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Along those lines, "When will long time users, such as myself, who have not had mod points in *years* be given an explanation as to why they haven't seen them?"
Oh, I thought you were going to say that she was going to be able to take a shit and hand out thousands of copies of it along with a check for $7.33. Guess not.
I'm not quite sure how RFID is supposed to make the checkout person bag my items any faster. Or is that not the slowest part of the whole process? It's not like we're losing a whole lot of time waiting for barcodes to be scanned, unless you're buying pears and they have to key it in manually.
The longest part about checking out for me is waiting for some luddite to stop futzing with writing a check and use a check card or cash instead. The second longest part is another luddite standing in the "self-check out" that doesn't understand what to do, especially when they have bulk items or fruits and vegetables that need to be weighed.
RFID isn't going to solve either of those problems.
The spin in the article and blurb seem to indicate that while this is "good news" it's not scary enough so we have to be warned that it's not indicative of a long-term trend but if it was continuously heading downhill that the world would be ending soon.
The only thing that this does show is that the media only wants to spin shit negatively -- Halloween is coming, scare them!
I'm sorry, but I really don't see how anyone is going to learn something from a non-interactive lecture on the internet that they couldn't learn from a book in a library.
I'm an auditory learner. I do much better by sitting in a lecture (even when I'm not fully paying attention) than I do from reading a book myself. I also have an uncanny ability to remember, nearly down to the word, conversations that happened years ago -- this infuriates my wife but my friends find it to be crazy.
So, while I could learn this material from a book, and have, it's much easier for me to do it by listening. I guess textbooks on CD would be a godsend for me -- although extremely boring;)
Just because YOU don't learn in one particular way doesn't mean that others won't.
That you know of. A lot of zombie-related malware is intended to be very stealthy.
They aren't stealthy enough to go through a logged firewall w/o being missed. IMHO, that's the best defense to any network -- paying attention to what the fuck is going on with your connection.
That was back when Sony regarded themselves as a technology company rather than a content provider, of course.
One hand doesn't necessarily talk to the other and apparently this particular individual is feeding on the corporate mantra of Sony/BMG to crush copyright "theft" rather than understanding what fair use really is.
More than likely, however, it's yet another attempt to disrupt the public's perception of what fair use is by altering it in the media.
Bonus points if you know what omphaloskepsis means.
Maybe if this was still 1997 and it would have taken some time to find out what it was. In 2007, however, a good many of those active in (or just reading from) the blogosphere are going to know what it means.
10 years? Where has the time gone?
Time flies when you're hitting refresh to see if you can type fp! Stephen King is dead at 53 first...
It would be the first movie for ages where people don't care if the sound is in THX or not existing at all. I mean, who watched Baywatch for the dialogs? The same people that read Playboy for the articles?
Have you watched any reruns from shows like Knight Rider, A-Team, etc? If you had (I have Knight Rider season 1 on DVD for nostalgia purposes) you would have realized that none of them had good dialog. In fact, it was almost painful to watch when compared to today's near movie-like TV show episodes (CSI for example).
The best parts of the Knight Rider season 1 DVD set? The fully expandable Michael Knight insert with Hasselhoff sporting a HUGE clump of chest hair poking out from his unbuttoned t-shirt, the pilot episode where you can see someone's gloved hand slide down from the steering wheel and back behind the driver side seat before Hasselhoff hops in the front, and of course who could forget Bonnie Barstow and April Curtis -- 80s yummies!)
The A-Team reruns I have seen lately are fucking absolutely horrendous. It reminds me of a live action cartoon with ridiculously bad acting and car chases where the "bad guys' cars" inevitably end up on their roofs and the A-Team build a ridiculous battering ram out of a bulldozer and duct tape. It was like MacGuyver meets WWF.
To think that when I was a kid my father and I loved to watch these shows together. Looking back on it now, I now understand why Baywatch's Titty Patrol was so popular... Hasselhoff spoke even less!
Live Maps lacks good sat imagery for a very large portion of the globe.
I think that people should seriously consider using both depending on their needs. If you're looking to do international mapping Google is probably the way to go but if you're going to be centered in large metro areas in the US and you're looking to use SWEET aerial photos, Microsoft's Live Maps kick ass (75m, far more recent than Google Maps, and better resolution).
I live and die by Google Maps API for what I need at work (plotting interest and applicant levels by zip code) because it's easy for people to use and many are already familiar with it. That just works for what I need but that doesn't mean that it's the best option for every application.
Then question is WHY would I buy it? Hell, I still have a mobile phone from 2002 and I won't change it. I don't have an ipod and don't want one. I don't even THINK about buying an iPhoney. I really don't need those things, so why would I need a newton? Because Apple has designed it?
Because I use a modern mobile device and do a lot of mo-photoblogging and enjoy having access to the web/AIM wherever I am. I don't care what YOU need, it's what I want.
It depends on how Apple begins to treat the iPhone hacks going around. If they stop the cat and mouse game to please the AT&T gods with disabling and "bricking" the altered iPhones, then maybe I would consider it. Hell, I was considering an iPhone until this whole bricking deal came to be.
I'm sorry but Steve Jobs wouldn't be where he was today if it weren't for a rabid fan base and he's quickly killing off the fan base by linking up with the douchebags of the world and killing off those that love Apple's devices the most -- true fans.
According to the shitty links here (United States' Internet usage) and here (users aged 3-17) it says that there are 232,655,287 users in the US total and the 34.3 million aged 3-17. That's about 13% and the article is quoting a little higher than that at ~16.5%
Why use a database or spreadsheet? Why not something like the R Project?
Because you have to learn yet another cryptic set of functions to do what is easily accomplished in Excel (or any other spreadsheet)? Most people couldn't give a fuck less about using any package to its full potential and most people utilize Excel as a database rather than a spreadsheet (almost everyone in my wife's company for example).
A spreadsheet will do just fine for the majority of people and the rest would probably use something like Crystal Reports to do anything more advanced. Why? Because there is professional documentation and training available for those packages and R Project requires posts to mailing lists or forums to get answers outside of your own self research on the web. From what I can see in my own personal experience, people working in the real world don't want to spend the time searching around the Internet through mailing list posts and forums for their answers. They want to plunk down $350 and sit through a 6 hour seminar offering them 1 CEU.
It only works for some people or at certain times of your life. For me, powernaps were common in college and were a great thing but now that I'm out in the real world I have found that powernaps do nothing but absolutely crush the rest of my day.
I used to do the whole eat quick and nap in the back of the car at lunch but found that afterwards my work level was diminished and the rest of my day was almost worthless. What did work for me, however, was cutting out the caffeine. I've mentioned the wonders of a caffeine-free life here before and I have a feeling that plenty of those in IT could benefit not from powernaps but dumping the unnecessary rush of caffeinated drinks that do nothing but diminish energy levels especially if they're full of sugar too.
So why not grow an adult size set of brain matter, stop breaking the law like the jerk asshole you are, and you can go about not bitching about harmless traffic cameras.
How dare you side with Big Government peering into your personal life via computer-aided cameras? You are either not from the US where those intrusions are accepted or you are one of the growing mass of people in the US who are falling for the mass marketing campaign the current administration (and the local administrations) are pushing so hard.
Either support the addition of manpower or don't support this type of revenue building device. For you to claim it's anything else is parroted rhetoric non-sense.
'Once this is done this will be a very impressive city in terms of public safety.'
It will also be impressively Orwellian and unnecessary. I'm waiting for those famous Midwestern militias to get determined and start systematically tracking and disabling these cameras so that the rest of us can continue to go about our business w/o the prying eyes of the government.
I'm tired of traffic cameras, red light cameras, and the government's position that you are in the public and thus not anonymous in your actions. That rhetoric worked when you were manning more human police officers to do the work, not when you decided to become lazy and act like the public are your DVR favorites for watching and scanning at a later time.
Parent is modded "Troll" yet the gp isn't even modded? seriously?
It's either one of two things. 1) my favorite troll mods that will mod me down (even days later) just because it was me that posted or 2) it's a pro-life troll mod that hates the fact that someone might want to leave it up to someone to make their own mind about an issue rather than agreeing to Groupthink (TM).
It's really unfortunate that I haven't had mod points in years but douchebags that routinely moderate me down w/o good reason continue to have them. You listening Taco?
The majority of people who bitch are the very people the gear is meant to catch. And they're not really pissed off because of the supposed violation of privacy, it's because they know they won't get away with their previously bad behaviour.
Bullshit. Those cameras are there to increase government revenue plain and simple. After the initial installation cost there is very little additional cost needed to keep the money rolling in. If they were required to put a human police officer at every intersection they felt warranted a camera, the cost ratio would decrease to a point where it wouldn't be worth it to them anymore and thus unnecessary in the first place.
If they want to protect us from the evils of speeding and yellow-light/red-light running, then they ought to be prepared to pony up the dough for a uniformed police officer to stand there 24/7/365 to catch those evil people and write them a ticket. Otherwise, keep your fucking nose out of everyone else's business.
I hope a pro-life group starts a text msging service to compete with the pro-death one. Hrt beats @ 22 days after conception. Happy u werent aborted? Most ppl r. Yur pro-life.
I hope so too but not because I give a fuck either way what a woman chooses to do with the product of her womb. I believe that everyone should have the ability to send whatever message they want to those that desire those messages. As long as someone opted in to this type of text messaging, they should be able to receive it.
Verizon should have no ability to block any type of transmission because they feel one way or another.
But there will come a day when we will kick their corporate corpses and spit on them.
That day will only come when the US Government, as we currently know and love it, dissolves because until then, it will be illegal to spit on those that fund our lawmakers pet projects.
Because a subscription can be had for as little as $10, it isn't going to break your budget, and you still have money left over to buy music from elsewhere.
But, unless you do a lot of hunting, you're always going to be left with only enough money for single tracks here and there. When you're a strict album purchaser like I am, you get screwed with this type of service. You also have to cancel the service if you don't want it any longer which is an added hassle that you don't have with iTunes and Amazon:(
eMusic has been around and has been DRM free. Their selection is probably larger than Amazon's at this point. Best part is when I import the mp3s into iTunes the songs are properly recognized and the album covers are downloaded accordingly. It looks to me that some tests at least goes on there to make sure that it is compatible with iTunes.
Worst part is that they require a subscription and you can't buy a single track like you apparently can with Amazon without paying for the month. You are correct that their library is limited and while, for now, it seems you must download some sort of application to do mass downloading from Amazon, you can purchase single tracks without it.
I really don't care for eMusic adding a tagline to your user agent when surfing. I really don't need people knowing which music service I use:
(Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.1) Gecko/20061204 Firefox/2.0.0.1 eMusic DLM/4.0a5_1.0b1"
Slashdot Mirror
Along those lines, "When will long time users, such as myself, who have not had mod points in *years* be given an explanation as to why they haven't seen them?"
Oh, I thought you were going to say that she was going to be able to take a shit and hand out thousands of copies of it along with a check for $7.33. Guess not.
I'm not quite sure how RFID is supposed to make the checkout person bag my items any faster. Or is that not the slowest part of the whole process? It's not like we're losing a whole lot of time waiting for barcodes to be scanned, unless you're buying pears and they have to key it in manually.
The longest part about checking out for me is waiting for some luddite to stop futzing with writing a check and use a check card or cash instead. The second longest part is another luddite standing in the "self-check out" that doesn't understand what to do, especially when they have bulk items or fruits and vegetables that need to be weighed.
RFID isn't going to solve either of those problems.
The spin in the article and blurb seem to indicate that while this is "good news" it's not scary enough so we have to be warned that it's not indicative of a long-term trend but if it was continuously heading downhill that the world would be ending soon.
The only thing that this does show is that the media only wants to spin shit negatively -- Halloween is coming, scare them!
I'm sorry, but I really don't see how anyone is going to learn something from a non-interactive lecture on the internet that they couldn't learn from a book in a library.
;)
I'm an auditory learner. I do much better by sitting in a lecture (even when I'm not fully paying attention) than I do from reading a book myself. I also have an uncanny ability to remember, nearly down to the word, conversations that happened years ago -- this infuriates my wife but my friends find it to be crazy.
So, while I could learn this material from a book, and have, it's much easier for me to do it by listening. I guess textbooks on CD would be a godsend for me -- although extremely boring
Just because YOU don't learn in one particular way doesn't mean that others won't.
That you know of. A lot of zombie-related malware is intended to be very stealthy.
They aren't stealthy enough to go through a logged firewall w/o being missed. IMHO, that's the best defense to any network -- paying attention to what the fuck is going on with your connection.
That was back when Sony regarded themselves as a technology company rather than a content provider, of course.
One hand doesn't necessarily talk to the other and apparently this particular individual is feeding on the corporate mantra of Sony/BMG to crush copyright "theft" rather than understanding what fair use really is.
More than likely, however, it's yet another attempt to disrupt the public's perception of what fair use is by altering it in the media.
Bonus points if you know what omphaloskepsis means.
Maybe if this was still 1997 and it would have taken some time to find out what it was. In 2007, however, a good many of those active in (or just reading from) the blogosphere are going to know what it means.
10 years? Where has the time gone?
Time flies when you're hitting refresh to see if you can type fp! Stephen King is dead at 53 first...
It would be the first movie for ages where people don't care if the sound is in THX or not existing at all. I mean, who watched Baywatch for the dialogs? The same people that read Playboy for the articles?
Have you watched any reruns from shows like Knight Rider, A-Team, etc? If you had (I have Knight Rider season 1 on DVD for nostalgia purposes) you would have realized that none of them had good dialog. In fact, it was almost painful to watch when compared to today's near movie-like TV show episodes (CSI for example).
The best parts of the Knight Rider season 1 DVD set? The fully expandable Michael Knight insert with Hasselhoff sporting a HUGE clump of chest hair poking out from his unbuttoned t-shirt, the pilot episode where you can see someone's gloved hand slide down from the steering wheel and back behind the driver side seat before Hasselhoff hops in the front, and of course who could forget Bonnie Barstow and April Curtis -- 80s yummies!)
The A-Team reruns I have seen lately are fucking absolutely horrendous. It reminds me of a live action cartoon with ridiculously bad acting and car chases where the "bad guys' cars" inevitably end up on their roofs and the A-Team build a ridiculous battering ram out of a bulldozer and duct tape. It was like MacGuyver meets WWF.
To think that when I was a kid my father and I loved to watch these shows together. Looking back on it now, I now understand why Baywatch's Titty Patrol was so popular... Hasselhoff spoke even less!
Live Maps lacks good sat imagery for a very large portion of the globe.
I think that people should seriously consider using both depending on their needs. If you're looking to do international mapping Google is probably the way to go but if you're going to be centered in large metro areas in the US and you're looking to use SWEET aerial photos, Microsoft's Live Maps kick ass (75m, far more recent than Google Maps, and better resolution).
I live and die by Google Maps API for what I need at work (plotting interest and applicant levels by zip code) because it's easy for people to use and many are already familiar with it. That just works for what I need but that doesn't mean that it's the best option for every application.
*shrug*
Then question is WHY would I buy it? Hell, I still have a mobile phone from 2002 and I won't change it. I don't have an ipod and don't want one. I don't even THINK about buying an iPhoney. I really don't need those things, so why would I need a newton? Because Apple has designed it?
Because I use a modern mobile device and do a lot of mo-photoblogging and enjoy having access to the web/AIM wherever I am. I don't care what YOU need, it's what I want.
Would you buy if the Newton came back?
It depends on how Apple begins to treat the iPhone hacks going around. If they stop the cat and mouse game to please the AT&T gods with disabling and "bricking" the altered iPhones, then maybe I would consider it. Hell, I was considering an iPhone until this whole bricking deal came to be.
I'm sorry but Steve Jobs wouldn't be where he was today if it weren't for a rabid fan base and he's quickly killing off the fan base by linking up with the douchebags of the world and killing off those that love Apple's devices the most -- true fans.
According to the shitty links here (United States' Internet usage) and here (users aged 3-17) it says that there are 232,655,287 users in the US total and the 34.3 million aged 3-17. That's about 13% and the article is quoting a little higher than that at ~16.5%
Whatever.
Why use a database or spreadsheet? Why not something like the R Project?
Because you have to learn yet another cryptic set of functions to do what is easily accomplished in Excel (or any other spreadsheet)? Most people couldn't give a fuck less about using any package to its full potential and most people utilize Excel as a database rather than a spreadsheet (almost everyone in my wife's company for example).
A spreadsheet will do just fine for the majority of people and the rest would probably use something like Crystal Reports to do anything more advanced. Why? Because there is professional documentation and training available for those packages and R Project requires posts to mailing lists or forums to get answers outside of your own self research on the web. From what I can see in my own personal experience, people working in the real world don't want to spend the time searching around the Internet through mailing list posts and forums for their answers. They want to plunk down $350 and sit through a 6 hour seminar offering them 1 CEU.
YMMV.
It only works for some people or at certain times of your life. For me, powernaps were common in college and were a great thing but now that I'm out in the real world I have found that powernaps do nothing but absolutely crush the rest of my day.
I used to do the whole eat quick and nap in the back of the car at lunch but found that afterwards my work level was diminished and the rest of my day was almost worthless. What did work for me, however, was cutting out the caffeine. I've mentioned the wonders of a caffeine-free life here before and I have a feeling that plenty of those in IT could benefit not from powernaps but dumping the unnecessary rush of caffeinated drinks that do nothing but diminish energy levels especially if they're full of sugar too.
IMHO and YMMV.
So Google's solution to "there are too many open source licenses!" is... to make another one?
The statement that there were too many was simply Beta. Get with the program, duh!
So why not grow an adult size set of brain matter, stop breaking the law like the jerk asshole you are, and you can go about not bitching about harmless traffic cameras.
How dare you side with Big Government peering into your personal life via computer-aided cameras? You are either not from the US where those intrusions are accepted or you are one of the growing mass of people in the US who are falling for the mass marketing campaign the current administration (and the local administrations) are pushing so hard.
Either support the addition of manpower or don't support this type of revenue building device. For you to claim it's anything else is parroted rhetoric non-sense.
'Once this is done this will be a very impressive city in terms of public safety.'
It will also be impressively Orwellian and unnecessary. I'm waiting for those famous Midwestern militias to get determined and start systematically tracking and disabling these cameras so that the rest of us can continue to go about our business w/o the prying eyes of the government.
I'm tired of traffic cameras, red light cameras, and the government's position that you are in the public and thus not anonymous in your actions. That rhetoric worked when you were manning more human police officers to do the work, not when you decided to become lazy and act like the public are your DVR favorites for watching and scanning at a later time.
Parent is modded "Troll" yet the gp isn't even modded? seriously?
It's either one of two things. 1) my favorite troll mods that will mod me down (even days later) just because it was me that posted or 2) it's a pro-life troll mod that hates the fact that someone might want to leave it up to someone to make their own mind about an issue rather than agreeing to Groupthink (TM).
It's really unfortunate that I haven't had mod points in years but douchebags that routinely moderate me down w/o good reason continue to have them. You listening Taco?
The majority of people who bitch are the very people the gear is meant to catch. And they're not really pissed off because of the supposed violation of privacy, it's because they know they won't get away with their previously bad behaviour.
Bullshit. Those cameras are there to increase government revenue plain and simple. After the initial installation cost there is very little additional cost needed to keep the money rolling in. If they were required to put a human police officer at every intersection they felt warranted a camera, the cost ratio would decrease to a point where it wouldn't be worth it to them anymore and thus unnecessary in the first place.
If they want to protect us from the evils of speeding and yellow-light/red-light running, then they ought to be prepared to pony up the dough for a uniformed police officer to stand there 24/7/365 to catch those evil people and write them a ticket. Otherwise, keep your fucking nose out of everyone else's business.
I hope a pro-life group starts a text msging service to compete with the pro-death one. Hrt beats @ 22 days after conception. Happy u werent aborted? Most ppl r. Yur pro-life.
I hope so too but not because I give a fuck either way what a woman chooses to do with the product of her womb. I believe that everyone should have the ability to send whatever message they want to those that desire those messages. As long as someone opted in to this type of text messaging, they should be able to receive it.
Verizon should have no ability to block any type of transmission because they feel one way or another.
But there will come a day when we will kick their corporate corpses and spit on them.
That day will only come when the US Government, as we currently know and love it, dissolves because until then, it will be illegal to spit on those that fund our lawmakers pet projects.
Because a subscription can be had for as little as $10, it isn't going to break your budget, and you still have money left over to buy music from elsewhere.
:(
But, unless you do a lot of hunting, you're always going to be left with only enough money for single tracks here and there. When you're a strict album purchaser like I am, you get screwed with this type of service. You also have to cancel the service if you don't want it any longer which is an added hassle that you don't have with iTunes and Amazon
eMusic has been around and has been DRM free. Their selection is probably larger than Amazon's at this point. Best part is when I import the mp3s into iTunes the songs are properly recognized and the album covers are downloaded accordingly. It looks to me that some tests at least goes on there to make sure that it is compatible with iTunes.
Worst part is that they require a subscription and you can't buy a single track like you apparently can with Amazon without paying for the month. You are correct that their library is limited and while, for now, it seems you must download some sort of application to do mass downloading from Amazon, you can purchase single tracks without it.
I really don't care for eMusic adding a tagline to your user agent when surfing. I really don't need people knowing which music service I use:
(Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.1) Gecko/20061204 Firefox/2.0.0.1 eMusic DLM/4.0a5_1.0b1"
Here ya go, Totally Scrabble Tuesday.