I'm not one to praise Apple because I think their marketing, product lines, and 99% of their loyal customers are infuriating, but that being said:
They are making money. A lot of it. They can create a hype and they can carve out market share. You can knock their logic all you want, but it's hard to argue with the results.
As a young person who, thankfully, doesn't really watch TV on a regular basis I can tell you the reasoning for this is part of why I don't.
Say you're watching a show and an ad comes on, you've got a good three minutes, at least, before your show comes back. So you find something else good to watch until it goes to commercial. Then you switch back, but wait, show #1 is still on commercial, find show #3. When it goes to commercial #1 is probably back, if not maybe number #2. The way shows repeat themselves over and over again and the increasing length of commercial breaks means you can just about watch two or three shows at a time if you're intent on doing so.
Finding three good shows to skip between, that's the challenge. I can rarely find one, which may explain why catching 50 minutes of one show or 10 minutes of five different ones all comes out about the same in the end.
Small problem.
The US has an astrnomically high birth rate.
Nope. Check the List of countries by birth rate compiled from the UN statisitics, or the chart compiled from the CIA factbook stats. I don't know where you've been looking.
Mind you, it also has the highest infant mortality rate outside of the third world as well, so I guess it balances out somehow.
I think a lot of people would argue about the easiness of it. It cost millions of dollars, takes up quite a bit of space, and they're still reliant on the main power grid at times they just plan on producing more than draw in a given year.
So, as stated in the comments of the post referenced above, if you scale it to say, Los Angeles, the cost, space, and incompleteness of the solution in fact do become very real problems.
Unsolvable? No. Worthwhile? That's really the argument isn't it?
I have to agree about gamer points, I added a full set from Assassins Creed to my roommate's account before I realized how easy it was to create my own. Finally something more than personal satisfaction from doing needlessly hard optional quests.
I have to say though, all of seen of the PSN store is the Rockband section and it's leaps and bounds ahead the xbox live version. The only advantage the 360 has is that you don't have to exit out of the game to access it.
If we're all so indoctrinated and there is no freedom why do I have to sift through so many overblown posts about the American media to find any posts actually discussing this new iron curtain?
The point was that we can't trust the judgment of other drivers most of the time. Beyond that, most people who speed, or tailgate, or cut people off, or drive drunk for that matter (and there is a line to call those in) know that they're doing it and probably don't care in the slightest about tickets, let alone warnings.. The last thing we need is the devotion of resources to send out meaningless warning letters that may or may not have any basis in reality.
As someone who has the privilege of knowing any number of very poor drivers, I can tell you that the angriest (and thus most likely to call in complaints) people I have ever met are also the ones who believe that they can do no wrong when driving. If they run a stop sign, you should have stopped. If they speed up to stop you from merging you're rude and aggressive for trying to get ahead. They drive five under the speed limit until you try to pass them then it's off to the races.
Murder works because they can investigate the crime and find evidence not of of it having actually been committed, but of who committed it and furthermore doing so is worthwhile. The analogous driving situation is an accident, having the police issue tickets based on other drivers phone calls is probably the worst idea I've heard today.
I can't say for certain that the parent was just being insightful not ignorant, but free speech zones are a travesty and anyone who cares about their rights ignores them completely. This country is my free speech zone and I refuse to acknowledge limitations placed on that to keep unpopular politicians from having to deal with the commoners.
I bet if you had wanted to make a big deal about it they would have gladly made it a G2G0 if you're really feeling charitable. Maybe you could have just sent them a check with no expectation of anything.
Altruism and charity are filled with grays, there's no use in getting holier than thou on the internet when there's always someone holier.
That said, no one should complain about build quality, justified complaints or otherwise, when they're purchasing a non-retail consumer product designed to be a donation to third world children.
It's normal/. policy not to RTFA, but you didn't even read the summary. Please try harder.
The government is cutting down the number of gateways to the government network, this has nothing to do with the rest of the US' private access. If you had said for example:
"I'd like to see the government try to stop all the wifi Point-to-Point antenna pointed across the street (to private unsecured gateways) or accessed at home using their government issue laptops."
you would have been insightful, but as it stands you (and at least 20 other people) addressed a question that no one asked.
"All those innocent contractors hired to do a job were killed- casualties of a war they had nothing to do with."
Thinking about it again, I don't know if that Clerks quote is Offtopic or Insightful...
So just because your stubborn ass can't fix it's sleep schedule in one night like the rest of us I should have to hear you complain about how my lazy ass can't get out of bed? My biological clock likes it when I go to bed around 4-5am, and I'd rather that I still have some shred of darkness when I'm trying to go to sleep but I have my windows blocked out anyway because I know it isn't going to happen.
The whole point of DST is that we can't change the earth's natural cycle, I'm sorry they didn't factor yours into the equation.
There are at least a couple of domestic recyclers of leaded glass (I live 45 minutes from one and work in a related field) that handle tens of millions of pounds of leaded glass a year, most of which is cleaned, sorted, and then sold to CRT manufacturers.
That market is quickly drying up though as the CRT market dies out. Give it another five years and they'll all be going where the rest of our scrap electronics go, ditches in rural China and cargo containers in Africa. Something to think about I guess as we move to LCD/LED/Plasma displays which are not without their faults (poorly contained mercury, and any number of unregulated chemicals in the 100% landfilled glass) but are still a step forward in sustainable electronics.
A number of states have passed laws banning the landfilling of CRTs due to health concerns about lead and cadmium but I would say off hand that it's less than a quarter of them.
In five speeding tickets and at least as many accidents (with or without me driving) I've never dealt with an officer who was anything less than polite and professional. I don't drive nice cars, I drive too fast, and it's entirely possible I look like suburban drug dealer. Never had a problem.
Which is the comment about how companies shouldn't hire sysadmins who don't compile their own kernels, which is what the GP was replying to and what my parent completely missed the boat on.
I knew a couple from Washington who took regular trips to California and prided themselves on filling up just outside the borders of Oregon on each side just so they could be sure to never have to deal with someone else pumping their gas.
University of Wisconson - Madison has it's own too that provides some degree of power and also hot water and steam for heating of the campus. They're trying to shut it down though because it's an out-dated coal plant.
The problem he's getting at isn't that it's not 100% effective, it's that it's pretty close to 0% effective, much like the screen that says "only click here if you're 18 or older".
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I'm not one to praise Apple because I think their marketing, product lines, and 99% of their loyal customers are infuriating, but that being said:
They are making money. A lot of it. They can create a hype and they can carve out market share. You can knock their logic all you want, but it's hard to argue with the results.
I can't say it means much to me, if Amtrak wasn't ungodly expensive and incredibly inconvenient maybe I wouldn't have so many problems with it.
I spent 36 hours on an Amtrak couple years ago, next time I'm spending the $100 more and flying.
Exactly, I watch football on Sundays a couple months a year, otherwise it's nothing but the shows I like of DVD from netflix.
As a young person who, thankfully, doesn't really watch TV on a regular basis I can tell you the reasoning for this is part of why I don't.
Say you're watching a show and an ad comes on, you've got a good three minutes, at least, before your show comes back. So you find something else good to watch until it goes to commercial. Then you switch back, but wait, show #1 is still on commercial, find show #3. When it goes to commercial #1 is probably back, if not maybe number #2. The way shows repeat themselves over and over again and the increasing length of commercial breaks means you can just about watch two or three shows at a time if you're intent on doing so.
Finding three good shows to skip between, that's the challenge. I can rarely find one, which may explain why catching 50 minutes of one show or 10 minutes of five different ones all comes out about the same in the end.
Nope. Check the List of countries by birth rate compiled from the UN statisitics, or the chart compiled from the CIA factbook stats. I don't know where you've been looking.
Mind you, it also has the highest infant mortality rate outside of the third world as well, so I guess it balances out somehow.
You may want to read the brief snippit on comparing infant mortality as well.
It only takes a few minutes not to be wrong on the internet.
I think a lot of people would argue about the easiness of it. It cost millions of dollars, takes up quite a bit of space, and they're still reliant on the main power grid at times they just plan on producing more than draw in a given year.
So, as stated in the comments of the post referenced above, if you scale it to say, Los Angeles, the cost, space, and incompleteness of the solution in fact do become very real problems.
Unsolvable? No. Worthwhile? That's really the argument isn't it?
A little part of me died when they stopped doing backwards computability. How hard is it for a $400 PS3 to emulate a $100 PS2?
If they hadn't dropped that, I'd be kicking my old, dusty, 1st gen PS2 to the curb right now and replacing with something sleek and shiny.
I have to agree about gamer points, I added a full set from Assassins Creed to my roommate's account before I realized how easy it was to create my own. Finally something more than personal satisfaction from doing needlessly hard optional quests.
I have to say though, all of seen of the PSN store is the Rockband section and it's leaps and bounds ahead the xbox live version. The only advantage the 360 has is that you don't have to exit out of the game to access it.
If we're all so indoctrinated and there is no freedom why do I have to sift through so many overblown posts about the American media to find any posts actually discussing this new iron curtain?
The point was that we can't trust the judgment of other drivers most of the time. Beyond that, most people who speed, or tailgate, or cut people off, or drive drunk for that matter (and there is a line to call those in) know that they're doing it and probably don't care in the slightest about tickets, let alone warnings.. The last thing we need is the devotion of resources to send out meaningless warning letters that may or may not have any basis in reality.
As someone who has the privilege of knowing any number of very poor drivers, I can tell you that the angriest (and thus most likely to call in complaints) people I have ever met are also the ones who believe that they can do no wrong when driving. If they run a stop sign, you should have stopped. If they speed up to stop you from merging you're rude and aggressive for trying to get ahead. They drive five under the speed limit until you try to pass them then it's off to the races. Murder works because they can investigate the crime and find evidence not of of it having actually been committed, but of who committed it and furthermore doing so is worthwhile. The analogous driving situation is an accident, having the police issue tickets based on other drivers phone calls is probably the worst idea I've heard today.
I can't say for certain that the parent was just being insightful not ignorant, but free speech zones are a travesty and anyone who cares about their rights ignores them completely. This country is my free speech zone and I refuse to acknowledge limitations placed on that to keep unpopular politicians from having to deal with the commoners.
I bet if you had wanted to make a big deal about it they would have gladly made it a G2G0 if you're really feeling charitable. Maybe you could have just sent them a check with no expectation of anything.
Altruism and charity are filled with grays, there's no use in getting holier than thou on the internet when there's always someone holier.
That said, no one should complain about build quality, justified complaints or otherwise, when they're purchasing a non-retail consumer product designed to be a donation to third world children.
It's normal /. policy not to RTFA, but you didn't even read the summary. Please try harder.
The government is cutting down the number of gateways to the government network, this has nothing to do with the rest of the US' private access. If you had said for example:
"I'd like to see the government try to stop all the wifi Point-to-Point antenna pointed across the street (to private unsecured gateways) or accessed at home using their government issue laptops."
you would have been insightful, but as it stands you (and at least 20 other people) addressed a question that no one asked.
"All those innocent contractors hired to do a job were killed- casualties of a war they had nothing to do with." Thinking about it again, I don't know if that Clerks quote is Offtopic or Insightful...
So just because your stubborn ass can't fix it's sleep schedule in one night like the rest of us I should have to hear you complain about how my lazy ass can't get out of bed? My biological clock likes it when I go to bed around 4-5am, and I'd rather that I still have some shred of darkness when I'm trying to go to sleep but I have my windows blocked out anyway because I know it isn't going to happen. The whole point of DST is that we can't change the earth's natural cycle, I'm sorry they didn't factor yours into the equation.
There are at least a couple of domestic recyclers of leaded glass (I live 45 minutes from one and work in a related field) that handle tens of millions of pounds of leaded glass a year, most of which is cleaned, sorted, and then sold to CRT manufacturers.
That market is quickly drying up though as the CRT market dies out. Give it another five years and they'll all be going where the rest of our scrap electronics go, ditches in rural China and cargo containers in Africa. Something to think about I guess as we move to LCD/LED/Plasma displays which are not without their faults (poorly contained mercury, and any number of unregulated chemicals in the 100% landfilled glass) but are still a step forward in sustainable electronics.
A number of states have passed laws banning the landfilling of CRTs due to health concerns about lead and cadmium but I would say off hand that it's less than a quarter of them.
In five speeding tickets and at least as many accidents (with or without me driving) I've never dealt with an officer who was anything less than polite and professional. I don't drive nice cars, I drive too fast, and it's entirely possible I look like suburban drug dealer. Never had a problem.
Personal experience runs quite the gamut.
Randy Weaver would disagree.
Which was a reply to this:
http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=448542&cid=22372518
Which is the comment about how companies shouldn't hire sysadmins who don't compile their own kernels, which is what the GP was replying to and what my parent completely missed the boat on.
Must be a regional thing.
Everyone I've ever met from Wisconsin\general Mid West says Oregon as in bon bon, John, Ron, and Mom.
We also say bubbler though.
I knew a couple from Washington who took regular trips to California and prided themselves on filling up just outside the borders of Oregon on each side just so they could be sure to never have to deal with someone else pumping their gas.
University of Wisconson - Madison has it's own too that provides some degree of power and also hot water and steam for heating of the campus. They're trying to shut it down though because it's an out-dated coal plant.
The problem he's getting at isn't that it's not 100% effective, it's that it's pretty close to 0% effective, much like the screen that says "only click here if you're 18 or older".
Reply was to a post about how companies should hire decent sysadmins who compile their own kernels for efficiency and security. Read before you reply.