Not only that, but you're unwittingly encouraging readers to enter headlines that try to be as undamaging as possible because the least damaging headlines, will, by your logic, be the the winners in the contest.
Furthermore, the people that moderated your comment up should be aware of the damage they're doing by promoting the idea. This must be stopped before it gets too out of hand.
Go read all of those links (and while you're at it, brush up on your history; for instance, slavery in the United States), and come back and tell me that you welcome the US as a power any more than China. Take off your rose-coloured US-media-manipulated glasses, and realize that America is as affected by propaganda convincing its citizens that their country faultless as China is.
Right now there is a limited set of cartriges out in the world. Everytime someone breaks one, looses one, stuffs one in the attic, the supply goes down, and down is the only direction the supply will ever go in. So the longer your business stays up, the harder it will be to get cartriges.
Still, with the number of "classic" (say, Atari, NES, Coleco, C64 and some fringe stuff) systems and games that are out there right now as evidenced by what people are posting here, he shouldn't have much a problem getting started. Just follow through on one of the leads for the big inventories of old games. By the time these games that are classics now are almost gone, newer systems will become classics, and, since video gaming has grown tremendously in popularity since the days of the "classic" systems, there will be even more SNES (almost a classic already)/N64/PSX/PS2/DC/whatever games around. Classics will just keep coming as new stuff comes out, so running out of stuff to sell shouldn't be a problem.
All the same, this _is_ the guy who couldn't spell "Mackintosh" properly when he was registering the code name for his new project with the honchos at Apple... can we take him seriously? (all of Apple's internal r&d projects in the early 80s were supposed to be named after strains of Apples.) If Jef had known how to spell, it could've been the "iMack".
d) Everybody reads the stuff on kuro5hin and submits it to slashdot.
Heck, _everything_ on kuro5hin is probably submitted to/. at some point../. just doesn't always post the same stuff.
Perot wasn't actually asked to buy MS.. just invest in it, and like several investors at the time he passed it up. Steve Jobs convinced him that NeXT would be the next Microsoft, and managed to secure the $20M for the company. Perot could be an incredibly rich man today (well, more so than he is now) if he'd hit on Microsoft in '79, but I suppose any company could be the next Microsoft but a lot more will be the next NeXT. See the recent book by Alan Deutschman, The Second Coming of Steve Jobs for more info on NeXT's beginnings. (And on the time a drunken Bill Gates and a couple of girlfriends prankcalled Steve's answering machine.:)
Bush doesn't issue meaningless babble? At least Hagelin seems to have some idea of where he's coming from, and a rudimentary grasp of English, which is more than can be said for Bush when he departs from his canned tyrades. Take a look here for more.
"The fundamental question is, 'Will I be a successful president when it comes to foreign policy?' I will be, but until I'm the president, it's going to be hard for me to verify that I think I'll be more effective."--In Wayne, Mich., as quoted by Katharine Q. Seelye in the New York Times, June 28, 2000
"This is a world that is much more uncertain than the past. In the past we were certain, we were certain it was us versus the Russians in the past. We were certain, and therefore we had huge nuclear arsenals aimed at each other to keep the peace. That's what we were certain of.... You see, even though it's an uncertain world, we're certain of some things. We're certain that even though the 'evil empire' may have passed, evil still remains. We're certain there are people that can't stand what America stands for.... We're certain there are madmen in this world, and there's terror, and there's missiles and I'm certain of this, too: I'm certain to maintain the peace, we better have a military of high morale, and I'm certain that under this administration, morale in the military is dangerously low."--Albuquerque, N.M., the Washington Post, May 31, 2000
"The fact that he relies on facts--says things that are not factual--are going to undermine his campaign."--New York Times, March 4, 2000
"We ought to make the pie higher."--South Carolina Republican Debate, Feb. 15, 2000
"I've changed my style somewhat, as you know. I'm less--I pontificate less, although it may be hard to tell it from this show. And I'm more interacting with people."--ibid
"Will the highways on the Internet become more few?"--Concord, N.H., Jan. 29, 2000
"When I was coming up, it was a dangerous world, and you knew exactly who they were," he said. "It was us vs. them, and it was clear who them was. Today, we are not so sure who the they are, but we know they're there."--Iowa Western Community College, Jan 21, 2000
If you've read anything on Apple in the last few years, Steve Jobs brought the company back from the brink of disaster when he came back as CEO. It was the leadership without Steve that made Apple lose it's foothold; they've done nothing but regain it since he came back.
In fact, the whole above article is really propagating misinformation about Apple, and Steve. He may be an egomaniac, and have the occasional temper problems, but he is not stupid when it comes to business. As people have mentioned, and the Radeon Mac FAQ verifies, the card is not available until September. All he did was cut ATI's demo of the card from the convention, which is justifiable considering they leaked the centrepiece of Jobs' show. The card in the cube was never changed. (The article should probably be updated to reflect that).
Personally, I like my hockey puck mouse.. I've been using mostly an iMac for the past year and a half and I actually have trouble using those funky long mice included with pc's and older macs. What I really don't understand, is why can't people figure out how to use the round mice? Just rest your hand around it comfortably, with your palm mostly on top of the mouse, and the cord between your index and middle finger (this keeps it from getting turned around). Presto! A nice, cool looking, useable mouse! Just what Apple engineers hoped for in the first place... too bad they didn't include an instruction manual for the mouse. The new one is optical, which is nice, but I'd still keep my puck if I bought a new mac today.
A keyboard is mostly a keyboard, and as long as the new one doesn't have a terribly different feel to it it's no problem, but what's wrong with the old one? It has all the keys you'll need (including inverted-t arrows) unless you want to run windows (virtual pc), and in that case buy a new kb:P. The old kb saves valuable desktop space, and I like the idea of a really small keyboard. In fact, the only way Apple could make the old keyboard cooler/more utilitarian is by taking the inch or so of extra plastic off the top, compacting the sides, and making it a little thinner.. now that would be a keyboard worth buying for my current comp.
If all you're looking for is a car and high miles per gallon, the Honda Insight is far from an ideal choice. Volkwagen's Golf, Jetta, and Beetle TDI's (diesel engines) all get excellent mileage, with the Golf TDI approaching the Insight's mpg average, for about $2 grand less. Plus you get a full size, four-door car (as opposed to the 2-seater Insight which is also quite cramped for luggage space). VW manages to make money on the sale of a Golf, while Honda is currently selling each Insight at a loss.
Even if you're looking at an Insight because you want the lowest emission vehicle possible short of a peddle bike, or you think that some people have to adopt the technology just to prove to other companies that it's the way to go, it might be a better idea to wait a few months Toyota's Prius electric-gas hybrid. It's a full-size sedan that's far less compromised than the Insight, with even higher mpg.
Let's see.. a maximus occurs every eleven years or so, so by my calculations the last one we had was in 1989. Unlikely there'll be any damage? You might want to read the article (linked to in the above article) at discovery.com, for some info on what happened in '89. Power disruptions, satellite problems, burgler alarms going off, etc.
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Remember, this isn't the "y2k bug"; the alarmists in this case are knowledgeable, rational scientists that are supposed to know what they're talking about, not uninformed spokespeople and politicians telling us it's the end of the world. Of course, science, particularly that relating to space and other things of which we have little relatively little knowledge, is often not an exact science, but the doomsayers in this case do have history on their side. I'm gonna wear sunscreen just in case.
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Not only that, but you're unwittingly encouraging readers to enter headlines that try to be as undamaging as possible because the least damaging headlines, will, by your logic, be the the winners in the contest.
Furthermore, the people that moderated your comment up should be aware of the damage they're doing by promoting the idea. This must be stopped before it gets too out of hand.
Yes... speaking of "masturbatory overtones"... :)
Ok--now go read about the deaths of 80 innocent civilians in their own homes at the hands of US Defense and the FBI in 1993; read how the United States is the world leader in incarceration, with many of the jailed being casualties of the War on Drugs; read about the victims of racial profiling in the US ("Driving while black"); read about prison labour in the United States; or police brutality; perhaps even the many violations of international law by the United States.
Go read all of those links (and while you're at it, brush up on your history; for instance, slavery in the United States), and come back and tell me that you welcome the US as a power any more than China. Take off your rose-coloured US-media-manipulated glasses, and realize that America is as affected by propaganda convincing its citizens that their country faultless as China is.
Right now there is a limited set of cartriges out in the world. Everytime someone breaks one, looses one, stuffs one in the attic, the supply goes down, and down is the only direction the supply will ever go in. So the longer your business stays up, the harder it will be to get cartriges.
Still, with the number of "classic" (say, Atari, NES, Coleco, C64 and some fringe stuff) systems and games that are out there right now as evidenced by what people are posting here, he shouldn't have much a problem getting started. Just follow through on one of the leads for the big inventories of old games. By the time these games that are classics now are almost gone, newer systems will become classics, and, since video gaming has grown tremendously in popularity since the days of the "classic" systems, there will be even more SNES (almost a classic already)/N64/PSX/PS2/DC/whatever games around. Classics will just keep coming as new stuff comes out, so running out of stuff to sell shouldn't be a problem.
All the same, this _is_ the guy who couldn't spell "Mackintosh" properly when he was registering the code name for his new project with the honchos at Apple... can we take him seriously? (all of Apple's internal r&d projects in the early 80s were supposed to be named after strains of Apples.) If Jef had known how to spell, it could've been the "iMack".
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We need a new moderation option here.. "flamebait, ignorant and just plain wrong, but pretty damn funny all the same, +2"
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/. at some point.. /. just doesn't always post the same stuff.
d) Everybody reads the stuff on kuro5hin and submits it to slashdot.
Heck, _everything_ on kuro5hin is probably submitted to
Perot wasn't actually asked to buy MS.. just invest in it, and like several investors at the time he passed it up. Steve Jobs convinced him that NeXT would be the next Microsoft, and managed to secure the $20M for the company. Perot could be an incredibly rich man today (well, more so than he is now) if he'd hit on Microsoft in '79, but I suppose any company could be the next Microsoft but a lot more will be the next NeXT. See the recent book by Alan Deutschman, The Second Coming of Steve Jobs for more info on NeXT's beginnings. (And on the time a drunken Bill Gates and a couple of girlfriends prankcalled Steve's answering machine. :)
And I thought my rom collection was big! ;P
Bush doesn't issue meaningless babble? At least Hagelin seems to have some idea of where he's coming from, and a rudimentary grasp of English, which is more than can be said for Bush when he departs from his canned tyrades. Take a look here for more.
"The fundamental question is, 'Will I be a successful president when it comes to foreign policy?' I will be, but until I'm the president, it's going to be hard for me to verify that I think I'll be more effective."--In Wayne, Mich., as quoted by Katharine Q. Seelye in the New York Times, June 28, 2000
"This is a world that is much more uncertain than the past. In the past we were certain, we were certain it was us versus the Russians in the past. We were certain, and therefore we had huge nuclear arsenals aimed at each other to keep the peace. That's what we were certain of. ... You see, even though it's an uncertain world, we're certain of some things. We're certain that even though the 'evil empire' may have passed, evil still remains. We're certain there are people that can't stand what America stands for. ... We're certain there are madmen in this world, and there's terror, and there's missiles and I'm certain of this, too: I'm certain to maintain the peace, we better have a military of high morale, and I'm certain that under this administration, morale in the military is dangerously low."--Albuquerque, N.M., the Washington Post, May 31, 2000
"The fact that he relies on facts--says things that are not factual--are going to undermine his campaign."--New York Times, March 4, 2000
"We ought to make the pie higher."--South Carolina Republican Debate, Feb. 15, 2000
"I've changed my style somewhat, as you know. I'm less--I pontificate less, although it may be hard to tell it from this show. And I'm more interacting with people."--ibid
"Will the highways on the Internet become more few?"--Concord, N.H., Jan. 29, 2000
"When I was coming up, it was a dangerous world, and you knew exactly who they were," he said. "It was us vs. them, and it was clear who them was. Today, we are not so sure who the they are, but we know they're there."--Iowa Western Community College, Jan 21, 2000
If you've read anything on Apple in the last few years, Steve Jobs brought the company back from the brink of disaster when he came back as CEO. It was the leadership without Steve that made Apple lose it's foothold; they've done nothing but regain it since he came back.
In fact, the whole above article is really propagating misinformation about Apple, and Steve. He may be an egomaniac, and have the occasional temper problems, but he is not stupid when it comes to business. As people have mentioned, and the Radeon Mac FAQ verifies, the card is not available until September. All he did was cut ATI's demo of the card from the convention, which is justifiable considering they leaked the centrepiece of Jobs' show. The card in the cube was never changed. (The article should probably be updated to reflect that).
Personally, I like my hockey puck mouse.. I've been using mostly an iMac for the past year and a half and I actually have trouble using those funky long mice included with pc's and older macs. What I really don't understand, is why can't people figure out how to use the round mice? Just rest your hand around it comfortably, with your palm mostly on top of the mouse, and the cord between your index and middle finger (this keeps it from getting turned around). Presto! A nice, cool looking, useable mouse! Just what Apple engineers hoped for in the first place... too bad they didn't include an instruction manual for the mouse. The new one is optical, which is nice, but I'd still keep my puck if I bought a new mac today.
A keyboard is mostly a keyboard, and as long as the new one doesn't have a terribly different feel to it it's no problem, but what's wrong with the old one? It has all the keys you'll need (including inverted-t arrows) unless you want to run windows (virtual pc), and in that case buy a new kb :P. The old kb saves valuable desktop space, and I like the idea of a really small keyboard. In fact, the only way Apple could make the old keyboard cooler/more utilitarian is by taking the inch or so of extra plastic off the top, compacting the sides, and making it a little thinner.. now that would be a keyboard worth buying for my current comp.
If all you're looking for is a car and high miles per gallon, the Honda Insight is far from an ideal choice. Volkwagen's Golf, Jetta, and Beetle TDI's (diesel engines) all get excellent mileage, with the Golf TDI approaching the Insight's mpg average, for about $2 grand less. Plus you get a full size, four-door car (as opposed to the 2-seater Insight which is also quite cramped for luggage space). VW manages to make money on the sale of a Golf, while Honda is currently selling each Insight at a loss.
Even if you're looking at an Insight because you want the lowest emission vehicle possible short of a peddle bike, or you think that some people have to adopt the technology just to prove to other companies that it's the way to go, it might be a better idea to wait a few months Toyota's Prius electric-gas hybrid. It's a full-size sedan that's far less compromised than the Insight, with even higher mpg.
Let's see.. a maximus occurs every eleven years or so, so by my calculations the last one we had was in 1989. Unlikely there'll be any damage? You might want to read the article (linked to in the above article) at discovery.com, for some info on what happened in '89. Power disruptions, satellite problems, burgler alarms going off, etc.
lRemember, this isn't the "y2k bug"; the alarmists in this case are knowledgeable, rational scientists that are supposed to know what they're talking about, not uninformed spokespeople and politicians telling us it's the end of the world. Of course, science, particularly that relating to space and other things of which we have little relatively little knowledge, is often not an exact science, but the doomsayers in this case do have history on their side. I'm gonna wear sunscreen just in case.