Yep. That is why we need an equal pay system. Each side pays the other side's lawyer an equal amount to what they pay their own. That way if Super-Mega-Corp want's to bring in $500/hour lawyers to crush Working-Two-Jobs-To-Make-Ends-Meet-Joe, Joe will have just as good of representation as Super-Mega-Corp.
Given that the iPad has remote desktop clients, this (or the same with an Android tablet) is a viable solution with more upsides than down compared to a Macbook.
The pad would actually be his best choice. Both of these solutions have keyboard carrying cases and remote desktop software to connect to a real machine back home. Otherwise, a cheap netbook will also allow you to remote desktop into a real computer without the risk of theft that a Mac brings. Plus you can spill coffee on it 4 times before you reach the cost of the Mac.
It could. It would just take a decade or two. It would just require that every update be licensed v2 and v3. When every line of code has been replaced, you declare the system licensed under v3.
If a new OSS 'bazaar' OS were to be started today, the project leaders would be wise to mitigate some of this issue by tracking who 'owns' what code, or by requiring the code copyright to the project.
It isn't damned if they do, damned if they don't. That is like your wife saying "You bitch at me if I bang your brother, and you bitch at me if I bang your best friend. I'm damned if I do and damned if I don't.".
nVidia has a third option. Support drivers on the OS properly.
The "Time to lean, Time to clean." mentality is indicative of crappy fast food quality jobs. Many of us are paid to get a job done, not to 'put in the effort'.
Worse than that is that there are already Android tablets that cost less than $80. Sure they may all suck today, but time marches forward and they will continue to get better. Those sucky tablets would already be good for non-general purpose use. Things like a web based control panel for home automation. Look at the Raspberry Pi. $25-$35. A device like that will never run an $80 OS.
You seemed to just list everything but search. Many of them have failed, but the items that didn't fail are on that list as well. "Voice Search" a failure? I use it every day. It is wildly successful.
Dude. What year are you in? Promotional stickers have now been computerized. They show up during boot.
More seriously, every Android phone I have had has had 2 or 3 promotional labels. They just embed them into the case or print them on so that you can't peel them off.
That is a good point. It should also be noted that this isn't one of those typical cases where a kid is given credit for the work of their parent. Any 9-year old can start a blog and use it to raise money. I can't see anything in the article or on the blog that indicates she had access to anything that isn't available to the general public.
I am far more impressed by a 9 year old that raises £28,000 via her own writing than I am of a "first 8 year old to fly a 747 around the world". (made up example)
To be fair to Hawaii, spam and pineapple wasn't served to you because it was cheap, but because that was a normal food there. When I worked in Hawaii, I was surprised to find spam on the menu in normal restaurants where adults actually got to choose what they ate, and had to pay for it. Presumably, the spam was their because people bought it, and not as some kind of show.
"Pink Slime" is a joke. The only reason anyone has an issue with it is because they are so divorced from what they eat that they don't realize that meat is animal. "Pink Slime" belongs in stories right along side the stories discussing the evils of eating "Sea Kittens".
This is a new thing on trying to imply food is bad for you, or not good quality. It is simply untrue. We have become extremely spoiled in thinking that good food only lasts a few days. Having a ready supply of food from the grocery store who imports fresh food from all over the planet will do that to us.
Before taking the "It doesn't spoil in 3 days!" as an indicator of quality, you need to first look at what kind of food it is. Sausage is not a specific food, it is a class of foods. No doubt some types are more prone to spoilage than others. There is also the fact that the biggest problem in spoilage is bacteria and mold. To grow and spoil the food they need water and warmth. Packaging can for the most part prevent live bacteria and mold from being in contact with the food. No mold/bacteria, not mold/bacteria growth and the food can last a very long time. Prepackaging preparation can remove water from the food. No water no mold/bacteria growth. Lastly, we have refrigeration. Put the food in the freezer, and mold/bacteria growth is slowed dramatically.
Was the offending sausage vacuum packed? That would extend it's life without harming it's quality.
Was the sausage a dried sausage? That would extend it's life without harming it's quality.
Was the sausage frozen? That would extend it's life without harming it's quality significantly if at all.
Was the sausage vacuum packed, a dried style and frozen? If so, 3 years is not unreasonable. "Safe to keep for up to three years" is also not a statement that it doesn't lose quality over that time. A loaf of sliced sandwich bread is "safe to keep for a week" exposed to the air on my counter. That doesn't mean that I would want to eat it at that time, and it wouldn't be better if it grew mold in 3 days.
The problem with those kinds of statistics is that definitions change over time. I'm not totally convinced that it was safer in the '50 and '60. In the '60s, if a kid get jumped and beaten by 3 or 4 other kids, that was "just part of growing up". It wouldn't have been unheard of for the the victim to get punished for ruining their new school clothes. When I was in grade school in the early '80s, violent crime was just an accepted part of being a kid.
There is a reason that the stereotype of the bully stealing the nerds lunch money exists. It is because it was a common occurrence. Look back at the popular media of the '70s. TV shows about dad teaching the son to defend himself were common because violent crimes against kids were common. A boy needing to defend himself from violent attackers were just considered normal childhood events. They were not considered 'crimes'.
Half agree and half disagree. Being a "latch key" kid was one of my fond childhood memories. It was enjoyable and good for me.
On the other hand, I assume that you have not cancelled all phone service in your home even though people survived perfectly fine without a phone in the past. Having a phone is not a necessity, but it is an enabling technology that is a reality of modern life. I was on the extreme early side of giving my child a cell phone. My wife and I started seriously considering it when our child was 3. At that age, we gave him one of our phones if we were going to a place that would be a big problem if we got separated. That year we went to Disneyland. He asked if he could go through the "Tom Sawyers Caves" attraction on his own. We let him do it. We gave him his mom's phone, she stood at the entrance and I went to the exit. After about 10 minutes I got a call from him telling me that he was outside and couldn't see us. Apparently there were more exits than we knew about.
Sure, we could have just told him no. But being an overprotective parent isn't good for kids. We could have just let him go through without the phone. I am sure that he would have ended up telling someone he was lost and he would have eventually been taken to the Disneyland security office to wait for us to pick him up. That would have meant that our fun family vacation would have ended up being a traumatic family vacation. There was no harm in giving him the phone, but there was huge gains. There have been thousands of times since then that he had a phone and didn't need it, but security isn't about counting the times that you don't need it. Security is about counting the times you do. The fact that he had a phone means that we were able to give him freedoms that we wouldn't have otherwise given him which were far more than most other kids his age.
Having a phone and knowing how to use it IS educating and empowering the kids.
Many schools already do. Almost 20 years ago, my wife worked in a Pizza Hut, and they were one of the food suppliers to the local schools.
School lunch programs were a good kind idea that has been corrupted into a cash and control grab. The truly needed kids were thrown under the bus almost from day one, and the kids not in need have been getting added to the pile ever since.
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Yep. That is why we need an equal pay system. Each side pays the other side's lawyer an equal amount to what they pay their own. That way if Super-Mega-Corp want's to bring in $500/hour lawyers to crush Working-Two-Jobs-To-Make-Ends-Meet-Joe, Joe will have just as good of representation as Super-Mega-Corp.
Remote desktop makes tablets Windows or OSX compatible.
The "tablets are for consumption not production" line sounds just like the guys that used to say that "PC's are toys".
Rollable keyboards are cheap and plentifly. They have been for some time.
It looks like you can even get them for $8 if you are not too cool for iCarly.
Download a remote desktop client, and you have access to a full machine back home while you are at it.
What peripherals are those? The screen is a mouse, and tablet covers can be purchased with a keyboard on the inside.
Given that the iPad has remote desktop clients, this (or the same with an Android tablet) is a viable solution with more upsides than down compared to a Macbook.
The pad would actually be his best choice. Both of these solutions have keyboard carrying cases and remote desktop software to connect to a real machine back home. Otherwise, a cheap netbook will also allow you to remote desktop into a real computer without the risk of theft that a Mac brings. Plus you can spill coffee on it 4 times before you reach the cost of the Mac.
I've noticed that the lower the quality of the hotel, the more likely they are to have a safe in the room.
Can you imagine trying to take that home-made auxiliary battery through an airport security check?
If it isn't his company, it is.
It could. It would just take a decade or two. It would just require that every update be licensed v2 and v3. When every line of code has been replaced, you declare the system licensed under v3.
If a new OSS 'bazaar' OS were to be started today, the project leaders would be wise to mitigate some of this issue by tracking who 'owns' what code, or by requiring the code copyright to the project.
It isn't damned if they do, damned if they don't. That is like your wife saying "You bitch at me if I bang your brother, and you bitch at me if I bang your best friend. I'm damned if I do and damned if I don't.".
nVidia has a third option. Support drivers on the OS properly.
Ok so you don't know how to setup graphics on Linux
We are WAY past that being a valid statement. It isn't 1990 anymore.
The "Time to lean, Time to clean." mentality is indicative of crappy fast food quality jobs. Many of us are paid to get a job done, not to 'put in the effort'.
The iPod Touch wasn't just a media player. It was a portable computing device that was also a media player, internet browser, email application, etc.
A.K.A. a PDA.
Worse than that is that there are already Android tablets that cost less than $80. Sure they may all suck today, but time marches forward and they will continue to get better. Those sucky tablets would already be good for non-general purpose use. Things like a web based control panel for home automation. Look at the Raspberry Pi. $25-$35. A device like that will never run an $80 OS.
You seemed to just list everything but search. Many of them have failed, but the items that didn't fail are on that list as well. "Voice Search" a failure? I use it every day. It is wildly successful.
Dude. What year are you in? Promotional stickers have now been computerized. They show up during boot.
More seriously, every Android phone I have had has had 2 or 3 promotional labels. They just embed them into the case or print them on so that you can't peel them off.
That is a good point. It should also be noted that this isn't one of those typical cases where a kid is given credit for the work of their parent. Any 9-year old can start a blog and use it to raise money. I can't see anything in the article or on the blog that indicates she had access to anything that isn't available to the general public.
I am far more impressed by a 9 year old that raises £28,000 via her own writing than I am of a "first 8 year old to fly a 747 around the world". (made up example)
To be fair to Hawaii, spam and pineapple wasn't served to you because it was cheap, but because that was a normal food there. When I worked in Hawaii, I was surprised to find spam on the menu in normal restaurants where adults actually got to choose what they ate, and had to pay for it. Presumably, the spam was their because people bought it, and not as some kind of show.
"Pink Slime" is a joke. The only reason anyone has an issue with it is because they are so divorced from what they eat that they don't realize that meat is animal. "Pink Slime" belongs in stories right along side the stories discussing the evils of eating "Sea Kittens".
This is a new thing on trying to imply food is bad for you, or not good quality. It is simply untrue. We have become extremely spoiled in thinking that good food only lasts a few days. Having a ready supply of food from the grocery store who imports fresh food from all over the planet will do that to us.
Before taking the "It doesn't spoil in 3 days!" as an indicator of quality, you need to first look at what kind of food it is. Sausage is not a specific food, it is a class of foods. No doubt some types are more prone to spoilage than others. There is also the fact that the biggest problem in spoilage is bacteria and mold. To grow and spoil the food they need water and warmth. Packaging can for the most part prevent live bacteria and mold from being in contact with the food. No mold/bacteria, not mold/bacteria growth and the food can last a very long time. Prepackaging preparation can remove water from the food. No water no mold/bacteria growth. Lastly, we have refrigeration. Put the food in the freezer, and mold/bacteria growth is slowed dramatically.
Was the offending sausage vacuum packed? That would extend it's life without harming it's quality.
Was the sausage a dried sausage? That would extend it's life without harming it's quality.
Was the sausage frozen? That would extend it's life without harming it's quality significantly if at all.
Was the sausage vacuum packed, a dried style and frozen? If so, 3 years is not unreasonable. "Safe to keep for up to three years" is also not a statement that it doesn't lose quality over that time. A loaf of sliced sandwich bread is "safe to keep for a week" exposed to the air on my counter. That doesn't mean that I would want to eat it at that time, and it wouldn't be better if it grew mold in 3 days.
Shelf life is not correlated with quality.
The problem with those kinds of statistics is that definitions change over time. I'm not totally convinced that it was safer in the '50 and '60. In the '60s, if a kid get jumped and beaten by 3 or 4 other kids, that was "just part of growing up". It wouldn't have been unheard of for the the victim to get punished for ruining their new school clothes. When I was in grade school in the early '80s, violent crime was just an accepted part of being a kid.
There is a reason that the stereotype of the bully stealing the nerds lunch money exists. It is because it was a common occurrence. Look back at the popular media of the '70s. TV shows about dad teaching the son to defend himself were common because violent crimes against kids were common. A boy needing to defend himself from violent attackers were just considered normal childhood events. They were not considered 'crimes'.
Half agree and half disagree. Being a "latch key" kid was one of my fond childhood memories. It was enjoyable and good for me.
On the other hand, I assume that you have not cancelled all phone service in your home even though people survived perfectly fine without a phone in the past. Having a phone is not a necessity, but it is an enabling technology that is a reality of modern life. I was on the extreme early side of giving my child a cell phone. My wife and I started seriously considering it when our child was 3. At that age, we gave him one of our phones if we were going to a place that would be a big problem if we got separated. That year we went to Disneyland. He asked if he could go through the "Tom Sawyers Caves" attraction on his own. We let him do it. We gave him his mom's phone, she stood at the entrance and I went to the exit. After about 10 minutes I got a call from him telling me that he was outside and couldn't see us. Apparently there were more exits than we knew about.
Sure, we could have just told him no. But being an overprotective parent isn't good for kids. We could have just let him go through without the phone. I am sure that he would have ended up telling someone he was lost and he would have eventually been taken to the Disneyland security office to wait for us to pick him up. That would have meant that our fun family vacation would have ended up being a traumatic family vacation. There was no harm in giving him the phone, but there was huge gains. There have been thousands of times since then that he had a phone and didn't need it, but security isn't about counting the times that you don't need it. Security is about counting the times you do. The fact that he had a phone means that we were able to give him freedoms that we wouldn't have otherwise given him which were far more than most other kids his age.
Having a phone and knowing how to use it IS educating and empowering the kids.
Many schools already do. Almost 20 years ago, my wife worked in a Pizza Hut, and they were one of the food suppliers to the local schools.
School lunch programs were a good kind idea that has been corrupted into a cash and control grab. The truly needed kids were thrown under the bus almost from day one, and the kids not in need have been getting added to the pile ever since.
It is a classic "Think of the Children!!!!"
It is also a great way to seize more money for the business.