External confirmation would be in the credit card records, a charge and then a chargeback. However, if Amazon never even charged anybody before discovering the pricing error, I don't see what anybody has to complain about.
Of all the idiotic posts to this story I've picked yours as the most idiotic, for the use of the collective 'WE' in your rhetorical questions. Why aren't 'WE' focusing on making safer cars, researching cancer, and helping the less fortunate?? 'WE' are. There are millions of people right this very second doing each of those things and other noble causes like researching global warming, studying endangered species, trying to find ways around wars and conflict. 'WE' do this every single day. If you feel more people should be working on these things then 'YOU' need to get on the bandwagon and work towards this yourself. Everybody in free a society has the right to choose what they want to work on. There is no 'WE' imperative. Quit using it. But beyond that, it doesn't mean that stopping a thousand people from being murdered is of no consequence in the world. Bravo to those who cracked the case. Had this happened for the WTC fiasco, we wouldn't be in half the shit we are now.
Now for your second paragraph... You don't think that the 'hype' is about stopping deaths? You are unwilling to believe that there were even terrorist plans? And you are linking to a wikipedia article about contemplated simulated attacks in 19fucking62 that (even if the article is accurate) were subsequently cancelled? Where to even begin here... If your entire position is one of total skepticism then there is absolutely nothing that can be done for you. You, as have many others here, have already taken the position that you will believe only the stories that appeal your your 'intuition' as to what could be true in light of your own political and philosophical worldview.
To all those idiots who think that not being able to bring toothpaste, sun screen and personal lubricant in your carry-on bags is an assault on your civil liberties; check your damn bags and STFU. [cliche]An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.[/cliche] It's oft quoted because it's true.
Another factor that probably figures into low xbox sales is that there have been reports saying that xbox2 is coming out in 2005. Nobody wants to buy a console that may be obsolete in a year or less. Especially since xbox2 is not expected to be backwards compatable.
PS2 isn't going to have the same problem because they have a good track record there.
Do we really need legislation about tapping push-to-talk phones? I mean, if you really want to know what they're saying, just stand next to the jerk using push-to-talk. Or even in the next room.
(Is it just me or do people using push-to-talk speak even LOUDER than when using the phone non Star Trek stylie?)
I'm afraid Mr. Bradbury is out of his gourd! The whole 'three Italians' idea is a little too much symbolism for me. The only good reason to send some Italians to Mars first is so that there will be pizza ready by the time the rest of us get there.:)
Netflix used to carry 'Mature' titles. Softcore type stuff. I suspect that either they figured it was too easy for kids to get a hold of or perhaps people kept renting it and not returning it. I know that most of the titles were always listed as 'Long Wait'. Errrr.... not that I ever had any in my queue or anything......gotta go!
I tried submitting this last week when I saw the article in the Union Tribune because the rhetoric coming from Patriot sounds disgustingly like the crap spewing from SCO. Here are some choice quotes from the article:
"It would suggest that every PC manufactured after 1994 or 1995 is benefiting from this technology," Wallin said. As the company put it in a recent news release, "It is now time for Patriot Scientific and its shareholders to be properly remunerated."
Wallin added, "This sounds terrible, but we intend to get around to everybody."
Intel is taking action already. They have filed suit against Patriot to prevent Patriot from threatening them.
The most infuriating experience I had with textbooks was a book for a class that required the student to enter a registration code from the book into a web page. This was used for some web based quizzes and exercises. Problem was, once you used the code it was invalid so students were required to buy a new book for that class. Plus there were bugs, a good 5% of the codes from NEW books were not being accepted by the website so those students had to contact the publisher or webmaster or somebody.
Online or electronic textbooks seem like they could help with the pricing issues described in the report. However, experience teaches me that there are plenty of ways it could make things worse! Plus most people sell back their books at the end of the quarter or semester. Don't count on that option for eBooks.
Apparently it was simply too many files and the FS ran out of inodes.
Although that is the simple version that most of the press has been relaying, if you've watched the press conferences, the engineers have been carefull to say that they have not been able to fully reproduce the exact same errors on their test rovers here on Earth. The exact cause of the problem really hasn't been determined. And yes, they did stress test the file system before they sent the rovers up and they never saw the type of problem that they're having now.
I know that was meant as a joke, but I can't wait until the day when we have rovers or people up on Mars who can go check out some of these things. I'd really like to see what the Viking landers look like after all this time.
And while I'm at it, I'd just like to say that NASA has done an excellent job not only of putting equipment on Mars, but of keeping us informed here on Earth. Kudos all around. This has really reinvigorated my interest in space exploration and I hope that it has had a similar influence on others, especially those kids who are interested in science and technology.
Be as cynical as you like, we all know it takes money to run for any public office. Amazon has put up a page with all the candidates, many of which I have never heard of, and it has a little biography and overview of their politics. From there you can donate a small amount of cash, $200 or less.
Maybe this will help educate some people on the lesser known candidates and help even the playing field a tiny bit for those candidates who don't have a lot of cash.
This is my completely uninformed guess: it will sell for $99-$130, BUT it will only play AAC not mp3. So they make little to no profit on the player, but with the player being so cheap it's a huge incentive to buy one and then purchase songs from iTMS. It's the old "give away the handle and sell the razors" model.
A few months ago, you could purchase MP3's from the website for the band The Used. You could select either 128bit or 192bit and you got all the albums on the song for $9.99. And they also mailed you a poster of the band.
That is the sort of thing that iTunes should be doing. You can buy individual songs if you want, but if you purchase the whole album they send you some sort of poster, sticker, trinket, etc. It sweetens the deal if you're on the fence between purchasing the single, or taking a chance on the whole album.
As much as I love Ad Aware and programs of that type that find and remove spyware programs, using them to do the removal can cause you some bigtime system problems if the spyware is not removed properly. Some of these spyware programs are so insidious, or just so poorly written, that the removal of the program, dll, or a particular registry key can wreck a Windows installation. I've learned that the hard way.
Dell is simply limiting their involvement in this process. After all, it's not their fault that the user put the spyware on the system to begin with.
I think as the web matures, these so called 'rules' will be rewritten. No hysterical 'end of rules' proclamations need be sounded.
The 3 click rule made more sense during the bubble when there was a glut of sites for every category. Or when there really wasn't a definitive site for any one purpose. When a person knows there are a multitude of sites they can look at, they are reluctant to go too deep on any one site. I can recall using 3-5 search engines every time I was looking for something. I would look at the first result page and then try another engine. Now I only hit Google, but I'll look as deep as I need to.
The 7+/-2 rule is based on a cognitive psychological idea first put forth in an article by George A. Miller, The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two: Some Limits on Our Capacity for Processing Information. In it he argues that the average person can really only hold about 5-9 things in immediate memory at one time. I don't believe that is an internet design 'rule' that should be ignored, too many choices in one space will overwhelm your average users.
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External confirmation would be in the credit card records, a charge and then a chargeback. However, if Amazon never even charged anybody before discovering the pricing error, I don't see what anybody has to complain about.
Yeah, the only problem is that it tastes like squirrel. :(
Of all the idiotic posts to this story I've picked yours as the most idiotic, for the use of the collective 'WE' in your rhetorical questions. Why aren't 'WE' focusing on making safer cars, researching cancer, and helping the less fortunate?? 'WE' are. There are millions of people right this very second doing each of those things and other noble causes like researching global warming, studying endangered species, trying to find ways around wars and conflict. 'WE' do this every single day. If you feel more people should be working on these things then 'YOU' need to get on the bandwagon and work towards this yourself. Everybody in free a society has the right to choose what they want to work on. There is no 'WE' imperative. Quit using it. But beyond that, it doesn't mean that stopping a thousand people from being murdered is of no consequence in the world. Bravo to those who cracked the case. Had this happened for the WTC fiasco, we wouldn't be in half the shit we are now.
Now for your second paragraph... You don't think that the 'hype' is about stopping deaths? You are unwilling to believe that there were even terrorist plans? And you are linking to a wikipedia article about contemplated simulated attacks in 19fucking62 that (even if the article is accurate) were subsequently cancelled? Where to even begin here... If your entire position is one of total skepticism then there is absolutely nothing that can be done for you. You, as have many others here, have already taken the position that you will believe only the stories that appeal your your 'intuition' as to what could be true in light of your own political and philosophical worldview.
To all those idiots who think that not being able to bring toothpaste, sun screen and personal lubricant in your carry-on bags is an assault on your civil liberties; check your damn bags and STFU. [cliche]An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.[/cliche] It's oft quoted because it's true.
The real moral issue with sex robots is shown here.
I think the real question here is, how the hell have the Redskins been rigging the election for the past 60 years?
Another factor that probably figures into low xbox sales is that there have been reports saying that xbox2 is coming out in 2005. Nobody wants to buy a console that may be obsolete in a year or less. Especially since xbox2 is not expected to be backwards compatable.
PS2 isn't going to have the same problem because they have a good track record there.
Do we really need legislation about tapping push-to-talk phones? I mean, if you really want to know what they're saying, just stand next to the jerk using push-to-talk. Or even in the next room.
(Is it just me or do people using push-to-talk speak even LOUDER than when using the phone non Star Trek stylie?)
Umm, which 'essential oil' is going to generate that scent?
Ummmmm, I'm gonna guess 'crude' oil. Baaahahaha!!
I'm afraid Mr. Bradbury is out of his gourd! The whole 'three Italians' idea is a little too much symbolism for me. The only good reason to send some Italians to Mars first is so that there will be pizza ready by the time the rest of us get there. :)
...you get to drink the sake while you play with your wood.
...you get to drink the sake while you play with your wood.
I tried for a long time to think of a joke funnier than this quote.
I couldn't, so lets see it one more time.
Netflix used to carry 'Mature' titles. Softcore type stuff. I suspect that either they figured it was too easy for kids to get a hold of or perhaps people kept renting it and not returning it. I know that most of the titles were always listed as 'Long Wait'. Errrr.... not that I ever had any in my queue or anything......gotta go!
WTF, if people have nice, fast Internet as you say, then they can get all the NASA TV they want from NASA or any one of the mirrors.
Ugh! I hate this head-in-the-sand attitude.
Would you rather hear that a family member has been diagnosed with cancer or not find out until they die from it?
This lawsuit is news and I'd rather know about it now when there is still a chance to express my opinion whether it matters or not.
I tried submitting this last week when I saw the article in the Union Tribune because the rhetoric coming from Patriot sounds disgustingly like the crap spewing from SCO.
Here are some choice quotes from the article:
"It would suggest that every PC manufactured after 1994 or 1995 is benefiting from this technology," Wallin said. As the company put it in a recent news release, "It is now time for Patriot Scientific and its shareholders to be properly remunerated."
Wallin added, "This sounds terrible, but we intend to get around to everybody."
Intel is taking action already. They have filed suit against Patriot to prevent Patriot from threatening them.
The most infuriating experience I had with textbooks was a book for a class that required the student to enter a registration code from the book into a web page. This was used for some web based quizzes and exercises. Problem was, once you used the code it was invalid so students were required to buy a new book for that class. Plus there were bugs, a good 5% of the codes from NEW books were not being accepted by the website so those students had to contact the publisher or webmaster or somebody.
Online or electronic textbooks seem like they could help with the pricing issues described in the report. However, experience teaches me that there are plenty of ways it could make things worse! Plus most people sell back their books at the end of the quarter or semester. Don't count on that option for eBooks.
The Hubble issue is not settled, there are still people fighting for it. Just today there was this article at MSNBC.
:p
Quit being so pessimistic.
Apparently it was simply too many files and the FS ran out of inodes.
Although that is the simple version that most of the press has been relaying, if you've watched the press conferences, the engineers have been carefull to say that they have not been able to fully reproduce the exact same errors on their test rovers here on Earth. The exact cause of the problem really hasn't been determined. And yes, they did stress test the file system before they sent the rovers up and they never saw the type of problem that they're having now.
I know that was meant as a joke, but I can't wait until the day when we have rovers or people up on Mars who can go check out some of these things.
I'd really like to see what the Viking landers look like after all this time.
And while I'm at it, I'd just like to say that NASA has done an excellent job not only of putting equipment on Mars, but of keeping us informed here on Earth. Kudos all around.
This has really reinvigorated my interest in space exploration and I hope that it has had a similar influence on others, especially those kids who are interested in science and technology.
Be as cynical as you like, we all know it takes money to run for any public office. Amazon has put up a page with all the candidates, many of which I have never heard of, and it has a little biography and overview of their politics. From there you can donate a small amount of cash, $200 or less.
Maybe this will help educate some people on the lesser known candidates and help even the playing field a tiny bit for those candidates who don't have a lot of cash.
Who wouldn't want to ride up to their office or hotel floor while listening to the soothing sounds of The Shizit's 'Gak Bitch'?
What I really want to see out of this HP + Apple lovefest is the ability to play iTunes songs on my iPaq.
This is my completely uninformed guess: it will sell for $99-$130, BUT it will only play AAC not mp3. So they make little to no profit on the player, but with the player being so cheap it's a huge incentive to buy one and then purchase songs from iTMS. It's the old "give away the handle and sell the razors" model.
A few months ago, you could purchase MP3's from the website for the band The Used. You could select either 128bit or 192bit and you got all the albums on the song for $9.99. And they also mailed you a poster of the band.
That is the sort of thing that iTunes should be doing. You can buy individual songs if you want, but if you purchase the whole album they send you some sort of poster, sticker, trinket, etc. It sweetens the deal if you're on the fence between purchasing the single, or taking a chance on the whole album.
As much as I love Ad Aware and programs of that type that find and remove spyware programs, using them to do the removal can cause you some bigtime system problems if the spyware is not removed properly. Some of these spyware programs are so insidious, or just so poorly written, that the removal of the program, dll, or a particular registry key can wreck a Windows installation. I've learned that the hard way.
Dell is simply limiting their involvement in this process. After all, it's not their fault that the user put the spyware on the system to begin with.
I think as the web matures, these so called 'rules' will be rewritten. No hysterical 'end of rules' proclamations need be sounded.
The 3 click rule made more sense during the bubble when there was a glut of sites for every category. Or when there really wasn't a definitive site for any one purpose. When a person knows there are a multitude of sites they can look at, they are reluctant to go too deep on any one site. I can recall using 3-5 search engines every time I was looking for something. I would look at the first result page and then try another engine. Now I only hit Google, but I'll look as deep as I need to.
The 7+/-2 rule is based on a cognitive psychological idea first put forth in an article by George A. Miller, The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two: Some Limits on Our Capacity for Processing Information. In it he argues that the average person can really only hold about 5-9 things in immediate memory at one time.
I don't believe that is an internet design 'rule' that should be ignored, too many choices in one space will overwhelm your average users.