Exactly. I may not get Showtime shows, Sony shows, or the like... but you know, there's a ton of shows on Netflix that still DO come through, and I'm happy to give them my money for it.
I don't know about Android being designed as a desktop OS. I'm sure it'd work for one, but the central application design principle of an "app" being a collection of activities -- that can be paused, abandoned, swapped to disk, etc at any time -- was very heavily influenced by the way we want to use our mobile devices. One might argue that we'll want to do the same with our desktops, of course, and would probably be right.
Booz Allen Hamilton is a company whose core business is contractual work for the US government, and it rakes in roughly 5 billion dollars a year doing it. I think that qualifies as a "top tier" contractor by almost any definition, unless you're trying perhaps to make a top-ten list or something. (I have no idea how BAH compares to Lockheed or Northrup-Grumman, for example.)
It was once considered a precious metal more valuable than gold. Napoleon III, Emperor of France, is reputed to have given a banquet where the most honoured guests were given aluminium utensils, while the others made do with gold.[46][47] The Washington Monument was completed, with the 100 ounce (2.8 kg) aluminium capstone being put in place on December 6, 1884, in an elaborate dedication ceremony. It was the largest single piece of aluminium cast at the time, when aluminium was as expensive as silver.[48]
The 1884 price of aluminum was approximately $1 per ounce, the same as the then prevailing market price of silver, which was considered a precious metal. The world production of new mine silver in 1884 was approximately 2,834 tonnes. Best reported estimates for world aluminum production in 1884 were 3.6 tonnes, most of it in France and England and some in Germany....
Aluminum's relatively high price of $1 per ounce ($16 per lb.) was directly related to the high cost and difficult chemical reduction process then in use to produce it.
I think it's fair to say that it was valuable for more than novelty reasons. Its use as the capstone was somewhat of a whim, but its cost was high at the time. (Much higher than expected, in fact.)
The distraction is not necessarily the looking at the phone, but rather the thinking about composing a message. So, typing even with your eyes on the road is distracting.
Interesting.:) Sounds like I've been getting most of those benefits by shaving in the shower with a soap ostensibly made for shaving. (Not that I could tell what makes it so, but it does seem to work better than alternatives.) Warm face, warm hair, etc.
The weird thing is, I've also read good anecdotes about shaving with/cold/ water, which seems counterintuitive given that so much of the talk about shaving revolves around getting your face/beard hot.
I'm pretty certain the technicians can identify the make, model, and actual size of the drive without looking at the label. Trying to obfuscate the size of the drive is foolish: once anyone notices (and they will!), it quickly becomes much more clear to them that you're hiding something. Now if only you could update the contents of the Dummy Partition regularly without damaging your encrypted data, you could populate it with something unencriminating like porn and badly written fanfiction, and have something that you'd plausibly want to hide. No one uses encryption to hide a lily-white set of data, after all.
... unless someone followed even the remotest bit of common sense and made a copy of your drive before asking you to decrypt it. Trying to self-destruct the data is both futile and a VERY fast way to get either an obstruction of justice charge or get nailed with contempt of court. Better to let the lawyers fight it out.
That's strange, because using Skype has been the exact opposite. My dad and I can talk as if there's no distance between us, and I can talk with my best friend across the country with simialr ease. In contrast, my cellular phone (and land line too) has absolutely shitty quality. I don't know if it's the phone's microphone, its codec, its speakers, the network, or my ears, but I suspect it's one of the former.
Worst case, you waste countless hours of your all-too-short life learning a skill you never use.
God forbid I spend my free time learning Chinese, instead of mastering the intricasies of contract bridge, MMO tanking, or Counter-Strike. At least those will be useful if my kid's friends try to talk gaming smack-talk.... of course, they'd probably be doing it in Chinese, so maybe I should learn that too.
Wonderful songs. Thanks for reminding me about them, I'm going to see if I can find them on Youtube again. Tom Lehrer was brilliantly funny, and a talented singer. I wish I were half as good as he was at both singing and comedy.:)
German also does quite badly in this regard (as do other language that have compound verbs), while other romance languages do fairly well
That might be because Romance languages are languages descended from Latin, and German is not a Romance language. English is a bastardized mix of romance languages (lots of French influence) and germanic languages, so we get a taste of both. (That may be why I found German grammar easy to learn - it seemed very similar to English, more so than French did.)
I wanted to do that, and had a bear of a time trying to get my server to handle things correctly INSIDE my NAT while also resolving things correctly OUTSIDE the NAT. Eventually I gave up and have foo*.dyndns.org.:(
I'd LOVE to see the class action suit for this. Actually, I'd hate to see it, as it almost assuredly end in a way which made everyone but the RIAA cry bullshit.
If the supply is reduced because you can't spend as much time making quality music, would that make people more willing to pay for it? (probably not -- it might just mean that more artists get a chance to sell good music.)
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Longer arms? :D
Exactly. I may not get Showtime shows, Sony shows, or the like ... but you know, there's a ton of shows on Netflix that still DO come through, and I'm happy to give them my money for it.
Perhaps, but you may want to stock up on scotch.
I don't know about Android being designed as a desktop OS. I'm sure it'd work for one, but the central application design principle of an "app" being a collection of activities -- that can be paused, abandoned, swapped to disk, etc at any time -- was very heavily influenced by the way we want to use our mobile devices. One might argue that we'll want to do the same with our desktops, of course, and would probably be right.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Booz_Allen_Hamilton
Booz Allen Hamilton is a company whose core business is contractual work for the US government, and it rakes in roughly 5 billion dollars a year doing it. I think that qualifies as a "top tier" contractor by almost any definition, unless you're trying perhaps to make a top-ten list or something. (I have no idea how BAH compares to Lockheed or Northrup-Grumman, for example.)
You forgot it too. Since I had no idea who he was, I'll share the link:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anwar_Sadat
It doesn't matter so much that he has a sense of humor, but rather whether he has a sense of humor that your other employees might find offensive.
At one point in history, aluminum was very challenging to get in a pure form, and was more valuable than silver.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aluminium
It was once considered a precious metal more valuable than gold. Napoleon III, Emperor of France, is reputed to have given a banquet where the most honoured guests were given aluminium utensils, while the others made do with gold.[46][47] The Washington Monument was completed, with the 100 ounce (2.8 kg) aluminium capstone being put in place on December 6, 1884, in an elaborate dedication ceremony. It was the largest single piece of aluminium cast at the time, when aluminium was as expensive as silver.[48]
The [48] footnote links to http://www.tms.org/pubs/journals/JOM/9511/Binczewski-9511.html , which has a very in-depth look at the origins of the monument's capstone. It addresses Aluminum's value:
The 1884 price of aluminum was approximately $1 per ounce, the same as the then prevailing market price of silver, which was considered a precious metal. The world production of new mine silver in 1884 was approximately 2,834 tonnes. Best reported estimates for world aluminum production in 1884 were 3.6 tonnes, most of it in France and England and some in Germany....
Aluminum's relatively high price of $1 per ounce ($16 per lb.) was directly related to the high cost and difficult chemical reduction process then in use to produce it.
I think it's fair to say that it was valuable for more than novelty reasons. Its use as the capstone was somewhat of a whim, but its cost was high at the time. (Much higher than expected, in fact.)
The distraction is not necessarily the looking at the phone, but rather the thinking about composing a message. So, typing even with your eyes on the road is distracting.
... and then fails to actually do so when loaded in a read-only forensic environment?
Interesting. :) Sounds like I've been getting most of those benefits by shaving in the shower with a soap ostensibly made for shaving. (Not that I could tell what makes it so, but it does seem to work better than alternatives.) Warm face, warm hair, etc.
The weird thing is, I've also read good anecdotes about shaving with /cold/ water, which seems counterintuitive given that so much of the talk about shaving revolves around getting your face/beard hot.
How do you know that cavalier attitude won't lead to harassment or hostile workplace suits once he works for you?
I'm pretty certain the technicians can identify the make, model, and actual size of the drive without looking at the label. Trying to obfuscate the size of the drive is foolish: once anyone notices (and they will!), it quickly becomes much more clear to them that you're hiding something. Now if only you could update the contents of the Dummy Partition regularly without damaging your encrypted data, you could populate it with something unencriminating like porn and badly written fanfiction, and have something that you'd plausibly want to hide. No one uses encryption to hide a lily-white set of data, after all.
I believe judges can confine you to jail until you comply with their orders, not merely one day.
... unless someone followed even the remotest bit of common sense and made a copy of your drive before asking you to decrypt it. Trying to self-destruct the data is both futile and a VERY fast way to get either an obstruction of justice charge or get nailed with contempt of court. Better to let the lawyers fight it out.
That's strange, because using Skype has been the exact opposite. My dad and I can talk as if there's no distance between us, and I can talk with my best friend across the country with simialr ease. In contrast, my cellular phone (and land line too) has absolutely shitty quality. I don't know if it's the phone's microphone, its codec, its speakers, the network, or my ears, but I suspect it's one of the former.
Worst case, you waste countless hours of your all-too-short life learning a skill you never use.
God forbid I spend my free time learning Chinese, instead of mastering the intricasies of contract bridge, MMO tanking, or Counter-Strike. At least those will be useful if my kid's friends try to talk gaming smack-talk. ... of course, they'd probably be doing it in Chinese, so maybe I should learn that too.
Wonderful songs. Thanks for reminding me about them, I'm going to see if I can find them on Youtube again. Tom Lehrer was brilliantly funny, and a talented singer. I wish I were half as good as he was at both singing and comedy. :)
German also does quite badly in this regard (as do other language that have compound verbs), while other romance languages do fairly well
That might be because Romance languages are languages descended from Latin, and German is not a Romance language. English is a bastardized mix of romance languages (lots of French influence) and germanic languages, so we get a taste of both. (That may be why I found German grammar easy to learn - it seemed very similar to English, more so than French did.)
I wanted to do that, and had a bear of a time trying to get my server to handle things correctly INSIDE my NAT while also resolving things correctly OUTSIDE the NAT. Eventually I gave up and have foo*.dyndns.org. :(
* Not my actual domain.
Wait, really? (Oh wait, we're on Firefox 5 now. I didn't even realize it. Thanks.)
I'd LOVE to see the class action suit for this. Actually, I'd hate to see it, as it almost assuredly end in a way which made everyone but the RIAA cry bullshit.
If the supply is reduced because you can't spend as much time making quality music, would that make people more willing to pay for it? (probably not -- it might just mean that more artists get a chance to sell good music.)
Clockwise is the way the world spins when viewed from the south pole.
Just don't let Data calibrate it for you, or you won't like it as much. :)