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Message from Ceres to Pluto

Correct. Just waiting for someone to press the big red button and end it all.

Apple pretty clearly follows classic Braun designs:
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Braun's most famous designer of that era, Dieter Rams, actually likes Apple for their design work. But, when the shoe is on the other foot, Apple will go "thermonuclear" if you try anything vaguely like what they do.

Also, you might want to check real numbers when you talk about how hard they are working. Apple has some of the highest profit margins and lowest R&D percentages in the industry. If you want to see something closer to a "hardest working" hardware company, look at places like Intel which for decades have had to sink much of its revenue into R&D so it could continue to lead its sector.

How about starting with appreciating your customer?

Currently it looks like this and it is getting worse. At some point, it is simply being greedy. Most triple-A movies already pay off during first weeks of release. E.g. ( The Avengers ). At that point, even $3 per copy makes you money.

The true way to combat piracy is to look at why people are pirating and modify your business strategy so that pirates become paying customers by their own choice.

They could start by pricing DVDs and Blu-rays reasonably. Next step would be to remove all the crap that goes on between "insert disc" and "watching movie," which often cannot be skipped without violating the DMCA (I'd like to violate the DMCA, actually, with the business end of a shovel).

This handy flow chart explains why

So if I pirate I see another movie than when I buy legally? Now, The Matrix is far more fun than that other movie seems to be so I'd prefer the legal road, thank you very much.

What you get with a pirate DVD vs. the official release. Now tell me, which one would you rather have? The Oatmeal had similar things to say about trying to buy HBO's Game of Thrones . They simply can't understand how customers or potential customers think. The **AA are idiots.

That one is a somewhat bad example. The Matrix is one of the films which is clever enough to modify the logo and mesh it into the movie- I don't mind watching a few second clip the animators put together. It's almost like a mini-demo; how much "cool" can you pack into a 5 second logo lead-in? But the rest of the point does still stand.

What you get with a pirate DVD vs. the official release. Now tell me, which one would you rather have? The Oatmeal had similar things to say about trying to buy HBO's Game of Thrones . They simply can't understand how customers or potential customers think. The **AA are idiots.

This handy flow chart explains why. The **AA guys are desperately trying to put themselves out of business. See also The Oatmeal about why HBO is trying to do the same thing to people wanting to buy Game of Thrones .

Fox News And Ron Paul`s Video Deception

Why Does Fox News Hate Ron Paul?

http://www.i-am-bored.com/bored_link.cfm?link_id=65285

Basically, that's already done. NES-on-a-CHIP and SNES-on-a-chip solutions can be found at any anime convention; if you want a really cheap, crappy version you can go to your local shopping mall around christmas and find some really sleazy-skeezy looking Indian or Latino guy hawking the GameStation3D, which has "10,000 games in one" (actually probably about 50 NES and 50 SNES roms with the game numbers on a repeating loop) all crammed into a base station and badly fashioned Chinese-made "controller" where half the buttons don't work. He may also be selling something like this or something like this crappy-ass GBA ripoff called a 'PVP'.

Magnet links, how do they work?

Lobsters

Here you are. (a perfectly appropriate domain name for this story)

You've been looking for a new iPad stand.... http://cdn-www.i-am-bored.com/media/ipadstandfail.jpg

Exactly, and the sleeping at the wheel.. well just see this picture

I'd suggest you make shortcuts on their desktops (or put them inside a folder "Games") that are just browser bookmarks to various good online flash games. Here's some that I think are fun: http://www.i-am-bored.com/bored_link.cfm?link_id=17727 http://www.kongregate.com/games/preecep/desktop-tower-defense-1-5 http://www.fugly.com/flash/819/flash-tetris.html http://www.runescape.com/ http://www.thegamehomepage.com/play/tangerine-panic/ I suppose another option may be SNES emulators and whatever if you can find legit free roms for them. Good luck

That's kind of his point; or as I believe Terry Pratchett once said, genre fiction is a stew; you add things, you take things out, and the whole mess bubbles on.

That having been said: Harry Potter and Star Wars, a plot synopsis of Star Wars with names/places crossed out and filled in with Harry Potter names/places.

http://www.i-am-bored.com/bored_link.cfm?link_id=18812

About point 3 : I have a hard time seeing how you could breed with photoshop to create these extremely beautiful people, or rather I prefer not to imagine it.

Here, see for yourself : http://www.i-am-bored.com/bored_link.cfm?link_id=14537

Rotation ( http://www.i-am-bored.com/bored_link.cfm?link_id=6314 ) is a real mind-bender. Genuinely hard, in the way that a Rubik's cube is hard at first. But it rewards the careful thinker...

Look, I just stated you were wrong. With the "limited information" you had, you were wrong. Could I have been more polite? Sure, absolutely. You decided to open a Bevets style flamewar with the "god comment". I would not have given you an insult had you not earned one by firing the first shot and making it sound like I cared about my ego or someone else's. I said you were completely wrong. Is that bad to have an opinion that your information was incorrect, or did you already state that for me?

I don't have problems admitting my mistakes, in fact I enjoy asking for information when I am wrong, whereas you defend yourself. I think you might want to learn the difference between welcome criticism and provocation of others. If I am wrong, sure, call me on it. Also, I do care about +5, because I wouldn't want someone to have misinformation as a top post because other people will be misinformed. That wasn't aimed at you, that was aimed at correction of data. I've had it happen to me and I asked mods to mod down my posts when I did.

I didn't address your critique because I didn't want a flamewar. It's not that I am 100% right, I may or not be, and thats immaterial.

I also didn't claim it was MS FUD. I claimed that YCM has ties to Microsoft. The correct company is JGD Management Corp. d/b/a (doing business as) York Capital Management. Know who owns JGD and also has a board of directors straight from microsoft? JGD (Acacia) (SEC link).

So yeah, sorry if you got offended, but try not to start an insult fling and you might not get called a douchebag next time. I welcome snarky comments, not elitism.

I thought you just did this.

http://www.i-am-bored.com/bored_link.cfm?link_id=2 4515

http://www.i-am-bored.com/bored_link.cfm?link_id=1 8812

(SFW)

Odd that he is so against video games, watch him here in his earlier days on an indepth expose of the Super Mario Bros. http://www.i-am-bored.com/bored_link.cfm?link_id=2 0016

I like the way this guy handles telemarketers

You are a pirate

http://www.i-am-bored.com/bored_link.cfm?link_id=1 0840

Family guy STILL is funny... didn't you watch the milkshake clip? It's floating around the Internet pretty fast. Just ONE week after it was shown, google has 602,000 for "family guy milkshake". And that's just one very recent example.

Firefox has a memory leak. To fix it read the following article:

http://www.i-am-bored.com/bored_link.cfm?link_id=8 166

Without the fix - leaving FireFox open for > 24 hours will bring most Windows systems to a halt.

I believe that there may be other issues - especially for people that leave > 20 tabs open for > 24 hours. I've switched back to Opera after being a bit of a FireFox evangelist for a while because Opera handles leaving a large number of tabs open for a protracted amount of time without eating all my memory.

I'm guessing that some of the memory issues are significant and difficult problems to fix - otherwise they would have been fixed by now.

Cat Herding

I have noticed this lately as well... so now I scrutenize every email I get, hovering over links, and occasionally, entering the first line or so into google. I do consider myself to be pretty good at figuring out if it's a phish or not though. I found a fun little phishing-finding-outting test to take on i-am-bored.com. Try it out and see how well you do!