Watch Minority Report for an example of what can happen if RFID tags are used by stores to market based on your personal buying habits or the items you are wearing. Tom Hanks walks into a store after getting an eye transplant, and the kiosk at the entrance scans his iris and asks if he enjoyed the pants he purchased on his last visit.
Dude, I think it was Tom Cruise. But good point. It's still scary.
It's like for each new version, it is number one priority to have more bullet-points on the back of the box pointing out new features. How about one bullet point that just says "faster" and another that says "more stable." That'd tickle me just right. But I don't see it happening anytime soon.
Uh, have you not been reading Microsoft's marketing literature? Every new release of Windows (for example) has always had these bullet points as their continuing promise. It doesn't mean they're a reality, but they are on the box!
In Ukraine they had a system years back where many of the roads had 'government lanes'. The idea was that these lanes were reserved for emergency vehicles and vehicles transporting government officials on 'important business', and not for 'the public'.
The 'government vehicles' had a blue spinning light that they could put on the dashboard and turn on (just like the police ones, but blue). It wasn't long before people figured out that you could pick a light just like the official one up at their equivalent of a Radio Shack, and be able to use the lane yourself.
So what's going to prevent sticker forgeries? Is a cop going to be able to spot a 3-inch fake while it's moving?
so if the hydrogen is going to be made using electricity in the first place, why don't they just do it at the station instead of hauling it across the country?
Take that a couple steps further:
1 - have a 'filling station' in the garage at home. Now you only need the fuel station when you're on the road.
2 - add the device to the car itself. On a road trip? Pour in a few litres of water and run an extension cord to it. This would be great at the cottage, because there's no way they'll get hydrogen up in the Muskoka area (Ontario, Canada) anytime in the near future.
You basically get the choice between a moderately-compressed image that the user can see, a moderately-compressed image that the user can't see, and a decently-compressed image that you have to pay tons of money for. Which of those three sounds best?
How about just using encoding the images into HTML? See JavaScriptGraphics for details. Yes, this is pretty messed up...
It should be noted that this version of Moz is not meant for universal public use. 1.3 is still the 'default' public version. So what's the harm of requiring a development version of java if you're running a development version of the browser?
My concern is that this really isn't an Alpha or a Beta. This is a release candidate. That makes it closer to a release version than a development version (ie, it's expected to have only a handful of known stopper bugs). The issues I'm worried about:
1 - What if Java 1.4.2 isn't ready soon enough?
2 - Even if it is, this is a RELEASE CANDIDATE browser which is going to be tested against an UNRELEASED BETA version of Java (NOT a release candidate).
3 - Assuming Java 1.4.2 is released fairly soon, there may not be sufficient time to fully test its integration with Mozilla by the time they want to release it (which, I understand, should be within a couple of weeks). For all we know, by the time Java 1.4.2 is released it may break everything. It might not, but it's not impossible.
Actually, a *lot* of Toronto, Ontario (Canada)-based companies have been marketing their web sites at least for the last year with the TLD of.to
So while.to is not dedicated to Toronto, Ontario, it's been used as if it is for quite a while now around here. So I'd still say that it's a bit.late.
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Is your spool auto-winding?
I think it'd be a fun April Fool's joke to 'upgrade' the spring in your spool. Either you're never able to leave your apartment, or you manage to get out only to get suddenly snapped back home.
It'd be comical, in a cartoon sort of way. I'm thinking Wile E. Coyote with the slingshot into a wall.
And email is not a subscription service? Where exactly is this freely broadcasted Internet?
You can get free email anywhere you like. It's not a subscription any more than my house address is. My work email, for example, is not something I subscribed to.
What would YOU call sending ten million emails indiscriminately?
Unless there is some way to tell how old the person who checks the mailbox is, there is no way to hold people responsible for sending emails inappropriate for children to that mailbox. You can send porn to a physical mailbox, and the person who gets the mail may be a minor, but you can't be held responsible for that minor seeing "inappropriate" material.
Unless there is some way to tell how old the person who walks by is, there is no way to hold people responsible for posting pornographic billboards inappropriate for children on that street.
I'm sorry, but I just don't see your argument. 'Broadcasting' is no excuse for exposing children to this stuff. It's not acceptable out in public, nor on TV (unless you subscribe to something, in which case the control is on your side), so it sure as hell shouldn't be allowed on the Internet.
Global companies will do what's cheapest...and there will always be someone who'll be cheaper than you.
Won't this merely lead to ruin? If all the work is going overseas, and North Americans are put out of work, then who's going to be able to buy the products?
Find the idiot who cross-threaded the screw to begin with, and explain to them that their life depends on their ability to remove that screw without damaging the motherboard.
Who do you think posted the question to Ask Slashdot in the first place?
Fair enough, but using smaller bills hardly helps the problem of paying with more than 25 of one denomination, so the original question stands. Would I be unable to pay cash for something of that price? That seems just silly.
Actually, the point I was making was really unrelated to the topic at hand anyway. I've never heard of the law, to be honest. But at the same time, I've never seen anyone buy anything of that amount in cash. Usually it's credit card, personal or certified cheque etc.
The point I was trying to make, was that it's funny that in Canada we have these fancy $100 bills that nobody will accept, even though they are fully legal tender. I'm nervous even carrying $50s, because they're always scrutinized so much. Easiest way to check for a real $50? Rub it against a piece of paper, and some red rubs off. They also have watermarks that light up when held under an IR lamp or something. The $20s do this too. The new $5 and $10 bills don't seem to do this, but rely on other features (microprints, shiny microfibers and watermarks). I don't think the $100s have been updated yet, which might be the reason why nobody wants to use them. (heh - just tested the above. I just happened to have a $5, a $10, a $20 and a $50 in my wallet just now by coincidence. No $100 here though - haven't seen them in many months)
If there IS a law, then I imagine it's probably for the reason you described. Perhaps it became some sort of weird problem at some point.
Maybe I should try it the next time I buy a new computer... pay in $20s:)
Also, what if I'm paying cash for something that is more than $2500, I can give 25+ 100 dollar bills? Surely no one would mind that.
Actually, they might. Hardly any stores in Canada accept $100 bills because of a large number of fakes in recent years. You'd have to pay with $20s or $50s.
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I believe you have forgotten "Redundant" and "Intersting."
I'm going to moderate you "Overrated", because you forgot "Underrated".
Watch Minority Report for an example of what can happen if RFID tags are used by stores to market based on your personal buying habits or the items you are wearing. Tom Hanks walks into a store after getting an eye transplant, and the kiosk at the entrance scans his iris and asks if he enjoyed the pants he purchased on his last visit.
Dude, I think it was Tom Cruise. But good point. It's still scary.
It's like for each new version, it is number one priority to have more bullet-points on the back of the box pointing out new features. How about one bullet point that just says "faster" and another that says "more stable." That'd tickle me just right. But I don't see it happening anytime soon.
Uh, have you not been reading Microsoft's marketing literature? Every new release of Windows (for example) has always had these bullet points as their continuing promise. It doesn't mean they're a reality, but they are on the box!
In Ukraine they had a system years back where many of the roads had 'government lanes'. The idea was that these lanes were reserved for emergency vehicles and vehicles transporting government officials on 'important business', and not for 'the public'.
The 'government vehicles' had a blue spinning light that they could put on the dashboard and turn on (just like the police ones, but blue). It wasn't long before people figured out that you could pick a light just like the official one up at their equivalent of a Radio Shack, and be able to use the lane yourself.
So what's going to prevent sticker forgeries? Is a cop going to be able to spot a 3-inch fake while it's moving?
so if the hydrogen is going to be made using electricity in the first place, why don't they just do it at the station instead of hauling it across the country?
Take that a couple steps further:
1 - have a 'filling station' in the garage at home. Now you only need the fuel station when you're on the road.
2 - add the device to the car itself. On a road trip? Pour in a few litres of water and run an extension cord to it. This would be great at the cottage, because there's no way they'll get hydrogen up in the Muskoka area (Ontario, Canada) anytime in the near future.
You basically get the choice between a moderately-compressed image that the user can see, a moderately-compressed image that the user can't see, and a decently-compressed image that you have to pay tons of money for. Which of those three sounds best?
How about just using encoding the images into HTML? See JavaScriptGraphics for details. Yes, this is pretty messed up...
The use of the GIF format can be done currently without any patent issues, as long as you use the less-compressing RLE format.
.GIF at all then? If you want crappy RLE then just use .PCX. Remember those?
Ick. Why use
It should be noted that this version of Moz is not meant for universal public use. 1.3 is still the 'default' public version. So what's the harm of requiring a development version of java if you're running a development version of the browser?
My concern is that this really isn't an Alpha or a Beta. This is a release candidate. That makes it closer to a release version than a development version (ie, it's expected to have only a handful of known stopper bugs). The issues I'm worried about:
1 - What if Java 1.4.2 isn't ready soon enough?
2 - Even if it is, this is a RELEASE CANDIDATE browser which is going to be tested against an UNRELEASED BETA version of Java (NOT a release candidate).
3 - Assuming Java 1.4.2 is released fairly soon, there may not be sufficient time to fully test its integration with Mozilla by the time they want to release it (which, I understand, should be within a couple of weeks). For all we know, by the time Java 1.4.2 is released it may break everything. It might not, but it's not impossible.
From the release notes (emphasis mine):
Mozilla 1.4 requires Sun J2SE v 1.4.2 Beta to run Java applets
Why would they make a decision to make a browser dependent on an unreleased version of Java? 1.4.1_02 isn't good enough?
Actually, a *lot* of Toronto, Ontario (Canada)-based companies have been marketing their web sites at least for the last year with the TLD of .to
.to is not dedicated to Toronto, Ontario, it's been used as if it is for quite a while now around here. So I'd still say that it's a bit .late.
So while
Is your spool auto-winding?
I think it'd be a fun April Fool's joke to 'upgrade' the spring in your spool. Either you're never able to leave your apartment, or you manage to get out only to get suddenly snapped back home.
It'd be comical, in a cartoon sort of way. I'm thinking Wile E. Coyote with the slingshot into a wall.
And email is not a subscription service? Where exactly is this freely broadcasted Internet?
You can get free email anywhere you like. It's not a subscription any more than my house address is. My work email, for example, is not something I subscribed to.
What would YOU call sending ten million emails indiscriminately?
Unless there is some way to tell how old the person who checks the mailbox is, there is no way to hold people responsible for sending emails inappropriate for children to that mailbox. You can send porn to a physical mailbox, and the person who gets the mail may be a minor, but you can't be held responsible for that minor seeing "inappropriate" material.
Unless there is some way to tell how old the person who walks by is, there is no way to hold people responsible for posting pornographic billboards inappropriate for children on that street.
I'm sorry, but I just don't see your argument. 'Broadcasting' is no excuse for exposing children to this stuff. It's not acceptable out in public, nor on TV (unless you subscribe to something, in which case the control is on your side), so it sure as hell shouldn't be allowed on the Internet.
Global companies will do what's cheapest...and there will always be someone who'll be cheaper than you.
Won't this merely lead to ruin? If all the work is going overseas, and North Americans are put out of work, then who's going to be able to buy the products?
Caffeine is bug poison. Tropical plants use it to disturb the central nervous systems of insects, so that they discourage being eaten.
This explains why the mosquitoes avoid me at the cottage. No West-Nile worries for me!
...since you drink the diet stuff, the Aspartame might. If you want sweet, use the real stuff, not the chemical crap!
Amazing how much health info came up with that simple search -- the whole first page of the search were links to health warnings!
Find the idiot who cross-threaded the screw to begin with, and explain to them that their life depends on their ability to remove that screw without damaging the motherboard.
Who do you think posted the question to Ask Slashdot in the first place?
Fair enough, but using smaller bills hardly helps the problem of paying with more than 25 of one denomination, so the original question stands. Would I be unable to pay cash for something of that price? That seems just silly.
:)
Actually, the point I was making was really unrelated to the topic at hand anyway. I've never heard of the law, to be honest. But at the same time, I've never seen anyone buy anything of that amount in cash. Usually it's credit card, personal or certified cheque etc.
The point I was trying to make, was that it's funny that in Canada we have these fancy $100 bills that nobody will accept, even though they are fully legal tender. I'm nervous even carrying $50s, because they're always scrutinized so much. Easiest way to check for a real $50? Rub it against a piece of paper, and some red rubs off. They also have watermarks that light up when held under an IR lamp or something. The $20s do this too. The new $5 and $10 bills don't seem to do this, but rely on other features (microprints, shiny microfibers and watermarks). I don't think the $100s have been updated yet, which might be the reason why nobody wants to use them. (heh - just tested the above. I just happened to have a $5, a $10, a $20 and a $50 in my wallet just now by coincidence. No $100 here though - haven't seen them in many months)
If there IS a law, then I imagine it's probably for the reason you described. Perhaps it became some sort of weird problem at some point.
Maybe I should try it the next time I buy a new computer... pay in $20s
Also, what if I'm paying cash for something that is more than $2500, I can give 25+ 100 dollar bills? Surely no one would mind that.
Actually, they might. Hardly any stores in Canada accept $100 bills because of a large number of fakes in recent years. You'd have to pay with $20s or $50s.
I would like to see how this can deal with my stairs!!
The picture in my head resembles the Yoda fighting scene in Star Wars II... at least if it's starting from the top.
These statistics are about as useful as toilet paper, if you catch my drift.
I wish I hadn't...
#define ONE 0
#define ZERO 1
Hey! That's MY code! How dare you publish it without my permission?
Will it be running I.P.?
P2P (piss to pot)?
Brings a new meaning to flushing the buffer, doesn't it?
I think a pencil tip is equivalent to .00000001 VW beetles, or about 1,000,000,000 human-hair-widths.
Wait, wait. How many Libraries of Congress is that again?
Did the token fall out of the network? Have you managed to find it yet? (check on the floor behind your desk...)