After years of married life and kids I'm miserable, while the friend of mine who remained single and mostly dateless is now the happiest guy I know.
Raising kids was the most fun I ever had. The ex-wife, otoh... except for raising the kids, having been divorced for ten years I'm happier than any time in my life (my youngest is in college, made straight As last semester).
Gee, I remember the good old days where there was at most one computer in a house; if someone -- such as a younger sibling -- was using it to play a game, you had to kick them off to play a different game. If you were kind, you gave them a few minutes to wrap up and save.
And you call yourself a nerd! I've had more than one computer in the house since 1984. Had them networked by 1990 (using a serial cable). Get off YOUR lawn, kid??
I remember growing up how asteroids, overpopulation, diseases, and shit like that once killed every species that ever went extinct. Now climate change did it all.
Incorrect. SOME mass extinctions were the result of climate change (like when the early anaerobic life produced too much of that poisonous oxygen). Some were caused by gamma ray bursts (which affected the climate by destroying the ozone layer and polluting the atmosphere with oxides of nitrogen), some by asteroids (this particular one was supposedly caused by a n object colliding with Canada, sending fresh water into the Atlantic and causing the retreating ice to grow again). It was once thought that disease killed the dinosaurs but they're pretty sure it was an asteroid hitting off the coast of Mexico.
Hey, whatever happened to nuclear apocalypse--radiation/nuclear winter/etc.?
God, I look forward to the day when the Baby Boomer dinosaurs retard no more social progress for the entire world with their ineptitude and irrelevancy
Nice flamebait, asshole. I'm 61 and you have a hell of a lot to learn, kid. I see there are a lot of snot-nosed kids with mod points today; "insightful" my ass. More like clueless. TVs aren't going away any time soon, and you'll always need a display device, which is what a TV is, a display device with a radio receiver. I use my TV as a forty inch monitor for my kubuntu computer, you dumb kid. Oh, and I can watch TV on it, too.
PCs aren't going away any time soon, either. They won't be in many homes for long as tablets suffice for most, but you're going to need them in offices for the foreseeable future unless you want to go back to the dinosaur days of mainframes and dumb terminals.
You do realize there's a new-fangled thing called an "HDMI port" on your TV, don't you?
What I want to know is why I can't pick up over the air TV on my Android phone? It has radios, a 720p display, and sound circuitry. For it to double as a TV receiver all it would take would be a capacitor or two to tune to OTA signals and a little programming.
Wait -- you're that kid the Onion covered!! Guess what, kid, my 26 year old daughter watches TV when she's not working or at school or studying (which, granted, isn't often).
why would I throw hundreds of dollars into a purchase which can only do one thing (READ: HDTVs), and that only after I have thrown away hundreds of dollars more on a service (READ: cable TV), that I don't need or want?
I have no idea why people pay for cable. Yeah, back in the early '80s it was a good deal, lots of extra ad-free channels and HBO for ten bucks. But the price has skyrocketed and they show ads while the show is on, IMO spending money on cable is stupid, especially since the switch to digital we have twice as many OTA channels than we did with analog and the picture's as sharp as cable. So what you get 200+ channels when there are maybe a dozen (no more than OTA) that don't suck? I mean, why in the hell should I have to pay for the Golf Channel, BET, cooking channels, women's programming and two hundred more channels I have no intention of ever watching?
Cable used to be good. Discovery channel had science, History channel had history, empty-v had music videos. No commercials on the cable channels and no snow or other analog distortions (few, anyway). Now Discovery has Trick My Truck, History Channel has ghosts and the occult, and empty-V has the same stupid reality shows you get OTA and no videos, which you no longer need because I can watch any video I want on YouTube (on the TV, of course; I'm a nerd. I can actually use things for stuff they weren't designed for).
Congratulations on the +5 for a really stupid comment (although it's been modded back down by less juvenile, more intelligent moderators). And yes, I'll have fries with that, kid. Now get off my slashdot.
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haswell makes full windows with 100% backwards compatibility in a tablet device a desirable thing. Everything from photoshop to your VB app written a decade ago that you no longer have the developers or source code or funding to rewrite is now viable on a windows tablet device.
I don't think anyone is going to use a tablet for Microsoft Office. A tablet screen is way too small for Photoshop or a CAD program, and nobody's going to waste a $1000 license (Photoshop) on a tablet. The only thing a tablet is good for is media consumption, and what programs does Microsoft have for that that isn't already out there, usually for free and superior to Microsoft's?
No different than Illinois politics. Except, of course, that both of our previous Governors, one Democrat and one Republican, went to prison after office. The last Governor is still incarcerated.
But I know bar owners here in the capital city, you think selling cars is politically rough and dirty...
"Now, with almost 50% better battery life as promised by Intel for Windows tablets, the OEMs have no real need to come out with Windows RT based tablets and hybrids anymore."
Why would a manufacturer buy an OS nobody seems to want instead of using Android? What's MS's advantage here?
Never use 'whom'. Simple rule that guarantees correct American English.
You and the guy who modded your offtopic, incorrect comment "insightful" should sue your educators for malpractice. "Who" vs "Whom" is simple: he who, him whom.
"Who did you get that from?" "From whom did you get that?"
"From who did you get that" is NOT correct English in any English speaking country. Note that written English "ain't nothin' like talkin'".
We tinkered around with our food system and 2/3 of the population is over-weight and 1/3 is obese. We suffer from heart disease, diabetes and related problems in epidemic proportions.
You think it's GM food that's making everyone fat?? What's making everyone fat is part chemistry (plastics) and other environmental changes (I'm 61, I never saw a single man with moobs when I was a kid no matter how fat he was) but mostly increased caloric intake. When I was a kid a small soda was 8 oz, medium 12, and large 16. Now a small is 20 oz. There were no half pound hamburgers. Restaurants didn't give you double portions of everything like they do now.
Maybe the solution isn't genetically modifying rice but something simpler as finding the right vegetables to grow alongside the rice that supplies the missing vitamin.
You might want to read some earlier comments; it isn't feasible.
Plus, vitamin A in excess is toxic and causes liver damage. Maybe we fix childhood blindness but instead give teenage cirrhosis.
You don't get vitamin A from food, you get beta carotine which the body converts to vitamin A, and your body will only produce as much as needed. You can only get too much vitamin A by taking artificial supplements or eating food that has vitamin A artificially introduced (breakfast cereal, drinks, etc).
Just because we can genetically modify plants doesn't mean we should go around looking for problems to solve with it
You don't have to look hard to see what vitamin A deficiency is doing to people in the third world.
If this is true, what is your conclusion as to why the RI/MPAA don't court the pirates? Free advertising is free advertising after all.
Because their competition, the independent artists and labels, rely on P2P and sharing. The RIAA labels have Clear Channel and the TV networks; they don't need file sharing. The indies do. The fight against "piracy" is actually an anticompetitive move against the independents.
The thing that really scares the hell out of them (or should) is that with the internet, publishers are no longer needed. Hell, there are several professional recording studios here in a town of only 110,000 and you can have a CD produced, mastered, and factory stamped in lots of 1000 for $1 per copy; I've had friends produce CDs this way. When Patty was a teenager she had a CD by some punk band that said "be kind, burn a copy for a friend."
As Doctorow says, nobody ever lost a dime from piracy but many have starved from obscurity.
Draco is the Latin word for dragon. Draco may also refer to:
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Well, that was helpful... not.
You could, you know, stop stealing after you get caught twice.
Copyright infringement is not theft, and I say that as a copyright holder who has issued DMCA takedowns. Your MAFIAA language makes you look like a MAFIAA shill, or someone they've brainwashed. If you download my book you have stolen nothing from me, any more than if you've stolen Asimov's books by checking them out at the public library and reading them for free.
Selling that book you download is theft, because the money you received should have gone to the copyright holder.
Your misuse of language completely negates any possible communication.
Sounds nice in paper, and yet millions of people are expected to end their lives early at considerable taxpayer expense "simply" because they don't "want" to eat less.
Early death doesn't cost the government, it saves the government money. Everyone dies, it's just a matter of when. Let me use a real-life example -- my uncle and his mother.
Uncle Bill caught TB in his thirties and lost a lung because of it. Plus he used his remaining lung to smoke four packs of Kools a day while working in the city's garbage incinerator. He died at age 60 from COPD. He never collected a dime of his city pension or Sociual Security or Medicare.
My Grandma, OTOH, lived a hundred years. She collected Social Security for forty years, all the while seeing a doctor every two weeks on the Government's dime using medicare.
Early death saves the government money, living a long time costs the government.
I don't know a lot about sweet potatoes (can't stand them myself) but I doubt you could grow them in places like where they grow rice -- parts of the world where there are two seasons, dry and rainy. Your choice of crops is limited in those places, which is why so much of the Asia eats so much rice. It's easy to grow rice in a rainy climate. When I was in Thailand in the USAF, they grew rice in the rainy season and something else (can't remember what) in the dry season.
It's not the phone, it's the carrier. At $40 per month for unlimited everything, changing carriers is kind of out of the question. My daughter's on AT&T with an iPhone and her bill is always over $100.
Not all phones have GPS so I don't see how it could be mandatory by law, but yes, they can triangulate your position from cell towers, albeit with lower precision.
Yes, everything you say is so. If your grandparents all died of heart disease, we now have stents, transplants, etc.
I had a great uncle like your relative. Started smoking at age 12, quit at 82 and died at 92. Might have lived to well over a hundred without the tobacco.
While what they're doing is laudable it isn't a fight for our freedom, it's a fight for their bottom line. How many are now shutting GPS off on their phones when they're not using it? How many are avoiding these services as much as possible?
And Google is surely losing cloud customers. It seems to me that this has Google scared shitless.
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After years of married life and kids I'm miserable, while the friend of mine who remained single and mostly dateless is now the happiest guy I know.
Raising kids was the most fun I ever had. The ex-wife, otoh... except for raising the kids, having been divorced for ten years I'm happier than any time in my life (my youngest is in college, made straight As last semester).
Gee, I remember the good old days where there was at most one computer in a house; if someone -- such as a younger sibling -- was using it to play a game, you had to kick them off to play a different game. If you were kind, you gave them a few minutes to wrap up and save.
And you call yourself a nerd! I've had more than one computer in the house since 1984. Had them networked by 1990 (using a serial cable). Get off YOUR lawn, kid??
I remember growing up how asteroids, overpopulation, diseases, and shit like that once killed every species that ever went extinct. Now climate change did it all.
Incorrect. SOME mass extinctions were the result of climate change (like when the early anaerobic life produced too much of that poisonous oxygen). Some were caused by gamma ray bursts (which affected the climate by destroying the ozone layer and polluting the atmosphere with oxides of nitrogen), some by asteroids (this particular one was supposedly caused by a n object colliding with Canada, sending fresh water into the Atlantic and causing the retreating ice to grow again). It was once thought that disease killed the dinosaurs but they're pretty sure it was an asteroid hitting off the coast of Mexico.
Hey, whatever happened to nuclear apocalypse--radiation/nuclear winter/etc.?
The cold war ended.
On the other hand zebra's which are virtually undomesticatable not so much.
So are grocer's.
God, I look forward to the day when the Baby Boomer dinosaurs retard no more social progress for the entire world with their ineptitude and irrelevancy
Nice flamebait, asshole. I'm 61 and you have a hell of a lot to learn, kid. I see there are a lot of snot-nosed kids with mod points today; "insightful" my ass. More like clueless. TVs aren't going away any time soon, and you'll always need a display device, which is what a TV is, a display device with a radio receiver. I use my TV as a forty inch monitor for my kubuntu computer, you dumb kid. Oh, and I can watch TV on it, too.
PCs aren't going away any time soon, either. They won't be in many homes for long as tablets suffice for most, but you're going to need them in offices for the foreseeable future unless you want to go back to the dinosaur days of mainframes and dumb terminals.
You do realize there's a new-fangled thing called an "HDMI port" on your TV, don't you?
What I want to know is why I can't pick up over the air TV on my Android phone? It has radios, a 720p display, and sound circuitry. For it to double as a TV receiver all it would take would be a capacitor or two to tune to OTA signals and a little programming.
Wait -- you're that kid the Onion covered!! Guess what, kid, my 26 year old daughter watches TV when she's not working or at school or studying (which, granted, isn't often).
why would I throw hundreds of dollars into a purchase which can only do one thing (READ: HDTVs), and that only after I have thrown away hundreds of dollars more on a service (READ: cable TV), that I don't need or want?
I have no idea why people pay for cable. Yeah, back in the early '80s it was a good deal, lots of extra ad-free channels and HBO for ten bucks. But the price has skyrocketed and they show ads while the show is on, IMO spending money on cable is stupid, especially since the switch to digital we have twice as many OTA channels than we did with analog and the picture's as sharp as cable. So what you get 200+ channels when there are maybe a dozen (no more than OTA) that don't suck? I mean, why in the hell should I have to pay for the Golf Channel, BET, cooking channels, women's programming and two hundred more channels I have no intention of ever watching?
Cable used to be good. Discovery channel had science, History channel had history, empty-v had music videos. No commercials on the cable channels and no snow or other analog distortions (few, anyway). Now Discovery has Trick My Truck, History Channel has ghosts and the occult, and empty-V has the same stupid reality shows you get OTA and no videos, which you no longer need because I can watch any video I want on YouTube (on the TV, of course; I'm a nerd. I can actually use things for stuff they weren't designed for).
Congratulations on the +5 for a really stupid comment (although it's been modded back down by less juvenile, more intelligent moderators). And yes, I'll have fries with that, kid. Now get off my slashdot.
Full text of the story, thank you, that was one I hadn't seen.
Mirroring a general purpose computing environment
Until they remove the functionality.
I can't understand why anyone would give their hard-earned money to Sony. They're not the least bit trustworthy.
From your link:
And Windows isn't?
I wouldn't want to use a word processor or spreadsheet on a tablet. Tablets would have very limited uses in an office; you need a PC for office work.
haswell makes full windows with 100% backwards compatibility in a tablet device a desirable thing. Everything from photoshop to your VB app written a decade ago that you no longer have the developers or source code or funding to rewrite is now viable on a windows tablet device.
I don't think anyone is going to use a tablet for Microsoft Office. A tablet screen is way too small for Photoshop or a CAD program, and nobody's going to waste a $1000 license (Photoshop) on a tablet. The only thing a tablet is good for is media consumption, and what programs does Microsoft have for that that isn't already out there, usually for free and superior to Microsoft's?
The problem here is Texas politics
No different than Illinois politics. Except, of course, that both of our previous Governors, one Democrat and one Republican, went to prison after office. The last Governor is still incarcerated.
But I know bar owners here in the capital city, you think selling cars is politically rough and dirty...
"Now, with almost 50% better battery life as promised by Intel for Windows tablets, the OEMs have no real need to come out with Windows RT based tablets and hybrids anymore."
Why would a manufacturer buy an OS nobody seems to want instead of using Android? What's MS's advantage here?
You should be able to maintain that plan and purchase your own phone to use on their network.
Yes, you should, and in most places you can, but it's different in the US.
Never use 'whom'. Simple rule that guarantees correct American English.
You and the guy who modded your offtopic, incorrect comment "insightful" should sue your educators for malpractice. "Who" vs "Whom" is simple: he who, him whom.
"Who did you get that from?"
"From whom did you get that?"
"From who did you get that" is NOT correct English in any English speaking country. Note that written English "ain't nothin' like talkin'".
Wow, where to begin...
We tinkered around with our food system and 2/3 of the population is over-weight and 1/3 is obese. We suffer from heart disease, diabetes and related problems in epidemic proportions.
You think it's GM food that's making everyone fat?? What's making everyone fat is part chemistry (plastics) and other environmental changes (I'm 61, I never saw a single man with moobs when I was a kid no matter how fat he was) but mostly increased caloric intake. When I was a kid a small soda was 8 oz, medium 12, and large 16. Now a small is 20 oz. There were no half pound hamburgers. Restaurants didn't give you double portions of everything like they do now.
Maybe the solution isn't genetically modifying rice but something simpler as finding the right vegetables to grow alongside the rice that supplies the missing vitamin.
You might want to read some earlier comments; it isn't feasible.
Plus, vitamin A in excess is toxic and causes liver damage. Maybe we fix childhood blindness but instead give teenage cirrhosis.
You don't get vitamin A from food, you get beta carotine which the body converts to vitamin A, and your body will only produce as much as needed. You can only get too much vitamin A by taking artificial supplements or eating food that has vitamin A artificially introduced (breakfast cereal, drinks, etc).
Just because we can genetically modify plants doesn't mean we should go around looking for problems to solve with it
You don't have to look hard to see what vitamin A deficiency is doing to people in the third world.
If this is true, what is your conclusion as to why the RI/MPAA don't court the pirates? Free advertising is free advertising after all.
Because their competition, the independent artists and labels, rely on P2P and sharing. The RIAA labels have Clear Channel and the TV networks; they don't need file sharing. The indies do. The fight against "piracy" is actually an anticompetitive move against the independents.
The thing that really scares the hell out of them (or should) is that with the internet, publishers are no longer needed. Hell, there are several professional recording studios here in a town of only 110,000 and you can have a CD produced, mastered, and factory stamped in lots of 1000 for $1 per copy; I've had friends produce CDs this way. When Patty was a teenager she had a CD by some punk band that said "be kind, burn a copy for a friend."
As Doctorow says, nobody ever lost a dime from piracy but many have starved from obscurity.
Look up Draco sometime.
Hmmm...
Well, that was helpful... not.
You could, you know, stop stealing after you get caught twice.
Copyright infringement is not theft, and I say that as a copyright holder who has issued DMCA takedowns. Your MAFIAA language makes you look like a MAFIAA shill, or someone they've brainwashed. If you download my book you have stolen nothing from me, any more than if you've stolen Asimov's books by checking them out at the public library and reading them for free.
Selling that book you download is theft, because the money you received should have gone to the copyright holder.
Your misuse of language completely negates any possible communication.
Sounds nice in paper, and yet millions of people are expected to end their lives early at considerable taxpayer expense "simply" because they don't "want" to eat less.
Early death doesn't cost the government, it saves the government money. Everyone dies, it's just a matter of when. Let me use a real-life example -- my uncle and his mother.
Uncle Bill caught TB in his thirties and lost a lung because of it. Plus he used his remaining lung to smoke four packs of Kools a day while working in the city's garbage incinerator. He died at age 60 from COPD. He never collected a dime of his city pension or Sociual Security or Medicare.
My Grandma, OTOH, lived a hundred years. She collected Social Security for forty years, all the while seeing a doctor every two weeks on the Government's dime using medicare.
Early death saves the government money, living a long time costs the government.
I don't know a lot about sweet potatoes (can't stand them myself) but I doubt you could grow them in places like where they grow rice -- parts of the world where there are two seasons, dry and rainy. Your choice of crops is limited in those places, which is why so much of the Asia eats so much rice. It's easy to grow rice in a rainy climate. When I was in Thailand in the USAF, they grew rice in the rainy season and something else (can't remember what) in the dry season.
It's not the phone, it's the carrier. At $40 per month for unlimited everything, changing carriers is kind of out of the question. My daughter's on AT&T with an iPhone and her bill is always over $100.
Not all phones have GPS so I don't see how it could be mandatory by law, but yes, they can triangulate your position from cell towers, albeit with lower precision.
Yes, everything you say is so. If your grandparents all died of heart disease, we now have stents, transplants, etc.
I had a great uncle like your relative. Started smoking at age 12, quit at 82 and died at 92. Might have lived to well over a hundred without the tobacco.
While what they're doing is laudable it isn't a fight for our freedom, it's a fight for their bottom line. How many are now shutting GPS off on their phones when they're not using it? How many are avoiding these services as much as possible?
And Google is surely losing cloud customers. It seems to me that this has Google scared shitless.
I'm offtopic here, just wanted to say I agree with your sig.