Did they sue them because Craigslist isn't obfuscated, confusing, feature-bloated and buggy enough to suit them?
Just curious.
I've listed and sold a few items on eBay over the years, including recently and must say, eBay continues to get it wrong. What a fussy, buggy system. Simply interfaces gave way to bloated, unpredictable and just silliness.
As a buyer, the searches are less helpful all the time. "Look, dumbasses, I'm trying to find what I'm looking for," not a lot of other tripe you think I might be interested in.
eBay, want something to do? Go after those fecking frauds selling fake shite out of China. That should keep you busy for a while.
Meanwhile, Feedback system continues to be worthless.
When you are in Apple's position, you leave the semiconductor development to others and let them battle it out to make the best component at the best price.
Whatever steps this robot is taking are baby steps.
It's too easy to run about in circles with hands in the air, exclaiming 'Fail! Fail!' But this is the infancy. Regarding the maturity of robotic infantry, I have no doubt in my mind the worst fears will fall short of how some dispicable leaders will deplouy such devices.
There is profit to be made. Compare the price to the price of caffiene and you see where the real money is... More like: Failure to plan by management results in stress and long hours by the peonage. When this isn't occasional, but continuous practice, that's when the true measure of intelligence is knowing it's time to seek fortunes elsewheresville.
Caffeine anyone? I learned my lesson of caffeine. I consumed massive quantities of extremely strong coffee for a period of months to get me through 14-16 hour days. Never again.
whatever they're doing, i'm sure it helps keep their test tubes up longer
I think Vista will be fine for most people once powerful hardware becomes more common. People I know who have it pre-loaded on their new laptops seem to be okay with it. I don't see that at all. Microsoft has a monopoly in play, with their mates Intel. Didn't see the emails? They'd sacrifice their own reputation on Vista-ready to help Intel sell old graphic chipsets.
I have a very fast and very powerful computer which does not require any replacing. I can't see any reason I should be forced to pay the Microsoft Tax, just because they need a fix every few years to keep the profits rolling in.
Simply put, I can see what is going on on my system.
Windows is a fecking black hole where all manner of shite can happen without me knowing. Until Microsoft gives the average user a complete view and complete control over processes, they're crap.
I can see how this could affect premiums, let alone offerings.
"None for you, deathbreath!"
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Bush has got to be pretty happy, he could have been American president #10 that Castro outlasted. On the other hand, Castro has to be a bit miserable at the prospect of not outlasting W.
Yeah, Mission accomplished, watch W take credit
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Bloke's been in charge for half a century and he's finally stepping down.
In other news Ronald Reagan can take credit for the fall of the USSR, not the internal politics which were bringing the Soviet Reign to an end.
I wish they'd do something about this piss-poor connectors. I've had a number of them fail and had to junk them because they do not make a good solid connection, nothing prevents vibration from letting them slip.
Oddly enough (or not) it was Space Wars.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Wars
For the life of me I can't recall where. A pizza parlor or something.
I remember the best strategy was "tap the buttons at random". It kept the enemy confused.
Hm. I think we were coding games like that on an OSI (Ohio Scientific) computer my father had set up (I think he still has it) it was a 6502 system with a whopping 12 KB RAM, 2102's I believe. The monitor was a modified 12" B/W TV (those with 12 DC power supplies, using transformers for isolation were desirable) and storage was an audio cassette recorder.
The games were easy enough to master, so we learned a bit about randomising the movement of space ship we were fighting. I also remember coding it so there were up to five attacking ships at a time. Didn't see Space War until much later, running on a DEC PDP 11/50 with VT52 terminals.
First computer game I ever played was Hunt the Wumpus Little did I know it would be the beginning of a life long obsession.
I was running the MES site at Microsoft under a virtual machine, and the task manager inside the VM was at 70-90% cpu usage running only the one firefox window! (as shown on a 3.2Ghz intel processor with 2GB of RAM running Ubuntu)
This is what I worry about.
As it is I'm not enamoured with FLASH. I usually disable it so I don't have to watch a lot of crappy whizzy ads distracting me. It also keeps my bandwidth fairly low. I honestly do not understand why so many sites open up with a FLASH Splash. It really does nothing for me and means I have to wait for all this junk to download. Now with Silverlight I can look forward to more of the same. Another plugin to manage. Yay.
Just like with The Road Ahead Bill Gates will soon bring out a second edition of the video recording of the keynote, where he'll use state-of-the-art video-editing wizardry to make it look like he had predicted this year's tech trends all along.
I had the fortune to catch Bill doing a CES Key-Note address a few years back. It's pretty funny to see how he continues to get it wrong and they continue to have him do Key-Note addresses.
As a company, Microsoft is not terribly good at being visionary. Their track record is a line of failed attempts to push their technology, which should be hooking every household into a Microsoft world. Where they fail is understanding most of these items consumers buy, use for a while and then toss, without ever getting fully hooked in. Windows CE was to be in everything from CD players to Bookreading tablets, but we're seeing Linux, java, etc. thriving. Clearly there's some reason why not every Consumer Electronics company has not jumped on the Windows bandwagon - they better than I know their reasons, I only observe the results.
The last time I heard Bill talk he seemed, perhaps unwittingingly, to be threatening about half the companies at CES with muscling them into a Mafia-esque grip of their technology and vision for the future.
Once you realise most of it is utter bollox, just sit back and wait for him to flub words or his on-stage demo to crash.
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In pirate school I studied the Three Arrrs!
Me favourite football club be Arrrrsenal! Up ye Gooners!
"Stupidity not more dangerous than knowlege" - Massachusetts Authrorities.
Would have been several of them, you never catch them all on the first go.
*cough* China *cough* 1.5 Billion (said with Dr. Evil inflection) potential customers.
Did they sue them because Craigslist isn't obfuscated, confusing, feature-bloated and buggy enough to suit them?
Just curious.
I've listed and sold a few items on eBay over the years, including recently and must say, eBay continues to get it wrong. What a fussy, buggy system. Simply interfaces gave way to bloated, unpredictable and just silliness.
As a buyer, the searches are less helpful all the time. "Look, dumbasses, I'm trying to find what I'm looking for," not a lot of other tripe you think I might be interested in.
eBay, want something to do? Go after those fecking frauds selling fake shite out of China. That should keep you busy for a while.
Meanwhile, Feedback system continues to be worthless.
There, fixed it for you.
When you are in Apple's position, you leave the semiconductor development to others and let them battle it out to make the best component at the best price.
This was stupid.
Whatever steps this robot is taking are baby steps.
It's too easy to run about in circles with hands in the air, exclaiming 'Fail! Fail!' But this is the infancy. Regarding the maturity of robotic infantry, I have no doubt in my mind the worst fears will fall short of how some dispicable leaders will deplouy such devices.
Maybe sans guns, camera, telemetry...
Photo hosted at Gizmodo, eh.
Maybe they were in Iraq with a clicker for continued laughs. There are some dicks at Gizmodo.
(btw this new javascript enhanced slashdot sucks sweaty moose balls.)
whatever they're doing, i'm sure it helps keep their test tubes up longer
I have a very fast and very powerful computer which does not require any replacing. I can't see any reason I should be forced to pay the Microsoft Tax, just because they need a fix every few years to keep the profits rolling in.
Must be a slow news day, so anything is good news. This has only been up on IMDB for months.
Simply put, I can see what is going on on my system.
Windows is a fecking black hole where all manner of shite can happen without me knowing. Until Microsoft gives the average user a complete view and complete control over processes, they're crap.
Part of my childhood just failed its save vs death.
Thank you Mr. Gygax, for your role in many enjoyable hours of leisure.
I can see how this could affect premiums, let alone offerings.
"None for you, deathbreath!"
Bloke's been in charge for half a century and he's finally stepping down.
In other news Ronald Reagan can take credit for the fall of the USSR, not the internal politics which were bringing the Soviet Reign to an end.
I thought SGI was already dead.
All prior researchers have not returned from the jungle. Information is incomplete.
When a company does this it's a Promotion. So why is this pirating when an individual does it?
She ever hear of my sig?
I wish they'd do something about this piss-poor connectors. I've had a number of them fail and had to junk them because they do not make a good solid connection, nothing prevents vibration from letting them slip.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Wars
For the life of me I can't recall where. A pizza parlor or something.
I remember the best strategy was "tap the buttons at random". It kept the enemy confused.
Hm. I think we were coding games like that on an OSI (Ohio Scientific) computer my father had set up (I think he still has it) it was a 6502 system with a whopping 12 KB RAM, 2102's I believe. The monitor was a modified 12" B/W TV (those with 12 DC power supplies, using transformers for isolation were desirable) and storage was an audio cassette recorder.
The games were easy enough to master, so we learned a bit about randomising the movement of space ship we were fighting. I also remember coding it so there were up to five attacking ships at a time. Didn't see Space War until much later, running on a DEC PDP 11/50 with VT52 terminals.
First computer game I ever played was Hunt the Wumpus Little did I know it would be the beginning of a life long obsession.
and I'll get that wumpus one of these days...
This is what I worry about.
As it is I'm not enamoured with FLASH. I usually disable it so I don't have to watch a lot of crappy whizzy ads distracting me. It also keeps my bandwidth fairly low. I honestly do not understand why so many sites open up with a FLASH Splash. It really does nothing for me and means I have to wait for all this junk to download. Now with Silverlight I can look forward to more of the same. Another plugin to manage. Yay.
I had the fortune to catch Bill doing a CES Key-Note address a few years back. It's pretty funny to see how he continues to get it wrong and they continue to have him do Key-Note addresses.
As a company, Microsoft is not terribly good at being visionary. Their track record is a line of failed attempts to push their technology, which should be hooking every household into a Microsoft world. Where they fail is understanding most of these items consumers buy, use for a while and then toss, without ever getting fully hooked in. Windows CE was to be in everything from CD players to Bookreading tablets, but we're seeing Linux, java, etc. thriving. Clearly there's some reason why not every Consumer Electronics company has not jumped on the Windows bandwagon - they better than I know their reasons, I only observe the results.
The last time I heard Bill talk he seemed, perhaps unwittingingly, to be threatening about half the companies at CES with muscling them into a Mafia-esque grip of their technology and vision for the future.
Once you realise most of it is utter bollox, just sit back and wait for him to flub words or his on-stage demo to crash.