Please, you act as if that money would not have existed if Billy hadn't of pulled it out of his ass. If Microsoft had never of existed, others would have stepped in. Perhaps there could have been real competition and we would all be better off. Perhaps we would all be just a little richer, with software that works better, if this man had never built his little empire on theft, coercion and deceit. So now that he's essentially stolen so much money that it doesn't matter how much he gives away, we're supposed to respect him for giving some to charity? When he never should have had that much to begin with? You know, Mafia dons occassionally give money to charity too.
It's a pseudonym used by directors who want to be disassociated with a film for which they no longer want credit. The only reason I know this is that my wife is a film geek. Here's the wikipedia article for more info. Fascinating, really. To use the name, you basically have to prove to the DGA that the film has been taken over by someone else and you no longer have creative control.
You know, like goldy or coppery, only with iron. Microsoft is the John Holmes of security. Sure, they'll "patch your hole," but that's just gonna make your hole bigger.
Have you people never heard of the tragedy of the commons? Words and phrases that are owned "collectively" will be mismanaged into meaninglessness. Ideally, every possible combination of characters and punctuation will be owned by someone. Only then will our words be safe from the evil communists seeking to collectivize our precious language.
Yes, I'm full of it, my monitor is a Yakumo 996n, only capable of 1792 x 1344. I was mistaken. Guess I really need to practice with my own copy of the Slashdot homegame, though I'm less of a basement dweller than a lawn yeller, as in "Get of my lawn you damn kids!":)
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My favorite possible ending is the radically accelerating open ending, where there's no time for a boring heat death because the expansion of spacetime accelerates to such a degree that every bit of matter is torn into elementary particles. The Big Rip as opposed to the Big Crunch.
Thank you Doc. You said it so I don't have to. I mean, hell, his little theory is certainly possible. It just isn't very interesting, it doesn't explain anything, and it certainly isn't even as grand as, say, Hinduism, or half the sci-fi stories I've read.
People just make a mess of things when they project finite desires and actions onto the infinite. What is so scary about "shit happens" that people have to add to that? Every damn thing they add all boils down to that in the end. I guess if you add enough bullshit in between, you never have to reach that frightening final conclusion that there is nothing in control, no reason, and no purpose beyond what we arbitrarily make.
I'm now convinced this is a stupid viral marketing campaign. If they were real scam artists, this would be worth a good laugh. What they are is even worse: marketers. The original press release came out April 1st, fer chrissake. Frying in oil is too good for them, can we arrange to have them locked in a room with 1,000 starving weasels?
Let's get the word out, ignore these morons, deprive them of the very thing they want. Now my only question is, slashdot editors, were you in on this? Did they pay you? If so, fuck you gently with a chainsaw, this old timer is finally done with you.
After further reading and consideration, I'm now convinced that this is an ad campaign. The original press release came out April 1st. They are a web advertising company looking for some free PR. In my book, using perpetual motion as an ad campaign is nearly as bad as using it to scam people.
My patented free energy device is the "Founding Fathers-Vanishing Freedoms" Commutator. Everyone knows that our Founding Fathers spin in their graves when our freedoms are taken away, so we just add a wire coil and a magnet. Every so often we have to reinstate our freedoms or the whole thing will cease to work. I'm currently investgating other ways to piss off the founding fathers so we won't have any down time.
For that matter, everything that everyone does is always for money. I agree, it's always for the monkey. Oh, wait! You said money. Okay, so where's my check for all that monkey-spanking I've been doing?
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I do think of the kids. Why, not a day goes by that I don't say, "Get off my lawn, you damn kids!"
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I was really hoping to get modded down for this, so the last line would be make sense. Then I could post and say "Oops, I really meant to change all those "Donkey raping shit eater" comments to "Donkey petting gourmet." See what happens when you say "Donkey raping shit eater" on slashdot? And then of course that comment would be modded down too, and I would post another: "Stupid mods. Ahh, you're all a bunch of donkey loving gourmets anyway" and THAT would be modded funny, making the whole thread meta-funny. Oh well, what can you do with this bunch of donkey petting gourmets? They can't even tell a good set-up when it bites them on the... heiney.
No, first round verification does not mean a world wide ad campaign to find a panel of scientists to verify this. There are proper channels. Look at their site for God's sake, this is a scam and that should be made painfully obvious to everyone. If it turns out it isn't, we can apologize later, after the world-wide fucking revolution this kind of technology would cause.
Exactly. Make it look like they are actually serious. How much VC cash do you think they will rake in between now and the test? After the scientific community announces that this is bullshit, they will claim to need more money to "fix" the issues that the scientists raised. The VC fools, not wanting to admit to themselves that they have been swindled with one of the oldest cons in the book, will happily throw more money at them. They will continue with this cycle until enough people wise up and the lawsuits pour in, then they will disappear to the Cayman Islands.
No, we need to bitch-slap these peckerwoods now, before they fleece too many dumb but wealt- Wait, you know, I think their ideas just might work. Send cash just in case.
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Especially when you are quoting source material that actually uses the word, like so:
"Fuck fuckity fuck fuck fuck. What's the big fuckin' deal?"
Other things you probably shouldn't say. Like Donkey raping shit-eater. You definitely shouldn't say donkey raping shit-eater on slashdot. People could get offended if you mentioned donkey raping shit-eaters.
Mellonfarmer? Come on. What's the point of shit like that? What are you, some kinda smegma licking pussy? Everyone knows what you mean, it's not like people don't make the fucking mental translation instantly, you haven't sheilded their tender, innocent brains from having to process and comprehend "that word."
Sorry, sorry, that was kind of a rangent (that's a rant off on a tangent...) But if you learned anything from all this, it's that you shouldn't mention donkey raping shit-eaters on slashdot.
Oh, I know, I was trying to be funny by taking it to extremes. Obviously "just-in-time" manufacturing is more efficient than warehousing, but waiting until after an item is purchased is really "a-little-too-late" manufacturing. Some storage is needed.
there is absolutely no way Sony can meet initial demand by waiting until the ship date to start making consoles! Just-in-time means having enough product in the pipeline to meet expected demand.
CRTs televisions cannot display 1080p (1920x1080), period
I have a TV tuner in my computer and a CRT monitor capable of that resolution. Therefore I have a CRT television capable of that resolution. Therefore, you are wrong. Thanks for playing, here's your copy of Slashdot: the Home Game.
Your UID shows me you are new here. Let me give you a little tip. Try not to sound like an arrogant know it all unless you are absolutely sure you are correct and you are directly responding to another arrogant know it all. Otherwise you will most likely be modded down.
it doesnt make sense to have millions of completed ps3s sitting in a warehouse waiting to be stolen.
Yeah, let's get rid of warehouses altogether. Nothing but dark cesspits of crime. I say the right time to start production on any item is the moment someone actually purchases it. Otherwise it's just going to sit around someplace and get stolen.
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Please, you act as if that money would not have existed if Billy hadn't of pulled it out of his ass. If Microsoft had never of existed, others would have stepped in. Perhaps there could have been real competition and we would all be better off. Perhaps we would all be just a little richer, with software that works better, if this man had never built his little empire on theft, coercion and deceit. So now that he's essentially stolen so much money that it doesn't matter how much he gives away, we're supposed to respect him for giving some to charity? When he never should have had that much to begin with? You know, Mafia dons occassionally give money to charity too.
Another thing god doesn't do: live down to our expectations.
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No, I expect not.
It's a pseudonym used by directors who want to be disassociated with a film for which they no longer want credit. The only reason I know this is that my wife is a film geek. Here's the wikipedia article for more info. Fascinating, really. To use the name, you basically have to prove to the DGA that the film has been taken over by someone else and you no longer have creative control.
I am TIRED of these MOTHERF***IN' ACTORS on my MOTHERF***IN' CELLPHONE!
Hehe, I got modded troll anyway, I might as well have...
You know, like goldy or coppery, only with iron. Microsoft is the John Holmes of security. Sure, they'll "patch your hole," but that's just gonna make your hole bigger.
Have you people never heard of the tragedy of the commons? Words and phrases that are owned "collectively" will be mismanaged into meaninglessness. Ideally, every possible combination of characters and punctuation will be owned by someone. Only then will our words be safe from the evil communists seeking to collectivize our precious language.
Yes, I'm full of it, my monitor is a Yakumo 996n, only capable of 1792 x 1344. I was mistaken. Guess I really need to practice with my own copy of the Slashdot homegame, though I'm less of a basement dweller than a lawn yeller, as in "Get of my lawn you damn kids!" :)
My favorite possible ending is the radically accelerating open ending, where there's no time for a boring heat death because the expansion of spacetime accelerates to such a degree that every bit of matter is torn into elementary particles. The Big Rip as opposed to the Big Crunch.
Thank you Doc. You said it so I don't have to. I mean, hell, his little theory is certainly possible. It just isn't very interesting, it doesn't explain anything, and it certainly isn't even as grand as, say, Hinduism, or half the sci-fi stories I've read.
People just make a mess of things when they project finite desires and actions onto the infinite. What is so scary about "shit happens" that people have to add to that? Every damn thing they add all boils down to that in the end. I guess if you add enough bullshit in between, you never have to reach that frightening final conclusion that there is nothing in control, no reason, and no purpose beyond what we arbitrarily make.
The possibly more part is:
4) Attention is currency
And we sure are giving them a lot of that. Maybe what they're selling isn't energy at all...
I'm now convinced this is a stupid viral marketing campaign. If they were real scam artists, this would be worth a good laugh. What they are is even worse: marketers. The original press release came out April 1st, fer chrissake. Frying in oil is too good for them, can we arrange to have them locked in a room with 1,000 starving weasels?
Let's get the word out, ignore these morons, deprive them of the very thing they want. Now my only question is, slashdot editors, were you in on this? Did they pay you? If so, fuck you gently with a chainsaw, this old timer is finally done with you.
After further reading and consideration, I'm now convinced that this is an ad campaign. The original press release came out April 1st. They are a web advertising company looking for some free PR. In my book, using perpetual motion as an ad campaign is nearly as bad as using it to scam people.
My patented free energy device is the "Founding Fathers-Vanishing Freedoms" Commutator. Everyone knows that our Founding Fathers spin in their graves when our freedoms are taken away, so we just add a wire coil and a magnet. Every so often we have to reinstate our freedoms or the whole thing will cease to work. I'm currently investgating other ways to piss off the founding fathers so we won't have any down time.
For that matter, everything that everyone does is always for money.
I agree, it's always for the monkey. Oh, wait! You said money. Okay, so where's my check for all that monkey-spanking I've been doing?
I do think of the kids. Why, not a day goes by that I don't say, "Get off my lawn, you damn kids!"
I was really hoping to get modded down for this, so the last line would be make sense. Then I could post and say "Oops, I really meant to change all those "Donkey raping shit eater" comments to "Donkey petting gourmet." See what happens when you say "Donkey raping shit eater" on slashdot? And then of course that comment would be modded down too, and I would post another: "Stupid mods. Ahh, you're all a bunch of donkey loving gourmets anyway" and THAT would be modded funny, making the whole thread meta-funny. Oh well, what can you do with this bunch of donkey petting gourmets? They can't even tell a good set-up when it bites them on the... heiney.
No, first round verification does not mean a world wide ad campaign to find a panel of scientists to verify this. There are proper channels. Look at their site for God's sake, this is a scam and that should be made painfully obvious to everyone. If it turns out it isn't, we can apologize later, after the world-wide fucking revolution this kind of technology would cause.
Exactly. Make it look like they are actually serious. How much VC cash do you think they will rake in between now and the test? After the scientific community announces that this is bullshit, they will claim to need more money to "fix" the issues that the scientists raised. The VC fools, not wanting to admit to themselves that they have been swindled with one of the oldest cons in the book, will happily throw more money at them. They will continue with this cycle until enough people wise up and the lawsuits pour in, then they will disappear to the Cayman Islands.
No, we need to bitch-slap these peckerwoods now, before they fleece too many dumb but wealt- Wait, you know, I think their ideas just might work. Send cash just in case.
Especially when you are quoting source material that actually uses the word, like so:
"Fuck fuckity fuck fuck fuck. What's the big fuckin' deal?"
Other things you probably shouldn't say. Like Donkey raping shit-eater. You definitely shouldn't say donkey raping shit-eater on slashdot. People could get offended if you mentioned donkey raping shit-eaters.
Mellonfarmer? Come on. What's the point of shit like that? What are you, some kinda smegma licking pussy? Everyone knows what you mean, it's not like people don't make the fucking mental translation instantly, you haven't sheilded their tender, innocent brains from having to process and comprehend "that word."
Sorry, sorry, that was kind of a rangent (that's a rant off on a tangent...) But if you learned anything from all this, it's that you shouldn't mention donkey raping shit-eaters on slashdot.
Oh, I know, I was trying to be funny by taking it to extremes. Obviously "just-in-time" manufacturing is more efficient than warehousing, but waiting until after an item is purchased is really "a-little-too-late" manufacturing. Some storage is needed.
there is absolutely no way Sony can meet initial demand by waiting until the ship date to start making consoles! Just-in-time means having enough product in the pipeline to meet expected demand.
You know they "fixed" the horizontal viewing angle by screwing the verticle viewing angle, right? Basically they just flipped the screen 90 degrees.
CRTs televisions cannot display 1080p (1920x1080), period
I have a TV tuner in my computer and a CRT monitor capable of that resolution. Therefore I have a CRT television capable of that resolution. Therefore, you are wrong. Thanks for playing, here's your copy of Slashdot: the Home Game.
Your UID shows me you are new here. Let me give you a little tip. Try not to sound like an arrogant know it all unless you are absolutely sure you are correct and you are directly responding to another arrogant know it all. Otherwise you will most likely be modded down.
You know, someone hanging from a noose could be said to be "in full swing" too. Just sayin'...
it doesnt make sense to have millions of completed ps3s sitting in a warehouse waiting to be stolen.
Yeah, let's get rid of warehouses altogether. Nothing but dark cesspits of crime. I say the right time to start production on any item is the moment someone actually purchases it. Otherwise it's just going to sit around someplace and get stolen.