Agreed. Nothing made checkout lines take longer than the rapid switch to debit cards in Canada. Instead of waiting for people to hand over money, you'd have to wait as people fished through their wallets trying every card for every account to find out which one had enough balance remaining. Sometimes you'd even end up waiting as the clerk split up the purchase among multiple debit cards. I've gone 100% back to cash now, except for some online purchases.
So why bother searching? Since the only reason Gravatar obscures email addresses is to stop spammers, the spammers can just send email to all addresses that correspond to [common user name]@[common domain]. In fact, that's exactly what they do. There's no need to waste time and money breaking MD5 hashes.
Arabic is one of Israel's two official languages. Why is it stupid to have Arabic stickers on your laptop? Because you're an ignoramus, would be my guess.
"Companies that are serious about software design their own hardware."-- Steve Jobs
I imagine it's much more difficult to test new ideas for Android and mobile software if you don't have your own in-house-designed hardware device to try it out on.
'This is a common myth. Police officers are *rarely* killed on the job.'
In fact, according to the Worker's Compensation Board where I'm from, which collects workplace accident and injury stats, being a police officer is one of the safest jobs, *safer* than "office worker".
'Of course, perhaps to Slashdot and the media they've "entered", because they seem to have some distorted idea that the mobile phone market consists of Apple in the lead, with the only competition being from Blackberry and Android.'
Apple might only sell 3% of the world's phones, but the earn 33% of the mobile phone industry's profits. I don't see why number of units shipped matters when you're making by far the most money, have a device that has single-handedly reformed the industry, and have the most enthusiastic use base and developer base.
It's clear that the future belongs to iPhone-like smart phones, and this is indeed Samsung's entry into what is essentially a new market.
Global warming/cooling has nothing to do the glaciers on Mt. Kilimanjaro. At the altitude of those glaciers, the air temperature is always below freezing, which means that the glaciers are not shrinking from temperature-related melting; rather, they are sublimating from direct solar radiation.
Unfortunately, Mt. Kilimanjaro is a blatant example of global warming activists relying on bad logic or outright falsehoods. (I'm looking at you, Al Gore.)
Not only that, those packets they're "inspecting" could be for anything. If you back up your Mac (including your music collection) to MobileMe, does it flag your file transfers as unauthorized filesharing? What about if you access your files over a VPN? What if you email your favourite music to your Gmail account so you can listen to it from work or on vacation? What if you upload them to your phone to use as a ringtone?
If Microsoft has any strategists at all, they must see the bind they're in, though. Google is charting a future where all information is free, all consumer software is free, CPU cycles are free, and the OS is irrelevant; all will be paid for by advertising. That leaves Microsoft without a future outside of their X-Box division, unless they can make Bing popular enough to take away Google's business and wrest away that vision for themselves (either to embrace it, or to kill it).
Although giving the top 1000 sites a million dollars each to delist from Google would be a futile and crazy move, you can still see why Microsoft would consider spending that kind of money if there were any chance of success.
What? Unicode support is finally available for Slashdot? The world's mightiest tech website will finally have the same text-handling capabilities as my cat's Blogger site?
In fact, ideally, you'd want every single jailbroken iPhone user to bootleg your app because of unbeatable marketing effect that would have on the other 95% of iPhone users.
There was a famous Danish author (I forget her name) who raised a protest once because she was taxed over 100% of her income that year.
There was also an Italian prime minister who once admitted that if the government collected all the taxes on the books, people would be paying 110% of their income.
When you're not allowed to work and earn income without someone else's permission (and giving them their cut, which may be the whole thing), it certainly is slavery.
Keep in mind that the whole reason the UN exists is to guarantee security among the world's states. In other words, the UN is a club between governments to keep the status quo. To that end, the UN vigorously promotes authoritarian ideals, ignores personal freedom, condemns secessionist movements, and expresses great disappointment at any non-UN-sanctioned regime change. The biggest thing the UN's membership has in common is the desire to maintain control.
The UN is not some humanitarian meta-government, nor could it (or should it) be.
Why would an English-language institution lower its educational standards for lectures in order to cater to non-English-speaking students? Besides, I was under the impression you had to take a language proficiency exam to attend school in a foreign language.
Homes and villages to people who were forced out of them would be a good start. Homes that have been bulldozed to make a political point would be another.
If you think ancient history is an excuse for people's actions in this generation, you're sadly mistaken.
I see there's a naysayer getting modded up for contradicting you. However, in my second or third year of university, I figured the same thing out on my own. Instead of taking copious notes and having my attention divided, I just concentrated on the lecture, asking questions where appropriate, and hopefully did some preparation on the topic beforehand. The result was that I retained mentally a lot more than I could have set down to paper during a short lecture.
As you say, most professors also made their own notes available for students that wanted them.
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Agreed. Nothing made checkout lines take longer than the rapid switch to debit cards in Canada. Instead of waiting for people to hand over money, you'd have to wait as people fished through their wallets trying every card for every account to find out which one had enough balance remaining. Sometimes you'd even end up waiting as the clerk split up the purchase among multiple debit cards. I've gone 100% back to cash now, except for some online purchases.
So why bother searching? Since the only reason Gravatar obscures email addresses is to stop spammers, the spammers can just send email to all addresses that correspond to [common user name]@[common domain]. In fact, that's exactly what they do. There's no need to waste time and money breaking MD5 hashes.
Arabic is one of Israel's two official languages. Why is it stupid to have Arabic stickers on your laptop? Because you're an ignoramus, would be my guess.
"Arabic stickers on laptop"
OMG! She had stickers on her laptop in one of Israel's official languages! Clearly the laptop needed to die.
"Companies that are serious about software design their own hardware."-- Steve Jobs
I imagine it's much more difficult to test new ideas for Android and mobile software if you don't have your own in-house-designed hardware device to try it out on.
Slashdot is now the only website on the Internet with 100,000 pages that are Unicode-incompatible.
'This is a common myth. Police officers are *rarely* killed on the job.'
In fact, according to the Worker's Compensation Board where I'm from, which collects workplace accident and injury stats, being a police officer is one of the safest jobs, *safer* than "office worker".
'Of course, perhaps to Slashdot and the media they've "entered", because they seem to have some distorted idea that the mobile phone market consists of Apple in the lead, with the only competition being from Blackberry and Android.'
Apple might only sell 3% of the world's phones, but the earn 33% of the mobile phone industry's profits. I don't see why number of units shipped matters when you're making by far the most money, have a device that has single-handedly reformed the industry, and have the most enthusiastic use base and developer base.
It's clear that the future belongs to iPhone-like smart phones, and this is indeed Samsung's entry into what is essentially a new market.
Global warming/cooling has nothing to do the glaciers on Mt. Kilimanjaro. At the altitude of those glaciers, the air temperature is always below freezing, which means that the glaciers are not shrinking from temperature-related melting; rather, they are sublimating from direct solar radiation.
Unfortunately, Mt. Kilimanjaro is a blatant example of global warming activists relying on bad logic or outright falsehoods. (I'm looking at you, Al Gore.)
Not only that, those packets they're "inspecting" could be for anything. If you back up your Mac (including your music collection) to MobileMe, does it flag your file transfers as unauthorized filesharing? What about if you access your files over a VPN? What if you email your favourite music to your Gmail account so you can listen to it from work or on vacation? What if you upload them to your phone to use as a ringtone?
There is no rational explanation, other than that the US is full of idiots who love being vicariously offended on behalf of others.
"Ricer"? Are you Australian?
If Microsoft has any strategists at all, they must see the bind they're in, though. Google is charting a future where all information is free, all consumer software is free, CPU cycles are free, and the OS is irrelevant; all will be paid for by advertising. That leaves Microsoft without a future outside of their X-Box division, unless they can make Bing popular enough to take away Google's business and wrest away that vision for themselves (either to embrace it, or to kill it).
Although giving the top 1000 sites a million dollars each to delist from Google would be a futile and crazy move, you can still see why Microsoft would consider spending that kind of money if there were any chance of success.
What? Unicode support is finally available for Slashdot? The world's mightiest tech website will finally have the same text-handling capabilities as my cat's Blogger site?
In fact, ideally, you'd want every single jailbroken iPhone user to bootleg your app because of unbeatable marketing effect that would have on the other 95% of iPhone users.
There was a famous Danish author (I forget her name) who raised a protest once because she was taxed over 100% of her income that year.
There was also an Italian prime minister who once admitted that if the government collected all the taxes on the books, people would be paying 110% of their income.
When you're not allowed to work and earn income without someone else's permission (and giving them their cut, which may be the whole thing), it certainly is slavery.
Keep in mind that the whole reason the UN exists is to guarantee security among the world's states. In other words, the UN is a club between governments to keep the status quo. To that end, the UN vigorously promotes authoritarian ideals, ignores personal freedom, condemns secessionist movements, and expresses great disappointment at any non-UN-sanctioned regime change. The biggest thing the UN's membership has in common is the desire to maintain control.
The UN is not some humanitarian meta-government, nor could it (or should it) be.
Microsoft has to patent sudo to cover its ass? Really?
Really?
I can think of 100 other things they could do that would cover their (enormous) ass a lot better.
Why would an English-language institution lower its educational standards for lectures in order to cater to non-English-speaking students? Besides, I was under the impression you had to take a language proficiency exam to attend school in a foreign language.
And if wishes were ponies, I'd be eating steak for dinner.
You, sir, will be hearing from my lawyer about this outrage!
Sincerely,
Ms. Mwambala Gertrude "Army Boots" Goldstein
Maybe he uses a nitrous oxide kit!
"Which do we restore ? "
Homes and villages to people who were forced out of them would be a good start. Homes that have been bulldozed to make a political point would be another.
If you think ancient history is an excuse for people's actions in this generation, you're sadly mistaken.
I see there's a naysayer getting modded up for contradicting you. However, in my second or third year of university, I figured the same thing out on my own. Instead of taking copious notes and having my attention divided, I just concentrated on the lecture, asking questions where appropriate, and hopefully did some preparation on the topic beforehand. The result was that I retained mentally a lot more than I could have set down to paper during a short lecture.
As you say, most professors also made their own notes available for students that wanted them.
I call them the "legacy media" instead of mainstream, which they no longer are.