Exactly. Some countries already use drugs and harshly punish athletes that do not win which encourages them to do anything it takes to win. I hate to see what would happen if this was actually encouraged everywhere, and you know the science and technology would eventually filter down to us. This just seems all bad, nothing good can come from this, no records are worth the damage the would do. Besides how would this help? Records are broken every Olympics already so what would this do that is not already happening?
One can purchase a full size spare and doing so is cheaper than buying an SUV for the option of a full size spare.
Funny you say that. Back in 2001 I bought a Nissan Maxima, one of the few cars that came from the manufacturer with a full size spare tire.
I once got a flat and was changing the tire. Three different pedestrians stopped and commented on how they missed having a full size spare tire in their vehicle.
Toyota Avalon is another, or at least it did in 2001.
Now days I just keep a tire inflator in the car since 99% of the time it's a slow leak not a completely ruined tire
Problem is weight. Suv battles itself. Oh we need 700 lbs of batteries to move 6,000 lbs suv? Ok add batteries.... oops now we are 6,700 lbs, we need more batteries.... ok, heavier again, more batteries... I don't understand, we keep adding batteries but we are just too heavy!
That's why all hybrids have been basically lightweight super efficient cars before the batteries were added. Chevy tried some hybrid SUVs, the results have not been good. Google hybrid Tahoe, hybrid suburban, etc
Came here to say the same thing. Seriously M$? Need the latest OS and 2gb RAM? What, no Nvidia AMD Radeon 1200 pixel shaders? How many cores do I need?
This is a PR nightmare for McDonald's and they're only making it worse.
Nonsense. I read a number of newspapers and Internet news sites, and this is the first I've heard of it, and like most people, really don't care that much.
actually... I didn't care much either, until McDonald's replied to it and McDonald's confirmed Mann was ejected from premises.
See, that's the rub, Mann claims he was physically assaulted, McDonald's claims he was... what, politely asked to leave and he got up and said "Oh very well then I shall be off on my way thank you very much for the meal good sirs!"
Come on McD's! That's hard to swallow (ha!). You're telling us you DID kick him out but he's completely lying about the manner in which he was kicked out?
I don't buy it.
McDonalds there was only TWO ways of solving this:
1) Completely deny ANYTHING happened. All of it, never happened, complete lie. Not the best way, see 2)
2) Apologize PROFUSELY over what happened, promise to "fully compensate Mann for the destruction of his property and any mental anguish he endured", and promise to launch a "FULL investigation".... and then do nothing... well, negotiate paying Mann over the next few months until story blows over and then give him a fraction of what he's really deserved. Makes McD look good and costs very little.
Really people public relations is not that hard. Confirming what happened and then claiming "Oh we didn't ASSAULT Mann, He freely chose to stand up and leave" looks really bad.
whoever is your public relations should be fired for making a non-story into a story. It was better before being just one sided. Open mouth insert foot.
When the project fails maybe people will finally start being cautious with Kickstarter projects and stop giving them so much money.
My biggest fear though is they will rip out all the specs, dumb it down to 2008 levels like a Tegra 1, and release it saying "LOOK WE MET OUR GOAL!" and no one will actually point out that they lied and Kickstarter will add a few more victims to the scammed list
If it sounds too good to be true, it is too good to be true. Problem is word is not getting out about all the scams on Kickstarter. All we hear are the successes, so people think everything on Kickstarter is legitimate when it's not, there are plenty of scams on Kickstarter.
How many stories did Slashdot run on ZionEyez? Answer: One, and even then the story was "Has this failed?" rather than "Kickstarter project stole $350,000"
Is everything on Kickstarter a scam? Of course not, but Kickstarter promises nothing on any project, they just give the information. In that regard it's a lot like Craigslist. Craigslist doesn't guarantee the guy you hired for roofing is going to do a good job. Difference is Kickstarter is presenting the information like it's legitimate, and I think that's where the problem is, why people are offering millions of dollars on projects that are obvious scams, because they believe Kickstarter has somehow verified these people when they're really no different than the guy offering to wash your windshield for a buck.
So he provided this information, sat down, and then, out of the blue:
Subsequently another person within McDonalds physically assaulted me,
This report sounds like bad fiction from someone with a gigantic ego and an armchair law degree:
Is McDonald's France trolling/.?
Seriously I can't believe the number of AC commenters saying the most ridiculous statements on here.
If you took a minute to RTFA you would see he was stopped by employees early on, but they accepted the documentation he had:
"while we were standing in line at McDonalds, I was stopped by.... a McDonalds employee, and he asked about my eyeglass (digital computer vision system, i.e. EyeTap)...... I had brought with me the letter from my doctor regarding my computer vision eyeglass,... I showed this doctor's letter and the documentation to the purported McDonalds employee....After reviewing the documentation, the purported McDonalds employee accepted me (and my family) as a customer, and left us to place our order. In what follows, I will refer to this person as "Possible Witness 1". "
I will say his writing sucks. It's written more like a police report than the blog that it is. He should really rewrite it.
And he should just show pictures of their faces, how are we suppose to identify them without faces?
Hot air balloons can not burst. If there is a hole they simply make a gentle descent, unlike helium balloons that do burst. That is why hot air balloons have been popular with the military in the past, they can not be shot down easily.
US has more rare earth elements than China but we don't even bother mining because it's been cheaper to just buy from them so far. Similar to oil, we have it, but it's cheaper to buy from the middle east.
OTA doesn't work ever since it went digital. I live 10 miles driving distance from downtown 5 million people. Before digital I got about a dozen channels. After digital all of them pause and pixelate every dozen seconds making OTA unwatchable. Digital OTA was a lie sold to Americans so the govt could license out the bandwidth for hundreds of millions.
It could at least specify what the 3.5 percent improvement is in comparison to. Otherwise it's pretty meaningless to make a "fastest shoe in the world" claim.
" French-born engineer and designer Luc Fusaro... tested the shoe on several competitive sprinters... it can improve performance by as much as 3.5%"
Gee, I mean, if that's what the press release says, then who am I to question it, right? Clearly that's been independently confirmed by top scientist and numerous studies have been done... oh wait, they haven't been? You mean, article on/. titled "Student Creates World's Fastest Shoe" is about a student who says he created the world's fastest shoe with no independent studies, no research backing up the claim, no.... nothing? Really?? Wow. Fail. Seriously? Ok, I invented the worlds fastest.... keyboard. Ya. You heard me. Increases typing speed by 3.5%, resulting in almost an entire hour saved every 40 hr work week. Proof? I said it, and tested it, with office workers that type a lot, isn't that proof enough? Hold on, I'll send out a press release and get it on/., that should be enough proof....
Google should not be meddling with this. What happened to 'not be evil' This reeks of evil.
i don't think this is "evil", but i agree, google doesn't really need to be advertising one way or the other. Offering it to employees in same sex relationships is up to them, but to advertise? That's pushing it too far. What's next, abortion? I don't like seeing companies get political
"Why Mark Zuckerberg Is a Bad Role Model For Aspiring Tech Execs"
because... he's not? He became his own tech exec, he wasn't elected, he wasn't hired, he didn't go to college to study business to be a CEO someday. Went to college, made a local "hot or not" clone, stole some guy's idea for a social networking, got noticed by the right people early on and the rest is history.
So yeah, if you want to be a CEO running a successful US high-tech firm, don't follow Zuckerberg.
But if you have a startup that you're trying to launch, Zuckerberg might not be a bad role model.
If he loses his job, and his wife isn't working, and they're having a kid, this is going to get really ugly really fast. By 40 you should have some buffers built up and it doesn't look like this guy has any.
This.
He should have came to us starting with "Hey/. I really #$%^ed up this time, is there any way out of this jam? I am a...."
Because by the sound of it he seems to be in denial that he created this situation. He must have saw his friends buying houses and their wives working but completely ignored it.
take their eyes off of the road, look down, refocus their eyes on their gas tank, make sure they're going a legal speed, and then look back up.
You check your speed often? Usually if I'm not flying by other vehicles and they're not significantly overtaking me I assume I must be going with the flow of traffic, which is usually approximately the speed limit. If I am alone, I reach the limit and don't exceed it (much) so there's no need to constantly check my speed, and on motorcycles you can tell the speed by the sound of the engine.
So no, there's usually no need to check your speed. Do you have a vehicle that is constantly speeding up and slowing down and you're not aware of it? If so that is unfortunate and you should have that repaired because that is a significant safety hazard.
Wearable computers simply aren't happening. What, your password is in your other pants? About the only rational possibility for them would be some sort of hilariously terrible glasses-equivalent. While that'd make DBZ geeks happy (WHAT DOES THE SCOUTER SAY?!?!?), such an interface would be a disaster from the usability - not to mention, sanity - standpoint.
This.
Just look at how poorly bluetooth does.
Bluetooth headsets have been around for what, at least 10 years now, long before phones were smart, and I still rarely see someone using a bluetooth headset, most people are still holding the phone to their ear, even at times when they shouldn't be like while driving. And at less than $20 they're not expensive, they're just not popular.
So they claim we're all going to have wearable computers, any day now, when they can't even get the average person to use a $20 bluetooth headset? Really?
Because we occupy to keep the peace, not start a war with local customs and law enforcement. We're not fighting the people of the countries we occupy, we're there to protect the people from evil governments... but there's always the outspoken few that riot.
What's really pathetic is that they even allow these "guest" countries to force stupid laws on military personnel stationed in those countries. For instance, female soldiers in Saudi Arabia still have to abide by the local laws there which are restrictive against women. What's the point of sending your military to foreign countries if you're going to follow the laws there, instead of doing things however you want?
Respect. And they only have to abide when off post/base, when they're on post/base they're technically on US soil so they're governed by US law. I really don't see a problem with this
The only people who should be setting this up are the people who admin the rest of the networking equipment on board.
yeah, i wondered about that, beginning of the question sounded like "i'm just some guy trying to get internet for my buddies" and by the end it sounded like it was officially sanctioned and approved? If it's official, they have their own people for that, but regardless the question is still the same.
MIL:
yeah lets ask the guys on slashdot, they could help iam sure
SGT: yes sir, good idea sir
I fail to see the problem with this... would you rather they throw billions at Fly-By-Nite-Live-In-Parents-Basement company that does the same thing? Who better to offer solutions than/.?
But the study is still logically wrong. It concludes "immigrants name on patents = immigrants needed for patents". Faulty logic. Just because there is an immigrants name on a patent, along with a dozen other names, does not mean that patent would not exist without immigrants. I could do the same study, but conclude that non-immigrants are crucial for patents, because 95% of the 2011 US patents had at least one non-immigrant inventor listed.
Besides study is biased, put out by pro-immigration group:" The Partnership for a New American Economy.... will pursue Congress and the White House to enact legislation which will create "a path to legal status for all undocumented immigrants now in the United States".[2] The partnership will seek to influence "by publishing studies, conducting polls, convening forums, and sponsoring public education campaigns".[1]"
So this is, basically, SPAM, on the front page of/.
Or, applying the term "scientist" more liberally, on the Mythbusters - Kari Byron - though technically, she's an artist. (Women, take your pick from the other hosts, I'm sticking with Kari.)
Slashdot Mirror
Exactly. Some countries already use drugs and harshly punish athletes that do not win which encourages them to do anything it takes to win. I hate to see what would happen if this was actually encouraged everywhere, and you know the science and technology would eventually filter down to us. This just seems all bad, nothing good can come from this, no records are worth the damage the would do. Besides how would this help? Records are broken every Olympics already so what would this do that is not already happening?
One can purchase a full size spare and doing so is cheaper than buying an SUV for the option of a full size spare.
Funny you say that. Back in 2001 I bought a Nissan Maxima, one of the few cars that came from the manufacturer with a full size spare tire.
I once got a flat and was changing the tire. Three different pedestrians stopped and commented on how they missed having a full size spare tire in their vehicle.
Toyota Avalon is another, or at least it did in 2001. Now days I just keep a tire inflator in the car since 99% of the time it's a slow leak not a completely ruined tire
Problem is weight. Suv battles itself. Oh we need 700 lbs of batteries to move 6,000 lbs suv? Ok add batteries.... oops now we are 6,700 lbs, we need more batteries.... ok, heavier again, more batteries... I don't understand, we keep adding batteries but we are just too heavy! That's why all hybrids have been basically lightweight super efficient cars before the batteries were added. Chevy tried some hybrid SUVs, the results have not been good. Google hybrid Tahoe, hybrid suburban, etc
2 gig of RAM to type a letter
This.
Came here to say the same thing. Seriously M$? Need the latest OS and 2gb RAM? What, no Nvidia AMD Radeon 1200 pixel shaders? How many cores do I need?
And what exactly does this do that the old Office 2010 doesn't do? Oh I can create a doc on my PC and edit it on my phone? I can do that now. Edit PDFs? Um.... great? Why is Windows 7 required for that? Embed videos? In a Word DOCUMENT? Check the weather in Outlook? Ok now you're just getting ridiculous.
This is a PR nightmare for McDonald's and they're only making it worse.
Nonsense. I read a number of newspapers and Internet news sites, and this is the first I've heard of it, and like most people, really don't care that much.
actually... I didn't care much either, until McDonald's replied to it and McDonald's confirmed Mann was ejected from premises.
See, that's the rub, Mann claims he was physically assaulted, McDonald's claims he was... what, politely asked to leave and he got up and said "Oh very well then I shall be off on my way thank you very much for the meal good sirs!"
Come on McD's! That's hard to swallow (ha!). You're telling us you DID kick him out but he's completely lying about the manner in which he was kicked out?
I don't buy it.
McDonalds there was only TWO ways of solving this:
1) Completely deny ANYTHING happened. All of it, never happened, complete lie. Not the best way, see 2)
2) Apologize PROFUSELY over what happened, promise to "fully compensate Mann for the destruction of his property and any mental anguish he endured", and promise to launch a "FULL investigation".... and then do nothing... well, negotiate paying Mann over the next few months until story blows over and then give him a fraction of what he's really deserved. Makes McD look good and costs very little.
Really people public relations is not that hard. Confirming what happened and then claiming "Oh we didn't ASSAULT Mann, He freely chose to stand up and leave" looks really bad.
whoever is your public relations should be fired for making a non-story into a story. It was better before being just one sided. Open mouth insert foot.
they didn't touch this guy but they did call the police on him when McDonald's refused to give him his food or his money back.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJlkdCbysYw
Then again it's in the US so maybe different policy?
I will say this might be the project that breaks Kickstarter.
Like someone posted it will be impossible for them to offer the specs they claim they can offer.
When the project fails maybe people will finally start being cautious with Kickstarter projects and stop giving them so much money.
My biggest fear though is they will rip out all the specs, dumb it down to 2008 levels like a Tegra 1, and release it saying "LOOK WE MET OUR GOAL!" and no one will actually point out that they lied and Kickstarter will add a few more victims to the scammed list
as it has been said on here before many Kickstarter projects are a scam
Zioneyez used Kickstarter to steal $350,000 and delivered nothing
When people complained, Kickstarter said "no refunds"
If it sounds too good to be true, it is too good to be true. Problem is word is not getting out about all the scams on Kickstarter. All we hear are the successes, so people think everything on Kickstarter is legitimate when it's not, there are plenty of scams on Kickstarter.
How many stories did Slashdot run on ZionEyez? Answer: One, and even then the story was "Has this failed?" rather than "Kickstarter project stole $350,000"
How many stories did Slashdot run on Disapora? Answer: At least seven, even though Diaspora never met it's Summer 2010 deadline and many would argue it never achieved what was promised despite receiving $190,000 more than their goal
Is everything on Kickstarter a scam? Of course not, but Kickstarter promises nothing on any project, they just give the information. In that regard it's a lot like Craigslist. Craigslist doesn't guarantee the guy you hired for roofing is going to do a good job. Difference is Kickstarter is presenting the information like it's legitimate, and I think that's where the problem is, why people are offering millions of dollars on projects that are obvious scams, because they believe Kickstarter has somehow verified these people when they're really no different than the guy offering to wash your windshield for a buck.
So he provided this information, sat down, and then, out of the blue:
Subsequently another person within McDonalds physically assaulted me,
This report sounds like bad fiction from someone with a gigantic ego and an armchair law degree:
Is McDonald's France trolling /.?
.... a McDonalds employee, and he asked about my eyeglass (digital computer vision system, i.e. EyeTap). ..... I had brought with me the letter from my doctor regarding my computer vision eyeglass, ... I showed this doctor's letter and the documentation to the purported McDonalds employee ....After reviewing the documentation, the purported McDonalds employee accepted me (and my family) as a customer, and left us to place our order. In what follows, I will refer to this person as "Possible Witness 1". "
Seriously I can't believe the number of AC commenters saying the most ridiculous statements on here.
If you took a minute to RTFA you would see he was stopped by employees early on, but they accepted the documentation he had:
"while we were standing in line at McDonalds, I was stopped by
I will say his writing sucks. It's written more like a police report than the blog that it is. He should really rewrite it.
And he should just show pictures of their faces, how are we suppose to identify them without faces?
Hot air balloons can not burst. If there is a hole they simply make a gentle descent, unlike helium balloons that do burst. That is why hot air balloons have been popular with the military in the past, they can not be shot down easily.
US has more rare earth elements than China but we don't even bother mining because it's been cheaper to just buy from them so far. Similar to oil, we have it, but it's cheaper to buy from the middle east.
OTA doesn't work ever since it went digital. I live 10 miles driving distance from downtown 5 million people. Before digital I got about a dozen channels. After digital all of them pause and pixelate every dozen seconds making OTA unwatchable. Digital OTA was a lie sold to Americans so the govt could license out the bandwidth for hundreds of millions.
It could at least specify what the 3.5 percent improvement is in comparison to. Otherwise it's pretty meaningless to make a "fastest shoe in the world" claim.
3.5% improvement!**
**+-3% degree of error
But can we please put these one some people and run them around before saying bullshit like "Apparently the shoe can improve performance by 3.5%"?
But... but... the designer says it's world's fastest shoe, you need more proof than that?
/. titled "Student Creates World's Fastest Shoe" is about a student who says he created the world's fastest shoe with no independent studies, no research backing up the claim, no.... nothing? Really?? Wow. Fail. Seriously? Ok, I invented the worlds fastest.... keyboard. Ya. You heard me. Increases typing speed by 3.5%, resulting in almost an entire hour saved every 40 hr work week. Proof? I said it, and tested it, with office workers that type a lot, isn't that proof enough? Hold on, I'll send out a press release and get it on /., that should be enough proof....
" French-born engineer and designer Luc Fusaro... tested the shoe on several competitive sprinters... it can improve performance by as much as 3.5%"
Gee, I mean, if that's what the press release says, then who am I to question it, right? Clearly that's been independently confirmed by top scientist and numerous studies have been done... oh wait, they haven't been? You mean, article on
Google should not be meddling with this. What happened to 'not be evil' This reeks of evil.
i don't think this is "evil", but i agree, google doesn't really need to be advertising one way or the other. Offering it to employees in same sex relationships is up to them, but to advertise? That's pushing it too far. What's next, abortion? I don't like seeing companies get political
Jobs and Wozniak, to name two more...
and did anyone noticed the title is wrong?
"Why Mark Zuckerberg Is a Bad Role Model For Aspiring Tech Execs"
because... he's not? He became his own tech exec, he wasn't elected, he wasn't hired, he didn't go to college to study business to be a CEO someday. Went to college, made a local "hot or not" clone, stole some guy's idea for a social networking, got noticed by the right people early on and the rest is history.
So yeah, if you want to be a CEO running a successful US high-tech firm, don't follow Zuckerberg.
But if you have a startup that you're trying to launch, Zuckerberg might not be a bad role model.
If he loses his job, and his wife isn't working, and they're having a kid, this is going to get really ugly really fast. By 40 you should have some buffers built up and it doesn't look like this guy has any.
This.
/. I really #$%^ed up this time, is there any way out of this jam? I am a ...."
He should have came to us starting with "Hey
Because by the sound of it he seems to be in denial that he created this situation. He must have saw his friends buying houses and their wives working but completely ignored it.
take their eyes off of the road, look down, refocus their eyes on their gas tank, make sure they're going a legal speed, and then look back up.
You check your speed often? Usually if I'm not flying by other vehicles and they're not significantly overtaking me I assume I must be going with the flow of traffic, which is usually approximately the speed limit. If I am alone, I reach the limit and don't exceed it (much) so there's no need to constantly check my speed, and on motorcycles you can tell the speed by the sound of the engine.
So no, there's usually no need to check your speed. Do you have a vehicle that is constantly speeding up and slowing down and you're not aware of it? If so that is unfortunate and you should have that repaired because that is a significant safety hazard.
Wearable computers simply aren't happening. What, your password is in your other pants? About the only rational possibility for them would be some sort of hilariously terrible glasses-equivalent. While that'd make DBZ geeks happy (WHAT DOES THE SCOUTER SAY?!?!?), such an interface would be a disaster from the usability - not to mention, sanity - standpoint.
This.
Just look at how poorly bluetooth does.
Bluetooth headsets have been around for what, at least 10 years now, long before phones were smart, and I still rarely see someone using a bluetooth headset, most people are still holding the phone to their ear, even at times when they shouldn't be like while driving. And at less than $20 they're not expensive, they're just not popular.
So they claim we're all going to have wearable computers, any day now, when they can't even get the average person to use a $20 bluetooth headset? Really?
And let's not even mention that more than half of a smartphone's size is due to the battery to run it. So where does that large battery go on wearable computers? Or are we all going to have to suffer with a ~2 hr battery life?
This google team is so out of touch with reality it's not even funny. Will this technology be available to average consumers someday? Sure. Will it "look unusual and awkward when we view someone holding an object in their hand and looking down at it (in three to five years)"? No.
Why would you respect a country you're occupying?
Because we occupy to keep the peace, not start a war with local customs and law enforcement. We're not fighting the people of the countries we occupy, we're there to protect the people from evil governments... but there's always the outspoken few that riot.
Even in South Korea where we have a base to protect South Koreans from hostile North Korea their are some that protest against our presence.
What's really pathetic is that they even allow these "guest" countries to force stupid laws on military personnel stationed in those countries. For instance, female soldiers in Saudi Arabia still have to abide by the local laws there which are restrictive against women. What's the point of sending your military to foreign countries if you're going to follow the laws there, instead of doing things however you want?
Respect. And they only have to abide when off post/base, when they're on post/base they're technically on US soil so they're governed by US law. I really don't see a problem with this
The only people who should be setting this up are the people who admin the rest of the networking equipment on board.
yeah, i wondered about that, beginning of the question sounded like "i'm just some guy trying to get internet for my buddies" and by the end it sounded like it was officially sanctioned and approved? If it's official, they have their own people for that, but regardless the question is still the same.
MIL: yeah lets ask the guys on slashdot, they could help iam sure SGT: yes sir, good idea sir
I fail to see the problem with this... would you rather they throw billions at Fly-By-Nite-Live-In-Parents-Basement company that does the same thing? Who better to offer solutions than /.?
In other words, you only want White, Immigrants, no ones with a little brown in their skin.
Think you need to see the countries of origin on page 9
/.
But the study is still logically wrong. It concludes "immigrants name on patents = immigrants needed for patents". Faulty logic. Just because there is an immigrants name on a patent, along with a dozen other names, does not mean that patent would not exist without immigrants. I could do the same study, but conclude that non-immigrants are crucial for patents, because 95% of the 2011 US patents had at least one non-immigrant inventor listed.
Besides study is biased, put out by pro-immigration group: " The Partnership for a New American Economy.... will pursue Congress and the White House to enact legislation which will create "a path to legal status for all undocumented immigrants now in the United States".[2] The partnership will seek to influence "by publishing studies, conducting polls, convening forums, and sponsoring public education campaigns".[1]"
So this is, basically, SPAM, on the front page of
Or, applying the term "scientist" more liberally, on the Mythbusters - Kari Byron - though technically, she's an artist. (Women, take your pick from the other hosts, I'm sticking with Kari.)
horrible example. She's a film student they hired because she's pretty and they needed a pretty face on the show. BA in Film and Sculpture. Complete opposite of science. No science jobs, no science training, no interest in science, she's just a model.
Jeri Ellsworth is a MUCH better example of a sexy female scientist. She invented the Commodore 64 emulator within a joystick, a popular toy that sold well on QVC and at Walmart. And check out these sexy photos of her soldering a circuit board.