Could this help get HDTV going?
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It seems to me the reason why hardly anybody owns HDTV is that there aren't many broadcasts in HDTV. But, there aren't many broadcasts in HDTV because there aren't enough people out there that have HDTVs. So, if people start buying HDTVs in order to take advantage of the better quality of HD-DVDs, will this provide incentive for more HDTV broadcasts since more people will own HDTVs? Or, are we just going to go another decade without HDTV?
it is less well known that for years, the Earth has been becoming more spherical. Now it appears that the trend has reversed, and the Earth is getting more obese
... that yo-yo dieting just doesn't work. Eat less and exercise.
Now I can power my George Foreman grill to cook up a nice juicy steak and some hamburgers with the electricty that was produced by the very same cow. Yummmmmmmmmmmmie.
So does this mean if your speakers emit the wrong frequency, instead of repeling those bastards, you will get hundreds mosquitos trying to hump your speakers?
Mini-Me, stop humping the laser. Why don't you and the frickin laser get a room.
This actually happened to my dad when I was really little. My dad was fixing the roof, my mom yelled at him and he slipped, fell off the latter and broke both of his elbows. I believe he was a salesman for Wang at the time so I don't know if this helped him or hurt him depending on how one would feel about buying software from a man with casts on both arms.
Hey, new sig.
"Would you by software from a man with casts on both arms?"
Okay, I'll just stick to the pet rock which comes with it's very own random five digit number that you can use for a seed for your own random number generator.
I don't think the question is who still uses floppies, it's why do we still use floppys. I had a 286 with a 3.5 floppy. How come ZIP disks never caught on? Didn't some company (Imation?) come up with a 3.5 disk that held 100MB? Look how much hard drives, CPUs and memory has changed since the era of the 286 yet the floppy stayed the same. How come someone couldn't come up with a drive that would handle 1.44MB disk as well as a 10 or 50 or 100MB 3.5 disk? You would think something would have replaced the floppy disk in twenty years time.
Will the record companies use a giant laser, invented by the famous Cambridge physicist Alan Parsons, to target your cable or DSL modem if you are swapping MP3s?
"Behold the awsome power of the Alan Parsons Project!"
My roommates would usually put their hash in to little plastic baggies, not buckets. But, for customers that do buy in bulk, they will make an exception.
Thank you for saying it. I've been out of a job for over a year and one of the reasons for this is because firing someone because they are not productive has somehow become not P.C. I knew so many people at my last job that couldn't code for shit, would continuously miss deadlines, show up late and were impossible to work with yet my manager refused to fire them.
One excuse I've heard is that if you don't have enough evidence that someone is not being productive and you fire them, they can sue you (WTF, I highly doubt that). Or sometimes I got the feeling that my manager didn't want to admit he made a mistake by hiring the person. Whatever the reason is, it seems like the only time people get fired is when upper management dumbasses run the company into the ground. Anyone else experience this?
True, but the article was about how Italian police were shutting down blasphemous websites. Now tell me, which religion do most Italians practice?;-)
Jackass.
The joke, which obviously went over yours and also the moderator's head, was that by posting "The Pope Sucks", i.e. something blasphemous, on Slashdot, the police would try to shut them down.
It's actually easier to get a domain name and then have your email forwarded to your real account under different aliases. That way, you can give out one alias to your friends an family, say yourname@yourdomain.com, then use another alias when you need to register at a site you think will spam you, say yourname001@yourdomain.com. If you get too much spam, then all you have to do is drop the alias and start a new one. It's been working great for me for years now, although nothing beat a good span filter on your email client.
I love Linux but one of the things I hate is having to be very selective with the hardware I use to bulid a machine. I am sure this has changed drasticly, in terms of more drivers being availibe and more bugs being fixed (it's been about a year and a half since I last built a Linux box). If Mandrake has certifed that all that the hardware that comes with these boxen are completely compatible, I think it is great idea for people who want a good "starter" box so they can avoid building one from scratch. I would imagaine you could also dump Mandrake and put on your favorite distro or FreeBSD without many problems, which may be tough to do with a box that comes preinstalled with WinBlows.
The Earth was just a big bacterial soup for two billion years. Then sex was invented and then things started to get more interesting very quickly.
That's interesting. I was just a big bacterial soup for seventeen years. Then sex was invented and then things started to get more interesting very quickly.
This never made sense to me. Everybody I know hates telemarketers. I have yet to meet someone who has told me "I love getting telemarketing calls! That's how I do all my shopping.". I have yet to meet someone who has actually bought something from an unsolicited phone call.
The way I see it, in order for telemarketing to be profitable, you have some sort of "make-or-break" ratio, such as selling one product or service per x amount of phone calls. Make a sale, and it allows you to make another x amount of calls.
So, you would think if everbody hates telemarketing, and nobody buys anything from them, they would eventually seise to exist. If XYZ Co. makes a million calls, and no one buys, then they would obviously look for another way to sell their products (or not, most marketers are pinheads). But, telemarketing still exists. This is my theory: THERE ARE PEOPLE OUT THERE BUYING THIS SHIT!. Maybe I'm wrong but there seems to me no other explaination. People are buying things from telemarketers which makes it economiclly feasable for these companies to call another 50,000 people. Maybe we should be mad at the people who buy the stuff and not the telemarketers? Or will telemarketing always exist no matter what the bottom line is?
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They're made of PEOPLE!!! Nooooooooooooooooooo!!!
It seems to me the reason why hardly anybody owns HDTV is that there aren't many broadcasts in HDTV. But, there aren't many broadcasts in HDTV because there aren't enough people out there that have HDTVs. So, if people start buying HDTVs in order to take advantage of the better quality of HD-DVDs, will this provide incentive for more HDTV broadcasts since more people will own HDTVs? Or, are we just going to go another decade without HDTV?
it is less well known that for years, the Earth has been becoming more spherical. Now it appears that the trend has reversed, and the Earth is getting more obese
... that yo-yo dieting just doesn't work. Eat less and exercise.
Now I can power my George Foreman grill to cook up a nice juicy steak and some hamburgers with the electricty that was produced by the very same cow. Yummmmmmmmmmmmie.
So does this mean if your speakers emit the wrong frequency, instead of repeling those bastards, you will get hundreds mosquitos trying to hump your speakers?
Mini-Me, stop humping the laser. Why don't you and the frickin laser get a room.
This actually happened to my dad when I was really little. My dad was fixing the roof, my mom yelled at him and he slipped, fell off the latter and broke both of his elbows. I believe he was a salesman for Wang at the time so I don't know if this helped him or hurt him depending on how one would feel about buying software from a man with casts on both arms.
Hey, new sig.
"Would you by software from a man with casts on both arms?"
For those of you who were like me and have no clue what this story is talking about:
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Okay, I'll just stick to the pet rock which comes with it's very own random five digit number that you can use for a seed for your own random number generator.
I don't think the question is who still uses floppies, it's why do we still use floppys. I had a 286 with a 3.5 floppy. How come ZIP disks never caught on? Didn't some company (Imation?) come up with a 3.5 disk that held 100MB? Look how much hard drives, CPUs and memory has changed since the era of the 286 yet the floppy stayed the same. How come someone couldn't come up with a drive that would handle 1.44MB disk as well as a 10 or 50 or 100MB 3.5 disk? You would think something would have replaced the floppy disk in twenty years time.
If they will have the ablilty to create typhoons off the coast of China right where US spy planes are doing reconnisance.
Will the record companies use a giant laser, invented by the famous Cambridge physicist Alan Parsons, to target your cable or DSL modem if you are swapping MP3s?
"Behold the awsome power of the Alan Parsons Project!"
My roommates would usually put their hash in to little plastic baggies, not buckets. But, for customers that do buy in bulk, they will make an exception.
So, will this be the end of anal probing or will it just limit it to fetish vidoes?
No, it's more like how it's actually spelled in the movie. Do yourself a big favor and rent "Office Space".
That goes for the person who modded this post as well (he gets a two and I get a zero, WTF?)
A "Jump to Random Conclusions" mat. Replace "Moot" and "Loose One Turn" with numbers and you've got yourself a million dollar idea.
Thank you for saying it. I've been out of a job for over a year and one of the reasons for this is because firing someone because they are not productive has somehow become not P.C. I knew so many people at my last job that couldn't code for shit, would continuously miss deadlines, show up late and were impossible to work with yet my manager refused to fire them.
One excuse I've heard is that if you don't have enough evidence that someone is not being productive and you fire them, they can sue you (WTF, I highly doubt that). Or sometimes I got the feeling that my manager didn't want to admit he made a mistake by hiring the person. Whatever the reason is, it seems like the only time people get fired is when upper management dumbasses run the company into the ground. Anyone else experience this?
"Ah squidey, I got nothin' against ya, I just heard there was gold in your belly!"
After all, it worked for CDs right? Music trading is completely dead because of the success of "rip flag" CDs.
Jackass.
The joke, which obviously went over yours and also the moderator's head, was that by posting "The Pope Sucks", i.e. something blasphemous, on Slashdot, the police would try to shut them down.
THE POPE SUCKS! Now let's see then shut down Slashdot. ;-)
It's actually easier to get a domain name and then have your email forwarded to your real account under different aliases. That way, you can give out one alias to your friends an family, say yourname@yourdomain.com, then use another alias when you need to register at a site you think will spam you, say yourname001@yourdomain.com. If you get too much spam, then all you have to do is drop the alias and start a new one. It's been working great for me for years now, although nothing beat a good span filter on your email client.
I've hacked Pong so that it used two balls instead of one, guaranteeing several more hours of fun for the whole family. W00T!
I love Linux but one of the things I hate is having to be very selective with the hardware I use to bulid a machine. I am sure this has changed drasticly, in terms of more drivers being availibe and more bugs being fixed (it's been about a year and a half since I last built a Linux box). If Mandrake has certifed that all that the hardware that comes with these boxen are completely compatible, I think it is great idea for people who want a good "starter" box so they can avoid building one from scratch. I would imagaine you could also dump Mandrake and put on your favorite distro or FreeBSD without many problems, which may be tough to do with a box that comes preinstalled with WinBlows.
That's interesting. I was just a big bacterial soup for seventeen years. Then sex was invented and then things started to get more interesting very quickly.
Now I am back to being soup.
The way I see it, in order for telemarketing to be profitable, you have some sort of "make-or-break" ratio, such as selling one product or service per x amount of phone calls. Make a sale, and it allows you to make another x amount of calls.
So, you would think if everbody hates telemarketing, and nobody buys anything from them, they would eventually seise to exist. If XYZ Co. makes a million calls, and no one buys, then they would obviously look for another way to sell their products (or not, most marketers are pinheads). But, telemarketing still exists. This is my theory: THERE ARE PEOPLE OUT THERE BUYING THIS SHIT!. Maybe I'm wrong but there seems to me no other explaination. People are buying things from telemarketers which makes it economiclly feasable for these companies to call another 50,000 people. Maybe we should be mad at the people who buy the stuff and not the telemarketers? Or will telemarketing always exist no matter what the bottom line is?