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No, USB foot pedals have been around for ages. I'm not sure what is unique about this one other than maybe having more switches?
I remember using a foot mouse at Comdex maybe 15 years ago. It was way easier to use than I expected it to be. At least as easy as a standard desktop mouse. I always wondered why they never took off.
At $2 per day, though, you don't want to rent it for more than a few days. That's fine for some games, insufficient for others. I wouldn't mind spending $2 just to play a little bit of Duke Nukem Forever, for instance. I wouldn't rent a long RPG or sandbox game, though.
No, but it's a fantastic way to try-before-you-buy. I am sick to death of buying $50-$60 games only to get burned on them. I'll happily pay two bucks to see if it's worth buying my own copy.
Sprint did the exact same thing with WebOS. Granted, the hardware was nothing to write home about, but the operating system is great! The WebOS phones were always stuck in the back corner of the store, though.
You can delete Qik videos directly from the phone. That makes it useless for secure uploading since the cop could just delete the video before smashing the phone.
A very significant portion of remaining IE6/7 users are enterprise users not allowed to change their browser, due to internal apps not being certified. Cutting support like that will only cut traffic to the sites and piss off their users, the users wont be able to do anything about it. Heck, even Microsoft wants IE6/7 to die. About the only hope to kill of this IE6/7 user base is that corporations keep adopting Windows 7 - a project that include testing and updating for compatibility all around.
Much of which is because many companies won't spend the money on upgrading or testing, even though they know their apps are ancient and need refreshing. As soon as the CEO can't get to his gmail account (or, more likely, Redtube), he'll be screaming at IT to push through the plan to do whatever it takes to fix the problem.
Personally, I'd just like to be able to use transparent images on a web page without having IE6 mangle them.
To their credit, they don't listen to what random customers tell them to do over a support line. Even if they did listen to you and it ended up fixing the network, that'd be a dangerous precedent to set. This isn't a personal attack against you btw, sorry if it came across like that.
I can appreciate that they don't know me from Adam and I don't expect them to take my advice about how to fix the problem, but when I tell them my cable is out, I don't want to hear "No, it isn't."
That's terrific! When MY Comcast internet is down, it takes me two days on the phone just to get them to admit that there's a problem. Even when I tell them what the problem is and how to fix it, I STILL can't get them to fix it.
STOP MONETIZING ME! I am not a data goldmine for you to rape at your convenience! Sell me the product that I want (NOT the product you think I need, or the Trojan Horse product that gets you access to my information) and then STEP OFF.
We actually have people protesting because they would have to change some bloody lightbulbs or use a more efficient toilet.
You mean change to light bulbs that contain mercury and flicker at a headache-inducing frequency or toilets that have to be flushed three times to be effective, thereby negating any efficiency?
If he gave specific instructions then why weren't they followed? He's the President of the United States. The buck stops with him. It's his job to take responsibility for the departments under his control. Giving him a pass and saying it's someone else's fault that his personal and specific instructions were completely ignored is disingenuous at best.
I give his administration a failing grade on this too, but I'd like to give Obama himself the benefit of the doubt on this one. I don't think he's the problem. Whereas in the Bush years, both Cheney and Bush were part of the problem.
need i say more? WarGames is probably the most cheezy movie of them all.
You shut your whore mouth!
Seriously, though, Wargames was probably the most accurate cracking movie ever made. Instead of "creating a GUI in Visual Basic and tracking an IP address" a la CSI: Braindead, the main character actually spent weeks poring over information about the creator of the system to try to work out how it was designed and what the likely methods would be to gain entrance. He also used social engineering techniques to gather information about his targets.
Just like the music industry, the electronic distribution of books has the publishers running scared. Writers are finally waking up to the fact that without the need to actually print books, they have no need of monolithic publishing houses whatsoever. They can self-publish with little to no overhead and keep the profits for themselves. $9.95 (or more, oftentimes) is an abso-friggin-lutely ridiculous price to charge for an e-book.
I don't understand why people are using lathes and milling machines to make high-quality, cheap, easy to use tools when they could be carving their own stone axes and axe handles. When their tool breaks, they just set it aside and buy a new one instead of spending days of downtime repairing it! Are we losing the skills needed to carve our own tools by hand in the interest of saving time and money?! This makes absolutely no sense to me and I cast derision on anyone who would do such a thing!
Wouldn't a keyboard that simply locks the terminal make more sense? I don't want to be completely logged out just because I leave my desk to use the can.
FTFA:
The SonarLocID Keyboard connects to a PC via USB and can be configured via an included programming application that allows the user to program custom keystrokes as well as delays and a sequence to lock the computer when the user walks away.
So what every commenter so far is saying is that this "Harmless" "Bad taste" joke in no way victimizes the kids. That's absurd. At what point does it become victimization then. If he had actually done the song in front of the kids and filmed it, would they be victims. If he had made a movie where he abused the kids, would that be wrong, even if it was not real. Get a sense of law and morality, there are few victimless crimes, this is not one of them. The kids are victims, because they did not consent to something that in reality would have been damaging, libelous, and subject to prosecution. Computers and technology do not give free reign to virtually create abusive depictions without consequences. Good grief, I cannot believe the support yielded to this shithead on/.
If it was damaging and libelous, then why is he being charged criminally under pedophelia laws? Shouldn't he be subject to civil prosecution for libel instead? These kids aren't "victims" just because you say they are, any more than an adult would be a "victim". A 20 year sentence is WAY WAY out of line for this supposed crime.
The moral of the story is this: If you are a male (especially a single white male over 30) in the 21st century, do not go anywhere near children. Don't look at them, don't talk to them, don't get within 50 feet of them (especially if you own a camera, even if you leave the camera at home). For the love of God, don't be in a public toilet if one happens to come in, even if Dad is there with him and especially if Dad doesn't come in with him. Do not interact with them in any way, even virtually, such as re-dubbing a video, drawing a picture, mentioning children in an e-mail, nothing. More and more often, this includes your own children.
Remember, all men are automatically guilty even if they've done nothing wrong!
As a parent of young kids, I'd like to see more decent G or PG fare. Toy Story 3 and Tangled were good. But movies like this are few and far between. More common is junk like Yogi Bear. And even more common is the theater showing nothing but PG-13 to R movies, 90% of which are yet more horror flicks to heap on the pile.
What? There are at least 36 kids movies coming out this year alone. Nine of those are coming out between now and the end of April:
March 2011 RANGO (March 4) MARS NEEDS MOMS (March 11, 2D/3D/IMAX 3D) BEASTLY (March 4, PG-13) DIARY OF A WIMPY KID 2: RODRICK RULES (March 25)
April 2011 HOP (April 1) BORN TO BE WILD 3D (April 8) RIO (April 15) AFRICAN CATS (April 22) PROM (April 29)
I was under the impression that the comics had him wearing a speedo instead of his peenster blowing in the wind.
In the comic, the whole point was that he no longer had any understanding of some of the basics of being a human. In the process of evolving, he'd completely lost his humanity. The need or desire for clothing (his sense of modesty) was the most obvious, but not the only one. If he had been in a speedo, it would have destroyed the entire premise. On the few occasions when he DID wear any clothing at all, the book took great pains to discuss why.
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No, USB foot pedals have been around for ages. I'm not sure what is unique about this one other than maybe having more switches?
I remember using a foot mouse at Comdex maybe 15 years ago. It was way easier to use than I expected it to be. At least as easy as a standard desktop mouse. I always wondered why they never took off.
At $2 per day, though, you don't want to rent it for more than a few days. That's fine for some games, insufficient for others. I wouldn't mind spending $2 just to play a little bit of Duke Nukem Forever, for instance. I wouldn't rent a long RPG or sandbox game, though.
No, but it's a fantastic way to try-before-you-buy. I am sick to death of buying $50-$60 games only to get burned on them. I'll happily pay two bucks to see if it's worth buying my own copy.
...for any zombie invasion of the English countryside: Barricade yourself in the Winchester.
Sprint did the exact same thing with WebOS. Granted, the hardware was nothing to write home about, but the operating system is great! The WebOS phones were always stuck in the back corner of the store, though.
You can delete Qik videos directly from the phone. That makes it useless for secure uploading since the cop could just delete the video before smashing the phone.
A very significant portion of remaining IE6/7 users are enterprise users not allowed to change their browser, due to internal apps not being certified. Cutting support like that will only cut traffic to the sites and piss off their users, the users wont be able to do anything about it. Heck, even Microsoft wants IE6/7 to die. About the only hope to kill of this IE6/7 user base is that corporations keep adopting Windows 7 - a project that include testing and updating for compatibility all around.
Much of which is because many companies won't spend the money on upgrading or testing, even though they know their apps are ancient and need refreshing. As soon as the CEO can't get to his gmail account (or, more likely, Redtube), he'll be screaming at IT to push through the plan to do whatever it takes to fix the problem.
Personally, I'd just like to be able to use transparent images on a web page without having IE6 mangle them.
What ever happened to the 4th amendment?
The what, now? Sorry, doesn't ring a bell.
To their credit, they don't listen to what random customers tell them to do over a support line. Even if they did listen to you and it ended up fixing the network, that'd be a dangerous precedent to set. This isn't a personal attack against you btw, sorry if it came across like that.
I can appreciate that they don't know me from Adam and I don't expect them to take my advice about how to fix the problem, but when I tell them my cable is out, I don't want to hear "No, it isn't."
That's terrific! When MY Comcast internet is down, it takes me two days on the phone just to get them to admit that there's a problem. Even when I tell them what the problem is and how to fix it, I STILL can't get them to fix it.
There's good stuff?!
Hey! Sharktopus was a thespianic masterpiece of the B-movie genre. Ok, D-movie.
STOP MONETIZING ME! I am not a data goldmine for you to rape at your convenience! Sell me the product that I want (NOT the product you think I need, or the Trojan Horse product that gets you access to my information) and then STEP OFF.
We actually have people protesting because they would have to change some bloody lightbulbs or use a more efficient toilet.
You mean change to light bulbs that contain mercury and flicker at a headache-inducing frequency or toilets that have to be flushed three times to be effective, thereby negating any efficiency?
If he gave specific instructions then why weren't they followed? He's the President of the United States. The buck stops with him. It's his job to take responsibility for the departments under his control. Giving him a pass and saying it's someone else's fault that his personal and specific instructions were completely ignored is disingenuous at best.
I give his administration a failing grade on this too, but I'd like to give Obama himself the benefit of the doubt on this one. I don't think he's the problem. Whereas in the Bush years, both Cheney and Bush were part of the problem.
LOL WUT
"Greetings Professor Falken"
need i say more? WarGames is probably the most cheezy movie of them all.
You shut your whore mouth!
Seriously, though, Wargames was probably the most accurate cracking movie ever made. Instead of "creating a GUI in Visual Basic and tracking an IP address" a la CSI: Braindead, the main character actually spent weeks poring over information about the creator of the system to try to work out how it was designed and what the likely methods would be to gain entrance. He also used social engineering techniques to gather information about his targets.
Just like the music industry, the electronic distribution of books has the publishers running scared. Writers are finally waking up to the fact that without the need to actually print books, they have no need of monolithic publishing houses whatsoever. They can self-publish with little to no overhead and keep the profits for themselves. $9.95 (or more, oftentimes) is an abso-friggin-lutely ridiculous price to charge for an e-book.
Aren't you that Time Cube guy?
I don't understand why people are using lathes and milling machines to make high-quality, cheap, easy to use tools when they could be carving their own stone axes and axe handles. When their tool breaks, they just set it aside and buy a new one instead of spending days of downtime repairing it! Are we losing the skills needed to carve our own tools by hand in the interest of saving time and money?! This makes absolutely no sense to me and I cast derision on anyone who would do such a thing!
Wouldn't a keyboard that simply locks the terminal make more sense? I don't want to be completely logged out just because I leave my desk to use the can.
FTFA:
The SonarLocID Keyboard connects to a PC via USB and can be configured via an included programming application that allows the user to program custom keystrokes as well as delays and a sequence to lock the computer when the user walks away.
Unfortunately, I don't think that will happen after the movie wrapped up the story line and killed off major characters.
I'm prepared to pretend the movie never happened if it mean more episodes. Who's with me?!
So what every commenter so far is saying is that this "Harmless" "Bad taste" joke in no way victimizes the kids. That's absurd. At what point does it become victimization then. If he had actually done the song in front of the kids and filmed it, would they be victims. If he had made a movie where he abused the kids, would that be wrong, even if it was not real. Get a sense of law and morality, there are few victimless crimes, this is not one of them. The kids are victims, because they did not consent to something that in reality would have been damaging, libelous, and subject to prosecution. Computers and technology do not give free reign to virtually create abusive depictions without consequences. Good grief, I cannot believe the support yielded to this shithead on /.
If it was damaging and libelous, then why is he being charged criminally under pedophelia laws? Shouldn't he be subject to civil prosecution for libel instead? These kids aren't "victims" just because you say they are, any more than an adult would be a "victim". A 20 year sentence is WAY WAY out of line for this supposed crime.
The moral of the story is this: If you are a male (especially a single white male over 30) in the 21st century, do not go anywhere near children. Don't look at them, don't talk to them, don't get within 50 feet of them (especially if you own a camera, even if you leave the camera at home). For the love of God, don't be in a public toilet if one happens to come in, even if Dad is there with him and especially if Dad doesn't come in with him. Do not interact with them in any way, even virtually, such as re-dubbing a video, drawing a picture, mentioning children in an e-mail, nothing. More and more often, this includes your own children.
Remember, all men are automatically guilty even if they've done nothing wrong!
As a parent of young kids, I'd like to see more decent G or PG fare. Toy Story 3 and Tangled were good. But movies like this are few and far between. More common is junk like Yogi Bear. And even more common is the theater showing nothing but PG-13 to R movies, 90% of which are yet more horror flicks to heap on the pile.
What? There are at least 36 kids movies coming out this year alone. Nine of those are coming out between now and the end of April:
March 2011
RANGO (March 4)
MARS NEEDS MOMS (March 11, 2D/3D/IMAX 3D)
BEASTLY (March 4, PG-13)
DIARY OF A WIMPY KID 2: RODRICK RULES (March 25)
April 2011
HOP (April 1)
BORN TO BE WILD 3D (April 8)
RIO (April 15)
AFRICAN CATS (April 22)
PROM (April 29)
I was under the impression that the comics had him wearing a speedo instead of his peenster blowing in the wind.
In the comic, the whole point was that he no longer had any understanding of some of the basics of being a human. In the process of evolving, he'd completely lost his humanity. The need or desire for clothing (his sense of modesty) was the most obvious, but not the only one. If he had been in a speedo, it would have destroyed the entire premise. On the few occasions when he DID wear any clothing at all, the book took great pains to discuss why.