Its City property. And yes, its their equipment to be an idiot with. While Childs was following the policy to the letter, he should have realized his boss was a power hungry idiot that wasn't about to let his minion make him look like an idiot, and just handed over the passwords, packed up his shit and said "See ya!"
Obviously the act of robbing a bank is not funny at all. The robber choosing to use a Darth Vader costume to conceal his identity is fucking hilarious.
It has been estimated, at least for the IPAD, Apple's profit margin is 42%. And I suspect the profit margin on their desktops is in the same ballpark (either that or they are paying a lot more then expect at their sweat shops). Running that kind of profit margin when everyone else is lucky to get 15% is signs of monopolistic behavior. Just a sign mind you
Well not really signs of monopolistic behavior. Apple has a very dedicated following that is willing to fork over extra cash for their products as the consumer believes it to be a superior product. Apple is just going with the flow of supply and demand. Why drop your prices if people are willing to purchase at the higher?
OK, I know most of you actually haven't RTFA this being/. and all, but if you do you will see that Comcast is right. The FCC dulled its own teeth in 2005 when they deregulated broadband. Was that stupid then, ofcourse it was. But until the US government adopts rules to allow more competition, ie making the infrastructure an open network, Comcast and other large ISP won't let anyone else be an ISP on their infrastrucutre with out paying a huge amount of money to "lease" it. I think there was a good article in Newsweek about why the US's broadband access was the 12th slowest and most exspensive to use and it gave examples of what other country's, namely South Korea, had done to bring cost down for the consumer.
Considering that these weapons use a radar based tracking system, your best bet is to use stealth technology so the laser can't lock on. Its hard to hit a moving object when you can't see it.
Since when did an Address Book/Calendaring application become required system components? These applications are nothing more than utilities to help you manage people you know and shit you need to remember to do. Nothing more.
I agree, but since their apps like iCal, Mail, notes...etc are all bundled with OSX this is considered a major feature when it really is nothing more than a application upgrade to include EWS.
You will never know the exact amount unless you draw blood. But with breath tests, there is a generally accepted ratio of amount of alcohol in breath as to the blood. More than likely the same thing will be done with this device. Both devices are used for their quick and easy usage and generally accurate results.
I wasn't interested in the sources of error. I was just point out how the things generally work. There are many ways to skew the results, some you can do and some cops can do.
Breath-alyzers do exactly that. From the sample of alcohol in your breath it figures out the percentage in your blood stream, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breathalyzer#Law_enforcement And just because someone can "handle it better" than others, doesn't make it ok.
If it can detect presence it more than likely can detect amounts also. So more than likely there will be differing levels of each to warrant a DUI. Being that it detect illegal substances penalties are more than likely going to be a bit stiffer and probably open you up to a visit from cops with warrants to search your house/work/car for drug paraphernalia.
Cops don't make laws, or get to choose whether or not they should be applied. Ok there are some instances, traffic tickets...etc, that a cop can make a judgement call. But more than likely in this instance the DA called down to the local precinct and said "Arrest him for this...." so the cops did. As to the comparisions to Nazi death camps soldiers...don't you think that's a bit of overkill and maybe a little sensationalistic? As the law defines the kid broke it...and now he has to pay the price. Does that mean the law is crap....well tell your local congressmen/senators and get it taken off the books and the kid will be released. Don't blame the cops for "just doing their job".
Oh I agree with you on the fact that some companies have a poor reputation in patch releasing. But if you are that concerned about it affeting your mission critical systems, you should have a testing platform that you can install patches on. All I am saying is with a little planning/prep work most if not all of outbreaks like this could be averted/minimized.
How about patching your systems in a timely manner so you don't have to suffer through these reactionary costs? The patch for the exploit conficker used was released in Nov 08. When did conficker start spreading around, Jan 09? Just saying.....
When I heard Karl Urban was cast as McCoy, the first thought through my mind was "What in the hell are they thinking? Hiring such a big guy to play Bones?". While I still have a small problem with the physical attributes not meshing, Ok imdb.com lists Kelly at 5'10 and 6'1 for Urban but to me Kelly always looked so small compared to Shatner/Nimoy/Doohan in the movies(not so much in the show), his performance as McCoy was honestly my favorite part of the movie. He didn't try to impersonate Kelly's version of McCoy, he made it his own version and stuck to the gruff complainer that the character always was. I felt most of the actors did a very good job in bringing something new to the characters, with out stomping on what the original actor had done.
Well on something as large as a coffee table, I really don't think your hand is going to obscure too much of the screen. On a pocketpc device, yes I have a hard time seeing what I am clicking when using my finger, hence the reason why I still use a stylus.
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Its City property. And yes, its their equipment to be an idiot with. While Childs was following the policy to the letter, he should have realized his boss was a power hungry idiot that wasn't about to let his minion make him look like an idiot, and just handed over the passwords, packed up his shit and said "See ya!"
Obviously the act of robbing a bank is not funny at all. The robber choosing to use a Darth Vader costume to conceal his identity is fucking hilarious.
I wonder if its similar to how all phone numbers start with 555.
It has been estimated, at least for the IPAD, Apple's profit margin is 42%. And I suspect the profit margin on their desktops is in the same ballpark (either that or they are paying a lot more then expect at their sweat shops). Running that kind of profit margin when everyone else is lucky to get 15% is signs of monopolistic behavior. Just a sign mind you
Well not really signs of monopolistic behavior. Apple has a very dedicated following that is willing to fork over extra cash for their products as the consumer believes it to be a superior product. Apple is just going with the flow of supply and demand. Why drop your prices if people are willing to purchase at the higher?
OK, I know most of you actually haven't RTFA this being /. and all, but if you do you will see that Comcast is right. The FCC dulled its own teeth in 2005 when they deregulated broadband. Was that stupid then, ofcourse it was. But until the US government adopts rules to allow more competition, ie making the infrastructure an open network, Comcast and other large ISP won't let anyone else be an ISP on their infrastrucutre with out paying a huge amount of money to "lease" it. I think there was a good article in Newsweek about why the US's broadband access was the 12th slowest and most exspensive to use and it gave examples of what other country's, namely South Korea, had done to bring cost down for the consumer.
I thought the intial flights would be $200K US per seat...or somewhere there abouts. I can't remember where I saw that so I'm probably wrong.
Considering that these weapons use a radar based tracking system, your best bet is to use stealth technology so the laser can't lock on. Its hard to hit a moving object when you can't see it.
Since when did an Address Book/Calendaring application become required system components? These applications are nothing more than utilities to help you manage people you know and shit you need to remember to do. Nothing more.
I agree, but since their apps like iCal, Mail, notes...etc are all bundled with OSX this is considered a major feature when it really is nothing more than a application upgrade to include EWS.
Yeah I can see that. I feel that the inaccuracy comes from the ease at which results can be skewed with breathalyzers.
You will never know the exact amount unless you draw blood. But with breath tests, there is a generally accepted ratio of amount of alcohol in breath as to the blood. More than likely the same thing will be done with this device. Both devices are used for their quick and easy usage and generally accurate results.
I wasn't interested in the sources of error. I was just point out how the things generally work. There are many ways to skew the results, some you can do and some cops can do.
Breath-alyzers do exactly that. From the sample of alcohol in your breath it figures out the percentage in your blood stream, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breathalyzer#Law_enforcement And just because someone can "handle it better" than others, doesn't make it ok.
If it can detect presence it more than likely can detect amounts also. So more than likely there will be differing levels of each to warrant a DUI. Being that it detect illegal substances penalties are more than likely going to be a bit stiffer and probably open you up to a visit from cops with warrants to search your house/work/car for drug paraphernalia.
Cops don't make laws, or get to choose whether or not they should be applied. Ok there are some instances, traffic tickets...etc, that a cop can make a judgement call. But more than likely in this instance the DA called down to the local precinct and said "Arrest him for this...." so the cops did. As to the comparisions to Nazi death camps soldiers...don't you think that's a bit of overkill and maybe a little sensationalistic? As the law defines the kid broke it...and now he has to pay the price. Does that mean the law is crap....well tell your local congressmen/senators and get it taken off the books and the kid will be released. Don't blame the cops for "just doing their job".
Oh I agree with you on the fact that some companies have a poor reputation in patch releasing. But if you are that concerned about it affeting your mission critical systems, you should have a testing platform that you can install patches on. All I am saying is with a little planning/prep work most if not all of outbreaks like this could be averted/minimized.
An idiot is an idiot....no matter if he is pushing Windows or not.
How about patching your systems in a timely manner so you don't have to suffer through these reactionary costs? The patch for the exploit conficker used was released in Nov 08. When did conficker start spreading around, Jan 09? Just saying.....
When I heard Karl Urban was cast as McCoy, the first thought through my mind was "What in the hell are they thinking? Hiring such a big guy to play Bones?". While I still have a small problem with the physical attributes not meshing, Ok imdb.com lists Kelly at 5'10 and 6'1 for Urban but to me Kelly always looked so small compared to Shatner/Nimoy/Doohan in the movies(not so much in the show), his performance as McCoy was honestly my favorite part of the movie. He didn't try to impersonate Kelly's version of McCoy, he made it his own version and stuck to the gruff complainer that the character always was. I felt most of the actors did a very good job in bringing something new to the characters, with out stomping on what the original actor had done.
better than calling him a anti-semtic bigot and really feeding what he is looking for....
whoah! I think someone needs a nap.
The passengers of flight 93 certainly weren't afraid of the 4 guys with box cutters.
I thought it was Start Of Authority.
Well you need to have seatbelts if you are going Ludicrous speed, its just that much faster than Warp 8.
Well on something as large as a coffee table, I really don't think your hand is going to obscure too much of the screen. On a pocketpc device, yes I have a hard time seeing what I am clicking when using my finger, hence the reason why I still use a stylus.