Yes, but why on earth would they bother to spend that kind of money on something for which they already have a solution? For certain applications, the technology you're suggesting makes sense. But for books at a school library? Wouldn't it be a lot easier to just use a scan system like they do at our public library? Basically when you put a book on reserve a librarian places it in with the ones on hold and then you go pick it up off the shelf, scan it along with your card and are out the door. Sure it's more expensive than even more simple systems, but it's a lot less problematic than conditioning kids to think that it's normal to have to pass a biometric check to check out a book.
That's what concerns me. I don't post anything on the net under my name, but other people might do so and there isn't anything in particular I can do about that. Other than, well moving to a shack in the middle of Montana. And you people called the Unabomber "crazy" for being so "paranoid" about the technology.
Fucking Eric Schmidt is fucking a pussy. I'm going to fucking bury that guy, I have done it before, and I will do it again. I'm going to fucking kill Google.
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Steve Ballmer
Fixed that for you mr. Ballmer. I guess that explains everything.
Anything can be argued. Calling chess a sport is extremely dubious. OTOH mix it with a sport like boxing and it becomes a sport. Well, not really, the boxing is the sport.
I've gotten ebooks in PDF format and they suck. They'd be much better off with an XML based book that could be contained in a single zip file and then interpreted by a program. PDFs are hard to read and you lose out on having the text reflow, being able to change the text size, font family. On top of that these days they can be infected with malware because they include code that doesn't really belong in a document.
One of the main reasons why the music industry did that was because the music stores weren't playing nice with each other. If you had an iPod you were more or less stuck with the ITMS and if you didn't have an iPod good luck buying anything from the largest online music store in business. The implementations were buggy and tended to not play well with various computers.
They could fix a lot of that and possibly make it work. But betting that it's going to reduce piracy rates sufficiently to make up for the costs of implementing it is more than a little dubious.
Depends where you are in the country. Usually if you're intended to be able to walk along it there's sidewalks, guard rails and possibly pedestrian overpasses where applicable. What I'd like to know is why she isn't also suing the state for not putting in sidewalks and other amenities to prevent this. The state department of transportation has far more to do with this incident than Google does.
Don't worry, the religious right will invent knew reasons why this research is an abomination. I mean they were the ones that were opposed to stem cell research because it kills embryos, but totally fine with IVF which purposely creates more embryos than are needed and kills the extras.
You're missing the point, if Steve Jobs says that a keyboard shouldn't have an M key, then by God it shouldn't have an M key. I mean, I think that's what that old stupid mouse button thing was about. Thankfully they've come to their senses, but Apple is rather notorious for telling users what they can and can't do with there devices. Sure flash sucks, but it ought to be up to the users to decide rather than some arbitrary licensing restrictions to decide.
Ultimately is is both derogatory and hateful. It's a simple matter of respect, the fact is that there's a lot of bigots out there to get their lulz by insulting Islam. Ignorant statements that something which offends even moderate Muslims isn't derogatory is really beyond explanation.
More than that it's hardly an effective way of bringing the extremists into check. It just gives more ammunition for them when they say that we don't get or respect Islam.
No more than we need to keep people from posting pro-Klan materials on the site. Ultimately, people weren't doing it as free speech, they were doing it out of ignorance for Islam. Free speech has never been about saying whatever you could to offend other people. It's been to assure the people of the ability to speak out about meaningful things. This isn't any different than bans on homophobic, racist, antisemitic posts that most websites of that sort have.
It's not, you just don't call it a placebo when the person knows about it. It's a relatively common way of treating things like migraines, back pain, explosive temper and a large number of mental illnesses. It's a misconception that to make use of that effect that you can't know about it, you just don't call it a placebo when you're doing it purposely. It's sort of like why hypnosis does such a great job for pain relief even though it tends to do a lousy job of treating other things.
Sigh, acupuncture is more or less just a training system for this stuff. With enough study a person can do it completely on their own using just the power of their mind. The reason why they use needles is that it's really the only way that anybody has found to show people where those places that need stimulation are.
The suggestion that this somehow makes acupuncture pseudoscience or not worthwhile is an idiotic conclusion to make. You don't hear people saying that sort of thing about Tylenol or most of the other OTC pain relievers even though they don't achieve even that level of result. Likewise we don't generally suggest that the education system needs to be tossed out because people are capable of learning completely on their own.
But really on top of that, acupuncture just isn't something that lends itself easily to scientific study. I'm not defending the lack of definitive proof, but it is important to recognize that you're dealing with individuals who react in subtly different ways to treatment. And you can't readily separate out the sources of bias in the way that you would normally want to do. Which leads a lot of the studies to be more or less worthless in terms of giving a reliable conclusion.
They're not bunk, I'm not sure how else one would explain my tendency to jump when somebody behind me is about to put their hand palm down on my shoulder. Strikes me as just as reasonable an explanation as any of the other possible ones.
So, the religion with the most resources, best access to advanced weaponry and generally most privileged position in the world thinks it has it tough? Yeah, I'm totally shocked that people of other religious viewpoints find you guys to be so stuck up, arrogant and generally spoiled. Perhaps not making those sorts of proclamations from such a privileged position would help heal the wounds.
And the fact that Mormons don't drink coffee has nothing to do with it? Seems like a pretty benign thing to avoid, far less damaging that any number of things that the fine upstanding Christians of the US engage in.
Ultimately as backwards as it is to block Facebook over that, over all you'd have to block a huge portion of the internet before you'd be largely free of the liberalizing effect it tends to have on societies. Even innocuous things like exposure to Kwanzaa and garden gnomes have an impact.
Yes, if you want to copy all your music or have it sorted by albums and only want to copy full volumes. Or you don't mind copying the entire directory and hope it gets properly updated. The fact that something is simple doesn't mean that it's easy to use or a wise design decision. iPods always had an issue with having to see what music was on the player every time you turned it on. Basically because they allowed you to copy music directly the player didn't really know whether there was new music without checking. Not that the alternative of using a special program is great, but it doesn't have that issue.
That's not entirely true. Last I checked Apple had requirements that standardized a lot of the interface components. With Windows it can be quite unpredictable as to where exactly you find a given option, even if you stick with MS' own software it's hardly a no brainer. Or in other words nobody seems to do a particularly good job of it.
No the reason why is folks like you that want to solve problems with violence whether or not it's a reasonable response. Perhaps the lack of appropriate roll models is the problem.
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Yes, but why on earth would they bother to spend that kind of money on something for which they already have a solution? For certain applications, the technology you're suggesting makes sense. But for books at a school library? Wouldn't it be a lot easier to just use a scan system like they do at our public library? Basically when you put a book on reserve a librarian places it in with the ones on hold and then you go pick it up off the shelf, scan it along with your card and are out the door. Sure it's more expensive than even more simple systems, but it's a lot less problematic than conditioning kids to think that it's normal to have to pass a biometric check to check out a book.
Yes, but you can't generally find that information from across the country for use on your next trip.
That's what concerns me. I don't post anything on the net under my name, but other people might do so and there isn't anything in particular I can do about that. Other than, well moving to a shack in the middle of Montana. And you people called the Unabomber "crazy" for being so "paranoid" about the technology.
Fucking Eric Schmidt is fucking a pussy. I'm going to fucking bury that guy, I have done it before, and I will do it again. I'm going to fucking kill Google.
Your friend, Steve Ballmer
Fixed that for you mr. Ballmer. I guess that explains everything.
I'd shoot a puppy if I could get the next generation of iPads right now.
Anything can be argued. Calling chess a sport is extremely dubious. OTOH mix it with a sport like boxing and it becomes a sport. Well, not really, the boxing is the sport.
I've gotten ebooks in PDF format and they suck. They'd be much better off with an XML based book that could be contained in a single zip file and then interpreted by a program. PDFs are hard to read and you lose out on having the text reflow, being able to change the text size, font family. On top of that these days they can be infected with malware because they include code that doesn't really belong in a document.
One of the main reasons why the music industry did that was because the music stores weren't playing nice with each other. If you had an iPod you were more or less stuck with the ITMS and if you didn't have an iPod good luck buying anything from the largest online music store in business. The implementations were buggy and tended to not play well with various computers.
They could fix a lot of that and possibly make it work. But betting that it's going to reduce piracy rates sufficiently to make up for the costs of implementing it is more than a little dubious.
What a coincidence that's also something that can happen in Seattle if you're walking along Highway 99.
Depends where you are in the country. Usually if you're intended to be able to walk along it there's sidewalks, guard rails and possibly pedestrian overpasses where applicable. What I'd like to know is why she isn't also suing the state for not putting in sidewalks and other amenities to prevent this. The state department of transportation has far more to do with this incident than Google does.
Don't worry, the religious right will invent knew reasons why this research is an abomination. I mean they were the ones that were opposed to stem cell research because it kills embryos, but totally fine with IVF which purposely creates more embryos than are needed and kills the extras.
You're missing the point, if Steve Jobs says that a keyboard shouldn't have an M key, then by God it shouldn't have an M key. I mean, I think that's what that old stupid mouse button thing was about. Thankfully they've come to their senses, but Apple is rather notorious for telling users what they can and can't do with there devices. Sure flash sucks, but it ought to be up to the users to decide rather than some arbitrary licensing restrictions to decide.
Ultimately is is both derogatory and hateful. It's a simple matter of respect, the fact is that there's a lot of bigots out there to get their lulz by insulting Islam. Ignorant statements that something which offends even moderate Muslims isn't derogatory is really beyond explanation.
More than that it's hardly an effective way of bringing the extremists into check. It just gives more ammunition for them when they say that we don't get or respect Islam.
No more than we need to keep people from posting pro-Klan materials on the site. Ultimately, people weren't doing it as free speech, they were doing it out of ignorance for Islam. Free speech has never been about saying whatever you could to offend other people. It's been to assure the people of the ability to speak out about meaningful things. This isn't any different than bans on homophobic, racist, antisemitic posts that most websites of that sort have.
Hmm, you mean even ones like Tylenol that do basically nothing and run the risk of damaging the liver?
It's not, you just don't call it a placebo when the person knows about it. It's a relatively common way of treating things like migraines, back pain, explosive temper and a large number of mental illnesses. It's a misconception that to make use of that effect that you can't know about it, you just don't call it a placebo when you're doing it purposely. It's sort of like why hypnosis does such a great job for pain relief even though it tends to do a lousy job of treating other things.
Sigh, acupuncture is more or less just a training system for this stuff. With enough study a person can do it completely on their own using just the power of their mind. The reason why they use needles is that it's really the only way that anybody has found to show people where those places that need stimulation are.
The suggestion that this somehow makes acupuncture pseudoscience or not worthwhile is an idiotic conclusion to make. You don't hear people saying that sort of thing about Tylenol or most of the other OTC pain relievers even though they don't achieve even that level of result. Likewise we don't generally suggest that the education system needs to be tossed out because people are capable of learning completely on their own.
But really on top of that, acupuncture just isn't something that lends itself easily to scientific study. I'm not defending the lack of definitive proof, but it is important to recognize that you're dealing with individuals who react in subtly different ways to treatment. And you can't readily separate out the sources of bias in the way that you would normally want to do. Which leads a lot of the studies to be more or less worthless in terms of giving a reliable conclusion.
They're not bunk, I'm not sure how else one would explain my tendency to jump when somebody behind me is about to put their hand palm down on my shoulder. Strikes me as just as reasonable an explanation as any of the other possible ones.
So, the religion with the most resources, best access to advanced weaponry and generally most privileged position in the world thinks it has it tough? Yeah, I'm totally shocked that people of other religious viewpoints find you guys to be so stuck up, arrogant and generally spoiled. Perhaps not making those sorts of proclamations from such a privileged position would help heal the wounds.
And the fact that Mormons don't drink coffee has nothing to do with it? Seems like a pretty benign thing to avoid, far less damaging that any number of things that the fine upstanding Christians of the US engage in.
Ultimately as backwards as it is to block Facebook over that, over all you'd have to block a huge portion of the internet before you'd be largely free of the liberalizing effect it tends to have on societies. Even innocuous things like exposure to Kwanzaa and garden gnomes have an impact.
No, that's just there latest product. the iLockin. And don't forget their next product the iMholdingyourinfosrandsom.
Yes, if you want to copy all your music or have it sorted by albums and only want to copy full volumes. Or you don't mind copying the entire directory and hope it gets properly updated. The fact that something is simple doesn't mean that it's easy to use or a wise design decision. iPods always had an issue with having to see what music was on the player every time you turned it on. Basically because they allowed you to copy music directly the player didn't really know whether there was new music without checking. Not that the alternative of using a special program is great, but it doesn't have that issue.
That's not entirely true. Last I checked Apple had requirements that standardized a lot of the interface components. With Windows it can be quite unpredictable as to where exactly you find a given option, even if you stick with MS' own software it's hardly a no brainer. Or in other words nobody seems to do a particularly good job of it.
No the reason why is folks like you that want to solve problems with violence whether or not it's a reasonable response. Perhaps the lack of appropriate roll models is the problem.