Re:So I guess he doesn't
on
The Music Man
·
· Score: 1
I realize it's a joke...
But I believe the Sex Insitute (or something) in California already does this. You hear all kinds of strange and frightening stories out of that place.
Um, but I like the cardboard-box retail model . Why would I want to punish them for it?
If I buy a game, I'd like to know that it's there, sitting on my shelf, in case I want to dust it off 5, 10, 20 years down the road. The nice box art and the printed manuals don't hurt, either.
You can pick out some more trends by looking at the Mississippi part of the map. There are several distinct blue areas across the state.
The largest one, in the northwest along the river, corresponds to the Delta, the home of dirt-poor farm dwellers (mostly Black) and birthplace of the blues.
The other small blue areas to the east and in the southern part of the state correspond to counties with large state universities.
I can only guess why there's a blue spike on the coast - it's a relatively heavily-populated city area.
Just as scary, but somewhat more plausible: what if Bush today or tomorrow "slips" and claims very publicly that Bin Laden has been captured. Many Kerry voters instead go for Bush, and he wins. Then, after the election, he admits his mistake.
What would happen? He couldn't be impeached because he didn't break the law. It's not like the US has a California "recall" option, after all.
Adding the.xxx domain may also allow ISPs to go the way of PPV cable and satellite - they would charge an extra monthly fee for access. That would quickly put an end to the number of.xxx domains.
I hope someone writes a validating HTML rendering engine (or adds a validating mode to gecko) so there can be a browser out there that does this. I think you'll find that even with the Firefox UI, virtually nobody will use it.
If OpenStep is simply a framework, then why do all of its apps have the same look and feel? Is it also a GUI toolkit, like GTK+ or QT? Is work ongoing to make it less... ugly?
Is the reason the desktop looks like that just a coincidence, or is there a reason that OpenStep-based desktops all have the menu at the top right and the docks around the side?
I give it, and I haven't received any telemarketing from them. When I'm there in the store, I'd just rather give it to them than decline. Maybe it's because I've never been burned by it, I don't know.
Maybe, but I doubt it. In my Wal-Mart, at least, you're not really listening to the CD, you just scan it and it feeds you a couple 30-second selections from the CD. It'd be trivial to feed edited clips when you scan an unedited CD.
I concur. Here in Starkville, Mississippi (a college town, no less), people go to the Super Wal-Mart all the time, for everything. There are plenty of local stores closer to campus, and there is an old downtown area, but most of it is run-down and dying. The reason? Wal-Mart is newer, cleaner, more spacious, cheaper, and has more selection.
A couple weeks ago, I had to buy CD-Rs. There's no Best Buy or CompUSA in our town, only small stores and Wal-Mart. I thought about where would have CD-Rs... the local computer builder? Radio Shack? The local CD shop? The video game store? All of those are iffy, probably overpriced, would have little selection, and would probably be wasting my time if they didn't have what I wanted. I actually went to the local CD shop before going to Wal-Mart, but they didn't have the selection I was looking for.
The same with weekly groceries. Last week, I went shopping for random household items, and went to Wal-Mart. In the span of my hour or so there, I bought food, a cheap-o keyboard and mouse for an old computer, a screwdriver, and a HEPA filter. If I had used only local retailers, I would have visited the local grocery store, Radio Shack or the local shop for the keyboard/mouse, ACE or something for the screwdriver, and who knows where for the air filter.
Being in this college town, the students (especially freshmen) are also mostly transitory. They don't really have the desire to build relationships with local shops, or have much desire to check out the local hardware store for their hammer. They know Wal-Mart has what they need, will be competitively priced, and will be relatively anonymous.
Here, Wal-Mart is popular because of convenience, atmosphere, selection, price, and a host of other reasons. Let's face it, for a lot of young people, it takes effort to get to know anything other than Wal-Mart, and that effort may not be worth it.
Slashdot Mirror
I realize it's a joke...
But I believe the Sex Insitute (or something) in California already does this. You hear all kinds of strange and frightening stories out of that place.
Fedora gets timely security updates?
What if you uninstall it and then reinstall it later? Do you have to authenticate once per install, or once ever?
I've had plenty of situations where I've been stuck without a connection and installed a favorite game for some single-player goodness.
Um, but I like the cardboard-box retail model . Why would I want to punish them for it?
If I buy a game, I'd like to know that it's there, sitting on my shelf, in case I want to dust it off 5, 10, 20 years down the road. The nice box art and the printed manuals don't hurt, either.
You can pick out some more trends by looking at the Mississippi part of the map. There are several distinct blue areas across the state.
The largest one, in the northwest along the river, corresponds to the Delta, the home of dirt-poor farm dwellers (mostly Black) and birthplace of the blues.
The other small blue areas to the east and in the southern part of the state correspond to counties with large state universities.
I can only guess why there's a blue spike on the coast - it's a relatively heavily-populated city area.
Kerry supports a draft? Trustworthy link, please?
Just as scary, but somewhat more plausible: what if Bush today or tomorrow "slips" and claims very publicly that Bin Laden has been captured. Many Kerry voters instead go for Bush, and he wins. Then, after the election, he admits his mistake.
What would happen? He couldn't be impeached because he didn't break the law. It's not like the US has a California "recall" option, after all.
Adding the .xxx domain may also allow ISPs to go the way of PPV cable and satellite - they would charge an extra monthly fee for access. That would quickly put an end to the number of .xxx domains.
What about all the nuclear waste? Is that not "bad for the environment"?
At least get your conspiracy theory straight. It should be that the radiation trapped inside the Van Allen belts is too high.
Of course, it's all been discounted here, among other places.
Summary: they were only in the belts for about 4 hours, and got about the same radiation level as a chest X-ray.
But doesn't the Neuros have open-source firmware? Does the ihp120 offer that as well?
Well, they didn't supply the actual questions they asked, so this could either be a miscommunication on the poll side or the writeup side.
Yeah, you're right about the HD radio. But that won't solve the commercials problem.
Also, Sirius is in Chrysler and Ford, so things may be looking up for them.
How about a javascript whitelist like they do with ActiveX and XPI now?
You visit a site with some script in it, and a bar appears that says "Do you want to allow this site to execute script?" with a Yes or No option.
On Yes, the site would be added to the 'allowed' list and you wouldn't be prompted for it later on.
Does Motorola have a product page about it anywhere? I can't seem to find mention of it on motorola.com.
I find it strange that some companies simply don't acknowledge their own products.
I hope someone writes a validating HTML rendering engine (or adds a validating mode to gecko) so there can be a browser out there that does this. I think you'll find that even with the Firefox UI, virtually nobody will use it.
Here's a corollary question:
If OpenStep is simply a framework, then why do all of its apps have the same look and feel? Is it also a GUI toolkit, like GTK+ or QT? Is work ongoing to make it less... ugly?
Is the reason the desktop looks like that just a coincidence, or is there a reason that OpenStep-based desktops all have the menu at the top right and the docks around the side?
We'll see what happens to this guy.
I give it, and I haven't received any telemarketing from them. When I'm there in the store, I'd just rather give it to them than decline. Maybe it's because I've never been burned by it, I don't know.
Maybe, but I doubt it. In my Wal-Mart, at least, you're not really listening to the CD, you just scan it and it feeds you a couple 30-second selections from the CD. It'd be trivial to feed edited clips when you scan an unedited CD.
I concur. Here in Starkville, Mississippi (a college town, no less), people go to the Super Wal-Mart all the time, for everything. There are plenty of local stores closer to campus, and there is an old downtown area, but most of it is run-down and dying. The reason? Wal-Mart is newer, cleaner, more spacious, cheaper, and has more selection.
A couple weeks ago, I had to buy CD-Rs. There's no Best Buy or CompUSA in our town, only small stores and Wal-Mart. I thought about where would have CD-Rs... the local computer builder? Radio Shack? The local CD shop? The video game store? All of those are iffy, probably overpriced, would have little selection, and would probably be wasting my time if they didn't have what I wanted. I actually went to the local CD shop before going to Wal-Mart, but they didn't have the selection I was looking for.
The same with weekly groceries. Last week, I went shopping for random household items, and went to Wal-Mart. In the span of my hour or so there, I bought food, a cheap-o keyboard and mouse for an old computer, a screwdriver, and a HEPA filter. If I had used only local retailers, I would have visited the local grocery store, Radio Shack or the local shop for the keyboard/mouse, ACE or something for the screwdriver, and who knows where for the air filter.
Being in this college town, the students (especially freshmen) are also mostly transitory. They don't really have the desire to build relationships with local shops, or have much desire to check out the local hardware store for their hammer. They know Wal-Mart has what they need, will be competitively priced, and will be relatively anonymous.
Here, Wal-Mart is popular because of convenience, atmosphere, selection, price, and a host of other reasons. Let's face it, for a lot of young people, it takes effort to get to know anything other than Wal-Mart, and that effort may not be worth it.
It's funny to me that they don't sell explicit music, yet they sell R-rated movies, M-rated games, and books with, um, "mature" subjects.
Has Wal-Mart ever actually responded to this?
Well, if they're going to have DRM, they might has well have open-source DRM. On top of Ogg, no less.
I could live with that standard.