Geordi's visor gives him super vision. This visor doesn't. In fact, your vision will still be far less than a normal person's, but it would be better than total blindness.
Well, well.. I see the Windows shills were out in force yesterday, modding every single comment that had anything negative to say abour Windows as "troll". Come on, shillboys, waste some more mod points on me, you won't hurt my karma.
Fucking morons... fix your damned OS.
(Yes, this is a flame, your "troll" moderation baited this flame. Assholes.)
Long-term implanted devices should surpass biological eyes so you'd want them even if you had normal eyesight.
You would have someone sticking needles in your eye if your eye was working fine? I have an implant in my left eye that gives me better than 20/20 at all distances, I'm 60 and don't even need reading glasses, but I wouldn't have had the surgery if all that was wrong with the eye was age-related farsightedness.
All surgery is dangerous. People have died from such minor surgeries as tonsellectomies and hemmoroidectomies.
No, Frankenstein made his monster out of human parts. My friend's transplanted corneas and liver are Frankenstein tech, my CrystaLens eye implant is cybernetics, as is this retinal implant.
I agree that being able to grow a new eyeball would be much better than an implant, but the science is nowhere near that far yet. This gives patients at least some sight, and remember, a huge number of people are blind from retinal degeneration, and few with that disease are likely to be going to live long enough for organ regeneration. Most people with that disease are in their seventies or older.
Folks with diabetic retinopathy or other retinal problems younger folks get may have new eyes grown in the future, but this wil hold them over until it's possible.
If they don't get them, they'll lose to Obama. If they do get them, they'll win.
I'm doubtful Romney has a snowball's chance in hell at beating Obama. Romney's the candidate who bullied kids when he was in school, who stated during his candidacy "I like to fire people," who was a hedge fund manager, part of the bunch of 1%er crooks that caused the economic meltdown, who was born into riches and has no clue how normal Americans live, who belongs to a religious cult (the same cult "Evil-X" is in who told my daughter that if she didn't get baptised she'd go to hell).
IMO anyone making less than $250k/year voting for Romney is an idiot. A vote for Romney is a vote for this country to go into another depression and most likely war. Has there been a single Republican President since Eisenhower that wasn't waist deep in war (maybe I should have said "since Nixon since he inhereted his war)?
Sorry for tinyurl, it's legit I promise, Slashdot filters the link because it's too long
No it doesn't. The only time you might need a shortened URL here is in your sig. When I'm moderating, I almost always mark a post with a shortened URL as "troll" without even looking, because it's a way to sneak goatse past. I only followed your short link because your comment had been modded +5. The link I posted is the full link to where your shortened one goes.
But still, we had the "too big to fail" banks needing bailouts to preven another Great Depression, we had GM needing to be bailed out, there's Carly Fiona, there's the latest thing with that bank that just misplaced two billion dollars, there's Rupert Murdoch and the phone hacking, there's Sony (biggest loss in their history for the fourth year in a row). I'm no fan of Ballmer's; in fact I detest and ridicule him, but to call him the worst CEO is pretty much a stretch. It's not like MS is in the red year after year like Sony or RIM.
Every hair on your body would stand on end. That might be a tad uncomfortable (although at the miniscule amperages all you would feel would be your hair standing on end).
Agree or disagree, I appreciate a well thought out and eloquently phrased response.
Thank you. As to Friedman's idea of a negative income tax, I'd rather not subsidize the poor's employer. Your employer should feed you, not me. But as you say, there is plenty of room for disagreement.
I do not want the police involved in my life, period.
I don't want them in my life unless I'm a crime victim. My house was broken into last year and they made an arrest that night. I never got my stuff back, but I was glad there was someone to jail the burglar.
I have to agree with the rest of your comment, though.
*sigh*... kids. Sheesh. Surgery to replace a strap and buckle? Is this a stupid idea, or am I just getting too damned old? Yes, I want a wrist phone, but I don't want to undergo surgery to have one.
Everybody worried about the bomb in the 1960s, and in fact only stopped worrying about it after the Soviets fell. There was ecological disaster, and most developed nations took notice and mitigated it. In 1965 you literally could not breathe driving past a Monsanto plant as the air burned your lungs. Rivers caught fire. DDT decimated many bird populations. These things are no longer so; steps were taken to prevent nuclear war (even though it almost happened a couple of times) and steps were taken to clean up the environment.
It's been a while since you've tried Linux, hasn't it? Actually, I'd prefer it NOT play more than one sound source at once, so when I'm listening to KSHE or Amarok and want to watch Big Bang Theory, I'd just go to the CBS web site and click the link rather than shutting off the music player like I have to now. Maybe someone here knows a way to make it act like that and can tell me?
One man's feature is another man's annoyance.
However if Windows gets a feature something else has had, it gets looked down on
Well, be fair here -- if a $200 program FINALLY gets a useful feature that has been in a free alternative for years, it SHOULD get looked down on. Not for getting the feature, but being late with it.
I've been waiting for someone to publish a "why?" article. I wish the submitter had used the single page version and saved me a click. As to TFA,
1. Interactive tiles Fine on a phone, but I don't want it in a PC OS.
2. Task Manager Windows has had this for literally YEARS. IIRC Win 95 had it. BTW, is there anything like that in KDE? I'm hoping someone says "yes" and points me to it.
4. No new hardware requirements LOL! "That means â" in theory, at least â" that any PC capable of running Windows Vista should be able to handle Windows 8." I'm running the latest kubuntu (just upgraded yesterday) on a machine I built out of ten year old parts, and it runs well. No way would Win 8 run on that thing. TFA looks like loke a Microsoft ad.
5. Airplane mode Man, MS is really grasping at straws here. FN+F8 (F8 has a wifi icon) toggles wifi on my netbook, along with an indicator light. Bluetooth is shut off when you unplug the dongle. In short, this feature is completely useless.
6. SkyDrive integration The Stones said it and I agree -- hey, you, get off of the cloud. I'll keep my own data on my own deviced, thank you very much.
7. Windows Store Um, is that like Apper except you have to pay for the software?
8. Interactive lock screen Rubbish. Nothing of substance, just "Ooh! Shiny!"
9. Split-screen apps What's new here? New for phones, maybe, but not computers.
10. Split touch keyboard Useless for PCs and laptops
11. App contracts "Microsoft has published a set of APIs common to all Metro apps that allow them to freely exchange data. Itâ(TM)s possible, for example, to give a Twitter client access to the Photos app, massively simplifying the process of photo sharing."
It sounds unsafe to me. It also sounds like one of the kinds of thing I got away from Windows for. And people wonder why Windows is the only OS with malware problems.
12. Fewer surprise restarts My Linux box has no surprise restarts whatever. In fact, the only time I restart it is when I'm upgrading the kernel, maybe once a year or longer. Meanwhile, the notebook still has Win 7 and I wind up having to reboot every week or two, thanks to MS's hatred of users.
13. Cross-device synchronisation "The Windows 8 installation screen practically forces users to set up a Windows Live account." And they call that a feature???
14. Improved 3G support Useless on a PC or notebook
15. Built-in antivirus Not new, there's Windows Defender already. You're grasping at straws, Microsoft!
16. Picture passwords Kind of cool I guess, but useless on a PC.
18. Windows To Go "Another one in the eye for those who claim that Windows 8 has little to offer businesses is Windows To Go. This allows companies to provide employees with a locked-down installation of Windows 8 on a USB thumb drive." Uh, I've been doing that with Linux for a decade.
19. Secure Boot Most emphatically DO NOT WANT!!!
20. Revamped Explorer "The Windows Explorer is now graced with the ribbon interface" Do Not Want!!
21. Restore PC How anout instad they write an uninstaller that actually works? TFA says you have to reinstall all your apps after a restore, PITA. I don't have to put up with this nonsense in Linux.
22. Thumbnail previews Probably useful on a phone, not on a PC.
23. Metro groups Good on a phone, bad ona PC.
24. Kinect for Windows I'll reserve judgement on this one, it might be good.
25. AppLocker Again, nothing new, and TFA even says so.
26. Reset PC Look, if you're going to wipe and reinstall your OS, just FDISK and install. I don't see what problem this "solution" solves, unless installing Windows is still the PITA it was with XP.
27. File copy revamp *Yawn*
28. Faster boot times This is one place Windows beats Linux (Most distros anyway). Fortunately, a L
Kudos for making fun of something really stupid. Maybe the younger generation has never seen a floppy (my youngest daughter's only 26 and we used floppies until she was a teenager), but they've always seen that icon meaning "save".
As to the other things, most are still around. My car radio has buttons, doesn't yours? I still see people with physical clipbpoards and (gasp) paper. Bookmarks? If you've never seen a real book made of real paper what planet are you from? Calendars? Still in use, both paper and electronic. Address books? Well, that is what the thing you look someone up in your phone is still called, right? Even though it's now part of the phone and not a separate booklet?
Voice mail? Of course that's still around. WTF? It's not like they're using a picture of a tape-driven answering machine for an icon.
The idea of generating power from your shoes is a silly one. Are you going to run wires from your shoes to the pocket your phone is in?
That dumb idea aside, this is just another method of electricity generation; you could likely produce the same amount of power with piezoelectrics for a lot cheaper.
Don't worry, kid, by the time self-driving cars are for sale you'll have matured enough to have grown out of those childish ways... that is, if you live very long. Extreme driving is an invitation to the surgeon or the undertaker.
If a person works full time for you and still can't feed his family... it is better for you both to do without a job?
If you only have one employee and he's working full time and you still can't afford to pay him, your business plan isn't very sound. If you have enough customers that you need another employee but can't afford to pay a decent wage, you're not charging enough for your product or service. When everyone is forced to pay their employees that minimum, the playing field is level in terms of wages, so your competetion can't undercut your prices.
Say you produce wigets and pay your three employees ten dollars an hour each. Your competitor hires his employees for two dollars an hour. You have to either cut your employees' pay or your sociopathic competetition will drive you out of business.
In short, I simply don't believe that minimum wage laws force unemployment. It simply prevents the unscrupulous from taking advantage of your morality and his workers' poverty.
I was actually entertained one time by the piracy warning... the Simpsons movie, where the FBI warning was followed by an EPA disclaimer that looked exactly like the FBI warning.
You know, I think that was Tom Hanks' best movie... and I like his movies.
Just browse at 1. Every single one of humbleguy's four comments is sitting at -1, either troll or flamebait (I just looked him up, he has exactly 4 comments, all astroturf, all modded to oblivion).
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Geordi's visor gives him super vision. This visor doesn't. In fact, your vision will still be far less than a normal person's, but it would be better than total blindness.
Well, well.. I see the Windows shills were out in force yesterday, modding every single comment that had anything negative to say abour Windows as "troll". Come on, shillboys, waste some more mod points on me, you won't hurt my karma.
Fucking morons... fix your damned OS.
(Yes, this is a flame, your "troll" moderation baited this flame. Assholes.)
Long-term implanted devices should surpass biological eyes so you'd want them even if you had normal eyesight.
You would have someone sticking needles in your eye if your eye was working fine? I have an implant in my left eye that gives me better than 20/20 at all distances, I'm 60 and don't even need reading glasses, but I wouldn't have had the surgery if all that was wrong with the eye was age-related farsightedness.
All surgery is dangerous. People have died from such minor surgeries as tonsellectomies and hemmoroidectomies.
Awsome kind of frankenstein technology!
No, Frankenstein made his monster out of human parts. My friend's transplanted corneas and liver are Frankenstein tech, my CrystaLens eye implant is cybernetics, as is this retinal implant.
I agree that being able to grow a new eyeball would be much better than an implant, but the science is nowhere near that far yet. This gives patients at least some sight, and remember, a huge number of people are blind from retinal degeneration, and few with that disease are likely to be going to live long enough for organ regeneration. Most people with that disease are in their seventies or older.
Folks with diabetic retinopathy or other retinal problems younger folks get may have new eyes grown in the future, but this wil hold them over until it's possible.
If they don't get them, they'll lose to Obama. If they do get them, they'll win.
I'm doubtful Romney has a snowball's chance in hell at beating Obama. Romney's the candidate who bullied kids when he was in school, who stated during his candidacy "I like to fire people," who was a hedge fund manager, part of the bunch of 1%er crooks that caused the economic meltdown, who was born into riches and has no clue how normal Americans live, who belongs to a religious cult (the same cult "Evil-X" is in who told my daughter that if she didn't get baptised she'd go to hell).
IMO anyone making less than $250k/year voting for Romney is an idiot. A vote for Romney is a vote for this country to go into another depression and most likely war. Has there been a single Republican President since Eisenhower that wasn't waist deep in war (maybe I should have said "since Nixon since he inhereted his war)?
Sorry for tinyurl, it's legit I promise, Slashdot filters the link because it's too long
No it doesn't. The only time you might need a shortened URL here is in your sig. When I'm moderating, I almost always mark a post with a shortened URL as "troll" without even looking, because it's a way to sneak goatse past. I only followed your short link because your comment had been modded +5. The link I posted is the full link to where your shortened one goes.
Hope I helped.
But still, we had the "too big to fail" banks needing bailouts to preven another Great Depression, we had GM needing to be bailed out, there's Carly Fiona, there's the latest thing with that bank that just misplaced two billion dollars, there's Rupert Murdoch and the phone hacking, there's Sony (biggest loss in their history for the fourth year in a row). I'm no fan of Ballmer's; in fact I detest and ridicule him, but to call him the worst CEO is pretty much a stretch. It's not like MS is in the red year after year like Sony or RIM.
Every hair on your body would stand on end. That might be a tad uncomfortable (although at the miniscule amperages all you would feel would be your hair standing on end).
Agree or disagree, I appreciate a well thought out and eloquently phrased response.
Thank you. As to Friedman's idea of a negative income tax, I'd rather not subsidize the poor's employer. Your employer should feed you, not me. But as you say, there is plenty of room for disagreement.
The execution happened 2000 years ago, and the victime volunteered to be executed.
We don't have the death penalty here in Illinois, either.
Thank you, I figured it was there somewhere. I'm running the same distro as you, so it should work.
I guess I'm the exception then, the only time I'm at a terminal is if I forget the root password.
End the drug war and you'd stop 75% of all crime right there, including gang violence.
I do not want the police involved in my life, period.
I don't want them in my life unless I'm a crime victim. My house was broken into last year and they made an arrest that night. I never got my stuff back, but I was glad there was someone to jail the burglar.
I have to agree with the rest of your comment, though.
*sigh*... kids. Sheesh. Surgery to replace a strap and buckle? Is this a stupid idea, or am I just getting too damned old? Yes, I want a wrist phone, but I don't want to undergo surgery to have one.
Everybody worried about the bomb in the 1960s, and in fact only stopped worrying about it after the Soviets fell. There was ecological disaster, and most developed nations took notice and mitigated it. In 1965 you literally could not breathe driving past a Monsanto plant as the air burned your lungs. Rivers caught fire. DDT decimated many bird populations. These things are no longer so; steps were taken to prevent nuclear war (even though it almost happened a couple of times) and steps were taken to clean up the environment.
IF we're lucky they'll mitigate this as well.
It's been a while since you've tried Linux, hasn't it? Actually, I'd prefer it NOT play more than one sound source at once, so when I'm listening to KSHE or Amarok and want to watch Big Bang Theory, I'd just go to the CBS web site and click the link rather than shutting off the music player like I have to now. Maybe someone here knows a way to make it act like that and can tell me?
One man's feature is another man's annoyance.
However if Windows gets a feature something else has had, it gets looked down on
Well, be fair here -- if a $200 program FINALLY gets a useful feature that has been in a free alternative for years, it SHOULD get looked down on. Not for getting the feature, but being late with it.
I've been waiting for someone to publish a "why?" article. I wish the submitter had used the single page version and saved me a click. As to TFA,
1. Interactive tiles
Fine on a phone, but I don't want it in a PC OS.
2. Task Manager
Windows has had this for literally YEARS. IIRC Win 95 had it. BTW, is there anything like that in KDE? I'm hoping someone says "yes" and points me to it.
4. No new hardware requirements
LOL! "That means â" in theory, at least â" that any PC capable of running Windows Vista should be able to handle Windows 8." I'm running the latest kubuntu (just upgraded yesterday) on a machine I built out of ten year old parts, and it runs well. No way would Win 8 run on that thing. TFA looks like loke a Microsoft ad.
5. Airplane mode
Man, MS is really grasping at straws here. FN+F8 (F8 has a wifi icon) toggles wifi on my netbook, along with an indicator light. Bluetooth is shut off when you unplug the dongle. In short, this feature is completely useless.
6. SkyDrive integration
The Stones said it and I agree -- hey, you, get off of the cloud. I'll keep my own data on my own deviced, thank you very much.
7. Windows Store
Um, is that like Apper except you have to pay for the software?
8. Interactive lock screen
Rubbish. Nothing of substance, just "Ooh! Shiny!"
9. Split-screen apps
What's new here? New for phones, maybe, but not computers.
10. Split touch keyboard
Useless for PCs and laptops
11. App contracts
"Microsoft has published a set of APIs common to all Metro apps that allow them to freely exchange data. Itâ(TM)s possible, for example, to give a Twitter client access to the Photos app, massively simplifying the process of photo sharing."
It sounds unsafe to me. It also sounds like one of the kinds of thing I got away from Windows for. And people wonder why Windows is the only OS with malware problems.
12. Fewer surprise restarts
My Linux box has no surprise restarts whatever. In fact, the only time I restart it is when I'm upgrading the kernel, maybe once a year or longer. Meanwhile, the notebook still has Win 7 and I wind up having to reboot every week or two, thanks to MS's hatred of users.
13. Cross-device synchronisation
"The Windows 8 installation screen practically forces users to set up a Windows Live account." And they call that a feature???
14. Improved 3G support
Useless on a PC or notebook
15. Built-in antivirus
Not new, there's Windows Defender already. You're grasping at straws, Microsoft!
16. Picture passwords
Kind of cool I guess, but useless on a PC.
18. Windows To Go
"Another one in the eye for those who claim that Windows 8 has little to offer businesses is Windows To Go. This allows companies to provide employees with a locked-down installation of Windows 8 on a USB thumb drive." Uh, I've been doing that with Linux for a decade.
19. Secure Boot
Most emphatically DO NOT WANT!!!
20. Revamped Explorer
"The Windows Explorer is now graced with the ribbon interface"
Do Not Want!!
21. Restore PC
How anout instad they write an uninstaller that actually works? TFA says you have to reinstall all your apps after a restore, PITA. I don't have to put up with this nonsense in Linux.
22. Thumbnail previews
Probably useful on a phone, not on a PC.
23. Metro groups
Good on a phone, bad ona PC.
24. Kinect for Windows
I'll reserve judgement on this one, it might be good.
25. AppLocker
Again, nothing new, and TFA even says so.
26. Reset PC
Look, if you're going to wipe and reinstall your OS, just FDISK and install. I don't see what problem this "solution" solves, unless installing Windows is still the PITA it was with XP.
27. File copy revamp
*Yawn*
28. Faster boot times
This is one place Windows beats Linux (Most distros anyway). Fortunately, a L
Kudos for making fun of something really stupid. Maybe the younger generation has never seen a floppy (my youngest daughter's only 26 and we used floppies until she was a teenager), but they've always seen that icon meaning "save".
As to the other things, most are still around. My car radio has buttons, doesn't yours? I still see people with physical clipbpoards and (gasp) paper. Bookmarks? If you've never seen a real book made of real paper what planet are you from? Calendars? Still in use, both paper and electronic. Address books? Well, that is what the thing you look someone up in your phone is still called, right? Even though it's now part of the phone and not a separate booklet?
Voice mail? Of course that's still around. WTF? It's not like they're using a picture of a tape-driven answering machine for an icon.
Dumb dumb dumb. Idiotic dumb. Brain dead dumb. Stupid fucking kids! Dumb.
The idea of generating power from your shoes is a silly one. Are you going to run wires from your shoes to the pocket your phone is in?
That dumb idea aside, this is just another method of electricity generation; you could likely produce the same amount of power with piezoelectrics for a lot cheaper.
Remember self-winding wristwatches?
Don't worry, kid, by the time self-driving cars are for sale you'll have matured enough to have grown out of those childish ways... that is, if you live very long. Extreme driving is an invitation to the surgeon or the undertaker.
If a person works full time for you and still can't feed his family... it is better for you both to do without a job?
If you only have one employee and he's working full time and you still can't afford to pay him, your business plan isn't very sound. If you have enough customers that you need another employee but can't afford to pay a decent wage, you're not charging enough for your product or service. When everyone is forced to pay their employees that minimum, the playing field is level in terms of wages, so your competetion can't undercut your prices.
Say you produce wigets and pay your three employees ten dollars an hour each. Your competitor hires his employees for two dollars an hour. You have to either cut your employees' pay or your sociopathic competetition will drive you out of business.
In short, I simply don't believe that minimum wage laws force unemployment. It simply prevents the unscrupulous from taking advantage of your morality and his workers' poverty.
I was actually entertained one time by the piracy warning... the Simpsons movie, where the FBI warning was followed by an EPA disclaimer that looked exactly like the FBI warning.
You know, I think that was Tom Hanks' best movie... and I like his movies.
They shot the outer space scenes for Apollo 13 in the Vomit Comet, too. Probably close to half the movie.
Just browse at 1. Every single one of humbleguy's four comments is sitting at -1, either troll or flamebait (I just looked him up, he has exactly 4 comments, all astroturf, all modded to oblivion).