I can't count them either, because I can't count things I don't see. Call it what you want, but AdBlock works, and I think it upholds a tenet of free speech: Your right to say something doesn't burden me with an obligation to listen. I block the online ads, which in my view is no different from fast forwarding through them on a recording, or not paying attention to them during a live broadcast. As an added bonus, the ad servers save on bandwidth, making ads faster for those who wish to view them.
The only real question is whether blocking ads will decrease the value of ads and harm the earning potential of a given site, to which I can only say that if it does, then ads were overvalued to begin with. If someone is making a living (or supporting their endeavors) by selling an overpriced commodity, and the value crashes, well.. that's life.
A large portion of criminals have mental illnesses of some degree. The problem is that it's difficult to demonstrate causation in such cases, and it may even be counter-productive to society (and indeed the individual) if people are released or exonerated for such reasons. After all, mentally ill != stupid, and if people can use their illness as an excuse for their behavior, then they will, whether or not it was the cause.
In that respect, it may have just been a(n un)happy coincidence that the individual in question had a brain tumor in conjunction with his criminal acts. Involuntary mental impairment should certainly be considered, but in conjunction with other evidence, not to the exclusion of all else.
Additionally, inability to reoffend does not excuse the initial offense. If a rapist desexes himself, that doesn't mean he should automatically be set free.
Yeah, my boss has a Pre and I have an iPhone. His selection was made based on the features you mention. Mine was made based on the larger application base, the existing SDK, and the large market for apps, should I ever get off my lazy ass and write one.
Carry your wallet in your front pocket while on foot, and don't forget to keep to the wrong side of the road while driving. Also put a Canada patch on all items of luggage and clothing.
Hmm.. I still have issues with the touch keyboard, even after a year+. Especially annoying is typing in portrait mode, followed closely by top-row typing where I accidentally move the cursor (touch the text display area) instead of hitting the key I intended, followed next by inadvertent Space or Enter keypresses. Hitting the wrong key is something that happens even on a full-size keyboard, but it's pretty rare that I inadvertently do any of the above. If the iPhone had a model with a slide-out keyboard, I'd be all over it like smears on a touchscreen.
I'd settle for a bland-looking case that doesn't draw any attention from my offspring whatsoever. Maybe something that says "Brussels sprouts" on the front.
With a $1,140 drive and a $60 controller ($1,200 total), it would take roughly two hundred and forty 400GB tapes @ $27/ea just to match the $80/TB price point, let alone to significantly reduce it.
I mean, sure, you could just buy the tape without the drive I guess, and then you can legitimately claim you paid $67.50/TB, saving you all of $13, and maybe you can find a friend with a tape drive to perform the actual read/write operations.
What is this nonsense?!? Everyone knows that the motherboard sits inside of a case in a horizontal position. The floppy drive is on the right, and the secondary floppy, or hard drive if you have one, goes below that. Now if you'll excuse me, I have to reboot with my specially crafted CONFIG.SYS file so that I can play some Doom.
It was the second time in 15 months that a glitch in the flight plan system caused delays.
Thanks for the arbitrary use of months. Is it a baby, or were you working from fortnights and thought you might as well round to the nearest lunar cycle and then convert to Gregorian? Do you also append "and a half" to your age, as appropriate?
as soon as I see CGI (especially for characters/animals) the emotion center of my brain says 'nope' and shuts down.
I have the same experience, but it's probably just a cognitive bias. It doesn't seem to affect young children without preconceived expectations. Anecdotally, my kids prefer CGI over puppetry because the latter isn't "cool" enough.
At any rate, the common Hollywood explanation/excuse seems to be that it's not the quality of CGI that makes it preferred, but the cost and flexibility. Once you build a model, it's set in [whatever material it's made out of], whereas CGI can be changed more or less on a whim. I do think the ship models in the original Star Wars movies were more convincing, perhaps *because* of their natural imperfections, but I wouldn't expect to see a return to that style of effects in the foreseeable future.
My GP post was tongue-in-cheek, but you raise some excellent points. Additionally, median SFH price as a percent of median income is still way out of whack. The current "plateau" is likely just a rest stop on the way to falling prices, if not in absolute dollars, then surely relative to inflation.
On a semi-related note, the dual-income model has become a victim of its own success. The market has removed most value from such efforts by increasing cost-of-living accordingly -- prices are always what the market will bear. Home prices as a percent of *household* income are twice what they were in the 1950s, when single-income families were the norm, and yet single-income families are now less than 7% of the population. That means median home prices as a percent of median individual income have gone up four-fold, and dual-income families are almost mandatory just to survive. Yet far from increasing stability, they actually increase the odds of failure. When you can't support a family on a single-income, then either person becoming involuntarily unemployed can (and typically does) have effectively the same result as a complete loss of income: financial ruin for the household as a whole. From a statistical perspective, instead of flipping a coin, you're now rolling a four-sided die where only one of the numbers results in a win. The odds of failure have gone up 25%, and so has the economic impact of a given layoff. Of course the actual numbers will never match perfect probabilities, but the principle is still sound.
As such, it's my belief that the dual-income model is unsustainable, and that housing prices will experience further downward pressures as a result. Even if people don't consciously select single-income arrangements, the increased instability and the repeated failures will ensure that the more stable single-income model will return -- there simply won't be enough jobs. Unfortunately, the only way to get there is through deflation, which has serious economic consequences as well. Interesting times ahead.
I've got close to 20/20 vision, but I still enable "Large Fonts" in Windows. It should resolve most issues, although there are some applications that don't scale their controls' size accordingly.
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I can't count them either, because I can't count things I don't see. Call it what you want, but AdBlock works, and I think it upholds a tenet of free speech: Your right to say something doesn't burden me with an obligation to listen. I block the online ads, which in my view is no different from fast forwarding through them on a recording, or not paying attention to them during a live broadcast. As an added bonus, the ad servers save on bandwidth, making ads faster for those who wish to view them.
The only real question is whether blocking ads will decrease the value of ads and harm the earning potential of a given site, to which I can only say that if it does, then ads were overvalued to begin with. If someone is making a living (or supporting their endeavors) by selling an overpriced commodity, and the value crashes, well.. that's life.
A large portion of criminals have mental illnesses of some degree. The problem is that it's difficult to demonstrate causation in such cases, and it may even be counter-productive to society (and indeed the individual) if people are released or exonerated for such reasons. After all, mentally ill != stupid, and if people can use their illness as an excuse for their behavior, then they will, whether or not it was the cause.
In that respect, it may have just been a(n un)happy coincidence that the individual in question had a brain tumor in conjunction with his criminal acts. Involuntary mental impairment should certainly be considered, but in conjunction with other evidence, not to the exclusion of all else.
Additionally, inability to reoffend does not excuse the initial offense. If a rapist desexes himself, that doesn't mean he should automatically be set free.
Is it your frenemy?
Wow. SOMEBODY knows how to make non sequiturs.
Yeah, my boss has a Pre and I have an iPhone. His selection was made based on the features you mention. Mine was made based on the larger application base, the existing SDK, and the large market for apps, should I ever get off my lazy ass and write one.
Right. The real danger here is members of the Catholic church siphoning off vials of antimatter in their plot to do something unintelligible.
Carry your wallet in your front pocket while on foot, and don't forget to keep to the wrong side of the road while driving. Also put a Canada patch on all items of luggage and clothing.
And I'd start hacking it about 5 seconds after I got home.
Hmm.. I still have issues with the touch keyboard, even after a year+. Especially annoying is typing in portrait mode, followed closely by top-row typing where I accidentally move the cursor (touch the text display area) instead of hitting the key I intended, followed next by inadvertent Space or Enter keypresses. Hitting the wrong key is something that happens even on a full-size keyboard, but it's pretty rare that I inadvertently do any of the above. If the iPhone had a model with a slide-out keyboard, I'd be all over it like smears on a touchscreen.
I'd settle for a bland-looking case that doesn't draw any attention from my offspring whatsoever. Maybe something that says "Brussels sprouts" on the front.
What's your weight got to do with it?
Ba-dum pshh.
Remember, backup tape still has a large bytes/cent advantage over HDDs.
Not for most reasonably double-digit values of "quantity of backup tapes".
A 1TB HDD is around $80.
With a $1,140 drive and a $60 controller ($1,200 total), it would take roughly two hundred and forty 400GB tapes @ $27/ea just to match the $80/TB price point, let alone to significantly reduce it.
I mean, sure, you could just buy the tape without the drive I guess, and then you can legitimately claim you paid $67.50/TB, saving you all of $13, and maybe you can find a friend with a tape drive to perform the actual read/write operations.
What is this nonsense?!? Everyone knows that the motherboard sits inside of a case in a horizontal position. The floppy drive is on the right, and the secondary floppy, or hard drive if you have one, goes below that. Now if you'll excuse me, I have to reboot with my specially crafted CONFIG.SYS file so that I can play some Doom.
Also not using your input devices as a placemat will help to prevent your mouse from getting filthy in the first place.
If it gets much heavier the Earth might sink!!
It was the second time in 15 months that a glitch in the flight plan system caused delays.
Thanks for the arbitrary use of months. Is it a baby, or were you working from fortnights and thought you might as well round to the nearest lunar cycle and then convert to Gregorian? Do you also append "and a half" to your age, as appropriate?
Mandelson goes on to explain that he wants this so he can create private copyright militias
Ah, Privateers!
Boss: How was your trip.
Reporter: Mostly uneventful, although I spotted Joe Biden on the Amtrak before he got off at the next stop.
Boss: "RESPECTED POLITICIANS BEGIN FLEEING MASS TRANSIT!"
Reporter: Uh, I don't think he was fleeing mass transit per se, nor did it seem to be the start of any trend...
Boss: He left, didn't he?
Reporter: ...also, I'm not sure he counts as "respected."
A double entendre? Nice one!
"Smart" is not a desired quality in police officers.
Word.
as soon as I see CGI (especially for characters/animals) the emotion center of my brain says 'nope' and shuts down.
I have the same experience, but it's probably just a cognitive bias. It doesn't seem to affect young children without preconceived expectations. Anecdotally, my kids prefer CGI over puppetry because the latter isn't "cool" enough.
At any rate, the common Hollywood explanation/excuse seems to be that it's not the quality of CGI that makes it preferred, but the cost and flexibility. Once you build a model, it's set in [whatever material it's made out of], whereas CGI can be changed more or less on a whim. I do think the ship models in the original Star Wars movies were more convincing, perhaps *because* of their natural imperfections, but I wouldn't expect to see a return to that style of effects in the foreseeable future.
My GP post was tongue-in-cheek, but you raise some excellent points. Additionally, median SFH price as a percent of median income is still way out of whack. The current "plateau" is likely just a rest stop on the way to falling prices, if not in absolute dollars, then surely relative to inflation.
On a semi-related note, the dual-income model has become a victim of its own success. The market has removed most value from such efforts by increasing cost-of-living accordingly -- prices are always what the market will bear. Home prices as a percent of *household* income are twice what they were in the 1950s, when single-income families were the norm, and yet single-income families are now less than 7% of the population. That means median home prices as a percent of median individual income have gone up four-fold, and dual-income families are almost mandatory just to survive. Yet far from increasing stability, they actually increase the odds of failure. When you can't support a family on a single-income, then either person becoming involuntarily unemployed can (and typically does) have effectively the same result as a complete loss of income: financial ruin for the household as a whole. From a statistical perspective, instead of flipping a coin, you're now rolling a four-sided die where only one of the numbers results in a win. The odds of failure have gone up 25%, and so has the economic impact of a given layoff. Of course the actual numbers will never match perfect probabilities, but the principle is still sound.
As such, it's my belief that the dual-income model is unsustainable, and that housing prices will experience further downward pressures as a result. Even if people don't consciously select single-income arrangements, the increased instability and the repeated failures will ensure that the more stable single-income model will return -- there simply won't be enough jobs. Unfortunately, the only way to get there is through deflation, which has serious economic consequences as well. Interesting times ahead.
I've got close to 20/20 vision, but I still enable "Large Fonts" in Windows. It should resolve most issues, although there are some applications that don't scale their controls' size accordingly.
what exactly are you implying these questions and blog are strawmen for?
For the fact that the sun will explode in 2012, and NASA knows it!!!