I agree with you, that in the instance you specified, distractions could have been a very serious problem. Yet, I would chalk this instance up to flat out irresponsibility.
My opinion is that having some tasks at hand to keep the pilot's mind functioning during a flight is fine. I feel like with the responsibility and lives being at stake, if the plane is going down, the pilot isn't going to say "oooo, I've almost beaten my high score! Give me one more minute..."
My guess is they would drop their GameBoy and get to the task at hand ASAP. Even still, there are idiots out there that will be problematic once in a while, but I'm guessing they are pretty good about screening them anymore.
I'd rather have the pilot pass the time playing video games/reading/surfing porn than drinking (like they used to).
I semi-agree with you. I feel like CC's stance should have been "Whatever. Eat it." Viacom in their willingness to kowtow to this group, just gave them a huge voice. In a lot of ways, that is just as bad as this group's threats of murder. I'm sure Matt and Trey knew what they were doing and are up to the risk that mocking these fruitbats involves. I don't think the location of their studios is something that couldn't be found in less than 5 minutes by searching google. Exactly what did this group of extremists do, that any other radical group wouldn't have already wanted to do had they actually taken this seriously?
I'd hate to see Matt, Trey, the production staff, or anyone from Comedy Central murdered over something like this, but at the same time, where do we draw the line? Obviously banning Islam and it's practice is a bad idea, but how do we deal with a religion that feels it's rules take precedence over the law?
Also, for some purchases, shipping is cheaper than or equal to sales tax. At the point that you add tax+shipping, then purchasing online has really lost most of it's appeal and it just makes more sense (from a budget perspective) to go to the brick and mortar store and but it.
I'd also like to ask "Why wasn't this phone passcode locked?"
I mean seriously. They wiped the phone to prevent it from being used/tested. To me the first line of defense would have been to require locking the phone as well, just in case the phone becomes lost. As the articles have mentioned, the "finder" of this phone was able to access and use different applications until the phone was eventually wiped sometime in the night.
As a photographer and retoucher, this looks to be something worth while. As others have mentioned earlier, there are probably some things that will need to be taken care of around edges and stuff, but still, this could save some serious time and headaches.
I think the next step for Adobe should be a "beautify" filter, and then I can stop thinking to myself "Oh god, what have I gotten myself into," when I meet some of my clients for the first time.
I was just thinking the exact same thing. What happens when they do find something? Wouldn't they want to use the image as part of their evidence for probable cause (not that they apparently need probable cause, but...). Certainly they aren't going to stop the machine and the security line while they pursue and investigation into something suspicious are they?
I've always been baffled that there hasn't been an attack BEFORE the machines. At certain times of day there are huge lines just to get in line for screening.
Maybe I've been out of mainstream corporate computing (and other situations that may arise for presentations with projectors/displays) but shouldn't it be somewhat expected that the company providing the display/projector also provide any needed adaptor for the person making the presentation?
In the scenarios that play out in my mind I have a hard time thinking a well run and well staffed IT department wouldn't have something like that inventoried and on hand.
Granted this isn't a perfect world and as I think about my old desks/workbenches it was a miracle I ever got anything connected to anything.
This was my thought as well. How do you keep a dome like this clean so that it is still efficiently allowing light through? Not just on the outside, but on the inside as well?
this reminds me of NT Small Business Server edition from so long ago (does it even exist anymore?)
I know this is going to sound like MS bashing (which isn't my intent), but I would dare say that this is what MS was trying to do with SBS, but done right and easily packed into a nice little box.
The only drawback I can see is at the end user point and no superdrive/dvd/cd for re-installing the whole OS if needed. Granted there are many ways either via target disk, disk image, remote desktop, etc but a lot of those functions are exactly intuitive to most people who may see this as a sort of turnkey solution to their small business needs. Hopefully they will be knowledgeable enough to hire someone to setup/troubleshoot the system when needed.
Working with OS X Server, I can see some great advantages for those running an apple based environment. We're a small business and a while back we went with an Xserve to meet our requirements. It was a bit overkill (it still is) but the expectation is that it will last a hell of a long time with minimal maintenance. Which, knock on wood, it has.
How does something like this make it out of the door? Is this happening on machines that have been upgraded, on fresh installs, or across all platforms. It seems like someone somewhere in the R&D and beta phases should have come across this a lot sooner.
I agree. What they've done with Quake is great. It's simple, cross platform, and fast. Along with their training and rating system it's good for all skill levels as it matches you with others of the same caliber.
Let's not forget ATRAC when talking about dead formats. Mini disc would have been great and they could have had the ipod market if all of their portable music devices didn't insist on using that horrible horrible format when portable digital music started taking off.
I'm surprised their crap design decisions didn't make the list. I remember a time when I'd see 3 or 4 of those come across my work bench at the store I worked in during their heyday. Up until this point I think I had almost purged the experience from my mind, but if I recall correctly quite a few machines would completely stop functioning if the modem died, was removed, or replaced. Generally it had something to do with swapping a jumper to reconfigure a COM port. Combined with other horrible "features" of those machines it's hard to believe they were left off the list.
Perhaps the article writers were sparing us from painul memories.....
I kind of like Playstation Home. It's not a gee-wizz-bang feature, and I don't use it much. But when I do, I enjoy the experience. It's a pretty neat idea, and I'll be using it to look for people who can help me if I get stuck in a game. Oh, and look at game presentations, if they start using it for that.
It's interesting though to see that the people who "don't like it", actually hate it so much, and that they can spend a lot of time and energy complaining about it (most rants make their point at the first paragraph, and the following 10 paragraphs are just to reinforce how important the first paragraph is to them). One can not help wonder why it's such a big deal.
I totally agree with you. It's still in beta so there are bound to be a myriad of things going wrong with it. They weren't even on time for the opening of it, what do you expect? If you look at sony's "Home" forums before they announced this open beta launch, people were clamoring for closed beta invites. Everyone wanted to be a part of it and see it. Now that it's open everyone and their mother seem to be coming out saying, "it stinks."
It was really funny to watch the "Home" forum and all of the spam topics that kept coming up baiting home users and such on the leadup to what was supposed to be the 7am est opening.
My opinion of it from the closed beta to the open beta is the same. "This is neat, but what am I supposed to do with it?"
There was really nothing there for me to give an opinion about it. I don't have a keyboard attached to my ps3 and I don't have or want a headset (I like listening to music instead of braying jackasses) so chatting with people was pretty much out.
I think I would buy a new outfit or something to distinguish my avatar from other people a few times until I'm happy. It's a customization feature and it's certainly not like you have to change clothes everyday. Who knows, maybe they will give out shirts in contests or for special trophies or a free shirt for each game you have etc... I don't know. Sony says it will be constantly changing so they've left the doors open for pretty much anything.
The purchasing of clubs is an interesting idea also. The fee is probably to keep spam down so that more focused and well run clubs (clans even?) emerge. You could meet up at the video game of your choice with your clan and wait for another clan to show up or pre-arrange a meeting.
It will be interesting to see what is coming along, if it will always be in beta, and how people react as it changes.
Considering the investment that "premium" usenet providers have in their equipment, I'd say they would fight something like this coming at them with some tenacity. Why wouldn't they? It's their bread and butter.
From what I gather, this is only the ISPs that have their own servers that are affected, and not independent usenet providers themselves (like Giganews). Notice that Comcast is not listed as an ISP in this grouping? That's because Comcast contracts out their usenet service to Giganews.
If you want unrestricted Usenet access, then chances are you'll have to pay for the service, instead of the (in my opinion trivial) offerings from the likes of Sprint et al.
If I recall correctly, most dedicated usenet providers start somewhere around 5-10$/month for a couple of gigs and free headers.
It's really just a flash in the pan feel good law. I wouldn't know about the CP scene, but just like with anything else (music/movies/whatever) there are always going to be other ways.
I'd like to know how the stand alone usenet/alt.* providers are going to respond to this. Will they follow along and weed out groups?
Looking at Giganews AUP they mention something about responding to reports of inappropriate groups (where the name refers to illicit content) by reviewing the group and making a decision to keep it or drop it. alt.multimedia.simpsons.episodes would be ok, where alt.multimedia.kiddie.pron would be subject to removal if the group showed itself to actually contain that and not be some bad joke some idiots had added for their own amusement.
I'm probably eligible, but all things considered I'd rather they just kept the 5 bucks and bought themselves some hot coffee and get to work on some DLC for gta 4.
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I agree with you, that in the instance you specified, distractions could have been a very serious problem. Yet, I would chalk this instance up to flat out irresponsibility. My opinion is that having some tasks at hand to keep the pilot's mind functioning during a flight is fine. I feel like with the responsibility and lives being at stake, if the plane is going down, the pilot isn't going to say "oooo, I've almost beaten my high score! Give me one more minute..." My guess is they would drop their GameBoy and get to the task at hand ASAP. Even still, there are idiots out there that will be problematic once in a while, but I'm guessing they are pretty good about screening them anymore. I'd rather have the pilot pass the time playing video games/reading/surfing porn than drinking (like they used to).
No! Murder bad! Bad Muslim!
That's my chicken pot pie!
I semi-agree with you. I feel like CC's stance should have been "Whatever. Eat it." Viacom in their willingness to kowtow to this group, just gave them a huge voice. In a lot of ways, that is just as bad as this group's threats of murder. I'm sure Matt and Trey knew what they were doing and are up to the risk that mocking these fruitbats involves. I don't think the location of their studios is something that couldn't be found in less than 5 minutes by searching google. Exactly what did this group of extremists do, that any other radical group wouldn't have already wanted to do had they actually taken this seriously? I'd hate to see Matt, Trey, the production staff, or anyone from Comedy Central murdered over something like this, but at the same time, where do we draw the line? Obviously banning Islam and it's practice is a bad idea, but how do we deal with a religion that feels it's rules take precedence over the law?
Also, for some purchases, shipping is cheaper than or equal to sales tax. At the point that you add tax+shipping, then purchasing online has really lost most of it's appeal and it just makes more sense (from a budget perspective) to go to the brick and mortar store and but it.
I'd also like to ask "Why wasn't this phone passcode locked?" I mean seriously. They wiped the phone to prevent it from being used/tested. To me the first line of defense would have been to require locking the phone as well, just in case the phone becomes lost. As the articles have mentioned, the "finder" of this phone was able to access and use different applications until the phone was eventually wiped sometime in the night.
Amen. I'd know nothing about computers if it hadn't been for porn and video games!
As a photographer and retoucher, this looks to be something worth while. As others have mentioned earlier, there are probably some things that will need to be taken care of around edges and stuff, but still, this could save some serious time and headaches. I think the next step for Adobe should be a "beautify" filter, and then I can stop thinking to myself "Oh god, what have I gotten myself into," when I meet some of my clients for the first time.
I was just thinking the exact same thing. What happens when they do find something? Wouldn't they want to use the image as part of their evidence for probable cause (not that they apparently need probable cause, but...). Certainly they aren't going to stop the machine and the security line while they pursue and investigation into something suspicious are they?
I've always been baffled that there hasn't been an attack BEFORE the machines. At certain times of day there are huge lines just to get in line for screening.
I'm pretty sure I've seen this on television.
I was thinking along the same lines, except putting them "closer" to the viewer so that they would appear to be floating in the glasses.
Maybe I've been out of mainstream corporate computing (and other situations that may arise for presentations with projectors/displays) but shouldn't it be somewhat expected that the company providing the display/projector also provide any needed adaptor for the person making the presentation? In the scenarios that play out in my mind I have a hard time thinking a well run and well staffed IT department wouldn't have something like that inventoried and on hand. Granted this isn't a perfect world and as I think about my old desks/workbenches it was a miracle I ever got anything connected to anything.
This was my thought as well. How do you keep a dome like this clean so that it is still efficiently allowing light through? Not just on the outside, but on the inside as well?
this reminds me of NT Small Business Server edition from so long ago (does it even exist anymore?) I know this is going to sound like MS bashing (which isn't my intent), but I would dare say that this is what MS was trying to do with SBS, but done right and easily packed into a nice little box. The only drawback I can see is at the end user point and no superdrive/dvd/cd for re-installing the whole OS if needed. Granted there are many ways either via target disk, disk image, remote desktop, etc but a lot of those functions are exactly intuitive to most people who may see this as a sort of turnkey solution to their small business needs. Hopefully they will be knowledgeable enough to hire someone to setup/troubleshoot the system when needed. Working with OS X Server, I can see some great advantages for those running an apple based environment. We're a small business and a while back we went with an Xserve to meet our requirements. It was a bit overkill (it still is) but the expectation is that it will last a hell of a long time with minimal maintenance. Which, knock on wood, it has.
How does something like this make it out of the door? Is this happening on machines that have been upgraded, on fresh installs, or across all platforms. It seems like someone somewhere in the R&D and beta phases should have come across this a lot sooner.
I agree. What they've done with Quake is great. It's simple, cross platform, and fast. Along with their training and rating system it's good for all skill levels as it matches you with others of the same caliber.
Let's not forget ATRAC when talking about dead formats. Mini disc would have been great and they could have had the ipod market if all of their portable music devices didn't insist on using that horrible horrible format when portable digital music started taking off.
I'm surprised their crap design decisions didn't make the list. I remember a time when I'd see 3 or 4 of those come across my work bench at the store I worked in during their heyday. Up until this point I think I had almost purged the experience from my mind, but if I recall correctly quite a few machines would completely stop functioning if the modem died, was removed, or replaced. Generally it had something to do with swapping a jumper to reconfigure a COM port. Combined with other horrible "features" of those machines it's hard to believe they were left off the list. Perhaps the article writers were sparing us from painul memories.....
In your view the OP's experiment isn't complete until he gets to whack you with a stick. That should be worth a few million.
I kind of like Playstation Home. It's not a gee-wizz-bang feature, and I don't use it much. But when I do, I enjoy the experience. It's a pretty neat idea, and I'll be using it to look for people who can help me if I get stuck in a game. Oh, and look at game presentations, if they start using it for that.
It's interesting though to see that the people who "don't like it", actually hate it so much, and that they can spend a lot of time and energy complaining about it (most rants make their point at the first paragraph, and the following 10 paragraphs are just to reinforce how important the first paragraph is to them). One can not help wonder why it's such a big deal.
I totally agree with you. It's still in beta so there are bound to be a myriad of things going wrong with it. They weren't even on time for the opening of it, what do you expect? If you look at sony's "Home" forums before they announced this open beta launch, people were clamoring for closed beta invites. Everyone wanted to be a part of it and see it. Now that it's open everyone and their mother seem to be coming out saying, "it stinks."
It was really funny to watch the "Home" forum and all of the spam topics that kept coming up baiting home users and such on the leadup to what was supposed to be the 7am est opening.
My opinion of it from the closed beta to the open beta is the same. "This is neat, but what am I supposed to do with it?"
There was really nothing there for me to give an opinion about it. I don't have a keyboard attached to my ps3 and I don't have or want a headset (I like listening to music instead of braying jackasses) so chatting with people was pretty much out.
I think I would buy a new outfit or something to distinguish my avatar from other people a few times until I'm happy. It's a customization feature and it's certainly not like you have to change clothes everyday. Who knows, maybe they will give out shirts in contests or for special trophies or a free shirt for each game you have etc... I don't know. Sony says it will be constantly changing so they've left the doors open for pretty much anything.
The purchasing of clubs is an interesting idea also. The fee is probably to keep spam down so that more focused and well run clubs (clans even?) emerge. You could meet up at the video game of your choice with your clan and wait for another clan to show up or pre-arrange a meeting.
It will be interesting to see what is coming along, if it will always be in beta, and how people react as it changes.
Considering the investment that "premium" usenet providers have in their equipment, I'd say they would fight something like this coming at them with some tenacity. Why wouldn't they? It's their bread and butter.
From what I gather, this is only the ISPs that have their own servers that are affected, and not independent usenet providers themselves (like Giganews). Notice that Comcast is not listed as an ISP in this grouping? That's because Comcast contracts out their usenet service to Giganews. If you want unrestricted Usenet access, then chances are you'll have to pay for the service, instead of the (in my opinion trivial) offerings from the likes of Sprint et al. If I recall correctly, most dedicated usenet providers start somewhere around 5-10$/month for a couple of gigs and free headers. It's really just a flash in the pan feel good law. I wouldn't know about the CP scene, but just like with anything else (music/movies/whatever) there are always going to be other ways. I'd like to know how the stand alone usenet/alt.* providers are going to respond to this. Will they follow along and weed out groups? Looking at Giganews AUP they mention something about responding to reports of inappropriate groups (where the name refers to illicit content) by reviewing the group and making a decision to keep it or drop it. alt.multimedia.simpsons.episodes would be ok, where alt.multimedia.kiddie.pron would be subject to removal if the group showed itself to actually contain that and not be some bad joke some idiots had added for their own amusement.
I'm probably eligible, but all things considered I'd rather they just kept the 5 bucks and bought themselves some hot coffee and get to work on some DLC for gta 4.
Try looking at Apple Hardware running Windows via Boot Camp.
He should read the blogs that are out there... I see this as a way to keep military personnel from losing intelligence.