If I remember right a lasgun in Dune hitting one of their shields would cause a nuclear explosion. I'd be a lot more nervous in that sort of armor than out of it... --
as long as the buyer agrees to abide by Toysmart's privacy policy...
Which means they can only use it to (according to their website) "personalize" their customers' online experience. Which seems to make it useless to another company. Unless they have a very liberal definition of "personalize".
Interestingly enough, Disney offered to buy (and bury) the list, but I guess the FTC didn't go for it.
It does sound like a pretty flimsy legal disclaimer. If you think about it, the whole internet e-mail distribution system relies on "re-transmitting"...
Believe me, I have no desire to see our future turn out like ST:TNG. Everyone dressed the same, listening to the same music (light jazz), with humanity having totally lost their backbone (they destroyed ten of our ships? let's try to make peace with them). I don't even like their GUIs. Or at least the ones we see at the engineering stations.
0 We're going to see a radical change in the GUI in the 2000s.
00 If this does happen (which I'm not sure it will)
Well by saying "2000s" the poster left themselves a LOT of leeway...How could we not have a radical change in the GUI in the next thousand years? To tell the truth, if in the year 2950 we're still using a basically unmodified KDE, well that's just sad..."Come my brethren, it is time to evolve into a new plane of existence, and shed our corporeal bodies." "One second, netscape froze on me, think the dynamic loader's stuck again."
But it's not THEIR content; when I posted on usenet I didn't know that deja was going to take my posts and alter them (this is going back, of course, to when dejanews wasn't around). The problem I think most people are having is that the message bodies are being altered. I wouldn't have a problem with them pasting 50 banner ads selling modems if I mentioned them in my post, but I don't think it's right to have the post itself modified.
AOL.com, News.com, and MSN.com -- and all the rest (including Slashdot) are just barking dogs chasing their wheels?
There's also the online version of most major papers; I go to The New York Times a lot more frequently than I do any of the ones you've mentioned, and they tend to have more credibility (with me at least). There's also syndicates like the Associated Press and Reuters which allow just about anyone to compete with the bigger news sites, at least on some level.
Have you been in an arcade lately? The games are a lot more violent than the street fighter. Maybe I'm just getting old, but I feel a little uncomfortable playing some of the more ultraviolent ones.
Don't want to sound like a troll, but how is this unconstitutional? I don't know if video games could be considered protected speech, but even if they could they're not really restricting them (unless you lack the mental ability to pass through a curtain, in which case you probably would have trouble putting quarters in the slots anyway)...
Did 2001: A Space Odyssey teach us nothing? Do you really want a computer that monitors you as you talk? Remember what happened in the movie? Personally, I'd rather not end up jettisoned into space.
And just picture it monitoring what you're paying attention. "I'm sorry, Dave, but I'm going to close ICQ now. You've been paying far too much attention to it, and neglecting your work."
Oh yeah, I know how to do housework and I'm not ashamed to admit it. I am what the media describes as a "New Man". Please grow out of your Victorian values.
Just as a side note, the misogynist posts would be totally against Victorian values, as no true gentleman would insult a woman like that (yes, that's a sexist viewpoint too, but a slightly different kind of one)...
Most of the posters here seem to believe the general public will keep using them even if they're shown to be dangerous, but few people have mentioned whether they themselves will stop. Either you all won't either, in which case you shouldn't criticize the "general public", or you all will, in which case it's a little arrogant to presume that the vast majority of non-slashdot readers have the IQ of marinated eggplant. Personally I think most people will give them up if they're proven dangerous.
People bring up a whole smoking argument. When the health risks of smoking were announced by the Surgeon General, did the number of smokers in this country go down? Yes, substantially.
You know, I love linux, I use it everyday, but...Supporting that many desktop user is just scary. I assume we're not talking about programmers or sysadmins, and I wouldn't want to be desktop support those first few days...
That would be really cool. I am chemically addicted to Tenchi Muyo; it easily rates as the best anime I've ever seen. Hell, it's probably the best thing I've ever seen on video, anime or no..Hopefully if there is a new series, it will be more along the lines of the OAV (or at least the first TV series) rather than Tenchi in Tokyo, which was somewhat painful to watch.
Of course, the movie Tenchi Forever was billed as the last chapter in the series', and it will be hard to live up to those standards (the last few scenes were just incredible; just ended everything perfectly).
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60 words a minute to what, 10? Just what I need.
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Well a lot of the characters weren't exactly in their right minds...
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Now all we need is a helium atmoshpere, and we're set. Anyone going to volunteer to field-test our shields on the surface of a star?
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If I remember right a lasgun in Dune hitting one of their shields would cause a nuclear explosion. I'd be a lot more nervous in that sort of armor than out of it...
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Hey, if you're going to pretend, might as well make it a good fantasy. My girlfriend is an intergalactic spy.
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as long as the buyer agrees to abide by Toysmart's privacy policy...
Which means they can only use it to (according to their website) "personalize" their customers' online experience. Which seems to make it useless to another company. Unless they have a very liberal definition of "personalize".
Interestingly enough, Disney offered to buy (and bury) the list, but I guess the FTC didn't go for it.
It does sound like a pretty flimsy legal disclaimer. If you think about it, the whole internet e-mail distribution system relies on "re-transmitting"...
Pretty original. Why can't they pick something more modern? How about names from sci-fi classics? Why not call it Spock?
I think we should call it Planet of the Apes!
Believe me, I have no desire to see our future turn out like ST:TNG. Everyone dressed the same, listening to the same music (light jazz), with humanity having totally lost their backbone (they destroyed ten of our ships? let's try to make peace with them). I don't even like their GUIs. Or at least the ones we see at the engineering stations.
0 We're going to see a radical change in the GUI in the 2000s.
00 If this does happen (which I'm not sure it will)
Well by saying "2000s" the poster left themselves a LOT of leeway...How could we not have a radical change in the GUI in the next thousand years? To tell the truth, if in the year 2950 we're still using a basically unmodified KDE, well that's just sad..."Come my brethren, it is time to evolve into a new plane of existence, and shed our corporeal bodies." "One second, netscape froze on me, think the dynamic loader's stuck again."
But it's not THEIR content; when I posted on usenet I didn't know that deja was going to take my posts and alter them (this is going back, of course, to when dejanews wasn't around). The problem I think most people are having is that the message bodies are being altered. I wouldn't have a problem with them pasting 50 banner ads selling modems if I mentioned them in my post, but I don't think it's right to have the post itself modified.
AOL.com, News.com, and MSN.com -- and all the rest (including Slashdot) are just barking dogs chasing their wheels?
There's also the online version of most major papers; I go to The New York Times a lot more frequently than I do any of the ones you've mentioned, and they tend to have more credibility (with me at least). There's also syndicates like the Associated Press and Reuters which allow just about anyone to compete with the bigger news sites, at least on some level.
Have you been in an arcade lately? The games are a lot more violent than the street fighter. Maybe I'm just getting old, but I feel a little uncomfortable playing some of the more ultraviolent ones.
Don't want to sound like a troll, but how is this unconstitutional? I don't know if video games could be considered protected speech, but even if they could they're not really restricting them (unless you lack the mental ability to pass through a curtain, in which case you probably would have trouble putting quarters in the slots anyway)...
Did 2001: A Space Odyssey teach us nothing? Do you really want a computer that monitors you as you talk? Remember what happened in the movie? Personally, I'd rather not end up jettisoned into space.
And just picture it monitoring what you're paying attention. "I'm sorry, Dave, but I'm going to close ICQ now. You've been paying far too much attention to it, and neglecting your work."
Oh yeah, I know how to do housework and I'm not ashamed to admit it. I am what the media describes as a "New Man". Please grow out of your Victorian values.
Just as a side note, the misogynist posts would be totally against Victorian values, as no true gentleman would insult a woman like that (yes, that's a sexist viewpoint too, but a slightly different kind of one)...
Most of the posters here seem to believe the general public will keep using them even if they're shown to be dangerous, but few people have mentioned whether they themselves will stop. Either you all won't either, in which case you shouldn't criticize the "general public", or you all will, in which case it's a little arrogant to presume that the vast majority of non-slashdot readers have the IQ of marinated eggplant. Personally I think most people will give them up if they're proven dangerous.
People bring up a whole smoking argument. When the health risks of smoking were announced by the Surgeon General, did the number of smokers in this country go down? Yes, substantially.
Of course, what you do with a Dreamcast running NetBSD is up to you. Errr ...
just what could you do with a Dreamcast running NetBSD?
Nethack.
Actually, this post restored my faith in their story posting ability...
Well the question is, if they were so smart, why did they all get killed...
It's snobbish, not snobish. And I apologize to francophones worldwide.
My understanding of fashion is nonexistent. I like it that way.
It might be referring to images shown on the ending credits; I mean the actual last few scenes of the movie...
You know, I love linux, I use it everyday, but...Supporting that many desktop user is just scary. I assume we're not talking about programmers or sysadmins, and I wouldn't want to be desktop support those first few days...
That would be really cool. I am chemically addicted to Tenchi Muyo; it easily rates as the best anime I've ever seen. Hell, it's probably the best thing I've ever seen on video, anime or no..Hopefully if there is a new series, it will be more along the lines of the OAV (or at least the first TV series) rather than Tenchi in Tokyo, which was somewhat painful to watch.
Of course, the movie Tenchi Forever was billed as the last chapter in the series', and it will be hard to live up to those standards (the last few scenes were just incredible; just ended everything perfectly).