Yeah...I have a nano that is great (though I have never synced it to itunes...always winamp) and somewhere I still have a 4th gen ipod (20gb color, 4-way click wheel)
While the iphone is an impressive item and their other mobile devices are also technological marvels, I can't justify buying them. I would still be willing to own their laptops but with the direction they are heading, it may soon be your last chance to buy an apple machine that you can control.
Look at the apple TV...at first it was a tempting item--hackable and cheap for what it was at the time. Now it is locked down and cloud-only and completely uninteresting.
Not to mention that I expect the minimum wage burger flipper not to spit in my food and to be able to lift the 50lb box of fries down from the shelf (and I also expect them not to put a steel-toed boot through my patty or crush my bun with a heavy package)...
so why is it unreasonable to expect the double-minimum wage package lifter to be careful with my damn box?
Maybe you are an avid counterstrike player--there have been studies that show people who played a lot of FPS games with voice chat (CS being the big one) were no more impaired by talking on a handsfree phone than they would be with no phone.
Everybody else however loses focus and reaction time whether the conversation is being held in their hand, clipped into their ear, or beamed over the car stereo. I think the reason talking to a person in the car with you is acceptable is that that person also has the ability to react ("DUDE LOOK OUT") and interrupt the conversation.
I think the only right option would be to hold the test immediately. It sounds like the test took place on friday and the video was filmed monday...at this point anyone who actually studied for the test should still be ready to go and anybody who cheated will be screwed (assuming the curve accounts for the fact that everyone does a little worse since they forgot stuff over teh weekend).
Of course this would only work in a high-school like situation where you can expect every student to be in attendance (barring excused absense). Typical 500+ person college lectures do not have this luxury (and maybe not for midterms, but at my school all final exams were supposed to be on an official calendar in advance).
Yeah but do they come with some magic version of linux flash that is not terrible?
I have atom based machines that can play 1080p video without a hiccup but try to make a 320p youtube video full screen and watch it stutter and spurt...
That doesn't make any sense...aren't halfway houses usually used for some sort of rehabilitation or reintegration? Either to give you a place to stay where you can be monitored and supported against alcohol/drug type relapses or to give you a place to help you step back into the world after being locked up for many years.
This guy committed a stupid crime and is on his way to prison for almost certainly less than a year. When he gets out, the world won't be a different place that he no longer knows how to live in (and its not like he needs a drug-style program to keep him from relapsing into his political email stealing addiction).
Basically if he gets to live in a halfway house...his punishment is simply "live in a crappy area with some possibly unsavory housemates for a year" which really doesn't sound so bad for a felony.
Last time I bought a physical disk, I am pretty sure I just typed the CD key into steam and never even opened the disk container (it was being sold at launch for for less at best buy than on steam)
If coke were accusing an employee of something relating to millions of dollars where they needed to present part of the formula as evidence and the court denied their request for closed doors, they might be forced to not present the evidence or not pursue trial at all. The formula is worth far more than one trial so they would probably walk away from having to publicly display it--if the employee was actually guilty of something, he would run free since coke would be unable to present key evidence.
He is telling his friend "hey, why don't we put the speaker and the microphone together on one piece like this" and the reason the footage was not used is due to the ensuing cheers of ingenuity that followed.
The issue here is that trade secrets are *not* protected. If they had a patent, then the open doors wouldn't matter since they had already exposed the inner workings in the patent filing.
Trade secrets only stay secret if you keep them that way. This is no different than if Coke asked for closed doors when it was going to present its secret formula.
I use a chunk of PVC pipe (maybe 2") drilled in the center with a length of line running through it.
This way I can just tie it to whatever is handy (I think it is currently tied to a pair of shoes...a big water bottle is nice too as you can just change the weight). Remember to go both ways...twist it all of the way up and then start twisting it down at the same speed. When you get to the bottom just keep turning the same direction until it is at the top again and then let it down.
What about websites that have very specific requirements (although this is a pet peeve of mine as it actually limits the available keyspace quite significantly).
If your password must have at least one uppercase, one lowercase, one number, one punctuation symbol, the number cannot be the first or last character and you can't repeat characters...how does this work with your system?
And yes, one of my student loan providers has similar requirements and they used to mandate a password change every 45 days ensuring that the few times I might actually want to log in (automatic payments and paper statements meant the website had little to offer) there would be no way I would actually have any idea what my password was.
It was a guess although in thinking about it further, 30% is actually probably a pretty good deal for major software vendors.
I would bet that the markup on video games (from what the maker sells the license for to what best buy sells a physical disk for) is far more than 30%.
Launchy isn't as powerful as quicksilver's advanced functions but works well as a nice little multi-tool on windows and linux.
I use it all of the time as a calculator, and on my work computer, I can't even find half of the programs I use in the start menu since I installed launchy right away.
I've always been a fan of facebook's events system...the only problem is that if you were a college facebook user (rather than an adult who started once it opened up), they have sort of lost their punch.
The system is great, but people would create new events as a way to mass invite everyone to say "omg I lost my phone" (cmon...I have had the ability to sync contacts with a computer easily since the freebie phone I got in 2005...why does this still happen) or invite everyone to some crappy mass event. This has the effect of making a lot of people just ignore events.
What I have noticed recently is more people using evite...evite used to totally suck but the few I have seen in the last month and a half seem to be like facebook events on steroids. They took everything that was good about facebook events and made it so you don't have to have a facebook account. There is a wall you can write on, you can see who has been invited, who has coming, how many guests they may bring (facebook doesn't have this feature yet) and you can send the invites to people who don't have facebook acounts.
Of course...I still see lots of good reasons to have a facebook account even if the event system was hurt by spam (evites you have to actually know their email...not just have been in their first year english class)
No no, that is all wrong. What will happen is that bad filmmakers will use 3D to force you to look where they want you to look.
Good filmmakers can already make you look where they want you to look. The problem with 3D is that you can't explore the frame...good filmmakers have carefully thought out everything that appears in the scene (in avatar, I kept wanting to look around and couldn't). Bad filmmakers are just going to use 3D to punch you in the face so they don't have to care about what is happening in the upper right hand corner.
How often is it that you don't use an electronic device for YEARS(!!!!!) but suddenly care about it being immediately available? Even then, it's likely that your batteries have already leaked and corroded the battery contacts in the YEARS(!!!!!) that you let it sit unused.
This pretty much describes my graphing calculator usage.
I would apply the same thinking to some of my remote controls as well--I don't remember the last time I used the actual remote belonging to my TV (I watch everything on XBMC, audio is handled by a stereo...I guess I just use the power button on the TV) but you had better damn well believe that when I pick up that remote control, I expect it to work.
Lithium-ion batteries lose charge just sitting on the shelf doing nothing and are completely inappropriate for long term, low energy uses.
Also, I would imagine that his interests are more of a "put your money where your mouth is" type thing.
Beck is being paid real money by goldline. He is almost certainly not a customer of theirs and he is not an investor--i.e. he will get paid his sponsor money regardless of what direction the price of gold moves in or how well the company does.
Gore holds investments which, while it may provide an incentive to push people in the same direction, is wholly different than being a paid shill. For Gore to get a payout, things actually have to go the right way (or enough people have to agree that they will)
I would imagine it is pretty easy to positively identify the facebook photos that you posted of yourself having a blast doing the things you claim you cannot do.
They are not looking for posts that say "Omg I am suing the insurance company for moneyz!" but rather photos that dispute your story (like a "disabled" worker spending their workmans comp frolicking in the waves on the beach).
And I still pay a $.50 fuel surcharge every time I get into a taxi cap despite the fact that gas prices are lower than they were when the surcharge was passed and they have had many years to either raise the rates or fix their operating margins to compensate.
Instead we are still stuck with the cabbies manually adding a price to the meter (the same way they add additional passenger surcharges) that is not stated on the rate sheets (its on a crappy sticker in *most* cabs) posted inside the cab or painted on the door outside the cab.
How the eff do you graduate with 200k in debt (unless you are talking about more than an undergrad degree which wouldn't make sense since everyone else is talking about getting a bachelors)? You're doing it wrong.
I just looked at RPI's published tuition, it is a hair under 40K...that still leaves room for 10k living expenses if you financed the entire degree. Now consider that your friends have already graduated and thus were paying lower tuition when they started (I started at one of the more expensive universities in 2005 and the annual price tag is now $10k higher for somebody starting 2010).
This then assumes that you don't get any help from parents (this may be so), but then also that you don't work at all in the 4 years you are there. If your parents aren't helping to pay...maybe you need to think about finding a part time job and paid summer internships?
If you can't figure out how go finish a 4-year degree with less than 200k in debt, maybe you're at the wrong school
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Phone cables can be replaced, and a lot of people make good money doing it so it actually helps some who are not criminals. I'm just sayin'...
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While the iphone is an impressive item and their other mobile devices are also technological marvels, I can't justify buying them. I would still be willing to own their laptops but with the direction they are heading, it may soon be your last chance to buy an apple machine that you can control.
Look at the apple TV...at first it was a tempting item--hackable and cheap for what it was at the time. Now it is locked down and cloud-only and completely uninteresting.
so why is it unreasonable to expect the double-minimum wage package lifter to be careful with my damn box?
Everybody else however loses focus and reaction time whether the conversation is being held in their hand, clipped into their ear, or beamed over the car stereo. I think the reason talking to a person in the car with you is acceptable is that that person also has the ability to react ("DUDE LOOK OUT") and interrupt the conversation.
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Of course this would only work in a high-school like situation where you can expect every student to be in attendance (barring excused absense). Typical 500+ person college lectures do not have this luxury (and maybe not for midterms, but at my school all final exams were supposed to be on an official calendar in advance).
I have atom based machines that can play 1080p video without a hiccup but try to make a 320p youtube video full screen and watch it stutter and spurt...
This guy committed a stupid crime and is on his way to prison for almost certainly less than a year. When he gets out, the world won't be a different place that he no longer knows how to live in (and its not like he needs a drug-style program to keep him from relapsing into his political email stealing addiction).
Basically if he gets to live in a halfway house...his punishment is simply "live in a crappy area with some possibly unsavory housemates for a year" which really doesn't sound so bad for a felony.
Last time I bought a physical disk, I am pretty sure I just typed the CD key into steam and never even opened the disk container (it was being sold at launch for for less at best buy than on steam)
If coke were accusing an employee of something relating to millions of dollars where they needed to present part of the formula as evidence and the court denied their request for closed doors, they might be forced to not present the evidence or not pursue trial at all. The formula is worth far more than one trial so they would probably walk away from having to publicly display it--if the employee was actually guilty of something, he would run free since coke would be unable to present key evidence.
He is telling his friend "hey, why don't we put the speaker and the microphone together on one piece like this" and the reason the footage was not used is due to the ensuing cheers of ingenuity that followed.
Trade secrets only stay secret if you keep them that way. This is no different than if Coke asked for closed doors when it was going to present its secret formula.
This way I can just tie it to whatever is handy (I think it is currently tied to a pair of shoes...a big water bottle is nice too as you can just change the weight). Remember to go both ways...twist it all of the way up and then start twisting it down at the same speed. When you get to the bottom just keep turning the same direction until it is at the top again and then let it down.
sudo apt-get install whatever-bits-of-gnome-you-want?
And yes, one of my student loan providers has similar requirements and they used to mandate a password change every 45 days ensuring that the few times I might actually want to log in (automatic payments and paper statements meant the website had little to offer) there would be no way I would actually have any idea what my password was.
I would bet that the markup on video games (from what the maker sells the license for to what best buy sells a physical disk for) is far more than 30%.
I'm pretty sure they don't charge 30% either.
I use it all of the time as a calculator, and on my work computer, I can't even find half of the programs I use in the start menu since I installed launchy right away.
The system is great, but people would create new events as a way to mass invite everyone to say "omg I lost my phone" (cmon...I have had the ability to sync contacts with a computer easily since the freebie phone I got in 2005...why does this still happen) or invite everyone to some crappy mass event. This has the effect of making a lot of people just ignore events.
What I have noticed recently is more people using evite...evite used to totally suck but the few I have seen in the last month and a half seem to be like facebook events on steroids. They took everything that was good about facebook events and made it so you don't have to have a facebook account. There is a wall you can write on, you can see who has been invited, who has coming, how many guests they may bring (facebook doesn't have this feature yet) and you can send the invites to people who don't have facebook acounts.
Of course...I still see lots of good reasons to have a facebook account even if the event system was hurt by spam (evites you have to actually know their email...not just have been in their first year english class)
Good filmmakers can already make you look where they want you to look. The problem with 3D is that you can't explore the frame...good filmmakers have carefully thought out everything that appears in the scene (in avatar, I kept wanting to look around and couldn't). Bad filmmakers are just going to use 3D to punch you in the face so they don't have to care about what is happening in the upper right hand corner.
How often is it that you don't use an electronic device for YEARS(!!!!!) but suddenly care about it being immediately available? Even then, it's likely that your batteries have already leaked and corroded the battery contacts in the YEARS(!!!!!) that you let it sit unused.
This pretty much describes my graphing calculator usage.
I would apply the same thinking to some of my remote controls as well--I don't remember the last time I used the actual remote belonging to my TV (I watch everything on XBMC, audio is handled by a stereo...I guess I just use the power button on the TV) but you had better damn well believe that when I pick up that remote control, I expect it to work.
Lithium-ion batteries lose charge just sitting on the shelf doing nothing and are completely inappropriate for long term, low energy uses.
Beck is being paid real money by goldline. He is almost certainly not a customer of theirs and he is not an investor--i.e. he will get paid his sponsor money regardless of what direction the price of gold moves in or how well the company does.
Gore holds investments which, while it may provide an incentive to push people in the same direction, is wholly different than being a paid shill. For Gore to get a payout, things actually have to go the right way (or enough people have to agree that they will)
They are not looking for posts that say "Omg I am suing the insurance company for moneyz!" but rather photos that dispute your story (like a "disabled" worker spending their workmans comp frolicking in the waves on the beach).
Instead we are still stuck with the cabbies manually adding a price to the meter (the same way they add additional passenger surcharges) that is not stated on the rate sheets (its on a crappy sticker in *most* cabs) posted inside the cab or painted on the door outside the cab.
I just looked at RPI's published tuition, it is a hair under 40K...that still leaves room for 10k living expenses if you financed the entire degree. Now consider that your friends have already graduated and thus were paying lower tuition when they started (I started at one of the more expensive universities in 2005 and the annual price tag is now $10k higher for somebody starting 2010).
This then assumes that you don't get any help from parents (this may be so), but then also that you don't work at all in the 4 years you are there. If your parents aren't helping to pay...maybe you need to think about finding a part time job and paid summer internships?
If you can't figure out how go finish a 4-year degree with less than 200k in debt, maybe you're at the wrong school