Seven hours of battery life, and very high resale values compared to Windows laptops. From my experience, 4 year old Windows laptops go for less than $100, while a similarly aged Macbook usually goes for 40%-50% original purchase price. Seriously, most cheap Windows laptops feel like toys. Macs don't.
I own two OCZ 30GB drives, one 60GB, and one 120GB. In every computer I placed them in, the difference was HUGE. Debian Squeeze and formerly Debian Lenny.
This should be the end of Steve Ballmer's reign. He was a genius at muscling OEMs into screwing over the competition, but now that Windows is so ubiquitous, there's nothing else for him to do but retire.
Dude, joint bank accounts are stupid, unless you're a creditor, of course. If I need to know how much money is in my wife's checking account, I just ask. This happens once a year around April 15-- she logs onto her account and i search for tax-related receipts. AMAZING, isn't it? She would give me the password, but I'm too lazy to memorize it. I don't see where the lack of trust comes in.
Joint accounts also make for more transparency and trust.
My wife and I have no joint accounts for anything. I trust her with money more than anyone I've ever met. It's not a big deal, since I developed trust before we were married. We both work and make decent salaries. If my wife did not work for pay, then a joint account might be needed. I've considered joint accounts, but haven't been able to think of any benefits. The benefits of having separate financial accounts I can see clearly. For example, if I get screwed over by a bank and refuse to pay money stolen via ID theft, it affects my credit score, and not both our scores. Another example: if one of us has an expensive medical condition which is impossible to pay, then ONE of us files for bankruptcy and gets carried by the other. You can't file bankruptcy separately if you have significant joint debts.
In my opinion, Iceape (Seamonkey) looks and feels better than Thunderbird. However, I haven't used Thunderbird in the last year, so it may be superior. I think people are not aware that Seamonkey is just as good.
Anyone like me to dares to suggest that ron paul is not the second coming is generally moderated down quickly and severely.
This is not true. Moreover, everyone on Slashdot knows that if you begin your post with "I know I'll get modded down for saying this, but..." you will in fact get modded up.
Before they changed my meter, I could walk outside and compute the rate I was using electricity, by measuring revolutions on a spinning wheel. With the new meter, the electronic display just flashes the total kilowatt-hour usage every few seconds, which is absolutely useless for getting an instantaneous rate. They promise all these cool features to come in the future, but it all looks like a lie. I was bamboozled.
Good advice. One nitpick, though. I teach statistics to non-STEM majors, and many aren't impressed with my examples from gambling and games. I use them regardless, but not as much as other examples they find more interesting.
No. Soft sciences need the same rigorous theoretical framework as everybody else. It's just that practitioners don't know how to use the theory correctly. Researchers in the hard sciences are just as guilty.
Just personal tastes. Since I can run any useful KDE app outside of KDE desktop, the choice is really this: do I want to look at purple pastels and bubbly bubbles by default? I like my environment to look (what I consider) professional. So for me, it's conservative blue or gray, not hipster purple or pink with all applications starting with a K. Even Mac OS X, with its "lickable widgets", has found the right balance not to embarrass professional users. And no, I refuse to even spend a minute to change the default look, because I have numerous alternatives to KDE.
Please. You've never lived in Texas, and I bet you never even visited. I live in California, and my sister lived in Texas. Taxes and utilities in Texas are crazy high, unless you live in the middle of nowhere. Just because George Bush was governor doesn't mean taxes are low. The taxes on my rental car were outrageous, and my sister paid $250/month electric bills in a new house (Dallas suburb), in addition to very high property taxes. Austin is not cheap either. You are misinformed.
Even if they appeal, the appellate judges will get a good education from reading the current decision, so they might do the right thing. I have to say, I doubt this would have happened if Google did not exist.
Organizations and their sub-organizations, as well as devices themselves (e.g. Watson) may have research IDs. Imagine a Beowulf cluster of machine researchers!
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Seven hours of battery life, and very high resale values compared to Windows laptops. From my experience, 4 year old Windows laptops go for less than $100, while a similarly aged Macbook usually goes for 40%-50% original purchase price. Seriously, most cheap Windows laptops feel like toys. Macs don't.
I own two OCZ 30GB drives, one 60GB, and one 120GB. In every computer I placed them in, the difference was HUGE. Debian Squeeze and formerly Debian Lenny.
...but there's a much better summary on Groklaw.
OpenDNS has parental control addresses, so it's a start.
Maybe the loop-around-the-moon-backup-plan was a fabrication?
Dude, your brain is playing tricks on you. Freddybear said "wipe", not "format". But you really wanted Freddy to say it, didn't you?
Now this looks interesting. Hopefully it works as described on the net (http://lwn.net/Articles/479841/). Automatic suspend would be wonderful.
This should be the end of Steve Ballmer's reign. He was a genius at muscling OEMs into screwing over the competition, but now that Windows is so ubiquitous, there's nothing else for him to do but retire.
Probably unconstituional
This isn't on point anyway. There still is no benefit of having joint accounts.
Amazon likely would explore this possibility regardless of the sales tax issue. It's not anyone's "fault".
Exactly. In programming terms, joint accounts are not "thread safe".
Dude, joint bank accounts are stupid, unless you're a creditor, of course. If I need to know how much money is in my wife's checking account, I just ask. This happens once a year around April 15-- she logs onto her account and i search for tax-related receipts. AMAZING, isn't it? She would give me the password, but I'm too lazy to memorize it. I don't see where the lack of trust comes in.
Joint accounts also make for more transparency and trust.
My wife and I have no joint accounts for anything. I trust her with money more than anyone I've ever met. It's not a big deal, since I developed trust before we were married. We both work and make decent salaries. If my wife did not work for pay, then a joint account might be needed. I've considered joint accounts, but haven't been able to think of any benefits. The benefits of having separate financial accounts I can see clearly. For example, if I get screwed over by a bank and refuse to pay money stolen via ID theft, it affects my credit score, and not both our scores. Another example: if one of us has an expensive medical condition which is impossible to pay, then ONE of us files for bankruptcy and gets carried by the other. You can't file bankruptcy separately if you have significant joint debts.
In my opinion, Iceape (Seamonkey) looks and feels better than Thunderbird. However, I haven't used Thunderbird in the last year, so it may be superior. I think people are not aware that Seamonkey is just as good.
Anyone like me to dares to suggest that ron paul is not the second coming is generally moderated down quickly and severely.
This is not true. Moreover, everyone on Slashdot knows that if you begin your post with "I know I'll get modded down for saying this, but..." you will in fact get modded up.
Before they changed my meter, I could walk outside and compute the rate I was using electricity, by measuring revolutions on a spinning wheel. With the new meter, the electronic display just flashes the total kilowatt-hour usage every few seconds, which is absolutely useless for getting an instantaneous rate. They promise all these cool features to come in the future, but it all looks like a lie. I was bamboozled.
Good advice. One nitpick, though. I teach statistics to non-STEM majors, and many aren't impressed with my examples from gambling and games. I use them regardless, but not as much as other examples they find more interesting.
No. Soft sciences need the same rigorous theoretical framework as everybody else. It's just that practitioners don't know how to use the theory correctly. Researchers in the hard sciences are just as guilty.
Just personal tastes. Since I can run any useful KDE app outside of KDE desktop, the choice is really this: do I want to look at purple pastels and bubbly bubbles by default? I like my environment to look (what I consider) professional. So for me, it's conservative blue or gray, not hipster purple or pink with all applications starting with a K. Even Mac OS X, with its "lickable widgets", has found the right balance not to embarrass professional users. And no, I refuse to even spend a minute to change the default look, because I have numerous alternatives to KDE.
Please. You've never lived in Texas, and I bet you never even visited. I live in California, and my sister lived in Texas. Taxes and utilities in Texas are crazy high, unless you live in the middle of nowhere. Just because George Bush was governor doesn't mean taxes are low. The taxes on my rental car were outrageous, and my sister paid $250/month electric bills in a new house (Dallas suburb), in addition to very high property taxes. Austin is not cheap either. You are misinformed.
Why is everyone hating on Facebook? It's just a shitty company.
Even if they appeal, the appellate judges will get a good education from reading the current decision, so they might do the right thing. I have to say, I doubt this would have happened if Google did not exist.
Organizations and their sub-organizations, as well as devices themselves (e.g. Watson) may have research IDs. Imagine a Beowulf cluster of machine researchers!
So if I recorded your mom having sex and posted it on the internet, I should get a slap on the wrist? Fool.