This happened to me once. I bought a CD burner at Staples, only to get a 5.25/3.5 combo floppy drive in the box it came in - with a little paper sticker on it that said "HP DISK WRITER." I swear this box appeared from the outside to have been sealed at the factory just like the other ones. Staples exchanged it cheerfully, but still wondering how that happened.
It is or it ain't. Gingrich was a pioneer in passing stuff that was blatantly unconstitutional - bills banning flag burning, f'rinstance - for reasons other than actually banning this or that. Want to embarass the President of the United States? Send a bill to his desk banning some form of free speech which, while reprehensible, is still protected free speech. Want ammo to use on some member of the opposing party (Michael Dukakis, for example) should he want to run for President some day? Get him on the record opposing the aforementioned unconstitutional legislation and have a laugh while he goes on TV trying to explain to people that he opposed it because it was unconstitutional.
There is a good chance he's just trying to entice some Democrat to appear on Fox News Sunday and make an attempt to convince that asshat Chris Wallace that Gingrich is full of it. I'll go with the original assertion that he considers the Bill of Rights quaint and obsolete.
First they want to show more and more commercials, to the extent that they make up over 50% of the content, then they dive head-first into reality TV.
I don't mind shows like Survivor. I don't watch them, but that's me. My problem with reality TV is that it dominates the TV landscape to the extent that there is no longer anything for me to watch. They're slowly coming to the realization that not only am I not alone, but after they've made their quick buck, nothing they've produced is re-runable. No syndication, no more money.
How much money has been made on "Bewitched" over the past 40 years? Can you see the networks showing reruns of Survivor even five years from now, let alone on Nick At Nite in 2044? Disposable TV costs the networks money, and the jeniuses who run the networks are finally coming to realize that. Too bad most real TV fans have switched to HBO.
No, Howard Dean isn't Ike, but it could be argued that the Internet, while superior to television in many ways, hasn't reached wide enough acceptance to be used as a campaign medium.
At 40, I am at the outer edge of the Internet revolution, and this only because I have a son who is nearly 15 and eats this stuff for breakfast. Wait another four years, or eight even, and all of us who came of age during the Reagan administration will be grandparents, driving big cars very slowly, and voting in large numbers. THEN you can mount a credible campaign online, especially when our then-grown children are still living at home because they can't find a decent job.
New series starts March 7th after God only knows how long, for thirteen weeks. Maybe that's it; palm the whole thing off to HBO, where you get top writers, actors, producers, etc.
I'm generally in agreement with you, but at least Voyager had an underlying premise that lent itself to the sort of writing soap writers might do. I quite enjoyed Voyager starting with about mid-Season Three.
That being said, the reason the original series endures in spite of occasionally poor acting and dated special effects are the scripts. The people Roddenberry hired were top of the line. They produced landmark stories that continue to be the benchmarks for all that followed, both on television and on film.
By setting a lower speed limit, the municipality can generate revenue by ticketing drivers who drive with traffic, or drive at the "comfortable" speed.
Or, knowing that people are going to speed anyway, setting the limit 5-10 MPH below the graded limit keeps people from going too crazy-go-nuts.
Both kinds of municipalities exist; I've driven through both kinds 10 or so above the limit. In the former, they're just waiting for your ass, and you can tell because people are creeping along like they live in some Warsaw Pact regime or something. In the latter, if they catch you, you'll probably get a warning so long as you're not being an idiot.
I don't see it that way. What is a ballot? A list of names with checkboxes, right? We used to do it on a big sheet of paper, so why do we need a big, fat, bloated computer program to do the same thing?
The way I see it, it's a damn html form (or something like that). Why not do the whole thing in perl and be done with it. Want to check and see if your system is kosher? Easy. Do a diff from the distribution CD. Piece of cake. Hell, I can make something like that in a month or two.
What if every slashdotter were to run a mass mailing program 24/7, send random bits (Lots of them) that no spam filter can catch. How long before the whole Internet crashes?
What a coincidence. I'm a recovering Republican. I made the switch in 1999 after the impeachment. All it took was one look at those small-minded morons running Congress to make me say, "no more for me, I'm driving."
Which group do you think was so dead-against campaign finance reform, election reform, social security reform (other than to set a torch to it), etc.?
The sooner those people are out of power, the better for all of us, Democrat, Republican, and Independent alike.
So what? Most of the Repig politicians do this. One that I remember from 2K was (thankfully) former Rep. Rick Lazio. I still get a kick out that; he outspent Hillary by 2:1, mostly with out of state money, and still got his ass handed to him. Bwa ha ha ha ha!
Yes, it's true. Most of the 13 year olds I see listen to what is usually considered "classic rock" than to the mass-produced pap the record industry puts out nowadays. The new stuff is just plain unlistenable.
I can see it now; in a couple of years, Time/Warner teams up with Pixar and produces the first-ever completely computer-generated "boy band," which will exist only as ones and zeroes, from the external appearances right down to the voices. Perhaps even the music itself would be computer-generated at some point, like Orwell's 1984 pulp novels.
This, of course, would generate massive revenue for Time/Warner, since there is no band to contract, no egos to massage, no drug problems to rehab, and no artists to pay royalties to. The music, however, would be superficial on a level not even Britney Spears has sunk to yet, and best of all (for the record company, not the consumer), disposable.
The state of CGI isn't that far away from the artificial boy band, folks.
The Senate wasn't 50/49/1 when he promised that, either. The conditions of the game have changed, and now Wellstone must run again for the good of his party (and the nation), unkeepable pledges not to run again be damned.
I bet you don't object to any of those House Republicans who are running against similar pledges made when they signed on to the Contract With America. Again, the GOP holds the house by a bare six seats - about the same percentage by which the Democrats hold the Senate. If they don't run for reelection, who's going to run in their places?
It's WAY easier to run an incumbent for reelection - even one who is breaking a campaign promise by doing do - than to run somebody else. Simple fact.
I just priced a set of components for a hypothetical kid's PC. IT came to around $300 for just the box. Add $100 for a cheap monitor and another $90 for an OEM version of WinXP Home from Ebay (maybe mwave has it cheaper), and we're looking at about $500 total.
So, pointing out my entire argument in the subject line triggers some lame-assed "lameness filter?" Sometimes what is in the subject line is all that needs to be said, did anybody at/. think about that?
1. New books will sell until there are enough used ones in the system to satisfy demand. Thus, Mr. Bigshot Pulpmaster still makes money.
2. Hardcover books made from cheap, expendable materials will not sell. People who spend $30 each on hardcovers want to put them on their bookshelves for display, not resell them on half.com.
3. Most mass-market paperbacks are already made from about the cheapest materials imaginable. What is truly incredible is that they still cost $8 a copy. By the way, I have crates of the damn things laying around the house; what am I to do with them, burn them?
4. The market for English-language literature is so vast that I doubt there are any writers out of work who shouldn't be doing something else anyway. If this were not the case, Barnes and Noble would have gone out of business ages ago, and Amazon would never have gotten venture capital.
5. If anything, half.com and the like are loss leaders. Readers are introduced to new authors, genre, etc., at a much lower initial investment, but you can bet that sooner or later, they'll be around to B&N, Borders, etc., VISA cards in hand. It's cheaper than advertising.
So, I think I've given enough evidence that it is best to leave well enough alone.
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DAVID: Yes, please.
MARTIN: So, I guess you're the new supertoy now. What kind of cool things can you do?
Spiderman was done by the numbers (IMHO).
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Spiderman does well because it's competition is scant at best. I liked Spiderman, but I have no urge to go see it again and again and again, shelling out seven or eight bucks each visit.
There was no new ground broken, no risks taken, and I thought the closing "flag" scene was excessively cheesy. It reminded me of several movies in a similar vein produced in the 1950's, among them the Superman series with George Reeves. There is definitely a place for a movie like that. It's called television.
I haven't seen SW-AOTC yet, but it must really suck to not be able to blow Spiderman out of the water.
This is what I call leadership! I was in the Army. Do you know what the relationship between officers and men is like? Example: You are in the field, and it's lunchtime. The first people to eat are the junior enlisted men, then the noncommissioned officers, than the brass. It's called taking care of people.
Lee Iococca worked for ONE DOLLAR during Chrysler's financial crisis. Forgoing a couple million dollars in salary isn't going to save a humongus corporation, but it does serve as an inspiring example when you are forced to ask your employees to make sacrifices. Of course, most CEO's never served in the Armed Services (many of them played the system during the draft in ways that would make you wish you never talked about Bill Clinton going to Oxford), so they wouldn't know anything about leading by example.
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This happened to me once. I bought a CD burner at Staples, only to get a 5.25/3.5 combo floppy drive in the box it came in - with a little paper sticker on it that said "HP DISK WRITER." I swear this box appeared from the outside to have been sealed at the factory just like the other ones. Staples exchanged it cheerfully, but still wondering how that happened.
It is or it ain't. Gingrich was a pioneer in passing stuff that was blatantly unconstitutional - bills banning flag burning, f'rinstance - for reasons other than actually banning this or that. Want to embarass the President of the United States? Send a bill to his desk banning some form of free speech which, while reprehensible, is still protected free speech. Want ammo to use on some member of the opposing party (Michael Dukakis, for example) should he want to run for President some day? Get him on the record opposing the aforementioned unconstitutional legislation and have a laugh while he goes on TV trying to explain to people that he opposed it because it was unconstitutional.
There is a good chance he's just trying to entice some Democrat to appear on Fox News Sunday and make an attempt to convince that asshat Chris Wallace that Gingrich is full of it. I'll go with the original assertion that he considers the Bill of Rights quaint and obsolete.
Lame. Heard this argument, if you could call it that, about a million times. Who really gives a damn about the strippers? I don't.
First they want to show more and more commercials, to the extent that they make up over 50% of the content, then they dive head-first into reality TV.
I don't mind shows like Survivor. I don't watch them, but that's me. My problem with reality TV is that it dominates the TV landscape to the extent that there is no longer anything for me to watch. They're slowly coming to the realization that not only am I not alone, but after they've made their quick buck, nothing they've produced is re-runable. No syndication, no more money.
How much money has been made on "Bewitched" over the past 40 years? Can you see the networks showing reruns of Survivor even five years from now, let alone on Nick At Nite in 2044? Disposable TV costs the networks money, and the jeniuses who run the networks are finally coming to realize that. Too bad most real TV fans have switched to HBO.
Find me somebody who pays more than half of a $40,000 gross income in taxes, and show me his tax returns. Methinks thou art full of it.
No, Howard Dean isn't Ike, but it could be argued that the Internet, while superior to television in many ways, hasn't reached wide enough acceptance to be used as a campaign medium.
At 40, I am at the outer edge of the Internet revolution, and this only because I have a son who is nearly 15 and eats this stuff for breakfast. Wait another four years, or eight even, and all of us who came of age during the Reagan administration will be grandparents, driving big cars very slowly, and voting in large numbers. THEN you can mount a credible campaign online, especially when our then-grown children are still living at home because they can't find a decent job.
You don't want to know how much snow is on the ground right now in upstate New York. Guaranteed, you'd get tired of driving in it, too.
New series starts March 7th after God only knows how long, for thirteen weeks. Maybe that's it; palm the whole thing off to HBO, where you get top writers, actors, producers, etc.
I'm generally in agreement with you, but at least Voyager had an underlying premise that lent itself to the sort of writing soap writers might do. I quite enjoyed Voyager starting with about mid-Season Three.
That being said, the reason the original series endures in spite of occasionally poor acting and dated special effects are the scripts. The people Roddenberry hired were top of the line. They produced landmark stories that continue to be the benchmarks for all that followed, both on television and on film.
By setting a lower speed limit, the municipality can generate revenue by ticketing drivers who drive with traffic, or drive at the "comfortable" speed.
Or, knowing that people are going to speed anyway, setting the limit 5-10 MPH below the graded limit keeps people from going too crazy-go-nuts.
Both kinds of municipalities exist; I've driven through both kinds 10 or so above the limit. In the former, they're just waiting for your ass, and you can tell because people are creeping along like they live in some Warsaw Pact regime or something. In the latter, if they catch you, you'll probably get a warning so long as you're not being an idiot.
I don't see it that way. What is a ballot? A list of names with checkboxes, right? We used to do it on a big sheet of paper, so why do we need a big, fat, bloated computer program to do the same thing?
The way I see it, it's a damn html form (or something like that). Why not do the whole thing in perl and be done with it. Want to check and see if your system is kosher? Easy. Do a diff from the distribution CD. Piece of cake. Hell, I can make something like that in a month or two.
http://www.jediism.org/
I suppose that makes them legit.
What if every slashdotter were to run a mass mailing program 24/7, send random bits (Lots of them) that no spam filter can catch. How long before the whole Internet crashes?
What a coincidence. I'm a recovering Republican. I made the switch in 1999 after the impeachment. All it took was one look at those small-minded morons running Congress to make me say, "no more for me, I'm driving."
Which group do you think was so dead-against campaign finance reform, election reform, social security reform (other than to set a torch to it), etc.?
The sooner those people are out of power, the better for all of us, Democrat, Republican, and Independent alike.
So what? Most of the Repig politicians do this. One that I remember from 2K was (thankfully) former Rep. Rick Lazio. I still get a kick out that; he outspent Hillary by 2:1, mostly with out of state money, and still got his ass handed to him. Bwa ha ha ha ha!
Yes, it's true. Most of the 13 year olds I see listen to what is usually considered "classic rock" than to the mass-produced pap the record industry puts out nowadays. The new stuff is just plain unlistenable.
I can see it now; in a couple of years, Time/Warner teams up with Pixar and produces the first-ever completely computer-generated "boy band," which will exist only as ones and zeroes, from the external appearances right down to the voices. Perhaps even the music itself would be computer-generated at some point, like Orwell's 1984 pulp novels.
This, of course, would generate massive revenue for Time/Warner, since there is no band to contract, no egos to massage, no drug problems to rehab, and no artists to pay royalties to. The music, however, would be superficial on a level not even Britney Spears has sunk to yet, and best of all (for the record company, not the consumer), disposable.
The state of CGI isn't that far away from the artificial boy band, folks.
The Senate wasn't 50/49/1 when he promised that, either. The conditions of the game have changed, and now Wellstone must run again for the good of his party (and the nation), unkeepable pledges not to run again be damned.
I bet you don't object to any of those House Republicans who are running against similar pledges made when they signed on to the Contract With America. Again, the GOP holds the house by a bare six seats - about the same percentage by which the Democrats hold the Senate. If they don't run for reelection, who's going to run in their places?
It's WAY easier to run an incumbent for reelection - even one who is breaking a campaign promise by doing do - than to run somebody else. Simple fact.
Error checking to counter user stupidity is basic first-year computer science.
I just priced a set of components for a hypothetical kid's PC. IT came to around $300 for just the box. Add $100 for a cheap monitor and another $90 for an OEM version of WinXP Home from Ebay (maybe mwave has it cheaper), and we're looking at about $500 total.
So, pointing out my entire argument in the subject line triggers some lame-assed "lameness filter?" Sometimes what is in the subject line is all that needs to be said, did anybody at /. think about that?
1. New books will sell until there are enough used ones in the system to satisfy demand. Thus, Mr. Bigshot Pulpmaster still makes money.
2. Hardcover books made from cheap, expendable materials will not sell. People who spend $30 each on hardcovers want to put them on their bookshelves for display, not resell them on half.com.
3. Most mass-market paperbacks are already made from about the cheapest materials imaginable. What is truly incredible is that they still cost $8 a copy. By the way, I have crates of the damn things laying around the house; what am I to do with them, burn them?
4. The market for English-language literature is so vast that I doubt there are any writers out of work who shouldn't be doing something else anyway. If this were not the case, Barnes and Noble would have gone out of business ages ago, and Amazon would never have gotten venture capital.
5. If anything, half.com and the like are loss leaders. Readers are introduced to new authors, genre, etc., at a much lower initial investment, but you can bet that sooner or later, they'll be around to B&N, Borders, etc., VISA cards in hand. It's cheaper than advertising.
So, I think I've given enough evidence that it is best to leave well enough alone.
but now he's old and stupid. You want him?
DAVID: Yes, please.
MARTIN: So, I guess you're the new supertoy now. What kind of cool things can you do?
Spiderman does well because it's competition is scant at best. I liked Spiderman, but I have no urge to go see it again and again and again, shelling out seven or eight bucks each visit.
There was no new ground broken, no risks taken, and I thought the closing "flag" scene was excessively cheesy. It reminded me of several movies in a similar vein produced in the 1950's, among them the Superman series with George Reeves. There is definitely a place for a movie like that. It's called television.
I haven't seen SW-AOTC yet, but it must really suck to not be able to blow Spiderman out of the water.
This is what I call leadership! I was in the Army. Do you know what the relationship between officers and men is like? Example: You are in the field, and it's lunchtime. The first people to eat are the junior enlisted men, then the noncommissioned officers, than the brass. It's called taking care of people.
Lee Iococca worked for ONE DOLLAR during Chrysler's financial crisis. Forgoing a couple million dollars in salary isn't going to save a humongus corporation, but it does serve as an inspiring example when you are forced to ask your employees to make sacrifices. Of course, most CEO's never served in the Armed Services (many of them played the system during the draft in ways that would make you wish you never talked about Bill Clinton going to Oxford), so they wouldn't know anything about leading by example.
Contingency savings accounts are supposed to be for hard luck, not getting screwed.