Unless the Rapture happen before the predictions, or in-between predictions.... Or what if it only happens in half of the world, like Australia? Maybe it's already happened?
Aren't memory cards more commonly used in digital cameras than for music? I know that many phones now use memory cards for storage, but I'd have to imagine that more people have digital cameras, and multiple cards for said cameras, than people who have phones with memory cards installed....
“One of a company’s best defenses against this kind of litigation is (ironically) to have a formidable patent portfolio, as this helps maintain your freedom to develop new products and services,” Google General Counsel Kent Walker said in a blog post today.
That's fine for you, but I really appreciate my 10Mb/s DSL connection (although I liked my 20Mb/s most at my previous residence.) I don't notice any difference during my free time, but it makes a significant difference when I work from home (as opposed to driving into the office.)
But the ultimate reason why 10Mb/s means so much more to me than the 5Mb/s connection? The big reason why I notice the difference is on the upload speeds - trying to save larger.xls and.ppt files all day becomes more frustrating at an exponential rate as upload speeds decrease.
Email is a wonderful thing for people whose role in life is to be on top of things. But not for me; my role is to be on the bottom of things. What I do takes long hours of studying and uninterruptible concentration. I try to learn certain areas of computer science exhaustively; then I try to digest that knowledge into a form that is accessible to people who don't have time for such study.
I'd ask if this guy is a native English speaker, but his wikipedia page says he's originally from Milwaukee, WI.
Now, I've heard of both: Being on top of things and Getting to the bottom of thigns
but I've never heard of someone wanting to "be on the bottom of things." This image conjures up pictures either suitable for prison life or a procrastinator's paradise; possibly both
The iPhone hasn't been established in the enterprise for very long, though. I agree with the consensus here that corporate users will prefer a physical keyboard over a touch-screen keyboard. Every enterprise has too many acronyms and made-up words that aren't in Apple's spell-check, and the only way that anyone can send an SMS on the iphone is by heavily relying on the auto-correct function. Take that away and emails will be even more difficult to follow.
At least he won't have to travel to CA to represent himself. Of course his lawyer could represent him, but I still think one has better odds of receiving a lesser punishment if they put forth the effort to appear in court (all else being equal.)
The thing that surprised me was that Sony is trying to make this a CA case, not a federal case (possibly interstate commerce? definitely DMCA?)
no, it's neither reasonable nor prudent for a DMV road tester to have one.
It's reasonable or prudent for the DMV to have a group cellphone for road testers to share and take with them when doing a road test. Same thing applies to people in mobile roles. There is a difference between the two, and lazy bureacracies don't make the distinction, which leads to governmental bloat. At no time should any employee, including upper management, ever have a "personal" employee-paid for phone. they can get their own personal phone for that.
Whatever happened to radio? I would imagine that CB or some other sort of radio would be a better form of communication for many of the people responsible for the roads. I seriously doubt there are that many citizens who have enough radios to clog up the channels....
It shouldn't be too difficult to set up a cron job which imports your data via aqbanking. You should be able to get by without Gnucash, but aqbanking will be your friend here.
I'm not quite sure what the demographic of "young people" is, especially considering Murdoch's age, however I'm willing to guess it's 29 & younger. If that's the case, then I'll extrapolate the anecdote of my experiences:
Young people don't have enough time to read the newspaper, whether it's in tree-form or bit-form. At least, not regularly. My experiences are that "young people" are people who are working 50-60hr weeks, occasionally more when work bleeds into the weekend. When "young people" aren't working, they want to do activities such as "hanging out with people" and "going places." By midnight, they go to bed, wake up at 6, drive an hour to work, rinse & repeat.
Hell, I have subscriptions to the Financial Times, The Economist, and Consumer Reports (paper, paper, paper & electronic.) I don't have time to read any of them. I do have time, however, to listen to NPR during the 2 hours that I'm on the road each day.
If you want to split the audio from the picture you can still do what everyone else does with a home theater system (or those of us with surround sound). You use the old RCA ended plugs or optical sound out from the TV/satellite box/cable box/blue ray/DVD/whatever device into the sound device.
Apparently TOSLINK is rated up to 125Mb/s, but HDMI1.4 audio is only rated up to 36.86Mb/s. Does anyone know if the newer sound formats (e.g. DTS-HD) can be fed over TOSLINK, or is that crippled by the players?
when it gets to -30 in your jeans pocket/coat pocket, you probably have bigger problems then your cell-phone battery..
Like what? I've had to walk over a mile outside to get to classes when it was -30c (-22f), multiple times. Was it fun? No. Did it kill me? Apparently not.
Moreover, I recall an episode of Ice Road Truckers where it was somewhere between -50f and -40f.
If you let both machines run for two years, then the combined purchasing price + the running cost put the Athlon in a very unfavorable spot.
I ran through several scenarios for building a new computer vs. using my 5-year old P4. I found that payback time would be about 2 years for it to make more sense to build & buy vs. maintain the status quo.
Then I changed uptime from 24/7 to 6/6 (given that I have no need to have the computer on during the vast majority of the day). This would allow me to have enough uptime to have the computer act as a mythtv server and record any of the shows I want to watch.
Long story short, sometimes it's just easiest to save money by turning the computer off rather than creating a new system.
I mean, £185, when you didn't know there was anything wrong with your computer in the first place? You'd need to have more money than brains to shell out for that.
The first thing that came across my mind is that £185 is probably more than the vast majority of the computers these people are using. I know it's certainly more than what my computers are worth. If somebody tried to charge me that much to fix my (5-year-old) computer, I'd say "No thanks" and buy a new computer.
All of my Nokia's run Symbian, and I've lived in the US my whole life. The first came from a service provider that VZW bought out in the early 2000's. The 2nd and 3rd came from T-Mobile shops. The The last one I purchased (5800) came via Dell.
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Has the lack of multi-tasking annoyed many iPhone users?
How about when searching for an address? There are plenty of times where I've gotten to some store's website to look up their address and wanted to copy & paste (due to the combination of my poor spelling ability and the ways people come up with new street names) from the browser to the GPS.
Fortunately, I don't have an iPhone and have been able to do this already.
The complete contents of a hard drive or memory card can be perused at length for evidence of lawbreaking of any kind, even if it's underpaying taxes or not paying parking tickets.
Holy balls, Batman! The DHS is like the CIA, FBI, ATF, and IRS all in one! What's that? You don't even need an associates degree to join? Great Scott!
What becomes a violation of civil liberties is being detained because one looks suspicious. There are countless reasons why somebody could look suspicious to anyone's eye (trained or untrained.) Some examples are:
Passenger looks anxious- turns out that they realized they forgot something important (their kid's birthday present) and don't have enough time to go home, return to the airport, and proceed through security again. Passenger looks uncomfortable - turns out that the person is claustrophobic and is scared of flying Passenger looks angry - turns out the person is constipated.
Even the following example: Passenger looks nervous (has a very slight twitch) - turns out the person is cheating on their spouse and is meeting the 3rd wheel.
None of these examples are of the passenger conspiring to do anything illegal (note that I am not implying morality for the last example, just legality), let alone in the process or carrying out terrorism. Yet each of these 4 passengers (or one terribly unlucky one) could be detained by TSA or whichever 'security' agency long enough for the person to miss their flight. And the next one. And the one after that. And then possibly even the 4th due to the airlines overbooking. All because the 'security' agent either thought they were doing their job or just were in a really bad mood (or is just a dick.)
True, but that episode was trying to prove a different point:
People were doing some crazy things during the summer of 2008 to try to eek out an extra 1% fuel efficiency. Their point was that the largest factor of fuel efficiency is how you drive the car. Drive 65 instead of 75, drive smoothly rather than speeding up just to slam the breaks at the next light, etc. In other words, just use common sense.
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Unless the Rapture happen before the predictions, or in-between predictions.... Or what if it only happens in half of the world, like Australia? Maybe it's already happened?
Aren't memory cards more commonly used in digital cameras than for music? I know that many phones now use memory cards for storage, but I'd have to imagine that more people have digital cameras, and multiple cards for said cameras, than people who have phones with memory cards installed....
Plants need O2 too. That doesn't necessarily mean that we can't bootstrap the process though.
*Whoosh*
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-04-04/google-enters-pact-to-buy-nortel-networks-patents-for-900-mln.html
Relevant quote:
“One of a company’s best defenses against this kind of litigation is (ironically) to have a formidable patent portfolio, as this helps maintain your freedom to develop new products and services,” Google General Counsel Kent Walker said in a blog post today.
but, but, then Phoronix can't review it!
That's fine for you, but I really appreciate my 10Mb/s DSL connection (although I liked my 20Mb/s most at my previous residence.) I don't notice any difference during my free time, but it makes a significant difference when I work from home (as opposed to driving into the office.)
But the ultimate reason why 10Mb/s means so much more to me than the 5Mb/s connection? The big reason why I notice the difference is on the upload speeds - trying to save larger .xls and .ppt files all day becomes more frustrating at an exponential rate as upload speeds decrease.
Email is a wonderful thing for people whose role in life is to be on top of things. But not for me; my role is to be on the bottom of things. What I do takes long hours of studying and uninterruptible concentration. I try to learn certain areas of computer science exhaustively; then I try to digest that knowledge into a form that is accessible to people who don't have time for such study.
I'd ask if this guy is a native English speaker, but his wikipedia page says he's originally from Milwaukee, WI.
Now, I've heard of both:
Being on top of things
and
Getting to the bottom of thigns
but I've never heard of someone wanting to "be on the bottom of things." This image conjures up pictures either suitable for prison life or a procrastinator's paradise; possibly both
The iPhone hasn't been established in the enterprise for very long, though. I agree with the consensus here that corporate users will prefer a physical keyboard over a touch-screen keyboard. Every enterprise has too many acronyms and made-up words that aren't in Apple's spell-check, and the only way that anyone can send an SMS on the iphone is by heavily relying on the auto-correct function. Take that away and emails will be even more difficult to follow.
At least he won't have to travel to CA to represent himself. Of course his lawyer could represent him, but I still think one has better odds of receiving a lesser punishment if they put forth the effort to appear in court (all else being equal.)
The thing that surprised me was that Sony is trying to make this a CA case, not a federal case (possibly interstate commerce? definitely DMCA?)
no, it's neither reasonable nor prudent for a DMV road tester to have one.
It's reasonable or prudent for the DMV to have a group cellphone for road testers to share and take with them when doing a road test. Same thing applies to people in mobile roles. There is a difference between the two, and lazy bureacracies don't make the distinction, which leads to governmental bloat. At no time should any employee, including upper management, ever have a "personal" employee-paid for phone. they can get their own personal phone for that.
Whatever happened to radio? I would imagine that CB or some other sort of radio would be a better form of communication for many of the people responsible for the roads. I seriously doubt there are that many citizens who have enough radios to clog up the channels....
I would go the route of SSD in the system, not-frequently-accessed data stored on a NAS. But that's just me....
see: http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/OFX_Direct_Connect_Bank_Settings
It shouldn't be too difficult to set up a cron job which imports your data via aqbanking. You should be able to get by without Gnucash, but aqbanking will be your friend here.
since 1999. I've still got Debian on the desktop and Mandriva on the laptop. I do almost no searching because I don't need to.
And how many people who have been using Windows since 1999 do searches on Google for Windows?
I'm not quite sure what the demographic of "young people" is, especially considering Murdoch's age, however I'm willing to guess it's 29 & younger. If that's the case, then I'll extrapolate the anecdote of my experiences:
Young people don't have enough time to read the newspaper, whether it's in tree-form or bit-form. At least, not regularly. My experiences are that "young people" are people who are working 50-60hr weeks, occasionally more when work bleeds into the weekend. When "young people" aren't working, they want to do activities such as "hanging out with people" and "going places." By midnight, they go to bed, wake up at 6, drive an hour to work, rinse & repeat.
Hell, I have subscriptions to the Financial Times, The Economist, and Consumer Reports (paper, paper, paper & electronic.) I don't have time to read any of them. I do have time, however, to listen to NPR during the 2 hours that I'm on the road each day.
If you want to split the audio from the picture you can still do what everyone else does with a home theater system (or those of us with surround sound). You use the old RCA ended plugs or optical sound out from the TV/satellite box/cable box/blue ray/DVD/whatever device into the sound device.
Apparently TOSLINK is rated up to 125Mb/s, but HDMI1.4 audio is only rated up to 36.86Mb/s. Does anyone know if the newer sound formats (e.g. DTS-HD) can be fed over TOSLINK, or is that crippled by the players?
when it gets to -30 in your jeans pocket/coat pocket, you probably have bigger problems then your cell-phone battery..
Like what? I've had to walk over a mile outside to get to classes when it was -30c (-22f), multiple times. Was it fun? No. Did it kill me? Apparently not.
Moreover, I recall an episode of Ice Road Truckers where it was somewhere between -50f and -40f.
I mean, £185, when you didn't know there was anything wrong with your computer in the first place? You'd need to have more money than brains to shell out for that.
The first thing that came across my mind is that £185 is probably more than the vast majority of the computers these people are using. I know it's certainly more than what my computers are worth. If somebody tried to charge me that much to fix my (5-year-old) computer, I'd say "No thanks" and buy a new computer.
All of my Nokia's run Symbian, and I've lived in the US my whole life. The first came from a service provider that VZW bought out in the early 2000's. The 2nd and 3rd came from T-Mobile shops. The The last one I purchased (5800) came via Dell.
Has the lack of multi-tasking annoyed many iPhone users?
How about when searching for an address? There are plenty of times where I've gotten to some store's website to look up their address and wanted to copy & paste (due to the combination of my poor spelling ability and the ways people come up with new street names) from the browser to the GPS.
Fortunately, I don't have an iPhone and have been able to do this already.
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The complete contents of a hard drive or memory card can be perused at length for evidence of lawbreaking of any kind, even if it's underpaying taxes or not paying parking tickets.
Holy balls, Batman! The DHS is like the CIA, FBI, ATF, and IRS all in one! What's that? You don't even need an associates degree to join? Great Scott!
What becomes a violation of civil liberties is being detained because one looks suspicious. There are countless reasons why somebody could look suspicious to anyone's eye (trained or untrained.) Some examples are:
Passenger looks anxious- turns out that they realized they forgot something important (their kid's birthday present) and don't have enough time to go home, return to the airport, and proceed through security again.
Passenger looks uncomfortable - turns out that the person is claustrophobic and is scared of flying
Passenger looks angry - turns out the person is constipated.
Even the following example:
Passenger looks nervous (has a very slight twitch) - turns out the person is cheating on their spouse and is meeting the 3rd wheel.
None of these examples are of the passenger conspiring to do anything illegal (note that I am not implying morality for the last example, just legality), let alone in the process or carrying out terrorism. Yet each of these 4 passengers (or one terribly unlucky one) could be detained by TSA or whichever 'security' agency long enough for the person to miss their flight. And the next one. And the one after that. And then possibly even the 4th due to the airlines overbooking. All because the 'security' agent either thought they were doing their job or just were in a really bad mood (or is just a dick.)
True, but that episode was trying to prove a different point:
People were doing some crazy things during the summer of 2008 to try to eek out an extra 1% fuel efficiency. Their point was that the largest factor of fuel efficiency is how you drive the car. Drive 65 instead of 75, drive smoothly rather than speeding up just to slam the breaks at the next light, etc. In other words, just use common sense.