According to the article, the ice age on Mars occurred when the planet was warmer. Ice was able to form in a stable state at lower latitudes when the climate was warmer.
Unlike Earth, ice ages on Mars occur when its poles are warmer than average and frozen water is more stable at lower latitudes. Transitions between lengthy climate phases can leave telltale features in the ice, the research showed.
They don't have anything substantial to protect yet. Of course they don't care. When you get older, you've (hopefully) accumulated some financial reserves that need to be protected. If you're still young, you typically won't have too much to protect.
Expensive HSR just doesn't make sense in the US. Look at a map of Japan, for example - its geography forces the major cities to be more or less lined up, such that rail built between any two major cities will be usable by a lot of traffic not necessarily going to or from those cities.
California is also long and narrow. A lot of those cities in Japan that are along their HSR were non-existant or very small towns before it was built. If anything, they should build it along an emptier stretch of land than along an already populated city centers. That would make HSR much cheaper. HSR is an investment into a longer term future of population growth.
I don't understand some of the people that keep complaining about marketing and debt collector calls and robocalls. It just means you don't know the law and don't know how to answer them. With marketing calls, I've always answered the calls and ask them to put me on the do not call list.
Back before robocalls, I took the 2 minutes to get a live person and pretended to not hear them clearly. I ask who the are, then sound confused and ask what company they're calling from. As soon as I have that I tell them I have their information and took notes and ask them to put me on their Do Not Call list. They never call back. The National Do Not Call list is a scam for politicians to get your number and call you. I've never been on that and maybe twice a year I get a new marketing call.
When robocalls started, I tried to listen to the full message for the Do Not Call information at the end. I listen to the message and found that they mostly used 2, at first, then 9, to automatically be put on the do not call list. As soon as I hear the robocall in English, I press 9 and the call hangs up. Even quicker than talking to a real person.
I also had debt collectors call before for different people. I listen and ask them whom they're looking for and tell them to update their information and stop calling. I think they cycle through a half dozen debt collectors before they get fully updated. One year, someone gave out my number as their number, or someone mis-entered a digit and I started getting calls for a little bit, but I put a stop to it immediately. Before robocalls, there may have been a dozen companies that called, but when robocalls started less than a handful of calls was enough to put an end to all unsolicited marketing. I did have to listen to the first few robocalls all the way through to figure out the number to press.
If everyone does what I do, then they will start tracking when you asked to be put on the list and start calling again after a year. The majority of people are too lazy to do the initial work to get peace of mind later, so until I change my number, I won't be hassled by marketing and robocalls. Once you get on someones Do Not Call list, they rarely remove you. It's just extra work for them to track, when they have 10's of millions of people that don't know the law.
Anyone that wants a new law to block them doesn't know the law. The laws exist already to block all these unwanted calls. Make the law work for you. I rarely get any unsolicited robocalls now. On the rare occasion that I do, I follow procedure.. I even moved a few times and got a new number that initially got these calls, but I put a stop to them within a month on any new number I have.
You should really just press 9 right at the beginning of the robocall. Most of the robots use that as a way to automatically put you on their Do Not Call Lists. I sat through the first few when they first started robocalls to figure out the menu structures. In the beginning it was a mix of 9 and 2 for the robocall DNC, but I think they've mostly standardized to 9 and I haven't been getting calls. I did recently get a Spanish robocall at work that used 2 instead of 9 for their DNC, but once I figured that out, I've stopped getting them.
The original way to stop calls was to ask for their name, company and call back number for the company. Then you asked to be put on their local DNC list and note the date somewhere. They are legally required to keep on their list for a year. If they call back within the year, you have the right to take them to small claims court for $500. They usually won't ever bother removing you from their lists because it's too much trouble and you're likely to ask to be put back on the list. They also don't want to go to the trouble in case they did mess up the date and you do happen to sue them outside their state. You just need to put in 1-2 month of effort in actually answering the call and the calls will stop. It's much easier with a robocall; just push 9 as soon as you hear the robot and it hangs up immediately and you don't have to hear the whole spiel.
The National Do Not Call list is a scam by the politicians. It was created for the stupid people that don't understand that there was already a Do Not Call Protection in place or the lazy people that didn't want to put in a tiny amount of effort to stop the calls. Putting yourself on the DNC list puts you on the political call lists. You've given them a valid number to look up. They put in an exemption for themselves. I know some people that did used the DNC list and they're now getting nuisance calls during election season.
Old Floppies were made to be very reliable. They became unreliable when AOHell started dumping their software all over. They needed the cheapest media possible for one time use distribution and the suppliers accommodated them. Once the cheap floppies were being produced, the suppliers decided they could sell them to regular consumers and undercut the other manufacturers in pricing. When they failed, consumers would just buy another batch I still have old floppies from before the dumping that were quiet heavily used and still read just fine on a few antique systems I've kept. Floppies that came on the market after the AOHell dumping would die after a few read/write cycles, just enough for a dumb consumer to load AOHell onto their system. AOHell basically destroyed floppies.
Don't set the dryer on high heat. Use medium or low and your clothes will last a little longer. Don't overload the dryer and they dry a bit faster without the excess wear experienced by all the heavy wet items rubbing against each other. That's how the clothes get worn out. They rub against each other end up in the lint trap.
Mandating insurance forces premiums _down_ because the pool of insured people becomes much bigger. By now most car insurances are near the lowest possible values - most car insurance companies are barely profitable. It's not yet true for health insurance, but it's already happening there.
Not true.
Prior to the mandate, the insurance companies wouldn't insure any high risk individuals, keeping premiums lower for those that they qualify for coverage.
I remember my insurance premium went from $500/year to $1100/year immediately after the passage of the mandated insurance law, with no change in policy coverage or any change in our risk factors. There are enough high risk individuals that will more than offset any increase in the pool and cause an increase in premiums.
Insurance companies are in this to make money first. Insuring you comes 2nd and is how they hope to make money. If you have too many points or claims, they'll do their best to cancel your coverage if they can. With the mandates, they can't drop you just because you've become higher risk, so they'll raise everyone's premiums to make back their profit margins.
In many Asian countries, they put pedestrian bridges or pedestrian tunnels across all the really busy, wide intersections. It keeps the cars and pedestrians away from each other's stupidity. Why don't they do that in the US? It makes a lot of sense and can save a lot of lives. I know of one in the US. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.... New York City and parts of San Francisco could definitely benefit from something like this at many intersections.
Many major Asian cities also connect their city blocks underground, so that pedestrians can travel between buildings away from heavy traffic. Vehicular traffic travels on the surface streets and pedestrians are banned from the surface streets in many of these areas. I don't remember really seeing anything like this is New York City, except at a few intersection where subway lines meet, but those were relatively short and didn't really have any major shops like they do in Asia. I did see one section of San Francisco at the Powell Street Station that had shops like in Asia. Nordstrom was the hub, but it only covered one block of Market Street. Nothing like the vast networks in Asia that covered several blocks for pedestrian only traffic. Even at these places, pedestrians are allowed to cross at intersections in the US. It's brain dead city planning that caters far too much to vehicular traffic even in a place like Manhattan.
According to Isaac Asimov, lower birth rates are attributed to giving women more power in all aspects of society. When women are empowered in more than just being a good mother, they don't feel the need to have all those children.
Whoa, what country are you from? Blinking yellow is a yield, just like any 2 way stop intersection. When you don't have a stop sign in your direction, it is, and has always been, an implied yield. The yield signs just emphasize the point because a lot of people won't yield properly and think they own the road.
So, have you ridden a bicycle in a commuting type situation? I've read before that converting many stop signs to yield signs, even for cars, would save all sorts of energy without significant increases in accidents.
With a bicycle it's all about energy conservation. When I'm biking it takes me significantly longer to get up to speed, and my top speed is still well below that of the vast, vast majority of cars.
As such, I typically have much longer to assess an intersection before I reach it, my stopping distance is extremely short, but if you make me stop it extends the time I'll be in the intersection when I DO cross significantly. If I'm allowed to use a stop sign as a yield, I'll attempt to time my passage such that I'll cross near my maximum speed, clearing the intersection expediently. Being through quicker reduces the chances I'll be involved in an accident there.
As a bonus, this way I'm less in driver's way, making me less likely to piss them off.
If you're taking significantly longer to get to full speed from a stop, it likely means that you don't know how to properly shift gears. I've always come to a full stop at the stop sign even on my bicycle, and other than the time stopped waiting for the other person to cross, it does not take a significant amount of time to cross the road from a full stop. I'm usually near my full speed and switched to my highest gear before I cross the first lane.
You do not own the road. You share the road and part of the courtesy is to obey the rules and stop for someone else when it's their turn to go, not hog the road as if you're the king of the road. If you expect drivers to share the road with bicyclists, you should share the road with the driver and let them pass you when you can give them space. A little courtesy goes a long way. Just because you can't manage to properly speed up, does not mean that you have the right to block someone else and cause them to waste energy too. What do you do when another bicyclist is also crossing? Do you cut him off too?
In California, it's already overwhelmingly "democrat", so you might as well start voting 3rd party.
In Texas, it's already overwhelmingly "replublican", so you might as well vote 3rd party.
Republicans & Democrats are bought and paid for now. It's time to get away from them.
Write to your representatives. Even if you didn't vote for them, they are supposed to represent you. If enough people wrote in, then it would cause a change in their behavior. They don't interact with their constituents enough, so they only see the money from the lobbyists.
People also "grow up" a bit after high school and don't act as jerks as much as they did in High School. Some of that is training, some isn't. It may partially have something to do with officially being an adult at 18. Some kids never act like jerks, because their parents already taught them how to behave as adults even as teens. You don't just magically become an adult the day you turn 18. Maybe you learned by observation because your parents never taught you how to behave in social settings.
Kids have to be taught "common sense", otherwise they'd continue to act like the selfish brats that they were when they were babies. Parents have to teach kids to share with their siblings. Parents also need to be taught how to be parents too.
No. SUVs are popular because you can transport your entire family in one. I.e. so you can all go to church or the park in it. Slashdot metrosexuals wouldn't understand.
Not quite. Minivans do that with much better gas mileage and frequently carry more people. SUVs are more status symbols in the suburbs, where there are much more people than in the rural areas. Both were developed because the law requires seatbelts for ALL your passengers. Most SUVs, especially the more popular models do not have quite as much passenger space as a minivan. If you're in rural America, SUVs do make sense, but suburbanites like the larger gas guzzler status of the SUV.
The days where you could cram 6 into the back seat on each other's laps, or fill 15 kids into the back of the pickup truck, are long gone.
The radar and automatic braking would mean the collisions would be less serious because it would have occurred at least a full second before your distracted brain could even perceive a threat. The survivability rate in accidents would also improve, saving lives overall and reducing our medical costs as well. You've got to look at the big picture.
They might have different servers and some have the none button available and some don't. I've followed those instructions before to create accounts and it sometimes just doesn't work. The most recent one was during September 2013 when I finally just entered an expiring credit card number. It took several tries in August 2013 to finally get that button to appear, but it took 2 hours and a few new email & appleID account creations to finally see the none selection.
I've learned long ago that just because they post instructions, doesn't make it true.
No, you don't need to sit and watch him play, but if you did this whole situation would've been avoided. I'd use this as a teachable moment for both of you. I think a far more interesting topic to investigate would be how did this business model come about?
It sounds like you're advocating helicopter parenting to handle a deceptive business practice that the FCC has fined Apple for doing. Let's watch your kid every waking hour and every waking minute of every single day. [sarcasm]They're expected to magically become an adult once they've turned 18. [/sarcasm]
On the other hand, I also don't understand why it's imperative that parents give their children iPhones/iPads/(other expensive electronic crap). Kids don't need them to grow/learn/socialize. Lazy parenting indeed.
How did you struggle with something that takes 5 seconds to google?
I'm genuinely curious how so many supposed "tech experts", i.e. comfortable enough with technology to be posting on a site like slashdot, can struggle so desperately with something as simple as setting up an Apple ID with no credit card - the answer to which is literally the first result on google when you search "how to set up apple id without credit card".
They struggle so much that they feel the need to post their ignorance for the world to see, and for the easy karma.
Because those instructions don't always work. I've used them to create accounts without a need for a credit card, but sometimes it's a struggle to get it to work. There are times when you follow the instructions to the letter and the none button just never appears. In those cases, sometimes starting over with a new email address allows it to work, but sometimes it doesn't. I've encountered this problem helping other people and it's basically deceptive that they have those instructions that don't always work.
While those instructions exist, they don't always work. I've signed up without needing a card before. I've also signed up my son without a needing a credit card, but it took several tries. I couldn't get the same thing to work for my wife's account later on, even after following that page's instructions step by step. I've tried several times on OSX & Windows, then iPhone & iPad. I even created new email accounts to test it, but that none button just didn't exist for me. I had a card that was expiring at the time, so I just broke down and entered that information after wasting an hour trying, but they do lie with that page when it doesn't always work.
I've even had to create a new account for myself one time because my first one started prompting me for a credit card for updates, when I've never installed anything but free apps. It's deceptive business practice, if they provide instructions for something that sometimes works and sometimes doesn't. I really wish all those free apps would remain available on their home pages instead of moving to the App Store only.
I moved to Linux because from Mac OS X *because* of the command line. It is a first place citizen. You can expect almost all programs on it to support commandline options and such.
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OSX is based off BSD now, so there are plenty of command tools available to you. All your basic linux commands work in OSX as well as several additional useful OSX command tools that just don't exist elsewhere. I frequently run command line scripts to configure OSX and install numerous pieces of software on several Macs. You can also install Fink, or MacPorts, or Homebrew to install plenty of additional useful software. It's all there if you learn how to use OSX on the command line.
Windows also has a command line, and the vast majority of Windows software can be installed on the command line. There are many useful command line utilities that vastly speed up setup of the a windows system. You could also install cygwin if you really want unix style commands. With powershell, there's less of a need to have cygwin. In a Domain, you can use group policy to manage numerous systems, but that's not available if you're not in a domain. If you manage systems not in a domain, or before you join it to a domain, you can do just about everything on a local trusted network with command line tools in a batch file script or powershell.
Many people think of Windows or OSX as GUI only, or mainly, have never really sat down to find the command line way of doing it because the GUI was always there as a crutch. The GUI was so well done that they never bothered seek out the command line. On linux, the GUI came much, much later. In the beginning, some of the linux GUI, like the early SAMBA config GUI that wiped smb.conf, was quite broken. There's still work to be done with the GUI.
Don't mistake a useful GUI for lack of a command line on OSX or Windows. It's all there and you've just never learned to use it. The linux GUI is not as well designed and still needs more work to get to where Windows and OSX are. That's probably why most linux users are still going to the command line. Eventually, that will change and it will mainly be sysadmins and certain power users that do any command line on linux as well.
The shell includes for, if, else, while and variables that allow you to write simple to complex scripts to manage all the self contained unix commands listed by Bob9113.
Here's 3 more useful unix commands to add to Bob9113's list
apropos COMMAND_or_COMMAND_FRAGMENT - to find the command you might want which COMMAND - to find the location of the command on the filesystem man COMMAND - to find the manual page for the command
There is an entire book dedicated to just awk and sed, which are quite useful programs on their own.
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According to the article, the ice age on Mars occurred when the planet was warmer. Ice was able to form in a stable state at lower latitudes when the climate was warmer.
Unlike Earth, ice ages on Mars occur when its poles are warmer than average and frozen water is more stable at lower latitudes. Transitions between lengthy climate phases can leave telltale features in the ice, the research showed.
They don't have anything substantial to protect yet. Of course they don't care. When you get older, you've (hopefully) accumulated some financial reserves that need to be protected. If you're still young, you typically won't have too much to protect.
Expensive HSR just doesn't make sense in the US. Look at a map of Japan, for example - its geography forces the major cities to be more or less lined up, such that rail built between any two major cities will be usable by a lot of traffic not necessarily going to or from those cities.
California is also long and narrow. A lot of those cities in Japan that are along their HSR were non-existant or very small towns before it was built. If anything, they should build it along an emptier stretch of land than along an already populated city centers. That would make HSR much cheaper. HSR is an investment into a longer term future of population growth.
The simple solution is to make it illegal to tell patients the sex of their child. Korea reversed the gender imbalance by doing just that.
I don't understand some of the people that keep complaining about marketing and debt collector calls and robocalls. It just means you don't know the law and don't know how to answer them. With marketing calls, I've always answered the calls and ask them to put me on the do not call list.
Back before robocalls, I took the 2 minutes to get a live person and pretended to not hear them clearly. I ask who the are, then sound confused and ask what company they're calling from. As soon as I have that I tell them I have their information and took notes and ask them to put me on their Do Not Call list. They never call back. The National Do Not Call list is a scam for politicians to get your number and call you. I've never been on that and maybe twice a year I get a new marketing call.
When robocalls started, I tried to listen to the full message for the Do Not Call information at the end. I listen to the message and found that they mostly used 2, at first, then 9, to automatically be put on the do not call list. As soon as I hear the robocall in English, I press 9 and the call hangs up. Even quicker than talking to a real person.
I also had debt collectors call before for different people. I listen and ask them whom they're looking for and tell them to update their information and stop calling. I think they cycle through a half dozen debt collectors before they get fully updated. One year, someone gave out my number as their number, or someone mis-entered a digit and I started getting calls for a little bit, but I put a stop to it immediately. Before robocalls, there may have been a dozen companies that called, but when robocalls started less than a handful of calls was enough to put an end to all unsolicited marketing. I did have to listen to the first few robocalls all the way through to figure out the number to press.
If everyone does what I do, then they will start tracking when you asked to be put on the list and start calling again after a year. The majority of people are too lazy to do the initial work to get peace of mind later, so until I change my number, I won't be hassled by marketing and robocalls. Once you get on someones Do Not Call list, they rarely remove you. It's just extra work for them to track, when they have 10's of millions of people that don't know the law.
Anyone that wants a new law to block them doesn't know the law. The laws exist already to block all these unwanted calls. Make the law work for you. I rarely get any unsolicited robocalls now. On the rare occasion that I do, I follow procedure.. I even moved a few times and got a new number that initially got these calls, but I put a stop to them within a month on any new number I have.
You should really just press 9 right at the beginning of the robocall. Most of the robots use that as a way to automatically put you on their Do Not Call Lists. I sat through the first few when they first started robocalls to figure out the menu structures. In the beginning it was a mix of 9 and 2 for the robocall DNC, but I think they've mostly standardized to 9 and I haven't been getting calls. I did recently get a Spanish robocall at work that used 2 instead of 9 for their DNC, but once I figured that out, I've stopped getting them.
The original way to stop calls was to ask for their name, company and call back number for the company. Then you asked to be put on their local DNC list and note the date somewhere. They are legally required to keep on their list for a year. If they call back within the year, you have the right to take them to small claims court for $500. They usually won't ever bother removing you from their lists because it's too much trouble and you're likely to ask to be put back on the list. They also don't want to go to the trouble in case they did mess up the date and you do happen to sue them outside their state. You just need to put in 1-2 month of effort in actually answering the call and the calls will stop. It's much easier with a robocall; just push 9 as soon as you hear the robot and it hangs up immediately and you don't have to hear the whole spiel.
The National Do Not Call list is a scam by the politicians. It was created for the stupid people that don't understand that there was already a Do Not Call Protection in place or the lazy people that didn't want to put in a tiny amount of effort to stop the calls. Putting yourself on the DNC list puts you on the political call lists. You've given them a valid number to look up. They put in an exemption for themselves. I know some people that did used the DNC list and they're now getting nuisance calls during election season.
Old Floppies were made to be very reliable. They became unreliable when AOHell started dumping their software all over. They needed the cheapest media possible for one time use distribution and the suppliers accommodated them. Once the cheap floppies were being produced, the suppliers decided they could sell them to regular consumers and undercut the other manufacturers in pricing. When they failed, consumers would just buy another batch I still have old floppies from before the dumping that were quiet heavily used and still read just fine on a few antique systems I've kept. Floppies that came on the market after the AOHell dumping would die after a few read/write cycles, just enough for a dumb consumer to load AOHell onto their system. AOHell basically destroyed floppies.
Supposedly, Tiger Woods makes them go at up to 170 mph. I think, the high speeds they're talking about are for jet speeds.
http://www.golflink.com/facts_...
Don't set the dryer on high heat. Use medium or low and your clothes will last a little longer. Don't overload the dryer and they dry a bit faster without the excess wear experienced by all the heavy wet items rubbing against each other. That's how the clothes get worn out. They rub against each other end up in the lint trap.
Mandating insurance forces premiums _down_ because the pool of insured people becomes much bigger. By now most car insurances are near the lowest possible values - most car insurance companies are barely profitable. It's not yet true for health insurance, but it's already happening there.
Not true.
Prior to the mandate, the insurance companies wouldn't insure any high risk individuals, keeping premiums lower for those that they qualify for coverage.
I remember my insurance premium went from $500/year to $1100/year immediately after the passage of the mandated insurance law, with no change in policy coverage or any change in our risk factors. There are enough high risk individuals that will more than offset any increase in the pool and cause an increase in premiums.
Insurance companies are in this to make money first. Insuring you comes 2nd and is how they hope to make money. If you have too many points or claims, they'll do their best to cancel your coverage if they can. With the mandates, they can't drop you just because you've become higher risk, so they'll raise everyone's premiums to make back their profit margins.
In many Asian countries, they put pedestrian bridges or pedestrian tunnels across all the really busy, wide intersections. It keeps the cars and pedestrians away from each other's stupidity. Why don't they do that in the US? It makes a lot of sense and can save a lot of lives. I know of one in the US. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.... New York City and parts of San Francisco could definitely benefit from something like this at many intersections.
Many major Asian cities also connect their city blocks underground, so that pedestrians can travel between buildings away from heavy traffic. Vehicular traffic travels on the surface streets and pedestrians are banned from the surface streets in many of these areas. I don't remember really seeing anything like this is New York City, except at a few intersection where subway lines meet, but those were relatively short and didn't really have any major shops like they do in Asia. I did see one section of San Francisco at the Powell Street Station that had shops like in Asia. Nordstrom was the hub, but it only covered one block of Market Street. Nothing like the vast networks in Asia that covered several blocks for pedestrian only traffic. Even at these places, pedestrians are allowed to cross at intersections in the US. It's brain dead city planning that caters far too much to vehicular traffic even in a place like Manhattan.
According to Isaac Asimov, lower birth rates are attributed to giving women more power in all aspects of society. When women are empowered in more than just being a good mother, they don't feel the need to have all those children.
See his interview with Bill Moyers from 1988
http://billmoyers.com/content/...
Whoa, what country are you from? Blinking yellow is a yield, just like any 2 way stop intersection. When you don't have a stop sign in your direction, it is, and has always been, an implied yield. The yield signs just emphasize the point because a lot of people won't yield properly and think they own the road.
So, have you ridden a bicycle in a commuting type situation? I've read before that converting many stop signs to yield signs, even for cars, would save all sorts of energy without significant increases in accidents.
With a bicycle it's all about energy conservation. When I'm biking it takes me significantly longer to get up to speed, and my top speed is still well below that of the vast, vast majority of cars.
As such, I typically have much longer to assess an intersection before I reach it, my stopping distance is extremely short, but if you make me stop it extends the time I'll be in the intersection when I DO cross significantly. If I'm allowed to use a stop sign as a yield, I'll attempt to time my passage such that I'll cross near my maximum speed, clearing the intersection expediently. Being through quicker reduces the chances I'll be involved in an accident there.
As a bonus, this way I'm less in driver's way, making me less likely to piss them off.
If you're taking significantly longer to get to full speed from a stop, it likely means that you don't know how to properly shift gears. I've always come to a full stop at the stop sign even on my bicycle, and other than the time stopped waiting for the other person to cross, it does not take a significant amount of time to cross the road from a full stop. I'm usually near my full speed and switched to my highest gear before I cross the first lane.
You do not own the road. You share the road and part of the courtesy is to obey the rules and stop for someone else when it's their turn to go, not hog the road as if you're the king of the road. If you expect drivers to share the road with bicyclists, you should share the road with the driver and let them pass you when you can give them space. A little courtesy goes a long way. Just because you can't manage to properly speed up, does not mean that you have the right to block someone else and cause them to waste energy too. What do you do when another bicyclist is also crossing? Do you cut him off too?
Then start voting 3rd party and upset the system.
In California, it's already overwhelmingly "democrat", so you might as well start voting 3rd party.
In Texas, it's already overwhelmingly "replublican", so you might as well vote 3rd party.
Republicans & Democrats are bought and paid for now. It's time to get away from them.
Write to your representatives. Even if you didn't vote for them, they are supposed to represent you. If enough people wrote in, then it would cause a change in their behavior. They don't interact with their constituents enough, so they only see the money from the lobbyists.
People also "grow up" a bit after high school and don't act as jerks as much as they did in High School. Some of that is training, some isn't. It may partially have something to do with officially being an adult at 18. Some kids never act like jerks, because their parents already taught them how to behave as adults even as teens. You don't just magically become an adult the day you turn 18. Maybe you learned by observation because your parents never taught you how to behave in social settings.
Kids have to be taught "common sense", otherwise they'd continue to act like the selfish brats that they were when they were babies. Parents have to teach kids to share with their siblings. Parents also need to be taught how to be parents too.
...car manufacturers go from success to success with bigger and bigger SUVs.
Only when the gas prices go down. When it goes up, the SUV market dries up, as we've already seen happen.
No. SUVs are popular because you can transport your entire family in one. I.e. so you can all go to church or the park in it. Slashdot metrosexuals wouldn't understand.
Not quite. Minivans do that with much better gas mileage and frequently carry more people. SUVs are more status symbols in the suburbs, where there are much more people than in the rural areas. Both were developed because the law requires seatbelts for ALL your passengers. Most SUVs, especially the more popular models do not have quite as much passenger space as a minivan. If you're in rural America, SUVs do make sense, but suburbanites like the larger gas guzzler status of the SUV.
The days where you could cram 6 into the back seat on each other's laps, or fill 15 kids into the back of the pickup truck, are long gone.
The radar and automatic braking would mean the collisions would be less serious because it would have occurred at least a full second before your distracted brain could even perceive a threat. The survivability rate in accidents would also improve, saving lives overall and reducing our medical costs as well. You've got to look at the big picture.
They might have different servers and some have the none button available and some don't. I've followed those instructions before to create accounts and it sometimes just doesn't work. The most recent one was during September 2013 when I finally just entered an expiring credit card number. It took several tries in August 2013 to finally get that button to appear, but it took 2 hours and a few new email & appleID account creations to finally see the none selection.
I've learned long ago that just because they post instructions, doesn't make it true.
No, you don't need to sit and watch him play, but if you did this whole situation would've been avoided. I'd use this as a teachable moment for both of you. I think a far more interesting topic to investigate would be how did this business model come about?
It sounds like you're advocating helicopter parenting to handle a deceptive business practice that the FCC has fined Apple for doing. Let's watch your kid every waking hour and every waking minute of every single day. [sarcasm]They're expected to magically become an adult once they've turned 18. [/sarcasm]
On the other hand, I also don't understand why it's imperative that parents give their children iPhones/iPads/(other expensive electronic crap). Kids don't need them to grow/learn/socialize. Lazy parenting indeed.
How did you struggle with something that takes 5 seconds to google?
I'm genuinely curious how so many supposed "tech experts", i.e. comfortable enough with technology to be posting on a site like slashdot, can struggle so desperately with something as simple as setting up an Apple ID with no credit card - the answer to which is literally the first result on google when you search "how to set up apple id without credit card".
They struggle so much that they feel the need to post their ignorance for the world to see, and for the easy karma.
Because those instructions don't always work. I've used them to create accounts without a need for a credit card, but sometimes it's a struggle to get it to work. There are times when you follow the instructions to the letter and the none button just never appears. In those cases, sometimes starting over with a new email address allows it to work, but sometimes it doesn't. I've encountered this problem helping other people and it's basically deceptive that they have those instructions that don't always work.
False.
While those instructions exist, they don't always work. I've signed up without needing a card before. I've also signed up my son without a needing a credit card, but it took several tries. I couldn't get the same thing to work for my wife's account later on, even after following that page's instructions step by step. I've tried several times on OSX & Windows, then iPhone & iPad. I even created new email accounts to test it, but that none button just didn't exist for me. I had a card that was expiring at the time, so I just broke down and entered that information after wasting an hour trying, but they do lie with that page when it doesn't always work.
I've even had to create a new account for myself one time because my first one started prompting me for a credit card for updates, when I've never installed anything but free apps. It's deceptive business practice, if they provide instructions for something that sometimes works and sometimes doesn't. I really wish all those free apps would remain available on their home pages instead of moving to the App Store only.
Hairyfeet, back at ya.
I moved to Linux because from Mac OS X *because* of the command line. It is a first place citizen. You can expect almost all programs on it to support commandline options and such.
OSX is based off BSD now, so there are plenty of command tools available to you. All your basic linux commands work in OSX as well as several additional useful OSX command tools that just don't exist elsewhere. I frequently run command line scripts to configure OSX and install numerous pieces of software on several Macs. You can also install Fink, or MacPorts, or Homebrew to install plenty of additional useful software. It's all there if you learn how to use OSX on the command line.
Windows also has a command line, and the vast majority of Windows software can be installed on the command line. There are many useful command line utilities that vastly speed up setup of the a windows system. You could also install cygwin if you really want unix style commands. With powershell, there's less of a need to have cygwin. In a Domain, you can use group policy to manage numerous systems, but that's not available if you're not in a domain. If you manage systems not in a domain, or before you join it to a domain, you can do just about everything on a local trusted network with command line tools in a batch file script or powershell.
Many people think of Windows or OSX as GUI only, or mainly, have never really sat down to find the command line way of doing it because the GUI was always there as a crutch. The GUI was so well done that they never bothered seek out the command line. On linux, the GUI came much, much later. In the beginning, some of the linux GUI, like the early SAMBA config GUI that wiped smb.conf, was quite broken. There's still work to be done with the GUI.
Don't mistake a useful GUI for lack of a command line on OSX or Windows. It's all there and you've just never learned to use it. The linux GUI is not as well designed and still needs more work to get to where Windows and OSX are. That's probably why most linux users are still going to the command line. Eventually, that will change and it will mainly be sysadmins and certain power users that do any command line on linux as well.
The shell includes for, if, else, while and variables that allow you to write simple to complex scripts to manage all the self contained unix commands listed by Bob9113.
Here's 3 more useful unix commands to add to Bob9113's list
apropos COMMAND_or_COMMAND_FRAGMENT - to find the command you might want
which COMMAND - to find the location of the command on the filesystem
man COMMAND - to find the manual page for the command
There is an entire book dedicated to just awk and sed, which are quite useful programs on their own.