We went to the MA-Bell/(insert local phone company here) pay phone that was on nearly every block and dropped a dime in the slot, made a call and wandered on about our business. If you were a drug dealer, or so self absorbed that you could not be out of touch you carried an ancient device known as a pager.
WOW, you are very correct, it has been that long since I was in school that I had completely forgotten the absolute joy at getting a programmable calculator and putting away the slide rule. Dang I feel old now...
Love the quote, thank-you. Asimov and your signature author Heinlein are two of my favorites. On a side note I also collect authors' signatures, and that is hard to do on an electronic version. I've spent countless hours in pursuit of authors and had great luck getting them to sign my books. Like I posted to previous reply, I share around a circle of friends and they also buy books so the costs are shared, with the added benefit of getting to chat at our bi-monthly pen and paper RPG sessions. We've been playing D&D, and Gurps together for more than 20 years now.
If I could find a way to hand the e-book around the my circle of reading buddies it might become inviting but as many books as I offer them, they return so the price is split several ways making the physical book even more attractive. I will stipulate that part of the attraction of a book is a visceral smell and feel of paper.
Ditto that comment. I really hate the fact that HP gets any credit for NON-STOP, Tandems baby, or VAX and Alpha, 2 of the 3 great things that Digital brought forth into this world, the other WAS Alta-Vista. The only thing HP ever did well was printers and that time has LONG since passed...
Note : I spent several years supporting all of the above machines and may be a bit biased.
I've got a Kindle and it is great for magazines, but I still buy hardcopy books. There is something about the smell and feel of a book, not to mention the hand me down effect. My brother, the next door neighbor and the local school library all seem to appreciate getting the books to read for free, and I really like frequenting half-price books, granted the.25 to 1.00 I get back in trade is not much but considering I read 2-3 books a week it DOES add up.
If the cost of an online book was substantially cheaper than a hard copy I might feel different but it really isn't...
That is the way the California Motor Vehicle code was written. It states that ANYTHING which might interfere with your ability to drive a motor vehicle safely, which includes texting, adjusting the radio, even chewing gum for a sadly large portion of the population, is prohibited. It allows for the officer to make a judgment call based on the skills and performance of the driver in question. The anti-cell phone/texting laws are a bunch of politicians grandstanding to get attention, imagine that. There are exceptions for law enforcement persons so they can use their monitors to check vehicle plates and registration numbers. Statistics show that traffic deaths are the greatest killer of on-duty cops.
Not even close. Wikipedia is a decent starting place to see if you are even in the ball park regarding things but a credible, citable source, not in my book, nor in the eyes of any instructor I've ever dealt with. As a possible solution, articles that have been touched by a PR firm should be marked as such and flagged as potentially unreliable. I honestly think that Wikipedia should be treated as an encyclopedia and NOT contain any entries to companies, corporations or services beyond a reference to a site that the entity maintains themselves, and if said entity attempts to alter such an entry they should be locked down and IDENTIFIED as bad-wiki citizen.
I can't actually find any feature on the 'beta' that is NOT worse than it was before. I've been around/. for a long time and this is the worst, whether thru the old xp(ie8), new windows7(ie9),or firefox on ubuntu. Sad to see functionality traded for trendy...
It is the guy in charge...Lucas had help directing AND producing the first round of movies. By the time the prequels came out Lucas had grown to believe his own hype, that he was the 2nd coming of Christ in the form of a director and producer, which we all quickly found out was not true...
PC has nothing to do with this, it is all about the potential loss of profit. Barilla could really care less if people are offended, unless they stop spending then it becomes an issue...
The industry would LOVE for you to buy another round of hardware, but WHY ?!?! I'll wait until I can get 4k ultra-HD compatible hardware rather than spend money on stuff that will be outdated and obsolete in just a couple of years.
I didn't write the laws nor do I agree with a great many of them, but they exist for the exact reason they were written, to enforce a code of social conduct that the authors or those whose interest the authors hold most dearest intended...
All of that is to "uphold social norms", right? And what of the case where the majority is wrong to oppress a minority?... By definition, oppression is a social norm...
Sadly for all but the last 100? years YES, oppression has been the social norm, and no I don't agree with it, but it IS
That is exactly the reason the laws exist. To establish and enforce a so-called social standard. The laws SHOULD be there for safety and security but they have been perverted into a means for enforcing a government determined social standard, much the same way the police have gone from protecting from physical harm to enforcing social and economic policies...
I see no problem with a 150 GB/month cap as long as the MAIN seling point for the net connection isn't listed as streaming movies and such. We watch Netflix in our household in lieu of cable and would exceed a 150GB/cap in a matter of days. The idea that the ISP can advertise somthing that they can't or WON'T provide as the main selling point is criminal. As for running out of space I don't hoard what I download/stream I/we just watch it and go on to somthing else. This reminds me of the mobile phone ads we see on TV here in the US...Video simulated, bandwidth and download sequences shortened, so that the main selling points of the devices are total fictions. There is NO TRUTH in advertising here.
I did not catch the part in the article which mentioned they were using the software. I was under the impression they just found several FOSS projects they 'liked' and wanted to donate some funds. In either case there ought to be a simple way to do so, sad to see a good cause go unrewarded in the presence of 'free' money.
Not that I am accusing you of anything, but a tax protected organization isasuing an invoice for services NOT rendered, and then receiving money that is NOT a donation sounds very much like a tax dodge and/or fraud. Maybe in the future you should just offer to hire one as a consultant for a week and pay $5000.00, or purchase some equipment that a project needs, that way there is value for value.
Tell that to the founding fathers and the many many anonymously written and distributed pamphlets that stirred public sentiment for the cause of rebellion/revolution.
Yes, but the French,Italians and the Greeks, and lets say 98% of African Nations, and of course Russia and China are all above board and honest. Belgium is a hot bed or corruption, hand outs, and nepotism, while GB, and Aussieland are so busy being nanny governments, insisting they know what is better for their citizens than the citizens do. Lets face it, the US is/was geologically lucky they were rich in resources, water and food. It is easy to be free in a land of plenty. As for the US affecting the rest of the world I don't see anyone lining up to give the money back, or even not taking it on moral grounds...
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We went to the MA-Bell/(insert local phone company here) pay phone that was on nearly every block and dropped a dime in the slot, made a call and wandered on about our business. If you were a drug dealer, or so self absorbed that you could not be out of touch you carried an ancient device known as a pager.
WOW, you are very correct, it has been that long since I was in school that I had completely forgotten the absolute joy at getting a programmable calculator and putting away the slide rule. Dang I feel old now...
Love the quote, thank-you. Asimov and your signature author Heinlein are two of my favorites. On a side note I also collect authors' signatures, and that is hard to do on an electronic version. I've spent countless hours in pursuit of authors and had great luck getting them to sign my books. Like I posted to previous reply, I share around a circle of friends and they also buy books so the costs are shared, with the added benefit of getting to chat at our bi-monthly pen and paper RPG sessions. We've been playing D&D, and Gurps together for more than 20 years now.
If I could find a way to hand the e-book around the my circle of reading buddies it might become inviting but as many books as I offer them, they return so the price is split several ways making the physical book even more attractive. I will stipulate that part of the attraction of a book is a visceral smell and feel of paper.
Ditto that comment. I really hate the fact that HP gets any credit for NON-STOP, Tandems baby, or VAX and Alpha, 2 of the 3 great things that Digital brought forth into this world, the other WAS Alta-Vista. The only thing HP ever did well was printers and that time has LONG since passed...
Note : I spent several years supporting all of the above machines and may be a bit biased.
I've got a Kindle and it is great for magazines, but I still buy hardcopy books. There is something about the smell and feel of a book, not to mention the hand me down effect. My brother, the next door neighbor and the local school library all seem to appreciate getting the books to read for free, and I really like frequenting half-price books, granted the .25 to 1.00 I get back in trade is not much but considering I read 2-3 books a week it DOES add up.
If the cost of an online book was substantially cheaper than a hard copy I might feel different but it really isn't...
That is the way the California Motor Vehicle code was written. It states that ANYTHING which might interfere with your ability to drive a motor vehicle safely, which includes texting, adjusting the radio, even chewing gum for a sadly large portion of the population, is prohibited. It allows for the officer to make a judgment call based on the skills and performance of the driver in question. The anti-cell phone/texting laws are a bunch of politicians grandstanding to get attention, imagine that. There are exceptions for law enforcement persons so they can use their monitors to check vehicle plates and registration numbers. Statistics show that traffic deaths are the greatest killer of on-duty cops.
http://www.nleomf.org/facts/officer-fatalities-data/
Not even close. Wikipedia is a decent starting place to see if you are even in the ball park regarding things but a credible, citable source, not in my book, nor in the eyes of any instructor I've ever dealt with. As a possible solution, articles that have been touched by a PR firm should be marked as such and flagged as potentially unreliable. I honestly think that Wikipedia should be treated as an encyclopedia and NOT contain any entries to companies, corporations or services beyond a reference to a site that the entity maintains themselves, and if said entity attempts to alter such an entry they should be locked down and IDENTIFIED as bad-wiki citizen.
Wake up and learn somthing...There is NO SUCH THING as reverse discrimination. There is ONLY DISCRIMINATION, whether race, color, religion, or sex.
Let me guess, your next tirade will be about de-evolution...
I snorted coke through my nose after reading that...
Thanks I needed a good laugh.
I can't actually find any feature on the 'beta' that is NOT worse than it was before. I've been around /. for a long time and this is the worst, whether thru the old xp(ie8), new windows7(ie9),or firefox on ubuntu. Sad to see functionality traded for trendy...
It is the guy in charge...Lucas had help directing AND producing the first round of movies. By the time the prequels came out Lucas had grown to believe his own hype, that he was the 2nd coming of Christ in the form of a director and producer, which we all quickly found out was not true...
PC has nothing to do with this, it is all about the potential loss of profit. Barilla could really care less if people are offended, unless they stop spending then it becomes an issue...
Launch the same product with a new colored case and the Fanboi's will buy it up....
The industry would LOVE for you to buy another round of hardware, but WHY ?!?! I'll wait until I can get 4k ultra-HD compatible hardware rather than spend money on stuff that will be outdated and obsolete in just a couple of years.
I didn't write the laws nor do I agree with a great many of them, but they exist for the exact reason they were written, to enforce a code of social conduct that the authors or those whose interest the authors hold most dearest intended...
All of that is to "uphold social norms", right? And what of the case where the majority is wrong to oppress a minority?... By definition, oppression is a social norm...
Sadly for all but the last 100? years YES, oppression has been the social norm, and no I don't agree with it, but it IS
"The laws aren't there to uphold social norms"...
That is exactly the reason the laws exist. To establish and enforce a so-called social standard. The laws SHOULD be there for safety and security but they have been perverted into a means for enforcing a government determined social standard, much the same way the police have gone from protecting from physical harm to enforcing social and economic policies...
I see no problem with a 150 GB/month cap as long as the MAIN seling point for the net connection isn't listed as streaming movies and such. We watch Netflix in our household in lieu of cable and would exceed a 150GB/cap in a matter of days. The idea that the ISP can advertise somthing that they can't or WON'T provide as the main selling point is criminal. As for running out of space I don't hoard what I download/stream I/we just watch it and go on to somthing else. This reminds me of the mobile phone ads we see on TV here in the US...Video simulated, bandwidth and download sequences shortened, so that the main selling points of the devices are total fictions. There is NO TRUTH in advertising here.
I did not catch the part in the article which mentioned they were using the software. I was under the impression they just found several FOSS projects they 'liked' and wanted to donate some funds. In either case there ought to be a simple way to do so, sad to see a good cause go unrewarded in the presence of 'free' money.
Not that I am accusing you of anything, but a tax protected organization isasuing an invoice for services NOT rendered, and then receiving money that is NOT a donation sounds very much like a tax dodge and/or fraud. Maybe in the future you should just offer to hire one as a consultant for a week and pay $5000.00, or purchase some equipment that a project needs, that way there is value for value.
Are you hiring ?? That kind of enlightened attitude intrigues me.
What about the fourth state : Plasma ??
Tell that to the founding fathers and the many many anonymously written and distributed pamphlets that stirred public sentiment for the cause of rebellion/revolution.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution#Anonymous_speech
Yes, but the French,Italians and the Greeks, and lets say 98% of African Nations, and of course Russia and China are all above board and honest. Belgium is a hot bed or corruption, hand outs, and nepotism, while GB, and Aussieland are so busy being nanny governments, insisting they know what is better for their citizens than the citizens do. Lets face it, the US is/was geologically lucky they were rich in resources, water and food. It is easy to be free in a land of plenty. As for the US affecting the rest of the world I don't see anyone lining up to give the money back, or even not taking it on moral grounds...