Soon enough people will shoot the birds, steal their phones, and then sell those phones.
I haven't RTFA, but I highly doubt they are strapping regular commercial cell-phones, complete with push-buttons and display screens, to the birds.
more likely, it's just a single device, that can read pollution data, get a GPS reading, and transmit this information over the cell-phone network to a pre-programmed number. I highly doubt such a device would be much use to anyone who stole it, or have much value on the black market.
Circulation and accounting are connected like two wrestling squid. Every night a whole series of jobs are run referencing all kinds of billing information to determine whose subscriptions are paid up to the point where they qualify to get a paper in the morning. So all the customer card/account numbers are processed by the circulation side, and sent in cash batches to accounting.
So you see there is a financial subset inside circulation that deals with that billing info, which is why they have access to it. The reason it doesn't go straight to accounting is because, in most papers, accounting deals almost exclusively with advertising revenue and billing, which is a lot more complex than 15 bucks a month, or whatever the news subscription rate is, which gets billed automatically.
Um... your description explains why the circulation department needs 1) a unique identifier for each customer and 2) the balance available on their account. You haven't demonstrated why anyone other than one or two people in the billing department would need to have access to the actual credit card or checking account numbers.
If they are using the credit card number as the unique identifier for the customer, that's just dumb, and they deserve censure for setting up the system on such an insecure foundation-- since they have practically gaurenteed some form of security leak.
Or, if they were so "Pro-Life" they wouldn't be sending people off to die overseas for questionable (at best) reasons.
What really irks me are pro-lifers who are against education and/or against birth control. Huh? What better way to avoid abortions than preventing unwanted pregnancies from happening in the first place?
Ardent Pro-Lifers and ardent Pro-Choicers can agree on one thing: in an ideal world, if no one involved wanted to raise the child, then no pregnancy would occur in the first place.
Pro-choicers who are anti-education and/or anti-birth control are making the statement that imposing their version of abstinance morality on people is more important than preventing abortions.If they did not value the life of the feotus less than they value controlling other people's bedroom activities, they'd see education and birth control, at worst, as "neccessary evils."
Is this reasearch to help medical patients with pain management by adding the knowlege that keeping hydrated is an important component of that?
Or is it to conduct illegal and ineffectual "intellegence gathering" on illegally held "enemy combatents"?
Not meant as a flame. I'm very curious in who is conducting this research and why-- because this knowlege is definitely a two-edged sword, depending on how it's used. (Well, that's true of ANY knowlege. In this case, the contrast is just sharper...)
I'm not claiming that a feudalistic society is what Libertarians are intentionally shooting for, just that according to my understanding of libertarian ideas (and I admit my reading has been limited, so my understanding may be flawed) that's the result I see happening, intended or not.
There are things about Libertarianism that I really like, and there are things I would "borrow" from Libertarianism for my "ideal" party platform. But as a complete system, I don't see it working as intended.
because the government doesn't restrict class mobility like it is trying to now.
But my understanding (and correct me if I'm wrong) is that the government also doesn't do anything to protect the "have nots" from the "haves". Thus, the version of the free-market system Libertarianim employs would be skewed in favor of those that already have more, and thus weath and power would neccesarily become more and more concentrated in fewer and fewer hands.
A friend of mine who's a Libertarian tells me that Libertarians don't even beleive in public money for education (again, let me know if I'm misinformed in that). If this is the case, that would further exagerate the differences in oppertunity between people born into privilage, and people who are not.
If I am wrong, and Libertarianism does provide safegards for people who don't have the weath to bargin on equal footing with those that do have wealth, and if it does provide for a strong public education system so that everyone at least has a shot at a decent education-- then I will revise my opinion about what the end result of Libertarianism taken to it's natural conclusion would likely be.
a more telling example is a search for "falun gong" on each google site. the one's at.cn are clearly anti-FG propaganda, while.com results mostly document chinese gov abuses of FG practitioners. in this cases, it looks like google isn't simply censoring search results, it's helping the chinese gov't to spread propaganda.
I'm out of Mod points. Could someone mod the above-quoted parent up?
The Republicans pay lip service to small government, fiscal responsibility, and strong family, but often act in ways conter to these ideals.
The Democrats pay lip service to civil liberties, social justice, and defending the "little guy", but often act in ways counter to these ideals.
The Libertarians pay lip service to freedom, but work for a society that is essentially a neo-fuedalism: the amont of power and rights you have is based on how much land you own and wealth you have. If you're not born to land, weath, and oppertunity-- well, sucks to be you, because there's no one to protect your freedom from those that have these forms of power.
The Greens pay lip service to enviornmental protection and social justice, but care more about ideological purity than the actual results of their actions. Thus, their actions often have results that are clearly counter to their aims, but because they're right dammit they do them anyway. They care more about being ideologically correct than about making a real difference for good.
Choosing a political party is just a matter of deciding who's lies are prettier and more appealing.
I would love a party that was fiscally responsible, beleived in personal freedom, social justice, enviornmental responsibility, supported small buisiness, supported real family values (i.e. NOT including "hatred" and "intolerance" and "close-mindedness"), was anti-corruption in government and business and supported government that did what was absolutely neccesary for a strong society, but no more than that. I doubt I will ever see such an animal. (well, one may come along that pays lip service to all these things, but more than that? Not bloody likely.)
Good God! The cheapest studio I've seen in this area is $900 a month; $1100-$1200 is more typica (and on up to $3000+ for a single-room apartment if it's a nice area or building). Living in a four bedroom apartment with three undergrads, it's possible to get your rent as low as $500 a month, but I've never seen rent cheaper than that. (OK, some of the *really* low-end student-roomate situations get as low as $400/mo, but those tend not to be the safest areas, or the sanest roomates.)
Where the heck do you live that you can have a studio apartment all to yourself for just $300 a month?
$5 a day for food might be doable, if I could convince myself to live entirely on beans and rice (and maybe dried pasta without sauce). But I find meat and veggies to be too tempting to be able to pull that off.
England, Australia, and from what I've heard, the US as well. I mean, you are rich countries, why build like third world?
The US is a big place. I don't know what they do in California, the Midwest, or the Deep South, but here in the Northeast insulation is a very big deal.
Some older houses have poor insulation, but those are the lower rent areas-- houses that were well-to-do single family houses a hundred years ago, but have since been chopped up into multiple apartments of the sort that those of us on a student-buget tend to rent. And even those have a tendency to have insulation added when they are renovated.
I've never heard of a new house being built, or a major revison being done to an old house in this part of the country, without insulation being a very important consideration.
Obviouslly this wouldn't work for everything. As you note, high performence gaming and password security might be compromised. But I can see it being very handy for, for example, my scanner and printer. Both for my laptop (not having to hook it up each time I want to use them) and for my desktop (it gives me greater flexibility-- they would no longer need to be within cable's reach of the computer, I could set them up on the other side of the room rather than using prime realestate on my desk).
Being on dial-up might even be worse for your security, since most people who have only dial-up will ignore security updates. (Predictably enough, downloading large patches is more troublesome when you have a slow and infrequent network connection)
This is exactly how my Mom's system got destroyed by the Blaster worm.
Norton Security Updates and MS Patches each took hours do download, and the announcements that these updates were needed came on a regular basis. The only way she could possibly have kept up to date was to leave her dial-up connection on all the time, continually downloading updates, and never use her phone. When the Blaster was making it's rounds, both her OS security and her anti-virus software were several months out of date... and guess what happened?
(A) Nothing happens that God did not intend to happen.
Wow. So when a young child is tortured and murdered by a psychopath, God wanted that to happen? Do you really beleive God is that sadistic? And if God were that sadistic, would He/She/It/They really be deserving of worship?
Why would a "Just God" create a world where young children are sometimes tortured and killed? If God valued "free will" so much, why would there be slavery, unjust imprisonment, concetration camps, and other things that prevent some people from ever being able to exersize this all important "free will", this "free will" that is so precious some people have to withstand unjust tortures for it to exist for other people (such as their tormenters)?
If I beleived in am omnicient, omipitent being, I would have to conclude that He/She/It/They was utterly capricious and amoral, and hence utterly undeserving of worship. But fortunately, I don't beleive in an omipitent, omicient being, so I'm not forced to take such a heretical stance. (I'm agnostic when it comes to spirituality in general, but I am unable to have any beleif in a Christian/Muslim/Hebrew type God.)
The man's been married for a while now. By this point, slashdot is the only thing left in his life over which he has any control. I say we all turn a blind eye to a little editorializing from the man, considering it's the only way he can feel like one anymore.
/me Rolls eyes You know, I don't know "CmdrTaco", but if my own (really terrific, btw) geeky boyfriend ever feels like, because of me, "slashdot is the only think over his life over which he has any control" and he "doesn't feel like a man anymore", I hope he just leaves me: because a relationship you treat like a ball and chain is worse than no relationship at all.
I've got two mod points left, and I was very tempted to mod you down "troll" for the sexism in that content-- but this is slashdot. If I used my mod points for that, that's all I'd be using them for.
(Or perhaps, because you're not getting any, you're just jealous of those that are? Oops-- was that my out loud voice?)
And also this being slashdot, I fully expect this post to be modded "Troll" for "not having a sense of humor". But that's OK. I've never been modded "Troll" before, and I'd like to see what it's like.;^)
Crap pay? This is a myth. Teachers are some of the best paid for the actual time they spend and the quality of their output.
You can't possibly be serious. Every teacher I know spends their evenings and weekends grading assignments and preparing lessons, and their summers writing up lesson plans. The vast majority of teachers put in more hours per year than other educated professionals, but for a fraction of the pay.
I've installed Wiki software, and every type I've looked at has not only a history, but a mechanizim for saving "freezes" of the entire wiki that can then be restored.
In addtion, I make back-ups from the shell, completely independantly, and download them to another machine/cd/whatever. That way if the Wiki system failed entirely, I could restore a substantial amount of the work. I make the save points and backups periodically, or whenever substantial work has been done.
I'm confued why these options weren't available to you? I can't imagine setting up a wiki somewhere where I didn't have enough control over it to personally assure that there were backups.
1) Change Oracle's status to "Charity"
2) Donate $100B to the Oracle Charity Fund
3) Change Oracle's status back to "For Profit Corporation"
4) Profit!!!
...except that the law doesn't allow you to change a companies status from non-profit to for-profit. You can disolve a non-profit, but the assets have to be given to another non-profit-- you can't just take the money and run.
(At least not without playing Anderson-style accounting games that will make the SEC and the IRS very, very, disapointed in you if you get caugt...)
Most likely outcome is they fire you and the boss that let you get away with this, scrap your code, and hire someone else to re-write it from scratch in a maintainable way.
This "joke" is a dinosaur, thirty years out of date. In the 70's there might have been some truth to it, but "maintainability" is now a mainstream concept not just among developers, but in management circles as well.
This was a humorous joke once, but now it's at least a decade past it's expiration date.
Words have meaning. That meaning matters to communication. Thus "semantics" have some relevance to any converstaion.
The statement"There is no paid support available for WordPress": I'm too lazy to investigate this, so I will take you at your word and assume that this statement is absolutely true.
The statement "There is no paid support avialable for WordPress because it's free:" This statement is pattently false, even if the other is presumed to be ture. There are, demonstrably, services and consultants that offer paid support for "free" software in both senses of the word "free". So claiming that it's "free" status is the reason why there is no paid support is perposterous.
If that's playing games with semantics, then so is any spoken or written form of language where words have meaning and logic is followed.
So how do we decide who to invite?...
Then we put together a list of a thousand odd
names that we have to winnow down as best we can...
Sixth cut: the bozo filter. Someone who has been at a previous FOO camp, and whom we had complaints about for some reason or another, or who has built that kind of reputation on the net. Unfortunately, you probably don't know who you are, but other people do.
Tim: Dude, no. Last time I invited you to a party, you broke into my parent's liquor cabinent, through half their furnature into the fireplace, had sex with the dog, and I was grounded for a month. You are most definitely not invited.
Bozo:ELITIST!!!
As it says in the article, this is an event that only works well if it is below a certain size, and where there are many more deserving poetential invities than there are spots for them. There IS NO PERFECT WAY to filter down a group like that. This is not high-school, where everyone but you got invited to the cool party, so now you're not talkint to your best friend anymore.
Also notice that this is "sixth cut"-- where they've already made five passes at trying to cut the guest list down to a managable size, but still need to cut it down further.
Creating the "Bar" camp is a cool idea. Bitching about not getting into the "Foo" camp is just childish.
IMHO, the biggest issue with PDAs right now is screen real-estate. Yes, the small size is convenient, but the convenience is (almost) outweighed for me by screen size. I'd prefer something slightly larger with more real-estate.
All flat maps of the US are lies. I mean, don't these people realize that it's impossible to make an acurate flat representation of a curved surface? Rivers change course, mountains are growing and erodeing, and don't even get me started on changing town and county boundaries. Besides, some of these maps have less than 50 meter accuracy in the placement of roads. They are lying to their customers!
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Soon enough people will shoot the birds, steal their phones, and then sell those phones.
I haven't RTFA, but I highly doubt they are strapping regular commercial cell-phones, complete with push-buttons and display screens, to the birds.
more likely, it's just a single device, that can read pollution data, get a GPS reading, and transmit this information over the cell-phone network to a pre-programmed number. I highly doubt such a device would be much use to anyone who stole it, or have much value on the black market.
Circulation and accounting are connected like two wrestling squid. Every night a whole series of jobs are run referencing all kinds of billing information to determine whose subscriptions are paid up to the point where they qualify to get a paper in the morning. So all the customer card/account numbers are processed by the circulation side, and sent in cash batches to accounting.
So you see there is a financial subset inside circulation that deals with that billing info, which is why they have access to it. The reason it doesn't go straight to accounting is because, in most papers, accounting deals almost exclusively with advertising revenue and billing, which is a lot more complex than 15 bucks a month, or whatever the news subscription rate is, which gets billed automatically.
Um... your description explains why the circulation department needs 1) a unique identifier for each customer and 2) the balance available on their account. You haven't demonstrated why anyone other than one or two people in the billing department would need to have access to the actual credit card or checking account numbers.
If they are using the credit card number as the unique identifier for the customer, that's just dumb, and they deserve censure for setting up the system on such an insecure foundation-- since they have practically gaurenteed some form of security leak.
Or, if they were so "Pro-Life" they wouldn't be sending people off to die overseas for questionable (at best) reasons.
What really irks me are pro-lifers who are against education and/or against birth control. Huh? What better way to avoid abortions than preventing unwanted pregnancies from happening in the first place?
Ardent Pro-Lifers and ardent Pro-Choicers can agree on one thing: in an ideal world, if no one involved wanted to raise the child, then no pregnancy would occur in the first place.
Pro-choicers who are anti-education and/or anti-birth control are making the statement that imposing their version of abstinance morality on people is more important than preventing abortions.If they did not value the life of the feotus less than they value controlling other people's bedroom activities, they'd see education and birth control, at worst, as "neccessary evils."
Is this reasearch to help medical patients with pain management by adding the knowlege that keeping hydrated is an important component of that?
Or is it to conduct illegal and ineffectual "intellegence gathering" on illegally held "enemy combatents"?
Not meant as a flame. I'm very curious in who is conducting this research and why-- because this knowlege is definitely a two-edged sword, depending on how it's used. (Well, that's true of ANY knowlege. In this case, the contrast is just sharper...)
+1 Informative. Why do the posts I really want to mod up always appear the day after my mod points expire?
I'm not claiming that a feudalistic society is what Libertarians are intentionally shooting for, just that according to my understanding of libertarian ideas (and I admit my reading has been limited, so my understanding may be flawed) that's the result I see happening, intended or not.
There are things about Libertarianism that I really like, and there are things I would "borrow" from Libertarianism for my "ideal" party platform. But as a complete system, I don't see it working as intended.
because the government doesn't restrict class mobility like it is trying to now.
But my understanding (and correct me if I'm wrong) is that the government also doesn't do anything to protect the "have nots" from the "haves". Thus, the version of the free-market system Libertarianim employs would be skewed in favor of those that already have more, and thus weath and power would neccesarily become more and more concentrated in fewer and fewer hands.
A friend of mine who's a Libertarian tells me that Libertarians don't even beleive in public money for education (again, let me know if I'm misinformed in that). If this is the case, that would further exagerate the differences in oppertunity between people born into privilage, and people who are not.
If I am wrong, and Libertarianism does provide safegards for people who don't have the weath to bargin on equal footing with those that do have wealth, and if it does provide for a strong public education system so that everyone at least has a shot at a decent education-- then I will revise my opinion about what the end result of Libertarianism taken to it's natural conclusion would likely be.
a more telling example is a search for "falun gong" on each google site. the one's at .cn are clearly anti-FG propaganda, while .com results mostly document chinese gov abuses of FG practitioners. in this cases, it looks like google isn't simply censoring search results, it's helping the chinese gov't to spread propaganda.
I'm out of Mod points. Could someone mod the above-quoted parent up?
The Republicans pay lip service to small government, fiscal responsibility, and strong family, but often act in ways conter to these ideals.
The Democrats pay lip service to civil liberties, social justice, and defending the "little guy", but often act in ways counter to these ideals.
The Libertarians pay lip service to freedom, but work for a society that is essentially a neo-fuedalism: the amont of power and rights you have is based on how much land you own and wealth you have. If you're not born to land, weath, and oppertunity-- well, sucks to be you, because there's no one to protect your freedom from those that have these forms of power.
The Greens pay lip service to enviornmental protection and social justice, but care more about ideological purity than the actual results of their actions. Thus, their actions often have results that are clearly counter to their aims, but because they're right dammit they do them anyway. They care more about being ideologically correct than about making a real difference for good.
Choosing a political party is just a matter of deciding who's lies are prettier and more appealing.
I would love a party that was fiscally responsible, beleived in personal freedom, social justice, enviornmental responsibility, supported small buisiness, supported real family values (i.e. NOT including "hatred" and "intolerance" and "close-mindedness"), was anti-corruption in government and business and supported government that did what was absolutely neccesary for a strong society, but no more than that. I doubt I will ever see such an animal. (well, one may come along that pays lip service to all these things, but more than that? Not bloody likely.)
Good God! The cheapest studio I've seen in this area is $900 a month; $1100-$1200 is more typica (and on up to $3000+ for a single-room apartment if it's a nice area or building). Living in a four bedroom apartment with three undergrads, it's possible to get your rent as low as $500 a month, but I've never seen rent cheaper than that. (OK, some of the *really* low-end student-roomate situations get as low as $400/mo, but those tend not to be the safest areas, or the sanest roomates.)
Where the heck do you live that you can have a studio apartment all to yourself for just $300 a month?
$5 a day for food might be doable, if I could convince myself to live entirely on beans and rice (and maybe dried pasta without sauce). But I find meat and veggies to be too tempting to be able to pull that off.
England, Australia, and from what I've heard, the US as well. I mean, you are rich countries, why build like third world?
The US is a big place. I don't know what they do in California, the Midwest, or the Deep South, but here in the Northeast insulation is a very big deal.
Some older houses have poor insulation, but those are the lower rent areas-- houses that were well-to-do single family houses a hundred years ago, but have since been chopped up into multiple apartments of the sort that those of us on a student-buget tend to rent. And even those have a tendency to have insulation added when they are renovated.
I've never heard of a new house being built, or a major revison being done to an old house in this part of the country, without insulation being a very important consideration.
Obviouslly this wouldn't work for everything. As you note, high performence gaming and password security might be compromised. But I can see it being very handy for, for example, my scanner and printer. Both for my laptop (not having to hook it up each time I want to use them) and for my desktop (it gives me greater flexibility-- they would no longer need to be within cable's reach of the computer, I could set them up on the other side of the room rather than using prime realestate on my desk).
Being on dial-up might even be worse for your security, since most people who have only dial-up will ignore security updates. (Predictably enough, downloading large patches is more troublesome when you have a slow and infrequent network connection)
This is exactly how my Mom's system got destroyed by the Blaster worm.
Norton Security Updates and MS Patches each took hours do download, and the announcements that these updates were needed came on a regular basis. The only way she could possibly have kept up to date was to leave her dial-up connection on all the time, continually downloading updates, and never use her phone. When the Blaster was making it's rounds, both her OS security and her anti-virus software were several months out of date... and guess what happened?
(A) Nothing happens that God did not intend to happen.
Wow. So when a young child is tortured and murdered by a psychopath, God wanted that to happen? Do you really beleive God is that sadistic? And if God were that sadistic, would He/She/It/They really be deserving of worship?
Why would a "Just God" create a world where young children are sometimes tortured and killed? If God valued "free will" so much, why would there be slavery, unjust imprisonment, concetration camps, and other things that prevent some people from ever being able to exersize this all important "free will", this "free will" that is so precious some people have to withstand unjust tortures for it to exist for other people (such as their tormenters)?
If I beleived in am omnicient, omipitent being, I would have to conclude that He/She/It/They was utterly capricious and amoral, and hence utterly undeserving of worship. But fortunately, I don't beleive in an omipitent, omicient being, so I'm not forced to take such a heretical stance. (I'm agnostic when it comes to spirituality in general, but I am unable to have any beleif in a Christian/Muslim/Hebrew type God.)
The man's been married for a while now. By this point, slashdot is the only thing left in his life over which he has any control. I say we all turn a blind eye to a little editorializing from the man, considering it's the only way he can feel like one anymore.
I've got two mod points left, and I was very tempted to mod you down "troll" for the sexism in that content-- but this is slashdot. If I used my mod points for that, that's all I'd be using them for.
(Or perhaps, because you're not getting any, you're just jealous of those that are? Oops-- was that my out loud voice?)
And also this being slashdot, I fully expect this post to be modded "Troll" for "not having a sense of humor". But that's OK. I've never been modded "Troll" before, and I'd like to see what it's like. ;^)
Crap pay? This is a myth. Teachers are some of the best paid for the actual time they spend and the quality of their output.
You can't possibly be serious. Every teacher I know spends their evenings and weekends grading assignments and preparing lessons, and their summers writing up lesson plans. The vast majority of teachers put in more hours per year than other educated professionals, but for a fraction of the pay.
color me confused
I've installed Wiki software, and every type I've looked at has not only a history, but a mechanizim for saving "freezes" of the entire wiki that can then be restored.
In addtion, I make back-ups from the shell, completely independantly, and download them to another machine/cd/whatever. That way if the Wiki system failed entirely, I could restore a substantial amount of the work. I make the save points and backups periodically, or whenever substantial work has been done.
I'm confued why these options weren't available to you? I can't imagine setting up a wiki somewhere where I didn't have enough control over it to personally assure that there were backups.
1) Change Oracle's status to "Charity"
2) Donate $100B to the Oracle Charity Fund
3) Change Oracle's status back to "For Profit Corporation"
4) Profit!!!
...except that the law doesn't allow you to change a companies status from non-profit to for-profit. You can disolve a non-profit, but the assets have to be given to another non-profit-- you can't just take the money and run.
(At least not without playing Anderson-style accounting games that will make the SEC and the IRS very, very, disapointed in you if you get caugt...)
Why? I care about freedom of speech, but if I have to pick between freedom and safety I will usually pick safety.
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."--Benjamin Franklin
Irreplacable? More like extinct.
Most likely outcome is they fire you and the boss that let you get away with this, scrap your code, and hire someone else to re-write it from scratch in a maintainable way.
This "joke" is a dinosaur, thirty years out of date. In the 70's there might have been some truth to it, but "maintainability" is now a mainstream concept not just among developers, but in management circles as well.
This was a humorous joke once, but now it's at least a decade past it's expiration date.
You're playing games with semantics.
Words have meaning. That meaning matters to communication. Thus "semantics" have some relevance to any converstaion.
The statement"There is no paid support available for WordPress": I'm too lazy to investigate this, so I will take you at your word and assume that this statement is absolutely true.
The statement "There is no paid support avialable for WordPress because it's free:" This statement is pattently false, even if the other is presumed to be ture. There are, demonstrably, services and consultants that offer paid support for "free" software in both senses of the word "free". So claiming that it's "free" status is the reason why there is no paid support is perposterous.
If that's playing games with semantics, then so is any spoken or written form of language where words have meaning and logic is followed.
From TFA:
So how do we decide who to invite? ...
Then we put together a list of a thousand odd names that we have to winnow down as best we can...
Sixth cut: the bozo filter. Someone who has been at a previous FOO camp, and whom we had complaints about for some reason or another, or who has built that kind of reputation on the net. Unfortunately, you probably don't know who you are, but other people do.
Tim: Dude, no. Last time I invited you to a party, you broke into my parent's liquor cabinent, through half their furnature into the fireplace, had sex with the dog, and I was grounded for a month. You are most definitely not invited.
Bozo:ELITIST!!!
As it says in the article, this is an event that only works well if it is below a certain size, and where there are many more deserving poetential invities than there are spots for them. There IS NO PERFECT WAY to filter down a group like that. This is not high-school, where everyone but you got invited to the cool party, so now you're not talkint to your best friend anymore.
Also notice that this is "sixth cut"-- where they've already made five passes at trying to cut the guest list down to a managable size, but still need to cut it down further.
Creating the "Bar" camp is a cool idea. Bitching about not getting into the "Foo" camp is just childish.
IMHO, the biggest issue with PDAs right now is screen real-estate. Yes, the small size is convenient, but the convenience is (almost) outweighed for me by screen size. I'd prefer something slightly larger with more real-estate.
The "individual sheets" section under the "Figures" heading halfway down the page. It has six seperate images to print seperately.
All flat maps of the US are lies. I mean, don't these people realize that it's impossible to make an acurate flat representation of a curved surface? Rivers change course, mountains are growing and erodeing, and don't even get me started on changing town and county boundaries. Besides, some of these maps have less than 50 meter accuracy in the placement of roads. They are lying to their customers!