While "geek" may be a term of pride among some Slashdot readers, for the general public - which will include non tech-literate senators, the term is not so. Take the Mirriam-Webster's online defintion:
1 : a carnival performer often billed as a wild man whose act usually includes biting the head off a live chicken or snake
2 : a person often of an intellectual bent who is disapproved of
Why can't they use a more imposing sounding name that would engender more respect from the public - TechPac or some such? After all, surely they fight is for everybody's rights., not just geeks?
On their web page, Sony claim their CD-ROM drives for their VAIO computers will allow you to "quickly access software program and music CDs". Not this music CD it won't, which means one of Sony's arms is making false advertising claim. Either Celine Dion isn't a music CD or the CD-ROM drive is unable to play music CDs.
If it has the features I need and use rather than the features MS thinks I need, then it's an Office Killer for me. It doesn't need all the features of OfficeXP - it just needs the features that I need, and shoulnd't crash or screw up my documents!
And in other news, more consumers are able to make toast in a toaster than cook a three course meal on a stove, so maybe stove manufacturers should be taking a close look at toasters?
I get my (un)fair share of Spam in my variuous email accounts, but I've never seen any advertising for marital aids, loans, free holidays, internet casinos or any other such crap in Asia. It's all for US-based companies, with a small smattering of Europe and S. American. So whereas the Spam might be sent via Asian email servers, it seems pretty obvious that it originates from US sources!
In the case where a magazine previews a game instead of reviewing the pre-release version, we're still no better off. The preview is always positive because the magazine doesn't wnat to lose the advertising. When was the last time you saw a preview that said "This game sucks! We recommend you don't buy it unless major changes are made!"
So, besides annoying the hell out of me, each pop-up-window would actually cost me? And if I "accidentally" hit a porn-site that puts out hundreds of new windows, each time I try to close one, not only would I waste time closing them all down, but it would cost me as well!!
It doesn't matter if you put it in a beautiful carved sandalwood box, wrap it with expensive paper, tie it with fancy bows, and scent it with expensive perfume...
... a turd is still a turd.
I'd rather have had a decent film, than an overbloated DVD.
Considering the amount of money that the drug company spends on PR, why didn't they just make a special, very-low cost licensing deal with the BRazilian government to allow them to manufaxture cheap pills purely for use in Brazil i.e. they can only produce what they can use. Think of the massive amounts of positive publicity that could produce for the patent holder at very little cost, because the Brazilian government could never afford to pay for the pills anyway!
I can't understand why you would wnat the hassle of having Linux on this thing and then a PalmOS emulator on top of that. What advantage does Linux have over PalmOS for the market audience? (We're tlaking average users here, not the geek market). An emulator just adds an extra klayer of complexity and therefore an extra chance of things going wrong!
Where's the fun in judging people who write bad beginnings on purpose? Surely the fun of the competition should be in picking real printed books that were never meant to be bad and showing just how awful they are. Then you have the added bonus of knowing that (a) somebody actually bothered to publish this crasp and (b) some mug probably bought it!:)
`We think the ruling is important,'' Jamison said. ``These spacecraft are not be in the state of California,
have never been in the state of California during their useful lives and will never be in the state of
California in the future.''
Perhaps Hughes should threaten to actually put the satellites in the state of California. From orbit. At high speed...
I always wanted a seafront property in Arizona anyway:)
So there is seismic activity reported whenever the monster is sighted? Obviously the monster is causing seismic upheavals as it stomps round the bottom of the lake. Ain't the guy ever seen a Godzilla movie?
Now I don't know about any of you, but I'd rather pay $5 for a little clip on worm light for the system(which works quite well), and still
have my 20 hours of gameplay on the GBA.
So presumbaly the worm light shines due to the power of love and so doesn't suck up any battery juice from the GBA then?:)
Deja did something similar with Usenet posts by adding in links to products within its archived Usenet Messages.
See this article:
http://slashdot.org/articles/00/07/18/2122249.shtm l
I seem to recall that this did not turn out to be very popular with people and many of the arguments raised this time were raised back then as well - copyright issues, misrepresentation, etc.
It's not just DVDs that are zoned. Many videogame CDs are also zoned and the US versions are considerably cheaper than the European versions. I know the companies will provide "reasonable" arguments for this ("wse don't want to have US gamers suddenly finding their games in Japanese", "we don't want European players fidning the NTSC disk won't work") but surely there is a difference between warning about compatabilities vs. actively preventing the disks playing, even though many people can play US disks on their Europan system, for example. I think this would provide them with a much argument against modchips as there would no longer be a "legal" reason to modify your game console.
... ICANN have already allocated all interplanetary domain names. All Mars based domain names belong to a certain candy manufacturer. Pluto domain names have been handed to Disney Corp. Saturn to the car manufacturer, Sun to the computer manufacturer. Venus was of course given to our Nathalie.
ICANN have reserved Uranus for themselves to keep up with their corporate policy of:
Considering that every film ever made that has been based on a video game has been a complete pile of poop, surely new Line would do better to avoid their film having any connection with a video game!
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One that is 224 pages long but when you're reading it, it seems like 1,568...
1 : a carnival performer often billed as a wild man whose act usually includes biting the head off a live chicken or snake
2 : a person often of an intellectual bent who is disapproved of
Why can't they use a more imposing sounding name that would engender more respect from the public - TechPac or some such? After all, surely they fight is for everybody's rights., not just geeks?
Then why does the majority elect him?
Just like the president was elected by the majority of the voters? Oops!
On their web page, Sony claim their CD-ROM drives for their VAIO computers will allow you to "quickly access software program and music CDs". Not this music CD it won't, which means one of Sony's arms is making false advertising claim. Either Celine Dion isn't a music CD or the CD-ROM drive is unable to play music CDs.
If it has the features I need and use rather than the features MS thinks I need, then it's an Office Killer for me. It doesn't need all the features of OfficeXP - it just needs the features that I need, and shoulnd't crash or screw up my documents!
And in other news, more consumers are able to make toast in a toaster than cook a three course meal on a stove, so maybe stove manufacturers should be taking a close look at toasters?
Or why do civil servants get paid so well when they don't make any profit for anybody?
I get my (un)fair share of Spam in my variuous email accounts, but I've never seen any advertising for marital aids, loans, free holidays, internet casinos or any other such crap in Asia. It's all for US-based companies, with a small smattering of Europe and S. American. So whereas the Spam might be sent via Asian email servers, it seems pretty obvious that it originates from US sources!
In the case where a magazine previews a game instead of reviewing the pre-release version, we're still no better off. The preview is always positive because the magazine doesn't wnat to lose the advertising. When was the last time you saw a preview that said "This game sucks! We recommend you don't buy it unless major changes are made!"
That must be like 99.99 TB of pr0n!!!
So, besides annoying the hell out of me, each pop-up-window would actually cost me? And if I "accidentally" hit a porn-site that puts out hundreds of new windows, each time I try to close one, not only would I waste time closing them all down, but it would cost me as well!!
How are you, Alice?
I am functioning within normal parameters.
Wow! It's like talking to every geek I know!
It doesn't matter if you put it in a beautiful carved sandalwood box, wrap it with expensive paper, tie it with fancy bows, and scent it with expensive perfume...
... a turd is still a turd.
I'd rather have had a decent film, than an overbloated DVD.
Considering the amount of money that the drug company spends on PR, why didn't they just make a special, very-low cost licensing deal with the BRazilian government to allow them to manufaxture cheap pills purely for use in Brazil i.e. they can only produce what they can use. Think of the massive amounts of positive publicity that could produce for the patent holder at very little cost, because the Brazilian government could never afford to pay for the pills anyway!
And on the scary side - Claude Van Damme movies for ever - and you woulnd't even need a better speech synthesizer than the one's we have now!
I can't understand why you would wnat the hassle of having Linux on this thing and then a PalmOS emulator on top of that. What advantage does Linux have over PalmOS for the market audience? (We're tlaking average users here, not the geek market). An emulator just adds an extra klayer of complexity and therefore an extra chance of things going wrong!
And what if you were just the passenger in the speeding car and not the driver!
Perhaps Hughes should threaten to actually put the satellites in the state of California. From orbit. At high speed...
I always wanted a seafront property in Arizona anyway :)
So there is seismic activity reported whenever the monster is sighted? Obviously the monster is causing seismic upheavals as it stomps round the bottom of the lake. Ain't the guy ever seen a Godzilla movie?
So presumbaly the worm light shines due to the power of love and so doesn't suck up any battery juice from the GBA then? :)
See this article:
http://slashdot.org/articles/00/07/18/2122249.shtm l
I seem to recall that this did not turn out to be very popular with people and many of the arguments raised this time were raised back then as well - copyright issues, misrepresentation, etc.
It's not just DVDs that are zoned. Many videogame CDs are also zoned and the US versions are considerably cheaper than the European versions. I know the companies will provide "reasonable" arguments for this ("wse don't want to have US gamers suddenly finding their games in Japanese", "we don't want European players fidning the NTSC disk won't work") but surely there is a difference between warning about compatabilities vs. actively preventing the disks playing, even though many people can play US disks on their Europan system, for example. I think this would provide them with a much argument against modchips as there would no longer be a "legal" reason to modify your game console.
ICANN have reserved Uranus for themselves to keep up with their corporate policy of:
All Uranus are belong to us!
Considering that every film ever made that has been based on a video game has been a complete pile of poop, surely new Line would do better to avoid their film having any connection with a video game!