I've been in the US for 10 days or so (longer now thanks to the Iceland volcano) and not once have I had my PIN or signature checked while purchasing goods. I get handed the goods and card before I finish my signature.
In the UK I have to enter my PIN for each purchase, and get occasional signature spot-checks.
So I suppose you guys have to start actually checking credit card security first before complaining.
When they talk about the eco footprint of something, they include *everything* relating to that item. So with these cars, it includes the original manufacture, use of fuel during the car lifetime and subsequent emissions.
For SUVs, they are talking about 4.6l Toyota Land cruisers.
I do agree that environmentalists seem to be nit picking, but I think the general idea is that the Human species in general is using using far too many resources in every part of our lives for us to be around much longer!
If it's in the opposite side of the sky to the Sun, then it's definately not Venus.
Venus is inside Earth's orbit, and as such will always appear fairly close to the Sun from our viewpoint. That's why it used to be called "the Evening Star" or "The Morning Star" as it's never far behind or in front of the Sun in our sky.
I don' think those dots are stars. They probably wouldn't show up on a photos like this, especially seeing as Mercury is probably *very* bright because it's so much closer to the sun than us. I suspect there is actually a bit of processing going on the dim the photos to make sure they're not washed out.
I think it's either just noise from the camera, or possibly the effect of cosmic rays hitting the camera CCD. This is something that effects anything leaving Earth's protective atmosphere, and causes astronauts (especially Apollo astronauts) to see random flashes in their eyes as the cosmic rays hit the receptors at the back of the eyeball.
If you actually read arth1's post, you'll see he's right.
Click on the "about eMusic" link at the bottom of the front page then hit the browse tab.
I've never been to that site in my life, but I' browsing without an account now.
Have you actually watched the keynote or read anything at all about the iPhone? The touch screen *is* the keyboard. It appears when you want to SMS someone. It syncs contacts with your Mac or PC. And I suspect you can enter contacts via the keyboard/touch screen.
I agree with you.
My experience with Apple customer support hasn't been brilliant. I personally think everyone likes them because the stuff they make is just so good. You can't get away from that fact - they don't make many duds.
I read an article about this show before it aired. They did intensive physiological tests on the contestants to ensure they chose people who were susceptible to suggestion. These people actually turned out to be of *higher* than average intelligence.
Intelligence is not necessarily knowledge of how a spacecraft might behave. They're probably not geeks like us, so they probably have no idea of the state of space technology.
So if the real burglar gets arrested under the same circumstances are you, and he gets charged, is that a bad thing? Are you saying we should catch him in the act?
Applying this same principle to suicide bombers, so we just wait until the bomber has his backpack loaded and ready to travel? He will stop at nothing to explode the bomb - he's already dead in his eyes. I think we should stop at nothing to catch him before he gets this far.
The 90-days detention rule, the Police have to justify it to a judge every 7-14 days. They can't just keep someone locked up for no reason for 90-days, they have to show they have a valid reason to do so.
While I agree that locking up the wrong person for 90-days could financially ruin that person, what other options to we have? Critics say (in a cop-out kind of way) "lets improve policing" - but how do the same critics suggest we actually do this? We already have one of the best police forces in the world, shall we arm them?
I agree with your comment. I suppose I'm just saying that one's ability to edit Wikipedia articles shouldn't depend on educational status alone.
I've suffered from educational snobbery for most of my life.
"I think if Wikipedia had "certified" users who could somehow prove they had acceptable degrees in certain areas and whose changes could not be undone by regular users in articles pertaining to those areas, it would do a lot"
I don't think your educational status should have anything to do with whether you get edit an article on Wikipedia or not. I don't have a degree, but I have an IQ of 149, does that mean I can't edit on Wikipedia?
Stuff becomes available to Spotlight as soon as you save it. Goes something like this:
1. Type some text in any old text editor. 2. Save the file. Quit the text editor. 3. Look for one of the words you just typed in the text file using Spotlight. 5. It finds it.
You don't have to wait till tonight for your drive to be indexed.
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I've been in the US for 10 days or so (longer now thanks to the Iceland volcano) and not once have I had my PIN or signature checked while purchasing goods. I get handed the goods and card before I finish my signature.
In the UK I have to enter my PIN for each purchase, and get occasional signature spot-checks.
So I suppose you guys have to start actually checking credit card security first before complaining.
I first read this article in New Scientist.
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20427311.600-how-green-is-your-pet.html
When they talk about the eco footprint of something, they include *everything* relating to that item. So with these cars, it includes the original manufacture, use of fuel during the car lifetime and subsequent emissions.
For SUVs, they are talking about 4.6l Toyota Land cruisers.
I do agree that environmentalists seem to be nit picking, but I think the general idea is that the Human species in general is using using far too many resources in every part of our lives for us to be around much longer!
When I install Thunderbird on Ubuntu, why do I have to compile it first? When I conduct an update in Ubuntu, why do I download loads of files?
I think it's this kind of stuff that has to get sorted in Linux if my Mum is to use it.
If you still have the original headphones, you clearly don't like listening to music.
If it's in the opposite side of the sky to the Sun, then it's definately not Venus. Venus is inside Earth's orbit, and as such will always appear fairly close to the Sun from our viewpoint. That's why it used to be called "the Evening Star" or "The Morning Star" as it's never far behind or in front of the Sun in our sky.
I don' think those dots are stars. They probably wouldn't show up on a photos like this, especially seeing as Mercury is probably *very* bright because it's so much closer to the sun than us. I suspect there is actually a bit of processing going on the dim the photos to make sure they're not washed out.
I think it's either just noise from the camera, or possibly the effect of cosmic rays hitting the camera CCD. This is something that effects anything leaving Earth's protective atmosphere, and causes astronauts (especially Apollo astronauts) to see random flashes in their eyes as the cosmic rays hit the receptors at the back of the eyeball.
A bit of explanation here:
http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/mir_lights_030416.html
If you actually read arth1's post, you'll see he's right. Click on the "about eMusic" link at the bottom of the front page then hit the browse tab. I've never been to that site in my life, but I' browsing without an account now.
You can get an extra 3 days worth of occupation in Iraq for a billion dollars, lets get priorities straight here.
If you have a Mac, you could try GDisk - http://gdisk.sf.net/
Turns your GMail account into online storage.
Have you actually watched the keynote or read anything at all about the iPhone? The touch screen *is* the keyboard. It appears when you want to SMS someone. It syncs contacts with your Mac or PC. And I suspect you can enter contacts via the keyboard/touch screen.
I agree with you. My experience with Apple customer support hasn't been brilliant. I personally think everyone likes them because the stuff they make is just so good. You can't get away from that fact - they don't make many duds.
I read an article about this show before it aired. They did intensive physiological tests on the contestants to ensure they chose people who were susceptible to suggestion. These people actually turned out to be of *higher* than average intelligence.
Intelligence is not necessarily knowledge of how a spacecraft might behave. They're probably not geeks like us, so they probably have no idea of the state of space technology.
I didn't even know there was *any* generation of MP3 glasses.
So if the real burglar gets arrested under the same circumstances are you, and he gets charged, is that a bad thing? Are you saying we should catch him in the act? Applying this same principle to suicide bombers, so we just wait until the bomber has his backpack loaded and ready to travel? He will stop at nothing to explode the bomb - he's already dead in his eyes. I think we should stop at nothing to catch him before he gets this far. The 90-days detention rule, the Police have to justify it to a judge every 7-14 days. They can't just keep someone locked up for no reason for 90-days, they have to show they have a valid reason to do so. While I agree that locking up the wrong person for 90-days could financially ruin that person, what other options to we have? Critics say (in a cop-out kind of way) "lets improve policing" - but how do the same critics suggest we actually do this? We already have one of the best police forces in the world, shall we arm them?
I agree with your comment. I suppose I'm just saying that one's ability to edit Wikipedia articles shouldn't depend on educational status alone.
I've suffered from educational snobbery for most of my life.
I don't think your educational status should have anything to do with whether you get edit an article on Wikipedia or not. I don't have a degree, but I have an IQ of 149, does that mean I can't edit on Wikipedia?
I think Apple should make an MP3 player. I hear youngsters use these quite a lot nowadays so there might be a market for it.
...nothing's easy over here.
Stuff becomes available to Spotlight as soon as you save it. Goes something like this:
1. Type some text in any old text editor.
2. Save the file. Quit the text editor.
3. Look for one of the words you just typed in the text file using Spotlight.
5. It finds it.
You don't have to wait till tonight for your drive to be indexed.
Some of the more useful services (Maps, Local for example) are not available outside of the US. That's hardly "world" domination. Oh wait...it is.
Was your Dad's site not properly tested?
Of course it's a hoax, I can't see any stars in those pictures.