I don't know about the new cycling directions in the U.K., but Google's cycling directions in the U.S. are pretty pitiful from my perspective, tending to guide one toward cycle paths and ignoring perfectly usable streets and roads. The problem is that cyclists' preferences are widely divergent. What may be an acceptable road for me, because I am used to riding in traffic, is unacceptable to someone who is overly afraid of cars and believes he is safer on the sidewalk (despite statistics to the contrary). The other web sites mentioned above are probably much more useful; meanwhile, I will just continue to choose the car route and then drag the route away from roads that look to be too unsafe or unpleasant.
Pretty sure you need a visa to go to Canada now. You cant just walk across the border.
Not yet. But it seems to be harder to get back into the U.S. than it used to be. It's interesting to see that it's possible to get back in with an "enhanced driver's license" now. I wonder if that's what Virginia is issuing.
I can't see any way that this benefits my family. Right now, we've got two Blackberrys with 150 MB data plans and a "feature phone" with no data plan, sharing 700 minutes of voice time, coming in at around $90/month before insurance on the third phone. We only use about 1/6 of the data and even in a heavy month have only used 1/3 of the voice. All I see is that it's going to end up costing more money if we have to go to a new plan, and it's looking to me like I'll be shopping for another carrier when the time comes.
Ditto. Every few years, we fully deplete our entire flex fund for a set of hearing aids for my wife. I don't look forward to the day (not far off) when I will need them as well.
You said your friend had no formal degree, yet you describe him as having degrees in philosophy and sociology. Those would be degrees, even if they aren't CS degrees.
Deliberately locking out non-favored browsers is a bad idea. I can remember the days when web site providers would refuse to consider a complaint because I was running Firefox on Linux, and, in some cases, the issue had nothing to do with the browser I was using. Web sites should be written to support standards, and browsers should aim to work with standards as well. Today, we're picking on MSIE, and tomorrow, Firefox or Safari could be the outcast.
I'm not defending MSIE's quirks and bugs. I've had my share of "bugs" that turned out to be something that was broken in MSIE. But interoperability isn't interoperability if someone gets locked out.
If I had mod points, I'd give you +1, Funny. I've seen Democrats being rude and disgusting, too. No party has cornered the market on ***holes. (FWIW, I'm a Democrat.)
And it's an even better move if a patent troll comes along. (Like Motorola demanding H.264 rates based on the full price of the computer, hardware and software). Revenue isn't $200 for the full copy of windows, it's $5 or $10 for the Media Center Pack.
IANAL, but I don't believe patent licensing has to be tied to the cost of the product. I remember that when Kodak lost the patent fight with Polaroid, Polaroid's demand was for Kodak to stop making their instant film altogether, not to pay a royalty. A person in a position to do that with Windows' ability to play DVD, Blue-Ray, etc., could demand a lot more than $5 or $10 per copy of Windows.
The threats continued after the server seizure. So one might expect the FBI to return the server with a courteous "Sorry, my bad" apology, maybe.
One might think so, but it seems like U.S. law enforcement agencies have trouble with this courtesy, even when they cause significant emotional trauma and property damage or ruin a professional reputation. Such a simple step would probably save large sums of money in litigation; a lawyer once told me that in his experience, most litigation is the result of bad manners.
Treating wires as live is a good operating principle. I met a guy in college who had lost his thumb because a line that was "dead" wasn't. FWIW, my wife gets pissed when I turn the breaker off.
Nah. Not going back. Unity is too painful a recent memory. I'm with Mint now.
Mint doesn't quite do it for me. I use it at work, but I really prefer my home system that still has Gnome 2 and its applets and icons that can be dragged to the bar at the top of the screen, whatever that's called.
Just out of curiosity - are you willing to extend the same grace to Iran? Their neighbours are just as "nasty", arguably more so, and they face a very real threat from countries like Israel and the US. Are they allowed to acquire a nuclear capability because they're surrounded by assholes too or is it only the people we like who get to do that?
If Iran quit electing people like Ahmadinejad who deny Israel's right to exist and the Holocaust, I expect that Israel would be much less of a threat to Iran. But after Iraq lobbed dozens of rockets into Israel -- who wasn't even a participant in the conflict -- during the Persian Gulf War, and given Iran's supplying war materiel to Hezbollah, I can't blame the Israelis for being nervous at the prospect of nuclear weapons in Iranian hands.
In TFA, the author noted that one of the ironies was that Apple said in court that Nvidia would pay for the replacement. However, the thing that struck me was his revelation that he had received lots of contacts from people who have also had the same kind of failure and have paid Apple or trashed their machines. It seems pretty obvious that the reason Apple probably spent more than the cost of satisfying this guy's claim was to prevent a precedent's being set in a large class-action suit against them.
One of my college buddies flew in B-52s back in the '80s and '90s. He said that more than once they landed with pieces missing from the plane. The B-52 may be an excellent, timeless design, but they need to make some new ones and scrap the old ones.
There's no way I could send my kid to boarding school. It would be like paying child support but being stuck with the wife.;-) This way, I get to enjoy fatherhood, instead of farming it out to someone else.
I went to school with Bubba et al., and while it was a rough ride, I learned how to get along with them. That's an important education to have for living in a democracy.
My teachers in S.C. just ignored the laws pertaining to religion in schools. There weren't enough atheists, Jews, or other religious minorities around to make it an issue.
The way I read it, the database only covers stolen smartphones. What about "feature phones"? Someone cleaned out the girl's locker room at my daughter's high school last year. My daughter didn't lose her phone, but something like a half-dozen girls did. Why not take a swipe at petty theft as well as robbery while they're at it?
I frankly don't understand why people would want to donate every time some hyped up situation comes up.
I believe it's related to one of the things I learned in Sociology 101: Social groups tend to solidify their support against an external adversary, whether real or imagined. (The external adversary can be a next-door neighbor; he just has to be different enough to be perceived as "other".) Consider the fact that Americans were willing to put up with rationing and to buy war bonds after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, or to put up with the invasion of Iraq and the passage of the Patriot Act in the wake of 9/11. I am sure that every time the Democrats or the Republicans are perceived by their followers as being under attack, donations to the attacked party go up.
I guess this why democrats make stories up like republican "war on women". It never existed, but I'm sure they tricked a lot of donors that is was real to get some money from them.
Whether or not it was a war on women, there was a perfect storm of events that led U.S. liberals to feel there was a concerted effort to subjugate women, including the vaginal ultrasound bill in Virginia, Rush Limbaugh's calling a grad student a slut, and I forget what else. Speaking from the liberal side of things, I'll have to say that the best thing that happened to the Democratic Party in Virginia was the GOP takeover of both houses of the state legislature. A number of bills that even moderates regard as extreme won passage (like the repeal of the 1-gun-a-month law), and I am sure that this has resulted in more contributions to Democratic coffers and will result in more Democratic votes in the fall. (Whether it will be enough to win Virginia's electoral votes for Obama is open to question, but had the Democrats retained control of Virginia's senate, I wouldn't have given a nickel for his chances this year.)
There used to be a Democratic representative from New York or someplace like that who would introduce a bill to repeal the 2nd Amendment at the beginning of each session of Congress. This bill always ended up in National Rifle Association fundraising materials, and, if the guy is gone, I'll bet that the NRA really misses him.
To go off on a tangent, I'll submit that Hamas has got this principle down to a science. It seems like every time there is any chance of a reduction of hostilities between Israel and the Palestinians, they lob a few rockets (used to be they sent suicide bombers) into Israel from Gaza. The Israelis invariably respond by bombing the hell out of them and tightening up on the restrictions. Hamas is then able to use the restrictions and retaliation to gin up support from the affected Palestinians, thus perpetuating their control in the Gaza Strip. If the Palestinians were to choose to follow the examples of Martin Luther King or Gandhi, Israel would have to let up, and it would ultimately be better for all concerned.
Seen this one before... "If something goes wrong—which is admittedly rare, but not unheard of—it is probably to the advantage of all involved that they're paying at least some attention to what is going on around them."
I agree with you on this. Most crashes happen during takeoff or landing, so it's pretty important to be paying attention, plus I don't want to have to crawl over someone's laptop trying to get off the plane. This is also why I wear shoes on a plane, even though I'd much rather be wearing sandals -- I'd like to be able to get off without slicing my feet up.
The more I hear about them, the more I think I ought to have the airbags disabled in my car. I've tried driving using the hand positions discussed in the article, because this is what they said my kid, who's learning to drive, should do. I feel much more in control of the vehicle with my hands at 10 and 2, and the push-pull technique is just inadequate for any situation requiring handling skills.
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I don't know about the new cycling directions in the U.K., but Google's cycling directions in the U.S. are pretty pitiful from my perspective, tending to guide one toward cycle paths and ignoring perfectly usable streets and roads. The problem is that cyclists' preferences are widely divergent. What may be an acceptable road for me, because I am used to riding in traffic, is unacceptable to someone who is overly afraid of cars and believes he is safer on the sidewalk (despite statistics to the contrary). The other web sites mentioned above are probably much more useful; meanwhile, I will just continue to choose the car route and then drag the route away from roads that look to be too unsafe or unpleasant.
Pretty sure you need a visa to go to Canada now. You cant just walk across the border.
Not yet. But it seems to be harder to get back into the U.S. than it used to be. It's interesting to see that it's possible to get back in with an "enhanced driver's license" now. I wonder if that's what Virginia is issuing.
I was going to say that Linux users would be shown lower prices because they're tightwads, but your comment is much more elegant.
Is it just me or is that link missing a href? It doesn't link anywhere.
It's just you. It works fine for everyone else.
So there is irrational rabid hate for it.
And there's a problem with that? ;-)
I can't see any way that this benefits my family. Right now, we've got two Blackberrys with 150 MB data plans and a "feature phone" with no data plan, sharing 700 minutes of voice time, coming in at around $90/month before insurance on the third phone. We only use about 1/6 of the data and even in a heavy month have only used 1/3 of the voice. All I see is that it's going to end up costing more money if we have to go to a new plan, and it's looking to me like I'll be shopping for another carrier when the time comes.
Except, insurance (generally) doesn't cover them. Mine surely didn't.
Ditto. Every few years, we fully deplete our entire flex fund for a set of hearing aids for my wife. I don't look forward to the day (not far off) when I will need them as well.
You said your friend had no formal degree, yet you describe him as having degrees in philosophy and sociology. Those would be degrees, even if they aren't CS degrees.
Deliberately locking out non-favored browsers is a bad idea. I can remember the days when web site providers would refuse to consider a complaint because I was running Firefox on Linux, and, in some cases, the issue had nothing to do with the browser I was using. Web sites should be written to support standards, and browsers should aim to work with standards as well. Today, we're picking on MSIE, and tomorrow, Firefox or Safari could be the outcast.
I'm not defending MSIE's quirks and bugs. I've had my share of "bugs" that turned out to be something that was broken in MSIE. But interoperability isn't interoperability if someone gets locked out.
Democrats would never be so rude and insulting.
If I had mod points, I'd give you +1, Funny. I've seen Democrats being rude and disgusting, too. No party has cornered the market on ***holes. (FWIW, I'm a Democrat.)
And it's an even better move if a patent troll comes along. (Like Motorola demanding H.264 rates based on the full price of the computer, hardware and software). Revenue isn't $200 for the full copy of windows, it's $5 or $10 for the Media Center Pack.
IANAL, but I don't believe patent licensing has to be tied to the cost of the product. I remember that when Kodak lost the patent fight with Polaroid, Polaroid's demand was for Kodak to stop making their instant film altogether, not to pay a royalty. A person in a position to do that with Windows' ability to play DVD, Blue-Ray, etc., could demand a lot more than $5 or $10 per copy of Windows.
The threats continued after the server seizure. So one might expect the FBI to return the server with a courteous "Sorry, my bad" apology, maybe.
One might think so, but it seems like U.S. law enforcement agencies have trouble with this courtesy, even when they cause significant emotional trauma and property damage or ruin a professional reputation. Such a simple step would probably save large sums of money in litigation; a lawyer once told me that in his experience, most litigation is the result of bad manners.
Treating wires as live is a good operating principle. I met a guy in college who had lost his thumb because a line that was "dead" wasn't. FWIW, my wife gets pissed when I turn the breaker off.
Nah. Not going back. Unity is too painful a recent memory. I'm with Mint now.
Mint doesn't quite do it for me. I use it at work, but I really prefer my home system that still has Gnome 2 and its applets and icons that can be dragged to the bar at the top of the screen, whatever that's called.
Just out of curiosity - are you willing to extend the same grace to Iran? Their neighbours are just as "nasty", arguably more so, and they face a very real threat from countries like Israel and the US. Are they allowed to acquire a nuclear capability because they're surrounded by assholes too or is it only the people we like who get to do that?
If Iran quit electing people like Ahmadinejad who deny Israel's right to exist and the Holocaust, I expect that Israel would be much less of a threat to Iran. But after Iraq lobbed dozens of rockets into Israel -- who wasn't even a participant in the conflict -- during the Persian Gulf War, and given Iran's supplying war materiel to Hezbollah, I can't blame the Israelis for being nervous at the prospect of nuclear weapons in Iranian hands.
In TFA, the author noted that one of the ironies was that Apple said in court that Nvidia would pay for the replacement. However, the thing that struck me was his revelation that he had received lots of contacts from people who have also had the same kind of failure and have paid Apple or trashed their machines. It seems pretty obvious that the reason Apple probably spent more than the cost of satisfying this guy's claim was to prevent a precedent's being set in a large class-action suit against them.
One of my college buddies flew in B-52s back in the '80s and '90s. He said that more than once they landed with pieces missing from the plane. The B-52 may be an excellent, timeless design, but they need to make some new ones and scrap the old ones.
There's no way I could send my kid to boarding school. It would be like paying child support but being stuck with the wife. ;-) This way, I get to enjoy fatherhood, instead of farming it out to someone else.
I went to school with Bubba et al., and while it was a rough ride, I learned how to get along with them. That's an important education to have for living in a democracy.
York Castle Ice Cream in Silver Spring, MD, has a Guinness-flavored ice cream. It's pretty good.
I would love to be able to come back a million years from now and hear our N-great grandchildren arguing about whether they are descended from us.
My teachers in S.C. just ignored the laws pertaining to religion in schools. There weren't enough atheists, Jews, or other religious minorities around to make it an issue.
The way I read it, the database only covers stolen smartphones. What about "feature phones"? Someone cleaned out the girl's locker room at my daughter's high school last year. My daughter didn't lose her phone, but something like a half-dozen girls did. Why not take a swipe at petty theft as well as robbery while they're at it?
I frankly don't understand why people would want to donate every time some hyped up situation comes up.
I believe it's related to one of the things I learned in Sociology 101: Social groups tend to solidify their support against an external adversary, whether real or imagined. (The external adversary can be a next-door neighbor; he just has to be different enough to be perceived as "other".) Consider the fact that Americans were willing to put up with rationing and to buy war bonds after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, or to put up with the invasion of Iraq and the passage of the Patriot Act in the wake of 9/11. I am sure that every time the Democrats or the Republicans are perceived by their followers as being under attack, donations to the attacked party go up.
I guess this why democrats make stories up like republican "war on women". It never existed, but I'm sure they tricked a lot of donors that is was real to get some money from them.
Whether or not it was a war on women, there was a perfect storm of events that led U.S. liberals to feel there was a concerted effort to subjugate women, including the vaginal ultrasound bill in Virginia, Rush Limbaugh's calling a grad student a slut, and I forget what else. Speaking from the liberal side of things, I'll have to say that the best thing that happened to the Democratic Party in Virginia was the GOP takeover of both houses of the state legislature. A number of bills that even moderates regard as extreme won passage (like the repeal of the 1-gun-a-month law), and I am sure that this has resulted in more contributions to Democratic coffers and will result in more Democratic votes in the fall. (Whether it will be enough to win Virginia's electoral votes for Obama is open to question, but had the Democrats retained control of Virginia's senate, I wouldn't have given a nickel for his chances this year.)
There used to be a Democratic representative from New York or someplace like that who would introduce a bill to repeal the 2nd Amendment at the beginning of each session of Congress. This bill always ended up in National Rifle Association fundraising materials, and, if the guy is gone, I'll bet that the NRA really misses him.
To go off on a tangent, I'll submit that Hamas has got this principle down to a science. It seems like every time there is any chance of a reduction of hostilities between Israel and the Palestinians, they lob a few rockets (used to be they sent suicide bombers) into Israel from Gaza. The Israelis invariably respond by bombing the hell out of them and tightening up on the restrictions. Hamas is then able to use the restrictions and retaliation to gin up support from the affected Palestinians, thus perpetuating their control in the Gaza Strip. If the Palestinians were to choose to follow the examples of Martin Luther King or Gandhi, Israel would have to let up, and it would ultimately be better for all concerned.
Seen this one before... "If something goes wrong—which is admittedly rare, but not unheard of—it is probably to the advantage of all involved that they're paying at least some attention to what is going on around them."
I agree with you on this. Most crashes happen during takeoff or landing, so it's pretty important to be paying attention, plus I don't want to have to crawl over someone's laptop trying to get off the plane. This is also why I wear shoes on a plane, even though I'd much rather be wearing sandals -- I'd like to be able to get off without slicing my feet up.
The more I hear about them, the more I think I ought to have the airbags disabled in my car. I've tried driving using the hand positions discussed in the article, because this is what they said my kid, who's learning to drive, should do. I feel much more in control of the vehicle with my hands at 10 and 2, and the push-pull technique is just inadequate for any situation requiring handling skills.