This is not a legal issue, is it? I mean videotaping a movie in a theater is against the law, fair use or not. Isn't the problem here the management's decision to call the police rather than approaching to woman and speaking to her. I think Regal missed a great opportunity here. Imagine this headline:
"Regal Theater manager confiscates videotape from video pirate."
Perfectly within his rights AND he gets to give the patron time to explain. Maybe even (gasp) give her a free pass in exchange for taking her video tape. The best part is he can still prosecute her later if someone thinks it is appropriate.
Yes, but the article does not mention developer. I work at a printing company chock full of nasty Xerox DocuTechs. I am aware of developer. The author is not or he might have said that developer is the problem. If developer is the problem then TONER IS SAFE. If developer is not the problem then TONER IS NOT SAFE. This makes a world of difference.
The article is amazingly unclear about the exact nature of the hazard. I foresee a printer hazard dector able to sniff "ultra tiny particles" of "toner-like" material popping up around offices soon. Something must be done. Think of the children.
I have friends who had children young. One in high school (unmarried) one couple right after high school (married) and another in college (unmarried).
Now, please remember I am working class and white and grew up in the suburbs in the midwest. Neither I nor anyone I hung around with were wealthy or even well off. Here is my limited observation: Of the people I know who had children early (not just sex) none of their lives were ruined. They all have steady jobs, roofs over their heads, interesting social lives, and a normal relationship with thier children. Did it change their lives? Undoubtedly. Did it ruin their lives? No.
This is the worst case scenario. The people who I still talk to from high school who had (or claimed to have had) sex back then but not children seem to run about the same in terms of problems as people who didn't (or said they didn't).
As always these are my observations. Your mileage may vary.
Yes, and that works so well if you MADE money while you were doing the bulk of your secondary training (certifications, post-secondary work). I had to work my way up from the bottom of the pack twice to get where I am now. I'm sure I'm not alone. Lack of money was a way of life.
I'm afraid your theory, although true, runs along the lines of "If I only would have bought Microsoft stock with that fifty dollars grandma gave me in 1982...."
I very much hope you had the foresight to invest when you were younger. Very few do.
I am a parent of two young children ages 6 and 10. I am 40 years old That means I will be 48 to around 60 when my children are in college.
I have friends who had children right out of college. Their children are now graduating from high school. This means they are paying for education while in their prime earning years and still have twenty years left to vacation and save for retirement. I, on the other hand, will struggle along trying to do all three at once (educate, save, vacation).
I love this part; "ultra-tiny particles of toner-like material"
I don't know which is more obnoxious - the non-measurement-measument (ultra-tiny is not a size) or the mis-statement of hazards. The material is either toner or it isn't. If the material is toner, say it is toner. If the material isn't toner, tell me waht it is. There is no "toner like material" in a toner-based printer other than the toner itself.
No real research on my part, but I think you may be straining the term "land" here. Perhaps you are using it in the manner of "I landed a punch on his jaw" which would fit more with my knowlege of the Soviet moon "landings".
Yes, I know there is no good term for "crashed into", but stil....
Oh, please be quiet! I have heard over and over about how blogs are nothing without whatever information source the writer is in favor of. Newspapers, magazines, television, radio, online magazines, other super-blogs, etc. Everyone takes the exact same news, feeds it to a writer, edits the story and dumps it onto whichever medium (paper, screens, audio, video) they think will make money. Then, when that medium stops making money they whine about how the world will end when we stop using Media X for our news.
Shuddup already! The news won't stop happening just because your poor business model failed. Savy marketers already know who they can get their messages out to in the "blogosphere" and as the ad revenue seeks the best return it will drag the news sources along with it. Its happening right now.
Now, grandpa, go sit in the corner with your paper and let the kids run the world.
First, I like FOSS products. I suggest to users that they install OpenOffice, Gimp, Inkscape, and other products INSTEAD of applying to our IT purchasing dept and costing the company hundreds of dollars.
BUT I know users don't stop there. Everytime I touch a user's laptop I find some extra software I don't want to support. Most of the time I don't remove the software, I just deliver the customary warning: "If this software causes a problem with your system I will reimage your PC rather than waste time diagnosing the issue". Usually that does the trick and everyone is happy.
I know that for every piece of software I see, I miss three. I would love to scan all of my machines and come up with a report that I can compare against my problem tickets to show my manager that controled, managed FOSS saves money and DOES NO HARM. With this product I might be able to show that FOSS can coexist with the standard software images, as long as users don't install it themselves.
I am so ipressed by his integrity No all he needs to do is puts this idea through congress AND get the president to sign it....
Oh, wait. That's right! This guy will be two years out of office before this is even a bill. He can demand anything he wants now, and so can any other department head becasue they won't be around to put it through congress.
Gosh, I wonder what the FCC head will be doing AFTER he gets booted by the next pres. (or this one). Could it be consulting for some group/company that would benefit from open devices?
Have these people absolutely no common sense at all? Vegas should be booking odds about now on how many species of beneficial bateria will be wiped out when Crest-antibacterial toothpaste (R) comes out.
Re:unique ID is a timestamp... if not for relativi
on
The Internet Of Things
·
· Score: 1
That would be great, but I think God already beat you to it.
Now all we need to do is find a bar code reader with a fine enough resolution.....
Long answer: The CD is not obsolete unless you look at it only as a sales figure. The CD is simply a PLACE TO PUT A FILE. It will be usefull for a while, until massive USB thumdrives can plug into your car stereo (Please save me from the obligatory "its already here" posts cause folks, it ain't here yet for the rest of the world). We now live in a scary world (for merchants) where files live free, hopping from one medium to the next and from one format to the next.
I'm guessing either English is not your first language or you have some sort of brain injury 'cause it looks like humor is just a little beyond your grasp.
But that is a great retort. Too bad about the sig and everything.
I envy "researchers" who can come up with this sort of neo-darwinistic crap, rummage through some I.Q. scores and tell the world "If you aren't a first born son, forget about it."
I can here the session at the bar now:
RESEARCHER ONE: I never thought it would get published. Honest, it was just a joke. RESEARCHER TWO: You fool! We'll just have to play along with it or our careers are over. RESEARCHER ONE: I'll never underestimate the public's stupidity again. (sob)
I think this is just multiple instances of Ockham's Razor.
1) Inkjet MFGs are just lazy. They don't want to do the R&D to improve these things. 2) The ink level reporting hardware/software does what it should (sort of). The fact that it is scewed in favor of the inkjet MFGs is all the more reason for them to shut down R&D.
See, not a conspiracy, just laziness and incompetence like always.
Okay, I am uneducated in that case. What you write is facinating and very concise. I would like to read more about it.
From a family history research perspective how can you get six generations back with DNA testing? You are speaking of comparing your DNA to living people and then trusting that they are either from the area where they live or are educated in their own family histories.
Otherwise I can only think of this tool as a compass to point me in the right direction. without the "map" of family history research, the compass is less useful.
Please reply if you can point me in the direction of a book about this.
Genetic traits can be a better pointer to which region a family came from than simple DNA. After all, DNA takes all that combination stuff (I think it's called sex) and has many latent traits that may or may not show up depending on genetics of both parents.
For example part of my family is Swiss, about six generations back. Part of my wife's family is also Swiss, about four generations back. Her family happens to be from the part of Switzerland that has a wierd abnormality in a small percentage of their population. Sometimes their adult teeth don't develop. Because of this trait and research my wife was able to trace her family to an exact village.
Oh, and no ones privacy was ever in danger.
DNA on the other hand is still latereal in time and not verticle. Unless you want to test a corpse you can't go back many generations. A good tool to see what uncle Joe REALLY did on those "sales" trips in Vegas, but not much good as a family history research tool.
Couldn't agree with you more. Disks are STILL the favorite way for most Americans to carry around their digital entertainment. Doesn't mean its not already dead, though.
Look at it this way: 1) There is an alternative to LPDs (Little Plastic Discs)- DMT (Digital Media Transfer) 2) The "market" for DMT is growing and will continue to grow in America unless someone (Entertainment Industry via the ISPs via the U.S. congress) caps the download speeds. Even IF that happens the ISPs will leave themselves a back door to cash in on DMT down the line. 'There's gold in them thar transfers'. 3) The market for LPDs , which was as close to 100%, can only shrink as a percentage of total movies viewed. Not purchased mind you, but viewed. 4) At some point more people in America will download movies/music than buy those on LPDs. When will it happen? I don't know. Maybe when everyone gets decent broadband. Maybe when the Entertainment Industry realizes this is a new century and they need to change. Probably five years after some smart person starts using YouTube to distribute their High Resolution, Full Length independant films and ties it in with some decent advertising.
And I do know about Dead Industries Walking - I work in printing. Print is a multi-billion dollar industry that won't survive this century intact.
You are very right and everything you say is absolutly correct.
Slashdot Mirror
This is not a legal issue, is it? I mean videotaping a movie in a theater is against the law, fair use or not. Isn't the problem here the management's decision to call the police rather than approaching to woman and speaking to her. I think Regal missed a great opportunity here. Imagine this headline:
"Regal Theater manager confiscates videotape from video pirate."
Perfectly within his rights AND he gets to give the patron time to explain. Maybe even (gasp) give her a free pass in exchange for taking her video tape. The best part is he can still prosecute her later if someone thinks it is appropriate.
Bad, bad managment.
Yes, but the article does not mention developer. I work at a printing company chock full of nasty Xerox DocuTechs. I am aware of developer. The author is not or he might have said that developer is the problem. If developer is the problem then TONER IS SAFE. If developer is not the problem then TONER IS NOT SAFE. This makes a world of difference.
The article is amazingly unclear about the exact nature of the hazard. I foresee a printer hazard dector able to sniff "ultra tiny particles" of "toner-like" material popping up around offices soon. Something must be done. Think of the children.
FUD
Wow, sound like you need to get out more.
I have friends who had children young. One in high school (unmarried) one couple right after high school (married) and another in college (unmarried).
Now, please remember I am working class and white and grew up in the suburbs in the midwest. Neither I nor anyone I hung around with were wealthy or even well off. Here is my limited observation: Of the people I know who had children early (not just sex) none of their lives were ruined. They all have steady jobs, roofs over their heads, interesting social lives, and a normal relationship with thier children. Did it change their lives? Undoubtedly. Did it ruin their lives? No.
This is the worst case scenario. The people who I still talk to from high school who had (or claimed to have had) sex back then but not children seem to run about the same in terms of problems as people who didn't (or said they didn't).
As always these are my observations. Your mileage may vary.
Yes, and that works so well if you MADE money while you were doing the bulk of your secondary training (certifications, post-secondary work). I had to work my way up from the bottom of the pack twice to get where I am now. I'm sure I'm not alone. Lack of money was a way of life.
I'm afraid your theory, although true, runs along the lines of "If I only would have bought Microsoft stock with that fifty dollars grandma gave me in 1982...."
I very much hope you had the foresight to invest when you were younger. Very few do.
I am a parent of two young children ages 6 and 10. I am 40 years old That means I will be 48 to around 60 when my children are in college.
I have friends who had children right out of college. Their children are now graduating from high school. This means they are paying for education while in their prime earning years and still have twenty years left to vacation and save for retirement. I, on the other hand, will struggle along trying to do all three at once (educate, save, vacation).
Who is smarter?
I love this part;
"ultra-tiny particles of toner-like material"
I don't know which is more obnoxious - the non-measurement-measument (ultra-tiny is not a size) or the mis-statement of hazards. The material is either toner or it isn't. If the material is toner, say it is toner. If the material isn't toner, tell me waht it is. There is no "toner like material" in a toner-based printer other than the toner itself.
No real research on my part, but I think you may be straining the term "land" here. Perhaps you are using it in the manner of "I landed a punch on his jaw" which would fit more with my knowlege of the Soviet moon "landings".
Yes, I know there is no good term for "crashed into", but stil....
Yes, by golly. I can't think of any reason why anyone would want an all terain gun platform, uh, robot.
Sorry, just can't help myself.
Oh, please be quiet! I have heard over and over about how blogs are nothing without whatever information source the writer is in favor of. Newspapers, magazines, television, radio, online magazines, other super-blogs, etc. Everyone takes the exact same news, feeds it to a writer, edits the story and dumps it onto whichever medium (paper, screens, audio, video) they think will make money. Then, when that medium stops making money they whine about how the world will end when we stop using Media X for our news.
Shuddup already! The news won't stop happening just because your poor business model failed. Savy marketers already know who they can get their messages out to in the "blogosphere" and as the ad revenue seeks the best return it will drag the news sources along with it. Its happening right now.
Now, grandpa, go sit in the corner with your paper and let the kids run the world.
First, I like FOSS products. I suggest to users that they install OpenOffice, Gimp, Inkscape, and other products INSTEAD of applying to our IT purchasing dept and costing the company hundreds of dollars.
BUT I know users don't stop there. Everytime I touch a user's laptop I find some extra software I don't want to support. Most of the time I don't remove the software, I just deliver the customary warning: "If this software causes a problem with your system I will reimage your PC rather than waste time diagnosing the issue". Usually that does the trick and everyone is happy.
I know that for every piece of software I see, I miss three. I would love to scan all of my machines and come up with a report that I can compare against my problem tickets to show my manager that controled, managed FOSS saves money and DOES NO HARM. With this product I might be able to show that FOSS can coexist with the standard software images, as long as users don't install it themselves.
I am so ipressed by his integrity No all he needs to do is puts this idea through congress AND get the president to sign it....
Oh, wait. That's right! This guy will be two years out of office before this is even a bill. He can demand anything he wants now, and so can any other department head becasue they won't be around to put it through congress.
Gosh, I wonder what the FCC head will be doing AFTER he gets booted by the next pres. (or this one). Could it be consulting for some group/company that would benefit from open devices?
Naw, that would just be jaded of me.
Have these people absolutely no common sense at all? Vegas should be booking odds about now on how many species of beneficial bateria will be wiped out when Crest-antibacterial toothpaste (R) comes out.
That would be great, but I think God already beat you to it.
.....
Now all we need to do is find a bar code reader with a fine enough resolution
Build this nut-job a virtual world and let him do whatever he wants in it.
They spelled my name correctly, right?
Then its alllllll good.
Cha - Chiiinnnng!
Yeah but withing twenty years we'll have inexhaustable and clean fusion energy and then it will cost next to nothing to reclaim oil this way.
Oh. Wait a minute....
Never mind.
The next version will do fifty petaflops but its weather calculations will always be wrong.
That is until one day someone remembers to add in the massive heat output from its own cooling towers.
Long answer:
The CD is not obsolete unless you look at it only as a sales figure. The CD is simply a PLACE TO PUT A FILE. It will be usefull for a while, until massive USB thumdrives can plug into your car stereo (Please save me from the obligatory "its already here" posts cause folks, it ain't here yet for the rest of the world). We now live in a scary world (for merchants) where files live free, hopping from one medium to the next and from one format to the next.
The CD is dead. long live the CD!
Wow.
Just - wow.
I'm guessing either English is not your first language or you have some sort of brain injury 'cause it looks like humor is just a little beyond your grasp.
But that is a great retort. Too bad about the sig and everything.
Wow.
BFD
I am in the wrong line of work.
I envy "researchers" who can come up with this sort of neo-darwinistic crap, rummage through some I.Q. scores and tell the world "If you aren't a first born son, forget about it."
I can here the session at the bar now:
RESEARCHER ONE: I never thought it would get published. Honest, it was just a joke.
RESEARCHER TWO: You fool! We'll just have to play along with it or our careers are over.
RESEARCHER ONE: I'll never underestimate the public's stupidity again. (sob)
I think this is just multiple instances of Ockham's Razor.
1) Inkjet MFGs are just lazy. They don't want to do the R&D to improve these things.
2) The ink level reporting hardware/software does what it should (sort of). The fact that it is scewed in favor of the inkjet MFGs is all the more reason for them to shut down R&D.
See, not a conspiracy, just laziness and incompetence like always.
BFD
Grownups? Since when are reporters and news managers grownups?
Okay, I am uneducated in that case. What you write is facinating and very concise. I would like to read more about it.
From a family history research perspective how can you get six generations back with DNA testing? You are speaking of comparing your DNA to living people and then trusting that they are either from the area where they live or are educated in their own family histories.
Otherwise I can only think of this tool as a compass to point me in the right direction. without the "map" of family history research, the compass is less useful.
Please reply if you can point me in the direction of a book about this.
Thanks
BFD.
Genetic traits can be a better pointer to which region a family came from than simple DNA. After all, DNA takes all that combination stuff (I think it's called sex) and has many latent traits that may or may not show up depending on genetics of both parents.
For example part of my family is Swiss, about six generations back. Part of my wife's family is also Swiss, about four generations back. Her family happens to be from the part of Switzerland that has a wierd abnormality in a small percentage of their population. Sometimes their adult teeth don't develop. Because of this trait and research my wife was able to trace her family to an exact village.
Oh, and no ones privacy was ever in danger.
DNA on the other hand is still latereal in time and not verticle. Unless you want to test a corpse you can't go back many generations. A good tool to see what uncle Joe REALLY did on those "sales" trips in Vegas, but not much good as a family history research tool.
Couldn't agree with you more. Disks are STILL the favorite way for most Americans to carry around their digital entertainment. Doesn't mean its not already dead, though.
Look at it this way:
1) There is an alternative to LPDs (Little Plastic Discs)- DMT (Digital Media Transfer)
2) The "market" for DMT is growing and will continue to grow in America unless someone (Entertainment Industry via the ISPs via the U.S. congress) caps the download speeds. Even IF that happens the ISPs will leave themselves a back door to cash in on DMT down the line. 'There's gold in them thar transfers'.
3) The market for LPDs , which was as close to 100%, can only shrink as a percentage of total movies viewed. Not purchased mind you, but viewed.
4) At some point more people in America will download movies/music than buy those on LPDs. When will it happen? I don't know. Maybe when everyone gets decent broadband. Maybe when the Entertainment Industry realizes this is a new century and they need to change. Probably five years after some smart person starts using YouTube to distribute their High Resolution, Full Length independant films and ties it in with some decent advertising.
And I do know about Dead Industries Walking - I work in printing. Print is a multi-billion dollar industry that won't survive this century intact.
You are very right and everything you say is absolutly correct.