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October 2, 2002...
...surely will go down in history as the day Ed Begley, Jr. finally got e-mail.
ObSimpsonsParaphrase: "This PC is fully biodegradable, dissolves instantly in water, and is powered completely by my sense of self-satisfaction."
~Philly -
WHY must we coddle the stupid???
If you can't figure out how to assemble IKEA furniture, I mean.... ugh! You should not have made it to adulthood, you should clearly have already died in some horrific Lego set assembly accident as a youth.
Idiots of the world: Here's a plan. If you're too fucking dumb to insert Tab A into Slot B yourself, then YOU hire someone to do it, and YOU incur the extra cost. Don't complain until they have to start making furniture that coaxes you through assembling it, thus jacking the price up for everyone including the intelligent people like me who can and will read and follow instructions.
This is further evidence that all that time I spent in search of knowledge in my younger days was wasted. I should have just spent it drinking beer, eating pork rinds, watching pro wrestling, NASCAR, and tractor pulls on TV like everyone else, and waiting for society to mold itself to my needs as a complete buffoon.
Hmm... maybe I can fix things myself....
/me looks around for a crayon and a mallet.
~Philly -
Re:helpful animation
Hahaha!!
Cheers for that, forgot how funny that one was! I especially like the way he looks like Mr. Burns just after he gets hit with the pie, he's got the whole weak-armed, pathetic thing down to a tee! -
Obligatory Simpsons quote
From a showing of "Gone with the Wind" at the Springfield Retirement Castle:
Scarlett O'Hara: "Oh, Rhett! Rhett! Oh, Rhett! Where will I go? What'll I do?"
Rhett Butler: "Frankly, my dear, I love you, let's remarry!"
THE END
(Edited for Seniors)
From "The Old Man and the C Student," 1999.
~Philly -
STOP! THIEF!
You are violating copyright law!
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Math Is Hard Barbie
There's an article about the evil of barbie here, including the 'math is hard' bit. The Simpsons episode (514 1F012 Original Airdate: 2/17/94) was social commentary.
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Drunk people can't be trusted to hand wash glass.
Drunk people can't be trusted to handle glass period. I think Barney Gumpbell's bartab just went up 5-fold with the invent of THIS little device.
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No, it's Tomacco!
Perhaps he meant Tomacco Sauce. Mmmmm, tomacco.
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Re:FalseDoh! I lost track of who was where on the argument; that's what I get for reading Slashdot between license tests.
I would be impressed if Sony is making $100 profit on each PS2 unit sold. If we assume a 40% retail markup and that Sony is doing the wholesaling (i.e. no middleman between Sony and the retailer), then Sony has a revenue of $179.97 on each unit. (My sole retail experience was in a different sector, so the retail markup on consumer electronics might be lower, which makes things easier for Sony.) With $100 profit, that would mean that the manufacturing cost is right at $80 per unit. Spreding the $2B cost of the fabrication facilities over 100M units (your numbers from a few posts up) gives $20 from each unit going to cover the facilities, leaving $60 per unit to cover raw materials, wages, and other design costs. It might be possible, but I don't think so. But they should be able to cover their costs with $160 per unit.
Found this
Anyway, I agree with you that the PS2 is probably profitable, although I doubt the $100 per unit figure. I apoligize for mis-remembering what position you were taking in the discussion, and losing track of your thesis. Take care.
Chris Beckenbach
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Re:Mother In Laws??
the prospect of growing pigs with fully compatible organs for humans could be VERY usefull indeed.
*grunt* Yes, *snort* I agree *squeal*
Pig Organs: squeal when you say that.
I *knew* it! The origins of Chief Wiggum are revealed!
Milalwi -
Re:It has to be said...
Here is a link to the audio recording of Bart's famous quote. And here is a transcript:
Bart How would I go about creating a half man, half monkey type creature?
Krabappel: I'm sorry, that would be playing God.
Bart: God, Shmod. I want my monkey man!
I hope this clears up any confusions among readers. Thank you. -
Re:It has to be said...
Here is a link to the audio recording of Bart's famous quote. And here is a transcript:
Bart How would I go about creating a half man, half monkey type creature?
Krabappel: I'm sorry, that would be playing God.
Bart: God, Shmod. I want my monkey man!
I hope this clears up any confusions among readers. Thank you. -
Sorry, but you are incorrect.
Sorry, but Bart's teacher is not named Ms. Krabapple, it is clearly Mrs. Krabappel. For more information please refer to Mrs. Krabappel's bio information.
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Obligatory simpsons reference...
Couldn't resist...
The Simpsons, Season 2, Ep 15, "Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?"
"Homer discovers that he has a long-lost half brother, Herb Powell, who is the wealthy CEO of a car company. When Homer and Herb meet, they instantly hit it off and Herb takes in the Simpson family as his own. Herb hires Homer to help design a car for regular guys, but Homer's design proves so disastrous that it bankrupts Herb's company and forces the brothers apart once again."
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Re:sTUpId cARboN rOd ... DOH !You forgot two:
THE CLASSICS: DEEP SPACE HOMER
Episode Guide
BTW, I see some prick mod'd you down for injecting a little bit of ON TOPIC humor (must be some type 'A'sshole who combs the bristles to his toothbrush after flossing for an hour).
Well, here are some ON TOPIC links that shows this entire article is OLD hat (relatively speaking).
Scientific America : STRANGE ATTRACTORS - Chemists make magnets without metal
Cryostat Modeling for the Superconducting Interaction Region Magnets: CESR Phase III
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Re:Waiting for the later seasons
You and CmdrTaco are both on crack, the first season had some amazing episodes. Check out their site every episode from the first season when Conan O'Brien was with the show is a classic.
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Re:Waiting for the later seasons
You and CmdrTaco are both on crack, the first season had some amazing episodes. Check out their site every episode from the first season when Conan O'Brien was with the show is a classic.
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Stonecutters themesong
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You only have a few DVDs though...
Since there are (according to thesimpsons.com ) 243 episodes of the Simpsons - that makes 101.25 hours of programming, assuming 25 minutes per show (some are longer). That leaves you with 92 hours on your disks. Add in the South Park episodes (maybe 15 hours? I don't follow it so much as O.F.F.) and we can only conclude that you only have a dozen DVDs or so, depending on how much music you have.
(damn thats a lot of Simpsons!)
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I-Opener ... you knew something was up...Hey this was an idea that every geek jumped on
Whoa
As for canceling the Service or getting a free service like NetZero, FreeI, TheSimpsons, Lycos, Altavista, or BlueLight you are forced into this horrid agreement. Not to mention what if you own a cable modem and want to just network the box into the home lan. Can't do that.
I actually can see the article in maximum PC's "Watchdog" right now
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Patents and progressFrom the introduction to the U.S. Patent Office:
For over 200 years, the basic role of the Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) has remained the same: to promote the progress of science and the useful arts by securing for limited times to inventors the exclusive right to their respective discoveries (Article 1, Section 8 of the United States Constitution). (italics are mine, and the exact quote from Article 1, Section 8 is that "[Congress shall have the power to] promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries.")
It seems to me that Bezos is perfectly justified to, at least for a limited time, attempt to regulate the use of a new way of approaching the internet shopping idea. Take for instance the "Flaming Moe's" episode of The Simpsons. According to my interpretation of the patent classification system as described on the PTO's site, Homer could have indeed patented his drink and/or the process for making it. After Moe stole it from him, Homer was out of luck, and had no recourse other than to beat the tar out of him (which he didn't). When Homer eventually went nuts and told a barful of people the secret ingredient to the "Flaming Moe(/Homer)," everybody and their brother picked started up their own "Flaming Something" stand, and, because of the lack of centralized control over the public use of the recipe, the marketing of the drink was ruined for everybody, and, I'm sure, after a few weeks, nobody would want one ever again. I guess it's kind of like coffee in Seattle. The explosion was neat for a while, but then suddenly it was everywhere, and it was just too much.
Granted, Amazon's 1-Click approach to internet shopping doesn't seem quite as patentable as a mixed drink, but I feel Bezos does have some claim to the centralized control over how widespread the distribution of 1-Click "technology" goes. Were everyone to suddenly latch on to this idea, Bezos in effect loses some of the fruits of his labor. Sure, he and the Amazon staff dreamed up 1-Click to make shopping easier, but they also did it to turn a profit, to drive people away from traditional "shopping cart" sites and onto theirs. If everyone turns into a little Amazon, Bezos loses -- but so does everyone else.
I've been thinking of something along the lines of this (though completely unrelated) for the last few days. I recently found out from a residence hall neighbor that every hotel room within 50 miles is already booked solid for my 2003 graduation. I had no idea people would think so far ahead -- I certainly didn't! When I asked why this was so, he told me the hotels had booths at freshman orientation and took reservations on the spot. It occurred to me that, at some point, one hotel had decided that they were going to solicit business at freshman orientations, and started doing so, and for one orientation reaped great benefits. However, after that first year, I'm sure every hotel with a little money to spare for a booth set one up and started doing the same thing.
It made me wonder; by setting up booths, were the hotels helping or hurting customers? For those who stopped at the booths and inquired why they were there, perhaps it was a help. I don't think, though, that this idea was ever intended to be a service to the customers. It was meant for one hotel to beat out the others by getting a huge head start on reservations. So, for those like my family, who will now have little to no chance of finding a place to stay (four years in advance!), I see this as something of an annoyance, that within the span of a few days, hotel rooms for the families of 3,000 students for four years in advance are reserved unnecessarily. After that first year, this "innovation" ceased to be an innovation and became a necessity to keep up with the competition. So the hotels gain little (their rooms would have been booked anyway, and they're not getting a head start anymore), but some customers are greatly hurt.
1-Click may follow the same pattern, if its use is not regulated. After widespread use is implemented, it may prove to be a burden for customers. Perhaps a spike in internet sales will follow as people start impulse buying. Maybe soon after this buying spike an online depression will result as people shy away from internet resellers because it's too easy to drop a lot of money on 1-Click impulse buying sprees. I'll admit that right after Christmas this year I fell victim to such a disease, so I turned off 1-Click as fast as I could and now keep away from Amazon and other online department stores because I'm just too tempted to buy stuff. I'm just speculating, of course, but I do think that, for at least a limited period of time, it would be useful for someone interested in the future of internet commerce have control over where, how, and when such features are implemented.
And from the summary of a Congressional recommendation report by the late Secretary of Commerce Ron Brown regarding intellectual property rights and the National Information Infrastructure (NII):Creators and other owners of intellectual property rights will not be willing to put their investments and their property at risk unless appropriate systems are in place -- both in the U.S. and internationally -- to permit them to set and enforce the terms and conditions under which their works are made available in the NII environment. Likewise, the public will not use the services available on the NII and generate the market necessary for its success unless a wide variety of works are available under equitable and reasonable terms and conditions, and the integrity of those works is assured.
I wanted to talk about this passage a little also, and how, though it's really intended toward situations like the DVD fiasco, it also applies to the stuff I said above. However, it's getting pretty late, I can't hardly keep my eyes open, and I'm starting to write gibberish, so I'll quit for now.
Respond with questions, concerns, or, if you live within 50 miles of Ithaca, NY, and have a spare room for ma familia in May 2003, your phone number and address.
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Re:This is odd..
I looked at the site, and didn't see any "Used with permission from 20th Century Fox" or similar boilerplate. Their little "bar" has a Fox link, but again, no licence information.
However, the offical Simpsons-site has a link to them (the big green button), so it should be offical... -
thesimpsons.com -Simpsons Webcast!Fox has a suprisingly good website at thesimpsons.com. It's flash and graphics heavy, so have that high-speed connection ready. However, it has some good information, like upcoming episodes, free @thesimpsons.com email, and even, as the title suggests, a webcast. Apparantly the webcast is of the Simpsons getting a hollywood star (I'm not sure if it's for real or just an animated sequence). I think I also saw something on there about simpson's pez dispensers. Anyways, if you have the bandwidth and are a simpson's fan, it's worth checking out. The episode guide is OK too (check out the very first episode).
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New Simpsons Website
They completely revampaed the official site today. It has a new splash page, a new free ISP (paid by adverts), and a webcast of the Simpsons receiving their star on the Hollywood walk of fame. The webcast is today at 5:00pm EST, half an hour from now, D'oh.
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New Simpsons Website
They completely revampaed the official site today. It has a new splash page, a new free ISP (paid by adverts), and a webcast of the Simpsons receiving their star on the Hollywood walk of fame. The webcast is today at 5:00pm EST, half an hour from now, D'oh.