Too bad we aren't doing exponetially better things with these boxes...
I was thinking the same thing, how much more than eye candy has every release been since 95. Obviously the switch to the NT kernel was big but really the biggest difference in each release has been eye candy. Can you imagine how fast win 95 would run on an AMD Athlon 64 6000+ with a gig of ram.
I wonder if Dish network will carry XM stations (they carry Sirius' music stations now). Also I listen to it a lot at home. chans 6,7,8,9,12,14,15,16,18,21,22 and a few others.
We're talking about involuntary and medically unnecessary genital mutilation of infants
Many circumcisions ARE medically necessary. My sons foreskin opening was to small to pull back over the head, making it very difficult if not impossible to clean in the created "pocket". If the opening didn't get any bigger as he got older it would create other issues. If we waited to see and then found out he needed to have it done in his teen it would be much more traumatic.
What's everyone so worked up about? So there's a comet -- big
deal. It'll burn up in our atmosphere and what's ever left will
be no bigger than a chihuahua's head.
Wow, Dad, maybe you're right.
Of course I'm right. If I'm not, may we all be horribly crushed
from above somehow.
Voice recognition is a stupid way to enter text into a computer. In a cubicle, where your neighbours can hear you it's completely annoying. In your house, where you have the TV on in the background and kids continually talking
I completely agree, Speak recognition is a stop gap measure (and a poor one at that) until we get thought recognition.
I must have missed numerous articles, but what exactly has Sony done that has pissed so many people off? I have always liked Sony as a company. They make lots of things, some very well like some of the worlds best TVs, some not so well, like there entry level audio components and a LOT of stuff in between. I like there position backing Blu-Ray, the PS and PS2 and PS3 (still the cheapest Blu-ray player on the market). What have I missed?
You'd be an idiot if you expect our country, under either party's control to hand over this software. Its a national security issue. You don't hand over control codes to your best military hardware so that other nations will LOOK UP TO YOU.
I don't even know where to start on this. You don't think we should share, with our closest (if not only) ally, information on a JOINT venture between the 2 Countries???. I guess Bush is just continuing our pull back from diplomacy, Why talk to anyone when he can just bomb them into submission. And this particular situation has nothing to do with our global status, that remark pertained to his overall job. People who think, "who cares what the rest of the world thinks about us" are so damn naive.
I will give you that I should have worded it "I get more embarrassed every day... about America & its policies." I am proud to be an American, Nov. 7th showed the system still works. It's only a matter of time before the Bush stench is gone.
Because you trust the military and police more than the average person? Do you know many people in either group?
Yes, the "average person" is just that. At least the police and military have gone through some kind of background check and training. If you don't trust the police any more than the average person do you pull over when a police man is signalling you to?
Even assuming you could make all guns not owned by the police and military vanish and stop any more from ever entering the country you would succeed only in increasing violent crime. Look at South America and the devastating results of drive by pipe bombs and Molotov cocktails. More innocent bystanders are hit by shrapnel or seriously burned by these less directed attacks than by drive by shootings
I would prefer to look at Canada (a MUCH closer comparison) Canada has very strict gun control laws and there murder rate is about 1/3 of the United States'
Ask the vietnamese
You keep comparing the US to (more or less) 3rd world countries, can you not see the difference between South Africa, Vietnam and the U.S. Bush has our Country in the worst shape it has been in in my life, but a comparison with those countries is still ridiculous.
You're away on business, he breaks in. Your wife has nothing to do but cower in the closet while trying to dial 911. And at 6'2 and 255 pounds, he slams your petite wife to the floor, then holds a knife to her throat and rapes her. Then cuts her caratoid and leaves.
Yes I am sure that as my wife is sitting down reading or in the kitchen that as the "bad guy" busts through the door, he will hold still when she says "just a minute, I have to get my gun from my bedroom". Man I must have posted during red neck hour.
I guess the way I see it is the danger a gun brings into the house outweighs the extremely unlikely possibility of stopping a criminal with it.
The majority of people I know cant understand why anyone would want to own a gun. If guns are great for stopping criminals, wouldn't shoulder fired missiles even be better? Or maybe a Laser turret? You could always have landmines around your house, and make sure all your friends know about them so only the criminals would be endangered. This isn't the Wild Wild west anymore, grow up, we live in a civilized society and are continually striving to improve it, I don't see a redneck state where everyone has a gun (yeehaw) as the direction we should be moving.
PS it's spelled "carotid" I assume you where talking about the artery.
about being American. It seems like every day my government does something retarded, making us look worse and worse. Thank God the Dem's won in November, It's going to be a long road back to respectability. It's getting harder and harder to remember when the rest of the world used to look up to the U.S.(or at least not have contempt for us).
I know it's idealistic but I would like it if NO ONE other than police & Military had guns. Has anyone ever heard of a drive by stabbing? I won't have a gun in my house. It offends me that I "need to have a gun" because this nation has made it so easy for criminals to get them. The argument that we need to be able to defend ourselves against our government is ridiculous, how well does a machine gun do against a cruise missile?
I have thought of this in the past. Wouldn't 1 camera aimed up at reflective sphere pick up everything 360 degrees around (exept straight up, but the 8 cameras wouldn't get that either). You would need to use a computer to display the image correcly but in the end I think it would work well.
To laugh. It always surprises me when someone says "we'll never need this" or "computers will never..." I remember a computer magazine editorial saying we would never store music on Hard Drives, it would take up to much space. These people never seem to think more that a few months or maybe a year into the future.
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Too bad we aren't doing exponetially better things with these boxes...
I was thinking the same thing, how much more than eye candy has every release been since 95. Obviously the switch to the NT kernel was big but really the biggest difference in each release has been eye candy. Can you imagine how fast win 95 would run on an AMD Athlon 64 6000+ with a gig of ram.
I wonder if Dish network will carry XM stations (they carry Sirius' music stations now). Also I listen to it a lot at home. chans 6,7,8,9,12,14,15,16,18,21,22 and a few others.
We're talking about involuntary and medically unnecessary genital mutilation of infants
Many circumcisions ARE medically necessary. My sons foreskin opening was to small to pull back over the head, making it very difficult if not impossible to clean in the created "pocket". If the opening didn't get any bigger as he got older it would create other issues. If we waited to see and then found out he needed to have it done in his teen it would be much more traumatic.
What's everyone so worked up about? So there's a comet -- big
deal. It'll burn up in our atmosphere and what's ever left will
be no bigger than a chihuahua's head.
Wow, Dad, maybe you're right.
Of course I'm right. If I'm not, may we all be horribly crushed
from above somehow.
Is this like in Spongebob where they lay at a beach and swim in a "lake" even though they are underwater to start with?
For 1 minute on Sunday the percentage of /.ers enjoying the outdoors increased 10,000%
It's just a little green, it's still good, it's still good!...
Voice recognition is a stupid way to enter text into a computer. In a cubicle, where your neighbours can hear you it's completely annoying. In your house, where you have the TV on in the background and kids continually talking
I completely agree, Speak recognition is a stop gap measure (and a poor one at that) until we get thought recognition.
I must have missed numerous articles, but what exactly has Sony done that has pissed so many people off? I have always liked Sony as a company. They make lots of things, some very well like some of the worlds best TVs, some not so well, like there entry level audio components and a LOT of stuff in between. I like there position backing Blu-Ray, the PS and PS2 and PS3 (still the cheapest Blu-ray player on the market). What have I missed?
You'd be an idiot if you expect our country, under either party's control to hand over this software. Its a national security issue. You don't hand over control codes to your best military hardware so that other nations will LOOK UP TO YOU.
I don't even know where to start on this. You don't think we should share, with our closest (if not only) ally, information on a JOINT venture between the 2 Countries???. I guess Bush is just continuing our pull back from diplomacy, Why talk to anyone when he can just bomb them into submission. And this particular situation has nothing to do with our global status, that remark pertained to his overall job. People who think, "who cares what the rest of the world thinks about us" are so damn naive.
I will give you that I should have worded it "I get more embarrassed every day... about America & its policies." I am proud to be an American, Nov. 7th showed the system still works. It's only a matter of time before the Bush stench is gone.
Because you trust the military and police more than the average person? Do you know many people in either group?
Yes, the "average person" is just that. At least the police and military have gone through some kind of background check and training. If you don't trust the police any more than the average person do you pull over when a police man is signalling you to?
Even assuming you could make all guns not owned by the police and military vanish and stop any more from ever entering the country you would succeed only in increasing violent crime. Look at South America and the devastating results of drive by pipe bombs and Molotov cocktails. More innocent bystanders are hit by shrapnel or seriously burned by these less directed attacks than by drive by shootings
I would prefer to look at Canada (a MUCH closer comparison) Canada has very strict gun control laws and there murder rate is about 1/3 of the United States'
Ask the vietnamese
You keep comparing the US to (more or less) 3rd world countries, can you not see the difference between South Africa, Vietnam and the U.S. Bush has our Country in the worst shape it has been in in my life, but a comparison with those countries is still ridiculous.
You're away on business, he breaks in. Your wife has nothing to do but cower in the closet while trying to dial 911. And at 6'2 and 255 pounds, he slams your petite wife to the floor, then holds a knife to her throat and rapes her. Then cuts her caratoid and leaves.
Yes I am sure that as my wife is sitting down reading or in the kitchen that as the "bad guy" busts through the door, he will hold still when she says "just a minute, I have to get my gun from my bedroom". Man I must have posted during red neck hour.
I guess the way I see it is the danger a gun brings into the house outweighs the extremely unlikely possibility of stopping a criminal with it.
The majority of people I know cant understand why anyone would want to own a gun. If guns are great for stopping criminals, wouldn't shoulder fired missiles even be better? Or maybe a Laser turret? You could always have landmines around your house, and make sure all your friends know about them so only the criminals would be endangered. This isn't the Wild Wild west anymore, grow up, we live in a civilized society and are continually striving to improve it, I don't see a redneck state where everyone has a gun (yeehaw) as the direction we should be moving.
PS it's spelled "carotid" I assume you where talking about the artery.
about being American. It seems like every day my government does something retarded, making us look worse and worse. Thank God the Dem's won in November, It's going to be a long road back to respectability. It's getting harder and harder to remember when the rest of the world used to look up to the U.S.(or at least not have contempt for us).
I know it's idealistic but I would like it if NO ONE other than police & Military had guns. Has anyone ever heard of a drive by stabbing? I won't have a gun in my house. It offends me that I "need to have a gun" because this nation has made it so easy for criminals to get them. The argument that we need to be able to defend ourselves against our government is ridiculous, how well does a machine gun do against a cruise missile?
Great, now your going to Slashdot /.
Data referring to "TeeVee"
"That particular form of entertainment did not last much beyond the year Two Thousand Forty."
Can't say I feel bad for a bank robber when it turns out the teller slipped them a dye packet...
Apples and Oranges
Your comparing a big corporate bank with a big corporate software firm, obviously stealing software doesn't hurt anyone.
a long time ago, They were just 90 degrees off.
That's not me, unfortunately I can't play games w/o being competitive.
OLED, Actually I have a 61"DLP, but it sounds really cool. I have been hearing for years(since about 2001) that we should see OLED tvs soon, though.
a positive review for the Zune, could make it as a story on slashdot?
I have thought of this in the past. Wouldn't 1 camera aimed up at reflective sphere pick up everything 360 degrees around (exept straight up, but the 8 cameras wouldn't get that either). You would need to use a computer to display the image correcly but in the end I think it would work well.
Could help bring Dvorak more into the mainstream?
To laugh. It always surprises me when someone says "we'll never need this" or "computers will never..." I remember a computer magazine editorial saying we would never store music on Hard Drives, it would take up to much space. These people never seem to think more that a few months or maybe a year into the future.
Shrek 3 is being revised.