The difference between "email" and "instant messaging" is a technical one, not a difference of substance. A statute that applies to "soliciting minors via phone lines" would almost certainly also be applied to cell phones, even if there's no "line" involved. "Electronic mail", as opposed to "email", is not such a specific phrase as to disinclude electronic forms of communication that are not "email", and it would be unreasonable to expect the state to come up with a new statute every time someone writes a new program and calls it something else.
The difference between "instent mesaging software" and "tty terminals" is even smaller. A letter like e-mail can easily be dismissed as junk and deleted, but IM services are far closer to a phone call than a letter. Phone calls are far more invasive than letters whether delivered electronicly or via the postal service. Letters and e-mails can be burned or deleted without reading it.
I'm not going to say the judge is wrong, only let's call it what it is. IMHO if you are going to scale a crime such as solisiting a minor, then I would rank IMs as high as phone calls, lower than face to face, but higher than letters or e-mail.
A large part of mathematics is being able to clearly communicate your reasoning to other people. Now mathematics does provide its own language and symbols to do a lot of that communication, however as someone who grades math papers, I am as sensitive to misuse of mathematical symbols as I am to misspelling and poor grammar, and I will mark people down for either if it is consistently poor (I will tolerate occasional mistakes). Any ambiguity introduced undermines the entire mathematical argument. Whether it "can be understood" is not enough - markers should not be required to try and figure out what a student meant: what they mean should be immediately clear, and that is an important part of the subject.
If I were to agree with you 100%, then I would have to say it's more important that pure sciences shift away from English and actually use a language used by most of the people on planet earth. Chinese is the 1st language of more people than English by a long shot. When you take into account those who use a writen language based on Chinese, we are talking billions.
But because the fact that planet earth does not speak 1 language, I would say being somewhat objective that English is better as a 2nd language because English because it is so analytical and has the highest tollerence for error.
I thought only the lyrics could be copywritten not musical notes. Is this not true? I seem to remember Weird Al getting into hot water from the Chili Peppers for taking their music and putting his lyrics to it but there was nothing they could do about it. So relating to the story if he was only playing the music not singing the lyrics how can he be in violation of anything?
Weird Al gets away with what he does because it's a parody is protected under free speech and is considered to be fair use. For the most part Weird Al gets permission from the artists involved, though for Amish Paradice IIRC there was a glitch up. I can't speak for Red Hot Chili Peppers. Most people are most pleased with his renderings. He's reasonably non-offencive, pretty much family friendly, and generally a whole bunch of fun.
I realize that Aussies love their vegemite, and Brits love their marmite, but for those of us who didn't grow up eating it, it's a substance worth confiscating at the border.
That stuff is just nasty.:-P
I prefer Vegemite to marmite my self, but find it easier to find marmite. I'm quite american... and I enjoy the stuff. It has a beefy character, and does make a fabulious diatary suppliment. As a bonus... it's a sure fire cure for hangovers. Add it to a stew, use it for breakfast, use it for those times where it's not an option to supliment your diet with a good weis beer. If you prefer taking pills... those are ok, but spent yeast is among the top things one should consider having in their diet.
Really? My understanding from my Star Wars loving friends was that the prequels could have been fantastic. Going into the fray they were all enthusiastic about the films. But, IMHO, it appears that it was the films themselves that killed their love for SW, not the concept of a prequel.
Well, the fans were well, morons. They were expecting something new when well they already knew the ending. To me... the prequels were just fine. We got to see the young Darth Vader on some backwater planet, a prodigy in danger of being undiscovered. We got to see events that lead up to the republic... what it was and how it came to be.... and we got a chance to see how the young Darth was lead to the dark side... not born evil but how a strong desire to do the right thing or protect the one you love can have unexpected results. They are enjoyed much in the same way as one enjoys Scott Adams's Dilbert.
For your money you get some backstory which really lets you wrap your mind around the characters of the first three films.
I'm not a "big" fan of Starwars, but I enjoyed it, even the prequels to a lesser extent. The remastered editions were something I caught in a buck theater. Pay full price for something I saw decades ago? That's a joke. Same with prequel #2 and #3.
I don't really enjoy George Lucus though. Back in the 1980s he was strongly anti-vcr. He was a big fan of presenting his material as "art" and protested that the ability to make copies lessens the value of his "art"... yet at the same time flooded the market with cheap action figures. Almost got VCRs banned in America... but once they were available he was perfectly willing to lessen the value of his art, who wouldn't. This issue isn't about the money... he should make money. The issue is him trying to stop what he can't wrap his head around, and right now he doesn't grasp the fact that we are wired, and average joe can download full DVDs off his cable connection faster than you can say get something from "netflix", and your average joe, wouldn't mind paying for it. The premium stations, a slew of them cost $40ish/month. Rentals cost anywhere from $1.00 to $5.00/flick. But we are talking a man who couldn't wrap his head around the idea that people were willing to shell out $50 to $100 for flicks that until that time were only shown in the theater, and in doing so he would make more money, selling something that otherwise wouldn't have been sold.
I actually bought myself an AM2 4200, after deciding I needed a new system (I used to have a 2.4 XP) - and seeing it was going to be the new thing, and that it wasn't much price difference. Perhaps at least I can offer some thoughts on actually having used it everyday and built it myself. Its a wonderful system imho. So what if it's not 5% faster than the previous model? Its not any more expensive.
I was in the same boat. My old AMD 2800+ XP was unstable as sin. I see this complaint often enough, it's not bad if you underclock it, but full steam it locks up. Blown memory controler is most likely. I went socket 939 and the dual core 3800+. I was already shelling out $150 for a motherboard, another $50 for a vid card, and what was it, $152.00 for the cpu ($175 today). I was already thoughtful had had matching DDR ram, and damned if after $350 I was going to shell out another $100 for ram.
I have this unwritten rule when I upgrade cpu/motherboard I shell out $300 +/- a few bucks, that and trickle down electronics. Not only would I have to shell out for motherboard and cpu and likely vid card for AM2, i'd have to shell out ram too, ram which won't fit my other machine the next time I upgrade. And hopefully have room for a cpu upgrade as well.... those are always a nice bonus.
see, I have really bad eyesight, and wearing expensive contact lenses is the only practical remedy to my disability. As you may or may not know, proper maintenance and desinfection with specific hypoallergic products is critical. The sterile products I need come in 120ml and 300ml bottles, so I cannot take them with me any more. Transferring them to smaller bottles is a big no-no. I don't want any unsterile or mislabeled product in my eyes.
I'm empathic, my uncorrected vision is bad as well. For me owning contacts means owning glasses as well so I can see where I put the damn contacts. Adjusting to glasses from contacts takes me a day or two. For those who don't understand, imagine trying to adjust to walking around with a fishbowl. I don't know your isssue, but I am empathetic.
Airports, specificly airlines, employ people to assist disabled travlers which include those who are legaly blind. While I don't know the EU, I would be shocked if they didn't have a clear defination of what "blind" is, and I would be more shocked they wouldn't render aid to you because you can't see without your contacts. If I still wore contacts, I could make it through an unfamilar airport switching to glasses that day with only a minor issue of dizzyness which is to be exptected putting a fishbowl on one's head. No vision correction... I would at least need someone to point the way to the right signs.
Now... I am shocked you can't get your lens solutions in sizes of smaller than 120mm... my local chemest carries travel sized versions. You can use plain saline solution in almost all cases, and a good cleaning and the use of heat can sterilize when transfering from vessle to vessle, and the more chemical solutions sterilize them selves. But... if you don't like makeshift solutions for your eyecare products... I doubt they could argue with a contact lens case... and by all means fly blind with an escort. There is no shame in doing so, it's a good active protest, and odds are the law would be on your side.
Wow. When I was 12 we were learning the basics of how to write an essay, look up stuff in the library, and how to organize a paper.
PowerPoint just seems totally wrong for kids in middle school. Teach 'em the foundations, they're gonna need them. They have the whole rest of their lives to get RSI.
I'm trying to remember age 12 education. I seem to remember dioramas were very popular, where ages 13 to 14 they seemed to fade away. I can't say i'm a big fan of diorama, and one is probally more likely to use powerpoint than make a diorama later in life, but I respect the fact that artistic skills are important just like communication skills. Being able to consume a book, find the climax, and depict the scene, this important. Being able to write take an essey on a relativly dry subject and create a slideshow presention of it, that too is useful. We live in an age of too much information, and anything to index this information is essental.
My memory of 12 is writing a basic essay, lookup stuff in a library, organizing a paper, and making a damned diorama using clay and tiny little people. At this stage of development, I'd rather see a them working with slides.
Some writers to a good job, but it seems that articles of fact should cite where those facts come from
I could not agree more. One issue is the fact that wiki is not a citable source at many accidemic institutions, but having clear sited sources. At times even when people are corrected, they don't bother updating wiki.
Here is a case where a man seems to remember an Episode of Urusei Yatsura, an odd ball 80s Japanese animation series, which seemed to pay hommage to Bruce Lee in the form of a yellow tracksuit. At least in the Animigo dvd edtion, the tracksuit seems to be most orange. Now I'm all for sighting pop cultural references, and given my experence with this series it would not shock me if this is a Bruce Lee reference... but after asking wiser authorities on the subject... like those who actually had a copy of the episode... and after seeing a screenshot where it was clearly orange... the gent didn't take the time to correct it. While this trivial even for trivia, it seems to me that without a more authorative source such as the person who wrote the manga or scripted the anime, it seems that one shouldn't say with absolute certainty this is a bruce lee reference. I've not corrected it my self as I can't say with any honesty that this orange jumpsuit is or is not a Bruce Lee reference.
That's all well and good, except for the fact that most hard drives purchaced these days have a mfg date and default warranty experation date. You could get lucky and find a drive old enough to fool the court, but not very likely.
Seriously, who friggin' cares about HD. I'm certainly not excited. I see it as something that people use to show off to their friends - "look at me, I have a 42 inch HD display!!!" I know HD content looks a little more stunning, crisp, and vivid, but standard definition is just fine for most people. It's not like there's distortion or noise like in the analog days. The little compressions artifacts you can see in DVDs are tolerable, even when displayed on a large screen.
You can get HDTV on a sub 35 inch CRT. This is not an issue. It's reached the point that I am considering a 30 inch HDTV. Given the choice between bluray, hddvd, or HD-WMV... HD-WMV sort of wins in terms of price. I can get a laptop which will do it for under $1000 with handy dandy front media controls, and it's a laptop to boot. But presently I only have an AMD 2800+... and i'd be most annoyed if I have to upgrade at this point just so I can play HD media... when I already have enough power to do it.
I think some of us are a little too US-centric here: The Doctor has been around far longer ('63-'89, '05-present)
is the longest-running SF show on American television."
They said "American Television". Just like when talking about Doctor Who one tends to say the longest airing sci-fi series. I don't know what the longest airing series is off the top of my head... the first thing that comes to mind is "Days of our lives" starting in 1965 and so far as i'm aware still in production. Apparently they have just done their 10,000th episode in feb 2005, which is hard to believe but I guess they produce 5 episodes a week for over 40 years. Soaps tend to be disqualified from such references, but 40+ years and 10,000+ episodes is worthy of note. Thanks to wiki I now know Guiding light beets even this going on 15,000 TV episodes not to speak of radio episodes. NBCs "Meet the press" has been airing since 1947, granted it's non-fiction but worthy of note. Also worthy of note is BBC's "Blue Beter", a children's program running between 1958 and 1995.
Doctor Who probally wins in the sci-fi catagory, and apparently Stargate sg-1 wins in the US sci-fi catagory.
Also see this ( # Gunsmoke 633 (1955-1975) # Lassie 588 (1954-1973)
it is an interesting point though, Line 6 didn't defend, so couldn't it be claimed that the "POD" is already in the public domain? in which case what are Apple defending? or does trademark law work in such a way that they can effectively steal one by defending it when another company doesn't?
You would *think* that "Apple" would be in the public domain, but Apple corps... the parent company to Apple records IIRC, did take exception to Apple computer using "Apple". I don't honestly know "all" the details but I was under the impression that Apple Computer settled with Apple Corps and agreed not to enter the music business, something that changed when sound and midi came of age, and Apple Computer settled again and agreed to either not sell music it self, or not sell pre-packaged music. The itunes store is presently seen as a violation to the agreement between Apple Computer and Apple Corps by Apple Corps, though the most recent ruling saw no tradmark infringement.
So you have Apple Corps, parent company to Apple Records, a label created by The Beatles (IIRC) who activly signed artists and sold albums distrubted though EMI and Capital records. You then have Apple Computer, named after people who were fans of the Beatles. You now have Apple Computer who make music players, and sell music... and this other obscure company in the UK which from time to time issues new editions of Beatles albums.
In this example, it seems one can steal a trademark... outright.
Wouldn't it really freak out the scientists if Voyager disappeared from 'view' and then later started to come towards us again from the opposite direction!!!
I'm sorry, but that's a horrible example. No public school would deny office phones to kids who need to call for a ride home. I'm not saying I don't think there are benefits to giving children cell phones, but that scenario is not a valid reason.
I think I said "not without a hassle", and when the office closes it's doors, well your screwed on campus without a phone. Trust me I would have prefered if if they flat out permited the kids to use their phones, that would have prevent collect calls from a pay phone when they actually "had" a payphone.
Yes, it's nuts. When I was at this school they at the very least provided a regular phone which was specificly for the students to use to say "come pick me up". The line was typicaly long, but it was an acceptable solution. They had the normal issues of kids dialing phone sex lines, got pay number blocking, problems with toll calls but made it local only, but they decided it was too much hassle.
You would "THINK" they would know better, but to use a Douglas Adams concept, people generate a Somebody Else's Problem field. They in their wisdom decided to get rid of their student phone and routed the kids to the payphone, and well got rid of the payphone. The ONLY way for kids there to make that come pick me up call after 3:30pm is with a cell phone, or use the computer lab and text/email.
It's just bad parenting to not tell your kids what to do when they get lost or to rely on electronics like phones (which will break given enough time with any kid) instead of relying on "go hit the nearest info booth or lost and found and wait there" like normal people. I got seperated plenty of times as a kid and that never failed to work, especially at large places where Information has a PA system.
I'm trying to think what places have such an info booth. The local mall when I was a kid didn't have such a thing. They did have a small police station, but it was not really well documented or located where one could easily find it, and 100% impossible from the inside. I helped a lost kid find it... I also helped the parents find it as well. (Yes, the only way in is outside, no there is no sign, yes there should be). This might not be the norm.
But bad parenting? Giving a child a tool to be used in the unlikely event of an emergency and teaching them the responcible use of that tool seems most reasonable and sane. While not 100% reliable I can think of dozens of situations where this could save a kid's ass. Shit happens from broken legs, falling from a tree, getting hit by a car, or getting lost in a park. But the problem isn't the typical stuff, but the shit you CAN'T think of.
Most people had phones at their homes...also, it pretty much verified WHERE I was too.
No cell phones needed...
I'm more and more with others on this thread. When the kid is able to work, and PAY for their own minutes used....cool, they can get a cell phone.
Most people have phones, this is true. But not all places have public phones. For example, my nieces and newphews often needed a ride home from school. At first they had a standard phone which could be used for this unlikely event, but they got rid of that. There was a payphone which resulted in annoying collect calls, but the school in their wisdom got rid of that too. Sure there "were" office phones... but it's not like they "let" you use them, well not without a major hassle, and even then this would only work until they lock their doors. So the only legit option was a mobile phone, or a messanger service.
I know it sounds nutty, schools which have afterschool activities with variable exit times and not providing the kids with a means of contacting the outside world with the exception of the 911 on the office intraphone system.
Yes, but they paid for those to be sent to you. It did not cost you anything to receive them. With email, you pay a portion of the cost of the email they send.
But those AOL CDs do cost money to throw away, even if you live in a city with free trash pickup, or you take these CDs to someone else's trashbin, or you donate them to goodwill. It's petty to think about, your end expence to toss them is rather small, but think about how many of those suckers are in the landfill and how much space they occcupy, and how long they take to decompose.
It wasn't so bad when they offered their software in the DVD long box, but the current pack is practicaly unuseable in any practical way.
In Spanish, it is very common to type in all caps - somehow it is considered acceptable to type words without accent marks if they are in all caps.
Only point being is that just because the caps lock is not useful in your language/culture, it doesn't mean that other languages/cultures don't find it useful.
I don't know about spanish, but I know using the Microsoft Japanese IME... you can easily switch between roman charaters and hiragana by using shift capslock. That's not just a little bit handy... that's super duper handy.
Warner and BMI confirmed for the BBC that they've been in discussions with YouTube. That's a far cry from saying they confirmed that they've agreed to distribute music videos through YouTube.
Not only this but often times things get stuck in a sort of copyright hell. I seem to recall a band called Dumptruck who had a contract with a record company which expired (now-defunct Big Time), and they made the choice to switch labels. Again rather than do the right thing and negotiate they started a bogus lawsuit, one which they never actually went to court over, and no label would pickup a band who has an active lawsuit against them. Again, this information is based on memory of the mid 80s and is subject to error, but the point is clear. Actuall info is here. There is material outthere that is presently is copyright hell, where the rights are being disputed or the studios would rather let sit collect dust in the vault out of spite than release.
Not to speak of the fact that if youtube releases all music videos, there would be no reason to buy crappy 80s compilations.
will the videos be censored? i never understood why videos on the various video channels are censored so heavily. even late night shows are censored despite being on cable televison. i want to see videos without t-shirts being blurred out and half the song missing lyrics
Cable does not have to comply to the same rules as terrestrial broadcast stations. However videos on various video channels tend to target the teen crowd, and the last thing you want is for someone to say to their kids "you can't watch this station". Also, censoring things tends to make it more desireable to go out and buy the CD which is uncensored.
Rapes happen. But there are almost always mitigating circumstances. Victim is at a wild party. Victim is drunk, with strangers. Victim is alone and in an isolated/vulnerable location. Victim is involved with unusual sexual activity, or has provoked an obviously aggressive party. Et cetera. Rare is the rape that's truly random.
I imagine that in the case of rape, the rapist is someone the victim knows. But I can't imagine punishing someone who was raped. That's is with all due respect, wacked. While i'm not a parent, I imagine that one should take a proactive stance and make kids aware such things. With a lack of life experence, one must give one's own experence. And kids are bound to make mistakes, that is part of the learning experence. But there are acceptable consequences to one's actions and unacceptable ones. Rape is not an acceptable consenquence.
Someone else pointed out something regarding family rape. Would it be your fault that Uncle Buck molested your kids? Would it be your kid's fault? Should you be punished in this unlikely event? Should your kids.
I believe that you just restated the exact same thing as the post to which you replied (see "Literal : You well ma == ?" in that post). That being said, if you want to correct the post to which you replied, you should have probably picked upon the fact that the poster neglected to include the tone marks (specifically, the numbers associated with them in PinYin).
Yes, it looks like Slashdot doesn't permit the use these characters, specificly the vowels with the accent marks, so one should if they have a clue gone with... I believe ni(3) hao(3) ma? (i and a with inverse ^) is correct for Mandarin, where if you were using njstar's Cantonese input you would type in "Nei ho ma?" IIRC.
As far as a translation, my favorite has always been "You good, 'eh?", not to poke too much fun at Canadians but the popular use of the Canadian English interrogative particle "'eh?" is a good way to communicate exactly what the words mean.
But as for the poster, they were close enough to being correct. The problem in looking up such details is books tend to list Chinese as a single language, and not specificly say which particular Chinese one is talking about, and the phrase "ni hao ma?" tends to be listed without the tone marks, as is normal for Chinglish.
Why?
I turned up at Luton for a flight 1.5hrs in advance of the flight. There were big queues but I waited in line. When I got to the fron of the queue it was 30 mins before the scheduled take off time for the flight. I was told that I was too late for the flight and it had closed. No matter what I said the staff would not let me onto the flight.
IMHO, all they care about is getting your money and the really don't care about customer service. They have got your money and thats it.
You know, I just looked on their site, and it looks like you can get a flight through them from London Luten to Warsaw for $33 euros each way. It looks like over 1/4 the cost of anyone else including British air and LOT.
If they got your money, and can send you between eastern and western europe for about 20 quid, I don't think I would care if they call me a complete knee biter.
What airlines are you flying that have no free drinks? Heck, even Southwest has all the free drinks you want, and they're a barebones carrier....
The last airline I flew was united, and while drinks were still "free" they were talking how drinks were no longer going to be free. I should have been more clear. Let me try again...
Lately there has been a trend to cut amenities which were priviously included in the ticket price. This presently includes meals, and my last flight the only food which was offered was of their snackbox collection which was $5.00. This was disapointing as it was a flight over 5 hours over 2100miles which technicaly should have an an option for a Sandwich or a Salad, also $5.00, unless TED doesn't get those things.
But regardless of whether they charge for soft drinks or not, it's a hassle getting drinks, and when you do finally get a drink, it's served in a tiny cup, with i'd guess 2 oz of ice, and 2oz of drink. Even on a 4hr flight this is a tad annoying. Bringing your own drink, even just water saves alot of hassle, esp when you need your ears to pop.
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The difference between "email" and "instant messaging" is a technical one, not a difference of substance. A statute that applies to "soliciting minors via phone lines" would almost certainly also be applied to cell phones, even if there's no "line" involved. "Electronic mail", as opposed to "email", is not such a specific phrase as to disinclude electronic forms of communication that are not "email", and it would be unreasonable to expect the state to come up with a new statute every time someone writes a new program and calls it something else.
The difference between "instent mesaging software" and "tty terminals" is even smaller. A letter like e-mail can easily be dismissed as junk and deleted, but IM services are far closer to a phone call than a letter. Phone calls are far more invasive than letters whether delivered electronicly or via the postal service. Letters and e-mails can be burned or deleted without reading it.
I'm not going to say the judge is wrong, only let's call it what it is. IMHO if you are going to scale a crime such as solisiting a minor, then I would rank IMs as high as phone calls, lower than face to face, but higher than letters or e-mail.
A large part of mathematics is being able to clearly communicate your reasoning to other people. Now mathematics does provide its own language and symbols to do a lot of that communication, however as someone who grades math papers, I am as sensitive to misuse of mathematical symbols as I am to misspelling and poor grammar, and I will mark people down for either if it is consistently poor (I will tolerate occasional mistakes). Any ambiguity introduced undermines the entire mathematical argument. Whether it "can be understood" is not enough - markers should not be required to try and figure out what a student meant: what they mean should be immediately clear, and that is an important part of the subject.
If I were to agree with you 100%, then I would have to say it's more important that pure sciences shift away from English and actually use a language used by most of the people on planet earth. Chinese is the 1st language of more people than English by a long shot. When you take into account those who use a writen language based on Chinese, we are talking billions.
But because the fact that planet earth does not speak 1 language, I would say being somewhat objective that English is better as a 2nd language because English because it is so analytical and has the highest tollerence for error.
I thought only the lyrics could be copywritten not musical notes. Is this not true? I seem to remember Weird Al getting into hot water from the Chili Peppers for taking their music and putting his lyrics to it but there was nothing they could do about it. So relating to the story if he was only playing the music not singing the lyrics how can he be in violation of anything?
Weird Al gets away with what he does because it's a parody is protected under free speech and is considered to be fair use. For the most part Weird Al gets permission from the artists involved, though for Amish Paradice IIRC there was a glitch up. I can't speak for Red Hot Chili Peppers. Most people are most pleased with his renderings. He's reasonably non-offencive, pretty much family friendly, and generally a whole bunch of fun.
I realize that Aussies love their vegemite, and Brits love their marmite, but for those of us who didn't grow up eating it, it's a substance worth confiscating at the border.
:-P
That stuff is just nasty.
I prefer Vegemite to marmite my self, but find it easier to find marmite. I'm quite american... and I enjoy the stuff. It has a beefy character, and does make a fabulious diatary suppliment. As a bonus... it's a sure fire cure for hangovers. Add it to a stew, use it for breakfast, use it for those times where it's not an option to supliment your diet with a good weis beer. If you prefer taking pills... those are ok, but spent yeast is among the top things one should consider having in their diet.
Really? My understanding from my Star Wars loving friends was that the prequels could have been fantastic. Going into the fray they were all enthusiastic about the films. But, IMHO, it appears that it was the films themselves that killed their love for SW, not the concept of a prequel.
Well, the fans were well, morons. They were expecting something new when well they already knew the ending. To me... the prequels were just fine. We got to see the young Darth Vader on some backwater planet, a prodigy in danger of being undiscovered. We got to see events that lead up to the republic... what it was and how it came to be.... and we got a chance to see how the young Darth was lead to the dark side... not born evil but how a strong desire to do the right thing or protect the one you love can have unexpected results. They are enjoyed much in the same way as one enjoys Scott Adams's Dilbert.
For your money you get some backstory which really lets you wrap your mind around the characters of the first three films.
I'm not a "big" fan of Starwars, but I enjoyed it, even the prequels to a lesser extent. The remastered editions were something I caught in a buck theater. Pay full price for something I saw decades ago? That's a joke. Same with prequel #2 and #3.
I don't really enjoy George Lucus though. Back in the 1980s he was strongly anti-vcr. He was a big fan of presenting his material as "art" and protested that the ability to make copies lessens the value of his "art"... yet at the same time flooded the market with cheap action figures. Almost got VCRs banned in America... but once they were available he was perfectly willing to lessen the value of his art, who wouldn't. This issue isn't about the money... he should make money. The issue is him trying to stop what he can't wrap his head around, and right now he doesn't grasp the fact that we are wired, and average joe can download full DVDs off his cable connection faster than you can say get something from "netflix", and your average joe, wouldn't mind paying for it. The premium stations, a slew of them cost $40ish/month. Rentals cost anywhere from $1.00 to $5.00/flick. But we are talking a man who couldn't wrap his head around the idea that people were willing to shell out $50 to $100 for flicks that until that time were only shown in the theater, and in doing so he would make more money, selling something that otherwise wouldn't have been sold.
I actually bought myself an AM2 4200, after deciding I needed a new system (I used to have a 2.4 XP) - and seeing it was going to be the new thing, and that it wasn't much price difference. Perhaps at least I can offer some thoughts on actually having used it everyday and built it myself. Its a wonderful system imho. So what if it's not 5% faster than the previous model? Its not any more expensive.
I was in the same boat. My old AMD 2800+ XP was unstable as sin. I see this complaint often enough, it's not bad if you underclock it, but full steam it locks up. Blown memory controler is most likely. I went socket 939 and the dual core 3800+. I was already shelling out $150 for a motherboard, another $50 for a vid card, and what was it, $152.00 for the cpu ($175 today). I was already thoughtful had had matching DDR ram, and damned if after $350 I was going to shell out another $100 for ram.
I have this unwritten rule when I upgrade cpu/motherboard I shell out $300 +/- a few bucks, that and trickle down electronics. Not only would I have to shell out for motherboard and cpu and likely vid card for AM2, i'd have to shell out ram too, ram which won't fit my other machine the next time I upgrade. And hopefully have room for a cpu upgrade as well.... those are always a nice bonus.
see, I have really bad eyesight, and wearing expensive contact lenses is the only practical remedy to my disability. As you may or may not know, proper maintenance and desinfection with specific hypoallergic products is critical. The sterile products I need come in 120ml and 300ml bottles, so I cannot take them with me any more. Transferring them to smaller bottles is a big no-no. I don't want any unsterile or mislabeled product in my eyes.
I'm empathic, my uncorrected vision is bad as well. For me owning contacts means owning glasses as well so I can see where I put the damn contacts. Adjusting to glasses from contacts takes me a day or two. For those who don't understand, imagine trying to adjust to walking around with a fishbowl. I don't know your isssue, but I am empathetic.
Airports, specificly airlines, employ people to assist disabled travlers which include those who are legaly blind. While I don't know the EU, I would be shocked if they didn't have a clear defination of what "blind" is, and I would be more shocked they wouldn't render aid to you because you can't see without your contacts. If I still wore contacts, I could make it through an unfamilar airport switching to glasses that day with only a minor issue of dizzyness which is to be exptected putting a fishbowl on one's head. No vision correction... I would at least need someone to point the way to the right signs.
Now... I am shocked you can't get your lens solutions in sizes of smaller than 120mm... my local chemest carries travel sized versions. You can use plain saline solution in almost all cases, and a good cleaning and the use of heat can sterilize when transfering from vessle to vessle, and the more chemical solutions sterilize them selves. But... if you don't like makeshift solutions for your eyecare products... I doubt they could argue with a contact lens case... and by all means fly blind with an escort. There is no shame in doing so, it's a good active protest, and odds are the law would be on your side.
A twelve-year-old making PowerPoint slides???
Wow. When I was 12 we were learning the basics of how to write an essay, look up stuff in the library, and how to organize a paper.
PowerPoint just seems totally wrong for kids in middle school. Teach 'em the foundations, they're gonna need them. They have the whole rest of their lives to get RSI.
I'm trying to remember age 12 education. I seem to remember dioramas were very popular, where ages 13 to 14 they seemed to fade away. I can't say i'm a big fan of diorama, and one is probally more likely to use powerpoint than make a diorama later in life, but I respect the fact that artistic skills are important just like communication skills. Being able to consume a book, find the climax, and depict the scene, this important. Being able to write take an essey on a relativly dry subject and create a slideshow presention of it, that too is useful. We live in an age of too much information, and anything to index this information is essental.
My memory of 12 is writing a basic essay, lookup stuff in a library, organizing a paper, and making a damned diorama using clay and tiny little people. At this stage of development, I'd rather see a them working with slides.
Some writers to a good job, but it seems that articles of fact should cite where those facts come from
I could not agree more. One issue is the fact that wiki is not a citable source at many accidemic institutions, but having clear sited sources. At times even when people are corrected, they don't bother updating wiki.
Case in point
Here is a case where a man seems to remember an Episode of Urusei Yatsura, an odd ball 80s Japanese animation series, which seemed to pay hommage to Bruce Lee in the form of a yellow tracksuit. At least in the Animigo dvd edtion, the tracksuit seems to be most orange. Now I'm all for sighting pop cultural references, and given my experence with this series it would not shock me if this is a Bruce Lee reference... but after asking wiser authorities on the subject... like those who actually had a copy of the episode... and after seeing a screenshot where it was clearly orange... the gent didn't take the time to correct it. While this trivial even for trivia, it seems to me that without a more authorative source such as the person who wrote the manga or scripted the anime, it seems that one shouldn't say with absolute certainty this is a bruce lee reference. I've not corrected it my self as I can't say with any honesty that this orange jumpsuit is or is not a Bruce Lee reference.
What she should have done is:
3. buy a new drive and format it
That's all well and good, except for the fact that most hard drives purchaced these days have a mfg date and default warranty experation date. You could get lucky and find a drive old enough to fool the court, but not very likely.
Seriously, who friggin' cares about HD. I'm certainly not excited. I see it as something that people use to show off to their friends - "look at me, I have a 42 inch HD display!!!" I know HD content looks a little more stunning, crisp, and vivid, but standard definition is just fine for most people. It's not like there's distortion or noise like in the analog days. The little compressions artifacts you can see in DVDs are tolerable, even when displayed on a large screen.
You can get HDTV on a sub 35 inch CRT. This is not an issue. It's reached the point that I am considering a 30 inch HDTV. Given the choice between bluray, hddvd, or HD-WMV... HD-WMV sort of wins in terms of price. I can get a laptop which will do it for under $1000 with handy dandy front media controls, and it's a laptop to boot. But presently I only have an AMD 2800+... and i'd be most annoyed if I have to upgrade at this point just so I can play HD media... when I already have enough power to do it.
I think some of us are a little too US-centric here: The Doctor has been around far longer ('63-'89, '05-present)
They said "American Television". Just like when talking about Doctor Who one tends to say the longest airing sci-fi series. I don't know what the longest airing series is off the top of my head... the first thing that comes to mind is "Days of our lives" starting in 1965 and so far as i'm aware still in production. Apparently they have just done their 10,000th episode in feb 2005, which is hard to believe but I guess they produce 5 episodes a week for over 40 years. Soaps tend to be disqualified from such references, but 40+ years and 10,000+ episodes is worthy of note. Thanks to wiki I now know Guiding light beets even this going on 15,000 TV episodes not to speak of radio episodes. NBCs "Meet the press" has been airing since 1947, granted it's non-fiction but worthy of note. Also worthy of note is BBC's "Blue Beter", a children's program running between 1958 and 1995.
Doctor Who probally wins in the sci-fi catagory, and apparently Stargate sg-1 wins in the US sci-fi catagory.
Also see this (
# Gunsmoke 633 (1955-1975)
# Lassie 588 (1954-1973)
it is an interesting point though, Line 6 didn't defend, so couldn't it be claimed that the "POD" is already in the public domain? in which case what are Apple defending? or does trademark law work in such a way that they can effectively steal one by defending it when another company doesn't?
You would *think* that "Apple" would be in the public domain, but Apple corps... the parent company to Apple records IIRC, did take exception to Apple computer using "Apple". I don't honestly know "all" the details but I was under the impression that Apple Computer settled with Apple Corps and agreed not to enter the music business, something that changed when sound and midi came of age, and Apple Computer settled again and agreed to either not sell music it self, or not sell pre-packaged music. The itunes store is presently seen as a violation to the agreement between Apple Computer and Apple Corps by Apple Corps, though the most recent ruling saw no tradmark infringement.
So you have Apple Corps, parent company to Apple Records, a label created by The Beatles (IIRC) who activly signed artists and sold albums distrubted though EMI and Capital records. You then have Apple Computer, named after people who were fans of the Beatles. You now have Apple Computer who make music players, and sell music... and this other obscure company in the UK which from time to time issues new editions of Beatles albums.
In this example, it seems one can steal a trademark... outright.
Wouldn't it really freak out the scientists if Voyager disappeared from 'view' and then later started to come towards us again from the opposite direction!!!
Voyager I does not contain an AOL CD.
I'm sorry, but that's a horrible example. No public school would deny office phones to kids who need to call for a ride home. I'm not saying I don't think there are benefits to giving children cell phones, but that scenario is not a valid reason.
I think I said "not without a hassle", and when the office closes it's doors, well your screwed on campus without a phone. Trust me I would have prefered if if they flat out permited the kids to use their phones, that would have prevent collect calls from a pay phone when they actually "had" a payphone.
Yes, it's nuts. When I was at this school they at the very least provided a regular phone which was specificly for the students to use to say "come pick me up". The line was typicaly long, but it was an acceptable solution. They had the normal issues of kids dialing phone sex lines, got pay number blocking, problems with toll calls but made it local only, but they decided it was too much hassle.
You would "THINK" they would know better, but to use a Douglas Adams concept, people generate a Somebody Else's Problem field. They in their wisdom decided to get rid of their student phone and routed the kids to the payphone, and well got rid of the payphone. The ONLY way for kids there to make that come pick me up call after 3:30pm is with a cell phone, or use the computer lab and text/email.
It's just bad parenting to not tell your kids what to do when they get lost or to rely on electronics like phones (which will break given enough time with any kid) instead of relying on "go hit the nearest info booth or lost and found and wait there" like normal people. I got seperated plenty of times as a kid and that never failed to work, especially at large places where Information has a PA system.
I'm trying to think what places have such an info booth. The local mall when I was a kid didn't have such a thing. They did have a small police station, but it was not really well documented or located where one could easily find it, and 100% impossible from the inside. I helped a lost kid find it... I also helped the parents find it as well. (Yes, the only way in is outside, no there is no sign, yes there should be). This might not be the norm.
But bad parenting? Giving a child a tool to be used in the unlikely event of an emergency and teaching them the responcible use of that tool seems most reasonable and sane. While not 100% reliable I can think of dozens of situations where this could save a kid's ass. Shit happens from broken legs, falling from a tree, getting hit by a car, or getting lost in a park. But the problem isn't the typical stuff, but the shit you CAN'T think of.
Most people had phones at their homes...also, it pretty much verified WHERE I was too.
No cell phones needed...
I'm more and more with others on this thread. When the kid is able to work, and PAY for their own minutes used....cool, they can get a cell phone.
Most people have phones, this is true. But not all places have public phones. For example, my nieces and newphews often needed a ride home from school. At first they had a standard phone which could be used for this unlikely event, but they got rid of that. There was a payphone which resulted in annoying collect calls, but the school in their wisdom got rid of that too. Sure there "were" office phones... but it's not like they "let" you use them, well not without a major hassle, and even then this would only work until they lock their doors. So the only legit option was a mobile phone, or a messanger service.
I know it sounds nutty, schools which have afterschool activities with variable exit times and not providing the kids with a means of contacting the outside world with the exception of the 911 on the office intraphone system.
Payphone are disapearing, unfortunatly.
Yes, but they paid for those to be sent to you. It did not cost you anything to receive them. With email, you pay a portion of the cost of the email they send.
But those AOL CDs do cost money to throw away, even if you live in a city with free trash pickup, or you take these CDs to someone else's trashbin, or you donate them to goodwill. It's petty to think about, your end expence to toss them is rather small, but think about how many of those suckers are in the landfill and how much space they occcupy, and how long they take to decompose.
It wasn't so bad when they offered their software in the DVD long box, but the current pack is practicaly unuseable in any practical way.
In Spanish, it is very common to type in all caps - somehow it is considered acceptable to type words without accent marks if they are in all caps.
Only point being is that just because the caps lock is not useful in your language/culture, it doesn't mean that other languages/cultures don't find it useful.
I don't know about spanish, but I know using the Microsoft Japanese IME... you can easily switch between roman charaters and hiragana by using shift capslock. That's not just a little bit handy... that's super duper handy.
Warner and BMI confirmed for the BBC that they've been in discussions with YouTube. That's a far cry from saying they confirmed that they've agreed to distribute music videos through YouTube.
Not only this but often times things get stuck in a sort of copyright hell. I seem to recall a band called Dumptruck who had a contract with a record company which expired (now-defunct Big Time), and they made the choice to switch labels. Again rather than do the right thing and negotiate they started a bogus lawsuit, one which they never actually went to court over, and no label would pickup a band who has an active lawsuit against them. Again, this information is based on memory of the mid 80s and is subject to error, but the point is clear. Actuall info is here. There is material outthere that is presently is copyright hell, where the rights are being disputed or the studios would rather let sit collect dust in the vault out of spite than release.
Not to speak of the fact that if youtube releases all music videos, there would be no reason to buy crappy 80s compilations.
will the videos be censored? i never understood why videos on the various video channels are censored so heavily. even late night shows are censored despite being on cable televison. i want to see videos without t-shirts being blurred out and half the song missing lyrics
Cable does not have to comply to the same rules as terrestrial broadcast stations. However videos on various video channels tend to target the teen crowd, and the last thing you want is for someone to say to their kids "you can't watch this station". Also, censoring things tends to make it more desireable to go out and buy the CD which is uncensored.
Emphasis on usually.
Rapes happen. But there are almost always mitigating circumstances. Victim is at a wild party. Victim is drunk, with strangers. Victim is alone and in an isolated/vulnerable location. Victim is involved with unusual sexual activity, or has provoked an obviously aggressive party. Et cetera. Rare is the rape that's truly random.
I imagine that in the case of rape, the rapist is someone the victim knows. But I can't imagine punishing someone who was raped. That's is with all due respect, wacked. While i'm not a parent, I imagine that one should take a proactive stance and make kids aware such things. With a lack of life experence, one must give one's own experence. And kids are bound to make mistakes, that is part of the learning experence. But there are acceptable consequences to one's actions and unacceptable ones. Rape is not an acceptable consenquence.
Someone else pointed out something regarding family rape. Would it be your fault that Uncle Buck molested your kids? Would it be your kid's fault? Should you be punished in this unlikely event? Should your kids.
I believe that you just restated the exact same thing as the post to which you replied (see "Literal : You well
ma == ?" in that post). That being said, if you want to correct the post to which you replied, you should have probably picked upon the fact that the poster neglected to include the tone marks (specifically, the numbers associated with them in PinYin).
Yes, it looks like Slashdot doesn't permit the use these characters, specificly the vowels with the accent marks, so one should if they have a clue gone with... I believe ni(3) hao(3) ma? (i and a with inverse ^) is correct for Mandarin, where if you were using njstar's Cantonese input you would type in "Nei ho ma?" IIRC.
As far as a translation, my favorite has always been "You good, 'eh?", not to poke too much fun at Canadians but the popular use of the Canadian English interrogative particle "'eh?" is a good way to communicate exactly what the words mean.
But as for the poster, they were close enough to being correct. The problem in looking up such details is books tend to list Chinese as a single language, and not specificly say which particular Chinese one is talking about, and the phrase "ni hao ma?" tends to be listed without the tone marks, as is normal for Chinglish.
Why?
I turned up at Luton for a flight 1.5hrs in advance of the flight. There were big queues but I waited in line.
When I got to the fron of the queue it was 30 mins before the scheduled take off time for the flight.
I was told that I was too late for the flight and it had closed.
No matter what I said the staff would not let me onto the flight.
IMHO, all they care about is getting your money and the really don't care about customer service. They have got your money and thats it.
You know, I just looked on their site, and it looks like you can get a flight through them from London Luten to Warsaw for $33 euros each way. It looks like over 1/4 the cost of anyone else including British air and LOT.
If they got your money, and can send you between eastern and western europe for about 20 quid, I don't think I would care if they call me a complete knee biter.
What airlines are you flying that have no free drinks? Heck, even Southwest has all the free drinks you want, and they're a barebones carrier....
The last airline I flew was united, and while drinks were still "free" they were talking how drinks were no longer going to be free. I should have been more clear. Let me try again...
Lately there has been a trend to cut amenities which were priviously included in the ticket price. This presently includes meals, and my last flight the only food which was offered was of their snackbox collection which was $5.00. This was disapointing as it was a flight over 5 hours over 2100miles which technicaly should have an an option for a Sandwich or a Salad, also $5.00, unless TED doesn't get those things.
But regardless of whether they charge for soft drinks or not, it's a hassle getting drinks, and when you do finally get a drink, it's served in a tiny cup, with i'd guess 2 oz of ice, and 2oz of drink. Even on a 4hr flight this is a tad annoying. Bringing your own drink, even just water saves alot of hassle, esp when you need your ears to pop.