Maybe you're doing most of your chatting on the cell but there's still some good reasons for a landline:
1) home fax machine
WTF? People still uses faxes? Computer, printer, scanner, internet. Done.
2) landline more likely to function in an emergency as cell systems usually overload and are unavailable
intnernet more likey to function in an emergency as that is what it was designed to do.
3) landline call to 911 is more likely to show your address to the dispatcher possibly saving your life with a faster response
Got nothing for you there.
4) landline will not be lost or misplaced
I lose my cordless landline more often than I lose my cellphone.
5) landline more likely to continue to function during an electrical power failure
My cellphone runs off batteries. Sure the Cell towers run off electric, but if the power outage is that far gone, there is a good chance it is effecting land lines as well.
6) landline can provide emergency dial-up internet service
My 3G cell phone does emergency dial-up internet better than my landline can, especially since I don't have a modem, nor dialup service.
7) landline will not expose you to uhf radiation
Thats ok, I got my tinfoil hat on.
8) landline will not suffer from battery failure
True, when my cordless battery dies, I have to go digging up my old AT&T lease phone.
9) landline will not suffer from poor signal quality
Says who and what army? Sure it generally sounds good, but it doesn't mean it never suffers.
10 landline is legally much more difficult for authorities to eavesdrop on
I don't quite understand. You purchased a domain (lets call it "example.com") for the sole purpose of promoting yourself.
So you put your self promotion on a subsite called profile.example.com?
That is kind of like buying the corner lot, putting the main store on the back of the lot, with the only entrance off a side street, then wondering what to do with the corner lot. (For the car analogy, assume the store was a car dealership)
PUT your profile on your main site! Why wouldn't you, especially when you don't have a desire to do anything else with the site. Use the site for what you intended to use it for. Besides it is a lot easier to remember example.com or www.example.com that it is to remember profile.example.com.
Logically (most) lawyers don't like to repersent rapists (for example) but they will when paid..
How is this logical? Many defenders believe in the American Way, and that you are innocent until proven guilty, and that everyone should have their day in court.
HARASSED? How so?
Sure I've got a upgrade to SP3 pending, but I know SP3 forces IE7 on me. So I don't upgrade. The icon sits in my tray. I ignore it, he ignores me. Not sure what harassment you are talking about.
I use IE6 today for one reason. IT WORKS.
I do care about the web, in the sense that I care it works. I barely use FF because when I first tried to use it many sites didn't work.
I continue to use IE6 because it works. I don't like a lot of the stupid ui decisions made in recent browsers (tabs? eh?) but I'll upgrade when most sites stop working.
Except that my RSU stocks are taxed at 70% of value the day they are granted. So they are basically worthless... (
70%? RSU's are essentially taxed as ordinary income. Who in America pays 70% tax on their income?
Unfortunately the rules seemed a bit skewed. If he sells that stock, he can claim a capital gains loss of $57 per share. Skewed because the original tax is regular income, but the loss is capital gains... (Granted if it goes up and he sells it, it is also capital gains)
Are you asking "would you rather hire someone who studied just theory, or would you rather hire someone who studied theory as well as the practice of that theory?"
" Canonical's self-sustaining revenue may not be threatening â" but it leaves one wondering how sustainable Microsoft's development process really is."
The summary is saying that Canonical is almost sustainable as it approaches $30 million (with an M) yet then wonders how sustainable Microsoft is, with its income in the 17 Billions (with a B)? (17B from the sale of Windows)
So lets see, according to the article MS has 10,000 Windows employees bringing in $17B, or 1.7M apiece. Canonical has 200 employees with revenue of $30M or about 150,000 per employee. So a company is 10 times more profitable, but is less sustainable?
Not only that, I'm starting to see a bunch of software written in.Net crap. Why not write it in QT, and have an application that can run on just about every platform out there WITHOUT bowing before Microsoft, who could eat your lunch should you write the "Killer Ap".
Seriously between Wine 1.x and QT, there is no reason to write applications to Windows.
Because until recently QT was GPLed and.Net wasn't. For all intents and purposes.Net was free (as in beer) and QT wasn't.
Typically when Microsoft eats its lunch, it pays quite well for it.
I didn't realize people wrote their application for Wine 1.x.
In SI units, it would be 110m by 55m. I'd say the resolution would need to be at least 1cm (when a line on the field is about 10cm [4in], you'll need at least a tenth of that for nice rounded lines for some sports).
110m by 55m equals 11000cm by 5500cm.
Hence, you'd need 11000 by 5500. You need not know magic numbers. You need not multiply with any non-power-of-ten number.
Uhm how did you convert 110 to 11000? What magic number did you use? Looks like you multiplied it by 100. While it is easier for humans to do this math, it is still a magic number.
Why did you choose 1cm for your pixel size? Cause it was easier, what if it is easier to make the pixel sizes in 1.7cm. What does that do for your simple math?
I don't get the patent part of this. TFA says "he made public a patent..." This guy owns the patent on Cool Zone [http://www.coolzoneusa.com]?
Or he built one of these massive "thermostats?"
Or is he just trying to patent the idea that evaporation lowers heat?
They maybe be "put of beta" but they aren't finished yet.
When they've implemented the features that exist on google toolbar, then I'll think about it. Until then this is a pre version 1 product. In or OUT of beta.
C++ hasn't changed much at all. The standards changed a little bit, but it is easy to learn/adapt to the differences.
Sure, if you want to do anything you need to learn a library, that is pretty much true of ANY language. As well as any company. Pretty much any company will have a core of APIs you need to call for something or other that is business related. So I don't understand what your complaint is about at all, nor why it is marked as insightful.
You've never been to Switzerland have you?
Americans don't see the need to constantly surround themselves with the US flag, at least no more than any other citizens of other countries feel the need to surround themselves with their countries flags.
I can't sing, I don't want to sing.
I don't want to listen to amateurs, I want to listen to professionals. I want to listen to people who spend a lot of time practicing and training, and who are GOOD at what they do.
It is called civilization, we have moved beyond the hunter gather society, and moved into a society where people can become experts at one thing. I want to go to a doctor who studied and practiced being a doctor. Not one who practices a little on the weekends, and cuts hair the rest of the time.
I'm not going to stop you from listening to whomever you want. There are plenty of street musicians and amateurs you can listen to... But do you support them?
It was a poorly written article. It claims that in 1983 enrollment was at 4%, and that in the eighties at ONE school it was 40%.
When I was in school in the late 80's and early 90's there weren't many girls in CS. When I got into industry there were even further.
I don't think anything has changed. In general women aren't interested in CS. People talked about other sciences, but what about math?
This post was "insightful?"
How does the long tail prove that copyright lengths ARE damaging society?
Your argument has a huge flaw in it. You claim, no one, or not enough people want an item for a company to make money on it. Therefore they should give it to another comapany or give it away for free.
Well if no one wants it, no one wants it, even if it was free. But the fact is someone actually wants it (that is what you are implying) then they should be willing to purchase it. Just because the item is old, doesn't mean it doesn't have some value.
While I agree with the privacy infringements, I really wish it wasn't someone suspected on child porn complaining about it. It certainly won't garner much support from the general public, informed or not. So what you are saying is, if the government wants to look at someone's laptop they should just accuse the person of having kiddie porn?
Computer programming is HARD. In fact it is so hard and difficult that I wouldn't force incoming students (in general) to take a programming class.
Yes they should know how to work a computer, email, internet, etc.
A specific degree, like Physics? How important is iit that they write their own program? Would it be easier to use prebuilt software?
Excel IS a useful and powerful tool. Is your blood boiling because it isn't open source? In general Excel is fairly easy to use, and does allow one to focus on the science. The kids took Physic to learn physic, not to become computer scientists. Later in life if they need a more powerful language, they can hire a computer scientest.
You apparently missed the entire point of the article. Statistically speaking there is a 1 in 375,000 chance the child will be abducted. The point is that the chance the child will be abducted is so low there doesn't really need to be ANY need for security. As a deterrent, or otherwise.
So why waste money on security for soemthing that A) isn't really needed and B) probably isn't very secure?
To ease the mind of the parents.
Security, deterrent or otherwise, isn't the point.
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Maybe you're doing most of your chatting on the cell but there's still some good reasons for a landline:
1) home fax machine
WTF? People still uses faxes? Computer, printer, scanner, internet. Done.
2) landline more likely to function in an emergency as cell systems usually overload and are unavailable
intnernet more likey to function in an emergency as that is what it was designed to do.
3) landline call to 911 is more likely to show your address to the dispatcher possibly saving your life with a faster response
Got nothing for you there.
4) landline will not be lost or misplaced
I lose my cordless landline more often than I lose my cellphone.
5) landline more likely to continue to function during an electrical power failure
My cellphone runs off batteries. Sure the Cell towers run off electric, but if the power outage is that far gone, there is a good chance it is effecting land lines as well.
6) landline can provide emergency dial-up internet service
My 3G cell phone does emergency dial-up internet better than my landline can, especially since I don't have a modem, nor dialup service.
7) landline will not expose you to uhf radiation
Thats ok, I got my tinfoil hat on.
8) landline will not suffer from battery failure
True, when my cordless battery dies, I have to go digging up my old AT&T lease phone.
9) landline will not suffer from poor signal quality
Says who and what army? Sure it generally sounds good, but it doesn't mean it never suffers.
10 landline is legally much more difficult for authorities to eavesdrop on
I think I need another tinfoil hat.
Communicate with the kids? What do you think text messaging and twitter is for?
I don't quite understand. You purchased a domain (lets call it "example.com") for the sole purpose of promoting yourself. So you put your self promotion on a subsite called profile.example.com? That is kind of like buying the corner lot, putting the main store on the back of the lot, with the only entrance off a side street, then wondering what to do with the corner lot. (For the car analogy, assume the store was a car dealership) PUT your profile on your main site! Why wouldn't you, especially when you don't have a desire to do anything else with the site. Use the site for what you intended to use it for. Besides it is a lot easier to remember example.com or www.example.com that it is to remember profile.example.com.
Logically (most) lawyers don't like to repersent rapists (for example) but they will when paid..
How is this logical? Many defenders believe in the American Way, and that you are innocent until proven guilty, and that everyone should have their day in court.
HARASSED? How so? Sure I've got a upgrade to SP3 pending, but I know SP3 forces IE7 on me. So I don't upgrade. The icon sits in my tray. I ignore it, he ignores me. Not sure what harassment you are talking about.
I use IE6 today for one reason. IT WORKS. I do care about the web, in the sense that I care it works. I barely use FF because when I first tried to use it many sites didn't work. I continue to use IE6 because it works. I don't like a lot of the stupid ui decisions made in recent browsers (tabs? eh?) but I'll upgrade when most sites stop working.
Except that my RSU stocks are taxed at 70% of value the day they are granted. So they are basically worthless... (
70%? RSU's are essentially taxed as ordinary income. Who in America pays 70% tax on their income? Unfortunately the rules seemed a bit skewed. If he sells that stock, he can claim a capital gains loss of $57 per share. Skewed because the original tax is regular income, but the loss is capital gains... (Granted if it goes up and he sells it, it is also capital gains)
Yes you are right, because no one would ever pay to send Junk Mail.
If you're good, you can always find a new job.
It feels like you are invoking the fallacy that most of us think we are above average. Most people aren't significantly above average.
The top 5-10% probably won't be unemployed long enough to have to start dipping into their savings anyway.
So, what you are saying is; "If you're good, you can always find a new job?"
Are you asking "would you rather hire someone who studied just theory, or would you rather hire someone who studied theory as well as the practice of that theory?"
" Canonical's self-sustaining revenue may not be threatening â" but it leaves one wondering how sustainable Microsoft's development process really is." The summary is saying that Canonical is almost sustainable as it approaches $30 million (with an M) yet then wonders how sustainable Microsoft is, with its income in the 17 Billions (with a B)? (17B from the sale of Windows) So lets see, according to the article MS has 10,000 Windows employees bringing in $17B, or 1.7M apiece. Canonical has 200 employees with revenue of $30M or about 150,000 per employee. So a company is 10 times more profitable, but is less sustainable?
Not only that, I'm starting to see a bunch of software written in .Net crap. Why not write it in QT, and have an application that can run on just about every platform out there WITHOUT bowing before Microsoft, who could eat your lunch should you write the "Killer Ap".
Seriously between Wine 1.x and QT, there is no reason to write applications to Windows.
Because until recently QT was GPLed and .Net wasn't. For all intents and purposes .Net was free (as in beer) and QT wasn't.
Typically when Microsoft eats its lunch, it pays quite well for it.
I didn't realize people wrote their application for Wine 1.x.
In SI units, it would be 110m by 55m. I'd say the resolution would need to be at least 1cm (when a line on the field is about 10cm [4in], you'll need at least a tenth of that for nice rounded lines for some sports). 110m by 55m equals 11000cm by 5500cm.
Hence, you'd need 11000 by 5500. You need not know magic numbers. You need not multiply with any non-power-of-ten number.
Uhm how did you convert 110 to 11000? What magic number did you use? Looks like you multiplied it by 100. While it is easier for humans to do this math, it is still a magic number. Why did you choose 1cm for your pixel size? Cause it was easier, what if it is easier to make the pixel sizes in 1.7cm. What does that do for your simple math?
I don't get the patent part of this. TFA says "he made public a patent..." This guy owns the patent on Cool Zone [http://www.coolzoneusa.com]? Or he built one of these massive "thermostats?" Or is he just trying to patent the idea that evaporation lowers heat?
They maybe be "put of beta" but they aren't finished yet. When they've implemented the features that exist on google toolbar, then I'll think about it. Until then this is a pre version 1 product. In or OUT of beta.
C++ hasn't changed much at all. The standards changed a little bit, but it is easy to learn/adapt to the differences. Sure, if you want to do anything you need to learn a library, that is pretty much true of ANY language. As well as any company. Pretty much any company will have a core of APIs you need to call for something or other that is business related. So I don't understand what your complaint is about at all, nor why it is marked as insightful.
You've never been to Switzerland have you? Americans don't see the need to constantly surround themselves with the US flag, at least no more than any other citizens of other countries feel the need to surround themselves with their countries flags.
I can't sing, I don't want to sing. I don't want to listen to amateurs, I want to listen to professionals. I want to listen to people who spend a lot of time practicing and training, and who are GOOD at what they do. It is called civilization, we have moved beyond the hunter gather society, and moved into a society where people can become experts at one thing. I want to go to a doctor who studied and practiced being a doctor. Not one who practices a little on the weekends, and cuts hair the rest of the time. I'm not going to stop you from listening to whomever you want. There are plenty of street musicians and amateurs you can listen to... But do you support them?
It was a poorly written article. It claims that in 1983 enrollment was at 4%, and that in the eighties at ONE school it was 40%. When I was in school in the late 80's and early 90's there weren't many girls in CS. When I got into industry there were even further. I don't think anything has changed. In general women aren't interested in CS. People talked about other sciences, but what about math?
This post was "insightful?" How does the long tail prove that copyright lengths ARE damaging society? Your argument has a huge flaw in it. You claim, no one, or not enough people want an item for a company to make money on it. Therefore they should give it to another comapany or give it away for free. Well if no one wants it, no one wants it, even if it was free. But the fact is someone actually wants it (that is what you are implying) then they should be willing to purchase it. Just because the item is old, doesn't mean it doesn't have some value.
Computer programming is HARD. In fact it is so hard and difficult that I wouldn't force incoming students (in general) to take a programming class. Yes they should know how to work a computer, email, internet, etc. A specific degree, like Physics? How important is iit that they write their own program? Would it be easier to use prebuilt software? Excel IS a useful and powerful tool. Is your blood boiling because it isn't open source? In general Excel is fairly easy to use, and does allow one to focus on the science. The kids took Physic to learn physic, not to become computer scientists. Later in life if they need a more powerful language, they can hire a computer scientest.
You apparently missed the entire point of the article. Statistically speaking there is a 1 in 375,000 chance the child will be abducted. The point is that the chance the child will be abducted is so low there doesn't really need to be ANY need for security. As a deterrent, or otherwise. So why waste money on security for soemthing that A) isn't really needed and B) probably isn't very secure? To ease the mind of the parents. Security, deterrent or otherwise, isn't the point.