No kidding, just yesterday I tried a sushi platter sample at Costco. The lady was putting little individual rolls in those paper cupcake forms and laying them on the tray. I tried one and it was good, but I asked if it came with any wasabi or soy sauce. She goes "Oh yes! here... have another" and then proceeds to smoosh on a chunk of wasabi EQUALLY SIZED with the sushi!! "GAAAAH!!! STAAAAAP! Have you ever HAD wasabi before?" "No, I can't handle anything spicy". Crap... I wiped off all that I could but it still blew my face off. Mmmmm GOOD. O)
There is an interesting set of tasks in the signal processing space; forming an image of what is going on under water from sound (not sonar... I'm talking about real imaging) requires lots and lots of signal processing.
The lengths some people are willing to go to prove the Loch Ness monster is real!
Once you put the responsibility on bartenders you're requiring them to be Omniscient by definition. They need to be mind-readers who know the make-up of each person who comes into their bar. Seriously.
For example, what about the person with very low alcohol tolerance who gets wasted after one drink? How was the bartender supposed to know that? What about people like Edgar Allen Poe who take one sip and then go on a week long insano-drunken frenzy? Besides that, the amount of alcohol needed to impair judgment may be lower than legally drunk.
I could really go on and on with this, but in the end each person is responsible to know their own limits. The bartender especially cannot be responsible for people who willfully deceive him and for example claim that they walked when in reality they drove. In the same sense then how could MySpace be responsible for people who pretend to be someone else online in order to abuse others?
You realize that if MySpace were to lose this case it would require Slashdot editors to read EVERY SINGLE POST and Journal entry just to make sure they're all OKAY. It would be the end of Wikipedia, digg, etc, etc... the end of the internet as we know it. Besides it's technically unfeasible. How many people would you have to hire to monitor the emails and instant messages of a few hundred million citizens?
I mean you're practically asking for Blockbuster to send an employee home with each R rated or adult movie rental customer. Really... Blockbusters fault if any adults show inappropriate material to a minor outside the store.
Price of freedom is eternal vigilance my friend. In order for everyone to enjoy their freedoms everybody has to be responsible for themselves and their own family. Of course the legal system is where we draw the lines, and in this particular case most Slashdot readers are well aware of what damage moving the line here would cause.
But, you do know that there are those who don't like to have their Gods mocked, and those are the most dangerous of Followers. Beware the religious zealot.
So anyone who doesn't like to have to have their God mocked is by definition a religious zealot? So then someone must enjoy someone mocking their God to be stable in your world? Perhaps you meant those who are willing to hurt others for religious reasons are dangerous, or did you really mean that any religious beliefs at all are dangerous?
It also doubles as a cockpit anti-terrorism unit. When the pilot is attacked from behind he ducks and pops off the side of these babies... WHAMMO!! Flying blades of death!! Actually who cares that they can store data... wiping out terrorists is the important thing!
You got-you gotta watch out for them forgeiners cuz they plant gremlins in their machinery.
It's the same gremlins that brought down our planes in the big one. Kate: [laughing] The big one... that's right! World war two. Good old WWII.
Y'know their still shippin them over here. They put em in cars, they put em in yer tv. They put em in stereos and those little radios you stick in your ears. They even put em in watches, they have teeny gremlins for our watches!
I think what industry will ultimately flip out and buy tons of these is the medical guys. With the larger screen and built in Wifi, they're gonna love being able to actually view full res scans and MRI graphics right there on the phone. No downscaling, no compression issues, just stretch it up as close as it can get and zoom around.
SK has been king for quite a while. There's some with Blackberries, but mainly the reason the SK rules is that TMobile allows a data-only plan which ends up around $30 or so a month after taxes. I had a SK for a few years but I wanted a more open platform that could do more such as video playback, so I went shopping for a Treo. Sad thing was everywhere I went they refused to allow me to have a data-only plan.
Hello I'm DEAF. I will never ever use the phone at all. Still I'm supposed to pay $40-60 for a basic phone plan and THEN add $20 or so for the data, what a privilege. That's when I really figured out why TMobile has most of the deaf people using their device. Unlimited text and data for less than a regular voice contract, that's NICE.
So if Cingular allows a data-only plan for this they'll pick up lots of deaf customers but also the people who simply want the phone to play with and develop on... or who hate cingular which leads me to believe that they won't allow data-only. I also doubt that their $20 a month unlimited data plan will be allowed on this phone, they're gonna want to charge more since this phone will encourage more net usage than a more clunky phone.
Anybody find more info on the claims a certain Slashdotter made about a TREAD act a few months ago? Basically he claimed that all tires sold in the US get tracked with an RFID chip and that tire companies report back to the govt so they know which tires to match to which cars.
Also part of his claim was that there are imbedded RFID readers in certain NY turnpike locatations.
I think it's easy enough to verify those claims, anybody got an RFID detector? Just scan tires and see if any return a code. In the same way I think this report can be easily verified by checking Canadian currency and seeing if it gives off a reading of any kind.
I guess the problem is that RFIDs aren't required to be stupid and simply return a code automatically, more intelligent ones could be made that get power from the inductive field and then silently wait for the right code before they respond. THOSE RFID's would be tough as heck to discover.
How do you figure? Most smartphones include less than 1GB of storage, and are at best expandable (at added expense) to about 2GB. The Treo 750, at $399+2 year Cingular contract only includes 128MB.
Eh, I got a new Treo 650 from Sprint for $150 with a hidden price-matching option. I then got a 4GB Adata SD card off eBay for something like $80. Had to use the ROM updating tool (grack.com) but it can now see the whole card and who knows how much larger?
Hopefully when the 8GB and 16GB cards come out I'll be able to read those too. Upgradable memory is very nice. I love Apple, but I see the memory size for what it is... a future upgrade guarantee. Adding an SD slot would have made this the phone that could last me forever, but as it stands I'm quite content with what I have and don't see any REAL NEED for me to get it.
On the other hand if they added video out I would sell the MBP and get an iMac, then use the iPhone for my presentations. I'm sure Steve has already thought of that, the iPhone is intentially designed so as to not canniblize the laptop market.
Real world KB = 1,024 bytes. Real world MB = 1,048,576 bytes. etc...
HD makers fantasy we-can-lie-all-we-want-and-it's-not-called-fraud world. KB = 1,000 bytes MB = 1,000,000 bytes etc...
So your brand new 300TB HD is actually going to give you 273TB. Yaaay. Yet your 100TB of video will actually BE 100TB... and 300TB of it won't fit. Gee thanks HD manufacturers of the world... you've already united.
Hey quick question. In what year did HD makers pull the ole Megabyte Mibbibyte or whatever switcheroo on us? I remember buying 512MB HDs that really were.
It'll also tell Apple exactly how much everybody else is paying. Since they're the #1 online music seller, I'm pretty sure they wouldn't be to happy to find out they're paying more than the rest. This information would give Apple HUGE leverage if it turns out the music industry has been trying to fight Apple by selling the same music cheaper to the competition.
Since you're curious, I've always seen VC-1 as yet another Microsoft trojan horse. May seem fine for now, they may promise never to sue anyone for using it, but you just never know for sure. Unfortunately as you pointed out both Blu-Ray and HD-DVD include VC-1. Wheee. No escape man.
Notice from the VC-1 Wikipedia entry
Although widely considered to be Microsoft's product, there are actually 15 companies in the VC-1 patent pool (as of 17 August 2006).
Ahhhh... so 15 companies holding patents on it should lessen my worries about it being a "Microsoft Product". Sounds like a patent mine-field.
I really prefer that HD-DVD just DIE. Besides the fact that it's not much of an improvement over regular DVD's and will need to be replaced again really soon... Microsoft has got their format wiggled in there and they don't need royalties from all the movie studios for ripping off standard codecs. So dual players is a pain because everybody "Wins"... oh well, at least they'll have to drop royalty prices in order to get the studios to use their half of the format.
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No kidding, just yesterday I tried a sushi platter sample at Costco. The lady was putting little individual rolls in those paper cupcake forms and laying them on the tray. I tried one and it was good, but I asked if it came with any wasabi or soy sauce. She goes "Oh yes! here... have another" and then proceeds to smoosh on a chunk of wasabi EQUALLY SIZED with the sushi!! "GAAAAH!!! STAAAAAP! Have you ever HAD wasabi before?" "No, I can't handle anything spicy". Crap... I wiped off all that I could but it still blew my face off. Mmmmm GOOD. O)
There is an interesting set of tasks in the signal processing space; forming an image of what is going on under water from sound (not sonar... I'm talking about real imaging) requires lots and lots of signal processing.
The lengths some people are willing to go to prove the Loch Ness monster is real!
Just waiting for someone to push that floppy in all the way and press the little red button.
Those silly, silly, SILLY Engineers!
That's a decent reply, I'll try that on the next Ayn Rand fan I run into. :)
Teaching them to drive nano-trucks and get signatures on a clip-board.
Perfect Dark... year : 2000.
Downloading from allofmp3 is about as "moral" as just straight downloading. What's the point in paying for it?
Plausible deniability my friend.
Once you put the responsibility on bartenders you're requiring them to be Omniscient by definition. They need to be mind-readers who know the make-up of each person who comes into their bar. Seriously.
For example, what about the person with very low alcohol tolerance who gets wasted after one drink? How was the bartender supposed to know that? What about people like Edgar Allen Poe who take one sip and then go on a week long insano-drunken frenzy? Besides that, the amount of alcohol needed to impair judgment may be lower than legally drunk.
I could really go on and on with this, but in the end each person is responsible to know their own limits. The bartender especially cannot be responsible for people who willfully deceive him and for example claim that they walked when in reality they drove. In the same sense then how could MySpace be responsible for people who pretend to be someone else online in order to abuse others?
You realize that if MySpace were to lose this case it would require Slashdot editors to read EVERY SINGLE POST and Journal entry just to make sure they're all OKAY. It would be the end of Wikipedia, digg, etc, etc... the end of the internet as we know it. Besides it's technically unfeasible. How many people would you have to hire to monitor the emails and instant messages of a few hundred million citizens?
I mean you're practically asking for Blockbuster to send an employee home with each R rated or adult movie rental customer. Really... Blockbusters fault if any adults show inappropriate material to a minor outside the store.
Price of freedom is eternal vigilance my friend. In order for everyone to enjoy their freedoms everybody has to be responsible for themselves and their own family. Of course the legal system is where we draw the lines, and in this particular case most Slashdot readers are well aware of what damage moving the line here would cause.
So anyone who doesn't like to have to have their God mocked is by definition a religious zealot? So then someone must enjoy someone mocking their God to be stable in your world? Perhaps you meant those who are willing to hurt others for religious reasons are dangerous, or did you really mean that any religious beliefs at all are dangerous?
It also doubles as a cockpit anti-terrorism unit. When the pilot is attacked from behind he ducks and pops off the side of these babies... WHAMMO!! Flying blades of death!! Actually who cares that they can store data ... wiping out terrorists is the important thing!
So uhhhh... how many Apple tattoos you got?
Different movie dude. Gremlins. 1984. Maybe someone quoted it in there? I've never seen Cast a Deadly Spell before. Perhaps a homage.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087363/
Oh wait, I made some typos... let me start over.
Terrorists...
I think what industry will ultimately flip out and buy tons of these is the medical guys. With the larger screen and built in Wifi, they're gonna love being able to actually view full res scans and MRI graphics right there on the phone. No downscaling, no compression issues, just stretch it up as close as it can get and zoom around.
SK has been king for quite a while. There's some with Blackberries, but mainly the reason the SK rules is that TMobile allows a data-only plan which ends up around $30 or so a month after taxes. I had a SK for a few years but I wanted a more open platform that could do more such as video playback, so I went shopping for a Treo. Sad thing was everywhere I went they refused to allow me to have a data-only plan.
Hello I'm DEAF. I will never ever use the phone at all. Still I'm supposed to pay $40-60 for a basic phone plan and THEN add $20 or so for the data, what a privilege. That's when I really figured out why TMobile has most of the deaf people using their device. Unlimited text and data for less than a regular voice contract, that's NICE.
So if Cingular allows a data-only plan for this they'll pick up lots of deaf customers but also the people who simply want the phone to play with and develop on... or who hate cingular which leads me to believe that they won't allow data-only. I also doubt that their $20 a month unlimited data plan will be allowed on this phone, they're gonna want to charge more since this phone will encourage more net usage than a more clunky phone.
Anybody find more info on the claims a certain Slashdotter made about a TREAD act a few months ago? Basically he claimed that all tires sold in the US get tracked with an RFID chip and that tire companies report back to the govt so they know which tires to match to which cars.
Also part of his claim was that there are imbedded RFID readers in certain NY turnpike locatations.
I think it's easy enough to verify those claims, anybody got an RFID detector? Just scan tires and see if any return a code. In the same way I think this report can be easily verified by checking Canadian currency and seeing if it gives off a reading of any kind.
I guess the problem is that RFIDs aren't required to be stupid and simply return a code automatically, more intelligent ones could be made that get power from the inductive field and then silently wait for the right code before they respond. THOSE RFID's would be tough as heck to discover.
Just doing what I can to get their price-matching policy out in the open. You just have to ask for it.
Eh, I got a new Treo 650 from Sprint for $150 with a hidden price-matching option. I then got a 4GB Adata SD card off eBay for something like $80. Had to use the ROM updating tool (grack.com) but it can now see the whole card and who knows how much larger?
Hopefully when the 8GB and 16GB cards come out I'll be able to read those too. Upgradable memory is very nice. I love Apple, but I see the memory size for what it is... a future upgrade guarantee. Adding an SD slot would have made this the phone that could last me forever, but as it stands I'm quite content with what I have and don't see any REAL NEED for me to get it.
On the other hand if they added video out I would sell the MBP and get an iMac, then use the iPhone for my presentations. I'm sure Steve has already thought of that, the iPhone is intentially designed so as to not canniblize the laptop market.
And ya know how much we'll actually get to use?
Real world KB = 1,024 bytes.
Real world MB = 1,048,576 bytes.
etc...
HD makers fantasy we-can-lie-all-we-want-and-it's-not-called-fraud world.
KB = 1,000 bytes
MB = 1,000,000 bytes
etc...
So your brand new 300TB HD is actually going to give you 273TB. Yaaay.
Yet your 100TB of video will actually BE 100TB... and 300TB of it won't fit. Gee thanks HD manufacturers of the world... you've already united.
Hey quick question. In what year did HD makers pull the ole Megabyte Mibbibyte or whatever switcheroo on us? I remember buying 512MB HDs that really were.
It'll also tell Apple exactly how much everybody else is paying. Since they're the #1 online music seller, I'm pretty sure they wouldn't be to happy to find out they're paying more than the rest. This information would give Apple HUGE leverage if it turns out the music industry has been trying to fight Apple by selling the same music cheaper to the competition.
Notice from the VC-1 Wikipedia entry
Ahhhh... so 15 companies holding patents on it should lessen my worries about it being a "Microsoft Product". Sounds like a patent mine-field.
I really prefer that HD-DVD just DIE. Besides the fact that it's not much of an improvement over regular DVD's and will need to be replaced again really soon... Microsoft has got their format wiggled in there and they don't need royalties from all the movie studios for ripping off standard codecs. So dual players is a pain because everybody "Wins"... oh well, at least they'll have to drop royalty prices in order to get the studios to use their half of the format.
All running Windows of course.