The current edition does not have a stand-alone article on Saddlery, addressing the topic more briefly as part of the Horsemanship article.
Similarly, the 1911 Britannica has an entry on "Arsenal", meaning the military facility. The current Britannica touches on the concept briefly in an article on logistics.
"If a topic would not be notable from the perspective of 100 years in the future, it should not have an article. The purpose of a general-purpose encyclopedia is to convey codified academic knowledge to common people."
The encyclopedias of one hundred years ago had plenty of stuff that isn't in encyclopedias of today.
The main reason 'real' encyclopedias prune topics is because of the cost of editing and publishing an increasingly long reference work, not because the old information ceases to be "notable".
I believe the theory is that by not making it removable, they can use the space that would be taken up by the battery casing and socket, and have a bigger battery, without making the computer itself bigger.
They also aren't constrained into shaping the battery in a way that is convenient for it to be a compact removable unit. They can flatten it out, turn it into multiple lobes that fill the available space more efficiently, etc.
Hell, if they could inject a lithium battery filling into a laptop like donut filling, so that it used up every spare cubic nanometer of space, they'd probably do it.
Of course, I remember paying $3400 for an SE/30. You can buy a lot of Mac today without approaching the non-inflation-adusted price of the 68k Macs. (Or early 486es, for that matter).
My eyes start to water at $3000 these days, and there's no way I'd buy a configured Mac that totaled out to over $4k without winning the lottery.
I'm fairly comfortable paying $2000 for an Apple laptop, though.
I think most people can understand "fucked up your accrued vacation time" which is equivalent to "fucked up your banked vacation pay" without difficulty.
If, say, I had eight weeks accrued vacation coming to me, having not used any in a long time, and some psycho IT person intentionally wipes it out, it doesn't matter to me that a computer was used. I don't care if she wiped a hard drive, dropped a table, burned a stack of punch cards, or shredded old-fashioned paper files containing the information.
What I understand perfectly is that she wiped out records that I am owed eight weeks of salary, in the form of paid vacation time, which I have earned over an extended period.
If, say, I were laid off, I would expect to receive the cash value of that vacation time, along with any severance and final paycheck. If I were laid off immediately after the psycho's action, this would be significantly complicated, and I'd certainly not be confident that the employer wouldn't screw me out of the money.
It may be possible to fix the missing data, but in the meantime that's a non-trivial amount of pay in limbo. And if I were on the verge of leaving on a long-awaited vacation to use that accrued vacation time?
"As an example, do you remember the movie "Catwoman"?"
For which Halle Berry won a Razzie for worst actress, and actually showed up to collect it. Among other things she thanked "Warner Bros., for putting me in a godawful piece of s--- movie." And said to her manager "Next time, read the script".
And for that, I'll always have a certain amount of respect for her.
1 star reviews are often rants, or people who didn't even buy the thing they're ranting about.
For instance, in kindle books, the 1 star reviews are probably the anti-DRM fanatics, or people complaining about the price (fair enough, but if I'm looking for a review of the content, I'm probably okay with the price.)
2-4 stars are the one where people put some thought into it.
Some might be, but the uranium probably isn't. You can also order it from United Nuclear. The vendor on Amazon, Images SI, has a website that offers various scientific kits, geiger counters, and, yes, radioactive samples like the same uranium ore they sell on Amazon.
Granted, Tuscan Whole Milk is now wholly fake, but it might have been real at one point. I've even seen a Tuscan Milk truck here in Massachusetts.
"That is the only way that we can get a truly free internet."
You're high. Apparently you're thinking this organization would be made up of member states like "Rock Candy Mountain Land", "Santa's Republic of the North Pole" and "Stallmanistan".
The UN has removed a reference to sexual orientation from a resolution condemning arbitrary and unjustified executions.
The UN General Assembly resolution, which is renewed every two years, contained a reference opposing the execution of LBGT people in its 2008 version. But this year's version passed without any reference to gay rights after a group of mostly African and Asian countries, led by Mali and Morocco, voted to remove it.
Gay rights groups fear the move -- which passed in a narrow 79 to 70 vote -- will act as a signal that persecuting people for their sexual orientation is internationally acceptable
Complain all you want about the US, but the majority of nations in the world aren't particularly freedom-loving.
"Glad his Mac works for him, but I can probably do just as well with some crusty K6-II running FreeBSD, and it won't be a lot of work for me either."
So you're fetishizing a commodity CPU, in a commodity motherboard, with some commodity components hanging off it. That's effectively only one level of abstraction lower than the person who read that his iPad has an A4 ARM-based CPU. Big deal. You've looked at your CPU.
That doesn't exactly make you Dean Kamen.
Throw some sensors and actuators together with an Arduino or something and make something unique.
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They should run NASCAR on the streets of Detroit. Preferably in the most decrepit parts of town
Arrgh.
The 1911 Britannica had a good-sized article on Saddlery, going into some detail and covering the history of the invention. http://encyclopedia.jrank.org/SAC_SAR/SADDLERY.html/
The current edition does not have a stand-alone article on Saddlery, addressing the topic more briefly as part of the Horsemanship article.
Similarly, the 1911 Britannica has an entry on "Arsenal", meaning the military facility. The current Britannica touches on the concept briefly in an article on logistics.
The 1911 edition of Britannica had a long entry for
The current online edition of Britannica, which likely matches the DVD edition, lacks an entry for Saddlery.
"If a topic would not be notable from the perspective of 100 years in the future, it should not have an article. The purpose of a general-purpose encyclopedia is to convey codified academic knowledge to common people."
The encyclopedias of one hundred years ago had plenty of stuff that isn't in encyclopedias of today.
The main reason 'real' encyclopedias prune topics is because of the cost of editing and publishing an increasingly long reference work, not because the old information ceases to be "notable".
I believe the theory is that by not making it removable, they can use the space that would be taken up by the battery casing and socket, and have a bigger battery, without making the computer itself bigger.
They also aren't constrained into shaping the battery in a way that is convenient for it to be a compact removable unit. They can flatten it out, turn it into multiple lobes that fill the available space more efficiently, etc.
Hell, if they could inject a lithium battery filling into a laptop like donut filling, so that it used up every spare cubic nanometer of space, they'd probably do it.
I don't complain about Apple's prices.
Of course, I remember paying $3400 for an SE/30. You can buy a lot of Mac today without approaching the non-inflation-adusted price of the 68k Macs. (Or early 486es, for that matter).
My eyes start to water at $3000 these days, and there's no way I'd buy a configured Mac that totaled out to over $4k without winning the lottery.
I'm fairly comfortable paying $2000 for an Apple laptop, though.
Sorry, but cryonics is stupid.
Hair's too long in the picture.
The car he's standing next to is a shitty Honda, not his Mercedes.
There's a picture of him at dinner last night with Obama and Zuckerberg and other zillionaires. He looks better than the Enquirer's picture.
The Enquirer has a picture of someone who vaguely resembles Jobs.
"1) Warming up the car? Really? Was it made in the 60's?"
December. In Chicago. I assume "warming up" is in the sense of "waiting for the heat to come on and warm up the interior".
Yeah, that's what I was getting at with the submission, but the awesome headline wound up not being mentioned.
WTF? Buncha categories I don't care about.
Security watches the audience, and presumably if they spot someone using a phone, that person gets thrown out.
I think most people can understand "fucked up your accrued vacation time" which is equivalent to "fucked up your banked vacation pay" without difficulty.
If, say, I had eight weeks accrued vacation coming to me, having not used any in a long time, and some psycho IT person intentionally wipes it out, it doesn't matter to me that a computer was used. I don't care if she wiped a hard drive, dropped a table, burned a stack of punch cards, or shredded old-fashioned paper files containing the information.
What I understand perfectly is that she wiped out records that I am owed eight weeks of salary, in the form of paid vacation time, which I have earned over an extended period.
If, say, I were laid off, I would expect to receive the cash value of that vacation time, along with any severance and final paycheck. If I were laid off immediately after the psycho's action, this would be significantly complicated, and I'd certainly not be confident that the employer wouldn't screw me out of the money.
It may be possible to fix the missing data, but in the meantime that's a non-trivial amount of pay in limbo. And if I were on the verge of leaving on a long-awaited vacation to use that accrued vacation time?
No, it also costs *fellow employees* money, and time.
Dude, if anyone fucked with my accrued vacation, live entry into a running woodchipper would be too kind.
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"As an example, do you remember the movie "Catwoman"?"
For which Halle Berry won a Razzie for worst actress, and actually showed up to collect it. Among other things she thanked "Warner Bros., for putting me in a godawful piece of s--- movie." And said to her manager "Next time, read the script".
And for that, I'll always have a certain amount of respect for her.
Right. I should have been more specific. The Amazon *listing* is now wholly fake. Perhaps it was real at some point, some local grocer's bright idea.
1 star reviews are often rants, or people who didn't even buy the thing they're ranting about.
For instance, in kindle books, the 1 star reviews are probably the anti-DRM fanatics, or people complaining about the price (fair enough, but if I'm looking for a review of the content, I'm probably okay with the price.)
2-4 stars are the one where people put some thought into it.
Some might be, but the uranium probably isn't. You can also order it from United Nuclear. The vendor on Amazon, Images SI, has a website that offers various scientific kits, geiger counters, and, yes, radioactive samples like the same uranium ore they sell on Amazon.
Granted, Tuscan Whole Milk is now wholly fake, but it might have been real at one point. I've even seen a Tuscan Milk truck here in Massachusetts.
"uses an attack-tool-laden iPhone "
ie, a NecronomiPod. (ala Charlie Stross)
"That is the only way that we can get a truly free internet."
You're high. Apparently you're thinking this organization would be made up of member states like "Rock Candy Mountain Land", "Santa's Republic of the North Pole" and "Stallmanistan".
Look at the freakin' UN:
Complain all you want about the US, but the majority of nations in the world aren't particularly freedom-loving.
Guy's extreme fear of death fails to grant him ability to predict future.
"Yes they did. You would have had to have searched long and hard in 1998 to find a PC being sold without USB ports. "
They might have had a header on the motherboard. But there probably wasn't a port on the case that you could plug a device into.
"Glad his Mac works for him, but I can probably do just as well with some crusty K6-II running FreeBSD, and it won't be a lot of work for me either."
So you're fetishizing a commodity CPU, in a commodity motherboard, with some commodity components hanging off it. That's effectively only one level of abstraction lower than the person who read that his iPad has an A4 ARM-based CPU. Big deal. You've looked at your CPU.
That doesn't exactly make you Dean Kamen.
Throw some sensors and actuators together with an Arduino or something and make something unique.