I didn't mean to suggest that you are or would want to trick people into listening. I just meant, very seriously, that when a cliche is co-opted by one side of a factious argument or other, it becomes impossible to have an actual conversation using those cliches. To one side they're a rallying cry, and to the other side the words just embody everything they don't like about the first side. No information passes, except "I belong to group X."
It's not because Tea Party groups are fringe elements. It's because the average American is only outraged when they are told to be by the mainstream media blah blah blah blah
You may have had some good points. To get people to listen to you, though, you have to pull back from the rhetoric and dog-whistle words and phrases. My brain shuts off as soon as I hear a phrase like 'mainstream media' used unironically. It may have had some meaning, in the past, but now all it means is, in general, "everyone but Fox News." In some cases it may mean things like "Everyone but Drudge" or "Everyone but Beck" or maybe even occasionally "Everyone but Al-Jazeera" or "Everyone but MSNBC."
Look, there are armies of douche-Borgs walking around with bluetooth earpieces in, thinking not that they fall enough below some painful threshold of dorkiness while wearing them, but rather that they look cool doing so. These are the spinning hubcaps of phone accessories.
Might be a regional thing, but I haven't seen anyone wear a bluetooth earpiece in a couple of years. I figured the dorkiness finally overpowered utility.
Have you never played a real-time strategy game? You always use the easily-obtained resources to finance the research/construction/expansion necessary to move on to something more permanent.
In the/. story where this was announced, I complained about how terrible a browser-based javascript-written pdf-viewer would be. And lo and behold! It is slow as hell. Ugh, painful.
The T510 had the 'classic'-style Thinkpad keyboard. The T530s and W530s have the new chiclet keyboards. Was that 'T510' above a typo? (Though, I have a T61p and have thought of moving to a T520 or W520, and knowing that the keyboard didn't suck yet then is also good).
What's your opinion of the new keyboards? Are you upgrading from a previous Thinkpad? If so, any opinions as to changes in quality, keyboard or otherwise?
It doesn't go New York, Detroit, LA. There are a ton of other cities out in flyover land, many of which have solid manufacturing histories and currently healthy economies.
Slackware, mid-late-90s (just to play around with)
Debian, late 90s (mostly to play around with, also small webserver)
Xubuntu, ~2005 (on an old laptop)
Ubuntu, ~2007 (on a new laptop)
Slackware, ~2009 (same laptop, after Ubuntu broke my graphics/sound/wifi for the twentieth time)
Pretty happy with Slack. But been considering a move.
For me, I've never used webmail service that was even remotely as fast as even a big clunky client like Thunderbird. Gmail and MS Live Mail or whatever they call it are absolutely terrible to use from a browser! Ugh, javascript monstrosities!
50K a year is not a paltry sum, but it's a disappointing reward for ten years of higher education. The real problem, though, is that these are typically for one-two year appointments. Benefits are meager. There's no retirement plan. There's no room for advancement. In a year you will have to uproot your entire family to move somewhere else in the world.
Unfortunately, while New Horizons left at the fastest speed ever, it's currently moving at 15km/s (and slowing) and Voyager 1 is cruising at a bit over 17km/s. Per Wikipedia, when NH is at the distance that V1 is now, it'll only be moving at 13km/s.
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I didn't mean to suggest that you are or would want to trick people into listening. I just meant, very seriously, that when a cliche is co-opted by one side of a factious argument or other, it becomes impossible to have an actual conversation using those cliches. To one side they're a rallying cry, and to the other side the words just embody everything they don't like about the first side. No information passes, except "I belong to group X."
You may have had some good points. To get people to listen to you, though, you have to pull back from the rhetoric and dog-whistle words and phrases. My brain shuts off as soon as I hear a phrase like 'mainstream media' used unironically. It may have had some meaning, in the past, but now all it means is, in general, "everyone but Fox News." In some cases it may mean things like "Everyone but Drudge" or "Everyone but Beck" or maybe even occasionally "Everyone but Al-Jazeera" or "Everyone but MSNBC."
The 4th amendment applies to mail, and you can't get much more plaintext than that.
Might be a regional thing, but I haven't seen anyone wear a bluetooth earpiece in a couple of years. I figured the dorkiness finally overpowered utility.
These are rich people. It's green because they're at least not fueling the rockets with whale oil.
Have you never played a real-time strategy game? You always use the easily-obtained resources to finance the research/construction/expansion necessary to move on to something more permanent.
In the /. story where this was announced, I complained about how terrible a browser-based javascript-written pdf-viewer would be. And lo and behold! It is slow as hell. Ugh, painful.
The T510 had the 'classic'-style Thinkpad keyboard. The T530s and W530s have the new chiclet keyboards. Was that 'T510' above a typo? (Though, I have a T61p and have thought of moving to a T520 or W520, and knowing that the keyboard didn't suck yet then is also good).
What's your opinion of the new keyboards? Are you upgrading from a previous Thinkpad? If so, any opinions as to changes in quality, keyboard or otherwise?
They're still one of the best places to go for things like TV reviews, for all of their faults.
I can not comprehend of anything worse than a PDF viewer written in javascript. The worst of both worlds, together in one package!
Ask and you shall receive. Hubble Deep Field in 3D
What he's saying is that webmail interfaces are painful and limiting to use.
Why are we comparing against antique Atom chips? Aren't AMD's Brazos 2.0 chips significantly faster at half the power draw?
Your first clue should have been that this was an article from the WSJ.
It doesn't go New York, Detroit, LA. There are a ton of other cities out in flyover land, many of which have solid manufacturing histories and currently healthy economies.
My bank's (outdoor) ATM just got a touchscreen. No buttons. It doesn't work when it's raining. It doesn't work when it's cold.
Silicon Valley is as pure and free of toxic sludge as the New York subway.
Debian, late 90s (mostly to play around with, also small webserver)
Xubuntu, ~2005 (on an old laptop)
Ubuntu, ~2007 (on a new laptop)
Slackware, ~2009 (same laptop, after Ubuntu broke my graphics/sound/wifi for the twentieth time)
Pretty happy with Slack. But been considering a move.
It only lists the highest temperatures for each country. The US temperature listed is from Death Valley.
"North America: 56.7 ÂC (134 ÂF) Death Valley, California, United States"
For me, I've never used webmail service that was even remotely as fast as even a big clunky client like Thunderbird. Gmail and MS Live Mail or whatever they call it are absolutely terrible to use from a browser! Ugh, javascript monstrosities!
50K a year is not a paltry sum, but it's a disappointing reward for ten years of higher education. The real problem, though, is that these are typically for one-two year appointments. Benefits are meager. There's no retirement plan. There's no room for advancement. In a year you will have to uproot your entire family to move somewhere else in the world.
I'm not the GP, but, well, yeah. You should hate the current tech landscape, too. It's awful, for the reasons outlined above.
Franken co-sponsored PIPA.
http://projects.propublica.org/sopa/F000457
Unfortunately, while New Horizons left at the fastest speed ever, it's currently moving at 15km/s (and slowing) and Voyager 1 is cruising at a bit over 17km/s. Per Wikipedia, when NH is at the distance that V1 is now, it'll only be moving at 13km/s.