Perhaps everyone flips out because there has been utter denial of the possiblity for many years. It's not like the tobacco industry never tried to deny the link between tobacco and cancer or that the coal industry never tried to minimize the dangers of sulphur, mercury, etc. or that anyone at Exxon-Mobil every tried to minimize the potential dangers of CO2.
Comparisons like this are pointless because the "cost" of that energy is wrapped up in the price of the hardware. Moreover, the few people who might consider this a valid part of a purchase decision are the few who accept the existence of "the commons".
Assuming the FB update was made from the young woman's portable phone, someone will suponea the cell phone records. I was on a jury in 2002 where cell phone records were introduced as evidence and they had very detailed timestamps on them. That should resolve the issue.
Pennsylvania's Liquor Control Board had to authorize the use of these machines. Curiously, they are the product of someone with close ties to LCB officials. But as long as they stick to recognized brand name wines -- Ripple, Boone's Farm, etc. -- the WalMart shoppers won't have their horizons expanded anyway.
Where I am located -- a relatively rural area -- AT&T has the best service available. That's my subjective analysis which gives a higher weight to coverage and a low weight to speed because I don't use the phone for anything but making calls and sending messages.
If I were a smartphone user, I'd probably care more about speed than I do. If smartphone users are distributed equally through the population, more of them will be in urban areas and signal availability may not be as important.
I'm sure that with the money they save by not publishing a directory, the telephone services providers will resurrect 411 as a free service. And John Galt will use his perpetual motion machine to force them to -- or something like that.
Having learned one set of gestures on my 1st Palm and a 2nd set when things changed to Graffiti 2, and gone into frustration-mode when they got dropped, this seems like a reasonably good idea.
The Chrysler pavilion at the New York Worlds Fair featured several of these and fairgoers could ride in one for several short laps around the exhibit -- about a minute as I recall. The cars were virtually silent and very very smooth.
And then there was Andy Granatelli's STP turbine car that ran in the Indianapolis 500 -- never finished but was successful enough that the race committee modified the rules just enough to ban them without actually banning them.
That's close to where we are -- but we need to upgrade to Office 2010 so that some VP can see the calendars of those subordinates who use something different. I still have one PC here that has Win2K on it because of reliance on an application from a vendor that went belly-up before XP came out.
If there's anyone who should be concerned with creating an accurate text record of spoken words, it would be a court reporter. The ones I know tend to use a belt & suspenders approach; they keep a recorder running to capture the audio while they stenographically record the words as they hear them. The written transcript starts from the steno and gets proofread while listening to the tape. You would be surprised the number of places where what the reporter heard doesn't match what the proofreader hears on the tape.
That being the case, if you were to run the audio through something like Dragon Naturally Speaking, you would still need to verify what is in the text.
Why must everything vaguely scandalous acquire the suffix "gate"? Was there a gate anywhere in this event? The original "Watergate" was a proper name but ever since then there is this compulsion to use the suffix as if it meant "scandal". All too often -- as in this case -- there is no scandal. A crime was committed by people who stole private emails and made them public to make a political point. If those people don't end up in jail then there is the scandal.
I was given a polygraph exam when the manager of the convenience store I worked at tried to cover up the fact that he was using company funds to finance his side business of selling illegal substances. He broke a window and claimed that there had been a robbery and everyone had to either take the exam or be terminated. Three of us were taken to the polygraph examination facility and we each were examined in separate rooms. After almost an hour of answering Yes or No to a series of questions, the examiner said that he needed to to one final test to calibrate the machine. He asked me to take a card from a deck and to answer "No" when he asked what card it was and he would tell me what the card was. It wasn't a standard deck, no suits, just big numbers so all he had to do was ask if the card was a 3, 6, 7, 8, etc. Then when he told me what my card was (7), I was convinced that the machine was able to tell if I had been lying and I confessed to having taken cigarettes and soft drinks without paying for them. Later, I compared notes with the other two and they both drew 7 as well and made similar confessions.
The manager maintained that he had done nothing wrong so they didn't fire him, they just invoked the clause that said he was responsible for any shortage of funds and kept him on so that they could deduct the shortages from his pay. I quit in disgust.
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Following that dictum would put Dell out of business.
Perhaps everyone flips out because there has been utter denial of the possiblity for many years. It's not like the tobacco industry never tried to deny the link between tobacco and cancer or that the coal industry never tried to minimize the dangers of sulphur, mercury, etc. or that anyone at Exxon-Mobil every tried to minimize the potential dangers of CO2.
Trusting Apple without an ironclad contract and a hostage is a poor decision too.
If this were volleyball, he'd sure get an assist on the setup for the kill.
Idgy's debut CD "Origin Story" is not fatiguing at all.
Comparisons like this are pointless because the "cost" of that energy is wrapped up in the price of the hardware. Moreover, the few people who might consider this a valid part of a purchase decision are the few who accept the existence of "the commons".
Assuming the FB update was made from the young woman's portable phone, someone will suponea the cell phone records. I was on a jury in 2002 where cell phone records were introduced as evidence and they had very detailed timestamps on them. That should resolve the issue.
Has it come to this? Needing to have something to look at on your phone even when you aren't using it for something useful? Sheesh!
Pennsylvania's Liquor Control Board had to authorize the use of these machines. Curiously, they are the product of someone with close ties to LCB officials. But as long as they stick to recognized brand name wines -- Ripple, Boone's Farm, etc. -- the WalMart shoppers won't have their horizons expanded anyway.
I wouldn't trust the opinion of Amazon users anyway.
Where I am located -- a relatively rural area -- AT&T has the best service available. That's my subjective analysis which gives a higher weight to coverage and a low weight to speed because I don't use the phone for anything but making calls and sending messages. If I were a smartphone user, I'd probably care more about speed than I do. If smartphone users are distributed equally through the population, more of them will be in urban areas and signal availability may not be as important.
This guy is the "president of Microsoft Russia". Does anyone think that he's going to say anything positive about Linux?
I'm sure that with the money they save by not publishing a directory, the telephone services providers will resurrect 411 as a free service. And John Galt will use his perpetual motion machine to force them to -- or something like that.
Having learned one set of gestures on my 1st Palm and a 2nd set when things changed to Graffiti 2, and gone into frustration-mode when they got dropped, this seems like a reasonably good idea.
Given the latest bunch of political types, we're not getting nearly enough intelligence for our money.
It's beginning to become a time sink anyway. Making it a relative of iTunes would do the trick for me.
The Chrysler pavilion at the New York Worlds Fair featured several of these and fairgoers could ride in one for several short laps around the exhibit -- about a minute as I recall. The cars were virtually silent and very very smooth. And then there was Andy Granatelli's STP turbine car that ran in the Indianapolis 500 -- never finished but was successful enough that the race committee modified the rules just enough to ban them without actually banning them.
That's close to where we are -- but we need to upgrade to Office 2010 so that some VP can see the calendars of those subordinates who use something different. I still have one PC here that has Win2K on it because of reliance on an application from a vendor that went belly-up before XP came out.
The pods have already been distributed. They're waiting the signal to activate.
If there's anyone who should be concerned with creating an accurate text record of spoken words, it would be a court reporter. The ones I know tend to use a belt & suspenders approach; they keep a recorder running to capture the audio while they stenographically record the words as they hear them. The written transcript starts from the steno and gets proofread while listening to the tape. You would be surprised the number of places where what the reporter heard doesn't match what the proofreader hears on the tape. That being the case, if you were to run the audio through something like Dragon Naturally Speaking, you would still need to verify what is in the text.
Why must everything vaguely scandalous acquire the suffix "gate"? Was there a gate anywhere in this event? The original "Watergate" was a proper name but ever since then there is this compulsion to use the suffix as if it meant "scandal". All too often -- as in this case -- there is no scandal. A crime was committed by people who stole private emails and made them public to make a political point. If those people don't end up in jail then there is the scandal.
Like Claude Rains was shocked or really shocked?
No doubt we will soon be treated to recordings of the music of the spheres.
I was given a polygraph exam when the manager of the convenience store I worked at tried to cover up the fact that he was using company funds to finance his side business of selling illegal substances. He broke a window and claimed that there had been a robbery and everyone had to either take the exam or be terminated. Three of us were taken to the polygraph examination facility and we each were examined in separate rooms. After almost an hour of answering Yes or No to a series of questions, the examiner said that he needed to to one final test to calibrate the machine. He asked me to take a card from a deck and to answer "No" when he asked what card it was and he would tell me what the card was. It wasn't a standard deck, no suits, just big numbers so all he had to do was ask if the card was a 3, 6, 7, 8, etc. Then when he told me what my card was (7), I was convinced that the machine was able to tell if I had been lying and I confessed to having taken cigarettes and soft drinks without paying for them. Later, I compared notes with the other two and they both drew 7 as well and made similar confessions. The manager maintained that he had done nothing wrong so they didn't fire him, they just invoked the clause that said he was responsible for any shortage of funds and kept him on so that they could deduct the shortages from his pay. I quit in disgust.
I don't think they do subtle. It's too deep.