Meanwhile, eToys has plunged 55 percent, to $12.50, as the company effectively
announced its demise. The company stated it is laying off all 293 of its remaining
employees, effective April 6. The company reiterated that it anticipates its
current cash - cash equivalents and cash that may be generated from operations
- will be sufficient to meet its anticipated cash needs until approximately March
31. But, the company says, "there can be no assurance in this regard." In order
to continue operations in 2001, the company said it would require an additional,
substantial capital infusion. EToys said it does not believe additional capital will
become available to the company.
It depends on whether the passengers are generating a high value or not. High speed rail is very profitable because you move more people, paying more money, in less time - look at Acela Express on the east coast, priced 2x ordinary coach service. But there's no way that this ship would be attractive enough to passengers to make money that way. People only travel by ship for fun these days, and luxury is more important than speed.
To ship cargo, though, this could be useful, and might even make money.
I never, ever turn it on. Of course it should not even be supported - I mean, come on, what do you need it for in an email?!?!? - but keeping it turned off is the best medicine.
The annoying thing is that you have to jump through lots of hoops to do so (set Outlook as "Restricted Sites Zone", disable everything - don't forget that awful ActiveX - and then not turn on defaults again). Whoever designed this stuff should be permanently barred from the industry.
Far ahead of any other topic?
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I don't think so. I count 42 in Your Rights Online, for example, despite nearly half of them being about the same damn thing. At least the film reviews are about different films!
Re:Again, what this is about..
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Makes sense to me. I have found/. movie reviews to be some of the most interesting, informative stuff on the site. Making them a weekly feature (and maybe making them a section like YRO or Science?) would be a very good thing, in my view.
Most properties? I have always played as follows: if you quit before only one player is left standing, you calculate total purchase-price value of all properties and add it to cash on hand, richest player wins. Is there an alternative - most properties? Highest property value? Most hotels? I'm curious.
One of the things I find most interesting about Monopoly is the inflation effect. Every time 'round the board, everyone collects $200 - and this money isn't really absorbed by the available supply of stuff (particularly if you play with the Free Parking rule, where all the cash for fines, etc. goes into the middle as a jackpot). As the money supply grows, the stakes get higher - people buy houses then hotels, and they buy and upgrade higher-value property - until someone gets overstretched and then goes bankrupt. It's quite an effective economics lesson!
To your point, of course it is zero-sum, because of the rule that everyone needs to go bankrupt but the winner. If you play the short game (richest player wins) it's more of a race to collect bucks. I for one prefer to play to the end, as the competition is more fun - but it does take longer.
Karma whoring (karma, um, competition for the little ones) is a great noncompetitive game. Think about it:
- gaining karma doesn't hurt others
- moderators increase your karma if your story amuses them, and only reduce it if it annoys them - so nobody is happy to make you lose
- you can always try again if you reach +50 or get bitchslapped
- anyone can play! it's free and fun for the whole family!
I challenge The Community to come up with something better...
Re:Free DSL services will be even worse
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Free DSL is really crap because the provider needs to pay out a bunck of cash to the local carrier / CLEC to get service established. You think they'll be able to pay for that with ads, distributed computing, paid Napster servers, or porn server farms?! If so, I have a bridge to sell you.
Disclaimer: I am a DSL product manager for a non-free ISP. But this also means I have seen some of the economics (like, it costs money...) of DSL.
This works very well. Until the server admins decide to move me to another server and don't notify me! (oops) But I always tell people to do this, particularly for dial-up access, where for whatever reason name resolution is WAY SLOW on my network.
Even the SF Chronicle did a story before/. posted the damn article! (But there was much less useful info in the SF Gate article, other than the old bugaboo "Can bring down web sites! And whole sections of the Internet!!")
My Outlook client crashes all the time; it often can't find the server due to slow WINS lookups; when it crashes it takes forever to reopen due to the massive mail store (.pst file). Maybe the admins like it, but I sure don't.
I'm really glad my 9th-grade teachers kept the TV on so we could hear the news coverage. Of course it was difficult to watch - but we all knew that this was something important, and besides, we felt for the teacher who was killed. I don't think anyone was "scarred" by the experience - on the contrary, we all learned from it.
Re:School Children saw it.
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I remember this very specifically - my 9th grade science teacher had been one of the applicants (not selected at an early round) for the teacher-in-space program. I didn't see it happen, but heard about it in another class - we went to her classroom to watch the news coverage afterwards, and we (students) were definitely a source of emotional support for her.
It was a heartbreaking moment, one I'll never forget. I'll join in this moment of silence.
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No, only engineers (and others) with a sense of humor. Which they did.
I live in SF and thought it was hilarious. So did everyone I know. Who are the locals who got angry about this?!
Meanwhile, eToys has plunged 55 percent, to $12.50, as the company effectively announced its demise. The company stated it is laying off all 293 of its remaining employees, effective April 6. The company reiterated that it anticipates its current cash - cash equivalents and cash that may be generated from operations - will be sufficient to meet its anticipated cash needs until approximately March 31. But, the company says, "there can be no assurance in this regard." In order to continue operations in 2001, the company said it would require an additional, substantial capital infusion. EToys said it does not believe additional capital will become available to the company.
Of course, I must wonder what that $12.50 buys!
To ship cargo, though, this could be useful, and might even make money.
Well, in the middle of the Atlantic, nobody will be there to hear it! Presumably it could go more slowly, and quietly, in port.
The annoying thing is that you have to jump through lots of hoops to do so (set Outlook as "Restricted Sites Zone", disable everything - don't forget that awful ActiveX - and then not turn on defaults again). Whoever designed this stuff should be permanently barred from the industry.
I don't think so. I count 42 in Your Rights Online, for example, despite nearly half of them being about the same damn thing. At least the film reviews are about different films!
Makes sense to me. I have found /. movie reviews to be some of the most interesting, informative stuff on the site. Making them a weekly feature (and maybe making them a section like YRO or Science?) would be a very good thing, in my view.
Hemos starring?
http://www.antimonopoly.com
Most properties? I have always played as follows: if you quit before only one player is left standing, you calculate total purchase-price value of all properties and add it to cash on hand, richest player wins. Is there an alternative - most properties? Highest property value? Most hotels? I'm curious.
To your point, of course it is zero-sum, because of the rule that everyone needs to go bankrupt but the winner. If you play the short game (richest player wins) it's more of a race to collect bucks. I for one prefer to play to the end, as the competition is more fun - but it does take longer.
- gaining karma doesn't hurt others
- moderators increase your karma if your story amuses them, and only reduce it if it annoys them - so nobody is happy to make you lose
- you can always try again if you reach +50 or get bitchslapped
- anyone can play! it's free and fun for the whole family!
I challenge The Community to come up with something better...
Disclaimer: I am a DSL product manager for a non-free ISP. But this also means I have seen some of the economics (like, it costs money...) of DSL.
It's also why shrinkwrap agreements really won't stand up in court, UNLESS UCITA passes. But it's still insidious.
I just knew that Blue Nile would also be on FuckedCompany.com when I saw that Sun ad...
They even stole the penguin logo.
I have a 1.0 GB .pst file ... maybe I should look in the mirror for why it's so damn slow!
This works very well. Until the server admins decide to move me to another server and don't notify me! (oops) But I always tell people to do this, particularly for dial-up access, where for whatever reason name resolution is WAY SLOW on my network.
Even the SF Chronicle did a story before /. posted the damn article! (But there was much less useful info in the SF Gate article, other than the old bugaboo "Can bring down web sites! And whole sections of the Internet!!")
My Outlook client crashes all the time; it often can't find the server due to slow WINS lookups; when it crashes it takes forever to reopen due to the massive mail store (.pst file). Maybe the admins like it, but I sure don't.
is that a first for /.?
I'm really glad my 9th-grade teachers kept the TV on so we could hear the news coverage. Of course it was difficult to watch - but we all knew that this was something important, and besides, we felt for the teacher who was killed. I don't think anyone was "scarred" by the experience - on the contrary, we all learned from it.
It was a heartbreaking moment, one I'll never forget. I'll join in this moment of silence.
'Nuff said.