"We've thought about buying an iPad for guests to use, but decided it wasn't right to knowingly let others use a computing platform that may have been compromised."
Seriously? What have you been reading that gives you bizarre notions like that? The iPad has a number of general shortcomings, most of which are related to its single-user OS and its closed architecture. And I'd hesitate to lend a guest my iPad, but only because – once unlocked for use – it's wide open for the user to poke around (e.g. read my mail, browser history, etc). But in terms of the OS being compromised, an iOS device that hasn't been deliberately jailbroken (by you) is about as safe an internet-access device as you're likely to find, short of custom building a Linux- or BSD-based system yourself.
And like so many people in this thread, you're failing to specify or distinguish between Surface RT and Surface Pro. They look a lot alike, but their capabilities –and thus usefulness – are very different.
Mercury's gravity is rather weak (1/20 Earth's mass), and it has no atmosphere to speak of. A rock getting enough kinetic energy to escape Mercury's gravity isn't that hard to imagine.
The tricky part of this scenario is getting the rock enough kinetic energy to boost it from Mercury's orbit out to Earth. I'd guess a slingshot around the sun was probably needed.
Wait, so part of the reason so many Windows tablets have been this stupid 16:9 widescreen format is because Microsoft has been requiring them to be? And now they're finally allowing manufacturers to use the screen format that has proven to be a huge hit for Apple?
16:9 is good for watching movies, and damn little else. (Viewing two apps side by side on a little tablet? I don't think so.) 9:16 is worthless. Leave it to Microsoft to not only encourage this bad design choice, but to enforce it.
As Hurd was fired as Hewlett Packard's CEO in 2010 for alleged sexual misconduct involving an outside consultant named Jodie Fisher, he might have difficulty landing another CEO job at a publicly traded company
Between this and the media's sympathy for the Steubenville rapists, it's so "heart-warming" to see so much concern for the career prospects of sexual predators.
Basically the same kind of deal that Reagan later offered to the Iranian religious leaders who'd taken the US embassy staff hostage, to make sure Carter didn't get reelected in 1980.
"Only when we know that is has spin-zero will we be able to call it a Higgs."
If they're waiting for it to make a guest appearance on The O'Reilly Factor, they could be disappointed.
It's bad enough when people with degrees in Law or Political Science or Business Administration try to legislate on scientific questions. What's even scarier is the fact that this guy received an A.S. in Forestry from the University of Maine, and a B.S. in Forestry Management from the University of Idaho. Which I'm sure is a lot less biochemically rigorous a field of study than, say, Botany, but someone with that kind of credentials ought to have a better understanding of environmental science than he shows.
People love their security theater.
In response to employees watching too much scary stuff on 24-hour cable news about shootings, my employer recently instituted some unnecessary and ineffective "security" measures. They seem to be based on the mushy logic that greater security results in inconvenience, so any new inconvenience probably increases security, and the staff seem to find it comforting to have to jump through extra hoops to get from one part of the office to another.
Incorrect. The original specifications of the World Wide Web did not require that every page be linked from others, only that they could be linked from others. That's why every Web browser has had a field for manual input of URLs. Directories like YAHOO and search engines like Altavista, which linked the Web more pervasively, were important to the development of the Web, but every Internet-accessible HTTP server was still part of the Web even without them.
You're probably thinking of the definition of the Internet, which does require every network that is a part of it to be connected to all of the others in some way. If your network is linked to other networks, but none of those networks are connected to the whole of the Internet (e.g. within a totalitarian state that's been unplugged by a dictator), then you might be on an internet, but you aren't on the Internet.
What this doesn't answer is whether these differences are primarily genetic or environmental. My family and I have rather different political philosophies (to the point that Thanksgiving dinners are getting increasingly aggravating for me), and I wonder whether I'm a mutant, or is it because I've had such different life experiences from them? I am pretty risk-averse for a "liberal" (under this model), so maybe I've just been through enough examples of conservatism being proved wrong (or at least wrong-hearted) to make me an outlier.
Considering that a pound of honey is enough to sweeten more cups of tea and bowls of oatmeal than I am inclined to try to count, I don't think it's worth bothering to save money on it by buying the cheapest available. This kind of penny pinching at any cost is how we end up with an economy of WalMarts and minimum wage jobs. Instead I buy honey from time to time as I run out from one of the stalls at the local farmer's market.
I didn't say that such towns don't exist, only that they don't include every city and village in Michigan. Not even a majority of them.
People from the Detroit area (as it sounds like you were) don't seem to realize that the state extends beyond I-69, and that those parts of the state are not the same as the part they know. In Grand Rapids, for example, only one of the top ten employers has any connection to the auto industry (and that's not what the local facility does); they're in health care, retail, furniture, insurance, and education. The Lake Michigan shoreline subsists primarily on tourism. The UP has closer economic ties to Wisconsin than to Detroit. I've been to nearly every county in the state, and seen far more farms than auto-parts factories. In short: your picture of Michigan is limited and largely incorrect.
It doesn't invalidate your overall point, but your example of Michigan is mistaken. (I'm a western Michigan city dweller, by the way.) While the auto industry is a major employer in the state, and the ripples of its failure would kill a lot of businesses dependent on automotive employees (e.g. restaurants, retailers), especially in the southern cities... the rural parts of the state are far more dependent on agriculture (sold interstate and internationally), and out-of-state tourists than they are on money filtering into the state through Detroit. If GM, Chrysler, and Ford were to shut down, rural Michigan would be able to carry on and get by on their own while the cities reinvented themselves. They just wouldn't be able to provide any assistance toward that.
They never "ported" Office to the Mac; it was already there. Excel was born on the Mac, and Word for Mac was one of the early apps to legitimize it as a platform (when Windows was still a questionable alternative). What happened years later was MS promising to continue Office:Mac (and IE for Mac), a deal that gave the then-faltering Mac a safer future, and gave MS cover from abuse-of- monopoly accusations.
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"We've thought about buying an iPad for guests to use, but decided it wasn't right to knowingly let others use a computing platform that may have been compromised."
Seriously? What have you been reading that gives you bizarre notions like that? The iPad has a number of general shortcomings, most of which are related to its single-user OS and its closed architecture. And I'd hesitate to lend a guest my iPad, but only because – once unlocked for use – it's wide open for the user to poke around (e.g. read my mail, browser history, etc). But in terms of the OS being compromised, an iOS device that hasn't been deliberately jailbroken (by you) is about as safe an internet-access device as you're likely to find, short of custom building a Linux- or BSD-based system yourself.
And like so many people in this thread, you're failing to specify or distinguish between Surface RT and Surface Pro. They look a lot alike, but their capabilities –and thus usefulness – are very different.
Can you run NetBSD on one?
"Is it even worth discussing it further with her?"
No.
Mercury's gravity is rather weak (1/20 Earth's mass), and it has no atmosphere to speak of. A rock getting enough kinetic energy to escape Mercury's gravity isn't that hard to imagine.
The tricky part of this scenario is getting the rock enough kinetic energy to boost it from Mercury's orbit out to Earth. I'd guess a slingshot around the sun was probably needed.
Wait, so part of the reason so many Windows tablets have been this stupid 16:9 widescreen format is because Microsoft has been requiring them to be? And now they're finally allowing manufacturers to use the screen format that has proven to be a huge hit for Apple? 16:9 is good for watching movies, and damn little else. (Viewing two apps side by side on a little tablet? I don't think so.) 9:16 is worthless. Leave it to Microsoft to not only encourage this bad design choice, but to enforce it.
Between this and the media's sympathy for the Steubenville rapists, it's so "heart-warming" to see so much concern for the career prospects of sexual predators.
Basically the same kind of deal that Reagan later offered to the Iranian religious leaders who'd taken the US embassy staff hostage, to make sure Carter didn't get reelected in 1980.
Are they perhaps "charm" or "top"?
"Only when we know that is has spin-zero will we be able to call it a Higgs." If they're waiting for it to make a guest appearance on The O'Reilly Factor, they could be disappointed.
It's bad enough when people with degrees in Law or Political Science or Business Administration try to legislate on scientific questions. What's even scarier is the fact that this guy received an A.S. in Forestry from the University of Maine, and a B.S. in Forestry Management from the University of Idaho. Which I'm sure is a lot less biochemically rigorous a field of study than, say, Botany, but someone with that kind of credentials ought to have a better understanding of environmental science than he shows.
You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
It's Apple's iRNEH, spelled backwards.
I'm going to sign up for a berth in Steerage Class; that looked a lot more entertaining than the upper decks (at least until things got wet).
People love their security theater. In response to employees watching too much scary stuff on 24-hour cable news about shootings, my employer recently instituted some unnecessary and ineffective "security" measures. They seem to be based on the mushy logic that greater security results in inconvenience, so any new inconvenience probably increases security, and the staff seem to find it comforting to have to jump through extra hoops to get from one part of the office to another.
Incorrect. The original specifications of the World Wide Web did not require that every page be linked from others, only that they could be linked from others. That's why every Web browser has had a field for manual input of URLs. Directories like YAHOO and search engines like Altavista, which linked the Web more pervasively, were important to the development of the Web, but every Internet-accessible HTTP server was still part of the Web even without them.
You're probably thinking of the definition of the Internet, which does require every network that is a part of it to be connected to all of the others in some way. If your network is linked to other networks, but none of those networks are connected to the whole of the Internet (e.g. within a totalitarian state that's been unplugged by a dictator), then you might be on an internet, but you aren't on the Internet.
What this doesn't answer is whether these differences are primarily genetic or environmental. My family and I have rather different political philosophies (to the point that Thanksgiving dinners are getting increasingly aggravating for me), and I wonder whether I'm a mutant, or is it because I've had such different life experiences from them? I am pretty risk-averse for a "liberal" (under this model), so maybe I've just been through enough examples of conservatism being proved wrong (or at least wrong-hearted) to make me an outlier.
Because the owner knows someone who makes honey, and wants to support other local businesses?
Considering that a pound of honey is enough to sweeten more cups of tea and bowls of oatmeal than I am inclined to try to count, I don't think it's worth bothering to save money on it by buying the cheapest available. This kind of penny pinching at any cost is how we end up with an economy of WalMarts and minimum wage jobs. Instead I buy honey from time to time as I run out from one of the stalls at the local farmer's market.
How about names from another underworld myth: Lucifer and Beelzebub?
I didn't say that such towns don't exist, only that they don't include every city and village in Michigan. Not even a majority of them. People from the Detroit area (as it sounds like you were) don't seem to realize that the state extends beyond I-69, and that those parts of the state are not the same as the part they know. In Grand Rapids, for example, only one of the top ten employers has any connection to the auto industry (and that's not what the local facility does); they're in health care, retail, furniture, insurance, and education. The Lake Michigan shoreline subsists primarily on tourism. The UP has closer economic ties to Wisconsin than to Detroit. I've been to nearly every county in the state, and seen far more farms than auto-parts factories. In short: your picture of Michigan is limited and largely incorrect.
It doesn't invalidate your overall point, but your example of Michigan is mistaken. (I'm a western Michigan city dweller, by the way.) While the auto industry is a major employer in the state, and the ripples of its failure would kill a lot of businesses dependent on automotive employees (e.g. restaurants, retailers), especially in the southern cities... the rural parts of the state are far more dependent on agriculture (sold interstate and internationally), and out-of-state tourists than they are on money filtering into the state through Detroit. If GM, Chrysler, and Ford were to shut down, rural Michigan would be able to carry on and get by on their own while the cities reinvented themselves. They just wouldn't be able to provide any assistance toward that.
Be careful what you wish for. Just for example, without advertising, I don't think /. would continue to exist.
They never "ported" Office to the Mac; it was already there. Excel was born on the Mac, and Word for Mac was one of the early apps to legitimize it as a platform (when Windows was still a questionable alternative). What happened years later was MS promising to continue Office:Mac (and IE for Mac), a deal that gave the then-faltering Mac a safer future, and gave MS cover from abuse-of- monopoly accusations.
He meant Notepad++.