iRobet and JD have a booth at the annual AUSA (Association of the US Army) conference. I thought it was a reference to some wierd Asimov / lawn tractor combo. Guess I'll have to swing by tomorow.
The only crime here is charging 20$ for the original Donkey Kong/Marios. They should have bundled all those old games for much less.
Huh? If they make more money selling seperate versions than from selling bundles, then they should sell them seperately. Nintendo is in the business of making money.
if you don't think a game is worth $20, don't buy it and spare us the "it's a ripoff" and therby rationlizing the other poster's comment about ripping games to a blank cart.
Slashdot - where it's ok to steal software but don't even think about incorporating linux in a product and not releasing the modified code, cause that's immoral and theft.
"They want huge databases of purchasing behavior so the can statistically analyze what other products customers are buying alongside their products."
Geez, and here I thought the shopper cards were designed to save me 30 cents on a dozen 2 liter bottles of Coke. Instead, they want to know the buying habits of G. Khan, James T Kirk and Joe Stalin. All of whom live at 1600 Penn Ave.
especially in education, where $$$ are often tight, and users rarely need all the features of MSOffice. That's also a good way to get the word out to parents as well.
Case in point - our local high school has a class that requires a PowerPoint presentation as part of the class. The teacher insisted on PP and was a bit taken back when I suggested to one parent that OO has a perfectly good presentation package and doesn't require shelling out the $$$ for MSOffice; and you can test for compatibility with MS's free PP viewer as well.
Despite living an affluent district, many parent's can't afford the $125 or so for a student edition MS Office and may not even have a PC that can run it, so OO is a very viable alternative.
"Hey, Bob told me you are passing on the extended warranty. This is a very expensive items so there are a few things we have to cover before you buy it. Do you know if it breaks you'll have to cover all shipping expenses to and from the service center? That laptop has lithium batteries so there are hazardous shipping charges involved. It can take weeks to get it repaired. It's very odd for someone to turn down the extended warranties. Are you sure? Well, I have to inform you of all the potential risks of buying without the extended warranty."
(talking to salesdroid)
Well, I realize it is helpful, but I'm already spending 2000$ on this laptop, $350 for a warranty is out of my budget...
(salsedroid)
Well, I can knock $150 off of the laptop,,
(me) deal...
(1 week later) I'd like to return this warranty...
So - what's a good reference to detect and fix XP zombie issues? I run a firewall, (ZoneAlarm) and up to date antivirus softwrae, but I ain't no network expert. SpyBot and Adaware seem to deal with the junk other users (family) load onto the machine (and the occasional clue by four when needed), but I'd like to be more certain I ain't part of the problem. Unfortunately, moving to Linux is not an option (yet).
Any good suggetsion s- I've seen a lot of gloom and doom reports, but few good sources of what to do (even goofle ain't that helpful).
for some reason, 1.0 stopped ofefring dropdown lists of user ids for loins -.9 would offer up the names as you typed - so j would yield all ids starting with j, etc. Couldn't find an option to reenable that feature. Even though it can pretend to be IE6, some sites still don't work. Our corporate T&E site uses Great Plain's web time/expense app, and soem applets refuse to run, making the site unusuable.
Firefox is, however my default browser for 99% of my web browsing.
Actually it's a pretty old idea..
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In teh 50's, the militray wanted to build a portable nuke plant that could be used as a power supply for remote bases. They built a prototype, SL-1, in the Idaho desert. Unfortunately, an operator pulled a rod to fast and exceeded a limit (they were pulled by hand from the reactor top), causing a rather nasty accident. We rode by the site in our yellow buses on the way to the Navy prototypes. The government has a great flick on teh accidnet, BTW.
Your call : does your Bill of Rights define all of the rights which you have?
No, it specifically limits the US Government's ability to curtail our rights. Our Constitution specically states that any rights not enumerated in it are reserved to the states or the people.
As a side note, it applies to our government, not private citizens and contracts that they undertake. Which is why , when people start screaming "Company X violated my 1st amendment rights" I realize they have no idea about what they speak.
Sure, it might not make THAT much of a difference, but it will likely appease the countless amounts of people that would say "Why should I pay just as much for one without a camera?" Also, I would have to believe that a 1.3 MP camera is no longer a negligable cost.
Sure they could, but why should they if they can make more money by selling it at a higher price? If they can make more money selling them at the same price, then that is what they should do.
You can obviously spell and type, so what's up with 'teh'?
When I type, I hunt and peck and often hit the e before the h since I type the e with my left hand and the h follows the t with the right. So the sequence is - t with right finger, hit e with left as right hand moves to the h.
If I slow down, I make fewer typos. Unfortunately, I make no more sense when I slow down...
Why don't they have a Treo 650-NC for ~$50 cheaper right off the bat?
If they do offer one, they should charge as much as for one with a camera?
Why? Most folks will pay the cost of teh camera phoe, but some subset will want one but can't have a camera. So for them, the choice is no Treo or a camera less one - and since they would buy one with a camera if teh could use it at work, they should be willing to pay the same amount for one without so they can have a Treo.
If they charge less, not only will the ones that need a camera less one buy it, but so will some peopel who would buy it with a camera but decide to save $50.
Lowering teh price would result in less overall revenue, since I doubt $50 off will make a noticable impact on sales (i.e. most people who won't pay $450 for the Treo won't pay $400 either.)
My watch on my arm has more power in it than not only my first computer (KIM-1) but more processing power and memory than the computers used to send men to the moon and land on it.
you have no idea what a low power computer is.
My first computer was all mechanical - you programmed it with little soda straw like things.
However, because the film is in the public domain does not mean you have a blanket right to use it. Underlying elements, such as a song, could still be copyrighted and the owner can prevent you from using it.
That, AFAIR, was how "It's a wonderful life" was brought back under studio control.
I don't stop; college is there to get an education, and you pay quite enough for that. If you want something else, feel free to pay for it, but don't make me pay for it if I don't want it. I don't want to subsidise a recreation center, football jerseys, or least of all a Starbucks. I also have to pay for medical and dental insurance, despite having my own coverage. A significant portion of my tuition pays for such things. That's fundamentally wrong, since nowhere did I see a checkbox saying "absolutely not, don't let a cent of my money go to that".
The checkbx was on the form you used to enroll - you could have chosen to forgo attending and tus paying for those things. Since you want the education, you have to pay the freight.
If the US Government can't even decide to clear their own Senators for air travel, I sympathize with anyone who has anything negative to say about the government. "I realise that you're a senator, privvy to confidential information, on the board of various committees, but I'm just not sure if I can trust you to get on an airplane."
Well, in fairness to the TSA, Sen Kenendy may have tried to drive home after leaving Logan.
According to the Olympic Charter, established by Pierre de Coubertin, the goal of the Olympic Movement is to contribute to building a peaceful and better world by educating youth through sport practised without discrimination of any kind and in the Olympic spirit, which requires mutual understanding with a spirit of friendship, solidarity and fair play.
According to the Olympic Charter (rev 1), established by Major Sponsors, the goal of the Olympic Movement is to contribute to corporate profits peaceful and better brand recognition by advertising to youth through sport practised without competitors images of any kind and in the Olympic spirit, which requires major contributions with a spirit of exclusivity, frequent advertisments and no fair use.
I mean, if programming (1 geek point) computer games (2 points) on an overclocked (3 points) calculator (4 points) using an open source (5 points) compiler isn't the pinnacle of all that is geek I don't know what is.
Doing it in bed with twins. Blondes, preferably.
except wearing a calculator on your belt (6 points) and being able to disucss how games run cool on an overclocked OS OS (7 points) is a sure way to turn off the opposite sex
I thought that, in the first place, taking photos at an event was entirely legal.
That depends on the contract you agree to when you buy the ticket - it can exclude the right to take pictures. The right to take photos is seperate from teh right to use them commercially (sucha s in a blog or on a web site).
In addition, even if you can take pictures, that doesn't give you the right to distribute them - athletes own their image (that's why you get model releaases when you take pictures of peopel you plan to use commercially),and there may be copyrighted things in the photo (such as the design of a stadium) that the copyright owners have the right to control distribution.
The press, for legitimate news use, has teh right (at least in the US) to print pictures a commercial photographer couldn't offer to sell or post.
I'm sorry, but even at $19.99, the quality of images shot on a 2 megapixel camera cannot justify the effort it would take to hack the damned thing. It would be better to just buy a decent camera and devote the time to a more productive hack.
Well, $20 means I can stick it on the nose of a model rocket or put it in a baggy to take underwater photos and if it gets busted, who cares? It's not my $1000 digital SLR, but I'll trae photo quality for risk in situations where the extra quallity makes very little diference. If i can get the pix from the camera, that means I can md the body w/o worrying taht he droid at Ritz refuses to develop teh pix.
Yes - it is a free market approach to regulation that makes those who injure others pay. It isn't perfect, but it's better than nothing (i.e. tort reform)
I find it interesting that those who are so against regulation and government interference with business want to interject regulation into another area (Actually, since regulation protects the regulated, I can understand why right wingers want to protect the Enrons of the world at all costs...)
Patterns in financial markets have long been looked into, a good starting point on current thought, if interested, is technical analysis and elliott-wave theory
Unfortunately, technical analysis cannot differentiate between random occurances (such as coin flips used to create a chart) and market data and is not useful as an investment tool.
If you want to see some interesting ideas on markets, see the work of Chicago's 2 man luge team - Fama and Thaler.
You are correct that today's market can't predict tomorrows and taht any advantage would be quickly wiped out by the actions of the market participants. That doesn't stop peopel from selling beat the market ideas and people from buying them, even when you ask why sell an isdea if it can make money reliably in the market, since you'd make a lot more that way (for a lot less work) than at $20 a throw for a book and maybe a $200 seminar. Proving once again that betting on the stupidity of teh public is a safe bet.
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iRobet and JD have a booth at the annual AUSA (Association of the US Army) conference. I thought it was a reference to some wierd Asimov / lawn tractor combo. Guess I'll have to swing by tomorow.
The only crime here is charging 20$ for the original Donkey Kong/Marios. They should have bundled all those old games for much less.
Huh? If they make more money selling seperate versions than from selling bundles, then they should sell them seperately. Nintendo is in the business of making money.
if you don't think a game is worth $20, don't buy it and spare us the "it's a ripoff" and therby rationlizing the other poster's comment about ripping games to a blank cart.
Slashdot - where it's ok to steal software but don't even think about incorporating linux in a product and not releasing the modified code, cause that's immoral and theft.
"They want huge databases of purchasing behavior so the can statistically analyze what other products customers are buying alongside their products."
Geez, and here I thought the shopper cards were designed to save me 30 cents on a dozen 2 liter bottles of Coke. Instead, they want to know the buying habits of G. Khan, James T Kirk and Joe Stalin. All of whom live at 1600 Penn Ave.
Oh well...
especially in education, where $$$ are often tight, and users rarely need all the features of MSOffice. That's also a good way to get the word out to parents as well.
Case in point - our local high school has a class that requires a PowerPoint presentation as part of the class. The teacher insisted on PP and was a bit taken back when I suggested to one parent that OO has a perfectly good presentation package and doesn't require shelling out the $$$ for MSOffice; and you can test for compatibility with MS's free PP viewer as well.
Despite living an affluent district, many parent's can't afford the $125 or so for a student edition MS Office and may not even have a PC that can run it, so OO is a very viable alternative.
"Hey, Bob told me you are passing on the extended warranty. This is a very expensive items so there are a few things we have to cover before you buy it. Do you know if it breaks you'll have to cover all shipping expenses to and from the service center? That laptop has lithium batteries so there are hazardous shipping charges involved. It can take weeks to get it repaired. It's very odd for someone to turn down the extended warranties. Are you sure? Well, I have to inform you of all the potential risks of buying without the extended warranty."
...
(talking to salesdroid)
Well, I realize it is helpful, but I'm already spending 2000$ on this laptop, $350 for a warranty is out of my budget...
(salsedroid)
Well, I can knock $150 off of the laptop,,
(me)
deal...
(1 week later)
I'd like to return this warranty
(them(
Ok, we've credited $360 to your account...
Motto:
Use the force. Like...
So - what's a good reference to detect and fix XP zombie issues? I run a firewall, (ZoneAlarm) and up to date antivirus softwrae, but I ain't no network expert. SpyBot and Adaware seem to deal with the junk other users (family) load onto the machine (and the occasional clue by four when needed), but I'd like to be more certain I ain't part of the problem. Unfortunately, moving to Linux is not an option (yet).
Any good suggetsion s- I've seen a lot of gloom and doom reports, but few good sources of what to do (even goofle ain't that helpful).
for some reason, 1.0 stopped ofefring dropdown lists of user ids for loins - .9 would offer up the names as you typed - so j would yield all ids starting with j, etc. Couldn't find an option to reenable that feature.
Even though it can pretend to be IE6, some sites still don't work. Our corporate T&E site uses Great Plain's web time/expense app, and soem applets refuse to run, making the site unusuable.
Firefox is, however my default browser for 99% of my web browsing.
In teh 50's, the militray wanted to build a portable nuke plant that could be used as a power supply for remote bases. They built a prototype, SL-1, in the Idaho desert. Unfortunately, an operator pulled a rod to fast and exceeded a limit (they were pulled by hand from the reactor top), causing a rather nasty accident. We rode by the site in our yellow buses on the way to the Navy prototypes. The government has a great flick on teh accidnet, BTW.
Not a bad idea, though...
Your call : does your Bill of Rights define all of the rights which you have?
No, it specifically limits the US Government's ability to curtail our rights. Our Constitution specically states that any rights not enumerated in it are reserved to the states or the people.
As a side note, it applies to our government, not private citizens and contracts that they undertake. Which is why , when people start screaming "Company X violated my 1st amendment rights" I realize they have no idea about what they speak.
Sure, it might not make THAT much of a difference, but it will likely appease the countless amounts of people that would say "Why should I pay just as much for one without a camera?" Also, I would have to believe that a 1.3 MP camera is no longer a negligable cost.
Sure they could, but why should they if they can make more money by selling it at a higher price? If they can make more money selling them at the same price, then that is what they should do.
Production cost does not dictate final price.
You can obviously spell and type, so what's up with 'teh'?
When I type, I hunt and peck and often hit the e before the h since I type the e with my left hand and the h follows the t with the right. So the sequence is - t with right finger, hit e with left as right hand moves to the h.
If I slow down, I make fewer typos. Unfortunately, I make no more sense when I slow down...
Why don't they have a Treo 650-NC for ~$50 cheaper right off the bat?
If they do offer one, they should charge as much as for one with a camera?
Why? Most folks will pay the cost of teh camera phoe, but some subset will want one but can't have a camera. So for them, the choice is no Treo or a camera less one - and since they would buy one with a camera if teh could use it at work, they should be willing to pay the same amount for one without so they can have a Treo.
If they charge less, not only will the ones that need a camera less one buy it, but so will some peopel who would buy it with a camera but decide to save $50.
Lowering teh price would result in less overall revenue, since I doubt $50 off will make a noticable impact on sales (i.e. most people who won't pay $450 for the Treo won't pay $400 either.)
sorry youngster.
My watch on my arm has more power in it than not only my first computer (KIM-1) but more processing power and memory than the computers used to send men to the moon and land on it.
you have no idea what a low power computer is.
My first computer was all mechanical - you programmed it with little soda straw like things.
However, because the film is in the public domain does not mean you have a blanket right to use it. Underlying elements, such as a song, could still be copyrighted and the owner can prevent you from using it.
That, AFAIR, was how "It's a wonderful life" was brought back under studio control.
Had to be said
I don't stop; college is there to get an education, and you pay quite enough for that. If you want something else, feel free to pay for it, but don't make me pay for it if I don't want it. I don't want to subsidise a recreation center, football jerseys, or least of all a Starbucks. I also have to pay for medical and dental insurance, despite having my own coverage. A significant portion of my tuition pays for such things. That's fundamentally wrong, since nowhere did I see a checkbox saying "absolutely not, don't let a cent of my money go to that".
The checkbx was on the form you used to enroll - you could have chosen to forgo attending and tus paying for those things. Since you want the education, you have to pay the freight.
If the US Government can't even decide to clear their own Senators for air travel, I sympathize with anyone who has anything negative to say about the government. "I realise that you're a senator, privvy to confidential information, on the board of various committees, but I'm just not sure if I can trust you to get on an airplane."
Well, in fairness to the TSA, Sen Kenendy may have tried to drive home after leaving Logan.
What is the goal of the Olympic Movement?
According to the Olympic Charter, established by Pierre de Coubertin, the goal of the Olympic Movement is to contribute to building a peaceful and better world by educating youth through sport practised without discrimination of any kind and in the Olympic spirit, which requires mutual understanding with a spirit of friendship, solidarity and fair play.
According to the Olympic Charter (rev 1), established by Major Sponsors, the goal of the Olympic Movement is to contribute to corporate profits peaceful and better brand recognition by advertising to youth through sport practised without competitors images of any kind and in the Olympic spirit, which requires major contributions with a spirit of exclusivity, frequent advertisments and no fair use.
I mean, if programming (1 geek point) computer games (2 points) on an overclocked (3 points) calculator (4 points) using an open source (5 points) compiler isn't the pinnacle of all that is geek I don't know what is.
Doing it in bed with twins. Blondes, preferably.
except wearing a calculator on your belt (6 points) and being able to disucss how games run cool on an overclocked OS OS (7 points) is a sure way to turn off the opposite sex
I thought that, in the first place, taking photos at an event was entirely legal.
That depends on the contract you agree to when you buy the ticket - it can exclude the right to take pictures. The right to take photos is seperate from teh right to use them commercially (sucha s in a blog or on a web site).
In addition, even if you can take pictures, that doesn't give you the right to distribute them - athletes own their image (that's why you get model releaases when you take pictures of peopel you plan to use commercially),and there may be copyrighted things in the photo (such as the design of a stadium) that the copyright owners have the right to control distribution.
The press, for legitimate news use, has teh right (at least in the US) to print pictures a commercial photographer couldn't offer to sell or post.
I'm sorry, but even at $19.99, the quality of images shot on a 2 megapixel camera cannot justify the effort it would take to hack the damned thing. It would be better to just buy a decent camera and devote the time to a more productive hack.
Well, $20 means I can stick it on the nose of a model rocket or put it in a baggy to take underwater photos and if it gets busted, who cares? It's not my $1000 digital SLR, but I'll trae photo quality for risk in situations where the extra quallity makes very little diference. If i can get the pix from the camera, that means I can md the body w/o worrying taht he droid at Ritz refuses to develop teh pix.
your obvisiously in favor of ambulance chasing
Yes - it is a free market approach to regulation that makes those who injure others pay. It isn't perfect, but it's better than nothing (i.e. tort reform)
I find it interesting that those who are so against regulation and government interference with business want to interject regulation into another area (Actually, since regulation protects the regulated, I can understand why right wingers want to protect the Enrons of the world at all costs...)
Tin Pan saucers, Ed Wood, a major actor dies during production and an OS ...
Wow... am I with you on this one. Remember people... these are ENGINEERS. They are developing something new...
Compare this engineering to software engineering.
1) A software engineer comes up with an idea.
2) A programmer writes a test case of the idea. Often, the programmer is the engineer in step 1.
3) Software is run. Program crashes, bombs, but does something resembling the goals in step 1.
You forgot a step
3a} Bring product to market and hope it sells well.
4) Bugs are found, worked out, kinked, etc.
You mean:
4}Sell version 95, 98, 2000, XP...
Repeat steps 3 and 4 until the program works as it should....
I doubt most programs reach this stage...
Patterns in financial markets have long been looked into, a good starting point on current thought, if interested, is technical analysis and elliott-wave theory
Unfortunately, technical analysis cannot differentiate between random occurances (such as coin flips used to create a chart) and market data and is not useful as an investment tool.
If you want to see some interesting ideas on markets, see the work of Chicago's 2 man luge team - Fama and Thaler.
You are correct that today's market can't predict tomorrows and taht any advantage would be quickly wiped out by the actions of the market participants. That doesn't stop peopel from selling beat the market ideas and people from buying them, even when you ask why sell an isdea if it can make money reliably in the market, since you'd make a lot more that way (for a lot less work) than at $20 a throw for a book and maybe a $200 seminar. Proving once again that betting on the stupidity of teh public is a safe bet.