This is why I only donate through my own tiny 503(c)(4), sometimes by way of a sham 501(c)(3), so it is much easier to obscure my name. Seriously, I like to support the candidates I like, but I don't necessarily want them screwing around with my contact information or bugging me at home, so I do it as anonymously as possible.
Alright, I understand. If not for the two maple syrup stories recently posted on/., I probably would have let this one go. But I'm a sucker for humor and enjoyed the commentary from the syrup stories, so I thought I'd submit it.
That's not all: fuck walnuts. Maple syrup is AWESOME, and walnuts suck. Maple trees are also some of the most beautiful and varied, while walnut trees (especially black walnuts, no racism or parallels to humans intended) are a bunch of fucking parasites that grow damn near everywhere you don't want them to, shit rocks all over your property, and will sprout up right next to desirable trees and attempt to choke them out.
More maple syrup stories are a-okay, but the next time I see a story about walnuts on/. I'm switching to reddit. Please, don't make me do it.
BLASPHEMER! You just may burn in hell for wasting perfectly good maple ambrosia on food contaminated with walnuts. But I guess you have to add a little bit of heaven to anything containing walnuts if you are to choke it down, so I hope you don't in fact burn in hell.
Man, I hate me some walnuts. They don't add anything to the food they are used in, they get stuck in my teeth, and they taste bitter. I wish somebody would steal ALL of them, and get into a huge fireball of a wreck on the highway (with no one hurt, of course). Now, if this were about pecans I might actually give a shit. Pecan pie season is upon us!
BTW, I saw a couple of pretty shady looking squirrels apparently making some sort of deal this morning.
...or is this still going to be the in-laws' house and the stated budget is ONLY for cool stuff and not the main remodel? If I misunderstood the scenario then I'll say I'm a big fan of building TVs into walls. I also like woodwork, so if you leave your TV niches a bit big and finish the whole thing out with wood trim, it is not a major hassle if you upgrade the TV. Then you can rework the wood without having to rip the wall apart or cut studs again. And with a lot of stuff going wireless, there isn't as much need to run tons of wires all over for computers, phones and whatnot like in the recent past. Look into home automation systems to control lighting, HVAC, etc, and tankless water heaters.
I agree, but a lot of people rarely ever actually eat in their dining rooms anyway. In my own opinion, a TV in the bedroom is a bad idea as well, especially if you have other living spaces and are not in a really small apartment or something. Reserving my bedroom for sleep and dressing (and "bedroom stuff") has improved my sleep quality and duration immensely. Without distractions or excuses my body has been conditioned to know it is time to sleep when I hit the sack.
You'll need a lot more money or an entirely new game plan. You're talking "major" remodel, ripping the house apart "down to the studs," you want to make it tech geeky, and you plan on spending 10k-20k? You'll be lucky to get out of the kitchen spending less than 20k. Unless you can do drywall and trim, flooring, electrical, plumbing, paint and decorating, and everything else yourself, and already have an arsenal of tools at your disposal, you can't even touch every room in a 3000 sq. ft. house for 20k.
For 10k, you can probably redo one bathroom and do some cheap cosmetic stuff. There is no way you can come even close to gutting a house that size, AND add anything electronic, for even twice what you are talking about. I've put 15k into my own [smaller] house in the last 3+ years, done every bit of work myself and been pretty frugal, and it has been nowhere near a major or complete remodel.
Wait, do you have a time machine large enough to transport materials and laborers from 1965?
I like my current Samsung, but I do miss my G1's keyboard any time I have to type something longer than one sentence. But battery issues and the current lack of microSD slots has turned me off of HTC. Solid phones, but Samsung is better now. (I don't know about Motorola as I have never used Verizon)
To be fair, it IS illegal to play a dvd on an unlicensed system because, well quite frankly, liddvdcss never paid the license fee and reverse engineered the rather crappy css encryption.
I know that isn't what slashdot wants to hear, but the FBI is there to enforce these kinds of laws, and this IS illegal.
I agree that it is illegal to reverse engineer CSS encryption to circumvent it, that much is a fact. But I disagree that this merits FBI involvement at all. If we are talking about Linux, the financial loss is minimal (not in the least because most of us users have indeed paid for legitimately licensed players already), and with the FBI's limited resources there are probably ten thousand more important things for the bureau to be working on.
I see jaywalking every day on my way to work, and requiring people to use crosswalks where available is a good idea, but I sure as hell don't want the cops wasting their time so violators can be arrested, fined disproportionately, or sued. You just have to let some things go, and be glad that most people follow most of the laws most of the time.
The same excuse we always get. If Bush were still in charge, the/. readers would be cursing him. But since it's your guy, it's the lame "well they're ALL corrupt".
If G. W. Bush were still in charge, a lot of us wouldn't just be cursing him, we'd be trying to shoot him. We'd be conducting a revolution due to him illegally claiming a third term. Don't ever doubt that.
It doesn't matter who's nominally in charge. The puppets dance to the tune of the hands controlling the strings.
I'd lecture you on your apathy being counterproductive but I don't really care much about it.
Or you could cut the strings, reject the authority of the puppeteer, or start dancing to your own tune and see who follows your lead. So, yeah, it is much easier to throw up your hands and embrace the status quo you despise so much, since you don't have free will. Laziness and learned helplessness are so hip.
You'd rather we had elected a gold digger who moved like a rusty robot but who literally knew less about something as simple as email than my 91 year-old grandmother? Yeah, I'm sure that would have solved all of our highly technical problems and consumer/corporate dilemmas. I for one am glad we haven't reverted to the telegram and pony express as our preferred means of long-distance communication and fallen even further behind superpowers like South Korea and FInland. Besides, all my DVDs are pirated in the first place!
Right. They make money on content and services, and have an incredible distribution network. That's why I say that although buying out a part of TI's business that TI isn't sure what to do with may not be a great idea. Sure, it could help them cut costs on current or near-term generation products, but what about further down the line? What happens in a few years when the nascent tablet market looks very different? Will they be able to adapt in a cost-effective manner or will they fail when the Kindle line lags behind in terms of hardware? I'd rather stay a bit behind Apple or whomever on the hardware side, maintain the flexibility to transition to other hardware platforms as they arrive, and continue to focus on what Amazon does well - getting things to people. The Kindle will have to evolve as well, but that doesn't mean you need to go out on a limb to develop the dang chips yourself.
Call me ignorant, but since when is Amazon a company that develops hardware?
You've got it. Amazon don't develop hardware like this, which is why to get in on they act they need to buy an established player. Whether this is a good idea or not is open for debate (looks okay short term, but I'm highly skeptical beyond that), as it would bring Amazon something very different that is out of their wheelhouse. As a company that does services and supply very well, is it really necessary to go so far with the Kindle? The e-reader business is a money maker of a delivery system for them but the content is still king, so while developing hardware in-house could lead to a better or cheaper Kindle, it could also limit flexibility as competitors innovate, making this all a big gamble. Since the hardware and specs are less important to Amazon's business it would certainly be safer to continue to adapt what is already available and simply stay in the race with Apple et al., rather than trying to beat them at their own game or change the game entirely. If I were in charge at Amazon, this is problem not a problem I would throw a ton of money at, or at least not my number one solution.
"Austrian Felix Baumgartner has become the first skydiver to go faster than the speed of sound, reaching a maximum velocity of 833.9mph (1,342km/h)."
Interesting, considering the unofficial, live broadcast telemetry had him topping out at something like 729mph. Not that I necessarily believe 729 must have been accurate, but there is a pretty big difference between that and this BBC number.
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This is why I only donate through my own tiny 503(c)(4), sometimes by way of a sham 501(c)(3), so it is much easier to obscure my name. Seriously, I like to support the candidates I like, but I don't necessarily want them screwing around with my contact information or bugging me at home, so I do it as anonymously as possible.
Alright, I understand. If not for the two maple syrup stories recently posted on /., I probably would have let this one go. But I'm a sucker for humor and enjoyed the commentary from the syrup stories, so I thought I'd submit it.
That's not all: fuck walnuts. Maple syrup is AWESOME, and walnuts suck. Maple trees are also some of the most beautiful and varied, while walnut trees (especially black walnuts, no racism or parallels to humans intended) are a bunch of fucking parasites that grow damn near everywhere you don't want them to, shit rocks all over your property, and will sprout up right next to desirable trees and attempt to choke them out.
/. I'm switching to reddit. Please, don't make me do it.
More maple syrup stories are a-okay, but the next time I see a story about walnuts on
Goes perfectly with that missing maple syrup.
BLASPHEMER! You just may burn in hell for wasting perfectly good maple ambrosia on food contaminated with walnuts. But I guess you have to add a little bit of heaven to anything containing walnuts if you are to choke it down, so I hope you don't in fact burn in hell.
Man, I hate me some walnuts. They don't add anything to the food they are used in, they get stuck in my teeth, and they taste bitter. I wish somebody would steal ALL of them, and get into a huge fireball of a wreck on the highway (with no one hurt, of course). Now, if this were about pecans I might actually give a shit. Pecan pie season is upon us!
BTW, I saw a couple of pretty shady looking squirrels apparently making some sort of deal this morning.
...or is this still going to be the in-laws' house and the stated budget is ONLY for cool stuff and not the main remodel? If I misunderstood the scenario then I'll say I'm a big fan of building TVs into walls. I also like woodwork, so if you leave your TV niches a bit big and finish the whole thing out with wood trim, it is not a major hassle if you upgrade the TV. Then you can rework the wood without having to rip the wall apart or cut studs again. And with a lot of stuff going wireless, there isn't as much need to run tons of wires all over for computers, phones and whatnot like in the recent past. Look into home automation systems to control lighting, HVAC, etc, and tankless water heaters.
I agree, but a lot of people rarely ever actually eat in their dining rooms anyway. In my own opinion, a TV in the bedroom is a bad idea as well, especially if you have other living spaces and are not in a really small apartment or something. Reserving my bedroom for sleep and dressing (and "bedroom stuff") has improved my sleep quality and duration immensely. Without distractions or excuses my body has been conditioned to know it is time to sleep when I hit the sack.
You'll need a lot more money or an entirely new game plan. You're talking "major" remodel, ripping the house apart "down to the studs," you want to make it tech geeky, and you plan on spending 10k-20k? You'll be lucky to get out of the kitchen spending less than 20k. Unless you can do drywall and trim, flooring, electrical, plumbing, paint and decorating, and everything else yourself, and already have an arsenal of tools at your disposal, you can't even touch every room in a 3000 sq. ft. house for 20k.
For 10k, you can probably redo one bathroom and do some cheap cosmetic stuff. There is no way you can come even close to gutting a house that size, AND add anything electronic, for even twice what you are talking about. I've put 15k into my own [smaller] house in the last 3+ years, done every bit of work myself and been pretty frugal, and it has been nowhere near a major or complete remodel.
Wait, do you have a time machine large enough to transport materials and laborers from 1965?
I like my current Samsung, but I do miss my G1's keyboard any time I have to type something longer than one sentence. But battery issues and the current lack of microSD slots has turned me off of HTC. Solid phones, but Samsung is better now. (I don't know about Motorola as I have never used Verizon)
...as long as you sign a contract for $$$$. And I must agree that the Iphone 4 is indeed low-end compared to most Android phones!
Paranoid much? You're giving the infamous "them" a lot of credit.
I've bought a dozen retail DVD players (standalone and PC) over the year...
Wow, that many? Looks like you should have done a little more research so you wouldn't have had to buy so many.
Kids with no perspective expecting the status quo to change just because they grew old enough to pay attention, how fresh.
To be fair, it IS illegal to play a dvd on an unlicensed system because, well quite frankly, liddvdcss never paid the license fee and reverse engineered the rather crappy css encryption. I know that isn't what slashdot wants to hear, but the FBI is there to enforce these kinds of laws, and this IS illegal.
I agree that it is illegal to reverse engineer CSS encryption to circumvent it, that much is a fact. But I disagree that this merits FBI involvement at all. If we are talking about Linux, the financial loss is minimal (not in the least because most of us users have indeed paid for legitimately licensed players already), and with the FBI's limited resources there are probably ten thousand more important things for the bureau to be working on.
I see jaywalking every day on my way to work, and requiring people to use crosswalks where available is a good idea, but I sure as hell don't want the cops wasting their time so violators can be arrested, fined disproportionately, or sued. You just have to let some things go, and be glad that most people follow most of the laws most of the time.
The same excuse we always get. If Bush were still in charge, the /. readers would be cursing him. But since it's your guy, it's the lame "well they're ALL corrupt".
If G. W. Bush were still in charge, a lot of us wouldn't just be cursing him, we'd be trying to shoot him. We'd be conducting a revolution due to him illegally claiming a third term. Don't ever doubt that.
It doesn't matter who's nominally in charge. The puppets dance to the tune of the hands controlling the strings.
I'd lecture you on your apathy being counterproductive but I don't really care much about it.
Or you could cut the strings, reject the authority of the puppeteer, or start dancing to your own tune and see who follows your lead. So, yeah, it is much easier to throw up your hands and embrace the status quo you despise so much, since you don't have free will. Laziness and learned helplessness are so hip.
You'd rather we had elected a gold digger who moved like a rusty robot but who literally knew less about something as simple as email than my 91 year-old grandmother? Yeah, I'm sure that would have solved all of our highly technical problems and consumer/corporate dilemmas. I for one am glad we haven't reverted to the telegram and pony express as our preferred means of long-distance communication and fallen even further behind superpowers like South Korea and FInland. Besides, all my DVDs are pirated in the first place!
Why hasn't Linux taken off yet on the mainstream desktop (er, laptop)? Why don't average folks want to run Linux yet? Isn't it ready for prime time?
"Let me out, you stupid fucks."
It's a shame the Beluga accent makes "out" sound like "eat" in English. And so the response to everything he did was to give him fish.
Huddleston and crew will be refitting the set with working displays and controls.
Working controls? If the helm and weapons controls actually function as intended I'll buy the whole set!
Right. They make money on content and services, and have an incredible distribution network. That's why I say that although buying out a part of TI's business that TI isn't sure what to do with may not be a great idea. Sure, it could help them cut costs on current or near-term generation products, but what about further down the line? What happens in a few years when the nascent tablet market looks very different? Will they be able to adapt in a cost-effective manner or will they fail when the Kindle line lags behind in terms of hardware? I'd rather stay a bit behind Apple or whomever on the hardware side, maintain the flexibility to transition to other hardware platforms as they arrive, and continue to focus on what Amazon does well - getting things to people. The Kindle will have to evolve as well, but that doesn't mean you need to go out on a limb to develop the dang chips yourself.
Probably. But when competitors continue to advance, will Amazon be able to keep up? Seems like putting a lot of eggs in one rather expensive basket.
Call me ignorant, but since when is Amazon a company that develops hardware?
You've got it. Amazon don't develop hardware like this, which is why to get in on they act they need to buy an established player. Whether this is a good idea or not is open for debate (looks okay short term, but I'm highly skeptical beyond that), as it would bring Amazon something very different that is out of their wheelhouse. As a company that does services and supply very well, is it really necessary to go so far with the Kindle? The e-reader business is a money maker of a delivery system for them but the content is still king, so while developing hardware in-house could lead to a better or cheaper Kindle, it could also limit flexibility as competitors innovate, making this all a big gamble. Since the hardware and specs are less important to Amazon's business it would certainly be safer to continue to adapt what is already available and simply stay in the race with Apple et al., rather than trying to beat them at their own game or change the game entirely. If I were in charge at Amazon, this is problem not a problem I would throw a ton of money at, or at least not my number one solution.
That settles it! With your commitment to buy, they can now plan a run of at least seven well-enclosed trikes for the USA. Get ready.
"Austrian Felix Baumgartner has become the first skydiver to go faster than the speed of sound, reaching a maximum velocity of 833.9mph (1,342km/h)."
Interesting, considering the unofficial, live broadcast telemetry had him topping out at something like 729mph. Not that I necessarily believe 729 must have been accurate, but there is a pretty big difference between that and this BBC number.
Because above the Armstrong Line (63,000ft) your bodily fluids (sweat, saliva, tears and blood) boil.
Of course that limit is in debate now, what with all the credible doping accusations and all.