I haven't seen I or II yet (and probably won't), but I saw a snippet of the Yoda fight scene on the news last night. As soon as I saw that little man get angry and jump around and just immediately started laughing my ass off, and I don't believe that scene was intended to be comedy.
I wonder, could somebody actually watch all the movies in sequence without nitpicking the last 3 to death between the story and the special effects (or lack of).
It's manual feed tray is left aligned and then everything that you try to print on paper smaller than 8.5x11 will try to be centered where it would be on regular letter sized paper.
Also, in the time it takes it to warm up, I can send a print job to the HP downstairs and walk down and get it before the Samsung has even started.
You don't want these things next to you when you're talking on the phone either. Imagine the volume level of a dot matrix without the rat-a-tat-tat but with a continuous humming.
My girlfriend bought a HP (900 or 1000 something) inkjet printer last year and it came with what the sales rep called "starter" cartridges that weren't completely full. This was at a Circuit City store and of course he really really wanted us to buy replacement cartridges with it anyways. We did buy them because I knew we'd need them shortly anyways.
In any case, when I got home I looked at the printer box and at the replacement cartridge box, and both stated the same milliliters (or whatever inkjet ink is measured in).
So did HP state the wrong thing on the box, or did the Circuit City salesman lie through his teeth in an attempt to get an extra $50 sale?
Whatever happened to that wooly mammoth that was excavated from a frozen lake in the arctic a couple years ago. It was a big deal on the Discovery channel.
Anyways, I remember them saying they were going to try to extract some DNA from the beast and then close it. Anybody have any information on that project?
Actually, it doesn't matter much at all. If everything dies, or if dinosaurs come back, oh well. Last I checked I can personally adapt to different situations very well. Unless you believe in god and things like fate, bringing back extinct animals isn't a "bad thing", it's just a different thing.
One of the major problems as pointed out by the article is that MS can't do custom chips. MS doesn't have their own fab plant and it's not like they're going to get the vendors to work together to integrate everything.
They're somewhat screwed right now. I'll be interested to see how all this plays out because it's a new scenario for MS to be in. I'd also be interested in hearing if they've considered using their monopoly power to bundle a special XBox application in the next version of Windows so you can play games on your regular PC too.
I don't think it would be a fun gig. The article mentioned a former Marine was doing it and that he enjoyed spending hours locked in traffic jams. Although I guess it would beat being pinned down in a swamp for hours on end.
300 minutes in 1 day? You must still be in that phase where it takes 60 minutes to hang up the phone.
"Love you, bye bye" "I love you too, c'ya later" "You're still there. I love you" "You hangup first, I love you more"
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And another thing... Should we know who this reviewer is? Doing a search on Daryl Carpenter in/. returns nothing except 4 user accounts which haven't posted any comments. And I can't believe a professional reviewer wrote such a thing. A 3 page rant is a little much, especially on such an old movie.
So this person e-mailed a review in to michael and it got posted? Hmmm... personal friend? Blackmail?/. Editor on drugs?
I work for a small company (4 people) and MS called us to try and get us to subscribe to their maintenance program. The first thing they said was "MS Project 2002 is going to be 4 times the cost of Project 2000 unless we got on the upgrade package".
Need honest person to infiltrate telemarketing lair and mark all potential customers as "do not call". Must be able to find your own way out of a 3,000 square foot cubicle maze.
I went to disable that option and found out my account had been disabled since I didn't log in in 30 days. I click the "reactivate link" thinking I should reactivate and then uncheck that option, but upon reactivating I had to accept the terms of service again. You think you've seen some long ones before? Basically they're saying by accepting one, I'm accepting them all. Is it legal to agree to one document that links to terms in another document?
The following is quoted from their TOS:
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The trick to selling an inferior product is repeatedly saying "it's the best, it's the best" until you believe it as do all the cattle. That way they don't think it's an inferior product, they think the other solutions are just way overpriced.
Ok. Well yes, if you're talking about moral obligation, then I agree. I also wish my car ran on oxygen, money didn't exist at all, and everybody in the world worked for the common good of man.
Well, that's not going to happen either. All we can do is work within the system that we've created for ourselves.
But personally, I don't think I'd ever want to start my own software company if I was required to provide an infinite warranty against carelessness.
You're completely missing the point. The point is, software is the same as music as far as copyrights go, the music industry is just trying to catch up with the technical features software has access to.
If I already bought a license for SimCity and I lose the original media, and I want to still play it 10 years later and the original media doesn't work any more, should I have the right to get replacements for free or at a nominal cost? I wouldn't expect Maxis to do that, why do you expect the music guys to.
If the reason the original SimCity media doesn't work any more is because I bought a new PC without a 5.25" drive, then is that Maxis' responsibility to provide me with new media? Nope. What they originally sold me was something that worked on what I had at the time, that's all.
On another note, software has the ability to implement copyright protection in many ways. SimCity used to use a lookup card, now games make sure the original CD is in the drive. Now the RIAA is trying to retrofit old technology to handle DRM. Of course it's going to get flack because people are used to the old way. Nobody protests the software industry for putting copy protection on their stuff.
How easy would it be for you to make a backup copy of a book? Are you going to spend more money than you paid for the book to have it xeroxed? Are you going to disassemble it and scan it into your PC?
Do you not think book publishers would be doing the same stuff the RIAA does if it all of a sudden became possible to easily and cheaply duplicate a book and distribute it over the internet? I know it's done now but the process to create them is not that easy and to a certain extent destroys the original copy if you take apart the book to run it through a sheet feeder.
Where can I send my old SNES cartridges that have been stepped on so I can get a replacement at a nominal cost? How can I get replacement 3.5" floppies and game authorization card for my copy of the original SimCity that I've lost years ago?
You go to Wal-Mart and buy a shiny new copy of the latest 3D first person shooter. A year later, it's too scratched for the game to read the CD and therefore the game won't run because it says you don't have the correct CD inserted. Most games I've seen allow you to obtain replacement CDs for the price of shipping (with a little overhead). But they still don't let you easily backup the actual game CD and have it work the same as the original.
So should the RIAA make it easier to obtain replacements for damaged material? They are selling a usage license for the information on the CD, but they are also selling the media that it comes on. So how is that different that software? That sounds like they're just doing what software companies do, nothing radically different.
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I haven't seen I or II yet (and probably won't), but I saw a snippet of the Yoda fight scene on the news last night. As soon as I saw that little man get angry and jump around and just immediately started laughing my ass off, and I don't believe that scene was intended to be comedy.
I wonder, could somebody actually watch all the movies in sequence without nitpicking the last 3 to death between the story and the special effects (or lack of).
No, it's a 7050.
That's what my uncle did with his Lexmark. He used it once and then threw it away and bought an HP.
Samsung? NO! We got one at the office.
It's manual feed tray is left aligned and then everything that you try to print on paper smaller than 8.5x11 will try to be centered where it would be on regular letter sized paper.
Also, in the time it takes it to warm up, I can send a print job to the HP downstairs and walk down and get it before the Samsung has even started.
You don't want these things next to you when you're talking on the phone either. Imagine the volume level of a dot matrix without the rat-a-tat-tat but with a continuous humming.
Just my personal experience though.
My girlfriend bought a HP (900 or 1000 something) inkjet printer last year and it came with what the sales rep called "starter" cartridges that weren't completely full. This was at a Circuit City store and of course he really really wanted us to buy replacement cartridges with it anyways. We did buy them because I knew we'd need them shortly anyways.
In any case, when I got home I looked at the printer box and at the replacement cartridge box, and both stated the same milliliters (or whatever inkjet ink is measured in).
So did HP state the wrong thing on the box, or did the Circuit City salesman lie through his teeth in an attempt to get an extra $50 sale?
Whatever happened to that wooly mammoth that was excavated from a frozen lake in the arctic a couple years ago. It was a big deal on the Discovery channel.
Anyways, I remember them saying they were going to try to extract some DNA from the beast and then close it. Anybody have any information on that project?
Actually, it doesn't matter much at all. If everything dies, or if dinosaurs come back, oh well. Last I checked I can personally adapt to different situations very well. Unless you believe in god and things like fate, bringing back extinct animals isn't a "bad thing", it's just a different thing.
One of the major problems as pointed out by the article is that MS can't do custom chips. MS doesn't have their own fab plant and it's not like they're going to get the vendors to work together to integrate everything.
They're somewhat screwed right now. I'll be interested to see how all this plays out because it's a new scenario for MS to be in. I'd also be interested in hearing if they've considered using their monopoly power to bundle a special XBox application in the next version of Windows so you can play games on your regular PC too.
I don't think it would be a fun gig. The article mentioned a former Marine was doing it and that he enjoyed spending hours locked in traffic jams. Although I guess it would beat being pinned down in a swamp for hours on end.
300 minutes in 1 day? You must still be in that phase where it takes 60 minutes to hang up the phone.
"Love you, bye bye"
"I love you too, c'ya later"
"You're still there. I love you"
"You hangup first, I love you more"
And another thing... Should we know who this reviewer is? Doing a search on Daryl Carpenter in /. returns nothing except 4 user accounts which haven't posted any comments. And I can't believe a professional reviewer wrote such a thing. A 3 page rant is a little much, especially on such an old movie.
/. Editor on drugs?
So this person e-mailed a review in to michael and it got posted? Hmmm... personal friend? Blackmail?
A dog died when the Tacoma bridge collapsed. It was in the car the was left on the bridge.
Our main product has an interface into Project so it was much easier testing that interface with the actual software.
I work for a small company (4 people) and MS called us to try and get us to subscribe to their maintenance program. The first thing they said was "MS Project 2002 is going to be 4 times the cost of Project 2000 unless we got on the upgrade package".
Need honest person to infiltrate telemarketing lair and mark all potential customers as "do not call". Must be able to find your own way out of a 3,000 square foot cubicle maze.
Ok, stop slashdotting the poor guys server. His wife is fully clothed in all the pictures.
I went to disable that option and found out my account had been disabled since I didn't log in in 30 days. I click the "reactivate link" thinking I should reactivate and then uncheck that option, but upon reactivating I had to accept the terms of service again. You think you've seen some long ones before? Basically they're saying by accepting one, I'm accepting them all. Is it legal to agree to one document that links to terms in another document?
The following is quoted from their TOS:
The MSN Web Sites are offered to you conditioned on your acceptance without modification of the terms, conditions, and notices contained herein. Your use of the MSN Web Sites constitutes your agreement to all such terms, conditions, and notices. Your use of a particular MSN Web Site included within the MSN Web Sites may also be subject to additional terms outlined elsewhere in this agreement (the "Additional Terms"). To go directly to any of the Additional Terms, click on the link below:
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Additionally, the MSN Web Sites may themselves contain additional terms, codes of conduct or guidelines that govern use of those sites, including without limitation, particular features or offers (for example, sweepstakes or chat areas).
The trick to selling an inferior product is repeatedly saying "it's the best, it's the best" until you believe it as do all the cattle. That way they don't think it's an inferior product, they think the other solutions are just way overpriced.
Ok. Well yes, if you're talking about moral obligation, then I agree. I also wish my car ran on oxygen, money didn't exist at all, and everybody in the world worked for the common good of man.
Well, that's not going to happen either. All we can do is work within the system that we've created for ourselves.
But personally, I don't think I'd ever want to start my own software company if I was required to provide an infinite warranty against carelessness.
You're completely missing the point. The point is, software is the same as music as far as copyrights go, the music industry is just trying to catch up with the technical features software has access to.
If I already bought a license for SimCity and I lose the original media, and I want to still play it 10 years later and the original media doesn't work any more, should I have the right to get replacements for free or at a nominal cost? I wouldn't expect Maxis to do that, why do you expect the music guys to.
If the reason the original SimCity media doesn't work any more is because I bought a new PC without a 5.25" drive, then is that Maxis' responsibility to provide me with new media? Nope. What they originally sold me was something that worked on what I had at the time, that's all.
On another note, software has the ability to implement copyright protection in many ways. SimCity used to use a lookup card, now games make sure the original CD is in the drive. Now the RIAA is trying to retrofit old technology to handle DRM. Of course it's going to get flack because people are used to the old way. Nobody protests the software industry for putting copy protection on their stuff.
1.) WTF, yes it does.
2.) Read the whole thread.
How easy would it be for you to make a backup copy of a book? Are you going to spend more money than you paid for the book to have it xeroxed? Are you going to disassemble it and scan it into your PC?
Do you not think book publishers would be doing the same stuff the RIAA does if it all of a sudden became possible to easily and cheaply duplicate a book and distribute it over the internet? I know it's done now but the process to create them is not that easy and to a certain extent destroys the original copy if you take apart the book to run it through a sheet feeder.
Where can I send my old SNES cartridges that have been stepped on so I can get a replacement at a nominal cost? How can I get replacement 3.5" floppies and game authorization card for my copy of the original SimCity that I've lost years ago?
Ok, new example:
You go to Wal-Mart and buy a shiny new copy of the latest 3D first person shooter. A year later, it's too scratched for the game to read the CD and therefore the game won't run because it says you don't have the correct CD inserted. Most games I've seen allow you to obtain replacement CDs for the price of shipping (with a little overhead). But they still don't let you easily backup the actual game CD and have it work the same as the original.
So should the RIAA make it easier to obtain replacements for damaged material? They are selling a usage license for the information on the CD, but they are also selling the media that it comes on. So how is that different that software? That sounds like they're just doing what software companies do, nothing radically different.