Speaking as someone who flies all the time for work, I've never been asked by a flight attendant to put away my paper book, or on the few times when I've had it out, my knitting, during takeoff OR landing. And this has been on flights where I have seen them getting on to people about electronic devices.
The whole thing is a poorly enforced regulation that may have had a purpose in the early days of analog cell phones that put out a lot of interference and instruments that were possibly vulnerable to them, but these days it seems more than a bit out of date. And poorly enforced, I see people 'hiding' their cell phones all the time during takeoff and landing and just making sure they don't let the flight attendant see......
Age and if you even bother to vote are important demographics. Someone in the 20-25, 'college age' group likely has different things that are important to them than say, someone who is in the 55-60 age group. A USA example would be social security. Very few 20-somethings that I know are even remotely concerned with it. On the other hand, someone who is 60 is already likely to be face the choice to retire at 62 or hold out till 65. (I know, TFA was about our northern neighbors, but I'm sure there's a similar example for people who are more familiar with Canadian social programs). So that would definitely be a reason why they would be INTERESTED in date of birth.
Now, if that should be considered publicly available info is up for debate
And how exactly do they prove that it was viewed when it was broadcast over the airwaves? Television signals, even the modern digital ones, are a one way transmission with no confirmation sent back from the receiver. They have relied on metrics like Neilson ratings to determine about how many people saw the ad, and I fail to see how the source of the stream, be it from a traditional antenna or over your cable or over your internet would make a difference to the Neilson Company.
Well, Galaxy Nexus has an injunction, they're trying to get a block on HTC One and EVO 4g, and not mentioned here but they're also going after the Galaxy S III
While that's only two manufacturers really, it is for of the best android handsets available right now. While it's not a blanket 'all' it certainly shows a pattern....
True, they are a bit dated on their Science, but no worse than Jules Verne, who has been suggested by a lot of people. That could even be a learning experience, what science fiction authors of today think something might be like may in fact be totally different - see what these older novels thought things were like that we now know to be different?
Another example occurred to me last night after I went to bed, if you can find any of the Buck Rodgers novels, they can be fairly action packed too. Same problem with factual errors, but fun books all the same.
I actually read these right around that age, and I recall that my mother suggested them to be because SHE read them around that age, so yeah, tripods are good books (though not good neighbors....)
For that matter, the lighthearted humor in almost anything Pratchett writes might be good for a younger boy. (some of the slightly suggestive bits in later diskworld novels would go over really well with a pre-teen boy, though a lot of parents might not appreciate it as much)
If you want to stay with Asimov, he wrote the Lucky Starr books under a pen name, they were targeted at younger boys and were much more accessible and understandable by me than, say, Foundation
However, the amount of commercial airtime in it is absolutely repugnant. It has not been lost on me that a 45 min show has been stretched to 1hr 15m (beyond the usual 'rounded' padding of a show to 1hr) since it is evidently a popular show.
Well, unless they're editing it, there's no way they could add any commercials and keep it under an hour. It is an HBO original series, which airs without advertisement interruptions. (HBO Being a premium channel, the ads they run are for their own shows, and are run between shows, not during them)
With the exception of the pilot, most of the episodes run 56 minutes or so.
So, really, at 1 hour 15, SKY is only adding 19 minutes of ads, which is only a touch over the normal hour padding of 15 minutes.
Ok, replying to myself because I shot my mouth off without reading TFA....
For one, Siri can be used to write e-mails or text messages. So, in theory, Apple could be storing confidential IBM messages.
So it's stuff like this, that wouldn't be sent through Google or Bing, that she is concerned about. That actually makes a teensy, tiny grain of sense for a change...
The only problem with that theory would be, if she were a MS Shill, Windows XP would not have figured in to her solution, and windows 8 would have gotten a better rap....
the prevalent WORKS_FOR_ME && WONT_FIX responses towards bugs, the really lousy bug-reporting scheme (I tried it with KDE, my cpu went to 100% and never even loaded the desktop, requiring a reinstall from scratch).
Ah, generalities and anecodes...
Then there's the lack of social skills among the "self-anointed."
Because the actions of a few give you license to bash an entire community.
Perhaps... but to become stereotypes they must be at least partially true. The items that the GP has cited DO seem to be fairly common impressions among the Mac and Windows geeks that I know too. It doesn't matter if they are universally true, the fact that they are true enough to exist as stereotypes does make it hard to convince people to change over.
And before anyone goes pointing fingers, I switch between Windows and several distros of Linux, on different days, depending on what form of self flagellation I wish to subject myself to at the time.
Speaking as someone who does a lot of Customer Support, there is also a difference too between 'We do not support' and 'We no longer support'.
"It used to work on [insert never-supported hardware here]" is a phrase I have heard many times before. It's entirely possible that they never tested it on a Playbook during development. The fact that it worked in the past was good fortune for the playbook's owner, and due to recent changes it no longer works on a platform it was never tested to work on anyway,so they had no motivation to make sure that it still worked there.
Exactly, but the GP was saying he'd never heard of anyone being contacted about it, I was basically trying to say I've seen news stories to the contrary, I just couldn't find a link
Composting operations constantly turn the piles and thus keep the oxygen content in the pile up. This encourages the aerobic bacteria that break down the materials quickly, efficiently, in a sanitary fashion. When you put the same mix of organics in a hole and cover it up, though, only the anaerobic bacteria work on the decomposition. These buggers are much slower, taking years or decades to do what the others could do in weeks to months. They also produce a number of byproducts that are much less desirable, and sometimes even toxic. Hydrogen sulfide is one, amines are others.
Not a bad idea but there are opponents to that idea who claim that a pay per bag (or less common pay per weight) disposal charges, while increasing recycling, will also lead to increased illegal dumping.
Other opposition to pay per bag comes from large families, who believe that they are being punished more than small ones because they will have more bags, etc.
Some disposal companies aren't particularly excited by pay per bag because it encourages people to try to shove everything they can in to the one bag, resulting in overloaded bags that split open and make a mess if you just look at them wrong.
Still though, there are studies that indicate that, for the most part, these are just fear mongering and with the right diligence and enforcement of penalties for illegal diversion, pay per bag systems do seem to work...
http://www.epa.gov/osw/conserve/tools/payt/top8.htm
My search-fu is weak but I remember reading a story on a paper newspaper a few years ago about Fort Wort residents being up at arms because the city was taking away their recycling bins if they were routinely putting stuff in that shouldn't be there.
My trash pickup is paid for as part of my water bill. Easy to opt out of paying a water bill, as long as I don't care about getting water from the city. Makes it a damn nuisance to take a shower though...
One justification I have seen for this at a company I worked for was due to storage. In previous years, when storage was smaller, some e-mails, particularly the ones with large attachments, actually did cause problems on the fledgling mail server they owned at the time. The policy was put in to place to delete e-mails as soon as they were no longer needed to keep the storage on the server down. then the policy was never revised after the mail server got beefier and it wasn't such a big deal.
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Actually, yes. http://www.tsa.gov/travelers/airtravel/assistant/editorial_1252.shtm I use el cheapo aluminum when I travel, just in case, instead of my more expensive stainless or bamboo, but I've never been bothered about them at all.
Speaking as someone who flies all the time for work, I've never been asked by a flight attendant to put away my paper book, or on the few times when I've had it out, my knitting, during takeoff OR landing. And this has been on flights where I have seen them getting on to people about electronic devices. The whole thing is a poorly enforced regulation that may have had a purpose in the early days of analog cell phones that put out a lot of interference and instruments that were possibly vulnerable to them, but these days it seems more than a bit out of date. And poorly enforced, I see people 'hiding' their cell phones all the time during takeoff and landing and just making sure they don't let the flight attendant see......
But completely irrelevant to the article. This is talking about own-root trees.
Age and if you even bother to vote are important demographics. Someone in the 20-25, 'college age' group likely has different things that are important to them than say, someone who is in the 55-60 age group. A USA example would be social security. Very few 20-somethings that I know are even remotely concerned with it. On the other hand, someone who is 60 is already likely to be face the choice to retire at 62 or hold out till 65. (I know, TFA was about our northern neighbors, but I'm sure there's a similar example for people who are more familiar with Canadian social programs). So that would definitely be a reason why they would be INTERESTED in date of birth. Now, if that should be considered publicly available info is up for debate
And how exactly do they prove that it was viewed when it was broadcast over the airwaves? Television signals, even the modern digital ones, are a one way transmission with no confirmation sent back from the receiver. They have relied on metrics like Neilson ratings to determine about how many people saw the ad, and I fail to see how the source of the stream, be it from a traditional antenna or over your cable or over your internet would make a difference to the Neilson Company.
Well, Galaxy Nexus has an injunction, they're trying to get a block on HTC One and EVO 4g, and not mentioned here but they're also going after the Galaxy S III While that's only two manufacturers really, it is for of the best android handsets available right now. While it's not a blanket 'all' it certainly shows a pattern....
True, they are a bit dated on their Science, but no worse than Jules Verne, who has been suggested by a lot of people. That could even be a learning experience, what science fiction authors of today think something might be like may in fact be totally different - see what these older novels thought things were like that we now know to be different? Another example occurred to me last night after I went to bed, if you can find any of the Buck Rodgers novels, they can be fairly action packed too. Same problem with factual errors, but fun books all the same.
I actually read these right around that age, and I recall that my mother suggested them to be because SHE read them around that age, so yeah, tripods are good books (though not good neighbors....)
For that matter, the lighthearted humor in almost anything Pratchett writes might be good for a younger boy. (some of the slightly suggestive bits in later diskworld novels would go over really well with a pre-teen boy, though a lot of parents might not appreciate it as much)
If you want to stay with Asimov, he wrote the Lucky Starr books under a pen name, they were targeted at younger boys and were much more accessible and understandable by me than, say, Foundation
IIRC, didn't LCROSS show something between 2.5 and 8.5? Far cry from 22%, but then again, it was a different crater...
However, the amount of commercial airtime in it is absolutely repugnant. It has not been lost on me that a 45 min show has been stretched to 1hr 15m (beyond the usual 'rounded' padding of a show to 1hr) since it is evidently a popular show.
Well, unless they're editing it, there's no way they could add any commercials and keep it under an hour. It is an HBO original series, which airs without advertisement interruptions. (HBO Being a premium channel, the ads they run are for their own shows, and are run between shows, not during them) With the exception of the pilot, most of the episodes run 56 minutes or so. So, really, at 1 hour 15, SKY is only adding 19 minutes of ads, which is only a touch over the normal hour padding of 15 minutes.
For one, Siri can be used to write e-mails or text messages. So, in theory, Apple could be storing confidential IBM messages.
So it's stuff like this, that wouldn't be sent through Google or Bing, that she is concerned about. That actually makes a teensy, tiny grain of sense for a change...
Because, somehow, the fact that it was spoken and not typed makes it less secure...
Easier physical access to their office, and an easier process to get face time with them != more influence.
It doesn't? I would have thought that easier process to get face time would innately make it easier to have an influence on him....
The only problem with that theory would be, if she were a MS Shill, Windows XP would not have figured in to her solution, and windows 8 would have gotten a better rap....
the prevalent WORKS_FOR_ME && WONT_FIX responses towards bugs, the really lousy bug-reporting scheme (I tried it with KDE, my cpu went to 100% and never even loaded the desktop, requiring a reinstall from scratch).
Ah, generalities and anecodes...
Then there's the lack of social skills among the "self-anointed."
Because the actions of a few give you license to bash an entire community.
Perhaps... but to become stereotypes they must be at least partially true. The items that the GP has cited DO seem to be fairly common impressions among the Mac and Windows geeks that I know too. It doesn't matter if they are universally true, the fact that they are true enough to exist as stereotypes does make it hard to convince people to change over. And before anyone goes pointing fingers, I switch between Windows and several distros of Linux, on different days, depending on what form of self flagellation I wish to subject myself to at the time.
Speaking as someone who does a lot of Customer Support, there is also a difference too between 'We do not support' and 'We no longer support'. "It used to work on [insert never-supported hardware here]" is a phrase I have heard many times before. It's entirely possible that they never tested it on a Playbook during development. The fact that it worked in the past was good fortune for the playbook's owner, and due to recent changes it no longer works on a platform it was never tested to work on anyway,so they had no motivation to make sure that it still worked there.
Exactly, but the GP was saying he'd never heard of anyone being contacted about it, I was basically trying to say I've seen news stories to the contrary, I just couldn't find a link
Composting operations constantly turn the piles and thus keep the oxygen content in the pile up. This encourages the aerobic bacteria that break down the materials quickly, efficiently, in a sanitary fashion. When you put the same mix of organics in a hole and cover it up, though, only the anaerobic bacteria work on the decomposition. These buggers are much slower, taking years or decades to do what the others could do in weeks to months. They also produce a number of byproducts that are much less desirable, and sometimes even toxic. Hydrogen sulfide is one, amines are others.
Not a bad idea but there are opponents to that idea who claim that a pay per bag (or less common pay per weight) disposal charges, while increasing recycling, will also lead to increased illegal dumping. Other opposition to pay per bag comes from large families, who believe that they are being punished more than small ones because they will have more bags, etc. Some disposal companies aren't particularly excited by pay per bag because it encourages people to try to shove everything they can in to the one bag, resulting in overloaded bags that split open and make a mess if you just look at them wrong. Still though, there are studies that indicate that, for the most part, these are just fear mongering and with the right diligence and enforcement of penalties for illegal diversion, pay per bag systems do seem to work... http://www.epa.gov/osw/conserve/tools/payt/top8.htm
My search-fu is weak but I remember reading a story on a paper newspaper a few years ago about Fort Wort residents being up at arms because the city was taking away their recycling bins if they were routinely putting stuff in that shouldn't be there.
My trash pickup is paid for as part of my water bill. Easy to opt out of paying a water bill, as long as I don't care about getting water from the city. Makes it a damn nuisance to take a shower though...
One justification I have seen for this at a company I worked for was due to storage. In previous years, when storage was smaller, some e-mails, particularly the ones with large attachments, actually did cause problems on the fledgling mail server they owned at the time. The policy was put in to place to delete e-mails as soon as they were no longer needed to keep the storage on the server down. then the policy was never revised after the mail server got beefier and it wasn't such a big deal.
If they are suffering, you can't tell it from the line at the counter every morning.