I think this is firmly in the "Weird News that is no longer considered weird because it is now reported too frequently" category.
A few years ago I was relieved of the burden of ownership of quite a large amount of property. Alas, I was not seeking said relief, so I summoned the city's finest (oh man, is that a friggin' joke). The fact that the storage unit broken into was right behind the police station really should have given me a clue as to what would happen next. A duly appointed officer arrived and proceeded to tell me that they really had no hope of catching the guy or retrieving my stuff, so they had no intention to even try.
Well duh. Talk about self-fulfilling prophecy. If you're not going to put down that donut and get off your fat arse, then yeah...not finding the guy is a pretty safe bet, I'd say.
But that's just false. Well, not the siding with the seller thing. I won't bother relating my story because it is exactly the same story as so many others post daily all over the net. Actually, technically speaking, the eBay makes their money from the sellers thing isn't false either, it just isn't the full story.
When eBay screws the buyer, that buyer doesn't return. That's where the sellers make THEIR money, so you'd think eBay wouldn't be so casual about pissing on the buyers. This whole "you have the whole internet as your target market" is nothing short of fraud (which considering the people they associate with, it isn't surprising coming from eBay). They are now using the same fake numbers AOL used to toss around. You don't have X million customers, you've given out X million free discs. You don't really have Y customers either, you've got Y minus Z% who have tried to cancel and you just won't let go.
Now eBay is using the same accounting math. "We have X registered users, therefore your customer base is X!" No...you have X registered users...a large percentage (and growing daily) of which no longer would 'shop' on your site if someone else were paying the bill.
Which incidentally...you DO have a large percentage (and growing daily) of people who ARE shopping with someone else footing the bill.
I trust the guy in the alley more than I trust eBay. Bolex watch anyone? Sure, I know I'm not really getting a Rolex, but at least the alley guy gives me SOMETHING, which is more than I can say for you.
I make a nice chunk of change removing crap from computers. Spyware 'Cleaner' is one of the piles. Just like all the other crap you get when you click a flashing ad that says "You're[sic] computer is infected...click here to clean it!"
Isn't it amazing how a stupid show from the 80's can blow your theory right outside of the water?
I refer, of course, to Automan. A crime-fighting hologram who only worked at night. Why only at night? Because the power grid maxed out during the day. There wasn't enough power to operate the hologram during the day because everyone woke up and turned on toasters, microwaves, fans, A/C as the temperature rose, etc.
They point being (and this point is so obvious that as I said, it was made by a dumb show over 20 years ago) is that solar does very much indeed produce when needed.
You are absolutely correct...solar panels on the rooftop aren't going to produce 24x7. What you don't understand is the power curve throughout the day. Those solar panels are going to start pumping out energy about the time you turn on your toaster, microwave, dishwasher, etc.
The reason ebooks have not caught on, and never will, is that nobody wants them.
Oh wait, that's not it. Turns out tons of people want them. What nobody wants is to pay $350 for the reader, $30 for a book (a higher cost than the dead tree version), and then get told when, where, and how many times they can and can't read the book they would own if they bought the dead tree version, but only have a very limited license to with the ebook version.
Johnny Sokko was the shiznit, just admit it. Did Ultraman have a guy who looked like the bastard child of Cthulhu as the head of the bad guys? Noooooo.
A scientist named Twoney is publishing an article in the Astrophysical Journal proposing that a supernova billions of years ago would have resulted in the presence of only one little lonely star in this sector of the galaxy, with the nearest neighbor over four light-years away.
"Imagine what a lonely, cold place our solar system would be had this horrible event happened," said Terry Twoney. "Why, our solar system would be so small that life might be viable on just one planet, and Pluto would be so small and cold there would be debates regarding if it even counted as a planet!"
No no no. To be a real EULA, it would not be on the trash, but in the bag. And reading it doesn't indicate binding agreement, opening the bag does.
Of course, if you disagree, you can return the trash to the curb for a full refund...except no curb will accept the return because the bag is open.
Of course, this 'superior' body can't seem to actually DO anything other than sit there looking smug and claiming its own superiority, so few choose it.
No, you're the one missing something. Like TFA, which basically said assigning said value is exactly what they are trying to figure out how to do.
My question is, if "no taxation without representation" is still valid, does that mean $ONLINE_COMMUNITY avatars get a vote?
As a modemer from the OKC area in the 80's and 90's, I am so buying this book. I have since moved, so I won't be getting it hand-delivered, darn it. I do believe Jack Flack and I were in different circles, though. While I had a CoCo (much better than the C64, of course (as he mentioned, we had MCIBTYC long before PC and Mac did)), I tended to flock around the Apple (GBBS) boards. I really would like to sit and chat with him though, I'm sure we could remember some board names, and if I scan my saved user lists, I may even find him, who knows?
All I know is, just reading the first chapter has taken me down memory lane. For Riverwind. For Raist. For Jubal. For Random. For Moira. For Bigaxe. For The Four Fluffs. And even for Lexicon. Love and miss you all.
My, but those were good times.
The Ace aka Ace & Animal aka Stile
And thanks to Jubal's Hollow, many other names. Of which I still have the list in a text file.
Slashdot Mirror
Won't work. The prior art is too well-documented.
I think this is firmly in the "Weird News that is no longer considered weird because it is now reported too frequently" category.
A few years ago I was relieved of the burden of ownership of quite a large amount of property. Alas, I was not seeking said relief, so I summoned the city's finest (oh man, is that a friggin' joke). The fact that the storage unit broken into was right behind the police station really should have given me a clue as to what would happen next. A duly appointed officer arrived and proceeded to tell me that they really had no hope of catching the guy or retrieving my stuff, so they had no intention to even try.
Well duh. Talk about self-fulfilling prophecy. If you're not going to put down that donut and get off your fat arse, then yeah...not finding the guy is a pretty safe bet, I'd say.
I'm trying to figure out if that subject is a typo, or amazingly insightful...
PeterLand already taken, you say?
THERE you are!
I've been looking for the one person here who wouldn't recognize a Futurama reference if it bit him!
But that's just false. Well, not the siding with the seller thing. I won't bother relating my story because it is exactly the same story as so many others post daily all over the net. Actually, technically speaking, the eBay makes their money from the sellers thing isn't false either, it just isn't the full story.
When eBay screws the buyer, that buyer doesn't return. That's where the sellers make THEIR money, so you'd think eBay wouldn't be so casual about pissing on the buyers. This whole "you have the whole internet as your target market" is nothing short of fraud (which considering the people they associate with, it isn't surprising coming from eBay). They are now using the same fake numbers AOL used to toss around. You don't have X million customers, you've given out X million free discs. You don't really have Y customers either, you've got Y minus Z% who have tried to cancel and you just won't let go.
Now eBay is using the same accounting math. "We have X registered users, therefore your customer base is X!" No...you have X registered users...a large percentage (and growing daily) of which no longer would 'shop' on your site if someone else were paying the bill.
Which incidentally...you DO have a large percentage (and growing daily) of people who ARE shopping with someone else footing the bill.
I trust the guy in the alley more than I trust eBay. Bolex watch anyone? Sure, I know I'm not really getting a Rolex, but at least the alley guy gives me SOMETHING, which is more than I can say for you.
I heard that's the media Duke Nukem Forever will be released on.
Spyware Cleaner is anti-spyware now?
I make a nice chunk of change removing crap from computers. Spyware 'Cleaner' is one of the piles. Just like all the other crap you get when you click a flashing ad that says "You're[sic] computer is infected...click here to clean it!"
Isn't it amazing how a stupid show from the 80's can blow your theory right outside of the water?
I refer, of course, to Automan. A crime-fighting hologram who only worked at night. Why only at night? Because the power grid maxed out during the day. There wasn't enough power to operate the hologram during the day because everyone woke up and turned on toasters, microwaves, fans, A/C as the temperature rose, etc.
They point being (and this point is so obvious that as I said, it was made by a dumb show over 20 years ago) is that solar does very much indeed produce when needed.
You are absolutely correct...solar panels on the rooftop aren't going to produce 24x7. What you don't understand is the power curve throughout the day. Those solar panels are going to start pumping out energy about the time you turn on your toaster, microwave, dishwasher, etc.
I tried reading the article, but it looks like a lot of us are stuck at 98.3%, will someone please seed?
Run where? Screaming from the room? For the border?
Simple. Just don't use batteries made by Sony.
The reason ebooks have not caught on, and never will, is that nobody wants them.
Oh wait, that's not it. Turns out tons of people want them. What nobody wants is to pay $350 for the reader, $30 for a book (a higher cost than the dead tree version), and then get told when, where, and how many times they can and can't read the book they would own if they bought the dead tree version, but only have a very limited license to with the ebook version.
Johnny Sokko was the shiznit, just admit it. Did Ultraman have a guy who looked like the bastard child of Cthulhu as the head of the bad guys? Noooooo.
So Variety is declaring VHS dead after TiVo already held a funeral for the VCR?
I can't wait for their next bit of breaking news. Perhaps it will involve the sales of color TVs surpassing sales of black and white?
Or maybe an item about these new films I hear about, what are they calling them? Talkies?
Wraith virus?
SWEET! Bring on the kick-ass car!
Acting like a calm, dumb job average consumer
Some apparently find this easier than others.
In fact, it would appear some need not act.
A scientist named Twoney is publishing an article in the Astrophysical Journal proposing that a supernova billions of years ago would have resulted in the presence of only one little lonely star in this sector of the galaxy, with the nearest neighbor over four light-years away. "Imagine what a lonely, cold place our solar system would be had this horrible event happened," said Terry Twoney. "Why, our solar system would be so small that life might be viable on just one planet, and Pluto would be so small and cold there would be debates regarding if it even counted as a planet!"
No no no. To be a real EULA, it would not be on the trash, but in the bag. And reading it doesn't indicate binding agreement, opening the bag does. Of course, if you disagree, you can return the trash to the curb for a full refund...except no curb will accept the return because the bag is open.
Of course, this 'superior' body can't seem to actually DO anything other than sit there looking smug and claiming its own superiority, so few choose it.
No, you're the one missing something. Like TFA, which basically said assigning said value is exactly what they are trying to figure out how to do. My question is, if "no taxation without representation" is still valid, does that mean $ONLINE_COMMUNITY avatars get a vote?
I thought it was supposed to be hamsters!
Duh. Just bid on a replicator.
As a modemer from the OKC area in the 80's and 90's, I am so buying this book. I have since moved, so I won't be getting it hand-delivered, darn it. I do believe Jack Flack and I were in different circles, though. While I had a CoCo (much better than the C64, of course (as he mentioned, we had MCIBTYC long before PC and Mac did)), I tended to flock around the Apple (GBBS) boards. I really would like to sit and chat with him though, I'm sure we could remember some board names, and if I scan my saved user lists, I may even find him, who knows?
All I know is, just reading the first chapter has taken me down memory lane. For Riverwind. For Raist. For Jubal. For Random. For Moira. For Bigaxe. For The Four Fluffs. And even for Lexicon. Love and miss you all.
My, but those were good times.
The Ace aka
Ace & Animal aka
Stile
And thanks to Jubal's Hollow, many other names. Of which I still have the list in a text file.
Naw. That's not until The Spaceballs Holiday Special.