I would love to save 331 over seven months with this....
SBC you blood suckers!
Re:They didn't really go out of business...
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Funny I read your post - then looked at the site - then came back and glanced at your Username - I thought it said ChromeDome....
(chromedome was the slang term the Joe's used for Destro)
Re:Okay ... a few things that really bug me here .
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also note that One Trillion = 1000 Billion. 1 Billion = 1000 million. So One Trillion looks like: 1,000,000,000,000.00.
so:
1,000,000,000,000.00 / 5,000,000 = 1/50,000TH of ONE PERCENT.
(I think - If my math is right... late+beer doesnt help.)
anyway - thats is NOTHING out of a trillion dollars. I dont think people actually realize how much money one trillion dollars actually is. the word trillion is more money than you could actually ever ever spend in your lifetime. 5 mil on something likethis is a good thing.
Would you rather 5M on this - or 5M in 2 minutes of bombing in Afganistan?
put it another way. If you made $100.00 per hour - it would take you 1,141,552.5 YEARS to make 1 Trillion Dollars.
Ya - in the not too distant future we'll all look back fondly of the days of the DMCA, RIAA and MPAA and realize that those, along with the advent of real copy protection on CDs and other Digital Media - are by far the best and most innovative ideas ever concocted by the human race.... or maybe not.
I just think that patents for online UI shouldnt really be something that people should patent. I think that it should be patentable - but jsut shouldnt be patented.
I jsut think that any people who come up with new and improved methods for interacting with the virtual environment (with regards to clicking and using a keyboard) should hope that those improvements are used all overthe place - to better the online experience as a whole. not just some single sites purchasing applications....
also, having a box labelled "Johnny's crap" doesnt sound as though it should be a patentable idea - even if its in a virtual box.
Maybe they should just patent the whole idea of buying things for other people online - or maybe sorting items by various criteria.
kinda neat, butt...
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This ride should be called "Caught by the Cave Troll" or something.
When you watch the videos - it just looks like the "riders" were picked up by some giant and get thrashed around.
Other problems:
- Microsoft Windows operating system - Internet connectivity
all ms jokes aside, here is a machine that has the capability to bash you into the floor with impunity and its got two major security risks: being attached to the internet! and running MS OS.
I can just see it now BANG BANG BANG. bashing the riders into the floor.
It would feel a lot more safe if the thing was placed high enough that the arm would *not* be able to touch the floor ever no matter how it was manipulated.
I would like a few of these to see if you could make an actual robot with six of these as legs and arms.
I recently got sued by a housekeeper who I stopped using in 2000. They sent me a subpeona after a year and a half claiming I owed them money.
Their "bill" was just some cells from excel pasted into a word letter and printed.
I went to the wrong court the first time, and automatically lost. then they issued a warrant for my arrest and then the guy subpeona'd me again claiming more money was owed.
I went and he didnt show. since I had to post a bail on the warrant so they wouldnt make me stay in jail over night, they judged that the warrant post satisfied the claim and it was dropped.
This is how small claims court get abused - and it happens very often due to the small amounts of money, so they dont do anything about it.
If I see this guy on the street - he will have some hefty hospital bills.
dont ever use Molly Maids as a house cleaning service.
They talk about the fact that the 3 times that missions failed - the RTG units did not release any plutonium. They have changed the RTG heat source from plutonium metal to plutonium oxide.
Some things I would like to know:
1. how hot do these units get. 2. how much plutonium does it require per watt of power output. 3. how dangerous is the plutonium oxide to people 4. how safe is the plutonium oxide in terrestrial applications - applications where people would be in close proximity (a few meters) to the heat source.
is this a technology that (green party aside) could be applied locally to things such as vehicles, self powered compounds in the middle of no where (like if you bought a missle silo)
Sympathize my ass. The *least* they could do is just take a friggin look at the site and see that the dupe even appears on the front page - just a few stories below.
Its not as if this is a dupe from a few days ago - and isnt visable without searching. This is a dupe within just a few hours.
OK - I wrote a long ass reply to this - but lost it due to the back button....
Anyway, you're wrong to think that the CEO of EA would give up everything on such a simple statement.
First - of course it is in his interest to look more humble - and not want to outwardly state that he is trying to compare himself withthe likes of disney.
Second - the impact that gaming has on the tech industry is fantastic. I ran Intel's game test lab - and can tell you - matter of fact - the game industry drives the tech market above all things - no matter what you hear to the contrary. You think that MS office has any impact on the chipsets and products being pumped out of every hardware house on the globe? nope - but throw in some quake X, 007, NWN whatever - and sure enough the industry wants to produce hardware to give that "immersive" experience.
The thing about Disney is that they will always be a large media company - because they have influence that is well established. but that area of inflkuence is a lot more stagnant than it used to be.
With the advent of games and the tremendous speeds at which they evolve, and drive technology forwards - their influence on the entire media industry, and subsequently, pop culture as a whole has much more far reaching effects than people like Eisner would like to readily admit.
Why? Well it is just simple policy to find out as much about the enemy without giving any information out about yourself. EA would not tell you in any article or interview what their strategy would be.
They thing to think about in this particular context is that video games in general are far youngerthan the traditional media industry - but already we are seeing a massive shakeup in the way "media" is perceived, marketed, created and ingested. This means that the traditional established business models are goign to have to struggle very hard to remain in their formor positions of glory less they re-evaluate where they are going and how they are getting there.
Disney has had a solid form of entertainment in the form of their theme park, with a solid revenue stream for a long time because two important factors: 1) it was around before alternative "stationary" entertainment options (ie video games) existed. 2) very very strong branding, which played on item 1 - which *bred* brand loyalty into its visitors.
Now - take a look at my other post, you will see that the primary reason why anyone still goes to disney is from brand loyalty. Brand loyalty that is bred into children at a very young age - which will bring them back hopefully multiple times while they are young - and bring them back when they get older and ahve kids... but now that we have stationary forms of entertainment on the same level as far as fantasy is concerned, Disney's hold on kids "mindshare" is weakening.
This is the most important point. EA is already in a very very strong position. One that Disney cannot possibly overtake. EA is *established* very very established.
This means that no way can Disney over take that foundation - regardless of how stroing their brand is. This leaves them two options 1) compete. compete with the EA in an area that Disney does not have as strong of a market understanding - even though they may have a strong traditional brand. or 2) Partner. Now here is the option - the only option really. Disney will use its fantastic brand label, while partneringwith the foundation of EA in the gameing industry. This will allow them to bring their brand to the eyes of people (and this is what its really important - bringing the brand, not the game) into the arean and tap into some of that market.
Now - the difference that is to Disneys advantage is the "traditional" media empire it has. Although - this is a fast shrinking area. With regards to movies and pop culture characters - EA has an opportunity to put themselves in the long term cat-bird seat as it were. As long as EA puts characters into the minds of the youth that they will attach to very very strongly - they can leverage these t\new brand trademarks through video games and into movies and merchandising lines.
Children of the past decade and a half (like me), present and future will grow up with more and more video game influence in their lives. Both EA and disney know this - but only EA is in such a strong position currently.
Just look again at how young the video game industry is - and the inroads it has already made in "traditional" media - such as film. (mortal kombat, resident evil, final fantasy, etc...)
Disney is on its toes. Dont worry.... EA *knows* that if they play their cards right and dont give up too much ground, they will be the Disney of tomorrow. and Disney oftoday will be a smaller player, yet a very well looked at, and analyzed past giant.
I hope not. I recently came back from disneyland - and I must say - what a rip-off farce that place is. It is nothing but corporate marketing and a store with the very thin veil of a theme park.
Space Mountain - Brought to you by FedEX. Star Tours - brought to you by Energizer. and many many others. (problem is that Disneyland has very few actual rides - go to great america, far far far better place)
The place was terrible - an army of strollers and every ride practically exits you into a store of some sort.
I bought a single piece of Pizza and a water - and that was $10.00 - I had to get a sweatshirt because it was freezing, and my wife really wanted to see the parade, $60.00. A disney cup, $10.00. The same Lego Pieces you can buy at lego.com were literally twice the price. 9.99 for a 3 man starwars set rather than the 4.99 I paid for the same set online. All of this on top of the $45.00 per person we paid to get in (and mind you that this is only for the TRADITIONAL disney SIDE of the park - if you wanted to go to both California Adventure AND Disneyland, well that'll be $90.00 Buddy, thats per ticket.)
If EA turns out to be anything like Disney - I will certainly boycott them. The only reason we went was because my wife had never been there before.
Once a lifetime is enough, go when you are 5 or 6 and never again (unless you are forced to take your kids - which I would recommend against)
Fuck Disney - they dont represent anything but corporate greed and the fact that the consumer is justa number with a pocketbook full of money that the arebent on liberating you from.....
Re:Why not just use cell towers for radar?
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That and there were the people who were modifying Microwaves (the cooking kind) into radar jammers. (which would be used to lure the bombs to those locations)
I wasnt able to start watching Taken every night. But I did catch the last three episodes and I must say that I am thankful that I only wasted 6 hours of my time watching instead of 20.
The ending was so anti-climactic that I felt bad for all the people who wasted all that time watching it.
Seriously, every show that has been on SCI-FI exclusively has been a dissapointment.
Dune was absolutley terrible (who cares if it more closely followed the book - its visual impact was sickening). I hope that Children of Dune does a much better job - at least I hope they pick some good actors this time.
Children of Dune will be the last chance I give that channel. Its a joke - have you seen the commercials for the DreamTeam? WTF kind of show is this?/rant
not exactly. even though the information about you is usually "public record" (with regards to your legal record) - you are not allowed access to view it.
The NCIC database that all of law enforcement have access to for searching about people and any infraction they have *ever* had is not a public database. ever. even though all the information in there is "public record".
Every time you get a ticket, a DUI, arrested for anything - even if it "goes off your record" after any number of years - it stays in this database permanently.
Its not a popup. Its a URL redirect. when you *log in* to yahoo mail from a pacbell/SBC *IP* it redirects you to this ad prior to forwarding you onto your inbox in the same window....
Slashdot Mirror
or like me = 64.99 a month.
which is a diff in price of $331
I would love to save 331 over seven months with this....
SBC you blood suckers!
Funny I read your post - then looked at the site - then came back and glanced at your Username - I thought it said ChromeDome ....
(chromedome was the slang term the Joe's used for Destro)
also note that One Trillion = 1000 Billion. 1 Billion = 1000 million. So One Trillion looks like: 1,000,000,000,000.00.
so:
1,000,000,000,000.00 / 5,000,000 = 1/50,000TH of ONE PERCENT.
(I think - If my math is right... late+beer doesnt help.)
anyway - thats is NOTHING out of a trillion dollars. I dont think people actually realize how much money one trillion dollars actually is. the word trillion is more money than you could actually ever ever spend in your lifetime. 5 mil on something likethis is a good thing.
Would you rather 5M on this - or 5M in 2 minutes of bombing in Afganistan?
put it another way. If you made $100.00 per hour - it would take you 1,141,552.5 YEARS to make 1 Trillion Dollars.
it seems to me that this would be a company that larry Ellison would love...
He already has a Harrier... why not fund this wearable version....
Crap - he could even devote resources (like coders) to a project like this.
Ya - in the not too distant future we'll all look back fondly of the days of the DMCA, RIAA and MPAA and realize that those, along with the advent of real copy protection on CDs and other Digital Media - are by far the best and most innovative ideas ever concocted by the human race.... or maybe not.
That's terrible. You should examine your post, make some preview corrections and start doing them.
I just think that patents for online UI shouldnt really be something that people should patent. I think that it should be patentable - but jsut shouldnt be patented.
I jsut think that any people who come up with new and improved methods for interacting with the virtual environment (with regards to clicking and using a keyboard) should hope that those improvements are used all overthe place - to better the online experience as a whole. not just some single sites purchasing applications....
also, having a box labelled "Johnny's crap" doesnt sound as though it should be a patentable idea - even if its in a virtual box.
Maybe they should just patent the whole idea of buying things for other people online - or maybe sorting items by various criteria.
This ride should be called "Caught by the Cave Troll" or something.
When you watch the videos - it just looks like the "riders" were picked up by some giant and get thrashed around.
Other problems:
- Microsoft Windows operating system
- Internet connectivity
all ms jokes aside, here is a machine that has the capability to bash you into the floor with impunity and its got two major security risks: being attached to the internet! and running MS OS.
I can just see it now BANG BANG BANG. bashing the riders into the floor.
It would feel a lot more safe if the thing was placed high enough that the arm would *not* be able to touch the floor ever no matter how it was manipulated.
I would like a few of these to see if you could make an actual robot with six of these as legs and arms.
Those things look really cool.
"How many deep old aquifers have been drilled & pumped by water-hungry people?"
We usually use the term Thirsty for those types of people.
More likely they'll come from the CDC..
yes and this system is abused.
I recently got sued by a housekeeper who I stopped using in 2000. They sent me a subpeona after a year and a half claiming I owed them money.
Their "bill" was just some cells from excel pasted into a word letter and printed.
I went to the wrong court the first time, and automatically lost. then they issued a warrant for my arrest and then the guy subpeona'd me again claiming more money was owed.
I went and he didnt show. since I had to post a bail on the warrant so they wouldnt make me stay in jail over night, they judged that the warrant post satisfied the claim and it was dropped.
This is how small claims court get abused - and it happens very often due to the small amounts of money, so they dont do anything about it.
If I see this guy on the street - he will have some hefty hospital bills.
dont ever use Molly Maids as a house cleaning service.
They talk about the fact that the 3 times that missions failed - the RTG units did not release any plutonium. They have changed the RTG heat source from plutonium metal to plutonium oxide.
Some things I would like to know:
1. how hot do these units get.
2. how much plutonium does it require per watt of power output.
3. how dangerous is the plutonium oxide to people
4. how safe is the plutonium oxide in terrestrial applications - applications where people would be in close proximity (a few meters) to the heat source.
is this a technology that (green party aside) could be applied locally to things such as vehicles, self powered compounds in the middle of no where (like if you bought a missle silo)
Sympathize my ass. The *least* they could do is just take a friggin look at the site and see that the dupe even appears on the front page - just a few stories below.
Its not as if this is a dupe from a few days ago - and isnt visable without searching. This is a dupe within just a few hours.
I actually heard Hilary Rosen on the radio monday night on KGO. she said "They have a CD Burner - which is the equivalent of a CD production facility"
Dont know if you noticed, Mr. Troll - but this is at every movie, not just the ones at midnight.
The point here is that you pay to see a movie - and are forced to watched 20+ minutes of commercials first.
But after all the trash that theatres show first thats more like a 12:26, 12:27, 12:28 and 12:29 showing....
OK - I wrote a long ass reply to this - but lost it due to the back button....
Anyway, you're wrong to think that the CEO of EA would give up everything on such a simple statement.
First - of course it is in his interest to look more humble - and not want to outwardly state that he is trying to compare himself withthe likes of disney.
Second - the impact that gaming has on the tech industry is fantastic. I ran Intel's game test lab - and can tell you - matter of fact - the game industry drives the tech market above all things - no matter what you hear to the contrary. You think that MS office has any impact on the chipsets and products being pumped out of every hardware house on the globe? nope - but throw in some quake X, 007, NWN whatever - and sure enough the industry wants to produce hardware to give that "immersive" experience.
The thing about Disney is that they will always be a large media company - because they have influence that is well established. but that area of inflkuence is a lot more stagnant than it used to be.
With the advent of games and the tremendous speeds at which they evolve, and drive technology forwards - their influence on the entire media industry, and subsequently, pop culture as a whole has much more far reaching effects than people like Eisner would like to readily admit.
Why? Well it is just simple policy to find out as much about the enemy without giving any information out about yourself. EA would not tell you in any article or interview what their strategy would be.
They thing to think about in this particular context is that video games in general are far youngerthan the traditional media industry - but already we are seeing a massive shakeup in the way "media" is perceived, marketed, created and ingested. This means that the traditional established business models are goign to have to struggle very hard to remain in their formor positions of glory less they re-evaluate where they are going and how they are getting there.
Disney has had a solid form of entertainment in the form of their theme park, with a solid revenue stream for a long time because two important factors: 1) it was around before alternative "stationary" entertainment options (ie video games) existed. 2) very very strong branding, which played on item 1 - which *bred* brand loyalty into its visitors.
Now - take a look at my other post, you will see that the primary reason why anyone still goes to disney is from brand loyalty. Brand loyalty that is bred into children at a very young age - which will bring them back hopefully multiple times while they are young - and bring them back when they get older and ahve kids... but now that we have stationary forms of entertainment on the same level as far as fantasy is concerned, Disney's hold on kids "mindshare" is weakening.
This is the most important point. EA is already in a very very strong position. One that Disney cannot possibly overtake. EA is *established* very very established.
This means that no way can Disney over take that foundation - regardless of how stroing their brand is. This leaves them two options 1) compete. compete with the EA in an area that Disney does not have as strong of a market understanding - even though they may have a strong traditional brand. or 2) Partner. Now here is the option - the only option really. Disney will use its fantastic brand label, while partneringwith the foundation of EA in the gameing industry. This will allow them to bring their brand to the eyes of people (and this is what its really important - bringing the brand, not the game) into the arean and tap into some of that market.
Now - the difference that is to Disneys advantage is the "traditional" media empire it has. Although - this is a fast shrinking area. With regards to movies and pop culture characters - EA has an opportunity to put themselves in the long term cat-bird seat as it were. As long as EA puts characters into the minds of the youth that they will attach to very very strongly - they can leverage these t\new brand trademarks through video games and into movies and merchandising lines.
Children of the past decade and a half (like me), present and future will grow up with more and more video game influence in their lives. Both EA and disney know this - but only EA is in such a strong position currently.
Just look again at how young the video game industry is - and the inroads it has already made in "traditional" media - such as film. (mortal kombat, resident evil, final fantasy, etc...)
Disney is on its toes. Dont worry.... EA *knows* that if they play their cards right and dont give up too much ground, they will be the Disney of tomorrow. and Disney oftoday will be a smaller player, yet a very well looked at, and analyzed past giant.
I hope not. I recently came back from disneyland - and I must say - what a rip-off farce that place is. It is nothing but corporate marketing and a store with the very thin veil of a theme park.
Space Mountain - Brought to you by FedEX.
Star Tours - brought to you by Energizer.
and many many others. (problem is that Disneyland has very few actual rides - go to great america, far far far better place)
The place was terrible - an army of strollers and every ride practically exits you into a store of some sort.
I bought a single piece of Pizza and a water - and that was $10.00 - I had to get a sweatshirt because it was freezing, and my wife really wanted to see the parade, $60.00. A disney cup, $10.00. The same Lego Pieces you can buy at lego.com were literally twice the price. 9.99 for a 3 man starwars set rather than the 4.99 I paid for the same set online. All of this on top of the $45.00 per person we paid to get in (and mind you that this is only for the TRADITIONAL disney SIDE of the park - if you wanted to go to both California Adventure AND Disneyland, well that'll be $90.00 Buddy, thats per ticket.)
If EA turns out to be anything like Disney - I will certainly boycott them. The only reason we went was because my wife had never been there before.
Once a lifetime is enough, go when you are 5 or 6 and never again (unless you are forced to take your kids - which I would recommend against)
Fuck Disney - they dont represent anything but corporate greed and the fact that the consumer is justa number with a pocketbook full of money that the arebent on liberating you from.....
That and there were the people who were modifying Microwaves (the cooking kind) into radar jammers. (which would be used to lure the bombs to those locations)
OT but...
/rant
I wasnt able to start watching Taken every night. But I did catch the last three episodes and I must say that I am thankful that I only wasted 6 hours of my time watching instead of 20.
The ending was so anti-climactic that I felt bad for all the people who wasted all that time watching it.
Seriously, every show that has been on SCI-FI exclusively has been a dissapointment.
Dune was absolutley terrible (who cares if it more closely followed the book - its visual impact was sickening). I hope that Children of Dune does a much better job - at least I hope they pick some good actors this time.
Children of Dune will be the last chance I give that channel. Its a joke - have you seen the commercials for the DreamTeam? WTF kind of show is this?
I'm still waiting for Http://www.wont-someone-think-of-the.kids
not exactly. even though the information about you is usually "public record" (with regards to your legal record) - you are not allowed access to view it.
The NCIC database that all of law enforcement have access to for searching about people and any infraction they have *ever* had is not a public database. ever. even though all the information in there is "public record".
Every time you get a ticket, a DUI, arrested for anything - even if it "goes off your record" after any number of years - it stays in this database permanently.
Only law enforcment is allowed to search this.
You mean that vision of goatse.cx wasnt enough all hot anal action for you?
Goatse.cx should be enough anal action for anyone for a *lifetime*
try reading the whole post that you are replying to before actually posting....
You will see that the time that I read the agreement ('97 for Yahoo and late 2000 for pacbell) they would not have mentioned this...
Its not a popup. Its a URL redirect. when you *log in* to yahoo mail from a pacbell/SBC *IP* it redirects you to this ad prior to forwarding you onto your inbox in the same window....