Does anybody else realize how confusing buying a cheap 'lindows' PC might be for a non tech-savvy user? Their website alludes to running standard windows software, and hinting that software 'might' be compatible... but they never really come out and say:
This is what will run. Everything else will not.
I wonder how busy their 800 number is. If they are stupid enough to provide one.
I love the idea, but not educating new users about what exactly they are buying seems very misleading. I can see the mindless drones going:
"Windows computer, $899"
"Lindows computer, $399"
Lindows says it runs some "Microsoft Windows Compatible" software, and it is cheaper... I'll go for that one.
Only to find out that, two weeks later, their new version of The Sims just won't run.
I thought that you could only violate a patent if you sold the resulting product for a profit. (IE the guy with that one hand typing machine a few weeks ago).
Isn't the Kernel Free?
As in Beer?
Maybe I'm completely off base here. Please let me know if I am.
I love the death of pinball. At least to a point. All of the great games were made, in my opinion, between 1990 and 1999. Bally/Williams games are the only things worth buying, period. And by buying, I mean for my house. I've got around a dozen.
Here is how the death of pinball works:
1. Operators used to make a lot of money off their pinball machines. Buckets and buckets of it.
2. In the 90's, kids decided video games were cool.
3. Operators make less and less money on pinball machines.
4. Bally/Williams, the biggest pinball producer decides they can't financially justify manufacturing pinball machines. They close their pinball division.
5. Operators start pulling games from locations when they break down, or are worn out.
That's where I come in. Calling all of my local operators. Calling all of the old-school operators from the 60's. Just hoping that somebody has a warehouse full of pinball machines that I can buy, repair, restore, and resell. It's a hobby that I have really grown to love in the past year.
There is an amazing amount of pinball information on the internet, which has allowed me to do this.
And don't worry... if you want a game bad enough, and don't live close enough to go pick one up... most sellers of pinball games ship them these days.
Oh, and here is a list of my games:
Medieval Madness - Williams
Funhouse - Williams
Whitewater - Williams
No Good Gofers - Williams
Star Trek: The Next Generation
World Cup Soccer 94 - Bally
Hook - Data East
Wow, can anybody believe this? I never would have guessed. My best bet would be that 22.4% of the auction complaints were legit, and 22.4% of the auction complaints were directly linked with Stuipd buyers.
Did I say Stuipd Buyers? Why Yes I Did.
Let me give you an example. Completely hypothetical, of course.
Say I were to sell something I no longer desire on Ebay. My goal is to get it out of my house, and recoup some of my investment. So I put it up for auction with a reasonable reserve. (This hypothetical item is a guitar that I haven't played in months)
Somebody new to good old EPay wins my auction. Horray. I now have in my possession my new ebay friend's guitar. I will release it in to his custody after I recieve my 177 plus 50 shipping, for a grand total of 227.00. (Shipping guitars is a joke)
A week goes by, the money order does not show up. My new ebay buddy informs me that he didn't budget his bills right, and can't afford the guitar now. He wants to back out of the auction, like I'm freaking Wal-Mart. He then understands that "Woah! I've entered in to a legally binding agreement, damn!". After informing my new ebay buddy of this fact, he agrees to send payment the next week.
Another week goes by. My Ebay buddy again emails me that he is fiscally irresponsible. He forgot to pay his car insurance for 3 months, and is about to get cut off. Go figure. I hope the insurance company cuts him off. He asks me if he can just cancel this whole transaction. I told him No, because I'm out my auction fees and I will have to file a complaint against him. He threatens, since he has my address (I'm in Iowa, he is in Hawaii), that he knows where he lives and what goes around comes around. After a polite email back to him, he agrees to send me a money order in 2 weeks and then add an additional $50 for my trouble.
Horray for me, but that doesn't begin to cover the time I've wasted on this transaction.
So I get the money on a Monday. The guitar gets packed and shipped out on a Tuesday, signature required. He gets the guitar this past Monday. On Tuesday I get a nice email threatening that because I did not put brand new strings on the guitar for him, that he is returning it. I informed him that I am not a Guitar Center and that he can't realistically expect to receive a like-new instrument for the price he paid on Ebay.
Nothing back from him yet, and I doubt that there will be. But I bet that you can add him to that 42.8% of complaints, if he can figure out how to dial a phone.
I give up on ebay. Dealing with idiots is not worth the $$$.
From what I have heard/read lately, it seems that this trojan program is silently installed on to a users hard drive.
If a user decides to remove their install of Kazaa, then Kazaa should remove ALL traces of what it put on a users computer.
By hiding it, and making it virtually impossible for a casual user to remove, this should definately be classified as a trojan. Also, I have heard that Kazaa claims that this program is only active when the client is runnng/connected. If this is the case, then why wouldn't it automagically uninstall if you chose to remove Kazaa from your computer?
I'm just hoping that, for once, the RIAA strings these people up. Ask for permission to use my cycles, I will probably let you. Hide it in your 1,000,000 page EULA, go to hell. This is almost as bad as when WebHancer was bundled with AudioGalaxy.
I'm sorry, but does anybody realize how stupid this is?
Like people that work at bars (or the bars themselves) are organized enough to guarantee that:
a. somebody will keep track of who, at which table, has which glass.
b. waitstaff will actually use this.
Come on. You look at a table. Glass is either full or empty. Or, if you are smart, you sold them a pitcher. That was probably the last technological update that any beer pouring establishment needed.
Fill glasses, fill pitcher, deliver to table. Periodically monitor the pitcher mechanism until you no longer detect an amber, or red, or dark, frothy content. When content is empty, fork a process to your waitress. Have her deliver a new pitcher of frothy goodness.
Electronic beer glasses, heh. Are they going to assign individual addresses to every glass made? Where there is one bar, there are more bars. Talk about miscommunication.
"OH! That must be glass 716 from across the street"
We all know that little kids in Japan already have Sony Playstations grafted into their bodies.
Button sensors in fingertips, a video pipeline into the optic nerves, etc.
It's a big secret, but we all know they are doing it. The reason Sony can't provide a 1000x performance increase to the PS3 is because of the limitations of the human nervous system, not because of some silly thing like computing limitations. You just wait for umbilical attachments for kids so they can work in parallell.
"Mommy, Billy jumped off the couch after a dragon and hurt my belly button!"
I can just imagine the lawsuits.
We are Sony. You must be assimilated. Do not buy XBox, Do not buy Gamecube. Wait for PS3k
I'm not sure if anybody at this site has reviewed it (I haven't yet, and I'm too lazy to look), but thatmoviesucked.com typically has decent reviews up of movies. Usually after they've been out for a week, sometimes longer.:-) No pre-view reviews here.
We can spell, though. Which should definitely put us a step above Slashdot.
-S
I wish I worked at Herman Miller
on
PayPal Goes Public
·
· Score: 3, Funny
I wonder how many truckloads of Aeron chairs are on their way out to Paypal?
I wondre if Herman Miller TAKES PayPal? That's an interesting paradox. It's an instant 3% off their purchase;-)
That is exactly why I memorize my PGP key. Sometimes it takes me 2 minutes to type the whole thing in from a terminal.
It's a lot safer in my head. And if they try to MAKE me tell them, by the time I become submissive the numbers will jumble together and I will have forgotten it. Can a floppy do that? I think not.
I'm sorry, but I think that this has to be the wrong direction for this game. Moving from a sprite based game to a 3d rendered game was a great move.... but that is where it should have stayed.
Is Nintendo trying to prove that they can create something that looks as rediculous as Parappa The Rapper? =) When I saw the shots of that trailer, I was just waiting to see a Toon Onion telling me how to dance.
Slashdot Mirror
Does anybody else realize how confusing buying a cheap 'lindows' PC might be for a non tech-savvy user? Their website alludes to running standard windows software, and hinting that software 'might' be compatible... but they never really come out and say:
This is what will run.
Everything else will not.
I wonder how busy their 800 number is. If they are stupid enough to provide one.
I love the idea, but not educating new users about what exactly they are buying seems very misleading. I can see the mindless drones going:
"Windows computer, $899"
"Lindows computer, $399"
Lindows says it runs some "Microsoft Windows Compatible" software, and it is cheaper... I'll go for that one.
Only to find out that, two weeks later, their new version of The Sims just won't run.
I wonder if they get a lot of returns?
-S
Now we just need computers that will refuse to boot windows.
-S
Oh, so now we see this conspiracy in action.
Man (Brandt) challenges God (Google).
God laughs at man.
God manipulates Slashdot to kill the web server of said Man.
God laughs at his almighty invention. The Slashdot effect.
Slashdot, God's tool, remains all powerful, while the Man's tool will nigh be linked to again.
Success!
-S
The Slashdot Effect.
I'm surprised that it isn't mentioned in the article. They are probably trying to patent it, I'm sure.
-S
I thought that you could only violate a patent if you sold the resulting product for a profit. (IE the guy with that one hand typing machine a few weeks ago).
Isn't the Kernel Free?
As in Beer?
Maybe I'm completely off base here. Please let me know if I am.
1. Downlode Gnome. Download KDE.
2. RTFM.
3. Rinse, Repeat.
-S
I love the death of pinball. At least to a point. All of the great games were made, in my opinion, between 1990 and 1999. Bally/Williams games are the only things worth buying, period. And by buying, I mean for my house. I've got around a dozen.
;-)
:-)
Here is how the death of pinball works:
1. Operators used to make a lot of money off their pinball machines. Buckets and buckets of it.
2. In the 90's, kids decided video games were cool.
3. Operators make less and less money on pinball machines.
4. Bally/Williams, the biggest pinball producer decides they can't financially justify manufacturing pinball machines. They close their pinball division.
5. Operators start pulling games from locations when they break down, or are worn out.
That's where I come in. Calling all of my local operators. Calling all of the old-school operators from the 60's. Just hoping that somebody has a warehouse full of pinball machines that I can buy, repair, restore, and resell. It's a hobby that I have really grown to love in the past year.
There is an amazing amount of pinball information on the internet, which has allowed me to do this.
Like the Marvin 3m Repair Guides or the rec.games.pinball newsgroup (try groups.google.com). If you are looking to buy a pinball machine, try the Mr. Pinball Classifieds. You can also have a look at most of the pinball machines manufactured in the past decade at the Internet Pinball Database
Or you can email me, I can set you up
And don't worry... if you want a game bad enough, and don't live close enough to go pick one up... most sellers of pinball games ship them these days.
Oh, and here is a list of my games:
Medieval Madness - Williams Funhouse - Williams Whitewater - Williams No Good Gofers - Williams Star Trek: The Next Generation World Cup Soccer 94 - Bally Hook - Data East
They are lots of fun
-S
Isn't region coding some sort of geographical discrimination?
-S
It's quite obvious what his problem is.
Any browser is going to have a hard time rendering pages with so many spelling errors.
-S
Wow, can anybody believe this? I never would have guessed. My best bet would be that 22.4% of the auction complaints were legit, and 22.4% of the auction complaints were directly linked with Stuipd buyers.
Did I say Stuipd Buyers? Why Yes I Did.
Let me give you an example. Completely hypothetical, of course.
Say I were to sell something I no longer desire on Ebay. My goal is to get it out of my house, and recoup some of my investment. So I put it up for auction with a reasonable reserve. (This hypothetical item is a guitar that I haven't played in months)
Somebody new to good old EPay wins my auction. Horray. I now have in my possession my new ebay friend's guitar. I will release it in to his custody after I recieve my 177 plus 50 shipping, for a grand total of 227.00. (Shipping guitars is a joke)
A week goes by, the money order does not show up. My new ebay buddy informs me that he didn't budget his bills right, and can't afford the guitar now. He wants to back out of the auction, like I'm freaking Wal-Mart. He then understands that "Woah! I've entered in to a legally binding agreement, damn!". After informing my new ebay buddy of this fact, he agrees to send payment the next week.
Another week goes by. My Ebay buddy again emails me that he is fiscally irresponsible. He forgot to pay his car insurance for 3 months, and is about to get cut off. Go figure. I hope the insurance company cuts him off. He asks me if he can just cancel this whole transaction. I told him No, because I'm out my auction fees and I will have to file a complaint against him. He threatens, since he has my address (I'm in Iowa, he is in Hawaii), that he knows where he lives and what goes around comes around. After a polite email back to him, he agrees to send me a money order in 2 weeks and then add an additional $50 for my trouble.
Horray for me, but that doesn't begin to cover the time I've wasted on this transaction.
So I get the money on a Monday. The guitar gets packed and shipped out on a Tuesday, signature required. He gets the guitar this past Monday. On Tuesday I get a nice email threatening that because I did not put brand new strings on the guitar for him, that he is returning it. I informed him that I am not a Guitar Center and that he can't realistically expect to receive a like-new instrument for the price he paid on Ebay.
Nothing back from him yet, and I doubt that there will be. But I bet that you can add him to that 42.8% of complaints, if he can figure out how to dial a phone.
I give up on ebay. Dealing with idiots is not worth the $$$.
-S
From what I have heard/read lately, it seems that this trojan program is silently installed on to a users hard drive.
If a user decides to remove their install of Kazaa, then Kazaa should remove ALL traces of what it put on a users computer.
By hiding it, and making it virtually impossible for a casual user to remove, this should definately be classified as a trojan. Also, I have heard that Kazaa claims that this program is only active when the client is runnng/connected. If this is the case, then why wouldn't it automagically uninstall if you chose to remove Kazaa from your computer?
I'm just hoping that, for once, the RIAA strings these people up. Ask for permission to use my cycles, I will probably let you. Hide it in your 1,000,000 page EULA, go to hell. This is almost as bad as when WebHancer was bundled with AudioGalaxy.
-S
I'm sorry, but does anybody realize how stupid this is?
Like people that work at bars (or the bars themselves) are organized enough to guarantee that:
a. somebody will keep track of who, at which table, has which glass.
b. waitstaff will actually use this.
Come on. You look at a table. Glass is either full or empty. Or, if you are smart, you sold them a pitcher. That was probably the last technological update that any beer pouring establishment needed.
Fill glasses, fill pitcher, deliver to table. Periodically monitor the pitcher mechanism until you no longer detect an amber, or red, or dark, frothy content. When content is empty, fork a process to your waitress. Have her deliver a new pitcher of frothy goodness.
Electronic beer glasses, heh. Are they going to assign individual addresses to every glass made? Where there is one bar, there are more bars. Talk about miscommunication.
"OH! That must be glass 716 from across the street"
Heh,
-S
Can be found at this website
It actually looks kind of neat. That article will give you the lowdown of how it works, and what kind of profit you can expect. Neato.
I think that I'll stick with my Pinball Machines or to writing Movie Reviews
We all know that little kids in Japan already have Sony Playstations grafted into their bodies.
Button sensors in fingertips, a video pipeline into the optic nerves, etc.
It's a big secret, but we all know they are doing it. The reason Sony can't provide a 1000x performance increase to the PS3 is because of the limitations of the human nervous system, not because of some silly thing like computing limitations. You just wait for umbilical attachments for kids so they can work in parallell.
"Mommy, Billy jumped off the couch after a dragon and hurt my belly button!"
I can just imagine the lawsuits.
We are Sony. You must be assimilated. Do not buy XBox, Do not buy Gamecube. Wait for PS3k
-Scott
Boy, did that movie suck?
I'm not sure if anybody at this site has reviewed it (I haven't yet, and I'm too lazy to look), but thatmoviesucked.com typically has decent reviews up of movies. Usually after they've been out for a week, sometimes longer. :-) No pre-view reviews here.
We can spell, though. Which should definitely put us a step above Slashdot.
-S
I wonder how many truckloads of Aeron chairs are on their way out to Paypal?
;-)
I wondre if Herman Miller TAKES PayPal? That's an interesting paradox. It's an instant 3% off their purchase
-S
MS Should have moved to Canada when they had the chance.
-S
You just wait until P. Diddy starts sampling these tunes.
I bet He buys J-Lo's new number.
GHOSTBUSTERS!
Stupid lameness filter.
From what I understand, there will be one universal De-Crypto key for all cryptographic software.
Cool.
How about one master key for all the doors of the world?
I guarantee you that I will have a copy of that key (for the doors) within the year.
I'm sure they'll be for sale on every street corner in New York.
-S
Has anybody noticed that it is September 11? Or 9-11-01
or 911.
Coincidence? Or Irony.
-S
I Can Assimilate (yet) ANother Nickle.
-S
That is exactly why I memorize my PGP key. Sometimes it takes me 2 minutes to type the whole thing in from a terminal.
It's a lot safer in my head. And if they try to MAKE me tell them, by the time I become submissive the numbers will jumble together and I will have forgotten it. Can a floppy do that? I think not.
-S
The article in question can be found here
Hope this helps out. I always hate it when we slashdot a story this quickly.
I'm sorry, but I think that this has to be the wrong direction for this game. Moving from a sprite based game to a 3d rendered game was a great move.... but that is where it should have stayed.
Is Nintendo trying to prove that they can create something that looks as rediculous as Parappa The Rapper? =) When I saw the shots of that trailer, I was just waiting to see a Toon Onion telling me how to dance.
-S