This is certainly unfortunate, but do consider the frequency of disruptions when there is a real emergency. How many times after a phone rings in a theater do you see the call recipient haul ass out to his car? The rarity of a true emergency in the theater lends there to be some benefit to the usher coming in. Yes it is more disruptive, but it is for a worthwile disruptions.
Do I care that my movie stops for a second due to an injured child? Certainly not. Heck, I would vote that they stop the reels to make sure that everybody can hear the name they need. Disruptions will happen, and should. But this will cut down on the useless ones and reduce them to just the true emergencies - as in the case of your son's injury.
Try running outside. If you cannot get out of a theater within a minute, buy a treadmill.
Or use one of the many land lines that the theater certainly has to maintain their business.
And for all the doctors that are on double-secret probation, I mean, 24/7 call, just do what they did before cell phones- tell the hospital where you will be. As much as a downer this may be for the pimple faced 'usher' who has to stop watching $BIG_SUMMER_MOVIE for 5 minutes for the 60th time to come get you, it would easily eliminate the problem.
However, you are all missing the biggest problem here. It would do nothing to stop laser based velocity detection, nor many of the other more modern techniques used by troopers for busting yo' ass.
If you would like to field test this, please post the results to/.
I posted above that I encouraged sticking with windows in this case, but I think this logic is flawed. Kids that have grown up with on OS can switch to another fairly easily. People can use linux just as well as Tiger or Windows. The problem is maintaining it.
Example: (*typing from below my desk*) My scatterbrained, artsy girlfriend can get around my desktop just fine, and will only occasionally ask which program does x. Other than that, she is just as profiscient in one as another. However, if she needs to configure something, she can on windows, but could not figure it out on mine (thank God?). Linux is very easy to use, but pretty difficult to maintain if you are not technically oriented.
I am going to have to go against the grain here. We should be giving the kids the tools they most need, not what allows us to stick it to 'evil Bill Gates'.
These kids may or may not use Linux one day. They will definitely use Windows. As much as I support *nix, this isn't a time for Linvangelism.
On this one, I think CmdrTaco actually struck the bottom quite vigorously. Fortunatly, the barrel was saved from destruction due to being made out of the ultra-strong ceramic material the contest winners used on their coffee mug.
Does General Taco know about this? And what of pour Mrs. Taco. I am sure they would be quite disappointed if they knew their son was aspiring to mediocrity.
Okay. Economics review. Much like in physics, its a law because there are not exceptions, only things which need to be explained by outside forces. In Economics, they are called externalities. That said, there are none, and a simple S&D graph applies. However, AOL is doing this not to limit customers, but to gain more profit, due to what they believe is extremely inelastic demand.
Much like a drug dealer, they think there are plenty of people that will pay outrageous prices to remain luddites. Even those that will switch to broadband will probably want AOL to hold their hand.
AOL wants to keep all the customers they have. If they could do that at the new price, that would be the ultimate victory for them. However, when you raise prices, you will lose some who sit right at the Cost Benifit margin. However, if you lose 1% of your customer base and get the rest to pay 33% more, you are obviously making much more money.
Case and point, AOL is not trying to get rid of customers, simply maximize profit (well, actually ROI, but close enough). They may lose customers in the process, but that is just a annoying side effect.
That makes no economic sense to begin with. Are you seriously arguing that if a company can charge you more to give you less at a lower cost, they are trying to lose your business?
The word is okay, or at least it was until Wolf Blitzer and the rest of the News World Order decided that the blogs were the new revolution in American culture. Remember how in 2004 you couldn't hear an article without cutting to an excerpt to some loser's blog. Hell, CNN started having Blogzone or Blogwatch or whatever they called it, that consisted of a girl pulling up a webpage and summarizing it for you.
My brain crapped its skull.
That night, my friends and I made up our own political blog where we tried to make up new buzzwords (you guys in IT know how much fun this can be to see if you can get the CIO to use them at the next department meeting) and see if we could get some news coverage. It didn't work, but there were a whole bunch of funny dick and fart jokes posted, so I call it a draw.
Goldberg pointed to the experience of eMusic, which offers its subscribers access to MP3 files without any digital rights management attached.
I wonder if he really cares, or if he is just advertising for eMusic. Heck, if eMusic has a wide song base, I would buy from them over a DRM'ed source with better quality.
Now, all political sentiments aside, lets not let our dislike for the president slip to accusing him of voter fraud. Almost every president has had allegation of voter fraud (oddly, only Repulicans get it widely broadcast in the media/sarc). The fact that there were problems with the machines mean they should be examined, but does not automatically point to voter fraud. Moreover, to prove that the error's difference would have changed things, you would have to move about 191k votes from Bush to Kerry (Bush won FL by ~381k votes).
Now, slightly off topic, it is interesting seeing how the Democrats wanted a win by electoral college in 2004, considering how they considered Bush's win in 2000 'illegitimate' due to his lack of the popular vote. In 2004, Bush had the popular vote, but now the Democrats thought the electoral college was the greatest thing since the redefinition of the word 'is'.
As for me, I'm tired of witch hunts on both sides of politics. Clinton was a good president that enjoyed tomfoolery. Kennedy was too. Bush got us into a war that seemed like the right thing to do at the time, but turned out to be a big mistake. So did Kennedy. Terrorists are the new communists. As far as I know (I wasn't around then, please correct this if i am wrong) Kennedy was never lambasted as much as either president was. I wish we could return to the days where politicians had some respect for general decency.
I'm tired of the partisan bashing. The Democrats want you to beleive that Bush is both a redneck idiot and a brilliant deceptor of the public. I don't buy it. If anything, the President is too honest. When he says something, he really really really does it, no matter how much his opinion poll drops.
I am really proud of my Dominion (VA) though, since we are starting to push back against dirty campaigning. Recently, Tim Kaine won the Governership. The media spun it as Bush's appearance that led to his defeat, but it wasn't. In the month before the election, Jerry Kilgore ran a slew of ads that unjustly made Tim Kaine look like the devil, and Tim Kaine played a fair game, which led him to victory. (Admittedly, I have no valid sources but 'all my friends' and my step-sister that worked for the Kilgore campaign) I really wish this sentiment would pick up throughout the country.
Not to be contrary, but do you have any articles and figures for the above items?
Also, there is a big difference in being overwilling to cut costs since you know service levels do not affect demand and wanting your customers to go away. Sure, its terrible treatment, but corporations only want to maximize profit, which is impossible without at least some customers. So thats point one.
Point two is about labor, which has nothing to do with customers.
Point three has nothing to do with the subject, as there is no accounting for cars already on the road, specifically those from the 'Keep America Rolling' campaign.
Point four and five I find hard to believe without some information on the studies performed. Still, assuming them true: while sad, they do not reflect any on a company's desire to retain a customer.
And now researchers from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have improved on the original design and built a non-running quantum computer that really works.
I just heard a pinging noise in my brain. I think something broke...
You gotta love it when you can build something that doesn't run but somehow it works. Ugh, I miss my erector set. Those were the good old days.
Now, I don't think pro-althetes/actors/etc deserve to get paid what they do. But that was off topic, so I tried to keep my rant under control. And the reason I put the rant in there is I knew it was going overboard a little bit.
Moving back to the point at hand, I am going to have to throw a red flag (keeping with the sport v. videogames theme) on your decision that sports are to keep the populace happy, so they don't look to deeply at other things. Not everything popular is a subversive plot by the government/ aliens/ Google/ anyone-else-that-slashdot-is-apparantly-against.
As to your athletic grace, I was dealt a pretty poor hand as well. At age 12 i was nearly 300lbs, and certainly not what anyone would consider physically fit. At the time, I couln't run one lap around the track without losing my breath. But it is possible to change. Throughout middle and high school I joined two teams, lifted weights, ran and with the help of some good coaching I graduated at 225lbs with plenty of merit in the sports I played. I also played a hell of a lot of videogames.
Now, as to why I feel there is a difference in sports and videogames. First, I would like to qualify myself both as a gamer and an athlete. I study and teach karate as well as keep a weightlifiting regimen, and play the occasional backyard sport with buddies when the work schedule permits. I also am a recovering MMO addict, and I have to say I thoroughly enjoyed both FF-XI and WoW like any hard core gamer (I quit playing a few days after realizing I had called out sick to take part in a raid, which to me is unacceptable behavior).
The difference in the two is that sports build strength, teamwork, commitment, as well as having positive psychological side effects (endorfins released, etc). Heck, lack of sunlight alone can cause depression, so yes, there is something to the sunshine thing.
Of these, the only that videogames possibly build is teamwork, even though I personally feel sports build it alot more. And I know that there are plenty of terrific athletes that lack teamwork (damn that Terell Owens) but they are largely flukes. And from my experience teaching the kids class, I have found that those that want to or made to play sports verses those that simply allowed to game or watch tv show less behavior problems, especially amongst the boys (girls show few behavior problems anyway).
Thats my speal for sports v. videogames. If they want to televise gaming, fine (censoring of the blood and guts bit aside). It is their money. Does it make me sad for society that I see more gamers than atheletes these days? Very. I believe a young kid should be both athletic and technological, and nice balance of jock and nerd.
I gotta say, it is very sad to me that there are actually professional gamers.
Disclaimer: I am terrible at shooter games, so consider me biased if you must.
As much as I love video games, there is no excuse for it being your main pursuit of life (playing them, that is - video game creation makes total sense to me as a career). And it is getting ingrained as a part of our children's culture.
I mean, seriously, has anyone looked at a picture of this Jon F4ta|1ty (or however his baby1337 ass choses to spell things) Wendell guy? He has the same "I'm the badass of the world" expression that those idiots with thier $20k civics with $30k of upgrades on them look when they get out of their car.
I mean, seriously, eat something beside pizza, drink something besides red bull, go outside, get a suntan, and get some bruises playing sports with friends. If you have any, that is.
I'm sick of kids contending that being a gamer is a valid counter to being an athlete. All the kids I used to play video games with all played sports.
/rant
Now that my head is no longer primed for explosion... this really is rediculous. Gaming is fun. Have tournaments. Have a cash prize. But poker should not be on TV, and nor should videogames. Heck, curling and pool are pushing it as it is, but at least they require some physical skill.
Turns out you have to drop to the service menu to disable the copyright protection, and that this player has been discontinued for a while. Thanks for the studios for making this knowledge public!
1) How many of us would have wished for big G to be the gravitational force around which tech revolved over M$ four years ago?
2) I bet Ubuntu would not be too dissapointed in this, for the same reason that Duracell touts they they are the 'only battery trusted by some reandom adventurers'.
3) This is a financial website. Let's not forget that your typical/.'er isn't a typical computer user, let alone even close to being a normal human being. They do awknoledge Linux as a viable alternative to Microsoft, and states Ubuntu is the flavor Google is using. I would give that a big thumbs up for a financial paper.
This is the same as saying that today is the hottest of the past twelve days. Judging centuries side by side would be nearly impossible anyway, but assuming the numbers are acurate, it still leads to no useful conclusion.
not to be confused with 'i dont think global warming is a problem'
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It is illegal not to have adequate unbarred emergency exit doors in any public facility, like a theater.
Do I care that my movie stops for a second due to an injured child? Certainly not. Heck, I would vote that they stop the reels to make sure that everybody can hear the name they need. Disruptions will happen, and should. But this will cut down on the useless ones and reduce them to just the true emergencies - as in the case of your son's injury.
Or use one of the many land lines that the theater certainly has to maintain their business.
And for all the doctors that are on double-secret probation, I mean, 24/7 call, just do what they did before cell phones- tell the hospital where you will be. As much as a downer this may be for the pimple faced 'usher' who has to stop watching $BIG_SUMMER_MOVIE for 5 minutes for the 60th time to come get you, it would easily eliminate the problem.
If you would like to field test this, please post the results to /.
is to allow for more FF-XI servers. Duh.
Example: (*typing from below my desk*) My scatterbrained, artsy girlfriend can get around my desktop just fine, and will only occasionally ask which program does x. Other than that, she is just as profiscient in one as another. However, if she needs to configure something, she can on windows, but could not figure it out on mine (thank God?). Linux is very easy to use, but pretty difficult to maintain if you are not technically oriented.
These kids may or may not use Linux one day. They will definitely use Windows. As much as I support *nix, this isn't a time for Linvangelism.
Well, my Karma was positive...
Does General Taco know about this? And what of pour Mrs. Taco. I am sure they would be quite disappointed if they knew their son was aspiring to mediocrity.
http://www.saintjoe.edu/~bobs/econ/elasticity/Elas tic2.html
Much like a drug dealer, they think there are plenty of people that will pay outrageous prices to remain luddites. Even those that will switch to broadband will probably want AOL to hold their hand.
AOL wants to keep all the customers they have. If they could do that at the new price, that would be the ultimate victory for them. However, when you raise prices, you will lose some who sit right at the Cost Benifit margin. However, if you lose 1% of your customer base and get the rest to pay 33% more, you are obviously making much more money.
Case and point, AOL is not trying to get rid of customers, simply maximize profit (well, actually ROI, but close enough). They may lose customers in the process, but that is just a annoying side effect.
And I never said AOL was a bunch of alter boys.
That makes no economic sense to begin with. Are you seriously arguing that if a company can charge you more to give you less at a lower cost, they are trying to lose your business?
My brain crapped its skull.
That night, my friends and I made up our own political blog where we tried to make up new buzzwords (you guys in IT know how much fun this can be to see if you can get the CIO to use them at the next department meeting) and see if we could get some news coverage. It didn't work, but there were a whole bunch of funny dick and fart jokes posted, so I call it a draw.
I wonder if he really cares, or if he is just advertising for eMusic. Heck, if eMusic has a wide song base, I would buy from them over a DRM'ed source with better quality.
Then again...
How many already waddle due to poor health choices?
I'm looking for a Illudium PU-36 Explosive Space Modulator, if only that dastardly Duck Dodgers doesn't get in the way.
source-http://www.dailykos.com/story/2004/12/3/172 73/2941
Now, all political sentiments aside, lets not let our dislike for the president slip to accusing him of voter fraud. Almost every president has had allegation of voter fraud (oddly, only Repulicans get it widely broadcast in the media /sarc). The fact that there were problems with the machines mean they should be examined, but does not automatically point to voter fraud. Moreover, to prove that the error's difference would have changed things, you would have to move about 191k votes from Bush to Kerry (Bush won FL by ~381k votes).
source-http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2004/pages/resu lts/states/FL/P/00/index.html
Now, slightly off topic, it is interesting seeing how the Democrats wanted a win by electoral college in 2004, considering how they considered Bush's win in 2000 'illegitimate' due to his lack of the popular vote. In 2004, Bush had the popular vote, but now the Democrats thought the electoral college was the greatest thing since the redefinition of the word 'is'.
As for me, I'm tired of witch hunts on both sides of politics. Clinton was a good president that enjoyed tomfoolery. Kennedy was too. Bush got us into a war that seemed like the right thing to do at the time, but turned out to be a big mistake. So did Kennedy. Terrorists are the new communists. As far as I know (I wasn't around then, please correct this if i am wrong) Kennedy was never lambasted as much as either president was. I wish we could return to the days where politicians had some respect for general decency.
I'm tired of the partisan bashing. The Democrats want you to beleive that Bush is both a redneck idiot and a brilliant deceptor of the public. I don't buy it. If anything, the President is too honest. When he says something, he really really really does it, no matter how much his opinion poll drops.
I am really proud of my Dominion (VA) though, since we are starting to push back against dirty campaigning. Recently, Tim Kaine won the Governership. The media spun it as Bush's appearance that led to his defeat, but it wasn't. In the month before the election, Jerry Kilgore ran a slew of ads that unjustly made Tim Kaine look like the devil, and Tim Kaine played a fair game, which led him to victory. (Admittedly, I have no valid sources but 'all my friends' and my step-sister that worked for the Kilgore campaign) I really wish this sentiment would pick up throughout the country.
Also, there is a big difference in being overwilling to cut costs since you know service levels do not affect demand and wanting your customers to go away. Sure, its terrible treatment, but corporations only want to maximize profit, which is impossible without at least some customers. So thats point one.
Point two is about labor, which has nothing to do with customers.
Point three has nothing to do with the subject, as there is no accounting for cars already on the road, specifically those from the 'Keep America Rolling' campaign.
Point four and five I find hard to believe without some information on the studies performed. Still, assuming them true: while sad, they do not reflect any on a company's desire to retain a customer.
I just heard a pinging noise in my brain. I think something broke...
You gotta love it when you can build something that doesn't run but somehow it works. Ugh, I miss my erector set. Those were the good old days.
Now, I don't think pro-althetes/actors/etc deserve to get paid what they do. But that was off topic, so I tried to keep my rant under control. And the reason I put the rant in there is I knew it was going overboard a little bit.
Moving back to the point at hand, I am going to have to throw a red flag (keeping with the sport v. videogames theme) on your decision that sports are to keep the populace happy, so they don't look to deeply at other things. Not everything popular is a subversive plot by the government/ aliens/ Google/ anyone-else-that-slashdot-is-apparantly-against.
Now, as to why I feel there is a difference in sports and videogames. First, I would like to qualify myself both as a gamer and an athlete. I study and teach karate as well as keep a weightlifiting regimen, and play the occasional backyard sport with buddies when the work schedule permits. I also am a recovering MMO addict, and I have to say I thoroughly enjoyed both FF-XI and WoW like any hard core gamer (I quit playing a few days after realizing I had called out sick to take part in a raid, which to me is unacceptable behavior).
The difference in the two is that sports build strength, teamwork, commitment, as well as having positive psychological side effects (endorfins released, etc). Heck, lack of sunlight alone can cause depression, so yes, there is something to the sunshine thing.
Of these, the only that videogames possibly build is teamwork, even though I personally feel sports build it alot more. And I know that there are plenty of terrific athletes that lack teamwork (damn that Terell Owens) but they are largely flukes. And from my experience teaching the kids class, I have found that those that want to or made to play sports verses those that simply allowed to game or watch tv show less behavior problems, especially amongst the boys (girls show few behavior problems anyway).
Thats my speal for sports v. videogames. If they want to televise gaming, fine (censoring of the blood and guts bit aside). It is their money. Does it make me sad for society that I see more gamers than atheletes these days? Very. I believe a young kid should be both athletic and technological, and nice balance of jock and nerd.
Just my $0.02
Disclaimer: I am terrible at shooter games, so consider me biased if you must.
As much as I love video games, there is no excuse for it being your main pursuit of life (playing them, that is - video game creation makes total sense to me as a career). And it is getting ingrained as a part of our children's culture.
I mean, seriously, has anyone looked at a picture of this Jon F4ta|1ty (or however his baby1337 ass choses to spell things) Wendell guy? He has the same "I'm the badass of the world" expression that those idiots with thier $20k civics with $30k of upgrades on them look when they get out of their car.
I mean, seriously, eat something beside pizza, drink something besides red bull, go outside, get a suntan, and get some bruises playing sports with friends. If you have any, that is.
I'm sick of kids contending that being a gamer is a valid counter to being an athlete. All the kids I used to play video games with all played sports.
Now that my head is no longer primed for explosion... this really is rediculous. Gaming is fun. Have tournaments. Have a cash prize. But poker should not be on TV, and nor should videogames. Heck, curling and pool are pushing it as it is, but at least they require some physical skill.
http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/20/samsung-sued-ov er-dvd-duping-by-discontinued-player/
Turns out you have to drop to the service menu to disable the copyright protection, and that this player has been discontinued for a while. Thanks for the studios for making this knowledge public!
1) How many of us would have wished for big G to be the gravitational force around which tech revolved over M$ four years ago?
2) I bet Ubuntu would not be too dissapointed in this, for the same reason that Duracell touts they they are the 'only battery trusted by some reandom adventurers'.
3) This is a financial website. Let's not forget that your typical /.'er isn't a typical computer user, let alone even close to being a normal human being. They do awknoledge Linux as a viable alternative to Microsoft, and states Ubuntu is the flavor Google is using. I would give that a big thumbs up for a financial paper.
Well, he is the HNIC (head nerd in charge)
How can we stop /. from becoming this?
I'm a bad geek ::sob::
not to be confused with 'i dont think global warming is a problem'