Well, I think or culture may be changing, probably because of VCR's and now digital recorders.
Used to be, in the old days, that there was one must see show, for example, Happy Days. Next day, everyone in grammar school was talking about the episode. Some people would break out, and watch a competeing show, say The A-Team, and talk about that. Monday mornings were all about discussing Sunday's game.
None of that happens anymore. People just watch what they want when they want. And don't want it spoiled for them before they can view the tape. No one seems to talk about it anymore. Maybe because with so many channels there's so much choice.
But that's not the whole reason. Once this happened, people switched attitudes. Now no one wants to talk about T.V. shows. It seems almost embarassing now to admit you watched this show or that show.
So that $5,000 I pay to get to live anywhere -- does that include the land its on? Didn't think so. The real costs of home ownership are property. And how'd a throwaway house become the enviromental solution? Yeah it was recycled once, but how's it better than a house that's built, and endures for decades?
I figure its similar to "memory books" given to Alzheimer patients. These are big print books, with photos pasted in, giving the patient their name, where they lived, children's photo and name, friend's photo and name, etc. The robot uses a date function to say, "Yes, its a rainy AUTUMN day", something someone in an apartment on a rainy day might forget. Hey, if a computerized calendar is a stupid function, answer this, do you never refer to the date at the bottom right hand of the screen?
This doesn't replace human contact, just provides it during the daytime, you know, when most not retired people are at work.
People are already beginning to clog newsgroups with posts complaining about Google Group's changes. Apparantly, the number of people who never noticed the "Try out Google Groups Beta" link is matched only by the number of people who had no idea Google indexed the Usenet.
One thing I noticed is long subject headers, stretching over and overlaying the date field. This is a side effect of that useless left side of the page - like a frame, but not a frame.
This appears to be a side effect of scripting. I guess Google expected no one to not use IE
Even more progress: No ability to click on username and see all their older posts. That was usefull, someone suddenly posting gibberish to sci.chem, after years of posting to alt.flame.[insert racial group here] was an obvious troll looking for attention.
Yeah, I'd heard that before. Well, not the title, so thanks for that. But this text isn't the constitution, so could be over written. And it's high time that it was, as well. The last time we had to breakup monopolies, laws were written just for that case... it could happen again. Maybe we should all thank SCO for exposing this cancer...
But this is more corporations are people to BS. There's no need for privacy here. SCO and IBM are companies, no one wants to watch them shower, or see their mental records, 'cause they don't have bodies or minds.
We still know nothing about what SCO allegeds was stolen. If we knew, the Open Scource community could remove and rewrite offending parts in a few months. (I guess, IANA programmer) Why are people proud that FUD is the only thing they can produce?
Great. Microsoft announces it. We all bitch about today. Two years from now the patent office passes it on the day when a major news story breaks so no one notices. M$ sits on it for a while, then brings suit against somebody who's already guilty of something else, and wins. And all education is pwned.
OK, I'm exagerating. I don't hate patents, Microsoft has the right to defend their innovations. But we need some patent reform. It has to be a real thing you're patenting, there should be some penalty for bored layers who initiate patents on, say, using a click to select a purchase.
The patent office already requires any patent on a perpetual motion machine to come with a working model. How 'bout requireing that for abstract concepts such as this one? In other words, justify why you're ignoring decades of prior art. Don't make us
Sodium Borate is in short supply? Borax? A common industrial chemical? A rock mined in the US and Chile? Boy, some journalist didn't bother to do a google search. Maybe someone wants to return interest in Tibet's problems with China. You'd figure it was exciting enough that South Korea is developing advanced engines, while North Korea can't feed its own people.
Seems to me people want the exit polls, just so they have something to argue about after the election. That's pretty much what happens time and time again since the 2004 election. Some registered Democrats, or people from predominately Democrat couties in predominately Democrat states: Voted for Bush. They did not want Kerry. They did not want Gore. They voted out Democrat senators. That should be a hint.
I gotta stay away from these political threads, its just the same thing over and over.
I just came here 'cause I was hoping someone could explain the 99.9% sure statistic, thats not something I hear often in chemistry, and I want to know how human nature is so much better locked up.
I'm guessing you mean pawn upgrades for reaching the opponent's rank? I know a couple of true chess geeks who don't always select queens -- the knight for example can be more usefull. Also, a common house rule is you may only upgrade to a piece you've lost. So no 3 queen games.
Well, one of the complaints in CmdrTaco's list was specifically that the number of registered Democrats didn't match the number of votes for Kerry. As someone else said, there is no reason that discrepancy should be too much of a shock -- you can be pressured into registering, but voting is anonymous. Why everyone seems to ignore this, and that the same exact thing can happen in an exit poll is a mystery to me.
Well yeah all this stuff is innovative in lage Chinese cities -- they're not building on and upgrading old infrastructure. Cell phones, for example, are so common because land lines have never been installed, even in major cities.
I have SBC Yahoo DSL. Deep within the bowels of the files their CD installed on my WinXP machine were directories with names very similar to the ancient Prodigy directories. And I'm pretty sure I saw the name Prodigy at least once.
Intel at one time was interested in studying the effect of cosmic rays in memory chips. The story goes(as quoted in any version of the Hacker Jargon list) was that they built, at great expense, a background radiation proof test chamber (you can't block all cosmic rays, just some). The end result was no benefit -- there is sufficient background radiation from trace elements in the clay used to make the chips.
I haven't seen an update since this morning. Everytime I check its the same data -- a prediction. It hasn't been updated with the latest reports. Was it supposed to?
Maybe you missed it, but that was yesterday. Complete with an unnecessary and inflammatory headline. It pulled in over 1000 comments and yup, you guessed it, all of them were flames.
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miss it. Oh well, I'll figure out how to uses the filters someone else mentioned in this thread.
I hate to join the bitching patrol, but I came to/. when it was linked in a Reuters story. The link pointed out that a Reuters story was being criticized here for being to generous with some guy in Scotland who claimed to have built a perpetual motion machine. That/. story had a lot of usefull information, links to older stories, and intelligent discussion. Guess you all just got lucky that day.
C'mon mods, please, just greenlight fewer "your rights online" and political articles. Cut back 10%, you won't even feel it. Really, you've nothing to lose but some trolls. If we want political discussion, we'll look for it. Sheesh. I'm shocked there haven't been stories about the abortion ship's internet hookup or the latest textbook's position on evoluion.
Forgive me if I'm redundant, there's a lot of crap to filter through here. Dubya blocks his own site. So what's the problem. Who's complaining? Undecided people abroad won't get some info they need to vote for him. But his own organization did it. But... but... but... who... who... cares?
He's the one who needs it. Microsoft can design, develop, manufacture and sell it. With an embedded version of Windows, optimized for security, stability and performance that can run on the platform. Fits their "take over the world" paradigm very well.
There was a plan to send up baloons carrying metal catalysts to increase ozone production. I think it was even here on/. But I think it was more about some guy patenting a procedure that could have been useful based on the chemisty, rather than a well thought out enginering plan.
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Used to be, in the old days, that there was one must see show, for example, Happy Days. Next day, everyone in grammar school was talking about the episode. Some people would break out, and watch a competeing show, say The A-Team, and talk about that. Monday mornings were all about discussing Sunday's game.
None of that happens anymore. People just watch what they want when they want. And don't want it spoiled for them before they can view the tape. No one seems to talk about it anymore. Maybe because with so many channels there's so much choice.
But that's not the whole reason. Once this happened, people switched attitudes. Now no one wants to talk about T.V. shows. It seems almost embarassing now to admit you watched this show or that show.
So that $5,000 I pay to get to live anywhere -- does that include the land its on? Didn't think so. The real costs of home ownership are property. And how'd a throwaway house become the enviromental solution? Yeah it was recycled once, but how's it better than a house that's built, and endures for decades?
This doesn't replace human contact, just provides it during the daytime, you know, when most not retired people are at work.
One thing I noticed is long subject headers, stretching over and overlaying the date field. This is a side effect of that useless left side of the page - like a frame, but not a frame.
This appears to be a side effect of scripting. I guess Google expected no one to not use IE
Meh, there's always http://www.groupsrv.com/
Even more progress: No ability to click on username and see all their older posts. That was usefull, someone suddenly posting gibberish to sci.chem, after years of posting to alt.flame.[insert racial group here] was an obvious troll looking for attention.
Yeah, I'd heard that before. Well, not the title, so thanks for that. But this text isn't the constitution, so could be over written. And it's high time that it was, as well. The last time we had to breakup monopolies, laws were written just for that case ... it could happen again. Maybe we should all thank SCO for exposing this cancer ...
We still know nothing about what SCO allegeds was stolen. If we knew, the Open Scource community could remove and rewrite offending parts in a few months. (I guess, IANA programmer) Why are people proud that FUD is the only thing they can produce?
...so that's what happens when you don't edit the Subject: when you write a comment. /. uses the subject from your last post. Fascinating.
Oh, what's the worst that could happen? Try: http://www.lpl.arizona.edu/impacteffects/ Just punch in the numbers, it's fun.
OK, I'm exagerating. I don't hate patents, Microsoft has the right to defend their innovations. But we need some patent reform. It has to be a real thing you're patenting, there should be some penalty for bored layers who initiate patents on, say, using a click to select a purchase.
The patent office already requires any patent on a perpetual motion machine to come with a working model. How 'bout requireing that for abstract concepts such as this one? In other words, justify why you're ignoring decades of prior art. Don't make us
Sodium Borate is in short supply? Borax? A common industrial chemical? A rock mined in the US and Chile? Boy, some journalist didn't bother to do a google search. Maybe someone wants to return interest in Tibet's problems with China. You'd figure it was exciting enough that South Korea is developing advanced engines, while North Korea can't feed its own people.
Go here first... http://www.vorck.com/remove-ie.html
Then FireFox, Thunderbird, and the media player that came with the CD-ROM.
No problems after that. Enjoy the free meal. Truly, no one misses IE and Outlook express if they don't find it.
I gotta stay away from these political threads, its just the same thing over and over.
I just came here 'cause I was hoping someone could explain the 99.9% sure statistic, thats not something I hear often in chemistry, and I want to know how human nature is so much better locked up.
I'm guessing you mean pawn upgrades for reaching the opponent's rank? I know a couple of true chess geeks who don't always select queens -- the knight for example can be more usefull. Also, a common house rule is you may only upgrade to a piece you've lost. So no 3 queen games.
Even Farkers think this was a lame story. 'Tho they inclued a link to one of my favorite humor sites: Computer Stupidities
Well, one of the complaints in CmdrTaco's list was specifically that the number of registered Democrats didn't match the number of votes for Kerry. As someone else said, there is no reason that discrepancy should be too much of a shock -- you can be pressured into registering, but voting is anonymous. Why everyone seems to ignore this, and that the same exact thing can happen in an exit poll is a mystery to me.
Well yeah all this stuff is innovative in lage Chinese cities -- they're not building on and upgrading old infrastructure. Cell phones, for example, are so common because land lines have never been installed, even in major cities.
I have SBC Yahoo DSL. Deep within the bowels of the files their CD installed on my WinXP machine were directories with names very similar to the ancient Prodigy directories. And I'm pretty sure I saw the name Prodigy at least once.
Intel at one time was interested in studying the effect of cosmic rays in memory chips. The story goes(as quoted in any version of the Hacker Jargon list) was that they built, at great expense, a background radiation proof test chamber (you can't block all cosmic rays, just some). The end result was no benefit -- there is sufficient background radiation from trace elements in the clay used to make the chips.
I haven't seen an update since this morning. Everytime I check its the same data -- a prediction. It hasn't been updated with the latest reports. Was it supposed to?
- did
miss it. Oh well, I'll figure out how to uses the filters someone else mentioned in this thread.C'mon mods, please, just greenlight fewer "your rights online" and political articles. Cut back 10%, you won't even feel it. Really, you've nothing to lose but some trolls. If we want political discussion, we'll look for it. Sheesh. I'm shocked there haven't been stories about the abortion ship's internet hookup or the latest textbook's position on evoluion.
Forgive me if I'm redundant, there's a lot of crap to filter through here. Dubya blocks his own site. So what's the problem. Who's complaining? Undecided people abroad won't get some info they need to vote for him. But his own organization did it. But ... but ... but ... who ... who ... cares?
He's the one who needs it. Microsoft can design, develop, manufacture and sell it. With an embedded version of Windows, optimized for security, stability and performance that can run on the platform. Fits their "take over the world" paradigm very well.
There was a plan to send up baloons carrying metal catalysts to increase ozone production. I think it was even here on /. But I think it was more about some guy patenting a procedure that could have been useful based on the chemisty, rather than a well thought out enginering plan.