Oddly one of the biggest techo-social changes in the twelve short years between Terminator 2 (1991) and Terminator 3 (2003) allowed for them to change the concept of SkyNet from a mainframe/military solution to a computer virus that was able to spread across the world, and presumably use distributed computing to destroy the earth, even through a large scale nuclear exchange.
As far as science fiction writing goes, there have been few time periods where that level of consciousness of technology was raised to a mass-market pop-culture type of plot point. During the space race was the last time it seems there was such a jump in science fiction writing involving technology meant to be understood by even the less tech-savvy population.
I have to wonder in 40 more years how relevant DNS will be. I know that a lot of people type domain names into Google rather than just going to them directly, so maybe that's a trend for the future. Use a search engine, who cares what the domain name is?
I'd love to know what percentage of people use them that way. Most people I know either don't have a DVR, or use it only for pause/rewinding purposes. Slashdot isn't the best way to gauge national demographics on this sort of thing; many of the DVR owners I know only use it so they don't miss any of a football game, or so they can rewind great plays. Think there's that many football-watching/. users?
Even with a DVR I usually let the ads play while I use the bathroom or run to the kitchen for a beer. The advantage is that if I miss a few minutes from getting distracted, I can rewind back to the end of the ads. It's not worth the hassle of skipping them just to pause the show later.
You may want to talk to my parents, who don't have a DVR, but still use their VCR to catch shows they miss. They also don't sit in the room and watch ads typically, but rather run to the kitchen to grab another cup of coffee or something similar. Assuming every viewer sits and watches every ad has never been part of the equation, you just increase odds of someone seeing/hearing the ad with more viewers.
Maybe I'm a rarity, but I usually don't bother fast forwarding ads unless I'm in a hurry or watching something live and had to pause it. Otherwise I just let it run, since I'm typically doing other things (like reading/. or other sites) while watching TV. It may not be what advertisers intend, but it's the same idea as my parents who without a DVR wander off from the TV during ads as well.
The nice bonus of these things, at least in Portland, is you're allowed to pay once and use the same sticker for multiple stops. If you have to stop 3 or 4 different places downtown it's convenient to only have to pay once for as long as you'll need to achieve all three tasks, and not need to dig up change for each stop or throw away unused time at each meter.
When they don't work, it's a pain, but the old style meters I had to deal with in San Diego didn't work frequently, and I had to get back in my car and move it to avoid a ticket. (Yes, I know they're not supposed to, but how am I supposed to prove the meter was broken?)
Lawyer : "Are you suggesting that any one member of the jury could have done this easily?"
Me: "Probably not, but" >> "Thank you, no further questions."
When the expert witnesses get cut off in the middle of their explanations, how in the hell are we supposed to educate anyone?
Unfortunately a better answer with the method the courts use would be "I can't speculate as to their knowledge of computer systems." You have to give a non-answer to a question you can't possibly know the answer to, so the lawyer has to re-phrase the question so it's not so loaded.
I'm not going to dig up the exact articles, but Mexican drug cartels have been busted running grow houses in the San Diego area before. Indoor, high quality, hydroponic setups. They rent a house for the sole purpose of growing as much pot as possible, and the housing meltdown has made it even more profitable to do so. One of the local papers (either the Union-Tribune or the North County Times) has run a few articles about houses like this being busted, or burning down as a result of the crappy electrical systems used.
So if I want to take a picture of something outdoors and post it online, you want me to ask every person who may be in the picture in advance of doing so? Or does it just bother you because Google's doing it?
the same way you know (if you're a native English speaker) that "the big red ball" is correct and "the red big ball" is incorrect. Nobody taught you that.
Me and my friends can disagree that language is best recieved by example instead of from the the educations.
If Google designs the OS right, my guess is that there will be offline modes of everything, and it will sync with the online versions when you get a connection back. They're not talking about making a system with no hard drive for it, as far as I'm aware.
If they do this right, they'll also be able to allow Wine to work, which opens it up to still running Windows applications, as well as Linux apps.
I doubt they're going into this without a good vision for making it a real competitor.
That definitely makes sense. I had an Australian Shepherd (via a roommate) that did dumb things all the time, but had great problem solving skills. Opening doors and windows, knocking over beer cans (never glass bottles) onto the ground (but not carpet that would soak it up), running away and coming home a few days later. She knew a lot of commands too, but I'll never call her smart. She just was a loyal problem solver. And she enjoyed beer.
I presume that all politics are based on a circular system, where you have left and right on each side, moderates in between on one "side" of the center, and the crazy at the other side. If you go too far left or right away from moderate, you've entered the crazy zone.
I made a graphic to help those who don't understand:
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3426/3771404858_8a85ffcdb7_o.jpg
A blanket ban on all P2P programs is still overkill, and not at all necessary. Bittorrent programs are P2P by definition, but you're not going to accidentally share a file with them any more than you're going to accidentally install Linux because of them.
He'd never get the funding needed to pull it off. I'd imagine the studio told him they'd help him fund it only if he made it an action movie also. It'll draw in more people that way.
Only the higher-ups in government from what I understand, but there's also a large population of North Koreans living in Japan as well. See also Chongryon.
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Oddly one of the biggest techo-social changes in the twelve short years between Terminator 2 (1991) and Terminator 3 (2003) allowed for them to change the concept of SkyNet from a mainframe/military solution to a computer virus that was able to spread across the world, and presumably use distributed computing to destroy the earth, even through a large scale nuclear exchange.
As far as science fiction writing goes, there have been few time periods where that level of consciousness of technology was raised to a mass-market pop-culture type of plot point. During the space race was the last time it seems there was such a jump in science fiction writing involving technology meant to be understood by even the less tech-savvy population.
I have to wonder in 40 more years how relevant DNS will be. I know that a lot of people type domain names into Google rather than just going to them directly, so maybe that's a trend for the future. Use a search engine, who cares what the domain name is?
How about that Anonymous Coward guy who posts on here all the time? Somehow he doesn't even have a UID!
Then why did they keep the Asian guy, and the black hands?
Only took them about 8-10 hours after it was caught and posted on Fark and /b/. I guess that's not bad.
It happens to everything from hotels to restaurants to ISP's. Why not for the App Store?
I'd love to know what percentage of people use them that way. Most people I know either don't have a DVR, or use it only for pause/rewinding purposes. Slashdot isn't the best way to gauge national demographics on this sort of thing; many of the DVR owners I know only use it so they don't miss any of a football game, or so they can rewind great plays. Think there's that many football-watching /. users?
Even with a DVR I usually let the ads play while I use the bathroom or run to the kitchen for a beer. The advantage is that if I miss a few minutes from getting distracted, I can rewind back to the end of the ads. It's not worth the hassle of skipping them just to pause the show later.
You may want to talk to my parents, who don't have a DVR, but still use their VCR to catch shows they miss. They also don't sit in the room and watch ads typically, but rather run to the kitchen to grab another cup of coffee or something similar. Assuming every viewer sits and watches every ad has never been part of the equation, you just increase odds of someone seeing/hearing the ad with more viewers.
Maybe I'm a rarity, but I usually don't bother fast forwarding ads unless I'm in a hurry or watching something live and had to pause it. Otherwise I just let it run, since I'm typically doing other things (like reading /. or other sites) while watching TV. It may not be what advertisers intend, but it's the same idea as my parents who without a DVR wander off from the TV during ads as well.
The nice bonus of these things, at least in Portland, is you're allowed to pay once and use the same sticker for multiple stops. If you have to stop 3 or 4 different places downtown it's convenient to only have to pay once for as long as you'll need to achieve all three tasks, and not need to dig up change for each stop or throw away unused time at each meter.
When they don't work, it's a pain, but the old style meters I had to deal with in San Diego didn't work frequently, and I had to get back in my car and move it to avoid a ticket. (Yes, I know they're not supposed to, but how am I supposed to prove the meter was broken?)
You can already get a case cover in pink.
Lawyer : "Are you suggesting that any one member of the jury could have done this easily?" Me: "Probably not, but" >> "Thank you, no further questions."
When the expert witnesses get cut off in the middle of their explanations, how in the hell are we supposed to educate anyone?
Unfortunately a better answer with the method the courts use would be "I can't speculate as to their knowledge of computer systems." You have to give a non-answer to a question you can't possibly know the answer to, so the lawyer has to re-phrase the question so it's not so loaded.
I'm not going to dig up the exact articles, but Mexican drug cartels have been busted running grow houses in the San Diego area before. Indoor, high quality, hydroponic setups. They rent a house for the sole purpose of growing as much pot as possible, and the housing meltdown has made it even more profitable to do so. One of the local papers (either the Union-Tribune or the North County Times) has run a few articles about houses like this being busted, or burning down as a result of the crappy electrical systems used.
So if I want to take a picture of something outdoors and post it online, you want me to ask every person who may be in the picture in advance of doing so? Or does it just bother you because Google's doing it?
the same way you know (if you're a native English speaker) that "the big red ball" is correct and "the red big ball" is incorrect. Nobody taught you that.
Me and my friends can disagree that language is best recieved by example instead of from the the educations.
They are selling the kit, which sounds like it also includes software, so there could still be licenses involved.
If Google designs the OS right, my guess is that there will be offline modes of everything, and it will sync with the online versions when you get a connection back. They're not talking about making a system with no hard drive for it, as far as I'm aware.
If they do this right, they'll also be able to allow Wine to work, which opens it up to still running Windows applications, as well as Linux apps.
I doubt they're going into this without a good vision for making it a real competitor.
That definitely makes sense. I had an Australian Shepherd (via a roommate) that did dumb things all the time, but had great problem solving skills. Opening doors and windows, knocking over beer cans (never glass bottles) onto the ground (but not carpet that would soak it up), running away and coming home a few days later. She knew a lot of commands too, but I'll never call her smart. She just was a loyal problem solver. And she enjoyed beer.
I presume that all politics are based on a circular system, where you have left and right on each side, moderates in between on one "side" of the center, and the crazy at the other side. If you go too far left or right away from moderate, you've entered the crazy zone. I made a graphic to help those who don't understand: http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3426/3771404858_8a85ffcdb7_o.jpg
It was a Futurama reference, you insensitive clod.
Pearl Jam dropped their label, and now will exclusively be in Target (as far as national brands go). Do you feel better now?
A blanket ban on all P2P programs is still overkill, and not at all necessary. Bittorrent programs are P2P by definition, but you're not going to accidentally share a file with them any more than you're going to accidentally install Linux because of them.
He'd never get the funding needed to pull it off. I'd imagine the studio told him they'd help him fund it only if he made it an action movie also. It'll draw in more people that way.
Only the higher-ups in government from what I understand, but there's also a large population of North Koreans living in Japan as well. See also Chongryon.