Considering all the "slamming" AT&T, MCI, et al did back in the 90s (and still do, near as I can tell), I find it very difficult to believe that anyone is still on the same plan as they were in the 70s.
Call me quirky because I come from a finance background and I read SlashDot...
The value equation for you may be: Pay $20 now for the access to the content. Evaluate the November version to see if the additional footage is worth an incremental $30. _If_ you decide it's worth it, the total outlay is $50.
For me, the equation is: Avoid being shunned by my friends for not having access to FotR content between August and November. (Opportunity cost) Buy November version. Total outlay: $30 + the opportunity cost of having not owned access to the content for three months.
The difference in cost, and thus the debate, is this: from my perspective is three months of not being able to view the content worth $20? from your perspective is the additional footage worth $30?::Colz Grigor
Slap some wheels on the base of that thing and you might get as much as 60 to one (distance to throwing-arm-length) instead of the 30 to one you've gotten.
I'm gonna go make one for myself. That's a really cool idea you had...
Economically, if we did begin to click through on all of our e-mail, the sponsors would stop paying $1 per click... the price would drop. And if the cost dropped to, say, $0.01 per click, the cost of spam advertising would be so much lower that it would be accessable by a much larger number of advertisers.
I don't think what you're proposing would receive your desired result.
No, it does't obviate the need for his column to be submitted as a story because unless it's submitted as a story, we don't have a/. forum to discuss the implications.
The solution, I believe, would be to automatically associate a forum to the story, a feature I requested in SourceForge's Slash project in January. It was evaluated as a good idea by CmdrTaco in February, but has apparently sat idle since then.
"Since they could only surf in the morning, when the tides were right..."
Because the time of high and low tides changes every day, the above statment is patently false. You can check out a tide table for the Santa Monica Municipal Pier and note this fact. I somehow doubt that geophysics has chanced dramatically since then.
But does an indeterminable-sized crystalline lattice really make it a molecule?
What's the chemcial notation for diamond? C sub asterisk?
When I think of a molecule, I think of a determinable chemical structure along the lines of H sub 2 O, C sub 8 H sub 16 O sub 8, or my favorite, C sub 2 H sub 5 OH.
I would assert, then, that diamond isn't a molecule at all, but is a crystaline structure.
Any chemists out there have a definitive answer?
::Colz Grigor
I ignore reviews that start this way...
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· Score: 2
"U-571 is a "film" starring almost no one you've heard of, directed by some guy..."
You can tell from this half-sentence that the "review" isn't a review at all but a rant. Ignoring the fact that U-571 was one of the summer "blockbusters" from the year 2000...
To be a little picky, who on Slashdot hasn't heard of Matthew McConaughey after his performance in Contact? Or Bill Paxton in Apollo 13? And if you don't know who Harvey Keitel is (from, say, Pulp Fiction, Taxi Driver, or The Piano), you aren't fit to be reviewing movies! Oh, and let's not forget Jon Bon Jovi. Don't tell me you've never heard of him!
And just for irony's sake... the "some guy" you refer to will be directing Terminator 3, too. But I suppose you've never seen that series of movies, either...
::Colz Grigor// michael!!! Wake up! Don't post this kind of drivel as a story!
Hemos, try as you may, you can't use this story to make up for Slashdot's (or chrisd's) horrible "The Lone Gunmen Are Dead" headline. Because your typically-intellectual readers are well aware of the possibilities of flashbacks, dream sequences, and other such plot devices, there are other explanations than what seems to be your "See... chrisd wasn't correct in saying the Lone Gunmen are dead! California needn't be pissed off at us anymore!"
Maybe the best possible solution would be for Slashdot to stick to computer-related stuff and avoid the "Entertainment" subject altogether? Though I must say I'm pretty pleased with simply exlcuding every story posted by chrisd.
::Colz Grigor// It was appropriate that in his review of Attack of the Clones, Taco used "lone gunmen" as a verb... Long live CmdrTaco!
Funny, I'm not presently a BulkRegister customer, but I received a similar e-mail, the gist of which was that I should ignore Verisign's deceptive advertising and instead re-register with BulkRegister. Peculiar that I didn't receive anything from Verisign about this...
Looks to me like BulkRegister is taking advantage of the situation to do their own slightly-less-than-legal advertising. The world of big business sucks.
Either you like the taste of peat and hint of seaweed in your whiskey or you don't... There are seven distilleries on Islay (Lagavulin, Ardbeg, Laphroaig, Bunnahabhain, Bowmore, Caol Ila, and Bruichladdich), each with a slightly different flavor. All are exceptional.
Now if you were to bet that AotC grossed more than Spider-Man overall, well, I'm pretty sure you'd be right. I get the gut feeling that AotC will be as close to a sleeper hit as something that hyped could be. I'd say it'll rival Titanic (a sad thought that we have to compare the two, alas).
They probably should have put the headline "Spoiler Warning!" on the Australian newspaper that was published prior to Kennedy's assassination, rather than the simple headline "Kennedy Assassinated: U.S. in Mourning".
::Colz Grigor
How to Prevent chrisd from Spoiling Things Again
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I know it's already been said... Chris was highly inconsiderate to half the population of the country and probably 2/3rds of Slashdot readers.
But there's a way to prevent him from doing it to us again!!!
Edit your homepage, scroll down to the "Exclude Stories from the Homepage" section. In the left-most (Authors) column, four down, you will find a checkbox next to the name "chrisd". Make certain there's a checkmark in it (or whatever the image is, since I'm sure you're all using different skins than I am). Then scroll all the way down to the bottom of the page and click the button marked "Save".
Once done, chrisd will never spoil another show, movie, or anything for you again.
Finally, a personal message to chrisd:
Thanks a lot! What a maroon.
If you were intelligent enough to compare file sizes, however, you'd notice that the cd_lint.dll is different than the cd_lint.dll that comes with the bloadted and user-abusive version of Kazaa.
Now why would you suppose that is?! Perhaps it's because Kazaa checks for the cd_lint.dll and won't run without it? Yup. That's it!
So the cd_lint.dll that comes with Kazaa lite still has all the components that Kazaa checks for, but it does nothing.
No trojans for Kazaa Lite, but I think the world would appreciate if you would continue to use them. You're not ready to breed.
If you're teaching Microsoft junkies, the first thing you'll need to do is make sure they know how to breathe on their own. And check for a pulse, too. Once you're sure they're alive, give them a big rag to wipe up all the drool: any time a Microsoft person tries to learn something, they're bound to soak themselves one way or another.
Okay, so once personal hygiene is attended to, you should show them what the keyboard looks like and how it works. Remember, they've been using a mouse for so long they may not even know what a "keystroke" is.
Oh yeah, do not teach them vi or emacs. They have no idea whay a powerful text editing program is, so it'll take you days to explain it. Even pico might be a bit advanced. Maybe ee would be right for them.
No, this means that Windows Longhorn will predict when the user really wanted to hit the power button and will turn off instantly.
The heuristics for determining shutdown times have been improving since Windows 3.1. Remember the advent of the Blue Screen of Death in NT 4.0? That was really just a message telling the user "we think it's time for you to shut off the computer".
I dunno... last time I played Gran Turismo 3 on my brother-in-law's PS2 while visiting the in-laws for Christmas (yes, I played a lot of Gran Turismo 3 that week), I got a huge callous on the tip of my left thumb which I finally removed earlier this morning. After the original numbness and increased thumb-length, I was thinking perhaps my thumb had mutated.
And I'm swearing off the PS2 for the upcoming Easter visit, too.
No substance here, only vision (or fluff). If you're looking for a response with meat, skip this one.
Now wouldn't it be neat if the ISS had a few Satellite repair labs and a "space tow trucks" for a team of pilots to leave the ISS and retrieve a satellite for repairs? No more shuttle space walks to repair the Hubble. Instead, the shuttle brings necessary components (fuel, repair parts, etc.) to the ISS so the crew on the ISS can do the work in a less risky environment.
Anyone know if this has ever been NASA's intention?
Slashdot Mirror
Call me quirky because I come from a finance background and I read SlashDot...
::Colz Grigor
The value equation for you may be:
Pay $20 now for the access to the content.
Evaluate the November version to see if the additional footage is worth an incremental $30.
_If_ you decide it's worth it, the total outlay is $50.
For me, the equation is:
Avoid being shunned by my friends for not having access to FotR content between August and November. (Opportunity cost)
Buy November version.
Total outlay: $30 + the opportunity cost of having not owned access to the content for three months.
The difference in cost, and thus the debate, is this: from my perspective is three months of not being able to view the content worth $20? from your perspective is the additional footage worth $30?
Slap some wheels on the base of that thing and you might get as much as 60 to one (distance to throwing-arm-length) instead of the 30 to one you've gotten.
::Colz Grigor
I'm gonna go make one for myself. That's a really cool idea you had...
Economically, if we did begin to click through on all of our e-mail, the sponsors would stop paying $1 per click... the price would drop. And if the cost dropped to, say, $0.01 per click, the cost of spam advertising would be so much lower that it would be accessable by a much larger number of advertisers.
::Colz Grigor
I don't think what you're proposing would receive your desired result.
No, it does't obviate the need for his column to be submitted as a story because unless it's submitted as a story, we don't have a /. forum to discuss the implications.
::Colz Grigor
The solution, I believe, would be to automatically associate a forum to the story, a feature I requested in SourceForge's Slash project in January. It was evaluated as a good idea by CmdrTaco in February, but has apparently sat idle since then.
"Since they could only surf in the morning, when the tides were right..."
::Colz Grigor
Because the time of high and low tides changes every day, the above statment is patently false. You can check out a tide table for the Santa Monica Municipal Pier and note this fact. I somehow doubt that geophysics has chanced dramatically since then.
But does an indeterminable-sized crystalline lattice really make it a molecule?
::Colz Grigor
What's the chemcial notation for diamond? C sub asterisk?
When I think of a molecule, I think of a determinable chemical structure along the lines of H sub 2 O, C sub 8 H sub 16 O sub 8, or my favorite, C sub 2 H sub 5 OH.
I would assert, then, that diamond isn't a molecule at all, but is a crystaline structure.
Any chemists out there have a definitive answer?
"U-571 is a "film" starring almost no one you've heard of, directed by some guy..."
::Colz Grigor // michael!!! Wake up! Don't post this kind of drivel as a story!
You can tell from this half-sentence that the "review" isn't a review at all but a rant. Ignoring the fact that U-571 was one of the summer "blockbusters" from the year 2000...
To be a little picky, who on Slashdot hasn't heard of Matthew McConaughey after his performance in Contact? Or Bill Paxton in Apollo 13? And if you don't know who Harvey Keitel is (from, say, Pulp Fiction, Taxi Driver, or The Piano), you aren't fit to be reviewing movies! Oh, and let's not forget Jon Bon Jovi. Don't tell me you've never heard of him!
And just for irony's sake... the "some guy" you refer to will be directing Terminator 3, too. But I suppose you've never seen that series of movies, either...
Hemos, try as you may, you can't use this story to make up for Slashdot's (or chrisd's) horrible "The Lone Gunmen Are Dead" headline. Because your typically-intellectual readers are well aware of the possibilities of flashbacks, dream sequences, and other such plot devices, there are other explanations than what seems to be your "See... chrisd wasn't correct in saying the Lone Gunmen are dead! California needn't be pissed off at us anymore!"
::Colz Grigor // It was appropriate that in his review of Attack of the Clones, Taco used "lone gunmen" as a verb... Long live CmdrTaco!
Maybe the best possible solution would be for Slashdot to stick to computer-related stuff and avoid the "Entertainment" subject altogether? Though I must say I'm pretty pleased with simply exlcuding every story posted by chrisd.
Funny, I'm not presently a BulkRegister customer, but I received a similar e-mail, the gist of which was that I should ignore Verisign's deceptive advertising and instead re-register with BulkRegister. Peculiar that I didn't receive anything from Verisign about this...
::Colz Grigor
Looks to me like BulkRegister is taking advantage of the situation to do their own slightly-less-than-legal advertising. The world of big business sucks.
Either you like the taste of peat and hint of seaweed in your whiskey or you don't... There are seven distilleries on Islay (Lagavulin, Ardbeg, Laphroaig, Bunnahabhain, Bowmore, Caol Ila, and Bruichladdich), each with a slightly different flavor. All are exceptional.
::Colz Grigor
How appropriate that my favorite C2H5OH, made by Laphroaig on Islay, will one day be manufactured entirely using H.
::Colz Grigor // I'll take donations of it, too!
I am reminded of my teenage days of punching notches into the side of 5 1/4" disks with a hole punch...
::Colz Grigor
Magic markers to avert copy protection schemes... I love low-tech solutions to high-tech problems.
You're on. I'll bet all my karma.
::Colz Grigor
Now if you were to bet that AotC grossed more than Spider-Man overall, well, I'm pretty sure you'd be right. I get the gut feeling that AotC will be as close to a sleeper hit as something that hyped could be. I'd say it'll rival Titanic (a sad thought that we have to compare the two, alas).
I'm sure this explains why I can't use my GE toaster and my GE microwave at the same time without the power in the kitchen going out.
::Colz Grigor
Or maybe it's just the circuit breaker?
They probably should have put the headline "Spoiler Warning!" on the Australian newspaper that was published prior to Kennedy's assassination, rather than the simple headline "Kennedy Assassinated: U.S. in Mourning".
::Colz Grigor
I know it's already been said... Chris was highly inconsiderate to half the population of the country and probably 2/3rds of Slashdot readers.
::Colz Grigor
But there's a way to prevent him from doing it to us again!!!
Edit your homepage, scroll down to the "Exclude Stories from the Homepage" section. In the left-most (Authors) column, four down, you will find a checkbox next to the name "chrisd". Make certain there's a checkmark in it (or whatever the image is, since I'm sure you're all using different skins than I am). Then scroll all the way down to the bottom of the page and click the button marked "Save".
Once done, chrisd will never spoil another show, movie, or anything for you again.
Finally, a personal message to chrisd:
Thanks a lot! What a maroon.
If you were intelligent enough to compare file sizes, however, you'd notice that the cd_lint.dll is different than the cd_lint.dll that comes with the bloadted and user-abusive version of Kazaa.
Now why would you suppose that is?! Perhaps it's because Kazaa checks for the cd_lint.dll and won't run without it? Yup. That's it!
So the cd_lint.dll that comes with Kazaa lite still has all the components that Kazaa checks for, but it does nothing.
No trojans for Kazaa Lite, but I think the world would appreciate if you would continue to use them. You're not ready to breed.
If you're teaching Microsoft junkies, the first thing you'll need to do is make sure they know how to breathe on their own. And check for a pulse, too. Once you're sure they're alive, give them a big rag to wipe up all the drool: any time a Microsoft person tries to learn something, they're bound to soak themselves one way or another.
::Colz Grigor // Tongue firmly in cheek.
Okay, so once personal hygiene is attended to, you should show them what the keyboard looks like and how it works. Remember, they've been using a mouse for so long they may not even know what a "keystroke" is.
Oh yeah, do not teach them vi or emacs. They have no idea whay a powerful text editing program is, so it'll take you days to explain it. Even pico might be a bit advanced. Maybe ee would be right for them.
No, this means that Windows Longhorn will predict when the user really wanted to hit the power button and will turn off instantly.
::Colz Grigor
The heuristics for determining shutdown times have been improving since Windows 3.1. Remember the advent of the Blue Screen of Death in NT 4.0? That was really just a message telling the user "we think it's time for you to shut off the computer".
It helps the person you either didn't hire or would have fired.
::Colz Grigor
And not bathing once a year would cause harm to anyone you were fifty feet upwind from.
In principle I completely agree with you. In practice, things get very complicated very quickly.
How very Wiccan.
::Colz Grigor
"An it harm none, do what ye will."
You'd need volumes and volumes to codify what "harm" means.
Oh wait, we do that already don't we. They're called "laws".
Didn't Ridley Scott present this concept to us twenty years ago?
::Colz Grigor
If we've never empathized for Roy Batty and always rooted for Rick Deckard, maybe we ought to turn that around?
(Note: I've read Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep. Scott did far better at presenting this particular facet of replicants than did Dick.)
I dunno... last time I played Gran Turismo 3 on my brother-in-law's PS2 while visiting the in-laws for Christmas (yes, I played a lot of Gran Turismo 3 that week), I got a huge callous on the tip of my left thumb which I finally removed earlier this morning. After the original numbness and increased thumb-length, I was thinking perhaps my thumb had mutated.
::Colz Grigor
And I'm swearing off the PS2 for the upcoming Easter visit, too.
Anyone know if this has ever been NASA's intention?