Assuming you can get power, at least sporadically, take a Macbook.
Why a Macbook? Are they exceptional in battery life? Otherwise I might suggest a heavy duty workstation like an HP EliteBook; they're built pretty solid and would be hard to break if you plan on being away from civilization for a full year where damaged equipment might be difficult to get repaired, and their battery is replaceable so you can bring a sack full of batteries for you to swap out and charge when power is available. Can't really comment on HP's newer ZBook as I haven't seen one in person yet but it's the successor to the EliteBook line so it's probably just as solid.
If you like taking pictures, as I do, you might also want to bring a film camera so you always have access to taking pictures of your adventure without having to worry about batteries.
Without doing something really exotic you'll at least one to three fans to cool your typical radiator depending on it's size, and double that if you're doing a push-pull configuration.
A large amount of malware on other platforms, mostly Windows, has been due to ignorant users willfully installing malware; bundled toolbars and adware that come with otherwise legit software are probably the best example. Granted there are zero-day exploits and sometimes exploits in third party software (*cough* adobe *cough*) but the stuff I mentioned a moment ago is most common vector for malware infection.
Now Apple's platform is finally popular enough among average users that it is profitable for the less than honest to target it with such malware, and to make matters worse most Apple users are arguably overconfident in that they are absolutely convinced they are invincible from any kind of malware making them a prime target for such attacks at this point in time. A lot of Apple users, in my personal experience, never ask themselves why there is so much malware in other platforms but rather just repeat what they've been told; that iOS and OS X are immune to such threats.
"Co-relation is not causation, I'm pretty sure all those shooters also regularly drank milk yet I don't see people blaming milk for suicides or homicides."
Easily the most pathetic argument I've ever heard from a gun nut. I think I could fairly easily demonstrate that the murder weapon used in a murder does have a *causative* role in the events.
Then why the Black Box Warning, warning SPECIFICALLY of those side-effects?
Then why does every single television commercial for every single SSRI (including the 'repurposed' ones, like Lyrica and Wellbutrin) contain the same warning about "Suicidal thoughts or actions" (which is part of the same Black Box Warning)?
Because the FDA through it's administrative powers, as authorized by Congress, has set a legal requirement for such disclaimers and labels for all psychiatric medicine regardless of the merit such claims. If you look at this logically people who are feeling depressed to begin with are more likely to commit acts of violence against themselves or others. With the millions of people taking SSRIs the occurrence of such things are shockingly low if one is to believe SSRIs are inherently dangerous when used properly. If SSRIs were really as dangerous as you and the media make them out to be it seems like the whole world would be committing mass suicide.
You said it yourself "...everyone's body chemistry is different so any drug can have adverse effects including but not limited to behavior"
And one of the biggest problems with SSRIs, is that many doctors (particularly those not particularly skilled in mental health matters, but that still have a prescription pad), will, after prescribing the latest SSRI that the cute Pharma Rep. came in and dumped a bunch of samples of, will, after the Patient comes back and says "I don't think this is working, doctor; I feel like I'm not getting any better, or maybe even worse." will, instead of thinking of that Black Box Warning, say "Well, perhaps we need to INCREASE the dose..." Many of them will do that repeatedly, even OVER the max recommended dose, simply because they believe the literature that the Pharma Rep. left with those free samples...
Because everyone's body chemistry is different; some drugs may not be effective in certain people until a certain concentration is met within the body. There are several different reasons for this; some people's body may not metabolize the drug as well as other people or the drug may have a hard time crossing the blood-brain barrier. Also getting onto SSRIs may typically take up to 3 to 4 weeks before it begins to have an effect on seratonin levels in the brain and it can take equally as much time to get off them safely, so consequently switching drugs is not as simple as taking a different pill the next morning so as you can imagine physicians will want to make sure the drug is actually not working before going through all the time it takes to switch and all the side effects switching may put the patient through.
For myself Sertraline Hydrochloride was not fully effective until the doctor finally prescribed the maximum dose; 200mg, whereas with most people as little as 25mg to 50mg is usually sufficient.
If a physician is prescribing past the FDA's maximum dose then he could be outright breaking the law or liable for wrongful death. It is likely not the fault of a drug that has extensive double blind studies and approval from several government health agencies throughout the world. Anything is dangerous in high enough concentration, even things that are otherwise good for you.
As for big pharma; federal law and many states have laws against what pharmaceutical representatives are allowed to do. In my state it's practically illegal for a pharmaceutical representative to do anything other than tell the doctor about the drug.
I am very glad that SSRIs worked for you; but they are still far from innocuous drugs, period. Again, see the Black Box Warning.
I never claimed they are always safe under any condition but to the contrary I did say that all drugs have risks including psychiatric medicine. I think a better solution to this perceived problem would be to better regulate SSRIs and educate physicians and patients about them than to outright blame SSRIs for all the world's evils and ban them as some people call for.
The people that get picked on year after year and finally stand up to the bullys are the bad guys
No, the people that shoot other students dead with guns are the bad guys.
If you read his entire comment I think he's talking about students being punished for defending themselves by someone beating them up because this time the student decided he's had enough of having his lunch money stolen under the threat of violence.
Or, even better, we could just take all the damned SSRIs off the market; because, if you look at the history, these "school shootings" were virtually unknown until SSRIs came on the scene, then there has been a steady drip, drip, drip of these incidents, and particularly in the U.S.A., where SSRIs are hideously over-prescribed.
I am so tired of hearing this.
As a doctor I once had said; "Co-relation is not causation, I'm pretty sure all those shooters also regularly drank milk yet I don't see people blaming milk for suicides or homicides."
A part of the problem is some people are just prone to violence and they're given these drugs without any real support because their councilor/parent/doctor expects the drug to do all the work but in reality it doesn't work that way; taking mood stabilizing drugs without support and encouragement is like taking diet pills and expecting to lose weight without changing your lifestyle to accommodate healthy food and exercise.
I was once on an SSRI; Sertraline Hydrochloride, for a couple years and it really helped me get stable, and at the time the county provided a not-for-profit support network, complete with doctors and councilors, for those suffering from mental anguish and with their help I learned how to deal with negative feelings and life's problems, had people to talk to, I made friends and they helped me reach the goal of being stable enough to get off my medicine. Fast forward a few years I'm happy guy no longer on SSRIs contributing to society with a well paying job and good friends. Ultimately the medicine did it's job to help my mind to heal like a splint helps a limb to heal, and I'll be ever grateful to those who supported me in my time of need.
Something else to take into consideration is that a drug that works 100% of the time in all cases is a fantasy because everyone's body chemistry is different so any drug can have adverse effects including but not limited to behavior, so healthcare workers and the patient alike need to work together to find a drug that works.
Long story short; SSRIs are the product of half a century of careful research and not the evil scapegoat you and your preferred cable news channel ignorantly make them out to be.
but if you live in North Carolina it can easily be how far away Charlotte or Raleigh or Greensboro is. If I want to visit an area with a lot of large shops and restaurants, I'm looking at a 30-mile drive at a minimum; 40 miles if I want to go somewhere that actually has American corporate icons like Barnes & Noble, Starbucks, Best Buy, etc.
I know exactly what you're talking about; live in North Carolina in a rural agricultural community, as do most people in this state, and to visit and businesses that are remotely interesting or useful I have to go to Winston-Salem and just to get to the edge of Winston-Salem it is about a half hour drive from me, or about 30 miles, and Charlotte is about a two hour drive, or about 90 miles, from me. I rarely visit Greensboro because I have to go all the way down to the center of Winston-Salem and get on I-40 so it sits at about an hour drive. There has been talk about building a Wal-Mart in a nearby town that is beginning to emerge as a major community but I don't think it is going to materialize which is unfortunate because it would save me a lot of time.
I suppose one could move closer but the cost of real estate is outrageous and the cost of renting would be a small fortune out of my paycheck every month so there is that.
Major difference is that alcohol is mostly regulated at the state level and exempted from being a controlled substance and at the federal level the BATFE's decrees how alcohol should be handled. Marijuana would have to be granted an exception as a controlled substance which I find doubtful and even if it were it would likely be regulated by an administrative agency like the BATFE. At present moment you can't even buy liquor or tobacco (both of these things regulated by the BATFE) on Amazon so I wouldn't expect ordering some mary jane on Amazon any time soon.
Several more states legalized pot this month. I expect it will be sold on Amazon in my lifetime.
I keep hearing about people talking about how marijuana is legal in serveral states, especially since the other night, however state's rights are eroded to the point it is ultimately irrelevant because it is still a controlled substance at the federal level. I see it as being immensely harder to legalize a controlled substance of any kind at the federal level, especially if representatives from legalized states remain in the minority. Even if legalized states refuse to comply with the feds per the anti-commandeering doctrine, such as in Arizona's ongoing campaign for gun rights, it still doesn't stop DEA agents from busting down doors and striking fear into everyone.
To be fair my Galaxy Note Pro is a 12.2 inch screen. I like it, I can handwrite with it and it does what I need but I would be lying if I said I wasn't interested in the Surface Pro 3 but given the outrageous price tag and with Windows 10 so close I think I'm going to hold off until Windows 10 gets closer to release to see what Microsoft does in respect to the Surface to see if the existing Surfaces get a Windows 10 upgrade or if there will be a Surface 4 Pro (Osborne effect anyone?).
The main attraction for the Surface for me is being able to run all my favorite x86 applications on a tablet. Many people complain about Windows 8 not having many apps but there are a ton of Windows applications going back to the early 90's and I've tried the Surface in the store and I don't think that desktop applications are hard to use on the Surface at all. Also by this point I've gotten used to Windows 8 (good thing everyone else hates it because I've been able to get a handful of licenses for cheap) and I like the fact that all my preferences, start screen layout and Metro apps can be synced across all my computers as well as the Surface.
Years of marketing seems to have equated the idea of a personal computer as some sort of quasi Microsoft exclusive brand but really Linux desktops are usually P-ersonal C-omputers as well (as opposed to non-personal computers like time sharing mainframes), likewise can be said for Macintosh.
As an artist the flat Metro look drives me crazy; the desktop looks really dull and often times all these flat colors the screen clash and there really isn't anything seperating and balancing them so I can never find a color for the window borders I feel comfortable with. The Aero theme was the pinnacle of the Windows UI in my opinion but I was even comfortable with just the classic Windows 9x/NT 4.x/2000 theme because at least there wasn't this clashing of flat colors without any seperation.
One nitpick I've had about Windows 10 is that for some reason desktop apps still have the weird squished 2:1 rectangle Min/Max/Close buttons in the windows but in the ModernUI apps they're perfectly square and look like they fit the theme. Why can't all apps have the square buttons?
... why aren't there mandatory whippings for blatant disregard of the Constitution when making laws?
I figure your comment is probably sarcastic but I'll just say that legislators would have to be guilty of something specifically codified in criminal law to be receiving such punishment but since it is not illegal to make dumb laws there is no punishment. Even if it were somehow illegal the Eight Amendment of the very same Constitution forbids such punishment.
I don't have a particularly high opinion of car dealerships; since all the used dealers in the area were inflexible run by a bunch of sleaze balls I went to a Ford dealership that had been advertising how flexible they were and willing to work with anyone.
I was merely considering the possibility of getting a car in the future and since I didn't have any credit (but a rock solid job) I was merely evaluating what kind of car I wanted (not necessarily new), what would be involved and what kind of down payment would be necessary. I even told the salesman this and he absolutely insisted I talk to the manager if a deal could be worked out despite this so the manager looked at some papers the salesman had typed up, looked at me and at the papers again then literally laughed. I felt humiliated.
When I finally got in a better financial position to actually buy a car I ended up buying a Volkswagen instead but ultimately I will never go to a dealership if I can help it because I feel dealerships are there just to make car buying more expensive and complicated than it should be and any services dealerships offer tend to be an overpriced ripoff.
I'm guessing the summary was written by one of those people who buy into so-called alternative medicine and use scary buzzwords like "toxins" very loosely to sell their products. They very rarely ever define what exactly these supposed toxins are and where they come from.
I recall one person that told my mother to eat "living clay" to remove supposed toxins from her body, after some research I found that this living clay stuff is just calcium carbonate; the same thing as chewable Tums. I recall another one I saw on TV that are these pads you attach to the soles of your feet that supposedly remove supposed toxins from your body overnight.
I guess the quacks that buy into this stuff didn't get far enough in high school biology to find out what it is that kidneys do.
Play and develop the open source Minetest instead of Microsoft Minecraft.
Engine core is written in C++, with gameplay logic and world generation driven by Lua, is multiplayer already, uses the Irrlicht library for both OpenGL and DirectX support and runs on multiple platforms.
Looking at the article it looks like a 3D printed imitation of an incomplete Sig Saur handgun rather than an actual handgun. Though technically it may still qualify as a firearm receiver under BATFE regulation and violate statutes contained in 18 USC 922 (p). (DISCLAIMER: I am not a lawyer)
Since guns are pretty simple mechanical machines I'm curious as to what prevents someone from disassembling the gun and yanking out the electronics and whatever locking mechanism.
The electronic parts could not stand the g forces from firing the gun and had to be separate.
I always figured this is the reason EOTech and Aimpoint accessories are so expensive because of the extreme nature of the forces requires top shelf quality, though alternatively I suppose it could just be a premium attached to those brands kind of like how Apple is in the PC world.
Very rarely will a modern gun discharge if it is dropped or mishandled in someway, particularly if you have something like grip safety.
Most "accidental" shootings are negligent discharges caused by user error and I think people are looking for a technological solution to an educational one. Unlike a lot of gun owners I wasn't raised around them and didn't own my first gun until my early 20's but I took a hunting course and a concealed handgun course (note: I never actually applied for a concealed handgun permit but rather just took the class) and learned a lot about handling a gun that I may have never known any other way, things like; trigger discipline, always assuming the gun is loaded, an unloaded gun is not an empty gun and so forth.
There really needs to be more education about safely handling guns but unfortunately it is considered politically incorrect to talk about guns or to teach children to respect them but despite that our culture accepts being entertained by them while being incorrectly handled by actors in every conceivable way. Even the very basics of gun safety like Eddie Eagle which teaches kids not to touch guns and tell an adult has been pulled out of numerous schools because it's politically incorrect.
The vast majority of smashed screens I've seen are people of questionable intelligence like teenage girls who see a phone as a fashion accessory, stuff the phone in their back pocket and are somehow surprised when the screen is cracked.
I worked for a small software company once but then the leadership decided to sell us out to a huge multi-national corporation, took their cash and ran. Since then a number of my colleagues quit the acquiring company after a few months but unfortunately some of us have nowhere to go. So I totally understand where you're coming from. Life sucks.
for them, as long as they get to kick back with their girlfriend in a cabin on Saturday night, life is good
If you said something along the lines of someone kicking back in front of the TV watching American Idol or some other shit, then sure I'd be with you. But your example of the degradation of America being demonstrated by someone being at bliss because they're with someone they live and are enjoy life because of it, seems extremely silly. Isn't having fun and sharing life with others the pinnacle of being human? I hardly see anything wrong with the example you presented.
Life is full of difficulties. I agree that the US is sliding into the abyss, but having a go at those who are trying to enjoy life while they can is rather cruel. Are you not capable of enjoying things anymore? Have you lost so much humanity that you can't see the error in your post?
I think what he is saying is that most Americans have their priorities screwed up in that they are completely fine with having their liberties stripped as long as they get to be otherwise comfortable and get to do things like fornication which certain governments condemn like the Chinese government so consequently Americans tend to measure their "freedom" by their standard of living and what mundane things they get to do rather than important things such as; freedom of speech, right to peaceably assemble, freedom of religion, right to bear arms and so forth.
With that thought in mind most Americans seem to be clueless in civics anymore and have no idea how our government is supposed to function, for example; I'm astonished by the number of people I've met that actually believe that the President can arbitrarily decree a law into existence or introduce a bill into the legislative branch. Don't they teach civics in school any more like when I was in school? No wonder why we're headed down the road we are!
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Assuming you can get power, at least sporadically, take a Macbook.
Why a Macbook? Are they exceptional in battery life? Otherwise I might suggest a heavy duty workstation like an HP EliteBook; they're built pretty solid and would be hard to break if you plan on being away from civilization for a full year where damaged equipment might be difficult to get repaired, and their battery is replaceable so you can bring a sack full of batteries for you to swap out and charge when power is available. Can't really comment on HP's newer ZBook as I haven't seen one in person yet but it's the successor to the EliteBook line so it's probably just as solid.
If you like taking pictures, as I do, you might also want to bring a film camera so you always have access to taking pictures of your adventure without having to worry about batteries.
Without doing something really exotic you'll at least one to three fans to cool your typical radiator depending on it's size, and double that if you're doing a push-pull configuration.
A large amount of malware on other platforms, mostly Windows, has been due to ignorant users willfully installing malware; bundled toolbars and adware that come with otherwise legit software are probably the best example.
Granted there are zero-day exploits and sometimes exploits in third party software (*cough* adobe *cough*) but the stuff I mentioned a moment ago is most common vector for malware infection.
Now Apple's platform is finally popular enough among average users that it is profitable for the less than honest to target it with such malware, and to make matters worse most Apple users are arguably overconfident in that they are absolutely convinced they are invincible from any kind of malware making them a prime target for such attacks at this point in time. A lot of Apple users, in my personal experience, never ask themselves why there is so much malware in other platforms but rather just repeat what they've been told; that iOS and OS X are immune to such threats.
"Co-relation is not causation, I'm pretty sure all those shooters also regularly drank milk yet I don't see people blaming milk for suicides or homicides."
Easily the most pathetic argument I've ever heard from a gun nut. I think I could fairly easily demonstrate that the murder weapon used in a murder does have a *causative* role in the events.
We were talking about SSRI drugs, not guns.
Then why the Black Box Warning, warning SPECIFICALLY of those side-effects? Then why does every single television commercial for every single SSRI (including the 'repurposed' ones, like Lyrica and Wellbutrin) contain the same warning about "Suicidal thoughts or actions" (which is part of the same Black Box Warning)?
Because the FDA through it's administrative powers, as authorized by Congress, has set a legal requirement for such disclaimers and labels for all psychiatric medicine regardless of the merit such claims. If you look at this logically people who are feeling depressed to begin with are more likely to commit acts of violence against themselves or others. With the millions of people taking SSRIs the occurrence of such things are shockingly low if one is to believe SSRIs are inherently dangerous when used properly. If SSRIs were really as dangerous as you and the media make them out to be it seems like the whole world would be committing mass suicide.
You said it yourself "...everyone's body chemistry is different so any drug can have adverse effects including but not limited to behavior" And one of the biggest problems with SSRIs, is that many doctors (particularly those not particularly skilled in mental health matters, but that still have a prescription pad), will, after prescribing the latest SSRI that the cute Pharma Rep. came in and dumped a bunch of samples of, will, after the Patient comes back and says "I don't think this is working, doctor; I feel like I'm not getting any better, or maybe even worse." will, instead of thinking of that Black Box Warning, say "Well, perhaps we need to INCREASE the dose..." Many of them will do that repeatedly, even OVER the max recommended dose, simply because they believe the literature that the Pharma Rep. left with those free samples...
Because everyone's body chemistry is different; some drugs may not be effective in certain people until a certain concentration is met within the body. There are several different reasons for this; some people's body may not metabolize the drug as well as other people or the drug may have a hard time crossing the blood-brain barrier. Also getting onto SSRIs may typically take up to 3 to 4 weeks before it begins to have an effect on seratonin levels in the brain and it can take equally as much time to get off them safely, so consequently switching drugs is not as simple as taking a different pill the next morning so as you can imagine physicians will want to make sure the drug is actually not working before going through all the time it takes to switch and all the side effects switching may put the patient through.
For myself Sertraline Hydrochloride was not fully effective until the doctor finally prescribed the maximum dose; 200mg, whereas with most people as little as 25mg to 50mg is usually sufficient.
If a physician is prescribing past the FDA's maximum dose then he could be outright breaking the law or liable for wrongful death. It is likely not the fault of a drug that has extensive double blind studies and approval from several government health agencies throughout the world. Anything is dangerous in high enough concentration, even things that are otherwise good for you.
As for big pharma; federal law and many states have laws against what pharmaceutical representatives are allowed to do. In my state it's practically illegal for a pharmaceutical representative to do anything other than tell the doctor about the drug.
I am very glad that SSRIs worked for you; but they are still far from innocuous drugs, period. Again, see the Black Box Warning.
I never claimed they are always safe under any condition but to the contrary I did say that all drugs have risks including psychiatric medicine. I think a better solution to this perceived problem would be to better regulate SSRIs and educate physicians and patients about them than to outright blame SSRIs for all the world's evils and ban them as some people call for.
The people that get picked on year after year and finally stand up to the bullys are the bad guys
No, the people that shoot other students dead with guns are the bad guys.
If you read his entire comment I think he's talking about students being punished for defending themselves by someone beating them up because this time the student decided he's had enough of having his lunch money stolen under the threat of violence.
Or, even better, we could just take all the damned SSRIs off the market; because, if you look at the history, these "school shootings" were virtually unknown until SSRIs came on the scene, then there has been a steady drip, drip, drip of these incidents, and particularly in the U.S.A., where SSRIs are hideously over-prescribed.
I am so tired of hearing this.
As a doctor I once had said; "Co-relation is not causation, I'm pretty sure all those shooters also regularly drank milk yet I don't see people blaming milk for suicides or homicides."
A part of the problem is some people are just prone to violence and they're given these drugs without any real support because their councilor/parent/doctor expects the drug to do all the work but in reality it doesn't work that way; taking mood stabilizing drugs without support and encouragement is like taking diet pills and expecting to lose weight without changing your lifestyle to accommodate healthy food and exercise.
I was once on an SSRI; Sertraline Hydrochloride, for a couple years and it really helped me get stable, and at the time the county provided a not-for-profit support network, complete with doctors and councilors, for those suffering from mental anguish and with their help I learned how to deal with negative feelings and life's problems, had people to talk to, I made friends and they helped me reach the goal of being stable enough to get off my medicine. Fast forward a few years I'm happy guy no longer on SSRIs contributing to society with a well paying job and good friends. Ultimately the medicine did it's job to help my mind to heal like a splint helps a limb to heal, and I'll be ever grateful to those who supported me in my time of need.
Something else to take into consideration is that a drug that works 100% of the time in all cases is a fantasy because everyone's body chemistry is different so any drug can have adverse effects including but not limited to behavior, so healthcare workers and the patient alike need to work together to find a drug that works.
Long story short; SSRIs are the product of half a century of careful research and not the evil scapegoat you and your preferred cable news channel ignorantly make them out to be.
but if you live in North Carolina it can easily be how far away Charlotte or Raleigh or Greensboro is. If I want to visit an area with a lot of large shops and restaurants, I'm looking at a 30-mile drive at a minimum; 40 miles if I want to go somewhere that actually has American corporate icons like Barnes & Noble, Starbucks, Best Buy, etc.
I know exactly what you're talking about; live in North Carolina in a rural agricultural community, as do most people in this state, and to visit and businesses that are remotely interesting or useful I have to go to Winston-Salem and just to get to the edge of Winston-Salem it is about a half hour drive from me, or about 30 miles, and Charlotte is about a two hour drive, or about 90 miles, from me. I rarely visit Greensboro because I have to go all the way down to the center of Winston-Salem and get on I-40 so it sits at about an hour drive. There has been talk about building a Wal-Mart in a nearby town that is beginning to emerge as a major community but I don't think it is going to materialize which is unfortunate because it would save me a lot of time.
I suppose one could move closer but the cost of real estate is outrageous and the cost of renting would be a small fortune out of my paycheck every month so there is that.
Major difference is that alcohol is mostly regulated at the state level and exempted from being a controlled substance and at the federal level the BATFE's decrees how alcohol should be handled. Marijuana would have to be granted an exception as a controlled substance which I find doubtful and even if it were it would likely be regulated by an administrative agency like the BATFE. At present moment you can't even buy liquor or tobacco (both of these things regulated by the BATFE) on Amazon so I wouldn't expect ordering some mary jane on Amazon any time soon.
Several more states legalized pot this month. I expect it will be sold on Amazon in my lifetime.
I keep hearing about people talking about how marijuana is legal in serveral states, especially since the other night, however state's rights are eroded to the point it is ultimately irrelevant because it is still a controlled substance at the federal level. I see it as being immensely harder to legalize a controlled substance of any kind at the federal level, especially if representatives from legalized states remain in the minority. Even if legalized states refuse to comply with the feds per the anti-commandeering doctrine, such as in Arizona's ongoing campaign for gun rights, it still doesn't stop DEA agents from busting down doors and striking fear into everyone.
and has a 12 inch screen.
To be fair my Galaxy Note Pro is a 12.2 inch screen. I like it, I can handwrite with it and it does what I need but I would be lying if I said I wasn't interested in the Surface Pro 3 but given the outrageous price tag and with Windows 10 so close I think I'm going to hold off until Windows 10 gets closer to release to see what Microsoft does in respect to the Surface to see if the existing Surfaces get a Windows 10 upgrade or if there will be a Surface 4 Pro (Osborne effect anyone?).
The main attraction for the Surface for me is being able to run all my favorite x86 applications on a tablet. Many people complain about Windows 8 not having many apps but there are a ton of Windows applications going back to the early 90's and I've tried the Surface in the store and I don't think that desktop applications are hard to use on the Surface at all. Also by this point I've gotten used to Windows 8 (good thing everyone else hates it because I've been able to get a handful of licenses for cheap) and I like the fact that all my preferences, start screen layout and Metro apps can be synced across all my computers as well as the Surface.
That's just my two cents.
MegaBananas are the SI equivalent of the Libraries of Congress that the knuckle-dragging Americans still use. Get with the rest of the world, people!
Well just how many Libraries of Congress can it hold? As an American I won't be able to truly comprehend until it's measured in Libraries of Congress.
Years of marketing seems to have equated the idea of a personal computer as some sort of quasi Microsoft exclusive brand but really Linux desktops are usually P-ersonal C-omputers as well (as opposed to non-personal computers like time sharing mainframes), likewise can be said for Macintosh.
As an artist the flat Metro look drives me crazy; the desktop looks really dull and often times all these flat colors the screen clash and there really isn't anything seperating and balancing them so I can never find a color for the window borders I feel comfortable with. The Aero theme was the pinnacle of the Windows UI in my opinion but I was even comfortable with just the classic Windows 9x/NT 4.x/2000 theme because at least there wasn't this clashing of flat colors without any seperation.
One nitpick I've had about Windows 10 is that for some reason desktop apps still have the weird squished 2:1 rectangle Min/Max/Close buttons in the windows but in the ModernUI apps they're perfectly square and look like they fit the theme. Why can't all apps have the square buttons?
... why aren't there mandatory whippings for blatant disregard of the Constitution when making laws?
I figure your comment is probably sarcastic but I'll just say that legislators would have to be guilty of something specifically codified in criminal law to be receiving such punishment but since it is not illegal to make dumb laws there is no punishment.
Even if it were somehow illegal the Eight Amendment of the very same Constitution forbids such punishment.
If you can't figure out how to manipulate space-time, why should I hire you?
Bring your own weapons. Safety not guaranteed. I've only done this once before.
I don't have a particularly high opinion of car dealerships; since all the used dealers in the area were inflexible run by a bunch of sleaze balls I went to a Ford dealership that had been advertising how flexible they were and willing to work with anyone.
I was merely considering the possibility of getting a car in the future and since I didn't have any credit (but a rock solid job) I was merely evaluating what kind of car I wanted (not necessarily new), what would be involved and what kind of down payment would be necessary. I even told the salesman this and he absolutely insisted I talk to the manager if a deal could be worked out despite this so the manager looked at some papers the salesman had typed up, looked at me and at the papers again then literally laughed. I felt humiliated.
When I finally got in a better financial position to actually buy a car I ended up buying a Volkswagen instead but ultimately I will never go to a dealership if I can help it because I feel dealerships are there just to make car buying more expensive and complicated than it should be and any services dealerships offer tend to be an overpriced ripoff.
I'm guessing the summary was written by one of those people who buy into so-called alternative medicine and use scary buzzwords like "toxins" very loosely to sell their products. They very rarely ever define what exactly these supposed toxins are and where they come from.
I recall one person that told my mother to eat "living clay" to remove supposed toxins from her body, after some research I found that this living clay stuff is just calcium carbonate; the same thing as chewable Tums. I recall another one I saw on TV that are these pads you attach to the soles of your feet that supposedly remove supposed toxins from your body overnight.
I guess the quacks that buy into this stuff didn't get far enough in high school biology to find out what it is that kidneys do.
Play and develop the open source Minetest instead of Microsoft Minecraft.
Engine core is written in C++, with gameplay logic and world generation driven by Lua, is multiplayer already, uses the Irrlicht library for both OpenGL and DirectX support and runs on multiple platforms.
Looking at the article it looks like a 3D printed imitation of an incomplete Sig Saur handgun rather than an actual handgun. Though technically it may still qualify as a firearm receiver under BATFE regulation and violate statutes contained in 18 USC 922 (p). (DISCLAIMER: I am not a lawyer)
Since guns are pretty simple mechanical machines I'm curious as to what prevents someone from disassembling the gun and yanking out the electronics and whatever locking mechanism.
The electronic parts could not stand the g forces from firing the gun and had to be separate.
I always figured this is the reason EOTech and Aimpoint accessories are so expensive because of the extreme nature of the forces requires top shelf quality, though alternatively I suppose it could just be a premium attached to those brands kind of like how Apple is in the PC world.
Very rarely will a modern gun discharge if it is dropped or mishandled in someway, particularly if you have something like grip safety.
Most "accidental" shootings are negligent discharges caused by user error and I think people are looking for a technological solution to an educational one. Unlike a lot of gun owners I wasn't raised around them and didn't own my first gun until my early 20's but I took a hunting course and a concealed handgun course (note: I never actually applied for a concealed handgun permit but rather just took the class) and learned a lot about handling a gun that I may have never known any other way, things like; trigger discipline, always assuming the gun is loaded, an unloaded gun is not an empty gun and so forth.
There really needs to be more education about safely handling guns but unfortunately it is considered politically incorrect to talk about guns or to teach children to respect them but despite that our culture accepts being entertained by them while being incorrectly handled by actors in every conceivable way. Even the very basics of gun safety like Eddie Eagle which teaches kids not to touch guns and tell an adult has been pulled out of numerous schools because it's politically incorrect.
The vast majority of smashed screens I've seen are people of questionable intelligence like teenage girls who see a phone as a fashion accessory, stuff the phone in their back pocket and are somehow surprised when the screen is cracked.
I worked for a small software company once but then the leadership decided to sell us out to a huge multi-national corporation, took their cash and ran. Since then a number of my colleagues quit the acquiring company after a few months but unfortunately some of us have nowhere to go. So I totally understand where you're coming from. Life sucks.
If you said something along the lines of someone kicking back in front of the TV watching American Idol or some other shit, then sure I'd be with you. But your example of the degradation of America being demonstrated by someone being at bliss because they're with someone they live and are enjoy life because of it, seems extremely silly. Isn't having fun and sharing life with others the pinnacle of being human? I hardly see anything wrong with the example you presented.
Life is full of difficulties. I agree that the US is sliding into the abyss, but having a go at those who are trying to enjoy life while they can is rather cruel. Are you not capable of enjoying things anymore? Have you lost so much humanity that you can't see the error in your post?
I think what he is saying is that most Americans have their priorities screwed up in that they are completely fine with having their liberties stripped as long as they get to be otherwise comfortable and get to do things like fornication which certain governments condemn like the Chinese government so consequently Americans tend to measure their "freedom" by their standard of living and what mundane things they get to do rather than important things such as; freedom of speech, right to peaceably assemble, freedom of religion, right to bear arms and so forth.
With that thought in mind most Americans seem to be clueless in civics anymore and have no idea how our government is supposed to function, for example; I'm astonished by the number of people I've met that actually believe that the President can arbitrarily decree a law into existence or introduce a bill into the legislative branch.
Don't they teach civics in school any more like when I was in school? No wonder why we're headed down the road we are!