bottled water is now on track to overtake soda as the largest beverage category in two years.
Everyone should note that for the most part bottled water is just "tap water" that has been filtered. At $1 plus a bottle (plus the almost always not recycled plastic bottle), why don't people just get a Britta filter for home or office? Filtered tap water is now more expensive than soda!
Two comments Our city tap water has a lower bacteria count than does bottled water. In fact, there should be a "Use before" on the labels of each bottle. And our city tap water has low chlorine counts. In the 1950's the old cast iron water pipes were replaced with copper, and this has meant that iron(rust) in our water is also very low.
But in regards to Soda. We bought a Soda Machine (as it is called). Each cartridge provides enough co2 for about 10 "one litre water bottles". Thats a fifty percent savings over the large store purchased club-soda bottles. If we want flavouring, we add it after we bubbly (carbonate) the tap water.
Where we do use the store bought water bottles is when we are out doing sports at/on the soccer or football fields.
I am not sure this is common but... My Visa provider, for internet purchases where I present the code on the rear of the card, as part of their validation, intercepts my transaction and asks me a personal question. I have to respond with a matching answer. And if I do, the transaction is allowed to pass through to the rest of the validation routines (amount balance under limit, etc.). If validated, the vendor gets an approval. With some vendors, the transaction times out, but it works fine with other vendors.
Is my Visa provider unique, or is it uncommon practice.
I can see children gifted in math or music, or problem solving. If the Houston libraries are distributing books and materials equitably, more children from minorities would be eligible.
Actually the Dutch taxi market is pretty open nowadays, with several thousand not affiliated taxis in Amsterdam only. But the Netherlands is a pretty regulated country. For driving a taxi for example you need a license (easily obtainable) and there are fixed tariff regulations. Obviously Uber drivers have no such license and don't comply with the tariff regulation. I don't know any democratic nation where an organization which actively organizes and supports activities which don't comply with the law is not seen as a criminal organization. Doesn't mean that Uber won't be seen as a kind of emancipationary club somewhere down the line. But now...
In Québec, Canada, taxis are a service and services are taxed. As well, for income tax purposes, incomes of drivers are recorded, as well as their expenses. And taxi's have compulsory insurance for passengers. Drivers are vetted to insure they are healthy (no recent DUIs and no health problems that can cause accidents or infect passengers). Majority of taxi drivers work split shift... 5am to 10am, and 5pm to 10pm. -- when people travel to and from... So, I don't mind paying the going fare. Its about 1/3rd more than Uber's. And yes, Quebec wants Uber to collect income tax from Uber and from the drivers, who it sees as Uber employees.
As a Canadian, I have to agree with the statement, "The US is becoming less relevant daily" Where we used to buy our electronics from the USA, we no longer do. Where we used to watch American TV, we no longer do as much, and we rarely buy an American made vehicle. Even our stuff from IKEA is in metric, for metric built homes (Our new home ceilings are 3 meters high, which is about 3*40 inches or 10feet.
The USA is now a huge service oriented country. Manufacturing and even software engineering is done off shore from the USA, and the USA pays for service. By the way, which Apple or Android product is American made? How many people does it take to screw in a lightbulb?
Say thanks to Regan economics that allowed for job exporting to the far east.
Its sad, because my older Stereo and high tech equipment oncewanw bore my "Made in USA" sticker on them. Now it says "Made in China", or Assembled in Taiwan.
"More than 4 billion people don't have a voice online."
Translation: "More than 4 billion people are currently ineligible to give me their personal data, so I can sell it and become even more immensely rich". (Why???) "I would like governments (or anyone) to pay for those people to be connected to the Internet, so that I can start making money out of them".
After all, that's what governments are for - making the immensely rich even immensely richer. Isn't it?
It is not greed that drives these people, particulary Zukerberg. Connectivity may actually stop conflict. With connectivity, I am hoping that the third world will obtain access to on-line learning, knowledge about democracy, medicine and other information that will stop famine and wars.
"What difference, at this point, does it make?" I mean, sure, she lied, she exposed sensitive government information to foreign spies, and she may have covered up some "private" dealings. But, hey, doesn't she deserve to be president? She is a woman, after all, and she only really cares about us, the people! She can't save us if we don't cut her a little slack?
I would say "Lie is a very strong and undeserving insult". According to all known investigators, those letters to the general may have been on a personal level. Secondly, He, Bill Clinton, on CNN's Fareed Zakaria's interview stated that she gave her lawyers the right to hand over the computers to investigators.
So why are we not investigating the Bushes for 9/11. I am willing to bet a thousand dollars to your one dollar that the president was warned about the Islamic extremist conspiracies. Was it poo-pooed because the USA was on this side of the Atlantic/Pacific? And by the way, look at the loss of American lives in Iraq and the middle east, and the horrendous profits by Haliburton (Bush and Cheny holdings) for war materiel. That is what needs investigating and digging into.
More than 4000 overseas American lives lost, and more than 3500 on US soil losses to terrorists. And as we say, "Bush was proud to stand on the rubble". Shame, he was responsible for the rubble. The Republicans should look inwards at was the wasting American military lives. Timed email news about Hillary are a distraction and an attempt to boost Republican candidates like Trump. I would not boost Trump, but remove the "s" from boost and concentrate on "representation in government by the people for the people". Isn't it time to limit in dollars or barter, what any human can contribute to an election? (Check out Canada and the rest of the world regarding election contribution ceilings).
While saying there is no agw is presumptuous you make a very good point.
One of THE key tests of a scientific theorem is that it can predict.. And yet these 'state of the art' models have so far had a dismal record of prediction. And yet their 'findings' are treated as science. Global climate change is obvious, inevitable, and continuous as it always has been of course. There is no static climate.
However AGW is a very different proposition.. And there is a wide continuum of possibilities within in from minor self adjusting changes to serious positive feedback. However so far no model has shown any actual predictive capability.. Therefore all we can say is no model is useful yet. That's the problem with complex iterative models.. They need to be close to perfect or their output is complete junk as the errors compound.
THIS is the big issue always swept under the carpet.. If we are going to believe the models they need to demonstrate predictions.. Not in daily weather but in ongoing climate. As yet they cannot.
Until they can anything based on them is politics. In either direction.
If and when they can let's hope people can turn their energy to a true solution.. The obvious ones of course being nuclear power in its more modern versions.. And cut through the red tape and bs that a generation scared stiff by iron curtain nuclear Armageddon propaganda hammered in to their children.
Oh course most are all far to addicted to rampant consumerism to actually change.. So that is pretty much the only solution if there really is a problem.
So, with natural global warming, the ice at the poles will melt, raising the sea/ocean levels. The plus side is that we will have a smaller land mass to polute, and possibly, with the higher water levels, new water tables will appear, allowing for food preparation in what we now call deserts. The American, Egyption, and mid-eastern deserts could begin to reflourish. Or will that band of latitude across the earth be too hot for humans to live normally? I would like to see countries act pro-actively against AWG. But... its not gonna happen until it is too late.
In 2007, there were no appropriate frameworks or other multitasking facilitites within C++. The optimisation was the pits.
Now, 8 years beyond, one can use C++, along with templates and all the other goodies, provided.....
provided that the latest Bjarne Strousaps's standards for coding clean C++ are followed. Bjarne proposes methods to follow, in lieu of "don't use arguments".
That would be preferable to buying from online "Canadian" pharmacies, which aren't that at all but mostly fronts for Russian organised crime. You'll be shipped generics from India, not Canada. It's not as bad as it sounds because they depend on repeat customers so they work pretty hard to keep customers happy (you generally get the real deal, your credit card won't get ripped off, etc), but it's still taking a bit of a gamble.
I live in Canada. I refute what you wrote. I have generic medication. It was not manufactured in India or Russia, but in quality controlled labs here in Canada. And since there are about a half dozen major pharmacy chains, these organizations do not want to be sued for providing harmful medication. Ergo, they validate the generics before allowing them in their pharmacies. The result of having generics is to cause the originators to moderate their selling prices. If my supply of one generic is $10.00, the non-generic might be sold at $12.00 (a max of 20% markup over generics.)
Come to Canada and buy your medication, or find a partner living at the border who will take your prescription to the Canadian pharmacy. Just pay him for the service, which would include the cost of the medication.
I can't understand what is all the fuss. My adbloc experience was negative. It either was too agressive or not agressive enough.
I therefore did what every FOSS guy does, Privacy Badger. I installed it into Firefox and Chromium), and voila, I saw who was the culprit that was annoying me, and I just used PB to block it. With two page refreshes, I was into a clean usable annoyance free page.
> How do the rich actually produce anything? They simply tell others what to do. Not how to do it, they just crack whips. Can't we produce things without their oversight? Do we really need them to pay us for us to do anything?
Let's suppose that's true. Rich people get rich by sitting there doing nothing, while companies magically spring up around them. "Can't we produce things without their oversight?", you ask. If you can, do it. If you can make a software company appear, why not do it rather than sit there complaining while working for the rich guy's company?
You don't need that damn idiot who built the company, you can build your own, right? So DO it, unless you'd RATHER stay up until well after midnight posting on Slashdot, then slog into your office half awake and watch YouTube videos while he makes sure you get paid on time. If you're working for the guy who built the company rather than building your own, that's your choice. Apparently you're getting something out of it, the rich guy is doing something for you that you can;t do for yourself.
Personally, I've done both. I've built and sold a couple of companies. I've been a lazy government worker, and right now I'm working for the rich guy who built this company. Right now, I choose not to be the rich guy running the company, but to be an employee because a) I don't want to work 80 hours per week, b) I want financial security - I don't want to risk what I have, but rather have a stable pay check and c) I want to spend my time doing the work I enjoy, not trying to take care of anything and everything a company has to do each day.
Maybe in a few years I'll decide I want to be the rich guy working 80 hours growing a company again. Maybe you'll want to work for me during the time. Maybe I'll keep doing this 8-5 thing, which is also pretty cool. You have the same choices. If you don't like the choices you've made so far, quit complaining and make different choices. I (and many others) wrote down the instructions for you on how to start a company. If you want a company without "that rich guy" and think you can do it without him, go do it. I did.
Are you looking at 80 hours as fun time or as an honorary degree in cardiac arrest?
That's impossible. It's Java! Java can't have security holes! Everyone knows you don't write C because C has buffer overflows and can cause security problems when you paste in very long strings, and that NEVER happens with Java! Java is perfect! Everything you write in Java is perfectly secure! Ask any Java programmer!
I am a java programmer and I wholeheartedly agree with you. Java can't let you down, though the hardware could!
Also keep in mind, many, many people own a smartphone, yet don't use the advanced features offered. Like my dad. He has about 3 apps he uses -- no interest in getting others, no interest in shooting video, maybe shoots photos every couple of months. I suspect there are a few million people like him. I would think and hope that the people buying the entry level know what they're getting into -- which, is that if you plan on using the phone much or the advanced features, it IS NOT for you. However, if you plan on just wanting a smart phone, but use none of the advanced features, then it most certainly is just fine.
I don't think it is that bad to keep it around.
I'm like your dad. I use the browser, an email client and Free-Cell. On rare occasion, Maps, sms, (hangouts) and phone.
Exactly. For how infrequently the average person needs to print something in color, there is little cost-benefit to keeping your own color printer at home. It's far more cost effective to get a consumer laser printer these days and just do your handful of color prints at a local print shop. I really recommend the Brother 2270DW. It does wireless printing and full duplex and can be bought for around $100USD. The best part is the toner cartridges last for thousands of pages and can be had for the same price as one inkjet cartridge. If you absolutely must have color printing, even color laserjets these days can be had for $250-300.
I recommend your recommendation. This workhorse printer is a bargain at around $100.00. I was able to get a refill for $40.00 from a small mom and pop shop, and when that ran out, bought a cartridge pair pack at Costco for a bargain. The Costco cartridge is rated 5000 pages of text that is 5% coverage of the page.
I would love to hear from other brother owners about different models and their levels of satisfaction.
I'm trying to remember what Iraq did to provoke the bombing of Osirak... I think they built something that might eventually have allowed the development of nuclear parity.
Was it done with the US's encouragement? Answer = YES
Most people cannot learn the required skills to any reasonable degree. At best this initiative will increase the number of really bad programmers. There are far too many of those already.
Give an eight year old a computer and the text book, and in a week, he will be teaching the class. (COME ON!! ITS LIKELY TO HAPPEN).
Yes, let's move on for a war criminal wanted for crimes against humanity and focus on a mail server that was receiving non-classified email as much as a state state.gov address would....
Neither President Obama nor Bush is "wanted" for any "crimes against humanity" by the ICC, INTERPOL, or any government. The emails that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton turned over from her server have been found to include at least two emails with Top Secret information, and that information was always Top Secret, as well as hundreds more with classified information. The FBI is investigating this matter, has seized the server, and the emails held by her attorney. It seems pretty clear that one or more people were reckless with handling classified information, and may have passed it on to people without security clearances and an official need to know. There is a genuine possibility someone will be prosecuted for this.
Do you think you could do better? Just look at the hours and travelling she worked, from Israel to USA to the Arab countries etc. etc. How about 16 hours per day, and then, collect the fatigue. Yes, she may have had a fatigue caused error, but what the hell!!!"
women, genetically, are more maticulus then men. Once on the project, they produce far far better code than do men. Unlike men, when they get home, they have other responsibilities, such as children, groceries, etc. Let her husband assume those responsibilities, and watch--much higher quality code, with good clean logic.
Thats been my fantastic experience as their project leader. Suck that up Guys.
>> 1776 was a bunch of rich people convincing the poor to fight for them
That wasn't the question. It was whether "free-thinkers and weirdos ever caused an actual revolution?" Whatever class theory you hold, you can't deny there was something strange about our founding fathers - a little too obsessed with freemasonry or whatever, but they definitely all had a screw loose to think they could take on the greatest empire the world had ever known (the British) for the greatest prize ever known (half the world) and completely redefine government as we know it at the same time. And yet these "free-thinkers" (hello democracy) and "weirdos" (Greece was awesome, amiright?) pulled it off, and the world is better for their success.
Is your comment about Bush and Halliburton, and the invasion of Iraq?
Slashdot Mirror
bottled water is now on track to overtake soda as the largest beverage category in two years.
Everyone should note that for the most part bottled water is just "tap water" that has been filtered. At $1 plus a bottle (plus the almost always not recycled plastic bottle), why don't people just get a Britta filter for home or office? Filtered tap water is now more expensive than soda!
Two comments
Our city tap water has a lower bacteria count than does bottled water. In fact, there should be a "Use before" on the labels of each bottle.
And our city tap water has low chlorine counts. In the 1950's the old cast iron water pipes were replaced with copper, and this has meant that iron(rust) in our water is also very low.
But in regards to Soda. We bought a Soda Machine (as it is called). Each cartridge provides enough co2 for about 10 "one litre water bottles". Thats a fifty percent savings over the large store purchased club-soda bottles. If we want flavouring, we add it after we bubbly (carbonate) the tap water.
Where we do use the store bought water bottles is when we are out doing sports at/on the soccer or football fields.
I am not sure this is common but... My Visa provider, for internet purchases where I present the code on the rear of the card, as part of their validation,
intercepts my transaction and asks me a personal question. I have to respond with a matching answer. And if I do, the transaction is allowed to pass through to the rest of the validation routines (amount balance under limit, etc.). If validated, the vendor gets an approval. With some vendors, the transaction times out, but it works fine with other vendors.
Is my Visa provider unique, or is it uncommon practice.
I can see children gifted in math or music, or problem solving. If the Houston libraries are distributing books and materials equitably, more children from minorities would be eligible.
Actually the Dutch taxi market is pretty open nowadays, with several thousand not affiliated taxis in Amsterdam only. But the Netherlands is a pretty regulated country. For driving a taxi for example you need a license (easily obtainable) and there are fixed tariff regulations. Obviously Uber drivers have no such license and don't comply with the tariff regulation. I don't know any democratic nation where an organization which actively organizes and supports activities which don't comply with the law is not seen as a criminal organization.
Doesn't mean that Uber won't be seen as a kind of emancipationary club somewhere down the line. But now...
In Québec, Canada, taxis are a service and services are taxed. As well, for income tax purposes, incomes of drivers are recorded, as well as their expenses. And taxi's have compulsory insurance for passengers. Drivers are vetted to insure they are healthy (no recent DUIs and no health problems that can cause accidents or infect passengers).
Majority of taxi drivers work split shift... 5am to 10am, and 5pm to 10pm. -- when people travel to and from...
So, I don't mind paying the going fare. Its about 1/3rd more than Uber's. And yes, Quebec wants Uber to collect income tax from Uber and from the drivers, who it sees as Uber employees.
As a Canadian, I have to agree with the statement, "The US is becoming less relevant daily" Where we used to buy our electronics from the USA, we no longer do. Where we used to watch American TV, we no longer do as much, and we rarely buy an American made vehicle. Even our stuff from IKEA is in metric, for metric built homes (Our new home ceilings are 3 meters high, which is about 3*40 inches or 10feet.
The USA is now a huge service oriented country. Manufacturing and even software engineering is done off shore from the USA, and the USA pays for service. By the way, which Apple or Android product is American made? How many people does it take to screw in a lightbulb?
Say thanks to Regan economics that allowed for job exporting to the far east.
Its sad, because my older Stereo and high tech equipment oncewanw bore my "Made in USA" sticker on them. Now it says "Made in China", or Assembled in Taiwan.
You forgot weather measurements. Barometric pressure KiloPascals, Wind or other speed Km/h and temperature in Celcius.
Yes.
"More than 4 billion people don't have a voice online."
Translation: "More than 4 billion people are currently ineligible to give me their personal data, so I can sell it and become even more immensely rich". (Why???) "I would like governments (or anyone) to pay for those people to be connected to the Internet, so that I can start making money out of them".
After all, that's what governments are for - making the immensely rich even immensely richer. Isn't it?
It is not greed that drives these people, particulary Zukerberg. Connectivity may actually stop conflict. With connectivity, I am hoping that the third world will obtain access to on-line learning, knowledge about democracy, medicine and other information that will stop famine and wars.
"What difference, at this point, does it make?" I mean, sure, she lied, she exposed sensitive government information to foreign spies, and she may have covered up some "private" dealings. But, hey, doesn't she deserve to be president? She is a woman, after all, and she only really cares about us, the people! She can't save us if we don't cut her a little slack?
I would say "Lie is a very strong and undeserving insult". According to all known investigators, those letters to the general may have been on a personal level. Secondly, He, Bill Clinton, on CNN's Fareed Zakaria's interview stated that she gave her lawyers the right to hand over the computers to investigators.
So why are we not investigating the Bushes for 9/11. I am willing to bet a thousand dollars to your one dollar that the president was warned about the Islamic extremist conspiracies. Was it poo-pooed because the USA was on this side of the Atlantic/Pacific? And by the way, look at the loss of American lives in Iraq and the middle east, and the horrendous profits by Haliburton (Bush and Cheny holdings) for war materiel. That is what needs investigating and digging into.
More than 4000 overseas American lives lost, and more than 3500 on US soil losses to terrorists. And as we say, "Bush was proud to stand on the rubble". Shame, he was responsible for the rubble. The Republicans should look inwards at was the wasting American military lives. Timed email news about Hillary are a distraction and an attempt to boost Republican candidates like Trump. I would not boost Trump, but remove the "s" from boost and concentrate on "representation in government by the people for the people". Isn't it time to limit in dollars or barter, what any human can contribute to an election? (Check out Canada and the rest of the world regarding election contribution ceilings).
While saying there is no agw is presumptuous you make a very good point.
One of THE key tests of a scientific theorem is that it can predict.. And yet these 'state of the art' models have so far had a dismal record of prediction.
And yet their 'findings' are treated as science.
Global climate change is obvious, inevitable, and continuous as it always has been of course. There is no static climate.
However AGW is a very different proposition.. And there is a wide continuum of possibilities within in from minor self adjusting changes to serious positive feedback.
However so far no model has shown any actual predictive capability.. Therefore all we can say is no model is useful yet.
That's the problem with complex iterative models.. They need to be close to perfect or their output is complete junk as the errors compound.
THIS is the big issue always swept under the carpet.. If we are going to believe the models they need to demonstrate predictions.. Not in daily weather but in ongoing climate. As yet they cannot.
Until they can anything based on them is politics. In either direction.
If and when they can let's hope people can turn their energy to a true solution.. The obvious ones of course being nuclear power in its more modern versions.. And cut through the red tape and bs that a generation scared stiff by iron curtain nuclear Armageddon propaganda hammered in to their children.
Oh course most are all far to addicted to rampant consumerism to actually change.. So that is pretty much the only solution if there really is a problem.
So, with natural global warming, the ice at the poles will melt, raising the sea/ocean levels. The plus side is that we will have a smaller land mass to polute, and possibly, with the higher water levels, new water tables will appear, allowing for food preparation in what we now call deserts. The American, Egyption, and mid-eastern deserts could begin to reflourish.
Or will that band of latitude across the earth be too hot for humans to live normally? I would like to see countries act pro-actively against AWG. But... its not gonna happen until it is too late.
As time goes on, we discover that every diesel powered car manufacturer was cheating and undermining emissions testing.
Why....
Diesel was 30% less expensive for the car owner and that meant that (in Europe), diesel powered cars were 50% of all car sales.
Subject line says it all.
In 2007, there were no appropriate frameworks or other multitasking facilitites within C++. The optimisation was the pits.
Now, 8 years beyond, one can use C++, along with templates and all the other goodies, provided.....
provided that the latest Bjarne Strousaps's standards for coding clean C++ are followed. Bjarne proposes methods to follow, in lieu of "don't use arguments".
That means I may actually start using C++ again.
or even recommend a summer vacation to Canada
That would be preferable to buying from online "Canadian" pharmacies, which aren't that at all but mostly fronts for Russian organised crime. You'll be shipped generics from India, not Canada. It's not as bad as it sounds because they depend on repeat customers so they work pretty hard to keep customers happy (you generally get the real deal, your credit card won't get ripped off, etc), but it's still taking a bit of a gamble.
I live in Canada. I refute what you wrote. I have generic medication. It was not manufactured in India or Russia, but in quality controlled labs here in Canada. And since there are about a half dozen major pharmacy chains, these organizations do not want to be sued for providing harmful medication. Ergo, they validate the generics before allowing them in their pharmacies.
The result of having generics is to cause the originators to moderate their selling prices. If my supply of one generic is $10.00, the non-generic might be sold at $12.00 (a max of 20% markup over generics.)
Come to Canada and buy your medication, or find a partner living at the border who will take your prescription to the Canadian pharmacy. Just pay him for the service, which would include the cost of the medication.
I can't understand what is all the fuss. My adbloc experience was negative. It either was too agressive or not agressive enough.
I therefore did what every FOSS guy does, Privacy Badger. I installed it into Firefox and Chromium), and voila,
I saw who was the culprit that was annoying me, and I just used PB to block it. With two page refreshes, I was into a clean usable annoyance free page.
> How do the rich actually produce anything? They simply tell others what to do. Not how to do it, they just crack whips. Can't we produce things without their oversight? Do we really need them to pay us for us to do anything?
Let's suppose that's true. Rich people get rich by sitting there doing nothing, while companies magically spring up around them. "Can't we produce things without their oversight?", you ask. If you can, do it. If you can make a software company appear, why not do it rather than sit there complaining while working for the rich guy's company?
You don't need that damn idiot who built the company, you can build your own, right? So DO it, unless you'd RATHER stay up until well after midnight posting on Slashdot, then slog into your office half awake and watch YouTube videos while he makes sure you get paid on time. If you're working for the guy who built the company rather than building your own, that's your choice. Apparently you're getting something out of it, the rich guy is doing something for you that you can;t do for yourself.
Personally, I've done both. I've built and sold a couple of companies. I've been a lazy government worker, and right now I'm working for the rich guy who built this company. Right now, I choose not to be the rich guy running the company, but to be an employee because a) I don't want to work 80 hours per week, b) I want financial security - I don't want to risk what I have, but rather have a stable pay check and c) I want to spend my time doing the work I enjoy, not trying to take care of anything and everything a company has to do each day.
Maybe in a few years I'll decide I want to be the rich guy working 80 hours growing a company again. Maybe you'll want to work for me during the time. Maybe I'll keep doing this 8-5 thing, which is also pretty cool. You have the same choices. If you don't like the choices you've made so far, quit complaining and make different choices. I (and many others) wrote down the instructions for you on how to start a company. If you want a company without "that rich guy" and think you can do it without him, go do it. I did.
Are you looking at 80 hours as fun time or as an honorary degree in cardiac arrest?
That's impossible. It's Java! Java can't have security holes! Everyone knows you don't write C because C has buffer overflows and can cause security problems when you paste in very long strings, and that NEVER happens with Java! Java is perfect! Everything you write in Java is perfectly secure! Ask any Java programmer!
I am a java programmer and I wholeheartedly agree with you. Java can't let you down, though the hardware could!
Should have rehearsed his demo, or video recorded it.
Life's embarassing moments.
Also keep in mind, many, many people own a smartphone, yet don't use the advanced features offered. Like my dad. He has about 3 apps he uses -- no interest in getting others, no interest in shooting video, maybe shoots photos every couple of months. I suspect there are a few million people like him. I would think and hope that the people buying the entry level know what they're getting into -- which, is that if you plan on using the phone much or the advanced features, it IS NOT for you. However, if you plan on just wanting a smart phone, but use none of the advanced features, then it most certainly is just fine.
I don't think it is that bad to keep it around.
I'm like your dad. I use the browser, an email client and Free-Cell. On rare occasion, Maps, sms, (hangouts) and phone.
Thats it, thats all.
Exactly. For how infrequently the average person needs to print something in color, there is little cost-benefit to keeping your own color printer at home. It's far more cost effective to get a consumer laser printer these days and just do your handful of color prints at a local print shop. I really recommend the Brother 2270DW. It does wireless printing and full duplex and can be bought for around $100USD. The best part is the toner cartridges last for thousands of pages and can be had for the same price as one inkjet cartridge. If you absolutely must have color printing, even color laserjets these days can be had for $250-300.
I recommend your recommendation. This workhorse printer is a bargain at around $100.00. I was able to get a refill for $40.00 from a small mom and pop shop, and when that ran out, bought a cartridge pair pack at Costco for a bargain. The Costco cartridge is rated 5000 pages of text that is 5% coverage of the page.
I would love to hear from other brother owners about different models and their levels of satisfaction.
I'm trying to remember what Iraq did to provoke the bombing of Osirak ... I think they built something that might eventually have allowed the development of nuclear parity.
Was it done with the US's encouragement? Answer = YES
Most people cannot learn the required skills to any reasonable degree. At best this initiative will increase the number of really bad programmers. There are far too many of those already.
Give an eight year old a computer and the text book, and in a week, he will be teaching the class. (COME ON!! ITS LIKELY TO HAPPEN).
Yes, let's move on for a war criminal wanted for crimes against humanity and focus on a mail server that was receiving non-classified email as much as a state state.gov address would ....
Neither President Obama nor Bush is "wanted" for any "crimes against humanity" by the ICC, INTERPOL, or any government. The emails that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton turned over from her server have been found to include at least two emails with Top Secret information, and that information was always Top Secret, as well as hundreds more with classified information. The FBI is investigating this matter, has seized the server, and the emails held by her attorney. It seems pretty clear that one or more people were reckless with handling classified information, and may have passed it on to people without security clearances and an official need to know. There is a genuine possibility someone will be prosecuted for this.
Clinton emails contained spy satellite data on North Korean nukes
New Clinton Violations In Use Of Thumb Drives For Emails
Do you think you could do better? Just look at the hours and travelling she worked, from Israel to USA to the Arab countries etc. etc. How about 16 hours per day, and then, collect the fatigue. Yes, she may have had a fatigue caused error, but what the hell!!!"
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women, genetically, are more maticulus then men. Once on the project, they produce far far better code than do men. Unlike men, when they get home, they have other responsibilities, such as children, groceries, etc. Let her husband assume those responsibilities, and watch--much higher quality code, with good clean logic.
Thats been my fantastic experience as their project leader. Suck that up Guys.
>> 1776 was a bunch of rich people convincing the poor to fight for them
That wasn't the question. It was whether "free-thinkers and weirdos ever caused an actual revolution?" Whatever class theory you hold, you can't deny there was something strange about our founding fathers - a little too obsessed with freemasonry or whatever, but they definitely all had a screw loose to think they could take on the greatest empire the world had ever known (the British) for the greatest prize ever known (half the world) and completely redefine government as we know it at the same time. And yet these "free-thinkers" (hello democracy) and "weirdos" (Greece was awesome, amiright?) pulled it off, and the world is better for their success.
Is your comment about Bush and Halliburton, and the invasion of Iraq?