Doing a search for 'Nintendo Sony'on News.Google.com to see what I could pull up, I was ammused to see that Slashdot's own posting of this story was in fact the only reference to its existence.
While there were certaintly other stories pulled up containing the words 'sony' and 'nintendo' in them, Slashdot's was the most recent news story on the subject (posted, at the time i did the search, 19 minutes ago).
If for no other reason, it's interesting Slashdot is one of the sites Google News searchs.
-Trillian
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There's also a Linux search: http://www.google.com/linux
I wouldn't be surprised if there are other specific search engines on google.
FreeLinux wrote: The thing is that SPAM works! If it wasn't profitable no one would bother with it but, it is profitable. Highly profitable! So long as people keep buying from spammers spam will continue to infest the internet.
I simply don't believe this. Because spamming is so goddamned _cheap_, it doesn't have to be profitable in the normal sense of the word. Technically, 'profitable' is doing more than breaking even. So, if I make a product, price it at $30, and send THOUSANDS of spam emails, I could sell _one_ and the spamming still would have been 'profitable.' I could have spent a grand total of nothing (other than 20 minutes coming up with a shitty email advertising my product and 30 seconds finding an anonymous spamming program online) on the spamming experience.
Until there's some real way to detract from the wonderful pleasure of spamming, we won't see an end to it. One example is paying a bounty on spammers.
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I think the subject says it all. While impacting native wildlife is a differnet issue, if it was simply staring at white towers vs. not being able to breathe, I know what *i'd* choose...
Admitadly, you're right: the US power plugs are unsafe and potentially dangerous. It wouldn't even be amazingly difficult to change them to something safer.
However, how many people do you know who have been hurt plugging/unplugging a power cord? I know no one who's been hurt in such a fashion.
Me again. Hate to toot my (well, my bookstore's) horn, but you're being overcharged for used books. We resell used books for half the cover price (minimum price is set at $1.50, though). That means most used paperbacks are, max, $4, and usually less. (Our pricing policy is across the board, except for some very specific titles that are more.) Hardcovers aren't as cut-and-dry, but the general rule of thumb is about a third of the cover price, meaning you should never see a used book over $10.
I know most places do charge more. But they're all wrong. =)
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I work at a small, independant, science fiction and fantasy bookstore. In fact, I'm there right now (although I'll admit I'm not really 'working' at the moment...). And so I know better than many exactly what the state of science fiction in America is. And, unfortunatly, it isn't great.
The bookstore I work at, The Stars Our Destination (url: www.sfbooks.com), has been around since the early 1990s and has seen sci-fi falter and, unfortunatly, decline somewhat. It's not that things aren't being written. It's that people aren't getting published. Far to many publishers have been gobbled up into huge corperations and are now in the market to make money, not books.
So instead of publishing a whole lot, like they used to, they're now (for the most part) publishing only books they think will make money. And this usually means books that are very (often painfully) similar.
I admit, this isn't *always* the case. There are dozens of very small presses who still try and get good stuff out that may not look as profitable as some of the cookie-cutter novels being published. But, all too often, it's the same old shit being published.
I think this (including a CD with the latesr _Honor_ book) is a great idea. If for no other reason, it's unique. As I said, a lot of crap is lining the shelves. An eye-catcher could mean the difference between a sale and picking up a different book.
In their latest reprinting, some of the _Sandman_ graphic novels come with a free CD. Rather than extra _Sandman_ content (which would be *really* cool) the CDs contain 400+ pages of other DC best-sellers. Not complete comics, but really nifty teasers. The free CD with the _Honor_ book isn't exactly the same thing, but it's another way to get closer to the consumer; to be able to get the buyer to see material they otherwise wouldn't.
So. I don't think this CD will make or break the book. But I think it will only help sales. And this is speaking both as a consumer of sci-fi, and a seller.
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Implying that not knowing electronica means you can't listen to electronica is the same reason dumbfuck Linux elitists have kept Linux from being as popular as it might be.
The only way someone can get into a subject matter is to (surprise surprise) get into the subject matter... I'm going to take a guess and say you were not, in fact, *born* knowing about electronica, what bands are 'cool', where to get their music, and why others shouldn't be allowed to listen to it. At some point you did, in fact, have to *start* listening to it, conceivably without much knowledge about the subject.
If you want to actively ruin someone else's experience with a genre, then go ahead. But don't be a jerk about it.
"no offense" my left foot. You were tyring to politely exlude the questioner, eh?
Unfortunatly, this no longer works. But it was one of the funiest things I'd ever heard.
1-800-888-3999 is the toll-free phone number of Ameritrade Plus. Last time I checked (a couple months ago) it was a standard recorded message, "Please press 1 for this, 2 for that, etc." However, if you continued to listen, option seven was "If you'd like to hear a duck quack, please press seven."
And, pressing seven, you would hear a duck quack, after which the number would disconect.
Unfortunatly, someone must have noticed this, because it's no longer there. I suppose it's possible that it's still hidden away somewhere in the phone tree, and I really hope it is, but I couldn't find it.
I just checked AudioGalaxy and it WOULD indeed apear that, as of right now, not a single song is downloadable. Since that is the case, I'd suggest switching to KaZaAlite (www.kazaalite.com) or some such.
Or just wait for the next file-sharer. Napster's dead. Maybe AudioGalaxy is now too. That doesn't mean another software system won't pop up shortly. (And I repeat my recomendation of Kazaalite!! It's adware and spyware FREE!!!)
I'm not entirely sure it does. As of now, AudioGalaxy has some (moderate) copy protection. There are lots of songs that say they're undownloadable right now, but you just have to search for a slightly different title or spell the singer/band incorrectly.
This will probably make searching for music more difficult, but just search in AudioGalaxy a little deeper, or use
KaZaA Lite
as reported on Slashdot. I use KaZaAlite and, if you alert Ad-Aware to the fake DLL it uses to fool KaZaA, it works wonderfully. (And I still haven't seen KaZaA shut down, in spite of rumors to that effect...)
This is a totally invalid comparison. First, should you so desire, you *could* install a Toyota engine in a Ford Taurus. It may (or may not) void your warrenty, IANAL, but nothing other than lack of know-how prevents you from doing it. But engines aren't *meant* to be easily changeable by the average user. Software is.
The best comparison I've heard about the Microsoft monopoly is to VCRs. If Microsoft ran the VCR biz, you could buy any type of VCR you like (Sony, Mitsubishi, etc) but they could ONLY play tapes made by Microsoft, and Microsoft got to chose what was on the tapes.
When I bought Windows XP (and I admit, I use and, for the most part, enjoy it) I did *NOT* buy Messenger, IE, Outlook Express, or a host of other shitty products Microsoft forced down my throat. They're NOT part of the OS, I DON'T want them, and if they insist on including them, then I SHOULD be able to remove them easily, quickly, and painlessly. But I can't.
You have to go out of your way to get Messenger to stop popping up telling you to register. And god forbid you should actually want to *REMOVE* it. Becuase, while an uninstall command *is* burried in XP (although you have to enter it from the "RUN" prompt on the Start Menu and can not find it anywhere on the actual computer by searching) it's impossible for the average user to find, even with help. My aunt had her computer for MONTHS, closing Messenger every day when she went online, before I showed her how to remove it.
In addition, the article seems to say Microsoft isn't actually even allowing you to uninstall their programs. Just 'hide' them, which a comptetent user should be able to do simply by deleting the icons.
Microsoft has made some quality products. I'm honestly impressed with a number of features in XP. But it also continues the stranglehold Microsoft has on the software industry. Microsoft obviously has competent programers. But their business practices, especially when they exhibit themselves in their software in the form of programs that can't be removed and that demand registration, is unacceptable and ilegal.
While I'm as excited as the next geek about super-vision, seeing in the dark, zoomable eyes, and the like, an easier place to start is what this technology can do for people in the near futures.
First off, the article said there was evidence the implants were actualy stimulating surrounding cells. This is just cool. Hopefully, this means the tiny, tiny implants will have a domino effect on vision: the cells directly surrounding the implants begin working, stimulating the next surrounding layer, stimulating the *next* surrounding layer, stimulating...well, you get the picture. It would be wonderful to think that, in a few years, the next generation of this technology will be able to help people recover 100% of their vision. But even *more* wonderful to think that the *very first test patients* might get something approaching full vision in a few months with the very first test run.
The other thought I had which is a little more down to Earth than 'super-zoomable implants with night vision, only $1.99!!' is the effect this could have on children. I can only imagine how horrible loosing your vision, and knowing it will continue to deteriorate as your life goes on. But the article's implication seemed to be all these patients had, at one time, full vision. What about children who lost their vision? Or never had it? I think it'd be that much more impressive if a child who'd never seen a rainbow, or a butterfly, or a Slashdotted website, or a line of computer code...
While there are *fabulous* applications of this technology that might come sometime down the road, I think tere's just as cool stuff waiting right across the street.
I don't think your argument holds up. As you said, there's not an article of the Constitution granting rights to auto-owners: the technology wasn't there and the issue couldn't be addressed. Likewise, 'gun' in 1787 meant something *very* different than it does in 2002. You couldn't hope to fire off multiple shots back then nearly as quick as you can now, and the guns didn't have anything *close* to the same stopping power. And even if they did, or the Founding Fathers were somehow clarvoiant enough to see the future of weaponry, maybe they were just wrong.
Part of the idea of the Constitution is the flexibility of it. Knowing they *didn't* know everything, the Founding Fathers left the ability to 'tweak' it. It's the ultimate Open Source government, if you will: always being tweaked, never 'finished', bug updates constantly required (and usually late), and always under review.
The idea anyone should be able to have a gun becuase 'it's in the Constitution' is hogwash. You heard me: hogwash. Times have changed from the late 1700s and the same rules should no longer apply. Which is why the Second Ammendment needs updating. Oh, I fully realize it won't happen: too many people enjoy the 'freedom' it grants. But it's a danger. I'm not suggesting no one be allowed guns. But stronger gun restrictions would make things that much safer. I would argue arming one's self is a right, but not with guns. You can learn *hundreds* of forms of self-defence. Or carry nunchucks, if you like. Just as it isn't a 'right' to drive a fully-armed tank around, carrying a gun is not a right either.
Carrying this over to cars: how is driving a right? If it's a right, isn't everyone equally entitled to it? Okay! Which one of you is paying for my next car? Come on! Don't all jump in at once...
Saying something is a 'right' and, taking it a step further, that everyone should be able to do whatever they want is silly. It doesn't work when applied to guns, and works even *less* when applied to cars.
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Anyone else read the Clarke short story (can't remember the name for the life of me) where someone did this?
Unfortunatly, he didn't *cancle* the noise so much as store it in the baterty of the device. (The story was a bit short on the technical details, I admit....) This resulted in a rather large explosion, following a humorous scene where a horrible and mean opera singer was silenced with rightous justice.
Very humorous.
My concern: will my computer explode if I use this device? I mean, Clarke did predict a host of other high-tech gadgets now in use!! How do we know this isn't another one? I'm just worried that - *BOOOM* ---My computer has exploded.
I have a question about wireless vs wired communications systems. I am admitadly next-to clueless about telecommunications in general, but I'd always thought it would be faster and cheaper to send data over physicals wires, period. How does it work that this technology (UWB) can send data faster and cheaper than physical lines?
I'm assuming there's some key point I'm missing, but I don't know what. (If I did, I presumably wouldn't be missing it any longer...)
Slashdot Mirror
Doing a search for 'Nintendo Sony'on News.Google.com to see what I could pull up, I was ammused to see that Slashdot's own posting of this story was in fact the only reference to its existence.
While there were certaintly other stories pulled up containing the words 'sony' and 'nintendo' in them, Slashdot's was the most recent news story on the subject (posted, at the time i did the search, 19 minutes ago).
If for no other reason, it's interesting Slashdot is one of the sites Google News searchs.
-Trillian
There's also a Linux search: http://www.google.com/linux I wouldn't be surprised if there are other specific search engines on google.
I simply don't believe this. Because spamming is so goddamned _cheap_, it doesn't have to be profitable in the normal sense of the word. Technically, 'profitable' is doing more than breaking even. So, if I make a product, price it at $30, and send THOUSANDS of spam emails, I could sell _one_ and the spamming still would have been 'profitable.' I could have spent a grand total of nothing (other than 20 minutes coming up with a shitty email advertising my product and 30 seconds finding an anonymous spamming program online) on the spamming experience.
Until there's some real way to detract from the wonderful pleasure of spamming, we won't see an end to it. One example is paying a bounty on spammers.
-Trillian
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I think the subject says it all. While impacting native wildlife is a differnet issue, if it was simply staring at white towers vs. not being able to breathe, I know what *i'd* choose...
Admitadly, you're right: the US power plugs are unsafe and potentially dangerous. It wouldn't even be amazingly difficult to change them to something safer.
However, how many people do you know who have been hurt plugging/unplugging a power cord? I know no one who's been hurt in such a fashion.
Me again. Hate to toot my (well, my bookstore's) horn, but you're being overcharged for used books. We resell used books for half the cover price (minimum price is set at $1.50, though). That means most used paperbacks are, max, $4, and usually less. (Our pricing policy is across the board, except for some very specific titles that are more.) Hardcovers aren't as cut-and-dry, but the general rule of thumb is about a third of the cover price, meaning you should never see a used book over $10.
I know most places do charge more. But they're all wrong. =)
-Trillian
PS: Hate to do this, but plug again: www.sfbooks.com, we do wonderful mail order business, and are more than happy to look through a list of books to see what we have in used. So please! Buy more books!
I work at a small, independant, science fiction and fantasy bookstore. In fact, I'm there right now (although I'll admit I'm not really 'working' at the moment...). And so I know better than many exactly what the state of science fiction in America is. And, unfortunatly, it isn't great.
The bookstore I work at, The Stars Our Destination (url: www.sfbooks.com), has been around since the early 1990s and has seen sci-fi falter and, unfortunatly, decline somewhat. It's not that things aren't being written. It's that people aren't getting published. Far to many publishers have been gobbled up into huge corperations and are now in the market to make money, not books.
So instead of publishing a whole lot, like they used to, they're now (for the most part) publishing only books they think will make money. And this usually means books that are very (often painfully) similar.
I admit, this isn't *always* the case. There are dozens of very small presses who still try and get good stuff out that may not look as profitable as some of the cookie-cutter novels being published. But, all too often, it's the same old shit being published.
I think this (including a CD with the latesr _Honor_ book) is a great idea. If for no other reason, it's unique. As I said, a lot of crap is lining the shelves. An eye-catcher could mean the difference between a sale and picking up a different book.
In their latest reprinting, some of the _Sandman_ graphic novels come with a free CD. Rather than extra _Sandman_ content (which would be *really* cool) the CDs contain 400+ pages of other DC best-sellers. Not complete comics, but really nifty teasers. The free CD with the _Honor_ book isn't exactly the same thing, but it's another way to get closer to the consumer; to be able to get the buyer to see material they otherwise wouldn't.
So. I don't think this CD will make or break the book. But I think it will only help sales. And this is speaking both as a consumer of sci-fi, and a seller.
-Trillian
PS: Please visit our website, www.sfbooks.com! We do mail order anywhere on Earth! The little bookstores need your business!
Implying that not knowing electronica means you can't listen to electronica is the same reason dumbfuck Linux elitists have kept Linux from being as popular as it might be.
The only way someone can get into a subject matter is to (surprise surprise) get into the subject matter... I'm going to take a guess and say you were not, in fact, *born* knowing about electronica, what bands are 'cool', where to get their music, and why others shouldn't be allowed to listen to it. At some point you did, in fact, have to *start* listening to it, conceivably without much knowledge about the subject.
If you want to actively ruin someone else's experience with a genre, then go ahead. But don't be a jerk about it.
"no offense" my left foot. You were tyring to politely exlude the questioner, eh?
Trillian
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Unfortunatly, this no longer works. But it was one of the funiest things I'd ever heard.
1-800-888-3999 is the toll-free phone number of Ameritrade Plus. Last time I checked (a couple months ago) it was a standard recorded message, "Please press 1 for this, 2 for that, etc." However, if you continued to listen, option seven was "If you'd like to hear a duck quack, please press seven."
And, pressing seven, you would hear a duck quack, after which the number would disconect.
Unfortunatly, someone must have noticed this, because it's no longer there. I suppose it's possible that it's still hidden away somewhere in the phone tree, and I really hope it is, but I couldn't find it.
Replying to myself:
I just checked AudioGalaxy and it WOULD indeed apear that, as of right now, not a single song is downloadable. Since that is the case, I'd suggest switching to KaZaAlite (www.kazaalite.com) or some such.
Or just wait for the next file-sharer. Napster's dead. Maybe AudioGalaxy is now too. That doesn't mean another software system won't pop up shortly. (And I repeat my recomendation of Kazaalite!! It's adware and spyware FREE!!!)
This will probably make searching for music more difficult, but just search in AudioGalaxy a little deeper, or use KaZaA Lite as reported on Slashdot. I use KaZaAlite and, if you alert Ad-Aware to the fake DLL it uses to fool KaZaA, it works wonderfully. (And I still haven't seen KaZaA shut down, in spite of rumors to that effect...)
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This is a totally invalid comparison. First, should you so desire, you *could* install a Toyota engine in a Ford Taurus. It may (or may not) void your warrenty, IANAL, but nothing other than lack of know-how prevents you from doing it. But engines aren't *meant* to be easily changeable by the average user. Software is.
The best comparison I've heard about the Microsoft monopoly is to VCRs. If Microsoft ran the VCR biz, you could buy any type of VCR you like (Sony, Mitsubishi, etc) but they could ONLY play tapes made by Microsoft, and Microsoft got to chose what was on the tapes.
When I bought Windows XP (and I admit, I use and, for the most part, enjoy it) I did *NOT* buy Messenger, IE, Outlook Express, or a host of other shitty products Microsoft forced down my throat. They're NOT part of the OS, I DON'T want them, and if they insist on including them, then I SHOULD be able to remove them easily, quickly, and painlessly. But I can't.
You have to go out of your way to get Messenger to stop popping up telling you to register. And god forbid you should actually want to *REMOVE* it. Becuase, while an uninstall command *is* burried in XP (although you have to enter it from the "RUN" prompt on the Start Menu and can not find it anywhere on the actual computer by searching) it's impossible for the average user to find, even with help. My aunt had her computer for MONTHS, closing Messenger every day when she went online, before I showed her how to remove it.
In addition, the article seems to say Microsoft isn't actually even allowing you to uninstall their programs. Just 'hide' them, which a comptetent user should be able to do simply by deleting the icons.
Microsoft has made some quality products. I'm honestly impressed with a number of features in XP. But it also continues the stranglehold Microsoft has on the software industry. Microsoft obviously has competent programers. But their business practices, especially when they exhibit themselves in their software in the form of programs that can't be removed and that demand registration, is unacceptable and ilegal.
While I'm as excited as the next geek about super-vision, seeing in the dark, zoomable eyes, and the like, an easier place to start is what this technology can do for people in the near futures.
First off, the article said there was evidence the implants were actualy stimulating surrounding cells. This is just cool. Hopefully, this means the tiny, tiny implants will have a domino effect on vision: the cells directly surrounding the implants begin working, stimulating the next surrounding layer, stimulating the *next* surrounding layer, stimulating...well, you get the picture. It would be wonderful to think that, in a few years, the next generation of this technology will be able to help people recover 100% of their vision. But even *more* wonderful to think that the *very first test patients* might get something approaching full vision in a few months with the very first test run.
The other thought I had which is a little more down to Earth than 'super-zoomable implants with night vision, only $1.99!!' is the effect this could have on children. I can only imagine how horrible loosing your vision, and knowing it will continue to deteriorate as your life goes on. But the article's implication seemed to be all these patients had, at one time, full vision. What about children who lost their vision? Or never had it? I think it'd be that much more impressive if a child who'd never seen a rainbow, or a butterfly, or a Slashdotted website, or a line of computer code...
While there are *fabulous* applications of this technology that might come sometime down the road, I think tere's just as cool stuff waiting right across the street.
Just my $.02
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I don't think your argument holds up. As you said, there's not an article of the Constitution granting rights to auto-owners: the technology wasn't there and the issue couldn't be addressed. Likewise, 'gun' in 1787 meant something *very* different than it does in 2002. You couldn't hope to fire off multiple shots back then nearly as quick as you can now, and the guns didn't have anything *close* to the same stopping power. And even if they did, or the Founding Fathers were somehow clarvoiant enough to see the future of weaponry, maybe they were just wrong.
Part of the idea of the Constitution is the flexibility of it. Knowing they *didn't* know everything, the Founding Fathers left the ability to 'tweak' it. It's the ultimate Open Source government, if you will: always being tweaked, never 'finished', bug updates constantly required (and usually late), and always under review.
The idea anyone should be able to have a gun becuase 'it's in the Constitution' is hogwash. You heard me: hogwash. Times have changed from the late 1700s and the same rules should no longer apply. Which is why the Second Ammendment needs updating. Oh, I fully realize it won't happen: too many people enjoy the 'freedom' it grants. But it's a danger. I'm not suggesting no one be allowed guns. But stronger gun restrictions would make things that much safer. I would argue arming one's self is a right, but not with guns. You can learn *hundreds* of forms of self-defence. Or carry nunchucks, if you like. Just as it isn't a 'right' to drive a fully-armed tank around, carrying a gun is not a right either.
Carrying this over to cars: how is driving a right? If it's a right, isn't everyone equally entitled to it? Okay! Which one of you is paying for my next car? Come on! Don't all jump in at once...
Saying something is a 'right' and, taking it a step further, that everyone should be able to do whatever they want is silly. It doesn't work when applied to guns, and works even *less* when applied to cars.
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Anyone else read the Clarke short story (can't remember the name for the life of me) where someone did this?
Unfortunatly, he didn't *cancle* the noise so much as store it in the baterty of the device. (The story was a bit short on the technical details, I admit....) This resulted in a rather large explosion, following a humorous scene where a horrible and mean opera singer was silenced with rightous justice.
Very humorous.
My concern: will my computer explode if I use this device? I mean, Clarke did predict a host of other high-tech gadgets now in use!! How do we know this isn't another one? I'm just worried that - *BOOOM* ---My computer has exploded.
-Trillian
I have a question about wireless vs wired communications systems. I am admitadly next-to clueless about telecommunications in general, but I'd always thought it would be faster and cheaper to send data over physicals wires, period. How does it work that this technology (UWB) can send data faster and cheaper than physical lines?
I'm assuming there's some key point I'm missing, but I don't know what. (If I did, I presumably wouldn't be missing it any longer...)
-Trillian