If at any time in the future, someone has a laptop, ipaq, or any other glowing, clicking, beeping little device on around me in a movie theater, i reserve the right to confiscate said device and return it to them at the end of the movie... via anus.
I'm serious, movie theaters had better not allow this sort of thing.
I think we forget that these companies are groups of people.
He's not saying anything about HP's products or technology, his business is a movie theater and his concerns lie elsewhere. He's lamenting the passing of an organization founded by his father, not a line of consumer and business electronics.
It's kind of like my highschool. It certainly wan't a great place, and won't be winning any awards for education. But I miss being there with my friends.
you should have seen me in 7th grade, pasty tubby kid, picked after the girls in every PE class ever.
Since moving somewhere where walking is a valid means of transportation, i've lost the weight, but jock? not hardly!
people don't realise how much computers cost schools. there's the price of the machines themselves, which must be repayed every 4 years or so, the price of the new staff, which in a large school can cost over half a million a year, you can't put your computer lab in a trailor, so that's construction and beurocracy, hundreds of thousands more. and usually what you get is a glorified typing class that takes time away from real education.
i'm not a big fan of PE classes either, the kids who get anything out of it do it on their own, and those who don't are just bored and miserable.
the public schools should provide education, art, and food. art because there are a lot of people who can't afford art supplies, and kids don't usually put on a pick-up game of drama. computers have some merit, but are a tremendous expenditure. raises for teachers would do the system far more good.
more money = more competition for the job = better teachers without tests or reviews. of course this would require radically altering the tenure system, which i'm also for.
I would just like to say Shakespeare sucks the only reason he is so popular is because he is old and people think it makes them sophisticated because they read that crap
I would just like to say that Linux sucks, the only reason people use it is because it is alternative and cool, and they think it makes them smart to read that crap.
Note to world: "I don't like it" or "I don't understand it" != "It is crap"
It's got some pretty strange shit, like a race of giants having children with earthly women.
And Jesus didn't exactly advocate the American Suburban life.
I'm not saying you should take it as God's word or anything, but it's pretty interesting. Especially if you can find an edition that includes the non-canonical books.
Last year I went up in the attick and found my grandfathers old textbooks, the "depiciated" information made for wonderful entertainment. And the pages were covered in 60 year old doodles (ADD must run in the family)
My grandkids will never go into my attick and find my old e-books, digital photos, and MP3s. Digital formats have convenience, but the accidental permanencs of old media makes them wonderful.
In short: you can have my books when you pry them from my cold, dead fingers.
Yes, but how much of the wealth of the nation does that top 50% hold?
A few orders of magnitude closer to 100% than 90%
And, I wasn't talking about wealthy individuals. I'm talking about corporations, which pay ridiculously low taxes. Especially when they bribe congress to actually write them *by name* into tax legislation.
Microsoft has $40 Billion in liquid assets, how much will they have to pay on that? A hell of a lot less than if an individual held $40 Billion cash.
THere's a (moral) difference between stealing and preventing a sale. If I steal an expensive bottle of French wine from a store, I'm taking something of value away from the owner. He or she has already bought the bottle of wine from the vinyard, and so it's like I am taking their money away.
P2P is more like I'm walking toward the store, thinking about buying some wine and lo and behold! someone has set up a booth right in front of the store, giving away free wine! As the guy on the street, I think hooray! free wine! But the guy running the booth is doing more damage to the owner of the store than I would be by stealing, but, me taking the free bottle is doing approximately half the damage (prevents a sale without actually taking away stock)
CD and DVD encryption is a circumvention device for getting around our fair use rights. such devices should be made illegal.
companies should not be required to manufacture devices that provide the ability to fair use, that's an open market that will fill on its own, and such requirements would be more nationalization than i think we want.
rather companies should be prevented from disallowing other companies to create fair-use devices.
wasn't Philips doing something about this too? how's that coming?
Car manufacturers give congressmen tons of money. It goes to hushing up plans of higher fuel efficiency and crash safety standards.
There's no technological reason why every new car and truck in america isn't getting 50 MPG, which would help our foreign oil reliance far more than drilling in Alaska.
The congressmen and Clinton, who voted in the DMCA, the current congressmen and Bush, who happily let it stay on the books, and the RIAA should be locked up.
"Circumventing" their locks should be made illegal.
Seriously, once a show has nothing better to talk about than itself, it's over. And a whooooole lot of the Simpsons has been about the Simpsons lately.
THere might be a few good episodes left, but they'll never do another Mojo/Kid's News.
By suggesting that Microsoft pay taxes on their income comparable to what working families pay, we are "socialists."
Perhaps liberals, perhaps a tinge anti-corporate (or at least not rabidly pro-corporate) but certainly not socialist. i'd invest in a good dictionary and history of political thought.
No... I've been using computers for near 15 years, and for the whole time I've felt like there was more software out there than I could run. (i've never really had an up-to-the-minute system)
Only recently have I found budget systems to be completely adequate for everything I see myself doing.
I'm not saying running all of my apps faster wouldn't be *nice,* but it's not the same as saying there are new apps that will only be functional on these faster processors.
what I'm saying is, like always, I can't afford an upgrade, but unlike say, when my pentium was two years old, I don't feel like I'm missing out on anything.
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If at any time in the future, someone has a laptop, ipaq, or any other glowing, clicking, beeping little device on around me in a movie theater, i reserve the right to confiscate said device and return it to them at the end of the movie... via anus.
I'm serious, movie theaters had better not allow this sort of thing.
If Episode 1 was Lucas' "tribute" to his fans, then he's got less sense that I thought.
There's a lesson to be had for Open Source developers.
A million things that Linux can do that Windows can't will make me want to change. One thing that Windows can that Linux can't will make me stay.
People are locked into their current feature sets. They can't give up functionality to gain different functionality.
I think we forget that these companies are groups of people.
He's not saying anything about HP's products or technology, his business is a movie theater and his concerns lie elsewhere. He's lamenting the passing of an organization founded by his father, not a line of consumer and business electronics.
It's kind of like my highschool. It certainly wan't a great place, and won't be winning any awards for education. But I miss being there with my friends.
was there ever much of a question for him?
i'm sure he looks back on the greatest mistake of his career as not coming up with the ewoks sooner.
Seems like all people are lamenting or praising here is the plastic casing and buttons.
The two devices were almost functionally identical. We're not losing anything here.
The second there's a good OS word processor that supports footnotes, I'm removing word from my computer.
Heck I don't even really play games that much any more. I might even remove windows (or at least shrink the partition)
To think the only thing keeping microsoft on my computer is *footnotes* sheesh
also, since putting up that sig, my Karma has shot up.
i don't understand this place.
(Score: -1, You're a jock)
LOL
you should have seen me in 7th grade, pasty tubby kid, picked after the girls in every PE class ever.
Since moving somewhere where walking is a valid means of transportation, i've lost the weight, but jock? not hardly!
people don't realise how much computers cost schools. there's the price of the machines themselves, which must be repayed every 4 years or so, the price of the new staff, which in a large school can cost over half a million a year, you can't put your computer lab in a trailor, so that's construction and beurocracy, hundreds of thousands more. and usually what you get is a glorified typing class that takes time away from real education.
i'm not a big fan of PE classes either, the kids who get anything out of it do it on their own, and those who don't are just bored and miserable.
the public schools should provide education, art, and food. art because there are a lot of people who can't afford art supplies, and kids don't usually put on a pick-up game of drama. computers have some merit, but are a tremendous expenditure. raises for teachers would do the system far more good.
more money = more competition for the job = better teachers without tests or reviews. of course this would require radically altering the tenure system, which i'm also for.
I would just like to say Shakespeare sucks the only reason he is so popular is because he is old and people think it makes them sophisticated because they read that crap
I would just like to say that Linux sucks, the only reason people use it is because it is alternative and cool, and they think it makes them smart to read that crap.
Note to world: "I don't like it" or "I don't understand it" != "It is crap"
I highly reccomend actually reading the bible.
It's got some pretty strange shit, like a race of giants having children with earthly women.
And Jesus didn't exactly advocate the American Suburban life.
I'm not saying you should take it as God's word or anything, but it's pretty interesting. Especially if you can find an edition that includes the non-canonical books.
Last year I went up in the attick and found my grandfathers old textbooks, the "depiciated" information made for wonderful entertainment. And the pages were covered in 60 year old doodles (ADD must run in the family)
My grandkids will never go into my attick and find my old e-books, digital photos, and MP3s. Digital formats have convenience, but the accidental permanencs of old media makes them wonderful.
In short: you can have my books when you pry them from my cold, dead fingers.
yep a computer lab sure is a lot cheaper than elementary school quality science equipment.
a computer lab can cost as much as 10 new teachers.
i'm not saying computers can't help eductation, i just think there are better things that our schools could spend their (scarce) cash on.
Yes, but how much of the wealth of the nation does that top 50% hold?
A few orders of magnitude closer to 100% than 90%
And, I wasn't talking about wealthy individuals. I'm talking about corporations, which pay ridiculously low taxes. Especially when they bribe congress to actually write them *by name* into tax legislation.
Microsoft has $40 Billion in liquid assets, how much will they have to pay on that? A hell of a lot less than if an individual held $40 Billion cash.
THere's a (moral) difference between stealing and preventing a sale. If I steal an expensive bottle of French wine from a store, I'm taking something of value away from the owner. He or she has already bought the bottle of wine from the vinyard, and so it's like I am taking their money away.
P2P is more like I'm walking toward the store, thinking about buying some wine and lo and behold! someone has set up a booth right in front of the store, giving away free wine! As the guy on the street, I think hooray! free wine! But the guy running the booth is doing more damage to the owner of the store than I would be by stealing, but, me taking the free bottle is doing approximately half the damage (prevents a sale without actually taking away stock)
Hmmmm... just had a thought:
CD and DVD encryption is a circumvention device for getting around our fair use rights. such devices should be made illegal.
companies should not be required to manufacture devices that provide the ability to fair use, that's an open market that will fill on its own, and such requirements would be more nationalization than i think we want.
rather companies should be prevented from disallowing other companies to create fair-use devices.
wasn't Philips doing something about this too? how's that coming?
Car manufacturers give congressmen tons of money. It goes to hushing up plans of higher fuel efficiency and crash safety standards.
There's no technological reason why every new car and truck in america isn't getting 50 MPG, which would help our foreign oil reliance far more than drilling in Alaska.
The congressmen and Clinton, who voted in the DMCA, the current congressmen and Bush, who happily let it stay on the books, and the RIAA should be locked up.
"Circumventing" their locks should be made illegal.
And if the politicians don't see it that way, the 1st and 2nd amendments give us that right if we so choose.
Wonderful!!!
I'd like to commend the people of Virginia for electing this guy.
Meta-commentary should be a new JTS category.
Seriously, once a show has nothing better to talk about than itself, it's over. And a whooooole lot of the Simpsons has been about the Simpsons lately.
THere might be a few good episodes left, but they'll never do another Mojo/Kid's News.
I love the conservatives who post to slashdot.
By suggesting that Microsoft pay taxes on their income comparable to what working families pay, we are "socialists."
Perhaps liberals, perhaps a tinge anti-corporate (or at least not rabidly pro-corporate) but certainly not socialist. i'd invest in a good dictionary and history of political thought.
No... I've been using computers for near 15 years, and for the whole time I've felt like there was more software out there than I could run. (i've never really had an up-to-the-minute system)
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Only recently have I found budget systems to be completely adequate for everything I see myself doing
I'm not saying running all of my apps faster wouldn't be *nice,* but it's not the same as saying there are new apps that will only be functional on these faster processors.
what I'm saying is, like always, I can't afford an upgrade, but unlike say, when my pentium was two years old, I don't feel like I'm missing out on anything.
did I say "make a good movie?"
no, i love independant cinema.
i said "make a hollywood blockbuster"
and that costs $100 Million +
is some fan-created starwars spinoff going to make you less likely to see the theater offerings from Lucas? I think not.
i think they'd prefer to have the OSS community working on OSX