Nevertheless, it's relevant to solving a small part of our massive gun problem. If guns had fingerprint scanners, small children would be unlikely to use the gun to kill. It's pretty straightforward.
There are places in the world where there is very little gun violence.
Those places all have one thing in common: Less guns.
I love my country, but if you don't think it's insane that small children are shooting people on a regular basis with weapons, legally purchased or not, you are part of the problem.
But the ad companies don't know you've bought the widget. They only know you searched for one.
It may be the case that the vast majority of purchasing done on the internet is not immediate, but only after you do your own research by searching, and then coming back and searching more until you decide on your widget.
I'm certain the advertisers can determine the rate of people who purchase immediately or purchase after a bit of research, and if more people do the latter, posting ads AFTER you've searched for something in hopes of influencing your decision the NEXT time you search for that same thing does make sense, even though it annoys people who immediately purchase.
We had this issue at our office. The solution was to hang one of those small helicopters that goes around in a circle if you hook it to the ceiling via a string. If I was staying late, I'd just turn it on, the helicopter would move in a circle until I turned it off, and the lights would stay on.
Here's a hardware hack I need some serious help with. I've tried everything, and it seems like it's something someone out there would have figured out by now.
I have a bluetooth speaker. My phone is paired with it. I can listen to music from my phone or ipad on it via bluetooth. However, due to an accident, the input jack on the speaker (headphone size) is broken, so I am ONLY able to listen to music by pairing it.
What I would like to do is use my phone to play on two different devices, one of which is the bluetooth speaker, and the other is a regular speaker. You can't pair bluetooth with two receiving devices at once, so I can't use another bluetooth receiver for the other speaker (which does not have bluetooth). I've tried using another bluetooth receiver for the other speaker, and I can get music running through that one, but not both.
Is there a solution? Also, the bluetooth speaker, a Jawbone Jam box, has a small USB power connector for hooking up to the computer and getting updates. But as far as I know this port will not accept incoming sound.
Someone explain this to me. I don't understand from looking at the pictures.
1) You have a tank with no Hedgehog add-on. It rolls up to a hedge. it is a heavy tank. Because it's heavy, it pushes forward and crushes the hedges underneath it. or not.
2) You have a tank with the hedgehog add-on. It rolls up to a hedge. it is a heavy tank. Because it's heavy, it pushes forward and crushes the hedges underneath it. or not. I don't see what benefit the comb-like structure does to allow for easier crushing or rolling over the hedges. Is there a saw in there somewhere? Like a giant hair-clipper? I actually don't understand what physical advantage the add-on gives to the tank. What am I missing?
And so one would think that if this is the case, this would be brought up in the appeal. Why didn't the current judge consider the phone records to be "what you have" rather than "what you know"? I'm sure the defense made some argument that they counted as What You Know, but I wonder what that was?
Not all diversity is good, no. Diversity for diversity's sake is crap; it's the quality of the diverse ideas that count. The Flat Earth idea doesn't need equal time with evolution, for example.
I'm not. Evolution is a fact. In so far that science can say anything is a fact, evolution is a fact.
When science uses that word to describe a process, it's not saying that description is a "best guess". It's not a guess. It's a complex description of how things work, which, to the best of our understanding, is a fact.
Can certain parts of that understanding change? Of course. But the general statement "Species evolved from previous species over time" is not a guess. It's a fact.
Re:I don't see anything different.
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That's actually not true. Companies often rebrand themselves, not to further get more traction and get more users, but to retain the ones they have. If a company is perceived as being old or stodgy, then people are more likely to gravitate to companies that don't appear that way. This is doubly true in the tech sector.
But more to your point, as the article states, Google is by no means done trying to get more users; it's now all about getting users in developing countries. And making sure their logo looks peachy on a tiny African or Asian cell phone is in fact actually important for branding.
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No, a major branding change of the internet's arguably most powerful or important company is news.
WHY did they change it? That is news for nerds.
They changed it because serif fonts are hard to read at different resolutions and don't scale well on small devices...like phones and watches.
I take public transportation occasionally to and from work in San Francisco. But in general, there's a huge amount of crazy homeless people at all hours of the day who take public transportation. The buses are often filthy, and they often don't run on time. it's difficult to get from one place to the other, especially if I need to go multiple places in a single day.
Given the choice, I bike or drive. There's nothing worse than driving along a long stretch of road in SF only to pass a bus stop filled with people who have clearly been there eagerl waiting for the next bus for a long time which you know won't be arriving for another long time since you just came down that same road without seeing a bus. Those poor people. I did that for years. Never again. Even if it's free.
Supposedly it will continue out into the Kupier belt. First that have to get funding to pay for Astronomers to continue the mission, meaning paying the salaries of Astronomers to reprogram and monitor the craft. I don't know if Eris or any of the other larger Kupier belt objects are within easy distance, but it will take a few years for the craft to reach whatever specific object they have planned for it to go to next. It only has a little bit of fuel left for maneuvering, but it has SOME fuel left as I recall so they can probably send it someplace nearby.
OK, I'll bite. Confusion and panic are not the same thing. In fact, it turns out that in most cases of massive, unexpected disasters, confusion certainly rules, but almost always people act in a reasonable fashion, even unto their own demise. It's only when there are immediate possibilities of personal danger do people "panic".
Some large scale cyber attack on the US like what you described would likely result in people spending time trying to figure out what was going on at first. We are such an information-based society at this point that SOME information would get through, even if all cable and the internet was shut off and people resorted to radio.
Then, once it slowly became apparent we were under a cyber attack, people would calmly go about trying to pick up the pieces and finding out who was responsible so we could retaliate. There wouldn't be any panic.
Now if we were invaded by aliens, Independence Day-style, and there was evidence of some non-human interference, then yes, the shit would hit the fan.
I will. These glitches will be corrected post-haste, as many people's jobs and livelihoods depend on it. I'll go into work as per normal, and the US will continue to create jobs at a reasonable pace and the US will continue to grow for the forseeable future at a relatively static rate.
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Nevertheless, it's relevant to solving a small part of our massive gun problem. If guns had fingerprint scanners, small children would be unlikely to use the gun to kill. It's pretty straightforward.
Less guns means less gun violence.
There are places in the world where there is very little gun violence.
Those places all have one thing in common: Less guns.
I love my country, but if you don't think it's insane that small children are shooting people on a regular basis with weapons, legally purchased or not, you are part of the problem.
The article says upwards of 40 are killed in the Phillippines every year.
More importantly, these sorts of jellyfish are expected to become more common.
But the ad companies don't know you've bought the widget. They only know you searched for one.
It may be the case that the vast majority of purchasing done on the internet is not immediate, but only after you do your own research by searching, and then coming back and searching more until you decide on your widget.
I'm certain the advertisers can determine the rate of people who purchase immediately or purchase after a bit of research, and if more people do the latter, posting ads AFTER you've searched for something in hopes of influencing your decision the NEXT time you search for that same thing does make sense, even though it annoys people who immediately purchase.
Wow. Hilarious that people remember this one. I bought this off the long-defunct Speed Limit 140BPM compilations.
We had this issue at our office. The solution was to hang one of those small helicopters that goes around in a circle if you hook it to the ceiling via a string. If I was staying late, I'd just turn it on, the helicopter would move in a circle until I turned it off, and the lights would stay on.
Here's a hardware hack I need some serious help with. I've tried everything, and it seems like it's something someone out there would have figured out by now.
I have a bluetooth speaker. My phone is paired with it. I can listen to music from my phone or ipad on it via bluetooth. However, due to an accident, the input jack on the speaker (headphone size) is broken, so I am ONLY able to listen to music by pairing it.
What I would like to do is use my phone to play on two different devices, one of which is the bluetooth speaker, and the other is a regular speaker. You can't pair bluetooth with two receiving devices at once, so I can't use another bluetooth receiver for the other speaker (which does not have bluetooth). I've tried using another bluetooth receiver for the other speaker, and I can get music running through that one, but not both.
Is there a solution? Also, the bluetooth speaker, a Jawbone Jam box, has a small USB power connector for hooking up to the computer and getting updates. But as far as I know this port will not accept incoming sound.
Suggested hardware hack?
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Someone explain this to me. I don't understand from looking at the pictures.
1) You have a tank with no Hedgehog add-on. It rolls up to a hedge. it is a heavy tank. Because it's heavy, it pushes forward and crushes the hedges underneath it. or not.
2) You have a tank with the hedgehog add-on. It rolls up to a hedge. it is a heavy tank. Because it's heavy, it pushes forward and crushes the hedges underneath it. or not. I don't see what benefit the comb-like structure does to allow for easier crushing or rolling over the hedges. Is there a saw in there somewhere? Like a giant hair-clipper? I actually don't understand what physical advantage the add-on gives to the tank. What am I missing?
Well, there's ads on the page that get displayed when you click.
And so one would think that if this is the case, this would be brought up in the appeal. Why didn't the current judge consider the phone records to be "what you have" rather than "what you know"? I'm sure the defense made some argument that they counted as What You Know, but I wonder what that was?
Not all diversity is good, no. Diversity for diversity's sake is crap; it's the quality of the diverse ideas that count. The Flat Earth idea doesn't need equal time with evolution, for example.
I'm not. Evolution is a fact. In so far that science can say anything is a fact, evolution is a fact.
When science uses that word to describe a process, it's not saying that description is a "best guess". It's not a guess. It's a complex description of how things work, which, to the best of our understanding, is a fact.
Can certain parts of that understanding change? Of course. But the general statement "Species evolved from previous species over time" is not a guess. It's a fact.
Oink?
That's actually not true. Companies often rebrand themselves, not to further get more traction and get more users, but to retain the ones they have. If a company is perceived as being old or stodgy, then people are more likely to gravitate to companies that don't appear that way. This is doubly true in the tech sector.
But more to your point, as the article states, Google is by no means done trying to get more users; it's now all about getting users in developing countries. And making sure their logo looks peachy on a tiny African or Asian cell phone is in fact actually important for branding.
No, a major branding change of the internet's arguably most powerful or important company is news.
WHY did they change it? That is news for nerds.
They changed it because serif fonts are hard to read at different resolutions and don't scale well on small devices...like phones and watches.
Non-serif fonts do scale well.
Thus, news for nerds.
You are seriously dating yourself with this reference.
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Thank you, Pedant McPedantington.
I take public transportation occasionally to and from work in San Francisco. But in general, there's a huge amount of crazy homeless people at all hours of the day who take public transportation. The buses are often filthy, and they often don't run on time. it's difficult to get from one place to the other, especially if I need to go multiple places in a single day.
Given the choice, I bike or drive. There's nothing worse than driving along a long stretch of road in SF only to pass a bus stop filled with people who have clearly been there eagerl waiting for the next bus for a long time which you know won't be arriving for another long time since you just came down that same road without seeing a bus. Those poor people. I did that for years. Never again. Even if it's free.
The best hires photos are going to come 19 months from now, I read. It just takes a long time to send a lot of data that far.
Supposedly it will continue out into the Kupier belt. First that have to get funding to pay for Astronomers to continue the mission, meaning paying the salaries of Astronomers to reprogram and monitor the craft. I don't know if Eris or any of the other larger Kupier belt objects are within easy distance, but it will take a few years for the craft to reach whatever specific object they have planned for it to go to next. It only has a little bit of fuel left for maneuvering, but it has SOME fuel left as I recall so they can probably send it someplace nearby.
OK, I'll bite. Confusion and panic are not the same thing. In fact, it turns out that in most cases of massive, unexpected disasters, confusion certainly rules, but almost always people act in a reasonable fashion, even unto their own demise. It's only when there are immediate possibilities of personal danger do people "panic".
Some large scale cyber attack on the US like what you described would likely result in people spending time trying to figure out what was going on at first. We are such an information-based society at this point that SOME information would get through, even if all cable and the internet was shut off and people resorted to radio.
Then, once it slowly became apparent we were under a cyber attack, people would calmly go about trying to pick up the pieces and finding out who was responsible so we could retaliate. There wouldn't be any panic.
Now if we were invaded by aliens, Independence Day-style, and there was evidence of some non-human interference, then yes, the shit would hit the fan.
I will. These glitches will be corrected post-haste, as many people's jobs and livelihoods depend on it. I'll go into work as per normal, and the US will continue to create jobs at a reasonable pace and the US will continue to grow for the forseeable future at a relatively static rate.
Shut up, hipster.