If you really really want to do something good, make a cheap monitor, compliant to all health standards, harmless to children. It is easy to do nowadays, since nobody wants CRT monitors anymore (except for special cases).
Are you talking about LCDs or OLEDs or something new that I've not heard about? The last I heard, LCDS had some nasty materials in them that were in some ways worse then CRTs. I don't recall what. Please, correct me if I'm wrong.
I've had the same thing in every school that I've ever attended. Do you really want to know the point of the it? It's so that the teachers can get of all those older but still valid text books. Were this is really good is at your local college. At the college that I attended, whenever a professor decided to clean out his office, he'd stack about 20-30 books outside his door with a sign that said free books.
Although a think it would be really nice to have gotten a "new" book, most of these second had books were enough to interest me in those subjects. Textbooks are expensive gifts to students.
Uh, you should have called 911 had the cops come out and file an assault report on the employees. The manager most likely wouldn't do anything about it if you never returned.
Actually, you most likely should have had the cops get the video and sue Best Buy for not having a safe store. They may not be able to prevent their customers from breaking laws, but they should atleast be punished for having their employees break the law. Actually, I'm not sure if "push" falls under assult, but you should have had the police involved as well.
I think we need a thread for potential replacements for the Daleks.
My Idea for a new villian: a female time lord that likes to creatively meddle. Instead of the Master that is trying to control the universe, she goes around and "makes history neater." She either stops wars that should happen or she goes behind the Doctor and "fixes" his last epsiode so that history comes out the same. Either way, she should be a good time lord, but being a villian as far as humanity goes. (It could turn out that she was dumped by the doctor and she really hates him going all over time and space with all those other girls.)
I'm surprised that/. isn't using this as a means to pick up girls. You'd want to pick out the one or 2 stations that you like, then during the breaks between songs, insert your "dating ad."
Remember to do this to only the stations that you like!
because they're more inclined to think rationally/logically.
Ask them, which is objectivly better out of these choices: windows or linux emacs or vi or notepad IE or Mozilla Gimp or Photoshop closed or open source
We may be generally rational, but we can easily become raving zealots if the right questions were asked.
"Nope!" I say, proudly beaming. Teaching astronomy to the general public has no practical value, aside from the (perhaps) 2nd order effect of funding for space missions that help make technological advances.
This is why our whole educational system is messed up. There are practical reasons for the average person to know about astronomy! You can navigate by the stars. Do I know how nope. I know the names of the planets, but I couldn't identify them in the sky. It isn't really practical teaching about he atomsphere and rotation of other planets. I don't really need to know that. I should be able to walk around at night though and navigate in a straight line. Heck, you could teach the phases of the moon and its effects on the tides. I know there is a relation, but on in the most general sense. This is why average people don't care about Math and Science, they are told it has no practical value! Those people are liars. Science has a lot of practical values! We wouldn't have/. without science therefore science is good.
Estate holders only consider the money side of things, but most artists alive wish only to impact the world, by sharing their life-blood with the public -- forget the bottom line.
I thought most artist's work was zero until they died, then the value would shoot up. I've always gotten the sense that most artists would love to make a buck off their work in life rather than having it all go to their kids. Why shouldn't the kids think about the money first?
Actually, from what I read of the article, it sounded like "editorial control" and not money was the problem. I could see the BBC wanting to do something different with the Daleks and saying "No" thats not how Daleks should be. I'd rather them just come up with more evil bad guys. Come on the universe is big. It can have more than a half dozen regular bad guy species.
You know that they'd have to cross the thing with a Cell Phone. In theory, a device that I can carry around 4-5 movies, 20-30 hours of music, and huge amounts of pdf, html, and docs would be great. The down side, it will be nearly output only and battery life will be short. I don't think a full Windows platform should be needed for this too work. I think that the electronics folks could most of it in hardware.
My thing is some one needs to get personnal mobile input down and quick. Entering any data on a cell phone is a PTA. Entering PDA data isn't much better. At a desktop, keyboards and mice work well for input devices. We need a device that we can wear 24x7 and use as effortlessly as current desktop keyboards and optical wheel mice. Until then, our dreams of the ultimate mobile PC will be stalled until input catches up with output.
It's incredibly fucking sad that there's a large enough group of people from whom contact with members of the opposite sex is such a foreign concept as to induce such atypical physical reactions.
I freely admit I'd likely be in the same category. I don't think I've actually touched another human being in a couple years.
The question is, what does one do about it?
Define touching another individual. While I was in College and Highschool, I got "touched" mainly by passing people in halls and bumping through people in lines. I rarely bump into anyone at work. I think my "touching" is limited to the introduction handshake with new hires when they get the brief 5 min. tour. At home, I get "touched" by my kids mainly by hugs. Playing "airplane" and "horse" also involves alot of "touching." The only person that I "touch" a lot would be my wife. I suggest getting a wife that will let you grab her on the butt and hug her. You wouldn't be concerned about "touching" other people as much hopefully.
I did a search. It took about 30 seconds and didn't have a total. Google doesn't have much to worry about until the search time is reduced to under 5 seconds.
Ship it with insurance. Then at least one UPS employee with treat it nicely. I shipped a projector back for warranty repair and had $2000 insurance put on it. Our UPS person freaked when they missed that. If anything "happened" to that package, she was going to have to pay for it. Considering it was already broke, I thought it was funny myself. I got the insurance mostly incase it was lost in delivery.
I read the article. I was glad that 500 people were "detained" for fraud. I wasn't thrilled when I read the sentence "although the identities of those in EFCC custody are not formally revealed, observers noted that they included legislators, lawyers, politicians, bankers and public functionaries." I hope this wasn't 419 rich people were detained while their government took $500 million of their money and other assets. Reading the article, it sounded all above board that the Nigerian government was doing this for the public good. I just felt terrified that I might be reading proganda. Is there any one that knows anything about the government of Nigera and their policies?
The US supreme court found the atmosphere, specifically oxygena and nitrogen responsible for copyright violations since the atmosphere is the medium through which pirated music is heard.
The atmosphere's lawyer, Moria, had no comment, but whooshed out of the courthouse with a whistling sound
In other news, all RIAA personnel have died because oxygen was removed from their presence. On a side note, atmosphere is considering removing its presence from any RIAA music source.
The surviving RIAA musics were thrilled until told that no one would hear their music in a vacuum.
All they need is a disclaimer on the machine that says if you have any medical problems seek doctors advise before using this product.
Actually a lawyer would word it with an EULA type of statement that if the individual had ever been ill then you aren't authorized to use the product. If you use the product, the company could then sue you.
What each of these groups needs is an IE ActiveX helper object that automatically downloads and installs their web browser on a visitors computer and then it should make their browser the default while removing "IE" icons from the desktop and start menu.
I'm beginning to believe that NASA is more interested in keeping its workforce busy and getting bigger budgets with which to do less. Maybe we need to tell them that enough is enough already, and that they need to get off the stick and get us back to the Moon.
It's not really NASA's fault. I'm sure most of the folks their would love to put up a lot more shuttles and other space craft. It's the politics. The reason NASA has grown so large is because it subsides Aerospace industry and science minded people. (Which is a good thing.) I personnelly would like to see just a space station built and have about 50-100 deaths in construction. That isn't high number of deaths. Alot of major buildings like the Empire State Building and the Hover Dam had a lot of deaths. It just that the ESB and HD weren't going to be stopped because of accidents. If NASA had one death under construction of anything in space, the program would stop for a decade while it looks at everything possible that could have gone wrong. Then it would take another decade for any corrective measures to be taken.
Going into space isn't safe and most likely won't be until we've been doing it on a daily basis for a few decades.
The kind of tractors that carry the space shuttle stack out to the launch pad. For any reasonably-sized shelter structure, it should only take one.
I thought that took a lot of fuel to move those things around even without the shuttle on them. Other than that I think tank treaded stations sound cooler than blimp research stations.
The BBC article says that the researchers don't want to have to descend vertcally like troglodytes into their shelter, it's not psychologically beneficial. So any design that allows for the accumulation and deepening of the surface cover won't be acceptable. -Gary
Blimps. They need blimps. Then, they can vertically accend to their shelter. As a side benefit it would be mobile so they wouldn't have to study the same patch of ice.
No - It had (has) a good software product and now I believe no. 1 in it's market! All goes to show....
Oh, no that's even worse, a forward this MS Hoax E-mail and your software will be no. 1 in your niche by mysterious MS means email. It'll take decades to die.
Hopefully the courts don't see phone number portability as precedence... can you imagine what the telco's are going through in figuring out routing tables now? Something like this could finally melt the Internet. And ironically my phone line.:)
Why is everyone so thrilled with DNS? I would think this being/. everyone would be happy about keeping their static IP addresses. Of course, it may be that those that actually work at ISPs know how much work this will generate for them and are trying to get out of it. Hold on we need as much IT busy work as we can generate. This would be perfect for generating jobs for IT!
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If you really really want to do something good, make a cheap monitor, compliant to all health standards, harmless to children. It is easy to do nowadays, since nobody wants CRT monitors anymore (except for special cases).
Are you talking about LCDs or OLEDs or something new that I've not heard about? The last I heard, LCDS had some nasty materials in them that were in some ways worse then CRTs. I don't recall what.
Please, correct me if I'm wrong.
So you prefer your girlfriend to have a small penis?
He prefers his girlfriend to have his. He doesn't want Linux to give her a bigger one than his.
I've had the same thing in every school that I've ever attended. Do you really want to know the point of the it? It's so that the teachers can get of all those older but still valid text books. Were this is really good is at your local college. At the college that I attended, whenever a professor decided to clean out his office, he'd stack about 20-30 books outside his door with a sign that said free books.
Although a think it would be really nice to have gotten a "new" book, most of these second had books were enough to interest me in those subjects. Textbooks are expensive gifts to students.
Uh, you should have called 911 had the cops come out and file an assault report on the employees. The manager most likely wouldn't do anything about it if you never returned.
Actually, you most likely should have had the cops get the video and sue Best Buy for not having a safe store. They may not be able to prevent their customers from breaking laws, but they should atleast be punished for having their employees break the law. Actually, I'm not sure if "push" falls under assult, but you should have had the police involved as well.
And you posted that as AC? Gosh, that's one of the most insightful posts I've read inwhile.
Worms is a great game. I hope it doesn't die.
I think we need a thread for potential replacements for the Daleks.
My Idea for a new villian: a female time lord that likes to creatively meddle. Instead of the Master that is trying to control the universe, she goes around and "makes history neater." She either stops wars that should happen or she goes behind the Doctor and "fixes" his last epsiode so that history comes out the same. Either way, she should be a good time lord, but being a villian as far as humanity goes. (It could turn out that she was dumped by the doctor and she really hates him going all over time and space with all those other girls.)
What the poster really wants is anti-sound.
Silence Machine Article 1
Silence> Machine Article 2
I'm surprised that /. isn't using this as a means to pick up girls. You'd want to pick out the one or 2 stations that you like, then during the breaks between songs, insert your "dating ad."
Remember to do this to only the stations that you like!
because they're more inclined to think rationally/logically.
Ask them, which is objectivly better out of these choices:
windows or linux
emacs or vi or notepad
IE or Mozilla
Gimp or Photoshop
closed or open source
We may be generally rational, but we can easily become raving zealots if the right questions were asked.
"Nope!" I say, proudly beaming. Teaching astronomy to the general public has no practical value, aside from the (perhaps) 2nd order effect of funding for space missions that help make technological advances.
/. without science therefore science is good.
This is why our whole educational system is messed up. There are practical reasons for the average person to know about astronomy! You can navigate by the stars. Do I know how nope. I know the names of the planets, but I couldn't identify them in the sky. It isn't really practical teaching about he atomsphere and rotation of other planets. I don't really need to know that. I should be able to walk around at night though and navigate in a straight line. Heck, you could teach the phases of the moon and its effects on the tides. I know there is a relation, but on in the most general sense. This is why average people don't care about Math and Science, they are told it has no practical value! Those people are liars. Science has a lot of practical values! We wouldn't have
Estate holders only consider the money side of things, but most artists alive wish only to impact the world, by sharing their life-blood with the public -- forget the bottom line.
I thought most artist's work was zero until they died, then the value would shoot up. I've always gotten the sense that most artists would love to make a buck off their work in life rather than having it all go to their kids. Why shouldn't the kids think about the money first?
Actually, from what I read of the article, it sounded like "editorial control" and not money was the problem. I could see the BBC wanting to do something different with the Daleks and saying "No" thats not how Daleks should be. I'd rather them just come up with more evil bad guys. Come on the universe is big. It can have more than a half dozen regular bad guy species.
You know that they'd have to cross the thing with a Cell Phone. In theory, a device that I can carry around 4-5 movies, 20-30 hours of music, and huge amounts of pdf, html, and docs would be great. The down side, it will be nearly output only and battery life will be short. I don't think a full Windows platform should be needed for this too work. I think that the electronics folks could most of it in hardware.
My thing is some one needs to get personnal mobile input down and quick. Entering any data on a cell phone is a PTA. Entering PDA data isn't much better. At a desktop, keyboards and mice work well for input devices. We need a device that we can wear 24x7 and use as effortlessly as current desktop keyboards and optical wheel mice. Until then, our dreams of the ultimate mobile PC will be stalled until input catches up with output.
It's incredibly fucking sad that there's a large enough group of people from whom contact with members of the opposite sex is such a foreign concept as to induce such atypical physical reactions.
I freely admit I'd likely be in the same category. I don't think I've actually touched another human being in a couple years.
The question is, what does one do about it?
Define touching another individual. While I was in College and Highschool, I got "touched" mainly by passing people in halls and bumping through people in lines. I rarely bump into anyone at work. I think my "touching" is limited to the introduction handshake with new hires when they get the brief 5 min. tour. At home, I get "touched" by my kids mainly by hugs. Playing "airplane" and "horse" also involves alot of "touching." The only person that I "touch" a lot would be my wife. I suggest getting a wife that will let you grab her on the butt and hug her. You wouldn't be concerned about "touching" other people as much hopefully.
I did a search. It took about 30 seconds and didn't have a total. Google doesn't have much to worry about until the search time is reduced to under 5 seconds.
Ship it with insurance. Then at least one UPS employee with treat it nicely. I shipped a projector back for warranty repair and had $2000 insurance put on it. Our UPS person freaked when they missed that. If anything "happened" to that package, she was going to have to pay for it. Considering it was already broke, I thought it was funny myself. I got the insurance mostly incase it was lost in delivery.
I read the article. I was glad that 500 people were "detained" for fraud. I wasn't thrilled when I read the sentence "although the identities of those in EFCC custody are not formally revealed, observers noted that they included legislators, lawyers, politicians, bankers and public functionaries."
I hope this wasn't 419 rich people were detained while their government took $500 million of their money and other assets. Reading the article, it sounded all above board that the Nigerian government was doing this for the public good. I just felt terrified that I might be reading proganda. Is there any one that knows anything about the government of Nigera and their policies?
The US supreme court found the atmosphere, specifically oxygena and nitrogen responsible for copyright violations since the atmosphere is the medium through which pirated music is heard.
The atmosphere's lawyer, Moria, had no comment, but whooshed out of the courthouse with a whistling sound
In other news, all RIAA personnel have died because oxygen was removed from their presence. On a side note, atmosphere is considering removing its presence from any RIAA music source.
The surviving RIAA musics were thrilled until told that no one would hear their music in a vacuum.
All they need is a disclaimer on the machine that says if you have any medical problems seek doctors advise before using this product.
Actually a lawyer would word it with an EULA type of statement that if the individual had ever been ill then you aren't authorized to use the product. If you use the product, the company could then sue you.
What each of these groups needs is an IE ActiveX helper object that automatically downloads and installs their web browser on a visitors computer and then it should make their browser the default while removing "IE" icons from the desktop and start menu.
I'm beginning to believe that NASA is more interested in keeping its workforce busy and getting bigger budgets with which to do less. Maybe we need to tell them that enough is enough already, and that they need to get off the stick and get us back to the Moon.
It's not really NASA's fault. I'm sure most of the folks their would love to put up a lot more shuttles and other space craft. It's the politics. The reason NASA has grown so large is because it subsides Aerospace industry and science minded people. (Which is a good thing.) I personnelly would like to see just a space station built and have about 50-100 deaths in construction. That isn't high number of deaths. Alot of major buildings like the Empire State Building and the Hover Dam had a lot of deaths. It just that the ESB and HD weren't going to be stopped because of accidents. If NASA had one death under construction of anything in space, the program would stop for a decade while it looks at everything possible that could have gone wrong. Then it would take another decade for any corrective measures to be taken.
Going into space isn't safe and most likely won't be until we've been doing it on a daily basis for a few decades.
The kind of tractors that carry the space shuttle stack out to the launch pad. For any reasonably-sized shelter structure, it should only take one.
I thought that took a lot of fuel to move those things around even without the shuttle on them. Other than that I think tank treaded stations sound cooler than blimp research stations.
The BBC article says that the researchers don't want to have to descend vertcally like troglodytes into their shelter, it's not psychologically beneficial. So any design that allows for the accumulation and deepening of the surface cover won't be acceptable. -Gary
Blimps. They need blimps. Then, they can vertically accend to their shelter. As a side benefit it would be mobile so they wouldn't have to study the same patch of ice.
Did the company go down in flames?
No - It had (has) a good software product and now I believe no. 1 in it's market! All goes to show....
Oh, no that's even worse, a forward this MS Hoax E-mail and your software will be no. 1 in your niche by mysterious MS means email. It'll take decades to die.
Hopefully the courts don't see phone number portability as precedence
Why is everyone so thrilled with DNS? I would think this being