In Mexico the national photo ID card is issued by the 'Instituto Federal Electoral' (the federal branch that organize elections) and it's required not only for voting but for almost every other governmental or commercial transaction: cashing a check, opening a bank account, obtaining other ID from Passports to blockbuster cards, etc. It has been enormously costly but it has bring many benefits, these are a few that come to my mind ( in no particular order):
Improved physical security - In some security sensitive buildings, government and private, you're required to leave your ID in access points so is very unlikely that you just leave out through the window with other person's laptop.
Easier corpse identification on car crashes - Since all people above 18 are supposed to carry their ID for access to night clubs (for filtering minors).
It's cheaper to create controls for low teach Identity Thief,. The ID it's very hard and very expensive to counterfeit and a fingerprint check is required for getting a replacement.
Mexico's electoral system became, from being almost a laughingstock, one of the most respected in the world.
60 Gigabytes hard drives came several years later. I remember working on the school computers and complaining on the small hard drives (8086 IBM's with 5 Mb hard drives, 640 Kb RAM and Microsoft's Quikbasic in the firmware)
For me 5 Mb was small because my first computer was a Magnavox 286 - 12 MHz wit an 80 MEGABYTES hard drive and 1 MB of RAM for $1200; small letters: "does not include monitor".
I spend the 1990 Xmas with a mint in box computer without monitor, my parents where more down than me bacause of the mistake, I was happy to own a computer nevertheless. The 14" Phillips VGA display was $400 a month latter, a very good price if you consider that I used it in 3 systems for more than 7 years until it finally died arround my last year in college.
A new, original, killer app that NEEDS (by design) a lot of computing horsepower may turn billions of PCs obsolete overnight, but a prettier new version of something that in general terms has the same functionality does not. The perception of 'need' may vary from people to people. If 98% of the PC user base don't think they 'need' a new office or windows version so bad that they are willing to spend a couple thousand dollars for a new machine capable to run it, well then no matter how memory or processor greedy a new version is is not turning "billions of PCs obsolete overnight"
This system works for an office building like the one I work in (we have it since last summer) where every body understand how it works and there are security people to explain the system to the ocational visitor. For a public access location like an hotel where 90% of the people is new every week it's a nigthmare.
My office building has it since last summer, thats july 2005 (I work for a bank that owns a whole 16 floor bulding). It's an Otis System, there is a 'pedestal' on each floor where you enter your destination floor, there are 5 leter-labeled elevators (A to E), the 'pedestal' asigns you to a particular elevator. Each elevator has an indicator for wich floors is headed, inside there are only tree buttons: emergency, close and open door. It all works nice but I remember 2 times (in the fist month) where the whole sistem was down, it was chaos, I has been ok since then. There are also another 2 'regular' elevators between the lobby and the 4 basement levels (parking).
"Disgaea: Hour of Darkness" and "La Pucelle: Tactics" are two nice strategy games by Nippon Ichi for the ps2, in the vein of "Ogre Tactics" but with his own anime flavor.
Better yet: Institute a cap on the total number of acceptedd stories a submitter can get his back link on. What about 3 per month? for the forth an subsequent accepted stories the submitter scores the same month he can have the credit (nickname) but not the link.
We need more filter options, a "permanent -1 for this newbie without sense of humor, show me his commnets again in two years time if he's still arround" comes to my mind.
I would second that motion but there are no dicernible features from the shoulders up, and with a full body pic it would be hard to undoubtely recognize god^z^z^zevil old Bill.
<I-know-you're-going-to-mod-me-down-confesion>I used to think Bill Gates was cool back then, with this video I remember why. (I know the whole video was Alex St. John's idea, but I don't picture Bill Gates allowing himself to participate in something as cool, fun and unconventional as this video in the present days)</I-know-you're-going-to-mod-me-down-confesio n>
I agree with you on HHGTTG being hilarious (I literally LOLed through the book) but not on jumping to assume that the grandparent being an American is the sole reason for him not getting British humor. Making generalizations based on country of origin is prejudge.
P.S. I'm Mexican, a very different culture by the way, and didn't find HHGTTG funny until I read it in it's original language(English). I think that HHGTTG's humor is mainly in the writing style, is so subtle that it gets completely lost in translation.
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Nataly Portman's of course.. petrified , hot grids... you know the rest. You've got to admit she has pretty eyes.
Nice futurama quote
You are missing the "and we liked it!", I would have used that insted of "in both directions!" which is clearly impossible.
In Mexico the national photo ID card is issued by the 'Instituto Federal Electoral' (the federal branch that organize elections) and it's required not only for voting but for almost every other governmental or commercial transaction: cashing a check, opening a bank account, obtaining other ID from Passports to blockbuster cards, etc. It has been enormously costly but it has bring many benefits, these are a few that come to my mind ( in no particular order): Improved physical security - In some security sensitive buildings, government and private, you're required to leave your ID in access points so is very unlikely that you just leave out through the window with other person's laptop. Easier corpse identification on car crashes - Since all people above 18 are supposed to carry their ID for access to night clubs (for filtering minors). It's cheaper to create controls for low teach Identity Thief,. The ID it's very hard and very expensive to counterfeit and a fingerprint check is required for getting a replacement. Mexico's electoral system became, from being almost a laughingstock, one of the most respected in the world.
Do you ignore what 'sarcasm' means or just not very talented at recognize it?
Wouldn't that be 60 MB?
60 Gigabytes hard drives came several years later. I remember working on the school computers and complaining on the small hard drives (8086 IBM's with 5 Mb hard drives, 640 Kb RAM and Microsoft's Quikbasic in the firmware)
For me 5 Mb was small because my first computer was a Magnavox 286 - 12 MHz wit an 80 MEGABYTES hard drive and 1 MB of RAM for $1200; small letters: "does not include monitor".
I spend the 1990 Xmas with a mint in box computer without monitor, my parents where more down than me bacause of the mistake, I was happy to own a computer nevertheless. The 14" Phillips VGA display was $400 a month latter, a very good price if you consider that I used it in 3 systems for more than 7 years until it finally died arround my last year in college.
That's the whole point of Pastafarianism, to show us how ridicule Creationism really is.
A new, original, killer app that NEEDS (by design) a lot of computing horsepower may turn billions of PCs obsolete overnight, but a prettier new version of something that in general terms has the same functionality does not. The perception of 'need' may vary from people to people. If 98% of the PC user base don't think they 'need' a new office or windows version so bad that they are willing to spend a couple thousand dollars for a new machine capable to run it, well then no matter how memory or processor greedy a new version is is not turning "billions of PCs obsolete overnight"
This system works for an office building like the one I work in (we have it since last summer) where every body understand how it works and there are security people to explain the system to the ocational visitor. For a public access location like an hotel where 90% of the people is new every week it's a nigthmare.
My office building has it since last summer, thats july 2005 (I work for a bank that owns a whole 16 floor bulding). It's an Otis System, there is a 'pedestal' on each floor where you enter your destination floor, there are 5 leter-labeled elevators (A to E), the 'pedestal' asigns you to a particular elevator. Each elevator has an indicator for wich floors is headed, inside there are only tree buttons: emergency, close and open door. It all works nice but I remember 2 times (in the fist month) where the whole sistem was down, it was chaos, I has been ok since then. There are also another 2 'regular' elevators between the lobby and the 4 basement levels (parking).
"Disgaea: Hour of Darkness" and "La Pucelle: Tactics" are two nice strategy games by Nippon Ichi for the ps2, in the vein of "Ogre Tactics" but with his own anime flavor.
Better yet: Institute a cap on the total number of acceptedd stories a submitter can get his back link on. What about 3 per month? for the forth an subsequent accepted stories the submitter scores the same month he can have the credit (nickname) but not the link.
?Qué?
?Dónde está la biblioteca?
I just realized that slashcode eats (ignores) the open question marks (rotated "?" sings that open question sentences in spanish)
No, seriusly, are they?
But a windowless black Tsunami Dream is another story. No Stikers for me Mr.
We need more filter options, a "permanent -1 for this newbie without sense of humor, show me his commnets again in two years time if he's still arround" comes to my mind.
Do you know where this self rearranging keyboards sell? I wear a tie from monday to thrusday, that's probably why I want one!
This is one of those situations where you really hope the grandparent will develop humor sense some day...
(Note to grammar nazis: I'm not a native english speaker and I'm not sure about the 'will' conjugation in the above sentence. What's wrong?)
I would second that motion but there are no dicernible features from the shoulders up, and with a full body pic it would be hard to undoubtely recognize god^z^z^zevil old Bill.
..and the white mouses, don't forget those f*ing pandimentional beings.
I agree with you on HHGTTG being hilarious (I literally LOLed through the book) but not on jumping to assume that the grandparent being an American is the sole reason for him not getting British humor. Making generalizations based on country of origin is prejudge.
P.S. I'm Mexican, a very different culture by the way, and didn't find HHGTTG funny until I read it in it's original language(English). I think that HHGTTG's humor is mainly in the writing style, is so subtle that it gets completely lost in translation.
Why would this people boot their PC every morning? regular people don't install kernel patches every night... they don't even use linux.
Oh, I remember... they keep them off.
Well, yes, some people simply don't get multilayered humor. But don't worry, you'll always have Adam Sandler.
Chrpai is at least giving Gtrubetskoy the benefit of the doubt: "I doubt that anyone will care" is not the same as "Nobody will care".
I wouldn't mod Chrpai's comment as Flaimbait. A filterable "Non constructive" modifier with 0 karma effect is badly needed.