No, it totally does: even if other "major" (whatever that means) networks refuse to participate, that doesn't give Google an excuse for failing to federate with the minor ones!
Not being evil means actually not being evil, not claiming that being evil is okay just because everybody else is too.
Perhaps the data logging in planes should be extended to record such things as atmospheric charge gradient details. Such data might also provide some slightly improved direct local detection of enterance into possibly dangerous regions.
Neat idea. Turning commercial flights into roving weather stations would probably be good for the progress of atmospheric science, too.
(except in the US, where the government prefers to live in the stone age)
Or, you know, where the government prefers to actually be able to track planes without transponders.
(Speaking of which, even if they don't think it's necessary for commercial aviation, wouldn't all countries at least maintain military radar for early warning of aerial attack? I'm sure at least Egypt of all places would, although I suppose if they learned nothing from the Maginot Line they might have it all aimed at Israel.)
Yep, that's important. I use Hangouts with Google Voice for VoIP calls, but sometimes I need to make regular actual-cellular-voice calls too (e.g. when I don't have data access or when Hangouts is screwing up). Last time I tried, I found it to be impossible because Hangouts kept stealing the Intent from the Dialer app! It was stuck in a cycle of "attempt to make regular cellular call with Dialer" -> "Hangouts intercepts Intent and tries to make call over VoIP instead" -> "Call fails because VoIP isn't possible right now" -> "try to disable Hangouts somehow" -> "repeat."
Tell your friend to bring back proper SIP support (or whatever) to allow Google Voice to be used with regular VoIP software, and while he's at it, to bring back XMPP federation for Talk.
If the albedo of the surface the sunlight would otherwise hit were high (e.g. ice, a white roof, etc.), adding solar panels might raise the ambient temperature a little. However, if the electricity generated were then transmitted somewhere else then it might lower the ambient temperature in the vicinity of the panels and raise it in the vicinity of the energy use instead (but that also depends on the efficiency of the panel and transmission system being sufficiently high, and I'm not sure it is).
FYI, "proscribed" doesn't mean what you think it means. Typos are one thing, but when they change the word to a completely different one that means exactly the opposite of what you seem to have intended to say, it really makes you look like a dumbass.
When people hear "drugs in the workplace" they mean drugs that can cause accidents, including alcohol -- but not coffee, It's a drug, but improves performance.
So by your standards, meth doesn't count either?
(Note: meth is pretty much the same thing as adderall, which is commonly used by students to enhance academic performance.)
It may imply greed, not lack of trust. Some states give employers a discount on their workers comp premiums for having a "certified drug-free workplace." Here's Georgia's policy, for instance.
Do you regularly download new copies, compile from source, verify that the binaries match the source, and verify that the changelogs posted match the changes that you downloaded? No? Geez, it's like you don't want to check whether things are secure or not!
And then cross-compile again on several heterogeneous architectures (including at least one very old one) and verify that all the output matches, in order to avoid the Ken Thompson hack? And did you do all this for every single piece of code running on the machine, including things like the hard drive firmware and CPU microcode?
I doubt it. Streaming audio is such low bandwidth (about 128 kbps) that your phone's data radio can switch on, buffer several MB (1 MB = about 1 minute of audio) in a few seconds, then switch off. An FM radio needs to be powered on the entire time you're listening.
When you're listening to music, that's fine. When you're listening to news (and things like call-in shows) then a 1-minute delay isn't acceptable.
I use they as an impersonal pronoun since I don't know your gender or sexual orientation and so can't assign a gender specific pronoun to your partner.
"He" is gender-neutral and thus the correct choice when the gender is unknown. However, between the facts that my username is gendered ("Mr. Chaotica"), that I was talking about having kids with my spouse, and that most married couples are heterosexual, you should have been able to guess "she" from context.
Regardless of what you chose, you had a non-zero chance of offense. You just can't win! ; )
Anyway...
You can look forward to many years of disgruntled children...
So can every parent!
... who won't want to wear other children's cast offs and who might actually want to participate in the same kind of activities as their friends.
Again, it's all a matter of perspective: you call them "cast-offs," I call them "vintage" and "eco-friendly." By refusing to be a Consumer Sucka my kid will transcend such issues.
(And, of course, if all else fails I'll buy him the damn Pokemon backpack or Reebok pumps or whatever the fad-item-necessary-to-maintain-social-status is -- I remember how much it sucked to get made fun of growing up and am not a heartless bastard who wants to inflict the same on my offspring. However, minimal group conformity does not require head-to-toe Disney branding or other such ridiculousness!)
Also, who said anything about not participating in activities? Sure, I'm not going to let my kid sign up for sixteen sports, ten clubs and three different musical instruments and then also go to a birthday party at Dave & Buster's every week, but that doesn't mean he will be deprived like you imply.
By the way, keep in mind the hypothetical premise of this conversation: the original claim was that people can save because they can live comfortably close to Federal poverty level. Well, poverty level is defined based on household size, and is $346.67/month higher for a three-person household than it is for a two-person one. That's plenty to afford food, clothes, a modicum of toys and a reasonable activity or two!
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No, it totally does: even if other "major" (whatever that means) networks refuse to participate, that doesn't give Google an excuse for failing to federate with the minor ones!
Not being evil means actually not being evil, not claiming that being evil is okay just because everybody else is too.
Neat idea. Turning commercial flights into roving weather stations would probably be good for the progress of atmospheric science, too.
Pioneer 10, Pioneer 11, Voyager 1 and Voyager 2. Maybe some Soviet ones too, for all I know.
Or, you know, where the government prefers to actually be able to track planes without transponders.
(Speaking of which, even if they don't think it's necessary for commercial aviation, wouldn't all countries at least maintain military radar for early warning of aerial attack? I'm sure at least Egypt of all places would, although I suppose if they learned nothing from the Maginot Line they might have it all aimed at Israel.)
Obligatory XKCD.
XMPP already exists. Coming up with something else would be actively harmful.
We have that; it's called XMPP. Google Talk even used to support it, before the functionality was removed for "let's be evil" reasons.
Yep, that's important. I use Hangouts with Google Voice for VoIP calls, but sometimes I need to make regular actual-cellular-voice calls too (e.g. when I don't have data access or when Hangouts is screwing up). Last time I tried, I found it to be impossible because Hangouts kept stealing the Intent from the Dialer app! It was stuck in a cycle of "attempt to make regular cellular call with Dialer" -> "Hangouts intercepts Intent and tries to make call over VoIP instead" -> "Call fails because VoIP isn't possible right now" -> "try to disable Hangouts somehow" -> "repeat."
Tell your friend to bring back proper SIP support (or whatever) to allow Google Voice to be used with regular VoIP software, and while he's at it, to bring back XMPP federation for Talk.
Oh shit, the troll is on-topic! Is this a sign of the End Times?
If the albedo of the surface the sunlight would otherwise hit were high (e.g. ice, a white roof, etc.), adding solar panels might raise the ambient temperature a little. However, if the electricity generated were then transmitted somewhere else then it might lower the ambient temperature in the vicinity of the panels and raise it in the vicinity of the energy use instead (but that also depends on the efficiency of the panel and transmission system being sufficiently high, and I'm not sure it is).
I take a dim view of it.
It depends on your definition of "words." Of course, considering your username, I assume for you that definition is pretty loose...,/p>
FYI, "proscribed" doesn't mean what you think it means. Typos are one thing, but when they change the word to a completely different one that means exactly the opposite of what you seem to have intended to say, it really makes you look like a dumbass.
So by your standards, meth doesn't count either?
(Note: meth is pretty much the same thing as adderall, which is commonly used by students to enhance academic performance.)
It may imply greed, not lack of trust. Some states give employers a discount on their workers comp premiums for having a "certified drug-free workplace." Here's Georgia's policy, for instance.
And then cross-compile again on several heterogeneous architectures (including at least one very old one) and verify that all the output matches, in order to avoid the Ken Thompson hack? And did you do all this for every single piece of code running on the machine, including things like the hard drive firmware and CPU microcode?
A delay would be unacceptable in any of the following instances:
Not to mention that any self-respecting conservative knows that informed consumers are one the things necessary to create a "free market!"
Using Metadata to find Paul Revere
When you're listening to music, that's fine. When you're listening to news (and things like call-in shows) then a 1-minute delay isn't acceptable.
No, something like what Facebook did, searching until they found a hash or key or whatever that happened to spell out "Facebook."
A cookbook analogy would be better than a menu analogy: code is like the recipes, and the API is like the table of contents.
How about ThePirateBay.onion? (Or rather, ThePirateBay[gibberish].onion, since that's how onion domain names work...)
"He" is gender-neutral and thus the correct choice when the gender is unknown. However, between the facts that my username is gendered ("Mr. Chaotica"), that I was talking about having kids with my spouse, and that most married couples are heterosexual, you should have been able to guess "she" from context.
Regardless of what you chose, you had a non-zero chance of offense. You just can't win! ; )
Anyway...
So can every parent!
Again, it's all a matter of perspective: you call them "cast-offs," I call them "vintage" and "eco-friendly." By refusing to be a Consumer Sucka my kid will transcend such issues.
(And, of course, if all else fails I'll buy him the damn Pokemon backpack or Reebok pumps or whatever the fad-item-necessary-to-maintain-social-status is -- I remember how much it sucked to get made fun of growing up and am not a heartless bastard who wants to inflict the same on my offspring. However, minimal group conformity does not require head-to-toe Disney branding or other such ridiculousness!)
Also, who said anything about not participating in activities? Sure, I'm not going to let my kid sign up for sixteen sports, ten clubs and three different musical instruments and then also go to a birthday party at Dave & Buster's every week, but that doesn't mean he will be deprived like you imply.
By the way, keep in mind the hypothetical premise of this conversation: the original claim was that people can save because they can live comfortably close to Federal poverty level. Well, poverty level is defined based on household size, and is $346.67/month higher for a three-person household than it is for a two-person one. That's plenty to afford food, clothes, a modicum of toys and a reasonable activity or two!
LOL, as if "legitimate computer support businesses" were a thing that actually existed. Shysters and con-artists, the lot of them!