I keep being asked to register.eu domains for people, but they never want to use them for anything new, just to stop others from using them. It would be interesting to see some stats on how many have unique content. I'd guess under 2%
YS was the paper GOD in the good old days of wondering how Ocean would handle the next movie licence... oh the games were crap, but the magazine had some balls! The covers were chronic and often looked like they were hand drawn by 3 year olds with cheap coloured pencils like this indy cover. And the continual "Marry me, Ed" comments were amusing. Honest"!
here here on the phone point. I almost exclusively read/. on the train on my xda now - and it SUCKS to lose so much control over how I see it because a little work has been skipped in sorting the CSS to feed handhelds nicely.
"If they can't even afford to get some credit-card processing capability, can they even afford a warehouse"
Welcome to the hollow enterprise.
Businesses chose not to have certain parts of the traditional infrastructure in order to reduce costs and bring products and services into price bands that couldn't be achieved with the higher operating costs associated with 'fully tooling up'.
Take the low cost airlines as an extreme example of this. "If they can't even afford to give me some food on board can they even afford servicing?". Yes - they can - and because they dont feed you lots of people who couldn't afford traditional air travel can now fly easyjet or ryan air.
My butcher is closed on wednesdays and for an hour between 1:30 and 2:30 every day. I still use him because unlike Tesco he doesnt treat the food I'm going to eat like shit. He can't afford to (or choses not to) pay someone to cover those extra hours - which is a pita sometimes - but I'd rather he was there without the assistant than just didn't exist.
The same goes online - if someone has a product to sell, in an unproven area, the bank will simply tell him to come back when he has 6 months of good sales - which he can't get without a paypal style system.
If you chose to avoid using these smaller establishments and prefer to buy everything from Amazon and Walmart then thats your choice. Would I buy a £30,000 new car from a guy using paypal? No. Would I buy a £150 flat screen from a small retailer offering kick ass pricing because of minimised overheads - yeah - probably.
The other thing that makes this a perfect/. article is that most of us read this already when it was originaly posted on boingboing./. seems only to agregate news from about a dozen other sources these days - with the odd 'ask/.' thrown in to the mix.
I'll wait for tomoros dupe to post comment about how this vapourware is physically impossible without a box the size of a fridge.
They also spend some of my money filming F list celebs who cant sing or dance singing and dancing. I'm less happy about that.
For a LONG time I've thought it would be excellent if at the end of every single programme on the BBC it showed how many licence fees were spent on making it. Then we could get REALLY angry at the end of National Lottery In It To Win It.
I like the movie analogy - but would spin it differently. I hate going to the movies - I hate the trails and previews - they spoil things. I went to see the Matrix because someone made me - I had no idea what it was about - I kinda enjoyed it. I actually kind of enjoy not knowing whats going to happen next in a movie / book.
On the whole book reviews and ads and covers DONT tell you everything thats going to happen. There might be a drawing of a bear, so you know the bear is kind of important to the plot - but thats it.
So spoilers suck, but getting this uptight about release times is purely soleley and only for PR purposes - that much air time would make the Harry Potter franchise a loss maker if they had to buy it. They want this thing to sell more than Dan Brown!
I know this is a tad off topic but last spring when I was house-hunting I found this great place that had a whole row of apple trees on one boundary - overhanging the neighbours. Even though the place was about £30K over my budget and didnt really have enough room I still wanted it just so I could have apple trees overhanging my neighbours so that every day Id have to wake up and think 'will I be a dick about my apples today'.
I have to agree - though if you ever pick up any of a dozen newspapers I can think of here in the UK your criticisms hold true in print just as much as on screen - Daily Mail, Daily Record, etc... all present fantastically twisted accounts of the worlds events with no real value add other than to bend things to fit the readerships prejudices.
That said - if someone wants to publish half arsed cobbled together fake stories on the internet good on em - at least they aren't out mugging grannies!
This is quite a piece of vapor news though - and may be the most blatant to date. It uses both 'special-purpose' and 'could' in the description of the kit.
It is even remarkably specifically non-specific about what it _could_ achieve. Nice. I like.
See the latest movie at the cinema with my lady and the total cost mounts up. Drive for 30 minutes and park up £2.50. Buy a pair of tickets £13.00. Buy a coke and a medium popcorn between us £5.50. Total = £21
Buy the DVD from the supermarket a few months later to watch at home as many times as I damn well please = £10-15
Lets just say I dont go to the cinema too often these days.
The most worrying thing is the technique labour have for diverting these issues. "Mr Blair - why should I have to identify myself to cross a bridge" - "Look - let me just say this to you - we live in a world where - people - and can I be clear here - I'm not SAYING illegal immigrants - people - can enter this country and.... " By which point no one can remember what the question was, or even what channel they are listeing to because they are too busy screaming "JUST ANSWER THE FUCKING QUESTION" at their radio. It least with dubbya your too busy laughing at the radio!
Which reminds me of the best episode ever of Columbo - where the bad guy got someone to drive through a light with a photoface mask on to give him a ticket which proved he wasnt in another town killing his wife. I think he got caught because he knew to sweep his gravel into a pattern, and because the light on the photo was different from the light on other ticket recipients. So the answer is yes - you can prove you are innocent by getting a ticket. I'd imagine columbo could even get the non-ticket photos too!
Agree - bats should be slightly odd. I've always thought the bat movies should be a mix of wierd alternate world, dark scary inside the wayne head view, downtrodden gotham resident view, and a good dose of kicking the shit out of the bad guys. The bad guys should be in the 'fuck up the world' mindset - not the 'take over the world' mindset. And it should LOOK amazing with quite crass overly horny love interest. Tim Burton should do an animated one with quite a small story. THAT would kick ass.
There are three jokes in Friends. There is the 'smell the cheese acting' joke, the 'how YOU doin' joke (technically only a joke when the line is directed at his sister / friends mother / friends younger sister) and the 'gunter' joke where gunter wants to shag one of them and overhears 'hot talk' occassionally.
That the BBC has a will to do this amazes me. That some petty bickery music industry legal issue stops it happenning does not.
Surely a blanket agreement can be found. And use the best BBC funding idea I've heard to pay for it. Start a new 'overseas licence fee' to enable overseas individuals to watch the archive under a legal framework. I'd imagine they could raise BILLIONS that way. $100 a year for everything the BBC has ever produced! Deal!
These different sizes are there to roughly equate one glass to two units of alcohol. IN the UK we all drink ALL beers by the pint - so some pints hold 5 or 6 units of alcohol.
By reference a standard bottle of Budweiser holds about 1 unit in 250ml if I recall correctly. But then I never drink it - I like to tase my beer!
Good point. The EU US air trade wars will continue. The Boeing / Airbus row over govermne tsupport and subsidies is just on hold at the moment - not finished. Both sides operate protectionist policies which are ultimately bad for the consumer, and bad for global competition.
The REAL downside, though, is that even if ChinaBus or IndoBus or AfricaBus were out there with a Jumbo beater - the EU / US war gets so much subsidy from rich goverment that they wouldn't have a look in. SO really the EUUS is just protecting itself.
My main problem with this? Why should my cleaner pay taxes to fund a new airplane which she will likely never be able to afford to fly on!
what fucking timezone are you in??? I MAYBE get to open ONE present on Xmas eve only ever after 11 PM.
Or are you one of those cunts that buys himself the big present he really wants, which he could have bought any time, just to undermine all the gifts from family and friends which look shit in comparison.
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I keep being asked to register .eu domains for people, but they never want to use them for anything new, just to stop others from using them. It would be interesting to see some stats on how many have unique content. I'd guess under 2%
YS was the paper GOD in the good old days of wondering how Ocean would handle the next movie licence... oh the games were crap, but the magazine had some balls! The covers were chronic and often looked like they were hand drawn by 3 year olds with cheap coloured pencils like this indy cover. And the continual "Marry me, Ed" comments were amusing. Honest"!
here here on the phone point. I almost exclusively read /. on the train on my xda now - and it SUCKS to lose so much control over how I see it because a little work has been skipped in sorting the CSS to feed handhelds nicely.
"If they can't even afford to get some credit-card processing capability, can they even afford a warehouse"
Welcome to the hollow enterprise.
Businesses chose not to have certain parts of the traditional infrastructure in order to reduce costs and bring products and services into price bands that couldn't be achieved with the higher operating costs associated with 'fully tooling up'.
Take the low cost airlines as an extreme example of this. "If they can't even afford to give me some food on board can they even afford servicing?". Yes - they can - and because they dont feed you lots of people who couldn't afford traditional air travel can now fly easyjet or ryan air.
My butcher is closed on wednesdays and for an hour between 1:30 and 2:30 every day. I still use him because unlike Tesco he doesnt treat the food I'm going to eat like shit. He can't afford to (or choses not to) pay someone to cover those extra hours - which is a pita sometimes - but I'd rather he was there without the assistant than just didn't exist.
The same goes online - if someone has a product to sell, in an unproven area, the bank will simply tell him to come back when he has 6 months of good sales - which he can't get without a paypal style system.
If you chose to avoid using these smaller establishments and prefer to buy everything from Amazon and Walmart then thats your choice. Would I buy a £30,000 new car from a guy using paypal? No. Would I buy a £150 flat screen from a small retailer offering kick ass pricing because of minimised overheads - yeah - probably.
So THATS why our citrix server is being such a bitch - John is sitting eating cake instead of massaging the boxen!!
this is why I still read /.
guy 1 - "i dislike the commentary on my teevee - any ideas?"
guy 2 - "just rewire your stereo equipment like THIS...."
Plus, it's a neat conversation-starter when people look up at my projection system and see the homebrew dish antenna next to it. :)
I bet the chicks REALLY dig you!
The other thing that makes this a perfect /. article is that most of us read this already when it was originaly posted on boingboing. /. seems only to agregate news from about a dozen other sources these days - with the odd 'ask /.' thrown in to the mix.
I'll wait for tomoros dupe to post comment about how this vapourware is physically impossible without a box the size of a fridge.
hear hear!!
They also spend some of my money filming F list celebs who cant sing or dance singing and dancing. I'm less happy about that.
For a LONG time I've thought it would be excellent if at the end of every single programme on the BBC it showed how many licence fees were spent on making it. Then we could get REALLY angry at the end of National Lottery In It To Win It.
Getting really angry can be kinda good.
I like the movie analogy - but would spin it differently. I hate going to the movies - I hate the trails and previews - they spoil things. I went to see the Matrix because someone made me - I had no idea what it was about - I kinda enjoyed it. I actually kind of enjoy not knowing whats going to happen next in a movie / book.
On the whole book reviews and ads and covers DONT tell you everything thats going to happen. There might be a drawing of a bear, so you know the bear is kind of important to the plot - but thats it.
So spoilers suck, but getting this uptight about release times is purely soleley and only for PR purposes - that much air time would make the Harry Potter franchise a loss maker if they had to buy it. They want this thing to sell more than Dan Brown!
I know this is a tad off topic but last spring when I was house-hunting I found this great place that had a whole row of apple trees on one boundary - overhanging the neighbours.
Even though the place was about £30K over my budget and didnt really have enough room I still wanted it just so I could have apple trees overhanging my neighbours so that every day Id have to wake up and think 'will I be a dick about my apples today'.
I have to agree - though if you ever pick up any of a dozen newspapers I can think of here in the UK your criticisms hold true in print just as much as on screen - Daily Mail, Daily Record, etc... all present fantastically twisted accounts of the worlds events with no real value add other than to bend things to fit the readerships prejudices.
That said - if someone wants to publish half arsed cobbled together fake stories on the internet good on em - at least they aren't out mugging grannies!
This is quite a piece of vapor news though - and may be the most blatant to date. It uses both 'special-purpose' and 'could' in the description of the kit.
It is even remarkably specifically non-specific about what it _could_ achieve. Nice. I like.
See the latest movie at the cinema with my lady and the total cost mounts up. Drive for 30 minutes and park up £2.50. Buy a pair of tickets £13.00. Buy a coke and a medium popcorn between us £5.50. Total = £21
Buy the DVD from the supermarket a few months later to watch at home as many times as I damn well please = £10-15
Lets just say I dont go to the cinema too often these days.
The most worrying thing is the technique labour have for diverting these issues. "Mr Blair - why should I have to identify myself to cross a bridge" - "Look - let me just say this to you - we live in a world where - people - and can I be clear here - I'm not SAYING illegal immigrants - people - can enter this country and .... " By which point no one can remember what the question was, or even what channel they are listeing to because they are too busy screaming "JUST ANSWER THE FUCKING QUESTION" at their radio.
It least with dubbya your too busy laughing at the radio!
thats right - berries off some sort of tree! piecing together old columbo episodes is more fun than su duko!!
Which reminds me of the best episode ever of Columbo - where the bad guy got someone to drive through a light with a photoface mask on to give him a ticket which proved he wasnt in another town killing his wife.
I think he got caught because he knew to sweep his gravel into a pattern, and because the light on the photo was different from the light on other ticket recipients.
So the answer is yes - you can prove you are innocent by getting a ticket. I'd imagine columbo could even get the non-ticket photos too!
Agree - bats should be slightly odd. I've always thought the bat movies should be a mix of wierd alternate world, dark scary inside the wayne head view, downtrodden gotham resident view, and a good dose of kicking the shit out of the bad guys. The bad guys should be in the 'fuck up the world' mindset - not the 'take over the world' mindset. And it should LOOK amazing with quite crass overly horny love interest. Tim Burton should do an animated one with quite a small story. THAT would kick ass.
There are three jokes in Friends. There is the 'smell the cheese acting' joke, the 'how YOU doin' joke (technically only a joke when the line is directed at his sister / friends mother / friends younger sister) and the 'gunter' joke where gunter wants to shag one of them and overhears 'hot talk' occassionally.
Sometimes you even get all three in one episode!
That the BBC has a will to do this amazes me. That some petty bickery music industry legal issue stops it happenning does not.
Surely a blanket agreement can be found. And use the best BBC funding idea I've heard to pay for it. Start a new 'overseas licence fee' to enable overseas individuals to watch the archive under a legal framework. I'd imagine they could raise BILLIONS that way. $100 a year for everything the BBC has ever produced! Deal!
0.2l with an alcohol rating of 8-10% most likely.
These different sizes are there to roughly equate one glass to two units of alcohol. IN the UK we all drink ALL beers by the pint - so some pints hold 5 or 6 units of alcohol.
By reference a standard bottle of Budweiser holds about 1 unit in 250ml if I recall correctly. But then I never drink it - I like to tase my beer!
Good point. The EU US air trade wars will continue. The Boeing / Airbus row over govermne tsupport and subsidies is just on hold at the moment - not finished. Both sides operate protectionist policies which are ultimately bad for the consumer, and bad for global competition.
The REAL downside, though, is that even if ChinaBus or IndoBus or AfricaBus were out there with a Jumbo beater - the EU / US war gets so much subsidy from rich goverment that they wouldn't have a look in. SO really the EUUS is just protecting itself.
My main problem with this? Why should my cleaner pay taxes to fund a new airplane which she will likely never be able to afford to fly on!
what fucking timezone are you in??? I MAYBE get to open ONE present on Xmas eve only ever after 11 PM.
... ones self!
Or are you one of those cunts that buys himself the big present he really wants, which he could have bought any time, just to undermine all the gifts from family and friends which look shit in comparison.
season of goodwill to
At the risk of comparing Linus to Jesus...
HAHAHA - thanks dude - thats a most enjoyable post!! no one ever compares people to jesus any more!! i wish they would!