14 seconds on battery power here for 3.0... it's a little pokey, but on recent-ish hardware OO.o is plenty fast, and it'd load even faster on a desktop (I'd test it on one if I had access to one)
It's 48 volts because 50 volts and above you need an electrician's license to work with it, and the people who originally started using the standard (phone companies, I believe) didn't want to pay union rates for an electrician.
To be fair, there's still a market for those cheap drills. Not everyone is building a deck in the afternoon, sometimes they're just wanting a drill to make putting up some shelves easier or light framing while redoing a basement or something. There's no need to pay $200 more for a drill if you aren't going to use it. No point in a Corvette if you're just commuting, and never race it.
And I'll bet it saved Dell a few pennies per unit, and with as many units as they shipped, it was worth it to them at the time. Not for the goodwill they lost because of it (and their proprietary power supplies using the same plug, and all kinds of other lock-in crap), but it saved them money on the books the first few quarters.
What I found was that I actually stood up for some of my classmates that were being bullied. I was kinda in the middle ground, wasn't bullied much after middle school, and I thought it was just the right thing to do.
Teach your kid right from wrong... even if he's not bullied, he may help other people. The only way to get it to stop is if people stop standing for this shit happening, and speak out against the bully even if they aren't the target.
I'm sorry, suicide is a personal choice. If your family and friends don't help or notice anything is wrong, there are many more things fucked up with you than a bully on the Internet. There's no need for a special law because some girl killed herself because her family didn't give her the ability to cope with douchebags, or were too wrapped up in themselves to notice something was wrong with her. It's a sad event, but there's nothing illegal about it. EVERY online site has a way to block people you don't want to hear from... if she didn't use that, that's her fault.
Just don't do that shit indiscriminately, and make sure there's a good reason for it. That's the only line between a sociopath(bully) and someone protecting themselves;)
Even with non-open devices like my Blackberry 8800, T-Mobile doesn't lock down any of the features like Verizon does. The GPS and bluetooth modem features of the phone are perfectly available, and I don't have to pay any extra to T-Mobile to get them to work. T-Mobile has given me no reason to think they won't keep their word BECAUSE of their past actions. If I had the money and I could be reasonably sure the Exchange support was solid, I'd get a G1 and start hacking.
Seconded. That's the whole reason I went with T-Mobile... no penalty for using my phone as a modem, and since I travel for work, I do that a lot when there aren't free access points sitting around.
I've also found it's helpful to ask him "How often were you talking about any of the people here?" (assuming he doesn't... it could backfire, but you are his friend, so you should know.) It's complimentary to reminding him how unimportant he is to other people... most people are horribly self-centered and just care about themselves.
The implication is that scientific thought rules out a God (or at least relegates Him to at most a prime mover status), so there is no greater meaning to life from a scientific viewpoint, no deity that gives your existence purpose other than what you make on your own.
Meaning does fall explicitly outside the realm of science, but the implications of scientific truths show that there is no meaning other than what you personally assign it.
You have to eat more vegetables to actually absorb the nutrients, and there are actually a number of proteins in meat that are horribly inefficient for us to make ourselves, and are much easier to get and digest from meat.
We have pointy teeth up front for a reason... we're omnivores. Deny that, and you end up with malnutrition. A diet should be mostly vegetable, but we do need a fair bit of meat.
The free market works perfectly with perfect information. As long as there's not perfect information, there's no perfect market, and a "free" market needs watching from time to time.
Go to www.lego.com and you can buy a lot of the older "generic" stuff. The sets are what sell... people want a theme, they want Harry Potter or Star Wars, rather than creativity. Lego's not stupid, they make and market mostly what sells the best... but they still have the good stuff for us geeky types, we just have to look a little harder for it.
It is exaggerated IMHO. 650 basic pieces including wheels and a base and windows and such for $30 in the US... that's not too bad, especially since you know the quality is going to be top-notch. If you don't want all the do-dads and just want a plain rectangular based block assortment, that's only $25 for 650 pieces.
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14 seconds on battery power here for 3.0... it's a little pokey, but on recent-ish hardware OO.o is plenty fast, and it'd load even faster on a desktop (I'd test it on one if I had access to one)
It's 48 volts because 50 volts and above you need an electrician's license to work with it, and the people who originally started using the standard (phone companies, I believe) didn't want to pay union rates for an electrician.
To be fair, there's still a market for those cheap drills. Not everyone is building a deck in the afternoon, sometimes they're just wanting a drill to make putting up some shelves easier or light framing while redoing a basement or something. There's no need to pay $200 more for a drill if you aren't going to use it. No point in a Corvette if you're just commuting, and never race it.
And I'll bet it saved Dell a few pennies per unit, and with as many units as they shipped, it was worth it to them at the time. Not for the goodwill they lost because of it (and their proprietary power supplies using the same plug, and all kinds of other lock-in crap), but it saved them money on the books the first few quarters.
What I found was that I actually stood up for some of my classmates that were being bullied. I was kinda in the middle ground, wasn't bullied much after middle school, and I thought it was just the right thing to do.
Teach your kid right from wrong... even if he's not bullied, he may help other people. The only way to get it to stop is if people stop standing for this shit happening, and speak out against the bully even if they aren't the target.
I'm sorry, suicide is a personal choice. If your family and friends don't help or notice anything is wrong, there are many more things fucked up with you than a bully on the Internet. There's no need for a special law because some girl killed herself because her family didn't give her the ability to cope with douchebags, or were too wrapped up in themselves to notice something was wrong with her. It's a sad event, but there's nothing illegal about it. EVERY online site has a way to block people you don't want to hear from... if she didn't use that, that's her fault.
Just don't do that shit indiscriminately, and make sure there's a good reason for it. That's the only line between a sociopath(bully) and someone protecting themselves ;)
Even with non-open devices like my Blackberry 8800, T-Mobile doesn't lock down any of the features like Verizon does. The GPS and bluetooth modem features of the phone are perfectly available, and I don't have to pay any extra to T-Mobile to get them to work. T-Mobile has given me no reason to think they won't keep their word BECAUSE of their past actions. If I had the money and I could be reasonably sure the Exchange support was solid, I'd get a G1 and start hacking.
Seconded. That's the whole reason I went with T-Mobile... no penalty for using my phone as a modem, and since I travel for work, I do that a lot when there aren't free access points sitting around.
We should all go there and comment on her videos. And claim to be from the government.
I've also found it's helpful to ask him "How often were you talking about any of the people here?" (assuming he doesn't... it could backfire, but you are his friend, so you should know.) It's complimentary to reminding him how unimportant he is to other people... most people are horribly self-centered and just care about themselves.
The implication is that scientific thought rules out a God (or at least relegates Him to at most a prime mover status), so there is no greater meaning to life from a scientific viewpoint, no deity that gives your existence purpose other than what you make on your own.
Meaning does fall explicitly outside the realm of science, but the implications of scientific truths show that there is no meaning other than what you personally assign it.
You have to eat more vegetables to actually absorb the nutrients, and there are actually a number of proteins in meat that are horribly inefficient for us to make ourselves, and are much easier to get and digest from meat.
We have pointy teeth up front for a reason... we're omnivores. Deny that, and you end up with malnutrition. A diet should be mostly vegetable, but we do need a fair bit of meat.
The free market works perfectly with perfect information. As long as there's not perfect information, there's no perfect market, and a "free" market needs watching from time to time.
Go to www.lego.com and you can buy a lot of the older "generic" stuff. The sets are what sell... people want a theme, they want Harry Potter or Star Wars, rather than creativity. Lego's not stupid, they make and market mostly what sells the best... but they still have the good stuff for us geeky types, we just have to look a little harder for it.
It is exaggerated IMHO. 650 basic pieces including wheels and a base and windows and such for $30 in the US... that's not too bad, especially since you know the quality is going to be top-notch. If you don't want all the do-dads and just want a plain rectangular based block assortment, that's only $25 for 650 pieces.
You keep using that word, I do not think it means what you think it means.
Might I suggest "workaholic", "inconsiderate" or "preoccupied" as replacements?
Global warming? Bueller? Bueller?
Anyone who claims they do know everything about something is either lying or trying to sell you something.
I know this because I know everything about how people work.
Welcome to copyright law being way behind where technology is.
Are you a rocket scientist? Because I'll give your opinion more than 10% validity if you are ;)
I now hate you more than I ever thought it was possible to hate someone.
I am sending that link to as many of my enemies as possible in order to try to cleanse myself of it.
I believe that I did. I never said that I had good style, but it's not incorrect grammar by any means.
Shooting a few of the CEO's who got it into that mess would sure make me feel better, though. Or at least jabbing them with a sharp stick.
And given your tenuous grasp of the English language, it's quite obvious that you have no college degree.
~ Pitabred, rolling with a college degree and $0 loan debt 5 years out of school.