I wasn't referring to the simple interest by the shareholders. They don't usually get their information from National Enquirer. Or at least they don't look for it there.
I was referring to the kind of recognition that results from chasing that celebrity status usually held by rock stars and other "celebrities". You want fame? Well guess what - one of the main causes of fame are the paparazzi.
Bill Gates would have similar problems. Being notoriously rich (richest in the world more than once) buys you that too. Summer of 2009. he came privately, unannounced, with family, to Croatia for about two hours. Did the media miss that? Not a chance.
Maybe he's just a guy with cancer who doesn't want to spend his last days dying in the public eye while they discuss how to best profit from his passing?
You forfeit your privacy rights when you sign that "rich AND famous" contract. And a part of your human rights goes down the drain when you turn yourself into a brand. You don't get to be in the spotlight and not take in some heat from the lights.
Think about it. Would Woz, in a similar situation, be facing the same privacy problems as Jobs? How about Paul Allen?
That is why I keep my wishes simple. I just want to be rich. Someone else can be famous. E.g. the getaway driver. He can have all the fame in the world as long as I'm free to keep and use the money. In fact...
It will be harnessing the power of our yellow Sun, which will give it super-speed, super-strength, flight, x-ray vision, invulnerability and various other super-abilities and powers.
So really, you don't have to worry about power consumption. But you DO have to worry about kryptonite exposure and Lex Luthor.
Sorry to break it to you, but your grandma didn't have a magic modem. On a plus side, she probably wasn't a witch either. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/56_kbit/s
A 56 kbit/s line is a digital connection capable of carrying 56 kilobits per second (kbit/s), or 56,000 bit/s, the data rate of a classical single channel digital telephone line in North America. In many urban areas, which have seen wide deployment of faster, cheaper technologies, 56 kbit/s lines are generally considered to be an obsolete technology.
The figure of 56 kbit/s is derived from its implementation using the same digital infrastructure used since the 1960s for digital telephony in the PSTN, which uses a PCM sampling rate of 8,000 Hz used with 8-bit sample encoding to encode analogue signals into a digital stream of 64,000 bit/s.
However, in the T-carrier systems used in the U.S. and Canada, a technique called bit-robbing uses, in every sixth frame, the least significant bit in the time slot associated with the voice channel for Channel Associated Signaling (CAS). This effectively renders the lowest bit of the 8 speech bits unusable for data transmission, and so a 56 kbit/s line used only 7 of the 8 data bits in each sample period to send data, thus giving a data rate of 8000 Hz × 7 bits = 56 kbit/s.
Like 10 years ago, there was a period of a few weeks where, by some random bug or glitch somewhere, my grandmother's computer (with 56k modem) would regularly connect to her dial-up service at 118.2kbps. She, of course, never noticed it. I don't think anyone else did, either. I noticed it when my parents and I went over to visit, and I asked to use the computer because I was bored.
Let me guess... Windows 98? That was a common bug back then. Probably something to do with all that 16-bit and 32-bit code just thrown on the pile there. You were probably connecting way bellow even 56k, it's just that you couldn't really notice it.
Also, it could simply be that her PC was reporting the port speed, not the actual speed it connected at. Even XP will gladly report to you the speed of your NIC or your hub/switch/router instead of your actual internet connection speed.
Socially Acceptable Convenience Store | Troy, NY, USA
(The shop I work in has a TV that plays the news 24/7. It has picked up a story about a judge ruling that the Obama health care bill was unconstitutional.)
Customer: “Well good! It is unconstitutional! You can’t force anyone to get health care if they don’t want it. This country is becoming too socialist! We don’t need any socialist programs!”
Me: *avoiding the topic* “Your total comes to [total].”
In Islam, Jesus (Arabic: ; `s) is considered to be a Messenger of God and the Masih who was sent to guide the Children of Israel (ban isr'l) with a new scripture, the Injl or Gospel.[1]
The Qur'an (Koran), considered by Muslims to be God's final and authoritative revelation to mankind, mentions Jesus twenty-five times.[2] It states that Jesus was born to Mary (Arabic: Maryam) as the result of virginal conception, a miraculous event which occurred by the decree of God (Arabic: Allah). To aid in his ministry to the Jewish people, Jesus was given the ability to perform miracles, all by the permission of God rather than of his own power. According to the Qur'an, Jesus was neither killed nor crucified, but rather he was ascended to heaven (jannah).[3] Islamic tradition and commentaries states that he will return to earth near the day of judgment to restore justice and defeat al-Mas ad-Dajjl ("the false messiah", also known as the Antichrist).[4][5]
Like all prophets in Islam, Jesus is considered to have been a Muslim by the term's definition; i.e., one who submits to the will of God, as he preached that his followers should adopt the "straight path" as commanded by God. Islam rejects the Christian view that Jesus was God incarnate or the son of God, that he was ever crucified or resurrected, or that he ever atoned for the sins of mankind. The Qur'an says that Jesus himself never claimed any of these things, and it furthermore indicates that Jesus will deny having ever claimed divinity at the Last Judgment, and Allah will vindicate him.[6] Rather, the Qur'an emphasizes that Jesus was a mortal human being who, like all other prophets, had been divinely chosen to spread God's message. Islamic texts forbid the association of partners with God (shirk), emphasizing a strict notion of monotheism; i.e., God's divine oneness (tawhd).
Numerous titles are given to Jesus in the Qur'an, such as al-Mas ("the messiah; the anointed one" i.e. by means of blessings), although this particular term does not correspond with the meaning given to it by Christians. Arabic-speaking Christians refer to Jesus as Yasu (Arabic script ). Jesus is seen in Islam as a precursor to Muhammad, and is believed by Muslims to have foretold the latter's coming.
The seller, former RAF mechanic Chris Wilson, says the one-time museum exhibit could not fly and was sold 'for display purposes only'. According to Wilson, the outer shell of the rare 1971 two-seater T2 Harrier had been stripped of all its equipment and weaponry when it was retired by the RAF.
There have been two cases where Shamblin and other Remnant Fellowship church members have filed libel suits against critics. The first [45] was a libel suit filed by 67 members of Remnant Fellowship, including Gwen Shamblin, against an anonymous blogger, who posted private information about the members on his website, and Rafael Martinez, a vocal critic of Remnant Fellowship, who claimed Gwen was leading a cult.[46] The blogger recanted and posted an apology on his site [47] resulting in the church retracting the lawsuit.
Martinez, however, had continued in his claims which had precipitated a second suit against him.[48] On March 22, 2010 this 2nd lawsuit was heard in Williamson County Circuit Court in TN. The judge granted the defense's motion for summary judgement ruling against Gwen Shamblin and Tedd Anger's case and dropping the case against Rafael.
A gender-neutral toilet, also known as a unisex toilet or a gender-free toilet, is a public restroom or toilet that is available for use by either the male or female gender, and includes family restrooms.
Sex-separated public toilets are a source of difficulty for some people. For example, people with children of the opposite sex must choose between bringing the child into a toilet not designated for the child's gender, or entering a toilet not designated for one's own. Men caring for babies often find that only the women's washroom has been fitted with a change table. People with disabilities who need assistance to use the restroom have an additional problem if their helper is the opposite sex.
Some public places (such as facilities targeted to the transgender or LGBT communities, and a few universities and offices) provide individual washrooms that are not gender-specified, specifically in order to respond to the concerns of gender-variant people; but this remains very rare and often controversial.[1] Various courts have ruled on whether transgender people have the right to use the washroom of their gender of identification.[2] Gender neutral toilets at Gothenburg University, Sweden.
Transgender advocacy groups in the United States have taken up the cause of unisex toilets. They see unisex toilets as a solution to eliminate harassment and other inconveniences for trans people in using conventional toilets. In 2005 there were 5 American cities, including San Francisco and New York, with regulations for public restroom access based on person's perceived gender identity rather than their birth sex.
A significant number of facilities have additional gender-neutral public toilets for a different reason — they are marked not for being for females or males, but as being accessible to persons with disabilities, and are adequately equipped to allow a person using a wheelchair and/or with mobility concerns to use them. Some buildings have restrooms with a single toilet each, and these could be redesignated as gender-neutral without requiring people of different genders to share them at the same time.
There are several ways to add gender neutral toilets to existing restroom provision without building new toilet blocks. One is to simply designate disabled toilets as gender neutral, as disabled users of both genders use them anyway. Under this model, University of Bradford Union became the first university student union in the United Kingdom to institute gender neutral toilets in 2008 after campaigning by the student union's welfare officer. Another option is to make all toilets unisex, regardless of previous designation. Sussex University has been trialling this. Several other universities have instituted gender neutral toilets after campaigning by union LGBT groups, most notably Manchester University, who faced an international media furor in September 2008 after they designated one set of their four toilets as gender neutral. The BBC mistakenly reported that the entire union had been made gender neutral against the wishes of the student population, and several other media outlets picked up the story. Media coverage spread as far as India and Brazil, but also spurred other student groups to press for gender neutral toilets in their own unions.[citation needed]
On Tuesday 27 October 2009, Edinburgh University Students' Association (EUSA) appeared on the front page of The Student after having decided that week to introduce gender neutral toilets. This was done at the joint request of EUSA's Welfare Committee and LGBT Action Group. Again, EUSA did not spend any money on building new toilet blocks, but simply located a facility within the union building which only contained one toilet and designated this a gender neutral toilet. A sign was changed from reading, 'Gents' to one simply reading, 'toilet', a move which Kate Harris, EUSA's LGBT Actio
Funnily, from all other things they produced at one time including "paper products, car and bicycle tires, footwear (including rubber boots), communications cables, televisions and other consumer electronics, personal computers, electricity generation machinery, robotics, capacitors, military communications and equipment (such as the SANLA M/90 device and the M61 gas mask for the Finnish Army), plastics, aluminium and chemicals" - they decided not to go into the business of making "exclusive $400 rubber boots". Like Gucci did.
Which I guess is exactly what Holy Steve would have advised them to do back then. "Don't diversify - exclusify!"
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And even that is actually Sony Ericsson.. Which does not exist. There are only Wise Apple and Stupid-stupid-stupid Nokia. Didn't you read the summary? If you are "paralyzed by the overabundance of models or saddened by the stupid inadequacies of Nokia" you will, and I quote, run "screaming to Apple for relief".
There is a word for an article like this. It has three letters, starts with an 'F' and ends with a 'D'. And I think that the middle letter is an 'U'.
"Fud, but fud. Fud. Fud. Fud, delivering more fud. Fud, writes Mike Elgan. Fud, fud, fud. Fud, fud. Fud. This causes fud, fud Apple rules and is the best, or fud. All heed Steve Jobs The Wise and Holy."
Or shorter - Nokia sucks, Apple rules, long live Steve the Magnificent.
Seriously, one would think that the only mobile phone companies in the world are Apple (holding 99% of the world market) and Nokia (the stupid country cousin who holds the remaining 1% by accident).
And then it delivers the Stevesdom for the day, by quoting Steve's advice to the CEO of a company that makes RUNNING SHOES. Cause.. you know... sports shoes and portable technology... practically the same thing. In anything but price, market size, built-in obsolescence, way of use, number of products owned by the customer etc. etc. Seriously... Steve's advice to Apple is to ditch that whole sports thing and become Gucci. Brilliant!
Then the "leak" has clearly served at least the "freely distributed extended demo" part of its intended purposes. Utilization of a piracy-based marketing scheme, while blaming all of their product's technical deficiencies on pirates.
Now we only need the confirmation of the delay of the game and the multiplayer "until it's fixed" for the "leak" to be a complete success.
EA reviewed the gold master, realized it was another plotless tech demo like the first one and therefore unlikely to sell in great numbers, and decided to sacrifice Crysis 2 on the altar of public opinion, to help all their poor sheep consumers realize that "PC = EVIL".
I hope I'm totally talking out my ass, but it sounds like 'logic' we've seen from EA before.
Oh, I wouldn't go THAT far... It's just that your paranoia is a bit misguided and under-informed. They are not evil for the sake of being evil - they are simply capitalists. This "full game, multiplayer and the master key for the online authentication" leak allows them to delay the multiplayer game that clearly has issues with the multiplayer.
Within hours of its release, thousands of complaints were reported after numbers of players were met with disconnects from games, crashing during loading and, oddly, a temperamental incompatibility with the Xbox Wireless WiFi adaptor. Crytek issued a statement telling players it's aware of "technical issues" with the Xbox-exclusive multiplayer demo of Crysis 2, and is working on a fix. While a pre-release multiplayer demo for PC has been confirmed, no release date has been given by either EA or Crytek.
They can even still publish the game "as is" (with slight delay, naturally), only have the multiplayer servers disabled until they fix the "leak issue". Shit, what with online authentication master key out in the open, they can claim that they must re-code the entire multiplayer now - allowing them to "expand and improve it" in the process by wrapping in some of whatever they had planned for DLC. Which in turn would allow them to delay multiplayer across all platforms - so that all of their customers could "enjoy the full experience". And they get to blame all the problems on the "pirates".
The best part is where they get to keep the "pre-order" money, delay the distribution of the game and delay payment to their subcontractors based on the delay of the game - all that while extending their pre-order window allowing them to acquire more "money for nothing". And they can sweeten the deal with more DLC wrapped in the package (read: stuff that doesn't cost them anything).
I have this strange nagging feeling that the leaked multiplayer will not work once the game actually comes out, and that the leaked singleplayer will be buggy. Yet...thousands of copies of the game WILL be downloaded and the equivalent of an extended demo will be distributed at $0 cost to the developer (probably) and $0 cost to the distributor (definitely).
Bonus points if they manage to somehow write off all those "lost sales" as loss when the tax man comes along. Extra bonus points for when they use this "situation" to delay (and fix) the game which had issues that needed fixing before it is playable.
I'm surprised that this artist was the first to try implanting a device, as Steve Mann has been increasingly merging technology with his body for three decades now.
I read that as Steve MARTIN at first. It made perfect sense. Well, except I thought that you were a bit off on your decades count.
Owning a smartphone still requires a non-zero amount of computer literacy skills.
USING a "smartphone" might require a non-zero amount of computer literacy - but only if by using you mean "using to full extent of its hardware and software capabilities". To own it, you simply need to claim it your own - and be prepared to back that up in some way. By a way of a receipt or very quick feet.
Thing is... smartphone is an "appliance" that you can also use as a computer. If you know how to use a regular non-rotary phone - you know how to use the phone aspect of the smartphone. If you know how to use a point-and-shoot camera - you know how to use the camera aspect of it. If you know how to use a digital video/music player - you know how to play music/videos on a smartphone. As long as you are familiar with the use of the appliance it is emulating - you know how to use that aspect of the phone. If you want to install and/or setup applications and change specific hardware/software settings - THAT is where the non-zero computer literacy comes in.
Just the other day I was asked by someone to help them with logging onto Facebook with their "smartphone". She had that phone for some time now, but she couldn't log in with it to Facebook. It turns out, she couldn't figure out how to type in her e-mail address. On her computer, she just clicks the bookmark - that I had to set up for her. At the same time, her phone (and her Facebook account) is full of photos, messages, music etc.
Oh... sure... She OWNS a computer. But it could just as well be a typewriter/TV/chat-machine combo for all she cares. Since it's a laptop, she can even simply put it on standby by simply closing it. Kinda like the way you don't actually turn off the TV - you just put it on stand-by.
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I wasn't referring to the simple interest by the shareholders. They don't usually get their information from National Enquirer. Or at least they don't look for it there.
I was referring to the kind of recognition that results from chasing that celebrity status usually held by rock stars and other "celebrities".
You want fame? Well guess what - one of the main causes of fame are the paparazzi.
Bill Gates would have similar problems. Being notoriously rich (richest in the world more than once) buys you that too.
Summer of 2009. he came privately, unannounced, with family, to Croatia for about two hours. Did the media miss that? Not a chance.
The smart market knows he is the messiah
He's not the Messiah. He's a very naughty boy!
Maybe he's just a guy with cancer who doesn't want to spend his last days dying in the public eye while they discuss how to best profit from his passing?
You forfeit your privacy rights when you sign that "rich AND famous" contract.
And a part of your human rights goes down the drain when you turn yourself into a brand.
You don't get to be in the spotlight and not take in some heat from the lights.
Think about it. Would Woz, in a similar situation, be facing the same privacy problems as Jobs? How about Paul Allen?
That is why I keep my wishes simple. I just want to be rich. Someone else can be famous. E.g. the getaway driver.
He can have all the fame in the world as long as I'm free to keep and use the money. In fact...
...they don't put any lasers on them.
It will be harnessing the power of our yellow Sun, which will give it super-speed, super-strength, flight, x-ray vision, invulnerability and various other super-abilities and powers.
So really, you don't have to worry about power consumption. But you DO have to worry about kryptonite exposure and Lex Luthor.
You misspelled Apple. Funnily, it came out as Microsoft. Go figure. A Freudian slip perhaps?
Sorry to break it to you, but your grandma didn't have a magic modem. On a plus side, she probably wasn't a witch either.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/56_kbit/s
A 56 kbit/s line is a digital connection capable of carrying 56 kilobits per second (kbit/s), or 56,000 bit/s, the data rate of a classical single channel digital telephone line in North America. In many urban areas, which have seen wide deployment of faster, cheaper technologies, 56 kbit/s lines are generally considered to be an obsolete technology.
The figure of 56 kbit/s is derived from its implementation using the same digital infrastructure used since the 1960s for digital telephony in the PSTN, which uses a PCM sampling rate of 8,000 Hz used with 8-bit sample encoding to encode analogue signals into a digital stream of 64,000 bit/s.
However, in the T-carrier systems used in the U.S. and Canada, a technique called bit-robbing uses, in every sixth frame, the least significant bit in the time slot associated with the voice channel for Channel Associated Signaling (CAS). This effectively renders the lowest bit of the 8 speech bits unusable for data transmission, and so a 56 kbit/s line used only 7 of the 8 data bits in each sample period to send data, thus giving a data rate of 8000 Hz × 7 bits = 56 kbit/s.
See also here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/56_kbit/s_modem#Speed
Like 10 years ago, there was a period of a few weeks where, by some random bug or glitch somewhere, my grandmother's computer (with 56k modem) would regularly connect to her dial-up service at 118.2kbps. She, of course, never noticed it. I don't think anyone else did, either. I noticed it when my parents and I went over to visit, and I asked to use the computer because I was bored.
Let me guess... Windows 98?
That was a common bug back then. Probably something to do with all that 16-bit and 32-bit code just thrown on the pile there.
You were probably connecting way bellow even 56k, it's just that you couldn't really notice it.
Also, it could simply be that her PC was reporting the port speed, not the actual speed it connected at.
Even XP will gladly report to you the speed of your NIC or your hub/switch/router instead of your actual internet connection speed.
http://slashdot.org/poll/1661/With-US-election-so-close-Im-preparing-to-
http://slashdot.org/poll/1202/Who-will-you-vote-for
But is it art?
http://notalwaysright.com/socially-acceptable/9651
Socially Acceptable
Convenience Store | Troy, NY, USA
(The shop I work in has a TV that plays the news 24/7. It has picked up a story about a judge ruling that the Obama health care bill was unconstitutional.)
Customer: “Well good! It is unconstitutional! You can’t force anyone to get health care if they don’t want it. This country is becoming too socialist! We don’t need any socialist programs!”
Me: *avoiding the topic* “Your total comes to [total].”
Customer: “Alright, here you go.”
(The customer hands me her food stamps card.)
"Myopic" is a very appropriate handle for you.
Mormons believe in Christ, therefore are Christian.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesus_in_Islam
In Islam, Jesus (Arabic: ; `s) is considered to be a Messenger of God and the Masih who was sent to guide the Children of Israel (ban isr'l) with a new scripture, the Injl or Gospel.[1]
The Qur'an (Koran), considered by Muslims to be God's final and authoritative revelation to mankind, mentions Jesus twenty-five times.[2] It states that Jesus was born to Mary (Arabic: Maryam) as the result of virginal conception, a miraculous event which occurred by the decree of God (Arabic: Allah). To aid in his ministry to the Jewish people, Jesus was given the ability to perform miracles, all by the permission of God rather than of his own power. According to the Qur'an, Jesus was neither killed nor crucified, but rather he was ascended to heaven (jannah).[3] Islamic tradition and commentaries states that he will return to earth near the day of judgment to restore justice and defeat al-Mas ad-Dajjl ("the false messiah", also known as the Antichrist).[4][5]
Like all prophets in Islam, Jesus is considered to have been a Muslim by the term's definition; i.e., one who submits to the will of God, as he preached that his followers should adopt the "straight path" as commanded by God. Islam rejects the Christian view that Jesus was God incarnate or the son of God, that he was ever crucified or resurrected, or that he ever atoned for the sins of mankind. The Qur'an says that Jesus himself never claimed any of these things, and it furthermore indicates that Jesus will deny having ever claimed divinity at the Last Judgment, and Allah will vindicate him.[6] Rather, the Qur'an emphasizes that Jesus was a mortal human being who, like all other prophets, had been divinely chosen to spread God's message. Islamic texts forbid the association of partners with God (shirk), emphasizing a strict notion of monotheism; i.e., God's divine oneness (tawhd).
Numerous titles are given to Jesus in the Qur'an, such as al-Mas ("the messiah; the anointed one" i.e. by means of blessings), although this particular term does not correspond with the meaning given to it by Christians. Arabic-speaking Christians refer to Jesus as Yasu (Arabic script ). Jesus is seen in Islam as a precursor to Muhammad, and is believed by Muslims to have foretold the latter's coming.
From TFA:
The seller, former RAF mechanic Chris Wilson, says the one-time museum exhibit could not fly and was sold 'for display purposes only'.
According to Wilson, the outer shell of the rare 1971 two-seater T2 Harrier had been stripped of all its equipment and weaponry when it was retired by the RAF.
Gwen Shamblin's Remnant Fellowship Church fits the libel condition rather adequately.
Libel Suits Against Remnant Fellowship Critics
There have been two cases where Shamblin and other Remnant Fellowship church members have filed libel suits against critics. The first [45] was a libel suit filed by 67 members of Remnant Fellowship, including Gwen Shamblin, against an anonymous blogger, who posted private information about the members on his website, and Rafael Martinez, a vocal critic of Remnant Fellowship, who claimed Gwen was leading a cult.[46] The blogger recanted and posted an apology on his site [47] resulting in the church retracting the lawsuit.
Martinez, however, had continued in his claims which had precipitated a second suit against him.[48] On March 22, 2010 this 2nd lawsuit was heard in Williamson County Circuit Court in TN. The judge granted the defense's motion for summary judgement ruling against Gwen Shamblin and Tedd Anger's case and dropping the case against Rafael.
Then again, you can also simply google church libel suit.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender-neutral_toilet
A gender-neutral toilet, also known as a unisex toilet or a gender-free toilet, is a public restroom or toilet that is available for use by either the male or female gender, and includes family restrooms.
Sex-separated public toilets are a source of difficulty for some people. For example, people with children of the opposite sex must choose between bringing the child into a toilet not designated for the child's gender, or entering a toilet not designated for one's own. Men caring for babies often find that only the women's washroom has been fitted with a change table. People with disabilities who need assistance to use the restroom have an additional problem if their helper is the opposite sex.
Some public places (such as facilities targeted to the transgender or LGBT communities, and a few universities and offices) provide individual washrooms that are not gender-specified, specifically in order to respond to the concerns of gender-variant people; but this remains very rare and often controversial.[1] Various courts have ruled on whether transgender people have the right to use the washroom of their gender of identification.[2]
Gender neutral toilets at Gothenburg University, Sweden.
Transgender advocacy groups in the United States have taken up the cause of unisex toilets. They see unisex toilets as a solution to eliminate harassment and other inconveniences for trans people in using conventional toilets. In 2005 there were 5 American cities, including San Francisco and New York, with regulations for public restroom access based on person's perceived gender identity rather than their birth sex.
A significant number of facilities have additional gender-neutral public toilets for a different reason — they are marked not for being for females or males, but as being accessible to persons with disabilities, and are adequately equipped to allow a person using a wheelchair and/or with mobility concerns to use them. Some buildings have restrooms with a single toilet each, and these could be redesignated as gender-neutral without requiring people of different genders to share them at the same time.
There are several ways to add gender neutral toilets to existing restroom provision without building new toilet blocks. One is to simply designate disabled toilets as gender neutral, as disabled users of both genders use them anyway. Under this model, University of Bradford Union became the first university student union in the United Kingdom to institute gender neutral toilets in 2008 after campaigning by the student union's welfare officer. Another option is to make all toilets unisex, regardless of previous designation. Sussex University has been trialling this. Several other universities have instituted gender neutral toilets after campaigning by union LGBT groups, most notably Manchester University, who faced an international media furor in September 2008 after they designated one set of their four toilets as gender neutral. The BBC mistakenly reported that the entire union had been made gender neutral against the wishes of the student population, and several other media outlets picked up the story. Media coverage spread as far as India and Brazil, but also spurred other student groups to press for gender neutral toilets in their own unions.[citation needed]
On Tuesday 27 October 2009, Edinburgh University Students' Association (EUSA) appeared on the front page of The Student after having decided that week to introduce gender neutral toilets. This was done at the joint request of EUSA's Welfare Committee and LGBT Action Group. Again, EUSA did not spend any money on building new toilet blocks, but simply located a facility within the union building which only contained one toilet and designated this a gender neutral toilet. A sign was changed from reading, 'Gents' to one simply reading, 'toilet', a move which Kate Harris, EUSA's LGBT Actio
Ain't that cute...
Too bad I got karma to burn.
Come on! Troll me, mod me, make me feel so cheap!
they must be banned/censored for the children!
There is this thing called Entertainment Software Rating Board...
Mod me down by a single point? HAH! We all know you did that cause you have no counter arguments worth diddly.
Funnily, from all other things they produced at one time including "paper products, car and bicycle tires, footwear (including rubber boots), communications cables, televisions and other consumer electronics, personal computers, electricity generation machinery, robotics, capacitors, military communications and equipment (such as the SANLA M/90 device and the M61 gas mask for the Finnish Army), plastics, aluminium and chemicals" - they decided not to go into the business of making "exclusive $400 rubber boots". Like Gucci did.
Which I guess is exactly what Holy Steve would have advised them to do back then. "Don't diversify - exclusify!"
And even that is actually Sony Ericsson.. Which does not exist. There are only Wise Apple and Stupid-stupid-stupid Nokia. Didn't you read the summary?
If you are "paralyzed by the overabundance of models or saddened by the stupid inadequacies of Nokia" you will, and I quote, run "screaming to Apple for relief".
There is a word for an article like this. It has three letters, starts with an 'F' and ends with a 'D'. And I think that the middle letter is an 'U'.
Let me translate the summary for you:
"Fud, but fud. Fud. Fud. Fud, delivering more fud. Fud, writes Mike Elgan. Fud, fud, fud. Fud, fud. Fud. This causes fud, fud Apple rules and is the best, or fud. All heed Steve Jobs The Wise and Holy."
Or shorter - Nokia sucks, Apple rules, long live Steve the Magnificent.
Seriously, one would think that the only mobile phone companies in the world are Apple (holding 99% of the world market) and Nokia (the stupid country cousin who holds the remaining 1% by accident).
And then it delivers the Stevesdom for the day, by quoting Steve's advice to the CEO of a company that makes RUNNING SHOES.
Cause.. you know... sports shoes and portable technology... practically the same thing.
In anything but price, market size, built-in obsolescence, way of use, number of products owned by the customer etc. etc.
Seriously... Steve's advice to Apple is to ditch that whole sports thing and become Gucci. Brilliant!
Then the "leak" has clearly served at least the "freely distributed extended demo" part of its intended purposes.
Utilization of a piracy-based marketing scheme, while blaming all of their product's technical deficiencies on pirates.
Now we only need the confirmation of the delay of the game and the multiplayer "until it's fixed" for the "leak" to be a complete success.
EA reviewed the gold master, realized it was another plotless tech demo like the first one and therefore unlikely to sell in great numbers, and decided to sacrifice Crysis 2 on the altar of public opinion, to help all their poor sheep consumers realize that "PC = EVIL".
I hope I'm totally talking out my ass, but it sounds like 'logic' we've seen from EA before.
Oh, I wouldn't go THAT far... It's just that your paranoia is a bit misguided and under-informed. They are not evil for the sake of being evil - they are simply capitalists.
This "full game, multiplayer and the master key for the online authentication" leak allows them to delay the multiplayer game that clearly has issues with the multiplayer.
Within hours of its release, thousands of complaints were reported after numbers of players were met with disconnects from games, crashing during loading and, oddly, a temperamental incompatibility with the Xbox Wireless WiFi adaptor. Crytek issued a statement telling players it's aware of "technical issues" with the Xbox-exclusive multiplayer demo of Crysis 2, and is working on a fix.
While a pre-release multiplayer demo for PC has been confirmed, no release date has been given by either EA or Crytek.
They can even still publish the game "as is" (with slight delay, naturally), only have the multiplayer servers disabled until they fix the "leak issue".
Shit, what with online authentication master key out in the open, they can claim that they must re-code the entire multiplayer now - allowing them to "expand and improve it" in the process by wrapping in some of whatever they had planned for DLC.
Which in turn would allow them to delay multiplayer across all platforms - so that all of their customers could "enjoy the full experience".
And they get to blame all the problems on the "pirates".
The best part is where they get to keep the "pre-order" money, delay the distribution of the game and delay payment to their subcontractors based on the delay of the game - all that while extending their pre-order window allowing them to acquire more "money for nothing".
And they can sweeten the deal with more DLC wrapped in the package (read: stuff that doesn't cost them anything).
How about all that free publicity?
I have this strange nagging feeling that the leaked multiplayer will not work once the game actually comes out, and that the leaked singleplayer will be buggy.
Yet...thousands of copies of the game WILL be downloaded and the equivalent of an extended demo will be distributed at $0 cost to the developer (probably) and $0 cost to the distributor (definitely).
Bonus points if they manage to somehow write off all those "lost sales" as loss when the tax man comes along.
Extra bonus points for when they use this "situation" to delay (and fix) the game which had issues that needed fixing before it is playable.
I'm surprised that this artist was the first to try implanting a device, as Steve Mann has been increasingly merging technology with his body for three decades now.
I read that as Steve MARTIN at first. It made perfect sense. Well, except I thought that you were a bit off on your decades count.
Owning a smartphone still requires a non-zero amount of computer literacy skills.
USING a "smartphone" might require a non-zero amount of computer literacy - but only if by using you mean "using to full extent of its hardware and software capabilities".
To own it, you simply need to claim it your own - and be prepared to back that up in some way. By a way of a receipt or very quick feet.
Thing is... smartphone is an "appliance" that you can also use as a computer.
If you know how to use a regular non-rotary phone - you know how to use the phone aspect of the smartphone.
If you know how to use a point-and-shoot camera - you know how to use the camera aspect of it.
If you know how to use a digital video/music player - you know how to play music/videos on a smartphone.
As long as you are familiar with the use of the appliance it is emulating - you know how to use that aspect of the phone.
If you want to install and/or setup applications and change specific hardware/software settings - THAT is where the non-zero computer literacy comes in.
Just the other day I was asked by someone to help them with logging onto Facebook with their "smartphone".
She had that phone for some time now, but she couldn't log in with it to Facebook. It turns out, she couldn't figure out how to type in her e-mail address.
On her computer, she just clicks the bookmark - that I had to set up for her.
At the same time, her phone (and her Facebook account) is full of photos, messages, music etc.
Oh... sure... She OWNS a computer. But it could just as well be a typewriter/TV/chat-machine combo for all she cares.
Since it's a laptop, she can even simply put it on standby by simply closing it. Kinda like the way you don't actually turn off the TV - you just put it on stand-by.