It seems like most people use their phones at social events as a measure of status more than anything...
Ahem, let me just check my phone.... oh, what that? Why yes, this IS the new ePhone 2000 cylinder with feedback buzz touch... See? The whole thing is a screen... I can check faceweb from any angle...
Since even most fourteen year olds seem to have the latest iPhone/Galaxy it's not that much of a status symbol.
the group I was part of launched a horribly racist/xenophobic conversation. There was no way I'd get into that argument so I just distanced myself a bit and started dicking around with my phone
My problem is, my phone is more interesting than most conversations during social events. I'm socially awkward at best, with esoteric interests. I can only hold a conversation on LeBron or Beyonce for about two minutes before I am bored.
What or who are LeBron or Beyonce?
I'm afraid popular culture is of little interest to me.
How can you maximize the advantages of outcome-based education, without standardized linguistics targeted to areas of core competencies? Hiring managers have expressed interest in consensus oriented, business ready, net native, grey hats, who speak in code and collaborate in dynamic non-traditional employment. To breed a culture of millenial code beasts, we must reach into their social sphere, and peer coach them with best practices.
Your theory is obviously complete bullshit. You don't even have any synergy.
The main issue with latency and satellite is that pesky limit on the speed of light.
That's just an engineering issue. Once Government gets its snout out of the way and allows Elon Musk free reign to tackle the problem, I predict he can crack it within five years.
... who still thinks being able to get a wireless internet link in an aircraft doing 600mph at 35K feet is pretty fucking amazing. I can't believe people complain about the bandwidth - they should be grateful this tech exists at all.
As someone who only travels on no frills airlines, I'm grateful to get a drink of water and a seat that doesn't cut off all the blood in my legs after ten minutes, never mind wifi.
If they all stop for a pedestrian in the way, then it will be trivial for criminals to stop any car they want for any reason. Just stand in front of it.
If you live in an area where people regularly don't stop for pedestrians in front of them, I feel sorry for you.
At most it should go "I see a cop trying to pull us over should i call 911 for you?" aka the same thing I tell my child to do.
In any event the person in the vehicle needs to be able to quickly override the computer's or 2 people can corner any car to carjack it.
In the UK if you called 999 when a police officer asked you to pull over, they'd probably do you for using a mobile phone while driving, just to rub in the fact that you acted like a knob.
By uniform. But any criminal can acquire a uniform and unlike a human driver an automated system can't resist orders given by a criminal that would jeopardize driver's safety.
If you're the sort of person who seriously has to worry about criminals dressing up as cops to kidnap/murder you, I'm sure you will have your own security back up measures in place.
Meanwhile, in the real world for us civilians, if a cop signals you to pull over, you pull over.
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It seems like most people use their phones at social events as a measure of status more than anything...
Ahem, let me just check my phone.... oh, what that? Why yes, this IS the new ePhone 2000 cylinder with feedback buzz touch... See? The whole thing is a screen... I can check faceweb from any angle...
Since even most fourteen year olds seem to have the latest iPhone/Galaxy it's not that much of a status symbol.
the group I was part of launched a horribly racist/xenophobic conversation. There was no way I'd get into that argument so I just distanced myself a bit and started dicking around with my phone
Coward.
My problem is, my phone is more interesting than most conversations during social events. I'm socially awkward at best, with esoteric interests. I can only hold a conversation on LeBron or Beyonce for about two minutes before I am bored.
What or who are LeBron or Beyonce?
I'm afraid popular culture is of little interest to me.
I'm glad I came late to mobile technology. I'll leave mine locked in a drawer (or at home) and deal with it later.
You sound old.
And you sound stupid. But he doesn't choose to be old.
I assume you also don't own a TV, and insist on telling people the fact whenever possible.
The millenial answer to your questions would be "so what? if I really needed to know I'd google it/ask Siri".
How can you maximize the advantages of outcome-based education, without standardized linguistics targeted to areas of core competencies? Hiring managers have expressed interest in consensus oriented, business ready, net native, grey hats, who speak in code and collaborate in dynamic non-traditional employment. To breed a culture of millenial code beasts, we must reach into their social sphere, and peer coach them with best practices.
Your theory is obviously complete bullshit. You don't even have any synergy.
Worse still, I see no mention of The Cloud.
There's an easy way to translate into Swedish Krona: everything is twice as expensive as you would expect in your own currency.
If you're on a business trip you should already be getting paid.
Not if you're a self employed contractor.
The main issue with latency and satellite is that pesky limit on the speed of light.
That's just an engineering issue. Once Government gets its snout out of the way and allows Elon Musk free reign to tackle the problem, I predict he can crack it within five years.
They're complaining about 10Mbps? The best landline I can get to my home is 6Mbps.
You don't have to share your connection with 300 other people.
I can't. Gogo has been granted an exclusive Air-To-Ground (ATG) 3Ghz broadband frequency license by the FCC.
The FCC do not have a worldwide monopoly on communications licenses.
... who still thinks being able to get a wireless internet link in an aircraft doing 600mph at 35K feet is pretty fucking amazing. I can't believe people complain about the bandwidth - they should be grateful this tech exists at all.
As someone who only travels on no frills airlines, I'm grateful to get a drink of water and a seat that doesn't cut off all the blood in my legs after ten minutes, never mind wifi.
This topic just screams for some juvenile humor...
There is a sense of humour blindspot on slashdot about Uranus. I can only assume it is a bit of a sore spot.
never. next question?
It's always nice to see someone think things through carefully and provided a well argued, grammatically correct post on slashdot.
If they all stop for a pedestrian in the way, then it will be trivial for criminals to stop any car they want for any reason. Just stand in front of it.
If you live in an area where people regularly don't stop for pedestrians in front of them, I feel sorry for you.
At most it should go "I see a cop trying to pull us over should i call 911 for you?" aka the same thing I tell my child to do.
In any event the person in the vehicle needs to be able to quickly override the computer's or 2 people can corner any car to carjack it.
In the UK if you called 999 when a police officer asked you to pull over, they'd probably do you for using a mobile phone while driving, just to rub in the fact that you acted like a knob.
By uniform. But any criminal can acquire a uniform and unlike a human driver an automated system can't resist orders given by a criminal that would jeopardize driver's safety.
If you're the sort of person who seriously has to worry about criminals dressing up as cops to kidnap/murder you, I'm sure you will have your own security back up measures in place.
Meanwhile, in the real world for us civilians, if a cop signals you to pull over, you pull over.
I thought the message of Stranger in a Strange Land was, "I'm a swinger and you should be too."
Reading that book was a bit like watching a porno with all the actual sex censored. Except that it lasted a lot longer. .
Why are you on this website?
For the chicks.
the universe is a wondrous and beautiful place
With the exception of Donald Trump's wig, which is merely wondrous..
Does anyone not recall him stating recently (2 light yrs ago?) that energy could be destroyed?
At least Hawking wouldn't have confused a measure of time with a measure of distance.
Sadly, not everything in the universe can be explained by direct analogy with computer hardware or software.
But petrified? What would be the point?
It depends on whether you take it as literal or metaphorical petrification, i.e. just very scared or else turned into stone.
Both are pretty pervy, but in different ways.
neither is it some kind of crime to make such a joke
It's not a "crime" to make racist or sexist or homophobic jokes, it just makes you look like an ignorant bullying knobend.