Obviously, you didn't do any research. Hearsay is not research.
An you are just claiming it isn't the case.. go ahead prove me wrong.
Actually, yes. If she could raise it and hit a target less than ten feet in front of her, it would be far more useful than wielding a baseball bat with her feeble strength.
Can you hit a target 10ft in front of you? I know my gf can't and she has a much more steady arm than someone 3x her age. Hitting a target isn't as easy as they make it look in the movies. They make it look easy to pump an entire clip into someone from 20ft away or more, which is very unrealistic.
Put your avg person under duress and they couldn't hit a horse from 10ft. It is pointless to own a gun if you aren't going to practice using it. Also attempting violence on an intruder is silliness as well. If she misses she's dead.
Why not a realistic solution: give the intruder what they want, don't instigate violence, and call the police. Why do you even mention a baseball bat? You state it as if it's the only other option. There is the non-violent option. As soon as you pose a violent threat, then you are a legitimate target.
..where it's dangerous to buy a child's chemistry set, but an enshrined right to buy a gun.
Well if you don't have a gun, how are you going to protect yourself from the terrorists?
Offtopic, but more seriously: why do americans insist on owning guns? My canadian family lived in the US for a couple years and our friends and neighbours were amazed we didn't own a single gun, either there or "back in canada". The response was always, "How are you going to protect yourselves?"
Seriously, do some research. In a home invasion you are more likely to harm yourself or be harmed by your gun than scare off an intruder. Our neighbour in her 70's kept a handgun (loaded!!!) in her bedside table. Do you seriously think she could protect herself from an invader using that gun? My bets are at least once a grandchild found the gun and handled it, but she never used it for even target practice.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not anti-gun. I love going out and doing some target practice with various gauges of guns, but I don't need to own one to do that. I have friends that own many guns, but they hunt, collect old guns or belong to target shooting groups. None of them own guns to "protect themselves", it is all for sport.
I need to move to an American University. My uni cost $89CAN for Leopard(same product number,MB021ZA , so no 'special' canadian version). $20 buys a decent amount of beer, or whatever Apple users drink (Steve Jobs' special kool-aid?).
By focusing solely on GSM, they're locking themselves out of most of the US cell phone market - over 120 million customers.
Oh come on, you have to admit that is hyperbole. Yes, they may have somewhat limited themselves in the US market by being limited to a few carriers but I'm sure they did the research and the amount of lost sales because of that didn't out weigh the world market (the majority of the world uses GSM, the US is strangely skewed towards cdma).
Most cell phone manufacturers do make different versions for different countries.. Motorola makes both GSM and CDMA versions of the RAZR and many other models, as do Sanyo, Samsung, RIM, and Palm.
I was once told by someone in the industry never to buy a CDMA version of a phone that was originally designed as a GSM phone. The reasoning being that often the other version was an afterthought and not as thoroughly tested.
Maybe at this point Apple is testing the market (worldwide) and will eventually approach the much smaller CDMA market if it seems financially viable. You can't really fault them for going for the bigger pot of fish first.
$1/liter is the approximate retail price where I live. If that is the cost to produce it, then it won't take much of a change for it to become financially viable. There are other benefits to a solution like this. Due to it being more environmentally friendly (renewable resource) I assume there would be less taxes applied (some form of exemption) and since it can be grown nearly anywhere, it can be grown near where it will be used, so less cost in shipping (no big tankers from the middle east).
There are people thought the oil sands in Alberta would never be profitable...
As a counterpoint, I recently bought a laptop with an ATI vid chip. No, I didn't have 3D accel working immediately, but all I had to do was click on "System"->"Admin"->"Manage Restricted drivers" (I'm using Ubuntu). I restarted my x server and I was good to go.
Compiz runs great (faster than my GMA850 based laptop I had previously) and no issues. This was waaay easier than my previous experience with installing drivers for both Nvidia and ATI, of course the majority of the thanks has to go to Ubuntu in this case. Stuff is looking up for drivers under linux. I'm crossing my fingers that the whole Dell/ubuntu thing will help accelerate the progress.
They can spin it however they want, but it's legal for Canadians to download music..
That was my immediate thought, "Umm, downloading music is legal in Canada, so how can "piracy" be the instigator of lower cd prices?"
Yes it is pedantic, however it is ridiculous that they imply it is illegal. That's like Evian claiming that drinking water from your faucet is illegal, everyone is doing it, so they had to lower the price of their bottled water.
I paid for the water, don't tell me it's illegal to take a sip. Sometimes buying bottled water suits my needs better (better taste, and I really want that bottle), but often if I just want a sip I'll go to the tap, and it IS legal, so don't tell me otherwise.
Don't get me started movies.. going into a theatre for a movie I paid to watch and being forced to watch a 60 second infomercial on how downloading is "stealing", "theft" and illegal.. when none of those are true (where I live).
Where I live, the largest taxi company in town has switched the majority of its fleet to hybrids (they used to use propane crown victorias and such).
I queried a driver about the reliability. His vehicle (new body style prius) had around 200K km on it. He had replaced the tires once and brake pads etc (expendables). They have another in the fleet that had 300K km before they sold/upgraded it (not sure if it was a lease or owned or what have you). No problems with that one either, but they had gotten their money's worth out of it.
Even though it was completely anecdotal ("yeah these cars are great") I was impressed.. those taxi drivers drive the isht out of those poor cars. I don't think my own car (Accord) would stand up to that kind of driving long (clutch, tranny, brakes.. etc would all be suspect very quickly).
On the topic of Linux and microkernels I highly recommend reading this old thread: Linus vs. Tanenbaum on the topic of microkernels vs monolithic ones.
From the RSS feed I thought the PC magazine editor had given up on learning VI.. which would be tragic. Yeah the learning curve isn't the easiest, but once you stick it out you will be so much more productive...
Then I opened the article and discovered he had given up on Vista.. that's news? That's like headlining, "Undergrad student gives up on proving P=NP." Yeah so have a million other people. Tell me something interesting like the guy cooked all his meals, for an entire week, on the heatsink of a P4 while only drinking bawls. That would be news.
The only problems arise when Linux developers (as opposed to Microsoft developers porting something to Linux) have access to Microsoft "Intellectual Property" and may become "tainted" by it.
The solution to this:
Yell, "The taint, the taint!!" When any MS code enters the development environment.
Publicly shame the person that brought it in.
???
profit!
This also works for discouraging employees from bringing McDonald's into the office.
This post credited to Douglas Coupland. All mod points will be transferred to him at the soonest possible time.
ACK. I get called on it. That's what I get for speaking in hyperbole.
Off the top of my head, no I can't think of anything better that is CC'd. I just found it distracting, which is purely opinion (although judging by the moderation at least one person agreed).
In my experience the Yahoo! games don't run properly with the Sun JVM on windows. They do seem to run well on windows using the MS JVM.
I've tried to play some of those games against her using my linux laptop and it was hopeless. Instead we play Tetris attack using a snes over the network.
Try to remember that Linux is used by a finite countable group of people that have no interest, or no ability to tweak their operating system.
There, fixed that for you.
Maybe my perspective is skewed, but I'd wager the amount of people who actively use linux (directly not via interacting with websites hosted on linux or what have you) that can not or have no interest in tweaking their OS would at best populate a small town.
Of course 99% of the people I know that use linux actively are ubergeeks or do so for a living and must know how to tweak it..
The converse isn't necessarily true (no sex -> smart), the article only imlies hi iq/smart -> no sex.. so the only guaranteed thing is that you weren't getting laid.
What they want is to sound convincing when their friends begin talking about the new must-see Spiderman or Transformers.
Or maybe they are just bored and there is nothing good on tv?
Entertainment is entertainment.. that's the primary reason anyone would watch a movie. I doubt your avg person's main reason to go to a movie is to critique it or talk about it.
I don't go to the new restaurant so I can talk about it, I go to eat and try something different. It is the same thing with a movie. People want to see new media, something different they haven't already seen and some aren't worth risking going to the theatre for.
Some tumors contain teeth, hair, and other wacky fun items.
Had I read that a month ago I wouldn't have believe it, but my fiance is a perioperative nurse (she works in the OR) and recently described tumors with hair and/or teeth inside.
I'd rather not taste it, thank you very much.
Me neither. I almost gagged when I had it visually described to me. I'd be full on projectile if someone put a steaming hair and tooth pile on my plate.
There are 11 types of people in the world: those who know binaries, those who don't and those who don't.
The then/than mixup is kind of funny though. Reminds me of something I read in the engineering faculty on a white board (I assume a first year engineer): "I'd rather be retarded then do my engineering homework.."
Looks like he had the pre-requisite fulfilled and should have just got on with the homework.
Exactly. The synaptics pad can tell there is more than one finger but it can not give xy locations for multiple points, it doesn't have the sensors to do that and would be significantly more expensive if it did.
I have a synaptics touchpad in my gateway and use it in a similar manner to the GP, but under linux. Not new tech at all, it just seems the windows drivers for the synaptics pads don't have as many options.
Of course multitouch isn't new either.. actually using it is. Tactex created a multi-touch pressure sensitive pad back in the 90's. The seem to have now focused on single touch and pressure sensing though as there weren't many uses for multi tough at the time.
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An you are just claiming it isn't the case.. go ahead prove me wrong.
Can you hit a target 10ft in front of you? I know my gf can't and she has a much more steady arm than someone 3x her age. Hitting a target isn't as easy as they make it look in the movies. They make it look easy to pump an entire clip into someone from 20ft away or more, which is very unrealistic.
Put your avg person under duress and they couldn't hit a horse from 10ft. It is pointless to own a gun if you aren't going to practice using it. Also attempting violence on an intruder is silliness as well. If she misses she's dead.
Why not a realistic solution: give the intruder what they want, don't instigate violence, and call the police. Why do you even mention a baseball bat? You state it as if it's the only other option. There is the non-violent option. As soon as you pose a violent threat, then you are a legitimate target.
Well if you don't have a gun, how are you going to protect yourself from the terrorists?
Offtopic, but more seriously: why do americans insist on owning guns? My canadian family lived in the US for a couple years and our friends and neighbours were amazed we didn't own a single gun, either there or "back in canada". The response was always, "How are you going to protect yourselves?"
Seriously, do some research. In a home invasion you are more likely to harm yourself or be harmed by your gun than scare off an intruder. Our neighbour in her 70's kept a handgun (loaded!!!) in her bedside table. Do you seriously think she could protect herself from an invader using that gun? My bets are at least once a grandchild found the gun and handled it, but she never used it for even target practice.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not anti-gun. I love going out and doing some target practice with various gauges of guns, but I don't need to own one to do that. I have friends that own many guns, but they hunt, collect old guns or belong to target shooting groups. None of them own guns to "protect themselves", it is all for sport.
I need to move to an American University. My uni cost $89CAN for Leopard(same product number,MB021ZA , so no 'special' canadian version). $20 buys a decent amount of beer, or whatever Apple users drink (Steve Jobs' special kool-aid?).
Oh come on, you have to admit that is hyperbole. Yes, they may have somewhat limited themselves in the US market by being limited to a few carriers but I'm sure they did the research and the amount of lost sales because of that didn't out weigh the world market (the majority of the world uses GSM, the US is strangely skewed towards cdma).
I was once told by someone in the industry never to buy a CDMA version of a phone that was originally designed as a GSM phone. The reasoning being that often the other version was an afterthought and not as thoroughly tested.
Maybe at this point Apple is testing the market (worldwide) and will eventually approach the much smaller CDMA market if it seems financially viable. You can't really fault them for going for the bigger pot of fish first.
$1/liter is the approximate retail price where I live. If that is the cost to produce it, then it won't take much of a change for it to become financially viable. There are other benefits to a solution like this. Due to it being more environmentally friendly (renewable resource) I assume there would be less taxes applied (some form of exemption) and since it can be grown nearly anywhere, it can be grown near where it will be used, so less cost in shipping (no big tankers from the middle east).
There are people thought the oil sands in Alberta would never be profitable...
As a counterpoint, I recently bought a laptop with an ATI vid chip. No, I didn't have 3D accel working immediately, but all I had to do was click on "System"->"Admin"->"Manage Restricted drivers" (I'm using Ubuntu). I restarted my x server and I was good to go.
Compiz runs great (faster than my GMA850 based laptop I had previously) and no issues. This was waaay easier than my previous experience with installing drivers for both Nvidia and ATI, of course the majority of the thanks has to go to Ubuntu in this case. Stuff is looking up for drivers under linux. I'm crossing my fingers that the whole Dell/ubuntu thing will help accelerate the progress.
That was my immediate thought, "Umm, downloading music is legal in Canada, so how can "piracy" be the instigator of lower cd prices?"
Yes it is pedantic, however it is ridiculous that they imply it is illegal. That's like Evian claiming that drinking water from your faucet is illegal, everyone is doing it, so they had to lower the price of their bottled water.
I paid for the water, don't tell me it's illegal to take a sip. Sometimes buying bottled water suits my needs better (better taste, and I really want that bottle), but often if I just want a sip I'll go to the tap, and it IS legal, so don't tell me otherwise.
Don't get me started movies.. going into a theatre for a movie I paid to watch and being forced to watch a 60 second infomercial on how downloading is "stealing", "theft" and illegal.. when none of those are true (where I live).
Where I live, the largest taxi company in town has switched the majority of its fleet to hybrids (they used to use propane crown victorias and such).
I queried a driver about the reliability. His vehicle (new body style prius) had around 200K km on it. He had replaced the tires once and brake pads etc (expendables). They have another in the fleet that had 300K km before they sold/upgraded it (not sure if it was a lease or owned or what have you). No problems with that one either, but they had gotten their money's worth out of it.
Even though it was completely anecdotal ("yeah these cars are great") I was impressed.. those taxi drivers drive the isht out of those poor cars. I don't think my own car (Accord) would stand up to that kind of driving long (clutch, tranny, brakes.. etc would all be suspect very quickly).
On the topic of Linux and microkernels I highly recommend reading this old thread: Linus vs. Tanenbaum on the topic of microkernels vs monolithic ones.
From the RSS feed I thought the PC magazine editor had given up on learning VI.. which would be tragic. Yeah the learning curve isn't the easiest, but once you stick it out you will be so much more productive...
Then I opened the article and discovered he had given up on Vista.. that's news? That's like headlining, "Undergrad student gives up on proving P=NP." Yeah so have a million other people. Tell me something interesting like the guy cooked all his meals, for an entire week, on the heatsink of a P4 while only drinking bawls. That would be news.
So we would be the eczema/zits/rash of the universe?
Poor earth must get made fun of by all the surrounding planets, stars, satellites etc.
Earth's moon had the start-ups of an infection, but it was only present a short time (the scars are still there though).
YES, we can finally have a true 3d version of Time Traveller!!
The solution to this:
This also works for discouraging employees from bringing McDonald's into the office.
This post credited to Douglas Coupland. All mod points will be transferred to him at the soonest possible time.
ACK. I get called on it. That's what I get for speaking in hyperbole.
:D.
Off the top of my head, no I can't think of anything better that is CC'd. I just found it distracting, which is purely opinion (although judging by the moderation at least one person agreed).
I did kind of like this though:
http://podsafeaudio.com/jamroom/bands/1000/ the song "Sumday". Simple guitar line. Not too offensive. But what do I know.. I'm a drummer
Who chose the soundtrack on that video? It reminds me of a bad cover of a sonic the hedgehog 2 background track.
Soft jazz: neither soft nor jazz.
In my experience the Yahoo! games don't run properly with the Sun JVM on windows. They do seem to run well on windows using the MS JVM.
I've tried to play some of those games against her using my linux laptop and it was hopeless. Instead we play Tetris attack using a snes over the network.
We hope you enjoyed the comedic creations of lam9376!
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I was paying attention at my laser safety lecture as well. It went something like this:
DO NOT LOOK INTO LASER WITH REMAINING EYE
My tuition is probably a bit cheaper.
There, fixed that for you.
Maybe my perspective is skewed, but I'd wager the amount of people who actively use linux (directly not via interacting with websites hosted on linux or what have you) that can not or have no interest in tweaking their OS would at best populate a small town.
Of course 99% of the people I know that use linux actively are ubergeeks or do so for a living and must know how to tweak it..
The converse isn't necessarily true (no sex -> smart), the article only imlies hi iq/smart -> no sex.. so the only guaranteed thing is that you weren't getting laid.
What they want is to sound convincing when their friends begin talking about the new must-see Spiderman or Transformers.
Or maybe they are just bored and there is nothing good on tv?
Entertainment is entertainment.. that's the primary reason anyone would watch a movie. I doubt your avg person's main reason to go to a movie is to critique it or talk about it.
I don't go to the new restaurant so I can talk about it, I go to eat and try something different. It is the same thing with a movie. People want to see new media, something different they haven't already seen and some aren't worth risking going to the theatre for.
Or a dermoid cyst.
Had I read that a month ago I wouldn't have believe it, but my fiance is a perioperative nurse (she works in the OR) and recently described tumors with hair and/or teeth inside.
Me neither. I almost gagged when I had it visually described to me. I'd be full on projectile if someone put a steaming hair and tooth pile on my plate.
The then/than mixup is kind of funny though. Reminds me of something I read in the engineering faculty on a white board (I assume a first year engineer):
"I'd rather be retarded then do my engineering homework.."
Looks like he had the pre-requisite fulfilled and should have just got on with the homework.
Exactly. The synaptics pad can tell there is more than one finger but it can not give xy locations for multiple points, it doesn't have the sensors to do that and would be significantly more expensive if it did.
I have a synaptics touchpad in my gateway and use it in a similar manner to the GP, but under linux. Not new tech at all, it just seems the windows drivers for the synaptics pads don't have as many options.
Of course multitouch isn't new either.. actually using it is. Tactex created a multi-touch pressure sensitive pad back in the 90's. The seem to have now focused on single touch and pressure sensing though as there weren't many uses for multi tough at the time.