Beer cans do NOT explode on flights. In fact I've been served beer from cans on many flights, and before the current restrictions, often carried 4 or 6 beers in my carry-on luggage.
Opera, Firefox and plenty of other Mac OS X applications already have their own "1 Click Update" systems in place.
As for LaunchPad, we'll deal with that when it gets here, if it really won't allow other software to appear in LaunchPad, which I doubt will be the case, then it shouldn't be too hard to clone it.
For If all you've ever used is Windows, then using something else is uncomfortable, possibly even scary.
I've noticed that many of the individuals I see have memorised the location of the menu's, shortcut's commands etc they need, There's nothing wrong with that, (I memorise menu's etc, too), however, the key is understanding. I understand what the computer is doing when I click a menu, so I'm not too worried about the consequences. If you don't understand, then everything appears "magical" and people know that messing with magic is dangerous.
I've had people ask if they can use my computer to check their email, and when they see it's a Mac, they get nervous, um and ahh, and say they'll check it later. This happens even when I have Windows running. They've heard that Mac's work differently, and this makes them uncomfortable, and the same thing happen's when they are faced with Ubuntu.
In other areas I've met people who've been driving for years, but won't drive my car because it has Automatic Transmission.
P.S. A very long time ago, (Pre-Windows) I used to set up a Mac and a PC next to each other at IT events, and people would always flock to the Mac, this was because the desktop is much friendlier than the C:\ prompt.;-)
It's not just the US, I learnt to drive in Southern Africa, where every Petrol Station is manned. You drive up, and the person asks how much fuel you want, you tell them, and they pour it. If the forecourt is not too busy, they'll probably offer to wash your windscreen, and they may even offer to check your oil and water levels under the bonnet. Tip them if you can afford it because they get paid fairly low wages. (But higher than minimum wage)
This does create employment because you usually have 4-6 employes present at anyone time, and busier 24-hour stations will have 2 or 3 shifts. Granted these are not great jobs, but in countries where education levels are low, it keeps people employed, which means their whole families are better off.
I've often thought that western countries could solve a large chunk of youth unemployment by banning self service. I'd expect such jobs to be popular with kids who have just left school, or on long summer holidays. It would keep them out of trouble, off the streets, and teach them the value of hard work, which seem to be forgotten in theses days of celebrity culture and bling.
think about it, you are basically saying the energy taken from a person speaking normally could be used for the same voice to be heard miles away, does not sound like it follows the laws of conservation of energy unless you think that it will be operating at 100% efficiency.
When I was about 11, a friend and I made a "phone network" between our houses. We used two earpieces taken from old rotary phones, and simply connected them to each other using common 2-core speaker wire. This was over a distance of about 300meters, and used NO external power. You simply spoke into one earpiece, and the sound was heard at the other end. so we basically had a permanent open channel between our bedrooms.
When we wanted to "call" the other person, we simply held an alarm clock next to the earpiece, which would be loud enough on the other end to be heard throughout the whole house. We found that two earpieces worked better than two mouthpieces, or a mouthpiece and an earpiece.
It took us a whole summer holiday of doing chores and odd jobs to save up enough money to "lay our cable", also as we were kids and didn't know any better, we were buying 10 to 15 meter rolls of wire whenever we could afford a new roll, and the joins were not soldered, we just twisted the ends together and used electrical insulation tape.
If it rained really heavily, we would get increased static, and I seem to remember a couple of occasions where we got breaks and had to dig up our cable to make repairs, but other than that, it lasted about 3 years until we abandoned it in favour of walkie-talkies.
I had a similar problem with my site, but found that you can mark/tag areas of the page that google should focus on.
Once I did that, I found the ads displayed became much more focused very quickly, as they were now based on what I decided was content, and not on any other information that appears alongside it.
The day there is no physical mail will be a very sad day indeed.
I don't use it often, but when I do, it has advantages that email will never match.
You can't email greetings cards (No, eCards don't cut it) You can't email cash (Kids don't have bank accounts, and they like to actually hold their money)
Ever received a letter from a loved one? Did you notice how the handwriting, and smell of the paper (and possibly perfume) have an effect that email will never be able to reproduce?
Additionally, you can mail keys, credit cards, watches, coins, cd/dvd's and many other items
One can be infected by multiple strains of HIV, which is why HIV positive couples are advised to use condoms if they have different strains from each other. (assuming of course that they both were infected from different sources)
What CAN we do to reduce the risk ? Only this: effective after-the-fact law enforcement with open trials and proper punishment... same thing as for any other crime. Effectively catching the perpetrators, bringing them to justice (with fair trials) and then punishing them is a very good deterrent - just as much so for terrorism, and the only one that has any chance of working.
After-the-fact law enforcement is NOT a deterrent to a suicide bomber.
Pretty simple, and only shows a connection to that one IP address.
If you do this, and you really are concerned about the Chinese Government, it might also be a good idea to set up a website at the same IP address.
Make it something innocent, like a blog, or holiday photo album, and don't post anything even vaguely subversive, just post pics of obviously touristy stuff, and comments on how friendly the chinese people are. If you want to go the extra mile, post how "surprised" you are that China is a modern well functioning society full of happy people, where nothing ever goes wrong.
That way, if you are picked up by the authorities, you now have a valid, provable and completely innocuous explanation for why you were only ever connecting to that one IP address./removes tinfoil hat
Disclaimer: I have lived in a third world country, and been involved in activities that certain governments would consider subversive. It is ALWAYS a good idea to prepare you alibi BEFORE you start engaging in mischief. No use trying to think of one once you get caught, no matter how smart you may be, the stress of getting caught turns your mind to mush.
On the other hand, they had radios capable of transmitting hundreds of miles that could fit into something the size of a clock by the 20's, so maybe he wasn't that far off.
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There's plenty of "un-airable" land that is much, much closer than the moon!
You just have to get a bit wet. ;-)
If you make a home movie with a SONY camcorder, is SONY filming you?
The video never gets sent to SONY, but it exists and can be used against you by LEA, malicious software and thieves.
SONY should own up, right?
I wouldn't do it, because teaching my daughter right from wrong is more important than anything else.
Appropriate appellations apparently apply ap[p]ropos applications
You only need to pay for a licence if you want to display the "Made for iPod" / "Made for iPhone" logos.
I have several devices that use the dock connector that don't display the logo's, but they work just fine.
Beer cans do NOT explode on flights. In fact I've been served beer from cans on many flights, and before the current restrictions, often carried 4 or 6 beers in my carry-on luggage.
Use the eraser end of a pencil to press the keys.
Of course, the big obvious point here is in a country that can't feed itself why the fuck do they need a ebook reader/computer tablet...
Oh, I don't know. They might want to use it for educational purposes to help lift themselves out of poverty/famine
I know what goatse is, but have never seen it
If you haven't seen it, you don't know what it is.
Opera, Firefox and plenty of other Mac OS X applications already have their own "1 Click Update" systems in place.
As for LaunchPad, we'll deal with that when it gets here, if it really won't allow other software to appear in LaunchPad, which I doubt will be the case, then it shouldn't be too hard to clone it.
and people who are offended by simple shapes.
The shapes in modern games can be very complex!
Things have come along way since the days of Pong
For If all you've ever used is Windows, then using something else is uncomfortable, possibly even scary.
I've noticed that many of the individuals I see have memorised the location of the menu's, shortcut's commands etc they need, There's nothing wrong with that, (I memorise menu's etc, too), however, the key is understanding. I understand what the computer is doing when I click a menu, so I'm not too worried about the consequences. If you don't understand, then everything appears "magical" and people know that messing with magic is dangerous.
I've had people ask if they can use my computer to check their email, and when they see it's a Mac, they get nervous, um and ahh, and say they'll check it later. This happens even when I have Windows running. They've heard that Mac's work differently, and this makes them uncomfortable, and the same thing happen's when they are faced with Ubuntu.
In other areas I've met people who've been driving for years, but won't drive my car because it has Automatic Transmission.
P.S. A very long time ago, (Pre-Windows) I used to set up a Mac and a PC next to each other at IT events, and people would always flock to the Mac, this was because the desktop is much friendlier than the C:\ prompt. ;-)
It's not just the US, I learnt to drive in Southern Africa, where every Petrol Station is manned. You drive up, and the person asks how much fuel you want, you tell them, and they pour it. If the forecourt is not too busy, they'll probably offer to wash your windscreen, and they may even offer to check your oil and water levels under the bonnet. Tip them if you can afford it because they get paid fairly low wages. (But higher than minimum wage)
This does create employment because you usually have 4-6 employes present at anyone time, and busier 24-hour stations will have 2 or 3 shifts. Granted these are not great jobs, but in countries where education levels are low, it keeps people employed, which means their whole families are better off.
I've often thought that western countries could solve a large chunk of youth unemployment by banning self service. I'd expect such jobs to be popular with kids who have just left school, or on long summer holidays. It would keep them out of trouble, off the streets, and teach them the value of hard work, which seem to be forgotten in theses days of celebrity culture and bling.
think about it, you are basically saying the energy taken from a person speaking normally could be used for the same voice to be heard miles away, does not sound like it follows the laws of conservation of energy unless you think that it will be operating at 100% efficiency.
When I was about 11, a friend and I made a "phone network" between our houses. We used two earpieces taken from old rotary phones, and simply connected them to each other using common 2-core speaker wire. This was over a distance of about 300meters, and used NO external power. You simply spoke into one earpiece, and the sound was heard at the other end. so we basically had a permanent open channel between our bedrooms.
When we wanted to "call" the other person, we simply held an alarm clock next to the earpiece, which would be loud enough on the other end to be heard throughout the whole house. We found that two earpieces worked better than two mouthpieces, or a mouthpiece and an earpiece.
It took us a whole summer holiday of doing chores and odd jobs to save up enough money to "lay our cable", also as we were kids and didn't know any better, we were buying 10 to 15 meter rolls of wire whenever we could afford a new roll, and the joins were not soldered, we just twisted the ends together and used electrical insulation tape.
If it rained really heavily, we would get increased static, and I seem to remember a couple of occasions where we got breaks and had to dig up our cable to make repairs, but other than that, it lasted about 3 years until we abandoned it in favour of walkie-talkies.
Ironing: http://www.innovations-report.com/html/reports/process_engineering/report-29650.html
Folding: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gy5g33S0Gzo
I had a similar problem with my site, but found that you can mark/tag areas of the page that google should focus on.
Once I did that, I found the ads displayed became much more focused very quickly, as they were now based on what I decided was content, and not on any other information that appears alongside it.
Just out of interest, how far do you drive to work each day?
My Brother-in-Law and I, both have round-trips of over 95 miles per day.
We live in the same town, but work in different areas of Greater London.
The day there is no physical mail will be a very sad day indeed.
I don't use it often, but when I do, it has advantages that email will never match.
You can't email greetings cards (No, eCards don't cut it)
You can't email cash (Kids don't have bank accounts, and they like to actually hold their money)
Ever received a letter from a loved one? Did you notice how the handwriting, and smell of the paper (and possibly perfume) have an effect that email will never be able to reproduce?
Additionally, you can mail keys, credit cards, watches, coins, cd/dvd's and many other items
The needles are conical, about 200m diameter by 650m long, with 10m radius of curvature at the tip.
hmm, are those meters or miles?
One can be infected by multiple strains of HIV, which is why HIV positive couples are advised to use condoms if they have different strains from each other. (assuming of course that they both were infected from different sources)
erm, I'm not sure what to say to that!
What CAN we do to reduce the risk ? Only this: effective after-the-fact law enforcement with open trials and proper punishment... same thing as for any other crime. Effectively catching the perpetrators, bringing them to justice (with fair trials) and then punishing them is a very good deterrent - just as much so for terrorism, and the only one that has any chance of working.
After-the-fact law enforcement is NOT a deterrent to a suicide bomber.
Pretty simple, and only shows a connection to that one IP address.
If you do this, and you really are concerned about the Chinese Government, it might also be a good idea to set up a website at the same IP address.
Make it something innocent, like a blog, or holiday photo album, and don't post anything even vaguely subversive, just post pics of obviously touristy stuff, and comments on how friendly the chinese people are. If you want to go the extra mile, post how "surprised" you are that China is a modern well functioning society full of happy people, where nothing ever goes wrong.
That way, if you are picked up by the authorities, you now have a valid, provable and completely innocuous explanation for why you were only ever connecting to that one IP address. /removes tinfoil hat
Disclaimer: I have lived in a third world country, and been involved in activities that certain governments would consider subversive. It is ALWAYS a good idea to prepare you alibi BEFORE you start engaging in mischief. No use trying to think of one once you get caught, no matter how smart you may be, the stress of getting caught turns your mind to mush.
On the other hand, they had radios capable of transmitting hundreds of miles that could fit into something the size of a clock by the 20's, so maybe he wasn't that far off.
Travel Alarm Clock, or Grandfather Clock?
Proving how important it is to Open Source your code