1 cup of whole milk 1 cup of chocolate ice cream 1 cup of sugar 5 tbsp of chocolate syrup 750g of semi-sweet chocolate chips 1 cup of chopped celery
Melt the chocolate chips in a double boiler on low. Once melted, slowly stir in sugar.
Empty the cup of ice cream into a small bowl and blend the it with the cup of whole milk. Once thick and frothy, pour the syrup evenly over the top of the mix.
Finally, discard the small bowl and eat the cup of celery. If you actually looked at that recipe above and thought "That sounds like a good recipe" you probably need the celery.
Wait a month and all of the progs you see included with the "PDA" will be emulated in MAME. At that point you can teach that special 5 year old niece or nephew about real PCs and software piracy simultaneously.
"The 27,000 respondents to the unscientific poll reported longer waits on hold and less knowledgeable technicians. It is also taking longer to find fixes. An increasing number said problems were never solved. "
I wonder why..
On the company side:
Chopping Block Gods are hired to find where the fat in the company lies. Mr/Mrs. Chopping Block plugs a couple of numbers into his/her overpriced calculator and finds that the tech support people are working only 80% of the time and therefore 20% can be cut.
Mr/Mrs. Chopping Block tells management this and says they can probably save the biggest money by getting rid of the more experienced (read: overpaid) techs since everyone is reading from a script anyway.
3 months later you have an overworked call centre with clueless staff. The place is no longer fun to work at and the turnover rate goes up. Big surprise. As morale goes down you find staff taking longer breaks, more sick days, etc. The cycle continues.
On the consumer side:
Mr/Mrs "Informed" Consumer scans all ads in the newspaper looking for the absolute cheapest price for their pocket computer. He/she first finds the cheapest company that offers a pocket computer since they're all the same, then finds the cheapest model made by that company, then the cheapest store to buy it from.
Mr/Mrs "Informed" Consumer does not consider how the prices got so low and may not ever have to as long as a) they don't need tech support, b) their product doesn't break. If either of these happens, they are in for a nightmare experience.
I'm not necessarily saying that the cheapest products have the worst tech support/warranty scams running (some save money on big ad campaigns), but the cuts DO have to come from somewhere. Unfortunately, some of the cuts come from the quality of life for people who have the misfortune of working at one of these companies.
I would rather pay $400 for a refurbished computer capable of playing all the formats this machine plays. Lets look at its problems:
Can't FTP properly if FTP sites have symlinks. Can't do large FTP transfers. Importing tracks from sources other than ripped CDs causes the track order to be lost. No shuffled play. Popping noises when listening to tracks via optical cable. Shitty UI. Can't change your playlist as it's being played through. Can play MPEG video only. Pixelated/jerky DVD playback. Anamorphic issues with DVD playback.
Which of these issues have actually been fixed? A lot of them seem to be pretty important to me. ie: It may be nice if issues 1-5 are fixed, but if DVD playback is still pixelated/jerky, the device may be worthless.
"Other Notification: In order to implement or enforce the Terms of SourceForge.net, SourceForge.net may use personal information to contact users on an individual basis."
What this basically means is that they reserve the right to call you on the phone at 3 AM and breathe heavily.
Yes.. this was the first thought that came to my mind as well. You have rental places spitting out hundreds of disks a week, none of them recyclable. How long do you think it will take to have them be recyclable? Well, the area I live in still doesn't recycle CDs and that medium has been around for 15+ years.
The only appeal I can see in this is that you rent a disk that's "guaranteed" to be scratchless.
LCD manufacturing quality is "bad" enough with people treating pixel-perfect LCDs as holy idols.
It seems like a risky undertaking to release a model such as this when probabilities say that you double the # of exchanges per customer if you double the number of LCDs a customer buys.
I'd be interested in finding out what their "modified" standards are for a faulty LCD with this new model.
If I combine this invention with the 100:1 compression mentioned on slashdot a couple weeks back, I'll be able to download an ISO in... let me see
30 Mbps -> 170 Mbps with wavelet chips.
and... I'll have 100:1 compression in real time.. giving me -> 17 Gbps. I'll be able to download a CD image in about 1/3 a second!
Not only that, but I'll be able to have 50,000 HDTV stations instead of 500! Of course, the TV guide will have to be printed on e-paper/ink which is coming real soon now too!
Here in Canada, we have the CRTC which regulates how many minutes of commercials a Canadian station can show within the period of 30 minutes. On top of that, stations also have requirements for what ratio of Canadian programming to foreign programming can be shown during primetime hours, etc. Stations which violate these licenses enough times likely won't be renewed.
Basically, this device would sell up here about as well as bottled yellow snow.
Do you like information? Do you like technology? Do you like things that are mobile? Do you enjoy buses? If so, then you will love the mobile IT bus.
I think what we also need to consider is whether or not this bus will be driven by DeVry graduates. They are serious about success, but are they serious about keeping their eyes on the road? I don't really fucking think so.
There is no "link" to the ad really.. It's 90% plain text with a little square icon saying "TechnoScout - Health & Wellness daily updates". This entire column of "news" is surrounded by a solid line with the word "Advertisement" on top of it
Some of the headlines are as follows:
Would you like to regain your youthful vigor?
Workout technology that provides safe, easy-to-change resistance
The gym that clips to your hips...
Space program research creates "smart bed" sleep surface
Unique formulation combats oxygen deficiencies without chemicals
Burn fat at home with an elliptical machine--the no impact health club sensation!
For an example, clicking on the last "story" brings you to http://www.technoscout.com/general/product/product.asp?product=371&Prod_Name=Orbitrek (I've removed the site id variable as to put less money in the pockets of people who don't deserve it)
You go there and you're greeted with not only an orbitrek ad, but other floating ads.
I think in order to promote the name change, they should come up with a catchy slogan.. how about "VA Software: Same shit, different pile."
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1) Suing anyone who replies and quotes my copyrighted message.
2) Suing anyone who moderates this message down for attacking my character.
3) Sue any banner ad companies whose ads appear above my comment unless they have text within the ad saying "The comments of the advertiser are not meant to be related to LordOfYourPants."
4) Sue thinkgeek for giving me a hernia with their "Codito, Ergo, Summ" shirts.
I can just imagine a headline in a parallel universe: "I saw a really great conversation between Emerson/Thoreau/Freud/Jung re: the meaning of life... it started off discussing that, then evolved into one about software design."
Maybe this makes my point a bit better.. or maybe it just digs me in deeper:)
In all seriousness, would this article have been given a second glance if Linus wasn't involved?
If I were to post a message saying "Hey, my friends and I were discussing the meaning of life after arguing about pencils, check out the log," I doubt a single editor on slashdot would have given it a 2nd glance. What kind of sick twist on celebrity worship is this?
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1 cup of whole milk
1 cup of chocolate ice cream
1 cup of sugar
5 tbsp of chocolate syrup
750g of semi-sweet chocolate chips
1 cup of chopped celery
Melt the chocolate chips in a double boiler on low. Once melted, slowly stir in sugar.
Empty the cup of ice cream into a small bowl and blend the it with the cup of whole milk. Once thick and frothy, pour the syrup evenly over the top of the mix.
Finally, discard the small bowl and eat the cup of celery. If you actually looked at that recipe above and thought "That sounds like a good recipe" you probably need the celery.
Wait a month and all of the progs you see included with the "PDA" will be emulated in MAME. At that point you can teach that special 5 year old niece or nephew about real PCs and software piracy simultaneously.
"The 27,000 respondents to the unscientific poll reported longer waits on hold and less knowledgeable technicians. It is also taking longer to find fixes. An increasing number said problems were never solved. "
I wonder why..
On the company side:
Chopping Block Gods are hired to find where the fat in the company lies. Mr/Mrs. Chopping Block plugs a couple of numbers into his/her overpriced calculator and finds that the tech support people are working only 80% of the time and therefore 20% can be cut.
Mr/Mrs. Chopping Block tells management this and says they can probably save the biggest money by getting rid of the more experienced (read: overpaid) techs since everyone is reading from a script anyway.
3 months later you have an overworked call centre with clueless staff. The place is no longer fun to work at and the turnover rate goes up. Big surprise. As morale goes down you find staff taking longer breaks, more sick days, etc. The cycle continues.
On the consumer side:
Mr/Mrs "Informed" Consumer scans all ads in the newspaper looking for the absolute cheapest price for their pocket computer. He/she first finds the cheapest company that offers a pocket computer since they're all the same, then finds the cheapest model made by that company, then the cheapest store to buy it from.
Mr/Mrs "Informed" Consumer does not consider how the prices got so low and may not ever have to as long as a) they don't need tech support, b) their product doesn't break. If either of these happens, they are in for a nightmare experience.
I'm not necessarily saying that the cheapest products have the worst tech support/warranty scams running (some save money on big ad campaigns), but the cuts DO have to come from somewhere. Unfortunately, some of the cuts come from the quality of life for people who have the misfortune of working at one of these companies.
I would rather pay $400 for a refurbished computer capable of playing all the formats this machine plays. Lets look at its problems:
Can't FTP properly if FTP sites have symlinks.
Can't do large FTP transfers.
Importing tracks from sources other than ripped CDs causes the track order to be lost.
No shuffled play.
Popping noises when listening to tracks via optical cable.
Shitty UI.
Can't change your playlist as it's being played through.
Can play MPEG video only.
Pixelated/jerky DVD playback.
Anamorphic issues with DVD playback.
Which of these issues have actually been fixed? A lot of them seem to be pretty important to me. ie: It may be nice if issues 1-5 are fixed, but if DVD playback is still pixelated/jerky, the device may be worthless.
A direct quote from the article:
"If OpenOffice still exists, and it's GPLed, and they're going to start charging for StarOffice, then they just shot StarOffice through the head."
Replace the word "StarOffice" with "Redhat Linux".. why does the same logic not apply?
I would LOVE to see him try to get that computer through the airport in one piece. It looks about as non-suspicious as a wooden gun.
In order to be taken seriously in computing circles nowadays, you should be referred to by a 3 letter acronym instead of using your full name.
Sdm a lrxqzs aosprzsowm. A ospaoxm wpa zospqoxm sirow O aoxmas! Arpzoxsp O apo so'z lemastiu.
"Other Notification: In order to implement or enforce the Terms of SourceForge.net, SourceForge.net may use personal information to contact users on an individual basis."
What this basically means is that they reserve the right to call you on the phone at 3 AM and breathe heavily.
Yes.. this was the first thought that came to my mind as well. You have rental places spitting out hundreds of disks a week, none of them recyclable. How long do you think it will take to have them be recyclable? Well, the area I live in still doesn't recycle CDs and that medium has been around for 15+ years.
The only appeal I can see in this is that you rent a disk that's "guaranteed" to be scratchless.
LCD manufacturing quality is "bad" enough with people treating pixel-perfect LCDs as holy idols.
It seems like a risky undertaking to release a model such as this when probabilities say that you double the # of exchanges per customer if you double the number of LCDs a customer buys.
I'd be interested in finding out what their "modified" standards are for a faulty LCD with this new model.
If I combine this invention with the 100:1 compression mentioned on slashdot a couple weeks back, I'll be able to download an ISO in... let me see
30 Mbps -> 170 Mbps with wavelet chips.
and... I'll have 100:1 compression in real time.. giving me -> 17 Gbps. I'll be able to download a CD image in about 1/3 a second!
Not only that, but I'll be able to have 50,000 HDTV stations instead of 500! Of course, the TV guide will have to be printed on e-paper/ink which is coming real soon now too!
Here in Canada, we have the CRTC which regulates how many minutes of commercials a Canadian station can show within the period of 30 minutes. On top of that, stations also have requirements for what ratio of Canadian programming to foreign programming can be shown during primetime hours, etc. Stations which violate these licenses enough times likely won't be renewed.
Basically, this device would sell up here about as well as bottled yellow snow.
Alan Cox develops a kernel for an OS which is exchanged on the Internet. The Internet was invented by Al Gore. Al Gore uses AOL. Who's your daddy?
I'm sick of seeing 16.0 kbps RealPlayer video clips from Afghanistan.
Slashdot should remove this posting as "redundant".. segway has already been revealed.
Do you like information? Do you like technology? Do you like things that are mobile? Do you enjoy buses? If so, then you will love the mobile IT bus.
I think what we also need to consider is whether or not this bus will be driven by DeVry graduates. They are serious about success, but are they serious about keeping their eyes on the road? I don't really fucking think so.
Do you like silicon? Do you like graphics? Do you like corporations? Then you'll LOVE SGI.
Do you like Galileo? Do you enjoy open spaces? Do you like crafts? Then you'll love the Galileo spacecraft.
Do you like giants? Do you like telescopes? Then you'll love giant telescopes.
There is no "link" to the ad really.. It's 90% plain text with a little square icon saying "TechnoScout - Health & Wellness daily updates". This entire column of "news" is surrounded by a solid line with the word "Advertisement" on top of it
t .asp?product=371&Prod_Name=Orbitrek (I've removed the site id variable as to put less money in the pockets of people who don't deserve it)
Some of the headlines are as follows:
Would you like to regain your youthful vigor?
Workout technology that provides safe, easy-to-change resistance
The gym that clips to your hips...
Space program research creates "smart bed" sleep surface
Unique formulation combats oxygen deficiencies without chemicals
Burn fat at home with an elliptical machine--the no impact health club sensation!
For an example, clicking on the last "story" brings you to http://www.technoscout.com/general/product/produc
You go there and you're greeted with not only an orbitrek ad, but other floating ads.
I think in order to promote the name change, they should come up with a catchy slogan.. how about "VA Software: Same shit, different pile."
As copyright holder of this message, I wish to squelch freedom and innovation by
1) Suing anyone who replies and quotes my copyrighted message.
2) Suing anyone who moderates this message down for attacking my character.
3) Sue any banner ad companies whose ads appear above my comment unless they have text within the ad saying "The comments of the advertiser are not meant to be related to LordOfYourPants."
4) Sue thinkgeek for giving me a hernia with their "Codito, Ergo, Summ" shirts.
I can just imagine a headline in a parallel universe: "I saw a really great conversation between Emerson/Thoreau/Freud/Jung re: the meaning of life... it started off discussing that, then evolved into one about software design."
:)
Maybe this makes my point a bit better.. or maybe it just digs me in deeper
In all seriousness, would this article have been given a second glance if Linus wasn't involved? If I were to post a message saying "Hey, my friends and I were discussing the meaning of life after arguing about pencils, check out the log," I doubt a single editor on slashdot would have given it a 2nd glance. What kind of sick twist on celebrity worship is this?