Let's be clear. You are obviously misinformed, unaware of the fact that the government is requiring airlines to ask for ID, citing a secret law that does not exist on the books. How would you like to be convicted of violating a law that you aren't allowed to read, and just take the police's word it exists? How could a lawyer possibly defend a client against such a law? That sounds pretty close to a definition of "police state," or at least some nightmarish Kafka story.
Oral arguments start next Thursday. Seems like this is the first update on this case in over a year. Be interesting to see what happens, and if it gets any press coverage.
Facemasks are common in Asia for some reason. I was in Japan before the whole SARS thing, and sick people would usually be wearing masks, tied loosely so the air was essentially just flowing through from the sides. The whole thing seemed pretty ridiculous to me -- any mesh fine enough to trap an airborne virus has got to be difficult to breathe through, especially for someone who already has respiratory problems.
Not to mention snot buildup from sneezing into the mask for hours on end. And what about coughing? Just swallow the phlegm? Seems less sanitary overall to me.
The other hardware isn't necessarily something you'd need to buy. If you've got an old 1GHz+ system lying around, that's more than sufficient. Just throw in a gigabit ethernet card, and you've got a more versatile NAS for half the cost. It's no different than the restaurant (or any other) business: You can probably cook something better for a fraction of the price, or you can be lazy and pay someone else to provide it for you. Obviously some people can't cook so they have little choice.
I just have 4 250GB HDs in my computer for ~$450 instead. It turns out I don't need access to the drives when my system isn't on, so that works out perfectly. Also I have the advantage of reading and writing data at greater than single digit Mbps speeds from at least 1 computer. Unless you live with a whole family of geeks who want to share their information (does dad really want to listen to daughter's MP3s or want daughter watching his adult entertainment?), dedicated network storage seems like more of a "Look ma, no hands!" feature of a home network.
Well, FF (and OSS's) weakness is that developing it won't put food on the table, and can only continue insomuch as there is someone with the time, knowledge, and skills to do it. Commericial software will continue development until the company runs out of money and then some, which is more than a few years away for MS, even if they started operating tomorrow at million dollar losses per day.
Well, I don't think I'm the only person who believes it's foolish to build in a place like N.O. in the first place, let alone rebuild. Admittedly, nobody knew the land would sink when they first started building, but we now have the advantage of hindsight, and personally I don't want my Federal Taxes used to fund protection for people who choose to rebuild in a disaster-prone area. I live in the tropical pacific, and there are strict building codes here. As a result, there was minimal structural damage during either the last CAT 5 storm 3 years ago, or 7.0 quake 2 years ago, and 0 loss of life on either occasion. Structures that were damaged by flooding were razed and compensated by FEMA (which I have no problem with), but prohibited from rebuilding in the same zone.
Comparing NO to Holland is apples and oranges. Theirs is an entire country who are funding their own protection. Taxes from Denmark don't pay for the seawalls in the Netherlands. If New Orleans wants to fund its own system, I have no problem with that, but there's no reason for the rest of the country to pay for a few people's choice to deliberately live in the line of fire.
And before the California/Earthquake argument is raised, flooding is a different animal entirely. Each structure is tested on its own merits during a quake, and there is no federally funded multibillion dollar anti-earthquake system being proposed.
Personally I have a hard time rating songs because I get tired of them so quickly. 3-5 listens and I'm done. Further, I like variety, and while computers are good at pattern matching, I usually don't want to hear the same sort of songs continuously. If I could listen to new music every day and never hear the same song twice, I would.
In my experience, FF has been neither fast nor sleek. It's got a memory footprint like an elephant and page load times are mediocre at best. In fact, the ONLY reason I use it is because of the extensions. AdBlock almost makes pages load quickly plus saves me the annoyance of looking at unwanted ads, but "Sleek and Fast," are never the words I'd have used to describe FF, or any previous incarnation of Mozilla.
(And no, FasterFox doesn't make FF render pages at the speeds of IE or Opera).
Personally, my parents never taught me about Santa, or the Easter Bunny, and I felt like I missed a whole part of my childhood.
Kids believe lots of things are real. Star Wars, Harry Potter, etc. The lines between fiction and fact are blurred when you're young (and continue to be for some adults), but for the most part it's harmless. And it's neither practical nor effective to point out each and every example of what's real, what's not, and what's indefinite -- it's just being a killjoy. Instead, teach kids how to evaluate for themselves the world around them.
As an aside, kids cry over anything, for any reason, so extrapolating that something is wrong because it makes a kid cry is absurd.
You jest, but abandoned online shopping carts are starting to clog the information superhighway, not to mention the physchological effect it has on the carts themselves. Join us, amazon.com, in stamping out shopping cart abuse. When people abandon their carts, everyone loses.
Right, but for all practical considerations, air drag in typical 0-35mph city driving is insignificant, especially when weighed against driving habits or even pavement smoothness. Maintaining near constant velocity at highway speed is the logical method to test the tailgate theory. That was my only point.
If MS is losing money on every X360, then they'll lose 3x that with my units...I'm waiting for the rush of X360's to purchase them used if possible
Actually, if you buy them used they're losing 0x as much money, because they'd be selling 0 more units than if you hadn't bought them at all.
In fact, the only thing I got from your post was was, "MCE/Xbox extenders are the best solution available and I use them. Hopefully MS loses money and never makes them again."
It's probably neither a cause nor an effect, but rather simply a trait that is common among, or perhaps the definition of, introverts. It seems like the researcher is just inflating the importance of his or her research. The only thing we can directly infer from the study is the equivelant of saying "Blonde people are blonde because they have blonde hair."
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Let's be clear. You are obviously misinformed, unaware of the fact that the government is requiring airlines to ask for ID, citing a secret law that does not exist on the books. How would you like to be convicted of violating a law that you aren't allowed to read, and just take the police's word it exists? How could a lawyer possibly defend a client against such a law? That sounds pretty close to a definition of "police state," or at least some nightmarish Kafka story.
Oral arguments start next Thursday. Seems like this is the first update on this case in over a year. Be interesting to see what happens, and if it gets any press coverage.
Facemasks are common in Asia for some reason. I was in Japan before the whole SARS thing, and sick people would usually be wearing masks, tied loosely so the air was essentially just flowing through from the sides. The whole thing seemed pretty ridiculous to me -- any mesh fine enough to trap an airborne virus has got to be difficult to breathe through, especially for someone who already has respiratory problems.
Not to mention snot buildup from sneezing into the mask for hours on end. And what about coughing? Just swallow the phlegm? Seems less sanitary overall to me.
The other hardware isn't necessarily something you'd need to buy. If you've got an old 1GHz+ system lying around, that's more than sufficient. Just throw in a gigabit ethernet card, and you've got a more versatile NAS for half the cost. It's no different than the restaurant (or any other) business: You can probably cook something better for a fraction of the price, or you can be lazy and pay someone else to provide it for you. Obviously some people can't cook so they have little choice.
I'll sell you one for $500,000 even, or two for $1.5M plus a free UPS.
I just have 4 250GB HDs in my computer for ~$450 instead. It turns out I don't need access to the drives when my system isn't on, so that works out perfectly. Also I have the advantage of reading and writing data at greater than single digit Mbps speeds from at least 1 computer. Unless you live with a whole family of geeks who want to share their information (does dad really want to listen to daughter's MP3s or want daughter watching his adult entertainment?), dedicated network storage seems like more of a "Look ma, no hands!" feature of a home network.
Maybe there are fixes, but if an advanced user can't figure it out in 5 minutes, I call it "broken".
Or the user isn't advanced enough. Any insufficiently advanced user is indistinguishable from a noob.
Well, FF (and OSS's) weakness is that developing it won't put food on the table, and can only continue insomuch as there is someone with the time, knowledge, and skills to do it. Commericial software will continue development until the company runs out of money and then some, which is more than a few years away for MS, even if they started operating tomorrow at million dollar losses per day.
"I've been here all morning and my heart's only beaten six times!"
Ha!
Well, I don't think I'm the only person who believes it's foolish to build in a place like N.O. in the first place, let alone rebuild. Admittedly, nobody knew the land would sink when they first started building, but we now have the advantage of hindsight, and personally I don't want my Federal Taxes used to fund protection for people who choose to rebuild in a disaster-prone area. I live in the tropical pacific, and there are strict building codes here. As a result, there was minimal structural damage during either the last CAT 5 storm 3 years ago, or 7.0 quake 2 years ago, and 0 loss of life on either occasion. Structures that were damaged by flooding were razed and compensated by FEMA (which I have no problem with), but prohibited from rebuilding in the same zone.
Comparing NO to Holland is apples and oranges. Theirs is an entire country who are funding their own protection. Taxes from Denmark don't pay for the seawalls in the Netherlands. If New Orleans wants to fund its own system, I have no problem with that, but there's no reason for the rest of the country to pay for a few people's choice to deliberately live in the line of fire.
And before the California/Earthquake argument is raised, flooding is a different animal entirely. Each structure is tested on its own merits during a quake, and there is no federally funded multibillion dollar anti-earthquake system being proposed.
Personally I have a hard time rating songs because I get tired of them so quickly. 3-5 listens and I'm done. Further, I like variety, and while computers are good at pattern matching, I usually don't want to hear the same sort of songs continuously. If I could listen to new music every day and never hear the same song twice, I would.
No way am I listening to Footloose.
In my experience, FF has been neither fast nor sleek. It's got a memory footprint like an elephant and page load times are mediocre at best. In fact, the ONLY reason I use it is because of the extensions. AdBlock almost makes pages load quickly plus saves me the annoyance of looking at unwanted ads, but "Sleek and Fast," are never the words I'd have used to describe FF, or any previous incarnation of Mozilla.
(And no, FasterFox doesn't make FF render pages at the speeds of IE or Opera).
"So you like the Stones?"
"I'm not really into classic rock."
"Oh, I see, a Zeppelin man.. That's cool."
"..."
"You'd probably like Floyd then!"
Who's Monday?
Mmmm.. New Coke.
Oh, the drink from the 80s...?
Personally, my parents never taught me about Santa, or the Easter Bunny, and I felt like I missed a whole part of my childhood.
Kids believe lots of things are real. Star Wars, Harry Potter, etc. The lines between fiction and fact are blurred when you're young (and continue to be for some adults), but for the most part it's harmless. And it's neither practical nor effective to point out each and every example of what's real, what's not, and what's indefinite -- it's just being a killjoy. Instead, teach kids how to evaluate for themselves the world around them.
As an aside, kids cry over anything, for any reason, so extrapolating that something is wrong because it makes a kid cry is absurd.
You jest, but abandoned online shopping carts are starting to clog the information superhighway, not to mention the physchological effect it has on the carts themselves. Join us, amazon.com, in stamping out shopping cart abuse. When people abandon their carts, everyone loses.
I wonder if Cyber Mondays will be touch sensative like the Cyber Hands they talked about yesterday...
Right, but for all practical considerations, air drag in typical 0-35mph city driving is insignificant, especially when weighed against driving habits or even pavement smoothness. Maintaining near constant velocity at highway speed is the logical method to test the tailgate theory. That was my only point.
You must be tehanu here. We just middle click on the links as we browse the summaries, then go for a smoke break. When we get back, we post comments!
BRILLANT!
IRONIC!
Right.. as I always say, "Never use GOTO except for exceptions."
That was definately not indistinguishable from reality. ;)
If MS is losing money on every X360, then they'll lose 3x that with my units...I'm waiting for the rush of X360's to purchase them used if possible
Actually, if you buy them used they're losing 0x as much money, because they'd be selling 0 more units than if you hadn't bought them at all.
In fact, the only thing I got from your post was was, "MCE/Xbox extenders are the best solution available and I use them. Hopefully MS loses money and never makes them again."
It's probably neither a cause nor an effect, but rather simply a trait that is common among, or perhaps the definition of, introverts. It seems like the researcher is just inflating the importance of his or her research. The only thing we can directly infer from the study is the equivelant of saying "Blonde people are blonde because they have blonde hair."