A lot of the time the phone doesn't take all night to charge and it has a usable charge most of the time anyway. Thank about all that time you can save by not going somewhere to fill your car with fuel.
I wonder why we can't all have these hearts implanted when ours fail. There is no shortage of demand. Lots of people die from heart failure. The cost of each unit manufactured depends on the number we make. How about making these hearts in China and giving one to every patient with a failing heart?
But thats a bit like saying the memory manager in Linux locks out commercial memory managers. DOS should have had better memory management from the word go, along with 1000 other obvious things.
Is there really a problem with him viewing those sites? Do they contain content which is against the work TOS? How is going to that site different with arranging things over (say) gmail?
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I wouldn't care what happened to my remains. I was a wave, and all that remains of me are ripples left behind in a shared pool of memories.
Well, in most cases, my opinion is that treating remains in a certain way helps families say goodbye.
When I go I would prefer not to be used to promote somebodies stupid religion, which is what happened to my wife's father.
Having endured that funeral I reckon dying in the wild and having your body eaten by animals would be more dignified.
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I had to carry 1/6th of my father in law + casket a couple of weeks ago. I suggest you make sure your proposed coffin is either light in weight, or equipped with wheels and power. My back still hurts.
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People smart enough to pull that kind of thing off know that the cops really aren't stupid and that spending time in jail with really dumb people would be worse for them than for normal dumb crooks.
Victims of crimes of this nature don't want their investors/customers/competitors to know thay have been ripped off so they try not to advertise the fact that they have been ripped off.
Yeah but lots of parties don't even try to get votes. For example here there are parties for Christians, divorced fathers who don't want to pay child support, and the gun lobby who never get a significant vote.
The Pirate Party is a bit more like One Nation because they have a fairly open, vague policy platform. If they find out that in one place there are votes for opposing music festival (they won't let us pirate our music!) they will run on that in that place. Elsewhere the issue might be caps on internet downloads or something. You can drum up votes that way but you can't build a national platform.
During the elections on Germany the Pirate Party there could rake in 2% of all the votes: almost a million people voted for them! Kudos, and keep going!.
Any party can get 2% of the votes by favouring things which the other parties oppose. One nation regularly got 5% in Australia by doing this.
Like it or not, most people have to use computers now. Apple have a reputation as being good UI designers. It is a shame they have this abusive approach to users of a different vendors OS. My wifes sister previously used Ubuntu. I will try to steer her in that direction on her old windows laptop, now that she has bought an apple laptop. I am sure that the niggling updates from Apple contributed to that.
My sister in law runs itunes on her windows laptop. When she bought it I installed firefox for her to use then she called me to report some strange behavior. She had somehow started running Safari. Firefox had disappeared. So either it happened automatically or she was tricked into installing it.
Or she just went ahead and clicked OK. It's OK to admit that your sister in law might have done that.
She is not sophisticated enough to understand the implications. iTunes should manage music. Not the operating system.
My sister in law runs itunes on her windows laptop. When she bought it I installed firefox for her to use then she called me to report some strange behavior. She had somehow started running Safari. Firefox had disappeared. So either it happened automatically or she was tricked into installing it.
It definitely helps prevent people calling for directions while driving. This is a particularly dangerous thing to do because drivers start taking low level instructions from somebody not in the car. Unfortunately I think people who can't navigate and need help will not benefit much from a GPS.
Laws here in Victoria, Australia invalidate the insurance which covers a drivers vehicle if the driver is found to be over the limit for alcohol. More than anything else this makes people think twice about drinking and driving. A similar thing could be done with phones. Police would get information on phone ownership from the networks. If a phone is found they would go back for evidence the phone was on a call, in the area of the crash, and moving at the time. If evidence is found then you own up (and lose your insurance) or see you in court (then lose your insurance).
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A lot of the time the phone doesn't take all night to charge and it has a usable charge most of the time anyway. Thank about all that time you can save by not going somewhere to fill your car with fuel.
"Yes dear, the battery in the car is flat, I've just got to wait an hour for it to charge, then I'll be on my way home..."
Sure, why not? Still better than walking.
I spend all night charging my mobile phone. Its such a pain, sitting there and waiting for it to finish.
The battery pack doesn't have to charge that fast. And a normal petrol tank is also a bomb.
We better pray that they hard-coded "Don't be Evil" into it's source at assembly level.
Hate to be the one to tell you there is a nice convenient #ifdef...#endif around the "Don't be Evil" code.
Beware of over correction.
I wonder why we can't all have these hearts implanted when ours fail. There is no shortage of demand. Lots of people die from heart failure. The cost of each unit manufactured depends on the number we make. How about making these hearts in China and giving one to every patient with a failing heart?
But thats a bit like saying the memory manager in Linux locks out commercial memory managers. DOS should have had better memory management from the word go, along with 1000 other obvious things.
Is there really a problem with him viewing those sites? Do they contain content which is against the work TOS? How is going to that site different with arranging things over (say) gmail?
I wouldn't care what happened to my remains. I was a wave, and all that remains of me are ripples left behind in a shared pool of memories.
Well, in most cases, my opinion is that treating remains in a certain way helps families say goodbye.
When I go I would prefer not to be used to promote somebodies stupid religion, which is what happened to my wife's father.
Having endured that funeral I reckon dying in the wild and having your body eaten by animals would be more dignified.
I had to carry 1/6th of my father in law + casket a couple of weeks ago. I suggest you make sure your proposed coffin is either light in weight, or equipped with wheels and power. My back still hurts.
but I want a bunch of screaming Klingons at mine.
Yeah best not to leave any remains at all.
Two possibilities come to mind:
Yeah but lots of parties don't even try to get votes. For example here there are parties for Christians, divorced fathers who don't want to pay child support, and the gun lobby who never get a significant vote.
The Pirate Party is a bit more like One Nation because they have a fairly open, vague policy platform. If they find out that in one place there are votes for opposing music festival (they won't let us pirate our music!) they will run on that in that place. Elsewhere the issue might be caps on internet downloads or something. You can drum up votes that way but you can't build a national platform.
As freedom loving descendent of criminals all Australians will...
(sees new iPod)
Oh Shiny!
During the elections on Germany the Pirate Party there could rake in 2% of all the votes: almost a million people voted for them! Kudos, and keep going!.
Any party can get 2% of the votes by favouring things which the other parties oppose. One nation regularly got 5% in Australia by doing this.
He was back in 2010. Thats one year away.
Its been nice knowing you....
Like it or not, most people have to use computers now. Apple have a reputation as being good UI designers. It is a shame they have this abusive approach to users of a different vendors OS. My wifes sister previously used Ubuntu. I will try to steer her in that direction on her old windows laptop, now that she has bought an apple laptop. I am sure that the niggling updates from Apple contributed to that.
My sister in law runs itunes on her windows laptop. When she bought it I installed firefox for her to use then she called me to report some strange behavior. She had somehow started running Safari. Firefox had disappeared. So either it happened automatically or she was tricked into installing it.
Or she just went ahead and clicked OK. It's OK to admit that your sister in law might have done that.
She is not sophisticated enough to understand the implications. iTunes should manage music. Not the operating system.
My sister in law runs itunes on her windows laptop. When she bought it I installed firefox for her to use then she called me to report some strange behavior. She had somehow started running Safari. Firefox had disappeared. So either it happened automatically or she was tricked into installing it.
It definitely helps prevent people calling for directions while driving. This is a particularly dangerous thing to do because drivers start taking low level instructions from somebody not in the car. Unfortunately I think people who can't navigate and need help will not benefit much from a GPS.
In Australia I can use my gps while driving and it's perfectly legal but I cannot hold a phone to my ear.
Where's the logic in that.
Do you hold the GPS to you ear?
I want to have the freedom to ride my bicycle to work without getting killed by a driver on the phone.
Laws here in Victoria, Australia invalidate the insurance which covers a drivers vehicle if the driver is found to be over the limit for alcohol. More than anything else this makes people think twice about drinking and driving. A similar thing could be done with phones. Police would get information on phone ownership from the networks. If a phone is found they would go back for evidence the phone was on a call, in the area of the crash, and moving at the time. If evidence is found then you own up (and lose your insurance) or see you in court (then lose your insurance).