Perhaps my childhood memories of reading spider-man are inaccurate, but I thought that Otto Octavious was Eastern European. Anyone else remember that? If it's true, why would the movie producers change that? Oh, and what's with his trenchcoat? Where's that lame full body green suit that made me pitty him?
Gee, whatever did these people do before the cellular telephone? I can't possibly imagine. Heaven forbid that someone in these professions should have to use a telephone with WIRES, or tell someone where they're going to be for the next couple of hours.
Gimme a break. Anyone who needs to call 911 on his cell but can't because he's in a "no service" area inside of a movie theatre, concert hall, etc. is going to have approximately 200 people in the immediate vicinity who can come to his aid and/or go fetch the paramedics USING A LANDLINE.
And what about incoming emergency phone calls you weren't expecting? If my father has a heart attack, or one of my friends needs immediate help, that phone call should get to me. Are you seriously suggesting that I tell everyone where I will be all the time so they can call the restaurant I'm at if there is a problem?
I think your comment about 'doctors got along fine before cell phones' is just insulting. Cell phones make these people more accessible, which I think is a good thing. Are you seriously suggesting that we make the life-saving professionals less accessible?
When they mentioned projecting an image on the windshied all I could imagine was the Blue Screen of Death blocking my view suddenly and causing my actual death.
Pray tell, but how would you propose to block a link? Let's say that MS gives CNN a wad of cash to link every word Microsoft to Microsoft.com. How would you propose to block that?
On a more selfish level, I keep a weblog about London. If some local pub gave me a wad of cash (please!) to work them into my weekly articles and link to them, how would to write a plugin that could distinguish between the paid content an the article? You couldn't.
::Smiles at the idea of a carrier pigeon bursting into flame as soon as a message is attatched to its leg because it now falls under the 'technology' category::
Magic is, by definition, what we don't understand.
That is such crap. I don't understand how international currency exchange rates work, but I don't say 'must be magic!'. Scientists don't know why the magnetic poles of the Earth reverse, but I doubt that any of them would suggest the reason is Magic until they learn something new.
Scientists have yet to explain the phenomenon... leading many people to look to supernatural causes
It really makes me sad when, if people don't understand something they assume it's magic. Why is it that so many people refuse to take 'we don't know yet' as an acceptable answer?
Whoops. I guess that paragraph wasn't too clear. I ment that the price charged on the trian 4.95GBP/hr is greater that the min wage, which is, I believe, 4.10GBP/hr.
I don't know that much about how the technology works, but it seems to me that there is almost 0 new infrastructure necessary -- but everywhere I go in London, WiFi is outrageously expensive. Can someone with more technological knowledge than I explain this? Perhaps I'm missing some cost, but it seems to me that if they charged 1GBP/hour people would use it without thinking. But, when the cost is higher than the minimum wage, second thoughts arise.
News, the volunteers are expected to show their emotions in a chimp like fashion. This can be done by baring their teeth and by using submissive body language such as lowering their heads and crouching
And this is different from how human body language is used how?
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A common thing I've seen in these replacement stories is 'we didn't know we were training our replacements'. What I want to know is, did the replacements know they were being trained as replacements?
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How long is the preview on that?
-Colin
From the make-sure-you-have-plenty-of-candles dept.
How very optimistic of you Michael
-Colin
That really depends on how long you think your parents are going to live. :\
Perhaps my childhood memories of reading spider-man are inaccurate, but I thought that Otto Octavious was Eastern European. Anyone else remember that? If it's true, why would the movie producers change that? Oh, and what's with his trenchcoat? Where's that lame full body green suit that made me pitty him?
-Colin
Gee, whatever did these people do before the cellular telephone? I can't possibly imagine. Heaven forbid that someone in these professions should have to use a telephone with WIRES, or tell someone where they're going to be for the next couple of hours.
Gimme a break. Anyone who needs to call 911 on his cell but can't because he's in a "no service" area inside of a movie theatre, concert hall, etc. is going to have approximately 200 people in the immediate vicinity who can come to his aid and/or go fetch the paramedics USING A LANDLINE.
And what about incoming emergency phone calls you weren't expecting? If my father has a heart attack, or one of my friends needs immediate help, that phone call should get to me. Are you seriously suggesting that I tell everyone where I will be all the time so they can call the restaurant I'm at if there is a problem?
I think your comment about 'doctors got along fine before cell phones' is just insulting. Cell phones make these people more accessible, which I think is a good thing. Are you seriously suggesting that we make the life-saving professionals less accessible?
-Colin
P.S. My cell phone is on vibrate mode all the time so that I don't bother anyone else.
When they mentioned projecting an image on the windshied all I could imagine was the Blue Screen of Death blocking my view suddenly and causing my actual death.
-Colin
It has to be literally 100 percent fool proof before an automaker will use it.
Well, looks like no matter how you build these systems, quantum uncertainty is going to prevent your product from comming to market.
-Colin
Tux babies, not Tux babes
-Colin
That's why I included the second example of the Earth's magnetic poles, an example where no one knows the answer.
-Colin
Pray tell, but how would you propose to block a link? Let's say that MS gives CNN a wad of cash to link every word Microsoft to Microsoft.com. How would you propose to block that?
On a more selfish level, I keep a weblog about London. If some local pub gave me a wad of cash (please!) to work them into my weekly articles and link to them, how would to write a plugin that could distinguish between the paid content an the article? You couldn't.
-Colin
Boy, if the hyperlinking habits of bloggers messed with google's pagerank algorithm, just imagine the damage this will do.
-Colin
::Smiles at the idea of a carrier pigeon bursting into flame as soon as a message is attatched to its leg because it now falls under the 'technology' category::
-Colin
True, but that doesn't mean it is magic.
-Colin
Magic is, by definition, what we don't understand.
That is such crap. I don't understand how international currency exchange rates work, but I don't say 'must be magic!'. Scientists don't know why the magnetic poles of the Earth reverse, but I doubt that any of them would suggest the reason is Magic until they learn something new.
-Colin
Scientists have yet to explain the phenomenon ... leading many people to look to supernatural causes
It really makes me sad when, if people don't understand something they assume it's magic. Why is it that so many people refuse to take 'we don't know yet' as an acceptable answer?
Science: 0
Magic: 1
:/
-Colin
Whoops. I guess that paragraph wasn't too clear. I ment that the price charged on the trian 4.95GBP/hr is greater that the min wage, which is, I believe, 4.10GBP/hr.
-Colin
Your reversed emoticon hurts my eyes :-)
-Colin
I don't know that much about how the technology works, but it seems to me that there is almost 0 new infrastructure necessary -- but everywhere I go in London, WiFi is outrageously expensive. Can someone with more technological knowledge than I explain this? Perhaps I'm missing some cost, but it seems to me that if they charged 1GBP/hour people would use it without thinking. But, when the cost is higher than the minimum wage, second thoughts arise.
-Colin
Cue the poo-flinging jokes in 5... 4... 3... 2... 1... splat!
-Colin
News, the volunteers are expected to show their emotions in a chimp like fashion. This can be done by baring their teeth and by using submissive body language such as lowering their heads and crouching
And this is different from how human body language is used how?
-Colin
Luckily, good new non-blockbuster, non-sequel-generating movies come out now and then, such as Master and Commander
I guess you are not aware then that Master and Commander is the first in a series of twenty, yes twenty books.
-Colin
Arbitrary Actor: You know Chris, I can't but think that this whole idea of yours is expensive and dangerous.
Christopher Columbus: Yeah, you're right actually. Sod this, let's go for a pint,
And millions of Native Americans sigh in relief.
-Colin
From the slightly-ahead-of-its-time dept
So are you saying that in the future linux will be often installed on a dead badger?
-Colin
A common thing I've seen in these replacement stories is 'we didn't know we were training our replacements'. What I want to know is, did the replacements know they were being trained as replacements?
-Colin
virus companies, who appear to have gone quite literally bananas
So have they turned into bananas, or have they just gone to banana rich lands? Sorry, but I can't see how one can literally go bananas.
-Colin