Well, it's been a fun ride Nintendo and Microsoft. They will be missed. PS3 is the bomb, it's now official. In order to stay cool, I will have to get the PS3 for all the neighborhood 8 year olds to ogle me.
If only you could just have the source code to something like this, then you can "fix" it just how you like it. Ah well, just a dreamy afternoon for me...
Ah thanks. I've been looking for just that because I have it from a reliable source that the population of ancient palimpsests has tripled in the last six months.
If 70% and upwards of Americans want the research, why doesn't someone organize them into donating? People are very willing to donate to good causes (Katrina, 9/11, Indonesian tsunami). There are a number of Hollywood people on your side to make TV commercials. Then you can farm as many clumps of cells as you wish. The funding issue is only about the middle-man collecting the money, IRS vs some non-profit organization.
find all the pictures containing a girl with red hair?' not so bloody hard now, is it?
Several years ago I came upon an app on Freshmeat that had a small paint canvas where you would draw something and it would search a collection of pictures for similar images to what you drew. It was pretty good at it too. Draw a head and torso with breasts, it found upper-body shots. Scribble some red hair, it narrowed it down to redheads. So that much technology is out there, somewhere.
These are the people that put license restrictions on the number of people using a share on your hard drive. So, it's hardly unexpected that they want more money if you want to do more work on a machine.
What's hard to believe? Do the math, 1 Gigabit is 128 kilobytes per second. That's easy to achieve on cable connections. Heck, I've had up to 500 kb/s on some popular torrent downloads.
It's quite simple really, take either 1) a man or 2) a white person, put them taller, beating in a sport, a phb of, or otherwise "better" at something than a 1) woman, 2) any non-white race, 3) animal, plant, dinosaur, and you've got yourself some *ism. Plain and simple. There could be no other reason for making the picture or whatever medium it is.
Recently FX (I think) aired a series where they took a white family and a black family, did them up with makeup as their opposite race so they could feel what it is like being the other. One humorous bit was the black man taking the white man (made up looking like he's black also) out on the town and show him how bad it is, everyone is racist, etc. He was talking to strangers on the sidewalk, asking the time, directions, etc and had no trouble. That got the black guy mad as everywhere he went he only saw racism.
Learning from the past is essential, but no progress will ever be made if everyone is constantly scared that every little thing is going to get them branded some form of racist/sexist/etc. No wonder our commercials are so lame compared to other countries...
OMG, you like totally are not getting the hugeness of the enormity of such an innovative Web 2.0 use this will have on the impact of the world of stuff. Now, instead of going through a bunch of MySpace pages looking for friends, I can just go to MyBarCodes.com and automatically search for other people who have the exact same groceries as me! Then I can get good suggestions from what other people have bought from Amazon's groceries. OMG that will be so such a killa app for the Web 2.0. So you in the future friendz!$!
The simple way to spin that so Sony/MS can think they are better is for the media to just talk about dollars of sales rather than number of units sold. Watch about a week after each launch, they'll tell Nintendo's sales as "10 million consoles sold the first day" and Sony will ensure the press releases are like "The PS3 had $500 million dollars in sales in it's first week, setting a new record for the company."
And in other news, the Gates Foundation has bought six billion Xbox 360s for every person in the world, making the Xbox 360 clearly the market leader.
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And Buy.com has it for a couple bucks cheaper yet. It's been a few years since I bought from them though, but back then the free shipping took a week or so to get around to putting your stuff into a box and out the door. It's good though if you're not in any hurry to get the stuff.
Ala the recent South Park, just call it a disease and then there's nothing you can do about it, so might as well keep right on doing it. You get sympathy and can keep doing it, what more is there?
As others have mentioned, the excessive shipping is partially to avoid ebay's fees, but also watch out for the seller's non-refundable fees. Often that same ridiculous shipping is included. So if the item is crap, you get your 5 cents back and are out $49.99 in shipping.
As a buyer, I've had the Paypal problem resolution thing go against me as well. After returning an item to the seller, he invented some sort of listing fee amount to include in the non-refundable fees (including the ridiculous shipping of about 30% the item's value). I went through ebay's fee listings, calculated exactly what it cost to list the item, sale fees, etc. I tried to get him to explain why a $150 purchase yielded about $80 refunded. I spent about a month working with the seller there.
After taking it up with Paypal, a number of back and forth games providing proof I returned the item, they received it, etc (which was never disputed between us), useless queries having nothing to do with the argument at hand, they just send an email saying they side with the seller. No explanation why or how they come to the decision, I just have to deal with it.
I don't let the bad apples sour me on ebay as a whole though. I just don't spend very large amounts with ebay sellers as a result. If I need computer parts, it's Newegg. If I want some Nintendo DS game I can't find in stores, I'll go to ebay.
Setting the minimal bid increase is that bidder's problem. I recently won an auction for a very good price, because the last-minute people were only inching their bids up. I set a good max price with 3.5 minutes remaining. Then three other people come along, just slowing inching their bids by $5-10. In the end, I won the item for about $120 (worth $150-180) with little room to spare on my maximum bid. They wasted time going $20, $30, $40, etc in the final minutes to their own detriment. Due to the item's value, they could have jumped to say $100, and then inched a little bit and would have found my max and outbid me. Instead they hoped (I suppose) to get a steal of a price on the item for $40.
Bid what you're willing to pay. If you get it for less, wonderful. Don't forget to take into account shipping. Just this morning I was browsing for a cheap video card with svideo out for my MythTV box. I saw one dork with a buyitnow price of $9.99, sounds cheap, but $30.99 non-refundable shipping. And that's for a $30 NVidia 5500 card from Newegg. Speaking of which, I'd say shipping whores are a bigger nuisance on ebay than sniping.
PCChips was the first motherboard manufacturer I ever barred from my house. Coincidentally, ECS was the second. They have been the worst I've ever purchased. Asus and Gigabyte haven't done me wrong, yet.
Ah, so that explains all my newer spam that reads like "Dictionary picture believes box nuts orange throws family..." actually was selling me some penis enlargers. I get it now.
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Well, it's been a fun ride Nintendo and Microsoft. They will be missed. PS3 is the bomb, it's now official. In order to stay cool, I will have to get the PS3 for all the neighborhood 8 year olds to ogle me.
Guide data is retrived via a free login to zap2it.com. Not that hard, really.
If only you could just have the source code to something like this, then you can "fix" it just how you like it. Ah well, just a dreamy afternoon for me...
This is Slashdot, being hostile to religions is their religion.
Ah thanks. I've been looking for just that because I have it from a reliable source that the population of ancient palimpsests has tripled in the last six months.
Or mathematics progressed exactly as God intended it to...
If 70% and upwards of Americans want the research, why doesn't someone organize them into donating? People are very willing to donate to good causes (Katrina, 9/11, Indonesian tsunami). There are a number of Hollywood people on your side to make TV commercials. Then you can farm as many clumps of cells as you wish. The funding issue is only about the middle-man collecting the money, IRS vs some non-profit organization.
find all the pictures containing a girl with red hair?' not so bloody hard now, is it?
Several years ago I came upon an app on Freshmeat that had a small paint canvas where you would draw something and it would search a collection of pictures for similar images to what you drew. It was pretty good at it too. Draw a head and torso with breasts, it found upper-body shots. Scribble some red hair, it narrowed it down to redheads. So that much technology is out there, somewhere.
How long will it take Nintendo to sell 15 million Wiis? Wiii? Wiiae?
Ultimately, it's about your priorities. Don't put money/get rich quick/luxury items above your family, self, God, etc.
Who's better to know how to fail at education than the ones that have spent 50+ years and trillions of dollars perfecting it?
These are the people that put license restrictions on the number of people using a share on your hard drive. So, it's hardly unexpected that they want more money if you want to do more work on a machine.
What's hard to believe? Do the math, 1 Gigabit is 128 kilobytes per second. That's easy to achieve on cable connections. Heck, I've had up to 500 kb/s on some popular torrent downloads.
... And Al-Qaeda like organizations will finally bring peace to the world.
And you'll be able to find that perfect mate with XXXL orifaces with this service.
It's quite simple really, take either 1) a man or 2) a white person, put them taller, beating in a sport, a phb of, or otherwise "better" at something than a 1) woman, 2) any non-white race, 3) animal, plant, dinosaur, and you've got yourself some *ism. Plain and simple. There could be no other reason for making the picture or whatever medium it is.
Recently FX (I think) aired a series where they took a white family and a black family, did them up with makeup as their opposite race so they could feel what it is like being the other. One humorous bit was the black man taking the white man (made up looking like he's black also) out on the town and show him how bad it is, everyone is racist, etc. He was talking to strangers on the sidewalk, asking the time, directions, etc and had no trouble. That got the black guy mad as everywhere he went he only saw racism.
Learning from the past is essential, but no progress will ever be made if everyone is constantly scared that every little thing is going to get them branded some form of racist/sexist/etc. No wonder our commercials are so lame compared to other countries...
OMG, you like totally are not getting the hugeness of the enormity of such an innovative Web 2.0 use this will have on the impact of the world of stuff. Now, instead of going through a bunch of MySpace pages looking for friends, I can just go to MyBarCodes.com and automatically search for other people who have the exact same groceries as me! Then I can get good suggestions from what other people have bought from Amazon's groceries. OMG that will be so such a killa app for the Web 2.0. So you in the future friendz!$!
The simple way to spin that so Sony/MS can think they are better is for the media to just talk about dollars of sales rather than number of units sold. Watch about a week after each launch, they'll tell Nintendo's sales as "10 million consoles sold the first day" and Sony will ensure the press releases are like "The PS3 had $500 million dollars in sales in it's first week, setting a new record for the company."
And in other news, the Gates Foundation has bought six billion Xbox 360s for every person in the world, making the Xbox 360 clearly the market leader.
And Buy.com has it for a couple bucks cheaper yet. It's been a few years since I bought from them though, but back then the free shipping took a week or so to get around to putting your stuff into a box and out the door. It's good though if you're not in any hurry to get the stuff.
Ala the recent South Park, just call it a disease and then there's nothing you can do about it, so might as well keep right on doing it. You get sympathy and can keep doing it, what more is there?
As others have mentioned, the excessive shipping is partially to avoid ebay's fees, but also watch out for the seller's non-refundable fees. Often that same ridiculous shipping is included. So if the item is crap, you get your 5 cents back and are out $49.99 in shipping.
As a buyer, I've had the Paypal problem resolution thing go against me as well. After returning an item to the seller, he invented some sort of listing fee amount to include in the non-refundable fees (including the ridiculous shipping of about 30% the item's value). I went through ebay's fee listings, calculated exactly what it cost to list the item, sale fees, etc. I tried to get him to explain why a $150 purchase yielded about $80 refunded. I spent about a month working with the seller there.
After taking it up with Paypal, a number of back and forth games providing proof I returned the item, they received it, etc (which was never disputed between us), useless queries having nothing to do with the argument at hand, they just send an email saying they side with the seller. No explanation why or how they come to the decision, I just have to deal with it.
I don't let the bad apples sour me on ebay as a whole though. I just don't spend very large amounts with ebay sellers as a result. If I need computer parts, it's Newegg. If I want some Nintendo DS game I can't find in stores, I'll go to ebay.
Setting the minimal bid increase is that bidder's problem. I recently won an auction for a very good price, because the last-minute people were only inching their bids up. I set a good max price with 3.5 minutes remaining. Then three other people come along, just slowing inching their bids by $5-10. In the end, I won the item for about $120 (worth $150-180) with little room to spare on my maximum bid. They wasted time going $20, $30, $40, etc in the final minutes to their own detriment. Due to the item's value, they could have jumped to say $100, and then inched a little bit and would have found my max and outbid me. Instead they hoped (I suppose) to get a steal of a price on the item for $40.
Bid what you're willing to pay. If you get it for less, wonderful. Don't forget to take into account shipping. Just this morning I was browsing for a cheap video card with svideo out for my MythTV box. I saw one dork with a buyitnow price of $9.99, sounds cheap, but $30.99 non-refundable shipping. And that's for a $30 NVidia 5500 card from Newegg. Speaking of which, I'd say shipping whores are a bigger nuisance on ebay than sniping.
PCChips was the first motherboard manufacturer I ever barred from my house. Coincidentally, ECS was the second. They have been the worst I've ever purchased. Asus and Gigabyte haven't done me wrong, yet.
Words mean whatever people say they mean.
Ah, so that explains all my newer spam that reads like "Dictionary picture believes box nuts orange throws family..." actually was selling me some penis enlargers. I get it now.