I've waited for so long for JavaFX - the same software framework that adds bloat and makes both my cable box and my Blu Ray player take a gazillion years to boot up and has slow menus that take the same time to display as a 386 running a copy of Windows 3.1 - to run on my embedded hobbyist devices.
I mean, all you have to do is start up a $500 electronic device, log into a web service, and generate a bar code that has to be scanned at the register.
In the past, i had to go through the painstaking hassle of quickly sliding a small piece of plastic across a device after audibly saying "I would like a coffee."
If your 5 year old is able to use an iPhone proficiently, then he/she probably should be reading something more complicated than a children's book anyway.
When I lived in Ohio, the town next to me, Brimfield (Brimtucky was the colloquial term, though,) was a rural town with very little going for it in terms of an economy. A Walmart was built, and then right after that, several small shops opened up around the Walmart. Walmart did not, in this case, drive out small business.
The people in my hometown petitioned to prevent it from being built there, and when it was built a town over, no small businesses closed down, the same people in my town who protested the place's construction now shop there, and instead Brimtucky recieves the tax revenue.
I'm not saying we should regulate the hell out of everything but I really miss having other options when I shop.
In the city to which I'm currently residing in Kentucky (you know, south of the Mason-Dixon, where all of those gun-toting conservatives people love to make fun of so much) there is a Walmart, at least 2 Meijers, several Kroger's, a bunch of specialty ethnic stores, a whole foods type co-op, along with both chain electronics stores and several specialty shops all over the place. "Other options" are doing just fine.
Why is it that whenever there is some sort of multi-national drama, suddenly the discussion gets shifted to "conservatives are mindless drones of some tinfoil hat New World Order," or "Fox News is partly to blame" or the likes?
I seriously wish that Godwin's law could be modified to include the phrases "liberal media bias", "Fox News", "New World Order," sheeple," and "shill"
makes me laugh more than frightens me. It's always amusing to go to some popup-riddled website to look up the lyrics to a song, and off in the corner of all of the irrelevant-to-my-tastes "mp3 ringtone justin bieber ringtones here click here to guess your crush" ads is a singular "32-bit RISC based microcontrollers from Atmel" advertisement.
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I've waited for so long for JavaFX - the same software framework that adds bloat and makes both my cable box and my Blu Ray player take a gazillion years to boot up and has slow menus that take the same time to display as a 386 running a copy of Windows 3.1 - to run on my embedded hobbyist devices.
Apparently nobody bothered to read the IT guy's meticulously prepared memo.
Could I get a clear definition of what animal rights activists mean when they define "vivisection?"
Cripes, I fail big time! 2 million is not 200 million!
I've known this for a while. For years, I've been skeptical every time a scientist claimed that the moon was 2,006,000 years old.
However I'm told that OpenSSL works a bit better.
I'm pretty sure that a national internet ID system would be a joke even if it included some sort of tire pressure monitoring
then why are they using computers?
There, it saw 4 baby turtlenets crawling in a green ooze...
Just like go to the Goodwill store or something, there are plenty of $20 tables there.
Microsoft was doing so great on their new feature set for IE9 up until they listed the ability to turn ActiveX back on.
I mean, after the morality squads reject the .xxx tld, Ill just have to get my hardcore porn at a website with a working tld: www.titfuck.jesus
I mean, if you try to sell porn across state lines, some overzealous, butthole-of-a-sheriff in Florida might extradite you for obscenity charges.
I mean, all you have to do is start up a $500 electronic device, log into a web service, and generate a bar code that has to be scanned at the register. In the past, i had to go through the painstaking hassle of quickly sliding a small piece of plastic across a device after audibly saying "I would like a coffee."
You can search the net with ease...
If your 5 year old is able to use an iPhone proficiently, then he/she probably should be reading something more complicated than a children's book anyway.
Speaking as a nerd, you should be fully aware that correlation does not nessecarily mean causation.
When I lived in Ohio, the town next to me, Brimfield (Brimtucky was the colloquial term, though,) was a rural town with very little going for it in terms of an economy. A Walmart was built, and then right after that, several small shops opened up around the Walmart. Walmart did not, in this case, drive out small business.
The people in my hometown petitioned to prevent it from being built there, and when it was built a town over, no small businesses closed down, the same people in my town who protested the place's construction now shop there, and instead Brimtucky recieves the tax revenue.
I'm not saying we should regulate the hell out of everything but I really miss having other options when I shop.
In the city to which I'm currently residing in Kentucky (you know, south of the Mason-Dixon, where all of those gun-toting conservatives people love to make fun of so much) there is a Walmart, at least 2 Meijers, several Kroger's, a bunch of specialty ethnic stores, a whole foods type co-op, along with both chain electronics stores and several specialty shops all over the place. "Other options" are doing just fine.
The timescale given doesn't really fit in with any sort of creationist timeline and the Methodist church advocates evolution.
So if somebody burns down a ROTC building on a college campus then, it's considered a protest or sit in, as opposed to an attack?
Why is it that whenever there is some sort of multi-national drama, suddenly the discussion gets shifted to "conservatives are mindless drones of some tinfoil hat New World Order," or "Fox News is partly to blame" or the likes? I seriously wish that Godwin's law could be modified to include the phrases "liberal media bias", "Fox News", "New World Order," sheeple," and "shill"
makes me laugh more than frightens me. It's always amusing to go to some popup-riddled website to look up the lyrics to a song, and off in the corner of all of the irrelevant-to-my-tastes "mp3 ringtone justin bieber ringtones here click here to guess your crush" ads is a singular "32-bit RISC based microcontrollers from Atmel" advertisement.
No smog, no barking from the dog, breakfast with no hog
I'm going to watch "Wrongfully Accused" in his honor.