Would work great in Toronto and the surrounding area. Best open air reception in the world.
Broadcasts come from the CN tower (taller than anything else), plus broadcasts from upstate NY come in over Lake Ontario unobstructed.
That's something I miss about TO, the fact that you could completely do away with cable and still have all the major networks with a decent roof antenna, Canadian and American.
The powers that be don't want you wasting company time on personal business, and I don't blame them.
The policy no doubt didn't come from nowhere. There are obviously people in your organization that took advantage of the fact that they had cellphones.
I've seen those people, chattering away all day. It's ok to talk as long as they want, right, because it's not like they're using the company phones.
The waddling ass in the office next to me spends AT LEAST 4 hours a day playing tetris on his cell phone. When you walk past his office he gives it a really serious look like he's contemplating his hectic schedule and contact list. I'm not fucking stupid, I know what tetris sounds like. Of course, I say nothing of it because the guy is dangerous when he's working, he's completely fucked up every project he's touched. Worst coder, ever.
Anyways..
There's no constitutional right to having a cellphone at work.
Be a man about it. Suck it up, and get back to work. You expect these nerds to throw you a pity parade because you can't play text messaging all day.
What an innovative and brilliant way to CRAM MY MONITOR FULL OF FUCKIN ADS every time I need directions.
I know where mcdonalds is, thanks a lot google. And they aren't my neighbours. The Oshermans are (I call them the Osher-bournes cuz they swear at their kids like Ozzy)
Gilette sells the Mach 3 - for men. The exact same razor, pink, is called the Venus 3.
Schick has the Tracer FX (for men), the Protector (for women).
Go buy one of each, or look at them in the store, if you dont believe me.
Different brands set angles differently, sure. But it's not a male/female thing, it's a user preferance thing.
The big difference I've seen, which is fairly recent, is that lately the women's models have bigger rubberized grips, easier to hold on to in the shower/bathtub.
You put paper in one end, and it comes out the other end with words and pictures on it. Maybe japanese women are exceptionally stupid, I dont know. Does it come preloaded with paper and ink, and you throw it out rather than having to figure out how to put paper in?
Besides crafting it in pink plastic, or some other aesthetic nonsense, whats different?
The "designed for women!" thing is a great marketting gimmick. I mean, how many households buy two packs of razors, one for him, one for her. The only difference being that hers are pink.
Look at the broader picture. All that stuff out there on sourceforge. Someone in some cubicle at some business decides some obscure project is useful, and starts using it.
But, that project is illegal. It's stolen code, violating patents and copyrights.
It's that kind of a bullshit legal snare that could send a young business into chapter 11.
If MS or Apple or Adobe stole code for their products, they'd be on the hook for using that stolen code for profit.
If the code was open source though, who do you go after? The people profiting from it - the end user.
Makes absolute sense. In fact, it was the lack of this sort of protection that has kept the company I work for away from OSS. Perhaps I could sway them now.
Actually, reading the article, it's not an OCD thing. He doesnt respond to every spam. Most of the things listed in the articles that he purchased are used. There is mention of a humidifier/AC unit that's unused, but the error of omission is probably because it's WINTER and it hasn't been installed yet.
A lot of people enjoy shopping, browsing around garage sales, flea markets, etc.. A lot of elderly or disabled people like to watch the Shopping Network, use eBay, and are the people targetted by spam.
The article, and slashbots, go out of their way to make him look like some sort of retard or dupe. But there's nothing wrong with him. He likes bargain hunting. He hurt his back, so he does it through the internet.
Article even mentions he turned a profit reselling the stuff online.
The bios now has crypto features to authenticate 'trusted' applications that the OS can use, or choose not to use. IIRC, it can be completely disabled in the BIOS.
Even if MSFT, in some future version of Windows, decides that Windows won't run at all unless it's enabled, it still wont have affected linux.
Joe Corporate wants "trusted computing". Joe Homeuser doesn't give a shit.
Samsung sells mostly to corporate environments, IIRC. I've never seen any Samsung computers on the shelves at any box store retail outlets.
The hardware makers frankly dont give a flying fuck if the PCs in peoples homes are "trusted" or not.
Do Asus or Gigabyte profit because Joe at home can't run a pirated copy of XP? Nah. They don't even have any XP licensing deals or ties with MSFT. And I doubt they're in any hurry to raise costs without adding functionality.
This will have an impact in the corporate IT world, but I don't see it seriously affecting home users.
To lure real game developers to linux, a few things would need to happen..
- a unified DirectX type API, as you suggest. This will never happen, because within a month there will be 500 such API's competing with each other. It's impossible to direct a horde of people who aren't beholden to anyone.
- The "if you dont release source you're bad" ideology would have to change. We're talking about commercial software here. Sega isn't about to start handing out freebies.
- There would have to be some sort of anti-piracy mechanism available, publishers are even backing away from Windows because of piracy concerns, telling them that marketting to a demographic that expects everything to be Free would be like selling male sex dolls to a homophobe.
As those games are played, kids will be encouraged to learn how they work and maybe work on their own. AMOS and Blitz basic on the Amiga formed a huge range of great games, but getting people learning C++ from an early age would lead to great things for the future, I'm sure.
Does he have any sort of clue what goes into the development of a modern "killer game"?
Programming is nothing. There are thousands of man-hours going into art assets, level design, animation, voiceover production, playtesting, etc..
The days of the kid making a neato race car game on his vic 20 are long, long gone.
And like every other twit in linux land, he offers to "help make a linux games distro, even though im not a programmer and have no appreciable skills". Which follows the standard OSS game production model:
1) Think up cool name for game 2) Open sourceforge project 3) wait for programmers and artists to come write it for you 4) ??
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Geeks dont realize that 3 out of 4 people dont care.
I wouldnt ask a non-geek what their "upstream bandwidth" was, I'd ask them how they connect - over the telephone or cable, etc.. They know that..
I know a handful of folks with no PCs, yet have Xboxes or PS2s that are online.
Besides, the question read "access" to internet, be it through a local cafe, library, school, friend, grandparent, etc..
It's also well below the margin of error for a hand count.
But silly things like facts or common sense don't stand a chance against the mighty conspiracy theories!
Hi! I see you're trying to karma whore on slashdot!
Would you like to:
- see a list of dopey corporate conspiracy theories
- view a collection of really tired and lame BSOD and Clippy jokes
What antimonopolistic evil behaviour!
Actually customizing their products to different markets. UN FRICKIN BELIEVABLE.
Now throw yer tantrum kids.
Would work great in Toronto and the surrounding area. Best open air reception in the world.
Broadcasts come from the CN tower (taller than anything else), plus broadcasts from upstate NY come in over Lake Ontario unobstructed.
That's something I miss about TO, the fact that you could completely do away with cable and still have all the major networks with a decent roof antenna, Canadian and American.
Why is there a monthly fee to recieve it?
"equipment rental" my ass.
The powers that be don't want you wasting company time on personal business, and I don't blame them.
The policy no doubt didn't come from nowhere. There are obviously people in your organization that took advantage of the fact that they had cellphones.
I've seen those people, chattering away all day. It's ok to talk as long as they want, right, because it's not like they're using the company phones.
The waddling ass in the office next to me spends AT LEAST 4 hours a day playing tetris on his cell phone. When you walk past his office he gives it a really serious look like he's contemplating his hectic schedule and contact list. I'm not fucking stupid, I know what tetris sounds like. Of course, I say nothing of it because the guy is dangerous when he's working, he's completely fucked up every project he's touched. Worst coder, ever.
Anyways..
There's no constitutional right to having a cellphone at work.
Be a man about it. Suck it up, and get back to work. You expect these nerds to throw you a pity parade because you can't play text messaging all day.
Learn to close your italic tags.
Or quit watching cartoons long enough to preview.
Or something.
Sheesh.
What an innovative and brilliant way to CRAM MY MONITOR FULL OF FUCKIN ADS every time I need directions.
I know where mcdonalds is, thanks a lot google. And they aren't my neighbours. The Oshermans are (I call them the Osher-bournes cuz they swear at their kids like Ozzy)
Yes, I have. No, they aren't.
Gilette sells the Mach 3 - for men. The exact same razor, pink, is called the Venus 3.
Schick has the Tracer FX (for men), the Protector (for women).
Go buy one of each, or look at them in the store, if you dont believe me.
Different brands set angles differently, sure. But it's not a male/female thing, it's a user preferance thing.
The big difference I've seen, which is fairly recent, is that lately the women's models have bigger rubberized grips, easier to hold on to in the shower/bathtub.
Is there any chance it will offer a decent treatment of the issues Open Source advocates worry about today?
You mean like gay marriage, sodomy law reforms and legalized pot?
I wanna see a giant squid fighting a sperm whale, damnit!
Oh, and a shark fight a crocodile, that sounds ExCiTinG!!!1!1!!
Inspector Gadget has no shoe phone. He has the little antenna that comes out of his thumb.
You're thinking of Maxwell Smart. (Get Smart of course inspired Inspector Gadget, and Don Addams actually voiced the cartoon)
What exactly is "easier for women to use"?
You put paper in one end, and it comes out the other end with words and pictures on it. Maybe japanese women are exceptionally stupid, I dont know. Does it come preloaded with paper and ink, and you throw it out rather than having to figure out how to put paper in?
Besides crafting it in pink plastic, or some other aesthetic nonsense, whats different?
The "designed for women!" thing is a great marketting gimmick. I mean, how many households buy two packs of razors, one for him, one for her. The only difference being that hers are pink.
I just saved a load of money on my linux insurance by switching to UnixWare!
Forget Linux vs SCO and who's right or wrong..
Look at the broader picture. All that stuff out there on sourceforge. Someone in some cubicle at some business decides some obscure project is useful, and starts using it.
But, that project is illegal. It's stolen code, violating patents and copyrights.
It's that kind of a bullshit legal snare that could send a young business into chapter 11.
If MS or Apple or Adobe stole code for their products, they'd be on the hook for using that stolen code for profit.
If the code was open source though, who do you go after? The people profiting from it - the end user.
Makes absolute sense. In fact, it was the lack of this sort of protection that has kept the company I work for away from OSS. Perhaps I could sway them now.
Actually, reading the article, it's not an OCD thing. He doesnt respond to every spam. Most of the things listed in the articles that he purchased are used. There is mention of a humidifier/AC unit that's unused, but the error of omission is probably because it's WINTER and it hasn't been installed yet.
A lot of people enjoy shopping, browsing around garage sales, flea markets, etc.. A lot of elderly or disabled people like to watch the Shopping Network, use eBay, and are the people targetted by spam.
The article, and slashbots, go out of their way to make him look like some sort of retard or dupe. But there's nothing wrong with him. He likes bargain hunting. He hurt his back, so he does it through the internet.
Article even mentions he turned a profit reselling the stuff online.
The bios now has crypto features to authenticate 'trusted' applications that the OS can use, or choose not to use. IIRC, it can be completely disabled in the BIOS.
Even if MSFT, in some future version of Windows, decides that Windows won't run at all unless it's enabled, it still wont have affected linux.
Joe Corporate wants "trusted computing". Joe Homeuser doesn't give a shit.
Samsung sells mostly to corporate environments, IIRC. I've never seen any Samsung computers on the shelves at any box store retail outlets.
The hardware makers frankly dont give a flying fuck if the PCs in peoples homes are "trusted" or not.
Do Asus or Gigabyte profit because Joe at home can't run a pirated copy of XP? Nah. They don't even have any XP licensing deals or ties with MSFT. And I doubt they're in any hurry to raise costs without adding functionality.
This will have an impact in the corporate IT world, but I don't see it seriously affecting home users.
I recall something about one of the Phoenix guys saying that the consumer was not their customer, the media companies were.
Uh, no.
He said that the motherboard manufacturers are their customers. Which is true. Have you ever called pheonix and ordered a BIOS?
He said nothing about your imagined conspiracy theory about the "media companies".
Oh, BTW, the FDIC mandated those thumbprints.
Even the full version of WinXP Pro would be 500 megs or so.. Considering the machines probably ship with hundreds of gigs, I wouldnt sweat it.
Perhaps they arent fools, and realize that legal solutions to technical problems ALWAYS backfire.
To lure real game developers to linux, a few things would need to happen..
- a unified DirectX type API, as you suggest. This will never happen, because within a month there will be 500 such API's competing with each other. It's impossible to direct a horde of people who aren't beholden to anyone.
- The "if you dont release source you're bad" ideology would have to change. We're talking about commercial software here. Sega isn't about to start handing out freebies.
- There would have to be some sort of anti-piracy mechanism available, publishers are even backing away from Windows because of piracy concerns, telling them that marketting to a demographic that expects everything to be Free would be like selling male sex dolls to a homophobe.
As those games are played, kids will be encouraged to learn how they work and maybe work on their own. AMOS and Blitz basic on the Amiga formed a huge range of great games, but getting people learning C++ from an early age would lead to great things for the future, I'm sure.
Does he have any sort of clue what goes into the development of a modern "killer game"?
Programming is nothing. There are thousands of man-hours going into art assets, level design, animation, voiceover production, playtesting, etc..
The days of the kid making a neato race car game on his vic 20 are long, long gone.
And like every other twit in linux land, he offers to "help make a linux games distro, even though im not a programmer and have no appreciable skills". Which follows the standard OSS game production model:
1) Think up cool name for game
2) Open sourceforge project
3) wait for programmers and artists to come write it for you
4) ??