A disproportionate number of top universities, relative to population, are in rural areas and small towns: Ithaca, New York; Urbana-Champaign, Illinois; Hanover, New Hampshire; Durham, North Carolina; Terre Haute, Indiana; etc.
That's just because their large plots of land were cheap when they were founded, or else were large areas of unused land bequeathed or granted by the government for the purpose.
I think the first product made this way was the thin keyboards that came out last year. I assume they worked out the economics and the production kinks then before deciding to use it for the laptops.
"Insightful? Yes, God says that in the OT, but I don't recall that from NT books. The whole point of the NT is that the ultimate sacrifice was made for us and we no longer have stone our children."
You'd have a point if wingnuts didn't continually cite the Old Testament to support their bigotry.
The concern is not that kids will handle the lead in a TV, or the gallium arsenide in an LED. It's that old TVs and old LEDs will accumulate in the environment and leach their toxic materials into the groundwater. Weathering and other factors will fracture and/or wear away the enclosing materials, allowing some of the toxins to escape into the environment.
This particular abuse (classifying low-level employees as "exempt" management employees, and pressuring them to work unpaid overtime) is very common among software/hardware companies. I don't know anyone in the software industry that hasn't had a job where they were rated "exempt", but didn't have any management responsibility, or any real independent control of how they performed their job functions.
I was 'exempt' when working in IT at a large Chicago bank. It's certainly not limited to tech companies.
That said, I always figured I had rather more independent control than, say, a building maintenance or food service worker.
The only thing that possibly sounds vaguely like what you're talking about is Apple's registry of creator codes for applications, which wasn't particularly rigorously controlled.
"Trade with third world countries is a mutual benefit"
There may be mutual benefit, but it has often been decidedly lopsided in favor of the richer nation, with the imbalance obtained and enforced through military means.
China didn't see much benefit in the opium trade imposed by Britain.
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I expect it ships with 2x2GB, filling the two slots. To upgrade to 8GB you need 2x4GB, and 4GB DDR3 SODIMMs are still pricey.
If there were 4 slots, it would be much cheaper, as going from 4 to 8 would just mean buying another 2 2GB SODIMMs.
I can sympathize with the big-box aggs, and also don't like being in crowded concerts, or parties. But I love cities.
" simply cannot fathom why Apple keeps making these things without a number pad. "
Probably because the number pad prevents the QWERTY keyboard from being centered.
A disproportionate number of top universities, relative to population, are in rural areas and small towns: Ithaca, New York; Urbana-Champaign, Illinois; Hanover, New Hampshire; Durham, North Carolina; Terre Haute, Indiana; etc.
That's just because their large plots of land were cheap when they were founded, or else were large areas of unused land bequeathed or granted by the government for the purpose.
But how many of those glances resulted in some idea for a song, or an ad campaign, or a product, or a business?
The streets of cities may be hectic, distracting, and dangerous, yet they've also been a place of cultural ferment for thousands of years.
You know why it's quiet in a rural field? Because nothing's happening there.
City people don't put their desks on the fucking street, so the cognitive load of those times when you're on the street doesn't matter.
I think the first product made this way was the thin keyboards that came out last year. I assume they worked out the economics and the production kinks then before deciding to use it for the laptops.
"Insightful? Yes, God says that in the OT, but I don't recall that from NT books. The whole point of the NT is that the ultimate sacrifice was made for us and we no longer have stone our children."
You'd have a point if wingnuts didn't continually cite the Old Testament to support their bigotry.
"Happy shall he be who taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stones"
Psalm 137, verse 9
The Bible. Sounds pretty peaceful.
Shouldn't be enforced.
Let fools pay more money for 'exotic' sushi that isn't really. At least the fish won't go extinct.
"The important protection we have from over-eager police forces are the rules of evidence."
That doesn't help if they pull a no-knock SWAT raid and some poorly-trained paramilitary jackass on an adrenaline rush shoots you dead.
Yes, it happens. Often. Sometimes they even kill someone after raiding the entirely wrong house. And the cowardly shit cops shoot harmless dogs.
Oh hell, you don't have a clue, do you?
The concern is not that kids will handle the lead in a TV, or the gallium arsenide in an LED. It's that old TVs and old LEDs will accumulate in the environment and leach their toxic materials into the groundwater. Weathering and other factors will fracture and/or wear away the enclosing materials, allowing some of the toxins to escape into the environment.
This particular abuse (classifying low-level employees as "exempt" management employees, and pressuring them to work unpaid overtime) is very common among software/hardware companies. I don't know anyone in the software industry that hasn't had a job where they were rated "exempt", but didn't have any management responsibility, or any real independent control of how they performed their job functions.
I was 'exempt' when working in IT at a large Chicago bank. It's certainly not limited to tech companies.
That said, I always figured I had rather more independent control than, say, a building maintenance or food service worker.
Especially if there's a lockout after some number of failed attempts.
You're on crack.
The only thing that possibly sounds vaguely like what you're talking about is Apple's registry of creator codes for applications, which wasn't particularly rigorously controlled.
"...to let you know that Bush is on his way out."
We prosecute 90 year old ex-Nazis, too. Even relatively low-level ones. It's never too late.
And really, who can doubt this?
"Saying you want to sodomize someone (not even rape, just fuck'em in the ass), in an anonymous internet forum is NOT A CREDIBLE THREAT."
Might be, depending on the tone used, and if the context of the post and forum are such that the writer is in proximity to the proposed target.
For instance, if you're talking about a law school class that's currently ongoing, and talking about another student in that class with you.
Hence the part where I wrote "This is not the case", which was alluding to the current multi-touch track pads.
It seems like they're assuming an iPod touch screen surface would be required to have a multi-touch trackpad.
This is not the case.
If they keep the genius bars stocked with spray deodorant and soap, the feetards won't come anywhere near it.
A gag order is involuntary. Hence 'order'.
An NDA is voluntary, hence 'agreement'.
You may not like the terms, but you have the right to decline (in which case you don't get the SDK). You're not entitled to have the SDK.
Now we watch them fade into irrelevance.
Oh, their software will still be used. But they're no longer going to be ideologically influential.
"Trade with third world countries is a mutual benefit"
There may be mutual benefit, but it has often been decidedly lopsided in favor of the richer nation, with the imbalance obtained and enforced through military means.
China didn't see much benefit in the opium trade imposed by Britain.
You Have No Idea.