You don't want to rely on a complex system in an emergency, period.
The cable infrastructure may continue during a power outage - but how about your cable modem, router and VOIP device? Sure, they may be good emergency alternatives for you, personally. But the average person isn't likely going to have UPS for those devices.
People who were without power for weeks during the ice storm, still had functioning phone service, long, long after their UPS would have died.
Pandora's main competition for mindshare is Last.FM. There's also a bit of a US/EU rivalry, with Pandora so strongly identified with the US and...
There isn't much of a rivalry at all. Firstly, anyone can use Last.fm, Pandora is restricted to the US. But tthat aside, they aren't really even similar services at all.
FOX has a pretty horrendous track record with Science Fiction shows in general(Space : Above and Beyond, Firefly and now this to name a few.) Why don't they just stick with what they know is beyond me. I'd wager we can kiss Fringe goodbye next year, too.
I urge people who do a lot of photography to print this out and keep it with them. It is a page that details the rights of photographers in the United States.
You left an important part out.
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I read "This is a story I wrote on..." to mean it was fiction. Do you honestly believe that if these people really behaved as described, that Charlie would post the entire story with his and everyone else's names intact?
but Canadian music is... Well, usually pretty awful.
You're joking, right, AC? There are as many good artists in Canada (i'd argue more) as there are in the US. However, they aren't as buried in the quagmire of cookie cutter RIAA crap and American Idol rejects as the really good US artists are. But, you wouldn't know that listening to Rick Dee's weekly top 40, would you?
I won't bother naming names, since tastes vary, but I don't count Celine Dion or Nickelback in the mix.
Seems like a non-story to me. Wrath of Khan didn't have any spoken Klingon either...
Well, the obvious reason for that is there were no scenes with klingons to speak it in Wrath of Khan. There was no spoken latin either, for similar reasons. The big objection is that Klingons (the species) were removed from the movie along with their language when the only scene with them in it was cut. Both the summary, and the only slightly more wordy "article" touch on the fact.
P.S. I will NOT turn in my geek card. There were Klingon ships in the Kobiyashi simulation at the beginning of the film, but they don't speak klingon much anyway.
From Wikipedia : "A newly Captained James T. Kirk of the U.S.S. Enterprise fights Romulans from the future, who are interfering with history by destroying the Federation."
Are they KIDDING?! Time travel to interfere with history and destroy the Federation? Really? Everyone loved it in Enterprise, how could it fail here?
We're talking treating people who are almost certainly going to die anyway with a genetic approach that doesn't have even a theoretical way to spread to other people. The absolute worst thing that could go wrong is that the people being treated die from the treatment. The second worst thing that could happen is that we don't do the treatment and they die anyway; though maybe a bit later.
Really? If I were the betting type, I'd say just about everyone is almost certainly going to die, not just those afflicted with MD. The most important thing anyone can ask for isn't longevity, it's quality of life. Your list of outcomes is incomplete - I'd at the very least put "the treatment leads them to suffer more than they already do" far ahead of any others.
I suggest it for anyone who deals with clients and wants their number to remain the same after they leave a job. Get a GC number and put it on your business cards. Link up your cell and your desk phone. Leave the job, keep the cards, your clients may not even know the difference.
You have no issues at all giving your clients a number that bounces them through a free service that likely stores, categorizes and/or indexes their conversations with you?
Firefly's handling was a travesty. Great show that was scheduled to death.
I've always thought that part of Firefly's charm is that it didn't live long enough for Whedon to muck it up and turn everyone into demons, vampires or other super powered freaks. It was nice that everyone was pretty much normal, besides River. But it's easy to see that would have changed.
There is no reasonable expectation that one would lose their *entire fleet* in one storm. Lose a ship, or several, sure. But the entire fleet? Unless it was in fact negligence that caused the loss, say there were severe weather warnings, and you sent your entire fleet out directly into the storm anyway, Force Majeure may very well apply.
Why the knee jerk reaction to facebook having the same policies as slashdot? If you delete your slashdot account, what do you think happens to all of your archived comments?
The majority of people who contribute on Slashdot are not only tech savvy, but have some understanding of licensing, copyright and the like. We enter in to such agreements knowingly (as far as the IANAL crowd can,) or, if we didn't read an agreement, we know *something* is there.
Most facebook users don't have an earthly clue how much privacy they're trowing away using the service and and completely unaware of what rights they have (or had) and how exactly the new TOS affects them.
The biggest problem for me, isn't as much the new TOS, but the fact that it was changed without notification, and by simply using my account, I've accepted the new TOS. That's plain dirty.
Much like Trent Reznor and Radiohead, he's got tons of cash to play around with and experiment - cash made while riding the corporate engine. I'll subscribe to your theory when I see a brand new artist do the same thing and make a profit from it.
The chart shows that Mac share went from 6.5% a year ago to 7.5% today, which is a significant increase. But note that the chart separates PPC Macs ("Mac OS") from Intel Macs ("MacIntel"), and here you can see that MacIntel's share has increased from 2.5% to 4.5% while PPC Mac OS decreased from 4% down to 3%.
I'm not sure comparing two operating systems (XP and Vista) to two hardware platforms (PPC and Intel) will make for any meaningful discussion.
That is, most Mac sales are due to people upgrading from Mac PPC to Mac Intel in the same way that most Vista sales are at the expense of XP's share.
Quite frankly, a majority of Mac users simply upgrade their OS when the time comes, since the system requirement changes aren't nearly as drastic.
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Funny how the RIAA never mentions the almost decade long boycott as a reason for decreased sales...
Much like me, I doubt they even knew there was a decade long boycott...
You don't want to rely on a complex system in an emergency, period.
The cable infrastructure may continue during a power outage - but how about your cable modem, router and VOIP device? Sure, they may be good emergency alternatives for you, personally. But the average person isn't likely going to have UPS for those devices.
People who were without power for weeks during the ice storm, still had functioning phone service, long, long after their UPS would have died.
You'd be very unlikely to be streaming FLAC; it would take you quite a few days to reach 2G streaming at 128kbps 24 hours a day.
Pandora's main competition for mindshare is Last.FM. There's also a bit of a US/EU rivalry, with Pandora so strongly identified with the US and...
There isn't much of a rivalry at all. Firstly, anyone can use Last.fm, Pandora is restricted to the US. But tthat aside, they aren't really even similar services at all.
FOX has a pretty horrendous track record with Science Fiction shows in general(Space : Above and Beyond, Firefly and now this to name a few.) Why don't they just stick with what they know is beyond me. I'd wager we can kiss Fringe goodbye next year, too.
Which piece, William Shatner's piece? I don't think it needs protection.
I urge people who do a lot of photography to print this out and keep it with them. It is a page that details the rights of photographers in the United States .
You left an important part out.
I read "This is a story I wrote on..." to mean it was fiction. Do you honestly believe that if these people really behaved as described, that Charlie would post the entire story with his and everyone else's names intact?
You're joking, right, AC? There are as many good artists in Canada (i'd argue more) as there are in the US. However, they aren't as buried in the quagmire of cookie cutter RIAA crap and American Idol rejects as the really good US artists are. But, you wouldn't know that listening to Rick Dee's weekly top 40, would you?
I won't bother naming names, since tastes vary, but I don't count Celine Dion or Nickelback in the mix.
Well, the obvious reason for that is there were no scenes with klingons to speak it in Wrath of Khan. There was no spoken latin either, for similar reasons. The big objection is that Klingons (the species) were removed from the movie along with their language when the only scene with them in it was cut. Both the summary, and the only slightly more wordy "article" touch on the fact.
P.S. I will NOT turn in my geek card. There were Klingon ships in the Kobiyashi simulation at the beginning of the film, but they don't speak klingon much anyway.
He was hanged. I'm sure I don't want to know if he was hung.
From Wikipedia : "A newly Captained James T. Kirk of the U.S.S. Enterprise fights Romulans from the future, who are interfering with history by destroying the Federation."
Are they KIDDING?! Time travel to interfere with history and destroy the Federation? Really? Everyone loved it in Enterprise, how could it fail here?
Hopefully, we get more Space Nazis.
I'm sure this will meet your expectations.
Really? If I were the betting type, I'd say just about everyone is almost certainly going to die, not just those afflicted with MD. The most important thing anyone can ask for isn't longevity, it's quality of life. Your list of outcomes is incomplete - I'd at the very least put "the treatment leads them to suffer more than they already do" far ahead of any others.
I wouldn't call a full qwerty keyboard limited hard buttons. Not all smartphones are iPhones...
"Decent" and "Mainstream" rarely belong in the same sentence.
I suggest it for anyone who deals with clients and wants their number to remain the same after they leave a job. Get a GC number and put it on your business cards. Link up your cell and your desk phone. Leave the job, keep the cards, your clients may not even know the difference.
You have no issues at all giving your clients a number that bounces them through a free service that likely stores, categorizes and/or indexes their conversations with you?
Firefly's handling was a travesty. Great show that was scheduled to death.
I've always thought that part of Firefly's charm is that it didn't live long enough for Whedon to muck it up and turn everyone into demons, vampires or other super powered freaks. It was nice that everyone was pretty much normal, besides River. But it's easy to see that would have changed.
There is no reasonable expectation that one would lose their *entire fleet* in one storm. Lose a ship, or several, sure. But the entire fleet? Unless it was in fact negligence that caused the loss, say there were severe weather warnings, and you sent your entire fleet out directly into the storm anyway, Force Majeure may very well apply.
Why the knee jerk reaction to facebook having the same policies as slashdot? If you delete your slashdot account, what do you think happens to all of your archived comments?
The majority of people who contribute on Slashdot are not only tech savvy, but have some understanding of licensing, copyright and the like. We enter in to such agreements knowingly (as far as the IANAL crowd can,) or, if we didn't read an agreement, we know *something* is there.
Most facebook users don't have an earthly clue how much privacy they're trowing away using the service and and completely unaware of what rights they have (or had) and how exactly the new TOS affects them.
The biggest problem for me, isn't as much the new TOS, but the fact that it was changed without notification, and by simply using my account, I've accepted the new TOS. That's plain dirty.
Games Computers Play might have been just slightly older: http://www.atarimagazines.com/v4n6/GamesComputers.html
Much like Trent Reznor and Radiohead, he's got tons of cash to play around with and experiment - cash made while riding the corporate engine. I'll subscribe to your theory when I see a brand new artist do the same thing and make a profit from it.
...One of the biggest reasons that I carry a phone is for roadside emergencies.
Big if? You're at roadside emergencies more often than you're near a Wi-Fi network? You might consider a refresher in driver's ed. :)
The chart shows that Mac share went from 6.5% a year ago to 7.5% today, which is a significant increase. But note that the chart separates PPC Macs ("Mac OS") from Intel Macs ("MacIntel"), and here you can see that MacIntel's share has increased from 2.5% to 4.5% while PPC Mac OS decreased from 4% down to 3%.
I'm not sure comparing two operating systems (XP and Vista) to two hardware platforms (PPC and Intel) will make for any meaningful discussion.
That is, most Mac sales are due to people upgrading from Mac PPC to Mac Intel in the same way that most Vista sales are at the expense of XP's share.
Quite frankly, a majority of Mac users simply upgrade their OS when the time comes, since the system requirement changes aren't nearly as drastic.
+1 You made my day. Wish I had mod points for you!
You forgot step 5. Where the single pioneering Canuck winds up in jail for a very, very long time for distributing copyrighted materials.