I take that to mean that you had trouble with the meaning of merely since if you understood it you would have realized that your argument has zip to do with what I said.
Here's a hint. When someone is saying sarcastically: "Are you one of those people who assume that addiction is merely a matter of will power?" in the tone that indicates someone saying yes is to be derided. That is a good clue that the person speaking believes that overcoming addiction requires more than simple willpower. Not that the person believes that willpower is irreverent.
But hey, don't let a lack of reading comprehension inhibit your posting. I'm sure to you spouting off is a bit of an addition in itself.
And it's use in humans is not? Sometimes fixing the problem isn't practical or something that we know how to do, sometimes the best you can do is work to make the situation manageable and bearable.
The most recent revision to the SD flash card specification (SD High Capacity), it allows SD cards to break the size barriers that existed for the old standard.
Did you have troble with the meaning of the word 'merely' in my post or were you in such a hurry tripping over yourself to get in a word that you missed it?
And find me someone who's kicked their heroin addiction purely on the basis of will power. Someone who won't feel the craving the rest of their life, not just someone who's learned to fight it.
One fuck up in contraception and all the sudden you've got the first interstellar birth with a kid that's doomed to spend the rest of their life on another planet, the mom and/or it doesn't die. You want to think about how hard it is to get baby vomit out of instrumentation?
Or are we going to try the Chinese route and sterlize everyone going up? I'm sure that'll help the ranks of volunteers swell.
Or hey! Here's an idea, shove the possibility of romance related tensions into missions where people are already going to be living almost right on top of each other. I'm sure between the stress of the mission, the complete lack of privacy, and love triangles there couldn't possibly be anything that could go wrong there.
After Lisa Hardwick flipped out over her relationship issues on the ground, you really think NASA has enough of a pulse on their people that they can pick the right group that won't snap up there?
Dear me, what a quaint and outdated view of what depression is and how it works. Are you one of those people who assume that addiction is merely a matter of will power? Or are you and Tom Cruise shacking up together to discuss the fallacies of modern psychology.
Thank you for reminding us how people treated the ill back in the 1800's.
So you are saying Quake is like a gateway drug, leading to such unsavory professions as Gamestop employee? Dear me, I'm glad Jack Thompson is disbarred, he would have had a field day....
$50/yr for each user is not "free". Nor is it in the domain of "you get what you pay for". $50 per user is actually a rather significant sum when we're talking about 100+ user companies.
I'm not defending OP's lack of RTFA skills. But really, $50 per user per year is a drop in a bucket for any company actually making money. Consider most companies that employ blackberries are paying ~$50 a user a month. And most companies that provide company paid cell phones are paying at least ~$20 a phone a month.
Nor is this a huge disaster for Google.
RIM has had some very spectacular outages in the past, yet people still want their 'Crackberry'.
The company I work for just got hit in the past two weeks with a huge issue, our data center is located off site and we appearently lost the link to it mid-day Friday and it was still out mid-morning on Monday. After that, AT&T went belly up and no one in the corporate office could dial out. This is a company with over a thousand locations nation-wide.
And yet, no one is screaming for us to switch to a new data center, or to drop AT&T. Because these things only happen once in a blue moon. Just as Google outages do. Yes, while things are down, you get some very nasty feedback, and you learn the difference between type a and type b personalities. But once everything is back up, unless someone went out of their way to ensure that the decision makers are too pissed to forget about it, they do. Until the next time.
The question isn't "How long will Google be down" but "How often will Google be down". So far the answer is "Seldom". And that'll work for 90% of the folk out there using them.
I really think the moral of that story wasn't "Spend time with your kids" as much as it is "Only give them crud and they'll thank you for giving them something that actually looks as if it was worth something."
Are you asking if the axe would be easily removable once it penetrates the relatively weak casing of a lithium powered battery and the resulting explosion lodges it in your forehead?
That depends, what type of rock would you consider your head to be made of?;-)
Most companies that produce 'disposable' level items like an electic toothbrush do design in a way to remove the battery before disposing. As I mentioned in my first post, this DOES destroy the item. They've done their work to ensure that you won't be replacing the battery.
However whether they expect people to actually follow through or if they are just doing it because they know that they'll receive bad PR from environmental groups if they don't would be up to you to decide.
Regardless, Apple is in the minority in this. And while other companies undoubtably would be impacted by the law, it isn't that much of a attention grab to mention them when talking about this issue. They are one of the highest profile items out there without user accessable batteries.
Looking at the 3G iPhone I see two screw near the connector. Surely unscrewing those two screws would allow you to open the case to replace the battery? Or am I being overly optimistic? Has anyone even attempted to see how complicated it is?
Yes with qualifications. Yes. Yes.
Short summary,previous to the 3g it required using a sodering iron near a plastic bag filled with highly flamable liquid. The 3g's battery isn't hard sodered however, so it's slightly easier.
Please note however, I'm making a distinction between user replaceable and user removeable. My razor and toothbrush are not designed to have the battery replaced. But they are designed to have the battery removed when the user is ready to dispose of the item.
My entire household is almost litterally filled with devices contain rechargable batteries. From my toothbrush and razor to my wireless headphones and clocks. Even my PC has rechargeable batteries in it.
Want to guess how many of these, other than my iPod, aren't designed to be user removeable? Zero.
Granted, my toothbrush and razor both are designed so that the process of removing the battery 'breaks' the device. But both have clearly marked instructions indicating this should be done before throwing them away.
It can't. The article author is a moron who is trying to drum up scares. The Tivo product he is refering to is not "Tivo for Hulu" despite how he describes it. It's just a normal TV tuner (i.e. a card that lets you watch normal TV on the PC) with Tivo software to allow you to do the same things you could have done with a stand alone DVR.
It's true I don't want ads shoved in my face, but on the other side of the coin, I often visit the Apple trailers site and watch odd or funny ads on YouTube and their ilk.
It's not the ads that I mind as much as their presentation. The last time I visited my folks we watched a PAY PER VIEW movie on dish. Every 5-10 minutes the show was interupted for the same effing, stupid, Bounty commerical.
It made me want to go home and research Bounty and it's parent companies simply to ensure I never bought anything of theirs again.
Andrew Keen's new book, The Cult of the Amateur is the latest addition to the Newsnight book club. In it, the author expresses his concern for the profligacy of online amateurism, spawned by the digital revolution. This, he feels, has had a destructive impact on our culture, economy and values.
He says, "[They] can use their networked computers to publish everything from uninformed political commentary, to unseemly home videos, to embarrassingly amateurish music, to unreadable poems, reviews, essays, and novels".
He complains that blogs are "collectively corrupting and confusing popular opinion about everything from politics, to commerce, to arts and culture".
He claims that Wikipedia perpetuates a cycle of misinformation and ignorance, and labels YouTube inane and absurd, "showing poor fools dancing, singing, eating, washing, shopping, driving, cleaning, sleeping, or just staring at their computers."
He warns that old media is facing extinction - "say goodbye to experts and cultural gatekeepers - our reporters, news anchors, editors, music companies, and Hollywood movie studios."
This is a FUD article from someone with a vested interest against TiVo and who either has not a clue what he's talking about or is intentionally confusing two things.
This is a PC based DVR, not a DVR for online video. You aren't going to be recording Hulu off this, just your standard TV.
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I take that to mean that you had trouble with the meaning of merely since if you understood it you would have realized that your argument has zip to do with what I said.
Here's a hint. When someone is saying sarcastically: "Are you one of those people who assume that addiction is merely a matter of will power?" in the tone that indicates someone saying yes is to be derided. That is a good clue that the person speaking believes that overcoming addiction requires more than simple willpower. Not that the person believes that willpower is irreverent.
But hey, don't let a lack of reading comprehension inhibit your posting. I'm sure to you spouting off is a bit of an addition in itself.
Nope, which is why the 'hack' that was just released included the code allowing programs written to use it to access and use SDHC cards.
And it's use in humans is not? Sometimes fixing the problem isn't practical or something that we know how to do, sometimes the best you can do is work to make the situation manageable and bearable.
Forget the submariners, get a battleship crew up there. They'll know what to do.
Nor do I, which is why my post was a response to someone poo pahing the idea and not to the idea itself.
The most recent revision to the SD flash card specification (SD High Capacity), it allows SD cards to break the size barriers that existed for the old standard.
Did you have troble with the meaning of the word 'merely' in my post or were you in such a hurry tripping over yourself to get in a word that you missed it?
And find me someone who's kicked their heroin addiction purely on the basis of will power. Someone who won't feel the craving the rest of their life, not just someone who's learned to fight it.
Yeah, that's just what we need.
One fuck up in contraception and all the sudden you've got the first interstellar birth with a kid that's doomed to spend the rest of their life on another planet, the mom and/or it doesn't die. You want to think about how hard it is to get baby vomit out of instrumentation?
Or are we going to try the Chinese route and sterlize everyone going up? I'm sure that'll help the ranks of volunteers swell.
Or hey! Here's an idea, shove the possibility of romance related tensions into missions where people are already going to be living almost right on top of each other. I'm sure between the stress of the mission, the complete lack of privacy, and love triangles there couldn't possibly be anything that could go wrong there.
After Lisa Hardwick flipped out over her relationship issues on the ground, you really think NASA has enough of a pulse on their people that they can pick the right group that won't snap up there?
Dear me, what a quaint and outdated view of what depression is and how it works. Are you one of those people who assume that addiction is merely a matter of will power? Or are you and Tom Cruise shacking up together to discuss the fallacies of modern psychology.
Thank you for reminding us how people treated the ill back in the 1800's.
So you are saying Quake is like a gateway drug, leading to such unsavory professions as Gamestop employee? Dear me, I'm glad Jack Thompson is disbarred, he would have had a field day....
NIMBY! NIMBY!
Alright, but don't start complaining if I discount your opinions when deciding what to develop.
I'm not defending OP's lack of RTFA skills. But really, $50 per user per year is a drop in a bucket for any company actually making money. Consider most companies that employ blackberries are paying ~$50 a user a month. And most companies that provide company paid cell phones are paying at least ~$20 a phone a month.
Nor is this a huge disaster for Google.
RIM has had some very spectacular outages in the past, yet people still want their 'Crackberry'.
The company I work for just got hit in the past two weeks with a huge issue, our data center is located off site and we appearently lost the link to it mid-day Friday and it was still out mid-morning on Monday. After that, AT&T went belly up and no one in the corporate office could dial out. This is a company with over a thousand locations nation-wide.
And yet, no one is screaming for us to switch to a new data center, or to drop AT&T. Because these things only happen once in a blue moon. Just as Google outages do. Yes, while things are down, you get some very nasty feedback, and you learn the difference between type a and type b personalities. But once everything is back up, unless someone went out of their way to ensure that the decision makers are too pissed to forget about it, they do. Until the next time.
The question isn't "How long will Google be down" but "How often will Google be down". So far the answer is "Seldom". And that'll work for 90% of the folk out there using them.
The point was, with better equipment you get the same sensation of loudness without as much danger.
Peel-On, apply directly to the peel!
Or maybe they mean you have to apply it in a reverse peeling motion instead of simply slamming it straight down....
I really think the moral of that story wasn't "Spend time with your kids" as much as it is "Only give them crud and they'll thank you for giving them something that actually looks as if it was worth something."
Are you asking if the axe would be easily removable once it penetrates the relatively weak casing of a lithium powered battery and the resulting explosion lodges it in your forehead?
That depends, what type of rock would you consider your head to be made of? ;-)
Most companies that produce 'disposable' level items like an electic toothbrush do design in a way to remove the battery before disposing. As I mentioned in my first post, this DOES destroy the item. They've done their work to ensure that you won't be replacing the battery.
However whether they expect people to actually follow through or if they are just doing it because they know that they'll receive bad PR from environmental groups if they don't would be up to you to decide.
Regardless, Apple is in the minority in this. And while other companies undoubtably would be impacted by the law, it isn't that much of a attention grab to mention them when talking about this issue. They are one of the highest profile items out there without user accessable batteries.
Yes with qualifications. Yes. Yes.
Short summary,previous to the 3g it required using a sodering iron near a plastic bag filled with highly flamable liquid. The 3g's battery isn't hard sodered however, so it's slightly easier.
Please note however, I'm making a distinction between user replaceable and user removeable. My razor and toothbrush are not designed to have the battery replaced. But they are designed to have the battery removed when the user is ready to dispose of the item.
My entire household is almost litterally filled with devices contain rechargable batteries. From my toothbrush and razor to my wireless headphones and clocks. Even my PC has rechargeable batteries in it.
Want to guess how many of these, other than my iPod, aren't designed to be user removeable? Zero.
Granted, my toothbrush and razor both are designed so that the process of removing the battery 'breaks' the device. But both have clearly marked instructions indicating this should be done before throwing them away.
It can't. The article author is a moron who is trying to drum up scares. The Tivo product he is refering to is not "Tivo for Hulu" despite how he describes it. It's just a normal TV tuner (i.e. a card that lets you watch normal TV on the PC) with Tivo software to allow you to do the same things you could have done with a stand alone DVR.
It's true I don't want ads shoved in my face, but on the other side of the coin, I often visit the Apple trailers site and watch odd or funny ads on YouTube and their ilk.
It's not the ads that I mind as much as their presentation. The last time I visited my folks we watched a PAY PER VIEW movie on dish. Every 5-10 minutes the show was interupted for the same effing, stupid, Bounty commerical.
It made me want to go home and research Bounty and it's parent companies simply to ensure I never bought anything of theirs again.
Or the blurbs about his book:
This is a FUD article from someone with a vested interest against TiVo and who either has not a clue what he's talking about or is intentionally confusing two things.
This is a PC based DVR, not a DVR for online video. You aren't going to be recording Hulu off this, just your standard TV.