I admit the demo is neat and all, but they are not really zooming into the same image. They have just developed a way to quickly load the high resolution image on the fly. Kind of like how Google Maps will deliver a higher res map when you zoom in; but this is happening much faster.
Well, public educators get what? 60-90 days off every year? I know a couple that teacher that elect to teach summer school, but most just take the summers off. If there's a private sector job that offers 'four times as much vacation' (i.e. 240-360 days) I'd like to know.
That list only count vacation days. I was including holidays and sick time too. If I only counted vacation days the number for me would be 14.5 hours a month, or about 21 days.
A perfect counter? That statement is so loaded, if you drop it someone could get hurt. How about something like: 'You have nothing to hide, eh? Great. Let me look through your purse/wallet right now.' Of course, they refuse. 'Why not? Do you have something to hide?'
Teaching the masses in free public schools has never historically been a profession ones chooses if they want to do well financially. And it's not just teachers either. I work in the education sector as a IT engineer and get paid significantly less than I could get in the private sector doing the same job. I took this job, not for the money, but because I wanted to contribute something to the community and still be able to make a modest living. Also (just like teachers) I get PTO on par with Europe (about 45 days off per year).
That sounds like an adult version of my 8-year-old saying "I wuz gonna say that" when we watch Jeopardy as a family. It's real easy to come in after the fact and impress someone with results that are already determined.
Well, let's see. Clearwire offers it in most of Western Washington state. How's thats? And for the record, the parent never said anything about broadband, just that Comcast had a monopoly on 'Internet access'.
Isn't this like telling an unpaid intern they are getting a 10000000% raise? I mean, Comcast can advertise whatever bandwidth they want, but if they have a de facto packet shaper on any traffic that would actually use this bandwidth (i.e. torrents, streaming video), then it's all moot.
where they are the sole cable provider, and DSL is not offered
AND WiMax is not available, AND satellite isn't possible, AND dial-up isn't available. I think if you lived in an area that remote, Comcast cable being in the ground is kind of a laughable impossibility.
Yeah, except that blinking is autonomic. You would have to conscientiously refrain from blinking to avoid clicking.
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This whole review reminded of Miss Blair's 5th grade class. The "Choose Your Own Adventure" books were all the rage among the boys, and I figured I would write a book report based on The Cave of Time. I mean it was a book right? So I report went something like 'I woke up in a cave and went back to the age of the dinosaurs. I investigated a t-Rex nest when the Mother t-rex came back and ate me. I died. The End.'
plans to make a luxury sedan next year called the Whitestar
I seem to remember another European company called White Star. I think they were in the news a few years back about some unpleasantness surrounding a shipwreck or some such. Said the Tesla CEO, "Even God himself couldn't wreck this car!".
I installed Ubuntu on my Dell 1505 laptop thinking it would be a cakewalk. I mean, Dell sells these laptop with Ubuntu installed as an option. I had previously tried Fedora 8 (no sound) and SuSE (didn't recognize my video card). So when I installed Feisty Fawn, I was hoping for the best. All went well, except it didn't find my integrated 802.11 card. I had to go through an elaborate series of steps to get it working. Not exactly 'out of the box' functionality - especially considering this was OEM hardware.
Hmmm, I could see that being problematic. So a marginally informed Cessna owner wants to give his new plane a paint job. Then it's "Cessa to tower. Requesting clearance to land" - "Tower to Cessna, you are not showing up on radar and do not exist."
I can't speak for all municipalities, but in my county the search & rescue team is an all volunteer operation. Their funding comes from copious fund-raisers throughout the year. All the their equipment is donated and nobody gets a salary. It's mostly young people in college working for college credit.
I think that same bill would have gone to any other family too. But most municipalities have a hardship clause on such things. If they have to rescue from a raging river during a flash flood, you will probably get a bill for several thousands bucks, but won't have to pay it if you can sign an affidavit saying it would be an extreme hardship on your family. In this case, accepting that affidavit would constitute special treatment since there is no reasonable way to contend that this amount is much of a hardship on such a wealthy family.
"The Bureaucracy must expand to meet the needs of the expanding bureaucracy." I wonder how much those human email sorters get paid? I bet one of them sabotaged the Exchange server
I have had a Blogger page for some time and always found it odd how poorly the integration was between blogger and other Google services was. For example, I wanted to add Adsense ads to my blog. I found there was a handy 'adsense' element that I could add so I gave it a try. But it was so limited (minimal formatting available, inability to center the ads) I just ended up using the generic 'javascript' element and pasting my own code.
Sure, my Vista boots fast enough. But it can take well over three minutes to get a usable desktop. Try anything before that, and you just get the eternal hourglass. If you strip the Vista UI down to XP levels (i.e. no sidebar, no Aero, no Windows Defender, no Bitlocker, etc), then the load times would be better. But then you're not really using Vista per se - just Windows XP with an updated kernel. I think people get their agitation from the fact that Vista never indicated the latest OS required triple the resources to perform at the same speed of XP.
One can be an open-source advocate without being an open-source fundamentalist.
Did he maybe mean 'open-source purist'? Because I don't see how the fundamentals (as in basic elements) of open-source software relate to open-source advocacy. I think he is taking 'fundamentalist' as it is used by the religious right, and applying it to certain parts of the open-source community. If that's the case he managed to combine religious bigotry and two instances of the same tech buzzword in a single mass generalization. Kudos!
Just keep you laptop loaded with a bloated Vista install. The 5 minutes login time should discourage the snoopy. Then keep your real Linux workspace on a bootable 8GB flashdrive.
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I admit the demo is neat and all, but they are not really zooming into the same image. They have just developed a way to quickly load the high resolution image on the fly. Kind of like how Google Maps will deliver a higher res map when you zoom in; but this is happening much faster.
Well, public educators get what? 60-90 days off every year? I know a couple that teacher that elect to teach summer school, but most just take the summers off. If there's a private sector job that offers 'four times as much vacation' (i.e. 240-360 days) I'd like to know.
That list only count vacation days. I was including holidays and sick time too. If I only counted vacation days the number for me would be 14.5 hours a month, or about 21 days.
A perfect counter? That statement is so loaded, if you drop it someone could get hurt. How about something like: 'You have nothing to hide, eh? Great. Let me look through your purse/wallet right now.' Of course, they refuse. 'Why not? Do you have something to hide?'
Teaching the masses in free public schools has never historically been a profession ones chooses if they want to do well financially. And it's not just teachers either. I work in the education sector as a IT engineer and get paid significantly less than I could get in the private sector doing the same job. I took this job, not for the money, but because I wanted to contribute something to the community and still be able to make a modest living. Also (just like teachers) I get PTO on par with Europe (about 45 days off per year).
One time I suffered from loose spore. There was a mass effect then too. Not a pretty sight.
That sounds like an adult version of my 8-year-old saying "I wuz gonna say that" when we watch Jeopardy as a family. It's real easy to come in after the fact and impress someone with results that are already determined.
Well, let's see. Clearwire offers it in most of Western Washington state. How's thats? And for the record, the parent never said anything about broadband, just that Comcast had a monopoly on 'Internet access'.
Isn't this like telling an unpaid intern they are getting a 10000000% raise? I mean, Comcast can advertise whatever bandwidth they want, but if they have a de facto packet shaper on any traffic that would actually use this bandwidth (i.e. torrents, streaming video), then it's all moot.
Jokes on you! I changed my sig! har
Yeah, except that blinking is autonomic. You would have to conscientiously refrain from blinking to avoid clicking.
This whole review reminded of Miss Blair's 5th grade class. The "Choose Your Own Adventure" books were all the rage among the boys, and I figured I would write a book report based on The Cave of Time. I mean it was a book right? So I report went something like 'I woke up in a cave and went back to the age of the dinosaurs. I investigated a t-Rex nest when the Mother t-rex came back and ate me. I died. The End.'
Miss Blair was not amused.
I installed Ubuntu on my Dell 1505 laptop thinking it would be a cakewalk. I mean, Dell sells these laptop with Ubuntu installed as an option. I had previously tried Fedora 8 (no sound) and SuSE (didn't recognize my video card). So when I installed Feisty Fawn, I was hoping for the best. All went well, except it didn't find my integrated 802.11 card. I had to go through an elaborate series of steps to get it working. Not exactly 'out of the box' functionality - especially considering this was OEM hardware.
And only after 25 comments. :O(
Hmmm, I could see that being problematic. So a marginally informed Cessna owner wants to give his new plane a paint job. Then it's "Cessa to tower. Requesting clearance to land" - "Tower to Cessna, you are not showing up on radar and do not exist."
I can't speak for all municipalities, but in my county the search & rescue team is an all volunteer operation. Their funding comes from copious fund-raisers throughout the year. All the their equipment is donated and nobody gets a salary. It's mostly young people in college working for college credit.
They should apply that principle to DB Cooper. If I found a finger bone, I could turn it in for $100!
I think that same bill would have gone to any other family too. But most municipalities have a hardship clause on such things. If they have to rescue from a raging river during a flash flood, you will probably get a bill for several thousands bucks, but won't have to pay it if you can sign an affidavit saying it would be an extreme hardship on your family. In this case, accepting that affidavit would constitute special treatment since there is no reasonable way to contend that this amount is much of a hardship on such a wealthy family.
"The Bureaucracy must expand to meet the needs of the expanding bureaucracy." I wonder how much those human email sorters get paid? I bet one of them sabotaged the Exchange server
I have had a Blogger page for some time and always found it odd how poorly the integration was between blogger and other Google services was. For example, I wanted to add Adsense ads to my blog. I found there was a handy 'adsense' element that I could add so I gave it a try. But it was so limited (minimal formatting available, inability to center the ads) I just ended up using the generic 'javascript' element and pasting my own code.
Sure, my Vista boots fast enough. But it can take well over three minutes to get a usable desktop. Try anything before that, and you just get the eternal hourglass. If you strip the Vista UI down to XP levels (i.e. no sidebar, no Aero, no Windows Defender, no Bitlocker, etc), then the load times would be better. But then you're not really using Vista per se - just Windows XP with an updated kernel. I think people get their agitation from the fact that Vista never indicated the latest OS required triple the resources to perform at the same speed of XP.
Just keep you laptop loaded with a bloated Vista install. The 5 minutes login time should discourage the snoopy. Then keep your real Linux workspace on a bootable 8GB flashdrive.