I'd love to go back to one of their old candy-bar style phones that did nothing except be a phone. I don't care about texting. I don't care about data. I don't care about music. I don't care about photos. I don't care about video. I don't care about apps.
I had my fun with smartphones over the years. I've changed.
I want a phone like I had 15 or so years ago: One I can charge once every other week whether it needs it or not. Something with actual buttons that I can operate by feel, without having to look at it.
If there are whales living in the rather-small man-made and reservoir several hundred miles from any ocean, I think there are bigger problems than fishing with dynamite.
On the other hand, even if it were legal to do so, I think the Corps of Engineers that manages the reservoir might have some pretty legitimate objections.
On the rare occasion that I have to get something from walmart, I use the door by their automotive service department (yes, I know, not every walmart has one). Quick in, quick out, the register at the automotive desk works just as well as the ones up front, and often with no line. The only real downside is that only works when the service department is open.
Taking off in an unpressurized small plane and flying up to that altitude (granted, starting at about 400ft) in a lot less time than 4 hours (we took about 15 minutes) didn't "get" me or the other two folks I was flying with. Then again, we didn't get out and go for a walk at that altitude either.
Roommate of mine had a couple semesters in an engineering program that on paper were 27 hours, because he tested out of some low-level humanities classes. In real life, they were more like 18 hour semesters.
Isn't it funny how when your guy wins, the election was fair and free from influence, but if the other guy wins, the election was "bought or stolen by special interests" as if special interests and bought-and-paid-for politicians are unique to one party or the other.
I don't care which figurehead wins. Either way, "big government" and "big business" win, and individuals lose.
We'd like to push stuff to production faster, but our client usually only has one window a year when we can take production systems offline for upgrades.
As for keeping it organized...hah. Two weeks of pure chaos while the hardware folks are trying to get all their upgrades and replacements in place at the same time the software guys are trying to figure out when systems will be back together so they can do their upgrades, followed by a weekend of praying that everything comes back online the way it should.
A warhead could be considered a kind of cargo on a one-way trip, signature not required. Depending on who you're talking to, a scramjet powered cruise missile might be very meaningful.
Should be called "Y-Combinator Startup News" - very little of interest unless you follow "web-fad-of-the-week" companies and have a raging hard-on for social media bullshit.
While kids using buckled footpaths as skateboard jumps is impresive, it pales in comparison to this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nf0l3NO-35U from Wisconsin just a few days ago.
They're doing exactly what they've been told to do by the system that politics has created. To fix our schools, you need to keep congress's nose out of the process, return responsibility to the individual states and local boards of education.
No need to. Blackboard only bought two companies that provided Moodle hosting.
The code is fine. The Moodle organization is fine. The only thing that is happening is that schools are learning yet again why it's better to host it yourself than to outsource.
The fee is probably not from his bank. My gas company charges a $2 "convenience fee" for paying online, and closer to $5 for the paying by phone. The electric company adds an additional > $5 for paying online.
Actually, I vote in every election, and have since I turned 18 and could. I vote on the local ballot issues, since they're the only things that directly affect me.
I get my most of my news from Europe, specifically the UK and Germany, and the rest of my news from Japan. Our media in the US is a wasteland that isn't worth reading, and hasn't been for at least the last 20 years.
I read slashdot for the comments, prefer the BSD license over GPL, and prefer OSX and *BSD over Windows and Linux. I avoid computers whenever I can, even though I make a living dealing with them.
I watch Formula 1, love sailing, and follow most of the major sailing races. I don't watch movies, or television other than F1. I prefer J-Pop and EDM over anything that gets played on the radio in the US.
I don't care which, if any, god(s) you worship, but would prefer you keep it to yourself and don't try to change my beliefs (exactly what they are or aren't, you don't need to know).
I don't care about climate change, warming or cooling, man-made or natural, because I don't think humankind as a whole is worth saving. Eventually, we'll kill the human race off anyway. Life will go on in some form, somewhere, even if it's reduced to single-celled organisms and has to evolve all over again.
Also, I absolutely hate career politicians of every stripe, and always have. There's a 99.9% chance I won't vote for any of you assholes who make a career in politics. I don't think I'm all that unique, but I hope that helps you figure out which box I fit in.
Sending a balloon to 80,000 ft is not "into space". So far, no one has actually managed to get a weather balloon to exit the atmosphere. Actually doing so would be much, much more impressive than "kids stuck camera, gps logger, and random object in a styrofoam box and brought back pretty pictures".
You know there are large sections of this country where you do not have to register your firearms, right? And large areas where there is no legal obligation to report them lost or stolen, or sold, for that matter.
The whole country doesn't operate like Law & Order's version of New York.
For quick hack-it-together devices, I'd rather have a cheap linux computer with some gpio pins that I can access via something like/dev/port0 than an arduino. I'm not sure that this Raspberry Pi is the perfect solution to that, but it's closer to what I want than a arduino is, and it's a hell of a lot cheaper and easier to deal with than hacking something together out of an old laptop or mini-itx board.
If I'm going to go back to playing with microcontrollers, I'm going to be working from a bare chip, custom boards, and assembly language, because to me, that was fun.
Arduinos have their place. This thing has its place. There might be some overlap, but there's a lot of situations where you'd pick one over the other. Choice is good, right?
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I'd love to go back to one of their old candy-bar style phones that did nothing except be a phone. I don't care about texting. I don't care about data. I don't care about music. I don't care about photos. I don't care about video. I don't care about apps.
I had my fun with smartphones over the years. I've changed.
I want a phone like I had 15 or so years ago: One I can charge once every other week whether it needs it or not. Something with actual buttons that I can operate by feel, without having to look at it.
Larry Ellison doesn't love boats, he loves buying trophies, including the Americas Cup.
If there are whales living in the rather-small man-made and reservoir several hundred miles from any ocean, I think there are bigger problems than fishing with dynamite.
On the other hand, even if it were legal to do so, I think the Corps of Engineers that manages the reservoir might have some pretty legitimate objections.
Without a smartphone or other means of Internet access, where can I find where to buy a paper map for a particular city that I will be visiting?
The same way people did for decades of motoring before the internet.
On the rare occasion that I have to get something from walmart, I use the door by their automotive service department (yes, I know, not every walmart has one). Quick in, quick out, the register at the automotive desk works just as well as the ones up front, and often with no line. The only real downside is that only works when the service department is open.
Taking off in an unpressurized small plane and flying up to that altitude (granted, starting at about 400ft) in a lot less time than 4 hours (we took about 15 minutes) didn't "get" me or the other two folks I was flying with. Then again, we didn't get out and go for a walk at that altitude either.
Roommate of mine had a couple semesters in an engineering program that on paper were 27 hours, because he tested out of some low-level humanities classes. In real life, they were more like 18 hour semesters.
Isn't it funny how when your guy wins, the election was fair and free from influence, but if the other guy wins, the election was "bought or stolen by special interests" as if special interests and bought-and-paid-for politicians are unique to one party or the other.
I don't care which figurehead wins. Either way, "big government" and "big business" win, and individuals lose.
We'd like to push stuff to production faster, but our client usually only has one window a year when we can take production systems offline for upgrades.
As for keeping it organized...hah. Two weeks of pure chaos while the hardware folks are trying to get all their upgrades and replacements in place at the same time the software guys are trying to figure out when systems will be back together so they can do their upgrades, followed by a weekend of praying that everything comes back online the way it should.
A warhead could be considered a kind of cargo on a one-way trip, signature not required. Depending on who you're talking to, a scramjet powered cruise missile might be very meaningful.
Should be called "Y-Combinator Startup News" - very little of interest unless you follow "web-fad-of-the-week" companies and have a raging hard-on for social media bullshit.
While kids using buckled footpaths as skateboard jumps is impresive, it pales in comparison to this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nf0l3NO-35U from Wisconsin just a few days ago.
They're doing exactly what they've been told to do by the system that politics has created. To fix our schools, you need to keep congress's nose out of the process, return responsibility to the individual states and local boards of education.
If you're listening to the radio, however, they do attribute the songs they play.
That's rare around here anymore.
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No need to. Blackboard only bought two companies that provided Moodle hosting.
The code is fine. The Moodle organization is fine. The only thing that is happening is that schools are learning yet again why it's better to host it yourself than to outsource.
The fee is probably not from his bank. My gas company charges a $2 "convenience fee" for paying online, and closer to $5 for the paying by phone. The electric company adds an additional > $5 for paying online.
Actually, I vote in every election, and have since I turned 18 and could. I vote on the local ballot issues, since they're the only things that directly affect me.
Here, I'll help get you started.
I get my most of my news from Europe, specifically the UK and Germany, and the rest of my news from Japan. Our media in the US is a wasteland that isn't worth reading, and hasn't been for at least the last 20 years.
I read slashdot for the comments, prefer the BSD license over GPL, and prefer OSX and *BSD over Windows and Linux. I avoid computers whenever I can, even though I make a living dealing with them.
I watch Formula 1, love sailing, and follow most of the major sailing races. I don't watch movies, or television other than F1. I prefer J-Pop and EDM over anything that gets played on the radio in the US.
I don't care which, if any, god(s) you worship, but would prefer you keep it to yourself and don't try to change my beliefs (exactly what they are or aren't, you don't need to know).
I don't care about climate change, warming or cooling, man-made or natural, because I don't think humankind as a whole is worth saving. Eventually, we'll kill the human race off anyway. Life will go on in some form, somewhere, even if it's reduced to single-celled organisms and has to evolve all over again.
Also, I absolutely hate career politicians of every stripe, and always have. There's a 99.9% chance I won't vote for any of you assholes who make a career in politics. I don't think I'm all that unique, but I hope that helps you figure out which box I fit in.
That would be my point.
that they reached space.
Sending a balloon to 80,000 ft is not "into space". So far, no one has actually managed to get a weather balloon to exit the atmosphere. Actually doing so would be much, much more impressive than "kids stuck camera, gps logger, and random object in a styrofoam box and brought back pretty pictures".
You know there are large sections of this country where you do not have to register your firearms, right? And large areas where there is no legal obligation to report them lost or stolen, or sold, for that matter.
The whole country doesn't operate like Law & Order's version of New York.
Well, that would certainly put and end to global warming.
For quick hack-it-together devices, I'd rather have a cheap linux computer with some gpio pins that I can access via something like /dev/port0 than an arduino. I'm not sure that this Raspberry Pi is the perfect solution to that, but it's closer to what I want than a arduino is, and it's a hell of a lot cheaper and easier to deal with than hacking something together out of an old laptop or mini-itx board.
If I'm going to go back to playing with microcontrollers, I'm going to be working from a bare chip, custom boards, and assembly language, because to me, that was fun.
Arduinos have their place. This thing has its place. There might be some overlap, but there's a lot of situations where you'd pick one over the other. Choice is good, right?