I agree.. i watched verry little of the olympics this year and will watch even less for the summer olympics. And this really saddens me. I used to really enjoy watching the olympics and how everyone got together to watch and support the athletes... It has just been getting more and more commercialized that I can't even enjoy watching it anymore. Now the olympics are just one big commercial after the other. And please don't forget that they broke the tradition of holding the olympics every fours years, and why? why so they could capitalize on it twice as often of course.
*sigh* Who wants to start their own contry where there is no money but only a barter system of goods and services and if you produce neither a good nor are willing to provide a service you are exiled?:o)
is that I was really looking forward to seeing a.mov of that poor gymnast who just completely missed the horse on her vault and just kept flipping and flipping.... now i've gotta wait ten years for someone to legally make it available.
Is anyone else getting as sick a freakin tired of the big business media groups being able to wield such threatening control over everything? This is/*SO*/ annoying.
I actualy just saw the movie last night. At the end I couldn't help but think to myself, there's going to be another one. And how typical of the comic book sequel with the vilan, of course, escaping from the insane asylum to do battle with his arche enemy. The movie was very well done imo, it felt a little slow in places but not necessarily to it's detriment. I actualy did notice and appreciated that the movie never really showed much "action," no unnecessary explosions or chases or fisticuffs except for bruce's fight at the end, but that fight was necessary for the, "he is a hero" picture we need to have for this movie to work, and of course for the sequels to work. btw... heh.. I couldn't keep myself from laughing at the "hanging of the cape" at the end.
You don't have to hurt someone to be sued by them. These days all it takes is "un-due stress" and they'll come after you with a fist full of lawyers. Consider this, perhaps you lost some key data or financial information because the chip hicuped and fried the data before you had a chance to back it up. trust me.. give someone enough time and they will FIND a way to sue you.
Has anyone else noticed that a lot of companies are issuing recalls lately? Does anyone else think they are just afraid of lawsuits after the bad rep big name companies have gotten regarding avoiding recalls because of the firestone fiasco?
dambit.. beat me to the punch... not a worthwile collection without the 2600. I've still got mine, in working condition, over fifty games and a dozen different paddles. any offers?:o)
he's selling it because his parents are finaly kicking him out of the house after 30 years and he's realizing that, because he spent the last 30 years in his bedroom doing absolutly nothing other than playing video games, that he would not know how to cope with roommates so must buy his own house and is trying to raise enough money for a down payment.
This is old news to us, is it not? I've known for months that shit was going on... but wait.. oh.. now it affects the people with the money.. NOW it's an issue..
now I get it. I think i'm begining to see how things work.
I'm not sure about horses, but in humans i think i know what he is refering to. (Don't take the word heart literaly, think pump.) When you walk, the veins and arteries in your feet act like a pump to assist the heart in getting the blood back up the legs. at least thats what i've heard and no.. i'm not a doctor.. just a monkey full of useless information.:o)
given your own example of the earrthworm, who's to say that perhaps long necked dinosours didn't have similar contracting arteries to help the blood reach their head? Or perhaps... look at how a red wood is able to get it juices hundreds of feet in the air... check valves. Check valves could go a long way in helping in that dept.
yeah... i had remembered that part of the article just after I submitted the story. I was really trying to say. "If only someone would be doing that in Buffalo" without having my home town plastered on the front page of/.:o)
I'm sure this was a typo. Of all the candidates, this man seems the most... normal. Instead of coming across as a freakin politician who will just say what ever it takes to "get your vote" he tells you his beliefs and who he is and thats all there is to it. If it wern't for his overly agressive position on military funding and gun control... this man would have my vote.
That has got to be the WORST place you could think of putting a PC Slot on anything that looks even remotely like an animal. I just wouldn't be able to do it.. i'd fell... dirty.
that the experiment and the glitch are not related? Think about this, the original story states (paraphrased) "the difference between the price you paid and the lowest price offered" now.. if there were a "glitch" in the experiment that offered these prices to everyone on a couple of days, but normal prices on the other days of their experiment then, by their own statement, they would be refunding the difference between those 75% off prices and the rest of the orders placed on those items. Do you really think amazon is going to want to bite that bullet? I think they're trying to cover whats left of their a$$ as they watch their customer base dwindle like a pile of sand in a wind storm.
just my $.02 on that... on a seperate note... if you read the cnet article here amazon should NOT get away with this! If you walk into a store, see something priced for $20, take it to the register, it rings up for $20 and you buy it with your credit card. When the store realizes they had the wrong price for that item they, legaly cannot force you to pay what they feel was the correct price. Why should an online retailer be governed by different laws regarding prices, sales, bait and switch etc then a brick and mortar retailer?
This was also done on either SNL or MadTV (forget which i saw it on) they mocked up the Who wants to be a millionaire set. the contestent was up to a whole bowl of rice and one question away from winning a goat...
I may be wrong with current laws, but weren't movie ratings and enforcement originally (and I think they still are) a voluntary system? The ESRB ratings are also a voluntary system. If a movie theater won't let a 10 year old watch an R rated movie without a parent/guardian, I don't see that as any different from K-mart not selling Soldier of Fortune to a 10 year old without his parent/guardian. Quite frankly I don't see any problem with this at all. I'm not saying anything about whether or not violent games make violent people (I really don't think they do) BUT certain people, certain children, need a little more guidance than others. While my 10 year old nephew Jake may be well mature enough to handle Soldier of Fortune I would never let my nephew John, the same age, play it.
I not so long ago installed real player on my machine to check out a stream of a demo of a new game that was coming out. I don't remember the exact wording but what I remember that really ticked me off was that in the "basic" install of real player that i downloaded it "included" this freakin Download Daemon. I didn't have the option of NOT installing it if i wanted to install real player. upon reading the EULA for the download daemon (yes, on ocassion I actualy read the bloody things) It mentioned that the download daemon WOULD RECORD information regarding the download and transmit that information to real networks. Since i really wanted to see this stream I said, what ever, I'll just uninstall that after i install the player. Since then every time I log on a freakin "DD" icon appears in my systray and there are no options that I can find to uninstall JUST the download daemon. I can, thankfully, "Unload" the daemon by right clicking on the icon in the systray but every now and then when I d/l something through my browser the little F____ pops up to do the download. What really bugs me about this is that they included this Other, completely non-relevant piece of software with the player, and that software's sole purpose in my view is to provide real networks personal information about me, my computer and what i download and that i do NOT have the option of using/not using it if I want to use the player. The daemon is not integrated in any way with the player. Just my own little rant...
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I agree.. i watched verry little of the olympics this year and will watch even less for the summer olympics. And this really saddens me. I used to really enjoy watching the olympics and how everyone got together to watch and support the athletes... It has just been getting more and more commercialized that I can't even enjoy watching it anymore. Now the olympics are just one big commercial after the other. And please don't forget that they broke the tradition of holding the olympics every fours years, and why? why so they could capitalize on it twice as often of course.
:o)
*sigh* Who wants to start their own contry where there is no money but only a barter system of goods and services and if you produce neither a good nor are willing to provide a service you are exiled?
is that I was really looking forward to seeing a .mov of that poor gymnast who just completely missed the horse on her vault and just kept flipping and flipping.... now i've gotta wait ten years for someone to legally make it available.
Is anyone else getting as sick a freakin tired of the big business media groups being able to wield such threatening control over everything? This is /*SO*/ annoying.
***WARNING POSSIBLE SPOILERS******
I actualy just saw the movie last night. At the end I couldn't help but think to myself, there's going to be another one. And how typical of the comic book sequel with the vilan, of course, escaping from the insane asylum to do battle with his arche enemy. The movie was very well done imo, it felt a little slow in places but not necessarily to it's detriment. I actualy did notice and appreciated that the movie never really showed much "action," no unnecessary explosions or chases or fisticuffs except for bruce's fight at the end, but that fight was necessary for the, "he is a hero" picture we need to have for this movie to work, and of course for the sequels to work. btw... heh.. I couldn't keep myself from laughing at the "hanging of the cape" at the end.
You don't have to hurt someone to be sued by them. These days all it takes is "un-due stress" and they'll come after you with a fist full of lawyers. Consider this, perhaps you lost some key data or financial information because the chip hicuped and fried the data before you had a chance to back it up. trust me.. give someone enough time and they will FIND a way to sue you.
Has anyone else noticed that a lot of companies are issuing recalls lately? Does anyone else think they are just afraid of lawsuits after the bad rep big name companies have gotten regarding avoiding recalls because of the firestone fiasco?
just a thoguht.
dambit.. beat me to the punch... not a worthwile collection without the 2600. I've still got mine, in working condition, over fifty games and a dozen different paddles. any offers? :o)
BillyZ
he's selling it because his parents are finaly kicking him out of the house after 30 years and he's realizing that, because he spent the last 30 years in his bedroom doing absolutly nothing other than playing video games, that he would not know how to cope with roommates so must buy his own house and is trying to raise enough money for a down payment.
:o)
or maybe not.
BillyZ
ahhhhh.... it's all so clear to me now.
I take it all back. Good slashdot. Good dog.
BillyZ
This is old news to us, is it not? I've known for months that shit was going on... but wait.. oh.. now it affects the people with the money.. NOW it's an issue..
now I get it. I think i'm begining to see how things work.
I'm not sure about horses, but in humans i think i know what he is refering to. (Don't take the word heart literaly, think pump.) When you walk, the veins and arteries in your feet act like a pump to assist the heart in getting the blood back up the legs. at least thats what i've heard and no.. i'm not a doctor.. just a monkey full of useless information. :o)
BillyZ
given your own example of the earrthworm, who's to say that perhaps long necked dinosours didn't have similar contracting arteries to help the blood reach their head? Or perhaps... look at how a red wood is able to get it juices hundreds of feet in the air... check valves. Check valves could go a long way in helping in that dept.
just a thought...
BillyZ
hasn't yahoo licensed Google's engine? Are you saying google sucks?
yeah... i had remembered that part of the article just after I submitted the story. I was really trying to say. "If only someone would be doing that in Buffalo" without having my home town plastered on the front page of /. :o)
BillyZ
I'm sure this was a typo. Of all the candidates, this man seems the most... normal. Instead of coming across as a freakin politician who will just say what ever it takes to "get your vote" he tells you his beliefs and who he is and thats all there is to it. If it wern't for his overly agressive position on military funding and gun control... this man would have my vote.
BillyZ
Would someone PLEASE print a nice large font copy of thise report and THROW IT at Georgy dubuya?
thank you.
"feel dirty" even...
That has got to be the WORST place you could think of putting a PC Slot on anything that looks even remotely like an animal. I just wouldn't be able to do it.. i'd fell... dirty.
:o)
sign me up!
that the experiment and the glitch are not related? Think about this, the original story states (paraphrased) "the difference between the price you paid and the lowest price offered" now.. if there were a "glitch" in the experiment that offered these prices to everyone on a couple of days, but normal prices on the other days of their experiment then, by their own statement, they would be refunding the difference between those 75% off prices and the rest of the orders placed on those items. Do you really think amazon is going to want to bite that bullet? I think they're trying to cover whats left of their a$$ as they watch their customer base dwindle like a pile of sand in a wind storm.
just my $.02 on that... on a seperate note... if you read the cnet article here amazon should NOT get away with this! If you walk into a store, see something priced for $20, take it to the register, it rings up for $20 and you buy it with your credit card. When the store realizes they had the wrong price for that item they, legaly cannot force you to pay what they feel was the correct price. Why should an online retailer be governed by different laws regarding prices, sales, bait and switch etc then a brick and mortar retailer?
BillyZ
This was also done on either SNL or MadTV (forget which i saw it on) they mocked up the Who wants to be a millionaire set. the contestent was up to a whole bowl of rice and one question away from winning a goat...
I may be wrong with current laws, but weren't movie ratings and enforcement originally (and I think they still are) a voluntary system? The ESRB ratings are also a voluntary system. If a movie theater won't let a 10 year old watch an R rated movie without a parent/guardian, I don't see that as any different from K-mart not selling Soldier of Fortune to a 10 year old without his parent/guardian. Quite frankly I don't see any problem with this at all. I'm not saying anything about whether or not violent games make violent people (I really don't think they do) BUT certain people, certain children, need a little more guidance than others. While my 10 year old nephew Jake may be well mature enough to handle Soldier of Fortune I would never let my nephew John, the same age, play it.
Age does not equal maturity.
BillyZ
I not so long ago installed real player on my machine to check out a stream of a demo of a new game that was coming out. I don't remember the exact wording but what I remember that really ticked me off was that in the "basic" install of real player that i downloaded it "included" this freakin Download Daemon. I didn't have the option of NOT installing it if i wanted to install real player. upon reading the EULA for the download daemon (yes, on ocassion I actualy read the bloody things) It mentioned that the download daemon WOULD RECORD information regarding the download and transmit that information to real networks. Since i really wanted to see this stream I said, what ever, I'll just uninstall that after i install the player. Since then every time I log on a freakin "DD" icon appears in my systray and there are no options that I can find to uninstall JUST the download daemon. I can, thankfully, "Unload" the daemon by right clicking on the icon in the systray but every now and then when I d/l something through my browser the little F____ pops up to do the download. What really bugs me about this is that they included this Other, completely non-relevant piece of software with the player, and that software's sole purpose in my view is to provide real networks personal information about me, my computer and what i download and that i do NOT have the option of using/not using it if I want to use the player. The daemon is not integrated in any way with the player. Just my own little rant...