People were afraid of being treated like numbers rather than human beings. It was a very different era.

That's not what I said. I am happy to do devops as long as it doesn't take more than like 40% of my time.

No, you cannot. If your power is entirely superficial then you are not an evil dictator overlord. You might aspire to be one, or maybe even believe yourself to be one, but if your power is entirely superficial you are not at the levers of power at all.

Again, you can wield power, or you can distract attention away from the person who does, but you cannot do both. There are, of course, other options, but these two completely contradictory options that smitty and others are constantly trying to pin on the same person cannot both be true.

*sigh* I miss my Zaurus too. I still have it - a nice SL-5600 but the frontlight (not a backlight) burned out years ago so it's only good directly under bright light.

The precision with our without the stylus far exceeds anything I've seen in a capacitive display.

Then I misunderstood your previous post, which I took to mean that there wasn't enough to bother with. It would be interesting to me to see an estimate of how much it would cost to make an exhaust manifold of thermocouple material, and what the estimated output would be. With hybrid vehicles like the Prius, which just uses the IC engine to charge the batteries that actually propel it, it might well be worth it.

People hate to see the government spending money on new technology which is why so many places have software and hardware that would have been retired in a commercial environment a decade earlier.

Yours is the best comment in the story.

Like saving up for retirement? Not sure why having a million dollars to spend in retirement is more important than having $100/month to spend on cable TV today?

Violence is supposed to be the *last* resort when other methods of dealing with a problem have failed. You have to tread carefully with how to explain this to a child, otherwise they'll see violence as an effective solution to dealing with troubling people and will use it at the first opportunity rather than the last. Imagine what kind of asshole he'll grow up to be with this mindset.

Fuck off, keyboard warrior.

A full page in a print magazine had to get you far enough through the sales process that you would remember the product and be willing to talk to a sales person. A banner ad has to get you interested enough to click on the banner to go the site. The proper comparison is the website to the ad.

One thing that surprises me is that every talks about Byte, but not the spin off of a great column in Byte, Ciarcia's Circuit Cellar. Circuit Cellar is a bit expensive, and very technical, but if you like really making hardware it is a must. Circuit Cellar is the part of byte that was hardware making. There was another part that review and broad industry connections, another part that was software, and of course the musings of Jerry Pournelle. If you are into reading international English fiction, Granta is also a must have.

I am happy to agree with you. You are correct. Much of life comes down to personal choices.

The thing is, the NYT has a lot of high quality articles still, even if their newsroom is all liberal. They go deeply into subjects and do good research. You shouldn't believe everything they say, and if it's important, you should verify; but they give you good overview of the world.

Another high quality newspaper is the Wall Street Journal. If you're looking for print, it can't be beat, for similar reasons. The main difference is the WSJ focuses more on economic issues, and the NYT focuses more on social issues.

The editorial staff of both newspapers is mediocre, but the quality of the guest editorials can't be beaten, in both papers. You have ex presidents, or the commanding officer of the armed forces of Lebanon. Maybe you don't agree with the guest editorials, but they are often worth reading, more than the average blogger.

If quality and skill are heavily reduced, then it wouldn't be worth sending work there. You really can't have it both ways on this one -- either they're smart businessmen who know India saves money, or they're smart businessmen who are wise to a lack of quality and skill.

Often times you simply can't afford to hire your own in-house development staff. Imagine for example that you run a small business and you don't have any programmers on staff, nor does your business operate in the IT sector. Suppose you need a custom inventory management solution because no pre-built ones from any domestic companies are available. Your solution in this case may very well be to hire an outfit in India to do it. You may very well not have the amount of money that a US based firm would ask for, in which case what is your alternative? "Not doing it at all" isn't a good answer.

Giving him change to buy cigarettes or alcohol with doesn't help him eat either. Neither does giving him cigarettes to feed his addiction. You can afford to be an addict. He can't.

Donating (or volunteering) at the local soup kitchen, THAT helps him eat.

Compare that to Australia, where the government confiscated all the guns to keep people safe, and violent home invasions skyrocketed.

As an Australian, one aware of the actual statistics, I feel eminently qualified to say: "That's bullshit, mate."

TLDR: using Australia as a reason for arming or disarming America is bad and you should feel bad. :)

Look, I truly get that unilaterally compelling the disarmament of the law-abiding proportion of a heavily-armed, high-density, disaffected population with a long history of armed violence is a Really Bad Idea, but when it comes to using Australia as a comparison point? You've been fed propaganda that exploits statistical shenanigans and popular ignorance of a distant country's cultural differences. Unlike the native Americans, the natives here lacked the technology, organisation and numbers to be much more than a speed bump in the British Empire's history of conquest, and we also never had a revolutionary war nor followed it with a civil war, so our nation was never armed on a level remotely approaching yours even prior to the confiscation. Our horse was still nudging the barn doors open, while yours is already up in the far paddock with a belly full of long grass and an eye on the short fence.

http://www.abc.net.au/worldtod...
http://www.ocsar.sa.gov.au/doc...

It isn't necessarily a question of "the old way" but rather the proven way. Look at the flip side - communism. It was tried over, and over, and over and kept producing bloody disasters of mass oppression, mass murder, economic ruin. And yet today there are still communists! They want to keep trying despite killing 100,000,000 people in the last century.

The radicals of the movements springing up in the 60s weren't any better even when they weren't communists. They wanted to tear down society with no real plan to rebuild. Their spiritual heir in many ways is the "Occupy" movement which failed so miserably.

If you have a Nokia, it's easy enough to flash the stock (8.0) OS back again using Nokia Care Suite. Probably also true for Samsung WP8 phones, which have a Flashing tool and ROMs have been released at least for some of them. Not sure about HTC or Huawei, but the latter has custom ROMs (so it's almost certainly possible to go back) and the former has *historically* had lots of flashing tools and at least stock ROMs available. Not sure for WP8 though.

Moses even had tablets, but they were pretty slow I'm told.

http://www.cracked.com/photoplasty_839_29-iconic-images-from-history-shamelessly-turned-into-ads_p29/#27

Look at #27.

Nonsense! If there is such a thing as Christian Science, then it certainly should be closely monitored.

...and it's "limited circumstances" under which it will, eh, errr, deviate from the fourth Amendment.

Yeah, right.

If you believe that, I have some promises from our political parties to guarantee for you, too.

They are empire building. The technology is a means to that end.

Didn't CSM shut down its print edition a while back?

I'm surprised by the lack of curiosity here. The best stuff in the Apple App Store costs some money. What's the point in buying expensive $600 phones if you're going to be too cheap to get out there and see what people are making them do? The highest rated 10-20 apps alone in the App Store would put you over $50 easily. Not all the apps are for everybody, but if you're not using at least a few of them then you aren't getting real value from your iOS device purchase and you probably didn't need one in the first place.

For a site full of people that claim to be geeks, nerds, programmers, admins, etc there's almost nobody out here that's actually PARTICIPATING in the biggest change in the tech industry in the last decade. if you're worried about "privacy" and your credit card information getting taken then you're clearly not paying attention to how the marketplace works, how the various groups interact and developing a sense of safe behavior in this new arena. This is kind of a poor showing of people that claim to have "technical savvy".

Today there was another report from NBC on the ground in other towns where they interviewed Ukrainian military officials who had switched to the Russian flag. They didn't like their pay, they didn't like the hours and they were happy to switch. There were interviews with police who were being asked to arrest or shoot at the very people who had been supporting them a month earlier when everyone was against them. This wasn't Russian propaganda this was an American network representing the real grievances of the people on the ground.

I think I've given more than enough evidence that sources that if anything are biased towards the anti-Russian side investigated and found genuine discount. I'm not going to keep responding to, "This whole business of covering up a rigged poll is not impressing anybody outside of Kreml's media space.." That is clearly unequivocally and verifiably false. At this point you are simply ignoring evidence that contradicts your spin that no one believes Russians that Crimeans were unhappy.

It's not a comparison of Ukraine vs Russia. As a Ukrainian, I am comparing Russia and EU/US

So was I. I gave growth figures and comparative economic figures. Russia's economy is far smaller than EU/US (though on par with many EU countries) but is growing much faster. Showing a healthy government under Putin contrary to your comments above about shrinkage. Again GDP data is public.

As for not having contempt for Russians I think you should read your comments in this thread.
 

He meant starting at 1500, not 1900. There are people who believe that the past 200 years have been an aberration caused by free energy, and that when it ends the world will return to when growth was closer to 2% per year.