His age group is 24 to (34?), and you're acting like the singles in that age group are mostly hags.
I believe the point was that the older he gets the less attractive SINGLE women will be available. As most of the attractive women in his age group will have already found someone.
Yes, it was my first carrier, they were cheap and I could make phone calls... most of the time...
I live in NYC (Staten Island), when I had shoddy cell phone coverage I chalked it up to "Well I'm in a basement", "Well I'm in a sparsely populated area", "Well there's a lot of trees around." I just kept coming up with excuses. When I would go rock climbing upstate (well really it's anywhere, I've never had T-Mobile service on a climbing trip) I'd say "I don't really need my cell phone now anyway, someone else will likely have a cell phone with service in case of an emergency..." Then I was considering a move to PA, in an area with absolutely no T-Mobile coverage for miles. I didn't want to continue with a service that was going to be non-existant 99% of the places I was going to be.
So I walked into a Verizon store to switch carriers (I had always considered switching to Verizon since they seem to have coverage everywhere I go.) My favorite part was when I wanted to cancel the contract. The T-Mobile representative asked me why I was switching, I said I have no service in the town I might be moving to, she asked me where that was so she could check the coverage map, I simply told her "I'm there right now, you don't need to check the map, I'm calling from a Verizon phone because my phone has no service at all."
Yes, they were a lot more than T-Mobile, and I hate that there's no option for Verizon's "Fave 5" with the 450 minute plan (I don't talk to that many people so 5 unlimited numbers outside the Verizon network with 450 minutes would be perfect) but to me it's worth it. Now I'm no longer the one without cell phone service, I'm usually the only one with service. At first I hated my samsung glyde, well I still hate that phone, and I hated not having the freedom with my phone that t-mobile offered with theirs, then Verizon announced the Droid and well I bought one rather quickly. Now I've got more freedom than I've ever had with a cell phone and coverage everywhere I go.
... the fastest stock Toyota Supra does mid 14s, not 12s. He asked to compare a production straight 6.
Besides, why not compare another forced induction vehicle to the supra? I can easily get a 500rwhp vehicle by slapping twin turbos on my mustang and beat just about everything on the street (including a 12 second supra, which I can do even without the FI) while still having a decent daily driver. That wouldn't prove anything other than car + money + work = fast.
Wow, I want one, that sounds awesome. I wouldn't have it tweet when I'm having sex, but I'd probably keep some sort of online log that would graph the weight, volume, temperature (though that might be greatly skewed by the friction of the mattress constantly rubbing against the device) and if I can have motion sensors I'd have it log "the motion of the ocean."
Not that the data would serve much purpose other than to say "Hey check out what I made."
I could have sworn I saw this on slashdot before..
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Something just like this setup was in a comment for an ask slashdot article -
Somehow I feel that this hypothesis will mangled beyond recognition so creationists can make it somehow seem as if it supports their idea of young earth and Noah's ark.
But there's a phenomenal amount of mediocre pizza in New York. So your analysis doesn't apply. Why? I suspect that cheap pizza out-competes good pizza.
You live in NY and you think good pizza is more expensive than the mediocre pizza and that's why there are so many mediocre pizza places around?
That's not quite it, most of the really good pizza places I know of offer pizza for the same price as anywhere else. There are a few reasons I know of that so many "mediocre" places exist around new york. One is that not everyone considers that pizza to be "mediocre." Most people will favor their neighborhood pizza place that they grew up with as a kid. Pizza places are cheap, easy to start, and easy to run, you don't have to be the best to stay open you just have to be good enough. And there are more than enough people in NYC that you can get by with having a lousy pizza, with all of the tourists that don't know any better and all of the commuters who just don't want to bother changing where they get their pizza.
I have noticed that the local place usually attempts to get better though if a place opens nearby that makes better pizza. Some of the best pizza places I know of on Staten Island (and voted as some of the best in NYC) are all located within a reasonably close proximity.
Wouldn't it be bad catching all of the space debris in a giant net, when the net itself will eventually come back down to earth. Individual space junk coming out of orbit isn't as bad since it's not all falling in the same place and it's small enough to mostly burn up in the atmosphere, but if you've got this huge net there's a lot more junk to burn up with a much more localized crash site.
Plus this thing bouncing around like a billiard ball seems likely to catch something that isn't junk...
The Wii sells because it's cheap and the games are fun... well, fun for a little while. My Wii is currently sitting in my closet, haven't played it in a bit and I haven't wanted to. The controls didn't sell the system and there are some games where they really are annoying to use. I also have an XBox 360 and a PS3 that I play far more often, and if the Wii games I have were available on either one of those systems then I probably wouldn't have any games for the Wii.
You get into a habit of thinking things like:
There are never any cars around this corner
I never see kids on this street
Everybody drives 40mph on this street (posted speed of 25mph)
Or you remember things like:
This section of road is usually icy this time of year.
It's impossible to see if anyone's coming over this hill in the opposite direction.
The exits coming up soon and it's a very sharp turn (became very useful to memorize when coming off the Verrazano Bridge onto the 14th St. exit from the belt parkway.)
There is normally a strong crosswind when I go over this bridge
Even though there isn't a sign until I come to the exit (usually in Jersey) I know the exit is coming up soon so I should get ready to get off rather than jamming on my brakes at the last minute and swerving across 2 lanes of highway traffic.
Familiarizing yourself with a route and being able to memorize it is a good thing, it allows you to focus on the road rather than focusing on not getting lost.
Wow I saw the same thing, this truck (big white GMC don't remember the model) jumped across 3 lanes while slamming on the brakes with no signal, I almost rear ended the truck. The weirdest thing was they weren't even going for an exit, they were going towards a toll booth (we were in an EZ Express lane and the toll booth was to the right) that was for commercial trucks with trailers. At least if they used a signal and slowed down in an empty lane instead of swerving and almost causing an accident (which I would be at fault for since I would have hit them in the rear end) I wouldn't have been as annoyed with the stupidity.
Think of it this way - my wife makes widgets for sale. I am in a position to require a large block of people to buy widgets. I do so.
No, it's more like - My wife works for a company that invests in hundreds of other companies, a few of which make seat belts for sale. I am in a position to require all cars to come with seat belts. My wife wouldn't profit much from the mandatory requirement of seat belts in cars as most cars will come with a seat belt anyway, plus it's likely to benefit in the well being of society to make seat belts mandatory. I do so.
Hiren's BootCD contains a bunch of different utilities for doing just this. Plus it's bootable, so if you can't get into the OS you can still use the CD. It can do just about anything you'd need to in order to diagnose and repair a machine. You just gotta find it (usually the pirate bay or other torrent sites are a good place to look.)
If a bundled web browser is an antitrust issue...... t hen why isn't bundled "office" software?
Because this version of Office is an option when you buy the new computer that you can choose to remove whenever you'd like. Whereas Internet Explorer is something that you have no say on when buying a new computer or even uninstall when you do get the computer (well, not easily anyway.)
This doesn't sound all too bad. The ads would likely bother most of the slashdot crowd but then most of us are either using open office, a pirated copy of office, or when we're forced to at work, legitimate purchased copies of office. Microsoft finally offering a free copy of office with new computers with the stipulation that there will be ads and limited functionality is still better than nothing. It really kills a sale of a new computer when a person asks "Will this have Microsoft Word on it?" and you say "Well no... that will ll be $100 extra..." And some people just aren't open to the idea of an office alternative (open office.) I'm surprised they haven't done something like this sooner, though I'm willing to bet that the growing popularity of open office has been pushing them in the direction of offering a "free" version of office.
While I may live in NYC, I still live in a part with plenty of trees (Staten Island, the borough of parks.) There are some places where I lose signal for a second or two but they usually pass quite quickly (I can usually tell I'm in one of these areas because my satellite radio also loses signal for a second or two. There are PLENTY of places where I lose cell phone signal, and it doesn't come back that simply, usually I have to drive for a bit before I receive signal again. Plus when you're out west there are a ton of places where you will have perfect satellite reception and absolutely no cell service with any carrier.
How long until someone comes by and paints over the camera lenses disabling the tailored ads?
I can see this being a big waste of money that will hardly ever work correctly, and just being an annoying method of delivering ads when it is working.
So basically you're paying $15,000 for summer camp?
I mean, there wouldn't be much that they do there that would help any more than just spending a month and a half outdoors with a large group of people away from computers. You're simply showing the people that there's more to do out there while helping them build real world social skills by keeping them in a group. The $15,000 is way excessive, and if you've got that kind of money lying around I can't imagine your internet addiction being that much of a problem.
I watched the video in TFA and another video of the same app on youtube, and in both videos the iphone is moved very slowly. What happens if you turn quickly? Does the app completely lose it's place and heading? I would imagine most people wouldn't want to turn that slowly if they wanted to know where the subway behind them was.
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His girlfriend probably reads slashdot and posting "I want one that looks like my girlfriend's sister!" might get him in a little trouble.
This is why I gave up downloading movies, I now resort to buying all of my movies on blu-ray.
Sure, most of them fell off the back of a truck, but the fines are much less harsh than getting sued by the movie industry...
His age group is 24 to (34?), and you're acting like the singles in that age group are mostly hags.
I believe the point was that the older he gets the less attractive SINGLE women will be available. As most of the attractive women in his age group will have already found someone.
Have you even tried T-Mobile?
Yes, it was my first carrier, they were cheap and I could make phone calls... most of the time...
I live in NYC (Staten Island), when I had shoddy cell phone coverage I chalked it up to "Well I'm in a basement", "Well I'm in a sparsely populated area", "Well there's a lot of trees around." I just kept coming up with excuses. When I would go rock climbing upstate (well really it's anywhere, I've never had T-Mobile service on a climbing trip) I'd say "I don't really need my cell phone now anyway, someone else will likely have a cell phone with service in case of an emergency..." Then I was considering a move to PA, in an area with absolutely no T-Mobile coverage for miles. I didn't want to continue with a service that was going to be non-existant 99% of the places I was going to be.
So I walked into a Verizon store to switch carriers (I had always considered switching to Verizon since they seem to have coverage everywhere I go.) My favorite part was when I wanted to cancel the contract. The T-Mobile representative asked me why I was switching, I said I have no service in the town I might be moving to, she asked me where that was so she could check the coverage map, I simply told her "I'm there right now, you don't need to check the map, I'm calling from a Verizon phone because my phone has no service at all."
Yes, they were a lot more than T-Mobile, and I hate that there's no option for Verizon's "Fave 5" with the 450 minute plan (I don't talk to that many people so 5 unlimited numbers outside the Verizon network with 450 minutes would be perfect) but to me it's worth it. Now I'm no longer the one without cell phone service, I'm usually the only one with service. At first I hated my samsung glyde, well I still hate that phone, and I hated not having the freedom with my phone that t-mobile offered with theirs, then Verizon announced the Droid and well I bought one rather quickly. Now I've got more freedom than I've ever had with a cell phone and coverage everywhere I go.
... the fastest stock Toyota Supra does mid 14s, not 12s. He asked to compare a production straight 6.
Besides, why not compare another forced induction vehicle to the supra? I can easily get a 500rwhp vehicle by slapping twin turbos on my mustang and beat just about everything on the street (including a 12 second supra, which I can do even without the FI) while still having a decent daily driver. That wouldn't prove anything other than car + money + work = fast.
Wow, I want one, that sounds awesome. I wouldn't have it tweet when I'm having sex, but I'd probably keep some sort of online log that would graph the weight, volume, temperature (though that might be greatly skewed by the friction of the mattress constantly rubbing against the device) and if I can have motion sensors I'd have it log "the motion of the ocean."
Not that the data would serve much purpose other than to say "Hey check out what I made."
Something just like this setup was in a comment for an ask slashdot article -
http://ask.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1383895&cid=29559637
Somehow I feel that this hypothesis will mangled beyond recognition so creationists can make it somehow seem as if it supports their idea of young earth and Noah's ark.
But there's a phenomenal amount of mediocre pizza in New York. So your analysis doesn't apply. Why? I suspect that cheap pizza out-competes good pizza.
You live in NY and you think good pizza is more expensive than the mediocre pizza and that's why there are so many mediocre pizza places around?
That's not quite it, most of the really good pizza places I know of offer pizza for the same price as anywhere else. There are a few reasons I know of that so many "mediocre" places exist around new york. One is that not everyone considers that pizza to be "mediocre." Most people will favor their neighborhood pizza place that they grew up with as a kid. Pizza places are cheap, easy to start, and easy to run, you don't have to be the best to stay open you just have to be good enough. And there are more than enough people in NYC that you can get by with having a lousy pizza, with all of the tourists that don't know any better and all of the commuters who just don't want to bother changing where they get their pizza.
I have noticed that the local place usually attempts to get better though if a place opens nearby that makes better pizza. Some of the best pizza places I know of on Staten Island (and voted as some of the best in NYC) are all located within a reasonably close proximity.
Wouldn't it be bad catching all of the space debris in a giant net, when the net itself will eventually come back down to earth. Individual space junk coming out of orbit isn't as bad since it's not all falling in the same place and it's small enough to mostly burn up in the atmosphere, but if you've got this huge net there's a lot more junk to burn up with a much more localized crash site.
Plus this thing bouncing around like a billiard ball seems likely to catch something that isn't junk...
The Wii sells because it's cheap and the games are fun... well, fun for a little while. My Wii is currently sitting in my closet, haven't played it in a bit and I haven't wanted to. The controls didn't sell the system and there are some games where they really are annoying to use. I also have an XBox 360 and a PS3 that I play far more often, and if the Wii games I have were available on either one of those systems then I probably wouldn't have any games for the Wii.
You get into a habit of thinking things like: There are never any cars around this corner I never see kids on this street Everybody drives 40mph on this street (posted speed of 25mph)
Or you remember things like:
This section of road is usually icy this time of year.
It's impossible to see if anyone's coming over this hill in the opposite direction.
The exits coming up soon and it's a very sharp turn (became very useful to memorize when coming off the Verrazano Bridge onto the 14th St. exit from the belt parkway.)
There is normally a strong crosswind when I go over this bridge
Even though there isn't a sign until I come to the exit (usually in Jersey) I know the exit is coming up soon so I should get ready to get off rather than jamming on my brakes at the last minute and swerving across 2 lanes of highway traffic.
Familiarizing yourself with a route and being able to memorize it is a good thing, it allows you to focus on the road rather than focusing on not getting lost.
Wow I saw the same thing, this truck (big white GMC don't remember the model) jumped across 3 lanes while slamming on the brakes with no signal, I almost rear ended the truck. The weirdest thing was they weren't even going for an exit, they were going towards a toll booth (we were in an EZ Express lane and the toll booth was to the right) that was for commercial trucks with trailers. At least if they used a signal and slowed down in an empty lane instead of swerving and almost causing an accident (which I would be at fault for since I would have hit them in the rear end) I wouldn't have been as annoyed with the stupidity.
Think of it this way - my wife makes widgets for sale. I am in a position to require a large block of people to buy widgets. I do so.
No, it's more like - My wife works for a company that invests in hundreds of other companies, a few of which make seat belts for sale. I am in a position to require all cars to come with seat belts. My wife wouldn't profit much from the mandatory requirement of seat belts in cars as most cars will come with a seat belt anyway, plus it's likely to benefit in the well being of society to make seat belts mandatory. I do so.
Hiren's BootCD contains a bunch of different utilities for doing just this. Plus it's bootable, so if you can't get into the OS you can still use the CD. It can do just about anything you'd need to in order to diagnose and repair a machine. You just gotta find it (usually the pirate bay or other torrent sites are a good place to look.)
If a bundled web browser is an antitrust issue... ... t hen why isn't bundled "office" software?
Because this version of Office is an option when you buy the new computer that you can choose to remove whenever you'd like. Whereas Internet Explorer is something that you have no say on when buying a new computer or even uninstall when you do get the computer (well, not easily anyway.)
This doesn't sound all too bad. The ads would likely bother most of the slashdot crowd but then most of us are either using open office, a pirated copy of office, or when we're forced to at work, legitimate purchased copies of office. Microsoft finally offering a free copy of office with new computers with the stipulation that there will be ads and limited functionality is still better than nothing. It really kills a sale of a new computer when a person asks "Will this have Microsoft Word on it?" and you say "Well no... that will ll be $100 extra..." And some people just aren't open to the idea of an office alternative (open office.) I'm surprised they haven't done something like this sooner, though I'm willing to bet that the growing popularity of open office has been pushing them in the direction of offering a "free" version of office.
Trees are not exactly GPS friendly, you know.
While I may live in NYC, I still live in a part with plenty of trees (Staten Island, the borough of parks.) There are some places where I lose signal for a second or two but they usually pass quite quickly (I can usually tell I'm in one of these areas because my satellite radio also loses signal for a second or two. There are PLENTY of places where I lose cell phone signal, and it doesn't come back that simply, usually I have to drive for a bit before I receive signal again. Plus when you're out west there are a ton of places where you will have perfect satellite reception and absolutely no cell service with any carrier.
How long until someone comes by and paints over the camera lenses disabling the tailored ads?
I can see this being a big waste of money that will hardly ever work correctly, and just being an annoying method of delivering ads when it is working.
I just woke up and on reading the title I thought they meant Oracle was actually purchasing the sun...
Spend roughly $17,000 on a retarded camp for morons. "No FUCKING Thank You"
I would rather take that entire sum go to Vegas and have some real fun and blog and tweet about it the whole 45 days
If you can make $17,000 last 45 days in Vegas you're clearly not having enough fun.
So basically you're paying $15,000 for summer camp? I mean, there wouldn't be much that they do there that would help any more than just spending a month and a half outdoors with a large group of people away from computers. You're simply showing the people that there's more to do out there while helping them build real world social skills by keeping them in a group. The $15,000 is way excessive, and if you've got that kind of money lying around I can't imagine your internet addiction being that much of a problem.
I think that using tools makes people smarter, not dumber.
Smarter in that they know how to use the tools. Dumber in that they don't know how to get by without them.
I watched the video in TFA and another video of the same app on youtube, and in both videos the iphone is moved very slowly. What happens if you turn quickly? Does the app completely lose it's place and heading? I would imagine most people wouldn't want to turn that slowly if they wanted to know where the subway behind them was.
Diamonds often help to heal love's wounds as well.
It's not quite healing love's wounds so much as bribing your partner to forget the wounds.