Canadian here, also a Clearly and Hubble customer. I have Clearly glasses on my nose right now and Hubble contacts come for my wife. We were never asked for a prescription, just what the powers were on left and right eye, all of the other stuff the optician scribbles on their scrip normally. I ordered from Hubble because they are 1/2 the price of Clearly, and Clearly is 1/2 the price of retail. My wife's contacts cost about $1 CAD/day, down from $3 CAD/day at retail. The cost savings are huge. My wife has used Hubble lenses for the past 3 months or so, and has not notices any difference from her retail bought ones. My glasses from Clearly were $39.95 CAD + $5 shipping, across the street they are selling the same ones for $300 CAD. If it was prior to about 2002, the same glasses would be in the $500-600 range.
My take: There has been a cabal on corrective lenses for as long as there has been corrective lenses and it's high time a startup Ubers this shit and blows up the model, because we have been ripped off for yeaaaaarrrrssss on this.
Albertan here. No, global warming is bad for us. In the south, where a lot of land is cultivated for hay and animal feed, it's been a dustbowl, there were news stories about ranchers selling off their cows for pennies on the dollar, otherwise they would starve to death. In the west, the warmer temperatures mean that the pine beetle has breached the mountains and is now in Alberta forests, this bug kills pine trees dead, in Yoho there are vast forests that have been killed by the beetle. The bug is kept in check naturally by cold temperatures.
In the north, where there are forests larger than some American states, forest fires unlike anything we have ever recorded has ripped through the area and one city, 60.000 people were forced to evacuate as a forest fire leveled 20% of the city, Canada's most expensive natural disaster.
In the central region, where I live, farmers are just now finishing pulling in their crops because of unseasonable rain and general crap weather.
In my city, there is huge concern over increased rainfall because our infrastructure was never designed for it. The city recently released previously restricted flood plain plans and I found out that my house is on the very tip of a giant lake that would appear in the 1 in 100 year storm scenario, and all of my neighbors across the street would be underwater. We are expecting the 1 in 100 year storm any old day now, next July is a likely date.
Given a choice, any Albertan would go back to the way things were.
I have used Trello for the coordination of issues for a large-ish project with coders, project managers, and general business people, it works well, very drag-and-drop-y, nice card metaphor.
The incredibly underrated Robot and Frank explores this theme in a crime caper, wrapped in a buddy movie, wrapped into a science fiction story, wrapped in Asimovian robot philosophy. Well worth the time.
I don't get this submission. I wrote the same thing in 1982 on a TI-99/4A with 16kb RAM and a 3MHz 16 bit chip. It loaded from a cassette deck using an analog stream from the tape. It displayed on my TV. It was written in BASIC. It sucked.
But it *worked* fine, I mean it drew the map in well under 10 seconds, printed it, then used the edge dots of one side as the seed for the next section of the dungeon. Isn't that what this is, and why do we even need an ARM for this, you should be able to get decent performance from a 4004!
This was my first real piece of software, and it worked on the first try (by that I mean I wrote it and bugfixed it, and...it worked). I was 13. You millennials or whatever you call yourselves should be running rings around me - who needs multiple cores or C# for this?? Do it in Minecraft, then I'll be impressed.
That is incorrect. "The only other user [of the nuclear missile Genie] was Canada, whose CF-101 Voodoos carried Genies until 1984 via a dual-key arrangement where the missiles were kept under United States custody, and released to Canada under circumstances requiring their use. The RAF briefly considered the missile for use on the English Electric Lightning." source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIR-2_Genie
The GENIE and Bomarcs deployed in Canada were missiles designed to engage clouds of incoming Russian bombers, and by 1984, that tactic was pointless as the Russians most certainly had MIRV ICBM's, making a bomber attack obsolete.
The Jamaica Gleaner has excellent writing, actually employs professional reporters and fact checkers, and keeps an NPOV. The problem is, it only covers Jamaica.
Donna Chang? I should have talked to her. I love Chinese women. My friend asked me if that was just a little racist but I said: "if I *like* their race, how could that be racist?"
>>>That still leave 5.6 billion who've never used Metro because they don't own an Xbox
Windows does not have an installed base of 5.6 billion. More like ~ 1 billion. My point was, that the UI is not completely coming out of left field. They have a strategy that is as every bit as legitimate as Apple's, or anyone else's. If FOSS desktops had used same strategic planning instead of bickering over KDE vs Gnome or whatever the UI du jour is, you would see a hell of a lot more penetration of FOSS desktops "in the real world".
Everyone seems to be missing a key part in the Microsoft strategy. Metro is running in production TODAY on > 60 million Xbox 360's. Metro is running in production TODAY on > 360 million Hotmail accounts (if the user opts in via outlook.com). Metro is running in beta on Sharepoint 2013, arguably Microsoft's #1 Office product. By exposing users to Metro through it's huge installed base, the effect of Windows 8 UI is that a "typical" user would at least have SOME exposure to the UI metaphor once they sit down to a Windows 8 machine. That goes a long way towards corporate adoption, just as user exposure to iOS led to iPhone adoption as the standard phone in the enterprise today (hard to believe, but it's true.)
Wasn't Amazon the one that got hit with the 10 gigabit or something insane like that DDOS? I wouldn't blame them - thats an insane amount of traffic they have to handle.
Someone should figure out how to get Wikileaks running in Freenet, build a peer tracker or something, and let the rest of the world play wack-a-mole with the public website, and the real copy of Wikileaks runs encrypted and anonymously.
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Canadian here, also a Clearly and Hubble customer. I have Clearly glasses on my nose right now and Hubble contacts come for my wife. We were never asked for a prescription, just what the powers were on left and right eye, all of the other stuff the optician scribbles on their scrip normally. I ordered from Hubble because they are 1/2 the price of Clearly, and Clearly is 1/2 the price of retail. My wife's contacts cost about $1 CAD/day, down from $3 CAD/day at retail. The cost savings are huge. My wife has used Hubble lenses for the past 3 months or so, and has not notices any difference from her retail bought ones. My glasses from Clearly were $39.95 CAD + $5 shipping, across the street they are selling the same ones for $300 CAD. If it was prior to about 2002, the same glasses would be in the $500-600 range.
My take: There has been a cabal on corrective lenses for as long as there has been corrective lenses and it's high time a startup Ubers this shit and blows up the model, because we have been ripped off for yeaaaaarrrrssss on this.
Albertan here. No, global warming is bad for us. In the south, where a lot of land is cultivated for hay and animal feed, it's been a dustbowl, there were news stories about ranchers selling off their cows for pennies on the dollar, otherwise they would starve to death. In the west, the warmer temperatures mean that the pine beetle has breached the mountains and is now in Alberta forests, this bug kills pine trees dead, in Yoho there are vast forests that have been killed by the beetle. The bug is kept in check naturally by cold temperatures.
In the north, where there are forests larger than some American states, forest fires unlike anything we have ever recorded has ripped through the area and one city, 60.000 people were forced to evacuate as a forest fire leveled 20% of the city, Canada's most expensive natural disaster.
In the central region, where I live, farmers are just now finishing pulling in their crops because of unseasonable rain and general crap weather.
In my city, there is huge concern over increased rainfall because our infrastructure was never designed for it. The city recently released previously restricted flood plain plans and I found out that my house is on the very tip of a giant lake that would appear in the 1 in 100 year storm scenario, and all of my neighbors across the street would be underwater. We are expecting the 1 in 100 year storm any old day now, next July is a likely date.
Given a choice, any Albertan would go back to the way things were.
Not so hip anymore. QR codes are, like, sooooo 2009. And, quite useless in this use case.
There is also a bridge device you can install on your electrical panel, but it has to be put in by a pro.
I have used Trello for the coordination of issues for a large-ish project with coders, project managers, and general business people, it works well, very drag-and-drop-y, nice card metaphor.
The incredibly underrated Robot and Frank explores this theme in a crime caper, wrapped in a buddy movie, wrapped into a science fiction story, wrapped in Asimovian robot philosophy. Well worth the time.
I don't get this submission. I wrote the same thing in 1982 on a TI-99/4A with 16kb RAM and a 3MHz 16 bit chip. It loaded from a cassette deck using an analog stream from the tape. It displayed on my TV. It was written in BASIC. It sucked.
But it *worked* fine, I mean it drew the map in well under 10 seconds, printed it, then used the edge dots of one side as the seed for the next section of the dungeon. Isn't that what this is, and why do we even need an ARM for this, you should be able to get decent performance from a 4004!
This was my first real piece of software, and it worked on the first try (by that I mean I wrote it and bugfixed it, and...it worked). I was 13. You millennials or whatever you call yourselves should be running rings around me - who needs multiple cores or C# for this?? Do it in Minecraft, then I'll be impressed.
Escalator repairperson. Think about it.
That is incorrect. "The only other user [of the nuclear missile Genie] was Canada, whose CF-101 Voodoos carried Genies until 1984 via a dual-key arrangement where the missiles were kept under United States custody, and released to Canada under circumstances requiring their use. The RAF briefly considered the missile for use on the English Electric Lightning." source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIR-2_Genie
The GENIE and Bomarcs deployed in Canada were missiles designed to engage clouds of incoming Russian bombers, and by 1984, that tactic was pointless as the Russians most certainly had MIRV ICBM's, making a bomber attack obsolete.
The Jamaica Gleaner has excellent writing, actually employs professional reporters and fact checkers, and keeps an NPOV. The problem is, it only covers Jamaica.
Putin and his cronies vacation there. Seriously.
...the Canon BJC-85
You mean the 29,000 tons produced annually worldwide? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hemp
Empire of the Sun
I thought he was superb.
Donna Chang? I should have talked to her. I love Chinese women. My friend asked me if that was just a little racist but I said: "if I *like* their race, how could that be racist?"
http://www.sql-ledger.com/ ugly as sin but it does *everything* and it's reliable. Good community support.
>>>That still leave 5.6 billion who've never used Metro because they don't own an Xbox
Windows does not have an installed base of 5.6 billion. More like ~ 1 billion. My point was, that the UI is not completely coming out of left field. They have a strategy that is as every bit as legitimate as Apple's, or anyone else's. If FOSS desktops had used same strategic planning instead of bickering over KDE vs Gnome or whatever the UI du jour is, you would see a hell of a lot more penetration of FOSS desktops "in the real world".
Everyone seems to be missing a key part in the Microsoft strategy. Metro is running in production TODAY on > 60 million Xbox 360's. Metro is running in production TODAY on > 360 million Hotmail accounts (if the user opts in via outlook.com). Metro is running in beta on Sharepoint 2013, arguably Microsoft's #1 Office product. By exposing users to Metro through it's huge installed base, the effect of Windows 8 UI is that a "typical" user would at least have SOME exposure to the UI metaphor once they sit down to a Windows 8 machine. That goes a long way towards corporate adoption, just as user exposure to iOS led to iPhone adoption as the standard phone in the enterprise today (hard to believe, but it's true.)
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In my iPhone's Productivity group, there is only one icon, Slashdot.
I find your lack of faith disturbing. -Sent from my ducking iPhone
Down speed 3 megabit. ETA 1 hr for 720p. This model works. You just need enough people streaming legal content.
Wasn't Amazon the one that got hit with the 10 gigabit or something insane like that DDOS? I wouldn't blame them - thats an insane amount of traffic they have to handle.
Someone should figure out how to get Wikileaks running in Freenet, build a peer tracker or something, and let the rest of the world play wack-a-mole with the public website, and the real copy of Wikileaks runs encrypted and anonymously.
Damn, I like that idea.
...viewing TFA caused a Flash popover ad to appear over the article text. Just sayin'.
...is getting hammered right now. Like, several comments a second. Fascinating to watch a meltdown in real time. http://www.facebook.com/pages/Cooks-Source-Magazine/196994196748