Why is it the governments responsibility to pay those "with little to no money" way through college?
And I thought the American Dream was all about equal opportunity... about breaking entrenched class systems and allowing anyone with ability to improve themselves. If you have no way to save enough money to buy a good education, how is that better?
He gives back his salary every year. He makes NO money off of being a Congressman.
You idiot. He has enough money so that he *can* give back his salary. He's not and never has been living hand-to-mouth. That's the entire point the original post was making!
When helium is "lost" it gets back in the atmosphere, and then it theoretically could be get back by liquefiing air.
Well, not really, when helium is lost it gets back into the atmosphere, and then since it's lighter than the other gasses in the atmosphere it drifts off into space...
I agree about the capacitative buttons, and is one of the reasons I'm hanging on to my HTC Desire is it's real physical buttons. *However*, the one saving grace of the screen-buttons is that they have decent click feedback (background goes bright blue) and (assuming that they work the same as in Honeycomb) if you do hit one accidentally, you can roll off it to avoid triggering it.
Not as good as real physical buttons, but I think it will be significantly better than the Nexus One-style invisible buttons.
Yeah, but the front buttons are capacitative, so bring the same problems, ie poorer user feedback, variable pressure needed to activate them based on atmospheric conditions, inability to find them with your fingers ahead of pressing them since they have no physical shape and would be activated as soon as you touch, accidental activation.
HTC Desire was the last Smartphone I know of that has *physical buttons*. Which is one thing making me hang on to it to the bitter end. (that and it's still a pretty good phone, after 18 months)
OK, fair enough. But most people *don't* use their phone for their job. The vast majority of mobile phones are for personal use. I have a mobile phone, but in no definition of the word do I "need" one. I still find it damn useful though, and so do children for much of the same reasons.
Yes, so we can text during class, and send each other answers during the tests. Seriously, there is no reason a young child needs a cellphone at school. Land lines are (still) available in every office for emergencies, changes in plans for after school, etc.
What about out of school? When they're walking to/from school? When they're with friends, on a weekend? No, they don't *need* it, but that's not the point, nobody in the developed world *needs* a mobile phone, since there are payphones and landlines.
In the UK, we have two classes of offence, civil offences and criminal offences. Now, civil offences are generally not terribly serious things; a speeding ticket won't get you a criminal record,
*What*? Speeding is a criminal offence! Why do you think the police enforce it?? It's just not one generally considered serious enough to have to be declared. Civil offences are not 'lite' criminal offences, they're a completely different category.
Unless you're using a Drobo to store backups, keeping your only source of data on a Drobo is not a backup. To be clear, RAID is *NOT* a backup. It's redundancy. There is a difference.
Not sure why you've changed the subject to bang on about backups... he was talking about protecting from hardware failures. Which is exactly what RAID does.
Given that there quite obviously is a link between overall murder-rate and gun murder rate, *that's* the purpose. Lower ownership of guns leads to lower murder rate (whatever the weapon).
Its the UK, a different culture. There they believe its the governments right to totally control how you live...
Fuck off, you don't know what you're talking about. The British are obsessive about privacy, from each other and from government. For proof just look (respectively) at our reluctance to talk to each other, and huge unpopularity of the recent attempt to impose ID cards.
Now the 3.0 Linux branch is just plain about shiny numbering.
Yup, and is all the better for it. What you don't mention in your list is the fact that the development model changed in 2.6, from a break-> stabilise->break-> stabilise model to one of continuous stable development. The version number system stayed the same, which suggests the same development process of stabilisation with no new features, so this is a newer system that fixes that.
But I guess the marketing mentality somehow, somewhere, has taken over.
Hardly. It was already broken, the "2.6" part of the number was completely irrelevant, and whereas it might not bother you, if you're talking about version numbers all day every day, having superfluous data in there will get annoying. So yeah, the "upgrade" is misleading but from now on the version bumps more accurately reflect the scale of change in the kernel.
Anyway, who markets the kernel? Distros are marketed, nobody cares about the kernel who doesn't already know what's going on.
This is far more a case of developers wanting a version number system that makes sense to the current kernel development model than anything else.
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Why is it the governments responsibility to pay those "with little to no money" way through college?
And I thought the American Dream was all about equal opportunity... about breaking entrenched class systems and allowing anyone with ability to improve themselves. If you have no way to save enough money to buy a good education, how is that better?
He gives back his salary every year. He makes NO money off of being a Congressman.
You idiot. He has enough money so that he *can* give back his salary. He's not and never has been living hand-to-mouth. That's the entire point the original post was making!
When helium is "lost" it gets back in the atmosphere, and then it theoretically could be get back by liquefiing air.
Well, not really, when helium is lost it gets back into the atmosphere, and then since it's lighter than the other gasses in the atmosphere it drifts off into space...
I agree about the capacitative buttons, and is one of the reasons I'm hanging on to my HTC Desire is it's real physical buttons. *However*, the one saving grace of the screen-buttons is that they have decent click feedback (background goes bright blue) and (assuming that they work the same as in Honeycomb) if you do hit one accidentally, you can roll off it to avoid triggering it.
Not as good as real physical buttons, but I think it will be significantly better than the Nexus One-style invisible buttons.
Actually, all I want is physical buttons to cover Back, Menu & Home rather than capaitative buttons which seem to be ubiquitous. But thanks.
Yeah, but the front buttons are capacitative, so bring the same problems, ie poorer user feedback, variable pressure needed to activate them based on atmospheric conditions, inability to find them with your fingers ahead of pressing them since they have no physical shape and would be activated as soon as you touch, accidental activation.
HTC Desire was the last Smartphone I know of that has *physical buttons*. Which is one thing making me hang on to it to the bitter end. (that and it's still a pretty good phone, after 18 months)
Why do you need your own telephone? (hint: you don't)
It's useful for communication. You know, that thing everyone does.
Great argument, in that case every seven year old should have a fucking job, house and car too (hint: they're children, not adults).
And children don't communicate?
Nice straw man you've got there.
OK, fair enough. But most people *don't* use their phone for their job. The vast majority of mobile phones are for personal use. I have a mobile phone, but in no definition of the word do I "need" one. I still find it damn useful though, and so do children for much of the same reasons.
Yes, so we can text during class, and send each other answers during the tests. Seriously, there is no reason a young child needs a cellphone at school. Land lines are (still) available in every office for emergencies, changes in plans for after school, etc.
What about out of school? When they're walking to/from school? When they're with friends, on a weekend? No, they don't *need* it, but that's not the point, nobody in the developed world *needs* a mobile phone, since there are payphones and landlines.
Useful for what? Why does a child need their own telephone?
Why do you need your own telephone? (hint: you don't)
It's useful for communication. You know, that thing everyone does.
In the UK, we have two classes of offence, civil offences and criminal offences. Now, civil offences are generally not terribly serious things; a speeding ticket won't get you a criminal record,
*What*? Speeding is a criminal offence! Why do you think the police enforce it?? It's just not one generally considered serious enough to have to be declared. Civil offences are not 'lite' criminal offences, they're a completely different category.
Unless you're using a Drobo to store backups, keeping your only source of data on a Drobo is not a backup. To be clear, RAID is *NOT* a backup. It's redundancy. There is a difference.
Not sure why you've changed the subject to bang on about backups... he was talking about protecting from hardware failures. Which is exactly what RAID does.
or bbc.co.uk...
Of course, when Apple violates others' patents (eg well established valid ones from Nokia), they refuse to licence...
There are several countries on the chart in that article that have high homicide rates, but low firearm homicide rates
The trend hold though. Any data set will have statistical outliers.
Given that there quite obviously is a link between overall murder-rate and gun murder rate, *that's* the purpose. Lower ownership of guns leads to lower murder rate (whatever the weapon).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_violence
Fairly obvious when you think about it (go on, use your logic). It's lots easier to pull a trigger than physically melee someone to death.
*wwwhooooosh*...
Its the UK, a different culture. There they believe its the governments right to totally control how you live...
Fuck off, you don't know what you're talking about. The British are obsessive about privacy, from each other and from government. For proof just look (respectively) at our reluctance to talk to each other, and huge unpopularity of the recent attempt to impose ID cards.
More important things to worry about, maybe?
Now the 3.0 Linux branch is just plain about shiny numbering.
Yup, and is all the better for it. What you don't mention in your list is the fact that the development model changed in 2.6, from a break-> stabilise->break-> stabilise model to one of continuous stable development. The version number system stayed the same, which suggests the same development process of stabilisation with no new features, so this is a newer system that fixes that.
But I guess the marketing mentality somehow, somewhere, has taken over.
Hardly. It was already broken, the "2.6" part of the number was completely irrelevant, and whereas it might not bother you, if you're talking about version numbers all day every day, having superfluous data in there will get annoying. So yeah, the "upgrade" is misleading but from now on the version bumps more accurately reflect the scale of change in the kernel.
Anyway, who markets the kernel? Distros are marketed, nobody cares about the kernel who doesn't already know what's going on.
This is far more a case of developers wanting a version number system that makes sense to the current kernel development model than anything else.
Hardly. How can he know what skills he picked up without being fully conscious of it?
*sigh* I can't mod your comment insightful if you're replying to me...
Well that's a limitation of the phone that you decided to buy, not the service...