OTOH I would not want a home system. All I would want is a central button that I could use to turn the house into 'away' mode. It will turn off everything. Bit like some hotels where you must place your key to be able to urn on the lights.
Oh and keyless entry, like at the office placed on the height of where I have my wallet, so I can enter the house with my hands full.
I was thinking the same thing. Also most of my friends I could not find anything that I either did not know or did not need to know.
And reading a LinkedIn entry? Seriously? I know that some of them are at least partly untrue. And why would I be ripping open old wounds by talking about her/his dead cat?
When I was working in a hotel, they told me to wear a name tag. I asked why. They told so people would know who I was. I told that if people are interested in me, they can ask me. When forced, I just put in my last name. An other co-worker put in Me and others put in things like "My Fathers Son". After two days we were allowed to take them off.
And as a customer, I do not need to know your name. Bring my food and go away. If I become a regular, I will ask for your name and you can give it to me or not. Your choice. Standard procedure between human being.
I do the same as I do when I see other illegal stuff. I report it.
I have once reported childporn. I was ordered to go to go to the police station where they tried to put the following on me: 1) Spreading of childporn (Remember that I was the one who reported it) 2) Obstruction of the law (because I called the newspaper, after wich they finaly closed the site) 3) Falsification of my person (because my trow away email address did not have any official address)
I send the report from work. They called there to say they needed to speak to me concerning a childporn case. Luckily I had VERY understand management (who even offered to pay for lawyers if anything would come of it towards me) otherwise I could have been out of a job.
So if I ever see anything illegal again, I would do the right thing and report it.
But somehow I never have seen anything illegal after that. Not even people speeding or pedestrians walking through a red light. Strange, isn't it?
And even aside from the hardware, more about clean interface design than market dominance.
I think you are missing a few steps here. It si about the hardware and the software combined. Just like Windows got dominance on the desktop: Pre-installed systems.
Sure, they want to have some options. Just like when buying a car, you would want to be able to make a few choices, but in the end you want to buy a card and drive it out of the store.
Plenty of people use Android and have no problems with it not being Windows.
It also shows the reason why this will not be the year of the Linux Desktop: No pre-installed systems in REAL huge numbers.
Spain as well. My father payed several thousand Euros for his hearing aids. It wasn't something they payed back. Generally he pays nothing for his healthcare.
So you are saying if government would not be involved, I would get money if I went to the doctor? I now pay 5EUR for a doctors visit. I pay 2 or 3 EUR for my medicine for a 90 day period.
So just because government is involved does not mean it will increase prices.
e.g. government is working more towards generic drugs, instead of the branded ones. Sure the companies are moaning AND are lowering their prices. You can still have a branded one, but it might that you need to pay for it yourself.
If anything, it made people aware that they could ask for generic ones and doctors often already provide them. I even went to a pharmacist who told me he could give me a cheaper generic alternative.
Why stop at 30 years? Shakespeare or Greek tragedy anybody?
And sure old shows look outdated, because they are, well, out of date.
And subplots is not a sign of modern tv. It is not even a sign of sophistication. Soap operas have been doing this for a LONG time. All they do now is go from cliffhanger to cliffhanger.
You used to have one at the end of the season. Now you have one right before a commercial break.
To me that is not more intelligent. To me that is the lack of intelligence when looking at a story point of view. It is very intelligent that they will let you turn in next time.
There are also still a LOT of shows that do the episode thing.
They are not more intelligent. They are just up to date. People from 40-50 years ago would think what we have stoopid and what they have great.
but it is the cumulative effect of radiation that is the problem.
If you think that, they have won. The problem is NOT the radiation. Even f they would have a 100$ safe way of doing things (like a pat down) then it would STILL be a problem.
The problem is that they HAVE these scanners and laws in the first place.
You have nothing to fear, but fear itself. And that is what is happening : 'let people live in fear'. What you are talking about should be a pure theoretical one. Like fantasy football. Or the discussion that if the mob tells you they are going to cut off your leg, you decide which one you would miss less.
This is slashdot. People here tend to think in OR and not in AND statements. Perhaps this is a fault of the US political system where people think it must be either D OR R. Anything else is not plausible.
If I would be a smuggler, I would know this and instead of leaving with all the people from my flight from a dangerous destination, I would sit it out and walk with the groups of people from a safer destination.
Great. This will prepare him for the tracking devices everybody else will put on him and make him a nice and obedient consumer. Nice of you to learn them how bribery and punishment works.
If you need a phone to tell if your kid was lying where he was, you are doing it wrong. When I grew up, there were no cell phones. I did not have a watch, yet I still had to be home at a certain time.
They always knew approximately where I was. The moments I lied where I was, they knew.
Perhaps not on the desktop and perhaps not now. I thought that a mouse was great, but now I use a trackball.
But basically it is all the same difference. If you use a mouse, a trackball or the screen to point, it is all pretty much the same that you are doing.
A lot of the times I would love to have a touchscreen. Not in front of me, but next to my trackball and keyboard. Mufti-touch to my main screens. Then teh ability to take it with me wherever I go.
So not instead of a desktop, but next to a desktop.
One does not exclude the other. I could imagine having a touchscreen as an extra entry device next to my Trackball/mouse and keyboard or even instead of the Trackball/mouse and when I leave my desk, take the device with me. It then turns from a pointing device into a autonomous one.
The disadvantage I thought it had was that there was no caching. Changing channels and you would lose the information. looking at multiple pages? Wait till the one you want.
Having it cached would have made it so much nicer and the feeling so much more instantaneous.
What I liked about it was that they were forced to use a limited amount of characters to give you information, so you would only get the real information on the news pages.
In Belgium it used to be (not sure if it still is) that if you do not make any money from it, the courts do not want to open a case and will consider it obstruction of the court. Obviously if you make money from pirating then they will be happy to help. e.g. if you copy DVDs and sell them, you can be going to court. If you make a mixed tape to give to your loved one, you won't. Running torrents won't bring you to court, unless you are the person who makes money from it.
That is why the local MAFIAA goes after the providers and (unsuccessfully) try to block TPB.
It is good to see that we have an international lawyer who know what is and is not allowed in Australia vs. what is and is not allowed in e.g. the USofA.
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The elections do not give you a real choice.
Your choice about water boarding is basically: We do water boarding.
What is left are minor issues like if you can merry the person you love, regardless of their sex, or not.
With all the rest you have no choice. Not really.
How often? 90% of them? 50%? 1%? Once in a blue moon?
I was thinking the same thing.
Also most of my friends I could not find anything that I either did not know or did not need to know.
And reading a LinkedIn entry? Seriously? I know that some of them are at least partly untrue. And why would I be ripping open old wounds by talking about her/his dead cat?
When I was working in a hotel, they told me to wear a name tag. I asked why. They told so people would know who I was. I told that if people are interested in me, they can ask me.
When forced, I just put in my last name. An other co-worker put in Me and others put in things like "My Fathers Son". After two days we were allowed to take them off.
And as a customer, I do not need to know your name. Bring my food and go away. If I become a regular, I will ask for your name and you can give it to me or not. Your choice. Standard procedure between human being.
I do the same as I do when I see other illegal stuff. I report it.
I have once reported childporn. I was ordered to go to go to the police station where they tried to put the following on me:
1) Spreading of childporn (Remember that I was the one who reported it)
2) Obstruction of the law (because I called the newspaper, after wich they finaly closed the site)
3) Falsification of my person (because my trow away email address did not have any official address)
I send the report from work. They called there to say they needed to speak to me concerning a childporn case. Luckily I had VERY understand management (who even offered to pay for lawyers if anything would come of it towards me) otherwise I could have been out of a job.
So if I ever see anything illegal again, I would do the right thing and report it.
But somehow I never have seen anything illegal after that. Not even people speeding or pedestrians walking through a red light. Strange, isn't it?
I think you are missing a few steps here. It si about the hardware and the software combined. Just like Windows got dominance on the desktop: Pre-installed systems.
Sure, they want to have some options. Just like when buying a car, you would want to be able to make a few choices, but in the end you want to buy a card and drive it out of the store.
Plenty of people use Android and have no problems with it not being Windows.
It also shows the reason why this will not be the year of the Linux Desktop: No pre-installed systems in REAL huge numbers.
Spain as well. My father payed several thousand Euros for his hearing aids. It wasn't something they payed back. Generally he pays nothing for his healthcare.
So you are saying if government would not be involved, I would get money if I went to the doctor?
I now pay 5EUR for a doctors visit. I pay 2 or 3 EUR for my medicine for a 90 day period.
So just because government is involved does not mean it will increase prices.
e.g. government is working more towards generic drugs, instead of the branded ones. Sure the companies are moaning AND are lowering their prices. You can still have a branded one, but it might that you need to pay for it yourself.
If anything, it made people aware that they could ask for generic ones and doctors often already provide them. I even went to a pharmacist who told me he could give me a cheaper generic alternative.
Why stop at 30 years? Shakespeare or Greek tragedy anybody?
And sure old shows look outdated, because they are, well, out of date.
And subplots is not a sign of modern tv. It is not even a sign of sophistication. Soap operas have been doing this for a LONG time. All they do now is go from cliffhanger to cliffhanger.
You used to have one at the end of the season. Now you have one right before a commercial break.
To me that is not more intelligent. To me that is the lack of intelligence when looking at a story point of view. It is very intelligent that they will let you turn in next time.
There are also still a LOT of shows that do the episode thing.
They are not more intelligent. They are just up to date. People from 40-50 years ago would think what we have stoopid and what they have great.
If you think that, they have won. The problem is NOT the radiation. Even f they would have a 100$ safe way of doing things (like a pat down) then it would STILL be a problem.
The problem is that they HAVE these scanners and laws in the first place.
You have nothing to fear, but fear itself. And that is what is happening : 'let people live in fear'. What you are talking about should be a pure theoretical one. Like fantasy football. Or the discussion that if the mob tells you they are going to cut off your leg, you decide which one you would miss less.
I hate the Democrats AND the republicans. Well, honestly, I hate the fact that there is no alternative. Not really.
And if there was, they would make a mess as well.
You forgot De Beers and diamonds.
This is slashdot. People here tend to think in OR and not in AND statements.
Perhaps this is a fault of the US political system where people think it must be either D OR R. Anything else is not plausible.
(You can mod me down, I have karma to burn)
If I would be a smuggler, I would know this and instead of leaving with all the people from my flight from a dangerous destination, I would sit it out and walk with the groups of people from a safer destination.
Great. This will prepare him for the tracking devices everybody else will put on him and make him a nice and obedient consumer.
Nice of you to learn them how bribery and punishment works.
If you need a phone to tell if your kid was lying where he was, you are doing it wrong. When I grew up, there were no cell phones. I did not have a watch, yet I still had to be home at a certain time.
They always knew approximately where I was. The moments I lied where I was, they knew.
Luckily we have copyright to protect the artists like Louis Armstrong and Michael Jackson. Otherwise they would just stop making music.
Perhaps not on the desktop and perhaps not now.
I thought that a mouse was great, but now I use a trackball.
But basically it is all the same difference. If you use a mouse, a trackball or the screen to point, it is all pretty much the same that you are doing.
A lot of the times I would love to have a touchscreen. Not in front of me, but next to my trackball and keyboard. Mufti-touch to my main screens. Then teh ability to take it with me wherever I go.
So not instead of a desktop, but next to a desktop.
One does not exclude the other. I could imagine having a touchscreen as an extra entry device next to my Trackball/mouse and keyboard or even instead of the Trackball/mouse and when I leave my desk, take the device with me. It then turns from a pointing device into a autonomous one.
http://www.een.be/teletekst http://concorde.paratel.be/paratel/ttviewer/?channel=VTM&pagenbr=812 http://www1.wdr.de/themen/infokompakt/videotext/externvtx100.html I think I could go on a while.
The disadvantage I thought it had was that there was no caching.
Changing channels and you would lose the information. looking at multiple pages? Wait till the one you want.
Having it cached would have made it so much nicer and the feeling so much more instantaneous.
What I liked about it was that they were forced to use a limited amount of characters to give you information, so you would only get the real information on the news pages.
This is not just a problem for the USofA. It is a problem for everybody in the world. Well, unless you are a CEO or a lawyer, that is.
You sure you are not talking about Little Italy in New York, USofA?
In Belgium it used to be (not sure if it still is) that if you do not make any money from it, the courts do not want to open a case and will consider it obstruction of the court.
Obviously if you make money from pirating then they will be happy to help. e.g. if you copy DVDs and sell them, you can be going to court. If you make a mixed tape to give to your loved one, you won't.
Running torrents won't bring you to court, unless you are the person who makes money from it.
That is why the local MAFIAA goes after the providers and (unsuccessfully) try to block TPB.
They can just increase profit by going "Oh, let's pick accounts yearly and accuse them of piracy."
There, fixed that for you.