Hair dressing is hardly "social interaction" in the normal sense: it's a very limited and clearly defined set of interactions, which loads of standard reactions, everything neatly predictable, and so can be performed like following a cooking recipe.
users will come to you with the complaint: "It doesn't work!" Drives me up the wall, that does. _What_ doesn't work? What was the error message? The _exact_ error message? What precisely were you trying to do? Am I supposed to read that from your mind? (If you had a mind to read from...)
As in the Netherlands, so probably an EU thing. Again, I don't know the rationale. A quick browse suggests, again, that it's for biometric purposes, and that a smile with bared teeth distorts the biometric data of the face too much. A smile without teeth bared is allowed, though, here.
"This is exactly what America needs: something that allows the populace to think even less in their everyday lives. The aversion to expending a little extra effort seems to be a uniquely American thing."
How right you are. I've on occasion pointed out their bad spelling to American (and other) parttakers in internet debates, trying to encourage them to spell correctly by explaining, that bad spelling gives the impression, that the writer is illiterate or even downright stupid, and can therefore be safely ignored. From the non-American people I got invariably thanks for helping improve their spelling, or at worst an explanation, that it was an oversighted typo. From the Americans I got, not once, but several times, a heated "rebuttal", that _they_ had freedom of speech (as if I have not), and that therefore they could spell anyway they damn well pleased. I then file them under terminallly moronic, not by nature, but by choice, and ignore them.
How about this one: picture a statistical research unit of the Psychology department, where everyone earms their daily bread with the aid of computers, and the use of CD-roms is likewise a common event. My collague needs to read a CD-rom and walks over to the room, where the CD-tower is located, and finds one of the researchers trying to get a caddy with a CD out. Normal procedure doesn't work. He starts cussing and blinding, and looking inside, but nothing works. The thing is stuck like a tic on a sick dog. After an hour of attempts trying to coax the thing out, the researcher, who has been standing by idle watching the (lack of progress) of the recovery, volunteers the thing was also troublesome to get in.
My colleague is about to blow the tower up from frustration, but as it is a rather expensive piece of equipment he holds hmiself in check, the researcher leaves to get back to work (so do I), and my colleagu dismantles it. and guess what he finds: yep, the caddy with the CD was in there, but backwards. He reassembles the tower, gets everything back in order again, and enquires of the researcher how hard it was to get the caddy in, and the researcher admits he had to use quiet some force. I'm not sure it wasn't actually hammered in. I think everything was, despite the destruction attempted by the researcher, still working, but as I never had to use it myself, I don't remember. The ersearcher, needless to say had to enudre some sharp taunting for quite some time. "Going to use that CD? Don't forget the hammer."
Back when I was young, in the late sixties and early seventies, I used to borrow albums from luckier friends, who could afford to buy the albums, and tape them on cassette. It was only later, when I had a job and some money, that I started to buy these albums, twice, after my collection of records got stolen. But the mechanism is still valid: I need to hear an album start-to-finish, in the comfort of my home, before I will buy it. You see, most certainly at the prices of CD's, I want to know I like ALL tracks on an album, because otherwise I'll start disliking it and not play it, and I'm not so rich that I can waste money like that.
This method has also enabled me to get acquainted with artists who I'd otherwise never have considered, as they were not the kind to achieve airplay on my favourite radio-stations, except perhaps in specialized broadcasts, which I could not always listen.
So yes, illegal opying did initially hurt record sales of those artists, but in the end even boosted them, beccause I'd get to learn their music and love it. And so kept buying their albums.
Attacking the linking itself is a tactic, the Scientologists tried against Karin Spaink, a Dutch writer, when she joined the bandwagon in exposing their evil cultism.
The Dutch judge dismissed the claim, and showed a thorough insight in the technical side of the matter in the summation.
Which is astonishing, beccause only the word order is wrong, not the actual translation: "I wish you luck with your victory in Australia." is a more correct translation.
Also, it's an Internet poll...not scientific by any stretch. Seriously, I think a lot of people are fed up with MS, but linking to this story is just ridiculous.
Yes, it was a seriously leading question, and yes, it was far from scientific, for instance, they didn't even ask whether their respondents were using M$, so I, as well, could have just confirmed their supposition, while not even using the stuff.
The reason it's reported here is, that it's FUD against M$, and to be fair, we just have to jump all over anti-M$ FUD as well as pro-M$ FUD. And it's reported because of the erroneous conclusion about there not being a viable alternative, since most M$ users use their PC for a few limited tasks: email, MSN, Webbrowsing. And for that, Linux is a viable alternative.
Considering 90% of all spam I receive comes from Yahoo, I'd personally not be too upset if it happened over here. Apart from the one legit person mailing me from there, but perhaps I could persuade her to move her email then.
Of course, I currently drop everything from Yahoo except for the one person.
It would be so nice to be rich, so I could track and sue every SPAM sender, facilitator and SPAM relay to bits.
UPDATE: this may be redundant, but the scientology tracts on this woman's website are publicly available court documents, known as the "Fishman Affadavit" because of a court case
Yes, but that was
an USA ruling.
from later than the original legal action
doesn't stop Scientology from seeking to silence it's denouncers.
This article is about the judgement in the appeal of the judgement in the full procedure.
I've never had a single spam message from those places.
I've had a few, but in the main, you are correct in saying not much spam comes from aol.com. However, an awful lot of spam *claims* to come from aol.com, even when it actually originates in China, Korea, or some spamhaus in the USA/EU. For this reason refusing mail from aol.com and others may give exceedingly good results with low enough colateral damage to be bearable for some home mail server operators.
Exactly, I've had a huge amount of SPAM apparently from aol.com since about a month or so,
and, since I have no discernible friends there, dump anything with aol.com in the sender in the trash. AOL jumped from "sporadic SPAM" to "over half the SPAM" I have received in that time. I guess not everything was forged elsewhere, if they're taking this measure.
Stefan.
A vitrual car? What gives?
on
239 MPG Car
·
· Score: 1
I mean, a 235 MPEG car, I get those in the commercials every day for free, should I record them.
Think on it: say this can be reliably done. Your kids will be completely shielded from the Real World. Hence, when they grow up, they will not know what hits them, walk around totally bewildered and unable to cope. They'll need a shrink all their life just to get by.
Compare:
If a kid grows up without gravity, it will not develop the bone structure to withstand it.
If a kid grows up physically isolated, it will not develop resistance to all the numerous diseases we daily get infected with.
If it isn't exposed to language, it will not learn to speak.
If it isn't exposed to danger, it will be called a Dodo.
So will some kind hearts who can still access it copy the pages FTTB? I would myself, but I can't get in...
But it's nice the general scientific community still shares its assets, instead of copyrighting it and hiding it behind massive fees, like Craig Venter did.
<Offtopic> Now if only I could find a geological map of the Netherlands without the usual atlas texts all over them, so i can make a nice RT2 simulation of the Dutch railways growth since trains got invented.;-) </Offtopic>
If you do a search on the net for _any_ manufacturer or _any_ line of products you are likely to find a number of unhappy customers.
Some people will complain about anything. I generally rely on what the person in the shop says, they too see you rather not come back for complaints or either a replacement or refund. This presupposes you actually shop somewhere the shop-staff are informed folk, like I do. Works like a charm.
In all the years I have used mozilla I have encountered few bugs. I am suprised there are so many.
I'm not; it's part of human nature. There are even people, who will find fault with the weather, when it's perfect, so why should 200.000 bug reports surprise anyone? And don't forget, lots of those may be a case of PEBKAC.
Joe, you know about these computer thingies. I'm trying to clean up the system a bit, we're running low on disk space: What's this 'kernel' thingie? Do we need it? And this 'Anti-virus thingie, computers aren't alive, they don't get sick. You know, I'll just throw it all away, if we really need it we can always get it back from backup.
Joe, call one of them emergency sysadmin firms! I know they cost an arm, a leg and a pecker, just call 'em!
I think you missed the point, which is, that while people in the rest of the world are readily aware there are countries beside their own, this truth seems to be happily neglected by many citizens of the USA. So we furriners just occasionally point out that fact, in the faint hope, that one day the realisation will hit and not go away.
If you get annoyed by being reminded, that you're not alone on this our little, soiled planet, think of how annoying it would be if everyone stopped paying any attention at all to you.
Read it as you like.
Stefan.
Slashdot Mirror
Hair dressing is hardly "social interaction" in the normal sense: it's a very limited and clearly defined set of interactions, which loads of standard reactions, everything neatly predictable, and so can be performed like following a cooking recipe.
Stefan "Asparagus" Linnemann.
users will come to you with the complaint: "It doesn't work!"
Drives me up the wall, that does. _What_ doesn't work? What was the error message? The _exact_ error message? What precisely were you trying to do?
Am I supposed to read that from your mind? (If you had a mind to read from...)
I do tend to get sarcaustic at such moments.
Stefan.
As in the Netherlands, so probably an EU thing. Again, I don't know the rationale. A quick browse suggests, again, that it's for biometric purposes, and that a smile with bared teeth distorts the biometric data of the face too much. A smile without teeth bared is allowed, though, here.
Stefan.
"This is exactly what America needs: something that allows the populace to think even less in their everyday lives. The aversion to expending a little extra effort seems to be a uniquely American thing."
How right you are. I've on occasion pointed out their bad spelling to American (and other) parttakers in internet debates, trying to encourage them to spell correctly by explaining, that bad spelling gives the impression, that the writer is illiterate or even downright stupid, and can therefore be safely ignored. From the non-American people I got invariably thanks for helping improve their spelling, or at worst an explanation, that it was an oversighted typo. From the Americans I got, not once, but several times, a heated "rebuttal", that _they_ had freedom of speech (as if I have not), and that therefore they could spell anyway they damn well pleased. I then file them under terminallly moronic, not by nature, but by choice, and ignore them.
My colleague is about to blow the tower up from frustration, but as it is a rather expensive piece of equipment he holds hmiself in check, the researcher leaves to get back to work (so do I), and my colleagu dismantles it. and guess what he finds: yep, the caddy with the CD was in there, but backwards. He reassembles the tower, gets everything back in order again, and enquires of the researcher how hard it was to get the caddy in, and the researcher admits he had to use quiet some force. I'm not sure it wasn't actually hammered in. I think everything was, despite the destruction attempted by the researcher, still working, but as I never had to use it myself, I don't remember. The ersearcher, needless to say had to enudre some sharp taunting for quite some time. "Going to use that CD? Don't forget the hammer."
If a discovery is not an accident, it's called an "invention", rather than a discovery. Or a "finding", depending on who's talking.
Back when I was young, in the late sixties and early seventies, I used to borrow albums from luckier friends, who could afford to buy the albums, and tape them on cassette. It was only later, when I had a job and some money, that I started to buy these albums, twice, after my collection of records got stolen. But the mechanism is still valid: I need to hear an album start-to-finish, in the comfort of my home, before I will buy it. You see, most certainly at the prices of CD's, I want to know I like ALL tracks on an album, because otherwise I'll start disliking it and not play it, and I'm not so rich that I can waste money like that.
This method has also enabled me to get acquainted with artists who I'd otherwise never have considered, as they were not the kind to achieve airplay on my favourite radio-stations, except perhaps in specialized broadcasts, which I could not always listen.
So yes, illegal opying did initially hurt record sales of those artists, but in the end even boosted them, beccause I'd get to learn their music and love it. And so kept buying their albums.
The Dutch judge dismissed the claim, and showed a thorough insight in the technical side of the matter in the summation.
Mazur.
"I wish you luck with your victory in Australia." is a more correct translation.
Stefan.
Yes, it was a seriously leading question, and yes, it was far from scientific, for instance, they didn't even ask whether their respondents were using M$, so I, as well, could have just confirmed their supposition, while not even using the stuff.
The reason it's reported here is, that it's FUD against M$, and to be fair, we just have to jump all over anti-M$ FUD as well as pro-M$ FUD. And it's reported because of the erroneous conclusion about there not being a viable alternative, since most M$ users use their PC for a few limited tasks: email, MSN, Webbrowsing. And for that, Linux is a viable alternative.
Mazur.
Of course, I currently drop everything from Yahoo except for the one person.
It would be so nice to be rich, so I could track and sue every SPAM sender, facilitator and SPAM relay to bits.
mazur.
Yes, but that was
This article is about the judgement in the appeal of the judgement in the full procedure.
Mazur.
I've had a few, but in the main, you are correct in saying not much spam comes from aol.com. However, an awful lot of spam *claims* to come from aol.com, even when it actually originates in China, Korea, or some spamhaus in the USA/EU. For this reason refusing mail from aol.com and others may give exceedingly good results with low enough colateral damage to be bearable for some home mail server operators.
Exactly, I've had a huge amount of SPAM apparently from aol.com since about a month or so, and, since I have no discernible friends there, dump anything with aol.com in the sender in the trash. AOL jumped from "sporadic SPAM" to "over half the SPAM" I have received in that time. I guess not everything was forged elsewhere, if they're taking this measure.
Stefan.
Or what am I missing...*whoops*
Stefan
Even so, would not a simple transmission of image of the mouth area be much simpler and reliable? After all, it needn't be colour.
Stefan.
Compare:
Just my shave and a haircut...
Stefan.
see this too space.com
You, sir, are a Prince among men. Thank you.
Stefan.
So will some kind hearts who can still access it copy the pages FTTB? I would myself, but I can't get in...
But it's nice the general scientific community still shares its assets, instead of copyrighting it and hiding it behind massive fees, like Craig Venter did.
<Offtopic> ;-)
Now if only I could find a geological map of the Netherlands without the usual atlas texts all over them, so i can make a nice RT2 simulation of the Dutch railways growth since trains got invented.
</Offtopic>
Stefan
Some people will complain about anything. I generally rely on what the person in the shop says, they too see you rather not come back for complaints or either a replacement or refund. This presupposes you actually shop somewhere the shop-staff are informed folk, like I do. Works like a charm.
Stefan.
Stefan.
I'm not; it's part of human nature. There are even people, who will find fault with the weather, when it's perfect, so why should 200.000 bug reports surprise anyone? And don't forget, lots of those may be a case of PEBKAC.
Stefan.
Nah. Just call it
Stefan.
one of the top-managers, of course!
Joe, you know about these computer thingies. I'm trying to clean up the system a bit, we're running low on disk space: What's this 'kernel' thingie? Do we need it? And this 'Anti-virus thingie, computers aren't alive, they don't get sick. You know, I'll just throw it all away, if we really need it we can always get it back from backup.
Joe, call one of them emergency sysadmin firms! I know they cost an arm, a leg and a pecker, just call 'em!
Mazur.
Oh, goody! I'm an indecent movie-going person!
Stefan.
I think you missed the point, which is, that while people in the rest of the world are readily aware there are countries beside their own, this truth seems to be happily neglected by many citizens of the USA. So we furriners just occasionally point out that fact, in the faint hope, that one day the realisation will hit and not go away. If you get annoyed by being reminded, that you're not alone on this our little, soiled planet, think of how annoying it would be if everyone stopped paying any attention at all to you. Read it as you like. Stefan.