I don't know what you're talking about. I've been on a lot of flights lately (college tripping), and I've never had to be at the airport more than an hour before my flight left. In one case, I showed up half an hour before departure time (airline changed the time without telling me, thanks) and I still was able to board on time. And yes, I was checking luggage.
Post 9/11 security is obnoxious, but not that obnoxious.
I think this doens't really matter too much as a DSLR is big and bulky enough to just confiscate them from people carrying them in restricted areas. Normal digital cameras, which the scanner system blocks against, are much more easy to hide from plain sight.
There already is a bookstore like this in my neighborhood, it's called Vox Pop. They have an on-demand "instabook" machine in a back room, and they sell the books out front (along with coffee). They mostly cater to political writers. http://www.voxpopnet.net/
You don't understand, Sony has to prevent piracy at all costs, and that's because they make money off of software, not hardware. I'd be surprised if the "expensive" PSP costs as little as $250 to make, it wouldn't be surprising if it cost twice that. Rather, their revenue stream comes from game sales, as well as licensing the right to make games to developers. People buying PSPs soley to run free homebrew apps or pirated games destroys this model.
Even if Fox does do this, how are they going to get back the writers that made the show good in the first place? I'm sure most of them have moved on, probably advanced their careers, and probably won't be willing to go back to their old show.
If you were just reinstalling to trace this problem, you could have held off on activation until you had solved it. You don't need to activate Windows immediately after you install it, you're given 30 days until you have to. (Not that I think activation's a good thing, or that you shouldn't be able to reinstall your OS as many times as you want to.)
This is not quite related, as when you buy a can from a vending machine, you're also paying for the operation and maintenance of the machine. When you buy it from the supermarket aisle, you're not paying anything extra (aside from the cost of running the supermarket, but this applies to everything there), so they can afford to sell it cheaper.
I'd have to agree with you there. I'm using Mac OS X right now, after having gone from window manager to window manager, and distribution to distribution. I realized that OS X was everything that I was looking for in a desktop operating system. The GUI is sufficiently prettyful and fun to use for me, and the FreeBSD base makes the geek in me happy. The fact that it costs money is an issue, but hey, you get what you pay for.
I'm not saying though that Linux is useless, I run it on a server of mine and it's great for that, I just think that in it's current state it's not all that cut out for the desktop.
So? In the company I'm working for, we have a policy that the password has to be at least 10 characters long, alphanumeric mixed case and it will change *every 30 days*. And the new password can't be the same as 10 last ones.
Well, in *my* company, our passwords have to be 20 characters long, alphanumeric mixed case with punctuation and it changes every day! *And* we have to walk 50 miles through the snow uphill both ways!
Morality is relative. IMO, law should only come into effect when other people are affected by one's decisions, immoral or otherwise. It doesn't matter if murder is immoral or not, but when you murder somebody or steal their possesions, you are causing harm to them. When you do something like look at porn, you are affecting nobody but yourself, and therefore I don't think law should apply.
You would be right about this, except for one thing. Laws against murder and theft are not to protect morality, but to protect one's rights, specifically the right to life and property. Laws against obscenity are not protecting anybody's rights, only infringing on them.
The article said the the couple purchased items during busy periods, so probably the checkout clerk either didn't notice/didn't want to hold up the line. It's also likely that the employees just didn't care enough to make a fuss about it.
Cancelling with AOL isn't so hard, just very frustrating. You just have to be very firm with them, sit through their bullshit explanations of why AOL is the best thing ever, and explain to them that you don't want another month free, you just want to cancel. Eventually they'll do it, but very reluctantly.
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A "gated community" with fewer abilities for users? Why not call it "Access Owned by Large corporations" or AOL for short?
They're not exactly open and available either, as my rejected classmates will attest to :-)
I don't know what you're talking about. I've been on a lot of flights lately (college tripping), and I've never had to be at the airport more than an hour before my flight left. In one case, I showed up half an hour before departure time (airline changed the time without telling me, thanks) and I still was able to board on time. And yes, I was checking luggage.
Post 9/11 security is obnoxious, but not that obnoxious.
3 145 miles per gallon = 63 403 200 rods / hogshead
I think this doens't really matter too much as a DSLR is big and bulky enough to just confiscate them from people carrying them in restricted areas. Normal digital cameras, which the scanner system blocks against, are much more easy to hide from plain sight.
Yes, people will do all manner of things, including tricking people to click on their referral links through subtle placement in their posts.
There already is a bookstore like this in my neighborhood, it's called Vox Pop. They have an on-demand "instabook" machine in a back room, and they sell the books out front (along with coffee). They mostly cater to political writers. http://www.voxpopnet.net/
You mean perhaps USB? That seems to be on a lot if not all of the devices mention.
I use an electric razor, you insensitive clod.
No, in this case their compiler was specifically turning off optimizations that work on both processors when it detected a non-Intel processor.
You don't understand, Sony has to prevent piracy at all costs, and that's because they make money off of software, not hardware. I'd be surprised if the "expensive" PSP costs as little as $250 to make, it wouldn't be surprising if it cost twice that. Rather, their revenue stream comes from game sales, as well as licensing the right to make games to developers. People buying PSPs soley to run free homebrew apps or pirated games destroys this model.
But then you have the REALLY drunk people...
And the people who rinse their hands in vodka to hit the upper limit...
Even if Fox does do this, how are they going to get back the writers that made the show good in the first place? I'm sure most of them have moved on, probably advanced their careers, and probably won't be willing to go back to their old show.
Hmm, what happens when kids buy healthy food from the cafeteria, but also eat unhealthy snacks from home?
If you were just reinstalling to trace this problem, you could have held off on activation until you had solved it. You don't need to activate Windows immediately after you install it, you're given 30 days until you have to. (Not that I think activation's a good thing, or that you shouldn't be able to reinstall your OS as many times as you want to.)
They've found a way to turn the flapping of one's lips into energy.
This is not quite related, as when you buy a can from a vending machine, you're also paying for the operation and maintenance of the machine. When you buy it from the supermarket aisle, you're not paying anything extra (aside from the cost of running the supermarket, but this applies to everything there), so they can afford to sell it cheaper.
I'm not saying though that Linux is useless, I run it on a server of mine and it's great for that, I just think that in it's current state it's not all that cut out for the desktop.
So? In the company I'm working for, we have a policy that the password has to be at least 10 characters long, alphanumeric mixed case and it will change *every 30 days*. And the new password can't be the same as 10 last ones. Well, in *my* company, our passwords have to be 20 characters long, alphanumeric mixed case with punctuation and it changes every day! *And* we have to walk 50 miles through the snow uphill both ways!
Gee, y'know, this sounds a lot like a palm pilot, except much bulkier and without the touch screen...
Morality is relative. IMO, law should only come into effect when other people are affected by one's decisions, immoral or otherwise. It doesn't matter if murder is immoral or not, but when you murder somebody or steal their possesions, you are causing harm to them. When you do something like look at porn, you are affecting nobody but yourself, and therefore I don't think law should apply.
You would be right about this, except for one thing. Laws against murder and theft are not to protect morality, but to protect one's rights, specifically the right to life and property. Laws against obscenity are not protecting anybody's rights, only infringing on them.
They will look for something else and find linux!
Or they'll just stick with what's already installed on their computer and not switch to anything.
The article said the the couple purchased items during busy periods, so probably the checkout clerk either didn't notice/didn't want to hold up the line. It's also likely that the employees just didn't care enough to make a fuss about it.
Cancelling with AOL isn't so hard, just very frustrating. You just have to be very firm with them, sit through their bullshit explanations of why AOL is the best thing ever, and explain to them that you don't want another month free, you just want to cancel. Eventually they'll do it, but very reluctantly.