"He said the IE modifications spelled out by Microsoft, which will reportedly disrupt the way online advertising and streaming media content is delivered over the Internet, is an inconvenience users could do without."
I, for one, welcome our patent subverting, advertising and streaming media content disrupting overlords.
"because you know, slashdot users are the coveted "basement recluse" demographic which lawn care vendors have been trying so hard to reach..."
Yes, that's funny and all, but since it seems some of them do read books (even Hemos apparently), and tend to dislike Walmart, giving the book a nice plug here seems to target the demographic of Walmart-hating book-readers the author/publisher is after.
[T]he GPL encourages, rather than discourages, free competition and the distribution of computer operating systems, the benefits of which directly pass to consumers. These benefits include lower prices, better access and more innovation
Having your case dismissed while simultaneously strengthening the GPL.... priceless.
"The proper use of American Cheese singles is on (and only on) an american hotdog or grilled hamburger. For this, properly melted on a still hot hotdog, it is perfect is ways that no foreigner can truly understand."
Actually, you forgot the other use of American Cheese singles.
"So what happens when you spill coffee on it? half joking, but half serious too... I have two small children, my guess it this wouldn't last 5 minutes in my house!"
Oh yeah? I have 3 (all boys). I bet *my* kids could destroy it in only 2 minutes.
Seriously though, this does look very cool. Would be a great way to play Risk.
I don't know, I guess. Listen, I'm gonna go and get back to work (they say I've been missing alot of it lately). It's been great posting here and going WAY off topic.
Do you also give fake address information when you buy DVDs online, then?
No wonder I never receive my online merchandise. Thanks for pointing that out.
I'm not saying I agree with the practice of requiring customers to provide the info unnecessarily. However, I do find it ironic that we will refuse to give personal info to someone who we are looking at face-to-face, but give it happily to a nameless, faceless online "storefront". Obviously, not everyone buys things online. But to those who do, quit being such hypocrites.
How is this hypocritical? I give relevant information to the people who need it. Clearly, the local retail establishment doesn't *need* this information, they just want it.
If they recognized the fact that some people don't want to give out personal information unnecessarily (granted, some places do allow you to simply say NO), then people wouldn't have to resort to giving out bogus information to maintain some sense of privacy.
And "Sorry, I don't give that information out." doe s*not* work every time. I have been in many stores whene they said they had to have the information for the reciept, it was required. At which point I give them fake information.
Agreed. Same thing happened to me at Circuit City during the holidays. Just buying a couple of DVD and video games for the kids. The guy insisted on having my name and address, which I declined to give. The register had no way to indicate "customer cares about privacy" and the guy had to struggle to make up something that it would accept. I actually had to help him out.... "How about 123 Main Street?"
I have no problem giving my zipcode for the market research BS, but I'll be damned if I'm going to give out my address and phone number to buy a few DVDs.
"And you thought getting Copacabana stuck in your head now was bad...."
Well, hopefully by the time we have the technology to download music directly to our brain, we'll also have the technology to delete it. Unfortunately, that technology doesn't exist today...... so THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR THAT!!!
Sing it with me..... "at the Copa.... Copacabana....."
Slashdot Mirror
"He said the IE modifications spelled out by Microsoft, which will reportedly disrupt the way online advertising and streaming media content is delivered over the Internet, is an inconvenience users could do without."
I, for one, welcome our patent subverting, advertising and streaming media content disrupting overlords.
"because you know, slashdot users are the coveted "basement recluse" demographic which lawn care vendors have been trying so hard to reach..."
Yes, that's funny and all, but since it seems some of them do read books (even Hemos apparently), and tend to dislike Walmart,
giving the book a nice plug here seems to target the demographic of Walmart-hating book-readers the author/publisher is after.
"...has recently published a book entitled The Man Who Said No To Wal-mart."
Re:And???
Apparently you've never seen a slashvertisement before.
That is pure evil! (*snicker*)
So, did the pizza place eventually go out of business because of their rumored "crappy service"?
Just take 2 pens, jam one in your ear, the other in your eye.
I will look and sound about the same, but be less painful.
I doubt your 8 year old son knows that Apple is the Beatles record label.
*explains to son about Apple Records*
"Dad, what's a record?"
void main(){
/* FIXME: enable A20 and enter protected mode */
printf( "goodbye cruel world!\n" );
for(;;);
}
[T]he GPL encourages, rather than discourages, free competition and the distribution of computer operating systems, the benefits of which directly pass to consumers. These benefits include lower prices, better access and more innovation
Having your case dismissed while simultaneously strengthening the GPL.... priceless.
"I wonder if I could get all slash-dotters to go along with a massive download of Milli Vanilli songs just to throw them off?"
What do you mean "get us to go along with..."?
Doesn't everyone like Milli Vanilli?
Why are looking at me like that?
"My personal opinion is that is was like developing an easy to use automobile which didn't need driving lessons."
Sure, you could use it to get around pretty easily, but there were a hell of a lot of crashes.
"I'm VERY curious to how they plan to eliminate lag introduced by routers that they have no control over."
By getting the routers to support the NO_LAG bit, of course.
> People want election results fast
I disagree.
We may be told that we want results fast, but really we want them accurate.
Absolutely. The only people that want faster results are the news media.
Besides, a little inaccuracy makes a great news story, so its a bonus.
I'm perfectly content to hear about it the next day.
"Apparently she had been filing things in her Trash folder for years."
Not that unusual really. I file most memos from my boss in the trash. Doesn't everyone?
"The proper use of American Cheese singles is on (and only on) an american hotdog or grilled hamburger. For this, properly melted on a still hot hotdog, it is perfect is ways that no foreigner can truly understand."
Actually, you forgot the other use of American Cheese singles.
"Until someone comes out with a bluetooth headset that doesn't look like I've strapped a clothespin on my ear, it ain't happnin."
Resistance is futile. You will be assimilated.
(BTW, I totally agree with you)
"What's AOL?"
Any One Left?
"A coffee table with a stain memory -- think of the uses."
Or a dress...
"It's the ultimate master control console"
No more lost remotes!
"So what happens when you spill coffee on it? half joking, but half serious too... I have two small children, my guess it this wouldn't last 5 minutes in my house!"
Oh yeah? I have 3 (all boys). I bet *my* kids could destroy it in only 2 minutes.
Seriously though, this does look very cool. Would be a great way to play Risk.
I don't know, I guess. Listen, I'm gonna go and get back to work (they say I've been missing alot of it lately).
It's been great posting here and going WAY off topic.
"Does this article remind anybody of when Peter got the promotion, and Michael and Samir got layed off?"
It's not that I'm too lazy to RTFA, it's that I just don't care.
Do you also give fake address information when you buy DVDs online, then?
No wonder I never receive my online merchandise. Thanks for pointing that out.
I'm not saying I agree with the practice of requiring customers to provide the info unnecessarily. However, I do find it ironic that we will refuse to give personal info to someone who we are looking at face-to-face, but give it happily to a nameless, faceless online "storefront". Obviously, not everyone buys things online. But to those who do, quit being such hypocrites.
How is this hypocritical? I give relevant information to the people who need it. Clearly, the local retail establishment doesn't *need* this information, they just want it.
If they recognized the fact that some people don't want to give out personal information unnecessarily (granted, some places do allow you to simply say NO), then people wouldn't have to resort to giving out bogus information to maintain some sense of privacy.
And "Sorry, I don't give that information out." doe s*not* work every time. I have been in many stores whene they said they had to have the information for the reciept, it was required. At which point I give them fake information.
Agreed. Same thing happened to me at Circuit City during the holidays. Just buying a couple of DVD and video games for the kids.
The guy insisted on having my name and address, which I declined to give. The register had no way to indicate "customer cares about privacy"
and the guy had to struggle to make up something that it would accept. I actually had to help him out.... "How about 123 Main Street?"
I have no problem giving my zipcode for the market research BS, but I'll be damned if I'm going to give out my address and phone number to buy a few DVDs.
"I think the copyright holders are going to KILL psychical media far faster than it otherwise would..."
So the movie studios are like Ghostbusters?
"And you thought getting Copacabana stuck in your head now was bad...."
Well, hopefully by the time we have the technology to download music directly to our brain, we'll also have the technology to delete it.
Unfortunately, that technology doesn't exist today...... so THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR THAT!!!
Sing it with me..... "at the Copa.... Copacabana....."