Obviously he should have jumped off the top of the ladder, and with the moons reduced gravity etc, he could have placed his first boot print a good 30 metres away from the ladder, and with a deeper impression to make it less likely to erode.
One small leap for (a) man, one giant bootprint for mankind.
Look everyone knows North Korea is just testing their rockets right ?
Once they've perfected the science, Kim Jong Il will be able to get his bagels delivered from Hong Kong that much faster... erm, if he isn't already dead.
I hope you remembered to tell your children, not to do as I have done ?
Me, I've got one foot on the platform, the other foot on the train. The train left 5 minutes ago, and now I have a severe crotch pain.
Thankfully, my mother is a tailor, and will be able to sew my ripped blue jeans. As for Father, he's either in a gambling house, or lying on top of a drunk (always confused me too, but listen to the original lyrics.. he does say "the only time he's satisfied is when he's *on* a drunk".
Gold is usually a good investment, and the resale value is invariably higher than the original purchase price.
I don't really get your point here. If someone makes a good purchase that retains it's value / original condition, does that mean the person they bought it from is entitled to a cut on resale ?
Moreover, in the reverse case where something DOES devalue (cars, houses, damn near everything), does that mean I can demand a rebate from the seller in 10 years ?
First Sale means just that. Goods are exchanged at a price agreed on by both parties. Once you sold it, it's no longer yours to dictate the conditions of a future resale.
people are giving $55 dollars to a company that does nothing, rather than $60 to the studio that actually made the game
Possibly because the people that made the game ALREADY got their $60 dollars when they sold it the first time around. These are used games we are talking about.
And the "company that does nothing", except buying used games from joe public without any guarantee that they will be able to resell them ever, is a huge risk. I'd bet for every game they resell, there's another 3 that they end up binning because no one wants it.
Hmm, I wouldn't say "greedy" as such. When GameStop buys a used game from you, I'm assuming that you get the cash right away ?
In which case, they are absorbing a hell of a lot of risk of getting stuck with that game if no one else decides to buy it.
I'd say that huge mark up, i.e. to within $5 - $10 of the original retail price, is to balance the losses from games that they eventually end up binning.
In any buy and sell agreement, both buyer and seller agree to the price... it's no good whining that that old dusty stamp collection of your Grandads you sold for $10 turns out to contain a Penny Red worth millions.
How do you think antique collectors, in fact, ANY buy and sell business model works. Buy low, sell high, spot the bargains... and if you like, rip off the innocent / naive client. You go into any deal with your eyes open, if you don't like their policies / markup, don't sell to them. I'm sure you'd be happier posting it on e-Bay or Craigslist and checking the bids for the next 6 months rather than getting cash-in-hand in 1 hour from GameStop.
They're working on a way to charge you $60 for a licence for that. FTFY
You will not OWN the hoop and stick, you will simply be "renting hoop and stick IP" from MegaCorp(tm). You will be required to re-activate the product if either the hoop or stick is changed for whatever reason, example if you get a bigger stick, or one of those new-fangled blu-ray mini-hoops.
Furthermore, after 3 years they will shut down the DRM (Doesn't Roll Much) servers so you will no longer be able to roll your hoop with your stick and will need to purchase a new set. You will not be allowed to let your friends play with your hoop and stick, nor can you make public performances in places such as bars, cafes and oil rigs.
But has to slow down in certain residential areas, near crossings etc.
stop for red lights/stop signs
They do if it's a red light on the track.
You can read, play games, sleep or carry a real conversation on a train.
You can also end up standing for 8 hours because they didn't provide enough carriages, or get attacked by marauding soccer hooligans on their way home from the away game.
You don't have to be sober or alert.
You don't actually have to be sober or alert in a car, although it does help.
You also don't have to circle around city blocks looking for parking for half an hour or pay outrageous fees to park.
You circle around looking for an empty block of seats, away from anyone who might be over talkative, away from screaming babies and kids etc. Oh, and have you seen the price of a soggy bacon buttie on a train ? Parking is usually cheaper !
On top of it all, it doesn't pollute the environment as much as it would if everyone were driving cars.
If all cars were electrically powered, this might be up for debate.
I'm pretty sure Martin Luther King wants a word with you. Segregation and Slavery were abolished because they were WRONG, plain and simple, and penalised a MINORITY of the people. I'm sure that the majority of people, especially those who owned slaves, were mildly annoyed by the change in the law. However, it was changed precisely because the black people rebelled, challenged, and actively broke the laws. Rosa Parks by your logic should have given up her seat, because "we mustn't break the law", correct ?
In the case of soft drugs, agreed, it is *probably* a minority (there are any number of polls, and whichever ones you don't agree with it's easy to find reasons why not, hell they're just a bunch of stoners after all), that wants the law changed.
However, it is NOT the case that it is against the will of the majority, as the majority could care less one way or the other. The wishes of the government do not come into the issue, the government are elected to serve the people, and should be making no decisions on their own. Sadly this is not the case in most "civilised countries", but it's what we are stuck with.
But your ethos of "don't break the law under any circumstances" simply means that the downtrodden remain that way... with no other form of recourse, breaking an injust law is the only way to get it changed.
(I'm pretty certain all the above WERE in fact laws of the land at one point or another in time).
I'd imagine that you aren't in fact a blaspheming black Witch who happens to be drunk and wearing a ball and chain. But one thing is for sure... you sir are a prize asshole.
Laws exist to protect the interests of the people. When a law is patently no longer fit for it's purpose (or in this case, NEVER was fit for purpose in the first place, it was instigated to protect wood pulp farmers from competition, nothing to do with it's intoxicating properties), it needs to be challenged, lobbied against, even broken, until it is ultimately revised or abolished.
As I remember the 555 used to do horrible spiky things to the voltage, that's why we always had to do decoupling on the power lines, even in silly little 9v PP3 battery projects. We always used to substitute a couple of gates from a 4001 or 4011 to make better behaved frequency generators. Of course, I'm going back about 30 years...
The iPhone version 3 is finally getting all the stuff that other cellphones have had for 10 years ? And people will still blindly pay through the nose for these "exclusive features" ?
Not sure about the compass though, I'd have preferred a pair of nail clippers, a corkscrew / bottle opener, and a pair of scissors... wait, we're talking about a Swiss Army Knife right ?
We can only hope that the iPhone version 4 will at least upgrade the camera to 1.3 megapix.
'The pirated version is a buggy, pre-final build of the game,' Holly Rockwood, a company spokeswoman, said in an e-mailed statement. 'It's not the full game. Half the world -- an entire city -- is missing from the pirated copy.'
So, EA decide to sell a game without making any demos available.
Then an EA employee manages to get a pre-final build of the game, with half the data missing, and posts it on torrent sites.
Then EA complain about piracy of a broken not-even-beta quality build ? I suspect a lot of people who downloaded it thought is *was* a demo, seeing as how it is apparently so broken.
Either it's a publicity stunt to show why we "really need DRM after all", or they have no internal security inside EA when any employee can walk out with in-design code. Or both probably.
told him he'd need to log out or switch users to an administrator if he wanted to install something.
Which of course doesn't help, as most people WANT to install free screensavers or 100 new smileys for their email. The whole "switch to an admin account" merely serves as an annoyance at first, and then becomes rote after a few installs.
It's only useful for tech-types, who of course are more likely to take care what (and from where) they are downloading, run a virus scan on it, and hence be the group most unlikely to need the "protection of an admin account" in the first place.
I wish I had a positive solution to this, but pretending that admin accounts are the holy grail of security is just shortsighted.
I mean, of course, Kim has one laptop so he can order his bagels online from Hong Kong each morning, but for a society who weren't aware that man had landed on the moon, and spend the whole year practicing for a one day parade that their great leader usually misses due to commitments (he's either drunk, or with a girlfriend, or dead etc), I'm amazed the.nk domain needs a DNS. Might as well just assign them 255.255.255.254 and be done with it.
did some artist that sold his art try to return after the sale and demand that he be given more money? No, because he had already sold his right to do so.
Interesting choice of words, considering that is *exactly* what Sony, RIAA et al WANT to happen. You can not share your media, you cannot lend your media, hell, you cannot even listen to your media if there is anyone else within 500 yards, lest it be considered a public broadcast.
These people would have you buy 1 DVD, 1 CD, 1 MP3, 1 OGG and 1 iTunes format OF THE SAME THING !!!
If you can't see how that is wrong, regardless of any piracy arguments, then you are lost.
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Yes, what was Neil *thinking* of ?
Obviously he should have jumped off the top of the ladder, and with the moons reduced gravity etc, he could have placed his first boot print a good 30 metres away from the ladder, and with a deeper impression to make it less likely to erode.
One small leap for (a) man, one giant bootprint for mankind.
Look everyone knows North Korea is just testing their rockets right ?
Once they've perfected the science, Kim Jong Il will be able to get his bagels delivered from Hong Kong that much faster ... erm, if he isn't already dead.
I hope you remembered to tell your children, not to do as I have done ?
Me, I've got one foot on the platform, the other foot on the train. The train left 5 minutes ago, and now I have a severe crotch pain.
Thankfully, my mother is a tailor, and will be able to sew my ripped blue jeans. As for Father, he's either in a gambling house, or lying on top of a drunk (always confused me too, but listen to the original lyrics .. he does say "the only time he's satisfied is when he's *on* a drunk".
Gold is usually a good investment, and the resale value is invariably higher than the original purchase price.
I don't really get your point here. If someone makes a good purchase that retains it's value / original condition, does that mean the person they bought it from is entitled to a cut on resale ?
Moreover, in the reverse case where something DOES devalue (cars, houses, damn near everything), does that mean I can demand a rebate from the seller in 10 years ?
First Sale means just that. Goods are exchanged at a price agreed on by both parties. Once you sold it, it's no longer yours to dictate the conditions of a future resale.
people are giving $55 dollars to a company that does nothing, rather than $60 to the studio that actually made the game
Possibly because the people that made the game ALREADY got their $60 dollars when they sold it the first time around. These are used games we are talking about.
And the "company that does nothing", except buying used games from joe public without any guarantee that they will be able to resell them ever, is a huge risk. I'd bet for every game they resell, there's another 3 that they end up binning because no one wants it.
Yeah, it's like complaining that the owners of the car park are making so much profit when they hold a car boot sale on their property.
Hmm, I wouldn't say "greedy" as such. When GameStop buys a used game from you, I'm assuming that you get the cash right away ?
In which case, they are absorbing a hell of a lot of risk of getting stuck with that game if no one else decides to buy it.
I'd say that huge mark up, i.e. to within $5 - $10 of the original retail price, is to balance the losses from games that they eventually end up binning.
In any buy and sell agreement, both buyer and seller agree to the price ... it's no good whining that that old dusty stamp collection of your Grandads you sold for $10 turns out to contain a Penny Red worth millions.
How do you think antique collectors, in fact, ANY buy and sell business model works. Buy low, sell high, spot the bargains ... and if you like, rip off the innocent / naive client. You go into any deal with your eyes open, if you don't like their policies / markup, don't sell to them. I'm sure you'd be happier posting it on e-Bay or Craigslist and checking the bids for the next 6 months rather than getting cash-in-hand in 1 hour from GameStop.
Apple's App Store.
Protecting you from the word "FUCK" since 1997.
They're working on a way to charge you $60 for a licence for that. FTFY
You will not OWN the hoop and stick, you will simply be "renting hoop and stick IP" from MegaCorp(tm). You will be required to re-activate the product if either the hoop or stick is changed for whatever reason, example if you get a bigger stick, or one of those new-fangled blu-ray mini-hoops.
Furthermore, after 3 years they will shut down the DRM (Doesn't Roll Much) servers so you will no longer be able to roll your hoop with your stick and will need to purchase a new set. You will not be allowed to let your friends play with your hoop and stick, nor can you make public performances in places such as bars, cafes and oil rigs.
I could go on, but you get the picture ...
A train doesn't have to wait for traffic
But has to slow down in certain residential areas, near crossings etc.
stop for red lights/stop signs
They do if it's a red light on the track.
You can read, play games, sleep or carry a real conversation on a train.
You can also end up standing for 8 hours because they didn't provide enough carriages, or get attacked by marauding soccer hooligans on their way home from the away game.
You don't have to be sober or alert.
You don't actually have to be sober or alert in a car, although it does help.
You also don't have to circle around city blocks looking for parking for half an hour or pay outrageous fees to park.
You circle around looking for an empty block of seats, away from anyone who might be over talkative, away from screaming babies and kids etc. Oh, and have you seen the price of a soggy bacon buttie on a train ? Parking is usually cheaper !
On top of it all, it doesn't pollute the environment as much as it would if everyone were driving cars.
If all cars were electrically powered, this might be up for debate.
I'm pretty sure Martin Luther King wants a word with you. Segregation and Slavery were abolished because they were WRONG, plain and simple, and penalised a MINORITY of the people. I'm sure that the majority of people, especially those who owned slaves, were mildly annoyed by the change in the law. However, it was changed precisely because the black people rebelled, challenged, and actively broke the laws. Rosa Parks by your logic should have given up her seat, because "we mustn't break the law", correct ?
In the case of soft drugs, agreed, it is *probably* a minority (there are any number of polls, and whichever ones you don't agree with it's easy to find reasons why not, hell they're just a bunch of stoners after all), that wants the law changed.
However, it is NOT the case that it is against the will of the majority, as the majority could care less one way or the other. The wishes of the government do not come into the issue, the government are elected to serve the people, and should be making no decisions on their own. Sadly this is not the case in most "civilised countries", but it's what we are stuck with.
But your ethos of "don't break the law under any circumstances" simply means that the downtrodden remain that way ... with no other form of recourse, breaking an injust law is the only way to get it changed.
So by your logic, the following should never have been abolished ?
Slavery
Segregation
Prohibition
Stoning Blasphemers
Burning Witches
(I'm pretty certain all the above WERE in fact laws of the land at one point or another in time).
I'd imagine that you aren't in fact a blaspheming black Witch who happens to be drunk and wearing a ball and chain. But one thing is for sure ... you sir are a prize asshole.
Laws exist to protect the interests of the people. When a law is patently no longer fit for it's purpose (or in this case, NEVER was fit for purpose in the first place, it was instigated to protect wood pulp farmers from competition, nothing to do with it's intoxicating properties), it needs to be challenged, lobbied against, even broken, until it is ultimately revised or abolished.
As I remember the 555 used to do horrible spiky things to the voltage, that's why we always had to do decoupling on the power lines, even in silly little 9v PP3 battery projects. We always used to substitute a couple of gates from a 4001 or 4011 to make better behaved frequency generators. Of course, I'm going back about 30 years ...
The iPhone version 3 is finally getting all the stuff that other cellphones have had for 10 years ? And people will still blindly pay through the nose for these "exclusive features" ?
Not sure about the compass though, I'd have preferred a pair of nail clippers, a corkscrew / bottle opener, and a pair of scissors ... wait, we're talking about a Swiss Army Knife right ?
We can only hope that the iPhone version 4 will at least upgrade the camera to 1.3 megapix.
*ducks*
'The pirated version is a buggy, pre-final build of the game,' Holly Rockwood, a company spokeswoman, said in an e-mailed statement. 'It's not the full game. Half the world -- an entire city -- is missing from the pirated copy.'
So, EA decide to sell a game without making any demos available.
Then an EA employee manages to get a pre-final build of the game, with half the data missing, and posts it on torrent sites.
Then EA complain about piracy of a broken not-even-beta quality build ? I suspect a lot of people who downloaded it thought is *was* a demo, seeing as how it is apparently so broken.
Either it's a publicity stunt to show why we "really need DRM after all", or they have no internal security inside EA when any employee can walk out with in-design code. Or both probably.
told him he'd need to log out or switch users to an administrator if he wanted to install something.
Which of course doesn't help, as most people WANT to install free screensavers or 100 new smileys for their email. The whole "switch to an admin account" merely serves as an annoyance at first, and then becomes rote after a few installs.
It's only useful for tech-types, who of course are more likely to take care what (and from where) they are downloading, run a virus scan on it, and hence be the group most unlikely to need the "protection of an admin account" in the first place.
I wish I had a positive solution to this, but pretending that admin accounts are the holy grail of security is just shortsighted.
Does NK even have an internet ?
I mean, of course, Kim has one laptop so he can order his bagels online from Hong Kong each morning, but for a society who weren't aware that man had landed on the moon, and spend the whole year practicing for a one day parade that their great leader usually misses due to commitments (he's either drunk, or with a girlfriend, or dead etc), I'm amazed the .nk domain needs a DNS. Might as well just assign them 255.255.255.254 and be done with it.
A more apt name from Steve would have been "Fling" ... I'm thinking chairs here.
There are plenty of peer reviewed articles on citeseer, that are, get this, FREE. Link away, by all means.
Just don't say "here's a very interesting article, but you'll have to cough up 30 quid before you are qualified to discuss it on Slashdot".
My comment stands, paid articles have no place on a free discussion website.
did some artist that sold his art try to return after the sale and demand that he be given more money? No, because he had already sold his right to do so.
Interesting choice of words, considering that is *exactly* what Sony, RIAA et al WANT to happen. You can not share your media, you cannot lend your media, hell, you cannot even listen to your media if there is anyone else within 500 yards, lest it be considered a public broadcast.
These people would have you buy 1 DVD, 1 CD, 1 MP3, 1 OGG and 1 iTunes format OF THE SAME THING !!!
If you can't see how that is wrong, regardless of any piracy arguments, then you are lost.
"'s full of iron, 's good for you"
"Oh great, why don't we just boil the anchor".
Wonderful, lucky you. And for everyone that *doesn't* have a subscription, the article is about as much benefit as a game of Punch the Monkey.
I'm with the GP, if it's a paid article, it has no place being linked / discussed on a "free" website.
Okay, so we can all go "whoosh" at MY expense then.
You know, a +1 Whoosh moderation would cut down on an awful lot of misunderstandings (and also misplaced IRONy)
Is this the same GM who will announce bankruptcy on Thursday ?
As if there isn't enough heavy metals in the water supply, the US drops 9550 tons of iron in the ocean. You don't do *anything* by halves, do you ?
(Let's wait for the first lemon to point out that iron is not a heavy metal, then we can all go "whoosh" at his expense).