This issue cropped up several years ago, just before our GST was introduced. Senator Brian Haradine wanted the Internet Censored. There was a Budding Local Porn industry in Australia, producing lots of tasteful Erotica and lots more non-quite-so-tasteful porn. The legistlation would prevent people publishing Erotica and Porn in Australia, and Australians from accessing Erotica or Porn. When the legislation was introduced, it was left up to the ISP to either filter content, or provide Censorship programs to it's customers. If the ISP chose not to filter at their end, customers were not allowed to run any OS without Censorship Software; Linux, *BSD, BeOS and Mac's were theoretically not permitted on the Internet! IIRC, The Legislation went through and the Independent Haradine voted in favour of the GST. The Local Porn/Erotica industry collapsed (since they couldn't host content locally), ISPs illegally left it to their customers to purchase Censorship Software (no-one did) and Australians had to get their fix of Erotica from Foreign Sites. It was all a big joke. Ironically, the same existing ineffective legislation can be used in conjunction with the new Anti-Sedition laws (think of a cross between the PATRIOT Act and 1984) to fulfil what this Knob-Jockey is proposing.
IN an effort to confuse Scientifically Minded People, who have a basic grasp of Physics, and appeal to the Pleabian Housewives of the 1970's, who's only Science studied was "Domestic Science", Manufacturers of Aluminium Foil use two different Aluminium Alloys to make House-Hold Aluminium Foil. The Shiny Layer actually absorbs Radiation, while the Matt Layer reflects Radiation. The reason Domestic Foil was made like this is because Housewives kept putting the "Pretty" side of the Foil to the outside. To test if your Aluminium Foil is manufactured like this, conduct an experiment; You need two Identical Thermometers, two identical squares of Aluminium Foil and a Heat Source. Something to hold the thermometers would be handy too. Wrap one Thermometer Shiny in, the other Shiny Out. Hold them both Identical Distances from the Heat Source. If you have Domestic "Popular" Aluminium Foil, the Shiny Out will heat up quicker. If your Foil adheres to the laws of Physics, as we know them, the Shiny In will heat up quicker.
My brother conducted a similar experiment in High-School. His experiment was the only one that had expected results. When I did the same class, three years later, the experiment had been removed from the Syllabus because the Public School Teachers couldn't get the experiment to work properly. The only Successful attempt at this experiment was by my Trouble-making Brother.
A few Australian ISPs have been doing this too. Unfortunately, they introduce a Catch-22, you can't download the Removal Software until you connect to the Internet; You can't connect to the Internet until you download the Removal Software. They call me and say "Daniel, My Computer's Broken." I have a look, take it home, disconnect my Network from the Internet, connect it to my Network *shudder*, install SP1 and SP2, Insall AVG, AdAware and SpySweeper, Return they computer to them. The next day they call me and say "My MultiFunction Printer/Scanner isn't working." I have a look, get the model number, go home, reconnect my Network to the Internet, search on the Model number and discover that the drivers don't work in Windows XP SP2. The company recommend Downgrading back to SP1 and running it with an Administration Account. I then get another Phone Call; "My Camera isn't working either". I get them to dictate the Model Number over the Phone, ask them for the Model Number, not the Serial Number and do another Search...
I ring them back and tell them that their Printer is now a Pile of Garbage, That they should be using Picasa instead of *insert obscure proprietary Photo Management Suite*, and that if they want me to help them with a computer related problem ever again, they'll have to throw out their POS and go buy a Mac. I also tell them to get AppleCare
12 Months later, just out of Warranty, (They didn't get AppleCare) their iBook fries it's Logic Board...
I'm actually after TISM's ARIA Acceptance, featuring Les Murray (a famous Australian Soccer Commentator). I had it on VHS, but an Ex-Girlfriend got offended by the Swearing in Hungarian, and threw it away.
I don't want to discuss all of this here, but when someone in a top administration postion decides the money and everyone gets cuts except for the top administration(who get raises) something is corrupt, and proper channels no longer work. But maybe that's just me.
Even advanced grammar checkers still work very poorly compared to sitting down, reading it yourself, and then having an English inclined friend do the same.
Hey! I have an idea.
Why not send our documents to somewhere where they have a better grasp of English than in England, Labour is cheap, and they have huge problems with Unemployment. Grammar Parsing could be off-shored to India, and Tech Support Jobs could come home again. It's much easier to read Grammatically correct English text than Grammatically correct English Speech in an Indian Dialect.
Felines are the most effective Killing Machines Nature has created. In Mainland Australia, the Top of the food chain was Dingos, Quolls and Antechinus. When you introduce Domestic Cats, they quickly move to the top of the food chain and grow. And Grow and Grow and Grow.
My Brother was out hiking with some mates, when they got back to where the car was parked, one of his mates (who plays lots of Football) saw a Feral Kitten (about the size of a Domestic Cat), and booted it as hard as he could ('cos he's a sadistic Bastard). The Kitten went flying 10 metres, landed and came running at them. My brothers Sadistic Mate still has the scars on his leg.
My Father got a Goat Skin from an old Tracker, who claimed to have found a Feral Cat when he was out Hunting Goats. This 6"6' Bloke claimed to have lifted he Cat up at the base of the tail, and the head was still touching the ground. It had been disembowled by a Mother Ring-Tailed Possum, defending it's young. (1" retractable claws and 5mm thick skin are no match for 3" retractable claws and 1cm thick skin)
These Rural Myths about Black Panthers are just Feral Cats, selected through Evolution to be big and black.
When Microsoft released WinXP SP2, which integrated with Anti-Virus Products, it took a while for the AV companies to take advantage of these features. Microsoft didn't like this because even though they made all this effort to facilitate better AntiVirus Support, the Companies still churned out their Stand-Alone Crap. Symantec are up in arms because their dodgy implementation won't be able to compete with MS's Offering
When Konfabulator was superseded by Dashboard in MacOSX, the makers of Konfabulator were up in arms because their dodgy implementation couldn't compete with Dashboard.
OS companies have all these little hooks in their OS so cool features can be implemented, but Third Parties don't take the bait. They develop parallel systems which duplicate existing code simply to get their Corporate Logo up their.
Instead of complaining, Symantec should be Liasing with MS so they can provide a value added service to MCP users. MCP could provide the infrastructure to scan for viruses, but the definitions could come from third parties.
**SPOILERS** I was more disturbed by the Crash itself then the Attack Following it. As more and more damage was done during the crash I found myself more and more distressed. When the attack came, and the Casualties began, All I could think was "Oh. That's Unfortunate." I had more emotion for the ship than my Favourite Character! The loss didn't settle in until the Casualties continued in the following scene.
I personally have a thing against Technology Companies controlling Content. Other than that it is a good idea. A Better Idea would be for the Indie Record Companies to rise and Usurp the Recording Behemoths. The Back Catalogue of the Big Companies would still exist, but eventually it would become less and less relevant, and the music of Newer Indie Artists would envelope a larger and larger proportion of the Music Mindshare. Let the RIAA dictate less and less of the Music, until their entire Catalogue is relegated to the Bargain Bin.
You North Americans clamour about a Free Market, but are still lapping up to Popularist Marketing Schemes, rather than promote good quality Local Music. In a Free Market, the only people who can break a Monopoly are the Consumers and the Independent Producers. You can't expect Large Corporations (even those as Altruistic as Apple, Google, Yahoo! and Microsoft) to act in the best interest of Market Diversity.
While Energy and Mineral Resources won't be as Scarce in a Futuristic Space Society, Communication and Community will be. Even in the Firefly 'Verse, which is set in a little "Planet Village", It still takes days, or even Months to travel between Colonies. FTL reduces that time period, but the three big FTL Mechanisms, (Warp Drive, Hyperspace and Wormholes) all violate most Laws of Physics.
Also, an Art Deco Space Ship would be impossible to keep clean. All that Polycarbonate (like in the Tantive IV of StarWars) scratches real easy (like my iPod), and Brushed Metal stains quickly when it get's some Body Oil on it. They'd need more Cleaning crew than Tech crew.
And 90% of all statistics are fabricated on the spot. 26%? That doesn't sound right, I would have thought closer to 70%!
Explaining what a Firewall is to Non-tech people isn't easy either; I just say "it stops certain types of connections to the internet". Not technically accurate, and the people who hear this still don't really know what a firewall is, or how it works, or that it's actually the Proxy Server stopping their AV software from downloading updates, not the Firewall.
Have you forgotten about the WebKit helpviewer: vulnerability from such a short time ago? Just like anything else, a MacOS X does have it's weaknesses.
Also, the Firewall in MacOSX is software controlled. what is preventing a Malicious AppleScript from opening and closing ports as it needs?
The solutions provided to solve the helpviewer: vulnerability are still just a hack, and an ignorant user can still destroy all their data without an administrator password. With an administrator password, they can ruin the entire system!
Apple should patent The bundling of Malicious Software with a hardware device. Then they could Counter-Sue Creative for the 3700 Virus-ridden Players unCreative Shipped. Of course, to justify this patent, Apple would need to have shipped Hardware with Malicious Software... They did ship Mac's with Internet Explorer, didn't they.
I wish Apple would release a Camera, or at least team up with a Dedicated Camera Manufacturer to design a Camera which is as simple to use as an iPod.
In order to take a photo with a typical Consumer Digital Camera, you have to either be happy with a poor quality Photo, or navigate though dozens of obscure menus to change simple settings like exposure time and f-stop.
In order to transfer your photos to your computer, you have to connect the USB Cable, but you also have to connect a separate power cable to charge the battery. In some cases you have to remove the battery from the Camera and put it in a separate charger!
IMO, Apple could design a fantastic Camera; It would have a Dock Connector port for Charging, transfer and Printing; it would plug directly into an iPod (Photo) for storage, and would have a really simple interface for adjusting Photography Settings.
The only thing I'm not sure about would be Battery and Storage.
An Internal Battery would have people whinging about battery life (because they're too stupid to charge Li-Ion batteries properly) and a Hard Disk would make the camera more expensive and may interfere with the CCD. The compromise could be non-removable Flash Storage, which automatically syncs with an iPod Photo.
"Another nice thing about OpenOffice is that it is actually a complete office suite."
This could also be a negative. Most users only need Excel and Word; maybe Outlook if they get a lot of Corporate Email. MS Office gives you the option to restrict access to a particular program. The world would be a much better place if people didn't have the option to procrastinate on Powerpoint when they had Idle Time.
Most of the computers I am forced to maintain are still Windows 98se. Office 2003 only runs on NT-based Windows Varieties. OpenOffice runs on DOS-based Windows, and XP is the latest version of Office which fits the same category. IMO, OpenOffice still doesn't have the versatility of MS Office '97. While it may have more features, all most people need is something simple which can run on their ancient hardware. The average user only needs Word '97 and Excel '97. They don't need all the features that OpenOffice offers
I have three playlists on my iPod, which I use to sort and rate Music. 'Unrated [infinity]' restricts the selection to Songs with a Rating of -----. 'Unrated 50' also restricts it to the 50 least recently played songs. Finally, '***+' selects songs with a rating of ***--;, ****-, or *****, and then only the 100 least recently played songs. All these playlists are Live Updating.
When I need to rate songs, I play 'Unrated [infinity]' or 'Unrated 50', and rate songs as I play, using the same rules as the Parent. When I just want to listen to good music, I listen to '***+'.
Also remember that unlike Slashdot, iTunes and the iPod can display Unicode characters, so you can use Real stars and Infinity instead of Asterisks and whatever.
Or the "DiskWasher" Virus which made your Drive sound like a Washing Machine, complete with Rinse Sound Effects and Spin Cycle. Didn't do much good for your hardware though...
I agree in the case of McDonalds, but Cinemas don't have tables to leave your empty Popcorn Buckets and Drink Cups, so you should take them out with you. McDonalds is primarily a Restaurant and should have people to clear the table; the staff aren't exactly expensive, are they?
At my Local Cinema, Minimum Wage Staff wander into each Cinema after a screening and dispose of any junk that Inconsiderate patrons may have left behind. Spills are cleaned up quickly and When you go into the cinema, it is at least tidy. Your feet don't stick to the floor, anyway. Some newer Cinemas even have Mobile Phone Jammers. Ticket prices are $13AU
Older cinemas (1980's era), where you pay only $7AU a ticket, do have problems, but are frequently Patronised by Older, more thrifty individuals, who understand that a $6 discount means the film isn't brand new, and you have to take your rubbish with you.
The few 1950's era Cinemas still standing are generally Arthouse Cinemas, where you can watch classics like Planet of the Apes Marathons (with Charlton Heston), 2001:A Space Odyssey, Blues Brothers Theatre Productions and the like. They still have Blockbusters on occasion, but are frequented by Movie Buffs. These people treat the Cinema as a Community Resource and take care, as such, and work as Volunteers during Big Events, like Film Festivals. MIFF and MUFF are major events here in Melbourne and most Inner-City Cinemas and Theatres need all the help they can get.
Many new Cinemas here in Australia have Jammers so people can't use their Mobile in the Cinema. The Jammers work so well, the Nutjob who wants to use their phone has to go all the way out of the Complex to get a decent signal. This doesn't bother many people because Mobile Coverage is pretty pathetic here anyway...
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This issue cropped up several years ago, just before our GST was introduced.
Senator Brian Haradine wanted the Internet Censored. There was a Budding Local Porn industry in Australia, producing lots of tasteful Erotica and lots more non-quite-so-tasteful porn.
The legistlation would prevent people publishing Erotica and Porn in Australia, and Australians from accessing Erotica or Porn.
When the legislation was introduced, it was left up to the ISP to either filter content, or provide Censorship programs to it's customers. If the ISP chose not to filter at their end, customers were not allowed to run any OS without Censorship Software; Linux, *BSD, BeOS and Mac's were theoretically not permitted on the Internet!
IIRC, The Legislation went through and the Independent Haradine voted in favour of the GST. The Local Porn/Erotica industry collapsed (since they couldn't host content locally), ISPs illegally left it to their customers to purchase Censorship Software (no-one did) and Australians had to get their fix of Erotica from Foreign Sites. It was all a big joke.
Ironically, the same existing ineffective legislation can be used in conjunction with the new Anti-Sedition laws (think of a cross between the PATRIOT Act and 1984) to fulfil what this Knob-Jockey is proposing.
...Shortly after the 2006 Slashdot Article titled, "Nokia Declares Mobile Music A Failure."
Yeah, KITT could've done all that stuff, David Hassellhoff was holding him back...
IN an effort to confuse Scientifically Minded People, who have a basic grasp of Physics, and appeal to the Pleabian Housewives of the 1970's, who's only Science studied was "Domestic Science", Manufacturers of Aluminium Foil use two different Aluminium Alloys to make House-Hold Aluminium Foil.
The Shiny Layer actually absorbs Radiation, while the Matt Layer reflects Radiation.
The reason Domestic Foil was made like this is because Housewives kept putting the "Pretty" side of the Foil to the outside.
To test if your Aluminium Foil is manufactured like this, conduct an experiment;
You need two Identical Thermometers, two identical squares of Aluminium Foil and a Heat Source. Something to hold the thermometers would be handy too.
Wrap one Thermometer Shiny in, the other Shiny Out. Hold them both Identical Distances from the Heat Source. If you have Domestic "Popular" Aluminium Foil, the Shiny Out will heat up quicker. If your Foil adheres to the laws of Physics, as we know them, the Shiny In will heat up quicker.
My brother conducted a similar experiment in High-School. His experiment was the only one that had expected results. When I did the same class, three years later, the experiment had been removed from the Syllabus because the Public School Teachers couldn't get the experiment to work properly. The only Successful attempt at this experiment was by my Trouble-making Brother.
A few Australian ISPs have been doing this too. Unfortunately, they introduce a Catch-22, you can't download the Removal Software until you connect to the Internet; You can't connect to the Internet until you download the Removal Software.
They call me and say "Daniel, My Computer's Broken." I have a look, take it home, disconnect my Network from the Internet, connect it to my Network *shudder*, install SP1 and SP2, Insall AVG, AdAware and SpySweeper, Return they computer to them.
The next day they call me and say "My MultiFunction Printer/Scanner isn't working." I have a look, get the model number, go home, reconnect my Network to the Internet, search on the Model number and discover that the drivers don't work in Windows XP SP2. The company recommend Downgrading back to SP1 and running it with an Administration Account. I then get another Phone Call; "My Camera isn't working either". I get them to dictate the Model Number over the Phone, ask them for the Model Number, not the Serial Number and do another Search...
I ring them back and tell them that their Printer is now a Pile of Garbage, That they should be using Picasa instead of *insert obscure proprietary Photo Management Suite*, and that if they want me to help them with a computer related problem ever again, they'll have to throw out their POS and go buy a Mac. I also tell them to get AppleCare
12 Months later, just out of Warranty, (They didn't get AppleCare) their iBook fries it's Logic Board...
Tried that once, Damn Thing Marked it's territory on the Rack once and fried all the servers.
They didn't smell to good either...
I'm actually after TISM's ARIA Acceptance, featuring Les Murray (a famous Australian Soccer Commentator). I had it on VHS, but an Ex-Girlfriend got offended by the Swearing in Hungarian, and threw it away.
Sounds like Government
Hey! I have an idea.
Why not send our documents to somewhere where they have a better grasp of English than in England, Labour is cheap, and they have huge problems with Unemployment. Grammar Parsing could be off-shored to India, and Tech Support Jobs could come home again. It's much easier to read Grammatically correct English text than Grammatically correct English Speech in an Indian Dialect.
Felines are the most effective Killing Machines Nature has created.
In Mainland Australia, the Top of the food chain was Dingos, Quolls and Antechinus. When you introduce Domestic Cats, they quickly move to the top of the food chain and grow. And Grow and Grow and Grow.
My Brother was out hiking with some mates, when they got back to where the car was parked, one of his mates (who plays lots of Football) saw a Feral Kitten (about the size of a Domestic Cat), and booted it as hard as he could ('cos he's a sadistic Bastard). The Kitten went flying 10 metres, landed and came running at them. My brothers Sadistic Mate still has the scars on his leg.
My Father got a Goat Skin from an old Tracker, who claimed to have found a Feral Cat when he was out Hunting Goats. This 6"6' Bloke claimed to have lifted he Cat up at the base of the tail, and the head was still touching the ground. It had been disembowled by a Mother Ring-Tailed Possum, defending it's young. (1" retractable claws and 5mm thick skin are no match for 3" retractable claws and 1cm thick skin)
These Rural Myths about Black Panthers are just Feral Cats, selected through Evolution to be big and black.
When Microsoft released WinXP SP2, which integrated with Anti-Virus Products, it took a while for the AV companies to take advantage of these features. Microsoft didn't like this because even though they made all this effort to facilitate better AntiVirus Support, the Companies still churned out their Stand-Alone Crap.
Symantec are up in arms because their dodgy implementation won't be able to compete with MS's Offering
When Konfabulator was superseded by Dashboard in MacOSX, the makers of Konfabulator were up in arms because their dodgy implementation couldn't compete with Dashboard.
OS companies have all these little hooks in their OS so cool features can be implemented, but Third Parties don't take the bait. They develop parallel systems which duplicate existing code simply to get their Corporate Logo up their.
Instead of complaining, Symantec should be Liasing with MS so they can provide a value added service to MCP users. MCP could provide the infrastructure to scan for viruses, but the definitions could come from third parties.
**SPOILERS**
I was more disturbed by the Crash itself then the Attack Following it.
As more and more damage was done during the crash I found myself more and more distressed.
When the attack came, and the Casualties began, All I could think was "Oh. That's Unfortunate." I had more emotion for the ship than my Favourite Character! The loss didn't settle in until the Casualties continued in the following scene.
I personally have a thing against Technology Companies controlling Content.
Other than that it is a good idea.
A Better Idea would be for the Indie Record Companies to rise and Usurp the Recording Behemoths. The Back Catalogue of the Big Companies would still exist, but eventually it would become less and less relevant, and the music of Newer Indie Artists would envelope a larger and larger proportion of the Music Mindshare.
Let the RIAA dictate less and less of the Music, until their entire Catalogue is relegated to the Bargain Bin.
You North Americans clamour about a Free Market, but are still lapping up to Popularist Marketing Schemes, rather than promote good quality Local Music. In a Free Market, the only people who can break a Monopoly are the Consumers and the Independent Producers. You can't expect Large Corporations (even those as Altruistic as Apple, Google, Yahoo! and Microsoft) to act in the best interest of Market Diversity.
While Energy and Mineral Resources won't be as Scarce in a Futuristic Space Society, Communication and Community will be. Even in the Firefly 'Verse, which is set in a little "Planet Village", It still takes days, or even Months to travel between Colonies. FTL reduces that time period, but the three big FTL Mechanisms, (Warp Drive, Hyperspace and Wormholes) all violate most Laws of Physics.
Also, an Art Deco Space Ship would be impossible to keep clean. All that Polycarbonate (like in the Tantive IV of StarWars) scratches real easy (like my iPod), and Brushed Metal stains quickly when it get's some Body Oil on it. They'd need more Cleaning crew than Tech crew.
And 90% of all statistics are fabricated on the spot.
26%? That doesn't sound right, I would have thought closer to 70%!
Explaining what a Firewall is to Non-tech people isn't easy either; I just say "it stops certain types of connections to the internet". Not technically accurate, and the people who hear this still don't really know what a firewall is, or how it works, or that it's actually the Proxy Server stopping their AV software from downloading updates, not the Firewall.
I work in Automotive and TPS is Throttle Position Sensor.
Have you forgotten about the WebKit helpviewer: vulnerability from such a short time ago? Just like anything else, a MacOS X does have it's weaknesses.
Also, the Firewall in MacOSX is software controlled. what is preventing a Malicious AppleScript from opening and closing ports as it needs?
The solutions provided to solve the helpviewer: vulnerability are still just a hack, and an ignorant user can still destroy all their data without an administrator password. With an administrator password, they can ruin the entire system!
Apple should patent The bundling of Malicious Software with a hardware device. Then they could Counter-Sue Creative for the 3700 Virus-ridden Players unCreative Shipped.
Of course, to justify this patent, Apple would need to have shipped Hardware with Malicious Software...
They did ship Mac's with Internet Explorer, didn't they.
I wish Apple would release a Camera, or at least team up with a Dedicated Camera Manufacturer to design a Camera which is as simple to use as an iPod.
In order to take a photo with a typical Consumer Digital Camera, you have to either be happy with a poor quality Photo, or navigate though dozens of obscure menus to change simple settings like exposure time and f-stop.
In order to transfer your photos to your computer, you have to connect the USB Cable, but you also have to connect a separate power cable to charge the battery. In some cases you have to remove the battery from the Camera and put it in a separate charger!
IMO, Apple could design a fantastic Camera; It would have a Dock Connector port for Charging, transfer and Printing; it would plug directly into an iPod (Photo) for storage, and would have a really simple interface for adjusting Photography Settings.
The only thing I'm not sure about would be Battery and Storage.
An Internal Battery would have people whinging about battery life (because they're too stupid to charge Li-Ion batteries properly) and a Hard Disk would make the camera more expensive and may interfere with the CCD. The compromise could be non-removable Flash Storage, which automatically syncs with an iPod Photo.
This could also be a negative. Most users only need Excel and Word; maybe Outlook if they get a lot of Corporate Email. MS Office gives you the option to restrict access to a particular program. The world would be a much better place if people didn't have the option to procrastinate on Powerpoint when they had Idle Time.
They should be reading Slashdot instead!
Most of the computers I am forced to maintain are still Windows 98se. Office 2003 only runs on NT-based Windows Varieties.
OpenOffice runs on DOS-based Windows, and XP is the latest version of Office which fits the same category.
IMO, OpenOffice still doesn't have the versatility of MS Office '97. While it may have more features, all most people need is something simple which can run on their ancient hardware. The average user only needs Word '97 and Excel '97. They don't need all the features that OpenOffice offers
I have three playlists on my iPod, which I use to sort and rate Music.
'Unrated [infinity]' restricts the selection to Songs with a Rating of -----.
'Unrated 50' also restricts it to the 50 least recently played songs.
Finally, '***+' selects songs with a rating of ***--;, ****-, or *****, and then only the 100 least recently played songs.
All these playlists are Live Updating.
When I need to rate songs, I play 'Unrated [infinity]' or 'Unrated 50', and rate songs as I play, using the same rules as the Parent. When I just want to listen to good music, I listen to '***+'.
Also remember that unlike Slashdot, iTunes and the iPod can display Unicode characters, so you can use Real stars and Infinity instead of Asterisks and whatever.
Or the "DiskWasher" Virus which made your Drive sound like a Washing Machine, complete with Rinse Sound Effects and Spin Cycle.
Didn't do much good for your hardware though...
I agree in the case of McDonalds, but Cinemas don't have tables to leave your empty Popcorn Buckets and Drink Cups, so you should take them out with you. McDonalds is primarily a Restaurant and should have people to clear the table; the staff aren't exactly expensive, are they?
At my Local Cinema, Minimum Wage Staff wander into each Cinema after a screening and dispose of any junk that Inconsiderate patrons may have left behind. Spills are cleaned up quickly and When you go into the cinema, it is at least tidy. Your feet don't stick to the floor, anyway. Some newer Cinemas even have Mobile Phone Jammers. Ticket prices are $13AU
Older cinemas (1980's era), where you pay only $7AU a ticket, do have problems, but are frequently Patronised by Older, more thrifty individuals, who understand that a $6 discount means the film isn't brand new, and you have to take your rubbish with you.
The few 1950's era Cinemas still standing are generally Arthouse Cinemas, where you can watch classics like Planet of the Apes Marathons (with Charlton Heston), 2001:A Space Odyssey, Blues Brothers Theatre Productions and the like. They still have Blockbusters on occasion, but are frequented by Movie Buffs. These people treat the Cinema as a Community Resource and take care, as such, and work as Volunteers during Big Events, like Film Festivals. MIFF and MUFF are major events here in Melbourne and most Inner-City Cinemas and Theatres need all the help they can get.
Many new Cinemas here in Australia have Jammers so people can't use their Mobile in the Cinema. The Jammers work so well, the Nutjob who wants to use their phone has to go all the way out of the Complex to get a decent signal.
This doesn't bother many people because Mobile Coverage is pretty pathetic here anyway...