Barnes & Noble is rapidly falling down my list of "places I like". They're succumbing to all the same horseshit that companies like Music Warehouse, K-Mart did -- They spend less and less time being concerned with their core product (books & periodicals), and spend more and more time trying to sell me peripheral foo-foo shit like DVDs, Playstation games, and cotton candy in a bag.
About a year and a half ago, I went into a Music Warehouse looking for a Zeppelin CD.. A classic, an album that any place calling itself a "music warehouse" would be insane not to have. I walk inside, and what do I see?
A glass case on a pedistal, with a pair of Reebok shoes lovingly placed inside of it...like i'm supposed to fall to my knees and start jerking off to it. After walking through 6 of 7 aisles of DVDs and and *childrens backpacks* I get to the back of the store. What do I see? An entire *wall* stacked floor to ceiling with hundreds of copies of a single Britney Spears CD. At that point, I just walked out.
Pretty much the same goes for Barnes & Noble these days... I cant go in there and find books they *should* have. What I *do* find, is plenty of DVDs, backpacks, cake, Playstation games, and cotton candy..in a bag.
No doubt, they're getting rid of eBooks to make room for something else neither your or I need. Like some more glass pedistals with Reebok shoes inside.
We should stop selling kitchen blenders, too. Because people just cant handle them...Some people have even been known to spray shit all over their kitchen by forgetting to cover the hole.
I pay for access to 65,536 ports. If I wasnt responsible enough to handle it, I wouldnt buy it in the first place.
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But thats how Earth is now, anyway.:)
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Huuuuuge longshot, feel free to shoot it down:
Really, really intricate slingshotting. Jupiter has enough moons that, concievably, you could just whip that sucker around until you hit a suitable trajectory to make it back to Earth.
It would take a shitload of calculus, and hundreds of years, but... Hey, got a better idea?:)
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7:28 p.m. Cocktails will be served on the observation deck, followed by a live performance from Las Vegas singing sensation Wayne Newton.
8:28 p.m. Happy Hour (all drinks $2)
9:28 p.m. Last Call
10:28 p.m. Say What Karaoke
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Here's a thought....Send it back to Earth, send a Shuttle up there, grab it, return it to Earth, and analyze it for signs of life.
Having spent 10+ years floating around, it might have picked up a thing or two, and might lend some creedence to the panspermia thoery of how life started on Earth. If space is "dirty" with life, surely some of it would have clung to Galileo...?
Other than being massively radioactive, and something that would piss alot of hippies off if we actually DID bring it home, it would make for good science.
I was a little ticked off when I woke up this morning, had a cup of coffee, and found that Slashdot had rejected my news submission -- A page where a SCO boycott was being organized.
Now I realize why.:) There's no point in boycotting SCO. There's better things to do, like show the public how full of shit they were by making these allegations in the first place. Thank you LWN.
Since their allegations of "stolen code" have turned out to be completely full of shit, as the LWN article points out, looks like theres clear sailing ahead.
Now that the cat is out of the bag, i'm hoping it'll only be a matter of a few days before the rest of the world wakes up and smells the coffee too.
As far as i'm concerned, you can stick a fork in this one. It's done.
But it might send a message to other companies who do business with these pricks. Anything which gets SCO cartwheeling down the toilet faster is okay by me. What they're doing is despicable.
Oh, okay... So we should scrap broadband over power lines because it interferes with a bunch of fat losers going "HAY GUYS IS ANYBODY OUT THERE??" and "WOW ARE YOU REALLY A TRUCKER!!?" and "WHAT KIND OF RIG YOU GOT MANG????"
Interesting how far things have come.:)..Been futzing around with some of the old and crufty InSight stuff I worked on back in '97.. Now that i'm fairly well versed in Xlib, i've managed to get some of the old stuff off the ground again. I'm calling it "asdf" for now.
Keep an eye out on Freshmeat for a slightly better version in a few days. It's not exactly a KDE killer (it's just a pretty program launcher), but it's fun to poke around with nontheless.:)
What if the humanoid robots, with all the power of the human mind, decide that we are their equals? Or even that humans are better for certain jobs than they are?...Sounds like the problem will take care of itself.:)
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Pardon me. They're not Reebok shoes.
:)
Theyre "RBK".
You know, kinda like how Menudo is "MDO" now?
Barnes & Noble is rapidly falling down my list of "places I like". They're succumbing to all the same horseshit that companies like Music Warehouse, K-Mart did -- They spend less and less time being concerned with their core product (books & periodicals), and spend more and more time trying to sell me peripheral foo-foo shit like DVDs, Playstation games, and cotton candy in a bag.
About a year and a half ago, I went into a Music Warehouse looking for a Zeppelin CD.. A classic, an album that any place calling itself a "music warehouse" would be insane not to have. I walk inside, and what do I see?
A glass case on a pedistal, with a pair of Reebok shoes lovingly placed inside of it...like i'm supposed to fall to my knees and start jerking off to it. After walking through 6 of 7 aisles of DVDs and and *childrens backpacks* I get to the back of the store. What do I see? An entire *wall* stacked floor to ceiling with hundreds of copies of a single Britney Spears CD. At that point, I just walked out.
Pretty much the same goes for Barnes & Noble these days... I cant go in there and find books they *should* have. What I *do* find, is plenty of DVDs, backpacks, cake, Playstation games, and cotton candy..in a bag.
No doubt, they're getting rid of eBooks to make room for something else neither your or I need. Like some more glass pedistals with Reebok shoes inside.
Yeah, blocking everything, thats great. Awesome, guys.
We should stop selling kitchen blenders, too. Because people just cant handle them...Some people have even been known to spray shit all over their kitchen by forgetting to cover the hole.
I pay for access to 65,536 ports. If I wasnt responsible enough to handle it, I wouldnt buy it in the first place.
But thats how Earth is now, anyway. :)
Huuuuuge longshot, feel free to shoot it down:
Really, really intricate slingshotting. Jupiter has enough moons that, concievably, you could just whip that sucker around until you hit a suitable trajectory to make it back to Earth.
It would take a shitload of calculus, and hundreds of years, but... Hey, got a better idea?
7:28 p.m. Cocktails will be served on the observation deck, followed by a live performance from Las Vegas singing sensation Wayne Newton.
8:28 p.m. Happy Hour (all drinks $2)
9:28 p.m. Last Call
10:28 p.m. Say What Karaoke
Here's a thought. ...Send it back to Earth, send a Shuttle up there, grab it, return it to Earth, and analyze it for signs of life.
Having spent 10+ years floating around, it might have picked up a thing or two, and might lend some creedence to the panspermia thoery of how life started on Earth. If space is "dirty" with life, surely some of it would have clung to Galileo...?
Other than being massively radioactive, and something that would piss alot of hippies off if we actually DID bring it home, it would make for good science.
Nope.
:)
1 down, 1.1 billion to go. Keep guessing.
This guy should team up with the screaming spikey-haired Asian guy.
HP's CEO has been on record saying that she plans to "ship as many jobs overseas as possible".
Thats about all I need to know regarding HP, as far as i'm concerned.
"I love beating myself in the head with a frying pan, because it feels FANTASTIC when I stop!"
Who comes up with this shit? Is it lost on everyone, that having more than one "standard" means there IS NO standard?
I was a little ticked off when I woke up this morning, had a cup of coffee, and found that Slashdot had rejected my news submission -- A page where a SCO boycott was being organized.
Now I realize why.
Since their allegations of "stolen code" have turned out to be completely full of shit, as the LWN article points out, looks like theres clear sailing ahead.
Now that the cat is out of the bag, i'm hoping it'll only be a matter of a few days before the rest of the world wakes up and smells the coffee too.
As far as i'm concerned, you can stick a fork in this one. It's done.
Doubtful.
But it might send a message to other companies who do business with these pricks. Anything which gets SCO cartwheeling down the toilet faster is okay by me. What they're doing is despicable.
Isn't this the same Carly Fiorina who is quoted as saying she plans to "ship as many American IT jobs overseas as possible." ?
No thanks.
I'd be willing to sign onto or even help organize a boycott of SCO and their products. Is anyone in the process of doing this?
This conversation definitely needs more Pogo
Anyway, I wrote a whitepaper on this sort of thing back in '98. Look around, i'm sure it's still floating around somewhere. Might be useful.
For a second, I thought this article was gonna talk about a sequel to 'Gigli'.
Oh, okay... So we should scrap broadband over power lines because it interferes with a bunch of fat losers going "HAY GUYS IS ANYBODY OUT THERE??" and "WOW ARE YOU REALLY A TRUCKER!!?" and "WHAT KIND OF RIG YOU GOT MANG????"
Yeah. Let me get right on it.
They forgot to add in the additional weight of the coconuts.
oops.
:)
run './asdf dock.jpg'
Sorry, it wasn't in the readme.
Interesting how far things have come. :) ..Been futzing around with some of the old and crufty InSight stuff I worked on back in '97.. Now that i'm fairly well versed in Xlib, i've managed to get some of the old stuff off the ground again. I'm calling it "asdf" for now.
:)
(a)(s)imple(d)esktop(f)ront-end.
ASDF v0.01a
Keep an eye out on Freshmeat for a slightly better version in a few days. It's not exactly a KDE killer (it's just a pretty program launcher), but it's fun to poke around with nontheless.
Cheers,
Thats what you get when you outsource a $4/hr coder from a country that cant keep it's lights on.
Makes you wonder why they don't use ATMs as a blueprint for voting systems.
Does a voting system *really* need Windows 2000 as a base? Or any version of Windows, for that matter?
Hell, *DOS* is an overkill for this sort of application.
What if the humanoid robots, with all the power of the human mind, decide that we are their equals? Or even that humans are better for certain jobs than they are?
None.
Got a letter back from the BBB saying TI was notified, and they (the BBB) were investigating.