However Norway does have some terrain features called 'hills' that are not found in the USA.
Huh? Not only are there very hilly areas of the US, the continental US is home to 2 different major mountain ranges (Rockys and the Appalachians), along with smaller groups here and there and additional ones in Alaska that we won't count simply due to the low population up there.
We have plenty of terrain difficulties here.
Bottom line - to get around here you have to drive quite a bit. The cities just aren't built for mass transit not to mention that even with high gas prices its still more economical to live outside the city and commute in than to live in the city (rural property costs are that much lower).
A lot of the current stuff DOES have me looking at more efficient transit, but realistically its still personal transit because that's all thats feasible in many areas. I likely will be looking at a lower powered motorcycle as my next vehicle purchase though. Its not hard to find some of those that get over 70mpg. That will be used as much as possible whilst the car is reserved for trips with more luggage than the bike can handle or during inclimate weather.
Animal rights activists aren't trying to stop the killing of animals altogether.
If you've read any PETA stuff, they generally are. Its an unreasonable goal so they don't attempt it all at once, but its pretty clear that they view any killing of animals (even for food) as wrong.
Its not even about a slippery slope in this case as their goal is well defined - its just that they are getting there incrementally.
Shooting across a public highway isn't a crime. Hell in South Carolina when dog driving for deer you're legally allowed to hunt ON the public highway and shoot the deer as they run across the road.
You have to understand that in rural areas there are a LOT of "public highways" that see VERY sparse traffic (as in a car might drive by every 20 minutes or so even during the busy part of the day), and there is a strong pro-gun/hunting tradition. Don't make assumptions. You might think "OMG they be crazy!?!!?!", and thats fine, but try to stay out of our affairs. We generally like our lifestyle here and have no issue leaving the "blue states" to their own ways if they agree to leave us to ours.
I kinda doubt it. Realistically, the old NTSC resolution standard was around from 1941 (slightly upgraded in 1953 to accommodate color broadcasts) and went until 2009 with many people still complaining about the changeover.
Many people I know still buy DVD's over BluRay (even if they own Bluray players) merely because they're cheaper. Hell even as an HDTV owner who enjoys HD I can't even tell the difference between 720p and 1080p unless I'm looking at two images side-by-side.
I personally just can't see any benefit (at all) at going higher than 1080p for home viewing. I'm sure it'll eventually happen, but there are far more exciting areas of technology to keep an eye on.
Nonsense. Lotus Notes is one of the best operating systems out there. As soon as it gets a decent email client and calendaring solution it'll take the market by storm. Just wait.
I know the Harmonies are good - I actually use one myself (its older - I paid $79 for it at the time but it still works fine). The problem is that for a lot of people who are shall we say - less organized - remotes that are too expensive tend to not work out, as they get lost a lot. I have no issue shelling out for my Harmony. For my parents? Not gonna work - and too complicated for them in many respects.
Sounds like you're honestly understaffed. If you guys are honestly working as hard as possible and things are still going unfinished then its not a problem of priorities - it's a manpower problem. Hire more people.
wtf does that even mean? in Australia at least, if you live with a woman for 6 months, she owns half your assets by default (unless you got a good lawyer or have a pre-nup).
In the United States such a thing is referred to as "common law marriage", but it's not part of the law in every state in even in the states where it is, the legal requirement is much longer than 6 months (don't know if it's the norm, but in South Carolina the term is 7 years together).
As to prenups being stupid, I have to disagree. They're not an expectation that something will wrong - they're protection in case something DOES go wrong. Same applies to any type of insurance. I have term life insurance not because I expect to die within that amount of time, but because I want to make sure that JUST IN CASE I DO, my family will get some money to help out with the bills.
Your friend could buy a $10 universal remote and spend the 5 minutes it takes to set it up instead of needing 5 remotes...
And then have the programming go away as soon as the batteries die. I swear universal remotes are great, but why the hell haven't they added 75 cents worth of flash memory to the things to hold the codes permanently? The only ones that seem to do that are the more expensive ones like the Logitech Harmony varieties (which though they are coming down in price, are still a lot more than $10).
My parents can't either - but I have to say I have no sympathy. Modern TV's ARE a lot more complicated than their counterparts from yesteryear (our first family TV was a console TV that came with manual turning dials to change channels), but realistically we live in a more complicated world. Technology isn't the only thing that progresses - people have to as well.
This is beside the point that most people are perfectly capable of learning how to use one - it's just that they've mentally conditioned themselves to throw their hands up in the air and give up rather than sitting down and actually learning something.
I dunno. I've been holding high hopes for the Raspberry Pi but until they can start shipping the damned things they're still vaporware. I'm still rocking an original AppleTV running XBMC but I want to upgrade to something that will do 720p (in XMBC).
While I agree that Gnome and Unity are crap, I wouldn't hold up what new users think as some great benchmark. That's like determining the best of lousing options by asking the people that know almost nothing about the topic being discussed.
"Mr President - 7 out of 10 homeless guys who we questioned greatly favored design B for the new nuclear plants over designs A or C."
I jumped over to XFCE. I honestly don't feel that it has quite the polish that Gnome2 did, but I feel that it'll probably receive more development than MATE as time goes on.
It really bites though. Linux on the desktop kinda peaked for me around late 2009/early 2010 and it's been slowly getting worse. God help me but I've even considered buying a new Mac over the ordeal.
No, we don't. Google makes money off of scanning documents for content. Anything that too easily breaks that business model will cause them to either abandon such services or seek alternate means of funding.
I'm happy to go with a more complicated solution for keeping my stuff secret if it means that the idiots who can't figure it out are subsidizing the service.
Dropbox doesn't work that way. Writing to a Truecrypt storage container doesn't touch the timestamp of the file, so it actually doesn't seem to ever update past the initial creation of the volume.
For mine that I sync there I just setup a cron job to run a touch command on the container once per week. That forces it to upload to Dropbox at that point.
This, "Ohmygod! They agree with me on W, X, Y, and Z, but disagree with me on A and B, oh the horror!" attitude that seems prevalent is saddening.
I depends. Different issues have different levels of importance to different people. It could be the the person in your quote has a preferred position on W, X, Y, and Z, but doesn't care that much, but A and B are their key issues of concern. In such a case, they rightly shouldn't support the candidate.
Sure. Because broad generalizations are so honest and accurate.
When the entire POINT of political parties is to lump people into categories so that their positions become similar, broad generalizations come with the territory. Assume that everyone of a particular race or creed has a drinking problem and you're a bigot. Assume that everyone who attends AA has a drinking problem and you're likely pretty close to on target.
Um, not it actually looks quite different. The lunar maria (the dark spots) are much less common. Reason being that those were formed by lava flows on the surface, and you can imagine that if there's molten rock inside, it would be pulled (as expected) towards a big nearby gravity well - Earth in this case.
Think of it from the other side too, if I had a USB stick full of credit card numbers (yours & your families, let's make it personal), and I told the fed I got them accidentally and was merely researching the sequencing credit card companies used for the their # assignments, does that sound like I'd be in the clear?
Depends. In the UK I'm not sure, but if you compare to the US where there's more lax "knowledge" laws you likely would be. If you hacked into a company's computer to get them then you'd liable for that, but if you got them through sheer curiosity or if the list was passed to you on IRC or the like then you'd likely be fine up until you actually used them for something. The Anarchist's Cookbook for example is freely available here (and even in many libraries) and it goes into all sorts of details on how to build bombs and the like. Heck a while back I even read an article about a manual that was being traded about that was basically "How to Molest Children and not get Caught" (not the exact title, but that was the jist of it). That was just fine to posses, and they couldn't do anything to anyone for obtaining it.
For the most part, that's a stance I agree with. Information should never be illegal. What you do with it might be, but the information itself? Leave people alone. The same mindset is paralleled in our gun laws. In general, we let people own what they want - we punish people for the things they actually DO, not what they MIGHT do.
Chinese people aren't less than us - they are people too. Understand that as their economy improves from doing all that work that "we don't want" ours is going into the toilet. Realistically, no matter how demeaning, unglamorous, and tedious those jobs are, THEY HAVE TO BE DONE, and you can't always count on someone else to do them. If we want our economy to prosper, we have to have people willing to do all jobs that need to be done. Otherwise, it's just a matter of time before the Chinese start selling their stuff elsewhere because our currency has no value.
A "service economy" simply isn't going to work. Other countries will NOT keep sending us cheap trinkets for us to sit over here programming and making burgers for each other all day long. At this point the only reason the US economy is still afloat is because we still manage to have a large agricultural presence. If not for that, the whole country would likely be bankrupt by now.
This is the wrong mindset to have. Realistically, copyright is an imaginary thing that people are realizing has no basis in reality for restricting. Only law keeps people from trading it, and people won't accept that over the long term. They accepted it with books for so long because there was still a real cost associated with the printing and production of them, but in this day and age that's no longer the case for digital goods.
The only way to keep a strong economy is to go back to things where the physical world enforces the duplication cost - not artificial laws. We have to make THINGS, not "IP", if we want to stay afloat.
We're not talking business software here though: we're talking GAMES. Realistically, outside of a very small group of nostalgic gamers, people want to play the latest and greatest games. They have a shelf life.
How bad of shape a car might be in at 10 years old is debatable (I know plenty of people driving cars that are 15-20 years old and they're still taking them where they need to go just find), but a game that's 10 years old - even if it's "mechanically" just fine - is no longer desirable.
Whether it be physical shape or merely "freshness" of the content, BOTH drop in value over time, so any argument that games are different because they "never wear out" is pointless.
These companies simply want to artificially inflate their profit margins. It'd be like prostitutes claiming that men having sex with their wives are hurting their profit margins. If only a law was passed to prevent that then their profits would soar. Thing is, just because you'd financially benefit from it doesn't mean a law (or other artificial requirement) is just or that you're actually entitled to those profits.
By the same token, if they're able to ensure all sales are new copies, then game developers may be able to target a lower price after a few months (the "Classics" type collections) and sell new games at a lower price.
Realistically, if you're willing to wait, even the new games get relatively cheap after a year to 18 months. Digital copies even moreso - I'm convinced that if I wait a while I can get just about anything I want on Steam for $10 or less.
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However Norway does have some terrain features called 'hills' that are not found in the USA.
Huh? Not only are there very hilly areas of the US, the continental US is home to 2 different major mountain ranges (Rockys and the Appalachians), along with smaller groups here and there and additional ones in Alaska that we won't count simply due to the low population up there.
We have plenty of terrain difficulties here.
Bottom line - to get around here you have to drive quite a bit. The cities just aren't built for mass transit not to mention that even with high gas prices its still more economical to live outside the city and commute in than to live in the city (rural property costs are that much lower).
A lot of the current stuff DOES have me looking at more efficient transit, but realistically its still personal transit because that's all thats feasible in many areas. I likely will be looking at a lower powered motorcycle as my next vehicle purchase though. Its not hard to find some of those that get over 70mpg. That will be used as much as possible whilst the car is reserved for trips with more luggage than the bike can handle or during inclimate weather.
Animal rights activists aren't trying to stop the killing of animals altogether.
If you've read any PETA stuff, they generally are. Its an unreasonable goal so they don't attempt it all at once, but its pretty clear that they view any killing of animals (even for food) as wrong.
Its not even about a slippery slope in this case as their goal is well defined - its just that they are getting there incrementally.
Shooting across a public highway isn't a crime. Hell in South Carolina when dog driving for deer you're legally allowed to hunt ON the public highway and shoot the deer as they run across the road.
You have to understand that in rural areas there are a LOT of "public highways" that see VERY sparse traffic (as in a car might drive by every 20 minutes or so even during the busy part of the day), and there is a strong pro-gun/hunting tradition. Don't make assumptions. You might think "OMG they be crazy!?!!?!", and thats fine, but try to stay out of our affairs. We generally like our lifestyle here and have no issue leaving the "blue states" to their own ways if they agree to leave us to ours.
I kinda doubt it. Realistically, the old NTSC resolution standard was around from 1941 (slightly upgraded in 1953 to accommodate color broadcasts) and went until 2009 with many people still complaining about the changeover.
Many people I know still buy DVD's over BluRay (even if they own Bluray players) merely because they're cheaper. Hell even as an HDTV owner who enjoys HD I can't even tell the difference between 720p and 1080p unless I'm looking at two images side-by-side.
I personally just can't see any benefit (at all) at going higher than 1080p for home viewing. I'm sure it'll eventually happen, but there are far more exciting areas of technology to keep an eye on.
Nonsense. Lotus Notes is one of the best operating systems out there. As soon as it gets a decent email client and calendaring solution it'll take the market by storm. Just wait.
That kills the unit's Wifi capability, which I need.
I know the Harmonies are good - I actually use one myself (its older - I paid $79 for it at the time but it still works fine). The problem is that for a lot of people who are shall we say - less organized - remotes that are too expensive tend to not work out, as they get lost a lot. I have no issue shelling out for my Harmony. For my parents? Not gonna work - and too complicated for them in many respects.
Sounds like you're honestly understaffed. If you guys are honestly working as hard as possible and things are still going unfinished then its not a problem of priorities - it's a manpower problem. Hire more people.
wtf does that even mean? in Australia at least, if you live with a woman for 6 months, she owns half your assets by default (unless you got a good lawyer or have a pre-nup).
In the United States such a thing is referred to as "common law marriage", but it's not part of the law in every state in even in the states where it is, the legal requirement is much longer than 6 months (don't know if it's the norm, but in South Carolina the term is 7 years together).
As to prenups being stupid, I have to disagree. They're not an expectation that something will wrong - they're protection in case something DOES go wrong. Same applies to any type of insurance. I have term life insurance not because I expect to die within that amount of time, but because I want to make sure that JUST IN CASE I DO, my family will get some money to help out with the bills.
Your friend could buy a $10 universal remote and spend the 5 minutes it takes to set it up instead of needing 5 remotes...
And then have the programming go away as soon as the batteries die. I swear universal remotes are great, but why the hell haven't they added 75 cents worth of flash memory to the things to hold the codes permanently? The only ones that seem to do that are the more expensive ones like the Logitech Harmony varieties (which though they are coming down in price, are still a lot more than $10).
My parents can't either - but I have to say I have no sympathy. Modern TV's ARE a lot more complicated than their counterparts from yesteryear (our first family TV was a console TV that came with manual turning dials to change channels), but realistically we live in a more complicated world. Technology isn't the only thing that progresses - people have to as well.
This is beside the point that most people are perfectly capable of learning how to use one - it's just that they've mentally conditioned themselves to throw their hands up in the air and give up rather than sitting down and actually learning something.
I dunno. I've been holding high hopes for the Raspberry Pi but until they can start shipping the damned things they're still vaporware. I'm still rocking an original AppleTV running XBMC but I want to upgrade to something that will do 720p (in XMBC).
You can quit looking guys - we found him.
While I agree that Gnome and Unity are crap, I wouldn't hold up what new users think as some great benchmark. That's like determining the best of lousing options by asking the people that know almost nothing about the topic being discussed.
"Mr President - 7 out of 10 homeless guys who we questioned greatly favored design B for the new nuclear plants over designs A or C."
I jumped over to XFCE. I honestly don't feel that it has quite the polish that Gnome2 did, but I feel that it'll probably receive more development than MATE as time goes on.
It really bites though. Linux on the desktop kinda peaked for me around late 2009/early 2010 and it's been slowly getting worse. God help me but I've even considered buying a new Mac over the ordeal.
No, we don't. Google makes money off of scanning documents for content. Anything that too easily breaks that business model will cause them to either abandon such services or seek alternate means of funding.
I'm happy to go with a more complicated solution for keeping my stuff secret if it means that the idiots who can't figure it out are subsidizing the service.
Dropbox doesn't work that way. Writing to a Truecrypt storage container doesn't touch the timestamp of the file, so it actually doesn't seem to ever update past the initial creation of the volume.
For mine that I sync there I just setup a cron job to run a touch command on the container once per week. That forces it to upload to Dropbox at that point.
This, "Ohmygod! They agree with me on W, X, Y, and Z, but disagree with me on A and B, oh the horror!" attitude that seems prevalent is saddening.
I depends. Different issues have different levels of importance to different people. It could be the the person in your quote has a preferred position on W, X, Y, and Z, but doesn't care that much, but A and B are their key issues of concern. In such a case, they rightly shouldn't support the candidate.
Sure. Because broad generalizations are so honest and accurate.
When the entire POINT of political parties is to lump people into categories so that their positions become similar, broad generalizations come with the territory. Assume that everyone of a particular race or creed has a drinking problem and you're a bigot. Assume that everyone who attends AA has a drinking problem and you're likely pretty close to on target.
Um, not it actually looks quite different. The lunar maria (the dark spots) are much less common. Reason being that those were formed by lava flows on the surface, and you can imagine that if there's molten rock inside, it would be pulled (as expected) towards a big nearby gravity well - Earth in this case.
Think of it from the other side too, if I had a USB stick full of credit card numbers (yours & your families, let's make it personal), and I told the fed I got them accidentally and was merely researching the sequencing credit card companies used for the their # assignments, does that sound like I'd be in the clear?
Depends. In the UK I'm not sure, but if you compare to the US where there's more lax "knowledge" laws you likely would be. If you hacked into a company's computer to get them then you'd liable for that, but if you got them through sheer curiosity or if the list was passed to you on IRC or the like then you'd likely be fine up until you actually used them for something. The Anarchist's Cookbook for example is freely available here (and even in many libraries) and it goes into all sorts of details on how to build bombs and the like. Heck a while back I even read an article about a manual that was being traded about that was basically "How to Molest Children and not get Caught" (not the exact title, but that was the jist of it). That was just fine to posses, and they couldn't do anything to anyone for obtaining it.
For the most part, that's a stance I agree with. Information should never be illegal. What you do with it might be, but the information itself? Leave people alone. The same mindset is paralleled in our gun laws. In general, we let people own what they want - we punish people for the things they actually DO, not what they MIGHT do.
Chinese people aren't less than us - they are people too. Understand that as their economy improves from doing all that work that "we don't want" ours is going into the toilet. Realistically, no matter how demeaning, unglamorous, and tedious those jobs are, THEY HAVE TO BE DONE, and you can't always count on someone else to do them. If we want our economy to prosper, we have to have people willing to do all jobs that need to be done. Otherwise, it's just a matter of time before the Chinese start selling their stuff elsewhere because our currency has no value.
A "service economy" simply isn't going to work. Other countries will NOT keep sending us cheap trinkets for us to sit over here programming and making burgers for each other all day long. At this point the only reason the US economy is still afloat is because we still manage to have a large agricultural presence. If not for that, the whole country would likely be bankrupt by now.
This is the wrong mindset to have. Realistically, copyright is an imaginary thing that people are realizing has no basis in reality for restricting. Only law keeps people from trading it, and people won't accept that over the long term. They accepted it with books for so long because there was still a real cost associated with the printing and production of them, but in this day and age that's no longer the case for digital goods.
The only way to keep a strong economy is to go back to things where the physical world enforces the duplication cost - not artificial laws. We have to make THINGS, not "IP", if we want to stay afloat.
We're not talking business software here though: we're talking GAMES. Realistically, outside of a very small group of nostalgic gamers, people want to play the latest and greatest games. They have a shelf life.
How bad of shape a car might be in at 10 years old is debatable (I know plenty of people driving cars that are 15-20 years old and they're still taking them where they need to go just find), but a game that's 10 years old - even if it's "mechanically" just fine - is no longer desirable.
Whether it be physical shape or merely "freshness" of the content, BOTH drop in value over time, so any argument that games are different because they "never wear out" is pointless.
These companies simply want to artificially inflate their profit margins. It'd be like prostitutes claiming that men having sex with their wives are hurting their profit margins. If only a law was passed to prevent that then their profits would soar. Thing is, just because you'd financially benefit from it doesn't mean a law (or other artificial requirement) is just or that you're actually entitled to those profits.
By the same token, if they're able to ensure all sales are new copies, then game developers may be able to target a lower price after a few months (the "Classics" type collections) and sell new games at a lower price.
Realistically, if you're willing to wait, even the new games get relatively cheap after a year to 18 months. Digital copies even moreso - I'm convinced that if I wait a while I can get just about anything I want on Steam for $10 or less.