And if they fail to get market share in phones and tablets then they face a longer term risk of Apple/Google/whoever managing to extend further into the desktop market off of the back of their mobile offerings.
I doubt that's likely, especially Apple. Apple only puts their OSes on their own hardware, and if Android were slated for the desktop Linux would already be there; it's better than Windows in most ways and has been so for years. Android would have the same problem as Linux (which it was derived from) -- almost every non-Apple sold has Windows preinstalled. If Win 8 is a turkey the only losers will be the PC manufacturers, who won't sell many PCs until Win 9 is out.
The holograms I worked with in college used film (late 1970s), and the holograms had a bit of grainines to them, so we're probably going to need a hell of a lot better displays before we get hologram displays.
If you're in the US, very little of your tax money is going to people who "don't want to work." The 8% who are counted as unemployed are actively looking for work and can't find it. I take it you've never been in that situation -- you're lucky.
There is no more AFDC. That was abolished in 1996. It was replaced with TANF, and its objective is to get people into the workforce and has a two year time limit.
Most of the who recieve SNAP (formerly food stamps) are employed. Your taxes aren't going to feed someone who doesn't want to work, they're feeding McDonald's and Walmart's CEO's greed.
Your ire is aimed at the wrong class. Me, I'm incensed that oil companies and rich farmers and other corporations get government subsidies. Feeding the poor? I have no problem with that, or paying taxes. You may not be, but I'm a Christian. Christians are commanded to pay their taxes and also to feed the poor. Greed and selfishness, otoh, are forbidden to us.
2) No ground wire? Seriously? I don't even know where to begin with this one!
Grounded house wiring (pos, neg, ground) is fairly recent. Until a couple of decades ago it was rare to find it in homes. Before then it was almost always "hot" and ground.
I didn't thought the headline was negative really. but that's because I didn't know what a "thud" was.
You're missing out on a great book. And I'm American but I've seen that word written in a lot of books, often by American writers. You're not a reader, I take it?
I lived in this house several years ago. Built in 1918, thoroughly modern with gas and electric... it still had a gaslight fixture at the top of the stairs. It had additional wiring installed over the years, in fact my basement was a good museum of electrical wiring with about every kind there was. The K&T wiring was solid, much better than some 30 years younger.
Now, if you have a house built in the 1970s with aluminum wiring you'd damned well better have some great insurance. Those houses were firetraps. It had been installed and removed in the pictured house; some of the 1970s wiring was still there but none of it was hot.
There is only one place on the internet with the word "stratodoober". Google finds it, Bing does not.
Bing: No results found for stratodoober. Showing results for stratos doober.
(the results weren't even relevant for that)
Google: About 36 results Did you mean: stratobomber
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Sometimes they do, sometimes they don't. I've submitted articles that were posted verbatim, typos included, and others that were completely re-written.
I submitted "Marooned on Vesta" as a nod to Asimov when we had a probe fly close to that asteroid, and Taco posted it with the headline intact but the subject somewhat edited. But I have my browsers set to show journals and firehose entries as well as stories, and quite often they'll change a submission's title, IMO usually for the better and usually with LESS spin.
What is the point of giving someone money for basically no reward?
How is society going to cope when everything, food included, is made by robots or can be printed on a 3D printer? Can't you envision a society where the only people who work are working because they want to?
Not to completely hijack the thread, but I've always wondered how that kind of clause works out with atheists or more generally speaking people of non-evangelical christian religions.
Athiest: "My house got blown away by a tornado, but I'm not collecting the insurance money because there are no gods!" Um, I doubt that will happen.
My question is, what of people who worship money? Would being swindled be an act of god?
If this is holographic (and why use lasers if it sn't?), it will certainly be awesome.
Your glasses-assisted 3D movies aren't really 3D. Your eyes' focus provides distance information to the brain, as does the stereoscopic rangefinding. When the rangefinder says the object is three feet away and the lenses are focused fifteen feet away, you're going to get muscle strain and headaches.
You don't have this with holograms. Holograms are true 3D. Shift your head a little when viewing a hologram and you can see around objects in the picture. To see something farther away in a hologram your eyes focus to that distance, and back when looking at something in the foreground.
I think it wll be a while before this tech is cheap enough to make into TVs, though.
Credit card fraud is a huge illegal industry. It finances drug gangs and cartels
Illegal drugs are an incredibly lucrative business and don't need to be financed by credit card fraud. Do the anti-drug zealots think we're all that stupid? "Credit card fraud finances the drug trade" is just an incredibly brain-dead thing to say and even more idiotic to believe.
I work in public education and on a daily basis see parents who have no interest in their children's education.
I'm sure there are, but as the father of two now-grown daughters I have to say that you people don't WANT any parental involvement besides fund raising. Every year I'd go to the parent teacher conferences, and every single year every single teacher ignored my concerns and suggestions completely.
My kids grew up loving learning, but by the time they were in high school they hated school, and I didn't blame them. School was a lesson in boring bureaucracy and authoritarianism. Bad teachers can make the most interesting subjects there are as boring as hell.
As to unions, if teachers were paid better we'd get better teachers. A recent study backed up common sense and showed that the better a teacher is paid, the better quality of teacers you attract.
Getting up with the sun and going to sleep earlier in the evening reduced the need for lamp oil. And while we use electricity instead of lamp oil, this argument is still used today.
It was still dark outside when I left for work this morning. If they're trying to save electricity, they're starting it too early in the year. There is mor darkness than daylight until the first day of Spring.
The DST time changes are so you can experience the joys of jetlag without being ogled and felt up by the TSA.
NO OTHER COMPANY would have done ANYTHING different.
What other company has knowingly and purposely installed malware on paying customers' computers? What other company has shipped a product and then removed some of its functionality after it's already been bought and paid for?
I was a victim of XCP. Don't expect ME to buy anything else from Sony, ever again. If I did to Sony's computers what Sony did to mine when my daughter innocently installed their damned trojan, I'd be in prison.
Sony doesn't deserve to live. I wish averyone who owned Sony stock would sell it, and I wish people would stop buying Sony products. Sony is evil and doesn't deserve your business.
That's not what they taught me in Spanish class, and the teacher was a native Mexican. Literally translated, Estados Unidos Mexicanos is "states united Mexican". Los Estados Unidos de Mexico" is literally "the states united of Mexico" (I think Yoda was Hispanic).
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And if they fail to get market share in phones and tablets then they face a longer term risk of Apple/Google/whoever managing to extend further into the desktop market off of the back of their mobile offerings.
I doubt that's likely, especially Apple. Apple only puts their OSes on their own hardware, and if Android were slated for the desktop Linux would already be there; it's better than Windows in most ways and has been so for years. Android would have the same problem as Linux (which it was derived from) -- almost every non-Apple sold has Windows preinstalled. If Win 8 is a turkey the only losers will be the PC manufacturers, who won't sell many PCs until Win 9 is out.
That's called tempera. You can also use milk.
The holograms I worked with in college used film (late 1970s), and the holograms had a bit of grainines to them, so we're probably going to need a hell of a lot better displays before we get hologram displays.
If you're in the US, very little of your tax money is going to people who "don't want to work." The 8% who are counted as unemployed are actively looking for work and can't find it. I take it you've never been in that situation -- you're lucky.
There is no more AFDC. That was abolished in 1996. It was replaced with TANF, and its objective is to get people into the workforce and has a two year time limit.
Most of the who recieve SNAP (formerly food stamps) are employed. Your taxes aren't going to feed someone who doesn't want to work, they're feeding McDonald's and Walmart's CEO's greed.
Your ire is aimed at the wrong class. Me, I'm incensed that oil companies and rich farmers and other corporations get government subsidies. Feeding the poor? I have no problem with that, or paying taxes. You may not be, but I'm a Christian. Christians are commanded to pay their taxes and also to feed the poor. Greed and selfishness, otoh, are forbidden to us.
2) No ground wire? Seriously? I don't even know where to begin with this one!
Grounded house wiring (pos, neg, ground) is fairly recent. Until a couple of decades ago it was rare to find it in homes. Before then it was almost always "hot" and ground.
I didn't thought the headline was negative really. but that's because I didn't know what a "thud" was.
You're missing out on a great book. And I'm American but I've seen that word written in a lot of books, often by American writers. You're not a reader, I take it?
I lived in this house several years ago. Built in 1918, thoroughly modern with gas and electric... it still had a gaslight fixture at the top of the stairs. It had additional wiring installed over the years, in fact my basement was a good museum of electrical wiring with about every kind there was. The K&T wiring was solid, much better than some 30 years younger.
Now, if you have a house built in the 1970s with aluminum wiring you'd damned well better have some great insurance. Those houses were firetraps. It had been installed and removed in the pictured house; some of the 1970s wiring was still there but none of it was hot.
I'm pretty sure he was going for "funny" and probably has enough karma to not worry about downmods or need an upmod.
You don't have to guess.
There is only one place on the internet with the word "stratodoober". Google finds it, Bing does not.
Bing: No results found for stratodoober.
Showing results for stratos doober.
(the results weren't even relevant for that)
Google: About 36 results
Did you mean: stratobomber
Search Slashdot ... Give me another hit off that stratodoober." "Hi Rula," said Rority. "What's up?... ...
Sep 10, 2011
Author: mcgrew on Saturday September 10, @07:15AM
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Rority lounged back in his recliner, sipping his gargleblaster and puffing his
stratodoober as the sun shone on his pale gray skin. Life was good. He'd...
Author:
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Sometimes they do, sometimes they don't. I've submitted articles that were posted verbatim, typos included, and others that were completely re-written.
I submitted "Marooned on Vesta" as a nod to Asimov when we had a probe fly close to that asteroid, and Taco posted it with the headline intact but the subject somewhat edited. But I have my browsers set to show journals and firehose entries as well as stories, and quite often they'll change a submission's title, IMO usually for the better and usually with LESS spin.
What is the point of giving someone money for basically no reward?
How is society going to cope when everything, food included, is made by robots or can be printed on a 3D printer? Can't you envision a society where the only people who work are working because they want to?
only do gooder types whose lives match up perfectly with the brown nose lifestyle
What kind of person bashes people who do good? Teenaged ones?
"God gave us beer because he loves us and wants us to be happy"
I think he stole that one from the Irish. "God invented Whiskey to keep the Irish from conquering the world."
Not to completely hijack the thread, but I've always wondered how that kind of clause works out with atheists or more generally speaking people of non-evangelical christian religions.
Athiest: "My house got blown away by a tornado, but I'm not collecting the insurance money because there are no gods!" Um, I doubt that will happen.
My question is, what of people who worship money? Would being swindled be an act of god?
Cheapest stratodoober only points to a few of my journals... I didn't know they had been translated to different languages!
I personally prefer the UI of Yahoo
Why?
If this is holographic (and why use lasers if it sn't?), it will certainly be awesome.
Your glasses-assisted 3D movies aren't really 3D. Your eyes' focus provides distance information to the brain, as does the stereoscopic rangefinding. When the rangefinder says the object is three feet away and the lenses are focused fifteen feet away, you're going to get muscle strain and headaches.
You don't have this with holograms. Holograms are true 3D. Shift your head a little when viewing a hologram and you can see around objects in the picture. To see something farther away in a hologram your eyes focus to that distance, and back when looking at something in the foreground.
I think it wll be a while before this tech is cheap enough to make into TVs, though.
I had submissions rejected in the past for referencing Slashdot in them.
Odd, I've never known why my rejcted submissions weren't accepted. It isn't like they mail you a rejection notice.
Credit card fraud is a huge illegal industry. It finances drug gangs and cartels
Illegal drugs are an incredibly lucrative business and don't need to be financed by credit card fraud. Do the anti-drug zealots think we're all that stupid? "Credit card fraud finances the drug trade" is just an incredibly brain-dead thing to say and even more idiotic to believe.
I work in public education and on a daily basis see parents who have no interest in their children's education.
I'm sure there are, but as the father of two now-grown daughters I have to say that you people don't WANT any parental involvement besides fund raising. Every year I'd go to the parent teacher conferences, and every single year every single teacher ignored my concerns and suggestions completely.
My kids grew up loving learning, but by the time they were in high school they hated school, and I didn't blame them. School was a lesson in boring bureaucracy and authoritarianism. Bad teachers can make the most interesting subjects there are as boring as hell.
As to unions, if teachers were paid better we'd get better teachers. A recent study backed up common sense and showed that the better a teacher is paid, the better quality of teacers you attract.
Want good teachers? Pay them what they're worth.
Getting up with the sun and going to sleep earlier in the evening reduced the need for lamp oil. And while we use electricity instead of lamp oil, this argument is still used today.
It was still dark outside when I left for work this morning. If they're trying to save electricity, they're starting it too early in the year. There is mor darkness than daylight until the first day of Spring.
The DST time changes are so you can experience the joys of jetlag without being ogled and felt up by the TSA.
NO OTHER COMPANY would have done ANYTHING different.
What other company has knowingly and purposely installed malware on paying customers' computers? What other company has shipped a product and then removed some of its functionality after it's already been bought and paid for?
I was a victim of XCP. Don't expect ME to buy anything else from Sony, ever again. If I did to Sony's computers what Sony did to mine when my daughter innocently installed their damned trojan, I'd be in prison.
Sony doesn't deserve to live. I wish averyone who owned Sony stock would sell it, and I wish people would stop buying Sony products. Sony is evil and doesn't deserve your business.
Everybody makes typos, but "copy write" is just ignorance, not a typo.
That's not what they taught me in Spanish class, and the teacher was a native Mexican. Literally translated, Estados Unidos Mexicanos is "states united Mexican". Los Estados Unidos de Mexico" is literally "the states united of Mexico" (I think Yoda was Hispanic).