Mentalist is a British term which collects all the mental disabilities into one handy term. It has also grown to include some of the physical disabilities - which is unfortunate.
Spastics, Schitzos, Pervs, Mongs, Deekons, and a host of other comedy mentally ill folk are happily grouped together.
It grew from school ground taunts of 'your mental' turning into the more offensive, directed variation 'you're a mental' which just didnt sound quite right. So some bright spark decided to add 'alist' to the end of mental - getting "You're a mentalist".
This post will no doubt also shoot my Karma to shit - with a stack of +1 Funny and -1 Overrated moderations from clever people and mentalists respectively.
I love PA - its great in a kinda crap way. The Sunday Times reviewed it a few weeks back as an example of the better comics available online and had a small "may contain some indoor language" warning alongside the reprint and the web address.
So I checked out the strip and I'm SURE it was THIS ONE.
That sick kids are exposed to this kind of filth with their free games is most refreshing!! And on a Sunnday too!!! Wholesome!
Nearly everyone in the audience knew damn well he was fine
Two points. Firstly I didn't - not having read the books. They could miss out a couple of hundred pages at a stretch and I'd have no idea. Decent film though!
Secondly. Most of us know whats about to happen in every movie we see if we go the the theatre regularly because of the fucking trailers. Throughout most films we are thinking (actively or subconciously) 'is this the bit where guy A kicks guy Bs ass' or 'is this the bit where he sticks his tongue down her throat'.
The second issue is the bigger for me. I was lucky enough to see the Matrix on opening night without being exposed to any of the hype beforehand (I was dragged along by a nerdy friend) - I enjoyed it greatly. I saw the second one but wont see the third - wheres the fun - I spent the second one waiting for the heralded car chase! 'He can't die yet - wheres the car chase!
The only exception to this is Jackass where you WANT to see wee man skateboarding, and anything with Uma Thurman in it. Then you want to KNOW your not going to be disappointed!
Question - so many references to 'getting married' in this thread makes me suspect that/.ers dont actually live with their ladyfriends before taking the plunge that often.
I'm currently test driving my lady by cohabiting a house and a bank account (a bigger commitment than many of my married friends who still have seperate bank accounts aswell as a joint account 'for bills and things'). 8 years into the expreiment she's doing fine.
Buying shares in an oil company moving into virgin territory, a drugs company pushing poorly researched drugs on 'test markets' or Monsanto-clones it just as much a bet on human suffering.
Buy shares in a Isreali tech company? South African diamond mine? michael jackson CD? alll potentially a similar thing. It just depends how wide you draw your circle of influence.
There are no black and white 'cross this line into evil' boundaries. I bought a pair of jeans from Gap this year - I feel bad about it. Some people will happily make 1000 homes income-less to improve their dividends next year without a second thought. Some people will bet on when the next 9-11 will happen and be disappointed when they get it wrong.
That said - I doubt too many people are sitting today thinking "fuck - should have had a few grand on an attack on british overseas interests this month"
Another point. I have life insurance so that if I die for some reason my dependents get a shitload of money. Its all grey!
I think we're on similar tracks here - the IT could have a much bigger impact if the management wasn't getting in the way so it IS important - or potentially important - in ways that a better trolley or better pen simply arent.
If Walmart took the step of having all AI management they could shed 50000 jobs globally with minimal impact on apparent effectiveness to the shopper. IF they trust the IT, and the IT is set up with this in mind. At the moment it isn't. Doesnt mean its not important just because the opportunity is being missed - i think.
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All IT students should be forced to work in retail for a year, manufacturing for a year, and in business administration positions for a year before touching a keyboard. They'll see the latest systems from HP / Oracle etc... being used in the workplace to marginally improve processes while the wastage still just keeps on coming.
But IT is a support system
I would argue against this basic assumption of yours. I want IT to replace the majority of the management tier within Walmart etc... because the majority of the lower management tier in Walmart etc... are absolutely shit at their jobs.
Example? I worked throughout my 4 years at University part time (full time out of term) for a major supermarket. Every Christmas for four years I spent a majority of my time in the store apologising for the lack of Milk, Beer and Bread. I had access to central inventory systems and could see vast quantities of the stuff sitting in the distribution centres, and I could see our bakery continuing to work an 8 hour day when we could have sold a 16 hour days worth of breads.
When approached Management delivered a condescending 'its more complex than that kid' or a more honest 'I dont want to be stuck with any cluttering my warehouse following the new year'. They would rather sell 50% LESS than have a 1% stock holding after the peak season. Also, they were happy to piss off their customers at Christmas. Shit at their jobs.
How many indicators does a decent IT system need to do a better job? The checkouts tell you that the last beer went through at 2PM every day, that the last bread went through at 11AM. The stockholding is shown as 0 for > 25% of the week.
Some minor systems are in place to handle these things - but they are crude. (Example - a few years back my local store in Scotland took delivery of 3000 England replica football shirts - 28 sold the rest were returned).
By solving some of these issues you can kill off a huge number of overpaid under qualified under skilled smug shits and have a BETTER company. IF the IT graduates get the idea. So - 3 years of workplace should be mandatory prior to an IT degree of any kind. Unless your planning to become a bearded AI researcher in which case please yourself!
At school my friends were: Flake : He had the most extreme excema youve ever seen Big : He was 6'5'' or something Mole : he had a big mole on his face Four : He had glasses Limpy : He had a comedy limp for a year because he smashed his leg in an accident - he doesnt limp any more Chair : Wheelchair bound fat boy - his other nickname was 'dick' because he was a bit of a dick Charlie : Fat self pitying kid with no real personality - kinda like charlie brown
These were cool names, but the number of times a gym teacher would give us shit for using them!!!
To clear up the Mel Gibson comment for you - his new movie is the story of Christ which is taken as either a directly anti semitic film or a celebration of the 'greatest story'. That Gibsons father has strongly held and communicated anti jewish beliefs is well documented. In certain companies holding the 'wrong' view on this topic could be a VERY bad thing.
Ive been applying scientific interest to beyonces ass for AGES now!
i can hardly speak, as my last personal site went down in 1995 sometime, (fuck! nearly 10 years since I had a rewritten chapter of peter pan and a list of 1000 cool chemicals that you could make in your kitchen representing my 'inner being' online!)
Anyhoo - if your going to lose your job for expressing an opinion move company before it happens. I hate the feeling that people are hodling out on me because they dont want to be seen to be extremist because they hold an opinion on topic X.
Was liberating Iraq justified in light of the evidence, is Blunkett the biggest fuckwit in the history of the planet for his UK ID card scheme, should Beyonces ass have world heritage status applied to recognise it as a place of outstanding scientific interest and natural beauty?
My opinions? No, Yes and Yes.
Everyone on here has an opition on these things - many will express them most stringly as AC, some will express them directly, and MANY will avoid them at all costs in the workplace and even in their social circle for fear of causing offence.
Come on monkey boys - start speaking your mind. For homework next week - 500 words on that new Gibson movie with Jesus in it.
The democratisation of digital photography is a relatively good thing. This camera puts quality digital photography into the hands of people who couldnt otherwise afford to invest in the hardware up front.
As a business model you could argue its similar to selling cheap shoes - it's ripping the poor who spend more in a given 10 year period on shoes that the wealthy (non fashion victim) who only buys a few pairs in that time.
Nevertheless. This is a business model based on trust. And the public cannot be trusted.
I run a convenience store with flowers in a basket outside - people pick em up and come in to pay for them. People also pick em up and wander off without paying because Im not watching all the time and my 'business model' only works because people obey the law - but more importantly respect my rights to try and make a buck selling them stuff.
I see no difference. Just because its tech doesnt mean its not theft.
(I dont run a shop by the way - for anyone thinking Ive made a drastic lifestyle change! Do come again!)
Indeed. One of my more common rants while watching TeeVee or reading the paper is about those archeologists who get excited about excavating some poor sods grave and reconstructing his face from their skull!
How the fuck would they like to have some bearded hippy and his braless teenage sidekick dig up his skull, scoop out the insides, declare that he had funny teeth so muct have been a weaver and proceed to give him a huge shnozz and disproportionately large eyeballs and stick him in a case for a few years until he went into the stores at the V&A.
I'm saving up right now for a trust fund for my clan to ensure no archeobitches ever dig us up! We're all gonna be encased in foot thick uranium or something and buried in a compound with a manned patrol for the next 20,000 years. At which point I reckon there should REALLY be nothing left.
I just hope to fuck Im actually dead when they put me into the thing
Personally I dont see where the fun is. I prefer bikes to cars because your more connected to the physics when cornering / braking etc... your body position is a key part of the steering and control of the thing.
With this, the segway and any other 'actively balanced' machine this MUST be lost to a great extent - or at least diffused. I want to be able to see how fast I can push a corner without falling off - I have a good feel for that when Im dealing with road + tyres + speed + lean - add in a shitload of processor time, gyros, and servos and I've lost my intuitive feel for the thing. Get it serviced and they update the firmware it potentially suddenly behaves VERY differently on the limits - just like changing tyres but less predictable.
Scary things - no fun - give me a decent mountain bike any day!
Leak Media speculation Soft denial More media speculation Harder ambiguous denial Yet more media speculation Leak a single detail Lots more media speculation Court injunction LOTS of media speculation and sunday paper features Announce deal Lots of 'we fucking knew it' self congratulatory media coverage
You run a store, it's your job to figure out the funding. Those of us who dislike paying for stuff(probably 98% of the planet) will do our best not to, and the more technically inclined among us WILL avoid your checkout, and the business-savvy subset of those will sell that setup, in some form, to the rest. If stores can't live without it, tough. If they find another way to get funds, wonderful, but your funding is, to me, a black box that we shouldn't need to think about. I'm perfectly happy spending some time fiddling with counterfeit cash or grifted Visas to cut out paying for stuff, and tweaking my mail box to remove your flyers if I get good results.
Music download is all well and good, but I wish this new stack of legit music download services would offer me the video of these songs (if available).
Some bands, Beasti Boys, Super Furries and Moloko jump to mind, really put some effort into their videos. MTV would be well placed to offer this as a USP for a while, probably having better deals and leverage than anyone in that area.
Charge me more or throw it in as an incentive I dont mind - just give me the option!
This is a pretty good point actually. I've only been tempted to buy online by iTunes so far, being in the UK means I can't.
So I buy CDs from Amazon, rip em, and stick em in a pile under my stereo kit in case I ever need to dig em out when the house is full of drunks (i.e. the laptop gets hidden so cant serve songs).
This way I know for 100% sure if someone knocks on my door saying 'we beleive you nicked those Badly Drawn Boy tracks' I can wave something at em and tell em to fuck off.
But in order to be legal parody, the mock version has to be significantly different enough so that an average person would know that it was a parody and not confuse it with the original.
Could you give me a reference for that definition of parody? I'd be very interested in that. Would that be a legal parody globally? Or just in the US and France? How do you define average? I hear that in Canada they just find someone called Joe to use as a benchmark of averageness / normality? Is that true aswell?
The first thing I did last time there was a disaster on TV was switch channels to see if they had better camera points.
The only way this could work would be for someone to STAGE an event, and allow the media to broadcast it. That was they are all pointing at my illusion of martian invasion giving their own take on it - I just play it out wether they watch or not.
That way Im on Sky Fox CNN BBC etc... simulateously as well as google news etc...
A stack of reasons - mostly relating to adoption within the workplace. As soon as I fire up Mozilla in front of a newbie they comment along the lines of 'playing games huh' or similar.
Im not suggesting the monster gets replaced with some prick with a laptop looking serious while rubbing his chin as his foxy secretary takes notes in their walnut and leather office - but something a little more businessy wouldn't hurt.
Branding gives you things to hang onto. Some people like their jeans more because missy elliot wears then (or says she wears them). I'd like Mozilla more if I didnt look like a dinosaur geek everytime it starts up.
I can't wait to tell everyone I know that sending emails like "isnt the boss a dick" and " julie from accounts has nice tits" to each other is now 100% SAFE because of the new Outlook options to stop forwarding.
How dare you sir! To imply that a well respected/.er would actually... make something up... in order to get a story published stretches the bounds of reason beyond breaking point.
I suggest you review the contents of this fine website, and the excellent quality of postings, and indeed the unashamedly perfectionist editorial controls which are placed upon such, and then remedy your remarks with a full retraction and apology.
Genuinely, Sir, I am appalled at your scepticism. Next you'll be posting that you don't beleive in the 45 minute WMD threat, you doubt that 'W' actually won last time out, and that you believe Arnold to be other than a perfect gentleman.
I often wished I could zip through dull parts of lectures at Uni - I'd be sitting there thinking "OKAY OKAY I UNDERSTAND BUFFER SOLUTIONS" and we'd have half an hour to go.
Allowing me to zip pthrough the easy stuff, and play back repeatedly the hard bits would probably have halved my time spent 'learning' and so doubled (or more) my time spent reinforcing the knowledge through experimentation / further reading and talking shit with some friends and a beer.
There is absolutely no verified (by which I mean duplicated) research linking any mobile phone radiation to non-thermal effects in human tissues. None. If you know of any please let me know.
I get a bastard of a headache if I eat too many crisps or sit under flourescent lights for more than an hour or so. While the saturated fats in the crisps might give me cancer of the ass I doubt the flourescent lights are causing me permenant harm.
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Mentalist is a British term which collects all the mental disabilities into one handy term. It has also grown to include some of the physical disabilities - which is unfortunate.
Spastics, Schitzos, Pervs, Mongs, Deekons, and a host of other comedy mentally ill folk are happily grouped together.
It grew from school ground taunts of 'your mental' turning into the more offensive, directed variation 'you're a mental' which just didnt sound quite right. So some bright spark decided to add 'alist' to the end of mental - getting "You're a mentalist".
This post will no doubt also shoot my Karma to shit - with a stack of +1 Funny and -1 Overrated moderations from clever people and mentalists respectively.
Shit- your right - because you had guns in the house and didnt shoot the shit out of your school theres no problem with guns being in the house.
... um ... some pretty fucking stingy elastic band / paper clip weapons!
The point is - HAD you been a mentalist you had access to guns to shoot the shit out of your school.
Had I been a mentalist I had access to
I love PA - its great in a kinda crap way. The Sunday Times reviewed it a few weeks back as an example of the better comics available online and had a small "may contain some indoor language" warning alongside the reprint and the web address.
So I checked out the strip and I'm SURE it was THIS ONE.
That sick kids are exposed to this kind of filth with their free games is most refreshing!! And on a Sunnday too!!! Wholesome!
Nearly everyone in the audience knew damn well he was fine
Two points. Firstly I didn't - not having read the books. They could miss out a couple of hundred pages at a stretch and I'd have no idea. Decent film though!
Secondly. Most of us know whats about to happen in every movie we see if we go the the theatre regularly because of the fucking trailers. Throughout most films we are thinking (actively or subconciously) 'is this the bit where guy A kicks guy Bs ass' or 'is this the bit where he sticks his tongue down her throat'.
The second issue is the bigger for me. I was lucky enough to see the Matrix on opening night without being exposed to any of the hype beforehand (I was dragged along by a nerdy friend) - I enjoyed it greatly. I saw the second one but wont see the third - wheres the fun - I spent the second one waiting for the heralded car chase! 'He can't die yet - wheres the car chase!
The only exception to this is Jackass where you WANT to see wee man skateboarding, and anything with Uma Thurman in it. Then you want to KNOW your not going to be disappointed!
Question - so many references to 'getting married' in this thread makes me suspect that /.ers dont actually live with their ladyfriends before taking the plunge that often.
I'm currently test driving my lady by cohabiting a house and a bank account (a bigger commitment than many of my married friends who still have seperate bank accounts aswell as a joint account 'for bills and things'). 8 years into the expreiment she's doing fine.
Buying shares in an oil company moving into virgin territory, a drugs company pushing poorly researched drugs on 'test markets' or Monsanto-clones it just as much a bet on human suffering.
Buy shares in a Isreali tech company? South African diamond mine? michael jackson CD? alll potentially a similar thing. It just depends how wide you draw your circle of influence.
There are no black and white 'cross this line into evil' boundaries. I bought a pair of jeans from Gap this year - I feel bad about it. Some people will happily make 1000 homes income-less to improve their dividends next year without a second thought. Some people will bet on when the next 9-11 will happen and be disappointed when they get it wrong.
That said - I doubt too many people are sitting today thinking "fuck - should have had a few grand on an attack on british overseas interests this month"
Another point. I have life insurance so that if I die for some reason my dependents get a shitload of money. Its all grey!
I think we're on similar tracks here - the IT could have a much bigger impact if the management wasn't getting in the way so it IS important - or potentially important - in ways that a better trolley or better pen simply arent.
If Walmart took the step of having all AI management they could shed 50000 jobs globally with minimal impact on apparent effectiveness to the shopper. IF they trust the IT, and the IT is set up with this in mind. At the moment it isn't. Doesnt mean its not important just because the opportunity is being missed - i think.
All IT students should be forced to work in retail for a year, manufacturing for a year, and in business administration positions for a year before touching a keyboard. They'll see the latest systems from HP / Oracle etc... being used in the workplace to marginally improve processes while the wastage still just keeps on coming.
But IT is a support system
I would argue against this basic assumption of yours. I want IT to replace the majority of the management tier within Walmart etc... because the majority of the lower management tier in Walmart etc... are absolutely shit at their jobs.
Example? I worked throughout my 4 years at University part time (full time out of term) for a major supermarket. Every Christmas for four years I spent a majority of my time in the store apologising for the lack of Milk, Beer and Bread. I had access to central inventory systems and could see vast quantities of the stuff sitting in the distribution centres, and I could see our bakery continuing to work an 8 hour day when we could have sold a 16 hour days worth of breads.
When approached Management delivered a condescending 'its more complex than that kid' or a more honest 'I dont want to be stuck with any cluttering my warehouse following the new year'. They would rather sell 50% LESS than have a 1% stock holding after the peak season. Also, they were happy to piss off their customers at Christmas. Shit at their jobs.
How many indicators does a decent IT system need to do a better job? The checkouts tell you that the last beer went through at 2PM every day, that the last bread went through at 11AM. The stockholding is shown as 0 for > 25% of the week.
Some minor systems are in place to handle these things - but they are crude. (Example - a few years back my local store in Scotland took delivery of 3000 England replica football shirts - 28 sold the rest were returned).
By solving some of these issues you can kill off a huge number of overpaid under qualified under skilled smug shits and have a BETTER company. IF the IT graduates get the idea. So - 3 years of workplace should be mandatory prior to an IT degree of any kind. Unless your planning to become a bearded AI researcher in which case please yourself!
At school my friends were:
Flake : He had the most extreme excema youve ever seen
Big : He was 6'5'' or something
Mole : he had a big mole on his face
Four : He had glasses
Limpy : He had a comedy limp for a year because he smashed his leg in an accident - he doesnt limp any more
Chair : Wheelchair bound fat boy - his other nickname was 'dick' because he was a bit of a dick
Charlie : Fat self pitying kid with no real personality - kinda like charlie brown
These were cool names, but the number of times a gym teacher would give us shit for using them!!!
To clear up the Mel Gibson comment for you - his new movie is the story of Christ which is taken as either a directly anti semitic film or a celebration of the 'greatest story'. That Gibsons father has strongly held and communicated anti jewish beliefs is well documented. In certain companies holding the 'wrong' view on this topic could be a VERY bad thing.
Ive been applying scientific interest to beyonces ass for AGES now!
i can hardly speak, as my last personal site went down in 1995 sometime, (fuck! nearly 10 years since I had a rewritten chapter of peter pan and a list of 1000 cool chemicals that you could make in your kitchen representing my 'inner being' online!)
Anyhoo - if your going to lose your job for expressing an opinion move company before it happens. I hate the feeling that people are hodling out on me because they dont want to be seen to be extremist because they hold an opinion on topic X.
Was liberating Iraq justified in light of the evidence, is Blunkett the biggest fuckwit in the history of the planet for his UK ID card scheme, should Beyonces ass have world heritage status applied to recognise it as a place of outstanding scientific interest and natural beauty?
My opinions? No, Yes and Yes.
Everyone on here has an opition on these things - many will express them most stringly as AC, some will express them directly, and MANY will avoid them at all costs in the workplace and even in their social circle for fear of causing offence.
Come on monkey boys - start speaking your mind. For homework next week - 500 words on that new Gibson movie with Jesus in it.
The democratisation of digital photography is a relatively good thing. This camera puts quality digital photography into the hands of people who couldnt otherwise afford to invest in the hardware up front.
As a business model you could argue its similar to selling cheap shoes - it's ripping the poor who spend more in a given 10 year period on shoes that the wealthy (non fashion victim) who only buys a few pairs in that time.
Nevertheless. This is a business model based on trust. And the public cannot be trusted.
I run a convenience store with flowers in a basket outside - people pick em up and come in to pay for them. People also pick em up and wander off without paying because Im not watching all the time and my 'business model' only works because people obey the law - but more importantly respect my rights to try and make a buck selling them stuff.
I see no difference. Just because its tech doesnt mean its not theft.
(I dont run a shop by the way - for anyone thinking Ive made a drastic lifestyle change! Do come again!)
Indeed. One of my more common rants while watching TeeVee or reading the paper is about those archeologists who get excited about excavating some poor sods grave and reconstructing his face from their skull!
How the fuck would they like to have some bearded hippy and his braless teenage sidekick dig up his skull, scoop out the insides, declare that he had funny teeth so muct have been a weaver and proceed to give him a huge shnozz and disproportionately large eyeballs and stick him in a case for a few years until he went into the stores at the V&A.
I'm saving up right now for a trust fund for my clan to ensure no archeobitches ever dig us up! We're all gonna be encased in foot thick uranium or something and buried in a compound with a manned patrol for the next 20,000 years. At which point I reckon there should REALLY be nothing left.
I just hope to fuck Im actually dead when they put me into the thing
Personally I dont see where the fun is. I prefer bikes to cars because your more connected to the physics when cornering / braking etc... your body position is a key part of the steering and control of the thing.
With this, the segway and any other 'actively balanced' machine this MUST be lost to a great extent - or at least diffused. I want to be able to see how fast I can push a corner without falling off - I have a good feel for that when Im dealing with road + tyres + speed + lean - add in a shitload of processor time, gyros, and servos and I've lost my intuitive feel for the thing. Get it serviced and they update the firmware it potentially suddenly behaves VERY differently on the limits - just like changing tyres but less predictable.
Scary things - no fun - give me a decent mountain bike any day!
Leak
Media speculation
Soft denial
More media speculation
Harder ambiguous denial
Yet more media speculation
Leak a single detail
Lots more media speculation
Court injunction
LOTS of media speculation and sunday paper features
Announce deal
Lots of 'we fucking knew it' self congratulatory media coverage
Its 'cheap PR 101' guys!!
You run a store, it's your job to figure out the
funding. Those of us who dislike paying for stuff(probably 98% of the planet) will do our best not to,
and the more technically inclined among us WILL avoid your checkout, and the business-savvy subset of
those will sell that setup, in some form, to the rest. If stores can't live without it, tough.
If they find another way to get funds, wonderful, but your funding is, to me, a black box that we shouldn't need to think about. I'm perfectly happy spending some time fiddling with counterfeit cash or grifted Visas to cut out paying for stuff, and tweaking my mail box to remove your flyers if I get good results.
Music download is all well and good, but I wish this new stack of legit music download services would offer me the video of these songs (if available).
Some bands, Beasti Boys, Super Furries and Moloko jump to mind, really put some effort into their videos. MTV would be well placed to offer this as a USP for a while, probably having better deals and leverage than anyone in that area.
Charge me more or throw it in as an incentive I dont mind - just give me the option!
This is a pretty good point actually. I've only been tempted to buy online by iTunes so far, being in the UK means I can't.
So I buy CDs from Amazon, rip em, and stick em in a pile under my stereo kit in case I ever need to dig em out when the house is full of drunks (i.e. the laptop gets hidden so cant serve songs).
This way I know for 100% sure if someone knocks on my door saying 'we beleive you nicked those Badly Drawn Boy tracks' I can wave something at em and tell em to fuck off.
What do I wave when I buy from iTunes?
But in order to be legal parody, the mock version has to be significantly different enough so that an average person would know that it was a parody and not confuse it with the original.
Could you give me a reference for that definition of parody? I'd be very interested in that. Would that be a legal parody globally? Or just in the US and France? How do you define average? I hear that in Canada they just find someone called Joe to use as a benchmark of averageness / normality? Is that true aswell?
The first thing I did last time there was a disaster on TV was switch channels to see if they had better camera points.
The only way this could work would be for someone to STAGE an event, and allow the media to broadcast it. That was they are all pointing at my illusion of martian invasion giving their own take on it - I just play it out wether they watch or not.
That way Im on Sky Fox CNN BBC etc... simulateously as well as google news etc...
It COULD work!
A stack of reasons - mostly relating to adoption within the workplace. As soon as I fire up Mozilla in front of a newbie they comment along the lines of 'playing games huh' or similar.
Im not suggesting the monster gets replaced with some prick with a laptop looking serious while rubbing his chin as his foxy secretary takes notes in their walnut and leather office - but something a little more businessy wouldn't hurt.
Branding gives you things to hang onto. Some people like their jeans more because missy elliot wears then (or says she wears them). I'd like Mozilla more if I didnt look like a dinosaur geek everytime it starts up.
I can't wait to tell everyone I know that sending emails like "isnt the boss a dick" and " julie from accounts has nice tits" to each other is now 100% SAFE because of the new Outlook options to stop forwarding.
Hilarity ensues!
How dare you sir! To imply that a well respected /.er would actually ... make something up ... in order to get a story published stretches the bounds of reason beyond breaking point.
I suggest you review the contents of this fine website, and the excellent quality of postings, and indeed the unashamedly perfectionist editorial controls which are placed upon such, and then remedy your remarks with a full retraction and apology.
Genuinely, Sir, I am appalled at your scepticism. Next you'll be posting that you don't beleive in the 45 minute WMD threat, you doubt that 'W' actually won last time out, and that you believe Arnold to be other than a perfect gentleman.
You, Sir, are a cad!
I often wished I could zip through dull parts of lectures at Uni - I'd be sitting there thinking "OKAY OKAY I UNDERSTAND BUFFER SOLUTIONS" and we'd have half an hour to go.
Allowing me to zip pthrough the easy stuff, and play back repeatedly the hard bits would probably have halved my time spent 'learning' and so doubled (or more) my time spent reinforcing the knowledge through experimentation / further reading and talking shit with some friends and a beer.
There is absolutely no verified (by which I mean duplicated) research linking any mobile phone radiation to non-thermal effects in human tissues. None.
If you know of any please let me know.
I get a bastard of a headache if I eat too many crisps or sit under flourescent lights for more than an hour or so. While the saturated fats in the crisps might give me cancer of the ass I doubt the flourescent lights are causing me permenant harm.