Granted, I'm from canada, but work as an undergraduate student on a civil engineering project, with the brains being an Iranian post-doctorate student. The foreign students always seem to be the hardest workers around the University, it's incredible. Even if I consider myself generous of my time, most of these people never look at the time, and pull incredible shifts, coming in during the weekends and staying late to finish off presentations for next week. I cannot imagine this being any different in the USA. I'm not sure governement workers will pull long hours to grant those permits.
Modern day research cannot allow itself such a blatent chokepoint.
And my classmates were wondering why I went to class with my trusty tin foil & duct tape hat. Now they know. Now they all know. Now they will all wear one. Now they will all reflect the deadly radiations coming from above. Now I need a full-body suit. Dangsarnit! Dangsarn slashdot!
- Look sir, the amount of traffic that our e-mail ad campaign from that guy Henry McSpammy is generating!
- We'll, that's good, I guess we'd better give him the new hardware and T3 connection he wanted then, we may have even more traffic. Keep up the good monitoring work!
Ok, I admit it, I really thought of fingerprints when I say touchscreen voting. Would anyone care to tell me what kind of screens are used for these touchscreens ? Would anyone with a little will be able to capture your fingerprint on the screen ? I mean, someone comes in, votes, wipes the screen real clean, you come in and vote, next guy comes in and uses that powder the police uses on the screen ? I see no real use for this informations, but still, privacy is privacy...
Yeah, The mp3's are great and all, so is the gps, but as the parent poster mentioned, this is dangerous for small vehicles. I can already see the car passing me then sharply turning right when the in-dash gps told him to, and just cutting my life short. I have already had a close call with a lady, driving a Lexus who just watched the icons on her gps, thinking it was a radar and it would tell her where the cars around here were. Now a gps that is user controled is even worse for me. No way I can abide that, even though I am a geek that likes computers everywhere. Everywhere, that is, that they can be used without being a danger to others.
you are allowed fair use of copyrights... that you do not own... so that can't be theft, right?
The only thing you are allowed to freely use if your wallet;-)
I hear you, I was playing on an Apple LCII before I started riding on a bike, and now I am also top of most of my sciences and logic-driven classes.
My parents used to havce this little book called "everything is done before 6 years old" or something like that". When I was 7 I read it and realized why my parents gave me so much stimulation early on. Mind you my father is an engeineer and my mother a science teacher, so that may have healped too
I think you have the gist of it there. I don't really believe that Duke's look for the correct-colored keycard help me a lot early on but Myst did a lot for the think-out-of-the-box in my head.
Yet I will never travel by putting my hand inside a book, will I?
The thing is, it's the whole logic requiered to solve those puzzles that trigger some acual good thinking... I think
Then there is the fact that I work at a LAN gaming center, so I see pretty much every kind of gamer go trough the place, from the geek-smart-pocket-protector 22 year old to the |337 14-year old. I have to admit that mostly all of our regualrs could think themselves out of a tight spot.
I know it is late but, to clear things up, we "have to have" (read : boss' decision) windows xp pro, so no restridted user, only limited users which still can install crap...:-(
They used to have deepfreeze but it was deactivated (They, because I didn't work there while it happened, it was their last technician who screwed up the place, but that's another bedtime story). Thing is, we have some games that people come back to play often (like age of mythology, the sims et al., and while some of them have easy saved games backup (age of mythos) - I run the saved game backup cpu in red hat 8.0 using samba, works like a charm - , others you just can't (the sims) without backing up the whole directory, so while we would have no GAIN, we would have no saved games too, which is bad.
I work at a LAN gaming center in Quebec, Canada, and you wouldn't believe the number of people that install wether checkers, time precision and other assorted crap on our computers. I have to run Lavasoft's ad-aware every night to keep things semi-clean. The thing is, when the pop-up installer apperars, they see "you time/date/sex dosen't appear to be exact, press yes to install our software that keeps it exact for you, sponsored by GAIN". They don't know what GAIN is, and when confronted with our "no installing software" policy, they plead that they only wanted to help us out in keeping our stuff right.
right
They need to put all the info out BEFORE they install the goddamn program. That and I need to install Mozilla everywhere...
Not to mention their reviews of games, where everything is "oh look, pretty color and pretty things - hear money being transfered to tom's pockets - and we so conclude that these now games by microsoft kicks ass"
That's when the eHome division, which Poole helped start, teamed up with Hewlett-Packard and Samsung to unveil the Media Center Edition PC. With a 2.4-GHz processor, a TV tuner, a personal video recorder, a DVD burner, an outsize 120-Gbyte drive, and a specialized version of Windows XP, it's meant to be a media command center. The new OS allows a consumer to use a remote control to manage digital media files of all sorts and perform time-shift recording with TV shows (Ã la TiVo). The whole thing retails for $1,300 to $2,000, without a monitor. "We wanted something that would handle digital photos, play back selections from video and music libraries, and give you all the capabilities of the PC as well," says Poole, an almost cherubic character with bushy eyebrows beneath a dark shock of hair.
not to nitpick, but the Xbox is now 199$, they could have paid a nerd a pizza and ran the thing on linux and freevo and have it cost less, isn't it what Microsoft is all ab.... heum.... nevermind
What do you mean extra mouses? I may just go see the page and.... oops, there goes my mouse, trowing itself against the wall. And I though quake 3 arena was bad for it....
I don't know, when I saw this I immediately thought portable mp3 player, and one of the reasons I want to get an mp3 player is to now listen to the radio...
Which is why we need to do design something that lets you think/move/talk/see as if you were not inputing anything, but while "reading your thoughts" as to what you want to happen on any wearable screen you can think of.
Then again I doubt I would like my boss to recieve an e-mail going something like "... and I expect our revenues to be OH **** THAT **** SUBERBAN JUST ALMOST *** ME UP. I HATE THOSE... up for the quarter... "
Is it true philanthropy or just another tactic to assimilate everyone into the MS collective?
We do not really need sarcasm in this debate. We all know that microsoft is there to make some $, like everyone out there with a job. Hell, we are technos arn't we? This, however, is simmilar to the project that apple spearheaded in maine, where every schoolkid has an iBook, isn't it? While they weren't free, they were cheap, but they had a Mac OS, just the same as they will have a Windows. Remember that having Windows does not force someone to buy microsoft, isn't it?
... supplying a nice DP athlon machine to use as a quake3/ut2003/bf1942 server, but only during breaks/lunchtime, so that in between you are productive but gaming is intense gaming? 30 mins of quake is surely more interesting then 3 hours of minesweeper, and the productive time lost is none if the intense gaming is during normal breaktimes? Then again controling what happens on the server out of it's gaming periods would be hard, wouldn't it?
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Granted, I'm from canada, but work as an undergraduate student on a civil engineering project, with the brains being an Iranian post-doctorate student. The foreign students always seem to be the hardest workers around the University, it's incredible. Even if I consider myself generous of my time, most of these people never look at the time, and pull incredible shifts, coming in during the weekends and staying late to finish off presentations for next week. I cannot imagine this being any different in the USA. I'm not sure governement workers will pull long hours to grant those permits. Modern day research cannot allow itself such a blatent chokepoint.
The article is taken from an australian site, the adress could have lead you to an easy answer (http://www.smh.com.au)
And my classmates were wondering why I went to class with my trusty tin foil & duct tape hat. Now they know. Now they all know. Now they will all wear one. Now they will all reflect the deadly radiations coming from above. Now I need a full-body suit. Dangsarnit! Dangsarn slashdot!
- We'll, that's good, I guess we'd better give him the new hardware and T3 connection he wanted then, we may have even more traffic. Keep up the good monitoring work!
Ok, I admit it, I really thought of fingerprints when I say touchscreen voting. Would anyone care to tell me what kind of screens are used for these touchscreens ? Would anyone with a little will be able to capture your fingerprint on the screen ? I mean, someone comes in, votes, wipes the screen real clean, you come in and vote, next guy comes in and uses that powder the police uses on the screen ? I see no real use for this informations, but still, privacy is privacy ...
"- Sir, you are aware that you have a huge TV antenna duct-taped to the roof of your mini-van?
- Hun, yeah, I do
- And that there seems to be 2 sets of eyes in the back of the mini-van that look like they belong on ghouls
- I think you mean geek sir. And don't mind the flashing leds too, we are having a lan party.
- In a mini-van ?
- Mmh, yeah.
- Ok, drive safe"
*rolls up window and keeps on following the signal*
you are allowed fair use of copyrights ... that you do not own ... so that can't be theft, right? ;-)
The only thing you are allowed to freely use if your wallet
My parents used to havce this little book called "everything is done before 6 years old" or something like that". When I was 7 I read it and realized why my parents gave me so much stimulation early on. Mind you my father is an engeineer and my mother a science teacher, so that may have healped too
Oh you mean like in Unreal, where you have to blow them apart for them to be your friends?
Yet I will never travel by putting my hand inside a book, will I?
The thing is, it's the whole logic requiered to solve those puzzles that trigger some acual good thinking ... I think
Then there is the fact that I work at a LAN gaming center, so I see pretty much every kind of gamer go trough the place, from the geek-smart-pocket-protector 22 year old to the |337 14-year old. I have to admit that mostly all of our regualrs could think themselves out of a tight spot.
I know it is late but, to clear things up, we "have to have" (read : boss' decision) windows xp pro, so no restridted user, only limited users which still can install crap ... :-(
They used to have deepfreeze but it was deactivated (They, because I didn't work there while it happened, it was their last technician who screwed up the place, but that's another bedtime story). Thing is, we have some games that people come back to play often (like age of mythology, the sims et al., and while some of them have easy saved games backup (age of mythos) - I run the saved game backup cpu in red hat 8.0 using samba, works like a charm - , others you just can't (the sims) without backing up the whole directory, so while we would have no GAIN, we would have no saved games too, which is bad.
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I work at a LAN gaming center in Quebec, Canada, and you wouldn't believe the number of people that install wether checkers, time precision and other assorted crap on our computers. I have to run Lavasoft's ad-aware every night to keep things semi-clean. The thing is, when the pop-up installer apperars, they see "you time/date/sex dosen't appear to be exact, press yes to install our software that keeps it exact for you, sponsored by GAIN". They don't know what GAIN is, and when confronted with our "no installing software" policy, they plead that they only wanted to help us out in keeping our stuff right.
right
They need to put all the info out BEFORE they install the goddamn program. That and I need to install Mozilla everywhere...
Yeah, but the thing is, I kept expecting to hear "Coming up on TLC, how to expand your gigabit switch capabilities so that is can work at MML2"
Not to mention their reviews of games, where everything is "oh look, pretty color and pretty things - hear money being transfered to tom's pockets - and we so conclude that these now games by microsoft kicks ass"
not to nitpick, but the Xbox is now 199$, they could have paid a nerd a pizza and ran the thing on linux and freevo and have it cost less, isn't it what Microsoft is all ab.... heum.... nevermind
I don't know, when I saw this I immediately thought portable mp3 player, and one of the reasons I want to get an mp3 player is to now listen to the radio...
Then again I doubt I would like my boss to recieve an e-mail going something like " ... and I expect our revenues to be OH **** THAT **** SUBERBAN JUST ALMOST *** ME UP. I HATE THOSE ... up for the quarter ... "
My backup mail server runs FreeBSD, what about that?
Oh, txs, didn't catch that. However, that is a nice point ;-)
Is it true philanthropy or just another tactic to assimilate everyone into the MS collective?
We do not really need sarcasm in this debate. We all know that microsoft is there to make some $, like everyone out there with a job. Hell, we are technos arn't we? This, however, is simmilar to the project that apple spearheaded in maine, where every schoolkid has an iBook, isn't it? While they weren't free, they were cheap, but they had a Mac OS, just the same as they will have a Windows. Remember that having Windows does not force someone to buy microsoft, isn't it?