Great idea! My house is 100+ years old, as are the houses of several of my friends and family, and all of us live less than 50 miles from the wells in question. And we are not alone. So how are building codes going to help us? And don't say "just get a new house." I wouldn't be able to purchase a new house if my old one were worthless. Besides, the engineer I had inspect it before moving in said there is no reason it shouldn't be good for another 100 years. Why throw away EVERY building built in the last 100+ years in Eastern Ohio and Western Pennsylvania just so some idiots can pollute the earth? We're talking about a region with several million residents, not NW Montana. Silly.
Around here, Time Warner uses a lot of 3rd party installers, and you are very lucky if you get one who is not a trashy moron. One guy insisted my newly installed cable would work "in a little while," after he left. Of course it did not magically fix itself after he called it a day. Another chap, who looked like a hillbilly who had just woken up after a five-day bender (complete with half-buttoned shirt and greasy hair), used my master bathroom to take a dump, then couldn't offer any solution to the weak signal upstairs. Maybe other folks have had better experiences, but it seems that cable "techs" have collectively earned their bad reputation.
The next logical step is a Zune phone (zPhone?), now that the Zune has kicked Apple's ass out of the music player market. I can't wait, and I'm sure it will be delivered on schedule and perform just as they say.
$50k+ seems like a lot of money, and it is. I will certainly not be buying an Tesla at that price. But look at it this way: how many new Corvettes, Cadilac Escalades, various Porsches, and countless other equally or more expensive vehicles do you see on American roads? Tesla's cars look to be attractively styled mechanical wonders, and I see no reason why they would not be highly desirable. The Tesla S could end up being a huge hit, as many many people are willing to pay $40k-$70k or more for a fancy car. This is not an affordable, practical every-man car that means we have begun a new era of electric vehicles in every garage, but it is a damn good step along the way. Early horseless carriages were expensive too, but once they caught on a bit and multiple manufacturers got in on the party things really changed.
Grandpa, I told you to stay off of Slashdot before you've taken your meds, and there were no kids outside when you were yelling about them being on the lawn. And your landline just rang but the answering machine picked it up, while you were trying to get the DVR to eject.
Sony used have a habit of selecting cryptic names like "Memory Stick" or "Memory Stick Pro," and "Home Theater in a Box" sticks in my mind. but they're cutting the crap this time so it is perfectly clear exactly what the products are. There calling it the Profit Card, with the future second generation to be named Pure Profit Card, though Box Of Ripoff is reportedly still in the running.
Although non-carbon based life is a very long shot...
Isn't this a really big assumption? Sure, we haven't seen any non carbon-based life, but we also haven't found carbon-based life on more than one little planet.
You obviously didn't understand the previous comment, so I'll rephrase it: Sony loses money on PS3 hardware, and makes up the loss (or so they intend to) on game sales. They profit from games and accessories, lose money on hardware. I don't know where the actual numbers fall, and whether the PS3 business as a whole is profitable, but Sony would not be trying if they only sold the game consoles, which are effectively subsidized. Talk to me when you improve your reading comprehension.
The FCC doesn't allow one company to own both a handset manufacturer and a carrier. That was one of the rules they came up with the first time AT&T got broken up, and it's worked very well for us (we would never have had the fax machine or higher-performance modems otherwise). This was one of the main reasons I was disappointed at Google buying Motorola; they could have bought a telcom instead and broken up that oligopoly, but they basically had their hand forced by Motorola because they needed the patents to defend against Android lawsuits.
I know Google isn't evil yet, but it's not a good idea to give them free passes on the rules.
Interesting points, but I think things have changed just a little bit since "THE" Phone Company was broken up and we got fax machines and 14.4k modems. For example, this discussion pertains to mobile phones, which are ubiquitous now but were rare just 15 years ago. I do agree however that Google could have done bigger and better things than buy Motorola (which isn't anything to laugh at), like become a major carrier. Mobile carriers do have some involvement in development of new devices, and have a history of re-branding them as their own, so a change in rules might not be so far off. It might just need to include some provision requiring them to sell unbranded devices to small carriers or license new technology, or something. Even FCC rules evolve, albeit painfully slowly.
Yes, I love Mint and admire their attempts to ease our transition to the new GUI, but holy crap Gnome 3 is horrid. Where's the Gnome "just works" familiarity, or the configurability? Almost makes me want to use KDE - not that KDE is all that bad, but I've been using and enjoying Gnome exclusively for several years. In fact, if Gnome 3 doesn't quickly evolve into something that feels moire like Gnome 2, I will indeed switch to KDE eventually. For now, I'll stick to Mint's Debian-based release, which is still on Gnome 2 for the time being.
So pretty much all I use a GUI for is having multiple terminal windows open at once and being able to have access to a non-masochistic web browser. For this, I need a clean and lightweight UI. GNOME 3 works just fine in that regard. Other than "because it's different", why does everyone hate it?
Most everyone hates it because they rely on it a lot more than you do and it absolutely sucks for them. Gnome 2 has flaws but is highly functional in many respects. The "clean" look of Gnome 3 is appealing, but the damn thing just doesn't work well - it makes normal use for normal users a pain in the ass, which completely defeats the purpose of a GUI, no matter how cool it looks. If we were all just using it to desplay terminals, it would be fine, but that is not reality for a general purpose GUI.
Because there isn't one! Maybe EM radiation is harmful, but science tells is that the power levels in question, and the non-directed nature of the emissions, is not great enough to cause any harm. Taking 50 cellphones, taping them to the same spot on your body, and operating them 24/7 would probably not be a good idea, but using one in a normal fashion should be of no concern. They STILL are not the cause of colony collapse disorder in bees, either.
Windows for "smart" phones is not cheap, and it you have to be computer illiterate (or atleast completely unaware of ALL the alternatives) to enjoy using it.
Yep, Stevie Ballmer is finally right about something! Android is a good choice for cheap, awesome phones, while Windows is the choice for expensive, uncomplicated, shitty phones.
Or you can take the Aplle tack in this argument (I won't) and say this is all irrelevant because iOS is far superior to both WIndows and Android, and the iPhone is amazing hardware. There a lots of folks who believe both of these points and can't possibly be convinced to use anything else.
If an IP address alone is enough evidence to file civil suit against someone for copyright infringement, and under the new proposals enough to have them disconnected without so much as a trial, I find it hard to believe that it can't be enough to be at least reasonable suspicion and thus grounds for a warrant.
Good point! And while you might claim that you don't know where the mp3s and movies came from, or that you never even had them, that probably wouldn't work if you are caught red handed with a Mac Book. "That's not a laptop on my coffee table, and I don't even know how to use a coffee table."
So they've made a name for themselves as independent, only to throw it all away now by selling out to one of the most soulless corporations out there. They might as well go whole-hog and start whoring themselves out by making music for corporate commercials.
You clearly have no idea how many commercials, NFL games, TV shows, etc. have already paid to use music by The Black Keys. Off the top of my head, besides sports bumper music, there's AT&T, Cadillac, NPR, Nissan (I think), Carson Daly's annoying show, some travel site, and there's been a bunch more. They have not "sold out" in the sense that they have changed their music to satisfy record company executives, or anyone else for that matter, but they have no qualms with making money or being popular. What's wrong with that?
I miss the days when I could see The Black Keys at the Beachland Tavern with maybe 100 people, the Lime Spider with 200 people, or chat with the boys at someone else's show, but I don't hold it against them that people like their music. They have done things more or less the same way for about ten years, and the masses have recently begun to catch on. TBK are not Linkin Park, Jewel, Nickelback or any other pop bullshit. They make good music, and sometimes (rarely) good music becomes some of the most popular music. That's not selling out.
And as for the whole MS thing, I'd go to enjoy The Black Keys if this were close enough, then not buy anything sold by either MS or Apple, just like always. Thanks M$, but no dollars for you!
To do my best work, I prefer my Asus laptop, a fine cognac, and your mom's bed. Then a morning alone in my home office with a real keyboard in a supportive chair. Happiness=productivity, so she should be even more productive than my amazing
...at least not yet. In the USA, we have a succinct description of this - wiretapping. It will probably happen eventually but is of a dubious legal status at the moment. Surely US retailers will be over this, but I doubt anyone wants to implement these systems until they are well-established as a legal practice, which could be expensive. Precisely how they use the signals, and how much they are decoded, will be key factors in how quickly this gets a legal stamp of approval.
Reports of the death of Open Office have been greatly exagerated. You see, Libre Office is Open Office, or at least what it used to be. When Open Office was essentially forked, key developers essentially told Oracle to "fork off," and picked up right wheere they left off. New name, new oversight, same roots, same focus, no Sun. Oracle's takeover of Sun may have led to the death of the Open Office name (as the premier open source office suite, anyway), but Libre Office is its fraternal twin - it isn't identical, it's the smart, affable, good-looking twin. At least that's my understanding of the situation.
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Great idea! My house is 100+ years old, as are the houses of several of my friends and family, and all of us live less than 50 miles from the wells in question. And we are not alone. So how are building codes going to help us? And don't say "just get a new house." I wouldn't be able to purchase a new house if my old one were worthless. Besides, the engineer I had inspect it before moving in said there is no reason it shouldn't be good for another 100 years. Why throw away EVERY building built in the last 100+ years in Eastern Ohio and Western Pennsylvania just so some idiots can pollute the earth? We're talking about a region with several million residents, not NW Montana. Silly.
Around here, Time Warner uses a lot of 3rd party installers, and you are very lucky if you get one who is not a trashy moron. One guy insisted my newly installed cable would work "in a little while," after he left. Of course it did not magically fix itself after he called it a day. Another chap, who looked like a hillbilly who had just woken up after a five-day bender (complete with half-buttoned shirt and greasy hair), used my master bathroom to take a dump, then couldn't offer any solution to the weak signal upstairs. Maybe other folks have had better experiences, but it seems that cable "techs" have collectively earned their bad reputation.
The base version will be 1G GSM, with other network technology available as premium upgrades.
The next logical step is a Zune phone (zPhone?), now that the Zune has kicked Apple's ass out of the music player market. I can't wait, and I'm sure it will be delivered on schedule and perform just as they say.
$50k+ seems like a lot of money, and it is. I will certainly not be buying an Tesla at that price. But look at it this way: how many new Corvettes, Cadilac Escalades, various Porsches, and countless other equally or more expensive vehicles do you see on American roads? Tesla's cars look to be attractively styled mechanical wonders, and I see no reason why they would not be highly desirable. The Tesla S could end up being a huge hit, as many many people are willing to pay $40k-$70k or more for a fancy car. This is not an affordable, practical every-man car that means we have begun a new era of electric vehicles in every garage, but it is a damn good step along the way. Early horseless carriages were expensive too, but once they caught on a bit and multiple manufacturers got in on the party things really changed.
Grandpa, I told you to stay off of Slashdot before you've taken your meds, and there were no kids outside when you were yelling about them being on the lawn. And your landline just rang but the answering machine picked it up, while you were trying to get the DVR to eject.
Good comment. Seven people across the world agree.
Sony used have a habit of selecting cryptic names like "Memory Stick" or "Memory Stick Pro," and "Home Theater in a Box" sticks in my mind. but they're cutting the crap this time so it is perfectly clear exactly what the products are. There calling it the Profit Card, with the future second generation to be named Pure Profit Card, though Box Of Ripoff is reportedly still in the running.
Although non-carbon based life is a very long shot...
Isn't this a really big assumption? Sure, we haven't seen any non carbon-based life, but we also haven't found carbon-based life on more than one little planet.
You obviously didn't understand the previous comment, so I'll rephrase it: Sony loses money on PS3 hardware, and makes up the loss (or so they intend to) on game sales. They profit from games and accessories, lose money on hardware. I don't know where the actual numbers fall, and whether the PS3 business as a whole is profitable, but Sony would not be trying if they only sold the game consoles, which are effectively subsidized. Talk to me when you improve your reading comprehension.
The FCC doesn't allow one company to own both a handset manufacturer and a carrier. That was one of the rules they came up with the first time AT&T got broken up, and it's worked very well for us (we would never have had the fax machine or higher-performance modems otherwise). This was one of the main reasons I was disappointed at Google buying Motorola; they could have bought a telcom instead and broken up that oligopoly, but they basically had their hand forced by Motorola because they needed the patents to defend against Android lawsuits.
I know Google isn't evil yet, but it's not a good idea to give them free passes on the rules.
Interesting points, but I think things have changed just a little bit since "THE" Phone Company was broken up and we got fax machines and 14.4k modems. For example, this discussion pertains to mobile phones, which are ubiquitous now but were rare just 15 years ago. I do agree however that Google could have done bigger and better things than buy Motorola (which isn't anything to laugh at), like become a major carrier. Mobile carriers do have some involvement in development of new devices, and have a history of re-branding them as their own, so a change in rules might not be so far off. It might just need to include some provision requiring them to sell unbranded devices to small carriers or license new technology, or something. Even FCC rules evolve, albeit painfully slowly.
Yes, I love Mint and admire their attempts to ease our transition to the new GUI, but holy crap Gnome 3 is horrid. Where's the Gnome "just works" familiarity, or the configurability? Almost makes me want to use KDE - not that KDE is all that bad, but I've been using and enjoying Gnome exclusively for several years. In fact, if Gnome 3 doesn't quickly evolve into something that feels moire like Gnome 2, I will indeed switch to KDE eventually. For now, I'll stick to Mint's Debian-based release, which is still on Gnome 2 for the time being.
Hooray for another Mint release, BOOOOO Gnome.
Cause we're gonna need a bigger battery.
So pretty much all I use a GUI for is having multiple terminal windows open at once and being able to have access to a non-masochistic web browser. For this, I need a clean and lightweight UI. GNOME 3 works just fine in that regard. Other than "because it's different", why does everyone hate it?
Most everyone hates it because they rely on it a lot more than you do and it absolutely sucks for them. Gnome 2 has flaws but is highly functional in many respects. The "clean" look of Gnome 3 is appealing, but the damn thing just doesn't work well - it makes normal use for normal users a pain in the ass, which completely defeats the purpose of a GUI, no matter how cool it looks. If we were all just using it to desplay terminals, it would be fine, but that is not reality for a general purpose GUI.
2day should be another SEVE JOBS day instead cuz he gave us all da ipodz!!!
Bing sucks. (That's a period at the end of the previous statement.)
Because there isn't one! Maybe EM radiation is harmful, but science tells is that the power levels in question, and the non-directed nature of the emissions, is not great enough to cause any harm. Taking 50 cellphones, taping them to the same spot on your body, and operating them 24/7 would probably not be a good idea, but using one in a normal fashion should be of no concern. They STILL are not the cause of colony collapse disorder in bees, either.
Let me be the first to declare, MISSION ACCOMPLISHED. Got Saddam, got bin Laden (basically the same guy right?), ended the Iraq war.
Wait... somebody beat me to it? By HOW many years?
Windows for "smart" phones is not cheap, and it you have to be computer illiterate (or atleast completely unaware of ALL the alternatives) to enjoy using it.
Yep, Stevie Ballmer is finally right about something! Android is a good choice for cheap, awesome phones, while Windows is the choice for expensive, uncomplicated, shitty phones.
Or you can take the Aplle tack in this argument (I won't) and say this is all irrelevant because iOS is far superior to both WIndows and Android, and the iPhone is amazing hardware. There a lots of folks who believe both of these points and can't possibly be convinced to use anything else.
If an IP address alone is enough evidence to file civil suit against someone for copyright infringement, and under the new proposals enough to have them disconnected without so much as a trial, I find it hard to believe that it can't be enough to be at least reasonable suspicion and thus grounds for a warrant.
Good point! And while you might claim that you don't know where the mp3s and movies came from, or that you never even had them, that probably wouldn't work if you are caught red handed with a Mac Book. "That's not a laptop on my coffee table, and I don't even know how to use a coffee table."
I hereby encourage M$ to spend lots and lots of money on lots more cool concerts! They can afford it. But that won't make me a customer. Ever.
So they've made a name for themselves as independent, only to throw it all away now by selling out to one of the most soulless corporations out there. They might as well go whole-hog and start whoring themselves out by making music for corporate commercials.
You clearly have no idea how many commercials, NFL games, TV shows, etc. have already paid to use music by The Black Keys. Off the top of my head, besides sports bumper music, there's AT&T, Cadillac, NPR, Nissan (I think), Carson Daly's annoying show, some travel site, and there's been a bunch more. They have not "sold out" in the sense that they have changed their music to satisfy record company executives, or anyone else for that matter, but they have no qualms with making money or being popular. What's wrong with that?
I miss the days when I could see The Black Keys at the Beachland Tavern with maybe 100 people, the Lime Spider with 200 people, or chat with the boys at someone else's show, but I don't hold it against them that people like their music. They have done things more or less the same way for about ten years, and the masses have recently begun to catch on. TBK are not Linkin Park, Jewel, Nickelback or any other pop bullshit. They make good music, and sometimes (rarely) good music becomes some of the most popular music. That's not selling out.
And as for the whole MS thing, I'd go to enjoy The Black Keys if this were close enough, then not buy anything sold by either MS or Apple, just like always. Thanks M$, but no dollars for you!
To do my best work, I prefer my Asus laptop, a fine cognac, and your mom's bed. Then a morning alone in my home office with a real keyboard in a supportive chair. Happiness=productivity, so she should be even more productive than my amazing
...at least not yet. In the USA, we have a succinct description of this - wiretapping. It will probably happen eventually but is of a dubious legal status at the moment. Surely US retailers will be over this, but I doubt anyone wants to implement these systems until they are well-established as a legal practice, which could be expensive. Precisely how they use the signals, and how much they are decoded, will be key factors in how quickly this gets a legal stamp of approval.
Reports of the death of Open Office have been greatly exagerated. You see, Libre Office is Open Office, or at least what it used to be. When Open Office was essentially forked, key developers essentially told Oracle to "fork off," and picked up right wheere they left off. New name, new oversight, same roots, same focus, no Sun. Oracle's takeover of Sun may have led to the death of the Open Office name (as the premier open source office suite, anyway), but Libre Office is its fraternal twin - it isn't identical, it's the smart, affable, good-looking twin. At least that's my understanding of the situation.