Really, I can't think of very many times I've ever had to carry any liquids on board with me? I pack all toiletries in my checked luggage, can't imagine I'd have use for them in carry on. What do you need really in the cabin that is liquid?
Water, water is nice. Gettings drinks from the stewerdess is a hassle and lately nothing is included in the ticket price. Often they don't "have" water except in the bathroom, it's uncommon to have none but common for it to be gone by the time it gets to you. It's always soda, coffee or tea. Going up and need to pop your ears, take a few sips of water. Going down... some more water. I don't fly often, but when I do I take a liter bottle of water, if not iced tea, coffee, or soy milk. If I have to buy it in the gift shop after the security checkpoint, that wouldn't be so bad.
As for toiletries... moist towelette is rather nice after being next to many other humans, those lemon scented ones are strong enough to obscure that other human odor. I have noted others brushing their teeth the moment they get on the ground, which if meeting people is certainly thoughtful. Using razors on the plane was somewhat common place before 9/11, enough so that they had little slots to dispose of the old style straight edge razors. Those who want to freshen up on the plane, I imagine can still use an electric razor, which I don't have a problem with, well, so long as they are not shaving next to me.
I live about 30 seconds away from the RIAA Lawyer's office. Ann Arbor is a very progressive city, maybe I should go protest (but getting sued would suck.) Any suggestions for signs? "Dead people can't steal music" has a good ring to it.
[risking karma for this redundent statement]
Puting out the nuttyness of sueing dead people seems to be an excelent angle. Not that such things are unreasonable in cases where there is an estate and there are acutal damages.
An image of a man with ipod plugs in his ears, in a casket with "RIAA" top and "We sue dead people" at the bottom. "RIAA - we sue the unGreatful Dead" "RIAA - We act like scum so artists don't have to". Perhaps you can be more kind in your signage "We are not scum, we only represent scum", as we are talking the laywers here.
Nice to see this machine on the list. I carried one around the country for about 18 months. Wrote trip reports, meeting notes, etc. Tracked expenses. Had BASIC programs that downloaded error logs from a bunch of custom test equipment over the serial link. And it did have one of the nicer keyboards I've ever used.
Yes, in fact going to 80x86 was rather disapointing in contrast. The TRS-80 model 100 had hell of alot of battery life, somewhere in the neighborhood of 20 hours or so, on 4 double aa batteries. You could at least get some work done if for example you were on an international flight, and can get away without having extra batteries.
I too am perplexed by their decision to ignore the TI-99/4a. It was cheap enough for just about any family to afford and supported both BASIC (for the kids) and assembler(for the dad). My dad wrote the code and I spent hours designing sprite graphics and translating sheet music into sound() funcs for use in a Frogger game (Toader). We sold enough tapes of that game to just about pay for a 32K memory upgrade cartridge.
Synthetic Speech was always TI's bag, they were and likely still are #1 in this field. If nothing else they "should" be respected for that. They came out with a PC which "talked", and talked pretty well even by today's standards. The issue I think is the fact that you needed something like the "Terminal Emulator II" cartridge which contained phonyms. Hell even Alpiner's voice while machine generated carried with it a note of scarcasm. But most important, it brought a new application to the masses, no longer was a PC just something to help you with your taxes and type letters, it could be used for education, and not just in the simple way apples could, it could say "Your right" and sound excited.
I "imagine" someone can build a handy dandy mozilla plugin and pipe the video to your handy dandy player. That would be mega useful.
As for 2, see 1.
As for 3, it's your loss. While there is a ton of crap on you tube, there is also a ton of stuff including Anime Fan subs, funny television commericals, and music videos. It's highly compressed, but if you can't find something anywhere else, you take what you can get.
For the record, charge me money for a product with no restrictions and no ads. I'll pay. I'll pay a lot, as is evidenced by my large CD collection that I purchased during the Napster days, before all this non-standard DRM crap started showing up on CDs. And my large VHS collection. And my large book collection. Guess I'm not a "Slashbot", whatever that's supposed to be.
Since you have a large media collection, you can respect the value of previews. For example... getting into Anime... there is a huge language barrier, but thanks to handy dandy previews tagged on the ends of 'ye old laserdisc, people like my self became aware of other options.
Books, same deal, on the fly there is often "also by the same author".
I support previews. I prefer them at the end of the disc, and if they must be at the front they must be skippable.
Fricken' batteries dieing all the time. Who needs it?
You know... I have a wireless keyboard and mouse, in fact I have nothing but wireless keyboards, and trackballs. I'm not big on wireless mice as they require a surface but trackballs you don't. Anyhow... I don't get this battery dying all the time business. I have no idea why others are changing their batteries all the time, I change mine twice a year at best. The best on batteries are the logitech mx series like the mx800/mx1000 others have already spoke of. So long as you put the mouse back in the charger when done, you're golden.
That's because you have the good warranty plan. The poor schmucks who get the "home use" Dells like the Dimension with the regular warranty are the ones who get sent to Apu and Pradeep. (No offense intended to Indians, but people who don't speak English shouldn't be doing tech support for Americans!)
While I appricate the fact that it's often easier to understand someone from your own region, America is a big enough place that regional dialects really get in the way of understanding. I would rather get tech support from India than for example Texas, Arkansas, or Mississippi. I remember calling about a software bug and I got told flat out that "may you be fishing 'fer craw-dads and got yer self a june buggie. Put on dem shoes and wack that mole". To this day I have no idea what that means. But I can say THANK GOD for Apu and Pradeep. Never has indian techsupport reccomended I put on shoes, wack moles, nor accuded me of fishing for craw-dads.
Why should a criminal have any expectation at all to not be harmed in the process of comitting a crime? If I leave my floor slippery and wet at night to deter burglars, you would be among the crowd of scumbag lawyers trying to sue me for his broke leg and stiches.
A wet floor is a normal occourance. Mopping in it self is not an act of sabotage.
If I keep a yard full of half-working cars but decide to only fix a few of them because I believe my yard would be a target for car thieves, why on earth should I be responsible for the thief who got killed when the axel fell apart while crusing 80 down the highway with my stolen car?
These cars are at least YOUR property. If a thief stole a car that was under repair, then it was their own damn fault. But if you went out of your way to loosen the lugs on your cars, knowing it would be stolen, this is a wanton act of sabotage. You would not just be putting the thief at risk, but others as well.
It's not acceptable to want someone to be dead for stealing your car, nor is it acceptable to put others in risk just becuse your car is stolen.
What if I decide to put in diesel fuel in those cans? Its a prefectly valid fuel for certian types of engines that can also ruin a normal engine. There is no difference.
Diesel fuel is a perfectly normal thing to have in a gas can. That's the difference. The only application of sugar in gas is to sabotage the fuel which at the very least would result in a fuel filter. If some jackass stole your gas cans, which had diesel, and put them in a car, that's clearly the fault of the jackass to stole the fuel for not checking if it was the correct type.
Let's say for example Sony decided to automaticly install software on everyone's computer to prevent unauthorized duplication. It was yelled by the users of slashdot that sony can't do this because it's not their property. Let's say for example the RIAA / MPAA went out of their way to sabotage music and video files which resulted in data loss? By your logic, because someone isn't shelling out the $12 to $25 bucks for the media they deserve whatever they get. But the truth is such an act of sabotage would make them no different than a common criminal.
You're completely, utterly wrong about the applicability.
My exact words were *I think this falls under the catagory of "attractive nuisance"*. I wasn't going for exact legal defination. But might as well sort through the wikipedia list just for laughs.
> 1. The place where the condition exists is one upon which the possessor knows or has reason to know that children > are likely to trespass, and
Well... You nor wiki did not clearly define child... but jack asses in a 4x4 could easily be under 18. It's not clear the ownership of the land in question, but it was painfuly clear that the gas owner knew kids were stealing his gas.
> 2. The condition is one of which the possessor knows or has reason to know and which he realizes or should > realize will involve an unreasonable risk of death or serious bodily harm to such children,
It's clear we are talking about an area away from a gas station at the very least, a place were 4x4 vehicels are used. Whether it's out of cell phone range or not is unknown, I presume it's on a mountain off the main roads, hince the need for a 4x4. It is however clear the owner of the gas took action which caused the 4x4 vehicle to fail. The risks involved in being stuck on a mountain would depend on the existance of dangerious wildlife, distance from town, whether condtions. But causing someone's vehicel to break down does present a risk, the risk of not being able to gain access to food or water.
> 3. The children because of their youth do not discover the condition or realize the risk involved in > intermeddling with it or in coming within the area made dangerous by it
Unsure if this would apply... but I highly doubt that the children involved understood the risk of angry lumberjacks putting sugar in gas cans.
> 4. The utility to the possessor of maintaining the condition and the burden of eliminating the danger are slight > as compared with the risk to children involved, and > 5. The possessor fails to exercise reasonable care to eliminate the danger or otherwise to protect the children
So before we had kids stump jumping in an area that presented little risk of being stranded due to the availablity of surplus lumberjack fuel, and rather than remove the fuel the lumberjack in question sabotoshed the fuel knowing the kids would use which could have resulted in a hazzerdious condtion.
But thanks to your link, you see i'm not completely wrong, certinaly is in the same *catagory*.
They weren't children, it wasn't mortal danger or bodily harm, the teenagers should have known the risk, and anything he could do to stop them would have involved a lot of effort. Attractive Nusicance doesn't even begin to apply to this case. It is for a child that might unwittingly hurt himself.
They were teenagers, which are reconised as being children under most state laws. They had NO way of knowing some jackass was going to put sugar in the gas cans. I didn't learn about sugar in gas tanks until I was an adult. Diesel, oil, rain water, these things are found in gas cans, but sugar is not.
While you could be right, it may not be 100% wiki's idea of *attractive nusicance* (They were attracted to free gas) but it certianly is a form of sabotage.
What he did wasn't nice, but it wasn't wrong, and only maybe, barely immoral. I would argue it was a very fitting punishement.
Engines tend to cost thousands of dollars. Gas costs $3.00ish/gal. I see a very huge gap between the damage caused by the sugar in the gastank and the theft of gas, even if we take lost hours of work into account. Just become someone steals something from you does not give you the right to damage their property, it doesn't even give you the right to sabotage their property.
A brief review.
1. The normal risk of using someone else's gas cans is the risk that the fuel in them is not compatable with your machinery. Could be diesel, could have oil mixed with it, c
It is always funny to hear this phrase trotted out. In my opinion, this phrase was created to absolve the CRIMINAL of any blame or guilt and to place the blame on the person who would otherwise be the innocent party. If you're an adult (or nearly so) you should know better than to muck with other people's belongings and deserve hatever you might get if you do.
That's the thing... the moment the innocent party took it upon himself to add sugar to the gas, they stopped being innocent. It was their intent to attract these kids in their 4x4 to the free gas in the hopes they would use it and harm their engine. This was an active act of malicious and spite. If the gas contained oil as is normal for 2 cycle motors, or if it was diesel, things you would expect to find in a gas can used by lumberjacks, then I would agree it's totally the fault of the gas thieves. But the fault clearly lies with the person who put the sugar in the gas, because through his direct action he caused an engine failure in a 4x4.
There is a difference between justice and revenge. There is absolutly no reason to put sugar in gas unless your intent is to cause harm to someone's engine. This isn't justice, this is revenge.
The harm done to the lumberjack was the loss of fuel presently about $3.00/gal and the amount of work lost having to fetch gas. This is wrong. But this does not justify the wanton distruction of some jackass's engine. This was wrong too.
Again to be clear... if it was diesel or gas mixed with oil, or gas contaminated with water... then any concenquence of taking the gas would be the fault of the person who took it.
Further, I believe calling something an "attractive nuisance" should only apply when it is attractive in the eyes of a young child who doesn't know any better. (Example: your backyard pool) In this case the CRIMINAL was a teenager capable of riding a four wheeler and should have known better than to STEAL gasoline.
Well... Yes I would agree that the four wheeler *should* have known better than to steal gas. It seemed rather clear that they were aware that lumberjacks leave gas for the purpose of using it the next day, and this gas was not abandoned. Someone else *might* not know better, it might look like lumberjack litter, exactly the type of thing that should be leaned up to help protect our forests and streams. And what's the best way to dispose of gas?
I know i'll be modded down for this, but it doesn't change the fact that all parties involved here are wrong.
This is where I get so damn mad at you hotshot armchair lawyers, Attractive nuisance. It is the concept of law that says if you have something somebody wants to steal it's your responsibility to make sure the chance never arises or you can be held liable for damages if the thief is harmed in the act of theft.
Like, I don't know... leaving full gas cans under a bush because you are too lazy to continue lugging up cans of gas up a mountain. I made sure to say *I think this falls under the catagory of "attractive nuisance"*.
California democrats are responsible for this tripe and should have been hung for the trouble. I could go on at length about the questionable intelligence of any jackass brave enough to stand behind this assinine miscarriage of justice but I won't, I'll just thank my lucky stars that I am not inflicted with you as a neighbor and subject to your hydrocephalic maunderings.
Yes it's so much better to get incoherent babble online than from a neighbor. You can disagree with me as much as you like, and even accuse me of having brain damage, but the fact remains that we are talking about several bozos in this example.
1. Kid who steals fuel from lumberjacks. Usually these guys are nice and understand that if you lose fuel one day they likely saved someone's ass from being stranded. This is typical mountain etiquette, but continued theft of fuel is well, wrong.
2. The jackass who sugered the fuel knowing the bozo would put it in a 4x4. While the theft in the first place was wrong, this was also wrong.
3. The cop who yelled at the guy who provided the tainted fuel. There were likely legal remedies that being a cop he/she would know about.
4. The foofoo head on slashdot who disagrees with my opinion that everyone involved is a bozo.
If that was the end of it no problem but the kids kept coming back to snag gas so the guy fills up 3 5 gallon cans and mixes a couple of boxes of brown sugar in each can. Later on in the week after he left the cans a sheriff's deputy pulls up to his house(The old boy had borrowed my handycam for this very visit)and gets out all full of bluster saying that he was going to take the price of the new engine out of my friends hide because his kid was the thief. That little Handycam got everything beautifully.
I think this falls under the catagory of "attractive nuisance". Because the gent was upset at loosing gas he went out of his way to taint gas he knew someone would take so the effect would be damage to their property, rather than for example finding a more practical solution like locking caps on the portable gas cans. If the gascans had for example water in them, kerosene, diesel, oil, the sort of thing you might put into a gas can other than "gas" (oil would likely be best as chainsaws tend to be 2 cycle motors), and some joker put that in their 4x4, then I would lean tward it being the fault of the gas thief. But the person went out of their way to do something that was totall non-detectable, and was a clear case of wanton distruction of someone else's property.
Now it was totally inapproperate for the cop to threaten someone with physical violence. But it was also inapproperate to put sugar in gas cans just because they were being stolen. The kid should be accountable for the gas which was stolen, and the other guy should be accountable for the damage caused by his prank.
if i installed a home security system in my house (if i lived in that state) and some one robed my house. i would not be able to use the cameras to identify the persons but instead i would be charged for wire taping. that is messed up! they really need to think a little more. wire taping is used via phone (video phone and voice is what that law was made for) not live actions. if this law was made for what their interpritation is of it then all news crews in that state would be screwed if they didnt put up a big sign saying they were recording.
The funny thing is, odds are you would NOT be able to use an audio recording, because it is eavesdropping. This tends to be classed in the same catagory as wiretapping even if you don't tap into any wires. Video only recordings are however not. Laws are different from state to state, country to country. I know it is done in many stores, including convenience stores, but the fact that it's done doesn't make it legal.
A big honking camera on your shoulder tends to be OK. Mounting a camera with a microphone on a wall tends to not be fine. But a camera only without a microphone tends to be OK.
The problem is that the CD adaptors or FM adaptors pretty much suck. Most people dont like having to deal with those things and they often lower the quality of the sound.
While I agree FM adapters suck.... i'm not understanding why a deck to rca adapter would suck. They tend to be proprietary, spendy, and akward to jack in. But suck? Why would they suck in contrast to a straight RCA or 1/8 inch inch jack?
But...it's pretty obvious why auto manufacturers don't want you to use your audio hardware in their cars. They'd like you to spend lots of money on buying their crappy audio systems.
Stock stereos have a tendancy of being half way decent. While I personly don't care if my buttons match my car, there are those who go out of their way to get factory radios specificly cause it looks right. They do raise the value of your car and should be kept if at all possible, even if it's just a radio.
I can't speak for ford, but i've been quite impressed with the stock stereos offered by the likes of Toyota and Nissan. I would have kept mine except for the fact that it was a tape deck, and I wanted a CD. However I know now it was equpped for a CD changer, I likely would have gone that way, that way I could have my tape and cd too.
What I don't understand is this shouldn't be a big deal. If you have a factory stereo with cd changer support it shouldn't be much trouble at all for apple to offer a changer adapter to use the existing controls on the CD player, and use them on the IPOD. In fact I just googled it and poof here we are.
But in regards to the grandparent, line out / line in are not uncommon at all. Line in is most common for the use of CD changers, line out / line in are more often used for equalizers and such. The tweeky bit is the fact that they often don't use rca jacks, nor headphone jacks.
Micro$hit Winblows X-Pee is full of ads for M$'s services. There's ads for Passport, Windows Media download stores, MSN Search, MSN Explorer, Microsoft Plus, and other bloated bullshit. Don't forget the ultimate coercive ad, Windows Genuine Advantage. Loads of false claims of pirated software means more bucks for
Not to speak of the last "dell" I got (sorry folks, dual core $700 (not anymore), couldn't resist). I don't remember half the crap I deleted but trial word perfect, trial mcaffes, plus a shit load of isp adverts, this is ontop of the normal winxp adverts if you click the wrong thing. Fortunatly the crap was easy enough to delete, well except for McAfee's spyware.
My first car only had an 8-track player. As a result I hit some thrift shops and bought some 8-tracks. My current car has a CD player, and I use CDs in it. Software is still released on CD for the most part, and they are rather handy to have to boot a pc in the unlikely event the HD gets buggered. Laptop users "should" at the very least carry one disc with them in this unlikely event.
2. How in hell do these CDs get scratched? It's not a long distance from the CD tray to the jewel case.
Many things don't come in a jewel case, they only come in a paper sleave. Anyhow jewel cases, while they are my most used disc transport vehicel, are not the most reliable suckers on earth. Those hinges tend to break if you look at them funny. Put a jewel case in a bag, hit the bag in the just right way, hinge cracks and disc falls out. I find that slim jewels tend to be more resistant to such breakage. While I favorite for size reasons, I must admit I prefer the long box and thin long box in the fact that they take the most damage without worry of the disc falling out.
The same for clothing, add the right badge and they'll pay 3000% more.
While this is certainly true, I went out of my way to buy a large pack of calvin klein jeans once. They were totally onsale and I had no specific loyalty to any one brand. Gap or Levis was what I typicaly bought, but I didn't "really" care. I can't remember if I bought 10 pair or 12 pair, but it didn't matter all that much because they all ripped in the exact same way, right down the butt. At least with my other jeans that rip usually at the knees they can be shifted down a drawer to the i'm going to do something dirty pile. I can't say I have an application for Kalvin clein denim chaps.
As a result, I developed some brand loyality tward Levies and even Gap jeans, perhaps Lee though I can't say I've worn any in years, I don't recall them ever ripping down the butt.
I reviewed the origional post with some minor interest simply because I do believe that a PC is an appliance no different than a washer, dryer, or TV, and breaking away from the beige box or the now ubiquitous black pc is a pretty spiffy idea. But I don't see links to what Microsoft invisions as being the desktop of the future.
These are microsoft more radical designs for mice. Are we doomed to have a Groovy desktop, and I don't mean the blue version "moodring"... groovy orange keyboard, groovy orange monitor, groovy orange cables to your groovy printer.
As a result, the school system is now mandating that students use clear plastic backpacks at all times next year
Yes, schools have become nutty on this subject. Near where I live, the Junior highschool prohibits backpacks except to transport your books to and from school. All students are expected to store their books and misc goods in their locker and visit their locker between classes, which given the amount of time between classes and the size of the campus is a tad impractical to say the least. When I went to that school I just lugged around all my books in my backpack, which I see now is not the most healthy thing to do, I "should" have seperated my stack to pre and post lunchtime sets and cut my load in half.
Granted, such activity should not be tolerated in school, but when I was a kid we called them pranks, not terrorist plots.
While I would agree that these are pranks and clearly not intended to hurt anyone, exploding plastic bottles is the sort of thing one should avoid doing in enclosed spaces with the risk of bystanders unaware of the danger walking by. While a prank... there is the risk of injury. Bomb threats?!??! that's a perfect reason for police to get involved. I'm all for complaining about schools overreacting to basic kids issues, i'm all for objecting at a 0 tolerance drug policy when a kid is expelled for aspirin or cough drops, but seriously bombs are not anything to joke about. Sure the fact that they are kids should be taken into account, but this falls into the crime catagory, certinaly a felony. And adult would possibly spend years in prison. This is the sort of thing being expelled for would not be unreasonable.
I lived in a small town back east for a time, and I spent alot of time climbing trees. In these small towns there is "always" that one person who's purpose in life is to make everyone else's life miserable. One day the building inspector arivies... in regards to my treehouse. It seems even in small towns in order to build a treehouse you need a building permit. Extreme but fair enough. But the thing is, there was no tree house, there was no building or construction on ANY level. It was a cushion in a tree. It didn't even stay in the tree, it wasn't tied down. And the electrical inspector arived as well, which in "all" fairness I did own a radio but used batteries, so I *imagine* someone "could" have thought I was using house current. And then the fire department, the fire department arived, two trucks full sirens... I have NO idea why, by this point building and electrical went off to discuss the matter with the fire department. A police car drive by but didn't stop. While they wouldn't "say" who issued the complaint, it was rather clear who did as all three took a visit to that house down the street and gave someone a firm talking to about issuing false complaints. No treehouse, no electricity, no fire.
This being said, there will "always" be some bozo who complains. Perhaps the reason is justified, perhaps they are totally off their rocker. In this case, perhaps the kids needed a firm talking at worst, a friendly talking to at best. I lack any clear information at to the ownership of this tree.
But i'm all for breaking away from the ubiquitous beige box. Granted these days it's the ubiquitous black box, but the point is valid. A computer is a household appliance not unlike your TV or your dish washer. People go out of their way to buy matching washers and dryers. Dishwashers are often sold with optional faceplaces to match the kitchen. And there is always a tendy color of the decade such as avacado or almond. If microsoft wants to go out of their way to create color pallets, more power to them. Odds are there would be one that is not too offencive. It would be nice to be able to at the very least get a matching monior, keyboard, and printer.
But most important, really most imporant I see is standarzing the size and shape and color of the power and reset buttons. This isn't an issue for slashdot users, but joe user and easily be confused with the placement of the power button. I'm not being insulting, you can spy them with ease if you look dead on but when the desktop moves under the desk, the only thing you can see is this round bit and this other round bit, where round bit could be sleep, reset, or off. And between the location and placement of power buttons on desktops, monitors, printers, well you can see where this would be an issue. This is one of those cases where it doesn't actually matter too much what the end result looks like, so long as there is something consistent. For example, no bugger knows how to turn on my canon ip5200 printer, they alway hit the silver button next to the unlit LED which is resume stop, or the button dead center which is the front cover release.
Slashdot Mirror
Really, I can't think of very many times I've ever had to carry any liquids on board with me? I pack all toiletries in my checked luggage, can't imagine I'd have use for them in carry on. What do you need really in the cabin that is liquid?
Water, water is nice. Gettings drinks from the stewerdess is a hassle and lately nothing is included in the ticket price. Often they don't "have" water except in the bathroom, it's uncommon to have none but common for it to be gone by the time it gets to you. It's always soda, coffee or tea. Going up and need to pop your ears, take a few sips of water. Going down... some more water. I don't fly often, but when I do I take a liter bottle of water, if not iced tea, coffee, or soy milk. If I have to buy it in the gift shop after the security checkpoint, that wouldn't be so bad.
As for toiletries... moist towelette is rather nice after being next to many other humans, those lemon scented ones are strong enough to obscure that other human odor. I have noted others brushing their teeth the moment they get on the ground, which if meeting people is certainly thoughtful. Using razors on the plane was somewhat common place before 9/11, enough so that they had little slots to dispose of the old style straight edge razors. Those who want to freshen up on the plane, I imagine can still use an electric razor, which I don't have a problem with, well, so long as they are not shaving next to me.
I live about 30 seconds away from the RIAA Lawyer's office. Ann Arbor is a very progressive city, maybe I should go protest (but getting sued would suck.) Any suggestions for signs? "Dead people can't steal music" has a good ring to it.
[risking karma for this redundent statement]
Puting out the nuttyness of sueing dead people seems to be an excelent angle. Not that such things are unreasonable in cases where there is an estate and there are acutal damages.
An image of a man with ipod plugs in his ears, in a casket with "RIAA" top and "We sue dead people" at the bottom.
"RIAA - we sue the unGreatful Dead" "RIAA - We act like scum so artists don't have to". Perhaps you can be more kind in your signage "We are not scum, we only represent scum", as we are talking the laywers here.
Nice to see this machine on the list. I carried one around the country for about 18 months. Wrote trip reports, meeting notes, etc. Tracked expenses. Had BASIC programs that downloaded error logs from a bunch of custom test equipment over the serial link. And it did have one of the nicer keyboards I've ever used.
Yes, in fact going to 80x86 was rather disapointing in contrast. The TRS-80 model 100 had hell of alot of battery life, somewhere in the neighborhood of 20 hours or so, on 4 double aa batteries. You could at least get some work done if for example you were on an international flight, and can get away without having extra batteries.
I too am perplexed by their decision to ignore the TI-99/4a. It was cheap enough for just about any family to afford and supported both BASIC (for the kids) and assembler(for the dad). My dad wrote the code and I spent hours designing sprite graphics and translating sheet music into sound() funcs for use in a Frogger game (Toader). We sold enough tapes of that game to just about pay for a 32K memory upgrade cartridge.
Synthetic Speech was always TI's bag, they were and likely still are #1 in this field. If nothing else they "should" be respected for that. They came out with a PC which "talked", and talked pretty well even by today's standards. The issue I think is the fact that you needed something like the "Terminal Emulator II" cartridge which contained phonyms. Hell even Alpiner's voice while machine generated carried with it a note of scarcasm. But most important, it brought a new application to the masses, no longer was a PC just something to help you with your taxes and type letters, it could be used for education, and not just in the simple way apples could, it could say "Your right" and sound excited.
# youtube uses flash
1. I refuse to install flash
2. I can't see any of their vids
3. I don't want to see any of their vids
As for 1, you can grab the videos independently of the flash software.
http://www.dubayou.com/mytube/?u=about:blank
I "imagine" someone can build a handy dandy mozilla plugin and pipe the video to your handy dandy player. That would be mega useful.
As for 2, see 1.
As for 3, it's your loss. While there is a ton of crap on you tube, there is also a ton of stuff including Anime Fan subs, funny television commericals, and music videos. It's highly compressed, but if you can't find something anywhere else, you take what you can get.
For the record, charge me money for a product with no restrictions and no ads. I'll pay. I'll pay a lot, as is evidenced by my large CD collection that I purchased during the Napster days, before all this non-standard DRM crap started showing up on CDs. And my large VHS collection. And my large book collection. Guess I'm not a "Slashbot", whatever that's supposed to be.
Since you have a large media collection, you can respect the value of previews. For example... getting into Anime... there is a huge language barrier, but thanks to handy dandy previews tagged on the ends of 'ye old laserdisc, people like my self became aware of other options.
Books, same deal, on the fly there is often "also by the same author".
I support previews. I prefer them at the end of the disc, and if they must be at the front they must be skippable.
and then I got rid of it.
Fricken' batteries dieing all the time. Who needs it?
You know... I have a wireless keyboard and mouse, in fact I have nothing but wireless keyboards, and trackballs. I'm not big on wireless mice as they require a surface but trackballs you don't. Anyhow... I don't get this battery dying all the time business. I have no idea why others are changing their batteries all the time, I change mine twice a year at best. The best on batteries are the logitech mx series like the mx800/mx1000 others have already spoke of. So long as you put the mouse back in the charger when done, you're golden.
That's because you have the good warranty plan. The poor schmucks who get the "home use" Dells like the Dimension with the regular warranty are the ones who get sent to Apu and Pradeep. (No offense intended to Indians, but people who don't speak English shouldn't be doing tech support for Americans!)
While I appricate the fact that it's often easier to understand someone from your own region, America is a big enough place that regional dialects really get in the way of understanding. I would rather get tech support from India than for example Texas, Arkansas, or Mississippi. I remember calling about a software bug and I got told flat out that "may you be fishing 'fer craw-dads and got yer self a june buggie. Put on dem shoes and wack that mole". To this day I have no idea what that means. But I can say THANK GOD for Apu and Pradeep. Never has indian techsupport reccomended I put on shoes, wack moles, nor accuded me of fishing for craw-dads.
Why should a criminal have any expectation at all to not be harmed in the process of comitting a crime?
If I leave my floor slippery and wet at night to deter burglars, you would be among the crowd of scumbag lawyers trying to sue me for his broke leg and stiches.
A wet floor is a normal occourance. Mopping in it self is not an act of sabotage.
If I keep a yard full of half-working cars but decide to only fix a few of them because I believe my yard would be a target for car thieves, why on earth should I be responsible for the thief who got killed when the axel fell apart while crusing 80 down the highway with my stolen car?
These cars are at least YOUR property. If a thief stole a car that was under repair, then it was their own damn fault. But if you went out of your way to loosen the lugs on your cars, knowing it would be stolen, this is a wanton act of sabotage. You would not just be putting the thief at risk, but others as well.
It's not acceptable to want someone to be dead for stealing your car, nor is it acceptable to put others in risk just becuse your car is stolen.
What if I decide to put in diesel fuel in those cans? Its a prefectly valid fuel for certian types of engines that can also ruin a normal engine. There is no difference.
Diesel fuel is a perfectly normal thing to have in a gas can. That's the difference. The only application of sugar in gas is to sabotage the fuel which at the very least would result in a fuel filter. If some jackass stole your gas cans, which had diesel, and put them in a car, that's clearly the fault of the jackass to stole the fuel for not checking if it was the correct type.
Let's say for example Sony decided to automaticly install software on everyone's computer to prevent unauthorized duplication. It was yelled by the users of slashdot that sony can't do this because it's not their property. Let's say for example the RIAA / MPAA went out of their way to sabotage music and video files which resulted in data loss? By your logic, because someone isn't shelling out the $12 to $25 bucks for the media they deserve whatever they get. But the truth is such an act of sabotage would make them no different than a common criminal.
You're completely, utterly wrong about the applicability.
My exact words were *I think this falls under the catagory of "attractive nuisance"*. I wasn't going for exact legal defination. But might as well sort through the wikipedia list just for laughs.
> 1. The place where the condition exists is one upon which the possessor knows or has reason to know that children
> are likely to trespass, and
Well... You nor wiki did not clearly define child... but jack asses in a 4x4 could easily be under 18. It's not clear the ownership of the land in question, but it was painfuly clear that the gas owner knew kids were stealing his gas.
> 2. The condition is one of which the possessor knows or has reason to know and which he realizes or should
> realize will involve an unreasonable risk of death or serious bodily harm to such children,
It's clear we are talking about an area away from a gas station at the very least, a place were 4x4 vehicels are used. Whether it's out of cell phone range or not is unknown, I presume it's on a mountain off the main roads, hince the need for a 4x4. It is however clear the owner of the gas took action which caused the 4x4 vehicle to fail. The risks involved in being stuck on a mountain would depend on the existance of dangerious wildlife, distance from town, whether condtions. But causing someone's vehicel to break down does present a risk, the risk of not being able to gain access to food or water.
> 3. The children because of their youth do not discover the condition or realize the risk involved in
> intermeddling with it or in coming within the area made dangerous by it
Unsure if this would apply... but I highly doubt that the children involved understood the risk of angry lumberjacks putting sugar in gas cans.
> 4. The utility to the possessor of maintaining the condition and the burden of eliminating the danger are slight
> as compared with the risk to children involved, and
> 5. The possessor fails to exercise reasonable care to eliminate the danger or otherwise to protect the children
So before we had kids stump jumping in an area that presented little risk of being stranded due to the availablity of surplus lumberjack fuel, and rather than remove the fuel the lumberjack in question sabotoshed the fuel knowing the kids would use which could have resulted in a hazzerdious condtion.
But thanks to your link, you see i'm not completely wrong, certinaly is in the same *catagory*.
They weren't children, it wasn't mortal danger or bodily harm, the teenagers should have known the risk, and anything he could do to stop them would have involved a lot of effort. Attractive Nusicance doesn't even begin to apply to this case. It is for a child that might unwittingly hurt himself.
They were teenagers, which are reconised as being children under most state laws. They had NO way of knowing some jackass was going to put sugar in the gas cans. I didn't learn about sugar in gas tanks until I was an adult. Diesel, oil, rain water, these things are found in gas cans, but sugar is not.
While you could be right, it may not be 100% wiki's idea of *attractive nusicance* (They were attracted to free gas) but it certianly is a form of sabotage.
What he did wasn't nice, but it wasn't wrong, and only maybe, barely immoral. I would argue it was a very fitting punishement.
Engines tend to cost thousands of dollars. Gas costs $3.00ish/gal. I see a very huge gap between the damage caused by the sugar in the gastank and the theft of gas, even if we take lost hours of work into account. Just become someone steals something from you does not give you the right to damage their property, it doesn't even give you the right to sabotage their property.
A brief review.
1. The normal risk of using someone else's gas cans is the risk that the fuel in them is not compatable with your machinery. Could be diesel, could have oil mixed with it, c
It is always funny to hear this phrase trotted out. In my opinion, this phrase was created to absolve the CRIMINAL of any blame or guilt and to place the blame on the person who would otherwise be the innocent party. If you're an adult (or nearly so) you should know better than to muck with other people's belongings and deserve hatever you might get if you do.
That's the thing... the moment the innocent party took it upon himself to add sugar to the gas, they stopped being innocent. It was their intent to attract these kids in their 4x4 to the free gas in the hopes they would use it and harm their engine. This was an active act of malicious and spite. If the gas contained oil as is normal for 2 cycle motors, or if it was diesel, things you would expect to find in a gas can used by lumberjacks, then I would agree it's totally the fault of the gas thieves. But the fault clearly lies with the person who put the sugar in the gas, because through his direct action he caused an engine failure in a 4x4.
There is a difference between justice and revenge. There is absolutly no reason to put sugar in gas unless your intent is to cause harm to someone's engine. This isn't justice, this is revenge.
The harm done to the lumberjack was the loss of fuel presently about $3.00/gal and the amount of work lost having to fetch gas. This is wrong. But this does not justify the wanton distruction of some jackass's engine. This was wrong too.
Again to be clear... if it was diesel or gas mixed with oil, or gas contaminated with water... then any concenquence of taking the gas would be the fault of the person who took it.
Further, I believe calling something an "attractive nuisance" should only apply when it is attractive in the eyes of a young child who doesn't know any better. (Example: your backyard pool) In this case the CRIMINAL was a teenager capable of riding a four wheeler and should have known better than to STEAL gasoline.
Well... Yes I would agree that the four wheeler *should* have known better than to steal gas. It seemed rather clear that they were aware that lumberjacks leave gas for the purpose of using it the next day, and this gas was not abandoned. Someone else *might* not know better, it might look like lumberjack litter, exactly the type of thing that should be leaned up to help protect our forests and streams. And what's the best way to dispose of gas?
I know i'll be modded down for this, but it doesn't change the fact that all parties involved here are wrong.
----------
This is where I get so damn mad at you hotshot armchair lawyers, Attractive nuisance. It is the concept of law that says if you have something somebody wants to steal it's your responsibility to make sure the chance never arises or you can be held liable for damages if the thief is harmed in the act of theft.
Like, I don't know... leaving full gas cans under a bush because you are too lazy to continue lugging up cans of gas up a mountain. I made sure to say *I think this falls under the catagory of "attractive nuisance"*.
California democrats are responsible for this tripe and should have been hung for the trouble. I could go on at length about the questionable intelligence of any jackass brave enough to stand behind this assinine miscarriage of justice but I won't, I'll just thank my lucky stars that I am not inflicted with you as a neighbor and subject to your hydrocephalic maunderings.
Yes it's so much better to get incoherent babble online than from a neighbor. You can disagree with me as much as you like, and even accuse me of having brain damage, but the fact remains that we are talking about several bozos in this example.
1. Kid who steals fuel from lumberjacks. Usually these guys are nice and understand that if you lose fuel one day they likely saved someone's ass from being stranded. This is typical mountain etiquette, but continued theft of fuel is well, wrong.
2. The jackass who sugered the fuel knowing the bozo would put it in a 4x4. While the theft in the first place was wrong, this was also wrong.
3. The cop who yelled at the guy who provided the tainted fuel. There were likely legal remedies that being a cop he/she would know about.
4. The foofoo head on slashdot who disagrees with my opinion that everyone involved is a bozo.
If that was the end of it no problem but the kids kept coming back to snag gas so the guy fills up 3 5 gallon cans and mixes a couple of boxes of brown sugar in each can. Later on in the week after he left the cans a sheriff's deputy pulls up to his house(The old boy had borrowed my handycam for this very visit)and gets out all full of bluster saying that he was going to take the price of the new engine out of my friends hide because his kid was the thief. That little Handycam got everything beautifully.
I think this falls under the catagory of "attractive nuisance". Because the gent was upset at loosing gas he went out of his way to taint gas he knew someone would take so the effect would be damage to their property, rather than for example finding a more practical solution like locking caps on the portable gas cans. If the gascans had for example water in them, kerosene, diesel, oil, the sort of thing you might put into a gas can other than "gas" (oil would likely be best as chainsaws tend to be 2 cycle motors), and some joker put that in their 4x4, then I would lean tward it being the fault of the gas thief. But the person went out of their way to do something that was totall non-detectable, and was a clear case of wanton distruction of someone else's property.
Now it was totally inapproperate for the cop to threaten someone with physical violence. But it was also inapproperate to put sugar in gas cans just because they were being stolen. The kid should be accountable for the gas which was stolen, and the other guy should be accountable for the damage caused by his prank.
if i installed a home security system in my house (if i lived in that state) and some one robed my house. i would not be able to use the cameras to identify the persons but instead i would be charged for wire taping. that is messed up! they really need to think a little more. wire taping is used via phone (video phone and voice is what that law was made for) not live actions. if this law was made for what their interpritation is of it then all news crews in that state would be screwed if they didnt put up a big sign saying they were recording.
The funny thing is, odds are you would NOT be able to use an audio recording, because it is eavesdropping. This tends to be classed in the same catagory as wiretapping even if you don't tap into any wires. Video only recordings are however not. Laws are different from state to state, country to country. I know it is done in many stores, including convenience stores, but the fact that it's done doesn't make it legal.
A big honking camera on your shoulder tends to be OK. Mounting a camera with a microphone on a wall tends to not be fine. But a camera only without a microphone tends to be OK.
The problem is that the CD adaptors or FM adaptors pretty much suck. Most people dont like having to deal with those things and they often lower the quality of the sound.
While I agree FM adapters suck.... i'm not understanding why a deck to rca adapter would suck. They tend to be proprietary, spendy, and akward to jack in. But suck? Why would they suck in contrast to a straight RCA or 1/8 inch inch jack?
I think Honda do on some lines of vehicles.
But...it's pretty obvious why auto manufacturers don't want you to use your audio hardware in their cars. They'd like you to spend lots of money on buying their crappy audio systems.
Stock stereos have a tendancy of being half way decent. While I personly don't care if my buttons match my car, there are those who go out of their way to get factory radios specificly cause it looks right. They do raise the value of your car and should be kept if at all possible, even if it's just a radio.
I can't speak for ford, but i've been quite impressed with the stock stereos offered by the likes of Toyota and Nissan. I would have kept mine except for the fact that it was a tape deck, and I wanted a CD. However I know now it was equpped for a CD changer, I likely would have gone that way, that way I could have my tape and cd too.
What I don't understand is this shouldn't be a big deal. If you have a factory stereo with cd changer support it shouldn't be much trouble at all for apple to offer a changer adapter to use the existing controls on the CD player, and use them on the IPOD. In fact I just googled it and poof here we are.
But in regards to the grandparent, line out / line in are not uncommon at all. Line in is most common for the use of CD changers, line out / line in are more often used for equalizers and such. The tweeky bit is the fact that they often don't use rca jacks, nor headphone jacks.
20th century
"the way the beach is kissed by the sea,
poluted now but in our hearts still clean"
--Insane Jane in a tribute to Pete Townshend)
21 century
"Jellyfish heaven - were Jellyfish go
to get away from mormons - and drunk eskimos
jellyfish heaven
is a lot
like L.A.
--Dead Milkmen
How long before someone creates an adblock extension for it?
Or just disconnects the connection, or are we talking something that is totally useless if you don't happen to have net access.
Micro$hit Winblows X-Pee is full of ads for M$'s services. There's ads for Passport, Windows Media download stores, MSN Search, MSN Explorer, Microsoft Plus, and other bloated bullshit. Don't forget the ultimate coercive ad, Windows Genuine Advantage. Loads of false claims of pirated software means more bucks for
Not to speak of the last "dell" I got (sorry folks, dual core $700 (not anymore), couldn't resist). I don't remember half the crap I deleted but trial word perfect, trial mcaffes, plus a shit load of isp adverts, this is ontop of the normal winxp adverts if you click the wrong thing. Fortunatly the crap was easy enough to delete, well except for McAfee's spyware.
1. What the hell do people need CDs for?
My first car only had an 8-track player. As a result I hit some thrift shops and bought some 8-tracks. My current car has a CD player, and I use CDs in it. Software is still released on CD for the most part, and they are rather handy to have to boot a pc in the unlikely event the HD gets buggered. Laptop users "should" at the very least carry one disc with them in this unlikely event.
2. How in hell do these CDs get scratched? It's not a long distance from the CD tray to the jewel case.
Many things don't come in a jewel case, they only come in a paper sleave. Anyhow jewel cases, while they are my most used disc transport vehicel, are not the most reliable suckers on earth. Those hinges tend to break if you look at them funny. Put a jewel case in a bag, hit the bag in the just right way, hinge cracks and disc falls out. I find that slim jewels tend to be more resistant to such breakage. While I favorite for size reasons, I must admit I prefer the long box and thin long box in the fact that they take the most damage without worry of the disc falling out.
The same for clothing, add the right badge and they'll pay 3000% more.
While this is certainly true, I went out of my way to buy a large pack of calvin klein jeans once. They were totally onsale and I had no specific loyalty to any one brand. Gap or Levis was what I typicaly bought, but I didn't "really" care. I can't remember if I bought 10 pair or 12 pair, but it didn't matter all that much because they all ripped in the exact same way, right down the butt. At least with my other jeans that rip usually at the knees they can be shifted down a drawer to the i'm going to do something dirty pile. I can't say I have an application for Kalvin clein denim chaps.
As a result, I developed some brand loyality tward Levies and even Gap jeans, perhaps Lee though I can't say I've worn any in years, I don't recall them ever ripping down the butt.
I reviewed the origional post with some minor interest simply because I do believe that a PC is an appliance no different than a washer, dryer, or TV, and breaking away from the beige box or the now ubiquitous black pc is a pretty spiffy idea. But I don't see links to what Microsoft invisions as being the desktop of the future.
m /d_img/d3_mouse_20040423.aspxs px?newsid=2098
http://www.microsoft.com/japan/presspass/pressroo
http://www.microsoft.com/japan/presspass/detail.a
These are microsoft more radical designs for mice. Are we doomed to have a Groovy desktop, and I don't mean the blue version "moodring"... groovy orange keyboard, groovy orange monitor, groovy orange cables to your groovy printer.
As a result, the school system is now mandating that students use clear plastic backpacks at all times next year
Yes, schools have become nutty on this subject. Near where I live, the Junior highschool prohibits backpacks except to transport your books to and from school. All students are expected to store their books and misc goods in their locker and visit their locker between classes, which given the amount of time between classes and the size of the campus is a tad impractical to say the least. When I went to that school I just lugged around all my books in my backpack, which I see now is not the most healthy thing to do, I "should" have seperated my stack to pre and post lunchtime sets and cut my load in half.
Granted, such activity should not be tolerated in school, but when I was a kid we called them pranks, not terrorist plots.
While I would agree that these are pranks and clearly not intended to hurt anyone, exploding plastic bottles is the sort of thing one should avoid doing in enclosed spaces with the risk of bystanders unaware of the danger walking by. While a prank... there is the risk of injury. Bomb threats?!??! that's a perfect reason for police to get involved. I'm all for complaining about schools overreacting to basic kids issues, i'm all for objecting at a 0 tolerance drug policy when a kid is expelled for aspirin or cough drops, but seriously bombs are not anything to joke about. Sure the fact that they are kids should be taken into account, but this falls into the crime catagory, certinaly a felony. And adult would possibly spend years in prison. This is the sort of thing being expelled for would not be unreasonable.
I lived in a small town back east for a time, and I spent alot of time climbing trees. In these small towns there is "always" that one person who's purpose in life is to make everyone else's life miserable. One day the building inspector arivies... in regards to my treehouse. It seems even in small towns in order to build a treehouse you need a building permit. Extreme but fair enough. But the thing is, there was no tree house, there was no building or construction on ANY level. It was a cushion in a tree. It didn't even stay in the tree, it wasn't tied down. And the electrical inspector arived as well, which in "all" fairness I did own a radio but used batteries, so I *imagine* someone "could" have thought I was using house current. And then the fire department, the fire department arived, two trucks full sirens... I have NO idea why, by this point building and electrical went off to discuss the matter with the fire department. A police car drive by but didn't stop. While they wouldn't "say" who issued the complaint, it was rather clear who did as all three took a visit to that house down the street and gave someone a firm talking to about issuing false complaints. No treehouse, no electricity, no fire.
This being said, there will "always" be some bozo who complains. Perhaps the reason is justified, perhaps they are totally off their rocker. In this case, perhaps the kids needed a firm talking at worst, a friendly talking to at best. I lack any clear information at to the ownership of this tree.
I'm not sure i'd want MS picking my color scheme, see the microsoft grovy wireless mouse as an example.
But i'm all for breaking away from the ubiquitous beige box. Granted these days it's the ubiquitous black box, but the point is valid. A computer is a household appliance not unlike your TV or your dish washer. People go out of their way to buy matching washers and dryers. Dishwashers are often sold with optional faceplaces to match the kitchen. And there is always a tendy color of the decade such as avacado or almond. If microsoft wants to go out of their way to create color pallets, more power to them. Odds are there would be one that is not too offencive. It would be nice to be able to at the very least get a matching monior, keyboard, and printer.
But most important, really most imporant I see is standarzing the size and shape and color of the power and reset buttons. This isn't an issue for slashdot users, but joe user and easily be confused with the placement of the power button. I'm not being insulting, you can spy them with ease if you look dead on but when the desktop moves under the desk, the only thing you can see is this round bit and this other round bit, where round bit could be sleep, reset, or off. And between the location and placement of power buttons on desktops, monitors, printers, well you can see where this would be an issue. This is one of those cases where it doesn't actually matter too much what the end result looks like, so long as there is something consistent. For example, no bugger knows how to turn on my canon ip5200 printer, they alway hit the silver button next to the unlit LED which is resume stop, or the button dead center which is the front cover release.