If I had someone to practice with, sign language would be an interesting one to learn over Skype, provided you had decent cinematography on each end.
Perhaps genetic therapies and the ubiquity of cochlear implants will obviate the need but I have meet a lot of elderly people who are too proud to admit they're losing their hearing and won't get their ears tested for an aid.
They say retirement care is a rapidly growing industry for a rapidly ageing western world...
(My father went deaf as a youth and required hearing aids for the rest of his life. Which was problematic at times because he'd take them off at home and never put them in the same spot - thus you'd be hunting for an aid. He never learnt sign language but we had a family vocabulary of about a dozen miming actions!)
The search area for the wreckage is south west of Perth? - completely in the opposite direction to Beijing.
There's nothing in that region of ocean aside from a few far-flung uninhabited islands towards the south pole. So unless hijackers were planning on making a sharp turn towards, say, Mauritius, it's difficult to understand what the plane might have been doing there.
No, you still have the clumsiest, most cringeworthy love story in the history of cinema. Queen Natalie cradle-snatches 'Little Ani', afterwards this pathetic whiney little runt commits genocide against his own kind based on a prophecy. Obi-wan couldn't even bring himself to finish the job...
To avoid market fragmentation which behoves a company to write an iOS client in objective-C, an Android client in Java, a Blackbery client with Qt and a WP8 client in c#.
Why not just target mobile web? Well because webapps traditionally lack the polish that native toolkits provide such as OS and hardware integration.
So Mozilla are pushing 'native' standards through the wc3 for Firefox Mobile and b2g is the test bed OS.
most local public places also have one, there's even wifi on local busses here
Nice in your city but is that generally true worldwide?
Wifi is ubiquitous these days but (OMG! terrorists) I rarely see open access points. Local coffee shops may offer free wifi but most places I need 3G connectivity.
Stallman doesn't lack tact in this case, he's just an asshole so bent on himself that he refuses to acknowledge that his world view is pretty fucked up.
Blanket statements like his
I disagree with most of the world view expressed in the interview but doesn't your language inflame the 'worshippers' further??
He has a couple of valid points. Binary blob elimination is something even Theo and Linus would strive for. I think the free-flash ship has sailed but I still have to fire up a flash-enabled browser not infrequently.
One group of people identify with Penny, and laugh at the nerds. The other group identifies with Leonard and laughs at all the silly things we geeks do.
I dunno, I identify with Howard as being the hero of the show.
Bad haircuts and dress sense, neurotic Jew, lack of a strong male role model, domineering mother (cue basement jokes), awkward socially leading to making lewd comments to women to compensate fear of rejection, belittled by his colleagues for not having the right degree.
Yet despite all this he's been into space and he's the only one of the four to tie the knot. I'd call that success.
Leonard, by contrast, is darn normal aside from completely lacking self-confidence.
I'd prefer a more permanent arrangement. Allow the power user to 'bless' alternative application repos, such as f-droid (not in Google's financial interest naturally)
This would obviate 'accidental' installs where a user is coerced into installing a trojan.apk (OMG! Ponies!) from a hyperlink.
(As I just posted in reply to the same comment...)
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If I had someone to practice with, sign language would be an interesting one to learn over Skype, provided you had decent cinematography on each end.
Perhaps genetic therapies and the ubiquity of cochlear implants will obviate the need but I have meet a lot of elderly people who are too proud to admit they're losing their hearing and won't get their ears tested for an aid.
They say retirement care is a rapidly growing industry for a rapidly ageing western world...
(My father went deaf as a youth and required hearing aids for the rest of his life. Which was problematic at times because he'd take them off at home and never put them in the same spot - thus you'd be hunting for an aid. He never learnt sign language but we had a family vocabulary of about a dozen miming actions!)
Seppo is a perfectly cromulent demonym. :)
'estadounidense' doesn't exist in English.
The search area for the wreckage is south west of Perth? - completely in the opposite direction to Beijing.
There's nothing in that region of ocean aside from a few far-flung uninhabited islands towards the south pole. So unless hijackers were planning on making a sharp turn towards, say, Mauritius, it's difficult to understand what the plane might have been doing there.
On a per-person basis, Wyoming emits more carbon dioxide than any other state or any other country
Hence the purchase was known as "Seward's Folly".
Bodyline? Yeah Jardine and Larwood really destroyed the romance of test cricket. Bradman still averaged 56 for the series.
No, you still have the clumsiest, most cringeworthy love story in the history of cinema. Queen Natalie cradle-snatches 'Little Ani', afterwards this pathetic whiney little runt commits genocide against his own kind based on a prophecy. Obi-wan couldn't even bring himself to finish the job...
To avoid market fragmentation which behoves a company to write an iOS client in objective-C, an Android client in Java, a Blackbery client with Qt and a WP8 client in c#.
Why not just target mobile web? Well because webapps traditionally lack the polish that native toolkits provide such as OS and hardware integration.
So Mozilla are pushing 'native' standards through the wc3 for Firefox Mobile and b2g is the test bed OS.
Nice in your city but is that generally true worldwide?
Wifi is ubiquitous these days but (OMG! terrorists) I rarely see open access points. Local coffee shops may offer free wifi but most places I need 3G connectivity.
Meh, I saw a documentary this evening where the elite of Sao Paulo travel everywhere by helicopter!
Perhaps Tesla could do an exclusive deal with Uber by leasing their vehicles as the official motor-carriage of Uber-drivers. :)
Sth America's a big place. which countries?
I caught numerous cabs across Argentina and never had a problem.
Colectivos in Chile are cool. I think I paid upfront but the idea is you share the cost with several other passengers (strangers).
2 stories in 24 hours. Uber must love /. for the free publicity.
It's up to the individual to do due diligence before commencing any such venture.
Operating an underground taxi should set off warning bells such as 'do I need government accreditation?'
Catch a tram if you're too cheap to pay for a taxi. Use a designated driver rather than queuing for a taxi at 3am on a Sunday morning.
Any publicity is good publicity.
Not even.
Hitch-hiking is illegal here in Victoria.
'big business' ? Oh, the irony.
Uber are a $US3Billion American company, trying to increase their profitability by launching a stealth, rogue, taxi service in a foreign country.
Taxis in Victoria are regulated where each vehicle is licensed by paying tens of thousands of dollars to the state government.
In such an industry, freelancers won't be tolerated.
I disagree with most of the world view expressed in the interview but doesn't your language inflame the 'worshippers' further??
He has a couple of valid points. Binary blob elimination is something even Theo and Linus would strive for. I think the free-flash ship has sailed but I still have to fire up a flash-enabled browser not infrequently.
What are the tectonic plates like near California these days?
Just saying, I wouldn't put a nuke reactor anywhere near San Andreas.
Not anymore
I dunno, I identify with Howard as being the hero of the show.
Bad haircuts and dress sense, neurotic Jew, lack of a strong male role model, domineering mother (cue basement jokes), awkward socially leading to making lewd comments to women to compensate fear of rejection, belittled by his colleagues for not having the right degree.
Yet despite all this he's been into space and he's the only one of the four to tie the knot. I'd call that success.
Leonard, by contrast, is darn normal aside from completely lacking self-confidence.
I'd prefer a more permanent arrangement. Allow the power user to 'bless' alternative application repos, such as f-droid (not in Google's financial interest naturally) .apk (OMG! Ponies!) from a hyperlink.
This would obviate 'accidental' installs where a user is coerced into installing a trojan
(As I just posted in reply to the same comment...)