The article linked there does mention that as a hazard to be careful of. Though if I'm trapped in a bathroom without air, I probably don't have time to look at blueprints to see if my toilet is vented.
Also, in the panic of an emergency, I wouldn't remember where my snorkel was and if I did, I would probably inhale first before expelling the water from the tube, essentially drinking toilet water with a big straw.
To be fair, I worked at a gamestop, and that was undoubtedly mostly old madden copies which really SHOULD have been recycled or trashed. It comes out every year, sells a huge number of copies, and then automatically every year about 90% of those people have a disc that has fallen in value about 90%. While I was there, a 2 year old copy of Madden would get you about a dollar. They're essentially agreeing to take people's trash and put it on the shelves. One copy of madden 2005 per store is too many, it's a waste of shelf space and will never sell even at a dollar.
I never heard of them destroying games people actually wanted to drive prices up. They have a monopoly, that would be dumb even for them. If they wanted to raise the price of a rare game, they could just raise the price.
You spend all your time focusing on the mom-n-pop's you're putting out of business, and don't look in the rearview mirror to see RedBox or Netflix.
Next on the chopping block: gamestop. They did the same thing. They also still have more stores than any reasonable person would think they would need, the result of merging with EB games and closing few redundant stores.
They've managed to hold their own in the face of competing with walmart etc, mostly through the used console game market. Many of their customers don't bat an eye at selling a game for $5 that someone else would buy for $25. Game developers are already moving in to try to block used game sales with one time use codes and digital content. I'd expect that next generation, most of the big titles will not be transferrable easily and gamestop will really take a hit.
I suspect though, that when they do figure out how to scale down, they'll be just as happy keeping the prices high.
And maybe raise them, citing lost profits due to libraries... I mean quiet pirate dens.
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Nothing of hard value was lost, but my mental state really took a nosedive. Honestly, about 6 times I caught myself thinking of status updates relating to facebook being down, wondering why I hadn't changed it, and then realizing that I'm a moron.
Between that and realizing how pathetically addicted I am to frittering my time away on facebook (as opposed to slashdot) has been so depressing that I think I'm going to go home early and play some videogames. Which won't help, so I'll turn to beer.
I really wasn't looking for tech support though, my point was just that the redirection is used for some schools to advertise to you, getting between you and your e-mail.
Japan isn't self-sufficient in the food area either. I hear they get most of their food, especially rice, from China. I've heard some estimates that if the food they get from China were to disappear and weren't replaced, they'd be facing starvations in about a month (though I don't have a citation on that, so that may be wildly inaccurate). Not to mention that Japan is militarily defenseless against China, and even if China didn't feel like getting their hands dirty, they could always tell North Korea to start acting up at Japan. In other words, Japan doesn't really have a strong foothold to be poking China like this. I guess they have a lot of faith that China will agree to a diplomatic solution.
More likely though, the bureaucratic head of the Japanese coast guard was pissed off at another part of the bureaucracy and wanted them to lose face. Or maybe he just decided that the last decade-long recession to hit Japan was pretty nice, so he should do his best to make sure the current one lasts that long too by sabotaging manufacturing dependent on those rare earth exports.
Was that a death threat? Seems more like an opinion that the world would be better off if he were dead, or at least his usefulness would not decrease if he were dead. A hair different from advocating his death, and at least a little different from threatening to cause it.
My university seems to have come up with a plan to advertise themselves to staff and students who already work/study here: provide no direct link to the university e-mail. They want you to go to the front page, to see the latest news you're not interested in and ways to make donations to the university (hint hint), then login, and you'll be taken to more irrelevant news, links for course tools, and another link for e-mail, which will redirect you one or two times before getting to a google mail system.
I have it automatically forward everything to a normal gmail account that is easier to access anyway, so it doesn't matter except for those few times when I need to access it directly. I usually make a mental note to spend 5 minutes finding out a more direct way and memorizing it, but then never get around to it.
Yet all I've heard is some disproportionate vitriol against the project. It doesn't make sense.
I'm guessing a lot of slashdotters secretly made the move from myspace to facebook and hated the inconvenience, but now love facebook and especially farmville and tagging thousands of photos of themselves drunk, and are terrified that they'll have to move again and lose all the photos which keep them from becoming gainfully employed and having to move out of their mother's basement. And of course we can't just come out and say how much we secretly love facebook, because not only would that not cool, but also we'd probably be ridiculed by our fellow slashdotters for trading away our privacy for the ability to virtually poke people.
They. I mean they can't come out and say it. Not me.
It has reached a point where it is impossible (as far as I can tell) to buy a dishwasher a hot water heater a washing machine
That will last 20 years like they used to
You'd prefer an OBSOLETE washing machine!?! What kind of nerd are you, not buying new hardware every 3 years?
Kidding. I do hope that all three will get more energy efficient in the next 20 years, but that should be the incentive to get a new appliance, not "The old one broke after 5 years because it was designed to."
To the slight credit of the editor, you'd also have to hope the phone company would "take the hint and ban all call displays," for that metaphor to work...
Now, it's true that the resolution only impacted the Senate -- but when another Senator asked why they didn't ban dial phones from all of Washington DC, Senator Carter Glass from Virginia who sponsored the resolution apparently said that "he hoped the phone company would take the hint," and would remove all dial phones.
I was going to guess child molesters, the two party system, daryl mcbride, and then idiotic users in that order, but I have no idea what we're talking about so I'm glad you went first. That could have been embarrassing.
For example: that dumb ass down the hall who keeps clicking on viagra links in his emails. What are you going to do? Put a hardware firewall on every cord?
Urge him to visit a doctor to get a real prescription for viagra and remind him that the company plan covers viagra.
But in the event of an accident, those people who are not belted in will be thrown free of the car to relative safety whereas those belted in will be strapped into a deathcage which could easily catch fire!!!
Wouldn't be surprised if the MPAA ran a campaign saying that passing ACTA into law worldwide will stop terrorists, child porn, small arms traders, drugs, wildfires, Satan, etc.
It's probably the wildfire stopping that will be the most effective part of that. The others you'd be prepared for. Wildfires though comes out of the blue and catches you off guard and before you can catch your breath, you've already signed the bill in your own blood.
Er... to clarify, how -my- graphics card means I can't run -this- game. Plenty of other games would be pointless to run without a good graphics card, I get that.
You've got a point there. At the very least I'm having a hard time seeing how a -graphics card- is necessary to the game. Jpapon made a point it was the AI that was demanding most of the hardware, but I would assume that doesn't apply to the graphics card.
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The article linked there does mention that as a hazard to be careful of. Though if I'm trapped in a bathroom without air, I probably don't have time to look at blueprints to see if my toilet is vented.
Also, in the panic of an emergency, I wouldn't remember where my snorkel was and if I did, I would probably inhale first before expelling the water from the tube, essentially drinking toilet water with a big straw.
and destroying trade-ins to drive up prices
To be fair, I worked at a gamestop, and that was undoubtedly mostly old madden copies which really SHOULD have been recycled or trashed. It comes out every year, sells a huge number of copies, and then automatically every year about 90% of those people have a disc that has fallen in value about 90%. While I was there, a 2 year old copy of Madden would get you about a dollar. They're essentially agreeing to take people's trash and put it on the shelves. One copy of madden 2005 per store is too many, it's a waste of shelf space and will never sell even at a dollar.
I never heard of them destroying games people actually wanted to drive prices up. They have a monopoly, that would be dumb even for them. If they wanted to raise the price of a rare game, they could just raise the price.
You spend all your time focusing on the mom-n-pop's you're putting out of business, and don't look in the rearview mirror to see RedBox or Netflix.
Next on the chopping block: gamestop. They did the same thing. They also still have more stores than any reasonable person would think they would need, the result of merging with EB games and closing few redundant stores.
They've managed to hold their own in the face of competing with walmart etc, mostly through the used console game market. Many of their customers don't bat an eye at selling a game for $5 that someone else would buy for $25. Game developers are already moving in to try to block used game sales with one time use codes and digital content. I'd expect that next generation, most of the big titles will not be transferrable easily and gamestop will really take a hit.
That's an entire anime series about the farm production in Japan.
Well then I really have no excuse for getting that wrong if there was an entire anime series about it.
I suspect though, that when they do figure out how to scale down, they'll be just as happy keeping the prices high.
And maybe raise them, citing lost profits due to libraries... I mean quiet pirate dens.
Nothing of hard value was lost, but my mental state really took a nosedive. Honestly, about 6 times I caught myself thinking of status updates relating to facebook being down, wondering why I hadn't changed it, and then realizing that I'm a moron.
Between that and realizing how pathetically addicted I am to frittering my time away on facebook (as opposed to slashdot) has been so depressing that I think I'm going to go home early and play some videogames. Which won't help, so I'll turn to beer.
Ah beer, you never give me DNS error messages...
That does work, thank you.
I really wasn't looking for tech support though, my point was just that the redirection is used for some schools to advertise to you, getting between you and your e-mail.
Japan isn't self-sufficient in the food area either. I hear they get most of their food, especially rice, from China. I've heard some estimates that if the food they get from China were to disappear and weren't replaced, they'd be facing starvations in about a month (though I don't have a citation on that, so that may be wildly inaccurate). Not to mention that Japan is militarily defenseless against China, and even if China didn't feel like getting their hands dirty, they could always tell North Korea to start acting up at Japan. In other words, Japan doesn't really have a strong foothold to be poking China like this. I guess they have a lot of faith that China will agree to a diplomatic solution.
More likely though, the bureaucratic head of the Japanese coast guard was pissed off at another part of the bureaucracy and wanted them to lose face. Or maybe he just decided that the last decade-long recession to hit Japan was pretty nice, so he should do his best to make sure the current one lasts that long too by sabotaging manufacturing dependent on those rare earth exports.
No, that login is for admins.
Was that a death threat? Seems more like an opinion that the world would be better off if he were dead, or at least his usefulness would not decrease if he were dead. A hair different from advocating his death, and at least a little different from threatening to cause it.
My university seems to have come up with a plan to advertise themselves to staff and students who already work/study here: provide no direct link to the university e-mail. They want you to go to the front page, to see the latest news you're not interested in and ways to make donations to the university (hint hint), then login, and you'll be taken to more irrelevant news, links for course tools, and another link for e-mail, which will redirect you one or two times before getting to a google mail system.
I have it automatically forward everything to a normal gmail account that is easier to access anyway, so it doesn't matter except for those few times when I need to access it directly. I usually make a mental note to spend 5 minutes finding out a more direct way and memorizing it, but then never get around to it.
Yet all I've heard is some disproportionate vitriol against the project. It doesn't make sense.
I'm guessing a lot of slashdotters secretly made the move from myspace to facebook and hated the inconvenience, but now love facebook and especially farmville and tagging thousands of photos of themselves drunk, and are terrified that they'll have to move again and lose all the photos which keep them from becoming gainfully employed and having to move out of their mother's basement. And of course we can't just come out and say how much we secretly love facebook, because not only would that not cool, but also we'd probably be ridiculed by our fellow slashdotters for trading away our privacy for the ability to virtually poke people.
They. I mean they can't come out and say it. Not me.
It has reached a point where it is impossible (as far as I can tell) to buy
a dishwasher
a hot water heater
a washing machine
That will last 20 years like they used to
You'd prefer an OBSOLETE washing machine!?! What kind of nerd are you, not buying new hardware every 3 years?
Kidding. I do hope that all three will get more energy efficient in the next 20 years, but that should be the incentive to get a new appliance, not "The old one broke after 5 years because it was designed to."
Pics or it didn't happen.
No seriously, where's the picture of the actual skull? I want to see it.
(Even more seriously though, the picture of the skull itself can be found here)
To the slight credit of the editor, you'd also have to hope the phone company would "take the hint and ban all call displays," for that metaphor to work...
Now, it's true that the resolution only impacted the Senate -- but when another Senator asked why they didn't ban dial phones from all of Washington DC, Senator Carter Glass from Virginia who sponsored the resolution apparently said that "he hoped the phone company would take the hint," and would remove all dial phones.
But yeah, this is a misleading headline.
Why? Just... why? Let his memory die already, please.
It did. Then it respawned.
I was going to guess child molesters, the two party system, daryl mcbride, and then idiotic users in that order, but I have no idea what we're talking about so I'm glad you went first. That could have been embarrassing.
Maybe your sarcasm tag isn't working
I did forget several things, one of which was the ~ punctuation mark, and the other was that sarcasm on the internet doesn't work.
Yes. That was sarcasm. Stolen from an 8-bit theater comic no less, I didn't even cite my source.
Why yes, I did visit mylittlepony.com directly between visits to journalofparticlephysics.edu and horsesluts9.com, why do you ask?
Wow, how did you get a cookie on my machine?
For example: that dumb ass down the hall who keeps clicking on viagra links in his emails. What are you going to do? Put a hardware firewall on every cord?
Urge him to visit a doctor to get a real prescription for viagra and remind him that the company plan covers viagra.
But in the event of an accident, those people who are not belted in will be thrown free of the car to relative safety whereas those belted in will be strapped into a deathcage which could easily catch fire!!!
Wouldn't be surprised if the MPAA ran a campaign saying that passing ACTA into law worldwide will stop terrorists, child porn, small arms traders, drugs, wildfires, Satan, etc.
It's probably the wildfire stopping that will be the most effective part of that. The others you'd be prepared for. Wildfires though comes out of the blue and catches you off guard and before you can catch your breath, you've already signed the bill in your own blood.
There's an app for that.
Er... to clarify, how -my- graphics card means I can't run -this- game. Plenty of other games would be pointless to run without a good graphics card, I get that.
You've got a point there. At the very least I'm having a hard time seeing how a -graphics card- is necessary to the game. Jpapon made a point it was the AI that was demanding most of the hardware, but I would assume that doesn't apply to the graphics card.