I keep using Windows because of the EULA. Specifically:
5.23a - In the event that Leasee begins using another OS, Microsoft reserves the right to come into Leasee's home and immediately harvest all of Leasee's organs with a rusty spoon.
My personal thoughts are it's the monthly charge that keeps this market from going anywhere (it's why I won't buy).
Honest question: Why? The subscription fee is for downloading the guide data only. Someone has to pay for the people, processing, systems, etc., to make that available. If it wasn't in a monthly subscription it would have to be factored into the purchase price of the boxes. This way seems to be a lot more accurate for the companies (Pay Per View), and more fair to the consumer (No $1,000 boxes to cover rapid changes in usage).
Don't get me wrong, I'm a DirecTiVO owner and love it. I don't want to pay for anything I don't have to, but this seems a valid service that costs money to make available, so requires a payment to use.
An interesting press release from AMD about that time says that the tonnage measurement for computers is misleading to consumers. They feel that past 2 tons, it just isn't that relevant.
In support of this stance, AMD also announced that the next version of their Ball-Peen processor would be called the Ball-Peen 3000 and not mention the 1.5 ton weight at all.
Let me try this again, thanks to a pesky coworker sitting on my keyboard.
The Tivo UI is what set Tivo apart from ReplayTV. It was easy to use and versatile! This article about a grandmother who fell in love with Tivo after getting it from her children should go into the Tivo advertising campaign.
People still get stuck programming their VCRs, exactly because it is a generic technology with no room for innovation. Tivo adds that interactive layer where useability actually makes a difference, and is the driving reason their customer satisfaction is through the roof.
Tivo may morph and evolve, but I can never see it becoming a generic device like a VCR.
If you want to thank God for this, just drop a note to the Webmaster on the Vatican Library site. He should have the connections to pass the message on.
I'd be curious sometime about how many replies in the history of Slashdot have been generated solely by a TacoTypo. Also a breakdown by First Post, Simpson's Quotes, screen wrap, "I know I'll get modded down for this..." etc. Of course, there will be some overlap, so we'll need a cube rollup to see the different message overlaps. Hmmmm...
Nasa employs some of the smartest and most experienced people in the world and I would not trust anyone else to be launching rockets in to the sky. I believe NASA should have a monopoly on space travel as they are the only ones who seem to get it right.
When I went through all my college Physics classes I thought I understood the speed of light. Not that Stephen Hawking had anything to worry about, but I felt I had enough of a handle on what it meant to not sound a complete sod in a conversation.
So now 10+ years have crawled by, and I realize I must not have had any sort of inkling about the damned thing. They've gone faster than light, stopped it, and turned it into tapioca. If anyone tries to talk to me about this topic anymore, I'll just nod quietly and change the topic to something less elusive... like religion.
We momentarily interrupt the onslaught of goofy script ideas...
<SERIOUS> Does anyone know of some good books or URLs on screenplay writing, formatting, etc.? This sounds like it might be fun, but I don't know the rules of the game. </SERIOUS>
We now return you to our regularly scheduled program. Next up, a +5 Funny!
A famous movie star decides to solicit for script ideas, but his innocent promotional ploy is posted on the front page of Slashdot. Chaos reigns! Suddenly his server is crawling under the load, and some poor, underappreciated engineer struggles valiantly to keep the Web server on the air while trying to convince his boss to switch to Linux.
Oh, and a number of hot women run around in tight leather outfits in slow motion for no discernable reason.
Personally, I'd like to see the Apollo landing site declared an International Historical Site. As the man said, it was a giant leap for all of mankind, and I'd like to see it preserved as-is.
Yes, I know this mission is just going to take pictures, but sooner or later someone (Chinese? Bill Gates?) is going to once again land on the moon, and could casually destroy a significant part of mankind's history.
Posting articles like this on Slashdot only serves to further strengthen the momentum of people who want to limit our First Amendment rights! Those rights should not be restricted, as they are a cornerstone of what makes this country great!
We need to prevent articles like this from ever seeing the light of day! Only through a proper restriction of free speech can we ensure that free speech is not restricted.
... yes, I'm joking. This whole topic just makes my head hurt. If no one has whipped out the obligatory Ben Franklin quotation yet, let me:
"They who would give up an essential liberty for temporary security, deserve neither liberty or security."
"In "Dogfight," two players tried to shoot down each other's "airplane"... Unfortunately, the person with the fastest connection to the main computer in Illinois usually won that game."
Soooooo... 30 years later we're still basically in the same boat, only with prettier airplanes?
Geez, how hard is this? You make sure their references are valid and you call them.
It isn't hard to call, but it can be very hard to get a good answer. If you say anything in a referral that can be viewed as preventing an candidate from being hired, you win a trip to Lawsuit City.
In most companies where I have worked, we can confirm their employment and say whether they could be rehired. That's it. No details, no matter how awful the person was. Some companies insist that all referral calls go to HR.
Coworkers and managers can't answer honestly, and friends will just lie. For my money, referrals are worthless for anything except confirming employment history. (Which you should certainly do!)
Many moons ago I used to ask questions like "What is your favorite movie?" to try and loosen candidates up. I then got the smackdown from our corporate HR, which informed me that the question could be viewed as discriminatory. Same thing for any questions about "for fun projects" or anything of a personal nature. It's a thin line to walk.
So a whole herd of us manager types got shuffled off to Behavioral Interviewing training. The basic premise is that you construct questions to gather information on specific work related issues they have experienced in the past. Assuming past performance is indiciative of future value in this case, you can get a good feel for how a candidate will perform in a given situation. As for faking the answers, that can be tough to do with some of the questions unless you are dealing with a very gifted improv performer.
Behavioral Interviewing is the norm at several Fortune 500 companies I have worked with. Take a peek at it, and definitely run any ideas you read here past your HR folks. All it takes is one lawsuit and you will find yourself on the other side of the interviewing table.
So if Disney's cells can last for 30,000 years, and he can make it to 30,000 A.D., then that would mean he died in 0 A.D.
If that is the case, then maybe Disney's biggest secret isn't cryogenics but rather the secret identity he had running around Israel back in the day. You know, I've met people who worship Disney... this is all starting to make sense now. Maybe him coming back from the dead isn't such a long shot after all...
Well, I never thought of my meat computer as "shitty" until I read this. But by the time I got half-way through Part 1, I came to the conclusion that either Dr. Wallace or myself definitely had shit for brains.
Hey, does anyone have an extra PageDown key they could send to me? I just wore mine out.
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That's nice. Someone please wake me for the article on the Fact and Fiction Behind Bond's Women. (Especially the Fiction!)
If someone can make a convincing Salvador Dali out of legos without melting any bricks, you could color me impressed.
I keep using Windows because of the EULA. Specifically:
5.23a - In the event that Leasee begins using another OS, Microsoft reserves the right to come into Leasee's home and immediately harvest all of Leasee's organs with a rusty spoon.
Rather than doing all of this from scratch, wouldn't it be easier to simply duplicate the power supply used by our ancient cyborg ancestors?
Then we could power all of our portable devices directly from a jack in bodies somewhere.
My personal thoughts are it's the monthly charge that keeps this market from going anywhere (it's why I won't buy).
Honest question: Why? The subscription fee is for downloading the guide data only. Someone has to pay for the people, processing, systems, etc., to make that available. If it wasn't in a monthly subscription it would have to be factored into the purchase price of the boxes. This way seems to be a lot more accurate for the companies (Pay Per View), and more fair to the consumer (No $1,000 boxes to cover rapid changes in usage).
Don't get me wrong, I'm a DirecTiVO owner and love it. I don't want to pay for anything I don't have to, but this seems a valid service that costs money to make available, so requires a payment to use.
An interesting press release from AMD about that time says that the tonnage measurement for computers is misleading to consumers. They feel that past 2 tons, it just isn't that relevant.
In support of this stance, AMD also announced that the next version of their Ball-Peen processor would be called the Ball-Peen 3000 and not mention the 1.5 ton weight at all.
Um, what, exactly, does an immortal soul do? Name something that it provides, or function it performs, or some means that it makes its presence felt.
"What is Jazz? Man, if you have to ask you'll never understand."
- Louis Armstrong
Let me try this again, thanks to a pesky coworker sitting on my keyboard.
The Tivo UI is what set Tivo apart from ReplayTV. It was easy to use and versatile! This article about a grandmother who fell in love with Tivo after getting it from her children should go into the Tivo advertising campaign.
People still get stuck programming their VCRs, exactly because it is a generic technology with no room for innovation. Tivo adds that interactive layer where useability actually makes a difference, and is the driving reason their customer satisfaction is through the roof.
Tivo may morph and evolve, but I can never see it becoming a generic device like a VCR.
It was the Tivo UI that really made my decision between Tivo and ReplayTV. I saw a new
1) Buy pool table.
2) Line up cue to laser guided tutorial system.
3) ???
4) Pocket!
Looking forward to seeing whats online.
If you want to thank God for this, just drop a note to the Webmaster on the Vatican Library site. He should have the connections to pass the message on.
Literacy is important, no it seems we cannot afford to skip reading the EULAs. I have seen some funny stuff thrown in EULAS including:
- the right to sleep with your spouse at our discretion -
Hmmm... do you happen to recall which company had that in their EULA? And are they hiring?
I'd be curious sometime about how many replies in the history of Slashdot have been generated solely by a TacoTypo. Also a breakdown by First Post, Simpson's Quotes, screen wrap, "I know I'll get modded down for this..." etc. Of course, there will be some overlap, so we'll need a cube rollup to see the different message overlaps. Hmmmm...
Nasa employs some of the smartest and most experienced people in the world and I would not trust anyone else to be launching rockets in to the sky. I believe NASA should have a monopoly on space travel as they are the only ones who seem to get it right.
Oh? Feet != Meters
When I went through all my college Physics classes I thought I understood the speed of light. Not that Stephen Hawking had anything to worry about, but I felt I had enough of a handle on what it meant to not sound a complete sod in a conversation.
So now 10+ years have crawled by, and I realize I must not have had any sort of inkling about the damned thing. They've gone faster than light, stopped it, and turned it into tapioca. If anyone tries to talk to me about this topic anymore, I'll just nod quietly and change the topic to something less elusive... like religion.
Bah.
We momentarily interrupt the onslaught of goofy script ideas...
<SERIOUS>
Does anyone know of some good books or URLs on screenplay writing, formatting, etc.? This sounds like it might be fun, but I don't know the rules of the game.
</SERIOUS>
We now return you to our regularly scheduled program. Next up, a +5 Funny!
A famous movie star decides to solicit for script ideas, but his innocent promotional ploy is posted on the front page of Slashdot. Chaos reigns! Suddenly his server is crawling under the load, and some poor, underappreciated engineer struggles valiantly to keep the Web server on the air while trying to convince his boss to switch to Linux.
Oh, and a number of hot women run around in tight leather outfits in slow motion for no discernable reason.
Personally, I'd like to see the Apollo landing site declared an International Historical Site. As the man said, it was a giant leap for all of mankind, and I'd like to see it preserved as-is.
Yes, I know this mission is just going to take pictures, but sooner or later someone (Chinese? Bill Gates?) is going to once again land on the moon, and could casually destroy a significant part of mankind's history.
We need to prevent articles like this from ever seeing the light of day! Only through a proper restriction of free speech can we ensure that free speech is not restricted.
"They who would give up an essential liberty for temporary security, deserve neither liberty or security."
From the timeline - 1973:
... Unfortunately, the person with the fastest connection to the main computer in Illinois usually won that game."
"In "Dogfight," two players tried to shoot down each other's "airplane"
Soooooo... 30 years later we're still basically in the same boat, only with prettier airplanes?
Geez, how hard is this? You make sure their references are valid and you call them.
It isn't hard to call, but it can be very hard to get a good answer. If you say anything in a referral that can be viewed as preventing an candidate from being hired, you win a trip to Lawsuit City.
In most companies where I have worked, we can confirm their employment and say whether they could be rehired. That's it. No details, no matter how awful the person was. Some companies insist that all referral calls go to HR.
Coworkers and managers can't answer honestly, and friends will just lie. For my money, referrals are worthless for anything except confirming employment history. (Which you should certainly do!)
Many moons ago I used to ask questions like "What is your favorite movie?" to try and loosen candidates up. I then got the smackdown from our corporate HR, which informed me that the question could be viewed as discriminatory. Same thing for any questions about "for fun projects" or anything of a personal nature. It's a thin line to walk.
So a whole herd of us manager types got shuffled off to Behavioral Interviewing training. The basic premise is that you construct questions to gather information on specific work related issues they have experienced in the past. Assuming past performance is indiciative of future value in this case, you can get a good feel for how a candidate will perform in a given situation. As for faking the answers, that can be tough to do with some of the questions unless you are dealing with a very gifted improv performer.
Behavioral Interviewing is the norm at several Fortune 500 companies I have worked with. Take a peek at it, and definitely run any ideas you read here past your HR folks. All it takes is one lawsuit and you will find yourself on the other side of the interviewing table.
So if Disney's cells can last for 30,000 years, and he can make it to 30,000 A.D., then that would mean he died in 0 A.D.
If that is the case, then maybe Disney's biggest secret isn't cryogenics but rather the secret identity he had running around Israel back in the day. You know, I've met people who worship Disney... this is all starting to make sense now. Maybe him coming back from the dead isn't such a long shot after all...
Well, I never thought of my meat computer as "shitty" until I read this. But by the time I got half-way through Part 1, I came to the conclusion that either Dr. Wallace or myself definitely had shit for brains.
Hey, does anyone have an extra PageDown key they could send to me? I just wore mine out.
If you want your very own KITT you might want to contact the fellow who sells the upgrade parts.
I didn't see any prices on making it bulletproof, but you could always drop him a note and see if he can hook you up.