That's not true. The first times I went to a search engine they were pretty clear of crap on the first page too. The first one I remember being full of crap on that home page was Yahoo.
It isn't licensed nor is it likely to be licensed and that's ultimately a good thing. If you think that AT&T reception sucks now, just imagine how crappy it's going to be when it's competing with multiple other carriers on the same spectrum completely unlicensed.
In terms of a disaster area, this would likely help in the short term, but really you're better of using CB or HAM radios for that. Having unlicensed transmitters would hamper efforts to get the proper networks back on line.
AM & PM aren't typically that big of a deal in most cases. Just use a bit of common sense and if you really need to make sure that somebody shows up at 3:00 AM, then specify. Normally there's really only a 12 hour or so period of time where people are scheduling for, in cases where you're needing more than that, chances are you're using UTC or GMT
I've considered that in the past. The main issue with changing minutes to be 100 seconds and hours to be 100 minutes and days to be 10 hours, which we definitely could do, we'd have to adjust the length of a second again so that it would match up with the actual length of the day.
We could also adjust the months so that even months always have 30 days and odd months except November have 31 with November getting leap year day.
The problem with those ideas is that while they work well on paper, you'd have to get people to adopt them, and quite frankly the advantages of them is not sufficient to justify getting 7bn people to accept and adopt them.
Because this works more efficiently than any of the alternatives that people have suggested. A system that abolished timezones would reek havoc on international business as you'd have to constantly be doing conversions of time when you're over there rather than just the few times when you need to call somebody. And for those that are constantly making those calls, then you already know how to handle it under the current system.
Ultimately, unless the circadian rhythm gets cured we're all going to be going to work based upon the particular location of the sun in our region of the. world
In general yes, however the Bureau of Weights and Measures will come down on you hard if you try to use any of those invented measures in commerce. I saw a picture in the paper a few months back for 80 or so years ago where the agents had piled all the scales they had confiscated for failing to meet the accepted definition of weight in use in the US at the time.
But, in general you're correct about that, they're not going to arrest you for using GMT or refusing to acknowledge DST if you don't want to.
What I'm curious about is how precisely this is any simpler than our current system. You do get the advantage of specifying a time that's globally valid, but for things that matter you still have to worry about what times are appropriate to expect a response from somebody in Georgia and depending upon which one the answer is likely to be different.
The real problem is that when you're traveling you'd then have to learn what times everything is done or convert those times to ones your familiar with, rather than the current system where most of those times are the same, just happen earlier or later with respect to your home.
The current system we have works in the instances where one needs that sort of coordination we've got GMT and UTC available.
Technically speaking you don't. But if you don't use a proprietary port then you're stuck being limited to just charging and connecting to the computer. If you want more than that, then you're faced with the choice of implementing a USB host port or going proprietary. Proprietary is a lot easier to do because you can decide what you want to do and just design it for that without having to worry about capabilities that other hardware devices have.
In practice, it's not something I see very often because you so often end up with a doc that can connect to multiple device provided you operate on it. Which is generally not particularly desirable to anybody but the consumer.
It seems that way, but that is an excellent way of killing off a product. There may be a few dozen folks still using those old cards, but you can get a much newer card with a bunch off new features that will be supported for years to come for less than $10, probably including shipping.
Supporting a bunch of products which were obsolete years ago without adequate user base to ensure that the developers can properly support it can damage projects a lot more quickly than dropping support for long obsolete hardware. More than that, it's that much more code that has to be maintained and it's that much harder to implement fixes or add new features and ultimately it distracts from the hardware that people are still using.
Because if it hasn't been changed in 7 years, then chances are that nobody really knows the code. Consequently nobody is checking it nor is anybody likely to be paying attention to any breakage which might occur if they change the infrastructure and ultimately it's one more area in which a security vulnerability could pop into existence when somebody changes some other code.
Having essentially dead code in a project isn't a wise idea in most cases. But beyond that it's extra bandwidth that's not necessary for nearly everybody.
Docking stations suck. iPads, iPhones and iPods have to use a proprietary port to do it and I'd personally rather know that I can plug the thing into most computers using a standard cable and have it work. My Nook can be plugged into either my Windows laptop or my Linux desktop and it just works and I can do it with a standard microUSB cable.
I'm guessing that Kindle Color will be like Nook color in that it will be sporting a color LCD rather than e-Ink. Making it a step closer to an iPad than a real ereader.
I'm not really sure why folks are waiting for this when B&N already has a color reader that can readily be loaded up with custom firmware.
Or you can just get a nook color and jail break it. B&N has shown no interest in prventing folks from doing so, and there's already firmware available for it. . For instance Cyanogenmod.
It doesn't clearly violate the constitution. People choose to teach and when they do, they have to follow the resulting requirements. In some cases that means being subjected to prosecution for what would otherwise be legal behavior. One example is that in some states the statute of limitations is higher for teacher student relationships than it would otherwise be.
Personally, I think it's somewhat silly as FB interactions at least are subject to subpoena a better law would be to mandate data retention on those communiques.
Which works as long as you can convince enough people to overpay for what they're getting. Apple has had it's own history of failures from that iPhone antenna debacle to the terrible battery life and soldered in battery that iPods used to sport. Not to mention the complete refusal to allow devices other than the iPhone to use music direct from the ITMS.
Let's not make Steve out to be something he's not. All of that should have been avoidable.
Apple got sued for ripping of the UI from Creative and ultimately lost the case. I don't personally think that it's accurate to claim innovation when a competitor not only invents something before you, but also gets it to market.
As for smaller, that's hardly innovative in fact, I'd go so far as to say that the iPods would have been a lot better had they focused more on sound quality and battery life than on making them tiny.. I still get a chuckle out of all those knuckle heads that ended up having to pay not just for a new battery, but for Apple to install it for them because it was soldered into the unit.
I disagree, Apple's share price has been vastly over inflated for years now and at some point reality has to set in that people are overpaying for it. I'm not sure what better stimulus for that than Steve's retirement.
Because laptops are notoriously susceptible to damage either from accidents or from just death related to heat, on top of that an extended warranty will cover things that the manufacturers warranty typically won't, like dead pixels.
It's interesting to me to see all the ignorance about extended warranties being expressed here. Laptops are one of the few items for which an extended warranty is a good idea. I know I've personally gotten quite a bit more money out of mine than I've ever put into it.
Actually, extended warranties are a good deal. Back before they were so evil I did buy a laptop from them and got every cent's worth out of my warranty. As have the other folks I've known that have gotten them.
The main thing is that after a few repairs they might suggest that it was always that way. Don't let them talk you down, if it is a covered repair and it is broken, then insist on them fixing it.
No, but at some point the evidence is clear enough and compelling enough to take action on.The accuracy of the assumption that dumping huge amounts of CO2 and other greenhouse gases into the atmosphere is harmful is much better supported than the notion that we can dump whatever we like without consequence.
Had we taken heed 30 years ago and done something about it, the cost would have been substantially lower and ultimately if we were wrong it would be dirt cheap to go back to our old ways.
That being said, deniers need to come up with some actual credible science if they wish to engage in this debate.
Or it's just a case of women wanting what they can't have. I've definitely noticed that on days where I don't want anything to do with women that inevitably those are the days when a significant portion of the female populace seems to find me irresistible.
Perhaps it's time for women to recognize that they can't have it both ways. Either they're going to be willing to put their ego in harms way and go asking guys out or they're going to just accept the stream of choices that they're capable of attracting.
It's complete bullshit for them to so regularly say they want one thing and then go to lengths to ensure that those men don't have an equal shot.
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That's not true. The first times I went to a search engine they were pretty clear of crap on the first page too. The first one I remember being full of crap on that home page was Yahoo.
It isn't licensed nor is it likely to be licensed and that's ultimately a good thing. If you think that AT&T reception sucks now, just imagine how crappy it's going to be when it's competing with multiple other carriers on the same spectrum completely unlicensed.
In terms of a disaster area, this would likely help in the short term, but really you're better of using CB or HAM radios for that. Having unlicensed transmitters would hamper efforts to get the proper networks back on line.
AM & PM aren't typically that big of a deal in most cases. Just use a bit of common sense and if you really need to make sure that somebody shows up at 3:00 AM, then specify. Normally there's really only a 12 hour or so period of time where people are scheduling for, in cases where you're needing more than that, chances are you're using UTC or GMT
I've considered that in the past. The main issue with changing minutes to be 100 seconds and hours to be 100 minutes and days to be 10 hours, which we definitely could do, we'd have to adjust the length of a second again so that it would match up with the actual length of the day.
We could also adjust the months so that even months always have 30 days and odd months except November have 31 with November getting leap year day.
The problem with those ideas is that while they work well on paper, you'd have to get people to adopt them, and quite frankly the advantages of them is not sufficient to justify getting 7bn people to accept and adopt them.
Because this works more efficiently than any of the alternatives that people have suggested. A system that abolished timezones would reek havoc on international business as you'd have to constantly be doing conversions of time when you're over there rather than just the few times when you need to call somebody. And for those that are constantly making those calls, then you already know how to handle it under the current system.
Ultimately, unless the circadian rhythm gets cured we're all going to be going to work based upon the particular location of the sun in our region of the. world
In general yes, however the Bureau of Weights and Measures will come down on you hard if you try to use any of those invented measures in commerce. I saw a picture in the paper a few months back for 80 or so years ago where the agents had piled all the scales they had confiscated for failing to meet the accepted definition of weight in use in the US at the time.
But, in general you're correct about that, they're not going to arrest you for using GMT or refusing to acknowledge DST if you don't want to.
What I'm curious about is how precisely this is any simpler than our current system. You do get the advantage of specifying a time that's globally valid, but for things that matter you still have to worry about what times are appropriate to expect a response from somebody in Georgia and depending upon which one the answer is likely to be different.
The real problem is that when you're traveling you'd then have to learn what times everything is done or convert those times to ones your familiar with, rather than the current system where most of those times are the same, just happen earlier or later with respect to your home.
The current system we have works in the instances where one needs that sort of coordination we've got GMT and UTC available.
Technically speaking you don't. But if you don't use a proprietary port then you're stuck being limited to just charging and connecting to the computer. If you want more than that, then you're faced with the choice of implementing a USB host port or going proprietary. Proprietary is a lot easier to do because you can decide what you want to do and just design it for that without having to worry about capabilities that other hardware devices have.
In practice, it's not something I see very often because you so often end up with a doc that can connect to multiple device provided you operate on it. Which is generally not particularly desirable to anybody but the consumer.
It seems that way, but that is an excellent way of killing off a product. There may be a few dozen folks still using those old cards, but you can get a much newer card with a bunch off new features that will be supported for years to come for less than $10, probably including shipping.
Supporting a bunch of products which were obsolete years ago without adequate user base to ensure that the developers can properly support it can damage projects a lot more quickly than dropping support for long obsolete hardware. More than that, it's that much more code that has to be maintained and it's that much harder to implement fixes or add new features and ultimately it distracts from the hardware that people are still using.
Because if it hasn't been changed in 7 years, then chances are that nobody really knows the code. Consequently nobody is checking it nor is anybody likely to be paying attention to any breakage which might occur if they change the infrastructure and ultimately it's one more area in which a security vulnerability could pop into existence when somebody changes some other code.
Having essentially dead code in a project isn't a wise idea in most cases. But beyond that it's extra bandwidth that's not necessary for nearly everybody.
Well, to be fair, how often does a project cut 100k Libraries of Congress out of their product.
Docking stations suck. iPads, iPhones and iPods have to use a proprietary port to do it and I'd personally rather know that I can plug the thing into most computers using a standard cable and have it work. My Nook can be plugged into either my Windows laptop or my Linux desktop and it just works and I can do it with a standard microUSB cable.
I'm guessing that Kindle Color will be like Nook color in that it will be sporting a color LCD rather than e-Ink. Making it a step closer to an iPad than a real ereader.
I'm not really sure why folks are waiting for this when B&N already has a color reader that can readily be loaded up with custom firmware.
Or you can just get a nook color and jail break it. B&N has shown no interest in prventing folks from doing so, and there's already firmware available for it. . For instance Cyanogenmod.
Which particular one? It was widely publicized that they were indeed soldered in.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPod#Battery_problems
It doesn't clearly violate the constitution. People choose to teach and when they do, they have to follow the resulting requirements. In some cases that means being subjected to prosecution for what would otherwise be legal behavior. One example is that in some states the statute of limitations is higher for teacher student relationships than it would otherwise be.
Personally, I think it's somewhat silly as FB interactions at least are subject to subpoena a better law would be to mandate data retention on those communiques.
Which works as long as you can convince enough people to overpay for what they're getting. Apple has had it's own history of failures from that iPhone antenna debacle to the terrible battery life and soldered in battery that iPods used to sport. Not to mention the complete refusal to allow devices other than the iPhone to use music direct from the ITMS.
Let's not make Steve out to be something he's not. All of that should have been avoidable.
Apple got sued for ripping of the UI from Creative and ultimately lost the case. I don't personally think that it's accurate to claim innovation when a competitor not only invents something before you, but also gets it to market.
As for smaller, that's hardly innovative in fact, I'd go so far as to say that the iPods would have been a lot better had they focused more on sound quality and battery life than on making them tiny.. I still get a chuckle out of all those knuckle heads that ended up having to pay not just for a new battery, but for Apple to install it for them because it was soldered into the unit.
I disagree, Apple's share price has been vastly over inflated for years now and at some point reality has to set in that people are overpaying for it. I'm not sure what better stimulus for that than Steve's retirement.
Because laptops are notoriously susceptible to damage either from accidents or from just death related to heat, on top of that an extended warranty will cover things that the manufacturers warranty typically won't, like dead pixels.
It's interesting to me to see all the ignorance about extended warranties being expressed here. Laptops are one of the few items for which an extended warranty is a good idea. I know I've personally gotten quite a bit more money out of mine than I've ever put into it.
Actually, extended warranties are a good deal. Back before they were so evil I did buy a laptop from them and got every cent's worth out of my warranty. As have the other folks I've known that have gotten them.
The main thing is that after a few repairs they might suggest that it was always that way. Don't let them talk you down, if it is a covered repair and it is broken, then insist on them fixing it.
No, but at some point the evidence is clear enough and compelling enough to take action on.The accuracy of the assumption that dumping huge amounts of CO2 and other greenhouse gases into the atmosphere is harmful is much better supported than the notion that we can dump whatever we like without consequence.
Had we taken heed 30 years ago and done something about it, the cost would have been substantially lower and ultimately if we were wrong it would be dirt cheap to go back to our old ways.
That being said, deniers need to come up with some actual credible science if they wish to engage in this debate.
Or it's just a case of women wanting what they can't have. I've definitely noticed that on days where I don't want anything to do with women that inevitably those are the days when a significant portion of the female populace seems to find me irresistible.
Perhaps it's time for women to recognize that they can't have it both ways. Either they're going to be willing to put their ego in harms way and go asking guys out or they're going to just accept the stream of choices that they're capable of attracting.
It's complete bullshit for them to so regularly say they want one thing and then go to lengths to ensure that those men don't have an equal shot.
Sounds like the same geniuses that run Fox.