The tags "will be able to generate alerts, notifying the owner by phone or e-mail message when a child arrives at school(...)
I can BET that once those tags are out kids will figure out how to fool them. The simplest thing comes to mind right away.... Because the system tracks TAGS and not KIDS, young ones figure out a good scheme: give the tag to a "keeper" for few classes and then skip school. Once you come back, pick up the tag from the keeper and go home without attending school, all while the parents think their loved one is learning.
Same thing with the dog... Bet someone soon would yell out:
"Honey come quick, I think sparky died under this tree, he has not been moving for 4 hours already.." Just moments before learning that the tag lies in a pile of poo after Sparky ate it and then... well.. put it out throug the other end.
My older folks used to tell me about how poor people in Eastern Europe were after the WWII under Soviet occupation. Since some of them could not afford glasses or mugs, they would often put a teabag in their mouth and they would drink water warmed up in the sun.
So now, I guess they can also enjoy ice cream by putting all the ingredients in their mouths and then pouring the liquid...... uhmm.... never mind...
But it turns out that American computer users aren't interested in ultra-thin and lightweight laptop PCs. That's why Transmeta has had more success in Japan(...)
I wonder if that has much to do with the US way of life - we see almost exact same trend in automobile and home appliance industries. People in the States like to drive muscle cars, SUVs, full sized cars, who guzzle gas like crazy. In Europe, the trend is reverse, smaller, more economic cars running on electricity or natural gas and well esablished. Here in the US, they all seem to be either developing very slow or even failing.
Same thing with the dryers and washers. Europe in Japan goes for making them more energy efficient and smaller (due to space constraints, mainly), where here in the US we dont see much of a move away from the full sized washers.
Because of that, I would think the quoted statement could very true.
Pretty cool considering I didn't have to buy a $120 cable to link the two.
You can buy a data cable for about $20-30 depending on where you're getting it from. And any desktop user can get an IR bridge for about the same price.
that this is a better idea than what is available here in the US, where you can obtain anyone's private records through a third party, as long as you have money.
Britney Spears' latest album has moved 4 million copies--a big number, but less than half what its predecessor did.
That's one statement that sums it all up: music industry's slumping sales are not because of the pirates, it's because of the crappier cookie-cutting kind of music that's being rewarmed over and over and over.
I won't believe that Britney's albums are not selling as well as they used to because everyone wants to get them for free.
(aside from the obvious, why would anyone listen to it, not mentioning OWNING a cd with her music???)
the numbers they gave in the articles were fairly abstract.. debt, savings, how much a person works... but it didn't specify how much things cost in different places in the states and how much you can afford by working part time or full time.
I think that the comparison would be better if it included price and wage comparison. For example, I can buy a sandwich at Subway in a small town in Oregon for 2 bucks less than in Silicon Valley. A grilled sandwich I will pay 3 dollars for in Kansas, I can buy for 8 bucks in Manhattan, NY.
Same goes with wages: a barista in starbucks in California would probably start around 8-9 bucks an hour, while the same person in Kansas would be getting paid probably around 5 bucks.
Then we have living expenses. A studio in a tiny town in PA might cost you 100 bucks/mo where as in SV you have to shell out probably 600+ greenbacks a month.
Now, THAT'S something that gives me a better idea how people are doing in different parts of the country.
Disclaimer: if you wana flame me because i got off my estimate by a fraction of a dollar, get a life. This is to make a point not to quote everything exactly.
For the link wary: http://www.thepoles.com/images/661EvTi.jpg
I thought she was all fat and clumsy since the web site talks about her falling into the water a few times already. Suprisingly, she looks better and is probably in a better shape than any of the slashdot readers.
Besides that I think that any of the less good-looking slashdot readers would be very unimpressed with her ability to handle high-tech gadgets.
It should have been either her or IPAQ in the water, but apparently she went for both. DOH!
That seems to be one of the very first pictures that the webcam took... It was probably when they tested it someplace else, before it found its way to the North Pole.
Particularily interesting is the below picture, which shows a temperature of over 120 degrees F!!! WTF is that at, Arizona?
And they are everywhere in EU, yet there are countless places you can find no service in the US.
Look at the map and compare size of Europe and the population density to size of US and population density of US.
It's not a good idea to put towers that cover empty lands of arizona, wyoming, montana, or even more populated states. That's the main reason why you get a better reception in more places in Europe than US.
Microsoft says it has 200 million people registered to use Passport, most of whom signed up because Microsoft told them it was needed to use (...) Hotmail e-mail service or Windows XP operating system. According to Gartner, a research company based in Stamford, Conn., only 2 percent signed up because of the service's stated purpose: to avoid having to use multiple identifications and passwords at different Web sites.
I find that very interesting but also a great pointer to whoever stops by to think about this. It only means that MS Passport is unsucessful in its goal, as most of the users (what it seems) were either tricked, forced, made, or strongly suggested (i just say that so i wouldnt get sued:P) that they HAVE to use MS passport.
Would you really want to use a product or a service for National ID that is a flop?
But then again only MS can sell you something that didnt work as a solution.
I would say it'sa perfect analogy to the movie Fight Club: where "women's fat asses were sold back to them" as soap - which was made out of their fat coming from a liposuction clinic.
In theory everybody wins. But what about ethics? Would MS go beyond that and national security issues to push their service into fed throat?
I probably won't be prioritizing government traffic on any of my routers
Anyone else thinks that their load of pr0n, warez, mp3s and slashdot news less important than some kind of government agency?
I bet that those that would will never be the ones with power to change it: "Who cares if they are bombing NYC again, i wanna get the whole music album and read that Jon Katz article. Hell with everything else."
Maybe that is taken to the extreme, but there is some truth to it.
"The amount of sleep you get impacts how alert you are, your risk for accidents, how you perform at work and school," said James Walsh, president of the National Sleep Foundation (...)"There's much more to life than how long you live."
Bullseye. Interestingly, the article does not specify exactly how more sleep would decrease your lifespan.
Hey, if I can sleep 9 hours a day, be rested the next day, and live to be 80 and die, I will do it! Is there really anyone who would want to sleep 6 hours a day, be constantly tired throughout their lifetime, and then die at an age of 100 where last 20 years where spent in a bed with bunch of tubes going from their body and the 'beep...beep' sound of the EKG machine at all machine?
Makes me wanna sleep in more. And take naps. Three times a day.
On September 13th I was looking at SGI's stock at $0.33 a share, and I was thinking about buying some of it.
I thought that the company had good prospects, even though it was failing at customer service, shipping ordered products, selling short and losgin a lot of money on a number of their x86 intel-based workstations.
They had built some amazing supercomputers for the national weather service, providing boxes for render farms for final fantasy, monster inc., and a bunch of other movie prodcutions (sorry, no time to look for links).
It seemed that it was the 'market analysts' and some disrgruntled customers and amazingly a lot of fear of 'restructuring' the company, that brought the stock price so low.
Somehow, I ended up not buying any. Now their stock is at around $2.14 a share.
I will be kicking my ass till I die that I didn't buy those shares.
It definately shows how much hype goes into inflating or deflating the stock prices and might not show the actual company value, performance, or ability to bring money to the stockholders.
I believe that SGI will come out on top after all.
Also, the Russian sub fleet is much stronger than the US fleet in many key ways, which can be easily researched
Their sinkings and nuclear accidents are far more often occuring than those of U.S.
I believe that it's better to have less more reliable subs than a lot of them that have low-morale crews, technical problems, and run aground or explode so often.
i agree with the above idea as a way to prove the industry that it is not a way to go.
I am STRONGLY for it, if those new CDs cost as much as the current ones out there ($14-15) or more than that due to the fact they are based on a new technology or whatever it is they want to stress.
I would be against it though, if those CDs were let's say $2-5. Then, and only THEN - in my opinion - most people would look into buying those CD's and not trying to go around it.
Of course, there will be always those that do that, but if you can buy a 15-track CD for 2 bucks... would you really care that you can't copy it? Now, if they would want you to pay 20 bucks for it, no wonder, you better have a chance to copy it for backup purposes (or whatever else you're doing with it;)).
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Man, it will suck to have it if your name is Dave.
Dave: "Quick, let's step out of the way of the truck..."
HAL:"I can't let you do that Dave...."
I can BET that once those tags are out kids will figure out how to fool them. The simplest thing comes to mind right away.... Because the system tracks TAGS and not KIDS, young ones figure out a good scheme: give the tag to a "keeper" for few classes and then skip school. Once you come back, pick up the tag from the keeper and go home without attending school, all while the parents think their loved one is learning.
Same thing with the dog... Bet someone soon would yell out:
"Honey come quick, I think sparky died under this tree, he has not been moving for 4 hours already.." Just moments before learning that the tag lies in a pile of poo after Sparky ate it and then... well.. put it out throug the other end.
My older folks used to tell me about how poor people in Eastern Europe were after the WWII under Soviet occupation. Since some of them could not afford glasses or mugs, they would often put a teabag in their mouth and they would drink water warmed up in the sun.
So now, I guess they can also enjoy ice cream by putting all the ingredients in their mouths and then pouring the liquid...... uhmm.... never mind...
breast-implants.la
.nyc, well see something along the lines of...
plastic-surgery.la
hair-replacement.la
tittiesandass.la
tittyandass.la
botoxcosmetic.la
Apparently LA is hard at work to hold up its image...
I bet that once they decide to have a TLD
laywers.nyc
sueyourass.nyc
eytonycomovahhere.nyc
Can you imagine a beowulf cluster of these?
this...
(...)average american will get over 3600 of them a year. The future of email is??"
just begs for re-writing it this way:
1. Send 3600 spam per American per year
2. ???
3. Profit!
Ironically, that's what the rough equation actually is....
I wonder if that has much to do with the US way of life - we see almost exact same trend in automobile and home appliance industries. People in the States like to drive muscle cars, SUVs, full sized cars, who guzzle gas like crazy. In Europe, the trend is reverse, smaller, more economic cars running on electricity or natural gas and well esablished. Here in the US, they all seem to be either developing very slow or even failing.
Same thing with the dryers and washers. Europe in Japan goes for making them more energy efficient and smaller (due to space constraints, mainly), where here in the US we dont see much of a move away from the full sized washers.
Because of that, I would think the quoted statement could very true.
You can buy a data cable for about $20-30 depending on where you're getting it from. And any desktop user can get an IR bridge for about the same price.
that this is a better idea than what is available here in the US, where you can obtain anyone's private records through a third party, as long as you have money.
Britney Spears' latest album has moved 4 million copies--a big number, but less than half what its predecessor did.
That's one statement that sums it all up: music industry's slumping sales are not because of the pirates, it's because of the crappier cookie-cutting kind of music that's being rewarmed over and over and over.
I won't believe that Britney's albums are not selling as well as they used to because everyone wants to get them for free.
(aside from the obvious, why would anyone listen to it, not mentioning OWNING a cd with her music???)
the numbers they gave in the articles were fairly abstract.. debt, savings, how much a person works... but it didn't specify how much things cost in different places in the states and how much you can afford by working part time or full time.
I think that the comparison would be better if it included price and wage comparison. For example, I can buy a sandwich at Subway in a small town in Oregon for 2 bucks less than in Silicon Valley. A grilled sandwich I will pay 3 dollars for in Kansas, I can buy for 8 bucks in Manhattan, NY.
Same goes with wages: a barista in starbucks in California would probably start around 8-9 bucks an hour, while the same person in Kansas would be getting paid probably around 5 bucks.
Then we have living expenses. A studio in a tiny town in PA might cost you 100 bucks/mo where as in SV you have to shell out probably 600+ greenbacks a month.
Now, THAT'S something that gives me a better idea how people are doing in different parts of the country.
Disclaimer: if you wana flame me because i got off my estimate by a fraction of a dollar, get a life. This is to make a point not to quote everything exactly.
Here's the link to see Tina Sjogren.
For the link wary: http://www.thepoles.com/images/661EvTi.jpg
I thought she was all fat and clumsy since the web site talks about her falling into the water a few times already. Suprisingly, she looks better and is probably in a better shape than any of the slashdot readers.
Besides that I think that any of the less good-looking slashdot readers would be very unimpressed with her ability to handle high-tech gadgets.
It should have been either her or IPAQ in the water, but apparently she went for both. DOH!
I have my neighbor's dogs barking all day and half the night, and we have never had any earthquakes in Oregon.
Ahhh...... I guess the Greek dogs are a special model, or maybe the US dogs are just not tuned up.
That seems to be one of the very first pictures that the webcam took... It was probably when they tested it someplace else, before it found its way to the North Pole.
Particularily interesting is the below picture, which shows a temperature of over 120 degrees F!!! WTF is that at, Arizona?
http://www.pmel.noaa.gov/npole/images/noaa-2002- 04 11-0149.jpg
Look at the map and compare size of Europe and the population density to size of US and population density of US.
It's not a good idea to put towers that cover empty lands of arizona, wyoming, montana, or even more populated states. That's the main reason why you get a better reception in more places in Europe than US.
but I think that the Internet surely made the world more tolerable.
I find that very interesting but also a great pointer to whoever stops by to think about this. It only means that MS Passport is unsucessful in its goal, as most of the users (what it seems) were either tricked, forced, made, or strongly suggested (i just say that so i wouldnt get sued :P) that they HAVE to use MS passport.
Would you really want to use a product or a service for National ID that is a flop?
But then again only MS can sell you something that didnt work as a solution.
I would say it'sa perfect analogy to the movie Fight Club: where "women's fat asses were sold back to them" as soap - which was made out of their fat coming from a liposuction clinic.
In theory everybody wins. But what about ethics? Would MS go beyond that and national security issues to push their service into fed throat?
Anyone else thinks that their load of pr0n, warez, mp3s and slashdot news less important than some kind of government agency?
I bet that those that would will never be the ones with power to change it: "Who cares if they are bombing NYC again, i wanna get the whole music album and read that Jon Katz article. Hell with everything else."
Maybe that is taken to the extreme, but there is some truth to it.
(i've purchased chirstmas presents on christmas day. Yes, i am that pathetic.)
I think a lot of people does that. Beside that, no one will know unless you tell them you got it on xmas day, so where's the problem? :)
Now, have you ever ordered a xmas present on xmas day over the Internet? That's pathetic.
Quoting the article:
"The amount of sleep you get impacts how alert you are, your risk for accidents, how you perform at work and school," said James Walsh, president of the National Sleep Foundation (...)"There's much more to life than how long you live."
Bullseye. Interestingly, the article does not specify exactly how more sleep would decrease your lifespan.
Hey, if I can sleep 9 hours a day, be rested the next day, and live to be 80 and die, I will do it! Is there really anyone who would want to sleep 6 hours a day, be constantly tired throughout their lifetime, and then die at an age of 100 where last 20 years where spent in a bed with bunch of tubes going from their body and the 'beep...beep' sound of the EKG machine at all machine?
Makes me wanna sleep in more. And take naps. Three times a day.
The movie had to be cut down to 3 hours or pops and kids wouldn't be able to watch it all and would get pissed and never come again.
The book, in turn, is what.... 400 pages long and it takes you 10+ hours to get through it?
And you can take a rest from the book and come back to exploring an explanations of every detail, as with the movie you cant?
Those are the major reasons I can think of.
On September 13th I was looking at SGI's stock at $0.33 a share, and I was thinking about buying some of it.
I thought that the company had good prospects, even though it was failing at customer service, shipping ordered products, selling short and losgin a lot of money on a number of their x86 intel-based workstations.
They had built some amazing supercomputers for the national weather service, providing boxes for render farms for final fantasy, monster inc., and a bunch of other movie prodcutions (sorry, no time to look for links).
It seemed that it was the 'market analysts' and some disrgruntled customers and amazingly a lot of fear of 'restructuring' the company, that brought the stock price so low.
Somehow, I ended up not buying any. Now their stock is at around $2.14 a share.
I will be kicking my ass till I die that I didn't buy those shares.
It definately shows how much hype goes into inflating or deflating the stock prices and might not show the actual company value, performance, or ability to bring money to the stockholders.
I believe that SGI will come out on top after all.
Their sinkings and nuclear accidents are far more often occuring than those of U.S.
I believe that it's better to have less more reliable subs than a lot of them that have low-morale crews, technical problems, and run aground or explode so often.
i agree with the above idea as a way to prove the industry that it is not a way to go.
I am STRONGLY for it, if those new CDs cost as much as the current ones out there ($14-15) or more than that due to the fact they are based on a new technology or whatever it is they want to stress.
I would be against it though, if those CDs were let's say $2-5. Then, and only THEN - in my opinion - most people would look into buying those CD's and not trying to go around it.
Of course, there will be always those that do that, but if you can buy a 15-track CD for 2 bucks... would you really care that you can't copy it? Now, if they would want you to pay 20 bucks for it, no wonder, you better have a chance to copy it for backup purposes (or whatever else you're doing with it ;)).
There is a little bit more information about it on cnet:
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-8022666.html? tag=mn_hd
although it does not contain too many facts beyond the actual case and the judgement.