I'm pretty sure the 'representative sample' was taken in the US.
I also see old people here not really using the features of their phones, but the youth - music playing from the phone aloud on a bus is the new annoyance. They don't use the cameras often, but if they see something worthy of a photo, they don't hesitate. They use the radio, the mp3, they kill time playing java games or watching mp4 movies. You pass by a guy seemingly talking to empty air, and you spot the headset. A friend takes you by a car and the first thing he does after getting in, is setting up the GPS.
GNU is a brand of "no strings attached". Currently an app may be "free" but it will still have a million ways of sucking money off you, ranging from being a crippled version of a pay-for app, through displaying ads, suggesting pay-for extensions, gathering your personal info, to installing malware. If I see "Freeware", I'm extremely distrustful. OTOH, when I see GNU, I know I'm getting what I'm looking for, not spam.
Best knock the monitor on the side pretty hard. The impact should shake the desk enough to get the mouse moving and the blanker turning off. That would be an interesting one.
The problem with using Tor with connection with/b/ has a problem: most Tor exit nodes are already banned on 4chan, finding one that works is a miracle (but it's still worth viditing just to see some of the ban reasons)
The subject -is- interesting. Say, someone publishes a top-secret information on how to produce deadly biological weapons. Or simply someone publishes a full copyrighted text.
No site, be that Wikipedia, Deletionpedia or whatever should host it.
Nope. ALL American companies get these patents, freely. None can use them to monopolize a sector of the market and gain unhealthy advantage - they all compete and they all produce better, smarter equipment while competition keeps the prices down.
Imagine Velcro still being in hands of one manufacturer selling it for $50/inch^2.
...and have a working power supply and battery that lasts longer than 10 minutes.
The market for old laptops is saturated. The bottleneck are power supplies (I wonder why...) and batteries (long dead). I could get a decent 800MHZ 1024x768 screen laptop without a power supply for, like, $40. Then I need to spend $30 for a new power supply, and I won't find a new battery, no matter where I look. And if I find it, either it will be long dead or cost at least $60.
Forget sub-$100 second-hand laptops as anything other than 'portable desktop'. They run fine on power supply, but they usually go so cheap because the batteries need to be replaced and the new ones cost marginally less than new laptops.
Yes, but traits that are useless but waste energy (say, useless organs) tend to get reduced, and ones that are totally neutral to survival enter a random drift of mutations and even if they served some purpose originally, they eventually lose most of resemblance to the originals.
Note there are various degrees of epilepsy. In great most cases it's just tendency to headaches. Epilepsy with fits, losing consciousness etc is well below 1% of society.
Thing is, our brain "switches to a different mode" and we may or may not behave in certain way that has a specific (sometimes very twisted, obscure and wrong, but always present) logic. We don't "crash". There's no simple set of visual/aural impulses to make us all universally freeze completely and lose awareness of the whole world.
I don't think anyone ever specifically -bred- chickens for (low) intelligence.
There may be two evolutionary factors though.
1. chickens that don't run away have a better chance for being bred. The runaway ones usually die pretty quickly and are rarely a basis of huge farms. 2. intelligence of a (domesticated) chicken doesn't improve its survival ratio the least bit. Unused organs (parts of brain) degenerate.
Well, for one these particular hens never faced a live weasel, for another, freezing like that in presence of real weasel would never allow the hen a learning experience.
It may be loss/degeneration of natural instincts due to unnatural environment, but the change is on genetic level, not on "upbringing" level.
My "automatic vision systems" teacher gave an interesting lecture about research on hens. Hens are awfully dumb. They have an instinctive reaction to images of weasels (panic/run) and to sound (tweeting) of small chickens ("herd/care"). The researchers made a model of a weasel that was making the chicken noise. Hens exposed to this experienced software failure: they would freeze and stop reacting to all other external signals/impulses until the chirping weasel was removed.:)
Let me then ask you, what happened to the US fighter plane pilot who killed some 40 people in the italian aerial tramway, by trying to fly under the cable and breaking the cable in the process.
AFAIK he was quickly packed and on his way home, and the case was hushed, with the pilot never serving any sentence.
Actually, I wonder - you bought the item in good faith of it being legally owned by the seller. Then it appears the seller had stolen it. The Police localizes the item in your possession, but you have the proof of purchase and you can prove you had no idea it was stolen.
Is ANY punitive action against you, other than taking the item from you and giving it back to the rightful owner, allowed?
Shouldn't the person selling the illegal goods receive all the damage?
If the guys bought Kazaa, believing they buy legal access to music - can it be held against them?
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...the guy should by no means serve more jail time than Palin.
Users don't want features. They want benefits.
They don't care whether these are free and open source or not - all they care about is getting what they want, at a reasonable price.
AMERICANS, not 'users'.
http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/09/24/1420214
I'm pretty sure the 'representative sample' was taken in the US.
I also see old people here not really using the features of their phones, but the youth - music playing from the phone aloud on a bus is the new annoyance. They don't use the cameras often, but if they see something worthy of a photo, they don't hesitate. They use the radio, the mp3, they kill time playing java games or watching mp4 movies. You pass by a guy seemingly talking to empty air, and you spot the headset. A friend takes you by a car and the first thing he does after getting in, is setting up the GPS.
And that's a backwater European country.
GNU is a brand of "no strings attached". Currently an app may be "free" but it will still have a million ways of sucking money off you, ranging from being a crippled version of a pay-for app, through displaying ads, suggesting pay-for extensions, gathering your personal info, to installing malware. If I see "Freeware", I'm extremely distrustful. OTOH, when I see GNU, I know I'm getting what I'm looking for, not spam.
Best knock the monitor on the side pretty hard. The impact should shake the desk enough to get the mouse moving and the blanker turning off. That would be an interesting one.
My cow orker has that screensaver as well.
One day I see him sitting depressed in front of his computer, his screensaver running as it often does.
"What's up?"
"It's not a screensaver."
And of course the 21st century counterpart:
Bluetooth mouse detected. Click OK to activate.
The problem with using Tor with connection with /b/ has a problem: most Tor exit nodes are already banned on 4chan, finding one that works is a miracle (but it's still worth viditing just to see some of the ban reasons)
Somehow the article you linked seems way less -notable- to me than the one we're discussing.
The subject -is- interesting.
Say, someone publishes a top-secret information on how to produce deadly biological weapons.
Or simply someone publishes a full copyrighted text.
No site, be that Wikipedia, Deletionpedia or whatever should host it.
Nope. ALL American companies get these patents, freely. None can use them to monopolize a sector of the market and gain unhealthy advantage - they all compete and they all produce better, smarter equipment while competition keeps the prices down.
Imagine Velcro still being in hands of one manufacturer selling it for $50/inch^2.
...and have a working power supply and battery that lasts longer than 10 minutes.
The market for old laptops is saturated. The bottleneck are power supplies (I wonder why...) and batteries (long dead).
I could get a decent 800MHZ 1024x768 screen laptop without a power supply for, like, $40.
Then I need to spend $30 for a new power supply, and I won't find a new battery, no matter where I look. And if I find it, either it will be long dead or cost at least $60.
Forget sub-$100 second-hand laptops as anything other than 'portable desktop'. They run fine on power supply, but they usually go so cheap because the batteries need to be replaced and the new ones cost marginally less than new laptops.
We will fight for Bovine Freedom
And hold our large heads high
We will run free with the Buffalo
Or die.... COWS WITH GUNS!
Yes, but traits that are useless but waste energy (say, useless organs) tend to get reduced, and ones that are totally neutral to survival enter a random drift of mutations and even if they served some purpose originally, they eventually lose most of resemblance to the originals.
Note there are various degrees of epilepsy. In great most cases it's just tendency to headaches. Epilepsy with fits, losing consciousness etc is well below 1% of society.
Thing is, our brain "switches to a different mode" and we may or may not behave in certain way that has a specific (sometimes very twisted, obscure and wrong, but always present) logic. We don't "crash". There's no simple set of visual/aural impulses to make us all universally freeze completely and lose awareness of the whole world.
The model they used was actually (by trial and error) extremely simplified: a black ellipse with two white circles. :)
The sound might be findable in 'easter themes' though I'm not sure if the sample rate/quality doesn't have to be pretty high.
I don't think anyone ever specifically -bred- chickens for (low) intelligence.
There may be two evolutionary factors though.
1. chickens that don't run away have a better chance for being bred. The runaway ones usually die pretty quickly and are rarely a basis of huge farms.
2. intelligence of a (domesticated) chicken doesn't improve its survival ratio the least bit. Unused organs (parts of brain) degenerate.
Well, for one these particular hens never faced a live weasel, for another, freezing like that in presence of real weasel would never allow the hen a learning experience.
It may be loss/degeneration of natural instincts due to unnatural environment, but the change is on genetic level, not on "upbringing" level.
Don't give them all so much credit.
My "automatic vision systems" teacher gave an interesting lecture about research on hens. Hens are awfully dumb. They have an instinctive reaction to images of weasels (panic/run) and to sound (tweeting) of small chickens ("herd/care"). The researchers made a model of a weasel that was making the chicken noise. Hens exposed to this experienced software failure: they would freeze and stop reacting to all other external signals/impulses until the chirping weasel was removed. :)
lucky you. In my country you're lucky if you can get your car registered within 30 days since you aply.
Let me then ask you, what happened to the US fighter plane pilot who killed some 40 people in the italian aerial tramway, by trying to fly under the cable and breaking the cable in the process.
AFAIK he was quickly packed and on his way home, and the case was hushed, with the pilot never serving any sentence.
True. Now how do you mod down whole subdomain?
idle.slashdot.org (-1, Troll)
http://slashdot.org/firehose/
Actually, I wonder - you bought the item in good faith of it being legally owned by the seller. Then it appears the seller had stolen it. The Police localizes the item in your possession, but you have the proof of purchase and you can prove you had no idea it was stolen.
Is ANY punitive action against you, other than taking the item from you and giving it back to the rightful owner, allowed?
Shouldn't the person selling the illegal goods receive all the damage?
If the guys bought Kazaa, believing they buy legal access to music - can it be held against them?
Yes, and usually the 'excess' is capped at three times the original value.