You're right. I'm Canadian, and I also live in a location where everything is spread out. I also do not own a car. I also live in a city that has poor public transportation (on most days there is none at all). I walk and bike. 39 years old, own my own home. Aside from not spending money on a car or fuel, I find that I spend less on impulse purchases. When you have to carry everything in a back pack (or think about it on the way home and then come back or order online), you spend less money on stuff.
This has nothing to do with being spread out, either. It comes down to urban planning. Why do people have to live so far from the things they need on a daily basis? We need to do better.
By 'circulation', you probably mean that pennies sit in mason jars or under couch cushions for 30 years.
I really wish we'd just do everything electronically. I hardly ever have physical cash on me. Everything here takes debit, CC, or some other form of electronic transaction, even our buses. Looking forward to not seeing the penny any more.
Your description is epic and I would gladly pay ten bucks to see it. However, you need something dinosaurish. Therefore, I think they should ride a Sauronisaurus Rex, instead. It could stomp around emitting Polish sausage farts and flatten on Ewoks with impunity.
I know you're probably joking, but it's worth mentioning that Skype isn't a replacement for 911. They specifically say this on their site, in case people consider replacing their POTS service with Skype, completely.
I'm not sure what is worse. The fact that they fell victim to an SQL injection attack, or the HTML source that is displayed on TFA is badly broken. A "centre" tag? And the closing HTML tag is broken. Someone put up that maintenance page in a mega hurry.
I guess it depends on how you want the first meeting to go, but maybe Jodi Foster or Sigourney Weaver would have been better choices.
Or Ahhhnold. But he has to get to the chopper.
I'm in Eastern Canada but do a lot of hiking in Maine, near Katahdin. Baxter State Park has a notice on their website specifically telling people to not use services like Tom Tom to find the park, or they will get completely lost or spend tons of time driving around for no good reason.
I was bitten by Google Maps a few years ago when I was trying to find a small inlet to get into a trailhead. Google Maps gave me driving directions that ultimately had me crossing a channel on a ferry to an island I really had no business going to. Well, at least the banjo sounded nice.
With the way these version numbers are going, I feel as if I'm in a Star Trek episode, getting ready to enter orbit around a browser planet or something. IE is really ramping up the size of its solar system!
I'd mod you insightful if I had points. Shades of Gattaca here, I think. I wonder if these tests will be treated like regular medical tests and somehow protected under a doctor/patient confidentiality agreement. Envision a future where employers ask you to get a brain scan to see if you're going to be good at the job you've just applied for? Might happen. Compare that to taking a test during an interview, possibly with a brain that may not score well on a scan, but may have re-wired itself to use other areas more efficiently?
I'm a little surprised that the trip will only accumulate 100Tb of data. Slashdot ran a story a while ago about the IT side of F-1 racing and TFA mentioned that during a single race they accumulate 20 Gb of telemetry. This trip across China is obviously far longer, so I would expected even more data.
Maybe there is just less stuff being monitored. They obviously don't need to monitor the vital signs of the driver:)
The 'burning sensation' was developed and extensively tested based on the US military's prior experience in the Red Light district of Amsterdam and Eddie Murphy's stand up comedy.
I'm also wondering what people would consider something they'd pay for. For me, a physical paper is not about the convenience (lugging a folded wad of paper with me is not convenient), it's about the ritual in the morning. But I'm only willing to go through that ritual, the act of sitting down with a paper and a cup of coffee, on mornings where I can enjoy it.
So, is the other side, the electronic side, something we'd pay for if it had a difference convenience factor? Are people less included to subscribe to whole electronic papers, but perhaps more inclined to pay for specific columnists, photographers, or sections of papers? For example, as someone who lives in Eastern Canada, I'm not really interested in the fact that the Globe and Mail does restaurant reviews of places in Toronto. But, if there was customizable content, maybe I'd pay for that instead.
Then again, I can get decent local coverage via the CBC's New Brunswick section, and that's free.
Like the parent, I agree that journalists and photographers need to get paid by someone. But even if you lived off of freely submitted content, you'd have to pay to maintain the infrastructure for your electronic version. As a FOSS developer, I'd love to be able to ask my grocery store to let me eat for free because I give away what I do:)
and actually, yes, he did. He was paid $12,000 for his role in the first movie of the original trilogy. It was the latter two movies that he was screwed over on. Still, your point is made.
I'd also be interested in knowing if this bug had been an issue for a long time. It seems like the sort of exploit that would have been very quickly discovered. I'm not a big YouTube comment reader, but I've noticed some interface/UI tweaks to the way comments can be thumbed up/down in recent weeks. Perhaps this crept in as a result of those.
Maybe this app can help clear up Apple's issue with poor signal strength on their phone. Can't see how many bars you have left? Maybe you need a $2 optical adapter. And look at that -- we've got them for sale in the app store!
The problem here is that few people (maybe you have, and if so, awesome) actually go to a bookstore and read a *whole* book before they decide to buy it. Where do you draw the line there?
"Wow, the butler didn't do it. That sucks. No sale."
Most people might read the back cover, maybe the first chapter, read a few reviews online, and decide. Especially if they've read other works by that author. But the whole book?
I'm betting that if you were able to listen to clips of every track on an album, say, 30 seconds worth, that'd be a reasonable compromise. Amazon does this now, and some brick and mortar stores let you listen to a CD before you buy it, in store. It's probaby a "safe bet", to use your gamble analogy, to assume that if 30 seconds out of every track is stuff you don't like, the other 3 or 4 minutes of each track may also not be something you'd like.
The bigger stores might only offer some of the "top 5" albums, but there are some smaller, locally run stores near here that will let me listen to an album in the store for ten or 15 minutes and I can decide if I like it. If I don't buy it, the retailer takes a loss on that CD because he might have to knock a few bucks off if it since it is opened, but I'm pretty sure I spend enough in there to make it worth his while.
It'll be great when a car gets pulled over for speeding and the cop calls in the license plate.
"Roger, I need a check on a plate. California plate Papa-Three-November-One-Sierra. Wait no, scratch that. He rolled forward a bit. New plate number Charlie-One-Alpha-One-Sierra."
I did RTA, and I didn't see the name of the E-Reserves product Georgia is using, but I am betting it is the same one they sort-of open sourced a few years ago, and that I am currently maintaining at my own institution. I am in the middle of building a new E-reserves system because the one that Georgia State created is in a bit of a need of a rewrite in order to work on newer versions of PHP.
This is a big deal. Institutions often pay incredible amounts of money to provide library catalog services, and reserves are a huge part of any course system. Instructors often bring stuff into our library, from their own collection -- a magazine article, a couple of photos, whatever -- and now, more than ever, they exist only in electronic form (videos, PDF files, etc). You have to put these things some place.
This stuff needs to be worked out. I see a few people already posting about how expensive college is... the last thing I'd want to see is the costs of license fees for copyright being passed on to students. That's seriously suck.
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Soon we'll be living in a Charles Stross world with machines creating fountains of brightly coloured plastic utensils just because they can!
Hah, what you probably want is the watch that Steve Jobs was wearing in this video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzRBtToSarE
You're right. I'm Canadian, and I also live in a location where everything is spread out. I also do not own a car. I also live in a city that has poor public transportation (on most days there is none at all). I walk and bike. 39 years old, own my own home. Aside from not spending money on a car or fuel, I find that I spend less on impulse purchases. When you have to carry everything in a back pack (or think about it on the way home and then come back or order online), you spend less money on stuff.
This has nothing to do with being spread out, either. It comes down to urban planning. Why do people have to live so far from the things they need on a daily basis? We need to do better.
By 'circulation', you probably mean that pennies sit in mason jars or under couch cushions for 30 years.
I really wish we'd just do everything electronically. I hardly ever have physical cash on me. Everything here takes debit, CC, or some other form of electronic transaction, even our buses. Looking forward to not seeing the penny any more.
I agree, Mr. Carmack is a class act. I do wonder if he can now remove EAX support from the open source version of the engine though :)
A Kentucky man drove off the road and flattened a Krystal shortly after gassing himself up, as well.
They will ride a big Cylon mecha called Sauron.
Your description is epic and I would gladly pay ten bucks to see it. However, you need something dinosaurish. Therefore, I think they should ride a Sauronisaurus Rex, instead. It could stomp around emitting Polish sausage farts and flatten on Ewoks with impunity.
I know you're probably joking, but it's worth mentioning that Skype isn't a replacement for 911. They specifically say this on their site, in case people consider replacing their POTS service with Skype, completely.
Are you just tired or are you dead tired? :)
I'm not sure what is worse. The fact that they fell victim to an SQL injection attack, or the HTML source that is displayed on TFA is badly broken. A "centre" tag? And the closing HTML tag is broken. Someone put up that maintenance page in a mega hurry.
I guess it depends on how you want the first meeting to go, but maybe Jodi Foster or Sigourney Weaver would have been better choices. Or Ahhhnold. But he has to get to the chopper.
I'm in Eastern Canada but do a lot of hiking in Maine, near Katahdin. Baxter State Park has a notice on their website specifically telling people to not use services like Tom Tom to find the park, or they will get completely lost or spend tons of time driving around for no good reason.
http://www.baxterstateparkauthority.com/
I was bitten by Google Maps a few years ago when I was trying to find a small inlet to get into a trailhead. Google Maps gave me driving directions that ultimately had me crossing a channel on a ferry to an island I really had no business going to. Well, at least the banjo sounded nice.
With the way these version numbers are going, I feel as if I'm in a Star Trek episode, getting ready to enter orbit around a browser planet or something. IE is really ramping up the size of its solar system!
I'd mod you insightful if I had points. Shades of Gattaca here, I think. I wonder if these tests will be treated like regular medical tests and somehow protected under a doctor/patient confidentiality agreement. Envision a future where employers ask you to get a brain scan to see if you're going to be good at the job you've just applied for? Might happen. Compare that to taking a test during an interview, possibly with a brain that may not score well on a scan, but may have re-wired itself to use other areas more efficiently?
Whoops. Here is the correct article. Apologies.
I'm a little surprised that the trip will only accumulate 100Tb of data. Slashdot ran a story a while ago about the IT side of F-1 racing and TFA mentioned that during a single race they accumulate 20 Gb of telemetry. This trip across China is obviously far longer, so I would expected even more data.
:)
Maybe there is just less stuff being monitored. They obviously don't need to monitor the vital signs of the driver
The 'burning sensation' was developed and extensively tested based on the US military's prior experience in the Red Light district of Amsterdam and Eddie Murphy's stand up comedy.
I'm also wondering what people would consider something they'd pay for. For me, a physical paper is not about the convenience (lugging a folded wad of paper with me is not convenient), it's about the ritual in the morning. But I'm only willing to go through that ritual, the act of sitting down with a paper and a cup of coffee, on mornings where I can enjoy it.
:)
So, is the other side, the electronic side, something we'd pay for if it had a difference convenience factor? Are people less included to subscribe to whole electronic papers, but perhaps more inclined to pay for specific columnists, photographers, or sections of papers? For example, as someone who lives in Eastern Canada, I'm not really interested in the fact that the Globe and Mail does restaurant reviews of places in Toronto. But, if there was customizable content, maybe I'd pay for that instead.
Then again, I can get decent local coverage via the CBC's New Brunswick section, and that's free.
Like the parent, I agree that journalists and photographers need to get paid by someone. But even if you lived off of freely submitted content, you'd have to pay to maintain the infrastructure for your electronic version. As a FOSS developer, I'd love to be able to ask my grocery store to let me eat for free because I give away what I do
and actually, yes, he did. He was paid $12,000 for his role in the first movie of the original trilogy. It was the latter two movies that he was screwed over on. Still, your point is made.
I'd also be interested in knowing if this bug had been an issue for a long time. It seems like the sort of exploit that would have been very quickly discovered. I'm not a big YouTube comment reader, but I've noticed some interface/UI tweaks to the way comments can be thumbed up/down in recent weeks. Perhaps this crept in as a result of those.
Maybe this app can help clear up Apple's issue with poor signal strength on their phone. Can't see how many bars you have left? Maybe you need a $2 optical adapter. And look at that -- we've got them for sale in the app store!
The problem here is that few people (maybe you have, and if so, awesome) actually go to a bookstore and read a *whole* book before they decide to buy it. Where do you draw the line there?
"Wow, the butler didn't do it. That sucks. No sale."
Most people might read the back cover, maybe the first chapter, read a few reviews online, and decide. Especially if they've read other works by that author. But the whole book?
I'm betting that if you were able to listen to clips of every track on an album, say, 30 seconds worth, that'd be a reasonable compromise. Amazon does this now, and some brick and mortar stores let you listen to a CD before you buy it, in store. It's probaby a "safe bet", to use your gamble analogy, to assume that if 30 seconds out of every track is stuff you don't like, the other 3 or 4 minutes of each track may also not be something you'd like.
The bigger stores might only offer some of the "top 5" albums, but there are some smaller, locally run stores near here that will let me listen to an album in the store for ten or 15 minutes and I can decide if I like it. If I don't buy it, the retailer takes a loss on that CD because he might have to knock a few bucks off if it since it is opened, but I'm pretty sure I spend enough in there to make it worth his while.
It'll be great when a car gets pulled over for speeding and the cop calls in the license plate.
"Roger, I need a check on a plate. California plate Papa-Three-November-One-Sierra. Wait no, scratch that. He rolled forward a bit. New plate number Charlie-One-Alpha-One-Sierra."
I did RTA, and I didn't see the name of the E-Reserves product Georgia is using, but I am betting it is the same one they sort-of open sourced a few years ago, and that I am currently maintaining at my own institution. I am in the middle of building a new E-reserves system because the one that Georgia State created is in a bit of a need of a rewrite in order to work on newer versions of PHP.
This is a big deal. Institutions often pay incredible amounts of money to provide library catalog services, and reserves are a huge part of any course system. Instructors often bring stuff into our library, from their own collection -- a magazine article, a couple of photos, whatever -- and now, more than ever, they exist only in electronic form (videos, PDF files, etc). You have to put these things some place.
This stuff needs to be worked out. I see a few people already posting about how expensive college is... the last thing I'd want to see is the costs of license fees for copyright being passed on to students. That's seriously suck.
Cool! I will be in Helsinki in September. Can I get on your network? :)