I agree where is the "I don't do american traditions you insensitive clod!" option?
This. They can stay away with their "it's all about the money" fake holidays. Well, maybe I'll put some sweets filled with laxatives outside.
I suppose it depends on the exact definition of theory, it can mean a well established explanation, also (2) a proposed explanation whose status is still conjectural and subject to experimentation. But, you are right, in that creationists attempt to place their (weak) theory (or postulate) on the same level as evolution that is well tested; thus trying to gain credibility by association. The theories that you mention all started out as 'postulates' but were then found to be supported by the evidence, make good predictions, etc, creationism does not travel far down this road.
In the scientific sense, creatonism is no theory, but evolution is a well-established theory.
I may be off here but I thought the main argument for eating organic was that it wasn't covered with pesticides and herbicides that you end up ingesting.
And that it tastes better. Which, at least around here, it generally does. The taste difference between a cheapo mass-produced greenhouse tomato from the Netherlands and an organic one bought on the local market here is mindblowing.
Apparently it's supposed to be a smallish laptop, with emphasis on performance(must have SSD, must have good battery life) and small size, which according to the "choose two out of three" rule means it obviously cannot be cheap. Which means that a "non-ultra" laptop with the same performance and a bit more weight/size costs around $600, while the ultrabook costs $1000.
What they did not think of and what now causes the slow sales is that the price makes ultrabooks a LUXURY item. Most people will look at the ultrabook and think "well, it sure looks nice, but here I can get about the same performance at a couple hundred dollars less". Or, if they DO have the money, they will go buy a Macbook, because "Apple" still has higher bragging value than "Asus" or "Samsung".
From the link:
However, privacy advocates do not like this so they have been pushing for the creation and implementation of a Do Not Track standard. The problem is that if users are not tracked, then websites cannot deliver targeted advertising. Instead, websites would only be able to use non-targeted advertising which does not generate as much revenue.
Well... yeah. That's the whole point.
If your business idea needs the revenue from targeted advertising and the revenue from NON-targeted advertising would mean you'd have to close down, then your business idea is not good enough. It does NOT mean that everybody else has to endure being tracked so that you can make more money. Of course, you're free to prevent whoever you do not like from visiting your website. But your sense of entitlement ("we cannot have user privacy because *I* deserve more money!") is wrong.
Not that I think those "do not track" settings ever will work, because they rely on the bad guys cooperating, and advertisers clearly have shown over the years that they will do ANYTHING to get around advertising restrictions. But the general idea (users should be able to decline targeted advertising) is good.
For what it's worth, "could care less" has a meaning that is well-known and unambiguous. Nobody would hear "could care less" and think that the speaker cared by some amount (according to the phrase's technical meaning). Any time a pedant comes along to call someone out on their usage, they never first ask "did you mean that you did care, or did you mean that you didn't?" No, the meaning is already clear: the speaker/writer did not care at all.
Be careful with that - in countries which are NOT aware of this intentional misuse of the English language (i.e. pretty much anywhere outside the US), people WILL misunderstand the speaker and actually think "oh, he says he COULD care less, that means he DOES care at least a little bit". Which means that it is bad to use "could care less" when posting something on a website which is read by people from all over the world.
I am from Germany, and the first couple times I read "could care less" I was quite confused about what the poster actually meant. Now, it is just annoying, the same way as somebody writing "their" instead of "they're" or using a "plural apostrophe" as in "several CD's".
except the locales issue applies in the United States due to the national ISP's. Simply put, some products are regional and can't be bought by me, yet I see ads for them all the time
How is that bad? Do you actually READ the ads?
I just ignore them, so I do not really care whether the ads are for something in my town or on some other continent.
Different states have different shapes/colors/sizes/fonts/etc. for their state highways signs and yet they are all clearly recognizable as highway signs. You know it's a highway sign. Every country has enumerated highways if it has highways, and it has signs of some kind on those highways. Anyone would know it's a highway sign.
Actually I did not know it was supposed to be a highway sign. I have never seen a sign like that in my life, being from Europe. Since I know that the whole icon is for "maps" (because of the obvious street lines and the map pin), I knew that it probably stood for some map feature, but not for which one (point of interest? gas station?)
Power isn't what matters. Useful power is.
Desktop and laptop PCs have simply passed the point where even an entry-level model is sufficient for everyday home and business tasks like reading e-mail, web browsing, working on office documents and database applications, and playing audio/video files.
As soon as that happened, the upgrade treadmill was doomed. That sucks for the businesses who were happily coasting along knowing that every 2–3 years someone was going to pay them more money just to get a faster PC and all the preinstalled software that would come with it. It's good news for everyone who actually uses these devices, though, at least until the industry responds by doing shady things that build in obsolescence and try to keep the treadmill running artificially.
This. There is this weird opinion by many that "less PC are sold" automatically means "less people use a PC". That is not true - personal computers are still being used everywhere, it's just that a.) by now everybody who wants one has one, because they got cheaper and everybody can afford one now and b.) the hardcore upgraders (i.e. those who upgraded their board/CPU/graphics card every 6 months because of new games etc. which benefitted from those upgrades) do not NEED to upgrade as often anymore, because even the CPU/graphics card from 2 years ago can still run the latest games. I sure can still remember that around 2000-2005 or so I upgraded my main machine here every couple months because it actually provided a noticeable speed upgrade, that is not the case anymore. My core2 duo lasted 3 years in my main machine before I upgraded it - not out of necessity, but because I just felt like doing some hardware fiddling again.
85 mph or even 100 is not fast or dangerous. Here in Germany, about 30% of all car traffic is Autobahn traffic but only 7% of all accidents happen there (according to you-get-laughed-at-if-you-quote-it Wikipedia), and a large part of the Autobahn is completely unrestricted. Even driving for an hour or two at speeds of up to 150+ mph is safe and totally unspectacular, if you are used to it and have a car which has been designed with such speeds in mind. It's actually kind of funny to read these articles which compare speeds of 100mph to hurricanes, as if people would instantly die if they drive that fast
For an Espresso, I use my espresso machine (a Saeco). For a normal cup of coffee, I have my drip coffee maker (a Technivorm one, and I buy whole beans and grind them right before brewing the coffee). Yes, I am a coffee snob - I can't stand instant coffee or the cheap, pre-ground coffee from the supermarket. Also, preparing the coffee is part of the fun, too.
Because of this require ancient insecure versions. Some still only work in java 1.4 in XP. THis is the biggest pain. If the software worked in all versions of modern java that a sys admin could update without worrying about compatility.
So true. The one thing I hate most about Java (on the desktop) is that despite all the claims of "Java works anywhere, on all platforms", it just doesn't. For some disgusting reason, many admin tools (HP iLO, IBM RSA, web interfaces for switches, pass-thru modules of IBM Bladecenter,
Why does everyone here want/recommend an idevice? I thought slashdot was a little more enlightened than this, and an ipad2? The screen resolution's not all that special at reading range and it's too large, what about the lovely nexus7, high res screen, good size for reading, cheap, or if you must get a 10" device how about the asus transformer 101, pad only since you want it primarily for reading, refurbished for ~$200.
If all you want is to READ, then any e-ink device is much better than any tablet. First, because of the display and second because they are much LIGHTER than tablets. When I want to read in bed, I can comfortably hold my Kindle with one hand over my hand while lying on my back and use the thumb to page up/down. If you'd try the same with an ipad, you'd get muscle cramps within a few minutes. E-ink readers are built specifically for reading and do that exceptionally well - display, battery life, size/weight are all much much better than on any tablet. Tablets are built for so many more functions than only reading (video, games, surfing,
Only situation where I could accept choosing a tablet over an e-ink reader is if you mainly read pdf files which are heavy on colour photos/diagrams, because the b/w e-ink displays suck at those.
There's no difference between spending hours browsing the web and spending hours reading an eBook.
Wrong.
Browsing the web needs a.) a network connection b.) a colour display (otherwise you cannot really use a lot of the websites) c.) halfway decent CPU/RAM to handle all the javascript/graphics/animated stuff/...
Reading text (ebook, ascii file) needs none of that. The text is already on the ebook reader, so you need no network connection. You need no colour display, because it's just text, black on white/grey. Which means the e-ink display is perfect for the job, and it also uses far less battery power than a backlit display. And, in my opionion at least, is FAR easier on the eyes. If I had the choice of using the latest and greatest ipad or my kindle to read a book, I'd still choose the kindle even though the ipad has a really good colour display - the e-ink display is just better for text. And you can get away with far less CPU grunt because all the reader needs to do is refresh the display when you press the "next page" button, and text files use no java script or any other stuff websites use.
So, really, reading websites is not the same as reading an ebook.
I went with a kindle instead of an iPad not for the price and not for the size, but because of the eInk display. It makes for a much nicer reading than any display I had sofar. Of course this makes the kindle solely a book-reading device. But for this, it's close to optimal.
Have to agree here. I, too, have a Kindle (the older non-touch one), and it is close to perfect for reading text. Which is what I personally want to do with my "reader device", I could not care less about a colour display or web browsing / facebooking / whatever. I just want to read books I purchase on amazon or texts/manga I upload via USB. The eInk display is absolutely perfect for that, especially when reading outdoors on a sunny day - but even indoors, it feels (at least to me) far more comfortable on the eyes than a backlit display.
If Apple a new "iPad Mini", it will probably have some uber awesome "retina" display and cost upwards of $300 - and any ebook reader with an eInk display will still be better for reading books and have a longer battery life, too.
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