If your Chromebook is stolen, do you think Google should provide law enforcement with the details on the new account to which it's been associated? Or do you write off your $400 and move on...
What jobs exactly are even considered middle class seems to be highly contentious and subjective.
Depends how far back you go, I suppose. If you go back 35 years, you'd find lots of people working in manufacturing (autos / ships / whatever), steelwork etc. who were 'middle class.' They owned a car and a house, raised a family, maybe went to a ballgame on the weekend. Those are the jobs that are gone.
An iPad doesn't run corporate win32 and win64 apps natively. An iPad doesn't integrate with Active Directory for seamless access to network resources. An iPad only has a finger, not a stylus interface. iPad has no USB port.
and a MacBook Air for only $100 more
The Macbook Air has no touch interface and doesn't convert to a tablet / slate for easy use on an airplane in economy with the seat in front of you in full recline.
After the stunning success of the original Surface tablet, Microsoft releases its successor
The Surface Pro will likely be much more successful than the RT. It runs win32, win64 and Modern UI apps natively & seamlessly integrates with Active Directory - Key features for business that the RT can't do...
Sure there is - I live in Canada and have good friends who are Ismali Shia Muslims. Generally, most Ismalis you might meet are well educated doctors, dentists, lawyers, engineers. Their women are sexually liberated, educated, respected and aren't wrapped in bedsheets from head to toe. Their leader, the Aga Khan, publicly works for secular pluralism and women's rights.
In order to stay wealthy, enjoy trappings, and stay in power, dictators need to placate people below them, and the people below them, and so forth. To do that takes money, and without an economy you don't have money - So the benefit is it helps give NK an economy, which helps keep the elite rich.
If the female married to the male gamer has time to do her own things, then the male gamer should too in an "equal" marriage.
Sure, but in my experience, in couples with young kids it's never 'equal' - The male takes his 'me' time, but the female never gets her equivalent time, or if she does she winds up spending it grocery shopping.
In a marriage with kids, an 'equal' marriage is one where the household / childcare responsibilities are shared reasonably equally between spouses....and it's usually the unequal ones that end in divorce.
If the wife is the one reading bedtime stories, taking the kids to swimming lessons, doing all the laundry and on and on while the husband is playing golf all day or gaming all weekend in the basement things get pretty unhappy pretty quickly...
Sure, but no one I know who is playing MMORPGs / WoW is playing for one or two hours per week. The people who are playing for an hour are gaming on their iPads.
Adults game, and there's not a damn thing wrong with it unless you allow it to become one
Sure, but all the (male) adults I know who game fit into one of these categories -
- Single, or in a relationship but have no kids (ergo, have time for gaming)
- In a relationship with kids, but have an extensive child support network (grandparents etc.)
- In a relationship, with kids, but have a 'traditional' marriage where the burden of child rearing almost entirely falls on the woman - The husband is in the basement playing WoW while the wife is handling bath time, putting on pajamas, reading stories, brushing teeth then cleaning the kitchen.
- In a relationship, with kids, but the kids are largely grown up
No male I know that has younger kids and an 'equal' marriage has time for video games.
The proper course of action is for you to spend a little less time gaming and a little more time doing group activities with your family.
As a married guy with two kids under five I would largely agree, but I also think to some degree it depends on how much sleep you and your spouse need at night. My wife and I both need eight hours to survive, so between family stuff, cleaning, meal prep, bath time, bedtime stories and all that there's no time for games, other than 10 minutes of Angry Birds here and there. However, if you do fine on six hours (and by do fine I mean wake rested, ready to take on the day, not hitting snooze eleven times and then mainlining espresso just to stay alive) then I'd say that you probably have time for some gaming when the chores are done and the kids are asleep.
many people say it, there might be some truth to it?
Many people said we didn't land on the moon. Doesn't mean there is truth to it.
Could the USA do better? Absolutely - They could do MUCH better - But it's ludicrous to suggest that a citizen of the likes of Iran, Saudi Arabia, North Korea, Burma, Belarus or on and on has better rights than an American citizen, and that, from a rights perspective, life in those countries is better than it is in the USA.
Please tell us you were kidding, that you're not *that* provincial, that you believe Western rationalism really is the norm throughout the entire world, including Muslim countries and Africa?
Over the years I've noticed this is a pretty common theme on Slashdot - You could post a story about some backwater, torture-filled nation lead by some despotic religious zealot and 26 replies will immediately say "Yeah, but the USA is TEN TIMES WORSE!"
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That wasn't the question. Assuming they did, what's your answer?
It would be FAR LESS than hundreds of thousands dead on the US side
Sigh. It's not just about American deaths - It's hundreds-of-thousands of dead in South Korea - Our ally. It's not always just about you 'muricans.
Note to Canadians - try writing the word 'Canada' in even larger letters
We wouldn't want to dimish the
U
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+ Stars and Stripes that was on the Saturn V.
If your Chromebook is stolen, do you think Google should provide law enforcement with the details on the new account to which it's been associated? Or do you write off your $400 and move on...
NONE of your teachers are actually posess the skill you are trying to acquire
The exceptions, at least here in British Columbia, are Medical and Dental schools.
What jobs exactly are even considered middle class seems to be highly contentious and subjective.
Depends how far back you go, I suppose. If you go back 35 years, you'd find lots of people working in manufacturing (autos / ships / whatever), steelwork etc. who were 'middle class.' They owned a car and a house, raised a family, maybe went to a ballgame on the weekend. Those are the jobs that are gone.
An iPad at $400 cheaper
An iPad doesn't run corporate win32 and win64 apps natively. An iPad doesn't integrate with Active Directory for seamless access to network resources. An iPad only has a finger, not a stylus interface. iPad has no USB port.
and a MacBook Air for only $100 more
The Macbook Air has no touch interface and doesn't convert to a tablet / slate for easy use on an airplane in economy with the seat in front of you in full recline.
After the stunning success of the original Surface tablet, Microsoft releases its successor
The Surface Pro will likely be much more successful than the RT. It runs win32, win64 and Modern UI apps natively & seamlessly integrates with Active Directory - Key features for business that the RT can't do...
Why would any professor worth his salt "Recommend" his students be locked into a device for consumption
in other words, an iPad.
rather than one that more freely enables co-operation and creativity?
Or, in other words, a Surface Pro.
Milk crates? Really?
Dude, can I borrow your car? There's an AWESOME stack of milk crates behind the Kwik-E-Mart just achin' for the takin'
We could build them into a sweet tablet holder.
unusual offshoots of the major religions.
It's hardly an 'unusual offshoot.' Ismailism is the second largest branch of Shia Islam.
There is no such thing as "Moderate" Islam
Sure there is - I live in Canada and have good friends who are Ismali Shia Muslims. Generally, most Ismalis you might meet are well educated doctors, dentists, lawyers, engineers. Their women are sexually liberated, educated, respected and aren't wrapped in bedsheets from head to toe. Their leader, the Aga Khan, publicly works for secular pluralism and women's rights.
GAME OVER PLAYER 1
During the NK national anthem, several of their players had tears in their eyes
They were probably told to tear up or their parents would be shot. Tears of terror aren't hard to produce.
Where is the benefit for him in doing that?
In order to stay wealthy, enjoy trappings, and stay in power, dictators need to placate people below them, and the people below them, and so forth. To do that takes money, and without an economy you don't have money - So the benefit is it helps give NK an economy, which helps keep the elite rich.
Best. Response. Ever.
If the female married to the male gamer has time to do her own things, then the male gamer should too in an "equal" marriage.
Sure, but in my experience, in couples with young kids it's never 'equal' - The male takes his 'me' time, but the female never gets her equivalent time, or if she does she winds up spending it grocery shopping.
No - I know dads who want 'heirs' and a legacy and all that BS but don't want to involved in what's required. Acceptable in 1900, not so much now.
What the heck is an "equal" marriage?
In a marriage with kids, an 'equal' marriage is one where the household / childcare responsibilities are shared reasonably equally between spouses. ...and it's usually the unequal ones that end in divorce.
If the wife is the one reading bedtime stories, taking the kids to swimming lessons, doing all the laundry and on and on while the husband is playing golf all day or gaming all weekend in the basement things get pretty unhappy pretty quickly...
Sure, but no one I know who is playing MMORPGs / WoW is playing for one or two hours per week. The people who are playing for an hour are gaming on their iPads.
Adults game, and there's not a damn thing wrong with it unless you allow it to become one
Sure, but all the (male) adults I know who game fit into one of these categories -
- Single, or in a relationship but have no kids (ergo, have time for gaming)
- In a relationship with kids, but have an extensive child support network (grandparents etc.)
- In a relationship, with kids, but have a 'traditional' marriage where the burden of child rearing almost entirely falls on the woman - The husband is in the basement playing WoW while the wife is handling bath time, putting on pajamas, reading stories, brushing teeth then cleaning the kitchen.
- In a relationship, with kids, but the kids are largely grown up
No male I know that has younger kids and an 'equal' marriage has time for video games.
The proper course of action is for you to spend a little less time gaming and a little more time doing group activities with your family.
As a married guy with two kids under five I would largely agree, but I also think to some degree it depends on how much sleep you and your spouse need at night. My wife and I both need eight hours to survive, so between family stuff, cleaning, meal prep, bath time, bedtime stories and all that there's no time for games, other than 10 minutes of Angry Birds here and there. However, if you do fine on six hours (and by do fine I mean wake rested, ready to take on the day, not hitting snooze eleven times and then mainlining espresso just to stay alive) then I'd say that you probably have time for some gaming when the chores are done and the kids are asleep.
You can actually buy those in many airports. They are called luggage alarms
Yep, I have one. They work really well. Both pieces are quite small.
many people say it, there might be some truth to it?
Many people said we didn't land on the moon. Doesn't mean there is truth to it.
Could the USA do better? Absolutely - They could do MUCH better - But it's ludicrous to suggest that a citizen of the likes of Iran, Saudi Arabia, North Korea, Burma, Belarus or on and on has better rights than an American citizen, and that, from a rights perspective, life in those countries is better than it is in the USA.
Please tell us you were kidding, that you're not *that* provincial, that you believe Western rationalism really is the norm throughout the entire world, including Muslim countries and Africa?
Over the years I've noticed this is a pretty common theme on Slashdot - You could post a story about some backwater, torture-filled nation lead by some despotic religious zealot and 26 replies will immediately say "Yeah, but the USA is TEN TIMES WORSE!"