I have an section on my website that posts my twitter. In plain text. No fancy background, image-heavy, 'sleek' looking background or whatnot... it's just straight, text that shows my last twitter. It's useful for posting why X thing is broken on my site if I notice a problem from work, or my computer crashes and I want to let people who visit my site know why there's no updates, stuff like that (since I can text a twitter from my cellphone). To keep it from showing the same downtime reason for weeks at a time, I update it every so often with whatever random thought. Once or twice a week tops.
That said, the only reason I use Twitter is because it's the only application I've found that allows me to very easily and quickly post a quick informational update to my website no matter where I am (again, cellphone).
If this open-source option allows that, I'm all for it. Otherwise, I'm not particularly pleased with Twitter as a whole. If anyone knows of any alternatives that allow me to do exactly what I use it for above, let me know... I'll bail Twitter if I can find a better alternative.
The problem is that it makes no difference if some people are good at texting while driving. Hell, it doesn't matter if 98% of people could do it flawlessly. In today's day and age, all you need is one jackoff to be retarded, and laws are created that affect everyone.
These days, things are always put in place to appease the extreme minority, even if it pisses off the rest of the majority.
Why do you think the warning "do not stop chainsaw with hands" exists?
The problem is, those not paying attention and getting into an accident will still be "limp" so to speak during the accident. The poor bastard they hit will (if paying attention) likely see it coming, tense up, and thusly suffer severely more damage. Sorta like how a drunk driver typically manages to suffer less damage than anyone else when in a car accident.
Thus, the stupid (or drunk) are 'naturally selecting' everyone else out.
So very, very true. If only kids nowadays thought as much. I've seen some kids texting back and forth for HOURS. Like come on... just CALL them! You've both wasted several hours of your time... in that time, you could have called, arranged a place to meet even, and physically gone and spoke directly to eachother in person!
Y'see... laws like this are just getting to the point of ridiculous. They're extremely specific, so someone caught video-messaging while driving will get away, while a text-messager would be fined.
Oh, if only society as a whole weren't as dumb as gravel. Then we could just have a law saying "don't be stupid" and be done with it.
Good luck hauling anything from anywhere to anywhere else in a reasonable amount of time. Hope your workplace has a shower/change room/cleanup area too, since I wouldn't want to be stuck in an office for 8 hours with hundreds of people sweating like mad because of their hour-long bikeride to work.
Unless you intend to keep public transportation open. Then I'm all for that. Good luck convincing any automotive company to go along with this though... since they'll be pushing as hard as they humanly can to keep those giant gas-guzzlers on the road.
Yeah... it would have kinda sucked for people like Stephen Hawking to not exist because some doctor saw "whup, he'll have a disease... let's throw this embryo in the garbage and get a fresh one".
But then someone would get offended by the license plate 8008135. They will have to eliminate the use of all numbers that can also be construed as letters. That's pretty much all of them.
New license plates in NC will become morse-code style dots and dashes, all the way down the side of the car:P.
Interesting concept, and has a cool look to it... except for a few things.
1. How would it stand up to a winter involving snow and below-zero temperatures. 2. How well does the inside retain heat or air-conditioning? 3. I hope that fabric is ridiculously strong, otherwise it'll be broken into in about 3 seconds. Silently, no less... no worry about the sound of glass breaking.
I get the feeling this vehicle would only be useable in an area with a comfortable temperature, with virtually no temperature change throughout the hear... and with extraordinarily low crime. Good luck finding that place.
Right, telling a judge that they don't have the authority to hear your case will SURELY persuade them to go lenient on you.
Unfortunately, him being unable to practice law will unlikely stop politicians or other figures looking to ban violent video games from going to him for advice.
MAN, and EDS laid me off a few years ago. If they hadn't, I'd have still been there, and gathered some of the stocks they toss at every employee to make it seem like the crap wages that we got weren't as bad. Wouldn't everyone who currently has stocks in EDS have just gotten a healthy paycheque?
Y'know, I'm all for DNA sequencing and more medical research in that area in general, but couldn't the scientists' time (which if I'm not mistaken is ridiculously hard to come by if you need any kind of DNA sequencing done) have been better spent than trying to identify the living relatives of a long, long, long dead guy.
Like seriously... we could spend time either using DNA sequencing to help solve cold-case murders, or we could sequence this ancient dead guy and a whole pile of people, and see if any of 'em are similar.
Perhaps it's not a sheet of glass, but do you say "those kids are playing in a sandbox" or "those kids are playing in a million, trillion grains of sand"?
Yeah, of the three options they listed... the only really viable one is option 3... move everything to IPV6 as fast as possible. The other two options are only delaying the inevitable... and only by a few years tops.
I don't know about Technology (although the Wii remote would be pretty high up on that list... or generally anything designed by Nintendo... which I swear must have a contract with the makers of LEGO), but the strongest thing I've ever known is Snap-On tools.
I swear... that company must be sacrificing souls to some demon in order to make them that damn-near-physics-defyingly strong:P.
I find it mildly amusing that Lance Ulanoff contradicts himself pretty blatantly. Saying 'There's nothing wrong with Vista', but confesses that it's too complex and slow. Doesn't the latter imply that there IS something wrong with Vista?
Also, the amount of CD drives this will ruin could balance against the environmental benefits of the DVD.
Except that it says point blank not to put it in a Mac. That's like saying that the benifits of a refrigerator is balanced out by the kids who die inside of them. If the instructions say "Yo, don't let anyone play in here, because if you do, you're too stupid to be a parent, since your kid just died in it", then why should Frigidaire or whatever be held responsible for children dying?
Christ... in today's world, even with warnings splattered over everything in existance, it STILL doesn't seem to be enough half the time.
I think the Gizmodo guy was actually using this. The one you linked to requires you to hold mute first, wait for it to mute the TV so it's 'programmed' for it, and THEN you can turn it off. With this one, all you do hold down the button until every TV around you turns off.
Which actually in itself responds to everyone who's asking why he didn't have the coertesy of turning it back on. I don't believe it has that ability to begin with.
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I have an section on my website that posts my twitter. In plain text. No fancy background, image-heavy, 'sleek' looking background or whatnot... it's just straight, text that shows my last twitter. It's useful for posting why X thing is broken on my site if I notice a problem from work, or my computer crashes and I want to let people who visit my site know why there's no updates, stuff like that (since I can text a twitter from my cellphone). To keep it from showing the same downtime reason for weeks at a time, I update it every so often with whatever random thought. Once or twice a week tops.
That said, the only reason I use Twitter is because it's the only application I've found that allows me to very easily and quickly post a quick informational update to my website no matter where I am (again, cellphone).
If this open-source option allows that, I'm all for it. Otherwise, I'm not particularly pleased with Twitter as a whole. If anyone knows of any alternatives that allow me to do exactly what I use it for above, let me know... I'll bail Twitter if I can find a better alternative.
The problem is that it makes no difference if some people are good at texting while driving. Hell, it doesn't matter if 98% of people could do it flawlessly. In today's day and age, all you need is one jackoff to be retarded, and laws are created that affect everyone.
These days, things are always put in place to appease the extreme minority, even if it pisses off the rest of the majority.
Why do you think the warning "do not stop chainsaw with hands" exists?
The problem is, those not paying attention and getting into an accident will still be "limp" so to speak during the accident. The poor bastard they hit will (if paying attention) likely see it coming, tense up, and thusly suffer severely more damage. Sorta like how a drunk driver typically manages to suffer less damage than anyone else when in a car accident.
Thus, the stupid (or drunk) are 'naturally selecting' everyone else out.
So very, very true. If only kids nowadays thought as much. I've seen some kids texting back and forth for HOURS. Like come on... just CALL them! You've both wasted several hours of your time... in that time, you could have called, arranged a place to meet even, and physically gone and spoke directly to eachother in person!
Kids nowadays. Bah.
Y'see... laws like this are just getting to the point of ridiculous. They're extremely specific, so someone caught video-messaging while driving will get away, while a text-messager would be fined.
Oh, if only society as a whole weren't as dumb as gravel. Then we could just have a law saying "don't be stupid" and be done with it.
You want to live in a society without cars.
Good luck hauling anything from anywhere to anywhere else in a reasonable amount of time. Hope your workplace has a shower/change room/cleanup area too, since I wouldn't want to be stuck in an office for 8 hours with hundreds of people sweating like mad because of their hour-long bikeride to work.
Unless you intend to keep public transportation open. Then I'm all for that. Good luck convincing any automotive company to go along with this though... since they'll be pushing as hard as they humanly can to keep those giant gas-guzzlers on the road.
Yeah... it would have kinda sucked for people like Stephen Hawking to not exist because some doctor saw "whup, he'll have a disease... let's throw this embryo in the garbage and get a fresh one".
But then someone would get offended by the license plate 8008135. They will have to eliminate the use of all numbers that can also be construed as letters. That's pretty much all of them.
New license plates in NC will become morse-code style dots and dashes, all the way down the side of the car :P.
This is slashdot... the tag 'badsummary' should almost be defaulted to every summary.
Interesting concept, and has a cool look to it... except for a few things.
1. How would it stand up to a winter involving snow and below-zero temperatures.
2. How well does the inside retain heat or air-conditioning?
3. I hope that fabric is ridiculously strong, otherwise it'll be broken into in about 3 seconds. Silently, no less... no worry about the sound of glass breaking.
I get the feeling this vehicle would only be useable in an area with a comfortable temperature, with virtually no temperature change throughout the hear... and with extraordinarily low crime. Good luck finding that place.
Right, telling a judge that they don't have the authority to hear your case will SURELY persuade them to go lenient on you.
Unfortunately, him being unable to practice law will unlikely stop politicians or other figures looking to ban violent video games from going to him for advice.
Or nowadays, there's always the internet
:P.
BAM, Stephen Hawking just signed that document you're faxing to someone
MAN, and EDS laid me off a few years ago. If they hadn't, I'd have still been there, and gathered some of the stocks they toss at every employee to make it seem like the crap wages that we got weren't as bad. Wouldn't everyone who currently has stocks in EDS have just gotten a healthy paycheque?
Y'know, I'm all for DNA sequencing and more medical research in that area in general, but couldn't the scientists' time (which if I'm not mistaken is ridiculously hard to come by if you need any kind of DNA sequencing done) have been better spent than trying to identify the living relatives of a long, long, long dead guy.
Like seriously... we could spend time either using DNA sequencing to help solve cold-case murders, or we could sequence this ancient dead guy and a whole pile of people, and see if any of 'em are similar.
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Hey... at least you got that free bath out of it :P.
The last thing I'd need is the robot carving a 'star' shape into my aorta in an attempt to slow down time :P
Bad language on TV is double-plus ungood.
Yeah, I'd prefer to have fun on the Wii instead of spend four times that price on a computer to have fun, but with pretty trees.
Or any console, just scale down the 'four times' as needed.
Perhaps it's not a sheet of glass, but do you say "those kids are playing in a sandbox" or "those kids are playing in a million, trillion grains of sand"?
Yeah, of the three options they listed... the only really viable one is option 3... move everything to IPV6 as fast as possible. The other two options are only delaying the inevitable... and only by a few years tops.
I don't know about Technology (although the Wii remote would be pretty high up on that list... or generally anything designed by Nintendo... which I swear must have a contract with the makers of LEGO), but the strongest thing I've ever known is Snap-On tools.
:P.
I swear... that company must be sacrificing souls to some demon in order to make them that damn-near-physics-defyingly strong
I find it mildly amusing that Lance Ulanoff contradicts himself pretty blatantly. Saying 'There's nothing wrong with Vista', but confesses that it's too complex and slow. Doesn't the latter imply that there IS something wrong with Vista?
Also, the amount of CD drives this will ruin could balance against the environmental benefits of the DVD.
Except that it says point blank not to put it in a Mac.
That's like saying that the benifits of a refrigerator is balanced out by the kids who die inside of them. If the instructions say "Yo, don't let anyone play in here, because if you do, you're too stupid to be a parent, since your kid just died in it", then why should Frigidaire or whatever be held responsible for children dying?
Christ... in today's world, even with warnings splattered over everything in existance, it STILL doesn't seem to be enough half the time.
I think the Gizmodo guy was actually using this. The one you linked to requires you to hold mute first, wait for it to mute the TV so it's 'programmed' for it, and THEN you can turn it off. With this one, all you do hold down the button until every TV around you turns off.
Which actually in itself responds to everyone who's asking why he didn't have the coertesy of turning it back on. I don't believe it has that ability to begin with.
To save people a few seconds of having to google stuff or whatnot, here's a link to the video in question on Youtube.