Electronic tickets mean you can use automated check-in. With e-ticket and no luggage, check-in to gate for United at SFO is consistently under 30 minutes (TSA trained agents help too as they are much faster than the previous private-security agents).
I mean, come on, what the FUCK is up with the slowness of slashdot? It's slower than your Grand-Daddy's 1954 Buick. It's slower than the Oakland Raiders' offensive line. It's slower than AOL over a 14.4 modem on a ten year old PowerBook 145. Please, for the love of all that is good, holy, and suitable for children, tell us!
This site is a former bunker for the Federal Reserve Board and once held $1 billion in cash in case of a nuclear attack. It was transferred to the LoC in 1997. (Presumably this cash is now held elsewhere.)
if you really think copy protection will suddenly disappear after 28 years, or the copyright owners will configure it to do so, I have a bridge to sell you.
Skins are horrible. If you want your player to look like a stereo-rack, or a fuzzy teddy bear, or an acid trip, or a brand-new 1965 Ford Mustang, or the Mixing Bowl Interchange on the Capital Beltway, or engorged shaven genitals, FINE, but PLEASE let me TURN IT OFF and make it look like a computer program, thanks.
Usability matters. A lot. Fix problems like this and you'll be amazed by the adoption of Linux on the desktop. Until then, Mac OS X and Windows continue to kick its ass.
(Of course, I'm still on Mac OS 9 and Windows 98, cuz I'm a lazy cheap fuck.)
Here's an honest question. You said on your website that you can't bike to work. I can and do; what benefits does Segway offer over a ($250 when new, paid for in 1986!) bicycle, which helps me cut weight while commuting?
Indeed. I actually think the Segway is pretty kooky (except for the particular industrial applications you describe). A $5K scooter that does.. um.. pretty much what a $500 scooter does.
Anyway, as I've said before, it's not available yet. We'll see if they even ship it in volume. Kamen has thus far shown much better aptitude at PR and lobbying than at actually manufacturing the damn thing.
In the boom days, people like this bashed "yuppies" (== white folks) with particular venom in neighborhoods like the Mission, and got away with it. Hateful behavior, totally inappropriate for any location, particularly "tolerant" San Francisco. I see from this debate that the haters haven't all left town.
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It's funny as hell even if you do read the website. Seeing it in print is the key. Somehow seeing it in print emphasizes that THIS SHIT REALLY FUCKING HAPPENED, DUMBASS as it was.
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Because it has been so inconvenient not having EBCDIC text available for my IBM mainframes! Thanks PG for the excellent work!
Electronic tickets mean you can use automated check-in. With e-ticket and no luggage, check-in to gate for United at SFO is consistently under 30 minutes (TSA trained agents help too as they are much faster than the previous private-security agents).
I think I last used a paper ticket in Peru.
write once, crash everywhere.
you know what "PDA" really stands for.
I mean, come on, what the FUCK is up with the slowness of slashdot? It's slower than your Grand-Daddy's 1954 Buick. It's slower than the Oakland Raiders' offensive line. It's slower than AOL over a 14.4 modem on a ten year old PowerBook 145. Please, for the love of all that is good, holy, and suitable for children, tell us!
Lower risk of slashdotting, as everything's 403 Forbidden.
as PHP submits to the onslaught of slashbots.
I thought the "$2.5 billion by 200[0,2,4,6]" claims went out with Aeron chairs and the Segway. Does anyone take that shit seriously?
It was a really good network.
This site is a former bunker for the Federal Reserve Board and once held $1 billion in cash in case of a nuclear attack. It was transferred to the LoC in 1997. (Presumably this cash is now held elsewhere.)
And Liquid Audio just sold its assets in a bankruptcy firesale. HAHA
Video Home System.
if you really think copy protection will suddenly disappear after 28 years, or the copyright owners will configure it to do so, I have a bridge to sell you.
until the San Francisco Board of Supervisors gets a hold of this idea.
Don't have a cow, man!
Which of course leads to the best URL ever.
Comment on the proposed Do Not Call Registry. (I support it!)
Skins are horrible. If you want your player to look like a stereo-rack, or a fuzzy teddy bear, or an acid trip, or a brand-new 1965 Ford Mustang, or the Mixing Bowl Interchange on the Capital Beltway, or engorged shaven genitals, FINE, but PLEASE let me TURN IT OFF and make it look like a computer program, thanks.
(Of course, I'm still on Mac OS 9 and Windows 98, cuz I'm a lazy cheap fuck.)
Here's an honest question. You said on your website that you can't bike to work. I can and do; what benefits does Segway offer over a ($250 when new, paid for in 1986!) bicycle, which helps me cut weight while commuting?
So that must mean they're only 89 games short!
Anyway, as I've said before, it's not available yet. We'll see if they even ship it in volume. Kamen has thus far shown much better aptitude at PR and lobbying than at actually manufacturing the damn thing.
In the boom days, people like this bashed "yuppies" (== white folks) with particular venom in neighborhoods like the Mission, and got away with it. Hateful behavior, totally inappropriate for any location, particularly "tolerant" San Francisco. I see from this debate that the haters haven't all left town.
It's funny as hell even if you do read the website. Seeing it in print is the key. Somehow seeing it in print emphasizes that THIS SHIT REALLY FUCKING HAPPENED, DUMBASS as it was.
I'll believe it if, and only if, March 2003 rolls around and they actually ship the thing.