Content distributers rip off the artist and the consumer at the same time. They destroy creativity and resist innovation. Where have I heard this before?
I happened to know a small time author and he distributes through amazon. The price of his ebooks is the same as the price of a real book. Yet amazon pays him less for an ebook sale than a real book. He has no choice in the matter. So he tells everyone to buy the paper copy if they can. Seems like bullshit to me.
The open source community is pretty cool. Simply getting together in the right forum would likely get the right people interested in helping you. Hell I'd start with posting to Slashdot... hey... WAIT A MINUTE WE'VE BEEN HAD!!!
Yea, but Cert problems are so common that people routinely just click "yes" to anything that is cert related. The biggest problem with SSL is that it is difficult enough to get right that people are used to it not working right. When I was a teenager I worked in a department store where the alarm at the door would go off about once an hour... needless to say we never caught a single shop lifter.
I know everyone likes to hammer on Walmart, but the fact of the matter is I know plenty of people that work at walmart. They have low wage jobs that are typically taken by teenagers and college students but then they have long term employment as well. My aunt started there with no prior experience 30 years ago and made enough to buy a 2 story house and put all of her kids through college as a single mom. Her oldest daughter got a full scholarship from walmart and is now a school teacher. Walmart paid for all of her tuition, her housing and just about all of her expenses. My bests friends wife worked at walmart for 10 years and learned accounting. She now works for the veterans bureau and swears she'd never have gotten the experience required to work there without walmart.
I'm not saying that walmart doesn't have it's problems. But any company that size would. They are not the big bad evil company everyone makes them out to be.
It takes a lot of idiots blowing their money and Starbucks and Banana Republic to generate the kind of economy you need pull of things like the Hubble Telescope.
You know what is more dangerous than cellphones in cars? Breast. No lie.
It is a fact that in over 50% of all accidents there were at LEAST 2 breasts in the car at the time. Often times 4 or more! Breasts are twice as likely to be involved in any accident that cellphone or penises. I call for an immediate ban on breasts in moving vehicles. They can be near them while the car is at rest, preferably at a car show, both otherwise they more dangerous than drunk driving!!!
That's, of course, unless you want to actually use statistics for something other than alarmism.
bigot - noun \bi-gt\ - a person who strongly and unfairly dislikes other people, ideas, etc. : a bigoted person; especially : a person who hates or refuses to accept the members of a particular group (such as a racial or religious group)
I'm cool. The problem is, the general public is just too God damned stupid to notice. Reading a book that tells me how to dumb down my interactions with the majority of the idiots that surround me so they can understand what I'm talking about doesn't make me any less cool. Did learning English make Antonio Banderas less cool? No. It just made stupid Americans capable of understanding just how cool he is.
Viacom is about to go dark in 800 markets and 5 million homes because they want to nearly double their rate overnight: http://www.latimes.com/enterta...
And TV wonders why it's dieing. Just like the music industry, TV and Movie studios are vastly overestimating the value of their product.
I doubt it was an accident either. Remember movie stores? If I got a big enough late fee I'd just go back to the store and use my given name instead of my nick name to get a new card. Charles or Charlie, John or Johnathan, etc... Worked every time.
Having been in a somewhat similar boat in the past (I was in a contract with a company that went bankrupt) No... the company that purchased the assets of that company (i.e. people that owed it money etc...) does not purchase that same companies liabilities. In fact, due to the bankruptcy those liabilities basically vanish for all intents and purposes. So now you have a company you owe money to or are liable to and you have no recourse if the services or products provided were faulty or caused you damage.
Lucky for me I was young, poor, and in college, told the do go F#@$ themselves, and took the hit to my credit with pride.
Notch is already rich as hell. I don't think he cares about more money at this point.
A general truth about rich people, that may or may not apply to Notch individually, is that they never feel they have enough money.
I don't think this is true at all. You're turning rich people into a cast. A cast that if you compare anyone here on slashdot to the average person in the world, we'd fall into. I'm certainly richer than 99% of Africa or China. Would I like more money? Sure... but I'm not going to sell my soul for it. Or ruin my greatest work. I have a house, a family, 2 dogs, and I can eat what I want, when I want. I'll take more money, but I'm not going to work very hard for it.
Blackholes do not have infinite density. If they did, the idiots on CNN would have been right... they'd be sucking in the entire universe. Be careful when using the word "infinite". A blackhole has a finite mass and a finite radius. The singularity has no radius, but also has no mass. It's just the center of the gravity field of the entire object.
Notch is already rich as hell. I don't think he cares about more money at this point. Minecraft could have already made him oodles more cash if he'd change it to a freemium model. But he's not.
Perhaps Facebook plans to use this thing and build a sort of "Secondlife" experience in the Facebook world?
I doubt it. They see this as the next step in online activity and they don't want to be left out like they were with cellphones. My guess is their long game is that the tech the Oculus built will be the standard for future tech (google glass in 3D) and your Oculus will be mobile, portable and go everywhere with you. You want flags over everyones head so you know their name, age, and relationship status at a glance? Facebook can provide that! Along with everywhere they've been in the past 3 years. Oh, and they're interested in a new car so...
Go to any checkout line in the country with the automated registers. There's still a cashier! There are 4 registers, one's permanently out of order... The one next to it is flashing red because the old lady in front of you tried paying with Canadian pennies and when you finally get to one of the two that do work it wont register the box of Kleenex you just bought because it's too lite. The cashiers trying to make her way to you but those damned Canadian pennies are a bitch to get out of the slot.
There are many Hard Scifi novels in which data storage is kept on the event horizon of a black-hole, or more commonly on a neutron star. This isn't a new idea. And before you say "A Neutron star isn't a black hole!" Do the math... it might as well be. Just because the energy required to leave it's gravitational field isn't infinite doesn't mean it's anywhere within the realm of possible to achieve.
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Content distributers rip off the artist and the consumer at the same time. They destroy creativity and resist innovation. Where have I heard this before?
I happened to know a small time author and he distributes through amazon. The price of his ebooks is the same as the price of a real book. Yet amazon pays him less for an ebook sale than a real book. He has no choice in the matter. So he tells everyone to buy the paper copy if they can. Seems like bullshit to me.
The open source community is pretty cool. Simply getting together in the right forum would likely get the right people interested in helping you. Hell I'd start with posting to Slashdot... hey... WAIT A MINUTE WE'VE BEEN HAD!!!
Yea, but Cert problems are so common that people routinely just click "yes" to anything that is cert related. The biggest problem with SSL is that it is difficult enough to get right that people are used to it not working right. When I was a teenager I worked in a department store where the alarm at the door would go off about once an hour... needless to say we never caught a single shop lifter.
I'm a bit surprised they didn't pick some sort of Kevlar composite.
I know everyone likes to hammer on Walmart, but the fact of the matter is I know plenty of people that work at walmart. They have low wage jobs that are typically taken by teenagers and college students but then they have long term employment as well. My aunt started there with no prior experience 30 years ago and made enough to buy a 2 story house and put all of her kids through college as a single mom. Her oldest daughter got a full scholarship from walmart and is now a school teacher. Walmart paid for all of her tuition, her housing and just about all of her expenses. My bests friends wife worked at walmart for 10 years and learned accounting. She now works for the veterans bureau and swears she'd never have gotten the experience required to work there without walmart.
I'm not saying that walmart doesn't have it's problems. But any company that size would. They are not the big bad evil company everyone makes them out to be.
How did this story make it on slashdot but the story bellow it:
Russia Uses Ukraine's Dolphin Squad, But for What Porpoise?
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I, for one, make sure that every time I drive my penis is outside the vehicle.
It takes a lot of idiots blowing their money and Starbucks and Banana Republic to generate the kind of economy you need pull of things like the Hubble Telescope.
You know what is more dangerous than cellphones in cars? Breast. No lie.
It is a fact that in over 50% of all accidents there were at LEAST 2 breasts in the car at the time. Often times 4 or more! Breasts are twice as likely to be involved in any accident that cellphone or penises. I call for an immediate ban on breasts in moving vehicles. They can be near them while the car is at rest, preferably at a car show, both otherwise they more dangerous than drunk driving!!!
That's, of course, unless you want to actually use statistics for something other than alarmism.
bigot - noun \bi-gt\ - a person who strongly and unfairly dislikes other people, ideas, etc. : a bigoted person; especially : a person who hates or refuses to accept the members of a particular group (such as a racial or religious group)
And yes, I'm calling you one.
Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after you.
I'm cool. The problem is, the general public is just too God damned stupid to notice. Reading a book that tells me how to dumb down my interactions with the majority of the idiots that surround me so they can understand what I'm talking about doesn't make me any less cool. Did learning English make Antonio Banderas less cool? No. It just made stupid Americans capable of understanding just how cool he is.
Viacom is about to go dark in 800 markets and 5 million homes because they want to nearly double their rate overnight: http://www.latimes.com/enterta...
And TV wonders why it's dieing. Just like the music industry, TV and Movie studios are vastly overestimating the value of their product.
I doubt it was an accident either. Remember movie stores? If I got a big enough late fee I'd just go back to the store and use my given name instead of my nick name to get a new card. Charles or Charlie, John or Johnathan, etc... Worked every time.
So, Mr oBama would have a Levenshtein distance of 1 with oSama then? Good job there.
Apparently you haven't read the comments section of the weekly standard lately.
Having been in a somewhat similar boat in the past (I was in a contract with a company that went bankrupt) No... the company that purchased the assets of that company (i.e. people that owed it money etc...) does not purchase that same companies liabilities. In fact, due to the bankruptcy those liabilities basically vanish for all intents and purposes. So now you have a company you owe money to or are liable to and you have no recourse if the services or products provided were faulty or caused you damage.
Lucky for me I was young, poor, and in college, told the do go F#@$ themselves, and took the hit to my credit with pride.
Sure they are. They research who they can sue, then sue them.
Notch is already rich as hell. I don't think he cares about more money at this point.
A general truth about rich people, that may or may not apply to Notch individually, is that they never feel they have enough money.
I don't think this is true at all. You're turning rich people into a cast. A cast that if you compare anyone here on slashdot to the average person in the world, we'd fall into. I'm certainly richer than 99% of Africa or China. Would I like more money? Sure... but I'm not going to sell my soul for it. Or ruin my greatest work. I have a house, a family, 2 dogs, and I can eat what I want, when I want. I'll take more money, but I'm not going to work very hard for it.
Blackholes do not have infinite density. If they did, the idiots on CNN would have been right... they'd be sucking in the entire universe. Be careful when using the word "infinite". A blackhole has a finite mass and a finite radius. The singularity has no radius, but also has no mass. It's just the center of the gravity field of the entire object.
I'd kind of like to have them point this "UP"
Just how many reactors do you think we have in orbit now? I bet you it's more than a few.
Notch is already rich as hell. I don't think he cares about more money at this point. Minecraft could have already made him oodles more cash if he'd change it to a freemium model. But he's not.
Perhaps Facebook plans to use this thing and build a sort of "Secondlife" experience in the Facebook world?
I doubt it. They see this as the next step in online activity and they don't want to be left out like they were with cellphones. My guess is their long game is that the tech the Oculus built will be the standard for future tech (google glass in 3D) and your Oculus will be mobile, portable and go everywhere with you. You want flags over everyones head so you know their name, age, and relationship status at a glance? Facebook can provide that! Along with everywhere they've been in the past 3 years. Oh, and they're interested in a new car so...
So how many Station Cash is each suit anyway?
Go to any checkout line in the country with the automated registers. There's still a cashier! There are 4 registers, one's permanently out of order... The one next to it is flashing red because the old lady in front of you tried paying with Canadian pennies and when you finally get to one of the two that do work it wont register the box of Kleenex you just bought because it's too lite. The cashiers trying to make her way to you but those damned Canadian pennies are a bitch to get out of the slot.
There are many Hard Scifi novels in which data storage is kept on the event horizon of a black-hole, or more commonly on a neutron star. This isn't a new idea. And before you say "A Neutron star isn't a black hole!" Do the math... it might as well be. Just because the energy required to leave it's gravitational field isn't infinite doesn't mean it's anywhere within the realm of possible to achieve.