Most of us don't give a shit any more. For those searching for answers, I believe the truth was in an episode of South Park. We are hated because we don't know why we are hated.
That was a great summer. I had gotten my driver's license the previous winter, and saw EVERY movie I could. I saw each of the three movies you mentioned. Guess there wasn't enough of me to go around.
You should also be looking at your local pennysaver publication, the local want ads, and usenet groups. I've found a few machines via Usenet. You'll want to set up some filters to get down to games you want, and it might take some time, but it's where the deals are to be had.
It's that sort of pithy remark that leads to your popularity as an editor. Perhaps instead of feeding the trolls, you could address their complaints? Yes, I understand many of the things they request can be absurd, and might not scale. I understand your frustration. However, you are a paid professional, and might want to act that way for a change.
See, some of us with real jobs have to deal with customer satisfaction. When/if VA finally tanks, I imagine you'll have some quick learning to do in that department.
Yes, there are journal cliques. They largely center here. Click on his 'fans' or 'friends' links. Read journals. Enjoy. I'm sure there must be others, but that is the one with which I am most familiar. Not to sound immodest, but by clicking on my 'last journal posted' link, you can read some of my stuff. Look through the comments, and you'll see a portion of the clique.
As far as your own journal, just write it. Either someone will stumble over it, and you'll gain a readership, or not.
As far as the friends/foes thing, it's way different from karma. Yes, you can use it to rate up/down people you don't like, but I use it almost 100% to keep track of journal entries for different folks.
Like the AC said, no, we're not reading your journal. No friend, no foe, no fof, which means you are in one of the journal cliques. And posting idiotic tripe like this isn't a way to get in. Anyone who believes that 'OSS=communism' garbage isn't going to try OSS anyway. Anyone who will believe it just says "oh, another prima donna programmer".
I've seen lots of comments about scaling, forking, security, etc. as reasons for companies not to adopt OSS. But I have yet to see one verified report of a company not using OSS because the authors are thieving bastards.
'The public' doesn't care about thieves. Most people know Gates is a thief, simply because he's rich. But 'the public' has given up on caring. Oh, another thief in business, whoda thunk it?
Actually, the record companies don't charge what the market will bear. Look at the amount of 'privacy' online. They are charging in excess of market rates, and the market is correcting itself. Quite frankly, the libertarians should be incredibly happy. The existence of napster, DC, kazaa, etc. proves that even in the presence of several monopolies (production, distribution, etc.) the market will still find a way to correct itself.
Like the other replies said, you didn't write a flame, you just don't have a correct understanding of the situation. There is no federal approval of the ratings system. Movie ratings are tacked on by the MPAA. With the exception of the X rating, all ratings come only from the MPAA. Some theatres choose to back up the MPAA ratings by not allowing children under a certain age to see certain movies. This is entirely up to the chain. Some localities ban showing 'pornographic movies' to those under 18, but this doesn't tie in with the ratings per se.
This is almost exactly the case with video games. I can't recall the last video game I bought without an ESRB sticker. The ESRB, like the MPAA, is an industry group. Similarly, if Target, Walmart, etc. do not sell you a copy of GTA, it's not due to laws, it's due to the values of the retailer.
Interesting tidbit: the federal government WAS going to institute a federally mandated rating system IF the motion picture industry didn't clean up their act. The MPAA was formed as a result of this, I believe. By developing their own system, the government backed off. See, people back then had a little common sense.
I've got a 20 month old kid. Creating another is far from the first thought in my mind. When I want to have sex, I get out the oils, creams, etc. My wife gets out a can of mace.
Actually, NT was based on VMS moreso than Unix. What that means, I don't know, exactly, but prior to coming up with NT, the team had done extensive work on VMS.
(Hey, I can make the joke. I have a copy of Crossroads)
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Close, except that HD isn't losing US market share. Not in any significant way. An issue or two ago, Motorcycle Consumer News did their annual market share report. Don't have it on hand, but, like for years, they've been running neck and neck with Honda. Remove dirtbikes, and Harley is still the volume leader in the US.
Now, if you go back to ~1983, it was a much different situation. The management had just purchased HD back from AMF, and were in pretty deep. The Japanese were doing some incredible things to bikes, and Harley was in no way going to catch up. So, they got that free trade President, R. Reagan, to institute a tariff on all foreign motorcycles over... I think it was 700 CC's. Can't remember how long this lasted, but it was long enough for Harley to take exorbitant profits and do much R&D and retooling. Yup, they finally got five speed trannies and disk brakes all around. Luckily for the consumer, the over 700cc market wasn't totally HD. Honda was making Gold Wings in the US (Marysville, OH. Hmm. Seems I'm wearing my Honda Homecoming shirt today.) so they could avoid the tariffs. And subsequently released the GL-1500, the best touring bike for 15 years. If it cost $2000 more due to being produced overseas, perhaps it would have been left to obscurity, and all tourers would be riding FL's. Thankfully, the GL-1500 existed, to show the American consumer that there's more to touring than plunking down the Interstate at 55.
(Then BMW put the smack down with the K12LT, of which I am a proud owner, saying to Honda "Yeah, this is what refinement and handling are all about." Honda's response? "Yeah, here's the GL1800. This is what an extra 30 horsepower is all about." Where's Harley? Still soldiering along with a bike that wouldn't out compete the 1986 Goldwing, with no signs of replacement any time soon.)
Here's something to add to your comparison: Harley succeeds with style. Almost every other make is cheaper, handles better, stops better, and goes faster. But it has 'the look' that is so important to many people. Yes, others think it looks like crap, and would rather have the performance. Similarly, the iMac lacked speed, expandability, etc, but it had 'the look'. And who cares if it alienated people?
Alternatives to the HD include the Kawasaki Vulcan series, the Warrior line from Yamaha, and I forget what from Honda and Suzuki. All perform comparably (or better) than HD's offerings. All are built better (this based on recall information and online complaints by owners, as well as talking to folks in stores). They are cheaper. No, Harley sells because of 'the look'. You could compare the Polaris, Victory, cruiser to HD's offerings, but it is at least as expensive, doesn't have the look, and is not a significant threat to HD in any way. You could compare Excelsior Henderson, but, oops, they're dead. 'Indian' motorcycles is similar to Polaris, but until this year, didn't even have their own powerplant.
Basically, it's an interesting comparison, but I think you've missed (or just been too brief to demonstrate) the true similarities between the two companies.
Somewhere, I have a stash of NuBus video cards. I was hoping to get my old Mac II back from someone. Plan was to make it nothing but a freakish X workstation, with half a dozen heads.
No, on an Apple II, instead of wasting time playing Solitaire and Minesweeper, I'd be wasting my time waiting for the freakin' game to load! Although not as bad as the C-64:)
At least you picked the Disk II instead of that bastard DuoDisk.
That's it, I'm going to boycott PCI. Only ISA, EISA, MCA, and AGP for me. Now, does anyone have a link to a motherboard manufacturer for a PIV that only has ISA slots?
I see several others have corrected you, let me add a bit more. I'll be 30 in about two weeks. My father's first CD player cost around $500. 1983 or 1984, I believe. At that time, I started buying CD's, and have bought only 3 tapes since. That's just CD's. Most were purchased for around $12 each. I have around 400 CD's. And I don't use some shitty 128k mp3, I use VBR with the r3mix settings. That's why I recently replaced my 60 gig drive.
This also ignores a music collection of my father's on vinyl that begins somewhere in the dark ages, when Buddy Holly was the new thing. Much (most?) of his collection is unobtainable on CD. That will quickly add up when I get around to ripping the vinyl.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Just like Jack Valenti said that VCR's were going to be like Jack the Ripper. I don't know where you live, but where I am, the quality of the radio broadcast is subpar, and the DJ's speak over the beginning/ending of most songs. I had dozens of mix tapes as a kid courtesy of Kasey Casem's top 40 broadcast. Why shouldn't I now be able to timeshift Cartalk or TOTN?
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Most of us don't give a shit any more. For those searching for answers, I believe the truth was in an episode of South Park. We are hated because we don't know why we are hated.
That was a great summer. I had gotten my driver's license the previous winter, and saw EVERY movie I could. I saw each of the three movies you mentioned. Guess there wasn't enough of me to go around.
You should also be looking at your local pennysaver publication, the local want ads, and usenet groups. I've found a few machines via Usenet. You'll want to set up some filters to get down to games you want, and it might take some time, but it's where the deals are to be had.
It's that sort of pithy remark that leads to your popularity as an editor. Perhaps instead of feeding the trolls, you could address their complaints? Yes, I understand many of the things they request can be absurd, and might not scale. I understand your frustration. However, you are a paid professional, and might want to act that way for a change.
See, some of us with real jobs have to deal with customer satisfaction. When/if VA finally tanks, I imagine you'll have some quick learning to do in that department.
Yes, there are journal cliques. They largely center here. Click on his 'fans' or 'friends' links. Read journals. Enjoy. I'm sure there must be others, but that is the one with which I am most familiar. Not to sound immodest, but by clicking on my 'last journal posted' link, you can read some of my stuff. Look through the comments, and you'll see a portion of the clique.
As far as your own journal, just write it. Either someone will stumble over it, and you'll gain a readership, or not.
As far as the friends/foes thing, it's way different from karma. Yes, you can use it to rate up/down people you don't like, but I use it almost 100% to keep track of journal entries for different folks.
BTW does no-one read my journal?
Like the AC said, no, we're not reading your journal. No friend, no foe, no fof, which means you are in one of the journal cliques. And posting idiotic tripe like this isn't a way to get in. Anyone who believes that 'OSS=communism' garbage isn't going to try OSS anyway. Anyone who will believe it just says "oh, another prima donna programmer".
I've seen lots of comments about scaling, forking, security, etc. as reasons for companies not to adopt OSS. But I have yet to see one verified report of a company not using OSS because the authors are thieving bastards.
'The public' doesn't care about thieves. Most people know Gates is a thief, simply because he's rich. But 'the public' has given up on caring. Oh, another thief in business, whoda thunk it?
Actually, the record companies don't charge what the market will bear. Look at the amount of 'privacy' online. They are charging in excess of market rates, and the market is correcting itself. Quite frankly, the libertarians should be incredibly happy. The existence of napster, DC, kazaa, etc. proves that even in the presence of several monopolies (production, distribution, etc.) the market will still find a way to correct itself.
((Can someone tell my why my post was moderated as redundant?!))
I'm not sure, but I think someone said 'First Post!' yesterday. Maybe it was last week.
Like the other replies said, you didn't write a flame, you just don't have a correct understanding of the situation. There is no federal approval of the ratings system. Movie ratings are tacked on by the MPAA. With the exception of the X rating, all ratings come only from the MPAA. Some theatres choose to back up the MPAA ratings by not allowing children under a certain age to see certain movies. This is entirely up to the chain. Some localities ban showing 'pornographic movies' to those under 18, but this doesn't tie in with the ratings per se.
This is almost exactly the case with video games. I can't recall the last video game I bought without an ESRB sticker. The ESRB, like the MPAA, is an industry group. Similarly, if Target, Walmart, etc. do not sell you a copy of GTA, it's not due to laws, it's due to the values of the retailer.
Interesting tidbit: the federal government WAS going to institute a federally mandated rating system IF the motion picture industry didn't clean up their act. The MPAA was formed as a result of this, I believe. By developing their own system, the government backed off. See, people back then had a little common sense.
You guys don't even read the stories half the time, now you're supposed to read every comment?!
Heh, I'm a fat bastard couch potato as well, but can manage. I can only imagine what kinda gut precludes you from placing a laptop there.
I've got a 20 month old kid. Creating another is far from the first thought in my mind. When I want to have sex, I get out the oils, creams, etc. My wife gets out a can of mace.
There's more where these came from folks.
or some other exxercise machine
Welcome to slashdot, where eksersize is such a foreign concept that nobody can spel it.
Here's the hint: laptop.
Seriously, that's where I put my laptop (when it's not in the shop, grumble). The only problem is that the chip gets really hot against my leg.
Actually, NT was based on VMS moreso than Unix. What that means, I don't know, exactly, but prior to coming up with NT, the team had done extensive work on VMS.
So both good music AND Bon Jovi music sell well?
(Hey, I can make the joke. I have a copy of Crossroads)
Close, except that HD isn't losing US market share. Not in any significant way. An issue or two ago, Motorcycle Consumer News did their annual market share report. Don't have it on hand, but, like for years, they've been running neck and neck with Honda. Remove dirtbikes, and Harley is still the volume leader in the US.
Now, if you go back to ~1983, it was a much different situation. The management had just purchased HD back from AMF, and were in pretty deep. The Japanese were doing some incredible things to bikes, and Harley was in no way going to catch up. So, they got that free trade President, R. Reagan, to institute a tariff on all foreign motorcycles over... I think it was 700 CC's. Can't remember how long this lasted, but it was long enough for Harley to take exorbitant profits and do much R&D and retooling. Yup, they finally got five speed trannies and disk brakes all around. Luckily for the consumer, the over 700cc market wasn't totally HD. Honda was making Gold Wings in the US (Marysville, OH. Hmm. Seems I'm wearing my Honda Homecoming shirt today.) so they could avoid the tariffs. And subsequently released the GL-1500, the best touring bike for 15 years. If it cost $2000 more due to being produced overseas, perhaps it would have been left to obscurity, and all tourers would be riding FL's. Thankfully, the GL-1500 existed, to show the American consumer that there's more to touring than plunking down the Interstate at 55.
(Then BMW put the smack down with the K12LT, of which I am a proud owner, saying to Honda "Yeah, this is what refinement and handling are all about." Honda's response? "Yeah, here's the GL1800. This is what an extra 30 horsepower is all about." Where's Harley? Still soldiering along with a bike that wouldn't out compete the 1986 Goldwing, with no signs of replacement any time soon.)
Here's something to add to your comparison: Harley succeeds with style. Almost every other make is cheaper, handles better, stops better, and goes faster. But it has 'the look' that is so important to many people. Yes, others think it looks like crap, and would rather have the performance. Similarly, the iMac lacked speed, expandability, etc, but it had 'the look'. And who cares if it alienated people?
Alternatives to the HD include the Kawasaki Vulcan series, the Warrior line from Yamaha, and I forget what from Honda and Suzuki. All perform comparably (or better) than HD's offerings. All are built better (this based on recall information and online complaints by owners, as well as talking to folks in stores). They are cheaper. No, Harley sells because of 'the look'. You could compare the Polaris, Victory, cruiser to HD's offerings, but it is at least as expensive, doesn't have the look, and is not a significant threat to HD in any way. You could compare Excelsior Henderson, but, oops, they're dead. 'Indian' motorcycles is similar to Polaris, but until this year, didn't even have their own powerplant.
Basically, it's an interesting comparison, but I think you've missed (or just been too brief to demonstrate) the true similarities between the two companies.
Somewhere, I have a stash of NuBus video cards. I was hoping to get my old Mac II back from someone. Plan was to make it nothing but a freakish X workstation, with half a dozen heads.
I'm trying to.
BTW, just bought a mug. Check out my journal for some adventures in homebrewing.
No, on an Apple II, instead of wasting time playing Solitaire and Minesweeper, I'd be wasting my time waiting for the freakin' game to load! Although not as bad as the C-64:)
At least you picked the Disk II instead of that bastard DuoDisk.
After all, the only reason you would need an aftermarket remote is if you stole the tv and forgot to steal the remote.
That's it, I'm going to boycott PCI. Only ISA, EISA, MCA, and AGP for me. Now, does anyone have a link to a motherboard manufacturer for a PIV that only has ISA slots?
I see several others have corrected you, let me add a bit more. I'll be 30 in about two weeks. My father's first CD player cost around $500. 1983 or 1984, I believe. At that time, I started buying CD's, and have bought only 3 tapes since. That's just CD's. Most were purchased for around $12 each. I have around 400 CD's. And I don't use some shitty 128k mp3, I use VBR with the r3mix settings. That's why I recently replaced my 60 gig drive.
This also ignores a music collection of my father's on vinyl that begins somewhere in the dark ages, when Buddy Holly was the new thing. Much (most?) of his collection is unobtainable on CD. That will quickly add up when I get around to ripping the vinyl.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Just like Jack Valenti said that VCR's were going to be like Jack the Ripper. I don't know where you live, but where I am, the quality of the radio broadcast is subpar, and the DJ's speak over the beginning/ending of most songs. I had dozens of mix tapes as a kid courtesy of Kasey Casem's top 40 broadcast. Why shouldn't I now be able to timeshift Cartalk or TOTN?