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Hello Kitty May Be Key to 3G Survival
wa4osh writes "It's scary to think that sophisticated 3G mobile systems may depend for their survival on Hello Kitty (a cutesy Japanese pink cat with whiskers but no mouth) according to the recent Commdesign article "Hello Kitty may be key to 3G success". The article suggests that 3G's main market is downloading ringtones and backgrounds. Reading between the lines, it also suggests that 3G did not find a killer application. For example, what happened to 3G Video phones, or using 3G to send video clips to each other? These are all things that can be done with today's 2.5G technologies - GPRS and 1XRTT. So what's 3G really for? Perhaps Wi-Fi / 802.11 is solving the real need for broadband data mobility." The Wall Street Journal has an article which suggests that cellular companies are turning to Wi-Fi to hedge their bets.
THIS IS AN EMERGENCY POST, REPEAT, EMERGENCY POST:
MY PET CRAYFISH IS DYING!!!
Gentle Sirs--
I recently acquired a cherax speciman, air-mailed from Australia last week. Since then I've had the cray in a 50-gallon freshwater aquarium. The water was seasoned from known-safe tap-water, since I didn't feel using creek water containing local microorgasms would be safe for the cherax. Feeding him bloodworms, earthworms, and lettuce the cherax seemed fine until this Thanksgiving evening.
Returning home with several tubs of leftovers from a Thanksgiving dinner, I proceded to feed my cherax some chilled, roasted turkey (in .2cm strips), mashed potatoes (by means of a q-tip) and gravy (through an eyedropper). Sirs, after feeding him this meal I left my aquarium room for several hours-- and returned to find my cherax in his current state!
My cherax is now lying on his side, twitching, with a string of dark fecal matter trailing from its anus and several strange, white beads of mucus oozing from its mouth-parts. I immediately checked the water for Ph levels and nitrids and found the results to be not only well within acceptable limits for the cherax but also identical to my last such test made 16 hours prior to this one. Increasing the intensity of the flow to and from the filter and increasing oxygen levels in the tank seemed to ease the twitching but the cherax is still mostly inert. At this moment its only activity is gill-fanning and the occasional eye-cleaning movement.
I've seen molts begin like this (aside from the feces and mucus), but at this stage in the process the carapace should have split by now, and there is no indication of such with my cherax. There are also no signs of acute parasitic infestation. What could be causing this strange behaviour in my cherax? I fear it will die soon if I can not identify the problem and treat it. Do any of these symptoms seem familiar to anyone reading this forum?
Please contact me if you have any information regarding this!
Thank you sirs.
P.S. His name is Bob.
Take Dilbert, for example. I'm sure that most of the Slashdot audience is familiar with Dilbert. He's the downtrodden cubicle dweller/engineer who is constantly doomed to failure and has no mouth. This is no coincidence; this is symbolic. Dilbert has no mouth because it represents the fact that he has no say over what happens to him in the faceless corporate power structure.
A similiar meaning can be applied to Hello Kitty. Hello Kitty is clearly a feminine character, as evidenced by the pink color scheme and the marketing of such a wide variety of products from childrens' lunchboxes to vibrators and douches. The fact that Hello Kitty doesn't have a mouth is a subliminal suggestion by the manufacturer that women shouldn't have any say in society and should be relegated to the home and other traditionally feminine roles.
Add to that the fact that Hello Kitty is mainly a Japanese phenomena, and you have incontrovertable proof of implied sexism. Why, you ask? Because the Japanese have a long, long history of treating their women like dirt. A friend of mine, who lived in China during the Japanese occupation, told me once of how the officers in the Japanese army would routinely beat their wives and rape the women whose land they were occupying. Add to that just about any conversation that I've had with non-Japanese Asians about the Japanese and women turned out advocating a negative viewpoint on them, and you have some pretty damning evidence.
I hope that, in the future, you don't advocate such degrading products. After all, I know at least some of you would be happy to have a woman appreciate you, and respecting them is the first (big) step.
"A feminist, what's that? A women who doesn't get it? Often enough?" -- Ted Nugent
WinXP SP Change Product Key without Reinstall:
You won't have to worry about it for months, since SP1 won't
ship until September or so. But there's this procedure that allows you to change your key. Use one of
the corporate keys generated from the keygen that's been
floating around for several months.
Change Product Key without Reinstall:
1. Run regedit and go to:
HKey_Local_Machine\Software\Microsoft\Window
Version\WPAEvents, on the right double click on "oobetimer"
and change at least one digit of this value to deactivate windows.
2. Choose run from start menu and type in this command:
%systemroot%\system32\oobe\msoobe.exe
activation screen and go to the second option which is
activate by phone.
3. In the new screen choose the option to change product
key, and type in the new product key (Corporate one only)***.
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command in step 2 for the second time to verify your
activation , you should see "windows is already activated".
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Am I the only one who thinks Moses or the Flintstones when people start talking about "Tablet" PC's?
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=46404&cid=4781 432
slashdot: where everyone yells sarcastic metaphors to themselves to understand the issue
Well... that explains this pic:
;)
in the grim future of hello kitty, there is only war