There have been plenty of movies that I haven't gone to see in the theater because I've watched a copy I downloaded and hated it.
How many times have you been tricked into going to see a movie because of the trailer, only to sit through a horrible film. I think the movie studio's should have an obligation not to sell junk and lie about it with misleading trailers. So if a movie is good enough to see on a small computer monitor at a low resolution, and it is good, chances are you will want to see it on a big screen. Likewise, if it sucks, that is the movie studio's own fault. They should put out good movies and be honest in advertising. I am tired of having a movies best jokes be in the trailer, and having the movie be worse than the trailer.
Second, if a movie sucks, it is not like we can get a refund like if a hamburger is undercooked. If the movie industry treated us like valuable customers then I would be all for giving them some respect. But the more they treat us like sheep, the more I see it as a US vs THEM.
Offered in RealVideo® 10 and through RealPlayer®, movies will take as little as 20 minutes to download depending on the speed of the subscriber's broadband service.
If most DVD's are 4 gigs, what quality will there be in a 20 minute download. At 200 k/second, can you even get a full gig in 20 minutes? I wonder if these movies will be at low resolutions. And at 12 bucks a month, I would like to be able to use the computer to play it on my 36" TV. But I know how much worse a movie can look just by doubling the window size on my 17" monitor. I can't imagine it would look good on a TV.
RealPlayer 10 and Helix DRM Provide Highest Quality and Security
What kind of DRM will be included in this? Can I download the movie and watch it on my laptop while away from a network connection. And what will stop someone from recording what is on their screen. I can't help but think this product/service is going to suck. Plus, ever since RealPlayer invaded my privacy years ago I have never trusted them. I do not like a company where I have to search and search and search for a setting that will disable sending reports back to the company about how I use my PC.
How about getting back to where people can buy and own stuff? Like back when VCR's came out and if I taped something, I could watch it anytime and anywhere. I hear iTunes lets people download their product and use it as they wish. Why dosen't the movie companies do the same thing?
First, I do not use AOL IM. But I have friends who do, and most of them also pay for the dial up service. If AOL starts adding on the charges, I think many of them will finally get DSL or a cable modem and use some other service. This is going to backfire and hurt their sales of dial up service, which are probably declining anyways.
And even if all the other IM services start charging money, it does not matter to me. I could bang out a simple java program which uses sockets to send IM's back and forth with my friends. Anyone that wants to be added to the list can get the program emailed to them, no problem with platform. I know it sounds simplistic, but it is so simple to write in java. I bet there would be a ton of free open source alternatives within a few days.
I actually like many of the things Windows does. It is easy to use, installing hardware and adding drivers is easy to do. Even blowing off a hard drive and reinstalling is very easy, much more easy than Linux. I remember a night trying to install Red Hat 6 on an old P200 with 64 megs, and it was such a pain. Besides having to open up the computer and write down every peice of hardware (there was no auto-detect like in Windows), sometimes entering the right hardware would still not work). I never could get X Windows to run. Not even a light WM, like Ice. For some reason, the 1 meg video chip on the motherborad just would not work with Red Hat.
Having said that, I also run Debian. It installed with ease on my p4 laptop, and the fact it does not use rpm's is so nice!!!
Since I use both, perhaps the question for me is what will make me leave Windows. There is only one thing that comes to mind. If they keep forcing DRM in everything they make. It seems like Windows wants to keep limiting what I can do with their products. I want to watch an occasional DVD from Europe on my PC in the USA. Not on standard Windows components. I can't say how many times I have had to find open source alternatives to standard Windows components. And I hate the EULA. I hate that Windows can keep having the "update" pop-up and want to connect to Microsoft, and that it is impossible to turn off unless messing with the registry. And I REALLY WISH Microsoft would wait with releasing whatever version of Windows they are working on until they fix most of the bugs. I was so MAD when I PAID for Windows 2000, and I wanted to get service pack 1 to fix security holes-- Microsoft made me have to accept a new EULA and that damn update pop-up was part of it. I had a friend with Windows ME on a HP computer they purchased. It kept crashing. They eventually had to go to the store to buy Windows 98 (they did not want to learn Linux, they just wanted to type papers for class).
So I guess if Microsoft decides to sell computers that make the RIAA happy and fill it with DRM technology, and take away my control of the computer, I will finally say goodbye to Windows.
When I was in college, and we had good computers and printers back in the 90's, I did not know one person who ever even had the thought of printing money. My guess is there are a very few amount of people doing this, not a large group printing $20 dollars for a weekend movie and dinner.
Back when I was in college, we ripped off Columbia House. LOL. College kids are not quiet about what they are thinking about doing, epsecially if they have had a few beers. I could not imagine campuses being the hub of counterfeiting.
I am suprised they would stop printers or use software to stop copies of money. What I would suspect they would do is instead, print a series of dots so small they are next to undetectable, which would identify where the printer was sold. I would think the Secret Service would be more interested in catching who is doing the counterfeiting in the USA. By knowing some things like what city/region the printer was sold in, where the money was used, one can start to paint a portrait of the counterfeiter. How is it the movie industry is using invisible dots in movies to catch people who illegaly tape films?
And unlike the movies, I bet they are doing this in secret. Other things they could add to software is the printer to have small dots indicating when the money was print (based on the bios or os of the system), or maybe something to identify the system it was printed (like something unique like the mac address of the nic or something equally unique).
Does anyone know what the list of top 10 is? I wonder how many of the top 10 supercomputers are in the USA, and how the Virginia Tech G4 cluster ranks.
Also, a side note. How much extra computing "power" is gained by adding an extra machine to a cluster? For example, I have about 7 or 8 pentiums (most are 166's, there is a 133 and a 200) sitting on the floor collecting dust. If I hooked them all up together, what would the usefulness be? Could I compile programs quicker? Would a cluster make a good web server, jps server? I know my PIII500 can drag with tomcat at times when crunching jsp.
I am glad china is investing money in technology. With all the people they have living there, they could become a major technolohy hub. Look at what Japan did in the 1980's with manufacturing. Imagine all the cheap(er) products we could have on the market. It all starts with R&D. Even the old "star wars" spending from the 1980's has proven useful in new products in ways not imagined back then.
"The FCC rules are clear," said Travis Larson, spokesman for the international Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association. "Jamming is illegal, but whether there is an exception made for law enforcement is a decision the FCC will have to make."
While I think most people will agree that jammers are okay to stop terrorists from blowing things up, I don't like the idea of all police having access to this. It seems to be the slippery slope. There is a valid function for this, but then it gets extended and extended. I say leave it to the air force, if there is a need they can fly a plane over the area and block everything. Then afterwards they will have to explain. Don't give it to the police, where 1000's of departments and chiefs of police might decide for themselves when and how to use it. Plus, everyone has heard stories of bad apples in police departments. The last thing they need is a method to shut down communications.
"The military has airplanes that can fly over and block an entire city. A lot of hospitals use them to prevent cell phones from triggering someone's defibrillator."
And exactly what number is that? I had an old math teacher in highschool... err... nevermind.
The only one that I heard of was a Honda that ran on gas and electricity. It had to be plugged in to charge its battery, and you still had to buy gas. And I don't think it got more than 45 mpg, and I think it cost close to $20,000. What I am talking about is simple, small cars that can get a person from point a to b, and cheaply. Maybe something like the Geo Metro. Is it possible to make and sell a new car for under $5000? That should be the new challenge for the auto industry.
All they would have to do is have some comercials showing how smart the owner is for not throwing away his money on gas, maybe a scene of some hot chick driving around, and it will become acceptable. They can sell "acceptible" just like they market clothing fads, car styles, hair styles, anything. I remember when muscle cars were cool, like my old 1984 Mustang GT with a 5.0 liter engine. Just yesterday some asian kid with mommys honda came driving past me, thinking he was the stud of america. It is all marketing.
I am looking for a cheaper way to get around town and to work. I am mad that gas costs so much, and might get even more expensive (I am spending over $35 a week on gas for my trip to work). But I dunno if those bikes are the anwser.
When I run my window AC unit in the summer, my electricity bill goes up 3 times what I pay in the winter. If that electric bike has to be charged 6 or 8 hours for a 25 mile trip, what kind of cost per mile are we getting? Granted, gas just hit $2.25 a gallon where I live, but my car gets 25 miles to the gallon. Plus, I can drive my car in the rain.
What we need are better cheaper cars, perhaps cars that have solar panels to add energy so a car is not 100% gas driven. And maybe a cheaper source of power, as it seems those who control oil production can put us over the barrel.
It appears the reward is only offered once a virus has done some serious damage, so it only has the effect of stopping one virus coder at a time. It does nothing to stop aspiring young virus writers from aspiring to be virus writers.
It has deterent value. It says if you become good at writing viruses you will get nailed. Maybe MS does not care about the young kid messing around who does not damage anything. Microsoft is showing good restraint.
Plus, I cant help but think that comment is typical of how people treat MS. They either complain they are not doing enough or too much.
Just because the code is not secure, does that give another person a right to cause harm? It is like saying that if I leave my back door unlocked at night, I am to blame if someone breaks in. I say that is bullshit. I say I have a gun, and if someone breaks in, they are getting shot. And that is how this guy should be treated, as a criminal thug.
How much money does Microsoft have to spend making their operating system, and how perfect and secure does it have to be?
Maybe if it was not for the virus writers, the cost of Windows would be cheaper. Maybe beacuse of the virus writers Microsoft has to spend more money?
I think it is horrible for someone to defend a criminal because the criminal had oppertunity to commit a crime.
I wonder what kind of deals are being offered right now for him to turn in friends and information? I wonder what is on his computer? All it takes is one informant for the police to get warrents to search all his friends and known acquaintances computers, so I am thinking there will be a bigger fallout than just one guy. I just hope they don't let the big fish off the hook to get 10 smaller fish.
I wonder if this will be the start of the dominos falling. He turns in his friends, who in return turn in their friends. Then next thing you know the FBI is knocking on your door asking to look at your computer. In some ways, I welcome that. It gets to be exhausting fixing computers from all the viruses and spyware and crap.
I am just glad that with him in jail there will be more security. One less bad guy to worry about.
I could leave the front door to my house open, and if someone enters and steals something or causes damage, they are still guilty. If I wanted to, I could leave my door unlocked, tell the neighborhood I am going on vacation, and if someone breaks in they are still guilty.
The oppertunity to do the crime does not lessen the caupability of the criminal.
If it becomes that easy, and people don't get caught, then governments will have to react. Government might force an identification system where there will be no anonymity. They might have closed networks, where countries that don't agree with us are shut out. 1984 is going to happen because of these people. And givernment will use it as a legitimate reason to take away freedom from the rest of us. The.0001% of people who are anti-social criminals are going to cause the other 99% of us to lose freedom. That is why they should be punished harshly when they get caught.
Lock him up. Lock him up and throw away the key. What he did caused damage to sooo many systems.
But what I would like to know is what motivated him to write the virus. Was it because he hated society and people, and wanted to do as much damage as he could? He must have known the outcome of his actions.
Whatever the reason, he has to be punished as a show to others not to do this. Someone has to be made an example of, and someone has to be the deterrent to others.
It is too bad Germany can't extradite him to Pakastan, where they would be better able to punish him. If it comes up that he caused damage in other countries, he should be sent there to face charges too.
Come to think of it, start by sending him to the country that likes to cane criminals. I remember some American tourist teen getting 5 lashes across the back for vandalism. That was sweet. And I hope they televise it. I want to see him suffer. He should be beaten so badly that he cries in remorse.
I hope we get back to a society where people have shame when they do wrong. That is the problem. People do things and they don't care about how it effects others.
Regions are not the problem, the problem is the differance between the PAL and NTSC formats. You could have a region free DVD player, but all those DVD's from eurpoe are PAL formatted, which means you need a PAL tv or a way to convert the PAL signal to NTSC. I heard the only way to play them is on a laptop because most laptops can display PAL.
How many times will the studio release a DVD, only to come out with a better release, and another one. It is the same thing with all the Special Editions, followed by the Directors Edition. This is ridiculous. How many times do the Studios want us buying the same movie/show?
I know what I will do. I will wait until the boxed set is released, and then two weeks later I will call Paramount and tell them the disk with the special featurettes is not working, and ask for them to send me a replacement. I will then add that with my current TOS collection.
Or maybe I will put my old DVD's on sale on Ebay. Either way, this is a crooked way to conduct buisness.
"The gyroscope problem stemmed from an underlying failure in a circuit breaker.... At this time, the box that holds that particular circuit breaker... is outside (the station)".
I wonder why they would place the circuit breakers outside the space station. If those ciruit breakers are like anything in my house, they go out all the time. Or maybe it is just my power company with all the brown outs in the summer.
I'm glad the story says this is not a critical system or a threat to the astronauts. Still, I wonder why the circuit breaker is not in a place easy to get to.
This gives me another idea. I wonder if they have a special escape pod attached to the space station, so if some critical system goes, they can escape.
It was a good search engine. I dunno why I stopped using it, I think it was a bit on the slow side and Google had more pages.
Heck, while reminiscing, I remember when excite was my start page, and when I used them for email. I remember they were the first "start" page to have groups. I stopped using them 4 years ago when their email stopped working.
I guess if anything, we can learn the web is not going to be the same in 5 years as it is today. My question is, "is it better"? Personally, I think it was better back in the day. I would like to see a search engine that does not display any spam or sales or sex sites as hits. I now do most of my searches on google doing "search parameters site:edu".
Right you are!! Next time I'm in a movie theater, I'll drive my car in (those damn walls trying to prevent me from even bringing the thing in), pull out my shotgun, and start blasting holes in one of the screens, and if they try to stop me, I'll start yammering about my right to use stuff that's mine! Same thing next time I want to whip out my laptop on a test in a class! I'm sure they'll relent and all will be fine.
Huh? To you, if someone has a cell phone go off it is about as bad as someone getting shot? Are you that sensitive, and self centered? There is common sense that most people have. Most people turn off their cell phones. And for the few who do not, there are better and less restrictive ways to deal with them.
You know what will work? Freedom mixed with personal responsibility. What has happened in society where it is "cool" to disturb other people? Are there some people who want to ruin everyone's enjoyment of a movie by having a ringing cell phone? What can we do about the cause of the problem, rather than disabaling everyones cell phone?
Wow, what theaters do you go to? I'd love to find a theater that paid any attention to what was going on inside. Most of the time they don't even notice if the film is focused. Cell phone users and other talkers are the main reasons I wait until movies come out on DVD these days.
This is a pet peeve of mine. There is only one theater in my area that I go to, where I have taken the time to train the managment. I have been very demanding of my theater, and if I am unhappy about anything I will demand to see the manager and complain until I get a refund. And I will make sure I am not the only one who complains. Normally there will be a nice sized group. Managment hates having to deal with 10 or 15 customers, all who are demanding refunds. It is a no-win situation for them. It also proves to them something was unacceptable, that it is not just some cheap person who wants to get something for nothing.
The key is to make sure everyone knows they have a right to get their money back if they do not recieve the product they paid for: a movie shown in focus with the bulb not dimmed down, and with a staff that offers a clean theater.
And for the record, the theater I go to has staff which will throw people out for talking on a cell phone or disturbing everyone else. And most of the time, nobody has to get up and "tell". The theater has ushers that stand by the doors from time to time.
My next major effort will be to get them to stop showing those damn commercials before a movie starts. Who wants to show up to watch 20 minuites of commercials?
I think it all comes down to a little bit of civility. People are not there for everyone elses amusement, to treat as we wish. If did some small simple things, like knowing not to disturb a room of 100 people with a cell phone conversation or ripping people off, the world would be a friendlier place. The problem is everyone is out to make a quick buck, even if it costs everyone around them. Then you have stupid devices like this one which decided nobody can use their phone for any reason.
Slashdot Mirror
How many times have you been tricked into going to see a movie because of the trailer, only to sit through a horrible film. I think the movie studio's should have an obligation not to sell junk and lie about it with misleading trailers. So if a movie is good enough to see on a small computer monitor at a low resolution, and it is good, chances are you will want to see it on a big screen. Likewise, if it sucks, that is the movie studio's own fault. They should put out good movies and be honest in advertising. I am tired of having a movies best jokes be in the trailer, and having the movie be worse than the trailer.
Second, if a movie sucks, it is not like we can get a refund like if a hamburger is undercooked. If the movie industry treated us like valuable customers then I would be all for giving them some respect. But the more they treat us like sheep, the more I see it as a US vs THEM.
If most DVD's are 4 gigs, what quality will there be in a 20 minute download. At 200 k/second, can you even get a full gig in 20 minutes? I wonder if these movies will be at low resolutions. And at 12 bucks a month, I would like to be able to use the computer to play it on my 36" TV. But I know how much worse a movie can look just by doubling the window size on my 17" monitor. I can't imagine it would look good on a TV.
RealPlayer 10 and Helix DRM Provide Highest Quality and Security
What kind of DRM will be included in this? Can I download the movie and watch it on my laptop while away from a network connection. And what will stop someone from recording what is on their screen. I can't help but think this product/service is going to suck. Plus, ever since RealPlayer invaded my privacy years ago I have never trusted them. I do not like a company where I have to search and search and search for a setting that will disable sending reports back to the company about how I use my PC.
How about getting back to where people can buy and own stuff? Like back when VCR's came out and if I taped something, I could watch it anytime and anywhere. I hear iTunes lets people download their product and use it as they wish. Why dosen't the movie companies do the same thing?
And even if all the other IM services start charging money, it does not matter to me. I could bang out a simple java program which uses sockets to send IM's back and forth with my friends. Anyone that wants to be added to the list can get the program emailed to them, no problem with platform. I know it sounds simplistic, but it is so simple to write in java. I bet there would be a ton of free open source alternatives within a few days.
Having said that, I also run Debian. It installed with ease on my p4 laptop, and the fact it does not use rpm's is so nice!!!
Since I use both, perhaps the question for me is what will make me leave Windows. There is only one thing that comes to mind. If they keep forcing DRM in everything they make. It seems like Windows wants to keep limiting what I can do with their products. I want to watch an occasional DVD from Europe on my PC in the USA. Not on standard Windows components. I can't say how many times I have had to find open source alternatives to standard Windows components. And I hate the EULA. I hate that Windows can keep having the "update" pop-up and want to connect to Microsoft, and that it is impossible to turn off unless messing with the registry. And I REALLY WISH Microsoft would wait with releasing whatever version of Windows they are working on until they fix most of the bugs. I was so MAD when I PAID for Windows 2000, and I wanted to get service pack 1 to fix security holes-- Microsoft made me have to accept a new EULA and that damn update pop-up was part of it. I had a friend with Windows ME on a HP computer they purchased. It kept crashing. They eventually had to go to the store to buy Windows 98 (they did not want to learn Linux, they just wanted to type papers for class).
So I guess if Microsoft decides to sell computers that make the RIAA happy and fill it with DRM technology, and take away my control of the computer, I will finally say goodbye to Windows.
Back when I was in college, we ripped off Columbia House. LOL. College kids are not quiet about what they are thinking about doing, epsecially if they have had a few beers. I could not imagine campuses being the hub of counterfeiting.
And unlike the movies, I bet they are doing this in secret. Other things they could add to software is the printer to have small dots indicating when the money was print (based on the bios or os of the system), or maybe something to identify the system it was printed (like something unique like the mac address of the nic or something equally unique).
Also, a side note. How much extra computing "power" is gained by adding an extra machine to a cluster? For example, I have about 7 or 8 pentiums (most are 166's, there is a 133 and a 200) sitting on the floor collecting dust. If I hooked them all up together, what would the usefulness be? Could I compile programs quicker? Would a cluster make a good web server, jps server? I know my PIII500 can drag with tomcat at times when crunching jsp.
I am glad china is investing money in technology. With all the people they have living there, they could become a major technolohy hub. Look at what Japan did in the 1980's with manufacturing. Imagine all the cheap(er) products we could have on the market. It all starts with R&D. Even the old "star wars" spending from the 1980's has proven useful in new products in ways not imagined back then.
While I think most people will agree that jammers are okay to stop terrorists from blowing things up, I don't like the idea of all police having access to this. It seems to be the slippery slope. There is a valid function for this, but then it gets extended and extended. I say leave it to the air force, if there is a need they can fly a plane over the area and block everything. Then afterwards they will have to explain. Don't give it to the police, where 1000's of departments and chiefs of police might decide for themselves when and how to use it. Plus, everyone has heard stories of bad apples in police departments. The last thing they need is a method to shut down communications.
And exactly what number is that? I had an old math teacher in highschool... err... nevermind.
The only one that I heard of was a Honda that ran on gas and electricity. It had to be plugged in to charge its battery, and you still had to buy gas. And I don't think it got more than 45 mpg, and I think it cost close to $20,000. What I am talking about is simple, small cars that can get a person from point a to b, and cheaply. Maybe something like the Geo Metro. Is it possible to make and sell a new car for under $5000? That should be the new challenge for the auto industry.
All they would have to do is have some comercials showing how smart the owner is for not throwing away his money on gas, maybe a scene of some hot chick driving around, and it will become acceptable. They can sell "acceptible" just like they market clothing fads, car styles, hair styles, anything. I remember when muscle cars were cool, like my old 1984 Mustang GT with a 5.0 liter engine. Just yesterday some asian kid with mommys honda came driving past me, thinking he was the stud of america. It is all marketing.
When I run my window AC unit in the summer, my electricity bill goes up 3 times what I pay in the winter. If that electric bike has to be charged 6 or 8 hours for a 25 mile trip, what kind of cost per mile are we getting? Granted, gas just hit $2.25 a gallon where I live, but my car gets 25 miles to the gallon. Plus, I can drive my car in the rain.
What we need are better cheaper cars, perhaps cars that have solar panels to add energy so a car is not 100% gas driven. And maybe a cheaper source of power, as it seems those who control oil production can put us over the barrel.
It has deterent value. It says if you become good at writing viruses you will get nailed. Maybe MS does not care about the young kid messing around who does not damage anything. Microsoft is showing good restraint.
Plus, I cant help but think that comment is typical of how people treat MS. They either complain they are not doing enough or too much.
1) They can show he had the ability to write it.
2) They might have people who he told he wrote it.
3) There might be evidance on his computer.
4) They can look at how it spread, and what he had access to.
5) They might have been tracking his internet activities, seeing where he was and what he was doing (they had probably cause).
I think there are many things the police can do to find out if it is him.
How much money does Microsoft have to spend making their operating system, and how perfect and secure does it have to be?
Maybe if it was not for the virus writers, the cost of Windows would be cheaper. Maybe beacuse of the virus writers Microsoft has to spend more money?
I think it is horrible for someone to defend a criminal because the criminal had oppertunity to commit a crime.
I wonder what kind of deals are being offered right now for him to turn in friends and information? I wonder what is on his computer? All it takes is one informant for the police to get warrents to search all his friends and known acquaintances computers, so I am thinking there will be a bigger fallout than just one guy. I just hope they don't let the big fish off the hook to get 10 smaller fish.
I wonder if this will be the start of the dominos falling. He turns in his friends, who in return turn in their friends. Then next thing you know the FBI is knocking on your door asking to look at your computer. In some ways, I welcome that. It gets to be exhausting fixing computers from all the viruses and spyware and crap.
I am just glad that with him in jail there will be more security. One less bad guy to worry about.
The oppertunity to do the crime does not lessen the caupability of the criminal.
If it becomes that easy, and people don't get caught, then governments will have to react. Government might force an identification system where there will be no anonymity. They might have closed networks, where countries that don't agree with us are shut out. 1984 is going to happen because of these people. And givernment will use it as a legitimate reason to take away freedom from the rest of us. The .0001% of people who are anti-social criminals are going to cause the other 99% of us to lose freedom. That is why they should be punished harshly when they get caught.
But what I would like to know is what motivated him to write the virus. Was it because he hated society and people, and wanted to do as much damage as he could? He must have known the outcome of his actions.
Whatever the reason, he has to be punished as a show to others not to do this. Someone has to be made an example of, and someone has to be the deterrent to others.
It is too bad Germany can't extradite him to Pakastan, where they would be better able to punish him. If it comes up that he caused damage in other countries, he should be sent there to face charges too.
Come to think of it, start by sending him to the country that likes to cane criminals. I remember some American tourist teen getting 5 lashes across the back for vandalism. That was sweet. And I hope they televise it. I want to see him suffer. He should be beaten so badly that he cries in remorse.
I hope we get back to a society where people have shame when they do wrong. That is the problem. People do things and they don't care about how it effects others.
Regions are not the problem, the problem is the differance between the PAL and NTSC formats. You could have a region free DVD player, but all those DVD's from eurpoe are PAL formatted, which means you need a PAL tv or a way to convert the PAL signal to NTSC. I heard the only way to play them is on a laptop because most laptops can display PAL.
I know what I will do. I will wait until the boxed set is released, and then two weeks later I will call Paramount and tell them the disk with the special featurettes is not working, and ask for them to send me a replacement. I will then add that with my current TOS collection.
Or maybe I will put my old DVD's on sale on Ebay. Either way, this is a crooked way to conduct buisness.
I wonder why they would place the circuit breakers outside the space station. If those ciruit breakers are like anything in my house, they go out all the time. Or maybe it is just my power company with all the brown outs in the summer.
I'm glad the story says this is not a critical system or a threat to the astronauts. Still, I wonder why the circuit breaker is not in a place easy to get to.
This gives me another idea. I wonder if they have a special escape pod attached to the space station, so if some critical system goes, they can escape.
Heck, while reminiscing, I remember when excite was my start page, and when I used them for email. I remember they were the first "start" page to have groups. I stopped using them 4 years ago when their email stopped working.
I guess if anything, we can learn the web is not going to be the same in 5 years as it is today. My question is, "is it better"? Personally, I think it was better back in the day. I would like to see a search engine that does not display any spam or sales or sex sites as hits. I now do most of my searches on google doing "search parameters site:edu".
Huh? To you, if someone has a cell phone go off it is about as bad as someone getting shot? Are you that sensitive, and self centered? There is common sense that most people have. Most people turn off their cell phones. And for the few who do not, there are better and less restrictive ways to deal with them.
You know what will work? Freedom mixed with personal responsibility. What has happened in society where it is "cool" to disturb other people? Are there some people who want to ruin everyone's enjoyment of a movie by having a ringing cell phone? What can we do about the cause of the problem, rather than disabaling everyones cell phone?
This is a pet peeve of mine. There is only one theater in my area that I go to, where I have taken the time to train the managment. I have been very demanding of my theater, and if I am unhappy about anything I will demand to see the manager and complain until I get a refund. And I will make sure I am not the only one who complains. Normally there will be a nice sized group. Managment hates having to deal with 10 or 15 customers, all who are demanding refunds. It is a no-win situation for them. It also proves to them something was unacceptable, that it is not just some cheap person who wants to get something for nothing.
The key is to make sure everyone knows they have a right to get their money back if they do not recieve the product they paid for: a movie shown in focus with the bulb not dimmed down, and with a staff that offers a clean theater.
And for the record, the theater I go to has staff which will throw people out for talking on a cell phone or disturbing everyone else. And most of the time, nobody has to get up and "tell". The theater has ushers that stand by the doors from time to time.
My next major effort will be to get them to stop showing those damn commercials before a movie starts. Who wants to show up to watch 20 minuites of commercials?
I think it all comes down to a little bit of civility. People are not there for everyone elses amusement, to treat as we wish. If did some small simple things, like knowing not to disturb a room of 100 people with a cell phone conversation or ripping people off, the world would be a friendlier place. The problem is everyone is out to make a quick buck, even if it costs everyone around them. Then you have stupid devices like this one which decided nobody can use their phone for any reason.