But the real thing is: Your kid(s) will be into whatever you're into.
God, I wish this was the case. My two-year-old, who has his own laptop, is completely uninterested in it. He actually TURNS OFF the TV because he wants to go outside and play.
The only time he's interested in the computer is if he can sit in my lap and go to the pbskids or the noggin websites.
Not that I disapprove of his behavior, we try to keep the TV watching down, but sometimes I wish for the hypnotizing idiot box that other parents can park their kids in front of when they need to get something done.
It should have been paid off, but they're still charging for it. Whether they are using the money to directly fund the road or for other projects, it still is money that is coming out of drivers' pockets for use of the road, and when the road was originally built as a toll road, it was supposed to eventually be paid off.
They'll do the same thing with the toll road that runs parallel to Memorial Road in Oklahoma City, I'd put money on it.
Oklahoma is also notorious for never finishing construction - I think the construction on I-35 running through south Oklahoma City went on for 20 years. A project of a larger magnitude here in Denver is only taking about 5 years.
Are you sure you were on I-44 and not on Rte 66? If I recall correctly (and I haven't driven I-44 from OKC to Tulsa in probably 4 years, so I could be wrong) the speed limits are fairly consistent. Rte 66, which goes from Oklahoma City east to Tulsa pretty much parallel to I-44, drops speed to 25-35 MPH every time you go through a town. And some of those speed drops can be fairly sudden.
That stretch of I-44 is yet another example of Oklahoma building a toll road next to a perfectly good stretch of road, then wondering why it's underused. No wonder the toll roads there never get paid off...
Not that it should add much labor time to your estimate, but you have left out testing the Mini after the new memory is installed to make sure it actually works.
You're thinking in terms of how $3 million would affect you, with your everyday income, vs. how $3 million would affect Yahoo, with their net sales per quarter at just below $1 billion, and net income of over $100 million. (You may have to enter the specific stock, YHOO, and select Financials - motleyfool is funny about letting people just hop into their website. Login foo@mailinator.com, if they ask for it - thanx bugmenot)
This is like suing you for a can of Coca-Cola for you refusing to take down information that can be used to harass someone. It sounds like a lot to us, but given that requests didn't do anything, I doubt that a smaller dollar amount would have elicited a response. This is a big enough dollar amount to be 'newsworthy', and brings public pressure on Yahoo to do the right thing here.
Maybe it's more a case of us broadband people helping out all the little dial-up folk...
I'm a little too paranoid for this one...
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At least they were decent enough to point out that you need to READ their Privacy Policy:
Google Web Accelerator sends requests for web pages, except for secure web pages (HTTPS), to Google, which logs these requests. Some web pages may embed personal information in these page requests.
Google receives and temporarily caches cookie data that your computer sends with webpage requests in order to improve performance.
In order to speed up delivery of content, Google Web Accelerator may retrieve webpage content that you did not request, and store it in your Google Web Accelerator cache.
Does anyone know if the accelerator gives you the option to omit certain webpages from your accelerating experience, or is this going to turn into a huge information mine? (Not that the two are exclusive, there are going to be users who just blindly send anything through the accelerator regardless).
The company I used to work for had a profanity filter. It also used to bounce emails to a guy named Dick, or referring to him. It did not, however, seem to stop most porn spam, nor did it stop my former supervisor from sending harassing porn spam emails to my husband after I quit. Funny how that worked.
I'm not the grandparent poster, btw...but tix here in the Denver metro area run $8.50-9.00 for non-matinee showtimes. Plus the surcharge (usually $1 per ticket) if you buy your tix online in advance.
AND we have lots of commercials prior to the movie start. Several theatres here have started showing a 20-minute block of ads before the commercials that start before the ads start, too (TNT is one of the biggest advertisers in the 20-minute block, showing an extended version of their "What is stuff you should never show your kids?" ad series that they run on their station). The 20-minute block ends with an encouragement to get to the movie theatre earlier so that you don't miss any ads.
This may sound like hyperbole, but it's not - it's been at least 30-35 minutes of ads available (if you include the 20-minute block) prior to the movie. If it's a movie that isn't going to have much of a crowd, we just plan on dawdling over dinner.
HIV dies within a few minutes of exposure to air. It can live in, for instance, a syringe, for weeks, though.
Hepatitis, on the other hand, can survive in dried blood on a surface for up to a week.
I volunteered at an HIV testing clinic for a few years, and I can tell you, I am much more afraid of hepatitis transmission through casual contact than I am of HIV.
(and, contrary to another response, it's not just interest in sex that keeps it going, it's exchange of bodily fluids in a way that introduces bodily fluids into the bloodstream, i.e. a cut or tear, even microscopic - the risk of male-female transmission is only about 1 in 1000 for a single unprotected intercourse event, there was a JAMA article about it ten or fifteen years ago)
I have a worse problem with ergonomic keyboards. I type the letter Y with either hand, depending on what my hand was doing just previously. Perhaps this comes from being left-handed. Obviously I can't do this with an ergonomic keyboard.
There's an added benefit to the way IBM is doing this - the mouse is cross-platform, and should (according to what they say) work regardless of operating system.
I'm going to drift somewhat offtopic here...
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Posts like this remind me how lucky I am to have my husband...
The last two months I was pregnant, I developed preeclampsia. My husband did all the housekeeping while I was on bed rest (working from bed, albeit).
After our son was born, my employer was screaming that I needed to get back to work. Our son came to work with me until he was four months old. Many evenings when I had to work late, my husband came to my office to pick up our son and take him home. After our son went into daycare, my husband got him ready in the morning and took him to daycare, so I could go into work early and get a ten-hour day in before it was time to pick our son up. If our son was sick, we alternated who took the day off (deadlines excepted).
I decided to quit my job and stay at home ("Family Friendly" not so friendly, intolerable employment conditions, crazy management, crazy hours, and what I see as an FDA crackdown waiting to happen - not to mention that I LIKE being able to be around to teach our son stuff instead of just watching what he learns from his daycare provider). I still do contract work on the side, around 20 hours a week, plus I'm kind of lazy about housework, leaving my husband plenty to do. My husband still pitches in around the house at least an hour or two a day, more on weekends. And he comes home every night and spends a couple of hours playing with our son so I can cook dinner (not a chore, a hobby and a nice transition from day to evening for me) or, if I have a deadline coming up, so I can work - and he will mind our son AND put dinner on the table if I don't have time. Plus he does his own contract work on the side - this gets done after our son goes to bed, or on weekends during naptimes or when my in-laws take our son for the weekend.
I think my husband probably puts in more time doing stuff around the house than many of his coworkers that have told him for years that "You won't have time to stay as up-to-date on tech stuff when (you have a kid/you have multiple kids/you have a house to maintain)." However, these are the same people who have told him "It gets really hard when your child is (insert age) - just you wait!" It's hard for him to keep from responding, "I'm sorry you don't like your kids, but I like mine." I think the time my husband puts in with our son has paid off - he is developing into a pretty well-mannered, well-spoken, respectful kid, for a 2.5 year old, anyway.
Plus, my husband still outshines most of his coworkers at their jobs.
I've told my female friends that geeks make the best husbands, but I'm going to have to qualify that after reading some of the misogyny posted here (I'm not referring to the parent poster). Guys, adjust your attitudes - if most of you were willing to do half of what my husband does, you'd have women falling all themselves to marry you.
You probably won't get their data to set up a website, since they keep it a trade secret unless you buy the package. This is why the AASI is not widely accepted as evidence in court - the scientific community has not been given the opportunity to examine the test, so there's not a lot of data to validate or invalidate it. Abelscreen uses the fact that they've had over 1000 purchasers of their system as evidence that it works rather than hard data.
Since you seem to be questioning your spelling, I'll let you know a little secret - virii isn't a word. I believe the word you're looking for is viruses.
Funny, that's one of my earlier computer memories too. That and programming BASIC on a Timex Sinclair, which my mother subsequently let my sister play with in the bathtub. My mother had, and still has, some real resentment issues with computers. I need to remember that she did this next time she wants me to repair her computer...
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But the real thing is: Your kid(s) will be into whatever you're into.
God, I wish this was the case. My two-year-old, who has his own laptop, is completely uninterested in it. He actually TURNS OFF the TV because he wants to go outside and play.
The only time he's interested in the computer is if he can sit in my lap and go to the pbskids or the noggin websites.
Not that I disapprove of his behavior, we try to keep the TV watching down, but sometimes I wish for the hypnotizing idiot box that other parents can park their kids in front of when they need to get something done.
It should have been paid off, but they're still charging for it. Whether they are using the money to directly fund the road or for other projects, it still is money that is coming out of drivers' pockets for use of the road, and when the road was originally built as a toll road, it was supposed to eventually be paid off.
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They'll do the same thing with the toll road that runs parallel to Memorial Road in Oklahoma City, I'd put money on it.
Oklahoma is also notorious for never finishing construction - I think the construction on I-35 running through south Oklahoma City went on for 20 years. A project of a larger magnitude here in Denver is only taking about 5 years.
Boy, I'm glad I don't live in Oklahoma anymore
Are you sure you were on I-44 and not on Rte 66? If I recall correctly (and I haven't driven I-44 from OKC to Tulsa in probably 4 years, so I could be wrong) the speed limits are fairly consistent. Rte 66, which goes from Oklahoma City east to Tulsa pretty much parallel to I-44, drops speed to 25-35 MPH every time you go through a town. And some of those speed drops can be fairly sudden.
That stretch of I-44 is yet another example of Oklahoma building a toll road next to a perfectly good stretch of road, then wondering why it's underused. No wonder the toll roads there never get paid off...
Not that it should add much labor time to your estimate, but you have left out testing the Mini after the new memory is installed to make sure it actually works.
You're thinking in terms of how $3 million would affect you, with your everyday income, vs. how $3 million would affect Yahoo, with their net sales per quarter at just below $1 billion, and net income of over $100 million. (You may have to enter the specific stock, YHOO, and select Financials - motleyfool is funny about letting people just hop into their website. Login foo@mailinator.com, if they ask for it - thanx bugmenot)
This is like suing you for a can of Coca-Cola for you refusing to take down information that can be used to harass someone. It sounds like a lot to us, but given that requests didn't do anything, I doubt that a smaller dollar amount would have elicited a response. This is a big enough dollar amount to be 'newsworthy', and brings public pressure on Yahoo to do the right thing here.
Proof? Like nude pictures to make a comparison?
Maybe it's more a case of us broadband people helping out all the little dial-up folk...
To learn more, read our Google Web Accelerator Privacy Policy (http://webaccelerator.google.com/privacy).
Does anyone know if the accelerator gives you the option to omit certain webpages from your accelerating experience, or is this going to turn into a huge information mine? (Not that the two are exclusive, there are going to be users who just blindly send anything through the accelerator regardless).
The company I used to work for had a profanity filter. It also used to bounce emails to a guy named Dick, or referring to him. It did not, however, seem to stop most porn spam, nor did it stop my former supervisor from sending harassing porn spam emails to my husband after I quit. Funny how that worked.
I'm not the grandparent poster, btw...but tix here in the Denver metro area run $8.50-9.00 for non-matinee showtimes. Plus the surcharge (usually $1 per ticket) if you buy your tix online in advance.
AND we have lots of commercials prior to the movie start. Several theatres here have started showing a 20-minute block of ads before the commercials that start before the ads start, too (TNT is one of the biggest advertisers in the 20-minute block, showing an extended version of their "What is stuff you should never show your kids?" ad series that they run on their station). The 20-minute block ends with an encouragement to get to the movie theatre earlier so that you don't miss any ads.
This may sound like hyperbole, but it's not - it's been at least 30-35 minutes of ads available (if you include the 20-minute block) prior to the movie. If it's a movie that isn't going to have much of a crowd, we just plan on dawdling over dinner.
HIV dies within a few minutes of exposure to air. It can live in, for instance, a syringe, for weeks, though.
Hepatitis, on the other hand, can survive in dried blood on a surface for up to a week.
I volunteered at an HIV testing clinic for a few years, and I can tell you, I am much more afraid of hepatitis transmission through casual contact than I am of HIV.
(and, contrary to another response, it's not just interest in sex that keeps it going, it's exchange of bodily fluids in a way that introduces bodily fluids into the bloodstream, i.e. a cut or tear, even microscopic - the risk of male-female transmission is only about 1 in 1000 for a single unprotected intercourse event, there was a JAMA article about it ten or fifteen years ago)
I have a worse problem with ergonomic keyboards. I type the letter Y with either hand, depending on what my hand was doing just previously. Perhaps this comes from being left-handed. Obviously I can't do this with an ergonomic keyboard.
the little bit of text overlap that occasionally shows up on the left hand menu.
yep, that's it.
Anyone have any idea why this isn't listed in the Firefox extensions on the Mozilla website? This is incredibly handy...
LC is referring to Proxomitron.
There's an added benefit to the way IBM is doing this - the mouse is cross-platform, and should (according to what they say) work regardless of operating system.
Posts like this remind me how lucky I am to have my husband...
The last two months I was pregnant, I developed preeclampsia. My husband did all the housekeeping while I was on bed rest (working from bed, albeit).
After our son was born, my employer was screaming that I needed to get back to work. Our son came to work with me until he was four months old. Many evenings when I had to work late, my husband came to my office to pick up our son and take him home. After our son went into daycare, my husband got him ready in the morning and took him to daycare, so I could go into work early and get a ten-hour day in before it was time to pick our son up. If our son was sick, we alternated who took the day off (deadlines excepted).
I decided to quit my job and stay at home ("Family Friendly" not so friendly, intolerable employment conditions, crazy management, crazy hours, and what I see as an FDA crackdown waiting to happen - not to mention that I LIKE being able to be around to teach our son stuff instead of just watching what he learns from his daycare provider). I still do contract work on the side, around 20 hours a week, plus I'm kind of lazy about housework, leaving my husband plenty to do. My husband still pitches in around the house at least an hour or two a day, more on weekends. And he comes home every night and spends a couple of hours playing with our son so I can cook dinner (not a chore, a hobby and a nice transition from day to evening for me) or, if I have a deadline coming up, so I can work - and he will mind our son AND put dinner on the table if I don't have time. Plus he does his own contract work on the side - this gets done after our son goes to bed, or on weekends during naptimes or when my in-laws take our son for the weekend.
I think my husband probably puts in more time doing stuff around the house than many of his coworkers that have told him for years that "You won't have time to stay as up-to-date on tech stuff when (you have a kid/you have multiple kids/you have a house to maintain)." However, these are the same people who have told him "It gets really hard when your child is (insert age) - just you wait!" It's hard for him to keep from responding, "I'm sorry you don't like your kids, but I like mine." I think the time my husband puts in with our son has paid off - he is developing into a pretty well-mannered, well-spoken, respectful kid, for a 2.5 year old, anyway.
Plus, my husband still outshines most of his coworkers at their jobs.
I've told my female friends that geeks make the best husbands, but I'm going to have to qualify that after reading some of the misogyny posted here (I'm not referring to the parent poster). Guys, adjust your attitudes - if most of you were willing to do half of what my husband does, you'd have women falling all themselves to marry you.
/pee shouldn't link to a healthcare professional, it should link to thinkgeek.com.
I am REALLY concerned about them asking for action shots on this piece of merchandise...
It's because everyone uses the Slashdot Random Story Generator to write their submissions.
Fully fledged? WTF? So is this server capable of independent flight or is it covered with feathers?
You probably won't get their data to set up a website, since they keep it a trade secret unless you buy the package. This is why the AASI is not widely accepted as evidence in court - the scientific community has not been given the opportunity to examine the test, so there's not a lot of data to validate or invalidate it. Abelscreen uses the fact that they've had over 1000 purchasers of their system as evidence that it works rather than hard data.
Since you seem to be questioning your spelling, I'll let you know a little secret - virii isn't a word. I believe the word you're looking for is viruses.
Oh, and here is the correct spelling of hypothetically.
It sounds like your wife is a lucky lucky woman...
either that or you really screwed up sometime earlier in the year and you were trying to make up for it...
Not to mention the inconvenience - you can't carry the box like a normal laptop bag, and even if you could, who would carry a pizza that way?
Funny, that's one of my earlier computer memories too. That and programming BASIC on a Timex Sinclair, which my mother subsequently let my sister play with in the bathtub. My mother had, and still has, some real resentment issues with computers. I need to remember that she did this next time she wants me to repair her computer...