Think about it, with the lunar landing site declared a monument, that will prevent further deforestation of the area and help preserve the multitude of flora and fauna that call it home.
I work in the streaming media biz, and although I think it's admirable that someone would limit all their viewing to streams, be realistic - there's still no substitute for tv, and that won't change until people think about 56k modems the same way we think of 300 baud externals today. Maybe once broadband is the norm, tv and streams will converge. Until then, the boob toob is the only way to get all the tv programming you want.
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By the way, has anyone else notices that 90% of the work seems to be done in the last 15 minutes?
That's actually the best way to go - planning is EVERYTHING. Without a good plan, the execution will fail. Just ask Digital Convergence!
...of Red Green's sage advice: To achieve any great goal, one must bring along duct tape.
My favorite highlight of last season's Junkyard Wars was the all-terrain vehicle that had a cannon that shot a boat anchor to winch itself out of bogs. Slap THAT sucker on the front of your Battlebot and the Gold Nut is yours, hands down!
> Finally, at any given time, despite our best efforts, a small number, no more than 4.7 million, of items on our site may be mispriced.
nice altered quote (it's actually 'a small number of the more than 4.7 million items') to base your comments on. Another human introduced error?
>It's the consumer that will have the final say, and the majority of consumers are in favor of napster and other file-sharing services.
Actually, it's the internet-savvy consumer that is in favor of napster and othe file-shares. I shun the RIAA just as vehemently as the next guy on/., but you're having problems seeing the scope of the situation - There's a helluva lot of people on the net, but there's a helluva lot more that aren't, and those NON-net-savvy consumers couldn't care less about napster or file-shares. They only see this as a legitimate business fending off technology-mad thieves and pirates.
It's really sad, but it's true - the people outraged by this whole fiasco are a tiny minority compared to people that just don't care. RIAA will be struck down and condemned in the future, but for now, they will prevail. The people that need convincing watch TV, they don't use computers. RIAA's propoganda in non-internet arenas is not only unparallelled, it's also totally unchallenged. People as a whole are sheep, and the RIAA has the shepherd's staff.
In either case, it's Orwellian. Animal Farm is a much better example.
Naw, HERE's what you do with this tech
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Focus and amplify the sound beam down to a pinpoint, and run pulses of very low-frequency sound through it. That'd be a pretty damn devastating weapon.
Actually, according to Mr. Science, SPAM stands for: Scientifically Produced Animal Matter
This is, of course, the same guy that told us that ballpoint pens are living organisms, who spew ink in response to having their faces dragged across paper.
How is it that crap like this thread doesn't get modded as off-topic?
I'm not going to get involved with the US/Canada pissing contest, but whoever said the moderation system here sucks was dead on.
That being said, I think privatization of the space program is an excellent idea. Our governmentS (US and Canada) should be spending their funding on solving problems at home before looking at exploration. NASA puts a lot of commercial satellites in the air using our tax dollars, but we can't get more cops to chase the crackheads off our streets, or better yet, chase them off our streets and put them in rehab instead of prison.
To sum up: slashdot moderation: needs work space program: sweet, but improperly funded sophomoric country comparisons: yawn
I mod an email joke list. This 'news' item went across our joke list 2 days ago. Had I realized that what we find trifling and amusing was NEWS, I would have submitted it!
In light of this discovery, I'd like to submit that STILE SUX and JapScat will revolutionize the web.
There was actually a Simpsons episode that addressed this very topic - and it ended up with Homer being added to the dictionary (with his pic), with the definition of 'success in spite of incompetence'.
>Too bad, because I really wanted to see Lars on >an episode of VH1's Where Are They Now digging >in dumpster looking for something to eat.
Patience, grasshopper. Metallica hasn't made a dime on musical merit in at least 5 years, maybe more - the only thing that keeps them going is the loyal fanbase they built back when they had musical integrity and something to say with their music... a fanbase that Metallica has no problem alienating, and is doing so with much zeal - not just with their legal MP3 tangles, but with the shoddy and formulaic pop-metal they insist on delivering lately.
2 more years, you'll see your dumpster-diving Lars.
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I like the cut of your gib. Come on down and join your peers!
Oh man, I could go on for days on this topic - suffice it to say that anyone who would buy a car online, without ever test-driving it or even seeing it in person, deserves to own a new 'Beetle'.
...so now excite@home is going to have a 'premium channel' on a cable system - there's a new concept.
As a user of the @home service, I have watched their front-end migrate to Excite@home, and up to this point, I'm unimpressed. The tv ads that enticed me to sign up for @home promised stupid-fast audio and video delivery, which isn't quite what I got, and now I'll get the privelege of paying more to get what was originally promised!
As an avid reader and a hopeless geek when it comes to computers, I've tried reading digital books - it don't fly with me. Old-fashioned though it may be, there's no substitute for something you can carry to the park, or the bathroom, or the bus and read a bit at a time. My comprehension is better on paper, the portability is a big value-add, and I don't want to burn out my printer running off a book just so I can read it someplace besides my desk.
Plus, you can loan a friend a book. Give them a digital copy of anything, and that's piracy.
I'd say go with both mediums, paper AND electronic. That way you can hit both markets, those old farts like me and the technomad that think if it isn't pixellated it isn't worth looking at.
There are some things that are just better in a tangible form, like books and paintings and women.
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Think about it, with the lunar landing site declared a monument, that will prevent further deforestation of the area and help preserve the multitude of flora and fauna that call it home.
MOON FIRST!
Here ya go: everyt hing you ever wanted to see on tv
I work in the streaming media biz, and although I think it's admirable that someone would limit all their viewing to streams, be realistic - there's still no substitute for tv, and that won't change until people think about 56k modems the same way we think of 300 baud externals today. Maybe once broadband is the norm, tv and streams will converge. Until then, the boob toob is the only way to get all the tv programming you want.
By the way, has anyone else notices that 90% of the work seems to be done in the last 15 minutes?
That's actually the best way to go - planning is EVERYTHING. Without a good plan, the execution will fail. Just ask Digital Convergence!
...of Red Green's sage advice: To achieve any great goal, one must bring along duct tape.
My favorite highlight of last season's Junkyard Wars was the all-terrain vehicle that had a cannon that shot a boat anchor to winch itself out of bogs. Slap THAT sucker on the front of your Battlebot and the Gold Nut is yours, hands down!
Oh man, you're right (ran and checked)!
My brain must be on strike today. Sorry.
I think 'they' should put out the Watchmen as a movie. Miller really churned out a winner with that series, and it would RULE on the screen.
As much as I was disappointed with Wolverine in the X-Men movie, that guy would make a righteous Rorschach. Think about it, Hollywood!
> Finally, at any given time, despite our best efforts, a small number, no more than 4.7 million, of items on our site may be mispriced.
nice altered quote (it's actually 'a small number of the more than 4.7 million items') to base your comments on. Another human introduced error?
Cookies are only retrievable by the site that put them there - so if amazon is the one that cookied you in the first place, they'd be able to read it.
caffeinated bacon. baconated grapefruit. where will it end?
>It's the consumer that will have the final say, and the majority of consumers are in favor of napster and other file-sharing services.
/., but you're having problems seeing the scope of the situation - There's a helluva lot of people on the net, but there's a helluva lot more that aren't, and those NON-net-savvy consumers couldn't care less about napster or file-shares. They only see this as a legitimate business fending off technology-mad thieves and pirates.
Actually, it's the internet-savvy consumer that is in favor of napster and othe file-shares. I shun the RIAA just as vehemently as the next guy on
It's really sad, but it's true - the people outraged by this whole fiasco are a tiny minority compared to people that just don't care. RIAA will be struck down and condemned in the future, but for now, they will prevail. The people that need convincing watch TV, they don't use computers. RIAA's propoganda in non-internet arenas is not only unparallelled, it's also totally unchallenged. People as a whole are sheep, and the RIAA has the shepherd's staff.
In either case, it's Orwellian. Animal Farm is a much better example.
Focus and amplify the sound beam down to a pinpoint, and run pulses of very low-frequency sound through it. That'd be a pretty damn devastating weapon.
actually, google was a flavored peanut butter in the 70's.
Actually, according to Mr. Science, SPAM stands for:
Scientifically
Produced
Animal
Matter
This is, of course, the same guy that told us that ballpoint pens are living organisms, who spew ink in response to having their faces dragged across paper.
How is it that crap like this thread doesn't get modded as off-topic?
I'm not going to get involved with the US/Canada pissing contest, but whoever said the moderation system here sucks was dead on.
That being said, I think privatization of the space program is an excellent idea. Our governmentS (US and Canada) should be spending their funding on solving problems at home before looking at exploration. NASA puts a lot of commercial satellites in the air using our tax dollars, but we can't get more cops to chase the crackheads off our streets, or better yet, chase them off our streets and put them in rehab instead of prison.
To sum up:
slashdot moderation: needs work
space program: sweet, but improperly funded
sophomoric country comparisons: yawn
...should be named Khan.
I mod an email joke list. This 'news' item went across our joke list 2 days ago. Had I realized that what we find trifling and amusing was NEWS, I would have submitted it!
In light of this discovery, I'd like to submit that STILE SUX and JapScat will revolutionize the web.
There was actually a Simpsons episode that addressed this very topic - and it ended up with Homer being added to the dictionary (with his pic), with the definition of 'success in spite of incompetence'.
There's a hero I can get behind!
>Too bad, because I really wanted to see Lars on
>an episode of VH1's Where Are They Now digging
>in dumpster looking for something to eat.
Patience, grasshopper. Metallica hasn't made a dime on musical merit in at least 5 years, maybe more - the only thing that keeps them going is the loyal fanbase they built back when they had musical integrity and something to say with their music... a fanbase that Metallica has no problem alienating, and is doing so with much zeal - not just with their legal MP3 tangles, but with the shoddy and formulaic pop-metal they insist on delivering lately.
2 more years, you'll see your dumpster-diving Lars.
I like the cut of your gib. Come on down and join your peers!
the Society for the Preservation of Aircooled Machinery
Oh man, I could go on for days on this topic - suffice it to say that anyone who would buy a car online, without ever test-driving it or even seeing it in person, deserves to own a new 'Beetle'.
I have no doubt I'll get trolled for pushing this link - but it's my website devoted to what's wrong with the new 'Beetle' and the people who love them: the Society for the Preservation of Aircooled Machinery
AIRCOOLED FOREVER
...so now excite@home is going to have a 'premium channel' on a cable system - there's a new concept.
As a user of the @home service, I have watched their front-end migrate to Excite@home, and up to this point, I'm unimpressed. The tv ads that enticed me to sign up for @home promised stupid-fast audio and video delivery, which isn't quite what I got, and now I'll get the privelege of paying more to get what was originally promised!
>metallica = sellout, only if you include
>Korn,Seven Dust,tool,(put any new-age rock band
>here)
agreed.
As an avid reader and a hopeless geek when it comes to computers, I've tried reading digital books - it don't fly with me. Old-fashioned though it may be, there's no substitute for something you can carry to the park, or the bathroom, or the bus and read a bit at a time. My comprehension is better on paper, the portability is a big value-add, and I don't want to burn out my printer running off a book just so I can read it someplace besides my desk.
Plus, you can loan a friend a book. Give them a digital copy of anything, and that's piracy.
I'd say go with both mediums, paper AND electronic. That way you can hit both markets, those old farts like me and the technomad that think if it isn't pixellated it isn't worth looking at.
There are some things that are just better in a tangible form, like books and paintings and women.
wait - you're going to 'steal' another user's comment? and use it in a slashdot post?
/. just became your method of transport for stolen material, and should be immediately shut down a la napster.