Exactly this! I like watching Jack Bauer "question" the bad guy as much as anyone, but what it comes down to is, it's not real! Nobody is really getting hurt, not even a criminal/terrorist. A real cop shouldn't do a fraction of the stuff we in the movies, and if they do, there should be heavy RL consequences.
Even with the whole season available, I don't really have time to watch it at once. I might see one or two eps, then I have to quit and do something else. Or I might be tired of that show and want to switch to a different one. Heck, I could decide that Sunday at 6 is "Daredevil time" and watch a single ep weekly like I used to with regular TV. The main downside is, I'm not on the same schedule as everyone else. If I've only seen the first two eps, I probably don't want to talk with someone who's seen the whole season.
Not even that. More like one of those people hangs an ugly picture on the wall, which can easily be taken down. Worth a chewing out by the teacher, but not much else.
Homophones are bad if you're trying to get to the right room (was it five two or five too), but good if you're a smartass, poking fun at linguistic problems and someone else getting lost.
I had mixed feelings about W95. There were a lot of improvements over Win 3X, but stability wasn't one of them. There was one day it went down 15 times! In one 8 hour day! That's no exaggeration, I actually counted the reboots. The upside is, I got a lot of breaks.:-P
I think its the exact opposite if I understood it correctly. The wife is required to reach out three times and if the husband doesn't respond then the judge will assume that contact has been made and ignored and the divorce can proceed.
So far, the tech stuff that I used to use reference manuals for, has been reliable, though I suppose I could get into trouble if I happened on the wrong site.
That's not unique to Google. Before Google, I'd look up stuff in reference manuals. If I didn't use it regularly, I'd forget it, but I knew where the books were. Google is just a more convenient version of that.
When I took the buss there were no "apps". I think they do have notification on when the next bus is coming, but that would just mean I'd know that I just missed the damn thing instead of just suspecting it.
Your experience is far different from mine. When I took the bus to work, I was close to a bus stop, but I usually got to the downtown stop just in time to miss the bus from there to work, which meant a 15 minute wait in whatever bad weather was coming down. Plus, the bus route wasn't direct. A straight line in the car was about 30-40 minutes. The bus trip was 60-90 minutes each way, assuming the busses were all on time.
I'm not sure which is worse, stuff like this on Slashdot, or the fact that my workday is slow enough to drive me to Slashdot on the worst day of the year!
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In which case, they should be fired for stupidity before getting criminally charged.
Exactly this! I like watching Jack Bauer "question" the bad guy as much as anyone, but what it comes down to is, it's not real! Nobody is really getting hurt, not even a criminal/terrorist. A real cop shouldn't do a fraction of the stuff we in the movies, and if they do, there should be heavy RL consequences.
Yeah, I remember. At one point, it got so bad I counted the BSODs. The record was 15, in an 8 hour day.
Because there wouldn't be anyone left to talk to.
Even with the whole season available, I don't really have time to watch it at once. I might see one or two eps, then I have to quit and do something else. Or I might be tired of that show and want to switch to a different one. Heck, I could decide that Sunday at 6 is "Daredevil time" and watch a single ep weekly like I used to with regular TV. The main downside is, I'm not on the same schedule as everyone else. If I've only seen the first two eps, I probably don't want to talk with someone who's seen the whole season.
You're probably looking at his mobile version.
Can I make phone calls with the iWatch? Since I can tell time with my phone, it sounds like a logical use for it.
Not even that. More like one of those people hangs an ugly picture on the wall, which can easily be taken down. Worth a chewing out by the teacher, but not much else.
There's also no third party gender-neutral pronoun. "Them" is fine for multiple people, but most people don't like being called "it".
English is the MS Windows of languages?
I'm not sure. It might help prevent a few wars if more people could understand each other. OTOH, it would also probably cause a few wars.
Homophones are bad if you're trying to get to the right room (was it five two or five too), but good if you're a smartass, poking fun at linguistic problems and someone else getting lost.
Maybe they can pull water from Uranus.
I had mixed feelings about W95. There were a lot of improvements over Win 3X, but stability wasn't one of them. There was one day it went down 15 times! In one 8 hour day! That's no exaggeration, I actually counted the reboots. The upside is, I got a lot of breaks. :-P
I think its the exact opposite if I understood it correctly. The wife is required to reach out three times and if the husband doesn't respond then the judge will assume that contact has been made and ignored and the divorce can proceed.
I thought that was only for summoning ghosts.
But, as an otherwise bad movie pointed out, there is a difference between knowledge and wisdom.
So far, the tech stuff that I used to use reference manuals for, has been reliable, though I suppose I could get into trouble if I happened on the wrong site.
If I don't have a FB account, people think I'm suspicious. If I do have a FB account, people KNOW I'm suspicious!
That's not unique to Google. Before Google, I'd look up stuff in reference manuals. If I didn't use it regularly, I'd forget it, but I knew where the books were. Google is just a more convenient version of that.
When I took the buss there were no "apps". I think they do have notification on when the next bus is coming, but that would just mean I'd know that I just missed the damn thing instead of just suspecting it.
Keep in mind, that though you can eat and sleep in a self-driving car, you'll still want to stop to poop. Presumably you won't do THAT in your car.
Your experience is far different from mine. When I took the bus to work, I was close to a bus stop, but I usually got to the downtown stop just in time to miss the bus from there to work, which meant a 15 minute wait in whatever bad weather was coming down. Plus, the bus route wasn't direct. A straight line in the car was about 30-40 minutes. The bus trip was 60-90 minutes each way, assuming the busses were all on time.
Judging by some of the busses I've seen, puke is the least of the problems.
I think if I never left my house, I'd GO crazy.
I'm not sure which is worse, stuff like this on Slashdot, or the fact that my workday is slow enough to drive me to Slashdot on the worst day of the year!