Conclusion? It's a neat novelty backup backup. But it is way to expensive.
Heh, capacity is only a big deal if charging / switching is a pain.
For any computer with a cordless mouse/keyboard, this sounds like a god send. Have two sets, always keep one charged, and your battery troubles will be over forever*. Sounds practical as hell too me.
Given the outright comedy*, cynicism, back-stabbing in the pre-elections, and the political parties going from scandal to scandal, I'd assume that the minors would be in a really good position to pick up a lot of stray votes.
* ie: the "hacking" scandal , involving a user with same username and password, which from no usefull information was found. A couple of corruption charges (all ridiciously minor compared to what's legal over in the US) and general aggresive debating.
If the black holes they are producing are microscopic and last relatively little amount of time, they shouldn't be very dangerous
I absolutely love the fact that a 'fear-debunking +5 interesting post' in a discussion concerning the potential end of the world used the wording '[..] shouldn't be very dangerous'.
This quest for information is not a good thing. Say you're pro-life/communist/gay/NRA-member/whatever, and the hiring manager doesn't like that, it's not a problem if he doesn't know
I can spot your problem right there; the hiring manager is a retard. Politics != Work != Life. Do you really want to work somewhere that doesn't know the difference?
A persons credit history is valid information about somebody. You're not supposed to lie to potential future employers, so in principle, this sounds sane to me. You are what you've done, and if you haven't lived, you probably haven't learnt either.
That said, I don't think employers credit checking is the real problem here. As far as I've understood, US credit checking companies are usually inaccurate sleaze-bags who generate overall scores based on amazingly inaccurate information. Atleast here in Norway, there are reasonably strict rules on what information credit-scoring companies are allowed to hold, for how long and they have to tell you whenever somebody checks you up. As far as I can tell, it's working wonders for privacy. Fix the information itself and the rest will sort itself out:)
That, and a more more customer friendly pricing model. There are lots of other examples of traditionally segmented markets being broken by companies with a simple, fair pricing model.
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Of course not, and you're silly for confusing issues like that. The pricing model is a complete non-issue. If the regular airlines had the lowest prices on the cheapest tickets, people would go there instead. The premise that anybody would be willing buy a more expensive ticket because they 'were annoyed' at people on the same plane buying premium tickets is seriously just plain silly. What the low-quality airlines make up their prices with is non-refundability, no-baggage carry-overs, no free snacks or papers along with outrageous prices on the plane itself, aswell as flying to nearby, but cheaper airports. All of these could easily have been implemented with a tiered system, and as such, your pricing model argument is silly.
Re-read the post, especially the part where I'm referring to Scandinavians as 'we',. then make a wild guess wether the 'sissy'-part was tongue-in-cheek. Stop being so defensive, you're Danish; you're supposed relaxed.
Either way, I think it all comes down to different definitions of freedom. I'm not too fond of 'the freedom to be fucked over' either and I'll take our variant any day. I guess it comes down to who you fear the most though, the government or the corporations?.. and I seriously doubt any reasonably sane person will ever fear the Norwegian government (of course, barring the occasional oddball with a rabid fear of inoffensive diplomatic requests). The US government, on the other hand, *is* scary.
FairUse4WM is going to be rightly bitch slapped by Microsoft.
It's only "rightly" if you assume Moraly==Legality.
Piracy of software and music is still piracy and still illegal.
Actually, in consumer-protecting sizzy-countries like the Scandinavians ones, where the rights of re-sale and free-use trumps contracts, terms-of-use and EULA's there's a good chance DRM-stripping is not only legal, but a civil right. Too bad we've never tested it in court (from the correct angle).
So even if you assume Morailty==Legality, legality does differ from country to country.
Interviewer: "Ok, good job next question..."
Me: "Hold on a sec... Look closer at what I wrote, what did I just do wrong?"
So, from there on, I see two possible outcomes:
First one is he spots the error..
.. or worse; he doesn't and you get to come off as a condescending wise-ass who enjoy putting down others for perceived incompetence, almost without even trying!
Except Nitro Glycerine would most likely detonate the second you had any turbulence,
Ok, this is a second hand story, so the details are most likely horribly off.. but I do know the persons involved, so the gist of it is true. The guy who told me this, used to sneak into the woods behind the facilities this took place to play hide and seek when he was a kid.
Sooo.. Roll back to the 90'ies. Research facilty for Norwegian Oil company Hydro in Oslo. They're handling lots of nitro-glycerin and various high-explosives.. and they have all these safety measures, because for some reason, people don't like being blown up,
So.. one day, one senior researcher, fairly hung over, is handling a glass-tube (shut) with the nitro-glycerin.. and drops it. So, the guy sees his life pass by in slow-motion, curses a little for not having had sex with his wife this morning and closes his eyes waiting to die.. Except nothing happens. So, he runs out and calls for evacutation. Eventually, they clean the mess up and everybody gets back to work. Turns out, the container didn't break, and the nitro-glycerin was still lying happily on the floor.
Now, the leading researcher and head of the facility was a really hands-on-guy. He knew all the theory and stuff, but he was really hands-on. So.. they had all these tests on how much pressure it takes to make nitro-glycerin blow up, but how do you test how much turbulence it takes to make a closed container filled with the stuff blow up? You could probably put it in a shaking-machine, but that'd hardly be realistic conditions now would it?
Now, the rest of this story is verified. This guy fetches some containers of nitro, drags it out in the woods behind the factory along with a fishing rod. He finds a big ledge, when at the bottom, he ties a container to the line, and being carefull not moving the nitro at all he walks up the top of ledge, and using his fishing rod hoists the stuff up and starts swinging it around wildly.. without hitting the rock ledge of course.. He stood there for 10 minutes just waving the stuff around.
Sadly, or maybe luckily for him, he was not able to make it explode as long as it was within a closed container. The scientific, now empirically tested, conclusion was clear, the risk of explosion within a closed container was grozzly exxagarated.
(This guy also ran an experiement with was I think was paint-thinner(not sure, it was poisonous atleast) and a sealed off cabin. Himself, another researcher acting as a secretary and a psychologist locked themselves in the cabin to find out the effect the stuff had on human beings, all the while writing logs of what they were experiencing. Reviewing the log-books the day after, they found they had started drawing stick-men instead of writing logs after three hours)
In fact, they appear to be confusing ability with precocity
ARG!
Just as with the nature versus nurture debate, it's not a question of which one it is; but of how much of each one.
Obviously, the surroundings, encouragement, over-stimulation, lack of stimulation etc are going to have an tremendous on a child. Anybobdy saying anything else is a loony.
On the other hand, it's a well known fact among strategy gamers that everybody has, more or less atleast, a limit to how good they get. During 5-6 years of steady play, most people just max at some point, usually after a couple of years and stop becoming better. Be it lack of intelligence, lack of patentience, lack of anal-retentivness, it still happens. They hit their roof.
There's so many extremely simple games that are insanely fun multiplayer, and will probably never, ever be released as stand-alone games.
I'm still praying the Nintendo Wii will be opened up like this, but if it isn't, this might be what tips me over to XBOX 360. Programming for the Wii-controllers would be fun though, and I really, really want to play Pong with them:).
People who steal music obviously aren't human beings. In fact, I rate leeches over music-stealing people! I mean, seriously, imagine a society where everybody kept stealing music, after a little while there'd be no music left!
You call american voters indifferent, wouldn't you be indifferent if your only choices were coke and pepsi and you really wanted something altogether different than a cola?
THEN VOTE! There really isn't more to it. VOTE!
The more votes given to third parties who doesn't get representation, the more evident there will be the system is broken. Even if you can't find a party you actually agree with, vote for the third largest party. It may shake things up.
Seriously, seeing the same people complain about 'the indifferent masses' two seconds later complain about how there's nothing to do and how it's all futile is frustrating to the extreme!
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For any computer with a cordless mouse/keyboard, this sounds like a god send. Have two sets, always keep one charged, and your battery troubles will be over forever*. Sounds practical as hell too me.
* albeit the lower end of forever.
* ie: the "hacking" scandal , involving a user with same username and password, which from no usefull information was found. A couple of corruption charges (all ridiciously minor compared to what's legal over in the US) and general aggresive debating.
(sorry)
That said, I don't think employers credit checking is the real problem here. As far as I've understood, US credit checking companies are usually inaccurate sleaze-bags who generate overall scores based on amazingly inaccurate information. Atleast here in Norway, there are reasonably strict rules on what information credit-scoring companies are allowed to hold, for how long and they have to tell you whenever somebody checks you up. As far as I can tell, it's working wonders for privacy. Fix the information itself and the rest will sort itself out :)
He admits himself in his own signature that he's giving out illegal advice. Illegal advice!
Bummer
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Wiiiiiiii
Oh :)
Either way, I think it all comes down to different definitions of freedom. I'm not too fond of 'the freedom to be fucked over' either and I'll take our variant any day. I guess it comes down to who you fear the most though, the government or the corporations? .. and I seriously doubt any reasonably sane person will ever fear the Norwegian government (of course, barring the occasional oddball with a rabid fear of inoffensive diplomatic requests). The US government, on the other hand, *is* scary.
So even if you assume Morailty==Legality, legality does differ from country to country.
First one is he spots the error..
Except.. you don't have to defend patents.
I mean, seriously, does the term 'submarine patents' ring any bells?
Sooo.. Roll back to the 90'ies. Research facilty for Norwegian Oil company Hydro in Oslo. They're handling lots of nitro-glycerin and various high-explosives.. and they have all these safety measures, because for some reason, people don't like being blown up,
So.. one day, one senior researcher, fairly hung over, is handling a glass-tube (shut) with the nitro-glycerin.. and drops it. So, the guy sees his life pass by in slow-motion, curses a little for not having had sex with his wife this morning and closes his eyes waiting to die.. Except nothing happens. So, he runs out and calls for evacutation. Eventually, they clean the mess up and everybody gets back to work. Turns out, the container didn't break, and the nitro-glycerin was still lying happily on the floor.
Now, the leading researcher and head of the facility was a really hands-on-guy. He knew all the theory and stuff, but he was really hands-on. So.. they had all these tests on how much pressure it takes to make nitro-glycerin blow up, but how do you test how much turbulence it takes to make a closed container filled with the stuff blow up? You could probably put it in a shaking-machine, but that'd hardly be realistic conditions now would it?
Now, the rest of this story is verified. This guy fetches some containers of nitro, drags it out in the woods behind the factory along with a fishing rod. He finds a big ledge, when at the bottom, he ties a container to the line, and being carefull not moving the nitro at all he walks up the top of ledge, and using his fishing rod hoists the stuff up and starts swinging it around wildly.. without hitting the rock ledge of course.. He stood there for 10 minutes just waving the stuff around.
Sadly, or maybe luckily for him, he was not able to make it explode as long as it was within a closed container. The scientific, now empirically tested, conclusion was clear, the risk of explosion within a closed container was grozzly exxagarated.
(This guy also ran an experiement with was I think was paint-thinner(not sure, it was poisonous atleast) and a sealed off cabin. Himself, another researcher acting as a secretary and a psychologist locked themselves in the cabin to find out the effect the stuff had on human beings, all the while writing logs of what they were experiencing. Reviewing the log-books the day after, they found they had started drawing stick-men instead of writing logs after three hours)
Just as with the nature versus nurture debate, it's not a question of which one it is; but of how much of each one.
Obviously, the surroundings, encouragement, over-stimulation, lack of stimulation etc are going to have an tremendous on a child. Anybobdy saying anything else is a loony.
On the other hand, it's a well known fact among strategy gamers that everybody has, more or less atleast, a limit to how good they get. During 5-6 years of steady play, most people just max at some point, usually after a couple of years and stop becoming better. Be it lack of intelligence, lack of patentience, lack of anal-retentivness, it still happens. They hit their roof.
This could be a killer feature.
:).
There's so many extremely simple games that are insanely fun multiplayer, and will probably never, ever be released as stand-alone games.
I'm still praying the Nintendo Wii will be opened up like this, but if it isn't, this might be what tips me over to XBOX 360. Programming for the Wii-controllers would be fun though, and I really, really want to play Pong with them
Of course it wasn't a joke!
People who steal music obviously aren't human beings. In fact, I rate leeches over music-stealing people! I mean, seriously, imagine a society where everybody kept stealing music, after a little while there'd be no music left!
*shudder*
.. this might be usefull for Iraq and probably now, Libanon.
Somebody seems to have left wast amounts of depleted Uranium there.
The more votes given to third parties who doesn't get representation, the more evident there will be the system is broken. Even if you can't find a party you actually agree with, vote for the third largest party. It may shake things up.
Seriously, seeing the same people complain about 'the indifferent masses' two seconds later complain about how there's nothing to do and how it's all futile is frustrating to the extreme!
*#£$ IT ALL, JUST VOTE YOU £$£$ £#%$£ ***£$!!
Requests for testing have been sent to the guy in California who were rumoured to have gotten it running though.