They already do this on their new laptops. Just buy the damn screw driver for $3.00 and stop worrying about it. It's for the best anyway, we don't need kids opening up their macbooks and breaking shit. If you know how to fix it, you can obtain the screw driver.
Then vote with your wallet. To "regular people" (not ideological geeks like us), the closed app store is part of the "just works" of the iPhone. You will never download an app, and then find that it doesn't work on your device or doesn't look right because it was made for a different resolution phone, etc.
"Regular people" don't care about the fact that the app store is closed, they just want their shit to work when they turn it on.
Yeah, this is exactly why the Apple app store has 300,000 apps and the Android marketplace has 100,000. Oh wait, that would indicate that the iPhone is a more favorable platform to develop for. 3 times more favorable.
But don't make up your mind by the numbers, go by ideology!
In the United States, traffic engineers may rely on the 85th percentile rule[3] to establish speed limits. The speed limit should be set to the speed that separates the bottom 85% of vehicle speeds from the top 15%. The 85th percentile is slightly greater than a speed that is one standard deviation above the mean of a normal distribution.
The theory is that traffic laws that reflect the behavior of the majority of motorists may have better compliance than laws that arbitrarily criminalize the majority of motorists and encourage violations. The latter kinds of laws lack public support and often fail to bring about desirable changes in driving behavior. An example is the federally-mandated 55 mph (90 km/h) speed limit that was removed in part because of notoriously low compliance.
Most U.S. jurisdictions report using the 85th percentile speed as the basis for their speed limits, so the 85th-percentile speed and speed limits should be closely matched. However, a review of available speed studies demonstrates that the posted speed limit is almost always set well below the 85th-percentile speed by as much as 8 to 12 mph (see p.88) (13 to 19 km/h). Some reasons for this include:
Political or bureaucratic resistance to higher limits.
Statutes that restrict jurisdictions from posting limits higher than an arbitrary number.
In addition, it says that a lot of the time the safe speed is actually HIGHER than the design speed. Read it.
from theporntalk.com:
"A parents attentiveness to this process and willingness to talk frankly to their child at this stage will be important for the teen to be able to discern the dangers and consequences of exploring porn." (emphasis mine)
Will someone please explain to me how porn is dangerous? Will you get hurt if you watch two people having sex? Will you die? Will you grow hair on your palms?
What if the program uses the java Robot class to actually click ok? This is the class that allows you to move and click the mouse and interact with the keyboard as if it was a human user.
Radio is king. Without the label's promoters to physically go to every radio station and say "Here's a new song from our label, listen to it and play it." the radio stations wouldn't know what to play. They have to play the music that will get the highest number of listeners so that they can maximize their profit. The label tells them what they think will get the most listeners based on the fact that labels suppossedly sort out the good profit generating music from the rest of the crap and only sign the good music with potential.
You might say something along the lines of "but radio is dying" but the fact is that most people still discover new music by listening to the radio, be it in the car or at the mall or in their favorite trendy clothing store (think pac-sun or hollister or american eagle). Most people don't have time to go looking around the internet for new music that they might like then sort out the crap themselves. You might not think this is true and that most people have decent taste in music, but it only takes a 5 minutes of listening to the radio to hear the crap that people buy. Just looking at the billboard hot 100 list proves my point: http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/charts/chart_displa y.jsp?g=Singles&f=The+Billboard+Hot+100
Yeah... Not really. You would probably be where you are today, because the worst punishment you would see would be a suspension. As someone who's still in highschool, I can tell you that most teachers would be able to tell that story is fiction and wouldn't do a thing about it. My mother's an elementary school principal and I assure you that things like what you wrote are still around. But you have to have that distinction of fiction versus non-fiction, and most people can reasonably tell the difference.
You see, your teachers were mutants, of course it's ok to kill them because it's not a likely scenario. It hasn't happened before and people aren't scared of it. No one actually even thinks it's possible for your teachers to turn into mutants. But if you were writing about shooting up the school and the story wasn't blatantly fiction then that's something people are scared of. It has happened before and people have heard of it. They see it on the news in one isolated incident and assume the entire world is like that, including their school. The school officials have to look out for it and make sure it doesn't happen because it's their job.
Keep in mind that a suspension isn't that big of a deal anymore. Well a semester long one is, but that's a very exquisite example. You would most likely see a couple of days or a week tops in a public school, which isn't that huge on a record. I mean come on, they give suspensions out like candy nowadays. At my highschool if you're late 3 times in a semester you get suspended for a day.
Let's try and be realistic. You wouldn't be busted for "conspiracy to commit murder" or anything. Did you even read the article? The cops looked into this (which was a kid with an icon stating he was going to kill a specific teacher, a real plausable threat to school officials) and found that the kid wasn't a threat at all and knew it was a joke.
I live in Celebration, Florida. It's about 10 minutes from Disney Quest. As has been posted before, it is closing in 2008 to become an ESPN Zone.
I go to "Downtown Disney" almost every weekend for one reason or another. Downtown Disney is where DisneyQuest is located. What it comes down to is that DisneyQuest is awesome, but theres no replay-ability. You go once and experience everything there is in one day, and all that's left to do is play the regular arcade games. At $30 a day, it's not really worth it to just go and play regular arcade games. While there used to be lines outside DisneyQuest, the initial shock reaction of "ohhh virtual reality" has worn off.
Since it opened the only real new thing I can think of that has been added is...nothing. They replaced the Hercules ride with the Pirates of the Carribean ride, which is the only real new content added. They also switched from the credit system of giving out cards to people with credits on them to play games and ride rides to a one-fee for the day theme park style admission. None of my friends have been motivated to go back anytime recently, all of the tech is outdated. All the other Disney parks add stuff and give us reasons to go back. Examples are Epcot's mission space, Epcot's test track, Animal Kingdom's mount everest, MGM'S rockin roller coaster, Epcot's Soarin, etc.
The biggest reason DisneyQuest is dying is Disney's lack of innovation and new content. Why go to DisneyQuest when you can just go to a regular arcade and pay to play the games you want instead of paying to get in?
As a 17 year old with an awesome girlfriend with overzealous parents, can I please transfer custody of her to you?
Please? Her parents are really big dicks. I do everything right and treat her really well all the time (just ask her) but her parents still only let her see me 1 or 2 days a week.
Also, I plan to be like you when (if) I ever become a parent. You're a cool guy.
A great place to start is on the TI-83 calculators, which most students get in 8th or 9th grade when starting algebra I. It's BASIC and it's where I learned to program. Really fills up time in math class:)
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7200 RPM drives are a free upgrade. You have the choice of 750GB at 5400rpm or 500GB at 7200rpm, and it's a free switch.
Maybe do a little research before making statements like that?
Really? You can get a computer smaller and lighter than the macbook air with a full keyboard? Or did you forget about the macbook air?
Lol, you're comparing a laptop and a desktop CPU. Apples and oranges, my friend.
They already do this on their new laptops. Just buy the damn screw driver for $3.00 and stop worrying about it. It's for the best anyway, we don't need kids opening up their macbooks and breaking shit. If you know how to fix it, you can obtain the screw driver.
http://www.sw-box.com/Professional-Screw-Driver-Opening-Tool-For-Iphone-4.html
Then vote with your wallet. To "regular people" (not ideological geeks like us), the closed app store is part of the "just works" of the iPhone. You will never download an app, and then find that it doesn't work on your device or doesn't look right because it was made for a different resolution phone, etc. "Regular people" don't care about the fact that the app store is closed, they just want their shit to work when they turn it on.
Yeah, this is exactly why the Apple app store has 300,000 apps and the Android marketplace has 100,000. Oh wait, that would indicate that the iPhone is a more favorable platform to develop for. 3 times more favorable. But don't make up your mind by the numbers, go by ideology!
iOS is unix-based, those tools are already ported (natively, not through 2 levels of emulation) for people with jailbroken iPhones.
Ahh I see. Well I just wanted to make sure you considered it :)
And I bet most slashdotters aren't good with straps :-P
Dude you should really buy a bike rack!
In the United States, traffic engineers may rely on the 85th percentile rule[3] to establish speed limits. The speed limit should be set to the speed that separates the bottom 85% of vehicle speeds from the top 15%. The 85th percentile is slightly greater than a speed that is one standard deviation above the mean of a normal distribution.
The theory is that traffic laws that reflect the behavior of the majority of motorists may have better compliance than laws that arbitrarily criminalize the majority of motorists and encourage violations. The latter kinds of laws lack public support and often fail to bring about desirable changes in driving behavior. An example is the federally-mandated 55 mph (90 km/h) speed limit that was removed in part because of notoriously low compliance.
Most U.S. jurisdictions report using the 85th percentile speed as the basis for their speed limits, so the 85th-percentile speed and speed limits should be closely matched. However, a review of available speed studies demonstrates that the posted speed limit is almost always set well below the 85th-percentile speed by as much as 8 to 12 mph (see p.88) (13 to 19 km/h). Some reasons for this include: Political or bureaucratic resistance to higher limits. Statutes that restrict jurisdictions from posting limits higher than an arbitrary number.
In addition, it says that a lot of the time the safe speed is actually HIGHER than the design speed. Read it.
from theporntalk.com: "A parents attentiveness to this process and willingness to talk frankly to their child at this stage will be important for the teen to be able to discern the dangers and consequences of exploring porn." (emphasis mine) Will someone please explain to me how porn is dangerous? Will you get hurt if you watch two people having sex? Will you die? Will you grow hair on your palms?
ah I see, thanks for clearing that up. I guess it's they did at least think of some security holes even if they did leave this setup installation one.
What if the program uses the java Robot class to actually click ok? This is the class that allows you to move and click the mouse and interact with the keyboard as if it was a human user.
Radio is king. Without the label's promoters to physically go to every radio station and say "Here's a new song from our label, listen to it and play it." the radio stations wouldn't know what to play. They have to play the music that will get the highest number of listeners so that they can maximize their profit. The label tells them what they think will get the most listeners based on the fact that labels suppossedly sort out the good profit generating music from the rest of the crap and only sign the good music with potential.
a y.jsp?g=Singles&f=The+Billboard+Hot+100
You might say something along the lines of "but radio is dying" but the fact is that most people still discover new music by listening to the radio, be it in the car or at the mall or in their favorite trendy clothing store (think pac-sun or hollister or american eagle). Most people don't have time to go looking around the internet for new music that they might like then sort out the crap themselves. You might not think this is true and that most people have decent taste in music, but it only takes a 5 minutes of listening to the radio to hear the crap that people buy. Just looking at the billboard hot 100 list proves my point: http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/charts/chart_displ
Yeah... Not really. You would probably be where you are today, because the worst punishment you would see would be a suspension. As someone who's still in highschool, I can tell you that most teachers would be able to tell that story is fiction and wouldn't do a thing about it. My mother's an elementary school principal and I assure you that things like what you wrote are still around. But you have to have that distinction of fiction versus non-fiction, and most people can reasonably tell the difference.
You see, your teachers were mutants, of course it's ok to kill them because it's not a likely scenario. It hasn't happened before and people aren't scared of it. No one actually even thinks it's possible for your teachers to turn into mutants. But if you were writing about shooting up the school and the story wasn't blatantly fiction then that's something people are scared of. It has happened before and people have heard of it. They see it on the news in one isolated incident and assume the entire world is like that, including their school. The school officials have to look out for it and make sure it doesn't happen because it's their job.
Keep in mind that a suspension isn't that big of a deal anymore. Well a semester long one is, but that's a very exquisite example. You would most likely see a couple of days or a week tops in a public school, which isn't that huge on a record. I mean come on, they give suspensions out like candy nowadays. At my highschool if you're late 3 times in a semester you get suspended for a day.
Let's try and be realistic. You wouldn't be busted for "conspiracy to commit murder" or anything. Did you even read the article? The cops looked into this (which was a kid with an icon stating he was going to kill a specific teacher, a real plausable threat to school officials) and found that the kid wasn't a threat at all and knew it was a joke.
Don't plagarise from bash.org! Not cool, man. http://www.bash.org/?652012
The bold really emphasizes how you feel you must brag about it.
Interesting how tone is conveyed over the internet by the way one only makes a single word bold.
I live in Celebration, Florida. It's about 10 minutes from Disney Quest. As has been posted before, it is closing in 2008 to become an ESPN Zone.
I go to "Downtown Disney" almost every weekend for one reason or another. Downtown Disney is where DisneyQuest is located. What it comes down to is that DisneyQuest is awesome, but theres no replay-ability. You go once and experience everything there is in one day, and all that's left to do is play the regular arcade games. At $30 a day, it's not really worth it to just go and play regular arcade games. While there used to be lines outside DisneyQuest, the initial shock reaction of "ohhh virtual reality" has worn off.
Since it opened the only real new thing I can think of that has been added is...nothing. They replaced the Hercules ride with the Pirates of the Carribean ride, which is the only real new content added. They also switched from the credit system of giving out cards to people with credits on them to play games and ride rides to a one-fee for the day theme park style admission. None of my friends have been motivated to go back anytime recently, all of the tech is outdated. All the other Disney parks add stuff and give us reasons to go back. Examples are Epcot's mission space, Epcot's test track, Animal Kingdom's mount everest, MGM'S rockin roller coaster, Epcot's Soarin, etc.
The biggest reason DisneyQuest is dying is Disney's lack of innovation and new content. Why go to DisneyQuest when you can just go to a regular arcade and pay to play the games you want instead of paying to get in?
As a 17 year old with an awesome girlfriend with overzealous parents, can I please transfer custody of her to you?
Please? Her parents are really big dicks. I do everything right and treat her really well all the time (just ask her) but her parents still only let her see me 1 or 2 days a week.
Also, I plan to be like you when (if) I ever become a parent. You're a cool guy.
homonym for a word that means either diminutive, penis, or urine
The word you're looking for is synonym. Homonym means the same sound, synonym means the same meaning.
A great place to start is on the TI-83 calculators, which most students get in 8th or 9th grade when starting algebra I. It's BASIC and it's where I learned to program. Really fills up time in math class :)
or even (except in Texas) spanked.
Florida too.
Let's not forget the $50 a controller price either. Most people buy at least one extra controller, if not 2 or 3.
Whoa! That's the last day of school for me!
I have a PSP and no DS and I've never owned a Sony console before. I do, however, have a gamecube and an n64.