if you install the android SDK, you can use the "adb remount" command and get right into the guts of your phone. there are some great tutorials online; I tried to modify my hosts file via the phone, but found hooking it up to my machine and using a text editor there more useful.
as the poster below had mentioned, jurors aren't exactly helped out. let me give you an example:
here in pittsburgh, I believe they pay you $8-9 dollars per day to serve on jury. great, you're serving justice, and they're only paying you $1 an hour, but hey, it could be worse. but then, you're not getting paid for your regular job. not a problem if you're making decent money/salary, but it would be if you're getting paid hourly. you're not getting compensated for time not spent at your job, fair.
you take the bus/train into jury duty. out of that $8-9 you're getting, about $3-4 is spent on public transport [and with the new rate hikes, it'll be closer to $5]. "fuck it," you say. "I'll park near the courthouse." guess what. parking is ridiculous out here. you will be unable to get parking for under $8 for a full day, although you're looking more like $10-12.
"shit! I forgot my lunch!" you exclaim. nearby, most lunch places [unless you REALLY love mcdonald's] will cost you at LEAST $5 for a lunch.
I wouldn't mind serving on a jury if I was called about it. but then again, I'm doing pretty okay financially. tell that to joe schmoe working for $8/hr and see how he feels about it [no pay from his job for the day, and spending more money than he earns on the days he's serving on jury]. that is why most people try to get out of it. solutions? how about a transit pass for the days you have to serve? or free parking at the courthouse? just food for thought for our legal system.
I was pretty sure that didn't apply; there are plenty of non-voters out there who could serve on a jury.
I bet things like taxes, driver's licenses, birth certificates, and other proofs of citizenship qualify you for jury duty.
you apparently missed the comments in the threads above; things have still snuck by the apple store folk. the only real way to catch this stuff is be conscious of what you're installing, and report suspicious items.
from user -kyz:
Apple is doing an equally bad job of protecting its ecosystem.
There have been several customer-data-grabbing iPhone apps, and these have only been yanked after members of the public alerted Apple to them.
rob bubbard is a god. I also like some of the guys that worked on consoles like jeff van dyck, and robert prince for PC as well!
and the chiptune scene is still alive and kickin' with things like 8 bit peoples, plopbox, and artists like anamanaguchi, bitshifter, shawn phase/temp sound solutions, etc.
hubbard did a lot more work on c64, which is why you won't hear much from the younger crowd, but he did some great stuff on other platforms, thankfully the pc [which is where I first encountered his works].
I myself even continue to write original chiptune music because I have such a passion for it. people walk by my desk at work and hear me listening to music from marble madness, amongst other things. by the way, the intermediate track from marble madness sounds like a lou harrison/alan hovhaness piece with so much chaos, it's not as well known as say, level 2 though. worth a listen for sure.
The difference in framerate
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· Score: 5, Interesting
15 FPS vs 30 FPS vs 60 FPS. This is a visual representation. There are points made, however, that when you watch a movie, the image is "softened" and runs at a lower framerate [something like 24 or 25 FPS?] because your brain helps "fill in the gaps" or something of that sort. Pretty interesting stuff.
s/he would then say every restaurant was absolutely amazing, but couldn't tell you why. or they'd say "it's like the french fries are like, partying in my mouth, but it's like a birthday party, maaaan." not so good for reviews.
as shown in comments above. What I'm wondering is if she could've gotten a job outside of NY and just chose not to move [either didn't like the area, didn't want to pay moving expenses, etc]. When I finished college, I had the luxury of picking if I wanted to stay in the area or go elsewhere. If I was unemployed now, I don't think I would've had the choice. Wonder if she was hoping to stay local to the area instead of moving to Wisconsin or North Dakota [or somewhere else she might not want to move to].
dying your hair won't hide bad punctuation and skipping of the spacebar. okay now I'm just being rude =P
some dudes prefer blondes or brunettes or redheads or whatever. just because someone likes blondes doesn't make them want an airhead. there are some who want the trophy girlfriend/wife type that ALSO happen to like blondes. the stereotype in movies and tv shows and comics portray blondes to be "more fun" which is why there is that crossover, but people like dumb brunettes, redheads, etc., and some like smart-as-hell blondes too.
the only thing that perpetuates it is when girls say something like "excuse me, I was having a blonde moment." stop doing it to yourselves and maybe it will die out.
First of all, this only polled IT Administrators. I know of departments where I work at [and even at my old jobs] where IT admins tried to talk users out of upgrading to XP, Vista [and I guess now, Win 7]. The problem is, the user is still the customer, and as much as you want to talk someone out of something, if they're the ones with the $$, you have to do the task.
I used to try to talk people out of switching to XP because 2K was much more stable and for simple things like word processing, internet browsing, etc. it was more than sufficient. But everyone wanted XP, so I'd help them upgrade [I'm talking both about work and for friends/family]. I recently installed a dual-boot Ubuntu/Win XP setup for my dad, and still he uses XP more. He wanted to be able to play around in the apps he used before, and if any of these companies are upgrading computers, you can bet that people will want the latest and greatest [assuming Win 7 is able to work the eye-candy into things].
TFA does cite economy as an issue, but most companies are probably thinking "Could it save me more money now to do a full-upgrade and not deal with the downtime later as I have to do it later?" and that might be a mitigating factor.
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if you install the android SDK, you can use the "adb remount" command and get right into the guts of your phone. there are some great tutorials online; I tried to modify my hosts file via the phone, but found hooking it up to my machine and using a text editor there more useful.
as the poster below had mentioned, jurors aren't exactly helped out. let me give you an example:
here in pittsburgh, I believe they pay you $8-9 dollars per day to serve on jury. great, you're serving justice, and they're only paying you $1 an hour, but hey, it could be worse. but then, you're not getting paid for your regular job. not a problem if you're making decent money/salary, but it would be if you're getting paid hourly. you're not getting compensated for time not spent at your job, fair.
you take the bus/train into jury duty. out of that $8-9 you're getting, about $3-4 is spent on public transport [and with the new rate hikes, it'll be closer to $5]. "fuck it," you say. "I'll park near the courthouse." guess what. parking is ridiculous out here. you will be unable to get parking for under $8 for a full day, although you're looking more like $10-12.
"shit! I forgot my lunch!" you exclaim. nearby, most lunch places [unless you REALLY love mcdonald's] will cost you at LEAST $5 for a lunch.
I wouldn't mind serving on a jury if I was called about it. but then again, I'm doing pretty okay financially. tell that to joe schmoe working for $8/hr and see how he feels about it [no pay from his job for the day, and spending more money than he earns on the days he's serving on jury]. that is why most people try to get out of it. solutions? how about a transit pass for the days you have to serve? or free parking at the courthouse? just food for thought for our legal system.
FYI, I just re-tweeted your post url. and then talked about it on FB via a note.
I was pretty sure that didn't apply; there are plenty of non-voters out there who could serve on a jury. I bet things like taxes, driver's licenses, birth certificates, and other proofs of citizenship qualify you for jury duty.
I like how this got modded as 'informative' instead of funny.
ZERG RUSH LOL!!!!!
:D
seriously, no one else made a sc/sc2 joke yet? turn in your geek cards!!!!
you apparently missed the comments in the threads above; things have still snuck by the apple store folk. the only real way to catch this stuff is be conscious of what you're installing, and report suspicious items.
from user -kyz:
Apple is doing an equally bad job of protecting its ecosystem.
There have been several customer-data-grabbing iPhone apps, and these have only been yanked after members of the public alerted Apple to them.
Pinchmedia: http://i-phone-home.blogspot.com/2009/07/pinchmedia-anatomy-of-spyware-vendor.html
Storm8: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/ybenjamin/detail??blogid=150&entry_id=51077
MogoRoad: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/09/30/iphone_security/
Smuggling tethering past the censors: http://top10.com/mobilephones/news/2010/07/app_smuggles_tethering_onto_iphone/
the moral of the story is, it doesn't matter if it's closed or open-source. the end user is still the difference maker.
tl;dr.
thanks but no thanks!
I thought part of the rules were to not allow acronyms?
I guess the proper name thing could throw that thing off...think about being able to put things like USA, UN, QAR, etc.
you remember what he said about 'offtopic?' try e-mailing the fella or posting in the appropriate article.
rob bubbard is a god. I also like some of the guys that worked on consoles like jeff van dyck, and robert prince for PC as well!
and the chiptune scene is still alive and kickin' with things like 8 bit peoples, plopbox, and artists like anamanaguchi, bitshifter, shawn phase/temp sound solutions, etc.
hubbard did a lot more work on c64, which is why you won't hear much from the younger crowd, but he did some great stuff on other platforms, thankfully the pc [which is where I first encountered his works].
I myself even continue to write original chiptune music because I have such a passion for it. people walk by my desk at work and hear me listening to music from marble madness, amongst other things. by the way, the intermediate track from marble madness sounds like a lou harrison/alan hovhaness piece with so much chaos, it's not as well known as say, level 2 though. worth a listen for sure.
15 FPS vs 30 FPS vs 60 FPS. This is a visual representation. There are points made, however, that when you watch a movie, the image is "softened" and runs at a lower framerate [something like 24 or 25 FPS?] because your brain helps "fill in the gaps" or something of that sort. Pretty interesting stuff.
sorry, you missed the first post. you were busy BSOD'ing.
hopefully they didn't screw up your credit rating. I hate phone companies.
s/he would then say every restaurant was absolutely amazing, but couldn't tell you why. or they'd say "it's like the french fries are like, partying in my mouth, but it's like a birthday party, maaaan." not so good for reviews.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FsNLbK8_rBY
are we the baddies?
as shown in comments above. What I'm wondering is if she could've gotten a job outside of NY and just chose not to move [either didn't like the area, didn't want to pay moving expenses, etc]. When I finished college, I had the luxury of picking if I wanted to stay in the area or go elsewhere. If I was unemployed now, I don't think I would've had the choice. Wonder if she was hoping to stay local to the area instead of moving to Wisconsin or North Dakota [or somewhere else she might not want to move to].
That would negate the lawsuit, I would think. Wonder if she'll take the ski channel job. In case y'all didn't see it, here's the link to the job offer she got.
amf2mod? I thought amiga audio file formats were so 80s!
perhaps you mean fog of war?
ooh, bad korea/starcraft joke. I'll be here all week. try the veal.
dying your hair won't hide bad punctuation and skipping of the spacebar. okay now I'm just being rude =P
some dudes prefer blondes or brunettes or redheads or whatever. just because someone likes blondes doesn't make them want an airhead. there are some who want the trophy girlfriend/wife type that ALSO happen to like blondes. the stereotype in movies and tv shows and comics portray blondes to be "more fun" which is why there is that crossover, but people like dumb brunettes, redheads, etc., and some like smart-as-hell blondes too.
the only thing that perpetuates it is when girls say something like "excuse me, I was having a blonde moment." stop doing it to yourselves and maybe it will die out.
the French sure love surrendering, even if it was to your gramps ;)
But with a simple yearly check you can get your data back by simply getting it off before the media degrades.
With Monkey Island: Special Edition just being released, does anyone read this and think of the mug o'grog puzzle for getting Otis out of prison?
First of all, this only polled IT Administrators. I know of departments where I work at [and even at my old jobs] where IT admins tried to talk users out of upgrading to XP, Vista [and I guess now, Win 7]. The problem is, the user is still the customer, and as much as you want to talk someone out of something, if they're the ones with the $$, you have to do the task.
I used to try to talk people out of switching to XP because 2K was much more stable and for simple things like word processing, internet browsing, etc. it was more than sufficient. But everyone wanted XP, so I'd help them upgrade [I'm talking both about work and for friends/family]. I recently installed a dual-boot Ubuntu/Win XP setup for my dad, and still he uses XP more. He wanted to be able to play around in the apps he used before, and if any of these companies are upgrading computers, you can bet that people will want the latest and greatest [assuming Win 7 is able to work the eye-candy into things].
TFA does cite economy as an issue, but most companies are probably thinking "Could it save me more money now to do a full-upgrade and not deal with the downtime later as I have to do it later?" and that might be a mitigating factor.
Simpsons DID IT!