I would rather wait a week than pay the 10% sales tax I have to endure in my state.
You have to endure them whether there's fast shipping or not (unless you're 'cheating' on 'your' taxes).
Better option: New Hampshire, Alaska, Oregon, Montana, Delaware. Somehow their governments get along just fine without the sales tax. New Hampshire and Alaska get listed first because they lack a personal income tax as well. New Hampshire gets to the head of that list by not depending on oil revenues to offset it.
Amazingly enough, New Hampshire just got ranked best place to live in the US - again. Mighty strange coincidence. Despite what some will tell you, it's *not* because it also came out on top of the custom-sized prophylactic survey either.
Do you happen to hold your wrists differently when you're typing on a Colemak keyboard? I've attributed my 'immunity' to RSI on piano training, and keeping my wrists straight so the tendons don't have to bend. I've seen many people with RSI problems who bend their wrists, but I never considered whether the keyboard layout encourages this.
10.7 dropped support my 1st gen $2000 MacBook Pro, which otherwise still runs perfectly (but with only 10.6).
For about ten years, I've told people to figure on spending $1K/yr on an Apple laptop. That's a good machine every 3 years with AppleCare.
Now that the machines can't be upgraded at all, you need to max them out when you buy them, but the prices have come down a little bit, so the pricepoint still holds. Considering price inflation, I guess it's a little bit cheaper now.
The nice thing about that model was you could usually unload your 3-year-old Macbook for at least 1/3 of what you bought it for. With these recent changes, they're probably less valuable.
Still, for many people that $1K per year is money well-spent, if it improves their productivty (and they feel they can support Apple as a corporation).
they all still kick up sharply at the end when we get to the industrial age.
The dashed trendline is close enough to an X-axis that it fools the (my) eye on the chart. I took a square piece of paper to the screen (yeah, yeah, high tech...) and the peak on the right that's recently passed is almost exactly at the level of the trendline all the way on the right side.
To get to the Roman maximum, we have to go up again as much as from the trendline to the recent peak, on top of the recent peak.
close, it's 'Nazis'. They call them 'warming deniers' and try to draw inferences to 'holocaust deniers' who are typically neonazis.
It doesn't even fit in to a neat logical fallacy category since those generally deal with strategies above the playground level. Fine, racist nazis, then.
I'm sure the success of an Open Source OS in the market would clearly doom us all
Since the article is complete trash, let me suggest that people who are interested in the way these markets proceed read The Innovator's Solution. Long story short: first movers maximize profit by being proprietary and competition forces them into being open (which lowers profits).
iPhone, literally implements their suggested course of action for RIM to take w/ Blackberry (this was written c. 2003). Google saw that Apple had the first-mover advantage so they jumped ahead of the curve straight to open. Maybe it was in their DNA, or maybe they realized it was the fastest way to beat Apple (Google does employ its own economists).
Back in the day old NuBus video cards and 15" displays were easy to come by so I hooked up a Mac IIvx with three displays and used it for A10 Attack. Left screen was left window, front screen was front window, right screen was right window.
It really improved gameplay for that sort of simulation, because if you were in a cockpit, that's something like you'd have available to you. I looked a few years ago into setting up something like this with X-Plane but it needed a networked set of computers, which seemed like overkill. Maybe that's improved.
I'd imagine an FPS would be better off with goggles of some sort, though, if the resolution could be sorted out. Use the right tech for the right kind of simulation.
but it means making it a priority higher than building an embassy in Iraq bigger than the Vatican.
Heck, we can feed everybody in the world who doesn't have a secure supply of food for 1/10th the US military budget. But when was the last time Starvin Marvin donated generously to a PAC, eh?
Yeah, you got it exactly right. The whole corporate culture is tuned for certain strengths, and getting new ideas out the door first is definitely not it.
My idealistic friends went to work for Microsoft, determined they were going to change things. They found other jobs after a few years.
I doubt Balmer can be 'born again'. He's a business guy who happens to sell computer stuff. Apple is a technology company that happens to be very good at executing highly profitable business models.
Maybe the Board will let Balmer retire and hire Jon Rubinstein as CEO. That would at least be interesting.
This means if you lose all your keys, you don't have to buy a new computer
Now if BMW made people buy new computers if they lost their keys - that I'd understand. But this doesn't seem to have much upside for them. They could at least sell a $200 USB device ($2 cost) that held the cryptokeys matched to a set of physical keys and not have such an easy defeat available via ODBII.
At some point, the Club was mentioned. The professional thieves laughed and exchanged knowing glances. What we knew was that the?Club is a hardened steel device that attaches to the steering wheel and the brake pedal to prevent steering and/or braking. What we found out was that a pro thief would carry a short piece of a hacksaw blade to cut through the plastic steering wheel in a couple seconds. They were then able to release The Club and use it to apply a huge amount of torque to the steering wheel and break the lock on the steering column (which most cars were already equipped with). The pro thieves actually sought out cars with The Club on them because they didnâ(TM)t want to carry a long pry bar that was too hard to conceal.
Security Essentials isn't free (it requires you to buy Windows, so it's not free-as-in-beer, and it's not open-source so isn't free-as-in-libre).
We're talking specifically about Windows systems so this pedantry isn't germane.
It's also b. useless. I've known almost nothing to be stopped by it.
You can't be serious. A machine is just as safe with nothing as it is with Security Essentials? I'm not saying it's better than the competition, I'm saying it's better than nothing. Are you disagreeing with that?
buy multiple items from the same seller to keep shipping times and costs to a minimum
Amazon Marketplace always charges me a shipping fee per-item, regardless of it's from the same seller. I went to order some of those tiny PC speakers, and they were $3 plus $5 shipping. OK, fine, I get that there are minimum shipping costs. But, when I put five of them in the cart, the total was $40, not $20-$23 as one would expect.
Look up the properties of good money, you'll learn something. Being able to eat your currency is a terrible idea.
The past 7,000 years of history has something to say about your objection. Even if it were somehow wrong, the rules are the rules until they're changed. If a government doesn't follow its own rules, it's just lawlessness with fancy buildings.
Anarchists have always struck me as a bunch of frustrated closet leaders who are all operating under the implicit assumption that things will be run their way one day. The only thing that unites them is their desire to tear down the existing power structure. If they ever succeeded, they would immediately turn on each other.
You're making the logical error that all Anarchists have the same political philosophy.
What you write may well be true of Bakunanites, but wouldn't hold up for Rothbardians. Understanding the difference is the price of admission.
we're on the right track with the Standard Model after all
Well, several models that describe the Standard Model get thrown out, and a few remain. Zero or one of them can be correct, so now the next experiments can be drawn up to eliminate each of them.
AIUI, all we definitely know is that there is a particle at one of the predicted energies for the Higgs, and it exhibits some Higgs-like properties. We don't know yet whether any of the higher-predicted energy Higgs also exist, though since the one that has been found exists at just about the minimum energy that it needs to for a stable universe like ours, it does seems likely that there wouldn't also be higher-energy solutions.
And the LHC doesn't yet have the energy to explore many of the higher energy particles yet, so we could still get more interesting Higgs science out of it over the next decade.
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I would rather wait a week than pay the 10% sales tax I have to endure in my state.
You have to endure them whether there's fast shipping or not (unless you're 'cheating' on 'your' taxes).
Better option: New Hampshire, Alaska, Oregon, Montana, Delaware. Somehow their governments get along just fine without the sales tax. New Hampshire and Alaska get listed first because they lack a personal income tax as well. New Hampshire gets to the head of that list by not depending on oil revenues to offset it.
Amazingly enough, New Hampshire just got ranked best place to live in the US - again. Mighty strange coincidence. Despite what some will tell you, it's *not* because it also came out on top of the custom-sized prophylactic survey either.
Cry a river for the buggy whip sellers.
Thank you for this, saved me the trouble.
NO finger or hand discomfort
Good to know, thanks. I hadn't considered that.
Do you happen to hold your wrists differently when you're typing on a Colemak keyboard? I've attributed my 'immunity' to RSI on piano training, and keeping my wrists straight so the tendons don't have to bend. I've seen many people with RSI problems who bend their wrists, but I never considered whether the keyboard layout encourages this.
10.7 dropped support my 1st gen $2000 MacBook Pro, which otherwise still runs perfectly (but with only 10.6).
For about ten years, I've told people to figure on spending $1K/yr on an Apple laptop. That's a good machine every 3 years with AppleCare.
Now that the machines can't be upgraded at all, you need to max them out when you buy them, but the prices have come down a little bit, so the pricepoint still holds. Considering price inflation, I guess it's a little bit cheaper now.
The nice thing about that model was you could usually unload your 3-year-old Macbook for at least 1/3 of what you bought it for. With these recent changes, they're probably less valuable.
Still, for many people that $1K per year is money well-spent, if it improves their productivty (and they feel they can support Apple as a corporation).
Right. If DirecTV weren't negotiating, they'd just offer a Viacomm package for $25/mo or whatever, and let customers decide if they want to buy it.
perhaps it's not worded as clearly as possible. The line along the road between your service drop and your neighbor's service drop.
they all still kick up sharply at the end when we get to the industrial age.
The dashed trendline is close enough to an X-axis that it fools the (my) eye on the chart. I took a square piece of paper to the screen (yeah, yeah, high tech...) and the peak on the right that's recently passed is almost exactly at the level of the trendline all the way on the right side.
To get to the Roman maximum, we have to go up again as much as from the trendline to the recent peak, on top of the recent peak.
Clearly whoever did this study is a racist.
close, it's 'Nazis'. They call them 'warming deniers' and try to draw inferences to 'holocaust deniers' who are typically neonazis.
It doesn't even fit in to a neat logical fallacy category since those generally deal with strategies above the playground level. Fine, racist nazis, then.
How do you imprison a corporation?
you suspend their license to operate for a period of time.
I'm sure the success of an Open Source OS in the market would clearly doom us all
Since the article is complete trash, let me suggest that people who are interested in the way these markets proceed read The Innovator's Solution. Long story short: first movers maximize profit by being proprietary and competition forces them into being open (which lowers profits).
iPhone, literally implements their suggested course of action for RIM to take w/ Blackberry (this was written c. 2003). Google saw that Apple had the first-mover advantage so they jumped ahead of the curve straight to open. Maybe it was in their DNA, or maybe they realized it was the fastest way to beat Apple (Google does employ its own economists).
DVORAK may be better or another layout may be better
DVORAK may be up to 5% faster and COLEMAK may be up to 10% faster. Neither are sufficient to overturn a worldwide inventory and trained population.
One of the things I have on the back burner is to understand how steno works. That's supposedly 120% faster.
Oh god no. Kill it with fire then nuke it from orbit.
^this
Are people around the world basing their IT decisions on what the City of San Francisco does?
Yes, we're planning to incarcerate our network security guy in Q4.
Back in the day old NuBus video cards and 15" displays were easy to come by so I hooked up a Mac IIvx with three displays and used it for A10 Attack. Left screen was left window, front screen was front window, right screen was right window.
It really improved gameplay for that sort of simulation, because if you were in a cockpit, that's something like you'd have available to you. I looked a few years ago into setting up something like this with X-Plane but it needed a networked set of computers, which seemed like overkill. Maybe that's improved.
I'd imagine an FPS would be better off with goggles of some sort, though, if the resolution could be sorted out. Use the right tech for the right kind of simulation.
but it means making it a priority higher than building an embassy in Iraq bigger than the Vatican.
Heck, we can feed everybody in the world who doesn't have a secure supply of food for 1/10th the US military budget. But when was the last time Starvin Marvin donated generously to a PAC, eh?
and go after some actual criminals
Hey, now, threatening the corporate profits of campaign donors is a crime these days.
The way they have things set up
Yeah, you got it exactly right. The whole corporate culture is tuned for certain strengths, and getting new ideas out the door first is definitely not it.
My idealistic friends went to work for Microsoft, determined they were going to change things. They found other jobs after a few years.
I doubt Balmer can be 'born again'. He's a business guy who happens to sell computer stuff. Apple is a technology company that happens to be very good at executing highly profitable business models.
Maybe the Board will let Balmer retire and hire Jon Rubinstein as CEO. That would at least be interesting.
since it encourages risky behaviour
But we're talking about people who run /no/ AV. If they ran AV there'd be no FBI issue at all here. Even if it were Security Essentials.
So Free-as-in-libre is a perfectly valid point to raise.
Yes, for people who are even aware of what AV is. If you can solve that problem, I'll agree 100%.
This means if you lose all your keys, you don't have to buy a new computer
Now if BMW made people buy new computers if they lost their keys - that I'd understand. But this doesn't seem to have much upside for them. They could at least sell a $200 USB device ($2 cost) that held the cryptokeys matched to a set of physical keys and not have such an easy defeat available via ODBII.
Sounds like BMW owners are going to make a run on Pep Boys to get "the club".
What Car Theives Think of the Club
The concerns were various spyware trojans.
Have viruses come back?
Your pedantry isn't germane to the conversation. It's the terminology used in the field.
Security Essentials isn't free (it requires you to buy Windows, so it's not free-as-in-beer, and it's not open-source so isn't free-as-in-libre).
We're talking specifically about Windows systems so this pedantry isn't germane.
It's also b. useless. I've known almost nothing to be stopped by it.
You can't be serious. A machine is just as safe with nothing as it is with Security Essentials? I'm not saying it's better than the competition, I'm saying it's better than nothing. Are you disagreeing with that?
buy multiple items from the same seller to keep shipping times and costs to a minimum
Amazon Marketplace always charges me a shipping fee per-item, regardless of it's from the same seller. I went to order some of those tiny PC speakers, and they were $3 plus $5 shipping. OK, fine, I get that there are minimum shipping costs. But, when I put five of them in the cart, the total was $40, not $20-$23 as one would expect.
If there's a way around this, I'd love to know!
Look up the properties of good money, you'll learn something. Being able to eat your currency is a terrible idea.
The past 7,000 years of history has something to say about your objection. Even if it were somehow wrong, the rules are the rules until they're changed. If a government doesn't follow its own rules, it's just lawlessness with fancy buildings.
Anarchists have always struck me as a bunch of frustrated closet leaders who are all operating under the implicit assumption that things will be run their way one day. The only thing that unites them is their desire to tear down the existing power structure. If they ever succeeded, they would immediately turn on each other.
You're making the logical error that all Anarchists have the same political philosophy.
What you write may well be true of Bakunanites, but wouldn't hold up for Rothbardians. Understanding the difference is the price of admission.
we're on the right track with the Standard Model after all
Well, several models that describe the Standard Model get thrown out, and a few remain. Zero or one of them can be correct, so now the next experiments can be drawn up to eliminate each of them.
AIUI, all we definitely know is that there is a particle at one of the predicted energies for the Higgs, and it exhibits some Higgs-like properties. We don't know yet whether any of the higher-predicted energy Higgs also exist, though since the one that has been found exists at just about the minimum energy that it needs to for a stable universe like ours, it does seems likely that there wouldn't also be higher-energy solutions.
And the LHC doesn't yet have the energy to explore many of the higher energy particles yet, so we could still get more interesting Higgs science out of it over the next decade.