Don't worry we've heard of people being deathly ill and not receiving treatment when they direly needed it....
Or others that have to wait for 0.5-1 full year for "elective" surgeries (joint repair for people that blew their knee, etc)
PS- I took care of a gal from another country b/c they told her, "We believe the chance of your surgery is not cost effective vs risk... even though it means you'll be in constant and excruciating pain for the rest of your life.
She was also denied personal pay health care b/c of the same reasoning.... they didn't want to be left footing the bill in the end if she passed away.
She flew to the U.S., stayed here for quite a while. While her bill is I'm sure quite high, she can live possibly the next 40 - 60 years without chronic pain. (Yes she was young, too)....
So yes, your system may not be perfect, and neither is ours, but each has its own quirks. I, personally, would be devastated if I had been told, "Meh you're not worth the money SORRY!"
Hell Apple just got the right mouse button... if it took them that long to adapt something that's been around since the 1990's, it really will take 25 years!
On a more serious note, I haven't seen a trackball in years. My computer doesn't have a floppy drive (nor did my laptop I had before this computer), and b/c of that I've not had a use for a floppy disk/drive for about 5 years.
My mouse/keyboard are wireless and so was my laptop external mouse (aka the both are/were USB)... I think my current computer has the ps/2 ports, but obviously not used. My laptop didn't have a ps/2 ports at all.
IMHO the death knell has been run for these techs so why NOT the mouse?
I used to work for a major higher class restaurant about a year ago. We switched systems from text based, to an archaic touch screen, and finally to a more modern touch screen (sort of like the Aloha Point-of-Sales systems in use in many other restaurants today). These new touch screen systems made organization a breeze table to table, ordering items became much faster and easier and decreased the amount of wasted food when things were previously not ordered correctly r/t laziness or functions the old system lacked.
The problem with this technology PROBABLY wasn't the fact that they weren't useful, hard to use, that they weren't sensitive enough. The problem was probably the end user. Think about when the mouse was first introduced to those using text only MS DOS. Nearly every one of them most likely exclaimed, "THIS THING IS A POS!" I highly doubt many places gave these systems enough time to work, because while it did take about 1 - 3 months of relearning every intricacy of the system. Once this time had passed I could again do my job in my sleep.
Oh and BTW: My printer is also USB (as well as my printer before this one, too, so I've not used a parallel port for quite some time as well)
Finally, I have an HTC Touch, and LOVE the speed at which I can punch text msgs into the phone. The only thing I haven't learned how to do is text w/ driving, but I shouldn't be doing that anyways, so I don't.
I guess what my first comment was trying to say is this: They've not come up with their promises for other technology placing loads on their networks (solar), and if you have to plug your car in to charge it, I'm pretty sure nobody would be forcing you to do that. *I* just will not help with their "problems" until I *am* given $$, and from what they made it sound like, you have the option of pushing it into the (insert acronym) mode... thus if they don't specifically state, "We'll pay you 'x' amount", then I'll just put my car in charge mode and call it a day.
My point: Electric companies don't pay for energy produced via our domestic solar cells, even though it puts power on THEIR grid to sell to other customers, and therefor I highly doubt they'd do anything different for this. If you live in an area where you are paid for your solar energy, I'd like to hear about it because nearly every TV show that they place solar panels on the houses they consistently 99.99% of the time say, "Well this area's electric co doesn't pay for excess used, so......" I've never once heard them say they DO pay for your excess since I've been in HS, and you don't really hear of that many people saying that this is one of the nice benefits of the tech... it's because it honestly doesn't happen anymore.
PS- I'm really done debating with you on this one.
"Kempton estimates the value for utilities could be up to $4,000 a year for the service, part of which could be paid to drivers."
Could being the key word. I guess I should have said, "If and WHEN I get paid for it we'll talk, until then the power companies can......."
It's just like when I was still in HS and solar energy cells for houses were first hitting the big market and everyone was talking it up like it was something great. "It makes your electricity meter go backwards in low-usage times!" (and) "You get paid for the excess if you make excess!" What they forget to mention is that nearly every single electric company since the introduction of this technology had first embraced, then completely denounced solar cell usage by not allowing these folks to receive stipends for energy THEY produced. There's, from what I'm hearing, only a select few that give you breaks on your bill per month for generating electricity FOR them.
I guess what I'm saying is "COULD" is definitely not "WILL" and I'm assuming it's going to be a mere pittance if anything at all since it's "up to $4,000 a year... PART of which could be paid to drivers."
I was thinking to myself, "Maybe they're talking about solar cars!" (Charge your car completely and THEN put excess on the grid or something along those lines)
Nope.
Why the heck would I want to plug my car in to provide the electric company a service that could potentially, worst case scenario, hose my battery/car by overloading it (not enough cars to handle the load plugged in at one particular time), or by even depleting perhaps enough of my battery to screw me royally when I get in a traffic jam that was unforeseeable in my future? No thanks. I'll keep my 100% charge thankyouverymuch. Until the power companies start paying me for MY services, they can go to... well you know where.
Coming soon to a lake near you:
I feel a repeat of the 1969 Cuyahoga River fire breaking out soon
In '69 the Cuyahoga River (a main river that flows into Erie) caught fire because Cleveland, among others, dumped pollutants into the stream. The pollutants went unchecked for a good while, and got to the point where a person "does not drown, but decays". While the exact nature of what set the fire remains unknown to myself, rumor had it that someone tossed a cigarette into the river catching it on fire. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuyahoga_River
Witnesses said that this occurrence was actually very intriguing. It's not every day you see water catch fire.
I understand your point, but think of how freaking difficult it would be to get a credit card if this were to happen.
I agree, though, that there needs to be some kind of second check. I'm surprised with the loss of freedom we're all not obligated to do more biometrics online and for credit cards and what-not, but that's just me.
I wish Ohio was a credit freezing state, because that's a nice piece of mind when something does go terribly wrong.
I, personally, am a neat person at work. I'm a slob at home, but that's because I don't have the time to clean. Putting everything in a specific and delineated place is not only intelligent, but stifles confusion. It may stifle creativity -- I mean, what's more creative than putting toilet paper rolls in the living room? What's more creative than finding the toilet plunger in your car just in case? My point is that this might be true for the SLIGHTLY messy, but for those that are absolute slobs, I beg to differ. There's no way that being a complete mess is more productive or better than having things placed in order. If you have to actively search for an item, that takes time. If everybody put stuff away where it was suppose to go, there'd not only be more room for extra items (organization makes room for more things), but there'd also be no need to search for things. If an item is always in the same place, it'll be a cinch to find.
To sum this up, I'm going to have to say: "bulls***"
The only problem with that is that many police officers suffer some degree of hearing loss due to the lack of use of ear protection when going to shooting ranges and such. Because of this, it doesn't really surprise me all-that-much that almost all the police can't hear it.
I think, really, the only way to do anything about it is to record it and somehow digitally take it off, edit the wavelength, and see where it gets you with the police. You'd definitely have to have the police right there through the whole process, but if that was happening to me I'd be TICKED.
Uh if BVD's only cost a few cents to produce, then why do I have to pay like $15 for three of them?
In all seriousness, though, as with ALL technology, they'll find a way to mass produce it if it *is* for consumers (and if there's a demand). They'll then pump them out at a nifty price tag of 1000x more expensive than what they manufactured the things for. It's all about economics;P
Maytag doesn't get to tell me I can't replace a broken part with one I've reverse-engineered
... Unless you're Lexmark, and then you can start suing people for buying ink cartridges that are *much* cheaper and last longer than their POS inks.... THEN it's ok.
I don't think that it's the problem of understaffing, I think it's more of a problem with people calling far too much.
You hear all the time about people calling 911 for the most idiotic things.
All the hang ups/pranks by kids/false dials that they HAVE to follow up on. Everything culminates, but all-in-all if they started prosecuting people for false alarms/imposing fines you would probably see the incidence and the wait times on the service drop significantly.
See that's the beauty of TV. It doesn't matter WHAT graphics card they put into the box. Unless your TV has a super high resolution or is an HDTV, it's going to look like crap no-matter-what... until you play movies or stored video.
I'm nearly positive it has something to do with the resolutions TVs can render, but if you ever notice, a TV (with a computer hooked up through, say, AV cables) does not display text worth the crap unless you DOWNGRADE your screen resolution. I think I had my computer down to 480x360 and I could read the text pretty well, but at 1024x768 I couldn't read any text. Now when I started to play a movie on it, the screen looked fine. It most likely downgraded the resolution automatically for me, but of that I can't be sure. Everything looks crystal clear until you close out of the program. The buttons again looked like junk and the text is just a blur.
I'm sure this was fixed when computers went to SVid or higher qual connections, but I could be wrong. I have an SVid computer, but unfortunately none of my local TV items have SVid on them. The only way you're going to see a bad influence on screen quality is on an HDTV/LCD TV/Plasma b/c it shows more DPI/has a higher resolution than normal tube TV's. Go find a computer to hook up to your TV and you'll be surprised.
Well while that's all fine and good there's a huge difference between YOU and POLICE. Police take an oath to protect the public, et al. The general public could give 2 sh*ts about other people's safety (usually). This is the reason you'll never be able to view inside the cameras.
Not to mention the networking / bandwidth nightmare that you'd then be paying for to allow everybody to view these images. These cameras are not connected to the outside world. Please read the title: CCTV (Closed Circuit TV)... meaning it's a circuit directly to the office... there's no way unless they spend a WHOLE bunch more to connect it. Are you willing to shell that cash out of your own pocket?
I'm in a city with "Stop light cameras" and "Speeding" cameras. I'm pretty sure I just got caught by one a few weeks ago, and in about a month I'll know for sure when I get the ticket from the mail. It bothers me that I'll have to pay $100 for a red light violation, but it's definitely better than paying $190 from getting caught by an actual officer, or worse yet it's better than me continuing to run the red lights and smash into someone -- possibly killing them.
As with the Red light/speed cameras, I'm 100% certain that nobody is watching them b/c they have no reason to. There's no point. The only time anybody looks at what the camera sees is when someone does something wrong. As with the speed/stop light camera's I'm sure they're not employing 1000 ppl just to look at these dumb things unless something's going on or unless they're investigating something going on.
It's not what you're thinking. It's not big brother. It's simply a way to catch criminals, nothing more.
Ps- It makes one wonder if they saw the shady individuals involved in the London bombings, if they'd be able to stop it. That in itself would make *ME* feel a heck of a lot safer. As I always say -- there's no need to be afraid of the law unless you have something to hide.... Does it rein true? It almost always does in some way/shape/or form.
Maybe it has something to do with the difference between "digital" and "analog" cell phones?
Analog uses insane more energy... Darned low service areas (and, consequently, cells work further in analog signal areas... maybe THAT'S why! They're really just killing Earth with analog signals like crazy coming from Mars.)... damned analog.
Or Oregon Trail.
That crap revolutionized the Apples *I* worked on in grade school (and, consequently, was the only thing that I really did on those ancient POS's)
You did hear about the study that the New Orleans PD performed, didn't you? They fired 500 blank rounds into the air around the city and did not receive one phone call complaining or informing police of it.
I guess New Orleans had/has gotten a bit sketchy and a bit of a scary place to live. Their PD is either corrupt or not funded enough/don't have enough officers, the murder rate in the past few years have been horrible in numbers, etc.
In short, each state (and big city, for that matter) has their own set of people. Toledo and Detroit are poverty stricken, Cleveland isn't much better, yet you go to Columbus and you have an insane nice city with huge amounts of police. It's all in demographics, I guess.
For a Windows person going to mac it's not much different. There's really only a few things that are REALLY changed while you're using programs (shortcuts, how you have to "exit" a program even after you close the window, etc). Once you have those down, you're set.
You don't have to configure four damned files for this, bash that, etc. I used Linux for three days and realized that it was going to take months for me to learn everything. Once I realized I couldn't just click on an EXE and have it install unattended, I gave up and reinstalled windows. Eff that. Make Linux easier to use and I'll be there faster than you can say, "Bullsh*t"
I spend kind of a lot of time browsing sites like slashdot, fark, etc. If I can't view these sites adequately without Firefox crashing, I'm going to switch hands down.
I just made the switch back to Maxthon. While the reason I switched to Firefox wasn't b/c I wanted something different, the switch away from it definitely was. I loved the fact that it was open source, but in all seriousness I can't stand a browser that just crashes when you're sitting there reading an article. Yes, it's probably that site that has bad code in the page somewhere, but *any* other browser would just ignore that formatting portion of the HTML, or at worst not load the page entirely.
Firfox, on the other hand, (mind you with 10 tabs open) crashes leaving you back to your desktop crying b/c you just spent 20 minutes filtering through 100 articles for the 10 you might want to read.
Eff Firefox for right now. When they get the stability fixed, I'll be back, but as of right now they're going in the wrong direction.
Go to Europe or many other places and they don't "learn" the language. They speak it fluently and can comprehend it. I, personally, need to still hear a sentence 10 times sometimes before I can tell what someone's saying b/c the way we're "taught".
If you're exposed to it and MADE to use it since in early, early grade school it's proven that you not only understand it easier, but can retain it as long as it's used occasionally. It's b/c of the way the brain works.
By far most of the schools, in Ohio at least, are not dual language and by all intensive purposes should be. I, personally, put merit into the reports that say Spanish can and will be the new English in the US. Not that it'll take over completely, but it will definitely be more prevalent in the future.
That's all fine and dandy that you were "taught" Spanish in kindergarten, but how much did you "learn"? The numbers 1 - 10, the alphabet (MAYBE), and colors?
I wish that was true in my area. I would have loved to see us learn a new language. The sad thing was at the private school I was in we learned snippets of Spanish and then it was abandoned b/c they didn't have the funds to keep it going (I was in things such as "math plus" and such that allowed me to do these things... While other kids were learning simple addition I was learning multiplication. While they were learning multiplication I was learning how to find the value of a variable. Somehow somewhere I learned how to count to 10 in spanish and french. I, obviously, liked spanish more b/c the spelling was easier. I still do. I took spanish for four years in high school and then two more in college. I changed to Latin part way through and found that this was a big mistake b/c I enjoyed spanish just way too much.
I guess I am sort of amazed b/c the town about 20 min away (I live in farm country that doesn't help either) is overwhelmingly populated with Spanish speaking Americans, yet we don't/didn't "learn" spanish til we were in 9th grade. What a crock.
Just like how everybody laughs at our school systems due to the fact that zero of the American school systems teach any foreign languages until high school while other countries (actually nearly every) teach anywhere from 1 - 3 NEW and NOT FLUENTLY SPOKEN languages to their children right from the get-go (or nearly so).
Para el, me gusta español pero yo no sé mucho porque nuestras escuelas no lo tienen.
(Loosely translated is, "For me I like Spanish but I don't know much because our schools don't have it.")
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Don't worry we've heard of people being deathly ill and not receiving treatment when they direly needed it. ...
Or others that have to wait for 0.5-1 full year for "elective" surgeries (joint repair for people that blew their knee, etc)
PS- I took care of a gal from another country b/c they told her, "We believe the chance of your surgery is not cost effective vs risk ... even though it means you'll be in constant and excruciating pain for the rest of your life.
She was also denied personal pay health care b/c of the same reasoning. ... they didn't want to be left footing the bill in the end if she passed away.
She flew to the U.S., stayed here for quite a while. While her bill is I'm sure quite high, she can live possibly the next 40 - 60 years without chronic pain. (Yes she was young, too). ...
So yes, your system may not be perfect, and neither is ours, but each has its own quirks. I, personally, would be devastated if I had been told, "Meh you're not worth the money SORRY!"
Hell Apple just got the right mouse button ... if it took them that long to adapt something that's been around since the 1990's, it really will take 25 years!
On a more serious note, I haven't seen a trackball in years. My computer doesn't have a floppy drive (nor did my laptop I had before this computer), and b/c of that I've not had a use for a floppy disk/drive for about 5 years.
My mouse/keyboard are wireless and so was my laptop external mouse (aka the both are/were USB)... I think my current computer has the ps/2 ports, but obviously not used. My laptop didn't have a ps/2 ports at all.
IMHO the death knell has been run for these techs so why NOT the mouse?
I used to work for a major higher class restaurant about a year ago. We switched systems from text based, to an archaic touch screen, and finally to a more modern touch screen (sort of like the Aloha Point-of-Sales systems in use in many other restaurants today). These new touch screen systems made organization a breeze table to table, ordering items became much faster and easier and decreased the amount of wasted food when things were previously not ordered correctly r/t laziness or functions the old system lacked.
The problem with this technology PROBABLY wasn't the fact that they weren't useful, hard to use, that they weren't sensitive enough. The problem was probably the end user. Think about when the mouse was first introduced to those using text only MS DOS. Nearly every one of them most likely exclaimed, "THIS THING IS A POS!" I highly doubt many places gave these systems enough time to work, because while it did take about 1 - 3 months of relearning every intricacy of the system. Once this time had passed I could again do my job in my sleep.
Oh and BTW: My printer is also USB (as well as my printer before this one, too, so I've not used a parallel port for quite some time as well)
Finally, I have an HTC Touch, and LOVE the speed at which I can punch text msgs into the phone. The only thing I haven't learned how to do is text w/ driving, but I shouldn't be doing that anyways, so I don't.
What's a BSOD between friends?
So what's a ^2 or ^3 between friends?
I guess what my first comment was trying to say is this: They've not come up with their promises for other technology placing loads on their networks (solar), and if you have to plug your car in to charge it, I'm pretty sure nobody would be forcing you to do that. *I* just will not help with their "problems" until I *am* given $$, and from what they made it sound like, you have the option of pushing it into the (insert acronym) mode ... thus if they don't specifically state, "We'll pay you 'x' amount", then I'll just put my car in charge mode and call it a day.
My point: Electric companies don't pay for energy produced via our domestic solar cells, even though it puts power on THEIR grid to sell to other customers, and therefor I highly doubt they'd do anything different for this. If you live in an area where you are paid for your solar energy, I'd like to hear about it because nearly every TV show that they place solar panels on the houses they consistently 99.99% of the time say, "Well this area's electric co doesn't pay for excess used, so ......" I've never once heard them say they DO pay for your excess since I've been in HS, and you don't really hear of that many people saying that this is one of the nice benefits of the tech ... it's because it honestly doesn't happen anymore.
PS- I'm really done debating with you on this one.
Could being the key word. I guess I should have said, "If and WHEN I get paid for it we'll talk, until then the power companies can ......."
It's just like when I was still in HS and solar energy cells for houses were first hitting the big market and everyone was talking it up like it was something great. "It makes your electricity meter go backwards in low-usage times!" (and) "You get paid for the excess if you make excess!" What they forget to mention is that nearly every single electric company since the introduction of this technology had first embraced, then completely denounced solar cell usage by not allowing these folks to receive stipends for energy THEY produced. There's, from what I'm hearing, only a select few that give you breaks on your bill per month for generating electricity FOR them.
I guess what I'm saying is "COULD" is definitely not "WILL" and I'm assuming it's going to be a mere pittance if anything at all since it's "up to $4,000 a yearI was thinking to myself, "Maybe they're talking about solar cars!" (Charge your car completely and THEN put excess on the grid or something along those lines)
... well you know where.
Nope.
Why the heck would I want to plug my car in to provide the electric company a service that could potentially, worst case scenario, hose my battery/car by overloading it (not enough cars to handle the load plugged in at one particular time), or by even depleting perhaps enough of my battery to screw me royally when I get in a traffic jam that was unforeseeable in my future? No thanks. I'll keep my 100% charge thankyouverymuch. Until the power companies start paying me for MY services, they can go to
Coming soon to a lake near you: I feel a repeat of the 1969 Cuyahoga River fire breaking out soon In '69 the Cuyahoga River (a main river that flows into Erie) caught fire because Cleveland, among others, dumped pollutants into the stream. The pollutants went unchecked for a good while, and got to the point where a person "does not drown, but decays". While the exact nature of what set the fire remains unknown to myself, rumor had it that someone tossed a cigarette into the river catching it on fire. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuyahoga_River Witnesses said that this occurrence was actually very intriguing. It's not every day you see water catch fire.
I understand your point, but think of how freaking difficult it would be to get a credit card if this were to happen.
I agree, though, that there needs to be some kind of second check. I'm surprised with the loss of freedom we're all not obligated to do more biometrics online and for credit cards and what-not, but that's just me.
I wish Ohio was a credit freezing state, because that's a nice piece of mind when something does go terribly wrong.
I, personally, am a neat person at work. I'm a slob at home, but that's because I don't have the time to clean. Putting everything in a specific and delineated place is not only intelligent, but stifles confusion. It may stifle creativity -- I mean, what's more creative than putting toilet paper rolls in the living room? What's more creative than finding the toilet plunger in your car just in case? My point is that this might be true for the SLIGHTLY messy, but for those that are absolute slobs, I beg to differ. There's no way that being a complete mess is more productive or better than having things placed in order. If you have to actively search for an item, that takes time. If everybody put stuff away where it was suppose to go, there'd not only be more room for extra items (organization makes room for more things), but there'd also be no need to search for things. If an item is always in the same place, it'll be a cinch to find. To sum this up, I'm going to have to say: "bulls***"
The only problem with that is that many police officers suffer some degree of hearing loss due to the lack of use of ear protection when going to shooting ranges and such. Because of this, it doesn't really surprise me all-that-much that almost all the police can't hear it. I think, really, the only way to do anything about it is to record it and somehow digitally take it off, edit the wavelength, and see where it gets you with the police. You'd definitely have to have the police right there through the whole process, but if that was happening to me I'd be TICKED.
Uh if BVD's only cost a few cents to produce, then why do I have to pay like $15 for three of them?
;P
In all seriousness, though, as with ALL technology, they'll find a way to mass produce it if it *is* for consumers (and if there's a demand). They'll then pump them out at a nifty price tag of 1000x more expensive than what they manufactured the things for. It's all about economics
... Unless you're Lexmark, and then you can start suing people for buying ink cartridges that are *much* cheaper and last longer than their POS inks. ... THEN it's ok.
Yeah, but at least they'll get it right the NEXT time ... you know ... like they did in XP!
I don't think that it's the problem of understaffing, I think it's more of a problem with people calling far too much.
You hear all the time about people calling 911 for the most idiotic things.
All the hang ups/pranks by kids/false dials that they HAVE to follow up on. Everything culminates, but all-in-all if they started prosecuting people for false alarms/imposing fines you would probably see the incidence and the wait times on the service drop significantly.
See that's the beauty of TV. It doesn't matter WHAT graphics card they put into the box. Unless your TV has a super high resolution or is an HDTV, it's going to look like crap no-matter-what... until you play movies or stored video. I'm nearly positive it has something to do with the resolutions TVs can render, but if you ever notice, a TV (with a computer hooked up through, say, AV cables) does not display text worth the crap unless you DOWNGRADE your screen resolution. I think I had my computer down to 480x360 and I could read the text pretty well, but at 1024x768 I couldn't read any text. Now when I started to play a movie on it, the screen looked fine. It most likely downgraded the resolution automatically for me, but of that I can't be sure. Everything looks crystal clear until you close out of the program. The buttons again looked like junk and the text is just a blur. I'm sure this was fixed when computers went to SVid or higher qual connections, but I could be wrong. I have an SVid computer, but unfortunately none of my local TV items have SVid on them. The only way you're going to see a bad influence on screen quality is on an HDTV/LCD TV/Plasma b/c it shows more DPI/has a higher resolution than normal tube TV's. Go find a computer to hook up to your TV and you'll be surprised.
Well while that's all fine and good there's a huge difference between YOU and POLICE. Police take an oath to protect the public, et al. The general public could give 2 sh*ts about other people's safety (usually). This is the reason you'll never be able to view inside the cameras.
... Does it rein true? It almost always does in some way/shape/or form.
Not to mention the networking / bandwidth nightmare that you'd then be paying for to allow everybody to view these images. These cameras are not connected to the outside world. Please read the title: CCTV (Closed Circuit TV)... meaning it's a circuit directly to the office... there's no way unless they spend a WHOLE bunch more to connect it. Are you willing to shell that cash out of your own pocket?
I'm in a city with "Stop light cameras" and "Speeding" cameras. I'm pretty sure I just got caught by one a few weeks ago, and in about a month I'll know for sure when I get the ticket from the mail. It bothers me that I'll have to pay $100 for a red light violation, but it's definitely better than paying $190 from getting caught by an actual officer, or worse yet it's better than me continuing to run the red lights and smash into someone -- possibly killing them.
As with the Red light/speed cameras, I'm 100% certain that nobody is watching them b/c they have no reason to. There's no point. The only time anybody looks at what the camera sees is when someone does something wrong. As with the speed/stop light camera's I'm sure they're not employing 1000 ppl just to look at these dumb things unless something's going on or unless they're investigating something going on.
It's not what you're thinking. It's not big brother. It's simply a way to catch criminals, nothing more.
Ps- It makes one wonder if they saw the shady individuals involved in the London bombings, if they'd be able to stop it. That in itself would make *ME* feel a heck of a lot safer. As I always say -- there's no need to be afraid of the law unless you have something to hide.
Maybe it has something to do with the difference between "digital" and "analog" cell phones? Analog uses insane more energy... Darned low service areas (and, consequently, cells work further in analog signal areas ... maybe THAT'S why! They're really just killing Earth with analog signals like crazy coming from Mars.) ... damned analog.
Or Oregon Trail. That crap revolutionized the Apples *I* worked on in grade school (and, consequently, was the only thing that I really did on those ancient POS's)
You did hear about the study that the New Orleans PD performed, didn't you? They fired 500 blank rounds into the air around the city and did not receive one phone call complaining or informing police of it. I guess New Orleans had/has gotten a bit sketchy and a bit of a scary place to live. Their PD is either corrupt or not funded enough/don't have enough officers, the murder rate in the past few years have been horrible in numbers, etc. In short, each state (and big city, for that matter) has their own set of people. Toledo and Detroit are poverty stricken, Cleveland isn't much better, yet you go to Columbus and you have an insane nice city with huge amounts of police. It's all in demographics, I guess.
You're kidding, right?
For a Windows person going to mac it's not much different. There's really only a few things that are REALLY changed while you're using programs (shortcuts, how you have to "exit" a program even after you close the window, etc). Once you have those down, you're set.
You don't have to configure four damned files for this, bash that, etc. I used Linux for three days and realized that it was going to take months for me to learn everything. Once I realized I couldn't just click on an EXE and have it install unattended, I gave up and reinstalled windows. Eff that. Make Linux easier to use and I'll be there faster than you can say, "Bullsh*t"
I spend kind of a lot of time browsing sites like slashdot, fark, etc. If I can't view these sites adequately without Firefox crashing, I'm going to switch hands down. I just made the switch back to Maxthon. While the reason I switched to Firefox wasn't b/c I wanted something different, the switch away from it definitely was. I loved the fact that it was open source, but in all seriousness I can't stand a browser that just crashes when you're sitting there reading an article. Yes, it's probably that site that has bad code in the page somewhere, but *any* other browser would just ignore that formatting portion of the HTML, or at worst not load the page entirely. Firfox, on the other hand, (mind you with 10 tabs open) crashes leaving you back to your desktop crying b/c you just spent 20 minutes filtering through 100 articles for the 10 you might want to read. Eff Firefox for right now. When they get the stability fixed, I'll be back, but as of right now they're going in the wrong direction.
Go to Europe or many other places and they don't "learn" the language. They speak it fluently and can comprehend it. I, personally, need to still hear a sentence 10 times sometimes before I can tell what someone's saying b/c the way we're "taught". If you're exposed to it and MADE to use it since in early, early grade school it's proven that you not only understand it easier, but can retain it as long as it's used occasionally. It's b/c of the way the brain works. By far most of the schools, in Ohio at least, are not dual language and by all intensive purposes should be. I, personally, put merit into the reports that say Spanish can and will be the new English in the US. Not that it'll take over completely, but it will definitely be more prevalent in the future. That's all fine and dandy that you were "taught" Spanish in kindergarten, but how much did you "learn"? The numbers 1 - 10, the alphabet (MAYBE), and colors?
I wish that was true in my area. I would have loved to see us learn a new language. The sad thing was at the private school I was in we learned snippets of Spanish and then it was abandoned b/c they didn't have the funds to keep it going (I was in things such as "math plus" and such that allowed me to do these things... While other kids were learning simple addition I was learning multiplication. While they were learning multiplication I was learning how to find the value of a variable. Somehow somewhere I learned how to count to 10 in spanish and french. I, obviously, liked spanish more b/c the spelling was easier. I still do. I took spanish for four years in high school and then two more in college. I changed to Latin part way through and found that this was a big mistake b/c I enjoyed spanish just way too much. I guess I am sort of amazed b/c the town about 20 min away (I live in farm country that doesn't help either) is overwhelmingly populated with Spanish speaking Americans, yet we don't/didn't "learn" spanish til we were in 9th grade. What a crock.
Just like how everybody laughs at our school systems due to the fact that zero of the American school systems teach any foreign languages until high school while other countries (actually nearly every) teach anywhere from 1 - 3 NEW and NOT FLUENTLY SPOKEN languages to their children right from the get-go (or nearly so). Para el, me gusta español pero yo no sé mucho porque nuestras escuelas no lo tienen. (Loosely translated is, "For me I like Spanish but I don't know much because our schools don't have it.")