I'm still amazed the miguel hasn't sued Google for appropriating the Gnome naming scheme: take program 'ackbar' and prepend the letter 'g', resulting in 'gackbar'. Or, option b, take program 'outlook' and replace first letter with 'g', resulting in 'gutlook'.
Miguel, at the very least, a frivolous lawsuit will get you more slashdot stories than Gnome and mono combined. Compare SCO stories pre and post lawsuit for verification.
Nope, this is not a scale sized model. It's the equivalent of the Millenium Falcon: lots of play areas, you can do nifty things, but you can't hold a dozen squadrons of TIE fighters in it.
Still, much better than the POS 'Star Destroyer' that Kenner sold.
So, somehow, people who were able to plug in a TiVo without electrocuting themselves can't set the TiVo suggestion thing to not record the programs? I never turned it on, as the suggestions were nearly worthless to me. I highly suspect there is some money going to TiVo to pay for the 'suggestions'.
To those who can't figure out how to turn off the auto-record, let me offer some advice for your life: press the little lever on the commode; it will make keeping your house sanitary that much easier.
Good catch. Sorry. Wish I had known the actual price, as then I could have said in confidence that that is in the marketplace for Porsche 928's and other, much more exotic vehicles than the DeLorean.
Oh, and those other vehicles have motors not ripped from French taxis.
The original name for that model was the DMC 10. The 10 meaning $10,000 US. They showed up about two years late at $14,000, a considerable increase in price.
anyone know how these stats compare with standard mail?
Pretty well. I get nearly 100% spam in my snail mail box. Marked with things like 'Past Due', 'Gomer's Collection Agency', 'We Know Where You Live'. I just chuck it all in the trash.
How can you operate a computer when your tin foil beanie is obviously on too tight? Do you know anything about how ingenious a disease AIDS is? The layman's explanation is that it is like a common cold that can kill you. There's no cure for that either. (No, HIV isn't as mutagenic as the cold virus, but it does a good job.)
My parents' stove is an industrial stove. Bought in the early 80's before Viking and others started making 'prosumer' stoves for yuppies who don't cook anything more complex than Campbell's soup:) It's pretty easy to put way too much heat into a pan with that monster.
IIRC, teflon fumes can be poisonous to birds. My parents were ditching their teflon stuff anyway, but when they got a Double Yellow Amazon Parrot (now there's a fucking bird I'd like to nail to a perch) they ditched the rest.
On a 50cc ATV (can't remember brand) it said 'not for use for persons under the age of 16'.
(For those who don't know, most of these things are bought for kids who are about six years old, not 16).
Oh, another at the same store. On the back of a jet ski. Near the impeller outlet (nozzle?) it said: do not stick hands inside while engine is running.
Still in the same store. Need a new battery. Most of them ship with the acid separate, in a clear bottle. With a sticker that says 'not to be taken internally'.
Go to a pool store. Look at various inflatable rings. Most of them say 'not to be used as a floatation device'.
And the ever popular warning on dessicant packs: Do Not Eat (I noticed it way before Jeff Foxworthy.)
Ho hum, nice try, but you fail. Why? Steel is a commodity. You can do various metallurgical analyses on the product and determine, scientifically, that a bar of steel is the same from any of a dozen companies.
Not so the case with music. For whatever reason, the consumer sees a difference between Britney and... whatever, and is willing to pay extra. Further, you have adequately (though not brilliantly) analyzed the supply side of the equation, but have totally ignored demand. Over those same two decades, there has been inflation (which you threw away) and there has been a shocking increase in the incomes of the RIAA's favorite demographic: teens. As a result, demand has shot up drastically. Depending on the magnitude of the supply and demand changes, you can have a situation that is exactly like we see: minor fluctuations in volume, drastic increase in price.
Go away and try again. This is capitalism.
Re:The only way for the RIAA to die is by suicide
on
RIAA's Nasty Easter Egg
·
· Score: 2, Insightful
The two people who replied are just about as nearsighted as you are (ouch, that sounded harsher than it should). The RIAA member companies (who are really the ones you have a gripe with, not the RIAA itself) are the remnants of a historical necessity.
In 2004, any group of doofuses with a Macintosh and a microphone can burn a CD. In 1954, it took rather expensive equipment to make records. So the people who could afford record cutters got power. Then they grouped together, and consolidated their power. They spent the decades developing monstrous back catalogs, buying the rights to songs and distribution. Jump to today. If a radio station or record store wants a song by one group, they have to carry a certain number of CDs from the publisher. Or, if not forced, they'll get a discount for bulk purchases/plays. Or, the publisher has enough money to 'influence' the habits of program managers and others.
Summary: publishers used to have a valid reason to exist. They used that valid reason to leverage the situation, and hold onto it even today, when they have outlived their usefulness. They serve no purpose today, but have set up the rules of the game to extend their dominion for at least a little while longer.
It's quite possible several people submitted this. Simon may have taken them, written a summary himself, and posted it. OTOH, when I've noticed this in the past, someone will say 'several people submitted this'. Simon started out pretty strong, but it seems like some michael stink is rubbing off on him. Speaking of the king of the slashtards, if you have michael blocked, that might be cutting down on the headlines today.
Yup, just checked; I've only got three stories since 1:00 am EDT, but there are several from king asshat (aka michael) that aren't showing up.
Reviews aren't worth a squirt of piss. Well, except to one's self. IOW, I'm not terribly worried how well a game is reviewed by PC Gamer, Game Spy, or anyone/anything other than gmhowell. Black and White taught me the value (zero) of reviews by 'professionals'.
As far as DX:IW, the levels were just too damned small.
Out of curiosity, how much of your job was 'design', and how much 'coding'? As an example of what I mean, does the decision to have a simplified inventory system (IOW, no Deus Ex Inventory Tetris) come from you, or from 'on high'?
By looks it doesn't look like it handle very well. It's built low like a cruiser which doesn't leave much lean clearance.
If the COG is low enough, you don't need ridiculous lean angles. Well, not AS ridiculous.
There is a reason race bikes are built high with your legs positioned back.
Yup, familiarity. For the same reason that new word processors need to be Word clones, new bikes need to be Kawasaki Ninja 600 clones (yes, there were faired bikes before then, but that and a few others of the time were fairly definitive). Another reason is rulebooks. If FIM and AMA would get over themselves, we could have some truly aerodynamic bikes with a return to dustbin fairings. Fat chance of that happening though.
It would be waay cool to own for the street but I think I'll still be using the Gixxer on the track;)
I imagine even a GSXR400 would do laps quicker on a tight road course than this bike. But can it do a t-stop?:)
Not sure what the 70's era machines looked like, but as always, Google is your friend. Alva makes tons of them, but they are hella expensive. The ABT320 in the middle is one of the cheapest, and I think it cost voc rehab about $3000 to buy it for my wife. The Bookworm is another product we'd like. It only has 8 cells, but is a nice size. Unfortunately, $1400, IIRC.
What I've been doing is grabbing some bookwarez. If the publisher won't comply, I'm not averse to a little self-help. Since my wife and I share some similar tastes in reading, I buy the dead tree for myself, so I figure her reading bookwarez isn't any different than utilizing fair use rights. I tried contacting Stephen King, for example, through his home page, with no response. So, screw him. (and others)
Slashdot Mirror
I use it for text file eBooks, which are the only ones my blind wife can read on her computer.
(FWIW, I already own about 99.44% of the books I've gotten this way. Call it format shifting.)
I'm still amazed the miguel hasn't sued Google for appropriating the Gnome naming scheme: take program 'ackbar' and prepend the letter 'g', resulting in 'gackbar'. Or, option b, take program 'outlook' and replace first letter with 'g', resulting in 'gutlook'.
Miguel, at the very least, a frivolous lawsuit will get you more slashdot stories than Gnome and mono combined. Compare SCO stories pre and post lawsuit for verification.
Article (or at least the blurb here) is (Score: -1, Troll)
Nope, this is not a scale sized model. It's the equivalent of the Millenium Falcon: lots of play areas, you can do nifty things, but you can't hold a dozen squadrons of TIE fighters in it.
Still, much better than the POS 'Star Destroyer' that Kenner sold.
So, somehow, people who were able to plug in a TiVo without electrocuting themselves can't set the TiVo suggestion thing to not record the programs? I never turned it on, as the suggestions were nearly worthless to me. I highly suspect there is some money going to TiVo to pay for the 'suggestions'.
To those who can't figure out how to turn off the auto-record, let me offer some advice for your life: press the little lever on the commode; it will make keeping your house sanitary that much easier.
Good catch. Sorry. Wish I had known the actual price, as then I could have said in confidence that that is in the marketplace for Porsche 928's and other, much more exotic vehicles than the DeLorean.
Oh, and those other vehicles have motors not ripped from French taxis.
That's right: let's skip paint, because the manufacture of stainless steel is 100% benign to the environment.
The original name for that model was the DMC 10. The 10 meaning $10,000 US. They showed up about two years late at $14,000, a considerable increase in price.
I'd be happy with two colors that didn't make me go blind.
If not for Paul Graham, I would have either switched to Yahoo (or similar) or simply said 'fuck it' to email entirely.
anyone know how these stats compare with standard mail?
Pretty well. I get nearly 100% spam in my snail mail box. Marked with things like 'Past Due', 'Gomer's Collection Agency', 'We Know Where You Live'. I just chuck it all in the trash.
the Lindows OS (now to be referred to as LinSpire).
Then why, at the time of this writing, does www.linspire.com have a logo at the top that clearly says 'Lindows'?
Some people are happy with slashdot's moderation as well as the editors. All this proves is that some people are idiots.
How can you operate a computer when your tin foil beanie is obviously on too tight? Do you know anything about how ingenious a disease AIDS is? The layman's explanation is that it is like a common cold that can kill you. There's no cure for that either. (No, HIV isn't as mutagenic as the cold virus, but it does a good job.)
My parents' stove is an industrial stove. Bought in the early 80's before Viking and others started making 'prosumer' stoves for yuppies who don't cook anything more complex than Campbell's soup:) It's pretty easy to put way too much heat into a pan with that monster.
In any event, teflon coated pans suck ass.
IIRC, teflon fumes can be poisonous to birds. My parents were ditching their teflon stuff anyway, but when they got a Double Yellow Amazon Parrot (now there's a fucking bird I'd like to nail to a perch) they ditched the rest.
On a 50cc ATV (can't remember brand) it said 'not for use for persons under the age of 16'.
(For those who don't know, most of these things are bought for kids who are about six years old, not 16).
Oh, another at the same store. On the back of a jet ski. Near the impeller outlet (nozzle?) it said: do not stick hands inside while engine is running.
Still in the same store. Need a new battery. Most of them ship with the acid separate, in a clear bottle. With a sticker that says 'not to be taken internally'.
Go to a pool store. Look at various inflatable rings. Most of them say 'not to be used as a floatation device'.
And the ever popular warning on dessicant packs: Do Not Eat (I noticed it way before Jeff Foxworthy.)
Ho hum, nice try, but you fail. Why? Steel is a commodity. You can do various metallurgical analyses on the product and determine, scientifically, that a bar of steel is the same from any of a dozen companies.
Not so the case with music. For whatever reason, the consumer sees a difference between Britney and... whatever, and is willing to pay extra. Further, you have adequately (though not brilliantly) analyzed the supply side of the equation, but have totally ignored demand. Over those same two decades, there has been inflation (which you threw away) and there has been a shocking increase in the incomes of the RIAA's favorite demographic: teens. As a result, demand has shot up drastically. Depending on the magnitude of the supply and demand changes, you can have a situation that is exactly like we see: minor fluctuations in volume, drastic increase in price.
Go away and try again. This is capitalism.
The two people who replied are just about as nearsighted as you are (ouch, that sounded harsher than it should). The RIAA member companies (who are really the ones you have a gripe with, not the RIAA itself) are the remnants of a historical necessity.
In 2004, any group of doofuses with a Macintosh and a microphone can burn a CD. In 1954, it took rather expensive equipment to make records. So the people who could afford record cutters got power. Then they grouped together, and consolidated their power. They spent the decades developing monstrous back catalogs, buying the rights to songs and distribution. Jump to today. If a radio station or record store wants a song by one group, they have to carry a certain number of CDs from the publisher. Or, if not forced, they'll get a discount for bulk purchases/plays. Or, the publisher has enough money to 'influence' the habits of program managers and others.
Summary: publishers used to have a valid reason to exist. They used that valid reason to leverage the situation, and hold onto it even today, when they have outlived their usefulness. They serve no purpose today, but have set up the rules of the game to extend their dominion for at least a little while longer.
It's quite possible several people submitted this. Simon may have taken them, written a summary himself, and posted it. OTOH, when I've noticed this in the past, someone will say 'several people submitted this'. Simon started out pretty strong, but it seems like some michael stink is rubbing off on him. Speaking of the king of the slashtards, if you have michael blocked, that might be cutting down on the headlines today.
Yup, just checked; I've only got three stories since 1:00 am EDT, but there are several from king asshat (aka michael) that aren't showing up.
Yeah, but turn in five cards, and you get a slide rule.
Reviews aren't worth a squirt of piss. Well, except to one's self. IOW, I'm not terribly worried how well a game is reviewed by PC Gamer, Game Spy, or anyone/anything other than gmhowell. Black and White taught me the value (zero) of reviews by 'professionals'.
As far as DX:IW, the levels were just too damned small.
Out of curiosity, how much of your job was 'design', and how much 'coding'? As an example of what I mean, does the decision to have a simplified inventory system (IOW, no Deus Ex Inventory Tetris) come from you, or from 'on high'?
By looks it doesn't look like it handle very well. It's built low like a cruiser which doesn't leave much lean clearance.
;)
:)
If the COG is low enough, you don't need ridiculous lean angles. Well, not AS ridiculous.
There is a reason race bikes are built high with your legs positioned back.
Yup, familiarity. For the same reason that new word processors need to be Word clones, new bikes need to be Kawasaki Ninja 600 clones (yes, there were faired bikes before then, but that and a few others of the time were fairly definitive). Another reason is rulebooks. If FIM and AMA would get over themselves, we could have some truly aerodynamic bikes with a return to dustbin fairings. Fat chance of that happening though.
It would be waay cool to own for the street but I think I'll still be using the Gixxer on the track
I imagine even a GSXR400 would do laps quicker on a tight road course than this bike. But can it do a t-stop?
BTW, you should look at the Gurney Gator.
One problem is that your sense of touch might not be sensitive enough to read braille.
But it would be a more entertaining way to learn braille than page after page of ababababcabccbacba etc.
Not sure what the 70's era machines looked like, but as always, Google is your friend. Alva makes tons of them, but they are hella expensive. The ABT320 in the middle is one of the cheapest, and I think it cost voc rehab about $3000 to buy it for my wife. The Bookworm is another product we'd like. It only has 8 cells, but is a nice size. Unfortunately, $1400, IIRC.
What I've been doing is grabbing some bookwarez. If the publisher won't comply, I'm not averse to a little self-help. Since my wife and I share some similar tastes in reading, I buy the dead tree for myself, so I figure her reading bookwarez isn't any different than utilizing fair use rights. I tried contacting Stephen King, for example, through his home page, with no response. So, screw him. (and others)