If you plan to do your reading outdoors or in really bright places, an e-ink screen will likely give you a superior experience.
If you plan to read in bed before sleeping, an e-ink reader may be less disruptive to your sleep patterns, but will require you to have a light, or get a Nook Touch with backlight.
If you plan to read mostly indoors, on the couch, at the table, or somewhere other than in bed at night, you might prefer the versatility of a color tablet like a Nook, a Kindle Fire, a Nexus 7, or an iPad.
If you like to hack stuff and want complete control over your content, I'd recommend a Nexus 7 or a Nook Color or Nook Tablet, but that's just my opinion.
IMO the problem starts with a generation of parents that were told to only give positive feedback and encourage every little effort by their child to improve "self esteem". These children grew into adults that don't know how to handle *any* criticism, even when constructive. This resulted in social norms against being critical, even in a constructive way, because too many people were getting butt-hurt over every little criticism.
And that's how we get a generation of jerks who think they are perfect.
I only drink their product occasionally, and then only mixed with a coke, as I prefer Irish whiskey for sipping. But JD has always struck me as a classy company, so they are definitely doing something right. Good on 'em.
I don't know a lot about how these types of standards work, so I could be wrong, but they can't *both* be HTML 5 if they aren't the same, right?
Shouldn't one be HTML 5 and the other would be a superset of that... maybe HTML 5.x ?
Unless WHATWG plans on removing features so their browsers can't properly render stuff that's compliant with WC3's standard. It sounds sort of like being in a developer's beta stream for an app. You can stay with the "stable" version, or get nightly builds with new features that may or may not eventually end up in the stable channel.
About once a month I get a robocall from some company that cleans carpets. The recording launches into a cheesy sales pitch without giving any information that would really be useful to someone wanting to report them to the FTC.
Then at the end of the message, it says if you're interested in their fabulous offer, you can call their number.
So I called the number, and it was an answering machine! You are told to leave your information for them to get back to to schedule a visit. Again, there is no real identifying info on that machine either that would help you track them down.
I left a message telling them to stop calling me and that I'd report them to the FTC if they didn't. Of course they ignored it and I still get the calls semi-regularly.
Now I have a phone that when it rings, it also announced in a synthesized voice the number or the number of the caller. If it's not someone I recognize, or it says "unknown caller" I just don't answer.
It's a shame it's come to that, but what can you do?
Something deadly like this could never naturally evolve in plants! This must be the work of unnatural, man-driven processes! Stop all science now! Anthropocentrism at its finest.
I'm only offended by how bad the song was. If you watch the video you can hear the crowd's indifference to the whole thing, except for one person sort of laughing at the "joke". The whole thing was pretty lame and ham-handed, which just made the use of vulgarity more notable, like when your dad tells a "dirty" joke to your friends and it's just a bad joke. It makes it way more uncomfortable.
"In the 60s and 70s Sweden, Russia and Finland were the foremost players in the game of ore dogs, using dogs to sniff out ore deposits for mining. The technique was forgotten in the last century"
If it was being used 40 years ago (in the 70's), then it wasn't forgotten in the last century. Or did the OP just mean "at some point within the last century"?
I never thought I'd agree with WildTangent on something. They have been the bane of freelance PC support techs for a long time and I wish they would just shrivel up and die. But I guess self-interest and politics can make strange bedfellows.
The summary doesn't make it clear, but the original article doesn't say anything about the cable companies being able to increase their profitibility while at the same time blocking consumers from cutting the cord and getting their TV services online, and I doubt Genachowski said anything like that either. I'm assuming it's the opinion of the poster.
It may be true, but it would depend on how well the FCC enforces network neutrality. Don't DSL providers of TV services (like Surewest) transmit their TV shows over TCP/IP just like Netflix or Hulu? So if they are going to charge you for bits, they should have to charge you for their bits as well, right?
And Comcast has digital streaming content that comes over your internet connection. Would they be allowed to offer their programming for free while charging you by the bit for video from other sources?
Who this might really screw is satellite TV customers like me. We have DirecTV for TV and movies, and Comcast for the internet. But if I want to watch a video on demand from DTV, it downloads over the internet. Would this be a disincentive for people to switch from Comcast even if they aren't "cutting the cord" per se?
OK wait, they are *raising* their cap from 250GB to 300GB, and then allowing you to pay a little more when you go over, as opposed to threatening to cut you off, and people are complaining? It may not be nirvana, but it sounds like an improvement to me.
We stream Netflix and download torrents all the time and so far haven't popped the 250GB cap, so I guess we're a "typical" household. I guess this won't affect me until Netflix upgrades to 1080p streaming. Oh but wait, my Rokus are both connected to 720p TVs, so I wouldn't use that anyway.
Look, I'm no Comcast supporter. I wish we had another option for high-speed internet here, but DSL just doesn't cut it with my need for speed. And if they didn't screw you with their internet-only pricing, I wouldn't have their TV service at all. But it seems like they are at least trying to improve the offering.
When I saw the headline about tiered pricing I was afraid they were going to be cutting the default cap or something. Instead this sounds like good news.
Hahaha! There will never be a social network that "cares about its users" more than it cares about money. Unless it's founded by the FOSS movement. How many people are using Diaspora again?
This is a terrible analogy. First of all, software doesn't come with a warranty. In fact don't most (or all) EULA's specifically say there is NO warranty, explicit or implied, that makes them liable for damages of any sort?
Also, if the "certain circumstances" for your brakes catching fire are "you don't know how to drive properly", that changes things, right?
It says New Jersey "dominates" the list. One entry can't dominate a list, so obviously they are saying that the list is dominated by cities IN New Jersey. If you RTFA you'll see that 3 of the top 5 cities in the US are all in NJ. It's always such a surprise when people are snarky and dumb on the interwebs.
I suspect this is the same problem that some people face when watching 240Hz TVs with Auto Motion (or similar) turned on. When we upgraded our old CRT TV to a flat screen my wife kept complaining that movies looked terrible, like an old soap opera. I didn't know what she was talking about and it looked fine to me. But she simply wouldn't watch it. I almost ended up taking it back until I googled it and found lots of articles like these:
Apparently some people associate the look of a higher frame rate with low-quality video. I never watched that kind of TV so I didn't have that association and hadn't been trained to see the difference I guess. I turned off Motion Plus and now we both love the TV.
Some testing system, like for the CPA license (in California at least) already do this. the computer system adjusts the difficulty of certain questions based on how you're doing so far. How exactly it does this is proprietary information and it doesn't dumb things down too much, but it can also make the test harder if you are doing really well. Then something magic happens inside the computer and it tells you whether you passed.
This seems like a silly application for such research though. Who is going to want to have to have electrodes hooked up to their head just to take a test? It's already stressful enough without having more stuff to distract you.
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Why? Some people don't mind paying for well reported news. Should they be shut out?
Just warn with the link so the cheap folks can ignore it.
So it's *not* better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick?
Oh yeah gosh I *never* hear anyone talking about problems with the patent system. More talk isn't what's needed.
If you plan to do your reading outdoors or in really bright places, an e-ink screen will likely give you a superior experience.
If you plan to read in bed before sleeping, an e-ink reader may be less disruptive to your sleep patterns, but will require you to have a light, or get a Nook Touch with backlight.
If you plan to read mostly indoors, on the couch, at the table, or somewhere other than in bed at night, you might prefer the versatility of a color tablet like a Nook, a Kindle Fire, a Nexus 7, or an iPad.
If you like to hack stuff and want complete control over your content, I'd recommend a Nexus 7 or a Nook Color or Nook Tablet, but that's just my opinion.
IMO the problem starts with a generation of parents that were told to only give positive feedback and encourage every little effort by their child to improve "self esteem". These children grew into adults that don't know how to handle *any* criticism, even when constructive. This resulted in social norms against being critical, even in a constructive way, because too many people were getting butt-hurt over every little criticism.
And that's how we get a generation of jerks who think they are perfect.
I only drink their product occasionally, and then only mixed with a coke, as I prefer Irish whiskey for sipping. But JD has always struck me as a classy company, so they are definitely doing something right. Good on 'em.
I don't know a lot about how these types of standards work, so I could be wrong, but they can't *both* be HTML 5 if they aren't the same, right?
Shouldn't one be HTML 5 and the other would be a superset of that... maybe HTML 5.x ?
Unless WHATWG plans on removing features so their browsers can't properly render stuff that's compliant with WC3's standard. It sounds sort of like being in a developer's beta stream for an app. You can stay with the "stable" version, or get nightly builds with new features that may or may not eventually end up in the stable channel.
About once a month I get a robocall from some company that cleans carpets. The recording launches into a cheesy sales pitch without giving any information that would really be useful to someone wanting to report them to the FTC.
Then at the end of the message, it says if you're interested in their fabulous offer, you can call their number.
So I called the number, and it was an answering machine! You are told to leave your information for them to get back to to schedule a visit. Again, there is no real identifying info on that machine either that would help you track them down.
I left a message telling them to stop calling me and that I'd report them to the FTC if they didn't. Of course they ignored it and I still get the calls semi-regularly.
Now I have a phone that when it rings, it also announced in a synthesized voice the number or the number of the caller. If it's not someone I recognize, or it says "unknown caller" I just don't answer.
It's a shame it's come to that, but what can you do?
Something deadly like this could never naturally evolve in plants! This must be the work of unnatural, man-driven processes! Stop all science now! Anthropocentrism at its finest.
I'm only offended by how bad the song was. If you watch the video you can hear the crowd's indifference to the whole thing, except for one person sort of laughing at the "joke". The whole thing was pretty lame and ham-handed, which just made the use of vulgarity more notable, like when your dad tells a "dirty" joke to your friends and it's just a bad joke. It makes it way more uncomfortable.
"In the 60s and 70s Sweden, Russia and Finland were the foremost players in the game of ore dogs, using dogs to sniff out ore deposits for mining. The technique was forgotten in the last century"
If it was being used 40 years ago (in the 70's), then it wasn't forgotten in the last century. Or did the OP just mean "at some point within the last century"?
I never thought I'd agree with WildTangent on something. They have been the bane of freelance PC support techs for a long time and I wish they would just shrivel up and die. But I guess self-interest and politics can make strange bedfellows.
The summary doesn't make it clear, but the original article doesn't say anything about the cable companies being able to increase their profitibility while at the same time blocking consumers from cutting the cord and getting their TV services online, and I doubt Genachowski said anything like that either. I'm assuming it's the opinion of the poster.
It may be true, but it would depend on how well the FCC enforces network neutrality. Don't DSL providers of TV services (like Surewest) transmit their TV shows over TCP/IP just like Netflix or Hulu? So if they are going to charge you for bits, they should have to charge you for their bits as well, right?
And Comcast has digital streaming content that comes over your internet connection. Would they be allowed to offer their programming for free while charging you by the bit for video from other sources?
Who this might really screw is satellite TV customers like me. We have DirecTV for TV and movies, and Comcast for the internet. But if I want to watch a video on demand from DTV, it downloads over the internet. Would this be a disincentive for people to switch from Comcast even if they aren't "cutting the cord" per se?
Exactly my thought on reading this summary! I'm pretty sure everyone has the exact same risk of death. It's 100%.
When you're a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
OK wait, they are *raising* their cap from 250GB to 300GB, and then allowing you to pay a little more when you go over, as opposed to threatening to cut you off, and people are complaining? It may not be nirvana, but it sounds like an improvement to me.
We stream Netflix and download torrents all the time and so far haven't popped the 250GB cap, so I guess we're a "typical" household. I guess this won't affect me until Netflix upgrades to 1080p streaming. Oh but wait, my Rokus are both connected to 720p TVs, so I wouldn't use that anyway.
Look, I'm no Comcast supporter. I wish we had another option for high-speed internet here, but DSL just doesn't cut it with my need for speed. And if they didn't screw you with their internet-only pricing, I wouldn't have their TV service at all. But it seems like they are at least trying to improve the offering.
When I saw the headline about tiered pricing I was afraid they were going to be cutting the default cap or something. Instead this sounds like good news.
Hahaha! There will never be a social network that "cares about its users" more than it cares about money. Unless it's founded by the FOSS movement. How many people are using Diaspora again?
This is a terrible analogy. First of all, software doesn't come with a warranty. In fact don't most (or all) EULA's specifically say there is NO warranty, explicit or implied, that makes them liable for damages of any sort?
Also, if the "certain circumstances" for your brakes catching fire are "you don't know how to drive properly", that changes things, right?
I bet that computer is going to be busier than a one-legged humanoid robot in an ass-kicking contest.
It's always such a surprise when people are snarky and dumb on the interwebs.
You must be new to the internet...
You must be new to sarcasm. Or maybe I am. I can't tell anymore.
Come on, that's not fair. The first poster, TechCar, has a long history of 8 posts dating all the way back to two days ago! :)
It says New Jersey "dominates" the list. One entry can't dominate a list, so obviously they are saying that the list is dominated by cities IN New Jersey. If you RTFA you'll see that 3 of the top 5 cities in the US are all in NJ. It's always such a surprise when people are snarky and dumb on the interwebs.
I suspect this is the same problem that some people face when watching 240Hz TVs with Auto Motion (or similar) turned on. When we upgraded our old CRT TV to a flat screen my wife kept complaining that movies looked terrible, like an old soap opera. I didn't know what she was talking about and it looked fine to me. But she simply wouldn't watch it. I almost ended up taking it back until I googled it and found lots of articles like these:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-33620_3-57410231-278/the-soap-opera-effect-when-your-tv-tries-to-be-smarter-than-you/
http://www.televisioninfo.com/News/Cleaning-up-the-Soap-Opera-Effect-Motion-Interpolation-and-why-480Hz-looks-terrible-on-your-new-TV.htm
Apparently some people associate the look of a higher frame rate with low-quality video. I never watched that kind of TV so I didn't have that association and hadn't been trained to see the difference I guess. I turned off Motion Plus and now we both love the TV.
Some testing system, like for the CPA license (in California at least) already do this. the computer system adjusts the difficulty of certain questions based on how you're doing so far. How exactly it does this is proprietary information and it doesn't dumb things down too much, but it can also make the test harder if you are doing really well. Then something magic happens inside the computer and it tells you whether you passed.
This seems like a silly application for such research though. Who is going to want to have to have electrodes hooked up to their head just to take a test? It's already stressful enough without having more stuff to distract you.
Is it the Judean People's Liberation Front, or the People's Liberation Front of Judea?