no other explanation is necessary. For the old folks here who used to have a landline phone service in the old days, do you remember all those mysterious little "charges" they tacked on your bill? Like $1.05 "User Service fee" and $0.87 "DCF Maintenance fee" or some crap like that? Well even the federal gov't realized they were just plain thieves and sued them, which they settled for a few dozen million dollars. And went right back to doing it again.
Also there was the dial-up modem scam the telcos used to pull... Dvorak's summary
it's good to have done projects like this and the technology tested. That way the only thing left is getting a cheap enough heavy lifter developed.
Suppose Elon or Bezos or somebody else finds a way to put a pound in orbit for a couple hundred $. You don't want them going, "Dang, now we have a good launch vehicle, but we still don't have a good spacesuit or habitation module or hyrdoponics so we gotta go start making them now."
Like if you're trying to build a supercar, and the experimental V-20 hyperturbo engine isn't ready yet, you don't just sit around doing nothing... you work on the chassis and the brakes and other stuff while waiting for the engine.
"But as mesmerizing an expose as the book is, I doubt that this will be more than a speed bump to Scientology's growth and fund raising."
Scientology stopped growing a long time ago. All of their claims about them being "fastest growing religion" are lies, pure and simple.
They reached their peak in the 70's and early 80's. After Hubbard died and Miscavige took over, their membership's been declining steadly ever since. Ask anyone who's been around the orgs in the 70's and 80's. Look up the service completion stats in the Auditor magazine from that time period and compare to recent numbers.
Miscavige is no Hubbard, he doesn't have a cult leader's charisma or reality distortion field. However, he turned out to be very talented as a brutal dictator and a bully. He can put used car salesmen to shame when it comes to high-pressure sales tactics.
So while Miscavige has been unable to inspire people or attract new followers, he has used his talents to beat the staff into submission and extract/extort more and more money from the existing public. But lately with the Super Power scam he's taken it to a new level, and things are so bad that even diehard loyalists are speaking out.
The headlines you see about the horrible education system in U.S. are referring to K-12. (student age 6 - 17). When it comes to universities, U.S. is still the envy of much of the world. (else you wouldn't see the flood of Chinese and Korean students coming to American colleges)
In East Asian countries, kids are expected to study 20 hours a day to prepare themselves for the university entrance exam, which is extremely competitive. Getting into a top university sets you up for life. But once you actually get INTO a university, you don't need to study much at all. It's the exact opposite of U.S. where everything prior to college is a breeze, but you actually have to study and learn stuff to get your degree (at least if you're a STEM major)
I have a co-worker who graduated from a S. Korean university in 1997. He regales us with stories of how he drank and chased girls in college. Once he woke up on the day of a final exam with a hangover, realized he knew absolutely nothing about the topic, so he wrote a personal essay involving himself, the professor, national ethics, and how wants to thank the professor for his hard work which is benefiting mankind. He ended up getting a C and passed the course.
This PC mag article has a bit more info. Apparently the "unlimited storage" means whatever your phone or PC can hold.
So it looks like what it's doing is syncing files between your devices... or backing up your phone to your PC (if you wanna look at it that way), via the internet and using BT protocol... so you don't have to plug a USB cable from your phone to PC.
She did, but it was already too late. All of the suits were based on alleged "damage" done to the plaintiffs years ago. She was served with the lawsuits in 2012.
California has some weird, suit-happy ADA laws designed to "help the disabled" that goes miles beyond the federal law. In response a whole industry sprang up, lawyers going around recruiting disabled plaintiffs and sending shakedown letters en mass. Most businesses settle for around $2k - 3k because it's cheaper that way. California has like more ADA lawsuits than the rest of the country combined.
no, my flight from California will have been motivated by economic reasons rather than ideological.
My mother owns commercial real estate (a small strip mall) and she's been sued three times in the past three months by handicapped people under California ADA provisions. That's like... once a month.
First two have been settled for $2500 and $3200, third suit is pending.
Why did she get sued? First one was, the handicapped parking spot didn't have the words "Van Accessible" in the correct sized font. Second one, the towel rack/grab rail in the bathroom was 2 inches too high.
I am ashamed of my state government and the populace that elected it. As soon as I have enough money to be worthy of Franchise Tax Board's notice, I'm fleeing to a free state.
why would you want to run Win 7 or XP on this thing? Win 8 Pro will run pretty much anything written for 7 or XP and you won't have issues with tablet hardware drivers. (win 8 is really win 7.1 + the metro tile start page which you can ignore or bypass)
You should be able to run Linux on it, Linux runs on everything!
if by batshit crazy you mean advocating the withdrawl of U.S. troops overseas and not wanting to start pointless wars, or supporting 1st, 2nd and 4th Amendment rights and opposing the expansion of TSA, Patriot Act, stop the indefinite detention of American citizens, or wanting to reduce federal spending and balance the budget, or legalize marijuana and stop the war on drugs, or support gay marriage and other civil rights for gays, then yeah I guess he's batshit crazy.
I only crap once per day. The amount of time I sit on the toilet is only about 50 seconds. Considering that there are 86400 seconds in a day, the probability of me sitting on the toilet and crapping at any given moment is extremely small.
Yet here I am, sitting on the toilet and crapping while I type this on my phone. Or since it's so unlikely, is there another explanation for the smell and the splashing sound?
good to know that Google values our privacy so much.
Not like that other internet site that sells everything about you except your underwear to the highest bidder, and forces you to use your real name for everything.
Every x months for the past 5 years I hear about some new super-coating that repels dirt, water, oil etc.. Every time I'm like, "cool, when will it come standard on new cars?" I hate having to wash my car every few days (it's parked outside) or it starts looking like crap.
I suppose when I get a flying car, that's when I'll finally see this miracle coating in action.
That's right... when you're traveling at warp speed, you're still going C relative to space around you. It's just the space itself which is warped.
Watch Star Trek, say the Khaaan movie. They're doing Warp 5 toward Space Station Regula 1 when Saavik says "Admiral, sensors indicate a vessel approaching. It's the Reliant." Now look out the window, the stars around the Reliant look normal.
Slashdot Mirror
by using a handle (pseudonym) and never your real name.
Take that, Zuckerberg and Schmidt
no other explanation is necessary. For the old folks here who used to have a landline phone service in the old days, do you remember all those mysterious little "charges" they tacked on your bill? Like $1.05 "User Service fee" and $0.87 "DCF Maintenance fee" or some crap like that? Well even the federal gov't realized they were just plain thieves and sued them, which they settled for a few dozen million dollars. And went right back to doing it again.
Also there was the dial-up modem scam the telcos used to pull... Dvorak's summary
the thick rigid ones are called textbooks, the thin sheets with blue lines on them are called paper.
Kids without internet access at home can take a break from Facebook and Youtube and maybe, oh I don't know, study? Do homework?
Probably too much to ask though.
it's good to have done projects like this and the technology tested. That way the only thing left is getting a cheap enough heavy lifter developed.
Suppose Elon or Bezos or somebody else finds a way to put a pound in orbit for a couple hundred $. You don't want them going, "Dang, now we have a good launch vehicle, but we still don't have a good spacesuit or habitation module or hyrdoponics so we gotta go start making them now."
Like if you're trying to build a supercar, and the experimental V-20 hyperturbo engine isn't ready yet, you don't just sit around doing nothing... you work on the chassis and the brakes and other stuff while waiting for the engine.
simulate the Matrix?
"But as mesmerizing an expose as the book is, I doubt that this will be more than a speed bump to Scientology's growth and fund raising."
Scientology stopped growing a long time ago. All of their claims about them being "fastest growing religion" are lies, pure and simple.
They reached their peak in the 70's and early 80's. After Hubbard died and Miscavige took over, their membership's been declining steadly ever since. Ask anyone who's been around the orgs in the 70's and 80's. Look up the service completion stats in the Auditor magazine from that time period and compare to recent numbers.
Miscavige is no Hubbard, he doesn't have a cult leader's charisma or reality distortion field. However, he turned out to be very talented as a brutal dictator and a bully. He can put used car salesmen to shame when it comes to high-pressure sales tactics.
So while Miscavige has been unable to inspire people or attract new followers, he has used his talents to beat the staff into submission and extract/extort more and more money from the existing public. But lately with the Super Power scam he's taken it to a new level, and things are so bad that even diehard loyalists are speaking out.
Debbie Cook (longtime Captain of Flag) complains about the relentless money-grubbing and tells the Scientology public to disobey Miscavige's non-Hubbard-policies.
Jan. 2013 - High level public members Luis and Rocio Garcia sue Scientology for fraud
The headlines you see about the horrible education system in U.S. are referring to K-12. (student age 6 - 17). When it comes to universities, U.S. is still the envy of much of the world. (else you wouldn't see the flood of Chinese and Korean students coming to American colleges)
In East Asian countries, kids are expected to study 20 hours a day to prepare themselves for the university entrance exam, which is extremely competitive. Getting into a top university sets you up for life. But once you actually get INTO a university, you don't need to study much at all. It's the exact opposite of U.S. where everything prior to college is a breeze, but you actually have to study and learn stuff to get your degree (at least if you're a STEM major)
I have a co-worker who graduated from a S. Korean university in 1997. He regales us with stories of how he drank and chased girls in college. Once he woke up on the day of a final exam with a hangover, realized he knew absolutely nothing about the topic, so he wrote a personal essay involving himself, the professor, national ethics, and how wants to thank the professor for his hard work which is benefiting mankind. He ended up getting a C and passed the course.
This PC mag article has a bit more info. Apparently the "unlimited storage" means whatever your phone or PC can hold.
So it looks like what it's doing is syncing files between your devices... or backing up your phone to your PC (if you wanna look at it that way), via the internet and using BT protocol... so you don't have to plug a USB cable from your phone to PC.
Is that you, Ballmer? How's the Surface tablet selling?
She did, but it was already too late. All of the suits were based on alleged "damage" done to the plaintiffs years ago. She was served with the lawsuits in 2012.
California has some weird, suit-happy ADA laws designed to "help the disabled" that goes miles beyond the federal law. In response a whole industry sprang up, lawyers going around recruiting disabled plaintiffs and sending shakedown letters en mass. Most businesses settle for around $2k - 3k because it's cheaper that way. California has like more ADA lawsuits than the rest of the country combined.
what about the CiscoPad iPad-killer tablet that they were gonna sell? Was it not a success?
no, my flight from California will have been motivated by economic reasons rather than ideological.
My mother owns commercial real estate (a small strip mall) and she's been sued three times in the past three months by handicapped people under California ADA provisions. That's like... once a month.
First two have been settled for $2500 and $3200, third suit is pending.
Why did she get sued? First one was, the handicapped parking spot didn't have the words "Van Accessible" in the correct sized font. Second one, the towel rack/grab rail in the bathroom was 2 inches too high.
I am ashamed of my state government and the populace that elected it. As soon as I have enough money to be worthy of Franchise Tax Board's notice, I'm fleeing to a free state.
Reuters and NYT are liberal establishment sockpuppets. Fox News is a GOP sockpuppet. Different sides of the same coin.
Suppose people type your name into Google, and the autosuggestion that comes up is:
{your name} masturbates to {your preferred} porn
It's true, so it can't be libelous right?
why would you want to run Win 7 or XP on this thing? Win 8 Pro will run pretty much anything written for 7 or XP and you won't have issues with tablet hardware drivers. (win 8 is really win 7.1 + the metro tile start page which you can ignore or bypass)
You should be able to run Linux on it, Linux runs on everything!
if by batshit crazy you mean advocating the withdrawl of U.S. troops overseas and not wanting to start pointless wars, or supporting 1st, 2nd and 4th Amendment rights and opposing the expansion of TSA, Patriot Act, stop the indefinite detention of American citizens, or wanting to reduce federal spending and balance the budget, or legalize marijuana and stop the war on drugs, or support gay marriage and other civil rights for gays, then yeah I guess he's batshit crazy.
I only crap once per day. The amount of time I sit on the toilet is only about 50 seconds. Considering that there are 86400 seconds in a day, the probability of me sitting on the toilet and crapping at any given moment is extremely small.
Yet here I am, sitting on the toilet and crapping while I type this on my phone. Or since it's so unlikely, is there another explanation for the smell and the splashing sound?
i was being sarcastic.
good to know that Google values our privacy so much.
Not like that other internet site that sells everything about you except your underwear to the highest bidder, and forces you to use your real name for everything.
Every x months for the past 5 years I hear about some new super-coating that repels dirt, water, oil etc.. Every time I'm like, "cool, when will it come standard on new cars?" I hate having to wash my car every few days (it's parked outside) or it starts looking like crap.
I suppose when I get a flying car, that's when I'll finally see this miracle coating in action.
I went to a really good high school, and while I was taking the AP and honors classes, the kids with low IQ were, for the most part, not.
FTFY
Slashdot stripped out the "less than" symbol. It would've made more sense otherwise.
And the OP I was replying to also used "C" to represent lightspeed. Thanks for playing, though.
That's right... when you're traveling at warp speed, you're still going C relative to space around you. It's just the space itself which is warped.
Watch Star Trek, say the Khaaan movie. They're doing Warp 5 toward Space Station Regula 1 when Saavik says "Admiral, sensors indicate a vessel approaching. It's the Reliant." Now look out the window, the stars around the Reliant look normal.
I didn't know about this... I guess the Falcon Heavy is still not enough for a manned Mars mission so they're gonna build the Big Fucking Rocket.
Glad I actually RTFA