I had considered going with T-Mobile. They had plans that I was interested in. But then I did a search using their site for retail locations and found they had no stores in my state, only payment drop boxes. Apparently they only wanted my business if I wasn't from here originally.
I've been a T-Mobile customer for 3-4 years now, and have never been in one of their stores.
Good question - are Slashdot moderators *that* ignorant about geography? When I look at my map of North America, I see the country of Canada up on the northern part of the continent -- doesn't that make Canadians Americans the same way that people from Nigeria and Zimbabwe are both Africans even if they are from different countries?
Just because the people of the USA call themselves "American" doesn't mean that Canadians, Mexicans, Brazillians, etc are not Americans.
The reason people from "the USA" call ourselves Americans is that the "A" stands for "America". Canada does not have the word "America" in its name. Mexico does not have the world "America" in its name. etc.
... Libertarians can't stop being misrepresenting themselves (either you're a "Constitutional originalist" or you support the Civil Rights Act, pick one) and fear-mongering...
Considering the Constitution includes provisions for amending itself, I don't see how the two are mutually exclusive.
I'm no pilot, but the only actual function of the runway number I can think of is the visual identification (to make sure the pilot is lining up on the correct runway). What would go wrong if Tampa just kept using the number 18R/36L?
It depends what you mean by visual identification. If you mean the pilot seeing the numbers painted on the runway, that is not the only function. Many airports have multiple runways at various angles to each other. When the pilot is approaching to land on a particular runway, he can fly that heading and determine the parallel runway to be the correct one on which to land.
Of course, don't tell that to the homeschooled idiots who'd rather wait for a "rapture" that kept being sold as any day now for 2000 years straight and never happened, than fix the real problems on Earth in the meantime. And who'll even take a non-existent Mayan prophecy as support for their Bible delusions. Or to the gang who just wants to believe any non-scientific idiocy, presumably because it makes them feel less bad about sleeping through Physics class high-school.
What's the matter... did a homeschooled kid beat you up and take your lunch money? You seem rather bitter...
I was homeschooled, and am currently employed writing rocket design software.
But don't tell that to the public-schooled idiots who think rockets are magic because their teachers weren't allowed to make them feel bad by telling them they're wrong. (See how non sequiturs and stereotypes fail to bolster your argument?)
Not to be rude, but since you aren't a native English speaker, you aren't really equipped to decide what fits the language better. I was going to reply to an earlier response of yours asking if English was a second language, because thinking that a non-word flows better than an actual word is a pretty good sign. I see now I would have been correct.
This is a good point.
In English, the -ability ending is added on to verbs. The verb would be customize (or customise), hence why customability doesn't work.
From the "Important Notice" section of my new LG P509 phone:
11. Hold the phone straight up
Please hold the mobile phone straight up as a regular phone. While making/receiving calls or sending/receiving data, try to avoid holding the lower part of the phone where the antenna is located. It may affect call quality.
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Not really, my PNY GeForce 9400GT has two DVI ports and no VGA ports. They just included an adapter in the package for anybody that needed to go with VGA.
However, my MSI 9800GT has a DVI, a VGA, and an HDMI (as well as a DVI->VGA adapter).
I'm not saying 'Thought Police - Make An Arrest!' - I just asked the OP to re-consider their comment, and how it might affect women within the community, in light of the current issues the broader community have.
Not like homeschooling is a better option, where a parent is free to substitute their own "facts," or leave out certain things completely, crippling the child when they attempt to do anything requiring that knowledge, but the true danger of home schooling is the lack of socialization with people of differing backgrounds, leading to an insular world view that assumes everyone is the same, and an inability to cope with society at large.
Funny you should post this on Slashdot...;)
More seriously, though, home schooling can be done correctly and incorrectly. I was home schooled through high school, but attended external activities for PE and socialization. However, I also saw kids who were home schooled and seemed very awkward socially. But, they're probably still more beneficial to society than the public school retards.
Technically, music bought through iTunes still does include DRM, namely, it embeds your iTunes information within tags in the song file. So, there is some social pressure to not widely distribute the file that you've bought.
No, technically, it's not DRM, since it in no way manages rights.
A user accessible EFI would be a boon to techies who end up having to deal with their nontechnical friends/familys' apple products.
Not really. But like I said, an example would help settle this instead of simply making vague assertions.
Perhaps unlikely, but suppose your HD, optical drive, USB, and FireWire failed simultaneously. You wouldn't be able to boot into OS X. You might not be able to fix the problem from BIOS access, but you could probably at least figure out some more useful diagnostic information.
Now, that being said, I've always used Macs (typing this on my original MacBook), and never had a situation in which BIOS access would have been useful. The only time I've had to use it was on setting up my Hackintosh.
Ahh, but if you're a Libertarian, and someone is burning down DC, you'll need to find out if they've paid their annual firefighting insurance payment before putting out said fire.
(I leave it as an exercise to the reader to decide whether I'm making a joke, social commentary, both, or neither.)
Nah, a Libertarian will just let DC put out its own dang fire.
Interestingly, the mass of an orbiting object does not affect its orbit, it only depends on the mass of the body it is orbiting.
My understanding is that's only true where the satellite has a very low mass compared to the main body, such that you can ignore the pull in the opposite direction.
True, in a two-body system they both orbit about the center of mass, which for the Earth/moon system, is approximately 3/4 of the Earth's radius from its center, or about 1/80 of the distance from the Earth to the moon.
So moving mass from the moon to the Earth would move the center of mass closer to the center of the Earth, increasing the orbital distance of the moon, but increasing the gravitational pull of the Earth simultaneously.
Now I'm trying to remember my orbital dynamics... working through the orbital velocity equations, it looks like the increase in mass of the Earth cancels out the increase in orbital radius of the moon from the center of mass, leaving it with the same orbital velocity, so it would actually remain exactly where it is relative to the center of the Earth regardless of mass transfer.
Equations: r = h^2/u (where u = greek letter mu)
h = r x v (orbital radius cross with orbital velocity)
u = G(M+m) (gravitational constant, mass of Earth, mass of moon)
r = R - Rm/(M+m) (R = distance of moon from Earth)
therefore:
r = r^2*v^2/(G(M+m))
rG(M+m) = r^2*v^2
G(M+m)/r = v^2
G(M+m)/(R-Rm/(M+m)) = v^2
G(M+m)^2/(R(M+m)-Rm) = v^2
G(M+m)^2/RM = v^2
Which assuming I've done my math correctly and interpreted the results correctly, shows that the moon would remain in orbit.
It'll throw off the balance of gravity and fling the moon out of orbit.
We should replace all the mass we remove. So... lets turn it into a garbage dump as we mine.
Interestingly, the mass of an orbiting object does not affect its orbit, it only depends on the mass of the body it is orbiting. However, moving a significant amount of mass from the moon to the Earth would make the Earth heavier, and the moon would then be in a decaying orbit because its energy would be too low.
But what if the treatment costs $1,000? What if it costs $1,000,000? What if it would cost $1,000,000,000?
Check if you can find a dollar amount in the Hippocratic Oath:
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Not there? Well, there you have it.
And that is why you need health insurance. Because the doctor will never decide that a treatment is too expensive for this patient. Of course, with resources being limited, we as a society need to make that decision sometimes. There are two ways we have in the west to deal with that task. One is to have the government decide, usually through an agency or ministry. The UK has a system like that. The other is the insurance way.
Pick one of those, or come up with a third. That's the acceptable options in a civilized society. The american way of every man for himself is from the stone age.
Bingo. As a society, we have decided that it's not fair to burden every other member of our society with ridiculous costs associated with treating every ailment.
Now, I'm actually in favor of some form of universal medical insurance, because I think it does provide a net benefit to society. But I don't think that means we need to make obscenely expensive treatments available to everyone. Life is not "fair." Accidents happen. Sometimes people get injured or killed before they would have died of diseaseless old age. It sucks, but life goes on.
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I had to pull up the DOM Inspector, locate the stupid window in the code and delete it to view the page properly.
I just right-clicked the picture and opened it in a new tab.
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Miscellaneous audio types: Ringtones, podcasts, audio books, and other non-music audio files are not supported by the Amazon MP3 Uploader.
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Interesting... how do they know whether any given MP3/AAC file is a ringtone, podcast, audio book, or other non-music audio file?
I had considered going with T-Mobile. They had plans that I was interested in. But then I did a search using their site for retail locations and found they had no stores in my state, only payment drop boxes. Apparently they only wanted my business if I wasn't from here originally.
I've been a T-Mobile customer for 3-4 years now, and have never been in one of their stores.
But Canadians are Americans also
how can a fact be a troll?
Good question - are Slashdot moderators *that* ignorant about geography? When I look at my map of North America, I see the country of Canada up on the northern part of the continent -- doesn't that make Canadians Americans the same way that people from Nigeria and Zimbabwe are both Africans even if they are from different countries?
Just because the people of the USA call themselves "American" doesn't mean that Canadians, Mexicans, Brazillians, etc are not Americans.
The reason people from "the USA" call ourselves Americans is that the "A" stands for "America". Canada does not have the word "America" in its name. Mexico does not have the world "America" in its name. etc.
... Libertarians can't stop being misrepresenting themselves (either you're a "Constitutional originalist" or you support the Civil Rights Act, pick one) and fear-mongering...
Considering the Constitution includes provisions for amending itself, I don't see how the two are mutually exclusive.
Meat would be incredibly wasteful to produce even if they do it in a lab.
If their goal is to "feed the hungry/poor", why use meat at all? There are far cheaper/better/more ethical ways to do it.
What's "unethical" about growing meat in a lab?
If it's well-insulated, it would return to the temperature at which it started. It would just have to be very hot while compressed.
Nice catch. 8L, 8R, 9L, 9R. I wonder whether these really *are* a degree off. Did the work for you!
According to the AOPA airport diagram, all four are aligned to 94.4/274.4 degrees.
I'm no pilot, but the only actual function of the runway number I can think of is the visual identification (to make sure the pilot is lining up on the correct runway). What would go wrong if Tampa just kept using the number 18R/36L?
It depends what you mean by visual identification. If you mean the pilot seeing the numbers painted on the runway, that is not the only function. Many airports have multiple runways at various angles to each other. When the pilot is approaching to land on a particular runway, he can fly that heading and determine the parallel runway to be the correct one on which to land.
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Of course, don't tell that to the homeschooled idiots who'd rather wait for a "rapture" that kept being sold as any day now for 2000 years straight and never happened, than fix the real problems on Earth in the meantime. And who'll even take a non-existent Mayan prophecy as support for their Bible delusions. Or to the gang who just wants to believe any non-scientific idiocy, presumably because it makes them feel less bad about sleeping through Physics class high-school.
What's the matter... did a homeschooled kid beat you up and take your lunch money? You seem rather bitter...
I was homeschooled, and am currently employed writing rocket design software.
But don't tell that to the public-schooled idiots who think rockets are magic because their teachers weren't allowed to make them feel bad by telling them they're wrong. (See how non sequiturs and stereotypes fail to bolster your argument?)
Not to be rude, but since you aren't a native English speaker, you aren't really equipped to decide what fits the language better. I was going to reply to an earlier response of yours asking if English was a second language, because thinking that a non-word flows better than an actual word is a pretty good sign. I see now I would have been correct.
This is a good point.
In English, the -ability ending is added on to verbs. The verb would be customize (or customise), hence why customability doesn't work.
From the "Important Notice" section of my new LG P509 phone:
11. Hold the phone straight up
Please hold the mobile phone straight up as a regular phone. While making/receiving calls or sending/receiving data, try to avoid holding the lower part of the phone where the antenna is located. It may affect call quality.
Not really, my PNY GeForce 9400GT has two DVI ports and no VGA ports. They just included an adapter in the package for anybody that needed to go with VGA.
However, my MSI 9800GT has a DVI, a VGA, and an HDMI (as well as a DVI->VGA adapter).
I'm not saying 'Thought Police - Make An Arrest!' - I just asked the OP to re-consider their comment, and how it might affect women within the community, in light of the current issues the broader community have.
Aha! I see what you did there! ;)
Just visited using Chrome, and the FB spot on the page asked me to log in to see what my friends were up to.
It's trivial to block this --
I'll give you $100 if you can somehow explain this process to my barely-computer-literate-but-facebook-loving relatives.
Simple: "Call up oldspwewey, he knows this stuff!"
Flying nude doesn't protect you from a suicide bomber that packed his asshole with explosives.
OK, but could he pack enough to bring down the plane? Or would the explosion get stopped by the nearby seats?
Since, according to the TSA, any liquid in amounts greater than 3 ounces poses a threat, I would have to say he would be able to bring down the plane.
I personally would prefer we just stop using grammar. If the intention is clear then does it really matter?
Not since without because of grammar the intention were might not be clear.
Not like homeschooling is a better option, where a parent is free to substitute their own "facts," or leave out certain things completely, crippling the child when they attempt to do anything requiring that knowledge, but the true danger of home schooling is the lack of socialization with people of differing backgrounds, leading to an insular world view that assumes everyone is the same, and an inability to cope with society at large.
Funny you should post this on Slashdot... ;)
More seriously, though, home schooling can be done correctly and incorrectly. I was home schooled through high school, but attended external activities for PE and socialization. However, I also saw kids who were home schooled and seemed very awkward socially. But, they're probably still more beneficial to society than the public school retards.
Technically, music bought through iTunes still does include DRM, namely, it embeds your iTunes information within tags in the song file. So, there is some social pressure to not widely distribute the file that you've bought.
No, technically, it's not DRM, since it in no way manages rights.
A user accessible EFI would be a boon to techies who end up having to deal with their nontechnical friends/familys' apple products.
Not really. But like I said, an example would help settle this instead of simply making vague assertions.
Perhaps unlikely, but suppose your HD, optical drive, USB, and FireWire failed simultaneously. You wouldn't be able to boot into OS X. You might not be able to fix the problem from BIOS access, but you could probably at least figure out some more useful diagnostic information.
Now, that being said, I've always used Macs (typing this on my original MacBook), and never had a situation in which BIOS access would have been useful. The only time I've had to use it was on setting up my Hackintosh.
Ahh, but if you're a Libertarian, and someone is burning down DC, you'll need to find out if they've paid their annual firefighting insurance payment before putting out said fire.
(I leave it as an exercise to the reader to decide whether I'm making a joke, social commentary, both, or neither.)
Nah, a Libertarian will just let DC put out its own dang fire.
My understanding is that's only true where the satellite has a very low mass compared to the main body, such that you can ignore the pull in the opposite direction.
True, in a two-body system they both orbit about the center of mass, which for the Earth/moon system, is approximately 3/4 of the Earth's radius from its center, or about 1/80 of the distance from the Earth to the moon.
So moving mass from the moon to the Earth would move the center of mass closer to the center of the Earth, increasing the orbital distance of the moon, but increasing the gravitational pull of the Earth simultaneously.
Now I'm trying to remember my orbital dynamics... working through the orbital velocity equations, it looks like the increase in mass of the Earth cancels out the increase in orbital radius of the moon from the center of mass, leaving it with the same orbital velocity, so it would actually remain exactly where it is relative to the center of the Earth regardless of mass transfer.
Equations: r = h^2/u (where u = greek letter mu)
h = r x v (orbital radius cross with orbital velocity)
u = G(M+m) (gravitational constant, mass of Earth, mass of moon)
r = R - Rm/(M+m) (R = distance of moon from Earth)
therefore:
r = r^2*v^2/(G(M+m))
rG(M+m) = r^2*v^2
G(M+m)/r = v^2
G(M+m)/(R-Rm/(M+m)) = v^2
G(M+m)^2/(R(M+m)-Rm) = v^2
G(M+m)^2/RM = v^2
Which assuming I've done my math correctly and interpreted the results correctly, shows that the moon would remain in orbit.
It'll throw off the balance of gravity and fling the moon out of orbit.
We should replace all the mass we remove. So... lets turn it into a garbage dump as we mine.
Interestingly, the mass of an orbiting object does not affect its orbit, it only depends on the mass of the body it is orbiting. However, moving a significant amount of mass from the moon to the Earth would make the Earth heavier, and the moon would then be in a decaying orbit because its energy would be too low.
But what if the treatment costs $1,000? What if it costs $1,000,000? What if it would cost $1,000,000,000?
Check if you can find a dollar amount in the Hippocratic Oath:
...
Not there? Well, there you have it.
And that is why you need health insurance. Because the doctor will never decide that a treatment is too expensive for this patient. Of course, with resources being limited, we as a society need to make that decision sometimes. There are two ways we have in the west to deal with that task. One is to have the government decide, usually through an agency or ministry. The UK has a system like that. The other is the insurance way.
Pick one of those, or come up with a third. That's the acceptable options in a civilized society. The american way of every man for himself is from the stone age.
Bingo. As a society, we have decided that it's not fair to burden every other member of our society with ridiculous costs associated with treating every ailment.
Now, I'm actually in favor of some form of universal medical insurance, because I think it does provide a net benefit to society. But I don't think that means we need to make obscenely expensive treatments available to everyone. Life is not "fair." Accidents happen. Sometimes people get injured or killed before they would have died of diseaseless old age. It sucks, but life goes on.