For those not from the Great White North, or not near it's southern border, "timmies" is slang for Tim Horton's, a chain of shitty donut and scorched coffee stores.
According to the new Ars article (too lazy to link it), a USB version will be available for $70 in August. Quite a financial penalty for a USB Flash drive, but if you're so clueless that you can't make one by yourself, it will be a supported option.
Why do all people assume that Javascript makes a site slow to load?
Javascript was the tool by which I could significantly *cut down* loading time for my site. Previously, I had to transmit a lot of redundant HTML. Now I'm transmitting the actual payload data as JSON and build the DOM tree on the client side.
Really, NoScript is the equivalent of "people use hammers when they should use screwdrivers, so let's ban all hammers". That's all fun and games unless you're the one who has to push a nail into the wall with a screwdriver because all hammers were banned in the latest panic wave du jour.
Unfortunately, there are one hell of a lot of hammers on the Internet.
[3] You're not nearly paranoid enough in this case.
While I think your analysis is spot on, I think it more likely that the Murdoch empire would manage, somehow, to sabotage the publication of detailed emails that (I am assuming, of course) will massively implicate Rupurt and friends. They have too much money and there is too much riding on it to let it out.
Thus, it may be the lesser of a number of evils....
Here's a hint for anyone wanting to run a book store: it helps if you stock a wide range of books, on big shelves, not just a few tables with some artistically arranged on them.
Wait. Where am I supposed to put my MacBook then? You think I should be crowded onto a long bench with the other peons^Hcustomers?
Even though hoards geeks with pictures of Summer Glau, Jewel State, Gina Torres and Morena Baccarin cry when this is mentioned, Serenity is NOT an instructional video.
No, the only "Freedom of the 19th Century" was a giant portion of the North American continent available for mining of numerous resources - farming land, coal, expansion land, Indians, animals. With cheap, abundant natural resources a vigorous expansion economy is relatively easy. Take away cheap, abundant resources and you have the US at present.
The metaphor of a cash result betrays the mindset that everything that costs must have a financial reward.
What happened to teaching that learning and discovery were valuable beyond reckoning?
I am embarrassed to say that even most religions have got at least this right.
Do we need metaphorical monks working in metaphorical scriptoria to investigate basic science?
Another commentator said that "American politics seems more like two groups of psychotic badgers battling it out between each other than two political parties", which I think sums it up better.
Why doesn't anyone ever mention all the technology we need for airplanes? How much technology came from Boeing? 747s?
Well, lets talk about airplanes. First, lets expand NASA's acronym - National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Note that Aeronautics is first. NASA spends quite a bit of time and money on basic research for terrestrial flight. To be fair, the military has also contributed to the advancement of flight, perhaps more than NASA, but poke around on the NASA website and you will see a lot of unsexy, quiet research into everyday flying.
NASA's entire budget for 2010 was $18.7 million dollars. In 2010, Pfizer spent $9.4 billion on R&D and Amgen spent $2.894 billion on R&D (http://www.genengnews.com/keywordsandtools/print/3/22569/).
So even with "PR stunts" like the shuttle launches, it seems to me that NASA's R&D dollars return better bang for buck.
Try Again. You are off by a few orders of magnitude. NASA's budget is still small compared to a lot of other things, but $18 million probably just barely pays for the cheapass US Government clicky pens.
It happens..the tobacco industry is forced to advertise smoking cessation. The casino industry is required to advertise to help some gamblers quit gambling.
Those are specific laws invoked generated by enabling legislation (the casinos) or as a result of losing a legal battle (tobacco). They have nothing to do with competition.
especially since I've been told people with immunodeficiencies like me are radiologically-sensitive and having one genetic problem is more than enough, thenkyewveddymuch.
Then stay off the plane. The radiation you get from a several hour flight is more than what you get from a backscatter device (if it's working correctly and other caveats), keep your health up and avoid CT scanners, then stay away from the NE United States (high radon background, stay away from old basements and granite for sure), then make sure that you DON'T go to the dentist and tighten that tinfoil hat just a bit further.
There are lots of reasons to be annoyed with the TSA. Radiation isn't one of them.
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Why focus on the drivers when you can despise the entire state?
For those not from the Great White North, or not near it's southern border, "timmies" is slang for Tim Horton's, a chain of shitty donut and scorched coffee stores.
So, it's a Starbucks then.
According to the new Ars article (too lazy to link it), a USB version will be available for $70 in August. Quite a financial penalty for a USB Flash drive, but if you're so clueless that you can't make one by yourself, it will be a supported option.
Why do all people assume that Javascript makes a site slow to load?
Javascript was the tool by which I could significantly *cut down* loading time for my site. Previously, I had to transmit a lot of redundant HTML. Now I'm transmitting the actual payload data as JSON and build the DOM tree on the client side.
Really, NoScript is the equivalent of "people use hammers when they should use screwdrivers, so let's ban all hammers". That's all fun and games unless you're the one who has to push a nail into the wall with a screwdriver because all hammers were banned in the latest panic wave du jour.
Unfortunately, there are one hell of a lot of hammers on the Internet.
[ 0]Though its insistence on opening up the homepage twice a week lately on minor updates is becoming a pet peeve.
You can change this, but of course, you have to RTFM to discover that. The horrors....
That would be OK if there really were blinking lights (or naked women). The little circle animation gets old after a while....
[3] You're not nearly paranoid enough in this case.
While I think your analysis is spot on, I think it more likely that the Murdoch empire would manage, somehow, to sabotage the publication of detailed emails that (I am assuming, of course) will massively implicate Rupurt and friends. They have too much money and there is too much riding on it to let it out.
Thus, it may be the lesser of a number of evils....
Here's a hint for anyone wanting to run a book store: it helps if you stock a wide range of books, on big shelves, not just a few tables with some artistically arranged on them.
Wait. Where am I supposed to put my MacBook then? You think I should be crowded onto a long bench with the other peons^Hcustomers?
Even though hoards geeks with pictures of Summer Glau, Jewel State, Gina Torres and Morena Baccarin cry when this is mentioned, Serenity is NOT an instructional video.
No, the only "Freedom of the 19th Century" was a giant portion of the North American continent available for mining of numerous resources - farming land, coal, expansion land, Indians, animals. With cheap, abundant natural resources a vigorous expansion economy is relatively easy. Take away cheap, abundant resources and you have the US at present.
Rose colored Republican glasses not needed.
The metaphor of a cash result betrays the mindset that everything that costs must have a financial reward.
What happened to teaching that learning and discovery were valuable beyond reckoning?
I am embarrassed to say that even most religions have got at least this right.
Do we need metaphorical monks working in metaphorical scriptoria to investigate basic science?
Why do you hate America?
Another commentator said that "American politics seems more like two groups of psychotic badgers battling it out between each other than two political parties", which I think sums it up better.
Despite being developed by the same contractor, there's no hard evidence that Hubbles shares technology with the KH-13 series, is there?
Other than being a large multispectral imaging platform with positioning capabilities, no.
Why doesn't anyone ever mention all the technology we need for airplanes? How much technology came from Boeing? 747s?
Well, lets talk about airplanes. First, lets expand NASA's acronym - National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Note that Aeronautics is first. NASA spends quite a bit of time and money on basic research for terrestrial flight. To be fair, the military has also contributed to the advancement of flight, perhaps more than NASA, but poke around on the NASA website and you will see a lot of unsexy, quiet research into everyday flying.
NASA's entire budget for 2010 was $18.7 million dollars. In 2010, Pfizer spent $9.4 billion on R&D and Amgen spent $2.894 billion on R&D (http://www.genengnews.com/keywordsandtools/print/3/22569/).
So even with "PR stunts" like the shuttle launches, it seems to me that NASA's R&D dollars return better bang for buck.
Try Again. You are off by a few orders of magnitude. NASA's budget is still small compared to a lot of other things, but $18 million probably just barely pays for the cheapass US Government clicky pens.
Seriously: Oh, hai! You have won a free TV! Please go to 5245 Public Safety Circle to claim your prize!
Don't laugh, it's happened.
You just can't use old Firesign Theater references here. Maybe try for a 'In Soviet Russia' joke or something.
Wouldn't that be leveraging an advantageous position in one market in order to gain an advantage in another...?
No, Google is everything. There is no 'other'.
the Streisand Effect...
Funny that this article was submitted by Barbara.
It happens..the tobacco industry is forced to advertise smoking cessation. The casino industry is required to advertise to help some gamblers quit gambling.
Those are specific laws invoked generated by enabling legislation (the casinos) or as a result of losing a legal battle (tobacco). They have nothing to do with competition.
especially since I've been told people with immunodeficiencies like me are radiologically-sensitive and having one genetic problem is more than enough, thenkyewveddymuch.
Then stay off the plane. The radiation you get from a several hour flight is more than what you get from a backscatter device (if it's working correctly and other caveats), keep your health up and avoid CT scanners, then stay away from the NE United States (high radon background, stay away from old basements and granite for sure), then make sure that you DON'T go to the dentist and tighten that tinfoil hat just a bit further.
There are lots of reasons to be annoyed with the TSA. Radiation isn't one of them.
Why does a browser need to be able to access more than 4GB ? Has anyone hit that limit yet ? Or even close ?
I want the one with the bigger GB's.....
I have an iPhone, you insensitive clod! I can't just "remove the battery"!.
iPhone users aren't criminals. You'll want to get an Android phone to slum around with your wicked friends.
Steve
Sent from your iPhone
congratulations America, television has finally turned your collective brains into 300 million bowls of porridge.
You're a little late ...
What did we win? I have been standing by my mail box waiting for my prize.
Bad Postal Service. Sorry.