types of stories here? This is never going to happen. You know why? Because not everyone has a smart phone. Hell I can count on 1 hand the number of people that have one that I know. And most of the ones that do just have them so they can show them off. I can buy a universal remote anywhere, and I don't have to worry about not being able to use my TV if I drop my service provider for the phone.
And your opinion is really easy to hold when you don't know someone that has been put in a wheelchair by an uninsured driver. I wouldn't like this at all for privacy but I really do believe that if you have no insurance you shouldn't own a car at all.
There is 1 issue with your compairison. And that is we are talking about desktop computers not servers (I would bet there are more Windows desktops in the world than Linux servers). Your average user isn't going to setup a server in their room. The OP is correct the day you have the normal user in Linux the issues will happen because guess what the normal user isn't an admin. They will install things or download things they should not because they don't know any better. I've never had any issues with any of my windows systems but I'm not the average user so I don't download weird stuff and I keep my system up to date.
changing my tv with hand motion. Right now this would never work think of all the uncontrolled facial expressions people use all the time. As for voice commands that someone else mentioned. I used to like them assuming you could record the commands and train the system. Otherwise the computer will pick anything that has about the same length as the same command. That and my wife thought I was crazy playing a game and yelling commands at my computer.
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For once I'm not paying for something on Time Warner that I don't ever fricking want.
I have to agree with you there my wife is a controller for a multimillion dollar company and my father is a doctor and I doubt if either one of them could get a computer on a network unless a disk did it all for them. Its not that they aren't smart its just that they are not computer people. My father has people to do that for him and my wife has me so they have no need to learn it if they don't want to....No matter how much I would like one of them to. There are also a lot of people out there that just have no computer skills no matter how hard they try. Heck half the people I know couldn't format a hard drive if their life depended on it and that's something that I would bet anyone here can do right?.
Lets see....and someone taking a pic of me would be just as bothering as watching someone whip out their breasts and start feeding their kid. Now I can live with it when they actually cover up. But when they don't care (or try) to cover up a little and take a "I can do this in public stance"...Then what is wrong with me having the same pigheadedness as them in going "well its in public so I can take a pic". Your argument is just hypocritical. You have an issue with me taking pics of the act and posting it because it would be offensive but don't care that someone else may find what the mother is doing offensive.
Thats fine then don't get upset when I whip out my phone take a few boob pics and stare a little. I mean how often do I get to see real breasts in something other than a photo....I mean I read/. don't I? Besides I can always use the pics later. Maybe I can get then in a torrent up on Pirate Bay for everyone to enjoy.
5) say the problem is super urgent, but then refuse to try anything you say.
I love this one. I talk to people and know I can fix an issue over the phone so I ask them to do what will fix the issue. Say something simple like "power cycle your router" and they refuse yet when I tell tell I can't get anyone out to fix the issue for a few days they demand someone today even after I explain that resetting the router would fix their issue. Eventually they just go "fine I'll just wait".
Ok but what about side effects. How will it effect rain fall if we are adding to the current evaporation. Also it seems like this would or could possibly change the ecosystem of the areas it is done in. And finally who would foot the bill and what would be an approx. cost on it. The story paints a nice pic but there isn't enough info to tell if this is even realistic other than the "practical, nontoxic, affordable, rapidly achievable" comment there isn't much info on what his comparisons are.
Riches chose World of Warcraft over working a legit job
If this works I'm going to quit my job to masturbate all the time. Then I will sue the Govt and the Porn industries of the world for causing me to quit my job and for the horrible calluses I would develop from constant fapping.
that there were so many paranoid people out there. I don't know how I feel about the emission checks so much but for lapsed insurance I'm completely fine with that. The last thing I need is someone running a light and hitting me then not having any insurance. As for the tracking where you have been you can look at it this way if they wanted to they could just track you with satellites or your cell phone if they really wanted to. Heck who is to say they aren't looking at a screen full of that stuff right now. Heck you know your cable companies can track what shows your watch if they feel like it. Its not worth it at the moment but who is to say that someday it won't be done.
Apparently I need to go catch up on my reading about how I need to behave from now on to keep myself from eventual reeducation. Its funny but I used to really like living in the US but the more I see things like this the more I understand why half of the world hates us.
What you don't want to die because someone thought you were just a big speed bump? I could just picture sitting in that thing and looking in the rearview at the semi tire that is about to run me over.
While I like new toys why would I pay $600.00 for this when for $499.00 I can just get a Dell Laptop? I was looking at one of these a little while ago as I wanted something I could use for DVDs on trips and when I wasn't in the car and for something I use as a navigator in the car.
Well, it would help you strengthen your forearms and biceps! Instead of body by Bowflex, we'd all have body by X-Box....
Not really because then you would just have to buy the third party control holder so you don't injure yourself. I could hear the news now "millions of people around the world have been reporting to hospitals with Hernias from the new xbox remote."
Thats the problem with the current patent system. You could potentially do just that. Its not fool proof but that is pretty much what these companies are doing. They will buy or create a patent and then sit around until some company makes something close to the patent then sue them and try to get a settlement out of them.
Well its obvious of course. This whole neft game is just another way to train our future school shooters. They played computer games until they started to crack down on them now they are going to the next lvl. Real life training with projectile weapons. **BTW I'm just kidding. Altho I can see someone trying to use this as a reason behind the ban. That or you will see someone charged with assualt due to shooting a bystander.
Man I miss Deathtrack. I played that game constantly.
On the blue light issues I think it would depend on the person. I know for me a bright blue light when I'm tired makes me blink alot or squint.
Yeah but I don't really rank the military up there in security. I High School I took a vocational network admin course for Novell. We had a couple of network engineers from the DoD come in to talk to us about what they did and they explained the basics of network layout (I believe one of them was a friend of the teacher). They even brought a layout of the network with them. It was great. The only issue was the layout the had listed all of the IP Addresses for the servers at each point. The next day they came and replaced it with one that did not have the IPs as we had been trying to connect to them all day while goofing around.
This is just weird. But if you could make your own whales that reproduce easier you would have food and you would have more for "scientific research". I wish they would work on better animals. I want my mini Elephant and Grizzly Bear!!
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types of stories here? This is never going to happen. You know why? Because not everyone has a smart phone. Hell I can count on 1 hand the number of people that have one that I know. And most of the ones that do just have them so they can show them off. I can buy a universal remote anywhere, and I don't have to worry about not being able to use my TV if I drop my service provider for the phone.
And your opinion is really easy to hold when you don't know someone that has been put in a wheelchair by an uninsured driver. I wouldn't like this at all for privacy but I really do believe that if you have no insurance you shouldn't own a car at all.
There is 1 issue with your compairison. And that is we are talking about desktop computers not servers (I would bet there are more Windows desktops in the world than Linux servers). Your average user isn't going to setup a server in their room. The OP is correct the day you have the normal user in Linux the issues will happen because guess what the normal user isn't an admin. They will install things or download things they should not because they don't know any better. I've never had any issues with any of my windows systems but I'm not the average user so I don't download weird stuff and I keep my system up to date.
changing my tv with hand motion. Right now this would never work think of all the uncontrolled facial expressions people use all the time. As for voice commands that someone else mentioned. I used to like them assuming you could record the commands and train the system. Otherwise the computer will pick anything that has about the same length as the same command. That and my wife thought I was crazy playing a game and yelling commands at my computer.
I'm shocked.....
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Sign-in using remote access if you already get ESPN360.com
For once I'm not paying for something on Time Warner that I don't ever fricking want.
I have to agree with you there my wife is a controller for a multimillion dollar company and my father is a doctor and I doubt if either one of them could get a computer on a network unless a disk did it all for them. Its not that they aren't smart its just that they are not computer people. My father has people to do that for him and my wife has me so they have no need to learn it if they don't want to....No matter how much I would like one of them to. There are also a lot of people out there that just have no computer skills no matter how hard they try. Heck half the people I know couldn't format a hard drive if their life depended on it and that's something that I would bet anyone here can do right?.
Lets see....and someone taking a pic of me would be just as bothering as watching someone whip out their breasts and start feeding their kid. Now I can live with it when they actually cover up. But when they don't care (or try) to cover up a little and take a "I can do this in public stance"...Then what is wrong with me having the same pigheadedness as them in going "well its in public so I can take a pic". Your argument is just hypocritical. You have an issue with me taking pics of the act and posting it because it would be offensive but don't care that someone else may find what the mother is doing offensive.
Thats fine then don't get upset when I whip out my phone take a few boob pics and stare a little. I mean how often do I get to see real breasts in something other than a photo....I mean I read /. don't I? Besides I can always use the pics later. Maybe I can get then in a torrent up on Pirate Bay for everyone to enjoy.
5) say the problem is super urgent, but then refuse to try anything you say.
I love this one. I talk to people and know I can fix an issue over the phone so I ask them to do what will fix the issue. Say something simple like "power cycle your router" and they refuse yet when I tell tell I can't get anyone out to fix the issue for a few days they demand someone today even after I explain that resetting the router would fix their issue. Eventually they just go "fine I'll just wait".
Cool. It sounds like a good idea but it would be neat to read some more about it.
Ok but what about side effects. How will it effect rain fall if we are adding to the current evaporation. Also it seems like this would or could possibly change the ecosystem of the areas it is done in. And finally who would foot the bill and what would be an approx. cost on it. The story paints a nice pic but there isn't enough info to tell if this is even realistic other than the "practical, nontoxic, affordable, rapidly achievable" comment there isn't much info on what his comparisons are.
Riches chose World of Warcraft over working a legit job
If this works I'm going to quit my job to masturbate all the time. Then I will sue the Govt and the Porn industries of the world for causing me to quit my job and for the horrible calluses I would develop from constant fapping.
To pull out my copy of 1984 so I can refresh myself on how I need to act in the future.
that there were so many paranoid people out there. I don't know how I feel about the emission checks so much but for lapsed insurance I'm completely fine with that. The last thing I need is someone running a light and hitting me then not having any insurance. As for the tracking where you have been you can look at it this way if they wanted to they could just track you with satellites or your cell phone if they really wanted to. Heck who is to say they aren't looking at a screen full of that stuff right now. Heck you know your cable companies can track what shows your watch if they feel like it. Its not worth it at the moment but who is to say that someday it won't be done.
Apparently I need to go catch up on my reading about how I need to behave from now on to keep myself from eventual reeducation. Its funny but I used to really like living in the US but the more I see things like this the more I understand why half of the world hates us.
What you don't want to die because someone thought you were just a big speed bump? I could just picture sitting in that thing and looking in the rearview at the semi tire that is about to run me over.
While I like new toys why would I pay $600.00 for this when for $499.00 I can just get a Dell Laptop? I was looking at one of these a little while ago as I wanted something I could use for DVDs on trips and when I wasn't in the car and for something I use as a navigator in the car.
Well, it would help you strengthen your forearms and biceps! Instead of body by Bowflex, we'd all have body by X-Box....
Not really because then you would just have to buy the third party control holder so you don't injure yourself. I could hear the news now "millions of people around the world have been reporting to hospitals with Hernias from the new xbox remote."
Thats the problem with the current patent system. You could potentially do just that. Its not fool proof but that is pretty much what these companies are doing. They will buy or create a patent and then sit around until some company makes something close to the patent then sue them and try to get a settlement out of them.
I'm going back to bed. I can't even spell Nerf yet...
Well its obvious of course. This whole neft game is just another way to train our future school shooters. They played computer games until they started to crack down on them now they are going to the next lvl. Real life training with projectile weapons. **BTW I'm just kidding. Altho I can see someone trying to use this as a reason behind the ban. That or you will see someone charged with assualt due to shooting a bystander.
Man I miss Deathtrack. I played that game constantly. On the blue light issues I think it would depend on the person. I know for me a bright blue light when I'm tired makes me blink alot or squint.
Yeah but I don't really rank the military up there in security. I High School I took a vocational network admin course for Novell. We had a couple of network engineers from the DoD come in to talk to us about what they did and they explained the basics of network layout (I believe one of them was a friend of the teacher). They even brought a layout of the network with them. It was great. The only issue was the layout the had listed all of the IP Addresses for the servers at each point. The next day they came and replaced it with one that did not have the IPs as we had been trying to connect to them all day while goofing around.
This is just weird. But if you could make your own whales that reproduce easier you would have food and you would have more for "scientific research". I wish they would work on better animals. I want my mini Elephant and Grizzly Bear!!