What I want to know is, have they improved hibernate speed yet? Last time I tried Ubuntu (11.04?) on my laptop, it was faster to do a clean boot then it was to come out of hibernation. Even if I didn't have anything open when I went into hibernation.
But what if Walmart, Target, iTunes, Amazon, Clear Channel, and others all got behind the standard and said they wouldn't sell/play the recordings if they didn't meet the standard. It probably won't happen, but if it did, I bet the studio engineers and executives would follow suit. However, I think the standard would have to not only include a volume limit, but also limit the ability for the engineers to compress the dynamic range. Not sure how easy it would be to police this as some music is loud throughout the entire song, but I'm something could be down about it. But it won't happen, because most people don't care.
I think that USB storage standards are what did it. Before that, the only reliable thing you could bring between machines was Floppy and CD-R. CD-R was annoy if you just wanted a single file, and you couldn't just work off them (open file, edit, save), like you could with a floppy. so they didn't kill floppies either. What killed floppies was the fact that there was drivers on every machine that let you plug in your USB storage device into any computer and have it just work. If IOMega could have got MS to include the zip drive drivers by default in all windows installations, they probably would have all but eliminated the floppy drive as well. Same goes for LS-120 or any other format.
I agree. It would make much more sense just to build a modular laptop with a base station, which would consist of the keyboard trackpad, motherboard etc. and then have small thin monitors you can plug in. This way if you only needed 1 monitor on a particular day, you would only have to bring 1 monitor, without all the extra weight. It would probably make sense to have each monitor contain it's own battery, so you aren't carrying extra battery weight when not needed, although it would make charging more cumbersome.You could set up your monitor any way you like, as far or as close as your like. You could probably easliy accommodate 3 or 4 monitors on a single laptop, and you could easily support different screeen sizes, without increasing the size of the base unit. For the standard setup with just a single 14 inch monitor, it would probably be about the same size as a regular laptop. Most people would just be happy with a very portable monitor that has it's own battery. Plug it into the existing VGA or HDMI port on your laptop and you instantly have 2 monitors.
Why more than 3? At that rate of 3 your doing more than replacing yourself. Why not limit it to 2? Can I buy child credits (like carbon credits) from someone who doesn't want to have kids? My country has a negative growth rate. Why should they enforce any kind of maximum on the number of children? There countries with high birth rates tend to have many more problems to police than telling people how many kids they can have. Granted in many of those cases they would solve some problems this way, but they got bigger problems anyway. For the record, I have 3 kids and we aren't having any more. However, I think that this problem really can't be fixed because the countries with the problems really don't want to be the ones dealing with enforcing it.
That's like saying that you survived the guillotine because your heart continued to pump for a while, after your head was severed. You survived the guillotine, but you died from bleeding. If you can no longer operate the phone, it is for all intense and purposes dead.
a group of organisms capable of interbreeding and producing fertile offspring
. So if humans and neanderthals could in fact interbreed, then wouldn't they be the same species? Were they any further apart than pygmys and tall white europeans? I would think that if neanderthals had survived to this day, they would have all the same rights as the rest of humans, and probably be considered human.
Most libraries have maximum loan times of 3 weeks and then you have to bring them back. Sometimes they let you (automatically) renew the book, but if somebody has it reserved, you often don't have that option. Libraries would not give you the option of keeping a text book for the entire semester.
The really depends on the course and the book. Throughout my university degree, I had to take courses from many different faculties. For my software engineering degree, I took biology, psychology, environmental science and many other courses that I had to buy textbooks for that I have no need for any more. Granted, I was able to sell the dead tree versions I bought, but I would have been nice to save even more money by renting certain textbooks for a single semester. Also, I had a lot of courses the recommended very bad textbooks, I would have much rather rented the required text and spend the remaining money on a good text that would have served my much better.
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What? It works on Windows and MAC, so it's ported to 98% of the desktop market. You can argue with those numbers if you want, but the point still stands. iTunes works on the vast majority of desktop computers. Sure it doesn't work on Linux, but that's only a very small percentage of the market.
In Ottawa Canada, they just give all the bus students (in highschool) local transit passes. The school saves money by not having to pay for specialty buses, and the kids don't have to worry about missing the bus. Kids should be able to navigate public transit by the time they are 14 anyway.
I know some schools in Toronto Canada have stopped assigning homework. Studies have shown that there's little if any benefit to assigning homework. And when homework is dropped altogether, many students do better.
Netflix just started up in Canada last Septemter, and it's only available in the streaming option, for $7.99.While their selection leaves a lot to be desired, it's still the best thing going. That's less than 2 rental from blockbuster (brick and mortar) and the mail based DVD company Zip.ca has prices that are around $20. Unless you want the 1 DVD at a time option, which with mail speed here can be quite slow.
But I'm pretty sure that the life insurance company has it figured out that Walmart is paying more money into the insurance than they are getting out of it. Otherwise the insurance company isn't making any money.
It's a great way to hide how much money they are making from the government. If it's all cash, and the customer doesn't ask for a receipt, they can just pretend the transaction didn't happen.
Can you take out a life insurance policy on a person without the person agreeing to it? How is this even legal. I can't see it being used for any legitimate pupose. I Would think that the only way for anybody to take out life insurance on me would be for me to authorize it and know about it. That way if things start to go wrong, the life insurance can be cancelled.
Firefox has this option a standard feature. Go to Tools(Edit) -> Options(Preferences) and go to the Privacy Tab. Select "Use Custom Settings For History". You can choose to delete cookies as soon as the browser is closed, making all cookies into session cookies. You can then use the exceptions button to configure sites that you want to allow to store cookies for longer.
Actually, the only way that makes sense for dates is 2011-07-04 = July 4, 2011. Numbers should go from biggest unit to smallest unit. You don't write time like 54:12:32 for 54 minutes and 32 seconds past noon.
The problem with iTunes and Amazon is that for the most part, buying an Album on iTunes still costs about the same as buying a physical CD. Maybe 10% cheaper. But then again, sometimes the physical CD is cheaper. This is why people aren't buying more stuff from iTunes and similar services. iTunes should probably be about a quarter for a single track, and about $3-$4 for an album, then you will see sales rise. With no physical product to move, there should be no reason it costs anywhere close to the same price as a CD. Make the price low enough so that people impulse buy, and don't even think about whether or not the song is worth it.
A dollar dollar is roughly equlivalent to 12 bitcoins. Personally, I like the way the French do it. Write the $ after the number, that way it's more consistent with the way we write all our other units. Why I'm typing, I usually end up having to go back to put the dollar sign in after because you say the "dollar" part after the numbers.
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What I want to know is, have they improved hibernate speed yet? Last time I tried Ubuntu (11.04?) on my laptop, it was faster to do a clean boot then it was to come out of hibernation. Even if I didn't have anything open when I went into hibernation.
But what if Walmart, Target, iTunes, Amazon, Clear Channel, and others all got behind the standard and said they wouldn't sell/play the recordings if they didn't meet the standard. It probably won't happen, but if it did, I bet the studio engineers and executives would follow suit. However, I think the standard would have to not only include a volume limit, but also limit the ability for the engineers to compress the dynamic range. Not sure how easy it would be to police this as some music is loud throughout the entire song, but I'm something could be down about it. But it won't happen, because most people don't care.
I think that USB storage standards are what did it. Before that, the only reliable thing you could bring between machines was Floppy and CD-R. CD-R was annoy if you just wanted a single file, and you couldn't just work off them (open file, edit, save), like you could with a floppy. so they didn't kill floppies either. What killed floppies was the fact that there was drivers on every machine that let you plug in your USB storage device into any computer and have it just work. If IOMega could have got MS to include the zip drive drivers by default in all windows installations, they probably would have all but eliminated the floppy drive as well. Same goes for LS-120 or any other format.
Not only that, but last time this happened to me, I simply did the online re-registration and it went through just fine. No phone call required.
I agree. It would make much more sense just to build a modular laptop with a base station, which would consist of the keyboard trackpad, motherboard etc. and then have small thin monitors you can plug in. This way if you only needed 1 monitor on a particular day, you would only have to bring 1 monitor, without all the extra weight. It would probably make sense to have each monitor contain it's own battery, so you aren't carrying extra battery weight when not needed, although it would make charging more cumbersome.You could set up your monitor any way you like, as far or as close as your like. You could probably easliy accommodate 3 or 4 monitors on a single laptop, and you could easily support different screeen sizes, without increasing the size of the base unit. For the standard setup with just a single 14 inch monitor, it would probably be about the same size as a regular laptop. Most people would just be happy with a very portable monitor that has it's own battery. Plug it into the existing VGA or HDMI port on your laptop and you instantly have 2 monitors.
Why more than 3? At that rate of 3 your doing more than replacing yourself. Why not limit it to 2? Can I buy child credits (like carbon credits) from someone who doesn't want to have kids? My country has a negative growth rate. Why should they enforce any kind of maximum on the number of children? There countries with high birth rates tend to have many more problems to police than telling people how many kids they can have. Granted in many of those cases they would solve some problems this way, but they got bigger problems anyway. For the record, I have 3 kids and we aren't having any more. However, I think that this problem really can't be fixed because the countries with the problems really don't want to be the ones dealing with enforcing it.
That's like saying that you survived the guillotine because your heart continued to pump for a while, after your head was severed. You survived the guillotine, but you died from bleeding. If you can no longer operate the phone, it is for all intense and purposes dead.
a group of organisms capable of interbreeding and producing fertile offspring
. So if humans and neanderthals could in fact interbreed, then wouldn't they be the same species? Were they any further apart than pygmys and tall white europeans? I would think that if neanderthals had survived to this day, they would have all the same rights as the rest of humans, and probably be considered human.
Most libraries have maximum loan times of 3 weeks and then you have to bring them back. Sometimes they let you (automatically) renew the book, but if somebody has it reserved, you often don't have that option. Libraries would not give you the option of keeping a text book for the entire semester.
The really depends on the course and the book. Throughout my university degree, I had to take courses from many different faculties. For my software engineering degree, I took biology, psychology, environmental science and many other courses that I had to buy textbooks for that I have no need for any more. Granted, I was able to sell the dead tree versions I bought, but I would have been nice to save even more money by renting certain textbooks for a single semester. Also, I had a lot of courses the recommended very bad textbooks, I would have much rather rented the required text and spend the remaining money on a good text that would have served my much better.
. What? It works on Windows and MAC, so it's ported to 98% of the desktop market. You can argue with those numbers if you want, but the point still stands. iTunes works on the vast majority of desktop computers. Sure it doesn't work on Linux, but that's only a very small percentage of the market.
In Ottawa Canada, they just give all the bus students (in highschool) local transit passes. The school saves money by not having to pay for specialty buses, and the kids don't have to worry about missing the bus. Kids should be able to navigate public transit by the time they are 14 anyway.
I know some schools in Toronto Canada have stopped assigning homework. Studies have shown that there's little if any benefit to assigning homework. And when homework is dropped altogether, many students do better.
Netflix just started up in Canada last Septemter, and it's only available in the streaming option, for $7.99.While their selection leaves a lot to be desired, it's still the best thing going. That's less than 2 rental from blockbuster (brick and mortar) and the mail based DVD company Zip.ca has prices that are around $20. Unless you want the 1 DVD at a time option, which with mail speed here can be quite slow.
But I'm pretty sure that the life insurance company has it figured out that Walmart is paying more money into the insurance than they are getting out of it. Otherwise the insurance company isn't making any money.
It's a great way to hide how much money they are making from the government. If it's all cash, and the customer doesn't ask for a receipt, they can just pretend the transaction didn't happen.
Can you take out a life insurance policy on a person without the person agreeing to it? How is this even legal. I can't see it being used for any legitimate pupose. I Would think that the only way for anybody to take out life insurance on me would be for me to authorize it and know about it. That way if things start to go wrong, the life insurance can be cancelled.
Ownership laws trump privacy laws, but child exploitation trumps just about everything.
Firefox has this option a standard feature. Go to Tools(Edit) -> Options(Preferences) and go to the Privacy Tab. Select "Use Custom Settings For History". You can choose to delete cookies as soon as the browser is closed, making all cookies into session cookies. You can then use the exceptions button to configure sites that you want to allow to store cookies for longer.
Not only that, but many sites use a CDN to host images, JS, and CSS. So, it's often hard to tell just by domain name what to allow and not allow.
Mandrake. Mandrake, have you never wondered why I drink only distilled water, or rainwater, and only pure-grain alcohol? From Dr. Strangelove
Actually, the only way that makes sense for dates is 2011-07-04 = July 4, 2011. Numbers should go from biggest unit to smallest unit. You don't write time like 54:12:32 for 54 minutes and 32 seconds past noon.
The problem with iTunes and Amazon is that for the most part, buying an Album on iTunes still costs about the same as buying a physical CD. Maybe 10% cheaper. But then again, sometimes the physical CD is cheaper. This is why people aren't buying more stuff from iTunes and similar services. iTunes should probably be about a quarter for a single track, and about $3-$4 for an album, then you will see sales rise. With no physical product to move, there should be no reason it costs anywhere close to the same price as a CD. Make the price low enough so that people impulse buy, and don't even think about whether or not the song is worth it.
More important news here, VIA still exists.
A dollar dollar is roughly equlivalent to 12 bitcoins. Personally, I like the way the French do it. Write the $ after the number, that way it's more consistent with the way we write all our other units. Why I'm typing, I usually end up having to go back to put the dollar sign in after because you say the "dollar" part after the numbers.