Anyone ever heard of white coat hypertension? This sounds like Blue Coat Hypertension. I hereby claim the patent to this new phrase. btw, you owe me 3 cents for thinking it. Make checks payable to....
Ok I couldn't get on youtube before, and I just saw the video. So.... I guess, I recant my previous statement about looking the wrong direction. I've got to say that it looks pretty cool. If they make a first person shooter using this I would buy one that day. Until then, the only thing the wii offers me is mario party which is only fun if you're high, and I can't do that sort of stuff. Oh and Can I get a mount to attach the Wii remote to my AR-15? with a trigger pad? actually it's infrared right? wasn't the gun from duck hunt infrared?
when you turn your head to look at something in an appache, the machine gun follows. When you turn your head and the Wii follows....You're not looking at the screen anymore. I tried the wii at a best buy and I almost threw it through a wall. I don't know if it was broken or what, but it sure was a pita to get it to do anything.
If they deliberately set their house on fire, Then, well, no I wouldn't help them out.
If they fell asleep with a cigarette in their mouth, I guess I'd have to think about it. But if their stove caught on fire or their christmas tree went up then yeah, I'd help them out. If, However they were watching their 2 year old play with matches in the living room and didn't do anything to stop it, well that's just darwinism.
What I would hope you would respond with now is that we don't necessarily know how a fire has started, so in that situation I guess I would just have to give them the benefit of the doubt and save them.
I still don't understand why they don't just get up and walk out themselves. I guess this is slashdot and we do _have_ to boil everything down to poorly matched metaphors. At least it didn't have to do with stealing a car.
"And people wonder why they cannot rely upon employee loyalty these days. Personally, I'm investing all of my money in pitchforks and fire insurance."
personally I wouldn't invest in fire insurance, they're gonna need and the allstate stock isn't going to do too well. I might get some fire insurance perhaps.
_I_ have to pay higher taxes because you can't control what video games your kids are buying? Take some freaking responsibility here god dammit. And yes it's all about me, because I don't give a damn about your kids. They're not my responsibility, They're YOURS.
This could be the kick in the butt some people need to try linux, They're computer is already bricked right? what have they got to lose. Except that they would have had to download it first. and YES i know that xp could be easily recovered, but do they know that?
This shouldn't be looked at from the point of view of limiting choices. The Taser can cause death. Therefore, it should be viewed as more harmful than say, Mace.
These cops shouldn't be asking "is it okay if we tase him" They should be asking themselves if they would consider beating them with batons or shooting them.
IMO the taser should be considered deadly force and used as such, and only when necessary. Cops are using it _way_ too much. For a guy who can't speak english? For a guy who won't sign a speeding ticket? I don't think so.
I've watched the video of the polish guy being tasered to death and I didn't see him do anything threatening toward those rcmps. Was throwing a chair worth his life? I don't think so.
If someone pulls out a gun and points it at a criminal that's usually enough to stop, but a taser doesn't have that same effect, thus it gets used more.
When people say guns are the only choice if you take the taser away, they are forgetting pepper spray and batons. I haven't heard of anyone dying from pepper spray. I'm not saying that it hasn't happened, just not nearly as much.
The point wasn't that they can't figure out a wireless connection, but that they don't even try to read and understand. They click the same box every single day. If they took 3 seconds to read the message and click the box they'd never see it again. keep in mind i'm not talking about people surfing seedy sites on their home computers. these are work computers on a network that is fairly secure. I've gotten a random flash popup now and then but most of the sites with pop-ups that can actually do harm are blocked. The entire point is that people don't even read the damn message.
Many of the people I work with just "x" out the message no matter what it is. Everyday I watch these people x the message for "do you want to turn autocomplete on?" or "you're about to submit information over the internet. continue?" when these boxes have the don't bug me box right there. This behavior drives me nuts. no wonder they can't figure out how to configure a wireless connection, they don't even read the damn screen. If you really want someone to read your message you've got to change the way the button looks. Don't switch them around.
I'm really sad to say it but most non-computer geeks I know don't want Vista but they also don't know they can still get a computer without it. Even after I tell them, they still can't figure it out on Dell's website. Many of them end up a circuit city buy crappy machines with vista. The machine they bought was 4 times faster than his old machine and still runs slower.
Isn't xubuntu supposed to be bare and minimal? They put out a distro of ubuntu that's minimalistic already. If you don't want all the new features (I'm not upgrading just yet, everything works and I haven't had to fark with it in months) then don't upgrade or just install xubuntu or install ubuntu and turn all the extras off.
keep believing the dribble from the government and their lackeys. so far all the "crazy" people predicting this stuff have been pretty much dead on. I always heard that onstar would never be used to remotely shut down cars, but we all knew differently then.
I don't have a problem with the people enforcing the rules. I have a problem with the people making them not actually listening to the people they work for: you and I.
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Anyone ever heard of white coat hypertension? This sounds like Blue Coat Hypertension. I hereby claim the patent to this new phrase. btw, you owe me 3 cents for thinking it. Make checks payable to....
Three hours, 40 minutes and no posts?
Hey, I told him the metaphor sucked.
Ok I couldn't get on youtube before, and I just saw the video. So.... I guess, I recant my previous statement about looking the wrong direction. I've got to say that it looks pretty cool. If they make a first person shooter using this I would buy one that day. Until then, the only thing the wii offers me is mario party which is only fun if you're high, and I can't do that sort of stuff. Oh and Can I get a mount to attach the Wii remote to my AR-15? with a trigger pad? actually it's infrared right? wasn't the gun from duck hunt infrared?
when you turn your head to look at something in an appache, the machine gun follows. When you turn your head and the Wii follows....You're not looking at the screen anymore. I tried the wii at a best buy and I almost threw it through a wall. I don't know if it was broken or what, but it sure was a pita to get it to do anything.
If they deliberately set their house on fire, Then, well, no I wouldn't help them out.
If they fell asleep with a cigarette in their mouth, I guess I'd have to think about it. But if their stove caught on fire or their christmas tree went up then yeah, I'd help them out. If, However they were watching their 2 year old play with matches in the living room and didn't do anything to stop it, well that's just darwinism.
What I would hope you would respond with now is that we don't necessarily know how a fire has started, so in that situation I guess I would just have to give them the benefit of the doubt and save them.
I still don't understand why they don't just get up and walk out themselves. I guess this is slashdot and we do _have_ to boil everything down to poorly matched metaphors. At least it didn't have to do with stealing a car.
Cgenman wrote
"And people wonder why they cannot rely upon employee loyalty these days. Personally, I'm investing all of my money in pitchforks and fire insurance."personally I wouldn't invest in fire insurance, they're gonna need and the allstate stock isn't going to do too well. I might get some fire insurance perhaps.
_I_ have to pay higher taxes because you can't control what video games your kids are buying? Take some freaking responsibility here god dammit. And yes it's all about me, because I don't give a damn about your kids. They're not my responsibility, They're YOURS.
Check out the illiad. just google for iliad -homer
Oh, Look! We're becoming more like China.
DUDE! Learn some fucking html.
Can't someone just write a patch that accesses the drive every 5 minutes or so?
This could be the kick in the butt some people need to try linux, They're computer is already bricked right? what have they got to lose. Except that they would have had to download it first. and YES i know that xp could be easily recovered, but do they know that?
This shouldn't be looked at from the point of view of limiting choices. The Taser can cause death. Therefore, it should be viewed as more harmful than say, Mace.
These cops shouldn't be asking "is it okay if we tase him" They should be asking themselves if they would consider beating them with batons or shooting them.
IMO the taser should be considered deadly force and used as such, and only when necessary. Cops are using it _way_ too much. For a guy who can't speak english? For a guy who won't sign a speeding ticket? I don't think so.
I've watched the video of the polish guy being tasered to death and I didn't see him do anything threatening toward those rcmps. Was throwing a chair worth his life? I don't think so.
If someone pulls out a gun and points it at a criminal that's usually enough to stop, but a taser doesn't have that same effect, thus it gets used more.
When people say guns are the only choice if you take the taser away, they are forgetting pepper spray and batons. I haven't heard of anyone dying from pepper spray. I'm not saying that it hasn't happened, just not nearly as much.
The point wasn't that they can't figure out a wireless connection, but that they don't even try to read and understand. They click the same box every single day. If they took 3 seconds to read the message and click the box they'd never see it again. keep in mind i'm not talking about people surfing seedy sites on their home computers. these are work computers on a network that is fairly secure. I've gotten a random flash popup now and then but most of the sites with pop-ups that can actually do harm are blocked. The entire point is that people don't even read the damn message.
Many of the people I work with just "x" out the message no matter what it is. Everyday I watch these people x the message for "do you want to turn autocomplete on?" or "you're about to submit information over the internet. continue?" when these boxes have the don't bug me box right there. This behavior drives me nuts. no wonder they can't figure out how to configure a wireless connection, they don't even read the damn screen. If you really want someone to read your message you've got to change the way the button looks. Don't switch them around.
We obviously need two slashdots one left and one right. Face it, we're all extremists here.
I guess an electrical failure would give new meaning to the phrase "flying blind"
The advertisement sure as hell works but the video doesn't
I'm really sad to say it but most non-computer geeks I know don't want Vista but they also don't know they can still get a computer without it. Even after I tell them, they still can't figure it out on Dell's website. Many of them end up a circuit city buy crappy machines with vista. The machine they bought was 4 times faster than his old machine and still runs slower.
Isn't xubuntu supposed to be bare and minimal? They put out a distro of ubuntu that's minimalistic already. If you don't want all the new features (I'm not upgrading just yet, everything works and I haven't had to fark with it in months) then don't upgrade or just install xubuntu or install ubuntu and turn all the extras off.
keep believing the dribble from the government and their lackeys. so far all the "crazy" people predicting this stuff have been pretty much dead on. I always heard that onstar would never be used to remotely shut down cars, but we all knew differently then.
I don't have a problem with the people enforcing the rules. I have a problem with the people making them not actually listening to the people they work for: you and I.
I'm not going to say I told you so, but....
I told you so....
:-p
I'm sorry, I forgot. I don't usually respond to Cowards.
yes, it's called a bwr. and yes the turbine is contaminated. once again people who have no clue are chiming in. look on wikipedia for BWR.