Forget the tiered approach. It's confusing and silly.
$12 per year, $1 per month, for unlimited access. Cheap, simple and should be profitable.
Even if you keep only 100,000 readers, that's $1.2MN per year. If this scruffy site can't survive on $1.2MN in revenue per year, you have other problems. The easiest remedy to which would be the firing of Jon Katz. Seriously, there is not a single/. reader that comes here specifically for his articles. He is fat. Cut him away and gain instant efficiency.
Forget this tiered approach. It's confusing and silly.
$12 per year, $1 per month, for unlimited access. Cheap, simple and should be profitable.
Even if you keep only 100,000 readers, that's $1.2MN per year. If this scruffy site can't survive on $1.2MN in revenue per year, you have other problems. The easiest remedy to which would be the firing of Jon Katz. Seriously, there is not a single/. reader that comes here specifically for his articles. He is fat. Cut him away and gain instant efficiency.
Dog breeders have never been able to tinker with the genetic code, though they likely soon will.
If you wanted a dog to have spots, for example, you chose two dogs that had the size/color/pattern of spots you were looking for and bred them. Poor eyesight or hip problems came later. You got the bad with the good.
Now they might be able to get healthy dogs that look exactly as they wish. Best of both worlds.
Try and adopt a healthy, White baby and you can expect to wait in line for years. And even then you better be a straight, financially stable, heterosexual couple, otherwise, forget it.
Now, if you want a Black or Asian child, homegrown or imported, there are plenty to be had.
But people don't seem to want those kind...
Moderators: This should be modded down as Offtopic, even though it isn't, really. Troll or Flamebait doesn't apply because what I said is completely true, and you know it.
But to know that a person has it in him to act one, predictable way for years and fool even those closest to him, then instantly change into a completely different persona restores some of my faith in human nature.
He's not a robot. He's not a brick in the wall. He's a free thinker, even though this particular manifestation was lowly.
We read stories about Blackbeard, Jack the Ripper and The Great Train Robber. They make for some of the best stories. But we rarely consider what type of people these characters are.
Stewart Richardson was one of those guys, merely under different circumstances.
Best of luck to those that were taken at recovering your booty. And luck to Mr. Richardson, wherever he may be running, because the only stories as interesting as criminals pulling off the big one, are criminals getting nabbed by The Good Guys.
Admit it. Elliot Ness in The Untouchables was a bad ass:)
Were you the one that got to edit the scenes with Penelope Cruz in the nude?:)
Seriously, I saw the movie while I was dating a Brazilian (her idea, not mine), and I don't remember any scenes in particular that would have required ray tracing. Can you specify the scenes?
Go to CNN.COM and scroll down to the bottom of the main page.
On the bottom right there is a poll asking the question, "Was a judge correct in ordering Microsoft to reveal the coding for its Windows program?"
As of a couple minutes ago, 69% of respondants were saying 'NO'. That majority is probably comprised of clueless MS users and a voting bot running at Redmond right now, but still.
I once admired the Brits for their loathing of American flakiness. I love America, as a whole, but if I could excise parts, frivolous lawsuits would be first to go.
Anyway, I was working over in Europe and I happened to catch a British commercial...for a personal injury lawyer.
"Did you slip on a tin of Spam at the local market? Was your kid injured during a game of rugby? If so, you may be entitled to damages. For more information, call (whatever)."
(some guy dressed up in a rugby outfit)
"I received £10,000 pounds for (whatever)"
Looked and sounded *exactly* like an American personal injury lawsuit commercial, except the voiceover had a British accent.
They are getting as ridiculous as we are. It's a shame, really. I always admired their stiff upper lip and total hatred for whining.
You said, "...they're selling off the last ones really cheap - $399 for 60GB version."
They said, "Rio Car prices have been further reduced for final clearance. The 10GB model now costs just 140 UK pounds, with the top end 60GB model at 350 UK pounds. Add VAT to these prices if you order within the EC."
"I am willing to bet that more than five people died last year from eating frensh fries. Why havn't this product that obviously kills people been removed from the market?"
If someone dies from eating french fries, it is probably because they choked to death or it was the last LDL placed on the cholesterol camel's back. In both cases, it was likely the fault of the person eating the fries, for either eating too quickly or eating too much fatty food.
The anthrax was thrust upon the postal workers, and the mail recipients, without their consent. If you are weighing the lives of 5 people against the blanking of a few memory cards and the people come up light, you need your scale calibrated.
"Death (even so-called "unnatural" death) is a consequence of life. If everytime someone dies, we remove or restrict what ever killed that person, this planet would be a boring place."
I couldn't agree more. If it ever became socially acceptable to hunt down and kill personal injury lawyers, I would be the first to lock and load. However, this is a process to remove anthrax from the world, not fries. Or diving boards. Or 'dangerous' toys. Or hot McDonald's coffee.
Though I mostly agree with your sentiment, I don't think it applies to this case.
I found the exact quote. I should have looked harder before making the original post, but the point is the same:
Taken from The Brothers Karamazov
Ivan: "Tell me yourself, I challenge you answer. Imagine that you are creating a fabric of human destiny with the object of making men happy in the end, giving them peace and rest at last, but that it was essential and inevitable to torture to death only one tiny creature that little child beating its breast with its fist, for instance--and to found that edifice on its unavenged tears, would you consent to be the architect on those conditions? Tell me, and tell the truth."
Alyosha: "No, I wouldn't consent," said Alyosha softly.
"All this disruption for a campaign that killed five people?"
Yes, you inhumane fuckwit.
To paraphrase Fyodor Dostoevsky, "If the existence of the entire universe, including your happiness, necessitated the torture of even one little girl, would you want it?"
Any meteor, asteroid or comet that sets its cold, icy eyes on our beloved Earth needs to be pimpsmacked by one of Russia's 58-Megaton nukes; the most powerful ever built.
One was detonated at Novaya Zemlya on October 30th 1961.
It was hypothesized that if one placed enough of these nukes in one spot, and detonated them simultaneously, one could knock the Earth of its axis.
Yeah, we Americans are a useless lot. We've shown the world nothing...
Ah, well, there is Slashdot. A self-coded site that crashes regularly, has self-hating, righteous, illiterate editors that double-post with regularity and do about as much fact checking as your average Arabian newspaper. And it's run by Americans.
You may have a point, you complete fucking jackass.
This is my Haiku
There are many more like it
But this one is mine
Semper Fi!
Knunov
My Packard Bell P75
on
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· Score: 2, Insightful
I bought my first computer in 1995. It was a Packard Bell P75.
Go ahead. Laugh. If you told me you actually paid money for a PB, I'd laugh, too.
PB actually used good motherboards in their systems. It was the components that sucked.
Anyway, to this day, I *still* have and use my PB computer. Yes, it went from a P75 -> P133 -> P200 MMX, and went from 8MB -> 32MB -> 64MB -> 128MB and the hard drive went from 1GB -> 4GB -> 20GB, but it's stll in use.
Admittedly, I've bought other computers since and I no longer use it as my main machine, but I *could* if I wanted to. I only bought faster machines because I wanted to, not because I needed to.
It runs Win98 like a charm and runs Linux even better. It has always been stable and still is, 6 years later.
If people would cater to their needs instead of their wants, the CPU industry would either wither, or they would start offering REAL improvements. These 100MHz increases are BS.
They need to start with a minimum 1GHz jump and better internal architecture. Everything else is just them going wallet fishing.
I think putting a man on the moon did more for the space industry than any other single achievement, ever.
I agree that it was mostly to snub the Ruskies, which in and of itself was worth a great deal. However, more importantly, it set the imaginations of many bright kids on fire. Would we have Robert Zubrin's extensive thoughts on space travel if it weren't for the Apollo missions? He himself said that is what sparked his interest.
It was a great achievement, even if it didn't directly benefit mankind.
I liked the American mindset that used to do things just to do them. The for-profit mindset often hinders advancement, and that's why I'll always be in favor of government sponsored space programs, because if left to corporations, the bottom line will be the driving factor; not the science.
Slashdot Mirror
Forget the tiered approach. It's confusing and silly.
/. reader that comes here specifically for his articles. He is fat. Cut him away and gain instant efficiency.
$12 per year, $1 per month, for unlimited access. Cheap, simple and should be profitable.
Even if you keep only 100,000 readers, that's $1.2MN per year. If this scruffy site can't survive on $1.2MN in revenue per year, you have other problems. The easiest remedy to which would be the firing of Jon Katz. Seriously, there is not a single
Knunov
Forget this tiered approach. It's confusing and silly.
/. reader that comes here specifically for his articles. He is fat. Cut him away and gain instant efficiency.
$12 per year, $1 per month, for unlimited access. Cheap, simple and should be profitable.
Even if you keep only 100,000 readers, that's $1.2MN per year. If this scruffy site can't survive on $1.2MN in revenue per year, you have other problems. The easiest remedy to which would be the firing of Jon Katz. Seriously, there is not a single
Knunov
"...fuckwit genetic engineers..."
I would wager there are no "fuckwit genetic engineers". In fact, I'll bet they are quite intelligent. More so than you or me.
Knunov
Dog breeders have never been able to tinker with the genetic code, though they likely soon will.
If you wanted a dog to have spots, for example, you chose two dogs that had the size/color/pattern of spots you were looking for and bred them. Poor eyesight or hip problems came later. You got the bad with the good.
Now they might be able to get healthy dogs that look exactly as they wish. Best of both worlds.
Knunov
Adoption isn't as easy as you think.
Try and adopt a healthy, White baby and you can expect to wait in line for years. And even then you better be a straight, financially stable, heterosexual couple, otherwise, forget it.
Now, if you want a Black or Asian child, homegrown or imported, there are plenty to be had.
But people don't seem to want those kind...
Moderators: This should be modded down as Offtopic, even though it isn't, really. Troll or Flamebait doesn't apply because what I said is completely true, and you know it.
Knunov
...I kinda like this guy.
:)
Not because he's a thief. That's despicable.
But to know that a person has it in him to act one, predictable way for years and fool even those closest to him, then instantly change into a completely different persona restores some of my faith in human nature.
He's not a robot. He's not a brick in the wall. He's a free thinker, even though this particular manifestation was lowly.
We read stories about Blackbeard, Jack the Ripper and The Great Train Robber. They make for some of the best stories. But we rarely consider what type of people these characters are.
Stewart Richardson was one of those guys, merely under different circumstances.
Best of luck to those that were taken at recovering your booty. And luck to Mr. Richardson, wherever he may be running, because the only stories as interesting as criminals pulling off the big one, are criminals getting nabbed by The Good Guys.
Admit it. Elliot Ness in The Untouchables was a bad ass
Knunov
I think what everyone wants to know is...
:)
Were you the one that got to edit the scenes with Penelope Cruz in the nude?
Seriously, I saw the movie while I was dating a Brazilian (her idea, not mine), and I don't remember any scenes in particular that would have required ray tracing. Can you specify the scenes?
Knunov
Everytime there is an article about an American invention, some prick replies saying that, "Actually, _______ did it first."
According to the rest of the world, Americans have never invented or accomplished anything original.
Even with things that are clearly American, like the moon landing, you have some foreign prick sponsoring a documentary saying it never happened.
Jesus you people are a pack of sore losers. Deal with it.
Knunov
Go to CNN.COM and scroll down to the bottom of the main page.
On the bottom right there is a poll asking the question, "Was a judge correct in ordering Microsoft to reveal the coding for its Windows program?"
As of a couple minutes ago, 69% of respondants were saying 'NO'. That majority is probably comprised of clueless MS users and a voting bot running at Redmond right now, but still.
And no, 'Cowboy Neal' is not a choice.
Knunov
I once admired the Brits for their loathing of American flakiness. I love America, as a whole, but if I could excise parts, frivolous lawsuits would be first to go.
Anyway, I was working over in Europe and I happened to catch a British commercial...for a personal injury lawyer.
"Did you slip on a tin of Spam at the local market? Was your kid injured during a game of rugby? If so, you may be entitled to damages. For more information, call (whatever)."
(some guy dressed up in a rugby outfit)
"I received £10,000 pounds for (whatever)"
Looked and sounded *exactly* like an American personal injury lawsuit commercial, except the voiceover had a British accent.
They are getting as ridiculous as we are. It's a shame, really. I always admired their stiff upper lip and total hatred for whining.
Things they are a-changin'
Knunov
Actually, the quote is, "The right to swing your arms freely stops at the end of my nose."
It is a teaching from Hindu philosophy.
Knunov
"...we get addicted to connecting with our gadgets, not with each other."
My computer is infinitely more interesting than my brother.
Knunov
You said, "...they're selling off the last ones really cheap - $399 for 60GB version."
They said, "Rio Car prices have been further reduced for final clearance. The 10GB model now costs just 140 UK pounds, with the top end 60GB model at 350 UK pounds. Add VAT to these prices if you order within the EC."
At current exchange rates, £350 = $506.91.
Knunov
"I am willing to bet that more than five people died last year from eating frensh fries. Why havn't this product that obviously kills people been removed from the market?"
If someone dies from eating french fries, it is probably because they choked to death or it was the last LDL placed on the cholesterol camel's back. In both cases, it was likely the fault of the person eating the fries, for either eating too quickly or eating too much fatty food.
The anthrax was thrust upon the postal workers, and the mail recipients, without their consent. If you are weighing the lives of 5 people against the blanking of a few memory cards and the people come up light, you need your scale calibrated.
"Death (even so-called "unnatural" death) is a consequence of life. If everytime someone dies, we remove or restrict what ever killed that person, this planet would be a boring place."
I couldn't agree more. If it ever became socially acceptable to hunt down and kill personal injury lawyers, I would be the first to lock and load. However, this is a process to remove anthrax from the world, not fries. Or diving boards. Or 'dangerous' toys. Or hot McDonald's coffee.
Though I mostly agree with your sentiment, I don't think it applies to this case.
Knunov
I found the exact quote. I should have looked harder before making the original post, but the point is the same:
Taken from The Brothers Karamazov
Ivan: "Tell me yourself, I challenge you answer. Imagine that you are creating a fabric of human destiny with the object of making men happy in the end, giving them peace and rest at last, but that it was essential and inevitable to torture to death only one tiny creature that little child beating its breast with its fist, for instance--and to found that edifice on its unavenged tears, would you consent to be the architect on those conditions? Tell me, and tell the truth."
Alyosha: "No, I wouldn't consent," said Alyosha softly.
Knunov
"All this disruption for a campaign that killed five people?"
Yes, you inhumane fuckwit.
To paraphrase Fyodor Dostoevsky, "If the existence of the entire universe, including your happiness, necessitated the torture of even one little girl, would you want it?"
Knunov
Any meteor, asteroid or comet that sets its cold, icy eyes on our beloved Earth needs to be pimpsmacked by one of these.
Russia's 100-Megaton nukes; the most powerful ever built.
One was detonated half-yield at Novaya Zemlya on October 30th 1961.
It was hypothesized that if one placed enough of these nukes in one spot, and detonated them simultaneously, one could knock the Earth of its axis.
It should make short work of a measely asteroid.
Knunov
Any meteor, asteroid or comet that sets its cold, icy eyes on our beloved Earth needs to be pimpsmacked by one of Russia's 58-Megaton nukes; the most powerful ever built.
One was detonated at Novaya Zemlya on October 30th 1961.
It was hypothesized that if one placed enough of these nukes in one spot, and detonated them simultaneously, one could knock the Earth of its axis.
It should make short work of a measely asteroid.
Knunov
Scene: Redmond, Washington - early Saturday evening in a building on the Microsoft campus.
MS Coder #1: "Dude! We made the front page on Slashdot! Bill is gonna hump our legs for this!"
MS Coder #2: "Cool! When we finish RST.c we might even make CNN!"
It could happen...
Knunov
"...can anyone...suggest employers in the industry that are friendly to my age bracket?"
Try La Petite.
:)
Knunov
"from the again-canadians-show-us-how dept."
Yeah, we Americans are a useless lot. We've shown the world nothing...
Ah, well, there is Slashdot. A self-coded site that crashes regularly, has self-hating, righteous, illiterate editors that double-post with regularity and do about as much fact checking as your average Arabian newspaper. And it's run by Americans.
You may have a point, you complete fucking jackass.
Knunov
"He's also quite funny."
I guess funny is as funny does...
Maybe you have to be an alien or BIG DORKY SLASHDOT NERD FUCK to find him amusing.
You want funny? THIS is funny:
What's the difference between Jon Katz and a bucket of shit?
THE BUCKET
I'm a Karma fatty. BURN THEM EXCESS POINTS OFF, BABY!
Marine Corps Haiku
This is my haiku
There are many others like it
But this one is mine
Semper Fi and Happy Hunting Devil Dogs!
Knunov
This is my Haiku
There are many more like it
But this one is mine
Semper Fi!
Knunov
I bought my first computer in 1995. It was a Packard Bell P75.
Go ahead. Laugh. If you told me you actually paid money for a PB, I'd laugh, too.
PB actually used good motherboards in their systems. It was the components that sucked.
Anyway, to this day, I *still* have and use my PB computer. Yes, it went from a P75 -> P133 -> P200 MMX, and went from 8MB -> 32MB -> 64MB -> 128MB and the hard drive went from 1GB -> 4GB -> 20GB, but it's stll in use.
Admittedly, I've bought other computers since and I no longer use it as my main machine, but I *could* if I wanted to. I only bought faster machines because I wanted to, not because I needed to.
It runs Win98 like a charm and runs Linux even better. It has always been stable and still is, 6 years later.
If people would cater to their needs instead of their wants, the CPU industry would either wither, or they would start offering REAL improvements. These 100MHz increases are BS.
They need to start with a minimum 1GHz jump and better internal architecture. Everything else is just them going wallet fishing.
Knunov
I think putting a man on the moon did more for the space industry than any other single achievement, ever.
I agree that it was mostly to snub the Ruskies, which in and of itself was worth a great deal. However, more importantly, it set the imaginations of many bright kids on fire. Would we have Robert Zubrin's extensive thoughts on space travel if it weren't for the Apollo missions? He himself said that is what sparked his interest.
It was a great achievement, even if it didn't directly benefit mankind.
I liked the American mindset that used to do things just to do them. The for-profit mindset often hinders advancement, and that's why I'll always be in favor of government sponsored space programs, because if left to corporations, the bottom line will be the driving factor; not the science.
Knunov