I agree, but although I find a lot of advantages in watching a movie at home (like being able to pause the movie if I or someone in my family wants to go to the toilet) I still considerate the Film Theater an special place.
You see, for me and my girl, going to the cinema is like going has a special meaning, it is not just see a movie, it is like "going to the cinema"... I may not be able to explain it very well (sorry English isn't my first lang.) but it does not matter that I do not buy popcorn or soda or candies or whatever and I usually arrive 10 minutes after the movie is *supposed* to begin (to avoid advertisments), besides of all that it is something special, maybe it is because I feel I am "going to" specially the cinema, and it is part of the experience...
Of course I usually try to go to the latest times to avoid 13 year olds popcorn throwers with cellphones (oh my... how I hate cellphones in the movies)... unfortunately, in my native country (Mexico) usually people, not mattering their age, lacking on culture usually not only let their phone ring during the movie but they sometimes keep talking!!! WTF... that really pisses me off..
As a Mexican, I can tell you I would really love to make it come true.
If US companies start opening works in Mexico the problem we have with unemployement will decrease. And it has to be noted that people in Mexico (and other countries within Latin America) will work for far less money than people in US.
As an example, when I finished the University, I started to work in a small software developer company, the owners were from the US, but all the workers (around 10) were from Mexico. The thing is, I was in a position of "Senior Programmer", and the payment was around USD $600 a month, working 8 hours a day mon - fry. Thismeans it was like USD$3.75 per hour.
Now, the nice buisness that these people where doing is that the software we were making was sold in US, at "US prices".
Personally, I think that is not bad, because in Mexico, $600 a month was ok for me to live and I was just starting, but with that a small family manges to live (like 3 or 4 persons).
I agree, I remember installing those win32s extensions to Win 3.11 to be able to use Get right and other programs in order to continue using it. I really didn't like Win 95, as the requirements where terrible for what I thought was only the application that was meant to launch other applications...
Something I have found really interesting since the win 3.1 to win 9x migration is that it seems everyone loved and loves the innovative Win9x menu set-up, and I REALLY hate it, having to click in the start and then programs and then Accessories and then and then and then... until I get to the program I want to run... and of course there are those users that after installing the 5124nth application, it takes like 2 minutes to display the programs in the start menu...
Personally I liked more the Program Manager approach. Nowadays I have my main tool bar with 6 folders (Office, Unix, Internet, Utilities, Viewers, Programming) with drop down capabilities, and also in the "quick start" menu I have the programs I use a lot (web browser, Latex editor, notepad, calc, winamp, etc).
And, of course I also HATE the people that let their desktop be crowded by tons of icons... you really can not find anything there so it is counter intuitive...
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Hehe, that reminds me the time when I wanted to upgrade the Hard disk of my fathers computer, I was like 13 or something.
I dit everything "almost" ok, unplug IDE cable, unplug DC cable, take out old HD and install new HD... everything smooth
After that I decided to install the old HD as a slave disk, again just install HD, plug IDE and plug DC cables...
Then, turn on the computer and whoops, old CD not working... after trying with some jumpers configurations and *here i go* different way of connecting the IDE cable (on those days IDE cables didnt have the small plastic which prevents you from connecting them in the wrong way... and also the bios didnt have protection so you could not fry them:( )...
Of course, after some time of trying to use the computer with the drive (turned on, tested int he bios, configured the HD head, cyls,etc params) the only thing that happened is that my fathers HD got fried...
Now, the only detail I missed so far is that that disk contained nothing less than my fathers PhD thesis =oS.
Yep, you can guess how I felt after I took the disk to a friend (he was like 30 or something and was the expert in computers then) and he told me that my disk was totally RIP...
Fortunately, for me, my father had backup of his thesis in floppy disks...
Oh! or other time when I erased all my information when making my first FreeBSD installation! that was back in 1994... cute.
Yeah... I think people are making a lot of noice of this, at the end Red Hat could change its product name to just RHEL or Red Hat EL or whatever.
I remeber something similar happening to the KFC store which was once called "Kentucky Fried Chicken" and after the Kentucky sate (is it a state? I am not from US so sorry for my lack of geography knowledge) started enforcing the "trademark" of their name so they could get some $$ and then the fast food chain just changed its name to KFC because they found the move unfair.
So, it is just a name thing, and the people that is going to PAY for it are the 3 geeks under the basement who do not have a established name. Big companies like Novell, RedHat etc, will just change the name of their product (Like Lindows, Xandros, etc.), the small geeks will have to pay if they want to use the Linux buzz... or change the name to something else (like maybe Knoppix L):)
The reason everything is still in beta is because Google wants to find out what their 'core' set of applications are going to be.
No, the truth is that they put the BETA tags to their applications so they can avoid being blame for not having "consumer support",
That way, if something goes wrong with Gmail, they will say "sorry, it is only a BETA" in contrast with some error happening on Yahoo Mail, which will be annoying and Yahoo's fault because their product is faulty
Well, certainly I think most of the ads I see today and the ones that I like more are Google ads, since they are unobtrusive and text only (although there are some GAgds with images).
But certainly I prefer them to the moving beaners that some pages have and, I do not block them with AdBlock.
Bah! dont worry United States has been making its kids learn what they will need for this for some time now... just blow up things and kill "aliens" (in the broad sense of the word)... just a nice training.
Procreation? moral values? ethics? ha... who needs that?/rant
Yeah! I agree, I do not know what will happen to me if I was obligued to be in a bed 24/7, you see, the only thing I could do is at most, to be in front of my notebook (with or without internet) reading slashdot and/or programming... I would lose all the marvelous things the nature has awaiting for me on the outside!
Some of the text of the article (as we have managed to make the site go KAAABOOOM!)
A new lie detection technology promises remarkable benefits in determining whether people are telling you the truth IN REAL TIME. The technology is already being tested in a wide variety of applications such as anti-terrorism, law enforcement, and insurance claim assessment and has even been built into a pair of glasses with internal LED lights which will run a real-time analysis of conversations of the wearer, reporting on the veracity of the person the wearer is speaking to with a claimed accuracy of better than 95%.
Sorry but, I think there is a flaw in your reasoning.
Look, as some other person posted in slashdot a while ago,
What will happen if someone knocks at Joe 6P's door and tells him:
"I am an accountant with CITIZENS INTERNTIONAL BANK; my name is Mr. Kelvin Wale a Banker. I am the Accounts officer to ENGINEER [BLAH BLAH...] my client, his wife, and their three children were involved in the Kenya airways flight with registration number 5Y-BEN which departed from Nairobi to destination[BLAH BLAH...] Lagos and they all family died in this fatal air crash on 30 JAN 2000 Since then I have made several inquiries to your embassy to locate any of my clients extended Relatives, this has also proved unsuccessful. [BLAH BLAH...]offering the 10% of $100000000000000 dollars"
and ask for his bank account number and other personal info. They will indeed send him to fsck his mother...
But in some way (as the/.er posted) people tend to lose IQ points when they turn on the computer because "it must be true". What we need to educate the people and to make them realize that an email is as "real" as an actual letter!.
I know there are some J6P who enter Rider's Digest raffles and the like but, I thin even them are intelligent enough to dont give away their credit card information. No?
The main difference between the research google is doing and the research Bell Labs did is that Google research is just "information handling" focused.
You see, I know in the last 10 years you all have thought that Computer == Technology but, there are a lot of other things that we could do if you used all your *geek force* to create real things instead of programs...
again and again.. RTFA, That part of the case was won by Google (popping up the competitor's name when someone search Gieco), this one is about the word GEICO (the company name) INSIDE the ads...
I do not know why did the mods moded you troll. If you remember with Windows XP MS introduced something called "certified" or "signed" drivers. Which where drivers that in some whay had passed some Microsoft QA tests.
Maybe there is not such thing as Microsoft hardware but at least microsoft could/should focus on making his operating system AND office suite to work Bulletproof on some models of Dell machines or other big vendors.
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I agree, but although I find a lot of advantages in watching a movie at home (like being able to pause the movie if I or someone in my family wants to go to the toilet) I still considerate the Film Theater an special place.
You see, for me and my girl, going to the cinema is like going has a special meaning, it is not just see a movie, it is like "going to the cinema"... I may not be able to explain it very well (sorry English isn't my first lang.) but it does not matter that I do not buy popcorn or soda or candies or whatever and I usually arrive 10 minutes after the movie is *supposed* to begin (to avoid advertisments), besides of all that it is something special, maybe it is because I feel I am "going to" specially the cinema, and it is part of the experience...
Of course I usually try to go to the latest times to avoid 13 year olds popcorn throwers with cellphones (oh my... how I hate cellphones in the movies)... unfortunately, in my native country (Mexico) usually people, not mattering their age, lacking on culture usually not only let their phone ring during the movie but they sometimes keep talking!!! WTF... that really pisses me off..
As a Mexican, I can tell you I would really love to make it come true.
If US companies start opening works in Mexico the problem we have with unemployement will decrease. And it has to be noted that people in Mexico (and other countries within Latin America) will work for far less money than people in US.
As an example, when I finished the University, I started to work in a small software developer company, the owners were from the US, but all the workers (around 10) were from Mexico. The thing is, I was in a position of "Senior Programmer", and the payment was around USD $600 a month, working 8 hours a day mon - fry. Thismeans it was like USD$3.75 per hour.
Now, the nice buisness that these people where doing is that the software we were making was sold in US, at "US prices".
Personally, I think that is not bad, because in Mexico, $600 a month was ok for me to live and I was just starting, but with that a small family manges to live (like 3 or 4 persons).
What's a sort year?
You see... Poit! it is the same as a Tros year... Narf!
I agree, I remember installing those win32s extensions to Win 3.11 to be able to use Get right and other programs in order to continue using it. I really didn't like Win 95, as the requirements where terrible for what I thought was only the application that was meant to launch other applications...
Something I have found really interesting since the win 3.1 to win 9x migration is that it seems everyone loved and loves the innovative Win9x menu set-up, and I REALLY hate it, having to click in the start and then programs and then Accessories and then and then and then... until I get to the program I want to run... and of course there are those users that after installing the 5124nth application, it takes like 2 minutes to display the programs in the start menu...
Personally I liked more the Program Manager approach. Nowadays I have my main tool bar with 6 folders (Office, Unix, Internet, Utilities, Viewers, Programming) with drop down capabilities, and also in the "quick start" menu I have the programs I use a lot (web browser, Latex editor, notepad, calc, winamp, etc).
And, of course I also HATE the people that let their desktop be crowded by tons of icons... you really can not find anything there so it is counter intuitive...
Hehe, that reminds me the time when I wanted to upgrade the Hard disk of my fathers computer, I was like 13 or something.
:( )...
...
... cute.
I dit everything "almost" ok, unplug IDE cable, unplug DC cable, take out old HD and install new HD... everything smooth
After that I decided to install the old HD as a slave disk, again just install HD, plug IDE and plug DC cables...
Then, turn on the computer and whoops, old CD not working... after trying with some jumpers configurations and *here i go* different way of connecting the IDE cable (on those days IDE cables didnt have the small plastic which prevents you from connecting them in the wrong way... and also the bios didnt have protection so you could not fry them
Of course, after some time of trying to use the computer with the drive (turned on, tested int he bios, configured the HD head, cyls,etc params) the only thing that happened is that my fathers HD got fried...
Now, the only detail I missed so far is that that disk contained nothing less than my fathers PhD thesis =oS.
Yep, you can guess how I felt after I took the disk to a friend (he was like 30 or something and was the expert in computers then) and he told me that my disk was totally RIP...
Fortunately, for me, my father had backup of his thesis in floppy disks
Oh! or other time when I erased all my information when making my first FreeBSD installation! that was back in 1994
Yeah... I think people are making a lot of noice of this, at the end Red Hat could change its product name to just RHEL or Red Hat EL or whatever.
:)
I remeber something similar happening to the KFC store which was once called "Kentucky Fried Chicken" and after the Kentucky sate (is it a state? I am not from US so sorry for my lack of geography knowledge) started enforcing the "trademark" of their name so they could get some $$ and then the fast food chain just changed its name to KFC because they found the move unfair.
The same thing happened to the Kentucky Derby and other Kentucky named products
So, it is just a name thing, and the people that is going to PAY for it are the 3 geeks under the basement who do not have a established name. Big companies like Novell, RedHat etc, will just change the name of their product (Like Lindows, Xandros, etc.), the small geeks will have to pay if they want to use the Linux buzz... or change the name to something else (like maybe Knoppix L)
The reason everything is still in beta is because Google wants to find out what their 'core' set of applications are going to be.
No, the truth is that they put the BETA tags to their applications so they can avoid being blame for not having "consumer support",
That way, if something goes wrong with Gmail, they will say "sorry, it is only a BETA" in contrast with some error happening on Yahoo Mail, which will be annoying and Yahoo's fault because their product is faulty
Well, certainly I think most of the ads I see today and the ones that I like more are Google ads, since they are unobtrusive and text only (although there are some GAgds with images).
But certainly I prefer them to the moving beaners that some pages have and, I do not block them with AdBlock.
slashdot is broken!
long live slashdot!
Whoa slashdot got slashdotted frist prost...
last prost
So this means, that Linux is not so free after all uh?
Maybe Linus thought of a new proffit plan:
1. Post a crappy kernel in Usenet and say it is free
as in freedom
2. Wait until everybody uses it
3. Enforce trademarks
4. Proffit
Instead of ranting about the issues you should try to work on them to improve the technology...
Bah! dont worry United States has been making its kids learn what they will need for this for some time now... just blow up things and kill "aliens" (in the broad sense of the word)... just a nice training.
/rant
Procreation? moral values? ethics? ha... who needs that?
And note that they are not any games thy are EA games... indeed poor kids... they will get into the 28 hour/days :)
Yeah! I agree, I do not know what will happen to me if I was obligued to be in a bed 24/7, you see, the only thing I could do is at most, to be in front of my notebook (with or without internet) reading slashdot and/or programming... I would lose all the marvelous things the nature has awaiting for me on the outside!
Oh... wait... nevermind
I want the Lie detector glasses!
Some of the text of the article (as we have managed to make the site go KAAABOOOM!)
A new lie detection technology promises remarkable benefits in determining whether people are telling you the truth IN REAL TIME. The technology is already being tested in a wide variety of applications such as anti-terrorism, law enforcement, and insurance claim assessment and has even been built into a pair of glasses with internal LED lights which will run a real-time analysis of conversations of the wearer, reporting on the veracity of the person the wearer is speaking to with a claimed accuracy of better than 95%.
Sorry but, I think there is a flaw in your reasoning.
/.er posted) people tend to lose IQ points when they turn on the computer because "it must be true". What we need to educate the people and to make them realize that an email is as "real" as an actual letter!.
Look, as some other person posted in slashdot a while ago,
What will happen if someone knocks at Joe 6P's door and tells him:
"I am an accountant with CITIZENS INTERNTIONAL BANK; my name is Mr. Kelvin
Wale a Banker. I am the Accounts officer to ENGINEER [BLAH BLAH...] my client,
his wife, and their three children were involved in the Kenya airways flight with registration number 5Y-BEN which departed from Nairobi to destination[BLAH BLAH...]
Lagos and they all family died in this fatal air crash on 30 JAN 2000 Since
then I have made several inquiries to your embassy to locate any of my
clients extended Relatives, this has also proved unsuccessful.
[BLAH BLAH...]offering the 10% of $100000000000000 dollars"
and ask for his bank account number and other personal info. They will indeed send him to fsck his mother...
But in some way (as the
I know there are some J6P who enter Rider's Digest
raffles and the like but, I thin even them are intelligent enough to dont give away their credit card information. No?
The main difference between the research google is doing and the research Bell Labs did is that Google research is just "information handling" focused.
We could never expect GLabs to come with some new invention like the Y nanotubes or other really worthy TECHNOLOGY...
You see, I know in the last 10 years you all have thought that Computer == Technology but, there are a lot of other things that we could do if you used all your *geek force* to create real things instead of programs...
you misspelled 1337.
w00t!
again and again.. RTFA, That part of the case was won by Google (popping up the competitor's name when someone search Gieco), this one is about the word GEICO (the company name) INSIDE the ads...
I MUST RTFA I MUST RTFA... give me 100 lines.
Yaaawn
iff (USA Government == Coprorations)
{
AllMakesSense();
}
GWB WMD-Finder...
USPTO?
Excuse me but isn't this not the US Patent Office page?, I think copyright and patents are two different things no?
If it is not, then I guess IBM will be kind of pissed off as they are the company that makes most more patents than everyone each year IIRC.
WTF are you babbling about? where did the GP wrote anything about the PowerPC or whatever architecture...???
I do not know why did the mods moded you troll. If you remember with Windows XP MS introduced something called "certified" or "signed" drivers. Which where drivers that in some whay had passed some Microsoft QA tests.
Maybe there is not such thing as Microsoft hardware but at least microsoft could/should focus on making his operating system AND office suite to work Bulletproof on some models of Dell machines or other big vendors.