probably a connection... i just did the same thing and had an identical experience. japan -> SFO -> east coast u.s.
in most airports international arrivals and domestic departures are in different areas. so you arrive internationally, go through u.s. customs and immigration, leave the "secure area," go to your connecting domestic flight, and welcome to security theatre.
i opted out of the scanners (as i always have) which pissed off my husband, but we had enough time to make the connecting flight and i guess i'm just stubborn enough to point out when theatre is, in fact, theatre. the GP was right... at least in japan, there was no taking your shoes off, no irradiating scanners, no obsession with liquids. just the old-style luggage scanners and metal detectors. way faster, way more dignity. and as so many other posters have pointed out, just as secure. *sigh*
If this is generally applied to a workspace, I'm confident that the bosses will be the first to be red flagged! Maybe this can help reducing the amount of psychopathic leadership?
nah. this will be configured to reward standard psychopathic, extroverted, "leadership" behaviours. there's no way that those on top are ever going to use something that tells them they shouldn't be on top.
Astronomy is the naming of the stars, Astrology should rightfully be the logical study of the stars
actually, "astronomy" is the law (or regulating) of the stars. as opposed, for example, to anonymous. "nomos" is law, "onyma" is name (someday, someone will explain to me why the romans decided that the upsilon in greek ought to be transliterated as "y"). so "astronomy" isn't quite as mis-named as it appears.
it may be worth commenting here that Cingular doesn't cripple their bluetooth handsets. between us, my husband and i have had 4 bluetooth-capable handsets from cingular (a SonyEricsson T610, two Nokia 6820s, and a Palm Treo 650) and bluetooth on them has been used for the following:
1. to transfer contacts, ringtones, and photos phone-to-phone
2. to transfer contacts, ringtones, and photos phone-to-computer (both windows and mac) and back.
3. as a frontrow-style remote for a powerbook
4. email and web apps from powerbook-to-treo
5. as a dial-up modem for the powerbook
6. paired with a bluetooth headset
so i wouldn't doubt that the iPhone will he capable of pairing with a bluetooth keyboard and/or mouse. or if it can't, it (probably) won't be because Cingular crippled the bluetooth.
Usually when an inexperienced third party is suggesting design decisions to the pros, the result isn't so successful. The classic example would be letting marketing or management design a product over the objections of the experienced developers (who are then often blamed or fired for the product's failure).
i think the key here is that what you're describing is marketing attempting to design a product for gamers, whereas the suggestion is (if i'm reading this right) "let's have marketing design a product for marketers." in which case, they know the audience a lot better and have a much better idea of what they might want. now, it's obvious that no one with absolutely no game designing experience should be single-handedly designing a game (remember when homer designed a car?;) but allowing a non-gamer to have input in a game being designed for non-gamers might not be the disaster you forsee.
Try holding that nice Logitech bluetooth mouse in your left hand. You'll find that it's uncomfortable just sitting there. Never mind moving it around on your desk.
it's not bluetooth, but i just bought this mouse from logitech. a little big for my hand, but overall, not too bad. i didn't even need a new mouse, i just bought it to "vote with my wallet" (as they say) and support the manufacture of left-handed peripherals.
i have to admit, this is starting to concern me about the wiimote. i refused to buy a DS until i finally saw a demo of metroid prime: hunters in a store which allowed you to change to a left-handed stylus configuration. i was hoping similar support would be offered for the wii, but now... i'm thinking i won't get one at launch and wait until i can see another in-store demo. and since i have a gamecube anyway, i'll probably get the 'cube version of twilight princess.
by "n.b. must support mac", I take it you mean that for that result, a notbook must support MacOS? Sorry, none do, but with FreeBSD, Linux, or IMO even Windows, I don't need MacOS.
no, he probably means Nota Bene, which means he wants information about a digital music player that supports mac.
WoW had a strongly established name to pull in users right away. Everquest and Ultima Online had to start from scratch and took longer to grow
uh...ultima online maybe had the name of eight other games before it? and it used the same world. not to mention a ninth one announced. it had a userbase all ready for it. UO didn't grow more slowly than WoW because of a lack of name recognition, it grew more slowly because it came out in 1997 and there weren't millions of people with broadband then.
lest we forget.
(and now someone's going to mention the underworlds, and maybe how we should count serpent isle seperately as well)
The manufacturers mention, non-stop, that guns can kill, and that only people that understand their safe and legal use should own and use them. They already do this, a lot, which is why courts generally find them not to be responsible when some idiot commits a crime with one. Now, why the makers of kitchen knives don't have to do the same thing is actually sort of a head-scratcher.
because kitchen knives fall under the betamax decision, if you will. the primary purpose of a kitchen knife is to cut up food, i.e. something that's already dead, a legal use. not to kill people, an illegal use. they do tend to include warnings like, "Beware! Very Sharp!" a better example there might have been a switchblade, which, i believe, are actively outlawed in places.
Much writing can be improved by reducing each sentence to the basic concepts. Start by removing "that", "which", and all prepositions; then rebuild the sentence adding as few words as possible.
Disclaimer: I can't even tell if your post is serious or not, but since this is/., here's my $0.02
Further Disclaimer: I know 5 languages. Sadly, all of them are Indo-European and 2 of them are dead. And yes, I was actually born in the States.
Your suggestions may simplify your writing, but it also makes you look like you have a simple mind. One of the key points that people (or english teachers) look for in a person's writing is the ability to properly use subordinate clauses (usually introduced by "that" or "which"). The use of subordinate clauses indicates a more complex sentence structure, and implies a more complex thought structure. The idea that a sentence should only contain one idea is mildly ridiculous when you look at all the grammatical structures that have evolved to enable us to contain more than one idea in one sentence (conjunctions and subordinate clauses to begin with). Writing short, choppy sentences disturbs the flow of the writing and brings the reader up hard at the end of each sentence. Sentences using conjunctions or subordinate clauses are actually easier for me to read (and write), because they flow more smoothly.
can you ACTUALLY use someone elses credit/debit card in the US?
believe it or not, you can. i've used my parents' and my husband's cards, and my younger brother has a card with my name on it. many retail stores will take it as long as the last name is the same, and in most supermarkets here today, you swipe the card yourself; the cashier never even sees it.
i work for the banking industry, so i know how credit/debit card tranactions are actually processed. it really makes me wonder what the signature on the receipt is for anyway.
i have a cingular nation plan, or whatever they call it. it's a GSM plan.
i pay ~$85/mo for "taxes and fees", 850 minutes, rollover, 5000 "night and weekend minutes", mobile-to-mobile, and a second line for my husband.
the plan is expensive, but i was paying $45/mo for 350/3500, no mobile-to-mobile, and no rollover on my old TDMA plan with one line, so a comparison from one cingular plan to another makes it look comparatively cheap, for what i'm getting. the reason i got the national plan was because at the time, it was the only plan that they claimed wouldn't charge you roaming if your phone picked up another carrier's network. and indeed, i've never been charged roaming.
i have no real complaints about cingular's reception or customer service. however...it might be the phone. i have a nokia 3590 and i get partial to full reception anywhere i go. i haven't had a reception problem since i switched to their GSM network (the TDMA phone used to drop during a call to voicemail, for some weird reason). my husband has a sony ericsson T616, and he can't get reception a lot of places i can. YMMV, as they say.
oh, and for comparison, as other people have stated, the T616 has full bluetooth capabilities.
speaking as an american, frankly, i wish/more/ cellphones here had BT. my partner's does, but mine doesn't. blerg. maybe i'll get a sonyericsson next time.
re: toaster oven a toaster oven is a mini-oven that can sit on your countertop and also can toast bread. it has usually 2-3 settings: bake, toast, and broil (optional...and just in case, broiling is the application of intense heat in the oven from one direction). it's more useful than a plain toaster, and it doesn't make things soggy like a microwave.
i actually work for a company that provides encryption for ATM/credit card/POS transactions.
in the 80s, they were, in fact, encrypting the transactions. simply, using single DES, but they were doing it.
ATM manufacturers and banks are incredibly paranoid about man-in-the-middle attacks. we currently have a gutted ATM in the back of our shop waiting for a new, reinforced smart keypad because the bank is afraid someone will rip out the keypad, plug in a laptop, and empty people's bank accounts. the new keypad, besides being designed to be impossible to get into physically without a saw, will actually encrypt any information (which is to say, the keys pressed) going from it to the ATM's central processor thingy.
transactions are checksummed and time-stamped, and scrambled in various other ways before they're even encrypted, often with various proprietary algorithms that give me headaches, but which i'm probably not allowed to detail here;)
> > I don't get cash from ATMs with my credit card, for that I use my ATM card.
>I don't think we have `ATM cards` in the UK. You get a debit card as standard with most bank accounts.
an ATM card is essentially the same as a debit card.
a debit/ATM card and a normal credit card are/not/ the same thing.
to explain some other things brought up in this thread,the way it works is this:
1. your bank gives you a card.
2. it can be solely an ATM/debit card, or it can be an ATM/debit/mastercard/visa.
3. you are not charged for using that card to get money out of your bank account at ATMs owned by your bank (or at Wawa, if you live in the philly, pa area;)
4. assuming you go with the mastercard/visa option, you may use the card for POS (point of sale) transactions/either/ as a debit card (i.e. enter pin) or as a credit card (sign the slip). both transactions take money directly from your bank account. the difference is, in the u.s. (unlike, say canada), many more places accept cc transactions than debit card transactions. 4a. also, the merchant pays more each time you use your card as a cc than as the debit card. the difference is in who does the authorization for the purchase.
5. the reason ATMs charge a fee for using a straight cc is that is is/not/ issued by your bank, even though the ATM may be able to handle the various authorization formats demanded by each cc issuer. these are usually considered cash advances, and are hit with extra fees and interest rates on your cc bill.
You have the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness inherently. You were born with it. This right wasn't granted to you by a piece of paper. The Bill of Rights simply declares that which is already so.
It is entirely possible that they left one or two things out.
that would be why the phrase "...and are endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness" is in the declaration of independence and not the bill of rights?:)
Slashdot Mirror
http://www.yardsbrewing.com/ales/ales-of-the-revolution/poor-richards-tavern-spruce
the first time they made this, they posted pics of the guys putting a whole spruce tree into the tank.
there are also links on that page to the other "ales of the revolution."
probably a connection... i just did the same thing and had an identical experience. japan -> SFO -> east coast u.s.
in most airports international arrivals and domestic departures are in different areas. so you arrive internationally, go through u.s. customs and immigration, leave the "secure area," go to your connecting domestic flight, and welcome to security theatre.
i opted out of the scanners (as i always have) which pissed off my husband, but we had enough time to make the connecting flight and i guess i'm just stubborn enough to point out when theatre is, in fact, theatre. the GP was right... at least in japan, there was no taking your shoes off, no irradiating scanners, no obsession with liquids. just the old-style luggage scanners and metal detectors. way faster, way more dignity. and as so many other posters have pointed out, just as secure. *sigh*
nah. this will be configured to reward standard psychopathic, extroverted, "leadership" behaviours. there's no way that those on top are ever going to use something that tells them they shouldn't be on top.
Astronomy is the naming of the stars, Astrology should rightfully be the logical study of the stars
actually, "astronomy" is the law (or regulating) of the stars. as opposed, for example, to anonymous. "nomos" is law, "onyma" is name (someday, someone will explain to me why the romans decided that the upsilon in greek ought to be transliterated as "y"). so "astronomy" isn't quite as mis-named as it appears.
it may be worth commenting here that Cingular doesn't cripple their bluetooth handsets. between us, my husband and i have had 4 bluetooth-capable handsets from cingular (a SonyEricsson T610, two Nokia 6820s, and a Palm Treo 650) and bluetooth on them has been used for the following:
1. to transfer contacts, ringtones, and photos phone-to-phone
2. to transfer contacts, ringtones, and photos phone-to-computer (both windows and mac) and back.
3. as a frontrow-style remote for a powerbook
4. email and web apps from powerbook-to-treo
5. as a dial-up modem for the powerbook
6. paired with a bluetooth headset
so i wouldn't doubt that the iPhone will he capable of pairing with a bluetooth keyboard and/or mouse. or if it can't, it (probably) won't be because Cingular crippled the bluetooth.
i think the key here is that what you're describing is marketing attempting to design a product for gamers, whereas the suggestion is (if i'm reading this right) "let's have marketing design a product for marketers." in which case, they know the audience a lot better and have a much better idea of what they might want. now, it's obvious that no one with absolutely no game designing experience should be single-handedly designing a game (remember when homer designed a car? ;) but allowing a non-gamer to have input in a game being designed for non-gamers might not be the disaster you forsee.
Immature Radioactive Samurai Slugs!
(no one will get this. i can't even remember what tv show it was from anymore. tiny toons, i think)
it's not bluetooth, but i just bought this mouse from logitech. a little big for my hand, but overall, not too bad. i didn't even need a new mouse, i just bought it to "vote with my wallet" (as they say) and support the manufacture of left-handed peripherals.
i have to admit, this is starting to concern me about the wiimote. i refused to buy a DS until i finally saw a demo of metroid prime: hunters in a store which allowed you to change to a left-handed stylus configuration. i was hoping similar support would be offered for the wii, but now... i'm thinking i won't get one at launch and wait until i can see another in-store demo. and since i have a gamecube anyway, i'll probably get the 'cube version of twilight princess.
no, he probably means Nota Bene, which means he wants information about a digital music player that supports mac.
clicky
also, if you go to their store, you can get it on a tshirt.
uh...ultima online maybe had the name of eight other games before it? and it used the same world. not to mention a ninth one announced. it had a userbase all ready for it. UO didn't grow more slowly than WoW because of a lack of name recognition, it grew more slowly because it came out in 1997 and there weren't millions of people with broadband then.
lest we forget.
(and now someone's going to mention the underworlds, and maybe how we should count serpent isle seperately as well)
that was humpbacks.
you forgot "Snootchie-bootchies."
wait, you mean that's not canon?
because kitchen knives fall under the betamax decision, if you will. the primary purpose of a kitchen knife is to cut up food, i.e. something that's already dead, a legal use. not to kill people, an illegal use. they do tend to include warnings like, "Beware! Very Sharp!" a better example there might have been a switchblade, which, i believe, are actively outlawed in places.
different actor. that's Sebastian Shaw, not David Prowse. i'm at work, or i'd give you the IMDb link :)
Disclaimer: I can't even tell if your post is serious or not, but since this is /., here's my $0.02
Further Disclaimer: I know 5 languages. Sadly, all of them are Indo-European and 2 of them are dead. And yes, I was actually born in the States.
Your suggestions may simplify your writing, but it also makes you look like you have a simple mind. One of the key points that people (or english teachers) look for in a person's writing is the ability to properly use subordinate clauses (usually introduced by "that" or "which"). The use of subordinate clauses indicates a more complex sentence structure, and implies a more complex thought structure. The idea that a sentence should only contain one idea is mildly ridiculous when you look at all the grammatical structures that have evolved to enable us to contain more than one idea in one sentence (conjunctions and subordinate clauses to begin with). Writing short, choppy sentences disturbs the flow of the writing and brings the reader up hard at the end of each sentence. Sentences using conjunctions or subordinate clauses are actually easier for me to read (and write), because they flow more smoothly.
believe it or not, you can. i've used my parents' and my husband's cards, and my younger brother has a card with my name on it. many retail stores will take it as long as the last name is the same, and in most supermarkets here today, you swipe the card yourself; the cashier never even sees it.
i work for the banking industry, so i know how credit/debit card tranactions are actually processed. it really makes me wonder what the signature on the receipt is for anyway.
not according to my last bill. it clearly has regular minutes and N+W minutes delimited.
i have a cingular nation plan, or whatever they call it. it's a GSM plan.
i pay ~$85/mo for "taxes and fees", 850 minutes, rollover, 5000 "night and weekend minutes", mobile-to-mobile, and a second line for my husband.
the plan is expensive, but i was paying $45/mo for 350/3500, no mobile-to-mobile, and no rollover on my old TDMA plan with one line, so a comparison from one cingular plan to another makes it look comparatively cheap, for what i'm getting. the reason i got the national plan was because at the time, it was the only plan that they claimed wouldn't charge you roaming if your phone picked up another carrier's network. and indeed, i've never been charged roaming.
i have no real complaints about cingular's reception or customer service. however...it might be the phone. i have a nokia 3590 and i get partial to full reception anywhere i go. i haven't had a reception problem since i switched to their GSM network (the TDMA phone used to drop during a call to voicemail, for some weird reason). my husband has a sony ericsson T616, and he can't get reception a lot of places i can. YMMV, as they say.
oh, and for comparison, as other people have stated, the T616 has full bluetooth capabilities.
speaking as an american, frankly, i wish /more/ cellphones here had BT. my partner's does, but mine doesn't. blerg. maybe i'll get a sonyericsson next time.
re: toaster oven
a toaster oven is a mini-oven that can sit on your countertop and also can toast bread. it has usually 2-3 settings: bake, toast, and broil (optional...and just in case, broiling is the application of intense heat in the oven from one direction). it's more useful than a plain toaster, and it doesn't make things soggy like a microwave.
i actually work for a company that provides encryption for ATM/credit card/POS transactions.
;)
in the 80s, they were, in fact, encrypting the transactions. simply, using single DES, but they were doing it.
ATM manufacturers and banks are incredibly paranoid about man-in-the-middle attacks. we currently have a gutted ATM in the back of our shop waiting for a new, reinforced smart keypad because the bank is afraid someone will rip out the keypad, plug in a laptop, and empty people's bank accounts. the new keypad, besides being designed to be impossible to get into physically without a saw, will actually encrypt any information (which is to say, the keys pressed) going from it to the ATM's central processor thingy.
transactions are checksummed and time-stamped, and scrambled in various other ways before they're even encrypted, often with various proprietary algorithms that give me headaches, but which i'm probably not allowed to detail here
> > I don't get cash from ATMs with my credit card, for that I use my ATM card.
/not/ the same thing.
;)
/either/ as a debit card (i.e. enter pin) or as a credit card (sign the slip). both transactions take money directly from your bank account. the difference is, in the u.s. (unlike, say canada), many more places accept cc transactions than debit card transactions.
/not/ issued by your bank, even though the ATM may be able to handle the various authorization formats demanded by each cc issuer. these are usually considered cash advances, and are hit with extra fees and interest rates on your cc bill.
>I don't think we have `ATM cards` in the UK. You get a debit card as standard with most bank accounts.
an ATM card is essentially the same as a debit card.
a debit/ATM card and a normal credit card are
to explain some other things brought up in this thread,the way it works is this:
1. your bank gives you a card.
2. it can be solely an ATM/debit card, or it can be an ATM/debit/mastercard/visa.
3. you are not charged for using that card to get money out of your bank account at ATMs owned by your bank (or at Wawa, if you live in the philly, pa area
4. assuming you go with the mastercard/visa option, you may use the card for POS (point of sale) transactions
4a. also, the merchant pays more each time you use your card as a cc than as the debit card. the difference is in who does the authorization for the purchase.
5. the reason ATMs charge a fee for using a straight cc is that is is
that would be why the phrase "...and are endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness" is in the declaration of independence and not the bill of rights? :)
yes, there's no complex information at all in books.