I don't mind genuine 'news' about products, or even about companies in general. Where I find it to be a pain in the ass is when the product in question isn't actually all that interesting / novel / discussable.
The Boeing story is interesting, its not technically 'amazing' but it IS groundbreaking on a reasonably broad scale and worthy of note. A new watercooling kit is, at most, of niche interest to watercooling freaks, and hardly marks 'the arrival of the future'
Theres a nice rework on/.
SLASHDOT Documenting and talking shit about the arrival of the future
Advert indeed. In a newspaper or magazine these have 'ADVERTISING FEATURE' written above them. I'd like the same to happen in/. so that I could chose to avoid such content should I so wish.
Or perhaps all such articles should be filed HERE as a hint.
Congratulations on the coolest subject line ever to appear in slashdot relating to a movie. I'm assuming your an enthusiastic kind of a guy about pretty much anything - do you stand in the supermarket at the chillers and shout 'this phish food is gonna taste awesome' while smacking your lips and shaking your hips??? I bet you do! admit it!
I wish I'd actually done it when I thought of redrawing a bunch of talking heads versions of calvin and hobbes with different characters. I didnt because I cant draw little bodies - just little heads. This bastard got around my problem!!!
Seriously - awesome? How?
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I want to tape some TeeVee. I go into my favourite electronics retailer "Hello my good man - I know jack about shit - I want to tape my soaps while skiing this Xmas? What should I buy"
Store can say one of two things: "This VCR costing $50 will suit you perfectly - and tapes are cheap - so you will spend less than a mornings ski pass on your complete solution"
or
"Really you need either a TiVo / PVR or a DVD recorder - these are like amazing - and great value at just $500. Do you have a wide / HD TeeVee?? No?? Holy shit your out of date - we have a special bundle on right now with this sweeeet teeeveee and this combined dvd recorder PVR with a hard drive and added conformity for just $1500 which will stop you walking out of here with laughter in the background.... you like? yeah... did I mention the home cinema kit - you get about 300 speakers with this and you can actually hear people fart BEHIND you in some movies its amazing..."
I'm guessing they go for the more expensive and profitable option. Easier to do if they can back it up with
'VCR??? no one makes THOSE anymore you throwback freak'
Greatest is always subjective in that sense - however the fact that you are poorly read in the genre in no way effects the greatness of the work.
I've seen very few chick flicks, but some of them might be considered great by those that enjoy.
UNless your name is 'comic book guy' I frankly dont give a fuck if you think the watchmen was a great comic or not. And even then - I probably wouldn't give a fuck as you'd be claiming pokemon 12 with the foil back cover and the accidental nipple on panel 4, page 12 was the greatest comic ever.
Excellent advice - value spots in the market right now? Dreamcast and the N64 - two excellent systems with a few phenominally good games and a fair raft of perfectly excellent diversional games which will come bundled with the machine if you pick your eBay auction wisely.
You also get the fun of calculating the original costs of what just bought. I bought a dreamcast kit for £30 inc P&P which would have cost over £1000 if I'd bought it new. Now THATS a depreciating investment.
I have to say that I just LOVE, no... I ADORE a good dose of semi-competent enthusiasm using the approximate tools with the wrong raw materials to get a result that does something cool in a mediocre fashion.
Elegence is beautiful thing - but sometimes you just long for a bit of cobbled together crap that barely does the job and has a pretty good chance of either killing you, or at the very least fucking up your neighbours radio reception.
I actually wish they'd be a bit LESS competent!!
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You can always spot a good story on/. - theres more bitching about the quality of the/. coverage that no one even bothers to talk about the topic.
I guess we'll just wait for the dupe to comment on the kit.
I'm reading the article and my eyes hurt already and we havent moved on from the appearance of the damn thing! In case you can't be bothered to read the first 50% of the review - its kinda shiny, and a bit curvier than the old one. Hmmmmm curvy shiny things...
I have to agree - in every steak pie you need that OBVIOUS piece of ass gristle to spit out to make you appreciate the other, less bouncy, possibly even chewy, gristle for the joyous addition to your day that it is.
This review sucked - but it didn't suck NEARLY as hard as a Jon Katz review would have.
And let me just get this straight - is this a movie about talking ducks or is it "parodying the genre of summer blockbuster" in some way.
Maybe he could repeat another dozen times that its "parodying the genre of summer blockbuster" so that we get the idea that its "parodying the genre of summer blockbuster".
The big challenge isn't so much generation - as transmission and storage. If we can create a reliable way of getting energy to cover a few hundred miles and a few dozen hours with 50% losses we have really achieved something tangible in getting rid of the energy problems by making relatively remote wind / solar / etc sources viable.
At the moment, from the last report I read, wind X energy collected in west of Scotland last night ans stored in a hydro plant until I needed to use it this morning turns into X/50 coming out of my outlet to power this PC.
Holey shit! Turn that into X/2 or even X/10 and you have a VASTLY better economics of energy production. Most of the current production is simply going into warming up transmission cables and hydroelectric damns!
Theres one thing to have an idea, to have the motivation, to have the ingenuity and the focus. It's quite another to have the money and time to actually DO anything about it.
Finding a funder can be a bitch - prizes like this mean that the funder has a second bet on - firstly they are betting the flying car will make money - second they are betting that the prize itself will give them some additional publicity.
Imagine HP spending a few million on an Xprize entry for... well... anything. Thats a fraction of an advertising budget. They will sink the money more quickly based on a prize timescale and the reduced 'risk'.
At least I _think_ thats the theory of this kind of prize.
I have had 4 or 5 conversations with relatives who really dont understand that this 'great kazaa thing' with the 'free music - just type a name and its there' is actually illegal. They genuinely thought it was just 'an internetty thing I dont understand'.
This story is EVERYWHERE In the mainstream media yesterday and today - and will be for a while I expect. I would assume a fair number of kids will be having that internet connection to their rooms cut this weekend.
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Every day around mid morning I open up the BBC Radio player and listen to the Mark Radclif show which plays 10:30 to Midnight on BBC Radio 2. I can listen to it the following day quite happily.
I would imagine that it would be in the BBCs interest to fire over the file to me overnight when they no doubt have some bandwidth to spare, rather than serve it to me 'when I click the button'.
Today there was a Travis session which was rather good - but Im no more likely to hold on to that that I would if I were taping it off the radio direct. AND I've bought a few Travis CDs so they've had a few quid from me and I wouldnt feel too bad.
I suspect the BBC would be up for this - but the various copyright holders would spit chips.
I know this is a typical/.ey 'you dont wanna do thaaaaat you wannba do thiiiiiiiis' but seriously - I never understand the Milk fixation of so many geeks.
I worry that I dont have parmesan, or the mozerella I bought to make pizza last week might be a bit off - not wether I have milk - I can get milk anywhere and its so cheap!
I worry more if I dont have beer - but only because if I buy too much beer I drink it and get the shits for a fortnight.
Reporting this suggests everything will be OK in 5 years - 20% in a year - just 80% to go hey!!
Of course this could be nothing to do with anything - and simply be an anomoly, a measuring error, a rogue reading, or true. Until everyone has a basic degree of scientific understanding this kind of news will hit the headlines and be presented as a Good Thing. Which is isn't - its neither good not bad.
A bit like the medical researcher on the radio every few weeks being introduced as talking about a 'newfound cure for cancer' and saying 'this is certainly an exciting development' being asked 'so when will it actually be used to cure cancer' and having to say 'well... possibly never,... certainly 20 years, actually I never claimed.' 'THANK you very much its 8:59 time for traffic'
Wookie bending variants are the only star wars jokes I have ever enjoyed! And its not even really a star wars joke. I'm going to check if 'wookiebendingjokes.com' is available right now and start a collection!
The cost of my switching from Google to AskJeeves, or Amazon to BN, is nil.
I stick with amazon because they have my 4 shipping addresses, 3 credit cards and my history handily stored.
When a regulator comes along insisting that retailers hand this information to competitiors on request I'll have nil cost switching. (As I do when I switch electricity provider).
Realistically - how likely are you to get caught with these things assuming they are already in your possession?
I could have had a human head in the glove box of my car or my freezer for the past 10 years without problem - because no one in authority has had cause or the right to look in there. I don't have a human head in my glovebox by the way. Its a monkeyhead!
I know quite a few people who claim to be sensitive to stuff in this way. 90% of it boils down to them wanting to be able to say "I'm special!!!:D" from time to time - but not actually having anything to talk about.
I also know that I am genuinely allergic to some washing powders. I don't feel a little sluggish, or get a bit of a cough, or get iritable. My symptoms are a bit easier to spot. My skin turns into one big beef coloured bubble wrap textured seepy mass of pain.
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I don't mind genuine 'news' about products, or even about companies in general. Where I find it to be a pain in the ass is when the product in question isn't actually all that interesting / novel / discussable.
/.
The Boeing story is interesting, its not technically 'amazing' but it IS groundbreaking on a reasonably broad scale and worthy of note. A new watercooling kit is, at most, of niche interest to watercooling freaks, and hardly marks 'the arrival of the future'
Theres a nice rework on
SLASHDOT
Documenting and talking shit about the arrival of the future
Advert indeed. In a newspaper or magazine these have 'ADVERTISING FEATURE' written above them. I'd like the same to happen in /. so that I could chose to avoid such content should I so wish.
Or perhaps all such articles should be filed HERE as a hint.
Congratulations on the coolest subject line ever to appear in slashdot relating to a movie. I'm assuming your an enthusiastic kind of a guy about pretty much anything - do you stand in the supermarket at the chillers and shout 'this phish food is gonna taste awesome' while smacking your lips and shaking your hips??? I bet you do! admit it!
I wish I'd actually done it when I thought of redrawing a bunch of talking heads versions of calvin and hobbes with different characters. I didnt because I cant draw little bodies - just little heads. This bastard got around my problem!!!
Seriously - awesome? How?
I want to tape some TeeVee. I go into my favourite electronics retailer "Hello my good man - I know jack about shit - I want to tape my soaps while skiing this Xmas? What should I buy"
Store can say one of two things:
"This VCR costing $50 will suit you perfectly - and tapes are cheap - so you will spend less than a mornings ski pass on your complete solution"
or
"Really you need either a TiVo / PVR or a DVD recorder - these are like amazing - and great value at just $500. Do you have a wide / HD TeeVee?? No?? Holy shit your out of date - we have a special bundle on right now with this sweeeet teeeveee and this combined dvd recorder PVR with a hard drive and added conformity for just $1500 which will stop you walking out of here with laughter in the background.... you like? yeah... did I mention the home cinema kit - you get about 300 speakers with this and you can actually hear people fart BEHIND you in some movies its amazing..."
I'm guessing they go for the more expensive and profitable option. Easier to do if they can back it up with
'VCR??? no one makes THOSE anymore you throwback freak'
Greatest is always subjective in that sense - however the fact that you are poorly read in the genre in no way effects the greatness of the work.
I've seen very few chick flicks, but some of them might be considered great by those that enjoy.
UNless your name is 'comic book guy' I frankly dont give a fuck if you think the watchmen was a great comic or not. And even then - I probably wouldn't give a fuck as you'd be claiming pokemon 12 with the foil back cover and the accidental nipple on panel 4, page 12 was the greatest comic ever.
Damn - ranting and swearing again! Why am I here?
Yeah, I know, this is so little data it's not representative of anything
Fits in pretty well around here chum! - You should try to insert some blatantly beneficial 'rounding errors' though.
Excellent advice - value spots in the market right now? Dreamcast and the N64 - two excellent systems with a few phenominally good games and a fair raft of perfectly excellent diversional games which will come bundled with the machine if you pick your eBay auction wisely.
You also get the fun of calculating the original costs of what just bought. I bought a dreamcast kit for £30 inc P&P which would have cost over £1000 if I'd bought it new. Now THATS a depreciating investment.
so far as I can figure out you can still keep your accounting spreadsheet and those jpgs of your ex gfs boobs on a $100 PC.
so just what kind of sensitive data do YOU keep on your spanky expensive hardware?? or shouldnt I ask
I have to say that I just LOVE, no ... I ADORE a good dose of semi-competent enthusiasm using the approximate tools with the wrong raw materials to get a result that does something cool in a mediocre fashion.
Elegence is beautiful thing - but sometimes you just long for a bit of cobbled together crap that barely does the job and has a pretty good chance of either killing you, or at the very least fucking up your neighbours radio reception.
I actually wish they'd be a bit LESS competent!!
You can always spot a good story on /. - theres more bitching about the quality of the /. coverage that no one even bothers to talk about the topic.
I guess we'll just wait for the dupe to comment on the kit.
I'm reading the article and my eyes hurt already and we havent moved on from the appearance of the damn thing!
In case you can't be bothered to read the first 50% of the review - its kinda shiny, and a bit curvier than the old one. Hmmmmm curvy shiny things...
I have to agree - in every steak pie you need that OBVIOUS piece of ass gristle to spit out to make you appreciate the other, less bouncy, possibly even chewy, gristle for the joyous addition to your day that it is.
This review sucked - but it didn't suck NEARLY as hard as a Jon Katz review would have.
Also - you just RIDE a bike or a skateboard - but according to the site you EXPERIENCE one of these fuckers! Even during wheelies!
"Pop a wheelie: The Centaur uses dynamic stabilization technology to limit and/or maintain the angle at which the rider experiences the device. "
And let me just get this straight - is this a movie about talking ducks or is it "parodying the genre of summer blockbuster" in some way.
Maybe he could repeat another dozen times that its "parodying the genre of summer blockbuster" so that we get the idea that its "parodying the genre of summer blockbuster".
The big challenge isn't so much generation - as transmission and storage. If we can create a reliable way of getting energy to cover a few hundred miles and a few dozen hours with 50% losses we have really achieved something tangible in getting rid of the energy problems by making relatively remote wind / solar / etc sources viable.
At the moment, from the last report I read, wind X energy collected in west of Scotland last night ans stored in a hydro plant until I needed to use it this morning turns into X/50 coming out of my outlet to power this PC.
Holey shit! Turn that into X/2 or even X/10 and you have a VASTLY better economics of energy production. Most of the current production is simply going into warming up transmission cables and hydroelectric damns!
Theres one thing to have an idea, to have the motivation, to have the ingenuity and the focus. It's quite another to have the money and time to actually DO anything about it.
Finding a funder can be a bitch - prizes like this mean that the funder has a second bet on - firstly they are betting the flying car will make money - second they are betting that the prize itself will give them some additional publicity.
Imagine HP spending a few million on an Xprize entry for... well... anything. Thats a fraction of an advertising budget. They will sink the money more quickly based on a prize timescale and the reduced 'risk'.
At least I _think_ thats the theory of this kind of prize.
I have had 4 or 5 conversations with relatives who really dont understand that this 'great kazaa thing' with the 'free music - just type a name and its there' is actually illegal. They genuinely thought it was just 'an internetty thing I dont understand'.
This story is EVERYWHERE In the mainstream media yesterday and today - and will be for a while I expect. I would assume a fair number of kids will be having that internet connection to their rooms cut this weekend.
Every day around mid morning I open up the BBC Radio player and listen to the Mark Radclif show which plays 10:30 to Midnight on BBC Radio 2. I can listen to it the following day quite happily.
I would imagine that it would be in the BBCs interest to fire over the file to me overnight when they no doubt have some bandwidth to spare, rather than serve it to me 'when I click the button'.
Today there was a Travis session which was rather good - but Im no more likely to hold on to that that I would if I were taping it off the radio direct. AND I've bought a few Travis CDs so they've had a few quid from me and I wouldnt feel too bad.
I suspect the BBC would be up for this - but the various copyright holders would spit chips.
Milk is cheap. Just buy milk more often.
/.ey 'you dont wanna do thaaaaat you wannba do thiiiiiiiis' but seriously - I never understand the Milk fixation of so many geeks.
I know this is a typical
I worry that I dont have parmesan, or the mozerella I bought to make pizza last week might be a bit off - not wether I have milk - I can get milk anywhere and its so cheap!
I worry more if I dont have beer - but only because if I buy too much beer I drink it and get the shits for a fortnight.
Reporting this suggests everything will be OK in 5 years - 20% in a year - just 80% to go hey!!
... certainly 20 years, actually I never claimed.' 'THANK you very much its 8:59 time for traffic'
Of course this could be nothing to do with anything - and simply be an anomoly, a measuring error, a rogue reading, or true. Until everyone has a basic degree of scientific understanding this kind of news will hit the headlines and be presented as a Good Thing. Which is isn't - its neither good not bad.
A bit like the medical researcher on the radio every few weeks being introduced as talking about a 'newfound cure for cancer' and saying 'this is certainly an exciting development' being asked 'so when will it actually be used to cure cancer' and having to say 'well... possibly never,
Wookie bending variants are the only star wars jokes I have ever enjoyed! And its not even really a star wars joke. I'm going to check if 'wookiebendingjokes.com' is available right now and start a collection!
The cost of my switching from Google to AskJeeves, or Amazon to BN, is nil.
I stick with amazon because they have my 4 shipping addresses, 3 credit cards and my history handily stored.
When a regulator comes along insisting that retailers hand this information to competitiors on request I'll have nil cost switching. (As I do when I switch electricity provider).
Realistically - how likely are you to get caught with these things assuming they are already in your possession?
I could have had a human head in the glove box of my car or my freezer for the past 10 years without problem - because no one in authority has had cause or the right to look in there. I don't have a human head in my glovebox by the way. Its a monkeyhead!
I know quite a few people who claim to be sensitive to stuff in this way. 90% of it boils down to them wanting to be able to say "I'm special!!! :D" from time to time - but not actually having anything to talk about.
I also know that I am genuinely allergic to some washing powders. I don't feel a little sluggish, or get a bit of a cough, or get iritable. My symptoms are a bit easier to spot. My skin turns into one big beef coloured bubble wrap textured seepy mass of pain.
Allergic to the smell of a PC my ASS!!