Yep. If I leave my Kindle unplugged, and unread, for 3 weeks the charge dies.
But if I leave on vacation for a full week on a full charge, read 4-6 hours/day in the hotel room/beach, and further read for 12 hours worth of flying + delays (the joys of overnight travel coast-to-coast via coach), I get back home with about 20% charge. Not bad, IMHO.
Myself, I prefer the lower contrast of the Kindle specifically because it most emulates the faded, cheap ink and light bleached paper of your standard paperback novel. I can sit for 8 hour stretches and forget I'm holding an electronic device.
That's why many shed the "liberal" label for "progressive." The liberal/libertarian cares about rights. The progressive cares about the children. Sometimes liberal really means "conservative" (where the "conservative" position on a subject implies more personal freedoms). The labels, they really mean nothing now.
Except Ron Paul has gone full-bore against the Bin Laden assassination. He won't get a single tea-party vote in the primary. He'll get the last few 9/11 truther's in the GOP and the Stormfront vote, and that's it.
If Samsung punitively alters their deal with Apple, they will be injuring themselves also. No, this will not happen. Corporation continue to do business with each other despite litigation all the time. If the deal is good, it continues despite litigation.
In Sweden, unions often work with the business in a symbiotic manner. I think as recently as two years ago, Swedish unions for both engineering and metal-working (I don't know their names) agreed to pay cuts and more hours to help keep more jobs in available.
In the US, this simply does not happen. More often than not, a company cannot get out of onerous union obligations without closing up shop and moving away.
Owning a smart phone with a data plan isn't a human right. Don't want to pay that much for the data plan? Don't. Live without it. Billions do it every day.
If, on the other hand, you choose, of your own volition, to pay the exorbitant fee for the data plan, you only serve to prove that the pricing was reasonable and correct.
Would you consider the theories of a cold fusion crackpot equal to his peers? Of course not; his ideas are silly and completely counter to what we know about how the universe works. In much the same way as a gnostic in early Christendom. Science and religion both have their heretics.
I believe neither side (house GOP vs WH) is interested in balancing the budget or reducing our debt. The tea party has no influence whatsoever over this process, as they're clamoring for $1.6 trillion in cuts, including the military, SS, and medicaid. Obviously that is not happening. Therefore, the current posturing by both sides is moot. "Arguing over the bar tab on the Titanic" is the best metaphor I've heard for it.
Isn't most software for the government written by contractors? As such, isn't that money already allocated? I would expect you would continue to get paid. Now, the air traffic controllers, on the other hand...
Congress won't bother sending a bill to the president's desk unless he indicates he will sign it. So far, he has indicated he won't due to several programs being defunded. Myself, I think all these programs are merely an exercise in sunk cost fallacy, but I'm not in Congress, so...
It's a constructed digital reality with whatever rules Flynn put into it. It is the way it is because the Users coded it that way. Flynn coded it with physics, and gave programs hair and makeup. Anything other than 1's and 0's on the screen is going to require some suspension of disbelief.
I would pay almost any price straight out of pocket, without blinking. While the Kojack look is kinda cool ("I mean for you! Not for me," people say), I would do anything to have my (real, honest-to-god) hair back.
I think they're a lot less stigmatization now than, say, in the 80's (or at least I see less of it). As a part of a mainline southern protestant church, the worst I've received when church people see my vast D&D collection is the occasional roll of the eyes (and most of that is from girls who think it's nerdy, not satanic). Mostly what I get is people flipping through the books and asking if they can play.
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Someone handed me Lord of the Rings when I was 20. I missed meals and classes for 2 days. /shame
Yep. If I leave my Kindle unplugged, and unread, for 3 weeks the charge dies.
But if I leave on vacation for a full week on a full charge, read 4-6 hours/day in the hotel room/beach, and further read for 12 hours worth of flying + delays (the joys of overnight travel coast-to-coast via coach), I get back home with about 20% charge. Not bad, IMHO.
Myself, I prefer the lower contrast of the Kindle specifically because it most emulates the faded, cheap ink and light bleached paper of your standard paperback novel. I can sit for 8 hour stretches and forget I'm holding an electronic device.
But that's just me.
That's why many shed the "liberal" label for "progressive." The liberal/libertarian cares about rights. The progressive cares about the children. Sometimes liberal really means "conservative" (where the "conservative" position on a subject implies more personal freedoms). The labels, they really mean nothing now.
Except Ron Paul has gone full-bore against the Bin Laden assassination. He won't get a single tea-party vote in the primary. He'll get the last few 9/11 truther's in the GOP and the Stormfront vote, and that's it.
(Yeah, I grant most Slashdotters can actually spell.)
You must be new here.
Wait...
I was making no value judgments. Merely stating it was a moot point.
It will never pass the house.
Let us at least agree that Osama died as he lived: violently and without mercy.
If Samsung punitively alters their deal with Apple, they will be injuring themselves also. No, this will not happen. Corporation continue to do business with each other despite litigation all the time. If the deal is good, it continues despite litigation.
Video games come without crabs, and don't get pregnant.
Just sayin'.
In Sweden, unions often work with the business in a symbiotic manner. I think as recently as two years ago, Swedish unions for both engineering and metal-working (I don't know their names) agreed to pay cuts and more hours to help keep more jobs in available.
In the US, this simply does not happen. More often than not, a company cannot get out of onerous union obligations without closing up shop and moving away.
Do you even know what you are talking about?
Owning a smart phone with a data plan isn't a human right. Don't want to pay that much for the data plan? Don't. Live without it. Billions do it every day.
If, on the other hand, you choose, of your own volition, to pay the exorbitant fee for the data plan, you only serve to prove that the pricing was reasonable and correct.
The best part is how the haters aren't the ones who were being sued. They have no vested interest, and nothing to lose. Screw them.
I was not aware that Mormon theology espoused the idea of Jesus coming back for the pandas.
Would you consider the theories of a cold fusion crackpot equal to his peers? Of course not; his ideas are silly and completely counter to what we know about how the universe works. In much the same way as a gnostic in early Christendom. Science and religion both have their heretics.
I believe neither side (house GOP vs WH) is interested in balancing the budget or reducing our debt. The tea party has no influence whatsoever over this process, as they're clamoring for $1.6 trillion in cuts, including the military, SS, and medicaid. Obviously that is not happening. Therefore, the current posturing by both sides is moot. "Arguing over the bar tab on the Titanic" is the best metaphor I've heard for it.
Isn't most software for the government written by contractors? As such, isn't that money already allocated? I would expect you would continue to get paid. Now, the air traffic controllers, on the other hand...
Congress won't bother sending a bill to the president's desk unless he indicates he will sign it. So far, he has indicated he won't due to several programs being defunded. Myself, I think all these programs are merely an exercise in sunk cost fallacy, but I'm not in Congress, so...
The bus you don't see will still run your ass over.
It's a constructed digital reality with whatever rules Flynn put into it. It is the way it is because the Users coded it that way. Flynn coded it with physics, and gave programs hair and makeup. Anything other than 1's and 0's on the screen is going to require some suspension of disbelief.
As much as I would like to have hair, I would like to have a rocket pack more.
I would pay almost any price straight out of pocket, without blinking. While the Kojack look is kinda cool ("I mean for you! Not for me," people say), I would do anything to have my (real, honest-to-god) hair back.
I think they're a lot less stigmatization now than, say, in the 80's (or at least I see less of it). As a part of a mainline southern protestant church, the worst I've received when church people see my vast D&D collection is the occasional roll of the eyes (and most of that is from girls who think it's nerdy, not satanic). Mostly what I get is people flipping through the books and asking if they can play.