If you were accustomed to a car that could accelerate from 0-60 with four passengers in 5 seconds, and had it replaced by a budget car that took 4 times as long; yes, I'd call it crippled.
I'd like to know who are all the peope that had to search for ebay in order to find it. I mean, it's not like it's hidden off in its own tiny corner of the internet. And the people searching for it must have spelled it correctly, so they were already 2/3 of the way towards finding it.
The problem with SKYNET wasn't viruses (virii?). It was self awareness and an intense desire for self preservation.
Re:No worries about this with NHL
on
NBA Rejects EA Deal
·
· Score: 3, Funny
Maybe it'll just be a fixed camera outside a rink, with the option to zoom in and look at the padlock on the doors... or better yet, you go inside, and the Ice Capades are performing.
Either way, maybe Winter 2004/5 is the season of the professional zambonie driver simulator. Gotta make the money somehow!
Then I'm really lost. All I know is I got someone with enough self-importance whose first instruction to me was to "click on the little house."
I know they have to baby step a lot of people through how to use their web browsers, but he sounded unnecessarily frustrated with me when I told him to simply tell me what he wanted me to achieve instead of walking me through the steps of how to clear my cookie cache in IE (I know it was IE because he told me to go to "Tools -> Internet Options").
But that's just it. They don't need to conform to standards if they control the majority of the web browswer market. Standards will conform to their nonsense. I had a tech support type on the phone from Bank of America, who said I couldn't enroll my credit card for online access because I was using Mozilla Firefox, and "Firefox doesn't have 128bit encryption."
Now, I know that's a load of crap, my version has the "U" in it, just where it should be. What he was really saying was "our web developers were only paid to develop the online banking software for Internet Explorer, because that's what most people use.
Mozilla can't afford bandwidth, so it needs the mirrors
But they can afford two-page ads in the New York Times?
Is he serious? Wasn't the whole point of the ad that it was paid for by the people whose signatures took up one whole page of the ad? I think he's a bit too deep into the MS hyperbole to appreciate Firefox for what it really is, a viable alternative.
True Story: I worked for a suburban police department in a town that happened to contain a large mall at the intersection of 3 highways. Shoplifting was and still is a huge problem at this mall, and anyone caught by store security or mall security who could not produce a form of ID for the responding police officer (Driver's License or other acceptible form of ID) were immediately arrested.
I'm not sure they meant an RFID chip, but having worked with the police, I know that the scanner they're given will have to be overly simplistic to use, with only one button, and a big yellow happy face to let them know their scan worked successfully.
Running the risk of sounding unpopular, I actually like the idea of putting the Visa status on the Driver's License. It's a fair compromise between offering licenses to illegals, and having those licenses turn into defacto proof of citizenship.
If he's here beyond his expiration date, then he is breaking the law, and not just for running that red light.
So what we need next on Slashdot is an article about why cops are aiming radar guns at their testicles. Except, having worked with cops for four years, I already know why. And it's sad.
Re:Jackson has totally changed everything again!
on
ROTK:EE Trailer Released
·
· Score: 1, Funny
Don't forget, Bilbo has no actual father, he was formed by the midiringians on his mother's side...
Oh, I just don't have the energy to make fun of George Lucas.
Sure, I can't speak universally about this, but I have a theory as to why e-mail is more popular with the older generation. It's backwards from the logic of the article, though.
I've found that the older generation prefers email because they simply can't type as fast as us younger folks. They can take their time and compose a reply, instead of trying to figure out a tiny mobile phone keypad, or playing hunt-n-peck with AIM.
We learn to stop IMing our grandparents and simply email them, trusting that they'll reply when they have the time to type out a whole message, one key at a time.
The best part about lockouts via serial number is that eventually, even 30 minute films will have to be distributed as 6-disc sets, five of which will be filled with "banned" serial numbers and have to be inserted into the player one at a time before the movie itself will work. Ahh, progress!
You've got a point about the unpatched version of Firefox, but Firefox hit 1.0 about three weeks ago. We should revisit that argument when firefox is at 6.0 and has been shipped on every PC sold for the previous seven years.
I wanted to point out that unpatched IE/XP machines still represent a dominant section of the computer using population. Hell, it's what keeps my side consulting business in operation, cleaning and patching new customer systems that have been compromised one way or another. Automatic update is fun and helpful towards keeping people safe, but it's not closing the gap all by itself.
Since when do us geeks know thing one about football, or any team sport? I know I always reprogrammed NFL2k2 to list my play options by the outcome (long pass, short pass, run, etc) than by the formations that triggered them (Split I, 5 & Dime, etc).
A strategy guide would have been awesome. A strategy guide that says how to unlock the secret halftime show would have been gold!
Not only that, but this would have been the best time to introduce a change like that... a whole new formfactor means all new chassis design, just like it means all new motherboard design. There would be no compatibility headaches as long as it was part of the spec.
We'll probably have to wait for CTX now to fix it, if at all. And then, they'd get sued by the folks who've been calling themselves CTX for years and making monitors and OEM systems.
So far, it looks interesting. But I'm curious, it it's inteded competition the AMD64 platform boards, or will AMD have it's own version of BTX in the (near) future?
Here's what I find so interesting about our system of government and election:
While we use a republic system for so many key issues, by electing representatives to act on our behalf on critical issues, the election of the president is determined by a cumbersome and outdated system in which we are misled into believing is a true democracy, where everyone is invited to vote on the choice. Why not just remove the presidential election from the hands of the population, and allow our elected representatives to vote on it, like any other political issue?
Slashdot Mirror
But if it's a hack, where are the funny MS Paint Graphics and the glaring spelling errors? Pretty weak hack...
That's right! If I didn't want one two days ago, re-running the front page story about it isn't going to make me want one today.
If you were accustomed to a car that could accelerate from 0-60 with four passengers in 5 seconds, and had it replaced by a budget car that took 4 times as long; yes, I'd call it crippled.
I'd like to know who are all the peope that had to search for ebay in order to find it. I mean, it's not like it's hidden off in its own tiny corner of the internet. And the people searching for it must have spelled it correctly, so they were already 2/3 of the way towards finding it.
Ah, it's a localization problem. When I hear SKYNET, the first thing I think of is those Terminator movies.
The problem with SKYNET wasn't viruses (virii?). It was self awareness and an intense desire for self preservation.
Maybe it'll just be a fixed camera outside a rink, with the option to zoom in and look at the padlock on the doors... or better yet, you go inside, and the Ice Capades are performing.
Either way, maybe Winter 2004/5 is the season of the professional zambonie driver simulator. Gotta make the money somehow!
Then I'm really lost. All I know is I got someone with enough self-importance whose first instruction to me was to "click on the little house."
I know they have to baby step a lot of people through how to use their web browsers, but he sounded unnecessarily frustrated with me when I told him to simply tell me what he wanted me to achieve instead of walking me through the steps of how to clear my cookie cache in IE (I know it was IE because he told me to go to "Tools -> Internet Options").
But that's just it. They don't need to conform to standards if they control the majority of the web browswer market. Standards will conform to their nonsense. I had a tech support type on the phone from Bank of America, who said I couldn't enroll my credit card for online access because I was using Mozilla Firefox, and "Firefox doesn't have 128bit encryption."
Now, I know that's a load of crap, my version has the "U" in it, just where it should be. What he was really saying was "our web developers were only paid to develop the online banking software for Internet Explorer, because that's what most people use.
I would tell him that "In Korea, only old people use the post office."
From his responses:
Mozilla can't afford bandwidth, so it needs the mirrors
But they can afford two-page ads in the New York Times?
Is he serious? Wasn't the whole point of the ad that it was paid for by the people whose signatures took up one whole page of the ad? I think he's a bit too deep into the MS hyperbole to appreciate Firefox for what it really is, a viable alternative.
True Story: I worked for a suburban police department in a town that happened to contain a large mall at the intersection of 3 highways. Shoplifting was and still is a huge problem at this mall, and anyone caught by store security or mall security who could not produce a form of ID for the responding police officer (Driver's License or other acceptible form of ID) were immediately arrested.
I'm not sure they meant an RFID chip, but having worked with the police, I know that the scanner they're given will have to be overly simplistic to use, with only one button, and a big yellow happy face to let them know their scan worked successfully.
Running the risk of sounding unpopular, I actually like the idea of putting the Visa status on the Driver's License. It's a fair compromise between offering licenses to illegals, and having those licenses turn into defacto proof of citizenship.
If he's here beyond his expiration date, then he is breaking the law, and not just for running that red light.
So what we need next on Slashdot is an article about why cops are aiming radar guns at their testicles. Except, having worked with cops for four years, I already know why. And it's sad.
Don't forget, Bilbo has no actual father, he was formed by the midiringians on his mother's side...
Oh, I just don't have the energy to make fun of George Lucas.
Please tell me they left the electric carpet in place!
Sure, I can't speak universally about this, but I have a theory as to why e-mail is more popular with the older generation. It's backwards from the logic of the article, though.
I've found that the older generation prefers email because they simply can't type as fast as us younger folks. They can take their time and compose a reply, instead of trying to figure out a tiny mobile phone keypad, or playing hunt-n-peck with AIM.
We learn to stop IMing our grandparents and simply email them, trusting that they'll reply when they have the time to type out a whole message, one key at a time.
The best part about lockouts via serial number is that eventually, even 30 minute films will have to be distributed as 6-disc sets, five of which will be filled with "banned" serial numbers and have to be inserted into the player one at a time before the movie itself will work. Ahh, progress!
You've got a point about the unpatched version of Firefox, but Firefox hit 1.0 about three weeks ago. We should revisit that argument when firefox is at 6.0 and has been shipped on every PC sold for the previous seven years.
I wanted to point out that unpatched IE/XP machines still represent a dominant section of the computer using population. Hell, it's what keeps my side consulting business in operation, cleaning and patching new customer systems that have been compromised one way or another. Automatic update is fun and helpful towards keeping people safe, but it's not closing the gap all by itself.
Of course we do!
Since when do us geeks know thing one about football, or any team sport? I know I always reprogrammed NFL2k2 to list my play options by the outcome (long pass, short pass, run, etc) than by the formations that triggered them (Split I, 5 & Dime, etc).
A strategy guide would have been awesome. A strategy guide that says how to unlock the secret halftime show would have been gold!
Not only that, but this would have been the best time to introduce a change like that... a whole new formfactor means all new chassis design, just like it means all new motherboard design. There would be no compatibility headaches as long as it was part of the spec.
We'll probably have to wait for CTX now to fix it, if at all. And then, they'd get sued by the folks who've been calling themselves CTX for years and making monitors and OEM systems.
Judging by this image I'd say no. Looks like the same assortment of little twistyfellas.
So far, it looks interesting. But I'm curious, it it's inteded competition the AMD64 platform boards, or will AMD have it's own version of BTX in the (near) future?
Here's what I find so interesting about our system of government and election:
While we use a republic system for so many key issues, by electing representatives to act on our behalf on critical issues, the election of the president is determined by a cumbersome and outdated system in which we are misled into believing is a true democracy, where everyone is invited to vote on the choice. Why not just remove the presidential election from the hands of the population, and allow our elected representatives to vote on it, like any other political issue?