Okay, WTF? I thought that one of the reasons to get a console is that they weren't so flaky, didn't need babying, etc. (relative to a PC)
From what I hear (and the newest game system I have is an N64) these machines are nearly as flaky as a PC in many respects. They certainly don't sound like they can be kicked around as much as my 2600, my brother's old NES, or my N64.
I believe that Hanukkah (sp?) started around the 15th of December. And Ramadan before that. While the latter is only loosely a part of the 'holiday season' (at least traditionally) the former is more and more often seen as being included in that.
In any event, it is unlikely that these people purchased the machines on the 24th of December. Most likely, they were purchased at least a week earlier. In many cases, perhaps parents caved in and gave the machines to their brats a little early (especially seeing as how many schools closed on the 21st) So, a broken machine on that date is at least 2.5 weeks.
IOW, people who bought the machine during the holiday season (also commonly thought to start with Thanksgiving) got machines that broke, and they had to wait weeks for the device to be fixed.
Maybe you don't expect your new $300 acquisition to work correctly out of the box. Most of us do. Maybe you expect to get to wait weeks for repairs/replacement, most of us don't.
Go to your local Circuit Shitty tomorrow. Ask the people looking at TV's if they expect it to work when they get it home. And ask how many expect it to work a week later. And ask them how long they expect to wait for a replacement/repair if it breaks next week.
Your brother is a mechanic. That is why he spent $15k on tools. I am not. I have two cars (one non runner) and several motorcycles (only one runner). I have, at most, $500 worth of tools. And the ones I use most were the first $100.
With that $100 set of tools, I've pulled engines (okay, required an extra $50 for a floor jack), I've replaced water pumps, brakes, starters, etc.
Again, we have a 90/10 situation. 90% of the work done on your car can be done with 10% of your tools.
Of course, YMMV. I drive and work on either domestics or Honda/Toyota grade imports. No BMW's (err... four wheeled BMW's, that is) or Porsche's with utterly bizarre tool requirements.
Ahhh, some good news on a holiday. I think/. should just close up today (yes, spoken from an American-Christian chauvanism that the world closes its doors on Christmas Eve:)
And with that, time to start the lamb roasting, and get to work on that wheat beer.
I agree, 100%. If you spend one hour per month keeping the box running, my grandmothers would be MUCH happier if I would just go talk to them for an hour or so. Take them shopping.
Little side note: my grandfather had five daughters. Never spoke about his experiences in the So. Pacific (enlisted when he was 15 or 16. They didn't ask a lot of questions in those days) I went to university about ten miles from his house, so would frequently stop by for Sunday dinner. Over the year or so, he spoke to me more about his experiences than he had to any other human in 50+ years.
So the moral of the story: fuck the browser. Go visit the old lady.
Let me add the Godfather (parts I and II), 2001, and...
Forgot. I was thinking of one or two others, but they do exist. And they exist in sufficient quantity to deny the original statement (implied) that movies are never as good as the book.
As to other comments about accuracy: some of these movies are great because the director/screenwriter recognized that they could not tell the same story and do the same thing as the book. They took more or less from the original source, and did something new with it.
Not all pricipals, administrators, etc. are interested in volunteer work. I think it falls back on the old "who are you going to blame if it breaks" scenario. Some are also afraid that only pedophiles want to spend time in school. The best opportunity is if you are a parent, and volunteer or speak up at a PTA night. Unfortunately, most others are often screwed.
Unfortunately, we largely pay teachers to babysit. (Note: wife is a former teacher.)
With various standardized tests and curricula, there is little room for teachers to go beyond the text. There is little time for human interaction.
In a perfect world, teachers would be paid to teach. Supposedly they are; in reality, they are paid to read from the state mandated (and now federally mandated) instruction book.
I have been looking for something like Quark Xpress (mostly because I enjoyed doing newspaper layouts on PageMaker in college) and just grabbed something called scribus. I have no idea how to use it, or if it works.
Not uncommon, even in meatspace. You get popular, you expand. In most businesses, income lags behind the service. You give lots of service, but the income doesn't show up for a long time.
Kinda sucks to see them go. Now that I finally have a cable modem at home, I might have wanted to visit more often.
I'm a USian, so I haven't paid that RIAA tax. Not sure what the Canadian laws are regarding making copies, but if they are illegal as they are in the US, could having paid the tax be considered a defense?
Finally, we do have a RIAA tax. They are called "Special CD-R media for music!"
You don't have to go to Universal to complain. You sue Best Buy. I can't remember the legalese, but basically, they agree that the merchandise is fit for a given use. It wasn't. They misrepresented the product. You win.
Now, Best Buy can now sue the distributor, essentially under the same grounds. (and it keeps going up the food chain from there).
But you have no cause of action directly with Universal. Only with Best Buy. It's kinda like Windows Refund Day: no cause with M$, but with the seller of the product.
Remember, don't buy and return from the indy and/or mom-and-pop shops. Buy and return from Circuit City, Amazon.com, Wal-Mart, etc. (The bonus with buying from Amazon is that if they don't identify the offending CD, you might be able to get them charged with mail fraud)
They state that more CDR's have been sold than new CD's. Yeah, no shit. Not every one of those CDR's is used to pirate music. On the last 25 disc spindle I bought:
One compilation CD (free use. Now piss off Hilary)
One MAME cd (Okay, so Sega and the gang can get po'ed, but I actually have some of these games)
One "abuse the high speed connection at work CD" (patches and game demos. Got them at work before I had a cable modem at home)
3-5 Multiple place CD's (I copy some service packs and driver disks for work. We have three locations. Easier to have the CD's at each office than it is to pull the files over the WAN)
12+ Linux/BSD cd's. Yup, this is excessive, but I was switching distros, so tried out a few.
No copies of CD's!!! So what's your freakin' point?
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Okay, WTF? I thought that one of the reasons to get a console is that they weren't so flaky, didn't need babying, etc. (relative to a PC)
From what I hear (and the newest game system I have is an N64) these machines are nearly as flaky as a PC in many respects. They certainly don't sound like they can be kicked around as much as my 2600, my brother's old NES, or my N64.
I believe that Hanukkah (sp?) started around the 15th of December. And Ramadan before that. While the latter is only loosely a part of the 'holiday season' (at least traditionally) the former is more and more often seen as being included in that.
In any event, it is unlikely that these people purchased the machines on the 24th of December. Most likely, they were purchased at least a week earlier. In many cases, perhaps parents caved in and gave the machines to their brats a little early (especially seeing as how many schools closed on the 21st) So, a broken machine on that date is at least 2.5 weeks.
IOW, people who bought the machine during the holiday season (also commonly thought to start with Thanksgiving) got machines that broke, and they had to wait weeks for the device to be fixed.
Maybe you don't expect your new $300 acquisition to work correctly out of the box. Most of us do. Maybe you expect to get to wait weeks for repairs/replacement, most of us don't.
Go to your local Circuit Shitty tomorrow. Ask the people looking at TV's if they expect it to work when they get it home. And ask how many expect it to work a week later. And ask them how long they expect to wait for a replacement/repair if it breaks next week.
Bzzz. Wrong! Sorry, thank you for playing. The original poster was correctly using the apostrophe.
Netcraft says it's running Solaris...
This can also be written:
Netcraft says it is running Solaris...
IOW, the contraction rule was appropriate.
Your brother is a mechanic. That is why he spent $15k on tools. I am not. I have two cars (one non runner) and several motorcycles (only one runner). I have, at most, $500 worth of tools. And the ones I use most were the first $100.
With that $100 set of tools, I've pulled engines (okay, required an extra $50 for a floor jack), I've replaced water pumps, brakes, starters, etc.
Again, we have a 90/10 situation. 90% of the work done on your car can be done with 10% of your tools.
Of course, YMMV. I drive and work on either domestics or Honda/Toyota grade imports. No BMW's (err... four wheeled BMW's, that is) or Porsche's with utterly bizarre tool requirements.
Ahhh, some good news on a holiday. I think /. should just close up today (yes, spoken from an American-Christian chauvanism that the world closes its doors on Christmas Eve:)
And with that, time to start the lamb roasting, and get to work on that wheat beer.
I agree, 100%. If you spend one hour per month keeping the box running, my grandmothers would be MUCH happier if I would just go talk to them for an hour or so. Take them shopping.
Little side note: my grandfather had five daughters. Never spoke about his experiences in the So. Pacific (enlisted when he was 15 or 16. They didn't ask a lot of questions in those days) I went to university about ten miles from his house, so would frequently stop by for Sunday dinner. Over the year or so, he spoke to me more about his experiences than he had to any other human in 50+ years.
So the moral of the story: fuck the browser. Go visit the old lady.
Let me add the Godfather (parts I and II), 2001, and...
Forgot. I was thinking of one or two others, but they do exist. And they exist in sufficient quantity to deny the original statement (implied) that movies are never as good as the book.
As to other comments about accuracy: some of these movies are great because the director/screenwriter recognized that they could not tell the same story and do the same thing as the book. They took more or less from the original source, and did something new with it.
I mean, seriously. A Beowulf cluster of solitaire players is not going to build the next Big Blue.
OTOH, maybe they'll give us the Ultimate Question...
This is a good idea, but...
Not all pricipals, administrators, etc. are interested in volunteer work. I think it falls back on the old "who are you going to blame if it breaks" scenario. Some are also afraid that only pedophiles want to spend time in school. The best opportunity is if you are a parent, and volunteer or speak up at a PTA night. Unfortunately, most others are often screwed.
Good luck with it though.
Unfortunately, we largely pay teachers to babysit. (Note: wife is a former teacher.)
With various standardized tests and curricula, there is little room for teachers to go beyond the text. There is little time for human interaction.
In a perfect world, teachers would be paid to teach. Supposedly they are; in reality, they are paid to read from the state mandated (and now federally mandated) instruction book.
I have been looking for something like Quark Xpress (mostly because I enjoyed doing newspaper layouts on PageMaker in college) and just grabbed something called scribus. I have no idea how to use it, or if it works.
URL is: http://web2.altmuehlnet.de/fschmid.
In a situation with a single corp, single shareholder, single employee, it is trivial to avoid double taxation. It's called an S-corp.
It's also possible that the IRS may say that you are not really a corp at all.
"Since when is Italian-American a race?"
Since somebody figured out that identifying yourself as anything other than a white, anglo male gets you rights and priveleges in the US.
I'm descended from Alcoholic-Americans. And I'm tired of the portrayal of my people at Moe's bar in the Simpsons.
Coca-Cola paid $100million for Harry Potter rights.
It could be argued that the Olympics are paid for solely by their sponsors (I'd argue against that, but the argument can be made)
Not uncommon, even in meatspace. You get popular, you expand. In most businesses, income lags behind the service. You give lots of service, but the income doesn't show up for a long time.
Kinda sucks to see them go. Now that I finally have a cable modem at home, I might have wanted to visit more often.
I'm a USian, so I haven't paid that RIAA tax. Not sure what the Canadian laws are regarding making copies, but if they are illegal as they are in the US, could having paid the tax be considered a defense?
Finally, we do have a RIAA tax. They are called "Special CD-R media for music!"
I have never paid for these.
Yes, he did post almost the identical thing very recently. My guess is that this is an anti-GPL troll.
This is a good page with rejected stories. There are others.
You don't have to go to Universal to complain. You sue Best Buy. I can't remember the legalese, but basically, they agree that the merchandise is fit for a given use. It wasn't. They misrepresented the product. You win.
Now, Best Buy can now sue the distributor, essentially under the same grounds. (and it keeps going up the food chain from there).
But you have no cause of action directly with Universal. Only with Best Buy. It's kinda like Windows Refund Day: no cause with M$, but with the seller of the product.
Karma Whore alert:
Remember, don't buy and return from the indy and/or mom-and-pop shops. Buy and return from Circuit City, Amazon.com, Wal-Mart, etc. (The bonus with buying from Amazon is that if they don't identify the offending CD, you might be able to get them charged with mail fraud)
They state that more CDR's have been sold than new CD's. Yeah, no shit. Not every one of those CDR's is used to pirate music. On the last 25 disc spindle I bought:
One compilation CD (free use. Now piss off Hilary)
One MAME cd (Okay, so Sega and the gang can get po'ed, but I actually have some of these games)
One "abuse the high speed connection at work CD" (patches and game demos. Got them at work before I had a cable modem at home)
3-5 Multiple place CD's (I copy some service packs and driver disks for work. We have three locations. Easier to have the CD's at each office than it is to pull the files over the WAN)
12+ Linux/BSD cd's. Yup, this is excessive, but I was switching distros, so tried out a few.
No copies of CD's!!! So what's your freakin' point?
"I, Mudd" was on sci-fi last night. I see a rewrite, something like this:
I, Ashcroft
"...XP is the only OS that can protect us from terrorists.
But XP was *made* by terrorists"
Fzzt... Pop....
Also, some of us have expressed interest in knowing about Rob Malda's love life. Could you expand a little upon that in the future?
"Right hand, meet Rob.
Rob, right hand."
Heck, I bet they'd be willing to personally help in exchange for the free publicity.
"Linux Helps Monks. More Money For Orphans"