I understand your question; "why here?" but I think you're missing the point. Booth babes are just a small part of the larger phenomenon in American advertising, which is, "sex sells". You can see that in everything and everywhere, ads, TV shows, clothing, food, etc. I also happen to agree that it's a waste of advertising dollars, or maybe even development dollars, to spend money on the sex sells advertising campaign, but as long as Americans are "sex starved", I mean you can't even see any nudity on TV here, but you can see people getting killed (how wrong is that?), then you'll continue to see a glut of sex-based advertising.
What I dislike about the article, if you can actually call it that, is that it (too me at least) implies that there is something wrong with enjoying the sight of scantily clad women, which I don't happen to think that there is, whatever the reason.
Once again, we Americans are showing our puritanical roots, with the old credo, "Violence is ok, but anything to do with sex or sexuality is very shameful and bad!" So the companies use good looking women to attract attention to their products, wow, such crimes against humanity should not be allowed to persist in our "enlightened" society. Oh, by the way, pass me another beer while I watch a bunch of foreigners get blown up by our precision guided 500 pound bombs on CNN.
Sorry, but I think there are a lot of things to be upset about in this country of ours and booth babes are waaaaaaaaaaay down at the bottom of the list.
Too bad if it's permanently stuck, but what an amazing success for this mission, which has gone on far longer that it was planned for. I hope the NASA engineers get the recognition they deserver for this job well done.
Hmmmm.... I don't know dude. I run Windows (all of them) and FreeBSD and OpenBSD and I've never experienced problems with the BSDs like you're describing. Honestly, I run my internet gateway (which serves as the router, nat, dhcp, dns, and stateful firewall) on OpenBSD with a Pentium 133 and 96 megs of ram and it's a champ. Maybe it's just poorly configured or there might be a hardware problem? Not sure what else to tell you other than that, but I've always had great experiences with BSD.
If you like the idea of secure content sharing, but don't want the node limitation, check out REBOL desktop (www.rebol.com). Its not free but it works on a number of different platforms, has hooks for encryption and is made by the same guy who did most of the work on the Amiga OS, Carl Sassenrath, and I trust him way more than I trust AOL.
I've thought that ever since Voyager the writing completely sucks. I was very diheartened to see that B&B would be producing this series (since they basically pick the writers too).
Babylon 5, great example. Low budget FX great writing = Awesome series. Same can be said for the original Star Treak.
All the show really needs are new writers and producers. I hated Burman and the other dude when they bombed with Voyager. What made ANYONE think that they could do any better with Enterpise????
What I don't like about the Muvo is that they have the control features integrated into the storage device. The problem with this is that it makes it difficult to upgrade to a larger storage device. WTF?!
So basically we have a battery that produces energy by eating and digesting. What strikes me as funny, is that fact that all of the news reports leave out the mention of what comes next for all things that eat and digest...waste disposal. So I'm now going to have to carry a pooper-scooper and little plastic baggies for all of my battery powered items!?
No, I think that this is a terrible ruling and here's why: When a company has signed a contract with you to pay you x amount of money for a prescribed amount of services, i.e., your job description/duties, in effect what the contract is stipulating is that they pay you for this service and no more. This is not a contract that says "we own you for the duration of your employment." I say this because it is against US law to own someone. All that they can really claim is that they own what you do when you are at work. This is an especially obnoxious attitude for companies to take where the "idea" has absolutely no relation to what the company actually does. I can, however, understand this attitude where the company business and the new idea are in alignment, e.g., you work for a database company and you develop a new database something or other and want to make it for yourself. But for a company to basically say that they own "you" for the duration of your contract with them is nothing other than the buying and selling of people, which is, the last time I checked, illegal in America. It is a fundamentally flawed contract and I would attack it as such if I were in his position, but I would be smart enough to let a lawyer do it for me, like someone from the ACLU.
Yeah Democritus got himself into a pickle by proposing that the Universe consisted of nothing but atoms (real atoms not chemistry atoms) moving through space. But when everyone asked him to explain the movement part he balked. But that's understandable explaining how the Universe got moving is not an easy task. Anyway, good idea, way before it's usable time.
Yeah, now that you mention it, I remeber that they were called repeater sites. My Dad used to have a booklet with information on the repeater sites by state and county. I also remeber that they had the abillity to send Facsimiles, and that
was the first time that I had ever heard of those, even though I didn't know what a Fax was yet.
I remeber in the late 70's my Dad had a 2 meter mobile ham radio in his car and the mic had a touch-tone dial pad one side of it. If we were in range of 'cell' site he could "patch" in and make a telephone call, without any operator assistance.
Yeah, I used to work for the Medical Informatics Group in the University of Missouri Health Sciences Library. We provided IS services for Doctors, Professors and Health science students of all stripe. The Med. Students loved the Newton for its software that allowed them to efficiently track their patients. I'm surprised that it has taken Palm this long to catch on. That was back in 96-97.
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I understand your question; "why here?" but I think you're missing the point. Booth babes are just a small part of the larger phenomenon in American advertising, which is, "sex sells". You can see that in everything and everywhere, ads, TV shows, clothing, food, etc. I also happen to agree that it's a waste of advertising dollars, or maybe even development dollars, to spend money on the sex sells advertising campaign, but as long as Americans are "sex starved", I mean you can't even see any nudity on TV here, but you can see people getting killed (how wrong is that?), then you'll continue to see a glut of sex-based advertising.
What I dislike about the article, if you can actually call it that, is that it (too me at least) implies that there is something wrong with enjoying the sight of scantily clad women, which I don't happen to think that there is, whatever the reason.
Once again, we Americans are showing our puritanical roots, with the old credo, "Violence is ok, but anything to do with sex or sexuality is very shameful and bad!" So the companies use good looking women to attract attention to their products, wow, such crimes against humanity should not be allowed to persist in our "enlightened" society. Oh, by the way, pass me another beer while I watch a bunch of foreigners get blown up by our precision guided 500 pound bombs on CNN.
Sorry, but I think there are a lot of things to be upset about in this country of ours and booth babes are waaaaaaaaaaay down at the bottom of the list.
Too bad if it's permanently stuck, but what an amazing success for this mission, which has gone on far longer that it was planned for. I hope the NASA engineers get the recognition they deserver for this job well done.
God I hate it when people write in the first post, just to say that they have the first post!
Ahmen!
I'm so glad to know that our Homeland security forces are spending their time and resources wisely...
I read something like 1 terabit per square cm.
I can see the page just fine using Firefox 0.8
Hmmmm.... I don't know dude. I run Windows (all of them) and FreeBSD and OpenBSD and I've never experienced problems with the BSDs like you're describing. Honestly, I run my internet gateway (which serves as the router, nat, dhcp, dns, and stateful firewall) on OpenBSD with a Pentium 133 and 96 megs of ram and it's a champ. Maybe it's just poorly configured or there might be a hardware problem? Not sure what else to tell you other than that, but I've always had great experiences with BSD.
If you like the idea of secure content sharing, but don't want the node limitation, check out REBOL desktop (www.rebol.com). Its not free but it works on a number of different platforms, has hooks for encryption and is made by the same guy who did most of the work on the Amiga OS, Carl Sassenrath, and I trust him way more than I trust AOL.
AMEN Brother!!!
I've thought that ever since Voyager the writing completely sucks. I was very diheartened to see that B&B would be producing this series (since they basically pick the writers too).
Babylon 5, great example. Low budget FX great writing = Awesome series. Same can be said for the original Star Treak.
All the show really needs are new writers and producers. I hated Burman and the other dude when they bombed with Voyager. What made ANYONE think that they could do any better with Enterpise????
What I don't like about the Muvo is that they have
the control features integrated into the storage device. The problem with this is that it makes it
difficult to upgrade to a larger storage device. WTF?!
So basically we have a battery that produces energy by eating and digesting. What strikes me as funny, is that fact that all of the news reports leave out the mention of what comes next for all things that eat and digest...waste disposal. So I'm now going to have to carry a pooper-scooper and little plastic baggies for all of my battery powered items!?
Never really got into Pitfall, for me it was all about Jumpman on the 64.
No, I think that this is a terrible ruling and here's why: When a company has signed a contract with you to pay you x amount of money for a prescribed amount of services, i.e., your job description/duties, in effect what the contract is stipulating is that they pay you for this service and no more. This is not a contract that says "we own you for the duration of your employment." I say this because it is against US law to own someone.
All that they can really claim is that they own what you do when you are at work. This is an especially obnoxious attitude for companies to take where the "idea" has absolutely no relation to what the company actually does. I can, however, understand this attitude where the company business and the new idea are in alignment, e.g., you work for a database company and you develop a new database something or other and want to make it for yourself. But for a company to basically say that they own "you" for the duration of your contract with them is nothing other than the buying and selling of people, which is, the last time I checked, illegal in America. It is a fundamentally flawed contract and I would attack it as such if I were in his position, but I would be smart enough to let a lawyer do it for me, like someone from the ACLU.
Bad Idea!
Welcome to the United Fascist States of America.
Yeah Democritus got himself into a pickle by proposing that the Universe consisted of nothing but atoms (real atoms not chemistry atoms) moving through space. But when everyone asked him to explain the movement part he balked. But that's understandable explaining how the Universe got moving is not an easy task. Anyway, good idea, way before it's usable time.
Yeah, now that you mention it, I remeber that they were called repeater sites. My Dad used to have a booklet with information on the repeater sites by state and county. I also remeber that they had the abillity to send Facsimiles, and that was the first time that I had ever heard of those, even though I didn't know what a Fax was yet.
I remeber in the late 70's my Dad had a 2 meter mobile ham radio in his car and the mic had a touch-tone dial pad one side of it. If we were in range of 'cell' site he could "patch" in and make a telephone call, without any operator assistance.
Yeah, I used to work for the Medical Informatics Group in the University of Missouri Health Sciences Library. We provided IS services for Doctors, Professors and Health science students of all stripe. The Med. Students loved the Newton for its software that allowed them to efficiently track their patients. I'm surprised that it has taken Palm this long to catch on. That was back in 96-97.