First you talk about how parents who want to control the information that their children consume as if they are nutcases, ready to destroy their children.
Then the last sentence is a rant about how parents should control the information that their children consume. WTF?
So, basically, if I want to limit my children's viewing for reasons that you agree with, then it's okay, but as soon as I do it for a reason that you don't like, I'm a bible-thumping ultra-religious type? Nice.
I just watched Apollo 13 with my young children. The movie was great, my kids loved it (the boys are on a "Space flight" jag right now). I would have preferred that a few cuss words not be there.
So, how about I "take control of the information that [my] chilren consume" by playing the parts of it that I want them to see, and not playing the parts that I don't want them to see? Why not let me buy a version of the movie that already comes like that rather than making me pre-watch the movie with a pen and pencil to jot down timestamps?
What a contradictory mess of a +5 Informative. Try getting your opinions internally consistent.
I have found that I have a much higher chance of getting an experienced, knowledgeable staff person to help me if I go during the week.
Retired or career-changing tradesmen apparently don't want to work weekends and holidays.
Showing up early weekday mornings has been great for me. They aren't tired after a day of answering silly questions like mine, and they usually have a large coffee in hand. I get all the help I could ever need.
very thing we record in the studio will instantly be public domain. We'll be watching for others to take the content and redo it, and then we'll be able to use that content as well for our own gain.
What if they copyright their work?
This idea sounds great in a world where everyone who hears or uses copyright free music contributes back to the cause, but that's not the case.
By "public domain" do you mean some sort of creative commons-like license, or are you really going to produce it and then let it be used for whatever?
- Buy a second 100 gig hard drive.
- Use 20 DVDs. Less if compressed with Ghost or software like that. Not necessarily elegant, but cheap.
Either of those is cheaper than losing 6 years of *my* data. But apparently not yours. The way you're complaining, backing up 20 dvd's is far more of a pain than losing all that data, so don't worry about it, it couldn't have been that important.
You learn the "how much inconvenience is worth it" lesson once. Now when you rebuild your system completely from scratch you can ask the question again. Perhaps the answer will be different, perhaps not. Either way, you've made that call and there are no more complaints.
The story is by Heinlein, and it's called "The Roads Must Roll".
It's a story of the power in unions and the danger in letting a small group of people control a ubiquitous service.
Wow, that sounds like a fantastic movie that I would have loved to see.......except not anymore because you SPOILED THE ENDING./me shakes his head in absolute disbelief.
Absolute Balderdash is our favorite. Not many people have heard of it, but they always go away loving it after playing a round.
It's Balderdash (or Dictionary, or any of the other basic "make up a definition for this word" games) with extra categories. So each round could be one of:
Here's a name, make up what s/he is famous for
Here's a movie title, make up a short plot synopsis
Here's a date, make up what happened on that day
Here's an acronym, make up what it stands for
Here's a word, make up a definition
Each needs a slightly different skill. The "what happened on this date" answers need to be time-appropriate, the "what is this person famous for" is completely open ended and is usually quite bizarre, etc.
Great game.
:::// Instead of annoying error dialog messages, display pages::::user_pref("browser.xul.error_pages.enabled", true);
The problem with this is that if I mistype a URL, then I don't get the chance to go back and easily correct it.
If I type "www.g00gle.com" in the bar, and the little window pops up, I can click okay, and then go to the url window, fix my mistake and hit enter.
If you diable the popup boxes, then the url gets changes into some monster, and I have to select all and retype the entire thing. (or find the mistyped url in the long monster, crop it and then correct it).
The popups can be annoying, but far and away the lesser of two evils.
Totally agreed here. I tried as many readers as I could find, and kept coming back to PalmReader. Great piece of software. Clear text, lots of flexibility.
I use my Palm m105 for reading books and nothing else. I hold it upside down (Palmreader lets you select screen orientation) and use my thumb to click the page button. I think scrolling would be annoying, I quite like page at a time flipping.
I've gone through the entire Jules Verne collection, and most of the books in the Baen Free Library this way. It uses batteries, not built-in rechargeables, but you can get an m105 (zire now) or similar cheapcheapcheap.
Yeah, I can see where having someone who specializes in gathering information about a topic and processing and synthesizing it is a poor choice to make intelligent critique about a policy before it is implemented.
Hey! Why not get a crowd of politicians who can't tell a TLD from an STD to make policy about the internet?
As far as using the GPS to get a position and it going down, well people have been taking long voyages in boats for at least 5000 years and not getting lost. Capt Cook and his clan would get star sightings a few times a week in some cases and those were good for a position down to about 100km or so even on a rocky boat.
The point is not what is possible, but what the crew is prepared for and capable of.
If they don't have up-to-date paper maps onboard, do you think they have a sextant?
Part two of the question: If they have a sextant, do you think they have the training and experience to use it well?
I would think that the locations of major cities doesn't change much either, but have you ever seen the volume of data generated for NOTAMS (changes to charts that pilots use)? "The sea doesn't change all that much" but I imagine ports, shipping routes, danger areas, etc change significantly.
Then again, I guess they could approach "by eye" and once they get withing screaming distance, they could call for an MCSE to come aboard and apply the latest service pack so they can enter port....
The 1996 Winner, my favorite sentence of all time:
"Ace, watch your head!" hissed Wanda urgently, yet somehow provocatively, through red, full, sensuous lips, but he couldn't you know, since nobody can actually watch more than part of his nose or a little cheek or lips if he really tries, but he appreciated her warning."
I'm left handed, I wear my watch on my right wrist.
Perhaps the credit card companies will have limitations in their cardholder agreements about the primary watch-wearing hand of the customer. "We reserve the right to limit liability for fraud in left-handed customers."
Sigh, it's the Middle Ages all over again. "He's left handed! Burn the witch! And steal his SpeedPass!"
I revive old PC's for charities and churches and such, and have done my share of component swapping, building 3 good PC's from 5 dead ones, etc.
Talk all you want about sexy stuff like sliding rails and things like that, all I want is a standard on screw sizes.
The last PC case I opened had 4 (count 'em, FOUR) different types of screws all doing the same job. One size kept the cards in place, one size kept the hard drives in place, one size kept the floppy in place and one size kept the cover on. All the same length, all the same head type (thank God) but different gauges and thread types. They look amazing similar in a pile on the desk, however...:(
And there is a special place in Hell for the guy that insists on putting slot-head screws in ANYTHING.
"Milk toast" is a bland porridgy guck made from (surprise!) milk and toasted bread.
It is bland and tasteless, useful only for sick people whose stomachs won't tolerate much more.
Milksop (a similar dish) has been used as "wimp" since The Canterbury Tales. I would suspect that the cartoon character was named after the dish with "wimpy" connotations, not the other way around.
So, his usage was correct. His point was that the site has nothing but bland filler. He wasn't calling them meek.
I think you've missed the point. The protest isn't against Cameras per se but against their ubiquity in our lives and our growing insensitivity to the monitoring of our movements and actions.
It's not about harassing Wal-Mart guards, it's about making the general population think about questions like:
1) Why exactly don't they want me videotaping them, but they can videotape me?
2) In what other ways am I being watched/monitored/tracked? Should I care? (GPS enabled cell phones, anyone? M$Passport anyone?)
3) How much is enough rights to give up for the sake of security?
As a Canadian, and a Slashdot lurker, I must say that I feel rather strange about this whole issue.
I feel rather like I'm standing watching through the keyhole as my fate is being argued and decided by people that I don't know.
I have less-than-zero say in the American system, yet the American system will essentially be deciding what's "right" for me and the rest of the world. (Foreign coders being held for work they did in foreign countries that breaks American law...)
My first thought when I read the article was "So, you have lots of critique of our sloth, but very little specific direction to get us off our butts". My second thought was "And if he DID give suggestions, they would most likely be directed at the American government (like writing congressmen, etc) and therefore essentially useless for me."
Anyone out there feel the same? What can I do as a non-American? Yes, I can give to the EFF, and yes, I can write to my own government, but let's be honest: The next time Chretien is in town, Dubya ain't gonna be asking him his country's stand on Copyright Law...
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How did this get +5 Insightful?
First you talk about how parents who want to control the information that their children consume as if they are nutcases, ready to destroy their children.
Then the last sentence is a rant about how parents should control the information that their children consume. WTF?
So, basically, if I want to limit my children's viewing for reasons that you agree with, then it's okay, but as soon as I do it for a reason that you don't like, I'm a bible-thumping ultra-religious type? Nice.
I just watched Apollo 13 with my young children. The movie was great, my kids loved it (the boys are on a "Space flight" jag right now). I would have preferred that a few cuss words not be there.
So, how about I "take control of the information that [my] chilren consume" by playing the parts of it that I want them to see, and not playing the parts that I don't want them to see? Why not let me buy a version of the movie that already comes like that rather than making me pre-watch the movie with a pen and pencil to jot down timestamps?
What a contradictory mess of a +5 Informative. Try getting your opinions internally consistent.
So the handcuffs don't chafe quite so much, but you still have to wear them. Excuse me for not being enthused.
unlocking users from iPod's vendor lock-in
... and locking them right back in again in to Micrsoft's vendor lock-in.
Brilliant.
Next, I hope they'll let me "upgrade" all my paperbacks to MSReader encrypted format too!
I have found that I have a much higher chance of getting an experienced, knowledgeable staff person to help me if I go during the week.
Retired or career-changing tradesmen apparently don't want to work weekends and holidays.
Showing up early weekday mornings has been great for me. They aren't tired after a day of answering silly questions like mine, and they usually have a large coffee in hand. I get all the help I could ever need.
very thing we record in the studio will instantly be public domain. We'll be watching for others to take the content and redo it, and then we'll be able to use that content as well for our own gain.
What if they copyright their work?
This idea sounds great in a world where everyone who hears or uses copyright free music contributes back to the cause, but that's not the case.
By "public domain" do you mean some sort of creative commons-like license, or are you really going to produce it and then let it be used for whatever?
The name "This Hour has 22 Minutes"is actually a play on "This Hour Has Seven Days", a very popular news/public affairs show in the mid-sixties.
It also references the fact that a half-hour tv slot is 22 minutes plus commercials.
- Buy a second 100 gig hard drive. - Use 20 DVDs. Less if compressed with Ghost or software like that. Not necessarily elegant, but cheap. Either of those is cheaper than losing 6 years of *my* data. But apparently not yours. The way you're complaining, backing up 20 dvd's is far more of a pain than losing all that data, so don't worry about it, it couldn't have been that important. You learn the "how much inconvenience is worth it" lesson once. Now when you rebuild your system completely from scratch you can ask the question again. Perhaps the answer will be different, perhaps not. Either way, you've made that call and there are no more complaints.
Or a $40 dvd burner.
From sycraft-fu's earlier post, "If they were made as a joke, it's not libel."
So now you have to wait and see.
+5, Funny = no lawsuit.
+5, Informative = Lawyer up, buddy!
The story is by Heinlein, and it's called "The Roads Must Roll". It's a story of the power in unions and the danger in letting a small group of people control a ubiquitous service.
Wow, that sounds like a fantastic movie that I would have loved to see... ....except not anymore because you SPOILED THE ENDING. /me shakes his head in absolute disbelief.
- Here's a name, make up what s/he is famous for
- Here's a movie title, make up a short plot synopsis
- Here's a date, make up what happened on that day
- Here's an acronym, make up what it stands for
- Here's a word, make up a definition
Each needs a slightly different skill. The "what happened on this date" answers need to be time-appropriate, the "what is this person famous for" is completely open ended and is usually quite bizarre, etc. Great game.It's all I use now.
Winamp is (was) a study in poor interface design.
Foobar doesn't have all the bells and whistles, but it plays my music and is clear and easy to use.
:::// Instead of annoying error dialog messages, display pages: :::user_pref("browser.xul.error_pages.enabled", true);
The problem with this is that if I mistype a URL, then I don't get the chance to go back and easily correct it.
If I type "www.g00gle.com" in the bar, and the little window pops up, I can click okay, and then go to the url window, fix my mistake and hit enter.
If you diable the popup boxes, then the url gets changes into some monster, and I have to select all and retype the entire thing. (or find the mistyped url in the long monster, crop it and then correct it).
The popups can be annoying, but far and away the lesser of two evils.
Totally agreed here. I tried as many readers as I could find, and kept coming back to PalmReader. Great piece of software. Clear text, lots of flexibility.
I use my Palm m105 for reading books and nothing else. I hold it upside down (Palmreader lets you select screen orientation) and use my thumb to click the page button. I think scrolling would be annoying, I quite like page at a time flipping.
I've gone through the entire Jules Verne collection, and most of the books in the Baen Free Library this way. It uses batteries, not built-in rechargeables, but you can get an m105 (zire now) or similar cheapcheapcheap.
Yeah, I can see where having someone who specializes in gathering information about a topic and processing and synthesizing it is a poor choice to make intelligent critique about a policy before it is implemented.
Hey! Why not get a crowd of politicians who can't tell a TLD from an STD to make policy about the internet?
Much better.
Army Protection Racket
The entire sketch is at http://www.montypython.net/scripts/armyprot.php
Did anyone else instantly think of this when they read the item?
As far as using the GPS to get a position and it going down, well people have been taking long voyages in boats for at least 5000 years and not getting lost. Capt Cook and his clan would get star sightings a few times a week in some cases and those were good for a position down to about 100km or so even on a rocky boat.
The point is not what is possible, but what the crew is prepared for and capable of.
If they don't have up-to-date paper maps onboard, do you think they have a sextant?
Part two of the question: If they have a sextant, do you think they have the training and experience to use it well?
I would think that the locations of major cities doesn't change much either, but have you ever seen the volume of data generated for NOTAMS (changes to charts that pilots use)? "The sea doesn't change all that much" but I imagine ports, shipping routes, danger areas, etc change significantly.
Then again, I guess they could approach "by eye" and once they get withing screaming distance, they could call for an MCSE to come aboard and apply the latest service pack so they can enter port....
And of course, let's not forget The Bulwer-Lytton Contest.
The 1996 Winner, my favorite sentence of all time:
"Ace, watch your head!" hissed Wanda urgently, yet somehow provocatively, through red, full, sensuous lips, but he couldn't you know, since nobody can actually watch more than part of his nose or a little cheek or lips if he really tries, but he appreciated her warning."
And you wear your watch on your left hand
You mean *you* wear your watch on your left hand
I'm left handed, I wear my watch on my right wrist.
Perhaps the credit card companies will have limitations in their cardholder agreements about the primary watch-wearing hand of the customer. "We reserve the right to limit liability for fraud in left-handed customers."
Sigh, it's the Middle Ages all over again. "He's left handed! Burn the witch! And steal his SpeedPass!"
I revive old PC's for charities and churches and such, and have done my share of component swapping, building 3 good PC's from 5 dead ones, etc.
:(
Talk all you want about sexy stuff like sliding rails and things like that, all I want is a standard on screw sizes.
The last PC case I opened had 4 (count 'em, FOUR) different types of screws all doing the same job. One size kept the cards in place, one size kept the hard drives in place, one size kept the floppy in place and one size kept the cover on. All the same length, all the same head type (thank God) but different gauges and thread types. They look amazing similar in a pile on the desk, however...
And there is a special place in Hell for the guy that insists on putting slot-head screws in ANYTHING.
OT, but had to nit-pick back.
"Milk toast" is a bland porridgy guck made from (surprise!) milk and toasted bread.
It is bland and tasteless, useful only for sick people whose stomachs won't tolerate much more.
Milksop (a similar dish) has been used as "wimp" since The Canterbury Tales. I would suspect that the cartoon character was named after the dish with "wimpy" connotations, not the other way around.
So, his usage was correct. His point was that the site has nothing but bland filler. He wasn't calling them meek.
I think you've missed the point. The protest isn't against Cameras per se but against their ubiquity in our lives and our growing insensitivity to the monitoring of our movements and actions.
It's not about harassing Wal-Mart guards, it's about making the general population think about questions like:
1) Why exactly don't they want me videotaping them, but they can videotape me?
2) In what other ways am I being watched/monitored/tracked? Should I care? (GPS enabled cell phones, anyone? M$Passport anyone?)
3) How much is enough rights to give up for the sake of security?
As a Canadian, and a Slashdot lurker, I must say that I feel rather strange about this whole issue.
I feel rather like I'm standing watching through the keyhole as my fate is being argued and decided by people that I don't know.
I have less-than-zero say in the American system, yet the American system will essentially be deciding what's "right" for me and the rest of the world. (Foreign coders being held for work they did in foreign countries that breaks American law...)
My first thought when I read the article was "So, you have lots of critique of our sloth, but very little specific direction to get us off our butts". My second thought was "And if he DID give suggestions, they would most likely be directed at the American government (like writing congressmen, etc) and therefore essentially useless for me."
Anyone out there feel the same? What can I do as a non-American? Yes, I can give to the EFF, and yes, I can write to my own government, but let's be honest: The next time Chretien is in town, Dubya ain't gonna be asking him his country's stand on Copyright Law...
"ISPs learned they could make money "
Okay, all you who have had to change providers due to your existing one going belly up, raise your hand.
Now all you who were with @HOME, raise your hand.
Now, all you... oh wait, there's no one left.
Let's not be using ISP's as a model for business plans, eh?