Adelphia's bid of 1700 cartons of cigarettes, 690 Snickers bars, and the promise of desserts for the next 15-20 years was not accepted for some reason.
A good friend of mine wasn't 'leet enough to have a full PC, but he did have an LCD screen, DVD Player and Gamecube in his front seat. We used to play Smash Brothers and Monkey Ball in drive thrus and in Chicago traffic. Being able to do something fun while the employees at Steak & Shake take their sweet time is so damn great. He used to watch movies on the interstate, but I can't recommend that.
Why in the world did East Germany have the word "democratic" in its official name? Isn't North Korea called the Democratic Republic of Korea? Makes no sense to me. Anyone know why a dictatorships and a puppet government would think they're democratic?
Yes, it's offtopic from the main story. It's on topic from the parent post. Mod me down if you're a cock.
Ethics isn't based on science or reason. What we call ethics is based on our evolution as a social primate. Killing and stealing are "wrong" because a small social group can't do very well if they're killing each other and taking each other's stuff.
The only one I know of is from the 70s and on film. They played it at Northwestern's student union during their Memorial Day party weekend 3 or 4 years ago. I was so drunk that I don't remember any of it. I'm pretty sure John Holmes was in it. Was anyone else there and not in a drunken stupor?
([number of shows on television] - 4) / [number of shows on television] * 100
Simpsons, Sopranos, Junkyard Wars, Iron Chef.... and actually all four of those are in diferent stages of decline.
The best thing on TV in the past 3 years was Band of Brothers, which just came out of DVD. It's the best Chrismas present you can get a military history buff.
When I first got my Tivo, I lived with three other guys at college. Someone gave three thumbs up to SportCenter (because it's the best show ever) and the Tivo would try to record it every time it was on. I'll bet that show's on 40 times a week.
Since my name is Barry, not many. But my mom has a good friend named Bart Simpson. There was a lawyer in Indianapolis, who was born in the 20s, named Donald Duck.
MS might sick their lawyers, but probably not. Making a big deal out of this will bring more publicity to the incident. They want as little publicity about this as possible.
I'm with you on that one. Not only are the gadgets themselves pretty dumb, but the applications of the gadgets are insanely limited. Yet, stragely enough, Bond finds himself in the exact situation where that gadget can come into play.
The BMW that you can drive from a little control pad? For all those times you need to hide in the back seat and control the car, duh. Why are you able to get into the back seat but not the front seat? Ummm...hhmmmm...
The science is right, but I think your scale is wrong. We're talking about objects measured in kilometers. The objects are WAY too big to just burn up in the atmoshere. An object that can be chopped in half and have both pieces burn up was never a real threat anyway.
That ability to hit a slowly moving ball has been essential to the survival of all of our human ancestors and back into our non-human ones. The "software" that allows us to do that would have a version number in the millions. The software that allows the robots to kick the ball is in the single digit version numbers. The robots have a lot of catching up to do.
"...people felt let down because they had imagined something more"
"Firstly, the rampant speculation was NOT hype. It was speculation."
There was real, honest to god, HYPE before they unveiled this thing. There were quotes from famous people "in the know" that were released to the press.
Steve Jobs - "If enough people see the machine, you won't have to convince them to architect cities around it. It'll just happen."
Steve Kemper - "[IT will] sweep over the world and change lives, cities, and ways of thinking,"
Someone at Credit Suisse First Boston (which invested money) said that Kamen would be wealthier than Bill Gates in five years.
Bob Metcalf called it "more important than the internet."
That is pure hype. IIRC, two of the big theories for IT where a flying car and a cheap/free power generator for each home. If you hype a product to the point that people are expecting cold fusion or Jetson's cars, and you deliver a scooter, people are going to be pissed and dismissive.
In a strange twist, ZDnet had an article from August saying that the Segway isn't really Ginger.
My question from the first second I saw the thing is "Why don't you put a little third wheel on there and lose 3/4ths of the price?" Maybe that's why I'm not a millionaire visionary.
"Censorship" gets thrown around a lot around here. Censorship requires that material is made unavailable, period. That can be accomplished by not allowing something to be produced in the first place, or if it has already been produced, not seen by anyone. Someone deciding that material doesn't meet thier standards and refusing to put thier name or approval on it IS NOT censorship.
John Waters tells great stories about the censorship in Baltimore when he was first starting out. The censor (which was a job) was a 65 year old woman who would watch two or more films side by side on small projectors. If she saw material she found objectionable, she would stop the projector, find the frames, and cut them out of the film with scissors. Every film shown in Baltimore had to go through this process. THAT is real censorship.
Every game but one, poker. You're not playing against the house. You rent the table from the house (paying the rake), and you are free to take money from drunk men with medallions and senior citizens.
Go through the free registration. Is your time really that valuable? You're reading Slashdot, aren't you?
Tell them that you're a 90 year old high school dropout millionaire from Afganistan (which is usually the first country on the alphabatized list). Give your email address as Fake@AOL.com (might as well waste some of their CPU time while you're at it).
Rambus never produced anything. They did the R&D, licensed the patents, and let other people do the grunt work. Right at the top of their web site they claim to be an "intellectual property company". Their stock price is $5.58, down 95% from it's high, but I think the idea is pretty good.
The companies that need lots of CPU power have one thing in common, big bucks. There aren't any Ma & Pa car manufacturers or pharmecutical companies. They have the money to afford big iron and only bought it because they need it. The stuff they run on it tends to be insanely valuable and not the sort of stuff most execs are willing to let get processed off site. What do you think the blueprints for next year's Mustang are worth? The research for Lilly's next big drug?
Dumb terminals may have a place in the future, but IMO, not in the market IBM talks about in the article and not anywhere close to that time frame.
It's also IMO the best thing Wired has ever published (but I love Stephenson too, so I'm biased).
The cables he followed were not continuous, so it doesn't get the record.
Now that I think about it, there was a fiction piece in Wired years ago about a virus that killed 98% of the world's population. That was a great piece, but it was fiction not an article.
The magnetic containment doesn't have to be electromagnetic. Natural permanent magnets have nearly 0 chance of failure. The little plastic fruits have been sticking to my grandmother's fridge for 50 years now.
Even more impressive than that, every single one of the paper ballots was counted in 6 hours, when they announced the results. They apparently had a lot fewer "hanging chads" than Florida did.
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7 months is a popular one.
I worked with a guy that drove directly from the doctor's office to his girlfriend's mom's house to announce thier engagement and look up a
caterer.
-B
Adelphia's bid of 1700 cartons of cigarettes, 690 Snickers bars, and the promise of desserts for the next 15-20 years was not accepted for some reason.
-B
A good friend of mine wasn't 'leet enough to have a full PC, but he did have an LCD screen, DVD Player and Gamecube in his front seat. We used to play Smash Brothers and Monkey Ball in drive thrus and in Chicago traffic. Being able to do something fun while the employees at Steak & Shake take their sweet time is so damn great. He used to watch movies on the interstate, but I can't recommend that.
-B
Why in the world did East Germany have the word "democratic" in its official name? Isn't North Korea called the Democratic Republic of Korea? Makes no sense to me. Anyone know why a dictatorships and a puppet government would think they're democratic?
Yes, it's offtopic from the main story. It's on topic from the parent post. Mod me down if you're a cock.
-B
Ethics isn't based on science or reason. What we call ethics is based on our evolution as a social primate. Killing and stealing are "wrong" because a small social group can't do very well if they're killing each other and taking each other's stuff.
-B
The only one I know of is from the 70s and on film. They played it at Northwestern's student union during their Memorial Day party weekend 3 or 4 years ago. I was so drunk that I don't remember any of it. I'm pretty sure John Holmes was in it. Was anyone else there and not in a drunken stupor?
-B
Here's the formula for you:
([number of shows on television] - 4) / [number of shows on television] * 100
Simpsons, Sopranos, Junkyard Wars, Iron Chef....
and actually all four of those are in diferent stages of decline.
The best thing on TV in the past 3 years was Band of Brothers, which just came out of DVD. It's the best Chrismas present you can get a military history buff.
-B
When I first got my Tivo, I lived with three other guys at college. Someone gave three thumbs up to SportCenter (because it's the best show ever) and the Tivo would try to record it every time it was on. I'll bet that show's on 40 times a week.
-B
Since my name is Barry, not many. But my mom has a good friend named Bart Simpson. There was a lawyer in Indianapolis, who was born in the 20s, named Donald Duck.
-B
MS might sick their lawyers, but probably not. Making a big deal out of this will bring more publicity to the incident. They want as little publicity about this as possible.
-B
Money talks...bullshit walks.
/.ers run an MS OS (myself included). They really do have a target audience here.
OSDN needs advertising money. MS has it.
Don't forget that a recent poll showed that 50% of
-B
I'm with you on that one. Not only are the gadgets themselves pretty dumb, but the applications of the gadgets are insanely limited. Yet, stragely enough, Bond finds himself in the exact situation where that gadget can come into play.
The BMW that you can drive from a little control pad? For all those times you need to hide in the back seat and control the car, duh. Why are you able to get into the back seat but not the front seat? Ummm...hhmmmm...
-B
The science is right, but I think your scale is wrong. We're talking about objects measured in kilometers. The objects are WAY too big to just burn up in the atmoshere. An object that can be chopped in half and have both pieces burn up was never a real threat anyway.
-B
That ability to hit a slowly moving ball has been essential to the survival of all of our human ancestors and back into our non-human ones. The "software" that allows us to do that would have a version number in the millions. The software that allows the robots to kick the ball is in the single digit version numbers. The robots have a lot of catching up to do.
-B
"...people felt let down because they had imagined something more"
"Firstly, the rampant speculation was NOT hype. It was speculation."
There was real, honest to god, HYPE before they unveiled this thing. There were quotes from famous people "in the know" that were released to the press.
Steve Jobs - "If enough people see the machine, you won't have to convince them to architect cities around it. It'll just happen."
Steve Kemper - "[IT will] sweep over the world and change lives, cities, and ways of thinking,"
Someone at Credit Suisse First Boston (which invested money) said that Kamen would be wealthier than Bill Gates in five years.
Bob Metcalf called it "more important than the internet."
That is pure hype. IIRC, two of the big theories for IT where a flying car and a cheap/free power generator for each home. If you hype a product to the point that people are expecting cold fusion or Jetson's cars, and you deliver a scooter, people are going to be pissed and dismissive.
In a strange twist, ZDnet had an article from August saying that the Segway isn't really Ginger.
My question from the first second I saw the thing is "Why don't you put a little third wheel on there and lose 3/4ths of the price?" Maybe that's why I'm not a millionaire visionary.
-B
Having the Enterprise's computer voice nag you to take out the trash must have been hilarious.
In TNG, did they ever mention why Troi's mom had the same voice as the computer?
-B
"Censorship" gets thrown around a lot around here. Censorship requires that material is made unavailable, period. That can be accomplished by not allowing something to be produced in the first place, or if it has already been produced, not seen by anyone. Someone deciding that material doesn't meet thier standards and refusing to put thier name or approval on it IS NOT censorship.
John Waters tells great stories about the censorship in Baltimore when he was first starting out. The censor (which was a job) was a 65 year old woman who would watch two or more films side by side on small projectors. If she saw material she found objectionable, she would stop the projector, find the frames, and cut them out of the film with scissors. Every film shown in Baltimore had to go through this process. THAT is real censorship.
-B
Every game but one, poker. You're not playing against the house. You rent the table from the house (paying the rake), and you are free to take money from drunk men with medallions and senior citizens.
-B
Orrin Hatch is a published Christian musician. He actually understands the bottom rung of the recording industry because he's on it.
He's a smart guy who seems to really understand the repercussions of the bills in question.
He's also very conservative and very religious.
Don't just vote for the guy because he doesn't like the RIAA. Vote for him because you agree with his views.
IMO, one of the best guys in Congress, Paul Wellstone, died recently.
-B
Another option:
Go through the free registration. Is your time really that valuable? You're reading Slashdot, aren't you?
Tell them that you're a 90 year old high school dropout millionaire from Afganistan (which is usually the first country on the alphabatized list). Give your email address as Fake@AOL.com (might as well waste some of their CPU time while you're at it).
-B
Rambus never produced anything. They did the R&D, licensed the patents, and let other people do the grunt work. Right at the top of their web site they claim to be an "intellectual property company". Their stock price is $5.58, down 95% from it's high, but I think the idea is pretty good.
-B
The companies that need lots of CPU power have one thing in common, big bucks. There aren't any Ma & Pa car manufacturers or pharmecutical companies. They have the money to afford big iron and only bought it because they need it. The stuff they run on it tends to be insanely valuable and not the sort of stuff most execs are willing to let get processed off site. What do you think the blueprints for next year's Mustang are worth? The research for Lilly's next big drug?
Dumb terminals may have a place in the future, but IMO, not in the market IBM talks about in the article and not anywhere close to that time frame.
-B
It's also IMO the best thing Wired has ever published (but I love Stephenson too, so I'm biased).
The cables he followed were not continuous, so it doesn't get the record.
Now that I think about it, there was a fiction piece in Wired years ago about a virus that killed 98% of the world's population. That was a great piece, but it was fiction not an article.
-B
The magnetic containment doesn't have to be electromagnetic. Natural permanent magnets have nearly 0 chance of failure. The little plastic fruits have been sticking to my grandmother's fridge for 50 years now.
-B
Even more impressive than that, every single one of the paper ballots was counted in 6 hours, when they announced the results. They apparently had a lot fewer "hanging chads" than Florida did.
-B