Well, the bank closes at 1:00 Saturday afternoon, often by Monday Morning I'm out of cash and might get a breakfast burrito with my card. Phone? Crazy. Yeah, one of two things:
1. Take out my card, swipe it, put it back in my wallet. 2. Take out my phone, press the "on" button, swipe to unlock, hit "home", find the app, do whatever the hell the app needs me to do and... fuck it, use the fucking credit card. Using a phone to pay for a burger is retarded. It's less convenient, what's the fucking point??
Law enforcement doesn't obey the law, they are above the law. Anyone paying attention knows that they just do whatever they want. If they are ever caught the only "punishment" is to give some tax payer money to someone.
How much are you paying for the air that you can't live without? How much are farmers paying for the rain that waters their crops? How much does a Cory Doctorow e-book cost? How much does it cost to watch a sunset? How much does it cost to write a book? (granted, actually publishing it is >$0 but writing it costs $0.) How much does it cost to noodle catfish?
You're a fool, AC. The things you need the most -- air and water -- cost $0.
Again, What in the FUCK does that mean? The entire rest of the comment reads like a two year old scribbled it and is as unreadable and makes no more sense than what I quoted . Here's a hint -- lay off the LSD before trying to post to slashdot, OK?
Snow on the car image sensors will make the car blind.
Frost on my windshield will make me blind, so I wait until it defrosts to take off just as an autonomous car will.
Ice on the road will be nearly impossible for the car to distinguish.
Pretty damned hard for a human to distinguish, too. But the car will have the advantage of being able to see in wavelengths that make the ice and snow completely transparent.
I wish I could be more optimistic but driverless cars will be as useful as google glass appears to be.
Oddly, you may be right. I would have disagreed with you until I saw this. Seems there's a use for Google Glasses after all.
All accents are funny (unless it's your accent, then it's racist).
How can a blonde haired blue eyed Bostonian be racist against a blonde haired blue eyed Texan? Making fun of accents has nothing to do with race. In fact, accents themselves have nothing to do with race and everything to do with growing up in a certain location. I know a man whose parents are both Japanese, he was adopted by a Chicago couple in infancy. Guess what? He speaks with a Chicago accent.
I certainly don't know what the AC's talking about. I only paid $125 for my Kyocera and have yet to find anything that doesn't work, best phone I've ever had. Hell, it's the first phone I don't have to carry a baggie in my wallet in case I get caught in a downpour (lost an LG that way), it's waterproof.
I suspect you responded to a Microsoft shill or an Apple fanboi. I also don't understand why anyone would pay $600 for a fragile, easily ruined device that you have to put a bulky cover over to make sure it doesn't break, plus buy insurance for it when you can get a $125 phone that will do all the same things as the $600 phone that you don't have to worry too much about it getting trashed.
But that's what happens when you buy bling. I understand that BMWs are pretty unreliable, too, but I've never owned one (why would I want one? It won't do anything my ten year old Chrysler won't). IMO bling says "I'm a moron."
Clearly most people have never used it, yet there seems to be a strong opinion that it's rubbish.
I tried it when it first came out. It was rubbish. Occasionally when Google goes haywire and gives me shit results I'll try Bing again... and get even shittier results. The last time I tried Bing, I was looking to find how to register for an ISBN. Bing's top result was a hardware store.
People think it's rubbish because they've tried it and seen that it's rubbish.
Chrome for Android doesn't appear to register itself as a handler for HTML file open intents, which means that (unlike Firefox for Android) it doesn't appear in the "Open With" dialog box.
It does on my Kyocera, which annoys me because I don't use Chrome. Seeing your complaints about it I'm wondering why you do.
And what do ad-supported applications (which are quite common on Android) do when they can't contact the ad server?
I don't know. Winamp works fine offline. And since it's a phone, it has yet to be offline (it might be tomorrow, Mike's steel barn is a Faraday cage).
How much is Ballmer paying you, shill? Guess what happened ten years ago when they upgraded Office 98 to Office 03 where I work? None of my fucking Access programs would work! I had to rewrite every damned one. That never happened in any other language (when talking about Access I use that term very loosely) I've used in the last 30 years.
I repeat, Microsoft isn't even compatible with itself. They go out of their way to try (usually in vain) to make Samba not work, or at least they used to. I can open a Word document with Oo, but I can't open an ODF document with Word. ODF is an OPEN document file, there is no excuse for Word to fail to open it.
now get off my lawn.....
Check your GPS, son, you're on MY lawn. Ever use a soldering iron? Ever program in assembly? Was your first computer a slide rule?
Your flamebait is laughable. You should be modded "funny".
Except it isn't the Senate that shut the government down, it was brand-new tea party Republicans who are really bad losers. They lost and Obamacare won, they tried to kill it in the courts and lost, they nominate a man who ran on an anti-Obamacare platform and lost, now they're holding the budget and debt limit hostage; Defund Obamacare or we'll destroy the US's economy!
My own Congresscritter, Rodney Davis, is one of these first term tea party "I'm going to step on your dog if you don't give me a cookie" mental toddlers. The idiot barely squeaked by in the election, which was so close they had to do a recount, against a Democrat who advocated giving Medicare to everyone (the candidate was a medical doctor). Davis is one of the "kill obamacare or we destroy the economy" assholes and will surely be limited to ONE term.
If the Republicans don't wake up and tell the Koch brothers to fuck off and stop nominating ultra-right wing loonies they'll destroy themselves.
The US needs a new voting system [wikipedia.org], one that doesn't favor two-party control. What if, heaven forbid, there were a third party with no ties to the other two, and a bill actually were judged on its merits rather than on the party that proposed it?
The problem is the corporate media, who have convinced everyone that voting for a loser is a wasted vote. People don't use logic; rub two brain cells together and you'll see that if that's true, everyone who voted for Romney wasted their vote.
Last Presidential election there were five parties on enough ballots that they could win the White House. The people who own the corporate media also own the corporations that bribe candidates with campaign contributions. Give a million to each candidate and it doesn't matter who loses, you win. If the media weren't corrupt they would have covered all five viable candidates, but that would mean they would have to bribe five parties instead of just two.
Personally, I refuse to vote R or D. Everyone has friends and family who smoke pot, why are you voting for men who want your friends and family in prison? That's just madness. The liberal Greens and the conservative Libertarians don't want your loved ones in jail, vote for one of them instead.
If you actually smoke pot yourself and voted for Romney or Obama you're just fucking retarded.
The alternative was someone who hates anyone who isn't in the 1%, a corporate pirate who said "I like firing people". How could any working person with half a brain vote for him?
I'll add my vote to not show videos of talking heads. For something that needs shown, like the story with the amateur rocketeer that shot a rocket to the edge of space with a camera on the rocket, yeah,l show a video. But if it's just words, I don't want to hear it. I want to read it.
The trouble is all the obvious aliterates here (not to be confused with illiterates), obvious by such nonsense as "TL;DR" and "He thru there three ball's thru the hoops over their." Note that to someone who reads, that sentence is as hard to parse as proper English is to an aliterate.
The trouble is, fewer and fewer coming here are nerds. It's wild, when I was in high school nerds were mocked, now everybody wants to join us.
We did no such thing, not since 1990 anyway... when we thought we did. We won the first DRM war when software houses (especially games) that used DRM on floppies started going out of business. Now a quarter century later we have Steam. We have CSS (well, I guess we won that battle by cracking it), BluRay, Hell HDMI builds DRM right into the damned hardware.
Everyone in the lapdog press is running around crying Oh No'es but NOTHING bad is happening.
They've shut down just when farmers need their data the most, for one. I see you don't live in farm country. Businesses in military towns are hurting, the stock market is down, states can't do federal related work like LINK, which states need data and support for. Wineries and breweries can't start new brands... just because it has yet to affect you doesn't mean that a whole lot of people aren't hurting.
Line it up on the runway (yes, it sort of steers like a car),
No it doesn't, it steers NOTHING like a car. In a car, you turn the wheel left to go left. In a plane, you turn the "wheel" (called a "stick" in an airplane) to the left to make the left wing dip and the right wing raise. You turn the plane right and left with your feet; the stick is like when you ride a bicycle you lean into a turn.
When you're actually on a runway you let go of the stick completely; all steering on the ground is done with your feet.
What you're experiencing is having muscle memory take over. Driving a motorcycle is like driving a car -- only it's completely different. Seems the same when you drive, because you're used to both.
I don't think you do. My ex-brother in law was supervisor at a factory that made mechanical things. His boss would bring him something their competitor had come up with and ask him "can we make these?" He'd look at it and say "sure, but what about the patent?" His boss answered "that's why we employ lawyers."
Sometimes getting around a patent is as simple as making the exact same part out of a different material. There are usually many ways to do or make a thing, and the patent will only cover one way of doing it.
in 17 years Disney can move a screw,redo the wiring layout, claim it is a new product and re patent it.
And anyone else can study the design and innovate their own improvements and patent those improvements. Other people can make different innovations and patent them. But if someone wants to use this tech in 17 years and follows the original patent, they're in the clear. You can't repatent a patent after it's expired.
I just had a pair of AAs die. They're about five or six years old, maybe older. My infrared mouse has a slip-in charger, so whenever one of the TV remotes dies I just swap batteries with the mouse.
I'm with ya on that pinko commie idea, it would be helpful to know how much juice is in that can. But we can't allow them to take away corporations' rights to fuck us over, now can we?
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Well, the bank closes at 1:00 Saturday afternoon, often by Monday Morning I'm out of cash and might get a breakfast burrito with my card. Phone? Crazy. Yeah, one of two things:
1. Take out my card, swipe it, put it back in my wallet.
2. Take out my phone, press the "on" button, swipe to unlock, hit "home", find the app, do whatever the hell the app needs me to do and... fuck it, use the fucking credit card. Using a phone to pay for a burger is retarded. It's less convenient, what's the fucking point??
The phrase "fast food" is a typo. It's really fats food. I mean, it's never fast and barely food, but it will make you fat.
As to paying with a phone, WHY?? It makes no sense to me.
Law enforcement doesn't obey the law, they are above the law. Anyone paying attention knows that they just do whatever they want. If they are ever caught the only "punishment" is to give some tax payer money to someone.
Former police officer gets probation for tanning videos
Undercover cop arrested in NYC biker gang attack
You were saying?
If I'm paying for the content there damned well not be any ads whatever. I'll pay with money or by watching ads, but not both.
Nothing costs $0.
How much are you paying for the air that you can't live without? How much are farmers paying for the rain that waters their crops? How much does a Cory Doctorow e-book cost? How much does it cost to watch a sunset? How much does it cost to write a book? (granted, actually publishing it is >$0 but writing it costs $0.) How much does it cost to noodle catfish?
You're a fool, AC. The things you need the most -- air and water -- cost $0.
I'm sorry, Joe, but your writing is unreadable.
In less
OK, WTF was that about?
apple let us up on it is censorship.
Again, What in the FUCK does that mean? The entire rest of the comment reads like a two year old scribbled it and is as unreadable and makes no more sense than what I quoted . Here's a hint -- lay off the LSD before trying to post to slashdot, OK?
Snow on the car image sensors will make the car blind.
Frost on my windshield will make me blind, so I wait until it defrosts to take off just as an autonomous car will.
Ice on the road will be nearly impossible for the car to distinguish.
Pretty damned hard for a human to distinguish, too. But the car will have the advantage of being able to see in wavelengths that make the ice and snow completely transparent.
I wish I could be more optimistic but driverless cars will be as useful as google glass appears to be.
Oddly, you may be right. I would have disagreed with you until I saw this. Seems there's a use for Google Glasses after all.
All accents are funny (unless it's your accent, then it's racist).
How can a blonde haired blue eyed Bostonian be racist against a blonde haired blue eyed Texan? Making fun of accents has nothing to do with race. In fact, accents themselves have nothing to do with race and everything to do with growing up in a certain location. I know a man whose parents are both Japanese, he was adopted by a Chicago couple in infancy. Guess what? He speaks with a Chicago accent.
I certainly don't know what the AC's talking about. I only paid $125 for my Kyocera and have yet to find anything that doesn't work, best phone I've ever had. Hell, it's the first phone I don't have to carry a baggie in my wallet in case I get caught in a downpour (lost an LG that way), it's waterproof.
I suspect you responded to a Microsoft shill or an Apple fanboi. I also don't understand why anyone would pay $600 for a fragile, easily ruined device that you have to put a bulky cover over to make sure it doesn't break, plus buy insurance for it when you can get a $125 phone that will do all the same things as the $600 phone that you don't have to worry too much about it getting trashed.
But that's what happens when you buy bling. I understand that BMWs are pretty unreliable, too, but I've never owned one (why would I want one? It won't do anything my ten year old Chrysler won't). IMO bling says "I'm a moron."
Clearly most people have never used it, yet there seems to be a strong opinion that it's rubbish.
I tried it when it first came out. It was rubbish. Occasionally when Google goes haywire and gives me shit results I'll try Bing again... and get even shittier results. The last time I tried Bing, I was looking to find how to register for an ISBN. Bing's top result was a hardware store.
People think it's rubbish because they've tried it and seen that it's rubbish.
Chrome for Android doesn't appear to register itself as a handler for HTML file open intents, which means that (unlike Firefox for Android) it doesn't appear in the "Open With" dialog box.
It does on my Kyocera, which annoys me because I don't use Chrome. Seeing your complaints about it I'm wondering why you do.
And what do ad-supported applications (which are quite common on Android) do when they can't contact the ad server?
I don't know. Winamp works fine offline. And since it's a phone, it has yet to be offline (it might be tomorrow, Mike's steel barn is a Faraday cage).
Farmers still get weather reports,
I see you know nothing about modern farming.
Military is up and running full tilt, even the civilian workers have been recalled.
Citation needed, I've seen nothing of the civilians being recalled and I read a lot of newspapers.
The Dow is trading in the range where its been trading all year
It was slowly sinking since the shutdown and spiked yesterday on the news that the shutdown and debt limit may be about over.
Wineries don't start that many new brands every years and have plenty of old brands they still use.
Yeah? That isn't what winery owners were saying on the local news the night before last.
And that's just problems I've heard about, I'm sure I'm almost as ignorant about it as you are. At least my ignorance isn't willful.
Yeah, nice troll you stupid idiot.....
How much is Ballmer paying you, shill? Guess what happened ten years ago when they upgraded Office 98 to Office 03 where I work? None of my fucking Access programs would work! I had to rewrite every damned one. That never happened in any other language (when talking about Access I use that term very loosely) I've used in the last 30 years.
I repeat, Microsoft isn't even compatible with itself. They go out of their way to try (usually in vain) to make Samba not work, or at least they used to. I can open a Word document with Oo, but I can't open an ODF document with Word. ODF is an OPEN document file, there is no excuse for Word to fail to open it.
now get off my lawn.....
Check your GPS, son, you're on MY lawn. Ever use a soldering iron? Ever program in assembly? Was your first computer a slide rule?
Your flamebait is laughable. You should be modded "funny".
Except it isn't the Senate that shut the government down, it was brand-new tea party Republicans who are really bad losers. They lost and Obamacare won, they tried to kill it in the courts and lost, they nominate a man who ran on an anti-Obamacare platform and lost, now they're holding the budget and debt limit hostage; Defund Obamacare or we'll destroy the US's economy!
My own Congresscritter, Rodney Davis, is one of these first term tea party "I'm going to step on your dog if you don't give me a cookie" mental toddlers. The idiot barely squeaked by in the election, which was so close they had to do a recount, against a Democrat who advocated giving Medicare to everyone (the candidate was a medical doctor). Davis is one of the "kill obamacare or we destroy the economy" assholes and will surely be limited to ONE term.
If the Republicans don't wake up and tell the Koch brothers to fuck off and stop nominating ultra-right wing loonies they'll destroy themselves.
TFA's young author and the rest of you kids should read the journal I posted last Saturday, What a wondrous thing I have in my pocket!
The US needs a new voting system [wikipedia.org], one that doesn't favor two-party control. What if, heaven forbid, there were a third party with no ties to the other two, and a bill actually were judged on its merits rather than on the party that proposed it?
The problem is the corporate media, who have convinced everyone that voting for a loser is a wasted vote. People don't use logic; rub two brain cells together and you'll see that if that's true, everyone who voted for Romney wasted their vote.
Last Presidential election there were five parties on enough ballots that they could win the White House. The people who own the corporate media also own the corporations that bribe candidates with campaign contributions. Give a million to each candidate and it doesn't matter who loses, you win. If the media weren't corrupt they would have covered all five viable candidates, but that would mean they would have to bribe five parties instead of just two.
Personally, I refuse to vote R or D. Everyone has friends and family who smoke pot, why are you voting for men who want your friends and family in prison? That's just madness. The liberal Greens and the conservative Libertarians don't want your loved ones in jail, vote for one of them instead.
If you actually smoke pot yourself and voted for Romney or Obama you're just fucking retarded.
Well, yes, if Cthuhlu was the alternative.
The alternative was someone who hates anyone who isn't in the 1%, a corporate pirate who said "I like firing people". How could any working person with half a brain vote for him?
I'll add my vote to not show videos of talking heads. For something that needs shown, like the story with the amateur rocketeer that shot a rocket to the edge of space with a camera on the rocket, yeah,l show a video. But if it's just words, I don't want to hear it. I want to read it.
The trouble is all the obvious aliterates here (not to be confused with illiterates), obvious by such nonsense as "TL;DR" and "He thru there three ball's thru the hoops over their." Note that to someone who reads, that sentence is as hard to parse as proper English is to an aliterate.
The trouble is, fewer and fewer coming here are nerds. It's wild, when I was in high school nerds were mocked, now everybody wants to join us.
. . . we won the DRM wars?
We did no such thing, not since 1990 anyway... when we thought we did. We won the first DRM war when software houses (especially games) that used DRM on floppies started going out of business. Now a quarter century later we have Steam. We have CSS (well, I guess we won that battle by cracking it), BluRay, Hell HDMI builds DRM right into the damned hardware.
Sorry, I thought I was replying to the same guy you responded to. He's the shill.
Everyone in the lapdog press is running around crying Oh No'es but NOTHING bad is happening.
They've shut down just when farmers need their data the most, for one. I see you don't live in farm country. Businesses in military towns are hurting, the stock market is down, states can't do federal related work like LINK, which states need data and support for. Wineries and breweries can't start new brands... just because it has yet to affect you doesn't mean that a whole lot of people aren't hurting.
Line it up on the runway (yes, it sort of steers like a car),
No it doesn't, it steers NOTHING like a car. In a car, you turn the wheel left to go left. In a plane, you turn the "wheel" (called a "stick" in an airplane) to the left to make the left wing dip and the right wing raise. You turn the plane right and left with your feet; the stick is like when you ride a bicycle you lean into a turn.
When you're actually on a runway you let go of the stick completely; all steering on the ground is done with your feet.
What you're experiencing is having muscle memory take over. Driving a motorcycle is like driving a car -- only it's completely different. Seems the same when you drive, because you're used to both.
you don't understand patent law then.
I don't think you do. My ex-brother in law was supervisor at a factory that made mechanical things. His boss would bring him something their competitor had come up with and ask him "can we make these?" He'd look at it and say "sure, but what about the patent?" His boss answered "that's why we employ lawyers."
Sometimes getting around a patent is as simple as making the exact same part out of a different material. There are usually many ways to do or make a thing, and the patent will only cover one way of doing it.
in 17 years Disney can move a screw,redo the wiring layout, claim it is a new product and re patent it.
And anyone else can study the design and innovate their own improvements and patent those improvements. Other people can make different innovations and patent them. But if someone wants to use this tech in 17 years and follows the original patent, they're in the clear. You can't repatent a patent after it's expired.
"Catastrophically collapse", really? What's catastrophic about it?
BEER!!!
I just had a pair of AAs die. They're about five or six years old, maybe older. My infrared mouse has a slip-in charger, so whenever one of the TV remotes dies I just swap batteries with the mouse.
I'm with ya on that pinko commie idea, it would be helpful to know how much juice is in that can. But we can't allow them to take away corporations' rights to fuck us over, now can we?