Netflix has a $99 box (one time)+ monthly fee that will allow you to get on demand movies from them. They have other plans coming that will work on other devices - I can't find the link for that one.
Or, get an unlimited borrowing plan and take out a bunch of movies at a time.
It seems to me that anyone with nothing to do, I mean absolutely nothing, could sit down with a few beers, a note pad and Wikipedia and crank out something like The Lost blogs.
Ahhhh, yeeeahh. Um, well, that's basically sums up my entire posting history here on Slashdot. Come to think of it, I don't think I'm alone on this one.
How did you get such great stealth advertising on Slashdot for your Digg-clone site?
Regardless of the answer - hats off to you - I'm sure it will be quite a boon!
And...who owns you? So you have any link what so ever with Slashdot?
Unfortunately, with the web, journalistic and editorial integrity has become questionable. Unlike print or broadcast which takes millions of dollars, putting up an internet "journalist" site takes nothing. Anyone can call themselves a journalist and post whatever they want.
If you vote Libertarian, aren't you already voting against the incumbent?
There aren't Libertarian candidates running for all offices. So, if there's no Libertarian candidate, I vote against the incumbent, and if the incumbent is running unchallenged, I abstain.
Obama is no more serious about NASA's lofty aspirations that Bush or Clinton. It's just political pandering for Florida. And I am tired of hearing promises from politicians that they know damn well they can never deliver on.
Of curse he is. The candidates are going to say whatever they have to and then do whatever they want when in office.
I'm voting Libertarian when I can and then voting against the incumbent - regardless of what party he belongs to. We need term limits in Congress. If we got rid of this career politician horseshit, we'd have MUCH better representation in Washington.
As Rhone Resch, president of the Solar Energy Industry Association told me earlier this year: "If the investment tax credit is not renewed, it will disrupt this high-growth sector, impact tens of thousands of U.S. jobs and undermine advances in clean energy production."
How about removing the tax credits for ALL forms of energy so we can have an undistorted idea of what the energy costs from each method, hmmmm?
Oh wait, the oil industry won't like this, will they?
When we use taxes to distort the markets for policy, the special moneyed interests ALWAYS get it so it benefits them and makes the intended result moot. Which means screwing over the folks who it was supposed to help in the first place.
I have no doubts that its social repercussions will take decades to be fully understood, but it has already done much to benefit the world. It has provided access to information on a scale never before imaginable, lowered the barriers to creative expression, challenged old business models and enabled new ones.
Is it just me or does the quality of the content seam to be spiraling down?
Whenever I do a Google search on anything, I find that I have to wade through pages of garbage, redundant pages and downright copies, advertisements, and pages authored by folks with very little, if any, knowledge of the subject. What is it that you engineers call it? Signal to noise ratio?
I think the next big web app is going to be a filter.
Were their shamans just as convincing arguing for less water use and building smaller huts to prevent the climate-changes?
No, but their chief, Chief Bush, was totally responsible for suppressing the data from the bones and tea leaves that it was happening. Then Chief Bush, along with the paleo-cons started bogus wars with tribes in Mesopotamia and with the Persians in order to promote chiefocracy. But the people eventually saw through the paleo-con lie that it was and realized that it was just a war to secure grain supplies.
In the meantime, a former chief, Gor, showed the populous cave paintings that would show what would happen if they didn't change their wasteful ways.
Corporations and the government can be thanked for limiting competition due to greed and in effect slowing down the potential rate of our innovation.
Ah, that's the Dark Side of greed.
The Light Side of greed sparks innovation because folks have an incentive to make money by creating something new.
The Dark Side always goes after the weak: the ones that can't innovate. It promises easy money, high barriers to entry with laws and regulations, keeping the status quo. Some greed masters like Masters Jobs and Wozniak break into a field of greed. They, being great greed masters, broke IBM along with another, though maligned greed master, Gates. But even then, The Dark Side can even ake the best of us as it did Master Gates. He seams to be coming back to the Light Side with his charity work.
Pay heed young greed patiwan, the Dark Side is always there for the lazy!
What I do have a problem with is companies like IBM who say that they cannot find "excellent" IT staff in the US. Basically saying that, even though the US has generally the best universities in the World, somehow these excellent universities are producing average or mediocre IT folks. I can't find it, but even here on/., a CTO posted that he can't find excellent Perl programmers in Boston. Really?!
Now, before anyone posts that CS is about algorithms and etc... I realize that (get a CS Ph.D. if that's what you want to do.). But with a BS you're going to be hired as a programmer, admin, DBA, etc... And what matters is your laundry list of skills - and you better have at least 2+ yrs of experience with all of them. Period.
Now, can anyone tell me what "excellent" means? What makes an "excellent" IT person? It's not exactly working cheap. I finally got an answer from a defense contractor. They can't really play the H1-B game. They need citizens who can get a security clearance. Their complaint: They have a hard time getting coders who are productive enough. That's right, "excellent" is the ability to pump out code fast.
Of course there's going to be contradictions. Every candidate (maybe except Barr (L)) will say whatever he thinks his current audience wants to hear. So, if an audience of parents who've seen "To Catch A Predator" want to hear something about stopping all those pedophiles and child porn on the Internet and we need regulation, the candidate will say it. If he's in front of an audience of folks who want complete freedom, he'll say that to.
In regards to this issue, it's safe to say that once in office, McCain or Obama (I'm still voting for Barr) will do what the big corporate money wants and throw in a little something for the "regulate the pedophiles" crowd - to keep the hysterical parents and bible thumpers happy.
How many drills, videos, or coach's critiques did it take him throw without thinking? If he's in a game and has to think about throwing, he would have blown it. I was like that in my tennis days. If I though about my stroke, the ball went wild - I thought too much.
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Get it? Sub notebook?
Oh, alright! I'm going back to work...well, I'll just pretend I have work.
Or, get an unlimited borrowing plan and take out a bunch of movies at a time.
John Bush Obama-McCain.
ah earnings whacka
ah earnings whacka
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he'll wake up to lower earnings and wall street will cry...
Uh, no. They said "instant on". They didn't say power on the machine, wait a while for the JVM to load, and then work.
Ahhhh, yeeeahh. Um, well, that's basically sums up my entire posting history here on Slashdot. Come to think of it, I don't think I'm alone on this one.
How did you get such great stealth advertising on Slashdot for your Digg-clone site? Regardless of the answer - hats off to you - I'm sure it will be quite a boon!
And...who owns you? So you have any link what so ever with Slashdot?
Unfortunately, with the web, journalistic and editorial integrity has become questionable. Unlike print or broadcast which takes millions of dollars, putting up an internet "journalist" site takes nothing. Anyone can call themselves a journalist and post whatever they want.
An analysis will show up in the Economist, New Yorker- eventually, Time, News Week, and Salon.
Everything else is just garbage as you and the OP have noticed.
They already do.
If an incumbent is really bad, they get kicked out by the voters.
Which is extremely difficult and expensive. Easier said than done.
What you are really saying here is that the electorate is a bunch of stupid morons who you don't trust, and you'd prefer a monarchy.
I never said that and please don't put words in my mouth - thank you very much.
it's not very democratic...
I disagree on that one. Firing a politician is always the democratic thing to do.
I think our current system of incumbents who end up with basically lifetime office is undemocratic.
If you vote Libertarian, aren't you already voting against the incumbent?
There aren't Libertarian candidates running for all offices. So, if there's no Libertarian candidate, I vote against the incumbent, and if the incumbent is running unchallenged, I abstain.
Of curse he is. The candidates are going to say whatever they have to and then do whatever they want when in office.
I'm voting Libertarian when I can and then voting against the incumbent - regardless of what party he belongs to. We need term limits in Congress. If we got rid of this career politician horseshit, we'd have MUCH better representation in Washington.
How about removing the tax credits for ALL forms of energy so we can have an undistorted idea of what the energy costs from each method, hmmmm?
Oh wait, the oil industry won't like this, will they?
When we use taxes to distort the markets for policy, the special moneyed interests ALWAYS get it so it benefits them and makes the intended result moot. Which means screwing over the folks who it was supposed to help in the first place.
Is it just me or does the quality of the content seam to be spiraling down?
Whenever I do a Google search on anything, I find that I have to wade through pages of garbage, redundant pages and downright copies, advertisements, and pages authored by folks with very little, if any, knowledge of the subject. What is it that you engineers call it? Signal to noise ratio?
I think the next big web app is going to be a filter.
I'm not that smart.
And they're not charging for it either.
And here I was thinking I was being clever!
Were their shamans just as convincing arguing for less water use and building smaller huts to prevent the climate-changes?
No, but their chief, Chief Bush, was totally responsible for suppressing the data from the bones and tea leaves that it was happening. Then Chief Bush, along with the paleo-cons started bogus wars with tribes in Mesopotamia and with the Persians in order to promote chiefocracy. But the people eventually saw through the paleo-con lie that it was and realized that it was just a war to secure grain supplies.
In the meantime, a former chief, Gor, showed the populous cave paintings that would show what would happen if they didn't change their wasteful ways.
Really, that's the way it happened.
Ah, that's the Dark Side of greed.
The Light Side of greed sparks innovation because folks have an incentive to make money by creating something new.
The Dark Side always goes after the weak: the ones that can't innovate. It promises easy money, high barriers to entry with laws and regulations, keeping the status quo. Some greed masters like Masters Jobs and Wozniak break into a field of greed. They, being great greed masters, broke IBM along with another, though maligned greed master, Gates. But even then, The Dark Side can even ake the best of us as it did Master Gates. He seams to be coming back to the Light Side with his charity work.
Pay heed young greed patiwan, the Dark Side is always there for the lazy!
I thought it was a breakable arm calculator! Phew!
Yep, it hard to find qualified folks here in the US. *- BITTER SARCASM
What I do have a problem with is companies like IBM who say that they cannot find "excellent" IT staff in the US. Basically saying that, even though the US has generally the best universities in the World, somehow these excellent universities are producing average or mediocre IT folks. I can't find it, but even here on /., a CTO posted that he can't find excellent Perl programmers in Boston. Really?!
Now, before anyone posts that CS is about algorithms and etc... I realize that (get a CS Ph.D. if that's what you want to do.). But with a BS you're going to be hired as a programmer, admin, DBA, etc... And what matters is your laundry list of skills - and you better have at least 2+ yrs of experience with all of them. Period.
Now, can anyone tell me what "excellent" means? What makes an "excellent" IT person? It's not exactly working cheap. I finally got an answer from a defense contractor. They can't really play the H1-B game. They need citizens who can get a security clearance. Their complaint: They have a hard time getting coders who are productive enough. That's right, "excellent" is the ability to pump out code fast.
Get it done. Get it working. Get it done fast.
In regards to this issue, it's safe to say that once in office, McCain or Obama (I'm still voting for Barr) will do what the big corporate money wants and throw in a little something for the "regulate the pedophiles" crowd - to keep the hysterical parents and bible thumpers happy.
it seems neither do you, bitch ass cunt.
Home alone on a Friday night slamming back several, eh? Either that, you're the first person that types with Tourette's syndrome.
How many drills, videos, or coach's critiques did it take him throw without thinking? If he's in a game and has to think about throwing, he would have blown it. I was like that in my tennis days. If I though about my stroke, the ball went wild - I thought too much.