What we really need are mod kits to replace engines, etc, in older cars that make them more efficient, etc. If these were cheap and subsidized by the govt, then perhaps more alternate fuel things would be used. Until then, the only real viable option is hybrid, as it allows the same range/useability as current vehicles, but with the lower pollution.
And I know my EV's batterys (if I had one) would not last long powering 600 watts RMS of stereo equipment.:)
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Kind of like the fact that gnusucks.* is still available.... :) Get 'em, boys!
(OFF TOPIC) I've seen many IANAL posts, but I can't recall a single time I've seen IAAL. Are there no lawyers on slashdot? If not, the andover should hire one just to give IAALBTIMO (I am a lawyer but this is my opinion) commentary on such things....
I've just been wondering, if CDs cost this $18 to make, sell, whatever, then how the heck can BMG give me 12 free cds for buying one, (the only cost I have is $2.50 shipping & handling.)
Now I ask you, doesn't $2.50 s & h for one CD a little high?
Do you think it might cover the manufacturing costs?
So, 12 cds for the price of one. One costs $16.95 from BMG, shipping is $2.50 each, for a total of $46.95, which is exactly $3.91 a CD. So they must MAKE MONEY, and bmg must make LOTS OF MONEY, at only $3.91 a CD.:)
I have published a book, so I can give you some idea of the cost. For 5,000 copies of a 250 page 6 inch x 9 inch book with full color cover, the printing costs were aroung $7,500. That's only printing, no marketing, etc. But that is about a $1.50 a book. :)
Ah, the PSP. That's Program Segment Prefix, which was (is) used by.EXE programs (but not.COM, DOS makes a PSP for the.COM files at load time.), and can facilitate task switching (TSR style (terminate and stay resident.). The PSP had some other stuff in it, like segment pointers and such, but I don't remember much about it.
:)
It is best for a flight simulator, as mentioned above. You can see the "sides" of the airplane by glancing left or right, and the bars between the monitors are kind of like the bars between windows in a car or airplane
Remember DOOM and the -left and -right options for network play? Did multiple monitors with a network card, not 3 video cards, just 3 computers:)
This is probably offtopic, but I'm running Guidescope (which blocks banner ads), and I am wondering - do they still get a "hit" for the banner ad if my "proxy" doesn't download the stupid image?
If the coffee is so hot as to cause third degree burns then HOW THE HELL TO ANY OF THE CUSTOMERS DRINK THE CRAP AS IT WILL BURN THIER MOUTH TO A CRISP???????
bleh.
That is why the next great Napster wanna be should be called GOATASS! Then every news article will have to say that people are using GOATASS to get files! And the RIAA has to sue GOATASS to get money.
And best of all
We get GOATASS in inch high letters on the New York Times. If anyone wants to write a real killer file sharing app - one that will get attention, I have goatass.net and goatass.org waiting..... F* The RIAA with the GOATASS (TM)
If evolution is objective fact, and survival of the fittest says the most able to reproduce survive and evolve, then WHY THE HELL ARE WE BETTER THAN COCKROACHES????
They sure reproduce and survive a lot better than I do at this time. (I don't like living in ovens at 400 degrees, they don't seem to care about it....)
oh, bleh.
Let's drop the probable outcome (Napster loses, Napster is commecialized ala mp3.com), and try to see what would happen in the "worst case scenario."
Let's assume that napster and napster like programs continue to grow and expand and become easier to use, until it gets so "bad" that Joe will go out and buy a computer ($800) mainly to copy music. Let it get worse, until the recording industry crashes. Let it get so horrible that there is no way to produce something digitally AND make money on it, except through honesty. And let everyone be as honest as Satan.
What would probably happen in this case?
My guess is that the amount of NEW material would decrease. And continue to decrease, both in quantity, and perhaps, quality. So perhaps Napster and like programs will lead to an Information Ice Age, where everything can be trasfered from one person to another, but not much NEW stuff is created, at least not by those that either want to or have to make money doing it. It is obvious that there is a heck of a lot of information out there right now, would it really affect people much if the flow of new information (read Britney Spears, etc) slowed or stopped? I still have not heard every OLD song, or read every OLD book, so do we really need new ones?
I am just wondering what this would do to the Information Superhighway, if it stopped expanding.......
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He obviously wants Oscar for Best Title!
(And perhaps Best Original Song (By 'NSYNC))
:)
But I want a Beowulf cluster of these.
I think I could actually sing this, and that's a scary thought.
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Sorry
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But if they work like a rock, then don't they not work very well?
Of course, you mean stable or dependable as a rock, but I found it funny.
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What we really need are mod kits to replace engines, etc, in older cars that make them more efficient, etc. If these were cheap and subsidized by the govt, then perhaps more alternate fuel things would be used. Until then, the only real viable option is hybrid, as it allows the same range/useability as current vehicles, but with the lower pollution.
:)
And I know my EV's batterys (if I had one) would not last long powering 600 watts RMS of stereo equipment.
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Kind of like the fact that gnusucks.* is still available....
:)
Get 'em, boys!
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Or someone would put electrical tape over the part of the screen that displayed ads
:)
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Because:
When you have a sledgehammer, every thing looks like a BIG HONKIN' NAIL!
or should that be concrete sidewalk?
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(OFF TOPIC) I've seen many IANAL posts, but I can't recall a single time I've seen IAAL. Are there no lawyers on slashdot? If not, the andover should hire one just to give IAALBTIMO (I am a lawyer but this is my opinion) commentary on such things....
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I've just been wondering, if CDs cost this $18 to make, sell, whatever, then how the heck can BMG give me 12 free cds for buying one, (the only cost I have is $2.50 shipping & handling.)
:)
Now I ask you, doesn't $2.50 s & h for one CD a little high?
Do you think it might cover the manufacturing costs?
So, 12 cds for the price of one. One costs $16.95 from BMG, shipping is $2.50 each, for a total of $46.95, which is exactly $3.91 a CD. So they must MAKE MONEY, and bmg must make LOTS OF MONEY, at only $3.91 a CD.
For the bored, the link is BMG
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I have published a book, so I can give you some idea of the cost. For 5,000 copies of a 250 page 6 inch x 9 inch book with full color cover, the printing costs were aroung $7,500. That's only printing, no marketing, etc. But that is about a $1.50 a book.
:)
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Ah, the PSP. That's Program Segment Prefix, which was (is) used by .EXE programs (but not .COM, DOS makes a PSP for the .COM files at load time.), and can facilitate task switching (TSR style (terminate and stay resident.). The PSP had some other stuff in it, like segment pointers and such, but I don't remember much about it.
:)
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It is best for a flight simulator, as mentioned above. You can see the "sides" of the airplane by glancing left or right, and the bars between the monitors are kind of like the bars between windows in a car or airplane
:)
Remember DOOM and the -left and -right options for network play? Did multiple monitors with a network card, not 3 video cards, just 3 computers
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This one is better!!!!!! (Refers to the .sig or above poster.)
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This is probably offtopic, but I'm running Guidescope (which blocks banner ads), and I am wondering - do they still get a "hit" for the banner ad if my "proxy" doesn't download the stupid image?
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If the coffee is so hot as to cause third degree burns then HOW THE HELL TO ANY OF THE CUSTOMERS DRINK THE CRAP AS IT WILL BURN THIER MOUTH TO A CRISP???????
bleh.
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That is why the next great Napster wanna be should be called GOATASS! Then every news article will have to say that people are using GOATASS to get files!
And the RIAA has to sue GOATASS to get money.
And best of all
We get GOATASS in inch high letters on the New York Times.
If anyone wants to write a real killer file sharing app - one that will get attention, I have goatass.net and goatass.org waiting.....
F* The RIAA with the GOATASS (TM)
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If evolution is objective fact, and survival of the fittest says the most able to reproduce survive and evolve, then WHY THE HELL ARE WE BETTER THAN COCKROACHES????
They sure reproduce and survive a lot better than I do at this time. (I don't like living in ovens at 400 degrees, they don't seem to care about it....)
oh, bleh.
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Let's drop the probable outcome (Napster loses, Napster is commecialized ala mp3.com), and try to see what would happen in the "worst case scenario."
Let's assume that napster and napster like programs continue to grow and expand and become easier to use, until it gets so "bad" that Joe will go out and buy a computer ($800) mainly to copy music. Let it get worse, until the recording industry crashes. Let it get so horrible that there is no way to produce something digitally AND make money on it, except through honesty. And let everyone be as honest as Satan.
What would probably happen in this case?
My guess is that the amount of NEW material would decrease. And continue to decrease, both in quantity, and perhaps, quality. So perhaps Napster and like programs will lead to an Information Ice Age, where everything can be trasfered from one person to another, but not much NEW stuff is created, at least not by those that either want to or have to make money doing it. It is obvious that there is a heck of a lot of information out there right now, would it really affect people much if the flow of new information (read Britney Spears, etc) slowed or stopped? I still have not heard every OLD song, or read every OLD book, so do we really need new ones?
I am just wondering what this would do to the Information Superhighway, if it stopped expanding.......
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Maybe his powersupply fried and burned down the neighborhood, and they billed it to his electric bill?
:)
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Why doesn't the RIAA buy napster? It would not be much, and then they'd control it......
but I guess a new one would start, but...
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Du ngeons And Dragons :)
sorry, but you missed the html format, and we know people here can't cut & paste
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More photo links (direct): Picture 1
Picture 2 (Good One)
Picture 3
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NASA Images! And of the comet!
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Compare The Lion King and Hamlet sometime in the near future. Then give Hamlet a happy ending, and compare again.
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