1. The probability of irate passengers - myself included - either throwing the cell phone the length of the plane, using it as an anti-theft device (bonk), or shoving it down your throat is pretty darned high, especially if people act like Americans talking on cell phones (speak louder, ignore nearby people, don't move to back of plane or train). So they may not say it, but the FEC will upset a lot of people if they don't disallow it.
2. Peace and quiet is one societal way of coping with the crowded conditions - playing movies is like a shared movie theater so they can do that.
3. Just the thought of some cell-enabled robot overlord flying over the US remotely triggering explosions with text messages probably gives them nightmares.
So, is the technical argument for banning cell phones from planes sound? Probably not.
Would they be in a whole horde of trouble if they didn't ban cell phones from planes? Definitely.
Besides, this will save a lot of my fellow passengers from having me destroy their cell phone.
The ones that matter to geeks are the L-1 and L-2 visas for professors and grad students from overseas - H1-B is just an artificial way to avoid talking about the need for a real immigration reform where people with skills - like fluency in English, ability to be understood in English, knowledge of American non-metric measurements, and skills our country can use - would lead to people becoming citizens.
The fourth type are NAFTA and CAFTA visas for Mexican/Canadian and Canadian workers here, who have a separate category.
but at first it showed the devastated areas I had visited as if they weren't devastated - and now it shows them from six months ago.
This might make sense if you're not visiting an area that changes much, but for those of us who like to visit places that change, it can have some unanticipated and mind-altering results.
Had to spend three weeks resetting the Time on my WinXP box - which would "reset" itself to the "correct" (incorrect) time every time Windows updated something - causing me to leave an hour late a few nites during that time.
Good thing I had some large manual clocks to rely on.
I had a friend play a Gnome who had a Mechanical Squirrel as a Warlock pet - he was an engineer.
Well, when he put on the Tin Foil Hat, the Mechanical Squirrel went all haywire and started chattering on about "Coffee! Must have Coffee!" and other such things.
The reality is that.xxx content is the most profitable Net carrying traffic segment, with the highest markup, so all common carriers will carry it, just at a premium.
Anyone who doesn't will lose 4/5ths of their revenue.
I could work for google, have a google wife, 2.5 google kids, live in a google house, drive to google in my google car, drop of my laundry of google brand clothes at the google dry cleaners, eat at the googleteria, taking a break at 5 to go to the google bar to share a few drinks with my google friends, pick the kids up from google school, and head out for a night at the google opera with my google wife. That would be perfect. All of my needs would be met entirely.
So long as I can have lots of sex at work, that's fine by me.
Persuading elderly drivers to give up their cars is difficult, and the baby boom generation is putting a lot of people in that situation in the next decade or two.
Somehow I doubt that using my actions during a racing game where I don't actually die and can push beyond reasonable limits on actions is a good source for data for driving simulations.
I know... why not use GTA: San Andreas for the data?
This is seriously ridiculous. I mean, the Win OS is so bad it shouldn't even be connected to the Internet when used in military settings... unless you use the Tubes that MSFT provides for $100,000 a foot...
Because they don't have any successful tech companies of their own to boss around?
Hmmm. I'll just ignore all the medical genetics, biochemistry, and biotech labs running Mandriva and SuSe then, shall I?
OK if I take back those HIV vaccines from the world and the genome sequences that Cambridge did, too? And you don't need those heart medications for your cloned beef...
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tends to use Mac Minis to play WoW on.
My female gnome mage giggles at the Windows ANI exploit!
1. The probability of irate passengers - myself included - either throwing the cell phone the length of the plane, using it as an anti-theft device (bonk), or shoving it down your throat is pretty darned high, especially if people act like Americans talking on cell phones (speak louder, ignore nearby people, don't move to back of plane or train). So they may not say it, but the FEC will upset a lot of people if they don't disallow it.
2. Peace and quiet is one societal way of coping with the crowded conditions - playing movies is like a shared movie theater so they can do that.
3. Just the thought of some cell-enabled robot overlord flying over the US remotely triggering explosions with text messages probably gives them nightmares.
So, is the technical argument for banning cell phones from planes sound? Probably not.
Would they be in a whole horde of trouble if they didn't ban cell phones from planes? Definitely.
Besides, this will save a lot of my fellow passengers from having me destroy their cell phone.
The ones that matter to geeks are the L-1 and L-2 visas for professors and grad students from overseas - H1-B is just an artificial way to avoid talking about the need for a real immigration reform where people with skills - like fluency in English, ability to be understood in English, knowledge of American non-metric measurements, and skills our country can use - would lead to people becoming citizens.
The fourth type are NAFTA and CAFTA visas for Mexican/Canadian and Canadian workers here, who have a separate category.
but at first it showed the devastated areas I had visited as if they weren't devastated - and now it shows them from six months ago.
This might make sense if you're not visiting an area that changes much, but for those of us who like to visit places that change, it can have some unanticipated and mind-altering results.
Actually, California has announced they're building it by 2009 from San Diego to parts north.
So, even if your country isn't building it, your state might be.
Please note even Vietnam and China have high-speed passenger rail lines under construction.
Had to spend three weeks resetting the Time on my WinXP box - which would "reset" itself to the "correct" (incorrect) time every time Windows updated something - causing me to leave an hour late a few nites during that time.
Good thing I had some large manual clocks to rely on.
No, I prefer to program text-based games in FORTRAN for the DS.
Why not just combine them and release:
Hammurabi ST: Enterprise Wumpus Hunt of the Mugwump Golfers?
Really, it depends on the exact libraries used, but most apps written for one Linux distro work in another - and frequently will work under BSD.
Not all MMO's have been PC-only
Exactly. WoW is PC and Mac. Spore will run on Wii, DS, and PC - altho it's a bit of a Massively Multi-Instance Multi-Player Online-Library Game.
I had a friend play a Gnome who had a Mechanical Squirrel as a Warlock pet - he was an engineer.
Well, when he put on the Tin Foil Hat, the Mechanical Squirrel went all haywire and started chattering on about "Coffee! Must have Coffee!" and other such things.
So, don't use both.
I'm thinking they bumped up the version number to 3.0 as it gives you even more reason not to use WinVista.
Because I'm sure MSFT is pushing tin with it's IE version release number for that.
Have to agree - the more I can turn off (checkbox option) anything animated, the better.
Mind, I use NoScript and Adblock plugins - but it would be better if I can say "No animations unless I expressly ask for them".
1. Boat anchors!
....
2. Coffee coasters
3. Bookmarks
Ok, I've run out of things to do with your Zune.
Oh, wait, one more
Anti-theft devices! (if you steal something, I throw a Zune at your head).
and look forward to sticking it on postcards to the White House.
The reality is that .xxx content is the most profitable Net carrying traffic segment, with the highest markup, so all common carriers will carry it, just at a premium.
Anyone who doesn't will lose 4/5ths of their revenue.
the PS3 uses a lot less energy to do this, and most of the time people aren't using it anyway.
It's a growth area, your colleagues are hot, and you get to wear cool lab coats and go to seminars all the time.
Plus, you tend not to have a lot of ethical conflicts. Seriously, it's a good area.
I could work for google, have a google wife, 2.5 google kids, live in a google house, drive to google in my google car, drop of my laundry of google brand clothes at the google dry cleaners, eat at the googleteria, taking a break at 5 to go to the google bar to share a few drinks with my google friends, pick the kids up from google school, and head out for a night at the google opera with my google wife. That would be perfect. All of my needs would be met entirely.
So long as I can have lots of sex at work, that's fine by me.
Segmentor or whatever, I have no cell phone and it's none of your darned business what I'm doing.
If you don't like it, move to Russia.
Persuading elderly drivers to give up their cars is difficult, and the baby boom generation is putting a lot of people in that situation in the next decade or two.
I find backing over them works fairly well.
Somehow I doubt that using my actions during a racing game where I don't actually die and can push beyond reasonable limits on actions is a good source for data for driving simulations.
... why not use GTA: San Andreas for the data?
I know
This is seriously ridiculous. I mean, the Win OS is so bad it shouldn't even be connected to the Internet when used in military settings ... unless you use the Tubes that MSFT provides for $100,000 a foot ...
Yes, I used to work for MSFT in Seattle ... I know about why all the patents are in Ireland.
Because they don't have any successful tech companies of their own to boss around?
...
Hmmm. I'll just ignore all the medical genetics, biochemistry, and biotech labs running Mandriva and SuSe then, shall I?
OK if I take back those HIV vaccines from the world and the genome sequences that Cambridge did, too? And you don't need those heart medications for your cloned beef