And what are the ah-so-noble-anti-DRM hardware manufacturers going to do when the content providers refuse to license their products and protocols to them?
Why do you think all the manufacturers are hellbent on pushing stuff like digital TV, new audio and video standards (BluRay and this)? Because of DRM, of course. Analog is being killed on purpose and DRM is coming. There's nothing you can do about it, so get ready for DRM'd computer hardware (goodbye home-built computers and open software), speakers, TVs, monitors and stereos.
Don't think that the customer's will allow this? Just wait and see. Analog TV broadcasts will end here in 2007 and you can bet that most of the stuff will be flagged with the broadcast flag.
The summary is definitely flamebait, but hey, this kind of articles sell ad- and maybe even subscription-wise. Slashdot is well on its way to becoming the National Enquirer for Nerds.
Indeed. Avoid this film like a plague. It's better to go and watch something wholesome Christian edutainment like The Passion of the Christ with your kids. Sure it's rated R, but that's just because the godless Hollywood atheists don't want your kids watching a movie about God's love.
Maybe this is a bit off-topic, but employers are also known to use Google and web archives to check up on the past of a potential employee. So be careful what kind of statements you make on the net using your real name.
It almost seems that the underlying message is that tourism is a threat to national security and should be outlawed
Tourism, business, science,... you name it.
I, for one, would love to visit USA on a business trip, to participate in certain world class scientific conferences that are annually held over there and meet the colleagues I've got over there. However, even today I would have to submit my fingerprints and maybe some biometric information to enter which, at least in part, has held me back. If in the future I would also have to carry an RFID on my person at all times... no way.
Fry: Well, so what if I love a robot? It's not hurting anybody.
Hermes: My God! He never took middle school hygiene. He never saw the propaganda film.
Farnsworth: It's just lucky I keep a copy in the VCR at all times!
[He presses a button and a film title appears on the screen: I Dated A Robot!. In the movie a couple sit in a café and stare into each other's eyes. A narrator walks into the scene.]
Narrator [in movie]: Ordinary human dating. It's enjoyable and it serves an important purpose. [He turns the table over and a crying baby appears. He turns it back again.] But when a human dates an artificial mate, there is no purpose. Only enjoyment. And that leads to...tragedy.
[The woman behind him turns into a blank robot and the man downloads a celebrity onto it.]
Billy [in movie]: Neato! A Marylin Monroebot!
Monroebot [in movie]: Ooo! You're a real dreamboat (mechanical voice) Billy Everyteen!
Narrator [in movie]: Harmless fun? Let's see what happens next!
[The scene cuts to Billy's bedroom. He is kissing the Monroebot. Enter his mother.]
Billy's Mom [in movie]: Billy, do you want to walk your dog?
Billy [in movie]: No thank Mom, I'd rather make out with my Monroebot.
[Enter his dad.]
Billy's Dad [in movie]: Billy, do want to get a paper route and earn some extra cash?
Billy [in movie]: No thanks dad, I'd rather make out with my Monroebot.
[Enter his girlfriend, Mavis, from the café.]
Mavis [in movie]: Billy, do you want to come over tonight? We can make out together.
Billy [in movie]: Gee Mavis, your house is across the street, that's an awfully long way to go for making out.
Narrator [in movie]: Did you notice what went wrong in that scene? Ordinarily Billy would work hard to make money from his paper route then he'd use the money to buy dinner for Mavis, thus earning the slim chance of performing the reproductive act. But in a world where teens can date robots why should he bother? Why should anyone bother? Let's take a look at Billy's planet a year later. [The scene changes and a foam hand rolls across an empty American football field] Where are all the football stars? [The foam hand continues to drift across an empty laboratory.] And where are the biochemists? [The scene changes to a split screen of a pair of human and robots making out on beds.] They are trapped - trapped in a soft, vice-like grip of robot lips. All civilisation was just an effort to impress the opposite sex. And sometimes the same sex. Now, let's skip forward 80 years into the future. Where is Billy?
[The scene changes to a post-apocalyptic world. Billy is an aged man but he is still with his Monroebot and still making out with her.]
Billy [in movie]: Farewell!
[He dies.]
Narrator [in movie]: The next day Billy's planet was destroyed by aliens. [In the movie a fleet of flying saucers destroy buildings with a quick laser shot.] Have you guessed the name of Billy's planet? It was Earth. Don't Date Robots!
[A caption appears on the screen with the same words on it and the movie ends. The space pope is displayed on the screen with Crocodylus Pontiflex written around him in English and alien.]
Announcer [voice-over; in movie]: Brought to you by the space pope!
High volume (most people will buy the Windows version), smart negotiations and incentives to encourage Dell to keep the FreeDOS price up. Why don't you go and negotiate a better deal with Dell if you think that's unfair pricing.
People trash uni jobs all the time because they don't pay that well, but the intangibles and benefit packages are pretty good.
Being a university employee myself I fully agree with you. I also have my office office and, if I close the door and take my cellphone/phone off line, I can get some peace. Too often, however, something in the lab or a doctoral student requires my immediate attention and that's why the weekends are perfect for serious reading or writing.
eventually this behavior is expected, and essentially you become a slave rather than an employee.
Yep. I should have added to my original post that it is only a short-term solution. If you do it year after year you will burn out. I usually resort to six or seven day weeks when I'm writing something important (grant application or a paper, for instance) that really requires all your undivided attention. After it's done, it's back to the five day week.
Bender: "Listen you fat internet nerd!"
Nerd: "Listening."
Bender: "Your company promotes wrong love! If you don't shut down right now, the only thing wired out of you will be your jaw!"
Nerd: "You can't shut us down! The internet is about the free exchange and sale of other people's ideas. We've done nothing wrong!"
A quote from the article the previous Slashdot linked to:
One partner said that Microsoft considers CSS2 to be a "flawed" standard and that the company is waiting for a later point release, such as CSS2.1 or CSS3, before throwing its complete support behind it.
You want to explain the process of formatting the correct partition and re-installing windows+all drivers to an average user who thinks that the blue E-icon on the desktop is the internet?
Anyway, do brand computers like Dell even come with Windows installation CDs?
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Is Vista going to be a pure 64-bit OS?
Or, even worse, ~500 minutes worth of Crazy Frog ringtones...
The majority of people using computers will never use ssh in their lives. It's not the perfect solution, but it's not complete crap either.
Not where I live. Here the analog TV broadcasts will end in 2007 and the broadcast flag is alive and well.
And what are the ah-so-noble-anti-DRM hardware manufacturers going to do when the content providers refuse to license their products and protocols to them?
Why do you think all the manufacturers are hellbent on pushing stuff like digital TV, new audio and video standards (BluRay and this)? Because of DRM, of course. Analog is being killed on purpose and DRM is coming. There's nothing you can do about it, so get ready for DRM'd computer hardware (goodbye home-built computers and open software), speakers, TVs, monitors and stereos.
Don't think that the customer's will allow this? Just wait and see. Analog TV broadcasts will end here in 2007 and you can bet that most of the stuff will be flagged with the broadcast flag.
Hey, what a great idea! We never needed those before, but NOW there's some serious demand for brand new skills like problem-solving.
The summary is definitely flamebait, but hey, this kind of articles sell ad- and maybe even subscription-wise. Slashdot is well on its way to becoming the National Enquirer for Nerds.
Indeed. Avoid this film like a plague. It's better to go and watch something wholesome Christian edutainment like The Passion of the Christ with your kids. Sure it's rated R, but that's just because the godless Hollywood atheists don't want your kids watching a movie about God's love.
Equal time for Creationism == Equal time for religious nonsense.
Your ideas are intriguing to me and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter.
Maybe this is a bit off-topic, but employers are also known to use Google and web archives to check up on the past of a potential employee. So be careful what kind of statements you make on the net using your real name.
Tourism, business, science,... you name it.
I, for one, would love to visit USA on a business trip, to participate in certain world class scientific conferences that are annually held over there and meet the colleagues I've got over there. However, even today I would have to submit my fingerprints and maybe some biometric information to enter which, at least in part, has held me back. If in the future I would also have to carry an RFID on my person at all times... no way.
Hermes: My God! He never took middle school hygiene. He never saw the propaganda film.
Farnsworth: It's just lucky I keep a copy in the VCR at all times!
[He presses a button and a film title appears on the screen: I Dated A Robot!. In the movie a couple sit in a café and stare into each other's eyes. A narrator walks into the scene.]
Narrator [in movie]: Ordinary human dating. It's enjoyable and it serves an important purpose. [He turns the table over and a crying baby appears. He turns it back again.] But when a human dates an artificial mate, there is no purpose. Only enjoyment. And that leads to...tragedy.
[The woman behind him turns into a blank robot and the man downloads a celebrity onto it.]
Billy [in movie]: Neato! A Marylin Monroebot!
Monroebot [in movie]: Ooo! You're a real dreamboat (mechanical voice) Billy Everyteen!
Narrator [in movie]: Harmless fun? Let's see what happens next!
[The scene cuts to Billy's bedroom. He is kissing the Monroebot. Enter his mother.]
Billy's Mom [in movie]: Billy, do you want to walk your dog?
Billy [in movie]: No thank Mom, I'd rather make out with my Monroebot.
[Enter his dad.]
Billy's Dad [in movie]: Billy, do want to get a paper route and earn some extra cash?
Billy [in movie]: No thanks dad, I'd rather make out with my Monroebot.
[Enter his girlfriend, Mavis, from the café.]
Mavis [in movie]: Billy, do you want to come over tonight? We can make out together.
Billy [in movie]: Gee Mavis, your house is across the street, that's an awfully long way to go for making out.
Narrator [in movie]: Did you notice what went wrong in that scene? Ordinarily Billy would work hard to make money from his paper route then he'd use the money to buy dinner for Mavis, thus earning the slim chance of performing the reproductive act. But in a world where teens can date robots why should he bother? Why should anyone bother? Let's take a look at Billy's planet a year later. [The scene changes and a foam hand rolls across an empty American football field] Where are all the football stars? [The foam hand continues to drift across an empty laboratory.] And where are the biochemists? [The scene changes to a split screen of a pair of human and robots making out on beds.] They are trapped - trapped in a soft, vice-like grip of robot lips. All civilisation was just an effort to impress the opposite sex. And sometimes the same sex. Now, let's skip forward 80 years into the future. Where is Billy?
[The scene changes to a post-apocalyptic world. Billy is an aged man but he is still with his Monroebot and still making out with her.]
Billy [in movie]: Farewell!
[He dies.] Narrator [in movie]: The next day Billy's planet was destroyed by aliens. [In the movie a fleet of flying saucers destroy buildings with a quick laser shot.] Have you guessed the name of Billy's planet? It was Earth. Don't Date Robots!
[A caption appears on the screen with the same words on it and the movie ends. The space pope is displayed on the screen with Crocodylus Pontiflex written around him in English and alien.]
Announcer [voice-over; in movie]: Brought to you by the space pope!
High volume (most people will buy the Windows version), smart negotiations and incentives to encourage Dell to keep the FreeDOS price up. Why don't you go and negotiate a better deal with Dell if you think that's unfair pricing.
Hmm... what would have been seen as a failure? Just curious.
Traffic is the primary cause of pollution in inhabited areas and car emissions are harder to control than those of a single 250 MW coal plant.
Being a university employee myself I fully agree with you. I also have my office office and, if I close the door and take my cellphone/phone off line, I can get some peace. Too often, however, something in the lab or a doctoral student requires my immediate attention and that's why the weekends are perfect for serious reading or writing.
Yep. I should have added to my original post that it is only a short-term solution. If you do it year after year you will burn out. I usually resort to six or seven day weeks when I'm writing something important (grant application or a paper, for instance) that really requires all your undivided attention. After it's done, it's back to the five day week.
Works for me.
Excellent nick for this thread. Is that your regular nick or just something for Futurama threads?
Bender: "Listen you fat internet nerd!"
Nerd: "Listening."
Bender: "Your company promotes wrong love! If you don't shut down right now, the only thing wired out of you will be your jaw!"
Nerd: "You can't shut us down! The internet is about the free exchange and sale of other people's ideas. We've done nothing wrong!"
Is that the sound of air escaping from the folds of fat? ;)
But seriously, I wouldn't really mind if they made a directly-to-DVD series instead of a TV series. I would still buy it and I'd get it sooner.
Any ideas what the "flaw" is?
Anyway, do brand computers like Dell even come with Windows installation CDs?