LaserDisc's biggest problem was that it was read-only. Compared to "I can watch AND record ANYTHING", the market for "I can only watch studio films" was tiny. AFAIK, the very first LaserDiscs were one hour PER SIDE, so even the first model could hold a 2-hour movie on a single disc. That was the point of its existence.
Does the title "the superbowl of stupidity" refer to the content of your post? Because you seem to be forgetting how Apple did after entering the lackluster MP3 player market, the lackluster smartphone market, and the lackluster tablet market -- each time, entering an existing space and selling orders of magnitude more products than their competitors. Maybe, just maybe, they deserve the benefit of the doubt here.
"The FBI said they do not believe the incident is related to terrorism."
WOW! Seriously. This is great news. I just figured EVERYTHING was ALWAYS called "terrorism" now. Is someone finally figuring out that if everything is terrorism, then nothing is terrorism? Do we no longer need to invoke the boogeyman every time something bad happens? Oh happy day.
> You turn it over, half the bottle dumps onto your food.
Insightful? REALLY? I didn't read that they're making the ketchup thinner or removing the small hole in the end of the cap. The article shows a glass ketchup bottle, true, but the other bottles shown are the more common squeezable plastic kind. The last time I used a glass ketchup bottle was maybe 10 years ago in a restaurant.
Ditto. Things that never stuck in a decade of English classes that finally clicked, made sense, and stuck in my first semester of High School Spanish include gerunds, infinitives, and the subjunctive.
"... problem appears to be getting worse..." [emphasis mine]
Anybody want to bust out some science and actually try measuring something, or just wanna sit around and whine?
Maybe -- just maybe -- you're hearing about it more because thanks to the Internet, there is more info about everything in front of you at all times. So perhaps that explains why you're seeing more bad science? (And everything else.)
Or maybe you could ask the tiny fucking supercomputer that's in your pocket with instant access to 98% of all human knowledge and voice recognition about the state of science today. Jesus fucking christ.
"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times..."
Wow, 24 hours after launch? That's AMAZING! That is, if you ignore the fact that precise measurements and high-res images of the real thing have been online for months at apple.com... but other than that, yeah, quite a feat.
LITERALLY 2 weeks? MOVE! You don't have a second to lose.
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Tomorrow on Slashdot: one editor's quest to rid Slashdot of mixed-tense constructions: "... he'll then go in and manually corrects..."*
Interesting fact: he initially was on a quest to rid wikipedia of "should of" and "could of" but the database crashed under the weight of the results. So we went with "comprised of".
* Just kidding. Slashdot editors don't actually edit. But a boy can dream...
On a four-engine plane over the Atlantic the pilot announces on the intercom, "Ladies and gentlemen, we've just lost an engine, but there's nothing to worry about. This plane flies perfectly well on three engines. It just reduces you speed a little so we'll be about a half-hour late."
A few minutes later, another announcement: "Ladies and gentlemen, we've lost another engine. We'll still make it, but that'll slow us down a little more. We'll be about an hour late."
Soon there's yet another message: "We've just lost power on a third engine. I think we'll be OK, but plan on being two hours late."
One of the passengers turns to his neighbor and says, "I hope the fourth one doesn't quit. We'll be up here all day."
The only problem with naming satellites after early astronomers is that when I read the headline, there is a moment where I think "wait -- isn't he dead?"
And yet somehow we survived with these 10,000 people with connections to subversive organizations roaming freely in our midst. Amazing.
Dear ALL GOVERNMENT AGENCIES: *THIS* is why we don't want you to have infinite surveillance. Because those 10,000 people you had files on did EXACTLY NOTHING. You want to wiretap someone, go get some ACTUAL FUCKING EVIDENCE. Not just "he read this book and knows this guy and likes to encrypt his files."
The upper two are about 2x larger than the smaller two. Significant, but I wouldn't call it "distant". Distant to me would be something like a 10x difference. The market is about 1/3, 1/3, 1/6, 1/6.
It was in the updater for iTunes 2, and if you a) had your library on a second hard drive and b) if the hard drive had a space for the *first character* of the name (eg, " Music") it would erase the drive.
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Dear LAUSD,
No.
-Steve
Sent from my iPad
LaserDisc's biggest problem was that it was read-only. Compared to "I can watch AND record ANYTHING", the market for "I can only watch studio films" was tiny. AFAIK, the very first LaserDiscs were one hour PER SIDE, so even the first model could hold a 2-hour movie on a single disc. That was the point of its existence.
> Jedi may also need to invest in the DVDs.
Pro tip: you only need to buy the 3 old ones, not all 6.
Fucking fantastic. One more thing I'll need to turn off in every account on every computer I use.
I wish there was one great browser, and not three OK ones.
Does the title "the superbowl of stupidity" refer to the content of your post? Because you seem to be forgetting how Apple did after entering the lackluster MP3 player market, the lackluster smartphone market, and the lackluster tablet market -- each time, entering an existing space and selling orders of magnitude more products than their competitors. Maybe, just maybe, they deserve the benefit of the doubt here.
They included a typo in the summary for extra authenticity. "A r presentative from..."
But yeah, thanks for the reminder that it's "don't bother to visit Slashdot" day.
"The FBI said they do not believe the incident is related to terrorism."
WOW! Seriously. This is great news. I just figured EVERYTHING was ALWAYS called "terrorism" now. Is someone finally figuring out that if everything is terrorism, then nothing is terrorism? Do we no longer need to invoke the boogeyman every time something bad happens? Oh happy day.
> You turn it over, half the bottle dumps onto your food.
Insightful? REALLY? I didn't read that they're making the ketchup thinner or removing the small hole in the end of the cap. The article shows a glass ketchup bottle, true, but the other bottles shown are the more common squeezable plastic kind. The last time I used a glass ketchup bottle was maybe 10 years ago in a restaurant.
Ditto. Things that never stuck in a decade of English classes that finally clicked, made sense, and stuck in my first semester of High School Spanish include gerunds, infinitives, and the subjunctive.
"... problem appears to be getting worse..." [emphasis mine]
Anybody want to bust out some science and actually try measuring something, or just wanna sit around and whine?
Maybe -- just maybe -- you're hearing about it more because thanks to the Internet, there is more info about everything in front of you at all times. So perhaps that explains why you're seeing more bad science? (And everything else.)
Or maybe you could ask the tiny fucking supercomputer that's in your pocket with instant access to 98% of all human knowledge and voice recognition about the state of science today. Jesus fucking christ.
"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times..."
Wow, 24 hours after launch? That's AMAZING! That is, if you ignore the fact that precise measurements and high-res images of the real thing have been online for months at apple.com... but other than that, yeah, quite a feat.
LITERALLY 2 weeks? MOVE! You don't have a second to lose.
Pricing and Price Reductions/Corrections
With regards to pricing, Apple reserves the right to change prices for products displayed at/on the Apple Store at any time, and to correct pricing errors that may inadvertently occur. Additional information about pricing and sales tax is available on the Payment & Pricing page.
Should Apple reduce its price on any Apple-branded product within 14 calendar days from the date you receive your product, feel free to visit an Apple Retail Store or contact the Apple Contact Center at 1-800-676-2775 to request a refund [emphasis added] or credit of the difference between the price you were charged and the current selling price. To receive the refund or credit you must contact Apple within 14 calendar days of the price change.
http://store.apple.com/us/browse/open/salespolicies
> External video is up to 3840 by 2160 pixels.
> Yeah, that missing 160 pixels horizontal
> resolution is Soooooo upsetting.
There might be a nipple in the bottom 80 pixels.
Someone is still using a Blackberry phone?
I was just in a clearance store today. Got a couple LED ornaments, and some t-shirts for $1.50 each.
So... "everything in moderation"? Just like... everything else? Got it.
Tomorrow on Slashdot: one editor's quest to rid Slashdot of mixed-tense constructions: "... he'll then go in and manually corrects..."*
Interesting fact: he initially was on a quest to rid wikipedia of "should of" and "could of" but the database crashed under the weight of the results. So we went with "comprised of".
* Just kidding. Slashdot editors don't actually edit. But a boy can dream...
Thanks for the perfect setup for this old joke...
On a four-engine plane over the Atlantic the pilot announces on the intercom, "Ladies and gentlemen, we've just lost an engine, but there's nothing to worry about. This plane flies perfectly well on three engines. It just reduces you speed a little so we'll be about a half-hour late."
A few minutes later, another announcement: "Ladies and gentlemen, we've lost another engine. We'll still make it, but that'll slow us down a little more. We'll be about an hour late."
Soon there's yet another message: "We've just lost power on a third engine. I think we'll be OK, but plan on being two hours late."
One of the passengers turns to his neighbor and says, "I hope the fourth one doesn't quit. We'll be up here all day."
The only problem with naming satellites after early astronomers is that when I read the headline, there is a moment where I think "wait -- isn't he dead?"
And yet somehow we survived with these 10,000 people with connections to subversive organizations roaming freely in our midst. Amazing.
Dear ALL GOVERNMENT AGENCIES: *THIS* is why we don't want you to have infinite surveillance. Because those 10,000 people you had files on did EXACTLY NOTHING. You want to wiretap someone, go get some ACTUAL FUCKING EVIDENCE. Not just "he read this book and knows this guy and likes to encrypt his files."
But... but... but... open!
... the distant third and fourth place competitors in a four-horse market.
1 - Verizon Wireless - 125.3M subscribers
2 - AT&T Mobility - 118.7M subscribers
3 - Sprint Corporation - 54.8M subscribers
4 - T-Mobile US - 52.9M subscribers
The upper two are about 2x larger than the smaller two. Significant, but I wouldn't call it "distant". Distant to me would be something like a 10x difference. The market is about 1/3, 1/3, 1/6, 1/6.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L...
http://www.fiercewireless.com/...
It was in the updater for iTunes 2, and if you a) had your library on a second hard drive and b) if the hard drive had a space for the *first character* of the name (eg, " Music") it would erase the drive.
http://www.xlr8yourmac.com/OSX...
I rarely say this, but RTFA. Not only does it have gigabit ethernet, you can optionally get 2 or more gig-E ports.
... he's update this for social media.
The difference is, you actually can make money selling social media snake-oil to companies. For now, at least...