Which would then defeat the purpose since drivers would now set it to passenger mode.
The purpose is to give the driver the choice. It achieves that purpose. TFA mentions if you override it is logged, so parents/employers can nag you about it.
The only issue I have with the idea is that it costs $10 a month. Seems excessive. If it catches on I expect it would be a virtually free feature in later models.
Now wouldn't it be better if students buy their own laptops and choose which particular model or OS they like
Yes, that would make it so much easier for the schools to support. Everyone with different hardware, operating systems, installed software.
And everyone would pay full retail instead of getting the massive discount that a purchase of thousands of laptops gets.
Really - if it was as simply as following the money then do you think we wouldn't have nailed spam by now?
When have police even tried to "follow the money"? The amounts in each case are far below the threshold for them to take in interest. Only in a very few cases, so rare that they make headlines, do they make even a token effort to investigate. And maybe one or two spammers a year get charged. The FBI apparently thinks it's more important to have agents pretending to be teenage girls to entrap lonely shlubs in chatrooms than to pay the slightest attention to spammers. And corporations lobby the government to PREVENT any effective laws against spam, so they can do it.
I maintain it IS easy to "follow the money" and catch enough spammers to put some fear into them. Now, they have not the slightest care in the world.
For give me if I don't know my chinese numerology but I've heard that 7 is a lucky number in china and people like to see multiple repetitions of the number.
No, in China 8 is the luckiest number. Partly because the word (ba) sounds like that for "prosperity".
It's actually in western countries that 7 is lucky.
Let us know when the BBC opens their content to the rest of the world.
The BBC is funded by British taxpayers. Youtube is funded by the ads on the page.
Anyway, 10 minutes of crappy small-screen video with the occasional buffering pause is about all I can handle. I'll stick to downloading AVI files and burning them to DVD for anything longer.
If this tripe nonsense was in the Daily Mail, I could understand it. But what's it doing on Slashdot?
From RTFA, it was organised by Professor Kevin Warwick, who is well-known for absurd self-promoting stunts (such as embedding an RFI chip in his arm and parading himself as a cyborg). He;s regularly lampooned in The Register, but the press is more gullible.
But tripe nonsense on Slashdot? You must be new here... they have no standards at all. No fact checking, no corroboration. No spell checking for that matter.
Actually, in Chinese you sometimes see the comma separator between groups of four digits. In Chinese there is a word for 10,000 (pronounced mun in Cantonese) which is a more "natural" unit for many Chinese speakers than thousands, so this number (500,000) would be spoken as ng-sup mun (fifty ten-thousands), and so written in figures 50,0000.
But the Western style of breaking into three digit groups is more common these days.
According to Wikipedia this is also seen in Japan, and India has a rather eccentric 3,2,2 pattern (ten million = 1,00,00,000), so in India this might be 5,00,000.
For the last time, I was refuting "no incentive". You are arguing about "sufficient incentive". So why keep posting in response to arguments I DID NOT MAKE?
"China piracy" just finds thousands of articles about copyright and such. Some things are swamped in "simple Google searches" unless you already know exactly what you're looking for.
If someone knows how to do "common tasks" with Windows, where's the incentive to go to the hassle of being re-educated just to learn how to do the same things in Linux?
The incentive is that it's cheaper.
And if you RTFA, you see the guy mentioning they're working on more "Mac-like" interface, based on Ubuntu. That should be a lot easier for Mr and Mrs Sixpack to use.
though how much you could actually do and perform in two hours is debatable
Obviously the submitter didn't RTFA
SpaceShipTwo craft, which is released during flight and then climbs to 100 kilometers in altitude to offer fee-paying passengers around five minutes of weightlessness
Normal intercourse is going to be difficult, without weight to overcome friction. I can see space bukkake being more likely, and even more disgusting than the earthbound variety.
Notice the image illustrating all the captchas it can supposedly break is marked "Copyright BotMaster.net 2006". If it could do that 2 years ago, why is it news now?
Remember these are spammers selling a product. Why should we believe this any more than we believe a cream can add two inches to your penis?
Slashdot Mirror
The purpose is to give the driver the choice. It achieves that purpose. TFA mentions if you override it is logged, so parents/employers can nag you about it.
The only issue I have with the idea is that it costs $10 a month. Seems excessive. If it catches on I expect it would be a virtually free feature in later models.
Of course they have. You can TURN IT OFF if you're a passenger.
RTFA FFS.
"override the motion-sensing feature to indicate that they're riding in car rather than driving".
And I'm sure you can initiate calls regardless.
Yes, that would make it so much easier for the schools to support. Everyone with different hardware, operating systems, installed software. And everyone would pay full retail instead of getting the massive discount that a purchase of thousands of laptops gets.
When have police even tried to "follow the money"? The amounts in each case are far below the threshold for them to take in interest. Only in a very few cases, so rare that they make headlines, do they make even a token effort to investigate. And maybe one or two spammers a year get charged. The FBI apparently thinks it's more important to have agents pretending to be teenage girls to entrap lonely shlubs in chatrooms than to pay the slightest attention to spammers. And corporations lobby the government to PREVENT any effective laws against spam, so they can do it.
I maintain it IS easy to "follow the money" and catch enough spammers to put some fear into them. Now, they have not the slightest care in the world.
No, in China 8 is the luckiest number. Partly because the word (ba) sounds like that for "prosperity".
It's actually in western countries that 7 is lucky.
I thought it was another Friday 13th sequel. They've done everything else to Jason without any permanent effect.
And really, "37signals" "Basecamp", "Campfire"? They could have been rap groups for all I knew.
Headline at the moment is "Yahooo Hacker 'Mafiaboy' Eight Years On Posted by CmdrTaco on Mon Oct 13, '08 09:15 PM"
The BBC is funded by British taxpayers. Youtube is funded by the ads on the page.
Anyway, 10 minutes of crappy small-screen video with the occasional buffering pause is about all I can handle. I'll stick to downloading AVI files and burning them to DVD for anything longer.
1) I'm not new here.
2) Anyone who uses car analogies to explain computers is either a troll or an idiot.
In general, yes. But normally one would trust files on your own hard disk.
Is this one, two or three sentences mangled together? And WTF does "2 years" refer to?
From RTFA, it was organised by Professor Kevin Warwick, who is well-known for absurd self-promoting stunts (such as embedding an RFI chip in his arm and parading himself as a cyborg). He;s regularly lampooned in The Register, but the press is more gullible.
But tripe nonsense on Slashdot? You must be new here... they have no standards at all. No fact checking, no corroboration. No spell checking for that matter.
But the Western style of breaking into three digit groups is more common these days.
According to Wikipedia this is also seen in Japan, and India has a rather eccentric 3,2,2 pattern (ten million = 1,00,00,000), so in India this might be 5,00,000.
Makes as much sense as the rest of your posts.
Anyway, since you seem determined to have the last word, just continue arguing with your straw buddy and I'll leave you to it.
Hindsight is very clear.
Well, since you evidently didn't read my post before pasting in your generic "Why Linux Sux" screed, that's not surprising.
For the last time, I was refuting "no incentive". You are arguing about "sufficient incentive". So why keep posting in response to arguments I DID NOT MAKE?
Sorry, you're arguing with a straw man.
The question I was answering was what was the incentive, implying there was none at all. Weigh up the pros and cons as you wish.
"China piracy" just finds thousands of articles about copyright and such. Some things are swamped in "simple Google searches" unless you already know exactly what you're looking for.
The incentive is that it's cheaper.
And if you RTFA, you see the guy mentioning they're working on more "Mac-like" interface, based on Ubuntu. That should be a lot easier for Mr and Mrs Sixpack to use.
Okay, WTF are you talking about: "piracy on the high seas"? I don't recall the Chinese government issuing letters of marque.
Obviously the submitter didn't RTFA
Normal intercourse is going to be difficult, without weight to overcome friction. I can see space bukkake being more likely, and even more disgusting than the earthbound variety.
Remember these are spammers selling a product. Why should we believe this any more than we believe a cream can add two inches to your penis?
No, I just don't live in Australia so I can't test it myself.