Hey, I just read the article in your.sig, and that's total bullshit about Google stealing your revenues. I mean, I could see if someone had set up a program to click at an obscenely high rate, but real people clicking... that's not cool. Fuck them.
XP's re-designed Search tool is a definite case of hand holding. First off we have a damn dog wagging its tail at us, secondly, I have to classify what kind of file I'm looking for. Show me *.dll, OK?! I do see your point though, just thought I'd add to it and vent a little. It's been a tough day wrestling with XP.
Well, the guy was advocating overthrowing the government. It's not really surprising to me that this government decided to prevent him from doing that. If you're looking to start a violent overthrow of the government, you have to go all the way. When our forefathers fought in the Revolutionary War, they knew (at least most of them probably did) that if they lost, there'd be a world of shit brought down on them. This kid didn't think about the ramifications of what might occur. I think he got off rather light, to tell you the truth.
That's probably the best idea I've heard mentioned on Slashdot ever. I'd love to see that put into place. I think it would make honest men out of politicians in no time. At the very least it would get money to take a back seat to actual values.
That's why these days they do a bunch of signs, then do one called a trigger, then do some more. As long as the other coaches don't know which sign the trigger is, things go according to plan. This problem was noticed and fixed before WiFi.
It's one of the most technologically packed areas in the USA. The whole park's monitored and run very efficiently. It's also a whole lot of fun. But last time I went, I was more interested in how much effort goes into making sure that paying customers are set up for the best time that is possible in a family-friendly environment. (Bring your own drugs, sadly they don't supply EVERYTHING!) The Disney Corporation owns such a vast amount of land that you're on their property before you even realize that you've entered Disney World. Also, check out Downtown Disney, they have an excellent arcade there, where you pay ~$15 and you can play until it closes. Plus you can design and ride this cool virtual rollercoaster that rivals the real coasters there, if you make a point of making a very extreme virtual coaster. The guys manning the area can give you some pointers. Make sure you hit Epcot and MGM, you can speed through the Magic Kingdom (too much little kid stuff).
Joe Consumer isn't going to be buying an OEM version of Windows XP, they're going to buy retail at Staples or something. But still, I think the XP Home upgrade is ~$100.
You forgot the ultra-lame part where Morpheus says "Good night, Zion" completely seriously while overlooking it on a ledge or something. A friend of mine squeaked "Good night" right after that, and the scene's seriousness was totally shot. I nearly shit my pants laughing though.:)
I've seen people do that when selling bootleg CDs. They'll list it like "Pencil... sharpened and chewed. Win my auction and I might throw in some goodies, like a Phish CD from 01/01/01!" I don't know whether they got away with it, but it's a great idea. However, I remember that one guy who was selling CD-Rs of his own band, and E-Bay was giving him a bunch of shit about counterfeit merchandise, even though he had never pressed his CD, and he owned full rights to it. So you never know what E-Bay will do to your auction.
Talented? I checked that out and all I saw were hacky sci-fi authors whose titles clutter the sci-fi section of my local bookstores. I wouldn't pay money for those books.
When they start busting people for owning routers, I'll believe it. Until then, I think people are extrapolating the reach of the law to scare people. Think of how many businesses use routers. No way they'd make it illegal to use NAT.
I'm probably missing something, but I HATE Safari's bookmarking. It always defaults to put stuff on the Bookmark Bar as opposed to the Bookmark Menu. Is there a way to change that? Because then, maybe, it's better than Mozilla's.
Yeah, you definitely need to check. There are some that are surprisingly cheap, though. I picked up Devo's "Freedom Of Choice" and Ween's "Chocolate And Cheese" for $6.99 a piece. I was going to get the Red Hot Chili Peppers' first, self-titled CD, but it was $10.69. God damned remastering, they use it as an excuse to not have it be a "Super Saver.":)
I for one have no problem with this, other than my wanting to side with the little guy and not "The Man." It's illegal, as far as I know, to distribute content that you don't have the right to distribute. Better the RIAA go after actual lawbreakers than they go after services which are used for legitimate purposes as well.
Oh, and for those of you who got freaked out after reading that the RIAA's cracking down, there's always EMusic and the Apple Store. I did notice that it is frequently cheaper to just buy the CD at Cheap CDs.com than it is to pay $9.99 for the AAC-encoded album. Check there first! Just a public service announcement so you don't get screwed like I did.:)
That's interesting, I hadn't thought of that. You're saying that if you make a really good, simple game, you might not make much money at all, because some other guys are going to steal your good idea and spread out the wealth more.
Fucking A. That's great. Maybe people have gotten wise to the fact that a really fun game that lacks shitloads of bells and whistles, and full-motion video after every level will make a bigger profit than a boring game that cost a ton of money because the designers didn't know when to leave well enough alone.
If designers price the games properly (i.e. don't charge me $50 for a downloaded puzzle game) then I wish them the best of luck.
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90% of the people who say this DO NOT have ADHD and will never understand how Ritalin works for ADHDers.
Just because the drug works, doesn't mean it's healthy. Hell, heroin calms people down, but I wouldn't go around recommending it as a good cure for hyperactivity.
ADHD shouldn't be treated with drugs.
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90% of the ADHD medicine in the world is prescribed to patients in the USA.
Prescribing Ritalin and its ilk shifts the blame from the educators/parents to the child. They can't seem to get the child stimulated in class, so they give him medicine. There's an interesting article about the adverse effects of prescribing stimulants (which these drugs are) to children in the book "Everything You Know Is Wrong." One fact that I was surprised to read was that the rates of cocaine and amphetamine addiction were noticeably higher among adults who were prescribed Ritalin/Adderall/etc. as children. The same portions of the brain are affected with all these drugs.
Now, when you got to the point about the government owning the infrastructure, THAT'S where we disagree. I think the government should promote private sector development of infrastructure through tax incentives & grants (as it does now), but I see no way that government could afford to be innovative & aggressive about developing said infrastructure.
See, that's what they're doing now, and it works pretty poorly. I think it'd work out alright, I mean, take a look at the interstate highway system. It's pretty good. I think if they followed that model, where local governments were supervised by a federal bureau or something, it could work. But keep in mind, I am an advocate of socialism in general.
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Completely incorrect. You've still got msblast.exe on your PC, fucking up your PC. You've got the virus.
Hey, I just read the article in your .sig, and that's total bullshit about Google stealing your revenues. I mean, I could see if someone had set up a program to click at an obscenely high rate, but real people clicking... that's not cool. Fuck them.
Probably because of all the smartasses who post BBSpot stories and don't cite their sources. I always make a point of modding down these clowns.
XP's re-designed Search tool is a definite case of hand holding. First off we have a damn dog wagging its tail at us, secondly, I have to classify what kind of file I'm looking for. Show me *.dll, OK?! I do see your point though, just thought I'd add to it and vent a little. It's been a tough day wrestling with XP.
Well, the guy was advocating overthrowing the government. It's not really surprising to me that this government decided to prevent him from doing that. If you're looking to start a violent overthrow of the government, you have to go all the way. When our forefathers fought in the Revolutionary War, they knew (at least most of them probably did) that if they lost, there'd be a world of shit brought down on them. This kid didn't think about the ramifications of what might occur. I think he got off rather light, to tell you the truth.
That's probably the best idea I've heard mentioned on Slashdot ever. I'd love to see that put into place. I think it would make honest men out of politicians in no time. At the very least it would get money to take a back seat to actual values.
That's why these days they do a bunch of signs, then do one called a trigger, then do some more. As long as the other coaches don't know which sign the trigger is, things go according to plan. This problem was noticed and fixed before WiFi.
It's one of the most technologically packed areas in the USA. The whole park's monitored and run very efficiently. It's also a whole lot of fun. But last time I went, I was more interested in how much effort goes into making sure that paying customers are set up for the best time that is possible in a family-friendly environment. (Bring your own drugs, sadly they don't supply EVERYTHING!) The Disney Corporation owns such a vast amount of land that you're on their property before you even realize that you've entered Disney World.
Also, check out Downtown Disney, they have an excellent arcade there, where you pay ~$15 and you can play until it closes. Plus you can design and ride this cool virtual rollercoaster that rivals the real coasters there, if you make a point of making a very extreme virtual coaster. The guys manning the area can give you some pointers. Make sure you hit Epcot and MGM, you can speed through the Magic Kingdom (too much little kid stuff).
Joe Consumer isn't going to be buying an OEM version of Windows XP, they're going to buy retail at Staples or something. But still, I think the XP Home upgrade is ~$100.
You forgot the ultra-lame part where Morpheus says "Good night, Zion" completely seriously while overlooking it on a ledge or something. A friend of mine squeaked "Good night" right after that, and the scene's seriousness was totally shot. I nearly shit my pants laughing though. :)
Darth Vader is Luke's father.
I've seen people do that when selling bootleg CDs. They'll list it like "Pencil... sharpened and chewed. Win my auction and I might throw in some goodies, like a Phish CD from 01/01/01!" I don't know whether they got away with it, but it's a great idea. However, I remember that one guy who was selling CD-Rs of his own band, and E-Bay was giving him a bunch of shit about counterfeit merchandise, even though he had never pressed his CD, and he owned full rights to it. So you never know what E-Bay will do to your auction.
Talented? I checked that out and all I saw were hacky sci-fi authors whose titles clutter the sci-fi section of my local bookstores. I wouldn't pay money for those books.
When they start busting people for owning routers, I'll believe it. Until then, I think people are extrapolating the reach of the law to scare people. Think of how many businesses use routers. No way they'd make it illegal to use NAT.
Idiot mods... they shoulda modded you as Funny, because that's a great joke!
I'm probably missing something, but I HATE Safari's bookmarking. It always defaults to put stuff on the Bookmark Bar as opposed to the Bookmark Menu. Is there a way to change that? Because then, maybe, it's better than Mozilla's.
Yeah, you definitely need to check. There are some that are surprisingly cheap, though. I picked up Devo's "Freedom Of Choice" and Ween's "Chocolate And Cheese" for $6.99 a piece. I was going to get the Red Hot Chili Peppers' first, self-titled CD, but it was $10.69. God damned remastering, they use it as an excuse to not have it be a "Super Saver." :)
I for one have no problem with this, other than my wanting to side with the little guy and not "The Man." It's illegal, as far as I know, to distribute content that you don't have the right to distribute. Better the RIAA go after actual lawbreakers than they go after services which are used for legitimate purposes as well.
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Oh, and for those of you who got freaked out after reading that the RIAA's cracking down, there's always EMusic and the Apple Store. I did notice that it is frequently cheaper to just buy the CD at Cheap CDs.com than it is to pay $9.99 for the AAC-encoded album. Check there first! Just a public service announcement so you don't get screwed like I did.
I don't think you're paying for bandwidth on your site. There's no need to have advertising if your costs are nearly nothing.
That's interesting, I hadn't thought of that. You're saying that if you make a really good, simple game, you might not make much money at all, because some other guys are going to steal your good idea and spread out the wealth more.
Fucking A. That's great. Maybe people have gotten wise to the fact that a really fun game that lacks shitloads of bells and whistles, and full-motion video after every level will make a bigger profit than a boring game that cost a ton of money because the designers didn't know when to leave well enough alone.
If designers price the games properly (i.e. don't charge me $50 for a downloaded puzzle game) then I wish them the best of luck.
90% of the people who say this DO NOT have ADHD and will never understand how Ritalin works for ADHDers.
Just because the drug works, doesn't mean it's healthy. Hell, heroin calms people down, but I wouldn't go around recommending it as a good cure for hyperactivity.
90% of the ADHD medicine in the world is prescribed to patients in the USA.
Prescribing Ritalin and its ilk shifts the blame from the educators/parents to the child. They can't seem to get the child stimulated in class, so they give him medicine. There's an interesting article about the adverse effects of prescribing stimulants (which these drugs are) to children in the book "Everything You Know Is Wrong." One fact that I was surprised to read was that the rates of cocaine and amphetamine addiction were noticeably higher among adults who were prescribed Ritalin/Adderall/etc. as children. The same portions of the brain are affected with all these drugs.
Yeah, that's true... stations should realize that it's not possible to air too much Simpsons or Seinfeld.
See, that's what they're doing now, and it works pretty poorly. I think it'd work out alright, I mean, take a look at the interstate highway system. It's pretty good. I think if they followed that model, where local governments were supervised by a federal bureau or something, it could work. But keep in mind, I am an advocate of socialism in general.