tired_man

eBook prices are too high for what you are buying. There are no printing costs, no shipping cost, and for most books, miniscule marketing costs.

Why are most eBooks more costly than their paperback counterparts?

I beg to disagree. That makes the assumption that alien civilizations are in the same technologic era as the earth.

I don't see any reasons to believe they'll be using the RF spectrum. Simply because RF is about all we can manage to pick up is not sufficient reason.

Just because Snowden says something does not make it newsworthy.

It's more likely that we and the aliens wouldn't be using the same technology.

A number of years ago, this practice was known as the "good enough to ship" philosophy and attributed to Microsoft.

Mr. Patel nailed it. This does a disservice to the client by giving them a bug ridden product that had neither sufficient time for a proper QA/regression cycle nor for supporting documentation.

QA and documentation groups need time to verify features and operation. Agile development seems to be the culprit when I encounter this situation.It's seems fine for smaller projects with small dev groups. However, I have yet to see Agile function smoothly: i.e., a smooth development cycle where all the pieces fit, sufficient QA/regression cycles, and documentation that matches reality.

What I do see are missed release dates as a matter of course, purposely short QA and regression in vain attempts to release on time, and docs that have to be written against thin air, as their writers didn't have the finished product until the clients did. And even then it doesn't work like that wonderful idea from the beginning. Some companies can only push the releases so far before violating delivery contracts.

New does not mean panacea.

IMHO, it is important to share such an occurrence about a contracting employer with those in your field who take contract work.

Standard & Poor had that habit in the 90s. It wasn't worth the grief to pursue them, but I did pass along my experiences with them to others in my field.

Good thoughts, where they stayed on the topic. Too much political commentary for me.

Picking a luggage lock is kind of trivial once you have enough practice.

The cow are gets a single capsule (either a single alnico magnet or a plastic capsule with smaller ferrite magnets in it, but the same size) about the size of your thumb. It never passes from the first chamber.

The Buckyball magnets are rare earth and much stronger than cow magnets. A kid who swallowed one might follow it up with another, or some bit of metal, after the first magnet entered the intestinal track and those two might snap together and cause damage.

I think the problem is there whether it is a buckyball magnet or a stack of discs for some craft or hobby. Kids love those kinds of things. You just need to watch them like hawks and be careful what you leave laying around.

They might not work everywhere, but they often fit in better than a bare antenna array. Along NJ's garden state parkway is an example.

Once you pass security you can probably grab a decent sandwich and a couple packs of snacks from a food stand/court, too.

If you have a preference for a hot meal, check if the specials are heated. I've had a couple of cold (they were supposed to be cold) meals that I didn't really like.

I agree about the alcohol. If I'll need to start working as soon as I arrive, I drink and snooze to pre-adjusting my internal clock.

I heard "Always carry out more than you brought in," and try to go with that in mind when I can manage a good hike.

It probably has something to do with the amount of data. The file I did when I checked was 11k. I think it's a pretty cool trick, too.

Deceptive and legal. Just like the mayo.

In the two market chains where I shop, they have all the organic products (except for the organic versions of main-stream products by the same company) on both sides of one aisle, not inter-mixed with normal food.

I don't know if that was to make it easier for organic shoppers to find the right things or to avoid complaints from other shoppers who accidentally picked up an organic product and returned it with a complaint.

The egg board is doing what they get paid to do. They're marketers. That's why I suggest that you ignore them. Just like every other product marketing group. Buy what you want not what the marketers decided.

Hi there, I've never seen a 4k monitor screen set up as a working monitor. Would you mind posting a pic somewhere of what it looks like full of application windows?

I'd just like an idea of how much I could fit on one. I've been considering about buying a third monitor, but I think that a single larger monitor would be easier to deal with.

In my work, I frequently have 10+ windows open for editors, graphics, other references resources, and finally the application I document might need 5-6 of its own.

Great chart. Thanks.

Okay.

So, what about the others? Putting forth several (dozens?) cases where solitary was wrongly imposed does in no way make that case for the majority, now does it?

Given that logic, you could make the argument for a single incident of <pick a color> person killing a <pick a different color> person to mean that all <pick a color> people are raving racist murderers.

Personally, I'm not in favour of prison for violent offenders.

Absolutely, just like Hamburger and Burger. Mayo is a nickname, as is burger.

The egg board is just a smiley face for people having a vested interest in selling eggs. They aren't English majors. The lawyers will open a dictionary and point, eventually.

They call it "vegan mayo" so you know what the real product it replaces is. Just like the vegan burger patties. If they didn't specify, then their product could be just about any sort meat patty replacement. This way you know exactly what the vegan replacement version product doesn't taste like.

Good info. I'm perhaps too paranoid.

Without any agenda, I suggest you research why some prisoners are in permanent isolation.

A large percentage of them are there because they assault/murder other inmates or guards.

I wish someone would have answered my question.

I did like learning the music trivia, though. I like them.

The things I learn visiting here amaze me. I liked their music but never placed a group/faces to songs I saw one on MTV with PC as lead. I thought they formed the group with that format.

Or not. This will give you something to begin invesitgating.

PVR software (there are more): http://www.team-mediaportal.com/ http://www.chris-tv.com/index.html

Schedules Direct has a list of packages that work with their service:

http://www.schedulesdirect.org/approvedsoftware

It will take me a day or so to find it.

You should all be using a VPN, even if it only connects to a server in the next city. It's more for basic privacy from their intrusion more than anything security related.

The less your ISP knows about you, the better off you are.

Would you be willing to bet on the presence of built data reporting so that they can flood your browser and email with suggestions for new movies?

Is this a case of wealth UK residents fleeing to less tax-greedy locales and leaving the land for whomever is willing to deal with inland revenue?

I think Mr. Burkeman should check the facts before he goes on about difficult electronic cash transfers in the US.

This could easily be solved by making a random selection of jurors and alternates from the available pool. have everyone reporting for selection draw a numbered ticket from a hat.

No names, no faces, no questions about what you do for a living, nope, none of that. You get who you asked for, and without the bullshit at the beginning where the lawyer and da (and their jury consultants) work to stack the jury in their favour.

You want peers? Well, any random 12 out of the "random" pool selection ought to about cover it.

And think of all the time it will save. I've been called and ended up sitting there for hours on end. It's a foolish waste of everyone's time. Everyone should report, draw their number, hangout for a bit until they know the total of jurors and alternates they need for each trial, and Bam call the number and send the rest home. I figure it should take a couple of hours at most before there's no more bored disgruntled crowd sitting around.