Wikipedia keeps its past articles. In any case, that can be said of anything on the internet, as it can all be changed. Books can go out of print. Short of keeping a copy yourself and emailing them to others as needed, there is no form of citations that will get around the problem.
For the sake of less eye strain, which should be a concern for children-oriented devices.
eink doesn't have less eyestrain or whatever, its still dark gray on light gray, just like the LCD, but it does use less power. They claim one year battery life for the LCD reader... with eink they could probably go a couple years... why bother.
I remember when dial up was priced per hour. Competition slowly and inevitably drove the price down further and further, and then some companies offered unlimited dial up at a fixed price. A few even offered unlimited monthly dial up for free !
( NetZero, Surfree, and that little ISP in my hometown, and in hometowns across the country. to name but a few of the inexpensive dial up options that appeared. And that are even now out there, still, to this day ). And they still do a decent business.
So yes, Verizon, PLEASE start charging per Kb or MB or whatever. We've been down this road before. Your prices will all eventually be driven ever downward by the competition, like dial up was. Until the time, in the not so distant future, when your metered service will either become so cheap that that you will run away from the market with your tail between your legs, Verizon, or it will become such an expensive and poor choice for most folks that people will drop your company altogether and go elsewhere.
Ironically, NetZero is still out there, waiting for your next move, Verizon.
I see their TV ads every day, telling people that all they really need is NetZero's basic service at around $10.00 a MONTH, saving folks about $300.00 a year over broadband. They're not free anymore, but they are a real bargain.
Go ahead and laugh, but dial up is really all that most folks really need for checking email and a short web surfing session. Think Grandma and Grandpa, and all of those out there with active lifestyles that only use their home desktops for maybe 10 minutes a day. They are usually out and about, playing and dining, and using their Smartphones all day long. Dial up suits lots of people just fine.
And if Verizon or anyone else starts gouging folks with overage charges with their metered service, as they used to with their cell phone plans, I can see a whole lot more folks going back to dialup. Especially at just $10.00 a month. Unlimited.
I will watch Verizon and their ilk dig themselves another hole while trying to empty peoples pockets with this metered plan of theirs.
Should be entertaining to see if they survive yet another attempt to gouge their customers with overage fees.
Yeah, they'll make a bundle on overage fees for a while in the beginning, at their customers expense, of course. Which leads to them losing customers in droves, again. Which leads to lower prices, and spending tons in advertising and new service terms and lower price points than the competitors trying to get their market share back. Sound familiar Verizon ? And Sprint ?
Life can be such a vicious circle.
Ok, the older car has a whole lot more metal than the newer car.
If the newer car had hit a tractor trailer, which is made with more metal, the newer car would have been smished.
If the newer car had hit a train, which is made with even more metal, the newer car would have been pulverized.
Suggesting that more metal would equate to more protection. Certainly more protection than what I saw in this video.
So why is the newer car, with less metal, looking better than the older car, which has more steel in it's front bumper the the newer car has throughout it's entire body.
Could it be that the 50 year old metal in the older car was just plain OLD ? Fatigued ? weakened ? not necessarily rusted, but just weaker than it was in 1959.
A possibility ?
>> They would also be perfectly within their rights to stop making
>> Windows altogether and start manufacturing refrigerators...
>"Knowing Microsoft, it'll probably be their first product that never freezes."
Now, THAT was FUNNY !
I'm looking for work. Who do I have to know to get a job there ?
I think the solution is to have the concept of "intellectual property" work both ways. Obviously your private information has value, otherwise advertisers and other companies wouldn't go to such great lenghts to obtain and use it. The problem is that they obtain it without your consent and without directly compensating you. For example, if I don't actively block web bugs, cookies, HTTP "ping", analytics tools, and other similar attempts, then that data will be gathered whether or not I like it.
Agreed.
An example,
Firefox, plus the Ghostery addon = the ability to block the Doubleclick web bug / tracking beacon on slashdot's pages.
P.S. - apologies to
But, when you say
The reason why I actively go out of my way to prevent companies from gathering data on me is simple. No one asked me if I wanted to be data-mined. I refuse to honor agreements in which I did not participate. Why anyone else would do so is a mystery to me.
You would be told that just loading, looking at, or using a website, or promotion, or using a store card ( Krogers, Marsh, etc ), means that you have agreed to their terms of service, and said terms of service usually say that in return for the privilege of using their website or promotion or whatever, you give consent to such tracking.
They have themselves covered.
Get hired by Google.
They'll get ya funded.
I understand where you're coming from, but the other replies to your ideas are right.
Someone is going to have to clean up the mess. And someone is going to have to try to save your life.
Besides, if I tried one of your ideas, knowing my luck, I'd live through it, and be in that much more pain. As well as being crippled and requiring somebody to have to care for me.
I'll have to ponder this more, and find something that I'd love to do, wouldn't require someone to clean up the mess or try to save me, and would surely have the desired effect.
The main concern is whether the computer controlled airspeed and altitude indicators malfunctioned.
The investigations are coming to that conclusion.
And when the airspeed and altitude data are incorrect, ( indicating to the flight control computers that the aircraft is flying too slow, or too low, or losing altitude, or all of those things, then the onboard flight computers are going to maximum thrust to regain speed and altitude. The result can be severe over-speed, with the possibility of the aircraft failing structurally, or a drmatic computer controlled mid-flight correction of the aircraftwhilst the computer is trying to make sense of bad data.
But if the flight is already at the correct altitude and at speed, then those adjustments could be disastrous. Such adjustments at altitude and at speed could make the aircraft pitch, and roll, and fly too fast for it's design.
As the pilots realize that something is wrong, the the plane is out of control now, and they take manual control of the aircraft from the computers and try, within seconds, to figure out what is happening, they may be in time to correct the aircraft's maneuvers and save it, as was the case in the other 2 incidences under investigation, or they may be too late, or make one wrong assumption and one wrong move, as it seems was the case with the Air France flight.
From the article,
"The first incident the NTSB is investigating occurred May 21, when a TAM Airlines A330 "experienced a loss of primary speed and altitude information while in cruise flight," according to a release from the NTSB.
"Initial reports indicate that the flight crew noted an abrupt drop in indicated outside air temperature, followed by the loss of the Air Data Reference System and disconnections of the autopilot and autothrust, along with the loss of speed and altitude information."
The TAM flight was on route from Miami to São Paulo, Brazil. It took the flight crew five minutes to regain control of the aircraft, according to the NTSB.
There's less detail about the second incident. The safety board said it "became aware of another possibly similar incident" that occurred on a June 23 Northwest A330 flight between Hong Kong and Tokyo.
In both cases, the planes landed safely and there were no injuries, the NTSB said."
In the first case, the aircraft's flight computers lost the information ( Air Data Reference System and disconnections of the autopilot and autothrust, along with the loss of speed and altitude information ) that it needed to fly the plane. Even as the flight crew saw this happen, and they took over control of the aircraft, the NTSB states that it took them 5 MINUTES to regain control.
When the aircraft is not 5 minutes above the earth, ( say just 4 minutes from the earth at 500 mph ), then this is a pretty big problem.
So, just to help you get it, the computers ( or sensors ) failed and this put the craft, crew, and passengers in a precarious position.
So although you may be right, the cruise control might not have been "on" during the crash, it is still being looked at as the culprit, because the cruise control was supposed to be on, getting good data from it's sensors, and working... yet it malfunctioned, resulting in loss of control of the aircraft, and these malfunctions are putting many lives at peril.
Acquiring new credit isn't the issue here.
The use of citizens SS numbers is the issue.
Your SSN is your personal bank account number for your retirement.
Last I knew, nobody, niether business, was legally allowed to deny one services for refusing to disclose their retirement bank account
( SSN ) number. It's NOT supposed to be an ID number or a credit number.
Your retirement account is supposed to be the ONLY reason you have that number.
This is the main reason that the IRS is mandated to issue and allow the use of Tax ID numbers for taxation purposes.
The reason for these laws is to be able to safe guard ones retirement bank acocunt ( SSN ) number.
BackToTheFutureum
heavy stuff.
Or maybe TripleStuffedTaconium.
TakesADecadeToNameium.
I have more !
This could be fun.
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