For one, they didn't exactly verify the types of movies downloaded, whether the copies were incomplete/corrupted, or whether said movies were correctly titled.
As far as I know, people looking for a good DVD rip or screener will download multiple copies. Also, they'll have to download multiple copies if they find that copy of Spider-Man 2 turns out to be a fake.
That's like comparing public and private schools, both have similar roles, but completely different practices.
NASA was started in order to compete with the Soviet Union on an exploratory basis, along with a thinly disguised military basis.
After all, remember how NASA had a conniption over the first space tourists. Some conspiracy nuts could say that NASA allowed Columbia (a relatively old relic) to break up without advance warning, just to kill any public hopes of space tourism in the future.
Who imagined some SA goons sneaking around a hospital, rerouting all the tape to the stairs, along with setting up the bots to play the MP3 of "Terrible Secret of Space"?
Just retrofit a narrow robot sized elevator system, and/or a network of passageways they can use independant of hallways for them to use, which could increase their efficiency several fold (and possibly cost just slightly more than they save in manhours).
In older hospitals, they used/use dumb waiter systems. A retrofit of those would be far less expensive.
Another thought that crossed my mind, is that perhaps the bots are being used improperly. They do not require a floor to travel, that is a human need. They could run along the walls, or even the ceilings, without any slowdowns due to sharing the space with us gravity dependant beings.
They just opened a store up in Renton, worth the extra distance compared to Beast Buy in Tukwila.
Their salesmen are attentive, and the way they seem to have the departments set up is at least 10 salesmen at any given time. One salesman had to take off while I was perusing scanners, but that was understandable, since I was browsing for over 10 minutes.
Their checkout counters are incredibly fast and efficient as well. I'm sure in the cases of sales there may be more congestion, but on the last day of one sale (dual mode DVD-+R/W for $69, and 25 blank DVD-Rs for $17), I was in and out of the store within just 30 minutes (including drooling at their HD sets and drinking at the coffee bar).
Ahhh, the coffee bar. They have a decent coffee shop with *gasp* reasonable prices! Can you say root beer float with real vanilla ice cream for $2 and change? That alone makes the trip worth it.
I've been seeing retro gamer packages with classic Namco and Atari games in Wal-Mart for the last year, if not longer. And honestly they're less pricey than those mentioned (Abour $20-$25 for Namco/2600 games). I'm sure at least a few of ya saw the ads on G4.
They could build it around Windows XP Embedded. Since we're talking limited hardware expansion, the 500 Mb of drivers needed for Windows XP won't be nessesary.
Also, the idea of blowing $400-$600 for a videogame system may seem exhorbitant, but consider that a prebuilt PC with Windows XP still runs between $300 and $600 (depending on the hardware used, processor speed, etc). This would be ideal for those who want an all in one box.
As far as obsolesence is concerned, the curve between gaming consoles and PCs are actually growing pretty close together. With the amount of competition on the market, both PCs (unless you absolutely have to be on the cutting edge) and consoles go out of date within the same time, requiring for some to plunk down a pile of cash.
Heh. You touched on a good premise (Konami developers should take note). Is DDR set up for online competition by any chance? If not, that would make it into a competative sport, you could play live, or alone, or even build teams.
I agree. I've gotten into using sucralose (Splenda) as a substitute for all the sugar I used to consume (in coffee, I would consume about 2.5 lbs or more a month). It's delicious (tastes like sugar, since it's made from sugar), and way safer than aspartame.
My only beef with it is:
(a) The price (5 lb. equivilent bag of granulated Splenda costs about $8).
(b) Extremely limited availability. The only soda with Splenda is Diet Rite and Diet RC. Diet RC is hardly available, and Diet Rite comes only in caffeine free (insert vampire hiss here) form.
I believe this should, mind you, SHOULD raise the heat under the open source movement.
Do your OS of choice under the following:
Make it so it runs on anything from legacy hardware through current hardware.
Don't engineer it specifically as how YOU would want it done, engineer it as how you think Joe Sixpack would like it to be done. Do you know how MS keeps its market share? By making adaptive shifts to their new setups as small and painless as possible. Stop assuming everyone who wants to try Linux already knows every manual and howto available.
Screw the DMCA, reverse engineer everything (do it the old fashioned way, get 50 coders to examine 1/50th a part of the driver code, then compile accordingly, that's how it was done with IBM). That way everything can be supported.
If you want to be mainstream, start acting like you ARE mainstream. This "Lookit me, I'm a rebel!" illusion is just that. That's how Apple did it, that's how Microsoft did it. And look at them now. The rebel theme is only good as long as you expect to lose money.
I'm a MS user myself, but the DRM crap and all makes me WANT to go Linux, but the fact that not every Linux dev doesn't support EVERYTHING I want to do or use, means I'm stuck with MS until they realize this.
It's like wanting to escape from prison, while everyone else is debating the best kind of file, and what kind of cake to bake it in.
Luke be a Jedi tonight! Just be a Jedi tonight! Do it for Yoda while we serve our guests a soda! And do it for Chewie and the Ewoks, and all the other puppets Luke, be a Jedi tonight!
PDFs take a bloody long time to display (unless you have a top of the line 'puter and a broadband connection, it takes as long to load a PDF as it does to load Photoshop).
Are those documents redacted in the final photocopy, or are they redacted by hand (very expensive, but they're spending our money, after all)?
There are two simple solutions that go beyond and below high technology.
Unless they crank down the brightness as far as possible, most photocopiers put down a varying amount of toner to paper. A cloth soaked in, say, spirit solvents, when wiped across the page, will expose part, if not all, of the text. Similarly, this can be done with most magic marker inks.
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He's not dead, he's pining for the fjords.
For one, they didn't exactly verify the types of movies downloaded, whether the copies were incomplete/corrupted, or whether said movies were correctly titled.
As far as I know, people looking for a good DVD rip or screener will download multiple copies. Also, they'll have to download multiple copies if they find that copy of Spider-Man 2 turns out to be a fake.
That's like comparing public and private schools, both have similar roles, but completely different practices.
NASA was started in order to compete with the Soviet Union on an exploratory basis, along with a thinly disguised military basis.
After all, remember how NASA had a conniption over the first space tourists. Some conspiracy nuts could say that NASA allowed Columbia (a relatively old relic) to break up without advance warning, just to kill any public hopes of space tourism in the future.
Who imagined some SA goons sneaking around a hospital, rerouting all the tape to the stairs, along with setting up the bots to play the MP3 of "Terrible Secret of Space"?
Just retrofit a narrow robot sized elevator system, and/or a network of passageways they can use independant of hallways for them to use, which could increase their efficiency several fold (and possibly cost just slightly more than they save in manhours).
In older hospitals, they used/use dumb waiter systems. A retrofit of those would be far less expensive.
Another thought that crossed my mind, is that perhaps the bots are being used improperly. They do not require a floor to travel, that is a human need. They could run along the walls, or even the ceilings, without any slowdowns due to sharing the space with us gravity dependant beings.
T.S. Quint: Haven't you ever heard the phrase "The customer is always right?"
Shannon Hamilton: Let me tell you something. Let me give you a little secret, okay. The customer is always an asshole!
(There is no sailboat, there is only Zu'ul!)
They just opened a store up in Renton, worth the extra distance compared to Beast Buy in Tukwila.
Their salesmen are attentive, and the way they seem to have the departments set up is at least 10 salesmen at any given time. One salesman had to take off while I was perusing scanners, but that was understandable, since I was browsing for over 10 minutes.
Their checkout counters are incredibly fast and efficient as well. I'm sure in the cases of sales there may be more congestion, but on the last day of one sale (dual mode DVD-+R/W for $69, and 25 blank DVD-Rs for $17), I was in and out of the store within just 30 minutes (including drooling at their HD sets and drinking at the coffee bar).
Ahhh, the coffee bar. They have a decent coffee shop with *gasp* reasonable prices! Can you say root beer float with real vanilla ice cream for $2 and change? That alone makes the trip worth it.
So are you saying the entire algorithm consists of "42"?
I see no reason why you can't do the exact same thing with an off the shelf FM transmitter (about $30), and a cheapo MP3 CD player ($50).
It makes quite a smaller dent in the wallet than any iPod could, and is ideal for those true bootstrap guerrillas.
And lest we forget the valuable anti-drug statements of Pac Man.
Do you mean before, or after you get sued for coding a Linux player for them?
I've been seeing retro gamer packages with classic Namco and Atari games in Wal-Mart for the last year, if not longer. And honestly they're less pricey than those mentioned (Abour $20-$25 for Namco/2600 games). I'm sure at least a few of ya saw the ads on G4.
I'll take two.
If you want to go into alternative fuels, just buy a crapload of corn or potatoes, and learn homebrewing/stillery operation.
Modify your car to run purely off of ethanol, and the $400 in basic supplies can keep you running for at least half a year.
They could build it around Windows XP Embedded. Since we're talking limited hardware expansion, the 500 Mb of drivers needed for Windows XP won't be nessesary.
Also, the idea of blowing $400-$600 for a videogame system may seem exhorbitant, but consider that a prebuilt PC with Windows XP still runs between $300 and $600 (depending on the hardware used, processor speed, etc). This would be ideal for those who want an all in one box.
As far as obsolesence is concerned, the curve between gaming consoles and PCs are actually growing pretty close together. With the amount of competition on the market, both PCs (unless you absolutely have to be on the cutting edge) and consoles go out of date within the same time, requiring for some to plunk down a pile of cash.
Heh. You touched on a good premise (Konami developers should take note). Is DDR set up for online competition by any chance? If not, that would make it into a competative sport, you could play live, or alone, or even build teams.
I agree. I've gotten into using sucralose (Splenda) as a substitute for all the sugar I used to consume (in coffee, I would consume about 2.5 lbs or more a month). It's delicious (tastes like sugar, since it's made from sugar), and way safer than aspartame.
My only beef with it is:
(a) The price (5 lb. equivilent bag of granulated Splenda costs about $8).
(b) Extremely limited availability. The only soda with Splenda is Diet Rite and Diet RC. Diet RC is hardly available, and Diet Rite comes only in caffeine free (insert vampire hiss here) form.
Yeah, they've gotta do SOMETHING while they aren't working on HL2.
Which seems to be what, 99% of the time?
I believe this should, mind you, SHOULD raise the heat under the open source movement.
Do your OS of choice under the following:
Make it so it runs on anything from legacy hardware through current hardware.
Don't engineer it specifically as how YOU would want it done, engineer it as how you think Joe Sixpack would like it to be done. Do you know how MS keeps its market share? By making adaptive shifts to their new setups as small and painless as possible. Stop assuming everyone who wants to try Linux already knows every manual and howto available.
Screw the DMCA, reverse engineer everything (do it the old fashioned way, get 50 coders to examine 1/50th a part of the driver code, then compile accordingly, that's how it was done with IBM). That way everything can be supported.
If you want to be mainstream, start acting like you ARE mainstream. This "Lookit me, I'm a rebel!" illusion is just that. That's how Apple did it, that's how Microsoft did it. And look at them now. The rebel theme is only good as long as you expect to lose money.
I'm a MS user myself, but the DRM crap and all makes me WANT to go Linux, but the fact that not every Linux dev doesn't support EVERYTHING I want to do or use, means I'm stuck with MS until they realize this.
It's like wanting to escape from prison, while everyone else is debating the best kind of file, and what kind of cake to bake it in.
"You can recognize the writing of a typical american "internet entrepeneur" in most spam mail.."
. . . . .
turnpike ashore courtier appian butler anemone mayst fruehauf darling aggrieve idolatry compile anaerobic ere wafer roman conjunct emitted fingernail chief actuate descend annal breadfruit
genteel lukewarm beauty vulnerable dubious playwriting convect bribery aeronautic boyar geisha everyman davison cabal expose changeable convolve cowardice sandman bough chow epidemic spiral radial academy buried
profiteer conifer surround aaron durrell versa consonant jacobs dialysis decrypt catatonia drugstore heart export orville serenade rosebush delta pastor chassis transconductance humid contraception desolater ion
washburn inhomogeneous downey detach neonatal explicable dodd nightdress endure peccary masque craggy lacquer alkaloid candace guenther ophiuchus expel kraut hypothalamic havilland commando babbitt gabardine
diane flap calamity amber appoint marathon culminate pertain cookie showman courage shatter mortician runoff careen
Yep, sure sounds like typical American writing to me.
Only if the two car chases take place in lava.
Luke be a Jedi tonight!
Just be a Jedi tonight!
Do it for Yoda while we serve our guests a soda!
And do it for Chewie and the Ewoks, and all the other puppets
Luke, be a Jedi tonight!
All this excitement has overrun the circuitry in my counterpart here. If you don't mind, I'd like to take him down to maintenance.
If any of my parts or circuits would help I would gladly donate them!
PDFs take a bloody long time to display (unless you have a top of the line 'puter and a broadband connection, it takes as long to load a PDF as it does to load Photoshop).
Are those documents redacted in the final photocopy, or are they redacted by hand (very expensive, but they're spending our money, after all)?
There are two simple solutions that go beyond and below high technology.
Unless they crank down the brightness as far as possible, most photocopiers put down a varying amount of toner to paper. A cloth soaked in, say, spirit solvents, when wiped across the page, will expose part, if not all, of the text. Similarly, this can be done with most magic marker inks.