The blood of patriots is far too precious to spend watering the earth over tyrants. We need it to bootstrap more patriots. The people who stay out of the fight are the ones who easily accept tyranny..
The fight against tyranny provides selection pressure favoring exactly the kind of people who will accept tyranny.
Well, which is it, are fossil fuels going to run out soon, and therefore aren't actually present in sufficient quantities to present much of a threat, or is there way too much carbon locked in fossil fuels for our continued health, and we should get off them before we exhaust the supply?
Same here. Only the telephone half of that duopoly is Verizon, and I still can't get FiOS. Hows abouts they work on 'making their product available' before they waste money on 'making the product popular'. If you can't buy it, you won't buy it, no matter how great the deal is.
Have you looked into EVE? It's not for everyone, but...
EVE is not for anyone any more. Advancement is done using the progress quest engine, so at this point, if you haven't been paying for the game since nearly the beginning, your ambitions are going to have to be limited to "find someone who's been playing since the beginning and join their coalition as a lowly minion for life."
It was a clever idea, but if a game is going to last, there has to be a way for new players to reach the level of other players in just a few months (i.e. wow's level cap), or a principle of conservation of stats so that advantages are offset by weaknesses giving new players a chance to compete/contribute, or a periodic reset, or some kind of way to keep things interesting so that new players aren't kept forever below long or overly dedicated players like some kind of horrid caste system.
The test is where the increased profits come from. Does opera's increased profits mean greater expense for the consumer like in the first two cases, or does it mean that opera is getting a larger piece of the pie, but actual costs to consumers goes down?
You know you can import the certificates manually. And if you carry them by hand instead of over the network, it really is more secure than the CA solution. The only way you should have extra clicks every time is if you're changing the certificate frequently. Or the guy running the MITM attack on you is changing his certificate frequently...
That's not insightful at all. The keyboard was around for like a hundred years before punch cards, and it's still here. Depending on the implementation, the punch cars were punched by a machine connected to a keyboard. Punch cards are a storage device.
The fact is that it's an efficient input mechanism, and while potentially less efficient than speech, is much easer for an automaton to process correctly.
Not to mention that you can have fifty people in a room typing away without interfering with each others' input. Let's see a voice system approach that input density.
Anyway, the analogy is all wrong for many reasons. I fail to see how it warrants an "insightful" mod.
There is a way, but you're not going to be able to do it.
Long term memory is formed from the short term memories that you keep recalling. So, if you want to forget something, the obvious way to do it is to not think about it. A lot.
And there's the problem. You can try not to think about something as much as you want, but you're only going to end up getting your city destroyed by a hundred foot tall marshmallow monster.
So? Separate out the phone financing. It should have been separate all along. It can share the bill with the service, but you should be able to drop the service part and either buy out the phone or continue the financing deal.
The way they have it now, they get to play "unregulated bank" (like paypal) at usury rates and even worse: when you finish paying off the phone, you still get to pay the subsidy rate as if you were still paying it off! (and no, I don't think $5--$10 off if I sign another 24 month contract is sufficient. I shouldn't have to sign a contract to get the rate I should be getting anyway)
There is definitely a market failure going on here, and while I oppose regulation on principle, something does need to be done to bring back competition or fix the issue. If competition is impossible in this market then regulation is in fact warranted. And the regulation should be onerous enough that the companies prefer the market solution over the regulatory one.
Problem: giant airfoil blades are too heavy for current helicopters: current helicopters need bigger airfoils to get the thrust at a reasonable power level. Some kind of giant blades are necessary...
I'm sure we can all think of circumstances where we care more about how long a machine stays on and somewhat functional than how fast it is.
Like movie watching: a few dropped frames are a small price to pay for finishing the film. If it's bothersome, maybe the brightness can be lowered during actiony bits.
Or typing while the thing is actually in your lap: not burning your groin is far more important than a hastily typed "find -exec dostuff {};" operation in the background finishing quickly.
To be superior to a gasoline car, it should have more than half the range of a gasoline powered car, I should think. Most gasoline cars are sized to have about 400 miles range, which works out nicely given our average highway speed of 60--70 mph and our typical need to eat interval of five or six hours, with a 12% reserve for miscalculations.
You must give him some information about yourself to determine if you're in the database, non? Information that includes your credit card numbers, perhaps. Where do you think that data goes, I wonder.
Um.. on the list of things that cause distracted driving accidents, "holding a hamburger" (i.e. eating) far outshines cell phone use. In fact, it's number one on the list. I'm not saying we shouldn't ban cell use, but if we really want to do the most good, we should ban hamburgers. It's like an order of magnitude more dangerous.
So.. hold down the talk button (or square or whatever) and say the name of the contact when the voice prompt comes up. Voice Dialing has only been around for what.. over a decade now?!
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Yeah, but Sprint is the Apple of cell phone providers.
Easy. A perfect pint takes less than two minutes to pour!
The blood of patriots is far too precious to spend watering the earth over tyrants. We need it to bootstrap more patriots. The people who stay out of the fight are the ones who easily accept tyranny..
The fight against tyranny provides selection pressure favoring exactly the kind of people who will accept tyranny.
Well, which is it, are fossil fuels going to run out soon, and therefore aren't actually present in sufficient quantities to present much of a threat, or is there way too much carbon locked in fossil fuels for our continued health, and we should get off them before we exhaust the supply?
I was going to mod you up, but then I remembered the nutrient that the tree of liberty thrives upon and became depressed.
Same here. Only the telephone half of that duopoly is Verizon, and I still can't get FiOS. Hows abouts they work on 'making their product available' before they waste money on 'making the product popular'. If you can't buy it, you won't buy it, no matter how great the deal is.
Have you looked into EVE? It's not for everyone, but ...
EVE is not for anyone any more. Advancement is done using the progress quest engine, so at this point, if you haven't been paying for the game since nearly the beginning, your ambitions are going to have to be limited to "find someone who's been playing since the beginning and join their coalition as a lowly minion for life."
It was a clever idea, but if a game is going to last, there has to be a way for new players to reach the level of other players in just a few months (i.e. wow's level cap), or a principle of conservation of stats so that advantages are offset by weaknesses giving new players a chance to compete/contribute, or a periodic reset, or some kind of way to keep things interesting so that new players aren't kept forever below long or overly dedicated players like some kind of horrid caste system.
The test is where the increased profits come from. Does opera's increased profits mean greater expense for the consumer like in the first two cases, or does it mean that opera is getting a larger piece of the pie, but actual costs to consumers goes down?
You know you can import the certificates manually. And if you carry them by hand instead of over the network, it really is more secure than the CA solution. The only way you should have extra clicks every time is if you're changing the certificate frequently. Or the guy running the MITM attack on you is changing his certificate frequently...
If all you've got is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail.
That's not insightful at all. The keyboard was around for like a hundred years before punch cards, and it's still here. Depending on the implementation, the punch cars were punched by a machine connected to a keyboard. Punch cards are a storage device.
The fact is that it's an efficient input mechanism, and while potentially less efficient than speech, is much easer for an automaton to process correctly.
Not to mention that you can have fifty people in a room typing away without interfering with each others' input. Let's see a voice system approach that input density.
Anyway, the analogy is all wrong for many reasons. I fail to see how it warrants an "insightful" mod.
Go back and read some of those complex, deep essays sometime....
There is a way, but you're not going to be able to do it.
Long term memory is formed from the short term memories that you keep recalling. So, if you want to forget something, the obvious way to do it is to not think about it. A lot.
And there's the problem. You can try not to think about something as much as you want, but you're only going to end up getting your city destroyed by a hundred foot tall marshmallow monster.
That's right. Now, if we could all live at noon time.. all the time, everything would work out.
So? Separate out the phone financing. It should have been separate all along. It can share the bill with the service, but you should be able to drop the service part and either buy out the phone or continue the financing deal.
The way they have it now, they get to play "unregulated bank" (like paypal) at usury rates and even worse: when you finish paying off the phone, you still get to pay the subsidy rate as if you were still paying it off! (and no, I don't think $5--$10 off if I sign another 24 month contract is sufficient. I shouldn't have to sign a contract to get the rate I should be getting anyway)
There is definitely a market failure going on here, and while I oppose regulation on principle, something does need to be done to bring back competition or fix the issue. If competition is impossible in this market then regulation is in fact warranted. And the regulation should be onerous enough that the companies prefer the market solution over the regulatory one.
Hmm..
Problem: giant airfoil blades are too heavy for current helicopters: current helicopters need bigger airfoils to get the thrust at a reasonable power level. Some kind of giant blades are necessary...
What, exactly, do you think capital is??
See, that's why I run everything inside a nohup container to create a walled garden of HUP protection.
Avoid protrusions and the bulk and waste of a bag of hundreds of cable wrap zip ties.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cable_lacing
I'm sure we can all think of circumstances where we care more about how long a machine stays on and somewhat functional than how fast it is.
Like movie watching: a few dropped frames are a small price to pay for finishing the film. If it's bothersome, maybe the brightness can be lowered during actiony bits.
Or typing while the thing is actually in your lap: not burning your groin is far more important than a hastily typed "find -exec dostuff {};" operation in the background finishing quickly.
To be superior to a gasoline car, it should have more than half the range of a gasoline powered car, I should think. Most gasoline cars are sized to have about 400 miles range, which works out nicely given our average highway speed of 60--70 mph and our typical need to eat interval of five or six hours, with a 12% reserve for miscalculations.
It's far more brilliant.
You must give him some information about yourself to determine if you're in the database, non? Information that includes your credit card numbers, perhaps. Where do you think that data goes, I wonder.
Um.. on the list of things that cause distracted driving accidents, "holding a hamburger" (i.e. eating) far outshines cell phone use. In fact, it's number one on the list. I'm not saying we shouldn't ban cell use, but if we really want to do the most good, we should ban hamburgers. It's like an order of magnitude more dangerous.
So.. hold down the talk button (or square or whatever) and say the name of the contact when the voice prompt comes up. Voice Dialing has only been around for what.. over a decade now?!
Poster was talking about British food. Not International-Food-that-happens-to-be-findable-in-Britain. Curry is no more British than Crepes.