The last surviving twin brother that founded the Guinness Book of World Records has died. He had held the record for longest surviving twin who founded the greatest book series ever.
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"There's no I in Team." - Reporter
"Yeah, there ain't no we either." - Leon
How can you call yourself a Dr. and just sit idly by while humans force their creations to battle to the death for sport? Where do you draw the line between 'just being a robot' and being a 'slave'?
--- "Have the lessons of Terminator been lost on all of us?" - overheard during trailer of I, Robot
The first theater I see with one of these, is the first theater I stop going to. Seriously, I don't tape movies, so why treat me like a criminal. I can already hear people saying "If you don't tape, why do you object?". At the airport I can understand why you want to keep people safe. So I don't mind having to take my shoes off. If I have to get patted down by some greasy college kid because someone is worried that Harry Potter is only going to make 1.1 Billion, and not 1.2, it's not worth it to go to the theater any more.
Sure if you got the same number of channels it would be the same price, but if you only picked up the channels you want, it may make the cost go down for the consumer. I'm sure someone else really wants all of the religious/CSPAN/Oxygen network choices, but I don't. It might also force some networks to reevaluate. MTV, for instance, might take note if 50% of their viewers dropped MTV and MTV2 picked up.
Honestly, out of the 100 channels you get, how many do you spend more than a fraction of a second surfing past? I probably only watch 20% of the channels I get. If the rates were to double for all of basic cable, but I only paid for the 20% I wanted, I'm still saving.
One downside I see is that networks could become like TV shows. If it doesn't perform well in the first year, it'll get pulled for something else.
Why risk 50% of our remaining space shuttle fleet, another human crew, and untold billions to repair Hubble at this point?
Because it'll cost us untold billions to replace it. It's up, it's working, and it's producing results. Based on that it's better than anything NASA has sitting on the ground.
It is silver. Don't forget, silver is a not only an element on the periodic table, but a color. Just like some of the 'copper' heatsinks are nothing more than gold colored cheaper metals. If it were real silver, and cost $.99 a tube, I'd make a killing on the commodities market. I'd bet a pile of 'gold' that's the excuse.
What's next, KFC saying their chicken is good for you? Oh wait...
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Karma: Chameleon (mostly due to the 80's)
The Russians were able to keep a space station in orbit for years, while only using 'capsule' technology. Until we get a new generation of reusable spaceship going, let's go back to that. It was good enough to get us to the moon and back 30+ years ago. Imagine what they could do now. Safer, cheaper, etc. -- Bless the crews of the Columbia and Challenger. From your sacrifices will come greatness.
I bought one a couple of months ago. I live in a loft with 2 cats. Here are some of my observations:
- It does really well with cat hair and dirt/dust, but it doesn't scrub the floor. So if you have dried mud, it just goes over it.
- I've already had to disassemble it a couple of times to clean out the cat hair and strings that get wrapped around the various rollers. It's not a huge problem, and I actually like digging through the machine.
- I must get the rapid charger. Charging for 12 hours for 90 minutes is not fun. Having a spare battery and a charging doc would be a nice addition.
- My cats were freaked out at first, but they've come to accept it. They causally walk around it while it's going.
- It not silent. It is a vacuum, and it sounds like one.
- The debris cup could be a little bigger.
- It has a tendancy to smite my enemies, and reward my allies.
With all that money, he should have bought a house to receive all of the spam snail mail, and kept his home address private. -- No electrons were harmed in the creation of this post.
They may have sold $10 billion worth of OS software, but that's not what they made. You have to remove the cost of sales and marketing, paying employees, and most importantly buying the Justice department.
-- They may have high profits, but Linux has high karma.:)
Sure you could plug a laptop in, but who wants to drop $300-400 for a cheap laptop that will probably get confiscated. For the same price you could by 4-5 Dreamcasts. You could scatter them around to a few drops as backup. In addition, the footprint of the box is small, and you don't need a standard PC case. Who wants to buy a BookPC or a Cappucino (sp) only to lose it.
Other way to look at this would be for a handy ligitimate network tool. It would be nice to plug a machine into a network, have it snoop around, and then come back the next day and get a report on bottlenecks, machine usage, etc. -- "That's Homer Simpson sir. One of your drones from sector 7G"
This is whole process is cyclical. The RIAA pays Clear Channel to play songs. So the RIAA is going to do very strict demographics to get the most bang for their buck. It's in Clear Channel's best intrest to play those songs, to maximze their own profits. In both parties eyes, once you get a song that catches on (ie anything from Brittney, N'Stink, Creed) keep craming it down the consumers throat. The more it's played, the more merchendise and concert tickets can be sold, benefitting back to the RIAA. It's kinda funny that once they get people addicted to this 'ear crack', that they're surprised people will do anything to get it.
Now, the problem with Internet Radio. Since the RIAA has no 'control' over the play lists, those demographics go out the window. Now instead of concentrating only on few marquee bands, maximizing their exposure, they have to try to spread out thir money, which is inefficient. It's really not bad for the RIAA that the Internet stations are broadcasting, the RIAA just doesn't like losing control of their music.
Of course this has been going on for years. Kickbacks and payola have existed ever since roack radio started. Countless managers would pay off regional managers to get artists like Elvis, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Chuck Barry played more than the competition. The whole system has been locked down so tightly now, there squeezing every penny out, and squeezing the small bands.
Now that they essentially have a monopoly (or a duopoly), the government may need to step in and do something. -- "Of course that's just my opinion."
It says in the story that the developer got the idea from an 'old sci fi flick'. Actually it was an episode of Quantum Leap.
Yes it looks like it will help determine the angles, but not english or speed. A professional player will whoop you every time if you don't have ball control. However, taking the guesswork out of the angles would definitely help someone learn faster.
-- No electrons were harmed in the typing of this post.
Slashdot Mirror
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"There's no I in Team." - Reporter
"Yeah, there ain't no we either." - Leon
How can you call yourself a Dr. and just sit idly by while humans force their creations to battle to the death for sport? Where do you draw the line between 'just being a robot' and being a 'slave'?
---
"Have the lessons of Terminator been lost on all of us?" - overheard during trailer of I, Robot
The first theater I see with one of these, is the first theater I stop going to. Seriously, I don't tape movies, so why treat me like a criminal. I can already hear people saying "If you don't tape, why do you object?". At the airport I can understand why you want to keep people safe. So I don't mind having to take my shoes off. If I have to get patted down by some greasy college kid because someone is worried that Harry Potter is only going to make 1.1 Billion, and not 1.2, it's not worth it to go to the theater any more.
I hope I'm not alone in this sentiment.
I have no idea what you mean. If someone takes the time to put the information online, we shoudl take the time to read it.
OK, I only ready the first couple of lines of this article, but I am sure that is where all of the relevant info was.
I'd type more, but my 7 seconds of attention have just expir
Sure if you got the same number of channels it would be the same price, but if you only picked up the channels you want, it may make the cost go down for the consumer. I'm sure someone else really wants all of the religious/CSPAN/Oxygen network choices, but I don't. It might also force some networks to reevaluate. MTV, for instance, might take note if 50% of their viewers dropped MTV and MTV2 picked up.
Honestly, out of the 100 channels you get, how many do you spend more than a fraction of a second surfing past? I probably only watch 20% of the channels I get. If the rates were to double for all of basic cable, but I only paid for the 20% I wanted, I'm still saving.
One downside I see is that networks could become like TV shows. If it doesn't perform well in the first year, it'll get pulled for something else.
Actually Kodak patented "You push the button we'll do the rest" a hundred years ago. I think Amazon has some 'splaining to do....
That'll be $1.
...but worth it!
Because it'll cost us untold billions to replace it. It's up, it's working, and it's producing results. Based on that it's better than anything NASA has sitting on the ground.
What's next, KFC saying their chicken is good for you? Oh wait...
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Karma: Chameleon (mostly due to the 80's)
See, this is why not only Tivo, but life, should have a 30-second skip. :)
I, for one, welcome our new microscopic overlord...
I, for one, welcome our alien overlords!
The Russians were able to keep a space station in orbit for years, while only using 'capsule' technology. Until we get a new generation of reusable spaceship going, let's go back to that. It was good enough to get us to the moon and back 30+ years ago. Imagine what they could do now. Safer, cheaper, etc.
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Bless the crews of the Columbia and Challenger. From your sacrifices will come greatness.
I bought one a couple of months ago. I live in a loft with 2 cats. Here are some of my observations:
- It does really well with cat hair and dirt/dust, but it doesn't scrub the floor. So if you have dried mud, it just goes over it.
- I've already had to disassemble it a couple of times to clean out the cat hair and strings that get wrapped around the various rollers. It's not a huge problem, and I actually like digging through the machine.
- I must get the rapid charger. Charging for 12 hours for 90 minutes is not fun. Having a spare battery and a charging doc would be a nice addition.
- My cats were freaked out at first, but they've come to accept it. They causally walk around it while it's going.
- It not silent. It is a vacuum, and it sounds like one.
- The debris cup could be a little bigger.
- It has a tendancy to smite my enemies, and reward my allies.
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No electrons were harmed in this post.
It's definitely on the poop deck. :)
Sorry, resistance was futile.
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No electrons were harmed in the typing of this note.
With all that money, he should have bought a house to receive all of the spam snail mail, and kept his home address private.
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No electrons were harmed in the creation of this post.
Boxers or briefs?
Now I only have to hope my surgery doesn't get rained out.
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"That's Homer Simpson sir. One of your drones from secotr 7G."
They may have sold $10 billion worth of OS software, but that's not what they made. You have to remove the cost of sales and marketing, paying employees, and most importantly buying the Justice department.
:)
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They may have high profits, but Linux has high karma.
Sure you could plug a laptop in, but who wants to drop $300-400 for a cheap laptop that will probably get confiscated. For the same price you could by 4-5 Dreamcasts. You could scatter them around to a few drops as backup. In addition, the footprint of the box is small, and you don't need a standard PC case. Who wants to buy a BookPC or a Cappucino (sp) only to lose it.
Other way to look at this would be for a handy ligitimate network tool. It would be nice to plug a machine into a network, have it snoop around, and then come back the next day and get a report on bottlenecks, machine usage, etc.
--
"That's Homer Simpson sir. One of your drones from sector 7G"
This is whole process is cyclical. The RIAA pays Clear Channel to play songs. So the RIAA is going to do very strict demographics to get the most bang for their buck. It's in Clear Channel's best intrest to play those songs, to maximze their own profits. In both parties eyes, once you get a song that catches on (ie anything from Brittney, N'Stink, Creed) keep craming it down the consumers throat. The more it's played, the more merchendise and concert tickets can be sold, benefitting back to the RIAA. It's kinda funny that once they get people addicted to this 'ear crack', that they're surprised people will do anything to get it.
Now, the problem with Internet Radio. Since the RIAA has no 'control' over the play lists, those demographics go out the window. Now instead of concentrating only on few marquee bands, maximizing their exposure, they have to try to spread out thir money, which is inefficient. It's really not bad for the RIAA that the Internet stations are broadcasting, the RIAA just doesn't like losing control of their music.
Of course this has been going on for years. Kickbacks and payola have existed ever since roack radio started. Countless managers would pay off regional managers to get artists like Elvis, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Chuck Barry played more than the competition. The whole system has been locked down so tightly now, there squeezing every penny out, and squeezing the small bands.
Now that they essentially have a monopoly (or a duopoly), the government may need to step in and do something.
--
"Of course that's just my opinion."
It says in the story that the developer got the idea from an 'old sci fi flick'. Actually it was an episode of Quantum Leap.
Yes it looks like it will help determine the angles, but not english or speed. A professional player will whoop you every time if you don't have ball control. However, taking the guesswork out of the angles would definitely help someone learn faster.
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No electrons were harmed in the typing of this post.
What's next a review of Episode IV? :)
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"Me fail English? That's unpossible!" - Ralph Wiggum
That's how Microsoft can afford to outfit all of it computers with Window$.
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Does it kill you that I'm a Karma whore?
wireless music? Some sort of internet radio, without ethernet? One can only wish.
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