...the season finale of season 2? There was a writers strike ending then too. And because they were rushed to get a final episode written out on the air, they pushed out "Shades of Grey". It was a clip-show hackjob, and generally considered one of the worst TNG episodes ever made.
Don't expect your favorite shows to suddenly suck less, at least not right away. There is always a J-curve with these sort of things.
In this amazing future there is a thing called Caller ID. I use it to see who is calling me before I answer the phone. When is says 'unavailable' or 'anonymous' I just ignore it. Sure I waste precious seconds looking to see the name, but I think I can handle it.
And We've just had a very generous donation of $10, 000 but the caller didn't leave his name, but thanks to Instatrace we now know that it is Homer Simpson of 741 Evergreen Terrace.
Oh, why did I register with Instatrace?
...Children have freakishly absorbent brains! Seriously, hasn't this type of info been pretty much common knowledge for like ever? Just because you attach a buzzword to it, doesn't make it a new discovery. Where's the study showing that babies and puppies have 'upward marketability'?
Holy crap! You realized how many 1000's upon 1000's of people have to go to the wrong site and click on something? From what I can tell, this site made no attempt to look like anything but an ad site. They were just mooching on peoples' typos. There are a lot more idiots in the world than I thought....
Because millions of people that fly cannot read English, even if they can speak and understand it. Just like I can converse in limited Arabic, but still cannot read it worth a darn. And having massively multi-lingual signs would be counterproductive. It's just more efficient to continuously repeat the instruction verbally.
I believe they are called "fear quotes". The idea being that a word can be made to seem ominous if its' put within superfluous quotes. Like when Fox News has the headline: Alternative "lifestyles" on the rise in US. They inject a sense of duplicity where none actually exists.
This is as logical as saying that Windows and IE should be universal -- good for consumers
That's a specious comparison. Of course having no competition in the PC market would be bad for consumers - because the cost of the device is all that really matters. The existence of the Internet marginalizes the need to every computer to be completely compatible. If 50% of the computer market owned Macs, and the other 50% owned Wintel, it's not as if half the computer users could not share files/networks/workflows with the other half.
But if the same scenario were true for media/movie discs, that would suck. If I bought a new HD DVD disc and wanted to take it to a friends house to watch it, then they would *have* to own an specific type of hardware. Of course, they could start mass producing dual-format players. That would make both of our points somewhat moot.
That's how this bandwidth right should be determined. None of this auction crap. Just let the corporations and the FCC pick their most athletic (least nerdy?) employees, and pit them against each other on the Eliminator(tm). Of course, the FCC 'gladiators' would need catchy pseudonyms like "Mega Hurts" or "The Regulator". The first corporation to actually finish the course without crying your throwing up, wins.
For that matter, neither does "hack". Though the pure meaning of "hack" will be debated infinitely, I doubt that anyone would define it was 'using a broadly published default setting to change a config setting on a piece of hardware'. Generally it involves at least a little bit of skill. Now if they were writing a script to automatically find, mis-configure, and report any devices....that might be considered a notable hack.
...that this doesn't happen more often. I can drive through Seattle (and presumably any large city) with my laptop running a wireless network sniffer. After about 10 blocks, I could easily get into no less than 25 wireless routers. They are all configured with the default credentials. Of course, I don't. Sometimes, when it's a law firm, government agency, or some other organization with tons of [other peoples] personal information, I will even call them up and let them know about it, as a courtesy. They usually tell me to take a hike. Then I can show up at their door offering my services as a 'security consultant' (for $200/hr). 'Look here' I say. 'Look how I am easily changing the settings in your router.'. That's usually about the time they wet their $400 slacks and write me a check.
Yeah they do the same thing at my kids' school. But most schools don't actually teach ASL, but rather Signed Exact English (also called SEE sign). Still cool though....
The truest Olympic athletes (i.e. ancient Greeks) competed nude. Anything beyond that is artificial. So those $5000 custom made shoes that Olympic runners wear are artificial enhancements. They give enhanced endurance to the feet. And what of those ear-protecting doo-dads the wrestlers wear? So artificial.....
I can think of no scenario where being deaf has any advantage. However, knowing how to read lips or communicate via ASL could be advantageous. There are many hearing folks who can do both.
I have friends in the deaf community, and I have seen others show discomfort around them because their communication methods are (according to some) more advanced. My friends can carry on complete conversations, silently, from across the room - using ASL. And they can, by lip reading, tell what others are saying even if they are out of voice range.
Yeah, I agree. I think this story was picked up just because of the weak Star Trek reference. This just in! Motorola makes an amazing portable telephone called the PHAZR!!!!
Ah yes. So you have no actual facts then? You inferred all those specifics from something that "kind of hints at" a conclusion. Wow. I guess I am unschooled at what passes for "critical reading skills" in these modern times.
Um, if by 'qualify' you mean having a PayPal account, then yeah I qualified. There were no income limitations during the Give One Get One program. Maybe you should spend some time educating yourself on things before you shoot off the 'get your priorities straight' tripe. The $400 I spent on my kid (and another anonymous kid somewhere else in the world) took me all of 10 hours to earn, so I think I can afford it.
My understanding (which may be wrong) is that now XO laptops are now going to be 'issued' to schoolchildren. When I bought one via the GOGO program, it was a special 'limited time' type of thing because these laptops were not available to the American public in general. I bit, and now seem to have been suckered.
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...the season finale of season 2? There was a writers strike ending then too. And because they were rushed to get a final episode written out on the air, they pushed out "Shades of Grey". It was a clip-show hackjob, and generally considered one of the worst TNG episodes ever made.
Don't expect your favorite shows to suddenly suck less, at least not right away. There is always a J-curve with these sort of things.
Yeah NPR did a bit on this type of faux censor beeping a month or so ago. Slashdot got pop-culture scooped by NPR?!
In this amazing future there is a thing called Caller ID. I use it to see who is calling me before I answer the phone. When is says 'unavailable' or 'anonymous' I just ignore it. Sure I waste precious seconds looking to see the name, but I think I can handle it.
And We've just had a very generous donation of $10, 000 but the caller didn't leave his name, but thanks to Instatrace we now know that it is Homer Simpson of 741 Evergreen Terrace. Oh, why did I register with Instatrace?
...Children have freakishly absorbent brains! Seriously, hasn't this type of info been pretty much common knowledge for like ever? Just because you attach a buzzword to it, doesn't make it a new discovery. Where's the study showing that babies and puppies have 'upward marketability'?
Holy crap! You realized how many 1000's upon 1000's of people have to go to the wrong site and click on something? From what I can tell, this site made no attempt to look like anything but an ad site. They were just mooching on peoples' typos. There are a lot more idiots in the world than I thought....
Because millions of people that fly cannot read English, even if they can speak and understand it. Just like I can converse in limited Arabic, but still cannot read it worth a darn. And having massively multi-lingual signs would be counterproductive. It's just more efficient to continuously repeat the instruction verbally.
I believe they are called "fear quotes". The idea being that a word can be made to seem ominous if its' put within superfluous quotes. Like when Fox News has the headline: Alternative "lifestyles" on the rise in US. They inject a sense of duplicity where none actually exists.
Several months ago. But my Wikipedia edits (complete with verifiable references) were quickly undone by Snopes fanboys.
But if the same scenario were true for media/movie discs, that would suck. If I bought a new HD DVD disc and wanted to take it to a friends house to watch it, then they would *have* to own an specific type of hardware. Of course, they could start mass producing dual-format players. That would make both of our points somewhat moot.
That's how this bandwidth right should be determined. None of this auction crap. Just let the corporations and the FCC pick their most athletic (least nerdy?) employees, and pit them against each other on the Eliminator(tm). Of course, the FCC 'gladiators' would need catchy pseudonyms like "Mega Hurts" or "The Regulator". The first corporation to actually finish the course without crying your throwing up, wins.
For that matter, neither does "hack". Though the pure meaning of "hack" will be debated infinitely, I doubt that anyone would define it was 'using a broadly published default setting to change a config setting on a piece of hardware'. Generally it involves at least a little bit of skill. Now if they were writing a script to automatically find, mis-configure, and report any devices....that might be considered a notable hack.
...that this doesn't happen more often. I can drive through Seattle (and presumably any large city) with my laptop running a wireless network sniffer. After about 10 blocks, I could easily get into no less than 25 wireless routers. They are all configured with the default credentials. Of course, I don't. Sometimes, when it's a law firm, government agency, or some other organization with tons of [other peoples] personal information, I will even call them up and let them know about it, as a courtesy. They usually tell me to take a hike. Then I can show up at their door offering my services as a 'security consultant' (for $200/hr). 'Look here' I say. 'Look how I am easily changing the settings in your router.'. That's usually about the time they wet their $400 slacks and write me a check.
Yeah they do the same thing at my kids' school. But most schools don't actually teach ASL, but rather Signed Exact English (also called SEE sign). Still cool though....
My friends are not deaf, just active in the deaf community.
I can think of no scenario where being deaf has any advantage. However, knowing how to read lips or communicate via ASL could be advantageous. There are many hearing folks who can do both.
I have friends in the deaf community, and I have seen others show discomfort around them because their communication methods are (according to some) more advanced. My friends can carry on complete conversations, silently, from across the room - using ASL. And they can, by lip reading, tell what others are saying even if they are out of voice range.
Yeah, I agree. I think this story was picked up just because of the weak Star Trek reference. This just in! Motorola makes an amazing portable telephone called the PHAZR!!!!
Ah yes. So you have no actual facts then? You inferred all those specifics from something that "kind of hints at" a conclusion. Wow. I guess I am unschooled at what passes for "critical reading skills" in these modern times.
Okay, I see where you were coming from. But I didn't see any of those qualifiers listed in the article. Where did you get that information?
Um, if by 'qualify' you mean having a PayPal account, then yeah I qualified. There were no income limitations during the Give One Get One program. Maybe you should spend some time educating yourself on things before you shoot off the 'get your priorities straight' tripe. The $400 I spent on my kid (and another anonymous kid somewhere else in the world) took me all of 10 hours to earn, so I think I can afford it.
My understanding (which may be wrong) is that now XO laptops are now going to be 'issued' to schoolchildren. When I bought one via the GOGO program, it was a special 'limited time' type of thing because these laptops were not available to the American public in general. I bit, and now seem to have been suckered.
...for buying one for my 2nd grader last November with the Give One Get One program. I am beginning to think OLPC stands for One Laptop Per Consumer.