And then presumably give up the ability to use your box with a television. If the establishment is to be believed, hackable boxes are for desks, mice, and keyboards, not living rooms and gamepads.
Don't tell the establishment about me, then. I have a tower I cobbled together from junk and am using my TV as a monitor. The tower's running Linux. I watch pirated TV shows on it (pirated because I'm too lazy to rip my DVDs), movies, radio (I love it that I can get KSHE clearly over the internet), YouTube, games... I can even use it for a computer if I want!
For a hundred years, almost everyone's address was published in a printed book that came out yearly. It was opt-out, and to keep your name off the list you had to pay extra for the unlisted phone number.
Plenty of people are harassed, have sensitive jobs (law enforcement, abortion doctors, etc.)
If you're being harrassed, you go to the courthouse and get an order of protection. If you're a cowardly wimp, law enforcement may not be the ideal line of work for you. If you're an abortion doctor, you're in more danger from a drunk driver than a crazy anti-abortion murderer.
Whether or not a person voted is information that can be used against them
In Illinois it's a matter of public record whether or not you voted, and if you vote in the primary, so is the party you chose to vote in.
It's patently ridiculous to have that much sensitive information on USB sticks
I've never understood cable though, if I'm paying for cable and the cable company is paying other companies for their content, shouldn't it be ad free?
It was, thirty years ago. At the time, everyone poo-pooed the idea of paying for TV, since everyone had been watching for free since the device was invented. Ten bucks a month for the OTA channels (which had commercials but no snow or ghosts) and a dozen or so very good, ad-free cable channels; empty-V (they played videos then, not stupid reality shows), Discovery (they had science then, not "trick my truck" and "ice trucks"), HBO was even included in the $10 per month cost. No cencorship on the cable channels, which was a good draw, too.
Now? They censor all the funny parts (like "don't use that kind of language in front of my young son" when the language had been cut). Most of the cable channels' programming has gone WAY downhill; the only thing on Discovery worth watching is MythBusters, empty-V no longer has videos, but "look at all my bling" reality shows, the other channels had similarly deteriorated, while they added so many sports channels that you now see the "sports" of pool and poker on ESPN. I have to pay fo rthe golf channel? Fuck that! I have to pay for BET? Fuck that. I have to pay for two dozen women's channels and children's channels? Fuck that. Shopping channels? I have to PAY to watch shows that are nothing but commercials? I have to PAY to not only watch commercials, but to watch commercials overlaid over the programming FUCK THAT WITH A HOT SOLDERING IRON!!!
The cable and satellite companies can kiss my hairy white ass! When they stop putting commercials on cable shows and let me choose the channels I want a la carte, I might consider going back. Unless, of course, History and Discovery and the other cable channels deteriorate in quality even more.
It reminds me of IBM making PCs and also selling cloned PCs in competition with itself.
Incorrect -- IBM didn't sell cloned PCs in competetion with itself. It fought tooth and nail (and in court) when Compaq managed to clean-room clone the PC's BIOS. IBM's mistake was letting Microsoft keep the copyrights to DOS, but it did so because they thought it would be impossible to run on anyone else's hardware.
He's losing the Windows market
I've seen no evidence of that. Yes, MS lost MY business, but less than 1% of us are running Be or Linux or BSD or any other OS. MS just can't get a foothold in the phone, MP3 player, or tablet market. In the enterprise, just as the old mantra was "nobody ever got fired for buying IBM", the new mantra is "nobody ever got fired for buying Microsoft".
If MS is losing the Windows market, then why is it so hard to buy a PC without Windows?
YOU, son, are the problem. You care nothing about others' feelings whatever. Let me explain by transposition what you just wrote and you'll see what an ass you are..
Didn't you hear him say "nigger"? A black man might feel uncomfortable. Don't you just see how this is an emergency of the highest order? Call the fire brigade, the media, the police --- everyone stop doing what they're doing right now --- a black somewhere might be feeling uncomfortable ! [sic] Discomfort! Do you not get how serious this is? I said "discomfort". If you aren't shocked, just shocked I tell you, you must also be racist. We must at all costs protect the most vulnerable and spiritually sublime members of society, our blacks, from ever having to experience that most horrific sensation, 'discomfort', at the hands of this great evil, namely men who think 'nigger' references in code warrants a snicker.
You're an adolescent pig. Grow the fuck up. I would NOT want to hire a moron like you.
The only shirts I wear are T shirts (with flannel in the winter) and few of them have pockets, but I'd not keep a phone in a breast pocket. Every time you bend over, it falls out.
I won't buy a phone that's not a flip phone, for the reason you put forth, plus the fact that it's too easy to pocket-dial with a lidless phone.
I miss my original Razr. very small, very thin, and would send texts and emails, surf the web, all that. I really haven't seen an iPhone or Android do anything it wouldn't, except maybe play Angry Birds or something trivial like that. What will a smartphone do that an old feature phone won't? Except maybe drop calls if you hold it wrong?
That is the very worst moderation I've seen this year! +3 insightful for saying "nu hu, yer rong" in response to a passage using reason and logic! How is it wrong at all, especially thoroughly wrong? Whoever modded this utter tripe up, please undo your mod by explaining exactly what was wrong with the GP's post?
I don't own a firearm, as I believe that those who live by the gun, die by the gun, and although everyone has to die, not everyone has to kill. But I don't want to lose the right to should I choose to excersize it. And I support your right to carry arms, as well.
Probably none if the armed were all trained. You have to show proficiency to get a CC license. This is what happens when a couple of armed robbers try to rob a casino full of people when there's one seventy one year olf man armed and fighting back (the video is amusing). Bottom line -- several shots are fired, the only people shot are the robbers, who flee and are caught and jailed.
Damn it, you two aliterates, that apostrophe doesn't belong there. Apostrophes are ONLY for posessives and contractions: "the jury's verdict doesn't make sense."
The plural of jury is juries, not jury's. Jury's means the jury owns something. Read a book once in a while. Get your GED. Come on, guys, slashdot is no place for high school dropouts.
That crossed my mind when I first heard about them finding Higgs, but what I though was Leslie telling Sheldon "See? Told you so, dumbass!"
Whatever happens, hilarity will certainly ensue. I think my two favorites were when Stephen Hawking found an arithemetic error in Sheldon's paper, and when George Smoot said "With all due respects, Dr. Cooper, but are you on crack?"
First, it's archaeology. That's science. Science news is news for nerds. Second, they found something 500 years old that they thought had been invented in the 20th century. That's engineering, also news for nerds. Plus there's the patent troll aspect, and you know as well as me that most folks here are interested in patent abuses. I'd say something that had been invented by a 14th century man should be pretty obvious to a 20th century man.
Remember that the next time you get a bacterial infection, or want a cup of coffee or a beer, or have a headache and want to reach for that aspirin -- because drugs are bad!
It's like the smog you see in the opening scenes for the Fifth Element.
I just watched that movie last night, and the opening scenes were first in Egypt, then outer space and whatever the capitol of the world was. The only thing that resembled smog was called fog, when Willis was running from the cops.
I think you're confusing it with Blade Runner. US cities used to look like that before the EPA was established.
However, some restaurants specifically market themselves on the complexity of their recipes. Needless to say these types of restaurant tend to be the hideously expensive kind.
Perhaps generally, but in the midwest you'll find restaraunts with some of the best tasting food you ever put in your mouth and very reasonable prices. Here in Springfield, D'Arcy's Pint comes to mind. You can take a date there and get out for under fifty bucks, including drinks and tip. One woman told me as we were walking back to the car "I just had a food orgasm!" Of course, even though it's a huge place, there's usually a long wait to get in. It's my favorite eatery, with Top Cat's coming in second (they have more home-cooking type food).
George Ranks used to be like that, but it's changed hands and now the food is overpriced and nasty and the portions are small. The guy who used to own it had been to chef school, and had resiped published in culinary magazines. Great food at low prices. The old owner once told me that he got people in chairs with the food and made his money on drinks. The new owners are clueless, I expect them to close again within the year.
It goes the other way, too. I took my daughter to a restaraunt downtown, it took forever to get served (even though the place was empty), the portions were small, but it didn't matter because the food wasn't that great, and it cost me about $80. I never went back, of course.
Indeed, that was true. I'm pretty sure almost everyone on the planet with access to a TV watched it that night, and for a short while it seemed like everyone in the world was celebrating together. Nationalism went right out the door for a while.
If you're not growing your own corn, shucking it, and cooking it, it's gone through an industrial process whether it comes in a can or froxen in a bag. The same goes with any other vegetable. If you don't raise your own meat and butcher it yourself, then it, too has gone through an industrial process.
Have you ever seen a modern farm? They're almost all roboticized, using GPS to steer planters and harvesters and other aspects of their farming. They're planting Monsanto GM crops, adding fertilizers and pesticides... you may possibly have never eaten anything that hasn't gone through industrial processes.
I'd say that Excel is the only quality tool Microsoft makes. I used Quattro and Lotus at work before they switched to all-MS, and it's head and shoulders above them (Haven't used Oo's spreadsheet, I have no use for a spreadsheet at home).
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The only one whose rights have been violated is the game developer. The troll is the infringer.
And then presumably give up the ability to use your box with a television. If the establishment is to be believed, hackable boxes are for desks, mice, and keyboards, not living rooms and gamepads.
Don't tell the establishment about me, then. I have a tower I cobbled together from junk and am using my TV as a monitor. The tower's running Linux. I watch pirated TV shows on it (pirated because I'm too lazy to rip my DVDs), movies, radio (I love it that I can get KSHE clearly over the internet), YouTube, games... I can even use it for a computer if I want!
BTW, I love that new sig.
Physical address is concerning.
For a hundred years, almost everyone's address was published in a printed book that came out yearly. It was opt-out, and to keep your name off the list you had to pay extra for the unlisted phone number.
Plenty of people are harassed, have sensitive jobs (law enforcement, abortion doctors, etc.)
If you're being harrassed, you go to the courthouse and get an order of protection. If you're a cowardly wimp, law enforcement may not be the ideal line of work for you. If you're an abortion doctor, you're in more danger from a drunk driver than a crazy anti-abortion murderer.
Whether or not a person voted is information that can be used against them
In Illinois it's a matter of public record whether or not you voted, and if you vote in the primary, so is the party you chose to vote in.
It's patently ridiculous to have that much sensitive information on USB sticks
That goes without saying.
Apple needs to explain, otherwise assuming the worst is warranted. And your insult to nerds was a bit flamebaitish, Mr. Fanboi.
I've never understood cable though, if I'm paying for cable and the cable company is paying other companies for their content, shouldn't it be ad free?
It was, thirty years ago. At the time, everyone poo-pooed the idea of paying for TV, since everyone had been watching for free since the device was invented. Ten bucks a month for the OTA channels (which had commercials but no snow or ghosts) and a dozen or so very good, ad-free cable channels; empty-V (they played videos then, not stupid reality shows), Discovery (they had science then, not "trick my truck" and "ice trucks"), HBO was even included in the $10 per month cost. No cencorship on the cable channels, which was a good draw, too.
Now? They censor all the funny parts (like "don't use that kind of language in front of my young son" when the language had been cut). Most of the cable channels' programming has gone WAY downhill; the only thing on Discovery worth watching is MythBusters, empty-V no longer has videos, but "look at all my bling" reality shows, the other channels had similarly deteriorated, while they added so many sports channels that you now see the "sports" of pool and poker on ESPN. I have to pay fo rthe golf channel? Fuck that! I have to pay for BET? Fuck that. I have to pay for two dozen women's channels and children's channels? Fuck that. Shopping channels? I have to PAY to watch shows that are nothing but commercials? I have to PAY to not only watch commercials, but to watch commercials overlaid over the programming FUCK THAT WITH A HOT SOLDERING IRON!!!
The cable and satellite companies can kiss my hairy white ass! When they stop putting commercials on cable shows and let me choose the channels I want a la carte, I might consider going back. Unless, of course, History and Discovery and the other cable channels deteriorate in quality even more.
How about the Rolling Stones' "Angie"? Was there ever such a sappy, insipid tune with such stupid lyrics?
It reminds me of IBM making PCs and also selling cloned PCs in competition with itself.
Incorrect -- IBM didn't sell cloned PCs in competetion with itself. It fought tooth and nail (and in court) when Compaq managed to clean-room clone the PC's BIOS. IBM's mistake was letting Microsoft keep the copyrights to DOS, but it did so because they thought it would be impossible to run on anyone else's hardware.
He's losing the Windows market
I've seen no evidence of that. Yes, MS lost MY business, but less than 1% of us are running Be or Linux or BSD or any other OS. MS just can't get a foothold in the phone, MP3 player, or tablet market. In the enterprise, just as the old mantra was "nobody ever got fired for buying IBM", the new mantra is "nobody ever got fired for buying Microsoft".
If MS is losing the Windows market, then why is it so hard to buy a PC without Windows?
As a literate, I'm offended by your sticking an apostrophe where it doesn't belong. Are all of you twits high school dropouts??
Hint: there is no such thing as free'd. It's simply "freed". Now go get your GED.
YOU, son, are the problem. You care nothing about others' feelings whatever. Let me explain by transposition what you just wrote and you'll see what an ass you are..
Didn't you hear him say "nigger"? A black man might feel uncomfortable. Don't you just see how this is an emergency of the highest order? Call the fire brigade, the media, the police --- everyone stop doing what they're doing right now --- a black somewhere might be feeling uncomfortable ! [sic] Discomfort! Do you not get how serious this is? I said "discomfort". If you aren't shocked, just shocked I tell you, you must also be racist. We must at all costs protect the most vulnerable and spiritually sublime members of society, our blacks, from ever having to experience that most horrific sensation, 'discomfort', at the hands of this great evil, namely men who think 'nigger' references in code warrants a snicker.
You're an adolescent pig. Grow the fuck up. I would NOT want to hire a moron like you.
The only shirts I wear are T shirts (with flannel in the winter) and few of them have pockets, but I'd not keep a phone in a breast pocket. Every time you bend over, it falls out.
I won't buy a phone that's not a flip phone, for the reason you put forth, plus the fact that it's too easy to pocket-dial with a lidless phone.
I miss my original Razr. very small, very thin, and would send texts and emails, surf the web, all that. I really haven't seen an iPhone or Android do anything it wouldn't, except maybe play Angry Birds or something trivial like that. What will a smartphone do that an old feature phone won't? Except maybe drop calls if you hold it wrong?
That is the very worst moderation I've seen this year! +3 insightful for saying "nu hu, yer rong" in response to a passage using reason and logic! How is it wrong at all, especially thoroughly wrong? Whoever modded this utter tripe up, please undo your mod by explaining exactly what was wrong with the GP's post?
I don't own a firearm, as I believe that those who live by the gun, die by the gun, and although everyone has to die, not everyone has to kill. But I don't want to lose the right to should I choose to excersize it. And I support your right to carry arms, as well.
A large portion of hades' inhabitants are originally from Wall Street. Kind of hard for someone from wall street to wind up anywhere else.
Probably none if the armed were all trained. You have to show proficiency to get a CC license. This is what happens when a couple of armed robbers try to rob a casino full of people when there's one seventy one year olf man armed and fighting back (the video is amusing). Bottom line -- several shots are fired, the only people shot are the robbers, who flee and are caught and jailed.
Damn it, you two aliterates, that apostrophe doesn't belong there. Apostrophes are ONLY for posessives and contractions: "the jury's verdict doesn't make sense."
The plural of jury is juries, not jury's. Jury's means the jury owns something. Read a book once in a while. Get your GED. Come on, guys, slashdot is no place for high school dropouts.
That crossed my mind when I first heard about them finding Higgs, but what I though was Leslie telling Sheldon "See? Told you so, dumbass!"
Whatever happens, hilarity will certainly ensue. I think my two favorites were when Stephen Hawking found an arithemetic error in Sheldon's paper, and when George Smoot said "With all due respects, Dr. Cooper, but are you on crack?"
I wouldn't take steroids for any amount of money, but if you want to take them, it's not my business.
First, it's archaeology. That's science. Science news is news for nerds. Second, they found something 500 years old that they thought had been invented in the 20th century. That's engineering, also news for nerds. Plus there's the patent troll aspect, and you know as well as me that most folks here are interested in patent abuses. I'd say something that had been invented by a 14th century man should be pretty obvious to a 20th century man.
Remember that the next time you get a bacterial infection, or want a cup of coffee or a beer, or have a headache and want to reach for that aspirin -- because drugs are bad!
But it does sound like a good way to get me to switch from kubuntu to Mandriva.
It's like the smog you see in the opening scenes for the Fifth Element.
I just watched that movie last night, and the opening scenes were first in Egypt, then outer space and whatever the capitol of the world was. The only thing that resembled smog was called fog, when Willis was running from the cops.
I think you're confusing it with Blade Runner. US cities used to look like that before the EPA was established.
However, some restaurants specifically market themselves on the complexity of their recipes. Needless to say these types of restaurant tend to be the hideously expensive kind.
Perhaps generally, but in the midwest you'll find restaraunts with some of the best tasting food you ever put in your mouth and very reasonable prices. Here in Springfield, D'Arcy's Pint comes to mind. You can take a date there and get out for under fifty bucks, including drinks and tip. One woman told me as we were walking back to the car "I just had a food orgasm!" Of course, even though it's a huge place, there's usually a long wait to get in. It's my favorite eatery, with Top Cat's coming in second (they have more home-cooking type food).
George Ranks used to be like that, but it's changed hands and now the food is overpriced and nasty and the portions are small. The guy who used to own it had been to chef school, and had resiped published in culinary magazines. Great food at low prices. The old owner once told me that he got people in chairs with the food and made his money on drinks. The new owners are clueless, I expect them to close again within the year.
It goes the other way, too. I took my daughter to a restaraunt downtown, it took forever to get served (even though the place was empty), the portions were small, but it didn't matter because the food wasn't that great, and it cost me about $80. I never went back, of course.
Indeed, that was true. I'm pretty sure almost everyone on the planet with access to a TV watched it that night, and for a short while it seemed like everyone in the world was celebrating together. Nationalism went right out the door for a while.
If you're not growing your own corn, shucking it, and cooking it, it's gone through an industrial process whether it comes in a can or froxen in a bag. The same goes with any other vegetable. If you don't raise your own meat and butcher it yourself, then it, too has gone through an industrial process.
Have you ever seen a modern farm? They're almost all roboticized, using GPS to steer planters and harvesters and other aspects of their farming. They're planting Monsanto GM crops, adding fertilizers and pesticides... you may possibly have never eaten anything that hasn't gone through industrial processes.
I'd say that Excel is the only quality tool Microsoft makes. I used Quattro and Lotus at work before they switched to all-MS, and it's head and shoulders above them (Haven't used Oo's spreadsheet, I have no use for a spreadsheet at home).
Have you ever even used a spreadsheet?
There are quite a few more than 7 billion. You forgot birds, kangaroos, and I probably forgot even more.