I read alot on/. but I don't often post.
This concept has got to be one of the dumbest ideas to come along in a while on this site. The largest inconvenience I've seen on this topic is calls from family. Too.damn.bad. Best learn to cope.
End of voicemail, pfft! Convergence with email or text messages I can understand, but there is too much NOT conveyed in the written form that is essential to human communication. Text sucks because it doesn't convey tone. Phone communication sucks because it doesn't convey body-language. Or is the author still in his mom's basement, insulated from human interaction by his txt and email barriers? GET OUT AND USE MORE THAN ELECTRONIC TEXT TO COMMUNICATE, (caps for emphasis, not yelling).
And those who believe their systems/methods are best for everyone are the most myopic people with the narrowest mindsets imaginable. I'm fairly certain those same people have the least understanding why it was so hard to get mom to start using email. Man up, Nancy! That's your Mom! Take the GD call! (now I'm yelling)
Indeed. Good luck with that complete loss of communication when you lose your cell phone, or it breaks.
You'll have no voice mail to check to see who/what you need to deal with.
So much narrow-sightedness in these ideas...
Everyone in your clique, maybe. It's hard enough to get the boss to send emails from a machine with a keyboard, now you want the old dog to text?
You're nuts.
Here's a tip for the under 25 crowd: Tech trends are decided on a longer cycle than you (or I) have been alive. You may have had email all your life, but your granny's in her 70s and had at least 55 years of life without email. Crap, granny may not have had a phone in the house when she was a girl.
Cannot agree with this more.
And to add: voice-mail will end up dying about the same time as the fax. While we're all for the advancement of tech, the over 40 crowd are fairly stuck in their ways, (not/. over 40, general populace over 40), and it will be a long time before that demographic moves to the great beyond.
For crying out loud, fax isn't dead, teletext is on it's last gasps, and the only truly dead form of communication is the telegraph.
(There's still vinyl in the stores, they still sell VCRs in the stores... much like a cross old man, tech takes forever to pass-on).
While I applaud the submitter and author's enthusiasm, I am equally inclined to fault their myopia.
This is ridiculous because damn near anyone should be able to make a judgment call on a twenty second clip recorded in the theater. The asshat manager was using his small position to assert what authority he has in the largest way possible.
When people lose their grip on common sense, as is the case here with the THEATER MANAGER, these kinds of things happen. I hope the girl counter-sues the crap out of the theater chain.
We need to send a message to 'those in charge' that idiotic behavior on their part will only cost them customers.
'Treating their fans like criminals' - Indeed.
And yes, there is a line to be drawn, that line is called COMMON SENSE. So lacking in these modern times.
My people know the proper way when the time comes in a man's life when he can no longer manipulate his controller.
It is time for you to wander off into the woods, my friend. Your value to the tribe is spent. Peace be with you.
Know a contact at that police station?
Or hell, email a link of this page to the chief and tell him to forward it to his tech guy.
Not the one on the investigation, but the bloke who fixes his when it goes sideways.
I'm not the least bit surprised by this article. My question would be could these planemos explain at least a portion of the dark matter in the universe?
I thought they meant the pirates' sales were so poor they were going to re-edit it. THAT I would be interested in seeing on a regular basis. Bootleg re-edits.
...and placed that knucklebone there about 6500 years ago because he knew in his infinite wisdom and omnipotence that someday we would send an exploratory core driller down in that exact location. I see it all clearly now.
Is there a web based equivalent for google earth but in the other direction? Where you can zoom in on coordinates and see ever higher resolutions?
If not, why the &#%$ not?
Then 'Laziness' is the father. What made this country great is not the wars we've fought or anything like that, but the creative thinking we as Americans apply to a problem to get things solved. You can take as many 'outside America' engineers you want to throw at a problem, be it a new widget or a new whatsit, and 9 times out of 10 the outside America engineers will constrain their thinking to the confines of the box describing the problem. Americans think outside that description box and often times bring serious innovation to the design, instead of just re-fabbing what's come before to fit the current needs. If you make me sit and solve problems for the entirety of my work-day and I'll find somewhere else to work that allows for the free flow of ideas and sources. I often find myself 'browsing the net' while stuck on a particularly nasty problem I'm trying to fix at work. Probably 90% of the time I think of THE solution when I'm not directly working on it... I think it's called 'dis-associative problem solving' or something like that... Of course, I also get the same effect from a nice long shower. Most of my best ideas have come while soaping under the hot spray. (Just my two cents... No insult meant to the Foreign Engies... Call it pride of citizenship on my part)
Am I the only one that would think to just open the envelope, tear back the 'protective strip' and READ the PIN with my own eyes? I've already gone far enough to 'Take someone else's mail', why wouldn't I go whole-hog and finish the job properly?
This seems like a silly 'Panic of the week'...
Where what you play on the screen is what you COULD do in real life. There's no reason people who play Madden NFL Football can't go out and toss a pigskin around. And no, I see no point in buying a comp game that only marginally expands on a previous version. ESPECIALLY at what they're charging for games.
Computer games are supposed to allow you to do things you couldn't do ordinarily, like fly a chopper or drive a tank, or infiltrate a Martian base.
What's next? 3d Badminton? Or maybe 3d Ping-Pong?
IANAL, but I frequent their company...
This is just posturing on the airport authority's part. It's a starting position in an argument to get both the press and the public in a twitter to prevent Continental from giving away the milk for free. They know there's no risk to security as well as anyone reading slashdot. Poor decision on the Airport's move to open with such an easily disproven argument. Bad form.
NO DANGER HERE, WILL ROBINSON, JUST ATTORNEY BS.
Always want 'proof' of evolution?
I mean, doesn't their theory rely on a 'blind faith'?
Don't get me wrong, if talking to a big, invisible friend in the sky helps... whatever gets you through the night.
You don't base your decision to buy a keyboard like this in any way/shape/or form on price...
Between the top-end cool-factor, the fact that finally us hunt and peck typists can see what we're hitting, and the reprogrammability WITH ICONS for shorcut keying, there is no question I'd pay upto a $200US (or even $200CAN - heh) for it.
Tho, the idea of pop-up ads and yet another layer of pop-up blocking running on my machine is a little annoying.
Is that the internet is no longer *just* the geeks/nerds/calculator-watch crowd. There are increasing numbers of grandmothers and soccer-moms gaining access everyday. What was once a haven for the slide-rule crowd will soon become just like everything else, an asylum commercialized for the lowest common denominator - the general public. Once that milestone is reached, sites like/. will become fewer and fewer as we see more recipedot and howtogetmudoutofchildrensclothesdot popping up. It's not longer a possibility, it's an ever approaching event. In other news, Merry Christmas!
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I read alot on /. but I don't often post.
This concept has got to be one of the dumbest ideas to come along in a while on this site. The largest inconvenience I've seen on this topic is calls from family. Too.damn.bad. Best learn to cope.
End of voicemail, pfft! Convergence with email or text messages I can understand, but there is too much NOT conveyed in the written form that is essential to human communication. Text sucks because it doesn't convey tone. Phone communication sucks because it doesn't convey body-language. Or is the author still in his mom's basement, insulated from human interaction by his txt and email barriers? GET OUT AND USE MORE THAN ELECTRONIC TEXT TO COMMUNICATE, (caps for emphasis, not yelling).
And those who believe their systems/methods are best for everyone are the most myopic people with the narrowest mindsets imaginable. I'm fairly certain those same people have the least understanding why it was so hard to get mom to start using email. Man up, Nancy! That's your Mom! Take the GD call! (now I'm yelling)
Indeed. Good luck with that complete loss of communication when you lose your cell phone, or it breaks. You'll have no voice mail to check to see who/what you need to deal with. So much narrow-sightedness in these ideas...
Everyone in your clique, maybe. It's hard enough to get the boss to send emails from a machine with a keyboard, now you want the old dog to text? You're nuts. Here's a tip for the under 25 crowd: Tech trends are decided on a longer cycle than you (or I) have been alive. You may have had email all your life, but your granny's in her 70s and had at least 55 years of life without email. Crap, granny may not have had a phone in the house when she was a girl.
Cannot agree with this more. And to add: voice-mail will end up dying about the same time as the fax. While we're all for the advancement of tech, the over 40 crowd are fairly stuck in their ways, (not /. over 40, general populace over 40), and it will be a long time before that demographic moves to the great beyond.
For crying out loud, fax isn't dead, teletext is on it's last gasps, and the only truly dead form of communication is the telegraph.
(There's still vinyl in the stores, they still sell VCRs in the stores... much like a cross old man, tech takes forever to pass-on).
While I applaud the submitter and author's enthusiasm, I am equally inclined to fault their myopia.
All it needs is a stowable bluetooth earpiece and a competent phone and you've got yourself a seller.
Sung to the tune of 'What'll we do with a drunken sailor'?
This is ridiculous because damn near anyone should be able to make a judgment call on a twenty second clip recorded in the theater. The asshat manager was using his small position to assert what authority he has in the largest way possible. When people lose their grip on common sense, as is the case here with the THEATER MANAGER, these kinds of things happen. I hope the girl counter-sues the crap out of the theater chain. We need to send a message to 'those in charge' that idiotic behavior on their part will only cost them customers. 'Treating their fans like criminals' - Indeed. And yes, there is a line to be drawn, that line is called COMMON SENSE. So lacking in these modern times.
My people know the proper way when the time comes in a man's life when he can no longer manipulate his controller. It is time for you to wander off into the woods, my friend. Your value to the tribe is spent. Peace be with you.
Know a contact at that police station? Or hell, email a link of this page to the chief and tell him to forward it to his tech guy. Not the one on the investigation, but the bloke who fixes his when it goes sideways.
I'm not the least bit surprised by this article. My question would be could these planemos explain at least a portion of the dark matter in the universe?
I thought they meant the pirates' sales were so poor they were going to re-edit it. THAT I would be interested in seeing on a regular basis. Bootleg re-edits.
...and placed that knucklebone there about 6500 years ago because he knew in his infinite wisdom and omnipotence that someday we would send an exploratory core driller down in that exact location. I see it all clearly now.
Bah. Call it a Honeypot for Politicians and clear off the barn wall.
I feel for bob@aol.com. He's been getting my spam since June 23, 1996.
Is there a web based equivalent for google earth but in the other direction? Where you can zoom in on coordinates and see ever higher resolutions? If not, why the &#%$ not?
'Great' movies do not sell tickets. Example, The Pianist: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0253474/awards, was not the top earner for 2002, http://us.imdb.com/Sections/Years/2002/top-grossin g. Instead it was Spiderman.
Hollywood is not interested in making 'Great Movies', it is interested in whatever gets a warm body in a paying seat.
Looked at another way: Given the largest source of revenue (for any product) is the 'lowest common denominator', I don't think we can expect any form of 'Great Movie' out Major Hollywood anymore.
And possibly any major industry, such as games: http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/08/21/ 1529232&tid=187&tid=10
Then 'Laziness' is the father.
What made this country great is not the wars we've fought or anything like that, but the creative thinking we as Americans apply to a problem to get things solved. You can take as many 'outside America' engineers you want to throw at a problem, be it a new widget or a new whatsit, and 9 times out of 10 the outside America engineers will constrain their thinking to the confines of the box describing the problem. Americans think outside that description box and often times bring serious innovation to the design, instead of just re-fabbing what's come before to fit the current needs.
If you make me sit and solve problems for the entirety of my work-day and I'll find somewhere else to work that allows for the free flow of ideas and sources.
I often find myself 'browsing the net' while stuck on a particularly nasty problem I'm trying to fix at work. Probably 90% of the time I think of THE solution when I'm not directly working on it... I think it's called 'dis-associative problem solving' or something like that... Of course, I also get the same effect from a nice long shower. Most of my best ideas have come while soaping under the hot spray.
(Just my two cents... No insult meant to the Foreign Engies... Call it pride of citizenship on my part)
Am I the only one that would think to just open the envelope, tear back the 'protective strip' and READ the PIN with my own eyes? I've already gone far enough to 'Take someone else's mail', why wouldn't I go whole-hog and finish the job properly? This seems like a silly 'Panic of the week'...
Where what you play on the screen is what you COULD do in real life. There's no reason people who play Madden NFL Football can't go out and toss a pigskin around. And no, I see no point in buying a comp game that only marginally expands on a previous version. ESPECIALLY at what they're charging for games. Computer games are supposed to allow you to do things you couldn't do ordinarily, like fly a chopper or drive a tank, or infiltrate a Martian base. What's next? 3d Badminton? Or maybe 3d Ping-Pong?
*IANAA
IANAL, but I frequent their company... This is just posturing on the airport authority's part. It's a starting position in an argument to get both the press and the public in a twitter to prevent Continental from giving away the milk for free. They know there's no risk to security as well as anyone reading slashdot. Poor decision on the Airport's move to open with such an easily disproven argument. Bad form. NO DANGER HERE, WILL ROBINSON, JUST ATTORNEY BS.
Always want 'proof' of evolution? I mean, doesn't their theory rely on a 'blind faith'? Don't get me wrong, if talking to a big, invisible friend in the sky helps... whatever gets you through the night.
You don't base your decision to buy a keyboard like this in any way/shape/or form on price... Between the top-end cool-factor, the fact that finally us hunt and peck typists can see what we're hitting, and the reprogrammability WITH ICONS for shorcut keying, there is no question I'd pay upto a $200US (or even $200CAN - heh) for it. Tho, the idea of pop-up ads and yet another layer of pop-up blocking running on my machine is a little annoying.
Is that the internet is no longer *just* the geeks/nerds/calculator-watch crowd. There are increasing numbers of grandmothers and soccer-moms gaining access everyday. What was once a haven for the slide-rule crowd will soon become just like everything else, an asylum commercialized for the lowest common denominator - the general public. Once that milestone is reached, sites like /. will become fewer and fewer as we see more recipedot and howtogetmudoutofchildrensclothesdot popping up. It's not longer a possibility, it's an ever approaching event.
In other news, Merry Christmas!