In my movie theatre, that's exactly what I do. I have a "turn cell phones off" sign in my lobby, and I play a policy trailer saying the same thing (within a little cartoon) before every show. After that, if I see the light from your phone I'll ask you once to turn it off. The second time I'll ask you to come to the lobby with me, and will show you the door when you get there.
I have very little trouble with cell phones in my theatre.
Out of curiosity, are you a theater owner or employee? I've never worked in a theater, but I assume that most people don't make much money. It's rare to see a low wage employee put themselves in a position of potential danger at work - like telling an urban thug to put down his phone, especially if he has friends with him.
How do you deal with a situation like that?
I stopped going to the theater, mostly because of cell phones.
We would never have sensible laws, but I would love to see a voluntary "cell signal ban" at various locations & put up a sign that makes it clear that your electronics won't work.
1) Pass a law that makes it legal. 2) Pass a law that if a posted sign meets certain criteria, no lawsuits can file. 3) Rid the gene pool of anybody who sues.
When I tell people who are anti-gun that their politicians are preying on their ignorance and fear, this is *exactly* what I'm talking about. Both of these politicians are posing as experts to pass laws and change the constitution, yet they know nothing.
Cliff Burnstein, whose company, Q Prime, manages Metallica and other major acts, said that even if streaming hurts sales, all is not lost as long as the number of paying subscribers continues to climb rapidly.
“There is a point at which there could be 100 percent cannibalization, and we would make more money through subscriptions services,” Mr. Burnstein said. “We calculate that point at approximately 20 million worldwide subscribers.”
Metallica recently announced an exclusive deal with Spotify.
So here's a band, and a manager who seem to want everything to become 100% streaming, but are making sure that I have to subscribe to more than one service, if I want to hear their music, as well as the music of other bands with exclusives on other streaming services. Dicks.
Until you are the world's dictator, you have no direct power over how people spend their time and money. I think most TV is a waste of time and money,. as well as most movies, music, websites, organized religion, etc. The list is endless. However, it simply doesn't matter. I do not have enough money and power to change society, so I ignore blockbuster crap movies. I support the art I like (which you probably think is a waste of time and money).
It's called tolerance. We live on a crowded planet, and hearing you bitch about what makes good art just adds to the noise.
It's why GM makes trucks, small cars, SUVs, vans (for people or cargo) and on and on.
Who makes station wagons anymore? Nobody, because CAFE has made the whole segment unprofitable in favor of SUVs that skirt CAFE because they are classified as trucks.
Not true. I recently bought a Subaru wagon (or a 5 door hatch back, as they call it). There are many small wagons on the market. What is missing are the full size wagons built on the Ford Crown Vic or Chevy Caprice platform, because there are no more large, rear wheel drive cars like that any more.
Use something else
Use what else? A 10" laptop is perfect for me, but I've had mine for just short of three years and worry about what will happen once mine finally bites the dust. The size has been discontinued because there weren't enough other people like me for whom they were perfect.
MacBook air? Sure, it's a bit larger than 10", but it has a command line and weighs next to nothing.
Nobody makes the exact car I want either, so I made some compromises and got what fit my budget, and as many other criteria as possible.
The cost of living here is outrageous. The city, county and state are bankrupt. THe middle class is shrinking, schools stink, and the situation is dire.
Let's get Effie Trinket to drape lights all over the bridges and say oo and aaaah.
Unreal.
If there was any public money going into this project, I'd be pissed off. However, they have raised millions and are paying CalTrans workers to hang the lights. That's right, they are paying for the installation, not my taxes.
This is why the iPad isn't for you. Not all products have to appeal to all people. It's why GM makes trucks, small cars, SUVs, vans (for people or cargo) and on and on. Use something else and stop being a troll.
No matter how much you hate Apple, they will still sell millions of these.
That means that when lions and bears and bobcats and coyotes come around, I prefer some firepower that's not from the French and Indian wars.
You live in an area with lions, bears, bobcats and coyotes? Really? I mean, really? You don't just live somewhere urban and like guns?
I grew up in an area with all of the above, except lions. Calling 911 meant waiting 30+ minutes for a cop to arrive. Now it's worse, as there is one officer on duty after midnight for an area of over 1,600 sq miles (4,200 sq kms). There are no patrols between midnight and 6:00AM. You only get a response if the cop isn't busy with another response, It's a pretty heavily armed area.
I no longer live in the sticks, but I still have guns. I don't shoot at people, and I am mentally stable. My guns are locked in a safe. You shouldn't be worried about my guns; it's the kids in the 'hood 3 miles from my house that concern me.
I honestly think the real problem is how we communicate with each other. We used to be able to disagree, and be mostly civil. That hasn't been the case for long time, and it's gotten much worse in the past 10 to 20 years. The style of "discussion" heard on Fox news, (and I'm not blaming Fox) where everything is black & white, where everything is 100% right or dead-ass "you're a Nazi" wrong. This i where we have gone off the tracks, and people know no compromise.
Actually it wasn't a video clip, that was just a noisy advertisement that happened to appear on the same page. Still Annoying, but it has a mute button.
There are ads on the Internet? That must be a new thing, as I haven't seen one in years. For precisely this reason.
very much pro-Obama, mostly due to lacking any sensible alternatives.
It's not sensible to support Obama either. He's every bit as corrupt as Romney would have been. If you voted for Obama, you voted to continue the farce. Shame on you.
When my vote doesn't count (thanks electoral college!) I have the ability to vote for who I really want. However, in a close election, I would rather vote for the guy I don't want (Obama in this case) rather than let the guy I really don't want (Romney).
I think the "stoning vs shooting" analogy is a good one.
I recently bought a 2012 Subaru, and paid extra for iPod integration (among other things).
1) The iPod integration doesn't really integrate well. It defaults the music app on the iPod, but will not play any music from iCloud. If I want to play Pandora, I have to go through a bunch of steps to get it to play, and they all reset if I shut the car off and fire it back up again.
2) The USB charging port is useless. There's a USB port that will play MP3s from an iPod or thumb drive. It will also charge your iPhone (or Android?), but only if the stereo is on, adn USB is selected as the input. Listening to the radio? No charging for you!
3) There's bluetooth integration, but it's just fucking lame. To switch pairing between my phone and my wife's phone, there's a minute of voice activated menu systems to crawl through. However, it won't work if the car is moving - the menu is purposely disabled.
This stereo, while sounding good, has such a craptastic interface I hate it. I solved their stupid interface problems by plugging a bluetooth audio receiver in the the AUX port. It has a USB plug so that my phone will charge. The best part of the Subaru audio system is that there's a 12v outlet and AUX port in the center console.
It's amazing how poorly designed the whole thing is. If they can't get something this simple to work, how in the hell could they design more complicated?
Business that require visible ID at all time tends to be in the sectors that screw up real bad (financial sector). What the hell are you talking about?
I work in a place where employees and customers (it's a membership based work space). To get past the front desk, you wear a badge in a visible place. I was at Autodesk's headquarters the other day - everybody had on a badge. On the bus, the driver wears one. In a taxi, the driver has his license visibly displayed, with a picture.
I see people wearing photo ID badges for work every day. They aren't all bankers. Go downtown, in a large city at lunch time, and you'll see badges on more than half the people.
He had an ornate (fancy word for...fancy) watch AND boots with extra insoles (the poor man's version of lifts?)
He had a watch with fuses and wires. He had boots with extra thick soles, that he created.
Nothing exactly illegal, but he's dumber than a bag of rocks if he thinks it's going to be OK to go through airport security with electronics with fuses and wires. He's a fucking idiot, and deserves whatever he gets. I travel for business, and I fucking HATE the idiots at the TSA. In this case, I agree with what they did.
He's from Palos Verdes Estates, California. I doubt there's a house worth less than a million there. The most expensive housing development (per house) in the US is there. There's nothing poor about this guy. Even if he lives in mom's basement, mom is well off.
I sold an iPhone 3s for $175 on eBay, just after the 4s came out. I was due for an upgrade, so I sold my old phone.
I would get the same $$ if I stole yours and sold it. The cost of the service is irrelevant the the thief, as long as he can get good money for a stolen phone.
Of course somebody could fix them. But it's expensive and time consuming. At my district, there were *two* hardware techs. They had a fleet of computers, printers, fax machines, etc to keep running.
There simply wasn't time to deal with a pile of computers. Complain all you want, but when there isn't funding for a project, it can't be done.
Nobody is complaining about the icons. Those are silly, but we all know what they mean - even the kids who have never seen a phone, rewind button or floppy disk.
Long ago I worked for a school district. We accepted computer donations, but it was usually disaster, and more expensive than buying a new one.
Every machine had a slightly different version of the OS, and a different set of applications. There was no consistency between machines, and nobody at the school could do real maintenance on them; it required a person from the district office to drive there (this was long ago, as I said) and fix the machine. Maintaining a hodge-podge of machines was a nightmare.
When we stopped taking random donations, it made everybody's job more efficient. We threw away a *huge* pile of "useful" computers (at least that's what the person dropping off old, useless shit called them).
Seriously, your school district is better off not accepting donations of one or two computers. It doesn't scale. At all. If it was "a bunch" and they had a legal version of Windows or OSX (Linux if they have a full time Linux guy on staff), and they were identical and they could replace *everything* in an existing computer lab, then it may have been a bad decision.
It's the truth, real maple syrup is hard to find and bloody expensive. It's a high-end specialty ingredient.
Where do you live that it's hard to find and expensive? Every grocery store here (west coast, USA) has it. I can get grade A, grade B, organic, etc. It's not cheap as fake maple syrup, but it costs less than a good bottle of gin - and lasts much longer.
The question is not is it better than some hypothetical human driver, but is it better than the drivers we have right now.
No, the question is: is it better than me?
If not, I don't want it driving my car.
Ahhh, but the point is not for it to drive my car, but for it to drive the car of all those other people who don't pay attention to their driving. I'm not interested in one myself, but I want them to be legal and popular. I can't imagine how overall it would be worse for the rest of us.
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In my movie theatre, that's exactly what I do. I have a "turn cell phones off" sign in my lobby, and I play a policy trailer saying the same thing (within a little cartoon) before every show. After that, if I see the light from your phone I'll ask you once to turn it off. The second time I'll ask you to come to the lobby with me, and will show you the door when you get there.
I have very little trouble with cell phones in my theatre.
Out of curiosity, are you a theater owner or employee?
I've never worked in a theater, but I assume that most people don't make much money. It's rare to see a low wage employee put themselves in a position of potential danger at work - like telling an urban thug to put down his phone, especially if he has friends with him.
How do you deal with a situation like that?
I stopped going to the theater, mostly because of cell phones.
We would never have sensible laws, but I would love to see a voluntary "cell signal ban" at various locations & put up a sign that makes it clear that your electronics won't work.
1) Pass a law that makes it legal.
2) Pass a law that if a posted sign meets certain criteria, no lawsuits can file.
3) Rid the gene pool of anybody who sues.
When I tell people who are anti-gun that their politicians are preying on their ignorance and fear, this is *exactly* what I'm talking about. Both of these politicians are posing as experts to pass laws and change the constitution, yet they know nothing.
Thanks for the links.
I wish I had mod points. Well said.
Cliff Burnstein, whose company, Q Prime, manages Metallica and other major acts, said that even if streaming hurts sales, all is not lost as long as the number of paying subscribers continues to climb rapidly.
“There is a point at which there could be 100 percent cannibalization, and we would make more money through subscriptions services,” Mr. Burnstein said. “We calculate that point at approximately 20 million worldwide subscribers.”
Metallica recently announced an exclusive deal with Spotify.
So here's a band, and a manager who seem to want everything to become 100% streaming, but are making sure that I have to subscribe to more than one service, if I want to hear their music, as well as the music of other bands with exclusives on other streaming services. Dicks.
Until you are the world's dictator, you have no direct power over how people spend their time and money. I think most TV is a waste of time and money,. as well as most movies, music, websites, organized religion, etc. The list is endless. However, it simply doesn't matter. I do not have enough money and power to change society, so I ignore blockbuster crap movies. I support the art I like (which you probably think is a waste of time and money).
It's called tolerance. We live on a crowded planet, and hearing you bitch about what makes good art just adds to the noise.
It's why GM makes trucks, small cars, SUVs, vans (for people or cargo) and on and on.
Who makes station wagons anymore? Nobody, because CAFE has made the whole segment unprofitable in favor of SUVs that skirt CAFE because they are classified as trucks.
Not true. I recently bought a Subaru wagon (or a 5 door hatch back, as they call it). There are many small wagons on the market. What is missing are the full size wagons built on the Ford Crown Vic or Chevy Caprice platform, because there are no more large, rear wheel drive cars like that any more.
Use something else
Use what else? A 10" laptop is perfect for me, but I've had mine for just short of three years and worry about what will happen once mine finally bites the dust. The size has been discontinued because there weren't enough other people like me for whom they were perfect.
MacBook air? Sure, it's a bit larger than 10", but it has a command line and weighs next to nothing.
Nobody makes the exact car I want either, so I made some compromises and got what fit my budget, and as many other criteria as possible.
The cost of living here is outrageous. The city, county and state are bankrupt. THe middle class is shrinking, schools stink, and the situation is dire.
Let's get Effie Trinket to drape lights all over the bridges and say oo and aaaah.
Unreal.
If there was any public money going into this project, I'd be pissed off. However, they have raised millions and are paying CalTrans workers to hang the lights. That's right, they are paying for the installation, not my taxes.
This is why the iPad isn't for you. Not all products have to appeal to all people. It's why GM makes trucks, small cars, SUVs, vans (for people or cargo) and on and on. Use something else and stop being a troll.
No matter how much you hate Apple, they will still sell millions of these.
I would much rather be robbed than murdered.
And I would rather the robbers know that there's a good chance they will be shot, and stay at home instead.
That means that when lions and bears and bobcats and coyotes come around, I prefer some firepower that's not from the French and Indian wars.
You live in an area with lions, bears, bobcats and coyotes? Really? I mean, really? You don't just live somewhere urban and like guns?
I grew up in an area with all of the above, except lions. Calling 911 meant waiting 30+ minutes for a cop to arrive. Now it's worse, as there is one officer on duty after midnight for an area of over 1,600 sq miles (4,200 sq kms). There are no patrols between midnight and 6:00AM. You only get a response if the cop isn't busy with another response, It's a pretty heavily armed area.
I no longer live in the sticks, but I still have guns. I don't shoot at people, and I am mentally stable. My guns are locked in a safe. You shouldn't be worried about my guns; it's the kids in the 'hood 3 miles from my house that concern me.
I honestly think the real problem is how we communicate with each other. We used to be able to disagree, and be mostly civil. That hasn't been the case for long time, and it's gotten much worse in the past 10 to 20 years. The style of "discussion" heard on Fox news, (and I'm not blaming Fox) where everything is black & white, where everything is 100% right or dead-ass "you're a Nazi" wrong. This i where we have gone off the tracks, and people know no compromise.
Actually it wasn't a video clip, that was just a noisy advertisement that happened to appear on the same page. Still Annoying, but it has a mute button.
There are ads on the Internet? That must be a new thing, as I haven't seen one in years. For precisely this reason.
Apparently they didn't like the fact that he let the rest of us in on the secret.
very much pro-Obama, mostly due to lacking any sensible alternatives.
It's not sensible to support Obama either. He's every bit as corrupt as Romney would have been. If you voted for Obama, you voted to continue the farce. Shame on you.
When my vote doesn't count (thanks electoral college!) I have the ability to vote for who I really want. However, in a close election, I would rather vote for the guy I don't want (Obama in this case) rather than let the guy I really don't want (Romney).
I think the "stoning vs shooting" analogy is a good one.
Since is has a video clip that starts playing automatically, I wasn't there long enough to know that it wouldn't work with Firefox.
I recently bought a 2012 Subaru, and paid extra for iPod integration (among other things).
1) The iPod integration doesn't really integrate well.
It defaults the music app on the iPod, but will not play any music from iCloud. If I want to play Pandora, I have to go through a bunch of steps to get it to play, and they all reset if I shut the car off and fire it back up again.
2) The USB charging port is useless.
There's a USB port that will play MP3s from an iPod or thumb drive. It will also charge your iPhone (or Android?), but only if the stereo is on, adn USB is selected as the input. Listening to the radio? No charging for you!
3) There's bluetooth integration, but it's just fucking lame.
To switch pairing between my phone and my wife's phone, there's a minute of voice activated menu systems to crawl through. However, it won't work if the car is moving - the menu is purposely disabled.
This stereo, while sounding good, has such a craptastic interface I hate it. I solved their stupid interface problems by plugging a bluetooth audio receiver in the the AUX port. It has a USB plug so that my phone will charge. The best part of the Subaru audio system is that there's a 12v outlet and AUX port in the center console.
It's amazing how poorly designed the whole thing is. If they can't get something this simple to work, how in the hell could they design more complicated?
Um, it seems to have stalled my browser. Latest Firefox.
Keep working!
Business that require visible ID at all time tends to be in the sectors that screw up real bad (financial sector).
What the hell are you talking about?
I work in a place where employees and customers (it's a membership based work space). To get past the front desk, you wear a badge in a visible place. I was at Autodesk's headquarters the other day - everybody had on a badge. On the bus, the driver wears one. In a taxi, the driver has his license visibly displayed, with a picture.
I see people wearing photo ID badges for work every day. They aren't all bankers. Go downtown, in a large city at lunch time, and you'll see badges on more than half the people.
He had an ornate (fancy word for ...fancy) watch AND boots with extra insoles (the poor man's version of lifts?)
He had a watch with fuses and wires.
He had boots with extra thick soles, that he created.
Nothing exactly illegal, but he's dumber than a bag of rocks if he thinks it's going to be OK to go through airport security with electronics with fuses and wires. He's a fucking idiot, and deserves whatever he gets. I travel for business, and I fucking HATE the idiots at the TSA. In this case, I agree with what they did.
He's from Palos Verdes Estates, California. I doubt there's a house worth less than a million there. The most expensive housing development (per house) in the US is there. There's nothing poor about this guy. Even if he lives in mom's basement, mom is well off.
I sold an iPhone 3s for $175 on eBay, just after the 4s came out. I was due for an upgrade, so I sold my old phone.
I would get the same $$ if I stole yours and sold it. The cost of the service is irrelevant the the thief, as long as he can get good money for a stolen phone.
Of course somebody could fix them. But it's expensive and time consuming.
At my district, there were *two* hardware techs. They had a fleet of computers, printers, fax machines, etc to keep running.
There simply wasn't time to deal with a pile of computers. Complain all you want, but when there isn't funding for a project, it can't be done.
Nobody is complaining about the icons. Those are silly, but we all know what they mean - even the kids who have never seen a phone, rewind button or floppy disk.
The rest of the skeuomorphic crap needs to go.
Long ago I worked for a school district. We accepted computer donations, but it was usually disaster, and more expensive than buying a new one.
Every machine had a slightly different version of the OS, and a different set of applications. There was no consistency between machines, and nobody at the school could do real maintenance on them; it required a person from the district office to drive there (this was long ago, as I said) and fix the machine. Maintaining a hodge-podge of machines was a nightmare.
When we stopped taking random donations, it made everybody's job more efficient. We threw away a *huge* pile of "useful" computers (at least that's what the person dropping off old, useless shit called them).
Seriously, your school district is better off not accepting donations of one or two computers. It doesn't scale. At all.
If it was "a bunch" and they had a legal version of Windows or OSX (Linux if they have a full time Linux guy on staff), and they were identical and they could replace *everything* in an existing computer lab, then it may have been a bad decision.
LOL mod parent up!
It's the truth, real maple syrup is hard to find and bloody expensive. It's a high-end specialty ingredient.
Where do you live that it's hard to find and expensive?
Every grocery store here (west coast, USA) has it. I can get grade A, grade B, organic, etc. It's not cheap as fake maple syrup, but it costs less than a good bottle of gin - and lasts much longer.
The question is not is it better than some hypothetical human driver, but is it better than the drivers we have right now.
No, the question is: is it better than me?
If not, I don't want it driving my car.
Ahhh, but the point is not for it to drive my car, but for it to drive the car of all those other people who don't pay attention to their driving. I'm not interested in one myself, but I want them to be legal and popular. I can't imagine how overall it would be worse for the rest of us.