Aircraft carriers also have aircraft and surface to air missiles. I wouldn't expect to find net access for the masses while at sea (not yet). How many cars have internet access thus far? Not many I would 'spect.
I don't know about you, but my car has surface to air missiles. I hate it when people cut me off.
s/air/surface is what you mean, unless you are constantly getting cut off by Mollier skycars.
I actually had someone steal my offer letter for a new job. Sick monkeys.
I knew I was getting an offer letter. The mail came about 11:00 ish, so every day I would drive home from my office while eating my lunch just to check my mail.
Amazingly enough, this is pretty much how it has worked in England for many years. The mail carrier walks from house to house (with a big sack or cart), dropping mail through a slot in the door or wall. Of course, it's generally not a large slot, so packages of any size still require someone at home to receive them, but even so... The same slot can be used by FedEx, &c, for deliveries that actually fit into it.
Keyword big. The computer's I've received have generally been in large packages, maybe 1m x 1m x.3 m, a little big to fit in a slot.
Also, in the US, our mailboxes are the property of the US government, bad things would happen if a FedEx employee used a USPS mailbox.
Now some UPS and FedEx employees will leave a small package between the storm door and the front door, but that makes me uneasy when the contents of the package are over $50.
Sort of like a mailbox, lockable with a one way door, where a delivery person can deposit your latest ebay winnings, thinkgeek loot or fatbrain order without fear that it will be plundered.
I needed one today when FedEx tried to deliver my Palm, no one got to the door, so I have to pick it up in person.
I don't like the jokes the UF makes at the expense of dumb users.
I've worked on a hotline, and could have my share of doozies to report, but first, those callers are our customers, without them, we would have been out of business. Secondly, just because they're having trouble on a computer (in my case, a Sun with tiny fonts and 20 plus open windows) doesn't mean they're stupid, most of the time they're just novices, I doubt I would do as well if I were thrown in the print shop and told to run a Heidelberg Speedmaster.
Yeah, you can get an easy laugh by portraying dumb users, but I think it's wrong, alienating and too easy. What's next, hiring a tech support person in a wheel chair and laughing when they drop a CD and it rolls away out of reach?
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George
Some copyright is good (heresy, heresy!)
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Some amount of copyright is good, it can give a financial incentive to creators.
In my case, I co-wrote a book last year. I spent a lot of time researching the subject, testing the subject and writing the book. I made a modest amount of money, enough to help pay for a downpayment on my house.
If someone were to take my book, cut off the binding, and duplicate it on a high speed duplicator (perhaps a Xerox brand duplicator) and resell, I would be irked. If this were common, I may not write another book.
If someone were to use my book as reference, along with the other books in the same field, and write a new book that improves on mine, I would flattered, they added some value.
Quick, someone dig up the link about what happened when copyright was removed after the French Revolution. IIRC, literature quickly devolved into pornography, there was no incentive to create lasting works.
In summation, copyright works with a creator's greed (and desire to provide for one's family), let's not be so quick to throw out the baby with the bathwater.
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Aircraft carriers also have aircraft and surface to air missiles. I wouldn't expect to find net access for the masses while at sea (not yet). How many cars have internet access thus far? Not many I would 'spect.
I don't know about you, but my car has surface to air missiles. I hate it when people cut me off.
s/air/surface is what you mean, unless you are constantly getting cut off by Mollier skycars.
George
and a hoard of other consumption taxes?
George
I actually had someone steal my offer letter for a new job. Sick monkeys.
I knew I was getting an offer letter. The mail came about 11:00 ish, so every day I would drive home from my office while eating my lunch just to check my mail.
It took about a week to get it.
George
To bad you void your warranty if you open your closets.
And a telephone line is obsolete, superseded by IP telephony, so it's not included.
George
Built in the 1930's, American Foursquare, I know what you mean, I love the oak trim and the stained glass.
Though it will pain me when I start to put cat5 ports in my study, having to drill through the oak molding, yikes.
Good luck with it, I prefer city living to suburban.
George
Amazingly enough, this is pretty much how it has worked in England for many years. The mail carrier walks from house to house (with a big sack or cart), dropping mail through a slot in the door or wall. Of course, it's generally not a large slot, so packages of any size still require someone at home to receive them, but even so... The same slot can be used by FedEx, &c, for deliveries that actually fit into it.
.3 m, a little big to fit in a slot.
Keyword big. The computer's I've received have generally been in large packages, maybe 1m x 1m x
Also, in the US, our mailboxes are the property of the US government, bad things would happen if a FedEx employee used a USPS mailbox.
Now some UPS and FedEx employees will leave a small package between the storm door and the front door, but that makes me uneasy when the contents of the package are over $50.
George
Sort of like a mailbox, lockable with a one way door, where a delivery person can deposit your latest ebay winnings, thinkgeek loot or fatbrain order without fear that it will be plundered.
I needed one today when FedEx tried to deliver my Palm, no one got to the door, so I have to pick it up in person.
George
I don't like the jokes the UF makes at the expense of dumb users.
I've worked on a hotline, and could have my share of doozies to report, but first, those callers are our customers, without them, we would have been out of business. Secondly, just because they're having trouble on a computer (in my case, a Sun with tiny fonts and 20 plus open windows) doesn't mean they're stupid, most of the time they're just novices, I doubt I would do as well if I were thrown in the print shop and told to run a Heidelberg Speedmaster.
Yeah, you can get an easy laugh by portraying dumb users, but I think it's wrong, alienating and too easy. What's next, hiring a tech support person in a wheel chair and laughing when they drop a CD and it rolls away out of reach?
George
George
Don't hold back, tell me how you really feel.
Admit it, at least it's funnier than 42.
George
Thanks,
I was afraid I was losing another chunk of my memory.
George
Emperically, with a computer.
Isn't this the one where someone with a sense of humor wrote
"I have an elagant solution to Fermat's theorem, unfortunately, the margin it too small to write it."
Hence my post.
But no one got the joke.
George
But the text enter box at /.is too small to post it.
George
Some amount of copyright is good, it can give a financial incentive to creators.
In my case, I co-wrote a book last year. I spent a lot of time researching the subject, testing the subject and writing the book. I made a modest amount of money, enough to help pay for a downpayment on my house.
If someone were to take my book, cut off the binding, and duplicate it on a high speed duplicator (perhaps a Xerox brand duplicator) and resell, I would be irked. If this were common, I may not write another book.
If someone were to use my book as reference, along with the other books in the same field, and write a new book that improves on mine, I would flattered, they added some value.
Quick, someone dig up the link about what happened when copyright was removed after the French Revolution. IIRC, literature quickly devolved into pornography, there was no incentive to create lasting works.
In summation, copyright works with a creator's greed (and desire to provide for one's family), let's not be so quick to throw out the baby with the bathwater.
George
This robot is only one part of the picture. What's needed is:
Robotic cow-rearing units with automated grass planting
Fully automated cow-killer
Robot which chops up the cows into beef
Robot to grind the beef and press it into burgers
Robot to cook the burgers (ie, this one)
And then one day, a cow named Morpheus realizes that the world just doesn't seem right, something is wrong but he can't figure out what it is...
George
And the boulder that keeps changing position?
George
I thought Starship Troopers was juvenile because it was mostly
"Rah rah, get tough, train tough, kill skinnies."
"Rah rah, get tough, train tough, kill buggies."
Not because of some lame marketing attachment.
The most interesting parts of the book, ie. the citizenship requirements, the generals jumping with the troops were barely dealt with.
I think a far superior treatment of the same theme is Haldeman's The Forever War.
George
agreed
agreed
agreed, maybe add the Foundation series
Never read it, should check it out
Never read it, should check it out
Disagree, I think Niven and Pournelle do much more impressise stuff, eg. The Mote in God's Eye.
agreed
een, too juvenile, replace with Stranger?
And I would add, for Science Fiction
Well, that's enough for now
George
Oh, and these people, mostly lower-to-mid middle class, are on the edge of being able to afford a computer and internet access."
.don't you?
Umm, you do understand that US autoworkers couldn't be considered poor using any reasonable definition of the word. .
Nah, that was a class statement by the previous statement.
If you're college educated and use a desktop PC, you're middle class or upper middle class.
If you actually assemble stuff for a living, it doesn't matter if you make $70,000 a year, your lower or maybe middle class.
And the poster implied that those wrench wielding blue collar folks would barely be able to understand a coomputer, let alone know why they needed on.
George
to make it match SI units.
George
the JJJJJulius port of the bridge game is wonderful, especially the way it pulls in the incautious and gullible.
Oops, I think I hear someone walking on it now.
George
Though I have a hard time beating it, mebbe only one time in 10 will I win.
George
You mean, Win95 has security? Where? How can I enable it? ;-)
To start with, you need a bootable CDrom.
Win 95 security comes on a CDRom labelled CheapBytes RedHat Linux 6.1 Cartman.
Insert CDROM, boot, follow the directions. Be sure to replace your current partitions with the more secure ones.
George
I apologize for any offense I might have caused, and I am impressed that you got a scholarship.
It looks like your dad's book is doing well at Amazon.
George
It turns out that Rosebud was his sled.
Oh, I was afraid that it would be that he was dead, killed by the psychotic ex patient.
George