As long as a large enough percentage of users are using IE, complaining won't help much. You can help educate them with a variation of the following stuck in your section:
Why is this rated informative? Nothing will make me leave a site faster than some egotistical webmaster who is going to dictate to me what browsers I can and can't use. Being ignorant and not supporting a browser is one thing, but openly blocking a browser is another. Some people choose to use IE over the alternatives because they like it.
Imagine if a significant percentage of XP users shift to NIST. They all sync at the same time every four hours, *thunk*! (I think it was 4 hours, I'm too lazy to go back and check.)
On my copy of XP it syncs once per week. That's a little different than every 4 hours.
It's a shame they didn't go all the way and track these spammers through their network providers. It would have been interesting to see all the lines going back to worldcom, etc.
I think that *all* games should be $40.00 (tax included) I think they would sell a lot more games - making them accessable even to the kid who has to save up his allowance.
I think there are some explanations for overpriced games:
1. They spent an ungodly amount of time making it and now they are trying to recoup the costs (I can't wait until Duke Nukem Forever comes out).
2. Supply and demand. If they can find suckers to pay that much, then they will charge it.
3. The game didn't cost them $70 to make, but since they put out 10 crappy games before it, they're trying to make up their losses. (I'm not talking Blizzard...just companies in general)
wtf is blizzard smoking? I thin I know why this game is so expensive:
Well if you just look at the collector's edition, that is like $20-$30 more...you're basically paying for "Art of Warcraft" book, cinematic DVD, Warcraft 3 Soundtrack CD, a bigger "collector's" box, and most places I see are also including a poster and/or mouse pad. So maybe the collector's being more than the regular is worth it...but the regular being like $60 average is a bit much.
And for those of you who couldn't give a damn and just want to buy a good game...or those who know that regardless of what slashdot does, the general buying public is still going to buy the game...
I see everyone recommending Kazza Lite but I use Grokster. It uses the FastTrak network and doesn't use Brillant Spyware. Grokster does have a lot of bundled junk but you can uncheck it in the setup program.
Can you provide a link? I remember the Soviets working on a Shuttle-like vehicle, but I'm with the rest of the audience here... I only heard about them making a prototype. I've NEVER heard of anyone launching a Shuttle/reusable space vehicle except for the U.S.
Just to add my 2 cents...I remember reading back then (maybe in Popular Science or Popular Mechanics) that they did fly the Buran once on remote control and it did a successful orbit/return.
Quite a few credit cards with online services now offer the ability to create a one-use-only credit card number. Some of these systems also let you choose a specific dollar amount and expiration date for the "card" you've created. The number is linked to your "real" credit card number so that all your charges show up on the same bill.
The beauty of this is that if your generated number gets "stolen" by an unscrupulous dealer, you don't need to worry about it because the number will be almost useless!
I'm honestly surprised that these services aren't advertised more widely, because they're probably one of the best ways to protect yourself against credit card fraud when dealing with unknown and far-away merchants. I know that American Express and MBNA cards have this capability, and I've heard rumors that Discover can do the same thing.
I've used both American Express Private Payments and Discover DeskShop in the past and my biggest complaint was that you could not set the expiraton...thus the expiration month/year would always be the current month and year and on many badly-programmed websites the merchant would simply reject it. It may be different now though.
And how did the esteemed senator respond? ``You're not one of my constituents, so I won't listen to you."
And if you ARE one of his constituents, he simply ignores you. See how many South Carolinians here have received responses. I know I haven't, and many others have not as well. And I wrote a personalized letter via postal mail.
Um if you are buying a PC for their support you're in for a big surprise. Just read any PC magazine to see how well Dell, Gateway, etc. supports their stuff. You're better off going with a local company.
What's so fucking terrifying about it? I'm not being facetious or trolling here. Seriously, what's so bad about it?
I don't see it as any more unnatural than testtube babies which have been aroud for a long time and no one seems to have any problem with it.
Um, maybe you need to do some research. Perhaps you've heard of Dolly the sheep who suffers from arthritis, premature aging, among a lot of other ailments. This kid will have the same problems because cloning is not up par yet. This doctor is being irresponsible and doesn't care about the suffering this child will face.
Just because we accept one does not mean we HAVE to accept the others. Man is a thinking creature and has choices about what he or she allows to happen.
Yes thinking creature except some choose not to think and be complete idiots. Like the good doctor here who doesn't seem to care about the suffering this child will have due to health problems.
He has 500 women available for his experience! I am pretty sure he had his share of failure, miscarriage, abortion...
Are these women just dense or what? I am sure they could find a man willing to help them reproduce for free, and probably have an extremely low risk of defects. The offspring would even be unique. Wow, what a concept.
Both Fleming and Salk are examples of people cautiously exploring dangerous areas. I don't know that Antinori (the person responsible for this cloning attempt) did proceed cautiously. The United States, the Vatican and other governments share the blame for this however. They've banned research in the area and by doing so they've ensured that only the more cavalier will carry out investigations. Any suffering which does result from this is the fault of both Antinori and the governments who try to ban the research.
That's right. And the same thing with murder. They banned murder so all murders are their fault. See, if they didn't ban it then everyone could do it and you wouldn't have these fringe people doing it. Oh wait, that makes no sense. Just like your post.
Thank you for the humor today, but after 4 or so stories, you've made a good prank into overkill (at best).
Good? No a good one is where you read the article and you're still not sure if its true or not. Everything on slashdot today has just been plain lame. I mean its an insult to our intelligence. If you're going to do an April's fool joke, you do it subtely and keep people guessing.
Due to being of the male variety and forseeable sloppiness, I could not test but give due note to a full set of water jets and dryers located in the front of the toilet to satisfy the needs of our geek friends who do not a twig and berries nor wedding tackle. The frontal jets were also adjustable for tempurature, angle and pressure leading me to the assumption that they would provide appropriate customization to satify most body shapes and preferences. (Unfortunately no ladies were willing to comment on the functionality of the frontal jets)
At Matsushita's research center in Tokyo, scientists explain how they are working on embedding technology in the porcelain that will catch a urine sample, shoot it full of lasers and in short order test it for glucose, kidney disease and eventually even cancer. One of the researchers, Tatsuro Kawamura, says future smart toilets will compile and compare medical results day by day, allowing doctors to spot important changes.
"Thank you for using publitoliet. By the way, you have cancer. It's usually terminal within 5 years. Have a nice day!"
The U.S. Toto is a $600 seat, lid and control panel that attaches to a regular American toilet bowl.
It features a heated seat, the bottom washer and a deodorizing fan that "breaks down odorous molecules and returns clean air into the bathroom environment," according to Toto literature.
No no Americans want the self-lifting seat. How can they leave that out?
It's been years since I had a TV, VCR, or alarm clock that didn't sync itself. They are done via radio broadcast or embedded signal in TV broadcast. Having my microwave or clock on my stove grab it from the power grid would also be useful.
Now that is a great idea. If the power companies transmitted the time through the lines then any appliance could set itself.
"Please know we genuinely want to help you in this matter. In order for us to assist you please send the following to: customerservice@networksolutions.com
You just didn't phrase it right. You obviously confused them. See I asked them why they were holding domain names hostage, why ICANN has no balls, why they are an evil monopolistic government-sanctioned corporation, etc. and they said:
Thank you for contacting VeriSign.
VeriSign, Inc., periodically deletes domain names that are up for deletion in bulk since bulk deletion better enables us to insure that only those domain names that are actually up for deletion are properly deleted (as compared to running a deletion process).
The dates on which these bulk deletions occur are arbitrarily selected by our engineering department based upon system loading and other technical factors. In order to protect against an overload of our systems, we do not disclose these deletion dates.
You may, therefore, either continue to check our site for the availability of the domain name and attempt to obtain it through the public registration process, contact http://www.snapnames.com to attempt to back-order this domain, or, in the alternative, contact the listed registrant directly and discuss the possibility of executing a registrant name change agreement.
To visit our WHOIS database to locate registrant information for a domain, please go to:
Slashdot Mirror
Why is this rated informative? Nothing will make me leave a site faster than some egotistical webmaster who is going to dictate to me what browsers I can and can't use. Being ignorant and not supporting a browser is one thing, but openly blocking a browser is another. Some people choose to use IE over the alternatives because they like it.
On my copy of XP it syncs once per week. That's a little different than every 4 hours.
It's a shame they didn't go all the way and track these spammers through their network providers. It would have been interesting to see all the lines going back to worldcom, etc.
I don't know whether to laugh or cry, but that troll just got modded to 3.
Perhaps everyone should look here:
ftp://www.fcc.gov/pub/Bureaus/Wireless/OPP/mists.h tml
I think there are some explanations for overpriced games:
1. They spent an ungodly amount of time making it and now they are trying to recoup the costs (I can't wait until Duke Nukem Forever comes out).
2. Supply and demand. If they can find suckers to pay that much, then they will charge it.
3. The game didn't cost them $70 to make, but since they put out 10 crappy games before it, they're trying to make up their losses. (I'm not talking Blizzard...just companies in general)
4. They got to pay for the lawyers
Well if you just look at the collector's edition, that is like $20-$30 more...you're basically paying for "Art of Warcraft" book, cinematic DVD, Warcraft 3 Soundtrack CD, a bigger "collector's" box, and most places I see are also including a poster and/or mouse pad. So maybe the collector's being more than the regular is worth it...but the regular being like $60 average is a bit much.
Collectors Edition Base Prices:
67.91 buy.com
74.95 amazon.com
74.99 compusa.com
74.99 ebgames.com
74.99 gamestop.com
79.99 chipsbits.com
79.99 worstbuy (aka bestbuy.com)
Regular Edition Base Prices:
47.95 chipsbits.com
52.88 buy.com
59.95 amazon.com
59.95 staples.com
59.99 ebgames.com
59.99 gamestop.com
59.99 worstbuy (aka bestbuy.com)
Just like anyone who's shopped there.
Apparently nobody told the server...
I see everyone recommending Kazza Lite but I use Grokster. It uses the FastTrak network and doesn't use Brillant Spyware. Grokster does have a lot of bundled junk but you can uncheck it in the setup program.
Just to add my 2 cents...I remember reading back then (maybe in Popular Science or Popular Mechanics) that they did fly the Buran once on remote control and it did a successful orbit/return.
The beauty of this is that if your generated number gets "stolen" by an unscrupulous dealer, you don't need to worry about it because the number will be almost useless!
I'm honestly surprised that these services aren't advertised more widely, because they're probably one of the best ways to protect yourself against credit card fraud when dealing with unknown and far-away merchants. I know that American Express and MBNA cards have this capability, and I've heard rumors that Discover can do the same thing.
I've used both American Express Private Payments and Discover DeskShop in the past and my biggest complaint was that you could not set the expiraton...thus the expiration month/year would always be the current month and year and on many badly-programmed websites the merchant would simply reject it. It may be different now though.
And if you ARE one of his constituents, he simply ignores you. See how many South Carolinians here have received responses. I know I haven't, and many others have not as well. And I wrote a personalized letter via postal mail.
Um if you are buying a PC for their support you're in for a big surprise. Just read any PC magazine to see how well Dell, Gateway, etc. supports their stuff. You're better off going with a local company.
I don't see it as any more unnatural than testtube babies which have been aroud for a long time and no one seems to have any problem with it.
Um, maybe you need to do some research. Perhaps you've heard of Dolly the sheep who suffers from arthritis, premature aging, among a lot of other ailments. This kid will have the same problems because cloning is not up par yet. This doctor is being irresponsible and doesn't care about the suffering this child will face.
Yes thinking creature except some choose not to think and be complete idiots. Like the good doctor here who doesn't seem to care about the suffering this child will have due to health problems.
Are these women just dense or what? I am sure they could find a man willing to help them reproduce for free, and probably have an extremely low risk of defects. The offspring would even be unique. Wow, what a concept.
That's right. And the same thing with murder. They banned murder so all murders are their fault. See, if they didn't ban it then everyone could do it and you wouldn't have these fringe people doing it. Oh wait, that makes no sense. Just like your post.
If I was this kid I'd sue the hell out of this doctor for any medical problems I might have, etc.
Good? No a good one is where you read the article and you're still not sure if its true or not. Everything on slashdot today has just been plain lame. I mean its an insult to our intelligence. If you're going to do an April's fool joke, you do it subtely and keep people guessing.
I'm sure they like them...REALLY like them.
"Thank you for using publitoliet. By the way, you have cancer. It's usually terminal within 5 years. Have a nice day!"
It features a heated seat, the bottom washer and a deodorizing fan that "breaks down odorous molecules and returns clean air into the bathroom environment," according to Toto literature.
No no Americans want the self-lifting seat. How can they leave that out?
Now that is a great idea. If the power companies transmitted the time through the lines then any appliance could set itself.
In order for us to assist you please send the following to:
customerservice@networksolutions.com
You just didn't phrase it right. You obviously confused them. See I asked them why they were holding domain names hostage, why ICANN has no balls, why they are an evil monopolistic government-sanctioned corporation, etc. and they said:
Thank you for contacting VeriSign.
VeriSign, Inc., periodically deletes domain names that are up
for deletion in bulk since bulk deletion better enables us to
insure that only those domain names that are actually up for
deletion are properly deleted (as compared to running a deletion
process).
The dates on which these bulk deletions occur are arbitrarily
selected by our engineering department based upon system loading
and other technical factors. In order to protect against
an overload of our systems, we do not disclose these deletion dates.
You may, therefore, either continue to check our site for the
availability of the domain name and attempt to obtain it through
the public registration process, contact http://www.snapnames.com
to attempt to back-order this domain, or, in the alternative, contact
the listed registrant directly and discuss the possibility of
executing a registrant name change agreement.
To visit our WHOIS database to locate registrant information for
a domain, please go to:
http://www.netsol.com/cgi-bin/whois/whois
Best regards,
srey
VeriSign, Inc.
http://www.networksolutions.com