Does asking to be modded down and then not being modded down mean your point is invalid then?
No. The reverse psychology works in this case and counteracts the effect.:-) The moderation system is real easy to manipulate, if one so desires. Saying "go on, mod me down" usually takes you up a level or two.
Mind you, having posted this, all bets are off now.
That is an AWESOME webpage. Religious nuts claiming their own beliefs as "historical fact", in a fight against the idea that people might read a book and believe in something quite fake, just because believing in it pleases them.
You just broke my irony meter. Where do I send the bill?;-)
Factual errors: When Nedry steals the embryos from the freezer, some of the dinosaurs' names are spelled wrongly on the cylinder.
Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): On the embryo storage units, the name 'Stegosaurus' is incorrectly spelled 'Stegasaurus.'
Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): In the embryo freezing chamber, Tyrannosaurus Rex is spelled with only one "n" instead of two
This is an extact. It's the longest goofs page on the IMDB I've ever seen. Except maybe Titanic, but that one has gems along the lines of "the light fitting on the forward deck had five rivets, not six".
they love Apple so much that they make firings seem polite and cordial.
I know. I'm just looking for the posts claiming some sort of butterfly effect / chaos theory explaination about how good this is for the developers involved. One might meet the girl of his dreams when he heads to India looking for work I suppose...
To be honest, the hypocracy is beginning to grate on me. Apple could fit razor blades on the spacebad and we'd be hearing about their "cutting-edge sharp designs".
Go on...mod me down. Modding down any anti-apple statement is generally validation for whoever said it, in the same way that mentioning OSS or "does it run linux" will always take you in the opposite direction.
many other have found that Quicktime is the only simple videoplayer software that can bring a beefy gaming rig to its knees trying to play a 30 second low-res clip with no apparent explaination.
I'm one of them. My laptop can play divx full screen no problems, but if you try to view quicktime at even 2x (which should be an easy scale), it just falls apart. Struggles to play 1x at times as well.
The innovation described in TFA is the logical next step of this eminently sensible design decision that Apple has been promoting for years.
Do you work for Apple, or do you just write press-copy for a living and it leaked out?;-)
Second, it came with mounting brackets (included, for free in the iSight box) to attach the camera securely to the top center of Apple's LCD monitors and laptop screens.
The result of this second "innovation"?
That's a bit revisionist. The IBM T22 laptop I'm typing this on, out before the iSight, has a dedicated port on the top of the LCD display. Remove the rubber cover and attach the webcam they sell. I also owned a webcam before this whose stand was designed to be desk mounted or laptop lid mounted.
While we're talking screen enhancments, what I think is really clever is the little LED downlighter on the screen of this laptop. Just enough light to illuminate the keyboard on overnight flights.
Maybe they could have the annoying Search Mutt take up the left hand window and do a little animation while I have to figure out how to turn it off?
Strangely enough, I got a new PC in work today that was the most recent XP build our IT dept has put out. On the search page there was a new "link" at the bottom saying "turn off animated character". I clicked on it and the dog walked off into the distance, never to be seen again. That damn mutt actually made me smile! Nice new feature, not sure if it was M$'s own, or something the IT guys put in.
I prefer to turn off the whole "search assistant" thing entirely and revert to the older "I how a file system search works" one. For reference:
Even though Iraq was a bad idea the number of people that suffer is much lower than in other places.
So wrong. Over 30,000 innocent people are dead, at least 5,000 soldiers and those who "survive" are trapped in a country with no chance of a future (other than civil war).
Reducing the Iraq affair to "a bad idea" is like calling Stalin's legacy "bad social policy". It's a nice ephanism for "we fucked up real good".
Checks are pretty much still in place.
No they aren't. The checks are still waiting to punish those who misled us into this affair. Why are you so confident that the system might prevent it in future?
You sir are the idiot. As other posters point out terrorism predates recent Islamic Terrorism. Hell, the British actually used the word "terrorise" in many mission briefings back in the day, when it was used to keep locals in check around the empire. Not paying your taxes? We'll level the village so the next village over doesn't get any ideas. Winston Churchill ordered the Iraqi Kurds to be gassed out of existance, but the technology wasn't ready at the time. The USA exists BECAUSE someone fought back.
And the IRA have existed for a VERY long time. White Catholic extremeists who targeted shopping malls and pubs, as well as assasinations and random street riots. The ONLY difference is that they didn't do the suicide all that often prefering to use what is now known in the media as IED's. They wanted their whole region to be Catholic (as opposed to Prodestant, BOTH CHRISTIANS FFS!!), and for all non-catholics to leave. This hate goes back for a very long time, and is of course mutual on both sides.
You really need to get your head out your ass.
PS, the article you linked...quite the funny. I could link you far worse, ever hear the suggestion that "we should just turn Iraq into a huge parking lot"? (implying nuking the region). I heard that MANY times over the past years, sometimes from people in positions of power and responsibility. Not some asshats in the street as you linked to. What exactly is your point here? You are a poster-child for the proof that propaganda works.
It's no surprise then that using information about registered voters they draw the lines in such a way as to maximizing their chances to get re-elected. Latelly they even use computer programs to do that.
Shouldn't the programmers be up on terrorism charges for that? They are clearly and deliberately attacking democracy, which is what terrorism is. Apparently.
How can it seem reasonable? This makes no sense whatsoever. Say I was to take up some IT contracting for a while, with the right jobs and the right hours I could get quite rich. I then take the money from my work and buy, say e.g. a nice expensive car. Should I then ask the company that employed me to pay for the insurance? To pay for a secure lockup? To wash it every week?
This is completely crazy. If someone earns a million pounds, it is not the companies responsability to protect that money. It's not their issue. The contract was for his time in exchange for their money. That is done now.
In fact, thinking about this, this Amazon guy is being a cheeky wanker. He's getting paid shitloads, which carries a certain risk. Any normal person would simply pay for the necessary protection. But not this asswipe, he has to expense it to the company. No wonder this guys is rich, he's not paying for jack. What's the point in having money if you are just hoarding digital digits in a bank account somewhere?
I need to pop down to the bank just now to reoranize a few financial matters. Do you think I could expense a limo to take me there? After all, the reason I have this money is because they paid me!
What if I am flicking around the channels (from a sanctioned spot) and happen upon a commercial, will I not be able to continue to the next channel?
Well, as always consider who gets to make this decission, and whether or not it's in their interests. Is it in the interests of Channel XYZ to get these extra eyeballs on their commercials? Damn straight. Of course, when it happens it will be "accidental". Honest.
Rememember, with TV YOU are the product. The TV company is essentially selling your time to the advertisers. In exchange for your time, they promise to entertain you.
Personally, I'd be for this system if (and only if) subscribing to the non-ad version completely removes all advertising. But that is never going to happen.
Hardcore gamers, though, know to turn everything off if they want the best performance.
Hell, I have a dedicated partition for it. Minimal install, all effects turned off, no unneeded services, virus scan installed but not active. Just trying to get the most out of this hardware before I'm forced completely to upgrade.
Kentucky is a poor state. Sixteen of Kentucky's counties are among the 100 poorest in the country
You do realise it's mostly people in the poorest income brackets that smoke? It's a small pleasure for some who don't get many luxuries. By raising the tax, you will harm the worst off. It won't encourage them to quit, it will just cost them slightly more each day.
To me, it's like the drug dealers we were warned about in school. Get you hooked, then jack up the price. Look at the prices for some street drugs; people are willing to pay for their kicks. Raising the price of smoking is a cheap shot that won't do much in terms if improving health.
Finally, don't assume that smokers cost more in medical care than non-smokers. OK, don't smoke and you add five/ten years onto your pension recieving life. After which you are still going to die of something, perhaps a heart attack or stroke. Usually these things happen in warning incidents first, costing you a lot of healthcare until the inevitiable happens. Do not think for a moment that as a non-smoker you are imortal!;-)
He he, US politics always makes me laugh*. Why discuss the issues and potentially look like an idiot if you are wrong when you can just insult each other! Yay for the "two party democracy", if that's not a contradiction I don't know what is!;-)
Therefore I think there would be a market for PDAs with good sized screens and Wifi/cellular data connections.
Around a half of all my slashdot browsing (and posting) is done on such a device. I use it as my primary email device. If I need to do a lot of real work, or some lengthy emails, then I'll boot up the PC.
That's one of the advantages IMHO. I can whip it out and have my email checked in less time that it takes my PC to get past the bios boot screen. It's the "quick lookups" of infomation I think it excells at.
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In fact, who carries ANYTHING in their shirt pocket? I can't think of anyone doing it, other than movies involving stereotypical geeks and pocket-protectors.
I carry my PDA in my jeans/trouser pocket. It's more wide and tall that it is thick and to be honest it's more confortable than my last traditionally shaped mobile. It's not for everyone though.
WRT to your desire for a device that has all of the connectivity and allows IP forwarding and the like...I wouldn't be surprised if it wasn't already out there. They have complete IP stacks, so it's just a matter of tweaking the routing. They can already ip-forward over dialup modem via Bluetooth, so it's doable. Just needs the right hacker to work on it.
That is why my PDA will not be a cell phone unless I can install the software myself, like OpenZaurus.
Agreed. That's specifically why I choose the Microsoft ones, all the alternates were very restrictive!
I have similar thoughts about trusting any information to Microsoft in any way.
Really? You think they care about your information? Do you use webmail? You've logged in on/. Your bank knows everything about you. What makes you think M$ is any less trustworthly than the rest of them? Because you agree/disagree with their business practices?
Besides, they have nothing they can get. It's a mobile; you'd notice if it were dialing home and it would be on/. before breakfast if it was detected. Granted, I can see where you are coming from, for example I host my own email and I don't sync contacts/mail/schedule to any of the third-party backup solutions out there. But I honestly can't see why you would not choose a M$ phone specifically over privacy concerns.
Privacy aside, cell phone and M$ PDAs suck.
Eh, no. I've been a mobile carrier since 1994, I've had LOTS of different devices. I really do like the M$ ones, they are functionally superiour to the rest of the market right now.
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[golf clap]. Dammit!! ;-)
See, down one already, only been 20 minutes or so. And replying to your own posts is generally fatal...
No. The reverse psychology works in this case and counteracts the effect. :-) The moderation system is real easy to manipulate, if one so desires. Saying "go on, mod me down" usually takes you up a level or two.
Mind you, having posted this, all bets are off now.
That is an AWESOME webpage. Religious nuts claiming their own beliefs as "historical fact", in a fight against the idea that people might read a book and believe in something quite fake, just because believing in it pleases them.
You just broke my irony meter. Where do I send the bill? ;-)
And spelling. From the IMDB entry:
This is an extact. It's the longest goofs page on the IMDB I've ever seen. Except maybe Titanic, but that one has gems along the lines of "the light fitting on the forward deck had five rivets, not six".
I know. I'm just looking for the posts claiming some sort of butterfly effect / chaos theory explaination about how good this is for the developers involved. One might meet the girl of his dreams when he heads to India looking for work I suppose...
To be honest, the hypocracy is beginning to grate on me. Apple could fit razor blades on the spacebad and we'd be hearing about their "cutting-edge sharp designs".
Go on...mod me down. Modding down any anti-apple statement is generally validation for whoever said it, in the same way that mentioning OSS or "does it run linux" will always take you in the opposite direction.
I'm one of them. My laptop can play divx full screen no problems, but if you try to view quicktime at even 2x (which should be an easy scale), it just falls apart. Struggles to play 1x at times as well.
Now a happy user of QuickTime Alternative
Do you work for Apple, or do you just write press-copy for a living and it leaked out? ;-)
Second, it came with mounting brackets (included, for free in the iSight box) to attach the camera securely to the top center of Apple's LCD monitors and laptop screens. The result of this second "innovation"?
That's a bit revisionist. The IBM T22 laptop I'm typing this on, out before the iSight, has a dedicated port on the top of the LCD display. Remove the rubber cover and attach the webcam they sell. I also owned a webcam before this whose stand was designed to be desk mounted or laptop lid mounted.
While we're talking screen enhancments, what I think is really clever is the little LED downlighter on the screen of this laptop. Just enough light to illuminate the keyboard on overnight flights.
Strangely enough, I got a new PC in work today that was the most recent XP build our IT dept has put out. On the search page there was a new "link" at the bottom saying "turn off animated character". I clicked on it and the dog walked off into the distance, never to be seen again. That damn mutt actually made me smile! Nice new feature, not sure if it was M$'s own, or something the IT guys put in.
I prefer to turn off the whole "search assistant" thing entirely and revert to the older "I how a file system search works" one. For reference:
So wrong. Over 30,000 innocent people are dead, at least 5,000 soldiers and those who "survive" are trapped in a country with no chance of a future (other than civil war).
Reducing the Iraq affair to "a bad idea" is like calling Stalin's legacy "bad social policy". It's a nice ephanism for "we fucked up real good".
Checks are pretty much still in place.
No they aren't. The checks are still waiting to punish those who misled us into this affair. Why are you so confident that the system might prevent it in future?
And the IRA have existed for a VERY long time. White Catholic extremeists who targeted shopping malls and pubs, as well as assasinations and random street riots. The ONLY difference is that they didn't do the suicide all that often prefering to use what is now known in the media as IED's. They wanted their whole region to be Catholic (as opposed to Prodestant, BOTH CHRISTIANS FFS!!), and for all non-catholics to leave. This hate goes back for a very long time, and is of course mutual on both sides.
You really need to get your head out your ass.
PS, the article you linked...quite the funny. I could link you far worse, ever hear the suggestion that "we should just turn Iraq into a huge parking lot"? (implying nuking the region). I heard that MANY times over the past years, sometimes from people in positions of power and responsibility. Not some asshats in the street as you linked to. What exactly is your point here? You are a poster-child for the proof that propaganda works.
Shouldn't the programmers be up on terrorism charges for that? They are clearly and deliberately attacking democracy, which is what terrorism is. Apparently.
This is completely crazy. If someone earns a million pounds, it is not the companies responsability to protect that money. It's not their issue. The contract was for his time in exchange for their money. That is done now.
In fact, thinking about this, this Amazon guy is being a cheeky wanker. He's getting paid shitloads, which carries a certain risk. Any normal person would simply pay for the necessary protection. But not this asswipe, he has to expense it to the company. No wonder this guys is rich, he's not paying for jack. What's the point in having money if you are just hoarding digital digits in a bank account somewhere?
I need to pop down to the bank just now to reoranize a few financial matters. Do you think I could expense a limo to take me there? After all, the reason I have this money is because they paid me!
Well, as always consider who gets to make this decission, and whether or not it's in their interests. Is it in the interests of Channel XYZ to get these extra eyeballs on their commercials? Damn straight. Of course, when it happens it will be "accidental". Honest.
Rememember, with TV YOU are the product. The TV company is essentially selling your time to the advertisers. In exchange for your time, they promise to entertain you.
Personally, I'd be for this system if (and only if) subscribing to the non-ad version completely removes all advertising. But that is never going to happen.
Hell, I have a dedicated partition for it. Minimal install, all effects turned off, no unneeded services, virus scan installed but not active. Just trying to get the most out of this hardware before I'm forced completely to upgrade.
Experience suggests otherwise, the show Brass Eye managed to get many UK celebrities to champion crazy causes that were clearly made up.
it's just too bad that people don't do that in the first place.
It's too bad that people aren't contributing to her campain; perhaps that way they might get a voice.
You do realise it's mostly people in the poorest income brackets that smoke? It's a small pleasure for some who don't get many luxuries. By raising the tax, you will harm the worst off. It won't encourage them to quit, it will just cost them slightly more each day.
To me, it's like the drug dealers we were warned about in school. Get you hooked, then jack up the price. Look at the prices for some street drugs; people are willing to pay for their kicks. Raising the price of smoking is a cheap shot that won't do much in terms if improving health.
Finally, don't assume that smokers cost more in medical care than non-smokers. OK, don't smoke and you add five/ten years onto your pension recieving life. After which you are still going to die of something, perhaps a heart attack or stroke. Usually these things happen in warning incidents first, costing you a lot of healthcare until the inevitiable happens. Do not think for a moment that as a non-smoker you are imortal! ;-)
https perhaps? :-)
He he, US politics always makes me laugh*. Why discuss the issues and potentially look like an idiot if you are wrong when you can just insult each other! Yay for the "two party democracy", if that's not a contradiction I don't know what is! ;-)
Do any of the DRM formats carry embedded code in the media?
Why? I'd quite like to hear your reasoning on that...
Around a half of all my slashdot browsing (and posting) is done on such a device. I use it as my primary email device. If I need to do a lot of real work, or some lengthy emails, then I'll boot up the PC.
That's one of the advantages IMHO. I can whip it out and have my email checked in less time that it takes my PC to get past the bios boot screen. It's the "quick lookups" of infomation I think it excells at.
I carry my PDA in my jeans/trouser pocket. It's more wide and tall that it is thick and to be honest it's more confortable than my last traditionally shaped mobile. It's not for everyone though.
WRT to your desire for a device that has all of the connectivity and allows IP forwarding and the like...I wouldn't be surprised if it wasn't already out there. They have complete IP stacks, so it's just a matter of tweaking the routing. They can already ip-forward over dialup modem via Bluetooth, so it's doable. Just needs the right hacker to work on it.
For mobile phone / PDA technology, they have always been out front.
Agreed. That's specifically why I choose the Microsoft ones, all the alternates were very restrictive!
I have similar thoughts about trusting any information to Microsoft in any way.
Really? You think they care about your information? Do you use webmail? You've logged in on /. Your bank knows everything about you. What makes you think M$ is any less trustworthly than the rest of them? Because you agree/disagree with their business practices?
Besides, they have nothing they can get. It's a mobile; you'd notice if it were dialing home and it would be on /. before breakfast if it was detected. Granted, I can see where you are coming from, for example I host my own email and I don't sync contacts/mail/schedule to any of the third-party backup solutions out there. But I honestly can't see why you would not choose a M$ phone specifically over privacy concerns.
Privacy aside, cell phone and M$ PDAs suck.
Eh, no. I've been a mobile carrier since 1994, I've had LOTS of different devices. I really do like the M$ ones, they are functionally superiour to the rest of the market right now.