That pretty much explains it to me.
A device, looking for a purpose.
I have a cheap 80 dollar Casio Wave-Ceptor
Keeps accurate time, that's it. For everything else, I just use my phone which
is with me, 99% on the time, on my belt.
If you have it, DUMP IT. If you don't have it, DON'T BUY IT.
Once this fad wears out, and/or once the weather changes from summer to WINTER, you think
people are going to wander outdoors to play this silly game?
Plus, once they have as many on the hook for this fad, you know they will start PUSHING ADS.
That will kill it for good. Start playing it, every mile, or certain time frame an ad pops up you have to
wait for to finish, before you can continue.
It's like a drug dealer setting up in a new neighborhood...start off at a reduced price, get em hooked,
then jack up the price.
to professional sports. It use to be a "beloved game(s)"
Football, baseball etc...gave up on baseball in 94, gave up on football in 95.
It's not a TEAM SPORT much anymore, but a group of INDIVIDUALS. Team LOYALTY
went out the window. Yeah, I know the career life of a professional sports player can be
hampered by injuries, but paying some of these players what they make?
I'll be skipping both the RNC & DNC....tired of voting for the lesser of two evils, and in this case, it's
a dead heat...I don't care for either of them.
Stuff the box...the Clinton Mafia will see to that, not to mention her buddy Trump really doesn't
want to be president. Give up all his power, wealth? For a job that pays 200k per year? Having
the secret service all the time, having to put up with congress? He's even mentioned that if he
won, he wonders if he had to actually take it. He's been trying to dump it since the early summer,
but "Trumpsters" continue to buy his BS. He only got into it, to make sure a real Conservative didn't
get the nod. By being "Trump" and making brash statements, he stole ALL of the spotlight from any
real serious candidate.
Regardless of the president, you know good and well, the elitist in DC that control this country, have an
"off" switch to turn off pretty much anything they want.
Worst mistake NASA ever made.
The Space Shuttle, as DESIGNED would have been much safer that what actually came about.
The biggest issue, was the shuttle DID NOT EXPLORE.
We'd just come off the moon program, the F-1 engines in the Saturn V launch vehicle were so damn good, out of
all of the flights of the Saturn V (each booster had 5 engines), only ONE failed during flight. Had development
continued, we would have explored the moon like we should have, established a "base" for research and could
possibly used it as a jumping off point for Mars, but, once we "beat the Russians" to the moon, the public pretty
much turned a blind eye to space, dealing with Vietnam, the Watergate scandal and on and on. Nasa took a backseat,
and wanted something "exciting". Talks of building a space station, using the shuttle banded about.
It's a shame the Apollo program was left to die on the vine, the potential was very good, we'd have a permanent station
on the moon now. I was 10 years old when we landed on the moon...just wonder what might have been.
Round them up, deport them.
If they don't like it? Too bad. The "progressive", "politically correct", types caused all of this problem. The 60's rejects are pretty much running the
world these days, and their "I'd like to teach the world to sing/live in harmony" crap just ain't cutting it.
I know there are people fleeing those areas of the middle east & Africa that are trying to save themselves, but enough is enough.
Unless Europe, and the rest of the world takes a hard line stand, it's going to continue.
For not BACKING UP his work.
Plus, THIS is a prime example why you don't want to have everything on "the cloud".
One keystroke by the owner of the server, POOF! It's gone.
Can't remember the last time I watched something on NBC. Heck, I don't even tune into the local channel on TV.
I think the last time I watched something on NBC was back in the 80's.
Hill Street Blues, Cheers, St. Elsewhere. Perhaps it was 91, when Johnny Carson retired from the Tonight Show.
I might watch 2-3 of the "big 4" network shows per week. Otherwise I watch the oldies channel...MeTV, Antenna/Cozi
TV, the old movies channel.
Won't it be interesting to see San Fran come down on their darling Google, when Google starts FIRING U.S. based developers, forcing them to train their
3rd world counterparts? You know good and well that is where that is headed. Google will utilize their Indian programmers, since they can probably hire
100, for what it costs to hire 1 in the USA.
Here is another company, that the union drove into bankruptcy. The labor unions in the USA are partially
responsible (along with management) for the destruction of this countries manufacturing base. Demanding
15,20,30,40 or more per hour (with benefits) just to stuff things in a box, turn a screw etc. Then couple that
with the golden parachutes of management, and it's a recipe for disaster.
Of course, union bosses and the democratic party got the lions share of dues, causing the retirement funds to
be underfunded, so as long as they got their money, they don't care.
HollyWEIRD is lazy. Instead of coming up with something fresh & new, it's reboot this, part 3,4,5 of that.
Hey, if the idiot general public would figure that out, and these "movies" would start to tank at the box office,
they'd get it. But, as long as we keep throwing away money at part, 3,4,5 they will continue to make them,
and laugh all the way to the bank.
Movies are too expensive these days, for what you get.
I'd prefer a MIRROR to all this tech garbage. With a mirror, it TRAINS YOU to watch, look for blind spots, and not depend on tech.
If the tech stops, and people are use to the tech, then they will fall out of habit, or in the case of younger drivers, not know to look
outside the "mirror". I've read several articles where car thieves have been caught, or given up stealing cars, because they don't know
how to drive a MANUAL TRANSMISSION. (I've driven one for the past 35 years because it's better in snow starting out in 2nd than
first, and, I drive a Mustang...can't stomach auto transmission in a sports car).
Even a lot of aircraft, have a backup wire pulley system, just in case the high tech stuff stops working. Fine, put this tech in a car,
but keep the old school for a backup until the high tech stuff is as DEPENDABLE to the old school stuff.
Lived along Rt.66 most of my life in Missouri. Met a lot of interesting people.
Springfield, Mo. is considered the "birthplace" of Rt.66. Ran right through
downtown Springfield. Lots of businesses in Springfield, the Best Western Rail Haven Motel is
still set up like it was. Even has the "Elvis" room, where he stayed when he performed in Springfield.
(it's expensive, but people still pony up for it.). Shame Red's Giant Hamburg isn't around, he passed in
the 90's. Was suppose to be Red's Giant Hamburger, but the sign wouldn't fit in the ground without covering
the "er", and Red was too cheap to have the sign made longer to hold it all. Place had one of the first "drive-in"
windows. Old bird & his wife were quite a pair.
Here's a great place, if you want to see an old Sinclair Gas Station, about 20-25 miles west, just off I-44 at the
Highway 96 (old Rt.66) exit.
http://garysgayparita.com/
It amazes me, that people, typically under the age of 30, "hate" guns of pretty much any kind.
The government school system in the USA, since the early 80's (run by the hippy crowd of the 60's),
have indoctrinated at least 2 generations of children, and turned them into wimps. Afraid to say anything
that might offend (unless it is against white males, christians, conservatives). These hipsters and such
hate America, think it was conceived by a bunch of rich white slave holders, destroyed the Earth and on and on.
America use to be a land of opportunity, but, now, this country has a bunch of freeloaders that think everything should
be free, should be given to them, or they sit in the corner and hold their breath til they turn blue. I'm of the age that
what's coming for this nation, probably won't happen til I'm gone, unless it happens in the next 10-20 years.
Guns were EVERYWHERE in the 1800's, what some like to call the old wild west, but crime wasn't that high. Everyone
had or carried a firearm. Now, people will just shoot you, if you look at them wrong. Chicago has some of the most
restrictive gun laws in the nation, but, their death by firearms is one of the highest in the nation. And, it's not the "angry
white male" that is doing the killing. It's black on black violence, which, according to the social justice idiots, is blamed
on "the white guy".
So, what changed from the 1800's through the 60's? Oh, perhaps taking pretty much any reference to GOD out of everyday
life, the "woman's movement" which said you don't need a man, WELFARE, which told countless blacks that you can't make
it on your own, we'll take care of you. That leads to single mothers, who have figured out that the more kids they pop out, by
God knows how many "baby daddy" types, they get more money. These kids grow up without any father in their life, and turn
to violent gangs as a "family". The breakdown of the so called nuclear family, along with removing religion from everyday life,
all plays out of the Saul Alinsky doctrine on how to topple a nation, and turn it from Capitalism into Socialism
1. Control Healthcare....Obamacare is the first step
2. Increase Poverty....duh...make them dependent on government
3. Debt....what is it now? 18 trillion? For every man, woman and child, they would have to right a 93 million dollar check or something to clear it?
4. Gun Control...take away a citizens right to protect their PROPERTY, their lives & those of their family. Easier to create a police state.
5. Welfare...goes hand in hand with poverty.
6. Education... Lenin was quoted as saying (paraphrasing) give me the mind of a child and the seeds I sew, cannot be undone.
7. Religion...Remove ANY reference in God from government & schools.
8. Class Warfare...pit the have not's, against the have's. Occupy Wall Street?
This country is on the edge....Trumps and Idiot, and Clinton is an idiot & a crook. Whomever wins, this nation is so screwed!
That's what I've been saying since 10 was announced as a "free" upgrade from 7/8.
Soon as they get enough people updated, via hook or crook, they'll adopt a PAID subscription.
Adobe did it. On one had, it's not a bad business model, as you can pretty much know what
your revenue stream from month to month, year to year will be, but, as with Adobe Photoshop,
I'll just hang onto CC6 for a while longer.
Considering how I see people treat their iPhone & Android phones, this move is stupid.
The headphone mini jack has been around since the 50's, with the first transistor radios.
On the inside is a couple pieces of metal. Surrounded by hard plastic. It's durable, and has
been around forever.
The lightning port connector is very small, similar to a mini/micro USB. Jerking around on it,
like people do with their headphone jacks, along with using it as a charging port, will make it
more prone to failure, jacking up repair costs for end users.
You reduce fracking, watch oil prices jump above 3,4,5 dollars a gallon, which, will of course make liberal-greenie types happy.
Plus, with a lot of the terrorist taking advantage of stealing oil in places they control, less expensive oil, means less money for their
terrorist acts.
Never did understand the attraction of twitter, when you have a PHONE in front of you.
I've seen kids in places twittering, texting SITTING RIGHT NEXT TO EACH OTHER.
Personal interaction is rapidly becoming a lost art, just as writing a letter was back when
I was a kid.
(yeah, I'm THAT old)
Slashdot Mirror
That pretty much explains it to me. A device, looking for a purpose. I have a cheap 80 dollar Casio Wave-Ceptor Keeps accurate time, that's it. For everything else, I just use my phone which is with me, 99% on the time, on my belt.
Is there something wrong with the Earth's gravitational pull or something?
If you have it, DUMP IT. If you don't have it, DON'T BUY IT. Once this fad wears out, and/or once the weather changes from summer to WINTER, you think people are going to wander outdoors to play this silly game? Plus, once they have as many on the hook for this fad, you know they will start PUSHING ADS. That will kill it for good. Start playing it, every mile, or certain time frame an ad pops up you have to wait for to finish, before you can continue. It's like a drug dealer setting up in a new neighborhood...start off at a reduced price, get em hooked, then jack up the price.
to professional sports. It use to be a "beloved game(s)" Football, baseball etc...gave up on baseball in 94, gave up on football in 95. It's not a TEAM SPORT much anymore, but a group of INDIVIDUALS. Team LOYALTY went out the window. Yeah, I know the career life of a professional sports player can be hampered by injuries, but paying some of these players what they make?
I'll be skipping both the RNC & DNC....tired of voting for the lesser of two evils, and in this case, it's a dead heat...I don't care for either of them.
Gee, big bad fossil fuel still has a place???
Stuff the box...the Clinton Mafia will see to that, not to mention her buddy Trump really doesn't want to be president. Give up all his power, wealth? For a job that pays 200k per year? Having the secret service all the time, having to put up with congress? He's even mentioned that if he won, he wonders if he had to actually take it. He's been trying to dump it since the early summer, but "Trumpsters" continue to buy his BS. He only got into it, to make sure a real Conservative didn't get the nod. By being "Trump" and making brash statements, he stole ALL of the spotlight from any real serious candidate.
Regardless of the president, you know good and well, the elitist in DC that control this country, have an "off" switch to turn off pretty much anything they want.
Worst mistake NASA ever made. The Space Shuttle, as DESIGNED would have been much safer that what actually came about. The biggest issue, was the shuttle DID NOT EXPLORE. We'd just come off the moon program, the F-1 engines in the Saturn V launch vehicle were so damn good, out of all of the flights of the Saturn V (each booster had 5 engines), only ONE failed during flight. Had development continued, we would have explored the moon like we should have, established a "base" for research and could possibly used it as a jumping off point for Mars, but, once we "beat the Russians" to the moon, the public pretty much turned a blind eye to space, dealing with Vietnam, the Watergate scandal and on and on. Nasa took a backseat, and wanted something "exciting". Talks of building a space station, using the shuttle banded about. It's a shame the Apollo program was left to die on the vine, the potential was very good, we'd have a permanent station on the moon now. I was 10 years old when we landed on the moon...just wonder what might have been.
Round them up, deport them. If they don't like it? Too bad. The "progressive", "politically correct", types caused all of this problem. The 60's rejects are pretty much running the world these days, and their "I'd like to teach the world to sing/live in harmony" crap just ain't cutting it. I know there are people fleeing those areas of the middle east & Africa that are trying to save themselves, but enough is enough. Unless Europe, and the rest of the world takes a hard line stand, it's going to continue.
For not BACKING UP his work. Plus, THIS is a prime example why you don't want to have everything on "the cloud". One keystroke by the owner of the server, POOF! It's gone.
Why this is even in /. is beyond me, other than to generate comments, page hits?
Can't remember the last time I watched something on NBC. Heck, I don't even tune into the local channel on TV. I think the last time I watched something on NBC was back in the 80's. Hill Street Blues, Cheers, St. Elsewhere. Perhaps it was 91, when Johnny Carson retired from the Tonight Show. I might watch 2-3 of the "big 4" network shows per week. Otherwise I watch the oldies channel...MeTV, Antenna/Cozi TV, the old movies channel.
Won't it be interesting to see San Fran come down on their darling Google, when Google starts FIRING U.S. based developers, forcing them to train their 3rd world counterparts? You know good and well that is where that is headed. Google will utilize their Indian programmers, since they can probably hire 100, for what it costs to hire 1 in the USA.
For my use. I'm not streaming video, on the web 24/7...so stateside, 4G LTE is fast enough. For my friends in the EU, tell em to suck it.
Here is another company, that the union drove into bankruptcy. The labor unions in the USA are partially responsible (along with management) for the destruction of this countries manufacturing base. Demanding 15,20,30,40 or more per hour (with benefits) just to stuff things in a box, turn a screw etc. Then couple that with the golden parachutes of management, and it's a recipe for disaster. Of course, union bosses and the democratic party got the lions share of dues, causing the retirement funds to be underfunded, so as long as they got their money, they don't care.
HollyWEIRD is lazy. Instead of coming up with something fresh & new, it's reboot this, part 3,4,5 of that. Hey, if the idiot general public would figure that out, and these "movies" would start to tank at the box office, they'd get it. But, as long as we keep throwing away money at part, 3,4,5 they will continue to make them, and laugh all the way to the bank. Movies are too expensive these days, for what you get.
I'd prefer a MIRROR to all this tech garbage. With a mirror, it TRAINS YOU to watch, look for blind spots, and not depend on tech. If the tech stops, and people are use to the tech, then they will fall out of habit, or in the case of younger drivers, not know to look outside the "mirror". I've read several articles where car thieves have been caught, or given up stealing cars, because they don't know how to drive a MANUAL TRANSMISSION. (I've driven one for the past 35 years because it's better in snow starting out in 2nd than first, and, I drive a Mustang...can't stomach auto transmission in a sports car). Even a lot of aircraft, have a backup wire pulley system, just in case the high tech stuff stops working. Fine, put this tech in a car, but keep the old school for a backup until the high tech stuff is as DEPENDABLE to the old school stuff.
Lived along Rt.66 most of my life in Missouri. Met a lot of interesting people. Springfield, Mo. is considered the "birthplace" of Rt.66. Ran right through downtown Springfield. Lots of businesses in Springfield, the Best Western Rail Haven Motel is still set up like it was. Even has the "Elvis" room, where he stayed when he performed in Springfield. (it's expensive, but people still pony up for it.). Shame Red's Giant Hamburg isn't around, he passed in the 90's. Was suppose to be Red's Giant Hamburger, but the sign wouldn't fit in the ground without covering the "er", and Red was too cheap to have the sign made longer to hold it all. Place had one of the first "drive-in" windows. Old bird & his wife were quite a pair. Here's a great place, if you want to see an old Sinclair Gas Station, about 20-25 miles west, just off I-44 at the Highway 96 (old Rt.66) exit. http://garysgayparita.com/
It amazes me, that people, typically under the age of 30, "hate" guns of pretty much any kind. The government school system in the USA, since the early 80's (run by the hippy crowd of the 60's), have indoctrinated at least 2 generations of children, and turned them into wimps. Afraid to say anything that might offend (unless it is against white males, christians, conservatives). These hipsters and such hate America, think it was conceived by a bunch of rich white slave holders, destroyed the Earth and on and on. America use to be a land of opportunity, but, now, this country has a bunch of freeloaders that think everything should be free, should be given to them, or they sit in the corner and hold their breath til they turn blue. I'm of the age that what's coming for this nation, probably won't happen til I'm gone, unless it happens in the next 10-20 years. Guns were EVERYWHERE in the 1800's, what some like to call the old wild west, but crime wasn't that high. Everyone had or carried a firearm. Now, people will just shoot you, if you look at them wrong. Chicago has some of the most restrictive gun laws in the nation, but, their death by firearms is one of the highest in the nation. And, it's not the "angry white male" that is doing the killing. It's black on black violence, which, according to the social justice idiots, is blamed on "the white guy". So, what changed from the 1800's through the 60's? Oh, perhaps taking pretty much any reference to GOD out of everyday life, the "woman's movement" which said you don't need a man, WELFARE, which told countless blacks that you can't make it on your own, we'll take care of you. That leads to single mothers, who have figured out that the more kids they pop out, by God knows how many "baby daddy" types, they get more money. These kids grow up without any father in their life, and turn to violent gangs as a "family". The breakdown of the so called nuclear family, along with removing religion from everyday life, all plays out of the Saul Alinsky doctrine on how to topple a nation, and turn it from Capitalism into Socialism 1. Control Healthcare....Obamacare is the first step 2. Increase Poverty....duh...make them dependent on government 3. Debt....what is it now? 18 trillion? For every man, woman and child, they would have to right a 93 million dollar check or something to clear it? 4. Gun Control...take away a citizens right to protect their PROPERTY, their lives & those of their family. Easier to create a police state. 5. Welfare...goes hand in hand with poverty. 6. Education... Lenin was quoted as saying (paraphrasing) give me the mind of a child and the seeds I sew, cannot be undone. 7. Religion...Remove ANY reference in God from government & schools. 8. Class Warfare...pit the have not's, against the have's. Occupy Wall Street? This country is on the edge....Trumps and Idiot, and Clinton is an idiot & a crook. Whomever wins, this nation is so screwed!
That's what I've been saying since 10 was announced as a "free" upgrade from 7/8. Soon as they get enough people updated, via hook or crook, they'll adopt a PAID subscription. Adobe did it. On one had, it's not a bad business model, as you can pretty much know what your revenue stream from month to month, year to year will be, but, as with Adobe Photoshop, I'll just hang onto CC6 for a while longer.
Doing whatever it can to suck more money out of its citizens.
Considering how I see people treat their iPhone & Android phones, this move is stupid. The headphone mini jack has been around since the 50's, with the first transistor radios. On the inside is a couple pieces of metal. Surrounded by hard plastic. It's durable, and has been around forever. The lightning port connector is very small, similar to a mini/micro USB. Jerking around on it, like people do with their headphone jacks, along with using it as a charging port, will make it more prone to failure, jacking up repair costs for end users.
You reduce fracking, watch oil prices jump above 3,4,5 dollars a gallon, which, will of course make liberal-greenie types happy. Plus, with a lot of the terrorist taking advantage of stealing oil in places they control, less expensive oil, means less money for their terrorist acts.
Never did understand the attraction of twitter, when you have a PHONE in front of you. I've seen kids in places twittering, texting SITTING RIGHT NEXT TO EACH OTHER. Personal interaction is rapidly becoming a lost art, just as writing a letter was back when I was a kid. (yeah, I'm THAT old)