Why does anyone care that the two major card makers are still in their dick-waving war?
Because people buy the stuff they make (I dunno who, but their top-line stuff makes money somehow), and because, once they've replaced it with something newer and better, the price drops fast so the rest of us can build a nice, inexpensive gaming machine.
I can't believe people would be willing to do this.
I can think of plenty of industries where this is already done to some degree -- a Google maps integration would likely only help things. A few examples:
And plenty more, I'm sure. In many cases, these employees are already given a work radio or phone to keep in contact. I doubt that most of these employees take their radios home, why would they take home their company phones?
I know people are worried about scope creep and big brother and the like, but this isn't as groundbreaking as it seems. Employers have had the ability to call you at home for a long time, now, and company vehicles are often very well tracked, yet most of us don't worry about our boss watching us sleep.
Did you actually look at the product description? It is an excellent example of Google organizing, compiling, and putting in one easy to use place information that most businesses already use to operate day-to-day. The groundbreaking feature is Google's ability to process the data...
So those parents send their kids to US schools to avoid a curriculum focused too much on rote memorization?
How many Chinese nationals do you know? Having gone to a university with a large contingent of non-U.S.-citizens, I can tell you that these American schools really are valued for their ability to educate beyond memorization tasks. I have heard many such stories from those who have come here to study.
And it extends into the high school realm, as well. The city where I grew up was quite popular for immigrants due to the low cost of living coupled with good jobs in the medical and engineering fields. As a result, I had many friends who had gone to school in Russia, Latvia, Moldova, China, etc. before moving here. There were many who had their multiplication tables memorized well ahead of me, or could name every country in Europe or Africa, but I heard again and again how much even these high-school-age students recognized the quality of the education they were receiving in this public school.
As for treatment, not everyone thinks that life is sacred and that everything that can be treated should be treated. If you breed animals, you don't normally treat genetic defects by other than euthanasia and/or sterilization to weed out the bad genetics.
My wife has an autosomal dominant connective tissue disorder. We had kids knowing that she had an autosomal dominant connective tissue disorder. Why shouldn't we? She is quite glad to have been born, and she has taken her diagnosis and used it to raise awareness of the condition and to help advocate for people who are suffering (including those with similar-but-unrelated conditions). She is also a great many things outside of her diagnosis, too. So we had kids, and we will make sure that they have the same opportunities and more.
On that note, we had both of our kids genetically tested at birth for my wife's known mutation. Why? Well, as the GP said, many things can be treated much better when they are caught early. It was an easy and fairly inexpensive test, all things considered. One of our kids tested positive, and one negative, and now we are ahead of the game in treating our kids' needs.
At the very least you must surely have MoO2 or Master of Magic.
Whelp. There goes my next few weeks.
We have had 0 people in wheel chairs come through. It's all a waste.
One does not need a wheel chair to be considered handicapped. In fact, there are a great many conditions and illnesses that are invisible to the average observer that could still make it quite difficult to walk the extra distance, compared to your average Joe.
I have quite a bit of exposure to this, as my wife works with the National Marfan Foundation. People with Marfan may just look a bit taller than average, but have plenty of hidden issues from reduced lung volume to heart valve leakage to aortic distension to a number of CHD's which combine to leave them quite breathless and near collapse after physical exertion that wouldn't make most people break a sweat.
Now, it is not impossible for them to make it across the parking lot from a distant parking space (in most cases, at least). But if you base your determination of handicap-accessibility-need based on whether or not someone can walk at all, you are missing the point. The ADA requirements are meant to give a break and a helping hand to people who have great difficulty doing what you and I can do every day.
They run on Java
I thought Java was a software platform that ran above the OS to give OS-independent code execution. I haven't heard of it taking on OS responsibilities on its own. Can it double as an OS, talking directly to the hardware?
On the average day, you generally use your own phone, and your wife's phone? And your home computer, and your wife's laptop?
It's not uncommon, around the house, for me to answer her cell phone if the kids have her occupied (or vice versa). And I'll often use her laptop for just a moment to check a map, a calendar, or a webcomic, as my home computer is a gaming rig in the basement.
And, of course, there is the ever present "providing-tech-support-to-family" angle, which covers both laptop and phone.
So, surprisingly many. And I'm sure I've missed a few. I wonder what the CISCO VOIP office phone next to me is running...
And now this kid has gone one better than the tall tale, actually living inside the corporate complex of a major tech company.
I guess it's the "major tech company" part that makes this shocking, right?
Where I went to grad school, it wasn't uncommon to have at least a few students living (and I mean with their sleeping bags, pizza boxes, toiletries, etc.) in a lab or storage room for long periods of time -- months or more -- in lieu of paying the high rent near campus. There were always the whispered stories of x student being caught trying to wash himself in the chemical safety shower or y post-doc who finally ran afoul of faculty after using his office as his kitchen.
A comic on this very subject! http://theoatmeal.com/comics/tesla
A clear and concise refutation of this very argument! http://www.forbes.com/sites/alexknapp/2012/05/18/nikola-tesla-wasnt-god-and-thomas-edison-wasnt-the-devil/
Last seen this morning on Slashdot.
BLISS is ignorance.
