That's what I do. I don't trust my photography equipment to the baggage handlers and since I'm going to have to pay extra anyway, I'd much rather ship my gear to a hotel at least a day ahead of time than have to worry about whether my gear will arrive ahead of or behind me when my flight is delayed. I've also seen fewer dents and dings from shippers and have yet to have a lens disappear some time between the time I dropped my bag off and picked it up. It's happened to me on two different airlines.
As opposed to what? Before people were "forced" to recycle? When old equipment almost always ended up in a landfill or was dumped into the ocean, as New York used to do with all of their trash?
It's the Slashdot version of "just sayin'" as a way of appearing to distance oneself from one's opinion if it proves unpopular or appears to say something about the writer.
Just about everybody here is "hiding" behind a pseudonym, so why the weasel words? You've given your opinion, which is yours. Absolutely nothing wrong there.
Having played - or having attempted to play - a song on on one of those, anybody who can make music on a Theremin is a hero in my book. It's easy to make random noise (very cool sounding random noise, but random nonetheless), but not so easy to play a recognizable tune.
I don't think anybody would ever mistake a phone camera for a DSLR or even a point-and-shoot.
But that's not the point of having a camera in a phone, is it? It's far more likely for someone to have their phone available to them than their camera equipment and I'd be much happier getting a picture of an event with my phone's camera - even if it wasn't optimal - than not getting it at all because I didn't have my DSLR with me...
Good points. The AT&T data plan for my Treo was high enough - at $64/mo - that going to an iPhone paid for itself within the remaining term of my contract just because of the difference in cost of the data plans.
Gee, when I was a kid all you needed to find out what books I had checked out was ask. Up to and including college, the checkout slips had the book's name, my name and a return date.
Granted there were several thousand volumes and everything was kept manually, but if someone was interested in finding out, it was only a matter of time and staff to find out - if anybody cared, that was...
A high-profile well-publicized investigation may make people more aware of the tactics that fraudsters use to recruit mules and could decrease the pool of people available purposes of laundering ill-gotten gains. It also serves the purpose of potentially scaring off mules that are very aware that they are laundering money for someone else but are nervous of being investigated by the Feds...
I have little objective evidence to support this, but I have a suspicion that people could use the old manual typewriters for so long without problem because it took quite a bit more effort to press a key on them than it takes to press a key on a modern keyboard. I've asked people who used to work in typing pools in the past about it and they didn't indicate the same problem with RSI that people who have never used anything but a computer keyboard seem to have. Some of this can be chalked up to the way that worker's comp works now, but the anecdotal evidence I've seen seems to support it.
As for keyboards, I seem to have fewer problems typing for long periods without strain with my old Northgate OmniKey (key switch - a bit harder to press) at home versus the cheapo membrane Dell keyboards that we use at work.
The 555 exchange was reserved for Directory Services in all area codes in the United States and and can't be used for standard numbers (meaning that the owner of a real number doesn't get called by millions of idiots who ask to talk to the movie character).
Strangely enough, there are a set of numbers that are uniquely reserved for fictional use: 555-0100 through 555-0199.
You have to look at when he wrote that - he was talking about LED watches.
To get the time, you had to press a button on the side - meaning that you had to have two hands free to figure out what time it was. I still have the one that I got as a graduation gift. I wear it every once in a while to work to weird people out...
Changing money size would mean that every machine that vends any type of bus/train/transit ticket here would have to be swapped out. These machines are usually owned by the municipalities in which the machines reside. Most, if not all, local governments are operating in deficit. So is the Federal Government. The new machines would cost money, so unless the vendor was either uncharacteristically benevolent or fiscally stupid enough to give them away, no local government would consider taking the cost of replacement on. And Federally-mandated programs with no source of reimbursement are really popular right now...
Not to mention cash registers - I'm sure all of the mom-and-pop stores would be happy to toss their old single-size machines in favor of something new...
Because a non-trivial number of people are left-handed?
Look, the world has already chosen to support leftys. You can get left-handed scissors - and they cost more money to make - why is it a problem to ask that a user environment be adaptible?
If by "they" you mean the Blu-ray Disk Association, then you'd be right. Sony is only a member. If you're going to tar them for the encryption, you also have to tar Intel, LG, Mitsubishi and 15 other members with the same brush.
The IEEE is a standards body, not an enforcement one. If a manufacturer wishes to deviate from the standard, there's nothing that the IEEE can do about it. In the time I've been doing this I've learned this about vendor equipment: There's a standard and then there's the way that a vendor chooses to implement the standard.
Every manufacturer I've worked with has added "features" that make them not-completely-compatible with equipment from other manufactuers. Sure, they'll work, sometimes completely, but not consistently. And your autonegotiation example is an excellent example - for us, it has worked about half the time and has caused more problems than it's worth - so we don't use it any more. We also do rigorous testing to make sure that new equipment plays well with the existing equipment before we place it into production.
Ever hear of Medical tourism? Americans are leaving the country to get surgery and other treatments done because they can't afford to get it done here due to lack of coverage or gaps in coverage with their insurance.
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I look at their screens with all the boppity and the poppity and the flashity and I just wonder, how in THE HELL can they absorb any information at the web sites they are at with all those things sliding all over the place and everything moving and yelling LOOK AT ME!
My company uses IE 6 too and I have no problems with popup stuff - I ignore it. Unless the popup takes control of the mouse or covers the text that I'm interested in, I simply don't see it...
Why do we need this government mandated health database?
Because if I have a medical problem in New York at night there's almost zero chance of a doctor there knowing that I'm allergic to penicillin-based drugs because that information is only on paper files in my doctor in California's office and he is only available 9-4:30 PST. No, I don't have a Medic-Alert bracelet - I shouldn't need one. That information should be available to emergency personnel anywhere I am at any time and a goverment-mandated database is the only way this is likely to happen.
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That's what I do. I don't trust my photography equipment to the baggage handlers and since I'm going to have to pay extra anyway, I'd much rather ship my gear to a hotel at least a day ahead of time than have to worry about whether my gear will arrive ahead of or behind me when my flight is delayed. I've also seen fewer dents and dings from shippers and have yet to have a lens disappear some time between the time I dropped my bag off and picked it up. It's happened to me on two different airlines.
Ask Adam West about getting typecast.
He didn't get a whole lot of work after playing Batman in the 60's. Now he mostly parodies the role...
a Journey to the Far Side of the Sun? I hope they remember to switch polarity!
It would definitely give a different meaning to "What would you do for a Klondike Bar"!
As opposed to what? Before people were "forced" to recycle? When old equipment almost always ended up in a landfill or was dumped into the ocean, as New York used to do with all of their trash?
Just about everybody here is "hiding" behind a pseudonym, so why the weasel words? You've given your opinion, which is yours. Absolutely nothing wrong there.
That's an NFL rule, not the Raiders. The NFL blackout policy states that games sold out 72 hours prior to kickoff can be televised in the home city.
Having played - or having attempted to play - a song on on one of those, anybody who can make music on a Theremin is a hero in my book. It's easy to make random noise (very cool sounding random noise, but random nonetheless), but not so easy to play a recognizable tune.
I don't think anybody would ever mistake a phone camera for a DSLR or even a point-and-shoot.
But that's not the point of having a camera in a phone, is it? It's far more likely for someone to have their phone available to them than their camera equipment and I'd be much happier getting a picture of an event with my phone's camera - even if it wasn't optimal - than not getting it at all because I didn't have my DSLR with me...
Good points. The AT&T data plan for my Treo was high enough - at $64/mo - that going to an iPhone paid for itself within the remaining term of my contract just because of the difference in cost of the data plans.
Gee, when I was a kid all you needed to find out what books I had checked out was ask. Up to and including college, the checkout slips had the book's name, my name and a return date.
Granted there were several thousand volumes and everything was kept manually, but if someone was interested in finding out, it was only a matter of time and staff to find out - if anybody cared, that was...
This makes sense.
A high-profile well-publicized investigation may make people more aware of the tactics that fraudsters use to recruit mules and could decrease the pool of people available purposes of laundering ill-gotten gains. It also serves the purpose of potentially scaring off mules that are very aware that they are laundering money for someone else but are nervous of being investigated by the Feds...
I have little objective evidence to support this, but I have a suspicion that people could use the old manual typewriters for so long without problem because it took quite a bit more effort to press a key on them than it takes to press a key on a modern keyboard. I've asked people who used to work in typing pools in the past about it and they didn't indicate the same problem with RSI that people who have never used anything but a computer keyboard seem to have. Some of this can be chalked up to the way that worker's comp works now, but the anecdotal evidence I've seen seems to support it.
As for keyboards, I seem to have fewer problems typing for long periods without strain with my old Northgate OmniKey (key switch - a bit harder to press) at home versus the cheapo membrane Dell keyboards that we use at work.
The 555 exchange was reserved for Directory Services in all area codes in the United States and and can't be used for standard numbers (meaning that the owner of a real number doesn't get called by millions of idiots who ask to talk to the movie character).
Strangely enough, there are a set of numbers that are uniquely reserved for fictional use: 555-0100 through 555-0199.
To get the time, you had to press a button on the side - meaning that you had to have two hands free to figure out what time it was. I still have the one that I got as a graduation gift. I wear it every once in a while to work to weird people out...
Precisely. Nothing like walking down the street in any major city with coins jingling in your pocket. Talk about panhandler magnets...
Changing money size would mean that every machine that vends any type of bus/train/transit ticket here would have to be swapped out. These machines are usually owned by the municipalities in which the machines reside. Most, if not all, local governments are operating in deficit. So is the Federal Government. The new machines would cost money, so unless the vendor was either uncharacteristically benevolent or fiscally stupid enough to give them away, no local government would consider taking the cost of replacement on. And Federally-mandated programs with no source of reimbursement are really popular right now...
Not to mention cash registers - I'm sure all of the mom-and-pop stores would be happy to toss their old single-size machines in favor of something new...
Then Lenovo's a bit late to the game. Compaq did it with the Compaq TC 1000 eight years ago.
Look, the world has already chosen to support leftys. You can get left-handed scissors - and they cost more money to make - why is it a problem to ask that a user environment be adaptible?
If by "they" you mean the Blu-ray Disk Association, then you'd be right. Sony is only a member. If you're going to tar them for the encryption, you also have to tar Intel, LG, Mitsubishi and 15 other members with the same brush.
Do you think that Apple made the decision to sell the song as part of an album exclusively?
Every manufacturer I've worked with has added "features" that make them not-completely-compatible with equipment from other manufactuers. Sure, they'll work, sometimes completely, but not consistently. And your autonegotiation example is an excellent example - for us, it has worked about half the time and has caused more problems than it's worth - so we don't use it any more. We also do rigorous testing to make sure that new equipment plays well with the existing equipment before we place it into production.
Ever hear of Medical tourism? Americans are leaving the country to get surgery and other treatments done because they can't afford to get it done here due to lack of coverage or gaps in coverage with their insurance.
I look at their screens with all the boppity and the poppity and the flashity and I just wonder, how in THE HELL can they absorb any information at the web sites they are at with all those things sliding all over the place and everything moving and yelling LOOK AT ME!
My company uses IE 6 too and I have no problems with popup stuff - I ignore it. Unless the popup takes control of the mouse or covers the text that I'm interested in, I simply don't see it...
Why do we need this government mandated health database?
Because if I have a medical problem in New York at night there's almost zero chance of a doctor there knowing that I'm allergic to penicillin-based drugs because that information is only on paper files in my doctor in California's office and he is only available 9-4:30 PST. No, I don't have a Medic-Alert bracelet - I shouldn't need one. That information should be available to emergency personnel anywhere I am at any time and a goverment-mandated database is the only way this is likely to happen.