This at least looks like it could be a decent sequel, and is not a "remake". Hollywood is remaking a lot of crap, and badly I might add (I don't have high hopes for The Day The Earth Stood Still, or Short Circuit for example), but this one looks like it could do well. I also like to think of Jeff Bridges as someone who is choosy about what scripts he'll go for, but that might just be my idealism talking.
Well, it's not the first console to add useful stuff that should have been included in the original. Heck Sony only just deal with rumble (and the PS3 STILL doesn't ship with DS3 controllers), but I agree that this is more of an admission of inadequacy in the original controller than it is a "cool add on".
Are you kidding me? They do outsource their production. Pretty much all of it actually. Their stuff is just that popular. Look at the sales figures, they out pace the sales of everything else, unless you count baseball cards and chewing gum.
There's lots of solutions for that, not the least of which being telling the CC company to reverse the charges, but there are other options for making payments. Prepaid parking passes, some RFID stuff (which privacy advocates will get bent out of shape over) or just the same kind of transponder some toll highways use. If it's done right, if/when it breaks down, it's more likely it won't charge you rather than charge you extra. "If it's done right" is quite the qualifier, but occasionally some things do get done right.
With parking fee collection becoming more computerized, it makes less and less sense to have a flat rate for an arbitrary amount of time, especially as prices go up. If it were still 25 cents per 15 mins, that wouldn't matter as much, but not only is the price at least $2/hour (downtown where I live), but it's one hour minimum. What if you only want to stop for 5 mins to grab something from a small store? (And you know you'll get a ticket in those 5 mins)
Now $2 isn't a whole lot of money, but implementing a system that allows you to "refill" a meter wirelessly makes less sense to me than swiping your credit card, or whatever payment option is available, and having it wait you until you leave, then bill you for the time you used. I love neat new techno gadgetry as much as everyone else (this is slashdot) but sometimes you gotta keep it simple.
They won't start spitting out Oxygen. The electrolosis that generates the hydrogen would create oxygen, but using the hydrogen will re-combine it with oxygen, turning it back to water.
That's the same thing I was thinking. Having said that, I don't think I could bring myself to do that to my comic collection. There is a certain amount of sentimental attachment that goes along with collecting, not to mention it's nice to have a hard copy, especially when your hard disk explodes, taking all the data with it. (Or your raid array gets struck by lightening, and your off site backup gets eaten by dingos... whatever. What? It could happen!)
Simple, you lawyer up and sue for wrongful prosecution. Depending on where you are, if it's an arresting offense, then you also get wrongful arrest. If the cop's a dick (which almost NEVER happens/sarcasm), then there may be further charges. If a cop has nothing better to do than try to enforce laws he really doesn't understand, they're probably not the kind of person you can reason with anyway, so all you can do is take them to task when they bark up your tree.
Also, AFAIK, there's no law anywhere in Canada (Which I assume is where you're from as I don't think TELUS has presence in the US) that prohibits the use of public wi-fi. That said, if you're traveling the US, you may run into trouble depending on where you are.
Not that I agree 100% with the article (I agree partially, but in a limited, and less sensationalized way), but you kinda missed, and proved, their point. It's not transporting your weight that they refer to in fuel savings, but the transport of the extra food you would have eaten, and you say you spend less on food by not buying certain things, which means that those things don't need to be transported, etc. It makes a more obvious difference if you think of it in terms of how much less a specific store would need per shipment, or how many fewer shipments they would require if hundreds of people stopped drinking soda, or consumed less in general, or whatever. Then imagine that nationwide. It would definitely make a difference.
Basically, there is a significant translation between over eating (Regardless of how heavy you are. You may have a fast metabolism an just eat more than you need.) and food/fuel consumption. It's an extension of out of control consumerism, which is certainly not limited to fat people. In fact I'm pretty sure fat people (to some extent) are as much or more a result of said consumerism as they are a specific contributor.
There's recently been a big push to "eat locally" which basically refers to watching how far the food you eat travels from production to your kitchen, and trying to keep it under 100km, which would save a lot of time, money, and energy, as well as help support and sustain local farmers and other food related industries. It involves less finger pointing, but it nicely illustrates just how much can be conserved by watching where we eat, and we could be affected similarly by how much we eat.
It took a while for the mouse to catch on as a computer interface. And if you compare the first mouse to even one of today's cheapest offerings, most users will agree the original sucks in comparison. Likewise, it took time for the touch screen interface to catch on. The accuracy used to be questionable at best, and they would frequently start to fail after a modest amount of use. (as is many iPhones still developed "dead" spots on their touch screens)
Any technology takes time to "catch on" in a mainstream fashion due to several reasons. 1) it's pricey, 2) the first/early version(s) is/are lacking in ergonomics, 3) the first/early version(s) is/are lacking in quality/robustness.
All these things are improved as technology matures, the touch screen just followed the normal progression of things. It was expensive, poorly implemented, and fragile, and is now affordable, effective (for certain applications), and robust (mostly), and will continue to improve.
Downloading to levied media is legal, uploading is still illegal. But since the making available arguement is getting struck down left right and center, hopefully you'll still be ok. Still to be safe, just set your P2P client of choice to "leech".;)
Couldn't you have installed XP via a USB CD drive? Just curious. I haven't had a chance to play with one of these little suckers yet. I've heard you can squeeze OSX on 'em too, which could be a hoot. With 16GB USB thumb drives coming down in price, it opens up some fun possibilities.
It's one of the problems with a public moderation system. I liked it better when you had to earn mod points. I think it was less broken that way, but hey, it'll never be perfect.
If you change the proxy settings on routers that have them, you could wreak all kinds of havoc, as you'd have access to all traffic, not just dns requests. Or, you could update the firmware to something custom, with all kinds of sneaky badness hidden within, including blocking future clean firmware updates.
It's a little extra work, but the companies that make these things should have unique passwords per device, or at least have logging into the admin interface wirelessly off by default. In an attempt to make things "just work" or "work right out of the box" security has suffered greatly.
Also, if people need to read one page of detailed instructions to make their new device work, it will give them at least some tiny education about security. If they can't handle that, then they can pay someone to set it up for them. There's really no excuse for openly offering up security holes this big.
I would assume they mean 640x480, which is what "VGA" technically means, with QVGA SVGA XVGA (or XGA) WVGA and others representing specific resolutions as well.
I think getting out of the war should be #1. Then the billions of dollars per second spent on it can be used to accomplish the rest of the list. To say nothing of the lives saved...
I'm not sure where you live, but there is no where in Canada or the US where that would hold water. If I show someone a piece of paper with specified terms on it, whether I work with, live with, am related to them, etc. it means absolutely nothing without a signature.
The reason for this is that 1) without the signature it can't be proven you saw the document, 2) without you consenting to the document, it's not binding. It's the same reason you have to click yes before a software EULA is binding.
I think you may have put too much trust in your manager.
While it did have hardware compatibility, there were problems from the initial launch until a few firmware updates later. Probably something to do with the way the PS3 emulates PS1 and PS2 memory.
What Toronto needs to do is declare bankruptcy (Like NYC in 1976), then when the Canadian Dollar plummets the federal and provincial government will take the city's finances seriously. If Miller's balls ever drop we might see it happen. We need something drastic to offset the Federal Finance Minister laughing when presented with Toronto's cash problems.
Then again, this being Canada, we won't actually declare bankruptcy, we'll just talk about it.
OK, I'm seeing a lot of posts about how dumb this girl is. Have you looked at the shirt? It's really not threatening unless you watch too much TV. And play doh, or silly putty do NOT look like C4, nor do terrorists go walking around playing with it, or wearing a detonator on their chest. They would try to conceal it.
Boston has a problem. If you saw the last bomb scare you probably laughed. Mind you no one had a MACHINE GUN pointed at them then. Who thought a machine gun was a good idea? Wouldn't you want a sharp shooter perhaps? A machine gun has a much greater chance of civilian casualties.
The air port f*cked up here, and the girl didn't think there was anything wrong with her shirt BECAUSE THERE WASN'T! What if you're wearing one of those blinky shirts from think geek? They're not much different. If she was getting ON a plane then MAYBE there'd be reason to detain her and examine her shirt thoroughly, but not arrest her, and certainly not wip out some automatic weapons.
If you think this was a reasonable response, you've totally bought Bush's kool aid. The boogie man isn't hiding behind every corner. Chill the hell out.
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This at least looks like it could be a decent sequel, and is not a "remake". Hollywood is remaking a lot of crap, and badly I might add (I don't have high hopes for The Day The Earth Stood Still, or Short Circuit for example), but this one looks like it could do well. I also like to think of Jeff Bridges as someone who is choosy about what scripts he'll go for, but that might just be my idealism talking.
Well, it's not the first console to add useful stuff that should have been included in the original. Heck Sony only just deal with rumble (and the PS3 STILL doesn't ship with DS3 controllers), but I agree that this is more of an admission of inadequacy in the original controller than it is a "cool add on".
Are you kidding me? They do outsource their production. Pretty much all of it actually. Their stuff is just that popular. Look at the sales figures, they out pace the sales of everything else, unless you count baseball cards and chewing gum.
http://www.vgchartz.com/
There's lots of solutions for that, not the least of which being telling the CC company to reverse the charges, but there are other options for making payments. Prepaid parking passes, some RFID stuff (which privacy advocates will get bent out of shape over) or just the same kind of transponder some toll highways use. If it's done right, if/when it breaks down, it's more likely it won't charge you rather than charge you extra. "If it's done right" is quite the qualifier, but occasionally some things do get done right.
With parking fee collection becoming more computerized, it makes less and less sense to have a flat rate for an arbitrary amount of time, especially as prices go up. If it were still 25 cents per 15 mins, that wouldn't matter as much, but not only is the price at least $2/hour (downtown where I live), but it's one hour minimum. What if you only want to stop for 5 mins to grab something from a small store? (And you know you'll get a ticket in those 5 mins)
Now $2 isn't a whole lot of money, but implementing a system that allows you to "refill" a meter wirelessly makes less sense to me than swiping your credit card, or whatever payment option is available, and having it wait you until you leave, then bill you for the time you used. I love neat new techno gadgetry as much as everyone else (this is slashdot) but sometimes you gotta keep it simple.
They won't start spitting out Oxygen. The electrolosis that generates the hydrogen would create oxygen, but using the hydrogen will re-combine it with oxygen, turning it back to water.
That's the same thing I was thinking. Having said that, I don't think I could bring myself to do that to my comic collection. There is a certain amount of sentimental attachment that goes along with collecting, not to mention it's nice to have a hard copy, especially when your hard disk explodes, taking all the data with it. (Or your raid array gets struck by lightening, and your off site backup gets eaten by dingos... whatever. What? It could happen!)
Simple, you lawyer up and sue for wrongful prosecution. Depending on where you are, if it's an arresting offense, then you also get wrongful arrest. If the cop's a dick (which almost NEVER happens /sarcasm), then there may be further charges. If a cop has nothing better to do than try to enforce laws he really doesn't understand, they're probably not the kind of person you can reason with anyway, so all you can do is take them to task when they bark up your tree.
Also, AFAIK, there's no law anywhere in Canada (Which I assume is where you're from as I don't think TELUS has presence in the US) that prohibits the use of public wi-fi. That said, if you're traveling the US, you may run into trouble depending on where you are.
You're really tired of getting pwned online in quake aren't you? (or pac man or whatever it is kids play these days) ;)
Not that I agree 100% with the article (I agree partially, but in a limited, and less sensationalized way), but you kinda missed, and proved, their point. It's not transporting your weight that they refer to in fuel savings, but the transport of the extra food you would have eaten, and you say you spend less on food by not buying certain things, which means that those things don't need to be transported, etc. It makes a more obvious difference if you think of it in terms of how much less a specific store would need per shipment, or how many fewer shipments they would require if hundreds of people stopped drinking soda, or consumed less in general, or whatever. Then imagine that nationwide. It would definitely make a difference.
Basically, there is a significant translation between over eating (Regardless of how heavy you are. You may have a fast metabolism an just eat more than you need.) and food/fuel consumption. It's an extension of out of control consumerism, which is certainly not limited to fat people. In fact I'm pretty sure fat people (to some extent) are as much or more a result of said consumerism as they are a specific contributor.
There's recently been a big push to "eat locally" which basically refers to watching how far the food you eat travels from production to your kitchen, and trying to keep it under 100km, which would save a lot of time, money, and energy, as well as help support and sustain local farmers and other food related industries. It involves less finger pointing, but it nicely illustrates just how much can be conserved by watching where we eat, and we could be affected similarly by how much we eat.
It took a while for the mouse to catch on as a computer interface. And if you compare the first mouse to even one of today's cheapest offerings, most users will agree the original sucks in comparison. Likewise, it took time for the touch screen interface to catch on. The accuracy used to be questionable at best, and they would frequently start to fail after a modest amount of use. (as is many iPhones still developed "dead" spots on their touch screens)
Any technology takes time to "catch on" in a mainstream fashion due to several reasons. 1) it's pricey, 2) the first/early version(s) is/are lacking in ergonomics, 3) the first/early version(s) is/are lacking in quality/robustness.
All these things are improved as technology matures, the touch screen just followed the normal progression of things. It was expensive, poorly implemented, and fragile, and is now affordable, effective (for certain applications), and robust (mostly), and will continue to improve.
Downloading to levied media is legal, uploading is still illegal. But since the making available arguement is getting struck down left right and center, hopefully you'll still be ok. Still to be safe, just set your P2P client of choice to "leech". ;)
Couldn't you have installed XP via a USB CD drive? Just curious. I haven't had a chance to play with one of these little suckers yet. I've heard you can squeeze OSX on 'em too, which could be a hoot. With 16GB USB thumb drives coming down in price, it opens up some fun possibilities.
I think there's a haiku in there somewhere... but my brain hurts too much to try and find it.
Bad moderation? On slashdot? No way!
It's one of the problems with a public moderation system. I liked it better when you had to earn mod points. I think it was less broken that way, but hey, it'll never be perfect.
Sounds pretty good. I can't see any real reason not to do that, and it nicely solves the primary problem.
So, about 1/5 of what's spent on iraq so far, never mind afghanastan...
http://www.nationalpriorities.org/costofwar_home
http://zfacts.com/p/447.html
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11880954/
Hmmm... well infrastructure's not a priority, let's stick with blowing stuff up, and pissing people off.
If you change the proxy settings on routers that have them, you could wreak all kinds of havoc, as you'd have access to all traffic, not just dns requests. Or, you could update the firmware to something custom, with all kinds of sneaky badness hidden within, including blocking future clean firmware updates.
It's a little extra work, but the companies that make these things should have unique passwords per device, or at least have logging into the admin interface wirelessly off by default. In an attempt to make things "just work" or "work right out of the box" security has suffered greatly.
Also, if people need to read one page of detailed instructions to make their new device work, it will give them at least some tiny education about security. If they can't handle that, then they can pay someone to set it up for them. There's really no excuse for openly offering up security holes this big.
I would assume they mean 640x480, which is what "VGA" technically means, with QVGA SVGA XVGA (or XGA) WVGA and others representing specific resolutions as well.
Here's an image from wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Vector_Video_Standards2.svg
I think getting out of the war should be #1. Then the billions of dollars per second spent on it can be used to accomplish the rest of the list. To say nothing of the lives saved...
I can't see it holding up in court. Care to sight an example?
I'm not sure where you live, but there is no where in Canada or the US where that would hold water. If I show someone a piece of paper with specified terms on it, whether I work with, live with, am related to them, etc. it means absolutely nothing without a signature.
The reason for this is that 1) without the signature it can't be proven you saw the document, 2) without you consenting to the document, it's not binding. It's the same reason you have to click yes before a software EULA is binding.
I think you may have put too much trust in your manager.
While it did have hardware compatibility, there were problems from the initial launch until a few firmware updates later. Probably something to do with the way the PS3 emulates PS1 and PS2 memory.
http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/11/13/2025220
What Toronto needs to do is declare bankruptcy (Like NYC in 1976), then when the Canadian Dollar plummets the federal and provincial government will take the city's finances seriously. If Miller's balls ever drop we might see it happen. We need something drastic to offset the Federal Finance Minister laughing when presented with Toronto's cash problems.
Then again, this being Canada, we won't actually declare bankruptcy, we'll just talk about it.
OK, I'm seeing a lot of posts about how dumb this girl is. Have you looked at the shirt? It's really not threatening unless you watch too much TV. And play doh, or silly putty do NOT look like C4, nor do terrorists go walking around playing with it, or wearing a detonator on their chest. They would try to conceal it.
Boston has a problem. If you saw the last bomb scare you probably laughed. Mind you no one had a MACHINE GUN pointed at them then. Who thought a machine gun was a good idea? Wouldn't you want a sharp shooter perhaps? A machine gun has a much greater chance of civilian casualties.
The air port f*cked up here, and the girl didn't think there was anything wrong with her shirt BECAUSE THERE WASN'T! What if you're wearing one of those blinky shirts from think geek? They're not much different. If she was getting ON a plane then MAYBE there'd be reason to detain her and examine her shirt thoroughly, but not arrest her, and certainly not wip out some automatic weapons.
If you think this was a reasonable response, you've totally bought Bush's kool aid. The boogie man isn't hiding behind every corner. Chill the hell out.