This is like Ayn Rand's wet dream. If she were alive right now she'd be pointing at this company and screaming that it proves her point about Humanitarian buisinesses. OF COURSE THIS WAS GOING TO FAIL. Selling computers to the poor, and only to the poor? Where's the profit motive? Where's the money that is going to support this buisiness?
I had a friend recently who switched from Apple to PC. This guy was always a gung-ho apple user. Always telling me how much better his G4 was than my PC. I was quite surprised to see him make the switch. I suppose if a true believer like him can be converted Apple is really screwing up.
I was a Psychology major, and Computer Science major. There is a GIGANTIC/HUGE/GRANDEOUSLY/MONSTROUSLY/BIG difference between an arts major and a sciences major. I thought Psych was hard until I picked up the second major of CS. Suddenly I went from a B psych student to a straight A psych student having realized that NOTHING in Psych was hard compared to the rigors of lower division CS courses. (Our lower division CS courses were meant to weed out those who weren't supposed to be there.)
I think you should e-mail the writer of that New York Times article with a copy of Katz article. Maybe we can get him a Kevin Mitnick like jail sentence for plagerism.
This film didn't shock anybody. The critics pretty much universly loved the film. JonKatz should do just a tad more research before he bases an entire article off of a preposterous claim.
If you just go to RottenTomatoes.com which compiles move reviews into one big list and takes the ratio of good to bad you'd know that SpiderMan got an unusually high 84% positive reviews. Check out the reviews
Offtopic: also check out the review for one of the worst movies of all time: Battlefield Earth. Some of the reviews are so funny it nearly makes me want to cry.
You know... it's funny. In one breath many of you are like, "He makes these films so trivial." And in the next your practically asking for Baywatch like casting (ie, nothing but a body without acting skills). Make up your minds. Do you want a good story, or do you want flim-flam?
I will not be going to see it opening weekend. If I hear it's better than the The Phantom "Screw You Out Of Your Hard Earned Dollars Faster Than a Vegas Hooker" Menace than perhaps I'll cough up the $9.50 for a movie ticket.
Realize that 'michael' posted the last story, and CmdrTaco posted this one.
SEE!?! SEE!?! You're in on the conspiracy too! You know, if Darth Vader can be looks dad too, perhaps CmdrTaco can be michael (an angel played by John Travolta).
I couldn't agree with you more. I haven't seen an episode of Farscape in over a year. There were two problems.
The first problem: some west coast cable companies use the east coast feed. Meaning Farscape came on at 5 or 6pm... That was how I ended up seeing it most of the time. I moved to AT&T broadband, they use the west coast feed. So now Farscape is on at 9pm. I have not seen an episode since. WHO THE HELL WATCHES TV ON A FRIDAY AT 9pm!? I'm sorry, but just because I'm a Sci Fi fan does NOT mean I don't have friends and a social life to attend to. Second problem: I can't keep up with all the time switches, all the weeks it's not showing, when it starts again, blah blah blah. Just show it consistently!!!
I know here in the US nobody would care if you announced you were leaving after 15 months. However I don't know how it would go over in the UK. You're talking two very different job markets. On the other hand, don't mention it, and then just quit the job. Don't tell them you're leaving because you're going on vacation... just quit. You can do that right?
How morbid of you Jon. Picking a national tragedy as an opportunistic center piece for your article. I appluad you in your complete inability to grasp how shameful your writing is.
I hardly think this a slow news day. Perhaps if you had read any non-tech sites you would have seen that Israel was hit by a particurally evil suicide bomb last night. Dudley Moore -AND- Milton Berle both died late yesterday. Arab piece talks. Reving up for war in Iraq. Energy meeting papers scandal.
In some ways I am glad. It's nice to see the people who should not be here going back to whatever they did before, or whatever new sparkly thing that they have their eyes on now.
Maybe eventually the web well go back to the techies who originally created. Sure it will be smaller, sure it will be less pretty... but who's to say one can't find zen in a command line?
I think there should be a Federal law stating that all users can make account ending in "NoAds" (for example TheGenerationNoAds@hotmail.com) and that spammers cannot send mail to that account. Explicit state that if the e-mail account is based in the United States that any mail sent to that account must follow the law, regardless of orgin. Then have the penalty be Life in prisonment, or the death penalty, depending on the serverity.
Then form a special federal agency that acts as international death troopers. Any country which refuses to turn over a spammer for trial in the US will have covert death troopers invade their soil and kill the spammer.
WINDOWS!?! WINDOWS SUCKS! HOW DARE YOU BetRAY THE PENGUIN! LINUX IS GOD!!!........... OH you meant windows like the thing made of glass where you see the outside world. yeah, those are nice.
Everybody has the right to contradict one's self. However it is usually considered good practice to mention that you have changed your position and list your reasoning for it. Changing your position because it's convenient for an article might lead readers to think he doesn't care what he writes about as long as he gets his fee.
Actually, I'd rather make my external arbiter Ariel the flying dragon thing from The Never Ending Story as long as we're using fictional creatures to arbitrate our lives.
Darn Slashdots system of making posts higher up in the thread disapear. I thought you were replying to me. My original response was out of context. My apologies.
Right. Well since I don't believe in any god, and I know all religious texts were written by men then all morals by all people would be subjective.
I can easily argue that having a moral as simplistic as "Do unto others as you would others do unto you." is a higher, simpler, better moral.
I don't want to be killed, so I don't kill. I don't want my stuff stolen, so I don't steal. I don't want my children brain washed by a religion, so I don't brain wash your children.
What you believe constitute a decent society may not be what I consider a decent society. I don't want my children exposed to fairy tales about super natural creators of the universe. I want my kids to believe in themselves and to be mindful of the traps of irrationality that religion presents. If you disgaree with that... I'm sorry. But I should not have to worry about my children having access to ANY religious website.
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This is like Ayn Rand's wet dream. If she were alive right now she'd be pointing at this company and screaming that it proves her point about Humanitarian buisinesses. OF COURSE THIS WAS GOING TO FAIL. Selling computers to the poor, and only to the poor? Where's the profit motive? Where's the money that is going to support this buisiness?
I had a friend recently who switched from Apple to PC. This guy was always a gung-ho apple user. Always telling me how much better his G4 was than my PC. I was quite surprised to see him make the switch. I suppose if a true believer like him can be converted Apple is really screwing up.
I was a Psychology major, and Computer Science major. There is a GIGANTIC/HUGE/GRANDEOUSLY/MONSTROUSLY/BIG difference between an arts major and a sciences major. I thought Psych was hard until I picked up the second major of CS. Suddenly I went from a B psych student to a straight A psych student having realized that NOTHING in Psych was hard compared to the rigors of lower division CS courses. (Our lower division CS courses were meant to weed out those who weren't supposed to be there.)
Most University dorms use the slide card door locks now. No lockpick set is going to do any good on a slide card lock.
I think you should e-mail the writer of that New York Times article with a copy of Katz article. Maybe we can get him a Kevin Mitnick like jail sentence for plagerism.
maybe Jon Katz has the Really Special Edition, who knows
JonKatz is Special.
This film didn't shock anybody. The critics pretty much universly loved the film. JonKatz should do just a tad more research before he bases an entire article off of a preposterous claim.
If you just go to RottenTomatoes.com which compiles move reviews into one big list and takes the ratio of good to bad you'd know that SpiderMan got an unusually high 84% positive reviews. Check out the reviews
Offtopic: also check out the review for one of the worst movies of all time: Battlefield Earth. Some of the reviews are so funny it nearly makes me want to cry.
That's because you are a mindless lemming who deserves to be raped of his money before running over the cliff with his fellow lemmings.
You know... it's funny. In one breath many of you are like, "He makes these films so trivial." And in the next your practically asking for Baywatch like casting (ie, nothing but a body without acting skills). Make up your minds. Do you want a good story, or do you want flim-flam?
I will not be going to see it opening weekend. If I hear it's better than the The Phantom "Screw You Out Of Your Hard Earned Dollars Faster Than a Vegas Hooker" Menace than perhaps I'll cough up the $9.50 for a movie ticket.
Realize that 'michael' posted the last story, and CmdrTaco posted this one.
SEE!?! SEE!?! You're in on the conspiracy too! You know, if Darth Vader can be looks dad too, perhaps CmdrTaco can be michael (an angel played by John Travolta).
I couldn't agree with you more. I haven't seen an episode of Farscape in over a year. There were two problems.
The first problem: some west coast cable companies use the east coast feed. Meaning Farscape came on at 5 or 6pm... That was how I ended up seeing it most of the time.
I moved to AT&T broadband, they use the west coast feed. So now Farscape is on at 9pm. I have not seen an episode since. WHO THE HELL WATCHES TV ON A FRIDAY AT 9pm!? I'm sorry, but just because I'm a Sci Fi fan does NOT mean I don't have friends and a social life to attend to.
Second problem: I can't keep up with all the time switches, all the weeks it's not showing, when it starts again, blah blah blah. Just show it consistently!!!
I know here in the US nobody would care if you announced you were leaving after 15 months. However I don't know how it would go over in the UK. You're talking two very different job markets. On the other hand, don't mention it, and then just quit the job. Don't tell them you're leaving because you're going on vacation... just quit. You can do that right?
How morbid of you Jon. Picking a national tragedy as an opportunistic center piece for your article. I appluad you in your complete inability to grasp how shameful your writing is.
April's Fools (I hope.)
I hardly think this a slow news day. Perhaps if you had read any non-tech sites you would have seen that Israel was hit by a particurally evil suicide bomb last night. Dudley Moore -AND- Milton Berle both died late yesterday. Arab piece talks. Reving up for war in Iraq. Energy meeting papers scandal.
Hardly a slow day for news.
In some ways I am glad. It's nice to see the people who should not be here going back to whatever they did before, or whatever new sparkly thing that they have their eyes on now.
Maybe eventually the web well go back to the techies who originally created. Sure it will be smaller, sure it will be less pretty... but who's to say one can't find zen in a command line?
I think there should be a Federal law stating that all users can make account ending in "NoAds" (for example TheGenerationNoAds@hotmail.com) and that spammers cannot send mail to that account. Explicit state that if the e-mail account is based in the United States that any mail sent to that account must follow the law, regardless of orgin. Then have the penalty be Life in prisonment, or the death penalty, depending on the serverity.
Then form a special federal agency that acts as international death troopers. Any country which refuses to turn over a spammer for trial in the US will have covert death troopers invade their soil and kill the spammer.
Simple.
WINDOWS!?! WINDOWS SUCKS! HOW DARE YOU BetRAY THE PENGUIN! LINUX IS GOD!!!........... OH you meant windows like the thing made of glass where you see the outside world. yeah, those are nice.
Everybody has the right to contradict one's self. However it is usually considered good practice to mention that you have changed your position and list your reasoning for it. Changing your position because it's convenient for an article might lead readers to think he doesn't care what he writes about as long as he gets his fee.
Jon haven't you argued about a hundred times before that culture is being destroyed by Cyber space? Not the other way around?
Perhaps if you actually believed in your stances your articles wouldn't read like such utter crap.
Actually, I'd rather make my external arbiter Ariel the flying dragon thing from The Never Ending Story as long as we're using fictional creatures to arbitrate our lives.
Darn Slashdots system of making posts higher up in the thread disapear. I thought you were replying to me. My original response was out of context. My apologies.
Right. Well since I don't believe in any god, and I know all religious texts were written by men then all morals by all people would be subjective.
I can easily argue that having a moral as simplistic as "Do unto others as you would others do unto you." is a higher, simpler, better moral.
I don't want to be killed, so I don't kill.
I don't want my stuff stolen, so I don't steal.
I don't want my children brain washed by a religion, so I don't brain wash your children.
Pretty frickin simple buddy.
What you believe constitute a decent society may not be what I consider a decent society. I don't want my children exposed to fairy tales about super natural creators of the universe. I want my kids to believe in themselves and to be mindful of the traps of irrationality that religion presents. If you disgaree with that... I'm sorry. But I should not have to worry about my children having access to ANY religious website.