Perhaps, but imagine how great all the cars would be! I'd happily replace one murderous totalitarial regime using democracy as a thin mask to hide their actions while indiscriminitely launching wars of aggression and slowly draining away civil rights and singling out one ethnic group as the cause of all the worlds problems with another if we could all drive German cars!
Ow....I think SOMEONE needs a third party. I'm voting NDP, bitches!!!
When you use the words "On the contrary", you're supposed to say something to the contrary of what has been said.
In reality, you've done the exact opposite by pointing out that iPod battery replacement is much more expensive than other digital players if you're off of warantee.
That's the most assinine thing I've ever heard. I suppose that I'm not a Creative customer either, that they don't give a fuck about what I want, because they aren't selling to me, they're selling to Radio shack!
Seriously, did you even bother to think before you posted that? If I buy a nice MSI Geforce, suddenly Nvidia isn't trying to get my money at all, because after all, MSI bought the Geforce, and I'm not a customer of MSI either, because after all, Radio Shack or whoever bought the MSI card, so I'm just a customer of Radio Shack, and nobody except Radio Shack is bothering to try to get my business?
Cell phone companies don't want our money, evidenced by the fact that all the cool stuff you SHOULD be able to do with a phone, you CAN'T. Can I connect my LG with my palm to check my Internet stuff on the road? No? Not even through the bluetooth? Can I use the GPS reciever in my phone with Google maps or something? No? Can I even manage my data from my PC? No, I can't?
Those are DEFINITELY good reasons for me to run out and spend 600 bucks on the latest top of the line phone. I can get cool and sexy features that don't work.
Like I said to the other guy, I wasn't paying much attention. I just saw the "engineers don't..." thing, and replied with the first thing that came to mind. Saturdays are like that.
Yeah, you've found me out. I've been on slashdot for seven years, built up 50 karma and a few thousand posts on hundreds of different topics, and gotten in more "downloaders vs. RIAA" debates than I can count, all as an evil scheme to get paid to mention dot-com engineers once.
Yeah, those Micheal Firth, Ratatoskr, game remix, and librivox MP3s, as well as the songs I've written and performed myself, I've got on my Nomad as part of my "I don't even bother downloading the music of those assholes because it means they've got my mindshare and even that contributes to suing little old ladies, welfare mothers, and dead people" boycott? Just a part of my complex and multi-faced lie, designed to make everyone in life and on-line think that I'm totally against the RIAA right before I toss off a one liner one time.
I'm not going to lie, I wasn't paying much attention, I just saw the statement that engineers don't blah blah blah, and fired off the first thing that came to mind. You're still pathetic for jumping to the conclusion that I'm a shill.
How many high school students actually have a job? The number is likely lower than you'd think.
Regardless, I know that I made more on my first paycheque out of college than my best three paycheques working full-time beforehand. I just don't see how those margins can be all that impressive.
Making a moral arguement on behalf on the music industry of all people seems like self-parody to me.
"Please, remember the bitches and hos when you're stealing music. Who will think of the bitches and the hos? And who will think of the coke addicts and amphetamine junkies? And who will think of the good, honest, hard working rap star whose parent company just sued a dead person for downloading a song they wouldn't possibly listen to? And what of the children? Britney thought of the children, she wanted the women to be unafraid of their bodies, so they could go out and lay the first angsty emo boy they found. What have YOU done for the children lately? And what of Marlyn Manson? He'll starve while your little hell-spawn download his music about how great being a minion of our dark lord and master Satan is, all without paying for it."
Marketing vs. Legal vs. Morality. Very thin ice, but hilarious hilarious self-parody.
Maybe in fantasy land. When I was growing up, asking to use my parents credit card for something wasn't just out of the question, it was frankly stupid.
Almost as stupid as trying to market towards a demographic that doesn't have jobs or money. Gee... Who do I know who would do a thing like that?
I guess you've never heard of the dotcom boom. I know of plenty of engineers who worked 80 hour weeks for nearly no money with the promise of making massive amounts of money with the IPO.
Naw, they'll be the first ones selling pointy sticks. Nobody will be up against the wall. The revolution will consist of a bunch of young men and women being angry for no discernable reason, getting Jedi Mind Tricked by the corporations and the bureaucrats and the insipid television networks, and going "But there's nothing that can be done...". They'll smoke some pot, laugh at some insipid TV shows, and go back to sleep.
I think begging the vendor for features you don't need the vendor to have is a bit low. I use msys, and I've got a fairly comprehensive unix shell environment.
Stewart plays softball with MOST of his guests. I recall a number of conservative leaders who left unscathed as well. As long as you don't try to pull any nutjob stuff on him, he tends to be rather respectful, which is why some big name people on either side of the political spectrum have come on the show and come back. As he's said, The Daily Show comes on right after puppets who make crank phone calls.
If The Daily Show is the last element of the fifth estate, the one that must be asked to ask the difficult questions, then America is in serious trouble.
Back in high school I was on the honour roll, and in college I had a fairly solid 3.0 GPA at graduation. The key isn't to follow what statistically says successful people do, the key is to become a successful person yourself. Rather than saying "No video games on school nights", you just go "Is there something I have to do anything important for school right now?" before you fire up those video games.
Machavellian parents trying to manipulate their children into being successful are fine, I'm not going to berate them for it. To truly succeed, however, a person has to take personal responsbility for their future.
Yes, I know it's unfashionable to say that high school students should take responsibility for anything, but there's no other way.
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Perhaps, but imagine how great all the cars would be! I'd happily replace one murderous totalitarial regime using democracy as a thin mask to hide their actions while indiscriminitely launching wars of aggression and slowly draining away civil rights and singling out one ethnic group as the cause of all the worlds problems with another if we could all drive German cars!
Ow....I think SOMEONE needs a third party. I'm voting NDP, bitches!!!
How many "Vista may be the supercoolest OS ever concieved by mere mortal man" articles do we keep on seeing?
Goddamn you, slashdot -- your pro-microsoft stance will be the peril of us all!
Science is meant to describe an event. It is the job of morality and ethics to determine whether an action is just.
"What the fuck? There's no forest here, just a bunch of trees!"
When you use the words "On the contrary", you're supposed to say something to the contrary of what has been said.
In reality, you've done the exact opposite by pointing out that iPod battery replacement is much more expensive than other digital players if you're off of warantee.
That's the most assinine thing I've ever heard. I suppose that I'm not a Creative customer either, that they don't give a fuck about what I want, because they aren't selling to me, they're selling to Radio shack!
Seriously, did you even bother to think before you posted that? If I buy a nice MSI Geforce, suddenly Nvidia isn't trying to get my money at all, because after all, MSI bought the Geforce, and I'm not a customer of MSI either, because after all, Radio Shack or whoever bought the MSI card, so I'm just a customer of Radio Shack, and nobody except Radio Shack is bothering to try to get my business?
Does this mean that the Danny Glover iPod commercial will be the one to destroy the product?
Let me get this straight: You're not too cheap to buy a 400 dollar iPod, but you ARE too cheap to buy 50 dollar replacement batteries?
You rock.
To be honest, I think that monitor headphones are way cooler than white earbuds. On the otherhand, I'm totally a nerd.
Will the Ford Pinto ever die?
1. Tehy are teh c00l.
teh pinto is teh c00l. pwnage.
2. Tehy are teh good.
teh pinto is teh g00d. lolkthxbai
3. thwy are teh cheap.
Noobs cant even match the price caus its so supercool bitches.
4. Other guys are teh bad.
n00bs get pwned by apple cuz they dont have teh skillz lol
So will the pinto ever die?
YES!!! THE UNIVERSE WILL SUFFER HEAT DEATH AND ATOMIC HALF-LIFE WILL DESTROY ALL EXAMPLES OF A FORD PINTO!!! LOLKTHXBAI!!!
Hey, cna I get posted on the front page of slashdot now?
Seriously, how did this 'article' make it to the front page of slashdot?
Most fanboy articles at least do us the courtesy of choosing plausable falsehoods. This reads more like a blog entry.
Cell phone companies don't want our money, evidenced by the fact that all the cool stuff you SHOULD be able to do with a phone, you CAN'T. Can I connect my LG with my palm to check my Internet stuff on the road? No? Not even through the bluetooth? Can I use the GPS reciever in my phone with Google maps or something? No? Can I even manage my data from my PC? No, I can't?
Those are DEFINITELY good reasons for me to run out and spend 600 bucks on the latest top of the line phone. I can get cool and sexy features that don't work.
I dunno, I find it pretty funny, listening to it.
What did Man do before mikes became popular?
Like I said to the other guy, I wasn't paying much attention. I just saw the "engineers don't..." thing, and replied with the first thing that came to mind. Saturdays are like that.
Yeah, you've found me out. I've been on slashdot for seven years, built up 50 karma and a few thousand posts on hundreds of different topics, and gotten in more "downloaders vs. RIAA" debates than I can count, all as an evil scheme to get paid to mention dot-com engineers once.
Yeah, those Micheal Firth, Ratatoskr, game remix, and librivox MP3s, as well as the songs I've written and performed myself, I've got on my Nomad as part of my "I don't even bother downloading the music of those assholes because it means they've got my mindshare and even that contributes to suing little old ladies, welfare mothers, and dead people" boycott? Just a part of my complex and multi-faced lie, designed to make everyone in life and on-line think that I'm totally against the RIAA right before I toss off a one liner one time.
I'm not going to lie, I wasn't paying much attention, I just saw the statement that engineers don't blah blah blah, and fired off the first thing that came to mind. You're still pathetic for jumping to the conclusion that I'm a shill.
How many high school students actually have a job? The number is likely lower than you'd think.
Regardless, I know that I made more on my first paycheque out of college than my best three paycheques working full-time beforehand. I just don't see how those margins can be all that impressive.
Making a moral arguement on behalf on the music industry of all people seems like self-parody to me.
"Please, remember the bitches and hos when you're stealing music. Who will think of the bitches and the hos? And who will think of the coke addicts and amphetamine junkies? And who will think of the good, honest, hard working rap star whose parent company just sued a dead person for downloading a song they wouldn't possibly listen to? And what of the children? Britney thought of the children, she wanted the women to be unafraid of their bodies, so they could go out and lay the first angsty emo boy they found. What have YOU done for the children lately? And what of Marlyn Manson? He'll starve while your little hell-spawn download his music about how great being a minion of our dark lord and master Satan is, all without paying for it."
Marketing vs. Legal vs. Morality. Very thin ice, but hilarious hilarious self-parody.
Maybe in fantasy land. When I was growing up, asking to use my parents credit card for something wasn't just out of the question, it was frankly stupid.
Almost as stupid as trying to market towards a demographic that doesn't have jobs or money. Gee... Who do I know who would do a thing like that?
I guess you've never heard of the dotcom boom. I know of plenty of engineers who worked 80 hour weeks for nearly no money with the promise of making massive amounts of money with the IPO.
Naw, they'll be the first ones selling pointy sticks. Nobody will be up against the wall. The revolution will consist of a bunch of young men and women being angry for no discernable reason, getting Jedi Mind Tricked by the corporations and the bureaucrats and the insipid television networks, and going "But there's nothing that can be done...". They'll smoke some pot, laugh at some insipid TV shows, and go back to sleep.
The revolution will NOT be coherent.
I think begging the vendor for features you don't need the vendor to have is a bit low. I use msys, and I've got a fairly comprehensive unix shell environment.
Stewart plays softball with MOST of his guests. I recall a number of conservative leaders who left unscathed as well. As long as you don't try to pull any nutjob stuff on him, he tends to be rather respectful, which is why some big name people on either side of the political spectrum have come on the show and come back. As he's said, The Daily Show comes on right after puppets who make crank phone calls.
If The Daily Show is the last element of the fifth estate, the one that must be asked to ask the difficult questions, then America is in serious trouble.
Oh, and god created the earth 10,000 years ago. Evolution is a nasty trick.
YAY! I PASSED WITH AN A-!
Back in high school I was on the honour roll, and in college I had a fairly solid 3.0 GPA at graduation. The key isn't to follow what statistically says successful people do, the key is to become a successful person yourself. Rather than saying "No video games on school nights", you just go "Is there something I have to do anything important for school right now?" before you fire up those video games.
Machavellian parents trying to manipulate their children into being successful are fine, I'm not going to berate them for it. To truly succeed, however, a person has to take personal responsbility for their future.
Yes, I know it's unfashionable to say that high school students should take responsibility for anything, but there's no other way.
Take a look at this, and ask yourself whether you can protect against something like this, against a person who wants to die killing you.
What happens with cesium or rubidium in water?