I call your call of bullshit. I have an iphone 5 with sprint, and I can say that cell phone audio quality is NOT ridiculously good. I do have difficulty understanding people sometimes, and it is certainly distracting.
And hands free texting is even more distracting than hands on, in my experience. Because Siri is so often wrong, I must always visually confirm the text. And when it's wrong, it typically takes a great deal of tapping and dragging and typing to replace the words that were in error. That is I do the manual correction after about three attempts at getting Siri to work. Needless to say, I don't use Siri anymore.
Google speech recognition was much better in my experience but still not good enough to talk and hit send without looking.
I've faced the same issue, and I chose to leave. It's a business decision. When it comes down to it, your employer would let you go if it made business sense. Businesses, successful ones at least, are only truly loyal to themselves and work toward their own interests. Every employee should do the same, in my opinion.
You're overlooking the fact that Yellow Pages are a proven and effective means of advertising. Businesses wouldn't spend BILLIONS annually advertising in the Yellow Pages if they didn't work. They don't work for every business, but for many businesses Yellow Pages are practically required. Businesses like pizza delivery, insurance, plumbing, self-storage, healthcare, legal services, etc where most customers are not walk-ins (first contact is made through telephone) the return on investment on Yellow Pages dollars is very good. For some businesses it's not as good and a Yellow Pages presence is more of a service to the customers than advertising. Think Best Buy or other large retail chains where most if not all transactions are done without any sort of advance phone call. Here a small ad is a convenience for the customer to use to find the address of the business, hours of operation or service number.
Are there too many books with overlapping distribution? Yeah, probably. Most often these books only partially overlap. Therefore it is necessary to advertise in two overlapping books in order to advertise to your entire market. These are almost always competing publishers so it is unlikely they will ever cooperate to reduce the number of books printed. There's no way to work that out so that all publishers come out ahead.
Disclaimer: I work in the Yellow Pages industry.
This isn't censorship. The activist hasn't been told that he can't communicate his views, he just has to find a new domain name to do it with. Whether or not he should be legally required to find a new home is doubtable, it is hard to deny that he chose the domain to catch unwary Jeffy Fallwell fans.
When I was a kid, I had an old Amstrad. My step mother threw water at me while I was on the computer and a large amount of it found it's way in to the keyboard. The keyboard was non-standard and I was only 14, so I had no way to get a new one. The keyboard didn't have individual buttons for the keys, instead it had one of those two plastic sheets sandwiched together. Well, the water ruined that, so I got another keyboard, ripped out the PCB from the amstrad and put it in the new one. Then I individually wired each button on the new keyboard to replicate the connections on the plastic thing from the Amstrad. It was a mess, but it eventually worked -- mostly. Some of the keys, including the double quote didn't work. Needless to say, you couldn't program without that, so I became really fast at entering ALT+keycode sequences.
Only because of statistics. If more people are allowed to modify the source code, then the higher the likelyhood that one of them may implant a backdoor. That's all.
Turn the question around. Instead of asking "why buy $1000 3.4 GHz chip instead of $500 3.2 GHz chip", ask this: how come Intel doesn't label that second chip "3.4 GHz" and sell it to you for $1000?
That would be $500 extra revenue for Intel. How come they don't do it?
Nope. It's supply and demand. If there's a higher demand of the 3.2 gigahertz cpu, then they'll mark more as 3.2 to maximize profits. A $1000 3.4 gigahertz cpu with a $700 profit isn't making them any money sitting in a stockpile. Whereas a 3.4 gigahertz cpu marked for 3.2, sold for $500 made them $200.
Under looser policies issued in 1993, agencies could hold back information to prevent "foreseeable harm."
And which illustrious leader was in his first year of office in 1993?
SENATOR: So what's on the dress, Mr. President?
PRESIDENT: I foresee that the dissemination of that information could cause foreseeable harm to my genitals, as the Mrs. will certainly castrate me...
My family runs a decent sized show for the city that I live in, with a population of about 33,000 people. The pyrotechnics team is comprised of about thirty people, who would all agree. You should hear them totally diss on anybody who runs a show using electronic ignitions, or any other new-fangled method. They are fireworks purists. I imagine that there are many, many others in the business who run medium to small sized shows who wouldn't think about letting this sort of technology invade their experience.
I think that the only money that will come in from software will be from developers and coders that maintain existing Open Source software, and create novel new Open Source software for contract (hourly wages).
Software costs money to develop. Is ID software going to spend millions of dollars to develop Doom 6 so that they can give it away for free? Or how about the Washington Post developing it's own next-gen word processor at it's own expense, then gives it away for free? If and how it's distrubuted will be completely dependent on the intended use and the intended user base. If it's to be used in house, then they'll keep it in house. If they think somebody else will want it and it isn't too proprietary, then they'll sell it. They sure as hell aren't going to give it away for free. I wouldn't either.
It's even easier than that. If you already have a nat gateway on your network (many DSL routers have this feature always on) install a wireless ethernet adapter into your windows XP box, open up network connections, highlight your LAN connection and your wireless connection then right click->bridge connections. There ya go. It is completely transparent.
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For the most part, but I expect the droplets of water increase the surface area of your cold beer container, thereby accelerating the warming process.
I call your call of bullshit. I have an iphone 5 with sprint, and I can say that cell phone audio quality is NOT ridiculously good. I do have difficulty understanding people sometimes, and it is certainly distracting. And hands free texting is even more distracting than hands on, in my experience. Because Siri is so often wrong, I must always visually confirm the text. And when it's wrong, it typically takes a great deal of tapping and dragging and typing to replace the words that were in error. That is I do the manual correction after about three attempts at getting Siri to work. Needless to say, I don't use Siri anymore. Google speech recognition was much better in my experience but still not good enough to talk and hit send without looking.
I've faced the same issue, and I chose to leave. It's a business decision. When it comes down to it, your employer would let you go if it made business sense. Businesses, successful ones at least, are only truly loyal to themselves and work toward their own interests. Every employee should do the same, in my opinion.
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You're overlooking the fact that Yellow Pages are a proven and effective means of advertising. Businesses wouldn't spend BILLIONS annually advertising in the Yellow Pages if they didn't work. They don't work for every business, but for many businesses Yellow Pages are practically required. Businesses like pizza delivery, insurance, plumbing, self-storage, healthcare, legal services, etc where most customers are not walk-ins (first contact is made through telephone) the return on investment on Yellow Pages dollars is very good. For some businesses it's not as good and a Yellow Pages presence is more of a service to the customers than advertising. Think Best Buy or other large retail chains where most if not all transactions are done without any sort of advance phone call. Here a small ad is a convenience for the customer to use to find the address of the business, hours of operation or service number. Are there too many books with overlapping distribution? Yeah, probably. Most often these books only partially overlap. Therefore it is necessary to advertise in two overlapping books in order to advertise to your entire market. These are almost always competing publishers so it is unlikely they will ever cooperate to reduce the number of books printed. There's no way to work that out so that all publishers come out ahead. Disclaimer: I work in the Yellow Pages industry.
Beautiful Haiku.
a^2 + b^2 = c^2
Well, I appologize. It was sort of a failed attempt at being clever.
You're entitled to your opinion
I have three words for you that will solve your little cross-platform dillema: SDL
I will most likely be voting for a third-party candidate
In case you're undecided about who you'd like to vote for, here's a few options:
This isn't censorship. The activist hasn't been told that he can't communicate his views, he just has to find a new domain name to do it with. Whether or not he should be legally required to find a new home is doubtable, it is hard to deny that he chose the domain to catch unwary Jeffy Fallwell fans.
OMG! Table dances on demand. I'm going to start saving now.
When I was a kid, I had an old Amstrad. My step mother threw water at me while I was on the computer and a large amount of it found it's way in to the keyboard. The keyboard was non-standard and I was only 14, so I had no way to get a new one. The keyboard didn't have individual buttons for the keys, instead it had one of those two plastic sheets sandwiched together. Well, the water ruined that, so I got another keyboard, ripped out the PCB from the amstrad and put it in the new one. Then I individually wired each button on the new keyboard to replicate the connections on the plastic thing from the Amstrad. It was a mess, but it eventually worked -- mostly. Some of the keys, including the double quote didn't work. Needless to say, you couldn't program without that, so I became really fast at entering ALT+keycode sequences.
Only because of statistics. If more people are allowed to modify the source code, then the higher the likelyhood that one of them may implant a backdoor. That's all.
If there were a low cost linux version, then businesses wouldn't have any reason to use Windows.
If it were that easy, then backdoors wouldn't exist anywhere and we wouldn't be having this discussion.
This is rediculous!
Mr. T should is totally Urukai. Richard Simmons is a much better to play the orcs.
Peoria/Pekin metro
Where I live in Illinois, the cost of living is:
And my city is slightly above the national average for cost of living.
Under looser policies issued in 1993, agencies could hold back information to prevent "foreseeable harm."
And which illustrious leader was in his first year of office in 1993?
SENATOR: So what's on the dress, Mr. President?
PRESIDENT: I foresee that the dissemination of that information could cause foreseeable harm to my genitals, as the Mrs. will certainly castrate me...
You bet!
My family runs a decent sized show for the city that I live in, with a population of about 33,000 people. The pyrotechnics team is comprised of about thirty people, who would all agree. You should hear them totally diss on anybody who runs a show using electronic ignitions, or any other new-fangled method. They are fireworks purists. I imagine that there are many, many others in the business who run medium to small sized shows who wouldn't think about letting this sort of technology invade their experience.
It's even easier than that. If you already have a nat gateway on your network (many DSL routers have this feature always on) install a wireless ethernet adapter into your windows XP box, open up network connections, highlight your LAN connection and your wireless connection then right click->bridge connections. There ya go. It is completely transparent.
bastard. i got shafted with the second