perhaps, but realize
seatbelts-save-ME,
no-texting-ban-Saves-YOU.
Kids will be kids, next year it will be video on phones to ban, then games on phones to ban. One rule doesn't fit all. If they are going to have a wreck texting then they probably had a prior wreck and their insurance should have forced them to a bicycle... Pre-emptive I say. Otherwise you are just giving cops another reason to stare in my window and I will just tint it up... See how that goes.
tragic, horrible, I agree and I too want it stopped. Its just an argument of how.
So here we are, you and I, arguing on how... I wonder if you really want to help or are just venting. Heres what I have done. What have you done. I mean that to provoke goodness in you, not to continue our argument. You and I are close to agreement I imagine....
Founder blog
I founded a facebook group on "gizmo to keep kids from dying in hot cars", but I dumped facebook so I cant find it.
ok, what I really really mean is that some people know its probably ok to text message at stoplights. Others know perhaps you can text message in an emergency. Others know you can drink one beer on a dirt road when no bicycles are around. My point is careless people will get modded down by insurance. I am smarter and older than a teen and wiser. No wrecks in years... You can regulate or put all people into one basket. The special cases are endless... Ok I feel better. Bye.
Ok here we go.
I really really really believe in the purpose of government and I refer to this in questional situations like this.
The purpose of the government is to:
Enforce contracts, provide defense, prevent monopolies and to prevent text messaging....
R-rated for gross I imagine. No thanks. I grew up watching the "Ohio state police" gross videos in driver-training rehab so I have seen enough... They don't work. Parents, put a governor on your teens car. I will build you one....
This should be handled by insurance, not Big Brother. If you wreck, you pay higher premium. OR perhaps I should create a j2me app called was-the-dude-texting?
jp Back Seat Driver
Android will fix this in the ADC-3 where they will have a new category called the Nobel-Peas prize (green android/green peas...) Then and only then will developers like myself tweak down da juice. It takes a tremendous effort to write a battery friendly app, but it is possible and gratefing [cant spell].
I imagine all platforms have the same grumbles, successes.
I sat around for a month waiting to become a Palm developer. Then when I saw it was eclipse-based, I was bummed. I though Palm would be simpler.
So I tried android, and it too was eclipse, but since I was now a little wiser, I dug in and completed an app speedlimit app
Had I started the other way around, I may have finished a palm app.
But my point is this. Its amazing how powerful slashdot is in slanting the universe. The author could just have easily showed how hard it is to
publish on iPhone and we would have flocked to non-iPhone. You get the idea. Maybe someone should timeline all our device experiences in a poll or such. Eg to be more even handed....
-jp
Exactly, shut up. I could make Linux a desktop winner. First Linus needs to get his butt in California (is he at terafugarama anymore?) Anyway, then he needs to hang with Heff and create some BUZZZZZ. Screw all the loosers, or let us nerds come in the backdoor once in a while. Then he needs to date a supermodel or a bunch of gay supermodels or something to win the iPhone crowd. Then we got somethin!
I have given this some thought. I would tell your employees to have a wonderful social life. Engage in Twitter, TPB, politics. Normal slander rules apply such as in Germany, England or wherever you are located. HR should be don't ask, don't tell policy. If they do porn at night and end up on CNN, that could happen to anyone, its not a companies business other than normal company-image / chance-for-promotion type stuff. The internet is just a bigger megaphone, not a new type of megaphone...
I am surprised no one in this discussion has offered a T-Mobile replacement.... Actually, thats why I read this thread, but nada....
I want to buy an Android-G1, but $1000/yr typical usage, forget it.
Did you know they make a home drug test? I heard it on AM radio. I think its instant-result, no lab-mailin. (sorry off topic)
BTW, this bar-game looks like fun!
I appreciate your anger, but lets consider this. Al Gore is a boob, yes we agree on that. But, Al Gore did what you and I did not do, have conviction and yell from the treetops. Scientists like to find the answer, publish it, and smile knowing they are right. Thats just the beginning. They have to sell-it to us. They need to get on Don King, and ram it down our throats even if its not in their scientific-nature to do so. Take OLPC for example. Thats not a cancer-curing idea, but they guy sold it. He didn't let Intel do it, he did it. And when M$ lowered its prices, he smiled knowing he was behind that and the world would benefit, not him, but kids and (unfortunately M$...).
That is why we still need (unfortunately) the Al Gores. Boobs who think they are Gods gift to us.
Slashdot Mirror
its a very easy and satisfying solution (I wont use the P word)......
Ask them to prove where Celcius and Farenheit meet. After they struggle, give them the equation as a hint. F= 9/5C+32
Just when I thought I could sleep under my desk...
Ok commodore, take er easy. I am going to go kiss my 12 year old [again].
You are right about one thing, no ones opinion is ever changed on slashdot. Its just a place to vent.
perhaps, but realize
seatbelts-save-ME,
no-texting-ban-Saves-YOU.
Kids will be kids, next year it will be video on phones to ban, then games on phones to ban. One rule doesn't fit all. If they are going to have a wreck texting then they probably had a prior wreck and their insurance should have forced them to a bicycle... Pre-emptive I say. Otherwise you are just giving cops another reason to stare in my window and I will just tint it up... See how that goes.
legistation wont save lives on this one. Kids will text until T-mobile can be sued instead...
tragic, horrible, I agree and I too want it stopped. Its just an argument of how.
So here we are, you and I, arguing on how... I wonder if you really want to help or are just venting. Heres what I have done. What have you done. I mean that to provoke goodness in you, not to continue our argument. You and I are close to agreement I imagine....
Founder
blog
I founded a facebook group on "gizmo to keep kids from dying in hot cars", but I dumped facebook so I cant find it.
read my blog. You decide.
http://gpscruise1.blogspot.com/
ok, what I really really mean is that some people know its probably ok to text message at stoplights. Others know perhaps you can text message in an emergency. Others know you can drink one beer on a dirt road when no bicycles are around. My point is careless people will get modded down by insurance. I am smarter and older than a teen and wiser. No wrecks in years... You can regulate or put all people into one basket. The special cases are endless... Ok I feel better. Bye.
Ok here we go.
I really really really believe in the purpose of government and I refer to this in questional situations like this.
The purpose of the government is to:
Enforce contracts, provide defense, prevent monopolies and to prevent text messaging....
R-rated for gross I imagine. No thanks. I grew up watching the "Ohio state police" gross videos in driver-training rehab so I have seen enough... They don't work. Parents, put a governor on your teens car. I will build you one....
This should be handled by insurance, not Big Brother. If you wreck, you pay higher premium. OR perhaps I should create a j2me app called was-the-dude-texting?
jp
Back Seat Driver
Android will fix this in the ADC-3 where they will have a new category called the Nobel-Peas prize (green android/green peas...) Then and only then will developers like myself tweak down da juice.
It takes a tremendous effort to write a battery friendly app, but it is possible and gratefing [cant spell].
-jp
Power hungry app
I imagine all platforms have the same grumbles, successes.
I sat around for a month waiting to become a Palm developer. Then when I saw it was eclipse-based, I was bummed. I though Palm would be simpler.
So I tried android, and it too was eclipse, but since I was now a little wiser, I dug in and completed an app speedlimit app
Had I started the other way around, I may have finished a palm app.
But my point is this. Its amazing how powerful slashdot is in slanting the universe. The author could just have easily showed how hard it is to publish on iPhone and we would have flocked to non-iPhone. You get the idea. Maybe someone should timeline all our device experiences in a poll or such. Eg to be more even handed.... -jp
I agree. They should peer review this "try-it" mentality. Thats the solution. PEER_REVIEW [ x ]....
Exactly, shut up. I could make Linux a desktop winner. First Linus needs to get his butt in California (is he at terafugarama anymore?) Anyway, then he needs to hang with Heff and create some BUZZZZZ. Screw all the loosers, or let us nerds come in the backdoor once in a while. Then he needs to date a supermodel or a bunch of gay supermodels or something to win the iPhone crowd. Then we got somethin!
I have given this some thought. I would tell your employees to have a wonderful social life. Engage in Twitter, TPB, politics. Normal slander rules apply such as in Germany, England or wherever you are located.
HR should be don't ask, don't tell policy. If they do porn at night and end up on CNN, that could happen to anyone, its not a companies business other than normal company-image / chance-for-promotion type stuff.
The internet is just a bigger megaphone, not a new type of megaphone...
I have been wanting to buy a cellphone jammer. Add a GPS jammer to my Christmas Stocking...
Connect our space-elevator to a tube and off we go...
I am surprised no one in this discussion has offered a T-Mobile replacement.... Actually, thats why I read this thread, but nada....
I want to buy an Android-G1, but $1000/yr typical usage, forget it.
Yea, the ebills should be pdf's, not html. That would hold up better in court.
Yea, but you don't have Mr. Chuck.
Mr Chuck
Did you know they make a home drug test? I heard it on AM radio. I think its instant-result, no lab-mailin. (sorry off topic)
BTW, this bar-game looks like fun!
I appreciate your anger, but lets consider this. Al Gore is a boob, yes we agree on that. But, Al Gore did what you and I did not do, have conviction and yell from the treetops. Scientists like to find the answer, publish it, and smile knowing they are right. Thats just the beginning. They have to sell-it to us. They need to get on Don King, and ram it down our throats even if its not in their scientific-nature to do so.
Take OLPC for example. Thats not a cancer-curing idea, but they guy sold it. He didn't let Intel do it, he did it. And when M$ lowered its prices, he smiled knowing he was behind that and the world would benefit, not him, but kids and (unfortunately M$...). That is why we still need (unfortunately) the Al Gores. Boobs who think they are Gods gift to us.