That's what a jailbreak is for. I finally did that to my 4S because I started using a bluetooth keyboard for emails at work. PITA to go into settings, to swipes and a button push or two just to turn BT on and off (yeah, I know, First World problems....).
It really shouldn't be that hard Apple. But I suppose it's Not The One Way....
In North Dakota, they are starting to do exactly that - build out a compressor / filter plant and hook it next to a turbine to run the rigs. Economically viable only in areas that are 1) starved for power and 2) have enough infrastructure density to make spending a half a million on the plant sensible.
Remember, places that don't have pipelines are often the same places that don't have high voltage feeder lines. The Middle of Nowhere.
Incorrect. Although the natural gas price has been dropping for a couple of reasons (oversupply being one), there are many wells that are frakked for nat gas. And oil. And nat gas and oil. What you may be getting confused about it the fact that they are flaring a lot of natural gas because the price is low.
This just points out to one of the many insanities about how we go extracting resources. Natural gas pretty much requires pipelines to make it recovery sensible in economic terms. No pipeline, you flare it. But if you have a pipeline, you sell it.
The economics of the shale plays (tight gas / tight oil) are complicated and resemble the Monty Python Dead Parrot sketch in more ways than one.
TL'DR - head out to the Oil Drum for more than you ever wanted to know about this.
Genuinely interested... what would you use Flash for in an office? Not counting people who develop Flash games for work, since they ought to be clueful enough not to get pwned.
At least in the medical field, every damned 'training' company, every manufacturer, every news site uses Flash. And uses it poorly. But it's not going away any time soon.
P.E. is now largely seen as a solution without a problem.
What? You mean Punctuated Equilibrium, not Physical Education, right? P-E vs gradualism is the biggest mechanistic argument in evolutionary biology. It limits the genetic / molecular mechanisms to certain behaviors which has been pretty much born out over the last two decades.
It certainly attempts to answer the problem of 'how you get here from there'.
Yes. Gradualism vs. "something else" (which is now Punctuated Equilibrium) has been argued pretty much since Darwin. Even he was kind of lukewarm on the idea - he just didn't have any other explanation at the time. Remember, he worked out evolutionary theory before genetics and before DNA.
P-E fits newer data much better than gradualism but there are still gaps in our understanding. However, they're relatively small gaps - the basic foundation is actually quite solid.
Let's just call it Punctuated Equilibrium. They'll never catch on to it - too many fancy words and complex diagrams. Should keep the school board busy for a while.
And you can argue with this being a feature - or a bug. Just recently finished some course work over at the American Heart Association website. Flash, natch. The structure of which has not been changed for a decade. The same poorly thought out navigation, the same IE centric, buggy code. Just some new content.
Yes, it's AHA's decision not to spend the money to really look at what they are doing, but it's a pretty standard business practice. If it ever worked, it's good enough.
If I ever find the person(s) responsible for that abomination, they'd best hope I don't have a defibrillator handy.
It gets even more complex. You do need to raise prices on fossil fuels. But, if you're part of the Business As Usual (BAU) crowd, you need to do so in a manner that doesn't tank the economy (even more so than the economy has tanked, in part because of rising fuel prices). You definitely want the frog not to think it's being boiled.
So, instead of a measured plan that says we need to eventually get off a fossil fuel based economy say, over a couple of decades, we look for short term bright spots (natural gas) and declare the emergency is over, and BAU proceeds hell bent for it's own destruction.
Those who do not understand history are doomed to repeat it.
Implementation. Nasty little technical details. Like waste management. Like cost overruns. Like bad siting decisions. Like incredible up front costs.
The feds have been trying to get industry to start up nucs. They have billions in loan guarantees and other support packages. But it still takes so much up front money to get a nuc plant on line that the industry is passing. You can actually build out solar / wind for less.
For fission power to actually do something in the US, you have to do two things - figure out a long term waste storage system and make smaller, modular reactors that have some sensible price point. The former is basically a political football, the latter an engineering problem that seems to be mostly solved.
As opposed to keeping little projects like the F-35, SeaWolf, various carrier proposals and that giant money sink that is the Pentagon going?
This stuff isn't even a rounding error on the Pentagon's budget. Yes, we need a strong military and yes, we are not getting the best bang for the buck here. Plenty of room for real budget savings so we can do things like do R&D on solar.
Nope, you're wrong. Germany has a large lignite / brown coal industry that actually is thriving because something has to pick up where the newly decommissioned nukes are going leave off.
Yes, I bought about 150 of them once for about $60. Gave them to friends, still have a bunch left. They're Chinese but seem to have the same capacity / quality as the branded versions. Bought them from Mouser or Digi-Key, I think...
Now, that's the ultimate definition of "personal". We all agree that pretty much anything that is Turing Complete is a computer. The personal part seems to be the point of contention. If you can view porn, it's personal.
Nonsense. My jailbroke(en ??) iPad does more, much more than my first "personal computer" - a Morrow MicroDecision running CP/M. The developer's license is a bit of a non-sequitor. Computers have required specific development software / hardware bits for ages.
Where exactly do you live? The US Post Office stopped delivering mail to individual addresses decades ago. I suppose there are a couple of places with olde thyme mail carrier but now it's tiny, leaky, insecure aluminum boxes in an inconvenient place.
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That's what a jailbreak is for. I finally did that to my 4S because I started using a bluetooth keyboard for emails at work. PITA to go into settings, to swipes and a button push or two just to turn BT on and off (yeah, I know, First World problems....).
It really shouldn't be that hard Apple. But I suppose it's Not The One Way....
Cost money. A fair amount of money.
In North Dakota, they are starting to do exactly that - build out a compressor / filter plant and hook it next to a turbine to run the rigs. Economically viable only in areas that are 1) starved for power and 2) have enough infrastructure density to make spending a half a million on the plant sensible.
Remember, places that don't have pipelines are often the same places that don't have high voltage feeder lines. The Middle of Nowhere.
Incorrect. Although the natural gas price has been dropping for a couple of reasons (oversupply being one), there are many wells that are frakked for nat gas. And oil. And nat gas and oil. What you may be getting confused about it the fact that they are flaring a lot of natural gas because the price is low.
This just points out to one of the many insanities about how we go extracting resources. Natural gas pretty much requires pipelines to make it recovery sensible in economic terms. No pipeline, you flare it. But if you have a pipeline, you sell it.
The economics of the shale plays (tight gas / tight oil) are complicated and resemble the Monty Python Dead Parrot sketch in more ways than one.
TL'DR - head out to the Oil Drum for more than you ever wanted to know about this.
Genuinely interested... what would you use Flash for in an office? Not counting people who develop Flash games for work, since they ought to be clueful enough not to get pwned.
At least in the medical field, every damned 'training' company, every manufacturer, every news site uses Flash. And uses it poorly. But it's not going away any time soon.
P.E. is now largely seen as a solution without a problem.
What? You mean Punctuated Equilibrium, not Physical Education, right? P-E vs gradualism is the biggest mechanistic argument in evolutionary biology. It limits the genetic / molecular mechanisms to certain behaviors which has been pretty much born out over the last two decades.
It certainly attempts to answer the problem of 'how you get here from there'.
Yes. Gradualism vs. "something else" (which is now Punctuated Equilibrium) has been argued pretty much since Darwin. Even he was kind of lukewarm on the idea - he just didn't have any other explanation at the time. Remember, he worked out evolutionary theory before genetics and before DNA.
P-E fits newer data much better than gradualism but there are still gaps in our understanding. However, they're relatively small gaps - the basic foundation is actually quite solid.
Let's just call it Punctuated Equilibrium. They'll never catch on to it - too many fancy words and complex diagrams. Should keep the school board busy for a while.
And you can argue with this being a feature - or a bug. Just recently finished some course work over at the American Heart Association website. Flash, natch. The structure of which has not been changed for a decade. The same poorly thought out navigation, the same IE centric, buggy code. Just some new content.
Yes, it's AHA's decision not to spend the money to really look at what they are doing, but it's a pretty standard business practice. If it ever worked, it's good enough.
If I ever find the person(s) responsible for that abomination, they'd best hope I don't have a defibrillator handy.
It gets even more complex. You do need to raise prices on fossil fuels. But, if you're part of the Business As Usual (BAU) crowd, you need to do so in a manner that doesn't tank the economy (even more so than the economy has tanked, in part because of rising fuel prices). You definitely want the frog not to think it's being boiled.
So, instead of a measured plan that says we need to eventually get off a fossil fuel based economy say, over a couple of decades, we look for short term bright spots (natural gas) and declare the emergency is over, and BAU proceeds hell bent for it's own destruction.
Those who do not understand history are doomed to repeat it.
Implementation. Nasty little technical details. Like waste management. Like cost overruns. Like bad siting decisions. Like incredible up front costs.
The feds have been trying to get industry to start up nucs. They have billions in loan guarantees and other support packages. But it still takes so much up front money to get a nuc plant on line that the industry is passing. You can actually build out solar / wind for less.
For fission power to actually do something in the US, you have to do two things - figure out a long term waste storage system and make smaller, modular reactors that have some sensible price point. The former is basically a political football, the latter an engineering problem that seems to be mostly solved.
We have met the enemy and he is us.
As opposed to keeping little projects like the F-35, SeaWolf, various carrier proposals and that giant money sink that is the Pentagon going?
This stuff isn't even a rounding error on the Pentagon's budget. Yes, we need a strong military and yes, we are not getting the best bang for the buck here. Plenty of room for real budget savings so we can do things like do R&D on solar.
Nope, you're wrong. Germany has a large lignite / brown coal industry that actually is thriving because something has to pick up where the newly decommissioned nukes are going leave off.
But without mosquitoes and maple syrup.
Yes, I bought about 150 of them once for about $60. Gave them to friends, still have a bunch left. They're Chinese but seem to have the same capacity / quality as the branded versions. Bought them from Mouser or Digi-Key, I think...
I'll bet I can beat you at Shuffleboard.
So, basically the term is completely meaningless.
Pretty much this. We've just spent countless electrons arguing about something completely pointless.
I'm just totally surprised and upset with all of you.
I think you might have nailed it here.
Porn.
Now, that's the ultimate definition of "personal". We all agree that pretty much anything that is Turing Complete is a computer. The personal part seems to be the point of contention. If you can view porn, it's personal.
Rule 34.
I'm glad we've solved this little problem.
Your User ID is showing.
Ask your nurse for a calendar.
I sleep with my iPad at night. That's pretty personal.
You can have your klunky towers and desktops!
Nonsense. My jailbroke(en ??) iPad does more, much more than my first "personal computer" - a Morrow MicroDecision running CP/M. The developer's license is a bit of a non-sequitor. Computers have required specific development software / hardware bits for ages.
I'm a PC!
Mr. Ballmer, this really comes across as sour grapes, don't you think?
I would rather watch an Adam Sandler movie while eating shards of glass, with Lindsay Lohan's week-old panties wrapped under my nose.
Now, that's a bit harsh. Things could always be worse.
You're not even close.
I'm impressed, mods. Do any of you actually read news articles?
Where exactly do you live? The US Post Office stopped delivering mail to individual addresses decades ago. I suppose there are a couple of places with olde thyme mail carrier but now it's tiny, leaky, insecure aluminum boxes in an inconvenient place.
Progress, as promised.