Wait, why is THAT ok? There is no evidence that it was by design, so why shouldn't those people be laughed out for even considering something for which there is no scientific proof? Don't misunderstand, I personally think there is room for faith and science to co-exist, but I've been told by countless atheists and scientists that if you can't measure it, it isn't science AND it isn't true.
Thanks, Zappy, I've never thought of that, and will certainly add on my next card order.
This needs to be a friggin standard for all paper cards, though. If we could agree on the order of name, title, company, phone, email, etc; it would be easy to make all phones insert everything in the right field.
Or, are you pointing the QR code to a.vcf on the net?
All the folks on the East Coast balance them out for a net gain in energy reduction
Got any data to back that up? 1 hour more sunlight, in Indiana, Texas or New York, is still 1 hour more heat that you have in the afternoon. Is there something that makes it less expensive to cool on the East Coast?
the primary being related to energy consumption-- less heat is needed
In summer? We cool our homes in North America while on DST, so the result of Daylight "Saving" Time is that people that use automatic thermostats are cooling their homes at a hotter time of the day. Businesses are generally unaffected due to multiple working shifts or cleaning crews usually in the building to sunset regardless of DST.
less electricity for lights
Which do you think uses more, air conditioning or lighting (now that CFLs are so much more common)?
Please google the topic before opening your mouth, next time.
I kinda hope that they all screw off and drop dead. I don't need any more middle men between me and my destination.
Maybe the marketplaces will proliferate to the extent that none of them can become truly mandatory. Or maybe one day you'll choose between the 300 different app markets that do all sorts of shit and you'll have to be careful to shop out the one with the best terms. Or maybe you'll have to join a bunch of them (that product you just bought requires you to join another one, please generate ANOTHER unique username and password!) and you'll have to manage all 300 digital identities.
Perhaps you can see how excited I am.
I'm with you on the "store" overload with all of the DRM that comes with it, but I must point out that in terms of middle men, you're usually ahead with one of these stores. There are far more indie musicians/authors/software-devs now, since the chain is usually creator->store->customer, rather than creator->(agent)->smaller label/softwareco/publisher-> multinational parent corp -> distribution chain -> retail store -> customer.
You're not factoring in the bulk levels that console makers are buying at, nor their trend to sell the consoles at a loss when they first release them, knowing the loss will slow over time and later become profit, while making licensing money the whole time.
Also, I don't see having performance-related differences between one brand of console. The console makers want to keep things as simple as possiable, and getting into specs is exactly what they want to avoid. Heck, Microsoft even changed from a green to purple packaging for their Kinect games, just to make it that much easier to tell it won't work with just an Xbox.
If they can't even trust the end user to notice the "Requires Kinect" sticker, do you really think they'll expect them to know what a GPU is or what one they have?
What benefits does a console offer that a PC doesn't? This is anecdotal, but everyone I know that has a console is someone who has some difficulty in maintaining a computer. If you have a PC you don't need a console.
-Price. I was faced with upgrading CPU/RAM/HD/Video on my gaming desktop when I bought a Xbox 360 for 1/2 the price. Plus, I would have already been on V3 of my gaming rig by now, so now my Xbox has been 1/4 the price. -Time. I'm a Network Engineer, I fix computer related issues all day. Even if my gaming rig is working fine, I'll be tempted to tweak it, risk breaking it, then spend the night I'd rather spend gaming cleaning it up. Yes, I lost the ability to mod and tweak things, but I learned I enjoy playing games more. -Common Platform. Enough of my friends were on Xbox that I only had 2-3 people on PC to play with, but 10-15 on Xbox. That's not a trivial consideration. -Special games. Halo and Rock Band are fun games, and you can't get them on PC -Split-screen for shooters. I don't know of a single PC FPS that will allow multiple people on the game screen. Could be wrong.
These are different conclusions than your summary.
I was replying to the parent's question about why gold vs silver, or any other metal. You came to the conclusion that I was discussing a gold standard instead of fiat currency. I was discussing gold vs any other metal.
There are many reasons for it. NPR's "Planet Money" did a podcast asking the question "Why Gold?", and came to the conclusion that even if they had it to do all over again, gold is pretty much the best metal for using as a currency. It is rare, but not too rare, it is very inert, and it is easy to identify.
Might I suggest asking her to loosen the fucking leash on you a little bit? I'm pretty sure you're going to be unhappy with everything in life regardless of the phone if your wife needs up to the second/meter updates on your drive home from work. That isn't healthy.
Look, dick, I'm the one that found the program, I'm the one that chooses to send her the updates. Most of the time, she never even looks at them. My commute runs anywhere from 1 hour to 3 hours depending on traffic. Since I'm actually in a very healthy marriage that I'm very happy about, I have found over the last 10+ years that it is considerate to let people you love know when you're going to be late. From your response, I can see you have no understanding of being courteous.
Thank god their about to make using a phone while driving as bad as a DUI here, you need to stop fucking with your phone and drive instead.
Actually, I'm setting all of these apps up in the parking lot at work before I leave. By giving my wife the option to check a website when I'm running late rather than calling me, I'm actually NOT fucking with my phone. Your great advice is to either not send her my position and then answer her call when I'm late, or ignore her calls when I'm running late so she can sit & wonder if I'm safe in traffic or bleeding to death on the side of the road.
When it comes down to it, you're looking at a screen smaller than a deck of cards. Multi-tasking on that is pretty much useless.
I commonly run Glympse while listening to Pandora on my way home, so my wife knows when to expect me. I also sometime run Trapster to check for speed traps. None of those apps give a shit about the screen most of the time. That then allows me to run one of many apps that show traffic information on the screen. Running 4 apps at the same time might slow my charge rate to a crawl, but it is extremely useful.
At the same time, the lack of that ability is keeping me from moving from iPhone to WM7. However, this fall I'm sure I'll try one out.
Am I reading this right? Windows phones will now be able to do things android and iphones have been doing for years?
No. Windows phones will now be able to do something that Windows phones were able to do in 2002, 5 years before the iPhone was invented, 8 years before the iPhone got it, and 6 years before the Android was released. I never understood the huge step back they took, other than Microsoft Marketing told them to ship before it was ready, a familiar story.
Other manufacturers have previously offered what are known as micro, femto or pico cell devices, which typically are used to take cellular traffic off congested 3G networks and delivered over broadband connections. Alcatel-Lucent claims their offering differs in that existing devices are mainly used to supplement existing cell towers in areas of high demand, such as railway stations and sports events, rather than replace them.
Also, elsewhere in TFA they talk (without much detail) about how these devices scale from just two in small usage cases or can be stacked somehow to have the same number of connections as a full cell tower. Most microcells I've seen are only connecting double-digit subscribers, at best.
Use the robots to free up staff, let the human staff take care of the elderly. Have more automation in test results, checking on patients that are unconscious, filling meds, etc.
I'm sure their is a list of things the people in the hospitals hate to do that are boring, repeatable, and don't involve a patient directly. Put the robots there.
the bandwidth is unable to keep up with the total number of user on the network
Citation needed. I've never heard of this issue, in fact, I've heard quite the opposite. The issue is that the lines to the home are too slow to make full use of the backhaul lines.
I was going to reply with some examples of things that could go wrong. But I won't.
Because *that* wouldn't add to the discussion, would it?
Why can't my information be more private instead of less?
If I put MY information into a website that I do not pay for, I am the product, not the customer. That simple fact should be enough to clue you in that I should not expect privacy with any of the information that I put up there. If that didn't do it, perhaps the lack of full SSL on the site might indicate that I'm putting information in CLEAR TEXT on the fucking Internet. That would not be something I would do with information that is private.
I do put information on Facebook. I put the same information I used to put on my on personal website, but got to lazy to maintain it and my friends would rarely visit it. Facebook runs my website for me with MORE security than I had before. There is no way they could make Facebook LESS secure than a personal website open to the world.
So, now that I've feed the troll, can you answer my question? Pretty please, with sugar on top. You and so many people are out to protect my mortal soul from some evil that comes with "the Internet" having this information, so please, enlighten me.
Ok, so there is more information on Facebook. So, explain what evil thing someone is going to do with that information? I hear everyone shouting "PRIVACY!" about people that chose to put shit on the Internet. They obviously don't want to live like the Unibomber and want some of their information to be semi-public. So, what *exactly* are we afraid will happen when people know my phone number and home address?
If you had RTFA, you would have seen that this isn't about the books that said "how to do Bad Thing", this was about books who had Bad Thing in their title. The content of the books was similar to the Bible in that they both talk about Bad Things, and show how doing them leads to even worse things.
About 1/3 knowingly nodded, about 1/3 got wide-eyed & looked at each other, and the remaining 1/3 looked pissed that he would say such a thing. I think he got letters after that one.
So, yeah, about 2/3 of the people had not really read the Bible, which I expect to some extent (who knows how long they have been following this faith), but was also revealing to me.
That's incorrect about King David. He was called a man after the Lord's heart when he was a young man; however, that does not mean that David remained so. It also doesn't mean that what he did was sanctioned by God (it wasn't).
Never said God sanctioned it, I was actually pointing out that everyone sins, even those that seem Holy.
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Yeah, that is ok. But
Wait, why is THAT ok? There is no evidence that it was by design, so why shouldn't those people be laughed out for even considering something for which there is no scientific proof?
Don't misunderstand, I personally think there is room for faith and science to co-exist, but I've been told by countless atheists and scientists that if you can't measure it, it isn't science AND it isn't true.
OMG why is this not modded up??
Thanks, Zappy, I've never thought of that, and will certainly add on my next card order.
This needs to be a friggin standard for all paper cards, though. If we could agree on the order of name, title, company, phone, email, etc; it would be easy to make all phones insert everything in the right field.
Or, are you pointing the QR code to a .vcf on the net?
All the folks on the East Coast balance them out for a net gain in energy reduction
Got any data to back that up? 1 hour more sunlight, in Indiana, Texas or New York, is still 1 hour more heat that you have in the afternoon.
Is there something that makes it less expensive to cool on the East Coast?
the primary being related to energy consumption-- less heat is needed
In summer? We cool our homes in North America while on DST, so the result of Daylight "Saving" Time is that people that use automatic thermostats are cooling their homes at a hotter time of the day. Businesses are generally unaffected due to multiple working shifts or cleaning crews usually in the building to sunset regardless of DST.
less electricity for lights
Which do you think uses more, air conditioning or lighting (now that CFLs are so much more common)?
Please google the topic before opening your mouth, next time.
Same to you: http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB120406767043794825.html
http://www.physorg.com/news187946326.html
Thank you, wish I had mod points.
My guess is that it is all back to the DRM: Software to prevent you from copying (that is buggy), logins and passwords to forget, etc...
I kinda hope that they all screw off and drop dead. I don't need any more middle men between me and my destination.
Maybe the marketplaces will proliferate to the extent that none of them can become truly mandatory. Or maybe one day you'll choose between the 300 different app markets that do all sorts of shit and you'll have to be careful to shop out the one with the best terms. Or maybe you'll have to join a bunch of them (that product you just bought requires you to join another one, please generate ANOTHER unique username and password!) and you'll have to manage all 300 digital identities.
Perhaps you can see how excited I am.
I'm with you on the "store" overload with all of the DRM that comes with it, but I must point out that in terms of middle men, you're usually ahead with one of these stores. There are far more indie musicians/authors/software-devs now, since the chain is usually creator->store->customer, rather than creator->(agent)->smaller label/softwareco/publisher-> multinational parent corp -> distribution chain -> retail store -> customer.
You're not factoring in the bulk levels that console makers are buying at, nor their trend to sell the consoles at a loss when they first release them, knowing the loss will slow over time and later become profit, while making licensing money the whole time.
Also, I don't see having performance-related differences between one brand of console. The console makers want to keep things as simple as possiable, and getting into specs is exactly what they want to avoid. Heck, Microsoft even changed from a green to purple packaging for their Kinect games, just to make it that much easier to tell it won't work with just an Xbox.
If they can't even trust the end user to notice the "Requires Kinect" sticker, do you really think they'll expect them to know what a GPU is or what one they have?
What benefits does a console offer that a PC doesn't? This is anecdotal, but everyone I know that has a console is someone who has some difficulty in maintaining a computer. If you have a PC you don't need a console.
-Price. I was faced with upgrading CPU/RAM/HD/Video on my gaming desktop when I bought a Xbox 360 for 1/2 the price. Plus, I would have already been on V3 of my gaming rig by now, so now my Xbox has been 1/4 the price.
-Time. I'm a Network Engineer, I fix computer related issues all day. Even if my gaming rig is working fine, I'll be tempted to tweak it, risk breaking it, then spend the night I'd rather spend gaming cleaning it up. Yes, I lost the ability to mod and tweak things, but I learned I enjoy playing games more.
-Common Platform. Enough of my friends were on Xbox that I only had 2-3 people on PC to play with, but 10-15 on Xbox. That's not a trivial consideration.
-Special games. Halo and Rock Band are fun games, and you can't get them on PC
-Split-screen for shooters. I don't know of a single PC FPS that will allow multiple people on the game screen. Could be wrong.
These are different conclusions than your summary.
I was replying to the parent's question about why gold vs silver, or any other metal. You came to the conclusion that I was discussing a gold standard instead of fiat currency. I was discussing gold vs any other metal.
I don't understand gold either.
There are many reasons for it. NPR's "Planet Money" did a podcast asking the question "Why Gold?", and came to the conclusion that even if they had it to do all over again, gold is pretty much the best metal for using as a currency. It is rare, but not too rare, it is very inert, and it is easy to identify.
Podcast: http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2011/02/07/131363098/the-tuesday-podcast-why-gold
I didn't get it before until I listened to that.
While I think the parent is being funny, Ham Radio would be something that couldn't be stopped as long as you have little power.
Might I suggest asking her to loosen the fucking leash on you a little bit? I'm pretty sure you're going to be unhappy with everything in life regardless of the phone if your wife needs up to the second/meter updates on your drive home from work. That isn't healthy.
Look, dick, I'm the one that found the program, I'm the one that chooses to send her the updates. Most of the time, she never even looks at them. My commute runs anywhere from 1 hour to 3 hours depending on traffic. Since I'm actually in a very healthy marriage that I'm very happy about, I have found over the last 10+ years that it is considerate to let people you love know when you're going to be late. From your response, I can see you have no understanding of being courteous.
Thank god their about to make using a phone while driving as bad as a DUI here, you need to stop fucking with your phone and drive instead.
Actually, I'm setting all of these apps up in the parking lot at work before I leave. By giving my wife the option to check a website when I'm running late rather than calling me, I'm actually NOT fucking with my phone. Your great advice is to either not send her my position and then answer her call when I'm late, or ignore her calls when I'm running late so she can sit & wonder if I'm safe in traffic or bleeding to death on the side of the road.
Thanks, but I'm not taking your advice.
Press Release: http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2002/feb02/02-19PhoneEditionPR.mspx
Touchscreen: http://gdgt.com/htc/pocket-pc-phone/
Smartphone (standard cell keyboard): http://gdgt.com/htc/canary/
Any other Google research I can do for you?
When it comes down to it, you're looking at a screen smaller than a deck of cards. Multi-tasking on that is pretty much useless.
I commonly run Glympse while listening to Pandora on my way home, so my wife knows when to expect me. I also sometime run Trapster to check for speed traps. None of those apps give a shit about the screen most of the time. That then allows me to run one of many apps that show traffic information on the screen. Running 4 apps at the same time might slow my charge rate to a crawl, but it is extremely useful.
At the same time, the lack of that ability is keeping me from moving from iPhone to WM7. However, this fall I'm sure I'll try one out.
Am I reading this right? Windows phones will now be able to do things android and iphones have been doing for years?
No. Windows phones will now be able to do something that Windows phones were able to do in 2002, 5 years before the iPhone was invented, 8 years before the iPhone got it, and 6 years before the Android was released.
I never understood the huge step back they took, other than Microsoft Marketing told them to ship before it was ready, a familiar story.
From TFA:
Also, elsewhere in TFA they talk (without much detail) about how these devices scale from just two in small usage cases or can be stacked somehow to have the same number of connections as a full cell tower. Most microcells I've seen are only connecting double-digit subscribers, at best.
Use the robots to free up staff, let the human staff take care of the elderly. Have more automation in test results, checking on patients that are unconscious, filling meds, etc.
I'm sure their is a list of things the people in the hospitals hate to do that are boring, repeatable, and don't involve a patient directly. Put the robots there.
the bandwidth is unable to keep up with the total number of user on the network
Citation needed. I've never heard of this issue, in fact, I've heard quite the opposite. The issue is that the lines to the home are too slow to make full use of the backhaul lines.
I was going to reply with some examples of things that could go wrong.
But I won't.
Because *that* wouldn't add to the discussion, would it?
Why can't my information be more private instead of less?
If I put MY information into a website that I do not pay for, I am the product, not the customer. That simple fact should be enough to clue you in that I should not expect privacy with any of the information that I put up there. If that didn't do it, perhaps the lack of full SSL on the site might indicate that I'm putting information in CLEAR TEXT on the fucking Internet. That would not be something I would do with information that is private.
I do put information on Facebook. I put the same information I used to put on my on personal website, but got to lazy to maintain it and my friends would rarely visit it. Facebook runs my website for me with MORE security than I had before. There is no way they could make Facebook LESS secure than a personal website open to the world.
So, now that I've feed the troll, can you answer my question? Pretty please, with sugar on top. You and so many people are out to protect my mortal soul from some evil that comes with "the Internet" having this information, so please, enlighten me.
Ok, so there is more information on Facebook. So, explain what evil thing someone is going to do with that information? I hear everyone shouting "PRIVACY!" about people that chose to put shit on the Internet. They obviously don't want to live like the Unibomber and want some of their information to be semi-public. So, what *exactly* are we afraid will happen when people know my phone number and home address?
Why not? Can someone calmly explain to me what kind of BAD THING can happen if people know my phone number and home address?
If you had RTFA, you would have seen that this isn't about the books that said "how to do Bad Thing", this was about books who had Bad Thing in their title. The content of the books was similar to the Bible in that they both talk about Bad Things, and show how doing them leads to even worse things.
How DID the congregation react?
About 1/3 knowingly nodded, about 1/3 got wide-eyed & looked at each other, and the remaining 1/3 looked pissed that he would say such a thing. I think he got letters after that one.
So, yeah, about 2/3 of the people had not really read the Bible, which I expect to some extent (who knows how long they have been following this faith), but was also revealing to me.
That's incorrect about King David. He was called a man after the Lord's heart when he was a young man; however, that does not mean that David remained so. It also doesn't mean that what he did was sanctioned by God (it wasn't).
Never said God sanctioned it, I was actually pointing out that everyone sins, even those that seem Holy.