You don't by chance think that maybe, just maybe, the book is more of a humor-category, mock-history type of thing? I think the reviewers first problem is missing the entire point of it...
Hell, a quick search on Amazon (where's the slash referral link? you're losing $$ for the company!), and viewable on the front cover is a bit of a clue, "The Lost Blogs: From Jesus to Jim Morrison--The Historically Inaccurate and Totally Fictitious Cyber Diaries of Everyone Worth Knowing." So, he's pissed the blogs aren't exactly accurate...
No wonder the teal/white comments are more interesting than the main story.
You best get with the program mister! This is Slashdot, there can be only one of anything. DVD vs HDDVD vs BluRay.. it's BluRay only. KDE/Gnome/Other window manager.. it's Gnome. Wii/XBox360/PS3.. it's PS3 (see BluRay above). TV, HDTV.. it's HDTV. OTA/Cable/Digital Cable.. it's Digital Cable. There can be no other.
Actually, when dialysis removes the alcohol (pretty quickly, in the first hour typically), your blood pressure crashes, needing follow up care. It's not a very good way to go about it, honestly...
For me, GMail equals unprofessional. It equals Mom and Pop.
It means you can't even afford to run your own mail server or have someone do it for you Um, isn't using Gmail equivalent to having "someone do it for you" and therefore unprofessional? Heck, even having a web host provider is unprofessional. It shows you can't manage your own clusters of servers, manage your network, etc. All of which is vital for Jane's Lollipop Store. I wouldn't buy lollipops from someone who couldn't do this minimal amount of stuff.
You may want to try out Earth. It's an ever changing environment every day. You can do many of the tasks you have suggested in there. There's even some faction wars going on right now between the Serbia and Kosovo groups. It's pretty exciting there. Or travel to the deserts of the Sudan zone, where they have open PvP going on 24x7.
Quick show of hands, how many families had a PS2 as their DVD? Sure, I can see the Slashdot crowd (single males primarily) having that sort of setup in their living room. But (perpare to be shocked!) most of the country/world are comprised of other demographics. None of my adult friends with kids have had that sort of setup. Stand-alone players are where the money is.
HD televisions are getting into a reasonable price range for many folks ($700-1000). Cable companies provide them with an adequate number of HD channels (and on-demand shows) to view in HD on that new TV. But will they spend 50-70% the price of that TV for a movie player, or will they stick with the $25 DVD player they can get at Wal-Mart? Remember, normal folks outside of here aren't going to throw chairs across the room when they see one frame with pixelated squares...
Exactly! Hell, I'm waiting for this whole IBM-PC vs Mac debate is over before I put any money on these home computer things! It should be coming any day now, I hear...
Currently, you can get many HDDVD movies for around $15. You do have to put some effort, look around, wait for sales, etc. If you must have some movie the day it is released, sure you'll spend the full price. If you wait a little while, there will be sales like buy-one-get-one-free sales, 20 movies from one studio for $14.99, etc. So they are currently quite close to standard DVD prices.
Hell, if HDDVD really died off, you could clean up and have weeks of movies to watch when they're in the $5 bin.
Let's see, HDDVD player for $150, comes with 5-10 free movies promotions, buy another 20 movies over the next year for $15.. That's $450. Go to Sony's side of things, $400 for a player (PS3 or stand-alone players I've seen in ads are the same price), and say you get similar sales on movies, 20 * $15, that's $700. Yup, it sure sucks that I'll be ridiculed on blogs on this here Interwebtube-o-sphere, but I've got some change left over.
A bit off-topic, but can BluRay standalone players play regular DVDs? I know my HD-DVD player can, and they make the combo standard/HD discs. That seems like a great way for people to slowly make the transition.
Consider the recent "Mortal Kombat Murder" in Johnstown, Colorado (teenagers beat and killed a 7 year old they were babysitting). Every news source Google returned on the murder called it that. Yet, they include the one line the boy said when asked why he didn't stop when she cried, "I don't know, I was drunk." In all the articles, it was deduced that Mortal Kombat was the primary factor in the beating... Therefore, video games must be stopped.
I can see you saying that watching TV is a lazy activity. But, the statement, "they become even more lazy," would indicate that they are doing even less activity. The only thing less active than watching TV would have to be sitting on the couch watching nothing (not even the walls). So, TV cannot make one "more lazy."
Perhaps you are not aware, but televisions can be used to view things besides OTA signals. Many households (even ones that cannot afford/want cable) have DVD players, VCRs, video game systems, etc. If people buy a new television, the old ones are far more likely to get relegated to such duties well before being tossed into the landfill.
Hell, the last few times I tried to put some electronic devices (broken dvd player, monitor that would not power on, etc) on the street for garbage pickup, it was snatched by someone driving past. So, not even that junk makes it to a landfill.
I heard somewhere that some people invented this system of a very tiny camera and microphone. And on top of that, they added some other magic and transmit the recordings without any wires at all!! Imagine the possibilities once this technology comes to us in the general public. We might even one day be able to use a telephone without any wires! I just hope they don't make the dialing ring on these phones any smaller, as my fingers can barely fit in the circles as it is.
I believe it was Greenpeace, but on one of Penn and Teller's Bullshit shows, they had one of the founding members of that or a similar environmentalist group. He has since come out against them for doing just that sort of thing. They area all in it for the money more than anything.
Likewise, there will never be a cure for cancers, diseases, etc. There is far too much money to be had to do research and conduct studies.
Thankfully, I now know one thing to never bring home to my one-year-old daughter. She is all sunshine and rainbows right now. I'd hate to see what would happen if she watched TV and discovered what a "grouch" was!!
Aw damn, she's screaming because she's standing on a shirt she wants to pick up. That just ruined a perfectly good start to a satirical post...
Why do all these Ask Slashdot posts make the assumption that there can only be one of some technology? I haven't seen any websites where all links were to tinyurl.com, but it's already killed the Intarwebs with this person.
Are doors ruining climbing out of windows in modern houses? Are the comb/brush lobbies stifling bed-head from becoming the next hot fashion look? The sun rose this morning, is this the end of all nights forever?
You might want to keep an eye out on the upcoming day after Thanksgiving sales. Toshiba was unloading a bunch of there HD-A2 HD-DVD players for $99 at Best Buy and Walmart. It only does up to 1080i, but at that price it's reasonable. I'm sure there'll be more sales similar to that this shopping season.
In a year or so, perhaps the 1080p players will be at a better price. In the meantime, you can build up your HD-DVD library.
I recently bought a car that had a standard 1/8-inch jack to plug any audio device in to. I figure, what the heck, I'll stop in and pick up a cheap cable for it. I happened to be in the neighborhood of a Circuit City, so that was my first stop. After looking for quite some time, I finally found an "Ipod Audio Cable," for $19.99. It wasn't even made by Apple, but it had those four magic letters that add to the price. Cables have a HUGE markup in these big chain stores.
I drove an extra few minutes to a computer shop and got one for $3.99.
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You don't by chance think that maybe, just maybe, the book is more of a humor-category, mock-history type of thing? I think the reviewers first problem is missing the entire point of it...
Hell, a quick search on Amazon (where's the slash referral link? you're losing $$ for the company!), and viewable on the front cover is a bit of a clue, "The Lost Blogs: From Jesus to Jim Morrison--The Historically Inaccurate and Totally Fictitious Cyber Diaries of Everyone Worth Knowing." So, he's pissed the blogs aren't exactly accurate...
No wonder the teal/white comments are more interesting than the main story.
You best get with the program mister! This is Slashdot, there can be only one of anything. DVD vs HDDVD vs BluRay .. it's BluRay only. KDE/Gnome/Other window manager .. it's Gnome. Wii/XBox360/PS3 .. it's PS3 (see BluRay above). TV, HDTV .. it's HDTV. OTA/Cable/Digital Cable .. it's Digital Cable. There can be no other.
Actually, when dialysis removes the alcohol (pretty quickly, in the first hour typically), your blood pressure crashes, needing follow up care. It's not a very good way to go about it, honestly...
For me, GMail equals unprofessional. It equals Mom and Pop.
It means you can't even afford to run your own mail server or have someone do it for you
Um, isn't using Gmail equivalent to having "someone do it for you" and therefore unprofessional? Heck, even having a web host provider is unprofessional. It shows you can't manage your own clusters of servers, manage your network, etc. All of which is vital for Jane's Lollipop Store. I wouldn't buy lollipops from someone who couldn't do this minimal amount of stuff.
You may want to try out Earth. It's an ever changing environment every day. You can do many of the tasks you have suggested in there. There's even some faction wars going on right now between the Serbia and Kosovo groups. It's pretty exciting there. Or travel to the deserts of the Sudan zone, where they have open PvP going on 24x7.
Just an idea.
Wasn't Steve Irwin killed by a BluRay?
I'll say what I say to VHS movies from the 80's I own. "I don't care about that movie enough to bother."
Quick show of hands, how many families had a PS2 as their DVD? Sure, I can see the Slashdot crowd (single males primarily) having that sort of setup in their living room. But (perpare to be shocked!) most of the country/world are comprised of other demographics. None of my adult friends with kids have had that sort of setup. Stand-alone players are where the money is.
HD televisions are getting into a reasonable price range for many folks ($700-1000). Cable companies provide them with an adequate number of HD channels (and on-demand shows) to view in HD on that new TV. But will they spend 50-70% the price of that TV for a movie player, or will they stick with the $25 DVD player they can get at Wal-Mart? Remember, normal folks outside of here aren't going to throw chairs across the room when they see one frame with pixelated squares...
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Exactly! Hell, I'm waiting for this whole IBM-PC vs Mac debate is over before I put any money on these home computer things! It should be coming any day now, I hear...
Currently, you can get many HDDVD movies for around $15. You do have to put some effort, look around, wait for sales, etc. If you must have some movie the day it is released, sure you'll spend the full price. If you wait a little while, there will be sales like buy-one-get-one-free sales, 20 movies from one studio for $14.99, etc. So they are currently quite close to standard DVD prices.
.. That's $450. Go to Sony's side of things, $400 for a player (PS3 or stand-alone players I've seen in ads are the same price), and say you get similar sales on movies, 20 * $15, that's $700. Yup, it sure sucks that I'll be ridiculed on blogs on this here Interwebtube-o-sphere, but I've got some change left over.
Hell, if HDDVD really died off, you could clean up and have weeks of movies to watch when they're in the $5 bin.
Let's see, HDDVD player for $150, comes with 5-10 free movies promotions, buy another 20 movies over the next year for $15
A bit off-topic, but can BluRay standalone players play regular DVDs? I know my HD-DVD player can, and they make the combo standard/HD discs. That seems like a great way for people to slowly make the transition.
Why do people bother with OS projects when they could invest their time in something useful like curing cancer?
Consider the recent "Mortal Kombat Murder" in Johnstown, Colorado (teenagers beat and killed a 7 year old they were babysitting). Every news source Google returned on the murder called it that. Yet, they include the one line the boy said when asked why he didn't stop when she cried, "I don't know, I was drunk." In all the articles, it was deduced that Mortal Kombat was the primary factor in the beating... Therefore, video games must be stopped.
I can see you saying that watching TV is a lazy activity. But, the statement, "they become even more lazy," would indicate that they are doing even less activity. The only thing less active than watching TV would have to be sitting on the couch watching nothing (not even the walls). So, TV cannot make one "more lazy."
Perhaps you are not aware, but televisions can be used to view things besides OTA signals. Many households (even ones that cannot afford/want cable) have DVD players, VCRs, video game systems, etc. If people buy a new television, the old ones are far more likely to get relegated to such duties well before being tossed into the landfill.
Hell, the last few times I tried to put some electronic devices (broken dvd player, monitor that would not power on, etc) on the street for garbage pickup, it was snatched by someone driving past. So, not even that junk makes it to a landfill.
I heard somewhere that some people invented this system of a very tiny camera and microphone. And on top of that, they added some other magic and transmit the recordings without any wires at all!! Imagine the possibilities once this technology comes to us in the general public. We might even one day be able to use a telephone without any wires! I just hope they don't make the dialing ring on these phones any smaller, as my fingers can barely fit in the circles as it is.
I believe it was Greenpeace, but on one of Penn and Teller's Bullshit shows, they had one of the founding members of that or a similar environmentalist group. He has since come out against them for doing just that sort of thing. They area all in it for the money more than anything.
Likewise, there will never be a cure for cancers, diseases, etc. There is far too much money to be had to do research and conduct studies.
Thankfully, I now know one thing to never bring home to my one-year-old daughter. She is all sunshine and rainbows right now. I'd hate to see what would happen if she watched TV and discovered what a "grouch" was!!
Aw damn, she's screaming because she's standing on a shirt she wants to pick up. That just ruined a perfectly good start to a satirical post...
Why do all these Ask Slashdot posts make the assumption that there can only be one of some technology? I haven't seen any websites where all links were to tinyurl.com, but it's already killed the Intarwebs with this person.
Are doors ruining climbing out of windows in modern houses? Are the comb/brush lobbies stifling bed-head from becoming the next hot fashion look? The sun rose this morning, is this the end of all nights forever?
You might want to keep an eye out on the upcoming day after Thanksgiving sales. Toshiba was unloading a bunch of there HD-A2 HD-DVD players for $99 at Best Buy and Walmart. It only does up to 1080i, but at that price it's reasonable. I'm sure there'll be more sales similar to that this shopping season.
In a year or so, perhaps the 1080p players will be at a better price. In the meantime, you can build up your HD-DVD library.
I recently bought a car that had a standard 1/8-inch jack to plug any audio device in to. I figure, what the heck, I'll stop in and pick up a cheap cable for it. I happened to be in the neighborhood of a Circuit City, so that was my first stop. After looking for quite some time, I finally found an "Ipod Audio Cable," for $19.99. It wasn't even made by Apple, but it had those four magic letters that add to the price. Cables have a HUGE markup in these big chain stores.
I drove an extra few minutes to a computer shop and got one for $3.99.
What ever happened to good ol' Charles Rangel and his attempts to reinstate the draft? That's gotta get the Democrats even more votes!
But, but, the world is melting. We'll all be dead by the year 3800. That is, if Manbearpig doesn't take us out sooner. Go Algore!!
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