Not objectifying and degrading, it's called human nature. If you deny that you have never been somewhat attracted to an actor/actress on TV, you're denying your own nature. You may feel that those pesky "bad" emotions should be eliminated, but they're there, and they should be tresured.
Besides, most of the women who do things like this feel they are exploiting the men. They figure that work like this, which attempts to reach the most primal parts of a person's brain, is easy, and fun, too.
It began when I nearly simultaneously discovered furries, and rediscovered that wonderful creature of the species Felis Pardalis. I sat and ruminated upon these two pieces of information for a while, living with my old moniker of Desperado, which I got from the old Eagles song.
Finally, I decided to make a break and change my online title to Ocelot Bob. Ocelot, after the aforementioned member of the cat family, and Bob after, well Bob. The two words became lowercase and one when I started using it as my login on my home system.
Even without some of those characteristics that you mention, intelligent life could still evolve. It's useful to have certain abilities, but IMO not needed. Sure, to use your example, opposable thumbs are useful in the situation humans evolved, as originally arboreal creatures, but who's to say that a species which started out elsewhere could have developed means to use tools that don't require thumbs; they could be saying right now that intelligent life couldn't evolve without tenticles, for example. Life is adaptive, it can exist in the deepest volcanic vents and it can exist in the harshness of space, and I'm sure that intelligence can develop without the same conditions that are favorable to our species becoming intelligent.
Pre-paid cell phones already exist, and have for some time now. They've got benefits and they've got drawbacks, namely they cost about 6-7 times as much as these disposables. Not only that, these phones are recyclable, being made from paper, and can be recharged.
These products serve a niche, just like those disposable cameras, which BTW, take pretty decent photos.
Actually I see this as the next logical step in disposable phone technology. Instead of having to slog off looking for a payphone or whatnot if your cell phone gets lost/loses it's battery charge/etc., you just pick up a phone from the local Sav-On and use that. Of course, this can also be incredibly useful for nefarious purposes, especially when coupled with the disposable laptop featured here a few days ago.
Semi Topical: Anyone notice the story also on the register regarding BT's campaign against cell phones. Looks like everyone's favorite (not!) phone company doesn't believe in competition and economic evolution, do they?
It's already been done. Do a search for "Korn shell" and Windows in your favorite search engine and you'll find dozens of KSH compliant shells for windows. KSH is the official shell of the POSIX standard so you want posix, you need korn.
Calm down, go outside, take a walk and then come back to the keyboard. You obviously need to take a few minutes away to remember what site this is.
This is a tech site, one that caters to a more "hardcore", and admittedly, sometimes narrow-minded view of technology. Many of the users here are environmentally conscious, but they know that this is not the time or the place for such discussion. When discussing deforestation or the impact of gill nets, we go elsewhere. Likewise, then discussing the new P4 or the latest exploits of some overclocker, we come here.
God, aren't there antique internet technologies that do exactly the same as search engines, such as archie, that were around long before AltaVista was even a glimmer in a hacker's eye? Needless to say, I feel that this patent, like most computer algorithm/and or business model patents is invald; there is usually either prior art, or the idea is so insanely obvious that a child of 3 could figure it out.
I'm beginning to thing that we need to thin out the herd a bit, starting with the vulture capitalists and trial lawyers.
I know that the reason cellular phones aren't allowed to be used in planes is that the radio signal emitted by the phone can interfere with the plane's navigation equipment.
That's one of those things that varies from airline to airline. My boss routinely uses his cell phone on planes, and the flight crews only say to turn it off during takeoffs and landings. And there haven't been many crashes caused by cell phones, perhaps incidents where they say to turn off the cell phones, but not crashes
Wouldn't it be easier to just add a RJ-45 jack next to the headphone jacks on all the seats?
Then you have to take a plane out of service to add the godawful amount of wiring that would be required to add ethernet to even all of first class. It's a lot easier to just have a wireless hub sitting in the galley for the few people who do want networking type away.
It's been done, but usually it's been in bizarre experiments that wind up on quickie pages of large weblogs; a few months ago there was a story of a guy who used the heat from his CPU to distill alcohol. Although, I think you may be on to something for large tech buildings here. Have large fans pipe air over all the CPUs in the server farm and use the heated air in the rest of the building. But a home user with a PC or two wouldn't be able to heat a very large space.
Actually, it's a pretty easy replacement. All you do is you get an aftermarket fan to plop on your CPU like you do now, and everything will be beautiful again.
Now, correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the point of laser communication the fact that the signal does not dissipate nearly as much as a regular beam of light? So it goes to argue that we'd never see the signal unless someone was pinging us to see if there was anybody on Ulmach or whatever they call our little stellar system.
However, it also once again emphasises the we need to take a somewhat more proactive approach and not just receive from systems that are possible targets for life, but also send out. After all someone has to be the initiator of conversation, and who's to say there is life out there, but they too are just listening and not sending.
Now, correct me if I'm wrong here, but isn't the use of a trademarked image okay when used in an obvious satire (I remember seeing it back in the day). If so, then the good folks at rotten should probably be talking with their lawyers about this, because they may have a case here. Or, more likely, someone has bought congress/the president yet again to make sure that there is no dissident voices anywhere.
I agree that this could be bad in a situation like this, borderline terrible, in fact. However, a disposable computer, like a disposable camera, can also be a good thing. Imagine losing your laptop when the airline loses your luggage (I know, Real Geeks take their laptops as carry-ons, but I digress). Now imagine picking up a Laptopzine at the airport shop for $50 that'll let you communicate with your company while you're on your trip waiting for your claim with the airline to go through. At the end of your trip, all you have to do is recycle your laptop. You've got less little lost productivity, and an interesting toy to play with for a little while.
Because toll free numbers are logged, even with caller ID blocking. Part of the security measures so that someone can be charged much easier if they decide to DOS someone's phone system.
Regarding the topic, though, is this truly the way the web is going to become, with semi-intelligent linking, bringing relevant topics to the forefront and allowing the irrelevant to wither in obscurity? If so, this is a mixed blessing. It's good, because obviously you can search for something rather quickly, getting what you need and getting outta there. However, it's also bad because those little sidetracks most searching takes you on can lead you to other topics that you've never heard of that are interesting in their own right.
What the hell are people thinking when they decide to integrate crap that just drives up the cost of the motherboard?
One word. Size. When you integrate the crap out of a mobo, you allow yourself to cram all those components into pretty tight space. About a week ago, I picked up one of those Book PCs and there would have been no way to do it without tight integration. Of course, performance on it is not the greatest, but it's not for doing high end gfx work, just something small enough that I can cram it in a duffel bag and play DVD's and maybe a game of Quake whilst on the road. Though I am 110% agreeing with you as far as integration on a desktop. It's caused nothing but problems the few times I've had the "privlidge" of working on such a machine.
My sentiments are with the rest of you in saying that these people are probably either out to make a quick buck or a front for a more nefarious orgainization. However, they allegedly have a d/l able version of their distro. But I even doubt this is real, because I've tried connecting to the servers listed, and I get no response, and this is before I'd imagine the rampaging hoards got around to it.
We've got the hardware to a pretty reasonable point as far as usability and functionality, now it's time to show one's artistic side when using your system. A big beige box my fit the decor of your place, but it doesn't fit the style of others. I recently replaced my old no-name case with a nice big Antec, because of the better cooling it provides (4 chasis fans, bay-bee), and I'll probably be turning my old one into an art piece, although it'll just have a funky paint job because the thought of a power source for a flourescent/neon light being near my mobo makes me a bit nervous.
We've beyond the "any type of case you want, as long as it's beige" phase. It's a Good Thing, too, because it means the computer is no longer a status symbol in and of itself, it's now an appliance whose outside can be changed to fit your personality.
Obviously you've never seen my handwriting; decoding my penmanship is not for the weak of heart. However, I have pretty decent speed with graffiti, so if that's the consolation I have to make in order to keep from having to retype, I'm willing to make it.
And I'm agreeing with you on getting laptops more acceptable. We're getting to the point of disposable desktops, but a low-end laptop is still usually at least $1000. We get laptops down to ~$500, and they'll finally be for The Rest of Us.
This seems like a great idea, usable as a computer in those situations where a full computer just doesn't "feel" right. When I'm taking notes, jotting down a poem, etc, I usually hate to type, rather, I like to scrawl my scribblings on a pad of paper. Don't ask me why, it just feels better to get those emotions down on ground up trees. However, since one can't send a sheet of paper to someone across the country nearly as fast as you can send an email, so I end up having to type it out anyways. This seems like it'll get rid of most of the redundancy of having to put down an idea twice just to get people to be able to read it.
It was called Xenix, and a simple search on google reveals quite a few pages on the subject, mostly dealing with the selling of Xenix to SCO, but there is some info about when it was a Microsoft product.
I mean, paranoid security, an everything is fine, pay no attention to the man behind the curtain attitude is more appropriate to a similarly named agency. As far as I can see, there is no harm in releasing the comings and goings of the ISS, other than the fact that it shows that the current administration is at least slightly screwed up.
Semi-topical: Anyone else see this blurb about a webcast happening today. I'd be willing to donate money/food/mice/nubile virgins/etc. to anyone who can post an IP address of this webcast. Seems like double secret probation to me.
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Fine, I'll just read /. underwater. None of that pesky patented air to deal with.
Besides, most of the women who do things like this feel they are exploiting the men. They figure that work like this, which attempts to reach the most primal parts of a person's brain, is easy, and fun, too.
Finally, I decided to make a break and change my online title to Ocelot Bob. Ocelot, after the aforementioned member of the cat family, and Bob after, well Bob. The two words became lowercase and one when I started using it as my login on my home system.
Even without some of those characteristics that you mention, intelligent life could still evolve. It's useful to have certain abilities, but IMO not needed. Sure, to use your example, opposable thumbs are useful in the situation humans evolved, as originally arboreal creatures, but who's to say that a species which started out elsewhere could have developed means to use tools that don't require thumbs; they could be saying right now that intelligent life couldn't evolve without tenticles, for example. Life is adaptive, it can exist in the deepest volcanic vents and it can exist in the harshness of space, and I'm sure that intelligence can develop without the same conditions that are favorable to our species becoming intelligent.
These products serve a niche, just like those disposable cameras, which BTW, take pretty decent photos.
Semi Topical: Anyone notice the story also on the register regarding BT's campaign against cell phones. Looks like everyone's favorite (not!) phone company doesn't believe in competition and economic evolution, do they?
It's already been done. Do a search for "Korn shell" and Windows in your favorite search engine and you'll find dozens of KSH compliant shells for windows. KSH is the official shell of the POSIX standard so you want posix, you need korn.
This is a tech site, one that caters to a more "hardcore", and admittedly, sometimes narrow-minded view of technology. Many of the users here are environmentally conscious, but they know that this is not the time or the place for such discussion. When discussing deforestation or the impact of gill nets, we go elsewhere. Likewise, then discussing the new P4 or the latest exploits of some overclocker, we come here.
We're not as myopic as you seem to think we are.
I'm beginning to thing that we need to thin out the herd a bit, starting with the vulture capitalists and trial lawyers.
That's one of those things that varies from airline to airline. My boss routinely uses his cell phone on planes, and the flight crews only say to turn it off during takeoffs and landings. And there haven't been many crashes caused by cell phones, perhaps incidents where they say to turn off the cell phones, but not crashes
Then you have to take a plane out of service to add the godawful amount of wiring that would be required to add ethernet to even all of first class. It's a lot easier to just have a wireless hub sitting in the galley for the few people who do want networking type away.
It's been done, but usually it's been in bizarre experiments that wind up on quickie pages of large weblogs; a few months ago there was a story of a guy who used the heat from his CPU to distill alcohol. Although, I think you may be on to something for large tech buildings here. Have large fans pipe air over all the CPUs in the server farm and use the heated air in the rest of the building. But a home user with a PC or two wouldn't be able to heat a very large space.
Actually, it's a pretty easy replacement. All you do is you get an aftermarket fan to plop on your CPU like you do now, and everything will be beautiful again.
However, it also once again emphasises the we need to take a somewhat more proactive approach and not just receive from systems that are possible targets for life, but also send out. After all someone has to be the initiator of conversation, and who's to say there is life out there, but they too are just listening and not sending.
Now, correct me if I'm wrong here, but isn't the use of a trademarked image okay when used in an obvious satire (I remember seeing it back in the day). If so, then the good folks at rotten should probably be talking with their lawyers about this, because they may have a case here. Or, more likely, someone has bought congress/the president yet again to make sure that there is no dissident voices anywhere.
I agree that this could be bad in a situation like this, borderline terrible, in fact. However, a disposable computer, like a disposable camera, can also be a good thing. Imagine losing your laptop when the airline loses your luggage (I know, Real Geeks take their laptops as carry-ons, but I digress). Now imagine picking up a Laptopzine at the airport shop for $50 that'll let you communicate with your company while you're on your trip waiting for your claim with the airline to go through. At the end of your trip, all you have to do is recycle your laptop. You've got less little lost productivity, and an interesting toy to play with for a little while.
Because toll free numbers are logged, even with caller ID blocking. Part of the security measures so that someone can be charged much easier if they decide to DOS someone's phone system.
http://partners.nytimes.com/2001/01/18/technology/ 18SELF.html?pagewanted=all
Regarding the topic, though, is this truly the way the web is going to become, with semi-intelligent linking, bringing relevant topics to the forefront and allowing the irrelevant to wither in obscurity? If so, this is a mixed blessing. It's good, because obviously you can search for something rather quickly, getting what you need and getting outta there. However, it's also bad because those little sidetracks most searching takes you on can lead you to other topics that you've never heard of that are interesting in their own right.
One word. Size. When you integrate the crap out of a mobo, you allow yourself to cram all those components into pretty tight space. About a week ago, I picked up one of those Book PCs and there would have been no way to do it without tight integration. Of course, performance on it is not the greatest, but it's not for doing high end gfx work, just something small enough that I can cram it in a duffel bag and play DVD's and maybe a game of Quake whilst on the road. Though I am 110% agreeing with you as far as integration on a desktop. It's caused nothing but problems the few times I've had the "privlidge" of working on such a machine.
My sentiments are with the rest of you in saying that these people are probably either out to make a quick buck or a front for a more nefarious orgainization. However, they allegedly have a d/l able version of their distro. But I even doubt this is real, because I've tried connecting to the servers listed, and I get no response, and this is before I'd imagine the rampaging hoards got around to it.
We've beyond the "any type of case you want, as long as it's beige" phase. It's a Good Thing, too, because it means the computer is no longer a status symbol in and of itself, it's now an appliance whose outside can be changed to fit your personality.
And I'm agreeing with you on getting laptops more acceptable. We're getting to the point of disposable desktops, but a low-end laptop is still usually at least $1000. We get laptops down to ~$500, and they'll finally be for The Rest of Us.
This seems like a great idea, usable as a computer in those situations where a full computer just doesn't "feel" right. When I'm taking notes, jotting down a poem, etc, I usually hate to type, rather, I like to scrawl my scribblings on a pad of paper. Don't ask me why, it just feels better to get those emotions down on ground up trees. However, since one can't send a sheet of paper to someone across the country nearly as fast as you can send an email, so I end up having to type it out anyways. This seems like it'll get rid of most of the redundancy of having to put down an idea twice just to get people to be able to read it.
It was called Xenix, and a simple search on google reveals quite a few pages on the subject, mostly dealing with the selling of Xenix to SCO, but there is some info about when it was a Microsoft product.
Semi-topical: Anyone else see this blurb about a webcast happening today. I'd be willing to donate money/food/mice/nubile virgins/etc. to anyone who can post an IP address of this webcast. Seems like double secret probation to me.