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I'm not one who enjoys a phone that just lets me call people (I have used and enjoy all the extra features my phone has) but I would think the people who just want a phone for calling still care about the look of the phone. Those are the two ugliest phones I've ever seen. Usually when something is that ugly it makes up for it with all the extra things it can do. I can't imagine these two phones selling well at all, and why can't there be a flip phone? It's nice having a large screen, but at least a flip phone can protect that screen from scratches/dust and whatever might be in your pocket when you stick the phone there.
I just got back from White Castle and decided to check slashdot while I'm eating. Thought it was pretty funny that this article was on top. The worst thing I manage to eat over a keyboard is anything with crumbs, they get all over your keyboard and inside it, and if it's greasy (like potatoe chips or white castle) it's even worse. I don't usually spill drinks on my keyboard and I don't think I've ever done that. Except I spilt some fruit punch on my friends keyboard once (on his laptop too.) He just took apart the thing and cleaned the keyboard, his keys are still a bit sticky and his laptop is a few years old.
I guess it kind of sucks that they're gonna get punished for this, but they deserve it. You can't legally break into someone's house just to show you can, they should have told the school (or some news stations) that they were planning to show how easy it would be to get into the system. Then under a controlled environment (with some type of supervisors there) they can show how easy it would be. That way everyone knows the attack is going on and the school knows what was done by the students rather than relying on their word.
Except he's talking about an airpot, instead of showing arrival times it might show a BSOD, or a network error dialog, or something like that. I've seen all of these things (and I don't even fly that much.) He's suggesting airports and high traffic areas (like maybe an ATM machine) should display nothing rather than a BSOD. When the admin wants to fix the issue they can see the error that was printed to a file or something and fix it.
Except it's illegal to steal bread. It's not illegal to video tape a TV show or record a song from a radio. It is also not illegal to give that recording to your friend. That is fair use.
Smooth or not smooth, that best mileage is in 5th gear not at idle.
Thank you for that stunning report captain obvious!
Let me tell you a little secret the EPA doesn't want you to know... at idle, you're NOT MOVING. When you're not moving, all the gas your burning is not taking you anywhere. So if you sit in your driveway with the car idling with a full tank of gas, and wait till you have enough gas to drive one mile, then you drive that mile and run out. Your car was just getting (assuming it's a 14 gallon tank) 14 gallons to the mile! When you're doing 80 on the highway, yes you're getting better mileage than if YOU WEREN'T MOVING. But if your in 5th gear and your RPMs are at 4,000, doing 55 would give you MUCH better gas mileage. You're using less gas to fight against wind resistance, plus your RPMs are going to be much lower so your car's not going to use as much gas (like if your idle was 4,000 RPMs, you'd waste a tank of gas a lot quicker than if it was 700 RPMs.)
I think at 80 my car gets around 22-24 MPG, at 55 it gets around 30-32 (2004 Nissan Sentra SE-R Spec V) and rolling down a very large hill on the way to NY from AZ I watch my MPG reach 100 (it wasn't very accurate for long but I just wanted to see the number reach 100.)
I see them every time I have to deal with a computer where the motherboard died. Stick in a new one, it gets a nice BSOD (INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE), the only way to fix it is to buy the exact same motherboard that was in before. Which is usually impossible since the motherboards are usually old. You'd think Microsoft would realize this is a huge issue, their solution, have the same exact hardware in your backup computers. Well that's a little hard for a home user. Even for a small business user.
This always leads to me having to re-install windows, make sure not to overwrite ANYTHING (especially when dealing with a small business' computer, since every file on the computer is usually very important), copy over the old documents and all that, re-install any software that needs to be re-installed (since it's no longer in the registry.) It takes a long time and I don't want to charge the person for 2 or 3 hours of work when swapping a motherboard just takes 15 minutes, just because Microsoft f-ed up and couldn't make it easier to load a driver for a new disk controller from outside of windows (like in the recovery console, which is mostly useless.)
after cutting his legs and arm off, Ben leaves Skywalker burning alive on the shores of a lava river, with Anakin spitting venomous sentiments at his departing mentor
Anakin: None shall pass. Obi Wan: What? Anakin: None shall pass. Obi Wan: I have no quarrel with you, young padiwan, but I must cross this bridge. Anakin: Then you shall die. Obi Wan: I command you as your teacher to stand aside! Anakin: I move for no man. Obi Wan: So be it!
Obi Wan cuts off Anakin's left arm.
Obi Wan: Now stand aside, worthy adversary. Anakin: 'Tis but a scratch. Obi Wan: A scratch? Your arm's off! Anakin: No, it isn't. Obi Wan: Well, what's that then? Anakin: I've had worse. Obi Wan: You liar! Anakin: Come on you pansy!
Obi Wan cuts off Anakin's right arm.
Obi Wan: Victory is mine! We thank thee Force, that in thy mercy... Anakin: Come on then. Obi Wan: What? Anakin: Have at you! Obi Wan: You are indeed brave, Sir Knight, but the fight is mine. Anakin: Oh, had enough, eh? Obi Wan: Look, you stupid bastard, you've got no arms left. Anakin: Yes I have. Obi Wan: Look! Anakin: Just a flesh wound. Obi Wan: Look, stop that. Anakin: Chicken! Chicken! Obi Wan: Look, I'll have your leg. Right!
Obi Wan cuts off Anakin's leg.
Anakin: Right, I'll do you for that! Obi Wan: You'll what? Anakin: Come 'ere! Obi Wan: What are you going to do, bleed on me? Anakin: I'm invincible! Obi Wan: You're a loony. Anakin: The Dark Side always triumphs! Have at you! Come on then.
Obi Wan cuts off Anakin's other leg.
Anakin: All right; we'll call it a draw. Obi Wan: Come, Patsy. Anakin: Oh, oh, I see, running away then. You yellow bastard! Come back here and take what's coming to you. I'll bite your legs off!
What the heck are you talking about? I'm more than happy with the size of my house. And it's a good bet that anyone but maybe the richest 15% of the world would love to live in my house. I live on.25 acres. 2/3 of that is my house. There are 3 people living upstairs, 5 people downstairs and my uncle in the basement. I live in NYC (Staten Island) and I think with the 9 people, 81 acres would be overkill.
Half of us would never see the edge of the land (my grandmother being too old, my 2 cousins being to young, my sister being too lazy, my father not caring.) And there are rich people living in Manhatten with a large apartment in a large apartment building but they still don't have 9 acres. Maybe you live in the mid west where there is a lot of land with small houses, but I'd never want to live out there. I like being close to my neighbors, stores nearby, restaurants, and just about everything I could ever want.
That shouldn't of happened. Why would you ask the cashier to call the cops, the cops didn't issue the credit card and as far as the cashier was concerned you were breaking the law. A smarter idea would have been asking the cashier to call the credit card company, then the card company calls your mom, then your mom verifies that it's your car to use.
But then again, why was the card reported stolen when it wasn't?
I wouldn't say I'm an expert on the subject, but don't you just need to have the majority of shares to own a corporation? So wouldn't Sony have to have 51% of Immersion (or at least the highest percentage of ownership.) So wouldn't that be half of $136.39M? Which is cheaper than what they're being forced to pay.
Anyway, I'm probably wrong, and if I am please correct me, I never fully understood the whole stock market thing and buying out corporations and all that stuff.
Posting as AC to preserve my karma from the hordes of French pussies who'd rather mod me down than step up and fight...
So basically what you're saying is you're too much of a pussy to risk your karma because you're afraid someone might mod you down in disagreement?
"Run to Bill, he'll protect us!" Now there's an idea. Jeeze, France, explain to us how your country has actually been relevant for 30 years...
They're not running to Bill, when asked if they'd select Google's competitor, Microsoft, the president's advisor said "Why not?" Not "Yeah, we've already signed a contract", just "Why not?" if any other company was mentioned it would have had the same response.
Maybe it's true maybe it's not. In either case I suspect it's a little bit like NYC banning smoking in a city where walking down the street will get you a lungful of fried hydrocarbon rot bus diesel fumes
It's really funny too cause now not only will you get diesel fumes (not so much from busses anymore, mostly trucks) but you'll also get the smoke from 100 smokers now forced to smoke outside. So instead of having the smoke contained in a bar (or club or bowling alley or whatever), where you can just say "Hey let's not go to such and such bar/bowling alley/club I don't like all the smokers" you now have entire sidewalks that you can't walk down (in a city where you have to walk EVERYWHERE) because there are hundreds of smokers outside.
Microsoft hired him in '89 and he worked on Windows NT, I really doubt that Google is paying him more than Microsoft. I think he was just fed up with Microsoft.
Yes, except if you want to keep those clients, it helps a lot to meet their requests, no matter how crazy they may be. If for some reason 75% of your clients require you to wear a tu-tu, it's usually a good idea to do it. Unless you want to lose 75% of your clients.
An interesting experiment would be to see if the hamsters would change the music if they could hear it. Would they figure out that when they do a certain thing it makes a certain noise? And would they continue to do that certain thing because they like/dislike the noise? Or would it just stress them out?
More money for antismoking, better diet, better exercise, better public health, not this kind of nonsense
What exactly would we do with more money in these programs? We already have ad campaigns and school programs that deal with these issues, other than hiring personal trainers for everyone, what would the money be used for? You can't just throw money at problems and hope they disappear.
Actually, I have a Chieftec case with those proprietary rails that are held on with screws. It's one of the greatest things I've seen in a case, second to that hard drive tray (where you can put 3 hardrives in this tray that locks into the case and can be easily removed.) I've had to pull a CD drive out many many times to change jumper settings or test the drive or whatever, it makes my life so much easier, just unplug the drive and slide it out, when I'm done testing it, I can slide it back in. I never really swap the drive out permanently and if I do, I just unscrew the rails and keep them for another drive.
The screwdriver isn't hard to find. But what happens when you're working on the top floor of a house and the closest screw driver is in the garage? That's happened to me so many times and I never have to worry with my case. That's why I use thumbscrews for the side panel and the rails for my 5.25" drivs, I can just slide out drives whenever I need to. For the hard drives I just unlock the tray and take them out. When I need to take something out permanently I have to get the screw driver, but I usually don't do that.
Does this mean sneaky little proprietary rails that keep things in by friction, but can never be exchanged with another system.
So do you attach your rails with crazy glue? I don't understand, the rails you're talking about you can slide out the drive and they come right off. Then all you have to do is stick the drive in another computer, sure you don't have any screws for the drive now, but it's not like it's impossible to find 1 (or 2 if there's nothing for the drive to sit on) screws inside an open case. I don't see ANYTHING that's bad about these rails except when you lose them, but most of the time they're inside your case attached to a drive so they're very hard to lose. Plus you can always let the drive sit on the bottom and hope it doesn't slide around much.
So what happens when people figure out how to use the service without looking at the Ads? Do the sponsors stop paying? And isn't there already free internet access at some hotspots in parts of some cities? I can't see this company making that much money. And won't they need a broadband connection for every business that uses this service? Unless they have a very strong wireless connection, and I can't see the ad revenue being over $20/month per business (unless each business had thousands of customers a month viewing the ads.)
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I'm not one who enjoys a phone that just lets me call people (I have used and enjoy all the extra features my phone has) but I would think the people who just want a phone for calling still care about the look of the phone. Those are the two ugliest phones I've ever seen. Usually when something is that ugly it makes up for it with all the extra things it can do. I can't imagine these two phones selling well at all, and why can't there be a flip phone? It's nice having a large screen, but at least a flip phone can protect that screen from scratches/dust and whatever might be in your pocket when you stick the phone there.
I just got back from White Castle and decided to check slashdot while I'm eating. Thought it was pretty funny that this article was on top. The worst thing I manage to eat over a keyboard is anything with crumbs, they get all over your keyboard and inside it, and if it's greasy (like potatoe chips or white castle) it's even worse. I don't usually spill drinks on my keyboard and I don't think I've ever done that. Except I spilt some fruit punch on my friends keyboard once (on his laptop too.) He just took apart the thing and cleaned the keyboard, his keys are still a bit sticky and his laptop is a few years old.
I guess it kind of sucks that they're gonna get punished for this, but they deserve it. You can't legally break into someone's house just to show you can, they should have told the school (or some news stations) that they were planning to show how easy it would be to get into the system. Then under a controlled environment (with some type of supervisors there) they can show how easy it would be. That way everyone knows the attack is going on and the school knows what was done by the students rather than relying on their word.
I have a feeling it's not
Except he's talking about an airpot, instead of showing arrival times it might show a BSOD, or a network error dialog, or something like that. I've seen all of these things (and I don't even fly that much.) He's suggesting airports and high traffic areas (like maybe an ATM machine) should display nothing rather than a BSOD. When the admin wants to fix the issue they can see the error that was printed to a file or something and fix it.
Except it's illegal to steal bread. It's not illegal to video tape a TV show or record a song from a radio. It is also not illegal to give that recording to your friend. That is fair use.
Smooth or not smooth, that best mileage is in 5th gear not at idle.
Thank you for that stunning report captain obvious!
Let me tell you a little secret the EPA doesn't want you to know... at idle, you're NOT MOVING. When you're not moving, all the gas your burning is not taking you anywhere. So if you sit in your driveway with the car idling with a full tank of gas, and wait till you have enough gas to drive one mile, then you drive that mile and run out. Your car was just getting (assuming it's a 14 gallon tank) 14 gallons to the mile! When you're doing 80 on the highway, yes you're getting better mileage than if YOU WEREN'T MOVING. But if your in 5th gear and your RPMs are at 4,000, doing 55 would give you MUCH better gas mileage. You're using less gas to fight against wind resistance, plus your RPMs are going to be much lower so your car's not going to use as much gas (like if your idle was 4,000 RPMs, you'd waste a tank of gas a lot quicker than if it was 700 RPMs.)
I think at 80 my car gets around 22-24 MPG, at 55 it gets around 30-32 (2004 Nissan Sentra SE-R Spec V) and rolling down a very large hill on the way to NY from AZ I watch my MPG reach 100 (it wasn't very accurate for long but I just wanted to see the number reach 100.)
I see them every time I have to deal with a computer where the motherboard died. Stick in a new one, it gets a nice BSOD (INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE), the only way to fix it is to buy the exact same motherboard that was in before. Which is usually impossible since the motherboards are usually old. You'd think Microsoft would realize this is a huge issue, their solution, have the same exact hardware in your backup computers. Well that's a little hard for a home user. Even for a small business user.
This always leads to me having to re-install windows, make sure not to overwrite ANYTHING (especially when dealing with a small business' computer, since every file on the computer is usually very important), copy over the old documents and all that, re-install any software that needs to be re-installed (since it's no longer in the registry.) It takes a long time and I don't want to charge the person for 2 or 3 hours of work when swapping a motherboard just takes 15 minutes, just because Microsoft f-ed up and couldn't make it easier to load a driver for a new disk controller from outside of windows (like in the recovery console, which is mostly useless.)
And we can call it Spaceballs 2! Oh wait, someone's already working on that...
after cutting his legs and arm off, Ben leaves Skywalker burning alive on the shores of a lava river, with Anakin spitting venomous sentiments at his departing mentor
Anakin: None shall pass.
Obi Wan: What?
Anakin: None shall pass.
Obi Wan: I have no quarrel with you, young padiwan, but I must cross this bridge.
Anakin: Then you shall die.
Obi Wan: I command you as your teacher to stand aside!
Anakin: I move for no man.
Obi Wan: So be it!
Obi Wan cuts off Anakin's left arm.
Obi Wan: Now stand aside, worthy adversary.
Anakin: 'Tis but a scratch.
Obi Wan: A scratch? Your arm's off!
Anakin: No, it isn't.
Obi Wan: Well, what's that then?
Anakin: I've had worse.
Obi Wan: You liar!
Anakin: Come on you pansy!
Obi Wan cuts off Anakin's right arm.
Obi Wan: Victory is mine! We thank thee Force, that in thy mercy...
Anakin: Come on then.
Obi Wan: What?
Anakin: Have at you!
Obi Wan: You are indeed brave, Sir Knight, but the fight is mine.
Anakin: Oh, had enough, eh?
Obi Wan: Look, you stupid bastard, you've got no arms left.
Anakin: Yes I have.
Obi Wan: Look!
Anakin: Just a flesh wound.
Obi Wan: Look, stop that.
Anakin: Chicken! Chicken!
Obi Wan: Look, I'll have your leg. Right!
Obi Wan cuts off Anakin's leg.
Anakin: Right, I'll do you for that!
Obi Wan: You'll what?
Anakin: Come 'ere!
Obi Wan: What are you going to do, bleed on me?
Anakin: I'm invincible!
Obi Wan: You're a loony.
Anakin: The Dark Side always triumphs! Have at you! Come on then.
Obi Wan cuts off Anakin's other leg.
Anakin: All right; we'll call it a draw.
Obi Wan: Come, Patsy.
Anakin: Oh, oh, I see, running away then. You yellow bastard! Come back here and take what's coming to you. I'll bite your legs off!
What the heck are you talking about? I'm more than happy with the size of my house. And it's a good bet that anyone but maybe the richest 15% of the world would love to live in my house. I live on .25 acres. 2/3 of that is my house. There are 3 people living upstairs, 5 people downstairs and my uncle in the basement. I live in NYC (Staten Island) and I think with the 9 people, 81 acres would be overkill.
Half of us would never see the edge of the land (my grandmother being too old, my 2 cousins being to young, my sister being too lazy, my father not caring.) And there are rich people living in Manhatten with a large apartment in a large apartment building but they still don't have 9 acres. Maybe you live in the mid west where there is a lot of land with small houses, but I'd never want to live out there. I like being close to my neighbors, stores nearby, restaurants, and just about everything I could ever want.
That shouldn't of happened. Why would you ask the cashier to call the cops, the cops didn't issue the credit card and as far as the cashier was concerned you were breaking the law. A smarter idea would have been asking the cashier to call the credit card company, then the card company calls your mom, then your mom verifies that it's your car to use.
But then again, why was the card reported stolen when it wasn't?
from the burn-timothy dept.
That all depends on how many more Roland Piquepaille articles he posts.
Sure, they look good, but they feel hard as rocks!
Judging from all the spam I get on the subject, that's not necessarily a bad thing.
I wouldn't say I'm an expert on the subject, but don't you just need to have the majority of shares to own a corporation? So wouldn't Sony have to have 51% of Immersion (or at least the highest percentage of ownership.) So wouldn't that be half of $136.39M? Which is cheaper than what they're being forced to pay.
Anyway, I'm probably wrong, and if I am please correct me, I never fully understood the whole stock market thing and buying out corporations and all that stuff.
Posting as AC to preserve my karma from the hordes of French pussies who'd rather mod me down than step up and fight...
So basically what you're saying is you're too much of a pussy to risk your karma because you're afraid someone might mod you down in disagreement?
"Run to Bill, he'll protect us!" Now there's an idea. Jeeze, France, explain to us how your country has actually been relevant for 30 years...
They're not running to Bill, when asked if they'd select Google's competitor, Microsoft, the president's advisor said "Why not?" Not "Yeah, we've already signed a contract", just "Why not?" if any other company was mentioned it would have had the same response.
That's actually a good idea. Here are some things with updated names:
P2P, File sharing == Freedom sharing.
Wardriving, warflying, warjogging == Access Point Liberation.
Bluetooth Sniper Rifle == Terrorist Locator.
I think if we called the thing a Terrorist Locator they'd sell it at Walmart, and my grandmother would buy 9 of them.
Here's a link to the article without supporting the whore, errr Roland Piquepaille
Maybe it's true maybe it's not. In either case I suspect it's a little bit like NYC banning smoking in a city where walking down the street will get you a lungful of fried hydrocarbon rot bus diesel fumes
It's really funny too cause now not only will you get diesel fumes (not so much from busses anymore, mostly trucks) but you'll also get the smoke from 100 smokers now forced to smoke outside. So instead of having the smoke contained in a bar (or club or bowling alley or whatever), where you can just say "Hey let's not go to such and such bar/bowling alley/club I don't like all the smokers" you now have entire sidewalks that you can't walk down (in a city where you have to walk EVERYWHERE) because there are hundreds of smokers outside.
Microsoft hired him in '89 and he worked on Windows NT, I really doubt that Google is paying him more than Microsoft. I think he was just fed up with Microsoft.
Yes, except if you want to keep those clients, it helps a lot to meet their requests, no matter how crazy they may be. If for some reason 75% of your clients require you to wear a tu-tu, it's usually a good idea to do it. Unless you want to lose 75% of your clients.
An interesting experiment would be to see if the hamsters would change the music if they could hear it. Would they figure out that when they do a certain thing it makes a certain noise? And would they continue to do that certain thing because they like/dislike the noise? Or would it just stress them out?
More money for antismoking, better diet, better exercise, better public health, not this kind of nonsense
What exactly would we do with more money in these programs? We already have ad campaigns and school programs that deal with these issues, other than hiring personal trainers for everyone, what would the money be used for? You can't just throw money at problems and hope they disappear.
Actually, I have a Chieftec case with those proprietary rails that are held on with screws. It's one of the greatest things I've seen in a case, second to that hard drive tray (where you can put 3 hardrives in this tray that locks into the case and can be easily removed.) I've had to pull a CD drive out many many times to change jumper settings or test the drive or whatever, it makes my life so much easier, just unplug the drive and slide it out, when I'm done testing it, I can slide it back in. I never really swap the drive out permanently and if I do, I just unscrew the rails and keep them for another drive.
The screwdriver isn't hard to find. But what happens when you're working on the top floor of a house and the closest screw driver is in the garage? That's happened to me so many times and I never have to worry with my case. That's why I use thumbscrews for the side panel and the rails for my 5.25" drivs, I can just slide out drives whenever I need to. For the hard drives I just unlock the tray and take them out. When I need to take something out permanently I have to get the screw driver, but I usually don't do that.
Does this mean sneaky little proprietary rails that keep things in by friction, but can never be exchanged with another system.
So do you attach your rails with crazy glue? I don't understand, the rails you're talking about you can slide out the drive and they come right off. Then all you have to do is stick the drive in another computer, sure you don't have any screws for the drive now, but it's not like it's impossible to find 1 (or 2 if there's nothing for the drive to sit on) screws inside an open case. I don't see ANYTHING that's bad about these rails except when you lose them, but most of the time they're inside your case attached to a drive so they're very hard to lose. Plus you can always let the drive sit on the bottom and hope it doesn't slide around much.
So what happens when people figure out how to use the service without looking at the Ads? Do the sponsors stop paying? And isn't there already free internet access at some hotspots in parts of some cities? I can't see this company making that much money. And won't they need a broadband connection for every business that uses this service? Unless they have a very strong wireless connection, and I can't see the ad revenue being over $20/month per business (unless each business had thousands of customers a month viewing the ads.)