My camera (a Panasonic Lumix FZ-7) has an option to disable the "click" sound when I take a photo. So, if I wanted to, I could walk around taking photos without anyone knowing when I've actually clicked the button. I currently prefer it set as making a sound, but I like that the option is there.
No. All shoes should play a person's theme music as you walk. (If YouTube wasn't blocked here, I'd post a link to the Family Guy clip.)
Of course, you'd need to license this music from the RIAA for $5-10 per month.... Rats, now not only am I off-topic, but I think I just gave the RIAA an idea to further annoy/harass us. I'd walk away with my head down in shame, but I'm late paying my monthly Shoe Theme Music Fee so I'm stuck in this one spot.
As a side note, I wonder how those racists will spin it if, 4 years from now, white people haven't risen up in anger over a black man occupying the White House. Will the racists' brains explode if he's elected to a second term? They'll probably imagine that some vast conspiracy is to blame. When it comes down to vast, unwieldy conspiracy or they are simply wrong, people like this go for the conspiracy.
Now, when the salesman gets finished telling me about their latest phone which can do everything short of transforming into a giant robot (feature available in the next model) and asking what I'd like to do with it, I'll look like even more of a Cellphone Luddite by saying "make calls." I don't text, rarely take cell phone photos, and don't check the Internet from my phone. I upload my own ringtones ( http://www.myxer.com/make/ ) and don't care about applications or games on my phone. All I do is make phone calls.
So you're saying that the Sun subjects us to tons of radiation? And not just us, but our children? For the sake of our children we must DESTROY THE SUN!!!
I got around the "planning to buy Photoshop" issue by buying Paint Shop Pro instead. Has all the features I needed for a fraction of the price: $100 versus $700. They even have a sale right now so you can get it for $70.
I'd recommend Gimp also, but to be honest I tried it awhile back and didn't like the interface. I've been meaning to give the new version another shot, but haven't had the time.
I've found this with my laptop in my office. My office was built in the back of the server room. When they built it, they didn't insulate the floors properly and my door is right near a giant AC unit. Needless to say, my office can be freezing. (As in "fingers getting numb" freezing.) I was given a space heater to keep me warm in my office. I'll sometimes place it under my desk to warm my legs as I code. When I do that, though, the heater heats the underside of my desk. Right under where my laptop is. My laptop (being a heat producer itself), heats the top of the desk. I've noticed more random freeze-ups during this time and am convinced that the "above-below" heating means less heat can move away from the laptop and thus means the CPU heats up more. (I should test this out with a CPU temperature monitor one day.)
As a side note, I have problems with my Flash plugin. It doesn't load Flash files at times. Other times, it will load a Flash movie, but the file will attempt to execute some JavaScript which the Flash plugin interprets as "open an IE window to execute 'javascript:someFunction();'" Since that function doesn't exist on a plain IE page, the window errors out but the plugin (undaunted) tries again. And again. And again. Until my system freezes up with 50 IE windows on the screen. For some reason, it doesn't get that Firefox is my default browser.
Card games cause violence too. My coworker got me into the Nuclear War Card Game and now I keep a stockpile of ICBMs just in case. Come to think of it, my neighbor has been blocking us in with the way they park their car. *pushes button*
Who was that announcer? He sounded like the "Let's Get Ready To Rumble" guy. I half expected him to announce "In this corner, President Elect Barack H. Obama. In that corner, Chief Justice Roberts. Let's get ready to INAUGURAAAAAAAATE!"
True, but what 16-17 year old boy is going to willingly delete a self-taken nude photo sent to him by a girl 2-3 years younger than him? Even if the reasoning center of his brain screamed "DELETE IT!!!", his hormones would scream "She's naked dude! NAKED!!!" even louder.
Some people have tried to make "prurient intent" equal "a photo that someone, somewhere might regard as sexual in nature." This would make every parents' kids-in-a-tub photos (because every parent takes those) into child porn because *someone* might possibly see them as sexual.
I disagree. I think there is room to sell your music online. I for one like the AmieStreet.com model. Songs start out free and rise in price (to 98 cents) as more people buy. So you can take a chance and download a free/low cost song, not risking much money, or you can pay 98 cents for the "safe bet" song (the one that many people liked enough to buy).
Perhaps this is a job for Prism? Have your bank's site run inside a Prism session, completely unconnected to any other website. I do this with Google Reader mainly because I like the increased screen space I get over FireFox (don't need tabs and such taking away screen space). I just launch my Google Reader Prism shortcut and away I go.
So *that* is why I'm overweight. All that time playing Pac-Man taught me to go around eating everything in sight. Luckily, it taught me not to eat ghosts (unless I find a power pellet first). Oops. Gotta go. Blinky's getting too close.
1. Source code shows major flaws and the evidence is tossed out. 2. Source code shows no major flaws and the evidence stands.
In the case of #1, it is a win for society because the company will be forced to either fix their product or risk going out of business. What police station would want to use a breathalyzer that was proven in court to be flawed? Case #1 might be somewhat frequent initially, but will become rarer and rarer.
In the case of #2, it is a win for society because the validity of the breathalyzer software will be affirmed. As case #1's work their way through, the software will be fixed more and more until case #2 is the predominant case.
Either way, society wins. The alternative is a black box device that *might* function the way the makers say it does but might have unknown bugs.
I wholeheartedly agree. In fact, I'll go one further and propose that we skip trials altogether. If a police officer arrests you for something, you've got to be guilty, right? There's no other explanation as to why you were arrested. So you would go right to jail and we would save on court/lawyer costs. Even better, save on the jail costs and allow officers to shoot people instead of arresting them. If an officer was going to arrest someone, they obviously committed a crime and if they committed a crime, they're just a worthless drain on society. The increased cost in bullets could be offset by auctioning anything that the dirty stinking criminal had on him/her when they were shot. {END HEAVY SARCASM MODE}
I got my first digital camera in 1999 (2MP Olympus C-4000). When my wife and I got married in 2001, our photographer took our photos with film cameras. My wife insisted on bringing her film camera on our honeymoon (Disney World) and not our digital camera as she insisted that film was better. Fast forward to today. I recently went to a friend's wedding and his photographers were using not only DSLR's for the photos, but digital video cameras for the video. Everyone in attendance who had cameras had digital. We're planning another trip to Disney World (will be our sons' first time there) and we're going to take two digital cameras. My current camera (Panasonic FZ-7) and my wife's digital camera (Canon A570IS). Yes, in the span of 8 years she has not only accepted digital photography, but now acknowledges openly how superior it is to film. (She often takes the photos, manipulates them using local and online tools, and posts them to her blog to share instantly with family around the world. Try doing that with film!)
Slashdot readers tend to be early adopters so it can be hard to remember that, to the general public, digital cameras 8 years ago were clunky expensive items that couldn't hope to compete with film.
For some reason, this sparked the memory of an Animaniacs song:
Lake Titicaca, oh Lake Titicaca It's between Bolivia and Peru Lake Titicaca, oh Lake Titicaca With waters tranquil and blue. Oh Lake Titicaca, yes Lake Titicaca Why do we sing of its fame? Lake Titicaca, yes Lake Titicaca 'Cause we really like saying its name! Titicaca!
Actually, Moses hacked into God's computer and downloaded an illegal copy. (What do you think he was doing on that mountain?) I still think God's being a bit harsh though. Download one illegal copy and we get persecuted for thousands of years?
3 cups might cause hallucinations, but 300 cups causes you to slow time down and save all of your friends from a raging fire. (Obligatory Futurama Reference)
Slashdot Mirror
No, but it is blocked at my office where I'm posting from. That means I couldn't go to YouTube.com to find the video link to post to Slashdot.
My camera (a Panasonic Lumix FZ-7) has an option to disable the "click" sound when I take a photo. So, if I wanted to, I could walk around taking photos without anyone knowing when I've actually clicked the button. I currently prefer it set as making a sound, but I like that the option is there.
No. All shoes should play a person's theme music as you walk. (If YouTube wasn't blocked here, I'd post a link to the Family Guy clip.)
Of course, you'd need to license this music from the RIAA for $5-10 per month.... Rats, now not only am I off-topic, but I think I just gave the RIAA an idea to further annoy/harass us. I'd walk away with my head down in shame, but I'm late paying my monthly Shoe Theme Music Fee so I'm stuck in this one spot.
As a side note, I wonder how those racists will spin it if, 4 years from now, white people haven't risen up in anger over a black man occupying the White House. Will the racists' brains explode if he's elected to a second term? They'll probably imagine that some vast conspiracy is to blame. When it comes down to vast, unwieldy conspiracy or they are simply wrong, people like this go for the conspiracy.
Now, when the salesman gets finished telling me about their latest phone which can do everything short of transforming into a giant robot (feature available in the next model) and asking what I'd like to do with it, I'll look like even more of a Cellphone Luddite by saying "make calls." I don't text, rarely take cell phone photos, and don't check the Internet from my phone. I upload my own ringtones ( http://www.myxer.com/make/ ) and don't care about applications or games on my phone. All I do is make phone calls.
So you're saying that the Sun subjects us to tons of radiation? And not just us, but our children? For the sake of our children we must DESTROY THE SUN!!!
I got around the "planning to buy Photoshop" issue by buying Paint Shop Pro instead. Has all the features I needed for a fraction of the price: $100 versus $700. They even have a sale right now so you can get it for $70.
I'd recommend Gimp also, but to be honest I tried it awhile back and didn't like the interface. I've been meaning to give the new version another shot, but haven't had the time.
I've found this with my laptop in my office. My office was built in the back of the server room. When they built it, they didn't insulate the floors properly and my door is right near a giant AC unit. Needless to say, my office can be freezing. (As in "fingers getting numb" freezing.) I was given a space heater to keep me warm in my office. I'll sometimes place it under my desk to warm my legs as I code. When I do that, though, the heater heats the underside of my desk. Right under where my laptop is. My laptop (being a heat producer itself), heats the top of the desk. I've noticed more random freeze-ups during this time and am convinced that the "above-below" heating means less heat can move away from the laptop and thus means the CPU heats up more. (I should test this out with a CPU temperature monitor one day.)
Load the flash games in a Prism app.
As a side note, I have problems with my Flash plugin. It doesn't load Flash files at times. Other times, it will load a Flash movie, but the file will attempt to execute some JavaScript which the Flash plugin interprets as "open an IE window to execute 'javascript:someFunction();'" Since that function doesn't exist on a plain IE page, the window errors out but the plugin (undaunted) tries again. And again. And again. Until my system freezes up with 50 IE windows on the screen. For some reason, it doesn't get that Firefox is my default browser.
Card games cause violence too. My coworker got me into the Nuclear War Card Game and now I keep a stockpile of ICBMs just in case. Come to think of it, my neighbor has been blocking us in with the way they park their car. *pushes button*
Something like PG Porn? http://www.spike.com/video/pg-porn-pg-porn/3041858
Replying to my own post, yes, but this is who the announcer was:
"Navy Musician 1st Class Courtney Williams, 33, a postal carrier's son from Greenbrier, Tenn."
http://www.dailymail.com/News/inaug09/200901190401
Thanks to dhlawrencexvii on Twitter. (For those of you who watch Heroes, he plays Doyle the puppet master.)
Who was that announcer? He sounded like the "Let's Get Ready To Rumble" guy. I half expected him to announce "In this corner, President Elect Barack H. Obama. In that corner, Chief Justice Roberts. Let's get ready to INAUGURAAAAAAAATE!"
True, but what 16-17 year old boy is going to willingly delete a self-taken nude photo sent to him by a girl 2-3 years younger than him? Even if the reasoning center of his brain screamed "DELETE IT!!!", his hormones would scream "She's naked dude! NAKED!!!" even louder.
Some people have tried to make "prurient intent" equal "a photo that someone, somewhere might regard as sexual in nature." This would make every parents' kids-in-a-tub photos (because every parent takes those) into child porn because *someone* might possibly see them as sexual.
I disagree. I think there is room to sell your music online. I for one like the AmieStreet.com model. Songs start out free and rise in price (to 98 cents) as more people buy. So you can take a chance and download a free/low cost song, not risking much money, or you can pay 98 cents for the "safe bet" song (the one that many people liked enough to buy).
Perhaps this is a job for Prism? Have your bank's site run inside a Prism session, completely unconnected to any other website. I do this with Google Reader mainly because I like the increased screen space I get over FireFox (don't need tabs and such taking away screen space). I just launch my Google Reader Prism shortcut and away I go.
So *that* is why I'm overweight. All that time playing Pac-Man taught me to go around eating everything in sight. Luckily, it taught me not to eat ghosts (unless I find a power pellet first). Oops. Gotta go. Blinky's getting too close.
Actually, what I see happening is either:
1. Source code shows major flaws and the evidence is tossed out.
2. Source code shows no major flaws and the evidence stands.
In the case of #1, it is a win for society because the company will be forced to either fix their product or risk going out of business. What police station would want to use a breathalyzer that was proven in court to be flawed? Case #1 might be somewhat frequent initially, but will become rarer and rarer.
In the case of #2, it is a win for society because the validity of the breathalyzer software will be affirmed. As case #1's work their way through, the software will be fixed more and more until case #2 is the predominant case.
Either way, society wins. The alternative is a black box device that *might* function the way the makers say it does but might have unknown bugs.
I wholeheartedly agree. In fact, I'll go one further and propose that we skip trials altogether. If a police officer arrests you for something, you've got to be guilty, right? There's no other explanation as to why you were arrested. So you would go right to jail and we would save on court/lawyer costs. Even better, save on the jail costs and allow officers to shoot people instead of arresting them. If an officer was going to arrest someone, they obviously committed a crime and if they committed a crime, they're just a worthless drain on society. The increased cost in bullets could be offset by auctioning anything that the dirty stinking criminal had on him/her when they were shot. {END HEAVY SARCASM MODE}
I got my first digital camera in 1999 (2MP Olympus C-4000). When my wife and I got married in 2001, our photographer took our photos with film cameras. My wife insisted on bringing her film camera on our honeymoon (Disney World) and not our digital camera as she insisted that film was better. Fast forward to today. I recently went to a friend's wedding and his photographers were using not only DSLR's for the photos, but digital video cameras for the video. Everyone in attendance who had cameras had digital. We're planning another trip to Disney World (will be our sons' first time there) and we're going to take two digital cameras. My current camera (Panasonic FZ-7) and my wife's digital camera (Canon A570IS). Yes, in the span of 8 years she has not only accepted digital photography, but now acknowledges openly how superior it is to film. (She often takes the photos, manipulates them using local and online tools, and posts them to her blog to share instantly with family around the world. Try doing that with film!)
Slashdot readers tend to be early adopters so it can be hard to remember that, to the general public, digital cameras 8 years ago were clunky expensive items that couldn't hope to compete with film.
For some reason, this sparked the memory of an Animaniacs song:
Actually, Moses hacked into God's computer and downloaded an illegal copy. (What do you think he was doing on that mountain?) I still think God's being a bit harsh though. Download one illegal copy and we get persecuted for thousands of years?
Look out everyone! It's Zombie Khann! He'll put an eel in your ear and then he'll eat your brains!
3 cups might cause hallucinations, but 300 cups causes you to slow time down and save all of your friends from a raging fire. (Obligatory Futurama Reference)