I guess you used flint stones in place of spark plugs?
Technically, you could have a car without spark plugs. It's called diesel. Granted, many diesel cars have "glow plugs" which are basically a way to heat things up so the damn thing can start when it's cold outside, but it's not required to operate the diesel cycle. I'm sure the original poster simply forgot spark plugs, but please realize that they aren't strictly neccesary.
Yeah, it's almost like the slashdot editors are allowed to voice their own views and not follow a company line set out by the people who own the site. Imagine that, editorial freedom in a news site! What a novel idea!
And what percentage will actually get these adjustments? Much like the concept of the rebate, after-the-fact discounts work so well because not everyone redeems them. If it's automatically credited, which I doubt, that single example of Apple's marketing might not be relevant anymore. This does not by any means prove that my overall statement about Apple's marketing genius is wrong; it simply shows that I might not have given the best example.
This is the genius of Apple's marketing. Not only do they make their products desired, they make you believe you HAVE to get one right away. Look at what they did with the Mini - denied its existence for months, released it and blew everyone's mind. THEN comes the really smart part, they let all the rabid fans snatch one up for a week, then change their pricing scheme to sweeten the deal a bit for the people who are still on the fence. Some people claim Apple were a bunch of idiots for setting the prices too high to start. I say they are sly as a fox, earning those extra margins for the gotta-have-it-now crowd, THEN bringing even MORE people in with the "oh its such a great deal I definitely gotta get one now!" effect. Blunder my ass, Apple has an ability to manipulate its customers that any marketroid would drool over.
The scary thing is, I've always been a PC Linux guy, but after my advisor bought us a round of ibooks to do our coding (computational physics) I think I'm on the path to turning into a mac zealot. Chalk up another win for Apple.
Have you ever actually READ anything RMS wrote, or do your form your opinion of him based solely on slashdot comments? He has supported many other licenses in the past, and does NOT trash people solely for not using the GPL. What he DOES do, is take people to task for being shady with what they are doing. A good example is the KDE/gnome issue a few years back. His concern was with the QT license being incomptible with the GPL, which was being used with KDE. In this case, he's pointing out how Sun's doing something sneaky while trying to pretend they are doing the Right Thing (tm). He's not blasting them for their license, he's blasting them for acting like they are doing something they aren't.
I'm a Blue State American trapped in a Red State, you insensitive clod!
Plus, I do want my football, beer, and lets throw some strippers in there for good measure. You don't have to be a redneck to like loosely structured violence, cheap liquor, and tig ole biddies.
Actually, the shooting down of the competitor's product was done by michael, not the article submitter. Nice try playing on a slashdot cliche' though. What was that slash-meme-of-the-week? "You fail it"?
So stop your karma-whoring and go back into your troll box..
It's a joke. Laugh.
Seriously, get off your fucking high horse and quit trying to refute a point that wasn't even made. Look how many stories and discussions we have on slashdot about outsourcing to india. It's only natural to want to crack a joke about outsourcing to india in this article. If anyone is a karma whore or a troll here, it's you, for trying to start a big argument WHEN THERE ISN'T ONE. It's a joke for fuck's sake. Take your methadone and calm down.
Non-violent criminals should be treated different, and then circumstances taken into account. Stealing excluded.
Where's the borderline for stealing? Physically taking goods from someone else? From a store? Hacking someone's bank account and draining it? What makes it stealing? The fact that it takes money or items away from someone else? If that's the case, a worm could be some of the worst stealing possible. You have the potential to cost people thousands, even millions, of dollars. Is it only stealing if you benefit from it? How is taking someone's money one way different from taking it another way? I really don't see why stealing should be such a special case. Nothing is that simple and cut-and-dry that you can say something like "Stealing excluded"
I was about to say the same thing, but you beat me to it. Saying google invented spidering is like saying Apple invented the mp3 player. Sure they might have the most popular, and maybe even well designed implementation, but it was far from an original concept.
Only the very evilist of enemies can deserve such unmerciful shootage. The only two known creatures of this type are Satanists and Nazis (and its no coincidence that idsoftware uses them both)
BAH! I can think of lots more. Vegetarians, republicans, that bitch at the DMV who takes two hours to process the three people in line in front of me....
And no single country will be capable of claiming and controlling all of the asteroids... there are too many of them and it would take a space navy 3x (or more) the size of the U.S. Navy, in terms of capital warships and space "sailors".
What the...
Where in the world did you get this utterly arbitrary number 3? You're talking about things that separated by many orders of magnitude more than the size of the earth. 3? 3???
The only reason I can possibly think of for the arbitrary choice of the number 3 is that space would require patrolling a three dimensional space, wheras the ocean is essentially two dimensional. So does that mean we should really need 3/2 as large a navy? Or maybe because it's a question of surface area versus volume, it should be some ratio of powers? Either way, I'm completely boggled by your choice of the number 3, and therefore am forced to believe the rest of your post is most likely utter nonsense as well.
You know it really says something about the slashdot moderation system that you had to explain this joke, in fear that mods-on-crack without a clue would mod you down as offtopic or some other such nonsense. I have mod points right now, but decided to comment on the abysmal state of the mod system instead.
Kind of like publix? I've never seen a publix that's anything more than a run of the mill grocery store. Meijer is more akin to a wal-mart supercenter, with a few more teeth.
The game was covering bandwidth costs, it just wasn't turning much of a profit. Due to the very low player base and VERRRRRRRY old codebase, it didn't require all THAT much bandwidth to run compared to modern games like eq. I played the game comfortably with little lag dialed in using a cell phone as an analog modem. It's true that the game does appeal to newer players better... as I said, for about six months. The previous incarnation of the game had players who had been loyal for OVER TEN YEARS. Most who played it believed it was the oldest continually running MMORPG still in operation. With the new setup I doubt it will have the sort of player loyalty needed to exist anywhere near that long.
For many years, I played a small MMORPG called Drakkar. Drak had a couple hundred players, a well established social structure, and in general a great community of people to play with. There was great respect for the few players who had the dedication to master the game, and these players generally acted in an honorable fashion to inspire others to do the same. The game went through several changes of hands, as with such a low subscriber base it was far from a money maker. Eventually it wound up back in the hands of its original creator, who had become an EQ addict since selling the game off. He saw the success of EQ and saw dollars and cents, so started changing the game. Balances were destroyed, characters were nerfed, advancement was greatly speeded, massive sections were added to the game...
And it no longer "felt" like Drakkar. Old-time players left in droves. Players who had been dedicated to this game, building characters for YEARS, left in disgust. The Drakkar community now had quick turnover, rude players, no social structure... everything that made it a great game was gone. Yes, there were more subscriptions, yes it might have been making money, but the game itself started to suck. Now, people start and might play for six months, then get bored. New players are the only thing keeping subscriptions up, and as the graphics and engine become more dated and bloated, the game will undoubtedly die. If it had kept its original flavor, I have a feeling the old-time dedicated players, such as myself, would have stayed with it for many years to come, and while not profiting, the game would have survived as an example of the really cool communities that can develop on the internet. Now, it's just another example of a big pile of filth thrown out there to milk a percieved cash cow. Shame, really... it was a great game, once.
Um, there's a difference between "not getting your way" and realizing that you are in for four years of hard ass fucking by a redneck who has already fucked this country more than it has ever been fucked.
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I guess you used flint stones in place of spark plugs?
Technically, you could have a car without spark plugs. It's called diesel. Granted, many diesel cars have "glow plugs" which are basically a way to heat things up so the damn thing can start when it's cold outside, but it's not required to operate the diesel cycle. I'm sure the original poster simply forgot spark plugs, but please realize that they aren't strictly neccesary.
Are all American programs like this, or just Fox?
Eh... sort of. Most American news programs are shitty, but shitty in their own special way.
Yeah, it's almost like the slashdot editors are allowed to voice their own views and not follow a company line set out by the people who own the site. Imagine that, editorial freedom in a news site! What a novel idea!
And what percentage will actually get these adjustments? Much like the concept of the rebate, after-the-fact discounts work so well because not everyone redeems them. If it's automatically credited, which I doubt, that single example of Apple's marketing might not be relevant anymore. This does not by any means prove that my overall statement about Apple's marketing genius is wrong; it simply shows that I might not have given the best example.
This is the genius of Apple's marketing. Not only do they make their products desired, they make you believe you HAVE to get one right away. Look at what they did with the Mini - denied its existence for months, released it and blew everyone's mind. THEN comes the really smart part, they let all the rabid fans snatch one up for a week, then change their pricing scheme to sweeten the deal a bit for the people who are still on the fence. Some people claim Apple were a bunch of idiots for setting the prices too high to start. I say they are sly as a fox, earning those extra margins for the gotta-have-it-now crowd, THEN bringing even MORE people in with the "oh its such a great deal I definitely gotta get one now!" effect. Blunder my ass, Apple has an ability to manipulate its customers that any marketroid would drool over.
The scary thing is, I've always been a PC Linux guy, but after my advisor bought us a round of ibooks to do our coding (computational physics) I think I'm on the path to turning into a mac zealot. Chalk up another win for Apple.
Speaking as a man, I can think of something else I do can only do 8 times, which takes roughly as minute, after which I'm ready for a nap.
I wonder why I'm single...
Have you ever actually READ anything RMS wrote, or do your form your opinion of him based solely on slashdot comments? He has supported many other licenses in the past, and does NOT trash people solely for not using the GPL. What he DOES do, is take people to task for being shady with what they are doing. A good example is the KDE/gnome issue a few years back. His concern was with the QT license being incomptible with the GPL, which was being used with KDE. In this case, he's pointing out how Sun's doing something sneaky while trying to pretend they are doing the Right Thing (tm). He's not blasting them for their license, he's blasting them for acting like they are doing something they aren't.
I'm a Blue State American trapped in a Red State, you insensitive clod!
Plus, I do want my football, beer, and lets throw some strippers in there for good measure. You don't have to be a redneck to like loosely structured violence, cheap liquor, and tig ole biddies.
Actually, the shooting down of the competitor's product was done by michael, not the article submitter. Nice try playing on a slashdot cliche' though. What was that slash-meme-of-the-week? "You fail it"?
So stop your karma-whoring and go back into your troll box..
It's a joke. Laugh.
Seriously, get off your fucking high horse and quit trying to refute a point that wasn't even made. Look how many stories and discussions we have on slashdot about outsourcing to india. It's only natural to want to crack a joke about outsourcing to india in this article. If anyone is a karma whore or a troll here, it's you, for trying to start a big argument WHEN THERE ISN'T ONE. It's a joke for fuck's sake. Take your methadone and calm down.
Non-violent criminals should be treated different, and then circumstances taken into account. Stealing excluded.
Where's the borderline for stealing? Physically taking goods from someone else? From a store? Hacking someone's bank account and draining it? What makes it stealing? The fact that it takes money or items away from someone else? If that's the case, a worm could be some of the worst stealing possible. You have the potential to cost people thousands, even millions, of dollars. Is it only stealing if you benefit from it? How is taking someone's money one way different from taking it another way? I really don't see why stealing should be such a special case. Nothing is that simple and cut-and-dry that you can say something like "Stealing excluded"
Yeah, it's going to be the only launch platform for duke nukem forever
...instructions for downloading usenet porn
*TAKES NOTES*
C'mon, not all of us know how to use usenet.
Thank you for the valuable service you've provided.
I was about to say the same thing, but you beat me to it. Saying google invented spidering is like saying Apple invented the mp3 player. Sure they might have the most popular, and maybe even well designed implementation, but it was far from an original concept.
Only the very evilist of enemies can deserve such unmerciful shootage. The only two known creatures of this type are Satanists and Nazis (and its no coincidence that idsoftware uses them both)
BAH! I can think of lots more. Vegetarians, republicans, that bitch at the DMV who takes two hours to process the three people in line in front of me....
IMO, more people are 'addicted' to TV than to cigarettes, crack, food, tentacle rape, and opossum fishing COMBINED!
Come on now, honestly...
Crack, food, cigarettes, and even opossum fishing I can believe...
But tentacle rape? NOTHING is more addicting than tentacle rape.
And no single country will be capable of claiming and controlling all of the asteroids... there are too many of them and it would take a space navy 3x (or more) the size of the U.S. Navy, in terms of capital warships and space "sailors".
What the...
Where in the world did you get this utterly arbitrary number 3? You're talking about things that separated by many orders of magnitude more than the size of the earth. 3? 3???
The only reason I can possibly think of for the arbitrary choice of the number 3 is that space would require patrolling a three dimensional space, wheras the ocean is essentially two dimensional. So does that mean we should really need 3/2 as large a navy? Or maybe because it's a question of surface area versus volume, it should be some ratio of powers? Either way, I'm completely boggled by your choice of the number 3, and therefore am forced to believe the rest of your post is most likely utter nonsense as well.
You know it really says something about the slashdot moderation system that you had to explain this joke, in fear that mods-on-crack without a clue would mod you down as offtopic or some other such nonsense. I have mod points right now, but decided to comment on the abysmal state of the mod system instead.
Kind of like publix? I've never seen a publix that's anything more than a run of the mill grocery store. Meijer is more akin to a wal-mart supercenter, with a few more teeth.
In muslim iraq, redneck invades YOU
Following the links in the article is too much work, eh?
You must be new here.
yes, there's a cologne by the same name... I'm not sure which came first, but it made it a real bitch to google for websites with tips about the game.
The game was covering bandwidth costs, it just wasn't turning much of a profit. Due to the very low player base and VERRRRRRRY old codebase, it didn't require all THAT much bandwidth to run compared to modern games like eq. I played the game comfortably with little lag dialed in using a cell phone as an analog modem. It's true that the game does appeal to newer players better... as I said, for about six months. The previous incarnation of the game had players who had been loyal for OVER TEN YEARS. Most who played it believed it was the oldest continually running MMORPG still in operation. With the new setup I doubt it will have the sort of player loyalty needed to exist anywhere near that long.
For many years, I played a small MMORPG called Drakkar. Drak had a couple hundred players, a well established social structure, and in general a great community of people to play with. There was great respect for the few players who had the dedication to master the game, and these players generally acted in an honorable fashion to inspire others to do the same. The game went through several changes of hands, as with such a low subscriber base it was far from a money maker. Eventually it wound up back in the hands of its original creator, who had become an EQ addict since selling the game off. He saw the success of EQ and saw dollars and cents, so started changing the game. Balances were destroyed, characters were nerfed, advancement was greatly speeded, massive sections were added to the game...
And it no longer "felt" like Drakkar. Old-time players left in droves. Players who had been dedicated to this game, building characters for YEARS, left in disgust. The Drakkar community now had quick turnover, rude players, no social structure... everything that made it a great game was gone. Yes, there were more subscriptions, yes it might have been making money, but the game itself started to suck. Now, people start and might play for six months, then get bored. New players are the only thing keeping subscriptions up, and as the graphics and engine become more dated and bloated, the game will undoubtedly die. If it had kept its original flavor, I have a feeling the old-time dedicated players, such as myself, would have stayed with it for many years to come, and while not profiting, the game would have survived as an example of the really cool communities that can develop on the internet. Now, it's just another example of a big pile of filth thrown out there to milk a percieved cash cow. Shame, really... it was a great game, once.
because you didn't get your way
Um, there's a difference between "not getting your way" and realizing that you are in for four years of hard ass fucking by a redneck who has already fucked this country more than it has ever been fucked.