Um. What are YOU smoking? Temecul, CA. my 1st _new_ home, new subdiv, 2261 Sq. Ft, bought in Aug 1997 for $149,900 , sold in July 2001 for $244,000.
My current _new_ home, new sub div.( phase 2 ) 3217 sq. ft, bought in Nov. 2001 for $264,990 is selling like hotcakes in phase 7 for $303,990
Everyone wants to live out here, as it is a bedroom community between to major cities , Riverside and San Diego. Wine country, microclimate, low crime, great schools...
Networks care about _when_ a large demographic watches a show. It is neither cheaper nor more expensive to show a cult show at 4 am vs. Prime time. HOWEVER It _is_ more expensive for the advertiser to purchase ad space during prime time vs. 4 am. The networks don't give a shit if you watch the ads at all. They already sold the time to the advertisers. They give a shit about selling a large demographic of eyeballs to the advertiser and charging them MORE for the privilege of running the ad during Primetime. Time shifting allows you to record "Friends" during Primetime and watch it while eating your cornflakes sunday morning. If everyone does this with ease via TiVo, ( No tape, no setup , just type in genre ) then they can't charge the advertiser a premium for the juicy timeslot.
Yes, they are afraid of change. They are afraid that advertisers will question the primetime rate vs. the 4 am rate. Then it's a scramble once revenues flatten out. Instead of saying the demographic for "Friends" beats the demo for say, Invader Zim ( don't get me started ) they have to charge a similar rate because they can't use the criteria of "Prime timeslot". Once the rate becomes the same, the networks will compete to the point where J. Random User can buy a timeslot during Enterprise. It's the end of timeslot scarcity and the associated prices that terrifies the shit out of them.
From SciAM >...If extraterrestrials are commonplace, he asked, where are they? Should their presence not be obvious? This question has become known as the Fermi Paradox.
This problem really has two aspects: the failure of search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) programs to detect radio transmissions from other civilizations, and the lack of evidence that extraterrestrials have ever visited Earth.
Erm..using that logic, we shouldn't exist. Our radio waves are not yet detectable outside of a ~ 90 light year radius and we've never visited another planet outside of our own freakin' solar system...
Maybe it's 'cause they all have one major flaw:
proprietary OS tied to limited useability. If I buy a tablet PC, it better damn well run whatever *I* want it to, up to and including Linux, games, office suite, whatever. Today it's a web server, tomorrow, my newspaper, next day it's my gamepad while I'm in the crapper.
This just in: Simplicity shouldn't be bundled in with limitations. Keep it simple but keep it open. Let the masses find their own uses for the device.
sheesh. It's like buying a car that only drives on one freeway.
..interesting.. which brings to mind another thought: If all the retailers- sorry..*E-*Tailers and mega-corps now rush to abandon the web... in the end us geeks get what we wanted. A community without commercialism. Perhaps we are looking at the death nell of spam, viral marketing, hype, hyperbole, webbugs, tracking databases, domain name claimjumping, bullying, "one click" patents and other big business rudeness... I say good riddance! It's like Starbucks moving OUT of a community for a change..maybe the small "shops" will flourish once again.
Not, mind you, that I would like to see places such as thinkgeek or similar go.. just the clueless masses like Etoys..
..And the Church isn't? Pretty much everything you are claiming D&D will do to impressionable young minds the Knights Templar did in the name of the Christ. Not to mention the horrors visited upon every pagan in the old and new world in the name of Christianity. Rape, torture, burning, mutilation...great examples. Betcha more horrors have been committed in the name of God than D&D.
Thanks but no thanks. The guys I played D&D with are all decent, hardworking citizens who are productive members of society. Haven't yet met a truly tolerant Christian. ( Not that there aren't any, just never met one..) Mention homosexuality or wiccan and they rush to find the sections of the bible to support their bigotry and self-righteousness. Nevermind the sections that talk about tolerance, love for one another... that doesn't matter... IIRC it was religious nuts that stood outside the funeral of the Matthew Shepard who was beaten to death and hung on a fence in Montana by homophobes, not D&D players. "Christians" chanted and demonstrating that he deserved what he got and telling his parents that the boy was burning in hell... riiiight. And you claim D&D promotes unhealthy attitudes...
Color me a D&D player of old, and a Freethinker. Keep your organized religion. I'd much rather my son and daughter play D&D than absorb the values taught by your religion...
The swap file on an NT box is recreated every time you boot. Unless someone messes with the date in the bios , this is a good indicator of uptime. I have several in the 90 day range, one at 145 and counting.
I can't recall which book, so I will have to invest the time to reread.. I vaguely remember a scene where Son comes home, and Mom is ordering groceries / dinner online, pushes a button and it either gets delivered or pops out a chute onto the dining room table...Red Planet? Farmer in the Sky? Space Cadet? Star Beast? Anyone?
Freethinkers have no church, no common beliefs, no meetings, hell, we don't even do a bake sale.. Your Banana-nut muffin could be another Freethinkers incarnatation of the Cosmic Muffin...
Anyways.. I liked the Websters definition of it so.. here I am.
I merely have to WALK by the box to resurrect it. Shit you not, it's like an EM field or something.. or maybe it's my unshakeable belief that they're just fucking idiots and it only takes someone with half a brain to get it to boot.
Back in Ceramics class ( quit sniggering- not everyone in IT was a CS major ) we used to make a kiln-god to watch over the fire every semester. Woe betide the fool who moved and enraged the kiln-god. One unbeliever claimed it was nonsense, moved the kiln-god from his incandescent perch above the glory hole, and a greenware plate somehow managed to find it's way into the high-fire with explosive results... six shelves of porcelain pots collapsed,and the glazes and resulting pile of shards fuzed into one solid, jagged lump about a cubic meter in size. We had to use a sledgehammer to break it up...
Fast forward 13 years and two career changes. Now we have the Evil-Eye Clown Wand. The EECW consists of a Monster Eyeball Crazy-straw ( Taco Bell, 3 Halloweens ago.. ) with a Jack in the Box antenna ball stuck firmly on the end. Whenever we feel the dark cloud of self-doubt and confusion hovering above our heads, dulling our edge and robbing us of our supernatural IT abilities, we bless each other on the forehead with the EECW.... and then it's miracles as usual ( the impossible takes an extra day ) We used to just laugh about it, but lately... I figure it's building up a ferocious amount of negative karmic charge. When that wand is full, we're gonna be at ground zero of the biggest fuck-up fest you've ever seen...
3C
"If I were creating a world, I wouldn't mess about with butterflies and daffodils! I would've started with lasers, eight o'clock, day one!"
-Evil
Good for you. Attacking Moody *here* is pointless. On the one hand, telling ABC that they just allowed a hack (..in the journalistic sense of the word ) to tarnish their reputation as a reliable and unbiased news-resource will garner much more respect. If enough Slashdotters (..daughters? ) let ABC know we find Moody to be misinformed and drawing incorrect conclusions from misapplied statistical ( such as it is ) data, then perhaps they will think twice before letting him sound off again. On the other hand, any traffic is good traffic in terms of ad revenue.
On the gripping hand he's lost all credibiity with me, as has ABC ( looong ago..) and he no longer exists in my universe.
*poof*
( would LOVE to see a dialogue between him and Nick Petreley...)
3Cats ****** If I were creating a world, I wouldn't mess about with butterflies and daffodils! I would've started with lasers, eight o'clock, day one! -Evil
This thing looks like a flippin' Kleenex box... I wonder how long before someone parodies the ad showing a couple of sheets of tissue stuffed in the top... you know, for "nose bleed" game speed..
cute. I would have preferred a super flat box. Something I could velcro to the underside of a desk right up to the edge so the DVD would be accessable... Someday, someone will rediscover the Sony designed sphere TV. I wish I still had mine...
Probably none.. Experian, TRW and the other one ( can't recall ) do a similar thing.. collect good and bad credit references into a database, sell the database to companies who choose to use it, who then either grant or deny you credit based on the entry in your file. Not much you can do about it except make sure they keep ACCURATE data. The reporting of poor credit history isn't slander if you have records to prove it. If the judge has a brain stem, he'll toss it out..but that would require relying on a judge having a brain stem..
When my Grandma dies, 87 odd years of knowledge and experience will vanish in the blink of an eye.. stories about *her* grandmother living during the civil war and arguing with the Yankee captain over a stolen watch, growing up during the depression.. WWII and opening her home up to wives of soldiers " gone off to war.." , her secret bait for catching red snapper by the creel, losing 2 husbands and a son.. all told with an incredibly dry sense of humor and no bitterness in her deep 'suthren' accent.. I have been trying to get as much on as I can on tape for transcription and storytelling but it's pretty much dipping a spoon into a firehose of knowledge.. I have her recipe for pecan pie and peach cobbler, but it won't be the same as when she makes it and diddles with the mix..
We worry over lost bits of paper and degrading magnetic media, while all around us 99% of the really valuable information winks out of existance in retirement homes...
On that note: CALL YOUR GRANDMA! Get her to tell you stories about when she was young...
( My grandma can describe for you the exact experience of riding in an old ford , 60 miles an hour down a back road in Willow,SC at midnight....with 'shine in the trunk. Priceless! )
.. moderate me down.. but, I find it fascinating that whenever there is some legal-related article on/. every post is preceded by IANAL.. but a blurb about taxes brings Accountants out of the woodwork!. How refreshing and interesting.. does this mean more accountants read/. than attorneys? Or do more accountants post than attorneys? Or is the real truth that attorneys aren't interested in providing any meaningful insight and dialogue to a discussion unless there is a buck in it for them? ( Yes, I did see the post farther up from the one attorney, with the " this is not legal advise.." disclaimer. ) So he is the exception to the rule...
I know, off-topic,sorry but I found it revealing about the types of people that read and post on/.
I can't for the life of me remember the name of the movie, or even much of the plot, but it centered around Coke and Pepsi, some guy in ( Australia? NZ? ) anyway.. the only thing I recall was a line about one of the workers wearing a Pepsi T-shirt in the corporate office and he worked for Coke. The lead actor commented on it, and the response was.." So? They probably have a guy over there wearing one of our shirts..."
Anyway. All I ever wear is 501's ( like the fit ) and some random t-shirt. Most have no logo, the ones that do are all freebies from tradeshows or Compaq ( I will wear their shirts but I draw the line at using their products.. ) or else it's a FOUR STAR MARY t-shirt. I have no problem wearing their logo. I like their music and want them to succeed.
..does wearing Doc Martens make me a corporate whore if you can't see the label?
Slashdot Mirror
>At the moment many people casually dislike Microsoft for it's business practices and products..
Speak for yourself...
Gnash-Froth-Foam Die! Die! Die!
3C
You're probably thinking of Bob Brier.a rc hive/new01.html
http://www.cwpost.liu.edu/cwis/cwp/pr/whatsnew/
He's really good.I especially liked this episode that aired on Discovery...
3C
MST3K the Movie. Parodied "This Island Earth"
Where's my prize?
3C
Um. What are YOU smoking?
Temecul, CA.
my 1st _new_ home, new subdiv, 2261 Sq. Ft, bought in Aug 1997 for $149,900 , sold in July 2001 for $244,000.
My current _new_ home, new sub div.( phase 2 ) 3217 sq. ft, bought in Nov. 2001 for $264,990 is selling like hotcakes in phase 7 for $303,990
Everyone wants to live out here, as it is a bedroom community between to major cities , Riverside and San Diego. Wine country, microclimate, low crime, great schools...
3C
"..sucked in to a workhole.."
snarfed! Assuming that "Work" is a blackhole ="workhole"
3C
...Science....
Networks care about _when_ a large demographic watches a show. It is neither cheaper nor more expensive to show a cult show at 4 am vs. Prime time. HOWEVER It _is_ more expensive for the advertiser to purchase ad space during prime time vs. 4 am. The networks don't give a shit if you watch the ads at all. They already sold the time to the advertisers. They give a shit about selling a large demographic of eyeballs to the advertiser and charging them MORE for the privilege of running the ad during Primetime. Time shifting allows you to record "Friends" during Primetime and watch it while eating your cornflakes sunday morning. If everyone does this with ease via TiVo, ( No tape, no setup , just type in genre ) then they can't charge the advertiser a premium for the juicy timeslot.
Yes, they are afraid of change. They are afraid that advertisers will question the primetime rate vs. the 4 am rate. Then it's a scramble once revenues flatten out. Instead of saying the demographic for "Friends" beats the demo for say, Invader Zim ( don't get me started ) they have to charge a similar rate because they can't use the criteria of "Prime timeslot". Once the rate becomes the same, the networks will compete to the point where J. Random User can buy a timeslot during Enterprise. It's the end of timeslot scarcity and the associated prices that terrifies the shit out of them.
3C
The supervisor probably told them, "Remember, you can't have too much water..." before he took off for lunch.
It went downhill from there.
3C
Excuse me? What was Fermi smoking?
From SciAM >...If extraterrestrials are commonplace, he asked, where are they? Should their presence not be obvious? This question has become known as the Fermi Paradox.
This problem really has two aspects: the failure of search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) programs to detect radio transmissions from other civilizations, and the lack of evidence that extraterrestrials have ever visited Earth.
Erm..using that logic, we shouldn't exist. Our radio waves are not yet detectable outside of a ~ 90 light year radius and we've never visited another planet outside of our own freakin' solar system...
oops. We're just figments of our.. *poof*
3C
http://www.glow-bug.com/main.html for the goat-paranoid
3C
Maybe it's 'cause they all have one major flaw:
proprietary OS tied to limited useability. If I buy a tablet PC, it better damn well run whatever *I* want it to, up to and including Linux, games, office suite, whatever. Today it's a web server, tomorrow, my newspaper, next day it's my gamepad while I'm in the crapper.
This just in: Simplicity shouldn't be bundled in with limitations. Keep it simple but keep it open. Let the masses find their own uses for the device.
sheesh. It's like buying a car that only drives on one freeway.
3C
..interesting.. which brings to mind another thought: If all the retailers- sorry..*E-*Tailers and mega-corps now rush to abandon the web... in the end us geeks get what we wanted. A community without commercialism. Perhaps we are looking at the death nell of spam, viral marketing, hype, hyperbole, webbugs, tracking databases, domain name claimjumping, bullying, "one click" patents and other big business rudeness... I say good riddance! It's like Starbucks moving OUT of a community for a change..maybe the small "shops" will flourish once again.
Not, mind you, that I would like to see places such as thinkgeek or similar go.. just the clueless masses like Etoys..
Saddened to see Linuxworld go...
3Cats
Good for them! Hunting and selling cars on ANY day is despicable. Cars should be allowed to roam free..
oh. Nevermind....
;-)
Interesting. The last 4 or so posts from happy employees all come from (nearly) sequential User I.D's.
Salting much?
..And the Church isn't? Pretty much everything you are claiming D&D will do to impressionable young minds the Knights Templar did in the name of the Christ. Not to mention the horrors visited upon every pagan in the old and new world in the name of Christianity. Rape, torture, burning, mutilation...great examples. Betcha more horrors have been committed in the name of God than D&D.
Thanks but no thanks. The guys I played D&D with are all decent, hardworking citizens who are productive members of society. Haven't yet met a truly tolerant Christian. ( Not that there aren't any, just never met one..) Mention homosexuality or wiccan and they rush to find the sections of the bible to support their bigotry and self-righteousness. Nevermind the sections that talk about tolerance, love for one another... that doesn't matter... IIRC it was religious nuts that stood outside the funeral of the Matthew Shepard who was beaten to death and hung on a fence in Montana by homophobes, not D&D players. "Christians" chanted and demonstrating that he deserved what he got and telling his parents that the boy was burning in hell... riiiight. And you claim D&D promotes unhealthy attitudes...
Color me a D&D player of old, and a Freethinker. Keep your organized religion. I'd much rather my son and daughter play D&D than absorb the values taught by your religion...
3C
The swap file on an NT box is recreated every time you boot. Unless someone messes with the date in the bios , this is a good indicator of uptime. I have several in the 90 day range, one at 145 and counting.
YMMV
But I still prefer Linux.
3C
I can't recall which book, so I will have to invest the time to reread .. I vaguely remember a scene where Son comes home, and Mom is ordering groceries / dinner online, pushes a button and it either gets delivered or pops out a chute onto the dining room table...Red Planet? Farmer in the Sky? Space Cadet? Star Beast? Anyone?
Sure could use $10k
3C
Freethinker here.
Freethinkers have no church, no common beliefs, no meetings, hell, we don't even do a bake sale.. Your Banana-nut muffin could be another Freethinkers incarnatation of the Cosmic Muffin...
Anyways.. I liked the Websters definition of it so.. here I am.
3C
pish.
I merely have to WALK by the box to resurrect it. Shit you not, it's like an EM field or something.. or maybe it's my unshakeable belief that they're just fucking idiots and it only takes someone with half a brain to get it to boot.
Back in Ceramics class ( quit sniggering- not everyone in IT was a CS major ) we used to make a kiln-god to watch over the fire every semester. Woe betide the fool who moved and enraged the kiln-god. One unbeliever claimed it was nonsense, moved the kiln-god from his incandescent perch above the glory hole, and a greenware plate somehow managed to find it's way into the high-fire with explosive results... six shelves of porcelain pots collapsed,and the glazes and resulting pile of shards fuzed into one solid, jagged lump about a cubic meter in size. We had to use a sledgehammer to break it up...
Fast forward 13 years and two career changes. Now we have the Evil-Eye Clown Wand. The EECW consists of a Monster Eyeball Crazy-straw ( Taco Bell, 3 Halloweens ago.. ) with a Jack in the Box antenna ball stuck firmly on the end. Whenever we feel the dark cloud of self-doubt and confusion hovering above our heads, dulling our edge and robbing us of our supernatural IT abilities, we bless each other on the forehead with the EECW.... and then it's miracles as usual ( the impossible takes an extra day ) We used to just laugh about it, but lately... I figure it's building up a ferocious amount of negative karmic charge. When that wand is full, we're gonna be at ground zero of the biggest fuck-up fest you've ever seen...
3C
"If I were creating a world, I wouldn't mess about with butterflies and daffodils! I would've started with lasers, eight o'clock, day one!"
-Evil
Good for you. Attacking Moody *here* is pointless. On the one hand, telling ABC that they just allowed a hack ( ..in the journalistic sense of the word ) to tarnish their reputation as a reliable and unbiased news-resource will garner much more respect. If enough Slashdotters ( ..daughters? ) let ABC know we find Moody to be misinformed and drawing incorrect conclusions from misapplied statistical ( such as it is ) data, then perhaps they will think twice before letting him sound off again. On the other hand, any traffic is good traffic in terms of ad revenue.
...)
On the gripping hand he's lost all credibiity with me, as has ABC ( looong ago..) and he no longer exists in my universe.
*poof*
( would LOVE to see a dialogue between him and Nick Petreley
3Cats
******
If I were creating a world, I wouldn't mess about with butterflies and daffodils! I would've started with lasers, eight o'clock, day one!
-Evil
This thing looks like a flippin' Kleenex box... I wonder how long before someone parodies the ad showing a couple of sheets of tissue stuffed in the top... you know, for "nose bleed" game speed..
cute. I would have preferred a super flat box. Something I could velcro to the underside of a desk right up to the edge so the DVD would be accessable... Someday, someone will rediscover the Sony designed sphere TV. I wish I still had mine...
3C
Probably none.. Experian, TRW and the other one ( can't recall ) do a similar thing.. collect good and bad credit references into a database, sell the database to companies who choose to use it, who then either grant or deny you credit based on the entry in your file. Not much you can do about it except make sure they keep ACCURATE data. The reporting of poor credit history isn't slander if you have records to prove it. If the judge has a brain stem, he'll toss it out..but that would require relying on a judge having a brain stem..
C.
When my Grandma dies, 87 odd years of knowledge and experience will vanish in the blink of an eye.. stories about *her* grandmother living during the civil war and arguing with the Yankee captain over a stolen watch, growing up during the depression.. WWII and opening her home up to wives of soldiers " gone off to war.." , her secret bait for catching red snapper by the creel, losing 2 husbands and a son.. all told with an incredibly dry sense of humor and no bitterness in her deep 'suthren' accent.. I have been trying to get as much on as I can on tape for transcription and storytelling but it's pretty much dipping a spoon into a firehose of knowledge.. I have her recipe for pecan pie and peach cobbler, but it won't be the same as when she makes it and diddles with the mix..
We worry over lost bits of paper and degrading magnetic media, while all around us 99% of the really valuable information winks out of existance in retirement homes...
On that note: CALL YOUR GRANDMA! Get her to tell you stories about when she was young...
( My grandma can describe for you the exact experience of riding in an old ford , 60 miles an hour down a back road in Willow,SC at midnight....with 'shine in the trunk. Priceless! )
3Cats
.. moderate me down.. but, I find it fascinating that whenever there is some legal-related article on /. every post is preceded by IANAL.. but a blurb about taxes brings Accountants out of the woodwork!. How refreshing and interesting.. does this mean more accountants read /. than attorneys? Or do more accountants post than attorneys? Or is the real truth that attorneys aren't interested in providing any meaningful insight and dialogue to a discussion unless there is a buck in it for them? ( Yes, I did see the post farther up from the one attorney, with the " this is not legal advise .." disclaimer. ) So he is the exception to the rule...
/.
I know, off-topic,sorry but I found it revealing about the types of people that read and post on
Back to your topic- move along..
3C
I can't for the life of me remember the name of the movie, or even much of the plot, but it centered around Coke and Pepsi, some guy in ( Australia? NZ? ) anyway.. the only thing I recall was a line about one of the workers wearing a Pepsi T-shirt in the corporate office and he worked for Coke. The lead actor commented on it, and the response was.." So? They probably have a guy over there wearing one of our shirts..."
Anyway. All I ever wear is 501's ( like the fit ) and some random t-shirt. Most have no logo, the ones that do are all freebies from tradeshows or Compaq ( I will wear their shirts but I draw the line at using their products.. ) or else it's a
FOUR STAR MARY t-shirt. I have no problem wearing their logo. I like their music and want them to succeed.
..does wearing Doc Martens make me a corporate whore if you can't see the label?
3C