I trust you will agree to a body cavity search? We wouldn't want you smuggling information out of the building... you know how small those USB keychain drives are...
The owner of Newbury Comics sent out an e-mail to customers talking about MP3 downloads and CD sales.
I wrote back and pointed out that I could easily reel off a list of ten CDs I'd buy the next day if they were $10 or less.
Interestingly, Mute records has just discounted a huge chunk of their back-catalog to 6.99 (around $10, UK currency symbol stripped by moronic slashcode). Many of the albums are only available as expensive imports in the US, so it might be worth checking out mute.com...
...is that the DVD version of The Wall is available for under $20. You can probably even find it at Best Buy for less than the price of the CD.
CD - 44kHz 16 bit audio, soundtrack only, $33. DVD - 96kHz 24 bit audio, entire movie, $20.
Now that's what I call overpricing.
Don't bother to buy soundtrack albums for movies like Yellow Submarine, Koyaanisqatsi, Stop Making Sense or The Wall. That's a sucker's game. You can buy the DVD for less, rip the audio, and burn your own CD.
Then there are people like me, who go both ways:-) I use my left hand to mouse with at work, and my right hand at home.
To add to the unlikelihood of this "mouse signature" system working, I use a trackball at home, a mouse for the laptop, and a trackpoint sometimes as well.
The difference is that on human timescales, the orbits of the major bodies of the solar system aren't chaotic, and we have hundreds of thousands of successful predictions to go on, with no failures.
Whereas the economy clearly displays chaotic behavior, and there are plenty of examples of prior civilizations which failed to advance to new areas of technological progress.
I agree--but as well as eliminating the minimum wage, we should enact a maximum wage. After all, the average CEO has gone from earning 85x the average worker (70s) to earning 350x the average worker (today), so clearly there's a major problem with the other end of the wage bell curve you describe.
So basically, you have faith that some unknown new industry will come along, and everyone will get jobs in that, once all the current jobs are gone? And you have this faith in spite of no evidence, based purely on the fact that in the past it's happened a few times?
Well, you've certainly adopted capitalism as religion.
As opposed to Windows, where downloading a new version of Internet Explorer (6.0) broke every single plugin because Microsoft decided to do so to force people to use ActiveX?
I was horrified when my university took Microsoft's thirty pieces of silver too.
I suggest you do what I do: when they call up asking for money, tell them they won't get a penny, tell them you're disgusted at them, and tell them why.
I have a hard time coming up with problems in my line of software dev in which ternary or quaternary logic is any more useful than nested binary logic or some fun probability and calculus.
Having "true", "false" and "error" would be damn useful. Of course, it doesn't necessarily have to be implemented all the way down to the hardware level...
I'd like to see them attempt Boston as a city for GTA4. Imagine being able to wander around the ratmaze of streets and Big Dig pits... oh, and actually being able to mow down all the fscking Red Sox fans clutting Park Street, packing themselves onto the Green Line 'D' train because they either can't read the big signs or don't believe you can really get to Fenway Park without getting off at the 'Fenway' T stop...
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If you think F-Zero GX is good, you should get the PS2 back from your brother and try Wipeout Fusion...
I trust you will agree to a body cavity search? We wouldn't want you smuggling information out of the building... you know how small those USB keychain drives are...
The "everybody was a man" thing has never been true.
IBM was training women as service engineers back in the 30s, and T.J. Watson set a policy of "equal pay for equal work" back then. IBM had its first female VP in 1943.
D&D may be class-based, but D20 isn't necessarily.
For example, Call of Cthulhu d20 doesn't have classes.
Michael Marshall Smith?
The owner of Newbury Comics sent out an e-mail to customers talking about MP3 downloads and CD sales.
I wrote back and pointed out that I could easily reel off a list of ten CDs I'd buy the next day if they were $10 or less.
Interestingly, Mute records has just discounted a huge chunk of their back-catalog to 6.99 (around $10, UK currency symbol stripped by moronic slashcode). Many of the albums are only available as expensive imports in the US, so it might be worth checking out mute.com...
...is that the DVD version of The Wall is available for under $20. You can probably even find it at Best Buy for less than the price of the CD.
CD - 44kHz 16 bit audio, soundtrack only, $33.
DVD - 96kHz 24 bit audio, entire movie, $20.
Now that's what I call overpricing.
Don't bother to buy soundtrack albums for movies like Yellow Submarine, Koyaanisqatsi, Stop Making Sense or The Wall. That's a sucker's game. You can buy the DVD for less, rip the audio, and burn your own CD.
It'll be flamebait when the US has a healthcare system like every civilized first-world country.
Then there are people like me, who go both ways :-) I use my left hand to mouse with at work, and my right hand at home.
To add to the unlikelihood of this "mouse signature" system working, I use a trackball at home, a mouse for the laptop, and a trackpoint sometimes as well.
They're basing it on the next release of Debian.
There was already a Paradroid sequel/remake for the Atari ST--Paradroid 90.
The difference is that on human timescales, the orbits of the major bodies of the solar system aren't chaotic, and we have hundreds of thousands of successful predictions to go on, with no failures.
Whereas the economy clearly displays chaotic behavior, and there are plenty of examples of prior civilizations which failed to advance to new areas of technological progress.
I agree--but as well as eliminating the minimum wage, we should enact a maximum wage. After all, the average CEO has gone from earning 85x the average worker (70s) to earning 350x the average worker (today), so clearly there's a major problem with the other end of the wage bell curve you describe.
So basically, you have faith that some unknown new industry will come along, and everyone will get jobs in that, once all the current jobs are gone? And you have this faith in spite of no evidence, based purely on the fact that in the past it's happened a few times?
Well, you've certainly adopted capitalism as religion.
...I'd get my Internet connection from a company that wasn't a SCO/Canopy Group owned ISP.
Just a suggestion.
As opposed to Windows, where downloading a new version of Internet Explorer (6.0) broke every single plugin because Microsoft decided to do so to force people to use ActiveX?
Yeah, well, a C compiler wasn't part of Solaris when it first shipped.
OK, let me rephrase that.
"You can run any shell's scripts from your choice of shell, assuming you have the appropriate shell for the script also available on your system."
I was horrified when my university took Microsoft's thirty pieces of silver too.
I suggest you do what I do: when they call up asking for money, tell them they won't get a penny, tell them you're disgusted at them, and tell them why.
IBM's developer tools are based on Eclipse, downloadable in free open-source form from eclipse.org.
Apple's developer tools are based on GNU tools.
Happy to explain.
Having "true", "false" and "error" would be damn useful. Of course, it doesn't necessarily have to be implemented all the way down to the hardware level...
I'd like to see them attempt Boston as a city for GTA4. Imagine being able to wander around the ratmaze of streets and Big Dig pits... oh, and actually being able to mow down all the fscking Red Sox fans clutting Park Street, packing themselves onto the Green Line 'D' train because they either can't read the big signs or don't believe you can really get to Fenway Park without getting off at the 'Fenway' T stop...
It's OK, the red mist is clearing now.
Name a platform that has bash available for it, but not Perl.
I can easily name systems which have Perl but not bash--Windows and Mac OS 9. (And no, Cygwin doesn't count.)
A text processor which includes stuff like M-x psychoanalyze-pinhead is not 'basic', you fucking moron.
nano is basic. pico is basic. emacs is advanced to the point of extreme bloat.
Emacs is a 'basic' tool? You deserve +5 funny for that one.
Anyway, Apple has enough problems with OS X being RAM-hungry, without enticing people to fill 80MB with a text editor.
I'm glad they don't install emacs. I'd be even happier if they removed sendmail as well.