Consumer awareness is the paramount issue here and as long as a consumer is asking for information, then it should be legally required. I have personally been struggling for years with the FDA with similar requirements. I have always been concerned that fruits and vegetables harvested during full moons is potentially more dangerous if consumed in excess.
I have yet to come up with conclusive evidence of how the lunar cycle affects produce harvests, but neither have the deniers decidedly refuted the theory. In fact, "scientists" whom I have asked about the theory have explicitly stated that my request to prove a negative condition is a logical impossibility. This only serves as evidence to me that we will never be able to be certain about our produce health.
The only reasonable conclusion is that it should be left up to informed consumers. If it is true that the lunar phase has no effect on the food, then food manufactures should have no reason to avoid this labeling proposal. Please join me in the fight and sign the petition.
Bathrooms are generally "locked" prior to take-off. But the "lock" is really not a security mechanism and anyone that has paid attention to the procedures when your flight hits 10,000 feet would know how to open them anyway. So, if you're stealthy enough, you could unlock the bathroom and duck in. It wouldn't be checked until somebody went to get in the bathroom after the flight hits 10,000 feet.
Not one that will be effected by the type of browsing behavior that one would typically have while wandering a store. We aren't talking about coffee shops here where you stop and hang out for a while.
Your attempt to put a false balance between the costs of these various technologies is more than a little bit of a reach. The windmill/bird death thing is pretty much a myth.
The materials used in solar panels are constantly changing with new technology. Any "strip mining" that occurs is because some of the materials are imported from China. There is no technical reason that this couldn't be done in a much more sustainable way, and there are new operations spinning up in California that plan on mining the materials locally.
If a dam blocks a river, then somebody built it wrong.
This is true, but the amount of coal energy production has been consistently declining and renewable energy production rising for a number of years. The fact of the matter is that electricity can be generated in numerous ways, using an electric car gives (at least in some sense) a choice of where the energy comes from and therefore leaves open the door to improvements. Fossil fuel cars will always be powered by fossil fuels.
The "experts" who truly understand energy production and distribution are those who work in the energy industry, not academics or political hacks pushing an agenda.
Are you honestly suggesting that the people working for (and being paid by) the energy industry are the ones you can trust, and that the academics are the ones with an agenda?
Why bother? Not only won't they enforce immigration laws, they outright sue state and town PDs who attempt to do so to force them to stop.
Source?
Arizona's S.B, 1070 might be a good place to start looking. The Feds argued before the Supreme Court that enforcing immigration laws was a Federal matter, and that States had no business trying to do so themselves.
The Feds mostly won, but lost on what was probably the most annoying aspect of the law ("your papers, please").
And several other States are having to go back to the drawing board to re-draft laws they want to put into place that would've mirrored the AZ law.
So your complaint is that an unconstitutional law was blocked. Even if I believe that this somehow increased the number of immigrants, we are talking about unskilled labor doing jobs you would probably consider yourself too good for.
Visas? Immigration? Meh, c'mon in, apply for welfare, and retire. Only those of us dumb enough to work for a living as natural born citizens have anything to complain about here.
How about this part? Show me the evidence of illegal immigrants getting welfare without being prosecuted.
It is a contributing factor to a convoluted system that makes it harder for Americans to get jobs and harms our economy. When a corporation can get an employee for a lower cost, they will do so. What is not taken into account is the costs that went into training that employee. These are skilled positions that we are talking about, so the employee would have needed college education. Now look at the cost of an education in the United States. Graduates here cannot afford to take a job for the same low pay as someone that had a government subsidized education, as exists in many other countries.
Another factor is the flow of money. People coming here for these jobs are not immigrants. The money that they make is largely flowing out of the country. It is hit by income tax, but once it flows out of the country it is gone. Money earned by a citizen is generally put back into the economy which benefits other business sectors. This is something that our representatives should consider. We don't have a one-world taxation system, therefore, we cannot have a truly level one-world employment system.
I could go on with more examples, but the underlying problem isn't the individuals coming here for the jobs, but the long tail effect that they have on the economy.
Not even close. The HP Envy specs:
- CPU is Atom (Surface Pro is 3th generation i5)
- Resolution only 1366x768 (Surface Pro is 1920x1080)
- SSD only upto 64GB (Surface Pro is upto 128GB)
I am looking for a Surface Pro clone, more specifically a 16"+ laptop with 2560x1440 resolution, with touch and (a proper, precise, pressure sensitive) pen, and 250GB+ SSD, and i5 or better.
If anyone knows of anything that has at least the resolution and pen, i'm grateful.
- CPU is Atom (Surface Pro is 3th generation i5)
3th
I'm not going to correct you.
I just want Thirth to be a word.
It's also worth noting there could very well be no causality at all. It's certainly possible that certain personality traits could cause social anxiety and the drive to multiple forms of media.
In fact, I would hazard to guess that it is more likely both of these things are effects of an unidentified cause and not things that are causing one another.
Find a child that has never tasted beer, give them a sip of the best, most wonderful tasting beer you have ever had without telling them that it is beer or that it is a "cool" drink. I guarantee you that they will spit it out immediately because it has a taste closer to that of rancid deer piss then what they would think of as a nice refreshing beverage.
In my experience, the Monoprice quality is a bit higher, but an HDMI cable is an HDMI cable. Monoprice is miles ahead of them in terms of selection though.
Are you purposely missing the point, or just trolling?
If the claims are to be believed, the only reason that the Amazon branded cases were cheaper were because they forced 3rd parties to swallow an extra 25% commission on their cases that Amazon themselves didn't have to pay. If this commission were gone, it would lower the cost of all cases for the consumer.
You also seem to be defending Amazon's use of patents in your first comment, but that is actually the complete opposite of what is being discussed. M-edge holds a patent on a specific style of case for the kindle and Amazon is the one in violation of that patent.
One important difference is that in the credit card industry there are published rules that you must comply with called the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI-DSS), or in the case of an application, Payment Application Data Security Standard (PA-DSS). If TFA is accurate, then Google Wallet is not following the PCI guidelines.
However, it is worth noting that even if they ignore all of the best practices, they are probably technically in the clear right now. Mobile Applications are currently exempted from PCI and PA enforcement pending an update to the rules. As they are currently written, they acknowledge that they were not designed with mobile devices in mind. Mobile payment application developers are encouraged to follow the general guidelines of PCI, but they are somewhat left to their best judgement.
I would certainly dispute any idea that the ribbon is more intuitive. When looking for a function that you don't frequently use, you must guess what an icon for it might look like, which tab it may be under, then scour that tab for it. You must also be aware that the button may shrink, move, or disappear the next time you are looking for it if the window size has changed at all. It is much easier to find this type of function under a traditional menu using words, even if it isn't as pretty.
Besides all of that, you are assuming that initial learning curve is the most important thing. Most people don't buy office just so that they can use if a few times, it can generally be assumed that they will use it consistently for some time. The traditional (pre-ribbon) interface allowed users to choose exactly which tasks they use frequently and choose where to place the appropriate toolbar for that task. All of the toolbars that you selected would then be available at all times, not hidden in multiple tabs. This allows users to optimize their own version of office over time so that they always have their most common tools close at hand. With the new ribbon interface, you are just stuck with a one-size-fits-all layout.
"Obviously, they would never take actual legal action against Notch for this"
From Notch's Blog:
"Today, I got a 15 page letter from some Swedish lawyer firm, saying they demand us to stop using the name Scrolls, that they will sue us (and have already paid the fee to the Swedish court), and that they demand a pile of money up front before the legal process has even started."
Directly threatening to sue and demanding a 'pile of money' sure sounds like actual legal action to me.
Here in the Seattle area, we have a great small chain called "Third Place Books". It is basically like a half-price books that fills the holes in it's shelves with new books. You can always go in and browse for used books, but if you need something specific they will usually at least have a new copy.
>Unless this offers something my smartphone doesn't (incredible battery life, better games, etc) there's no way it is going
> to end up being carried around with me. Which means its not going to work as a mobile gaming platform.
Yes, because they totally came up with the idea of a touch screen interface and nobody had ever used a pinch to zoom gesture before. Troll some more?
Your post is nonsensical. There is no significant connection between interface design and choice of backend software licenses. In your world, I guess that everybody quit using Linux after Apple used BSD as the basis for OS X.
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I agree 100%
Consumer awareness is the paramount issue here and as long as a consumer is asking for information, then it should be legally required. I have personally been struggling for years with the FDA with similar requirements. I have always been concerned that fruits and vegetables harvested during full moons is potentially more dangerous if consumed in excess.
I have yet to come up with conclusive evidence of how the lunar cycle affects produce harvests, but neither have the deniers decidedly refuted the theory. In fact, "scientists" whom I have asked about the theory have explicitly stated that my request to prove a negative condition is a logical impossibility. This only serves as evidence to me that we will never be able to be certain about our produce health.
The only reasonable conclusion is that it should be left up to informed consumers. If it is true that the lunar phase has no effect on the food, then food manufactures should have no reason to avoid this labeling proposal. Please join me in the fight and sign the petition.
Bathrooms are generally "locked" prior to take-off. But the "lock" is really not a security mechanism and anyone that has paid attention to the procedures when your flight hits 10,000 feet would know how to open them anyway. So, if you're stealthy enough, you could unlock the bathroom and duck in. It wouldn't be checked until somebody went to get in the bathroom after the flight hits 10,000 feet.
Not one that will be effected by the type of browsing behavior that one would typically have while wandering a store. We aren't talking about coffee shops here where you stop and hang out for a while.
Your attempt to put a false balance between the costs of these various technologies is more than a little bit of a reach. The windmill/bird death thing is pretty much a myth.
The materials used in solar panels are constantly changing with new technology. Any "strip mining" that occurs is because some of the materials are imported from China. There is no technical reason that this couldn't be done in a much more sustainable way, and there are new operations spinning up in California that plan on mining the materials locally.
If a dam blocks a river, then somebody built it wrong.
This is true, but the amount of coal energy production has been consistently declining and renewable energy production rising for a number of years. The fact of the matter is that electricity can be generated in numerous ways, using an electric car gives (at least in some sense) a choice of where the energy comes from and therefore leaves open the door to improvements. Fossil fuel cars will always be powered by fossil fuels.
The "experts" who truly understand energy production and distribution are those who work in the energy industry, not academics or political hacks pushing an agenda.
Are you honestly suggesting that the people working for (and being paid by) the energy industry are the ones you can trust, and that the academics are the ones with an agenda?
They are totally fine since this is line of sight and they have permission to operate it over this private land.
Arizona's S.B, 1070 might be a good place to start looking. The Feds argued before the Supreme Court that enforcing immigration laws was a Federal matter, and that States had no business trying to do so themselves.
The Feds mostly won, but lost on what was probably the most annoying aspect of the law ("your papers, please").
And several other States are having to go back to the drawing board to re-draft laws they want to put into place that would've mirrored the AZ law.
So your complaint is that an unconstitutional law was blocked. Even if I believe that this somehow increased the number of immigrants, we are talking about unskilled labor doing jobs you would probably consider yourself too good for.
Visas? Immigration? Meh, c'mon in, apply for welfare, and retire. Only those of us dumb enough to work for a living as natural born citizens have anything to complain about here.
How about this part? Show me the evidence of illegal immigrants getting welfare without being prosecuted.
It is a contributing factor to a convoluted system that makes it harder for Americans to get jobs and harms our economy. When a corporation can get an employee for a lower cost, they will do so. What is not taken into account is the costs that went into training that employee. These are skilled positions that we are talking about, so the employee would have needed college education. Now look at the cost of an education in the United States. Graduates here cannot afford to take a job for the same low pay as someone that had a government subsidized education, as exists in many other countries.
Another factor is the flow of money. People coming here for these jobs are not immigrants. The money that they make is largely flowing out of the country. It is hit by income tax, but once it flows out of the country it is gone. Money earned by a citizen is generally put back into the economy which benefits other business sectors. This is something that our representatives should consider. We don't have a one-world taxation system, therefore, we cannot have a truly level one-world employment system.
I could go on with more examples, but the underlying problem isn't the individuals coming here for the jobs, but the long tail effect that they have on the economy.
Not even close. The HP Envy specs:
- CPU is Atom (Surface Pro is 3th generation i5)
- Resolution only 1366x768 (Surface Pro is 1920x1080)
- SSD only upto 64GB (Surface Pro is upto 128GB)
I am looking for a Surface Pro clone, more specifically a 16"+ laptop with 2560x1440 resolution, with touch and (a proper, precise, pressure sensitive) pen, and 250GB+ SSD, and i5 or better. If anyone knows of anything that has at least the resolution and pen, i'm grateful.
- CPU is Atom (Surface Pro is 3th generation i5)
3th
I'm not going to correct you.
I just want Thirth to be a word.
It's also worth noting there could very well be no causality at all. It's certainly possible that certain personality traits could cause social anxiety and the drive to multiple forms of media.
In fact, I would hazard to guess that it is more likely both of these things are effects of an unidentified cause and not things that are causing one another.
Sounds like you need better food.
Find a child that has never tasted beer, give them a sip of the best, most wonderful tasting beer you have ever had without telling them that it is beer or that it is a "cool" drink. I guarantee you that they will spit it out immediately because it has a taste closer to that of rancid deer piss then what they would think of as a nice refreshing beverage.
This is true about most things where the taste "has to grow on you".
I try not to be the guy calling Slashdot out for covering old news. Honestly though, this was on the local tv news over a week ago.
This is only true if you consider Windows 8 to be a "full desktop operating system", which is a lofty claim.
In my experience, the Monoprice quality is a bit higher, but an HDMI cable is an HDMI cable. Monoprice is miles ahead of them in terms of selection though.
Are you purposely missing the point, or just trolling?
If the claims are to be believed, the only reason that the Amazon branded cases were cheaper were because they forced 3rd parties to swallow an extra 25% commission on their cases that Amazon themselves didn't have to pay. If this commission were gone, it would lower the cost of all cases for the consumer.
You also seem to be defending Amazon's use of patents in your first comment, but that is actually the complete opposite of what is being discussed. M-edge holds a patent on a specific style of case for the kindle and Amazon is the one in violation of that patent.
One important difference is that in the credit card industry there are published rules that you must comply with called the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI-DSS), or in the case of an application, Payment Application Data Security Standard (PA-DSS). If TFA is accurate, then Google Wallet is not following the PCI guidelines.
However, it is worth noting that even if they ignore all of the best practices, they are probably technically in the clear right now. Mobile Applications are currently exempted from PCI and PA enforcement pending an update to the rules. As they are currently written, they acknowledge that they were not designed with mobile devices in mind. Mobile payment application developers are encouraged to follow the general guidelines of PCI, but they are somewhat left to their best judgement.
I would certainly dispute any idea that the ribbon is more intuitive. When looking for a function that you don't frequently use, you must guess what an icon for it might look like, which tab it may be under, then scour that tab for it. You must also be aware that the button may shrink, move, or disappear the next time you are looking for it if the window size has changed at all. It is much easier to find this type of function under a traditional menu using words, even if it isn't as pretty.
Besides all of that, you are assuming that initial learning curve is the most important thing. Most people don't buy office just so that they can use if a few times, it can generally be assumed that they will use it consistently for some time. The traditional (pre-ribbon) interface allowed users to choose exactly which tasks they use frequently and choose where to place the appropriate toolbar for that task. All of the toolbars that you selected would then be available at all times, not hidden in multiple tabs. This allows users to optimize their own version of office over time so that they always have their most common tools close at hand. With the new ribbon interface, you are just stuck with a one-size-fits-all layout.
If a studio does it and bl968 doesn't like it, it must be copyright abuse.
ME is better described as the inbred child of Windows 98, not a true successor.
"Obviously, they would never take actual legal action against Notch for this"
From Notch's Blog:
"Today, I got a 15 page letter from some Swedish lawyer firm, saying they demand us to stop using the name Scrolls, that they will sue us (and have already paid the fee to the Swedish court), and that they demand a pile of money up front before the legal process has even started."
Directly threatening to sue and demanding a 'pile of money' sure sounds like actual legal action to me.
Here in the Seattle area, we have a great small chain called "Third Place Books". It is basically like a half-price books that fills the holes in it's shelves with new books. You can always go in and browse for used books, but if you need something specific they will usually at least have a new copy.
>Unless this offers something my smartphone doesn't (incredible battery life, better games, etc) there's no way it is going
> to end up being carried around with me. Which means its not going to work as a mobile gaming platform.
Buttons.
Yes, because they totally came up with the idea of a touch screen interface and nobody had ever used a pinch to zoom gesture before. Troll some more?
Your post is nonsensical. There is no significant connection between interface design and choice of backend software licenses. In your world, I guess that everybody quit using Linux after Apple used BSD as the basis for OS X.