I'd rather have my entire phones face be a touch screen. That way if I've got to write a quick email to someone it would work like this. Let's just say my "personal communicator" dings and the message is regarding some new piece of technology we're talking about deploying and I'd like to white board to understand how they're going to stuff this abomnination into my lab... The message I'd be likely to send is something like "Can we quickly meet to talk about this?".
I'd like to have the option of having some precanned responses. Maybe Crackberries can already do this, I'm not sure. If not I'd press the reply button on the screen a little graphical keyboard would pop up. I'd press the letter C and something nice would happen... since my primary language is English (I know, it's hard to tell from this post...) what I'd like to see is the keyboard shrink down and I'd be presented with a larger "A" "H" and possibly even the word "Can" that I could then press. Then I'd be presented with the words "I" and "we" to press. Now if I actually wanted to type "Canada" I could merely just enlarge the keyboard and go ahead and the moment I pressed "a" it would give me a couple of obvious options and let me continue on.
That's an interesting concept. Though I think technology will end up winning the day. I think there should be a federal mandate that every police car be outfitted with cameras with a catch. The video would be spooled on tape in the cop car, and it would also be streamed via packet radio to a receiving station and archived. These archives would be made publically available. The trick would be that there'd be a seperate organization not affliated with the police that would handle this video, thus making the whole "We lost the tape..." argument mute. Conversely, since the police would also have the tape, they'd have their copy if they ever felt that the streamed video was edited to portray them in a poor light.
Now, logistically how you'd manage that much video would be in a very interesting problem to solve.
Same here! I finally gave the machine away, but for a long time my primary laptop was a 233mhz pentium (with a f00f bug!) Acer Travelmate laptop. Before the drive failed on it, it was running FC1 with xfce just fine.
I'm thinking the harshest penalty they could give this person is paypal account. With that said, the judge will give him time servered.
All joking aside, I agree whole heartedly. I'm not sure how this device was triggered, but let's assume it was some type of timer. With that premise, you could argue the person (probably a guy) didn't care either way and in their head he was "sending them a message". Well, we got the message, and we hear it loud and clear, you're a fucking idiot. We now offically revoke your license to cohabitate with the free world.
I guess I just don't understand the howling about this. What are we actually losing control of? It's not like Indonesia is going to drop by the front door and demand we packup a root server and hand it over?
I'm not sure that there should be any centeralized control over the structure of the internet. I think it would end up being a better system if everybody was able to extend it in every direction and didn't have to ask permission.
This is a terrible idea...
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What Oracle should do instead is take RHES4U4 or whatever and merely tweak it for oracle performance and release that. I think they'd do well to just get into conjunction with Redhat and make a "RedHat Enterprise Oracle optomized" version of the OS.
Yeah, it would be a subtle fork, but Oracle has enough trouble keeping track of it's DB. I don't think they clearly understand the headache involved in maintaining an operating system.
My company went ahead and partitioned our whole office with hallways, etc. Every employee has their own office, with a door that closes! Functional groups are grouped by hallway and there are conference rooms in sensible locations. Also every office has a nice big white board with plenty of markers and erasers and the conference rooms have truely huge white boards. Some of the conference rooms also have white boards that'll allow you to print what's on the board.
Plus when my co-worker wants to suddenly start playing his crappy russian pop music loudly, I can shut my door...
However, above all of that, the one thing that's really improved my work space is my light. The crappy 700V lights in my office do two things. Firstly, they hum at a frequency that is very audible for me (I've got bionic ears) and secondly the light flickers at a frequency that causes my stigmatisms to freakout, thus giving me terrible headachs. I went out bought a nice flexible light and the improvement was immediate.
When I read the headline the first thing I thought was "I'm sure Jack Thompson's involved somewhere in this thing".
Last time I checked, I've played quite a few hours of World of Warcraft and as of yet, I haven't had the urge to to cast an AOE on everybody in the cafeteria.
I wish I knew the day personal responsibility died, so I could mark is a day of rememberance.
A buddy of mine told me about something a while back that was pretty cool. On his base they were testing a portable remote controlled airplane. Basically it was two backpacks. One backpack contained the plane all folded up, plus a big bungie cord, fuel, etc. The other backpack contained a hardened laptop with a joystick. The software for the plane was pretty simple and it could fly itself. Another thing that they were looking at was modifying it with a laser designator so you could use it to designate tragets to be bombed, etc.
I know the army now has something like this, but I'm not sure if was born from this prototype or something else.
Going to the police might work, but there's a better tactic... public opinion.
Write the guy a letter and send it certified mail calmly explaining that the use of his mosquito device is causing your 5 year old daughter extreme discomfort. Further explain that your young daughter is the only person who is suffering and nobody else. Then calming ask that he turn it off for the sake of your young daughter.
When he doesn't, write another letter, but instead send it to everybody on the whole block explaining that "Mr. X" has installed this device and provide details about what it does and poor your heart out about how your daughter is crying everyday and how terrible the whole sitiuation is. Make sure to include the cutest picture of your daughter possible.
Needless to say, hell have no fury like a grandmother thinking a cute little girl is being harmed, trust me!
The q-tips of the neighborhood will practiaclly mark in lock step to his front door.
Strictly from a AD&D prespective, who says your pally has to be good? Personally, I've played several pallies who were lawful evil and whose daily activites involved sacrificing people to their god(s) to keep their unholy abilites...
Now, speaking as somebody who plays WoW, It'll be interesting how this changes the game dynamic.
In Florida they passed such a law as well, where it's now much easier to get a carry and concealment permit and car jackings and the such for native Floridians did go down. (This after several instances where a car jacker ran up to a car only to get riddled with bullets.)
However, it brought another problem to light. The criminals figured out really quickly that if the car had a rental-car company sticker on it, the chances were pretty good the person inside wasn't armed. Hence it forced all the rental car companies to have to strip their logos off all the cars.
Though one would wonder if it would make sense to take a couple of undercover cop cars, outfit them with bullet resistant windows and then put rental-car stickers on them to bait in the car jackers.
The harddrive is a sealed device, so if your evaporating some spot on the disk, why couldn't you inversely just have a condensator that would collect the evaporated lube to replenish their little lube reservoir?
Here's a better question... why don't we just fucking give up on harddisks with moving parts and move to solid state, like we should have about 5 years ago! Yeah, I know you can buy solid state disks for huge money, I'm not interested in that. I want a 100TB nanotube based harddrive that'll last 10 years and cost $250 dollars.
I had a similar experience as a child and it frightened me away from the dentist for a long time. I finially found a dentist that uses great nerve blockers so I was able to get the issues I had at the time taken care of. Tragically, because of the amount of time I spent not having my teeth cleaned etc. I have *major* dental problems that'll probably end up forcing me to get the rest of my teeth replaced with crowns (I'm well on my way as it is...)
On a positive note, I've got so much porcelain in my mouth I've started contemplating just rincing with toilet bowl cleaner...
I have a distinct feeling that when the FBI kicks in your door and takes your computer to see what kiddie porn sites you've been surfing, having random unknown people using your internet connection won't seem so cool anymore...
I agree. If highway passes under the bridge, they still had to go through the expense of the grading and construction of said bridge.
Prior to that though, you have the crap like you see in Leominster MA. Rt. 2. The main access road to Leominster was just cut into the town and there's no bridges to connects the roads it bisects. You'll be driving along, say Abbott Ave and suddenly, Bam two lane divided highway with people going 70mph...
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Including Bill Gates!
Microsoft is in the business of trying to sell, bully and/or make it mandatory to have their software on everything thing that's got silicon and wires in it.
It sounds like a great idea on paper, but it's going to take lots of brains and money to get working. Ultimately, the cost justification isn't going to be there, because the target users of the software.. i.e. my mother aren't going to turn the computer on and go "Wow, now my life is complete".
At best, you'll see this software being sold as a version control system for microsoft documents on a file server. Basically you'd map a drive like anything else, but you'd have a bit of software on your desktop that would let you see the old versions, regress, etc.
You don't need to afford two, just make sure your friend across town can afford the same RAID as you. Then just allocate half to you, half to him and setup a nightly sync. Just make sure each system has a hotspare...
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While I found the stories funny, that article was an obvious on-track plant...
I'd rather have my entire phones face be a touch screen. That way if I've got to write a quick email to someone it would work like this. Let's just say my "personal communicator" dings and the message is regarding some new piece of technology we're talking about deploying and I'd like to white board to understand how they're going to stuff this abomnination into my lab... The message I'd be likely to send is something like "Can we quickly meet to talk about this?".
I'd like to have the option of having some precanned responses. Maybe Crackberries can already do this, I'm not sure. If not I'd press the reply button on the screen a little graphical keyboard would pop up. I'd press the letter C and something nice would happen... since my primary language is English (I know, it's hard to tell from this post...) what I'd like to see is the keyboard shrink down and I'd be presented with a larger "A" "H" and possibly even the word "Can" that I could then press. Then I'd be presented with the words "I" and "we" to press. Now if I actually wanted to type "Canada" I could merely just enlarge the keyboard and go ahead and the moment I pressed "a" it would give me a couple of obvious options and let me continue on.
That's what I'd like to see.
That's an interesting concept. Though I think technology will end up winning the day. I think there should be a federal mandate that every police car be outfitted with cameras with a catch. The video would be spooled on tape in the cop car, and it would also be streamed via packet radio to a receiving station and archived. These archives would be made publically available. The trick would be that there'd be a seperate organization not affliated with the police that would handle this video, thus making the whole "We lost the tape..." argument mute. Conversely, since the police would also have the tape, they'd have their copy if they ever felt that the streamed video was edited to portray them in a poor light.
Now, logistically how you'd manage that much video would be in a very interesting problem to solve.
We all know what really happened.
The menu said "Press the X to cast your vote" so he pressed the little X up in the right hand corner of the window...
Same here! I finally gave the machine away, but for a long time my primary laptop was a 233mhz pentium (with a f00f bug!) Acer Travelmate laptop. Before the drive failed on it, it was running FC1 with xfce just fine.
I'm thinking the harshest penalty they could give this person is paypal account. With that said, the judge will give him time servered.
All joking aside, I agree whole heartedly. I'm not sure how this device was triggered, but let's assume it was some type of timer. With that premise, you could argue the person (probably a guy) didn't care either way and in their head he was "sending them a message". Well, we got the message, and we hear it loud and clear, you're a fucking idiot. We now offically revoke your license to cohabitate with the free world.
I guess I just don't understand the howling about this. What are we actually losing control of? It's not like Indonesia is going to drop by the front door and demand we packup a root server and hand it over?
I'm not sure that there should be any centeralized control over the structure of the internet. I think it would end up being a better system if everybody was able to extend it in every direction and didn't have to ask permission.
What Oracle should do instead is take RHES4U4 or whatever and merely tweak it for oracle performance and release that. I think they'd do well to just get into conjunction with Redhat and make a "RedHat Enterprise Oracle optomized" version of the OS.
Yeah, it would be a subtle fork, but Oracle has enough trouble keeping track of it's DB. I don't think they clearly understand the headache involved in maintaining an operating system.
Yes they are.
My company went ahead and partitioned our whole office with hallways, etc. Every employee has their own office, with a door that closes! Functional groups are grouped by hallway and there are conference rooms in sensible locations. Also every office has a nice big white board with plenty of markers and erasers and the conference rooms have truely huge white boards. Some of the conference rooms also have white boards that'll allow you to print what's on the board.
Plus when my co-worker wants to suddenly start playing his crappy russian pop music loudly, I can shut my door...
However, above all of that, the one thing that's really improved my work space is my light. The crappy 700V lights in my office do two things. Firstly, they hum at a frequency that is very audible for me (I've got bionic ears) and secondly the light flickers at a frequency that causes my stigmatisms to freakout, thus giving me terrible headachs. I went out bought a nice flexible light and the improvement was immediate.
When I read the headline the first thing I thought was "I'm sure Jack Thompson's involved somewhere in this thing".
Last time I checked, I've played quite a few hours of World of Warcraft and as of yet, I haven't had the urge to to cast an AOE on everybody in the cafeteria.
I wish I knew the day personal responsibility died, so I could mark is a day of rememberance.
Unfortunately, your forgetting about all the unburnable "sludge" as they call it. You'd eventually have to clean out your Sludge Trap and then what?
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What annoys me is that more isn't being done with Thermal Depolyermization... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermal_depolymeriza
A buddy of mine told me about something a while back that was pretty cool. On his base they were testing a portable remote controlled airplane. Basically it was two backpacks. One backpack contained the plane all folded up, plus a big bungie cord, fuel, etc. The other backpack contained a hardened laptop with a joystick. The software for the plane was pretty simple and it could fly itself. Another thing that they were looking at was modifying it with a laser designator so you could use it to designate tragets to be bombed, etc.
I know the army now has something like this, but I'm not sure if was born from this prototype or something else.
Ironically it was Turbo C++ that pushed me to linux.
It was my freshman year and my parents bought me a new computer (a pentium 166, with *gasp* 64MB of ram) and it was running windows 95.
I owned a copy of Turbo C++ version 2.5 or 3.0 (don't remember) and it kept crashing right in the middle of compiles.
A buddy of mine came over and helped me install Slackware on the machine and I never looked back.
Going to the police might work, but there's a better tactic... public opinion.
Write the guy a letter and send it certified mail calmly explaining that the use of his mosquito device is causing your 5 year old daughter extreme discomfort. Further explain that your young daughter is the only person who is suffering and nobody else. Then calming ask that he turn it off for the sake of your young daughter.
When he doesn't, write another letter, but instead send it to everybody on the whole block explaining that "Mr. X" has installed this device and provide details about what it does and poor your heart out about how your daughter is crying everyday and how terrible the whole sitiuation is. Make sure to include the cutest picture of your daughter possible.
Needless to say, hell have no fury like a grandmother thinking a cute little girl is being harmed, trust me!
The q-tips of the neighborhood will practiaclly mark in lock step to his front door.
Strictly from a AD&D prespective, who says your pally has to be good? Personally, I've played several pallies who were lawful evil and whose daily activites involved sacrificing people to their god(s) to keep their unholy abilites...
Now, speaking as somebody who plays WoW, It'll be interesting how this changes the game dynamic.
In Florida they passed such a law as well, where it's now much easier to get a carry and concealment permit and car jackings and the such for native Floridians did go down. (This after several instances where a car jacker ran up to a car only to get riddled with bullets.)
However, it brought another problem to light. The criminals figured out really quickly that if the car had a rental-car company sticker on it, the chances were pretty good the person inside wasn't armed. Hence it forced all the rental car companies to have to strip their logos off all the cars.
Though one would wonder if it would make sense to take a couple of undercover cop cars, outfit them with bullet resistant windows and then put rental-car stickers on them to bait in the car jackers.
Not to mention possibly clogging up vital pieces of infrastructure that would be most needed in an emergency...
"We're sorry, your call cannot be completed as dialed, this cell node is currently attempting to send 104,000 SMS messages..."
I guess the question I have is this.
The harddrive is a sealed device, so if your evaporating some spot on the disk, why couldn't you inversely just have a condensator that would collect the evaporated lube to replenish their little lube reservoir?
Here's a better question... why don't we just fucking give up on harddisks with moving parts and move to solid state, like we should have about 5 years ago! Yeah, I know you can buy solid state disks for huge money, I'm not interested in that. I want a 100TB nanotube based harddrive that'll last 10 years and cost $250 dollars.
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I had a similar experience as a child and it frightened me away from the dentist for a long time. I finially found a dentist that uses great nerve blockers so I was able to get the issues I had at the time taken care of. Tragically, because of the amount of time I spent not having my teeth cleaned etc. I have *major* dental problems that'll probably end up forcing me to get the rest of my teeth replaced with crowns (I'm well on my way as it is...)
On a positive note, I've got so much porcelain in my mouth I've started contemplating just rincing with toilet bowl cleaner...
I have a distinct feeling that when the FBI kicks in your door and takes your computer to see what kiddie porn sites you've been surfing, having random unknown people using your internet connection won't seem so cool anymore...
Tragically, I couldn't RTFA because of th excessive market speak.
In order to energize the evolution of computer games we need to synergize on the vertical slies... WTF?
I guess people forgot to mention that writing computer games rates up there with writing operating systems in complexity...
I agree. If highway passes under the bridge, they still had to go through the expense of the grading and construction of said bridge.
Prior to that though, you have the crap like you see in Leominster MA. Rt. 2. The main access road to Leominster was just cut into the town and there's no bridges to connects the roads it bisects. You'll be driving along, say Abbott Ave and suddenly, Bam two lane divided highway with people going 70mph...
Including Bill Gates!
Microsoft is in the business of trying to sell, bully and/or make it mandatory to have their software on everything thing that's got silicon and wires in it.
It sounds like a great idea on paper, but it's going to take lots of brains and money to get working. Ultimately, the cost justification isn't going to be there, because the target users of the software.. i.e. my mother aren't going to turn the computer on and go "Wow, now my life is complete".
At best, you'll see this software being sold as a version control system for microsoft documents on a file server. Basically you'd map a drive like anything else, but you'd have a bit of software on your desktop that would let you see the old versions, regress, etc.
You don't need to afford two, just make sure your friend across town can afford the same RAID as you. Then just allocate half to you, half to him and setup a nightly sync. Just make sure each system has a hotspare...