Yeah, I'm lucky enough to live in an area of the city with parking, but even if I don't use my car for anything, I have to move it TWICE A WEEK to avoid those tickets.
Yeah. Who wants clean streets if it means people like you can't keep cars you never use? You're probably one of those people who bitch about the "bridge and tunnel crowd" taking all the parking spots, but if they'd let you, you'd abandon your junker in the same spot for six months and only move it when you have to tow it to the mechanic to get the engine to turn over. Pay much rent on that stretch of curb?
That's really nasty.... so you can park to go to work, pay your parking $144 for 8 hours....
Actually, you probably can't. If it's a meter priced at that rate, it's probably time limited. Stay longer than an hour (or whatever) and you get a ticket.
For all-day parking you'd probably want a garage spot, which you might be able to find for $25. Some jobs also offer parking spaces as part of the benefits package. This is just one of the costs of doing business in a heavy congested city area. You wouldn't drive your own car around Manhattan, either.
San Francisco needs a war on cars, it has the most nightmarish traffic I've ever seen.
You've never been to Los Angeles or New York, then?
San Francisco is a cramped, Peninsula-bound city that was not designed for modern traffic patterns and could never be re-designed to accommodate them. For all that, though, it's pretty easy to drive around SF. Parking is another matter.
They hate cars in SF. They hate people there too, unless you are a tourist or a wacko.
Eh? You don't live there. Yet you're convinced they hate people there, except for tourists -- which, by definition, must have included you the last time you were there, so what's your beef with San Francisco exactly?
Back in the 1980's they failed to come to grips with what Business Users expected of a PC - thus Microsoft's fortunes were made.
Back in the 1980s, huh. You mean when people were still using Banyan Vines over 10Base-2 to network their DOS machines? Except for the Mac, that is, which had AppleTalk from the very beginning. Or do you mean when Microsoft released Excel for Mac OS, two years before it was available on Windows? Or when it released Word for Mac OS, four years before a native Windows version? If it took more forethought than that to succeed, I reckon Apple probably should have quit after the Apple///. (You know... the business one?)
The registry is a the very worst feature of Windows, and I don't know anyone that didn't learn computing on Windows that would dream of praising it.
Well, I certainly wouldn't praise it, but I learned computing with stuff that was somewhat more arcane than the Registry (machine language, memory-mapped registers, etc), and I don't see how the Registry is all that much worse than the myriad forms of preferences on your typical Unix system. Mac OS X is more sane than most, but between how Mac OS X handles preferences and how Windows handles them it seems like six of one, half a dozen of the other to me.
Maybe I'm out of touch, but it's the 1st time I hear of RFID credit card. WTF thought that this would be a good idea ? Is it a US only thing ?
I'm from the U.S. and I've never heard of such a thing either. None of my banks has ever mentioned to me that they were sending me a credit card with an RFID chip. None of my cards have any obvious evidence of having such a chip in them.
f SeaLand is not a territory then must be a ship (sea vessel)
Oh?
sinking, destroying, and or boarding said ship would be considered an act of piracy.
Truly?
I'm sure certain nations would be glad to stick it to their neighbors up north and might even agree to allow a communication cable to SeaLand which would be protected by treaties.
There's lots of reasons to not believe it's true -- I'd imagine that the customs process for Commonwealth citizens isn't that onerous, especially for British citizens visiting Australia
An airport security agent asked me pretty much the same questions at JFK Airport in New York. I was on a flight from Mexico and I was only in JFK to transfer planes to San Francisco. The difference being, I was entering the United States with a valid United States passport. I couldn't believe he was asking me what I planned to do once I arrived home, either -- the temptation to say "oh I don't know, smoke some weed, I guess, maybe get on welfare" was overwhelming -- and yet I knew this guy could feasibly detain me for as long as he felt like, make me miss my flight, cost me hundreds of dollars when I had to book a new flight, and so on and so forth -- so I just had to stand there, answer his questions like I was at a job interview, and act like the whole thing wasn't completely outrageous.
In the hierarchy of the American oligarchs, the emporer is a most exalted merchant; traditionally, he is also allowed to bear the title of First Citizen of the Emporium.
I once worked for a company like the one that provided your cheap mp3 player. There were several reasons for not being more open:... 4. Our boss hated the idea that our competitors could get a leg up by using software that he paid for being developed.
The question wasn't "why aren't hardware manufacturers more open," it was, "why don't hardware manufacturers take advantage of free software like Rockbox instead of insisting on writing their own, lousy firmware?". It seems your boss exemplifies this by failing to see the lumber for the forest.
Why not? It sounds better than MP3 at the same bit rate (my own judgment), so unless you're just downloading copyrighted music without paying for it, why wouldn't you use Vorbis?
I like to keep an MP3 player loaded up with talky stuff like books on tape, NPR shows, etc. It doesn't really need to move anywhere, nor does it really need Internet connectivity (though I guess some ability to do streaming would be nice), but it needs a bunch of storage space -- 20GB would be about the minimum, which nixes any of my old phones. True, any kind of computer would probably fill the bill, but I don't want to hear any fan noises and I also like the simple, purpose-built UI of an MP3 player (especially one with actual buttons). Right now I'm using an iRiver IHP-20 for this purpose, but I assume it will die sooner or later, so I've been looking around to see what's out there (and it doesn't seem like there's much unless you have a direct line to Korea).
Why doesn't the average American see that the freedoms they hold so dearly and supposedly separates them from the "terrorists!" have been eroded and continue to be?
Here's what I don't get: Why don't more American servicemen and women, past and present, speak out about how cowardly and weak this kind of action makes America look?
Let's just assume for the moment that the "War on Terror" is totally legitimate. If we assume that's true, and these people were really kicked out of the country because of two Tweets, then... seriously? These two spooked us? This is what we're worried about? That's like a big, musclebound guy strutting around all day, sticking out his chest, then leaping onto a tabletop and shrieking as soon as some passing kid pulls a squirt gun.
It's deep in the American psyche to think of this country as the most ass-kickin' badass on the planet. The DHS is making us look like a bunch of scared pussies.
Can you even call yourself a city if you don't have a decent bookstore?
I would also hasten to add, what makes you think either Barnes & Noble or Borders qualifies as "a decent bookstore"? To me, they're big, crappy chains. Shopping at either one is like buying your computer stuff at Best Buy. Now, Stacey's downtown was a real bookstore -- unfortunately it got edged out by high rents and pressure from the chains and online retailers like Amazon.
Information gathered during this interview revealed that both individuals were inadmissible to the United States and were returned to their country of residence.
That's the government talking. But they don't say that it was the Twitter posts themselves that rendered the two "inadmissible." They say it was "information gathered during this interview." Presumably the people interviewed repeated many times that it was all a joke, they didn't mean it, etc., so it seems unlikely that the "information gathered" was anything that was said. It seems totally possible, though, that there was something else that flagged them to be blocked at the border during the interview (for example, they had prior drug convictions).
Which would equate to a 10 minute bike ride, or a 20 minute walk. San Fran has great weather, you can get some 'zines and take care of that "spare tire" at the same time.
Not in this case. That's 15 minutes of freeway driving -- the closest one to me is down toward the Peninsula, in San Bruno. Kind of near the airport. It's not even in the same area code as me. And, like many San Franciscans, I don't own a car.
There used to be a Barnes & Noble at Fisherman's Wharf (the tourist district), but A.) it was one of the worst retail stores I've ever seen; and B.) it shut down, actually before all the Borders stores shut down. Unfortunately, in the interim, some of the best independent bookstores in the Bay Area also shut down. It's a real shame that one of the biggest reading markets in America is so poorly served by bookstores.
There actually is no bookstore in the downtown San Francisco shopping district now, if you can believe that. Picture going Christmas shopping and coming up with the idea to buy someone a book; no go. There's a Macy's, Bloomingdale's, a couple movie theaters, Gap, Old Navy, Levi's, Crate & Barrel, etc., etc... but no bookstore. Two Borders locations closed, Stacey's Books closed, Cody's didn't last long, Virgin Megastore closed, B.Dalton closed... there are a couple of specialty bookstores on out-of-the-way sidestreets, but that's it.
On the other hand, magazines? That's different. I know of a couple of well-stocked newsstands with lots of imports.
That's what the GP's joke was referring to. Funnily enough, you didn't make a grammar mistake, you made a speech mistake -- you mixed up the R and L sounds.
Trying to recall the material AFTER the class means that you WILL forget things.
Yeah, but what are you most likely to forget? Acronyms and abbreviations? Formulas? Some numeric constants? In other words, you'll forget the stuff that's going to be in your text anyway. On the other hand, forcing yourself to work back through the whole lesson immediately afterward is probably a good technique for seeing the larger picture, which is what lectures are usually about anyway. Leave blanks in your notes where you've forgotten specifics, then go look them up.
Personally, I find taking notes during lectures to be incredibly distracting. I hear what the teacher is saying, but as long as I'm concentrating on scribbling madly on a piece of paper, I'm not really paying attention to the lecture. Even when I enter a classroom with the intent of taking notes, I seldom do. In practice, I might write down five things in the course of two hours, and I never find myself wishing I had written any more.
Well, considering that English is not a native language, I'd say we aren't doing too bad on the whole, though there's always room for improvement.
It may not be a "native" language, but it is an official language of the country and it's been part of Indian society for nigh on 200 years. You'd think business people, at least, would be fluent -- and I say "business people" because TFA is obviously an advertisement for this obscure Indian company's contest, rather than anything of interest to the/. audience at large. (Damn, am I flaming Indians, Techgoss, or Slashdot? I can't even tell anymore!)
It is going to TB, at least partly. TFA references "the troubled global AIDS fund," but it later goes on to explain that the actual name of the fund is The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria (another important disease).
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Yeah, I'm lucky enough to live in an area of the city with parking, but even if I don't use my car for anything, I have to move it TWICE A WEEK to avoid those tickets.
Yeah. Who wants clean streets if it means people like you can't keep cars you never use? You're probably one of those people who bitch about the "bridge and tunnel crowd" taking all the parking spots, but if they'd let you, you'd abandon your junker in the same spot for six months and only move it when you have to tow it to the mechanic to get the engine to turn over. Pay much rent on that stretch of curb?
That's really nasty.... so you can park to go to work, pay your parking $144 for 8 hours....
Actually, you probably can't. If it's a meter priced at that rate, it's probably time limited. Stay longer than an hour (or whatever) and you get a ticket.
For all-day parking you'd probably want a garage spot, which you might be able to find for $25. Some jobs also offer parking spaces as part of the benefits package. This is just one of the costs of doing business in a heavy congested city area. You wouldn't drive your own car around Manhattan, either.
San Francisco needs a war on cars, it has the most nightmarish traffic I've ever seen.
You've never been to Los Angeles or New York, then?
San Francisco is a cramped, Peninsula-bound city that was not designed for modern traffic patterns and could never be re-designed to accommodate them. For all that, though, it's pretty easy to drive around SF. Parking is another matter.
They hate cars in SF. They hate people there too, unless you are a tourist or a wacko.
Eh? You don't live there. Yet you're convinced they hate people there, except for tourists -- which, by definition, must have included you the last time you were there, so what's your beef with San Francisco exactly?
Back in the 1980's they failed to come to grips with what Business Users expected of a PC - thus Microsoft's fortunes were made.
Back in the 1980s, huh. You mean when people were still using Banyan Vines over 10Base-2 to network their DOS machines? Except for the Mac, that is, which had AppleTalk from the very beginning. Or do you mean when Microsoft released Excel for Mac OS, two years before it was available on Windows? Or when it released Word for Mac OS, four years before a native Windows version? If it took more forethought than that to succeed, I reckon Apple probably should have quit after the Apple ///. (You know... the business one?)
The registry is a the very worst feature of Windows, and I don't know anyone that didn't learn computing on Windows that would dream of praising it.
Well, I certainly wouldn't praise it, but I learned computing with stuff that was somewhat more arcane than the Registry (machine language, memory-mapped registers, etc), and I don't see how the Registry is all that much worse than the myriad forms of preferences on your typical Unix system. Mac OS X is more sane than most, but between how Mac OS X handles preferences and how Windows handles them it seems like six of one, half a dozen of the other to me.
Maybe I'm out of touch, but it's the 1st time I hear of RFID credit card. WTF thought that this would be a good idea ? Is it a US only thing ?
I'm from the U.S. and I've never heard of such a thing either. None of my banks has ever mentioned to me that they were sending me a credit card with an RFID chip. None of my cards have any obvious evidence of having such a chip in them.
f SeaLand is not a territory then must be a ship (sea vessel)
Oh?
sinking, destroying, and or boarding said ship would be considered an act of piracy.
Truly?
I'm sure certain nations would be glad to stick it to their neighbors up north and might even agree to allow a communication cable to SeaLand which would be protected by treaties.
In British waters? Really?
I am unfamiliar with maritime law
Ah.
There's lots of reasons to not believe it's true -- I'd imagine that the customs process for Commonwealth citizens isn't that onerous, especially for British citizens visiting Australia
An airport security agent asked me pretty much the same questions at JFK Airport in New York. I was on a flight from Mexico and I was only in JFK to transfer planes to San Francisco. The difference being, I was entering the United States with a valid United States passport. I couldn't believe he was asking me what I planned to do once I arrived home, either -- the temptation to say "oh I don't know, smoke some weed, I guess, maybe get on welfare" was overwhelming -- and yet I knew this guy could feasibly detain me for as long as he felt like, make me miss my flight, cost me hundreds of dollars when I had to book a new flight, and so on and so forth -- so I just had to stand there, answer his questions like I was at a job interview, and act like the whole thing wasn't completely outrageous.
What, btw, is an emporer?
In the hierarchy of the American oligarchs, the emporer is a most exalted merchant; traditionally, he is also allowed to bear the title of First Citizen of the Emporium.
I once worked for a company like the one that provided your cheap mp3 player. There were several reasons for not being more open: ...
4. Our boss hated the idea that our competitors could get a leg up by using software that he paid for being developed.
The question wasn't "why aren't hardware manufacturers more open," it was, "why don't hardware manufacturers take advantage of free software like Rockbox instead of insisting on writing their own, lousy firmware?". It seems your boss exemplifies this by failing to see the lumber for the forest.
But nobody actually cares about vorbis, so meh.
Why not? It sounds better than MP3 at the same bit rate (my own judgment), so unless you're just downloading copyrighted music without paying for it, why wouldn't you use Vorbis?
I like to keep an MP3 player loaded up with talky stuff like books on tape, NPR shows, etc. It doesn't really need to move anywhere, nor does it really need Internet connectivity (though I guess some ability to do streaming would be nice), but it needs a bunch of storage space -- 20GB would be about the minimum, which nixes any of my old phones. True, any kind of computer would probably fill the bill, but I don't want to hear any fan noises and I also like the simple, purpose-built UI of an MP3 player (especially one with actual buttons). Right now I'm using an iRiver IHP-20 for this purpose, but I assume it will die sooner or later, so I've been looking around to see what's out there (and it doesn't seem like there's much unless you have a direct line to Korea).
Why doesn't the average American see that the freedoms they hold so dearly and supposedly separates them from the "terrorists!" have been eroded and continue to be?
Here's what I don't get: Why don't more American servicemen and women, past and present, speak out about how cowardly and weak this kind of action makes America look?
Let's just assume for the moment that the "War on Terror" is totally legitimate. If we assume that's true, and these people were really kicked out of the country because of two Tweets, then... seriously? These two spooked us? This is what we're worried about? That's like a big, musclebound guy strutting around all day, sticking out his chest, then leaping onto a tabletop and shrieking as soon as some passing kid pulls a squirt gun.
It's deep in the American psyche to think of this country as the most ass-kickin' badass on the planet. The DHS is making us look like a bunch of scared pussies.
Can you even call yourself a city if you don't have a decent bookstore?
I would also hasten to add, what makes you think either Barnes & Noble or Borders qualifies as "a decent bookstore"? To me, they're big, crappy chains. Shopping at either one is like buying your computer stuff at Best Buy. Now, Stacey's downtown was a real bookstore -- unfortunately it got edged out by high rents and pressure from the chains and online retailers like Amazon.
We have decent bookstores but they're not downtown. We do have both a symphony and an opera, considered among the best in the country.
According to the New York Times report on this subject:
Information gathered during this interview revealed that both individuals were inadmissible to the United States and were returned to their country of residence.
That's the government talking. But they don't say that it was the Twitter posts themselves that rendered the two "inadmissible." They say it was "information gathered during this interview." Presumably the people interviewed repeated many times that it was all a joke, they didn't mean it, etc., so it seems unlikely that the "information gathered" was anything that was said. It seems totally possible, though, that there was something else that flagged them to be blocked at the border during the interview (for example, they had prior drug convictions).
Which would equate to a 10 minute bike ride, or a 20 minute walk. San Fran has great weather, you can get some 'zines and take care of that "spare tire" at the same time.
Not in this case. That's 15 minutes of freeway driving -- the closest one to me is down toward the Peninsula, in San Bruno. Kind of near the airport. It's not even in the same area code as me. And, like many San Franciscans, I don't own a car.
There used to be a Barnes & Noble at Fisherman's Wharf (the tourist district), but A.) it was one of the worst retail stores I've ever seen; and B.) it shut down, actually before all the Borders stores shut down. Unfortunately, in the interim, some of the best independent bookstores in the Bay Area also shut down. It's a real shame that one of the biggest reading markets in America is so poorly served by bookstores.
There actually is no bookstore in the downtown San Francisco shopping district now, if you can believe that. Picture going Christmas shopping and coming up with the idea to buy someone a book; no go. There's a Macy's, Bloomingdale's, a couple movie theaters, Gap, Old Navy, Levi's, Crate & Barrel, etc., etc... but no bookstore. Two Borders locations closed, Stacey's Books closed, Cody's didn't last long, Virgin Megastore closed, B.Dalton closed... there are a couple of specialty bookstores on out-of-the-way sidestreets, but that's it.
On the other hand, magazines? That's different. I know of a couple of well-stocked newsstands with lots of imports.
Very very poor English at first, with all kinds of grammar mistakes
I wonder if perhaps your native language is an Asian language?
"literary" = "of books"
"literally" = "actually, really"
That's what the GP's joke was referring to. Funnily enough, you didn't make a grammar mistake, you made a speech mistake -- you mixed up the R and L sounds.
Trying to recall the material AFTER the class means that you WILL forget things.
Yeah, but what are you most likely to forget? Acronyms and abbreviations? Formulas? Some numeric constants? In other words, you'll forget the stuff that's going to be in your text anyway. On the other hand, forcing yourself to work back through the whole lesson immediately afterward is probably a good technique for seeing the larger picture, which is what lectures are usually about anyway. Leave blanks in your notes where you've forgotten specifics, then go look them up.
Personally, I find taking notes during lectures to be incredibly distracting. I hear what the teacher is saying, but as long as I'm concentrating on scribbling madly on a piece of paper, I'm not really paying attention to the lecture. Even when I enter a classroom with the intent of taking notes, I seldom do. In practice, I might write down five things in the course of two hours, and I never find myself wishing I had written any more.
Well, considering that English is not a native language, I'd say we aren't doing too bad on the whole, though there's always room for improvement.
It may not be a "native" language, but it is an official language of the country and it's been part of Indian society for nigh on 200 years. You'd think business people, at least, would be fluent -- and I say "business people" because TFA is obviously an advertisement for this obscure Indian company's contest, rather than anything of interest to the /. audience at large. (Damn, am I flaming Indians, Techgoss, or Slashdot? I can't even tell anymore!)
Barnes & Noble is still alive and well here in the US. I think subby doesn't get out of the basement too often.
I live in the city of San Francisco and the closest Barnes & Noble is a 15 minute drive from my house.
But I fail to see the bugaboo that our government is protecting us from in this case. If Verizon and Sprint didn't exist, then I would.
If nothing else, the merger would make AT&T the only national GSM network -- GSM being the standard that 80 percent of the world now uses.
It is going to TB, at least partly. TFA references "the troubled global AIDS fund," but it later goes on to explain that the actual name of the fund is The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria (another important disease).
AT&T is having a hard time competing because they need more spectrum.
So AT&T claims. What about the reports to the contrary?