If i cant install Chrome on a computer its useless to me for browsing nowadays.
Might I introduce you to "Portable Apps"? They even have Portable Chrome, so you just put in the jump drive and start running your own standalone session of Chrome.
The only challenge I've found with it is that if you don't have a snappy thumb drive, the write-back to the history can be pretty sluggish. I've taken to a plain old batch file which copies everything to %temp%, runs it from there, then copies it back when the app is done. I've also added some 7zip action since it's faster to write back one big 7z than a bunch of little files.
The other thing I've seen is that it seems to manage the sync via Windows certificates or something. Whenever I run sync on a computer, it doesn't know my sync account and settings. When I bring the flash drive to a new computer, it's lost the account info again.
My daughter's 6th grade school got a small number of textbooks early, and they're ramping up supply.
As a solution, and also a 'value-add', they've got a per-student login system to the book publisher for online versions of the books.
It's been a disaster.
Leaving aside that not all kids have unfettered internet access at home - those kids get real books early - it was easily one month into the school year before they got the kids accounts and passwords to read the books. Each kid needs their own login.
Then: you're relying on each 6th grade kid to write down a case-sensitive login and password in class, then try it at home. Since they might not have homework that day for that class, it may be a week before they get around to checking the login. When it doesn't work, you then need to communicate back to the teacher - through your kid - for a better password. The "lost password" link just says "talk to your teacher."
We finally were able to successfully log in to two text books mid-November.
For another class, the teacher provided a 40 character long, case-sensitive URL for the kids to log on and check for homework. WTF?
I find it very odd that people believe that any criticism of the Obama administration has to be accompanied by a statement proclaiming that Republicans are bad, even when it's completely irrelevant to the topic being discussed.
I think that the GP post is preemptively trying to stop the tidal wave of "but the Republicans did THIS [bad thing]".
I'll admit it softens the tone, but it at least stops some of the noise that was sure to follow.
Starting in about the 2004 election, the tactics of the local election robocalls changed quite a bit. The call would start out with a line like: "Hi! I'd like to talk to you about candidate Mark Smith..."
At that point, you'd hang up thinking "Damn Mark Smith!" BUT: what you didn't know was that a few more minutes into the call, you'd discover that the call was sponsored by Mark's opponent, and if you had stayed on long enough, you would have heard about Mark's failings and how good his opponent was.
If you were on the fence before the call, you SURE weren't going to vote for Mark after a dozen of THOSE calls.
The "R"s used this a LOT in 2004, and it has picked up every year since then.
Just Social Security. Think about that for a moment. We spend as much on that as we do on the military, which is one of the only functions of the federal government which no one disputes is a constitutionally-defined function of the federal government.
To be fair, up until the '80s, Social Security was never part of the "budget". It was a self-contained system that was running a tremendous surplus, and Reagan essentially folded it into the budget to make his own plans look good.
It's like right having money trouble and borrowing some money from your rich uncle. Now: he's retiring and needs some of it back. We're essentially telling one of our chief bond-holders "Fuck Off!" Not directly: that wouldn't be cool. Instead, you first make your 'uncle' feel like crap. Maybe he doesn't really need the money. Maybe he's been spending too much and taken on too many debts, and he's a spendthrift. Build the case with all the family that it's HIS problem, not yours.
THAT'S the state of our Social Security system right now. Granted, even calculated independent of the budget it will soon fail to take in enough to meet its obligations. The last few times that happened, we raised the withholding from the paychecks. In about 20-30 years it will only be able to pay out about 75% of its obligations at current funding levels. But that's steady-state.
Carbs are not a drug, therefore they cannot be marketed as preventing starvation.
"Milk contains calcium, which builds strong bones and teeth."
However, there's never been a study that shows MILK builds strong bones and teeth, and so they come THAT CLOSE to lying. The Milk Board lobbyists are pretty well-funded.
Oddly, osteoporosis levels by country are inversely related to milk consumption. More milk = weaker bones.
I read that even though SUVs are on average safer to be in for a crash, they are on average less safe to be in for accidents in general.
Amen.
Many of the crash tests I've seen involving frontal and offset crashes of SUVs show intrusion into the passenger cabin. Doors, floorboards, etc.
When minvans first came out, they were given the same category as trucks, and got exempt from the car fuel standards. They also got different safety standards, too. So: they were initially missing door bars, etc. I don't think they've ever caught up.
Compare this to the safety design of the Smart car, where there's a neat video of them crashing one into a wall at about 60. NO intrusion.
They should have never done that- they should have made people pay installments on their bills, and then when the phone is paid off, the bill goes down.
I believe T-Mobile is the only company that does this. They actually have TWO price tiers - one for 'on contract' and one for off. If you bought a subsidized phone from them, you're on contract. Once the year has ended, you switch to the other plan. I think it's a difference of $10/month.
My dad's contract with them had expired and he had been using an 'ebay' phone. He called them to discuss other changes to his plan and they reminded him of this option - saved him a bit.
I believe there was a Supreme Court case in the 1800s where the court ruled on something and the president said something like:
"Now let them try to enforce it"
That would be Andrew Jackson, defying the Supreme Court, leading to the infamous "Trail of Tears"
I am a U.S. civil engineering student, and I know a bit about speed limits on various roads. When deciding what speed limit, say, a highway might have, the limiting factors include turn radii, stopping-sight distance, among other things.
True, but yellow-light intervals have similar engineering math behind them. In the end, though, local revenue comes into play and the numbers get fudged. Texas was one of the more recent ones.
Glad to see the medical community is finally accepting what needs to be done, but what's in it for the insurance companies?
In the case of this shot, the down-side to the insurance company is that the person receiving the shot is young enough that when they finally DO get infected, they're likely young adults and have already moved on to another insurance company.
It's not in their financial interest to protect you in such a way that your NEXT insurance company will benefit. Actual pap smears and cervical screening are recommended 3-5 years after first sexual activity or starting at age 21-25.
Was $510 the cost of just the shot(s) or did that also include the doctors office visits?
My daughter just got the second of the three shot series. The first visit is a 'doctor visit', while the last two shots are 'nurse visit' and somewhat cheaper.
$510 sounds like well under the cost of three such short 'checkup' visits. Also: wiki says that all three shots 'retail/list' for $360.
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I am playing with other distros looking for an alternative to this UNITY crap. I need a plain and functional desktop like Gnome 2. Simple, usuable and reliable in a high-pressure IT environment, that's what I want...
Since you're in an IT environment, you may want to give Debian another look. Since you're in an IT setup, you're likely to have pretty standard hardware. Since you're in an IT setup, you may find Debian "Stable" or even "Testing" reliable enough for you; Ubuntu is based on "unstable". You can even tack on any GUI you want, and still get the same APT package management.
You could also go the other way, as others have noted, and look at Mint or a similar Ubuntu-based distro.
I believe that the Federal Gov't should open more universities at free/low tuition
It was a goal of Reagan back when he was in California to specifically get rid of free/low-cost college. He saw college students protesting government activities and publicly complained that they were having it easy, and at government expense. With all that free-time they got to protest too much. So: he dramatically raised fees at the state unis. He couldn't raise tuitions, as they were protected. After a few years, there was even a court case that found that excessive fees were a de facto tuition, but by then it was too late.
Now: the pendulum has swung too far. Instead of a bunch of college students with plenty of free time and nothing (of value) to lose, we have a bunch of college students and grads with so much debt that they've thrown in the towel and realized that they have nothing to lose; when you're staring at $0 of college debt, you're essentially in the same situation as an unemployed grad with $100K of debt. "Aw, fuck it," you say.
We're fast entering a similar situation as the "Arab Spring": a bunch of unemployed young people with nothing to lose. Bloomberg stated as much and was taken to task for doing so.
Classic American blame-the-victim ideology. You've been taught all your life that success or failure is based primarily on personal, rather than environmental/social factors.
Over the past few years, the conservative view has been getting more press, and that's changed slightly.
YOUR success is based on personal factors. YOUR failure is blamed on external factors.
OTHER people's success is based on external factors (dumb luck, handouts). OTHER people's failures is blamed on personal factors (lazy, greedy).
You're dead-on regarding the external factors changing dramatically. People have just been taught to take the blame. When the housing market blew up, there were no rally cries to lynch the underwriters who forged the paperwork. Instead, the public was taught that their own personal greed was the root of the problem.
Yes, Any stock Android ROM from 2.2 and onwards has tethering via USB cable, or wifi by default, it is under the network settings
HTC stopped upgrading the Hero at 2.1. I got so frustrated with MMS messages filling up my phone built-in memory (compacting database bug) that I rooted and put on CyanogenMod and never looked back. In addition to wifi tethering and app2sd, it all just behaves better.
A general, for example, could access secret intelligence while visiting a secure government facility without fear that his or her smart phone or tablet computer might later be lost or stolen, the team's lead researcher said.
More likely: that general would leave the room, discover that the data he needed for his upcoming meeting had been removed from the phone, and then raise holy hell to have the damn system shut down forever.
I believe the hotness in black pepper is different, but it's not a pepper at all. Nearly all other food hotness (unless you count horse radish) is going to be solanaceae, and therefore capsaicin.
Correct - black pepper relies on "piperine" which is partially soluble in water (more-so in alcohol). Quick drink of water and you're fine. Horseradish and mustard rely on yet another chemical, but still water soluble.
Capsaicin, OTOH, is fat-soluble. It usually takes an oil-heavy food or drink to take away some of the heat. Many people recommend milk, but I've found that cheese works better.
The wear and tear on the body is such that even if you can increase the lifespan to a theoretical 150 years you wouldnt be very healthy for the last 90 or so years
Much of the gerontology work by Dr. Roy Walford was in calorie reduction, but there was also a fair amount of work in free-radicals. Turns out that calorie restriction is is good at extending the maximum life span. It stretches out the bell curve so that instead of an average age of death at 75 and a top age of of ~120, we end up with an average age of death at ~90 and a top age of 150 or higher.
BUT: for those rats in the calorie reduction phase, the age where body parts started failing was also similarly bumped out. It wasn't like the rats started getting bad hips and eyesight at the same age as the controls - that period of decline was also pushed out later. And: the rats on the free-radical scavenging diet saw a move in the knee of the bell-curve. That average age of death was pushed close to the maximum age, with a similar reduction in period of decline. Those rats experienced long, health lives, and then a sudden decline much later than the control rats.
he... used to make a point of dragging off trams and pulling in front of them at intersections, accellerating and breaking heavily on tram tracks so as not to run the red light, with several tonnes of tram having to break heavily behind him so as not to rear end him.
That, my friends, is a WANKER-powered car.
I agree with sibling posts - what an ass.
"And occasionally, he'd drive onto the sidewalk to see what people would do."
For a stellar example, look at the systematic destruction of works by the BBC from the 60s and 70s.
An additional reason: when the ability to record and play back a previous episode because feasible, the unions responsible for the support staff (lighting, sound, etc.) for the live shows became rightfully worried about losing work. There were specific contractual requirements that recordings be destroyed after a certain length of time.
The challenge is that at the time I'm certain it wasn't obvious what was culturally significant and what wasn't. I can remember paying $50-$100 for 1 inch wide, one hour long, Ampex reel-to-reel video tape spools in the mid 70s. Given the sum-total of all BBC broadcasting from that decade, I can believe that trying to preserve ANY tapes must have been a bear.
I find the "British Invaders" podcast interesting from time-to-time as they discuss some of the challenges of finding old episodes of BBC (and ITV) shows. I remember one discussion where they apparently had staff that would go around weekly to each office and ask for any old tapes to be recycled - quite a few shows were lost because the producer wasn't around to specifically "DON'T take that tape!"
But after that, if it gets sold, you have no control over who it gets sold to. That's not right. You signed on to be indebted to company X, not company Y or Z that wants to buy your debt.
Many years ago, my mother's mortgage was moving into its last years. What used to be worth thousands in interest every month had dropped to dollars and then pennies. It was sold perhaps twice in the last two years, with each company progressively worse at customer service. One routinely sent her the statement/bill late or on the due date. When she called to complain, they told her that she could just go ahead and send the money in anticipation of the due date and enclose a note with the mortgage number on it.
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Might I introduce you to "Portable Apps"? They even have Portable Chrome, so you just put in the jump drive and start running your own standalone session of Chrome.
The only challenge I've found with it is that if you don't have a snappy thumb drive, the write-back to the history can be pretty sluggish. I've taken to a plain old batch file which copies everything to %temp%, runs it from there, then copies it back when the app is done. I've also added some 7zip action since it's faster to write back one big 7z than a bunch of little files.
The other thing I've seen is that it seems to manage the sync via Windows certificates or something. Whenever I run sync on a computer, it doesn't know my sync account and settings. When I bring the flash drive to a new computer, it's lost the account info again.
As a solution, and also a 'value-add', they've got a per-student login system to the book publisher for online versions of the books.
It's been a disaster.
Leaving aside that not all kids have unfettered internet access at home - those kids get real books early - it was easily one month into the school year before they got the kids accounts and passwords to read the books. Each kid needs their own login.
Then: you're relying on each 6th grade kid to write down a case-sensitive login and password in class, then try it at home. Since they might not have homework that day for that class, it may be a week before they get around to checking the login. When it doesn't work, you then need to communicate back to the teacher - through your kid - for a better password. The "lost password" link just says "talk to your teacher."
We finally were able to successfully log in to two text books mid-November.
For another class, the teacher provided a 40 character long, case-sensitive URL for the kids to log on and check for homework. WTF?
I think that the GP post is preemptively trying to stop the tidal wave of "but the Republicans did THIS [bad thing]".
I'll admit it softens the tone, but it at least stops some of the noise that was sure to follow.
Starting in about the 2004 election, the tactics of the local election robocalls changed quite a bit. The call would start out with a line like: "Hi! I'd like to talk to you about candidate Mark Smith..."
At that point, you'd hang up thinking "Damn Mark Smith!" BUT: what you didn't know was that a few more minutes into the call, you'd discover that the call was sponsored by Mark's opponent, and if you had stayed on long enough, you would have heard about Mark's failings and how good his opponent was.
If you were on the fence before the call, you SURE weren't going to vote for Mark after a dozen of THOSE calls.
The "R"s used this a LOT in 2004, and it has picked up every year since then.
Slime.
Fair enough. I like your metaphor better than mine.
Just Social Security. Think about that for a moment. We spend as much on that as we do on the military, which is one of the only functions of the federal government which no one disputes is a constitutionally-defined function of the federal government.
To be fair, up until the '80s, Social Security was never part of the "budget". It was a self-contained system that was running a tremendous surplus, and Reagan essentially folded it into the budget to make his own plans look good.
It's like right having money trouble and borrowing some money from your rich uncle. Now: he's retiring and needs some of it back. We're essentially telling one of our chief bond-holders "Fuck Off!" Not directly: that wouldn't be cool. Instead, you first make your 'uncle' feel like crap. Maybe he doesn't really need the money. Maybe he's been spending too much and taken on too many debts, and he's a spendthrift. Build the case with all the family that it's HIS problem, not yours.
THAT'S the state of our Social Security system right now. Granted, even calculated independent of the budget it will soon fail to take in enough to meet its obligations. The last few times that happened, we raised the withholding from the paychecks. In about 20-30 years it will only be able to pay out about 75% of its obligations at current funding levels. But that's steady-state.
AND IT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH THE BUDGET.
"Milk contains calcium, which builds strong bones and teeth."
However, there's never been a study that shows MILK builds strong bones and teeth, and so they come THAT CLOSE to lying. The Milk Board lobbyists are pretty well-funded.
Oddly, osteoporosis levels by country are inversely related to milk consumption. More milk = weaker bones.
Amen.
Many of the crash tests I've seen involving frontal and offset crashes of SUVs show intrusion into the passenger cabin. Doors, floorboards, etc.
When minvans first came out, they were given the same category as trucks, and got exempt from the car fuel standards. They also got different safety standards, too. So: they were initially missing door bars, etc. I don't think they've ever caught up.
Compare this to the safety design of the Smart car, where there's a neat video of them crashing one into a wall at about 60. NO intrusion.
I believe T-Mobile is the only company that does this. They actually have TWO price tiers - one for 'on contract' and one for off. If you bought a subsidized phone from them, you're on contract. Once the year has ended, you switch to the other plan. I think it's a difference of $10/month.
My dad's contract with them had expired and he had been using an 'ebay' phone. He called them to discuss other changes to his plan and they reminded him of this option - saved him a bit.
Don't blame me. I voted for Kodos.
Hasn't this been done to death?
That would be Andrew Jackson, defying the Supreme Court, leading to the infamous "Trail of Tears"
True, but yellow-light intervals have similar engineering math behind them. In the end, though, local revenue comes into play and the numbers get fudged. Texas was one of the more recent ones.
In the case of this shot, the down-side to the insurance company is that the person receiving the shot is young enough that when they finally DO get infected, they're likely young adults and have already moved on to another insurance company.
It's not in their financial interest to protect you in such a way that your NEXT insurance company will benefit. Actual pap smears and cervical screening are recommended 3-5 years after first sexual activity or starting at age 21-25.
My daughter just got the second of the three shot series. The first visit is a 'doctor visit', while the last two shots are 'nurse visit' and somewhat cheaper.
$510 sounds like well under the cost of three such short 'checkup' visits. Also: wiki says that all three shots 'retail/list' for $360.
Since you're in an IT environment, you may want to give Debian another look. Since you're in an IT setup, you're likely to have pretty standard hardware. Since you're in an IT setup, you may find Debian "Stable" or even "Testing" reliable enough for you; Ubuntu is based on "unstable". You can even tack on any GUI you want, and still get the same APT package management.
You could also go the other way, as others have noted, and look at Mint or a similar Ubuntu-based distro.
It was a goal of Reagan back when he was in California to specifically get rid of free/low-cost college. He saw college students protesting government activities and publicly complained that they were having it easy, and at government expense. With all that free-time they got to protest too much. So: he dramatically raised fees at the state unis. He couldn't raise tuitions, as they were protected. After a few years, there was even a court case that found that excessive fees were a de facto tuition, but by then it was too late.
Now: the pendulum has swung too far. Instead of a bunch of college students with plenty of free time and nothing (of value) to lose, we have a bunch of college students and grads with so much debt that they've thrown in the towel and realized that they have nothing to lose; when you're staring at $0 of college debt, you're essentially in the same situation as an unemployed grad with $100K of debt. "Aw, fuck it," you say.
We're fast entering a similar situation as the "Arab Spring": a bunch of unemployed young people with nothing to lose. Bloomberg stated as much and was taken to task for doing so.
Over the past few years, the conservative view has been getting more press, and that's changed slightly.
YOUR success is based on personal factors. YOUR failure is blamed on external factors.
OTHER people's success is based on external factors (dumb luck, handouts). OTHER people's failures is blamed on personal factors (lazy, greedy).
You're dead-on regarding the external factors changing dramatically. People have just been taught to take the blame. When the housing market blew up, there were no rally cries to lynch the underwriters who forged the paperwork. Instead, the public was taught that their own personal greed was the root of the problem.
HTC stopped upgrading the Hero at 2.1. I got so frustrated with MMS messages filling up my phone built-in memory (compacting database bug) that I rooted and put on CyanogenMod and never looked back. In addition to wifi tethering and app2sd, it all just behaves better.
More likely: that general would leave the room, discover that the data he needed for his upcoming meeting had been removed from the phone, and then raise holy hell to have the damn system shut down forever.
Correct - black pepper relies on "piperine" which is partially soluble in water (more-so in alcohol). Quick drink of water and you're fine. Horseradish and mustard rely on yet another chemical, but still water soluble.
Capsaicin, OTOH, is fat-soluble. It usually takes an oil-heavy food or drink to take away some of the heat. Many people recommend milk, but I've found that cheese works better.
Much of the gerontology work by Dr. Roy Walford was in calorie reduction, but there was also a fair amount of work in free-radicals. Turns out that calorie restriction is is good at extending the maximum life span. It stretches out the bell curve so that instead of an average age of death at 75 and a top age of of ~120, we end up with an average age of death at ~90 and a top age of 150 or higher.
BUT: for those rats in the calorie reduction phase, the age where body parts started failing was also similarly bumped out. It wasn't like the rats started getting bad hips and eyesight at the same age as the controls - that period of decline was also pushed out later. And: the rats on the free-radical scavenging diet saw a move in the knee of the bell-curve. That average age of death was pushed close to the maximum age, with a similar reduction in period of decline. Those rats experienced long, health lives, and then a sudden decline much later than the control rats.
That, my friends, is a WANKER-powered car.
I agree with sibling posts - what an ass.
"And occasionally, he'd drive onto the sidewalk to see what people would do."
An additional reason: when the ability to record and play back a previous episode because feasible, the unions responsible for the support staff (lighting, sound, etc.) for the live shows became rightfully worried about losing work. There were specific contractual requirements that recordings be destroyed after a certain length of time.
The challenge is that at the time I'm certain it wasn't obvious what was culturally significant and what wasn't. I can remember paying $50-$100 for 1 inch wide, one hour long, Ampex reel-to-reel video tape spools in the mid 70s. Given the sum-total of all BBC broadcasting from that decade, I can believe that trying to preserve ANY tapes must have been a bear.
I find the "British Invaders" podcast interesting from time-to-time as they discuss some of the challenges of finding old episodes of BBC (and ITV) shows. I remember one discussion where they apparently had staff that would go around weekly to each office and ask for any old tapes to be recycled - quite a few shows were lost because the producer wasn't around to specifically "DON'T take that tape!"
Many years ago, my mother's mortgage was moving into its last years. What used to be worth thousands in interest every month had dropped to dollars and then pennies. It was sold perhaps twice in the last two years, with each company progressively worse at customer service. One routinely sent her the statement/bill late or on the due date. When she called to complain, they told her that she could just go ahead and send the money in anticipation of the due date and enclose a note with the mortgage number on it.