There's a limited amount of real estate on my body. Requiring me to carry a device when I'm not on the clock and claiming the right to review everything I do with it seems too intrusive. Sure, I can carry two phones, but why should I have to?
Now if you can provide me a device with two lines, one private and one for work, you can go ahead and knock yourself out spying on my work line. I work for a state government and pay for my own phone because it's not worth dealing with the crap that comes attached to a work phone.
An Oregon couple was sent down a Forest Service road in a remote area [kgw.com] and was stuck for three days before they were rescued.
Sorry, but when you're heading out in to the wilderness you better have a good idea of where you're heading, especially in winter. Blindly trusting your life to an electronic device when you can pick up a map for a couple bucks is insane.
Look, I get your point: MS had to replace XP with something. But to suggest that they didn't waste a buttload of time rearranging the deck chairs...well, you've obviously never read this post.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06di_a588b0
That has to win the award for burning through the most cash with nothing to show for it. Celebrity endorsements for a computer? If it's not Bill Shatner, why bother?
a few months ago. Did some googling but nothing really seemed to kill it. Fortunately it only infected her profile, so I just backed up her data and created a new account for her, and congratulated myself for not giving her admin rights.
"I know an artist that disagrees because as she said, "their form is dictated by their function". I tend to see that as just working within the limitations of your medium.
Well said. I'm not sure I agree about Tetris. I mean, everything you say about it also applies to tic-tac-toe.
If you think we're going to send our surplus billions of people in to space, you're wrong. There's no way we could launch enough bodies to have any significant effect on the earth's population. Yes, we might be able to send a few people to colonize another planet, but so what? the universe doesn't need us, and there won't be any benefit for the billions of us left behind. Without faster than light travel, intergalactic trade ain't gonna happen.
so by the definition you cite Apple does not have a monopoly. That's not to say they won't have one if they bury RIM, Android, Windows mobile, but they're not there yet. They never will be, if iPhone stays tied to AT&T.
from TFA:"Most of us, educators included, learned what we know of Escalante's experience from Stand and Deliver... the film was 90 percent truth and 10 percent drama -- but what a difference 10 percent can make."
Educators are treating a Hollywood film like a documentary? WTF? But I'm not surprised. I've worked in education for 15 years, and it seems like the only time academicians do any research is when they're publishing. The rest of the time, it's best guesses and gut instincts. Unbelievable.
The actual cost of the technology is not 3 to 8 percent. That is the amount SawStop will charge to LICENSE the technology. The article does not mention what it will cost to actually build and install the technology. But it's worth noting that SawStop can't seem to do it for less than $1600--in an admittedly very nice, upscale saw.
So assume a competitor cuts corners and can build a saw with SawStop technology for half of what SawStop can. That's still $800. Too much for a lot of us.
Based on that article we can't tell what it will cost. We know that repairing it costs $169, and that Ryobi and others felt that using it in their saws would be too expensive. I can't see how you can put a unit that takes $169 in repair parts in to a $100 saw.
Seatbelts save lives and increase the cost of a car by a fraction of a percent. Stopsaw won't save any lives (fingers and hands, yes), and the cheapest StopSaw costs 16 times more than what I paid for my table saw. I'm not sure where to draw the line, but there's a hell of a lot of territory between those two points.
The StopSaw tech is not a "standard safety device". It is only used by StopSaw. Airbags in cars sold in the US are mandated by federal law. There's no law mandating StopSaw. Whether there should be such a mandate is open to debate, but should not be decided by 12 randomly picked jurors.
From TFA: "Osorio's legal team,... pointed to SawStop's sales as evidence that the technology is not only mechanically feasible but financially viable"
SawStop's cheapest saw is $1600. To get the saw working again after a stoppage costs $169 in parts. That alone is more than I paid for my table saw, brand new. These a**holes are basically trying to destroy woodworking as a hobby. Yes, saws are dangerous, that's why I'm always incredibly careful when I use one.
This tech is great for schools or shops where saws are used all the time, but to insist that no saw be sold without this technology is nuts.
"....there is a good reason that they tell you not to plug in the florescent lights in you garage to the same circuit as your table saw"
I understand how strobing works, but that doesn't make sense. For the blade to appear to be standing still, it has to be rotating at the same frequency as the lights' strobe, or a multiple thereof. How would being plugged in to the same circuit affect the speed of the saw's motor?
I'm not saying strobing doesn't happen, I've seen it myself using variable speed drills under fluorescent lighting, but I don't see how which circuit your saw is plugged in to matters.
God forbid that anyone but corporate execs make a decent living. And I've never seen that 10-20% higher figure before. Might be true now that companies are cutting back so much, but it's not the rule.
As a matter of fact, they did play their albums in their entirety live before Rogers left the band.
I believe he described Thunder as a very good attempt at making a Pink Floyd album.
Was nice to see the Olympics and catch a bit of the Oscars, aside from special events we watch everything online or Netflix it. The whole channel paradigm needs to die, just stream everything and charge a few cents per view.
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Sharon Angle sure likes to see the words Sharon Angle on Sharon Angle's webpage.
There's a limited amount of real estate on my body. Requiring me to carry a device when I'm not on the clock and claiming the right to review everything I do with it seems too intrusive. Sure, I can carry two phones, but why should I have to?
Now if you can provide me a device with two lines, one private and one for work, you can go ahead and knock yourself out spying on my work line. I work for a state government and pay for my own phone because it's not worth dealing with the crap that comes attached to a work phone.
An Oregon couple was sent down a Forest Service road in a remote area [kgw.com] and was stuck for three days before they were rescued.
Sorry, but when you're heading out in to the wilderness you better have a good idea of where you're heading, especially in winter. Blindly trusting your life to an electronic device when you can pick up a map for a couple bucks is insane.
Look, I get your point: MS had to replace XP with something. But to suggest that they didn't waste a buttload of time rearranging the deck chairs...well, you've obviously never read this post.
...you can see it from space. On Google Earth.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06di_a588b0
That has to win the award for burning through the most cash with nothing to show for it. Celebrity endorsements for a computer? If it's not Bill Shatner, why bother?
If it's sufficiently cheap and easy to install, it could half the life of silicon and still be a better investment. But you raise a good question.
I'm reading this on a Pentium 2, you insensitive clod!
a few months ago. Did some googling but nothing really seemed to kill it. Fortunately it only infected her profile, so I just backed up her data and created a new account for her, and congratulated myself for not giving her admin rights.
as long as it's accessible WHILE PLAYING THE GAME. Don't make me quit and fire up Acrobat Reader to look up one command.
"I know an artist that disagrees because as she said, "their form is dictated by their function". I tend to see that as just working within the limitations of your medium.
Well said. I'm not sure I agree about Tetris. I mean, everything you say about it also applies to tic-tac-toe.
If you think we're going to send our surplus billions of people in to space, you're wrong. There's no way we could launch enough bodies to have any significant effect on the earth's population. Yes, we might be able to send a few people to colonize another planet, but so what? the universe doesn't need us, and there won't be any benefit for the billions of us left behind. Without faster than light travel, intergalactic trade ain't gonna happen.
I agree with most of your post, but come on, trade routes? Over the poles? Seriously?
so by the definition you cite Apple does not have a monopoly. That's not to say they won't have one if they bury RIM, Android, Windows mobile, but they're not there yet. They never will be, if iPhone stays tied to AT&T.
Cue Nancy Sinatra in 5...4...3...2...1
I'm running a 5 year old P4 and never have issues with slashdot. Well, not speed issues anyway.
from TFA:"Most of us, educators included, learned what we know of Escalante's experience from Stand and Deliver... the film was 90 percent truth and 10 percent drama -- but what a difference 10 percent can make."
Educators are treating a Hollywood film like a documentary? WTF? But I'm not surprised. I've worked in education for 15 years, and it seems like the only time academicians do any research is when they're publishing. The rest of the time, it's best guesses and gut instincts. Unbelievable.
The actual cost of the technology is not 3 to 8 percent. That is the amount SawStop will charge to LICENSE the technology. The article does not mention what it will cost to actually build and install the technology. But it's worth noting that SawStop can't seem to do it for less than $1600--in an admittedly very nice, upscale saw.
So assume a competitor cuts corners and can build a saw with SawStop technology for half of what SawStop can. That's still $800. Too much for a lot of us.
Based on that article we can't tell what it will cost. We know that repairing it costs $169, and that Ryobi and others felt that using it in their saws would be too expensive. I can't see how you can put a unit that takes $169 in repair parts in to a $100 saw.
Seatbelts save lives and increase the cost of a car by a fraction of a percent. Stopsaw won't save any lives (fingers and hands, yes), and the cheapest StopSaw costs 16 times more than what I paid for my table saw. I'm not sure where to draw the line, but there's a hell of a lot of territory between those two points.
The StopSaw tech is not a "standard safety device". It is only used by StopSaw. Airbags in cars sold in the US are mandated by federal law. There's no law mandating StopSaw. Whether there should be such a mandate is open to debate, but should not be decided by 12 randomly picked jurors.
From TFA: "Osorio's legal team, ... pointed to SawStop's sales as evidence that the technology is not only mechanically feasible but financially viable"
SawStop's cheapest saw is $1600. To get the saw working again after a stoppage costs $169 in parts. That alone is more than I paid for my table saw, brand new. These a**holes are basically trying to destroy woodworking as a hobby. Yes, saws are dangerous, that's why I'm always incredibly careful when I use one.
This tech is great for schools or shops where saws are used all the time, but to insist that no saw be sold without this technology is nuts.
"....there is a good reason that they tell you not to plug in the florescent lights in you garage to the same circuit as your table saw"
I understand how strobing works, but that doesn't make sense. For the blade to appear to be standing still, it has to be rotating at the same frequency as the lights' strobe, or a multiple thereof. How would being plugged in to the same circuit affect the speed of the saw's motor?
I'm not saying strobing doesn't happen, I've seen it myself using variable speed drills under fluorescent lighting, but I don't see how which circuit your saw is plugged in to matters.
God forbid that anyone but corporate execs make a decent living. And I've never seen that 10-20% higher figure before. Might be true now that companies are cutting back so much, but it's not the rule.
As a matter of fact, they did play their albums in their entirety live before Rogers left the band. I believe he described Thunder as a very good attempt at making a Pink Floyd album.
Was nice to see the Olympics and catch a bit of the Oscars, aside from special events we watch everything online or Netflix it. The whole channel paradigm needs to die, just stream everything and charge a few cents per view.