Consider that, at the time they saw the pilot of Star Trek in 1966, the heavy thinkers at NBC rejected it for being "too cerebral".
This is the same network that aired such intellectual fare as the Adam West "Batman" series, "Rocket Robin Hood" and "Mr. Magoo". CBS's "Lost in Space" was as hard as television science fiction got at that time. If "Star Trek" disappointed, it was because it was aired during a disappointing decade for television.
A fourth, and more satisfying alternative, is to simply start a rumour that the cracks for HL2 have actually been placed there by you, and that they contain back-doors which will do nasty things to your computer, make the ice cream in your freezer go bad and even have sex with your grandmother.
Telling everybody that there is a sting operation is the best thing you can do, short of actually running a sting, if your goal is just to scare people away from using the cracks and get them to be good little boys and girls who will continue to connect to Steam every time they play.
Why try to catch people who break your rules if it's easier to convince them not to?
Will Disney be getting back into good animation again? After the debacle with Treasure Planet it seems to me that they have decided to forgo the idea of continuing the good flms. If they are going to focus their efforts on crap it does make sense to sever ties with Pixar. If their future is in crap then they need to increase their in-house experience in this realm. It seems a shame to stop the good stuff, but kids obviously prefer the crap. Disney is not about making art, and they know it, they are an entertainment company that churns out the stuff that sells.
So, if I'm watching TV while sitting in a wheelchair -- Let's say it's an electric wheelchair, just so there's no misunderstanding -- and I leave the room to get a drink when a particularly annoying commercial comes on, does that mean I am "using technology to skip objectionable content", which would be legal, or
commiting a prohibited act by using an electronic device to help me not watch the advertisements?
If I have an orange security clearance, am I allowed to watch yellow commercials?
It's sad to think that EA was founded by programmers who were tired of being faceless drones at a big corporation and wanted to start their own company which would give them the recognition they deserved.
It would be ironic (and a little bit confusing, since there already is a company using that name) if some of EA's top people left in protest of this kind of crap and founded a small studio called 'Atari'.
Perhaps you should take a trip to Manhattan then. People on the street are selling very authentic looking VHS copies of movies which haven't been released to video yet.
Usually their entire "storefront" is a small case that can be easily picked up if they need to run somewhere, but I haven't seen anybody ever get busted for it.
I think what you meant to say was "anyone can use the name 'Huckleberry Finn' in their works, but in a few years the copyright term will be extended to prevent anyone from using 'Mickey Mouse'."
That's the way it has worked for the past century, and it doesn't look like it's going to change any time soon.
I think the missing step 2 is "Ditch LucasArts", since they have been credited with crushing the other half of Star Wars Galaxies that SOE hasn't killed.
Once there is nobody left developing it, things should start looking up.
This becomes a bigger problem when you have more than a handful of vacation photos.
NASA filled several volkswagens worth of magnetic tape with images and data from the 1976 Viking missions to Mars, but lost more than 20% of it due to tape decay. You can't just run out and buy a new hard drive to back that all up on, although they did try.
At one point during the effort to preserve old data, it was remarked that the tapes were degrading faster than they could be copied.
But what do you do with all that data once you have rescued it from disaster? You throw it on a shelf and wait until it is about to expire again while you move on to collect even more data. Eventually you will wind up as the modern day equivalent of medieval archivists who spent their entire lives trying make copies of books before they rotted away, only to start over again at the beginning as the first copies they made start to fade away.
What happens when you slip? What happens to a set of old CDs that get lost during a move, only to be found by your children when they are sorting through your attic after your death? Or what happens when the government decides that they can save some money by cutting back "wasteful" spending on data libraries?
It's all gone. Welcome to the Library of Alexandria. Please, no smoking in the stacks.
Or did you mean there was a tiny, discrete ad for suicidegirls.com in the bottom right corner of the page? It's a good thing that slashdot would never do that.
Mail-in rebates are just a way for retailers to scam customers. If they were serious about giving rebates, honestly expected people to receive them and actually gave a damn about their customers they would reduce the ticket price instead. That would take care of all of their problems with returns.
Really, if Best Buy was so concerned about customers buying things from them cheaply, perhaps they shouldn't sell them that way.
These 'devil customers' are only playing the game according to Best Buy's rules. Best Buy made the rules, and I have no sympathy for them.
"Since Laptops can be hit and miss with Linux compatibility, I actually got the manager at Best Buy to write me a guarantee that if Linux would not install correctly (and simply) I could return the laptop with no restocking fee."
Well, what happened when you returned it?
It's nice that you received a scrap of paper with some handwriting on it, but those aren't any good if nobody will honour them. I have had salespeople promise me the moon and stars in the past, but that doesn't mean I will ever get them.
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It doesn't sound like this will be it, though.
Why else would Raimi make this movie again, again?
This is the same network that aired such intellectual fare as the Adam West "Batman" series, "Rocket Robin Hood" and "Mr. Magoo". CBS's "Lost in Space" was as hard as television science fiction got at that time. If "Star Trek" disappointed, it was because it was aired during a disappointing decade for television.
What more would you want a pad to do?
A fourth, and more satisfying alternative, is to simply start a rumour that the cracks for HL2 have actually been placed there by you, and that they contain back-doors which will do nasty things to your computer, make the ice cream in your freezer go bad and even have sex with your grandmother.
Telling everybody that there is a sting operation is the best thing you can do, short of actually running a sting, if your goal is just to scare people away from using the cracks and get them to be good little boys and girls who will continue to connect to Steam every time they play.
Why try to catch people who break your rules if it's easier to convince them not to?
The sucking that a Pixar-less Toy Story sequel would do will probably only be measurable in kilo-lovelaces.
Will Disney be getting back into good animation again? After the debacle with Treasure Planet it seems to me that they have decided to forgo the idea of continuing the good flms. If they are going to focus their efforts on crap it does make sense to sever ties with Pixar. If their future is in crap then they need to increase their in-house experience in this realm. It seems a shame to stop the good stuff, but kids obviously prefer the crap. Disney is not about making art, and they know it, they are an entertainment company that churns out the stuff that sells.
Hope this helps.
Take care of yourself. Don't mess around with your health. Remember that you can't check out an older version of yourself from CVS if things go wrong.
The pick-up line gets attention, but a lot of the girls get pissed off when he tries to slip a lump of coal into their stockings for being naughty.
If I have an orange security clearance, am I allowed to watch yellow commercials?
Well, now we _know_ the story is a fake.
Come on, _fresh_ Dunkin Donuts? I have a live album by The Doors that's newer than those things.
I can point to references which clearly state that Income Tax is illegal, so you shouldn't pay it, NASA is covering up evidence of life on Mars and that magic rings can grant you immortality. Does that make their claims true?
It's sad to think that EA was founded by programmers who were tired of being faceless drones at a big corporation and wanted to start their own company which would give them the recognition they deserved.
It would be ironic (and a little bit confusing, since there already is a company using that name) if some of EA's top people left in protest of this kind of crap and founded a small studio called 'Atari'.
Perhaps you should take a trip to Manhattan then. People on the street are selling very authentic looking VHS copies of movies which haven't been released to video yet.
Usually their entire "storefront" is a small case that can be easily picked up if they need to run somewhere, but I haven't seen anybody ever get busted for it.
I think what you meant to say was "anyone can use the name 'Huckleberry Finn' in their works, but in a few years the copyright term will be extended to prevent anyone from using 'Mickey Mouse'."
That's the way it has worked for the past century, and it doesn't look like it's going to change any time soon.
A Slashdot thread with trolls is a thread with one too many posts.
Ergo, the only troll-free thread is the empty set.
Only if the defendant is from Mars.
It wasn't the hydrogen that started that fire, and it's nowhere near as dangerous as the article summary is implying it is.
Of course, this is Slashdot. Learning from history isn't nearly as much fun as repeating its mistakes.
I think the missing step 2 is "Ditch LucasArts", since they have been credited with crushing the other half of Star Wars Galaxies that SOE hasn't killed.
Once there is nobody left developing it, things should start looking up.
NASA filled several volkswagens worth of magnetic tape with images and data from the 1976 Viking missions to Mars, but lost more than 20% of it due to tape decay. You can't just run out and buy a new hard drive to back that all up on, although they did try.
At one point during the effort to preserve old data, it was remarked that the tapes were degrading faster than they could be copied.
But what do you do with all that data once you have rescued it from disaster? You throw it on a shelf and wait until it is about to expire again while you move on to collect even more data. Eventually you will wind up as the modern day equivalent of medieval archivists who spent their entire lives trying make copies of books before they rotted away, only to start over again at the beginning as the first copies they made start to fade away.
What happens when you slip? What happens to a set of old CDs that get lost during a move, only to be found by your children when they are sorting through your attic after your death? Or what happens when the government decides that they can save some money by cutting back "wasteful" spending on data libraries?
It's all gone. Welcome to the Library of Alexandria. Please, no smoking in the stacks.
Or did you mean there was a tiny, discrete ad for suicidegirls.com in the bottom right corner of the page? It's a good thing that slashdot would never do that.
That would be helpful advice if newegg actually shipped anywhere useful.
What that is is a devil store.
Mail-in rebates are just a way for retailers to scam customers. If they were serious about giving rebates, honestly expected people to receive them and actually gave a damn about their customers they would reduce the ticket price instead. That would take care of all of their problems with returns.
Really, if Best Buy was so concerned about customers buying things from them cheaply, perhaps they shouldn't sell them that way.
These 'devil customers' are only playing the game according to Best Buy's rules. Best Buy made the rules, and I have no sympathy for them.
Well, what happened when you returned it?
It's nice that you received a scrap of paper with some handwriting on it, but those aren't any good if nobody will honour them. I have had salespeople promise me the moon and stars in the past, but that doesn't mean I will ever get them.
Perhaps they noticed a loophole in that treaty and will deploy weapons which can neither create nor destroy mass, only convert it into energy.