I concurr that this is bullshit. You have to make sure your sidewalk outside your house is safe from ice, etc for people to walk on, and if you don't and someone injures themself, you could be sued, but I have no legal responsibility to make sure the inside of my house is safe for uninvited public pasage.If someone finds real legal precedent stating otherwise, I'll eat my hat.
I heard from a cnet article that SP2 is going to give IE pop-up blocking.
I do think you're being unfair to Microsoft though. And by the way, spyware doesn't install itself you know. Either it comes bundled with something stupid you installed without researching or you clicked the "yes i'd like this website to install some software" button when it asked.
The official AIM now has these java ads that play on their own and have sound. It sucks balls. GAIM doesn't have all the functionality of the official client but at least it doesn't have THAT.
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Actually, 7 or 8 years ago when I was in middle school, there was this year that yo-yo's were extremely cool. All of the cool kids had them. If an "uncool" kid started yo-yoing, he'd probably get bullied and called a copycat poser. It was pretty recockulous.
I stopped watching television entirely from November 2001 until September 2003. I still watch very little, but I'm at college now and have a roommate, and sometimes it's fun to watch it with him.
I guess I would say that by the time I had quit watching tv, I had probably settled into what would have been my "adult" pattern of watching television.
It was especially difficult to give it up for me because I was very badly addicted. I watched tv from when I got home from school until around midnight. I did homework and ate while I sat in front of the tube. I realized this was terrible so I gave it up cold turkey. No exceptions for Simpsons or any other favorite shows.
The act of sitting in front of a tv and grabbing the remote was an automatic motion and it was very strange to keep doing that and then remembering that I don't even watch tv anymore. You're right indeed that it felt very strange for a while. It did feel like that's what I was "supposed to do." Eerie.
Giving it up for a time though very very definately has permanently changed the way I watch TV. I can't watch TV by myself without feeling pathetic(rightfully). The amount of time I spend watching it has been greatly reduced and how engrossed I get in it has changed dramatically. It's so creepy the way that some people can't have any distractions when they watch tv. If I'm watching with my sister and try to make some comment about the show, she'll shush me for distracting her.
The strangest thing is how it was actually difficult to START watching tv. TV is ACTUALLY EXTREMELY STRANGE. This is obvious of course, but why doesn't that bother you? It's disorienting, fragmented, most shows change camera perspectives every few seconds. Commercials are even worse. Everything looks fake, you notice people's makeup, you notice the strange way studio lighting falls on a set, not like a real house or apartment, there are only a few voiceover people that do a lot of commercials, etc etc.
These things I noticed not by watching a lot of tv, but by viewing it with fresh eyes. TV was actually quite creepy when I came back to it. Even creepier is how quickly I'm getting used to it again.
My ZE4420 has 11. Power button, power indicator, caps, num, scroll, 5 on those silly internet keys i've never pressed, a green one to indicate it's on external power, and another blue one on the touchpad. I think hd activity is orange. They really not very bright though. Everything is behind some clear plastic that diffuses the blue quite a bit.
This one almost runs linux flawlessly. The pcmcia doesn't work right in slackware, but besides that yeah.
I agree. He's just a whiner. If it bothers him that much he could fix it with electrical tape. It's not the manufacturers' problem for making so many blue devices, its his for buying them and not liking them. In effect he's complaining about how much cool stuff he has. Most normal people like blue LED's and would gladly take all that hardware no matter the color.
He's right that they're crazy cheap now though. I just agreed to outfit my friend's paintball gun with a couple. Bought them from cytechmods.com because oddly enough they were the cheapest supplier i found through froogle..20 cents per LED. Pretty nice.
The robot in the article doesn't seem to actually do much though besides offer helpful suggestions and move around. It's like clippy incarnate. If you want decent care, I think hiring a human is the only option.
I said, "Logically, using a cellphone and driving isn't any more distracting than using one one hand to steer and talking to passengers."
You said that "demonstrably, it is more distracting," but the test you proposed only tests your phone-talking score vs your full-concentration score.
Your test doesnt test my statement, which is that, logically, talking on the phone shouldn't be more distracting than talking to passengers. A better designed test actually relevant to the hypothesis would be to compare the score of a player talking on a phone, and a player talking to someone physically sitting next to them.
If you reread my post however, you'll notice that this was me just stating what I thought was intuitive and went on to explain why I thought that talking on the phone WAS more dangerous than talking to passengers.
I never advocated talking on the phone while driving, or any other unsafe action, so I hope your final comment about the reset button wasn't some kind of preachy attempt to enlighten me about the seriousness of driving safely. I already understand it.
Many many email viruses today exploit no security hole other than the user. They just rely on a user double-clicking on an attachment to an email that seems to be from somebody they know. Maybe the current linux community is too savy for this and maybe serious damage would be limited by *nix permissions, but if linux were as popular as windows, I think it's safe to say that these kind of email viruses would be just as prolific.
That may have been implicit in the question, but it wasn't my question. I just made a responded to a post to point out that he had completely avoided the question.
I see your point about cell-phone driving. I hadn't thought of it that way actually.
Logically, using a cellphone and driving isn't any more distracting than using one one hand to steer and talking to passengers.
I suppose the only difference is that if you're holding something, it's slightly harder to go to two hands. I could easily see that someone in the half second before a crash would have a harder time of dropping the phone and then grabbing the wheel than a person who is only using one hand, but the other hand is not holding something.
I think the reason why the laws have been enacted though, is that it's visible to other drivers. If a driver is distracted and cuts you off because of the radio or their passengers, you might not be able to tell that because it's not obvious and you'll just chalk it up to their being a jerk or a woman driver(just kidding folks). But if they have a phone in their hand, you say AH-HAH! Cellphones! Somebody should make a law! etc...
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Are you sure you weren't thinking of a shell "script"? I have never heard of "shell code" used besides the one way.
I concurr that this is bullshit. You have to make sure your sidewalk outside your house is safe from ice, etc for people to walk on, and if you don't and someone injures themself, you could be sued, but I have no legal responsibility to make sure the inside of my house is safe for uninvited public pasage.If someone finds real legal precedent stating otherwise, I'll eat my hat.
I heard from a cnet article that SP2 is going to give IE pop-up blocking.
I do think you're being unfair to Microsoft though. And by the way, spyware doesn't install itself you know. Either it comes bundled with something stupid you installed without researching or you clicked the "yes i'd like this website to install some software" button when it asked.
What channel is that?
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take out the spaces slashdot puts in
Then why is the scientific measurement abbreviated with that letter pronounced "Angstrom" like the A in "hang?"
I don't think that's how pianos work.
What are you getting at?
The official AIM now has these java ads that play on their own and have sound. It sucks balls. GAIM doesn't have all the functionality of the official client but at least it doesn't have THAT.
Yeah but I can customize my own filters in my mail client, so it's toast as soon as I "recieve" it, "biatch."
I think you made a typo...
Actually, 7 or 8 years ago when I was in middle school, there was this year that yo-yo's were extremely cool. All of the cool kids had them. If an "uncool" kid started yo-yoing, he'd probably get bullied and called a copycat poser. It was pretty recockulous.
I stopped watching television entirely from November 2001 until September 2003. I still watch very little, but I'm at college now and have a roommate, and sometimes it's fun to watch it with him.
I guess I would say that by the time I had quit watching tv, I had probably settled into what would have been my "adult" pattern of watching television.
It was especially difficult to give it up for me because I was very badly addicted. I watched tv from when I got home from school until around midnight. I did homework and ate while I sat in front of the tube. I realized this was terrible so I gave it up cold turkey. No exceptions for Simpsons or any other favorite shows.
The act of sitting in front of a tv and grabbing the remote was an automatic motion and it was very strange to keep doing that and then remembering that I don't even watch tv anymore. You're right indeed that it felt very strange for a while. It did feel like that's what I was "supposed to do." Eerie.
Giving it up for a time though very very definately has permanently changed the way I watch TV. I can't watch TV by myself without feeling pathetic(rightfully). The amount of time I spend watching it has been greatly reduced and how engrossed I get in it has changed dramatically. It's so creepy the way that some people can't have any distractions when they watch tv. If I'm watching with my sister and try to make some comment about the show, she'll shush me for distracting her.
The strangest thing is how it was actually difficult to START watching tv. TV is ACTUALLY EXTREMELY STRANGE. This is obvious of course, but why doesn't that bother you? It's disorienting, fragmented, most shows change camera perspectives every few seconds. Commercials are even worse. Everything looks fake, you notice people's makeup, you notice the strange way studio lighting falls on a set, not like a real house or apartment, there are only a few voiceover people that do a lot of commercials, etc etc.
These things I noticed not by watching a lot of tv, but by viewing it with fresh eyes. TV was actually quite creepy when I came back to it. Even creepier is how quickly I'm getting used to it again.
My ZE4420 has 11. Power button, power indicator, caps, num, scroll, 5 on those silly internet keys i've never pressed, a green one to indicate it's on external power, and another blue one on the touchpad. I think hd activity is orange. They really not very bright though. Everything is behind some clear plastic that diffuses the blue quite a bit.
This one almost runs linux flawlessly. The pcmcia doesn't work right in slackware, but besides that yeah.
I think the grandparent is also an asshat. I believe the mods should mark this as redundantly redundant.
I agree. He's just a whiner. If it bothers him that much he could fix it with electrical tape. It's not the manufacturers' problem for making so many blue devices, its his for buying them and not liking them. In effect he's complaining about how much cool stuff he has. Most normal people like blue LED's and would gladly take all that hardware no matter the color.
.20 cents per LED. Pretty nice.
He's right that they're crazy cheap now though. I just agreed to outfit my friend's paintball gun with a couple. Bought them from cytechmods.com because oddly enough they were the cheapest supplier i found through froogle.
The robot in the article doesn't seem to actually do much though besides offer helpful suggestions and move around. It's like clippy incarnate. If you want decent care, I think hiring a human is the only option.
Tom, you're sick.
I said, "Logically, using a cellphone and driving isn't any more distracting than using one one hand to steer and talking to passengers."
You said that "demonstrably, it is more distracting," but the test you proposed only tests your phone-talking score vs your full-concentration score.
Your test doesnt test my statement, which is that, logically, talking on the phone shouldn't be more distracting than talking to passengers. A better designed test actually relevant to the hypothesis would be to compare the score of a player talking on a phone, and a player talking to someone physically sitting next to them.
If you reread my post however, you'll notice that this was me just stating what I thought was intuitive and went on to explain why I thought that talking on the phone WAS more dangerous than talking to passengers.
I never advocated talking on the phone while driving, or any other unsafe action, so I hope your final comment about the reset button wasn't some kind of preachy attempt to enlighten me about the seriousness of driving safely. I already understand it.
I don't think the phrase "statistical reasons" necessarily refers to how many viruses there have been for mac in the past.
Are you sure you understand both connotations of the word "logistics?"
Many many email viruses today exploit no security hole other than the user. They just rely on a user double-clicking on an attachment to an email that seems to be from somebody they know. Maybe the current linux community is too savy for this and maybe serious damage would be limited by *nix permissions, but if linux were as popular as windows, I think it's safe to say that these kind of email viruses would be just as prolific.
That may have been implicit in the question, but it wasn't my question. I just made a responded to a post to point out that he had completely avoided the question.
I see your point about cell-phone driving. I hadn't thought of it that way actually.
Logically, using a cellphone and driving isn't any more distracting than using one one hand to steer and talking to passengers.
I suppose the only difference is that if you're holding something, it's slightly harder to go to two hands. I could easily see that someone in the half second before a crash would have a harder time of dropping the phone and then grabbing the wheel than a person who is only using one hand, but the other hand is not holding something.
I think the reason why the laws have been enacted though, is that it's visible to other drivers. If a driver is distracted and cuts you off because of the radio or their passengers, you might not be able to tell that because it's not obvious and you'll just chalk it up to their being a jerk or a woman driver(just kidding folks). But if they have a phone in their hand, you say AH-HAH! Cellphones! Somebody should make a law! etc...