The 800-pound Microsoft gorilla will release a free (albeit very buggy) version of the Xbox to erode Sony's and Nintendo's market share. After these companies leave the market, MS will claim victory 'by design', sit back on its hairy ass, and not update their product until a small but powerful OSS group creates a better system.
Although I don't agree with the outrages salaries and guarantees that people in the entertainment and sports businesses receive, residuals are very similar to profit sharing. I'm sure many of these game companies have some type of profit sharing plan for their employees. So yes, it is not fair to give residuals to actors when programmers don't receive the same, but then shouldn't the actors be able to participate in the same profit sharing? Maybe it comes down to private contractors vs. employees. So if I'm an actor, I'd shoot for a W2 position rather than 1099 consulting pay.
The real sad thing is that from a traceroute, it looks like he's hosting the site from his personal DSL connection. So, he probably can't even contact anyone for help or to even complain.
Hope he doesn't need to use the Internet any time soon.
This is simple one-to-one marketing. The basic theory goes that it is more profitable to keep a current (reliable) customer than try to find new customers that may or may not be reliable. That is why you are seeing more "loyalty" and fewer "first time buyer" incentives.
We're so self-important. So self-important. Everybody's going to save something now. "Save the trees, save the bees, save the whales, save those snails." And the greatest arrogance of all: save the planet. What? Are these fucking people kidding me? Save the planet, we don't even know how to take care of ourselves yet. We haven't learned how to care for one another, we're gonna save the fucking planet?
I'm getting tired of that shit. Tired of that shit. I'm tired of fucking Earth Day, I'm tired of these self-righteous environmentalists, these white, bourgeois liberals who think the only thing wrong with this country is there aren't enough bicycle paths. People trying to make the world save for their Volvos. Besides, environmentalists don't give a shit about the planet. They don't care about the planet. Not in the abstract they don't. Not in the abstract they don't. You know what they're interested in? A clean place to live. Their own habitat. They're worried that some day in the future, they might be personally inconvenienced. Narrow, unenlightened self-interest doesn't impress me.
Besides, there is nothing wrong with the planet. Nothing wrong with the planet. The planet is fine. The PEOPLE are fucked. Difference. Difference. The planet is fine. Compared to the people, the planet is doing great. Been here four and a half billion years. Did you ever think about the arithmetic? The planet has been here four and a half billion years. We've been here, what, a hundred thousand? Maybe two hundred thousand? And we've only been engaged in heavy industry for a little over two hundred years. Two hundred years versus four and a half billion. And we have the CONCEIT to think that somehow we're a threat? That somehow we're gonna put in jeopardy this beautiful little blue-green ball that's just a-floatin' around the sun?
The planet has been through a lot worse than us. Been through all kinds of things worse than us. Been through earthquakes, volcanoes, plate tectonics, continental drift, solar flares, sun spots, magnetic storms, the magnetic reversal of the poles...hundreds of thousands of years of bombardment by comets and asteroids and meteors, worlwide floods, tidal waves, worldwide fires, erosion, cosmic rays, recurring ice ages...And we think some plastic bags, and some aluminum cans are going to make a difference? The planet...the planet...the planet isn't going anywhere. WE ARE!
We're going away. Pack your shit, folks. We're going away. And we won't leave much of a trace, either. Thank God for that. Maybe a little styrofoam. Maybe. A little styrofoam. The planet'll be here and we'll be long gone. Just another failed mutation. Just another closed-end biological mistake. An evolutionary cul-de-sac. The planet'll shake us off like a bad case of fleas. A surface nuisance.
You wanna know how the planet's doing? Ask those people at Pompeii, who are frozen into position from volcanic ash, how the planet's doing. You wanna know if the planet's all right, ask those people in Mexico City or Armenia or a hundred other places buried under thousands of tons of earthquake rubble, if they feel like a threat to the planet this week. Or how about those people in Kilowaia, Hawaii, who built their homes right next to an active volcano, and then wonder why they have lava in the living room.
The planet will be here for a long, long, LONG time after we're gone, and it will heal itself, it will cleanse itself, 'cause that's what it does. It's a self-correcting system. The air and the water will recover, the earth will be renewed, and if it's true that plastic is not degradable, well, the planet will simply incorporate plastic into a new pardigm: the earth plus plastic. The earth doesn't share our prejudice towards plastic. Plastic came out of the earth. The earth probably sees plastic as just another one of its children. Could be the only reason the earth allowed us to be spawned from it in the first place. It wanted plastic for itself. Didn't know how to make it. Needed u
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Someone needs to cut the head off of this act.
The 800-pound Microsoft gorilla will release a free (albeit very buggy) version of the Xbox to erode Sony's and Nintendo's market share. After these companies leave the market, MS will claim victory 'by design', sit back on its hairy ass, and not update their product until a small but powerful OSS group creates a better system.
Imagine a Beowulf cluster of Dvorak and Cringely.
Further proof that Dubya's DHS is going to have to switch back to slide rules. At least they won't get hacked.
Once you do connect you'll notice that they put the nav bar on the right side of the screen.
You had cavepaintings?
Back in my day all organisms were asexual.
Although I don't agree with the outrages salaries and guarantees that people in the entertainment and sports businesses receive, residuals are very similar to profit sharing. I'm sure many of these game companies have some type of profit sharing plan for their employees. So yes, it is not fair to give residuals to actors when programmers don't receive the same, but then shouldn't the actors be able to participate in the same profit sharing? Maybe it comes down to private contractors vs. employees. So if I'm an actor, I'd shoot for a W2 position rather than 1099 consulting pay.
Nothing like a good old fashioned death march to get the blood flowing and make you appreciate the 'easy' days.
"...looking for machines that might be exposed due to flaws in the Windows operating system."
That makes him more of an opportunist than a genius.
...as long as neither species has the technology to obliterate, enslave, or merely cook and eat each other.
Hell, the rest of the world has tolerated the French.
...like a tinfoil hat.
"...it now turns out that Dvorak was apparently not smoking crack..."
Even the Sun shines on a crack-head's ass every once in a while.
They are not artificial, but Sirius Diamonds of Canada is one source where you can stay away from DeBeers and other diamond cartels.
The real sad thing is that from a traceroute, it looks like he's hosting the site from his personal DSL connection. So, he probably can't even contact anyone for help or to even complain.
Hope he doesn't need to use the Internet any time soon.
C'mon, it's not even a little bit sporting to slashdot something like this.
Ok! Ok! I must have, I must have put a decimal point in the wrong place or something. Shit. I always do that. I always mess up some mundane detail.
This is simple one-to-one marketing. The basic theory goes that it is more profitable to keep a current (reliable) customer than try to find new customers that may or may not be reliable. That is why you are seeing more "loyalty" and fewer "first time buyer" incentives.
broadcast music to any other vehicle within a 30-mile radius
...it's called an inconsiderate teenager with a trunk full of subwoofers and gazillion watts of amplification power.
What are they going to, hire Ralph Kramden?
We're so self-important. So self-important. Everybody's going to save something now. "Save the trees, save the bees, save the whales, save those snails." And the greatest arrogance of all: save the planet. What? Are these fucking people kidding me? Save the planet, we don't even know how to take care of ourselves yet. We haven't learned how to care for one another, we're gonna save the fucking planet?
I'm getting tired of that shit. Tired of that shit. I'm tired of fucking Earth Day, I'm tired of these self-righteous environmentalists, these white, bourgeois liberals who think the only thing wrong with this country is there aren't enough bicycle paths. People trying to make the world save for their Volvos. Besides, environmentalists don't give a shit about the planet. They don't care about the planet. Not in the abstract they don't. Not in the abstract they don't. You know what they're interested in? A clean place to live. Their own habitat. They're worried that some day in the future, they might be personally inconvenienced. Narrow, unenlightened self-interest doesn't impress me.
Besides, there is nothing wrong with the planet. Nothing wrong with the planet. The planet is fine. The PEOPLE are fucked. Difference. Difference. The planet is fine. Compared to the people, the planet is doing great. Been here four and a half billion years. Did you ever think about the arithmetic? The planet has been here four and a half billion years. We've been here, what, a hundred thousand? Maybe two hundred thousand? And we've only been engaged in heavy industry for a little over two hundred years. Two hundred years versus four and a half billion. And we have the CONCEIT to think that somehow we're a threat? That somehow we're gonna put in jeopardy this beautiful little blue-green ball that's just a-floatin' around the sun?
The planet has been through a lot worse than us. Been through all kinds of things worse than us. Been through earthquakes, volcanoes, plate tectonics, continental drift, solar flares, sun spots, magnetic storms, the magnetic reversal of the poles...hundreds of thousands of years of bombardment by comets and asteroids and meteors, worlwide floods, tidal waves, worldwide fires, erosion, cosmic rays, recurring ice ages...And we think some plastic bags, and some aluminum cans are going to make a difference? The planet...the planet...the planet isn't going anywhere. WE ARE!
We're going away. Pack your shit, folks. We're going away. And we won't leave much of a trace, either. Thank God for that. Maybe a little styrofoam. Maybe. A little styrofoam. The planet'll be here and we'll be long gone. Just another failed mutation. Just another closed-end biological mistake. An evolutionary cul-de-sac. The planet'll shake us off like a bad case of fleas. A surface nuisance.
You wanna know how the planet's doing? Ask those people at Pompeii, who are frozen into position from volcanic ash, how the planet's doing. You wanna know if the planet's all right, ask those people in Mexico City or Armenia or a hundred other places buried under thousands of tons of earthquake rubble, if they feel like a threat to the planet this week. Or how about those people in Kilowaia, Hawaii, who built their homes right next to an active volcano, and then wonder why they have lava in the living room.
The planet will be here for a long, long, LONG time after we're gone, and it will heal itself, it will cleanse itself, 'cause that's what it does. It's a self-correcting system. The air and the water will recover, the earth will be renewed, and if it's true that plastic is not degradable, well, the planet will simply incorporate plastic into a new pardigm: the earth plus plastic. The earth doesn't share our prejudice towards plastic. Plastic came out of the earth. The earth probably sees plastic as just another one of its children. Could be the only reason the earth allowed us to be spawned from it in the first place. It wanted plastic for itself. Didn't know how to make it. Needed u
limiting stem cell won't undermine the very science
Limiting stem cell research and limiting federal funding of stem cell research are two different topics. The results of each are not the same.
Someone is going to make a profit off of this research, let them use their money and not the taxpayers.
Ignoring FCC licensing issues
That could get you a 6 x 9 cell with a roommate.
http://freshmeat.net/projects/livesupport
Ever heard of Terraserver? Um, yeah... Microsoft did it first.
Um, no... Microsoft didn't *do it* first, that were the first to buy out Terraserver. That takes real innovation.
I move that all 13 year old Hackers be strung up by their genitals.