If your 19" television that sat across the room from you had stereo speakers and there was a noticeable difference, then a screen sitting in your hands would probably be noticeable too.
My wife loves the classics, pretty much all of which are in the public domain, and have been put into some kind of e-book format at Project Gutenberg. I read a lot of Baen books from their free e-book library that one can download in several formats and often come with the paper books on a disc in the back. If this thing will work for that then we'll probably get one. Otherwise, probably not.
I honestly don't care what the medium actually is, I want media. I don't want a company to be able to take away titles that I've bought because they screwed up somehow. Same reason why I have not yet subscribed to a paid movie service, I want to be able to watch the movies that I have access to forever, not simply for the time that a particular service temporarily has rights. I want to have access to a permanent library, not something temporary and based on shifting license agreements and shifting tastes coupled with limited storage.
The real example was, ironically enough, 1984 that was yanked from networked ebook readers of a certain variety when there was a dispute. Sorry, I'm not going to have that happen to my movies, my books, my games.
It's probably also no coincidence that Firefox has swiftly headed in the direction of Chrome lately too. The rapid release cycle, the Chrome-like functions becoming standard features in Firefox, and the most recent developments toward Chrome plugins becoming usable on Firefox are all taking things in the direction of making Firefox itself less relevant.
I actually never stopped using Firefox as my primary browser. I didn't feel a need to migrate to Chrome, and even my Android phone is old enough that it runs the pre-Chrome browser. Maybe I'm cynical, but I don't trust corporations very far, especially when they want to control things that don't need to be in their control to work.
The scary thing is that there's still a low-level, boiling undercurrent of it in American and probably in Western society, that requires permanent active vigilance to keep it at-bay. Unfortunately there are lots of people that know they can profit off of pandering to it despite the damage that it can cause if it boils-over.
We can literally never stop working against it. If we stop it will come out.
I don't know that I'd be that concerned about a rationing of Transporter Credits. That would be like if now, air transport were free but one was only allowed to use it so often; it would in-part be a function to limit demand to the available supply.
It's a lot more of an academia-universe in how I see it- there are several stories where things are being done by otherwise ordinary people becuase they proposed an idea and are being given the resources to pursue it. That indicates that despite there possibly being limits on resources, those limits are in place to prevent wasteful consumption more than because real scarcity limits are causing strife. If anything, in DS9 episodes, Sisko's father is shown to be a successful New Orleans restauranteur despite being a little crazy and very combative; if society were Communist and dealing with scarcity I don't think he'd have access to the resources to make that happen.
Star Trek Politics were always heavy-handed, often nonsensical, and arguably became somewhat to the detriment of the story while Roddenberry was in charge.
So... politics then?
Nazi episode. Roman Empire episode. MAD episode. All in TOS. Also the Native American one, and the one with the American Flag for some reason.
And in TNG, the Nicotine one.
Sorry, but the show was full of cliches and banalities.
Don't forget, many early TNG episodes were originally either TOS episodes or Phase II episodes that were not produced in their intended shows and were adapted for TNG characters/setting, which mainly worked because early TNG was still in its infancy as far as developing that setting and those characters.
We see a lot more consistent politics in both later TNG and in later movies like Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home and Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, but the main characteristic that we see in all Star Trek is that the politics works well when the economy is approaching post-scarcity, where people don't have to worry about basic things like home, food, clothing, and transportation. Those things are either free-free or free to a mimimum standard. Education is also very important, nearly everyon from the Federation clearly has a full and thorough education, which stands out in all the more contrast to Tasha Yar's failed-colony home planet that's more like out of The Warriors, or on Bajoran colonies where people have been refugees for multiple generations.
What I take away from Star Trek is that in an economy where everyone is financially sound and is educated, people can choose to live in different ways from each other and so long as they're not victimizing each other, live-and-let-live applies. Picard's family is very traditional, but LaForge's family, both genders, all sought-out military service. Data's creator Dr. Soong was a madman and given how he seems to have galavanted around the galaxy, a bit of a huckster.
I wish more people would live-and-let-live today. So much culture seems to be based on denying others their own choices in how to live their lives when those choices are not victimizing anyone else.
I've been looking at ip67, ip68, and other ruggedized phones. There are phones branded for Caterpillar and Landrover that actually are rugged or milspec phones. Unfortunately they all have some stats that I don't like, but I still might go that direction anyway.
You should have used a constant linear velocity road, rather than a constant angular velocity road. You could have gone an extra eighteen minutes without flipping...
No, there are lots of people that go into the Alaskan wilderness and do not become lunch. Probably the overwhelming majority even, but if 500 people with the placebo go out and 480 come back, and 500 people with the working widget go out and 493 come back, and plausible explanations beyond bear activity can be found for some of the other seven, then there's statistics to show some effect.
Does anyone actually believe this line of bullshit?
Honestly, if she was using the e-mail address associated with that SMTP server before she become Secretary of State, yes.
Most people don't like to use several e-mail accounts. It's a pain in the butt. If she was used to using that one and used it as she communicated with the officials that became her superiors and subordinates before becoming Secretary of State while planning the transition, then they were used to contacting here there and she was used to contacting them from there.
Should she have switched to a government-provided e-mail account? Probably. I don't say, "absolutely," specifically because of the high profile leaks that we've seen over the last decade, such that the mail might actually have been safer on that server that no one thought to compromise than on a government one.
As an aside, Governor Palin used private e-mail for government functions too, actually registering addresses with public mail servers (yahoo if I remember right) after becoming Governor of Alaska, and specifically citing her newly-found position as the account name. There was no prosecution over that either.
"Here, I see that you're going into the Alaskan wilderness, along with thousands of other people. We know this is a risky thing to do, please take this widget with you and report back to us on a schedule so we can find out how you are doing. We will give you some basic handling instructions for the widget, but they are simple and won't require you do really do anything special."
And the study gives 500 people the widget that is expected to repel bears, and 500 people a widget that doesn't do anything. Who reports back over time dictates how the study is interpreted. If many more people that received the anti-bear widget report back and if there are reasonable non-bear-related explanations for why those that didn't report back failed to do so, while the control group had several participants that didn't report back and were never seen again, or whose deaths, injuries, or disappearances could be plausibly linked to bear activity, then there'd be quantifiable results. Notice that the participants weren't told what the widget does.
Why is it a dick-move for the company? The subjects of the study were already engaging in the behaviors known to be vectors for HIV spread, not only were they not asked to engage in risky behavior, they were probably not provided any sort of encouragement or discouragement as to the nature of their behavior at all. Nor is this like the Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment, where people known to be infected were intentionally not treated and were lied-to about being untreated. If anything, that the testers felt that the detected spread of HIV in the placebo group meant that there was no reason to continue the placebo/control aspect of the experiment and they wrapped it up early then they're actually being better for it; the patients might not have even known they were HIV infected through their behavior if the study hadn't detected it and notified them.
100% of participants also did not get lap dances from a Kardashian.
We cannot be sure of that. In fact, if her highly public behavior is any indication of her private behavior, the odds may be better than anyone realizes, depending on the length of the study.
What other parts of the body does the virus reside in?
Being forced to take a drug forever to keep the virus at-bay with no cure, profitably for the pharmaceutical company, sounds like good fodder for conspriacy theorists.
I've been running a Samsung Galaxy SII SGH-T989 since it debuted, so it's past the four-year mark. I've updated it to 4.1, would be nice to go higher but not that worried so far. We had to replace my wife's because twice now her power button got stuck engaged and the phone kept power-cycling; I took the phone apart both times and beat on the power switch to get it to let go but she needed more reliable, so we picked up a Galaxy Core for something like $130. It's basically just the SII with some mild improvements and a couple features removed that she doesn't miss.
I'm not sure what I'm going to do when it's time for mine to be changed. Mainly I'm looking at connectivity first and foremost, as not all phones have all bands that the carrier can use. I want the most bands so that I can have stronger signal for better battery life. Beyond that, the fancy phones are nice, but I can't say that I'll actually use all of the features they offer. I don't need video on the go, I have bigger devices that can do that far better. I don't know that I need a 20 megapixel camera, I have an SLR and it takes far better pictures than any cell phone camera will, but admittedly the SLR is not on my person during my whole waking day.
There is a good argument for a simple, basic multifunction phone that doesn't cost a whole lot and provides a solid experience, even if it's not the flashiest or the fastest or the highest resolution.
They've been stored in the house. We do play movies on the hooked-up CLD-D604 from time to time, so I know for certain that one works, and I wouldn't be surprised if the CLD-D503 is still fine too.
I've collected Laserdiscs and players for several years, though haven't really been into it much lately. I have more than 500 movies and at least four working players...
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This is why:
Amazon Erases Orwell Books From Kindle
Fool me once, shame on you...
Maybe they're reflashing the firmware on the failed Fire Phone to make it into a tablet...
If your 19" television that sat across the room from you had stereo speakers and there was a noticeable difference, then a screen sitting in your hands would probably be noticeable too.
My wife loves the classics, pretty much all of which are in the public domain, and have been put into some kind of e-book format at Project Gutenberg. I read a lot of Baen books from their free e-book library that one can download in several formats and often come with the paper books on a disc in the back. If this thing will work for that then we'll probably get one. Otherwise, probably not.
I've found that pawn shops are the best places to buy movies. Five Blu-rays for $20. DVDs for $1-$2.
I honestly don't care what the medium actually is, I want media. I don't want a company to be able to take away titles that I've bought because they screwed up somehow. Same reason why I have not yet subscribed to a paid movie service, I want to be able to watch the movies that I have access to forever, not simply for the time that a particular service temporarily has rights. I want to have access to a permanent library, not something temporary and based on shifting license agreements and shifting tastes coupled with limited storage.
The real example was, ironically enough, 1984 that was yanked from networked ebook readers of a certain variety when there was a dispute. Sorry, I'm not going to have that happen to my movies, my books, my games.
It's probably also no coincidence that Firefox has swiftly headed in the direction of Chrome lately too. The rapid release cycle, the Chrome-like functions becoming standard features in Firefox, and the most recent developments toward Chrome plugins becoming usable on Firefox are all taking things in the direction of making Firefox itself less relevant.
I actually never stopped using Firefox as my primary browser. I didn't feel a need to migrate to Chrome, and even my Android phone is old enough that it runs the pre-Chrome browser. Maybe I'm cynical, but I don't trust corporations very far, especially when they want to control things that don't need to be in their control to work.
The scary thing is that there's still a low-level, boiling undercurrent of it in American and probably in Western society, that requires permanent active vigilance to keep it at-bay. Unfortunately there are lots of people that know they can profit off of pandering to it despite the damage that it can cause if it boils-over.
We can literally never stop working against it. If we stop it will come out.
I don't know that I'd be that concerned about a rationing of Transporter Credits. That would be like if now, air transport were free but one was only allowed to use it so often; it would in-part be a function to limit demand to the available supply.
It's a lot more of an academia-universe in how I see it- there are several stories where things are being done by otherwise ordinary people becuase they proposed an idea and are being given the resources to pursue it. That indicates that despite there possibly being limits on resources, those limits are in place to prevent wasteful consumption more than because real scarcity limits are causing strife. If anything, in DS9 episodes, Sisko's father is shown to be a successful New Orleans restauranteur despite being a little crazy and very combative; if society were Communist and dealing with scarcity I don't think he'd have access to the resources to make that happen.
Star Trek Politics were always heavy-handed, often nonsensical, and arguably became somewhat to the detriment of the story while Roddenberry was in charge.
So... politics then?
Nazi episode. Roman Empire episode. MAD episode. All in TOS. Also the Native American one, and the one with the American Flag for some reason.
And in TNG, the Nicotine one.
Sorry, but the show was full of cliches and banalities.
Don't forget, many early TNG episodes were originally either TOS episodes or Phase II episodes that were not produced in their intended shows and were adapted for TNG characters/setting, which mainly worked because early TNG was still in its infancy as far as developing that setting and those characters.
We see a lot more consistent politics in both later TNG and in later movies like Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home and Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, but the main characteristic that we see in all Star Trek is that the politics works well when the economy is approaching post-scarcity, where people don't have to worry about basic things like home, food, clothing, and transportation. Those things are either free-free or free to a mimimum standard. Education is also very important, nearly everyon from the Federation clearly has a full and thorough education, which stands out in all the more contrast to Tasha Yar's failed-colony home planet that's more like out of The Warriors, or on Bajoran colonies where people have been refugees for multiple generations.
What I take away from Star Trek is that in an economy where everyone is financially sound and is educated, people can choose to live in different ways from each other and so long as they're not victimizing each other, live-and-let-live applies. Picard's family is very traditional, but LaForge's family, both genders, all sought-out military service. Data's creator Dr. Soong was a madman and given how he seems to have galavanted around the galaxy, a bit of a huckster.
I wish more people would live-and-let-live today. So much culture seems to be based on denying others their own choices in how to live their lives when those choices are not victimizing anyone else.
I've been looking at ip67, ip68, and other ruggedized phones. There are phones branded for Caterpillar and Landrover that actually are rugged or milspec phones. Unfortunately they all have some stats that I don't like, but I still might go that direction anyway.
You should have used a constant linear velocity road, rather than a constant angular velocity road. You could have gone an extra eighteen minutes without flipping...
No, there are lots of people that go into the Alaskan wilderness and do not become lunch. Probably the overwhelming majority even, but if 500 people with the placebo go out and 480 come back, and 500 people with the working widget go out and 493 come back, and plausible explanations beyond bear activity can be found for some of the other seven, then there's statistics to show some effect.
Does anyone actually believe this line of bullshit?
Honestly, if she was using the e-mail address associated with that SMTP server before she become Secretary of State, yes.
Most people don't like to use several e-mail accounts. It's a pain in the butt. If she was used to using that one and used it as she communicated with the officials that became her superiors and subordinates before becoming Secretary of State while planning the transition, then they were used to contacting here there and she was used to contacting them from there.
Should she have switched to a government-provided e-mail account? Probably. I don't say, "absolutely," specifically because of the high profile leaks that we've seen over the last decade, such that the mail might actually have been safer on that server that no one thought to compromise than on a government one.
As an aside, Governor Palin used private e-mail for government functions too, actually registering addresses with public mail servers (yahoo if I remember right) after becoming Governor of Alaska, and specifically citing her newly-found position as the account name. There was no prosecution over that either.
"Here, I see that you're going into the Alaskan wilderness, along with thousands of other people. We know this is a risky thing to do, please take this widget with you and report back to us on a schedule so we can find out how you are doing. We will give you some basic handling instructions for the widget, but they are simple and won't require you do really do anything special."
And the study gives 500 people the widget that is expected to repel bears, and 500 people a widget that doesn't do anything. Who reports back over time dictates how the study is interpreted. If many more people that received the anti-bear widget report back and if there are reasonable non-bear-related explanations for why those that didn't report back failed to do so, while the control group had several participants that didn't report back and were never seen again, or whose deaths, injuries, or disappearances could be plausibly linked to bear activity, then there'd be quantifiable results. Notice that the participants weren't told what the widget does.
Why is it a dick-move for the company? The subjects of the study were already engaging in the behaviors known to be vectors for HIV spread, not only were they not asked to engage in risky behavior, they were probably not provided any sort of encouragement or discouragement as to the nature of their behavior at all. Nor is this like the Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment, where people known to be infected were intentionally not treated and were lied-to about being untreated. If anything, that the testers felt that the detected spread of HIV in the placebo group meant that there was no reason to continue the placebo/control aspect of the experiment and they wrapped it up early then they're actually being better for it; the patients might not have even known they were HIV infected through their behavior if the study hadn't detected it and notified them.
100% of participants also did not get lap dances from a Kardashian.
We cannot be sure of that. In fact, if her highly public behavior is any indication of her private behavior, the odds may be better than anyone realizes, depending on the length of the study.
So, like, all of the religious pundits that constantly want to use their religion to force public policy?
What other parts of the body does the virus reside in?
Being forced to take a drug forever to keep the virus at-bay with no cure, profitably for the pharmaceutical company, sounds like good fodder for conspriacy theorists.
Or we could stop designing our buildings to look like they're made out of glass...
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It's a *friendly* call. Of course it's a friendly call... Listen, if it wasn't friendly... you probably wouldn't have even got it...
I've been running a Samsung Galaxy SII SGH-T989 since it debuted, so it's past the four-year mark. I've updated it to 4.1, would be nice to go higher but not that worried so far. We had to replace my wife's because twice now her power button got stuck engaged and the phone kept power-cycling; I took the phone apart both times and beat on the power switch to get it to let go but she needed more reliable, so we picked up a Galaxy Core for something like $130. It's basically just the SII with some mild improvements and a couple features removed that she doesn't miss.
I'm not sure what I'm going to do when it's time for mine to be changed. Mainly I'm looking at connectivity first and foremost, as not all phones have all bands that the carrier can use. I want the most bands so that I can have stronger signal for better battery life. Beyond that, the fancy phones are nice, but I can't say that I'll actually use all of the features they offer. I don't need video on the go, I have bigger devices that can do that far better. I don't know that I need a 20 megapixel camera, I have an SLR and it takes far better pictures than any cell phone camera will, but admittedly the SLR is not on my person during my whole waking day.
There is a good argument for a simple, basic multifunction phone that doesn't cost a whole lot and provides a solid experience, even if it's not the flashiest or the fastest or the highest resolution.
They've been stored in the house. We do play movies on the hooked-up CLD-D604 from time to time, so I know for certain that one works, and I wouldn't be surprised if the CLD-D503 is still fine too.
I've collected Laserdiscs and players for several years, though haven't really been into it much lately. I have more than 500 movies and at least four working players...
I can now build an autonomous vehicle!
WOOHOO!