Um, some guy makes a couple of films you like a lot. A while later he makes some more films that you don't like very much.
At what point in this story do you figure at all? Don't bother saying anything about giving him your money, 'cause that was your choice. You don't want, you don't buy. Maybe if he came to your house and pointed a gun at your head to buy the DVD...
Why does Lucas have some kind of "commitment" to you, rather than say Tom Clancy or Michael Chrichton (sp?)? They all produce a product, yet where is the outrage that Timeline made obsolutely zero sense?! (Ok read, but bugger the science!)
"He's making the films for his kids! Burn him!" What, making a film for a bunch of whiny ass-monkeys would be a better choice? Sure, they are the luckiest kids on the planet, but still, I can't think of many motivations better than doing something for you kids.
If you don't like what he's doing, sure complain about how it could be better (I sure did), but don't get so excited about how "he owes us more" or "it doesn't match my vision" or "a dog could do it better". He doesn't owe you jack and if you think you can do better, go prove it.
End of long, dumb rant, but I'm kinda sick of people bitching like Star Wars was their exclusive birthright.
Most likely you did pay for it. OEMs' licensing agreements with MS have the OEM paying for a Win license with every box they make, regardless if it has Windows, or nothing, on the hard drive. Since the OEM paid for it, you now pay for it, and I guess they must legally have to give you the disc. Your box could have cost $100 less without that disc.
Instead of wasting your mod points on downgrading ACs, would you please use them to upgrade good posts? Remember that ACs start at zero, and most trolls are already at -1, so if the average uesr views at +1 (default) then they don't normally see this crap.
I post this because I metamod a lot, and I get more dumb negative mods than good positive mods. Why waste points on obvious dreck? I have seen some great AC posts with great content, but no upmods at all. Look for those, that is what makes/. great, rather than wasting mod points on reducing tuesdaytroll to -4.
Yes, this is off topic, and I'm going to get blasted out of my +1 bonus, but fuck it, maybe somebody will listen to me. Then I may get to read a nifty AC post with some info, rather than knowing mr. goatsex is buried 15 layers down.
Lucky you! My school (Penn State) isn't going for the 2nd straight year... sigh..
So I'm reduced to Oregon/Colorado, maybe the Illinois game, then probably the Rose Bowl- except who do I root (sp?) for? Miami, who slagged PSU earlier this year, or Nebraska, which IMO robbed at least half of championship from PSU in '94?
Maybe I pray for a herd of buffaloes to trample the feild!:)
Would be to read all available Slashdot article from the beginning at -1!
Personaly I'm hunkering down with a fifth of Southern Comfort and my 10 new DVDs in between all the bowl games. With all the finest meats and cheeses from Hickory Farms!
I guess I should call work and tell them I'll be back next week when I recover;)
Well, the building seems as secure as anything I've ever heard of, but they never mention what their communication lines are. This is ok if they are primarily concerened with data safety (which they obviously are!), but this kinda falls down if they are trying to provide data accesibility (sp?). Of course, they might (probably?) have the standard fibre plus wireless and satellite. At least I would hope so, otherwise you just have this impenatrable mass in the middle of muck that can't move and can't talk to anyone, but you can't touch without getting your ass blown off.
This would work for a small site with fairly static data.
Go roam around IBM website and its subsites (support.ibm.com, etc.) and you'll see thousands if not 10s of thousands of pages. Uploading all that takes time.
One other point is if someone cracked Amazon and put up a message saying "Amazon has been cracked and we now have your credit cards numbers!" What are you going to think when you see that again, or for the third, fouth, and fifth time? Bye, bye business! That would be a good reason to prevent it in the first place.
You may run into throughput problems, though. Bluetooth has a maximum bandwidth of 1Mbps, which can be degraded by the presence of other bluetooth devices or 802.11 signals. Plus then you are also sharing this bandwidth with X other players.
May not be a big deal, but I remember when people were raving about USB devices because it gave them 12Mbps, decreasing their response time in games like Unreal and such.
Ah, you have (value)x(G/c) = (m/s^2)/(m/s) which = 1/s. Last time I check watts are an energy flow, meaning J/s or the like.
I'll give you the benefit of the doubt with the watt measurements, since you got them off the 'net, which gives you an even chance of having wrong info, but I spotted the unit issue right off the bat.
You equation is basically right, though (missed a constant http://www.lal.in2p3.fr/presentation/bibliotheque/ publications/2001/web/node3.html ).
Although the best time to do this would have been 1 year ago or so, this is a pretty savvy way to generate some money. Last year, during the dotcom boom this auction would have made 10x as much money, but I guess they hung on too long.
Actually, I would hold onto these domains for another 6 months or so when the supposed rebound is to happen- probably get more money then, but I guess they need the money now.
Imagine the $s if the US government sold the name "slashdot.com" to the public....
The difficulty may be assomtopic to infinity, but it never hits the "unbreakable" axis.
Now for my beef-/. really needs to revamp their whole moderator system. I post info (not like the dribble I posted above) and get modded down 3 times for being redundent?!? Hello, just because someone posted a similar reply 4 seconds before I hit "submit" doesn't mean I'm redundent, it means I type slower.
As some other poster has in his/her sig, the more good comments you right the greater the chance you get modded down! (Gee, how long until this post gets "offtopic" (even though the first paragraph deals with the topic) or flamebait (for speaking about the bias that occurs here?)
Hint for newbies, always LOVE Linux, always HATE Microsoft, be ambiguent about MaxOSX, and speek a lot of "Elite" words like symmetric anal rapings- 'cause you would be in jail And I mean IN
"When Jobs was there in the 70's and early-to-mid 80's Apple was very successful but as soon as he was persona-non-grata and left that's when Apple started going down hill"
One quick correction, Jobs got forced out, he didn't leave. Imagine if Scully and Amelio didn't fuck up everything as badly as they did.... sigh...
Right on- this started the day VCRs came out, and now they have the term "perfect digital copy" to also bandy about. And the one guy who predicted that "Napster was the end of the music industry, in 5 years it'll just be a cottage industry"- can you lay the FUD on a little thicker next time?!
I don't know what the "content faction" is really striving for here. Every year their revenues and profits go up, even in the Napster years. Forget music, I stopped listening to new music a decade ago. Movies I like, but if they keep pushing DVDs into stranger formats and making me jump through hoops just to watch a friggin rental, I might just drop that habit, too. Good job there, guys! Alienating the customer!
The "tech faction" sounds like the less evil of the 2, but even they have their problems. DRM on hard drives- so much for backing up my data if I don't do it right. (Yeah, it's only supposed to be for copyrighted/watermarked material, but do you really trust that they won't screw up the DRM code somehow, resulting in my data refusing to be copied?)
And why the hell does the government need to set any kind of standard in a private industry?! (Answer- lobbiests are paying them to) How about just trying to keep our asses from being blown up in big buildings?
News from the future:
"Sony has just trademarked the color blue. Here is the online account number that you may send your micropayments each time you see the color blue. Film at eleven, once we pay for the blue"
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indiv.$ > content.co
/rant
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Crazy Stats on Spam
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Average Internet User Receives 1,613 Spam e-Mails Per Year
By Kim Deok-hyun
Staff Reporter
An average Internet user is receiving a yearly average of 1,613 unsolicited e-mail advertisements, or spam, a local Internet marketing solution developer reported yesterday.
According to Emforce, some 24.12 million domestic Internet users receive 38.9 billion occupational ad e-mails for such things as weight-loss schemes, lures to pornographic sites or other marketing efforts.
On a daily basis, an average Internet user was found to have gotten 4.4 advertisement e-mails of some sort, the report said.
For instance, Daum Communications, the country's biggest free e-mail service operator, estimated that around 40 percent of the e-mails going to its subscribers are unsolicited ads.
Last year, International Data Corp., a global market research firm, said that the average daily volume of e-mail around the world was some 10 billion, and will explode to 35 billion by 2005.
In comparison with the U.S., believed to have some 11.52 million Internet users, the volume of unsolicited ad e-mails this year was around 289 billion, and an average American Internet user receives some 2,509 spam per year, the report said.
``This year, e-mail marketing is poised as an advertising tool for both online and offline companies,'' the company pointed out.
However, it added that consumers are nervous about the flood of unsolicited e-mail, and some are now fighting back with a campaign to halt the unsolicited ads. The company said more accurate customer information is needed to avoid such setbacks.
RAM prices are at obscene low levels right now (not that I mind)... will it stay this way or is there really a manufacturing glut right now? Another question is why would manufacturers price their memory to lose money and go out of business? Yeah, sure, cheaper is cheaper, but couldn't the companies that charge higher prices tout some feature? Like, higher reliability or better failure rate or some shit? Mostly PR, but can boost your sales.
Another question is now that a semi-major chip supplier is going out of business, will prices jack up overnight?
I remember reading something about this in Popular Mechanics or some similar mag. They claimed that the skin of the aircraft would use liquid nitrogen to cool the skin in-flight (so the skin could be tight at all temps, avoiding the 71's problem of leaking fuel on the ground).
Haven't heard anything recently about this vehicle, so it either went deep underground or got canceled for some reason. Hope it went underground, 'cause the claimed specs were just shy of a true scramjet. Or maybe it turned into the proposed scramjet NASA is working on?
Well, I don't take the same stance as you did on his post and your response. I read it differently. Your explanation is much clearer than your first response, and I also agree with it.
And yes, I will defend your right to call me idiotic any day.
"Oh, for most people it's desensitizing, but not you? Seriously, fuck you for telling people what they can't handle. Who the hell do you think you are? "
And who the fuck are you to bitch at someone for giving his opinion? He didn't give a commandment that "all shall not play this game", he suggested something.
"And think of the life lessons! I know now that if I kill a young girls mother and destroy her town, she'll trust me if I promise to protect her (valuable lesson from FF2). "
Allrighty then, I'll just be moseying down to the next town, if you don't mind.....
Slashdot Mirror
Um, some guy makes a couple of films you like a lot. A while later he makes some more films that you don't like very much.
At what point in this story do you figure at all? Don't bother saying anything about giving him your money, 'cause that was your choice. You don't want, you don't buy. Maybe if he came to your house and pointed a gun at your head to buy the DVD...
Why does Lucas have some kind of "commitment" to you, rather than say Tom Clancy or Michael Chrichton (sp?)? They all produce a product, yet where is the outrage that Timeline made obsolutely zero sense?! (Ok read, but bugger the science!)
"He's making the films for his kids! Burn him!" What, making a film for a bunch of whiny ass-monkeys would be a better choice? Sure, they are the luckiest kids on the planet, but still, I can't think of many motivations better than doing something for you kids.
If you don't like what he's doing, sure complain about how it could be better (I sure did), but don't get so excited about how "he owes us more" or "it doesn't match my vision" or "a dog could do it better". He doesn't owe you jack and if you think you can do better, go prove it.
End of long, dumb rant, but I'm kinda sick of people bitching like Star Wars was their exclusive birthright.
You rock!
:) )
(PS- sounds like me and my younger sis when we were kids
Most likely you did pay for it. OEMs' licensing agreements with MS have the OEM paying for a Win license with every box they make, regardless if it has Windows, or nothing, on the hard drive. Since the OEM paid for it, you now pay for it, and I guess they must legally have to give you the disc. Your box could have cost $100 less without that disc.
Instead of wasting your mod points on downgrading ACs, would you please use them to upgrade good posts? Remember that ACs start at zero, and most trolls are already at -1, so if the average uesr views at +1 (default) then they don't normally see this crap.
/. great, rather than wasting mod points on reducing tuesdaytroll to -4.
I post this because I metamod a lot, and I get more dumb negative mods than good positive mods. Why waste points on obvious dreck? I have seen some great AC posts with great content, but no upmods at all. Look for those, that is what makes
Yes, this is off topic, and I'm going to get blasted out of my +1 bonus, but fuck it, maybe somebody will listen to me. Then I may get to read a nifty AC post with some info, rather than knowing mr. goatsex is buried 15 layers down.
Lucky you! My school (Penn State) isn't going for the 2nd straight year... sigh..
:)
So I'm reduced to Oregon/Colorado, maybe the Illinois game, then probably the Rose Bowl- except who do I root (sp?) for? Miami, who slagged PSU earlier this year, or Nebraska, which IMO robbed at least half of championship from PSU in '94?
Maybe I pray for a herd of buffaloes to trample the feild!
Would be to read all available Slashdot article from the beginning at -1!
;)
Personaly I'm hunkering down with a fifth of Southern Comfort and my 10 new DVDs in between all the bowl games. With all the finest meats and cheeses from Hickory Farms!
I guess I should call work and tell them I'll be back next week when I recover
Well, the building seems as secure as anything I've ever heard of, but they never mention what their communication lines are. This is ok if they are primarily concerened with data safety (which they obviously are!), but this kinda falls down if they are trying to provide data accesibility (sp?). Of course, they might (probably?) have the standard fibre plus wireless and satellite. At least I would hope so, otherwise you just have this impenatrable mass in the middle of muck that can't move and can't talk to anyone, but you can't touch without getting your ass blown off.
... but you do have to recognize that perpetual motion is, currently, impossible.
What! But I saw this on the Simpsons!
Lisa: Hey dad, I built a perpetual motion machine for you!
Homer: Lisa, in this house we observe the laws of thermodynamics!
Sorry, slow Friday....
Actually no, I haven't heard of that. I'm not a web guy (I don't even have a free website), so I don't follow that kind of stuff.
Sounds decent, though. Thanks for the info.
This would work for a small site with fairly static data.
Go roam around IBM website and its subsites (support.ibm.com, etc.) and you'll see thousands if not 10s of thousands of pages. Uploading all that takes time.
One other point is if someone cracked Amazon and put up a message saying "Amazon has been cracked and we now have your credit cards numbers!" What are you going to think when you see that again, or for the third, fouth, and fifth time? Bye, bye business! That would be a good reason to prevent it in the first place.
You may run into throughput problems, though. Bluetooth has a maximum bandwidth of 1Mbps, which can be degraded by the presence of other bluetooth devices or 802.11 signals. Plus then you are also sharing this bandwidth with X other players.
May not be a big deal, but I remember when people were raving about USB devices because it gave them 12Mbps, decreasing their response time in games like Unreal and such.
Just a thought.
Ah, you have (value)x(G/c) = (m/s^2)/(m/s) which = 1/s. Last time I check watts are an energy flow, meaning J/s or the like.
/ publications/2001/web/node3.html ).
I'll give you the benefit of the doubt with the watt measurements, since you got them off the 'net, which gives you an even chance of having wrong info, but I spotted the unit issue right off the bat.
You equation is basically right, though (missed a constant http://www.lal.in2p3.fr/presentation/bibliotheque
Ah well, no big deal.
Can't they just hook up Harry Knowles (www.aicn.com) with some sensors and look for the gravity waves he creates?
My bad, "slashdot.org" would be the URL.
Although the best time to do this would have been 1 year ago or so, this is a pretty savvy way to generate some money. Last year, during the dotcom boom this auction would have made 10x as much money, but I guess they hung on too long.
Actually, I would hold onto these domains for another 6 months or so when the supposed rebound is to happen- probably get more money then, but I guess they need the money now.
Imagine the $s if the US government sold the name "slashdot.com" to the public....
The difficulty may be assomtopic to infinity, but it never hits the "unbreakable" axis.
/. really needs to revamp their whole moderator system. I post info (not like the dribble I posted above) and get modded down 3 times for being redundent?!? Hello, just because someone posted a similar reply 4 seconds before I hit "submit" doesn't mean I'm redundent, it means I type slower.
Now for my beef-
As some other poster has in his/her sig, the more good comments you right the greater the chance you get modded down! (Gee, how long until this post gets "offtopic" (even though the first paragraph deals with the topic) or flamebait (for speaking about the bias that occurs here?)
Hint for newbies, always LOVE Linux, always HATE Microsoft, be ambiguent about MaxOSX, and speek a lot of "Elite" words like symmetric anal rapings- 'cause you would be in jail And I mean IN
"When Jobs was there in the 70's and early-to-mid 80's Apple was very successful but as soon as he was persona-non-grata and left that's when Apple started going down hill"
One quick correction, Jobs got forced out, he didn't leave. Imagine if Scully and Amelio didn't fuck up everything as badly as they did.... sigh...
Right on- this started the day VCRs came out, and now they have the term "perfect digital copy" to also bandy about. And the one guy who predicted that "Napster was the end of the music industry, in 5 years it'll just be a cottage industry"- can you lay the FUD on a little thicker next time?!
I don't know what the "content faction" is really striving for here. Every year their revenues and profits go up, even in the Napster years. Forget music, I stopped listening to new music a decade ago. Movies I like, but if they keep pushing DVDs into stranger formats and making me jump through hoops just to watch a friggin rental, I might just drop that habit, too. Good job there, guys! Alienating the customer!
The "tech faction" sounds like the less evil of the 2, but even they have their problems. DRM on hard drives- so much for backing up my data if I don't do it right. (Yeah, it's only supposed to be for copyrighted/watermarked material, but do you really trust that they won't screw up the DRM code somehow, resulting in my data refusing to be copied?)
And why the hell does the government need to set any kind of standard in a private industry?! (Answer- lobbiests are paying them to) How about just trying to keep our asses from being blown up in big buildings?
News from the future:
"Sony has just trademarked the color blue. Here is the online account number that you may send your micropayments each time you see the color blue. Film at eleven, once we pay for the blue"
indiv.rights > toilet
indiv.$ > content.co
/rant
Average Internet User Receives 1,613 Spam e-Mails Per Year
By Kim Deok-hyun
Staff Reporter
An average Internet user is receiving a yearly average of 1,613 unsolicited e-mail advertisements, or spam, a local Internet marketing solution developer reported yesterday.
According to Emforce, some 24.12 million domestic Internet users receive 38.9 billion occupational ad e-mails for such things as weight-loss schemes, lures to pornographic sites or other marketing efforts.
On a daily basis, an average Internet user was found to have gotten 4.4 advertisement e-mails of some sort, the report said.
For instance, Daum Communications, the country's biggest free e-mail service operator, estimated that around 40 percent of the e-mails going to its subscribers are unsolicited ads.
Last year, International Data Corp., a global market research firm, said that the average daily volume of e-mail around the world was some 10 billion, and will explode to 35 billion by 2005.
In comparison with the U.S., believed to have some 11.52 million Internet users, the volume of unsolicited ad e-mails this year was around 289 billion, and an average American Internet user receives some 2,509 spam per year, the report said.
``This year, e-mail marketing is poised as an advertising tool for both online and offline companies,'' the company pointed out.
However, it added that consumers are nervous about the flood of unsolicited e-mail, and some are now fighting back with a campaign to halt the unsolicited ads. The company said more accurate customer information is needed to avoid such setbacks.
kdh@koreatimes.co.kr
RAM prices are at obscene low levels right now (not that I mind)... will it stay this way or is there really a manufacturing glut right now? Another question is why would manufacturers price their memory to lose money and go out of business? Yeah, sure, cheaper is cheaper, but couldn't the companies that charge higher prices tout some feature? Like, higher reliability or better failure rate or some shit? Mostly PR, but can boost your sales.
Another question is now that a semi-major chip supplier is going out of business, will prices jack up overnight?
Ok, enough deepish thinking it.
I remember reading something about this in Popular Mechanics or some similar mag. They claimed that the skin of the aircraft would use liquid nitrogen to cool the skin in-flight (so the skin could be tight at all temps, avoiding the 71's problem of leaking fuel on the ground).
Haven't heard anything recently about this vehicle, so it either went deep underground or got canceled for some reason. Hope it went underground, 'cause the claimed specs were just shy of a true scramjet. Or maybe it turned into the proposed scramjet NASA is working on?
Well, ok, Mr. John "Bootee"!
Yeah, that's right, "Bootee"
Take that, bi-otch!
HE HE HE!
(better?)
Well, I don't take the same stance as you did on his post and your response. I read it differently. Your explanation is much clearer than your first response, and I also agree with it.
And yes, I will defend your right to call me idiotic any day.
"Oh, for most people it's desensitizing, but not you? Seriously, fuck you for telling people what they can't handle. Who the hell do you think you are? "
And who the fuck are you to bitch at someone for giving his opinion? He didn't give a commandment that "all shall not play this game", he suggested something.
I guess they don't allow opinions in your town?
"And think of the life lessons! I know now that if I kill a young girls mother and destroy her town, she'll trust me if I promise to protect her (valuable lesson from FF2). "
Allrighty then, I'll just be moseying down to the next town, if you don't mind.....
(RUN!)