The sounds you're hearing are that of a billion Slashdot readers leaping away from their computers and running down the block to their neighboorhood "Androids R Us" store, so they can finally have something to bring home to Mom's basement.
Well, civilization was nice while it lasted. Hope the next species doesn't screw up and create robot girlfriends.
If you're using Voice IP off your broadband connection at home (and most people are, I assume) then you've got a physical location where the broadband comes in. That's where the service can tell emergency services to go. They go to whatever condo is registered to that account.
And it's not about what *you* want in every situation. The whole point in establishing standards and protocals for important things (say, what numbers to call when the house is burning) is so *everyone* knows what to do. If the FCC mandates that every "phone-like" service has to have emergency infomation associated with it, that'll help someone in the future who grabs a voice IP phone. Maybe it won't be you. Maybe it will.
So you have to answer 30 seconds of questions from Vonage. Boo-hoo. I had to undergo a credit check to get my landline. It's not that big a deal. There's plenty of other things to blame the government for. Making sure your emergency services function shouldn't really be that high on your list, should it ?
"What's interesting is that it's a bright and sunny day as the mindless creatures attack and maul"...please. The dust hasn't even settled off RE 4 - Which, I will remind you, had a complete and utter plot and theme overall halfway through development (after they'd shown people demo movies)
So to assume ANYTHING from screenshots (that may or not be faked) is just insane. I don't even think the DESIGNERS know what the tone and themes of this game are going to be. Post some information in two years, and I'll be more likely to give it some credit.
I know I'll get modded down for this, but it's been bugging me...What happens if someone in the crowd is standing next to the microwave gun, and is holding a bag of popcorn ? Because that would be really funny to see on the news.
Yes, these are the thoughts I have late at night, when I'm by myself and the power goes out.
Jesus...I can't believe I'm actually about to agree with the FCC, but here goes...
I know this is a pain for most of you who use voice IP services, but this is actually a pretty reasonable rule. Everyone in America is taught from a very early age to dial "911" if you're in serious trouble. And the FCC has gone to great lengths to make sure that those calls always get connected. Payphones don't charge for them. Cell phones, even if they don't have service established, are supposed to put them through. And now, it's voice IP's time to make sure such calls work.
"You" may be smart enough to know that the call won't go through, or won't be able to access address information for emergency services. But what about the plumber who you (foolishly) left in your house, who has a heart attack and crawls to your phone ? Or your friend, who watches you pass out while eating a cheese doodle ? Is he going to know that you were too lazy to call and register your information ?
If these companies want to provide home telephone service (or something like it) then they should provide the same 911 emergency information that everyone else does. Because it saves lives.
Very true. In fact, the first time my girlfriend used my powerbook, she went out the next day and got one for herself. Before that, it never even occured to her to use a Mac.
Exactly. Doesn't sound like too much effort is required there, does it ?
Simple fact is, OSX is well designed enough that most users don't need all that "new-fangled" two button clicking -- even though the option is there if they want it.
I don't really buy much of what this guy is saying. If he doesn't like pressing "Command" instead of "Alt" - he can go into the system options and remap the two keys, easily enough. I've seen plenty of toolbars with a "Save" button; Microsoft Word springs to mind. There's already support for a multi-button mouse. All documents are shown in Save dialogs, because you don't want to duplicate the same filename even if it has a different.ext attached to it. And there's a trace of smugness in his "I suggested that Apple include context-sensitive help, and they did so"
Overall, I'm just not impressed. If these are the changes that'll make Longhorn the (all together now) "Apple-Killer" -- well, the future is already here, and it's sitting on your couch next to the fried chicken.
Apple has had support for a two button mouse for the better part of twenty years. Just plug one it, and go...simple as that. The fact that most users chose not to spend the extra $30 to do so, tells you that they didn't really miss it.
I'm sure all those people heard about the Ipod, or the Mini, and were exposed to a massive "Switch" marketing campaign, but what about the Apple Store ? Apple's computers used to be sold online, or in the back of some CompUSA with uninterested, and undereducated sales reps who couldn't have cared less. By bringing well stocked, and well staffed Apple Stores all over the country, Apple finally gave those people on the fence a place to see that the Mac was...cool, easy to use, and functional.
And they did it correctly. Remember those Gateway stores ? Neither does anyone else, because they were around for about ten seconds and cost the company millions of dollars in losses. All the news media claimed the same thing would happen to Apple when they first announced their plans. And today, you've got 400,000 "switchers"
That's not an accident, and it's not just the Ipod.
"It has 22 degrees of freedom"
Yes, but if the Republican controlled Senate passes the legislation it wants, they'll be able to cut it down to just nine degrees of freedom. Take that, you godless humanoid robot !!"
Well, that's great Kevin. Glad to see you're loosening rules in order to reward billion dollar companies, whom I'm sure have my best interests at heart (cause, you know, they always have before...just look at how great the customer service for those cable monopolies worked out) And it's nice to see that you're taking a break from being a slave to a highly vocal minority that seeks to impose their quasi-religious views on what I watch in the privacy of my own home.
I also love his supposed problems with "blocking channel options" not being available to cable and satellite customers. What a non-issue to suck up to "concerned parent groups" I don't think I've seen a cable system since the '80s that didn't have some option on your cable box to block channels, and satellite always had it. God forbid parents should read the manual, or actually pay attention to what their children are watching.
The only halfway decent daily online comic is "That Darn Chauncey" at StupidChildren.com -- for my (lack of money) it's the best strip drawn by a retarded four year old, but with "wit" and snappy dialogue.
Of course, I'm very, very, very, eaisly amused. And I frequently rock back and forth in the basement, with my snowpants around my ankles.
I'm sorry. What I meant to say was "the republican party, and the ultra-conservative facist regime that seeks to impose an almost puritan morality upon a much larger majority, while consistantly breaking laws that don't suit their purposes and unsurping the very principles and integrity this country was founded on for their own bullshit agenda and personal accumulation of wealth"
But you know, that all doesn't fit in the spellchecker. Thanks for picking up on that !
If it wasn't so likely to be something the Republican party would like to implement. The conservative movement in the country would like nothing more than a nice, moral, information controlled internet.
The editors over at Stupid Children, being frequent readers and contributors to Slashdot, find this kind of silly April Fools Day nonsense to be hokum and hogwash. We've decided the best way to protest is to simply do our site like we always do, report the news, do the comics, and be done with it.
Shame on you people for wasting valuable Slashdot space with this childish article.
..and the irony of the theft...is that pot dealers are anixously bidding for the laptop on Ebay, for a chance to sell weed to more than enough smokers needed to put that down payment on that cool 50ft motoryacht they've been wanting.
I kid because I love. What other university lets you major in "crispy" ?
Out of all the bullshit faxes I get, my favorites are the wonderfully partisan ones we get, that say (no joke) "Do you think President Bush is doing a good job ? Fax us back yes or no (only 2.99 a minute)"
Just like the hot coffee McDonalds payoff, you know "someone" is making it worthwhile...
Next time I get one of the hundreds "Invest in this penny stock" junk faxes, I'll look for the "unsubscribe" number, which clearly says "call me to confirm that you want to get faxes for the rest of your life"
I get lots of unsolicited "make your dick hard" emails, too...but I don't think they really care if I unsubscribe to their email lists, either...
Sweet God, but this is wonderful news that they've been fined...
I live in fear of this happening on a large scale in the United States. In a country where we pay (at this point) for incoming calls, I'm just waiting for the deluge of spam messages and telemarketer phone calls to appear on my cellular phone.
I own a small business, and our fax machine has virtually been made useless by the junk faxes we get every month. I promise you, we spend more on incoming faxes (ink, paper) than we do on outgoing faxes, none of which we ever "intentionally" signed up for. And the junk-fax companies have the balls to say "we're only making a living" ??? Please.
Destroy these people before they destroy another technology.
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Well, civilization was nice while it lasted. Hope the next species doesn't screw up and create robot girlfriends.
Which only makes sense, because I'm sure it'll be delayed...ooooh...me thinky long time.
If you're using Voice IP off your broadband connection at home (and most people are, I assume) then you've got a physical location where the broadband comes in. That's where the service can tell emergency services to go. They go to whatever condo is registered to that account.
And it's not about what *you* want in every situation. The whole point in establishing standards and protocals for important things (say, what numbers to call when the house is burning) is so *everyone* knows what to do. If the FCC mandates that every "phone-like" service has to have emergency infomation associated with it, that'll help someone in the future who grabs a voice IP phone. Maybe it won't be you. Maybe it will.
So you have to answer 30 seconds of questions from Vonage. Boo-hoo. I had to undergo a credit check to get my landline. It's not that big a deal. There's plenty of other things to blame the government for. Making sure your emergency services function shouldn't really be that high on your list, should it ?
So to assume ANYTHING from screenshots (that may or not be faked) is just insane. I don't even think the DESIGNERS know what the tone and themes of this game are going to be. Post some information in two years, and I'll be more likely to give it some credit.
Seriously. It's way too early.
Yes, these are the thoughts I have late at night, when I'm by myself and the power goes out.
I know this is a pain for most of you who use voice IP services, but this is actually a pretty reasonable rule. Everyone in America is taught from a very early age to dial "911" if you're in serious trouble. And the FCC has gone to great lengths to make sure that those calls always get connected. Payphones don't charge for them. Cell phones, even if they don't have service established, are supposed to put them through. And now, it's voice IP's time to make sure such calls work.
"You" may be smart enough to know that the call won't go through, or won't be able to access address information for emergency services. But what about the plumber who you (foolishly) left in your house, who has a heart attack and crawls to your phone ? Or your friend, who watches you pass out while eating a cheese doodle ? Is he going to know that you were too lazy to call and register your information ?
If these companies want to provide home telephone service (or something like it) then they should provide the same 911 emergency information that everyone else does. Because it saves lives.
Very true. In fact, the first time my girlfriend used my powerbook, she went out the next day and got one for herself. Before that, it never even occured to her to use a Mac.
Simple fact is, OSX is well designed enough that most users don't need all that "new-fangled" two button clicking -- even though the option is there if they want it.
Overall, I'm just not impressed. If these are the changes that'll make Longhorn the (all together now) "Apple-Killer" -- well, the future is already here, and it's sitting on your couch next to the fried chicken.
Apple has had support for a two button mouse for the better part of twenty years. Just plug one it, and go...simple as that. The fact that most users chose not to spend the extra $30 to do so, tells you that they didn't really miss it.
And they did it correctly. Remember those Gateway stores ? Neither does anyone else, because they were around for about ten seconds and cost the company millions of dollars in losses. All the news media claimed the same thing would happen to Apple when they first announced their plans. And today, you've got 400,000 "switchers"
That's not an accident, and it's not just the Ipod.
"It has 22 degrees of freedom" Yes, but if the Republican controlled Senate passes the legislation it wants, they'll be able to cut it down to just nine degrees of freedom. Take that, you godless humanoid robot !!"
I also love his supposed problems with "blocking channel options" not being available to cable and satellite customers. What a non-issue to suck up to "concerned parent groups" I don't think I've seen a cable system since the '80s that didn't have some option on your cable box to block channels, and satellite always had it. God forbid parents should read the manual, or actually pay attention to what their children are watching.
So, does this make it "TheirSpace" ? (ducks)
Of course, I'm very, very, very, eaisly amused. And I frequently rock back and forth in the basement, with my snowpants around my ankles.
StupidChildren.com replaced their homepage with the one from N.A.M.B.L.A (the national man boy love association) - sick !!
But you know, that all doesn't fit in the spellchecker. Thanks for picking up on that !
Why thank you, young man !
If it wasn't so likely to be something the Republican party would like to implement. The conservative movement in the country would like nothing more than a nice, moral, information controlled internet.
Shame on you people for wasting valuable Slashdot space with this childish article.
I kid because I love. What other university lets you major in "crispy" ?
Man, it's always the innocent and blond that suffer.
Just like the hot coffee McDonalds payoff, you know "someone" is making it worthwhile...
Next time I get one of the hundreds "Invest in this penny stock" junk faxes, I'll look for the "unsubscribe" number, which clearly says "call me to confirm that you want to get faxes for the rest of your life"
I get lots of unsolicited "make your dick hard" emails, too...but I don't think they really care if I unsubscribe to their email lists, either...
I live in fear of this happening on a large scale in the United States. In a country where we pay (at this point) for incoming calls, I'm just waiting for the deluge of spam messages and telemarketer phone calls to appear on my cellular phone.
I own a small business, and our fax machine has virtually been made useless by the junk faxes we get every month. I promise you, we spend more on incoming faxes (ink, paper) than we do on outgoing faxes, none of which we ever "intentionally" signed up for. And the junk-fax companies have the balls to say "we're only making a living" ??? Please.
Destroy these people before they destroy another technology.