Maybe now you can hire someone to read ALL the posts.
Now that you bid "ONE HUNDRED BILLION TRILLION ZOMG BBQ DOLLARS" that is now the value of the property. You have to pay, say, 10% straight up of the difference between what you SAID it was worth, and what you bid... well call that TEN BILLION TRILLION ZOMG BBQ DOLLARS. Now you also have to pay IP tax and upkeep on that, say three percent, which is now THREE BILLION TRILLION ZOMG BBQ DOLLARS, quarterly.
Sweet zombie Jesus... hooray for Canada! I use my Rogers High-Speed to download television shows I can't get on Rogers, and all of their ads basically say "DOWNLOAD GIGANTIC FILES WITH OUR INTERNET SERVICE! PLEASE?!? P2P LIKE THERE'S NO TOMORROW!"
Because he was employed by the Soviet government,
Pajitnov did not receive royalties. Pajitnov, together with
Vladimir Pokhilko, moved to the United States in 1991
and founded the Tetris Company with Henk Rogers.
Translation:
"I didn't get diddly-poop from my program until I started selling it for money, and obviously the entire world should work that way!"
The PARENTS are busy looking at PORN, though... they need someone to handle the easy job of raising their children right, since, looking at the world around me, they are not qualified to do it.
Then it's not an educational firm... it's educational only as a secondary, possibly accidental effect (and based on these reviews, DEFINITELY accidental). I just... it... they.... AUGH!
This only contributes to the dumbening of our children.
... Wait a minute, that's not how you spell dumbening.
This one particular line almost made me vomit from my eyeballs: You wouldn't think something this obvious could even be patented, but so far it's been a very effective weapon for Blackboard, badly hurting Desire2Learn... Semantics notwithstanding, is it really even slightly plausible that a company focused on education would want to crush anyone else attempting to teach people?
I probably said Banner Ad, but what I really mean with all this is "high-filesize internet advertising of any damn kind". The banners are getting worse, though, when they need to load sounds and animations and fake ads for girls in my town (which, strangely, look JUST LIKE girls in OTHER towns, and it's always the same girls! She's been single for three years!)
Who the hell gave them the power to just wantonly dispense fair and balanced justice like this? Judges have always been empowered to make huge decisions, but this new behavior is becoming quite alarming. Common sense has been creeping into recent rulings with alarming frequency, and many decisions seem to be based on information, not cash-backed opinions.
I hope this behavior doesn't continue... the entire American way of life is at stake!
My computer is fine, my connection is fine, but when a pop-over ad appears on some site that Slashdot directs me to that covers up all the text I'm trying to read, and stalls my machine for a few seconds while it opens and closes three times, then yes, there is noticeable slowdown. Still, you probably click on it right away, so you don't experience any of that.
I suppose... most of the ads I see, though, just drive home the fact that I desperately don't need a product that uses a banner ad that bogs down the entire website, covers up the text I'm trying to read, has a hidden "Shut off" button, irritating music, animated flame effects, and so forth.
Then again, I'm probably not the target audience. If I want to buy something, I don't click banner ads... I research the different products that are out there, go directly to the site that has them, and buy the best one. Ad people probably hate me.
... can probably afford to pay for every ad they click on. Why not make it so clicking an add withdraws 2 cents from your Visa account, or something?
I don't know anyone who's ever been surfing a website, saw an ad for a gadget, or a shirt, or anything, and said "Wow, I just found out I need to buy that!"
Canada. Our hospitals are mostly built in the 70's around here, but they're building like nuclear fallout shelters. The fluorescent lights are still "natural light" fluorescents, but they still suck.
That was my first thought, too. Sunlight is only allowed in recovery rooms at any of the hospitals I've been in, and MAYBE some lobbies.
Still, fluorescent tubes not only cause me to have seizures, but they also produce huge amounts of ultraviolet light. Will they still work? (No, the humor is not lost on me that the lighting in hospitals causes me to have seizures... )
Slashdot Mirror
Scientists never get invited to pool parties... you're just making them feel bad now.
Makes a lot of sense, though.
That's not really "One structure", though... it's a lot of small structures close together. A big pile of sand isn't the same as a big sheet of glass.
If it's a Sony, it's both, though...
Maybe now you can hire someone to read ALL the posts.
Now that you bid "ONE HUNDRED BILLION TRILLION ZOMG BBQ DOLLARS" that is now the value of the property. You have to pay, say, 10% straight up of the difference between what you SAID it was worth, and what you bid... well call that TEN BILLION TRILLION ZOMG BBQ DOLLARS. Now you also have to pay IP tax and upkeep on that, say three percent, which is now THREE BILLION TRILLION ZOMG BBQ DOLLARS, quarterly.
Good thing most inventors know how math works.
Yup... thanks to Wikileaks, there's no corruption in our government anymore.
When you get bitch-slapped by the DUTCH, you know you deserved it.
*reads the Comcast wiki*
Sweet zombie Jesus... hooray for Canada! I use my Rogers High-Speed to download television shows I can't get on Rogers, and all of their ads basically say "DOWNLOAD GIGANTIC FILES WITH OUR INTERNET SERVICE! PLEASE?!? P2P LIKE THERE'S NO TOMORROW!"
As a non-American, I have to ask...
WTF is a Comcast?
Eiter? Fourteen million coins of fourteen megaeuros?
Also, it would be megaeuro, not megaeuros. The plural of "euro" is "euro". One euro, two euro... fourteen megaeuro.
Dead... kernels... everywhere....
Woo, oxygen bras!
Reads it again...
Awwwwwwwwwww.............
Translation:
"I didn't get diddly-poop from my program until I started selling it for money,
and obviously the entire world should work that way!"
The PARENTS are busy looking at PORN, though... they need someone to handle the easy job of raising their children right, since, looking at the world around me, they are not qualified to do it.
Only a million porn sites? Wow, that's gone way down since 1992...
Then it's not an educational firm... it's educational only as a secondary, possibly accidental effect (and based on these reviews, DEFINITELY accidental). I just... it... they.... AUGH!
... Wait a minute, that's not how you spell dumbening.
... Wait a minute, 'dumbening' isn't even a word!
This only contributes to the dumbening of our children.
Wait... I was a student at TRU, also in BC, Canada. They found a system WORSE than WebCT?!?! Holy crap, that IS Slashdot-worthy!
More obstacles between people, and learning.
This one particular line almost made me vomit from my eyeballs: You wouldn't think something this obvious could even be patented, but so far it's been a very effective weapon for Blackboard, badly hurting Desire2Learn... Semantics notwithstanding, is it really even slightly plausible that a company focused on education would want to crush anyone else attempting to teach people?
I probably said Banner Ad, but what I really mean with all this is "high-filesize internet advertising of any damn kind". The banners are getting worse, though, when they need to load sounds and animations and fake ads for girls in my town (which, strangely, look JUST LIKE girls in OTHER towns, and it's always the same girls! She's been single for three years!)
Who the hell gave them the power to just wantonly dispense fair and balanced justice like this? Judges have always been empowered to make huge decisions, but this new behavior is becoming quite alarming. Common sense has been creeping into recent rulings with alarming frequency, and many decisions seem to be based on information, not cash-backed opinions.
I hope this behavior doesn't continue... the entire American way of life is at stake!
... can it run Vista?
No?
Awesome.
My computer is fine, my connection is fine, but when a pop-over ad appears on some site that Slashdot directs me to that covers up all the text I'm trying to read, and stalls my machine for a few seconds while it opens and closes three times, then yes, there is noticeable slowdown. Still, you probably click on it right away, so you don't experience any of that.
I suppose... most of the ads I see, though, just drive home the fact that I desperately don't need a product that uses a banner ad that bogs down the entire website, covers up the text I'm trying to read, has a hidden "Shut off" button, irritating music, animated flame effects, and so forth.
Then again, I'm probably not the target audience. If I want to buy something, I don't click banner ads... I research the different products that are out there, go directly to the site that has them, and buy the best one. Ad people probably hate me.
... can probably afford to pay for every ad they click on. Why not make it so clicking an add withdraws 2 cents from your Visa account, or something?
I don't know anyone who's ever been surfing a website, saw an ad for a gadget, or a shirt, or anything, and said "Wow, I just found out I need to buy that!"
Canada. Our hospitals are mostly built in the 70's around here, but they're building like nuclear fallout shelters. The fluorescent lights are still "natural light" fluorescents, but they still suck.
That was my first thought, too. Sunlight is only allowed in recovery rooms at any of the hospitals I've been in, and MAYBE some lobbies.
Still, fluorescent tubes not only cause me to have seizures, but they also produce huge amounts of ultraviolet light. Will they still work? (No, the humor is not lost on me that the lighting in hospitals causes me to have seizures... )