Wait, you're comparing Apple's stock price and market cap to what exactly? Microsoft's stock price and market cap? To be fair you would have to compare to the combined stock prices and market caps of every company that makes PCs (HP, Lenovo, Dell, etc) plus Microsoft.
Both parents need to at least be convicted of a felony so they are never allowed to own a gun again. They have proven beyond the shadow of a doubt that they do not deserve the right to own a gun.
This just sounds so suspicious anyway. It was the stepfather by the way, not the dad. What are the chances that he killed the girl accidentally or otherwise and now the mother is covering for him with this Wii story?
You must see the movie from a couple of years ago called "The Diving Bell and The Butterfly" http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0401383/ - it tells a TRUE story of a man in exactly this situation: all he could do was blink one eye. But with that eye and the help of others, he was able to write a whole novel. It's a really good movie.
I have found that my local public library (in the US) has great language resources. I can get pimsleur CDs for free (the complete courses for some languages), they used to have a free subscription to Rosetta Stone online (now switched to mangolanguages.com), language books, DVDs, etc. It's really an invaluable resource for free language learning.
Another thing about it is that they will probably have a particularly strong collection on foreign languages that are common in your area. For example, my town has a significant Cambodian population, so they have Cambodian resources in the language section of the library, in addition to the usual Spanish, French, etc.
Sorry, but you are mistaken. Motorola makes some quad-band GSM phones that are about half the size of an iphone, like the razor and the slvr L7. I've seen several others as well.
The people allowing this stuff to float to the top of global media-consciousness don't care about the actual state of human affairs or about the genuinely awesome things we could be actually doing with technology.
Argh, you can't say something like that and leave your readers hanging, wondering what "genuinely awesome things we could actually be doing with technology." Please provide some examples. Thanks.
Interesting you (and those who replied to you) should mention Blender's difficult interface, because that's one of the main things they're working on improving right now. Just yesterday they released the first Alpha of a the new 2.5 series, with an extensively (completely?) redesigned GUI meant to be easier and more logical to beginners, and both the GUI as well as keyboard shortcuts are now completely customizable.
I don't have the citation handy, but I did learn in cultural anthropology class a couple of years ago that hunter-gatherers did in fact have to work less hours than farmers. This was mentioned on the textbook for the class. However, I don't recall them mentioning specific numbers.
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Ah, no fair saying something like that and then not telling us what you think are some good open source CMSes. Please tell us, because I'm always interested in finding better things.
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I just don't get it. Most of the negative posts here so far just seem completely inaccurate. They must be written either by fanboys for other CMS systems or by people that have no clue to start with.
I'm not a web developer and I don't know even a bit of PHP and I am able to understand how Drupal works and get it to work fine for me. Granted, Drupal is not a panacea, but as far as open source CMSs go, I think it's one of the best available.
A friend of mine got a ticket for Jaywalking in Arizona. This appears to be fairly common in the Western US, or at least I have personally heard of a few different people that had this happen to them (Arizona and California). What was more unusual about my Arizona friend was that he didn't pay the jaywalking ticket, so they suspended his driver's license!
Your dad's hard physical labor probably had the opposite effect on his youthful appearance than you think it had. He probably stayed looking young not despite, but because of the labor. I (and other people that I have spoken to) find that people who do physical labor for a living stay looking younger than people that do "desk" work. After all, exercise is generally considered the closest thing to a fountain of youth that we have yet found.
iTunes lets you upgrade your old DRM'd tracks to non-DRM'd versions, or at least most of them because not all iTunes tracks are available in non-DRM'd versions yet. The bastards do charge a fee of course - US$0.30 per track - even though the new non-DRM'd tracks are the same price as the old DRM'd ones.
Excellent post. The same thing happened to radio (the ultimate predominant use of the technology not being envisioned at its inception). They didn't really think of broadcasting to the general masses until a long time after it was invented - it was originally thought of as a two-way point-to-point communications medium.
My friend used to run a BBS way back when, and he told me he would just hang the motherboards and other components on a pegboard on the wall. Similar idea, but I think he was doing it to save money on cases and possibly to save space as well.
I recall seeing this mentioned in old survival books from the 1970s. The common practice is to dig a hole in the ground, put a container in it, stretch a plastic sheet over it, secure it around the edges, weigh it in the middle, and wait. Voila, water in the container through condensation.
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Wait, you're comparing Apple's stock price and market cap to what exactly? Microsoft's stock price and market cap? To be fair you would have to compare to the combined stock prices and market caps of every company that makes PCs (HP, Lenovo, Dell, etc) plus Microsoft.
Both parents need to at least be convicted of a felony so they are never allowed to own a gun again. They have proven beyond the shadow of a doubt that they do not deserve the right to own a gun.
This just sounds so suspicious anyway. It was the stepfather by the way, not the dad. What are the chances that he killed the girl accidentally or otherwise and now the mother is covering for him with this Wii story?
Looks like they haven't learned anything from the Windows 7 memory FUD scandal.
You must see the movie from a couple of years ago called "The Diving Bell and The Butterfly" http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0401383/ - it tells a TRUE story of a man in exactly this situation: all he could do was blink one eye. But with that eye and the help of others, he was able to write a whole novel. It's a really good movie.
I have found that my local public library (in the US) has great language resources. I can get pimsleur CDs for free (the complete courses for some languages), they used to have a free subscription to Rosetta Stone online (now switched to mangolanguages.com), language books, DVDs, etc. It's really an invaluable resource for free language learning.
Another thing about it is that they will probably have a particularly strong collection on foreign languages that are common in your area. For example, my town has a significant Cambodian population, so they have Cambodian resources in the language section of the library, in addition to the usual Spanish, French, etc.
Sorry, but you are mistaken. Motorola makes some quad-band GSM phones that are about half the size of an iphone, like the razor and the slvr L7. I've seen several others as well.
The people allowing this stuff to float to the top of global media-consciousness don't care about the actual state of human affairs or about the genuinely awesome things we could be actually doing with technology.
Argh, you can't say something like that and leave your readers hanging, wondering what "genuinely awesome things we could actually be doing with technology." Please provide some examples. Thanks.
You're welcome. Definitely check in on them in the next few months. I know Blender at least is making big leaps forward.
Oh, and I forgot to mention, I heard recently that GIMP is going to get a major interface redesign in the next version or two as well.
Interesting you (and those who replied to you) should mention Blender's difficult interface, because that's one of the main things they're working on improving right now. Just yesterday they released the first Alpha of a the new 2.5 series, with an extensively (completely?) redesigned GUI meant to be easier and more logical to beginners, and both the GUI as well as keyboard shortcuts are now completely customizable.
Here is the page with info on it: http://www.blender.org/development/release-logs/blender-250/
The final new version (which will probably be version 2.6) is expected to be released in mid-2010.
Belated thanks!
I don't have the citation handy, but I did learn in cultural anthropology class a couple of years ago that hunter-gatherers did in fact have to work less hours than farmers. This was mentioned on the textbook for the class. However, I don't recall them mentioning specific numbers.
Ah, no fair saying something like that and then not telling us what you think are some good open source CMSes. Please tell us, because I'm always interested in finding better things.
I just don't get it. Most of the negative posts here so far just seem completely inaccurate. They must be written either by fanboys for other CMS systems or by people that have no clue to start with.
I'm not a web developer and I don't know even a bit of PHP and I am able to understand how Drupal works and get it to work fine for me. Granted, Drupal is not a panacea, but as far as open source CMSs go, I think it's one of the best available.
The photographer counts for a lot too, and sometimes a mobile phone camera is the only thing you have handy. Check out photo 7 of 8 in this list: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_pictures/8314105.stm
It's the winner of the landscape photo of the year (UK only?) in the Mobile category.
Dangit, second link was supposed to be this: http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2009/10/it-s-still-duck-court-re-affirms-first-sale-doctri
PDF: http://www.eff.org/files/gov.uscourts.vernor.opinion.pdf
Related article at eff.org: http://www.eff.org/files/gov.uscourts.vernor.opinion.pdf
A friend of mine got a ticket for Jaywalking in Arizona. This appears to be fairly common in the Western US, or at least I have personally heard of a few different people that had this happen to them (Arizona and California). What was more unusual about my Arizona friend was that he didn't pay the jaywalking ticket, so they suspended his driver's license!
Your dad's hard physical labor probably had the opposite effect on his youthful appearance than you think it had. He probably stayed looking young not despite, but because of the labor. I (and other people that I have spoken to) find that people who do physical labor for a living stay looking younger than people that do "desk" work. After all, exercise is generally considered the closest thing to a fountain of youth that we have yet found.
iTunes lets you upgrade your old DRM'd tracks to non-DRM'd versions, or at least most of them because not all iTunes tracks are available in non-DRM'd versions yet. The bastards do charge a fee of course - US$0.30 per track - even though the new non-DRM'd tracks are the same price as the old DRM'd ones.
Excellent post. The same thing happened to radio (the ultimate predominant use of the technology not being envisioned at its inception). They didn't really think of broadcasting to the general masses until a long time after it was invented - it was originally thought of as a two-way point-to-point communications medium.
You must have never visited http://www.bigtitsroundasses.com/ then. That site will dispel all these myths.
My friend used to run a BBS way back when, and he told me he would just hang the motherboards and other components on a pegboard on the wall. Similar idea, but I think he was doing it to save money on cases and possibly to save space as well.
I recall seeing this mentioned in old survival books from the 1970s. The common practice is to dig a hole in the ground, put a container in it, stretch a plastic sheet over it, secure it around the edges, weigh it in the middle, and wait. Voila, water in the container through condensation.
Here, I did a quick search and found it explained and diagremmed: http://www.classbrain.com/artteenah/publish/water_in_the_desert.shtml
Exactly. Vodafone actually has a serious partnership with Verizon in the US.