I used to work at an Office Depot that was about a block away from an Office Max. There wasn't anything secret about our secret shoppers. The Office Max people would wave at us when we wrote down their prices and we would say "hi" when they came to our place. It's a good comparison but I think it's a little off. Ebay wasn't pissed that they had high prices, they don't even set the prices of the items sold there. They just didn't want to share the market with anyone. If you wanted to look up a web auction, they wanted you to go to Ebay.com, and Ebay only. Bidder's Edge was allowing people to find auction sites they had never heard of, and Ebay (with it's huge mindshare) didn't like it.
Thats a good point. The problem is that sometimes the thing I want to buy isn't the cheapest one. I've been using pricewatch.com for years, and the items are listed ascending by price. The top few records are almost invariably complete crap. Sometimes I need to pay higher prices in exchange for the ability to have that hard drive on my desk in 18 hours. If that larger company didn't want to be indexed by pricewatch, I would be screwed.
It seems to me that a judge who used to be on the payroll of one of the parties in a case is clearly in a conflict of interest. Don't judges usually dismiss themselves as soon as they are assigned a case like this? Could someone with some real legal training explain to me and my IANAL brethren how the judge could think about presiding over this case. Thanks.
And America will spend the forseeable future bitching about how expensive electric cars are, bitching (and suing) when they want to build a nuclear power plant within 500 miles of our house, spend every other waking moment bitching about how high gas prices are, bitching about OPEC, and continue sending every drop of oil in Alaska straight to Japan.
Dear fellow Americans, Gasoline and the US Mail are the best deals around. Shut your collective pie holes. Gas is pumped out of the ground, shipped across the planet, refined, and sold for about the same price as water, which last I checked, fell from the sky.
By removing the requirement, any mention of evolution was also removed from standardized tests. With more and more pressure from administrators on teachers for high test scores, evolution would be the first thing to cut out in order to spend more time studying things that are on the test. If I remember correctly, evolution must be presented as an "unproven theory among other theories". It's not as if Kansas bio teachers are standing in front of the class quoting Genesis, but don't dismiss how important the ruling is.
When the huge pockets of the gaming industry combining forces with the vocal minority of the religious right, online gambling is doomed. ParadisePoker.com is one of the best web sites on the net. It provides fun, legit poker tables 24/7 and thousands of people have made the decision to play there. Amazon.com has taken in millions of dollars by saving people the 10 minute drive to the book store. Why can't gambling sites make millions by saving people the long and expensive trips to Casinos?
I can see Katz writting at least 8 pages on something so shockingly unoriginal.
You're on to something with the betting thing. I think you should be able to wager karma points on the word count over/under and be able to place side bets on the occurence of phrases like "Post-Columbine".
I trust Bryan Singer (The Usual Suspects) to make a good film. As excited as a I was to see a new Star Wars movie, I knew that George Lucas was a money grubbing hack and didn't expect much movie-wise.
Don't mess with the batteries, get a PCS phone (I love my Samsung 3500). It comes with free caller ID and free voicemail. I can see immediately if it's my boss or my girlfriend calling. If it's my boss, he goes into voicemail. 60 seconds later, I check my voicemail and see if the office is on fire of if they just decided to move a deadline up. If the office is on fire, I call back with "I just got out of the shower, I'll be there in 5." If they moved my deadline up, I stroll in on Monday and say, "Oh yeah, I was in the country all weekend and I didn't have digital service." Just use the technology for your own purposes.
the Dreamcast is the most obvious target for emulation on the X-Box, as it is WinCE/COM based code already. Right?
The DC is not technically WinCE based. WinCE can be loaded off of the disk, but only a few games actually use it (Worms being the only one I can think of). Most of the games are using a special Sega OS. I would think that the WinCE games could be easily made to work. The Sega based games might be a lot trickier.
Toshiba is terrified of US courts. Last year they shelled out a couple BILLION dollars in settling a class action lawsuit over a notebook floppy drive flaw that could only be produced in a lab. The Japanese honchos think that American jurys are just itching to take multi-billion dollar chunks out of big businesses, epecially foreign businesses. Read up on the smoking case in Florida and they might not be that wrong.
I know that Apple paid the producers of Mission Impossible a bunch of money to show Macs and Powerbooks quite prominently on screen. Apple went on to do commercials showing their computers in clips from the movie. I'm sure the Mac people were not pleased when Ving Rhames made a comment about his notebook being a "786".
The police are in the executive branch of the government (enforcing the laws), while judges are in the judicial branch (interpretting the laws). The judiciary is supposed to check the power of the executive branch, there is nothing "redundant" about that. One of the reasons that those requests are rarely denied is because the police know what is required to get permission and don't want to waste their own, or the judges, time making a request without reasonable suspicion. Also, just because a judge gives permission for a wiretap doesn't mean that a good defense lawyer won't get it thrown out in court.
-B
PS- I'm not saying the system works perfectly, but it is designed well.
According to my logs from today, you spent 3 hours surfing the web (an hour of that on Slashdot), an hour and a half playing Minesweeper, clipped your fingernails for 15 minutes, and wrote one email to your girlfriend. BTW, if you're going to do that thing with the baby oil, you should put a shower curtain down on the floor first.
Nitpick: Congress doesn't approve funding for Echelon (directly anyway). Recently, Congress requested information from the NSA to prove that American's privacy weren't being violated. The NSA refused, claiming Attorney-Client privledge or some other lameass excuse. If an individual tried that, they would be hauled off for contempt of congress, but the NSA managed to get away with it.
Three questions for you: 1) With the "Plasma bottle", how big and how efficient is this magnetic sail? I thought the whole point of a physical sail is that you didn't have to drag along a power supply. Needing to sustain plasma seems to defeat the purpose. 2) How much solar wind makes it out past Mars? 3) Hitting even a large sail with a ground based laser from thousands or millions of miles away seems like a hell of a shot. Would the atmosphere throw off the aim? Can it be compensated for like the new telescopes do?
Thanks. I dropped out of college before they got to that stuff.
The article and this whole discussion are about how we need to not contaminate Europa, and you go and suggest that we contaminate Earth. I would feel a lot better if the water sample stopped over at a space station for preliminary examination. If those astronauts didn't die or have alien fetuses grow inside them, then we could do further tests down here.
Have you been watching the same IBM and AT&T commercials that I have? There is most certainly a major revolution going on. The crazy guy can buy stocks from the park using his voice, for gods sake. Of course you're right, but people have always been fascinated by the new, fast, sexy stuff. That's not going to change.
<OT> What's starting to really piss me off are the genetics stories from the past 12 months. The headlines are like *big type* Gemone Project decodes entire genome, all disease and human suffering will end *little type* as soon as we annotate it and begin to understand what the hell is in there...maybe. It reminds me of *big type* You have just won ten million dollars *little type* assuming you have the winning numbers. I'm proposing a Slashdot ban on genetics milestone stories, is anyone with me? </OT>
IBM has already decided to throw a massive ammount of CPU power at protein folding. The supercomputer will be named Blue Gene (no, I'm not joking, I wish I was).
-B
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Even if your Linux box could record the shows, you would still need the programming service to let your computer know what was on. I don't see Tivo offering just the service without the hardware. I believe that they do make a profit off of the hardware, and more importantly, it's much easier to support a standard console then some geek's home brew box running a dev kernel. As more people move computers into the living room, there may be a market for a software/service package in the near future, but it probably won't be from Tivo. There are far worse business plans already running out there. *cought*NetZero*cought* -B
If someone reads this post, starts a company, and makes a million bucks, you have to buy me a case of beer.
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Would you have to say "No whammy...no whammy...STOP" when you use it?
-B
I used to work at an Office Depot that was about a block away from an Office Max. There wasn't anything secret about our secret shoppers. The Office Max people would wave at us when we wrote down their prices and we would say "hi" when they came to our place. It's a good comparison but I think it's a little off. Ebay wasn't pissed that they had high prices, they don't even set the prices of the items sold there. They just didn't want to share the market with anyone. If you wanted to look up a web auction, they wanted you to go to Ebay.com, and Ebay only. Bidder's Edge was allowing people to find auction sites they had never heard of, and Ebay (with it's huge mindshare) didn't like it.
-B
Thats a good point. The problem is that sometimes the thing I want to buy isn't the cheapest one. I've been using pricewatch.com for years, and the items are listed ascending by price. The top few records are almost invariably complete crap. Sometimes I need to pay higher prices in exchange for the ability to have that hard drive on my desk in 18 hours. If that larger company didn't want to be indexed by pricewatch, I would be screwed.
-B
It seems to me that a judge who used to be on the payroll of one of the parties in a case is clearly in a conflict of interest. Don't judges usually dismiss themselves as soon as they are assigned a case like this? Could someone with some real legal training explain to me and my IANAL brethren how the judge could think about presiding over this case. Thanks.
-B
And America will spend the forseeable future bitching about how expensive electric cars are, bitching (and suing) when they want to build a nuclear power plant within 500 miles of our house, spend every other waking moment bitching about how high gas prices are, bitching about OPEC, and continue sending every drop of oil in Alaska straight to Japan.
Dear fellow Americans,
Gasoline and the US Mail are the best deals around. Shut your collective pie holes. Gas is pumped out of the ground, shipped across the planet, refined, and sold for about the same price as water, which last I checked, fell from the sky.
-B
The person is interfering with interstate commerce, making it a federal issue.
-B
By removing the requirement, any mention of evolution was also removed from standardized tests. With more and more pressure from administrators on teachers for high test scores, evolution would be the first thing to cut out in order to spend more time studying things that are on the test.
If I remember correctly, evolution must be presented as an "unproven theory among other theories".
It's not as if Kansas bio teachers are standing in front of the class quoting Genesis, but don't dismiss how important the ruling is.
-B
I read the article and found myself agreeing with Orin Hatch for the first time in my life. I feel dirty. The bad kind of dirty.
-B
When the huge pockets of the gaming industry combining forces with the vocal minority of the religious right, online gambling is doomed. ParadisePoker.com is one of the best web sites on the net. It provides fun, legit poker tables 24/7 and thousands of people have made the decision to play there. Amazon.com has taken in millions of dollars by saving people the 10 minute drive to the book store. Why can't gambling sites make millions by saving people the long and expensive trips to Casinos?
-B
I can see Katz writting at least 8 pages on something so shockingly unoriginal.
You're on to something with the betting thing. I think you should be able to wager karma points on the word count over/under and be able to place side bets on the occurence of phrases like "Post-Columbine".
-B
I trust Bryan Singer (The Usual Suspects) to make a good film. As excited as a I was to see a new Star Wars movie, I knew that George Lucas was a money grubbing hack and didn't expect much movie-wise.
-B
Don't mess with the batteries, get a PCS phone (I love my Samsung 3500). It comes with free caller ID and free voicemail. I can see immediately if it's my boss or my girlfriend calling. If it's my boss, he goes into voicemail. 60 seconds later, I check my voicemail and see if the office is on fire of if they just decided to move a deadline up. If the office is on fire, I call back with "I just got out of the shower, I'll be there in 5." If they moved my deadline up, I stroll in on Monday and say, "Oh yeah, I was in the country all weekend and I didn't have digital service." Just use the technology for your own purposes.
-B
The DC is not technically WinCE based. WinCE can be loaded off of the disk, but only a few games actually use it (Worms being the only one I can think of). Most of the games are using a special Sega OS. I would think that the WinCE games could be easily made to work. The Sega based games might be a lot trickier.
-B
Toshiba is terrified of US courts. Last year they shelled out a couple BILLION dollars in settling a class action lawsuit over a notebook floppy drive flaw that could only be produced in a lab. The Japanese honchos think that American jurys are just itching to take multi-billion dollar chunks out of big businesses, epecially foreign businesses. Read up on the smoking case in Florida and they might not be that wrong.
-B
Smells like...victory.
-B
I know that Apple paid the producers of Mission Impossible a bunch of money to show Macs and Powerbooks quite prominently on screen. Apple went on to do commercials showing their computers in clips from the movie. I'm sure the Mac people were not pleased when Ving Rhames made a comment about his notebook being a "786".
-B
The police are in the executive branch of the government (enforcing the laws), while judges are in the judicial branch (interpretting the laws). The judiciary is supposed to check the power of the executive branch, there is nothing "redundant" about that.
One of the reasons that those requests are rarely denied is because the police know what is required to get permission and don't want to waste their own, or the judges, time making a request without reasonable suspicion. Also, just because a judge gives permission for a wiretap doesn't mean that a good defense lawyer won't get it thrown out in court.
-B
PS- I'm not saying the system works perfectly, but it is designed well.
According to my logs from today, you spent 3 hours surfing the web (an hour of that on Slashdot), an hour and a half playing Minesweeper, clipped your fingernails for 15 minutes, and wrote one email to your girlfriend. BTW, if you're going to do that thing with the baby oil, you should put a shower curtain down on the floor first.
-Agent B
Nitpick: Congress doesn't approve funding for Echelon (directly anyway). Recently, Congress requested information from the NSA to prove that American's privacy weren't being violated. The NSA refused, claiming Attorney-Client privledge or some other lameass excuse. If an individual tried that, they would be hauled off for contempt of congress, but the NSA managed to get away with it.
-B
Three questions for you:
1) With the "Plasma bottle", how big and how efficient is this magnetic sail? I thought the whole point of a physical sail is that you didn't have to drag along a power supply. Needing to sustain plasma seems to defeat the purpose.
2) How much solar wind makes it out past Mars?
3) Hitting even a large sail with a ground based laser from thousands or millions of miles away seems like a hell of a shot. Would the atmosphere throw off the aim? Can it be compensated for like the new telescopes do?
Thanks. I dropped out of college before they got to that stuff.
-B
The article and this whole discussion are about how we need to not contaminate Europa, and you go and suggest that we contaminate Earth. I would feel a lot better if the water sample stopped over at a space station for preliminary examination. If those astronauts didn't die or have alien fetuses grow inside them, then we could do further tests down here.
-B
Have you been watching the same IBM and AT&T commercials that I have? There is most certainly a major revolution going on. The crazy guy can buy stocks from the park using his voice, for gods sake.
Of course you're right, but people have always been fascinated by the new, fast, sexy stuff. That's not going to change.
<OT> What's starting to really piss me off are the genetics stories from the past 12 months. The headlines are like *big type* Gemone Project decodes entire genome, all disease and human suffering will end *little type* as soon as we annotate it and begin to understand what the hell is in there...maybe. It reminds me of *big type* You have just won ten million dollars *little type* assuming you have the winning numbers. I'm proposing a Slashdot ban on genetics milestone stories, is anyone with me? </OT>
-B
IBM has already decided to throw a massive ammount of CPU power at protein folding. The supercomputer will be named Blue Gene (no, I'm not joking, I wish I was).
-B
Even if your Linux box could record the shows, you would still need the programming service to let your computer know what was on. I don't see Tivo offering just the service without the hardware. I believe that they do make a profit off of the hardware, and more importantly, it's much easier to support a standard console then some geek's home brew box running a dev kernel. As more people move computers into the living room, there may be a market for a software/service package in the near future, but it probably won't be from Tivo. There are far worse business plans already running out there. *cought*NetZero*cought*
-B
If someone reads this post, starts a company, and makes a million bucks, you have to buy me a case of beer.
Good call. If Tom Green starts making fiercly nationalist speeches, we'll be ready.
-B