I think this is very NOT cool. It would really piss me off if I went to see a movie and had to deal with some asshole's laptop screen glare and hard drive clunking and keyboard noise. I would actually like to see a movie theather that JAMS radio signals including 802.11, bluetooth, CELL PHONES, PAGERS, etc. Nothing disturbs a movie more than noise and distractions.
Yep... I'm from East Lansing, and I can hardly see the streetlights through the thick fog let alone meteors. Oh well, I guess I'll catch them next time;-)
What do you suppose the error rate of eye witness identification is? Of police line ups? Of wanted posters? Of mugshots on COPS or America's Most Wanted?
I can't imagine that face recognition software does any worse of a job than some person calling the police saying they saw that axe-murder from America's Most Wanted jogging down Main St.
Furthermore this is simply a data gathering tool, not an automatic prison sentence. So you might look like a known felon, and you get spotted on a camera. A police officer walks up to you and asks for some identification. If you aren't the felon, end of story. If you are, then you're going back to jail where you belong.
Contrary to what most educators say, School is NOT LIKE THE REAL WORLD. When you are an Adult and on your own, you have the freedom and ability to remove yourself from uncomfortable situations. Schoolchildren are a captive audience that are forced to be there day in and day out not seeing the light at the end of the tunnel for 12 long years.
I like this remark. Its insight comes from the irony within. I can remember being told many times in school that the best way to deal with an ugly situation is to remove yourself from it for a while; and, stay away until you've cooled down. What happens when the problem is the school?
Slashdot won't drop the SPAM icon until Hormel is forced to file a lawsuit against OSDN. What do we have then? Big pretty headlines to drum up sympathy from the hordes: HORMEL FOODS SUES SLASHDOT.
We wouldn't want to go stopping something like that from happening would we?
Isn't this service going into already flooded markets? Cities typically already have plenty of broadband and high speed options. Is that really what the net needs? There are several more rural areas that can hardly get dial-up, let alone broadband.
Having said that, let's wait for 'em to crash and burn!
As if wireless services weren't plagued enough by weather. Not only will there be weak signal on shitty days, but the planes could (should) be grounded.
One more thing: We still need to learn to program as well as we build buildings. Buildings don't crash to the ground a lot. For some reason, programs do, and we don't understand why. Until we reach a level in programming where we truly understand the architecture of systems, we won't have your average joe programming.
Perhaps this is because we (as a species) have much more experience building buildings. I'm sure that humans have been building structures of some sort for our entire span of existance. We're talking a good couple of millenia anyway.
The 50 or 60 years that we've been writing programs seems quite pale in comparison to the many years that we've been building structures. That's an awful lot of experience to contend with. And yes, back in the beginning I'm sure many buildings crashed down. They probably even took some architect-type-people down with them in some ironic twist of engineering Darwinism, but I digress:-)
To conclude: You bastards would have dismissed Television before the 1930s were up, wouldn't you?
Look at what television has become today. Television is nothing more than a sequence of shiny pictures telling what we should buy. The television news media is bad, the programming is bad, the commercials are annoying as hell. There is absolutely no content left; it's all been marketed and advertised and sponsored away.
I think we should be vigilant about keeping the Internet from digressing into the mind-numbing idiot box that television has become.
Perhaps killing it off in the 1930's wouldn't have been such a bad idea.
A 2" network card and a 2" modem connecting to an 8"x6" MB would be sweet. Then my pc would be cut down to about 1/3 its current size. A cdrom drive that only 1/2 the cd went it rather than a drawer.
Wow! This new device would be so small and conveinent we could call it a laptop computer!
The reason for not installing service packs is simple: service packs typically break the server or the software that's running on it. It's worth the risk of getting hacked to not accidentally kill a mission critical server by installing the defunct service pack. I've worked on many an NT server that simply cease to function after patch application. Or sometimes if the server is still running, the mission critical application that needs to run finds some incompatibility or conflict to prevent it from running on the new patch level.
I will admit that Windows 2000 Update has greatly improved the patching process over Windows NT, but NT admins always have that fear that the next patch is going to kill the server and have management bitching about 8 hours of downtime.
I think you mean that KDE wasn't compatible with the new kernel.
I'm just being picky here, but it's a detail that needs to be pointed out.
I don't think there's an OS out there that has full compatibility with applications. Despite what MS says, Windows 2000 breaks a LOT of apps that ran on 98. I'm running Win2k Professional on my desktop right now, and I have at least 10 applications that won't run without patching and/or tweaking. The interdependencies of the NetWare kernel(s) and its applications are a bigger nightmare than Windows, Linux, and all UNIX's combined.
I've actually found the Debian package management system to be very good at resolving these interdependencies when I'm running the stable distro. Of course when doing so, you're usually a release or two behind the development and subsequently miss out on some features. However, the bottom line is that you can't run the absolute latest revisions of everything and expect them all to play nice on any OS.
If they would have left me leave, I would have been more than happy to. I asked if I could just take the exams and spend the rest of the time in the library. Unfortunately, most teachers (or probably administrators) think that attendence equals learning.
Not just cell games though. My collection of TI-85 games was the only thing that kept me from stabbing myself in the eye with a pencil during high school math class.
How is this any different than if the doctor were to be sitting in a position that blocked the signal? Perhaps the steel structure of the building, or surrounding buildings could block the signal. What about doctors who go underground where cell signals are weak or non-existant? They could be in subways, parking garages, or even their own basement.
My point is that wireless technology is not 100% reliable in our common environment. How is jamming a movie theater any different than being in any of the normal zones that don't have cell coverage?
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My Girlfriend bought be boxer shorts with Penguins on them. They always seem to work for me!
If you aren't enjoying the movie, you should leave -- not do something else and disturb everyone else in the theater.
I think this is very NOT cool. It would really piss me off if I went to see a movie and had to deal with some asshole's laptop screen glare and hard drive clunking and keyboard noise. I would actually like to see a movie theather that JAMS radio signals including 802.11, bluetooth, CELL PHONES, PAGERS, etc. Nothing disturbs a movie more than noise and distractions.
Family Guy was hilarious. It surpassed, by far, the over-played humor of The Simpsons while still not being as cynical as South Park.
I think it would be in his best interest to never come to the USA again; regardless of a potential lawsuit settlement.
Yep... I'm from East Lansing, and I can hardly see the streetlights through the thick fog let alone meteors. Oh well, I guess I'll catch them next time ;-)
Believe it or not, there is a Linux version of WinAMP. It's version 3.0 alpha on the download page at WinAMP.
My System of a Down CD also ripped flawlessly on my Creative PC-DVD drive.
What do you suppose the error rate of eye witness identification is? Of police line ups? Of wanted posters? Of mugshots on COPS or America's Most Wanted?
I can't imagine that face recognition software does any worse of a job than some person calling the police saying they saw that axe-murder from America's Most Wanted jogging down Main St.
Furthermore this is simply a data gathering tool, not an automatic prison sentence. So you might look like a known felon, and you get spotted on a camera. A police officer walks up to you and asks for some identification. If you aren't the felon, end of story. If you are, then you're going back to jail where you belong.
Oh yeah, great idea.
How about we start a fire-engine mud bog circuit next.
Hands up if you can find any other way to fund a national advertising campaign for a mere $18k.
Contrary to what most educators say, School is NOT LIKE THE REAL WORLD. When you are an Adult and on your own, you have the freedom and ability to remove yourself from uncomfortable situations. Schoolchildren are a captive audience that are forced to be there day in and day out not seeing the light at the end of the tunnel for 12 long years.
I like this remark. Its insight comes from the irony within. I can remember being told many times in school that the best way to deal with an ugly situation is to remove yourself from it for a while; and, stay away until you've cooled down. What happens when the problem is the school?
O c'mon!
Slashdot won't drop the SPAM icon until Hormel is forced to file a lawsuit against OSDN. What do we have then? Big pretty headlines to drum up sympathy from the hordes: HORMEL FOODS SUES SLASHDOT.
We wouldn't want to go stopping something like that from happening would we?
Ummm, something doesn't add up...
82.5 (Canadian Cents per Liter) * 3.785 (Liters per Gallon) = 3.13 (Canadian Dollars per Gallon)
According to the Universal Currency Calculator, $3.13 Canadian equals $2.02 US.
Guess what! That's what I just paid right here in the middle of Michigan, USA.
Speaking of waste...
Isn't this service going into already flooded markets? Cities typically already have plenty of broadband and high speed options. Is that really what the net needs? There are several more rural areas that can hardly get dial-up, let alone broadband.
Having said that, let's wait for 'em to crash and burn!
As if wireless services weren't plagued enough by weather. Not only will there be weak signal on shitty days, but the planes could (should) be grounded.
Perhaps this is because we (as a species) have much more experience building buildings. I'm sure that humans have been building structures of some sort for our entire span of existance. We're talking a good couple of millenia anyway.
The 50 or 60 years that we've been writing programs seems quite pale in comparison to the many years that we've been building structures. That's an awful lot of experience to contend with. And yes, back in the beginning I'm sure many buildings crashed down. They probably even took some architect-type-people down with them in some ironic twist of engineering Darwinism, but I digress :-)
Look at what television has become today. Television is nothing more than a sequence of shiny pictures telling what we should buy. The television news media is bad, the programming is bad, the commercials are annoying as hell. There is absolutely no content left; it's all been marketed and advertised and sponsored away.
I think we should be vigilant about keeping the Internet from digressing into the mind-numbing idiot box that television has become.
Perhaps killing it off in the 1930's wouldn't have been such a bad idea.
A 2" network card and a 2" modem connecting to an 8"x6" MB would be sweet. Then my pc would be cut down to about 1/3 its current size. A cdrom drive that only 1/2 the cd went it rather than a drawer.
Wow! This new device would be so small and conveinent we could call it a laptop computer!
The reason for not installing service packs is simple: service packs typically break the server or the software that's running on it. It's worth the risk of getting hacked to not accidentally kill a mission critical server by installing the defunct service pack. I've worked on many an NT server that simply cease to function after patch application. Or sometimes if the server is still running, the mission critical application that needs to run finds some incompatibility or conflict to prevent it from running on the new patch level.
I will admit that Windows 2000 Update has greatly improved the patching process over Windows NT, but NT admins always have that fear that the next patch is going to kill the server and have management bitching about 8 hours of downtime.
I think you mean that KDE wasn't compatible with the new kernel.
I'm just being picky here, but it's a detail that needs to be pointed out.
I don't think there's an OS out there that has full compatibility with applications. Despite what MS says, Windows 2000 breaks a LOT of apps that ran on 98. I'm running Win2k Professional on my desktop right now, and I have at least 10 applications that won't run without patching and/or tweaking. The interdependencies of the NetWare kernel(s) and its applications are a bigger nightmare than Windows, Linux, and all UNIX's combined.
I've actually found the Debian package management system to be very good at resolving these interdependencies when I'm running the stable distro. Of course when doing so, you're usually a release or two behind the development and subsequently miss out on some features. However, the bottom line is that you can't run the absolute latest revisions of everything and expect them all to play nice on any OS.
If they would have left me leave, I would have been more than happy to. I asked if I could just take the exams and spend the rest of the time in the library. Unfortunately, most teachers (or probably administrators) think that attendence equals learning.
Not just cell games though. My collection of TI-85 games was the only thing that kept me from stabbing myself in the eye with a pencil during high school math class.
How is this any different than if the doctor were to be sitting in a position that blocked the signal? Perhaps the steel structure of the building, or surrounding buildings could block the signal. What about doctors who go underground where cell signals are weak or non-existant? They could be in subways, parking garages, or even their own basement.
My point is that wireless technology is not 100% reliable in our common environment. How is jamming a movie theater any different than being in any of the normal zones that don't have cell coverage?