from Eminem to Slaughterhouse Five and everything in between...
Could someone please give me some exacmples of what "lies between" Eminem and Slaughterhouse Five?
If we're talking "alphabetical order," that's fine, but it then begs the question as to why the computers cannot converse about aardvarks or teleportation, e.g.
I'm more than a little tired of this whole "I am being forced to do something I don't want to do" when talking about something as prosaic as a cell phone.
This ain't "Sophie's Choice." You weigh the pros and cons: PRO - I get a really cool phone that does all the stuff I want a phone to do; CON - I gotta switch providers.
In the meantime you have a lot of other companies in free competition trying to come up with something just as cool. In fact, they'll come up with something with a higher "coolness" factor BECAUSE they know that they may lose substantial customers otherwise.
I am continually amazed at how so few people understand that the free market inevitably makes things BETTER in this imperfect world, not worse. Getting made at a company like Apple because you don't like their business decisions is childish.
Okay, let me get this straight: Apple Computer, which built its entire business marketing a COMPUTER that is a proprietary system, has "damaged its brand" because it's marketing a smartphone that is a proprietary system?
(N.B. Have you ever read why Apple went exclusively with AT&T on the iPhone? It's because only AT&T would agree to allow Apple's hardware and software engineers to do whatever they wanted with no interference. No other company would agree to that, even with the promise of exclusivity.
(Now who would you say was "damaging their brand" in that case?)
New Zealand ---13.7
Montenegro ----13.6
U.S. Virgin Islands ( United States) 13.4
Puerto Rico ( United States) 13.3
North Korea 13.2
People's Republic of China (mainland only) 13.1
Serbia --------12.8
Armenia -------12.5
Netherlands Antilles 12.5
Australia -----12.4
Martinique ( France) 12.4
Cyprus --------12.2
France (metropolitan) 12.2
United Kingdom 12.0
Norway --------12.0
Luxembourg ----11.5
Moldova -------11.4
Sweden --------11.3
Denmark -------11.2
Finland -------11.2
Netherlands ---11.1
Barbados ------11.0
Republic of Macedonia 10.9
Estonia -------10.8
Georgia -------10.8
Spain ---------10.8
Russia --------10.7
Portugal ------10.5
Belgium -------10.4
Canada --------10.3
Cuba ----------10.3
Slovakia ------10.0
Malta ----------9.8
Romania --------9.8
Poland ---------9.5
Belarus --------9.4
Greece ---------9.3
Hungary --------9.3
South Korea ----9.3
Latvia ---------9.3
Austria --------9.2
Czech Republic --9.2
Italy ----------9.2
Switzerland ----9.2
Ukraine --------9.2
Lithuania ------9.1
Croatia --------9.0
Slovenia -------9.0
Bulgaria -------8.9
Bosnia and Herzegovina 8.8
Japan ----------8.3
Germany --------8.2
Singapore ------8.2
Hong Kong ( People's Republic of China) 7.6
Macau ( People's Republic of China) 7.6
That bothered me at first - until I started playing around with the iPhone 3G and realized "my gosh, with this thing I really don't NEED to use the laptop outside of a wi-fi hotspot! It already does pretty much everything I need the laptop for in a fully-mobile environment, with the exception of being able to touch-type. And I can live with hunting and pecking.
So, when I'm at the hotel or in a restaurant, or waiting for a LONG TIME in the airport, I'll break out the laptop. Everwhere else, the iPhone 3G is just fine. Suddenly, I don't need "tethering" any longer.
They want it to be as easy as possible to use and anything else is a bonus.
Conversely, you would say that/.-ers and FOSS hippies "want it to be as easy as possible to HACK..." They find it supremely important to be able to break into a given gadget as readily as possible, else it's "closed."
Funny thing: ever since the first electrical cord was plugged into the first electrical outlet we've been dealing with NOTHING but "closed systems." Someone else above mentioned the term "appliance" as opposed to "platform."
When I buy a phone/PDA/whatever-you-call-it, I personally WANT an appliance, because I'm an END USER.
There are people, like my stepson, who love to buy junk cars and tinker with them for months and even years, and get them running again, new paint job, new engine, everything.
My wife and I, and just about everyone else, just want to get in, turn the key in the ignition and drive to our destinations.
For years, her son wouldn't even THINK of getting a car built after the mid-70s or so, because of electronic ignition. See, to him, that's a "closed system," because there was no carburetor with which to fiddle. And we're talking a kid who just turned 29 last month.
Hobbies are great, but if you're going to tell me I can't have electronic ignition becuase you love carburetion, please get out of my face.
The only Android phone I've seen in the UK so far is locked into a T-Mobile contract, so I'd still consider the whole system 'jailed'...
This is because the Android isn't a gadget, it's a specification for an OS for a gadget.
This whole idea of Android being "free as in beer" is kinda silly. I think it's a bunch of high-school and college kids whose baby-boomers profs have told 'em that "information wants to be free," or whatever, and they see it wherever they want to see it.
FULL DISCLOSURE: I just bought an iPhone two days ago. I've been with AT&T (and their various predecessors in this market) for twelve years so that wasn't an issue with me. So far, I can't say that it has changed my life, but...well, actually, yes it has.
This is the first phone I've EVER had that I've thought "THAT'S IT! FINALLY SOMEONE GOT IT!" And I'm talking as someone who had a Palm VII back in the day. I've actually been dreaming of "convergence" since the late 20th Century:-)
(1) Yes, what we have is working better than anything anyone else has.
(2) Make sure not to get VERY sick - and if you do, make sure you do it before you get too old, since you have government bureaucrats deciding if it's worth the state's while to treat you. A Fraser Institute (Canada) survey found that on average a Canadian patient must wait in line 17.7 weeks for hospital treatment.
I got "very sick" two months ago - turned out to be pancreatitis. Since it was on a Sunday when I fell really ill, I went to the emergency room at the local hospital - about ten minutes from my suburban Houston home. Did have to wait five hours (mostly because they had quite a few illegal aliens waiting as well; they tend to clog up the system around here). But got in, got admitted immediately, had tons of tests, IV meds, excellent nursing care, was released on Monday night after ultrasounds, CT scan, HIDA scan, and EGD examination by a fantastic GI doctor. All within 36 hours. Total cost to ME, exclusive of what my private health insurance paid, was about $1,500. And it was IMMEDIATE care. I didn't have to apply to a government bureaucrat and then wait in line for it.
You will never admit it, but you are green with envy right now, because you KNOW that would never happen in the broken-down, nearly bankrupt system in your country.
It's true what they say. The Obama campaign REALLY DOES have a misinformation campaign out there on the 'net.
Parent poster knows that this was Palin's personal email account - even the "prankster" himself stated that he thought he was gonna find some juicy stuff, but it was just "boring" personal correspondence, family photos, etc.
But the Obama Brownshirts continue to stoke the fires of falsehood, lying about it incessantly.
I do hope that you lib slashdotters get what you wish for, then find out that a socialist society that crushes free enterprise as well as free thought and free speech, is actually a BAD place for even YOU people to live.
Tell 'em that when they finish the video series, they'll be official Linux sysadmins. Maybe have the software automagically print out a certificate, suitable for framing (that is always assuming that the user's printer is Linux-compatible).
And once they've attained "sysadmin" status, of course, the wealth of software becomes unimaginable. After all, since there are only a handful of productivity apps available for Linux - never mind prosaic things like games - that's not gonna be the big draw.
But once they've discovered that they are now entitled to install and administer Samba, Tomcat, CUPS, Apache, Sendmail / Exim / Postfix, Postgres, etc., it's going to be irresistable to them. No, really.
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Just when you thought laser and optical mice were enjoying their reign on mousepads worldwide...
Whatever I might have been thinking about, I assure you it wasn't that.
...the Enterprise crew won't need to confuse them with astonishing logical conundra?
Oh, wait. Nevermind.
from Eminem to Slaughterhouse Five and everything in between...
Could someone please give me some exacmples of what "lies between" Eminem and Slaughterhouse Five?
If we're talking "alphabetical order," that's fine, but it then begs the question as to why the computers cannot converse about aardvarks or teleportation, e.g.
...raised on a high-calorie diet in microgravity would expand uniformly about the bird's center of gravity.
So a large Arkansas-based poultry producer is looking into producing...
TYSON'S SPHERES!!!
...Dyson's SPHERE of influence! *NYUK*
Hopefully, that English nature show presenter who follows the GEICO gekko around will begin using this stuff so he doesn't fall off RVs, dumpsters, etc., while he's trying to spy on his quarry.
I'm more than a little tired of this whole "I am being forced to do something I don't want to do" when talking about something as prosaic as a cell phone.
This ain't "Sophie's Choice." You weigh the pros and cons: PRO - I get a really cool phone that does all the stuff I want a phone to do; CON - I gotta switch providers.
In the meantime you have a lot of other companies in free competition trying to come up with something just as cool. In fact, they'll come up with something with a higher "coolness" factor BECAUSE they know that they may lose substantial customers otherwise.
I am continually amazed at how so few people understand that the free market inevitably makes things BETTER in this imperfect world, not worse. Getting made at a company like Apple because you don't like their business decisions is childish.
damaged the Apple brand image,...
Okay, let me get this straight: Apple Computer, which built its entire business marketing a COMPUTER that is a proprietary system, has "damaged its brand" because it's marketing a smartphone that is a proprietary system?
(N.B. Have you ever read why Apple went exclusively with AT&T on the iPhone? It's because only AT&T would agree to allow Apple's hardware and software engineers to do whatever they wanted with no interference. No other company would agree to that, even with the promise of exclusivity.
(Now who would you say was "damaging their brand" in that case?)
Children, are they not popular any longer?
Well, apparently not in THESE places anyway:
COUNTRIES WITH BIRTHRATES BELOW REPLACEMENT (with births per 1,000 population):
New Zealand ---13.7
Montenegro ----13.6
U.S. Virgin Islands ( United States) 13.4
Puerto Rico ( United States) 13.3
North Korea 13.2
People's Republic of China (mainland only) 13.1
Serbia --------12.8
Armenia -------12.5
Netherlands Antilles 12.5
Australia -----12.4
Martinique ( France) 12.4
Cyprus --------12.2
France (metropolitan) 12.2
United Kingdom 12.0
Norway --------12.0
Luxembourg ----11.5
Moldova -------11.4
Sweden --------11.3
Denmark -------11.2
Finland -------11.2
Netherlands ---11.1
Barbados ------11.0
Republic of Macedonia 10.9
Estonia -------10.8
Georgia -------10.8
Spain ---------10.8
Russia --------10.7
Portugal ------10.5
Belgium -------10.4
Canada --------10.3
Cuba ----------10.3
Slovakia ------10.0
Malta ----------9.8
Romania --------9.8
Poland ---------9.5
Belarus --------9.4
Greece ---------9.3
Hungary --------9.3
South Korea ----9.3
Latvia ---------9.3
Austria --------9.2
Czech Republic --9.2
Italy ----------9.2
Switzerland ----9.2
Ukraine --------9.2
Lithuania ------9.1
Croatia --------9.0
Slovenia -------9.0
Bulgaria -------8.9
Bosnia and Herzegovina 8.8
Japan ----------8.3
Germany --------8.2
Singapore ------8.2
Hong Kong ( People's Republic of China) 7.6
Macau ( People's Republic of China) 7.6
Tethering is explicitly forbidden by Apple.
That bothered me at first - until I started playing around with the iPhone 3G and realized "my gosh, with this thing I really don't NEED to use the laptop outside of a wi-fi hotspot! It already does pretty much everything I need the laptop for in a fully-mobile environment, with the exception of being able to touch-type. And I can live with hunting and pecking.
So, when I'm at the hotel or in a restaurant, or waiting for a LONG TIME in the airport, I'll break out the laptop. Everwhere else, the iPhone 3G is just fine. Suddenly, I don't need "tethering" any longer.
They want it to be as easy as possible to use and anything else is a bonus.
Conversely, you would say that /.-ers and FOSS hippies "want it to be as easy as possible to HACK..." They find it supremely important to be able to break into a given gadget as readily as possible, else it's "closed."
Funny thing: ever since the first electrical cord was plugged into the first electrical outlet we've been dealing with NOTHING but "closed systems." Someone else above mentioned the term "appliance" as opposed to "platform."
When I buy a phone/PDA/whatever-you-call-it, I personally WANT an appliance, because I'm an END USER.
There are people, like my stepson, who love to buy junk cars and tinker with them for months and even years, and get them running again, new paint job, new engine, everything.
My wife and I, and just about everyone else, just want to get in, turn the key in the ignition and drive to our destinations.
For years, her son wouldn't even THINK of getting a car built after the mid-70s or so, because of electronic ignition. See, to him, that's a "closed system," because there was no carburetor with which to fiddle. And we're talking a kid who just turned 29 last month.
Hobbies are great, but if you're going to tell me I can't have electronic ignition becuase you love carburetion, please get out of my face.
The only Android phone I've seen in the UK so far is locked into a T-Mobile contract, so I'd still consider the whole system 'jailed'...
This is because the Android isn't a gadget, it's a specification for an OS for a gadget.
This whole idea of Android being "free as in beer" is kinda silly. I think it's a bunch of high-school and college kids whose baby-boomers profs have told 'em that "information wants to be free," or whatever, and they see it wherever they want to see it.
FULL DISCLOSURE: I just bought an iPhone two days ago. I've been with AT&T (and their various predecessors in this market) for twelve years so that wasn't an issue with me. So far, I can't say that it has changed my life, but...well, actually, yes it has.
This is the first phone I've EVER had that I've thought "THAT'S IT! FINALLY SOMEONE GOT IT!" And I'm talking as someone who had a Palm VII back in the day. I've actually been dreaming of "convergence" since the late 20th Century :-)
Apple's one was the best, no question about it.
Wow! Looks like you've never had a run in, real or virtual, with an Amiga freak before. I'd prepare for "incoming," were I you.
Thank you. I figured it was a 70s thing, and he wouldn't understand.
(1) Yes, what we have is working better than anything anyone else has.
(2) Make sure not to get VERY sick - and if you do, make sure you do it before you get too old, since you have government bureaucrats deciding if it's worth the state's while to treat you. A Fraser Institute (Canada) survey found that on average a Canadian patient must wait in line 17.7 weeks for hospital treatment.
"Canada spends most on its system while ranking among the lowest in such indicators as access to physicians, quality of medical equipment and key health outcomes."
I got "very sick" two months ago - turned out to be pancreatitis. Since it was on a Sunday when I fell really ill, I went to the emergency room at the local hospital - about ten minutes from my suburban Houston home. Did have to wait five hours (mostly because they had quite a few illegal aliens waiting as well; they tend to clog up the system around here). But got in, got admitted immediately, had tons of tests, IV meds, excellent nursing care, was released on Monday night after ultrasounds, CT scan, HIDA scan, and EGD examination by a fantastic GI doctor. All within 36 hours. Total cost to ME, exclusive of what my private health insurance paid, was about $1,500. And it was IMMEDIATE care. I didn't have to apply to a government bureaucrat and then wait in line for it.
You will never admit it, but you are green with envy right now, because you KNOW that would never happen in the broken-down, nearly bankrupt system in your country.
So it goes.
And don't forget the power of geeks. They usually have some money to spare for gadgets,...
...n unbelievably large telescope on the moon.
It's true what they say. The Obama campaign REALLY DOES have a misinformation campaign out there on the 'net.
Parent poster knows that this was Palin's personal email account - even the "prankster" himself stated that he thought he was gonna find some juicy stuff, but it was just "boring" personal correspondence, family photos, etc.
But the Obama Brownshirts continue to stoke the fires of falsehood, lying about it incessantly.
I do hope that you lib slashdotters get what you wish for, then find out that a socialist society that crushes free enterprise as well as free thought and free speech, is actually a BAD place for even YOU people to live.
...of the undeniable fact that there's nothing under the sun that man cannot conceive, that Gerry Anderson hasn't thought of already.
Tell 'em that when they finish the video series, they'll be official Linux sysadmins. Maybe have the software automagically print out a certificate, suitable for framing (that is always assuming that the user's printer is Linux-compatible).
And once they've attained "sysadmin" status, of course, the wealth of software becomes unimaginable. After all, since there are only a handful of productivity apps available for Linux - never mind prosaic things like games - that's not gonna be the big draw.
But once they've discovered that they are now entitled to install and administer Samba, Tomcat, CUPS, Apache, Sendmail / Exim / Postfix, Postgres, etc., it's going to be irresistable to them. No, really.
You mean it MASSES less than one kilogram. (Hey, if you people are going to defy the British Empire, at least get the terminology right!)
...of pr0n sites where you DON'T have to register!
Anyone who knows ANYTHING about Elvis lore, knows that his name was oddly spelled:
Elvis ARON Presley.
Oh, how unique! A comic strip that features jocularity with a sexual perversion theme!
"Much hilarity ensues!"
I'll bet this'll sell a MILLION, just on novelty alone!