Nicotine free cigarretes have been tried before... and it went really bad. The book BARBARIANS AT THE GATE mentions how RJR Nabisco once tried it an have a marketing test which got a 95% percent response: "IT TAKES LIKE SHIT".
People are not cigarrete addicted. People are nicotine adicted. With no nicotine, every smoker will just about give the same response.
You mean the licenses weren�t for real?
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Dam! I just lost my 375 bucks! Well, going to take my herbal viagra know...
I have been using the http://www.exertris.com/>Exertris for over a year know... Its Great. I personally find exercise quite boring but this does help me get through. The problem is that the number of games are limited.
You can take a tour at the website to see if one is right for you...
So what???? does that not allow me to be a slashdot geek? Excuse me but the fact that some slashdot readers disagree with scientology or it`s policies and that i happen to BE a scientologist does NOT make me a non "slashdot kind geek". I am a/. reader... have been for years know... and i do not give a f***ck it some people don`t agree with my religion`s policies, i can still be tolerant about it and keep one reading NEWS FOR NEWS. STUFF THAT MATTERS.
HelpLine: "General Motors HelpLine, how can I help you?"
Customer: "My car ran fine for a week and now it won't go anywhere!"
HelpLine: "Is the gas tank empty?"
Customer: "Huh?How do I know?"
HelpLine: "There's a little gauge on the front panel with a needle and markings from 'E' to 'F'.Where is the needle pointing?"
Customer: "It's pointing to 'E'.What does that mean?"
HelpLine: "It means you have to visit a gasoline vendor and purchase some more gasoline.You can install it yourself or pay the vendor to install it for you."
Customer: "What?I paid,000 for this car!Now you tell me that I have to keep buying more components?I want a car that comes with everything built in!"
HelpLine: "General Motors HelpLine, how can I help you?"
Customer: "Your cars suck!"
HelpLine: "What's wrong?"
Customer: "It crashed, that's what wrong!"
HelpLine: "What were you doing?"
Customer: "I wanted to run faster, so I pushed the accelerator pedal all the way to the floor.It worked for a while and then it crashed and it won't start now!
HelpLine: "It's your responsibility if you misuse the product.What do you expect us to do about it?"
Customer: "I want you to send me one of the latest version that doesn't crash any more!"
HelpLine: "General Motors HelpLine, how can I help you?"
Customer: "Hi, I just bought my first car, and I chose your car because it has automatic transmission, cruise control, power steering, power brakes, and power door locks."
HelpLine: "Thanks for buying our car.How can I help you?"
Customer: "How do I work it?"
HelpLine: "Do you know how to drive?"
Customer: "Do I know how to what?"
HelpLine: "Do you know how to drive?"
Customer: "I'm not a technical person.I just want to go places in my car!"
MS-DOS: You get in the car and try to remember where you put the keys.
WINDOWS: You get in the car and drive to the store very slowly, because attached to the back of the car is a freight train.
MAC SYSTEM 8: You get in the car to go to the store and the car drives you to church.
UNIX: You get in the car and type GREP STORE. After reaching 2000 mph en route, you arrive at the barber's shop.
WINDOWS NT: You get in the car and write a letter that says 'go to the store'. Then you get out of the car and nail the letter to the dashboard.
TALIGENT/PINK: You walk to the store with Ricardo Montalban who tells you how wonderful it will be when he can fly you to the store in his Learjet.
OS/2: After fuelling up with 6000 gallons of gas you get in the car and drive to the store with a motorcycle escort and a marching band in procession. Halfway there, the car blows up, killing everyone in town.
S/36 SSP: You get in the car and drive to the store. Halfway there you run out of gas. While walking the rest of the way you are run over by kids on mopeds.
AS/400: An attendant kicks you into the car and then drives you to the store where you watch everyone else buy filets mignon.
BeOSYour car goes faster, looks better, draws amazed stares everywhere you go, and has amazing preformance. Yet, when you try to fill it up, you find that it is incompatable with almost all know gas products.
How many of you guys are seeing Microsoft banners in slashdot???? So know MICROSOFT is a proud sponsor of/.??? (MOD ME DOWN IF YOU WILL BUT.. THIS HAD TO BE SAID!!!)
It is possible that genetic research may eventually
contribute something to our knowledge of crime, and perhaps
even to its control. But the contribution will most likely
be indirect. And any aspects of genetic disorders or other
biological factors, most likely will be contributed to other
things such as alcoholism and addictions rather than genes
being blamed for the violent behavior.
Both Microsoft and Unisys have declined to comment on the cause of the outage. It is unknown whether there was a technical problem at the hosting site or whether the site was merely bombarded with requests from IT managers clamoring for copies of the free papers on the site.
Yeah sure... millions of slashdotters thought that they could actually find a way out from Micro$oft!!!!!
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Software, unlike hardware is not prone to wear and tear. Moreover, it doesn't cost as much to produce an additional unit of software, as say to build another engine.
Sure, software companies would argue that they spend a lot on R&D, and that they have the right to profit as much as they can from what they have made. But there is such a thing as making something for a buck and selling it for 10, and every reasonable moral person knows that something is wrong with this axiom.
Furthermore, one of the reasons why software isn't held in as much material regard as hardware is simply because that it is fundamentally intangible. In a sense, the human psyche therefore construes that it has little material value. Common folks in general don't really know the processes that occur within a program and it would be too cumbersome to educate them.
Though this is not an excuse to buy pirated software, it is clear that people are simply not ready to pay so much money for something that they simply can't physically hold on to as much or something that simply offers them marginal benefits, how much of MS Office does a typical user use anyway?
The balance still has to be struck somewhere, but with the fact that there are so many who are growing disproportionately richer selling software, and with most consumers only receiving marginal benefits from their applications, we begin to realize that there is something definitely wrong with this equation.
Actually i believe tha implementing Runtime bounds checking, typecast checking and so on wouldnt be easy to include un the native executable... as said in the article :
Diagnostic tools can be somewhat thin on the ground, which makes it potentially more difficult to diagnose problems that occur in natively compiled Java apps (particularly if the error doesn't occur in the Java bytecode version!)
The article also points out:" The ruling does not mean that anyone with carpal tunnel syndrome or similar partial disabilities is automatically excluded from protection by the ADA. But it probably will make such claims harder to prove, since the court makes clear that disability must affect a range of manual tasks or duties. "
There are several excerises for the prevention ff the Carpel Tunnel Sindrome Here.
Anybody who spends lots of time in front the computer should check that link
It does seems sometimes kind of ludricous how we/.otters put attention to ALL RUMORS on the next thing that M$ will pull out... dont we have enough to do and enough to read about to spend so much freakin time in MICROSOFTs "leaks"??
A CONTINOUS RUMOR SAYS/. HAS BEEN BOUGHT BY MICROSOFT AS A "LEAKING DEVICE!"
Perhaps she made some obscure discovery that tomorrow will change the way we think about computers.
Actually she did. We know that software has not progressed as far as hardware. Most of it's relative progress was made by the original ENIAC TEAM. And Betty more than anybody else on that team wanting something that most of modern day programers are also hoping for... make computers fun, user fiendly and a good part of our daily life.
Slashdot Mirror
Weekly World News is the source of this story. ;)
Take a look at their other headlines and see if they seem reliable.
I somewhat agree but...
If something like this passes, forced licensing won't likely stop with music; mandated contracts for e-books, movies and even software could be next.
So... the "math" could suddenly get much larger.
And suddenly you could be paying for the downloading of a whole bunch of music, e-books, movies that you never actually downloaded.
Just a thought.
Nicotine free cigarretes have been tried before... and it went really bad. The book BARBARIANS AT THE GATE mentions how RJR Nabisco once tried it an have a marketing test which got a 95% percent response: "IT TAKES LIKE SHIT".
People are not cigarrete addicted. People are nicotine adicted. With no nicotine, every smoker will just about give the same response.
Dam! I just lost my 375 bucks!
Well, going to take my herbal viagra know...
I have been using the http://www.exertris.com/>Exertris for over a year know... Its Great. I personally find exercise quite boring but this does help me get through. The problem is that the number of games are limited.
You can take a tour at the website to see if one is right for you...
So what???? /. reader... have been for years know... and i do not give a f***ck it some people don`t agree with my religion`s policies, i can still be tolerant about it and keep one reading NEWS FOR NEWS. STUFF THAT MATTERS.
does that not allow me to be a slashdot geek?
Excuse me but the fact that some slashdot readers disagree with scientology or it`s policies and that i happen to BE a scientologist does NOT make me a non "slashdot kind geek".
I am a
Four men rode in a car, a mechnical engineer, an electrical engineer, a chemical engineer, and a computer engineer. The car stalled out.
The mechnical engineer said it must be the pistons, let's repair them and we'll be okay.
The electrical engineer said it has to be the spark plugs, we'll replace them and be ready to roll.
The chemical engineer said it's got to be bad gas, we'll flush the system and be on our way.
They turned to the computer engineer. What do you think we should do?
Let's get out of the car and get back in.
HelpLine: "General Motors HelpLine, how can I help you?"
,000 for this car!Now you tell me that
Customer: "My car ran fine for a week and now it won't go anywhere!"
HelpLine: "Is the gas tank empty?"
Customer: "Huh?How do I know?"
HelpLine: "There's a little gauge on the front panel with a needle
and markings from 'E' to 'F'.Where is the needle
pointing?"
Customer: "It's pointing to 'E'.What does that mean?"
HelpLine: "It means you have to visit a gasoline vendor and purchase
some more gasoline.You can install it yourself or pay
the vendor to install it for you."
Customer: "What?I paid
I have to keep buying more components?I want a car that
comes with everything built in!"
HelpLine: "General Motors HelpLine, how can I help you?"
Customer: "Your cars suck!"
HelpLine: "What's wrong?"
Customer: "It crashed, that's what wrong!"
HelpLine: "What were you doing?"
Customer: "I wanted to run faster, so I pushed the accelerator pedal
all the way to the floor.It worked for a while and then
it crashed and it won't start now!
HelpLine: "It's your responsibility if you misuse the product.What
do you expect us to do about it?"
Customer: "I want you to send me one of the latest version that
doesn't crash any more!"
HelpLine: "General Motors HelpLine, how can I help you?"
Customer: "Hi, I just bought my first car, and I chose your car
because it has automatic transmission, cruise control,
power steering, power brakes, and power door locks."
HelpLine: "Thanks for buying our car.How can I help you?"
Customer: "How do I work it?"
HelpLine: "Do you know how to drive?"
Customer: "Do I know how to what?"
HelpLine: "Do you know how to drive?"
Customer: "I'm not a technical person.I just want to go places
in my car!"
MS-DOS: You get in the car and try to remember where you put the keys.
WINDOWS: You get in the car and drive to the store very slowly, because attached to the back of the car is a freight train.
MAC SYSTEM 8: You get in the car to go to the store and the car drives you to church.
UNIX: You get in the car and type GREP STORE. After reaching 2000 mph en route, you arrive at the barber's shop.
WINDOWS NT: You get in the car and write a letter that says 'go to the store'. Then you get out of the car and nail the letter to the dashboard.
TALIGENT/PINK: You walk to the store with Ricardo Montalban who tells you how wonderful it will be when he can fly you to the store in his Learjet.
OS/2: After fuelling up with 6000 gallons of gas you get in the car and drive to the store with a motorcycle escort and a marching band in procession. Halfway there, the car blows up, killing everyone in town.
S/36 SSP: You get in the car and drive to the store. Halfway there you run out of gas. While walking the rest of the way you are run over by kids on mopeds.
AS/400: An attendant kicks you into the car and then drives you to the store where you watch everyone else buy filets mignon.
BeOSYour car goes faster, looks better, draws amazed stares everywhere you go, and has amazing preformance. Yet, when you try to fill it up, you find that it is incompatable with almost all know gas products.
HelpLine: "General Motors HelpLine, how can I help you?"
Customer: "I got in my car and closed the door and nothing happened!"
HelpLine: "Did you put the key in the ignition slot and turn it?"
Customer: "What's an ignition?"
HelpLine: "It's a starter motor that draws current from your battery
and turns over the engine."
Customer: "Ignition?Motor?Battery?Engine?How come I have to
know all these technical terms just to use my car?"
How many of you guys are seeing Microsoft banners in slashdot???? So know MICROSOFT is a proud sponsor of /.??? (MOD ME DOWN IF YOU WILL BUT.. THIS HAD TO BE SAID!!!)
It is possible that genetic research may eventually contribute something to our knowledge of crime, and perhaps even to its control. But the contribution will most likely be indirect. And any aspects of genetic disorders or other biological factors, most likely will be contributed to other things such as alcoholism and addictions rather than genes being blamed for the violent behavior.
WWF as in "World Wrestling Federation"???
Both Microsoft and Unisys have declined to comment on the cause of the outage. It is unknown whether there was a technical problem at the hosting site or whether the site was merely bombarded with requests from IT managers clamoring for copies of the free papers on the site.
Yeah sure... millions of slashdotters thought that they could actually find a way out from Micro$oft!!!!!
"What was once the province of geeks is now ruled by suits."
Slashdot ruled by suits... imagine that!
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Software, unlike hardware is not prone to wear and tear. Moreover, it doesn't cost as much to produce an additional unit of software, as say to build another engine.
Sure, software companies would argue that they spend a lot on R&D, and that they have the right to profit as much as they can from what they have made. But there is such a thing as making something for a buck and selling it for 10, and every reasonable moral person knows that something is wrong with this axiom.
Furthermore, one of the reasons why software isn't held in as much material regard as hardware is simply because that it is fundamentally intangible. In a sense, the human psyche therefore construes that it has little material value. Common folks in general don't really know the processes that occur within a program and it would be too cumbersome to educate them.
Though this is not an excuse to buy pirated software, it is clear that people are simply not ready to pay so much money for something that they simply can't physically hold on to as much or something that simply offers them marginal benefits, how much of MS Office does a typical user use anyway?
The balance still has to be struck somewhere, but with the fact that there are so many who are growing disproportionately richer selling software, and with most consumers only receiving marginal benefits from their applications, we begin to realize that there is something definitely wrong with this equation.
There are of course exceptions to every rule.
Actually i believe tha implementing Runtime bounds checking, typecast checking and so on wouldnt be easy to include un the native executable... as said in the article :
Diagnostic tools can be somewhat thin on the ground, which makes it potentially more difficult to diagnose problems that occur in natively compiled Java apps (particularly if the error doesn't occur in the Java bytecode version!)
The article also points out:" The ruling does not mean that anyone with carpal tunnel syndrome or similar partial disabilities is automatically excluded from protection by the ADA. But it probably will make such claims harder to prove, since the court makes clear that disability must affect a range of manual tasks or duties. "
There are several excerises for the prevention ff the Carpel Tunnel Sindrome Here.
Anybody who spends lots of time in front the computer should check that link
There is an interesting Nasa Pnuematics Workshop video that might be useful for people interested...
It does seems sometimes kind of ludricous how we /.otters put attention to ALL RUMORS on the next thing that M$ will pull out... dont we have enough to do and enough to read about to spend so much freakin time in MICROSOFTs "leaks"?? /. HAS BEEN BOUGHT BY MICROSOFT AS A "LEAKING DEVICE!"
A CONTINOUS RUMOR SAYS
The Patent Enforcement and Royalties Ltd. (PEARL) sponser plenty of this so called "patent investments" take a look here.
Most ENIAC progamers were women. Read this. You just might learn something.
Perhaps she made some obscure discovery that tomorrow will change the way we think about computers.
Actually she did. We know that software has not progressed as far as hardware. Most of it's relative progress was made by the original ENIAC TEAM. And Betty more than anybody else on that team wanting something that most of modern day programers are also hoping for... make computers fun, user fiendly and a good part of our daily life.