Yeah, that's the only thing I am disappointed about. Sure B,B&M were great composers. But they don't really represent me. It's great they included Chuck Berry, but would it have hurt to throw on the theme song for say "Hawaii Five-O" or "Bonanza"? And what about the trek theme?
Aliens are gonna come to Earth thinking we're all these Lincoln Center types- what are they gonna do when they find us listening to Linkin Park?
Why does everyone think your computer has to be on to use VoIP?
Heh heh... maybe you just haven't had to deal with a telco/isp's helpdesk, or any helpdesk for that matter, and thus don't see the humor.
It won't matter, they have a standard "support" book they go through. Maybe it will change, maybe things will get better and they'll actually have a clue, and will understand you're trying to help them isolate a problem on their side of the demarc. But no, I doubt it. They'll make you go through rebooting your computer, even if it has nothing to do with the problem.
In Japan, all electronics are smaller. Houses are smaller. Cars are smaller. Laptops are smaller. Phones are smaller because they happen to like geewhiz tech and small implies better tech. I hate the Japanese slim phones, they are just way too fragile. Because I'm not the type to slip it gently into a suit pocket or a small purse. My phone is strapped to my hip, where it gets slammed into NYC pedestrians, scaffolding, handrails. It gets tossed into my backpack which gets dropped, thrown and banged around. Those slim phones wouldn't last a week.
I do like the ultraslim power supplies for the Japanese phones, that's something we need here. Let's get rid of those huge power bricks and get smaller, more energy efficient ones.
"Have you rebooted your computer?" and "Let's check your dial-up networking settings..."
No, it won't make any difference.
Had I some equivilent of a way to do a traceroute, I could simply say, 'the link between switch-5.verizon.net and switch-32.verizon.net is dropping packets, please put that in the trouble ticket so the techs can fix it'.
So Habeas decides who's allowed to spam.
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Individuals and Internet service providers can license and use the mark for free, while businesses and bulk e-mail companies will pay to use it.
Great, so now my inbox gets filled with spam, but from companies that are paying Habeas to do so. I'll have to add the domains of those who purchase licenses to my filters... wait, isn't that what I'm doing now?
Sure, sue spammers for trademark infringement, copyright violations. Yes, since the RIAA, MPAA, and Microsoft are having so much success stamping out piracy in China, I'm sure this new scheme is going to stop the spammers cold! In fact let me call my broker so I can buy some Habeas stock!
I use my original box to carry around my LCD. But every time I pack/unpack the screen, I lose a few bits of the styrofoam.
Any suggestions on how to keep the styrofoam together? I use packing tape, but was thinking maybe some spray adhesive and saran wrap? Any one have a good solution?
Isn't that exactly evolution at work?
Aren't we all what we are because of a series of accidental gene mutations?
It's an example of "macro-evolution", which is significant because people still debate whether macro-evolution occurs. We can study fruit flies and see examples of "micro-evolution" in progress, how genetic traits are passed on. However, in the short time we've been doing this, we have not seen the fruit fly turn into a fruit bat, or any other significant changes where it would no longer be classified as a fruit bat.
The discovery of the gene mutation is extraordinary. We can point at the mutation which allowed humans to speak and say "there is an example of macro-evolution". The cause of the divergence of humans from the other great apes and becoming our own species.
I'm not a biologist, but I that's the general gist I get from my friends who are...
Racial stereotyping humour gets modded up to 5 on Slashdot now does it?
Racial stereotyping? You bet. I admire the hell out of the folks who work at my local Chinese take outs. They work at one of the toughest jobs I can think of; they get into work about 10am and get ready for the day. Stand behind the stove for 12 hours in the insane heat. Get home around 2AM. I worked at at Burger King in my youth and thought that was bad, but I wouldn't last two days in a Chinese take-out.
I've driven through towns where the only "non-Americans" were the family running the restaurant. I stop in, talk to them, ask them where they're from. In these towns, I've gotten the feeling that those running the restaurant were admired for their work ethic, and have done more to increase cultural awareness than anything the goverment has ever done.
I considered it a humorous tribute to the Chinese take-out pioneers who have started businesses in small towns across the country, in places that when I was FOB, full of negative stereotypes of the American "good ol' boys", would have feared to walk.
No, ever since that whole King Ghidorah and Planet X incident, Japan has been wary of sending anything beyond Earth's orbit. Every time they try something Gozilla ends up destroying Tokyo, so they've scaled back on these massive techology ventures.
Anyway, link to Japan's current lunar projects here
Indian food in space and on the moon. Yum! Freeze-dried samosas and pakoras. Yum!
Those people are going to have it MADE.
Man, you wouldn't want to sit more than 10 minutes with me in a car after I have Indian food. Spending three days in a spacecraft with recycled air would probably kill everyone on board.
Personally, I hope they set up the first take-out on the moon.
From the "History of Space Exploration" published in the year 2500...
The exploration of our solar system and the far reaches of our Galaxy would not have been possible had it not been for the early Chinese pioneers, who led the way into deep space opening take-out restaurants upon each world they encountered. The following masses of humanity left the bonds of mother Earth knowing that no matter where they pointed their spacecraft, they would be assured a cheap, hot meal at the end of their journey, with a free 2-liter bottle of soda for orders over $25.
Why dont you kill yourself? Are you going to sue me now?
You? First I'd have to attempt suicide and survive. After that, I would have legal grounds to sue/. to trace back your post to your ISP, then sue the ISP to trace back to your account. Then have you arrested for promoting or encouraging my suicide. Once you've been convicted, then I could sue you for damages. I suppose with good laywers I wouldn't even have to attempt suicide but say you made me think about it and it led to severe depression and emotional damage and sue you anyway.
At any rate, the first step would be to sue/. to get more info, which is what Woolleys mother is doing as I understand the case.
How on Earth (pun intended) can this be justified? While the US/USSR space race gave us lots of new technologies (was the microwave part of that? Tang?), there is nothing to be gained for India by doing the same at this late stage.
There's (allegedly) a huge black market for moon rock. CNN reported one going for $5M. If they could gather 20 small rocks and get them back to India, then the entire project would have been paid for!
Nobody normal kills themselves just because of a computer game.
Yes, Woolley had some problems. The question, and the reason behind the lawsuit, is whether any of the players Woolley interacted with encouraged or drove him to suicide.
No, GTA3 probably isn't responsible for an increased number of carjackings. However, it does NOT tell you, the player, to go out and rip off cars. It encourages the "game character" to do so. GTA3 and other games rely on the ability of the player to distinguish between the "player" and the "game character".
In EQ there is no clear distinction. It is RPG, so the "player" and the "game character". Some people really role-play. But many do not. Their "game character" becomes an ideal version of themselves. The player basically becomes the character, and there is no distinction between the two.
I've told countless people to "f**k off" or "go sr**w yourself", not as an role-playing from my character to another character, but directed at the other player. Did someone annoyed with Woolley tell him "Why don't you kill yourself" or something along those lines?
That's what the lawsuit is about. In this, EQ isn't the symptom, nor really the cause. Woolley's mom sued to try to find out if there were any players who encouraged or even drove Woolley to kill himself. To find out who he might have associated with online. I think it's a fruitless search, but a mom has to try.
Which means there are about 6000 people exactly like you.
Well, if there are 6000 others out there just like me, then they are all on/. and should be modding up every one of my posts. Or at least I should see 6000 replies saying "Yeah, exactly what I was thinking!". Since this doesn't happen, I gotta conclude that I'm not one in a million but closer to one in a billion.
I bought the 2-disc set on the 6th as well. Why? Because it's not my birthday and no one else is gonna buy it for me!
I'm not in any big rush to buy the 4-disc set. That goes on my Christmas list and someone will end up buying it for me.
So might as well lay out the $16 hard earned bucks at Wal-Mart for the 2-disc set. Hell, that means for one full week I have to skip the Venti Mochachino and just drink regular coffee from the street vendor. It's a sacrifice I can live with!
I pride myself in being rather well versed in classical music, but have never once heard of this instrument. If gods like Mozart or
Beethoven composed for this instrument, where are these compisitions now? Have they, blasphemously, been transcribed for
other instruments, or are the compositions today as forgotten as the glass armonicas themselves?
My guess is that with the limited range of notes and the difficulty in playing any chords, music would have been pretty much anything writting for a wind instrument like a flute or bagpipe. Sure you could play some complicated music, but you usually don't go to hear a single bagpipe, you go to listen to all the pipes and drums. You hear the flute, but only as solos within a larger composition.
So I'd guess that if Mozart wrote anything, it would have been an armonica solo within a larger piece. Today it's probably been replaced by a flute or oboe.
I just can't possibly understand the logic behind it.
Which simply means you are a capitalist and that you are not benevolent!
Of course, refusing to patent something does not mean that you can't be capitalistic about it. You can still make money off it by manufacturing it and selling it. But without a patent, you don't have exclusive rights, so unless yours is much better than the "socialists" who are making them and giving them away for free, then you are not going to make money.
It removes all of the (practical) motivation to speed. You can't remove the other kind of motivation anyway, unless you make speeding commonplace and legal.
Consider this: the section of the NYS Thruway from Newburgh to Albany is just about 80 miles. At 65, it takes about 1 hour 15 minutes. But I usually stop at the final rest area to take a piss and get more coffee, so we're talking 1 hour 20 minutes total. At 80mph (normal speed on the Thruway), I could take a leisurely 15 minute break, rest, eat, piss, and still make the toll-to-toll time appear as if I was doing the legal 65mph. Doing 80mph makes for less time in the car, a longer break, and saves an additional 5 minutes. That's why we do it... I mean why other do it; of course I obey the speed limit =)
On a side note, the NY "EZPass" brochure says they won't release the info to the police (or the insurance companies hopefully) without a court order. But it still concerns me that some major company insurance company could buy the EZPass contract, along with all the records, and raise rates according to my toll-to-toll speeds.
And I usually take the transponder off the winshield when I'm not going through the toll... twice it's shaken loose and dropped square onto my drink holder spilling my coffee. Can't have that happening...
I mean, yeah, having the company ask for repayment of loans is fine and such, but it isn't a "legal" nessessity... meaning... who cares?
I know it's a bit to ask people to READ the actual article before they say they don't understand what's going on. The article states:
said the board members voted last December to make their loans ``non-recourse,'' an accounting term that meant the directors would not be personally liable if they failed to pay.
That's the entire point of the article, the directors voted themselves not financially responsible if they fail to pay back the loans.
So what happens if...
I try to copy it 1,000,000 times?
Your puter sends 1M packets to Sony, taking down their router and server. They arrest you for launching a DoS attack on their server.
The story of your arrest gets posted to/., and we respond by generating scripts that say we're listening/sharing 500 copies of Vanilla Ice's "Ice Ice Baby". Sony gives Ice a huge $80M five record contract. We laugh as Sony posts a record $2billion loss for 2002...
The story specifically mentioned Tarzan. I haven't timed it, but it's loaded with several trailers for other Disney movies and for Disney World. I don't mind my kid watching Tarzan, it's a good story. But for them to be bombarded with 5 minutes of advertising every time they want to watch the movie?
We generally consider "trailers" to be sneak peaks to upcoming movies. But the Disney Trailers on the DVD are blatant sales pitches aimed at getting kids to say "Daddy, buy me that movie!" "Buy me this movie!" "I want to go to Disney World and meet Mickey!"
It's taking marketing way too far when you're forced to watch them every time you want to see the movie. What's the point of buying a movie if you're going to be forced to watch advertisements? Might as well tape it off broadcast TV and save $25.
Paint the DC flat black, print up a fancy label like "CyberIntelliScan 2000X". Use chalk and scribble "DEMO UNIT".
For the finishing touch, tape a handwritten note saying:
"Network Optimization Scan- please don not touch- Joe", using the name of the director of the IT department.
With luck, any hapless admin who sees it will think it's just another fart-in-the-wind product the PHB is testing out for his brother's company, and not pay any attention to it.
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"But that would be boasting."
Yeah, that's the only thing I am disappointed about. Sure B,B&M were great composers. But they don't really represent me. It's great they included Chuck Berry, but would it have hurt to throw on the theme song for say "Hawaii Five-O" or "Bonanza"? And what about the trek theme?
Aliens are gonna come to Earth thinking we're all these Lincoln Center types- what are they gonna do when they find us listening to Linkin Park?
Why does everyone think your computer has to be on to use VoIP?
Heh heh... maybe you just haven't had to deal with a telco/isp's helpdesk, or any helpdesk for that matter, and thus don't see the humor.
It won't matter, they have a standard "support" book they go through. Maybe it will change, maybe things will get better and they'll actually have a clue, and will understand you're trying to help them isolate a problem on their side of the demarc. But no, I doubt it. They'll make you go through rebooting your computer, even if it has nothing to do with the problem.
In Japan, all electronics are smaller. Houses are smaller. Cars are smaller. Laptops are smaller. Phones are smaller because they happen to like geewhiz tech and small implies better tech. I hate the Japanese slim phones, they are just way too fragile. Because I'm not the type to slip it gently into a suit pocket or a small purse. My phone is strapped to my hip, where it gets slammed into NYC pedestrians, scaffolding, handrails. It gets tossed into my backpack which gets dropped, thrown and banged around. Those slim phones wouldn't last a week.
I do like the ultraslim power supplies for the Japanese phones, that's something we need here. Let's get rid of those huge power bricks and get smaller, more energy efficient ones.
"Have you rebooted your computer?" and "Let's check your dial-up networking settings..."
No, it won't make any difference.
Had I some equivilent of a way to do a traceroute, I could simply say, 'the link between switch-5.verizon.net and switch-32.verizon.net is dropping packets, please put that in the trouble ticket so the techs can fix it'.
Individuals and Internet service providers can license and use the mark for free, while businesses and bulk e-mail companies will pay to use it.
Great, so now my inbox gets filled with spam, but from companies that are paying Habeas to do so. I'll have to add the domains of those who purchase licenses to my filters... wait, isn't that what I'm doing now?
Sure, sue spammers for trademark infringement, copyright violations. Yes, since the RIAA, MPAA, and Microsoft are having so much success stamping out piracy in China, I'm sure this new scheme is going to stop the spammers cold! In fact let me call my broker so I can buy some Habeas stock!
Two words - "original packaging".
I use my original box to carry around my LCD. But every time I pack/unpack the screen, I lose a few bits of the styrofoam.
Any suggestions on how to keep the styrofoam together? I use packing tape, but was thinking maybe some spray adhesive and saran wrap? Any one have a good solution?
She already has built-in encryption because as everyone already knows, there is just no comprehending women.
/.???
Great, I just spit my tea all over my monitor. Dammit, when will I learn not to eat or drink while reading
Does it implies that in US you have no expectation of privacy when using computer at work, public library or internet kiosk?
Didn't you read the EULA taped to the monitor before you logged in?
Isn't that exactly evolution at work? Aren't we all what we are because of a series of accidental gene mutations?
It's an example of "macro-evolution", which is significant because people still debate whether macro-evolution occurs. We can study fruit flies and see examples of "micro-evolution" in progress, how genetic traits are passed on. However, in the short time we've been doing this, we have not seen the fruit fly turn into a fruit bat, or any other significant changes where it would no longer be classified as a fruit bat.
The discovery of the gene mutation is extraordinary. We can point at the mutation which allowed humans to speak and say "there is an example of macro-evolution". The cause of the divergence of humans from the other great apes and becoming our own species.
I'm not a biologist, but I that's the general gist I get from my friends who are...
Racial stereotyping humour gets modded up to 5 on Slashdot now does it?
Racial stereotyping? You bet. I admire the hell out of the folks who work at my local Chinese take outs. They work at one of the toughest jobs I can think of; they get into work about 10am and get ready for the day. Stand behind the stove for 12 hours in the insane heat. Get home around 2AM. I worked at at Burger King in my youth and thought that was bad, but I wouldn't last two days in a Chinese take-out.
I've driven through towns where the only "non-Americans" were the family running the restaurant. I stop in, talk to them, ask them where they're from. In these towns, I've gotten the feeling that those running the restaurant were admired for their work ethic, and have done more to increase cultural awareness than anything the goverment has ever done.
I considered it a humorous tribute to the Chinese take-out pioneers who have started businesses in small towns across the country, in places that when I was FOB, full of negative stereotypes of the American "good ol' boys", would have feared to walk.
Has Japan actually sent something moonward?
No, ever since that whole King Ghidorah and Planet X incident, Japan has been wary of sending anything beyond Earth's orbit. Every time they try something Gozilla ends up destroying Tokyo, so they've scaled back on these massive techology ventures.
Anyway, link to Japan's current lunar projects here
Indian food in space and on the moon. Yum! Freeze-dried samosas and pakoras. Yum! Those people are going to have it MADE.
Man, you wouldn't want to sit more than 10 minutes with me in a car after I have Indian food. Spending three days in a spacecraft with recycled air would probably kill everyone on board.
Personally, I hope they set up the first take-out on the moon.
From the "History of Space Exploration" published in the year 2500...
The exploration of our solar system and the far reaches of our Galaxy would not have been possible had it not been for the early Chinese pioneers, who led the way into deep space opening take-out restaurants upon each world they encountered. The following masses of humanity left the bonds of mother Earth knowing that no matter where they pointed their spacecraft, they would be assured a cheap, hot meal at the end of their journey, with a free 2-liter bottle of soda for orders over $25.
Why dont you kill yourself? Are you going to sue me now?
/. to trace back your post to your ISP, then sue the ISP to trace back to your account. Then have you arrested for promoting or encouraging my suicide. Once you've been convicted, then I could sue you for damages. I suppose with good laywers I wouldn't even have to attempt suicide but say you made me think about it and it led to severe depression and emotional damage and sue you anyway.
/. to get more info, which is what Woolleys mother is doing as I understand the case.
You? First I'd have to attempt suicide and survive. After that, I would have legal grounds to sue
At any rate, the first step would be to sue
How on Earth (pun intended) can this be justified? While the US/USSR space race gave us lots of new technologies (was the microwave part of that? Tang?), there is nothing to be gained for India by doing the same at this late stage.
There's (allegedly) a huge black market for moon rock. CNN reported one going for $5M. If they could gather 20 small rocks and get them back to India, then the entire project would have been paid for!
Nobody normal kills themselves just because of a computer game.
Yes, Woolley had some problems. The question, and the reason behind the lawsuit, is whether any of the players Woolley interacted with encouraged or drove him to suicide.
No, GTA3 probably isn't responsible for an increased number of carjackings. However, it does NOT tell you, the player, to go out and rip off cars. It encourages the "game character" to do so. GTA3 and other games rely on the ability of the player to distinguish between the "player" and the "game character".
In EQ there is no clear distinction. It is RPG, so the "player" and the "game character". Some people really role-play. But many do not. Their "game character" becomes an ideal version of themselves. The player basically becomes the character, and there is no distinction between the two.
I've told countless people to "f**k off" or "go sr**w yourself", not as an role-playing from my character to another character, but directed at the other player. Did someone annoyed with Woolley tell him "Why don't you kill yourself" or something along those lines?
That's what the lawsuit is about. In this, EQ isn't the symptom, nor really the cause. Woolley's mom sued to try to find out if there were any players who encouraged or even drove Woolley to kill himself. To find out who he might have associated with online. I think it's a fruitless search, but a mom has to try.
Which means there are about 6000 people exactly like you.
/. and should be modding up every one of my posts. Or at least I should see 6000 replies saying "Yeah, exactly what I was thinking!". Since this doesn't happen, I gotta conclude that I'm not one in a million but closer to one in a billion.
Well, if there are 6000 others out there just like me, then they are all on
I bought the 2-disc set on the 6th as well. Why? Because it's not my birthday and no one else is gonna buy it for me!
I'm not in any big rush to buy the 4-disc set. That goes on my Christmas list and someone will end up buying it for me.
So might as well lay out the $16 hard earned bucks at Wal-Mart for the 2-disc set. Hell, that means for one full week I have to skip the Venti Mochachino and just drink regular coffee from the street vendor. It's a sacrifice I can live with!
I pride myself in being rather well versed in classical music, but have never once heard of this instrument. If gods like Mozart or Beethoven composed for this instrument, where are these compisitions now? Have they, blasphemously, been transcribed for other instruments, or are the compositions today as forgotten as the glass armonicas themselves?
My guess is that with the limited range of notes and the difficulty in playing any chords, music would have been pretty much anything writting for a wind instrument like a flute or bagpipe. Sure you could play some complicated music, but you usually don't go to hear a single bagpipe, you go to listen to all the pipes and drums. You hear the flute, but only as solos within a larger composition.
So I'd guess that if Mozart wrote anything, it would have been an armonica solo within a larger piece. Today it's probably been replaced by a flute or oboe.
I just can't possibly understand the logic behind it.
Which simply means you are a capitalist and that you are not benevolent!
Of course, refusing to patent something does not mean that you can't be capitalistic about it. You can still make money off it by manufacturing it and selling it. But without a patent, you don't have exclusive rights, so unless yours is much better than the "socialists" who are making them and giving them away for free, then you are not going to make money.
It removes all of the (practical) motivation to speed. You can't remove the other kind of motivation anyway, unless you make speeding commonplace and legal.
Consider this: the section of the NYS Thruway from Newburgh to Albany is just about 80 miles. At 65, it takes about 1 hour 15 minutes. But I usually stop at the final rest area to take a piss and get more coffee, so we're talking 1 hour 20 minutes total. At 80mph (normal speed on the Thruway), I could take a leisurely 15 minute break, rest, eat, piss, and still make the toll-to-toll time appear as if I was doing the legal 65mph. Doing 80mph makes for less time in the car, a longer break, and saves an additional 5 minutes. That's why we do it... I mean why other do it; of course I obey the speed limit =)
On a side note, the NY "EZPass" brochure says they won't release the info to the police (or the insurance companies hopefully) without a court order. But it still concerns me that some major company insurance company could buy the EZPass contract, along with all the records, and raise rates according to my toll-to-toll speeds.
And I usually take the transponder off the winshield when I'm not going through the toll... twice it's shaken loose and dropped square onto my drink holder spilling my coffee. Can't have that happening...
I mean, yeah, having the company ask for repayment of loans is fine and such, but it isn't a "legal" nessessity... meaning... who cares?
I know it's a bit to ask people to READ the actual article before they say they don't understand what's going on. The article states:
said the board members voted last December to make their loans ``non-recourse,'' an accounting term that meant the directors would not be personally liable if they failed to pay.
That's the entire point of the article, the directors voted themselves not financially responsible if they fail to pay back the loans.
So what happens if... I try to copy it 1,000,000 times?
/., and we respond by generating scripts that say we're listening/sharing 500 copies of Vanilla Ice's "Ice Ice Baby". Sony gives Ice a huge $80M five record contract. We laugh as Sony posts a record $2billion loss for 2002...
Your puter sends 1M packets to Sony, taking down their router and server. They arrest you for launching a DoS attack on their server.
The story of your arrest gets posted to
The story specifically mentioned Tarzan. I haven't timed it, but it's loaded with several trailers for other Disney movies and for Disney World. I don't mind my kid watching Tarzan, it's a good story. But for them to be bombarded with 5 minutes of advertising every time they want to watch the movie?
We generally consider "trailers" to be sneak peaks to upcoming movies. But the Disney Trailers on the DVD are blatant sales pitches aimed at getting kids to say "Daddy, buy me that movie!" "Buy me this movie!" "I want to go to Disney World and meet Mickey!"
It's taking marketing way too far when you're forced to watch them every time you want to see the movie. What's the point of buying a movie if you're going to be forced to watch advertisements? Might as well tape it off broadcast TV and save $25.
So, this is a great idea, and a cute trial.. but you're never going to get a tesla coil that can really injure people
Yeah, but I bet it will keep the neighbor's cat from pissing in my flowerbed.
Paint the DC flat black, print up a fancy label like "CyberIntelliScan 2000X". Use chalk and scribble "DEMO UNIT".
For the finishing touch, tape a handwritten note saying:
"Network Optimization Scan- please don not touch- Joe", using the name of the director of the IT department.
With luck, any hapless admin who sees it will think it's just another fart-in-the-wind product the PHB is testing out for his brother's company, and not pay any attention to it.