Maybe it's converting to MM/YY/DD. Nope, just checked, my iPhone is showing "07/12/31" for those cities for whom the new year has arrived. No big deal, I don't use the world clock anyways, I even had to add a couple of cities to it just to check the bug. Personally, I'm much more concerned over the lack of stereo bluetooth.
Personally, I'm waiting for the Christmas rush to pass so I can get the console without a forced bundle. That's what I said last year, and I've yet to see a stack of them, even in the middle of summer.
True. Most of us don't deal with religion, politics, or sex on a daily basis. Unless you happen to be a Televangelist, throw in money and you would be a Republican politician.
Perhaps the Chryslers were bad, but regardless of that it was pretty stupid to finance the cars for terms longer than the warranty! Well, do you do a 2 year car loan, must be nice? The first transmission went at 45,000 miles (36,000 mile warranty and a $1,500 bill), the other one at 30,000(fortunately under warranty), and both times I got stuck with towing, car rental, and a pain in my ass. I got rid of one at just over 4 years on a 5 year loan, I should have been even, the second I knew I was going to get stuck, but I wanted out before the transmission warranty wore out. I was a 15 years as a satisfied owner of 2 almost trouble free Toyotas, yea, I was stupid, stupid to buy an "American" car.
American cars are built to be rebuilt and last damn near forever. If you're going to be cranking a lot of miles onto a car, you buy a Ford or a GMC truck. Well, that only holds true for vehicles built on a traditional frame, rather than a unibody one, which is much less weight (and thus much better gas mileage). That's why your more likely to see a car built in the 60's on the road,than a car built in the 70's, and sometimes even the 80's. It's also why full sized trucks which have maintained the frame have greater longevity.
Japanese cars are built to die after 15-20 years of very inexpensive and reliable use and pollute junkyards. Actually, the modern junkyard is remarkable, and my experience with American cars (not trucks) is one of great disappointment as my last two Chrysler cars both had major transmission failures, very early in their service life. I even ended up 'upside down' on both of their loans. Sad performance, and I'm done with them. Hell, American car makers is mostly a historical term anyways, as nearly all of the parts are made elsewhere anyways.
, the goatse was called and when "they" started posting this horror it just became a matter of time until the collapse Really? Here I was believing that the goatse was the reason for/.'s popularity.
I've never 'got into' the chat room games, but I have seen some other online communities come and go, yet somehow/. remains.
Usually, most seem to get 'stale' and fail to bring in new interesting people. Sure there are some here who browse and post nearly every story (or it sometimes seems that way), but most of us come and go, sometimes days, months, and even years between appearances. However, when we do return, we find vibrant, often colorful discussions, which can hold our interest both as writers and readers. Personally, I credit the editors for their seemingly 'hands-off' principals. Sure they can do a better job sometimes (dupes, misleading summaries), but as Bender learned, it's better to have a light touch, "like a safecracker or a pickpocket".
"Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? Hell No!
Where was Facebook three years ago? Nowhere, that's where! The next social networking site will work different, it will be called... well, when I finish it I'll tell ya.
Maybe they were exposed 13,000 years ago and got dusted by meteorites? Or actually, maybe it's just a really shitty summary, from tFA...
The discovery follows on from the group's previous research which claimed a more recent space collision - some 13,000 years ago. So the part about "13,000 years ago" had nothing to do with the bones pitted with meteorite, expect the group making the claim.
I've said it before, but to me, as a former Republican, Ron Paul represents the party which most people believe they are voting for when they vote Republican. Trouble is that if he actually won, he would try to implement their public platform rather than continue Bush's private one. Also and more importantly, I believe that the leaders of that party need to have a candidate who will allow the many crimes of the last 7 years to go unpunished, so they need a person they already own. (that's also why McCain and Huckabee don't have many 'big' endorsements or money, btw).
First it was China...now, it's Russia. Guys, the Russians are coming! These two countries are gobbling up our [American] companies fast!
Welcome to the weak dollar. Newly rich former adversaries are buying into our economy, both Germany and Japan did the same thing in the 80's. Might be a good thing for our (American) economy, might be (another) problem, however fresh capital is rarely a bad thing.
I live in a county were fios can transmit both internet and tv service, some have had it for more than a year, but I am still waiting for service. I've been checking every week, and looking out for every indication of Verizon work. Finally, it started work here a couple of weeks ago.
First they laid a tension cable on the poles, then a couple of weeks later another crew attached the fiber lines to it. A technician then seemed to do some 'extra' work, most just seemed to do some 'clean up'. Just this past week, they started to do underground work in my neighborhood and used a drilling machine to connect new 'vaults' (apparently the old telephone boxes don't do the trick, but at least they don't stick up out of the ground). Apparently now they will need to connect the closest vault to my home, likely more underground work.
Really, it seems to be a lot of really expensive work, and I can see why it's seems to be taking so long. I'll order it as soon as I can.
You are correct, 'Funny' has no Karma attached to it, and as other moderations do, one's Karma could be affected. Due to that, those who which to participate on Slashdot as 'class clowns' would eventually fall into the karma pits below zero, and ignored by most, if they are only 'ha-ha funny' rather than achieving the 'funny because it's true, funny'. So I guess that only those who don't care about karma, as either a few black marks couldn't hurt an already fine reputation, or they just don't give a shit, should consider posting puns, memes and such, unless of course you are certain that it would be worthy of an 'insightful' or two.
I wish our president had such powers to sieze anti-American politicians like Clinton I thought that was funny as hell and was about to moderate it as such, but the sad thing is, I'm not sure if hes kidding. As I've heard people say in all seriousness such things.
I've always thought that if you have true freedom of speech, then you cannot have freedom from being offended. You seem awfully offended that "in these modern times", sorry I guess the correct term is "in this ultra PC age we're in now", people dare express contrarian views, and worse yet, might hold one to account for their views. Hell, that's nothing new, but what is new is that we have more free time to bitch about things, and communication services which allow our views to be presented to and examined by more diverse people than ever before. Overall, I'd say that it's a 'win', but the tyranny of the majority or a very committed minority can be challenging. However, free speech is useless if one cannot influence their world with it, even if sometimes I (or you) don't agree with it.
One things that really surprises me...is in this ultra PC age we're in now...how does a show like Family Guy stay on the air? People like you and I watch it, it makes money, duh. Besides, it's purposely absurd, and often showcases the negative effects of bad behavior. On some levels, it's very moral, with diversity, and understanding of human nature, all wrapped up nicely with crude humor, and pop culture references.
However, it should be shown, to show not only how things were back in slave days, but, also to illustrate how we as a society have changed in our views over the years towards racisim, etc. I agree with your sentiment, but it's still Disney's right not to distribute it. Likely they fear offending people for whom slavery is a unpleasant memory, and racism a continuing struggle. As legacy WASP, I feel that the fight against racism is making real progress, and that the casual almost inadvertent references to slavery contained in 'Song of the South' would be harmless to that ongoing fight, but others who are more closely affected by such attitudes might see differently. Perhaps Disney could get Will Smith to do a remake video of "Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah", as it's sort of like their theme song.
Supposedly "song of the south" isn't going to be released because some people think it's racist or something. Well, it does have many racial overtones, of course it's nowhere near as bad as Birth of a Nation, nor Amos and Andy. I have fond memories of it as a child, but I'd rather watch it at least once with him, just to be sure that it's as innocent as I was at the time.
Another victim of the PC era. New word, same old, "Damn modern times" attitude. Hey, things change old man! Well, not really.
This castration...Is why my children were never able to become interested in Sesame Street - while as a 5-year-old in the late-sixties, I loved it. I on the other hand watched it mostly because that was all that was on, well, that or soap operas. My son is 5 now, I wouldn't expect him to love anything that I did, but I try sometimes. I'm still looking for Song of the South, but Disney hasn't re-released it lately.
Also, from my youth, I can clearly remember older people saying that our parents 'coddle' their children too much, and that they were raising a generation of pussies. I guess that the more things change the more they stay the same, funny really, the circle of life.
I wish I could think of another website that would benefit from this technology! What technology? figuring out if many different stories all have the exact same text, by the same author, and attributed to a single news service? Granted, Slashdot has had a history with dupes, but word for word dupes are a different story.
Americans like the idea of revolution, but when it happens for real, good people die.(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_revolut ion/)
Mao and his cronies called it a revolution, but it was really a purge. A revolution replaces the people in power, a purge helps to keep them in power.
The Chinese government knows this, and freedoms will come, but it's going to take time. Generations. Not weeks.
Yea, when the last communist party official becomes a billionaire, but then how would they keep a democratically elected governement from taking all of their ill gotten booty? OK, they'll just stay in power until they get thrown out.
The Tianamen Square protests, were just protests, sure they came close to starting a revolution, but too little of China knew about it. It was a magical time, the Russian just 'gave up', the Berlin wall was fall, Rush was putting out a new album, change was in the air. Sure we in the west knew what was going on, but the average Chinese didn't. Not enough of them were able to make the choice for change. Next time, perhaps in weeks, months, years, but not decades, the ruling class of China will not be able to stop the news. The spark could be anything, perhaps an external like N. Korea opening up, or Cuba, maybe an internal crisis like a political scandal, or a large state sponsored disaster (dam collapse?), but the communication infrastructure that wasn't there in 1989, now exists. Once the street protests start the business interest will force the 'communists' (if you can still call them that) to give up power peacefully. Well, fairly peacefully, at least, as the 'communist billionaires' have too much to lose
Management is the process of assigning and evaluating work, the much loved buffer is only the physical manifestation of those two basic functions. Some managers either will not or can not do one, the other, or both, and thus a poor buffer.
I should have known better than to spend any time on a childish imbicile, a mistake I'll not carry further. "You can tell your Masters at SONY", was the only dig that I made to you, which may have been a little over the top, but questioning one's allegiance is mild compared to insulting one's maturity and intelligence. Besides, you're like a TOTAL Blu-Ray fanboy. Your certainty of Blu-Ray domination is almost charming, perhaps even quaint, and your submission to SONY (paid or not), is likely a proper assumption. Why, is hard to guess, but you obviously do 'carry the water' for Blu-Ray, at the very least. Me, I'm just happy to see a price war, as I'm hoping to have a $150 (or less) HD burner in my PC by 2009. If it has Blu-Ray, great! (the blank disks better be reasonable), but I doubt it.
That was a UK story though, I was talking worldwide. Toshiba in a press release a few months back said they had 65% of standalone players, and just a month or two again issued another press release claiming 55% of the standalone market - a reduction of 10% that implied Blu-Ray players sales were overtaking them in that timeframe. Actually that UK website was commenting on those figures. My point was that you were misrepresenting disk sales as the complete picture, as In this post, you said...
Since as I said Blu-Ray players have been outselling HD-DVD players recently I'm guessing that it wasn't deliberate.
You might see it as some sort of 'horse race' with Blu-Ray picking up steam, I on the other hand see it as clear indication of the price sensitivity of the HD consumer. At a roughly $300 difference Blu-Ray (cheapest-to-cheapest), despite it's exclusive titles, exclusive rentals, and arguably better technology, only managed to capture 35% of the HD player market, but when the difference drops to $200, they pick up an additional 10%, you don't have to be an economics professor to see price sensitivity.
As noted I think we'll see cheaper players shortly, from Funai - and probably from other companies, who I expect to get very aggressive now this Christmas (which I think was in the works anyway). Maybe, but HD-DVD will also see cheaper players. I suspect that we will see quite a price war just before Christmas, and Blu-Ray will only over take a sub $200 HD-DVD player if it's suppliers can deliver a player for under $300. You can tell your masters at SONY, that if they can deliver units for the same price as HD-DVD, they will win a format war which they cannot afford to lose. Really, I suspect that it will end up a 'tie' with both formats on a single player, and early adapters will end up replacing their current players sometime in the next 2 years.
You mean the one they sell online only, as in - not "In store"? It does seem that Target will not be stocking stand alone HD-DVD players, but they will still be selling the disks and the 360 HD-DVD drive, so they are not entirely format entirely. My guess is the they don't want to compete with Walmart's HD-DVD players this Christmas, and when Sony offered them a little better deal on movies... Also, now that a major movie studio has gone HD-DVD only, I'm guessing that Blockbuster will have a harder time staying away from them.
Most statstics can be verified quickly with Google. If you'd been following the whole thing at all, you'd know yo look at NPD figures which have been tracking sales week to week... You'd get even more up to date info if you use their 'news' search. It would seem that the 2 to 1 number does hold up for disks, however HD-DVD players still outsells Blu-Ray players (unsurprisingly Blu-Ray increased sales with a price drop). Basically, I would explain the Disk sales difference as the basic difference between the buyers, Blu-Ray has more of the "I'll pay anything" early adapters who buy every movie just because they want to have 'the library', and HD-DVD buyers are more price sensitive, and only buy what they really want to see.
The number of HD players out are still small compared to DVD players and I believe even the number of HDTVs, so the race really is for number of players, not disks sold. Personally, I think that HD-DVD will clean up thanks to heavy price cutting, but Blu-Ray has a chance, if Sony is willing to let the price come down to a $100 difference (by reducing their licensing fees). Come on guys, duke it out on price an give me a decently price HD burner by 2009!
Target had announced they were only offering a dedicated Blu-Ray player in store Well, somebody better tell Target to take this Toshiba HD-DVD player off their website.
Previously Blu-Ray sales had been about 2:1 in favor of Blu-Ray, though the whole year (66% to 34%, to be exact). Sony Blu-Ray players in the last few months have actually been outselling Toshiba standalone players, and that's not counting the PS3 numbers.
Bad news basically for consumers interested in HD content, as this will really kill sales for both formats through the year. Consumers want one choice.
Well, a single one format may seem attractive, but the price war will bring in High Def Video at an affordable price more quickly than a single format. I cannot find a good link for it but if I remember correctly, DVD players took years to get to an 'affordable price', and the movies all seemed to be priced the same. HD-DVD is really being aggressive in price, and when standards compete, it's usually the one which delivers a lower price who 'wins'.
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I've never 'got into' the chat room games, but I have seen some other online communities come and go, yet somehow /. remains.
Usually, most seem to get 'stale' and fail to bring in new interesting people. Sure there are some here who browse and post nearly every story (or it sometimes seems that way), but most of us come and go, sometimes days, months, and even years between appearances. However, when we do return, we find vibrant, often colorful discussions, which can hold our interest both as writers and readers. Personally, I credit the editors for their seemingly 'hands-off' principals. Sure they can do a better job sometimes (dupes, misleading summaries), but as Bender learned, it's better to have a light touch, "like a safecracker or a pickpocket".
Where was Facebook three years ago? Nowhere, that's where! The next social networking site will work different, it will be called... well, when I finish it I'll tell ya.
I've said it before, but to me, as a former Republican, Ron Paul represents the party which most people believe they are voting for when they vote Republican. Trouble is that if he actually won, he would try to implement their public platform rather than continue Bush's private one. Also and more importantly, I believe that the leaders of that party need to have a candidate who will allow the many crimes of the last 7 years to go unpunished, so they need a person they already own. (that's also why McCain and Huckabee don't have many 'big' endorsements or money, btw).
Welcome to the weak dollar. Newly rich former adversaries are buying into our economy, both Germany and Japan did the same thing in the 80's. Might be a good thing for our (American) economy, might be (another) problem, however fresh capital is rarely a bad thing.
I live in a county were fios can transmit both internet and tv service, some have had it for more than a year, but I am still waiting for service. I've been checking every week, and looking out for every indication of Verizon work. Finally, it started work here a couple of weeks ago.
First they laid a tension cable on the poles, then a couple of weeks later another crew attached the fiber lines to it. A technician then seemed to do some 'extra' work, most just seemed to do some 'clean up'. Just this past week, they started to do underground work in my neighborhood and used a drilling machine to connect new 'vaults' (apparently the old telephone boxes don't do the trick, but at least they don't stick up out of the ground). Apparently now they will need to connect the closest vault to my home, likely more underground work.
Really, it seems to be a lot of really expensive work, and I can see why it's seems to be taking so long. I'll order it as soon as I can.
Thank you I'll be here all week!
Also, from my youth, I can clearly remember older people saying that our parents 'coddle' their children too much, and that they were raising a generation of pussies. I guess that the more things change the more they stay the same, funny really, the circle of life.
"After all, this is the guy who tried to kill my dad." - President Bush about the reasons to invade Iraq on Sept 27, 2002.
Of course the tin-foil hat explanation is "People were getting dangerously close to exposing the faked moon landing"
Mao and his cronies called it a revolution, but it was really a purge. A revolution replaces the people in power, a purge helps to keep them in power.
The Chinese government knows this, and freedoms will come, but it's going to take time. Generations. Not weeks.Yea, when the last communist party official becomes a billionaire, but then how would they keep a democratically elected governement from taking all of their ill gotten booty? OK, they'll just stay in power until they get thrown out.
The Tianamen Square protests, were just protests, sure they came close to starting a revolution, but too little of China knew about it. It was a magical time, the Russian just 'gave up', the Berlin wall was fall, Rush was putting out a new album, change was in the air. Sure we in the west knew what was going on, but the average Chinese didn't. Not enough of them were able to make the choice for change. Next time, perhaps in weeks, months, years, but not decades, the ruling class of China will not be able to stop the news. The spark could be anything, perhaps an external like N. Korea opening up, or Cuba, maybe an internal crisis like a political scandal, or a large state sponsored disaster (dam collapse?), but the communication infrastructure that wasn't there in 1989, now exists. Once the street protests start the business interest will force the 'communists' (if you can still call them that) to give up power peacefully. Well, fairly peacefully, at least, as the 'communist billionaires' have too much to lose
Management is the process of assigning and evaluating work, the much loved buffer is only the physical manifestation of those two basic functions. Some managers either will not or can not do one, the other, or both, and thus a poor buffer.
You might see it as some sort of 'horse race' with Blu-Ray picking up steam, I on the other hand see it as clear indication of the price sensitivity of the HD consumer. At a roughly $300 difference Blu-Ray (cheapest-to-cheapest), despite it's exclusive titles, exclusive rentals, and arguably better technology, only managed to capture 35% of the HD player market, but when the difference drops to $200, they pick up an additional 10%, you don't have to be an economics professor to see price sensitivity.
As noted I think we'll see cheaper players shortly, from Funai - and probably from other companies, who I expect to get very aggressive now this Christmas (which I think was in the works anyway). Maybe, but HD-DVD will also see cheaper players. I suspect that we will see quite a price war just before Christmas, and Blu-Ray will only over take a sub $200 HD-DVD player if it's suppliers can deliver a player for under $300. You can tell your masters at SONY, that if they can deliver units for the same price as HD-DVD, they will win a format war which they cannot afford to lose. Really, I suspect that it will end up a 'tie' with both formats on a single player, and early adapters will end up replacing their current players sometime in the next 2 years.The number of HD players out are still small compared to DVD players and I believe even the number of HDTVs, so the race really is for number of players, not disks sold. Personally, I think that HD-DVD will clean up thanks to heavy price cutting, but Blu-Ray has a chance, if Sony is willing to let the price come down to a $100 difference (by reducing their licensing fees). Come on guys, duke it out on price an give me a decently price HD burner by 2009!
Well, 47.3% of all statistics are made up on the spot, do you have links which site those figures (at least)?
Bad news basically for consumers interested in HD content, as this will really kill sales for both formats through the year. Consumers want one choice.Well, a single one format may seem attractive, but the price war will bring in High Def Video at an affordable price more quickly than a single format. I cannot find a good link for it but if I remember correctly, DVD players took years to get to an 'affordable price', and the movies all seemed to be priced the same. HD-DVD is really being aggressive in price, and when standards compete, it's usually the one which delivers a lower price who 'wins'.
Sorry, but to prove your loyalty, you need to go past simple 'water carrying' statements and pledge your support for the Republican party, you can find the text here.