That's why you go to a theater you know. For the experience. Otherwise, DVD and VHS would've killed them a long time ago. Why bother paying high ticket prices and overcharged on underbuttered popcorn and $7 drinks? Because there's something magical about being in a huge auditorium, in a room filled with strangers, going on imaginary adventures with people who never existed.
Actually, you go to a theater because you want to see a movie that you can't see at home. If I could buy first-run movies on DVD, I would never go to the theater. But, I'm impatient and don't like to wait the 6-12 months it takes for a movie to be released on DVD.
I used to work at McDonald's. I specifically remember the grease dumpster out back having a sticker on it to the effect of "This container and its contents are property of Joe-bob's grease company."
An odd thing to say if McDonald's is paying Joe-Bob to pick up the grease.
Are you kidding? If I was a middle eastern terrorist trying to sneak onto an airplane so as to hijack it, I would disguise myself as a middle eastern terrorist trying to sneak onto an airplane so as to hijack it. No one in security would dare even look sideways at me.
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I have an older Replay. It will recognize WebTV keyboards, one of which I picked up at a garage sale a couple of weeks ago for 25 cents. I know that older DishPVRs were Replay-based, so that might work. YMMV.
OT: sometimes I feel bad for the 3rd Amendment...it just gets completely ignored. Nobody ever takes to the streets demanding their 3rd Amendment rights be protected
Don't feel bad. This means that the 3rd amendment worked. It placed a simple constraint on the goverment, and the government has never violated that constraint.
We still haven't figured out how to live on this planet. Why go wreck more?
Umm...if you define "we" as human beings, we've been successfully living on this planet for around 3 million years. If you define it as DNA-based life forms, we've been living here for a couple of billion years.
The credit card company can be your friend...
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Why not simply call up your credit card company and tell them to refuse further charges from these two companies?
Worst-case scenario, cancel the credit card they're billing.
"No, we *fixed* the *glitch*, so it'll work itself out naturally."
I know that there's a RePlay hacking community, though it's not as big as the TiVo hacking community. Anyone know how to completely mess up the data in my RPTV about what I've been watching and how I've been watching it?
On the other hand, note that MSFT used to pretty much ignore the federal government. Up until about five years ago, MS was famous for not being political at all -- no Washington (DC) office, no campaign contributions, nothing. It was only when the feds came in and started leaning on MS that they realized that they couldn't ignore them anymore.
Well, a DVD is about 13 cm in diameter and about 2mm thick. That puts an individual DVD at about 26 cm^3. That puts DVDs at about 38000 per m^3. If every person in the USA throws away 5 DVDs per year, that's 1.5 billion DVDs, or about 36000 m^3. That's a cube 33 meters on a side, or a one-acre landfill dug about ten meters deep. Not exactly an enormous volume of waste.
Players (your workers, if you will) need to accomplish something by their gameplay that increases the overall wealth of the system such that the lifestyle of the players improves.
While playing, I might turn a worthless bear skin into valuable armor, or spend time acquiring a Sword of Power. By bringing into the market these higher-value things, I am "accomplishing something...that increases the overall wealth of the system".
[On converting items to cash...]
Of course they aren't! If they were, the price for each item would be significantly lower, and the real GNP would be nowhere near what he is quoting. So in reality, if Norrath was a country, the GNP would not be as high as his estimate. You can't "convert" an item to cash. All you can do is sell it to someone else for cash. Do you claim that, say, Egypt doesn't have an economy because the things produced there are rarely sold for dollars?
Here's an example of his argument: The game produces (via spawns or user manufacture) 10 swords of dragonthwacking per day. Those have an in-game value of 5000 platinum pieces. You can exchange pp for dollars on the open (though technically black) market at around 100:1. Thus, there are $500 worth of SoDs produced every day. Repeat these calculations for every item in the game, and from there you can figure out the GNP of Norrath.
Remember, GNP does not have anything to do with exports. GNP attempts to measure the complete value of the production in a country or place.
This is the same way that you can figure out, in dollars, the GNP of a place like North Korea. The closest analog to this would be to try to figure out how many things are sold by USians to USians for dollars in Mexico.
About a year ago, I was listening to his program, and he was talking about it. As mentioned, local stations were using it on his program. One station, in particular, was using it and had one of the dials set incorrectly or something, because Rush sounded drunk -- like him or not, you must admit that he has a nice speaking voice. He played a clip from that radio station, and he sounded like someone who'd been at the bar for far too long -- his speech was slurred, and randomly speeding up and slowing down. He said that the day it happened, he immediately began getting calls from that part of the country asking what was wrong. It was amusing, and it was also amusing to imagine the talking-to that the station management got.
I work for a major computer corporation, big enough that they have their own Slashdot icon when a story about them comes up.
Looking briefly at our legal department's document retention information page, (the "Pack Rat Guidelines") I see that you are only supposed to keep "critical business documents for which you have a continuing business need". Generally, most documents are considered to be obsolete when superceded by a new version of the same document, the project is completed, or the document is more than one year old. Of course, there are plenty of exceptions to this rule.
But if you're not doing anything wrong, why not keep everything forever?
Even being sued and winning is expensive, and often times ideas get kicked around that are later shot down for legal reasons, and it's just as well that nobody know that the idea was considered. Also, things can be taken out of context, misinterpreted, or otherwise used against you.
The popups Yahoo uses are even getting past my disabled Javascript lately. If I have to deal with headlines as ads on top of bias and popups, well... bye!
If you're getting popups without Javascipt, chances are that you've got some adware on your computer. Download Ad-Aware to get rid of it.
Of course, you can also download WhenU directly at CNet's Downloads.com. The "customer" reviews are amusing, as half of them are obvious fakes from the company, and the other half are pissed off real people. You can read them here.
I played EQ for a little while earlier this year, from around February to August. It's a fun game, and I enjoyed it. The fantasy name policy keeps the worst of the 1337d00d names out, and the world is large enough that I was able to spend a few months in it and not see the whole thing. However, one thing eventually happened that completely destroyed the game for me. Pay attention, MMORPG developers:
I was exploring an area known as the Hole, which is a deep hole. You can only go along a ledge on one side of it, and then into either a nearby city or off to a nearby forest. However, I discovered how to jump up onto another nearby ledge that I wasn't supposed to be able to, and began exploring around up there.
Before long, I found a trench up behind where the normal players could see, and decided to jump in to see what was in it. It appeared to curve around beyond where I could see it. To be safe, I first deposited all of my items into a bank so that I could retrieve them if I died -- I was in exploration, not combat mode.
When I jumped in, I realized that it didn't really go anywhere, and further, I was stuck. I couldn't get back out. There is also no 'suicide' function, so I was stuck. I paged a GM, but it took two days before anyone came to help me. I even tried to/msg other players to get them to come and kill me -- but, it's a lightly-traveled zone, and the only ones around were of races unable to make the jump I had.
This event destroyed the illusion of the world for me. I was stuck in a noninteresting place, and there was absolutely nothing I could do about it. Eventually, a GM came and teleported me to a safe location. However, I was never again able to get into the game, or care about my character's wealth or level. I canceled my EQ account about a week later.
What is the logic behind ACP? After all, under the law, an attorney is not allowed to silently watch his client tell a lie to the court. (As an officer of the court, (s)he's obligated to not allow a 'fraud on the court'.) A lawyer friend of mine said that this means that OJ's attorneys probably never asked him if killed Ron and Nicole.
So, it's not to allow the client to honestly discuss his or her case with an attorney. What is it for?
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Actually, you go to a theater because you want to see a movie that you can't see at home. If I could buy first-run movies on DVD, I would never go to the theater. But, I'm impatient and don't like to wait the 6-12 months it takes for a movie to be released on DVD.
An odd thing to say if McDonald's is paying Joe-Bob to pick up the grease.
I have an older Replay. It will recognize WebTV keyboards, one of which I picked up at a garage sale a couple of weeks ago for 25 cents. I know that older DishPVRs were Replay-based, so that might work. YMMV.
Don't feel bad. This means that the 3rd amendment worked. It placed a simple constraint on the goverment, and the government has never violated that constraint.
Umm...if you define "we" as human beings, we've been successfully living on this planet for around 3 million years. If you define it as DNA-based life forms, we've been living here for a couple of billion years.
Why not simply call up your credit card company and tell them to refuse further charges from these two companies?
Worst-case scenario, cancel the credit card they're billing.
"No, we *fixed* the *glitch*, so it'll work itself out naturally."
I know that there's a RePlay hacking community, though it's not as big as the TiVo hacking community. Anyone know how to completely mess up the data in my RPTV about what I've been watching and how I've been watching it?
A geosync satellite can't be "over Arizona". Such satellites can only be over the equator.
So, an invention caused a DNA change? Try "adaptation", Reuters.
Of course, these are the people that won't call a suicide bomber who kills 3000 people a "terrorist".
Don't worry, John will get us there!
On the other hand, note that MSFT used to pretty much ignore the federal government. Up until about five years ago, MS was famous for not being political at all -- no Washington (DC) office, no campaign contributions, nothing. It was only when the feds came in and started leaning on MS that they realized that they couldn't ignore them anymore.
Use the Preview Button! Check those URLs! Don't forget the http://!
Well, a DVD is about 13 cm in diameter and about 2mm thick. That puts an individual DVD at about 26 cm^3. That puts DVDs at about 38000 per m^3. If every person in the USA throws away 5 DVDs per year, that's 1.5 billion DVDs, or about 36000 m^3. That's a cube 33 meters on a side, or a one-acre landfill dug about ten meters deep. Not exactly an enormous volume of waste.
While playing, I might turn a worthless bear skin into valuable armor, or spend time acquiring a Sword of Power. By bringing into the market these higher-value things, I am "accomplishing something...that increases the overall wealth of the system".
Of course they aren't! If they were, the price for each item would be significantly lower, and the real GNP would be nowhere near what he is quoting. So in reality, if Norrath was a country, the GNP would not be as high as his estimate.
You can't "convert" an item to cash. All you can do is sell it to someone else for cash. Do you claim that, say, Egypt doesn't have an economy because the things produced there are rarely sold for dollars?
Here's an example of his argument: The game produces (via spawns or user manufacture) 10 swords of dragonthwacking per day. Those have an in-game value of 5000 platinum pieces. You can exchange pp for dollars on the open (though technically black) market at around 100:1. Thus, there are $500 worth of SoDs produced every day. Repeat these calculations for every item in the game, and from there you can figure out the GNP of Norrath.
Remember, GNP does not have anything to do with exports. GNP attempts to measure the complete value of the production in a country or place.
This is the same way that you can figure out, in dollars, the GNP of a place like North Korea. The closest analog to this would be to try to figure out how many things are sold by USians to USians for dollars in Mexico.
About a year ago, I was listening to his program, and he was talking about it. As mentioned, local stations were using it on his program. One station, in particular, was using it and had one of the dials set incorrectly or something, because Rush sounded drunk -- like him or not, you must admit that he has a nice speaking voice. He played a clip from that radio station, and he sounded like someone who'd been at the bar for far too long -- his speech was slurred, and randomly speeding up and slowing down. He said that the day it happened, he immediately began getting calls from that part of the country asking what was wrong. It was amusing, and it was also amusing to imagine the talking-to that the station management got.
...Since science and technology is booming...
Umm, Cliff? Why are you posting Ask Slashdots from two years ago?
I work for a major computer corporation, big enough that they have their own Slashdot icon when a story about them comes up.
Looking briefly at our legal department's document retention information page, (the "Pack Rat Guidelines") I see that you are only supposed to keep "critical business documents for which you have a continuing business need". Generally, most documents are considered to be obsolete when superceded by a new version of the same document, the project is completed, or the document is more than one year old. Of course, there are plenty of exceptions to this rule.
But if you're not doing anything wrong, why not keep everything forever?
Even being sued and winning is expensive, and often times ideas get kicked around that are later shot down for legal reasons, and it's just as well that nobody know that the idea was considered. Also, things can be taken out of context, misinterpreted, or otherwise used against you.
If you're getting popups without Javascipt, chances are that you've got some adware on your computer. Download Ad-Aware to get rid of it.
Of course, you can also download WhenU directly at CNet's Downloads.com. The "customer" reviews are amusing, as half of them are obvious fakes from the company, and the other half are pissed off real people. You can read them here.
I was exploring an area known as the Hole, which is a deep hole. You can only go along a ledge on one side of it, and then into either a nearby city or off to a nearby forest. However, I discovered how to jump up onto another nearby ledge that I wasn't supposed to be able to, and began exploring around up there.
Before long, I found a trench up behind where the normal players could see, and decided to jump in to see what was in it. It appeared to curve around beyond where I could see it. To be safe, I first deposited all of my items into a bank so that I could retrieve them if I died -- I was in exploration, not combat mode.
When I jumped in, I realized that it didn't really go anywhere, and further, I was stuck. I couldn't get back out. There is also no 'suicide' function, so I was stuck. I paged a GM, but it took two days before anyone came to help me. I even tried to
This event destroyed the illusion of the world for me. I was stuck in a noninteresting place, and there was absolutely nothing I could do about it. Eventually, a GM came and teleported me to a safe location. However, I was never again able to get into the game, or care about my character's wealth or level. I canceled my EQ account about a week later.
Add the sites in question to the "Restricted" zone.
I think BBSpot gave us a glimpse of the future this will lead to with this review of a new video card.
I'm not trolling here, it's an honest question.
What is the logic behind ACP? After all, under the law, an attorney is not allowed to silently watch his client tell a lie to the court. (As an officer of the court, (s)he's obligated to not allow a 'fraud on the court'.) A lawyer friend of mine said that this means that OJ's attorneys probably never asked him if killed Ron and Nicole.
So, it's not to allow the client to honestly discuss his or her case with an attorney. What is it for?