No. What will happen is that ads will become louder and more obnoxious, so people will not be able to ignore them. And as long as it brings in more money then it costs, ads will be there. People are so dicile that they think that ads are something we can't live without anymore.
These sports types are NOT heroes. Oh and neither are firemen or policemen, just for being a fireman or policeman. Same for almost all 'heroes' we see nowadays. What they are looking for is 'role models' and it should be the school that should explain the difference as well as the parents.
But then the kid already knows that and does not see sports people as heroes. I would go with Einstein. Looks like a real scientist AND he build a frikkin' A-bomb that saved America from fascism. (well, for many years anyway.)
I can imagine this being useful for tornado warnings, but please not for closed roads.
Also there are messages that will show up on your screen and not as just 'incoming message'. At least I was able to send/receive those several years ago when using my PC and the Nokia software.
Supposed as in intentionally, then I agree. However why must a movie made based on a comic book, look like a comic book. It is a different medium. The characters are not drawn and move around. Why not do it is a completely different way. e.g. as a first person shooter or mockumentary or something different that is not as nice in comic book, but works with video.
OTOH if you do Shakespear as a comic book style, that would be nice. Hamlet in the style of Sin City.
There will always be situations where it helped. However is it worth giving each and every household a dead tree each year? Also in Belgium I just go to http://goldenpages.truvo.be/ and can look up things per category and start calling. Also I will be able to do much more sorting then in a book and not be distracted by 27 companies that start with Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaa* just so they can be first in the book.
I even can add the adress to my Tomtom, view the location on a map and for some companies, see some financial information and much more.
So in each and every way, the online version beats the paper version.
I can understand keeping yellow pages, because you don't have previous relationships with all the businesses you call, but that isn't true for people.
I have not used a paper yellow pages in several years. Even at the company, we use the the internet version. Mainly because they take up way to much space AND we would need at least all books for Belgium AND it is slower.
Looking up phone numbers online was much, much faster and we were able to copy & paste so our database would be up to date as well.
If you are so often in a situation that you need to rely on the white pages, there are several options: 1) Move to a place where they do not have that many power outages 2) Put those numbers down on a piece of paper up front.
The last longer power outage was 2 hours. Some smaller ones of 10 minutes. A total of about 10 in the last 20+ years. In none of them did I need to call the gym to see if they had hot water or see if the grocery was open.
I also was out of hot water for a few days once and instead of calling some gym, I used cold water to wash myself.
Say you need about 25 numbers for emergency situations (like a gym) just write them down. That does not mean that having several thousands of numbers you will never use send to you each in dead trees and every year.
For the few times I can't find a number, I just call information and they put me right through, sms me the number or tell me the number.
Nice use of the word 'harvesting' to set the mood.
Unless specified otherwise, in Belgium each person is a donor of his body parts after he or she dies. Next of kin do not have to be forewarned that some or even all of the body is used as donor, but sometimes are.
So all bodies are 'harvested' by default.
I personally do not care what happens to my body after I died. It's not my problem anymore. Let people who care at that moment do whatever they feel will help them to mourn or celebrate.
I do like the 'harvest by default' idea, as long as it easy to opt out AND if opting out would mean that you would opt out of receiving any donor organ as well. You will NOT be placed on any list. This would give people who ARE willing to be donor a better chance of receiving in case of need.
You are welcome. And yes, this should be modded 'sad but true'.
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I fear we might have face some interesting surprises during more extensive testing.
The most interesting surprises will be in the field of sports as I am sure that is where most of the extensive testing will be done. Tour the France in three days instead of three weeks. 100 meters in under two seconds.
The people that are targeted are unwanted hairdressers, management consultants and 'telephone sanitizers'. Just tell them they are the advance guard for a new civilization.
In Belgium all the police would do is send it to the court. They will then need to investigate if they have some time left. As it stands now as long as there is no financial gain, they will ignore it.
However if there is financial gain, then they will investigate.
Now try to file cases in large numbers and many where there isn't even anything illegal going on, will upset the court and those are not people you want to piss off.
The police will act only on command of the court and I am sure the court will say: "Your network, your problem.". Now if they would kick people because of use of p2p and these people will want to sue their provider, they will have much more chance of being heard and even winning their case.
So the only reason that you are against it is so you do not need to pay more for another domain name. And yet by registering three daomain names (com, net, org) you and almost everybody else are using up those names.
I always thought these com, net, org and all others are not a good idea. The best would have been to just use the ones for each country. That would have made this site slashdot.us. "But what about international organizations like debian?" I hear you ask. Well, either take the one where the organisation is registerd, the founder is located, the cheapest one or one for each country if you want.. And While I am ranting about stuff that wil never change, it would have been better to have it named in revers e.g. us.slashdot Or even http://us/slashdot
Perhaps even presenting the results from surveys or scientific studies.
Or interviews with actors about their latest movie, where they are telling how great it was working with X and Y. Or about any PR stuff going out into the world.
If they are just formula's around numbers, just give us the numbers. No need for all the fluff around it.
It says more about the lousy writing people are used to then the quality of a new Lisa script.
A copy? That would be piracy and that would mean a fine much larger fine then anybody can pay. And making copies would take away the initiative for Mr. Turing to write any new papers. So please don't do that.
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Without knowing if the 50 providers have more or less then 50% of all users, this could mean anything.
If these 50 providers provide 95% of the people, then bigger providers are GOOD against spammers. If these 50 providers provide 5%, then it is bad.
So it is absolutely meaningless information.
No. What will happen is that ads will become louder and more obnoxious, so people will not be able to ignore them. And as long as it brings in more money then it costs, ads will be there.
People are so dicile that they think that ads are something we can't live without anymore.
These sports types are NOT heroes. Oh and neither are firemen or policemen, just for being a fireman or policeman. Same for almost all 'heroes' we see nowadays.
What they are looking for is 'role models' and it should be the school that should explain the difference as well as the parents.
But then the kid already knows that and does not see sports people as heroes. I would go with Einstein. Looks like a real scientist AND he build a frikkin' A-bomb that saved America from fascism. (well, for many years anyway.)
Sounds like he is on par with the current sports heroes.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j50ZssEojtM
It explains in easy to understand words what it does.
I can imagine this being useful for tornado warnings, but please not for closed roads.
Also there are messages that will show up on your screen and not as just 'incoming message'. At least I was able to send/receive those several years ago when using my PC and the Nokia software.
Supposed as in intentionally, then I agree. However why must a movie made based on a comic book, look like a comic book. It is a different medium. The characters are not drawn and move around. Why not do it is a completely different way. e.g. as a first person shooter or mockumentary or something different that is not as nice in comic book, but works with video.
OTOH if you do Shakespear as a comic book style, that would be nice. Hamlet in the style of Sin City.
Option three
Dial information
Tell who you need
Get connected to the number
My parents are in their late 70s and they do not own a computer. If they want to know a phonenumber, they call information.
There will always be situations where it helped. However is it worth giving each and every household a dead tree each year?
Also in Belgium I just go to http://goldenpages.truvo.be/ and can look up things per category and start calling. Also I will be able to do much more sorting then in a book and not be distracted by 27 companies that start with Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaa* just so they can be first in the book.
I even can add the adress to my Tomtom, view the location on a map and for some companies, see some financial information and much more.
So in each and every way, the online version beats the paper version.
I have not used a paper yellow pages in several years. Even at the company, we use the the internet version. Mainly because they take up way to much space AND we would need at least all books for Belgium AND it is slower.
Looking up phone numbers online was much, much faster and we were able to copy & paste so our database would be up to date as well.
If you are so often in a situation that you need to rely on the white pages, there are several options:
1) Move to a place where they do not have that many power outages
2) Put those numbers down on a piece of paper up front.
The last longer power outage was 2 hours. Some smaller ones of 10 minutes. A total of about 10 in the last 20+ years. In none of them did I need to call the gym to see if they had hot water or see if the grocery was open.
I also was out of hot water for a few days once and instead of calling some gym, I used cold water to wash myself.
Say you need about 25 numbers for emergency situations (like a gym) just write them down. That does not mean that having several thousands of numbers you will never use send to you each in dead trees and every year.
For the few times I can't find a number, I just call information and they put me right through, sms me the number or tell me the number.
If it is only a CD, make the ISO downloadable.
Nice use of the word 'harvesting' to set the mood.
Unless specified otherwise, in Belgium each person is a donor of his body parts after he or she dies.
Next of kin do not have to be forewarned that some or even all of the body is used as donor, but sometimes are.
So all bodies are 'harvested' by default.
I personally do not care what happens to my body after I died. It's not my problem anymore. Let people who care at that moment do whatever they feel will help them to mourn or celebrate.
I do like the 'harvest by default' idea, as long as it easy to opt out AND if opting out would mean that you would opt out of receiving any donor organ as well. You will NOT be placed on any list. This would give people who ARE willing to be donor a better chance of receiving in case of need.
http://www.evilmilk.com/pictures/Thank_You_Tsa.htm
You are welcome. And yes, this should be modded 'sad but true'.
The most interesting surprises will be in the field of sports as I am sure that is where most of the extensive testing will be done. Tour the France in three days instead of three weeks. 100 meters in under two seconds.
World records will be shattered.
The people that are targeted are unwanted hairdressers, management consultants and 'telephone sanitizers'. Just tell them they are the advance guard for a new civilization.
It's not if the code monkeys can turn it into anything usefull, it is if the Marketing department can.
In Belgium all the police would do is send it to the court. They will then need to investigate if they have some time left. As it stands now as long as there is no financial gain, they will ignore it.
However if there is financial gain, then they will investigate.
Now try to file cases in large numbers and many where there isn't even anything illegal going on, will upset the court and those are not people you want to piss off.
The police will act only on command of the court and I am sure the court will say: "Your network, your problem.". Now if they would kick people because of use of p2p and these people will want to sue their provider, they will have much more chance of being heard and even winning their case.
And people wonder why the law gets abused. This reeks of looking for a law to find the person guilty.
So the only reason that you are against it is so you do not need to pay more for another domain name. And yet by registering three daomain names (com, net, org) you and almost everybody else are using up those names.
I always thought these com, net, org and all others are not a good idea. The best would have been to just use the ones for each country. That would have made this site slashdot.us. "But what about international organizations like debian?" I hear you ask. Well, either take the one where the organisation is registerd, the founder is located, the cheapest one or one for each country if you want.. And While I am ranting about stuff that wil never change, it would have been better to have it named in revers e.g. us.slashdot Or even http://us/slashdot
Oh well.
to replace the 'editors' on Slashdot.
Or interviews with actors about their latest movie, where they are telling how great it was working with X and Y. Or about any PR stuff going out into the world.
If they are just formula's around numbers, just give us the numbers. No need for all the fluff around it.
It says more about the lousy writing people are used to then the quality of a new Lisa script.
A copy? That would be piracy and that would mean a fine much larger fine then anybody can pay. And making copies would take away the initiative for Mr. Turing to write any new papers. So please don't do that.
Luckily we have companies who answer these difficult questions. What would we do without them?