while I'm not sold on the idea that we need another phone OS, I would think the combination of a cheap tablet with an HTML5 based OS on it is a decent alternative to laptops and netbooks for elementary education purposes. Books, interactive exercises, and word-processing abilities all in one. Allow a school to run their own Google Office-style server to keep things local...could be neat (:
He had as much chance of surviving a nuke in a fridge as he did flying off a cliff in a heavily laden life raft into a river far below...its FUN you dummies, anyone remember laughter?
he actually explains his point quite well in the second sentence of his post (:
certain jobs place you in contact with certain groups of the population, and after time, the workers begin to see the customers traits as representative of the population in general.
According to the Lucas panel at Comic-Con this year, Lucas saw what they were doing and basically said "Make it a movie". After the movie, they have 22 30 minute episodes waiting to play every Friday night to continue the story.
The reviews bug me a bit, because what they showed at the Con was really good. I went in thinking "well, I'll watch it because it's Star Wars" and left feeling really excited about seeing it. Guess I'll find out this weekend (:
If the lack of DRM helps someone take away the rights of an artist to be compensated for their music (for example), is that still restrictive and antithetical to freedom? If kidnapping is restricting freedom, then wouldn't theft be a restriction also?
Just curious, I don't want this to sound like a flame. I'm 50/50 on the whole DRM thing...I understand people wanting to protect their creations, and I also understand those who think some things should be open to everyone.
Your point is valid and well said...just made me think of things from the other side when I read it (:
It was tongue in cheek, but I wasn't trying for pure humor. Those little phones that can have 4 preprogrammed numbers are a great idea for smaller children. Some sort of tracking system would also be great for smaller children. I picture this would work out for kids that get lost in stores, malls, Disneyland, and other such places. I doubt it would work very well in a kidnapping situation...the kidnappers could just toss the phone into some guys vehicle and buy themselves quite a bit of time.
The guy who started this thread said he would of loved for his little brother to have one, but it was now not such a big deal because the little brother was 15. Exactly! I'm not going to make my older children carry something like that...they can have a regular cellphone...because all you people who think I'm an asshole because of my apparent lack of trust are correct about the trust issue...you need to have some trust in a child at that point in time; if you don't, then you have worse problems than GPS tracking. I know for a fact that even if I had a cellphone as a teenager, my mom wouldn't of been able to figure out where I was anyway. And if she could, I would of just left it somewhere (; I wouldn't use this to "spy" on my kids...I would use it to give them them the comfort that they could easily reach mom or dad if they needed to. Being lost can be a traumatic thing...we have the tools now to fix that, people shouldn't be afraid of technology...especially Slashdotters (;
This wasn't a "you rode your bike to school so your parents are evil" remark...those of you who took it to that point need to chill out. Your parents knew where you were...riding your bike to school. They "monitored" your location. I'm assuming you also rode your bike home from school. I'm also assuming that if you didnt arrive home within a certain time period (done by cleverly "analyzing" the time school let out and the time it took for you to travel that distance...something they "recorded" in their heads) your parents would start worrying and attempt to "track" your location, by calling the school or your friends.
The world can sometimes be a dangerous place. I do believe that the news blows a lot of this out of proportion, but bad things still can and do happen to people. Having the technology to help fix this problem is a good thing. Can it be abused? Sure...just like every other thing out there. But if we said every new gadget was "bad" because it could be used for nefarious purposes, we'd have nothing. It's up to YOU to do the right thing with it.
If parents are not monitoring, recording and analyzing their kids activities and whereabouts, then they are not very good parents. I'd personally go as far as saying they are bad parents.
I was working second shift when I got it (on the day it came out...loved the first one). So I got home around midnite and started it up. Around 3am I had to pick up the phone, dial my friend, and keep him on the line, cuz I knew when I looked up from the screen, there was gonna be some sort of psychic monkey on the other side of the room.
Definately a great game...I recently put it back on my PC and played it co-op with a younger nephew...he apparently had nightmares the next few nights (: Glad to know it wasn't just me (:
The problem with people at Slashdot defining Democracy and Republic mostly comes from the fact that 90% of them feel the differences are only an extra 50% worker efficiency and that democracies are immune to propoganda. Sure, republics may have a tiny bit more corruption to deal with, but not enough to make a huge difference.
I don't have a white paper or anything to point too, but a friend of mine is a manager of a game store in Phoenix, Arizona. I asked him if they had any 360's left, and he said "Nope, sold every one in the opening weekend." So, snickering, I asked how many were returned as defective. "None," he replied. "Not a single return in the entire southwest region in fact."
Where are your statistics to prove the previous poster is wrong? To chastise the poster about not having any facts, then not providing any of your own is pretty lame. To then imply in your post that the problem with the 360 is that it "can get hot enough to start a fire", when noone, not even the guy in the article, has had such a thing happen, is even worse.
I don't care what your opinion of Microsoft as a company is...they have been replacing any defective devices. They say there haven't been many of those, and even if we all think they are evil and lying their asses off, the fact that a chunk sold from a certain region of the US haven't had any issues shows that this isn't as nearly a big deal as certain media outlets wish it were. This at most is an issue of a certain batch of power supplies having problems. I'd be curious to see a map of where the complaints are coming from now, and see if its isolated to a certain shipment.
It isn't just you; there's a ton of people out there who want to see MS burn, but this isn't the incident that will bring them down. By replacing defective devices as soon as they are reported, MS is showing a willingness to help those who ended up with busted 360's. Kind of hard to push a lawsuit against the company, when the first question any lawyer would ask is, "Well, did you call and get a new, working power supply?" When the guy replies, "Uh..no. I just wanted to sue them instead and make a bundle of cash," the judge is gonna bang that gavel, and say "Case closed!" And Microsoft wins another one.
Heh, which book was it? In all fairness to authors, I'd have to say the same thing about Tolkien...I love the books, but its pretty heavy on the description in places (; I'm curious which title you were reading, cuz I can think of at least two of his books where a description like that would be important to the story (;
Anyway, I just noticed (yeah, i read the article the first time, just not close enough I guess), that this poll was created from 132 responses...definately not even enough responses to be considered valid. Neuromancer should of been #1, and then Gibson probably should of had at least 3 more spots on there (;
This seemed closer to the "Top 20 Nerd Books", not the "Top 20 Geeky Books".
K, I'll keep your card safe...now goto Amazon.com! (;
I have the Otherland books sitting by my bed, just never got to reading them. Seen them mentioned enough in this discussion that I guess I better check them out. Working on the Quicksilver trilogy (Stephenson) right now, and enjoying them a lot so far. A lot different then the more cyberpunkish books, but a heck of a story (:
Personally, I don't think it's so much a "politics" thing, but an "age" thing, where, while I know we do have our fair share of "old folks", I'm guessing most readers (and repliers) are under 30...maybe an editor can provide numbers for proof.
This ties in to something my father told me, "If you're under 30 and not a Democrat, you don't have a heart. If you're over 30 and you're not a Republican, you don't have a brain." A little general, but I've always found it a humorous and, most of the time, true statement.
Back on topic, I'm upset Neuromancer wasn't #1, and Illuminatus at least in the top 5. I've read the trilogy at least 20 times. I own at least 2 copies of that huge beast, and I think 4 Neuromancers...I keep loaning them out, then wanting to read them and buying another, then getting my "original" back again (:
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while I'm not sold on the idea that we need another phone OS, I would think the combination of a cheap tablet with an HTML5 based OS on it is a decent alternative to laptops and netbooks for elementary education purposes. Books, interactive exercises, and word-processing abilities all in one. Allow a school to run their own Google Office-style server to keep things local...could be neat (:
He had as much chance of surviving a nuke in a fridge as he did flying off a cliff in a heavily laden life raft into a river far below...its FUN you dummies, anyone remember laughter?
It's a satchel...Indiana Jones has one :/
Sean Penn, is that you?
US health care system is fine. The US health insurance system sucks balls though.
he actually explains his point quite well in the second sentence of his post (:
certain jobs place you in contact with certain groups of the population, and after time, the workers begin to see the customers traits as representative of the population in general.
It was made for TV from the get-go.
According to the Lucas panel at Comic-Con this year, Lucas saw what they were doing and basically said "Make it a movie". After the movie, they have 22 30 minute episodes waiting to play every Friday night to continue the story.
The reviews bug me a bit, because what they showed at the Con was really good. I went in thinking "well, I'll watch it because it's Star Wars" and left feeling really excited about seeing it. Guess I'll find out this weekend (:
I swear to God!
You're not like the other people, here, in the trailer park...
No, no, no...it's not funny if you have to explain it :/
If the lack of DRM helps someone take away the rights of an artist to be compensated for their music (for example), is that still restrictive and antithetical to freedom? If kidnapping is restricting freedom, then wouldn't theft be a restriction also?
Just curious, I don't want this to sound like a flame. I'm 50/50 on the whole DRM thing...I understand people wanting to protect their creations, and I also understand those who think some things should be open to everyone.
Your point is valid and well said...just made me think of things from the other side when I read it (:
It was tongue in cheek, but I wasn't trying for pure humor. Those little phones that can have 4 preprogrammed numbers are a great idea for smaller children. Some sort of tracking system would also be great for smaller children. I picture this would work out for kids that get lost in stores, malls, Disneyland, and other such places. I doubt it would work very well in a kidnapping situation...the kidnappers could just toss the phone into some guys vehicle and buy themselves quite a bit of time.
The guy who started this thread said he would of loved for his little brother to have one, but it was now not such a big deal because the little brother was 15. Exactly! I'm not going to make my older children carry something like that...they can have a regular cellphone...because all you people who think I'm an asshole because of my apparent lack of trust are correct about the trust issue...you need to have some trust in a child at that point in time; if you don't, then you have worse problems than GPS tracking. I know for a fact that even if I had a cellphone as a teenager, my mom wouldn't of been able to figure out where I was anyway. And if she could, I would of just left it somewhere (; I wouldn't use this to "spy" on my kids...I would use it to give them them the comfort that they could easily reach mom or dad if they needed to. Being lost can be a traumatic thing...we have the tools now to fix that, people shouldn't be afraid of technology...especially Slashdotters (;
This wasn't a "you rode your bike to school so your parents are evil" remark...those of you who took it to that point need to chill out. Your parents knew where you were...riding your bike to school. They "monitored" your location. I'm assuming you also rode your bike home from school. I'm also assuming that if you didnt arrive home within a certain time period (done by cleverly "analyzing" the time school let out and the time it took for you to travel that distance...something they "recorded" in their heads) your parents would start worrying and attempt to "track" your location, by calling the school or your friends.
The world can sometimes be a dangerous place. I do believe that the news blows a lot of this out of proportion, but bad things still can and do happen to people. Having the technology to help fix this problem is a good thing. Can it be abused? Sure...just like every other thing out there. But if we said every new gadget was "bad" because it could be used for nefarious purposes, we'd have nothing. It's up to YOU to do the right thing with it.
FYI, I am not a parent won't ever be.
If parents are not monitoring, recording and analyzing their kids activities and whereabouts, then they are not very good parents. I'd personally go as far as saying they are bad parents.
God forbid we compare the guts of each OS...if they are both shiny, they MUST be the same!
They make no profit from their own bugs. If the problem is caused by a bug in their software, the charges for that support request are reversed.
if there was a category, 32 hours wouldn't come even close to the record...not a "real" gamer, are you? (;
OMG, System Shock 2...
I was working second shift when I got it (on the day it came out...loved the first one). So I got home around midnite and started it up. Around 3am I had to pick up the phone, dial my friend, and keep him on the line, cuz I knew when I looked up from the screen, there was gonna be some sort of psychic monkey on the other side of the room.
Definately a great game...I recently put it back on my PC and played it co-op with a younger nephew...he apparently had nightmares the next few nights (: Glad to know it wasn't just me (:
um, all Stormreach is, is a bunch of a instance dungeons...
heck, what if it sucks the ship and the island its being launched from and sends it all the way to Pluto? The possibilities are endless! (;
...is more than worth the quiet.
The problem with people at Slashdot defining Democracy and Republic mostly comes from the fact that 90% of them feel the differences are only an extra 50% worker efficiency and that democracies are immune to propoganda. Sure, republics may have a tiny bit more corruption to deal with, but not enough to make a huge difference.
I don't have a white paper or anything to point too, but a friend of mine is a manager of a game store in Phoenix, Arizona. I asked him if they had any 360's left, and he said "Nope, sold every one in the opening weekend." So, snickering, I asked how many were returned as defective. "None," he replied. "Not a single return in the entire southwest region in fact."
Where are your statistics to prove the previous poster is wrong? To chastise the poster about not having any facts, then not providing any of your own is pretty lame. To then imply in your post that the problem with the 360 is that it "can get hot enough to start a fire", when noone, not even the guy in the article, has had such a thing happen, is even worse.
I don't care what your opinion of Microsoft as a company is...they have been replacing any defective devices. They say there haven't been many of those, and even if we all think they are evil and lying their asses off, the fact that a chunk sold from a certain region of the US haven't had any issues shows that this isn't as nearly a big deal as certain media outlets wish it were. This at most is an issue of a certain batch of power supplies having problems. I'd be curious to see a map of where the complaints are coming from now, and see if its isolated to a certain shipment.
It isn't just you; there's a ton of people out there who want to see MS burn, but this isn't the incident that will bring them down. By replacing defective devices as soon as they are reported, MS is showing a willingness to help those who ended up with busted 360's. Kind of hard to push a lawsuit against the company, when the first question any lawyer would ask is, "Well, did you call and get a new, working power supply?" When the guy replies, "Uh..no. I just wanted to sue them instead and make a bundle of cash," the judge is gonna bang that gavel, and say "Case closed!" And Microsoft wins another one.
Heh, which book was it? In all fairness to authors, I'd have to say the same thing about Tolkien...I love the books, but its pretty heavy on the description in places (; I'm curious which title you were reading, cuz I can think of at least two of his books where a description like that would be important to the story (;
Anyway, I just noticed (yeah, i read the article the first time, just not close enough I guess), that this poll was created from 132 responses...definately not even enough responses to be considered valid. Neuromancer should of been #1, and then Gibson probably should of had at least 3 more spots on there (;
This seemed closer to the "Top 20 Nerd Books", not the "Top 20 Geeky Books".
K, I'll keep your card safe...now goto Amazon.com! (;
I have the Otherland books sitting by my bed, just never got to reading them. Seen them mentioned enough in this discussion that I guess I better check them out. Working on the Quicksilver trilogy (Stephenson) right now, and enjoying them a lot so far. A lot different then the more cyberpunkish books, but a heck of a story (:
Personally, I don't think it's so much a "politics" thing, but an "age" thing, where, while I know we do have our fair share of "old folks", I'm guessing most readers (and repliers) are under 30...maybe an editor can provide numbers for proof.
This ties in to something my father told me, "If you're under 30 and not a Democrat, you don't have a heart. If you're over 30 and you're not a Republican, you don't have a brain." A little general, but I've always found it a humorous and, most of the time, true statement.
Back on topic, I'm upset Neuromancer wasn't #1, and Illuminatus at least in the top 5. I've read the trilogy at least 20 times. I own at least 2 copies of that huge beast, and I think 4 Neuromancers...I keep loaning them out, then wanting to read them and buying another, then getting my "original" back again (:
'For users, openness increases the trustworthiness,' said Lu."
yeah, that struck me as a pretty funny line too (; Maybe coming from anyone except the Chinese, I'd buy it.