Actually, it may be the other one I used to go to, just up the street, next to starbux. Reseda just south of plummer. Next to El Torito parking lot. That one is now shut down. it was called netzone if I recall properly?
The sharply-dressed businessman walked into the lobby where he was met by the CIO, John Teck and the CFO Michael Monee.
"Welcome," said Teck, "Did you have a good trip?"
"Splendid," replied Jason Seller.
A little while later, in the CFO's office.
"Let me show you what I'm talking about." Seller said, and opened his briefcase, took out a blue brick-sized plastic block and set it down on the desk.
"What's that?" asked Monee.
"A petabyte memorystick."
"A peta-what?" the CFO asked, not noticing the look of envy creeping over the CIO's face.
"A billion megabytes." Jason Seller replied. "This costs $45 retail, will last 5000 years in at normal temperature and is shock resistant."
What happens when terrorists set the IronMountain in the ground on fire (after deactivating the fire-suppression system) and prevent the fire department from coming close? (mines do wonders against firetrucks). By the time the army shows up to clear out the 28 militants with machine guns, corporate america's backup strategy will have, hum, gone up in smoke.
Granted, I hope this doesn't happen. Also, I hope the army, or at least the national guards, have a platoon permanently on-site.
If they don't, well: "And you said you'd never forget 9/11?"
I notice that MS releases a "fix" of some sort when DoHS says: use another browser.
Can somebody at DoHS recommend switching to another browser every day so MS will start working on the backlog of bugs?
Another question: Are there enough of those high-flying MS developers still working on the IE codebase to make the changes in a timely manner or is there an aging skeletton crew to fix the vulnerabilities, not too motivated since they were passed up for work on.NET?
I wonder.
Somebody probably lit the proverbial fire under their bums this morning.
(They know how hard it is to get people to switch browsers. It took a while (2 years) with Netscape, and NS Communicator was a POS). I guess they are at the edge of the cliff and realized there's nowhere but down.
I buy nothing at christmas time. (i hate to shop) My wife buys nothing at christmas time. (she LOVES to shop)
Why? The mall is a fucking nightmare. 20 minutes to park, 10 minutes to walk from the end of the parking lot, shelves that look like they were ransacked by a bunch of kids on speed, and lines that make the DMV look good.
We finish all our shopping by november 1.
I personally like to do any shopping in the summer, in nice air-conditioned malls where everybody is wearing the skimpiest... I mean, hum, latest...
some games will just not receive any shelf space from retailers,
Looks like there's opportunity for more retailers. Or a lumberjack could just go and build them more shelves...
Here's the true question: When will Border's bookstore start carrying video games? They already have videos...
But the greater question is: whay do those games not sell? Ah, because people don't tire of them as quickly... They are too cheap to make real money for the amount of hours of entertainment they provide. Yet gamers won't spend more than 60 bux.
The solution for the gaming industry: go open source. Work with each other, instead of reinventing the wheel with every little detail. Provide game networks at low cost. It will eliminate piracy (nothing to pirate when the source is available), and you will make money on subscription.
On subscriptions: get together and form a payment association/company, and sell game time cards. Price them at $.25 per hour. That way, if I play 100 hours a month, I'll pay $25, but if I only play 10 (which honestly is all the time I can spare, you'll still get $2.50. Right now you're getting nothing from me, since the games are too expensive, and the memberships are too expensive. The last game I bought was Age of Kings in what, 2000?
Another piece of advice: make games that are cinematographically spectacular, yes, but more than that, make games with good gameplay.
Everybody knows how to use google. Google is linux based.
Put all your apps on network with solid linux systems (ever wonder why oracle's preferred platform for their database is Linux?) and everybody else just uses linux+firebird/mozilla.
Trust me, the only reason companies don't move to that solution is because they have proprietory apps that only run on windows.
But the times, they are a' changing.
Word and Excel? I clicked on excel last month. Accidentally. I closed it right away. And I work at a fortune 500. BTW, we're still on office 97.
My comp spends bux on oracle and servers, but zero on end-user software. And everything now is moving to web-based.
The Best HTTP proxy is at the local netcafe, where, upon paying your $3 (what lunch money) said 10 years old is now getting a faceful of creampie.
Clueless Conservative Parent: "I'm gonna filter my puter and Johnny's not gonna get access to nuthin."
Johnny: "My friend Jason (the other 13 year old) just burned me a CD with 30 hours of german bdsm, as well as Jenna Jamison's entire collection! My dad's so stoopid."
So then why did the state settle? It's all about money. Everything is always about money. Stallman founded FSF because he couldn't get a printer driver, because of a license issue. The license issue was because of money.
You know what they say: Follow the money.
Why are people switching to OS? The Money. Why is M$ bitching? Again, the Money.
What's wrong with monopolies? Money. Money Money Money!!! It's all about money.
I think the public is at fault. We elect people because of whether they are photgenic, and because of what their last name sounds like. Essentially: Shame on us the American people.
And since it aint the first time, and you know what they say: Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me...
The shame for the absolute idiocy in politics rests squarely on the shoulder of the masses.
I say: Vote at every single election, but ONLY if you know why you are voting. If you are voting because it's your duty or because you saw a catchy commercial, shame on you. [/end political rant]
Recall elections also are an interesting way to send a "fuck you" message. Especially when they succeed.
What does it take to recall the president of the United States?
But it's gonna be real fun for the QA team when they look at the terms slashdotters entered. I they thought Brittney was going to be on the list, they have something else coming.
Slashdot Mirror
Actually, it may be the other one I used to go to, just up the street, next to starbux. Reseda just south of plummer. Next to El Torito parking lot.
That one is now shut down. it was called netzone if I recall properly?
That's the one I go to, where Kinko's used to be next to where Common Grounds used to be (dang I miss that place).
Its pretty quiet over there.
They have a security guard, and the cops come by in the parking lot once in a while.
Nowadays, though, there's a lot of women, mothers, and regular people just doing internet, printing, and students doing term papers.
(they wisely split the space in two: a warzone (dark, neony, loud) and the rest (headphones, light, etc)
About 10 of their PC don't actually have any games.
their website: netstreet.net (i think)
It's at reseda and prairie, 91325.
Fantasy:
The sharply-dressed businessman walked into the lobby where he was met by the CIO, John Teck and the CFO Michael Monee.
"Welcome," said Teck, "Did you have a good trip?"
"Splendid," replied Jason Seller.
A little while later, in the CFO's office.
"Let me show you what I'm talking about." Seller said, and opened his briefcase, took out a blue brick-sized plastic block and set it down on the desk.
"What's that?" asked Monee.
"A petabyte memorystick."
"A peta-what?" the CFO asked, not noticing the look of envy creeping over the CIO's face.
"A billion megabytes." Jason Seller replied. "This costs $45 retail, will last 5000 years in at normal temperature and is shock resistant."
Happy now?
What happens when terrorists set the IronMountain in the ground on fire (after deactivating the fire-suppression system) and prevent the fire department from coming close? (mines do wonders against firetrucks).
By the time the army shows up to clear out the 28 militants with machine guns, corporate america's backup strategy will have, hum, gone up in smoke.
Granted, I hope this doesn't happen. Also, I hope the army, or at least the national guards, have a platoon permanently on-site.
If they don't, well: "And you said you'd never forget 9/11?"
In the US you can write off unreimbursed work expenses.
Mav... No /. account? How refreshing :)
That's OK.
I'd rather Dell get the money than Microsoft.
I though the lapdances were $10,000... Dangit!
... the almost double negative.
Is that like a false positive?
I notice that MS releases a "fix" of some sort when DoHS says: use another browser.
.NET?
Can somebody at DoHS recommend switching to another browser every day so MS will start working on the backlog of bugs?
Another question: Are there enough of those high-flying MS developers still working on the IE codebase to make the changes in a timely manner or is there an aging skeletton crew to fix the vulnerabilities, not too motivated since they were passed up for work on
I wonder.
Somebody probably lit the proverbial fire under their bums this morning.
(They know how hard it is to get people to switch browsers. It took a while (2 years) with Netscape, and NS Communicator was a POS). I guess they are at the edge of the cliff and realized there's nowhere but down.
If all you care about is money, then sure, go ahead, make mindless games with many colors and market it to the 5-10 years old.
But you're not getting my business.
Last time I checked, real geeks don't work for Microsoft. /me ducks
You could actually look for the houses with the tinfoil.
Weakling:
Captain, of the 65 houses we scanned yesterday with the nondescript van, these two had some sort of shielding.
Gruffo:
"Obviously they have somehting to hide. Send your best team and put cameras in every room."
Weakling:
"What about a warrant, Sir?"
Gruffo:
"We'll get it. There's reason to believe these people are terrorists trying to build a dirty bomb..."
Weakling:
"Yes Sir!"
(snaps his heels sharply and salutes)
Actually, IE has been discontinued. The windows folks don't know it yet.
.NET runtime library.
I don't think IE7 will be a web browser. It will be a multiformat scriptable file viewer that gets its input from the
Sort of like word 2004. Oh, but with M$-XML.
Just so were're straight:
I buy nothing at christmas time. (i hate to shop)
My wife buys nothing at christmas time. (she LOVES to shop)
Why? The mall is a fucking nightmare. 20 minutes to park, 10 minutes to walk from the end of the parking lot, shelves that look like they were ransacked by a bunch of kids on speed, and lines that make the DMV look good.
We finish all our shopping by november 1.
I personally like to do any shopping in the summer, in nice air-conditioned malls where everybody is wearing the skimpiest... I mean, hum, latest...
some games will just not receive any shelf space from retailers,
Looks like there's opportunity for more retailers. Or a lumberjack could just go and build them more shelves...
Here's the true question: When will Border's bookstore start carrying video games? They already have videos...
But the greater question is: whay do those games not sell?
Ah, because people don't tire of them as quickly... They are too cheap to make real money for the amount of hours of entertainment they provide. Yet gamers won't spend more than 60 bux.
The solution for the gaming industry: go open source. Work with each other, instead of reinventing the wheel with every little detail. Provide game networks at low cost. It will eliminate piracy (nothing to pirate when the source is available), and you will make money on subscription.
On subscriptions: get together and form a payment association/company, and sell game time cards. Price them at $.25 per hour. That way, if I play 100 hours a month, I'll pay $25, but if I only play 10 (which honestly is all the time I can spare, you'll still get $2.50. Right now you're getting nothing from me, since the games are too expensive, and the memberships are too expensive. The last game I bought was Age of Kings in what, 2000?
Another piece of advice: make games that are cinematographically spectacular, yes, but more than that, make games with good gameplay.
Everybody knows how to use google. Google is linux based.
Put all your apps on network with solid linux systems (ever wonder why oracle's preferred platform for their database is Linux?) and everybody else just uses linux+firebird/mozilla.
Trust me, the only reason companies don't move to that solution is because they have proprietory apps that only run on windows.
But the times, they are a' changing.
Word and Excel? I clicked on excel last month. Accidentally. I closed it right away. And I work at a fortune 500. BTW, we're still on office 97.
My comp spends bux on oracle and servers, but zero on end-user software. And everything now is moving to web-based.
The Best HTTP proxy is at the local netcafe, where, upon paying your $3 (what lunch money) said 10 years old is now getting a faceful of creampie.
Clueless Conservative Parent:
"I'm gonna filter my puter and Johnny's not gonna get access to nuthin."
Johnny:
"My friend Jason (the other 13 year old) just burned me a CD with 30 hours of german bdsm, as well as Jenna Jamison's entire collection! My dad's so stoopid."
Well, come to think of it, my wife is pretty good at making sure I have none in my pocket.
No, in fact I have enough.
So then why did the state settle? It's all about money. Everything is always about money.
Stallman founded FSF because he couldn't get a printer driver, because of a license issue. The license issue was because of money.
You know what they say: Follow the money.
Why are people switching to OS? The Money.
Why is M$ bitching? Again, the Money.
What's wrong with monopolies? Money.
Money Money Money!!!
It's all about money.
There's a jingle in there somewhere.
I suppose after 6 years the state decided it had sunk enough money into this morass and tried to cut its losses.
Why can't we outsource congressmen to India?
(oh, sorry, they're much too polite. And we'd have to teach them to lie better.)
I think the public is at fault. We elect people because of whether they are photgenic, and because of what their last name sounds like. Essentially: Shame on us the American people.
And since it aint the first time, and you know what they say: Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me...
The shame for the absolute idiocy in politics rests squarely on the shoulder of the masses.
I say: Vote at every single election, but ONLY if you know why you are voting. If you are voting because it's your duty or because you saw a catchy commercial, shame on you.
[/end political rant]
Recall elections also are an interesting way to send a "fuck you" message. Especially when they succeed.
What does it take to recall the president of the United States?
facetiously:
Bee -- Hao -- Wu -- Fa'
But it's gonna be real fun for the QA team when they look at the terms slashdotters entered. I they thought Brittney was going to be on the list, they have something else coming.