"A police officer is able to legally ask anything that an ordinary citizen can ask. The thing I don't like is that because police officers have a visual authority and act and use a voice which conveys that they have the authority to ask what they ask,"
It's been called the voice of command among other things, if you act and talk like your in charge, people tend to automatically respond as such.
I got pulled over once shortly after a snow storm and goofed and pulled over to wrong side of the road and promptly got stuck.
I started out apologetic and polite, but when the officer got rude ("where you born stupid or what?") I just stood up straight, shifted my 'attitude' and replied 'Excuse me?' not in a pissed off voice (anger IS fear, show eighter and your lunch), but with my best version of the 'command voice'. Calm controlled and Confident of with both my body language and voice saying 'I just took charge and you just walked out on thin ice' HIS attitude changed.
In the end him and two other officers helped me unstick my car, and I thanked them for it and meant it. (that last bit is important as well, excersize for the student?)
And to be more on toppic, I don't ever want to live with "Papers Pleze" as requireing no reason.
Eh small difference here. First the human can think things through, second people actually can recognize people by thier faces most of the time (where i've heard that software has a rather high false positive and false negative rate, to high for it's intended use).
Also that small town cop isn't gonna suddenly arest the town barber because at a certain angle a few lines on his kinda resemble OBL's.
No, there was some talk of sending 4 times per clock cycle, but it wasn't done. DDR2 is also double pumped, it's reworked a bit so it can faster at the top end. In fact there is some overlap in thier speeds, kinda like how intell or amd somtimes tweek a processor to go to a higher clock rate without much else improved.
Well this is the slightly embarrising part, I got it at CompUsa. still it was under $50 (can't remember if it was 49.99 or 29.99, one of the two prices) but it shows port80 on two 8 seg led's and has about a 16" cable to another display so you don't have to stare into the case at an awkward angle.
This so right. I know me to posts can be annoying, but this one deserves emphasis. I've had two machines give me issues due to power suply problems, (well one was made back when the bad caps were being used, but I saw no swelling or other indicator).
Some really anoying flaky behaviour out of both winme (I know I know, but I play games too) and Mandrake, so I decided to check my setting in the bios to see if anything was off and saw that the +5v was running 4.3V and the +12 was jumping around from +10.8 to +12.4! Replaced it with a 430w from antec (was a 350w whitebox) and the numbers stay solid and so doese the system (well winme still had to be re-done every few months till I got xp a month ago).
Maybe you were unclear or I missed a clue in there, but !! $300 !!, I've got a post code card and it didn't cost me $30. (and it comes with a cabe and spare display). unless yours is single stepping/traceing the bios or some such?
Well under windows that wouldn't work. Not if the last four characters where indeed '.mp3', however some are clueless and wouldn't realize popsong.mp3.exe was different than just popsong.mp3 and click on it anyway, also giving somthing a hugamongus(sp?) name like 'you_really_really_really_must_hear_this_great_son g_by_a_popular_singer_that_THE_GRANDMASTER_has_rip ped_for_you.mp3.gobledygook.song.exe' has been done to take advantage of lentgh limits in how things are displayed so the user only sees up to the.mp3 part and misses the rest. but what I meant a REAL mp3 file or mpeg or such, not an executable cleverly named.
I'm pretty shure joe average with no computer experience will find the linux desktops about as easy to learn and windows, but beyond that windows is easier, mostly from the point of view of adding software to the system.(see my above rant to troll for why)
I started on computers pre-windows and almost pre-pc and have been exposed to several os's so I'm not particullary biased by experience.
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Only one small problem with your rant. easy to use != glitchy with drm and no configurability, just because windows has both better ease of use and several issues with user controll, security, and stability DOESE NOT mean they go hand in hand, it just means microsoft didn't code it well enough. There is no reason why other operating systems shouldn't 'just work' for joe six-pack and still have stability, options, and security.
Your illogical assumption otherwise causes me to suspect a troll, but if not at least think about it.
Personally I don't wan't to HAVE to spend 2+days to get somthing to work. I do want to be able to install a program and then just click on an icon to run it. not have to fight version of lib hell, then find and edit a bunch of config files and recompile half my software all the while searching for clues on how to run the software through dozens of web sites, usenet groups, and the source code. THAT is what's moronic. The way it is now if it doesn't come on the cd with your distro, odds are your going to have at least one of the above issues, and that is un-acceptable, un-professional and why linux,etc. only make sense for hobby use and corporate use where the cost of trained staff is less than the per-seat licensing of winows.
I really like linux and what it represents, and really want it to succeed in the home arena, but untill you can buy/download somthing and know it'll install and run out of the box, it won't and any sofware house that makes low cost comsumer software (games are a prime example) won't bother much producing linux versions of thier wares.
"Why does education need to be a science? Every person learns differently"
You forgott the 'because' between the '?' and 'Every'. not to nitpick but the rhetorical question almost sounds like a dissagreement with, and is followed by statements that argue for, the previous post.
actually though not everyone learns differently unless you get into really hair-splitting detail, most fall into one of several groups that are definate enough to develope a basic stratagem for that will work.
I've listened to 'Dr.' Laura a few times myself, and frankly she's just a self important moralist. I could deal with that if she was honestly trying to help people, but she's not. I heard one guy trying to find a way to cope with a problem do to inter-religous wedding and she wanted to pick apart how his son wasn't tecnicaly a jew and when the man tried to get back on task by saying 'my Rabi says he is, and it doesn't really bear on the problem that I can see' rather than point out why it might or just drop it she told him his rabi was wrong and implied he(the rabi) was an idiot and hung up on the man.
If anyone goes to her for advice I hope they are the only ones to pay the price and I doubt she knows between add and the common cold. It wouldn't suprise me if she advised beating the child till it learned to behave.
That doesn't sound like add/adhd to me (and I have >30 years direct experience) does sound a bit like auspergers(sp?) or perhaps somthing else. defffinatly get a 2nd opion at least if you've gotten an add/adhd diagnosis. (of course thats always true, but more-so with your discription).
Actually a good analogy for add/non-add I once read was the hunter/farmer analogy.
consider the symptoms off add vs. the symptoms of 'normal 9-5'er' and compare them with the two above 'jobs' in a more primitive society.
There is a phenomenon(sp?) with add/adhd called hyperfocusing. Usually add/adhd people have difficulty focusing on just one thing,untill a certain threshold is reached, then little short of blunt trauma can get thier attention.
Good books are just one such thing for me, many a time I've started reading a book a lost the entire world till I've finished it only to discover I'm sleepy hungry and very thirsty (seeing as how it seems most of the fluid in my body has drained into my bladder). And yet it only seems I've just picked the book up.
False. poorly labled, over-diagnosed, missunderstood, overmedicated, yes. Unreal no.
I have what is called add/adhd, I know others with it and others without, it's very deffinately real.
It's bad to call it a dissorder however. I can do things many cannot because of it and there are somethings that are nearly impossible that many can do also.
I can track and keep up with a larger number of things than most for one (one could argue that intelligence plays a roll in this, but that alone is insufficient.) but narrow to one item and I usually just cannot unless It absorbs me and I hyperfocus (a known trait of 'add/adhd', what others above call a 'death march').
I've noticed the tendancy for add people to higher I.Q.'s than 'normal' people as well, It's one of my pet hypothesis that the brain, like other machines, when run in high performance modes all the time are more likely to develope issues. Kinda like race car engines and such, they need a lot of maintenance. My other idea was that since alot of how we think is by association and interconnecting data that add may just be more so, with the attendant lots of extraneous info/data floating through the concious mind as a result.
I know I'm probably feeding a troll, but I knew I would be posting somewhere in this anyway.
{drifting a bit topicwise here) I avoid comp-usa myself, I was working elsewhere (an office supply store) when I had a customer come in looking for memory for his computer after one of the "tech/repair" guys at the local comp-usa told him to make shure the power was on when he added the memory to make shure it was in right.
I love unfounded assumptions. Of course, it's a given that we MUST become a spacefaring race, right? Why is that again?
I suppose we don't absolutely have to. But I honestly think it's our best bet to avoid extinction. Even if every chunk of rock of decent size in the solor system manages to keep missing us (even though the planet has the scars to testify otherwise) and we don't accidently or through carelessness destroy the bio-sphere, or just bio-weapon ourselves out of existance. There is of course the simple fact the sun will eventually run out of hydrogen and do the whole swell and swollow the earth thing.
Niven said it well "The earth is to small a basket to keep all our eggs in".
I could have just used my imagination? Did you miss the concept of "movie" somewhere?
I'm sorry, no disrespect, but I think you missed it. The point is(or a least should be) to tell a story.
I'm paying to see something that someone else imagined. If I have to fill in the holes with my imagination then they did not do a very good job.
I dissagree. If a movie is so simplistic and lacking in vision it doesn't spark my imagination then THAT is when they did a poor job(and I want my money back!). It's the rampant speculation and imagenings of those that have seen these movies that best demonstrate the brothers power as story tellers.
Sadly this movie is practically designed to scramble a movie critics mind. The absolute LAST thing you want to do is judge this movie till you've had time to think about. My first reaction to the ending was pretty negative. I had to do a lot of thinking about it to see what those two were up to, seems they were telling a story, THIER story. This unfortunately isn't the stereotypical story we often get from hollywood with clear cut winners and loosers, a happy ending, the guy gets the girl, etc. And that's the other thing tripping up the critics. They are just as caught up in thier expectations as many of those nay-saying this movie. That and they are not really trained to critique stories in general, just movies.
IMHO it was way above average for a 'blockbuster', very well told (needed about 5 more minutes to tuck a few more answers for the audience in there) and a real conclusion. still not shure if I liked it, but considering my very strong bias for a happily ever after thats understandable. not perfect but they deffinately earned my respect which isn't easy.
I assume you mean preventing the 'device' from malfunctioning in the first place?
Usually won't work. least-wise not without creating a direct paradox snarl. nasty mess, but fortunately not likely, well eigther not likely or it just 'pinches' itself from reality most of the time(no way to tell wich, kinda like how 5 and -5 are BOTH the square root of 25).
Best bet is actually to just yell for help by essentially placing a message to the future in such a way as to make shure it gets attention after you left. since this made/.'s front page he got it right as far as making a big enough noise to leave a lasting impression but not so big as to be likely he'd have read it before he left. That is if anyone knows he went back, and starts digging to find out what happened to him they'll likely find his note. But it's not likely to be a 4th grade history book item.(sorry guys, slashdot's not that important:) ) better would have been to use a newspaper from the day he left as a one time pad and explain the encryption method in his e-mails. guesse if he forgot to set up a decent future mail system, he wouldn't have thought about other safe, do-able, methods of yelling for help though.
"Many years ago I purchased one of those APEX 600-A DVD players with the loophole menu. About a month after I got it, it wouldn't power on. I took it back to get repairs under warantee. When I got it back, I found that the firmware had been upgraded to a newer one that removed the loophole menu. I complained to Circuit City but they told me there was nothing I could do.
Ultimately, I disputed the charge on my credit card arguing they had not given me the product I paid for. The credit card company agreed with me and gave me a refund that I used to buy a second APEX player."
Bravo! They were wrong to change the firmware w/o consent and wrong again to say you couldn't do anything about it!
Wonder if this makes your credit card a circumvention device?:) (REALLY stretching a STUPID law here) Nice palindromic uid you got there.
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"A police officer is able to legally ask anything that an ordinary citizen can ask. The thing I don't like is that because police officers have a visual authority and act and use a voice which conveys that they have the authority to ask what they ask,"
It's been called the voice of command among other things, if you act and talk like your in charge, people tend to automatically respond as such.
I got pulled over once shortly after a snow storm and goofed and pulled over to wrong side of the road and promptly got stuck.
I started out apologetic and polite, but when the officer got rude ("where you born stupid or what?") I just stood up straight, shifted my 'attitude' and replied 'Excuse me?' not in a pissed off voice (anger IS fear, show eighter and your lunch), but with my best version of the 'command voice'. Calm controlled and Confident of with both my body language and voice saying 'I just took charge and you just walked out on thin ice' HIS attitude changed.
In the end him and two other officers helped me unstick my car, and I thanked them for it and meant it. (that last bit is important as well, excersize for the student?)
And to be more on toppic, I don't ever want to live with "Papers Pleze" as requireing no reason.
Mycroft
Eh small difference here. First the human can think things through, second people actually can recognize people by thier faces most of the time (where i've heard that software has a rather high false positive and false negative rate, to high for it's intended use).
Also that small town cop isn't gonna suddenly arest the town barber because at a certain angle a few lines on his kinda resemble OBL's.
Mycroft
No, there was some talk of sending 4 times per clock cycle, but it wasn't done. DDR2 is also double pumped, it's reworked a bit so it can faster at the top end. In fact there is some overlap in thier speeds, kinda like how intell or amd somtimes tweek a processor to go to a higher clock rate without much else improved.
Mycroft
Well this is the slightly embarrising part, I got it at CompUsa. still it was under $50 (can't remember if it was 49.99 or 29.99, one of the two prices) but it shows port80 on two 8 seg led's and has about a 16" cable to another display so you don't have to stare into the case at an awkward angle.
Mycroft
This so right. I know me to posts can be annoying, but this one deserves emphasis. I've had two machines give me issues due to power suply problems, (well one was made back when the bad caps were being used, but I saw no swelling or other indicator).
Some really anoying flaky behaviour out of both winme (I know I know, but I play games too) and Mandrake, so I decided to check my setting in the bios to see if anything was off and saw that the +5v was running 4.3V and the +12 was jumping around from +10.8 to +12.4! Replaced it with a 430w from antec (was a 350w whitebox) and the numbers stay solid and so doese the system (well winme still had to be re-done every few months till I got xp a month ago).
Mycroft
Maybe you were unclear or I missed a clue in there, but !! $300 !!, I've got a post code card and it didn't cost me $30. (and it comes with a cabe and spare display). unless yours is single stepping/traceing the bios or some such?
Mycroft
And I just used all my mod points in another thread. sigh well count me in for +funny on that one.
Mycroft
Well under windows that wouldn't work. Not if the last four characters where indeed '.mp3', however some are clueless and wouldn't realize popsong.mp3.exe was different than just popsong.mp3 and click on it anyway, also giving somthing a hugamongus(sp?) name like 'you_really_really_really_must_hear_this_great_son g_by_a_popular_singer_that_THE_GRANDMASTER_has_rip ped_for_you.mp3.gobledygook.song.exe' has been done to take advantage of lentgh limits in how things are displayed so the user only sees up to the .mp3 part and misses the rest.
but what I meant a REAL mp3 file or mpeg or such, not an executable cleverly named.
Mycroft
Except that mp3's are not programs. Unless your dealing with a buffer exploit, how would the virus get run?
Mycroft
I'm pretty shure joe average with no computer experience will find the linux desktops about as easy to learn and windows, but beyond that windows is easier, mostly from the point of view of adding software to the system.(see my above rant to troll for why)
I started on computers pre-windows and almost pre-pc and have been exposed to several os's so I'm not particullary biased by experience.
Mycroft
Only one small problem with your rant. easy to use != glitchy with drm and no configurability, just because windows has both better ease of use and several issues with user controll, security, and stability DOESE NOT mean they go hand in hand, it just means microsoft didn't code it well enough. There is no reason why other operating systems shouldn't 'just work' for joe six-pack and still have stability, options, and security.
Your illogical assumption otherwise causes me to suspect a troll, but if not at least think about it.
Personally I don't wan't to HAVE to spend 2+days to get somthing to work. I do want to be able to install a program and then just click on an icon to run it. not have to fight version of lib hell, then find and edit a bunch of config files and recompile half my software all the while searching for clues on how to run the software through dozens of web sites, usenet groups, and the source code. THAT is what's moronic. The way it is now if it doesn't come on the cd with your distro, odds are your going to have at least one of the above issues, and that is un-acceptable, un-professional and why linux,etc. only make sense for hobby use and corporate use where the cost of trained staff is less than the per-seat licensing of winows.
I really like linux and what it represents, and really want it to succeed in the home arena, but untill you can buy/download somthing and know it'll install and run out of the box, it won't and any sofware house that makes low cost comsumer software (games are a prime example) won't bother much producing linux versions of thier wares.
Mycroft
"Why does education need to be a science? Every person learns differently"
You forgott the 'because' between the '?' and 'Every'.
not to nitpick but the rhetorical question almost sounds like a dissagreement with, and is followed by statements that argue for, the previous post.
actually though not everyone learns differently unless you get into really hair-splitting detail, most fall into one of several groups that are definate enough to develope a basic stratagem for that will work.
Mycroft
I've listened to 'Dr.' Laura a few times myself, and frankly she's just a self important moralist. I could deal with that if she was honestly trying to help people, but she's not.
I heard one guy trying to find a way to cope with a problem do to inter-religous wedding and she wanted to pick apart how his son wasn't tecnicaly a jew and when the man tried to get back on task by saying 'my Rabi says he is, and it doesn't really bear on the problem that I can see' rather than point out why it might or just drop it she told him his rabi was wrong and implied he(the rabi) was an idiot and hung up on the man.
If anyone goes to her for advice I hope they are the only ones to pay the price and I doubt she knows between add and the common cold. It wouldn't suprise me if she advised beating the child till it learned to behave.
Mycroft
That doesn't sound like add/adhd to me (and I have >30 years direct experience) does sound a bit like auspergers(sp?) or perhaps somthing else. defffinatly get a 2nd opion at least if you've gotten an add/adhd diagnosis. (of course thats always true, but more-so with your discription).
Mycroft
Actually a good analogy for add/non-add I once read was the hunter/farmer analogy.
consider the symptoms off add vs. the symptoms of 'normal 9-5'er' and compare them with the two above 'jobs' in a more primitive society.
Mycroft
There is a phenomenon(sp?) with add/adhd called hyperfocusing. Usually add/adhd people have difficulty focusing on just one thing,untill a certain threshold is reached, then little short of blunt trauma can get thier attention.
Good books are just one such thing for me, many a time I've started reading a book a lost the entire world till I've finished it only to discover I'm sleepy hungry and very thirsty (seeing as how it seems most of the fluid in my body has drained into my bladder). And yet it only seems I've just picked the book up.
Mycroft
False. poorly labled, over-diagnosed, missunderstood, overmedicated, yes. Unreal no.
I have what is called add/adhd, I know others with it and others without, it's very deffinately real.
It's bad to call it a dissorder however. I can do things many cannot because of it and there are somethings that are nearly impossible that many can do also.
I can track and keep up with a larger number of things than most for one (one could argue that intelligence plays a roll in this, but that alone is insufficient.) but narrow to one item and I usually just cannot unless It absorbs me and I hyperfocus (a known trait of 'add/adhd', what others above call a 'death march').
I've noticed the tendancy for add people to higher I.Q.'s than 'normal' people as well, It's one of my pet hypothesis that the brain, like other machines, when run in high performance modes all the time are more likely to develope issues. Kinda like race car engines and such, they need a lot of maintenance. My other idea was that since alot of how we think is by association and interconnecting data that add may just be more so, with the attendant lots of extraneous info/data floating through the concious mind as a result.
I know I'm probably feeding a troll, but I knew I would be posting somewhere in this anyway.
Mycroft
{drifting a bit topicwise here) I avoid comp-usa myself, I was working elsewhere (an office supply store) when I had a customer come in looking for memory for his computer after one of the "tech/repair" guys at the local comp-usa told him to make shure the power was on when he added the memory to make shure it was in right.
Mycroft
I'm sorry, no disrespect, but I think you missed it. The point is(or a least should be) to tell a story.
I dissagree. If a movie is so simplistic and lacking in vision it doesn't spark my imagination then THAT is when they did a poor job(and I want my money back!). It's the rampant speculation and imagenings of those that have seen these movies that best demonstrate the brothers power as story tellers.
Mycroft
Sadly this movie is practically designed to scramble a movie critics mind. The absolute LAST thing you want to do is judge this movie till you've had time to think about. My first reaction to the ending was pretty negative. I had to do a lot of thinking about it to see what those two were up to, seems they were telling a story, THIER story. This unfortunately isn't the stereotypical story we often get from hollywood with clear cut winners and loosers, a happy ending, the guy gets the girl, etc. And that's the other thing tripping up the critics. They are just as caught up in thier expectations as many of those nay-saying this movie. That and they are not really trained to critique stories in general, just movies.
IMHO it was way above average for a 'blockbuster', very well told (needed about 5 more minutes to tuck a few more answers for the audience in there) and a real conclusion. still not shure if I liked it, but considering my very strong bias for a happily ever after thats understandable. not perfect but they deffinately earned my respect which isn't easy.
Mycroft
I've got no mods points today, sigh. +insightfull belongs there though.
:)
Now for bonus pseudo-points and to be more directly on topic. What are the big draws for terrestrial time travellers.
Mycroft
I assume you mean preventing the 'device' from malfunctioning in the first place? /.'s front page
Usually won't work. least-wise not without creating a direct paradox snarl. nasty mess, but fortunately not likely, well eigther not likely or it just 'pinches' itself from reality most of the time(no way to tell wich, kinda like how 5 and -5 are BOTH the square root of 25).
Best bet is actually to just yell for help by essentially placing a message to the future in such a way as to make shure it gets attention after you left. since this made
he got it right as far as making a big enough noise to leave a lasting impression but not so big as to be likely he'd have read it before he left. That is if anyone knows he went back, and starts digging to find out what happened to him they'll likely find his note. But it's not likely to be a 4th grade history book item.(sorry guys, slashdot's not that important:) )
better would have been to use a newspaper from the day he left as a one time pad and explain the encryption method in his e-mails. guesse if he forgot to set up a decent future mail system, he wouldn't have thought about other safe, do-able, methods of yelling for help though.
Mycroft
"Microsoft gives people no rights to modify it and use it as a linux box."
Yes they did, the moment they sold it the buyer got full first sale rights.
"Microsoft loses money on each xbox sale,"
This is totally irrellevent. Whether or not they proffit from the sale makes no difference.
"Getting past the aspects of the xbox that blocks linux use is of a questionable legality (with the DMCA) anyway."
Just as (IMHO and IANAL) the DMCA is of questionable constitutionality (and only aplies, or not, here in the USA)
Mycroft (since 1984)
"Many years ago I purchased one of those APEX 600-A DVD players with the loophole menu. About a month after I got it, it wouldn't power on. I took it back to get repairs under warantee. When I got it back, I found that the firmware had been upgraded to a newer one that removed the loophole menu. I complained to Circuit City but they told me there was nothing I could do.
:) (REALLY stretching a STUPID law here)
Ultimately, I disputed the charge on my credit card arguing they had not given me the product I paid for. The credit card company agreed with me and gave me a refund that I used to buy a second APEX player."
Bravo! They were wrong to change the firmware w/o consent and wrong again to say you couldn't do anything about it!
Wonder if this makes your credit card a circumvention device?
Nice palindromic uid you got there.
Mycroft (in use since 1984)