[i] I always wanted to round up a kindergarten class worth of children to act as my solar death squad.[/i]
Just make sure to weed out those ADD kids. Nothing is worse than being disentigrated by your own Kindergarden Solar Death Ray Squad(TM) just because one wants to play with a bug or something.
1) Don't have to reprint text books, thus US schools can keep using ones that state 'Someday, man may walk on the moon'/ 2) It was discovered by an American!
Mmmmm.... Is that the fresh smell of bitterness in the air?
"All this suggests the question... how many iPod-touting Slashdotters are thinking of switching?"
Apple is the epitome of closed-source PC hardware, and the performance per dollar margin is unreal. I think i'll pass, thanx.
Does make sense for the US
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So is that why whenever those little Portable DVD players drop below $100 on sale at Walmart, they're usually sold out by the end of the day? There shouldn't be any question as to whether there is demand for portable video all over the place. There is. It's plainly obvious.
The real question is whether Sony is offering it in an attractive enough package for people to buy [i]this[/i] product. I'm gonna say the will be successful, but I don't think that success will hinge on it's ability to playback video, frankly. People aren't going to run to the stores and drop $250 just for the device's ability to play Spiderman 2 on the go. The price point is all wrong for that function alone, but combined with everything else the PSP does- along with the ipod like design and marketing focus -I don't think it'll have a problem selling whatsoever.
But why we're focusing solely on it's ability to play movies to sell units when that's barely half it's function is beyond me in the first place.
What bothers me about this series the most is not the actors or the overall plot, just the way it was employed. What do i mean by this? Everything about this series is so close to reality, it barely warrents the term scifi. First, we have the plot device of the week, whose still beating bloddy heart was ripped from last weeks headlines. Witness: Heroic Woman has Breast Cancer and Copes! See: The Justified moral Terrorist! I mean can't we be a little more subtle than THIS?
Moving on from the weak plot, we have a series that is, for all intents and purposes the movie Wing Commander. Go on. Rent it sometime. The similarities are uncanny, and that's not a good thing IMHO. Add on to the fact that the technology is BARELY removed from todays capabilities, asidefrom the hyperdrive element. Fighters with reactionary manuuvering systems? The aircraft carrier in space? I mean hell, it's like a real life aricraft carrier (and i've worked on one). There is just NO suspension of disbelief here and there this series is TOTALLY divorsed from the orighinal Galactica. If they had named this show Wing Commander: the series, it'd be more acceptable, given the heritage, the name is nothing but a thinly veiled attempt at using a franchise name to get viewers.
Now I will give credit to the characters and the mood the writers created. They do a good job in their roles, and the writers have the dark, oppressive atmosphere nailed down perfectly. Again, if this were Wing Commander, it'd be just about perfect. Sadly, this highlight in an otherwise mismatched series goes to waste.
Frankly, I can't stand it, but then, I couldn't stand Stargate when it first began and absolutely love it today.
"Though honesty is important as well. Google's motto is do no wrong, and I for one am inclind to believe them."
The definition of "Wrong" of course being open to interpretation... And their rapid assimilation of third party web services into itself tends to give me poause before taking Google's statment at face value.
Maybe it's just my perception, but Beta's have increasingly become about what the developers think is wrong, not about what actually needs changed or about what is broke if it's against their core rational. It's also about agenda. They may have no intention of repairing some issues before the final product is shipped an you, the tester, will never know it as you continually do your best to make them aware of some back breaking issues, rendering Beta for all intents and purposes worthless from a participation standpoint. Obviously, I've taken a negative view of participation in Beta's as off late because I seem to be encountering more and more of these situations. It's not about what needs to be fixed anymore it would seem. As such, more than a few Beta's are there for nothing but product promotion and their participation user bragging rights.
"Well, the webserver is, at this exact point in time in this universe, unreachable. If your definition is assumed to be correct, that server is not part of this universe"
Then that would make my car a Trans- Quantum Dimensional Vehical, right?...Powered by a fossil liquid reator, no less ^_^
...And if you really want to go down the alternate universe path, why can't you just find an alternate universe that simply won't end through some offshoot physics paradigm?? Or one with severly retarted decay? Infinite possibilities right?
Actually, that was a rhetorical question because we all know anybody commenting on this subject is talking out their ass sideways, including the 'experts';p
...Meanwhile, piracy contiunes unabated in the popular Mongkok Computer Center. Somebody obviously didn't bribe the right offical, because this is a joke, quite honestly. Or maybe from the movie industry standpoint, somebody did bride the right offical.
Ok, so it may not equal t3h suX0rz, but I think Lucas has all made us sufficiently wary of that word as to equate the word "remake" to "buytheoriginalnowbecauseyou'llneverseeitagain"
Not being a slashdot physician and all, I have to ask... Why aren't the sides of peoples faces melting off? Really now, it sounds lucacris, but we have cellphone emitting obviously harmful radiation, but it's not causing skin cancer or any other malady... It's causing brain cancer. We're talking about a beam with enough power to punch through the skull and hame brain tissue, but nothing else. Shouldn't my highly sensitive optic nerves be turning to jelly too? Let's talk degredation of motor functions... No?
Look, I realize I could be totally off base here, but that's a pretty damn specific problem for beaming intense cell altering radiation into the head as cellphones supposively do.
Microsoft's entry into the anti-virus and anti-spyware businesses will be a disaster for users. This is based on everything I know about Microsoft, having watched the company for almost 28 years.
--Gee, why haven't more people noticed this trend!?
Carrying over from last year, I predict that Burst.com will beat Microsoft in their current lawsuit...Microsoft DID violate their patents, DID violate Burst's non-disclosure agreement, DID attempt to illegally put them out of business, and DID attempt to control the market.
--Don't strain yourself on this one, Bob...
The Recording Industries Association of America will continue to sue customers while their business slowly dissolves.
--That crystal ball of yours is really smoking now...
Sony's PS3 will be delayed yet again, giving a real advantage to xBox2 IF Microsoft can get it out the door this year in volume.
--Consoles? Delayed?? Are you fucking kidding me???
I mean COME ON NOW. Aside from the fact that we're "predicting" the glaringly obvious, how can you call it a prediction to begin with if you're building escape clasues into half your statements?! "Well, the market will crash... IF stock prices fall and IF frogs fall from the sky." Honestly, I can go to the fair grounds palm reader for this crap...
"Part of what I do is put the emphasis on how fast we respond," explains Robert Baker, Intel's top manufacturing executive
And it gives me goosebumps just wondering what the other part of his important job is... Aside from the fact that you should have been proactively whooping AMDs cache to begin with, not responding to their dominance.
Yes, of course they're making money off of this. It doesn't take a slashnot story to figure that one out. We're not exactly talking about breaking news here. And even so, do you really have a problem with that? I don't. And yes, they ask for personal information, but do you actually give it to them? I gave them an email address I can shut down at a moments notice. I gave them a creditcard that can't be used again. I don't mind giving out a physical address simply becasue these guys aren't interested in sending out real mail-- That costs money. It's not the MO of a spammer anyway.
Honestly, this story is a little lopsided in nature. Call me biased (see sig for details), but you don't have to play by their rules. I mean, God forbid you use that concept in say, a free email account? Not that they don't attempt to make cash off you either. Or how about slashdot adverts and the story self promotions you see occationally?*
Seriously, you play this game every day on the internet. Nothing changed just because it's a free ipod or because Slashdot all of a sudden became aware of it.
* No, I honestly don't care. Unlike some people I've accepted it as something that goes with the territory.
Ok, cell phones are evil and it damages your DNA... Again. There's just one thing bothering me though. If cell radiation is so bad for you, WHY ISN'T THE SIDE OF YOUR FACE FALLING OFF? Oh, that's right. This is that extra special radiation that somehow bypasses your skin, punches through bone and only affects the organ of the week. You'd think SKIN CANCER would be tops on the list of afflictions, followed by blindness as it slowly turns your optic nerve to JELLY.
I sure it did kill some cells and damage some DNA in a lab... Just like I'm sure the local environment does everyday. Not that we replace those millions of cells with new ones daily. Now I could accept something about killing braincells. You don't get those back easily so it's at least possible. But that's not the focus of this story, so if it's going to dmage DNA, it's going to damage DNA everywhere.
Why I see flesh rotting off the side of peoples faces as they walk by because of cellular DNA damage, I'll pay homage to this story. Until then it carries the same weight as global warming does-- Not much.
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How industry Spam is sustained? SEE SIG FOR DETAILS, w00t! w00t!
[i] I always wanted to round up a kindergarten class worth of children to act as my solar death squad.[/i]
Just make sure to weed out those ADD kids. Nothing is worse than being disentigrated by your own Kindergarden Solar Death Ray Squad(TM) just because one wants to play with a bug or something.
Isn't it tho? I got a better one now :)
"The goal of the Web site was to show the results of the targeted items when the solar death ray was used."
No, the goal of this site is to solicit money from while having fun destroying stuff. An admirable goal, mind you.
How the Spam Industry is Sustained
GOD, ISN'T OBVIOUS BY NOW??!?!?! Was I somehow teleported back to 1990 when this was actually news or am I reading slashdot?!? HELP MEEEE!!!
Dude! It's like made of cloth! Kinda hard to melt! Whoa!
1) Don't have to reprint text books, thus US schools can keep using ones that state 'Someday, man may walk on the moon'/
2) It was discovered by an American!
Mmmmm.... Is that the fresh smell of bitterness in the air?
"All this suggests the question ... how many iPod-touting Slashdotters are thinking of switching?"
Apple is the epitome of closed-source PC hardware, and the performance per dollar margin is unreal. I think i'll pass, thanx.
So is that why whenever those little Portable DVD players drop below $100 on sale at Walmart, they're usually sold out by the end of the day? There shouldn't be any question as to whether there is demand for portable video all over the place. There is. It's plainly obvious.
The real question is whether Sony is offering it in an attractive enough package for people to buy [i]this[/i] product. I'm gonna say the will be successful, but I don't think that success will hinge on it's ability to playback video, frankly. People aren't going to run to the stores and drop $250 just for the device's ability to play Spiderman 2 on the go. The price point is all wrong for that function alone, but combined with everything else the PSP does- along with the ipod like design and marketing focus -I don't think it'll have a problem selling whatsoever.
But why we're focusing solely on it's ability to play movies to sell units when that's barely half it's function is beyond me in the first place.
....Along with the fact that it "possibly" might indicate porn. Might have to monitor them a little longer, just to be sure.
What bothers me about this series the most is not the actors or the overall plot, just the way it was employed. What do i mean by this? Everything about this series is so close to reality, it barely warrents the term scifi. First, we have the plot device of the week, whose still beating bloddy heart was ripped from last weeks headlines. Witness: Heroic Woman has Breast Cancer and Copes! See: The Justified moral Terrorist! I mean can't we be a little more subtle than THIS?
Moving on from the weak plot, we have a series that is, for all intents and purposes the movie Wing Commander. Go on. Rent it sometime. The similarities are uncanny, and that's not a good thing IMHO. Add on to the fact that the technology is BARELY removed from todays capabilities, asidefrom the hyperdrive element. Fighters with reactionary manuuvering systems? The aircraft carrier in space? I mean hell, it's like a real life aricraft carrier (and i've worked on one). There is just NO suspension of disbelief here and there this series is TOTALLY divorsed from the orighinal Galactica. If they had named this show Wing Commander: the series, it'd be more acceptable, given the heritage, the name is nothing but a thinly veiled attempt at using a franchise name to get viewers.
Now I will give credit to the characters and the mood the writers created. They do a good job in their roles, and the writers have the dark, oppressive atmosphere nailed down perfectly. Again, if this were Wing Commander, it'd be just about perfect. Sadly, this highlight in an otherwise mismatched series goes to waste.
Frankly, I can't stand it, but then, I couldn't stand Stargate when it first began and absolutely love it today.
"Though honesty is important as well. Google's motto is do no wrong, and I for one am inclind to believe them."
The definition of "Wrong" of course being open to interpretation... And their rapid assimilation of third party web services into itself tends to give me poause before taking Google's statment at face value.
Maybe it's just my perception, but Beta's have increasingly become about what the developers think is wrong, not about what actually needs changed or about what is broke if it's against their core rational. It's also about agenda. They may have no intention of repairing some issues before the final product is shipped an you, the tester, will never know it as you continually do your best to make them aware of some back breaking issues, rendering Beta for all intents and purposes worthless from a participation standpoint. Obviously, I've taken a negative view of participation in Beta's as off late because I seem to be encountering more and more of these situations. It's not about what needs to be fixed anymore it would seem. As such, more than a few Beta's are there for nothing but product promotion and their participation user bragging rights.
"Well, the webserver is, at this exact point in time in this universe, unreachable. If your definition is assumed to be correct, that server is not part of this universe"
...Powered by a fossil liquid reator, no less ^_^
Then that would make my car a Trans- Quantum Dimensional Vehical, right?
...And if you really want to go down the alternate universe path, why can't you just find an alternate universe that simply won't end through some offshoot physics paradigm?? Or one with severly retarted decay? Infinite possibilities right?
;p
Actually, that was a rhetorical question because we all know anybody commenting on this subject is talking out their ass sideways, including the 'experts'
*I just felt like using "paradigm" in a sentance
1.5 billion? So I guess there was no "buy it now" option, huh?
And the spikes...Oooh! He won't be the only one needing that cream.
...Meanwhile, piracy contiunes unabated in the popular Mongkok Computer Center. Somebody obviously didn't bribe the right offical, because this is a joke, quite honestly. Or maybe from the movie industry standpoint, somebody did bride the right offical.
Ok, so it may not equal t3h suX0rz, but I think Lucas has all made us sufficiently wary of that word as to equate the word "remake" to "buytheoriginalnowbecauseyou'llneverseeitagain"
Not being a slashdot physician and all, I have to ask... Why aren't the sides of peoples faces melting off? Really now, it sounds lucacris, but we have cellphone emitting obviously harmful radiation, but it's not causing skin cancer or any other malady... It's causing brain cancer. We're talking about a beam with enough power to punch through the skull and hame brain tissue, but nothing else. Shouldn't my highly sensitive optic nerves be turning to jelly too? Let's talk degredation of motor functions... No?
Look, I realize I could be totally off base here, but that's a pretty damn specific problem for beaming intense cell altering radiation into the head as cellphones supposively do.
Microsoft's entry into the anti-virus and anti-spyware businesses will be a disaster for users. This is based on everything I know about Microsoft, having watched the company for almost 28 years.
--Gee, why haven't more people noticed this trend!?
Carrying over from last year, I predict that Burst.com will beat Microsoft in their current lawsuit...Microsoft DID violate their patents, DID violate Burst's non-disclosure agreement, DID attempt to illegally put them out of business, and DID attempt to control the market.
--Don't strain yourself on this one, Bob...
The Recording Industries Association of America will continue to sue customers while their business slowly dissolves.
--That crystal ball of yours is really smoking now...
Sony's PS3 will be delayed yet again, giving a real advantage to xBox2 IF Microsoft can get it out the door this year in volume.
--Consoles? Delayed?? Are you fucking kidding me???
I mean COME ON NOW. Aside from the fact that we're "predicting" the glaringly obvious, how can you call it a prediction to begin with if you're building escape clasues into half your statements?! "Well, the market will crash... IF stock prices fall and IF frogs fall from the sky." Honestly, I can go to the fair grounds palm reader for this crap...
Aside from just being plain ass-ugly (I like how he added the blue light.. Kinda like a NuSpeed sticker on a Pinto), it's pretty nifty. Or something.
"Part of what I do is put the emphasis on how fast we respond," explains Robert Baker, Intel's top manufacturing executive
And it gives me goosebumps just wondering what the other part of his important job is... Aside from the fact that you should have been proactively whooping AMDs cache to begin with, not responding to their dominance.
Yes, of course they're making money off of this. It doesn't take a slashnot story to figure that one out. We're not exactly talking about breaking news here. And even so, do you really have a problem with that? I don't. And yes, they ask for personal information, but do you actually give it to them? I gave them an email address I can shut down at a moments notice. I gave them a creditcard that can't be used again. I don't mind giving out a physical address simply becasue these guys aren't interested in sending out real mail-- That costs money. It's not the MO of a spammer anyway.
Honestly, this story is a little lopsided in nature. Call me biased (see sig for details), but you don't have to play by their rules. I mean, God forbid you use that concept in say, a free email account? Not that they don't attempt to make cash off you either. Or how about slashdot adverts and the story self promotions you see occationally?*
Seriously, you play this game every day on the internet. Nothing changed just because it's a free ipod or because Slashdot all of a sudden became aware of it.
* No, I honestly don't care. Unlike some people I've accepted it as something that goes with the territory.
Ok, cell phones are evil and it damages your DNA... Again. There's just one thing bothering me though. If cell radiation is so bad for you, WHY ISN'T THE SIDE OF YOUR FACE FALLING OFF? Oh, that's right. This is that extra special radiation that somehow bypasses your skin, punches through bone and only affects the organ of the week. You'd think SKIN CANCER would be tops on the list of afflictions, followed by blindness as it slowly turns your optic nerve to JELLY.
I sure it did kill some cells and damage some DNA in a lab... Just like I'm sure the local environment does everyday. Not that we replace those millions of cells with new ones daily. Now I could accept something about killing braincells. You don't get those back easily so it's at least possible. But that's not the focus of this story, so if it's going to dmage DNA, it's going to damage DNA everywhere.
Why I see flesh rotting off the side of peoples faces as they walk by because of cellular DNA damage, I'll pay homage to this story. Until then it carries the same weight as global warming does-- Not much.