, and since everyone knows it, all the secrecy that's required is -- none.
Also, the big migrations mostly happened after the climate cooled off (causing crop failures and famines in northern regions), not during the Roman warm period. By that point Rome had already pulled back and was falling apart internally.
Further, research on the Sahara indicates that during warm periods, it gets enough moisture that it greens up. Is that not more habitable than a rocky desert? North Africa was Rome's breadbasket (and had Roman cities which are now covered by sand). What is it now?
And finally, an average degree or two one way or the other makes damn little difference in how tolerable the heat is... I say as a longtime desert dweller who worked outdoors in temps up to +122F. But a couple degrees average cooling is sufficient to bring on an ice age. Which do you prefer?
There's a lot of random space junk floating around up there. I think I'd have to eliminate that possibility before I looked for explanations further afield (even tho I don't think we're alone in the cosmos).
I did wonder what the triangular one came from; it looks like part of a pressure latch.
One problem with the footage is there's no real perspective. Is it a tiny object right next to the lens, or a big object far away?
Another reason these strike me as random space junk is that the shapes look like parts of something else, not whole in themselves.
As to the apparently-irregular movement, 3D rotation can be very deceptive.
http://www.drroyspencer.com/20...
And such a barrier need not be expensive; you can get a dog barrier for about $65, which would suffice to keep the average perp in the back seat. Won't do much against someone with a serious weapon, but neither would anything short of floor-to-roof armor plate.
E.E. "Doc" Smith; the light sword in the Lensman series (1948-1954)
Edmond Hamilton; Kaldar, Planet of Antares (1933)
Various other energy-based swords and knives throughout pre-SW SF/F.
Anywhere north of some point between Idaho Falls and Dillon MT was still roaming as of May 2014. Would hand off from T-Mobile to AT&T or occasionally Cellular One or ... mighta been CenturyLink, I forget. Also noticed it roaming somewhere around Bishop CA, but didn't pay much attention as I was just passing through.
Good to know. When I had T-Mobile (Dec.2011-May 2014) support via phone was bloody awful. If I needed support, I did better to drive to the nearest T-Mobile store, where they were still dumb as rocks but at least spoke a known language and had seen whatever problem before, so it got fixed. And low-end (prepaid) accounts were throttled, so I'd get two bars when someone with worse hardware but an expensive account got 4 or 5. And voicemail didn't work when roaming, which was pretty much everywhere outside of major metro corridors.
Anyway, IMO they'd earned that bad repute, but if they've improved -- well, I'm glad to hear that; we need more viable competition, and customer service is a big part of that.
All true, but I did immediately wonder -- Cui bono?
How much electricity do you spend to mine one bitcoin?
I don't blame 'em.
And this is why I read all the negative reviews before I buy a product. Which has let me leave some very positive reviews for what I eventually bought... cuz I didn't buy the ones with tons of complaints.
And even if they test a sample, what's to prevent a company from providing a quality sample, then selling shit?
Interesting, thanks. I think my head just exploded. :)
I went to a school that was built in 1930 and is still in excellent condition. A little overbuilt to start with and good maintenance throughout its life worked wonders.
This sounds a great deal to me like "middlemen making money" by ensuring that everything is routed through them at least once, need it or not.
Certainly it will accomplish something -- it'll make theft of low-end phones worthwhile again. /sarcasm
And my first thought is -- are the women in that book really so dumb that they can't figure out how to use barter?
[disclaimer: I have not read the book.]
I too think human civilizations have been around a lot longer, and were far more widespread and more advanced than is commonly believed. I look at the carvings and think -- they're already to not only the concept of art, but to sophisticated abstract art with complex expression... and they have the leisure to do it, which means tools and infrastructure (agriculture and communication at the very least). This is a mature culture, not some proto-pre-civilization still working out the notion of tool-using.
https://www.jerrypournelle.com...
Hmm. I have javascript disabled, but I wonder if that was what had made the layout look funny lately (harder to read) cuz now that problem seems to have gone away.
Anyway, it's great that Slashdot is once again about the users. Thumbs up.