... that scaling the Desktop down to the size of a phone screen failed for the same reason scaling the phone GUI up to the Desktop fails.
They are completely different interface paradigms. If all LCDs were touchscreen, it might be doable, but "swiping" is very different with a mouse - different enough that it just doesn't work.
There is a bill in the works that would decriminalize OC, but I don't know what the current status is. I know there was some debate on it in the beginning of the 2011 legislative session, but it has been changed a few times and I have not kept up with it. I lived in PA before I moved here, so I had no qualms about carrying because I wasn't concerned with printing or showing (full size M&P9 or a 4".357Mag revolver).
Here, showing definitely gets you pinched, and printing may or may not depending on whether the cop is having a bad day.
Drop me an email and I'll see if I can dig up what is going on and keep you up to date. SC is a pretty good place to live, especially if you like outdoorsy type stuff. My wife and I live in the upstate and it's gorgeous.
>> Actual office present and pulling over a vehicle doesn't imply speed camera, it implies handheld radar.
There are several methods of measuring vehicle speed that do not involve the use of radar.
In any case, nothing in your post is even remotely true. There are several methods of measuring speed that do not require radar. But, modern handheld and vehicle-mount radars are nearly idiot proof, and include telemetry and photo evidence of how they were used to capture the speed, so any user error can be determined in court (although most defendants do not know how to file a discovery motion to get that evidence).
You would probably receive fewer tickets if you did not speed.
You can refuse to sign a ticket in SC, but then you can also be taken into custody since you are refusing to accept the summons and agree to appear for your own trial. If you have nothing better to do with your time, and don't mind paying for your car to be towed and impounded, then you can certainly refuse to sign.
In some states, like Maryland, it is in your best legal interest to refuse to sign, because in Maryland, you are not only signing the summons, but you are also signing a confession, since there is a confession statement on the ticket that basically says you are admitting guilt for whatever offense the officer is charging you with. Eff that.
What also helps is that unattended speed enforcement is illegal in South Carolina. An actual living, breathing officer has to have witnessed the violation, made the measurement himself, made actual, person to person contact with the driver, issued the summons, and collected the drivers signature.
Unmanned photo traffic enforcement is a big no-no in SC.
Look, first of all, nobody is forcing anybody to take out Student Loans.
That said, learning to do even a basic risk analysis is part of growing up to become an adult (something that even today's 25-30 year-olds have chosen not to do). The basic risk analysis is this:
"I am going to be responsible for paying $X to get an education that will, in the end, result in Y probability of being gainfully employed for $Z per year in expected annual income."
If $X is large, and Y and $Z are small, then the risk is great and the likelihood of being able to pay back $X is small.
If $X is large, Y is close to 1, and $Z is large, then obviously the risk is warranted.
It's really not that difficult to see that spending $50K/year to get a Ph.D. in Underwater Basketweaving at Middlebury College is not a good risk, and that spending $8K/year on in-state tuition at a school like Georgia Tech to get a degree in pretty much any Engineering discipline is a good risk to take.
What we have in OWS is a crowd of 20-30 year old children who have not yet grown up and taken responsibility for themselves, and want someone else to pay for their mistakes. Get real.
Probably not, but I'm an Emag guy, not a thermo guy.
The glass makes a good insulator and greenhouse effect inside the tube. The copper pipe is a good conductor of heat from the warm air in the "greenhouse" to the water in the pipe. I don't think the rubber hose would be a very efficient conductor of the heat.
The glass is an insulator to prevent heat escaping. Without it, the pipes would simply try to be whatever temperature the air was (especially bad with our windy winters here). With the glass, the pipes are basically in a greenhouse.
I don't know why we are always chasing after these rainbow-colored unicorns.
We haven't even gone after the low-hanging fruit. Most of these fantasy rainbow unicorn solutions are dirtier than their salesman will ever admit. The simplest solutions are usually the best. A glass tube with a black pipe in it... it's cheap to make, doesn't require much energy, and can offset 50% of the electricity we use, since we use about half of all of the electricity we generate to heat water.
They're cheap, reliable, durable, and I haven't needed to pay for hot water in years. I don't even have a backup water heater. I don't need one. The system works even when it is cloudy. It also comes in handy for heating the house in the winter.
We need to chase after cheap, simple solutions. We're allowing government to get duped by snake-oil salesmen into pissing billions of taxpayer dollars down the rabbit hole after these fantasy projects that never pay off. You could put a glass-tube solar hot water heater on 30,000 homes for what the taxpayer wasted on Solyndra - a company selling net energy loss technology.
Right, but how much of that vast open space is committed to sustaining YOUR life? How many acres are required to grow the food you eat in one year? How many acres are required to provide the resources that you consume in one year? How many are mined to provide the energy you use in one year? How about to provide the oxygen you breathe?
There is a lot to a person's existence. The Earth has to provide you that which you need to survive, and it cannot be done in zero space.
I have an android phone with a 2GB plan from AT&T and, try as I might, I have been completely unable to use all of it. I don't even bother turning on WiFi at home or work anymore because it just chews up the battery. Even running Pandora and Netflix, AND a hotspot on car trips to get my wife's laptop on the web, the most I've been able to use in a month is 1.4GB.
Just by a show of hands, has anyone actually been affected by, say, a 2GB cap, and if so, how do you use it all? I must be missing something:)
"The results backs up previous work, but researchers say more work is needed to be completely sure."
After HUNDREDS of studies, and the vast majority of the credible ones, find there is no link, yet of course they want more money to do more studies, so of course more work is needed.
Could you do me a favor and write a letter to EPA explaining why they can't just decide to ban lead in AvGas? They need to hear some logic and reason about why they can't, with the stroke of a pen, make billions of dollars worth of privately-held assets (airplanes) worthless, especially when there is currently no viable alternative.
No, no blame for the bank at all. It is the consumer that makes the decision to take the loan, not the bank. The consumer is free to accept or decline the proposed terms and conditions, and nobody is holding a gun to their head to force them to accept.
I have an ASUS P6X58D-E with an i7-920 and 24GB running ESXi 5.0. It's perfect for playing around with different OSes and testing software.
Run over to www.vm-help.com for everything you need to know about cheap whitebox virtualization with ESXi. They maintain a HCL and Forums for everything VMWare.
The new version of ESXi supports a LOT more "whitebox" hardware than the older versions - they're clearly responding to market demand for cheaper servers by providing support for common consumer-grade hardware.
The title says "MC Hammer launches a search engine," but it hasn't been launched. So, where is the journalistic integrity and fact-checking accuracy Slashdot is world renowned for?
For the $2000 or so a 10TB NAS would cost, I can build an inexpensive whitebox ESXi server with 6 2TB drives that will be much more useful, and have enough money left over to feed my greed.
Most of these NAS boxes are just linux-based Mini or NanoITX machines with software RAID - no different than I could spin up in a VM in 5 minutes on ESXi.
Amen to that. Student Loans are voluntary. You don't have to take them out if you don't want to deal with the terms. I have zero sympathy at all for these OWS people who think that they shouldn't have to pay them back just because they don't have enough of a work ethic to get a job, or spent $100K on a Ph.D. in underwater basketweaving or some other field with zero demand in the marketplace.
Taking out student loans involves risk, and if you are a zero-work-ethic, unemployable deadbeat, then the risk of you taking them out is probably in excess of the potential reward, and you shouldn't do it.
It's all about your own choices. If you choose to go to a college you can't afford to study in a field where there are no jobs, you deserve what you get.
Banks have to charge a spread on interest at least equal to the rate of inflation, which is 6-8% right now. Otherwise, the principal deflates with time and the bank loses money.
If you don't want to be burdened with student loans, you don't have to take them out.
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... that scaling the Desktop down to the size of a phone screen failed for the same reason scaling the phone GUI up to the Desktop fails.
They are completely different interface paradigms. If all LCDs were touchscreen, it might be doable, but "swiping" is very different with a mouse - different enough that it just doesn't work.
There is a bill in the works that would decriminalize OC, but I don't know what the current status is. I know there was some debate on it in the beginning of the 2011 legislative session, but it has been changed a few times and I have not kept up with it. I lived in PA before I moved here, so I had no qualms about carrying because I wasn't concerned with printing or showing (full size M&P9 or a 4" .357Mag revolver).
Here, showing definitely gets you pinched, and printing may or may not depending on whether the cop is having a bad day.
Drop me an email and I'll see if I can dig up what is going on and keep you up to date. SC is a pretty good place to live, especially if you like outdoorsy type stuff. My wife and I live in the upstate and it's gorgeous.
>> Actual office present and pulling over a vehicle doesn't imply speed camera, it implies handheld radar.
There are several methods of measuring vehicle speed that do not involve the use of radar.
In any case, nothing in your post is even remotely true. There are several methods of measuring speed that do not require radar. But, modern handheld and vehicle-mount radars are nearly idiot proof, and include telemetry and photo evidence of how they were used to capture the speed, so any user error can be determined in court (although most defendants do not know how to file a discovery motion to get that evidence).
You would probably receive fewer tickets if you did not speed.
You can refuse to sign a ticket in SC, but then you can also be taken into custody since you are refusing to accept the summons and agree to appear for your own trial. If you have nothing better to do with your time, and don't mind paying for your car to be towed and impounded, then you can certainly refuse to sign.
In some states, like Maryland, it is in your best legal interest to refuse to sign, because in Maryland, you are not only signing the summons, but you are also signing a confession, since there is a confession statement on the ticket that basically says you are admitting guilt for whatever offense the officer is charging you with. Eff that.
Believe it or not some (but not terribly many) things really do make sense here in the South :)
Now, if they'd only get rid of that asinine ban on open carry, and reform our ridiculous welfare system...
What also helps is that unattended speed enforcement is illegal in South Carolina. An actual living, breathing officer has to have witnessed the violation, made the measurement himself, made actual, person to person contact with the driver, issued the summons, and collected the drivers signature.
Unmanned photo traffic enforcement is a big no-no in SC.
http://www.thenewspaper.com/news/31/3176.asp
Look, first of all, nobody is forcing anybody to take out Student Loans.
That said, learning to do even a basic risk analysis is part of growing up to become an adult (something that even today's 25-30 year-olds have chosen not to do). The basic risk analysis is this:
"I am going to be responsible for paying $X to get an education that will, in the end, result in Y probability of being gainfully employed for $Z per year in expected annual income."
If $X is large, and Y and $Z are small, then the risk is great and the likelihood of being able to pay back $X is small.
If $X is large, Y is close to 1, and $Z is large, then obviously the risk is warranted.
It's really not that difficult to see that spending $50K/year to get a Ph.D. in Underwater Basketweaving at Middlebury College is not a good risk, and that spending $8K/year on in-state tuition at a school like Georgia Tech to get a degree in pretty much any Engineering discipline is a good risk to take.
What we have in OWS is a crowd of 20-30 year old children who have not yet grown up and taken responsibility for themselves, and want someone else to pay for their mistakes. Get real.
Probably not, but I'm an Emag guy, not a thermo guy.
The glass makes a good insulator and greenhouse effect inside the tube. The copper pipe is a good conductor of heat from the warm air in the "greenhouse" to the water in the pipe. I don't think the rubber hose would be a very efficient conductor of the heat.
The glass is an insulator to prevent heat escaping. Without it, the pipes would simply try to be whatever temperature the air was (especially bad with our windy winters here). With the glass, the pipes are basically in a greenhouse.
I don't know why we are always chasing after these rainbow-colored unicorns.
We haven't even gone after the low-hanging fruit. Most of these fantasy rainbow unicorn solutions are dirtier than their salesman will ever admit. The simplest solutions are usually the best. A glass tube with a black pipe in it... it's cheap to make, doesn't require much energy, and can offset 50% of the electricity we use, since we use about half of all of the electricity we generate to heat water.
They're cheap, reliable, durable, and I haven't needed to pay for hot water in years. I don't even have a backup water heater. I don't need one. The system works even when it is cloudy. It also comes in handy for heating the house in the winter.
We need to chase after cheap, simple solutions. We're allowing government to get duped by snake-oil salesmen into pissing billions of taxpayer dollars down the rabbit hole after these fantasy projects that never pay off. You could put a glass-tube solar hot water heater on 30,000 homes for what the taxpayer wasted on Solyndra - a company selling net energy loss technology.
I'm glad they found something important to work on so they wouldn't have to waste their time plugging memory leaks...
I already have a smart phone. I don't need my desktop to be a smart phone, let alone a Windows smart phone.
... they'll probably change their mind next week.
Right, but how much of that vast open space is committed to sustaining YOUR life? How many acres are required to grow the food you eat in one year? How many acres are required to provide the resources that you consume in one year? How many are mined to provide the energy you use in one year? How about to provide the oxygen you breathe?
There is a lot to a person's existence. The Earth has to provide you that which you need to survive, and it cannot be done in zero space.
I have an android phone with a 2GB plan from AT&T and, try as I might, I have been completely unable to use all of it. I don't even bother turning on WiFi at home or work anymore because it just chews up the battery. Even running Pandora and Netflix, AND a hotspot on car trips to get my wife's laptop on the web, the most I've been able to use in a month is 1.4GB.
Just by a show of hands, has anyone actually been affected by, say, a 2GB cap, and if so, how do you use it all? I must be missing something :)
Samsung F4 2TB drives went from $80 to $110 overnight. I'm glad I bought two of them a couple of weeks ago to grow my array.
Let's hope they can get things back up and running soon.
"The results backs up previous work, but researchers say more work is needed to be completely sure."
After HUNDREDS of studies, and the vast majority of the credible ones, find there is no link, yet of course they want more money to do more studies, so of course more work is needed.
Let it go, already.
Could you do me a favor and write a letter to EPA explaining why they can't just decide to ban lead in AvGas? They need to hear some logic and reason about why they can't, with the stroke of a pen, make billions of dollars worth of privately-held assets (airplanes) worthless, especially when there is currently no viable alternative.
A debate society that costs the taxpayers of its member countries billions of dollars every year - money that is totally wasted...
No, no blame for the bank at all. It is the consumer that makes the decision to take the loan, not the bank. The consumer is free to accept or decline the proposed terms and conditions, and nobody is holding a gun to their head to force them to accept.
I have an ASUS P6X58D-E with an i7-920 and 24GB running ESXi 5.0. It's perfect for playing around with different OSes and testing software.
Run over to www.vm-help.com for everything you need to know about cheap whitebox virtualization with ESXi. They maintain a HCL and Forums for everything VMWare.
The new version of ESXi supports a LOT more "whitebox" hardware than the older versions - they're clearly responding to market demand for cheaper servers by providing support for common consumer-grade hardware.
The title says "MC Hammer launches a search engine," but it hasn't been launched. So, where is the journalistic integrity and fact-checking accuracy Slashdot is world renowned for?
For the $2000 or so a 10TB NAS would cost, I can build an inexpensive whitebox ESXi server with 6 2TB drives that will be much more useful, and have enough money left over to feed my greed.
Most of these NAS boxes are just linux-based Mini or NanoITX machines with software RAID - no different than I could spin up in a VM in 5 minutes on ESXi.
Amen to that. Student Loans are voluntary. You don't have to take them out if you don't want to deal with the terms. I have zero sympathy at all for these OWS people who think that they shouldn't have to pay them back just because they don't have enough of a work ethic to get a job, or spent $100K on a Ph.D. in underwater basketweaving or some other field with zero demand in the marketplace.
Taking out student loans involves risk, and if you are a zero-work-ethic, unemployable deadbeat, then the risk of you taking them out is probably in excess of the potential reward, and you shouldn't do it.
It's all about your own choices. If you choose to go to a college you can't afford to study in a field where there are no jobs, you deserve what you get.
Kudos to you JBMcB for doing it the right way.
Banks have to charge a spread on interest at least equal to the rate of inflation, which is 6-8% right now. Otherwise, the principal deflates with time and the bank loses money.
If you don't want to be burdened with student loans, you don't have to take them out.