And it is better for it. Want to know my bet on previous your comment? The idea was 100% stolen, on the number of words, my bet is atleast 50%. abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
There is no such thing as a reliable laptop. Ignore those Mac fans that say otherwise. What would they know? Mac fans buy new every time Apple says to anyway! There is no time for anything to go bad!
Just get a really nice desktop and an always on internet connection. Also, get unlimitted data on your phone, and a tether app. Get a decent tablet, an integrated keyboard/case for it and a bluetooth mouse. Note - Apple products do not count as decent tablets for your purposes. Apple is too controling to let you use a mouse!
You will want that mouse because what you are going to do is access that desktop by remote desktop or VNC. There ya go! A system that is reliable. Laptops are not!
No. with a free developers account you can compile on X-code and run in an emulator. To actually get the app onto your device you will have to pay for their $100/year developer account.
That all of course is not even including the price of actually purchasing a Mac.
People with repetitive blunt trauma brain injuries prefer iOS devices so much they can't talk about anything else. I really don't see anything surprising about that!
Every electric lawn care tool I have ever used has sucked. I mean really, really sucked hard! They just don't have the torque to get a job done well, they take forever to charge and you are lucky if you finish before the battery runs out. The only exception that I know of is chorded electric hedge trimmers. But.. it is so easy to accidentally cut the cord. I actually prefer plain shears!
I know some people do like electric lawn tools. I can't fathom it. I think maybe those are people who grew up with them and never experienced anything better. Or.. maybe people who are to weak or arthretic to pull start an engine.
So.. that's my continued use for liquid fuels after we all switch to electric cars... cutting the lawn. Unless.. OMG! Do elecric cars suck as bad as electric lawn tools?!? I've never used one. Does anyone care to comment? (electric law tool lovers need not bother) Is that the future we are moving towards? Maybe I'd prefer to just melt the glaciers. I don't live by the ocean anyway.
An uninformed person reading that summary could be forgiven for thinking that trading in Bitcoins was his crime! I'm sure the words 'money laundering' could have been worked in there somewhere.
I never understood why she had to die. They should have just taken her with them. The effect would likely be the same. If it mattered so much they probably could have used their advanced medical knowlege to fake her death. The only change to history would be the disappearance of her body. How bad could that be?
90% of the content out there.. they don't want to let you download. Sure.. there are ways around that in some case, for example Youtube download tools. You shouldn't HAVE to resort to what are essentially hacks though. Can you do that with Netflix?
Also, that bandwidth problem.. it isn't always solvable. Try getting decent bandwidth in the rural US for example..
As for sacrificing resolution... I'm not proposing that low res REPLACE HD. I'm proposing that more content providers offer multiple streams including low res options. Besides.. I don't need HD to watch some old TV show on Netflix that was recorded in SD originally anyway! My daughter certainly doesn't need it to watch a cartoon that doesn't even have pixel sized features! And.. if it's a choice between not watching or watching a low res video I'll take the low res video if I am watching for the purpose of enjoying the story.
Now.. if we are talking about something that one watches only for the awesome CGI explosions or for the T&A that is a different story...
We need more low definition video. Actually.. what I mean is we need more video that can automatically scale back to low definition when necessary.
Don't get me wrong.. I would prefer multi-gigabit fiber available free from everywhere and all the time. But.. sometimes you just don't have a great connection.
I used to watch Real Video* over a 28.8k dialup modem FCOL! I'm not expecting theatre quality HD out of two tin cans and a string but it would be nice to at least get a non-pausing low quality view when the cable modem or cellular is being flakey.
* - for you youngungs Real Media was the name of a company that was among the first to do audio and video codecs that worked over the internet
You need to buy a power supply? Almost every cellphone uses a 5V wall wart as the charger. Repurpose one of those!
You need to buy a case? No you don't! Kids enjoy simple woodworking projects. Make a wooden case. No skills, tools or still to expensive? Just cut some holes for wires in a cardboard box. Maybe even the box the Pi came in! You shouldn't be demanding pretty when you come asking for cheap! Just stick to functional and you will be ok.
Peripherals? Well.. I assume the display is the family TV. Otherwise I don't even know how you got it down to $70! Hand me downs.. thrift shops... garage sales... worst case just go ask around local businesses. I bet many of them have closets they would be happy to free up some space in!
Still too expensive? You could save a few bucks and go with an Orange Pi! http://www.orangepi.org/
Well.. you were talking about assuming the population reduction was uniform. (I didn't feel like pointing out how unlikely that is). I ignored sex in your comment since it's kind of hard to reproduce without one of each. As for age.. I ignored that because anyone who is no longer of reproductive age is no longer going to contribute. So.. I was left with race.
As for your 1974 thing.. it's pretty nonsensical. First of all, your pre-1974 parents may or may not still be alive. Even if they are they are unlikely to have any more children so even if they are alive they aren't making any permanent contribution to the population's genetic diversity.
Then you go on to talk about mutations over a few decades. WTF? That sounds like a creationist explaining evolution! Yeah, you are right, there won't be many mutations in an individual over 41 years. Where do I begin with this one though?
First off, most of the interesting genetic changes happen at conception, not the random mutations that result from replication errors within an organism's lifepan.
Second... who says you have to be the origin of a 'new' gene for your death to influence genetic diversity? Any organism could carry a gene that is rare but was inheritted from some other many generations past. Does one even have to have the last copy of the gene in existance to reduce diversity by dying? One less of a rare gene may still be more than zero but it reduces the possiblity that the gene will be propogated in the future. There is a reason we don't wait until an animal population is down to one male and one female before putting them on the endangered species list.
i never said it was unreasonable to feel unnerved about being interupted by something unidentified in the middle of such a big tournament.
It is totally unreasonable however when the first thing coming to one's mind as soon as there is something unidentified is BOMB. She just heard a noise at that point! Imagine all the things it could be. Add bomb to the list. Add "not a bomb but something I haven't thought of yet" to the list. Apply Okam's Razor. Is bomb still up there?
if so then do you ever go to big high profile events? Ever attend a concert? When in large groups do you worry that every little blurred movement in your perephieral vision or every little sound that you might not have heard right is a BOMB?
No. She said she heard it fly by. That is a reference to the 'drone' itself. The police staring at an empty seat would have occured some time after that. All she was reacting to was the sound of a quadcopter. Have you ever heard one? A reasonable thought might be that it was a hummingbird, a really big bee or... a fcking quadcopter! How many bombs fly around making a buzzing noise before they finally go off?
If you wonder what you are hearing.. apply Occam's Razor FCOL! What is more likely.. a bomb, a quad copter, wildlife such as a bird or a big bee or even just some random thing you haven't thought of yet because even those are probably more common than bombs?!?
"Her initial reaction, she said afterward, was that it might have been a bomb."
Every time I hear crap like that I get a little sadder and hate people just a little more. I cannot fully express just how stupid I think it is that so many people today respond to anything they don't expect and recognize by thinking that it is a bomb. You would think that everyone was a PTSD scarred veteren of some particularly horrible war even though most have never been threatened by anything like that.
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And it is better for it. Want to know my bet on previous your comment? The idea was 100% stolen, on the number of words, my bet is atleast 50%.
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There is no such thing as a reliable laptop. Ignore those Mac fans that say otherwise. What would they know? Mac fans buy new every time Apple says to anyway! There is no time for anything to go bad!
Just get a really nice desktop and an always on internet connection. Also, get unlimitted data on your phone, and a tether app. Get a decent tablet, an integrated keyboard/case for it and a bluetooth mouse. Note - Apple products do not count as decent tablets for your purposes. Apple is too controling to let you use a mouse!
You will want that mouse because what you are going to do is access that desktop by remote desktop or VNC. There ya go! A system that is reliable. Laptops are not!
No. with a free developers account you can compile on X-code and run in an emulator. To actually get the app onto your device you will have to pay for their $100/year developer account.
That all of course is not even including the price of actually purchasing a Mac.
It would suck to lose URL shorteners. I'm not sure I would equate that with 'breaking the internet' though.
Aww... somebody hasn't had his coffee yet has he?
People with repetitive blunt trauma brain injuries prefer iOS devices so much they can't talk about anything else. I really don't see anything surprising about that!
Every electric lawn care tool I have ever used has sucked. I mean really, really sucked hard! They just don't have the torque to get a job done well, they take forever to charge and you are lucky if you finish before the battery runs out. The only exception that I know of is chorded electric hedge trimmers. But.. it is so easy to accidentally cut the cord. I actually prefer plain shears!
I know some people do like electric lawn tools. I can't fathom it. I think maybe those are people who grew up with them and never experienced anything better. Or.. maybe people who are to weak or arthretic to pull start an engine.
So.. that's my continued use for liquid fuels after we all switch to electric cars... cutting the lawn. Unless.. OMG! Do elecric cars suck as bad as electric lawn tools?!? I've never used one. Does anyone care to comment? (electric law tool lovers need not bother) Is that the future we are moving towards? Maybe I'd prefer to just melt the glaciers. I don't live by the ocean anyway.
An uninformed person reading that summary could be forgiven for thinking that trading in Bitcoins was his crime! I'm sure the words 'money laundering' could have been worked in there somewhere.
I never understood why she had to die. They should have just taken her with them. The effect would likely be the same. If it mattered so much they probably could have used their advanced medical knowlege to fake her death. The only change to history would be the disappearance of her body. How bad could that be?
Oooh! Found him!
90% of the content out there.. they don't want to let you download. Sure.. there are ways around that in some case, for example Youtube download tools. You shouldn't HAVE to resort to what are essentially hacks though. Can you do that with Netflix?
Also, that bandwidth problem.. it isn't always solvable. Try getting decent bandwidth in the rural US for example..
As for sacrificing resolution... I'm not proposing that low res REPLACE HD. I'm proposing that more content providers offer multiple streams including low res options. Besides.. I don't need HD to watch some old TV show on Netflix that was recorded in SD originally anyway! My daughter certainly doesn't need it to watch a cartoon that doesn't even have pixel sized features! And.. if it's a choice between not watching or watching a low res video I'll take the low res video if I am watching for the purpose of enjoying the story.
Now.. if we are talking about something that one watches only for the awesome CGI explosions or for the T&A that is a different story...
I thought he left McAffe (the company) before the whole Belize incident. Or did he run another big corporation at that time?
Computer: Raspberry Pi
OS: Inferno
Programming Language: LISP
Editor: Emacs
Game: Leather Godesses of Phobos
For the more artsy kids Tex can replace LISP.
Finally! A loss for the ludites!
We need more low definition video. Actually.. what I mean is we need more video that can automatically scale back to low definition when necessary.
Don't get me wrong.. I would prefer multi-gigabit fiber available free from everywhere and all the time. But.. sometimes you just don't have a great connection.
I used to watch Real Video* over a 28.8k dialup modem FCOL! I'm not expecting theatre quality HD out of two tin cans and a string but it would be nice to at least get a non-pausing low quality view when the cable modem or cellular is being flakey.
* - for you youngungs Real Media was the name of a company that was among the first to do audio and video codecs that worked over the internet
Why does a Raspberry Pi have to be $70?
You need to buy a power supply? Almost every cellphone uses a 5V wall wart as the charger. Repurpose one of those!
You need to buy a case? No you don't! Kids enjoy simple woodworking projects. Make a wooden case. No skills, tools or still to expensive? Just cut some holes for wires in a cardboard box. Maybe even the box the Pi came in! You shouldn't be demanding pretty when you come asking for cheap! Just stick to functional and you will be ok.
Peripherals? Well.. I assume the display is the family TV. Otherwise I don't even know how you got it down to $70! Hand me downs.. thrift shops... garage sales... worst case just go ask around local businesses. I bet many of them have closets they would be happy to free up some space in!
Still too expensive? You could save a few bucks and go with an Orange Pi! http://www.orangepi.org/
They do? So I guess you are assuming that everyone who downloaded a movie would have paid for it otherwise?
So it's like freenet without the focus on anonymity.
McAfee said. "I would never run for office, neither would I want to be in office, of any kind. I would rather drive a nail through my foot."
But... I could actaully see him doing that. Just once to experience the sensation of it.
Well.. you were talking about assuming the population reduction was uniform. (I didn't feel like pointing out how unlikely that is). I ignored sex in your comment since it's kind of hard to reproduce without one of each. As for age.. I ignored that because anyone who is no longer of reproductive age is no longer going to contribute. So.. I was left with race.
As for your 1974 thing.. it's pretty nonsensical. First of all, your pre-1974 parents may or may not still be alive. Even if they are they are unlikely to have any more children so even if they are alive they aren't making any permanent contribution to the population's genetic diversity.
Then you go on to talk about mutations over a few decades. WTF? That sounds like a creationist explaining evolution! Yeah, you are right, there won't be many mutations in an individual over 41 years. Where do I begin with this one though?
First off, most of the interesting genetic changes happen at conception, not the random mutations that result from replication errors within an organism's lifepan.
Second... who says you have to be the origin of a 'new' gene for your death to influence genetic diversity? Any organism could carry a gene that is rare but was inheritted from some other many generations past. Does one even have to have the last copy of the gene in existance to reduce diversity by dying? One less of a rare gene may still be more than zero but it reduces the possiblity that the gene will be propogated in the future. There is a reason we don't wait until an animal population is down to one male and one female before putting them on the endangered species list.
i never said it was unreasonable to feel unnerved about being interupted by something unidentified in the middle of such a big tournament.
It is totally unreasonable however when the first thing coming to one's mind as soon as there is something unidentified is BOMB. She just heard a noise at that point! Imagine all the things it could be. Add bomb to the list. Add "not a bomb but something I haven't thought of yet" to the list. Apply Okam's Razor. Is bomb still up there?
if so then do you ever go to big high profile events? Ever attend a concert? When in large groups do you worry that every little blurred movement in your perephieral vision or every little sound that you might not have heard right is a BOMB?
How do you live like that?
Did she have to take cover often growing up in Romania? I have Romanian friends and they have never shared stories like that with me!
No. She said she heard it fly by. That is a reference to the 'drone' itself. The police staring at an empty seat would have occured some time after that. All she was reacting to was the sound of a quadcopter. Have you ever heard one? A reasonable thought might be that it was a hummingbird, a really big bee or... a fcking quadcopter! How many bombs fly around making a buzzing noise before they finally go off?
If you wonder what you are hearing.. apply Occam's Razor FCOL! What is more likely.. a bomb, a quad copter, wildlife such as a bird or a big bee or even just some random thing you haven't thought of yet because even those are probably more common than bombs?!?
I wonder if someone with more time on their hands than I could combine this data with the Ashley Madison dump and identify when and where people met.
"Her initial reaction, she said afterward, was that it might have been a bomb."
Every time I hear crap like that I get a little sadder and hate people just a little more. I cannot fully express just how stupid I think it is that so many people today respond to anything they don't expect and recognize by thinking that it is a bomb. You would think that everyone was a PTSD scarred veteren of some particularly horrible war even though most have never been threatened by anything like that.