I don't know - it seems to me it's all the "new" games that are tired & boring, being sad, pathetic rehashes of all the great games of yesteryear. Nintendo's going to capture a ton of people who haven't played a console in years...
Why would they be crapping their pants? This sounds neat and all until I remember there just isn't wifi access all over the place. My cell phone will continue to be incredibly reliable compared with finding wifi points to use with a sip/skype phone. In pretty much any developed area I can pull out my cellphone and use it. Even in NYC, there is little to wifi access anywhere, and where there is, you have to pay for it through a web interface. I don't see how a phone like this could work without the infrastructure in place to use it.
I wish the MTA and the City would concentrate on actually improving subway service and MTA accountability. I don't care about talking on the phone on the subway, I care about the subway system being more useful and reliable.
Come on guys, focus! 2nd Ave line. Update terminals and technology. Open up your books.
Then talk to me about frills and sweetheart corporate tie-in deals like cell service for the subway lines.
And the only protection against state collusion with corporate entities (corporations using the state to bend the market to their whim) is free speech and constitutionally mandated open government. Which also requires people to spend their time looking at the government's open information and exercising their speech about it, aka The Media. God save us if the media ever stops doing their job.
Oh, wait...
(not that we have much open government anymore anyway)
Yes, I'm aware of all that. The Firefox autocomplete which we were talking about is different, and something I wish Safari could also do, for those sites which I don't visit often enough to have in my bookmarks or history, or for those times when I want to go to a sogudi site's front page rather than search it. It's a silly little thing, only not having to type in "www." and ".com" or ".org" or ".net" - but it's usually the silly little things that one misses.
type in "google" into the address bar, hit Ctrl+Enter [...] Firefox took this a step further and have made Shift+Ctrl+Enter.org, and Shift+Enter.net
But not on Macs. I've never been able to get these tricks to work on the Mac, which sucks because I use them all the time on my Windows machines. But then Safari is more than good enough, so... I wish it had this feature, though.
But do you utilize copyright law for your writings? Most people create many things in their lifetime which are technically under copyright, but that doesn't mean the law ever affects them, or that it had any impact on their creation of said items.
Interesting. So, you don't think anyone would write letters, take photographs, etc., if there were no copyright law? Does that enter into most people's minds as they sit down to write a letter to grandma or when they take snapshots on holiday?
Mind you, I'm not sure about the whole "no copyright" thing - I'm just playing devil's advocate. Yes, the GP is wrong about most people not owning copyrights, technically speaking, but I think their point about most people not using the copyright system was clear. Maybe I'm wrong...
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Is this really worthwhile if you only make, say, 40k a year and have no special financial details beyond a checking account, savings account, 403(b) retirement/investment account, and a few credit cards? I've done the online tax programs the last few years, but have wondered if a human could serve better. I haven't tried it yet because I figure I don't have enough money stuff going on to save more than I'd pay him to do my taxes.
I mean, I don't (and can't) give enough to charity each year to get any serious deductions there, I don't own a car or a home (NYC renter), etc. I'm still paying off my (now consolidated) student loan. I just don't see what a human could do for me that would make it worth the cost over an online automated 1040.
I don't know about other stores, but it seems for Apple SoHo you don't need an Apple ID to reserve a spot, though they do ask for an email address. But I didn't go all the way through the process (it's changed since last time I did it, 3-4 months ago), so maybe they ask for an Apple ID later in the process. That would seem stupid, though.
Not to mention that just because a cold region becomes warm enough for farming doesn't mean its soil, sunlight, and other aspects will be good for any plants. Tundra soil is no good for farming, and though the earth may be retaining more heat, it's light that matters to plants, of which there is less annually in the more extreme latitudes.
Every change had to confer a survival advantage, no matter how slight.
Even that isn't quite right - any change to a physical form that doesn't keep you from reproducing successfully can get carried forward and be further modified at some point in the future. Evolution doesn't require changes to be beneficial, only not harmful. However, probably due to the inefficiency of carrying around changes that don't add some benefit, you'd be hard pressed to find non-beneficial but non-harmful attributes to organisms.
Yeah, except if your neighbor is so dang busy they don't even have time to make their own house look respectable again, I might consider moving away from them!
A better analogy would be if your neighbor put up a community message board on his front lawn, complete with a notice that he is not responsible for anything posted there, and then he didn't notice when Nazi propaganda was posted. The only thing you can do is politely ask him to remove it (unlike wikipedia, where you can remove it yourself, you'd probably best ask before touching your neighbor's private property, just in case), and maybe try to find out who posted it. If you can't, yeah, you're up the duff, but that's what you get for living in a country with some remaining liberties.
Precisely. I can see getting upset if, once you bring it to your neighbor's attention, they refuse to do anything about it, but if they don't notice (somehow) I see no way you can get pissed at them, rather than the original painters, for what's painted on their house.
Shouldn't we all be supporting a company like this? Or has someone here had bad experience with Neuros?
No, people just don't care. Recording? Most people don't care. Most walkmans couldn't record, and portable CD players sure couldn't. Didn't stop them being sold. Open source? Who care, most people aren't interested in futzing with the internals. I suppose it's a good product for people who like Linux, though. So would have been an open source (open firmware?) walkman back in the 1980s. Most people wouldn't have cared to buy one, though.
Most of this people choose (for religiuos, ethnical, cultural and whatnot beliefs) not to integrate and decided to create sub-societies.
Just like the Irish, Italian, Jewish, Japanese, Chinese, etc. immigrants in the USA. Significant numbers of them wanted to hang onto the cultures from which they came and not suddenly become "American." Heck, many of them still do, and there are even subcultures with the US that cropped up on their own (e.g. the Amish). I think it's extremely naive and foolish to think that the tolerant, accepting way that America treats her immigrants, as opposed to the more reactionary, anti-immigrant policies France has, has nothing to do with whether violence erupts, and that responsibility falls entirely on the shoulders of the immigrants.
There are tensions on both sides of the coin. Immigrants leave one country for one they hope will be better from a economic or liberty viewpoint (or perhaps for other reasons), but they don't want to give up their culture and identity; in fact they may be expecting that the "freer" country they are moving to will be more tolerant of their ways.
In response to their unfamiliar culture and perceived rejection of the local culture, older residents resent the new immigrants and push for laws and policies that work against them.
Understandably, the immigrants resent the rejection they receive and resist in miriad ways. Back and forth she goes...
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I don't know - it seems to me it's all the "new" games that are tired & boring, being sad, pathetic rehashes of all the great games of yesteryear. Nintendo's going to capture a ton of people who haven't played a console in years...
Then where are the DVD players/TVs/etc with HDMI interface that do not include the DRM aspects?
You can only vote with your dollars when you're allowed the option you want to vote for.
Um, yeah, if you ignore all the free-market frothing-at-the-mouth and proponents of deregulation for everything under the sun. Heck, browsing at 4, there's one just a post or two above the one you're replying to.
I'll wait for "Raging Hardon".
Why would they be crapping their pants? This sounds neat and all until I remember there just isn't wifi access all over the place. My cell phone will continue to be incredibly reliable compared with finding wifi points to use with a sip/skype phone. In pretty much any developed area I can pull out my cellphone and use it. Even in NYC, there is little to wifi access anywhere, and where there is, you have to pay for it through a web interface. I don't see how a phone like this could work without the infrastructure in place to use it.
I would avoid talking about footprints, especially "small" ones, around Buzz Aldrin if I were you...
I wish the MTA and the City would concentrate on actually improving subway service and MTA accountability. I don't care about talking on the phone on the subway, I care about the subway system being more useful and reliable.
Come on guys, focus! 2nd Ave line. Update terminals and technology. Open up your books.
Then talk to me about frills and sweetheart corporate tie-in deals like cell service for the subway lines.
Their titles all contain vowels! ...
What, you thought I was going to jump on the "they all contain F!" bandwagon? Pfft.
And the only protection against state collusion with corporate entities (corporations using the state to bend the market to their whim) is free speech and constitutionally mandated open government. Which also requires people to spend their time looking at the government's open information and exercising their speech about it, aka The Media. God save us if the media ever stops doing their job.
Oh, wait...
(not that we have much open government anymore anyway)
Yes, I'm aware of all that. The Firefox autocomplete which we were talking about is different, and something I wish Safari could also do, for those sites which I don't visit often enough to have in my bookmarks or history, or for those times when I want to go to a sogudi site's front page rather than search it. It's a silly little thing, only not having to type in "www." and ".com" or ".org" or ".net" - but it's usually the silly little things that one misses.
type in "google" into the address bar, hit Ctrl+Enter [...] Firefox took this a step further and have made Shift+Ctrl+Enter .org, and Shift+Enter .net
But not on Macs. I've never been able to get these tricks to work on the Mac, which sucks because I use them all the time on my Windows machines. But then Safari is more than good enough, so... I wish it had this feature, though.
But do you utilize copyright law for your writings? Most people create many things in their lifetime which are technically under copyright, but that doesn't mean the law ever affects them, or that it had any impact on their creation of said items.
Interesting. So, you don't think anyone would write letters, take photographs, etc., if there were no copyright law? Does that enter into most people's minds as they sit down to write a letter to grandma or when they take snapshots on holiday?
Mind you, I'm not sure about the whole "no copyright" thing - I'm just playing devil's advocate. Yes, the GP is wrong about most people not owning copyrights, technically speaking, but I think their point about most people not using the copyright system was clear. Maybe I'm wrong...
Is this really worthwhile if you only make, say, 40k a year and have no special financial details beyond a checking account, savings account, 403(b) retirement/investment account, and a few credit cards? I've done the online tax programs the last few years, but have wondered if a human could serve better. I haven't tried it yet because I figure I don't have enough money stuff going on to save more than I'd pay him to do my taxes.
I mean, I don't (and can't) give enough to charity each year to get any serious deductions there, I don't own a car or a home (NYC renter), etc. I'm still paying off my (now consolidated) student loan. I just don't see what a human could do for me that would make it worth the cost over an online automated 1040.
I don't know about other stores, but it seems for Apple SoHo you don't need an Apple ID to reserve a spot, though they do ask for an email address. But I didn't go all the way through the process (it's changed since last time I did it, 3-4 months ago), so maybe they ask for an Apple ID later in the process. That would seem stupid, though.
Wait - let me go look up "sin" - mortal or otherwise - in the US Constitution...
I'll come back when I find it.
Not to mention that just because a cold region becomes warm enough for farming doesn't mean its soil, sunlight, and other aspects will be good for any plants. Tundra soil is no good for farming, and though the earth may be retaining more heat, it's light that matters to plants, of which there is less annually in the more extreme latitudes.
Of course, the GP was joking anyway, so...
Every change had to confer a survival advantage, no matter how slight.
Even that isn't quite right - any change to a physical form that doesn't keep you from reproducing successfully can get carried forward and be further modified at some point in the future. Evolution doesn't require changes to be beneficial, only not harmful. However, probably due to the inefficiency of carrying around changes that don't add some benefit, you'd be hard pressed to find non-beneficial but non-harmful attributes to organisms.
OK, sure.
Yeah, except if your neighbor is so dang busy they don't even have time to make their own house look respectable again, I might consider moving away from them!
A better analogy would be if your neighbor put up a community message board on his front lawn, complete with a notice that he is not responsible for anything posted there, and then he didn't notice when Nazi propaganda was posted. The only thing you can do is politely ask him to remove it (unlike wikipedia, where you can remove it yourself, you'd probably best ask before touching your neighbor's private property, just in case), and maybe try to find out who posted it. If you can't, yeah, you're up the duff, but that's what you get for living in a country with some remaining liberties.
Precisely. I can see getting upset if, once you bring it to your neighbor's attention, they refuse to do anything about it, but if they don't notice (somehow) I see no way you can get pissed at them, rather than the original painters, for what's painted on their house.
Shouldn't we all be supporting a company like this? Or has someone here had bad experience with Neuros?
No, people just don't care. Recording? Most people don't care. Most walkmans couldn't record, and portable CD players sure couldn't. Didn't stop them being sold. Open source? Who care, most people aren't interested in futzing with the internals. I suppose it's a good product for people who like Linux, though. So would have been an open source (open firmware?) walkman back in the 1980s. Most people wouldn't have cared to buy one, though.
All fair questions, as fair as the questions I was raising with my sarcastic comment, I do believe.
Most of this people choose (for religiuos, ethnical, cultural and whatnot beliefs) not to integrate and decided to create sub-societies.
Just like the Irish, Italian, Jewish, Japanese, Chinese, etc. immigrants in the USA. Significant numbers of them wanted to hang onto the cultures from which they came and not suddenly become "American." Heck, many of them still do, and there are even subcultures with the US that cropped up on their own (e.g. the Amish). I think it's extremely naive and foolish to think that the tolerant, accepting way that America treats her immigrants, as opposed to the more reactionary, anti-immigrant policies France has, has nothing to do with whether violence erupts, and that responsibility falls entirely on the shoulders of the immigrants.
Somewhat related, it may be worth remember that there have been immigrant-related riots in America, for lots of different reasons.
There are tensions on both sides of the coin. Immigrants leave one country for one they hope will be better from a economic or liberty viewpoint (or perhaps for other reasons), but they don't want to give up their culture and identity; in fact they may be expecting that the "freer" country they are moving to will be more tolerant of their ways.
In response to their unfamiliar culture and perceived rejection of the local culture, older residents resent the new immigrants and push for laws and policies that work against them.
Understandably, the immigrants resent the rejection they receive and resist in miriad ways. Back and forth she goes...
And if Tony Blankley if and the Washington Times say so, it must be true.