Use Google earth. It has a measuring tool that's surprisingly accurate. For kicks I used it to measure a local (American) football field and it was accurate almost to the foot.
Third, as is pointed out every time an incident like this occurs, trademark owners have to take no chances and must enforce perceived violations or risk losing their right to it.
So where's the lawsuit against Applebee's since that apple looks a lot more like Apple (Inc.)'s logo than AppleADay's logo?
That's an interesting interpretation of "paid" you used there. Apple allowed Xerox to buy $1M worth of pre-IPO Apple stock. Apple wasn't $1M poorer after the transaction so who's paying here?
I must be holding it wrong or something because damn, it's consistent, reproducible behavior. Past a certain point, the page is just solid gray.
I was going to take a screen shot to illustrate the problem but now I can't even load/. (from work). Other sites load fine - maybe it's just a connection problem from work. Will try again when I get home.
In other quirks and annoyances:
no scroll indicators - you can't tell where (relative to top,bottom) in a page you are
no home page (as another user pointed out)
the music player can't browse by first letter, making finding a artist/song tedious if not using the search
But I can live with it all for $150, especially when I can load it android, when it's available.
WebOS itself is pretty awesome, but the default browser needs serious work. It can't load any slashdot discussion past 100 comments without flaking out with rendering issues.
And considering that browsing and reading are the two big reasons I wanted a tablet for, this is a pretty serious drawback to an otherwise excellent deal.
You, my friend, need a quick-lacing system like these: http://squeezums.com/personalorders.html
I used these for triathlons but carried them to road running just because they're so convenient and quick. Squeeze, snug, and you're out the door.
There are other options but these are cheaper and just as effective.
Jesus Christ, I could not agree more how underwhelming this video was. The intro credits took 20 seconds, there was probably only 30 seconds of actual "game" video and the whole thing has a really annoying soundtrack.
For anybody who hasn't watched it yet, skip it, or at least turn down the volume and crank up the contrast because I could barely make anything out. The last minute or so was just pointless artsy animation. Meh.
...not only do U.S. sites continue to offer pirated Russian movies, but that YouTube and Google should be shut down for not respecting local laws'
Well, how do you like THEM apples. Speaking of apples, or at least Apple Corps Ltd. it doesn't feel so good to be on the other side, no? If they want to criticize US-based companies for not respecting local laws, maybe they should look at sites like this, which I believe is the former AllofMP3.
I'm not saying that two wrongs make a right, but man, this is the pot calling the kettle black. I guess in Soviet Russia, YouTube pirates you!
We need tech that can spot snipers and control large sections of urban landscape where hostiles and non-combatants co-mingle and sometimes even co-habitate as well. The only way to spot them right now is either to wait for the bang (and we sure love those bangs), or drive around in a semi-truck with some backscatter x-ray equipment stuffed in the back that's busy giving the operators and innocent passerbys on the street cancer looking for hidden weapons.
This isn't quite true any more. There are a number of system now in use that use sound and muzzle flash characteristics to pinpoint and identify the direction and gun the shot came from.
His family was upper middle class; his father was a prominent lawyer, his mother served on the board of directors for First Interstate BancSystem and the United Way, and her father, J. W. Maxwell, was a national bank president
perhaps we will see a moderation in police behavior.
I certainly hope so, but it'll be more likely they'll arrest you for obstruction or something else. Sure, it's a bullshit charge and will likely be dropped. But I think this would dissuade most people from recording too often.
It's been said before, but it should be repeated again and again: marketing. Not to you, the end user, but to Google's real clients who will fork out good money for fine-grain demographic information. This is Google's means of guaranteeing that the data they're selling is good.
But that's the thing, what kind of demographic information are they going to get from a NAME. That's really the only requirement I see from Google's Profiles.
And if you're going to say that they can probably gather it from all the other information on you based on your Gmail email and searching habits, then don't you think they'll already have a pretty good idea what your name is?
Also, their support pages:
Google does not and will never rent, sell or share information that personally identifies you for marketing purposes without your express permission. No email content or other personally identifiable information will be provided to advertisers. We provide advertisers only aggregated non-personal information such as the number of times one of their ads was clicked.
So I don't see what the angle is with their real names push. And if they do start selling my "real name" to advertisers, they can kiss my patronage goodbye
Why are there reports that people lost Gmail access from earlier G+ account suspensions? Did Google actually do that, or were people confused somehow?
Google: Gmail suspensions are unrelated to Google+ suspensions. It's possible, and an unfortunate coincidence, for users to have both products suspended at the same time, for separate reasons. Earlier in the summer there was some confusion around SMS verification, which we addressed here.
I am considering "downgrading" my G+ account after reading this but let's not spread any fud here.
Having said that, I'm not quite sure why Google is being such a dick about this real name policy. It's really quite possible that they already know exactly who you are so they have all the info they need, so why give yourself such a bad buzz (pun intended) about this anal-retentive real names policy.
The first time, I simply came to a stop on a 30MPH road where a guy was making a left turn into a shopping plaza entrance and a woman behind me in her minivan didn't stop
This is the exact problem this Powerstrip can solve.
Read the OP's message again. He's talking about the largest consumers of energy in the typical house - the HVAC system. Good luck trying to plug those into their PowerStrip.
One: the GPPP(whatever) was comparing the entire ChromeOS with and iOS app. It was ridiculous to begin with.
Two: I was exactly in the same situation as the author of the article - how to do a screen shot. For me it was on my iPod Touch. How the hell do you do that? I had to Google it to discover that Home button + Sleep Button will put a picture in the photos app. Not the most intuitive combo and there's no way you would figure that out without help or documentation.
And when iOS added "multitasking", I double-pressed the home button expecting to see the music player controls pop up. But I see this row of icons appear beneath the dock. What the hell was that? Some googling gave me the answer. Turns out it was the Task Manager.
The fact that the user base of the iOS is orders of magnitude larger than ChromeOS might account for the dearth of documentation. Word just gets around on how to do certain things in the iOS. But it's certainly not because it isn't needed.
There is a spinning bike that leans left/right, but after having tried, it, i can say that it in no way reproduces "real" cycling. It's more of a gimmick than anything else.
They are the same people that go all the way to the end of a merge lane and then force themselves in suddenly
These people piss me off too. That's no way to behave in a civil and polite society, more so in the Midwest where we're typed as "nice." But lo and behold when I found out how wrong I was.
I can't find the original study, but I heard this on some NPR program. Yeah, surprised me too. I guess fairness and correctness aren't always mutual.
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Screw the patents! Where can I get a crackhead chihuahua with a Gattling gun?!
...getting a sense of scale is rather tricky.
Use Google earth. It has a measuring tool that's surprisingly accurate. For kicks I used it to measure a local (American) football field and it was accurate almost to the foot.
Third, as is pointed out every time an incident like this occurs, trademark owners have to take no chances and must enforce perceived violations or risk losing their right to it.
So where's the lawsuit against Applebee's since that apple looks a lot more like Apple (Inc.)'s logo than AppleADay's logo?
Apple paid Xerox (in stocks)...
That's an interesting interpretation of "paid" you used there. Apple allowed Xerox to buy $1M worth of pre-IPO Apple stock. Apple wasn't $1M poorer after the transaction so who's paying here?
Here's a screenshot of what happens on my Touchpad browser. If you have any suggestions, I'm listening.
Maybe it's my /. preferences for threading... I haven't tried changing that yet.
I must be holding it wrong or something because damn, it's consistent, reproducible behavior. Past a certain point, the page is just solid gray.
I was going to take a screen shot to illustrate the problem but now I can't even load /. (from work). Other sites load fine - maybe it's just a connection problem from work. Will try again when I get home.
In other quirks and annoyances:
But I can live with it all for $150, especially when I can load it android, when it's available.
WebOS itself is pretty awesome, but the default browser needs serious work. It can't load any slashdot discussion past 100 comments without flaking out with rendering issues.
And considering that browsing and reading are the two big reasons I wanted a tablet for, this is a pretty serious drawback to an otherwise excellent deal.
or are they trying to send false data to lure US and ROK units into NK air and sea space?
If the US enters NK airspace, it's for damn sure that it's on purpose or something has gone FUBAR because the military GPS signal is encrypted.
So while NK can jam the signal, there's no way they're going to spoof it
You, my friend, need a quick-lacing system like these:
http://squeezums.com/personalorders.html
I used these for triathlons but carried them to road running just because they're so convenient and quick. Squeeze, snug, and you're out the door.
There are other options but these are cheaper and just as effective.
Jesus Christ, I could not agree more how underwhelming this video was. The intro credits took 20 seconds, there was probably only 30 seconds of actual "game" video and the whole thing has a really annoying soundtrack.
For anybody who hasn't watched it yet, skip it, or at least turn down the volume and crank up the contrast because I could barely make anything out. The last minute or so was just pointless artsy animation. Meh.
...grumpy because I'm working late
...not only do U.S. sites continue to offer pirated Russian movies, but that YouTube and Google should be shut down for not respecting local laws'
Well, how do you like THEM apples. Speaking of apples, or at least Apple Corps Ltd. it doesn't feel so good to be on the other side, no? If they want to criticize US-based companies for not respecting local laws, maybe they should look at sites like this, which I believe is the former AllofMP3.
I'm not saying that two wrongs make a right, but man, this is the pot calling the kettle black. I guess in Soviet Russia, YouTube pirates you!
We need tech that can spot snipers and control large sections of urban landscape where hostiles and non-combatants co-mingle and sometimes even co-habitate as well. The only way to spot them right now is either to wait for the bang (and we sure love those bangs), or drive around in a semi-truck with some backscatter x-ray equipment stuffed in the back that's busy giving the operators and innocent passerbys on the street cancer looking for hidden weapons.
This isn't quite true any more. There are a number of system now in use that use sound and muzzle flash characteristics to pinpoint and identify the direction and gun the shot came from.
I do know that Gates started with very little...
Wait, what?
His family was upper middle class; his father was a prominent lawyer, his mother served on the board of directors for First Interstate BancSystem and the United Way, and her father, J. W. Maxwell, was a national bank president
perhaps we will see a moderation in police behavior.
I certainly hope so, but it'll be more likely they'll arrest you for obstruction or something else. Sure, it's a bullshit charge and will likely be dropped. But I think this would dissuade most people from recording too often.
It's been said before, but it should be repeated again and again: marketing. Not to you, the end user, but to Google's real clients who will fork out good money for fine-grain demographic information. This is Google's means of guaranteeing that the data they're selling is good.
But that's the thing, what kind of demographic information are they going to get from a NAME. That's really the only requirement I see from Google's Profiles.
And if you're going to say that they can probably gather it from all the other information on you based on your Gmail email and searching habits, then don't you think they'll already have a pretty good idea what your name is?
Also, their support pages:
Google does not and will never rent, sell or share information that personally identifies you for marketing purposes without your express permission. No email content or other personally identifiable information will be provided to advertisers. We provide advertisers only aggregated non-personal information such as the number of times one of their ads was clicked.
So I don't see what the angle is with their real names push. And if they do start selling my "real name" to advertisers, they can kiss my patronage goodbye
Why are there reports that people lost Gmail access from earlier G+ account suspensions? Did Google actually do that, or were people confused somehow?
Google: Gmail suspensions are unrelated to Google+ suspensions. It's possible, and an unfortunate coincidence, for users to have both products suspended at the same time, for separate reasons. Earlier in the summer there was some confusion around SMS verification, which we addressed here.
I am considering "downgrading" my G+ account after reading this but let's not spread any fud here.
Having said that, I'm not quite sure why Google is being such a dick about this real name policy. It's really quite possible that they already know exactly who you are so they have all the info they need, so why give yourself such a bad buzz (pun intended) about this anal-retentive real names policy.
...both old plugs and new plugs are going to fall out all the fucking time.
Jobs: Obviously, you're jacking it wrong
The first time, I simply came to a stop on a 30MPH road where a guy was making a left turn into a shopping plaza entrance and a woman behind me in her minivan didn't stop
Maybe she was busy talking on her cell phone.
Google's got you covered: http://www.google.com/landing/recipes/
This is the exact problem this Powerstrip can solve.
Read the OP's message again. He's talking about the largest consumers of energy in the typical house - the HVAC system. Good luck trying to plug those into their PowerStrip.
I've got two issues with your comment.
One: the GPPP(whatever) was comparing the entire ChromeOS with and iOS app. It was ridiculous to begin with.
Two: I was exactly in the same situation as the author of the article - how to do a screen shot. For me it was on my iPod Touch. How the hell do you do that? I had to Google it to discover that Home button + Sleep Button will put a picture in the photos app. Not the most intuitive combo and there's no way you would figure that out without help or documentation.
And when iOS added "multitasking", I double-pressed the home button expecting to see the music player controls pop up. But I see this row of icons appear beneath the dock. What the hell was that? Some googling gave me the answer. Turns out it was the Task Manager.
The fact that the user base of the iOS is orders of magnitude larger than ChromeOS might account for the dearth of documentation. Word just gets around on how to do certain things in the iOS. But it's certainly not because it isn't needed.
Seriously, this is news now? Microsoft has this published on their website for some time now.
needs to be shut down!
Why would they shut it down when they've gotten 80% of Americans to approve of the invasion of our privacy?
Apparently, Americans deserve neither liberty nor safety
There is a spinning bike that leans left/right, but after having tried, it, i can say that it in no way reproduces "real" cycling. It's more of a gimmick than anything else.
They are the same people that go all the way to the end of a merge lane and then force themselves in suddenly
These people piss me off too. That's no way to behave in a civil and polite society, more so in the Midwest where we're typed as "nice." But lo and behold when I found out how wrong I was.
I can't find the original study, but I heard this on some NPR program. Yeah, surprised me too. I guess fairness and correctness aren't always mutual.