If anyone would have bothered to read either UPS's or FedEx's website, they would have seen around the 19th of December they had NO guarenteed delivery date deals. Those promises were purely from the retailers at that point. It's a shame though of course the curriers are the ones who catch the flack.(snip)
Absolutely. The retailers should be taking the flack here, not the parcel carriers. UPS and FedEx have my absolute sympathy. I placed an order through Amazon Prime to a "covered" Amazon partner on the 11th. They didn't hand my package over to UPS until the 16th. I consider myself EXTREMELY lucky that my wife's gift arrived at 7:30 pm on Christmas Eve.
The Beatles gold mine ran out of salable ore long ago. So all they can do is to sell slag to the tourists.
Even though I'm a hardcore Beatles fan, I never bought the last remastered box-set release. I might do that one day, though, when the price of used copies finally comes down on eBay. Gives me something to look forward to.
Even with my tin ears, there was a LOT of music in the mono recordings that I had never "noticed" before. Highly recommended.
Well, I just bought a reasonable 72 Watt bulb with the output lumens equal to an older style 100 Watt bulb. Seems like a no-brainer to me. I get a lower electric bill without having to use an ugly CFL or super expensive LED.
Remember the ban is on older inefficient incandescent bulbs, not incandescent bulbs in general.
The news organizations and tin foil hat wearing types are focusing on the "ban" part for their own ends.
I don't think so--you still can't use CFL's in high-vibration environments (ceiling fans, garage door openers), with dimmers, or within 2 feet of a smoke detector (I found out the hard way about the false alarms they create). And there's no 100W-equivalent, or even a 75W-equivalent LED for my garage. This ban should only be in effect for those cases that there's a legitimate replacement available.
I didn't "attack" him, but there's no question where the talent was concentrated. The only "random people" that wouldn't know Paul Simon probably weren't born yet when he was popular. Even children of the 80s would remember "Bodyguard" with Chevy Chase on MTV, if not the massive Central Park concert. Garfunkel gets name recognition because his name is extremely unique. "Paul Simon" is pretty generic.
I didn't get "Bodyguard" until I went through all of the lyrics in my head. that's "You Can Call Me Al" to those who actually read song titles.
No, I never once heard anyone refer to B-School before...then again, non of my peers were in the business schools, they were all engineering and chemistry for the most parts.
And none of you never took a single elective or lived in a dorm with people outside of your college? I considered myself a serious geek, but that didn't prevent me from taking classes in the Philosophy department (Symbolic Logic) and Liberal Arts (Film, Utopian literature, Science Fiction). Over the course of four years, how in the world do you *not* hear about almost every Major offered by a University?
What am I missing from this?
One example: my Nexus 7 draws so much power, even when sleeping, that it is possible to connect it to a weakly charging USB port, come back a few hours later, and it has a lower charge level. I'm sure the same is true for other tablets, and possibly even some phones.
there's a widget that will let you disable wifi, bluetooth and GPS from your homescreen. turn those puppies off before you sleep, and it'll charge in no time.
OEMs install buggy crap that makes it crash, or bodgy hardware causes it to crash.
FTFY.
On the flip side, try running a bare-metal Hackintosh. The power management is abysmal, because Apple doesn't make drivers for anything except their own machines. Windows will do much better on such a platform.
Try again. One of the commenters to TFA provided a link: Where Apple's "poor drivers" for Windows resulted in a 40% differential between OS X and Windows on Apple's own hardware, a hackintosh was only 33% better in OS X.
There are only two ways to avoid having orientation. You can have pins on both sides of the connector in a mirrored formation, or you can have a multiplexer in the device.
Actually, there's also a third way, commonly used in audio cables: Make the plug and all contacts rotationally symmetric. That strategy might not work well for the type of signal USB carries (I have no idea if it does), but in terms of being rotationally symmetric, it can't be beaten. You can even rotate the plug while plugging it in.
Ironically, Paceblade (anybody remember them?) has actually already tried this, and failed to gain any traction in the marketplace.
And it should be the law: If you use the word `paradigm' without knowing what the dictionary says it means, you go to jail. No exceptions. -- David Jones