Before the TSA, most security at airports was private. The TSAs backscatter X-Ray machines have already been bypassed. Air Marshalls can be spotted a mile away on a plane. The "Freedom Gropes" we have to endure are completely insane.
Watching TSA agents detaining a woman because because she wouldn't let them x-ray her daughters breast milk is insane.
I will not walk through a backscatter x-ray machine for any reason. Personally, I'll not shower for a week and wear the same clothes. Then I'll pop 2 Viagra and request a freedom grope when I get to the TSA. Hopefully that will make the agent sexually assaulting me as uncomfortable as possible.
I'm going in on the 21st for a hip replacement. After that, my life is pretty much f*cked at airports. I will never be allowed to go anywhere without some type of enhanced pat down.
The latest scientific research shows that there is absolutely no issue with saturated fat. Heck, high cholesterol levels are pretty much meaningless in the latest research. Shit like this just keeps old, invalid, nutritional opinions running through our population. End this already.
The eBook release had better come out the same day as the hardback release, and not delayed 6 months like the last time. In reality it takes about a month to OCR and proofread.
The problem I really see, is that Paul's solutions are all long term and there is a lot of pain involved in getting to his ultimate goal. I like the ultimate goal, but Americans are way too short sighted to look at things that way.
If he eliminates student loans, in the short term a whole lot of people will suffer. In the long term, school will have decreased enrollment and be forced to lower tuition costs in order to attract students.
In the short term, community college enrollment will skyrocket, and a lot of people will graduate from college a lot less in debt than they are now.
And there really is no reason banks can't still offer loans for college to people.
To get the full Linux experience, I think she should create a Fedora Respin, or just go ahead and roll her own Linux distribution.:-)
I think Ubuntu is probably the easiest for hardware that requires proprietary drivers. Fedora is another good choice if the hardware has all open source drivers.
Ok, so as a school district you want to teach about creationism alongside evolution. To some that may be fine. The issue I have is who's version of creationism? Why do all these nut jobs always insist on teaching Judeo-Christian creationism stories? What about all the other creationist accounts in other religions? Shouldn't we teach ALL creation stories to be fair and balanced?
Then there is the issue of who should be qualified to teach Judeo-Christian creationism. We're forcing this teaching onto science teachers. Regardless of whether or not they want to teach, they simply are not qualified. In my opinion, the only person really qualified to teach the Judeo-Christian creation story is someone from the religion that created the story. We need a rabbi. Christians just inherited the story from the Jews. Funny part is, most of the rabbis I have spoken to do not take the 7 day creation story literally.
The earth is insanely unpredictable. Any belief that what we do to the planet is the only thing that affects weather and climate is extremely naive. Has the Earth experieced warming in recent decades? Yes it has. Is Man the ONLY reason this is happening. I really really doubt that. This planet has gone from ice ball, to tropical over a number of periods in the 4 billion years the Earth has been around.
Sensationalizing things in the hopes of getting donations for your cause so you can keep getting a paycheck in not the answer.
When people ask me what to do about Global Warming I tell to plant to some trees, since they scrub a lot of CO2 and to pray the Yellowstone Super-volcano doesn't blow up any time soon.
I think the planet will take out our species out long before we can do it ourselves with global warming.
So it was originally supposed to be a 4 volume set. Then he took book 4 and broke it up into two books, making it a 5 volume set. Now, wikipedia shows SEVEN books.
Who does this guy think he is, Robert Jordan?
TrueType was written by Apple and given to Microsoft. At the time, Apple was having a huge tiff with Adobe and was trying a printer definition language that could replace Postscript. They made a cross licensing deal with Microsoft. Apple was to provide the font technology and Microsoft was to provide the printer language called TrueImage. In classic Microsoft fashion, TrueImage was delayed significantly and when it did finally see the light of day, it was too late, and Apple ended up licensing Postscript Level 2.
The concept of Usenet is awesome. Think about taking every single web forums out there and sticking them all into a client om your desk, and having a single sign in for everything, and you'll understand why Usenet is still superior to web based forums in many ways. You go to ONE PLACE to find the info you want on hobbies, politics, news, etc.
In the 90s, the Usenet FAQs were the best collection of knowledge on the Internet.
Sadly, due to it's open nature, Usenet was also the first to get SPAM. I would love to see someone develop a newer version of Usenet with better security.
Well, it was used the day we opened it to get the 1.2 update. It pulled that down and installed it before I could configure the wifi.
In reality, it won't be used that much, but will come in handy if we travel anywhere and needs something to read.
I thought the nook had the best set of features. It's backed by a large bookstore that can negotiate decent ebook pricing. It has wifi and 3G connectivity. It comes with an SD slot for memory expansion. And it also supports PDF and ePub, so you could easily roll your own eBooks or download public domain ones from Google Books.
If they made an iPod Touch with mobile broadband in it and no phone, I would have gone that route. But nothing like that exists.
I was hoping someone would come up with a Verizon Wireless cradle you snap the touch into, but sadly, that's not going to happen.
You don't need it, but it sits in there at a nice angle for easy viewing, charges the Droid and puts up a nice info screen with the time, the local weather, and some other goodies.
I just thought it would be nice to have and would look good in my bedroom, that's all.
1. I use the physical keyboard and love it. I have an iPod touch and I'll take the Droid physical keyboard over the iTouch virtual. The Droid virtual is pretty good too. It fixes most common typing errors, which the iTouch does not do.
2. There is no lag whatsoever when scrolling the home screen.
3. I don't miss multi-touch. The only thing I used it in was the browser. I installed the Dolphin Browser and now have a multi-touch browser. And the European version of the Droid has multitouch, just not here in the US, probably due to Apple patents.
4. The average app isn't even a 1 MB in size. I don't see myself putting 256 apps on my phone, EVER. Even on the iTouch, I only have 3 1/2 screens of apps.
5. My battery door is fine. At least, in a years time, I can actually change my battery myself. Or go out today and buy a higher capacity battery and slap it in there.
6. The media player on the Droid is not as nice as the iTouch/iPhone. But unlike the App Store, if someone writes a better music player, it will actually become available to me via the Android store.
Plus things I can do that you can't:
1. Run email, a twitter client, and an IM client all in the background.
2. Listen to Pandora and do other things at the same time.
3. Have a camera with a flash
4. Have a higher resolution screen (848x480)
5. Charge and sync with a standard MicroUSB cable.
6. Download large podcasts over 3G.
7. Get turn by turn directions FOR FREE.
8. On a network that doesn't drop calls all the time (I have a work Blackberry on AT&T and I get dropped calls all the time)
9. Change my battery
And I would have to say GET OVER YOUR DAMN SELF. I'm an Apple fanboy too. But damn, don't go bashing the Droid until you actually use one. You can't bash a device you haven't even seen, which is obvious from your comments.
More secure? I don't see any Android viruses, but I do see iPhone ones. Don't get me wrong, the iPhone is a nice piece of innovation, but having used an iPod touch since September now, I felt that lack of background apps was a tad too limiting. Plus the fact that I can install stuff OUTSIDE the store was a huge plus also.
I have a Macbook, Mac Mini and an iPod Touch, and I opted for a Droid. I think the #1 reason I went with the Droid was because it wasn't AT&T. But a close second was the fact that music was drag and drop and that it could run background apps. Overall, I am really please with the purchase. Ordered the multimedia dock today, so I can use it as an alarm clock.
Wow, talk about a sleazy way to make more money. AT&T stops offering traditional landline service. To fill the gap, you need to get either a cell phone or VOIP.
Well, Cell Phone service costs WAY MORE than landline service. And to get VOIP, you need high speed Internet. For poeple like you and me, it probably wouldn't make a difference. But think of the elderly, that probably have old traditional landline service and pay for long distance by the minute. Their montly phone bill would go up from $19.99 a month to at least double that, possibly more.
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The iPhone 5 is for my wife. I'm getting an Android phone.
I'm still leaving as soon as the iPhone 5 comes out. Only so many times that you can be treated like complete crap before you won't take it any more.
Before the TSA, most security at airports was private. The TSAs backscatter X-Ray machines have already been bypassed. Air Marshalls can be spotted a mile away on a plane. The "Freedom Gropes" we have to endure are completely insane.
Watching TSA agents detaining a woman because because she wouldn't let them x-ray her daughters breast milk is insane.
I will not walk through a backscatter x-ray machine for any reason. Personally, I'll not shower for a week and wear the same clothes. Then I'll pop 2 Viagra and request a freedom grope when I get to the TSA. Hopefully that will make the agent sexually assaulting me as uncomfortable as possible.
I'm going in on the 21st for a hip replacement. After that, my life is pretty much f*cked at airports. I will never be allowed to go anywhere without some type of enhanced pat down.
This insanity has to end.
Agreed. Layer your services on top of Android and be done with it. Why develop an OS, when a free one is there waiting for you to add to it.
The latest scientific research shows that there is absolutely no issue with saturated fat. Heck, high cholesterol levels are pretty much meaningless in the latest research. Shit like this just keeps old, invalid, nutritional opinions running through our population. End this already.
The eBook release had better come out the same day as the hardback release, and not delayed 6 months like the last time. In reality it takes about a month to OCR and proofread.
I'd better go delete my profile before that happens. Cause once the new ownership kicks in, they'll want to keep your data forever.
The problem I really see, is that Paul's solutions are all long term and there is a lot of pain involved in getting to his ultimate goal. I like the ultimate goal, but Americans are way too short sighted to look at things that way.
If he eliminates student loans, in the short term a whole lot of people will suffer. In the long term, school will have decreased enrollment and be forced to lower tuition costs in order to attract students.
In the short term, community college enrollment will skyrocket, and a lot of people will graduate from college a lot less in debt than they are now.
And there really is no reason banks can't still offer loans for college to people.
To get the full Linux experience, I think she should create a Fedora Respin, or just go ahead and roll her own Linux distribution. :-)
I think Ubuntu is probably the easiest for hardware that requires proprietary drivers. Fedora is another good choice if the hardware has all open source drivers.
Ok, so as a school district you want to teach about creationism alongside evolution. To some that may be fine. The issue I have is who's version of creationism? Why do all these nut jobs always insist on teaching Judeo-Christian creationism stories? What about all the other creationist accounts in other religions? Shouldn't we teach ALL creation stories to be fair and balanced?
Then there is the issue of who should be qualified to teach Judeo-Christian creationism. We're forcing this teaching onto science teachers. Regardless of whether or not they want to teach, they simply are not qualified. In my opinion, the only person really qualified to teach the Judeo-Christian creation story is someone from the religion that created the story. We need a rabbi. Christians just inherited the story from the Jews. Funny part is, most of the rabbis I have spoken to do not take the 7 day creation story literally.
The earth is insanely unpredictable. Any belief that what we do to the planet is the only thing that affects weather and climate is extremely naive. Has the Earth experieced warming in recent decades? Yes it has. Is Man the ONLY reason this is happening. I really really doubt that. This planet has gone from ice ball, to tropical over a number of periods in the 4 billion years the Earth has been around.
Sensationalizing things in the hopes of getting donations for your cause so you can keep getting a paycheck in not the answer.
When people ask me what to do about Global Warming I tell to plant to some trees, since they scrub a lot of CO2 and to pray the Yellowstone Super-volcano doesn't blow up any time soon.
I think the planet will take out our species out long before we can do it ourselves with global warming.
I'm going to guess the exact patents that are being violated are yet to be disclosed.. Kind of funny they won't sue Google directly.
So it was originally supposed to be a 4 volume set. Then he took book 4 and broke it up into two books, making it a 5 volume set. Now, wikipedia shows SEVEN books. Who does this guy think he is, Robert Jordan?
So this is going to be a network of server all sending messages back and forth? Wow! Fidonet is back!
TrueType was written by Apple and given to Microsoft. At the time, Apple was having a huge tiff with Adobe and was trying a printer definition language that could replace Postscript. They made a cross licensing deal with Microsoft. Apple was to provide the font technology and Microsoft was to provide the printer language called TrueImage. In classic Microsoft fashion, TrueImage was delayed significantly and when it did finally see the light of day, it was too late, and Apple ended up licensing Postscript Level 2.
Good point. I love reddit. And they let you make any subreddit you want. Interesting.... Plus it has porn. So, in many ways it is just like subreddit.
The concept of Usenet is awesome. Think about taking every single web forums out there and sticking them all into a client om your desk, and having a single sign in for everything, and you'll understand why Usenet is still superior to web based forums in many ways. You go to ONE PLACE to find the info you want on hobbies, politics, news, etc.
In the 90s, the Usenet FAQs were the best collection of knowledge on the Internet.
Sadly, due to it's open nature, Usenet was also the first to get SPAM. I would love to see someone develop a newer version of Usenet with better security.
Well, it was used the day we opened it to get the 1.2 update. It pulled that down and installed it before I could configure the wifi. In reality, it won't be used that much, but will come in handy if we travel anywhere and needs something to read.
I thought the nook had the best set of features. It's backed by a large bookstore that can negotiate decent ebook pricing. It has wifi and 3G connectivity. It comes with an SD slot for memory expansion. And it also supports PDF and ePub, so you could easily roll your own eBooks or download public domain ones from Google Books.
If they made an iPod Touch with mobile broadband in it and no phone, I would have gone that route. But nothing like that exists. I was hoping someone would come up with a Verizon Wireless cradle you snap the touch into, but sadly, that's not going to happen.
You don't need it, but it sits in there at a nice angle for easy viewing, charges the Droid and puts up a nice info screen with the time, the local weather, and some other goodies.
I just thought it would be nice to have and would look good in my bedroom, that's all.
1. I use the physical keyboard and love it. I have an iPod touch and I'll take the Droid physical keyboard over the iTouch virtual. The Droid virtual is pretty good too. It fixes most common typing errors, which the iTouch does not do.
2. There is no lag whatsoever when scrolling the home screen.
3. I don't miss multi-touch. The only thing I used it in was the browser. I installed the Dolphin Browser and now have a multi-touch browser. And the European version of the Droid has multitouch, just not here in the US, probably due to Apple patents.
4. The average app isn't even a 1 MB in size. I don't see myself putting 256 apps on my phone, EVER. Even on the iTouch, I only have 3 1/2 screens of apps.
5. My battery door is fine. At least, in a years time, I can actually change my battery myself. Or go out today and buy a higher capacity battery and slap it in there.
6. The media player on the Droid is not as nice as the iTouch/iPhone. But unlike the App Store, if someone writes a better music player, it will actually become available to me via the Android store.
Plus things I can do that you can't:
1. Run email, a twitter client, and an IM client all in the background.
2. Listen to Pandora and do other things at the same time.
3. Have a camera with a flash
4. Have a higher resolution screen (848x480)
5. Charge and sync with a standard MicroUSB cable.
6. Download large podcasts over 3G.
7. Get turn by turn directions FOR FREE.
8. On a network that doesn't drop calls all the time (I have a work Blackberry on AT&T and I get dropped calls all the time)
9. Change my battery
And I would have to say GET OVER YOUR DAMN SELF. I'm an Apple fanboy too. But damn, don't go bashing the Droid until you actually use one. You can't bash a device you haven't even seen, which is obvious from your comments.
More secure? I don't see any Android viruses, but I do see iPhone ones. Don't get me wrong, the iPhone is a nice piece of innovation, but having used an iPod touch since September now, I felt that lack of background apps was a tad too limiting. Plus the fact that I can install stuff OUTSIDE the store was a huge plus also.
I have a Macbook, Mac Mini and an iPod Touch, and I opted for a Droid. I think the #1 reason I went with the Droid was because it wasn't AT&T. But a close second was the fact that music was drag and drop and that it could run background apps. Overall, I am really please with the purchase. Ordered the multimedia dock today, so I can use it as an alarm clock.
Wow, talk about a sleazy way to make more money. AT&T stops offering traditional landline service. To fill the gap, you need to get either a cell phone or VOIP. Well, Cell Phone service costs WAY MORE than landline service. And to get VOIP, you need high speed Internet. For poeple like you and me, it probably wouldn't make a difference. But think of the elderly, that probably have old traditional landline service and pay for long distance by the minute. Their montly phone bill would go up from $19.99 a month to at least double that, possibly more. Andy