Since most planes, to my knowledge, have auto pilot, and I'm assuming it was set, isn't there something with autopilot that would have also alerted the pilots to their location and time. I understand that pilots would have had time to discuss this stuff, but I almost believe that losing track of time is a big offense. What would have happened had they had fuel issues and now they were running out of fuel?
If I was on that flight I would likely be pissed off knowing that these two who hold the responsibility to get me to my destination weren't really doing their job properly. While this ended in a non-incident there should still be some sort of repercussion for those actions. These men chose to let themselves become distracted.
Many of the early puzzle games had decent graphics, they were pretty darn nice for their day. Take a look at "Think Cross", simple but elegant. Dave 2 was rudimentary graphics with a simple plot to get through the haunted house, but so what, it was fun.
For whatever reason, you can't leave laptop at work (left work late, will be catchin a flight...), and don't have a car trunk (most SUV's), and rather than leave it in the car, you carry it keep it protected. If it's with you, you know where it is.
Now if it was Jessica Rabbit, I'm sure you'd get more sales than with Marge Simpson.
Besides if anyone would pose naked for Playboy, it should be the future Lisa Simpson, she actually had the barbie doll curves in the one episode that they show of the Future College Lisa. And I'm sure Lisa will stray and go quite deviant in her college years, she does have Homer as a father.... hee hee hee.
How old is this researcher? Come on. It's not the drug, it's the pusher. If you tell a child a carrot is candy, they you reward him with a carrot when the child behaves, then you've just made vegetables the new cause for violent behavior. I call shennigans on this study.
It's any wonder why Americans are such targets of such scams. If someone who really knows what to look for almost falls into the traps, how can the Americans who aren't as tech savy survive such scams and be held at fault? How about some good old public broadcasting on the TV's telling folks about such emails. We warn people about drugs to educate them, lets do that with some of these cyber scams and smarten up some people. Let's become less targets and more careful.
I could agree with this if and only if they are giving you the phone for free and you are only buying the service. But when you are expected to buy the hardware, it is no one's business what you do with it. Too many companiess want to control what you do with the gadgets that you buy. Why are we allowing this in our society?
Crazy scenario, if you buy a toaster with a computer chip in it that has a little app that holds memory of who you are and how you like your toast toasted, should we then allow the companies to own the rights to how you want to modify the toaster?
I know I know, someone will say, it's about the network and keeping it clean of apps with viruses or that the apps are what make a company $$$, but it's all becoming too invasive.
For those of you who know the Sponge Bob cartoon, you're familiar with the episode where Sponge Bob sees some graffite on a Garbage bin outside the restaurant. When he read the statements allowed, the foul words were the sounds of dolphins. I'd personnally love a few facebook comments to inject the dolphin (porpoise) sound bite. It would make me wonder if he would insist on interpretation of such sounds to find out what was being said so he could then turn around an sue people.
Phhhhhhbbbbtbtttttbtbtbbbtbbtbtbt! Mr Thompson. Ha
I really hope this Lawsuit is thrown out, simply because people are entitle to their opinions of this guy and what he stands for. He seems to forget that he's on some sort of one man crusade to fight computer game industry, and puts himself out there ans is not ready to be scrutinized for what he believes in. These individuals are using the tools provided to them to voice their opinions. We still have that right to free speech. I have not read these posts, and nor do I want to, thus the beauty of the Net. Now that Mr. Thompson has advertised that these posts exists, he's drawing national attention to them and may find that more people agree with the angry posts rather than his points.
I don't necessarily agree with vial and viscious things but people will do what people will do.
The thing is that not only teens text and drive, people of all ages do it. While it's true new technology is usually adopted by younger folk first, it does not necessarily mean they are always the only one at fault for issues around new Technology and in this case driving.
All valid points, and I understand exactly all the things you expressed, but part of my point it that some of those things I listed up front as distractions are really rather minimal, but distractions none the less. They fall under the area of skills of driving. But those in the bottom list are really the ones that I guess are outside the realm of skills in driving. They are all unnecessary distractions.
Cell phone distraction debate is truly an interesting one. I've heard that when you're on the phone you tend to focus on that, and it forces your brain to do something different. I don't remember all the details, but it did seem to make sense. What I mean is when people who were on the phone were asked if they remember their trip, some have responded that they couldn't recall driving, while clearly they did.
It is an interesting area of study, because it allows a picture on how different minds think and react in contrast to others. Thanks for the feedback.
Lets consider for a moment all the things that are distracting. Seatbelt - they have to often be adjusted for some people Radio - whether it's the station or something on it, it distracts AC - it's too cold, it's too hot, fiddle, fiddle fiddle Changing gears - for those who have manual transmission, I'm sure you've experience funky gear changes Other people on the road doing stupid crap and you being defensive, that's a distraction Mirror - sometimes they need adjusting Seats - sometimes they need adjusting your body - sometimes you need to shift in your seat high heals - if they get caught on floor mats.
These are all things within the car and are considered acceptable distractions
Cigarrettes - #1 on my list. You drive one handed, you're always flicking ashes, and if they land in the car, drivers freak Loud stereos - you can't hear others in the car, much less stuff outside of the vehicle Fast food (any food/drink) - You're eating or drinking, then both hands are not on the wheel Pagers - reading phone numbers or messages Cellphones - texting / twittering / talking / answering / dialing, unless it's hands free.... iPODs - if not attached to the stereo, people are always switching to different songs / play lists GPS devices - help us pay attention to the road right? NOT, easy distraction Kids - everyone remembers the "mom, make Tommy stay on his side of the car" stuff. Passengers - can often be distracting DVD / TVs - I understand they can help keep kids quiet, but all too often, if a DVD ends, Mom / Dad has to switch out videos, and you know they don't pull over for that one. Over-worked - constantly thinking about work, and not paying attention to the task of driving Too tired - struggling to stay awake and not paying attention to the task of driving Road Rage - worrying about someone else and not paying attention to the task of driving Drugs and Alcohol - self explanatory
There are many more things that could cause distrations. I don't advocate texting while driving, but people need to understand that they are not the only distractions causing accidents.
I find this to be quite different. I've watched my husband, nephews, step-sons and brother-inlaws attempt to annihilate each other just for the shits and giggles of it all. Of course the best deaths are the most funny. But they are brutal to one another.
I guess I can chalk it up to that fact that they are a close knit set of men in one family and they are all talking on the XBox head sets when they play together. Interestingly enough though, if you watch the teenage boys who are rather skilled, the general observations is they tend to get mad really quickly if their older less skilled counter-part family members have a good game and kick their butts. That's when I've seen or heard the aggression. They don't like to lose to family.
But when it comes to strangers, I don't often get to observe thatm that much, but what little I have seen is aggression just to win. And when they don't it the language of sore loser that I hear. Rarely do I hear "...that was an awesome match".
I would bet that if it was smokable in a manner that would get one high that there would be no problem keeping it under control. People would harvest it for the sheer delight of it. But then we'd have a million more grow farms all over the place...... mmmm, i'm hungry now....
Well we know that people who post on Social networks have found their personal lives scrutinized. I don't agree with a juror having access to news print, electronic, digital in any form. This too goes for Social Network sites. The idea is to have an un-biased Jury. If jurors are circumventing the guidelines of outside influences by Googling or what not, then I think the juror needs to feel some re-precussion for his/her actions. Reverse the situation for a moment, you stand trial for a crime and while evidence may point in your direction, you're innocent, yet you've lived an adventurous lifestyle that some of the jurors may disagree with, would you want those jurors passing judgement against you based on information that is not relevant to the case? I certainly would scream MISTRIAL.
Conversely, if you were a really rotten stinker, Googling someone and finding out info that has not been brought to light may also help keep a really bad person from roaming the streets. Even though on a personal level I prefer the bad guys to pay their price, I'm not willing to watch those who are innocent have jurors manipulate the system when the information about isn't relevant. The bad guys will likely f'up again and pay their dues some how.
Per the article "T-Mobile had some time ago scaled back to sending customers only a summarized written bill and instituted a $2 fee for those wishing to receive a more detailed accounting. The latter fee will apparently remain in place."
So if you opt for detailed billing you're still being hit with a charge.
I read the on-line announcement days before it was to go into effect. I was appalled. There wasn't just one fee, but 2 separate ones. Fee 1: Paper Bill with no details would cost the consumer $1.50 per bill. Fee 2: Paper Bill with full detaila would cost and extra $1.99 per bill.
While it was available to opt out on their website and receive the e-bill, even then it wasn't an email or something kind like that. It was an email that basically stated your bill is ready. If you wanted details you had to go to T-Mobile and pull up your account just to look at your bill. Even now they aren't very detailed on their webpage, by my standards.
I personally use paper bills especially when something important has to be documented. While I'm tech savy, I don't appreciate being forced into options that aren't good for the customer. Had they promoted things differently or had diminished the cost to something way more reasonable I probably would not have been appalled by the Fees they were about to impose. But knowing that there are people who still don't use a PC or the internet, and only use a cell for emergencies, that really raised my eyebrows.
When I called today, because their on-line description of my account usage was confusing, that is when they told me that the fees have been nixed.
T-Mobile almost lost me as a customer with that move. They need to improve their customer service reputation that they've now hurt and they need to make their web site's account management and display of billing information more clear and concise.
I agree it's important to understand how to keep your information protected, but this sounds like the newest method of selling you the latest and greatest upgrades to Symantec's software. We have seen scare tactics in the News media to get you to watch their stations for the news and weather by over-sensationalizing the headlines or the topics to be covered.
Just the other day, the news eluded to the next hurricane that formed with this dire sounding report about keeping you informed. What the news failed to mention was that the particular storm was just off the coast of Africa and it's path was keeping it in the ocean off the coast of Africa.
It's not that I don't believe Symantec isn't touching upon an important topic, it's just the method by which they are choosing to report the data to the consumer.
It's easy to make mistakes, and GPS systems are not perfect, but after 2+ years either the GPS data has proven to be very questionable or the procecution refuses to let go of an issue. At this point, I would almost believe the officer who issued the ticket is now holding a grudge to help prove a point. But that's just wild and irresponsible speculation.
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Since most planes, to my knowledge, have auto pilot, and I'm assuming it was set, isn't there something with autopilot that would have also alerted the pilots to their location and time. I understand that pilots would have had time to discuss this stuff, but I almost believe that losing track of time is a big offense. What would have happened had they had fuel issues and now they were running out of fuel?
If I was on that flight I would likely be pissed off knowing that these two who hold the responsibility to get me to my destination weren't really doing their job properly. While this ended in a non-incident there should still be some sort of repercussion for those actions. These men chose to let themselves become distracted.
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Woman pregnant.
Many of the early puzzle games had decent graphics, they were pretty darn nice for their day. Take a look at "Think Cross", simple but elegant. Dave 2 was rudimentary graphics with a simple plot to get through the haunted house, but so what, it was fun.
For whatever reason, you can't leave laptop at work (left work late, will be catchin a flight...), and don't have a car trunk (most SUV's), and rather than leave it in the car, you carry it keep it protected. If it's with you, you know where it is.
Now if it was Jessica Rabbit, I'm sure you'd get more sales than with Marge Simpson.
Besides if anyone would pose naked for Playboy, it should be the future Lisa Simpson, she actually had the barbie doll curves in the one episode that they show of the Future College Lisa. And I'm sure Lisa will stray and go quite deviant in her college years, she does have Homer as a father.... hee hee hee.
How old is this researcher? Come on. It's not the drug, it's the pusher. If you tell a child a carrot is candy, they you reward him with a carrot when the child behaves, then you've just made vegetables the new cause for violent behavior. I call shennigans on this study.
It's any wonder why Americans are such targets of such scams. If someone who really knows what to look for almost falls into the traps, how can the Americans who aren't as tech savy survive such scams and be held at fault? How about some good old public broadcasting on the TV's telling folks about such emails. We warn people about drugs to educate them, lets do that with some of these cyber scams and smarten up some people. Let's become less targets and more careful.
I could agree with this if and only if they are giving you the phone for free and you are only buying the service. But when you are expected to buy the hardware, it is no one's business what you do with it. Too many companiess want to control what you do with the gadgets that you buy. Why are we allowing this in our society?
Crazy scenario, if you buy a toaster with a computer chip in it that has a little app that holds memory of who you are and how you like your toast toasted, should we then allow the companies to own the rights to how you want to modify the toaster?
I know I know, someone will say, it's about the network and keeping it clean of apps with viruses or that the apps are what make a company $$$, but it's all becoming too invasive.
I disagree, the /. crowd is the most diverse group of people I've spoken with. Their range of knowlege spans well beyond Nerd stuff.
Oops sorry, you are correct.
For those of you who know the Sponge Bob cartoon, you're familiar with the episode where Sponge Bob sees some graffite on a Garbage bin outside the restaurant. When he read the statements allowed, the foul words were the sounds of dolphins. I'd personnally love a few facebook comments to inject the dolphin (porpoise) sound bite. It would make me wonder if he would insist on interpretation of such sounds to find out what was being said so he could then turn around an sue people.
Phhhhhhbbbbtbtttttbtbtbbbtbbtbtbt! Mr Thompson. Ha
I really hope this Lawsuit is thrown out, simply because people are entitle to their opinions of this guy and what he stands for. He seems to forget that he's on some sort of one man crusade to fight computer game industry, and puts himself out there ans is not ready to be scrutinized for what he believes in. These individuals are using the tools provided to them to voice their opinions. We still have that right to free speech. I have not read these posts, and nor do I want to, thus the beauty of the Net. Now that Mr. Thompson has advertised that these posts exists, he's drawing national attention to them and may find that more people agree with the angry posts rather than his points.
I don't necessarily agree with vial and viscious things but people will do what people will do.
The thing is that not only teens text and drive, people of all ages do it. While it's true new technology is usually adopted by younger folk first, it does not necessarily mean they are always the only one at fault for issues around new Technology and in this case driving.
All valid points, and I understand exactly all the things you expressed, but part of my point it that some of those things I listed up front as distractions are really rather minimal, but distractions none the less. They fall under the area of skills of driving. But those in the bottom list are really the ones that I guess are outside the realm of skills in driving. They are all unnecessary distractions.
Cell phone distraction debate is truly an interesting one. I've heard that when you're on the phone you tend to focus on that, and it forces your brain to do something different. I don't remember all the details, but it did seem to make sense. What I mean is when people who were on the phone were asked if they remember their trip, some have responded that they couldn't recall driving, while clearly they did.
It is an interesting area of study, because it allows a picture on how different minds think and react in contrast to others. Thanks for the feedback.
Lets consider for a moment all the things that are distracting.
Seatbelt - they have to often be adjusted for some people
Radio - whether it's the station or something on it, it distracts
AC - it's too cold, it's too hot, fiddle, fiddle fiddle
Changing gears - for those who have manual transmission, I'm sure you've experience funky gear changes
Other people on the road doing stupid crap and you being defensive, that's a distraction
Mirror - sometimes they need adjusting
Seats - sometimes they need adjusting
your body - sometimes you need to shift in your seat
high heals - if they get caught on floor mats.
These are all things within the car and are considered acceptable distractions
Cigarrettes - #1 on my list. You drive one handed, you're always flicking ashes, and if they land in the car, drivers freak
Loud stereos - you can't hear others in the car, much less stuff outside of the vehicle
Fast food (any food/drink) - You're eating or drinking, then both hands are not on the wheel
Pagers - reading phone numbers or messages
Cellphones - texting / twittering / talking / answering / dialing, unless it's hands free....
iPODs - if not attached to the stereo, people are always switching to different songs / play lists
GPS devices - help us pay attention to the road right? NOT, easy distraction
Kids - everyone remembers the "mom, make Tommy stay on his side of the car" stuff.
Passengers - can often be distracting
DVD / TVs - I understand they can help keep kids quiet, but all too often, if a DVD ends, Mom / Dad has to switch out videos, and you know they don't pull over for that one.
Over-worked - constantly thinking about work, and not paying attention to the task of driving
Too tired - struggling to stay awake and not paying attention to the task of driving
Road Rage - worrying about someone else and not paying attention to the task of driving
Drugs and Alcohol - self explanatory
There are many more things that could cause distrations. I don't advocate texting while driving, but people need to understand that they are not the only distractions causing accidents.
I find this to be quite different. I've watched my husband, nephews, step-sons and brother-inlaws attempt to annihilate each other just for the shits and giggles of it all. Of course the best deaths are the most funny. But they are brutal to one another.
I guess I can chalk it up to that fact that they are a close knit set of men in one family and they are all talking on the XBox head sets when they play together. Interestingly enough though, if you watch the teenage boys who are rather skilled, the general observations is they tend to get mad really quickly if their older less skilled counter-part family members have a good game and kick their butts. That's when I've seen or heard the aggression. They don't like to lose to family.
But when it comes to strangers, I don't often get to observe thatm that much, but what little I have seen is aggression just to win. And when they don't it the language of sore loser that I hear. Rarely do I hear "...that was an awesome match".
I would bet that if it was smokable in a manner that would get one high that there would be no problem keeping it under control. People would harvest it for the sheer delight of it. But then we'd have a million more grow farms all over the place. ..... mmmm, i'm hungry now....
Ok who dropped a cherry bomb in the toilet at the data center?
Well we know that people who post on Social networks have found their personal lives scrutinized. I don't agree with a juror having access to news print, electronic, digital in any form. This too goes for Social Network sites. The idea is to have an un-biased Jury. If jurors are circumventing the guidelines of outside influences by Googling or what not, then I think the juror needs to feel some re-precussion for his/her actions. Reverse the situation for a moment, you stand trial for a crime and while evidence may point in your direction, you're innocent, yet you've lived an adventurous lifestyle that some of the jurors may disagree with, would you want those jurors passing judgement against you based on information that is not relevant to the case? I certainly would scream MISTRIAL.
Conversely, if you were a really rotten stinker, Googling someone and finding out info that has not been brought to light may also help keep a really bad person from roaming the streets. Even though on a personal level I prefer the bad guys to pay their price, I'm not willing to watch those who are innocent have jurors manipulate the system when the information about isn't relevant. The bad guys will likely f'up again and pay their dues some how.
It's an interesting situation.
Per the article
"T-Mobile had some time ago scaled back to sending customers only a summarized written bill and instituted a $2 fee for those wishing to receive a more detailed accounting. The latter fee will apparently remain in place."
So if you opt for detailed billing you're still being hit with a charge.
I read the on-line announcement days before it was to go into effect. I was appalled. There wasn't just one fee, but 2 separate ones.
Fee 1: Paper Bill with no details would cost the consumer $1.50 per bill.
Fee 2: Paper Bill with full detaila would cost and extra $1.99 per bill.
While it was available to opt out on their website and receive the e-bill, even then it wasn't an email or something kind like that. It was an email that basically stated your bill is ready. If you wanted details you had to go to T-Mobile and pull up your account just to look at your bill. Even now they aren't very detailed on their webpage, by my standards.
I personally use paper bills especially when something important has to be documented. While I'm tech savy, I don't appreciate being forced into options that aren't good for the customer. Had they promoted things differently or had diminished the cost to something way more reasonable I probably would not have been appalled by the Fees they were about to impose. But knowing that there are people who still don't use a PC or the internet, and only use a cell for emergencies, that really raised my eyebrows.
When I called today, because their on-line description of my account usage was confusing, that is when they told me that the fees have been nixed.
T-Mobile almost lost me as a customer with that move. They need to improve their customer service reputation that they've now hurt and they need to make their web site's account management and display of billing information more clear and concise.
I agree it's important to understand how to keep your information protected, but this sounds like the newest method of selling you the latest and greatest upgrades to Symantec's software. We have seen scare tactics in the News media to get you to watch their stations for the news and weather by over-sensationalizing the headlines or the topics to be covered.
Just the other day, the news eluded to the next hurricane that formed with this dire sounding report about keeping you informed. What the news failed to mention was that the particular storm was just off the coast of Africa and it's path was keeping it in the ocean off the coast of Africa.
It's not that I don't believe Symantec isn't touching upon an important topic, it's just the method by which they are choosing to report the data to the consumer.
It's easy to make mistakes, and GPS systems are not perfect, but after 2+ years either the GPS data has proven to be very questionable or the procecution refuses to let go of an issue. At this point, I would almost believe the officer who issued the ticket is now holding a grudge to help prove a point. But that's just wild and irresponsible speculation.
But they didn't mention how long it took to clean off the pigeon droppings. Eeeewwwwww!!!!
Well this pretty much reminds me of game, Mouse Trap.