Man, if you really have that little imagination, you should watch TV. They have these people, they're called surgeons, and they put them on call. Barring real-world experience, you could learn this by watching ER. Or General Hospital.
When they need a specific type of surgeon, they call them, and they can often need a particular type of surgeon (say, neuro-) on very short notice.
You know what? I don't give a fuck. First off, you watch some really shitty TV. Second, if you're a doctor and you're on call, you're not more important than anyone else. There's a whole lot of things you can do that don't necessitate silence. Find one of them, stay out of the damned theater.
Please engage your brain before visiting slashdot.
Yeah, that's clearly a requirement around here. And as far as brains go, you'd lose a battle of wits with Bubbles the Chimp anyway, so you're not one to talk.
These people will be a minority anyway, and that way people who actually need to receive calls anywhere they go in order to have a life can receive those calls.
I question the validity of this a bit. If it's that critical, you go to the emergency room, you don't call a doctor in a theater. I think most of this boils down to doctors' egos.
ya know.. thats crap too, because in some cases, like myself, i'm the ONLY person at my company responsible for a lot of things. I'm on call 24x7x365 (ecspecially now that i have one of the htc wizards as a leash). I used to have a counter part that could cover some of the stuph, but never all of it.
Well, what passes as an emergency to your company probably doesn't pass as an emergency to the rest of us, not worth disrupting the (increasingly expensive) movie experience for 100 people.
At the same time, my phone is always on vibrate in a theatre, or other such occasion, and i mute it before it vibrates to much/or stop the call completely, walk outside and deal with the situation. As the gp mentioned, I would gladly forward calls to a provided emergency number, even if i had to walk over to some employee, set it up, and tell them where i am seating.
Unfortunately, most people aren't as courteous as you. I don't think anyone's suggesting that what you're describing *not* be an alternative - I think the theater would be quite willing to help you in exchange for not allowing you cell service.
I'm willing to compromise, but you people saying that this isnt true and should never happen, or that the people in my position or that of Doctors and such shouldnt have a life need to get over yourselves.
No, the people who think they're more important than the other 100 people in the theater need to get over themselves. No one's saying Doctors shouldn't have lives, but in every case, there's a workaround that doesn't involve getting calls in the theater. Anyway, the majority of calls in theaters aren't to doctors, and most aren't emergencies.
As you say, the compromise of giving your theater number to the friendly counter jockey should be quite acceptable to all.
If this lawsuit stands... shouldn't Eco be allowed to sue too, since DVC treads the same topics and probably uses some of the same historical references? For that matter, shouldn't every Hollywood movie today be under lawsuit, considering they've all stolen their storylines from somewhere?
If it were close enough, he'd have a better case, since his stuff is *fiction*. In any event, simple subject matter is not sufficient for copyright violation.
Yes they give the changes back, but they still make money FROM YOUR WORK WITHOUT PAYING YOU.
Well, that's kind of the point. I don't mind doing a "trade" - I get their software, they get mine - but I'll be damned if I'm doing that work for absolutely no compensation of any kind for a for-profit company.
By the way, caps are annoying, you're not on an AOL chatroom.
Why in the world would Sony launch a new console while thier PS2 is the current best selling console? They would only be competing with themselves, and that my friend is bad business.
Same reason car manufacturers sell more than one car - different markets. The PS2 currently sells for about $125 I think, and plays a ton of older games, though probably not all the current titles by the time the PS3 comes out. The PS3 will have a limited supply of games, but *will* have some exclusives (I guarantee it), and will cost somewhere around $600 when it first comes out (just a guess), at least after eBay gets involved.
Clearly, these two machines are *not* targeted at the same cosnumer. And recall that the PSone sold for a loooong time after the PS2 came out.
The UV radiation is what causes cancer, not the visible spectrum.
But visible would have a better chance than low-power microwave. Single photons of visible light can cause permanant changes in molecules whereas microwave cannot. Fortunately visible light is slightly too weak to cause permanant changes in DNA at an appreciable rate.
I don't believe your logic. How does the manufacturer get the idea that something is worth making? Because the wholesalers buy a lot of it. And why would they? Because the customers do.
It would take tens of thousands of assholes doing that for them to notice, and that ain't happening. And it still ignores the fact that you're needlessly being a dick to the owner of the store and wasting your time.
Face it - certain hardware doesn't work with certain operating systems. If you want to use a less-used OS, be ready to check hardware compatibility before you buy.
No, I see taking things back as sending a message that manufacturers have to start supporting the device and not windows.
Then drive it back to the manufacturer. Otherwise, you're just being an asshole to the store owner, and the manufacturer doesn't get the message anyway.
Fuck that, I bought the hardware and I want to use it.
And I want to plug a lamp into my powerbook, but guess who's the idiot if it doesn't work? Not every device works with every possible operating system. If you do want nearly guaranteed compatibility, use the latest version of windows. You're not entitled to everything you want.
I mean, of course there is the aspect of "customer feedback" which might push changes in the product lines, which I believe in, but I think if this is what you're going for then maybe a letter or two would be more effective.
Even that "customer feedback" angle just pisses off the store, not the manufacturer. Personally I think g'parent just likes being an ass.
It would appear that you're trying to let google off the hook, just because another organization (the government) has also dealt with the criminal regime. Sorry, morality doesn't work that way. Having company doesn't excuse a crime.
No, but it sure means that Congress doesn't have any business conducting this.
It is difficult for most people to ascertain the tone of written communication due to their poor reading skills and the poor writing skills of the sender. Idiots need to go back to elementary school to learn something about grammar.
Can you guess the tone of this comment?
Pedantic, condescending, and arrogant? YES, a flamewar!!!!
Global warming is about as solid as the basis on which greenhouses work. All it relies on is the absorption spectrum of CO2 (and other greenhouse gases) and on blackbody radiation. Both are extremely well tested parts of science, up there with gravity and relativity.
No, it's not. Modeling climate change is far more complicated and difficult than a simpleminded approach like that. For one, it's difficult to predict the effects of aerosol and cloud formation, both of which reflect/scatter light and reduce the total incident solar energy. It's also necessary to model the CO2 harvesting charactersitics of oceans, and glacial movement as well.
I'm not saying global warming *doesn't* exist, or that it's anthropogenic, but real climatologists will tell you that saying CO2 + IR absorption = warming doesn't cut it.
The biggest problem Wikipedia has is topic bias. For some reason, it's database is full of every Trekkie / LoR / Anime fanboi dump that ever appeared on the Internet. When your encylopedia's entry for the Battle of Mordoor has more information than the entry for the Battle of the Bulge, it's time to start chopping topics.
Not that I don't agree with your concept in general, but your example seems to be incorrect.
Ironically, theologians have also spent lifetimes on their work, yet rarely are they given credit for being thoughtful, reasonable people reaching thoughtful, reasonable conclusions.
They simply aren't following anything approxomating the scientific method and as such aren't scientists. Religion and science mix worse than oil and water. If you seek truth through religion then have fun, but understand this is a personal choice. Don't attempt to subject others to it.
And don't tell me it's because science contradicts theology.
Often it does, but it depends on the particular theology. Personally, I would say that theology often contradicts science.
Most of the core theological propositions are metaphysical in nature, putting them beyond the limit of things science is equipped to study.
That's a nice way of saying that most theological propositions are carefully constructed so as to prevent their actually being tested and thus disproven.
New research is constantly supplanting old research. Perfectly plausible theories are disproven regularly. Painstaking attempts to reproduce experimental results often fail.
Which is a strength of the scientific method, as opposed to more dogmatic approaches which determine what is correct and seek to prove it later.
As far as I can tell, science is no more the proper judge of theology than theology is the proper judge of science.
Right, so keep religion out of science classes and public schools in general. Teach your own kids whatever you want under your own roof. As long as we're agreed on that, I have no problem.
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Your wife's f'ing nuts. Glad mine's not, sorry man.
Where you gonna build that refinery?
When they need a specific type of surgeon, they call them, and they can often need a particular type of surgeon (say, neuro-) on very short notice.
You know what? I don't give a fuck. First off, you watch some really shitty TV. Second, if you're a doctor and you're on call, you're not more important than anyone else. There's a whole lot of things you can do that don't necessitate silence. Find one of them, stay out of the damned theater.
Please engage your brain before visiting slashdot.
Yeah, that's clearly a requirement around here. And as far as brains go, you'd lose a battle of wits with Bubbles the Chimp anyway, so you're not one to talk.
I question the validity of this a bit. If it's that critical, you go to the emergency room, you don't call a doctor in a theater. I think most of this boils down to doctors' egos.
Well, what passes as an emergency to your company probably doesn't pass as an emergency to the rest of us, not worth disrupting the (increasingly expensive) movie experience for 100 people.
At the same time, my phone is always on vibrate in a theatre, or other such occasion, and i mute it before it vibrates to much/or stop the call completely, walk outside and deal with the situation. As the gp mentioned, I would gladly forward calls to a provided emergency number, even if i had to walk over to some employee, set it up, and tell them where i am seating.
Unfortunately, most people aren't as courteous as you. I don't think anyone's suggesting that what you're describing *not* be an alternative - I think the theater would be quite willing to help you in exchange for not allowing you cell service.
I'm willing to compromise, but you people saying that this isnt true and should never happen, or that the people in my position or that of Doctors and such shouldnt have a life need to get over yourselves.
No, the people who think they're more important than the other 100 people in the theater need to get over themselves. No one's saying Doctors shouldn't have lives, but in every case, there's a workaround that doesn't involve getting calls in the theater. Anyway, the majority of calls in theaters aren't to doctors, and most aren't emergencies.
As you say, the compromise of giving your theater number to the friendly counter jockey should be quite acceptable to all.
Well, yeah, but by a cute little angst-ridden emo guy. Dunno about you, that's not my idea of a good time.
This month only though, flavor of the month. Next month they're doing AJAX.
If it were close enough, he'd have a better case, since his stuff is *fiction*. In any event, simple subject matter is not sufficient for copyright violation.
Yeah, I've always loved that argument from the big pharmas. Why has no one asked them why they're shipping unsafe drugs to Canada?
You can take your Web 2.0 and stick it up your information superhighway!
Well, that's kind of the point. I don't mind doing a "trade" - I get their software, they get mine - but I'll be damned if I'm doing that work for absolutely no compensation of any kind for a for-profit company.
By the way, caps are annoying, you're not on an AOL chatroom.
Same reason car manufacturers sell more than one car - different markets. The PS2 currently sells for about $125 I think, and plays a ton of older games, though probably not all the current titles by the time the PS3 comes out. The PS3 will have a limited supply of games, but *will* have some exclusives (I guarantee it), and will cost somewhere around $600 when it first comes out (just a guess), at least after eBay gets involved.
Clearly, these two machines are *not* targeted at the same cosnumer. And recall that the PSone sold for a loooong time after the PS2 came out.
Doubt it. Who do you sue?
It might annoy me to think that I was basically working for free for a company who takes my work and makes money from it.
But visible would have a better chance than low-power microwave. Single photons of visible light can cause permanant changes in molecules whereas microwave cannot. Fortunately visible light is slightly too weak to cause permanant changes in DNA at an appreciable rate.
For an entire continent? At a rate greater than previous periods that should have had worse methods of making durable writing materials? Probably not.
It would take tens of thousands of assholes doing that for them to notice, and that ain't happening. And it still ignores the fact that you're needlessly being a dick to the owner of the store and wasting your time.
Face it - certain hardware doesn't work with certain operating systems. If you want to use a less-used OS, be ready to check hardware compatibility before you buy.
Not for the Beatles. Know when their last big concert was? They quit touring early.
Then drive it back to the manufacturer. Otherwise, you're just being an asshole to the store owner, and the manufacturer doesn't get the message anyway.
Fuck that, I bought the hardware and I want to use it.
And I want to plug a lamp into my powerbook, but guess who's the idiot if it doesn't work? Not every device works with every possible operating system. If you do want nearly guaranteed compatibility, use the latest version of windows. You're not entitled to everything you want.
Even that "customer feedback" angle just pisses off the store, not the manufacturer. Personally I think g'parent just likes being an ass.
It would appear that you're trying to let google off the hook, just because another organization (the government) has also dealt with the criminal regime. Sorry, morality doesn't work that way. Having company doesn't excuse a crime.
No, but it sure means that Congress doesn't have any business conducting this.
Pedantic, condescending, and arrogant? YES, a flamewar!!!!
No, it's not. Modeling climate change is far more complicated and difficult than a simpleminded approach like that. For one, it's difficult to predict the effects of aerosol and cloud formation, both of which reflect/scatter light and reduce the total incident solar energy. It's also necessary to model the CO2 harvesting charactersitics of oceans, and glacial movement as well.
I'm not saying global warming *doesn't* exist, or that it's anthropogenic, but real climatologists will tell you that saying CO2 + IR absorption = warming doesn't cut it.
The biggest problem Wikipedia has is topic bias. For some reason, it's database is full of every Trekkie / LoR / Anime fanboi dump that ever appeared on the Internet. When your encylopedia's entry for the Battle of Mordoor has more information than the entry for the Battle of the Bulge, it's time to start chopping topics. Not that I don't agree with your concept in general, but your example seems to be incorrect.
They simply aren't following anything approxomating the scientific method and as such aren't scientists. Religion and science mix worse than oil and water. If you seek truth through religion then have fun, but understand this is a personal choice. Don't attempt to subject others to it.
And don't tell me it's because science contradicts theology.
Often it does, but it depends on the particular theology. Personally, I would say that theology often contradicts science.
Most of the core theological propositions are metaphysical in nature, putting them beyond the limit of things science is equipped to study.
That's a nice way of saying that most theological propositions are carefully constructed so as to prevent their actually being tested and thus disproven.
New research is constantly supplanting old research. Perfectly plausible theories are disproven regularly. Painstaking attempts to reproduce experimental results often fail.
Which is a strength of the scientific method, as opposed to more dogmatic approaches which determine what is correct and seek to prove it later.
As far as I can tell, science is no more the proper judge of theology than theology is the proper judge of science.
Right, so keep religion out of science classes and public schools in general. Teach your own kids whatever you want under your own roof. As long as we're agreed on that, I have no problem.